The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1910-02-22
Excellent Addresses Deliver.
ed By The Missionary
In Two OF The Mt. Vernon
Churches On Sunday
Rare Collection OF CuriOS
Are Exhibited

The coming Of Rev. II. B. Dickson
OF Assam to our city has meant much
for the Laymen's Missionary move
ment in Mt. Vernon, and has inspired
greater hopes for the Knox county
conference to be held in March.
Mr.. Dickson has had seven years
experience among the Nagas of AS
sam, a naked, filthy, blood-thirsty
tribe of head hunters, and has wit
messed the marvellous power of the
gospel to make of that people, even
chiefs Of tribes, clean, pure self-sac-
rificing Christians, Christians whose
services and devotion puts us to
shame.
In the morning at the First Bap-
tist church Mr.. Dickson made a most
remarkable presentation OF the work
as it is on the very field of Assam,
citing incident after incident reveal
ing che mighty power of grace to
save, and utterly transform human
depravity.
The union mems meeting In the
afternoon was devoted to the Lay
mems Missionary movement specific
ally, and by the quiz method the men
present got close to che genius of
this resistless uprising of men to
sweep the world with gospel truth
in this generation. An interesting
feature of this service was the one
minute expression of the thing that
most deeply impressed the eleven
men who were at Cleveland and Day
ton conferences.
The Methodist church was filled to
capacity in the evening union SER
vice. Mr.. Dickson dealt more large.
ly with the great principles under
lying the missionary work, and show
ed how impossible 1t is for a man to
be Christian and not be active in
missions. Paraphrasing Matt. %:
1920, the speaker said, GO and Il
go with you, stay and you stay
alone"
Mr.. Dickson illustrated from his
own work, q feature which is true
of all mission fields and among all
denominations, the hopelessly made
quate force on the front, necessitat-
ing the refusal to send preachers, or
even teachers to tribes pleading for
help, and the closing of school doors
to many eager applicants. Yet 81 a
month will educate a boy, $48 Will
train native for regular preach
ing. $3.50 month will support
a preacher, who can give all time to
the work, and In single instance
thirty-seven people were baptized as
the result of a months work OF one
of these natives whose support cost
but $3.50. Where in the home land
can equal investment bring anything
like such results? Yet such fruit
age from such investment is equal
ly true of nearly all of the foreign
mission fields.
The 20 million Christians of the
United States and Canada spent
100000 last year on our l00,-
100000 people in home land and on
ly $11,000,000 on the 000,000,0o0
people in heather lands. We have an
ordained minister to every $50 OF
our population In the home land, and
one ordained minister to every $780,
900 people in the foreign nations
There are now $1,000 missionaries
of all denominations on foreign
fields, If each one of these could
reach $4,000 heathens with the gos-
pei story during his entire life time
OF service, there would still be 625,-
100000 of human souls who would
never hear the story. There are 25,-
900 fields of $4,000 people each tha,
at this very moment have not one
single gospel herald. At this time,
after twenty centuries of Christian
ity, half the population of the whole
earth has not even heard the name of
God or Jesus Christ the Savior.
To cover the world field so that
there will be one ordained mission
ary to every $4,000 of the popula-
tion, we need to send out at once
$4,000 additional missionaries. and a
street car fare a week. one single
nickle for each of the 10000. 900
church members of this continent