The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1910-03-18
MISSIONARY MOVEMENT.
Lutheran Church Of the Redeemer
to Go Heartily into Laymen's
Movement.

uV ItSlltcu SCI f1SS No-~J
ing at the Lutheran Church OF the
Redeemer was !devo+7d to the Lay
mems Missionary movement and IN
stead of the regular sermon several
short addresses were made.
This movement for the evangeh-
cation of the world is worldwide
and inter-denominational and has
aroused great interest everywhere
and the church or the community
Rthat does not take hold and help it
hlong is going to fall behind.
1t was stated that a great many
hurches had greatly increased their
contributions to foreign missions
since the movement had BEEN Or
eanized and that the Newberry
church had done well in many de-
partments of church work but in
the matter of foreign missions had
been lamentably deficient. Accord
ing to the last minutes of the Synod
the average per capita from this
church to the cause Of foreign mis-
sions had been about twenty cents.
The United Synod in the South to
which this church belongs was look
ing to Newberry to do her part We'll
A few days ago a committee had
been appointed consisting of slx
men and eight women to canvas the
entire membership and the commit
tee decided that Newberry ought to
raise the first year $1,000 to this
cause and that the specific work to
which this money would be devoted
would be the building of a school OF
college or theological seminary IN
Japan for the education and train
ing of native missionary workers.
The Lutheran church in the South
has been doing missionary work IN
Japan for the past fifteen to twenty
years and the need now is for native
trained Christian workers and TO get
them there must be a school OF SEM
mary supported in Japan. The
Lutheran Church of the Redeeme1
has about $50 resident members and
the amount set by the committee
should be easily secured.
The pastor, Mr.. Fulenwider, an
nounced that i'm place Of the regular
sermon there would be several short
talks on the subject Of foreign mis-
sions. and that in arranging the pro-
gram he had been given five min
utes. He said the Church Of the
Redemer stood before the Lutheran
Synod in the South in peculiar
light. This church had given beau
tifully to every cause that had been
presented to- it and the unanimlty
with which all church work was done
and the pastor supported made him
feel, without boasting, proud to be
called the pastor. This one cause:
foreign missions, had been almost
neglected and according to the
printed minutes, the congregation
had given to this cause only about
twenty cents per capita during last
year. Never before in the history
Of the world had there been such al
awakening in the subject of foreign
missions as was manifest today and
he believed that the Church Of the
Redemer would not lag behind in
this wonk. -
Mr.. J. B. Hunter was then pre-
sented. Mr.. Hunter said that he
presumed that every member OF the
church believed in foreign missions
IT,. however, Judgment was to be
passed by what had been done IN
this congregation, such presumption
would not be well founded.
There were three hundred and
sixty resident members Of the con-
gregation, who had averaged last year
only twenty cents per capita fo1
foreign missions. Mr.. Hunter said
that it was time that they were
waking up. It was time we should
do something more. This laymen' :
missionary movement IS worldwide
and if we are to keep pace with other
communities and other churches, We
must wake up. We have been leav'
ing this work almost entirely to the
women and children and the me1
have done practically nothing.
A committee Of the church com.
posed of six men and eight ladiei
had been appointed to canvass every
member Of the congregation and be-
fore starting out they had decided
upon the amount that it was though
reasonable to expect from this con
orooatian and that amount for tn: