The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-02-24
BISHOP MALLALIEU.
Address Before New Haven Evangeli-
 zation Union.

Address Before New Haven Evangeli-
 zation Union.
 The annual mass meeting of the New Haven Evangelization union was held last evening at the First Methodist Episcopal church. General Superinten- dent Charles H. Platt of the Consoli- dated road presided. Rev. James s. Chadwick, D. D., corresponding secre- tary, read his repot, and Rev. Crandall J. North spoke briefly, asking that those present pledge themselves to give some specified sum toward assisting some of the outlying churches, and many pledges were received.
 The address of the evening was by Bishop Willard F. Mallalieu, D. D., ILL., D., who will preside at the spring meeting of the New York East confer ence, to which New Haven belongs. He spoke on "City Evangelization" in part as follows. There is no other nation in the world which has such possibilities for the future as the Unit ed States. do not speak of its magni tude, for you know of it already. We have a population larger than almost any other civilized country in the world, except Russia. By the census of 1890 we had 61,OO0,Oo0 people, and we shall number by 1900, S0,000000 of people. am inclined to think, also, that the American people are the best blooded people that exist and I believe thatTthey have the finest opportunities. I see that God in this country has a people that may become gloriously , competent to redeem fallen humanity.
 I say that while we contemplate the opportunities we have and the number and character of our people let us nev- CT get arrogant toward other nations or forget God. Ours is a nation that is worth something. We see that there are thousands of problems which con- front us to-day. feel that if God fails there will be an awful drift toward de- struction. It is never a safe thing to prophecy, and I do not like to do it. but I feel that if God fails here, there will be such a continuation of disaster as will wreck the faith of all Gods | people. But I feel that God will save l this country, and if the land is saved l it will be because the cities are saved, | y our big cities. There have been ten dencies at work in recent years in Eu- rope which have drawn people into large cities. I will not speak of the causes of this drift into the large cities. In these great congregations of people | in cities there is great danger, because l of the character of many of the people who come to our cities and the possi- l bility of their combining. You recall l the wonderful Haymarket riots in Chi l cago in which thousands of the dan gerous classes of the citw participated. Such people as these are found in New York as well as Chicago. Yes, in Bos- | ton, Philadelphia and all our large cit 1 ies where they are a constant menace | to our political and social institutions. | You may study all the remedies you | choose that have been advanced to cure the evil and they will seem to be the ideas of dreamers out of contact with. men and to omit entirely the one thing that Is necessary to accomplish what is desired and that one thing which is omitted Is religion. You may try what remedies you please be they single tax, double tax or no tax; you may have the government assume con- trol of all the railroads and telegraphs and you have not found the remedy.
 The speaker then touched upon some of the means by which the difficulty should be met. He advised that the Methodist people of the city should be more closely identified with each other in the Christian work, and not con- fine to closely to their own individual hobbies. They he advised that they should aid the outlying churches until strong enough to support themselves
 also that more branch Sunday schools should be conducted and local prayer meetings. Especially he urged the ne- nessity of work among the large. for
 eign population of the cities saving
 that they could be reached.
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