The Indianapolis journal., 1896-03-04

Crisis has arisen In our churches Nothing
less than a great national peril would have
brought the Chief magistrate of our Nation,
our beloved President. 10 preside over this
meeting. 1t is a crisis that appeals 10 every
OF home missions is the cause of patriotism
Home missions is the insurance premium on
the safety OF your property, the success or
critics and the happiness OF your homes
Home missions reaches the prodigal; home
missions cares for and saves the lost and
forth that this great meeting made munifi-
cent free will Offering for the Lord. and to-
morrow morning at the family affairs on the
OF praise and thanksgiving that shall not
cease until it has encircled the globe"
TAIMAGE'S ELOQUENCE.
After Dr. Jackson came Rev. T. Dewitt
Talmage, pastor of the First Presbyterian
Church, Washington, d. c. He said. in part:
'Our glorious Presbyterianism is in full
bloom tonight. This will be an historical
meeting, and far down the years IL 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 received these honors from the
American people, in this great mass meet
ing for God and righteousness put down the
grandeurs of his office at the feet of Jesus.
Germany for scholarship, England for
manufactories, France for manners, Egypt
lea for Cod
You must remember that IL is only about
q O'Clock in the morning of our Nations
life. Great cities are to flash and roar
among what are called the bad lands OF the
Dakotas and the great Columbia plains
OF Washington State, and that on which We
put our schoolboy fingers on the map and
spelled out as the great American desert
Is, through systematic and consummate irri-
cation. to bloom like Chatsworth Park and
be made more productive than those regions
dependend upon uncertain and spasmodic
rainfall. All those regions, as well as those
regions already cultivated, are to be in
habited
I'm this country. already. planted and to
be overcome, paganism has already built its
affairs to Brahma and the Chinese, are al
ready burning incense in their temples;
and Mohammedanism, drunk in other days
with the red wine of human blood at Luck
now and Cawnpore and now fresh from
Armenia, Is trying to get foothold here.
and from the minarets of her mosques
Will yet humble her blasphemies. saying
ct Then there are the vaster multitudes
with no religion at ALL They worship no
God, they live with no consolation and they
down TO the ma manper in which % pine thew plre We're
born, and no prayer is uttered over the
grave into which they sink.
Then there is alcoholism, it's piled-up
demijohns and beer barrels and hogsheads
of fiery death, a barricade high and long
as the Alleghenies and Rockies and Sierra
Nevadas, pouring forth day and night their
There are plenty of statistics to tell how
much money Is spent in this country for
rum, and how many drunkards die, but
who Will give the statistics of how many
hearts are crushed under the heel OF this
worst demon of the centuries?
Then there Is what in America call
socialism, In France communism and in
Russia nihi,ism-three names for one and
the same thing and having but two doc
trines In its creed-frst. there is no God;
second there shall be no rights of prop
erty. Socialism, communism and nihilism
mean too wicked to acknowledge God and
too lazy to earn living and among the
mightiest obstacles to be overcome are
those organized elements of domestic, so
cial and political ruin. There are also the
form hydra-headed, million-armed abomi-
nations all over the land
''The very things that have been quoted
as perfs to this Nation are going to help
its salvation Great cities, so often men,
toned as great obstacles. the centers 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?
any other place by its contribution of Chris
tian men and women and means in this
work of tallying America for God? New
York city. The way Paris goes 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 couple of other cities go
goes America May the eternal God wake
us up to the stupendous ISSUE"
Rev. Charles L. Thompson. chairman of
the committee of home missions of the pres
bytery. missions OF New York, then spoke
on Home Missions %
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON'S APPEAL.
The last address was delivered by Booker
t. Washington, the colored principal of Tus-
kogee Institute, Alabama. He said, in part:
My word to you tonight will be based on
an humble effort during the last fourteen
years to better the condition of my people
in the BLACK Belt of the South. What are
some of the conditions in the South that
need your urgent help and attention? Eighty
five per cent. of my people in the Gulf States
are on the plantations in the country dis
tricts, where large majority are still in
ignorance, without habits of thrift, economy:
are in debt. mortgaging their crops TO se-
cure food; paying. or attempting to pay, a
rate OF interest that ranges between 20 and
40 per cent; living in one room cabins on
rented fand,. where schools are in session in
these country districts from three to four
months In the year; taught in places, as a
rule, that have little RESEMBLANCE to school
houses. Each colored child i'm these States
has spent on him this year for education
about 20 cents, while each child in Massa-
cnusetts mas spent on him this year for edu-
morality or practical Christianity you NAV
expect when as many as six, eight. and even
ten, cook, eat, sleep, get sick and die in one
room, i need not explain.
But what Is the remedy for this condition +?
II is not practicable nor desirable that the
North attempt to educate directly all the
colored people in the South, but the North
can and should help the South educate the
strong Christian leaders who will 90 among
our people and show them how to lift them.
selves up That Is the great problem before
US Can this be done? II In the providence
OF GOD the negro got any good out of slav-
cry, ne got the habit of work Whether the
call Tor labor comes from the cotton fields
OF mississippi, the rice swamps of the Caro-
hnas or sugar bottoms of louisiana the ne
gro answers the call: Yes, toll is the badge of
all his tribe. but the trouble centers here:
BY reason of his ignorance and want of
training he does not know how to utilize the
results or his labor My people do not need
charity. neither do they ask that CHARITY
be scattered among them; very seldom in nv
part or this country you see a black hand
reached out for charity but they do 49,
that through Lincoln and Biddle and Scotia
and Hampton and Tuskogee you send them
leaders to guide and stimulate them till thew
are able TO walk N'
Mr.. Cleveland had coach waiting for
him. With Private Secretary Thurber he
was driven to the Pennsylvania depof in
Jersey City. He took the 1890 express for
Washington. 'o'
Arrest Of Col na~