Taylor University - Ilium / Gem Yearbook (Upland, IN)

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think of the nations as passive and indifferent to the Gospel for they are calling for Light. Tyler Bennett expresses it thus: What mankind is really demanding of the Church of Christ today is action — moral action, spiritualized by the idealism of Jesus. This demand must be met by the Christian student of today. The fields are now calling for ten thousand workers. Surely if God has fields of harvest, He will secure reapers to take care of the harvest. Will we be among those privileged to help Him in this gathering of souls? Look again at the map at the head of this article and see that missionaries from Taylor have already gone to darkened Africa, to sunny India, to awakening China, to beautiful Japan, to the Philippines, to war-stricken France, to neglected South America, and to other countries of the world. We believe that if we were to ask each one personally if he felt that he had wasted his life in this work of the Master, a unanimous reply would be, as was the reply of the Cambridge Band of Inland China : Not one of us regret having come out here. Not one of us would retrace a step to- day. If we had a dozen lives, we should wish that they might be so invested. But the Cambridge Band, nor the former students of Taylor University, not even the number from all the churches and denominations are sufficient. We students of today have the opportunity to be among the two thousand now needed to lead the seeking to the Light so that Jesus shall reign where ' er the Sun Does his successive journeys run. —ALICE E. ESKES. The Upper Room, The hours I spend with Thee, dear Lord, Are precious hours, indeed, to me ; Here in the Upper Room at eve, They soon will be but memory. As days pass by me, one by one, These golden days of prayer and praise, I wonder if in Heaven abov e, I soon shall see Thy blessed face. Oh Upper Room, Oh blest retreat, Secure from all of sin and strife, May long your beacon light shine out, To guide souls on to Perfect Life. — J. Edna Edwards.

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days and years it may seem to linger. Today China is reaping the fruit from the sacrifice of the two hundred fifty-eight missionaries and the thirty thousand native Christians who gave their lives during the Boxer Rebellion. The reaping must not stop until every soul of China has had the opportunity to accept the Christ for whom they cry. India, beautiful, caste bound! India representing one-fifth of the inhabited world, but crowded into one-thirtieth of its area, is moving as a mass toward tho Light. But Wait! Will she be guided aright in the forward step? Are there enough of His disciples, either foreign or native, to teach the masses the way? There are more Christian workers in New York City alone than missionaries in all India. Are the laborers sufficient? There are now more than one hundred million unevangelized beyond the reach of the present force of workers. Of the one hundred and fifty million women of India, less than a million can read and write; forty million are life- long prisoners in Zenana homes. The widows of India alone number twenty-five mil- lion, one hundred thousand of them under ten, and twenty thousand under five years of age. Then, too, what about the fifty million untouchables of India? Did not Christ die for them as well as for you and me? India today is the greatest religious arena of the world. Who will enter this arena in the conflict against the powers of darkness to lift and lead these people to Light? An African woman cried: Tell we where I ' ll find Him, we ' re tired of darkness, we want light. She is only one of the millions of this Dark continent calling for help. There are fifty million souls in the jungles of Afi-ica unsought by a single missionary. Sherwood Eddy describes Africa as the continent Fettered in soul, manacled in mind, enslaved in body, and that has lain prostrate before the rapine and avarice of the world. Dragged captive by the Mohammedan; crazed by the intoxi- cants of Christian nations, made murderous by their fire-arms, Africa is bleeding out her life-blood at every pore. What a benighted race! Shall we by our neglect delay them the Lamp of Life? From Mexico comes the cry; armed men are not needed here but the Gospel of the Son of the living God. This alone will settle the problem of Mexico, said , the representative from Mexico to the Des Moines convention. Then as to South America ; what other nation than ours can better throw the rays of light across this continent where Catholicism has lost its hold and today they are practically without a religion. The word neglect in itself expresses the con- dition of South America. The seventy thousand students of South America and the peons held by slavery because of debt to the land owners is the pressing problem of that land. Mr. Mott, after his return from South America, said : A final impression which has been borne in upon me with overwhelming force is that a special burden of re- sponsibility rests upon the Christians of the United States for the extension of Christ ' s Kingdom among the peoples of Latin America. We repeat the statement that from every nation conies the cry: We want to know the Christ! This cry from the countries of Europe has a strange pathos in it. Sacrifice is the fundamental principle of Christianity and who can tell but that out of the tremendous slaughter of the Armenians, Syrians and Greeks will come the salvation of the people of Turkey, Arabia and Persia. We have entered a new realism on thinking of missions. We no longer need to

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