The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-10-06
BISHOP GAMBLER ON FOREIGN
MISSIONS.
MISSIONS.

D1SuOp CduuIcI pICdCu ulSSIOudIy
sermon at the First Methodist church
in this city on the third Sunday in
September. The occasion was $500
chow Day." and the object was to
raise money to endow the great
Methodist University at Soochow,
China. His sermon was delivered in
his usual plain, forceful style. | like
to hear him speak and l paid very
careful attention, because I wanted
to see what argument he would ad-
vance for spending great sums of
American money to educate the Chin
csc.
He presented all the usual reasons
the command to Ego We into all the
world and preach the gospel to every
creature" etc. He told about the
man from Macedonia, and said that
just now China is that man-that any
man or nation that is hungering for
the gospel is that man, even though
the man or the nation may not know
what it is that he or it wants.
Then he said that some folks OBJ
jected to the present methods of do
ing Foreign Mission work; that they
would rear up and say, eyes, oh, yes,
I believe in Foreign Missions, but I
don't believe in your present methods.
I believe in the apostolic, gospel way
of doing it, "Well, now, you are a
pretty spell of weather." he said do
you suppose God is going to consult
you to see whether you like His
method or not? Gods plan is to do
whatever is necessary to reach the
people, When Paul made tents at
Corinth he did it that he might suA
tain himself while he preached the
gospel of Christ to those Corinthians,
and the only way to reach the Chin
csc today is to educate native preach
ers who will in turn go out and con-
vert their nation"
He said this with great emphasis
and seemed to think it strong
point. | couldn't see, however, why
some cOnsecrated preacher, support
ing himself in some Chinese city and
telling the story of the Cross to the
heather there might not be just as
effective, in proportion to his ability
and Christian zeal, as Paul was at
COrinth, or why great missionary
university might not have been as
much needed in Corinth as it is in
SOochow now, but then | am very lit
tie and Bishop Gambler is very big.
But his last argument, the one that
crowned his discourse, was that we
better christianize the Chinese in self
defense or they would rise up some
day and wipe us off the face of the
earth. China, he said, sis under
going great awakening. That great
nation with it's four hundred million
people, and almost unlimited natural
resources, is just now beginning to
realize it's power. They are already
very quietly training five million
of their young men in their military
sch ools, and they are sending thou
sands Of their young men to be edu-
Gated in this and the other enlighten-
ed countries. These young men are
here to study our instftutiOns-to
determine their strength and their
weakness and to look into our mill
tary tactics and inventions. When
they are educated thew will return
home, ard some day China, il she is
not ChriStianiZed and taught to do
better, will just simply rise up and
conquer and sUbdue us or any other
nation she takes q fancy to-" And
thought that if, after we had made
such Christian nation out of China
IS the United States and she did us
like we did the Philippines, we
wouldn't have much room TO COM
plain.
He said also that we need not de-