The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-12
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MEETING OF HOME

MEETING OF HOME
 MISSION SOCIETY.
 Sunday morning at II o'clock. Dr.. !. A. Rice, of the Court Street Methodist Church. preached the annual sermon in the interest of the Home Missionary So- ciety of Court Street Church. He preached from the text. Whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain" Matt. V, 41. He developed from his text and discourse the spirit of the women of the society. living the lives from the viewpoint of those less fortunate, offering and developing to them, and in them the Christ-life, shar- ing mutual joys and sorrows, and at last tho great reward
 On Monday afternoon the regular business session occupied only few minutes. Three new members enrolled were: Mesdames T. W. de Yampert, K. s. Armistead and Jack Shackelford. The devotional services were conducted by the President, Mrs. B. G. Adams, who read and commented upon the 23d and o4tb verses of the 4th chapter of John.
 Miss Katie Boothe sang the sweet song, Face to Face" accompanied on the piano by Mrs. Campbell.
 Rev. MT. Frank Seay addressed e large audience upon the subject United States as a Mission Field" He im- pressed upon the Society that diligence in the field to meet the growing for eign population Is necessary, if for no other reason than self-preservation.
 America was sung. and an offering made for the general work.
 Services will be held every afternoon promptly at o'clock this week. to which the public is invited.
 n( the Home Mission Society of the Court Street Methodist Church. sends the fol- lowing concerning the society In which she is so deeply interested:
 Christ commands us,"; she writes. ito be witnesses unto Him. both in Jerusa- lem. and all Judea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth. / Tn Jerusalem means to us of this day our towns and communities. while 'Ju- dea and samaria' widens the circle to State and country. We are to begin at home, but by no means to stay there.
 'The last census of the United States fixes our population at 7e.304,0oo, and the members of all communions at 21.- 710.004. These figures show that our country holds Christiess millions. and call for personal. earnest effort to seek and save the lost.
 There are i0.16o,ooo foreign born citizens in the United States; some of these foreigners bring Christ with them and are beautiful opponents of their creeds, but many more are Christless. In San Francisco alone there are 60,000 Chinese and 10000 Japanese. There are forty-seven Buddhist temples in the United States, and heather prac- tices are committed that bring blush to Christian faces Tn Florida there are 1000 Cubans, bringing with them the degenerate influences of a degenerate people. With this large Cuban popu- lation, there has sprung up in a few months colony of 1000 Italians. In Texas, Bohemians and Hungarians have already possessed themselves of two entire counties, and parts of others. Immigration agents have been sent out recently by Southern corporations to import low-priced European labor to fill the places of negroes who have been found incapable or unreliable. The near opening of the Panama Canal will bring to our borders an influx of tew peoples, new customs, new life, as have as yet been scarcely imagined.
 "The modern industries. which have sprung up in our Southland, within the last twenty years, have filled our cities with a people too overworked or indif- IerenL to nave tune TOT rellSlOuS StuQy. Not one-half ever attend church ser- vices. Over 1,50o children are employ ed in these industries, and are growing up with dwarfed minds and bodies. Ig- norance, vice, drunkenness and lost wo- manhood follow in the wake of these congested populations.
 Tn the inaccessible mountain dis tricts the people are forced to live iso- lated lives. There are 8.000.o negroes in our midst, some of whom are as ig- norant of veracity, honesty and virtue as the darkest heather. They are a special heritage of the outh. Other sections share other problems: this is ours alone, and is to be worked out by us, or not at all.
 ''The Womans' Home Mission Society of the M. E. Church is trying to meet these problems in the lines of service by establishing mission schools for the Cubans, Chinese and Japanese in Flor ida and California, schools in the noun tains of Kentucky. Tennessee and North Carolina, Rescue Homes in Texas, Geor- gia and Alabama, an industrial school for negroes in Georgia, and helping to build parsonages. This work is done service of personal ministry, as dea- conesses and city missionaries, many who live in settlement homes, in fac. tory districts, and are friends in the true sense to the less fortunate"
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