The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-02-23
.LAYMEN'S MEETING
COMES TO CLOSE
INNES AND WHITE MAKE AID.
DRESSES WHICH FEATURE
CLOSING DAY.


men VINO heard inspirational messages
from George Innes. a business man ol
Philadelphia. who has gaven his life
to mission support. and j. Campbell
White. whose speeches have been one
of the features of these sessions.
Mr.. Innes was introduced by G. Ben.
SON Frebee, CT Norfolk. VINO presided
Scripture was read by Rev. V. G. Smith
land prayer offered by Rev John Roach
Straton. d. u.
| Mr.. lines spoke for more than an
hour and held the attention of the au-
dienCe. Mr.. Times address was an
earnest talk by an earnest man, but
he was heard with GREATNESS interes;
that sometimes even eioquence fails
TO inspire.
"If / were in Philadelphia today"
/ remarked Mr., 1nnes, IT would be down
at Nineteenth and Vine Streets at the
| Tabernacle where 10000 or $4,000
men are assembled The chances are
that this afternoon not less than 600
men has taken Billy Sunday by
the hand and thanked him for his
message. II doesn't look as though
Christianity were dead does It? There
never was time when God was NOV
ing more wonderfully than He IS
right now"
Problem of Foreign Missions.
He spoke OF the problim of foreign
missions. THE preachers can't settle
this problem in q thousand years. so
/ what can tho laymen do with mis-
sions: That's the problem. There are
more heather now than when the
( missionaries started"
! Mr.. Times sketched his own success
| full business career and recounted his
satisfaction, when he found that he
was com oatatively a rich man. He
described his satisfaction as "a good
old souse in covetousncss" and II &C.
Cured to him that NE vas making
no return 20 God for the money he
] had made. His conscience priched
him. who gave you the power to
make it," was the disturbing question
| II had already been IN the church
business twenty years, an elder In the
/ church. and ] had absolutely failed to
produce.
Accordingly he took a trip around
I the world, studied conditions among
! the poor Of heather lands saw the
underpati missionaries, the immense
I opportunity for service. the inefficient
way N which the church was hand
I ling the situation. "'rhe church gives
more tips 70 walters and porters than
! 1t does TO redeem the world from sin. -
| he observed, and "covetousness is the
( pIiI1 SAl AiIdl has VI THSpettdOte StaHU .
| ing in our communities" he said.
| Mr.. Times described the missionary
game" az the most facinating game
there In. burt he found Il hard task
| to convince his business associates
and friends Of the same truth They
thought he said that was 'dippy.'
And / got thinking. Maybe | am dip
lpy.'
! He described in detail the method
! y. which ho finally reasoned out that
he was right and the others were
wrong" and he told the men in con-
cluaion .aat they must take a live
interest in the work OF he religious
and social regeneration of the world.
! Compliments Secretary Brown.
! J. Campbell White after compli-
menting the newspapers for their
work during the convention, paid a
| deserved tribute TO Secretary u. II.
Brown. ''witssout whom this conven-
! ton could not have been pulled
through. He has been working very
hard" said Mr. white. and he ought
to be keep: a State secratary in Vir-
gsnia for the next year or two any
how
This is he most splendid response
the men Of the city have ever made
to the ,ayuen movement. said the
speaker, and Norfolk ought to have a
lay,nen's dinner every year. A lot
of men will, live with a new spirit
all the rest of their Hfe because
OF this c..rvention, The thing Is
growing" he said. ''all over the
country. and we are at Just the be-
ginning of the last forward movement
for the finishing OF the task that
Christ has set for US"
More than half the. people in the
world can't read and write and more
than half have never had doctor nor
an opportunity to enter hospital
when ILL., he said. and he described
some of the absurd methods OF Cure"
that native doctors in heather lands
employ. Ono method was 10 stick a
big knife in the place where big
pain was and n little knife where a
| little pain wac. BY this method the
doctor essayed to XIII the evil spirit
that he thought was the source Of
| illness.
| Mr.. White INDUCED in several more
OF his unique, pithy statements, which
60 to make up one of his points OF
interest - a speaker. Some OF them
We're:
Half the world doesn't know God
nor how 20 find him
The 'Aine is easy II the church
cares
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uries in order TO give the Son OF God
n chance
Eve need in the church a new spirit
OF voluntary sacrifice for the Lords
sake"
1--WE can leave mark on the world
so big that God can see It to the end
| OF eternity
! Zone trouble with the laymen is
they haven't put their minds on this
| problem
| "You all ought to get into this Y
! NJ. G. a. game. Let's not be loa fers
, in the church any longer"
| elias man the right to ask another
man to render any service that he
! isn't willing to do himself
"Cod wants our best.
! Save us from setting up false
| standard OF conservation
! Rev. G. p. DuBose and w T..
| Doughty addressed "A gathering of
women At s.. Lakes Church yester-
i DAY afternoon.
!
| Italy Getting Ready
| Rome. Feb. az. Eleven major gen.
| erals who had been retired on half
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