The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1904-11-17

atlVe. wish | could give you all
of her thoughts, but space pre-
vents. | can only give you a few
extracts; $50 we into all the
world and preach the gospel TO
every creature" eff we are in
deed and in truth His disciples.
we must go where He is not and
take Him with us, " eff we would
protect our homes, our country
and our religious institutions in
America, we must Christianize our
foreign population"
TWENTY MILLION FOREIGNERS
Have entered America, so sta
tistics show, in the past eighteen
years. Nine hundred thousand
came III one year, and in one
month (last June) fifty-one thous-
and landed in New York alone.
A certain portion of New York has
been described as "a large slice of
the foreign mission field, lifted
and left on our door STEP"
IN SAN FRANCISCO.
There is dark blot IN fair
land-Chlnatown-with it's fiftv
Thousand souls, it's under ground
opium JOINTS, its gambling bells,
its temples of wealth and dens of
vice and penury-where eighteen
hundred slave girls are held in
bondage against their will. The
Europeans, who hang around
Chinatown, are far more degraded
beings than the worst of Chinese.
The Cinnamon otter say: "The
missionary telle us, "Get Hollie
Split in heart, makee bad man
good, no more cheatee, no more
stealee, makee him vellee good.
| see white nun; he say he Christ
ian; he not goode; lie, cheate,
swear, allie samee, heather Chi
nee. | would like to know
what the Chinese laundry men in
our town think of the religion of
those with whom they come in
daily contact.
sTHE HOME MISSION WORK
Is helping the foreign, for thous-
ands of Chinese converted here re-
turn to China to believe and prac-
tice what they learn here.
THE TADANuor
AS q rule, are a little better
class and are less Objectionable
than the Chinese. There are 15,-
600 in America, most of them IN
California or on the Pacific Coast.
They are young, small, bright.
clean, industrious and good ma
tured. They do not smoke opium
and not drink whisky. They have
few, if any, vices and have pas
sionaJe desire to possess the Amer
icah education and they have WIS.,
sions of attaining this and some
day returning to Japan. 1t should
be deemed a privilege as we'll as
an obligation to offer salvation
through belief IN our Lord to
these brave youths and through
them to Japan. am glad our
II. N. workers have been quick to
see the splendid opportunity this
large incoming of eager young
Japanese present, and have begun
mission work among them.
THE NEGRO.
have had to deal with the ne
gro from Infancy to the present
time, and have noted the change
i'll them that the years have
brought, and knowing them and
their characteristics, their good as
well as bad qualities, / am con-
strained to say that a grea ter more
varied or more complex problem
sever confronted PEOPLE. |
think each of you older ones, who
are acquainted with the negroes.
their history and character, will
answer the question: "Do we owe
as much to the negro as to the
Orientals?" just as | have answer
ed 1t: eyes and more! !"
HELP THE WEAKER.
Being the stronger, We must
help the weaker to better ways of
thinking and living, realizing that
for this race, as well as for the
white and all othe. races, the only
sure foundation upon which to
build is the Rock, Chrirt Jesus
our Lord. The North has tried to
educate the head. This has fail
ed. Not until they have been Civ
en- heart, as we'll as hand ard head
education, can best results be Sc
cured. We know that they are
lacking in morals and honesty.
and the only way to help them is
to give them the pure Gospel of
Christ; to be lived in accordance
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