The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-02-25
Prayer Meeting Topic For the Week
Beginning Feb. 26, 1911.

Prayer Meeting Topic For the Week
Beginning Feb. 26, 1911.
Topic.-A missionary journey around the
world.-II. Missions in the United States
tsouthl lisa w. Is Edited by Rev. Shsr-
man r. Doyle, ID. D.
The southern part of the United
States is a great missionary field. The
southern people themselves have no
need of the missionary. They are. per
haps, the most devout and conserva-
tive Christian people in our land. The
need of the missions Is not, therefore. \
need of southerners. but in the south
there are several classes of what We
call in the mission work the excep-
tional populations of the United States.
OF such classes three Of the largest and
most needy, SO far as the gospel is con-
cerned, are TO be found in the south
land-the negroes, the mountain whites
and the Mexicans in the United States.
Each one of these classes is very large
in numbers and is most morally and
spiritually degraded.
l. The southern negroes of this race
of people, then, is Il population Of
100000 as against 100000 in the
north and these latter more widely
distributed than are the multitudes
of the south. Some states aud especial
ly some cities have Il larger black pop
ulation than white. and these were a
standing menace to this great section
of our country, once SO great and pow
erful in all things, before the war
plunged them into almost dire poverty.
But nohiy they went to work after the
''carpetbaggers" had been forced out,
and the south in a different way Is
porous. Sons and even daughters of
southern parentage, who in the days be
fore the war would have considered ii
great indignity to have engaged in
Industrial business or in labor of any
kind, with their sons and daughters
the present generation, have dropped
the past and gone to work, and some
of it hard work to redeem the south
and to build up new south, and
moreover, they are meeting with Won
derful success. Nor do they fear the
ny, IL Tic uottus even
as missionaries, had remained out OF
the south and the negro had not been
given a vote they themselves might
have handled the vexed questions be
. fore them with far greater success
than has so far been accomplished
They know the negro. how to keep him
in his place, where he must be kept
when he outpumbers the white popula
ton, for a superior race, no matter
will never be ruled by an inferior race
Brains always win in such a conflict
! But being freed and given the right Of
franchise Immediately changed hi.
position, and in many thousands Of oc
casions darky docility turned back al
most to African savagery, with disas
trous results both to white and black
But these millions have souls which
need to be saved, and our greatest de
| nomination began missionary worl
among them, consisting of elementar!
education, teaching various kinds o
| industries. and especially the gospel
which is still greatly needed regardless
of our schools and churches.
| >. The mountain whites. In tn,
southern mountains in Virginia, Yves
, Virginia. Kentucky and TENNESSEE
another peculiar population exist
| numbering 100000 souls. These arr
| the people who were descendants o
| the Scotch and Scotch Irish, who op
| posed slavery and lost their all in tn,
| Revolutionary war, were driven far
| Their and farther back into the noun
| tains until they were cut off from civ
| ilization and were like a lost race
until recent date. No people hav,
needed the gospel more than they
Their moral degradation was aImos
| complete, but the mountains wer,
| opened up, and these descendants o
| the sturdiest of "A religious ancestr,
| We're found and their awful manner o
life disclosed. Missionaries .day ans
Sabbath school teachers have poured
in, and the miracle in American mis-
sions today is the Improvement of thi
"lost race
2. The Mexicans in the western par
| OF the southern states. Here Their,
live together Mexicans Of the low
est caste, Indians and half breed
by the thousands. They are anon;
the most reckless and toughest of an,
| people in the United States Yet the,
| need the gospel and are getting it. bu
| with no great effects except it be tn
| children in the schools, the metho,
| most often used
BIBLE READINGS.
| Ez. vi, $40: Neh. ii, Is: Ps. Ii, IS
| Prov. xiv. "a: Jer xxx. I: Matt. xvii
| 2421: xviii, 49, 20; Luke XIV. Ito
| Acts i, ia; Rom. tx, 1-5; X. IA, Is.
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