The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1899-06-14

that condition Of things has passe
The guss Of our American navy have
awakl ned those populations. They do
not ask who We are. They have found
out. They are now listening to what
American civilization and our Christian
religion have to say on any subject.
Now is the time. While their ears and
eyes are wide open, to tell them Of the
rescuing and salvable aud inspiriting
power of the gospel Of Jesus Christ,
the Savior Of the world The steam
printing press which secular education
plants there may be used and will be
used to print religious newspapers and
tracts and sermons and mighty discuss
ions Of questions temporal and etern-
al.
The comfortable homes Of those
populations, when Christianizad, stand.
ing side By side with degraded huts Of
those who remain pagans, will be reyo
lutionary for good. The Porto Rican
and the Filipino will come out from his
cnclearsed and low rooted and unin-
vitiug kennel and say to his neighbor
of beautiful household, why cannot
have things as You have them?
And when he finds that it is the Bible,
with It's teachings on family life and
personal purity and exalted principle,
and the church Of God that proposes
the rectifcatiou of all evil and the i'm
plantation Of all good, he will cry out
Give NE the Bible, and the church,
and the earthly alleviations, and the
eternal hope which have wrought for
sou such TRANSPORTATION.
Now, church of God, now all Chris
tian philanthropists, is your opportuni-
ty. Nothing like il has occurred since
Christ came. Perhaps there may be
nothing like it till his second coming.
Here is deiniteness of aim that IS
most helpful ard inspiring The mil
lions of dollars given for the redemp-
tiou of the world and the thousands Of
glorious missionaries who have as
volunteers gone forth among barbaric
nations, were given and enlisted under
a great and immeasurable idea. But
when they come to add to the great
and immeasurable idea the idea of defiu
iteness we will infinitely augment the
work. More than 800, ,000,0 900 Of hea-
then IN India, more than 100000, 600
Of people in China, and more than mil
lions of heather than can be guessed
outside of those countries, sometimes
stagger and confouDd and defeat our
faith. But here in these islands Of
present controversy we can farm out
the work among the churches. and in
five years, under the blessing Of God,
not only fit the people for the right of
suffrage, but prepare them for useful
ness and heaven. The difference be-
tween the general idea Of the world $
evangelization and some particularized
field of evangelization is the difference
between the improvement of agriculture
among all nations and the improvement
of 75 acres put under ones especial
care and industry. By all means let
the general work 60 on. But here is
the specific field for religious concen-
tration and development. This is not
chimeical or impractical. | read this
morning that the American Missionary
association Of the Congregational
Church has already begun the work at
San Juan, Utuado and Albonito, and
all denominations of Christians, IN six
months, will be in those islandy fields,
and we all need with our prayers and
contributions to cheer them on to take
for God and righteousness those regions
which our American navy has captured
from Spanish perfdy.
1t has been estimated that this
Americo-Spanish war cost US $500, 600,
600. 1t would not cost half of that to
proclaim and carry on and cousummate
holy war that will rescue those archi-
pelagoes from satanic domination.
Who will volunteer? ! beat the drum
of a recruiting station. Who will en-
| list under the one starred, blood striped
banner Of Emmanuel? Cuba and Porto
Rico ard the Philippines are stepping
stones for our American Christianity
to cross over and take the round world
for God. We need new evangelical
alliance organized for this one purpose.
In all denominations there are those
with large enough hearts and who have
been thoroughly enough converted to
ioin in such an advanced movement;
men who, putting aside all minor
differences Of opinion, ''believe in God
the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven
and earth, and in Jesus Christ, his
only begottyn Son, and who would
march shoulder to shoulder in such a
gospel campaign. The result would be
that those islands, after scene Of
gospelization, would assert themselves
into denominations to suit themselves,
aud some would be sprinkied in holy
baptism, and others would be immers-
ed in those warm rivers. and some
would worship in religious assemblage
silent as the Quaker meeting house, and
others would have as many Jubllant
calculations as a backwoods camp
meeting, and some Of those who preach
ed would be gowned and Surpliced for
the work, and Others would stand in
citizens apparel or in their shirt sleeves
preaching that gospel which is to save
the world.
Mark you well that craftsmanship,
however grand it is, and wise men Of
the world, however noble, cannot do
this work. Mere secular education does
not moralize. Some of the most tho
roughly educated men in all the world
have been the worst men. Quicken a
mans intellect, while at the same time
you do not make his morals good, and
you only augment his powers for evil.
Geography and mathematics and meta
physics and philosophy will never quail
ify a people to govern themselves. A