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THE UPRISING OF MEN FOR WORLD 
 
 CONQUEST. 
 
 By Samuel B. Capen, Chairman Executive 
 
 Committee. 
 
 On November 13th and 14th, 1906, there was held 
 in the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in New 
 York City an interdenominational meeting in com¬ 
 memoration of the centennial of the Haystack Prayer 
 Meeting. On the afternoon and evening following, 
 November 15th, a company of laymen met in the 
 chapel of the same church, the invitation to this meet¬ 
 ing being in the form of a '‘Call to Prayer.” As a 
 result of that meeting the Laymen’s Missionary 
 Movement was organized. The following preamble 
 and resolutions were adopted and a committee ap¬ 
 pointed : 
 
 Whereas, in the marvelous Providence of God the 
 One LIundredth Anniversary of the beginnings of the 
 American Foreign Missionary movement finds the 
 doors of every nation open to the gospel message, 
 and 
 
 Whereas , the machinery of the missionary boards, 
 women’s boards, student and young people’s mission¬ 
 ary movements is highly and efficiently organized, 
 and 
 
 Whereas, the greatly increased participation of the 
 present generation of responsible Christian business 
 and professional men is essential to the widest and 
 most productive use of the existing missionary 
 agencies, and is equally vital to the growth of the 
 spiritual life at home, and 
 
 Whereas, in the management of large business and 
 political responsibilities, such men have been greatly 
 used and honored, and 
 
 Whereas, in but few of the denominations have ag¬ 
 gressive movements to interest men in missions been 
 undertaken; 
 
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 Therefore be it resolved, that this gathering of lay¬ 
 men, called together for prayer and conference on the 
 occasion of the centennial anniversary of the Hay¬ 
 stack Prayer Meeting, designate a committee of 
 twenty-five or more representative laymen to consult 
 with the secretaries of the missionary boards of all 
 the denominations in the United States and Canada, if 
 possible at their annual gathering in January, with 
 reference to the following vitally important proposi¬ 
 tions : 
 
 1. To project a campaign of education among lay¬ 
 men to be conducted under the direction of the va¬ 
 rious Boards. 
 
 2. To devise a comprehensive plan (in conjunc¬ 
 tion with said Board secretaries) looking toward the 
 evangelization of the world in this generation. 
 
 3. To endeavor to form, through the various 
 Boards, a Centennial Commission of Laymen, fifty or 
 more in number, to visit as early as possible the mis¬ 
 sion-fields and report their findings to the church at 
 home. 
 
 In January, 1907, at the annual conference of the 
 Foreign Missions Boards of the United States and 
 Canada, its business committee made a report, the 
 opening paragraphs of which are as follows: 
 
 In behalf of the representatives of the Foreign Mis¬ 
 sions Boards of the United States and Canada, in 
 conference assembled, in the city of Philadelphia, 
 January 9, 1907, we earnestly express our apprecia¬ 
 tion of the Laymen’s Missionary Movement as out¬ 
 lined by Mr. Samuel B. Capen, who represents in his 
 communication a large number of Christian business 
 men who are profoundly interested in, and committed 
 to the enterprise of the evangelization of the world 
 in this generation. 
 
 We recognize this movement as providential, hav¬ 
 ing been born of prayer and of the Spirit. In its 
 
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 spontaneity and timeliness it gives evidence of the 
 hand of God, and we are profoundly convinced that 
 this is but another step in advance toward the com¬ 
 pletion of His great purpose in the redemption of 
 mankind. 
 
 This report was unanimously adopted. 
 
 WHY. 
 
 In considering this new movement, the first inquiry 
 is why it should be organized. With the present mul¬ 
 tiplicity of societies and organizations, there ought to 
 be a great necessity to warrant the establishment of 
 another. Any man to-day has a right to challenge 
 any new organization which presents itself. My first 
 answer, therefore, to the why is: 
 
 First, because of the inadequacy of the present 
 scope and extent of missionary work. In making this 
 statement I am not failing to recognize the great work 
 that has already been accomplished. The success of 
 modern missions has been one of the great triumphs 
 of the centuries. We have planted Christian churches 
 and schools and colleges and hospitals and printing 
 plants and have transformed nations. The success 
 of this work challenges the admiration of all familiar 
 with it. Nevertheless it must be acknowledged that 
 this represents the work of only a small minority of 
 our church members. It is believed that not more 
 than one-fourth of the Christians in this country 
 make an offering to foreign missions worthy of the 
 name. I am not claiming that a larger proportion 
 than this do not give a nickel or a dime or some in¬ 
 significant trifle, but I believe that no larger propor¬ 
 tion than I have stated give for foreign missions at 
 all in proportion to their ability. That this is true is 
 evident when we note the small average of the gift 
 per member in any of our denominations. One of 
 our Boards has reached an average of $2 per mem- 
 
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 ber, one or two others about $i per member, but with 
 others the average is less than one-half of this smaller 
 amount. Is it not pitiable, nineteen centuries after 
 the cross of Christ, for us to be obliged to acknowl¬ 
 edge that we are giving on an average less than half a 
 cent a day to evangelize the world? 
 
