The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-03-13
Manchester, England. "Britons never,
never. never shall he slaves
"a MANS JOB.

ment is one of the signs. of the times
that the nations of the West are bccom
ing conscious that thcir part in the de-
volopmcnt OF Africa and the Orient Is
"a man S Job. - Tho man who is out
for business is lcngtheuing his cords
and strengthening his stakes; our
statesmen are obliged TO see further
are forced To consider the possibilities
of international service. IL is not
strange, therefore. that the moral and
religious forces of Christcndom should
hear the call of this outward movement.
According TO tbc programme of the
Laymcn S Campaign, The Christians of
America arc responsible for taking the
religion OF Christ TO SIX hundred mil
lions of the non. Christian peoples. To
do this tho force of missionaries must
be increased from 5000 Ia $4,000, and
The budget of expense from eleven
millions TO approximately fifty millions
year. To say the least, this may be
called ga mans Job, -
Tho on-Christian peoples arc wax
ing up; Christendom must walIc up,
This was one Of the most persistent ap.
peals Of the various speakers at the
Laymcn's Convention held in this city
this past week. These awakening,
changing. non-Cbristian peoples must
have moral and religious basis for
| their social. civil and commercial de
lvclopment Otherwise we and they
will have the devil to pay. The men
Of this Convention evidently believed
in increasing our exports and dccrcas'
ing our imports in matters of religion.
They stood first. last and all the time
for the propagation of The morality and
religion of Christ They insisted that
no other religion has stood or will
stand the test of such changes as are
now going on IN the Orient, and that
its fitness AS the religion of progress
is evidenced by its dominance among
The peoples who have led in the march
OF civilization. The civilization of the
West, without the religion which has
given it life, will not stand tho test of
contact with the Orient. The best way
to insure ourselves against the yellow
peril is to work the lcavcn Of the best
we have in religion and morals into
tho heart of China, Japan and Korea
In all this the Convention was pccu
liarly up to date in its world-views.
Another feature TO be underscorcd
in this Laymen s Movement is the way
il reaches for and gets hold Of men,
and the men who are bearing the bur
dens of this generation. These Con-
ventions have brought the mon in our
great cities face TO face with the ques
tion: Is it fair to let the brunt Of
ga man Is job'' fall on the women OF
the Churches? Are you mon not quite
as responsible for the pushing of the
best you have or know in morals or
religion, as are the women OF the Mis-
sionary Socictics7 We shall not be
surprised to find meetings OF the Men IS
Missionary Club added to our Church
notices one of these days.
This movement has value as an ex-
hibition Of the substantial union of
the various Christian denominations
whose members and adherents consti-
tute at least two-thirds Of the Amcri
can people. The spirit and message of
the Convention held here ought to be
enough 10. silence the Sectarian who is
forever lambasting the Sectarianism of
the other fellow. While all the great
Protestant denominations were repre-
sented in the Convention, or in the list
Of visiting speakers, the members of
these various Christian families-each
with its own temperament. conscience
or what not-were at one in their 10y
atty to the morality and religion of
the Rcdeemer.
A largo place was given in the pro-
gramme Of the Convention 10 news
from the front And it was note
worthy that the delegates gave their
cheers to the various accounts of he
roic cndeavor or evident success with
out discrimination, most of them not
caring whether the successes achieved
or the work done in Uganda, Livings-
tonia, Korea, or China, or Southern
India, were achieved by Baptist, Meth
odist, Episcopalian, Congregational or
Presbyterian Christians.
It is said that one day CARLYLE and
Emerson were walking out through the
hills of Scotland and coming in sight
of little Church, the Scotch sage said
TO his Now England friend: ''Christ
died on the tree, and that built Dun
score KWk yonder; that brought you
and me together, If is evident from
the faith, hope and charity expressed
In this Laymen's Convention and ex-
empificd in its comradeship in good
works that one of its keynotes was,
Now all together and that those
who werc so drawn together could say