The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-24

1 Iii OWl DUCK UPON NIOO. anu lIlCJ PAdyC0s
and when they prayed God answered
as He said He would. Because he an
swered the lives of men and women
in that land are being nightly trans
formed until from among the people OF
India tens of thousands are being
brought into the church of Christ.
Il If this laymen's movement will sue
&c ed it must succeed through prayer. 1t
II must have the vision of Christ and his
life and what prayer meant to him.
i 1t must have the unity that is an es-
sential condition for prevailing prayer,
and it must mean that men will pray
not only with the lips, but that they
/ will pray as Christ prayed with the
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j DIR. Carey's Address.
/ At the session last night DIR. Stephen
1 Y. Carey of Cincinnati, spoke on Mis-
sions World Force
/ Zone hundred years ago" said Mr..
Corey, the Protestant church had sent
| out but a few lonely pickets into the
| borders of the great heather lands.
One hundred missionaries would have
teen the result of a. worlds census
| then Today there are 1880 Protestant
| workers located in almost every field
| en- the face of the globe. They are Gull
| tured, well equipped men and women
| who would have been leaders had they
stayed in the homeland. These mission
| aries have added to their working force
| $4,000 native evangelists, teachers and
l
| ing the GospeI.
1.-THE 1ast land. save Tibet alone, has
been opened to the church and this lone,
| hermit alton has a band of missionar-
| les camped on its borders, knocking pa
! tiently but fearlessly at it's loosening
! gates.
THE Bible has been translated into
over 800 languages. and seven-eighths
| OF the human race has transcriptions
| OF it in the native dialect.
ssThrough invention discovery and
| scientific progress God has squeezed the
| bulk out of the earth, so that the last
| land is Immediately accessible to the
church. Exploration commercial high
ways, railways. steamships and cable
lines have eliminated distances and
| made every mar a neighbor to every
other man.
Mission policy has adapted itself
science of world evangeliZation. World
obligation has resulted in world
| craftsmanship. Great missionary
boards have been organized and per-
fected. Foreign missions have been
placed on a business like, economic,
far seeing basis, Guided by exper-
fence and backed by concerted effort,
the work on the foreign fields has
been organized, equipped, articulated
and projected through wise plans, far
go farther and do more. on the for
eign field, than anywhere else in the
world.
1.-THE gospel has indicated the
world adaptation which Christ claim
ed for it. 1t wins everywhere In the
Jungles of Africa or on the plains of
Asia Among cannibals or Confucian-
ists-everywhere, the gospel is vic
torious. The raising of Lazarus from
the dead was no greater miracle than
the marvellous transformations in
heather lands today"
The Awakening of China
Bishop w. S. Lewis of Foochow,
China, who gave an address on Sunday
at the Novelty theater spoke last
night on 1.-THE Awakening of China"
1.-THE Chinese people" said Bishop
Lewis, "have a message to deliver to
the world which has not yet been
spoken. 1t is a matter of no small
concern to us what that message shall
be. Four hundred and thirty-eight
millions of people, constituting more
than one-fourth of the entire human
race; a people who were making Off
cial preferment depend upon COM
petitive examination before Rome
was founded or Greece had spoken
her message of art and philosophy;
people whose dominant mental
characteristic during many ages has
been love for learning must have
some great word for the worlds veal.
But it is not difficult to imagine that
if those to whom has been committed
the OrdclcS Oh SOQS Shall IcluSS " lilo
patient, mighty race the light for
which they crave, the worlds re-
Spouse to China's best might be a
groan. The world needs China's inter-
probation Of the gospel.
81 raise three fundamental QueS
tions: Will the gospel of Jesus Christ
produce converts in the Chinese ma
ton? Will the gospel of Jesus Christ
when preached in its purity, so oper-
ate upon the Chinese spirit as to pro-
TO- no n
root itself in the Chinese conscious
ness as that his moral nature shall
respond in terms of the Sermon on
the Mount?"
The Notices of the Movement.
Given below are the notices of the
laymens missionary movement:
Not how much money will I give to
God, but how much of Gods money
will 1 keep myself.
The resources of God are promised
to those who understand the program
of God.
Christ is either Lord of us all or He
is not Lord at all.
Let US advance upon our knees
Prayers and pains through faith in
Jesus Christ may accomplish anything.
Genius of Christianity is obedience
to Christ, partial surrender means par
tial life.
Life is most worth living to him
whose work is most worth while.
Gods plan depends upon man.
The whole business of the whole
church is to preach the Gospel to the
whole world.
system, not spasm, is Gods method;
we need religion in business. business
in religion.
Love never asks how much must 1
do, but how much can 1 do.
A man may give without loving, but
he can not love without giving.
Send me anywhere, provided it may
be forward.
Ye that are men now serve Him.
Conservation of God means service
to man.
They conquer who believe they can.
No one ever becomes great except
by identification with some great
cause.
The light that shines farthest, shines