The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-06-05
FAVORs EXPANSION.
DR.. TALMAoE DISCUSSES AN ABSORB
ING THEME.

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Worlds Redemption.
Copyright, Louis Klopsch. 1897
WARRINGTON, June An this discourse
Dr.. Talmage steers clear Of the political
entanglements Of our time and recon-
mends that which will meet the approval
Of all who hope for the perpetuity Of our
republic and the welfare Of other lands;
text Genesis xviii, IA, "Thou shalt
spread abroad to the west and to the
east"
Since the Americana Hispanic war is
concluded and the United States enibas-
sador Is on the way to Madrid and the
Spanish ambassador Is on the way to
Washington the people of our country
are divided into expansionists and anti
expansionists. From different stand
point from that usually taken discuss
this all absorbing theme. ! leave the pO-
litical aspect of this subject to statesmen
and warriors and pray Almighty God
that they may beehdBfed f5Aightly settle
the question whether the Yslahds in con-
troversy shall be finally annexed, or held
under protectorate, or resigned to them.
selves, while Gull attention to the fact
that a campaign of moral and religious
expansion ought to be Immediately
opened on widest and gfandest scale.
AT the close Of this war God has put
into the hands Of this country the key to
the worlds redemption. Heretofore tho
religious movement In pagan lands had to
precede the educational. After in China
and India and the islnnds Of the sea the
missionaries have labored over 80 or %
years the printing press and the secular
school came In. Now to better advan-
tage than ever before religious and secu-
lar enlightenment may go side by side,
and so the work be accomplished in short
time and more thoroughly. Starting
with the fact that In Cuba and Porto
Rico and the Philippine Islands at least
three-fourths Of the people can neither
read nor write, what an opportunity for
school and printing press! Within FIVE
years every man in those islands may be
taught to read not only the Bible, but the
Declaration Of Independence and the
constitution of the United States and the
Of George Washington and Of
Abraham Lincoln.
1t seems to me that the government Of
the United States ought by vote of con-
gress afford common schools and printing
presses to those benghted regions. Our
national legislature by one vote appro-
priated $50,O00,000 to give bread and
to Cuba Why not by similar
give $50,O00,0O0 for feeding
and healing the minds and souls of those
ignorant and besotted archipelagoes. In
the name of God, nominate a school for
every neighborhood Of Cuba, Porto Rico
and the Philippines. AS soon us the
gavel falls at IL o'clock of next Dec. on
the table of senate and house of repre-
and the roll has been called and
the preliminaries observed let some men,
Der Of our national Legislature, with
mind and soul and voice strong enough to
be heard not only through those halls,
but through Chrstendom, propose
measure for the mental and moral olsen
lhrallment of the islands in controversy.
Higher Civilization.
What has made American civilization
the highest civilization the world has
ever seen? Next to the Bible and the
church, schools, common schools, schools
reaching from the Atlantic to the Pacific,
and from British America to the gulf of
Mexico. Five years under such educa-
tional advantages and the whole subject
that keeps our public men agitated, some
If them to frothing at the mouth will
settle itself. Give those islands readers,
spoilers, arithmetics, histories, black
boards, maps, Biographies, globes. Let
he state legislatures at their next meet
ing, some Of them assembling in early 'au-
tumn, take parts Of those islands under
heir especial educational patronage.
What is needed is state and national ac-
ion In this mater Of schools.
Then let the editorial associations Of
,he United States, as many Of such Or
,anizutions rs there are states, resolve at
he next convocation to establish in every
'egion of those islands printing press,
o be supported by people of this country
Until it can become self supporting. Each
# these state editorial associations send
ng out to those islands at least one edi-
or and two reporters and cough typesct-
ers, down will go the ignorance and SUI
,erstition Of those islands as certainly as
he Spanish feet under Cervera sank un-
Ter the pounding of our American battle
hips, and into their every port will 20
Intelligence and love of free institutions
IS certainly as into the harbor of Manila
vent Admiral Dewey on that famous !
light when he was not expected. Hoes
rinting press! Nothing can stand be-
ore its bombardment Editors of Amer
,an newspapers and publishers of Amer
can books! Take the ordination for
UGH magnificent service. Eloquence on
onder Capitol hill cannot meet the ex-
sency. Epigrams Of political platforms
+ in state legislatures will not hasten
he desired eonsummation one week or
ne hour or one moment
When Cuhans and Porto Ricans and
'iipinos see the morning and evening
ewspapers thrown into the doorways
nd hawked along the streets of Havana
nd Santiago and Manila, those who can
Ot read by the force Of curiosity Will |
EARN to read SO that they may know
That information Is being scattered, and
hat which may be missionary effort Mt
he start and carried OH by Americans
cnt forth to do the work will soon be
one by educated natives. Porto Rican
ditors! Porto Rican reporters! Porto
.ican typesetters! Porto Rican publish
rs! 1t was great mercy to take those
lands from under the heels Of despotism,
ut it will be mightier mercy to email
pate them from ignorance and degrade
on. The expansion of the knowledge
nd intellectual qualification of all those
dandy regions is the desire of all intelli-
cnt Americans. Awake all you schools
nd colleges and universities and printing
resses to our opportunity!
Open the Door For Christianity
Still further, here is wide open door
IL Christianity. First of all, we have
lie attention of those people, The heath
4 nations nre for the most part soporitic.
he American missionaries heretofore
ad great difficulty in getting heathen-
ON to listen. They excited some COM
tent by their attire so different was the
arting of the hair, and the shape Of the
at, and the cut Of the cont. and the
of the shoe of the sevangeiizers,
ut the questions constantly arose In re-
ard to the missionary: "Who Is he"
What Is he here fort" And then the
terrogator would relax into the pre-
ous stupid indifference. But that con-
tiop of things has passed. The guns Of
II A1aerican navy have awakened those
quotations. They do not ask who we
re. They have found out. They are
3w listening to what American civiliza-
on and our Christian religion have to
" on any subject. Now is the time,
bile their ears and eyes are wide open,
tell them of the reScllinp and ,salyable |