 What makes it especially reprehensible is the fact 
 that we have grown so enormously rich. It is not 
 necessary for me here to repeat figures that have been 
 given again and again, and which show that we have 
 an amount of wealth in our possession which a gen¬ 
 eration or two ago would have been considered fabu¬ 
 lous. We cannot have any patience with a man who 
 argues that we cannot afiford to do many times what 
 we are doing now. We have the money in our pock¬ 
 ets. There is a perfect mine of wealth in the posses¬ 
 sion of the rich and of those of moderate means alike, 
 which is as yet untouched. It is not a question of 
 can cr cannot , it is a question of will or will not. Am 
 I not right in saying, therefore, that we need to sup¬ 
 plement our present methods with something else in 
 order that we may more speedily evangelize the na¬ 
 tions? This is the primary purpose of the new 
 movement. 
 
 Second. The second reason for this new movement 
 is the indifference to all foreign missionary zuork of 
 very many in pews and pulpits alike. There are too 
 many who care nothing v/hatever for any missions 
 anywhere. Some of these can be appealed to through 
 patriotic motives for work in our home land and 
 through self-interest for city missionary work. But 
 for w^ork for people thousands of miles away, people 
 whom they have never seen and never expect to see, 
 for this they have not the slightest interest whatever. 
 The missionary message so far has not touched multi¬ 
 tudes of men in our churches, the very ones this 
 movement is designed to reach. 
 
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 The experience of the past three years of the Lay¬ 
 men’s Missionary Movement proves that men can be 
 interested deeply in this subject if proper methods 
 of education and enlistment are adopted. 
 
 Third. We need a great campaign of education be¬ 
 cause many people do not consider proper proportion 
 in their various gifts. We rejoice in the great bene¬ 
 factions for secular education and philanthropy here 
 at home, but the foreign missionary appeal is too 
 often forgotten. There are resources enough for all. 
 Thousands of men are making their personal appeal 
 for various enterprises, many of them good in them¬ 
 selves, but in no sense comparable in importance with 
 the missionary appeal. I was present a little time ago 
 in a great metropolitan church, where I saw in the 
 book-rack a pledge card with a list of the benevolent 
 offerings in that church, and there were twenty-one 
 objects included upon that card. Furthermore, there 
 was nothing to emphasize the six missionary societies 
 of that denomination or to distinguish them in any 
 way from the other fifteen. In other words, the regu¬ 
 lar missionary work of the Congregational churches 
 had to compete in the house of God with fifteen other 
 causes. Another church near my home has about 
 twenty-five in its list. Certainly the time has fully 
 come to adopt some new plans which shall give proper 
 place and emphasis to the regular missionary work of 
 our churches. In our new movement we want to 
 make it clear to all that missions are the supreme 
 work of the church, and that money given for work 
 abroad inevitably tends to help and not hinder gen¬ 
 erous gifts at home. 
 
 Fourth. We should recognize as never before the 
 world-ivide opportunity. The doors are open all over 
 the world and the commercial traveler is entering 
 everywhere. Is it to be an open door for all kinds 
 of business and a closed door for the Gospel of 
 
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 Christ? The element of time in all this work is vital. 
 In non-Christian countries which have come into 
 touch with the western world and its civilization, the 
 people arc giving up their old forms of religion. Un¬ 
 less we give them something better they will drift in¬ 
 evitably, as hundreds of thousands of them are doing, 
 into agnosticism. Again we have in Africa the Mo¬ 
 hammedan peril. Many of the tribes are giving up 
 their old heathen customs and are being captured by 
 the Moslem faith. If they adopt this, it will be harder 
 for us then to reach them v/ith Christianity than when 
 they were in heathen darkness. The rapid changes 
 in the Far East the last few years present not only 
 many opportunities but also wonderful possibilities. 
 Our business men must have that broader vision that 
 takes in the whole world. 
 
