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ON THE TRAIL OF THE
AMERICAN MISSIONARY
By WILLIAM T. ELLIS
This Distinguished American Journalist is Traveling Around the World for |
the Purpose of Investigating me American Foreign Missionary from
i a Pureiy Disinterested. Secular and Non-Sectarian Standpoint
Illustrated with Drawings and from Photographs.
New Religious Movement
Brings Men to the Fore
Philadelphia. — Within the past I
nine months there has arisen a j
new movement in the Protestant j
churches of the United States and
Canada which is bound to arrest the
world s attention by its significance.
This is the organization of men by
men. for the purpose of putting the
missionary enterprise on a basis com
mensurate with its importance; for
this foreign missionary business rep
resents an annuai expenditure of $21,
000.000. which is equivalent to six per
cent, on a capital of $350,000,000. The
magnitude of this long despised mis
sionary enterprise seems to have at
last penetrated the understanding of
the men who are responsible for it.
The new organization is not engi
neered by the preachers or by board
secretaries, or by young and visionary
enthusiasts. It had its origin with
successful business men, and it has
swung along to its conspicuous suc
cess. independent of ecclesiastical
promotion. The officials of the de
nominations are interested and ap
prove. but they are not in the saddle;
and they are not by any means cer
tain of the lengths to which the move
ment will go. A complete revolution
in missionary finances is assured, and
doubtless also, many changes in
methods. For the first time during
the whole Christian era. there seems
to be a reasonable prospect that the
entire "heathen" world will be made
acquainted with the Christian teach
ing. within a generation.
Millionaires and Missions.
Before showing how these plans are
to be accomplished, the identity of the
men behind the movement should be
made known. The idea of the lay
men's missionary movement took
form in connection with the Hay
Ftack Centennial celebration, in New
York last November. That meeting,
which was really the anniversary of
the American board of foreign mis
sions was marked by a prayer meet
ing. quite in contrast with the little
gathering of impecunious college stu
dents under a haystack 100 years be
fore. For this gathering comprised
<10 business men. of whom a score
were millionaires.
At this meeting, announcement was
made that the laymen were resolved
to take hold, systematically, and en
ergetically of this missionary busi
ness. They made three definite prop
ositions, which are the basis of the
present movement, to the secretaries
of the missionary boards of all the
denominations in the United States
and Canada. These propositions were
as follows;
1. To project a campaign to secure
intelligent and generous interest in
missions among laymen to be con
ducted by groups of laymen under the
direction of the various boards.
2 To devise a comprehensive plan
(in conjunction with said board sec
tetaries) looking towards the evan
gelization of the world in this genera
tion.
3 To endeavor to form, through the
various boards, a centennial commis
sion of laymen. 50 or more in num
ber. to visit as early as possible the
mission fields and report their find
ings to the church at home.
With respect to the last proposition,
by a curious coincidence. I had my
self undertaken, six months previous
ly. such an investigation, of which the
articles in these columns have been
the outcome. Already a large num
ber of business men have gone to the
foreign field, and some are now
there.
The men who constitute the central
organization of this laymen's mis
sionary movement are the following,
some of whom will be recognized as
national figures;
Samuel B. Capen, Boston; Harry
Wade Hicks, Boston; Edward H.
Haskell. Boston; W. N. Hartshorn.
Boston; William Shaw, Boston; John
L Bates. Boston; H. P. Andersen,
New York; Seymour M. Ballard, New
York: S. W. Bowne, New York; Wil
liam L. Brower, New York; J. Cleve
land Cady. New York: John S. Huy
ler. New York: Cleveland H. Dodge.
New York: J. Edgar Leaycraft, New
York; David McConaughy, New
York: Alfred E. Marling, New York; |
C. C. Michener. New York; John R.
Mott New York; William D Murray.
New York; Eben E. Olcott, New York; j
William J. Sehieffelin, New York; i
Robert E. Speer. New York; James M.
