The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-04
BEER KEGS FOR PEWS.
Rev. ]. B. Clark Tells Interesting
Stories of Church Work.
HOW CHURCH VAS HELD SALOON.
The Need of Missionary Work Told at
the First Congregational Church
Last Night.

The Need of Missionary Work Told at
the First Congregational Church
Last Night.
Certainly one of the best addresses de-
livered before the Congregational asso.
citation and possibly the best that To-
peka audience has heard in some time
was that of Rev. J. B. Clark of New
York City, who travels and lectures in
the interest of missionary work, at the
Congregational church last night
Hung before the audience was large
map of the United States, showing the
relative size of great European nations
as compared with the various states. For
instaBGe, Great Britain was located in
the Pan hE1dis of Texas, and Japan was
the size OF California The lecture was
enlivened. with various anecdotes.
"Once when l was in England" said
Mr.. Clark, 81 met an Engljshman whose
ideas of our country rather convulsed
me. When he heard I was from America
he seized my hand as though he had met
an old friend. I have a friend in
America he said, whom you must have
met His name is Black I told him I
knew no one named Black in America
why you must know him. he insisted.
she has lived in America for twenty five
year, You say you live near New
YorA city and he passed through here I
was sure still that 1 did not know him,
and asked where his friend Black lived
He lives, think, in place called Los
Angeles he said Qaughter( If I had
had this map with me I might have
shown him that there was New York,
and that Los Angeles was just a little
further on.
81 liked the answer a doctor on board
a quarantined ship just off Sandy Hook
during the cholera scare three years ago
gave to fussy little man who insisted
on going on shore. Said the fussy little
man, y on must put me on shore. I have
important business to attend to- Per
haps you don't know who l am I could
buy this entire ship if necessary but you
must let me go ashore to my home The
big doctor put his hand kindly on the
fussy little mans shoulder and said:
Nothing would give me more pleasure,
believe me, than to do SO, for you are
nuisance here, but there is one little
thing in the way. There are on shore
100000 people who object laugh
ter(
''West of St. Louis and east of the
Rocky mountains are 1000 hamlets with
out the gospel and with saloons. Seventy
million people should object.
sand now little more about the man
l am going to take Massachusetts as a
basis OF investigation and comparison
because it is my home. Take Texas for
instance. How many states the size of
Massachusetts could you lay down on
Texas? You don't know? Thirty-three
Give Texas the population per area that
Massachusetts has and she would hold
100000 more people than the entire
United States does now.
support them, but it is a fact that Won
could put the entire population of the
country into Texas alone and have all
the rest OF the country as a sort of hack
yard Tor the future overflow.
AN Englishman who had visited
America and become duly increased
once said: think you Americans make
E mistake in the way you bound vonr
country. If l was doing it l would saw
1t was bounded on the north BY the au-
rora borealis, on the east by the rising
sun, on the south by the equator, and on
the west by the day of Judgment He
may have been more than half right. for
the west IS certainly the judgment day
for America.
sui l hardly know what to call west.
II must have dropped off into the Pacific
ocean. Some time ago l visited a school
Just north of Cheyenne, Wyo.. and as
customary, made the pupils a little
speech. asked How many of Won were
porn mere In Wyoming?' There were
seventy five in the school, little children,
twenty five of them only raised Their
hands. Fifty of them had come into the
state after birth. '--0
wanted to ask question that would
nrlng unanimous answer, and I chose
II Carefully. Now said, how many Of
are gong to stay here and
help shape the glorious future of th I.
magnincent state?' And not hand wen,
up up A.; was surprised and asked them il
thy G int nor intend to stay, where did
snouI they all yelled West, misteT.'
sa" was not yet out of the influence NJ
Al .aTbe ar progression aud Immigration
OF Boston In the early colonia
days a man was sent to ' snr1a,
a. = ro Az, toward Albany as far a
$40 RuOiie neeo would be likely to de