Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-02-15
.LAYMEN EMPHASIZE
TRUTHS OF RELIGION
Want Religion Brought Into Mark ct
PIaCe and business Methods
Into Christian Work
TELLS OF VISIT TO MISSIONS
Tourist Describes Conditions in Many
Countries and Deep Hold Christi
nnity Is Taliing-RegiStratio of
Delegates Now Exceeds loo.

Delegates Now Exceeds 100.
Deeply emphasizing the Importance
OF bringing religion into the market
place and OF taking the sound prin-
! cples into the work Of sowing tho
seed Of Christianity all over the world,
: three speakers last night addressed
/ mass meeting of men at the Grace
Street Baptist Church. under the aus
( piccs OF The I.avnlen's Missionary
Movement oliver j. Sands. president
1 Of the American National Bank. pre-
sided. and introduced the speakers.
/ During the afternoon there was "A meet
( ing OF ministers for conference and
/ prayer. led BY Rev. Worth NJ. Tippy,
/ Of New York.
/ The enrolment OF delegates was
stated by Secretary Brown last night
to have exceeded 100
( GIVES TOURISTS VIEW
! Of MISSION WORK
I After the invocation by Rev. G. Free
/ land Peter, rector OF ST. James Epfs-
( copal Church, Mr. Sands Introduced the
! first speaker or the evening. Rev j. "
! smoke on ~ Tourists View of Mis-
| sions" He spoke as the man who
visited the missions, not in any official
] capacity. but merely as 4 tourist. He
! told OF writer's who visited the Orient
/, and came back and criticized missions
I they had never visited. DIR. Mills en-
/ planned that II WAS like the English
traveller and sportsman who complained
/ that he had never seen n Christian
native in India. He was asked II he
/ had ever seen tiger. and his answer
was that he had shot many Of them
Or. Mills then said that in all his
! travels through India he had never
seen a tiger outside OF the geological
Il gardens. Thus it is with the travel
crs," Or. Mills said: your tourist secs
what he goes out TO see. whether il is
tigers or Christians When Bryan,
\ Taft, Roosevelt and Fairbanks came
back from their respective Journeys
i they announced 20 the world the won
ticrfui work that the missionaries are
doing in foreign lands"
SKETCHES DIM BEGINNINGS
;! OF MISSIONARY MOVEMENT
Dr.. Mills skctchcd th< dim begin
ninrs OF the missionary movement and
OF the opposition in foreign countries.
no NoiN Ci tHc present brOSG scope or
missionary work which has grown out
OF these humble starts. Hospitals,
schools. colleges, institutes for tho
blind. colleges OF agriculture and
leprosy havens are now in operation
by tho Christians In foreign lands He
told of prominent missionary workers,
principally OF Richard Hume. at Rom
bay, who was decorated by King
; George for his service to lndin: o,
missionary physicians who work for {.
) few hundred dollars year, whereas ii
they took up private practice they
could make As much in n month rs they
mako In year. The mayors OF
seventy Chinese cities. and sixty-four
members of the Chinese Parliament are
Christians. ana the ten young wone II
sent by the Chinese government 70
colleges in America this year are
); Christians. There are 100000 Chris
tians in India. The judge of the !Su-
:. premc Court Of Korea is a Christian.
one of the three peers just created by,
the Emperor OF Japan is a Christian.
Christians have been decorated with
the third ordc, OF the Rising sun by
the Emperor OF Japan.
CHRISTIANS HAVE PART IN
INSTRUMENTATION OF JNpA y
Al a recent conference in japan for
tho purpose of uplifting the morals OF
tho nation there were present thirteen
Shintos, fifty Bmddhists and seven
Christians. All OF these facts. DIR
Mills said, showed that tho work oi
) Christian missions was not In vain.
Rev. II. c. Mabie. p. -. Of Boston
was tho next speaker. His Subjcc,
was THE World Message FOR our
Time" lie said: There is timcii.
ness in this message that Is always
old and yet is always new. This mes
sage Is tremendously misunderstood. II
is the confusion of the tragedy of the
crucifXion and the cross OF the atone
mcnt Ii Hung Chang misunderstood
il when he said, No Jesus who was
brought to His end on Gibbet or :,
cross can ever hope to win China
What the great Chinaman did was
to confuse the criminal act Of those
who cried for the life of Christ. Tho
Apostle Paul knew that there was n
diflercnco He knew that the atone
ment meant the reconciliation between
God and sinful man. The atone
ment was tho sublimest moment In the
history Of tho eternal God. The dying
thief on tho eross with Christ also saw
the cross OF the atonement when he
cried out. Jesus. remember mo when
! (Continucd on Fifth Parc1