The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-17
Laymen's Movement Be- gun in Montgomery.
FOR WORLD EvANGEInATloN
Proposed to Put Missionary in Field
 For Every 25,0Oo.
East Alabama rresbytery Business Men se Raise s14,ooo to Send Four teen workers to the For
 eisn Mission Field.

A conference ot the laymen or the
 nerent Presbyterian churches of the se rooms of the Central Presbyterian
 hurch Friday noon and was addressed v H. c. ostrom, Field Secretary of the Naymen's Missionary Movement of the Southern Presbyterian Church.
 Mir. ostrom's home is in Athens, Ga, the Headquarters of the Southern Pres byterian Church movement. c. A. Row land. Chairman of the Executive Com mittee of the movement. also lives in Athens.
 The object of the Layman's Movs- menk is the sending of missionaries to foreign fields for the evangelization of the world. To do this 1t is necessary that there be at least one man for ev- cry 25,000 heather.
 It was declared that if this sending of one man for every 25.oo0 heathen can be accomplished and maintained for a single generation, the evangeli- zation of the world can be brought about in this generation in which we are now living.
 Nr. ostrom showed by chart which he had prepared thata with an average contribution of $4 per member for this church per year for a period of twen- ty-five years the contribution would be sufficient to carry the great work to success.
 There is general movement to fur kher this object through the whole of the protestant churches of the country, and the Southern Presbyterian Church is harmonizing itself with this general missionary movement. The executive committee of this general movement has it's headquarters in New York.
 The heathen world has been appor- toned among the various denomina- tions of the protestant churches of F44 Yaae sI wSsA A-~m& mAA |. - tion of this un-Christian world has been conservatively estimated. Easing opinion on the work which has already been accomplished in past years by missionaries already In the field, the general executive committee feels fully justified in the belief that one mission ary to every 25,OoO heather will evan geaize the whole world in the next Twenty-Five years.
 The population of the heathen world assigned to the Southern Presbyterian Church is 25,000,00 souls, which will require 1000 missionaries to do the work. Last year this church had on the field 250 men Supported by contri- buttons amounting to S250,OOO and it is the effort of the laymen of the church to raise this contribution to $1,000,000 annually in order to support 1000 men regularly.
 The laymen of the church propose to take hold of this and conduct it as a great business of the church and infect Into 1t the ability of the business men of the church and conduct 1t on the same businesslike principles that apply to their affairs in the commercial world.
 There Is an effort to enlarge the wis., ion of the entire church so that the tre- mendous missionary enterprise can lay hold upon the church men in such a way as to interest them as they are interested in the great business enter prises of this country,
 This is day of large corporations. doing business on large scale and the church wants to undertake It's great business on the same extensive scale. It Is believed by the laymen that this is thoroughly practicable and can be done. and when the object of their ef- fort has been accomplished at the end Of twenty-fve r-thtrty years, every country will be supporting its own Christian Church. Then there will be no such thing as foreign missions, ev cry church taking care of its own country, along home missionary lines.
 It was shown by Mfr Ostrom. by means of his chart. that for the East Alabama Presbytery to begin it's full sshare of the work the church would have to send out fourteen men at a cost of $14,0oo.