Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-19
MASS MEETINGS
END CONFERENCE
Addresses for Men and Women ut Y,
N. {. A, Memorial Church and
Augustana Tomorrow.
UNION SERVICE AT FIRST M. E
j. VI Springer, c. E. Clancy, s. d.
Gordon and Z. r FulkersOn
Speakers ut Sessions.

mems Missionary movement will come
to a close with services tomorrow in
which the three cities will participate.
Mass meetings for men and women
have been arranged and laymen will
occupy many Of the tri-city pulpits
At $3.50 o'clock tomorrow at the
Rock Island Y NJ C. A. there will be
mass meeting for men, to which wo-
men will not be admitted, when John
NJ. Springer of Africa will speak on
the subject, Across Africa on Foot.
At the Memorial Christian church at
the same hour will be held mass
meeting for women, when Rev. c. E.
CLANCY Of Burma will speak on Gods
Challenge to the Women Of America"
Men will not be admitted to this meet
ing. At o'clock at Augustana col
lege DR.. E. r. Fulkerson Of Japan
will address the students and faculty
on the subject, The New Orient" In
the evening at the First Methodist
church will be held union service,
in which all the churches Of the city
will join, when s. D. Gordon will be
the speaker, talking on the subject,
God On a Wooing Errand to the
Earth" This meeting is open to men
and women No tickets will be requir-
ed for admission to any Of the meet
ings, but an offering will be taken at
each to provide for the expense.
Similar meetings will be held in Mo-
line and Davenport, with prominent
speakers on the programs.
Who Is Who on Program.
| Mr. Springer has spent many years
I in Africa and has gone from one end
! of the continent to the other on foot,
with many interesting experiences
along the way Mr. Gordon is Y. NJ.
c. A. secretary, author. world traveller,
and has spent four years on journey
around the world. DR.. Fulkerson was
president Of the Anglo-Japanese col
lege in Toxic, has made four trips
| around the world, crossed the Pacific
! 16 times, and has lectured in the lead
| ing universities of the world. Rev.
Mr.. CLANCY is a graduate of Yale, has
been in Burma, and was designated to
| the Pwo Karen work at Maubin in
1909.
The auditorium of ST Johns Meth
odist church was crowded to the very
doors last evening at the last Of the
general meetings of the Laymen's Mis-
sionary movement, when S. D. Gordon
gave the principal address, speaking
on "The Masters Rule of Brokerage
and Exchange" saying as follows:
Masters Rule of Brokerage.
This world is Gods prodigal son.
! The heart of God is broken over His
prodigal He has been gone so long.
And the hearth-fre Of God is lonely.
The home-circle of God is broken. The
heart of God bleeds.
He has given the wealth Of His
thought for winning the world back on
its own feet, by its own glad consent.
Angels and men have marveled at that
plan, its sweep and its tenderness
The plan called for His Son. And He
spared not His Son, though what they
did to His Son here broke His heart
afresh The plan called for the death
of His Son. And the Son spared not
His life in His passionate outreach for
a world
But Jesus dying isn't enough. Men
must be told that He died, that they
may choose as they will. For the one
thing that God is concerned about is
a mans choice. Understand me here
when I say that Jesus dying isn't
enough. Jesus was very God of very
God He was very man of very man.
He was born of a virgin in a way dis
tinctive in itself, not known of before
nor since He died as our substitute
Saviour. He rose again from the dead
the same body that was laid in the
grave coming to life again. His death
is the great central truth liz all our
common Christian faith. 1t is the
great beginning of all our belief, but
it isn't the end Of it. Men must be
told that He died.
| God needs man-us mentor His
| plan Jesus died for world. We are
to live for world. 1t gripped Him
tremendously to die; no one ever suf-
fered so. 1t must grip us as tremen-
dously to live for world. His dying
took the very life of His life. Our
living for a world is to take the very
life of our life. 1t should mean as
much for us to live for world as il
meant to Him to die for world. He
needs man for His plan. He is count
/ ing on US. The Father counted or
Jesus, and Jesus never failed Him
| Jesus is counting on US. May we mer
| not fail Him.
! Five Things to Use.
| HE has given us five things to use
! in reaching out for world: The life
We live, the voice, the power to serve
the power of gold. and the power
through prayer. Those five things are
| like a great five-fingered spirit hand
Each of us has that spirit-hand. Will
it we can reach out and WOO and wiz
and shape and mold world and hell
4 bring 1t back to the old hearth-firt
I of God.
| Il am to say word about the fourth
/ of these-the power through gold
/ Money is queer stuff. The extreme:
/ meet here 1t may be servant or {
/ master. 1t Is the most faithful of ser
l wants when held as a servant. 1t i.