The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-18

the younx men of the audience had
 marked hls words well. Tze then inc trodsosd Louis g Severance of New York City.
 Sr. Severance opened his adarsss.
 "Anssion Lands ss First Hand." sy
 asking 'waschman. what of the niehtf'
 kr. ssvsranoss description of schooi work in China was interesting. Strikes,
 according to hiu. are very common in
 China. They have way of formuiat.
 ing their demands and requiring an they don't get . satisfactory reply within that tfEnes the strike is on. Graft plays very important part in the Chinese school systeins, accord. ing to the speaxsr. and he told of some humorous incidents in that line that came under his observation. |. He said he had letter from China
 which stated thst the Chinese are put ting the New Testament into their schools as e text book. This statement brought forth great applause. Many of the teachers are confessing Christ, continues the letter." concluded Mir. Severance. He concluded his ad- dress by saying that the combined mis- sion forces of all the churches were but 1s,s7s In numbers.
 Gains Locks to Uxated states.
 After . song by the delegates. oov- ernor Glenn introduced pr. J. W. Brad
 ley. N. D., of auchisn. China, whose
 subject was: '-rhe Appeal of the East to the West"
 pr. Bradley said that when a Chris. tan man went to China and saw the vast throngs of people on the streets of the cities--such throngs as can be l seen in no other land---it had . de- pressing effect. He declared that Chi- na looks to the United States for help
 as to no other nation on earth. He potato vines In February while wait
 ing for the harvest in June. Did you
 ever see hungry man. little children crying for bread, mothers dying by
 Inches while trying to sustain the life of a suckling. The missionaries who
 ministered to thousands of ssch suffer-
 ing homes are conquering the e'resentful rnisconeeption which led to the Boxer
 uprising. The people are willing to listen. They want to know more about
 the religion that sent men to foreign lands to minister to . people who rose up and murdered them. The oppoFtu- nifty Is there. There are hundreds of communities begging for preachers.
 If they can't get them for say 'pease send us teacher They will build the chapeis or the school houses. Are you going to help them2"
 Dr. Bradley told of the work of ehe medical missionaries which has been remarkably successful. His hospital at suchien treats 17.0o0 people every year. He said the difilculties were tre- mendous. he often being forced to per- form abdominal surgery on beds of straw and cover the patient with a dirty quilt. "The name of that hos pital is the Southern Presbyterian GTh0 patS nR nVaA1ASr Aren't you ashamed of it7'
 "Yes," answered a voice in the con- vention.
 T need s1O.OoO for that hospital" continued the doctor. Are you going to give 1t to me? If you don't equip us you better not send us out there. Every missionary hospital needs sup. port. The only thing that discourages these brave men and women giving their lives to Christianity in the relief Of sufferin gand teaching of religion the indifference Of the church at home in the matter of raiaing money for the support of the institutions they estab- lish."
 subseriptiOn for suchlen Hospital.
 At the conclusion of his prayer, Mr. Cummings of North Carolina proposed that the si0,O00 needed by Or. Brad. ley be raised right then and said he would be one to begin the sub bscriptton with S100. The effect was electrical. Delegates jumped up in all parts Of the convention hall and committed charchsss for various amounts. Many Subscriptions were doubled before the subscription was closed or. Bradley want any more. The subscription was stopped, with . number of men stand ing waiting to offer their subscriptions. There was a great demonstration, and every delegate joined in singing Praise God 'Dr. Bradley thanked the convention and offered prayer Of thanks.
 Governor Gleen said he would rather be used as an instrument of God, as pr. Bradley was today, than to have the highest hdhoE within the power of man to confer. '"The call of the East to the West has been heard here today in a wonderful way" he concluded.
 Dawn In the Dark Continent" was the subject of Rev. Motts Martin. who comes from Luebo, Congo Free State, and was a speaker before the noon re- cess.
 His speech was one of the most in- terestinR of the convention. He made the remarkable statement that in some benighted sections of Africa 66 to 70 per cent of the people die in infancy because of ignorance of the simplest principles of sanitation. He described the horrors of cannibalism-practIc of which he had witnessed in person. polygamy tn its most wholesasS aspect. slavery and cruelty of the most inhu- man forms. the darkness and erueltiss resulting from superstition.
 Rev. Martin had some warm criti- | cism for King Leopold. He declared l that he had turned the entire Congo | region into/a great slave farm. He de- clared that the blackss of Africa sim ply fight for positions near to the men of God In order to hear their teachers. The kings ask the missionaries to take their sons and educate them. There are now in Mr. Martins mission twen- ty y-eight princes being educated under On ristian influences. All of these boys will soon go out to rule over hundreds of thousands of people.
 Work in the COMgO.
 There are In the Congo territory seventy-Ave young evangelists, made ID of the flower of the young manhood Df sections. These young men have received offers of positions from busi- ness men that would pay them thirty or forty times their salaries as mis- sionaries We have yet to lose the Arst one," said MT. Martin. ThlHstate- ment was greeted by applause.
 The speaker said that the mission aries had shown force of character that was a revelation. They refuse of- fars of 1uxuries with the statement that they were not in the work for the money. but for the good of their souls. When Christian converts were being l put to death, others came right ahead for baptism. stating that they would rather die in Christ than to live with n..& EYirla