Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 9, 1894, Page 6

MISSIONS ! by the whirling chariot wh King. (Applause). CONCREGATIONAL E—— Home Missions for the Sake of Amerion Ably Presented. The paper of Rev. Washington Choate, D.D, of Chicago was on *Home Missions for the Sake of America.” He sald, In substanc z On the Magazin this record “Another name has the list of states and territories occupled by this society. The Home Missionary standard has been planted in Nebraska. At Omaia City the banner of the cross s already unfurled, and other posts await the advance of that peaceful army whose tri- umphs are for freedom and for what makes freedom good. One missionary has gone to Nebraska.” Rev. Reuben Gaylord had entered Omaha. This First church, which now welcomes fts mother and the mother of more than 4,000 others, in her first step out Into the great feld of her labors; this church, become strong with the Christian lifo which it had gathered and trained, (Continued from Fifth Page.) IAb, brethren, there are sacrificlal values in those Plymouth walls that can never be put down upon paper, As “Little Round Mop” will ever be sacred to the nation's heart, because it was bought with blood, #0 we love the very stones of our church because the ol of sacrifice has consecrated them. Sacrificial service is costly, but it pays. The frult of it is love, joy, peace, new power for service and a new under- standing of the heart of Christ. We have made but a beginning. God has helped us Ro lay good foundations, Christ himself be- ing the chief corner stone. The church has splendid possibilities, and “He who has led will lead FIFTY YEARS OF CHURCH Dr. Corwin of Chicago troduced, and spoke as follows: With glad- pess and gratitude we now come, in this uccession of festivals, in this grand proces- #lon of jubilee anniversaries, to the taberna- cles. I am asked by the national and local Dmm.; ;;:I i e, '[y : r“';r":""f],"’ ';‘"‘”': standing In the heart of a great city which you of fifty years of church bu:lding In the | pay grown up around it, with a sisterhood WL ittle of Congregationa | °f NeArly half a score In this metropolis uiAb LA LA L Ciaedd L "‘l“ of an empire state—this church—this city church bullding anywhere in these great in- [ ¥ A8 FEEE FETRRECE M0y he viewed in terior states forty years ago. It had been | thoir beginnings, growth, ~transformations the habit of the Congregational lamb to ful- | and development as type and illustration Al the ancient prophecy by meekly lying | of the fleld and the labor and the fruitige down fnside of the capaclous maw of the | of Congregational Home Misslons for the Presbyterian lon. But somehow the west- | sake of America. If you seek a monument, ern variety of mutton was so very tough, or [ look about you. the lamb was so wild and wooly that it did [ In July, i854, Omaha consisted of one log not agree with the lion's digestion, and so it | house. ~Two score years later the outpost happened that Jonah-like it was cast out, | settlement has become the city of 140,000 and it has managed to frisk about so lively | People, with every finstitution that belongs ever since that It seems little likely ever | to our civilization—commercial, industrial, again to be taken in. (Laughter.) educitional, benevolent, philanthropic, re- Our church bullding society, founded in Hglous. 1863, Is hardly more than forty years old., | Contrast in thought that frontier village For the new Impulse was given to Congre- | In its temporary homes, its irregular, deep- gatlonalism In the west at the celebrated rutted roads, the prairie :rhmr}}vrs crossing Albany convention in September of 1852. A | yon river on the ‘“lone tree" ferry, the crisls In Congregationalism had come; and | oben vista in every quarter of the horizon it was felt that it would live in full force [ out upon the measureless plains, the newly and thrive in the west only as It should | Kathered congregation of our first mission- assert itself mo vigorously and adopt a | ary, meeting in th legislative building of more aggressive policy. the’ territory where was organized the fir:t Henry C. Bowen, who, at the head of a [ church in Nebras! of nine members; con- great silk house in New York City, had been | trast all that with this edifice which adorns threatened with that weapon of barbarism, | @ beautiful city, sanctuary of a church that the boycott, by the south because of his [ has become the mother of others and the anti-slavery timents, and who brav benefactor of many, the contracted vision replied: “My silks are for sale, but a0t m; from these streets lined with massive principles,” had sent a letter o the conven- | business block:, the almost immeasurable tion In which he offered to give $10,000 | trafic moving east and west over the bridges toward a fund of $50,000 for building Congre- | Sbanned river—and hold these contrasted gatlonal churches At the west if- $i0,000 | Views in mind as type of a transformation hould be raised at the cast for that pur- | that has taken place in form, If not in de- pose. That offer, read at a critical poat in | ST, at more than 15000 points between the deliberations, was the keynote to the | the Hudson river and the Pacific since the great march of Congregationalism across | Organization of the American Home Mis- the continent. slonary society sixty-eight years ago. Mr, Bowen's offer kindled the greatest en- | , The hamlet has become .the metropolis. thuslasm. Dr. Leonard Bacon rose In that | The territory has taken on statehood. The convention and while expressing some doubt | o€ church, dependent on eastern sympathy of their ability to raise so latge a sum fn | @nd_benevolence, has become the group of the required time was prudent enough to | Mearly half a score in this city, while in Tove that It thore should be any smai sup | the state are almost 200 of the pligrim faith plus over and above the proposed $50,000 it :‘!'""”‘” noble men have. wrought, molding should be cxpended upon the needy flelds of | the peobles gathering here into a citizenship Now York. UThe result of the appeal to the | WOrthy of the state and nation, shaping the Now Enaland. churenes. on the Smet Sunday | Social and educational institutions, opening In January, 1853, was over $62,000. The | fountains of Christian influence and benefi- 4 4 $62,000. The | cence whence shall flow forth in all coming e rome ottt il betyeen | time, and with augmenting force, streams By o s 1 Aavcs, | of Inspiration and benediction and ennoble- oty O AL niy L ment that shall bless the land, and through chusetts and 2 in'New Hampshire, while the | {¢“to ‘Sora. Here 1 a typetangible, visi- 360,000 was divided at the west, aiding in | hio aimost measurable—of the work that has Wisconsin 48 churches, in Illinois 39, in | gngaged this society since its formation. It Michigan 32, In Iowa 31 and in Ohio 30, | hag been laying foundations and rearing the and the remnant was divided between ten | gtructure of a Christian civilization in city, or fifteen churches in other western states. | yown, and hamlet; among the mines, on the In all 225 churches were built and the aver- | prajrie and in the forests, on the mountain- age aid recelved by each was $275. side and in the valiey, in all these now The report of the society up to the close of | great, prosperous, growing commonwealths. 