The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-03-23
EVERY MEMBER CANVASS SYS-
TEN HAS BEEN ADOPTED BY
CHURCHES.
MORE men join The MOVEMENT
Liberality Develops Missionary Spirit
-$37 100000 Still Due The
Lords Work.

A large number of women were
present at the afternoon session of the
Missionary Institute at the First Meth
odist church on Wednesday afternoon
when Miss Mable Head, of Nashville,
and DR.. Reid, the lay leader of the
Methodist Church, South, held a
Workers Conference. Miss Heads
W was the combining of e the chill, l,l
dsf's societies in the church-the
B.. Jade, the Juvenile Society and the
Junior Epworth League into one large
society. In her clever way, she made
the discussion general-answering all
questions put to her and giving valua-
BILE suggestions. The importance OF
the mite box was stressed and some
thing of it's history told,
Miss Head left at the conclusion of
her talk, for Columbus, where she will
continue her work.
Every Member Canvass to be Adopted.
DR.. Reid's subject was Prayer and
full privilege of prayer to the chris
tian and its value in the carrying on
of missionary work in his usual elo-
quent manner. The every member
canvass plan has been put before
those attending the Institute so forci-
bly, that at the conclusion of DR.. Reid's
o1dracc ha ranrocoptativac the
various churches present pledged
themselves to adopt that plan.
Evening And Closing Season..
tThe evening session, like the ses-
st0hs pfeceding it, had much calculat-
edNto interest and instruct. The key
note to the Institute has been not
"why," but how" Much has been
done heretofore by the ministry and
by lay workers in preaching the need
of missionary intelligence. but the
question of methods is now becoming
the burning question for christian
workers to consider.
Or. Rawlings Spoke.
DR.. e. H. Rawlings, secretary of
education of the Methodist Chuch,
South, made the address of the eve
ming and began by declaring that the
Church is not missionary in it's pres
ent day spirit. The awakening in the
far East has already come; what is
now needed is a great awakening in
the Occdent. Here he sounded a
cheerful note, in stating that he is i'm
pressed with the belief that he Church
at home is awakening.
More Men to Work.
More women are everywhere get
ting Sterested; but, it is going to take
more chan women's prayers and
women's tears to evangelze the world.
1t is going to take the prayers, the
sef-sacrifice and labors of the men.
The women have all along been work
ers, but the men must wake up! 1t
to evangelize this world as it takes to
build a continental railroad, or a
trans-oceanic canal. 1t is going to
take personal initiation, wise planning
and genuine brain power of the mas
culine mind to do the work and this it
will have
Numerous illustrations of how bus
iness men do work for missions when
it gets on their hearts, were related.
DR.. Rawlings said the time is com
ingthat, when christian man goes to
make his missionary contribution of
money, he will come to the altars of
thesehurch and consecrate that gift
Wjust as he would if he were giving him.
sef dpi. his son or. daughter to the
greS Cause of Christ.
Liberality Develops Missionary Spirit.
Speaking of the Virginia conference,
he stated that the spirit of liberality
was marvellous in the development of
the missionary spirit, so that that con-
ference has given a pledge to provide
the means for the evangelization of
Korea. The incident was given of a
wealthy layman in New York who re-
Gently dscd 'eeving in one gift the
sum q