The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-31

laymen. will join the ranks. The great est iorwerd movement of all the ages is upon us The church, by tas grace sf uou: HCst save society. or lose herself AI tne church would win mankind, she must serve mankind. We have yet to learn the inexhaustible. conauerinx. dynamic force wrapped up in the three great social laws proclaimed by Christ the law of service.s .sthe law of sacrifice and the law of love.
 Now in closing. let me call your at- tention to some of the>ways in which the Christian forces are seeking to meet these great needs of our civiii- zatiou today:
 First. The regular church services. which will never grow obsolete.
 second The Sunday School, with it's various departments. and its organized classes of men and women.
 Third. The educational movement in nome and foreign missions. behind which Is the Young Peoples Missionary Movement. and the Mission Boards of all Protestant Churches.
 Fifth. Christian colleges.
 Sixth. The Methodist Training School at Nsshvilie. and Scarritt Bibie school at Kansas City. for the education and training of Deaconesses and Mis- sionaries.
 Seventh. The institutional church.
 Eighth. The Laymen's Missionary Movement, which promises to be one of the epoch-malxing movements in the history of Christendom.
 Ninth. Last. but not least. the "Civic Leagues" Good Government Leagues" and Law and Order Leagues" which are organizations to give practical ef- Feet to Christian patriotism and civic virture.
 This is a time to stir the blood of our young men and women. Let us get in line. and l pray that some of you may feel the call to active service at the front, and say, Here am I, send mei' There Is work for each member of the church to do. but we need trained workers. oh so much, to lead and di- rect the forces of the church. There Is place for every Christian. in the ranks or at the front, and 1t seems to me that at such a time, to merely sit still and do nothing is to deserve "ths scorn of men and the curse of God"
 At the conclusion of Mir. Browns re- marks. Chairman Grant introduced Mir. Leon Mccord. who took the foreign mission field as his topic of the evening Mir. McCord said in part: | IL IS against the law to sell opium In China. and 1t is an open fact to tfoss who know. that there are more temper ance societies in China than in the whole of the United States. and yet the East India Comdany in 1773 had a cor ner on the opium market of the world and backed by England they forced the ports of China and built opium docks and warehouses and sold opium to all China
 "The Chinese protested. but in the poor, besotted condition of the minds Of the masses. nothing could be done 4 letter was finally written to Queen vic- toria In which 1t was implored that the forcing of opium Leon Chinese sub Jects by the East Indian Company should be stopped. and yet that good Queen was powerless to prevent the company doing what 1t liked on account of it's charter.
 'In 1880 the United States made two treaties with China and in the second treaty made a provision that opium should not be sold by the companies trading at Chinese ports. u Hung Chang said that when the treaty was signed that he had read our Bible and that like the teachings of Confusius 1t taught the golden rule. and that the conduct of the United States in forbid ding her subjects to sell opium to, China was the first and only applica- tfon of that golden rule that he had found in all the conduct of foreign governments towards China.
 Tt may be safely claimed that to knock down a man is not the surest pat to his high esteem, and to kick open his front door will not guarantee you an invitation to dinner, and yet this Is what England has done in selling opium to China.
 You allow a child to crawl before If walks. and if you expect China, which has one-fourth of the inhabitants of Inc earth or 400.000.000 people to take to ] the Christian religon, by the same to- ken you should expect your infant child which is four weeks old to walk and not to crawl
 osCsnmpnaroa aIona Sar,a.d. 4t.ak <rLt na be Christianized and Americanized Twelve millions of bales of cotton is enough to supply the cotton of the world. Educate and Christianize Chi na and 24.000.000 will be demanded "Mr. Hobson. with his ideas of big navy. Is all wrong. Let patriotism live in the hearts of the people and Christ ianize the world and it will not be nec- fessary to float a big navy on our sea- board. The good book says: That he shall judge among many people. and rebuks strong nations afar off: and they shall beat their swords into blow. shares, and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation. neither shall they learn war any more.'
 "Educate your children to educate the benighted nations of the earth and you will leave to them heritageNof peaceI better than gold"
 ShaiAhAdA GAdht tHSH StIu that CdFuN would be distributed throughout the audience for the purpose of finding those who wished to study mission edu, cational work. The work would be in- terdenominational. although classes would be organized in every church conducted by trained leaders
 The signing of the cards took place while the choir rendered an anthem, and the meeting was dismissed by the singing of the doxology and a prayer by Blount Davidson.
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