The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-01-30
Four Interesting Addresses
Are Heard at Afternoon
Session, Held at the Reid
Memorial Church.
$50 TO ATTEND A
BANQUET TONIGHT,
Laymen from Churches in All
Towns of the Surroundingl
Country Have Registered
for Missionary Meeting.

Four addresses of unusual INTEREST,"
We're heard this afternoon at the first
session of the Laymen's Missionary
convention held at the Reid Memorial
church. The Rev. A. Gates. president of
the Richmond Ministerial association.
presided at the meeting
DIR. ]. c. Floyd. of Chicago. spoke
on Spiritual Significance of Our
Times; Rev. c. III. Bandy OF India,
on The Embarrassments OF Success.
in India: DIR. c. F. Mackenzie of Chi
ma. on is China Yellow Peril on al
Golden Opportunity: and W. F..
Doughty. of New York on The chaI-i
lenge of a Great Task"
The total number of registrations re-
ported this afternoon was between $50
and 600. 1t is likely that this number
will be increased by at least fifty. be-
fore the banquet, which is to be held
at the Coliseum this evening at $40
o'clock. At the banquet DIR. ID. W. Ste
venson. chairman of the local execu-
tive committee will preside.
w. p Harms, executive secretary
stated this afternoon that il will be
impossible to seat all of those who
will desire to attend the banquet.
Those who desire to hear the speeches
following the banquet will be admit
ted to the galleries Women viii be
admitted free OF charge.
The address of the Rev. Bandy who
has been in the midst of big revival
in India. at the session this afternoon,
in part is as follows:
Rev. Bandy's Address.
Whatever the discouragements may
be in the United States there is no
noted encouragement that comes TO us
from the Asiatic field. China is promi-
nently before the country and IL 10
| known that there is a crisis on. 1t il
known for every hour in the day and
| night Korea is seeing a convert to
Christianity. One might speak OF ia
pan and of the great work in the Mes
podamia.
| II prefer TO speak of my own field.
went to India 19 years ago. At that
time there was one Christian TO every
246 persons. Today there 10 a Chris
ftian to every 50 Of the population, and
that in a population of three hundred
and fifteen million. My own church has
had an increase of 34s per cent in the
last ten years. While the station that
I represent. and I am proud 10 repre-.
sent such a station, has had an in
crease of 500 per cent in fits church
membership in the last ten years.
When went to that station fifteen
years ago the Christian population
numbered about $50 which was one
Christian to every 2.s0o population.
Today there is one Christian to every
los of the population.
I'VE had at that time two churches.
Today We have thirty-seven- At that
time we had one school Today we
have high school with $50 boys In II:
a boarding school of 10 boys; an In
dustrial school teaching nine trades; a
training school for village teachers.
, and this great volume OF work is being
carried on with the same force of mis-
, sionaries, less one. we had fifteen
years ago. During the last ten years
with COO per cent increase in our mem
bership our finances have been incr<as-
ed fifteen per cent only from America.
Best Missionaries.
In these figures you have the signifi-
canoe OF my subject for this address.
namely the embarrassment OF success
in India. AS the Christian communities
grow. We are compelled to draw from
the district and country work our best
equipped missionaries and our strong
est native workers in order TO properly
he, I nF
F, mission which fifteen years ago had
= twenty-one missionaries doing district
work. They baptized &c. 900 people. To-
day that whole missionary force save
two men, are absorbed in their college.
their high school. their industrial
;. schools and their theological semina-
$ ries. while their evangelistic work and
n the village churches are being neglect
, ed"
!. The Rev. Bandy c-osed his address
. with a number of illustrations drawn
!. from his own personal experiences
vividly setting forth what the mission.
! aries are doing IN India and how they
A are doing IL.
!. Other Talks.
Dr. J. c. Floyd, who is the district
: secretary OF the Methodist Episcopal
|, ichurch. has been a missionary in India
J. !and has had a very wide experience in
laymen's missionary work related In
;. teresting incidents In connection with
" the work this afternoon, as did DR.. C.
+. Mackenzie who II well versed on
missionary work W. +. Doughty. edu
cationaI secretary of the Laymen's
missionary movement and editor oi
a the Men and Missions" discussed the
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