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AMERICAN INVASION.

United Presbyterians. with SLIT per MEM
Der. 1t seems that there has been a gen.
eral increase in giving, the Southern Bap-
lists having doubled their foreign mission
gifts within a decade, and the Southern
Presbyterians nearly SO.
found these missionary board officials
civil lot l could have wished the Arm
strong committee such luck in its investi-
cation of insurance matters The boards
open wide up, and then deluge one with in
formation upon his approach. In fact. the
consideration which, more than any other
tends to predispose me. as an investigator,
toward the missionary people Is the hearth
ness and frankness with which they seem
to welcome an investigation. Without hest
tation they have afforded me every facility
for looking into their work at home and in
foreign lands. They say: Find out the
worst and tell the public, including US. We
want to see the thing with the eyes of a
DISTINGUISHED observer" Surely, 1 reason,
the organization which maintains that atti-
tude cannot contain much graft, however
mistaken its principles and Policies may be.
Picked up in the forest of facts amid
which / found myself is the news that
Yale University has established a mission
airy lectureship, with Prof. Harlan P.
Beach, an ex-missionary, as incumbent;
and that Yale, Harvard, Princeton and the
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PRINTERS TO GATHER
AT PEOPLES MISSION

The printers meeting. TO be held at the
Peoples Mission. 90 Pennsylvania avenue
northwest. beginning at o'clock tomorrow
evening, will be in charge Of Rev Philip
Steele. compositor at the government
printing office. He will deliver an adddess.
There will be singing by printers. prayer by
printers and testimonies by printers. Spe-
cal features are promised by Rev. William
c. McMichael evangelist OF the Peoples
Mission. who is himself a typo.
Mr. Harry w. Arnold the religious work
director OF. the Y. NJ. c. A. will be the
principal speaker at the meeting this even
ing. There will be orchestral music. solos
and uuartets.
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The newly fromed Zion Association OF
Greater New York has issued an appeal, in
which 1t says:
''The Jewish problem, the problem how
the Jew might enjoy the ordinary human
right and liberties without giving up his
Judaism in exchange for same-this prob
lem is now forcing itself upon every think
ing Jew as never before in modern history.
Massacres, prosecutions, social ostracism
and gross insults Of every kind follow one
another so closely and in SO many lands
that every self-respectng Jew, no matter
how well situated materially, must feel
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deeply hurt by It and highly indignant over
it. This question has been raised
again and again in Jewish circles during
the last twenty-five years, and again and
again there was offered only one radical so
luton of the Jewish problem, and that Is
Zionism, whose program Is to establish
publicly legally assured home for the Jews
in Palestine, a safe Jewish home for every
Jew that may be in need of such home
for any reason whatsoever. Today Zionism
Is not any longer a mere theory, but a
reality, the greatest Jewish movement since
many centuries 1t has already its history,
it's heroes and martyrs, and it's literature
in the languages of all the civilized nations.
1t has it's institutions. 1t also points
proudly to a number Of flourishing Jewish
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agricultural colonies in Palestine, some Of
whose products received the highest awards
on several great exhibitions.
mo intelligent Jew ought to plead ignor-
ance of Zionism by this time, and no Jew
acquainted with Zionism ought to leave to
others the entire burden of the great task
Every Jew ought to consider it his sacred
duty to extend helping hand to the only
national movement that seeks to build a
permanent national home for Jew and
Judaism alike the movement that stands
for Jewish liberty, Jewish honor and for
higher purposes in Jewish life.
''The Zionist Association of Greater New
York desires to enroll on its membership
list every sympathizer with Zionism in the
greater city and its environs'
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ON THE TRAIL OF THE
AMERICAN MISSIONARY

