Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 20, 1910, Page 18

Magni OT since Abraham Lincoln issued reput has a battle cry so roused and rallled men of Amer fca as that sounded by the Laymen's Missionary movement No commercial enterprise, political propa or religlous erusade has united as men under one banner, fired them as great zeal or drivan them with such determination toward one common goal. In the work of the church there Is no counter part for this movement in the United States oo efore t ivil war, and it is tory In Europe furnish a parailel @ Martin Luther nafled his theses to the door of the castle church in Wittenberg and went up and down the land proclaiming hs “Deus Vult," “Deus Vuit s A militant mavement. It Is sys maticall nderfuilly organized. Kach mwpan rpe, regiment and dtviston P a will and precision that solidi t vhole. Greater i numgrieal he esources, it clalms a f niselon even than that army tha. " e southland to e nish siaver | restore the union. That army fought er the banner of freedom for a race 'R.EV’.MJ)EUBANK- lon for a nation. This army ms the sulvation of the world In this OF CHINA. « ion. The eivil Ifberty of no race. P Al destiny of no nation fulfills united strength and energy of many 011, nor Is any land vast enough for churches. fleld of conques Where and when do we find the origin v the Lutheran movement of the of this movement? xteentls ecntury and the Laymen's move In 1806 a handful of plous men held & m f the twentieth differ is in the trend prayer-meeting beside a haystack in a small ot r orig The Reformation came New England village. In 1905, the centea= ) icible revolt; the Lay- ary of this haystack prayer meeting—now & Missionary moviment is the sum and fumous event in the history of the church— hurch unity and interdenom- was celebrated at Fifth Avenue Presby- Alism terian ehurch, New York, and at that meet- U'p to the last few years one of the most Ing, in reality, the first step was taken critici<ms of the church was that toward the actual organization of this press could forget denominational lines and ent movement. The men at this grand mod- monfously, une creed with an- ern city church, so impressed by the spirft ot This critlelsm cannot honestly be of that humble haystack meeting they had made today. It has been absolutely met to commemorate, feit the need of some silenced by this movement. The evangelica! energizing force that would prompt them \e5 of America are working together and enabls them to exert thelr efforts in & 'ay as never before since the Pilgrim way that would count. They were practioal fathers set foot on the Massachusetts business men, for the most part. And they hore. They are all united In this move- had left thelr places of business that day ment. They are all striving to advance it. for this meeting. It proved o be a Pente- They ave all giving the best men they have cost. “They were all with one accord in 1o swell the ranks and promote the cause. one place.” “And they were all filled with You who attended any of the meetings of the Holy Ghost.” A littls after some of hix great convention, could you distinguish ®hese business men met again In a prayer- the Baptist minlster from the Congrega- meeting. They began at 2 o'clock in the tionalist, the Episcopal rector from the afternoon and concluded at 5 Litheran, or the Presbyterian elder from But, while the spirit of desire and en the Methodist deacon? Lost, swallowed up thusiasm did not die out in these men's In (his great sea of Christian fellowship is beerts, they progressed little further than ery little drifting craft of creedal dif- the polnt of realization that some sort of terence, tangible, definite organization was re- Men who have given their best time and quired to put into practical form the con- Jught to the real mission of the church Victions of that solemn celebration. And belleve they find In this movement the thing ey have sought for these years. They be- ve It comes nearer than any other com- mon enterprise to furnishing a means of turning the great deed-doing power of the church in the right direction and concen- trating and conserving its energies. It sup- plies a want every church has felt; a means of engendering a live interest and activity among the laymen, affording a field for thelr labors, a place where they al can labor. The difficulty has been that the preacher was doing all the church's work. The laity thought it sufficient to at- tend service once or twice a week, but the awakening has come and come through this Laymen's Missionary Movement. Laymen have heen