The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-05-22

sacrifices and greater efficiency. The
 greatest problems that lay before the christian church today were the Chris
 tlanizing of the world and the reuniting or the whole church. Let us undertake
 these tasks in the spirit of faith and
 courage and love. Let us all be prophets
 priests and apostles united. Let us spend
 our lives and spend millions in uni l lying the church and in universalizing 1 the gospel of Christ"
 1 A national missionary policy was adopt ed by the National Missionary Congress.
 held at Chicago May 3-6, 1910 I wish
 that my space permitted giving it to you
 in full. The following paragraphs give
 some idea of the spirit In which it was
 conceived.
 In view of the Fatherhood of God. the
 unity of the human race and sufficiency
 and hnalfty of the gospel of Christ; know ing the field is the world and that this is the only generation we can reach: Ihis first National Missionary Congress
 in the United States, representing more
 than 2O,000000 of church members. rec
 ognizes the immediate worldwide pre- sentation of the gospel message to he the
 central and commanding obligation rest ing upon all Christian churches and de- clares It's conviction that the church of our generation can and should obey lit- erally the great commission of our Lord
 to preach the gospel to every creature. AS indicating the measure of effort re- | quired among the non-Christian peoples | or the earth, we accept as a working pol 1 icy the standard that in addition to the | native agencies. there should be provided rom the churches of Christian lands an average of at least one missionary to every 25,0O0 of the people to be evangel- | ized. This would require the quadrupling ] of our present force of workers, and a | corresponding increase in contributions
 from approximately sl1,OO0,0OO last year 1 10 about s4o,0OO,OO0 annually. This esti- mate indicates the measure of personal | duty at home rather than the method
 of missionary work abroad, in determin | ing which diversties of conditions in the | work. dissimilarities of equipment and l power among the workers, the part to he
 taken by the native churches which are
 to be raised up to do the great bulk of the work as self-suporting and self-prop- agating agencies, must all be taken into account.
 1 We declare our conviction that, accord
 ing to their ability and opportunity, the iaymen Of the churches are equally re- | sponsible with ministers to pray and to plan to give and towork for the coming | of the Kingdom of God upon earth We | believe that the call to share actively
 Tn extending the knowledge of Christ OD- portunity for development, usefulness
 and satisfaction, and we appeal to men
 everywhere to invest their intelligence. their influence, their energy and their possessions in the united effort of the church of Christ to evangelize the world. While seeking the enlistment of all the laymen of the church in fulfilling the
 missionary task of our generation, we
 declare our belief that this work is the
 work of the organized church. and that
 the natural leaders in it are the minis
 ters and the missionary agencies of the various churches, and 1t is our conyic-
 ton that all that is done in the name of
 the laymen's missionary movement should help to strengthen these leaders
 and the agencies through which the
 churches as such must discharge their
 missionary responsibility
 MT. Evan Roberts, the Welsh revivalist who since 1904, when he broke down after the revival throughout Wales. has
 been staying with friends at Leicester is now living in the suburbs of Swansea. He is quite strong again and is preparing for another series of revival. meetings.
 By seabegram from London we learn that Lord Kinnaird, president of
 the national council of the Young Mems Christian associations, together with other leaders in the movement in Great
 Britain, has issued call to the mem- bers to make the year 1910 memorable bv
 return to the fundamental principles of
 the organization with relation to it's re- ligious work The social work. he de-
 clares, threatens to swamp the purely Christian features. This, he claims
 would be disastrous, as the Young Mems Christian association is primarily q
 CisIstian organization and if this basis
 is permitted to deteriorate the whole
 structure will soon fall. The Young
 Mems Christian association in this coun- try Is facing the same kind of peril.