1893 shows that from 1853 to 1803 there had | This has been the labor and the reward of a been 171 churches built In Nebraska at a | post of true, sclf-denying, heroic men and cost of §109,000, and G5 parsonages built | women, living and toiling under the com- in the state at a cost of $10,000, BRI natiis ‘i, 5 thie ientives icoun: | = Gorereution moew: LS ngregational H. M s a try there had been aid rendered in the ongregational Home Misslons for the sake t ad re of America have a significant and special- bullding of 2,600 churches and 500 parson- | jzed meaning today. We meet for the first ages. It instead of having our heads on time under the name which we love and the right way and facing the future, our | honor for the history that clusters about it. heads were turned and we were looking We meet at the almost central point of our backward and building backward, this soci- | great national territory. The name declares ety has lml[{m]‘ to bukHd churches um: parson- [ the form of life and organization that has @ges enough to make one a year from the | grown from the seed planted at Plymout dedication of Solomon's temple until now, ? y o : 275 years ago, and which we hold to be in and to have made a generous contribution to | closest accord with the genius of the nation. that. Does any other investment pay so | We would institute no invidious comparisons well? Doubtless a barn filled with God's | between ecclesiastical organizations that are #pirit and in which there Is a consecrated | working together for the onc end. But, in preacher {s better than a temple, ever so | the factor of a citizenship in the nation and gorgeous, if the service is only an empty | a membership in the church trained in each form. DBut what when the temple is filled individual to highest intelligence and largest with God’s glory and is a power house for responsibility and truest self-direction, we the generating of the mightiest spiritual | discern an accord of spirit and genius that forces? constitutes a deep motive and impulse to the Civilization may survive for a little in | planting and upbuilding of the Church of the the shack, the shanty or the dugout, if a | Pilgrims—east and west, north and south. refined and cultured family is dwelling there. | Congregationalism stands not alone, though But these discomforts are not aids and ac- | it does stand emphatically for a renewed, re- cessories to civilization, but hindrances that | generated character—a life within kindled by tend to barbarism. So, too, the semblance | the divine spirit; but it stands, also, in being of church life may be maintained for a true to its inheritance and loyal to its own while amid the most adverse surroundings, nature, for a disciplined and developed man- but these are always hindrances and never | hood and womanhood, with which self-goy- real helps to individual piety or to church | ernment can safely rest. growth. The Congregational Idea shaped the civill- Happlly this society has little to fear from zation of New England, and wherever that ecclesiastical controversies. The conflicting | 1dea goes its necessary effect s to create creeds of Christendom worry it far less than | @ hisher, truer, stronger self-government in the monstrous greeds of Christendom. It men and women, which idea is also the 18 affected far less by loose notions than by | Strensth of our mation's life. —Congrega- the tightness with which men hold on to tionalism has thus a mighty motive to main- thelr money. They (ke cae on businesy | tain itself in the older and rapidly-changing principles that none but sound timber and | §tates, and to repudiate itself throughout Do Bemed ettt shl g e, tamber and | this newer and growing part of the land; ture and that there shall be no daubing with [ [ {he country and In the city; among those e e e S Do N0 anublng Wth | of American ancestry, and of European or Hox Lhat 5 brond snoush 13 1o In the pay. | Attatie: among the déscendants of (he once le, and every window that lets in the light. | (rartpd race aadithenaonshotitiiofanarlky Was that a symbol of the limitations of the | {fon and that of & serancness of Its primal old dispensation or was it defective church | very existonce demonts o tue datlon, whose architecture when Solomon made for the | polity nime. st emit sovommeat the Pilgrim house of the Lord windows of narrow lights? | "'A “true. Conmresntiong] shocople: Who can overestimate the educating in- ST aan onaLighuran Jaria muce fluence of the well proportioned templa and democracy, It emphasizes supremely the in- dividual, and the force which works mos of those heavenward pointing spires, those Ak ang s oraekniiloh tvorkemont silent monitors of an unseen city?. They directly. for the highest and strongost per- sonal charncte all its E—intel aro eloguent remindors to & gainsaying and | gonce, moral interrity, pucis o prmell- galn-getting people that there are better | spiritual aspiration—is that which s most things to think of than the whirling wheels | mightily shaping the nation's ciyilization of our manifold Industries and better in- | Continuing the speaker dwelt upon the vestments to be made than in city corner [ movement of the population of the country lots. Why, Mr. Moderator, there are so- | from the rural districts into the town called Christian people over yonder who | which, he said, was the occaslon of two would not be able to repeat more than a | materlal perils—the spiritual destitution of single passage of scripture, and that only | the depleted rural region and the spiritual with a misplaced punctuation—"Remem- | destitution of the congested center. The ber Lots, wife!" (Laughter). towns he showed by statistics to be feeding Pre-eminently true was it of the evangell- | the cities. The decadence of the . tows cal type of religion which formalists in | means the deterioration of the social, educa: derision _called Puritan till its adherents | tional, religious opportunitics, — This 15 in- shod uch luater upon It as (o roseu ic trom | cipient barbarlsm. all odium, that it was constructive. Puri- | The Missionary Church, up o tanism In'its stormy birth and its turbulent | misslonary love and sympathy sad bageos infancy, rocked in the cradie of persecution, | lence of the nation, must continue to do its ever the pride and glory of those who sought | work for the scattercd millions of agrie war upon formalism, and with heroic forti- | culturists and village dwellers, even though tude resisted oppression. Porsecuted into | It remain a missionary, dependent chure loneering, it pushed out over the border | for many years. We are not to plant those ines of civilization that It might plant its | churches only which are to win the strength standard in the wildernoss. But it was | of self-support in a brief time; but alse to do ever the pride and glory of those whosought missionary ‘work of promoting the to restore In its purity the primitive faith, to [ Christian church, school, Sabbath and. fam. De reckoned among the working forces’ of | lly among the 80,000,000 of the ruraland do- this world’s mighty builders. Not restless, | cadent regions. . transient nd nomadic, it atmed at per- Over against manent results. Tt carried with it institu- | the country stands ere e tiona: the church with its ‘settied pastor, | the spiritual. destitutian g iy T the school and the college. 