THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: MARCH 24, 1007.
Christ Under Dual Banner the Battlecry of Methodists
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of Home .Missions and Church
Extension of th Mothodlst Lpis
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patriotism, which bodes m'ghty things
for the complete ChrisllanlzaNon of Amer
ica. This convention added to the significance
of Omaha as the center of great rellgloua
movements. Recently It waa made conspicu
ous by the Intersynodlcal Foreign Mis
sionary convention of men of the Presby
terian church, embracing the leaders of
that dcmonlnatlon. The Methodist gather
ing meant that Omaha became the per
manent headquarters of the new division
under the home board. It Is the residence
of the secretary, Dr. Illff.
Effect of Omaha Meeting?.
Th Impulse received from the Omaha
meeting; Is destined to spread until It em
braces the enUre west from the MIs
IsslMlppl to the Pncinc. A startling- state
ment wns made during the morning meeting-
last "Tuesday wherein Rev. T. C Illff,
assistant corresponding secretary of tha
board, who will have Immediate car of
tha work In the conferences of Nebraska,
north, Nebraska, northwest Nebraska, wost
Nebraska, Iowa, northwest Iowa, Pes
Moines, upper Iowa, Minnesota, northern
Minnesota, Dakota, North Dakota, north
ern Oerman, northwest Gorman, Montana
and north Montana, said:
"What we most need la great active lead
ers In this tremendous field of the west In
which there are more than 6,000,000 of peo
ple. Methodism has no Mshnp between the
Mississippi and rugot Bound, while the
Catholic church has two bishops In South
Dakota alone. We need not only bishops,
but preachers, presiding elders and laymen
who can carry the living- voice of Ood Into
these communities. We are selling- too
many churches and parsonages Instead of
building- them. Unless we hold America
for Christ now and tomorrow, every other
mission field will be crippled. If we hold
America for Christ we shnll soon see the
whole world marshalled under the banner
of the cross and the Star Bpangled Bnn
ner.M lirnthnslaata In the Work.
Tt Is always an Interesting slsht to see
strong, enthusiastic men assembled to ac
complish triod for their fellow kind, nnd
the meeting Just closed In Omaha was one
of the most nntnble of Its chnrnctcr. On
this occasion were gathered many of the
foremoet workers In the home mission and
church extension field. Among- them were
Bev. George Elllett, D. D., of Chicago,
Held secretary for the board; C. M. Bos
well, D. D., assistant corresponding sec
retary of th board, of Philadelphia, who
has charge of the New York, New York
East, Philadelphia, Wllmlnfrton, Baltimore
and Newark conferences, and a host of
Others, Including- tha earnest home mis
sion wsrkers of Nebraska and many from
wectern Iowa.
Throughout tha whole ' meotlng- was
breathed the spirit of the revival of Mcth
cl'jm and Christ. Scarcely a speaker but
Cked enthusiastically of the reviving sea-
on of old-fashioned Methodism and dis
countenanced tha phraseology of "modern
methods" and an "up-to-dute eospol." The
general plea and mast strongly put was
that tha gospel has lost none of Its divine
energy when preached with graca and sim
plicity, and that revival services, properly
conducted, are of the utmost value In
arousing communities to the necessity of
pure and undented religion.
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Country Problem Considered.
The country church received more than
passing- attention during- the convention
and one of the papers read before the
meeting was that of Rev. John Orant Shlck
of Nebraska on "The Country Problem,"
Spring Shopping in East
EOPLB in civilised lands who read
of the difficulties experienced by
trader and explorers in Africa
In tha matter of getting labor for
house building and transport ara
apt to ask why these savages will not
work. The truth Is nature la too kind to
them.
Their houses grow of their own aocord
In the shape of reeds and rushes. The
ants provide mortar out of tha earth from
their giant hills. A trap set in a moment
for an antelope will provide meat for a
week; while such fruit and vegetables as
ay be needed grow wild in profusion,
Aoremost among them being the plantain.
