The Hattiesburg news., 1914-02-23
MISSIONARIES end.
CONFERENCE
TONIGHT
oRs. LILLY AND MILLS TO SPEAK
AT MAIN STREET BAPTIST
CHURCH
OCCUPIED PULPITS YESTERDAY
Various Phases Of Missionary Move.
ment discussed by Leaders-inter-
est in Work Greatly Increased as
Result Of Meetings.
OCCUPIED PULPI1s YESTERDAY

The conference of the United Mis-
sionary Campaign being held In this
city will end with adoption Of a policy
by the churches Of Hattiesburg at the
conclusion of the addresses by DR..
D. Clay Lilly upon methods Of mission
ary finance and DR.. John N. Mills
upon The Progress and Prospects OF
China" at the Main Street Baptist
church tonight.
one-hour meeting of pastors for
conference and prayer was held at the
Main Street Baptist Church beginning
at re 10 clock this morning.
At 300 o'clock this afternoon there
was meeting of women and at 400
o'clock Drs. Reid and Lilly addressed
laymen's meeting at the same place
The visit of these distinguished
church workers, Drs. Mills, Reid and
Lilly to Hattiesburg has proven to be
a beneficial event, and has served to
quicken interest in the church wide
movement for an educational pro-
paganda upon the subject of Foreign
Missions.
Chicago Divine Speaks.
The Rev John N. Mills, d. d., OF
Chicago. was greeted at the First Bap-
tist church Sunday night by an au-
dience that packed the house and fol-
lowed the speaker with very close in
terest as he spoke of "a Tourists View
of Missions" in which he paid tribute
to the high character of the foreign
missionary, studied from every stand
point
He said that out of every fifteen
honor men at Yale University eight
have gone as foreign missionaries;
that missionaries are often highly faV-
ored for distinguished services to the
nations where they are at work.
'It is the foreign missionary rather
than the foreign ambassador who really
represents us in foreign country
said the speaker.
He said sometimes they are the fore
most foreigners in these countries. DR..
Mills said. there are four million chris
tians in India and they are influencing
all the thought of India; every grad
uate of Shautung University for forty
two wears has been a christian and the
graduates of the christian colleges are
the leaders in the reform movements
in mission lands; that Yuan Shi Kai
says, only christian ethics can save
China; he sends his children to chis-
tian schools, employs christians in high
positions and puts them in his cabinet
and that in the first parliament IN
Pekins there were Ga christians where
as by regular proportion there would
have been only one.
DIR. Mills spoke of the large congre
cations to which he spoke in Korea
and of the prayer meeting there where
the weekly attendance averages over
twelve hundred. He described a Sun
day school parade in Toxic in which
there were 10000 Japanese children
marching and singing christian hymns
pleads for Efficiency.
The Rev. C. F. Reid, Foreign Mission
/, ary Secretary of the Methodist Epis
conal Church South, filled the pulpit
at fifth Avenue Baptist church Sun
day( morning and preached a spir
tied ssermon on the need of greater Ell
ficiehcy ia foreign, mission efforts
At night he iectured at Main STREE
Methodist church on the subject
-"Cbbna Moved and Moving"
Dre. Reid insists that the Chinese arr
not I'm Inferior people. He says the!
hayeE 5000 years OF unbroken history
they pare not decadent or moribund, bu
backvyard; they were wearing SILK
when our ancestors were wearing
skins. they have never changed unit
receut7ly: the changes have COM
throuxs h the aggressiveness OF the west
ern usations and the impact of Jesu
Christi
Hfe said the Bible is a text book Il
THU pubic schools In the province o
s4 lautuug. His closing thought wa
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