The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-04

comforting of their possessions VIII De
| a share in the triumphs and achieve
| ments Of home missions.
GREAT NATIONAL PERIL.
After President Cleveland's address
| a PRAYER was offered by Rev. w. C.
| Roberts, secretary of the board of home
| missions.
Rev. Dr. Sheldon Jackson, superin-
| tendent of missions for Alaska, follow
ed. Rev. jackson spoke of the mission
work he had done on the banks of the
Mississippi and his work in Alaska.
| Referring particularly to the object
| of the gathering this evening he said:
A great crisis has arisen in our
churches. Nothing less than a great
national peril would have brought the
chief magistrate of our nation, our be
| loved president to preside over this
meeting. It is a crisis that appeals to
every patriotic citizen of the country,
| the cause of home missions is the cause
of patriotism. Home missions is the in
surance premium upon the safety Of
your property, the success of your bust
ness, the preservation of your liberties
and the happiness of your homes. Home
/ missions reaches the prodigal: home
missions cares for and saves the lost
and shelters the absent ones. Let the
| word go forth that this great meeting
made a munificent freewill offering for
The Lord and tomorrow morning at the
family affairs at the New England
coast viii be heard the voice of praise
and thnksgiving that shall not cease I'M
til it has encircIed the globe"
TALMAGE.
After DR.. Jackson came Rev. T. De
witt Talmage, pastor Of the First Pres
byterian church, Washington, d. c,
who said:
Our glorious Presbyterianism is in
full bloom tonight This will be an his
tOrical meeting, and far down the years
it will be told that in the commercial
metropolis of this nation the man who
has on him the highest honors this
world can give and twice having re-
cefved these hcnors from the American
people, in this great mass meeting Tor
God and righteousness, put down the
grandeurs of his office at the feet or
Jesus. Germany for scholarship Eng
land for manufacturing. France for
manner. Egypt for antiquities. Italy
for pictures, but America for COD.
You must remember that 1t IS only
a1bout 7Oclock in the morning of our ma
TONS life. Great cities are to roar and
flash in what are called the bad lands
Of the Dakotas' and the great Columbia
plains of Washington state, ard that
on which we put our school by fingers
on the map and spelled out as the
Great American Desert is, through
systematic and consummate Irrigation.
TO bloom like ChatsWorth park and be
made more productive than those re-
gions dependent upon uncertain and
spasmodic rainfall
In all this country, already planted
and TO be overcome, paganism has al
ready built its affairs to Brahma and
the Chinese are already burning in
censein their temples, and Mohamme-
danis1n, drunk in other days with the
red wine of human blood of Lucknow
and Cawnpore, and now fresh from
Armenia, is trying TO get foothold
here and from the minarets of her
mosques will yet humble her blasphe-
mics, saying God is great and Moham-
med 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 hope points
down to the manger, in which they are
born, and no prayer is uttered over the
grave into which they sink. Then
there Is alcoholism, its piled-up demi-
Johns and beer barrels and hOgSheadS
Of fiery death, a barrioade high and
long as the Alleghenies and Rockies
and Sierra Nevadas pouring forth day
and night their ammunition of wretch
edness and woe. Plenty Of statistics
10 tell how much money is spent in this
coun try for rum and how many drunk
ards die. But VINO will give US the
statistics Of how many hearts are
crushed under the heel of this worst
demon of the centuries?
ssThaO fbara G what call in Am
erica socialism in France communism
and Russia Nihilism-three names for
one and the same thing and having but
two doctrines in its creed. First, there
IS no God; second-there there shall be
no rights Of property.
THREE "TS9IS" DEFINED
Socialism, communism and nihilism
means TOO wicked to acknowledge God
and too lazy to earn a living" and
among the mightiest obstacles to be
overcome are those organized elements
Of domestic, social and political ruin.
There are also the Businesses of in
fidelity and atheism and fraud and po-
litical corruption and multiform by
dra-headed, million-armed abomina-
lions all over the land
The very things that have been quo
ted as perils TO this nation are going
to be its salvation, the centres of crime
and the reservoirs of all iniQuitieS, are
10 lead in the work of gospelization.
From what place did Christ send out
his twelve apostles to gospelize the
world?
What place will do more than any
other place. by its contribution of
Christian men and women and means
in this work Of taking America for
God? New York City. The way
Paris goes, so goes France. The way
Berlin goes, goes Germany. The way
Edinburgh goes, goes Scotland. The
way London goes, goes England. The
way New York and a cOple of other
cities go, goes America. May the eter-
nal God wake US UP 10 the stupendous
issue"
The Rev. Charles L Thompson, chair
man Of the Home Missions board Of the
Presbyterian missions of New York,
spoke on Home Missions"
The last speaker was Booker T.
Washington. the controlling spirit of
the great Industrial school for negroes
at TuskOgee, Alabama The colored
pastor made an earnest plea for mis-
siOnary endeavor in the black belt"
of the south. He quoted statistics TO
show that during the past year each
colored child in this district had ex-
pended on him for educa ton about
seventy cents. as compared with the
SIS or 500 expended on the MaSSachu-
sets child.
MU-IC AND DRAMA.
FITZ AND WEBSTER.
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