The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-04

! loved president, to preside over this
meeting. 1t is a crisis that appeals
| to every patriotic citizen of the coun-
try; the cause of home missions is the
cause of patriotism. Home missions is
the insurance premium upon the safe
ty of your property, the success of
your business, the preservation of your
liberties, and the happiness of your
| homes
After Dr. Jackson came Rev. T. De-
witt Talmage, pastor of the, First Pres
byterian church, Washington. D. G.,
who said:
"Our glorious Presbyterianism is in
full bloom tonight, This Will be an his
toricaI meeting, and far down the years
/ 1t will be told that in the commercial
| metropolis of this nation the Aaan who
has on him the highest honors this
world can give and twice having re-
ceived these honors from the American
people, was III this great mass meeting
for God and righteousness and to put
down the grandeurs of his office at the
feet of Jesus Germany for scholar
ship; England for manufacturing;
France for manners: Egypt for an
Equities; Italy for pictures, but
AMERICA FOR GOD.
"You must remember that it is only
about o'clock in the morning of our
~
and roar among what are called the
bad lands of the Dakotas and. great
Columbia plains of Washington state.
and that of which we put our school
boy fingers on the map and spell out
the Great American desert is, through
systematic and consummate irriga-
ton, to bloom ike Chatsworth park
and be made more productive than
those regions dependent upon uncer-
tain and spasmodic rainfall.
I'm all this country already planted
and to be overcome, paganism has al
ready built it's affairs to- Brahma, and
the Chinese are already burning in
cense in their temples, and Mohamme-
danism, drunk in other days with the
red wine of human blood at Lucknow
and Cawnpore, and now fresh from
Armenia, is trying to get a foothold
here, and from the
MINARETS OF HER MOSQUES
will yet humble her bIasphemies, say
ing God is great and Mohammed is
his prophet. Then there are the
vaster multitudes with no religion at
all They worship no God, they live
with no consolation and, they die with
no hope. No star of peace points
down to the manger, in which Christ /
was born, and no prayer is uttered over
the grave into which they sink. Then
there is alcoholism; it's piled UP demi
johns and beer barrels and 1ogsheads
of fiery death, barricade high and
long as the Alleghenies and Rockies
and Sierra Nevadas, pouring forth
day and night their ammunition of /
Indebtedness and Woe Plenty of
statistics to tell how much money is
spent in this country for rum and
how many drunkards die. But who will
give us the statistics of how many
hearts are crushed under the worst
demon of the centuries Then there
is what in America we call socialism;
in France communism and in Russia
nihilism-three names for one and the
same thing, and having but two doc
trines in its creed-frst, there is no
Cod second, there shall be no rights of
property.
Socialism, communism and nihilism
means too wicked to acknowledge God
and too lazy TO earn a living and
among the nnightiest obstacles to he 1
overcome are those organized ele-
ments of domestic,
SOCIAL AND POLITICAL RUIN.
There are also the Businesses of in
fidelity and atheism and fraud and
political corruption and multiform
hydra-he.aded million armed abomina- !
lions all over the land.
THE very things that have been
quoted as perils to this nation are 60
ing to sap it's salvation. Great cities, |
so often mentioned as great2obstacles, |
the centres of crime and the reservoirs |
of all iniquities, are to lead in the work |
of gospelization. From what place did !
Christ send out his twelve apostles to
gospelize the world? From a city |
What place will do more than any
other place, by it's contribution of
Christian men and women and means, |
in this work of taking America for |
God, than New York City. The way
Paris goes, so goes France. The way
Berlin goes, goes Germany. The way
goes, goes Scotland The |
way London goes, so goes England. |
The way New York and a couple of !
other cities go, goes America. May
the eternal God wake US up to the |
issues.
The Rev. Charles L. Thompson.
chairman of the committee of home |
missions of the Presbyterian missions
Of New York spoke on "home mis-
sions"
The last speaker was Booker T.
Washington, the controlling spirit of
the great industrial school for negroes
at Tuskogee, Ala. The colored orator
made an earnest plea for missionary
andeavor in the 'black belt" of the
south. He quoted statistics to show
that during the past year each coIored
child in this district had expended
On him for education about 20 cents. as
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