The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1899-07-13
SlT0RS EXPANSION.
= ralmage Discusses an Absorb
ing Theme. @

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o.t the way for the Aneri-
people to Perform Mighty
werk-A Splendid OPP
portunity.
.c.,.r.eht. 1880, by Louis Klopsch.l
Washington,
S .h;. discourse DIR. Talmage steers
Il. 3 = the political entanglements OF
lime and recommends that which
sI p,ees the approval of allwho hope
~ perpetuity of our republic and
y. -elfare Of other lands; text, Gene
s. MA: Thou shalt spread abroad
z e west and to the east.
ri,ce the American-Hispanic war is
..luled and the United States am
s.dor is ON the way to Madrid and
y. snanish ambassador is on the way
3 Washington the people of our coun-
s- .re divided into expansionists and
sti.expansionists. From a different
.lpoint from that usually taken |
s.an this all-absorbing theme. ]
- The political aspect of this subject
s statesmen and warriors and pray
Sluiehty God that they may be en-
"a TO rightly settle the question
a4her the islands in controversy shall
y fnally annexed or held under pro-
4prate, or resigned to themselves.
ErAIk / call attention to the fact that
4 saupaien of moral and religious ex-
nnlion ought to be Immediately opened
widest and grandest.scale
f 1t the close of this war God has put
Esto the hands of this country the key
4 dc worlds redemption. Heretofore
tke religious movement in pagan lands
"a 10 precede the educational. After
China and India and the islands. OF
IL ia the missionaries have labored
M 10 or IS years the printing press
Efd the secular school came in. Now
rs better advantage than ever before
lelieious and secular enlightenment
~ 70 side by side, and so the work be
|s1lromplished in short time and more
Jkespaghly. Starting with the fact that
IA Cuba and Porto Rico and the Philip
pile Islands at least three-fourths of
ike people can neither read nor write,
vist an opportunitysfors school and
inting press! Within five years every
- II those islands may be taught to
teld not only the Bible, but the Decla-
RtleI q independence and the consti-
tisn Of the United States and the
gnphy Of George Washington and
Abraham Lincoln.
lftselns to me that the government
the United States ought by vote OF
greas affeEsl common schools and
inting presses to those benighted
IONA Our national legislature by
e. cteappropriated $50, 100000 to give
tad and medicine to Cuba. Why not
u ! similar generosity give $50, ,oOo, ,ooC
= feeding and healing the minds and
~ of those ignorant and besotted
sAipelagoes. In4th name of God,
eninate school for every neighbor
I'D Of Cuba, Porto Rico and the fiiiI
dneA Al soon as the gavel falls al
o'tlock Of next December 4 on The
le q senate and house of representa-
~ and the roll has been called ani
preliminaries observed lets some
nbr Of our national legislature
h h ~ mind and scnlr rand veieessstroni
9 kgh to be heard not only through
halls, huts tsthrongh Christenddn
pose measure for the mental ant
1l disenthrallment of the island
spatrsversy.
Vhst has made American civiliza
1 he highest civilization the worl,
ger seen2 Next tor the Bible an,
eAurch, schools, common schools
b leols reaching from the Atlantic t
Pacific, and from British Americ
~ guilt of Mexico. Five years un
such educational advantages an,
Naole subject that keeps our publ
aGitated, some of them to ,froth
a ne mouth, win settle itself. Civ
= islands readers, spoilers, arith
eA histories, blackboards, map.
lapAies, globes. Let the state leg
ales q their next meeting, some q
N aSsenhf;S Il eel. ..,.
8 Ct those islands under their esps
edncationai patronage. What j
u state and national action /
matter Of schools.
y further. herr is awhile open doc
f1stiaaity. First. of all, we hav
attentiohs Of those people. TIL
snatuus are for the mast paI
nc The American missionarie
saors had great dificulty in ge
afheudpm TO listen. They I,
scme comment by their attir,
ssent was the parting of the hal
"a shapes of the hat, andsthe 6,
III coat, and the formation of ii
= Aus evangelizers, but the que
seAatantly arose in regard toll
W: "Who IL he ?'' ssWhst
e torf And then the interrog,
s;s I'D relax into the previous. ST
4 ! lnsrence. But that condition,
ss - passed. The guns Of o,
:! y navy have awakened tho,
sloas. They do not ask who Z
~ have found out. They =,