1t organized | centers, el with reference to a long campaign. Where- [ The facts of ever It planted a standard it was ready | corrupt and 10 erect a fortress around it It looked well | cities are altogether too well known tc 10 the outposts, but it aimed to make them | reconnting. Here s uybun heeromtsts heed the centers of aggression, mever to be re- | lenging rural barbarism as a foe to national taken by tho enemy, It dreaded not to | prosperit g domiclle the desert, it by spiritual culture | = Side by side with the sp ostitut it might be made to blossom a8 the rose. | of the country and of :he”(-{.r;-( Risahition 1t would patiently and firmly lay the founda- | with each and complicating’ both fa° the tions wherever it might establ'sh a city | third factor of our great problem—the infow whose builder and maker 1s God. Not con- | of life from beyond the seas. No thoushi tent to run hither and thither, scratehing | of Home Missions for the sake of Amcrica over ':‘,e :.I..qm» m;.l with shallow sowing | can leave this factor unnoticed RIS, and the slightest culture, hoping for a vol- So long as the founta 1 rine unteer crop, it takes up Its claim to fence | stream are. predominemty Cseninoniowing and to build upon It, to subsol and thor- | eastern Europe, races subject to centuries of oughly cultivate the ground, that It may se- | absolutism or despotism, ignorance. and sy cure the largest and most lasting results, | perstition long must' the note of watoh- When the integrity of the nation was at | fulness be sounded and the call to an ever. no man could call himse!f a patriot | increased effort to reach and gospelize ther who, Tefusing to imperil his own life, was | be sent forth; for be it remembercd that indifferent to the needs of those who' went | “civilization means civilized persons: (e down to the front civilized individual—the clyilized many," And how can men of wealth in our | So comprehensive & view of our respon- churches claim either plety or patriotism | sibilities scems pertinent to the time nd who care not for the struggles and the | place of our gatherlng. From this contral suffering of those who as ploneers are in | point, the magnitude of our national domain the forefront of the battle to conquer this | a constant factor of the problem—is pressed whole land for Christ? We may hasten the | upon us anew. The home of the eoloessl dawn of tho millenial day If we will, but | nation that is forming here opens Lofers only when we have honestly consecrated | us In its territorial extent as never bafore ourselves and our substance to the Lord, and | This factor—of a vast natural basis for g Dave to count the wealth of the world as | velopment—is central in the problem. It Boly the glittering dlamond dust cast up | underlies all the possibllities of the future | Misstonary 1856, stands pages of the Home bearing date April, now been added td BUILDING was nest in- the spirttual destitution of veril from the massed and practically heathen life in our it conditions all the cortaintios. With a de- clared agricultural basis for a nation of 1,000,000,000; with a growth that has carried us from a little less than 4,000,000 in 1760 to 62,600,000 in 1800, an average ratio of in- crease through the century of 32 per cent for every decade—we are moving on toward the 100,000,000 of the twentieth century, to be doubled, doubtless, ere the mid-point of that century Is turned. But such a growth cannot come to us without a greater test and strain to the national fabric than the past has presented. In 1860 our population was 81,000,000 Then the wave of westward moving life had but just entered the trans- missourl states.\ One half of our great terri- tory was practféally unoccupied, Between 1860 and 1800 another 31,000,000 wasg alded to us. But thus to doutle a popufation when the country possessed a vast arable territory for the expanding life to flow out over, to enter upon for homes and occupy as farms, with mineral resources almost untouched, was a condition to which adjustment was easily made. But in the years before us, to add 60,000,000 to 60,000,000 of population, when our once great public domain has passed largely into private ownership, when the be- ginning of the end of the greatest agri- iral movement known to history is noted, such & duplication, and that again re- peated, as Is confidently prelicted, within the measure of a lifetime, must subjcct our soclal and political Institutions to a test wholly unimaginable. Ours is a new world problem. If so vast a task as that of perme- ating this life with the gospel spirit be not effected as the decades pass, it can never be overtaken; the work will fail of its nc- complishment. Here is the urgency of the “now" in home misslons. It cannot be de- ferred to the future, for our task and duty are to make and shape that future. In our self-congratulations upon the greatness of our nation, there s peril lest the fact be lost sight of that we are yet in the process of “nation-making.” Though we have out- | stripped every European race save the Rus- sian, we are still building the nation that is to be. The America that Christian thought forecasts, hopes for, prays for, labors for, is to be reared out of the materials which the coming years shall furnish. Only founda- tions have thus far been laid. But these have been laid in prayer, consccration, self- sacrifice, deep devotion, and faith In a mighty purpose and plan of God; interwoven in this nation's life, discerned in its begin ning, traced through its history, revealad in its crises and deliverances, and inspiring the confidence that, with fidelity, z:al, and unsparing toil, there shall be reared here a national structure that shall be to His honor and glory. Such will be the task of generations, doubtless of centuries. Our call is to occupy this land in the name and for the sake of Jesus Christ; to plant that or- ganizing force which Christianity imparts to the soclal life and the civil state in every city, town, village—the living church, en bodiment and instrument of the living Christ. In the great enterprise of Christian missons, which looks to the conquest of the world for Christ, home missions for the sake of America must have the highest place in the evident fact that Christianized America is to be God's mightlest instrument in bringing the great realm of earth’s heathenism into the sphere of His re- demptive process. Christ’s great command, “Go preach,” Is indeed broad as the world wide as_humanity, but an American Chris- tian’s obedience to it begins aml continu till the universal alm be accomplished—in that service which finds its field in his own land, and its greatest incentive in Christian patriotism. GENERAL HOWARD'S ENCOURAGEMENT President Howard in referring to Dr. Choate's paper said: In listening to the very able paper of Brother Choate, I was thinking that this is a very large problem. But our Savior has said, “Let not your heart be troubled; let it not be afraid.”” Our great consolation is that we have Him with us all the time, and that he will help us. I think it was Horace Greeley who used to say when he was young that he thought he could do everything, but after a while he said he found out that he could do scarcely anything. It seems to me that we want to come to this pnilosopny: I will do just what I can. It isn't much, but I will do what I can. If we can make somebody happier and better every day because we have lived in it, that is something. I had a beautiful letter given me while I was on the way here by an old soldier. There were four soldiers who went out in the war, and two of them were killed while absent. Ono of them was a Christian and one when lie went out was not, but the one that was not became a Christian because of the ex- ample that he saw of the other two Chris- tians, tryiug to live after Christ. Little things are never little, and with God behind them two men can convert the world, when it is the will of the Almighty. Now we have a good brother who Is to follow up this beautiful paper, Rev. James S. Alnslie of Fort Wayne. WORK OF THE LOCAL CHURCH. Rev. Ainslie spoke as follows: The noble address to which we have listened has surely freshened in all our minds our conception of the splendor and comprehensiveness of this home missionary work. This soclety with its 2,000 commissioned agents and its annual expenditure of nearly $700,000 is engaged not only In the work of soul saving. It is not so busy saving ‘“souls” that it has no time to save men and women. It is, rather, an enterprise of man-redeeming and soclety- transforming. It affects the whole person- ality of man, and extends its influence to all his interests and occupations, and while its aim is to reach and to save all of the man, it also endeavors to reach all of