Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-17
AFRICA NEEDS
GOSPEL CALL
BISHOP ]. C. HARTZELL DIS
CUSSES CONDITIONS
MISSIONARY OF TODAY MUST BE
STATESMAN
Returned Worker Says That Christian
Effort Alone Will Save Con-
tnent from Moham-
mechanism


Men in secular life think nothing
of talking about millions of dollars,
and scientists think nothing of plan
ming expeditions to go to the last cor
ner of the earth to find the last bug
that flies. Great God wake up the
church and make us stop thinking OF
little things. We must take Christian
itv to Africa, for, otherwise, withinj
a century it will be a Mohammedan
country"
These were the expressions of Bishop
]. c. Hartzell, Methodist bishop for
the continent of Africa, yesterday
morning at the First Methodist church
in a sermon on his work.
Long before the hour of the morn
ing service the church auditorium
Sunday school room and galleries
were completely filled and several hun
dred people were turned away, while
MANY stood throughout the service to
hear the bishop, who was one of the
nopular speakers at the general con-
ference ,
In his sermon the bishop gave many
facts about the work in Africa and
Maid a high tribute to the well known
officials who have helped in the MS
sion work The bishop said:
s.The eyes of the world have been
opened to Africa and it stands today
as no other continent. 1t Is large
continent, not simply a country Ike
the United States or India; it is
,f countries.
China. India and the United states,
and all the countries of Europe and
place them on the continent of Africa
and you will have room to spare. FIFTY
years ago, outside of Egypt, the world
knew little of Africa.
Colonies of Early Rome
soThere is a little strip on the Med
iterranean where Rome had her rich
est colonies. The country is 5000 miles
from north to south and 5000 miles
from east to west, and the greater part
of this. with its millions of people, Is
little known.
.'In the providence of God in a day
the veil was lifted and the world saw
and was amazed. The greatest colonial
aranires are going on in Africa today
bv more nations than any territory of
+he world. France with its vast terri
tory is making a new France in Africa
more wealthy than its France IN
Europe. Germany is building an en-
nire in Africa twenty times larger
than the Germany in Europe. Greatest
of all, Great Britain has three millions
of square miles in South Africa-the
white mans Africa-where a bloody
war has lust been averted by the ma
tions. In fifty years Africa will be
divided among the nations and without
war. There is nothing in the territory
of the world like it. The best states
men are sent as the governors Of
Africa.
Missionary Must Be Statesman
"France has discarded the rule Of
the Jesuit and stands for civil and
religious liberty. In the capital of
France. that eldest daughter of Rome,
was planned the extension of the king
dom of Christ under the French flag.
The nations are pouring into Africa
great statesmen. There is a new type
of statesmen in our times-missionary
statesmen-men OF God who represent
the church and who are large enough
to understand the relation of the
church to the government and ciVii-
cation. The man who is not big enough
to do that is not fit to be a missionary.
President Roosevelt in his great mis-
sionary address stood as statesman
missionary.
'President Taft, when the other day
in Carnegie hall he put his soul into
the work of Christian missions and
made a great address-that's what We
call a tatesman-missiOnary
1--WE had one of these in Africa, the
great Cecil Rhodes man who was
lied about, but one who never turned
away a poor missionary without some
thing. Africa stands as Gods latest
10 cyiyrn ir the pnGn4l
South Africa is one of the richest
sections in the world. 1t has the great
est gold centers on the face Of the
earth and has 95 per cent of the dia
monds of the world.
"In Africa there are one billion and
forty millions Of people who have not
heard the gospel In Africa this Sun
day morning there are one hundred
millions of pagan heather, only a few
of whom have ever heard the name Of
Jesus Christ-mOre people than there
are in the United States-that conti-
nent that gave the infant Christ a
hiding place; that continent on which
God worked out such wonders; where
in the early years of the Christian dis
Densation, in the second, third and
fourth centuries, the largest part of
the Christian church was until wiped
out by the MOhammedans, where Cyp-
rian, Athanasius and st. Augustine
lived.
Hundred Million Pagans
''Men and women, think of it, On
those shores where the early church
thrived. and where the church fathers
lived and died, with all its wealth
and great future, there are today more
than a hundred million pagans who
have scarce heard of the name Of the
Christ
I'm the mission field the countries
are classed as China first and Africa
second, with Russia third But there
is an element Of emergency in Africa
that places it first in the missionary
field of today. Hear me when I say
that unless the Christian church ac-
cepts the challenge Of God that Africa
in fifty or a hundred years, with its
millions of pagans, will be Noham-
medan and Africa will be a Moham-
medan continent. Do you realize that
there are two hundred and thirty mill
lions of Mohammedans on the earth
taday?
I'm the seventh century the Moham-
medans went into Africa and wiped
out the Christian church. Now you
have the reasons Of the missionary
statesman and why Africa is the
greatest point in modern missionary
work"
Bishop Hartzell spoke al length Of
the work already accomplished and
of the first missionary conference that
will be held on that continent next
April, when he will preside Bishop
HartzelI will remain in Los Angeles
until Wednesday.
It is expected that Bishop Hartzel
apd T2igbop ,awis will attend thu