Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-03-26
BEECHER's PLAN.

1t 10 to Get AH Of the 10000, 900 Chinese
Into Tho Country and ChrJsttGniye
Them.
In e1horting his flock to subscribe to the
home missions, DR.. Henry Ward Beeoher
said, last Sunday night: This country is so
vast and extensive and it's conditions so pe-
culiar that the more man learns of it's vast
ness and its magnifcence, the more he be-
comes convinced of the fact that his former
boosted knowledge was but the densest ig-
norance. If any man doubted this let him
do as he had done, and take trip across the
continent to the Pacific coast and he would
no doubt, come back humbled at his
former ignorance of what lay beyond
the Mississippi river. Mr.. Beecher paid
high tribute to the thrift and industry and
Intelligence of the people of these States
and Territories, and drew vivid picture of
what they are to be in the future, when their
present meagre population snail have reached
something near what their possibilities of
development will render them capable of
supporting, and shall be numbered by the
tens and scores of millions. The Pacific
States, he said, are yet to hold the prepon-
derance of the population of this country.
vast Pacific empire is raising up on the
western shores of our vast continent, the
hem of whose garment we have yet hardly
touched. "Ladies and gentlemen contin-
ued Mr.. Beecher, assuming that deep earn
estness characteristic of him at certain times,
'you know not what problems under
Providence are being developed there.
You may smile as you read Of the hoodlums
chasing the pig-taied Mongols through the
streets OF San Francisco, and say that they
are only Cinnamon. Do you know that
China contains population of 100000, 900?
That the empire existed before civilization
began IN the east? DO you know that in
China there are 1000 colleges, and that their
libraries outnumber ours ton to one? Do
you know that in that country there are
more than 100000 highly educated men, and
that out of that vast population of 45O, OOO,-
600 there is scarcely one who cannot read
and write? Do you know that in good man
ners, for which there is an ample market in
this country laughter China leads the
world! We have insisted upon their com ing
out, ahd they are coming laughter and
somebody has got to run. Compare the
mob loving emigrant with tho patient in
dustry of the Chinaman, and you will have
no doubt which, in the long run, will sur
pass. From China and Japan there are vet
| to come swarms which shall exert a power of
which the Occidental nations have not
dreamed. Our western coast is in position
where it can command the Orient, and can
tie the world together on that side, as we have
on this side. And all these considerations
make it important that we should know what
| is going on there. It is of interest to Maine
to know what California is do1ng-and some
| OF her statesmen do not seem to know how to
find OUT Mr.. Beecher then referred to his
recent trip to California, and the gratifca-
ton he felt at one great feature of the
country, which was that the people every
where, whether they cared for churches or
not, were all enthusiastic in regard to
schools. This he considered hopeful sign.
There is great need of ministers, he said, to
60 forth and plant the gospel in that I'M
portant part OF the country, and it is the
province of the Home Missionary society to
furnish the means to send them forth and
support them. Therefore, in behalf of the
Home Missionary society, whose treasury
furnished him the means of buying his bread
during the early days of his ministry, he
| asked for a liberal contribution. The has.
kets were then passed, and as they came back
to the platform well filled, Mr.. Beechel
dropped into one of them card, upon
which was indicated the amount he desired
to give to the cause of home missions.