The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-16


 quence and earnestness made his subject vastly interesting During the course of the minister's remarks he declared that Mohammedanism is blocking the Christian evangelization of the east simply because that in the early Christian missionary ef- forts Arabia was left a neglected Held and Mohammed and his followers planted his faith in this soil which took root and has grown to menacing proportions. pr Lilly began by stating as funda- mental principle that God is the Lord of all and not a provincial deity, whose beneaeience is confined to one country or one people, declaring that the hope Of the human race is the Christian view and through Christian effort the salvation or all people,
 "'rhe heather world is living and dying in ignorance and sin, he declared, while you. with your God-given wealth and resources have tine power to send help but so aften neglect your evident duty. It is not right. neither Is 1t sale to neglect any corner of the world III spreading Christianity. Had the disciples not neglected Arabia in their early Chfls- tian evangelism Mohammedanism would not have secured such a hold upon mll- lions of people who are now blocking our efforts in eastern lands in spreading the gospel of Christ.
 "Take Christ's view of the work before you and realize his great conception or the salvation of the world. Formuiate some inspiring ideal of Christian life m your heart and follow it out in Christian work. It has been said that women m the churches. while men fill the saloons and jail This may not be entirely true, but 1t does not follow that men shoulu not take the lead in church Work. MSl' have led in all good and great deeds III all history, and men must be the fouhua- ton in developing the undeVeloped re. sources of the church. even as they have wonderfully developed the hidden re- sources of this great city Of Blrmlns- ham, which not many years ago was uh- known to the world.
 The minister in conclusion declared that the laymen of the church must avail themselves of the privileges accorded to them of using Christ's religion for the good of others or accept the condemnation for duty unperformed.
 Reavis Arouses Sympathy.
 Rev. J. R. Reavis of Nashville. seere- tarv of foreign missions. spoke feeling ly upon the subject, '"fhe Distinct ke- sponsihility of the Presbyterian Church in Foreign Lands His appeal for the heathen brought tears to the eyes or his hearers when he told of the unnumebered
 
 out their hands to enlightened Christen- dom for aid while hundreds of mission aries are ready and willing to go and are without means to go while church members hoard their wealth and refuse to give freely to this cause.
 A striking statement was made by the minister in reference to the. missionary work in Korea. There are, he said, only | ten Presbyterian missionaries in that country to 5,o0O,000 people and the battle | for Christianity Is made harder because | of Japanese influence which is rapidly | permeating the country and spreading atheistio sentiment through the commer- | cial relations of the two countries | strong appeal was made by the min | ister for supreme effort the part of | laymen in aiding the missionary work in | China, Korea and Africa. He said that | twenty -four of forty missionaries are | ready and waiting for the money to take | them tc foreign fields. Sixty young men
 have prepared themselves in semlnaries
 for missionary work he said, and are
 also waiting to be assigned to missionary | work.
 Must they be turned back from their | purpose?" he asked. 'Laymen of the | church do not throw yourselves across
 the path of these young men who are
 prepared to devote themselves to life | of sacrifice to save the heathen.
 "Presbyterians have Gods money in | their possession. He gave 1t to them to 1 use for mission work. Our committee | is pleading for 1000 for missions which l can be raised Give to this fund and aid l in spreading Christs kingdom. There l are sixty churches that could give $lO00 each for this purpose and it should be | done"
 Smith on City Church. Dr. F., w. Smith. pastor of the Second ! Presbyterian church of Louisville. Ky. 1 made the closing address and spoke upor | sucA entirely different lines that the con | gregation literally sat up and took mo- 1 tce with renewed interest. His sub 1 feet was "The City Church." and he 1 made the statement with emphasis that | the darkest feature of church work in