 Fifth. Our own spiritual safety requires a more 
 vigorous missionary campaign. It must be most dis¬ 
 pleasing to Christ, when he has done so much for 
 us, to see us so selfish and unwilling to give as freely 
 as we have received. In our great material prosperity 
 the only thing that will save our nation from the sins 
 of luxury and vice, which always accompany such 
 conditions, is to use our wealth and opportunities for 
 the saving of others. “The heathen are saving the 
 church,” is the significant title of a recent address by 
 Bishop Lawrence. We might go even farther and 
 say that the heathen must save the nation. America 
 must do her share to save the world if she would save 
 herself, and our laymen have it in their power now to 
 turn the current of thought in the churches to these 
 higher things. We want also to save men and then 
 we shall have their gifts. 
 
 Sixth. A proper recognition and appreciation of 
 the brave men who represent us at the front demand 
 that we do far more than we are doing now to support 
 them. We are practically starving them out and 
 
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 crippling them for the want of supplies and proper 
 reinforcements. Only in missions is there failure to 
 press with energy and enterprise every advantage. 
 
 Seventh. We need a great addition to the Christian 
 educational institutions abroad, in order to train more 
 rapidly native teachers and preachers. We need more 
 hospitals and more printing and industrial plants. As 
 we have been going on the last few years, no one of 
 our missionary boards out of its regular income can 
 supply these needs. We want what President King of 
 Oberlin has called ‘'capitalistic statesmen.” 
 
 WHAT THE MOVEMENT IS NOT. 
 
 (1) It is not a new Missionary Board to collect 
 funds or to administer them; it is not to raise up or 
 to send out missionaries; it is not to work among 
 young people, students or women; but its work is to 
 be chiefly among the mature men of the church. 
 
 (2) It is not an interdenominational movement 
 which proposes to do its work outside of regular de¬ 
 nominational lines or to make a new Missionary 
 Brotherhood independent of those already established. 
 
 WHAT IT IS. 
 
 In the spirit of the declaration of principles already 
 given, it is first a ‘‘movement.” I have always liked 
 the word. It expresses life, energy, progress. It rep¬ 
 resents something not necessarily bound to old tradi¬ 
 tions and certainly something that does not run in 
 ruts. It is a dynamo giving added force and power 
 to existing machinery. It is a promoting agency to 
 facilitate work already under way. We want to cre¬ 
 ate, if possible, a tremendous energy which shall be 
 felt through all our churches. 
 
 Second. It is a “missionary movement.” It has a 
 great ideal, namely, to reach the whole world in this 
 generation. It recognizes the fact that the church has 
 
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 been in the “retail business” long enough. It is a 
 challenge for something larger and more far-reach¬ 
 ing. Its broad statesmanship will appeal to men. Its 
 purpose is to do the largest thing of which anyone has 
 any conception—“to devise a comprehensive plan (in 
 conjunction with said Board secretaries) looking to¬ 
 ward the evangelization of the world in this genera¬ 
 tion.” It is to ask the men of this generation not to 
 pass their own work on to future generations, but to 
 do it themselves, now. 
 
 Third. It is a “ laymen’s missionary movement.” It 
 is intended for the mature men of this generation who 
 are in the thick of the fight. It is not an appeal to 
 students or to women and young people; the special 
 work for these classes belongs to other organizations; 
 it is an appeal to the mature men of to-day who now 
 have in hand the money which they can give if they 
 will, and who can moreover give their time and 
 thought and prayer to the work. 
 
 Fourth. It is an effort to get the denominations at 
 home to work more closely together than ever before. 
 It is well understood that there is a closer harmony 
 of work on the mission field than here in the home¬ 
 land. This plan will appeal to the business men of 
 to-day. It is in harmony with modern methods in 
 the business world. We want to utilize the principles 
 of legitimate promoting. Together is the twentieth 
 century watchword. 
 
 THE PLAN AND METHODS OF WORK. 
 
 The General Committee of the Movement consists 
 of more than one hundred men—who meet semi-an¬ 
 nually. The Executive Committee consists of twenty- 
 one men, fifteen of them residents of New York and 
 vicinity, two from Washington, one from Boston and 
 three from Canada. This Committee meets monthly 
 
The Uprising of Men for World Conquest 9 
 
 in the city of New York. Mr. J. Campbell White is 
 the General Secretary. 
 
 First. We are using our influence to have organ¬ 
 ized in every city and large center of population, an 
 Interdenominationl Co-operating Committee of the 
 Laymen’s Missionary Movement, to promote an ag¬ 
 gressive and adequate missionary policy in all the 
 churches in its district. 
 
