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CLERGTMAg PREDICTS UNITED
STATES WILL CONTROL WORLD.

Foreign students at Yale Learning
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A large congregation assembled at
the Grand avenue Baptist church, yes
terday morning, to listen to a highly
interesting sermon by the pastor, the
Rev. E. W. Stone, on THE Saving Of
America" During this discourse, Mr..
Stone presented the cause of the Amer
lean Baptist Home Mission society,
which he said was supporting 1850 mis-
| sionaries in this work. Mr.. Stone said
in part:
1t is not too much to say that the
United States is to control the world.
Our ideas of government are gaining
access in all countries. We are sending
our manufactures to India, engines to
Africa and there is not shore where
our great ships are not trading and
carrying our goods. Our business
methods are the wonder of the world.
Europe is jealous of our great develop
ment and of our growing trade. Eu-
rope will attempt to prevent our widen
ing influence in the commercial world,
but without success. She might as
well attempt to stop the rising of the
tide by spreading Sunday newspaper
upon the surface of the ocean. Our
trade will go all the waters of the
earth.
1.-THE students of Japan and China
come to Yale for their studies and not
only to study the academical branches,
but to learn our civilization. 1t is
clear that the American spirit is to
rule the world during the next century.
For centuries, England ruled the
world. But she knows full well that
the supremacy is to pass over to the
western world. 1t is natural, too, that
the nations should now take the pre-
Vailing methods from us and not from
England. The American spirit and its
democratic ideas are to go to the ends
of the earth.
Now, how shall we rule? This will
depend upon what we are as nation.
We. are fast becoming nation Of beer
drinkers. Last years drink bill of this
country amounted to one billion of dol
lars. 1t was more than the entire gov
eminent expenses, with all our ex-
penses of education, all the support for
the churches, and all the expenses of
missions added and with surplus suf-
ficient to run all the state governments
1t is the boast that beer follows the
flag. In Manila there were no saloons
until our occupation and now saloons
line every street of the city. Every week
uncounted shiploads of liquor go from
our shores to- Africa and the islands
of the sea. In an address by Senator
Depew, to which I recently listened, he
said that we wanted our own islands
for our own trade. Is this the reason
why we made war on Spain? l was
always opposed to that war. Was this
the reason that commission Of our
officials went down to Cuba and report
ed an appalling situation under Span
ish controls that we wanted the Span
ish islands for our own trade? Was it
just because this trade was to become
the profit of our corporations and our
rich men? .-.....,
us this country to so largely influ-
ence the world, by its grasping spirit?
Or, are we to lift UP these peoples? If
this grasping, spirit is to prevail, then
our influence upon the world will be-
come a curse, rather than q blessing.
Our prayer is, that this country
which is to rule the world, is to use
it's best efforst to save the world. Each
of us should exercise our best influ-
ence for the good and welfare of our
own land. Shall we not see to 1t that
this great nation whose civilization Is
to spread to the ends of the earth,
shall exercise such an influence as will
bless?
In our midst there are evils bad
enough. Every year half million of
people are coming In from every quar-
ter of the globe. In Wisconsin and
other parts of the west, there are col
onies of foreigners who speak their
own language and have their own Gus
toms. Every year there are growing
up in this country. little Germanies,
little Frances and little 1talys. They
are bringing in customs which make
our Sabbath holiday, rather than
holy day. Excursions and beer parties
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eff we do not save the peoples who
are coming to us, they will ruin us. If
there is not something done for these
peoples, they will do something for us.
We should make our country strong
and godly. These peoples have immor-
tai souls to save. Shall we fail to help
them and give them the hand Of SYM
pathy? Would that we could see in
the lost millions that are coming to our
shores, their great need and might have
desire to save them.
Education, says the spirit of the age,
will solve this problem. But the pub
lie schools are not touching the masses
of men. Education is needed, l know,
but never can it in itself save this
country. There are letters and man
ners to be taken off other than the fet-
tiers of ignorance. We shall give these
peoples liberty and the right impress of
mind, only as we get the divine touch
of Christ. Christ is the one great need
of civilization. This country will never
be good and strong until it feels the
impress of righteousness
At the Grand avenue Baptist church,
last evening, delegations were present
from the several councils of the
Daughters of Liberty in the city and
from the American Mechanics and the
Junior Mechanics. The pastor, the
Rev. E. w. Stone, preached on 1.-THE
Bible in the Public Schools"
There was a special meeting of the