Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-11-21

wards of 5000 men with black skins,
and more than 1000 men with white
skins. who know no church. know no
Bible, know no preacher or missionary.
Nobody sends missionaries to them, and
they never hear the story of Calvary.
They are heather nearer home, but
their souls are apparently regarded as
of smaller value than the souls of NOR
tai men beyond the seas.
In South Washington and in West
Washington there are upwards of 2o,-
OoO people to whom the Gospel has
never been preached at all. In Balti-
more, a city near the capital of the
country of which write, there are mp
wards of 10000 people who never see
missionary and never have the Cos
pei brought unto them. In Alexandria,
another city near by, there are more
than 1000 who never hear the won
dcrful story of love. The command:
Go ye into all the world" surely con-
tains no authority for neglecting the
United States and the heather there.
In that country which is thus neg
lected there are many temples where
art, music, song and pomp are preva-
lent. They are not exactly heather
temples such as they have in foreign
lands, but they are founded upon Chris
tian principles. Over many of them are
towers and minarets with golden
crosses, indicating that the Gospel has
been brought into the country But
the worshipers a those shrines are not
missionaries, nor do they send mis-
sionaries to the contiguous heather.
In addition to the capital and con-
tiguous cities, there are many other
cities where the heather abound. Ii
you were to take map and study
statistics you would find that there is
city called New York, city called
Philadelphia, another city named Bos-
ton, and still another named Chicago
where there are hundreds of thousands
of people congregated; and there are
hundreds of smaller cities, in all OF
which the heather abound and rage.
We occasionally hear of the murder
of a sultan or a shah in heather coun-
tries. Well, in the country of which
1 write two of the rulers have been
murdered right in the capital city. II
raising contributions of $1O1,O00 will
send missionaries who will teach the
foreign heather not to kill their rul
ers, maybe some missionary effort il
the republic of the new world might
teach the heathen the same
lesson. 1t is certainly worth
the enOr1. VINO Will come like
a voice in the wilderness, and take uI
the cause of these poor English-speak k
ing heathen? Who will raise S101 ,O0t
for them?
1t is apparent in the large cities OF
the country, in which crime abounds
that some missionaries should be SEM
from house to house to prayerfully ex
plain to mothers the duties devolvine
upon them under the teachings of the
Christian religion. In the capital city
and in other cities the mothers OF
young girls allow them to roam the
| streets at night without hindrance
They permit them to go on river excur
sions with all sorts of men, without
making inquiry concerning the com
pany they keep. Surely missionaries
ought to be sent to such mothers te
| bring them to a realization of their du
| ties. These mothers had mothers like
| unto themselves, and yet the Gospe
| does not enter their homes.
| SMITH d. FRY.
No metaphysician ever felt the de
| ficiency of language so much as tn,
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