Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-23
Sunday School Workers Tell of
Worlds EvangeIization.
SPEAK IN LOCAL PULPITS
Yesterdays Services Given Up to
Convention Delegates.
FIGHT AGAINST OBSTACLES
Speakers Declare Movement Pro-
crosses Despite Many
Discouragements.

Discouragements.
With their pulpits occupied by mission
aries prominent in evangelistic WORK in
nearly all the countries of the globe
members of scores of Washington congre-
cations last night were brought closely
In contact with the results which are
being accomplished in the spread OF
Christianity. All of the speakers were
chosen from the ranks of the delegates
now in attendance upon the Worlds Sixth
Sunday School Convention.
Members of the Mount Pleasant Congre-
gational Church are convinced that OF
all the sermons and addresses delivered
from local pulpits yesterday none was
more interesting than that of the Rev.
Y. Ono OF Japan, who occupied the pulpit
at the evening service of the Mount Pleas
ant Church. The delegate from the ORR
ent told of the founding of Sunday
school in the very center of Japan by a
Canadian missionary some years ago and
of the growth of the school and the good
work it had done and was doing.
The Sunday school had only scholars
when il started Rev. Ono declared. and ii
thought. as showing the good certain
To be accomplished in a ma terial as well
a religious way by the Sunday school.
that each and every one of these six orgi-
nal scholars had since become promi-
nent in the affairs of his native country.
Future Work in Japan.
In addition to narrating his personal
experiences in connection with this Sun
day school. the delegate from the orient
discussed Sunday school work in Japan in
general, giving his hearers an excellent
idea of what had been accomplished and
what remained to be done in the future
along this line.
Early in the day Mrs. Julia Searle of
Japan interested the members of the Sun
day school Of the church with her de-
scriptions of Sunday schools in the orient
and of the work now going on there.
AT the morning service yesterday Rev.
5. NJ. Neuman, who has been acting as
pastor of the church. read a letter from
Rev. Frank j. Goodwin. pastor of the
First congregational Church of Pawtuck-
ct, #. L.. accepting the call TO the pulpit
Of the Mount Pleasant Congregational
Church to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of the Rev. Ross NJ. Fishburn.
~ the night service in the First Pres
byterian Church. John Marshall place
between c and ID streets northwest, adj
dresses were made by Senior Alviro Refs
no JdnelrO. Brazil, Oh tiie
Presbyterian General Assembly of South
America. and Rev. II. NJ. Hamill, d. d.,
of Nashville, Tenn, chairman of the
committee of education of the lnterna-
tonal sunday School Association. Senior
Refs spoke of the gratitude the people
of all SOUTH America, ana particuia ~
Of Brazil felt for the Presbyterian
Church of the United States. and gave
a short history of the coming of Prot
estant missionaries to that country
ir6o yxaS - on
magnificent work the missionaries were
doing in establishing schools from one
end of the country to the other, IN
educating the people and the placing of
the Bible in their hands outlined
and the speaker declared that mission
work at all times should be accompanied
by the school.
Rev Dr. Hamill who followed Senior
Refs on the platform. had only recently
returned from years missionary visit
to the orient, especially Japan and no
rea and he used these countries in IL
Illustrating his address. He spoke upon
the Sunday School Missions" setting
out his missionary creed as follows:
God is no respecter of persons or ma
tons He would save all men, With
Him there are no lines of demarkation,
as with us. and He does not draw lines
between home and foreign fields. God
would save the race in its youth
not waiting for il to SOW its wild oats
and turn the church into hospital
Loyalty Japanese Trait.
The part Japan is playing in the great
world movement toward Christianity was
the subject of discussion at the services
held last night at Luther Place Memorial
Church. Rev. S. Tanaka. a japanese
professor, the first speaker. gave an in
teresting description of the work which Is
being done in his country He spoke of
the great loyalty of the japanese to the
family as aunt and to their emperor and
their country. He said that the Christians
were meeting the conditions in his coun-
try and were making great progress.
William T. Ellis of Swarthmore, Pa, who
followed Prof. Tanaka. declared -Ameri-
cans might well learn the lesson OF loyalty
to the family from the japanese, learn
to subordinate the interests of single
members of the family TO the interests
Of the entire family. He spoke particu-
larly OF the training of the modern Ameri-
can child. who. ne declared, rules the
house today. while the parents yield a.
gracefully they can TO the child's die
tation.
Dr. j. a. Funk, medical missionary in
Persia. carried a message from the
children of that land TO the congregation
Of the West Washington Baptist Church
at service in that edifice last evening
DR. Funk is medical missionary. He
told of the hardships of the children of
Persia. and declared that they We're
blighted by Mohammedsm Dr. Funk de-
scribed tie customs and religion of the
country from which he comes, and said
these children sadly need the aid Of tho
enlightened races
The Rev. DIR. w. d. Laumaster of Dan
VILE Pa, supplemented the plea of DR.
Funk for the Sunday school children Of
Persia.
The Rev DIR. b. d. Cav. pastor of IN.
West Washington Baptist Church, presid
ed at the service.
Progress of a Generation.
DR. James II. Petite, for thirty-ont
years a missionary in Japan, and DIR
Joseph Burton of Atlanta. Ga, were
the speakers at the Bethany Baptis
Church. DIR. Petite. who is a repre-
sentative of the congregational board
told of the progress Christianity ha
made in Japan in the last generation
DR. Burton pleaded for both home ant
foreign missions. AT the Christian En-
deavor service, held before the regula
church service. the speakers were Rev
DR.. II. r. Moseley, superintendent o
Baptist Missions in Cuba, and Miss Ne1
Wagner, field secretary of the Baptis
Institute in Philadelphia. Miss Magne
told of the efforts put forward by TIT
Baptist Institute. and gave the informa
ton that two young women of Calvar.
Church will enter for the fan term il
September.