The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-06-19
REV. J.H.LONG ON MISSIONS.
EvangeIizatiOn of the World Object
of the Church.

EvangeIizatiOn of the World Object
of the Church.
The afternoon session was devoted
almost entirely to the departments of
the Christian Culture Course. 1t was
attended by possibly three hundred of
the delegates. Rev. ]. ]. Whitfield of
Hawkinsville conducted the preliminary
services which. as in the case of those
of the night before, consisted chiefly
of a series of hymns. biblical quota
tons by number of the delegates, and
prayer.
The first of the addresses was on the
Conquest Missionary Course" and
was delivered by Rev. ]. H. Long of
Senoia. He said in part: I'VE are
here to consider some of the helpful
phases of the Conquest Missionary
Course The evangelization of the
world and the salvation of souls is the
ultimate and consummate end of every
Christian organization, and the Chris
tian body that has not these ends in
view has no spiritual or moral right to
exist.
"All our efforts should center around
this point, the evangelization of the
world. The missionary idea is a super
| natural one. thought of God. No re-
| ligion other than the Christian ever
conceived of the salvation of lost men
and women. Christ himself is the
founder of missions: he said Go we
and preach. Anyone that is opposed
to missions is opposed to Gods meth
DDS of work and is allied with satan.
What Christianity Means.
THE moment one becomes a Chris
tan that moment he becomes a chan
mel through which the plan of salvation
is to be made known to the world
Some people speak of the Christians
| privilege. I've quit preaching privilege
and begun to preach the Christians
| duty. The duty to use our utmost
power in preaching or sending the gos-
| pei to all the world. He who claims to
be a follower of Jesus Christ, and yet
| has not used his utmost power in dis
| semfnating his truth has wandered a
| long way from his masters teaching.
The more Christianity you export the
more you have for home consumption,
| for the foundation principle of every
church is missions. No church must
stand for it's own Qualification. The
Baptist Church must stand for the mis-
| sionary idea, the preaching of the gos-
The church that does not do this has
vitiated its charter and lost the right
to exist
The missionary idea is the most in
spring idea that Christian people can
take hold of, making us, as it does, CO.
workers with God in the salvation Of
souls. The Conquest Missionary
| Course" has for its object this mis-
sionary idea, and the teaching of eur
young people to take this view"
Kinds of Education.
Prof. G. w. Macon of Macon spoke
on the same subject, but took education
as his theme. Education. he said, is
not the piling UP of knowledge in ones
brain for that persons own pleasure
but the acquiring of knowledge that
can be given out again. The education
| al power of any system means not to
teach to know, but to be and to do.
The speaker told of what he called
the danger of too much theoretical
knowledge. and not enough practical
! knowledge. and he also warned his
hearers against getting in the habit
of doing things perfunctorily.
Another speaker on the same sub
ject was Rev. E. ]. Smith of Tennille.
He compared the church in which the
missionary spirit is lacking to the Dead
Sea; place where all life is extinct.
Those in which there is not a live mis-
sionary spirit are. he said, dying if not
already dead, while those in which
there IS an ardent missionary spirit
are building up.
illustrated The Work.
After the addresses examples of the
work of the Christian Culture Course
were given by twelve members of the
Junior B. Y. P. U. of the Capitol
Avenue Church. Atlanta, in charge of
Miss Mamie Williams, and also by
twenty-eight members of the Junior
Union of the Duffy Street Baptist
Church in charge of Rev. Robert Van
Deventer.
The work of the visiting juniors was
/ In illustration of the Bible Readers
Course IL consisted of a number of
songs, and various questions and
answers bearing on biblical history
The local juniors illustrated the
work of the Conquest Missionary
Course. The programme showed the
! exact kind of work that Is done al
each meeting OF the organization. In
response TO questions on the part OF
/ Rev. Mr.. Van Deventer the children
told OF many interesting things of ia
/ pan, something OF It's history. geog-
raphy and the customs OF its people
] Then q recitation was made bv Miss
Madge Hicks who wore a japanese
! costume. and later a dialogue. also on
/ japanese subject was taken part
IN by three other young ladies. like
/ wise dressed IN japanese gowns
~ the end OF this part u the pro-
I Rf9mnf, the end Of the session. upon
motion from the audience the children
and their teachers were given "a ris-