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VOL. LXXXV1L RICH
How Shall We
In this city, on a bright Sunday morning,
there are about 20,000 people in our churches
;ind Sunday schools, and 65,000 are not reached
at all. We have faithful pastors, godly church
officials, fine choirs, and attractive church edifices;
yet the masses are not reached.
Years ago I helped to take a church census
m a leading Iowa city. On Sunday afternoon
all the pastors and Sunday school superintendents
met to compare notes. The result on that
bright winter day was astounding.
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>.'inj iiuiiccii per ran. ui me pupunuuii
were present at church, and twelve per.
cent at Sunday school, and these largely
duplicates. For a great while these conditions
have greatly impressed me:
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1. The tremendous proportion of peo- We 1
pie who neglect God's house. shiDl
2. The great tidal wave (a million a Send
year) of the ignorant and dangerous And
classes of Europe constantly thrown on Into
our shores.
3. Seats largely empty in our church
es sunaay nights?the liod-given trme Camii
for evangelistic services. And
4. The indiffeiyice of many pastors,
church officials and Christian laymen to
these conditions. In di
I am not an alarmist. God rules and Enrb
in the end he is bound to win. How- And
ever, it is well sometimes to look facts
squarely in the face, and see if we can 0 Tt
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present and oncoming war. Listen to
this story of a man who had a vision. 0pen
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TOM BliODGETT AND HIS BOYS.
Tom Blodgett is a wholesale dry goods Dell>
man in Wichita, Kansas, but in the midst
of his exacting cares he heard God's Llft
call, "Seek first thincrs first." It han
pened on this wise. More than a year
ago the pastors and earnest men of the
city, aroused by the fearful indifference
prevailing, invited Billy Sunday. A Forg
tabernacle seating 10,000 was built and Hast
was crowded almost from the first. Mr. And
Sunday preached "righteousness, temperance
and judgment to come." Fifty two
hundred from all ranks of life were
hopefully converted, and most of them
united with the churches. Tom Blodgett was
one of the converts.
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ooon art or the Sunday campaign wa?s over,
a pastor was to be absent for the Sabbath, ami
asked Mr. Blodgett to take charge of the evening
service. He invited a lot of good fellows, converts
in the revival, to meet himr at 1:30 P. M.
at the Y. M. C. A., saying, "We are going to
have a bood time." After general prayer they
proceeded to the church. Beginning with a
gospel song service, each of the new converts
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lead in brief prayer, and then told how he had
found Christ, and what a Friend and Helper
he had in him. That night nineteen men came
forward and confessed Christ. At the end of i
the first year 476 converts were credited to the
work of Tom Blodgett's team.
HOW THE WORK SPREAD
As it was in pentecostal days, it broadened <
out more and more. In Wichita twenty-four
...PRAYER...
gnty God. our Father In Heaven,
lave beheld Thy glory and Tb<y goodness,
ing in the face of Jesus Christ, the Saviour of mankind.
forth Thy light and Thy truth, we beseech Thee,
draw all people that on earth do dwell
the fellowship of Jesus and the joy of Thy salvation.
iou who hast so greatly loved the world,
Thou has given Thine only-begotten Son. the Redeemei
inunicate Thy love to the hearts of all believers,
revive Thy Church to preach the Gospel to every creati
v/u 1*1w luicn ay my proviaence over land and sea,
ad and guide and bless the messengers of Christ:;
anger, be their shield; in darkness, be their hope;
:h their word and work with wisdom, joy, and power,
let them gather souls for Thee in far fields white unto
harvest.
iou who by Thy Holy Spirit workest wonders in secret,
l the eyes that dimly look for light to see the day-star
Christ,
i the minds that seek the Unknown God to know tl
Heavenly Father in Christ,
t the hearts that hunger for righteousness to find eter
peace in Christ.
er uie poor prisoners or ignorance and captives of idola
k down the bars of error, and dispel the shadows of
ancient night,
up the gates, and1 let the King of Glory and the Prince
Peace come in.
kingdom, O Christ, is an everlasting kingdom!
lgthen Thy servants to pray and labor and wait for
appearing,
ive our little faith and the weakness of our endeavor,
en the day when all nations shall be at peace in Thee,
every land and every heart throughout the world.
t utess cue iian.e oi me ixnra Jesus, to the glory ol God
Father. Amen.
?Henry Van Dyk<
"gospel teams," laymen from all walks of life,
have been organized, and they conduct services
in churches, theatres, halls, shops, and in the
open air. They have visited over a hundred
towns and cities within a radius of 250 miles,
covering central and southern Kansas and northern
Oklahoma. During the first year, 1,913 men
and boys have been reported as direct converts,
from the work of these teams. Beside this, new
teams have been organized in the towns visited,
and are doing a like work with great success.
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rSTERN PRESBYTER/AM
Presbyter/an <r
XRN PRESBYTERJAN
JNE II, 1913.
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aers Z Henry W. Adams
HOW TO PREACH TO IMMIGRANTS.
In many towns and cities there seems perfect
indifference as to the fate of the poor immigrant.
How to reach them is a problem, as
many of them do not understand our language.
Frederick J. Haskin, expert newspaper correspondent,
makes this startling statement: That
the immigrant has become the American manof-all
work. He contributes the following proportion
to the labor of our factories, etc: Meat
packing 85 per cent, soft coal mining 87
per cent, woolen mills labor 78 per cent,
cotton mills 90 per cent, clothing 95 per
cent, shoes 50 per cent, furniture 80
per cent, shirts and collars 50 per cent,
leather 80 per cent, gloves 50 per cent,
sugar 95 per cent.
Then he puts into the mouth of the
immigrant these thrilling words: "I
pour out my blood on your altar of
labor, and lay down my life as a sacriflwi
to MK* #??- * t":1 *- "
? w ?UU ui i\>ji ; yei men make
no more comment than at the fall of a
r> sjKirrow. My children shall be your
children and your land shall be my land,
u"?- because my sweat and my blood will
cement the foundations of the America
of tomorrow."
These men are wholly different from
our old-time immigrant from Britain,
1118 Scandinavia and Northern Germany,
and are largely Catholic, intidel, socialistic,
or anarchistic. The problem is,
. in can we muke them good Americans, or
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mwu ii.-y remain as now, a tremendous
leir peril? Yes, we can make them good
Americans.
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TELL THE STORY IN THEIR OWN TONGUE.
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the The gospel of the Son of God, presented
by tender-hearted Christian men
> of can accomplish this, and nothing else in
the wide world. To a large extent these
men cannot speak or read our language.
lts Thus, to reach them we must have trained
men, to distribute Bibles and other
literature and tell the story of redeeming
love in their own tongue. It is as^
tonishing that in many cities this vital
work is wholly neglected.
} I The Chicago Tnact Society is doing
I splendid things in this line. They have
earnest missionaries and colporteurs who
speak all the dialects of that metropolis. If
you write them they will mail you their inspiring
literature. The American Tract Society,
150 Nassau Street, New York, since its organization
has printed nearly 800,000,000 copies
of Christian literature, in 175 languages and
dialects. Send for their catalogue. The Dubuque,
Iowa, German College and Seminary are
utmiuig m various foreign languages a host of
young men, to win the hearts and lives of our
immigrants. The American Bible Society, Bible