The Virginia enterprise., 1908-02-14

E j. D Fen=e Kingston. Ont. \ ".
Hoyles. Toronto: H H. Fadger. To.
! rorto. S j. Moore, Toronto; J.
\ Shenstone. Toronto: Johr Mac.
, kay. Toronto: c. Med. Hay. Toronto:
! George r Grove Winnipeg: n. w.
Rcwe!s. Toronto: W. NJ 3irks,
Montrea!; A. O. Dawson. Montreal:
| Henry II 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.
sjgn Of the Times.
! The E.an who keep posted yrcn the
! trend Of current events IN all spheres
; have noticed that of late years the
+; cmrhasi, i: religious affairs has been
, laid upon tie masculine element
, Succeeding the powerful Young geo.
; pies movement. as represented by
Christian Erdeavor and kindred or.
gaEizatocs came the brotherhood
idea. as most prominently expressed
III the Protestant Episcopal church.
X IS common sigh: down town" to
, see business men Of the best sort
wearing modest little button bearing
a St Andrews cross These are mem.
i bels of the Protestan: 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 10 other de.
nominations. Last year the Presby
ferian church, which has a corspicu.
Gus array Of public men in her mem.
bership, held a great men s conven
ton in Indianapolis. and formally
launched the Presbyterian Brother
mood. William J. Bryan being one OF
the promoters and speakers. The
Southern Presbyterian church fol
lowed suit. and it is to hold its first
l2Nmen's convention this fall The
M'lEodlsts are now pushing the
brotherhood idea; and. altogether, il
is manifest that the most marked
preson'-day development Of Christian
ity is among the laymen.
The visible connecting link between
these denominational mems organiza
tlons and the present laymens mis-
slonary movement is to be found in
the United Presbyterian church. This
bodE. more than year ago. held a
business mems convention in Pitts
burg, which attracted attention in
church circles everywhere, because ol
its enthusiasm for missions, and fol
it" determination to put the church's
missionary work on business basis
The prime figure in this meeting was
J. 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 Heathen Businesswise.
Every reader of the funny papers
as we'll 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
chlllren. But it is the men who have
tho money. Only the man with the
pocketbooA could be equal to the bis
spending which an adequate prosecu
t1rA OF the missionary enterprise en-
tails The present outgo of $2l 900
600 a year, enormous as 1t is, com
prises only fraction Of the expendi
tn:e which is necessary. if the job is
to be done thoroughly.
So. naturally. as soon as the Law
men really took hold. they began tc
do some figuring. To put the work
which has heretofore been large
ly sustained by impulse and senti
ment. on business basis. they frs
divided up the heather" population
of the word among the Christian
countries and churches. Here is the
interesting way they go about it
There are approximately 1000 600
600 "heathen" in the world. On the
basis of one missionary to everv o5
600 of these. the present force 81
$4,000 missionaries accounts for sos
100000 of heather. Or this same re
suit may be reached by allowing tive
dollars a head as the cost Of evan
gelizing each ''heathen." for so the
thing has been figured out by these
men who want working basis TO,
their undertaking. 1t becomes 1
mere matter OF subtraction 20 show
that 61500O.000 of people are at pres
ent unprovided for ty the present
missionary arrangement. Therefore
the laymen say that the missionar.
bodies should have sS0,000,000 veal
and $4,000 more missionaries, for 2;
years, in order really to dc the job
This sort OF figuring would probabl.
have made William Carey or Robert
Morrison, pioneer missionaries, gasr
, with as'onishment. but it is the mod
ern way
Al! this is not The speculative figur
in" OF dreamors The laymen are
after results; SO they put the prop
uS:ton uD to every denomination BY
showing just how many heathen each
church !s responsible for and the
) amount Of money i: wiz! have tc give
M :his plan OF confronting a de-
nomination definitely with its share
II he gigantic scheme of worldwide
v'vaEgelization has been received seri
CrSiV by tho SorinNS f0SioS he