The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-03-10
VIEWS OF [AYMAN
ON THE MOVEMENT
j. Walcott Thompson Expresses
His Belief That Awakening
Has Come.
MUST CARRY RELIGION
WHERE COMMERCE GOES
Having Already Interfered With
Other Peoples, Duty Is
to Help Them.

Seeking expressions from some of the
laymen in Salt Lake regarding the
Laymen's s Missionary Movement con-
veutiou, Just closed, j. WaIcott Thomp-
son. who takes an active interest In the
work, was asked for his views. Mr..
Thompson s opinion is that the conven.
tion has done a world of good. In sub
stance Mr. Thompson said:
"As throughout the United States
where the Layman IS Missionary move"
mcnt has progressed, so in Salt Lake
City the actual coming of the conYen"
tIon has removed the doubters and skep-
tics who thought that sentlmentallsm
and irrational excitement could accom-,
plish no good and substituted n body OF
serious minded men who see that the
movement is not based on sentimental
ism or irrational emotion, bat is seri'
Gus and successful attempt to get God,
work-thc cvangeliZation of the world
ON n business basis, and as such 10
create an appeal to business men, III
such an appeal can be made, the move
ment viii be a pronounced and tar'
reaching success.
''From what | have read Of the move
ment elsewhere. and from what l have
seen here in Salt Lake, there can be no
question of the great awakening which
has taken place among the business
men Of the United States and Canada,
and of the fuller realization of Chris
tian s duty TO the non-Christian world.
The New Idea.
''It is n very common thing to hear
man who knows nothing of mission
ary activlties-and this includes most
of us-say, / do not believe in foreign
missions. Let them alone. Their re-
ligions are good enough for them. Why
should we lnterfere2'
81 wish every such person could have
heard Dean Colladay's recent sermon.
wherein he advanced to me, at least,
new idea and good one, Leave them
alone, Why should we interfere? All,
but we have already interfered and
shall continue to do so. Our great in
dustrial expansion, the great progressive
and far penetrating march after wealth
has taken us into the uttermost parts of
the earth, and when there each railroad,
each factory, each commercial enter
prise, eaCh Anglo.SaXon is an eye.open-
er to the native. His religion does none
of these things for him, fosters none of
these things. How shall he attain such
heightsY He demands TO know, When
that desire enters the human heart its
possessor begins to grow. He needs
new food to satisfy his mind and soul
be furnished in the Christian religion,
and such being our belief il becomes our
duty to put 1t within the reach of all.
Duty Is Plain.
"I believe this duty is helping us to
see this duty more clearly than ever be-
fore. ] think it one Of the greatest
movements Of the last hundred years.
We in Utah do not, believe. feel the
full force of the movement. We are
missionary field ourselves. and it is
the more difficult Just as we are begin
ming to find our legs and to show signs
of self-propulsion to 90 ~ little faster
aud to push along those who have not
advanced even SO far as we. but the re-
suit of the movement will be equally
gratifying here as elsewhere, if it sue
seeds, as / believe it has. in quickening
the sense of the ordinary man of bust,
ness to full realization of his duty as
Christian TO those who are denied in
large part the blessings of life in a
Christian world