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which had a splendid bearing upon the de
cadence " of tha country church, which
he attributed to the scattering of
the older . settlers and the Influx of
a newer and strange population. Ills
reference to . the country church brought
out many pathetic reminiscences among
the gray-headed ministers present, soma
of whom knew and remembered Peter
Cartwright and other famed circuit riders
of long years ago. Rev. Franklin M
Klfresh, ,D. D., once said of the country
church:
'Its story Is written In prose. The path
to its .door Is dust or mud. It has .neither
nave, transept nor loggia. It has neither
duet or quartet, recessional ' or proces
sional; seldom an anthem. Just singing. It
has neither learned discourses nor eloquent
homilies Just preaching-. Its pulpit Is not
filled by the reverend doctor of newspaper
reputation. Yet this preacher and his
church grip men and hold them to rlpnt
eousness, build men up in character, and
give ideals, to the whole community with
a thorouehness that no other rart of the
church reaches. The facts Justify sacri
fice, the past la worthy of noblo pride,
the opportunity demands service. Tha
scant support of the country preacher Is
a menace to the future of the church. Tha
call for more liberal treatment Is an Issue
to which the leaders of the church and
the workers in . the country Itself must
turn. The ministers of the country churches
must be supported In comfort to be trua
leaders of the community. They must be
fed In body and brain to do the herolo
and masterful work that lies before them."
Methodism and Optimism.
It has long been recognised jthat Method
Ism Is tha Incarnation of optimism and
that It has a genius for achievement. It
was onca thought that the cry "a million
for missions" seemed extravagant. Such
was the spirit of Jhe Omaha, meeting that
even tha most pessimistic- of the members
believed Methodism would respond and gx
beyond the Jl.000,000 Una.
Hopefulnmss, onthusjaam and optimism
were the prevailing features of this great
convention. "Methodism," said Dr. Illff,
"lias ten "aTmlghty .factor In shaping tha
Christian clvilltatlon west of the Missis
sippi river.', I know, for I have been In the
field for thlrty-sU; years. , The increase in
the number of Methodist Episcopal
churches In this vast region since the war
of the rebellion' has been from 1,000 to
Aa to their clothing. In Uganda, at any
rate, this grows 'upon trees. The bark
cloth tree of east central Africa has from
time Immemorial provided these people
with garments of soft- flexible natural
cloth which is sewn together by the women.
It la extremely light. . porous and durable,
nearly white in color and readily stripped
from the tree ltke cork.
Unfortunately slnoe the, construction of
tha Uganda railway one of the chain of
llnea that penetrate' the African continent
from Capo Tom. almost to the pyramids
the women and girls of .Uganda' are begin
ning to ask for .white and colored cottons
of civilised make. For the tfeopla a,- fas'
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aCNISTESTS WHO ATTENDED Tim
nonrly S,000 and the church membership haa
Increased in the same proportion. The
board of church exter.Ion and tho home
department of the Missionary society havo
gone Into every new settlement to plant a
church and prech the gospel and have
had almost everything to do In molding
the, moral and rellslous character of this
section of our nation. While I am over
whelmed with the magnitude of this work,
yet I lelleve we will accomplish it by the
graco of God. Measured by nil proper
standards the Board of Home Mlsaiona'and
Chuwh Fixtersions has an unparalleled op
portunity' and tremendous rcii.iv.iibll;ty.
In tho campaign for tho conquest of Amer
ica for Christ we must plan and w-ork and
so work ns to capture this limitless terri
tory of the west."
Anions; the Fnrelsrn Peoples.
One of the very lritTet-tliig addn-ases of
the convention was that of Rov. Henry
Danlelson of the Danish Norwegian l"pis
copal church of Omithn, who poke Tuesday
forenoon on the subject of t"io foreign pp
Ula.tlon problem. lie dwelt upon the Im
portance of home mission work among his
people.
"The problem ta so great for so small a
man as I," said he, "that I must aay very
little about It. You do not know what It
Is to meet foreigners. They are, naturally
suspicious. But nt the IminlETration depots
someono Is alwnya present to meet them,
but they are cither saloon runners or se
cret society men. Very few missionaries
are there to meet them. In Chicago there
are 60,000 Norwegians and In tho vicinity
of Omaha and ' Council Bluffs ara lS.OuO
Norwegians and Danes, and not 2,000 be
long to any church. True, they oome from
a Christian country, but it is tho Chris
tianity of a dead church.
"What we need Is money, men and
women. It is not hard to get theno peopio
on the Lord's side, and when we get them
they will stay. I have on my list 100 fam
ilies whom I have not yet been able to
visit. But I will get to them In time. Wo
need a great, strong home missionary so
ciety, with its church extension features.
