The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-03-10
GREAT CONVENTION
COMPLETES WORK
Declared to Have Been the Most
Successful Gathering Ever
Held in Salt Lake.
LAYMEN ARE AWAKENED TO
REALIZATION OF NEEDS
Organization for Future Work
Undertaken and Strong
Resolution Adopted.

Uncommon results are assured from
the convention held in Salt Lake City
the last three days incident 10 the great
LaymeD S Missionary movement that is
sweeping the country. Uncommon will
be these results for the reason that the
meetings have aroused an enthusiasm
never before experienced. They have
been practical meetings. They have been
meetings wherein the laymen had the
say. True. the ministers are, naturally.
the head and front of aGY religious
movements. but. as Bishop Thomas said,
every great movement for the extension
Of religious life has been carried out
BY laymen.
The convention ~ Salt Lake has dem
onstrated the fact beyond question Of
doubt that the business. men Of this city
are not blind 10 fhe needs OF the suf
ferlnG millions IN the lands remote from
these shores. nor vet are they deaf 20
the cry that goes up IN the wailing Of
the wretcbed peoples cf the Orient, of
Africa and other lands where the name
of Jesus Christ has never been spoken,
and where sin and vice in its most hid
eous form constitute the religion OF
these cnslsycd multitudes.
Needs Of the Work.
Missionary workers have come 10
Salt Lake 10 tell the men OF the cougre-
cations of the churches here the needs
of the countless hordcs whose only hope
Of material and spiritual salvation IS
the spreading of The Word of God.
These missionary workers know first
haud the misery that encompasses these
people like a shroud. Some of them
have been in India. in China. IN Korea
for the better part Of half century.
With the limited means and the lndlf-
ferent and wholly inadequate facilities
at their command they have brought
into the fold hundreds of thousands
More are being added each passing hour.
In Korea. for example. q Christian adj
hereut is being added TO the total ev-
erv sixty minutes. In India this record
is even greater.
But in spite OF all that has been
done and all that can be done with the
restrictions that obtain at present. there
remain approximately thrce-quarters Of
billion who arc hlindly groping IN the
dark.
In this work are enlisted al his time
1900 missionaries Giving each OF
these 4 parish of 250o0, there is pro
vision for only $4,000 900. leaving 615-,
100000 10 he provided for if the evan
gciiZation of the world in this genera
tion 10 be aecomplished-and this is
the ultimate aim Of the Laymep 9 Mis-
these great parishes. ~ 900 missionaries
are needed Fifty millions of dollars is
needed, at the lowest calculation. Can
these missionaries be furuished' Can
this sum OF money be providedl Can
the great enterprise be brought TO Il
consummatiou within a geReratlon--a
short lime. indeed, for so stupeudous a
task1 The missionary leaders say 1t
can be douc. and, what IS more to the
point ii win he done.
The Practical Side.
Means best calculated TO do these
things have been discussed in the Law
mems meetings. They have been ais
cusSed from a viewpoint of the business
man. They have been brought down TO
definite. material basis. and have been
attacked from moderndav business
methods. In saying this, it must not
be understood that the spiritual side
of the question has bad 20 part in the
discussion. for indeed. il hasa large
part. Forit is well understood that The
spiritual - the first essential.
IN the course Of the convention
definite plan has been proposed. II has
been accepted. VI is Il plan for raising
money 10 carry out the eVangellzation
Of the world II is a simple plan. IL
embraces the idea thai all must give
somethiug-uot a few little, nor still
about has hcep SET forth by meu VINO
have proposed It in scores Of cities OF
this country and Canada They have
watched the results. and they have fei5
the qualification of hopes realized. II -
their testimony that threefold advances
have been made in almost everv city
where fbe plan has been tried. 1t VIII
be put into effect IN Salt Lake. ana uu-
quest iouably say local ministers ard
prominent church lsvmen. it viii work
out with equal satisfaction here.
The stimulation of interest IN The
missionary movement will lend slmHla
ton 10 the interest IN local church
work, for the two sides are inIerwoven
and are insoparabic. That which re-
lourds 10 the benefit Of the missionary
movement must of necessity rebound
also to the benefit of the church, sud
he whole will redonnd 10 the eternal
sorv of God
Unity Of Action,
Unity Of action has been preached a
hose meetings. IT has been pointed
,nr with fran6ncss that leaves no
ioUbt bout The manner of teehng tAat
possesses these men, that there has been
90 much denomnstioNal sel6shness toe
much sect too much creed, The aim oi
hc movement * not 10 break down
bcse sectional lines. but 50 20 modify
he rigorous restrictions that there will
% unity # artiou. The single purpose
II view is Ia carrv The eospe! Of Christ
MO places whore it is NOT. and il mat
nrs little whether that gospel is ear
led by Methodist n Congregational,
st. = Baptist . Presbytcrian,. So
baf the light Of Him who suffered cru
ifxiou that mankind might he re-
ccmcd shall reach the people who are
n dire need uf il. the methoG-so long
: il is Christian method-matters
title.
And only bv untv Of action can this
C done, That has been The nal npon
.birh every halnmer has been laid b.
ne spea kers who haVc addressed the
,ectincs. 50 well have they driven
,nt fhc auditors have sepsed 90 the
illness the necessity for harmony and
.rord,