The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-08-20
ELDER A. G. DANIELS SPEAKS
Towering Missionary Fig.
ure, President of Worlds
Conference
Gives Comparative Statistics of Mis-
sion Work of Denominat tons Ills
Church Leads I'm the Forward
March of Christianity.

Interest seems to intensity at the
Seventh Day Adventist camp as the
session draws to a close. Many have
arrived from different parts of the
state to participate in the last two
days of communion, while the pres
ence OF Elder Daniels, of Washington,
ID. c., president of the world confer
encc OF Adventists, called prominent
workers of the denomination from
many distant points yesterday.
Elder A. G.. Daniels gave the facts
of the missionary movement of the
day and their comparative values In
figures and statistics so convincing
that a child could understand the
magnitude and import of the work.
The modern missionary movement be-
gan early In the nineteenth century,
so Is little more than century old.
He referred 10 the text In revelations
which dcsignatcs "the harvest as the
end of the world.' The leaders in
missions have been raised up by God
because the evangeliZation of the
world Is Gods work. Those who love
their Saviour will give their best to
cleaning the harvest because IL will
mean the coming of the King of
Kings
An interesting incident of Elder
Daniels arrival as a missionary in
the Mouri country of New Zealand
was reclted. The bearer of the gospel
tidings expected to be met by primal
men with spears and other instru-
ments OF death. The captain of the
vessel on which he sailed refused to
Ia Of
struction and he was compelled to
wade ashore, Bible In hand
What was his surprise may be imag-
ined when he learned that fifty years
before a graduate of Oxford had come
into the remote wilderness to teach
the natives the Bible and its message
OF salvation. When ne announced his
text Mouri Bibles were suddenly
whisked into view and students were
following his words. In the Fiji
Islands, noted for the savagery OF
their tribes, the Methodists were the
first to relegate cannibalism to the
past, and the Adventists now have a
native ordained preacher who once sat
in the barbaric councils and ate the
flesh of his vanquished foe.
The elder spoke eloquently of meet
ing Chalmers. the colossal evangelizer.
in New Guinea where he had been
reclaiming savage men from sin aud
superstition for 25 years.
Comparative figures were given
| showing the missionary strength and
| efficiency of the Adventist missions.
OF ffty-three countries into which
the gospel of the Christ has pene-
| trated, the Adventists are represent
| ed in forty-three. The highest aver
| age attained by any other church is
| ten countries, and Is held by the
Presbyterian denomination. In the
| District of Columbia the Episcopaliar
church averages tthirty-nine cents u
member per year for foreign missions,
the Methodists, nineteen cents. aud
| the Adventlsts fourteen dollars.
In many places the speaker attests.
| the work has not necessarily been ini-
| tiative, The men of his church have
stepped in and carried on the work
of others or have supplemented their
efforts with parallel ones.
Instance was given of the closed
door religious policy of Russia until
the past few years Only the Greek
Catholic church was recognized by
''N al OlIltI ltllblpuo
worship was surreptitious Two pio-
| reer workers of the Advent church
went from Germany into the forbid
den land. Their preachings promptly
landed them In one of the fetid Rus
sian prisons where the authorities
hoped to burn out their scismatic zeal
with mouldy bread crusts, Shiny
water and the torture of horrible YER
min. After forty days their release
was procured by the American consul.
Twice their paper was condemned and
confiscated. despite which oppression
there are four thousand enthusiastic
native members in Russia today where
| two years ago there were none,
The meaning of this movement
whose onrush no power can stay is
that II has God-given impetus. "The
eyangelization of the world in this
generation" Is the luminous shibbo-
leth of the Advent church of today.
That Elder Daniels is well lifted to