University of Pennsylvania all now have
foreign mission enterprises of their own,
manned by graduates and supported by
alumni and students.
Nothing more extraordinary has come to
my knowledge than the grip the mission
airy cause seems to have taken upon the
American institutions of higher learning.
The largest and most representative inter-
collegiate and undergraduate gathering
in the world, was the student volunteer
convention in Nashville last spring, when
more than 5000. students. from some 400
universities, colleges and academies, met in
a remarkable convention. About 1900 of
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on the ground. representative enterprises of
all UNCONVENTIONAL and undenominational
missions I shall attempt to study the
workers themselves and hear their own side
of the story. With equal diligence I shall
consult qualified native opinion and search
out the foremost foreign critics and ascer-
tain their views. In a word, with no other
purpose than to give the American public
fair, frank, full story of this controverted
subject, I have started on this journey
around the world. Whatever the conclu-
sions I may report, they will at least be
honest
The biggest single foreign enterprise in
which America is engaged is this one Of
foreign missions. The rest of the world, and
especially the orient, knows the western
continent chiefly by it's missionaries Fig
ured in dollars. the business last year cost
the American public So, 1901. 165, paid in by
an organization with approximately 12,00O,-
600 shareholders of all religious denomina-
lions, Protestant, Roman Catholic and Nor
mon. Crhe foreign mission work of all coun-
tries costs 100000 yearly For all this
enormous output the tangible returns to
America were practically nothing. True,
the missionary helped to create a market
for the American packers products, and
for American locomoti-c--. nd ..nndry other
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life with such things as we will be glad
to remember and to keep out Of them the
things that would brighten US to recall
here and hereafter. May we all have
grace to profit thereby.
Next, observe the suggestion, THAT
thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good
things" and in doing SO it might be i'm
piled that he had received it all in life and
there was no more good coming to him;
but, as remarked before, our thought is
not so much of Dives in the ysterious
state in which we find him as of the help
full lesson we may gather for the life that
now is
Consequently we observe that the men,
DRY of Dives was directed to this point:
In lifetime he was a receiver only Of good
things He had gotten much out Of life,
and this recollection could afford him no
pleasure. The remembrance of what one
has received may gladden. for a moment,
sorber must forever depress. And this
whole situation brings out the unsatis-
flying effect Of receiving as contrasted
with importing good things-whatever one
may call good things-to others.
Not what man gets out of life, but
what he puts into it, makes his memories
recounted. And yet every observation Of
human conduct reveals man as forever
concerned as to what he may be able to
get out of the place he occupies in life.
No labor is ever too hard, and no en-
deavor too severe, If one feels assured that
the result will show that he has gotten an
adequate return. If the toiler can only
get his good things. For the good things
in prospect many risk every treasure. and
sacrifice every pleasure, as if the receiving
of these good things could bring real hap
piness. But they perish in their using,
and as producers of abiding satisfaction
they are failures.
1t should not have needed any special
teaching by our Savior to make this fact
apparent All life is full of evidence tend
ing to show getting good things satisfies
only very temporarily, and that only they
who impart good things are truly blessed.
But such is the blindness Of human self
ishness. Man cannot see how the failure
of other men will be his own experience.
Indeed, such is mans peculiar self-decep-
ton that he cannot see or j. unable to
comprehend that the getting Of good things
can produce anything but happiness.
Because Jesus loves the world of our
pointed out in the experience Of Dives the
danger of living a life which only received
It's good things. And it will be a good
thing for US as we read this beautiful les
son of helpfulness to see in 1t more Of
the things that concern our daily life than
the questionable possibility of what an
after-death experience may be. The fu-
ture we may we'll leave to God if we fol-
low His word and spirit in the present,
Dives in hades may touch, 1t does
tainly show how the memory of our
everyday life is made an important fac
tor in the experiences of the future life
and rightly received, will lead us to right
deeds and the filling of our life with
blessed memories by His grace.
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The Biggest American Enter.
prise Abroad-The Sort of
Men 1t Employs, What
1t Costs and Who
Pays the Bills.
Copyright, 1906, by Joseph B. Bowles.)
BY WILLIAM T. ELLIS.

Copyright, 1906 by Joseph B. Bowles)
BY WILLIAM T. ELLIS.
MID-PACIFIC, August, 1906
am on the trail of the American mission
airy. His footprints are large and deep and
many, and 1 shall certainly come up with
him. Then we shall know what sort Of In
dividual he is-whether a haloed saint, as
the religions papers represent, or double
dyed knave, & s many other papers and peo-
pie assert, or plain, everyday American,
trying to do an extraordinary job to the
best Of his ability
Rather queer, isn't 1t, that after having
been in the business Of exporting mission
aries for well-nigh hundred years, Amer
lea should actually know so little about the
article himself. and be so decidedly divided
as 10 his value?
For the American missionary has been
more subject of controversy than Ameri-
can canned beef. Hundreds Of persons who
have visited foreign parts and say that
they know, and thousands who declare that
they have their information straight" de-
clare that the missionary is a sort Of pious
works, that he is an unmitigated nuisance,
and that he is keenly alert to the welfare Of
number one.
Contrariwise, a vastly larger number Of
persons, in every part OF the land, firmly
believe, and support their conviction by
their coin, that the missionary Is saint
and a hero, and the selfess servant of
thankless worlds welfare. All criticism Of
him they sweepingly resent, and are loath
to hear aught to his diSpraise. The apothe-
osis of the missionary is a characteristic of
modern religious life.
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Revival Services Well Attended.

