The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-05-14


work, and we cherish the memory OF
these noble donors here in New Haven
with most tender reeollections,
There are two things would like to
call your attention to in regard to these
statistics that ! have brought to your
notice, One is that there is no class If
contributions which we can by any
possibility give to the Lords work that
appear to be more richly remuneratiye
in spiritual results than are contribu-
tons put into the hands of the Ameri-
can Sunday School Union We know
that every dollar that is given for this
work is sure to be transmitted into
spiritual benefits. And another thing
to be said is that the salvation OF the
rural districts, so far as we can see, is
simply question of means, since every
dollar that is given is sure to result in
personal direct good for individuals
and communities, We are sure that If
we have the means to carry on this
work the question of the regeneration
and salvation of these outlying dis
tricts throughout our country is simply
a matter of time, The results are posi-
tive. Every dollar that is given means
child in Sunday school. Every mis-
sionary that is brought in and set at
work means at least fourteen new
schools every year, with some five
hundred people in them who otherwise
would not have had these privileges,
some seventy conversions, and at least
one new church organized to every mis-
sionary. hope that'it may be possible
for some of our friends to take the
places of these noble men that have
gone to their reward, after doing the
work that they have done in the past.
We have been used to such assistance
from New Haven; doubt not we shall
receive it in the future,
Singing: Lord lead the way the
Saviour went
Mr.. Jesup. We have with us tonight
the Rev Nehemiah Boynton, pastor of
the Central Congregational church of
Boston, but who is soon to leave that
field of work and who has recently ac-
cepted call in Detroit. We shall miss
him very much from our New England
work. | have great pleasure now in
introducing to you the Rev. Nehemiah
| Boynton
| DR.. Boynton One of the things
which I am sure impresses us as we
take wide outlook upon the world is
| that the apparent are not always the
actual and the propelling or propulsive
| forces or life. That was signally illus
| trated in what Dr. Foster was just say
ing to you, for if any one had asked
the cause of those SIS Sunday schools
which had been established through the
! In hnrc If 70 icci wv in f11ic
| land of ours, you would at once have
said the American Sunday School I'M
| ion. The apparent, but not the actual
cause, for behind that union was the
beneficence of this historic church l
suppose if any one over in Massachu-
sets should ask why we have so many
public libraries, the answer would be,
because of the education and culture
of the people of the old Bay state. But
that is not the reason. The reason is
simply this: In the year 1S49 a little
country town, called East Sudbury,
thought it would change its name to
! Wayland, in honor of the president of
Brown university. and when they
| changed the name he offered to give
them five hundred dollars on condition
that the town should appropriate five
/ hundred dollars more that there might
be one thousand dollars for public Ii
brary. and so the question was left to
the legislature, and there was special
action by that august body which per-
mitted the various towns in Massachu-
sets, if they wished, to appropriate
money for the support of public libra
ries. And the result of that is that out
| n tat ~ IL
state, 32l of them to-day have public
libraries, circulating over five million
copies of various books in the course of
a year and having received over six
million dollars benefaction The actu-
al cause of the public library in Ameii-
ca is not the apparent cause. 1t is not
the culture and education of the people;
it is simply the action finally, of that
little company of people in East Sud
bury who wanted to honor man who
held their hearts, who had received
their affection.
If you look out widely upon the world
tonight you find this same principle il
Illustrated We glory in the fact that
| there is to be one universal language
spoken round the world within the
| next HdiI century, ana we CHucKle TO
ourselves and say that language is our
English tongue and then we congratu-
late ourselves still further and say, 1t is
| the people who possess that English
\ tongue who are leading the race to-day
and who are controlling the world,
The Anglo-S Saxon, we say, is the pres
ent conqueror and the future ruler of
mankind. We congratulate ourselves
guage that we are Anglo-Saxon. Now
why is it that the Anglo Saxon, with
his language, is thus the conqueror? 1t
is simply because he is alert and inven-
tive in mind? Simply because he is
supple in limb and well developed in
physique? Are the apparent the actual
reasons for the leadership of the Anglo
| Saxon? No. The real reason the An
Glo-Saxon leads the world to-day, and
the reason why his language is to be
the universal language, is back of that
which is apparent in the embrace of
that which is actual. It is because he
has had,and still has to-day, in his
hand and in his life the imperishable
word of the Almighty God. 1t is be-
| cause the Saxon has a Bible that he is
the leader in tine universe. II the Chi
namen had had the Bible instead of the
Anglo-Saxon, or perhaps more accu-
rately, the Japanese, they would have
been the leaders of the world The &C
tual cause of the leadership of the Sax
on is the Bible. When you come over