Bisbee daily review., 1919-10-12

ingly Christian. Those who have made careful investigation tell us that the majority of our state uni versailles and undenominational col leges are predominatingly Christian in spirit and influence. A careful canvass recently made by the Young Mems Christian Association shows that fifty-five per cent of all the students in our institutions of higher lealnines are church members.
 Look at the tremendous Christian movements of the present age movements which everybody can see and which are in evidence every where. The Christian Endeavor movements, with their millions of poung men and women enlisted un- der the banner of the cross, are not yet thirty years old. Their societies are distributed from "Greenland's icy moeStains to adia's coral strRuas . They may be found by "Africa's sunny mountains" by the rivers of China and India, and in every cor ner of the globe. The Salvation Army, which is Christianity slum- ming it, going after the submerged tenth, seeking to help the poor and the lowly, dates back only a genera tion Today it belts the earth. Its uniformed soldiers and it's devoted women are seen wherever men tray el beneath the skies.
 The Young Mems Christian Asso5 citation started a little more than fifty years ago with nothing but the faith of one great heart. Now it has it's magnificent buildings and it's splendid club houses for young men in nearly all the great cities of the world It has more than $68,000,000 invested in this country alone to safeguard and assist the youth in our great centers of population. Parallel with this is the Young Wo- mems Christian Association-born only yesterday-an institution doing for young women what the Young Mems Christian Association is doing for young men. Another tremendous Christian enterprise of our own times is the Sunday school. Men and wo- men are still living who can remem- Der day when there were no Sun day schools Today millions of boys and girls. young men and maidens, and adults, in this country alone, go up to the Lords house every Sabbath for heostudy of the word of Gcd
 If it were possible to stand on some great elevation and look to- ward the four points of the compass with vision strong enough and far reaching enough to see these un' countable multitudes-members of our Endeavor societies, our Epworth Leagues. our Young Peoples Baptist Unions, our Young Mems Christian Association, our Young Women's Christian Association and our Sun day schools, gathering for Bible study and for Christian instruction all of them movements of the present age-it would make this prevalent talk of a decadent Chris i tianity seem ridiculous and absurd And I am sure it would make those 4 inside of the church, who are in dulging. in pessimistic lamentations
 feel ashamed of themselves, if it did not bring them to their knees fir
 penitence for doubting or distrust
 ing the triumphant leadership of tho
 Lord God of Hosts.
 Missions Extending, Unity EnIarging
 Good Increasing
 But the count is not done yet. The
 mighty movement of modern mis
 sions, with it's stations and school;
 and churches and institutions plant ed on every shore, is only a little over 100 years old. At the begin ming of the nineteenth century ther, were only 150 Protestants mission aries in all lands; at the beginning of the twentieth century there were over 25,000. At the beginning of tho nineteenth century there were onl!
 50,000 heather converts to Protest ant Christianity; at the beginning O . the twentieth century there were l. 2,000,00O, with all doors open ant