There has been large attendance each
evening the past week at the revival serv-
ices at the Fifteenth Street Christian
Church. 18th and streets southeast. A
special meeting for women was held We'd
nesday evening and one for men Friday
evening. Rev. James d. Riddle of Memphis.
Tenn, who has been assisting the pastor,
Rev. j. E. Stuart, will remain and preach
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Oyster Supper.

An oyster supper was given Tuesday and
Wednesday evenings of the past week at
Potomac Hall by Gorsuch NJ. E. Church,
A bountiful supper was served and the af-
fair proved success. A tidy sum was
realized which will be applied 10 the gen.
eral expenses of the church. An added
feature of the affair a fancy table,
where those attending purchased needle
work and art goods.
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In turning to this one expression of
our blessed Lords narrative of Lazarus
and Dives, let us for once pass by all
consideration of the state there described,
and. instead, contemplate most impor-
tant theme, which it suggests, touching
the memory. means of condemnation
In the case of Dives.
Indeed, no can possibly overesti-
mate the place of memory in all matters
connected with censure or approval in our
human life. 1t is the memory of misdeeds
that fills all life with misery, as really as
it is the recollection of good that illumines
all experience with gladness.
Every one is familiar with the person
to whom these words are addressed, as
well as the sad plight in which he finds
himself after the end of his G-.ys spent in
sumptuous luxury. particularly as these
are contrasted with the reversed condi-
tons he once enjoyed He has had life
time of good things to enjoy, and even in
death he is unwilling to have them come
to an end.
In life he had made the mistake of con-
uiderng all things as intended for his per-
sonal enjoyment, and in hades, after life,
he has not changed his mind on this point,
and wanted Lazarus. in Abraham's bosom,
whom he remembered as the beggar who
often laid at his gate on earth to be sent
to his relief in the day of torment.
Poor Dives! He had not, even in death,
learned any better. He felt that all things
were for his enjoyment and just then he
would have enjoyed a little water, little
relief, little help from the beggar
At this point Abraham stirs up his
memory. son, remember that thou In
q, thy lifetime receivedst thy good thing
that is, during your time on earth you
enjoyed what you called good things.
That is all there was left of them. The
time of selfish enjoyment is past, and so,
for that matter, is the opportunity to use
them for self or others. The pleasure
arising from a right use of good things
was gone. The temporal was gone and
the little water he craved would have
given him no enjoyment if it had been
given.
The time of use for him Is over and
now is the period of memory, and the poor
rich man had nothing to remember which
should give him comfort All he had to
remember was that he had had his good
things.
And, turning from Dives for the mo-
ment to gather the import of the narra-
tive for our inspiration, it will be right
thing for each to recognize that memories
are stored up during the present. No
man. for instance, is able to remember
what never occurred. No one can remem-
Der kindness he never showed, or recall
a deed he never performed.
To remember, either in time or eternity.
requires the thing to have been done The
present. therefore is the storing time for
future memories. Whether we want 1t
so or not the fact is that every living soul
is storing a memory which in some sub
seouent day will either haunt with terror
or brighten with assurance the heart of
the living.
This fact surely suggests with awful
earnestness that every one now, while
memories are being stored. should en-
deavor. with Gods good help, to fill our
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prises. or by being decorated by kings, en-
perors and scientific societies. Just at the
moment his existence is being celebrated
throughout the country. in the centennial of
the famous Haystack meeting at Williams
town, Mass. which. one hundred years ago
marked the beginnings Of the american for
eign missionary enterprise.
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Room Enough at Present.

From the Cleveland Press.
"And this path. dearly beloved" said
the minister, ''is straight and narrow.
But" he added, 'it would not be so mar
row If a few more people would join the
procession"
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Please Don't. John.

