The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1907-08-19
BIGGEST DAY
AT ASSEMBLY

CConilnaed from PIKE one)
anpers overy evening in spe.ial
selections. Mr Curtis, O corupt sol0ist
cf NNmun. favored the audience with
fNu selections Mr. Mac Johnson TIE
BARITONE a'0lst 81 New York, eain
appeared al bis best and favored with
Fu aorta selections
a Mastery Add IS.
one a the LARGEST and most ntelli-
gent suiienoes ever assembled Ina
Guthrie was That which greeted Dr.
Homer e Sumtf the lecturer Of the
evening VINO gave dis mastery olo-
quenl and Destructive diress on "The
Philippines and The New Eastern
Question The large tabernacle Of
the atHmhN, with q seating capacity
ei seoe was dlied to oyefnowlng and
faople n carriages and others stand
lua thronged about the tent for thirty
rfrps On aaa side ID is safe 10 say
ST lcas $500 Faopie were in attend
ance nr Stuniz has been in charge
uf iae Methodist missionary WORK I'm
the Philippines the past five years
and. with his twentysevcn years Of
travel in the Orient studying the
Easfegn question ON this time he is
well qualified TO talk on the subject
which Is Of nation Importance today.
A Marvellous Movement.
He told OF fhe marvellous worlds
movement In spreading the gospel 10
all part8 Of the earh which, he says
was started when God i'm His wisdom
made the United States His agent in
taking the Philippines away from
Spain and giving them liberty Of wor
shin aue the task 9f Chrstianiziug and
ciynzing the eight millions of people
OF those islands According to Dr.
Stunts there ARG at the present time
eitAt bilious of hcaihns today that
1--we Within 35 degrees of the eqrator
he spoke of Europe rs the cup OF
l1c world and the American continent
as toe saucer stating that the cup is
now running over into The saucer and
that fAc tendency OF the world is
westward. aud That i would be bnt a
few centaries when the immigration
will be az going towards the Pacific
coast He told of the existing circum-
stances in the Philippines when they
were taken under the control Of the
r1niied States AS an example of law
lessness bic told of n Spanish Judge
$4,000 a year ont of a $4,000 % year
salary Ho Yold of the unsanitary
conditions of the cities. which are
rapidly being made sanitary by the
government 'We are saving more
lives each wear Ia the Philippines by
sanitary Wofl than the United Stptes
lost r tie whole war, said Dr.
I. staalz
Great Christian Act.
We told 81 the marvellous work this
government IS accomplishing IN teach.
ing the Filipino children the English
laneuape stating thar the sending Of
5e0 tea hers over to Manila as soon
as peaee was declared the great
Csi Christian act ever recorded in his
tory and that there are today 100000
children being taught by American
teachers The English language He
brought np the uuegtinn Of the Fill
pin0 people being ready for self gov
eminent and said &c was the most ah-
ftrd Caesfiun Oever advocated and
asked How c,Vtid the people Of
those Islands wiao have been under
the vile ~ q monarchy 1000 years
and speak 62 dinrcIt languages. and
oF which they are % distinct mCes. be
re1dy for SELF government right away
as some netional politicians are adj
Y8cating2 tie asserted That it VIII bc
two decades. at least before be Fill
pinos VIII he ready Tor self cavern
mcnt
b speaking 81 lhe Eastern question
nf smatz brought np the Japan.
Ameri On war scare ard said thar we
nerl npNer be afraid Of having To
feht Japan First tha Japan had al