Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1909-11-19
C TO MOVE ON ASIA"


In the Washington Post of the 18th
under the above head, we find in part
the following:
The Layman's Missionary Movement
has taken strong hold on Washing
ton and if the indications here can be
regarded as applicable, by the time the
series of IS similar conventions IN as
many of the leading cities of the land
is concluded, the country will be arous-
ed as it has not been aroused in many
day over any phase of religious effort.
Conventions already have been held in
three large cities with much good re-
suit, but it would appear that the
est Roadway on leaving the National
Capital.
Evangelization of all the world with
in one generation is the slogan that was
developed and adopted in the local con-
vention yesterday. Together with reli-
gious zeal is linked the argument of
spreading civilization, of removing the
menace of the unenlightened millions
to the Christian world, and of stamp
ing out the cruelties and degradation
humanity suffers where ignorance and
superstition have sway.
"Asia must be taken, and we must
advance at once" was the call uttered
in brilliant address last evening by
George Sherwood Eddy, of the Young
Mems Christian Association of India
Seeing that the great and ruling OBJ
jects are "THE SPREADING OF CIVIL
zATIoN, OF REMOVING THE MENACE
OF THE UNENLIG4ITENED MILLIONS
TO THE CHRISTIAN WORLD, AND OF
STAMPING OUT THE CRUELTIEs AND
DEGRADATION HUMANITY SUFFERS,
WHERE IGNORANCE HAS SWAY"
we could hardly reconcile such an eff
fort with our reading Of the previous
day. The day before this article APP
peared we had read in the same news.
paper the following:
Cairo; Ill.,, Nov. 11.-Will James, the
negro, suspected of being the murderer
of Miss Annie Policy, was lynched here
tonight He was strung up to the pub.
lie arch. The rope broke Then al
least 500 shots were poured into his
body. He made partial confession
and implicated another negro, Arthur
/ Alexander, for whom the mob is search.
ing. The lynching took place in the
most prominent square of the city in
the presence of at least 10000 persons.
| Women present were the first to pull
the rope.
In the same issue of the Post ir
which we read of the movement or
, Asia," intended for stamping out
cruelties and degradation humanity
suffers, where ignorance and supersti
ton have sway" we read as a seqae
to the Cairo, ILL.,, affair of the day be
fore, the following:
of James body nothing remained at
ter the lynching. The corpse was drag
ged to the alley where the body of Mis-
Policy was found. Then it was decapi
tated, and the head placed on a pole
: The torso was cut open, the heart takel
! out, and divided into small bits, AM
passed among the crowd for souvenirs
The rope was soaked in the blood, an,
also divided among the lynchers. VIVA
i was left was burned.
, The CHASTITY head remained on tn
/ pole until long after daylight. Not al
undertaken in the city would tax
charge of it, and finally the city's 'sdea
f wagon" was sent to the place. 1t
supposed that the head was buried o
the city dump.
In the light of the above we al
prompted to ask: Why move on Asia
! Some missionary work might profit,
: bly, be done at home, or we have mi
read. Before taking on new cont
nent so distant as Asia, and so vast
its boundary and population, to k
= worked over in Is years as proposet
- enthusiasts and philanthropists woul,
we somehow feel, do well to work mo-
in America. Could they not remoy
= the mote from their own, before worl
= ing on the beam in their brothers. eye
Try just one move on America, begi1
= ming at Cairo, ILL.,, and let Confuciu
work up Asiatic territory, would
our advice.
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