The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1896-03-04
HONE MISSIONS RALLY.
Monster Meeting Of Presby serians
in New York City.
SPEECH OF PRESIDENT CLEVELAND

The Chiet magtstrate Calls Attention TO bne
Need of Missionary Work on the Frontier.
Rev. DIR. Talmage Speaks of Evils That
Beset us.
NEW YORK. March 4-One of the most
Important meetings held in recent years
In favor Of the home missionary move
ment of the Presbyterian church was that
which took place in Carnegie Music Hall |
last night. The Importance of the occa-
sion was emphasized by the appearance, |
as presiding officer of the meeting, of
President Cleveland. Every available spot .
in the hall was crowded, and an overflow |
meeting was held in the lower hall
When President Cleveland appeared, ao- |
companied by Rev. DIR. John Hall, of the |
Fifth Avenue Presbyterian church, he
was received with tumultuous applause, the /
whole audience rising and waving hand
kerchiefs
When the applause had subsided DR..
Hall introduced President Cleveland as
chairman of the meeting, whereupon the
applause was renewed again and again.
When the cheering had subsided Mr.
! Cleveland said
81 desire to express my appreciation OF
the privilege of participating in this con
ference and of the opportunity thus af.
forded me of testifying to the value and
usefulness of the work undertaken by the
Board of Home Missions7of the Presby
terian church. My interest in this sub
ject and my familiarity with home mis-
sionary effort are not newly acquired
| They early came to me in the surround
ings of a Christian Presbyterian home,
and were stimulated by fathers faithful
labors in the cause
lxr HOY
the only basis of testimony give tonight
in favor of home missions. AS your fel
low citizen. Interested l hope in all things
that deepen the religious sentiment of oul
people and enlarge Christian influence,
fully realize the transcendent Importance
of this agency in its operation upon tho
hearts of men for the salvation Of theil
souls. 1t is not only as your fellow citi
zen, but as the chief executive officer OF
your government, that l desire to speak,
for l am entirely certain that serve well
our entire people, whose servant am,
when here testify to the benefit our coun.
try has received through home missionary
effort and when join you in an attempt
to extend and strengthen that effort.
mo one charged with the duties and
responsibilities which necessarily weigh
upon your chief executive can fail to ap
preciate the Importance of religious teach
ing and christian endeavor in the newly
settled portions of our vast domain. 1t il
there where hot and stubborn warfare be
tween the forces of good and evil is con
stantly invited. In these days the van
guard of occupation in a new settlement
is never without it's vicious and crimina
element. Gambling houses and dram
shops are frequently among the first es
Establishments in a new community. /
must also be confessed that removal from
old homes and associations to new an(
- more primitive home has a tendency Il
! breed liberation of evil and Indifference t.
+ the ohristianizing and elevating agencies
These conditions, if unchecked and un
4. corrected, fix upon the new community b,
., the growth and expansion character ant
disposition which develop into badly regu
a lated municipalities, corrupt and unsaf
r territorities and undesirable states.
{, "These churches and this religious teach
70 ing were never more needed than now ol
2 our distant frontiers, where the process o
:. forming new states Is going on so rapidly
J; For these instrumentalities at the out
e posts of our population we must depend +
> IA very great extent on home missionar
- eXertion.
Our hearts have recently been pre-
lOunul1 Wy liiO ueNhSNAS VIA
threaten the devoted men and women VIII
have gone from among us to preach an,
teach Christianity in foreign land. Gu
sympathy with them and those with whom
they labor and suffer is made more pain
full because the arm of complete relief ha
not thus far been able to reach them. Gu
missionary impulse should be large enoug
and strong enough for both. While w
will not turn away from them nor ALLOW
discourugement to destroy activity in thei
behalf, let us not forget the misslonarie
in our own land who need our Said, b
whom we owe duty, and who can b
reached.
'It seems to me that if the Christian
people of our land estimate at its rea
value the work which the Board Of HON
Missions has in charge, and if they can b
, made TO realize its extreme Importance
p the means to carry on and extend thi
work will be equally forthcoming, and
y hope that such an unusual interest ma
Y be aroused in behalf of the cause, by tn
movement of which this meeting is a par
nd as will suggest to many heretofore indi
=. ferent, that among the most comfortin
3, of their possessions will be share in tb
: triunphs and achievements of home mi
q sions."
e After President Cleveland's address
S prayer was offered by Rev w @. Robert
y secretary of the Board of Home Mission
e Rev. DIR. Sheldon Jackson, superintendeI
s of missions for Alaska, then spoke, an
y was followed by Rev II, Dewitt Talmag
e who spoke in part as follows;
G Our glorious Presbyterianism is in fu
. bloom tonight. This will be an histories
q meeting, and far down the years it will
e told that in the commercial metropolis
. this nation the man who has on him Il
" highest honors this world can give, al
= twice having received these honors fro
8 the American people, in this great ma
p meeting for God and righteousness p
q down the grandeurs of his office at Il
8 feet of Jesus. Germany for scholarshl
> England for manufactures. France +
z manners Egypt for antiquities. lta
3 for pictures. But America for God,
= In this country, already planted and
q be overcome, paganism has already buI