Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-07-15

tfdt 67o,uUuuUU or people are at pres
Hnt unprovided for by the present
missionary arrangement. Therefore.
nc laymen say that the missionary
bodies should have $S0,000,0OO a year
and $1,000 more missionaries, for rs
years, in order really to do the Job.
This sort of figuring would probably
Rave made William Carey or Robert
Morrison, pioneer missionaries, gasp
with establishment, but it is the mod
crn way.
All this is not the speculative figur-
ing OF dreamers. The laymen are
after results; so they put the prom
osition up to every denomination bv
showing just how many heather each
church is responsible for and the
amount of money it will have to give.
And this plan of confronting a de-
nomination definitely with it's share
OF the gigantic scheme of worldwide
evangelization has been received seri-
ously by the various bodies The
United Presbyterians were first to ac-
ccpt the challenge, and they are ask
ing of every member an average gift
of eight dollars a year for their mis-
aionary work The Presbyterians fol-
lowed, great mems missionary con-
Yention having been held in Omaha
in February, and the idea later ap-
proved by the general assembly, the
Southern Presbyterians did likewise.
The Canadian Presbyterians and
Southern Baptists have also joined
in the movement. The Congregation
alists and Northern Baptists will
take up the subject early in the fall.
The Episcopalians have not yet had
opportunity officially to adopt a basis,
but its laymen are in the forefront of
the new movement
Stirring a Continent.
So remarkable has been the re-
Sponse, up to date, on the part of
business men of ProteGtantism, where
this proposition has been definitely
put up to them, that the leaders are
ranguine of enlisting the entire body
of the laity of the churches of the
end, series of laymen's dinners, COW
cring the big cities of the continent
are projected for this winter, on the
line of those successfully held last
winter in New York, Philadelphia,
Chicago, Boston, Toronto, Washing
ton and elsewhere. These are not
conventional missionary meetings, but
gatherings of the strongest Christian
business men in each place, managed
and addressed by laymen. The bust
ness men who are behind the move
ment plan a systematic propaganda
that shall reach every man in anywise
connected with the churches, even to
the remotest crossroads congregation.
Already the movement is formid-
able; the most important news of the
year in religious circles. It's conse-
quences will doubtless be far-reach-
ing Men of foresight are already
predicting certain implanted for re-
suits. One of these, they say, will
be the elimination of all independent
missionary work on the foreign field.
The latter are serious drain on the
resources of Christendom, and, say
the laymen, who have already re-
turned from their tour of investiga-
ton, they do not come up to the rep
reservations made by their eloquent
representatives in this country The
laymen's movement stands squarely
behind the denominational boards.
Nevertheless, it is predicted, the lay
men will hold the boards strictly to
account, that their missions be
manned only by competent workers
and that they be conducted on the
broadcast, most effective and most
economical lines.
Great Britain in Line.