The Portland daily press., 1895-06-07

neeQeQ IOr imperative WORK IN Their 1lelQS.
1t means that the home missionary
the results of its own work. Congrega-
tional home missions have stood still,
where they have not gone back, for foul
successive years.
The Congregational churches of Amer
lea represent at least 800, 600, 600, and add
to that sum every year, over and above
all expense of living and all gifts OF
income OF $50, 900, 600 a year above expens-
es Is not condition of poverty that
should make ti1nid its pressing the home
missionary appeal Yet the homeland
societies were able last year by every art
OF statement and appeal to draw scarcely
more than 81, 600, 900 for the redemption
of America Field secretaries and the
secretary of woman's department. durln
the past IL months have carried appeals
| into 20 different States making 1860 home
missionary addresses in the presence OF
pa, 900 hearers The mass of non giving
churches numbering year ago. 1000 has
been reduced to 1887.
l;s The Congregational churches do not yet
appreciate the home missionary crisis.
The u. S. government adds 1000 post
offices to- its ron every 10 months.
A Thousand such notices are served upon
the home missionary society every year.
The proportion and order of Congrega-
| tional giving is at fault Last year $3.50,
600, or one third Of all-the reported gifts
of Congregational churches, was for OBJ
jects outside of the regular denomination
al channels. Foreign missions received
;oile-sixth of the whole home missions
| dsd7a little better securing about one
fifth, while the other objects of every
sort and kind took the lions share of
one third. 49,
1t is the violation of every principle of
wise proportion and common sense when
Congregational schucrhes give 70 cents
per member for home missions and 81. 40
per member fer-edds and ends
Z DR., Clark was followed, by. W. H. Alex
antler of Omaha. He was the @only lay
man among the 81 speakers DIR. Clark,
be said has appealed TO men in the pull
pit But the'men in the pulpit are few.
They must come to- the millions about
thcnf to gather the things they are seek
ing, Or they cannot be gathered at all
Men have called the Puritans fanatics,
and charged them with bigoted views,
but the world has no parallel to the splen-
did courage, heroic effort, enduring faith
and every sort of sacrifice, which marked
the hard beginning of what we now in
herit.
In view of all the church has done, and
all it yet must do, how passing strange
that friends must beg for funds to. keep
it going Once raise the question Of clos
ing its open doors and killing it's moral
force, and every hamlet, town and city
would cry aloud against it. ,sin
The gospel must be preached, and
preached to all who need it, We call it
home missionary work, and It is but the
home is invaded by guests. From nations
all over the earth they are coming by
thousands to fill UP our cities, and scatter
abroad through the land We need not
go from the home fields now to do foreign
missionary work 1t is here, and here to
be DONE The men who bid goodby to
case and camp along the border, the faith
full wives who pass their. days in lonely
fields of labor, must not be kept in doubt
about their scant support. ~
'sThe currents Of nfen'ss Hberality are
rapidly changing their courses. We are
coming to see in our own generation the
good that has comessfrom the last We are
learning the lesson that talents are only
a trust. We are given scant time for a
mission, but everywhere, all round about
aus tare Schances to do men service. Our
millionaire neighbors are finding the glory
of giving. They are tasting the sweets
Of benevolent acts and are setting up
lights for the future. They are winning
applause from the men of today, but the
lfex8 generation will rise up to bless
them. -
!, ClleTllUcUlClb W. >. Dell Ol MOubdI1d
said two weeks ago today he started upon
an Smile drive through a series Of valleys
Thinning down from the snowy noun
taatifIs, on the border of Wyoming, to. the
great Yellowstone valley, through which
the Northern Pacific railroad runs for sew
eral hundred miles in it's stretch across
the continent A more ideal region than
the one visited, he said, for the small
stock farmer, does not exist on the con-
tinent. Bottom lands of wondrous fer
Utility, thanked on either hand by rolling
foothills, tell of plenty and prosperity in
the future. Both to the east and west
are other series of valleys of equal extent,
fertility and possibilities, all running
down to the great YELLOWSTONE
. Three years ago this whole region, about
equal in area to the state of Rhode Island
was in the hands of the Crow Indians.
Today, after ample provision has been
made for the red man, thousands of acres
remain for the use of the white settler.
Already many of them are occupied
Humble log cabins can be seen in every
direction, and the upturned soil tells of
the coming crop. =.
These settlers are, for the most part
either cowboys, with or without families
who, after years of wandering, have de
termined to enter upon more settled
life; or miners, who, by the depression of
the mining industries, have been driven
from the various camps of the state. LIN
either case they are those who have for
years been beyond the reach of religious
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