Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1910 — A GREAT MISSIONARY FIELD. [ARTICLE]

A GREAT MISSIONARY FIELD.

*«W Tork’a ETaacrllral ConaihlN Dom Splratfld Work la laaiarr. The Evangellcon Committee of Greater New York haa aUrted it* annual summer campaign, writes Mabel P. Daggett, of New York, in tke Delineator. Representatives from eight denominations of the city churches constitute Its membership. This will tie the fifth year of the work. The Movement is unique among evongelia-

tie efforts. Many men have been moved to exhort New York to righteousness. Dwight L. Moody used every now and then to swing around here in his circuit with a warning cry against the modern Babylon, and in a whirlwind revival at Cooper Union or the Grand Central Palace bring sinners by the hundred sobbing to repentance. “New York is the moOt godless city of a continent,” some ten years ago exclaimed Rev. Thomas Dixon, me young Don Quixote at the head of his People’s Church, riding full tilt against the stronghold of Tammany Hall. “It 1b the city of Satan. We will take it for God," said Dowie, who led his Restoration Hosts in a spectacular invasion, ultimately emptying all the rials of his wrath in Madison Square Garden. “New York is the wickedest city on earth, except Paris,” says Rev. L. G. Broughton, who periodically comes from Atlanta, Ga., to lash the metropolis for its flaunting cases and its lethargic churches. Even an Indian came not long ago. “The way for New York to be good is to worship the sun," Said Wounded Elk, of the Yaquia. New York is the greatest missionary field in the world. Everybody with a message brings It here. None has read it deeper Into the lives of the community than the summer gospel workers. It started with the discovery announced one spring at a religious meeting. New York is not absent in summer. New York is here in summer. Comparatively few of the people go away—among those few the clergy. There began the movement for an open Bible In New York In the summer time. Let the churches close. Only one-third of the population ever enters them, anyhow. Take the preaching to the people in the out-of-doors. To arrange for this they formed the Evangelical Committee. Its treasurer Is John S. Huyler, the famous candy manufacturer. Its active propaganda is under the direction of a superintendent, Rev. Dr. Arthur J. Smith. With this organization In the field, the regular preachers now take their summer vacation with a clear conscience.