If we had that we would soon pay tt back
with ten thousand per cent Interest. Bless
the Lord, we live pretty good with the
little that we have. You of the big
churchos are better paid than we, but wa
prefer to stayYight where we are because
the Lord put us there. You must not try
to get our people from ns. We ore only
Central Africa
amassing wealth through the opening up
of the country.
Tho child king of Uganda, Daudl Chwa,
still keeps tha bark cloth for his regal
robes, though It la hard for the youngster
to be dignified aa he sits at his lessons In
a missionary school in Mengo, the Uganda
capital. His father was the dreaded
Mwanga, who tortured and burned to death
many of his people whom he suspected of
a leaning toward clvtllxatton. It was he,
too, who caused Bishop Hannlngton to be
murdered In Busoga.
Uganda was visited years ago by Stan
ley, who Interviewed Mteaa, the then
monarch, who was In the habit of flaying
alive those who crossed his savage will.
Stanley wanted to send news home to
Iindon about this African country, but the
only practicable route open at that time
whs by the Nile.
The explorer entrusted his letter to a
young Belgian, Unants de Bellefonds. but
on his way north Bellefonds' expedition
was attacked by the Bar! tribe and him
self tortured and murdared. Tha punitive
expedition sent out later to inquire into
the young explorer's death found in ona
of his high knee boots Stanley's letter to
the Ixmdon Dally Teleifrph challenging
Christendom to evangelize Uganda. "tha
country where men nnd women's clothes
K'Aw on forest trees." This letter wns
finally sent to Oeneral Oordon nt Khartoum
where he, too. met a tragic death and
wns later on forwarded by him to its des
tination. Pointed Paragraphs
Beat part of the bargain is the gain.
If a man is a loafer he has but little to
live for.
Instead of sending a friend on a fool's
errand, go yoursolf.
After a man has proposed he Is soma,
times dlfpose to renege.
Find fMilt with your friends and It will
muko them faultier.
It's an easy matter for a dgctor tj relieve
a patleut of his money.
When a s-jur-tenipeicd woman talks wa
are reminded of pickled torgue.
After Inducing a man to make a fool
of himself u woman gives him the laugh.
Some men mem to think that borrowed
money and umbrellas are in the rams
class.
He Is a mean man who will let a woman
marry hlia for bis money whin he hasn't
any.
INerybody wants something for nothing,
but few people are satisfied with what they
get that way.
livery woman lovea the wrong man ono.
, and evory man lovea the wrong woman at
least a dozen times.
Somehow It's difficult for a man to b
lleva that be Is aa good as ha expects bis
wife to belleva that beta.
Women who frl that they were bora to
command usually succeed in acquiring bus
bauds who rula the rwosU Ctilco Nawa
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homo-mado people, mada by God. not by
man. Of course, our little churches do not
make, much showing with your great
chinches, but then wo nre not complaining.
We. can reach our people with the little
rhurcli more easily than you can with tha
big church. What we need In deaconesses
nnd young men filled with the enthusiasm
of tho Holx Spirit. x
"The Norwegians and Danes make good;
Methodists. I went back to my old home In
Norway a few yars ago. It Is a great
country of long days. My home Is farther
north thnn many of you have ever boon.
But after being In America for thirty year
I could not accustom myself to the oi
conditions there. I did not know how ta
pet tosieep In the daytime, wlien the days
were nearly eJx months long. I told my
brother that I could not sleep in a bed in
which the sun shone all night and day
and that he would have to move my bed.
But that Is not so unusual, for In our work
hero among our people we so-mettmc-3 have
to go without sep nnd sometimes without
a meal If wo am pretty far away from
home, as they do not seem to think It nec-es.-siry
to give a preacher a meal." Mr.
Danlelson mado a strong plea for the res
toration of the old-time revival, as It was
through a revival in Chicago in 1S70 when
he first came, to America that he became
converted and has been converted ever
since.
Churches In the Work.
Tha convention closed Tuesday evening.
The work will be carried on with Increas
ing vigor as a result of this meeting. Tha
board is aiding In the support of 4,000 heme
missionaries. In tha Methodist Episcopal
church are about 15,000 pastors, 11,000 of
whom are serving self-supporting, churches
and about 4.0C0 receiving aid from the Board
of Home Mission and Church Extension.
