The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-02-17

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iversity, University of dorchester,
Princeton university and John Hopkins
university.
/ Rev. Matthew's Speaks.
! The first address of the evening was
delivered by the Rev. Mark A. Mat
thews of the FIRST Presbyterian church
Of Seattle. DR.. Matthews was intro
| duced by Judge Thomas Burke of
j Seattle who is chairman of the execu-
! tive committee of the board Of over
! seers Mr. Matthews spoke on the
subject, EARLY Missionary Activity in
/ the Northwest" He said ii part:
| Gushing Eells, the founder Of Whit
man college was born at the right
time and in the fulfillment CT God S
plan. He had divine ancestry to lay
! the foundation for character and right
eousness which you have inherited
and which you are commanded to
carry on to it's completion. His boy
hood was simple, plain, and welded
to nature. He was reared on a farm.
! His preparation for his future life of
| usefulness was sure and perfect. fit
ting him to be q leader among men,
missionary and q founder of educa-
tional institutions. l do not believe
that the human family has reached
! it's present state by blind atheistic
progress but it has reached its present
state by the workings cut of Gods di-
! vine plan.
! Those whose lives have been con-
secrated to making the world better
were lead up by the dynamic influence
of Gods will.
I Three hundred years OF i1ells an
cestry originally decreed them to be
missionaries, leaders and founders Of
. educational institutions. 1t is not as
/ tonishing therefore at the son who
came from that ancestry. to develop
the Educational! and religious life Of
the great Northwest.
/ I'VE must bow in reverence to h IN,
and we must realize. that we are here
I for = definite purpose. His ancestry
was Of the sturdy puritanical stock
( and let me say right here that your
/ flag and your country would BE a by
word and perhaps a curse throughout
The land if it were not for the initiative
/ OF that p3ritan stock This country
would not be what it is today without
the influence which those old puritans
handed down to US
Strove For Education.
The books of Eelis unfolded the
4, theology Ct Ills day. He strove for ed
ucation, not for educations sake, but
that he might prepare himself to be a
teacher and an instructor to men. He
builded a character on which we have
founded an empire. The three stars
of the Northwest which Whitman saw
ed to the United States, should rightly
be known as Whitman Spauld1ng, and
Eells."
I The speaker then went on to tell
in vivid and interesting manner how
Eells had heard the call of the Amer
lean Indians through their leaders who
| journeyed to st. Louis saying, 1--WE
have come for the white mans Bible,
! that We might know the route to hea-
ven." Then it was that Eels decided to
so not to be a missionary to South
Africa, but to the wilderness of Vest
ern America
Flag Follows the Missionary.
''The flag has always followed the
missionary and it was SO in the case
of Eells. Spaulding, Whitman, Walk
er and the other devoted lives who
strove to educate the Indians of the
west to the joys of the Christian life
Great has become this country in the
commercial world It's people are not
thieves and land-grabbers No, on the
other hand the west is populated with
brains, with religion, and with Chris
tianity. What did all this work of
Eells and the early missionaries
| amount too 1t amounted In the pro-
violence of God to the putting of three
stars on the American flag. of the
laying of the corner stone of Whitman
college which some day was to devel-
ope and educate the sons and daugh-
tiers of the Northwest land. to the