The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-02-28

ne man? If there are any politi- ans here they know how easy it is election time. Men cling to their eligious beliefs more tenaciously than Q any other. Men who ordinarily are very little about their religion rill argue in its defense and fight for if it is being taken away. It Is far asier to put up in a foreign village he slogan Made in Bridgeport than change the minds of the people bout their religion. Business enter 'rise in foreign lands Is trivial com ared to our work. We have got to are to face the bigness of our task. We are engaged in a stupendous task. t is divine in it's audacity."
 To-day we have only two million converts, five million adherents and .2,O00 missionaries. All the might of he 20 century manhood Is not equal 70 change the minds of billion peo- ole. Nothing short of the might of Jehovah can accomplish this thing. The greatest problems of the day are 'eligious problems"
 "The non Christian world does not want Christianity. That criticism of foreign missions Is made and 1t is true. But the world needs 1t and needs it bad. We have got to give them what they don't want but what they need.''
 Missions On Trial.
 Foreign missions are on trial to-day before the world. We must face 8 tremendous adverse sentiment. It is fair to criticise. No one can dare at tempt to stop honest criticism. There Is hardly a criticism of 8 missionary which I have heard that I cannot justify in some one particular mis- CinnQrU from nhcarxya But, know of no body of men taken together who grade so high as the missionaries not excepting any of the professional men.
 'No business house is so dis1oyal to Its representatives abroad as the Christian church. Almost anything can be said of a missionary at any place and no one comes to his de- fence.
 'sThe question of foreign missions Is no longer a matter of opinion, but of fact. You can have an opinion about them. So should you with missions. The man who has larger brain area than he has speech is do this before he talks about them.
 President Taft says missions are a good thing. Ambassador Bryce re. ports that missions are all right. Will liam Jennings Bryan says the same. And let me say right here that no American who has gone around the world has left as good reputation as a Christian man as William Jennings Bryan
 Religion Begins at Home
 "One objection commonly heard is that the heather at home ought to be converted before the heather abroad, I believe that religion should start al home and that the heather at home should be preached to and would be- gin on the man who makes this ob. lection first of all for his spirit Is the spirit of heathenisnr, selfishness. The man who prays God bless me and my wife, my son John and his wife us four and no more has the spirit o1 & heather wherever he is. Religion like charity, begins at home, truly, and like charity loses it's goodness ii It stays there. It is the genius of re- ligion that it must flare forth like a bright light.
 Another objection is that converts are not genuine. No doubt this is true of some. don't doubt there are some rice converts who are Chris. But we have those in Philadelphia. won't say anything about Bridgeport
 '&The world will not be evangelised he declared by you complacent Ameri. cans but by yellow and brown men whom God is raising up in the east That is where the Moods of to-day are The East will evangelize the East
 Buddhism Dying.
 i've also hear the cry that we ought to let the great ethnic faiths of the East alone. That sounds fine great ethnic faiths Buddhism i: dying of dry rot. Hinduism is pass ing away from virulent putrefaction Confucianism was never a religion Shintuism has already been disestab. lished as a religion. These religion:
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