The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-03-09
DISCUSS METHODS
Of ENL|SI|NG AID
Laymen'S Missionary Confer
enCe Listens to Some Very
Able Suggestions.
WOMEN ARE INTERESTED
WOULD PREFER FREQUENT
PREACHING OF SERMONS.
WOMEN ARE INTERESTED

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voted almost exclusively TO discussion
of the best methods of enlisting the
men of the church in the work of evan
| gelizing the world. The meeting was
presided over by DR.. S. Earl Taylor of
| New York
Among the agencies discussed in this
enlistment idea were the missionary
pastor, the missionary committee, the
missionary Sunday school, a program of
prayer on missions, systematic mission
| airy education, an every-member cam
vass for missions and weekly offerings
for missions.
The discussion was more or less in
| formal. and many of the ministers pres
ent offered ideas as to the best way in
which to conduct a successful mission
airy campaign.
! With regard to how often a sermon
ought to be delivered by the minister
to arouse interest in the missionary
cause, Rev. p. A. Simpkin said that he
thought at least every two months. This
sermon, he said. should be devoted ex
clusively to a recital of the latest news
from the missionary firing line.
Appeal to Women.
AT this point in the service, DR.. Tay-
lor asked the women in the gallery bow
often they would like to hear mission
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they would like TO hear one preached at
| least once a month. DIR. Taylor said
that ii was not surprising that the
women should want to hear missionary
sermons preached oftener than did the
men, because they are far ahead of the
men in the missionary movement. Rev.
| Simpkin further stated that the most
successful method in his opinion would
| be to not take up the collection on the
/ 6QU TINT fha raraocbnd
DIR. Taylor, in Illustration of the point
that too often the Christian ministers
| of today confine their sermons to texts
! from Holy Writ exclusively. told the
story of a boy in the Holy Land who
was visiting, in company with his IA
| Their, the scenes where so many stirring
| incidents in Biblical history occurred.
This boy asked his father why the
Bible narrative was not continued, and
the story of what the modern disciples
of Christ were doing, written as part of
it, instead of combining the book to
recital of the work of the disciples al
most two thousand years ago.
How to Arouse interest.
Dr. Marion D. Eubank of China then
took up the work of explaining to the
| audience the best method of arousing an
interest in the missionary movement.
He said that if he were a minister in
the west and wanted to preach a SER
mon on the movement, he would take as
his text such parallels as the leaven in
the bread. In such a sermon, he said,
much could be said with reference to
the life's history of men who are en-
gagged in the missionary work, and the
countries in which they are devoting
their energies.
Il DR.. Taylor stated that with the men
ii has been more or less of a task for
them to engage in the support of the
missionary movement. They have taken
up the work alright, he said. but 1t
has been in a more or less perfunctory
way The general sentiment of the
meeting was that unless there is mis-
sionary committee practically all the
work falls to the pastor, and that a
missionary committee is essential if the
work Is done properly.
One of the best agencies in obtaining
interest in the missionary movement in
the Sunday school, declared DR.. Taylor.
Various suggestions as to the best
method of reaching the members of the
Sunday school were advanced by mem
bers of the congregation. One person
thought that certain grades In the
school should be devoted to q discus
sion of this part of the work, while 9TH
ers were of the opinion that certain
Sundays should be set apart as special
missionary Sundays. Dr. Taylor said
that the time has come when 1t is being
recognized that more attention should
be paid to missionary work in the Sun
: day schools. Children in the past have
not been taught sufficiently with regard
! to the great missionary work, he said.
, Program of Prayer.
A program of prayer for the mission
airy movement is an essential, declared
DR.. Taylor. He said that the members
: of churches must realize that prayer is
the most effective method. Il believe
it is more effective than missionary
sermons" he said, ''and that 1t is, in
fact, more effective than any other
method. Most churches fail to provide
an adequate program of prayer for the
missionary work
DR.. Marion D. Eubank of China took
charge of the discussion of the educa-
tional campaign to be waged in the in
terests of the movement.
The various agencies in this campaign
? which came up for discussion were SER
, mons. lectures and missionary meet
ings, mission study, regular church
services, midweek meetings in brother
hoods, Sunday schools and young peo-
pies societies, conversations, conven-
: tons, rallies and field days, a mission
! airy book in the grip or on the table al
{ home, and a missionary song in the
soul
: zone of the great drawbacks to thi.
movement is that people are unin-
q formed" said DIR. Eubank. ut ISM
hard to get their support when they
r properly understand the work and what
u is being done for the benighted people.
: of other lands. man at Dayton, o.
e gave $4,000 for the Y NJ c. A. of his
f town and 100000 to a college near there
but we could not get $1,000 from him fol
: missionary work. He understood the
work that was being done by the two
institutions to which he gave the great
er gifts, but he did not understand ths
: missionary work. If we would fill oul
churches with missionary informal lor
there would be young men and younf
women springing up everywhere whC
would be ready to go forth in the worlc
and devote their lives to the missionar,
cause
To Increase Membership.
With regard to the membership of &
missionary committee, DR.. Eubank sale
! that ne would pick out the stronges
men in the church. ITO them shoule
be entrusted the work of securing tht
funds" he said. Some men object Il
giving money to a minister because be.
ing level-headed business men, they OBJ.
ject to having their money go into what
they consider blind pool"
A new plan of making collections fol
missionary work was outlined. 1t was