The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1910-03-31

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away. The great conflict is with
Islam. 1t has 58,000.000 followers.
We have 100000 Of Christians.
The question today is. which will
win Africa. The Moslems have their
great University at Cairo with ten
thusand students. Thousands OF
them are being sent out each year to
Northern Africa and the great Sudan
to preach the Tenets of Mohammed.
They are already entering many new
fields on the west coast of Africa.
Will we allow the Moslems to take
possession of Pagan Africa, or shall
the church of Jesus Christ. The Ques,-
ton Is, which shall rule Africa, the
Crescent or the Cross.
81 want to impress upon you the
urgency Of the situation. Africa is as
large as North America plus Europe
and over three times as large as the
United States. 1t has been divided
amongs the European powers, great
divisions being governed by Germany,
Portugal, Belgium, France and Eng
land. Africa has been practically
opened in our generation. Stanley
following the work of Livingstone
opens Central Equatorial Africa in
1874. When Stanley came out" after
crossing Central Africa, the mission
aries went in."
M. d. Eubank, M. D., the mission
airy from China gave this brief sur
vey of a hundred years of missionary
work in that country:
There are some things that we
can tabulate; there are others we
oonn0f hovo hnro ~, %h;o h ~
some things that can be tabulated,
which show the great growth of
Christianity in China during one
hundred years. Robert Morrison went
to China in 1907. He found China
closed and not wanting and contact
with the outside world; stagnation
everywhere. The language had not
changed for several centuries. The
political system vas fixed. Educa-
tional system had not been changed
for over 1900 years and there was
no desire for a change. The old Soc
ial system had come to a %standstill.
This was the rock against which the
early missionaries had to throw them
selves. Is there any hope for a prob
lem like this?
Some results that car be tabu-
lated can be given. The first 35 years
work 18O7-1842 there was only six
converts among all of the Chinese.
The next period 1912 to 1860, the
number of Christians grew to 1000;
from 1860 to 1877 there we're over
$4,000; from 1877 to 1890, 1900;
from 1890 to 1907, $50, 900; while
today there are over 100000. There
is no record of any native workers
the first 35 years; in 1860 there
were 100; 1877, $50; 1890, 1850;
and 1907, 1000. The number of pu-
pills in Christian schools, there is no
record given of any during the first
two periods as mentioned above. In
1877, 1900 We're reported; 1890,
10000 and 1907, $4,000, while today
this number is something like $1,000.
The number of patients treated by
Christian physicians during the first
period was 1000 from 1912 to 1860
5000. This continues to increase un-
til 1907 when over a million were
treated in our ~dispensary and hospi-
tails.
Looking at these tabulated re-
suits surely we have much to en-
courage US to go on with our work.
1t will be seen that the number of
communicates in China more than
doubles in each years.
DR.. StuntZ closed the session with
an address on Latin America and
Our Relation to the Whole Problem