The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-03-30
WITH THE WILD MEN
IN ISLAND OF BORNEO
MISSIONARY TELLS or HIS EXPERIENCES AMONG
sAvAaEs-aAMED FRIENDSHIP OF CHIEF, BUT
HAS NOT BEEN ABLE TO MAKE A SECOND VISIT
HAS TRIED WITHOUT SUCCESS TO GET MIS-
sIoNARY TO FULFILL PROMISE MADE TO CHIEF

by 8. Earl Taylor of New York, a spec
talist in young peoples work. He is
soon to start on tour of the world to
make observations Of what the young
people are doing in all lands. Bishop
Thorburn talked briefly on, We can do
1t If we will.
The great convention will close to-
night with Bishop Hartzell's great adj
: dress on The Open Door in Africa.
This address has attracted attention
of the greatest minds all over the
world and 1t may be considered an
exclusive privilege to listen to it.
If last nights session of the Metho-
dist missionary convention had been an
open meeting an edif1ce twice or three
times the capacity would have been
none too large to accommodate all who
desired to hear the story of how the
gospel has been spread over the far
away and strange lands by men who
have helped to do 1t. AS it was the
First Methodist church was taxed to
It's utmost to accommodate all of the
delegates, local and out of town, who
were entitled to attend. The meeting
was presided over by the venerable
Bishop Andrews. The speakers were
Bishop j. M. ,Thoburn of India and H.
L. F. Leuring, presiding elder of the
Methodist church at Singapore.
Opening his address, which was a
plain outline of how he began his mis-
sionary labors in India, Bishop Thor
burn stated that it was forty-eight
years ago this very week that he was
admitted as probationer to the Pitts
burg conference. There he heard
something of the work the Methodists.
had been doing In Asia for ten years
among 400.Q00,00 people and had Sc
cured one convert In that first decade.
What he heard created desire which
set him thinking and year later he
was crossing the Atlantic on his way
to the Indian field, to be missionary
from the Methodist church in the
United States. He began work with
seven others and after five years he
returned for a visit home and to re-
port five converts. They made mis-
takes and 1t took a long time to learn
how best to- reach the hearts of the
people whom they wished to turn to
Christianity. He discovered that life
was too short to preach against idols
and worship of that character when
the people were as sincere in that as
Christians are in their worship and
they were not to be turned by mere
words telling them that it was wrong.
He told of how the missionary move
ment was greatly accelerated when the
preaching of the word was done in
English. He wildly described the
work and difficulties encountered by
missionary workers among the various
castles In India and cited how two
men, caste thieves, were taught Chris
tianity and how they became workers
and ordained; how their sons became
university students and useful men in
society. The bishop said with en-
phasis that it took him only a mo-
ment to tell the story to an audience
in Fargo, but it took twenty years to
do the work. The bishops address was
full of earnestness and every word was
instructive. There is no doubt but that
many in the great assembly went to
their homes with a much better idea
of the value of the missionary enter
prises than they ever had. and they