the men. The motto of the New York Sunday School association is, “The bible 15 the hand of the living teacher to every child in the state.” The motto of this society, If I may frame it, is, “The gospel by the voice of the living teacher to every individual of this nation.”” And in carrying the gospel the preacher car- Tles the church with him. The Master said, “Scek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.” Long years ago this soclety discovered that it it could find the missionary and get the means to send him out he would carry with him, as Secretary Choate has just said, “that organizing force which Christianity imparts to the social and civil life of every community, the living church, embodiment and instrument of the living Christ.” In the few minutes allotted to me I want to focus your attention upon the local church as the chief instrument of this society in Qoing its national work. I mean by the local church, the group of men, women and children who are gathered together in one place in the name of Christ. You remember the servant girl said to Peter, “Thou also art one of them.” You are one of that little group round the person of Christ. They form a compact soclal nucleus. They meet in the spirit of love and loyalty to Christ, singing his praises and trying to become like him, in the spirit of love and loyalty to one another, helping one another, and encourag- Ing each other, and In the spirit of love and loyalty for the highest interests of the com- munity in which they live, in order that there may be a light there that shall not be extinguished by business, nor by politics, nor by pleasure, nor by anything else, and shall be a perpetual testimony of the living Christ, who can succor and save. Now, Mr. President, this little Home Mis- slonary church is, in itself, a wonderful institution. The “Institutional church” has been referred to In the previous address. T believe in it. Our new edifice, just completed in Fort Wayne, Ind., was built With a view to the adoption ~of certain features of the institutional church. But, on the whole, let us remember that the grcat, commanding work of this society is being done through the average Home Mis- sionary church, which 18 no trifling matteru- tion. The minister preaches the gospel of Christ, and thereby the humblest tiller of the soll is exalted and becomes a child of the Father and a servant of Almighty God. In the frontier scttlement, when the service is held on the Lord's day, the miners throw down their spades and the lumbermen rest from their logging to hear the story of the Savior. It s a wonderful thing to carry the Institution of the Christlan Sabbath to a careless, Godless community, The minister preaches of personal purity and thus estab- lishes a sociul purity organization—a wing of the White Cross army. The subject of tomperance comes up for discussion, and by reasoning and moral suasion the misslonary deavors o keep the men from the drink. © nlso speaks to the corporate consclence of the community, and by local option and prohibition tries to keep the drink from the man. So the church s the best possible tomr perance soclety. In times of industrial Qisturbance and lawlessness the preacher is again at the front With a message counselling peace and respect for law; so the church becomes & law and order league Through Its numerous social gatherings it becomes a mutual improvement soclety. By its Sunday school It promotes bible study, | ploture of the unspeakable degradation of | humanity without God In his day, which, like the last judgment of a mightier Angelo, hangs In the world's sky. Kvery prophet of God and every child of God, small or great, having anything of the prophet spirit, has seen and hated, exposed and denounced evil, whether Savonarol or Luther, or Huss, or Knox, cr Lincoln, or Loweil, or Harrfet Beecher Stowe, This Christian at titude to rd #in and all evil Is the second reason why w need home missions for the sake of America, Consclousnes: of wrong indignation against it and oppesition to it cannot be spared from the national life. Secrotary Choate presented in powerful lines some of the dangers which threaten the republic. The debased foreigners’ menace, the municipal menace, the startling and in creasing danger of spiritual destitution in the count distriet but of other facts in dicating eminent and deadly peril he could not speak nor have I time much as to it has n message for tho cit ballot box, when ft declares that * ness exalts a nationygvhile sin 1s a r to any people;’ and Ko the church becomos an_organization for—ghe advancement of good government. _Tn jts observance of the great festival daysiéf khe Christlan year it omes a soclety for the promotion of gool cheer. In Its offgits to evan, e the nation and the world it becomes a patriotic missionary soclety] wdking every church a mission station and #very member a mis- slonary, I belleve our Lgrd, meant this church should in A contain_ In feeft the cure of every social {1l There,fsya latent power for evangelization In owr churches that needs to bo called forth, Great nw {s the work that has been done it is not ‘What it should be. While rejoleing in the splendid achlevements of the past we must notyforget the sad fact tk.® there are multitudes wlho drift within the In- fluence of the church and of the gospel who are not held and molded Into good citizen- | enumerate them. It is impossible also to ship. A few yeats ago 1 heard from the | even mention certain causes and tendenci a representative pastor of Albany, | In our political, industrisl, soclal and re- . the statement that every poor giri | Iiglous life which menace, not only peace, coming to the house of shelter (a house for | but the stability of our institutions. But the profligate and abandoned iIn that city), | for one, after deliborate survey, I am ready had sometime been a member of a Su to say that, looking at the visible and most school. And the records of the penitentiary | tpparent trend of ¢ and after study. bore testimony to the fact that 90 per cent | INg causes and tendencies in the light of of our native born American eriminals had | much of our modern thinking, the outlook been identified with Christlan congregations, | Of our country seems to be an exceedingly This dces not prove that Christianity is a | dark one. Nay, I am ready to frecly ac aflure, but it does indicate that the mem- | knowledge that except for the presence of bership of our churches are not awake to | the indwelling and outworking spirit of Jesus their dutles. The minister cannot be leven Christ, an uneeen spirit which political for the whole community. If our country | cconomy takes no account of and the man of 8 to be evangelized overy Sunday school | tho World despises, a spirit which s other teacher, overy Christian . Endeavorer ani | than truth, abstract more than commercial, every member must become a consecrated | Monesty, the spirit which is revealed only in worker, a faithful soldier of Jesus Christ his cross, the spirit of love in s orifice; But the rank and file of our churches are | €X¢ept for this, despite our sclenc not here, and the present methods of com- | CFatures, our schools and commerce municating missionary fdeas ase not ade- | the case would be hopeless. And it Is at Quate to reach the majority of our members | 1St an open question whether unloss there and train them into a large sense of personal [ Ve @ vast increase of the manifestation ¢ responsibility. We have Women's Home | this spirit it fs not hopeless alre My Missionary socleties and Women's Foreign | Personal belief is that, in order to save the Misstonary setbtior and varions Juvenile so. | Fepublic, there has got to be a great awaken- cletles, We roach the young people some- | I @ New energizing and a new directing what through the Christian