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Many Delegates Attend Missionary
Meeting in Philadelphia.
REPRESENT 100000 MEMBERS
Ore Of the Features Is An Exhibit OF
Maps ard Paraphernalia and Score
Of Missionaries, Who Explain Work

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Maps ard Paraphernalia and Score
Of Missionaries, Who Explain Work
Gone In Many Countries.
Philadelphia. oct. 1.-THE great
missionary convention OF the Method
ST Episcopal Church. at which dele
yates are present from all of New
ENGLAND and the middle Atlantic
states. was formally opened ri the
Academy Of Music, in this city In
the presence OF an audience that taxed
the capacity OF the building. Dis'in-
cuiahci clergy and laymen OF the
church from all parts OF the country
are present and will take an active
parf I'm the convention. which will re-
main i'm session until tomorrow The
gathering is held under the auspices
OF The Open Door Emergency Com
mission of the Missionary Society OF
the Methodist Episcopal Church
which commission was originated by
the hoard of bishops and was organ
tied primarily 10 devise ways ana
means for promoting larger mis-.
sionary interest and enthusiasm amoug
hc 100000 members of that demon
inatIon. or this commission. Bishop
Edward G. Andrews, of New York. is
chairman. but Bishop Cyrus ID. Foss.
of this city. will preside al all the ses-
sions of the convention. The follow
ing conferences are represented at the
mc Sing.
Maine East Maine New England.
Vow England Southern. Vermont. New
hampshire. Northern New York. Troy.
Central New York Gencscc. New York
East New York. Newark New Jersey.
Philadelphia. Wyoming Central Penn
.sylyania Erie. Pttshurg Wilmington.
Delaware. Baltimore. Washington.
East German. Eastern Swedish, Nir-
GINA and West Virginia
one of the features of the convcn.
ton g. the missionary exhibit In the
FOYER OF the Academy which includes
maps and paraphcrnalia. together
vi,h about "a score OF missionaries
who explained the ovangelization work
being done hy Methodists in many
countries.
The program Of the first session
was one of hymnal praise. scripiurll
instruction. prayer and addresses. TIE
addresses were made by Bishop Foss.
The presiding officer. and Bishop
Charles ~ Fowler Of Buffalo, y. y.
Tho laifors address was the most
striking feature He took for his sub
iect Tho Place of Missions in tine
Worlds Movements He said that the
trend off the age IS God ward. and that
the etorm.contre Of the world was The
Pacific China is The supreme hyp'-
CRIT of an the races and OF all TIE
ages. This moral mummy is ON
halmcd and wrapped in supcrstitions
5000 Years old and more than 10000
LAYERS deep. Tho problem with China
ls this. Which way Is she going? She
may change iynasiies she may come
under the control of some foreign
power hut She viii not cease 10 be-.
The yellow race will remain the men
acc of the world. and IS the world :
problem for The twentieth ventury.
Speaking or the missionary work 10
he done in the east Bishop Fowler
touched upon events in the orient lie
said.
PRUSSIA is the coming power. We
arc mo against an inevorable PROPOSE
ton. II Russia appropriatcs and as
similafos China We are face 10 face
with the most powerful empire ever
known among men. II such a power
rises I'm Europe and Asia nothing Is
impossible 20 70. Establish the cars
authority in Pokin then the absorption
of India win only be- a matter OF time.
Tho Russian empire then extending
from the Polar Sea % the Indian
Ocean ana from Germany 10 the Vel
low SEP. and controlling half Of the
human race. viii put Europe In greater
peril than 81 ever was in the days o.
the Mugul empire"
Bishop Fowler said that England in
the impending struggle stands as the
bnlwarf OF liberty and the defender OF
Christianity lie said the United
states is another factor in this prob
lem.