Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-06-08
w. G. Il. U.
pY 1nE W. Q. :. U. on Hor sPR1xos.
Foreign Missions and tho Liquor rrame.
BY JAMES B. DUNN. D. ID.

Foreign Missions n tho Liquor Trafac.
BY JAMES B. DUNN, D.. d.
In their simplicity the heather re-
gard white men and Christians as one
and the same and drunkenness as q
fruit of Christianity and we do not
wonder that Mohammedans in Persia
should say on seeing one of their num-
Der drunk THAT man has left Moham-
med and gone to Jesus" Nor that a
priestess in the Sandwich Islands
should. onc have declared that the
religion of the missionaries must be a
bad religion, because rum had de-
stroyed more natives in a few years
than had ever been sacrificed to all
their gods. Nor that a chief of tribe
of the Mohawks should say to a christ
ian man who was urging him to send a
missionary to dwell among his tribe:
"What you preach?" asked the chief.
'Preach Christ" was thereby. "Don't
want Christ; no Christi" The gentle
man %persevered. AT length the chief
became warm and towering to his full
height, with a volcanic fire in his eye
broke out: "Once we were powerful:
we were a powerful nation; our young
men we're many our lodges were full of
children; our enemies feared us; but
Christ ..came and brought the fire water.
Now we are poor, we are weak, nobody
fears us, our lodges are empty, our
council fires gone out; we don't want
Christ; go!"
The Archdeacon Jefferies, of Bonn
bay, after laboring upwards of thirty
years in India, said: "When once the
nation broke caste and became Christ
lar, they..were nc longer to be restrain
ed from the use of strong drink and
became worse than if .they had never
embraced Christianity. Terrible thot!
The Hindu is actually safer from the
vice of intemperance in the profession
of heathenism than in the profession
of the religion of Jesus!"
No wonder that Rev. David A. Day
a missionary in Liberia, should write:
1 wonder the Africans do not shoot
with poisoned arrows every white man
that lands here, for they have brought
their rum aud are still bringing it; and
in a few decades more, if the rum traf-
fc continues. there will be nothing in
Africa for God to save. The vile rum
in this tropical climate is depopulat-
ing the country more rapidly than
famine, pestilence and war. Africa
with the simple Gospel of Jesus is
saved, but Africa with rum is eternally
lost; for the few missionaries that can
survive there cannot overcome the
river of strong drink that is being
poured into the country"
Substitute the Philippines for Africa
and you have a picture which it be-
comes the American people to study.
America is sending missionaries to
Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines,
but in advance of the missionaries she
has been sending the emissaries OF
evil with hundreds of carloads of beer.
How long will it take the mission.
aries and their bibles that are being
sent them by the various religious
bodies to undo the awful work of ruin
wrought by these carloads of beer!
We venture to say thatthe government
by allowing the drinking saloons to be
opened by the hundreds, yea thousands
in Cuba, Porto RIGA and the Philip
pines is in licting a curse upon these
ignorant half civilized peoples. which
the labors of 1000 missionaries and the
circulation of $4,000 bibles cam OF un
do or atone for.
CONTINUED next week.