Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-21

dark and hazardous jungles OF Africa; Of
Carey. who labored in a similar field and
translated the Bible into a score Of lam
guases OF Hotehkiss. who thirty times pros
trated with fever. often attacked by wild
animals and sometimes reduced to ants and
rhinoceri for food. was still content: OF Mrs.
Judson at Burmah. when she gave up her
children that they might be taken away and
educated for the Lords work; of Mrs. F.
Howard Taylor, when. standing amidst the
ruins OF a home dessolated by frenzied Chi
nese. she rejoiced in having suffered a lit
tie for the Christ's sake; Of Alexander
Duff. who gave himself to the work in In
dia; OF DR.. Rijnhart. when she remained
firm as her little babe was laid away In a
pine box; OF all the other missionaries who
sacrificed the ease and security Of home to
preach the gospel to other living creatures;
and Of Bishop Coburn, when he said: There
is not the slightest use in preaching the
most perfect doctrine II It be not a message
Of love-"
'All our colleges are richer today for the
men they have sent to foreign fields" con-
tinued the speaker. THE greatest work
| before the Christian college now is not to
turn out a good foot ball team, or a good
corps Of debaters. but TO inspire it's young
men and women with a desire to visit the
dark places Of the earth and there scatter
light and Joy. For 1900 years the world
has been committing the heather to the
next generation. The watchword should be
Today"
why Mott Reioices.
Mr.. Mott followed closely along this line
In his address, from which are taken these
excerpts:
1T is indeed an inspiration to speak to
a great conventtpn OF a church that does
not apologize for worldwide missions. 1t
is only the ignorant or thoughtless man
who could so apologize. because in doing
SO he would be spologizing for all religion.
for the Lords prayer; for the apostles
creed; for the fatherhood of God and the
brotherhood Of man. Worst Of all he must
apologize for Jesus Christ. who is the
| Precipitation of our sins and the sins of all
mankind.
1.-The sale OF missionary literature is In
creasing at geometric rate. Scientific
studies of missions are being carried on
today more extensively than ever before.
l remember when there were in all our
colleges only thirty classes for the study
Of such work. Last year we had more
than 500. Over 1000 OF the best students
of North America and the British isles
have, in a little more than a decade, gone
forth to proclaim religion in dark places.
Inspiration for Missionaries.
This work Of foreign missions is the
business of the church, not an Incidental.
l grant there is need enough for 1t at home
to inspire a resolve to do more than we
have done, but let us take a little journey
about the world and hote the proportion
Of supply and demand. There is in the
United States and Canada one Christian
worker for every forty-eight persons. In
Mexico and Central America there is one
for every 81, 900. In Japan there are 1901 600
more Buddhist and shinto temples and
shrines than there are individual Chris
tians; of the 10000. 900 people there fully
80, 900, 900 have never heard an adequate
presentation Of our faith. In China there
are 913 walled cities with a population OF
100, OOO. 900 wherein that faith has never
been proclaimed: In the empire there is
but one Christian physician for every 2,000,-
900 people. On one island alone Of the
West Indies there are 100000 people,
only 1000, 900 Of whom have heard, with
any degree OF intelligence, OF Jesus Christ.
In India, II one letter OF each word In
the Bible represented one soul. 1t would
require seventy Bibles. TO represent the
total population; yet the Christians counted
by the sam method would be contained in
the Book of Isaiah in one Of those Bibles.
In India proper, where we are Just gaining
foothold, there are so, 900, 900 Mohammedans
and 200. 900, 900 Hindoos, but that these
cannot be counted Christians will be con-
ceded by any who have ever toured that
territory as / have done and seen the
awful injustices and shames tolerated there.
where Christ Taught.
I'm the Levant, where our Savior came
and founded religion. there is but one
Christian worker to more than each 100, 900
people. on the dark continent, in the
Stanley circle, there are 12O, 0OO, 1000 to
40. 900. 900 people, yet II is only a few
score, not a few hundred, of missionaries
who have planted themselves there.
But let us take another journey and
consider what has been done as a start in
this great work. The $4,000 Protestant
Christians in the Leyant have developed
there within the life of one college pro-
lessor with whom / talked while in Persia.
In Africa savage chieftains have become
~evangelists and where 400 were baptized
one year, 1000 were baptized last year. In
Central China / saw natives bringing idols
by the donkey load and by the canal boat
load to be crushed and destroyed. In North
China will be proved again the fact that the
blood of martyrs is the seed Of the church.
It is not possible to baptiEe the church Of
Christ too much in blood.
Growth of q Century.
"I might go farther with these details,
but to summarize, let me say that 100 years
ago in pagan lands there was no Christian
scripture, no Christian witnesses and no
Christian institutions. Today there are
ls, 900 missionaries, 1900. 900 bonahde dis
ciples, 5000, 900 adherents and the Bible haS
been translated into 400 languages and dia-
leets.
christianity is not "a religion. 1t is the
religion. II is not going to share the earth
with Buddhism or other religions. but is
going to extend from water to water.
W want the best men in the most
destitute held--that is the Christ-like spirit.
I am not sure but God tonight is calling
some Of our most distinguished young pastors
to go to foreign fields. beg Of you parents
to put nothing in the way OF your children II
they be Inclined to 90. II we are to evange-
Ike the world we must do 1t in q genera
tion. Each generation Of Christians must
evangellze it's own generation Of non-Chris-
tIans."
C0TNER AND HIRAM MEN MEET