Quarter Century of isstonary Education A Quarter Century of Missionary Education SILVER BAY—A Tribute The picturesque name ts a symbol of some of the sunni- est and brightest realities in life. Just as the morning sun casts a silver radiance upon the lake, so the spirit of Silver Bay touches into mystery and flame the lives of its devo- tees. As the mountains gird this place about and give tt dignity and power, so its spirit imparts strength and as- piration to those who love tt. Silver Bay ts more than a beauty spot in the Adiron- dacks, tt is a quality of life, unique and enduring. It ts an unfolding mystery, a deepening bond of fellowship, a mar- tial call to action, a quiet summons to meditation and prayer, and the most searching challenge to the deepest and sincerest in one’s being, a call to lay one’s life bare to God. One can hardly face the essential principle of Silver Bay and go away unchanged. He will be disquteted with his noisy shallowness, reproached for his coldness and scant human sympathy, and reminded of hits unnecessary dis- tance from God. He will recetve more than a passing glimpse of the man he was meant to be, the personality he may yet become through a new and hitherto undreamed of loyalty to Christ. Life mounts high at Silver Bay, ts stirred to vaster thought and action and leaves behind the paltry minor concerns which once cramped our days. Silver Bay, with its assemblage of strong and devoted personalities, its vision of world need and potential world brotherhood, tts demonstration of vital Christian living, tts surpassing rev- elation of God, lays the deepest tribute of affection and al- legiance upon those of us who have known tts spell. If the power of God is at all manifest in our lives, it 1s due in no small measure to the abiding inspiration of Silver Bay. ETHEL DANIELS HUBBARD, AUTHOR of ANN OF AVA and ‘THE MOFPATS. A Quarter Century of Missionary Education POOZE LOZ MISSIONARY EDUCATION MOVEMENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA New York Foreword versary of the founding of the Missionary Education Movement, the Board of Mana- gers authorized the publication of a Silver Jubilee Booklet that should tell briefly the his- tory of this Movement, give its present organi- zation, and suggest some important things re- garding the future of missionary education. ik commemoration of the twenty-fifth anni- To prepare this booklet, a committee was appointed consisting of Miss Ruth Isabel Sea- bury.) Miss: Lucy. Cosotureiseand tae erie Sailer. This committee was fortunate in being able to persuade a number of the people who helped organize the Movement to contribute sections on its early history. Several of these sections, as will be recognized, are in the form of letters to various members of the committee. We wish to express our appreciation of the committee's work and to thank the various friends of the Movement whose contributions make this booklet so interesting. THE STAFF. Yesterday . . While here I stand, not only with the sense Of present pleasure, but with pleasing thoughts That in this moment there is life and food For future years. — WORDSWORTH Introduction and Retrospect “In July, 1902, the first summer conference in the world for Mission Study met at Silver Bay, New York. Its Silver Jubilee will be celebrated this summer.’’ This is quoted from the invitation to the 1927 conference. ‘Time surely flies, and in this case the thoughts of those who were at Silver Bay in 1902 fly back no less surely to the impressions and problems and thrills of that first con- ference, and linger there in gratitude for the privilege of having been present when the tracks were laid for the Missionary Education Movement that has moved so far since then. Perhaps it is appropriate that one who had no responsi- bility whatever for that first conference should be asked to review its program and results, for my impressions were those of the very group for which the movement was started. I went to Silver Bay in 1902 as a ““Young Per- son,’ reasonably intelligent and zealous as to the work of my own denomination, and eager to know how others were meeting the need for better missionary leadership and training of young people in colleges and local churches. As I look back it seems to me that most of the one hundred and ninety-five delegates that year were experts;——secre- taries of missionary boards, official leaders of young peo- ples’ organizations, educational celebrities, etc., and I came away with the conviction that all that expertness had been applied with perfect success in three directions: First, there was conference, such conference as, it is safe to say, has never been held since in quite the same sense, for the missionary educational problems and plans of each 7 denomination were laid down side by side and compared and combined and, to a certain extent, mutually solved for the first time. Second, there resulted the official association of the rep- resentatives of all the missionary societies present into the “Young Peoples’ Missionary Movement,” the aim of which was stated to be—‘’To assist denominational agen- cies in the development of a deeper missionary life among young people; and in all ways to serve the denominational Boards whose representatives constitute its Executive Com- mittee.’’ This, in course of time, grew up into the Mission- ary Education Movement, as we know and benefit by it now. The third success of those experts who made up the first conference was certainly the effect their efforts produced upon the little group of young people who, to their own great good fortune, had somehow drifted in to Silver Bay that year among the elect, upon whom they tested their theories, and to whom they presented their inspiring mis- sionary appeals. It would be interesting, if it were possible, to make a survey of those young people to see where they are today and what they are up to; but even without that, I would be almost ready to guarantee—having been one of them—that each one would be found engaged in an at- tempt to ‘‘deepen the missionary life of young people,”’ and convinced that interdenominational cooperation is of great value towards that end. By way of gathering up the record from various points of view, I have asked some of the aforementioned experts to have part in this retrospect, and extracts from their let- 8 ters follow;—but before ending my own part, I must, in very gratitude to these same leaders, in loyalty to the Mis- sionary Education Movement and in love for Silver Bay, add my own tribute. That was my first conference; my first experience of sharing with others things hitherto safeguarded, on my part, in true New Egland cold-storage style; and it was my first opportunity to come into close relation to those of other communions than my own. I have been to many conferences since then, conferences of all types, at home and abroad, and I do not think it is the glamour of first impressions alone that makes my heart glow and my en- thusiasm kindle with peculiar joy at the thought of Silver Bay and the M. E. M. Conferences of special groups, and denominational conferences are fine and most necessary in their way; but in very truth I believe that where Chris- tians of all branches of the universal Church of Christ come together in His name to discover ways by which they may work more closely with Him for the coming of His kingdom, His prayer for the unity of His Church is answered and the world is just that much nearer to be- lieving in Him as the King of Kings. EUGcY, CasTURGIS, Protestant Episcopal Department of Missions. The Second CAnticsor: 1903 Before the Movement Young men and women from our churches who had gone to college and seminary were attending summer con- ferences, and a few of them were in mission classes study- ing missions and discussing how to organize a mission de- partment in the student associations of the colleges and seminaries. These young people thought occasionally of their home churches, and at least one of them determined at a student conference that if ever he had a chance he would hold such a conference for church young people, to discuss similar topics for church work. The development of the various young people’s socie- ties afforded opportunity to have missionary committees or departments in them. One young people’s leader in Canada and at least three in the United States prior to 1900 had made some kind of start in training young people in missionary work. Young men from colleges were trained a few days and then sent to churches, to make a misisonary speech, to organize a missionary de- partment, to sell a missionary library. “The conferences and calls and sales frequently occupied several days