aroused from their lethargy and are thrilled with enthuslasm, working shoulder to shoulder with the preacher. No single denomination could have es- finaily this crystalized force came at the national convention of the Student Volun- teers—a foreign missionary organization— at Nashville, Tenn., in 196. A voung busi- ness man—possibly he was of that Fifth Avenue church company—brought the proposition before that gathering. He de- clered that If the business world could maintain gigantic organizations for the ex- tersion of its enterprises why couldn’t the church? He saw no reason why the church couldn't. He made a comprehensive address on this line of thought. He was terribly in earnest, enthusiastic, and his enthustasm was catching. It caught others, and before that meeting was over definite plans had been lald for this movement which is just concluding its convention in Omaha and has held or will hold similar conventions in seventy-five other citles in the United States between the months of October, THE M.D. OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: MARCH REV W.B. ANDERSON: PHILADELPHIA. PA. S EARL TAYLOR NEW YORK CITY .. the need for virile activity by the laymen of the chureh, and the convention agree with him; second, he urged the possibility of devising some definlie means of secur- ing this activity and the conventlon de- clared it could be done; third, he asked how? That led up to the crux of the ques- tlon) and everybody got busy to answer the “inquiry It was finally declded that the only feasible scheme was for the la; men of every church throughout the eoun- ry to effect an organization and systema- tize the,work and go at it. Out from that convention, then, flowed the stream that Is coming up to its flood. tide of enthusiasm and overflowing into these seventy-five conventions. But even then the movement lagged somewhat. It did not seem to galn any decided momentum. Something was lack- ing. The convention idea, it was agreed, would have to be developed before the movement could be brought up to the maximum stage of usefulness. And the convention idea was put into tangible form right here in Omaha. In February, 1907, under the guiding im- REV. JNO.E.MERRILL ~0F TURKRY— Board of Foreign Missions of the Presby terian church, a three days' convention of men of that church from all states and many foreign lands was held at the Omaha Auditorium. The slogan of that convention conceived and put in working form by the indomitable Robert Speer. head of this Board of’ Forelgn Missions, was “The Evangelization of the World in This Generation.” It was the first such gathering in the history of this or any other church. That convention has cently been made permanent and will hold annual meetings in Omaha This convention, attended by Dr. Hunter Corbett, the oldest of Presbyterian mis- slonaries, who has spent more than forty years In China, and other patriarchs of the church, was pervaded with the spirit of missions. It was counted a pre-eminent success and other churehes took pride in its work. This Omaha convention gave to the Lay- men's Missionary movement, then only about a vear old, its practical form and fighting shibboleth. It set the example for the convention Idea and contributed the 20, 1910. ficent Militént Missionary Movement Among A DR.. HOMER. C. STUNTZ _ NEW YORK C1TY. who helped make that 1%7 Omaha conven- tion the success it was are helping to push forward this Laymen's Missionary move ment. For, after all, both are compre- hended in that one broad, progressive spirit and definition which includes all the advanced enterprises of militant Chris- tlanity today—the “Forward Movement." By far more men are united in this present warfare for the salvation of hu- man souls than marched to the front at the begnning of the civil war. And up to the present, at least, they are as com- pactly and systematically organized and determined. The organization s a most remarkable fact. The movement spreads over the entire United States, which is lald out in divisions and these divisions and states are subdivided Into counties or dis- tricts. Take Omaha for example: It is the center of a district comprising eastern Towa and northeastern Nebraske and as far west as Kearney, and then in each county there Is a substation or center. At such times as the present, when a big convention is being held, as in Omaha and Linclon—Lincoln, it should be said, a GEO. SHERWOOD EDDY D merican Laymen also ghves force and influence that might have to be striven for otharwise A One featurs of this movement Mn“ and chusch officers