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January 19, 1910. THE PRESBYTERH
Movement in 1886. Another test of missionary interest
among students is their missionary giving, amounting
last year to $131,000. A third, is the amount of
mission study, there being now 1,049 mission study
classes with an enrollment of 25,208. The indirect results
are almost as remarkable. The Movement has
given world vision to students. It has furnished evidences
of the vitality of the Christian faith, as an apologetic
factor. The detained Volunteers are of great
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Movement is an outgrowth of and a complement to
the Student Volunteer Movement. Perhaps the greatest
by-product of the Movement is its influence on federation
and unity.
W ith a masterly and statesmanlike outline of policy,
Mr. Mott closed his wonderful report. He was followed
by Robert P. Wilder, secretary of the British
Student Movement, telling of the results of the Movement
in Great Britain. The influence of the Movement
upon the students of Australia was briefly stated
by L. S. Kempthorne, of London.
Work in the Far East.
The work in the Orient was then taken up. First,
by Geo. S. Phelps, of Kyoto, Japan, in "The Misisonary
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said that perhaps the greatest single contribution of
the Student Movement in Japan was in conserving the
evangelical basis of the Japanese church. Splendid results
Had followed in the wake of an evangelistic campaign
recently waged. Bible study had been greatly
promoted among students.
A native Chinese was the next speaker, Mr. C. T.
Wang. He gave the educated Chinese Christian's attitude
toward the Mission Movement. In part, he said
that the Far East must be evangelized by the people of
the Far East themselves The evonrrei;???*;/-.?
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students of China is a deep step to the evangelization
of China. What is needed most is the training of leaders.
He spoke excellent English and his words sounded
out like a clarion call to the students of the Occident.
The closing address of the morning was delivered
by Arthur Rughs, of China, a secretary of the foreign
department of the Y. M. C. A., who dwelt on the
importance of seizing the young educated class of
China for Christ. If we lose the students now, it will
retard the work for centuries. We are privileged to
lead the leaders of the East. The time will soon come
when the Chinese will take over to themselves the
evangelization of their own land.
The afternoon was devoted to sectional conferences
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Ceylon, Japan, Latin America and Western Asia.
Ambassador Bryce Speaks.
Great Britain's ambassador to the United States,
Hon. James Bryce, and Bishop J. C. Hartzell, of the
Methodist Missions, Africa, were the speakers on
Thursday night. Mr. Mott, in introducing Ambassador
Bryce, happily spoke of him as not only being an
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of the Lord Jesus Christ. There was a timeliness in
the coming of so great a scholar to speak to the students
of North America. Mr. Bryce spoke in no uncertain
tones as to the compelling duty to evangelize
the world and at once, for, said he, the old religions are
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shaken, ancient customs are waning, and is it not high
time that we, who by our civilization have destroyed
those old faiths, should fill the void by our Christianity?
There is need of haste, for traders and adventurers,
"the foul scum 011 the advancing wave of civilization,"
are pressing into ancient lands. We must outstrip
them. J?ach of us by his acts is either spreading or
retarding the power of tlie gospel. As an answer to
the superficial, flippant and ignorant criticism of foreign
missions, the address was complete and crushing.
Coming from the lips of one of the world's great statesmen,
it was freighted with power.
Bishop Hartzell was introduced as a pioneer missionary,
who was also a statesman and an apostle. He
spoke on "Africa, God's latest challenge to the Christian
world." Unless that challenge be accepted, all
Africa will become Mohammedan in less than a century.
"It is a continent of vast mineral resources, just
being exploited. It is rich in Christian opportunities.
Shall they be seized?" He said that all of the govern- *
ments of Europe who hold sway in Africa are ready to
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Friday, the Third Day.
The Friday morning session began with one of the
most striking addresses of the Convention, on "The
Natural History of the Missionary Consciousness in
Soul," by Rev. John Douglas Adam, of East Orange,
N. J. It were difficult to translate the fiery thought
into writing. It dealt with the deepest spiritual truths.
"God's Spirit is ceaselessly trying to repair our lives
and to develop them. When the Spirit has a grasp on
the elemental self, the true self, certain phenomena will
be manifest. (1) Self-forgetfulness. Altruism gives
1-uitce iu egoxism. {?) i lie emphasis ol service is laid
on the spiritual needs of men.- (3) A cosmopolitan interest
is shown. A vast vision makes a vast man, challenges
the best in man. Abandonment to the Divine
Spirit will produce the broadest, most cosmopolitan
human interest in the world."
He was followed by Dr. Julius Richter, of Germany,
one of the most profound students of missions in the
world. He dwelt on "the three great tasks of the
church. (1) The evangelization of the primitive races.
(2) The evangelization of the cultured races. (3) The
final struggle for complete victory of the earth, if Christianity
be, as we believe, the ultimate and final religion
of mankind." It was a wonderful outline of Protestant
missions. Xext, Dr. H. P. Jones, of India, spoke on
"The present day demand for statesmanship on the
mission field," wherein he said that the greatness of
this demand lies in the strength of the Eastern races.
They are our superiors in many ways. There is now
a remarkable development of thought in the East. The
social ferment and new, racial assertion are very mark
ed and call for the best minds to cope with the situation."
Then came an address on "The importance of
grounding in the faith, those who are to propagate the
faith," by Canon O'Meara, principal of Wycliff College,
Toronto. "They must have a living faith. They
must have a message?dynamics as well as mechanics.
Above all, the Saviour must be a living reality." The
last speaker of the morning was D. Willard Lyon, a
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