 Second. We urge this Interdenominational Co-oper¬ 
 ating Committee, so far as possible, to secure in each 
 local church the appointment of a Missionary Commit¬ 
 tee that shall be pledged to care for foreign mission¬ 
 ary interests, working always in harmony with pas¬ 
 tors and church officers. 
 
 Third. We would encourage these Missionary 
 Committees by a comprehensive and thorough educa¬ 
 tional policy to endeavor to reach all the men in their 
 own local churches. We are seeking to bring about 
 more than ever before, what has been called “applied 
 personality.” 
 
 Fourth. We believe the time has fully come to be 
 more systematic in securing our missionary offerings. 
 They should be considered more and more as a sac¬ 
 rament; men should be asked to give definite pledges 
 of money worthy of themselves and of the present 
 day opportunities and of the Master whom we serve. 
 
 Fifth. We hope to reach and utilize existing 
 Church Clubs, Brotherhoods, Bible Classes, etc., many 
 of which have been organized largely for social pur¬ 
 poses. What the men to-day need is something that 
 calls for service. 
 
 In brief, we are using our influence so far as pos¬ 
 sible to have in each church (A) a Missionary Com¬ 
 mittee; (B) a campaign of missionary education; (C) 
 a thorough canvass of the entire Church membership 
 in order to secure some worthy offering for missions 
 from every one; and (D) the adoption, wherever pos- 
 
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 sible, of the Weekly Missionary Offering as scrip¬ 
 tural, systematic and effective. We desire to see the 
 missionary work of the whole church put upon the 
 same adequate, permanent and business basis as that 
 of the current expenses of the local churches. 
 
 SOME RESULTS OF THE MOVEMENT. 
 
 First. Missionaries all over the non-Christian world 
 have been greatly encouraged by this uprising of lay¬ 
 men in behalf of missions. In many cases they are 
 holding on to fields that would have been given up for 
 lack of workers and funds, had they not been cheered 
 by the evidences of quickening interest among the men 
 of the home churches. 
 
 Second. The Laymen’s Movement has discovered 
 the great advantage of presenting the missionary op¬ 
 portunity and duty of the church to the representative 
 Christian men of a whole city or state, without regard 
 to the particular branch of the church with which the 
 men are identified. This encourages a comprehensive 
 study of the missionary problem. It also strikingly 
 exhibits the small proportion of any city’s offerings 
 which are devoted to evangelizing the non-Christian 
 world. During the last three years no other Chris¬ 
 tian agency in North America has been so successful 
 as the Laymen’s Movement in bringing together large 
 numbers of strong, mature men, to consider their re¬ 
 sponsibility for extending the Kingdom of Christ. 
 Successful meetings have been held in scores of large 
 cities in all parts of the United States and Canada. 
 Two great state conventions were held in the Spring 
 of 1909, one at Minneapolis, Minn., and one at Des 
 Moines, la. At each of these Conventions policies 
 were adopted looking toward the enlistment of far 
 more men in the work of world-evangelization. 
 
 Third. Denominational Work. Simultaneous with 
 
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 this work in the cities and by states, the men have been 
 organized in several of the denominations and the 
 officers of our Movement have been the helpers in all 
 such organizations. 
 
 One of the first denominational movements to be 
 organized was in the Presbyterian Church South, with 
 Mr. Charles A. Rowland of Georgia, one of the 
 members of our General Committee, as chairman of 
 their Executive Committee. They held a convention 
 at Birmingham, Alabama, lasting three days, with 
 over a thousand delegates present. This Conference 
 accepted and endorsed the standard of an average 
 of $4.00 per member to foreign missions, and in each 
 Presbytery the stronger churches are urged to make 
 larger gifts to make good any deficiencies from the 
 smaller and weaker churches. This Movement em¬ 
 ploys two secretaries to give their whole time to the 
 work. 
 
 The Methodist Episcopal Church South has organ¬ 
 ized with Mr. John R. Pepper of Nashville, Tenn., 
 another member of our General Committee, as its 
 chairman. They held a convention at Chattanooga, 
 Tenn., attended by about one thousand men. They 
 have set as their financial goal the increase of their 
 missionary offerings from $750,000 to $3,000,000 an¬ 
 nually. This Movement employs a General Secre¬ 
 tary. 
 
 The General Conference of the Methodist Episco¬ 
 pal Church which met in Baltimore in May, 1908, 
 endorsed the Movement and provided for the organ¬ 
 ization of a Methodist Laymen’s Missionary Move¬ 
 ment. They also voted to increase their scale of giv¬ 
 ing to foreign missions from $2,000,000 in 1908 to 
 $6,000,000 annually by 1912. The Methodist Lay¬ 
 men’s Movement employs two Secretaries. 
 
