The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1920-04-22

inter Cnurcn movement cOHVeHeu az
the Congregational church Thursday,
April Is. Delegates were present
from Franklin and Klickitat counties.
Benton county was represented by
delegates from Hanford, Prosser and
Kennewick. At the evening session
about two hundred people were pres
ent when the world survey was pre-
Scented by means of pictures thrown
on the screen and lecture by Rev.
H. A. Luckenoach, pastor in Spokane,
was given.
The basis for the address was a
mass of data showing social, econom-
ic and religious conditions over most
of the world This data was gather
ed from far and wide in the scientific
surveys made for the Interchurch
World Movement.
"One-half the human race is with
out a knowledge of medicine, hygiene
or sanitation" said the speaker. "ln
China there are only 1000 trained
doctors and 4O0,O0O,O0O people; in
New York city there are 1921 doctors
and 100000 people: Africa is not
much better off.
cover one-half the population OF
the globe can neither read nor write.
The largest percentage of illiteracy
is in nom Christian lands. Ninety
four per cent of the people of India
are illiterate. In Latin America the
illiteracy ranges from 40 to 80 per
cent. In parts of Africa people do not
know that writing has been invented.
The money spent on schools in New
York city alone is as great as that
spent in the twenty Latin American
republics, with population OF 3d.
100000. Ip $4,000 missionary schools
and colleges of India and Ceylon are
slowly making inroads on this ignor-
ance.
NEARLY one billion people have
never heard of Christ. This is almost
two-thirds of the population of the
globe. While so many people are
without knowledge Of the gospel, it is
also true that no people has been
found who do not respond to it when it
is brought to them.
"In Japan, with a population of 81
100000 there are 10000 members of
Christian churches. We are not keep
ing up with the normal increase in
population. Most of China is unoc-
cupied by Christian missionaries. To
give the whole gospel to the whole
world is a task for the whole church.
No one denomination can meet the
task.
GIN the war France lost Is 1-3 per
cent of all the men between Is and 45.
Germany IL 1-2 per cent; Great Brit
ain, 5 1-2 per cent and the United
States only 1-3 of l per cent. Onl Y
America has her man power almost
In our schools and col
leges are the reserves needed for a
great program.
''The war impoverished the Europ-
can nations. Germany used up SO
per cent of her national wealth; Great
Britain 33 1-3 per cent; and France
81 per cent. We used up only II IL
per cent ,of our resources. Only
America has its national wealth rel
atively unimpaired and America must
bear the main responsibility for evan
gelizing the world.
"Turning to home missions we find
also gigantic tasks-the immigrants
of our growing cities, the abandoned
farms, the lumber camps, the Mexican
border, the illiteracy of Porto Rico.
Membership of Protestant churches in
the United States is about 25,0OO,0OO.
Membership of the churches cooper
ating in the Interchurch World Move
ment is over 100000. In most of
the southern states church member
ship embraces more than 30 per cent
of the population; in the middle west
it is between 20 and 25 per cent; in
the Pacific Coast states it is between
10 and Is per cent of the population;
and in the mountain states, including
Idaho, less than 10 per cent"
The speaker told of difficulties fac
ing the church in rural and sparcely
populated areas and how some pas
tors travel more than 100 miles be-
tween their homes and their churches
because they serve from one to half
a dozen parishes. He told of the lum-
Der camps, in which he said men were
herded together in unsanitary quar-
tiers, and the church had made little
effort to serve them. He told Of mis-
sions which seek to convert the 100,-