Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1913-04-04
METHODIST PARLIAMENT
WAS GREAT EVENT

The three days session of the
greatest religious parliament ever
held in the Pacific northwest
came to a close in this city Friday
night, after having been in almost
continuous session since Wednes-
day afternoon. Newman Methodist
Episcopal church was filled to over
flowing at each meeting, and the ad-
dresses by the brilliant speakers. the
pick of the pulpit orators of the
present day, were treat that will be
long remembered.
The Friday afternoon session of
the Parliament, under the presi-
dence of Bishop Cooke was we'll at
tended, and the program was carried
out almost exactly as planned. Rev.
H. r. Calkins again took up The
Stewardship of Prayer" By these
talks throughout the meetings, Mr..
Calkins has brought more clearly to
the front the great power for good
which each person may make prayer
in his every day life in solving the
problems and bearing the burdens
that are bound to come.
A general survey of the foreign
field was next taken, in which past
work and that now progressing was
discussed, and the plans and great
needs for the furtherance of this
work in the future taken up. The
first speaker on this program was
Rev. w. N. Brewster, of Hinghwa,
China, who dealt with field work in
eastern Asia, and especially in China
where his greatest activities have
been. Mr.. Brewster told of the new
condition of governmental affairs in
China and gave his reasons for be-
lieving that this new far eastern re-
public must surely survive, for it is
entirely in accord with the new feel
ing of freedom and striving for high
er civilization that may be seen
everywhere in that great nation. He
told of the great struggle that is now
in progress there and the difficulties
in gaining financial aid from other
nations, and expressed his convic-
ton that these sought-for loans will
certainly be given, because the new
nation is an outgrowth of the spirit
of Christianity that has been becom-
ing stronger year after year until
/ it burst forth in that revolution
against the old customs and tradi-
tions. It was forcefully set forth
how the Christian schools and homes
/ fostered by the church have been
doing a great work in rescuing many
children from the streets and abso-
lutte slavery and making them a tell
/ ing factor in the forward move OF
civilization of recent years. Even
influential men of affairs in China,
who are non-Christians, have been
of very great aid in building up the
system Of schools and dormitorles
there, realizing fully the impetus
this training gives to all phases OF
life of the nation, in industrial pro-
gress and in moral uplifting Of the
people.
Christian Influence in China.
Mr.. Brewster told of the work the
new government is doing in the SUI
preston of China's great slave evil
and gambling habit, going on in his
statements to the fact that over fifty
per cent of the men most influential
in the establishment of the new ma
tion are Christians, while not over
one per cent of the total population
are Christians. He dwelteon the fact
that today is the "crisis of the
ages" in China and that as China
has so clearly shown her wish for
progress. now is the time to concen-
trate our Christianizing influences
there.
Mission Work in India.
Rev. A. A. Parker of the Nichol-
son School of Theology, of Daroda,
India, spoke of the southern Asiatic
field, telling chiefly of the work be-
ing done and planned in India, that
great Mohammedan stronghold,
where over six million converts have
been added in ten years to the sixty
five million followers of that faith
now there. He told how this great
increase in this following had been
the direct result of apostolic work
on the part of the Mohammedans,
and made the plea that this great
field should not be left for this be-
lief when the same Christian zeal
would win these numbers to the
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