Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-11-02
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Kansas CITY Journal. |

kansas City Journal.l
/ The meeting of the presbytery OF
/ Kansas City was formally opened last
night with a sermon by the Rev. A. d
| Madeira, ID. d. of independence. He
4 chose for his text Revelation xxi. 90:
! He that sat upon the throne said, Be
1 hold, i will make all things new !" The
/ Rev. Mr.. Madeira contended that man
has been deteriorating mentally, moral
/ ly and physically, since the creation,
and that he is now farther from state
of moral perfection than ever.
\ Human civilization is describing a
descending scale" he said, in part.
Man is just as wicked today as he was
I in the days Of barbarian He is just as
bloodthrsty now as he was then. The
only difference apparent is that now, in
these days of civilization, he is 3 poll
/ ished assassin instead OF a proclaimed
barbarian"
He illustrated his argument that man
is deteriorating mentally by imploring
his hearers to note the fact that every
great man, from the statesman to the
poet. that the world knows. was q being
Of the past. He compared the morality
of past ages to the present in illustrate
ing his statement that man is becoming
more ard more degraded as the human
race lives.
We are living in the last stage Of
the worlds existence he said. Man
will grow so wicked that God will not be
able to stand his SHINING longer and will
DESTROY the world. God viii then make
his children white as snow by making
all things anew"
METHODIST MISSIONS AND METH
CDIST COLLECTIONS"
[Bishop Thoburn of India in the Chris
tan Advocated
We should have a missionary society
in the proper sense OF the word-that is,
a great organization for giving Christ to
the Christless nations. Then we should
have a great home eyangelization soci
ETY.. embracing freedmeH bondmen,
frontiermen. city problems. and all else.
and thus at single stroke dispense
with the whole list of collections which
bewilder the mind of the average Meth
odist. and hinder instead of help the
cause for which they are supposed to
stand. Two great collections. one taken
every six months, would realize a great
zeal more tnaIl is seen OF dreamed OIL
under the present plan. The present
situation is becoming :ntolerable. Our
best laymen are utterly weary of 1t
Most of our pastors begin to find it diff
ficult to resist feeling of annoyance
and impotence. and protest very earn
estly in private, II not in public, against
plan which chills enthusiasm and
makes earnestness almost impossible.
The time has come to speak in very
plain terms about our so-called benevo-
lent societies. 1t is barely possible, as
some think, that We can dispense with
them. If so. one thing must be done.
and certainly will be done. at a very
early day Our foreign missionary
work has wholly outgrown the mission
AIRY society as it is at present constitut-
ed. use the language of prediction
wholly. and would not for moment be
understood as including even the shad-
ow of a threat when / say that unelss
the next general conference takes hold
OF this whole problem with an earnest
determination to effect thorough re-
form, great foreign missionary society
will spring into existence.