The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-12
JAPS TO SAVE THE FAR EAST Christianity in Orient Relies on Them. DR. W. R. LAMBUTH SPEAKS Methodist Missionary Entertains Large Congregation.
 --s-- He Expresses Great Faith ia Future Of srikado'r Kingdom and Pays Tribute to It. Industriai
 Activity.

night at the Dexter Avenue Methodist Church. Dr. w. R. Lambuth' of Nash vile. Tenn. secretary of the Board of Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church. South. predicted that it would be through the Japanese nation that | the millions of people in the Far East will be evangelized.
 | Congregations of every Methodist l Church in the city last night united | In services at the Dexter Avenue | Methodist Church for the purpose of hearing Dr. Lambuth, but, on account of the threatening weather, the house of worship was not as well filed as | had been expected.
 l pr. Lambuth is man of great eX- l perience in missionary work. He was I born in China while his parents were 1 missionaries in the Far East. He was | educated in this country and, in 1877. l went to China as a medical missionary. 1 He began his work In Japan in 1886 l and returned to America in 1901 to accept the secretaryship of the Board of Missions which position he has since i held.
 Japan and the East. The subject Of tine address of Dr.. 1 Lambuth last night was Japan and | the Far East |" He spoke one hour and halt and intense interest was mani I Tested tn his address.
 | Seated upon the rostrum with the | distinguished missionary were Rev. I w. M. Cox, pastor of the Dexter Ave- nue Methodist Church; Rev. John A. Rice, D. D., pastor of the Court Street | Church, and Rev. R R, Ellison, pastor | of the Forest Avenue Church. l Dr. Lambuth was introduced by Dr. Rice as "a man who interpreted the signs of the times.'' and as a man who has his eye on all the problems of the church. being in charge of the churchs s | mission work.
 1 In his opening remarks. Dr. Lambuth said there was no question but that Japan was the key to the Far Eastern problem. He then entered upon a re- | view of church forces in this country, and strongly advocated the intrench- ment of church forces in our great cities. In view of the problems, he said, a training school had been es- tablished in Nashville.
 'It Is necessary" he said that VIC shall have one great camp in the South for training. This is going to be a cen tury of activity and conquest"
 In emphasizing the importance oi work in the great cities, Dr. Lambutt said that in one city alone there were 10000 clerks who spent half of theii weeks salary in one night at vaude' vile entertainments. He hoped anC asked the brethren to pray that fl would soon be possible to erect an ad ditional training school at Nashville tC accommodate forty women, and there after to erect building for retired Epworth Leaguers and other church workers.
 Dr. Iambuth said there was never any accident in what God did. If He placed a people in a fertile, resource full portion of the globe 1t was for g purpose and for this reeason he pre- l dicted a great future for China, which country has 400. .000. 900 inhabitants. IT one province there are about 100000 inhabitants, half as much as the pop ulation of the entire United States He resources of this far-ofr country.
 Must Christianlxe Negroes.
 At this Juncture the speaker began brief survey of missionary work among the negroes of this country.
 Tt Is not so much how to solve ths negro problem" he said, "as 1t is tC
 help, the negro. They are fast goint
 to the bad Tn SsSs. our cities; They neec se;
 them what we did before the war, thu chiistianization of 4,Oo0,ooO barbariani
 from the jungles of Africa"
 | It was evident from the remainder
 of the address. which was devoted al
 most entirely to a discussion of JapaI
 and it's people. that Dr. Lambuth hal
 made an exhaustive study Of this ract l and their land. Japan, he said, hal
 46, 900. .000 people. The Japanese Island
 he pictured, occupies the same posi-
 ton to the Asiatic mainland that Grea
 Britain does to the European continent
 He said that Japan had a rocky coas
 and It's soil is sterile for the most part
 land of volcanoes and earthquakes
 with only about one-thirteepth of it
 soil under cultivation. Japan woulC
 never he an agricultural country bu tt would be an industrial country. Throughout his address. pr. Lambutl
 carried his audience with him in tn
 thought that the Japanese are q grea
 ple who have ~- ade marvellous stride strikingly i'll . raded by the rapi ] strides they have made during the pas thirty years.
 Tt is said" spoke Dr. Lambuth. "tha
 a people never rise higher than the sol
 on which they live. But one thing 1
 true, that soil has a great influenc on a people The Japanese are natur l Worshipers because nature has sue wonderful powers in that country A Japanese boy, he saids could take | flower and sketch 1t from nature with
 out any training whereas the America
 had to be taught to do such a thine | He pictured the Japanese as an artisti
 nation and. in this respect, he com pared them with the Greeks who wer
 artistic and fearless of death. Japs Form Industrial Peril.
 In Japan, he continued. there are vas
 deposits of coal and minerals and grea
 JapaneSe instead of becoming vel Tr,s, -ortY ,,orf ra x,ad in the naWsDaueri