at a church. These libraries formed the basis of program meet- ings, reading contests and discussion in the church. In 1900 a sectional meeting of the Ecumenical Confer- ence discussed missions and young people. The College As- sociation methods and the Young People’s Society meth- ods were the prevailing notes in the gathering. “The com- mittee appointed never really functioned. However, some members of this committee stirred around in the summer 11 and autumn of 1901 and called a meeting in New York in December to discuss Missions and Young People, and it is surprising how the principles and some methods indi- cated at that time still seem to hold. As the time for ad- journment drew near it was evident that the matter was not all completed. Some honest people thought that one meeting three days long would end the discussion. There would be no more to say. A committee was appointed to arrange another meeting if thought necessary. At the Student Volunteer Convention in Toronto in 1902 this committee met and decided to call a conference for Silver Bay in July, 1902. Mr. C. V. Vickrey was ap- pointed executive secretary for the conference and did this work while also carrying on his other work. At Silver Bay, 1902 At the first conference there were no parallel sessions. Everyone went to everything. Dr. Beach taught the mis- sion study class. There was a Bible class, one hour was de- voted to methods, there were one or two platform meet- ings each day. Mr. Paine, whose guests we really were, took one hour in leading our music in the singing of great hymns and telling their stories. Recently these notes have been worked into a volume for distribution. The committee, however, that had been working for some months, was meeting daily and sometimes several times daily and twice early in the morning as well as late at night. It slowly dawned on all that not all questions relating to young people and missions were to be answered at this conference and it would be necessary to hold an- 12 other. ‘There was no money. Arising early one morning the committee met for prayer an hour before breakfast. Those were anxious moments. We were conscious of the young people in our churches, we knew of their ignor- ance, we knew a little about missions, we were uncertain about the will of God. That afternoon a committee presented a simple state- ment of organization and it was adopted. Mr. Vickrey was elected secretary to work through the year and work up the conference next summer. There was no budget. Two of the secretaries pledged from their own budgets to make the start, and here began the Board support of the Move- ment. Individuals present pledged and other secretaries pledged later, and the budget of about $2,500 for a part of a year was secured and an office opened in the late autumn. That young man at Lake Geneva, declaring that such a conference of young people as the student conference he was then attending must be held, those secretaries work- ing among young people, those students visiting young people’s societies and selling libraries, those group meet- ings in New York and Toronto, and the meeting of three men at Silver Bay in 1901 that dreamed out some things of the next few months, now are assuredly seen as move- ments of God. The Expansion Abroad The idea was communicated in written and printed form to correspondents in Europe and in a few years peo- ple from there were coming here and some from here were 13 going there. Several countries in Europe, Africa and Asia picked up the idea, and movements something like this were established in those countries. In 1911 a conference in Lunteren, Holland, was the first and only of the international conferences. But many small conferences have been held by visitors. The Expansion at Home In 1903 there was a conference at Lookout Mountain, the first of the Blue Ridge Conferences. Then conferences were held in Indiana, Wisconsin, Ohio, Missouri, Maine, Colorado, Washington and California; some are still in existence and some never met but once. The development of other types of church conferences both denominational and interdenominational, with mis- sionary sections, has changed the conditions in home churches. Another expansion was the organization of the Sunday School Conferences, five of which were held at Silver Bay. The combination of the Sunday School Conference with the Missionary Education Conference changed the program and these changes are still maintained in principle. This also was a factor in changing the name to Missionary Edu- cation Movement to represent the entire church. HARRY S. MYERS, Secretary for Stereopticon Lectures, Mov- ing Pictures and Exhibits, Board of Misstonary Cooperation, Northern Bap- tist Convention. 14 The First Year Dear Friends: I have before me the original draft of the minutes of the first meeting of the ‘“‘Executive Committee of the Young People’s Missionary Movement in the Silver Bay Hotel, Lake George, N. Y., 2 p. m., Wednesday, July 16, 1902,” and I[ note the resolution that a secretary to the Committee on Conferences be elected at a salary of $100 per month, provided satisfactory arrangements can be made with the Bureau of Missions for part of the salary, or when the Committee on Conferences can provide for the salary. At a later meeting—July 21—tthe question arose as to “whether the action of July 18, electing a secretary, com- mitted the Executive Committee to the permanent policy of a paid secretary,’ and a further resolution was unani- mously adopted ‘‘that it is understood that the Executive Committee, by this action, does not commit itself to the policy of a permanent paid secretary, nor does it involve financially any of the Boards represented.” Such was the timidity of the Committee in suggesting continued or new organization for the conduct of the conferences. In the first budget adopted later in the same day, there was no provision made either for office rent or for a type- writer and office fixtures, the suggestion being that the secretary could doubtless handle the correspondence on his own typewriter from his home. Mr. S. Earle Taylor, however, at once drafted a policy for the year ending September 1, 1903, which included 15 for 1903 three interdenominational summer conferences and an educational promotion campaign that would have taxed the office facilities of a well organized mission board. Many of his plans were more than realized. By 1906 the attendance at the Silver Bay Conference had been built up to 611, and one year nearly one hundred registration fees were turned back to late applicants. Other summer con- ferences had been organized West and South; new series of mission textbooks published, and mid-winter mission- ary institutes organized from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The idea had gripped and has had increasing favor with missionary agencies since. The review of these early minutes recalls prominently the names of Mr. Luther Wishard, Dr. S. Earle Taylor, Dry AY W. Halsey, De RPs Mckay, Dr A ee Philene Dr. (now Bishop) William M. Bell, Dr. A. DeWitt Mason, Dr. Harry S. Meyers and Miss Ella D. MacLaurin. Dr. John F. Goucher was present at many of the sessions as counselor. In that day, of course, the hotel was the private prop- erty of Silas H. Paine, having not yet been acquired by the Silver Bay Association. I cannot tell you how sorry I am not to be with you and [ can truthfully say that missing the Silver Bay Twenty-fith Anniversary this year is the biggest price that I pay personally in being absent from the country during the summer. 