Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-11-20
LABOR TROUBLES
GAN Be AVOIDED

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III case weekday BlDle Teaching ~
greatly extended and the church expands
Rapidly in the matter of social and com
munity service the number Of employ
I'll workers needed may approximate
100000" continued Dr. White. "a COM
rrchensive plan of recruiting in colleges.
universities and professional schools is
Icing worked on. for t. winter There
Us need for much prayer on this subjec-
shat all recruiting campaigns may be
,freaty blessed Parents and pastors OF
students can also help much by CORE
sspondence TO secure prayerful consdera-
tabon of The claims of Christ and the
s.ghurch
'St"Extensive investigation reveals the
.flct that the vast majority of our pres
y,tt ministers and missionaries received
~ cir strong impulse to give their lives
81, Mis- work befoe they We're IL years Of
:. The nccescsty is therefore being
aatiy seen of reaching the boys and
girls OF high school age and younger with
racts Of the worlds needs and the spiritual
,.,srincipics which underle wise life
sa loices.'
A.. Or. White explained that 1t was the
~ Ian Of his department to enlist the
.,the interest of the parents in the re-
.uruiting of future Christian leaders by
appealing to them to help their chill
hren to find Gods plan for their lives.
q, serted to the plan by the pastors and
u committee should be appointed to
=. ave charge of this WORK IN every
church. This committee could have
charge of the life work rallies to be
held and see to 1t that the literature
ST the department was distributed to
The young people TO help them decide
their future vocation and calling.
90. NEED SPIRITUAL AWAKENING
i.:!."A.. great spiritual awakening
throughout The church is the only hope
..of securing the leaders needed con-
...tluded Dr. White, Genuine spiritual
awakenings have always been very
fruitful in producing church leaders.
With the plans for enlisting the be-
levers in Christ as interccssors and
stewards there ought to be thousands
OF decisions the part of the young
people to fit themselves for leadership
IN the church,
MISSIONARY EDUCATION
Mrs. r. s. NJ Enrich returned
CO... missionary of the American board from
s.Turkey had the distinction of being
abe first woman to give an address at
...he conference. She had charge of two
rnf the periods. presenting the subject
of the Foreign Survey of the World
..Need. ami the Church's Opportunity
.during the first hour of the afternoon
hour with the subject of missionary
Education" Sandwiched in between
her two speeches vas one by the Rev.
A. A. Forshce. field representative OF
me general promotion board of the
,.Northern Baptist convention who gave
Expression to AN appeal to the churches
:. 20 go NJ and possess the land" based
lin the proposition of Caleb of Biblical
lame:
J.. China and Japan have enough brains
20 solve their own and their mutual
"1roblenrs but they have not the moral
81 ,owcr'' said Mrs Enrich during her
lddress. The moral power can only
Some from the religion of Jesus
II; 7hrist."
Y. She. said that the missionaries of
".-t turkey favored and lonsod for the pro-
ELECTION of the native Christians of that
"ountry would receive if the United
,--!states acceped the mandatory power
e. yer Turkey, proposed by the peace
."ssanferencc.
..s: "'rhe Turk win never change of his
I,.a,wn accord" she continued. The
'ruelty. the degradation of the Turks
Is indescribable. They are mostly
tgnostics and atheists"
A THREE FOLD PURPOSE
Referring to the surveys of the non
Christian lands by the Interchurch
World Movement Mrs. Enrich said that
there was threefoid purpose that
underlies the whole survey being made
by the foreign division of the move
.ment. These according to the official
,.Etatement of the movement read by her
are as follows:
80, To determine the needs of ali foreign
Emission fields in terms of men and
money for period of five years and to
pid the cooperating American foreign
..inission agencies to decide their share Of
responsibility in meeting this need.
-. TO furnish the field department, the
publicity department and other depart
ments of The nterchurch movement
actively engaged in campaign work with
information and material which will make
possible fun and complete presentation
If the foreign mission program and bring
home to the churches their responsibility
for doing this work now.
To make more complete survey of all
mission fields by which a large volume
.."f data covering every phase of mission
3, work and throwing light on every mis-.
,,*ionary problem Will be collected and col.
lated. This data will be placed before
group conferences of specialists on each
of the several mission fields and before
iimilar bodies - America who will form
"areful judgments, based on this data
III this will then be made available for
Ill missionary agencies in America and
u IL expected that all cooperating foreign
-. rission agencies Will use thc result OF
- his larger survey and the judgments
soc rising from it as the basis for allocat.
ing specifically the money which they will
~ receive in connection with the campaign
iiii I'VE will show what the foreign mission
,.1 ask as a whole Is and at the same time
viii suggest program reasonably definite
Tor meeting that need" explained Mrs
Enrich. I'VE viii collect and collatc data
about the work of all missions and the
plans of all missions in such a way that
every American missionary agency will
he enabled to plan its work throughout
The world with full knowledge of tn,
work OF other agencies and in the fullest
cooperation with tlem. This means thai
:" the cooperative movement in foreign
work, which began the field ant
which has, in some fields. made extraor
iirary progress. will become a matter OF
common practice on the part of the
- home agencies Of foreign missions al
well.
- I'VE will present to the cooperating
churches the whole missionary prob. en
Dnd task instead of that part only of tn,
problem which "A particular agency of tn.