The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-13

tha modern convenisnces, the sktllful assistant. the trained nurses. having 70 put up with any box of sufficient size or a shaky table foot too high or \ foot too low, in a room whose only light comes through the door. and that peraistentIy- filled by c curious and Raping people. Neither your instru- nents nor hands anebe asceptic. Your assistants are any you can DICK up You turn over the chloroform bottle to B person who Rever saw 1t or heard of 1t before. And still you go on op- erating. trusting in God and doing the best you -c4hr Tubercular cases. abscesses. cancer and leprosy come In the way of the t1issionary at this sta- ton. SometimaS the world forgets these men and women when catalogu- ing its heroes.
 Then there are plagues to night. famine victims to help. books to print, circulars to send out, and thousand and one other activities to keep tho Board busy. It is on It's educational institutions that the Board places its greatest reliance for the future. The eleven colleges and twelve theological seminaries now, supported abroad are the places wherein the native workers of the future are to be prepared Forty-nlne~ missionary families are eo7snecten with these and for the sup uort of these institutions and families the Board asked ss5.00O this year. It claims that 1t would be neither vision ary nor extravagant to ask for an en- dowment of S2,000.000 for the twenty three collegiate and theological insti- tutions standing as the centers of the greatest international educational and evangelIstic movement of the cen tury. It points to the fact that the 622 colleges. universities and techni- cal schools of this country had last year an average income of s72,0oo, that the total annual expense of Harvard University is nearly $2O00,O00, that Chicago, Cornell and Yale spend an- nualiy moro than s1,000.O00 each, and ! that Tuskegee spent $l9S,000 last year. It asks If 1t Is unreasonable to ask A modest $2,000,000 for educational work that will tend to Christianize and civilize the world. especially when educa tional institutions of this coun- try received total of $61,737,277 last year.
 There are possibly 1000 native Christian workers In the twenty mis- slons and nearly all were trained in the theological schools and colleges. Many native churches have become so well established that they are ready to assume the support of their own churches and schools, raising the mon. Av Yor preacher and teacher. Already Madura, Natal and Japan missions are seIf-sustaining, and In many missions the natives arc helping with the sal aries It Is the aip of the Board to aiiow missions to become self-sustain- ing as rapidly as possible. and pass on to other fields, where a beginning must he made. To bring a young man over to the United States and train hira for later work in his native land would cost as much as 1t would to give that. same training to nine young men on their own soil. It Is believed that each of these would be much more ef- deient than one Americantrained na- tive worker, who might be led away from hks peoples ways and lose the necessary hold on them.
 (Copyright. 1908, by Frederick J. Has
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