The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-04-15
INTFR-CHURCH
CO. CONFERENCE.
HHD In CITY TUESDAY AND
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6-7.
WELL ATTENDED

tuesday night and all day wednesday
April CT. The opening address was
by Mrs. Paige johnson Of Grand Forks
ON Cooperation" In splendid inter.
esting manner Mrs. johnson told us
that the Christian church of America
has the men and money to evangelize
the world in this generation. No great
allied victory could be possible by in.
dependent initiative. She pointed out
the task as great one, which can
and must be done to complete the
command Of Christ to carry the Cos
pei to the whole world. To this end a
great program, great vision, COOP
GRAFTON without sacrificing individual
creed, and faithful following of the
Leadership of The Christ.
Dr.. D. T. Robertson Of Fargo spoke
on the task Of winning men for Christ
as a virile challenge to the manhood
of our churches.
DR.. j. G. York of Grand Forks gave
an illustrated lecture, covering in rap
id survey the great task before the
Church to evangelize the world, TO-
gether with strong incentive to the
work &, =
Wednesday morning DR.. C. L. Clif-
ford Of Minot gave strong address
on "The Significance of the Inter
Church World Movement" He showed
that it's purpose is to carry out the
mission Of Christ to evangelize all ma
tions-as soon as possible. The nine
teenth century showed us that the
world is a neighborhood: it is for the
twentieth century to make it broth
erhood. With over 2O0,OO0,000 people
never knowing what it is to not be
hungry, half the world never having
even heard of real doctor, and with
a billion people, or two-thirds of the
people of the world illiterate, there
comes powerful appeal to our hu-
manity and to our hope for the safety
Of democracy, to finish the task.
In the afternoon DR.. Robertson gave
an address on "Old Mexico" Outlin-
ing the facts that 80 to 95 per cent of
her people are illiterate, that she is
thousands Of years behind the civil
lied world in invention, improvements
sanitation, etc, that her people are
kept on very low moral strata, DR.
Robertson finished by saying that
while nothing but the real Gospel OF
Christ can save Mexico, many Of the
people are hungry for our gospel
hymns and for the message of the
Christ.
DIR. Clifford in speaking on the
"Evangelistic Program" of the move
ment outlined how it is hoped to stress
individual evangelism in every church
by a simultaneous campaign, co-ordin.
ated activity, spiritual quickening
Holy Spirit power and guidance, to
make May 23rd of this year the. great
est Pentecost since the first one.
DR.. York, speaking on "The Home
Survey, pointed out the defects OF
over-churched conditions in some parts
and of under-churched conditions in
others, and of the serious loss to the
churches of members by migration
and forgetting to line up with church
work in the new location. AS a rene
dy for this condition he emphasized
adequate survey and follow-up work.
In the evening DR.. Robertson gave
the closing address on "Doing oul
Bit" He showed that the needs Of the
day are for ministers, not preachers
and outlined the many fields of minis
try needed in the service Of Christ at
home and abroad. He said: Glove new.
er asks, How much must do, or how
little can do, but how much can
do :" His address was an appeal fol
volunteers to help carry out the pro-
gram Of world-evangelism.
From Bottineau the team goes tx
Minot, Darlington, Towner and Rug
by. About 800 teams are covering
1900 counties in the fortnight, Apr.
4-18, carrying the inspiration of this
rld-program to all the nation.
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