Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1908-02-20

ent unprovlded for by the present
missionary arrangement. Therefore.
the laymen say that the missionary
bodies should have $S0000000 year
and $1,000 more missionaries, for %
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 astonishment, but 1t is the mod
ern way.
All this is not the speculative figur-
ing of dreamers. The laymen are
after results: so they put the prop.
osltion 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
of the gigantic scheme of worldwide
evangeization has been received seri.
ously by the various bodies. The
United Presbyterians were first to &C.
cept the challenge, and they are, ask
| ing of every member an average gift
of eight dollars year for their mis-
sionary work. The Presbyterans fol
| lowed, a great mems missionary con-
vention having been held in Omaha
! in February, and the idea later ap.
| proved by the general assembly, the
Southern Presbyterians did likewise.
! The Canadian Presbyterians and
Southern Baptists have also joined
in the movement. The Congregation.
alists and Northern Baptists will
take up the subject early in the fall.
The Episcopalans have not yet had
opportunity officially to adopt basis,
but its laymen are in the forefront Of
the new movement.
Stirring Continent.
SO remarkable has been the re-
Spouse, up to date, on the part of
business men of Professionalism, where
this proposition has been definitely
put up to them that the leaders are
sanguine of enlsting the entire body
of the laity of the churches of the
United States and Canada. To this
end a series of laymens dinners, COW
ering the big cities of the continent
are projected for this winter, on the
line of those successfully held last
winter In New York, Philadelphia,
Chicago, Boston, Toronto, Washing
ton and elsewhere. These are not
conventional missionary meetings, but
gatherings of the strongest Christian
business men in each place, managed
and addressed by laymen. The bust
ness men who are behind the move
} ment plan systematic propaganda
that shall reach every man in anywise
: connected with the churches, even tC
the remotest crossroads congregation
Already the movement is formid
able; the most important news of the
year in religious circles. It's conse
: quences will doubtless be far-reach
. ing. Men of foresight are alread!
' predicting certain implanted for re
: suits One of these, they say will
be the elimination of all Independent
h missionary work on the foreign field
q The latter are a serious drain on tn
n resources of Christendom, and, sa
q the laymen, who have already re
; turned from their tour of investiga
Z ton, they do not come up to the reI
l. reservations made by their eloquen
/ representatives in this country. TIL
l. laymens movement stands squared.
behind the UNCONVENTIONAL boards
: Nevertheless, it is predicted, the lay
Il men will hold the boards strictly t.
e account, that their missions b
l. manned only by competent worker
II and that they be conducted on tn
e broadcast, most effective and mos
q economical lines.
a Great Britain in Line.
l. A deputation from the laymen'
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