have found to be most destrable and helpful in Arousing latent energles in the churches is the friendly rivalry It creates among the va- rious denominations for making the best showing In the conventions and other teste, 1t puts every man on hiy metal and brings out of every church the best there is tn ft, For instance, the Methodists, or the Bap- tists, or some other denomination wants to have the largest representation at the convention to make the best showing financlally. This can mean poth ing else than downright persenal aotivity, And this is exactly what the owerworked pastor has been laboring for these years ta accorplish To the matter of finances, the same buai ness-like methods are applied as in other departments of the work. The system is down o fine that they have it figured out the average cost of each convention is 41,600 and they don't have the least difficulty in dufraying thess expenses. Thare's no over- lap. These laymen, who have hit uwpon that alliterative formula as & good motto to work by—prayer, press, pen and parsonal touch—-are very Intelligently awake to the value of publicity and the friendship of tha Thelr estimate of this vabie may r wants OF.INDIA . A many towns and oitfes and villages as is r. K 58 possible. Henry F. Kieser, chairman of Pre W the committes on deputation, which has be expressed by relating a littls incident charge of this work, sent forty-five men that transpired in Omaha a few Sundays into as many places in lowa and Nebraska %69, On that day representatives of to spread the gospel of this Laymen's Mis.- Mmovement spoke in the various churche slonary movement. In many places union One zealous, but misguided and misis meetings of the varlous churches were formed speaker made the assertion, “Of held and to many of the places the men COUTSS, We can’'t-expect much help from went more than once. Prominent men in (he papers. You won't ses much about ou the public and private affairs of Omaha WOrk In the daily press gave thelr time to this work: Clement That good biotifer was not present at Chase, the chairman of the ocentral co- the first meeting of the executive com operating committee, spoke In varfous Mittee held after he made that unwarrante places in the territory covered by this assertion, but had he been he would hav diviston and went further into forelgn had ample occasion to defend his utterancey it It could be defended. Kven the pastor of the church in which the statement was made, declared at this meeting that it was ry uncalled for,” and “a very unfortu nate thing.” Other men, officers of the movement, were indignant, not only at the statement, because it could not be justitied by faots, but because, also, any representa tive of the movement would go out of his territory, visiting Kansas City and Topeka, and he and Dr. W. M. Davidson spoke also at Des Moines. This same sort of campaigning s done in every state and every county in the United States, making the crusade thorough and complete. Bo far ‘as the conventions are concerned v they are prepared and conducted on the definite system of a clever alliteration— WAy thus to attack the press, without prayer, press, men, personal touch. The Whofe support the movement could mot hope to accomplish its best results. Church papers have pointed out the one danger against which this Laymen's Mi slonary movement must fortify itself—the danger of a reaction in zeal. If that should come about, as it does in so many kindred movements, one of these papers says, it would require a greater effort to rehabilitate than it required to establisk. Well, of that fact the leaders are keenly sensible and agalnst that danger they have provided. The provision is a permanent organization and the convention Is the ulti~ mate antidote. There is no let-up. “The tinte will soon come when, In every, center now planning for & convention, the convention will be over but ‘not done,’ ™ says the manual on this movement. Mis- sionaries political, adequate and adopted byy the convention, the communions, and con- ¥or the sake of ungospeled millions, fory the sake of our own spirftual, intelieotual and materlal welfare, we must not be sat- isfled with anything short of a finished plece of work. There, the co-operating committee, educational campalgn commit~ tee and the local missionary comumittes, under the trained leadership of the spo- clal executive secretary will have many founders and conductors of this movement g0 back to that Haystack meeting in 1508, the origin of modern missions, first and to the Fifth Avenue church meeting second, for thelr