Endeavor and the | pf the followers of Jesus Christ. = Dut 1 be children somewhat through the Sunday | e W€ have promise that it is on the way school; but, alas, for any systematic plan ‘“‘"‘ it Waiting to b apifrehended foR teatH NG HTY tralnii wthHainen, STt ACAEURIEME Ay Rty OutRalvasion (e old scems to be taken for granted that men can- | fundamental truths in which all the saints not be interested in missions, except as 4n\|l Il‘l ted, i We may M‘l' ourselves v‘jl they will make an_occasional oftering, in | (%, | God 18 and man 1s, =~ God has a part response to an occasional call from the pul- | (o f1¢ MIstory of the world, the materialists pit, Vet It 1 the men, chiefly, who have | o8 o!Se s mEnty tanstormite fores Horson the money; and It is the men largely that | o ' § P ERY ansionning fores m s we must ook to for the resources to carry | ctratoql it FHRISUC DUlos e mony on this great work; let, therefore, the men | Sirated the folly of trylng to make the world in the local church be organized into ac- We must keep alive here In tho center of tlyltys soTn} W majority oLoiEs ehurchas:| et continant. He' greate traditloss that where the membership does not exceed 300 BN YO mdER Y iLha saks A TARRI BB REF Vo let there be one grand missionary soclety | strongly marked. in onr timé and piace. thes. including men, women and children, letting | heaven-born characteristics of Congrogational it meet once a month, taking the hour of | jita. To evangelize and to teach Is not our l"irlf“lv:lnll-\u‘"lk forevar v‘nlm-l:l;u» rarSt, the | whote task. o Christianize is more than this. ghte! nd best possible progra - s teaching the SRarve Tie ranged, with many taking part. Lot every | \nassoeeer 15 pae fo cbecrve all things member be thus schooled and solicited and | Ghristianized society s the aim of all our trained until his thought and prayer and | efforts—an embodied Christianit This purse aro links to the mighty enterprise of | would be the Kingdom of God fet Jo imithe churches of our land will march to the tune | ership of Jesus Christ, through His mighty of $1,000,000 for the cause of home missions. | spirit, are calling us. Let us not be deaf to OMAHA'S FIRST CONGREGATIONALIST. | this call. The church is a means of saving Dr. Duryea: I remember of being deeply [ men and of saving society. These days are impressed at one time at reading of Goethe | critical; along the nation’s horizon lie clouds that he took alarm when he noticed that he | dark with portent, and Ightened and streaked was beginning to be unmindful of his bene- | by the play of forces that may be either let factors. He was conscious of the intensest | loose for destruction or harnessed for benefi- sclfishness when he found that he had drawn | cence. There Is need of applied Christianity. on others' energy and appropriated others' | Thero is nced of consclence, of truth, of jus- services more than he had given in return. | tice, of purity, in bushess, soclal and polit- He wrote out a calendar and appropriated | ical life, but, above all, of love in sacrifice, one day In the year,to the memory of some | Which {8 Christianity. 'These we must have one who had been o him a source of help, | or perish. Our churches cxist not for the e ot dny h Hept that person before | rearing and training of those who shall make his soul by an efertfon of the power of | Teal and actual this Christian ideal; they ex- His will. - ist for the lifting up of Christ on the cro You Have heard of tHe Mormons over here | Mot only in tireless proclamation, but also in at Coundil Blufts; they are all gone. . They | the daily living of its members, always and Went up north of us g Florence and stopped | everywhere, that He may draw all men to there, and you can 5o 6yt there and sce their | Himself. There are signs that our churches houses there yet, some of them. where they | &re awake to this call and are trying (o mect lived, However, many pt these’ houses were | s demand. Tley are learning to belicve put on wheels andijudved to Omaha for the | More In the church and alse in the kinglom carly settlers in this town. You can go out | L We have an tunderstanding of the time O e Tiary o1 oy and see. R the | We may be called of God to lead in a new ¢ movement, as we were called to lead in be- Mormons constructed their houses. = 1If you | yaie of jiberty, of missions and of Christian had come a little laters we could show you | sqit 6 Iberty: g = ag::er;n%mn:;ll J{;‘;‘.);':fi:“rimpmn;fx:‘ny“?-':’v; Dr. Clark announced that arrangements all along, ad. 4l | had been made with The Omaha Bee to print be traced out to Cheyenne, I think. There | an eight-page supplement next week to con- was no steamboat on the river in those days, | tain the proceediugs of the convention in and if you wanted to cross it was needful to full. take a row hoat. » | & . The meeting adjourned after prayer by Rev. Rev. G. G. Rice, ffT am not mistaken, el NG REEAe Mr. Ellis of Neligh, Neb. is here present. e knew how to row across the river by taking a diagonal line and aiming up a_good deal higher than he meant to go. It was he who brought Reuben Gaylord to this shore. If he will come up here on the platform and show us his arm we will hold out our arms to him with our hands at the ends of them. Rev. G. G. Rice was introduced and said: We rowed over in a canoe with paddles. In the winter or in the summer of 1854 the secretary of the Omaha Land company pro- posed that if I would come over and select two lots for the church they would donate them. There was then mnot a house in Omaha, but they were preparing for some buildings, and one of the members of the land company pointed out what they intended to have, and where they were to have the principal business streets, and myself and my wife came over and we went with him and selected two lots, and on one of those lots the first church was built. I held the deed in trust until Brother Gaylord came over and they organized a soclety, and then the lot was deeded over to this society. I would mention one other thing. 1In the winter of 1855 the legislature met here and by invitation I came over one Saturday and spent the Sabbath, and I was directed to a house where they kept boarders, members of the legislature. The house eat upon blocks, bullt after the ground was frozen, 50 it couldn’t be banked up, and it was built of green lumber, sided up with only one thickness of boards. The floor was of un- seasoned lumber, which had shrunk, and the thermometer was below zero. There I spent the Sabbath, and at night it was necessary to put on my overcoat and button it up to keep out the cold. I walked over then on a natural bridge, for the river was frozen over. The next summer Brother Gaylord visited the place and the next winter he com- menced his labors here. (Applause). DR. HOPKINS' ADDRESS. Rev. Dr. Henry Hopkins of Kansas City was introduced and said in part: Our confidence in the statement that Jesus Christ is to be king of natlons, as he is king of saints, is the reason for our being in Omaha. We are here as a company of pro- fessed—I had almost said professional—op- timists; that Is a part of our calling as Christlan men and women. ~ We cannot help it. Our Almighty God is almighty goodness, and we aro stiil holding onto ~the first recorded promise and expecting that the seed of the woman will brulse the serpent’s head. We are indeed able to sustain all the weary weight of this unintelligible world in the personal and in the corporate lite only because we balieve that truth is ronger than error, virtue than vice, Christ than Belial, love than hate, and that God and Christ and truth and virtue and love e must by and by triumph. that as goes America so goes the world? The Home Missiaiary society finds the [ Is it true, as Dr. Joslah Strong affirms, reason for its existence dn its firm