The McthodiBt church la preaching the gos
pel In the United States In sixteen lan
guages, which Is more than were used after
tha day of Pentecost was fully come. The
Germans and Scandinavians constitute an
important part of the beet American citi
zenship, and the Gorman and Scandinavian
Methodists are among the highest type of
Methodism to be found in this country.
Tha work Is being extended to all nation
alities, if Is a work .essentially of patri
otism and every lover of his country should,
gladly contribute to aid the needy lro the
erection of churches and In the support of
the men who on small salaries preach the
gospel In these churches.
In tho approaching Easter time special
efforts will e made to increase the collec
tions for home missions nnd church exten
sion work. It has been suggested that- as
no convenient time this year can well be
selected in the fall conferences of the north
western division, that thero be taken a
separate collection at this time for home
missions nnd church extension, but not to
the exclusion of any other cause.
nmmlnar I'p by Clasell.
Dr. Clyde Clay. Clssell, pastor of the
Hanscom Park Methodist church, active in
the deliberations of the conventions, makes
thla statement for Th Pee: '
"The Board of Home Missions and Church
Extension represents a vast work under
the direction of tho Methodist church. Its
field is co-extensive with that of The re
public. Wherever the flag floats as an
ensign of secular possession there this
board raises the ensign of the cross for
spiritual victory. The motto of this board
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America for Christ,' and Its watchword,
Is 'The entrenchment of Christianity nnd
patriotism.' Previous to the first of this
year tills work was carried on by . the
missionary society of this church and the
church extension society. According to the
action of the Dos Angeles general confer
ence, the work of home missions was sepa
rated from the general missionary nocitiy
and consolidated with the church extension
work under this new board.
Farmer Lads in
iLL WOLF hunters do not return
from the chase with only Jack
rabbits or cottontails to show for
their prowess. It sometimes hsp
pens that they get the wolf, and
maybe more than, one. Thla was the case
down near Table Rook a short time ago,
when a band of merry farmer lads organ
ized a chase and want out for wolves. C.
8. Wood of Table Rock has a big sheep
ranch about five miles north ot town, And
has been soma bothered by tha ravages of
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WILLIAM GORST,
"This board has built or nlded 16,000
churches, In every state and territory of
the unien, and In Hawaii, Porto Rico and
the Philippines. It supports each year, In
whdle or in part, over 4,0(O missionaries on
the frontier. In the south and In the con
gested foreign populations of our large
cities. It carries on work among the
Welsh, Swedish, Norwegian. Danish, Ger
man, French, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese,
Bohomlan, Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese
and Finnish populations, also among the
American Indians and among the colored
people of the south. Besides these, the
board prosecutes work among the native
population In the sparsely settled frontier.
In eighty-seven years the Methodist church
has put $20,000,000 Into home mission work
and In church extension they have spent
nearly MO.OOO.OOO more.
"Under this new readjustment of the
work of home missions nnd church exten
sion a general advance Is expected. Tho
home field lias never enjoyed the same
supervision given to the foreign missionary
fields. Now. with the Incoming of so many
thousands of foreigners to our country, the
work of the gospel among them la of most
vital concern and bears a most Important
relation to the evangelization of the for
eign fields. The board has issued a call for
fl, OOO.Oi-O to carry on Its twofold work for
the present year. Besides this, they are
seeking to raise IlK.WO more to rebuild '
our destroyed churches In San Francisco.
"To enable the board to exercise a closer
supervision of the field the country has
been divided Into districts and secretaries
have been placed In charge of the work
In these divisions. The northwestern divi
sion has its headquarters at Omaha, and
comprises ma Fiaies oi Minnesota, r,orm
uaxota, aoutn I'aKoia, lowa, .-uinis:;a ana
Montana. Dr. T. C. Illff Is the secretary In
charge. Dr. Hilt has spent over thirty
seven years in Utah and the far northwest.
He Is one of the veteran workers of the
church and preaches the gospel with the
old-time Are and is ever ready to talk about
the work of home missions and church ex
tension. "To further aid this great work the
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Vicinity of Table Rock Organize Wolf Hunt
wolves. He finally offered a reward of $3
a head for all wolvus killed within five
miles of his ranch. This was enough stim
ulus to Induce the young men of the neigh
borhood to go after Br er Wolf, and ona
day recently, Just after a storm, they made
tho rounds. After securing two wolves
they rode into Table Rock, where they
caused something of a sensation and lined
up alongside tha bank for a photograph.
