The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-13
MI1V HNE VI
1--WE Can EVangelize the World
in This Generation"
So Declares j. H. GOldDer in
Able Address.
MISSIONARY BRANCH.
Meeting of the Workers Closes
Last Night.
Strong Speech on University
Work by DR.. JeWett.
MISSIONARY BRANCH.


I.aymen's Missionary movement, &C
cording to the Rev. ]. H. Goldner OF
Cleveland, Ohio, who spoke this morn
ing at the Auditorium.
with many men church member
ship has become purely perfunctory.
Men dealing in million dollar enter
prises can not be interested or used
to the point of bleeding in paltry
penny project.
awakened the men of the church from
a dormant condition, calls for an an
nual expenditure of S45,00O,OOO and
the employment of $4,000 mission
aries. Hitherto we have depended too
largely upon the women and children
for missionary money.
Started in Washington.
I'm March, 1906, John B. Sleman,
DR.. a young business man from Wash
ington. D. c., attended the Student
Volunteer convention in Nashville.
Tenn. He saw assembled there the
choicest products of the MONIES,
churches, colleges and universities OF
America He heard the oft-repeated
motto, The evangelization OF the
world in this generation; and this
Thought came to him, not from man,
hut from God: If the men of our
churches had the vision these young
people have, the world would be evan
Eelized in this generation, and until
they do. it will not
IN November of the same year he
carried this idea to the centennial
celebration of the Haystack prayer
meeting in New York City On
stormy afternoon in the chapel of the
Fifth Avenue Presbyterian church,
where the centennial was held, sixty
men met for prayer and for confer
ence. After three hours of waiting on
God new reservoir of power for
world conquest vas tapped; ana the
Iaymen's Missi onary movement was
born. This mems prayer meeting
marks the beginning of a masculine
awakening in the church, which has
resulted in the addition of new force
to the supreme task of saving the
world.
''The movement adopted the motto.
THE evangelization of the world in
this generation and added the follow
ing declaration of conscious power and
fixed determination, we can do it and
we will Under the statesmanlike
leadership of ]. Campbell White, ably
seconded by Samuel B. Capen, Col
Elijah Halford and others, a campaign
of education, agitation and inspiration
was projected, which, from the stand
point of adventure for God and signal
success, is without a parallel in the
history of missionary propagandism.
First of all, after some preliminary
efforts, the campaign was carried into
Canada, where a series of Laymen's
Missionary conventions was held in all
the leading cities, eliminating in a
National Laymen's congress in
Toronto.
From October, 1909, to May, 1910,
a series of seventy-f1ve conventions
We're held in as many cities in the
United States. One hundred thousand
men paid two dollars apiece to at
tend these conventions. What a spec
tacle! One hundred thousand men
paying two dollars apiece to attend
missionary meetings! Formerly they
could not be constrained to go, though
the meetings were free.
1.-The climax of this unprecedented
missionary campaign came when the
National Laymen's Missionary con-
gress convened in Chicago last May.
Nearly five thousand men were in at
tendance, representing f1fty-two COM
munions. twenty million ProteStants
and every state in the Union save one.
The business and professional life of
America was represented. Said one
man as he saw the five thousand men
in the auditorium, That company of
men can swing the nation. Every man
is a dynamo
Doing a Great Work
''These cOntinent-wide campaigns
and National Congresses have been a
revelation of the missionary posSibil-
titles of the men. They are not the
ending, but the beginning of a mas
culine uprising that will bring about
the speedy contamination of Christ's
World program.
TT is solving the money problem,
the last, the greatest and most stub
born obstacle to the progress of the
Kingdom. The gates of all heather
lands have been thrown wide open.
Young people are ready to enter: but
sufficient money has not been forth
coming to send all who wish to GO
Hitherto we have depended too ex-
clusively upon the women and children
for missionary money. They have been
compelled to extract it from unin-
formed and uninterested husbands
and fathers. If this enterprise of world
wide missions is ever adequately fl
nanced, the men, the money-makers
of our churches, must do it. It is not
enough to appeal to them Indirectly
through the women and children. They
must be appealed to directly and in a
business-like way with figures and
facts. In a word, they must be vitality
interested.
Exactly this the Laymen's Mission
airy Movement is doing and the money
is coming and going TO come as it
never came before. As a result of the
whirlwind campaign of on1 year ago,
in nearly every city touched the mis-
sionary offerings have been doubled,
or treb1ed or quadrupled. This is not
temporary, as the result of a spasm,
but will be permanent for in the men
of our churches an intelligent, sensitive
missionary conscience is being aroused
and already a movement is on foot
for systematic and persistent follow
up work with view to conserving the
results obtained. The Governor of this
state has been aroused by the Lay
mems Movement and is this year sup
porting his own missionary
1.-THE Laymen's Missionary Move
ment is placing before the men pro-
ject that is as big as the world as COM
prehensive as human need. 1t calls
for an annual expenditure of $45, 000,-
600, the employment of $4,000 mis-
sionaries. 20 this, thousands of men,
hitherto idle in our churches. are re-
spending with their time, talents and
money.
with many men church member
ship has become purely perfunctory.
It is amazing how little it means to
them. Though members Of the church