The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-05
MORE REFORMING HOSTS.
1000 600 YOUNG COLPoRTEURs TO
EFFECT OCIAL GESERATION.

At tho Instance or the EvangeIicaI Alliance
They VIII Try, BY the Aid OF 60, 900. 900
Leaflets . Year, to DO what 100 900 Min.
istes Cannot DO. Get Everybody TO BE Good
Under tho auspices Of the Evangelical ALI
ance for the United States q campaign In behalf
of social reform has been begun which. 1t is ex.
pected, will in time be carried on generally
throughout the country. A beginning has been
made in the mining communities and manufac-
turing towns of Pennsylvania, where the Rev.
DR.. Josiah Strong, Secretary Of the Alliance,
has been working for the past two months. DR..
Strong returned from his initial ,labors last week,
and is now on his way to San Francisco. where
he will present the scheme OF the Alliance before
the convention of Christian Endeavorers.
DR.. Strong visited Phenixville. Pottstown,
Reading, Shenandoah, Oliphant, Carbondale,
Nanticoke. Middletown. Gettysburg. and Har-
risburg. In many of the places he visited he
found that foreigners form from one-half to two
thirds of the communities. In the town Of
Shenandoah. having a population OF about
Is, oOO. he found that eighteen languages are
spoken by substantial numbers OF the people. and
in some regions he found that the English Ian
guage is almost unspoken. Speaking of tho
plan. he said on his return:
1.-THE purpose of the scheme Is to form local
alliances or associations In all cities and towns.
In order that tho especial needs Of any particu-
lar community. in the way OF reform. may DO
met intelligently and effectively. 1t is not ex-
pected that the burden Of this work will fall on
the pastors of the churches. but upon the young
people. 1t will consist chiefly in the distribution
OF literature which the Evangelical Alliance will
prepare for their circulation.
"Puhlic opinion remains uneducated. al
though moro than IA hundred thousand pulpits
proclaim the truth every week and tons OF good
Srsading matter are weekly carried by the mails:
preaching are precisely the one5 who do not get
1t, and those who read the literature of reform
are precisely the ones who do not need 1t. 1t is
the Indifferent who need to be reached; 1t Is the
Indifferent from whom all reforms must he won.
Evidently, II the Indifferent viii not come after
the truth, II must DO carried to them; II they
This Il !" means the hou.e:to-So1se Sdistrib ~ tas% OF
hIDer r. strein s1 rcf spwsv to thy by R 900 o members
of the various young peoples societies as the
PTi0pps,FI agents ants G for carrying on the work of dis,
Suppose the members Of these societies be
made the bearers Of the truth; each community
could DO districted and each district assigned to
some young person. To deliver a leafet once a
month at each house in a district. containing.
dertekine. The bicycle would make II entirely
feasible to reach the scattered houses OF country
p pss1piiet ens s a 4 in Dnt the o %er * TEN they OF w eaise s sSStas
throughout the land nearly 10000, 900 leaflets
In a single year; at least one,haii o. which would
BY sec no reform literature.
cal Alliance will take up the matter OF preparing
the various leaflets for distribution In the inter
this work the services of the most able writers
of the time on subjects with which they are par
ties where the foreign population predoninates
or is unusually strong. leaflets WILDE distributed
HatSraiization, flights OF the NaturaiizeG
Citizen." Duties of the Naturallzod. "Funda
mental Principles of American Institutions.'
&c. These. In turn. will be translated into every
foreign language spoken by the people In the
community under consideration.
DR.. Strong said that the proposed association
will DO wholly undenominational. and that al
will work for tho good OF all In the interest Of
education, good government, and American pa
triotism.