I have spent almost two years in visiting all the mission stations of our people in the Orient, and am to try this afternoon in twenty minutes to give you some idea as to the work.

      Before the ascension and coronation of Christ as the King of glory, he said, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me; go ye, therefore, and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit." This great commission, as we call it, was not understood by the disciples of Jesus until eight years after Pentecost, and is not fully appreciated and understood by the disciples of Christ at the dawn of the twentieth century.

      Last year the Christian world raised twenty-one million dollars for Foreign Missions. We have to-day on the foreign field fifteen thousand missionaries, with eighty thousand helpers. Had Carey said one hundred years ago, "In one hundred years we will be raising twenty million dollars for Foreign Missions, and will have one hundred thousand converts annually," as we did last year, the world would have said, "Carey, you are a vain dreamer, and this is an utter impossibility."

      My friends, I hope to see the day, and am satisfied that many in this audience will see the day, when America and England alone will be giving one hundred million dollars to Foreign Missions, and when we will have a half-million converts every year instead of one hundred thousand, as to-day; when we shall have in China a revival with a thousand converts, and our religious papers will give one page to it; when over in India we will have a thousand converts in three weeks' time, and only half a page will be given to them, and India will become offended because we have not given as much space to them as we have given to China.

      I want to mention one of the results of our foreign work. In Japan they all use the same song-book, and they all speak of the church of the living God on earth as the church of Christ. It is universal. Every single denomination speaks of the church as the church of Christ. Every single foot of land and

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every house that is owned by the Presbyterian Church in Japan is deeded to the "Church of Christ of Japan." That is the legal name of the Presbyterian Church. But because Alexander Campbell and Barton W. Stone desired one hundred years ago to call it the church of Christ, it was necessary for them to get out of this church, and the people who were called heretics one hundred years ago are looked upon as being the most orthodox people in the world to-day, and the very church out of which this great movement of ours originally came, in Japan has adopted the very thing for which we fought one hundred years ago. In China they use the same song-book. In China they call the church the church of Christ. They said, "We have to do this." In Japan a few years ago some of the people said, "You have seventeen gods in your [131] country." And they asked, "Why, how is that?" They thought every missionary society doing work over there represented a different God, and they said, "We have one God here, and we do not want your religion." The same thing is true in China, so that it was absolutely necessary for those missionaries to adopt the same name, and to adopt a Christian name, and they called themselves Christians, and they call the church the church of Christ.

      But a little further. Our fathers fought and died for Christian unity; the heathen people, as we call them, are going to teach us a lesson in Christian unity. The Presbyterian Church and the Christian Church have united their schools in Nanking, China, the ancient capital of that far-away land, and F. E. Meigs, who is here, is president of this united school. The three churches wanted to go together in their school work and raise one hundred thousand dollars. The Methodists and Presbyterians and our people wrote to their boards in the United States and said, "We want you to raise one hundred thousand dollars. We want to have a great university in China, because if we don't build a university the Chinese people will build universities in a few years, and they will be heathen universities, and we haven't the money to build alone, and we propose to have this university, and propose for each church to have a theological seminary."

      And what do you suppose our boards wrote back? They said, "We are in sympathy with the plan, and if we can raise the money we want to do it; but we recommend that, instead of three theological seminaries, you have one Bible college, and teach the students the Bible, and the Bible alone, and let them go out and preach it to the world."

      I will tell you, brethren, what we need is to have the same song-books, and to call the church by the same name, and we will soon have Christian unity.

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