The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-10-11

blind man. One must NOT TIE
else its limit viii be q small circle.
Islands and i'm some part of Turkish
missions looking toward better coop
Grafton with other missionary societies
are still under consideration.
Training Native Preachers.
As one looks over the fields to note
the more conspicuous events of the
| year, attention is called TO the deci-
sion to transfer the Pang Cchwang
station to Techou in North China, on
ly eight miles away, but on the rail-
road and grand canal. a wide awake
and important location which offers n
better center for missionary work. Tn
| West Africa, plans are maturing for
| the organization of training school
| for young men To provide preachers
and teachers for the work of evan
/ gelization i'm that country. I'm the
| Madura mission the new plan of Civ
| ing into the hands of the native
! churches, a large responsibility and
control i'm general work of the mis-
sion while still i'm its infancy, prom
! Uses n real advance. At Nana and
| Mardin i'm eastern Turkey, the call is
becoming very urgent for enlarged ed
vocational work. The station Mt Van
leaders for not only eastern Turkey,
but southern Russia and western Per
/ STA, and feels the need Of a school Of
college grade. Similarly Mardln.
which touches Arab people to the
south, feels the need of an institution
OF grade that will enable il to train
native preachers and teachers. In
stormy Albania, where the sky seems
now Frightening n little, the board
has decided to make Elhasan its cen
ter of work. It plans 10 build a house
on land already purchased, to be fol-
| lowed in time by hospital and school.
Building New "Plants."
After reviewing the situation of the
work i'm several fields of the board,
pointing out it's magnificent opportun-
tiles and the desperate need of adj
| vance TO improve them; situations OF
| which RhOdesa i'm Africa, Shansi i'm
China, and the central mission i'm Tur-
key are conspicuous examples bur
whose urgency Is hardly less than that
Of most of the twenty missions. Sec.
| Barton answered the question, shah
they go forward? by saying, Under
| these circumstances, 10 tell them that
| they cannot advance because neither
| can adequate re-enforcements be
found nor can appropriations be made
to meet the increased expense involv-
ed. is TO make them feel almost aban-
doncd just as they are about to gather
the harvest for which they have toll
cj so long"
II is interesting and encouraging to
note that in spite of the financial
straits of recent years with the con-
| sequent repression, some real enlarge
ment has been made, although almost
all of it has come through special
| funds from outside sources. In all.
| 100000 has been spent or is about
To be spent on new plants, buildings.
etc, i'm the various fields.
Real Progress Reported.
AS the work of mission centers in
the task Of evangelism It Is good -
report that there has been a real pro-
| gress during the year i'm the develop
ments of churches and i'm the more
aggressive spirit of evangelism I'm many
lands. A successful Armenian mer-
chant in New York maintained an
| experienced and tried native evan
gelist i'm Central Turkey. The Cen
tral Turkey mission is putting evan
| gelists of it's own number into the
field. In Japan. the flumi-ai churches
are beginning to organize n SYSTEM
attic and aggressive campaign to evan
gelize the masses outside the chief
cities. In some parts or China, not
ably at Fenchow i'm Shansi there
seems 60 be an almost phenomenal
trend towards Christianity India al
so presents some striking sign OF
the movements to ward Christianity.
The East African Mission plans 10 set
apart one of it's men as director of toe
evangelizing forces in outside fields
'''' bi'hA hilb lhINlN lbutlltU ObDl
alley district beyond them is contin-
ually appealing for the light In Aus
tria the spirit Of evangelism pervades
the churches.
Secretary Barton then reviewed the
educational advance of the year. The
sum Of $1,OOO,OOO, has been received
for tho Higher Educational Endow-
ment Fund, whose goal Is set nj So
100000 The first institutions To re-
coive its aid are those training young
men for the ministry. The influence
and power cf education is deepening
constantly throughout the east. es-
pecially in the training OF girls. In
dustrial education is not being OVER