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LL the ends of the earth have felt the
thrill of the great world wide .confer
ence for Christian missions recently
held in Edinburgh, Scotland. William
J. Bryan leading the Americans and
Lord Balfour, the great English states
man, leading our brothers across the
seas, the picture must have been sub
lime.
HUI. ■IIIIHW
Loaner
In The Baptist Commonwealth of July 14, there
appears a report from eight members of the World
Missionary Conference. The report comes in the
nature of a statement of facts carefully culled from
expert testimony which has come direct from the
mission fields in non-Christian lands. It also bears
an appeal to Christian peoples of every clime, na
tion and denomination to arise, gird up their loins
and equip themselves for the onward march into
all lands where the light of the pure Gospel has
never shone, and the watchers on the tower are
growing faint and weary in waiting for the coming
of “an army with banners” whose captain shall make
all men free.
Some of the most pertinent points in the message
are as follows:
Our survey has impressed upon us the momentous
character of the present hour. We have heard from
many quarters of the awakening of great nations,
of the opening of long-closed doors and of move
ments which are placing all at once before the
church a new world to be won for Christ. The next
ten years will in all probability constitute a turning
point in human history, and may be of more critical
importance in determining the spiritual evolution
of mankind than many centuries of ordinary experi
ence. If those years are wasted havoc may be
ought that centuries are not able to repair. On
the other hand, if they are rightly used they may
be among the most glorious in Christian history.
We have, therefore, devoted much time to a close
scrutiny of the ways in which we may best utilize
the existing forces of missionary enterprise by uni
fying and consolidating existing agencies, by im
proving their administration and the training of their
agents.
But it has become increasingly clear to us that
we need something far greater than can be reached
Merry 'Editors at Americus.
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those Georgia Editors changing the geographical
position of “Georgia Belles" and “Queen Elbertas"
ought to have been caught for a moving picture
show.
The banquet that night at the Armory was simply
immense. At other banquets the tables were served
by the smiling Georgia Darkey clad in full evening
array, but not so Americus. The young ladies of the
town had the whole function in charge, and aside
from the delicious edibles themselves, the editors
endangered their anatomy just to get the fair dam
sels “to bring ’em some more."
But it was a prohibition banquet, thank the Lord,
and the speakers and the hearers kept clear headed
and happy without the flow of wine.
Hon E. A. Nisbet as toastmaster, was what Mark
Twain said of the ocean, “Boys, she’s a success!”
Hon. Wilson S. Hardy, of The Rome Tribune-
Herald, with a head colored like the sun outside and
bright as the sun within, made the welkin ring on
the work of the Southern Commercial Congress.
Hon. Sam C. Dunlap, who is trying to make Georgia
bigger and better by the right kind of immigration,
spoke able, earnest words on “How the Weekly
Press Can Build the State." William G. Sutlive,
managing editor of The Savannah Press, read a pa
per' on “Some Phases of Weekly Journalism,” that
was a cascade of wit and a shower of mirth.
But the cultured guest of honor, Dr, Howard S.
Taylor, of Hearst’s newspapers, Chicago, arising late
aiid last, “took our breath with his gems of classical
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ECHOES EDINBURGH
Great “Ecumenical Conference Stirs All Christendom.
The Golden Age for July 21, 1910.
by any economy or reorganization of the existing
forces. We need supremely a deeper sense of re
sponsibility to Almighty God for the great trust
which He has committed to us in the evangeliza
tion of the world. That trust is committed to all
and each within the Christian family; and it is as
incumbent on every member of the Church, as are
the elementary virtues of the Christian life—faith,
hope and love. That which makes a man a Chris
tian makes him also a sharer in this trust. This
principle is admitted by us all, but we need to be
aroused to carry it out in quite a new degree. Just
as a great national danger demands a new stand
ard of patriotism and service from every citizen,
so the present condition of the world and the mis
sionary task demands from every Christian, and
from every congregation, a change in the existing
scale of missionary zeal and service, and the eleva
tion of our spiritual ideal.
It is not only of the individual or the congrega
tion that this new spirit is demanded. There is an
imperative spiritual demand that national life and
influence as a whole be Christianized: so that the
entire impact, commercial and political, now of the
West upon the East, and now of the stronger races
upon the weaker, may confirm, and not impair, the
message of the missionary enterprise.
The delegates representing the Northern Baptists
of the United States, in the World’s Missionary Con
ference, at Edinburgh, deeply sensible of the privil
ege they have enjoyed and the blessing they have
personally received, before separating, at the close
of the Conference, have determined upon this report
and appeal to their brethren and sisters of the
churches at home.
It has been difficult amid the enthusiam and fer
vor of the Conference to refrain from superlatives
in describing it. We beg to assure you in all so
briety that men of cool judgment and sound mind
are beginning to attribute to it a significance, and
to predict' for it an influence, epochal in Christian
missions and the life of the Church through them.
The Conference has been so widely representative
of all branches of the Church Protestant ; so distin
guished for the practical experience, intellectual abil
ity, and the professional and social eminence of
many of its members; so continuously devout in its
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waiting upon God for guidance, and so steadfast in
the ministry of intercession; so deliberative in the
consideration and discussion of facts from the world
field, gathered, sifted and digested, after eighteen
months of preparatory labor by the several commis
sions; so controlled by the spirit of love and broth
erly good-will in all intercourse and discussion; and
finally so unanimous in the determination reached
to form a “Continuation Committee” to perpetuate
the influence, extend the investigations and promote
the manifestly divinely ordered tendencies of the
Conference, as, altogether, to warrant us in the dec
laration that we have, by your gracious authoriza
tion, been participants in a gathering of the Church
of Christ absolutely unique in character and poten
tiality.
We, therefore, feel under obligation to urge upon
you to give studious attention to such accounts, in
detail of the Conference as may come under your
eye; to secure for your church libraries the reports
of its commissions and its proceedings—the most
valuable storehouse of missionary information, in
struction and inspiration ever gathered; to renew
and augment your life of intercession in behalf of
the movement and the work of which the Confer
ence is, at once, the fruit and the seed; to see to it
that the Conference is brought by some competent
person before our associations and State conventions
during the summer and autumn; and, finally, to pro
mote, by all means and with all earnestness, in your
own hearts, and in our churches, the spirit of co
operation and unity in Christian labor with other
branches of the one Body of Christ.
In no respect is the Conference more significant
than in the relation to this subject of the reality and
possibility of unity among Christians of differing be
liefs. Recognizing to the full the sacredness and
authority of conscientious convictions loyally held,
the Conference opens the way for a long step in
advance in the practical realization of this unity, in
service through co-operation, alike in the direction
from the home-lands and the conduct on the mis
sion-fields, of work among the non-Christian nations
of the world. The churches of our own faith and
order, assuredly will be disobedient unto the heav
enly vision and the divine Will, if they fail to re
spond with all heartiness to this call of God's provi
dence and this monition of His Spirit.”
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