The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1899-06-10
tANORS EXPANSION.
Dr. Talmage Discusses an Absorb
ing Theme.
Points Oat the Way for the Ansri-
can People to Perform = mighty
WsrL-A sPIsndtd OD-
p~OFtaHity.
(csUnghi. isS. b Louis Klog'ctl

Warrington. !-tsA
In this discourse Dr. Talmsge steers
clear u the political entangiemsnts OF
our time and recommends that which
will meet the approval Of all who hope
for cue peipctuity Of cur rsPubAe Sad
the welfare Of other lands text, Gene-
sis zs:l4: Thou shalt spread abroad
to the west and 70 the east
Since the American Hispanic var "a
concluded and the United States am
basAador l. On the way TO Madrid aud
the spanish Ambassador is on the way
10 Washington the people Of our eoun-
try are divided into eIpanSioni,is and
snti-e1pansionisiA. From "A different
standpoint from that usually taken |
discuss this all absorbing theme. /
leave the political aspec, of this subject
10 stAtesmeu and warriors and pray
Almighty God that they may be en-
abled TO rightly settle the question
whether the islands 10 controversy shall
be finally annexed or held under pro-
t~ectorste, Dr resigned TO themselves
while / call attention 10 the fact that
q campaign Of moral and religious ex-
pansion oughtto 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
W the worlds redemption Heretofore
the religious movement ia pagan lands
had 10 precede the educational After
In China aud India and the islands Of
the Ees the missionaries have labored
over 50 or IS year. the printing press
and The secular school came in. Now
, 10 better advantage than ever before
religious and secular ENLIGHTENMENT
NAV 20 side by side, and 80 the work u
accomplished in short time and mor'
thoroughly. Starting with the fact tina.
In Cuba and Porto Rico and the Philip
pine islands at least three-fourtbs o
the people can neither read nor write
what an opportunity for school ant
printing press! Within fEe years ever.
man 10 those islands may be taught I
read not only the Bible, but the Deeia
ration OF Independence and the eonst.
tuition Of the uBited States and tn
biography Of George Washington an
Of Abraham Lincoln.
il seems 10 mr. that the goEernmsn
Of the United States ought by vote {
congress afford common schools an
, printing presses to those benighie
regions. Our national Legislature !
one vote appropriated $500 900 to 81
bread and medicine to Cuba. Why nj
by a similar generosity give 100000
for feeding and healing the minds al
souls Of those ignorant and besott'
archipelagoes. In the name Of God,
nominate a school for every neighbo
hood Of Cuba. Porto Rico and the Phi
ippines. As soon as the gayel falls
u O'Clock Of next December I on q
table Of senate and house OF represent
II tiyes and the roll has been called al
II the preliminaTies observed let sol
member Of our national legiSlatul
with mind and soul and Voies stroI
enough 10 be heard not only throu.
those halls. but through Christendo
propose b measure for the mental q
moral discnthrallment Of ths islam
in controversy.
What has made American civil
ton the highest civilization the wOI
has ever seen? Next TO the Bible a
the church, schools, common SchoC
schools reaching from the Atlantic
the Pacific, and from British Amer
10 the gulf Of Mexico. Five years
p der such educational advantages a
Z, the whole subject that keeps our pub
men agitated, some Of them 10 fro
ing at the mouth, will settle itself. 6
those islands readers, spoilers, ari
'ae metiGs, histories, blsckbosrds, ma
Biographies. globes. Let the state
n isla,ures at their nrEt mffting som'
~ them asse abling 10 early autumn. u
parts Of those Islands uadsr their e.
cial educational patronage. What
needed is state and national action
this matter Of schools.
still further, here Ia vide open d,
for Christianity. First Of all, We Ia
the attention Of thoae people. 7
Lruthrn nations are fOT the most p
tDpOriic. The American miIsiOnaI
heretofore had great difficulty in 3
"a ting h~eaibendOm 10 listen. They
81 cited some comment by their att
~ different was the partiGR VI the h
and the shape Of the hat. and The
Of the coat, aud the formation Of
/, shoe Of the e,angelizers, but the 81
lions constantly arose Ia regard 10
missionary: who Is he ?" VIVA
be here fOr"' And then the interrC
tor would relax into the previous
pid Indifference. But that condition
things has passed. The guns Of
American navy hn,e awakened Il
populations. They do not ask who
IRE. They have found out. They
now listening 10 what American ci
2atiOn mud our Christian religion !
TO hay on amy subject, Now h the Il
while their ears aud EYES are wide 81
, 10 tell them Of the ~rescuing and ~
' bic and inspiriting power Of the
pei 81 Jesus Christ, the Saviour Of
world. The steam printing press "
%srculvr education plants there ma.
usrd and will be used to print reliR
n newspapers aud tracts and sermons
v mighty discussions VI questions
pnrnl aud eternal.
Now. church Of God, now oil q
0 tilu philnnthropists, is your opp
nifty. Nothing like It has occurred