Bisbee daily review., 1910-01-01
MADE FUR VOLUNTEER MISSIONARIES
British Ambassador Says That Nine-Tenths of Habitable
 Earth Is Under Control of
 So-CaIIed Christian Powers.

ROCHESTER,. N. r.. Dec. s1.-In, report of the Executive Committee c-- the Student Volunteer ovement of Foreign Missions. at present in ses. sion in this city< set forth that the primary and permanent function of the movement Is that of a recrueng agency seeking to enroll sufficient number of well-qualifled volunteers 10 meet, the requirements of the mis- sion boards of North America The best evidence of the efficiency and power 9f the Student Volunter Move ment is the number of sailed volun- teers. At the Toronto Convention in 1902 1t was reported that 7S0 volun- teers had sailed during the preceding four years. In the quadrenlium fol- lowing the Toronto Convention and ending with the Nashville Convention in 1906. 1000 volunteers sailed Dur. ing the four years which have sine elapsed. ending with the Rochester Convention 12S3 Volunteers have sailed. or nearly 300 more than for the qnadrennium ending with the Nashville Convention. The total nun Der of Volunteers who have sailed since the beginning Of the Movement in 1886. is 346
 Another test of the rising tide of practical missionary interest among students is the increase in their mis- sionary giving At Nashville it was reported that the students of North America were contributing ss0.e0e year to missionary objects. They arc now giving s127.000 q year toward such objects. or an increase in four years of nearly sixty per cent There are literally scores of colleges and schools each supporting entirely or in part it's own representative on the foreign field. The students of Yale head the list at present with their contr. button last year fully s10.000 to missionary objects. Among won- en's colleges the students or Vassar made the largest contribution having given last year S3,3S5
 The past four years have been a record breaking period in the promo ton of mission study among students. In the year preceding the Nashville Convention there were 1.0f9 mission study classes in institutions Of higher learning in the United States and Can ada Last year there were 2,0S4. In 1. the year before the Nashville Conven- ton the total number engaged in mls- sion study was l2.629 During the past year 1t was 25.2OS. The number has doubled in four years.
 The most important concern of the Volunteer Movement and it friends is to augment greatly. probably to double. the number Of well-equiDped Volunteers who can in the immediate or near future press out 10 the mis- sion fields. Today throughout the en- tire Far East. in all the principal parts of the Near East. such as Fur Fey and Russia. in Southern Asia in the East Indes, throughout the larger part of the African continent. and even in parts Of Latin America, the Christian church faces nothing less than an acute and momentOus crisis. This crisis can be met only by the sendng out of a larger number than are now forthcoming of thoroughly . capable and well furnished mission
 aries. On the home side We are subject to the growing pressure of the ! expanding ability of the church to send forth an army of workers, pri- marily as a result of the uprising of Christian laymen in the Laymen's Missionary Movement, not to speak of the various Forward Movements in some of the Christian commissions ana of the very effective work of the
 Young Peoples Missionary Move ment in the Sunday schools and
 among the large numbers of other young people.
 James BrycssaBridsh Ambassador,
 was the chief speaker at tonight's ses-
 sion of the Convention of the Student
 Volunteer movement. He character ized the present time as critical, but
 suspicious for Christianity.
 There has been such sprogress in
 recent years" he said, ~tbat nine tenths of the habitable earth is under
 control of tn so-called Christian pow CTS though vast multitudes remain
 non-Christians. there is scarcely d
 spot in which the influence of the
 white race is not felt"