cornerstone and find it in prayer. “‘Prayer,” they tell you, “is the best of all, so put it fi It never gets so dark, but you can see up. Therefore, when the outlook is bad, try the up-look. We can succeed with prayer, without it we do not deserve success.” Five committees form cardinal points in the convention work: A central co-operat ing committee, pastors co-operating, exe- cutive, sub-committes and special. Each committee is carefully selected, composed of the men best suited for the particular work and the men who will work and not shirk or leave their duty for the other fel- low. Men active In the community, of big brain and business abllity, are put in the front rank of this army. The founders have not overlooked or minimized the im- portance of giving dignity and prestige to this movement, exercising, therefore, the utmost discrimination in the selection of the leaders. In Omaha and In other citles the result is that as able men as the com- munity affords are enlisted in the work. tablished this movement. It was too blg a 1%9, and May, 1910. pulse of Dr. Charles Edwin Bradt of Chi- slogan, “The Evangelization of the World center for southeastern Nebraska—speakers This commands a certain respect, which and important duties to perform after tha task. It was a man's job. It required the First, this young business man presented cago, central district secretary of the in This Generation.” And most of the men are sent out from the main center to as Might be lacking without such men. It convention is over. - = —— % mant #aq Horror) Wrhat in the workd ‘M Quaint Features of Life Harrowing Cat Story. HIS harrowing cat story comes from Cornville, Mé, via the Bangor News “In order that. her kittens may grow up well trained, Maggle, an old cat owned by Mrs. Della Annable tas the kittens one at a time, keeping the others baek until their turn. The cat has three kitte: A few days ago the her brought a mouse 'into the house, ¢ three kiticns came running to her, he had decided which kitten she would give the mouse to and kept the er kittens away by cuffing them. The same day she brought in another mouse ' she gave it to ore of the other kit- tens. The next day she caught another mouse and gave it to the third Kitten \Then t mother had caught the feurth stood bLefore the kittens and ate it velt.” Descendants to Share. mons ‘on rice sulcide will never trouble the consclence of Mrs. Jane or- riv of Land Gap, Ky, whose descend- ants already number 580 and who say she hopes to live to le 100 years old My Morris is the mother of fifteen chii- a of whom eleven are living. She has 126 grandehildren, of whom ninety-sever wre Hvin; 31 great-grandchildren of whom forty-three are living. Unusual South Carolina Wedding. \ very unusual wedding was solemnized at the Mary Help Catholie church/ Alken & C. Thursday afte-noon, wheny Mary Glover and Joseph Willlams, both feolcred, maziicd, Father Lannigan officlating. was the first time a lored coupl tail r married Ir white people's ciiureh In Alken, and consequently it drew crowd h white and colored Both pa 0 the match are well-known Alken ¢ a people, and many of their mon. he bride and her attendants wer ssed neatlly and becomingly in whit the bridegroom and his attendants © Prince Albert sults with white gloves After the wedding the bridal party r paiicd to the rome of t de's mothe it s largely attended reception was d e many presents, gl ot L . and colcred people, were dls pa Mixup In Relationship, A double wedding at Canterbury, England recently, has produced a remarkable re lationship tangle The parties were Moses Skeat 2 retired publican, and Florence Cole, 31 J. Wigley of London, 0, and Flor ence Skeats, 4. The bridegrooms were Widowers and the brides spinsters The marriages took place together, Mrs. Wig ley 15 the daughter of Moses Skeats, whose wife is the sister of his youngest son's wife, thus as well as being sister-in-law to Moses Skeats' youngest son, she 1s also his mother-in-law and mother-in-law to her own sister, while Moses in addition to be- ing father of his wife's sister's husband is al:o his brother-in-law Should there be any lxsue of the marriage betwen Skeats and Cole the relationship of the child to Skeats' son's children, of whom there are several, would be difficult to de- olde, s these youngsters besides being graudehildren to Skeats are also his nephews in consequence of this second mar- Tiage, Meeting of Medical Society of the Missouri Valley FFICERS AND DISTINGUISHED MEMBERS OF THE MEDICAL SoCIETY oF THE M 18soURI VALLEY~ EDITOR, MEDICAL HBRALD ST JOSEPH .M