The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-02-08

| language to a European. Today mission
in some respects Chinese people are
! truer to high ideals of life than Ameri-
cans. They put culture before CONNER.
calism. A foreigner is called an ocean
man because he came over the ocean. \
foreign book is an ocean book.
Up to 1910 opium was illegal in
China and it was Struggled into China
by white men. This operated against
white missionaries The Chinese know
better now than to confuse smugglers
with missionaries. Superstition is
breaking away before European culture
and Christianity.
When Morrison came to China there
| was not one Christian. In 1885 the first
| Protestant church was organized there
with three members. Today they have
| 10000 1t is only thirteen years since
the speaker went to China, and then
i they had $4,000 Christians. Today that
| number is trebled. The seed is sown.
| Tracts, Bibles, literature by the million
| is distributed In famine times the
Christians have great opportunity to
show the natives the spirit of the Mas
| ter. Medical missions are doing Won
ders for the bodies and souls of this
people.
Today presents the greatest mission
airy opportunity in China. Idolatry, SUI
perstition, ignorance, prejudice, are los
ing their grip on the people. Idol TEN.
Piles are changed into schools. We have
given them science. Let lis give them
the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Timothy
Richards SAYS: "Unless China is evan
gelized in the next thirty years, it will
take 300 years."
Then the corresponding secretary of
the missionary union, DR.. Fred p. Hag-
gard, was introduced. He brought before
the audience in an impressive way the
church's commission to evangelize the
world. Oliver Wendell Holmes, lectur.
ing on the arterial system, said: Gen
tlemen, if l could bring this pulse-beat
of mine to bear on yonder Bunker Hill
monument, it would batter that monu
ment to pieces" So while we may
seem insignificant in ourselves, yet we
are the children of God and co-workers
with Him and our heart beats can bat
ter down the mightiest bulwarks of evil.
God has chosen us to help Him bring
India, China, Africa and the islands of
the sea to His feet. Every Christian is
a missionary.
Rev. j. A. Curtis of India was intro
duced and spoke of the work among the
Felugus. There are twenty million
Felugus and we have only twenty nine
stations to care for several millions of
them, or two hundred thousand to each
full things for us there. The low caste
number So 1000 out of $4,000 Felugus.
They are the neediest They are under
sized from starvation. They had no
caste, schools, education, standing or
morals. Yet God chose them to become
the bearers of the gospel. In religion
the greatest need is the greatest claim
God has lifted these outcasts up to a
position of moral influence and power
today; so. breaking down the caste sys-
TEN, which forbds man to love his
neighbor. You can't despise the man
who loves you; hence the Hindus can
not despise these morally superior out.
casts. The regeneration of these out
casts is the strongest testimony to the
Hindu that God can save the vilest even
to the uttermost.
At six o'clock a missionary supper
was served in the chapel by the Ladies'
Home and Foreign Missionary societies
of the Baptist church. The chapel was
full of people who not only enjoyed the
excellent viands provided for them, but
also the spirited running commentary on
questions handed in by those present on
missionary conditions of the world and
answered by DR.. Fred p Haggard. At
1870 the people adjourned to the church
again, where, after devotional service
and solo by Mrs. r. f. Holmes, the
order of the evening was taken up.
Rev. j. A. Curtis of India spoke of the
great revival i'll progress in that country.
Our own mission there has $4,000 mem
bers. The salient need is for a still
greater spiritual quickening for then
men and money will both come in album.
| dance.
Rev. c. A. Sahlquist of West China
spoke of the Hopeful Signs in China
Rev. j. c. Robbins of the Philippine
islands spoke eloquently of the great
| work being done there. There are 1000
islands with total area equal to Japan,
capable of supporting twenty five mil.
lions of people Are they ready for in
dependence? Not now nor in the present
generation. There are fifty different