The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-06-03
OF the great world program OF the Master.
NEED OF AGGRESSION.

Tne ned OF aggressive evangelism u
everywhere apparent. 1t alone Is urgent
enough TO move the most stolid disciple OF
Christ. Many conutry districts need TO
hear the awakening voices OF young.
spirit-flled ambassadors of Christ How
are multitudes OF young people in these
communities to be led into the Christian
life unless Christian young men and wo-
men OF the country churches awake and
energetically cooperate with their pas
tors?
During the first II days Of May this
year 5o.7N aliens passed through Ellis
Island. Last year there landed at the
port Of New York nearly 500.000 immi-
grants Assertive also are the needs OF
Cuba Of the vast. quickly developing
southwest and northwest. Our great
cities require a far-sighted and pro-
longed Gospel campaign that the uncon-
cerned mutitudes may be stirred. won
and built into the temple OF the Church
OF Christ. These and other home mis-
sion problems mot 10 mention the for
eign), are numerous enough and difficult
enough to afford scope for all the Chris
tian sympathy. fortitude. aggressiveness
and statesmanlike qualities the young
men and young women OF our churches
can acquire. On them the responsibility
for this work is rapidly descending.
FATHER ENDEAvoRER CLARKE.
Rev. Francis E. Clarke spoke enter
tainingly In part AS folows:
Home missions spells ,a he
but the genuine patriotism that makes
the country great Where lies the hope
of our country today? II lies In the
school and the church. Not in the school
alone for education, unaccompanied byrc-
iigious purpose, may develop cheap ma
teriaiism, "set-there" spirit, or at best a
mere intellectualism. which will mean
anything but a stable republic. The ma
tion has a heart as we'll as head and
the heart. too. must be developed.
Why should not our Carnegies. our
Rockefellers. our Vanderbilts divide their
princely donations more evenly? our
home mission church. wisely planted, Mr..
Carnegie In a needed community. will do
hnnr s0oa man noSes eo1s % be largely read
by people who can afford to buy books for
themselves.
He is a patriot deserving Of no less
praise from other patriots who plants
and supports and extends the church OF
God than he who perpetuates his name
by sending thousand young men across
the seas TO obtain an education In the
cloistered halls OF oxford.
America II we'll worth saving. some
governments are not worth saving or per.
petuating. Thank God ours IL. ] could
try very well in Turkey. could not say
much about. 1t in China while she was
under the dominion of the bloody en-
-tress-b.t-e land Is Gods latest ex-
pertinent in government OF the people, by
the people. for the people. Do you real
ize. young men. your high privilege IN
what A tide OF immigration IL nowirty
10 our shores? An average of more than
e000 emigrants every day OF the 800 days
OF the year landing upon our coast. a
sweep OF the Gulf stream. only that the
course is reversed. flowing from Europe
to America rather than from America to
Europe. but equally mighty. equally re-
slstless.
REV. MR.. MAGEE WATERS
The Young People Of America-Their
Opportunity" was the theme OF the Rev.
Magee Waters. u. d. pastor OF the
Tompkus Avenue Congregational church,
Brooklyn He said in subas~ace:
Aworld. a lever. fulcrum-there Is
perfect definition OF perfect opportun.
ity. The might OF opportunity lies In
its Strategc power The strength OF
the arm, depends on where II reaches the
lever The Young Christians OF America
are made strong by their strategic oppor-
tunity-the lever. the load and the full
crum are met.
The lever Is a symbol Of the Christian
life in our time. For the first time IN
history, our time has clear recog-
milton Of the pr.macy OF him who serves.
Men have said the idle man II the gem
tleman. The kings OF the earth have
been those who toll not. neither do they
spin. They have refused burden bear
ing. But at last the scales have drop.
ped from our eyee and in all civilized
societies II " recognized that the great
man Is the man who does more than
other folks.
The scientist confe.-es now that he
was wrong when he said the world be-
longs to the strong. He breaches now
that the world belongs 20 the gentle also.
The hfe of the nation hangs not so much
on the fathers strong arm ss the
mothers seN-forgetting heart. The old
world aristocrat believes this and 80 FOR
the past 20 year, the best books OF Eng
land have been written by the nobility.
and the best pictures have been painted
by ch',dren Of noble houses. and the best
reform and tho best thought for the poor
have come from those who wear soft
ra ment and dwell In kings houses. There
II not harder working man IN Europe
than Emperor william.
The times believe IN the Christian
method. The age expects great things
of the Christian Sieciyie. At last all