faith that | that “he does most to Christianize the world it 1s sent to help to bring in the kingdom | and to hasten the coming of the kingdom of'God between the two'oceans. This char- | who does most to make thoroughly Christian acteriztic of home ‘missionary people makes | the United States?” It is our conviction it necessary for the ®ake of' America that | that these utterances express the simple, home mission showd. * Through light and | gober truth, truth that should give shape darkness, marching and fighting, long wait- | and color to every plan that —American ing, deadening indiffetence and ignoble | Cpristians adopt for bringing the world to peace, and there must, for the safety of the | Gurist, truth upon which we should republic, be those Who'never fear, nor flee, | yeqitate and pray until our whole belng 1% nor sleep, nor doubt the coming of the morn- | fysed into one glowing aspiration and pur- ing. The paper of Secretary Choate I8 an | ;46 o saye this pivotal nation upon which inspiring statement of ‘our past, and rings | {ya qestiny of the worid shall turn. with a note of high eXpectancy, but it has OUR RELATIVE POSITION. also startled us, if we have ears to hear, ¥ BLATL i With 1ts notes of warning, and In that he is | What is the relative position cf America Wiso. true to the genius, it I may so speak, | among the natlons of the earth? Prof. Hrico of the Christian faith, ~ For the true Chris- | afirms that she ‘marks the highest 1ok tian, though an optimist, s not a senti- | not only of mat al \H'Il—l:vi.m:, but of i mentalist, not a lotus- eater. He always | telligence and happiness, which the race has Qares, with holy courage, to look facts n the | yet attained.” This is not an idle Yankee face, 'and, i need be, to drag them, hate- | boast, but the conclusion of a distingulshe ful and hideous, Into' the light. He pays | English scholar and statesman after pro- the homage of his understanding only to | found personal study of our country and its fucts; his confidence is born not of indo- | institutions. The eminence thus asserted of lence' and ignorance, but of faith in God | America appears in the land itself, ity situ- and in himself, helped of God. We cannot | ation, its extent, its resources; in the char- forget that no true soul ever hved in this | acter of its people, of sifted Anglo-Saxon world without having at times the great stock, the race upon which, in the opinion Indignations of his nature stirred, and the | of the ablest modern thinkers, the future of more Ohristlike & man he s, the more | mankind depends; and In the fact that it certain it 18 that he can neither be indiffe i the most favored home of the resourceful ent nor silent in the presence of the shames | Engli:h tongue, of late wonderfully prev- and wrongs of his fellow men. He, cur | alent, and destined, in the view of many, Lord, was angry, angry with the duplicity | to become the common language of the world and hypocracy of his time. The hottest in- [ This eminence characterizes the religlon of vective and the most scathing denunclation | our land. All modern progress is linked w !lh on record he spoke. We do well not to | the reformation, but in this country, as Ed- forget tne scourge of small cords with | mund Burke pointed out, “‘we have the dis- which he drove out those who profaned his | sldence cf dissent, and the protestantism of father's hou The apostle Paul has left the Protestant religion.' here are other THURSDAY EVENING. Feeling Reference to a Stricken Brother - Papers Read. Rev. Willam Kincaid, D. D., who was down for the first paper at the Thursday night meeting, was detained at home by sickness in his family, and Rev. J. D. Kings- bury read his paper. He said: “Our beloved brother has written this paper at the bedside of his dying son, and 1 read it because I know that in his deep af- fliction his heart has been more and more in his work and Tn this missionary cause, and there is, therefore, a peculiar meaning in these words which have come out of his heart in this time of sorrow.” The paper, entitled “Home Missions for the Sake of the World,” was as follows: Qur beloved brother,Rev. M. W. Mont- gomery, whose familiar figure wg shall never again behold upon this platform, but who being dead yet speaketh, began his ad- dress at Saratoga last year with these words: ““We ought never to lose sight of the fact that in all the problems concerning the future of the United States we are plan- ning not only for the interests of the United States, but also for the interests of the whole world. The United States of today is the mountain top of hopes of many nations; and the morning beams which shine upon our hills and upon our temples give great Joy to millions of people in many lands.” Let these words of our departed co-worker be our motto for this evening. Let us pray that American home missionary enterprise may never become provincial. The truest and most effective patriotism is that which carries the world upon its heart. That love of fatherland which loves the fatherland alone may s the politician, but nothing less than the whole great world for which the Savior died can adequately inspire the missionary of the cross. The firm patriot there Who made the welfare of mankind bis care Shall know he conquered.” Let us consider, then, what is the bearing of this American home missionary work in which we are engaged upon the future de tiny of earth. Is it true, as Mr. Mont- gomery said, that “the United State of today Is the mountain top of the hopes of many nations?" Is this simply a poetic fancy, or is It tru Is it true, as Prol. Austin Phelps declared, that ‘“we should look on these United States as first and foremost t of enterprise for the world's conversion;” that, *‘forecasting the future of Christianity £ atesmen fore- cast the destiny of nations, we must belleve for us in the frst chapter of Romans a | countries that are deeply religious, others , that are highly fintellectual, but there Is probably no other eountry where there I8 such deep religious feeling in combination with such high intellectuality as here. The American type of plety dominates the mind a8 well as (he heart The eminence of America Is seen her Christian legislation. She fs not only home of liberty, but of liberty embolied In law. A century and a quarter ago Gen eral Gage explained to the Bnglish govern ont that all Ameriea L lawyers or s In law, and that, even then many copies of Blackstone’s “Com- were sold in this country as in nd; and Mr. Gladstone has glven it as his deliberate judgment that the American constitution Is *‘the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpe of man.'" It has come, ther fore, to be the recognized mission of this country to develop a leglslative system which shall express, more perfectly than any human system yet has done, the fdea of hu brotherhood and an equality of human i In addition, the eminence America pears in the diffusion of knowledge among her common people; in her philanthrophic in the extent and rapidly Improving quality of her literature; in hier progress in art and sclence; and, especially, In her inventiv skill, in which, by the sober julgment intelligent n , she leads mankind And these advantag she is iIn to use for the benefit of the race. cuples a conspieuous position, exerts lar fascination, and exercises exceptional influenc nong 1 people That glowing passage of the prophet, which prob ably suggested Montgomery his fig ure of the mountain tap, may be applied, al most literally, to this favored land. H mountain s established in the top of mountains, and exalted above the il all nations flow unto it Many peopl let ug go up to the mountain and Amcrica shall teach us her ways and we wil walk in ler paths, for out of America shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from the