St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-02-29

Me-; David Percy Jones, Minneapolis;
E. ]. B. Pense, Kingston, Ont; N. w.
Hoyles, Toronto; H. H. Fudger, To-
ronto; S. ]. Moore, Toronto: j.
N. Shenstone, Toronto; John Mac
kay, Toronto: c. Med. Hay, Toronto:
George r. Grove, Winnipeg; N. w.
Rowells. Toronto; w. M. Birks,
Montreal; A. o. Dawson, Montreal;
Henry H. Bridgman, Norfolk, Conn. !;
Ezra H. Stevens, Hartford, Conn; E.
P. Metcalf, Providence; George C.
Whitney, Worcester. Mass; John
Meigs, Phi. D., Pottstown, Pa; E. K.
Warren. Three Oaks, Mich.
A Sign of the Times.
The men who keep posted upon the
trend of current events in all spheres
have noticed that of late years the
emphasis in religious affairs has been
laid upon the masculine element.
Succeeding the powerful young PEG
pies movement, as represented by
Christian Endeavor and kindred or
CARNATIONS, came the brotherhood
idea, as most prominently expressed
in the Protestant Episcopal church.
1t is common sight down town. to
see business men of the best sort
wearing modest little button bearing
st. Andrews cross. These are mem
bers of the Protestant Episcopal
Brotherhood of St. Andrew, a mems
society which has wrought notable
results in identifying first-class bust
ness men with active religious work.
Nobody could ever accuse this St.
Andrews Brotherhood crowd with be-
ing Weaklings or sentimentalists.
Older, but less aggressive, although
widely pervasive is the Brotherhood
OF Andrew and Philip, which began in
the Reformed church in the United
States and quickly spread to other de-
nominations. Last year the Presby-
terrain church, which has a conspicu-
Gus array of public men in her mem
bership, held great mems conven-
ton in Indianapolis, and formally
launched the Presbyterian Brother
hood, William j. Bryan being one Of
the promoters and speakers. The
Southern Presbyterian church fol-
lowed suit, and it is to hold it's first
laymen's convention this fall. The
Methodists are now pushing the
brotherhood idea; and, altogether. it
is manifest that the most marked
present-day development of Christian
ity is among the laymen.
The visible connecting link between
these UNCONVENTIONAL mems organiza-
tons and the present laymen's mis-
sionary movement is to be found i'm
the United Presbyterian church. This
body, more than a year ago, held
business mems convention in Pitts
burg, which attracted attention in
church circles everywhere, because of
its enthusiasm for missions, and for
its determination to put the church's
missionary work on a business basis.
The prime figure in this meeting was
]. Campbell White. brilliant young
layman who has spent ten years in
Calcutta, where he had established
the Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton. Mr.. White has been made the
general secretary of the laymen's
missionary movement.
Going After Heather Rusinesswise.
Every reader of the funny papers,
as well as every one familiar with
church life, knows that the backbone
of the missionary work OF the past
century has been the women and the
children. But it is the men who have
the money. Only the man with the
pocketbook could be equal to the big
spending which an adequate prosecu-
ton of the missionary enterprise en-
tails. The present outgo of $21, 000-
600 year, enormous as it is, COM
prises only a fraction of the expendi-
ture which is necessary, if the Job is
to be done thoroughly.
So, naturally, as soon as the lay
men really took hold, they began to
do some figuring. To put the work
which has heretofore been large
ly sustained by impulse and senti.
ment, on business basis, they first
divided up the heather" population
of the world among the Christian
countries and churehe Here is the
interesting way they go about it.
There are approximately, 1000, OO0,-
900 heather" in the world. On the
basis of one missionary to every 25,-
600 of these, the present force of
$4,000 missionaries accounts for $685.
100000 of heather. Or this same re-
suit may be reached by allowing two
dollars a head as the cost of evan
gelizing each heather" for so the
thing has been figured out by these
men who want working basis for
their undertaking. 1t becomes a
mere matter of subtraction 10 show
that 675,000,000 of people are at pres
ent unprovided for by the present
missionary arrangement. Therefore.
the 1aymen say that the missionary
bodies should have ss0,O00,00 year
and $4,000 more missionaries, for rs
years, in order really to do the job.
This sort of figuring would probably
have made William Carey or Robert
Morrison, pioneer missionaries, gasp
with establishment, but it is the mod
ern way
All this is not the speculative fgur-
ing of dreamers. The laymen are
after results; so they put the prop.
osition up to every denomination by
showing just how many heather each
church is responsible for and The
amount of money it will have to give.
And this plan of confronting a de-
nomination definitely with its share