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WHERE THE UNREACHED MILLIONS
OF THE WORLD ERE WAITING
Task of Gigantic Proportions Set for the Christians of America. Great
Work of Congo Reform Assoeiaiion in Heart of Africa. The Magic
Touch of Christ and a Glorious Awakening -Protestant Sunday School
Army Sow 28,701,#** Strong—Tile Cost of Religion.
BY SOUTHKRN’ MISSION'ARY' MOWS BUREAU
Ida Clyde C larw, Editor.
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The emergencies of Japan as a ♦
♦ world force, the awakening of ♦
♦ China, the ferment of Boci&l and 4
4 political ideas in India, the quick- ♦
♦ suing of national consciousness in ♦
♦ Persia and the remarkable politi- 4
4 cal and religious readjustment ♦
4 taking place in Moaelem lands 4
♦ from the island of Sumatra on the 4
4 east to Constantinople on the 4
4- west, are conditions whijh will 4
♦ tax to the utmost the wisdom and 4
4 faith of the Christian statesman 4
♦ who prays and plans for the ex- 4
4 tension of the kingdom of God in ♦
4- all the earth. 4
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The task of evangelizing the world
Sr one of gigantic proportions. To
furnish one missionary to every 25,000
heathen the American churches must
increase their force from 4,000 to 20,-
400 missionaries and their gifts from
$9,500,000 to $40,000,000 annually. This
la assuming that the Christians of
America are responsible for 500,000,-
000 of the unevangelized. This large
as it seems is less than one-fifth of
■what is spent on the churches at
hone, less than a street car fare a
week per church member.
Os these unevangelized millions as
signed to one denomination alone, 20,
€OO,OOO are in China, within that Gi
hralter qf missions at whose unyield
ing front missionaries have been
ponding for more than a half a cen
tury.
In an appeal to the people of this
denomination, one of the secretary js
says:
“In the Sunrise Kingdom of Japan
there are 7,000,000; in Korea, that land
•f spirital marvel where the reviv
al fires never wane, there are 2,000,000
broken-hearted people; in Brazil, the
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rich and wonderful Land of the South •
urn Cross, there are 5,000,000; Mexico
presents the problem and privilege of
evangelizing 5,000,000 of. her popula
tion; Cuba, the Pearl of the Antilles,
i estles close to our shores and there
1,000,000 people await the glad tid
ings.’’
This constitutes an army equal to
onie-haLr the whole population of the
United States. As one writer has said:
“They come from the East and the
West, all open and friendly to us, vex
ed with vague unrest and mil of un
voiced questionings. We are their
hope, we hold their dest’ny in our
hands. Shall we fail them?”
Great Work Completed
i The Congo Retorn Association,
formed nearly ten years ago. having
finished the task for which it was cre
ated, recently disbanded. It was
through this orgonization that start
ling charges were brought against
King Leopold of Belgium for his cam
paign of cruelty in connection with
the gathering of crude rubber by the
natives of the Congo basin. The as
sociation focused the attention of the
civilized world upon an intolerable sit
uation and brought to bear upon it all
| the forces of righteous public indigna
tion.
i The association had five objects,
each of which has been attained. They
were: The abolition of atrocities; the
abolition of the main features upon
which the slave system reposed; the
j separation of the administrative from
the commercial element; direct taxa
tion in place of irregular demands for
rebber; freedom of trade.
The civilized world owes a great
debt to the Englishmen who formed
| this association. For twenty-five eyars
lithe Congo country was the scene of
: > some of the most ruthless savagery
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ever practiced by white men upon i
dependent people.
It is said on good authority that
during the Leoppold regime the Congo
population was reduced from 20,000,-
000 to 8,000,000.
The Magic Touch
How oft n do we forget that to the
puny effort of a feeble man ‘here may
be added the infinite power that
swings solar systems! A half dozm
good women in the city of Amoy heart
burdened with the thought of China’s
childhood suffering the tortures of
foot-binding, met in the home of a
humble missionary and decided io
organize an anti-foot-binding society.
A few decades later an imperial edicit
abolished the custom and fifty million
helpless babes were saved from Intol
erable anguish and crippled lives.
A Presbyterian missionary and r
Methodist missionary doctor in the
city of Sooebow discussed the awful
evil of a hundred and fifty million peo
ple debauched by opium and decide to
oraganize an anti-opium society. A
few years later a petition is presented
the throne signed by one thousand,
three hundred and thirty-three mis
sionaries. A month later in almost the
identical language of the petition, an
imperial edicit is promulgated, pro
hibiting the habitual use of opium and
making provision for the abolition of
the traffic.
A mission press decides to print o
calendar in the Chinese language and
spread it brcadcost over China. The
leaven works until an imperial man
date goes forth proclaiming the Lord’s
Day a universal day of rest. Weary
millions find surcease from toil. Con
fucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism
discredited, and the Cross of Jesus
Christ is raised over the most pope
lous nation of the world.
