The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-02

annually to evangelize the world in
one generation. sS0,O00,000 year is
needed to accomplish this great feat.
Everything can be done if we will use
less of the speakers trumpet and more
of the life saving way. AS explained
by Mr.. Peirce the management is one
whereby the word is to be saved by
the support and backing of the lay
men.
Norris A. King offered a number OF
good things in his talk on What it
means to a Layman to have part in
! this great Movement" He quoted
several of the prominent Des Moines
speakers bringing out the good things
they had to say and then spoke pri-
marily of the great commission and the
! laymans duty, of mans work of the
suggestions given us by missionaries.
He said that the churches have failed
tc evangelize the world because the
laymen have failed, for the work
needs the backing of the laymen and
should be taken up by the men of the
United States. He promises that the
work could be done in ten years and
this great movement would end in
triumph A study of the missionaries
send to do the great work were of a
high class, We're intelligent and capa-
BILE and that the missionary work es-
pecially in the PHILIPPINES has been
marvellous Services is the main
thing.
T. S. Frazer spoke on How the
convention impressed man long a
friend of Foreign Missions" He ex-
, pressed the belief that the kingdoms
of this earth would soon be the king
: doms of Christ and mentioned what a
good thing could be done if the enthu
| siasm in the work could be conveyed
: from Des MONIES to the men in Keo
t kuk Several things tend toward sue
g cess in this movement. One Is the
K large number of people engaged in the
/. work and another is the character ant
K standing of men engaged in the work
J He spoke of the big men present a
e Des MONIES and of those who are viii
It ling to put their money in it. Las
n year, even though a year of panic
a showed an increase in the amour
l. given to missionary work Anothe
e thing which tends toward success i
e the readiness of the people to hear
g anxiety to have the gospel of CHRIS
j, preached to them.
II How the convention impressed
" man long unfriendly to missionar
1t work was the topic of S. B. Stahl
70 who stated that he had been unfriend
u ly because he knew nothing about tn
r work and had taken no interest in il
e, He lauded the great Des MONIES con
"a vention, the great body of men gather
le ed together to promote the work,
work, which, with that kind of supper
a. would never die out He spoke of tn
~ growth of nations, saying that som
ut day the United States might be cor
IS quered by China, and then Mr.. Stab
r. asked the question, Would you rattle
ty be conquered by christian or a paga,
he people.
lie Rev. Harry B. Foster sI-,,e of no,
n gratifying it was to minister to Sc
n the great strength being put into tn
De work by the laymen. This work wi
in be done by the laymen. the bushes
Id men. It is in their hands that tn
in money is and money to this movemer
lie is like the engine to machinery. Youn
of college men have come and said,
ID, can CO. and those at home say. "Yo
1t 90 and We will sustain YOU The ski
so and work of the business man is neet
ID, ed and when we realize that 50 fc
ed each man given to this work ma