From the Cleveland Press.
John D. Rockefeller says he is anxious
TO get in touch with the public. And after
the way he's touched 1t all these years.
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An Investigator Sets Out on a Round-the-
World Journey to Learn the Truth
About Foreign Missionaries.

forms of merchandise. But the church
members, as church members, who put up
the money profited not at all by this.
Apparently, the missionaries themselves,
of whom America maintains 3,716 in Japan,
China, Korea, the Philippines, Burma, Siam,
India, Thibet Persia, Turkey Egypt and
the South American countries, do not get
rich out of this vast sum. According to the
official figures, which I gathered before
leaving the United States the missionary
salary ranges from nothing to $500 a year.
The last-named figure is paid to veterans Of
the Baptist denomination who are married
and have families; the former represents
the salary promised to the missionaries Of
the China Inland Mission, the Christian
Missionary Alliance and few other unde-
nomnational bodies.
II
The unmarried college bred man who goes
to a foreign field gets about 800 a year;
1t may be hundred dollars more, or, more
likely, hundred dollars less, according to
his denomination. married man generally
from $1,000 to $780, with 500 extra for
each child, If he belongs to one Of four or
five denominations. An unmarried woman
gets $500, 5000 or even $7OO a year, with no
prospect of increase. The mssionary's sti-
pend is based not on the idea of compensa
ton, but Of simple support. A mere living
is all that 1t is designed to afford the mis-
sionary. All who choose this calling, say
the DoardS, must renOunce nope OF eartnly
gains
Every missionary contracts to stay seven
years before receiving a furlough; then his
expenses home will be paid, and he will
receive one-haf salary while Off duty. He
is forbidden to engage in outside money
making pursuits. AS a rule If he writes
book. its royalties must be turned back into
the treasury Of his board. So 1t strikes one
that. even considering the lower cost of
living in the orient, the financial induce
ments to cultivated young person to be-
come missionary are rather meager.
Whether this fact shuts out all but second
class men and women remains to be found
out.
Everybody has heard the charge that for
every penny which gets to the mission field
80 cents is required to send it. Business
men, who believe in business methods even
in religious affairs, are the most frequent
critics of the expensveness of the conduct
of the missionary propaganda. deter
mined to look this matter up, with quite
surprising results Here are the official
figures. In all their dryness, Of the cost of
collection and administration Of foreign
mission funds last year by leading denom-
nations:
Per cent.
United presbyterian. Observation-Disclosures. ID
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ton that only those religions which are
made of china will ever suffer from Chris
tian Science EDWARD L. NORWOOD.
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Curiously enough, the public hears only
these two opinions of the missionary, one
of which represents him as a scoundrel or
a fool, the other Of which exalts him
demi-god. So far as I am aware, nobody
has ever set out, independently, and repre-
senting no board. society or cause. to find
out, impartially. the exact facts in the case.
This is the mission have undertaken. My
journalistic integrity is pledged to the duty
of ascertaining. without favor or fear. ex-
actly what sort of person the missionary is.
how he works and amid what conditions,
and whether the task he has imposed upon
himself is worth doing at all. and If SO,
whether he is doing 1t well.
To that end 1 shall personally examine,
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On the way to these interesting figures
learned that last year the average Ameri
can church member gave "a cents to for
eign missions, the record being held by the
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Qower Of Memorp.

Church.


thy life received thy good things" Luke XVII
The Washington times., 1906-12-13
COMMITTEES NAMED
At CONGRESS HEIGHTS

