The new age. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1902-190?, 1902-06-13
LETTER FROM LIBERIA.
'"e condition and Needs Of the PeopI,

special to the New Age.
0"pe Mount, Liberia, W. c. Afri.n
May 81 landed in Monroyia Lih.r;a
feofuary 27, last finding things in
mohroVia about as left them twenty
years ago. But there is considerable
improvement up the river in the settle.
MENUS The people learned twenty
years ago that Monrovia was unhelthy
ana most of the city gentlemen. build.
ing themselves additional residences
In the settlements have thus created
these improvements.
am here as missionary and teach.
er OF the Jordan Industrial Mission
Home located near Cape Mount Ii.
peria under the auspices of the negro
national Baptist conventions. foreign
mission board, headquarters at Louis.
vile, Kentucky. My object and pur.
pose is to establish and maintain in.
dustriai training homes for native Az.
rlcan boys. To this work have cove
nanfed the balance of my work. I
KNOW OF no 10y rtment of Christian
endeavor in which so much can be
achieved in a given time as industrial
training of boys in heather lands, un.
der Christian discipline.
prefer to labor in Iberia as a helm
to this struggling republic. | have
feit Tor years that this little national
ity' being an American production
should receive most liberal mission.
airy aid from all religious organiza-
lions of the United States. The light
OF the gospel is much needed here
The best blessing to the United States
is ner free and aggressive religion.
When the queen was asked the secret
OF England's power and greatness.
understand that she only held up her
Bible. Power and progress character.
ize the lands or countries where the
religion of the Bible and the doctrine
OF Jesus Christ are allowed to shane
the lives and sentiment of the peopla
hope the foreign missionary boards
Of all the denominations will look al
this matter and help strengthen the
religion of this little nation. The Am
erican episcopal church is doing her
part.
Liberals most pressing needs, il
4 ms judgment, are more religion, more
education and more immigrants of the
right kind-not necessarily better, but
simply more. More religion to coun
teract the heather and superstitious
influences of the large aboriginal pop
ulation, and more education that every
community may have intelligent local
management, and more good immi.
grants that her heather population
may be interspersed with a civilized
and producing people, and her inter.
ior high lands may be occupied and
made to produce wealth. This view
many Liberians aretaking. The gov.
eminent has commenced to pay more
attention to her immigrants. She has
now laws, agents and appropriations
for facilitating the landing and settle
ment of immigrants( especially those
from the United States, as they are
more genial to the form and policy
of government here. These provisions
will be operative in the future.
Liberia is not dying, but she is in
a mighty struggle against the evry-
where prevailing superstitions and ig-
norance. AS republican government,
the people ars the reformers and they
must beraised to tn ideas of reform,
for the sentiment must be intelligent
in them.
Next week we will write of the ag-
ricultural conditions. past and pres.
ent. am very truly, II. N. BOUEY.