The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-10
ReU. Melville Trotter Says Birmingham Needs Mission
 I1 the DoWntown Section
Ky CAROLYN D. ELLIOTT

Men-big. little, old and young-wnc arrive before the crowd fills the First Methodist church will hear pr. Melville Trotter in his sermon to men only" on The Missing Link" this afternoon at . o'clock.
 pr. Trotter will also preach at the First Methodist church this morning at Il o'clock and at the 7:sO o'clock service | this evening.
 For the past week the famous evan gelist has been preaching to large audi 1 ences at the afternoon and evening serV- ices. Not only have people been inter ! ested in the messages he brings, but many members of various denominations are expressing the hope that while he is in Birmingham Dr. Trotter will es- tablish a mission similar to those that bear his name in other cities for the purpose of ministering every day and every night to those whose ears are deaf to the call of the church bells.
 A committee from the interdenomina- tiolIal federation of social service work CTS is busy now searching for a location in the heart of the city, and when this is found the final plans for the establish ment of the mission will probably be de- cided at the meeting Tuesday afternoon when various denominations will be rep resented.
 NO CAMOUFLAGE
 Don't carry any camouflage when you go to help people that live on the seamy side of life,' said Dr. Trotter in speak ing of the establishment of the inter denominational mission in Birmingham. You don't have to carry moving uie- lures or social affairs to people who can find these things for themselves, to the numbers of people who are perish ing here in your city, because there is not a human soul who is reaching out hand to help them to the pool of Bethesda.
 Don't go tell them too much about what big sinners they are. All of them know about that Just take the remedy for sin to them. That is what they are dying for All you need to do is to take Jesus to them'
 To hear the famous evangelist speak, known far and wide as Mel Trotter,' is to be impressed anew with the thrilling message he brings, not of creeds and religion, but the old. old story first taught at a mothers knee of Jesus and His love-
 To talk with MT. Trotter a few min utes is to be further impressed by his simplicity and to be won completely with the earnest sincerity of the man whose heart is as big as the world is wide and whose faith is like unto that of little child.
 II don't like to come to a place just to preach" said pr. Trotter "l like to leave something vital that will help peo- pie who need help every day in -he year that will save souls that the churches never reach.
 Soul winning is really the solution oi all problems" he continued. When man is converted, he stops riding on other peoples backs He is transformed into dependable, responsible citizen, an asset to the community instead # liability. No use to keep putting clothes on the backs of people whose souls are stafved. The clothes wear out. There not a person in all the world who won't be glad to have the way pointed out to the things that do not perish with the using
 JINTERDENOMINATIONAL
 MISSION
 The nterdenominational mission, as Dr. Trotter explains it, will be down town mission, where all the churches may have part in developing the spirit ual life of the community when, with out creed or doctrine, evangelistic work will be carried on throughout the year, when -the church carries the message or the Redeemer to people who will not come to the church to hear it for them selves.
 Abou CT of these Melville Trotter missions have already been established in the principal cities of the United States According to pr. Trotters es- timate a man or woman is converted in one of these for every $l.60 expendeo for maintenance of it. The first year or the work, he stated. 54 of the converts became missionaries or ministers In the home and foreign fields
 The money for the maintenance or the mission 1 offer to raise once~-'t wear in a mass meeting,' said pr. Trot- ter. "We cut the cloth according to our budget then. and leave no dead horses to pay for. The mission work itself will be in the charge of d superinten- dent, and will be at the service Of all the churches interested. It will sim ply be your church at work down. town."
 A LIFE STORY
 About CT of these Melville Trotter ters life, it doesn't seem strange that he is earnest in his desire to take the message entrusted to the church to the