Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1872-07-17

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digging gold with one hand, were
filling up the sea with the other.
What is not the importance and value
of such people in the cause of Christ,
if they but cOnsecrate the same ability
and energy to building up his king
dom among men?
There is the city of Portland, with
Is, 900 people when / was there, that
twenty years before had not human
inhabitant, and the muskrats made
their holes where the Exchange Bank
now stands.
Look at that wonderful body OF
water, Puget Sound-a magnificent
and wonderful bay. Unquestionably
it is of volcanic origin. The bottom
of the earth fell out and the sea rushed
in. Laughter. -..
And then our forests have timber
enough to furnish the world. At the
port of Ludlow 1 saw five ships load
ing with lumber, and they simply
showed the lumber on board from the
shore. One was loading for Japan,
and another for China, and you will
soon get back from these lands manu-
faetured articles from the red wood
that grows there. mention these
things to show the resources of the
country, just giving a word here and
there, which is sufficient to the wise,
around which, as it were, you may
gather information. Now there are
200, 200 people on this coast already.
They are not great many, but they
are 700, 900 men and women, that were
able to beard the bear in crossing the
continent, and brave the dangers of
Cape Horn, and the men who thus got
to California have the backbone to do
something. If you could look at some
of the men have seen, with history
written all over their faces, you would
understand who got to California, and
how the getting there marks them.
They are 200, 900 human souls demand
ing the bread of life. They are nothing
compared with the millions that will
yet dwell upon these coasts. In our
fields of agriculture and shops OF
manufacture, on our roads of trans
portation, you find the men from
Japan and China there now. More
than 100, 900 of these people are there,
notwithstanding all the resolutions OF
town councils and the t' blather" OF
politicians. They are sent there OF
God to fill our continent, and learn OF
our progress and institutions. When
they land in San Francisco they are
first taxed about SO head, and some
times more for coming-as great vel
come from a Christian people. The
tax is sometimes, as at Los Angeles,
the head itself! These people are
there, and very many more than the
census-takers are aware of. You
will remember during our war,
how suddenly men in the Northern
States. found their health improved
by changing their locality. Many
had cousins over the sea, and many
had friends in Canada they must visit.
And this is the effect Of the taxes
upon the Japanese, and especially
upon the Chinese. For Instance, a
eensus-man, a representative of the
great father at Washington, comes to
a Chinaman's house, and asks how
many people are there, '"Two," John
answers, because John was wont in
China to be taxed for all indwellers,
and had learned to keep out Of sight
maybe twenty men. Hence you get
no real census of the Chinese popula-
ton. But after all these diminutions
there are hundred thousand Chinese
there. Now you can see in moment
the influence of evangelizing this
people. Mr.. Condit, our foreign mis-
siOnary, taught me two or three
Chinese words. meaning How are
you ?" and II hope you are Well, +" and
l saw how glad these men were when
they thought l knew their language.
I would have two new chairs in the
theological seminaries-one for the
German, and one for the Chinese, and
see to it that our ministers learned
these languages, even if they forgot
the Hebrew. By getting the use of
his language you can get his sym
pathy, and assimilate him in that way
to our country and to our God. Isball
not express my predictions in regard
to how many of these people viii be
on our shores, or how soon they will
come, but this one thing is sure, God
makes nothing in vain, and if you
COULD have seen those hillsides, and
clusters of grapes, you would say, God
will not allow this land to mourn like
Rachel for her children. He will
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people to this land of gold, this glori-
Gus, goodly land to find home.
Then look upon the reflex influence
of these people upon their country.
men. I met a Chinaman who had
made his fortune here notwithstand-
ing all difficulties, who was going
back to China as a Tish man to bring
a hundred men to California with his
five thousand dollars. The moment
they see there what their countryman
has done here, the whole establish
ment is on fire.
The simple building of q church in
Oregon is means of grace to them.
Here is house opened only once in
seven days. People come in and look
to some Unseen One, and in these
ways suggestions of the Eternal God
are brought TO them. That is the
difference between a milland a church.
1t is everything to have little spice
in a new country. Twenty years ago
last year there were only about 200
commandments in seven churches on
the coast, and in twenty years they
have grown to seventy-five ministers
and some eighty churches, and more
than 1000 communicants, and raised
nearly a quarter of a million Of dollars
for the worship of God and the extern
sion of His kingdom. They are not
all pious in California either, any
more than they are here. Laughter. I
Moderator and brethren, this is a
part of the field (pointing to a great
map), it is 1000 miles away, and you
can ride to every inch of it with but
one change of cars, which is at Salt
Lake, which you desire to visit any
how. Your baggage can be checked
through to San Francisco. That God
has wrought in our day. 49, 81
Now, sir, begging pardon for DELAY
ing so long on the coast, will say
that have but intimated the general
features of the country. -
Let me turn your minds briefly TO
Texas. At the invitation and sugges :.
tion of the Board, 1 spent nearly a
month in Texas during the last winter
and spring, 1t is so big and hitherto
so secluded that it has been but little
known. But, sir, as to size it is one
eighth larger than the whole empire
of France. 1t is nearly twice as large
as England and Wales and Scotland
and Ireland to boot. 1t is between
six and seven hundred miles from
the borders of Arkansas to the Rio
Grande, and finer climate and soil
cannot be found. 1t is wonderful
country, and belt of land along the
gulf shore is better adapted to cotton
and sugar than any other portion Of