The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-06-23

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vented to make 1t clearly understood
she said, that not because the work
4 Is small 1t is ignoble and that each per
| sor had his or her work. II one could
/ only allow his fellow men to see only
the bright side of his life. great WORK
would be done There arc multitudes
who do not know that they are sent
by God and that, she said. was the
| message which she wanted to bring to
the Epworth Leagues of Alabama.
| There are those who have received
| the message but who have preferred
tteir own plans Miss Davies con-
| tfnued They VIII do the easy things
the faithful who are found in every
league.
Many complain that thew do not know
the process by which they are made
one of Gods sent" children. She said
| she wanted to impress on everyone that
every man is one of Gods sent ones
| IL he would but accept His invitation
Every man had four personalities.
said Miss Davies--the one they them
selves know, the one their intimates
| know. the one the world knows. and
| the one that God knows. The fourth
was the real character of the person
| and to be one of Gods sent ones the
other three should correspond with it,
She introduced many incidents of life
Miss Davies made an appeal to the
| League workers to throw aside their
darker lives and be one of Gods sent
| to take His message to their home
people.
If she should say that President
Roosevelt wanted an Ambassador to the
| Court of st. James. there are few who
| would not desire the appointment. but
a greater one than Roosevelt called
| daily for ambassadors. The Lord call
| ed for witnesses in the uttermost parts
| of the earth. but some refused to be
witnesses even at home.
| Eye are the light of my life" said
the Lord. If ships light went out
| there might be collision and the loss
OF hundreds of lives. and the same thing
| would occur If the souls light should
be extinguished
omissions and Young People,"
| Any work of God Is clarifying and
there is always work. whether washing
dishes for His glory or praying IN fam
| lilies IL the one Is done for His bane-
| fiji. 1t is as ennobling as the others.
Rev. Jno. w. Shackelford of Nash
vile, in charge of the missionary work
/ In Epworth Leagues and Sunday
Schools in the Southern Methodist
Church was presented.
He said he was glad to present the
general missionary work after the mis-
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| presented. He said he wished to speak
| on Missions and Young People
He said he wanted to ask the ques-
| ton whether the missionary problem
| for young people is new problem or
| an old one. He considered 1t both. The
| same work done before had to be push
ed and there are opportunities which
their forefathers had developed and
W hich the present workers should
grasp.
Missionary principles are invariable
but missionary problems are ever
changing. he declared.
The missionary problem of today is
not a new one, said Mr.. Shackelford,
because new fields are being entered.
but because for the first time In his
tory 1T is world wide in actuality--an
adequate idea of what all the world
is.
The problem Is a world problem in
ter-dependent. 1t Is an age of world
wide commerce. worldwide arbitration,
and world wide diplomacy, and world
wide thought.
Nations live no longer tc themselves.
Japan has so adopted Western ideas
that some people regard dt as Chris
tian. If this is true of commerce. dip
lcmacy and thought. 1t should be so
with religion Relations are so close
between countries that 1t is simply a
question of whether the entire world
should be Christian or pagan.
The speaker said he did not doubt
that all the world would finally adopt
the faith of Jesus Christ. He asked
| whether this should come about after
centuries of delay or should the work
be pushed and brought to an early and
glorious elimination.
The main question, he declared was:
rs the church ready? Are the young
people ready to put their shoulders to
| the wheel?"
1t is a work for the young people,
he continued, in an eloquent appeal for
the evangelical movement. The COM
bined sympathy and energy of the en-
tire church is needed to control the
imminent situation. he said.
Mr.. Shackelford said he believed that
there was no more fertile field for work
| than the Sunday School and League
work. Japan is winning victories be-
cause the nation began preparing for
the war nine years ago. and the train
ing of missionaries should begin with
childhood.
At the close of Mr. shackleford's ad-
dress Miss Sessions was again called
on to sing.
The Conference at o'clock adjourn
| ed until S o'clock.
Junior League Work.
When the Conference reassembled at
8 o'clock the President called on the
representatives of various Junior
Leagues throughout the State.
| A number of junior workers reported
their organizations working in an ex-
cellent way.
The President then asked for discus
sion Of Does the Junior League Cover
a Field Not Covered by Any Church Or
ganizationT'
Mrs Griswold, the Secretary. smoke
Interestingly of the work of the Juve-
nile Missionary Societies of the Bir-
mingham District. She believed that
these organizations do the same work
as the Junior League and had many
additional functions. Juvenile Mis-
slonary Society in Birmingham sup
ports a pupil at a Brazilian school, she
said.
thriving Juvenile Missionary Soci-
ETY. was reported as doing good work
iii the Church Street Church of Selma
and supporting a pupil in Corean
school.
Mr. Strout of Pensacola defended the
work of the Junior League. He said
that 1t trained the young people OF the
church in all the branches of practice
1t provided a course of religious study
religious sociology and the work of
charity in order to make them excel
lent members of the Senior League and
the Church He did not depreciate the
value of the Juvenile Missionary Soci-
ETY., but he did wish to eXalt the Junior
League,
DR.. j. w shoaf of Montgomery