The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-04-07
STICK TELLS OF
THELAYMAN MOVE
STUDENTS or FARGO COLLEGE
HEAR ELOQUENT ADDRESS ON
NEED AND SUCCESS OF, THE
BIG MovE-PREsENT is cRlTI-
CAL TIME IN THE WoRLDs HIS
TORY.

j. M. stick. executive secretary Of
the Laymen's Missionary movement
gave a most eloquent address before
the students OF Fargo college this
morning in which he outlined the need
and success of the movement.
After speaking OF the need OF mis-
mions, describing the fields ripe unto
harvest" he said that all Asia is
awakening. and just at this critical
time the Laymen's movement has
arisen In the west to supply the means
and the men to meet this opportunity
"The old faiths i'm Asia have failed
TO satisfy the people" said Mr.. Stick
Hinduism is corrupt and disintegTat-
ing: Hinduism has degenerated to
superstition in northern Asia and cold
atheism in the south: Mahomm edism
with Its slavery and polygamy, has
failed to uplift womanhood; Confuc-
ianism, although 1t has provided a
moral preparation, has given the peo-
pie no God, and left China Materials
tic. The many truths Of these reli-
gions have prepared the way for the
full truth of Christ At best:
''They are but. broken lights OF thee,
And thou Oh Lord art more than they.
Let us turn for our closing thought
| I'm this chapel service to some of the
last words Of Christ:
simon, son OF Jonas, Lowest thou
me Feed my sheep"
weighed In the balance OF love lis
our life found wanting? First. Lowest
thou me enough to give myself? There
is need for men at the front. Will you
go? Would you be willing to go If
you could? while vast continents are
shrouded in almost utter darkness and
hundreds of millions suffer the horrors
of heathenism or Islam, the burden of
proof rests upon you to show that the
circumstances in which God had plac-
| ed you were meant by Hin. to keep
you out of the foreign field" If you
cannot go, will you help some son or
daughter to go? AS / have gone
through the colleges finding hundreds
of young people eager TO go to the
foreign field, but forbidden by their
parents, 1t has almost seemed that one
of the greatest obstacles in the evang-
/ eiization of the world was christian
parents.
| second. Lowest thou me enough Ia
| give thy substance? know Of a poor
/ girl in a distant city, working as a
stenogra pher who has been saving and
sending abroad her money for years
until now in India a community Of
more than thousand souls have beer
gathered out of darkness into light
through the workers she has sent and
/ through the money she has thus spent
How many people have been blessed
because OF what you have given?
Christ said, Feed My Sheep" 1t Il
three-fold call to service.
First. 1t is call to the heroic
Simon died In obeying that call. Thinl
of Carey, giving his life for India; Blu
today there are a million christians Il
India. Think of Judson in prison TO
Eurma; but today there are one hun
dred thousand christians In that land
Think of Livingston, suffering TO
Africa. Think Of the thousands tina
| perish in the Boxer uprising In China
and the twenty thousand that fell IL
the massacres of Turkey. Our oppor
! tunity has been purchased by thei
blood Christ calls us to the heroic
second. 1t is the call of the wait
! ing world Think of the two hundret
million of young men in Asia movin
: without a leader We hear the CT
OF the helpless womanhood Of Asia
four hund1sd millions of them. w
hear the cry Of the children; the or
| of the great weary world wanting res
: sLastly, 1t is the call of Chris
himself. Tnasmuch as Ye did it unit
these least even my brethren in Ash
We did it unit me. was hungry an
athirst for the water OF life, sick an
in prison for their sins, and Ye visite
3 me, AS we hear the searching test c
} Christ. Lowest thou me?,' as we Aes
5 the call of the awakening east and tn
! need of the waiting world, let us ris
together as one man to feed his shee
h and serve our fellow men,"