The Portland daily press., 1899-05-04

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Porto Rico had been ADM nistered so thai
It became q part Of the vicious system
under which the people there so long
suffered.
He quoted from Father Sherman. who
after visit to Santiago, remarked THAI
It was X omnn Catholic country with
no religion" The church has lost Its In
fluence on the masses of the people and
the best way to regain footing was by
the establishment of Protestant missions.
Archbishop Chappelle snid to the speaker,
| ''We propose to send the Spanish priests
back to Spain and to Americanize the
! Roman Catholic church, TO assist in
this work. MIR. Morgan said we must
establish free schools. see that the
scriptures are circulated for 1t is only in
this way and by the aid of the missions
that the religious revival can be brought
about. There is open TO us an opportunity
that comes but once in many centuries
In Santiago there was church OF
about $50 members made up of all
classes. and the color line was not drawn.
| The fact that the color line was not
drawn was considered very notable by the
| speaker, and he mentioned the case Of DIR.
Mosely. Southern preacher, who Is
laboring there who remarked that down
in Georgia he would hardly have ventured
to preach to colored congregation but
on these islands the conditions as to the
color line were entirely different
MIR. Morgan concluded his very interest
he ri,,rx thaf
posed to establish missions on these
islands; that money. say $50. 900 was
needed and he invited the cooperation Of
the ladies as the open doors in Cuba and
Porto Rico were entered by the mission
airy societies of America.
IN THE EVENING.
There was large gathering. in the eve
ming at the Free Street Baptist church,
and first in order was the reading of the
scriptures by Anna Sargent Hunt of Au.
Rusta which was followed by prayer by
Rev. w. S Hawkes. of Worcester, Mass.
music being interspersed by the church
choir.
Rev. Mr. Hawkes., who for sixteen
years was in Utah, spoke on tho subject
of "Mormonism Revived He traced the
history. of Mormonism; and said that il
Satan eve- had his hand In any concern
it was in the system of Mormonism,
which was conceived in sin and was a
true relic of tarbarism. He graphically
described some of the massacres and
quoted the remark of Rockwell, the chief
of police, who rode into a woman's iyard
and said "Well, have just shed the
blood of your son S to save their souls"
Brigham Young advocated the shedding
Of blood to save souls and the speaker
welt upon the huge deception practiced
from the inception Of Mormonism, the
manner In which scripture was inter-
preted, the rank materialism which per-
was issued which prohibited polygamy
in Utah, parties Of the Mormon church
had fled TO Mexico and other places to
make polygamous marriages and thus
circuInyent the law. The system kept
woman in bondage and yet the women
were Instrumental in perpetuating the
system for thsy were made to believe that
the more wives their husbands main
sained, the higher these husbands would
rank In Heaven, and the grander
Processes the wives would be. There
was no culture behind the public schools
established and the seeds of Mormonism
were being industriously sown there. The
speaker urged hard work and said he
knew of no field where greater sacrifices
had to be made.
Rev. Mr.. Morris delivered a most elo-
quent address on the present aspects of
the race question in the South. He be-
lieved that God never had forgotten his
black children and that slavery had
taught them TO work, to speak the great
est language on the face of the earth, and
to have q conception of God. He re.
ferred to Daniel Webster, Henry Clay and
other statesmen who failed to reach the
heights of their ambition by bowling to
the moloch of slavery, and paid hand
some tribute to Garrison, Whittier and
ether New England men.
His description of America, it's cosmo-
politan people of all races was pretty
word picture, and his tribute to some of
the schools in the South and their home
influences was personal and very in
teresting feature of the address He dis
cussed lynchinSs in the South and said
those We're chargeatl e to a state OF affairs
which frowned down upon the mingling
of white women and black men. He saw
bright spots in the South and hoped soon
er or later for union of the better ele-
ments of both races.
Personal.