The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-10-11
Resources Of the Htlhodists ir ia
Mission Fields Of Tie World
TIE WORLD FOR CHRIST.
Interesting Statistics Presented at
Worldwide Methodist Meeting by
Delegate from England. - Mary
land Minister Pleads for Union Of
All Methodist Churches in America.

Statistics relative tc resources in I
men and means in Methodist mission /
ields," as given Friday by the Rev. !;
lanes B. Lewis, of Cambridge, Eng
and, proved interesting to the dele
gates of seventeen oLStries, who
lttended Fridays sessions of the Ec-
1menial Methodist Conference in
Toronto, Canada.
From the detailed reports present
ID, it appeared that during the last
ear there were 2,52S Methodist for
,!gn missionaries. These included
is ordained men and 12G physici-
MS, So Of the doctors being
women. Native WORKERS numbered
:0,S47 while the number of mission
Try stations and sub-stations was g.
1852. These missionaries represent
eOS,105 baptized Chritians and l.
t44,2s2 adherents, CT whom 45S,165
we're Sunday School teachers and
scholars.
The ordai2ed ministry at the be-
;inning Of 1910 was 52,97S, of whom
ut 2,322, or 5 per cent, counting
oreigners and natives were in the
| mission field.
OF our total NUN Der of ministers
throughout the world" said Mr. Lew
5, the average is one Of every IA
1ethodist church members. In hea-
hen countries the ratio is one Meth
dist minister to every 303 members.
,ur- means, as expressed by the in.
ONE Of the missionary societies in
$40, totalled about s7,000,000, a
un which represents about SO cents
o each of the S,751,434 Methodists.'
Practically every phase of foreign
Missionary work was discussed by
!elegates from various fields. An
irgent pie awas made by the Rev. T.
I. Lewis, of Westminster, Nd, who
5 president Of the General Confer
:nce of the Methodist Protestant
'hurch, for union of American
lethodists into one body. This
proposition, which had been discuss
d at the opening Of the Conference,
| vidently is favored by a large maj
arity of the United States delegates.
Bishop E. E. Floss, of the Methodist
| Episcopal Church, South, was the on
Y one to express dissent at Fridays
meetings.
| When you get too big a church,
suffers from its own obesity" he
said.
Mr. Lewis stated his position in
avor Of such union thus:
I'VE are keeping ourselves back
rom the greatest opportunity ever
offered us by the most unnecessary
md ,inexcusable hindrance ever toll
rated. If a consensus of opinion
orld be taken as to what one cir
,umstance would do most to promote
'orld-wide evangelism among Meth
'dists themselves, enlist most mis-
!onaries, and start a missionary cru
ade that would set the world afame
With new zeal and hope. believe
n overwhelming majority of alEour
.eople would say "it is the union of
american Methodists into one body
! We have seventeen different names
or .Methodists in America and con-
equently about as many different
aissionary campaigns. In the field
We compete with each other, dupli-
ate each others efforts and confuse
hose trying to serve"
| Evangelism, Mr.. Lewis said, is es-
entially the heart of Methodism.
"But doctrine and policy are only
he mechanical exponents of the real
,eculiarities of Methodism. Pierce a
| 4ethodist until he bleeds and you
ind, not a dogma nor a rubric, but-a
-hrobbing heart. For him regenera-
ion is not figure Of speech nor a
magic formula. Method;sm is heart
;ower rather than mind power, but
has both Methodist claim to have
eceived a new and peculiar power
demonstrated to be of God-a pecul-
ar power over sinners, entailing re-
possibility for worldwide eyangel-
:sm.''
Among other speakers Friday were
he Rev. G. w. Clinton, Of Charlotte,
\. c., Bishop OF the African Method
st Episcopal Zion Church, who spoke
N "The Mission Of Methodism to
he Backward Races" the Rev. Dav-
d Brock, of Southport, England,
The Mission of Methodism te the
4 Icc-Christian Races" Bishop Z. O..
goss, of Nashville, Tenn, "Methodis2l
n Korea"