The Washington herald., 1911-09-10
Aperican. in a New Mission societ

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Americans in a New Mission Society
The new pastor Of Fifth Avenue Pres
byterian Church, New York, the Rev.
DR.. John Henry Jowett, particularly in
Vited, by the King of England to his coro-
nation, has entered, with the Rev. DR.. Len
u. Broughton, the famous Baptist preach
er Of Atlanta, into a new missionary en-
terprise of a general character. Associated
| with them are the Rev. G. Campbell Nor
gan, of London, well known here, and
| two English laymen, and the name Of the
new enterprise is the Evangelical Union
| for South America .-
Within the last few years and along
with United States Senator Roots South
| American enterprise while Secretary OF
Stale, there has been in England and
| here a new idea on the part of Protest
ants that they must divert some of their
| foreign missionary money from Asia to
| South America, or, better, continue the
| streams to Asia and raise new money for
our sister American continent. The new
venture grows out of that spirit, but is
| unusual in that It represents individuals
and not a religious body as such. 1t is
| the English rather than the American
plan. but it will make appeals to Ameri-
| can givers, and will have an American
| headquarters.
One of the greatest figures of the mis-
| sionary world of recent times was the
| Rev. DR.. H. G. Grattan Guinness, who
| died only last year, an English evangel-
] istic enthusiast who in a single lifetime
was able to accomplish much for foreign
missions. His plans were. first, to train
| men to go out as workers under all soci-
eties, having schools in London for the
purpose. and, second, to induce men and
uEn NI-nn daVntnd
eign missions to go into parts of the
world where nobody has yet ventured.
And so he called his society the Regions
Beyond Union.
Two OF his unions ventures both sue
cessful in small ways, were into Eastern
Peru and into the western and extreme
southern parts of the Argentine, almost
| under the Andes and along the line of
disappearing civilization. which geogra-
| phies of thirty years ago called Pata-
gonia. These missions in Peru and the
Argentine have now been turned over to
the New York Presbyterian and the At
lanta Baptist divines and their associ-
ates, and at Keswick, one of the summer
conference centers of England, the other
day this new Evangelical Union for South
America was formed. While Independent
and while also depending much upon the
English laymen and the London head
quarters, II is stated that the Rev. DR..
Jowett and the Rev. DR.. Broughton will
press in future the matter of North
America helping South America, especial
ly through Presbyterian and Baptist con-
nections.
DR.. w. w. White of the Bible Teach
ers' Training School of New York City,
who, with his brother, J. Campbell
White, secretary of the Laymen's Mis-
sionary Movement. has been visiting the
Orient, is reported to have been handi-
capped seriously in his movements and
his programme Of addresses by a serious
condition of health in Japan.
Mr.. Campbell White was able to keep
his engagements. In a number of places
he spoke uniformly on mission methods
rather than on Bible study. Campbell
White made an ascent of the volcano
Asama and was seriously imperiled by
an eruption almost Identical with that
which previously caused the death of the
Rev. John E. Hail The Whites spent
the month Of August at Kuling China,
where there is a missionary summer re-
sort corresponding to our Northfield.
One of the great universities of China
is the University of Nankin. Prof. John
E. Williams. of the faculty, has just
come to America for the purpose Of rails
ing funds to complete the plant Of this