Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-13

she asked me if | would make a draw
ing of her husband. | consented, and
then our conversation began to run
along other lines. She asked me where
l was going and when | told her | was
a missionary to the Philippines | am
sure that a target in midocean never
got greater fusillade of 13-inch pro-
1ectiles from her husbands battleship
than | got from her. She assailed me
for going and burying myself in such
Il country when i mad such talents.
Often since then | have thought, when
my house was surrounded and stoned,
is is worth while to bury yourself
here? but now when I look back over
the field and see that / have helped
to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ
among those people l say 1t is worth
while"
L Mr.. PAGES was one of the most
forceful and gripping talks ever heard
at a missionary conference and a burst
of applause greeted him when he had
concluded.
Talks On India
The session this morning was open-
ed with the singing of several hymns.
followed by prayers by a number of
ministers The first speaker was the
Rev. l.. b. Wolf, ID. D., for twenty
five years a missionary in India. At
present he is secretary of the foreign
missions of the general synod of the
Lutheran church. Mr. Wolf spoke of
the various classes in India, the
Brahmans, the middle class and the
slaves. In India" he said, there
are 100000 Mohammedans and this
Mohammedan religion presents to the
Christian world, the supreme chal-
lenge. But many of them are not
pure Mahammedans; neither are they
true Persians. They have been
brought into Mohammedanism by the
sword and they may be shaken loose
by Christianity. There are between
thirty and forty millions of people in
lndia who are not considered Hindus
by the higher classes and i'm a few
years 80, 600, 600 of these will be Chris
tiaus II the church in this country
does it's part"
Mr.. Wolf also talked of intellectual
India ana said that the country con-
tains some of the brightest men in
tinued are among the Brahmans. Some
of these, according to the minister,
are being converted but the majority
are waiting to see what the middle
class will do. The middle class is
turning, said Mr.. Wolf, 'and the
Brahmans are seeing the hand writing
on the wall"
Need Missionaries
The Rev. Mr.. Wolf impressed upon
the conference the necessity for pre-
pairing and sending more missionaries
to India. He declared that the war
has turned hundreds of missionaries
from the country and that four big
missions are now being cared for by
substitutes, who naturally cannot care
for the wants of the converts as the
regular missionaries who have been
associated with the people did. At
tending these four missions. he said,
were 10000 people.
The Rev. ID. b. Schneider. president
of North Japan College, Sendai, Japan,
was the other speaker at the morn
ing session and he talked on THE
Sunrise Kingdom" Mr.. Schneider told
OF the removing of signboards barring
missionaries In 1871 and how the
country has progressed since then.
Christianity he said, was given an
other boost in 1876 when Sunday was
made the official rest day for the
country. The constitution, in Article
80. he declares, provides for the
religious liberty of the country. Jap