South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-04-03
ALL DAY MEETING ON
MILITANT METHODISM''
The Call to Advance is Morning
Theme-Many Noted Speak
erS Talk on Several Subjects.

The main address of the Friday
morning session OF the conference Of
the Northern Indiana Methodist minis
tiers was given by Bishop Oldham. The
topic was Foreign Missions.
The speaker said that there could
be no foreign mission if there was not
q firm basis in the church at home
The bishop said that if we had high
CT sense of spiritualist there would
I've no poverty i'm this country. He
said that the gospel is not fully IL
lustrated or understood in the local
tiles In which We find squalid poverty
"Behind all economical conditions
lies or fails to lie spiritual fOunda-
tion." said he. IF this is true in ous
own land where there are compare
lively few poor, what must 1t be in a
land where there are hundreds OF
thousands that never have the oppor-
tlnity TO go 10 bed at night saying
that for once they have had enough
food?
IL is not that people are born in
poverty but damned into il. Such
oegredatiOns are found in paganism
That they cannot be described. The
white slave traffic of this country does
not compare with the conditions found
in the religion of these countries
where the mother gives up her daugh-
ter to the temple to be used "a lure
for men TO come 10 the temple The
traditions of India are so firmly based
that il is almost impossible 10 gain
Roadway against their prejudiCes.
They said that they have had more
leisure TO go into religious questions TO
- greater depth than we have, there
tore their religion is superior
THE Indians are awakening to the
christianity
the missionaries were satisfied to bap-
tie an individual, now they require
his whole family. Bishop Warren has
succeeded in converting whole villages
at a time" The bishop closed his re-
marks by showing that the foreign
mission collection should not be con-
sidered in the light Of a bothersome
tax, but rather a great opportunity TO
90 good.
DR. c. n. Kirkbride, of Chicago. ad-
dressed the conference in behalf of
the American Bible society He out
lined the great work and good that is
being done by this society in diStribut-
ing bibles in all countries.
DIR. Thomas Nicholson, president of
the board of education of the MethO-
dist church. gave many helpful sug-
gestiODS as TO ways of conducting
Methodist colleges. He showed the
need for such colleges and the great
good thai comes from them.
Dr. +. n. Bovard. president Of the
board OF Home Missions and Church
Extension society. said that all the
great works of the church are depend
cnt upon his department because they
are responsible for the ministers and
many OF the church buildings. None
Of the great work could be carried on
without these factors. He showed
that the home missions are a great
power IN holding and converting peo-
pie to Methodism.
Bishop Henderson called attention
10 the fact that this conference is
partly responsible for the support Of
the New Orleans college and Flint
Medical college for negroes. He said
that they should give s. >, 900 or about
20 cents per capita per aDnum from
this conference
After opening the conference SEES
sion. Bishop Mcdowell retired as pre-
siding officer in favor OF Bishop Hen
derSOn.
Figures from the statistician show
that the conference district has gained
4 go members and prObatiOners since
last year This is a gain Of a little
less than eight per cent.
J. A. RISHEL HERE
John \. RiShcl. Akron. o.. spent Fri
day visiting with relatives and friends
iu this city Mr.. RiShel was formerly
Connected with the Aishawaka Wooden
Manufacturing Co. but IS now the gen
cral sales manager Of the Goodrich Rub
Der Co.
VISITING SISTER