The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1895-05-30
w. c. T. u. COLUMN.
PRESS COMMITTEE, MRS. MFARLAND AND MRS
JENNEss.


PRESS COMMITTEE, MRS, M'FARLAND AND MRS
JENNEss.
"For precept must be upon precept,
precept upon precept; line upon line,
line upon line; here little and there
a little.
"And they shall teach my people
the difference between the holy and
the profane, and cause them to discern
between the unclean and the clean.
"Go ye, therefore, and teach all ma
tons. Ito observe whatsoever have
commanded you.
"And all thy children shall be
taught OF the Lord, and great shall be
the peace Of thy children"
The power Of the human mind to re-
sist knowledge is amply illustrated in
the supposition still entertained by
myriads OF intelligent men and women
that the W. G. Y. U. "has hobby"
The fact is it has a whole field full of
them, so that it has no need to ride
any single one OF them to the detri
ment OF the others, AS we have lre-
quently had occasion to reiterate for
the Information OF those seeking
knowledge, our departments of work
ale between forty and fifty with u
constantly rising barometer. We
have thought that perhaps it would
be we'll to take up the different depart.
ments and show what we are doing
these different lines, from time to
time. Our work has been, and is still,
principally educational, and last week
we tried to show how important part
the press OF our country fills in this
branch OF our work. And very closely
connected with this is our work among
foreigners. They are to be taught
principally by printed matter, as they
can not speak our language. Within
the last decade 5,250,000 people have
come to us, large proportion of whom
are forelgn-speaking, and of the lower
classes OF Europe. The W. G. Il. U.
has undertaken to instruct these PEG,
pie as lar MS possible in matters of vi
tai Importance to our government, and
we can not afford to wait for these PEG
pie to learn our language. They are
very soon given power over our moral
and social interests, and we must teach
them 'the difference between the holy
ard profane, and cause them to dis
Germ between the unclean and the
Clean or we and our land and gov.
eminent are the chief sufferers. There
IS no choice about it we have arrived
at point where we must teach these
millions or he destroyed hy them We
have excellent tracts and leaflets in
sixteen different languages, bearing
upon every phase of the temperance
question, from the simple story tC
Prohibition, These will educate the
people, and, as they are written in 6
kindly sprint, they never offerd. We
have superintendent of this depart
ment in all the largo ci'ies and towns
where they have foreigners in any
number, and probably the most impor
tant work in this line is done by two
missionaries at the port of New York
one in the city and one on Ellis Island
Miss Anna Lindahe, a Swedish woman
daughter of minister, was for two
years employed by the Home Mission
airy Society of the Methodist church
at this port, and so is we'll acquainted
with the needs Of the place. She
speaks three languages, and is picking
up conversation in others. She dis
tributes the leaflets on the "Duties o
Citizenship" and OBLIGATION OF thu
Foreigner to the land OF His Adop
| tion," and also folds in with thes,
Others on the different phases of tenn
perance and evangelistIc work. Tbes,
people receive and read these tract
and leaflets with great interest, o
where they can not read, they gathe
around one who can and listen atten
lively. Temperance and the warnin,
against the saloon are, of course, en-
tirely new subjects to them. Blu
coming as they do right under the ey
of the officials, it is to them part O
the new life,-of the coming to Amer
lea, something to which they mus
pay attention. They fold the tract
and put them in their pockets will
J great care, and often kiss the han,
that has given them in token of apprt
Z citation. This work is hard and ex
hausting and constant, for there
hardly day which does not see tn
arrival OF at least four or five hundre
immigrants, and to be able to reacI
and influence these people just whe
+. they enter the gateway Of the countr
: gives them their first and stronget
ideas of what they ought to do, an
also conception of the evil OF drinl
. and Of the American principle againl
it. This is, as Miss Willard has salt
"the foreign missionary work come