Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-23

of that house or city. shake or the dust OF
your feet.
Is. Verify say unto you: It shall be
more tolerable for the land OF Hodom ana
Gemorrah in the day Of Judgment than for
that city.
The Lesson.
In California alone there are sixteen coun-
ties without single evangelical preacher
or church.
The seed that has been sewn by mission-
cries and Christian workers Is beginning to
return harvest of greatness. In Portland,
Ore, the churches that but recently had be-
come seif-supporting raised 100000 for
missions, and in one Sunday alone they
raised $35,0O0 for city missions. That does
not sound as IL the converts were migrate
full for their salvation.
A new mission has recently been estab-
lished among the Shivwit Indians In south
ern Utah. During some meetings held
twenty Eight Indians were converted,
the head men said to the missionary as he
was about to leave: You can tell your peo-
pie when you get back that the Shivwit In
dams are solid for God and Christianity
There are two home mission stations in
Alaska where mail reaches the missionaries
but once year. The same steamer which
carries the mail also carries supplies. But
q year ago the steamer was unable to get
through the ice, and great anxiety was
caused lest the missionaries would suffer.
Fortunately a whaling vessel touched at
Point Barrow and left supplies which en-
abied them to get through the winter with
out suffering. That is what it means to be
a home missionary in Alaska.
Robert speer says: IF Jesus Christ is
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same to every one else in the world, and
what He has brought to me He will bring
to others. What Is my obligation toward
others?'
There are hundred thousand white chill
dren in Indian Territory growing up with
out school privileges. There are some
schools for the Indians. but no provision
Tor schools for white children except in a
few towns.
There has never been In any country at
the first anything but a home missionary
church., all the way from Jerusalem to Sc
attic. Wallace Nutting, d. d.
1t is told of Brigham Young that in one
OF his later conferences with the apostles
and bishops he said: Il am not afraid or
the armies of the United States, nor of the
laws or Congress made to suppress US; all
these we can. by hook and crook. evade or
make null; but l warn you that If some
thing is not done, and done speedily to
counteract the influence and destroy the
work or these accursed Presbyterian wo-
men, they will lay mine which will blow
the Mormon Church to atoms"
one or the young peoples secretaries
writes in a discoura ged tone: THE young
people OF my district do not read, they will
not study, and cannot hear any one speak
on missions, and my poor little letters to
one person. more or less Interested might
about as well not be sent l cannot put
the NE, knowledge and duty learned at
conferences into twenty or fifty who do not
care
Home missions does not mean home
missions for home alone. 1t means mis-
sions that begin at home and continue for
all the world. We want America for
Christ because we want America to help
win the world for Christ, and as He has
given to this country a position of van
tage, so He has given to her the great duty
Of sending out this gospel unto The inter,
most parts Of the earth. We as freemeu.
We as Americans, realize that 1t is our first
DUTY to stand up for Christ, the eternal and
only King, and to make His name known to
every creature under Gods blue heaven
henry Van Dyke, d. D.
How to Help the Leader.
Speak Of the great number, almost a
million every year. of foreigners who come
70 our shores, and suggest ways In which
we may help them to know Jesus
Parallel passa ges-Mark 6:34; Luke OIL:
John 4:35,36; Matthew 1924; Malachi. 3:12:
Isaiah 6o:22; Psalms eG:4; Isaiah 42:1s.
Hints to the leader-The, Endeavor Hym-
nal, 1913, 49, 1885, 142. IA, 153
ASK your missionary committee to go
with you apart from the others for five
minutes before the meeting that you may
pray for blessing upon the meeting.
If you have time beforehand to prepare
ask each member of the missionary COM
mittee to take some special line of home
mission work and give facts, incidents. etc,
concerning what your denomination is do
Ing. You Will have to be careful to nor
tlon out the time economically. it is all so
interesting. There will be Alaska the In
dams, the far west, the mountaineers. the
freedom, the islands, city missions and
your immediate work in your own neigh
borhood, as well a number of other d.
visions you might make. Do not have too
much information, have 1t brief and to
the point. Get knowledge of the facts from
your pastor, the president of your Wom-
ans missionary society, and by applying
70 your church board of home missions
You cannot fail to have an interesting
work In each division. but do not forget to
leave five minutes for prayer that the work
may not be without blessing to the worker
In His fields the Muster walketh,
In His fair fields ripe for harvest
Where the golden sun smiles slantwise
On the rich ears. heavy bending
Saith tie Muster. at ia time
MRS. d. NJ UNLOCK CRAIK.
SOON TO BE REoPENED.