16 Remember me kindly to all my friends and tell them that though I am missing the Silver Anniversary I chal- lenge them to meet me at the Golden Jubilee. Fraternally yours, CPV MN ACKREY, General Secretary Near East Relief. Getting Started My dear Miss Seabury: Your letter has called forth more memories than I dare dream about. First, the need of a missionary education Miss Hubbard's Study Class UY movement. At the time of its organization there were few Young People’s departments, only about three or four connected with the Mission Boards. However, these felt deeply the futile program of the Young People’s societies in our churches, which simply meant—‘‘holdin’ prayer meetin’ once a week,’ and saying the same thing over and over again. In 1898 the Yale Band and [| visited 77 cities, and our investigation proved the tremendous need of a new program. In 1900 at the time of the Ecumenical Conference which was held in New York, those interested in the Young People’s work met, under the leadership of Dr. Mott and Luther Wishard, and discussed a Missionary Education Movement. The next year we met at Silver Bay and faced the situation, deciding to organize. The following year we began to meet opposition and for several years it was difficult to secure from the Boards appropria- tions for the expense of the Conferences at Silver Bay. However, we did, and chose with great care our delega- tions, which grew by leaps and bounds. The Silver Bay Association was organized to buy the property and put up a building. I never shall forget when we met in the new building for the first time. We dedicated a room in the tower for prayer and intercession. There were many difficulties, but the need was so great and the young people so responsive that we believed there was a future for the movement 18 I could tell you many tales of those early sessions that were both humorous and pathetic, but through it all the faith and courage and consecration of that little group never wavered for a moment. With kindest regards, I am Very cordially yours, ELLA D. MACLAURIN, Executive Secretary Federation of Woman’s Boards of Foreign Misstons of North America. Cooperation My dear Miss Seabury: Your kind letter requesting me to write a letter for the Twenty-fifth Silver Bay Anniversary booklet has suddenly reversed my thinking machinery. In an instant I am back to a conference held in the Assembly Hall, 156 Fifth Ave- nue, New York City, in December, 1901. At that conference, a dearth of suitable missionary lit- erature, maps and accessories, the lack of trained leaders, and many other problems were discussed. At the close, a committee was appointed. Fourteen persons were named, no two of whom represented the same dznomination. The names were as follows: Rev. A. DeW. Mason, Luther D. Wishard, Rev. Charles Rhoades, John W. Wood, Rev. Rufus W. Miller, D.D., S. Earl Taylor, W. Henry Grant, Rev. P. L. Cobb, F. C. Stephenson, M.D., Rev. William Nee belo ee Reveal ebiilipse lO: De Rev. Keres Mackay, Rev. Rivington D. Lord, D.D., James Wood. 19 This committee was charged with the responsibility of calling another conference. The conference was called and held at Silver Bay in 1902, at which the Young People’s Missionary Movement was organized. It is very difficult to think back to the days when there was no co-operation between denominations, no graded missionary literature, no standards for grades, no training classes for leaders. We wonder how we got along without interdenominational co-operation, and without the fellow- ship we have today. International co-operation and fel- lowship such as we now have through the United Council for Missionary Education of Great Britain and the Mis- sionary Education Movement of the United States and Canada, was hardly thought of. My letter would grow wearisome if I undertook even to mention the variety and grades of missionary literature which have been prepared for our Sunday schools and Young People’s Societies, and what a change it would make in the thought life, especially of Canada and the United States, if it were possible to blot out the sympathy and fellow-feeling—tthe international mind——which has been developed in our churches through missions study classes, summer conferences, conventions and training in- stitutes! All this work has prepared tens of thousands to appreciate the news in our daily papers and the articles on international relations in our magazines. We all know that we have hardly grasped the signifi- cance of our Lord’s command, ‘‘Go ye into all the world, preach, teach, heal.’’ We have only begun to interest our churches in the great missionary enterprise at home and 20 abroad, although the watchword for over twenty-five years has been, ‘“The evangelization of the world in this gen- eration.”’ There are perhaps as many millions still un- reached as there were a generation ago. There seems to be just as much need as ever there was for the Student Campaign Bands, which really laid the foundation of the Young People’s Missionary Movement with its motto, “Pray, Study, Give.” May we not hope that the celebration of the 25th Anniversary of Silver Bay, will mark the enlistment of the young life of the churches of this generation for a more aggressive and wider movement than has been. I am yours for ‘‘greater things,” F, L. STEPHENSON, Secretary of Young People’s Missionary Education of the United Church of Canada. The First Silver Bay Conference We have all felt as we sat in the grandstand and watched a baseball or rugby game, “‘What a thrill!’ And we felt it the more if we happened to have a special interest in the game. I have something of that feeling as I look back over the twenty-five years that have gone and recall the first Silver Bay Conference and a few of its outstanding personnel. I say outstanding so far as my memory goes. I was one of the 195 delegates who met in the Assembly Hall of 156 Fifth Avenue, December 11-12, 1901, to face a formidable questionnaire as to what was being done and what ought to be done in the interests of missions amongst Zi the 5,000,000 members of Y. P. S. and the 14,000,000 Sunday school children in the United States and Canada. We were but a veritable Gideon’s Band entering upon a contest with the powers of darkness, for the revelations of that first Conference were really appalling, so little was being done. A committee was appointed of which Luther D. Wishard was Chairman and W. Henry Grant, Secre- tary to make arrangements as to time and place of another conference, which proved to be the first Silver Bay Con- ference, and the first stage of the Young People’s Mission- ary Movement now known as the Missionary Education Movement. Whereunto it has grown with its regional conferences, institutes, publications, exhibits and financial struggles and especially its magnificent results, will no doubt be fully set forth in the Memorial Booklet being prepared. But no booklet will ever fully record results as they exist today in lives, both in Home and Foreign fields. We do not now know and much less did we then know what the harvest was to be. We only had the conviction that what ought to be done could be done, and that prayer can remove mountains, and certainly the conferences of that time were permeated through and through with a spirit of intercession. It is not necessary to see the end from the beginning—‘‘as thy day shall thy strength be.”’ Some of these leaders I recall with affectionate admira- tion. W. Henry Grant,—of course he was there,—a great organizer, capable of infinite detail, at the beginning of how many great movements I do not know. I only know they were great and many, and that he was there, touching the springs, and with self-effacing modesty. De. Luther D. Wishard, who has but recently gone to his reward, stands out as a man of splendid courage and self- sacrifice and breezy withal. He was not a man of means, but took an Oriental trip and spent his all in order to qualify for intelligent promotion of mission interest in the home land. He too was an organizer. He planted good seed and was the inspiring promoter of many a great movement that he left to grow in other hands. S. Earl Taylor was a front rank man for such work. Nothing daunted him if he thought it desirable. If any criticism could be offered it was an excess of optimism and daring. He had splendid vision, was a powerful advo- cate, and had an enthusiasm that consumed him. But what shall I more say? Like the writer of He- brews, time would fail me to speak of Goucher and Vick- rey and Hicks and Haggard and Michener and Sailer and Ehnes and Soper and Myers and Diffendorfer. “These men subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness and were some- times tormented, even if they did not quench the violence of fire. Some remain to this day, but some are fallen asleep. They all fought a good fight, and will reap the reward. ReeReMACKAYs Secretary Emeritus of the Board of Mts- sions, United Church of Canada. Leaders With Vision Dear Friends: I am glad to respond to your request for reminiscences of Silver Bay. My first visit to the Silver Bay Conference pH) was in 1905, during the first year of my secretaryship. The leading spirits that year were Professor T. H. P. Sailer, Mr. Harry Wade Hicks, Mr. C. V. Vickery, Miss Lucy Sturgis and Dr. John F. Goucher. Please note what a mingling there was of the young and the old. Mr. Hicks presided at the sessions and did so admirably, giving the conference an air of precision and yet of deep spiritual earnestness. I was greatly impressed, as everything of this kind was new to me. I shall never forget the day when Dr. Goucher took about a dozen of us in a launch to a retired spot on an island in Lake George. At the end of a beautiful bay, while we were sitting around on rocks and stumps, Dr. Goucher opened his heart to us as to the