Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1899-06-09

statesmen nc NtNNN i''S '' w.
What We should DO For Their Re-
Iigious Welfare.
copyright, Louis Klopsch' 1891
WAsHINGToN, June An this dis
course DR.. Talmage steers clear OF the
political entanglements Of our time ard
recommends that which will meet the
annroval of all who hope for the per
netuitv of our republic and the welfare
of other lands; text, Genesis xviii. a.
Thou shalt spread abroad to the west
and TO the east.
Since the Americano-Hispanlc war Is
concluded and the United States EN-
bassador is on the way to Madrid and
tbe Spanish ambassador is on the way
10 Washington the people Of our coun-
try are divided into expansionists ana
an+;exDansionists From a different
standpoint than that usually taken l
discuss this all absorbing theme. leave
the political aspect Of this subject 10
statesmen and warriors and pray AL
mighty God that they may be enabled
rightly to settle the question whether
the islands in controversy shall be hnal-
" annexed or held under protectorate
or resigned TO themselves, while call
attention TO the fact that campaign
of moral and religious expansion ought
to be Immediately opened on widest
and grandest scale.
At the close Of this war God has put
into the hands Of this country the key
10 the worlds redemption. Heretofore
tbe religious movement in pagan lands
had TO precede the educational After
in China and India and the islands OF
the sea the missionaries have labored
over so or 70 years the printing press
and the secular school came in. Now 10
better advantage than ever before re-
ligious and secular enlightenment may
90 side by side. and so the work be ac-
Comnlished in short time and mo1t
thoroughly. Starting with the fact thai
in Cuba and Porto Rico and the Philp-
nine Islands at least three-fourtns OF
tbe people can neither read nor write
what an opportunity for school anc
printing press Within five years every
man in those islands may be taught u
read not only the Bible. but the Declar
alton of Independence and the consti
tutiop of the United States and th'
biography Of George Washington an'
Of Abraham Lincoln.
II seems to me that the goyernmen
Of the United States ought by vote o
congress afford common schools ant
printing presses to those benighte'
reoicns Onr national legislature by on
vote appropriated $50. 600. 600 to CIV
broad and medicine to Cuba. Why no
nv similar generosity give 500 OOO,
600 for feeding and healing the NINA
and souls Of those ignorant and besotte
archipelagoes In the name OF COD
nominate a school for every neighDor
hood Of Cuba. Porto Rico and the PM
inpipes As soon as the gavel falls at
o'clock Of next Dec on the table G
senate and house Of representatives, an
the roll has been called and the prelllI
inaries observed let some member
our national legislature, with nina an
soul and voice strong enough 10 Z
heard not only through those halls bU
tbrouoh ChristendOm, propose mea
ure for the mental and moral disei
tbralIment of the islands in controversy
What has made American civihzi
tion the highest civilization the wori
has ever seenG Next TO the Bible an
r the church, schools. common school
5 schools reaching from the Atlantic
the Pacific and from British Amerl'
: TO gulf of Mexico Five years una
such educational advantage and tn
whole subject that keeps our puoi
men agitated. some of them to trothir
at the mouth. will settle itself. 1i'
those islands readers. spellers' arithm
tics. histories. blackboards' maps geo
!, raphies. globes Let the state ieglS'
lures at their next meeting some