The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-26
WITH THOSE WHO LABOR
 IN THE LORDS VINEYARD
BY D. V. FRANCIS

New York, February 25.-(Special)-- The announcement that Rev. Dr. Charles F. Aked, pastor of the rich Fifth Avenue Baptist church, may give up that charge to accept western .pastorate at a smaller church because he can do bet ter work outside of New York, again directs attention to the question, what's the matter with the church in New York?
 As a matter of fact there is no place in the world where there is a greater opportunity for a. man with real mes sage to do good work than in New York, but he must have a message which so fills his heart and mind that he must deliver it regardless of persons or cir cumstances.
 I was speaking the other day to good Presbyterian elder on this very subject
 The whole trouble with the church to- day. he said. lis that it's ministers are not preaching what the people ought to hear, but what they like to hear. Tho higher education, the new thought. and so-called scientific criticism of the Bible, have so emasculated the Christianity of the majority of our ministers, that it is so weak it will not and cannot attract strong, earnest men.
 
 with Sunday lectures instead of ser mons. We are ordaining men to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ, who do not themselves believe in it. Is it any wondet that men are not attracted to the church and that earnest, ministers find it hard to do good work in such an atmosphere? :? Arrangements are being made for the jubilee of the Women s- Foreign Mission l -l.t tDl, xr11 ,A%t in this city from March 27 to 90. That jubilee will close series of meetings that have been ill progress since last summer gradually working eastward from the Pacific coast
 Probably the most interesting feature of the jubilee will be the presentation of a ''missionary pageant" This will be in the form of tableaux given at the Metropoli- tan Opera house.
 The activity of women in foreign mis- sion fields took concrete form 50 years ago. when the Women's Union Mission ary society was organized. That society is still in existence and is doing splendid work, although other societies since formed are doing service on larger scale
 In 1894 Rev. David Abeel, a missionary returned from China, first suggested in the home of Mrs T. c. Doremus of New York that women should unite to help the depressed women of the Orient. Mrs. Doremus's heart caught fire at once, and a few friends joined with her in the movement But after the fashion then prevalent in China of destroying girl in fants, this newborn creature was put to death by the parent society, the Ameri- can Board of Foreign Missions, because
 'the women were stepping outside or
 their leeitimate province"
 Nevertheless, several independent soci- cites of women were engaged in this pur- pose, and 2e years later, in 1860. in Mrs Doremus's home. the Women's Union
 Missionary society was organized, includ- | ing all denominations.
 | The jubilee Will be interdenominational | and the pageant will show how women missionaries work in heathen countries. | It is proposed to raise s1,O0o,00O to continue missionary endeavor.
 Marion Lawrence of Chicago. general secretary of the International Sunday School association. who has recently re- | turned from a comprehensive trip to Cal | ifornia. says:
 | "In my nearly F years of official con l nection with the International Sunday
 School association, preceded by 15 years of close relation with it. in my judgment
 we have never faced an international con yention which began to compare in i'm | portance with the ore to be held in San l Francisco next June. The time and place | are strategic, and our brethren all up and down the Pacific coast are looking