Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-27
ALL UNITED FOR MISSIONS
Interdenominational Conference Ad-
dressed by Rev. Joseph Strong.
AMERICA KEY TO SITUATION
Local Solutions of world Problems
Can Never BE Permanent, hut
Must BE Worldwide In
Order to he Effective.

diverted by its majesty and we were swed
into the realization of our own insignifl-
canoe and inability TO comprehend its
grandeur" said Rev. Josiah Strong, d. D.,
L. L. D., of New York City. in his address
at the ational missionary mass
meeting at the First Methodist church last
evening. 80 it is with this great move
ment in which we are now engaged. II Is
significant OF the greatness of our day.
The present is the greatest transitional
period Of ali the ages. The past civiiiZa-
tion has been one OF individualities. The
future civilization is to be socialistic. This
is the age Of Industrial revolution. Two
generations ago the mechanic could make
fifty things, today II takes fifty men TO
make a single thing. 1t is the result of
the organization and concentration of in
dustrial energy. Today the individual is
dependent upon all the world. A few gener-
atoms ago the individual was dependent
almost wholly upon himself. The safety
of our lives in travel is dependent upon
the confidence we repose in a hundred men.
none of whom we ever saw. Certain prob
lens spring from Industrial revolutions.
with the United States rests the solu-
ton of the great world problems more than
with any other nation Of the world. Amer
lea is Gods greatest laboratory for the
worlds work. We have confronting us
here the great problems of child labor.
the influence Of women in the labor move
ment of the world, the supreme problem
Of the relation of labor and capital. This
has been called by some writer's the eternal
duel. 1t lie more like the eternal duet
labor and Capital.
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popular conception is that there is an
eternal enmity between the twp and that
zach is standing facing the other ready to
give a deadly blow. The race problem Is
another that is to be settled by the new
civilization. with the humiliation of space
by the invention Of steam, nations are
touching elbows with each other. Unless
the relations between the nations are made
right there will be friction. In America
the nations have as it were become tied
together. So has capital and labor become
tied together. Industrial revolution on it's
way around the world is going to bring the
nations into competition and unless these
relations are right there will be trouble.
This problem is greater in the United
States than elsewhere. and it will never be
solved until 1t Is solved right
III is pOsSlDle lot the ola WOTlu 10 Senu
to this continent within the present century
800. 100000 Of its people and yet increase its
own source of supply. We have got to
come to an equalization or economic OPP
portunities. Hence 1t will be seen that the
race problem is destined to become a most
serious one.
Then, again, there is the problem of lux
ury. II is the struggle for life that makes
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lea came from the ranks Of poverty. Men
cannot wallow In wealth without becoming
bestial. The menace of the nation is the
concentration of its wealth into the hands
of the few. and the domination of that few
by a single more powerful individuality.
The progress of liberty is to take power
from the individual and entrust it with the
many. The concentration of wealth is the
supreme peril of this nation. This is not
the expression of an anarchist mounted on
= box on a street corner. but is the calm
utterance of one of the supreme justices of
the United States. These problems are
concentrated in the cities. In the cities lie
the problems of Dives and Lazarus.
Solution in Christie Teachings.
"As the result of twenty years study of
these problems, 1 am profoundly convinced
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teachings of Jesus Christ to the solution of
these problems. They deal with the rela-
ton of God to man and mans relation to
God. We have not taken Jesus into our
social teachings and laws, and until we do
these great problems cannot be solved. The
religion OF Jesus Christ fits into the times
In which we live. 1t is for us to make the
application. II we will solve them here in
America they will be solved in Europe,
Asia. Africa and the islands of the oceans.
The opportunity will never come to us
again, such as now presents itself, and II
is our blessed privilege to now labor for
the salvation OF the world"
The main auditorium of the church was
filled with an interested audience. Rev
George Allen Beecher. dean of Trinity
cathedral, presided The program opened
with an organ prelude by Ben Stanley
organist of Trinity cathedral. The scrip
ture lesson, from Acts ii:1-22, was read
by Rev. J. E, Hummon, pastor of KountZe
Memorial church. Rev. J. w. Conley de-
livered the prayer and the benedictior
was pronounced by Bishop r. r. Hendrix
D. ID. LII. d.. of Kansas City.
Symposium of Addresses. =
The second session OF the publicity cam.
palgn of the Home Mission council con.
Nened at the flrSt Methodist church
Twentieth and Davenport streets, Friday
afternoon, with Rev. E. j. jerks OF Omaha
presiding. After a short devotional service
the afternoon was given over to a sym.
postum OF addresses by some of the promi
nent workers in the Home ard Foreign Mis-
sion fields. THE Unity of the Church II
It's Mission to America was the them,
OF the address by Rev. A. w. Fortune Of
Cincinnati, o. Our Expanding Frontiers
was discussed by Rev. Ward Plat Of PhiIa
delphia. and '"The Importance of Education
in Home Missions" was ably discussed b,
Edmund d. soper, secretary OF the YOUNG
Peoples Missionary Movement.
A number OF the Nebraska S-ehoolmasters
club attended the afternoon meeting I,
hear the address OF Mr.. Soper.
Owing to the Illness of Rev. ID. II. Baus
lin Of Springfield. o., and Prof. z. A
Steniner OF Grinnell. la, the program 70
this evening has been necessarily changed
There will be but one address during tn
evening meeting, and that by Bishop E. X
Hendrix, ID. D.. l.. L. d., of Kansas City
He will speak upon the subject OF -
Christianized America for World Redemp
ton"
The address will be preceded with a shor