The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-06-04

916,49. March 1, 1892 the Church Build ing society had aided in building 1.102 houses of worship. June l, 1896, it had aided building 2,69S Fourteen years ago the Home Missionary society had on It's roll 1,070 missionaries. To-day it retains 2,099. Brethren, has the full force of this arithmeticai increase with it's inevitable geometrical demand borne itself in on all our hearts?
 Homes that the earliest missionaries of this society would endure because they had to, will not do now-ought not to be allowed to do. Decent homes for decent people is not an extravagant notion. It is sensible and solid econ- omy. Preachers just as good as the average in the older portions of the country are absolutely demanded at the front. Our American families on the frontier went out from an older civiliza- tion. The civilization they took with them was inborn and inbred. The av craze American congregation of Chris tians gathered in our most distant from tier, in no matter what kind of a place will to-day take the best sermon of any man on this floor. can preach. They are
 
 lost the Homiletic instinct by crossing the Missouri or the Rockies.
 One of our ablest Boston pastors, some time since, went to one of our western states to deliver an oration at a college commencement. The oration was good enough for any such occasion anywhere. Itwas as thoroughly appre- ciated at Carleton as it would have been Cambridge.
 Commencement over our friend from Boston thought it a good time to take a look at home missions. He was in a home missionary state-why not? He went to St. Paul, and on into the wilderness of 100, 900 people at Minne- apolis. Calling on the superintendent of home missions he spoke of his inter- est of what he had seen of home mis- sions. True, he had seen a college that had been started by home mission- aries, and would not have been started | without them. He had been in two cit ies that had once been emphatically home missionary ground. But home missions-they were miles away if | he was looking for fresh ones. He was offered an SSS miles round trip pass if he would take a little run of 444 miles 1 to Bismarck and stop off and preach | Sunday at the home missionary church | at c. Sunday morning at 1O:S0 a m. found him seated on the platform of
 the neat Home Missionary church for morning service. He had not gone far l beyond his text before he found himself borne as if on the wings of eager inter-
 est and contagious impulse in an un-
 usually intelligent audience. At the close of the service he expressed his surprise at the evident intelligence of
 these people A word of explanation 1 opened his wondering eyes. By actual count there were more literally educat-
 ed men and ladies in the morning au- l dience. in proportion to numbers, than
 he had at home.
 Now, doctor said the missionary pas
 tor let me give you a ride to my af- ternoon appointment at Pleasant | Ridge" Begging a half day for rest, l he was left off if he would go as a passenger and visitor. Reaching the
 Pleasant Ridge school house. it was found crowded with souls hungry for i the service. The short sermon was | followed with the peasant announce
 ment that pastor from Boston, Mass,
 was our guest, and perhaps he would