The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1910-04-07
CHURCHES START
GIGANTIC TASK
Mitchell Convention Opens Cam
paign I'm South Dakota

The following interesting article
in regard to the big missionary
movement among laymen IA writ
ten by Rev. G. III. CRUDE, who at
tended the convention at Mitchell
last week.
THE Laymen's Missionary Con-
vention at Mitchell last week was
largely attended. The auditorium
of the new Methodist church there
was filed with men representing all
the churches in the state. This
meeting was one of Is which are
being held in the principal cities of
the country. Meetings have already
been held in New York. Buffalo.
Cleveland, st. Louis, and Boise City.
The last has been the most largely
attended of any of them considering
population. 1890 men sat down at
the opening banquet in New York,
though the night was stormy.
What is the Lay mems Missionary
movement? 1t is a movement born
of the student volunteer movement.
Between five and eight thousand of
the young men and women of the
colleges of the world have gone out
to the mission fields since the begin
ming of the student volunteer move
ment of ~ years ago. Many others
in increasing n~mber, the flower of
the young men and women Of the
colleges Of the world, have offered
to go.
The Laymen'S movement is a
movement to finance the missions.
The laymen in the church write the
checks and hold the money. This
movement is an educational cam
paign to put the matter Suuarely
before them. The job is to evan
gellzc the world, a thousand million
heather, in this generation. The
men of the country are rising at
the proposition. 1t appeals 20
them as a mans job. why not?'
they say. The gospel, should 90
where Standard Oil and Mccormick
Reapers go. They have gone all
over the world.
The men are gotten together as at
Mitchell and other places, the feast
bility of the thing is discussed, plans
are proposed, strong practical adj
dresses are given by the leaders and
and our laymen e a light, and go
home and go about the thing in d
business like way. For example,
one church has assumed for its share
of the one thousand millions one
hundred million of heather to gos,
pelize. 1t will take 1000 additional
missionaries for this church. Ii will
cost six million dollars a year. This
will mean $500 per member or Il
cents per week per member, or no,
quite II cents per day. This obliga.
ton has been assumed by one
church. To give the movement
authority and intelligence sixty-siH
representative business men of the
country went around the world al
their own expense and reported
what they had seen first hand in al
the missions.
Several business men of the
country are devoting all the profits
of their business to the movement,
The leaders are among the brightest,
brainiest men in the world.
Five missionaries from China,
India, Turkey. Africa and Korea
spoke al Mitchell. Beside these
were Geo. Sherwood Eddy who leads
the Y. M. G. and works among
young men IN India, II. c. Stunt,
of New York. and Charles Edwin
Bradt, of Chicago. The men were
picked men and the addresses ex
ceptional. UNCONVENTIONAL rallies
! were held and it is the purpose of
the leaders that the movement
shall be further developed by ''foi,
low up meetings at home Mitchell
will have n of these on the 18th of
April. Mr. CRUDE and Mr. Lombard
attended for this place.
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