Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-01-18
EvANGELIzING THE WORLD.

And this gospel of the kingdom
snail be preached in all the world for
a witness unto all nations"
The various religious denominations
OF the country have about completed
campaigns by which about one billion
dollars was subscribed, over and above
the ordinary church maintenance
funds, for the promotion of religious
work throughout the world Only
few days ago it was announced that
the lnter-ehurch council would make
an additional campaign for more than
thirteen hundred million dollars, to be
raised and expended within five years.
Thus two billion dollars will be.
spent during the next few years
rather the money will be placed so
that all of it will be at work--for the
purpose of making humanity better
and happier. Much of it will be de-
voted to the work of evangelizng
heather lands-Japan, China, India
with their hundreds of millions of peo-
pie, will have the gospel preached to
them. In China and India the work
will be largely in the hands of men
and women who know medicine and
sanitation and the gospel will carry
with its religious teachings a knowl-
edge of how to alleviate suffering, how
to prevent disease, how to make liv
ing easier and better. Not only will
the preacher tell of Jesus Christ and
the Golden Rule, but he will be an
evangelist of better and, more whole
some food, of better wages for the
worker, of education for the children
of the serf. of freedom of wives and
daughters from economic and social
slavery.
Schools, as never before, will spring
up in the wilds and way places of the
dark continent, and Africa will have
the breath of a new life breathed into
it.
DR.. Jung of Zurich wrote a remark
able book a few years ago on the psy-
chology of the Christian religion. DR..
Jung is a Jewish scholar, and makes
no pfetense of believing in the divinity
of Christ But he accounts for the
rapid spread of Christianity through
out the Roman empire to the fact that
it taught personal values-that every
man has an individual value in him
self, which must be respected by man
kind in the mass, as well as by kings
and potentates.
This doctrine remains to be taught
to the masses of China India and At
RIGA. and to the savage or barbarous
peoples of many of the remote places
of the earth and sea.
This is what we mean by evangelical
ton. 1t means that the message Of
salvation is to be carried to all the
children of men, everywhere.
But doubtless the greatest effort of
the churches will be directed toward
the betterment Of the people at home
Ito helping the poor, to retaining
the vicious. to giving TO each child,
however unfavorably born, an en- |
Vironment in which it may grow into
usefulness and responsibility.
While such evangelists as Billy Sun
day doubtless have their places and
their work, none of the money raised
in these great campaigns will be eX-
pended in the promotion of what we
call "revivals," All will be spent in
Observation-Disclosures If you please
for the betterment of the physical, |
mental and moral conditions of the |
people everywhere.
The effect of this work will be
shown, in less than twenty-five years
in better government, better homes,
better education, better relations be-
tween labor and capltal-it will make |
US better world, and a happier one.