Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-25
CANNED TAFT SERMON
Republican Candidate Talks to
a Photograph.
UNIQUE WORLD MESSAGE
|.Discourses on Immense Importance
Of Foreign Missions.
THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTIANITY
Needed for Any Hopes of Uplifting
Peoples Thrust Upon This
Country for Guidance.

HOT SPRINGS. Va. August 2J.-"A
little sermon in monograph" is what
one of the photographic records recently
made by Judge Taft is called. The gen.
orally expressed curiosity to know what
the republican candidate said into the
talking machine was gratified today by
this reproduction.
II have known good many people who
were opposed to foreign missions / have
known a good many regular attendants at
churcll-cOnsistent members-that relig-
iously, if you choose to use that term, re-
fused to contribute to foreign missions.
/ confess that there was a time when
was enjoying SNUG provincialism that
1 hope has left me now, when / rather
sympathized with that view. Until
went to the orient, until there was thrust
upon me the responsibilities with refer
ence to the extension of civilization in
those far-distant lands. 1 did not realize
the immense Importance Of foreign mis-
sions.
'The truth is. we have got to wake ur
in this country. We are not all there is
in the world. There are lots besides us
and there are lots of people besides IL:
that are entitled to our effort and Oui
money and our sacrifice to help them on
in the world. No man can study the
impartial standpoint and not realize that
Christianity and the spread of Christian
ity are the only basis for hope of modern
civilization in the growth of popular self
government.
THE spirit of Christianity is pure de.
mocracy 1t is the equality of man. be-
fore God-the equality of man before the
law which is. as understand it, the most
Godlike manifestation that man has beer
able to make.
Dependent on Christianity.
81 speak not of foreign missions from q
purely religious standpoint. That ha:
been and will be done. I speak of then
from the standpoint of political and gov
erEmental advancement of modern civili-
cation, and think have had some oppor.
tunity to know how dependent We are or
the spread of Christianity for any hope we
MAJ have of uplifting the people whom
providence has thrust upon us for Oul
guidance.
at is said that there is nothing in the
Constitution of the United States that
authorizes national altruism Of that sort
Well. of course there is not: but there !:
nothing in the Constitution of the United
States that forbids it. What there is r
the Constitution of the United States il
breathing spirit that we are a nation
with all the responsibilities that any ma.
ton ever had. and therefore when 1t be-
comes the Christian duty or a nation tC
assist another nation the Constitution
authorizes it because it is part of our ma
tional we'll beng"
Polish Taft Club Organized.
Judge Taft was informed today of the
formation of the first Polish Taft Club
organized in this country. Its home Is
in Minneapolis. George T. KozlOwiski
chairman, writes: We feel confident that
we can promise you the almost unanimous
vote OF the Polish-American citizens OF
Minnesota
Senator Hopkins Of Illinois. Senator Nc
Cumber of North Dakota and National
Committeeman James Kennedy, also OF
North Dakota. were political pilgrims here
today. Senator Hopkins has been IN
Washington in connection with the tariff
commission work and came here on his
way to Chicago lust to pay my respects
to the next President of the United States
and to make it plain to Mr.. Taft that
should he make any speeches outside OF
Cincinnati, that Illinois wants him. said
Mr.. Hopkins.
The visit of the North Dakota repub-
licans was explained to be for the pur-
pose of having a comprehensive discus
sion with the candidate on the political
conditions in that section.