The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-11-20


worth NJ. f. church. was given over
to the annual thank-offering meeting
ot the Woman's Home missionary So
ciety. In the interest Of the society,
Miss Nellie Snyder field secretary.
Of Chicago. addressed the assembly in
the following words
"Our Home Missionary work increas-
cs in interest and Importance every
day with the passing Of the years
there is steady increase IN our popu-
lation, a growing jvnux OF people.
and we find our selves confronted with
problems which require serious annd
constant attention. There Ire two
lrcasons why l feel free to mix 80 you
today The one Is. that you are Amer
lean citizens. and no America n citi-
zen can be an Interested citizen. with
out seeing the grave danger which
threatens our country. But, ] have
higher and a holier reason for com
| ing to speak to YOU today, and that
is. because you belong to the Lord Je-
sus Christ, you are citizens of the
Heavenly kingdom. The Lord was the
| founder OF the first missionary so
ciety, the spirit of Christ Is a mis-
sionary spirit. And I believe that If
His feet could walk our streets to-
day. and His loving voice could he
beard by human ears, He would weep
over the wickedncss Of some Of our
Great cities. and would say: 20.
Jerusalem how often would | have
gathered ye. as hen gathereth her
lthickens, and ye would not
81 remember the first Foreign Mis-
slonary / ever saw. With what awe
and veneration ! looked upon one who
lad braved unknown dangers and
Travelled far from home and country
to bring the message of the Blessed
Christ to those In darkness. That
was many. many years ago. but still
look with veneration on those noble
men and women who are giving uE
their lives to the service of the Master
But, our foreign missions across the
. sea. are not the only problems we
have to face. We have an immense
} Foreign" mission right here in oul
, own country. on my travels over In,
country. have come upon many set
ers. In q city in New England Il
per cent of the high school pupils were
Italians. As | walked through th'
, streets whore Paul Revere signalet
his message on that memorable night
5 made famous ry his midnight ride, "a
l walked down one of the principa
streets and saw the squalor and filth
the children rolling in the cutters II
I rags, and listened TO the babel o
sounds that came to my ears from
that little Italy, | said to myself
What would Paul Revere think haC
, lecome OF the country he tried so hare
to save. If he should come back to
night?'"
"In the years 1907, over 1,2S2,O0
emgrants flooded our shores. Do yol
think you know just how many {
million Is? AS | ride over the grea
I prairies, look as far as eye can Sc
1 On one long, unbroken. level stretcl
1 of land | wonder. IL million peopl
Mere To stand In line, how far out T.
the end of that sky line would the!
I go? As / ride through the great pin
forests, and see the hundreds an,
hundreds OF stumps left by the fores
ter, / wonder whether there would b
any stumps left II million of pea
pie should come and each sit on
y stump? No. you nor / cannot imagin
:" n million of people. And, remembe
!" this million Of peopple was not mad
. up Of Americans No, they come fror
~ Italy, Russia. Sweden. Germany
II China, Japan, and every other natio
W en- the globe In the city OF Chcag
today, there are more Italians tina
- there are in the whole city of Flor
- ence, Italy. There are more Bohe
mians there today than in any othe
= city of the world except Prague. AnC
the worst of it is. these people an
le living in conditions which il would b
!, impossible for me to stand here be
!, fore you and relate,
81 We Are All Emigrants.
but. what are we going to do fc
F" these people? You are all emigranl
v yourselves. There isn't one of yo
n here today, whose ancestors didn'
70 cross that very sea, to come to tn
country and found homes for themse
YES. Not one Of you / say, who
- not an emigrlnt Unless, you happe
:, IL, be the descendant Of the America
Indian you are an emigran
"A Now. since you are emigrants, va
- ought to have sympathy and love f'
X cur brothers and sisters who are de
or ing exactly as your own ancestors d
k when they crossed the water an
made homes here God says Love !
oi the stranger.
Miss Snyder then related some
the conditions in which the foree
nc element of our countrys population,
living today Conditions of unspea
ne able degradation, filth and sin, 81
r. told as an Instance, of home
IS: New York, In which 20 people liv'
ed in one little ROOM When asked co
ey cerning the matter the man of 4
ou house said: "Oh, me and my far
ltS ny live here and we took few lod
no ers." Bunks are built on the wal
IT. and when one crowd gets up in 4
" morning and goes to work anoth
ouI crowd comes home from night wor
A. and occupies the hunks during t
day 1.-THE conditions of indecency a
sc immortality which exist in such 81
lrcundlngs are horrihle." declared I
~ onaaLac Che told of inafar rcae I'm II