Speers. New York; F. P. Turner, New
York: Dr. Lucien C. Warner, New
York; Mornay Williams, New York;
John W. Wood. New York; Admiral
A. T. Mahan, New York; Silas McBee.
New York; William Dulles, New
York: James G. Cannon, New York; |
E. M. Bulkley, New York; Luther D.
Wisbard, New York; Robert C. Ogden,
New York; J. Campbell White. New
York; Chester A Holcombe, Roches
ter; D. W. McWilliams, Brooklyn; j
Dr. W. W. Keen. Philadelphia; John
Wanamaker. Philadelphia: John H.
Converse, Philadelphia; William C.
Stoever, Philadelphia; C. G. Trum
bull. Philadelphia; E. B. Sturges,
Scranton; Maj. A. P. Burchfield.
Pittsburg; William Albert Harbison,
Pittsburg; Joshua Levering. Balti
more: Dr. Howard A. Kelly, Balti
more; John W. Foster, Washington;
Henry B. F. Macfarland, Washington;
John B. Sleman, Jr.. Washington; S.
W. Woodward. Washington: George
. F. Swartzell, Washington; Andrew
Stevenson. Chicago: E. H. Pitkin. Chi
cago: Hanford Crawford. St. Louis;
A. W. Btnedict. St. Louis; L. H. Sev
erance, Cleveland; President John
Willis Baer. }a>s Angeles; E. A. K.
Hackett. Fort Wayne; Gen. Charles
Bird, Wilmington. Del.; Charles A.
Rowland. Athens, Ga.; W. J. Northern
Atlanta; Dr. Marion McHenry Hull,
Atlanta; E. P. Peabody, Waycross,
Ga.; Robert H. Gardiner. Gardiner.
Me.; David Percy Jones. Minneapolis;
E. J. B. Pense, Kingston. Ont.; N. W.
Hoyles. Toronto; H. H. Fudger. To
ronto; S. J. Moore, Toronto; J.
N. Shenstone, Toronto; John Mac
kay, Toronto; C. McD. Hay. Toronto;
George R. Crowe. Winnipeg; N. W.
Rowells. Toronto; W. M. Birks,
Montreal; A. O. Dawson, Montreal;
Henry H. Bridgman. Norfolk. Conn.;
Ezra H. Stevens, Hartford, Conn.; E.
P. Metcalf. Providence; George C.
Whitney. Worcester, Mass.; John
Meigs, Ph. D„ Pottstown. Pa.; E. K
Warren, Three Oaks, Mich.
A Sign of the Times.
The men who keep posted upon the
trend of current events in all spheres
have noticed ■ that of !are years the
emphasis in religious affairs has been
laid upon the masculine element.
Succeeding the powerful young peo
ple's movement, as represented by
Christian Endeavor and kindred or
ganizations, came the brotherhood
idea, as most prominently expressed
in the Protestant Episcopal church.
It is a common sight "down town " to
see business men of the best sort
wearing a modest little button bearing
a St. Andrew's cross. These are mem
bers of the Protestant Episcopal
Brotherhood of St. Andrew, a men's
society which has wrought notable
results in identifying first-class busi
ness men with active religious work.
Nobody could ever accuse this St.
Andrew's Brotherhood crowd with be
ing weaklings or sentimentalists.
Older, but less aggressive, although
widely pervasive is the Brotherhood
of Andrew and Philip, which began in
the Reformed church in the United
States and quickly spread to other de
nominations. Last year the Presby
terian church, which has a conspicu
ous array of public men in her mem
bership. held a great men's conven
tion in Indianapolis, and formally
launched the Presbyterian Brother
hood, William J. Bryan being one of
the promoters and speakers. The
Southern Presbyterian church fol
lowed suit, and it is to hold its first
laymen's convention this fall. The
Methodists are now pushing the
brotherhood idea: and, altogether, it
is manifest that the most marked
present-day development of Christian
ity is among the laymen.
The visible connecting link between
these denominational men's organiza
tions and the present laymen's mis
sionary movement is to be found in
the United Presbyterian church. This
body, more than a year ago. held a
business men’s convention in Pitts
burg. which attracted attention in
church circles everywhere, because of
its enthusiasm for missions, and for
its determination to put the church’s
missionary work on a business basis
The prime figure in this meeting was
J. Campbell White, a brilliant young
layman who has spent ten years in
Calcutta, where he had established
the Young Men's Chtistian Associa
tion. Mr. White has been made the
general secretary" of the laymen's
missionary movement.