O, SECRETARSY HE twenty-second semi-annual meeting of the Meairn) = of the Missourl Valley closed its mension i iue e B o (_v;d@.] Omaha, Friday evening with Ra— about 18 members in attend- ance. In point of character of papers pro- duced before the society the meeting was one af great importance and has seldom been equalled by similar gatherings of the socloty The Medical Soclety of the Missourl Val ley s not by any means a local organiza- tion, but is one of the greatest medical or Banizations in the west, its membership embracing practitioners from the Mis sissippi river to the Rocky mountains, and may be justly regarded as the principal organization of its kind in the central west Durin, recent years it has been the cus. tom of the society ings In to hold its annual meet- Couneil Bluffs, la, the semi-an- nuul meetings belng held elsewhere. At the last annual meeting, in September, 1909, these officers were elected: President, A B. Somers of Omaha; first vice preside Joseph itfany of Lacey, jr., of Council Charles Wood Fagsett An effort was made during the recent meeting of the soclety to amend R president treasuy Bluffs; of St Woodson of St F. B T retary, Joseph second vice Kansas City the bylaws proviaing that the annual meet- Ings might be held elsewhere than at Councll Bluffs, but the proposition was carried over until the next annual meeting in Septtember at Council Bluffs. The purposes of the society are best ex- preased in the observation appearing on its annual programs ““This ‘free lance' sclent®ic body with no politics or ethical bickerings to clog Its wheels of progress. Any reputable practioner of regular medi- cine, which Is recommended by two mem- bers Is eligible for membership.” Hence its principal functions are for the literary and sclentific edification of its members, where members are not merely expeeted to learn something to their advantage, but to {m- part something of value to & brother physi- s a DR.V.L TREYNOR, COUNCIL BLUFFS EX-PRESIDENT DR A. PR clan. It Is a post-graduate school, where all may with profit to the other, and where each practitioner is expected to bring the best he and dispense it at the shrine of brotherly love Among the more distinguished visitors at the receiving meeting of the soclety Omaha were Dr. Leonard Freeman of Den ver, president of the Medical Soclety of Colorado; Dr. Edward Evans of La Crosse president of the Wisconsin Medical so- and Dr. Frank Parsons Norbury of Hospital, 11, president of the Mississippl Valley Medical soclety. Drs. Norbury and Freeman delivered valuable and instructive addresses at Thursday evening's session of the society, the former upon the subject of “The Physical Basis of Mental Discases.” and the latter on “The Use of Local Anes- thesia in Surgery.” Dr. Evans read a paper of deep professional Interest Thursday af- ternoon upon ““The Neglect of the Saorow tliac Joint by the General Practittoner.’ Another Important paper of the seesion has clety, was that by Colonel John M. Banister, U. 8. A., chief surgeon of the Department of the Missourl, on “Certaln Facts In Ophthalmology of Practical Tmportance to the General Pructitioner.” B.J"OMERY ESIDENT — |/TRE LATE DR DONALD ' MACRAR, THB SOCIET FIRST PRESIDENT. A paper that attracted considerable com- ment was that of Dr. R. Willman of 5t Joseph, Mo., on “Errors in Mind Healing, The gist of his paper was to show mind healing, its errors, dangers and commercial aspects of the healing cults; their pernicious influence at all times and particu larly in this modern day, and the remedia means now at the command of the general practitioner Dr. §. Grover Burnett of Kansas City presented & paper Friday on “The Reasons Why the Indifference of the Profession to Morphinism Should Be Changed The more DR A.D. WILKEN 3ON. LINCOLN, NEBR.. EX-PRE she doing in a place like that’ “Why, what do you expect?’ was tha surprised rejoinder of the farmer. ‘‘Where in ther thunderation else would ye keap a mule? “Oh, seo,” smilingly responded the parson, as light suddenly dawned upom him. “You have struck the wrong house; what you are looking for i the veterinary surgeon who lives next door."—Philadelphia Telegraph. 1 The Wrong Party. % \/ SRR R T IR There are two young men of St. Louls, partners in u business coneern, tha younger of whom for a long time was addicted to the habit of reading to the © extracts from | of u tender nature penned by & 4 g woman of Chicago signing herselt i Claire o )t 80 very long after the elder partner £ returned from an eastern trip in time to ,«@ attend the wedding reception of his friend o and pusiness assoclate. gfi In his best manner the senior of the firm - offered his congratulations to the bride. A 1 do not f that 1 am addressing a stranger,” sald he, “seeing that 1 have frequently had the honor and pleasure ot hearing extracts from his darling Claije's letters 1 beg your pardon.’ r 1od the bfide, . into whose eyes there crept & curious ex- 0. B. CAMPBELL, DR.R.C.MOORE. pression, “but my na s Violet."—New EXPRESIDENT EX-PRESIDENT. York Independent. $ .~ ) ALY A Shot nt Pop. $72008EPH. MO, n iy ald ner and his un- sentatives to that assoclation, which will gainly, slouc nere. "‘|".- grub meet in St. Louls in June. The society is bIng sprouts ¢ "“‘““‘“’- :‘“: increasing rapidly In membership, nearly the old man stumbled over thirty accessions having been made to the small stur 0 : soclety during the meeting just closed. Its “Gosh durn that everlastin’ stump,” he membership embraces the foremost pracl- exelaimed, 'l o AL it in the Missouri valley, and while alg with a large attendance, yvet so large Is its father v membership that the personnel of attend Wi 0, 5%, A g ance varies largely with each mceting, be- he dra Yau iSHL KmBle brer iRy cause of the widespread extent of its mem- BtUmp 4 ome day erybody bership roll Yielding to the Majority. i The Omaha meeting Is regarded by the philadelphia physician, In declaring soclety us one of the best held in recent = PN Wan SLanALtIY REoddattve as years both as regards interest and import 1 loglc tempered by wit, told the story ance f a patient he once met in an asylum Ho came wcross this patient while stroll- ug through the grounds, and stopping, | Short Stories poke to him. After a brief conversation 1 conventional topics the physician said: Why are you here?* Y placed Sympathy. Simply & difference of opinion,” replied T y lly some infer- the patient. “I said all men were mad, ST how naturdlly BOOC us- @nd all men said 1 was mad—and the ma- paper was enhanced with clinical illustra- trated by & story told the other e i ‘ tions atternoon by City Clerk Thoma Au East lndian Verdict, Dr. W. F. Mflroy of Omaha read an in- JRIRMl 5. Mooney of Burlington “" In a case of one of our Indian courts structive paper on the “Increasing Mortal- WA evening some time @B, ME. Ty o\ ) rore it evidence that could ity In the United States from Heart, Brain Mooney said, a man drove up to the resl- ;T S0 % f Bl b e on the and Kidney Lexions,” the general purpose denee of a preacher in o small tOWD OVET . o\ 4y iuce’ had been reached the of which was to direct attention to the en- in Jersey and after violently ringing the g0 i "0 ierchange of conversation took ormous Increase In deaths from these dix. doorbell told the parson that BI Bowker's o "y oiooon™ (e judge and his colleagues eases and to offer suggestions and (o eliclt Sally was awful sick with colle or some- (" "ouiuiration of Justice discussion to the reasons therefor and what may be done in the way of remedy. Dr. W. O. Henry of Omaha gave during the sessfon an interesting report of tb Sixieenth International Medical congress at Buda-Pesth, Hungary, which he at- tended last vear There were numerous other papers of equal importance to the medical profession but more of a purely technical character These are sufficient, however, to indicate the broad scope of the papers that are pro before the duced soclety at ¢ annuat and semi-annual gatherings The Medical Society of the Missouri Val ley Is in close affiliation with the American Medical assoclation and will send repre- thing of the kind and wanted him 1o COM® .Genlemen. are you ready to give your right o The good dominie knew Bill Bowker; also his wife Sally thinking that spiritual advice was wanted, he picked np a prayer book accompanied the farmer to the wagon “I am sorry to hear that Sally verdict? Yes. What is your verdict?" Our answer is, sir, that you can do as you like with the men that have confessed, but we acquit all the rest 18 mlck.” “‘But Is it possible that you hlve'vyxnl and and remarked the preacher In a sympathetic ()¢ eyvidencs?” tone &8s he was ahout to step Into the Bvidence llke this can always be fab- vehicle. “Do you think that her condition ricated.” Is dangerous?’ Do you find that as regards these pris- “Can't tell,” replied the fawrmer #he oners it hus been fabricated?* has been layin' down In ther stable all Evidence can be fabricted.” ther afterncon.” ‘80 the evidence is untrustworthy?* Lying down in the stable!” exclaimed “Unless a man confesses, who ocun tell the parson with & look of mingled amaze- he ls gullty?'—Bombay Gasette i 1