future of the Missionary Education Movement, with particular refer- ence to Silver Bay. He was the most far-visioned man I have ever known and I was profoundly impressed by the fact that a person of his years was so deeply concerned over the proper training of the young in respect to mis- sions. A good many of the things which have since come to pass were in his mind at that early day. When I think how such leaders as Miss Ethel Putney, who afterwards became my personal secretary and then went out to take charge of that important school in Constantinople, the Gedik Pasha; Miss Ethel Hubbard, who has become fam- ous as a writer of mission study books; and Miss Cornelia Fiske, no longer with us, who wrote so helpfully of mis- sions and the Bible, were all young people in mission study classes at Silver Bay in those days, I am full of admiration and gratitude for what God has wrought Ze. through this Movement. Although I have not been in such close touch with Silver Bay in recent years, | am con- fident increasingly good work is being done. The Ameri- can Board believes thoroughly in the ideals and methods for which Silver Bay stands and is grateful to be a partner with the other Boards which are behind the Missionary Education Movement. In behalf of myself and my asso- ciates I send hearty greetings to the Jubilee audiences. Sincerely, CORNELIUS H. PATTON, Secretary, American Board of Commius- stoners for Foreign Missions. The Glow of Discovery My dear Miss Seabury: One looks back to the beginnings of the Missionary Education Movement with something of the same feeling with which he recalls the beginnings of the Student Vol- unteer Movement and of the Laymen’s Missionary Move- ment. Each of these sprang out of a genuine living inter- est. There was the glow of discovery and adventure and fellowship in each of them. They were full of rich, real life—of confidence and hopefulness and conviction. A great deal that has grown familiar and commonplace now was then fresh and new. There was the sense of action and achievement and possibility, there was no sense of breach between the past and present and old and young, but all felt the power of a great stream of life that was flowing out of the past and into the future and in which all shared together. 25 These memories are all specially entwined about Silver Bay—with its fullness of denominational intercom- munion; its binding together the student and the home church groups; its simplicity and directness; its alliance of knowledge and duty; its kindling of new interest and the expression of that interest in practical service in home churches and in new life plans that reached out to the end of the world and up to the fullness of God. ROBERT E. SPEER, Secretary of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church 1n_ the Lie SMA: Class led by eens Ehnes 26 All in the Day’s Work My dear Miss Seabury: The record of the past twenty-five years is so well known that very little needs to be said by me in comment upon it. It may be useful to the younger generation—for I see | am counted among those who are to deal with the past—if I say that the thing we did some twenty-five years ago which has had such large historic significance, was in reality a very ordinary and commonplace thing to do (at least it seemed so at the time), and was done in the course of an ordinary day’s work. I recall very well the meeting with Mr. Vickrey and Mr. Wishard, at Wishard’s house, when the first Silver Bay Conference was proposed, and I recall also the meeting between Mr. Michener and myself, out under a porch at Silver Bay in the rain, when the first proposal was made to buy the Silver Bay grounds; and of course I recall those glorious days of conference with Hicks, Harry Myers, Stevenson, dear old Dr. Mac- kay, Sailer and others, as the plans developed. But look- ing backward over the whole experience in the course of which some of us became founders of a movement, I should say that if we did anything worth while it was done in a very simple and ordinary way by a small group who were sincerely and I believe unselfishly trying to do the Master’s will in extending the Kingdom, and who were diligently seeking such methods as came to hand for making the work committed to us effective. I have mentioned the above not because there is any- thing heroic or striking in it, but merely because in my ZT, desert experiences, where I have been able to get away from the rush and hurry and worry of committees and board meetings, and where I have been able to see things somewhat in perspective, it has occurred to me that it might be well to emphasize the fact that the founding of all great movements has probably come out of the more quiet and more ordinary moments of life, in times of deep- est sincerity and unselfishness of purpose; and not because someone has said, ‘‘Go to, now I will found a great move- ment.’ And in going forward prayerfully and devotedly with the present task, I believe many who will participate in the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Silver Bay Confer- ence will be surprised some day, as I am now surprised, to find how some simple act, carefully and prayerfully per- formed may result, in the long stretch of the years, in hav- ing one’s name recorded as one of the founders of a mighty movement. While this is no part of the official record, I wish you would give my love to Sailer, LeSourd, Miss Sturgis, and to the host of friends who will be assembled at Silver Bay. I wish I could be with them but at present my work is out here in the desert. Sometime, possibly, some of those now living and in attendance upon Silver Bay may have part in founding a new type of conference which will be held out here where the tired folks may come apart into a desert place and rest a while. SO BARE PAYIUOR: Formerly General Secretary of the Interchurch World Movement. 28 Today Ay ho gy OT OS 2 Pim Auditorium and Hotel The Present Picture In the twenty-five years since that most interesting con- ference of 1902, the Movement then organized has grown by leaps and bounds. Its activities have increased. It has suffered a complete reorganization at the hands of the Boards which it came more and more to represent. In the first place it was made, after the Inter-Church World Move- ment and its finish, into a Representative Board, not de- pendent on the individual gifts of casual donors, but regu- larly provided for by the denominations of whom now some thirty-four are contributing members. The Board is chiefly made up of the educational staff of these various denominational Boards, plus a number of leaders of rec- ognized ability, chosen for their interdenominational con- nections. Its work, of a quite intensive nature, is carried on through three committees,—one on elementary education, one for intermediates and young people, and a third for adult edu- cation. In addition to these there are of course provisions for summer conference activity through the Field Com- mittee, and the ever-increasing activity of the Manufactur- ing Department, busy with producing more and more books under the supervision educationally of the three age groups mentioned above. Today there is provided by the Movement a complete program of text books and materials each year for all grades of the church. In the last few years, to supplement the activities of our own group we have done more and more in the line of co- operation with the British Movement, and through that Movement have imported most valuable materials, espe- cially for Beginners, in which field we ourselves have been 31 ha weak. The range of materials includes books, courses for leaders, all most carefully graded, pictures, maps, stories, reading books, dramatic materials, handwork suggestions and programs. The use of these materials is developed entirely through the denominational Boards, for whom the Missionary Education Movement acts as the educational publishing agent. The wide use of these publications is shown by the report of the Business Manager given at the annual meet- ing of the Board of Managers in January 1927, which shows that during the previous year the Movement pub- lished 249,961 books, 30,500 Suggestions to Leaders, and other publications such as maps, plays, stories and pictures a2 Silver Bay — Showing a ” me, Plain al Lake sufficient to bring the total number of new publications for 1926 to 429,561. It was most interesting to all mem- bers of the Board when a similar report of 1924 publica- tions was given in graphic form from which we quote the following paragraphs: “In the year 1924 the total publications of the Mis- sionary Education Movement were 351,000 books and 324,200: Suggestions to Leaders, picture