The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-01-24

dams have rallied to the cause Of missions
! in the great Northwest. In manner that
is exciting the comment Of the whole con
tinent. Nobody doubts that Canada VIII De
preserved Christian because the Church
has seen vision, and is going to possess
the land.
Between patriotism and home missions
there is no very great difference. Both are
Without human life to act upon. without
nation builders purposed and passions.
Without the human life to act upon, with
out the relation Of men with one another
of master with servant, husband and wife
buyer and seller. creditor with debtor there
is nosuch thing as Christianity. With ac-
tual things, with humanity in its everyday
dress with the traffic of the streets. witb
gs ties and houses, with work and wages
with sin and ppoverty, with these thlnsc
and all the things and all the relations an
all the people Of the city. Christianity mas
to do. and has more to do than with any
thing else DrummOnd.
Even if man is personally Indifferent to
the claims of the church, he will admit. in
his serious moments, that the pillars or
patriotism, the pillors Of society, and the
pipllars of good government, are founded
in religion
National indigestion is great as peril
of the state as Of the individual. The acute
ness Of the imm grafton question is awake
ming rany Indifferent persons to the impor-
lance Of home missions. For next to the
public schools, there is no agency so i'm
portant as the church in the assimilation
Of our alien population.
Except the immigration question be ac-
cepted as mission by the church, 1T Will
be menance to the country.
the great agencies Of home missions of the
leading American denominations into one
| ness of action. They have formed cooper
| ! 1,o
States together. in an effort to arouse the
| churches to action upon this great issue.
Thus, Indirectly. the Immigrant has been
the means of fusing into 4 measure Of one
ness the forces that are to be exerted for
| his service.
| Every immigrant is q woman or
| child before he is Il proglem. So he must
be regarded as one possessed of all the in
stincts and needs rather than as an abstract
question In sociology or citizenship.
| TO be good neighbor to the highest
alien is expression Of patriotism and
of religion.
Missions like charity should begin at
home. and still like charity. they cease to
deserve their name if they end there
NEWS AND NOTES.
The l, 1913. 037 immigrants who came t.
America in the fiscal wear 1910 brought
with them more than SOS .O0O,0,
Senator Cullen Of Illinois proposes that
the government snail set apart $2.UO,OUU
for memorial to President Lincoln
When the congregational Brotherhood
met in Boston for its annual convention in
October. it was resolved by the delegates
rresent that the brotherhood should take
up in behalf Of the Congregational denora-
jnation the same kind of work for indus
trial and other social reforms that Mr.
SfelZ1e has done under the Board of Home
Missions in behalf Of the Presbyteriande-
nominations. Rev. Henry A. Atkinson.
pastor Of the Central Congregational
church OF Atlanta, Ga, has been chosen to
fill this position.
The National Reform association in its
recent meeting at Pittsburg decided to
carry to the United States Supreme Court
Of Illinois in ruling the Bible out Of the
public schools of that state A conference
was held in Chicago january II to 90 and
retitions asking a rehearing were circu
lated.
Austria will spend $4,000. 900 in con-
structing dwellings for workrnen in
Vienna Under existing conditions the