Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-20
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the canvass are received from all church
committees of Greater Omaha and Council
Bluffs.
The men signing the report were w. H.
Russell, chairman; Robert Dempster, ]. F.
Wilhelmy, F.. w. Foster. M. r. Sears, Rev.
J. w. Jones, Rev. Charles Hanley and DR..
A. C. Brown.
Reports from all the churches in the
omaha-Council Bluffs district will be re-
ceived at a mass meeting fixed for April
10 at the Young Mems Christian associa-
ton, Omaha.
Opened with Prayer.
Yesterday mornings conference on
stewardship at the First Methodist church
was opened with prayer and song. Then
Rev. w. B. Anderson, who serves in the
Punjab, India, spoke on the topic, Prayer
Our Most Effective Method" He laid
down the premise that it takes more than
men, and more than money, and more than
the power Of both combined, to evangelize
the hosts Of non-Christlan peoples. Prayer
he considered the great essential behind
it all, and he proceeded to give Instances
of power following prayer in the infant
church in India. Persistent, long continued
prayer, with face in the earth" had ener-
giZed the Christian workers in India in a
most remarkable way. In some instances
1900 people had attended great prayer
meetings which had continued over a day
and a night and another day and a night;
and the missionary pictured mighty results
for Christianity.
DR.. e. H. Richards took the place on the
program of c. w. Allen Of Cincinnati, talk
ing of ''rhe Principles of Stewardship"
DR.. Richards has had thirty years ex-
| narlanca in Africa ana ha gafd a. xuaa
hardly fair to inflict a wild man from that
savage lana on such an audience at short
notice. But the audience. liked him, dis
tinctly.
Rhodes and Livingston.
He started off by saying ne had met in
Omaha, at some recent affair, the smallest
man he had ever run UP against, but he
passed the incident off without bitterness.
Contrasting the lives of Cecil Rhodes and
DR.. David Livingston, this African mis-
slonaTy gave the empire builders all the
credit fairly his due because of his great
giving and his philanthropic requests.
1T was great giving" said DR.. Richards,
but It was not Christian giving. Rhodes
was too big. in his own view, to go TO
church. Then consider the story Of DR..
Livingston, whose life went out in a spirit
of prayer. He gave all he had to Gods
service, and he had much to give. His
body was buried in Westminster Abbey,
among the greatest OF his nation. But his
real burial place is not there; he is buried
in the love and affection, in the undying
remembrance OF thousands of people in
that dark continent where he took the mes
sage OF the gospel"
DR.. Richards pictured a recent visit he
paid to a woman in Iowa who had been
contributing $50 a year to support a mis-
sionary in Africa. He had found her alone.
an old lady of 50, reading her Bible on
one end Of the table where her meal had
been set. when l told her who l was,
and she had asked about the fellow she
was supporting, and he was doing,
she asked me TO pray with her. She
was so sweetly Christian, so unconscious
Of the great sacrifice she had been making
from her slender means, that l felt hardly
worthy to kneel in prayer beside her. Hers
was Christian giving, the influence of
which must reach the throne Of God him
self"
Zeal of Native Christians.
DR.. Richards also told many instances
OF native Christians giving absolutely
everything they possessed in the world to
help their charges in the mission schools,
and Of how they would even trade their
own clothes TO get cloth to make clothes
for their pupils. In his field are 1900 chill
dren receiving Christian instruction on
seyenty-one stations.
Rev. S. S. Hough Of Dayton, o., discus
sing 'The Practice OF Stewardship re-
cited in impressive manner a personal eN-
p~erience In bringing a debt-ridden church
at Altoona, Pa, into partnership with God,
so that from a mission church OF the poor