The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-05-03

The forty-second meeting of the
| United Brethren church erection
board of managers closed Tuesday
morning at the United Brethren
church i'm south Prospect street with
business meeting and most in
teresting address by Bishop II. G. Car
ter, of Chattanooga, Tenn, on the
subject The Call of the Country
Church" In part Bishop Carter
spoke as follows:
The country church is just now
attracting unusual attention i'm ,all
parts of the country II is no longer
confined as the topic of discussion in
religious gatherings and religious
newspapers The secular magazines
are now bringing the country church
forward with great emphasis. Even
the statesmen are making appeals on
behalf of the neglected cause
"Rut the concern for the religious
welfare of the people who live in the
country is no newly awakened inter.
est among the United Brethren. From
the beginning this denomination has
counted 1t both duty and privilege
to go out into the highways and the
hedges and persuade men and womeL
to come to Christ
Better Services In the Country.
"rhe circuit rider is the origin OF
the United Brethren preachers ant
this essential feature Of the original
type has not been entirely defaced.
The bishop went on to tell of the trials
the country church had. to face an0
of various schemes which have been
advanced to give the best religious
services 10 the rural sections and tc
make 1t equal in all parts. He sug.
gested an endowment fund to be dis
tributed i'm proportion to the amount
raised for self-support among the
needy people of the large rural dis.
tricts so that sort OF gospel cav
airy could be sent into the neglected
fields"
Continuing, Bishop Carter said
Unless the orthodox churches of thi,
nation look after the country people
they will be left to the mercy of false
teachers, who are now invading ev-
cry community Of our back wood
population and are seeking 10 draw
them away from the old paths OF re.
llgion."
He dwelt for some time on the In
nuencc of the Mormons on tho coun'
try and their false reasoning on re.
ligious subjects.
In view of the fact that the great
majority OF the great statesmen, liter.
airy men, great linanciers, and business
men are born and reared In the coun
try and that the greatest ministers
and Christian workers hail from the
rural section Bishop Carter urged the
people to cooperate with the church
in aiding the rural church.
Space limits many other interesting
phases of the subject set forth by
Bishop Carto~.
Home Missionary Society Meeting.
The opening address Of the sixth
annual meeting of the board of con
troll of the Home Missionary society
was delivered by the president of the
society, Bishop G. NJ. Matthews. a
business meeting followed the adj
dress.
Two addresses on the home mission
airy work were heard I'm the evening
Bishop r. c. Carter spoke during the
first part OF the evening on the sub.
iect, Home Missions as the Base OF
Supplies" and was heard with unus-
ual interest. The bishop depicted t.
his audience the fields which were
open to the home missions.
He first took up the west aud the
far-reaching influence of the Nor
mons, who are endeavoring by per-
sstent efforts to dominate the west
ern states and promulgate their dis
torted views of the Bible The bishop
then took up the Indian question. He
said: "The Indians, hemmed In by
the steady march OF the emigrant,
can be pushed no further at the point
Of the bayonet, without discriminating
them. Thousands are sitting on their
blankets about their wigwams. I'm the
primeval state of the past" He urged
further work along this line by his
church
other subjects discussed by the
speaker were the emigration question
and how the emigrant must be Amer
icanized before the Mormons and 9TH
er sects of their kind get hold of
them; the isolated mountaineer who
is not reached by the churches and
the schools, the negro proposition In
the South and North. Bishop Garter
turned eloquently 10 the South, his
native land, and showed the many
fields which were open for the work
of the missionaries
An Able Address.
The second address of the evening
on the subject "Our Home Missionary
Work-the Demand of the Hour"
by Bishop w. NJ. Bell. ID. d., was
finished and able discussion OF the