The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-16

raising of funds for purposes of cyan
gelization. begun a two days meeting
The joint conference at the First
Christian Church was opened this
morning at 10 O'clock t BY Ikey, Milton
Quoted the devotional exercises.
The attendance was not large, prob
ably seventy-nve persons being pres
ent when the exercises began. HOW
ever. great enthusiasm in the cause
OF evangelization was displayed and
the meeting was q suceessful one.
The first speaker on the program
was Or. 5. ri. Chester. of Nashville.
Tenn. secretary or the Executive Com
Brief Survey OF Our Mission Fields. ="
He stated at the beginning of hts re-
marks that as yet he had found no one
opposed to the laymen's missionary
movement, Continuing he said:
Every one OF the countries where
our mission work is going on are pro-
gfessive, intrinsic countries. We are
doing no mission work on the islands
with the exception Of Cuba. justly call
ed the Pearl OF the Antilles. We are
fortunate In the nature OF the field
that 1t has fallen to our lot to evan
geIize.
DR.. Chester outlined the work being
done by the Presby Churcn IN
Cuua, Mexico. Brazil, Africa, Korea,
Japan and China. lie gave a lucid de-
scription of the nature OF the SOIL and
Character of the people in these fields
and showed the need TOR a propagallon
OF the Gospel among them.
The next speaker was w H. Ray
mond OF Nashville, Tenn. Mr.. Ray
mond is chairman of the Finance Com
mittee of the executive Committee OF
the southern Presbyterian Church. His
subject was Our Immediate Needs.
To reach our immediate needs we
must have some information In finan-
cial way as to what has been aone. In
1877 the membership of the Southern
Presbyterian Church was 2,555. our
contributions to missions were $685.
l2l.l5. This amount has greatly in
creased during the past decade until
IN 1907 We have church membership
Of 252,sS2. contributing s276,262.SS to
the mission cause. Our increase in
cent. pN-
our records show that this phe-
nomenai Increase in contributions was
encouraging feature is that our contrI
buttons are growing from the sources
from which we can naturally EXPECT
contributions to come.
Our work is being .hampered becausc
we cannot furnish our missionaries
ample equipment with which TO CON
Duct their, work along the avenues
he r experiences has proven to them to
We needed last year $4,000 We
are In the position of a bird with one
". s,a beating the air but unable to fly
are worrying themselves out by beat'
ing hard with one wing. If we could
equip them better they could accomn-
ilsn much more by the same effort.
ing one upon the finance committee
For this period the United States has
been upon the verge OF financial
panic. Have You ever stopped to think
what the consequences would no ~
such panic should occur? Last year
we owed one bank In Nashville "a. 900.
HAD panic occurred 1t would not have
been a question of what the bank
would like to do, but what they could
do.
Now. your committee should not be
embarrassed in this way. Our imme-
diate needs are for $4,000 over and
above ar%M contributions to be expected
able to pay our missionaries their
stipend three months in advance.
Il want to lay upon the laymen'r
movement the raising of that $4,000.
can raise this amount more readily
than can our committee"
DIR. Forsyth, of Korea Speaks.
Following Mr.. Raymond, W. ii.
dressed the conference on Urgency in
Korea"
Il would like to say in regard to
this movement" he said, that it can
pe uons. our people are interested
Il would like to tell you how
lack of funds imposes hardships on the
other side of the ocean.
If you had the people coming TO
you each day and asking for medicines
and you knew that the board could
not supply the funds to purchase this
medicine, you could imagine how en-
barassing the position would be. That
Is what the physician in the field en-
counters constantly,
"ThHe are scores of places where
the people have never seen mission
airy. They have never had an oppor-
tunity. They don't know how to wor-
ship God. The necessity Is immediate.
Something should be done to meet this
urgent demand for missionaries. The
speaker related instances of the sacri-
fices being made by the missionaries
in Korea as well as by the native
Christian. The native Christians, he
said. out of their poverty give On av-
erage of 5000 apiece to the cause OF
missions yearly. Concluding he said:
1T is a reproach upon our church that
she will not send to these people the
missionaries they cry for and who are
willing to go. The opportunity isN
great, the call Is urgent 1t tre comes TO 10
you and me. In Gods name II US
give them all they ask.
The closing address of the morning
session was made by Rev w. M. An
derson, of Nashville, Tenn. CHAIRMAN
missions, which subject was "Oppor-
tunity and Claims of the Hour.
INV brethren if there is any reason
for what we are doing there Is reason
for doing II all l believe We can raise
81 .O0O 900 in twelve months and put
100 men in the field.
I'VE have this opportunity-the fleld
Ia definite and definable The man VINO
IS abreast of the missionary problem
is aware that our work IS deIlnl ,s,
W. don't Ian over on the whole mis-
sionary field -,--
The field that we cover embraces
about rs. 900 900 people. Coming closer
To the proposition these 2S,O0O.00O peo-
ME are willing to receive the gospel.
This attitude Of the field Is an oppor,
tunity. we have the fresh water and
plenty of provisions; we can leeu the
heather If we Will ,,..,
"Another opportunity is the develop
ment found in the homeland. Those
AGENCIES which have eliminated in the
student volunteer movement nave
placed at our disposal many :, young
people willing to give their hVes u
"The way to get men in the field is
for the Southern Presbyterian Church
to say. Here is a million dollars-send
them. !, - ,o,.,,
missionary movement. If you gentle
men will get your organization COM
nlete YOU will have completed the ma.
chinery necessary to flood the field
with money and missionaries. From
25 900 members you should get $o00,-
900, allowing no one to pay more than
5000. Is that impractica That
doesn't sound to me like any paper
Scheme You can do It'll
Ht the conclusion of \the morning
program the conference was extended