The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-11-18

If the Christian ideal is worthy to be
followed in America it is worthy to be
presented in every land, and experience
has shown that it is an ideal capable
of being made universal, for it has
commended itself to people of every
cline and of every tongue.
But it is said that we must not neg
lect home missions in our zeal to carry
the gospel and its attendant blessings
to foreign shores. This is the familiar
objection; but as a rule it is urged by
those who do the least for home mis-
sionS.
/ think I am far within the truth
when 1 say that the most liberal con-
tributors to foreign missions are also
the most liberal contributors to home
missions and that those who are SO
afraid that work at home will be sacri-
feed for work abroad are the very ones
who themselves make few sacrifices for
the work at home
The same spirit which leads one to be
generous in the support of those be
nevolences which are Immediately
about him leads him to take an inter-
| est in the needy wherever they are
found. The same spirit which makes
one anxious to have the Sermon on the
Mount known in his neighborhood leads
him to desire that the knowledge of
this sermon and the philosophy which
it contains shall be brought to the peo-
pie of all the world.
HOME AND FOREIGN MISSIONS.
There is another answer to those who
say that we must confine our efforts to
the home field until We have supplied
every moral need. If an individual re-
fuses to assist in the Improvement of
others until he has himself reached
perfection who will be able to aid
others?
In the effort to help others one often
finds more Improvement than could
come from a selfish contemplation of
ones self alone. So the country which
refuses to extend a helping hand to
other lands until all its people have
passed beyond the need Of improve
ment will do nothing for the world.
AS the contributions to benevolences
would be small indeed if only those
contributed who could do SO without
sacrifice, so the contributions to the
worlds advancement would be but
slight if only those helped others who
We're not themselves in need of help.
Let him who would be the chiefest
among you be the servant of alP'; if
this is the measure of national great
ness, then our nation is the greatest
of all, for it's contributions to the world
surpass the contributions made by any
other nation. These contributions are
made in two ways-frst, it contributes
through the men and women who have
come from other lands to study here;
and. second, through the men and wo-
men who have gone to other lands as
preachers and teachers.
CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS SUGGESTED.
l venture the suggestion that it
would be worth while to establish
schools in the United States where rep
resentatives of other nations could be
brought and made acquainted with
Christianity and with the institutions
which have grown up in Christian
society. These could then go among
their own people and preach more eff
fectively than foreigners possibly can.
Next to this comes the education of
the natives in schools established in
their own land, and this, of course is
Tar less expensive. From $40 to $50 a
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