The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-08

them. Open your churches to them. and Christ will soon reign supreme over the whole world" says the Presbyterian mis- slonary board in New York, and the Con gregational missionary board in Boston and the Methodist missionary board in Philadelphia. Now, my brother l want to ask you, if all the great missionary leaders are advocating the conversion of foreign lands by bringing the Chinese and the Japanese and the Hindoos to our own land. dare we, can we, fight this immigration problem simply upon the dol lar question and not upon the broad ground of Christian brotherhood as man. ifested by Christ's cross?
 The Liquor Evil.
 Or take another view of this ques- ton of Christian citizenship Here is the liquor problem, which confronts us on every hand There is not judge in the criminal courts of the United States who will not declare that over 90 per cent of all the criminals brought into the courts are brought there directly or indi- rectly through the effect of drink A majority of the forgeries. the murders, the crimes of this land can be traced d recty or indirectly to the poison of the intoxicating cup Are you trying to fight this evil as a Christian citizen? Are you drinking your wine and beer when you are out In SOCIAL gatneflnBS, as so many are accustomed to do? When the men who have the political slogan Free America-free from the shackes of intem- perance," enter the political arena, do you vote for them and work for them? am stating a self-evident truth when I declare that the members of the Amer ican churches can solve the problem if they will all work together for the free dom of our beloved land from the dom ina ation of the saloon.
 But again I ask, How are you differ ent from the men of the world In your domestic relations? I am not asserting for one instant that your home is not outwardly a Christian home. I believe you have quite a number of Bibles in your house. Sometimes you have family prayers. But the question I ask is this How are you bringing mp your children? You are getting together every dollar you can to spend in their education You are so anxious about them that some of you are even educating vour cliildren's feet as well as their heads Each week yon send them 10 dancing school. so that they can do everything society people are expected to do
 How About the Ministry?
 Let us turn and study your boy. He is fine fellow, strong, well built. and brainy. He has always stood up well in his classes. Then he has a wonderful power of speech. He is born orator. Then in addition to all these characteris- tics he has inherited your mothers deep religious nature. You never heard him tell falsehood. You never knew him to do contemptible thing He is always kind, gentle and manly. You know it would only take little urging on your part to land him in the ministry. Would you like him to be minister? Would you have him go out as home mis- sonary in the lumber camps of the west? Would you want him to work night and day as your father did. who was d min ister and then be criticized and found fault with and live all his life on a salary that good mechanic would despise? No. Why not? You profess the religi-