Going After Heathen Businesswise.
Every reader of the funny papers,
as well as every one familiar with
church life, knows that the backbone
of the missionary work of the past
century has been the women and the
children. But it is the men who have
the money. Only the man with the
pocketbook could be equal to the big
spending which an adequate prosecu
tion of the missionary enterprise en
tails. The present outgo of $21,000,
000 a year, enormous as it is. com
prises only a fraction of the expendi
ture which is necessary, if the job is
to be done thoroughly.
So. naturally, as soon as the lay
men really took hold, they began to
do some figuring. To put the work
which has heretofore been large
ly sustained by impulse and senti
ment. on a business basis, they first
divided up the “heathen" population
of the w-orld among the Christian
countries and churches. Here is the
interesting way they go about it.
There are approximately 1,000 000.
000 “heathen" in the world. On the
basis of one missionary to every 25,
000 of these, the present force of
13.000 missionaries accounts for 325,
000.000 of heathen. Or this same re
sult may be reached by allowing two
dollars a bead as the cost of evan
gelizing each “heathen," for so the
thing has been figured out by these
men who want a working basis for
their undertaking. It becomes a
mere matter of subtraction to show
that 675,000,000 of people are at pres
ent unprovided for by the present
missionary arrangement. Therefore,
the laymen say that the missionary
bodies should have $80,000,000 a year
and 27,000 more missionaries, for 25
years, in order really to do the job.
This sort of figuring would probably
have made William Carey or Robert
Morrison, pioneer missionaries, gasp
with astonishment, but it is the mod
ern way.
All this is not the speculative figur
ing of dreamers. The laymen aro
after results; so they put the prop
osition up to every denomination by
showing just how many heathen each
church is responsible for and the
amount of money it will have to give.
And this plan of confronting a de
nomination definitely with its share
of the gigantic scheme of world-wide
evangelization has been received seri
ously by the various bodies. The
United Presbyterians were first to ac
cept the challenge, and they are ask
ing of every member an average gift
of eight dollars a year for their mis
sionary work. The Presbyterians fol
lowed, a great men's missionary con
vention having been held in Omaha
in February, and the idea iater ap
proved by the general assembly, the
Southern Presbyterians did likewise, j
The Canadian Presbyterians and
Southern Baptists have also joined
in the movement. The Congregation
alists and Northern Baptists will
take up the subject early in the fall.
The Episcopalians have not yet had
opportunity officially to adopt a basis,
but its iaymen are in the forefront of
the new movement.
Stirring a Continent.
So remarkable has been the re
sponse, up to date, on the part of
business men of Protestantism, where
this proposition has been definitely
put up to them, that the leaders are
sanguine of enlisting the entire body
of the laity of the churches of the
United States and Canada. To this
end, a series of laymen's dinners, cov
ering the big cities of the continent
are projected for this winter, on the
line of those successfully held last
winter in New York, Philadelphia.
Chicago. Poston, Toronto, Washing
ton and elsewhere. These are not
conventional missionary meetings, but
gatherings of the strongest Christian
business men in each place, managed
and addressed by laymen. The busi
ness men who are behind the move
ment plan a systematic propaganda
that shall reach every man in anywise
connected with the churches, even to
the remotest cross-roads congregation.
Already the movement is formid
able; the most important news of the
year in religious circles. Its conse
quences will doubtless be far-reach
ing. Men of foresight are already
predicting certain unplanned for re
sults. One of these, they say, will |
be the elimination of ail independent i
missionary work on the foreign field.
The latter are a serious drain on the
resources of Christendom, and. say
the laymen, who have already re- I
turned from their tour of investiga
tion. they do not ccme up to the rep
resentations made by their eloquent
representatives in this country. The
laymen's movement stands squarely !
behind the denominational boards.
Nevertheless, it is predicted, the lay
men will hold the hoards strictly to
account, that their missions be
manned only by competent workers
and that they be conducted on the
broadest, most effective and most
economical lines.
Great Britain in Line.
