Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-05-14
F0RSAkEs LIFE Of
EASE To WORK IN
MISSION FIELDS
The Rev. J, T, C, BIackmore
Tells of His Experiences
During Thirteen Years of
Work Among the HeathenL
Especial cosaEarososses 70 MORNING JOURNAL

ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE TO MORNING JOURNAL
Estancia, n. NJ. May l3.--The Rev.
]. r. C. Blaekmore, who has been a
missionary in North Africa for the last
thirteen years, spoke here Sunday
morning, in the afternoon at Willard
and at night in Mountainair.
Mr. Blackmore is a native of Eng
land. After spending some years as
member of the London stock eX-
change, his attention was attracted to
the degraded state of women in Mos
lem lands and abandoned his financial
career to take up missionary work in
Algeria. He is now in this country in
behalf of the Methodist centenary
and has his headquarters in Colum-
bus, O.
Speaking of North Africa, the mis-
sionary said the Sahara desert is of
equal size with the United States and
effectually divides North Africa from
the rest of the dark continent. Rome
dominated there for 500 years and
called those pa;ts the Barbary states.
The inhabitants were the Barbarians.
Today they are called Berbers. The
Berbers are white people, that is Of
the Caucasian race. There are 0,0O0,-
000 of them. The Berbers were once
Christian. st. Augustine was one of
their bishops. They sent missionaries
to western Europe. Later, owing to
sectaran divisions, they grew so weak
as to be unable 10 withstand the Mo-
hammedan invasion of the seventh
century and ChrS9tianity was wiped
out. 10000 cn.'Gites being destroyed.
A fr,.
for !, 100 years. The population OF
Algeria dwindled from 40,0O0,OO0 to
100000 The people retrograded and
are now using agricultural methods
usch as Abraham followed. Woman Is
considered very inferior to man and
is sold in marriage.
The French have ruled there for
ninety years. Schools, roads, railways,
telephones, etc, are growing up all
over the country. Five hundred tnou-
sand Berbers assisted France in the
great world war. .....
The Berber, being Caucasian, mixes
freely with other white races. Mr..
Blackmore has found some in Amer
lea. One was a train conductor In
New York. lie is helping in setting
up the great centenary exhibition
which the Methodists are having in
Columbus, o.. in June and July of this
year. This Berber has married an
American girl.
Mr.. Blackmore Is enthusiastic about
Americas part in world affairs. He
says that England likes to call Amer
lea her daughter. Other nations do
the same. In fact, America is the
mother of none but the daughter of
all. Hence the love of all nations is
focused on her for all have vested
blood interests here. Then again,
Americas disinterested action of en-
tering the war, Not for a cent of
money, nor an inch of ground, but that
justice might triumph has caused
the nations of the world to choose
America as their leader. She is the
most appealed to, the most needed of
all nations.
Prohibition can but accentuate
Americas world leadership. Old Moth
er England has to look up to see the
face of her strapping daughter,
grown taller than the mother herself.
But England is proud of America.
The Englishman concluded by say
ing that it seems to him that the fu-
ture of the world for years lies chiefly
with the Anglo Saxon race. 1t is to
the interest of all nations, that these
two great branches of that race, Eng
land and America, should stand united
in this great day of reconstruction.