The San Francisco call., 1910-03-20
OUTLINES SCOPE OF
MISSIONARY WORK
Cooperating Committee of the
Laymen's Convention SUBJ
mits Proposed Methods
Judge Morrow Urges Extension
of Christianity as Best Aid
TO World Peace

Devoting the morning and evening
TO general meetings in the First Con-
gregational church at Post and Mason
streets and the afternoon to denomina-
tionaI rallies in the hotels and churches
of the city. members of the laymen's
missionary movement spent enthusi-
astically the second day Of their great
convention yesterday.
While the laymen held sessions in the
different parts of the city in the after
noon, a meeting of all ministers took
slace at the convention headquarters
- the First Congregational church.
A. s. Johnson presided over the morn
ing gathering. The speakers and their
subjects were:
PRAYER and Missions Or. c. f. Reid.
Missions and Stewardship" Rev. F. E.
Missions and World Peace" Judge W. ".
Morrow. United States circuit court of appeals
What Advance Should This Convention I'm
dertake?, Report OF committee on policy:
How Can Such Advance be Realizedg' Con-
ference conducted by J. Campbell White
The Missionary Enterprise Central in the Life
of the Church Rev. L. c. Mason, Seattle.
CITES WORK IN TURKEY
Judge Morrow spoke of the great
good that has been done in Turkey
hA Ile IIlSlSI6nCG upon extra lGEIllOItdl
Jurisdiction and support of the mis-
sionary work He touched upon the
conditions in China and Africa, saying
IN part:
The statement of Theodore Roose-
Welt upon arriving in Sudan the
other day is TO me exceedingly sig
nincant because Roosevelt does not
waste any words, and because he
has had a large political experience.
He said that the missionary move
ment was of great practical value
in Africa Those few words con-
veyed to me very great significance
The missionary movement is of
great practical value in extending
Christian civilization among the
natives OF AFRICA. j nave come 10
the conclusion that ii lies at the
very basis Of final peace among the
nations.
OPPONENTS ARGUMENTS
Those who have been opposed to
the effort to secure the peace of
nations by arbitration or by judi
cial arrangement have said that ii
is impossible. that it cannot be
done They have said we have. one
language, those nations another;
We have one civilization, they have
another; We have one system Of
administering law, they have an
other. How can you secure an
agreement with such nation? If
your controversy is submitted TO
arbitration or to judicial dis
viii be administered. what rules Of
evidence will be appealed to, what
method shall be adopted? These
gentlemen say 1t is utterly out of
the question.
What is the solution of that
question? Why this If you bring
TO those people our Christian civ
iliZation Just what Roosevelt re-
ferred TO, with all its methods of
procedure, its judiciary, its method
of ascertaining truth-if you bring
them this through the missionary
there win be no trouble al all about
coming TO an agreement with them
as TO how we shall proceed to settle
these difficulties.
SUBMITS REPORT
r. NJ Armstrong submitted the re-
port of the cooperating committee,
which met Friday 10 discuss the policy
to be recommended TO the convention.
The report was referred TO the several
church conferences and will come up
again at the final session of the con-
ventiOn. 1t reads:
Resolved, that We rejoice that
the laymen of the churches are
rising UP in large numbers 10 CO.
operate with their pastors and mis-
siOnary boards in the plan to evan
gelize the world in this generation.
That we unite our efforts and
prayers in a persistent attempt to
enlist the Christian men of the
district covered by this convention
tiOn Of responsibility for the evan
gelization Of the world
That we earnestly recommend
the appointment in every congre-
cation of q strong missionary COM
mittee, which shall conduct cam
paign Of education on the subject
of missions and shall also organize
and conduct a personal canvass of
every member and adherent of the
congregation, to the END that some
ADEQUATE systematic contribution
70 "a n world
tiOn may be made by every one.
That we strongly urge the adop-
SiOnary offerings as the most scrip
tural. fair, businesslike and pro-
ductiVe method, believing that
when properly introduced and
worked it secures the largest pos
sible educational, financial and
spiritual results.
CANVASS Is URGED
That the churches Of this district
undertake to follow this conven-
tion Immediately by thoroughly
organized canvass by the mission
airy committee of each church to
the end that every church member
and every one in sympathy with
church work may be enlisted as
systematic contributor TO missions,
and that the total offerings of the
churches Of this district to work
abroad may be Increased from
S60,1O4, reported last year, to at
least $125,000 for the coming II
AAlOuAAlSs anu Liidl q pubic meeting
of the men of this district be held
on April u to hear the reports of
the results accomplished.
That we recommend to the dele
gates at this convention that there
be made in each county an inves-
tigation of the amounts contributed
to church expenses, missionary and
educational work in America, and
TO work abroad, similar to the sta
tistical table used at this conVen-
ton, and that a cooperating COM
mittee Of the laymens missionary
movement be organized in each
community or county to take neces-
sary steps for the adoption by all
the churches of an adequate plan
for the evangelization of the world.
That we continue the co-operat-
ing committee of the layInen's mis-
siOnary movement of this city with
power to make such changes in its
membership as may be desirable
i. NJ. ARMSTRONG,
Chairman
EMORY A. SMITH,
Z. NJ. HALL,
Committee on Policy
BISHOPS ADDRESS GATHERING