The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-05-07
AMERICA AS A MISSION FIELD.
Some Great Problems mt Home to he
Solved by Chrisianity.

Rev. b. II. Lingenfelter, of the First
Christian church, preached yesterday
Field"
His text was John iv-35: Say not there
are four months and then cometh harry
est. Behold, say unto you, lift up your
eyes and look on the fields, for they are
white already to harvest"
He said in part: The text was used
by the Savior when He called the atten-
ton of His disciples to the multitudes
coming from the villages of Samaria. II
the words were applicable to the ignorant
Samaritan villagers, how much more TO
the millions of our countrymen In view
OF the vast possibilities of the great re-
public.
cial Importance 10 the disciples Of Christ,
because of the fact that 1t Is an Ameri-
can born movement, whose principles or
government are as Democratic as those
of the nation.
There are four great problems that
challenge the attention of Christian peo-
pie and are annually becoming OF greater
Importance. The first IL the race prob
lem of the South. There are more than
eight millions OF negros that are as ut
subjects for missionary work as the Az
rican or the Chinaman, In numbers they
constitute an important ratio of our
civilization and with their present rapid
rate of increase, the problem Is one that
threatens the peace and safety or the
nation. Booker T. Washington, the Moses
OF his race. and other great philanthro-
pists, declare that Christian education
alone viii solve the race problem.
The next body of people that demand
our attention is the two million mountain
whites of the South, whose mode of life
and state OF civilization is that of the
colonist OF more than 200 years ago.
William Goodell Frost, In the American
monthly Review of Reviews for March,
tells us that Christian education Will
alone meet the needs OF the hardy noun
taineer. The next great problem is that
Of foreign settlements, with foreign man
ners, language and customs in the very
heart of our great nation, hotbeds of
communism, socialism and anarchy. An
other pressing demand for the leaven OF
Christianity.
THE fourth and last is the congrega-
ton OF the great masses Of humanity in
our great cities where they are untouch-
ed by the pulpit and the power OF the
gospel While we speak this morning
saloons and other resorts, who are real
menace 10 our civilization In the city
IL also the center OF wealth and the seat
OF concentrated capital and united labor.
The social problem must 10 solved by
either peaceful or warlike means. either
hy bullets or by ballots IN the hands OF
Christian men Christianity Is the only
power that will solve the problem and
save the nation.
hut the church I'm It's present divided
state has proved itself inadequate 20
meet the demands OF the time and solve
these great problems While she Is en-
gagged in hcresy trials and building az
the walls OF dcnomiuRtionalism, the ma
tons problems grow worse The only
religious body In this nation that pre-
SCENTS a solid and united front and stands
for "A united church on principles IN har-
mouv with the principles OF the nation.
and the New Testament Is the Disciples
OF Christ
The future % Protest Christianity ana
the future OK the republic are dependent
on the triumph OF these principles.