The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-22
MISS DAVIES ON FOREIGN MISSIONS Spoke Last Night at First
 Methodist Church BIG CROWD PRESENT General Field Worker For Methodist
 
BIG CROWD PRESENT
General Field Worker For Methodist Episcopal Church, South, De- clares There Are Too Many
 "Loafers" in the Church

Miss Daisy Davies, general field worker for the Methodist Episcopal church. south, delivered an excellent address at the First Methodist church last night. The audi torium of the church was filled to over flowing and the galleries had to be opened to seat the crowd. The speaker Is an earnest worker in church missionary cir cles and she made an eloquent appeal for more young people to take hold of the work and for more funds with which to advance the word of Christ to the four corners of the globe.
 Tt is a fact that should bring tne blush of shame to our checks" said Miss Davies. that there are only 15.OOO mis- sionaries to carry the word of God to over two billion people that know nothing of the Savior. There are In the United States about 200O0,000 churehgoers and there are 1i5,00O clergymen who attempt to keep them straight. When we look over these comparative figures 1t would leave about s5 clergymen in the United States if they were distributed equally to all the world'
 Miss Davies gave number of well
 
 to her address. She told of the few mis- sions in Africa and the great field that was open there. 'fT could take you over a piece of country 5000 miles long and POO miles wide that has neevr had a word spoken in it about Jesus Christ. If we onty had few more workers that are willing to take up the work in these fields and | little more money with which to equIp them we could save thousands of these people," said Miss Davies.
 Too Many L0afers
 ''The trouble with us," she continued lis that there are too many loafers in the church. There are any number of young sirls who are capable of taking up mis- sionary work. Girls who have good edu- cations, who are physically able and who have nothing to keep them from it, who could do an enormous amount of good to the poor souls that know nothing abort Christianity. Sometimes when I look at the great amount of work there Is to be done l feel like it is almost impossible But 1t is not impossible, for God is back of it.
 'lt Is not the occasional visitor to the slums of our great cities that helps the people. It is the person that gives up his life to live among the people to learn their ways and be ono Of them that does the good. The only way we can reach these poor souls that inhabit the slums is by the personal touch. and for this the worker must love Christ above all else in the world. He must spend his life among the people and teach them the word or God in their own way"
 Miss Davies went on 10 say that 'there Is no line between home and foreign mis- slons. It is only tho near sighted person that still believes there is a line."
 ''The agencies with which we are to reach the heather are by the personal touch, by establishing schools and hos- pitals among them, by building churches and missions. By teaching them to read and write and to believe in Jesus Christ To build these schools. hospitals anu churches it will take not only money but willing workers, teachers and helpers''