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reasoning optimism on the part of
too many church people in this coun-
try that the world must inevitably
come to Christ whether anything is
done today and tomorrow to further
the cause, or the whole thing is drop
ped. He forcibly brought to mind
the fact that all our previous work
may be buried under consequent
greater activity on the part of other
influences, by giving the figures to
show that there are today two hun
Idred millions more heathens In the
world than one hundred years ago
He then pointed out the great dan
ger of the conversion OF Africa to the
Mohammedan faith unless some very
strenuous work is done, and that
quickly, to get in ahead Of this be-
lief. DR.. Calkins retold the story of
the great split in the Christian world
In the years 500-60O and the result
ing impetus given the progress of
other beliefs, notably Mohammedan-
ism in that time, and told of the un-
speakably corruptive influence of
this faith on all the followers of it,
But he told of the present great dis
turbance in the Mohammedan world
and the remarkable opportunity to
get in some very effective work for
Christ in territory traditionally Mo-
hammedan. In fact, he said, our
greatest chance Of all time has come
to grip the Mohammedan world, and
II must be done now, or not at ALL
Bishop Mcconnell Talks.
Following this Bishop Mcconnell
spoke of the Equipment of Meth
odism for Her World Task where
in he stated that the primary and
most essential thing in the whole
equipment is the will on the part of
the people at home to learn the
teachings of Christ, and learning
them, believe them to the end that
the wish of God will be fulfilled in
our own lives as far as is possible.
He showed that to do this 1t is first
necessary to bring the whole people
into a closer association witt God,
and to imbue them with the teach
ings of Christ, and the will to live
according to them. In short, the
first step to take in the conquest of
the world, is to gain the approval
and backing Of public opinion at
home, and in order that this public
opinion may be gradually but surely
developed, the training must be be-
gun with the children A Christian
atmosphere must be created In
which the children may grow up, so
that the world wide projects for the
saving of the world will seem but the
natural aim Of our high western CIV
ilization. BY thus stamping on the
minds of the children the necessity
of doing the will of God in the very
smallest and most trivial affairs of
life, the tendency will grow, to ex-
tend this work to broader and broad
er fields, and finally will result in
the winning of the world for Christ.
DR.. Henry ]. Coker presided at the
evening session, and introduced, as
the first speaker, Rev. W. N. Brew
ster, who spoke on THE Need of a
Great Advance in the Foreign
Field" Mr.. Brewster showed that
although the evangelistic under TAX
ing of the Methodist Episcopal
church Is rated as a field of one hum
dred and fifty million souls, this
really amounts to only fifty per
member, and is proportionally less
than the undertaking of most of the
other denominations. 1t was en-
phasized that the Methodist church
has been allotted a certain field of
activity in whuch to do their work
for Christ and that unless this
church carries the gospel there the
field will lie waste, and further, that
the efficiency of the work done there
is wholly dependent upon the will
ingness of the members OF the
Methodist church to give financial
aid generously and to give enough
earnest men to the cause to keep up
the onward trend of the progress al
ready made. DR.. Brewster deplored
the attitude of a great many min
listers and members of churches in
regard to amounts OF financial aid
for each specific benevolence as
gauged rigidly by the apportion-
ment of that church, and he pleaded
that in the future the whole church
would come to be more liberal in
their attitude, and when they felt II
pogsible exceed the given aDDortion-