The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-12-18
A SERMON ON MISSIONS.
DR.. Palmore, OF st. Louis, Tells Some
Good Stories.

The congregation that gathered to hear
Dr. 8. Nj. Palmore, at Wesley Monu-
mental church last night. was treated to
one of the most interesting sermons re
Gently delivered in that church DR.
palmOre has ready flow of language,
and is an unriyailed story teller. He
brings his long experience as mission
srv. and the vast information gained in
that work to bear. He is peculiarly
ftted for laboring among the
heather. His sermon was enlivened with
"reminiscences and personal experiences,
which lent to it a certain charm and
served to keep the undivided attention of
the congregation:
in the Beginning" said Dr. Palmore,
81 must say am against foreign mis-
sions 1 see incredulity and astonish-
ment on your faces at the announcement
repeat my statement; I am against for
sien missions. But what do l mean by
foreign missions2 You may have one idea
af a foreign mission II may have another
This difference of ideas may be illus
trated by my relating a little Incl
dent that occurred while / was passen-
ger on the car of a railroad train Just
drawing into Richmond, Va. had been
hurled IN g book for long time, and
when l eventually glanced up my eyes lit
upOn a beautiful vision in front of me
1t was q little girl, with luxuriant golden
hair, and eyes OF heavenly blue color.
asked her if she were travelling alone.
NO, sir;' she answered, there is my
papa and mamma" ] looked in the
direction she pointed and saw a fine look
ing man, but with an empty sleeve
dangling idly by his side. Iasked the
little one, show did your father lose his
arm2n
swered.
And what is yankeeE' again asked.
ooh! it's a big round thing that bursts
open every time it shoots.''
She had gotten yankee and a bomb
shell badly mixed up. But as I say,
my friends" continued Dir. Palmore,"
our ideas as to what foreign missions
mean may differ. By foreign missions !
mean those distant planets, Jupiter, Mars,
Venus and the others whose pale pure
light shines down upon us at night.
There is no foreign mission. on this little
footstool Of God. There can be none.
In these blessed days, when the Atlantic
is oridged by the great moving bridges of
steel, those majestic greyhounds Of the
deep; when the world is one vast audi
ence listening to the magic click Of the
telegraph: when down in the deepest
depths Of the sea, connecting the great
continents, lies. that grandest achieve
ment OF modern engineering, the sub-ma-
riue cable. When we take these stu
pendous facts into consideration how can
we say that there is such q thing as for
eign missions on this globe?"
The reverend gentleman's remarks on
Japan and China were full of interest.
People in the United States he said,
have not the slightest idea of
bn nzyf6 rs loot s,,
Japan Up TO 1857, this country, the
abiding place of 100000 souls, was, it
might be said, Theoretically sealed to out
sders. In that year, feet OF American
men-of-war, acting under orders from
Webster, then Secretary Of State,
anchored in Yokohama Bay. Thus the
seal was broken, and from that day on,
Japan has made magnificent strides in
civilization. Her agents have been sent
abroad into many lands; She has navy
modelled after that Of Great
after that of the French. Her
social institutions fairly rival those of
any other country on this globe. ] have
been asked, Are the Japanese superior
to the Chinese in intellect" l answer,
yes in certain respects. These two rae IS
bear the same relation TO each other as
do the English and French. The one:
=
the other cool, calculating and reserved.
The japanese have the French and the
Chinese the English characteristics
Speaking of EugliShmcn, y said DR.
Palmore, Il have had a chance to observe
that he doesn't, as a usual thing,
crack jokes frequently, but when he does
they are good. / was standing with a
fair specimen of that interesting class OF
people. on the top of Pixies Peak about
six years ago. The air at the top of the
peak is exceeding rarifed, and number
Of people in our party had tainted during
the trip, and had to be carried down into
the denser atmosphere. below. OF course,
the ladies We're the majority of
these. and after the last woman
had been borne off, the Englishman
turned to me and asked, "What
do you think prompts those ladies TO de-
scend so quickly?" / said I did not know
any reason for it. "Weu," he said, 'you
see, there is Man-i-tou below" "The
Manitou, must explain" said DR.. Pal
more, was q spring, so called, at the
bottom of the peak"
DR.. PaimOre gave some interesting sta
tistics of the work accomplished by the
missions in Ceylon, Japan and China, but
Judging from them, there is yet great
fields for missionaries to labor in. Or.
PalmOre leaves for St. Louis this morning.
He is associate editor of the Wesleyan
Christian Advocate in that city. DR..
bowman, pastor of they Wesley Monu-
mental church, is expected home on
Wednesday in time TO hold prayer meet
ing on that evening in the church.