United States.” From the first discovery and ecarly settlement of this con tinent, and especially since our war for in tependence and the adeption of our federal constitutiom, the gaze of t world has been riveted upon this countr A8 result all nations flow towa us, and, what is of sp clal significance in these recent years, there 18 also a useful refluent tide. Ocean’ travel has become so cheap that immigrants can afford to revisit their native lands fean tourists observe that the steera ire full n Boing as well as coming; domestic servants, small farm tty tradesmen, having tarried awhile and learned our ways, are re- 1g to spread throughout Burcpe the knowledge that they have gained and the spirit they have breathed in .this free and enlightencd land. Among the Italfans land ing here in a recent year there were 57,947 s to 12,820 females, Indicating that the t majority do not come with the inten- tion of settling here, but to accumulate money and return to their country to enjoy it. Hut, then, we do not wait for the worll to come to us, we go to the world, We are not a hermit nation, we go much abroad. Americans are renowned as travelers and are found in every clime, mingling, accc ing to thefr democratic’ notions, with all classes of people, observing, investigatis and appropriating on the one hand, and, ¢ the other, stimulating, suggesting and im- parting. We discover’ and report what going on even in the dark corners of the earth—Turk!sh outrages in_Bulgaria, Rus- sian barbarities in Siberia, English immoral- ities in India and Spanish abuses in Micro- n By the recent lamented death of distinguished man attention has been turned to what a single Americ mily has ac- complished in these directions. Through David Dudley Field, as the English Lord Sherbrooke has said, America has led mar kind in the art of jurisprudence and in the pacification of the race. His five revised codes, in which Christian legislation s sim- plified and made effective, have won the way, not only in this country, but through England and” the British colonies, even to Hong Kong and Singapore; and to him, more than to any other man, belongs the honor of introducing the gospel of arbitration as a practical and successful expedient into the statesmanship of the world. “Outlines of an International Code, ing for a peaceful settlement of di has been translated into French, Italian and Chinese. ~ An eminent chancellor of England once said: *“Mr. Dudley Field of ) has done more for the reform of laws than any other man living.” Out of Americ shall go forth the law. His brother, ¢ W. Ficld, through American scientific enter- prise, linked the nations by menas of the Atlantic cable, sending, as the first message, Peace on carth, good will toward men.” Another brother, ‘Stephen J., has illustrated, since Abrabam’ Lincoln's 'time, American Christian jurisprudence on the supreme bench of the United States. Still a fourth, Henry M., has been called “the unspeakable trav- eler.” Welcomed, in all his journeys to the most distinguished hospitalities of the world, he has made enlightened American ideas the table tall not only of renowned statesmen, but also of princes and kings. A sister of this remarkable family was a missionary of the American Board to Asia Minor, and her son, who now sits beside his uncle 'in the national supreme court, advo- cated in a striking address the cause of home missions before the recent anniversary of this society in the city of Washington. These are notable, but not solitary, in- stances. Who, for example, can estimat the influence of three such American tra elers as President Julius Seelye, Rev. Joseph Cook and Dr. George F. Pentecost, as the elucidated the profounder aspects of Chri tian_truth before the 1,000 Hindoos who speak the English language? Such are simply the spontancous and undersigned ef- fects of American life and thought upon the destiny of the world. If, besides, we take into account our vast organized effo through literature and missions and goy ernment agencies, to exert a wholesome in- fluence abroad, we shall gain some appre hension of America’s impress on the world An ancient philosopher asked for a pou sto, a standing place, and he would lift the earth. We have found it, O Archimedes! America is the divinely provided fulerum, upon which placing the gospel lever we moving the world. METHODS EMPLOYED. Now let us make no mistake as to the means by which this work has hitherto been done and must be done in the future. A short time since, to one riding through the country town of Haddam, Conn., was pointed out a humble residence’ by the wayside as “the house where David Dudley Field was born, These four eminent men, whose work has just been described, with their missionary sister, were the children of a Congregational minister, who bored for a time under a home missionary's commission in the wilds of western New ork, and who probably never received a salary in excess of the average annual stipend of the missionarics of this society. The Haddam parsonage itself reminds one of many home missionary homes at the west. This world-wide work has been done by men who were born into a missionary household, educated In a mis- sionary college, and are buried, one by one as they are called away, in the old mission- ary graveyard at Stockbridge, Mass,, the scene of the missionary toils of John Sar- gent, Timothy Woodbridge, Jonathan FEd wards and David Brainerd, It 1s from such parentage and amid guch environments that the American manhood s produced upon which we must rely to revolutionize the world, The history of Haddam and Stockbridge and of the missionary college at Williamstown has been repeated over and over again In the interior and at the west, and with like wonderful results. The great men of this nation, and multitudes not known as great, but who nevertheless have left their impress for good upon the times and upon the world, have been brought forth under similar influences. The regeneration of individual souls through the gospel, the truth announced by the Savior to Nicodemus when he sald, “Ye must be born again,” this s the fundamental agency in securing the salvation of mankind. It is well for us to discuss ‘“‘new methods;" there must be new methods. But let us not neglect the one Indispensable method which Chrlst prescribes and experience com- mends, It 16 well to consider the introduc: tion of “a new soclal order' and “the com- ing of the kingdom.” ~ But let us not lose ourselves in generalities and overlook the only possible agency by which a new order can be introduced and the kingdol ushered in. Men are to be rescued, one by one, from the power of sin, organized Into local brother hoods of Christian believers, for the'r devel opment in character and sanctification through the truth, and then sent forth to take, each his part, under the guldance of the Spirit, in the regeneration of the world The ethical philosopher, Dr. Felix Adler, who, as the son of a Jewlsh rabbl, brings an unprejudiced mind to the question, re cently drew & contrast between the ancient too, In the way She ) Mr. Amer- | and Christ. “The propliets of Israel,” he sald, “were Inters ested In the regeneration of socloty; Jesus was Interested primarily in the regeneration of the Individual, Th v of the prophots was a political Idea; that of Jesus and of the carly Christians was anti-political, of at least nonpolitical. — The aim of the propliets was to estabiish on earth a perfect model ¢ Alth, The fndividual a i was 1 In the salvation of the peopl ald The kingdom of God s ow our primary rkers {8 to pro- taken the Kkings of God within them. We need fear that they will find a and & way to thelr felt In the salvation of the worlds neral Sherman said at Atlanta: “Go in anywhere, general. Thore is lovely fights all al lin And wo are not uning our