stories, dramas, pamphlets, leaflets, maps, etc., making a total of 675,200 new publications for the year. We might add to this 226,- 825 pieces of advertising material which were sent out without charge. “During this year, for instance, we published 20,000 copies of TORCHBEARERS IN CHINA, which if piled 515, one on top of the other flat would make a pile 1,041 feet high. The Woolworth tower is 792 feet, so the TORCH- BEARER pile would be 249 feet higher than the Wool- worth tower. “Just to give you an idea of the height in feet of some of the different editions of our books, if laid flat one on top of the other, 50,000 copies of THE CLASH OF COLOR would be 2,344 feet high; 80,000 CHINA’S REAL REVOLUTION would make a pile 3,750 feet high; 5,500 ADVENTURES SINS BROPEHERTOOD would make a pile 2,578 feet high. The total height of the home books published in 1924 would be 6,648 feet or over nine times the height of the Woolworth tower. The total number of foreign books published would be 7,135 feet or over seven times the height of the Eiffel tower. The total of all books published this year when piled one on top of the other would be 16,450 or over 2,000 feet higher than Pike’s Peak. To print the aforementioned books and pamphlets required more than five car loads of paper or over eighty tons.”’ The summer conference movement spread until at its peak there were held across the country six most vigorous interdenominational conferences, fostered by the Move- ment but directed by territorial committees elected by the Board. The increase of religious education and denomina- tional conferences and our desire to co-operate as far as possible in building missionary education into the fabric of religious education, has resulted in the dropping off of one or two of our conferences to strengthen other confer- ences in those areas. “Today conferences are held in Blue Ridge, North Carolina; Ocean Park, Maine; Seebeck, 34 Washington; Assilomar, California; and Silver Bay, New York. In all of these the aim today is the development of trained missionary education leadership. We ask that delegates be picked from the leaders or potential leaders of the church. We aim for quality and definitness of service rather than quantity, and our program is built with that need in mind, largely on a normal training basis. ‘Today the working staff of the Movement consists of an Educational Secretary, Franklin D. Cogswell, who is mainly responsible for the producing of educational mate- rials; a Conference and Promotion Secretary, Gilbert Q. LeSourd; a Business Manager, Herbert L. Hill; a Secre- tary of Elementary Work, Miss Elizabeth Harris; and a Field Secretary, Edgar H. Rue. Three of these have had actual experience in foreign mission work, Mr. Cogswell in India, Miss Harris in Turkey, and Mr. Rue in Malay- sia. Dr. LeSourd has been both a pastor and a high school teacher. Mr. Hill and Miss Harris both spent several years in important fields of full time Sunday school work. Thus in addition to expert training in secular and religious edu- cation, the members of the staff bring to the work of the Movement a wealth of experience in the various fields most closely associated with its activities. In addition to the several secretaries, there is of course an expert staff of editorial and business personnel, pro- ducing more and more materials, both experimental and standard. It has, for example, been an established policy that course books for children’s leaders were to be tried out before publishing. Miss Harris has been able herself to try out some of these with groups of children or to super- vise the trying out with others. Silver Bay under Dr. oy) LeSourd’s direction has become more and more the ex- perimental station where new courses could be tried, new theories of missionary education evolved, and new objec- tives for missionary education studied. Much of the dra- matic material,—pageants, plays, short sketches,—has been tried out in summer conferences, especially at Silver Bay, and is therefore of double value to the local church trying it for the first time. What all this has meant in a gradually more intensive program, in a gradually widening group of trained leaders, and in a deepening of spiritual interest, no one can esti- mate. We have seen the results in many a church, set on fire by a delegate sent to a conference and confronted for the first time with material that really challenged his own educational ability, that really impressed his own intellect- ually trained mind, and that really stirred his interest to the depths. More and more we have been able to co-oper- ate with the great group of religious education conference leader, training groups and Boards, that the day may speed- ily come when missionary education will be not an attach- ment on the surface, but a part of the whole structure of Christian education. RUTH ISABEL SEABURY, Educational Secretary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. 36 Tomorrow ik Denominational Buildings and Auditorium The Outlook for Misstonary Education Ih The clerk of an ordinary hotel offers two kinds of rooms, with and without bath. The popular impression is that there are two kinds of Christianity, with and without missionary interest. As to hotel rooms, there is no differ- ence of opinion as to which is the more desirable. As to Christianity, there is no such consensus. Many church members think of the missionary ideal as a harmless eccen- tricity like boarding school French. Some, with Mrs. Jellyby in mind, regard it as positively distracting and narrowing. A majority would consider that a person can be a quite normal and respectable Christian without hav- ing any concern for such matters as home and foreign mis- sions. For many, to be a Christian means to accept Christian- ity as one’s own religion, minding one’s own business re- ligiously and letting others mind theirs; to be a missionary means that one shall become a religious nuisance insisting that others shall believe as we do. We recognize in this conception of the word missionary a caricature made current by certain journalists, novelists, and playwrights. Of course there have been missionary cranks, narrow-minded dogmatists who were sure that every detail of their own beliefs was right and everything different from it wrong, but these have not been nearly so numerous as has been represented. Missionary work in practice, like that of all organized institutions, has often been open to criticism. It may have been too paternalistic or partisan in spirit, have neglected wholesome aspects of BY Christian life, or have made too particular demands in the way of doctrine or discipline. Admitting for argument’s sake that missionary work, like other activities of the church, has often been badly executed, the question remains, is the missionary spirit something that can be left out of the Christian religion? Is Christianity without it as normal a type as Christianity with it? In other words, what is the essential character of Christianity ? There are two ways of defining the nature of a thing: to tell what it is, or what it does; to describe its structure or its functions. For some decades the latter method has been gaining ground. Especially when we come to im- material things it seems to be our only resource. No one can say what electricity, or life, or thought, or spirit, really 1s. But we have made considerable headway in de- termining what these things do. Therefore, instead of summing up the facts about Christianity, its beliefs, or- ganization, and practice, we may better seek its essential character in what it does. What does Christianity do? Perhaps the most common answer to this question would be that it saves. This word means different things to different persons. One hundred years ago the emphasis was more on its negative and ind1- vidual aspects. Christianity saved from hell and sin and death. It saved individuals from the world and led them, one by one or in small groups, to the heavenly city. More recently we have been emphasizing the positive and social aspects of salvation. We are saved for more abundant life and service, to work out the kingdom of God on earth, in 40 which God's will shall be done as in heaven. In order to uphold one of these viewpoints it is not necessary to op- pose the other. Christianity saves from selfishness and sin in order that we may serve more effectively. God works in us in order that he may work through us. We must forego the mere pleasure of the world in order that we may make it God’s kingdom. Salvation represents the outgoing love and purpose of God for all mankind. This purpose includes every phase of life. It is not salvation from the