’ When Kang Yu Wei, the splendid
leader of the reform movement ;>f
1898, was interviewed at Hongkong,
the editor of the Chinese Mail said to
him; “China has not had a patriot in a
hundred years, and now you suddenly
appear, the embodiment of the highest
patrotism and the wisest statesman
ship. I don’t understand it. Where
did you get your information and your
inspiration?” The reply was: “Fro n
two men—Timothy Richards, an Eng
lish Baptist missionary and Young J.
Allen a Methodist missions -y from
America.”
Can’t Help But
Admire Babies
Every Woman Casts Loving Glance at
the Nestling Cuddled In Its Sonnet
A woman's heart responds to the sweet
ness of a pretty child, and more so to-day
than ever before since
the advent of Moth
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This is a wonderful
external help to the
muscles and tendons.
It penetrates the tis
sues. makes them
readily yield to nat
ure’s demand for ex
pansion, so there is no
period of pain, discomfort, straining, nau
sea or other symptoms so often distressing
during the anxious weeks of expectancy.
Mother’s Friend thoroughly lubricates
every nerve, tendon and muscle involved
and is a sure preventive for caking of the
breasts.
And particularly to young mothers is this
famous remedy of inestimable value. It
enables them to preserve their health and
strength, and they remain pretty by having
avol led nil the suffering and danger that
would otherwise accompany such an occa
sion.
You will find this splendid remedy on
trie at all drug stores at SI.OO a bottle.
Write Bradfield Regulator Co., 234 La
mar Bldg.. Atlanta, Ga., for their instruct
ive book for expectant mothers.
Which of the great reforms in China
t! at have startled the world within too
last twenty-five years cannot be direct
ly or indirectly traced to the touch of
Christ upon that nation?
DR. C. F. REID.
The Cost of Religion.
Sometimes we hear the complaint
that religion is too costly. Going to
church we are told costs too mu-.h
nowadays and men say that the gospel
should be preached without money and
without price. “The Luthernn” ! *makes
this reply: “Last year about $250,000
was spent to keep the work of 142,000
churches in America going—an aver
age of about $7,000 per communicant
member. One would think that if re
ligion is really worth much it shou'd
make much heavier demands on tin
purse than that. Confectionery and
soft drinks, however, seem to be worth
more to the American people than re
ligion, for $320,000,000 iff spent for
these articles. The automobile bill u
double what it costs to run the church
es, and the jewelry bill exceeds it more
than three times. The theatre and
moving picture bill is equally in ex
cess. Men and boys (and even some
, women) puff nearly five times that
amount into tobacco smoke every year,
and the large army of intoxicant lov
ers spend ten times that sum to satisfy
a craving which means the ruination
I of millions of lives.”
Citizens of Kokomo
Honor Mrs. Patterson
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The citizens Oit tvoKomo, tne name
of which has often caused joy for the
comic artists, have shown their ap
preciation of literature by their mem
orial for Mrs. Virginia Sharpe Patter
son, the author of “Dickey Downy.”
Fifteen years ago that work started
the agitation which' has since resulted
in federal legislation for the protec
tion of wild birds of America. Mrs.
Patterson, who died recently, was the
first editor of a page for children in
an American magazine. She was
deeply interested in the conservation
movement. She was so well liked in
her home town that they are going to
name a park tor her.
FESTIVE STUDENT
NEARLY CAUSE
SERIOUS PANIC
Nashville, Tenn., Oct. 31. —“College
spirit” as exemplified by a little too
abrupt halt last night when a crowd
of Vanderbilt students augmented by
about an equal number of city boys, at
tempted to storm the Orpheum theatre.
Two officers, with gleaming pistols,
appeared on the sidewalk suddenly and
the general stampede that resulted put
an end to the celebrations of the night.
The affair came very near being one
of a more serious nature, however, fc:
a- number of the smaller boys running
m> the alleys along the side of the thea
tre with cries of “open the windows”
created a near panic in the crowded
playhouse, men and women rising in
their seats and starting for the door.
Presence of mind saved the day, for
rushing on the stage, the stage mana
ger explained that it was ail in fun, and
the panic was averted.
The celebration was started in a very
peaceable manner, a large number of
Vanderbilt students gathering at the
union station at 9 o’clock to send off
the football team for its game with
.Virginia. Not content with the celebr i
, tion at the station, however, many of
the students started uptown for fur
j her festivities. After marching around
town an attempt was made by the
crowd to storm the Princess theatre
but Sergeant Wright and patrolmen ef
fectually prevented this. The crowd
then started for the Orpheum, where
it was disbursed.
WORLD’S SERIES HERO TO
BUSY “FETCHING LITERS”
TO GO ON THE STAGE
Buffalo. N. Y., Oct. 31.—Wally
Schang turned down a contract of $5 -
000 offered by a representative of a
New York vaudeville agency for hi 3
services ior ten weeks on a vaudeville
circuit.
Under the terms of the contract
Walley was to appear twice a day, do
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length and was to have received SSO)
a week.
The Wales Center boy flatly Refused
jto consider the offer, not because h i
considered the price too lov\ but be
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! the taters.”
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