Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-21

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Totals .H5.6a2 sH,6jO
In addition to the raising OF Sl0O Tor
foreign missions this year. the three
Christian churches propose to do more
The First Christian church Will undertake
to support a missionary on the foreign
field and the other two Christian churches
combined will do the same thing.
1t was also reported that the Baptist
churches would undertake to organize
four square league within that body
This is a plan Whereby one man Will glNe
81 coo and undertake. to get three others to
give a like amount
Churchmen Thoroughly Aroused
Two most interesting addresses were
delivered at the close Of the convention
which was the most inspiring sigh of
it's kind ever seen in Omaha.
The convention started on st. Patricks
day with a mammoth laymen's banquet
when ,4CO men turned out to show the
interest which is being aroused in this
movement to eyangelize the world in this
generation.
As a result Of this convention CO.
operative committee, including representa-
tives from all the churches, win meet in
Omaha April Il to report progress.
stuntx on Gospel TrIumphs.
missionaries to India first encountered
the burning OF the wives Of the husbands
who had di5d," said DR.. Homer c. stuntS
of New York city The body Of the dead
husband and the living wives were burned
together. 1t is estimated that 3OOgO women
were thus burned each year Missionaries
secured a law which made it crime for
anyone to be connected with such burn
ing Hook swinging was in vogue when
went to India About twenty-five years
ago the missionaries secured law to
abolish this
In 1890 the courts and police in India
were being used to compel the consum-
nation Of a child marriage, 1t saw u
/ little girl of two and one-half years mar
ried to a man OF A. 'Fhe child remained
with its parents until ten years old and
/ then the courts could be invoked to com
pei the child to come to her husband,
| We have succeeded to have the limit
/ raised to fourteen years. If you have the
heart Of a man who loves humanity you
would not stand for this sort OF thing
II every dollar spent for missions IN
Irdia accomplish nothing else but this it
has done well.
IF you do not know that the kings of
Sheba are giving gold to help out our
missionaries, you want to wake up, for
! that is a fact Miss Clara Swain opened
the first hospital for women in heather
| land and it was the gift Of a Mohammedan
ruler whose wife she had saved from
death There is not a hospital or good
school i'm heathendom which was not sug
gested by the missionary idea.
THE Indians are getting away from the
! cast idea and they got the notion from
American missionaries. 1t viii make for
united India.
There is an edct in China that in
civil employment preference will be given
to the men whose women have unbound
] feet The only agency which has brought
( this about has been the American mission
| ary.
| You are giving money to men who are
| furnishing the underpaving for empires
and saving the standard OF the human
/ race"
Missions Great Investment.
when America made it's first invest
ment in missions. Just 100 years ago. five
young men started ou1" said George Sher-
wood Eddy missionary to India at his own
expense who has come TO this country 70
take part I'm the Laymens Missionary
] movement. lie spoke on the subject Of
! Missions As An Investment"
J when five young men went at a cost
Of 1000 apiece, how little they could have
/ thought OF the outcome OF that Investment
/ In short 100 years Not TO believe In
foreign missions would be to turn back the
clock Of time for continents have been
/ opened to Christianity by missionaries who
/ have gone forth. one man In India, with
his helpers, baptized 200 souls In one day.
Half my time / devote to the colleges
working among the 2a0OO students and the
other half at my station which has nfty
/ schools and 100 churches. one humble
/ school, parish house and church combined
/ which has just been completed cost y2I.