The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-06-15
Decisive Hour for Missions Has
Come Says Commission at
Edinburgh Conference
ENERGY and FORCE NEEDED
Church is Urged to Carry the Gospel
TO All the Fields Not Now Occu-
pied. Present Missionary
Force is Inadequate.

Edinburgh, June ia warning to
the Christian churches OF the world
that a decisive hour for missions had
come was given i'm the report OF the
commission on Carrying the Gospel
to all the Non Christian world, pre-
sented today 10 the international Mis-
sionary conference here. The com
mission says that opportunities which
have been neglected in the past are the
reproach OF the church. The church In
Christian lands. says the report, needs
energizing that II may carry ON the
work. The commission urged that an
International committee be formed
and that n great movement to carry
Christianity into every region with m
creased force be undertaken.
The report was presented by John X.
Mott OF New York. chairman of the
commission. II expresses the conVlc-
tion that the present is the time of all
times "for the church to undertake
with auickened loyalty and sufficient
I forces to make Christ known to all the
non -Chrictian world
'Tt Is testing time for the church,
| saws the commission. If 1t neglects 10
meet successfully the present world
crisis by falling to discharge its re-
| sponsibility to the whole world, IL VIII
weaken its power both on the home
and foreign fields and seriously handi-
! CAP it's mission 10 the coming genera
,ion. Nothing less than rhe adequacy
Of Christianity as world religion is
on trial.
Missionary Force inadequate.
| ..The utter inadequacy OF the present
missionary force to discharge efrec-
! lively the duty OF world wide evange-
! lization is evident. There should be
nothing less than a vast enlargement
I'm the number of qualified workers, a
thorough and courageous adoption or
means and methods TO meet the situa-
tlon. a wise unifcation in plans and
forces. and a whole e-hearted fulfilling
of the conditions of spiritual power.
/. Turning its attention TO fields on
which the church should concentrate
attention and effort. the commission
reports that In China there is an
unique opportunity fraught with far
reaching issues for the future OF China
, and of all Christendom. The advance
OF Islam i'm Equatorial Africa presents
the question, the report says, whether
the Dark Continent shall become Mo-
hammedan or Christian. India and
the Nohammedan world as whole,
particularly Turkey and Persia, are
pointed out as other large fields for
effort
Labors Should be Extended.
"The Jewish people," the commits
sioners say, "have a peculiar claim
upon the missionary activities Of the
Christian church. Christianity Is theirs
5 preeminently by right OF inheritance
The church is under special obligation
to present Christ to the jew. The at
tempts to give the Gospel to this wide
ly scattered. yet still isolated people
have been hitherto altogether made
= quate The need is great for change
q i'm the attitude of the church towards
n this essential part of the great com
mission. The call is urgent i'm view o
n the enormous influence which the jew
If is welding i'm the world, especiali!
+ throughout Christendom. The win
4 ming of this virile race with its geniu
a for religion will be the strengtheninI
of the Church of Christ and the en-
richment of the world"
~ The church is urged to extend 1t
l. missionary work as soon as possible Z
all fields not now occupied.