The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-13
For America in the
Cause of Right.
DUTY C0MPELS
The Extension of Our Gov
eminent.


consideration. there was good-sized
congregation Mr.. Bradbury spoke in
part as follows, taking for his text.
Numbers. xiii:30:
Let us go up at once and possess
the land for we are well able to over
come it,"
! All honor to the men of faith! They
surmount the unsurmountable and
achieve the impossible The spies sent
out to view the promised land returned
with good reports of the land, but the
large majority of them were afraid of
the inhabitants. Then Caleb and
Joshua showed the spirit of heroes, and
advised an immediate and vigorous ad-
| vance.
In 1904, President Jefferson sent out
Two modern Calebs in the person of
Lewis and Clark, to explore the vast
northwest territory which had lust
been bought. The Louisiana purchase
OF 1903 was a bitter pill to the anti
expansionists' of that day, though the
prediction of Napoleon when he ceded
II. that its possession would make
America world-power, has since been
amply verified. Jefferson, Trainer of
| the constitution as he was admitted
tnat he had stretched that document in
MS new purchase, but felt that future
| events would justify his course So he
! ntted out that expedition which tray
eiied 5oOO miles to the head waters of
ene missouri river. Where they found
an uninhabited wilderness, there are
now ten million people and ten great
states. Providence certainly directed
| theSe early events in our nations life
and fashioned us for a great destiny
ana worldwide influence of which our
fathers could not dream.
| Inc missionary must follow the pion-
eer' ana the gospel must be preached
IN the farthest settlements Hence
arose the need of a home mission So
clety, TO send preachers to the far-ofe
west. In 1882, the American Baptist
home Mission Society was organized
ana IN the Sc years of its existence. has
seen tne population of America grow
from 10 millions to nearly rs millions.
81 81 hVe ana a half times as many. But
tne Baptist denomination has grown
Twice as fast as the country. It is fen
siIles as large To-Day as In 1882. the
| ngures being 3,S00000 now as against
SSO'OOO then. This increase is LARGELY
que to wise, persistent and aggressive
work zoe e9siVe
The preachers of this society speak
10 nineteen different nationalities AS
at Pentecost, all heard the gospel in
tnelr own language, in which they were
porn' SO IN America every Sunday. the
french Canadian, Dane, Portugilese
Italian, Pole, Hungarian, Russian. Ar
menlan, Chinaman hear the good news
IN their native tongue. A very inter-
esting picture represents typical faces
vi each or these nations to whom our
society thus ministers; and while pre-
serving their racial characteristics In
features, it is Inspiring to see how
they nave been insens:bly changed into
american ways, and show in their
faces the light which Christ imparts.
Ihe problem of immigration and as
sanitation is easy If we can make our
i Christ.
The society grapples resolutelv with
all the evils which menace America to-
DAY. 1t has its missionaries in Utah
| and the perfidious Mormon fears the
/ gospel he breaches. Mormonism was
never more aggressive than now. and
the election of Roberts is a shameless
oenance OF the conscience of the ma
i ton. The gospel is preached to Roman
Catholics, too with great results. The
| accomplished president, Gen. Theo. ],
Morgan, LII. D., was Indian commits
| sloner under Harrison and knows the
| powerful lobby of the Roman church
to secure appropriations from the pub
4 lie treasury
i A fruitful field of labor is among the
4 negroes who have nearly doubled IN
population since the war, numbering
now eight millions. The negro is prac-
tically disfranchised IN the south
| North Carolina is today considering
the enactment of Legislation that will
deprive the negro Of tine ballot and
make him ride in q Jim Crow" car
when he travels. The gospel of human
! brotherhood must be proclaimed and the
Il n hn nA nj
and our society is doing both these
| things.
So vast is the work and so great are
Y the problems of today that it is easy
to be pessimistic. But the heroes of
7 faith still call on us to possess the
land at once for we are well able. He
is a patriot who charges up San Juan
hill at risk of his life; he is a patriot
] who serves his country well In legisla-
! ture, forgetting self-interest and spurn-
! ing every subtle brlbe: he certainly is
a patriot who prays for his native land
and helps support a society whose sole
aim is to transform raw foreign ma
4 terial into Christian American citizens
+ and to plant the banner of the cross
in every valley of the great west.
On Sept. 25 1913 Balboa, being in
/ formed that he was now near the
ocean, left his men in camp and went
alone to the top of A hill, from which
he got the first view Of the great Pa
cific ocean. calm, magnetic boundless.
In all rapture of the moment, he
| kneeled down in prayer and took pos
session Of it and all it contained, In
! the name Of the kings of CASTLE. SO
today, having seen the scope of our
4 home mission work, let us highly re-
solve that our land shall have the gos-
pei. Our cry shall be. North Ameri-
ca for Christi The land which exiled
patriots sought, for which our fathers
fought, for which Christian statesmen
have thought. and God almighty has
wrought, shall be a Christian land.
TO ATTEND MEMORIAL SERVICE.