The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1910-04-07
TWO STRONG SPEECHES

TWO STROn6 SPEECHES
Cotton and Eddy. Presented the Mis-
sionary Idea With a Distinctness
That Wins.
Wednesday evening at the Method
list church there was a large congre-
cation of men in attendance at the
Laymens' Missionary convention, the
fore part of the auditorium being
practically filled. In the gallery and
to the rea others were permitted to
be present. DR.. Eubank presided at
the service and an enthusiastic SER
vice of song was conducted by Rev.
Mr.. Tibbetts, of Washington Springs.
Mr.. Cotton spoke on the idea of
Missions a World Force" Having
| spent some time in the orient Mr.. Col
ton felt qualified to make some COM
ment on the relations existing be-
tween that country and this, with ref
renee to the spread of the gospel
over there. He found that the vices
of our country were being introduced
in China, Japan and other countries,
and that the people over there take
this as sort of a standard of American
living, and they do not regard it as
a particularly high standard. The
speaker wanted a greater spirit of
mission work developed to change
the opinion of those people, when
it was really a wrong proposition to
charge that to u country. Mr.. Col
ton spoke Of the strong spirit of
commercialism which is prevalent,
the pathway for which had been
opened up by the work of the mis-
sionaries and that it "a being per-
verified to the extent that the eyes of
the business world is being closed to
the real intent of blazing the path
way through those countries. In the
reconstruction of that country, MIR.
Cotton urged that it be carried for
ward on the basis of Christianity and
not wholly commercial.
George Sherwood Eddy spoke on
THE Onership and Lordship of
Christ" He spoke in part as follows,
after first giving three incidents of
the converting power of the Christ in
India:
We have seen throughout the days
of this convention, that all Asia is
awakening, and just at this critical
time the Laymens' Movement has
! arisen in the West to supply the
means and the men to meet this OBJ
portunity.
The old faiths in Asia have fail
ed to satisfy the people, Hinduism is
corrupt and disintegrating, Buddhism
l hQc 1noonnrotnI To /, rc%;R;on T., %1,o
North and cold atheism in the South;
Mohammedism with its slavery and
polygamy has failed to uplift woman
hood; Confucicusm, although it has
provided a moral preparation, has
given the people no God and left
China materialistic. The many truths
of these religions have prepared the
way for the full truth of Christ.
Let us turn for our closing
thought in this convention some of
the last words of Christ: Simon, son
of Jonas, lowest thou me? Feed my
sheep. Weighed in the balance of
love. is u life found wanting?
There is need of men at the front.
Will you go? Would you be willing
to go If you could? While vast con-
tinents are shrouded in almost utter
darkness and hundreds of millions
suffer the horrors of h%eathenism or
Islam, the burden of proof rests upon
you to show that the circumstances
In which God has placed you we're
meant by Him to keep you out of the
foreign field. If you cannot co., will
you let your son or daughter go? AS
l have gone through colleges, I meet
hundreds of young people eager to
go to the foreign field, but forbidden
by their parents. 1t has almost SEEM
ed that n of the greatest obstacles
to the evangelization was Christian
parents.
Christ said Feed my Sheep It is
a three-fold call to service. First:
1t is a call to the heroic. Simon died
in obeying that call. Think of Carey,
giving his life for India: but today
there are a million Christians in In
dia. Think of Judson, in prison in
Burma, but today there are 100, 900
Christians in that land. Think of
Livingston, suffering for Africa.
Think of the thousands that perish III
the Boxer uprising in China, and me
10000 that fell in the massacres of
Turkey. Our opportunity has been
purchased by their blood. Christ calls
us to the heroic.
Second: 1t is the call of the wait
ing world. Think of the two hundred
million young men in Asia moving
forward without a leader. We hear
the cry of the helpless womanhood of
Asia-Four hundred millions Of
them. We hear the cry of the children
the cry of a great weary world wait
ing for rest.
Lastly: 1t is the call of Christ.
'Inasmuch as Ye did it unto these
least of my brethern in Asia, Ye did
it unto me. l was hungry and thirsty
for the water of life, sick and in pris-
on in their sins, and Ye visited me.
As we hear the searching test of
Lowest thou meg a we hear
the call of the awakening East
and the need Of the waiting world,
let us rise together as one man 20
feed the sheep"
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