Evening star., 1915-01-12
CALLS NON-M|SS|ONARY
CHURCHES DEAD ONES
Mrs. Helen Barrett Montgomery
Talks to Women at the Cal
vary Baptist Meeting.
Mrs. Henry w. Peabody Declares
Children Should Be Interested
in the Work.

CnurcheS that cease to De nissio"
ary churches are getting ready Tor
their burial. in the opinion OF Mrs.
Helen Barrett Montgomery, who de-
livered an address before the Women s
Missionary Society Of Calvary Baptist
Church, Sth and H streets northwest.
this morning. Despite the rain. the
large Sunday school room of the
church was crowded.
Mrs. Montgomery was introduced by
Mrs kendrick. president OF the SO
c1ety. The need of prayer In daily
life formed the theme of Mrs. Mont
gomery's' talk
Perhaps the reason Christ's kingdom
IS not here she declared, ''is because
we have not fastened that coming. One
way we can hasten 1t is by a revival
Of prayer. There is. nothing needed
more nowadays than prayer l believe
tllat when man or woman prays a
force finer than electric..y is looseu.
Prayer is the whole of man concen-
trated into spirit. Our prayer is our
self. II We are selfish our prayers will
be selfish: if we are noble our prayers
will be noble
Mrs. Montgomery advised the women
not to be afraid to use business meth
DDS in the conduct of their society
''The Lord is a most buslnessi,--e g
worker, she said. She also asserted
that Christianity that docs not try to
Seek to Interest Children.
The great need for arousing the In
terest of Sunday school children of all
ages in foreign missions. and of in
culcatins in them habits of systematic
giving thereto. was the theme of Mrs.
Henry w Peabody at the workers
conference of officers of the local Bap-
tist missionary organizations yester-
frTh
The conference was in charge of Mrs.
Peabody, who is chairman of the Ma
tional United Mission study Confer
ence, and Mrs. Helen Barrett Mont
gomery.
Two hundred and fifty invitations
were issued for the affair and exactly
80 women appeared. Both Mrs. Pea
body and Mrs. Montgomery arc in
Washington to attend the quarterly
session of the Baptist women's Mis-
sionary Association; both are scheduled
to appear at number Of gatherings
today and tomorrow, and yesterday
both spoke at the big interdenomina :
tional missionary mass meeting in the
First Congregational Church.
Unless you put such training into
tho Sunday schools YOU will not get
missionaries, although you may get
other things she declared. Modern
missions are but an extension of the
acts OF the apostles. Yet how much do
our children know of the actual work
ing out of the Bible in modern times?
Such lessons should not be lessons
in the strictest sense, but missionary
stories suitable for various ages. 1t
Will not help the cause of foreign mis-
sions. for instance. to ask children
When did Adoniram Judson go to
Burma? and questions of that sort
Mrs. Peabody outlined number Of
methods by which Sunday school pupils,
from the infant classes up, may be taught
systematic giving.
Discusses Raising Of Funds.
Mrs Montgomery discussed the prob
lems in the raising Of the stated mis-
sionary appointments by the woman's
organizations Of Baptist churches, de-
claring the question. considered always
should be How much can be raised %
and not What is the minimum We must
raise?' She declared the attitude of the
woman's organizations Of the church to-
ward missions should be that of the
Engiishman's toward the summons Your
king and country need YOU"
At the session of the Baptist quarter
ly yesterday afternoon In the Second Bap-
tist Church. presided over by Mrs. Charles
G. Could both Mrs. Peabody and Mrs
Montgomery spoke again, telling of
their recent worldwide trip to the
ciel reference to the centennial cele-
bration of the arrival in Burma Of
Adoniram Judson. At a large mass
meeting for young people. last night,
at the same church. Mrs. Peabody
conducted the devotional exercises and
on "Things Worth While reception
by the Young Peoples Society Of the
church to the young people of the Dis
trict closed the exercises