 Great conventions of men connected with the Pres¬ 
 byterian Church North have also been held at Omaha 
 
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 and at Philadelphia under the leadership of the For¬ 
 ward Movement. In both of these conventions recom¬ 
 mendations were passed that the offerings of their 
 entire denomination be increased to an average of 
 $5.00 a member for foreign missions, which would 
 be more than quadrupling their present gifts. The 
 Southern Baptist Church and the Reformed Church 
 of the United States have each organized a Laymen’s 
 Missionary Movement, and each employs a Secretary 
 to devote his time to the organization and extension of 
 the work. The American Board, the Board of Mis¬ 
 sions of the Episcopal Church, the Dutch Reformed 
 Board and the Foreign Mission Board of the Asso¬ 
 ciate Reformed Presbyterian Church have appointed 
 Committees to co-operate with the Movement. 
 
 In the Northern Baptist Church, the Baptist Broth¬ 
 erhood has been charged with the responsibility of en¬ 
 listing the men of the church in its missionary opera¬ 
 tions. The Anglican, Baptist, Congregational, Meth¬ 
 odist and Presbyterian Churches of Canada have or¬ 
 ganized their own separate Laymen’s Missionary 
 Movement, each with its own secretary, in addition 
 to supporting heartily the interdenominational Move¬ 
 ment, which also has a General Secretary in Canada. 
 The Annual Conference of the Foreign Boards of 
 the United States and Canada, including forty-nine 
 Societies has also appointed a large and influential 
 committee to co-operate with the Movement. 
 
 It has been our plan from the beginning to work in 
 hearty co-operation with the Foreign Missionary 
 Boards. Together we have been working towards a 
 comprehensive plan looking to the evangelization of 
 the whole non-Christian world. We have used our 
 influence to lead the various denominations to define 
 their distinctive foreign missionary responsibility, and 
 to adopt an adequate policy for the reaching of their 
 own fields. 
 
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 It is a matter of profound gratitude that so many 
 of the denominations have already taken official action 
 in this matter, and declared themselves responsible for 
 the evangelization of the following numbers in non- 
 Christian countries: 
 
 United Presbyterians . 15,000,000 
 
 Southern Presbyterians . 25,000,000 
 
 Northern Presbyterians . 100,000,000 
 
 Northern Baptists . 61,000,000 
 
 Southern Methodists . 40,000,000 
 
 Northern Methodists . 150,000,000 
 
 Congregationalists. 75,000,000 
 
 Dutch Reformed . 13,000,000 
 
 Reformed Church in the U. S. . 10,000,000 
 
 Canadian Societies . 40,000,000 
 
 United Brethren . 5,000,000 
 
 Foreign Christian Miss. Society 15,000,000 
 
 Many other Churches and Societies have taken pre¬ 
 liminary steps toward a clear definition of their share 
 of missionary responsibility and the adoption of an 
 adequate policy for its discharge. 
 
 Fourth : Canada: In some respects the most im¬ 
 portant work that has been accomplished through the 
 Movement has been in Canada. From March 31st to 
 April 4th, 1909, there was held at Toronto a Cana¬ 
 dian National Congress of the Laymen’s Missionary 
 Movement, with delegates present from the whole 
 Dominion. There were registered as commissioners 
 over 2,500 laymen and 1,500 ministers. This is the 
 first time in modern history that representative men 
 of all churches of a nation have come together to plan 
 for the extension of Christ’s Kingdom in the whole 
 world. This Congress adopted a “National Mission¬ 
 ary Policy,” setting forth what the commissioners be¬ 
 lieved to be the nation’s obligations, and this policy 
 
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 has since received the formal endorsements of practic¬ 
 ally all official Church Conferences, Synods and As¬ 
 semblies throughout the Dominion. 
 
 The communicant membership of the Canadian 
 Churches aggregates about 900,000. The Congress 
 voted unanimously to accept the estimates of their 
 missionary leaders, that at least $1,300,000 annually 
 should be contributed toward their home missionary 
 work and $3,200,000 annually to foreign missionary 
 work. It is of interest that in this great Congress 
 the delegates paid not only their own traveling ex¬ 
 penses, but also registration fees, which aggregated a 
 sufficient amount to pay all the expenses of the Con¬ 
 gress. 
 
