The Jersey City news., 1906-04-06
Rev; Stephen 0. Benton,
D. DIS Stirring Address
at the Church Extension
Sooiety's Anniversary
MISSIONS IN ALL LANDS
RECEPTION OF NEW MEMBERS
TO CONFERENCE THIS MORN
ING - Ll,YMEN's ASSOCIATION
MEETS

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The auditorium and gallery of the
West Side Methodist Church was crowd
ed last night during the celebration of
the anniye rsaries of the Missions and
Church Extension Societies in connection
with tie proceedings of the forty-ninth
session of the Newark annual conference
Rev. S. I. jackson presided. The speak
ers were Rev. Stephen o. Benton. d. D.,
Recording Secretary Of the Missionary
Society, and Rev Jabez e. G. Bicker-
man. who spoke for the Church Exten-
sion Society. Rev. James NJ King.
Dzm D., Corresponding Secretary of that
organization, was scheduled as the speak
er, but was unable to be present. Dr.
BickermaE took his place.
Dr. Benton. speaking for the Mission
ary Society, called attention to the sp.en-
sdid work the Society had been doing
not only in foreign lands. but here at
home, where Methodsm had Fept in
touch with the Western movement of
emigrants. with the miners of the West
and the Negroes and poor whites of the
South. He drew an interesting oral map
as it were, of the world showing the
progress of Methodism all over the globe
T He said IN part
I'VE are preaching to the Danes and
others on the Scandinavian peninsula.
We are in Ruesia preaching the GospeI
to the Firms. We have even gone into
St. Petersburg itself, the capital of that
immense empire, which has State
! Church. We have invaded Germany, the
land of SO many skeptics and doubters
among the scientists. We have made
converts. We have gone to Rome and
are preaching in the very ehadow of the
Vatican. From there We may follow the
| line of the Methodfsts' missions into Bull
| CARA, thence across to the northern
shores of Africa, down the coast to Lii
IBERIA, and still southwark into Cape Col
ony Rounding the Cape of Good Hope
| we next find where firm footholds have
been established on the eastern coast.
The line of missions can thence be traced
nortllward into India, with millions of ig-
norant and starving hordes; from India
southward again to the South Sea Is
lands, Borneo and the Philippines. From
here we follow the line of progress into
| China, where the work is slowly but
steadily progressing. We next come to
the hermit Kingdom of Korea, for so
many years impregnable to Christianity,
where we find our work progressing in
leaps and bounds Then We follow the
mission line over to the island kingdom
of Japan-beautiful Japan. Here in the
last decade We find greater strides have
been made by the religion Of Jesus Christ
Ethan in any other country on the face of
the earth. From here we cross the Pa
ciic to Hawai- and the Sandwich Islands
and on eastward to the coast Of South
America-into Chill, and passing around
the Horn We come to the missions es-
tablished in the Argentine Republic and
we pursue the line upward to the broad
mouth 0 the River Plata The next ard
Il last place on our journey is Mexico, our
next door neighbor. where until few
years ago the Spanish Catholic religion
was in absolute control; bus to-day we
find Methodism firmly established there
AMI the ople Prog essing with the
spread Of our religion"
The Rev. DR.. Bickerton, speaking for
the Church Extension Society, said that
!, that organization was obi cd to keep
pace with. the millions of European inn
migrants landed on our shores and NOV.
!
to him rs though God Almighty had
i thrust these people on us because he was
tired of waiting for us to go over to
them. he explained that he meant nc
reflection upon the efforts Of the church
3 in the work Of establishing missions in
. Europe, and said that more in that line
should be done. but that it should moi
be forgotten that the rapidly growing
needs Of those who have landed on oul
shores must be looked after.
AT S.15 o'clock this morning the Rev
A. B. Richardson, D. d.. conducted a
devotionsl service. The topic was Fish
ers Of Men-Mdnner and Mehod." Al
address was made by Rev. George g
Winding. p. p.
4 At 8 A. NJ. a business SESSION was held
that lasted an hour. AT 10 A. M. Bieal'