A deputation from the laymen's
missionary movement has just re
turned from the other side of the wa
ter, where it went to introduce the
project to the laity of the British
churches. The report brought back
is remarkable. The deputation was
welcomed and feted everywhere by
archbishops, church leaders and busi
ness men. They ate enough compli
mentary dinners to give them all
dyspepsia. The serious outcome of
their labors was the definite organi
zation, with unexpected enthusiasm,
of the laymen's missionary movement
in England and Scotland.
The most striking feature of Great
Britain's acceptance of the project is
the fact that the high church party
of the Church of England has en
tered into alliance with other re
ligious bodies 'in this undertaking.
This is unprecedented. The Society
for the Propagation of the Gospel, the
famous High Church "Missionary or
ganization. has indorsed the new
movement, and its representatives are
working side by side with men from
the nonconformist bodies. Great
Britain, with less than half the popu
lation ol' the Cnited States and Can
ada. already gives $8,973,000 a year
to foreign missions, a little less than
is given by the North American con
tinent. The balance needed to make
up the world's *otal $3,327,000 being
given by ail other countries. It is
expected that the gifts of Great. Brit
ain will be stimulated in proprotion to
those on this side. In any case, even
Wall street will have to take notice
of the flow of money into foreign mis
sion channels.
(Copyright, bv Joseph B Bowles.)
Women More Honest Than Men.
Statistics compiled by American
guarantee companies show that, as re
gards honesty, women are superior to
men. Women in America are em
ployed in business as extensively as
men. and yet the record shows that
almost every embezzler and defaulter
was a man. There are more women
cashiers than men. The universal
stores and shops of almost every
kind employ women to handle their
receipts and to give change: yet there
were a hundred cases of men cashiers
stealing to one case where a woman
cashier took her employer's money.
JAPANESE COLONY IN TEXAS.
Settlement Comprises 1.000 Acres—
Many Japs Becoming Naturalized.
San Antonio, Tex.—Friction be
tween the United States and Japan
over the immigration of Japanese la
borers to this country, which brought
on race riots in San Francisco and
elsewhere on the Pacific slope, lends
interest to the immigration of Japan
ese to Texas, through Mexico. The
movement rose to a considerable im
portance in 1904 and 1905, and
reached its climax in the early part
of 1907, when great numbers of Jap
anese entered Texas. They came in
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Japanese House in Texas.
bodies of 30 or 40 at a time, each
group having a leader. As many as
400 or 500 of them were in San An
tonio at one time last spring, and for
several months displaced the negro
servants, especially as coachmen.
Then suddenly all of these men quit
their positions and embarked on a
train for the northwest.
Many of the Japanese, however,
who have come to Texas have come
in good faith as settlers. Some of
them, especially the colony at Web
ster, in Harris county, in this state,
have signified their intention of be
coming American citizens. The Six
ty-first district court of Harris coun
ty has granted to some of them pre
liminary papers as proof of the "dec
laration of intention." The question
has been risen as to whether the Jap
anese are eligible to American citi
zenship. It is stated that a federal
judge in a western Texas district has
held that the Japanese are eligible, and
! it is probable that at the end of the
term of qualified residence no
objection will be made to the final
naturalization.
This colony in Harris county occu
pies about 1.000 acres of land, nearly
all of which is under cultivation, the !
most of it being planted in rice. They |
also cultivate vegetables and fruits, i
! and have proved themselves success
| ful farmers. They have built them
: selves comfortable homes and have to
I a great extent adopted American cus
, toms. They have a Presbyterian
I church and a preacher trained at the
| Union Theological seminary in Vir
i ginia.
| About four years ago a colony of
j Japanese settled on the Mitchell lake
! farms, south of San Antonio. The
| Mitchell lake farms are under irriga
tion and the Japanese have held their
own with the Germans and the Bo
hemians, who have been the most suc
cessful farmers in this part of the
country.
One of the most successful of this j
colony, named Porido. took advantage
of the influx of his countrymen last
winter and had some Japanese car
penters in the party build him a Jap
anese house. It is rather a quaint
and graceful type of architecture and
is well adapted to this climate. He
lives there with his wife and two chil
dren. The oldest, a boy about three
years of age, is the first Japanese
j child born in Texas.
