The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-03-15

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have got to be intelligent on foreign
mission. It's easy to become intelli-
gent by reading the lives of the men
who have gone in the foreign mission
field. Then he traced the growth of
wealth in the country, and said that
no financial undertaking was too big
for the people if the people were really
in earnest. The foreign mission field
needed money! We must devote our
selves to the movement. We must lay
over to the church our business capa-
city and money and help extend the
kingdom of Christ to the uttermost
parts of the earth.
William j. Schietfelin, chairman of
the National Laymen's Missionary
movement followed, and spoke on the
" Permanent Influence of the Lay
mems Missionary Movement" It's
purpose is to evangelize the world,
and line up behind the ministers. The
movement means the sending Of mis-
sionaries in the foreign field, and the
establishment of stations and hos
pitfalls. If one man out of every four
hundred was sent into the field, there
would soon be enough to evangelize
the world, he declared. In this lay
mems missionary movement we must
get laymen TO move. We must inform
ourselves on what is going GU in the
foreign fields. Tt has been said that
we haye enough to attend to with
home MISSIONS but the church that
does the most abroad does the most
at home.
The last and best address was by DR..
Samuel NJ. Zwemer, whose theme was
g The Biggest Social Problem" He
said in part:
The laymen's missionary movement
has been said to be movement Of ra-
tions and orations, but it is move
ment of rations, call TO arms and
march. It's for the uplift of the
world. God didn't send his son into
the world simply to save America, but
the whole world. We must be cosmo-
politan. Christ considered the world
as unit, and it's about time we were
realizing this. AS business men, you
must admit it. It's unit scientific
cally. If there is an earthquake in
Asia to-day, it is known in Washing
ton by movements of the seismograph.
Why, the first f" dago" who came to
this country was Christopher Colum-
bus, and we can't afford to look down
on the "dago," for he discovered US.
The world is not a unit because God
says so, but science confirms it.
Science has been able to tell the blood
taken from different animals, whether
it was that Of dog, a horse, sheep or
lion, but it has never been able to tell
the blood taken from man, whether it
was that of a negro, white man, Chi
nese or Indian. God made us all of one
blood !; all the nations of the world.
The non-C Christian world is the great
social problem. THE world was never
so big and larger as it is to-day, be-
cause we haven't come to know our
brothers and sisters. The church OF
Christ is 1900 years old, and yet we
haven't measured the world. The
world never afforded such big oppor-
| tunity. Every door is open. Japan
| it is said, is leading the Orient. She
is the George Washington of the
Orient; first'in war, first in peace an6
first in the hearts of India. The ques
tion is. shall Japan lead the Orient K
the conversion of Spencerism and ag
Mysticism or to Christ?
In India the country is seethinl
with unrest. We have shaken thu
whole continent, and it's now or neve
to win her for Christ. The world is il
an urgent condition. You can't post
pone the opportunity, China is wait
| ing, Africa is waiting Tonight one
half our sisters are suffering untol'
misery. Tonight there are a score Q
countries without witness for Christ
no missionaries, no societies, no hos
pitfalls.
The meeting closed with prayer AM
the benediction by DR.. Zwemer.