The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-03-08

way through that ancient land. and d.
rectly through the great wall at right
angles. The railroad was built because
the people of China wanted to see what
no longer content TO live within them
selves, This, said Dr.. Eubank, was
symbolic OF the awakening OF China.
DR.. Eubank told of the early struggles
of the missionaries in China. He told
OF two missionaries who had labored
eleven years before they had won a single
convert.
A Question Answered
o,S What would you preachers do if you
dld not get additions 10 your church IN
three. seven or ten years." asked DR..
Eubank.
"M9yem YSS voS came w6,,,a the ,or prompt answer
Eubank, But these two men OF whom
l speak did not move. 1t would be in
spring TO. read the history OF those mis-
Then DR.. Eubank told of the spread OF
christianity once beginning was made
He told OF the women's college the bovs'
school, the printing establishment whence
hundreds OF thousands OF copIes Of litera :
ture pertaining TO the spread of the
gospel are annually distributed. OF the
church with its 5000 communicates OF
the normal school, where missionary
workers are trained; of the hospital
where the sick are troated-of all these
things that have come to pass In the place
where the two missionaries worked for
eIeEeu years ere tnelr laDor nrst bore
fruit.
Millions in the Dark.
DR.. Eubank quoted figures TO show that
there are 1000. 600 900 people to whom
Christ Is not known. There are $4,000 mis-
sionarics. males and single ladies. He did
not take into account the married women
for they had family cares which precIuded
their continuous presence at the front
Now. gentlemen" he said. 'If we
give each OF these missionaries a parish
n o~;-
will agree-we will have provided for
only 325, 100000, leaving 675. 900, 900 for
whom we have made absolutely no pro-
vision.
Now. let us consider the money side
OF the question. In the last year there
was devoted to evangelizing S23,000,000.
or this the United States and Canada
gave s1l,o00,000. Great Britain $4,000, 900
and the rest of the world, $4,000, 900. In
other words, the Anglo Saxon countries
gave 50 per cent OF the means TO carry
on the work in the non Christian fields
I'VE ought to have $4,000 missionaries
Can America furnish $4,000 of her young
men and women to carry out the pur-
poses of God?
There were answers of ayes, yes"
DR.. Eubant told of recently meeting a
man IN Arkansas of whom he asked the
question: "If Robert e, Lee were TO
come back to earth and issue a call for
so 900 men for war purposes, would he
get them2"
Yes. and from this state alone" re-
Piled the man.
The same question was propounded to
q northern man. who was asked II Lin
coin, were he to appear again. could be
assured OF a response. The northern man
said; Surely, from the state OF Illinois
alone"
"Therefore." exclaimed DIR. Eubank
'If the name OF Lincoln and of Lee can
work these things. why cannot the name
OF the Living Christi
The Old Speckled Hen.
Dr. Eubank declared that sufficient
number of missionaries could be main
tanned with but little effort He told an
apt story about a Missouri farmer and his
wife.
John" said the wife. you know we
have an old speckled hen that won't lay
'ceptin in the hay loft. Pears like she
have any credit for what she does. May
have all the eggs she lays in the hay
loft for my missionary work.
Yes, Susan, you may" replied the
husband
The wife gathered and sold So worth
year. and then she reported TO John
i've got 50 for my missionary work.
John"
"Two dollars-and all for missionary
work?' asked the surprised John.
''Yes; you said / might have all the
you?"
"Yes." reluctantly agreed John; 81
knew that old speckled hen would break
us some day"
Now" declared DR., Eubank, don't let
with that old specified hen"
Still, he said. the old speckled hen
hadn't done so bad. DR.. Eubank closed
with a stirring appeal for the support OF
the foreign missions