The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-17
HUNDREDS OF LAYMEN
 LISTEN TO CLARION CALLS
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 is the church of Christ, which is lending it's best physicians, creating medical col leges for the education of the natives and is planning the greatest phlanthropic scheme ever known, the education of 100. 900 native doctors in China under Chris tian guidance to lift the suffering quar- ter of the globe.
 Another explanation is that it solves our greatest political problem. Bayonets and battleships are utterly impotent to produce international brotherhood. The only way to prevent war is by men stand ing right with God The world has be- come one neighborhood connected by wireless telegraph and the newspaper with a perfect system but the question now is, shall the world become one broth erhood by the proclamation of Gods mes sage.
 A National Duty.
 Tt is the duty of our country to im- part to the nations of the earth the Chris tian civilization that has made our na- tion what it is today. We have the first nation of the weld in it's religious oppor- tunity and influence. Are we going to rise up and fulfill our opportunity as a great religious force? When the Christian busi- ness men give the same intelligence and care to mission work that they give to their business the evangelization of this world will no longer be dream.
 "The time is coming when this prob lem is going to appeal to the intellect of the real men of our nation, and they will give their best to aggressive Christian work"
 l Mir White told of the wonderful de- 1 velopment of the last four years, and the wonderful enlistment of manhood in 1 Chrstendom The time has come when every Christian man must live with a l world outlook, a world sympathy, a world influence. T am not afraid of the i church doing too much. The light that shines the farthest shines the brightest near at home. When the church of God l shines far into the ends of the world it ] will be a very blaze here at home. We must spend BIO, 900 to give the heathen the only hope they have for relief from i their midnight darkness. God wants more of every man than 1 his presence and his money. He wants l your intelligence, influence, light. No man has money enough to buy his work i in this world, but men must give all they have and all they can do to make the l Kingdom of God coextensive with the l human race.
 Conventions National Significance.
 There is a great national significance | in this convention. This denomination is standing in the position of leadership in the laymen's uprising. You have gone 1 farther in organizing than any other de- nomination, you have more men scattered everywhere with their shoulders under the work"
 MT. White devoted a few words to a description of the campaign>fo be under taken by the laymen across this conti- nent next fall. President Taft will start l it in Washington and it will be carried into every large city of the land, while sub campaigns will work through every state.
 This is the mightiest spiritual move ment the world has ever known. The church while saving the world will save itself from inertia, from the awful curse of indifference to the will of God. This is the most hopeful thing that has hap pened in human history.
 I believe we are entering upon the last campaign for the conquest of the world I don't believe there is any reason why we cannot live to see the day when the saving message of the Word shall have been intellgently preached to every mar in the whole wide world"
 Rev. Lilly Speaks.
 The Rev. D. Clay Lilly of Mich olas- vile, Ky, spoke on Man and Maker and said:
 The most important aspect of oul religion is that of personal fellowship