Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-12-07
w. c. r. U.
Temperance and Child RACES.
BY THE W. c. T. U. OF HOT SPRINGS.

Temperance and Child Races.
(EXtracts from an address delivered
before the Christian Endeavor Inter-
national Convention in London, Rev.
William T. McElveen, Phi. d., of Bos.
ton.)
Much has been said in praise of the
Anglo-Saxon civilization, the many
emenities and privileges of which we
are enjoying. But the Euglish. .Ameri-
can civilization has a darker as we'll as
a brighter side; it mains as we'll as it
meDds, it hurts as we'll as heals, it
blights as we'll as blesses. Apart from
the Christian religion which is SO in
terwoven into it, and which is the very
breath of its life, it has in it no energy
that is calculated to produce lasting
good results. Wherever it goes with
out the bible and the missionary it ex-
ercises degenerating influence.
Time and time again it is asked,
what is the cause of the rapid decline
and decay of the native races that have
come in contact with Englishmen and
Americans? The answer is, English
anl American vices. The undeveloped
races fade before the hot breath of
Anglo-Saxon vices. The temptable
child races quickly copy our vices, but
seem powerless to incorporate with
their lives our virtues. And having in
them no preserving salt of the Gospel
to arrest the progress of the disease
that we plant in their midst they soon
die-die of internal corruption.
Now, one of the vices which the
heathen quickly copy and which re-
suits SO fatally among them is accursed
drink evil. At the great parliament
of religions that convened in Chicago
in connection with the Worlds Fair, a
Brahmin of Madras painted word
picture of the Anglo Saxon civilization
He represented the civilization in
which we glory as II goddess with u
Bible in one hand and bottle of rum
in the other, and in an outburst of
feeling he cried out, "Oh, that the
English had never set foot in India:
oh, that we had never seen single
European face; Oh, that we had never
tasted the bitter sweets of your civiliza-
tion rather than it should make us II
nation OF drnnkarks and brutes."
The greater hindrance to the pro-
sress oi missionary work is not the
ignorance nor the superstition OF the
heather, but The liquor imported from
so.called Christian lands. The chief
evil our missionaries have to contend
with is not something that in native to
foreign soil, but something planted
there by conscienceless, greedy trad
ers. The doors that the foreign mis-
missionaries open are at once opened
by vendors of liquor. The blessed
work done by tho missionaries is un-
done, aye. work that required years to
build up is razed to the ground in Il
few months.
Bishop jetfries, for over thirty years
a herald of the Gospel in India, de
clares: ''For one really converted
Christian as Il proof OF missionary
labor the bringing practices of Eng
land has made 1000 drunkards." David
Day, for nearly a quarter of century
"a faithful missionary in the Liberia,
mission on the west coast of Africa
declares that as soon as a missionar,
takes his place. he will return home
and take the platform against the run
traffic, because he thinks he can dc
more warning against the liquor traffic
at home than he can by preaching anc
teaching the Gospel in Africa.