world, but of the world, with all its human relationships. But so far as we know, it works only through human agencies. “The essen- tial character of Christianity, what it does, is therefore to energize individuals in active sharing of the love and purpose of God for all mankind. The amount of electricity is measured by its ability to transmit against resistance. The same is true of life and of thought. So Christianity is measured by its power of transmission. It receives only to share. It blesses us in proportion to the extent to which we are a blessing to others. Years ago Prof. Henry S. Nash, of Cambridge, wrote: “The deeper the Christian’s life with God, the more deeply does he enter into the common lot, and the more seriously does he take his relationships with his fellows The Christian’s God, the Christian’s self, the Christian’s neighbor,—these are the three component ele- ments of ultimate reality. “hey may not be disentangled. Not one of the three can be fully known or appreciated without the others. If the Christian takes his own soul to be a more solid reality than his relation to his neighbor, 41 if he thinks away his social obligations in order to reach divine reality, he loses all. His neighbor and he are co- ordinated realities. Only in their common substance and value can the true God be known as He knows Himself.”’ In other words, reality is triangular. Each angle must take both the others into account. The mystic who neg- lects his neighbor in order to draw nearer to God misses the best spiritual growth, and the social worker who thinks to do his work more effectively by leaving God out of consideration is fatally injuring his own highest social usefulness. In defining the essential character of Christianity in this way, we have also defined the missionary ideal, which is the active sharing of the love and purpose of God for all mankind. ‘Transmitting power is the measuring unit of both the missionary spirit and essential Christianity. Where the missionary spirit sinks to zero, essential Chris- tianity also disappears, retaining the word and the form, but lacking the power. This spirit puts first things first, but is concerned with every phase of life. We recognize that all good things come from God, blessings physical, economic, social and political as well as spiritual. We rate some of these bless- ings as more important than others, but if we have a right to ask them for ourselves we should also desire them for all mankind. Therefore the missionary spirit undertakes to share with others everything that we consider has been a blessing to us, whatever contributes to the best welfare of body, mind, and spirit. Above all things, we shall a2 A Classroom in Use give ourselves in personal fellowship—-sometimes the hardest gift of all. We make considerable use of the word functional. It means fulfilling the purpose for which a thing exists. The purpose for which Christians exist is to transmit God to the world, and to find therein that higher satisfaction which is known as eternal life. A Christianity which transmits God effectively is a functional Christianity, and thereby becomes missionary in spirit. In secular education the functional idea has been for some time coming to the front. We used to study certain subjects as necessary tools, frequently learning exercises with them that we never expected to perform in life, and certain other subjects, such as geography and history, as 43 desirable information, much of which we promptly for- got for lack of use. Now we are taking as our point of departure the problems of life, and selecting our sub- ject matter in a way that shall help us to solve these. Other subjects that do not bear upon these problems are being made electives. It is this trend in secular education towards meeting the ordinary needs of life which has so increased its importance in the minds of thinking men. Education is becoming our main reliance as an agency for social prog- ress. In the same way religious education must develop. We must begin with the great tasks of the Christian church and construct our education so that it will enable us to discharge them. Every subject and factor will be measured by its contribution to useful Christian living. Many sub- jects that lay a broad background and promote intelligent understanding will be retained. We need to study the de- veloping revelation of God’s love in the Old Testament, its supreme manifestation in Christ, its broadening appli- cation to all nations and races and to every phase of human life since. Since the main purpose of this is to help us to transmit God’s love more effectively, the major division of our study must consider where it is most needed and how it can be applied. Religious education that has reached this point of development has simply become missionary and the difference between it and missionary education disappears. Such conceptions will react on the lives of individual Christians and on the whole life of the church. It will broaden and deepen individuals. It will enlarge their sym- 44 pathies and give them something better to think about than entertaining themselves. It will furnish what Dr. John Dewey calls the supreme and final happiness which is due to the abiding maintenance of socialized interests as central springs of action. It will extend its interests to every race of mankind. It will include social service, but the fact that it is for Christ’s sake will provide a deeper motive. It will not be content with merely material ben- efits any more than a Christian parent would be for his own children. Its use of Christ’s name must not be a mere label. ‘There are probably many acts of service done without conscious reference to Christ which he will acknowledge, and many perfunctory benevolences accompanied by pious phrases that he will disown. Missionary work must be based on a fairly adequate conception of God’s purpose for the world, and motivated by a desire to be freely spent in real- izing this. Such a motive will give us a desire for the indwelling power of God that will arise in no other way. It will throw us back on the power of God because we are attempting things too great to perform without that power. It will also affect every part of the life of the church. How different the organization and administration of many churches would be if they really put first a desire actively to share the love and purpose of God with all mankind. How different much of our worship would be, our hymns, prayers, anthems, and sermons. At present a stranger might attend the services of many churches for a long time without suspecting that the essential spirit of 45 Ao te “‘Overlook’’— Showing one of the Residence Halls Christianity was outgoing service. A new conception would arise as to the significance of church membership; not occasional nor even regular attendance at ecclesiastical worship, not enrolment in a spiritual sanatarium, not social participation in the life of a parochial club, but en- listment in an army for achievement. It is evident that an ideal of this kind will immensely stimulate support for all the present organized work of the church that reaches out for co-operative service. It will challenge new forms of service. The modern church has abdicated its official responsibility for some of the im- portant things of life. On many problems, racial, inter- 46 national or industrial, it is sometimes indifferent, some- times misinformed, and usually incompetent from lack of machinery. Indifference and ignorance are surely inexcus- able. Incompetence may be a valid reason for official in- action. The obligation remains, however, either to discover and endorse some machinery which Christianity may util- ize in helping to settle these questions, or to create such machinery. It will help to remove the reproach cast on Christianity for its impotence in the face of public evils. On the other hand, it will work out more richly in the personal relationships of life, finding opportunities of mis- sionary service for all of us within our families, com- munities, vocations, and personal contacts of every kind. The individual who took advantage of every such oppor- tunity to share the love and purpose of God for all man- kind would have a new insight into the mind of Christ. A functional Christianity will be a tonic to the lives of individual Christians and to the worship of the church. It will stimulate organized Christianity to greater efficiency. But it is most urgently needed because it is the only hope of the world. Secular agencies function on other than the highest planes. Even when they attain higher standards of efficiency than Christianity they cannot do its work. It alone deals with the absolutely fundamental problems of human nature. If it has no solutions for world needs, or is too indifferent to bring them to bear, the most important things in this life will simply go undone. 