The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-22
General HARRISON. Address.

General Harrison then took the platform
and delivered his speech reading from
manuscript. Mr.. Harrison was applauded
many times. He said:
Il count ii a great honor-a call to pre-
side over the deliberations OF this great
body. Ii is TO associate ones self with the
most influential and enduring work that Is
being done in this day OF great enterprises.
My assignment is TO the chair, not TO
the speakers desk. The careful and COM
prehensive programme that aas been pre-
pared for the convention will, in its order
IL development, bring before you the whole
subject of foreign missions In all its as
poets. Gentlemen whose learning and spe-
cial experiences will give not only Interests
but authority TO their addresses, viii dis
cuss assigned topics.
I'VE shall have the arithmetic OF mis-
sions, the muster roll, the book increase.
the paymasters' accounts; some VIII need
these. We shall have before US some vet
erans from the mission outposts-men and
women who have exhibited in their work
an unsurpassed steadfastness and heroisn.
whose courage has been subjected 10 the
strain of time. They have been be-
leaguered; they have known the WEAKNESS
of those who look Tor succor. FROM tnem
we shall hear what the gospel has done for
tribes and lands; and, best OF all, what lc
has done for the individual man and wom-
an. These reports will be consohdated re-
ports of the whole mission work Of all the
detachments OF the evangelical Protestanr
army.
..Hours for devotional exercises
signed. The greatest need OF the foreign
fieId Is a revived. reconsecrated and unified
home church. And this conference viii be
fruitful and successful In proportion as 10
promotes those ends. There viii be, I
hope. much prayer for an outpouring OF
Gods spirit
.arhe gigantic engines that are driving
forward a material development are being
speeded as never before. The din or the
hammer and the ak and the hum OF wheels
have penetrated the abodes or solitude
the world has now few quiet places. Lie
IS strenuous-the boy is started In his
school upon the run and the pace Is not
often slackened until the painting man falls
into his grave.
''It is to a generation thus intent-to n
generation that has wrought wonorousiy
in the realms OF applied science-that God
in His word and by the preacher says; All
these are worthy only, and In proportion.
as they contribute TO the regeneration or
mankind Every invention, every work,
everv man every nation, must one day
come TO this weighing platform ana De ep-
praised.
WHAT IT TENDS TO.
.sTo what other end is all this stir among
men-this increase Of knowledge? That
these great agencies may be put in livery
and lined UP in the halls Of wealth TO make
life brilliant and soft; or become the docile
messengers of counting house or a stock
exchange; or the swift couriers Of contend-
ing armies: or the couriers who walt In the
halls Of science to give glory TO the man
into whose hand God has given the key TO
one Of His mysteries. Do all these great
inventions, these rushing intellectual de-
velopments, exhaust their ministry In the
making OF men rich. and the reinforcing or
armies and heets2 No. These are servants.
prophets, forerunners. They VIII md
herald's voice; there VIII be an annuncia-
ton and a coronation. The first results
seem TO be the stimulation or a material
production and fiereer struggle for mar
kets Cabinets, as well trade chambers.
are thinking Of the world chiefly as a mar
ket-house. and OF men as producers and
consumers We now seldom have wars OF
succession, or for mere political dominion
Places are strategic primarily from the
rer stalls in the worlds market place. Tf
the product tarries too long in the ware
house the mill must shut down and dis
content will walk the streets. The propul-
sion OF this commercial force upon cabinets
and nations was never so strong now.
The battle Of the markets is at It's herceSt.
The great quest OF nations II for con-
sumers.' The voice of commerce Is: And
my hand shall find as a nest the riches Of
the people: and as one gathereth eggs that
are left will i gather all the earth
But with the increase OF commerce and
wealth the stress OF social difficulties Is noe
relieved. but increases In all OF the great
brotherhood but 10 many. Work for the
willing at a wage that will save the spfrle
as well as the body Is a problem OF n.
creasing tangle and intricacy. Competifion
forces economical devices and narae< waeos
new the strength expended It suggests g
e does lot coutol oGERogatiooo e oor1fo10,