The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-05-16
BISHOP MOORE ON
FOREIGN MISSIONS
Widely-KnOwn Methodist Di-
vine Talks of Efforts in
Far East.
WORK is PROGRESSING
FAV0RABLY IN CHINA
People of India Also Reaching
Out Eagerly for the
Truth.

Truth.
Bishop David H. Moore OF the Method
| list Episcopal church is a visitor in Zion
| having come to town 10 perform the mar
riage ceremony for Rev. Dr. Talbot's
! daughter. who was married Tuesday af-
| ternoon. Bishop Moore bears his years
well, and is the same dauntless man he
was In the early sos, when, with a Win
| chester rihe in his hands. he dared the
| frenzied mob OF people In Denver, who
| sought to run the Cinnamon out OF that
| city, He met the worst characters OF
| that day-men who usually swear at. or
! do worse things to preachers generally
ind drove them back TO their own ground
| for the very good reason that the last
man OF them knew Moore would shoot IL
| they pushed him. They knew his his
| tory; now he had enlisted in the Union
army in 1861, and was in the disnearten-
| Ing surrender OF Cen Miles at Harper
| Ferry They knew he then re-enllSted III
| the One Hundred and Twenty-hfth Ohio
| and worked his way up to be lleutenant-
| colonel. through all the trials and BATTLES
| OF Sherman's march to the sea- and that
he had q reputation for doing things
under stress of trial, and so the mob fell
! back, and this one man defended hun
dred helpless and frightened Cinnamon
from death,
Always Defends the Right.
Elderly and sedate as becomes a bishop.
one can still sec the stcely glitter In the
eye Of him, and feel that, circumstances
! demanding it, he would again be on
deck" In defense of anything he felt to
be right He was genial as usual, and
freely spoke OF topics, somewhat after the
following fashion
Foreign Missions.
Missionaries in foreign lands? Well,
as you know, was sent TO CHINA Tor
four wears and got back two years ago.
and l am free to say that much appearing
In the press on this subject is misleading.
In India and China all missionary effort.
and ours in particular. is tremendously
successful In fact the missionaries have
developed high type OF Christian
throughout these countries. and we nave
the best and strongest evidences OF this
work. Bishop Bashford, who relieved me.
is Just back from his station, and Bishop
Spcllmyer goes out in his stead
Remarkable Report.
Bishop Bashford Will report to the
Board OF Bishops most remarkable
the people of India and China: They call
for the gospel OF Christ, and do all In
their power 10 aid In Its dissemination
In the great cities OF PekinS and Foo
chow there are now great religious re-
vivals in progress just as we so often
have them IN this country. and hundreds
are being converted by the power of the
Holy Spirit, and are giving up all TO live
clean and helpful lives.
"They forsake Idols and fetch wor-
ship. observe the moral code In family
life and rise as only truly converted men
can rise above their former levels Of life.
and bear witness that power greater
than anything human has wrought in
them.
Views in Different Light.
II cannot of course, speak from per
scnul observation touching missionary
results In the Straits Settlement. but /
am free to say that the Ceylonese gentle
man who was interviewed by The Tribune
lately sees the results of foreign mission
airy labors through eyes vastly different
from all official reports of all the mis-
sionary workers In foreign lands 1t is
a thing incredible that millions of dollars
and thousands Of lives would be paid as
price for nothing in return.
"We have forbearance with perennial
fault finding with missionary enterprises,
because we feel our work In the hands
Of God and He will care for 1T and for
the workers. On the lower level of evil
dent results. however. [ feel that just
men will applaud all that has been done.
Field in the West,
MY residential field includes all of Call
fornia Nevada, Utah, Arizona and Alas
ka, with my residence in Portland, and
have the very best knowledge. from ON
OF the American people Is growing higher
and holier as the years pass by, The
Master said: Ge do not gather figs from
thistlcs, nor can We look for accurate.
OF ever friendly judgment, OF our work
from men OF the world. The call of
| Jesus Come unto me Is more potent
now than ever before, and ! believe II
is because the strenuous life OF the times
strips illusion from mems eyes, and they
learn the bitter truth that cnlmed Tom
| Moore's dying hours
" Earth has no sorrow
That Heaven cannot heal
What Is true I'm our fields in true I'm
all evangelical churchwork | am not
conversant With other religious work.
Change of Articles
THE vote TO change articles of faith
BY the Methodist Episcopal Church,
South? Well that, L take it, has to do
| There is not moro spiritual body OF
| Christians on earth than that we call the
Methodist Episcopal Church. South. The
| Gospel Is as Gladstone stated IL. The
| faith OF tho world but I'm the old days
tho Fathers allowed dogma TO cloud the
| truth. and n restatemcnt means tho
| brushing away OF dogmatic clouds. and
| friction In the rcadjustment OF doctrinal
| truths but there is alway an earnest
| desire TO agree. IT Is the spirit of Christ
rather than dogma that rules, that domi-
| nate mems lives today
Question of Truth.
Modern phraseology cannot change
ancient truth, and there you have the
ed Bishops Mallalicu and Mcdowell at
| Los Angeles two years ago to push the
matter of raising the spiritual standard
OF daily life and they have been phe-
| nomenally successful.
China Awakening.
The Chinese boycott? Wen / speak at
long range. In one way such a move
ment Is a good sign. If 1t be n spontane-
GUS awakening to sense of political
power. When China respects herself she