The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-03-10
CHURCHES To
RAISE FUNDS
United Protestant Congrega-
tons of Salt Lake Pledge
Budget of $4,000 for Foreign
Missionary Work This Year.

~ EFORE the Laymen's Missionary con-
ID vention closed last night the united
Protestant churches of Salt Lake
pledged budget Of $4,000 for foreign mis-
sions during the year 1910, all the churches
practically doubling their subscriptions of
the previous year.
1t was admitted by churchmen, laymen
and everybody who attended the sessions
of the convention that not only will finan-
cial assistance be greatly increased, but
that general interest in the foreign mis-
sion work will be greatly stimulated
In this connection Or. john F. Goucher
of Baltimore, who acted as chairman of
the convention. said that BE had always
been constrained to the belief that where
a mans money went his Interest was also
strongly attracted.
In leaving for Boise last night all the
men who took part in the Salt Lake meet
ings expressed much satisfaction with the
sentiment manifested and the pledges of
increased financial support which will be
forthcoming.
Salt Lake marked the halfway station
of our world salvation tour said DR..
Goueher. we all have reason to feel
grateful to the local clergymen ard lay
men for the splendid showing made here;
also Tor the liberality, cordiality and hos
pitality of the people of the splendid and
beautiful city.
so far during the tour more than 7O.0O1
Of the best men of the nation have at
tended our meetings We still have more
feel certain that before we close our work
we will have enlisted the moral and finau-
cial support of 10000 men. to say nothing
of the thousands Of women and children.
The movement has been a great success
from every standpoint
Conditions in Turkey.
Owing to the non-arrival of Bishop W
S. Lewis, who was booked for an address
last night, his place was ably filled by
John L. Merrill, missionary to central
Turkey. In a manner which actually
thrilled the large audience, Mr. Merrill
told of the appalling conditions of non
Christian Turkey, its atrocities commit
ted in the name of the Mohammedan re-
ligion. and its persecution of the Armen-
ians and prOfessed Christians.
He pictured Christian mothers who were
forced to kill their own children during
the late massacres in Turkey. He related
many horrible incidents of Turkish cruel
ties which came within his own Observa-
ton and knowledge. Some of them were
SO terrible that his hearers shuddered at
their recitation. In a most decisive man.
ner he showed how badly Turkey needs
the gospel, and incidentally how badly
money is needed in carrying out mission
airy work in that country.
The principal address of the evening was
by DR.. Isaac Taylor Headland
who for nineteen years has labored in the
missionary field of China. In one of the
liibEl pbilSutu anu Interesting duOltSStS
of the convention he pertinently pointed
oat how badly the gospel is needed In
that country with its almost 4OO,000,O00
heathens.
DR.. Headland. however, showed the
great good which has been accomplished
In the past decade, and what efforts OF
Christian teaching has done TO improve
the conditions of the country.
DR. Headland enjoys the distinction of
having personally reared and educated
Chinese boy. When the boys mother died
when he was five years old. he promised
her he would adopt and educate the lad
He is now a young Christian minister, and
has been the means of converting many
Of his countrymen.
Support Is Pledged.
At UNCONVENTIONAL rallies held yesterday
BY six of the Protestant churches of Salt
Lake, resolutions were adopted, not only
Dledging greatly increased financial sup
port to foreign missionary work, but COM
nitted the churches of Utah to a policy
IF assisting the movement generally. The
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