Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-01-24
RENAISSANCE IS
AWAITING CHINA
ORIENTAL EMPIRE WILL AVA
KEN, SAYS MISSIONARY
WORKERS FOR CHRISTIANITY
ARE EFFECTIVE
MANY Speakers Address Preliminary
Many Speakers Address preliminary
Meeting to Big Movement
Which viii Begin Here
in March


in March
The laymen's missionary movement
which will hold a large convention IN
Los Angeles in March, was opened
Yesterday afternoon in Temple audi
torium, when a large mass meetlng
was addressed by Bishop Wilson
Lewis. Methodist bishop of China, ana
Rev. Frank Bible, missionary from
that country on a furlough.
The meeting had been announced III
all the Protestant churches and large
congregation, filling the lower hoor OIL
the auditorium, had gathered to listen
to the speakers. DR.. G.. L. Palmer,
who led the singing in the Torrey
campaign, had charge Of the music
yesterday afternoon. DIR. John Wills
Baer, president of Occidental college,
presided. j. H. Pearman of Pasadena
read the scripture lesson and A. M
McDermott of Emmanuel church OIL
fered the opening prayer.
DIR. Baer in his opening address out
lined the work of the campaign, stat
ing it could be summed up in three
words-Christ, corporation and con-
quest.
when we stand and face the Pa
cific ocean we turn our backs on the
whole United States. We have the
whole of the country in our back yard
and we have the whole of the Orient
at our front door," said DIR. Baer. 'Un-
less we lift them up in the Orient,
they will drag US down. Men, this is
mans job, a job that requires red
blood to do it, There is but one reli-
gion of the Lord Jesus Christ, but
there are very many more peoples who
have other religions. We are in the
minority, but have never been afraid
of minorities when we have the right
on our side"
Bishop Lewis of China was the prin-
cipal speaker of the meeting. He left
Immediately after his address to speak
at another assemblage.
The bishop spoke at length upon the
power of the missionaries coming from
the United States, speaking on the eff
feet of the giving up of the indemnity
funds of the Boxer movement, which
are being used by the Chinese govern
ment as an educational fund, sending
the young men of the country to
American colleges to learn the sciences
of the occident.
lOOdJ 9CbhCi tiliS
"The lips of God are nearer the
American people today than to any
other nation" said Bishop Lewis,
"and I would rather be alive today
than in any other time of history, for
it is a day when the Protestant
churches of America are beginning to
| speak from the pew. AS Americans
| in China we speak from vantage
ground, for this republic stands unique
| among the nations. We do not want
| the land of any other nation. When
| Europe stood with knives ready to cut
up China our representative spoke in
no uncertain terms. We stand for in
| tegrity and righteousness in govern
ment that is recommended in the Ser
mon on the Mount.
"One-fourth of the human race is
Chinese, and when our government
gave back the Boxer funds it spoke to
a quarter of the human family.
Hearts are open to hear the gospel
from one who goes as a citizen of the
United States.
Bishop Lewis recited the edict of the
| former Dowager Empress, outlining the
preliminary steps for constitutional
government, and also made a strong
plea for the modification of the ex-
| clusion laws without making them for
unrestricted immigration.
Rev. Frank Bible, for several years
a missionary in China, was the last
speaker on the program and gave an
| eloquent idea of the work and the
| conditions in China as they are today.
The speaker said ii was the present
supreme problem of the western world,
referring to the transfer of commerce
and activity from the Atlantic to the
Pacific ocean, which he prophesied
would occur in a few years
1.-THE peace or war of the world
hinges especially -, China today said
Mr.. Bible 1T is not an inferior ma
ton. They had accomplishments and
scientific discoveries hundreds of years
before we discovered them, and for
5000 years they have carried on their
life and work Yet, with this long his
tory they are as virile a people as we
are who started but yesterday.
"China is the richest country in the
world in mineral deposits. There is
coal enough in one province to keep the
world warm for a thousand years, and
there are many more provinces like
these. There are copper mines that
have been worked hundreds of years
and show no decrease in the ore
bodies"
Rev. Mr.. Bible said the present
status in China was like that of the
renaissance at the close of the middle
that in time foreign missionaries
would leave China and leave the Chris
tian work solely to native preachers.