 Fifth. The Movement has not been confined to the 
 United States and Canada, but has taken root in 
 Great Britain and Australia. By invitation of the 
 various British Missionary Societies, a deputation of 
 six laymen was sent to London in May, 1907. This 
 deputation was received officially at the Bible House 
 in London, on the 27th of May, by about seventy-five 
 men, representing the various British missionary so¬ 
 cieties. Mass meetings were held in London, Bristol, 
 Sheffield, Edinburgh and Liverpool. In the latter city 
 there were 1,800 present, and it was said to be the 
 largest men’s missionary meeting ever held in that 
 city. Among the prominent men who co-operated in 
 launching the Laymen’s Missionary Movement in 
 Great Britain were the following: Lord Guthrie, Lord 
 Kinnaird, Lord Overtoun, The Master of Polwarth, 
 Sir Andrew Wingate, Colonel Williams, Sir John 
 Kennaway, Sir Albert Spicer, Sir Fowell Buxton, The 
 Master Cutler of Sheffield, Sir Mackworth Young, 
 Sir Edwin Russell, The Lord Provost of Edinburgh, 
 The Lord Mayor of Bristol, The Lord Mayor of Liv¬ 
 erpool, and the Lord Mayor of Sheffield. The Scot¬ 
 tish National Committee employs Mr. Kenneth Mac- 
 
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 lennan, of Edinburgh, as General Secretary of the 
 Movement In Scotland. 
 
 Repeated and urgent requests have also been re¬ 
 ceived from Australia to send a deputation to that 
 country and we are glad to report that without wait¬ 
 ing for such deputation the men in that great com¬ 
 monwealth are organizing substantially on our plan. 
 South Africa has also asked for a Deputation to pre¬ 
 sent the object and methods of the Movement. Fre¬ 
 quent requests have also been received for our litera¬ 
 ture from Germany. The Christian world seems to be 
 ripe everywhere for this Movement. 
 
 Sixth : Financial Gains. The best single illustration 
 of the financial results of the Movement in one de¬ 
 nomination is probably in the Southern Presbyterian 
 Church, which was the first to organize its own sep¬ 
 arate Laymen’s Missionary Movement. Three years 
 ago the total contributions of that church to foreign 
 missions were $223,000. The next year they increased 
 to $275,000. The next year to $323,000. Last year 
 they reached $412,000. Forty-eight of the individual 
 churches of that denomination averaged $4.00 per 
 member or more to foreign missions last year. Of 
 these forty-eight churches, twenty-six also increased 
 their contributions to Home Missions last year and 
 twenty-five of the forty-eight increased their pastors’ 
 salaries. These forty-eight churches had an increase 
 in membership twice as great as the denomination as 
 a whole and an increase in the total contributions of 
 9 per cent, against a general increase of contributions 
 in the entire denomination of less than 1 per cent. “A 
 missionary awakening means a revived church.” 
 
 The best illustration of the increased giving to mis¬ 
 sions in a large city, under the influence of the Move¬ 
 ment, is Toronto. Mr. N. W. Rowell, K. C., of Tor- 
 ronto, the Chairman of the Canadian Council of the 
 Laymen’s Movement, makes the following statement: 
 
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 “In the fall of 1907 the inspiration of the Lay¬ 
 men’s Movement came to us, and there also came fi¬ 
 nancial depression and great scarcity of money. 
 Shrewd observers and generous contributors said if 
 the Movement enables us to hold our own under the 
 adverse financial conditions it will accomplish much. 
 What has been the result? Let me illustrate by a few 
 of the Toronto churches in which the Movement has 
 really taken hold of the men: 
 
 Year ending Year ending 
 
 Methodist. 
 
 Jun, 30 ’7 
 
 Jun. 30 ’9 
 
 Metropolitan Church . 
 
 . . $8,696 
 
 $16,037 
 
 Sherbourne Street . 
 
 • • 7. 0 42 
 
 15.759 
 
 Central Methodist . .. 
 
 • • 4.163 
 
 13.250 
 
 Carlton Street .. . . 
 
 . . 3,240 
 
 S >532 
 
 Anglican. 
 
 1907-8 
 
 1908-9 
 
 St. James Cathedral . 
 
 St. Paul’s Church. 
 
 • • $ 7,500 
 
 $15,000 
 
 • • 5.400 
 
 15,000 
 
 St. Simon’s Church . 
 
 1,200 
 
 4,000 
 
 Church of the Messiah.. 
 
 200 
 
 1,250 
 
 Presbyterian. 
 
 1907 
 
 1908 
 
 St. James Square (always 
 
 a 
 
 $15,539 
 
 strong missionary church) . 
 
 .. .$12,000 
 
 Bloor Street . 
 
