Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-01-24
SLIDES ACCOMPANY
TALK ON OVERSEAS
CALL Of THE Church
THREE EXCEPTIONALLY FINE
ADDRESSES ARE HEARD AT
CONFERENCE OF METHoDlSTS
IN JEFFERSON STREET EDI.
FicE.

About 100 Methodists, most of
whom we're residents of this city,
gathered ut the First Methodist
church last night TO see and hear the
illustrated lecture, The Overseas
Call TO the Church" which was given
by DIR. w. G.. Terrill of Rhodesia,
Africa. DR.. Terrill has for many years
served as a Methodist missionary.
The lecture was the closing feature
OF the La Sale County convention,
which was in session all day yester
day
The talk was illustrated by some
very fine lantern slides, made from
pictures which DR. Terrill had made
during his residence overseas. Dr.
Terrill spoke on the work In the for
eign field. saying in part:
1.-THE Methodist Centenary on the
foreign field has three great lines of
accomplishments
First IL has sustained at full
strength a worldwide work which
would have met great disaster had II
not been for the Centenary. The ris-
ing costs In non.Christian lands, un-
favorable exchange. war and postwar
conditions would have made suspen-
sion OF much work necessary had 1t
not been for the proyidential timel!-
ness of the Centenary.
Secondly in every field Centenary
money has made possible great ad
vances. New churches. school build
ings by the score have been erected.
Large increses both in the number
baptized and the whole range of in
fluence have been recorded.
Thirdly the Centenary has brought
veritable rebirth to the native
churches in mission fields. In evan
gelism. in stewardship. including self
support. in missionary spirit tremen-
dous advances in every field have
been made This is only slightly in
dictated by the increase Of over 81
900 900 contributed by the native
churches for 1900 over 1919, but that
increase in itself is notable
For these great results lasting
gratitude and rejoicing are due. But
beside them must be set tragedies
(for they are literally that which
have resulted from the inability to
carry forward the program promised
in hundred Of places where native
churches have raised their share of
the money and are bitterly disappoint
ed and embarrassed because the
r Chnrch in America has not kept its
word.
"Victor Hugh once said, The Twen
tieth Century will make a world in
Africa Will this prophecy come
true? Whether the owrld which will
be made out of Africa will be worth
making depends upon education and
Christianity. The Twentieth Century
is bringing Africa changes which even
the powerful Imagination of Hugo
did not forsee.
Talks On Indian Work.
Dr.. Elmer f. Higley, who has
charge of the work among the Ameri
can Indians, which the Methodists Of
the United States are carrying on
told this work just before the close Of
the afternoon session yesterday. DR.
Rigley is very interesting speaker,
and delighted his hearers with his
talk He said in part:
"Methodisn's missionary work be-
gan in an Indian village Method
ism's early journey across the CONT
nent was in behalf of the red man,
and its first missions beyond the
mountains weIe Indian missions.
"Th" last general conference rec
commended the correlation of all the
Indian work q the Board of Homo
Missions and church Extension and
the Woman's Fome Missionary So
ciety
Methodist Intian missions are To-
Gated all the way from the St Law
renee river to Yuma, Ariz. and from
Puget Sound to Sorth Carolina. The
Methodist Indian missions are work
ing from thirty-eBht different centers
and are serving twenty-eight Indian
tribes The Indian mission work en-
ploys forty-one pastors, eleven of
whom are lndians two school super
intendents, seven teachers, two house
matrons, three field matrons, and
have three religious work directors in
government school,.
"The church Of evangelism has one
minister constantly at work evangeliz-
ing the Indians.
"The Methodist Episcopal church
has l,643 communicates and 1,724 at
toHudhOS az ito chllNty NtLOOi diu mas
property valued at 100000
"A recent survey shows a better
supervision of Indial missions is nee
essary Methodism must take more
seriously to heart tie task of Indian
evangelism. Many American Indians
are pagans, There ire $4,000 Ameri
can Indians for whom mission work Is
not being done.
unexpected postwar conditions
have placed unforeseen demands upon
us for financial help. There were TO-
coo Indian young mel VINO served in
the army and navy. Many of these
young men nave returned and are
asking for an opportunity to become
themselves trained leaders and teach
ers of their own people. Three of
these boys are askinS to be trained
and sent to their people as mission
aries. The centenary fund is help.
ing to make this possible. Indian
girls are also willing 10 serve as mis-
sionaries to their own people.
AT Pennington, N. NJ. where the
Methodists are maintaining a mission
school for Navajo children, there is
lire need of two new buildings. There
ire now $500 children Of school age
IN this reservation, but there are
chocl facilities, including government