The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-06-04

Egypt the deeper the mud the more the
farmers rejoice. For the deposit OF dirt
means fertilization and the richer rice.
BACK UP MISSIONARIES.
And II we back up with our sympathy
and our gifts our home missionaries and
our Christian educators; II we stand for
the American home and the American
church and the American Sunday: if we
bring these great influences OF God and
! His divine word 10 bear upon mems con-
duct and character. these new popula-
tions VIII lend strength TO the arm and
foot OF the republic. and brain and mind
and heart: but II We allow the people TO
go unchristianized and unAmerlcanixed
We do so at our peril.
And We shall play false to our fathers
just In so far as We are faithless TO this
task OF spreading Christian manhood in
every part of our country.
HOPES FOR THE REPUBLIC.
/ But some one asks, are the Christian
Institutions that our fathers founded
equal to the strain that is put upon
\ them? Have not the free church and the
I school and the American Sunday lost
their power TO assimilate men to the old
standard and character OF our fathers?
In reply let US confess that an ounce OF
! fact In worth a ton OF theory What has
been done can be done. Some years ago.
several German families. miserabIy poor,
moved into a western community. They
were brought under the influence OF a
Home Missionary and his wife Soon
the German changed his standard He
looked longingly toward the home OF the
preacher. and the merchant In the vii
laEe Whatever he saw their children
DOING. he wanted his children TO do And
though one OF these Germans could
scarcely read or write. he put his chill
dren through the public school and the
little academy because the preachers and
the merchants children were there.
When he found the bankers son was
going 10 college. he went home and told
MS boy he must get ready TO go to Yale
college: col, though the father at the time did
iese and the Tai Mahal OF India. Then
ne sends his second boy to college and
MS two daughters to womans college.
languages In one Of our greatest univer.
sties. The father, at o5 years of age.
Is rich man. and his three children are
no" educators In different institutions.
WORK OF MISSIONARIES.
INA, In state beyond the Mississippi have
was settled in I77s by the coming of some
100 families from almost every state In
the Union and every country Of Europe.
for the first two winters. They were 80
busy tearing up the sSiI. sowing their
grain planting their vineyards and or
they worked week day and Sunday.
Ihen this Home Missionary society sent
OUT home missionary and his wife. They
school came after, they turned Sunday
into the day OF education and song and |
worship; They made their home a sociai |
the bright boys and. girls and began to |
talk TO them about koing to college and |
getting an education.
one OF the boys is now a physician and
another missionary in foreign iands
Three others are clergymen And out OF |
the little home mission church have come |
year, . 81 men sps ana S women. all now under IS
rank and eminence in their states as
physicians as lawyers and educators ana
And this work is going on all over the
great West. In the prairies and In the
c Mortnern forests in the Puget Sound |
oS o9"nsry fhr ana % IN the great mountain states
tives are college bred men and highly
eruea,edi eree, s,c,,,,, Many OF them are men or |
their income In other occupations as hmsi |
ness men.
TEACH THE PEOPLE.
But II Is their duty to teach the neo-
pie morals 10 keep alive In men the sense /
or justice. TO make their church and home
centre OF sweetness and reasonableness
"'I' ISM anu the nlGner manhood.
rake these men away and the life of
the whole community would he ,hreaton.
ed. IN LiVingstons day Africa was
land OF savages with here and there an
occasional patch OF butcher knives and
revoivers, And take the Christian church
ana the little Christian school out Of
many OF the mining communities oS tba
West. and YOU have a large tract ~
barbarism. with no civlizing centre save
the bowie knife, and no spiritual agent
except a six-shooter. Open the pages OF
Black Rock and the Sky Pilot There
you Will get In literary form the exact
history OF hundreds of men OF our home
The author of the Sky Pilot is himself
home missionary, across the line IN
canada, who wrote has stories in the hone
of getting money enough to help on his
work In the little church and the little
school that he founded
Talk about heroism. These home mis-
are the true heroes. They arc
ightins against the loon and the gam
Dnng house and the overthrow of the
sunday. They are standing for the home.
hey are strengthening the schools. they
are using the best day of the week. the
american manhood. They are doing foun-
iation work. They are pioneers. blaz-
ng their way through the forest They
ire toiling In poverty. In home e-sckness
ma some of them I'm pain and In heart ,
break. They are men whose very shoe !
atchets you and I are not worthy TO |
'toop down and unloose
One hundred years from now they will
,e looked upon as the Pilgrim Fathers OF J
he great West. Matthew Arnold has ,
aid that the American holds the future ..
" the world Mr.. Gladstone believed :
hat the Mississippi Valley is to hold the
'reat manufacturing cities Of futurity.
md that by the end Of this century the
epublic will number six hundred mill
ions.
Realizing the influence Of the new set