Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-20

also gives force and influence that might
have TO be striven for otherwise
one feature OF this movement pastoea
and chusch officers have found 70 be most
desirable and helpful in arousing latent
energies In the churches IL the
friendly rivalry II creates among the va
rious denominations for making the bAsA
showing in the conventions and other tostu-
1t puts every man on hS metal and brings
out OF every church the best there is IN II,
For instance, the Methodists or the Bap-,
lists, or some other denomination wants
to have the largest representation Mt tho
convention, or wants to make the best
showing financially. This can mean moth
ing else than downright personal activity.
And this is exactly what the OverwOrked
pastor has been lSboring for these years tn
accomplish.
To the matter OF finances. the same bust
ness-like methods are applied as in other
departments OF the work The system Ia
down so fine that they hRvs It figured out
the average cost Of each convention Is u.6OO
and they don't have the least difficulty In
defraying these expenses. Thsre's no over
lap.
These laymen. who have hit upon that
alliterative formula as a good motto to
touoh--ars very intelliEently awake to the
value of publicity and the friendship OF the
press. Their estimate of this value may
be expressed by relating a little incident
that transplred I'm Omaha few Sundays
ago on that day Representatives OF tho.
movement spoke in the various churches
one Jealous. but misguided and misin-
formed speaker made the assertion. "Ot
course, we can't expect much help from
the papers You won't see much about our
work in the daily press"
That good brother was not present at
the first meeting OF the executive com
mittee held after he made that unwarranted
assertion, but had he been he would hRvt
had ample occasion to defend his utterOnoss
IL II could be defended. Even the pastor
Of the church in which the statement was
made declared at this meeting that 1t was
very uncaled for" and "a very unfortu-
nate thing" other men, officers Of the
movement, were indignant, not only at tho
statement, because It could not be justified
by facts but because, also, any representa-
tive of the movement would so out of his
way thus to attack the press, without
whose support the movement could not hope
to accomplish its best results.
Church papers have pointed out the one
danger against which this Laymen's Mis-
sionary movement must fortify itsef-the
danger of a reaction in zeal. II that
should come about, as it does in so many
kindred movements, one of these papers
says, It would require a greater effort to
rehabilitate than IL required to establish
Well, of that fact the leaders are keenly
sensible and against that danger they have
provided The provision is a permanens
organization and the convention is the ultl-
mate antldote. There is no let-up.
THE time will soon come when, In every
center now planning for a convention, the
convention will be over but not done,' "
says the manual on this movement Mis-
sionaries political. adequate and adopted by
the convention, the communions and con-
For the sake Of ungospeled Millions foHl
the sake of our own spiritual, intellectual
and material welfare, we must not be sat-
isfled with anything short Of a finished
piece of work. There, the cooperating
committee, educational campaign commit
tee and the local missionary committee
under the trained leadership of the spe-
cial executive secretary viii have many
and important duties to perform after the
is over"