The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-03-22
TALK on MISSION MATTERS
prs. Cable and Pyke Gave Interest
ing Discourses on Missions in
Foreign Fields.

scheduled to speak for the closing
platform meeting of the missionary
convention which commenced it's ses-
sion during the afternoon.
A devotional meeting was con-
Quoted by Presiding Elder Dobson,
and it was characteristic of the work
in hand.
DR.. q. NJ. Gable, whose headquar-
tiers are Chemulpho, Korea, gave the
first address of the evening, and it
was an interesting presentation of
the improved situation in that coun-
try. Mr.. Gable is at present home
on a vacation and is visiting his par-
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. G.. G. Gable, who
reside on a farm south of town. Mr..
Cable is a young man, but thorough
ly in earnest and greatly in love with
the work as a missionary in foreign
fields. He must needs sacrifice much
and forego a great deal, but he be-
lieves that the people of Korea are
entitled to that much self-denial of
the American people and that his
Christianity impels him to do the
work for the Master. His address
was more or less a description of the
work in that field. The marvellous
manner in which the people of the
hermit kingdom are being reached
and brought to accept Christianity is
regarded in mission circles as the
was only a brief quarter of a century
that the first missionary entered Ko-
rea, but that the work has been faith
fully done by the missionaries is evil
denred from the fact that 100000
have been led to confess Christ.
The speaker emphasized the great
confidently declared it as his belief
that if the church at home provides
the workers and means to support
them, Korea's ten million people peo-
pie could be evangelical in ten
years.
DR.. J. H. Pyke, who has spent a
great many years as a missionary in
China, his headquarters being at
Tientsin, occupied the balance of the
evening with a splendid presentation
of the improved conditions in that
country since Christianity has be-
come so thoroughly entrenched in
many parts. With it's population of
45O,OOO,0OO people, he said that they
were an interesting study and it was
a wonder to him why these oriental
people have not been studied before,
inasmuch as they are coming to be
near neighbors of ours. 1t was a
hundred years ago that Robert
Morrison first set his foot in China,
and with the growth of Christianity,
which was exceedingly slow at first,
the people have been stretching their
hands toward this country for en-
lightenment. China, he said, is about
the same now as it was $500 years
ago, and the foundations must have
been laid deep and strong. God has
been there all these years and lie is
preserving it for a great work TO be
performed. Briefly referring TO the
period when Confuscius commenced
to lose his hold with the advent Of
missionaries, the speaker took up the
interesting historic movement. that
had followed from the time of the in
PRODUCTION Of protestantism. He be-
lieved that China had the greatest
system of morality of any country.
In its literature China had nothing
that is impure; in it's religion there
was nothing hal c~ountenanced IL
centiousness - something which
could not be said of our own coun-
has been a great preparation for
Christianity in China, Korea and
| Japan, and one of the followers of
that faith once told him that he be-
lieved in the doctrine of Christian
tty, for he declared, that christianity
provided a remedy and forgiveness
for sin, while Confuscius fails in that
very essential to give a hope to the
believers. That. DR.. Pyke thought,
was a wonderful admission to make.
Christianity, he declared, had made
a wonderful change in the conduct
of the men of China toward the wo-
men. Today the ONE and girls OF
China are not looked upon with the
same feeling of lowliness; their feet
are not bound as they one were; the
girls are being educated and permit
ted liberties which were never
thought of before the days Of Chris
tianity. He expressed the opinion
that it was wonderful the sacrifices
the men and ONE Of China have
made for the religion of the present
day, and gave instances during thu
boxer movement some few years ago
when they stood as martyrs and de
clared their belief in the Christ ant