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gates, more than one-third o f the total registration. This is a record-breaking out-of-town representation. As a result o f the campaign, Baptist churches in Detroit, Milwaukee. Cincin nati, Denver and other cities, are to unite, in a simultaneous every-member visitation for fellowship, evangelism or giving. Leading Baptist- churches in these cities are going into the work with energy. One hundred committeemen met at din ner in Fargo, N. D., Wednesday, January 5, for conference and prayer preliminary to a simultaneous every-member canvass for delegates which was organized for the following Sunday. , Addresses were made by the Mayor o f the city, Bishop Tyler of the Episcopal Church and committee leaders. The regular mid-week prayer services were held by the women in the churches while the men united in this pre- convention prayer meeting. William Carey said his call was an open Bible before an open map o f the world. Robert Morrison faced the question of his life-work in a .heroic manner. “Jesus, I give thyself to Thy service. The question with me is, where shall I serve?; I con sider ‘the world’ as ‘the field’ where thy servants must labor. When I view the field, I perceive that by far the greater' part is entirely without laborers, or at least has but here and there one or two, while there are thousands crowded in one cor ner. My desire is to engage where labor ers are most wanted.” Mary Lyon, the founder o f Mt. Holyoke College, and for twelve years it principal, was wont to say, “ To know the need should prompt the deed.” Bishop Tucker o f Uganda, left a secluded artist’s studio for the work of Christ. He had been painting the picture of a poor woman thinly clad and pressing a babe to her bosom, wandering homeless on a stormy night in a dark, deserted street. What Is a Call? A vision o f need has impelled many of the great missionaries.
W ITH the $357,000 contributed to the Emergency fund o f the Protestant Episcopal Church Boards o f Missions, the emergency has been met, even though the fund was not completed on September A.. In other words, the missionary treasury is practically out o f debt for the first time in eight years! The church has not only given the'Emergency Fund o f $357,000, but has also exceeded by $ 20,000 its gifts on the regular apportionment; so that about $400,000 over and above the giving o f last year has come into the treasury. One feature worth ^noting is that the fund has not been padded or inflated in any way. There have been no committees o f two waiting upon wealthy churchmen, and no whirlwind canvass methods; neither were any large sums held back to be announced at the last moment. The largest gift was $5,000 and there have been about 8,000 contributions. The giving was real,- spontaneous and personal; it represents desire rather than pressure. Laymen’s Missionary Movement Dr. John R. Mott says that after mak ing a very careful study o f the religious forcés o f the year he is convinced that “the one thing that is moving America this year is the national campaign o f the Lay men’s Missionary' Movement.” A, delegation o f 200 men attended the Toledo convention from Bowling Gfieen, O., thirty miles distant from Toledo. They traveled in three special cars. The largest number of delegates regis tered from any one church at the-Cincin nati convention was 113 from Christ Epis copal Church. The Walnut Hills Baptist Church enrolled every resident male mem ber, making a Jotal o f seventy-seven. Since the Toledo convention a member o f the convention committee has asked to be put in touch with his national denomi national leaders in order that his wife and himself might guarantee the support o f at least five missionaries. Ninety ,towns of New Hampshire, out side o f Manchester, were represented at the Manchester convention by 426 dele
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