Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1904-12-01

persistence In presenting the latter than
the former. SO that today there are care.
full observers Of the situation who do not
hesitate to declare that Christian nations
have done more to debauch than to con-
vert their weaker brethren.
Christian workers have q ten
drunkards to every one Christian"
All heathendom has been forced to ask
itself, even II the wonderment has not
found words, the same question that wal
propounded to DR.. Patton, Of the New He
brides. by a native chief: when you
come to give US the gospel, why do your
countrymen come with the white mans
frewater to destroy our people?" 1t IL
the riddle Of h~eathendom. The poor ma
tive cannot understand the missionary in
the light of the trader: and he cannot
comprehend the trader in view Of the mis-
s.onary's teachings concerning Christian
civilization.
Slowly the world is advancing to the
great Christian concentration of brother
hood. The lines that divide nations are
becoming dinner every day. Whatever
happens anywhere on the earth IL but a
neighborhood affair. If the natives Of the
Congo are ill-treated. London and Wash
ington are concerned. II the Jews in Rus
sia or the Armenians in Turkey are per-
secuted. champions and defenders arise OH
both sides of the globe. We are all bound
up in one bundle Of life; the welfare OF
one ts the welfare of all. Now this twen-
tieth century national chivalry, IL SO 1t
may be called. has q direct bearing upon
this topic. For men are coming to see
that the blighting Of the characters of
weaker nations by rum and opium is .
large fact. with other significance thata
purely religious or social. The strong
cannot afford to stand by and see the
weak crushed out by these evils Of civiliz-
alton. The movement for the suppress
sion of the liquor traffic in the southern
Pacific islands, which interested the off,
cial heads of most Christian nations. il
certain to spread by the growth of the
sentiment of human brotherhood, so that
1t will include the prohibition of the rum
traffic in Africa, the opium trade in China,
and both opium and rum in the Philip
pines.
At the great Ecumcnical conference in
New York a few years ago, the venerable
DR.. Theodore L. Cuyler said that II reso-
buttons were permissible he would present
one like this: Whereas, one of the most
serious obstacles to the spread Of the gos-
pei Is the expectation of alcohol into
heather countries by Christian nations;
Resolved. That our Christianity needs a
little more Outstanding at the core"
AT least 30 per cent. of those who die in
Central Africa. one authority estimates,
are the victims Of alcohol.
More than 90 per cent. Of the liquor ex-
ported by the United States goes to Az
RIGA.
II is not a prettv nicture which a 1-p;ted
| States commissjnner IN Tho phS,nrsnos
| President Schrrman ~ cornoil drar,. -:
| conditions there. "I rnpret that ~.
Americans allowed the saloon to get a
foothold OF the islands. That has hurt
the Americans more than anything else.
owakens disrnst IN IN 1S,,i,,nns NV ~
pressed tho thara 80 ~
mitted the ,a,e,n. % eo,,rs.h Nv &C.
mia slzed Tho En;n;rn ,rat,.n ~, 4 e.n
er the Amer,c.n r;c. = Nv, =" ~ .ar LII,
a %ITii,n;no dr,nr,rs. M ses"
tarsa sta.nr.an
made IN, exSpras,dars pan .n..., sTn.sss
u,hs, no Sa,d .s,ri,a -. ILL a." nN'.
ho,.a - Inen why "ne Eaui'
sage I'VE seeL rat H,o',rs Nv WIZ. - ,ne Cd
been bindered Inv those who cow,ns aesar
hava ra.arsoa - S - SoA'"s aA'e''
Ratter the s,ava t raS~ 49,.
tho unuor tr.da =. ~ aas,tona.a LA
NJ s,,ch =, nisar,.a~ NJ Ss. So ...S
ton.
Boston b.s nassaa ,n
headnuarters fnr ,n;ssion. ~. 80
western continent h,t ~ 10 = fso. -, .,,;n,s
BOSTON can scorco,, 10 $500 49,. ny.
she exnorts vastlv more ~ .ha. ~s:s
sion.riea ~
The rising tide ~ ter,ro.,o. .o,
in America will have an Jnhuerco ,,ror
the whole world. We cannot sawa M.
selves from the evi,s ~ strong drinL ona
yet continue to put the Gun to the lin.
of peoples VIII have not our ,nber,tad 30
temperance movement must become mis-
''" ..Th: ~ cnarac.er.
brother. Because We are .trona Nc =
bound TO bear the infrmities Of the weak.
Wherein they are not able to help them
serves tney must ne heiped. Now every
body from the brewer to the moderate
drinker will admit that where there is
drink there ia danger, Az we guard
minors from indulgence in alcoholic liuuor.
So. by the> same rcasoninr. we should