Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-21

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map Of the world. showing whittier run the
missionary lines Of the society.
Introduces "Heroes" Of the Society.
As the heroes Of the society. President
Mclean then introduced some Of its mis-
sionaries who are in attendance upon, the
convention.
DIT. Dye, from the Congo Free state.
Africa, said there were O,OOO.O 900 people
there who needed the gospel and that only
a few we're familiar with the Lords Prayer.
which he then repeated in the language of
tho people with whom he had been working.
r. l.. Pruett, from Osaka, Japan. said the.
last convention OF the disciples he had at
tended had been at Nashville, Tenn, ten
years ago, when IL was held in a church
that could accommodate only 500 people.
He rejoiced that the denomination had so
grown that It is now able to support FIVE
Of the fifty missionaries that are laborinR
at Osaka, within a days pourney of which
there are 25, 600, 900 souls. Mrs. Dye sang
in the Japanese tongue.
Doors Open in Japan.
NJ. B. Madden, from sendai. Japan. said
that doors there are open to American mis-
sionaries now, that the latter may travel
In safety anywhere, that Japan is pagan in
religion, but Christian in everything else,
and that there have been 179 additions to
the church during the year. Mrs. Mad
den was presented with the infant mem
Der Of the Madden family in her arms.
The latter was dressed as a Japanese child
would be.
Miss Enc Keller Of WI Hu, China, said:
II have often been asked IL we have any
real true Christians in China. 1 don't want
To see WIN nut 70 tho tacf that tho, vro-,
I'm afraid of your courage" IN Chinese,
she sang II Will Sing OF My Redeemer."
Miss Stella Franklin. from Damon, In
dta, said that as she watched the hundred
stalwart men who served the Lords sup
per Sunday afternoon she could not but
think what a good those hundred could do
in India for Christ. She said that India
receives missionaries cordially and she
prayed that more would come.
Growth of Christian Interests.
Miss Wyrick, from Japan. told Of the
growth of the Christian interests since she
went there ten years ago and found but
one church of her denomination in the
entire empire. She begged every church
90 link itself with the foreign field by
placing a missionary there.
O.. w. Coffman. a Drake university gradu-
ate, who has made a record in India, said:
1T Is your duty and mine to let the light
into those dark minds; to lead to the
worship Of the one true God those 300, OO0, 900
souls who now worship 800, 200, 900 different
deities-everything from the reptiles that
crawl to man himself. and even the little
material things they use in their every
day life"
others who we're introduced, but who did
not speak were: Rosa Lee oxer Of Ohio,
Elsie Gardner OF Ohio, DR.. Lee Taylor, from
Porto Rico; DR.. and Mrs. Herbert p. Shaw,
who go to China next January; Mrs. Mad
den's mother; the parents Of Fred e.
Hagan. now in Japan; DR.. Rijnhart, from
Thibet; the father of Mrs. Osgood, and
w. H. Waggoner. who is d~evoting his life
TO the work OF making church maps.
Old China Passing Away.
President Mclean read a benedlction from
the workers in Japan; a cablegram which
said: "Come over into Macedonia and help
ps." And a longer letter from China, which
bald: "0ld China Is passing away; new
1Chtna is being born. Never before has
there been such opportunity for effective
missionary work. We would exchange
places with none, but we plead for rein
forcements."
President Mclean announced that Of the
delegates in Omaha from a distance only
1867 had registered and he requested all
the others to do so as fast as possible. The
attendance at this convention is greater
than at any previous convention OF the
church. except at that of jubilee year.
Most Of the singing Of the morning SEES
sion was by the full chorus, lead by
Evangelist Simpson Ely. but one solo was
contributed by Mrs. Princess Long. the
sweet singer, from California. The bene-
dictIon was by Rev. T. w. Pinkerton of
Salt Lake City.
The two principal addresses OF the morn
ing were well received. The speakers
were Of powerful and pleasing voice, but
to further aid them President Mclean,
who Is somewhat of a Tom Reed In his
methods. demanded that the doors be
closed and kept closed. that no one talk
during the speaking and that even coughs
be smothered as much as possible.
The Authority for Missions.
The first address was by c. C, Rowlison
u Kenton. o.. on Authority for Foreign
Missions" In part he said;
Missions rest upon the same authority a:
any other enterprise for the relief of those
Christian people TO send 10 those who ar,
ignorant OF II a message which has beer
life and salvation TO numberless peoples
The authority for carrying on thes,
penevolences H. twofold: II Is primarily
the unanswerable demand made by the fac
that men are In need. This authority ough'
TO be SUFFICIENT. That a man is ignorant
and therefore lives in blindness go far al
the beauties and mysteries or the. worlt
are concerned, ought TO compel the en-
lightened 10 give him instruction. or at thu
least TO educate his children. A Christian
conscience has, In many lands, provided
for the helpless in mind and body suitable
comforts and medical treatment, So thu
very fact that whole nations of men have
never heard the gospel of the kingdom o.
Sod should be, TO the sons OF the kingdom
an all-suficient motive for proclaiming tn
message to every creature.
Nothing is less attractive to the super
cilliously refined than a naked, tatoOeS
savage. But 70 one who has caught tn
spirit of Christ. this very responsiveness
draws him a. the heart OF Africa, Thu
the spirit Of God, moving upon the heart
OF men. causes them 10 answer the appea