The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-14
HOW BEST ID MEET
 CALL OF FUTURE Foreign Mission Work Is DlS-
 Cussed By Delegates CHURCH PAPERS DEFENDED Editor of One Paper Urges Presby- terans To Do More For Missions,
 While Effennacy Is Dis
 cussed Adversely.
CHURCH PAPERS DEFENDED


 Philadelphia. February 1S.-"How Bet ter to Meet the Call of the Future Was the principal topic of discussion at the morning session of the Presbyterian For eign Missionary society being held in this city A number of delegates spoke on the subject Alfred E. Marling of New York also addressed the convention, taking for his subject. Missions a Man s Business The final session of the con vention will be held tonight.
 Exhibits pertaining to missionary wol are being shown in the convention hall. A map showing the comparative number of the followers of the various religions of the world is among the exhibits. The figures are as follows:
 Jews, Il, 222, GOO; Greeks. 12O,157,OOo; Pro testants, 16S, ,06s, ,500; Mohammedans, 2l6,630.- 000; Roman Catholics 272, 63s,5OO; heathen. S56, 7S2 900.
 Judge Beaver, former governor of Penn sylvania, in hisss address. prodded the business men of the Presbyterian church for the lack of interest shown in benev- olence in general and in foreign missions in particular. Judge Beaver said that the e were 1SOO,o0O Presbyterians in the United States, and that each one only gave S1 a year for benevoences.
 He said the Presbyterians were respon- sible for 1Oo,o00,Oo0 heathens, and that it was the duty of the present generation of the church to win these people to Christianity.
 The Rev. pr. A. L. Phillips of Rich mond, Va, conducted the conference on How men may be brought to know what God is doing in the world" N
 Dr. Phillips said he recently sent out letters addressed to men in all walks of life, asking them questions regarding mis- sionary work.
 The following are some of the answers pr. Phillips received from his male cor respondents to the query why they did not read missionary literature:
 4Lack of sanity and temperance in style"
 "Dry reading"
 Affected with dullness. coupled with irreverent calls for money
 written TOT WOHen anu CIlluIel.
 According to the answers Dr. Phillips read from the men he wrote to the official missionary organs are not extensively read by them. One man answered that the papers are "too effeminate."
 This answer aroused the indignation of the Rev. Dr. Trumbull Lee, former pas tor of prominent church here, who made speech in defense of the publications is sued by the board of foreign missions.
 'The man who says that the literature issued by our church is effeminate" says Dr. Lee, displays unadulterated ignor- ance."'f
 Short and juicy is how Dr. Lee termed the leaflets published by the board. l.4.
 pr. Phillips then asked the big audi ence of clergymen and laymen how many had read three missionary books during the past 12 months Hardly more than a dozen of the 1900 men present raised their hands.
 Dr. William S. Marquis of Rock Island Ills, was among the speakers today. He spoke of the necessity of arousng the interest of men in the foreign missionary work.
 Get masculine note into your foreign missionary meetings women can't sing bass he said.
 When men pass by the door where the missionary meetings are being held and hear only the voices of women, they say Oh pshaw, that's meeting for women only,' and they don't go in. Men don't want the question always to be discussed by women
 Declaring that he did not wear clerical uaSt hacotfSa I,ia wife ol1farted to if The Rev Timothy Stone of Baltimore deliy- cred a vigoroue speech. He said clergy man should be a man first and minister second. He spoke of the necessity of get ting the boys in the church interested in foreign missionary work