The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-03-10
STEWARDSHIP IS
FREELY DISCUSSED
Laymen Are Told of Foreign
Custom of Agents for
Owners.
PRINCIPLES ARE OUTLINED
REV. j. r. GoUcHER SAYS FAITH
FULNEss MEANS HAPPINESS.
PRINCIPLES ARE OUTLINED

Discussions on the stewardship held by
man occupied the attention of the morn
ing session of the Laymens Missionary
convention at the First Methodist church
yesterday. The speakers were the Rev.
Rockwell Clancy, the Rev. John f.
Goucher and the Rev. S. Earl Taylor. The
latter led the discussion of the subject
following the addresses.
Prayer Our Most Effective Method,
was the subject of the address delivered
by Mr.. Clancy Dependence on prayer
for guidance has been manifest, he said,
ever since the days of Christ and the
apostles. 1t was an ever-present attri-
butte of Christ. Through it prison doors
were opened. He said that the history Of
ali great movements is a history OF
prayer. The birth of the American board
of foreign missions, he said, was due to
stack and prayed for the guidance which
led to the institution. One hundred years
later 100 members of the society met, spent
the day in prayer and the Laymen's Mis-
sionary movement resulted. In America
at the present time men are occupied
more with the spirit of commercialism
than with the spirit of prayer.
Results in Foreign Lands.
He told of marvellous results, wherein
natives in foreign lands became wrought
with the spirit of the Christian move
ment, through the prayers offered in
other lands. In answer to these prayers
even natives went out among their own
people, and directed by the spirit which
was moving them through prayer, con-
verted hundreds of the heather natives.
He said that praying" bands have been
formed among the women and girls in
India, which are doing a wonderful work
in the forwarding of the cause of Christ.
And these women short time ago were
the degraded devotees of heather cults.
In India, though they have hospitals for
beasts, they have none for men. Prayer
exercised by the native Christians has
brought health to the sick.
George f. Goodwin led the congregation
in prayer, being followed by the Rev. j.
F. Goucher, who spoke upon the topic,
The Principles of Stewardship" The
faithful stewardship of the things which
one has for the use of God, he said, was
Even the home, and the conveniences In
it, he said, had come down to the pOssessor
through the goodness of God, and not the
result of any creative effort OF man. II
we go through life and do not minister TO
our fellow man." he said lin the slgnt
of God we have lost our investment, and
our stewardship has been violated.
Following the singing of hymn by the
congregation, the Rev. s. Earl TayioI
led in the discussion of the points brought
out in the discussion OF stewardship. The
foreign custom of having stewards, OF
agents for the owners, who acted Tor the
owners in their absence and accounted foI
their acts upon the owners return, was
Illustrated 1t is this relation between
man and God which Christ taught. The
discussion brought out that all things are
God Slime, possessions, taients, Oui
brothers-and our account for this stew
ardsbjp must be made to God
/ The speaker maintained that the mar
who gives to his church for its support
and limits his gifts for church work tC
that church has done no more than he
does when he pays his life insurance pre-
MUM or his taxes, for he has value re-
ceived for these gifts in the matter ol
spiritual enlightenment.
That the giving by a man OF all he ma:
may be regarded as fanaticism, and ina
/ he may equally well serve God py tals-
| ing up a worthy son who will serve MN
was another point brought out In the dis
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The service was closed with prayer by
Dr. Taylor, in which he asked LOT en-
| stewardship.