Evening star., 1925-01-31
SEES lob At HOME
FOR MISSIONARIES
Layman Stresses Need of
Christianizing America Be-
fore Foreign Lands.

Demand that the practice of Chris
tianity begin at home. in real earnest,
before preachers for Christianity are
sent abroad was made before the For
eign Missions convention today in the
Washington Auditorium by Robert A.
Doan of Columbus In discussing mis-
sons from the viewpoint Of the lay
man.
"Practicins Christianity at home is
more essential than preaching II
abroad" he said. Sending mission
aries to other lands is a crazy propo-
sition unless we admit that the
toa chings OF Christ which they carry
have never been literally lived by
any nation.
Every true Christian layman must
dedicate his life not to proclaiming
that all the world ere brothers, but
by living In his nation as though he
believes 1t. The program for for
eign missions Is useless until Chris
tian laymen rid themselves of race
prejudice which often amounts to
hatred"
Standing on Rights.
THE world is drunk with desire
for selfish power. 1t is also suffer
ing from too much national sensitive
ness. Every nation Is 'touchy. All
of US seem obsessed with the deter
mination to stand on our rights
Nations of power are full OF self-con-
cet In the light of the sensitive
temper and strain in which we find
the world today i ask you in shame
what influence we may expect to ex-
ert as laymen in the foreign mission
program OF our church when our own
Congress passes an immigration law
made possible by our false assump
tion that we have a right to do as
| IL 4,
out due consideration of others"
Mrs. Charles Kirkland Roys OF New
York city, an authority on woman's
missionary work. delivered an appeal
for recognition of women, not mere
ly because Of their sex, but as es-
sential parts of the organization
sponsoring foreign missions. In any
reorganization which may take place
in the future.
Place Of Women.
The church at home and abroad" )"
she said. must reckon with the
! awakened womanhood Of the world.
! The state has been In advance OF the
church in recognizing the changed
position.
Two facts underlie the conspicuous
! success OF womsn's work. First,
through long years OF indefatigable
| built up system of communication
! from national board headquarters
down to the most remote individual
church. Ruthlessly to disrupt by any
form of organization a system estab-
| lished by such incalculsble effort and
| proved to be of such undeniable eff
| ticiency would be little short of mad
ness"
She said the second secret of wom-
I
Geological fact that women respond
! to a definite financial responsibility
and that they like to raise their own
| budget. They enjoy, she said. dual
! relationship to missions as church
| members and as members of the WON
ans organization"
! Any missionary program for the
| church which casts aside this wonder
| working system of distinctive finan-
cial responsibility of women is doom
! ed to failure.
Motivation OF Fear
In his address DR.. Hugh T. Kerr of
| Pittsburgh deprecated what he de-
| clared was the present day motlyation
! OF fear" in church support.
Fear" he declared presses on all
| sides; racial fear; fear of a possible
| tide of color. economical and indus
| trial fear, fear lest the great surplus
| OF raw material in Asia and Africa
! and the unlimited supply OF cheap
| labor may in time slow down the
wheels of our own industrial life
| political and military fear, fear OF
| arming millions of the East who can
count hundreds to our units. Love OF
! Christ is the only adequate motive
| welfare Work for Individuals.
! Last nights session was devoted to
consideration OF welfare work touch
| ing on individuals.
, On Medical Mission" DR.. r. Dwight
Sloan of the Peking Union Medical
College declared the entire output OF
| the medical and nursing schools OF
the United States would not begin 10
meet the medical needs of China
| alone.
| He urged quality against quantity
| in personnel as well as equipmen,
sent for the hospitals, and predicted
that eventually isolated, poorly
manned and poorly equipped hospitals
would be closed, and work through
cooperation of the various churches
would be concentrated in the larger
! better institutions.
Mission hospitals" he said, ARE re-
| garded in the East as living symbols
| of the Christian message"
| The aim. he added, should be to ss-
/ ia blish modern medical systems
manned by natives.
| statistics on Foreign Missions.
| Facts and statistics on foreign mis-.
! sions were given by DIR. Arthur Jud.
son Brown of New York, in his ad-
dress yesterday afternoon. DR.. Brown
who il an authority on missions and
| the author of number OF books con-
! corning them, gave the following re-
sumo of the. scope of mission work ir
| foreign lands:
There are now $4,000 Protestant
foreign missionaries in non Christian
lands. and 2,4os.s00 adult communi-
cants. with an enrolled Christian
community of 5,145,23S persons. In
$3.50 Sunday schools there are q
100000 pupils, 703 hospitals and 1924
dispensaries, treating over 5000, ,o0t
patients a year; a total of 245 or
phanages, 2b institutions for blind
and deaf mutes; SO leper asylums, q
| homes for untained children of lepers
| and 2l hnmes for fa1lep u-orn.