The record-union., 1899-07-11


of sensual Indulgence, personal impur-
ity and profanity; sickened the publica
conscience with it's daily horrible de-
tail of debauchery, deviltry and crime;
blocked the wheels of every righteous
reform: paralyzed industry; crucified
labor, defeated the church, outraged
the heather and blasphemed the AL
mighty.
''The biggest farce outside of perdi-
tion are the laws on the statute books
of America that were passed to regu-
late the saloon. The license laws of
America are the biggest humbug that
language ever framed into law. Under
them a mothers boy is not safe until
after he gets into the penitentiary.
Regulation will plant saloon opposite
the factory, on every corner &c the
main street, and next door to .;e boys
home, burn out his manhooI school
him in crime and send him to States
prison, and after boiting the ponderous
door stands upon the threshold with
colossal mockery and says to the liquor
traffic: Thou shalt not come in
There are, no doubt, more than a
thousand preachers at this convention.
No other profession can gather to-
gether into one convention a body of
men that will equal the brains, culture,
personal integrity and moral power of
thousand American preachers who
are ministers of the Gospel of the Son
of God; and if they only knew their
power and used it without fear or favor
to glorify God in the service of the
people, they could build a railroad to
hades. and send the rum-power home
on the first train.'
/ The instruction of missionaries by
President Clark was one of the fea-
lures of the convention. Thirty of the
workers in heather fields spoke a SEN
! tence or two in the languages spoken in
the scene of their labors and retired.
/ The hand-clapping greeting their ap-
pearance and retirement was almost
constant. The following missionary
workers appeared:
| Rev. Wm L. Chamberlain, India, Re-
| formed Church of America; Mr.. and
| Mrs. Scott Williams, Mexico; Miss Pat
ton, Western India, American Presby-
terian Mission; Miss Esther B. Fowler
Sholapur, India. American Mission; NJ
E. Schmidt, Malmbar, East India, Ger
man Evangelical Basel Mission; Miss
Mary E. Leach. India, 1900, Canadian
II.
Japan; Methodist Protestant Boards
Otis Carey, Japan, American Board; |;
Miss Barber, Nowgong, India, Friends
Mission; DR.. and Mrs. Thompson, E. c.
A. Mission, American Board; Miss F. c.
Dean, Ufumiah, Persia, Presbyterian
Board; Miss Campbell, Stalkot, India,
United Presbyterian; Miss F. Rica
Shaeffer, who goes to Corea in the fall.
I)y.eC CI,xyto, ~
D., Turu, Assam, Baptist Mission Union;
DR.. James Butchard, Christian Hospi-
tai Lucheofu, China, Foreign Christian
Mission Society; Miss E. E. Barnes,
Shobarra, Japan, Christian Missionary
Alliance; Mr.. and Mrs. G. L. Wharton,
India, Foreign Christian Missionary
Society; Geo. R. Witte, Brazil, Society
American Evangelical Mission; H. "
S. Peake, Japan, Reformed Church of
America; Miss Anette E. Lawrence,
Nagoya, Japan, Methodist Protestant
Board; Miss Coman, Dehera Dunn,
India. First c. E. Missionary sent by
Presbyterian Christian Endeavor; NJ
Mazzorana, Havana, Cuba, Christian
Alliance Board: Miss Nellie Zwemer,
Annoy China, Reformed Church Of
/ America; Charlotte Mason, Detroit, 60
ing to China. Protestant Episcopal
Church; Mr.. and Mrs. James L. Fowle.
| Gesarea. Turkey, American Board; Ell
wood G. Tewksbury, North China (Tung
| Chou, American Board, Christian En-
deavor Society of Shokapur, India;
Esther B. Fowler, missionary
A smooth-faced, determined-looking
youth, D. B. Eddy of Leavenworth
Kan, member of the Yale band, was in
troduced to speak of "The Great Re-
| sources of Missions" Mr. Eddy spoke
| of the means, mechanical, inventive,
political and social, through which God
had given assurances that the world is
to be won for Christ. The responsible
ties of Christians in carrying out Gods
| revealed plans, he said, are heavy and
they must go forward.
Pray and work" he said s1est our
enthusiasm roll back upon ourselves:
we are playing with the world and let
! ting motives of avarice and self-rigft-
! oeusness be uppermost; pray, pray al
ways for guidance"
The closing feature in Tent Endeavor
was an address by Dr. Robert E.
| Spear of New York, on ''The Great
Blessing of Missions
The sentiment of the Home Mission
rally in Tent Williston, as proposed by
Rev. DIR. Hill of Massachusetts. was
the Greek proverb. fThey bearing
torches passed them on from hand to
hand"
Many home missionaries from West
ern States and Territories were pre-
sented- Rev. D. w. w. Boyd of st.
Louis delivered an address on Our
Country's Many Problems" He dis
cussed the two questions of imuipra-
ton on the race problem For the
solving of the immigration problem he
proposed three remedies-to maintain
American ideals at their highest point
by an aroused public sentiment; to
legislate against the admittance of the
pauper and vicious classes of Euro
peans; to bring to bear combined and
quickened Christianity upon the stran-
ger within our gates AS to the race
problem the speaker said that. In his
judgment. the Government made a
great mistake which it will not be apt
to repeat in the Philippines. when it
put in the hands of the negro all the
privileges and the franchise of the
| freest government on the globe.
There are two sides to this race
problem said DIR. Boyd. There is not
white man in the North who if his
wife or daughter were outraged by a
beast, would not rush summarily to
vengeance. But that does not excuse,
though it may palliate, the diabolical
crime of lynching, and the hour is at
hand when decisive steps must be
taken to abolish it. Christianity must
settle this question; legislation cannot
do it,"
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