The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-03-08
china's Awakening.


Some years ago when 1 first went to
China, II was my privilege to visit the
old wall of China. 1t was a wonderful
sight to me, for, although OF practical
turn OF mind, could not help but cream
when I got on top of 1t. That old wall
great empire. They had built it to keep
outsiders from coming in and to keep
their own people from going out AS l
gazed in one direction l saw that part
of the wall had been torn down and that
force of Chinese workmen, under the
direction of a Chinese engineer, were lay
ing a line or railroad right through mat
section of the wall. The wall told the
story of the old China, but the railroad
told the story of the new China. China
had ava kened and wanted to see what
was on the other side.
AT that time 1 could not help but think
of the two missionaries who first went to
China and during a period of eleven years
succeeded in converting one poor old
Chinaman. That was at Fou Chow, and
when / later went to that place / was
astounded at the wonderful changes that
had been made. There were 5000 com
municants in the church ana over sO,OOO
converts. That was four years ago and
at the present time there are about 1900
communicates and $1,000 converts. mis-
Is quite a difference between the time the
first missionaries worked in that part
of the empire.
movement Is Great
with regard to this great Laymen' s
Missionary movement, 1 say there is
nothing like it in history. The motto of
this movement is the evangelization OF
the world in this generation What does
that mean? 1t means that the time has
come when the Christian churches have
come to see that the will of our Lord
should be obeyed. Prior to this time we
have not believed, in fact, would have
thought that 1t was pretty much OF q
dream, in preaching the gospel to the
world In this generation. 1t means that
we must take this gospel of Jesus Christ
and plant 1t in all hooks and corners OF
the world; must plant missions. nurses
training schools and hospitals.
These are some of the figures that face
us in this great work. In the non-Chris-
ton world there is a population in round
numbers of one billion people. We have
today IN the various fields 1900 mission
aries. Giving to each of these a parish
OF 5000 people to evangelize, we today
have only provided for 325, 000, 900 out of
the billion, leaving the sum total Of &c.
100000 people for which no provision has
been made.
out Of s2s,OOOOOO given for missionary
work last year, the United States and
gave 100000. II there is to be an in
crease 1t must come from the American
people largely. For missionary work in
America last year we spent about $780,,
oSosDVO. w llllc LINK lHdL t0lS was per-
haps expended all right, still, think
there could have been readjustment,
by which it could have been made to go
further We are only asking that we
should have one missionary for every %,
600 people. We believe that If he is prop
erly equipped he can evangelize tina {
number. In the territory occupied by the
American missionaries there are tonight
about 600,0o0000 people. How many mis-
sionaries ought we to have in that dis
trict. We ought to have $4,000, which in
round numbers would cost an additional
$50, 600, 900.
IF a call should be made for volun-
teers by the shade of the departed Lin
coin, or in the south by the shade of
the departed Robert z. Lee, how many
volunteers DO you think would respond
Armies of men would answer the call.
Now, men of America, if this be the
case, that the memory of the Lincoln
should call forth an army, what Is the
reason that the risen Christ should not
call forth such an army?"
Following the speech by DR.. Eubank,
the congregation united in singing "On-
ward, Christian Soldiers"