The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-14
TELLS NEED OF WORK IN
SPREADING CHRISTIAN FAITH
IN FOREIGN LANDS.
LAUDs MISSIONARY WORK
President Addresses Immense Gather
ing in Carnegie Hall Last Night at
Diamond Jubilee of Methodist Epis-
copal Church-Africa Sends Out
Macedonian Cry" for Aid.

NEW YORK, Dec. 13-With a smil-
ing reference to the attack of the
Methodist church in Africa" Presi-
dent Taft addressed an immense gath
ering at Carnegie Hall tonight at the
Diamond jubilee of the Methodist Ep-
iscopal church. called to celebrate the
completion of a campaign started last
January whereby $300,167 has been
raised to further mission work in
Africa.
Of this sum $72,493 has been receiv-
ed in cash and the remainder has been
subscribed payable in installmenrs
due in five years. The Rev. ]. c
Hartzell, bishop of Africa, through
whose efforts the money was raised.
was the only other speaker.
The president said in part:
ut is not perhaps, appropriate to
date a religious movement from a
war; but it does seem to me as if our
people &C chired a world feeling from
the time we undertook the responsible
tiles of freeing Cuba and saying what
should be done by our neighbOrs with
reference to internal government when
that internal government seemed to us
to pass the bounds of what we thought
to be civilization.
Responsibility Broadens Vision.
1--WE began our war expecting to
finish it shortly, and we landed in the
Philippines, and we are there still, but
our horizon was widened much beyond
these gems Of the Pacific ocean by
nf yyh
we have been obliged to assume with
reference to the entire world. We are
armed with tremendous power and tre-
mendOus wealth, and, unless we use
that for the benefit of our internation-
al neighbors-and they were neighbors
of ours, for the world is very small
we are failing to discharge the duties
that we ought to feel as members of
mathematician community.
'The mission is nucleus and an
epitome Of the civilization that is eX-
pected to widen out in that neighbor
hood. have heard missions ecriticis-
ed, I have heard men say that they
would not contribute to foreign mis-
sions at all; that he had wicked people
enough at home and we might just as
well leave the foreign natives and saw
ages to pursue their own happy lives
in the forest and look after our own
which need a great deal of ministra-
ton. / have COTE to regard that as
narrow minded as man who does
not like music, who does not under
stand the things that God has provid
ed for the evolution of the human
race.
Missionaries Are Forerunners.
Missionaries in China, missionaries
in Africa, are the forerunners of our
civilization, and without them we
should have no hope of conquering the
love and respect of the millions of
people that we hope to bring under
the influence of Christian civilization.
"Those who go for mercantile pur-
poses into those distant lands, L am
sorry to say, are quicker to catch the
savage tendencies than the savages
are to catch from them the best OF our
Christian civilization.
"The men whom 1 wish to commend
are those who, in the face of all the
obstacles that certainly tend to dis
courage the bravest, enter the dark
continent of Africa in an attempt to
win those fields to Christianity
1.-THE United States has no terri
tory or any interest there. We did
make an experiment or encourage an
experiment some years ago in Liberia
and we do have the interest that we
ought to have in trying to preserve the
integrity of that little negro republic,
but you know, and the nations of the
world know, that we are not in Africa
to spread our territory. We have
enough, and certainly no one is so i'm
perialistic as to desire a part of the
dark continent.
Almighty Works in Mysterious Way.
ut is curious to see how the AL
mighty works his ways Our interest
in Africa for many years was in the
slave trade. We here, all of us, were
responsible. New England got out of
it little earlier than the others, but
we have living with us 100000 de-
scendants of the negroes that were
taken by force from that dark con-
tinent.
And yet I think no one would say
that the descendants of those people
brought here are not to be congratu-
lated on the fact that they have been
able to enter in proximity to civiliza-
in advance of their relatives in Africa
And yet they came here through greed
and SIM
Bishop HartZell said:
This African diamond jubilee had
for it's purpose the raising of at least
100000 as an extra, over and above
the regular missionary appropriation,
to strengthen our centers in that con-
tinent and making it possible to an
swer at least some of the calls for
advances. And now tonight, we have
come within Is days of the end of
that celebration. / will not go into
detail. but we have here the magnifi-
cent sum of $30O,167
Church Weak in Africa.
There are three religious forces in
Africa. Firse, barbaric heathenism
and second Christian church / am al
most ashamed to state publicly how
L. H.