The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-08-28
Gilbert Loveland Pleads For
the Inter- Church Idea In
Illustrated Summer
Forum Lecture.
Co OPERATION WON The WAR
Speaker Contends That the Same Prin-
ciple and the Same Methods. II
Properly Applied, Will Chris
tianize the World.

The cooperative methods employed
by the Allies in saving the world for
democracy can be used with equal sue
cess in winning the same world for
Christianity This was the message
brought to Kanoshans who attended the
seventh session Of the Summer Vesper
Forum held ut the Park Avenue Meth
odist Church on Sunday evening The
speaker for the service was Gilbert
Lovoland Of Chicago whose illustrated
lectures have been a powerful force in
sending Methodjsm over the top in its
drive for a $11o,000,OOo Centenary
Fund.
The address, made doubly interesting
by vivid and artistic lantern slides, was
one of the high water-marks Of the
Summer vesper Forum The speaker
showed through pictures and statistics
that there were seven hundred million
people in tho world who had never
heard Of Christianity and who should
be reached by missionaries within the
next fifty years. This, he contended,
could be accomplished if the Inter
Church Movement was made a reality
instead Of a dream, and If the Christian
nations would work as conscientiously
and efficiently. toward this end as they
worked to win the war for Liberty and
Truth. Tn emphasizing his point he de,
scribed the progress made in the war
after the Allies had united under Gen
eral Foeh> and suggested that equally
gratifying results could be secured in
the home and mission fields Of the
church BY the widespread application Of
the inter-church idea.
Especially graphic among his pictures
were those showing the slum districts
of New York, where Leon Trotsky first
preached Bolshevism and anarchy. The
church, he held, should eliminate such
conditions as this and SO do its part in
quelhng the great unrest that has fol
lowed in the wake Of the World War.
Other slides showed Dir. Buck, who
s bicycled' twenty thousand miles
over burning sands in Burma to carry
the gospel TO the Hindus, modern mis-
sionaries doing similar work more rap
idly in "fiiyvers, and Chinese coolies
drowning their sorrows in opium and
made-in America booze. AT this point
Mr.. Lo'veland plead for restrictions on
the Importation of Intoxicating liquors
into foreign lands insisting that it was
interfering very materially with the
progress Of Christianity and ciyiliza
tion in these countries and that in some
districts it was more than offsetting the
influence of scores or hundreds Of mis-.
sionaries. He commended that heather
religions were attempting to link
American fire water with American
religion in slch a way as to discredit
the latter aus check Its spread among
the pagan peoples Of Africa, China, and
India.
In conclusion Mr.. Loveland urged hi:
hearers to support all movements look
ing toward tne maintenance of more
and more missionaries at home and ii
foreign countries in order that tht
world-vision might be realized within
the lifetime cf the present generation
This, he reiterated, could be achieved
only when Christian peoples forgot diff
ferences of creed as the Allied nations
forgot differences Of race and govern.
Ement and united in common endeavor
for common end.