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LORD CURZON AN IRISH PEER.
—
Ex-Viceroy of India Elected to Va
cancy in House of Lords.
London.—Lord Curzon of Kedleston,
ex-viceroy of India, who by the recent
LORD CURZON.
election in Dublin became a repre
sentative Irish peer to fill the vacancy
in the house of lords caused by the
death of Lord Kilmaine. has a special
interest for Americans in view of the
fact that his wife, who died in 1906,
was Miss Mary Letter of Chicago. He
is the eldest son of Rev. Alfred N
Holden Curzon, Baron Scarsdale, a
country clergyman. Lord Curzon was
born in 1859, educated at Eton and Ox
ford and entered politics in 1886, as
conservative representative for the
Southport division of Lancashire. He
traveled extensively in the east be
fore ha was made a viceroy, which of
fice he held from 1898 until 1905.
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Kafir's Newly-Acquired Treasure Put
to Queer Use.
An army officer in charge of a na
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to the kafir boy who acted as his par
ticular servant a pair of strong, heavi
ly nailed army boots.
The boy was delighted with the gift,
and at once sat down and put the
boots on. They were the very first
pair he had ever had in his life, and
for several days afterward he strut
ted proudly about the camp with
them.
But at the end of the week he ap
peared as usual with bare feet and the
boots tied round his neck.
■'Hello!” said his master. “Why
don't you wear your boots? Are they
, to small for you?”
"Oh, no, sah," replied the kafir, j
“they plenty big. Berry nice boots, I
sah, but no good for walking or run- |
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sah. Keep boots now for wear in 1
bed.”—London Answers.
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Sales Lewis’ Single Binder cigars for |
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Gain . 700,000
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NOT GENERALLY KNOWN.
A girl pupil in the New Shoreham
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Pitch pine, which has been consid
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All the revolvers taken from prison
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The United States owns and main
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Rothesay Wedding Dowry.
There are only three applicants this
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It may be that the Scottish lasses
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Do You Drink Coffee
Why put the cheap, rank, bitter flavored toffee in
yourstomach when pure GERM AN-AMERICAN
COFFEE costsno more! insist on having it. Your
grocer sells It or can get It.
Oil MFAI Cotton Seed Meal, Tan
kage and Alfalfa Feeds
J. H. CONRAD. 724-7:# Omaha Grain Exchange.
Established 1884. Ton and car luadi*. Conaignments
grain solicited. Member Omaha Grain Exchange.
When in OMAHA Stop at the
Iler Grand Hotel
Good Rooms 91.00 Per Day
Mea.'s at Reasonable Prices
ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES Apparatu s
RAILWAY, STEAM AND GENERAL
SUPPLIES
JOSEPH R. LEHMER. 1218 Farnam, Omaha
Largest stock in the West
Montello Granite a sj>eci
alty. All lettering done by
pneumatic tools. First-class work and lowest
prices. Correspondence solicited. Give us a call,
j. F. BLOOM & COMPANY, 1115-1117 FARRAM SI.. OMAHA.
SHIP GRAIN DIRECT
fanners can save fib to SlOl) a <*ar by shipping their own
grain to us for sale. A. L. I>avig. I Gordon. S«?b.. «aved
VIM) on one car of barley • W rite today for “Shippers'
«.uide" with full directions. Address Farmers' Grain
Co. 781 1-2 Brandies Bldg., Omaha, Neb.
I>r». Bailey & Mach. The V%P||T1 ATA
DENTISTS
''-■‘J-LA-Ij Sts.. 0*m». Neb. Best equipped
Iferita 1 office In the Middle West. Latest appliances.
High grade Dentistry. Reasonable prices.
HAY AND GRAIN 707-9 Brandies' Bldg.
Omaha. E. A. Nordstrom, Manager. ’Phone
or wire us. Members Omaha Grain Exchange.
Carload Consignments Our Specialty.
DON’T youfe"}."
By having them experimented on bv trav
eling fakers. Come to us for Free Exami
nation. H. J. PEN FOLD <£. CO., Leading
Scientific Opticians. 1408 Farnam. Omaha.
If In Doubt, Buy A
JOHN DEERE