Laymen’s Missionary Movement.
THE laymen of the Baptist Church have organized what is called “The Laymen’s Missionary Movement,” the object of which is to stimulate the true missionary spirit in the membership of the church. Its history covers but little more than a year, but already advance steps have been taken as a result of its organization. The ambition of the founders of the organization is: 1. To bring all the men of all the churches into the fellowship of prayer for the speedy extension of Christ’s kingdom. 2. To induce every layman to enjoy the privilege of proving his faith in Christ and his belief in the extension of His kingdom by contributing, according to his means, to the cause of missions. 3. To awaken and arouse in men a true sense of the awfulness of the needs of the heathen world, the enormity of the task of giving the Gospel to every creature, and to encourage them to immediate and energetic action by the certainty of success within a lifetime. 4. To secure the publication and distribution of literature on missions, written from the layman’s viewpoint, and presenting the facts with reference to missions in a way that will appeal to business men. 5. To so interest many Christian men that they will personally visit the foreign fields in order that they may become acquainted first-hand with the problems that continually confront the missionaries. It is certainly a good thing for Baptist laymen, and for the laymen of every evangelical Christian body of believers, a movement that will indeed help to sound the Gospel of the kingdom in this generation.