The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-06
DIR. HEAOLAND VERY
ACTIVE YESTERDAY
Will Speak This Morning At
Birmingham College
TALKS ON MISSIONS
Shows How Even the Business World
Is Benefited By the Sending of
Missionaries to the Heather
Countries

| DR.. T. ID. Headland of Nashville,
preached on the topic: Foreign Mis-
sions." last night at the First Methodist
church. Dr. Headand preached on a
subject with which he was thoroughly
acquainted as he was for 16 years a
missionary in China-many of these
years as head OF Peking university.
Yesterday morning DR.. Howard occu-
pied the pulpit at the Highlands Metho-
dist church and in the afternoon talked
at special mission meeting at the First
church
Announcement was made last night
that he will speak at II o'clock this
morning at Birmingham college to the
students and faculty He will deliver
the lecture on "The Making of a Man."
which has been pronounced masterpiece
by those who have heard 1t. An invita-
ton has been extended to the pastor 5
union to attend and the general public
is also urged to be present.
Defies the Doubters
In his talk last night--for 1t was more
of talk than a sermon-Dr. Headland
told of the work of the missionaries in
china and he flung defiance at the doubt
ers who were pessimstic that any, good
could come out of missions in the dark
and benighted countries. "All The Chris
tian countries of the world were cnce
worse off than China has ever been and
they are only great today because of the
Gospel of Jesus Christ preached through
the missionaries he said.
huts and clothed in skins as barbarians
on the surface of Europe, the inhabit-
ants of China were about in palaces and
were clothed in silks. China, while the
white population of the earth basked
in ignorance was great and mighty, and
led in the thought of the world but
she did not have the Gospel and she fell
backwards when the Christians attained
power. Missionaries Christianized Eu-
rope and so advanced 1t in education
that China soon fell back as an ig
norant and benighted country.
'"The Christian missionary is RESPONSE
BILE for all the progress of the world
or it should be said this way, the Cos
pei of Jesus Christ is responsible for the
progress of the world. All the sciences,
inventive thought, discoveries of the
earth's resources came as the result of
the man with the Gospel. China in all
her greatness thousands of years ago
never create a science. They lack the
understanding that only comes from the
teachings of the Gospel.
"Peaople l meet very often doubt
the good missions do. They do not know
anything about it, but the great busi-
ness men,. p. Morgan, John D. Rockies
feller, George w. Perkins; they know a
little about tat least from a business
viewpoint, and what do they say? They
say missionaries are the forerunners of
trade. This from the greatest busi-
ness genuises of the present day.
Benefit Corporations
'In every country of the heather in
which missionary ventures education and
progress follow. The Standard oil could
well afford to pay all expenses of the for
advertising, because of the Chinese trade
it now enjoys as the direct result of
Gospel teaching in China.
"rhe United States Steel Corporation
the. steel trust could easily spend mill
lions in China at the present time sup
porting the foreign missions and colleges
for just the educational value that money
would produce--for China is progressing
and Yuan Shi Kai the president of
China, has just announced that China
y to spend all her revenue in building