THE YELLOW MAN.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 161, 10 July 1935, Page 9

THE YELLOW MAN.

EFFECTIVENESS PROVED.

THE INDIGENOUS CHURCH. j The day had passed for the white missionary to undervalue the yellow man, who ■ was constantly proving his effectiveness in . native Church life and government, declared the Rev. L. O. Stanton, deputation secretary of the Oriental Missionary Society in a talk on "The Indigenous Church," which he gave yesterday at the • weekly lunch-hour gathering of (the Y.M.C.A< businessmen's study group. There was need to the speaker added, in such enterprises that God had made of one blood all the nations of the earth. So successful had the indigenous method of the Oriental Missionary Society been that now in Japan, where it had 1000 churches, all the preachers and administrators were Japanese. The aim was to reach a people of any country such as Korea, China and Japan with trained native preachers. For instance, in China the Oriental Missionary Society preachers had seven months of the year for intensive training, and five months for Church work, coming back next year to repeat the process. It was the same in Korea and Japan. In the Bible Training Institutes not only the intellectual but the inner life and character of the students was closely watched and trained. The cost of an evangelist and his family w&s often as low as 10/ per week, and a sum of £25 was found sufficient to inaugurate an indigenous Church. The' founder of the Oriental Missionary Society was the Rev. Charles Cowman, formerly a well-known telegraphist in Chicago. Mr. Cowman once conceived the idea of placing the Scriptures in every one of the ten million homes in Japan. This was accomplished by the indefatigable efforts of groups of Japanese workers at a cost of £20,000. Encouraged by such success the Oriental Missionary Society had now undertaken the colossal task of doing the same in China. On behalf of the Business Men's Study • Club, "Mr. T. L. Caley and Mr. A no'ld Schultze expressed appreciation ' of +&e a.d< -ris.