The Citizens Association of Congress
Heights met in the town hall. on Hamil-
ton road. Tuesday evening. President
Emmons announced the committees Tor
the coming year. as follows: Executive
T. Z. Butterheld. chairman; Victor Bey-
er. william II. SiTiCh. John +. Watson.
and William o. Stivers. Highways
Joseph A. Smithson. chairmani Victor
Boyer, George Stroeble. and NJ. J. Fhlius.
Bridge-M b. Ellis. chairman. Victor
Boyer, V. NJ. Tucker. ". w. Price, ana
George +. Martin. Railroads.. J.
Walshe, chairman. J. Ford Taylor, Rob
ert CoWan. George G. Click Jr-, and
Ralph B. Barnard. Public health-Dr-
j. NJ. Parker, Or. G. NJ. Emmons, M. M.
Bailey, and w. j. Kelley. Legislation
F T. ButteTield. chairman; Charles W.
Seger, Theodore Dietrich, Victor Boyer
and john T. Deow Sewagc-Gustave
Bender, chairman; +. r. Butteriieid, DF.
G. n. Emmons, Robert Cook, and Rob
eFt CoNsan. Public impFOVement-Ed-
ward J. NewcOmb, chairman; A. +. Nc
Kay. carl WahleT, NJ. J. Fllllus. and
James Blaine. MembeTEhtp-Char
Seger. chairman: Francis Waller. ID.
Padgett. and George Martin. New by
laws-E. +. Fisher, chairman; Robert
Cowan, and A. +. Mckay.
The Washington times., 1906-12-13

Representative William r. Mckinley.
or Illinois, entertained a { dinner last
evening IN honor Of the new Representa-
tive from Illinois. Col. Frank o Low
den. The guests asked TO meet him
were the Speaker OF the House OF Rep
resentatives, Senator CullOm and Sena-
tor Hopkins, Of Illinois; Commissioner
Warner. State Senator Gardner. and
State Senator Campbell. both OF Illinois;
the other members of the Illinois dele
CATION IN the House OF Representatives
George r. Duncan, OF Portland, Me /;
!. Whyte Busbey. George Rankin, and
j. c. EVersman
The Washington times., 1906-12-13

Colonel and Mrs. T. W. SymOns en-
tertained q dinner company last even
ing. The guests We're the Danish min
lister. Colonel and Mrs. Bromwell, Mrs.
Edgar Bright, of New Orleans. the
house guests of Mrs. Bromweu; Colonel
Biddle. Mr.. and Mrs. George Howard.
Miss oliver, General Woodruff Miss
Carlyle and Captain Gilmore.
The Washington times., 1906-12-13

Miss Harriet Lee Bowers and James
Otis Wright. OF Athens, Ohio, were mar
Tied yesterday afternoon at 4-30 in The
home Of The bride by the Rev Donald
Campbell Macleod pastor Of the First
Presbyterian Church.
Miss Flancha Williams played the
wedding music as the bride entered the
drawing room and those who assisted
Mrs Bowers al the reception which fol-
lowed We're Miss Nellie Castle and Miss
Jennie HiIlidge
Among the guests were the grandpar-
ent Of the bTide, Mr.. and Mrs. J.. J..
Hawlcy, of New York; Mr and Mrs.
G. w Lee, Mr.. and Mrs =. X Lee, and
Mr. Lee
Later In the afternoon Mr.. and Mrs
Wright leTt Washington FOR a Northern
wedding tour and tpon their return viii
make their home al 50 . street north
west
The Washington times., 1906-12-13

Mss Baird wore a gown of myrtle
green chiffon velvet, trimmed with black
braid aud touches OF gold HeL hat was
OF black beaver, trimmed with white
plumes ana, instead OF the bridal bOu-
quet of roses. Miss Baird wore a corsage
bouquet Of vIolets After the holidays
Mr. and Mrs. Speer viii sail for South
eru Italy. where they VIII spend the
winter
The Washington times., 1906-12-13

Miss Jessie Steele was presented to
society last evening at "a handsome ball
given in Rauscher's ballroom, by her
uncle Q I'd aunt. A1T and Mrs. y a.
Addison. The decorations IF the room
were all OF palms and American Beauty
roses, and made a brilliant effect with
the lamp shades of the same color Mrs
Addison received her guests alone, and
presented the debutente- There We're
about $50 guests and the music was fur
nished by the Marine Band.
Mrs. Addison. who received the guests
at the door of the ballroom. wore
handsome gown Of white lace. with the
The Washington times., 1906-12-13

Mrs. Dawes. wife of former Conn
sroiler OF the Currency. who. with air
Dawes, has been the guest Of Mr.. JUS
uce and Mrs. William r. Day. left last
evening for Philadelphia en- route 10 her
nome IN Chicago. where she viii ioIn
Mr.. Dawes, who left Washington YES
tefdaE morning. She and Mrs Day
lunched Informally with Mrs FairbsD DIIs
Yesterday, and the evening before
COMPTROLLER and Mrs. Ridgely enter
tained a dinner company IN their honor