It will be noticed that two wolvea ap
pear "among those present." Thereby
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board has established a new Journal, known
as the Christian Republic. Dr. J. Wesley
Johnston, one of tho ablest writers of the
Methodist church, has been taken from his
Important church In New York City and
made editor of this monthly Journal. Over
600,00 copies of the February number were
Issued and that many subscriptions are
Quaint Features
Wonderful "kill of Ullnd Man.
REMARKABLE blind man, Jos
eph Wurnock, died recently In
Alleghany county. In Western
Maryland. Although sightless for
forty years, Warnock waa never
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dependent on others for help. He clearod
land, made saw logs, worked for farmers,
could pitch hay, mew, rake and bind grain,
muke shingles and do almost anything that
a person with eyesight could. He made five
hundred to six hundred excellent shingles
a day in the winter, which he traded at
the stores for such commodities as he re
quired. There are houses tn Lonaconlng
and Barton today that still have on their
roofs shingles made by thla blind man.
After the shingle timber was exhausted
Warnock turned his attention to making
handles for picks for the miners. His abil
ity in going around through the woods and
mountains without getting lost was amaz
ing. When lie found a suitable tree It was
soon felled by the strokes of his ax, and
the portions he wanted were chopped off.
He could invariably toll In which direction
tha tree would fall. He was fond of music,
and learned to play a violin well. With
his music he was able to make considerable
money, as he gave glances and picnics, at
which he was the only musician.
The limit.
One of the most remarkable causes of
divorce Is that alleged by a woman In
Rochester, N. Y., who balked to the point
of separation when her husband proposed
to buy a c-oCIn, bring It homo and lie in
it, to see how he would look as a corpoj.
As he added to this gruesome proposal
hangs a tall. The hunters killed one wolf
and captured the other. The extra wolf
was a marked animal, having lost a foot
in a trap long enough before to acquire
something of a reputation among tha
farmers. His cunning was such as to pro
tect him from the many efforts to encom
pass his downfall until this day. He waa
hardly able to outrun the dogs, and finally
took refuge under a bridge. Here he was
shot by a farmer who had not taken part
In tha pursuit, but was ooacealed la the
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LOVELAND, LEADERS OTP THT3 OMAHA
looked for as regular readers tn a short
time. The present readjustment of tha
missionary work of the Methodist church
Is deservedly popular and it is expected,
that there will be raised this year 1,000,000
for the home field as well as a similar
amount for the foreign mission stations ot
this church."
of Current Life
that he would have no objection to sea
what kind of a corpse she would make
also. It is hardly to be wondered at tha
she leK. for more cheerful surroundings.
Itemarkable Pair of Hens.
At the public sale of the property of
William Stengel at Bailey, Pa., a pair ot
chlckena which Mr. Stengel aays he has
owned for thirty-five years, and which hud
been laying all that time, were sold fur
12.
Mr. Stengel's farm is located far from
any negro campmeetlng grounds. For
years it had been the custom when any
ministerial conferences were held In thla
section of the state for him to double
lock and bar his chicken coop.
The visit of the local preacher to tha
Stengel farm always resulted in a hurry
call for secretion of the favorite hens.
Young chickens were hastily slaughtered
and conspicuously displayed.
The purchaser of the hens Is said to ba
contemplating opening a railway restau
rant. Father of Thirty-Three Children.
Peter Burkett, a civil war veteran, 7(
yeara old, of Clearfield county, Pa., hag
placed five children In tha Soldiers' Orphan
school at Jumonvllla. Ka survives three
wives and is the father of thirty-three
children, twenty-one of whom are living.
During the civil war he served In com
pany E, One hundred and Forty-eighth
Pennsylvania volunteers. He is believed
to hold the record In Pennsylvania for
number of children.
granary nearby. When the hunters rams
up and found the farmer with the carcass
of the wolf in his possession, they de
manded it, but he claimed it as the spoil
of his own trusty gun. Much argument
and finally threats of prosecution ensued,
and finally tha slayer of the wolf turned
him over to the hunters and he was added
to the "bag," to bo photographed with tha
other. It doesn't make a groat deal of dif
ference to the farmers around Table Rock
who killed him, so long aa ha is dead.
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