 ... 7,000 
 
 12,074 
 
 Old St. Andrews . .. 
 
 ... 6,500 
 
 12,588 
 
 Chalmer’s . ... .. . . 
 
 505 
 
 1,518 
 
 Dovercourt Road .. 
 
 432 
 
 i, 3 l8 
 
 / Baptist. 
 
 1907 
 
 1908 
 
 Jarvis St. Church ..... 
 
 .$7,108.76 
 
 $17,845.77 
 
 Walmer Road ... 
 
 • 6,433.73 
 
 13,015-33 
 
 Dovercourt Road . 
 
 . 1,461.64 
 
 5 , 29 i - 2 5 
 
 jOssington Avenue . ... 
 
 244.07 
 
 1,690.87 
 
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 ‘‘It is interesting to note the result throughout the 
 city of Toronto: 
 
 June 30, ’07 June 30, ’09 
 
 Methodist .$ 53 , 397-45 $93,125.84 
 
 1907 I9O8 
 
 Presbyterian .$46,332.00 $98,553.00 
 
 Baptist . 23,225.82 55 . 0 o 5-58 
 
 Mr. Rowell further says: 
 
 “These figures are not the result of a special appeal, 
 but indicate a permanent increase in the annual con¬ 
 tributions due to the adoption of more systematic 
 methods of missionary finance, such as the weekly of¬ 
 fering of missions and the new standards of giving. 
 
 “The financial results are the least important in this 
 missionary awakening. There has come to the men 
 of the churches where the Movement has gripped them 
 a new sense of both privilege and responsibility in 
 Christian work: the privilege and responsibility of be¬ 
 ing co-workers together with Christ in the work of 
 world-redemption; a new conception of stewardship 
 that involves business talents as well as possessions: a 
 new consciousness of personal relationship to Christ 
 and a new sense of loyalty to him.” 
 
 One of the Anglican congregations in Quebec City 
 has given towards the new Canadian Mission in China 
 some six thousand dollars, that was to have been used 
 in purchasing a new organ. In addition to this, the 
 Curate of the same church has volunteered for service 
 in the foreign fields. 
 
 A business man in Chicago has given $7,500 for a 
 campaign of education among the Presbyterians in that 
 state, and employed a traveling salesman to organize 
 the campaign, while other business men have been glad 
 to join in the active work. In the different cities 
 where meetings have been held by the Movement, lead- 
 
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 ing men who have been previously opposed to foreign 
 missions, have been so impressed that they have ex¬ 
 pressed their regret for their former opposition, and 
 are giving themselves without reserve to retrieve their 
 past neglect. 
 
 Although the Movement came into being less than 
 three years ago, the giving of our churches has stead¬ 
 ily increased, and it is believed that much of this 
 increase can be traced directly to the influence of this 
 Movement. 
 
 In the statistics for the last fiscal years published in 
 January, 1909, showing the receipts for Foreign Mis¬ 
 sions from the Protestant churches, the contribu¬ 
 tions of Great Britain decreased $96,000, and the gifts 
 of other Christian countries decreased $120,000. In 
 the United States and Canada on the contrary, where 
 the Laymen’s Movement has been especially active, the 
 gifts increased $602,000 over those of the previous 
 year. 
 
 Surely we can see God’s hand in this work and there 
 are increasing indications that the churches have to¬ 
 gether entered upon the greatest missionary movement 
 of the ages. Christ’s prayer for unity is being an¬ 
 swered and that unity is being made practical and 
 definite in common service. We are learning rapidly 
 that if we want to think and act in Christ’s way, we 
 must think and act with the whole world in view. In 
 this Movement all minor differences have been for¬ 
 gotten and we are united in a common work. We are 
 beginning to recognize as never before the solidarity 
 of the race; that our world is one home; that we are 
 the children of one Father, that the barriers are now 
 down and that it is possible to reach all our Father’s 
 children throughout the whole world. It has been 
 well said, “The nineteenth century made the world one 
 neighborhood, the twentieth should make it one 
 brotherhood.” 
 
The Uprising of Men for World Conquest 19 
 
 It is a propitious moment for this uprising of men 
 for the conquest of the world. Hundreds of millions 
 in Asia have caught a vision of liberty and self-gov¬ 
 ernment and in some measure the meaning of Broth¬ 
 erhood. The whole world is becoming more and 
 more unified. The East and the West are touching 
 each other politically, commercially, and socially as 
 never before. Men are beginning to think interna¬ 
 tionally and continentally. There is a new peril in all 
 this unless the whole world shall quickly learn the 
 Fatherhood of God as revealed in the face of Jesus 
 Christ. Bishop Brent has said: “Now is the time for 
 the West to implant its ideals in the Orient in such 
 fashion as to minimize the chance of a dreadful future 
 clash betwen two radically different and hostile civiliz¬ 
 ations; if we wait until to-morrow we may find that 
 we have waited too long.” 
 