47 ibe If Christians achieve this conception of Christianity they will naturally demand a type of education that prepares young people to be active transmitters. In considering the outlook for missionary education, we may say that it can afford to disappear as a separate department when religious education becomes thoroughly functional. The first thing for us to do is to begin to live more practical Christian lives during the seven days of the week. Unless we practice this, we shall not only discredit our message to others, but undermine our own desire to deliver the message. Perhaps the most wholesome program of missionary education that could be set up in the church would begin with a more missionary spirit in daily life. It should infect first our personal prayer and worship, our ordinary meditation and planning, our use of time and money, and gradually broaden our outlook to the ends of the earth. The personal contacts are needed to give quality and sincerity, and the larger vision to give breadth and perspective. This is emphatically the way in which essential Chris- tianity should be developed in the lowest grades. Little children should first experience the satisfaction of mutual service and fellowship and of consideration for those who are in special need. The desire for helpful friendliness should be taken for granted. Practice should come before theory; service to the near and familiar before that for the more remote. If we do not first love those whom we have seen, how can we love those whom we have not seen, or even God? At the same time very early we may 48 begin to create a consciousness of the love of God as some- thing yet larger and more inclusive than the love of parents for their own children. Unfortunately, the example of adults is not always an aid. Great pains will be necessary to avoid having children imitate the casual attitude which so many Chris- tians have towards service, as if it were an altogether op- tional performance. On the other hand, we must not be too severe in our demands and thereby arouse the distaste that is often felt for a duty too rigidly enforced. As childish interest deepens and the circle of knowledge widens, sympathy should correspondingly enlarge. Con- ceptions of need should become less trivial and interests extend farther from home. The love of God for those of every race and class should be axiomatic from the first. The kindly spirit of family fellowship should naturally spread to the community, the whole nation, and the world. There should be careful watch for the devastating prejudices acquired from elders which so frequently trans- form generous-minded children into callous snobs. Some secular schools are adopting courses in social studies which help in supplying a socialized and interna- tional outlook. The church should take the fullest ad- vantage of this and build upon it. It should certainly not permit itself to be behind secular education in the breadth of its outlook and sympathy. It should never permit itself to be regarded as a local convenience, but always as an agency for world service. It should treat its external obli- gations like interest on preferred stock. 49 Young people should have systematic presentation of the responsibilities of the church at home and abroad in their relative importance, not overlooking the opportuni- ties for personal service which are close at hand and, on the other hand, not underestimating the magnitude of the needs that are seen in distant perspective. In particular they should be taught to think of those agencies which represent the co-operative effort of the church as they think of those of the state. It undermines citizenship when taxes are looked upon as a disagreeable demand to be evaded as far as possible, instead of a cheerful contribution for com- mon benefits. In the same way, giving to church boards and other co-operative organizations should be considered as personal service necessarily rendered by proxy. Having grown up into such attitudes of service, young people will be prepared to appreciate the reasons for them. They will turn to Christ, not as one to be honored with titles while disregarded as a practical example, but rather as one who saves here and now from selfishness and nar- rowness those who follow him. The working of God’s spirit, enlarging and enriching the minds of men from the days of the first record to the present, will capture their enthusiasm. Finally, as this education does its work, appreciation will deepen of the shortcomings of our organized Chris- tianity, and young people will be ready to join in intelli- gent discussion as to how our machinery may be improved. The reason why we receive so little intelligent criticism of 50 church work is that most persons have such vague concep- tions of a functional Christianity. Into such a program as this, missionary education in the narrower sense is not inserted as an extraneous patch. It is not even integrated as a result of ingenuity. It just naturally belongs there because the whole conception is missionary in the broader sense. It is indispensable because it illustrates Christianity dealing systematically with its largest tasks. 1G % The future of missionary education is bound up with some such program as this. In order to achieve it we shall need four things: workers who can transmit and prepare others to transmit; a curriculum altogether functional in character; effective methods; a machinery that is adequate. In many of our local churches at present religious edu- cation is being conducted by volunteer workers without special training, using a curriculum planned for a genera- tion ago, with traditional methods, and with usually not more than an hour a week for both teaching and worship. This education is not based on a conception of the essen- tially missionary character of Christianity. The teachers lack the insight into this conception, and the enthusiasm and knowledge necessary to make it effective. The curricu- lum furnishes biblical material which is treated mainly as information, with its missionary implications left unde- veloped. The method too frequently consists of a talk by the teacher or in formal questioning. The time is too 51 short to do justice to a topic of real importance, though many teachers find it too long for their resources. Under such circumstances missionary education is re- garded as an extra or of secondary importance. Special exercises are sometimes inserted in the regular program, but most of the work is usually done in missionary soci- eties. “There is a feeling on the part of many church mem- bers that there is not enough to missions to justify any further provision of time. 1. In preparing to introduce the new conception we must first get the church wired for transmission. For this we shall need literally live wires, active conductors, persons who are connected with the right ideas and spirit, and who have the ability to transmit them to others. In some cases pastors are such persons, but many pastors have neither the time nor the special talents for training others. In general, local churches are weak in preparing for effective service. hey get a certain amount of work done; they do comparatively little to improve its quality. Many churches remind one of a great steamship, with elaborate organization and appointments, with officers to direct, stewards to serve, and stokers down below feeding the engines; vibrating with life and energy but steering in no particular direction, with no assurance that it is nearer to any particular destination today than when it took its last reckoning. Like a mighty multitude moves the church of God, but hardly like a mighty army. The only way in which missionary education can hope to catch up with its main task is to move faster. When the Turkish republic abolished the fez the hat factories DZ worked over time to supply the public. The church needs missionary leaders more than the Turks needed hats, and it must be willing to sit up of nights if necessary in order to produce competent leaders on a large scale. The kind we need first are those who can multiply themselves. As Mr. Moody used to say: ‘‘It is better to set ten men to work than to do the work of ten men.’’ But mere quan- tity will not be sufficient. The quality of workers is even more important. It will be a most difficult job for the church to secure an adequate working force, but we can usually have what we want in this life if we are deter- mined to have it and willing to sacrifice sufficiently for it. A Pageant ee) Is there anything more important for the church today than to acquire and transmit to its membership and through them to the world an essentially missionary con- ception of Christianity? What proportion of its total energy is the average church putting into this problem? The first thing to do is to look around for the best transmitters. The pastor would naturally be the chief of these, but he needs many helpers. We must avoid the persons who are more noted for fidelity than magnetism; likewise those without weight of purpose or character. Occasionally, however, a heavy current will accomplish wonders with conductors that seem unpromising. It may be necessary to set choice individuals free from other re- sponsibilities in order to concentrate on this matter. The next thing is to connect with a dynamo of some sort. Many churches possess nothing of the kind and do not know enough to hunt for it. They maintain tra- ditional programs, of very low interest, that yield no practical results. Such churches cannot be expected to gen- erate sufficient power by their own efforts. What they need is to connect with a higher voltage. The pastor, the leading workers, the young people, should be sent to some gathering surcharged with new ideas and more powerful enthusiasm. No church has any business to conduct its educational work feebly and inefficiently when contact with outside thought and energy would enable it to do better. This is a practical responsibility of local congre- gations that is generally overlooked—to see that workers in good positions shall receive the training and stimulus DA they need. Neglect of opportunities along this line is a blunder and a sin. It will also help to connect local batteries, to form dis- trict organizations for discussion and interchange of leader- ship. Churches which have been successful should share their experiences with others and lend them workers. Teachers who are called to serve more than one congrega- tion will be challenged to more thorough preparation for their work. It is of the greatest importance to concentrate from the first on quality. Our plan is too essential to be spoiled by the sort of teaching which many churches have to put up with at present. The largest use should be made of mis- sionary summer training conferences and these should be supplemented by winter institutes. We must set up all over the church today what is known as upgrading re- ligious education of the missionary type, with short in- tensive courses for prominent workers, to help them turn out a higher grade of work. If pastors need three years of special training, those who undertake such tasks as these should have at least one year. There are many in churches who by making the most of their opportunities could obtain the equivalent of this in a few seasons. 2. The curriculum of religious education is at present in process of reconstruction. We have reason to believe that we shall ultimately have something that recognizes the functional character of Christianity. Meanwhile, the use of the courses on this subject issued by such organiza- tions as the Missionary Education Movement will help in leading to better things. They will help us in developing 55 the missionary implications of such courses as we have, and will stimulate interest in courses representing the active side of Christian world service. Working out an adequate curriculum of this type will be a long process, with much experimenting and revision. The important thing is to keep moving in the right direction. 3. When education becomes functional it always challenges the traditional academic methods. There is a constant temptation to level down to what is most com- fortable and practicable for the teacher, rather than to level teachers up to what is most profitable for the pupil. In secular education the newer ideas are challenging teachers to self-improvement. Summer schools are crowded as never before. All over the country teachers are working out experiments, and descriptions of these are being eagerly read. It is time that missionary education made more system- atic contributions along this line. A conference held in New York City in April, 1927, has formulated a tenta- tive list of missionary objectives for various age groups. With this as a basis, missionary workers are being urged to undertake practical experiments for comparison and criticism. It is to be hoped that as a result of this we shall soon have a richer store of methods in missionary educa- tion on which to draw. Much of the outlook for mission- ary education depends on the efficiency with which these plans are developed and made available. 4. No one can plan improvements in religious educa- tion without soon being brought up against the fact that we are greatly cramped for time and resources. In secular 56 schools it is generally considered that a subject must be given at least two sessions a week in order to maintain interest in it. Yet we are expected to arouse interest in religious instruction in a single session each week, only part of which is given to teaching and discussion. One of the best ways to secure more time is to make our work seem more worth while. A great deal of religious educa- tion at present is in a vicious circle. It is so lacking in specific aims and efficient achievement that it arouses no enthusiasm or sacrifice. In many Sunday schools it is hard to secure persons of ability as teachers because the work does not seem worth their time. Scholars are irregular in attendance because the teachers they have are uninspiring. Yet the only way to improve the quality is to arouse the enthusiasm and sacrifice of able teachers. The only thing that will unlock the door is greater effectiveness. Let us first help the church to realize the im- portance of a missionary conception of Christianity. Let us next undertake to provide an education for all children and young people which will prepare them to live up to this conception and become efficient Christian citizens of the world. Let us in spite of all our present handicaps keep sounding out our program, improving the quality of our teachers, using the methods that will command the respect and arouse the enthusiasm of our pupils. By treat- ing the matter with deadly seriousness we shall secure the increasing co-operation of serious-minded people. With such a program the present provision of time will seem altogether inadequate. Under such circumstances we can make our most persuasive plea for more time. If the work sit we are doing gets results worth achieving, the church will find time for it. If it does not get these results, it will not deserve time. The outlook for missionary education is bright. Its importance is being recognized by the most progressive thinkers on religious education. The tide seems to be set- ting in our direction. This is no excuse for resting on our oars. In view of the fundamental subject which we study for the first time this year, we are rather called upon to redouble our efforts in order that we may help to lift the whole educational program of the church to a higher plane. iSite SALLE Educational Adviser of the Board of For- eign Miss:ons, Presbyterian Church in the Uae Ss As Telling the Missionary Story 58 MISSION BOARDS CO-OPERATING IN THE MISSIONARY EDUCATION MOVEMENT Northern Baptist Convention American Baptist Foreign Mission Society American Baptist Home Mission Society Department of Missionary Education of the Board of Education Woman's American Baptist Foreign Mission Society Woman's American Baptist Home Mission Society National Baptist Convention Home Mission Board Church of the Brethren General Mission Board United Brethren in Christ Foreign Missionary Society Christian Church (General Convention) Home Mission Department of the Mission Board Foreign Mission Department of the Mission Board Congregational American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions American Missionary Association Sunday School Extension Society Congregational Education Society Congregational Home Missionary Society 59 Disctples of Christ United Christian Missionary Society Protestant Episcopal Department of Missions of the National Council Friends American Friends Board of Foreign Missions The United Lutheran Church tn America Board of Foreign Missions Women’s Missionary Society Methodist Episcopal Church Department of Missionary Education of the World Service Agencies Board of Foreign Missions Board of Home Missions and Church Extension Board of Education Methodist Eptscopal Church, South Executive Committee of the Board of Missions Presbyterian Church in the U. 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