The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-03-04

if we are to continue them in our SER
vice.
"Our hearts have recently been profoud-
~ stirred by the dangers that threaten
the devoted men and women who have
gone from among US TO preach and teach
Christianity in a foreign land. our sym
patty with them and those with whom
they labor and suffer is made more painful
because the arm of complete relief has not
thus far been able to reach them Our
missionary impulse should be large
enough and strong enough for both
while we will not turn away from
them nor allow disbursement to de-
strOy activity in their behalf let us not
forget the missionaries i'm our own land,
who need our aid, to whom we owe a
duty, and who can he reached.
1t seems to me that If the Christian
people of our land estimate al It's real
value the work which the board of home
missions has in charge. and IL they can
be made to realize its extreme import
ance, the means TO carry on and extend
this work will be easily forthcoming (:
and hope that such an unusual interest
may be aroused in behalf of the cause
by the movement of which this meeting
is a part, as will suggest to many here
tofore indifferent, that among the most
comforting of their possessions will be
"A share in the triumphs and achieve
ments of home missions"
When the President had concluded, the
Rev William G. Roberts, D. D., offered
Then Rev. Sheldon Jackson. d. d. SUI
perintendent of missions for Alaska, made
q
DIR. Talmage and Rev. Charles l.. Thomp-
son.
After Mr.. Thompson had concluded his
address the ushers took up a collection, af-
ter which President Cleveland introduced
BOOKER L. Washington, president of the
Tuskegee Institute of Alabama, as the last
speaker, and he promised the audience a
treat in hearing Rev. Washington's ad-
dress He said he would have to forego
part of that treat owing to the fact that
he had to leave for his post of duty in
warmly, and was apDlauded time and
again. He spoke in part as follows: THE
American church has never yet compre-
hended its duty to the millions of poor
whites i'm the south, who We're buffeted for
200 years between slavery and freedom,
between civilization and degradation, who
were disregarded both by the master and
the slave. 1t needs no prophet to tell the
character Of our future civilization when
the poor white boy in the country dis
tricts of the south is in school for three
months. and your boy g. in school ten
months.
my friends, there is no escape; you
must help us raise our civilization or
yours will be lowered When the south
is poor, you are poor; when the south
is ignorant, you are ignorant; when the
south commits crime, you commit crime.
When you help the south, you help your
selves. When you help the poor whites,
you help the negro So long as the poor
be crime against the negro and ciyllza-
ton.
My countrymen do not make, neither
does the great Home Missions Society of
the Presbyterian church make any selfish
plea. II Is plea to save yourselves. Let
us do our duty and the keeper of us
all will perform his The negro can af-
ford to be wronged; the white man cannot
afford to wrong him.
At 1915 O'Clock. shortly after Rev. Wash
ington began, President Cleveland left, af-
ter which the interest in the meeting
seemed to an extent to have gone, as
many of the audience left.
An overflow meeting was held in the
Central Presbyterian church on Fifty
seventh street a short distance from the
big gathering. A crowd was expecting to
see the President, and as some must be
disappointed, the second meeting was ar
ranged aal
1t was presided over by Rev. j. Bal
colin Shaw of the West End Presby
church. who said that the field of work for
home missions was limitless. Its vast
ness, goodness and possibilities, he
thought, incomprehensible.
Booker r. Washington, Rev. Theodore
L. Cuyler and DR. Shaw also addressed the
meeting.