 And let us listen as we have not before to the call 
 from the front from those who are out on the firing 
 line as our representatives. When Jesus wrought in 
 Galilee, crowds pressed so hard upon Him that often 
 He had no time to eat or sleep. These same condi¬ 
 tions exist to-day in the lives of many of our mis¬ 
 sionaries in the far East. When they know of the 
 wealth of the home-land and the small response to 
 their appeals, they are often heart-broken. It is the 
 hardest of all the burdens they have to carry, thus to 
 be sent to the front and then seemingly ofttimes neg¬ 
 lected and by many forgotten. They know of the cost¬ 
 ly buildings at home and the personal luxury. They 
 see all this during their furlough and they hear of it 
 from others. No wonder they break down under this 
 load of neglect. It is an extravagant policy to fit and 
 train men as we do for years and then kill them by 
 overwork for want of needed help. All our mission 
 boards have outgrown their finances because they have 
 not outgrown their opportunities and their progress. 
 
20 The Uprising of Men for World Conquest 
 
 It has been said that “we need a moral equivalent 
 for war” Foreign missions gives us that equivalent, 
 in its spirit of conquest and in the courage and sacri¬ 
 fice it calls forth. We want to mobilize the men of 
 to-day for the last great struggle. Our times are for 
 “big” things. We are coming to a “big” time in mis¬ 
 sions, for the time of formal praying and petty giving 
 is about over. The day of great consecration and self- 
 sacrifice is at hand. We want to put ourselves and all 
 we have and are into this men’s movement. It is a 
 “man’s job” to organize and finance the evangelization 
 of a thousand millions of people. We have been send¬ 
 ing out single pickets and little groups of missionaries 
 long enough. We want to call out the reserves now 
 for the final struggle which will make our Christ the 
 universal king. In the words of Napoleon, “The 
 secret of victory is to bring up the reserves when the 
 struggle is at a crisis.” This is no dress parade, but 
 for men in fatigue uniform who will fight until the 
 finish, and until the Cross of Christ is planted in the 
 darkest corner of the earth. 
 
Missionary Literature for Men 
 
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 Samuel B. Capen 
 
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 The Uprising of Men for World Conquest, 
 
 The Genesis and Significance of the 
 Laymen’s Missionary Movement, 
 
 Missions and Civilization, 
 
 Our Share of the World, 
 
 The World’s Debt to the Missionary, 
 
 The Awakening Orient, 
 
 “On the Square”, 
 
 Methods of Enlisting Men in Missions, 
 
 Personal Impressions Regarding Missions. Dr. L. Duncan Bulkley 
 Around the World, Condensed Report of Laymen’s Commission 
 
 J. Campbell White 
 Hon. Wm. H. Taft 
 J. Campbell White 
 Robert E. Speer 
 Robert E. Speer 
 John Timothy Stone 
 J. Campbell White 
 
 Robert E. Speer 
 Silas McBee 
 By Public Men 
 S. M. Zwemer, F.R.G.S. 
 
 Foreign Missions and Christian Unity, 
 
 The Layman in Missionary Work, 
 
 Testimonies on Foreign Missions, 
 
 The Moslem Problem and Peril, 
 
 Modern Hinduism; 
 
 Does It Meet the Need of India? 
 
 (A) 16. The Stewardship of Life, 
 
 Joseph N. Shenstone and J. Campbell White 
 
 (A) 17. What BusinessHas a Business Man with Foreign Missions ? 
 
 S. M. Zwemer, F.R.G.S. 
 
 Rev. John P. Jones, D. D. 
 
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 The Urgency and Crisis in the Far East, 
 
 The Non-Christian Religions Inadequate, 
 Modern World Movements; 
 
 God’s Challenge to the Church, 
 
 The Place of Missions in the Thought of God, 
 The Opportunity of the Hour, 
 
 The Supreme Business of the Church, 
 
 Prayer for Missions, 
 
 The Great Commission, 
 
 The Haystack Prayer Meeting, 
 
 John R. Mott 
 Robert E. Speer 
 
 John R. Mott 
 Robert E. Speer 
 George Sherwood Eddy 
 Rev. George Robson, D.D. 
 Professor Warneck 
 Robert E. Speer 
 Edward Warren Capen 
 
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