Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-22
WORK IN THE FOREIGN FIELDS
How Interest and Efficiency Is Main
tanned and Financed.

How Interest and Efficiency Is Main
tanned and Financed.
Five interesting and important addresses
were delivered at Thursday mornings ses-
sion of the convention. Rev. A. W. Halsey,
D. D., home department secretary of the
Board of Foreign missions. spoke on The
Literature Essential to the Comprehensive
Understanding OF Foreign Mission Work"
He placed the study of the life of David
Livingston as clearly in the front of mis-
sionary biographical literature, and showed
that grit, gumption and grace were the
chief essentials OF effective missionary
work
TT is essential that we should let the
church at home know what is going on
in the mission field In Persia and in the
Philippines, China, japan and elsewhere"
said Dr. Halsey land the missionaries from
those fields have told us something OF that
work but their time was too contracted to
! tell all that we would like TO know. Hence
there is a growing demand for more de-
tailed information regarding the work in
| the various fields. 1t is one OF the pur-
poses OF this movement to give that in
| formation as far as II is obtainable and
! the inquiry for intelligence is unceasing
and increasing"
Rev, Edgar p. Hill, d. D., professor OF
homilectics in the Mccormick Theological
seminary OF Chicago. spoke upon the sub
ject Of What Can the Pastor Do to Arouse
Interest in Foreign Missions" He said in
part;
What hath thou done for Met" Is the
divine inquiry from Christ. The mission
/ OF the pastor Is to lead men OF the church
/ into the fellowship Of Christ; to tell men
how dependent they are upon Hin, when
| Jesus is everything. Follow the commands
/ OF Christ and everything else will come.
Arouse the sympathy OF the people in the
| depiorable conditions in foreign lands will
| do I'm part. But there are other motives
aside from those OF sympathy. The Boxer
uprising gave great stimulus TO the mis-
/ sionary spirit but we cannot always have
| Boxer uprisinRs. What Is needed IS to
| make the world realize that Jesus Christ
is the hope Of the. world. ExDlsin to the
people the needs Of the foreign field. No
! Christian will dare 10 ignore the last COM
mand OF Jesus. Cover the blackness OF
the heather world WIN iilumina5,ng glory
! young chinese convert who said. '1f all
/ the people Of China believed in the Bible
people informed Of the conditions IN for
i eign lands. The secret Of the success ot
Il the foreign missionary work In the Pacific
| ena-s4 cities is that thew are kept informed
| missions Let US give ourselves In com
| nlete surrander to tho NastSr Pear W.T.
What NE bss done for YOU. Took. look and
| teu -hat vnn have seer. tHat the whole
| u-~-iA v-~v vat . st~hf - uiu1
Rev Charles Edwin Bradt, central dis
trtct secretary of the board OF foreign mis-
sions. spoke upon the subject Of How to
Finance the Field" He said:
This question is one OF the most impor-
taut We have 10 consider. A man came 70
me last evening. who had heard Mr.. Speer's
! address during the afternoon. and said 10
me: Or Bradt l am going home from
this convention and induce our members
10 give at least S. per year each for foreign
missions. II enough IL not raised ! will
! make up the balance"