Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-09-19

conferences which are the forerun-
ners OF the big campaign soon to be
launched for the advancement Of
Baptist home and foreign missionary
interests.
Arrangements for the conferences
are in charge of the State promotion
secretary, DR.. Edwin Carey White
more Of this city. and the State seer
rotary. DR.. Irving B. Mower have
been using every effort to contribute
toward the success Of the great occa-
sion. In charge of the management
OF the conference is DR.. P. H. j. Ler-
rigo, who Is foreign mission secre-
tary OF the denomination in New
! York. DR.. A. T. Fowler Of New York,
| who has studied the situation in Cen
trail America. gave an address, in the
afternoon. His subject was THE Au-
thority Of Christ on Missionary Prop
uganda"
DR.. Fowler Are. considered what
Christ had said concerning the sub
! ject with reference to God. second to
| references to man, and third the reve-
lation with references to the Pagan
races. Hiss address was a stressed
call to arms for men and money for
| the advancement Of Christ's Kingdom
| in the world.
Later in the afternoon. DR.. Fowler
at a round table discussion, conduct
| ed by Harry S. Brown of this city,
State chairman of the laymen's or
| ganization. stressed the fact that
stewardship, a word which has been
| used frequently for the past few
| years amonk religious workers, does
not mean merely the giving of ones
| money, but means the giving Of one
| self to the work of Christ's Kingdom.
At the afternoon session reports were
| received OF the methods Of mems
| work throughout the State and the
vi hole will be combined into a gener-
al program, a work having been re-
| ferred to Rev. Harrison Thompson
Of Portland, who three years ago
made a survey of the State for the
interchurch world movement. At 6
O'Clock the conferees adjourned for
supper which had been provided by
the ladies in the Baptist vestry.
Evening Session
| DR.. A. T. Fowler of New York, Mrs.
J Goodman of Chicago, member of the
Woman's Mission Board. and DR.. P. H.
J. Lerrigo foreign missionary secre-
! tary. were the principal speakers at
the evening session.
| DR.. Fowler has recently returned
| from a trip through Haiti and Central
American in which he visited the va
= rious mission stations. He told OF
Haiti, the Black Republic, which is on
| the same island with Santo Domingo.
| The population of Santo Domingo is
| 740. 900; that of Haiti 100000. IN
order to prevent overlapping Of mis-
! sionary effort the different countries
Of central America have been par
| celed out among the various Protestant
| denominations, and to the Baptists has
| been given the care OF Haiti. The
( speaker described his visit to the cap
| ital. Port au Prince, where there are
/ $500 Baptists. This church is the CEN
ter Of IS preaching stations in charge
OF deacons. which the pastor reaches
about once month. The speakers
said that he could give an idea Of the
iliteracy of the country by saying
| that three persons only IN every SOC
! know how to read the simplest SEN
| fences. In other words, SO rer cent.
| OF the people dc not know their A p
&C. When given wheelbarrows to work
at road building, instead of propellne
them in the proper way they carried
them on their heads.
The women do all the work. The
| speaker told Of the uprising of the
| blacks in 1908 when they massacred
| all but one man of the French popu
| lation. He said that 9Sa per cent. of
the births were illegitimate and gave
| an illustration of this point. He urged
the necessity that each mission must
have a school connected with it.
From Haiti he took his hearers
through Nicaragua, Ell Salvador Guat-
amelia, where monkeys swing from the
trees beside the little narrow gauge
| railway which conveys the traveller,
and thence to Mexico.
The speaker wished to draw a few
observations from the data he had
given and the first point was the eco
nomic interest which America has in
the development of the vast resources
OF these countries. Next the speaker
cited the fact that these nations since
the Great War. are emerging into a
new sense of liberty. The Germans
and Russians find them fruitful soil
for dangerous propaganda. And then
the speaker urged the patriotic reason
that we Americans cannot have these
nations alien in thought
I'VE cannot be secure in our own
democracy if Mexico goes wrong" he
declared. Lastly the speaker urged
other arguments that We are Christian
and we owe it to these people to give
them the Christian gospel will you
not back up the missionary undertake
ings of our denomination? We are
stewards of the manifold grace of
God" he declared.
Mrs. Goodman was then introduced
She quoted the motto Of a club Of ma
tive women in India. which was This
world was made for women. too" She
said that II most missionary effort
was done by women 1t was the fault
Of women in not bringing up the men
in the way they should 60. Perhaps
we have not used the right stick" she
said.
Mrs. Goodman then gave word pic
lures of work in China and in vivid
phrases described what has been ac-
complished in educational work in the
last 80 years. and in social work for
the uplift of women in the last so
years. In the establishment Of
Christian nation in China the wome n