The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-01-31
BANQUET WAS
ATTENDED BY
70 PERSONS
Last Evenings Event of Lay
mems Missionary Move
ment Program Was a Sue
cess in Every Particular.
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ture.' He meant His church in every
age to undertake to do it.
Now, / meet a great many people
who seem to have the idea that the
Heather are going to live until we get
there. Life of those heather is very
short. Many children die before they
are two years old, due to the unsani-
tary conditions that exist. The $50
millions of people who are living in
Africa will not be there fifty years
from now. If anybody reaches them,
we Christians Of our day must plan to
reach them. There are 900 millions of
people in India and the 400 millions in
China. They will be reached only so
fast as Christians of this generation
plan to reach them.
you men might just as well pray
for a harvest Of crops without planting
the seed as to pray for the conversion
of the world without planting mission
aries. 1t depends where life is plant
ed how much the service of that life
is The men and women are the seed
corn of the Son of God, and the field
is the world, and the good seed are the
sons of the Kingdom. You will never
have a world service until you have a
world seed sowing. Go plant your
selves in all the world and make dis
ciples of all nations.
Mission Success.
Some people think we are forcing
our religion upon an unwilling people.
We are not sending missionaries to
- p~-
1ng for them. The missionaries have
held back several thousand each year
who have applied for baptism, because
we haven't teachers enough to instruct
them after they are taken in. There
are business men who believe it is a
failure. The Mission is the greatest
success anywhere in Christ's history.
Live as If you were trying to solve
this problem by putting the same kind
of devotion and obedience into it that
we would put into it if. we plant our
own lives in it, If we will do this and
every church will do it, and believe
they are ready for it, the next twenty
five years may see the Kingdom of
Christ planted in every community of
the earth. 1t is the central divine pur-
pose which Christ urges us, when his
Kingdom Is planted in every land, in
every community, in every home and
every heart"
Morning Session.
At the Reid Memorial church this
morning, F. J. Michel, of Chicago,
spoke on Some Lessons From Expert
ence": Rev. G. H. Bandy on THE Place
and Effect of Prayer; w. E. Doughty,
of New York. on How to Get the
Church Informed About Missions;
and DR.. Charles E. Stanton, Of Gran
vile, O.. on Points and Emphasis"
Rev. Tebbetts Spoke.
Rev. C. E. Tebbetts. of this city. was
the first speaker at the afternoon ses-
sion of the convention. He took for
his subject THE Awakening World
Others who spoke and their subjects
were: J. Campbell White on Solving
the Problem of the Church and Mis-
sionary Finance; and Rev. 8. J. Corey
on "The Opportunities for Personal
Service"
At 4:3O o'clock this afternoon de-
nominational conferences were held
The convention will close this evening
with the Mems Mass meeting.
The report of contributions to
church and missionary work in 1912
by the Protestant churches Of this
CITY was read before the convention