Evening journal., 1910-09-23
Christian EndeaVoN
Notes
G.. +. Topic for September %, 1910.
My Denomination at Work for MY
COuntry.=pS. 50: LIS.

VI. denomination al work fOr NY
COuntry.-Ps. 80: lis.
Every denomination is doing splen-
did hOme-missiOn work Just by car
rying on its normal church work.
Why should the church interest her
self I'm home missions? One might as
well ask why the head should inter-
est itself I'm the hand. The simple
reason is that the body is one. We
are constantly reminded that we have
the heather at our door 1t is true.
Millions of them. And they form one
nation with us. That is why we must
think Of them and help them. When
the trainers of the Declaration of In
dependence rose from the table af-
ter signing the document. one of them
remarked, Nov we must all hang to-
gether." Yes echoed another. iii
We don't, we shall all hang separate
ly." When the church neglects home
missions, she will decay.
Home missions are needed in the
slums to which the wreckage drifts
and in the suburbs, 10 be ready to re-
ceive families that move out from the
city, or come in from the country
and who. through neglect. are often
lost to the church in making the
change
Then there is The foreign popula-
ton. There are more Italians i'm New
York City than there are i'm Rome IT,
self Immigrants are coming 10 us
at the rate of about one million a
year. They are not Americans, but
they are trying to be. and it depends
upon us whether they shall be good
or bad This vast throng needs the
gospel in their native tOnguWand the
children need TO be brought under
Christian influences and education in
the light of American ideals.
The Indians call for home-missiou
work. There are something like 1885,
600 of them. The government spends
millions on their education.
The American negro offers another
fruitful field Probably no race is
rising faster thin the negro race. Yes
terday, slaves; today, reaching after
and attaining cultures and taking
their place among the worthy work
ers OF the world. A race that can pro-
duce a man like Booker Washington
can produce another like him.
There is the frontier. If the from
tier is gone, ,<here are the rapidly fill
ing plains of the Western States that
need home missions i'm proportion tC
their prosperity. The more prosper.
GUS the people, tho more ready they
/ appear 20 be to forget God
Country churches IN older State.
( often need 10 be reinforced. THE i'm.
mcnse attraction of city life ha.
drawn away the people from many ,
rural district and left dyins
church. We cannot abandon thes,
churches. To do so would be to aban
don thousands of people, young an,
( old. Truly the mission fields are a
our doors.
Speaking on the immigrant cues
ton, Theodore Roosevelt said: M
greater work can be done by a phil
anthropic or religious society thai
to stretch out the helping hand 4
the men and women who come her
to this country to become citizens
and the parents of citizens, and there
fore to do their part in making ur
for veal or woe, the future OF gu
land. II we do not take care of then
If we do not try to uplift them, the
as sure as fate, our own childre
Will pay the penalty. If We do no
see that the immigrant and the chill
] dren of the immigrant are raisel
up, most assuredly the result vii
be that our children and children
I children are nniled down Either