home mi slonary guns at %0 A range that we cannot seo the shot our’ new w among the Slovake town, Pa,, was reported for the Just a year ago; but, sald Dre in a recent You will be 1 to know that a Slovak econverted at Juhy 1, having returned to Hungary, 18 working direct hig own home there, I have i ug letter from him in W tolls of t ition and the suos « having already beon, as he bes licy werted, 1 firmly believe that the work we are doing for Slovaks and Magyars In this country s going to have o great reflex influenice fn Hungary, which s as spiritually dead us any country which has the word of God can b In the W oof 1882 a sent by the society to a churchfin Dallas, Tex., consisting of cleven women and one man. Twelve years have passed. That struggling chureh has become the mother of a group of Texas home mig- sionary churches, and these churches main- tain at the preseat (me, at their own larges, a wissionary and’ nine coworkers in India and three entire missionary fam- flies, inoluding ten commissioned laborers in central Africa, A consecrated young lady does a little personal home missionary the city of New York, and to her Cuban refugee, Alberto J. Diaz, hin half a dozen years wehing the gospel in Cuba s sometimes of 8,000 people, and tant churchies, with a membership of 1,000, and s con’ missionary out sta- tlons are organized. Such iy could bo indefinitely multiplicd but spec- {men result CONGRE I must Neritage obligation to recoguize, If mission of Americ Tsraclitish prophets mmonw to | But within sU sy s you as home missionary men who have not make missionary was little struggling great joy a I8 converted. \ that refugoe 18 pr six Prote These 4 TIONAL it to mention, egationalist perhaps, as we have to furnish leals in goverament, why IS it not cquaily her mis- sion to suggest the {deal systom of ecs clesiast control? The two things, the spiritual and the civil order, were elaborated by the fathers side by side ot be separated either in thonght freo chiuren fmplies a free state, and a free state u free church, The trath is that the Almighty gathered together upon these shores from the persecutions of the old world a picked company, and st them at work, under un= precedented conditions of rellgious inspiras tion and civil freedom, to evolve a perfect polity, hoth for chureh and state. America, then, owes it to the world te give forth the results thus far attained, both in the civil nd - ecelesiastical realms. In the provi- dence of God we meet for the first time this year as the Congregational Home Mig= sionary society. This aspect of our work s not been pressed with unseemly haste. On the contrary w ve yielded gradually and, in a sense reluctantly, to our destiny. Our’ preference was for organic co-operation in home and forcign missions with Chris- of every name. God has ordered it otherwise, and are we not to accept this ordering as an indication of the course He would have us pursue in secking that unifi= cation of Christendom upon which all our hearts have been set? What we have failed to bring about by denominational con- cession and self-abnegation we must now. seek to attain by a firm and loving insist= ance upon the polity through which alono unification can come. Richard Baxter's heme of comprehension, “In essens s unity, in no liberty, in all things illustrated in Congrgationalism as in no other Christian order. We hold nothing as essential which is not admitted to be e sential by every evan- gelical denomination, Thus the elements of division and repulsion are reduced among Congregationalists to the lowest conceivable terms. It is the genius of Congresationals ism to let down every possible bar to fellows ship. If, therefore, Christians are kept out of our communicn it must be by the com- plaint that there not bars enough, which is the same as saying that one cannot enter the household of faith because so many doors are open. Let this suffice as to faith. Now as to polity, cur theory of the completo autonomy of the local church makes fellow- ship possible with every body of believers under the sun. We are not a national but a world wide church, and are thus specially fitted and prepared to conduct our home missionary enterpri for the sake of America alone, but for the sake of the world. The logical and irresistible conclusion to this train of thought {7, that the planting and nurturing of Congregational churches in America s our first and best work for the world. Our first wcrk, because all our other Christian activities flow forth from and depend on this, Our best work, hecause In no other place on earth can we obtain so miglty a purchase for the elevation of mankind. It was the keen perception of these facts that led the late Judge Currier of St. Louis, in the words of his biographer, “to mass his giving largely on the Home Mission society,” bes cause, having “a sense of the overwhelming importance of converting America to Christ” and believing that ““the true way to help all benevolent causes is to help the local he held that “upon the Home Mis- depends the existence of benevolent society we have. It be- not only to give liberally, but to o wisely, It Is believed that there is among sincore Christians very little, if any, of that ‘“telescopic philanthroy which Dickens deseribes as caring more for the nas s of Borriohoola Gha than for the perishe ing at our door, but it is likely that there is a vast amount of fatal miscalculation as to where our gifts and efforts will do the most good. The more we study the problem in all its numerous relations, immediate and remote, the more shall we feel the su- ive fmportance of maintaining Amers an Congregational home missions for the sake of the world. DR. SCHAU . H. A. Shaufller, saying Brothers and HERITAGE too, that our an not. ¢ Con whicl FLER'S ADDRESS. D.D., followed him, Friends of the Home Mis- slonary Society: When I heard my brother, Dr. Clark, and my brother, Dr. Fra r, who is in Ohio, tell this morning the most im= portant parts of the news from the Bo- hemian ficll T felt relieved becaus 1 was very sure that I should not be called upon to tell you any old story tonight, which I am always very much afraid to do, but when I heard Dr. Kincald's paper h 2 0= 1 declare, 1 don't know but I have that version of the verse in the which the little fellow did In my class In Bethlehem Bohemian Sunday school, when he was being taught the verse in_ which cceurred the ing words: “Forgiveth all thy Inlquitie he rendered it, “Who forgiveth all thin antlquities,"™ and if I am guilty of any antiquities, please forgive me. Joking aside—w more noble theme could we have than that which has be read before us this evening, the climax the deliberations and of the consider; of the great truths that have becn brought before us up to this point in this glorious meeting, “Home Missions for the Sake of the World?" le not for us, but America for all other nations of the earth that it can reach with the gospel of Jesus Christ as God has committed that gospel to it and allowed it to interp: it by His own people and by His own favored Christian institutions to the admiring nations of the world It 1s a wonderful thing, it Is an thing as well as a delightful thing t mitted to accomplish two distinet r the pursuit, in the direct pursuit of but no—to be permitted to accomplish ultl- mately the results while we are doing some- thing that is right before us b Now that 18 just exactly what every one who I8 praying and glving and working for the Christianization, the complete Chrislaniza- tion, of our land is doing He Is doing just what Joseph did when he saved Egypt, for he not only in that hour saved his poor old father's life, but he carried out an Impors tant part of God's great plan for the sialvis tion of the whole world That is what Inspiring e per- Its in {Continued on Seventh Page