Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-07-13
BISHOPS WARNE AND OLDHAM
DECLARE GOLDEN oPPoRTu-
NIFTY IN FOREIGN LANDS
ASK MORE INTEREST
Missionaries Urge Iowa Conference OF
NJ. E. Church to Give Financial
Aid-Eoth Spoke at Church
Last Night.


clared Bishops W. F. Oldham and f
w. Warne in addresses at the First M
q. church last night. In the past five
years there have been 1000 baptisms
In India each month and with adequate
reinforcements the bishops assert thai
100000 more can be secured withir
the next four years. The time FOL
the exertion OF mission power is al
hand.
The two missionaries were here yes
terday for the purpose of securing the
aid of the superintendent Of the Iowa
conference in strengthening the finan
cial support. This conference has de
creased It's contributions to foreign
missions this past year and In order
to bring it back to former assistance
= resolution was passed to make the
subscriptions this year equal the
amount of 1910. The matter was dis
cussed to some length by the bishops
and superintendent yesterday after
noon. Last night both missionaries re.
lated number of interesting incidents
that have happened to them in their
work Bishop Warne stated that there
are 315,O00,000 villages Of from 1000
to 5000 inhabitants in India.
Work is Pointed Out.
Drs. Stafford of Oskaloosa. Boatman
Of Muscatine, Tenant of Mt. Pleasant,
Shook Of Ottumwa, together with Pres
ident Schell of Mt. Pleasant, and DR..
Jeffrey met with the bishops yester-
day afternoon. The message brought
by the visitors was one Of the utmost
cheer regarding the progress Of the
foreign missions of the church. They
declared the millions of Asia are be-
Ing moved by the Christian gospel in
ways more marvellous than any re-
corded in the acts of the Apostles.
Bishop Warne described the evangelis-
tic movement in India where for the
past five years there have been 1000
baptisms every month; he declared
that with adequate reinforcements
the next four years.
Bishop Oldham reported that In
China, Korea and the Philippines great
movements were under way and that
the uniform testimony of all the for
eign workers is that nation wide relig-
ious movements are impending in
ca are making large returns and all
the foreign fields are producing larger
fruitage than ever in the history Of
the church.
Aid Of Iowa Needed.
At the same time the Iowa confer
ence has been declining the last two
years in it's missionary contributions
and the board of foreign missions most
earnestly asks that the churches Of
Iowa should not make it necessary to
retard the progress of foreign missions
by ordering retreat at the next gen
eral missionary committee meeting.
The pastors are urged to look up their
conference minutes and find where
their churchs were in the offerings in
1910, and it is hoped that every church
will, at least, go back and do its first
works over again and make advances
beyond that wherever possible. Fail
ing this, the board will be obliged tc
order a reduction of from eight to
twelve per cent in all our mission
fields next November.
The district superintendent who
heard the close and minute statement
of all the facts in the case, we're very
deeply impressed and adopted the fol
lowing resolution:
Resolved, that the district superin
tendents urge the pastors and churchs
of the Iowa conferences to prevent dis
aster in all our foreign mission fields
by coming back in their donations fol
foreign missions to the contribution:
of 1910 and to advance beyond thai
wherever possible.
With reason of such prosperity as
is promised this year, 1t would be I'm
like Methodism, says the superintend
emit, to fail to respond to SO urgent 6
situation.