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of moral reform. More than q million
Protestant converts are now gathered
in the various churches in India. The
Chinese people tried to stamp out
Christianity in China by the Boxer
Movement of 1900; but more con-
verts have been gathered In China
in the past eight years than have
been gathered in the previous eighty
years, and more in the last two years
than in the previous six. Great evan
gelistic triumphs are being reported
from India, from Korea, from por-
tions of South America, and Africa,
and it is literally true and not a
mere figure of speech, that,
Each breeze that sweeps the
ocean,
Brings tidings from afar.
OF nations in commotion,
Prepared for Zion's war"
George Sherwood Eddy, national
secretary of the Y. M. G. A. of India,
who spoke on 1.-The Call of the Nom
Christian World" is a former Kan
san. He was born in Leavenworth and
left there to attend Yale university,
after which he went to India. In his
address he spoke in part as follows:
..The world is wide open today to
the influence OF Christian civiliza-
ton. Sixty years ago Japan was a
closed land without protesting Chris
tians; Korea a hermit nation; only
fifty Christians in the Chinese en-
there are 10000 Christians in Japan,
200. 900 in Korea, half a million adj
herents in China and a million in
India.
"a japanese named Neesima work
ed his way to America and went back
to found the Doshisha Christian uni
versity which has changed the history
of Japan. Other students were also
educated in America at the expense
of the American missionaries. The
whole enterprise cost less than $780,
900, but in a single order of $780,
100000 American commerce reaped
a thousand fold return by this invest
ment in missions.
India today is awakening. In
Travancore l saw audiences of a
thousand Christians, who two gener-
ations ago were outcast slaves, SELL
ing for two and three dollars apiece
today they have their colleges. hos
pitfalls and a high moral civilization.
The present unrest in India marks an
awakening of that great land.
mot India only, but all Asia is
awakening. From Japan to India,
from Korea to Persia, from China to
Turkey, that vast continent is awak-
ening with new life. Think of its
significance. Asia with twice the pop
ulation of Europe, more than four
times of that of Africa, more than
six times of North and South Ameri-
ca combined, with over half the pop
ulation of the world, that vast contin-
ent with its eight hundred and fifty
millions is at last awakening.
asia the cradle of the race, the
birthplace of civilization, the teacher
of the West, the mother of all the
great religions of the world. Asia is
at last awakening. Here is the call of
opportunity. What Twill be the ans
wer of the West to the call of the
East?
"And there is the call Of the
worlds need, half of the world today
can not read or write any language,
half has not medical knowledge; half
the world is poor; half has never
heard of Christ. Shall we begrudge
them the benefits of Christian civili-
zation when we received from the
East through foreign missions every
thing that we have today?
"And there is the call of duty! We
have what the world needs. Where the
population of the United States has
increased IS per cent, our wealth
has increased $50 per cent, and is
now one hundred and seven billions.
Twenty-Five thousand missionaries
could be supported for fifty million
dollars a year with all their native