Omaha daily bee., 1919-04-11
YOUNG PEOPLE
OF CHURCHES
IN CONVENTION
Plan to Push Missionary
Movement and Then Listen
to Addresses by Drs.
ZWemer and P0teat.

One thousand young people, rep
resenting the various cfurche socie-
ties of Omaha were present at a
rally at the First Presbyterian
church Thursday night, which closed
the one-day missionary convention
held upder the auspices of the Lay
mems Missionary movement. The
meeting, which was addressed by
DR.. Samuel M. Zwemer, Cairo,
Egypt, and DR.. E. M. Poteat, Bos-
ton, was marked by enthusiasm, the
representatives Of the societies vie
ing with each other in songs and
cheers prior to the addresses.
The two speakers were eloquent
in their appeal to the young people
to give themselves to Christian
service, DR.. Zwemer giving graphic
picture of the opportunities in for
elgn lands, and DR.. Poteat speaking
Of the call to service in America.
Two Hundred at Banquet.
Preceding the young peoples raj
ly some ministers and laymen of
the churches of the city enjoyed
banquet served by the women of the
First Christian church, and listened
to strong addresses by DR.. Zwemer
and DR.. Poteat.
DR.. Zwemer spoke on "The Soil
darity of the Race" pointing out the
essential unity of humanity as a sci
entific and psychological fact, and
showed that this unity has been am
ply demonstrated in war and works
OF mercy during the past few years.
If this fact of unity is not admit
ted" he said, "all the motives of
Christianity are invalidated."
The speaker asserted that all the
difficulties at the peace table grew
out Of racial prejudice, which al
lowed full sway can destroy the SOL
idarity of the race.
DR.. Poteat in his address under
took to answer the question, "Who
Makes the Money!" He ridiculed
the idea that any man is entitled
to boast of that which he has
made" and asserted that God
through his natural laws, and that
society. have created practically all
wealth. A recognition of these facts,
Dr. Poteat said, will bring a new
conception of the proper use of
wealth. THE common need of hu-
manity," he added, in these DAYS.
commanders all our resources"
Church in Danger.
The church is in danger of being
RELOCATED to the scrap-heap if it does
not promptly and intelligentlv un-
dertake the task of providing a new
definition of property" declared DR..
= M. Poteat, at ministers meet
ing at the Y. M. c. A. yesterday.
"Bolshevism," he said, "is provid-
ing a new definition of property
and there is no use in pooh-poohing
this definition. The only way to
tight an idea is to provide better
IDEA.
Specialization of Religion.
I'VE must socialize our religion
and spiritualize our sociology if we
are to meet the rising tide of in
curry as to the meaning of wealth
and its proper use.
The reason the church has not
found a definition of property which
would meet the spirit of revolt
against existing conditions" DR..
Poteat continued, SIS because it has
been so intensely interested in what
it has considered its main business,
the salvation of the individual soul,
and it has been afraid of a social
gospel which might help to make
the conditions of life so COM
Portable that men would forget the
future life.
Economic pressure from the out
side is bringing many leaders of in
dustry to totally new attitude, but
the church must leaven its member
ship with the sense of the social
obligation which the possession of
wealth imposes"
Following DR.. Poteat an address
on the Moslem situation was given
by DR.. Samuel M. Zwemer of Cairo,
Egypt