The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-02-23

T1Cn layndn, simply because he is rich,
is nothing less than sheer simony.
son that it is not by her wealth, but
by her spirit, hat the ehurcnS tr8amphsI
in her mission Simon was terror
stricken by Peters adjuration, when
the latter declared that he mad no art
or lot in the message because his heart
vas not right with God. The only
place that money has in the Kingdom
of Heaven is as {, form n token of
service and allegiance. A man may
honor God with his substance. but it is
always possible to ono him more
with the heart. The former is not pos
Sible without the latter. The rich man
in religious work enjoys no handicap
over his poorer brother who has only
the devotion of his heart and the labor
of his life to give to his Master. To
every one who thinks that place or
power in the Kingdom of heaven can
be bought with riches, come Simon
Peters words, Take your money to
perditiOn with YOU"
Times change; the frontier that
was once the war-slogan of the home
mission forces is fast disappearing. So
rapid has been the development of the
West and Northwest in the United
States and Canada, that the pioneer
preacher, of the type which gave so
many heroic figures to the past GEN
Grafton, is becoming only a memory.
That thin, red line of heroes is no
longer the firing line; for, 10. While
the battle diminishes. in the front. a
new and more powerful tnemy to civil
ization and righteousness has arisen
in the rear-the cankering problems
OF the c~ongested urban centers. The
home mission battle, of today and to-
morrow is to be fought in the city.
Whoever helps keep flying the flag
of lofty patriotism is doing the work
Of the Kingdom of Heaven.
While these lines are being printed
and read there is under way in the
Eastern and Middle Western section
of the United States a home mission
campaign which marks q distinct
epOch and advance in. methods Of re-
ligious work. A big Campaign has
been instituted, to cover a score or
more of cities with great in~terdenom-
tiOnal fame, and representing all the
leading churches, will speak on the
common platform Of patriotism and
socialiZed Christianity. h aim is not
directly to raise money but rather
to educate the churches to the immin-
ence and Importance OF the new home
mission problem. In this work all the
Home Mission Boards are united; the
church is presenting a common front
to the world.
y
The teacher of a Sunday school class
of boys is as truly a home missiona-
ry as the preacher who rides on horse
back across the prairies.
X x &
Mems conception Of missions has
enlarged of late. We are willing to
include within the designation of home
been considered outside the. pale of
organized Christianity. There are So
cial settlement workers., philanthrOp-
lists, charity agents, newspaper writ
ers, teachers, lecturers, union
organizations and a whole flying troop
of free lances whose aim and work
is essentially one with that of the or
dained home missionary. Let us hon
or these. They are like Kipling's
BELL Buoy" whom the poet contrasts
with the bells in the church steep1e:
There was never a priest to pray,
: There was never a hand to toll.
When they made me guard of the bay,
And moored me over the shOal.
[ rock, / reel, and L roll
My four great hammers ply
Could [ speak or be still at the
Church's will?
(ShOaI! War ShoalO Not /!
THE landward marks have failed.
e. The fog-bank glides unguessed,
The, seward lights are yelled,
The spent deep feigns her rest;
But my ear is laid to her breast,
I life to the SWELL cry!
I wait in sloth on the Church,s
oath? @@ ..<,
(Shoal! Ware Shoal:) Not l.,
The current issue Of one of the
magazines tells the story Of a CatEo-|
lie priest, of noble family, who took
a company of Italian immigrants from
the stewing, .moiling, Understanding
conditions of New York's slur1s, and
a malarial camp in the South, and
made them over into a model Ameri-
a village in Arkansas. There they
have preserved and employed the best
of the traditions and skill which they
brought from Italy, and at the same
time they nave thoroughly American
lied these. This is the type of home