The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-05-20

rior, but a patriot. and though every body
said Oregon was not worth having he in
duced the President 10 refuse to sign the
boundary. until he could bring proof OF the
great productiveness OF the country he
died at last at the hands of the Indians
TO whom he had devoted his life.
DR.. Thompson warned the congregation
not TO narrow their view and not 10 De
diana. The rise of Christianity must be
uniform. as the waters rise Indiana can Z
be saved unless Idaho and Nebraska be
saved, for out of baptism or blood al
exhorted. with the effort to save the whole
for Christ. He said that the problem,
ture is TO save the big cities, with their
populations, one-half foreign in the nrst or
second degree. He concluded by pointing
out the encouragements, saying there we're
300 home missionaries at work ana TOUR
hundred teachers carrying the gospel he
related an incident showing the hungry
welcome that is given the people.
II was camping one summer with party
on island in a northern wooded lake
region" said he, when one day my friend
said to me that we ought TO have church
and that If L would preach the sermon, ne
would get the congregation. So he set out
one Saturday and went three or four miles
in one direction and the same distance in
another. On Sunday the people came, the
women carrying babes or having children
clinging to their skirts. We sent out our
boats as we would see them coming, and
then we held q service on the grass under
the trees. One of the congregation was an
old reprobate, drunkard and seventy
years of age. He told me he came because
he wanted TO hear a sermon before he died
/ thought / would preach TO him little on
his own account.
Where VIII you go TO when you die?
on, he said, If L die in winter-its
cold here: twenty degrees below Zero-fll
keep till spring until somebody comes and
finds me and will bury me-.
But what will become OF your sou!
When get to the Judgment bar. said
he. Il will stand up and say TO the Lord
II haven't been in church for forty years,
and l have been wicked man; but here
am I'll take what's comm.
Thompson may have TO bear part or
the blame for not carrying the gospel TO
such men, driven by material circumstances
out of the reach of religion ana divine
worship. The Aleutian islands, they say,
is only a bridge uniting the East and West,
and some day we will see the gospel trains,
one east-bound the other west, meeting IN
Alaska, and the world will be regenerated
Rev. Sol G. Dickey, the Indiana agent or
the home mission board, next explained
the purpose of the meeting. and paved the
way for the Indiana Cyclone, as he
said Rev DIR. Rondthaler is called outside
of the State. The Doctor grew FESTIVE
under the high expectations raised by Mr.
Dickey's remarks, but verified them when
he took control Of things for the task of
him. He begged the audience TO stay until
they could see and hear the Indianapolis
Presbyterians sing America. His remark
was taken facetiously, but when his ap-
peals ceased the home mission fund had
an increase of over $2.000. There were sew
eral hundred-dolar subscriptions. John III.
Holiday making the first. II. c. Long gave
the same amount subscriptions of $50 were
Dickey, W. S. Hubbard and CORTLAND
Van Camp