The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1913-12-06

sanitation affected the worlds vel.
fare. This has succseded because the
machinery for enforcing this stand.
ard existed and his been used by
this country.
"Such policy and such principle
substitutes for devastating military
interference upon certain exigency,
continuous, constant, peaceful per.
sistent requirement. Of standard civil
lied nations deem Indispensable. With
interference in affairs OF a country
whose condition brings, peril, the
world is familiar. sour public opinion
has not yet risen testhe consciousness
OF this responsibility for maintaining
the standard Of humanity in other
lands. Here again the Christian
church taken as whole has anti.
cipated the rising tide which nations
are beginning dimly to zee, and halt.
ingly to accept. Christian missions
are a recognition that our duties are
not limited by osr boundaries, but
are bounded by humanity. Over all
this Northwest, TN first footsteps Of
civilized man were the footsteps of
missionaries. seriaiss as is the con-
dition Of Turkey tpdaY, it would be
infinitely worse ifSmissions had not
created there snch education as
exists. The foreign mission work OF
all Christianity. oh which today in
all its various FORMS over $50, 100000
are spent annually ts,r every dollar
of it, majestic recognition that we
have no right to4limit our benevol.
ence or our philenthropies by the
land in which we slive. These sums.
spent each year from the contribu,
tions of the lowlyn and those whose
gifts represent papsonal sacrifices
and nowhere is this more true than
in the church to which this edifice
belongs constitutsea an expenditure,
renewed every yesb about equal to
the cost Of the MSxican war. How
small were its r44ults by the side
Of the great tide good poured over
the world by this atscharge in peace
of those responsibl llities sfor the vel.
fare Of others. within ware they met
fully by nations, well as by
churches. would c5bassMar to cease
and bring peace tahuManity.
The U.ss:ln awake.
Our nation has Agready begun to
recognize this graft duty. 1t did so
when 1t returned Tn ei1a fifteen mil
lions Of dollars wKH were set apart
as fund for Chie Il xducation. We
;ss9sa'is l aszas ! Ah 4 R,ass aasas rs
cost Of maintaining - Ncreating the
standard Of humanity Id the popula.
ticn which we are preparing for self
government. The expense to which
the United States has already been
put. by the Mexican disorder, spent
in education during the last genera
ton, would have redeemed Mexico.
The American people, In ten years,
will complete the first, century Of the
Latin civilizations to the South, from
conquest and aggression has grown
familiar. In Mexico we risked war
with France in order to expel Maxi.
milan, and we risked q war with
England In order to protect the terri.
tory. OF Venezuela.
."We have yet to be educated as
q nation, and as individuals to the
larger obligation Of the discharge
through peaceful means of the
greater responsibility of giving
these Latin lands the beginnings Of
civilization in education. In SANTA
ton, and in all the various forms
in which civilization makes its way
by individual effort and the peace
full aid and pressure Of our govern.
ment.
With religious missions we are
familiar, the secular missionary spirit
is still to come. The recognition Of
this obligation by nations and by in
dividuals, though begun, has still to
be developed. When famine, flood,
fire and pestilence devastate, we all
acknowldge universal. obligation of q
man. to all men. We, are slow to see
that this obligation exists as much in
those periods, more wasteful of life
and Of human happiness, where
OPPRESSION, bad governments and
ignorance destroys. Instinctively we
shrink from acknowledging this
claim. Why should b country, we are
perpetually asked, spend Of its sub.
stance and of its men, whether by
public agencies or by individuals, for
lands and peoples that are not TN.
der our flag, and without our bounds.
But Providence, working through the
great forces OF society ana Of human.
ity has no mercy for our refusal to
discharge international duties. 1t rem
ders 1t certain that our neglect shall
bring disaster. The hundreds of mil.
lions invested by Americans ia Mexi.
co have been in peril, in many cases
destroyed, and the loss already in
flicted is the measure of the punish.
ment Of our failure to realizs this
new command and demand which
intelocking agencies of civilization
create between nation and nation. II
we neglect this duty, II we permit
some human hell OF rapine, plumber,
battle, murder and sudden death to
exist In this day when all the world
is the possible field of activity for all.
it is our sons who suffer and our vast