The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-06-04
Bishop Joseph C. HarizeII Addresses a
Large Crowd at the Methodist
Church Wednesday Night.
THE FUTURE OF A GREAT COUNTRY
Bishop Hartzell Told in a Graphic Manner
the Story of Nation Building In the
Unknown Continent,

DlSnOp Joseph " ndItZSII, the Id.
nous missionary Bishop of the Metho-
dist Episcopal church, was given a
rousing reception by the people of Ke-
nosha Wednesday night when he came
to Park Avenue M. E. church to speak
on the subject "Nation Building in
Africa" The gathering was in the
way Of farewell reception to the
Bishop, as he will sail early next
month for Africa to continue his
church work there, and the lecture
Wednesday night will probably be the
last he will deliver in this country.
Bishop Hartzell is better known than
any of the religious workers that have
gone to Africa, and his long continued
friendship with the late Cecil Rhodes
made him one Of the foremost figures
of South Africa during the recent
struggles in the Transvaa1.
The Bishop has for years had heart
interest in Africa, and he has done
much to advance the civilization of
the country. He spoke on topics of
the country as one having authority,
and the great crowd that heard him
gained new insight into the future of
the great country where the Bishop is
now working to advance the work of
his church.
Under the subject ''Nation Building
in Africa" Bishop Hartzell said in
part:
"It is very important that if you are
going to study Nation Building on the
Continent of Africa inte11igently, that
there should be some conception of
how large continent Africa is. 1t is
easy for me to say to you that it con-
tains 100000 square miles, but it is
very difficult to realize what that means.
"It would help you, perhaps. to un-
derstand how large continent it is,
if made the following statement
"You might take the United States
with its eighty.five millions of people
and place them on the lower end of the
continent. You might then take China
with her four hundred millions and
place them on one side of the central
part of the continent. You might
then take all of Europe with its several
nations and millions of people and
place it on the other side of the central
part of the continent. You might then
take India and put it in the valleys of
the Nile with its three hundred mill
lions. You might then scatter Eng
land, Wales, Ireland and Scotland
c1 @f he
reaching down somewhat into the
desert, and yet there would be room
to spare.
ALREADY the trade going from the
United States to that country is en-.
ormous. From every shop, almost, of
any importance in this country, var
ious kinds of manufacturing imp1e-
ments and instruments are going down
into that country. The present years
trade will amount to from fifteen to
sixteen millions of dollars, and will
soon amount to from twenty-five to
thirty millions of dollars.
''Victor Hugo said The Nineteenth
Century would make a man Of the
negro, and the Twentieth Century
would make a world of Africa.
"The white man must govern it.
For thousands and thousands of years
the black race have been on the Afri-
can continent, but they have not de.
veloped il. They have not built city
of any great size-they have not
written book-nor painted picture,
and so in the providence of God the
time has come when the white man
must take control.
'Until fifty years ago, that great
continent was a continent of dark
ness, and uncertainty, continent
from which more than fifteen millions
of black people were stolen into slav-
cry and for. every one brought to
slavery, two or three were murdered or
died on the way.
"God Almighty would not allow the
African continent to be opened up
until the Christian nations had arisen
above permitting such thing as slav-
cry. That is why Africa was not
opened up before.''
| AN 1911 POA q LIZ POOHAS Al IAAO 0AOA-
ence were aroused by the Bishops
statement that in territory covering
400 miles square the Chief had sue
ceeded in keeping the manufacture
and sale of every kind Of Intoxicating
drinks out of his country.
In closing Bishop Hartzell said:
"What will Africa be in the next hund-
red years? l will not see it. You will
not see it. But / see a vision. Its
great agricultural possibilities and its
mining industries will be developed.
Northward the Star of Empire will
take its pace from South Africa prin-
cipally, and that vast continent with
its hundreds of millions of black peo-
ple-with its, perhaps, twenty or thirty
millions of white people, with CONT
nent rich in agricultural products,
rich in mines, rich In cities, and over
all and through all, the religion and
power of Jesus Christ will be manifest
God will bring that to pass through
his church, for greater than CONT
nents, greater than nations, is the
church of the Lord Jesus Christ and
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