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AsFRMON IN BEHALF or THE AMERICAN HOMs
MISSIONARY SOCIETY, preached 10 New Ors aid
Philndelphs. May, ls$s. BY AIsts1 BARNS Ne"
W Osborn.

MISSIONARY SOCIETY, preached 10 New Nors AID
Philnde nhis MAY, 1919 BY AItCkr BARNS Ne"
York W. Osborn
TnisisAn elaborate and argumentstive discourse
containing rich store Of biographies aud stats
teal information In reference to the religious con-
dtion OF the Great West, and claiming the atten-
ton ofintelgent readers who may not be usually
interested in theological discussion. Mr.. Barne'
treats Of the following points l. The character
of the West as field Of Missionary effort. ?. The
elements in that field coniending for the mastery
3. The prscticabiiy Of securing the sscendsnoy
OF evangelical religion there.
BY the West, Mr.. Barnes understands the vas,
territory. now divided into eleven States, which.
without including an acre Of Minnesota, Of the
Missouri. Nebraska and lndisn territories OF Ore
gon or California, covers more ground and IS cspk
ble sustaining a larger population than Eng
land, Scotland, Ireland, Denmark, Belgium,
France, Holland and Portugal united. These lin
its now embrace SIX eight millions of people who
are urging on the various forms of activity-plow
ing, reapiug, building, mining, forging-under the
moat pow erful stimulus, and with unprecedented
success.
Il visited" says Mr.. Barnes the Fall Of ST..
Anthony
know not how other men feel when standing there
nor how men will feel century hence when stand
ing there-then not In the Htsf but almost IN the Gel
ter Of our great nation But when stood there, and
reflected on the distance between that and the place Of
my birth and my home on the prsiries over which ]
had passed and the stresm-the Father OF Rivers 80
up which had sailed some nye hundred miles INTO 3
new and unsettled lsnd-where the children OF the
forest st live and roam had views OF the greatness
Of my country such have never had IN the crowded
capitals and the smiling villages Of the East Far II
the distance did they then 70 be- and there came
the soul the des OF greatness and vsstnes wneh
no figures no description, bad ever conveyed 70 my
mind To an inexperienced traveller too, how strange
Is the appearance Of al that land Those boundess
prses as II they had been cleared BY The patent
abOr Of another Of men-removing al the forests
and roots and stumPs and brambles, and smoothing
them down II with mighty rollers and sowing them
with grass and fowers-a race which then passed
away having built no houses Of their own, and made
10 fences and set cut trees, and established no
landmarks 70 lay the foundation Of any future cSlm
The mounds which you here and there see, look, IN
deed IS II portion Of them had died. and hsi been
buried there but those mounds s1d those 5oUncess
fields had been tOrssken together You ascend the
Mississippi amid scenes unsurpassed N oeaGiy pr9os
biy IN the world You see the waters making their
Wv along AZ interval Of from two 20 four miles IN
,ietb-betwetn bluffs Of from hundred 70 Eve hun
dred feet in hight Now the rver makes rs wsy along
the eastern range OF blues, md now the western and
80 IN the centre and u diyces itse4i INTO NJ
rrerous ehsnnels forming thousands Of eesurul Isl
undiscovered with long grass ready tor the scyine Of
the mower Those bluffs, rounded WIZ TASTE Sha sAi
sueh a could be initiated by Art OF man, sod SCI
out with trees here and there gracefully arranged ne
orchards, seem TO have been sown win gram 70 the
summit and are clothed with besuuiui sreen ioa
look out instncrvey for the house ana barn ol los
and herds; for men, and women. and chiidren-oa'
they there. that 10 gene seems 70 ns's
cultivated those helds and taen to have silently dss9
peared-lesving them for the hrst man that snoao
from the older parts of our own country or rom
foreign lands to take possession OF them IL 10 ony -