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December i, 1909. TH1
ful manifestation of what united effort
can accomplish.
Last year the magnificent sum of $23,000
was given by our dear women toward
the debt resting upon the Executive
Committee of Foreign Missions. The
gifts were in small sums, the average
being one dollar. This did not in any
way, as far as we can ascertain, interfere
with their regular gifts to Foreign
Missions. The kingdom of Christ was
thus advanced, the hearts of our missionaries
cheered, and a great burden lifted
from the Executive Committee, and the
women who had a share in the great
work made to rejoice?all because of a
very small effort on the part of the many.
Now, dear friends and co-laborers in the
Master's service, I come before you
with another appeal, knowing as I do the
noble consecrated womanhood that composes
the Southern Presbyterian Church,
confident that we can and will carry this
plan through to a magnificent completion,
as we did the former.
The time has come, when we women
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duuuiu nave it larger snare in me great
Home Mission work of our land. A
mighty reaction is taking place in the
minds of those who are most interested
in Foreign Missions, not that we would
have any one lessen his or her efforts or
diminish his or her gifts to Foreign Missions,
for "this ought ye to have done, and
not to leave the other undone"?but we
have Foreign Missions at our own door.
If we have the true missionary spirit
and are sincerely working for the salvation
of souls, we can not longer turn a
deaf ear to the cry to "come over and
help us" that comes from ou^ own land.
On September 25, 1909, Dr: S. L. Morris,
secretary of the Assembly's Home
Missions, sent out a circular letter to
the Women's Missionary Societies, asking
their cooperation and help in building
the Presbyterian College of Oklahoma,
known as Durant College. I quote
from an article, written by t)r. Morris.
for the Home Mission Herald.
"This institution was founded several
years ago, for the higher education of the
Indians and others who should take advantage
of it. While it has had remarkable
success, the attendance reaching
three hundred, about one-half being Indians,
yet it has been fearfully handicapped
all these years by the wretched
accommodations. The college building
proved to be entirely too small. With
only a dilapidated, wooden dormitory, we
could not accommodate the students who
proposed to enter; and possessing only
the cheapest furniture or such second
hand articles as could be spared from
the homes of its friends, the inferior
accommodations and inconveniences prevented
our securing the better class of
students.
"Acting upon the advice of the Assembly
the Secretary has sold the old
building for 120,000. Interested friends
have bought thirty acres of fine, suburban
property, at Durant, for which they
paid $27,000 in cash, and have deeded
this property to our Church, provided
we begin by the close of this year the
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erection of a suitable building.. Has the
Church ever had such an opportunity? Is
there any place where money can be invested
to better advantage in the interest
of Christian education and church expansion?"
At the annual meeting of the Woman's
Missionary Union of the Synod of Virginia,
meeting in Staunton, November
2-4, 1909, Dr. Morris' appeal was read,
and it was moved and unanimously carried
that this body representing the
twelve Presbyterial Unions of Virginia,
neartny" endorse the letter from our secretary,
and that an appeal be written to
the women throughout the South asking
their cooperation in this movement to
raise $25,000 for the building of the college
at Durant, to be known as the Presbyterian
College of Oklahoma.
By the advice of Dr. Morris, this movemen
will be conducted just as it was in
the interest of the debt fund, acknowledgments
being made through the papers
and the Home Mission Herald.
Dear women, let us do this work lovingly
and quickly. The need is great and
the time short. The King's business re
nuirem nasie, ana wnat we expect to do
for Him, we must do quickly. This is a
magnificent opportunity for us, for as
these young women are educated and
equipped for life's work, as leaders and
teachers and Christian mothers, who can
estimate the influence of their lives?
There are over 50,000 Christian women
engaged in active mission work in
the Southern Presbyterian Church. Let
us. by special self-denial lay aside one
dollar each for this cause, and let us
make special effort to interest others,
whom God has blessed with wealth, that
they may have a share in this work.
What an inspiration if some one would
start the fund with a contribution of
$5,000.
It is Dr. Morris' wish that all contributions
be forwarded to the treasurer of
the Synodical Union of Virginia, who
will send the acknowledgment to the papers
and the Home Mission Herald.
Please, therefore, send all contributions
to Mrs. A. M. Howison, Staunton, Va.
We beg your earnest prayers for the
speedy accomplishment of this work for
the extension of the Master's kingdom.
Yours in His service,
Mrs. J. Calvin Stewart.
President Women's Missionary Union of
the Synod of Virginia.
1031 West Grace street, Richmond, Va.
"A MILLION SOULS FOR CHRIST IN
KOREA IN 1910."
This is the watchword adopted October
9, 1909, by the General Council of
Protestant Missionaries in Korea at the
Annum meeting in seoui. mis 18 one
soul a month for Christ for each of the
eighty thousand (80,000) Christians in
Korea. Unite in daily prayer to God
that it be accomplished. "Again I say
unto you, that if any twp of you shall
agree upon earth as touching anything
that they shall ask, it shall be done for
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them of my Father which is in heaven.
For where two or three are gathered together
in my name, there am I in the
midst of them." Matt. 18:19, 20. Much
prayer was offered to God by some of the
Christians before this was adopted.
Plans are being made for a wide circulation
of the Word of God. Pray that
this may be done, that a copy of the
Scriptures may reach every home in
Korea, be read and studied and lived
and published abroad; that the Holy
Spirit may be poured out upon every
missionary, Christian worker and nat1v#?
Christian. "Not by might nor by power,
but by my Spirit, saith the Lord of
Hosts." Zech. 4:6. And upon the unconverted,
convicting them of sin and
and righteousness and judgment, that
there may be a fleeing from the wrath
to come of this great multitude, dead in
trespasses and sin. Pray for the gift of
intercession upon every Christian praying
daily for the lost and speaking to
some one every day to lead that soul to
Christ. Korea for Christ wholly and
speedily, not forgetting the thousands
of Japanese and Chinese in the land
oioo. ur. wnapman and party left Seoul
today. Their visit brought a great
blessing. "I would rather be a missionary
In Korea today, if God had called
me to that work, than be a king upon
his throne." Dr. Chapman told how,
when he was a pastor of a large and
wealthy Church, Mr. Moody came one
day and heard him preach. He told Dr.
Chapman his sermon did not have the
right ring, the evangelistic passion for
souls, and then how he had, in October
16, 1892, surrendered, after he had read,
in the New York Tribune, Mr. F. B.
Meyer's words, "If you are not willing
to do what God wants you to do, are
you willing to be made willing?" Then
power had come into his life. "Give all
to God?" he said. Since he had surrendered
to God he had heard the cry of
the souls out of Christ, "Lost! lost!
lost!" and had sought to bring them to
Jesus Christ, the Saviour of the lost. The
burden of his message was, "Surrender
to God." Come and help win the million
souls for Christ. "Here am I; send
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Already plans are being made for,
first, united prayer by missionaries and
Christians for the outpouring on all
Christians and upon the unconverted,
convincing of sin, of righteousness, of
Judgment.
Second, a house-to-house visitation,
with a personal invitation to accept
Christ as a personal Saviour from sin;
daily personal work by each Christian
in Knren
Third, a wide circulation of the Word
of God. Pray that a copy of the Word
be carried to every home and reach
every person In Korea with Its Influence.
Fourth, pray dally. Korea for Christ!
"Not by might nor by power, but by
my Spirit, saith the Lord of Hosts."
Why not a similar campaign In
America?
W. H. Forsythe, M.D.
Mokpo, Korea, October 15, 1909.