The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-03-27
DR.. J. M. Taylor Brings the
Glory of Mandalay Into
Lecture AT the Metho-
dist Church.
WAR HAS BROKEN CASTE
Far-Traveler Says That India Is Clam
oring For Christianity - Pictures
Show the Paradox of Hindu
Democracy.


"In the history Of the world from
the dawn of democracy to the twilight
Of the worId-war, there have been two
great civilizing factors: freedom and
Christianity, The triumph Of the form
or has been assured by the Entente
victory in the .world-war; the domina-
tion of the latter is yet to be estab-
lished by the program of Reconstruc-
tion contemplated by the evangelical
churches of Christendom.
This striking statement carries the
essence Of DR.. J. M. Taylor 8 message to
more than five hundred Kenoshans
gathered in the Park Avenue Methodist
Church on Tuesday evening to hear the
far-traveler' s lecture on "America and
the New World Map"
The minister, missionary, and world
wanderer, proved veritable dynamo of
eloquence. With a wit, sparklingly
Celtic, and sincerity, infinitely pathe-
tic in its many-sided appeal, DR.. Tay-
lor pictured India, the land of pain and
paradox, where rajahs live in carven
palaces Of gold and marble on streets
that are cluttered with beggars and
cripples, too hideous to be described
much less silhouetted on a screen before
an audience Of Christian, comfortable,
and democratic American citizens.
eff 7 could make the people of the
United St8tas feel the hidden horror of
an That have SEEM, DR.. Taylor de-
clored with powerful emphasis, "Sthey
would be raising nissiop loans for India
as we'll as Victory loans for America
aa3 her Allies'
Tia spite Of the forbidding nature of
much Of Dr. Taylor's message, his lect-
ura vas not without it's high lights and
gayer coloring. With matchless artist
ry he portrayed the exotic charm Of life
as it is lived ''by the old Moulmein
pagoda, lookin' lazy at the sea" or in
the wistaria gardens of princes from
Rangoon to Mandalay". He presented
the myriad methods Of travel employed
in the Businesses of Afghanistan and
Baluchistan and introduced or dismissed
all of them with a humorous quip at
once pertinent and laugh-compelling.
In commenting upon the influence of
the war on Hindu peoples, the speaker
declared that it had prepared the way
for Christianity. In crossing the sea,
he commended, the orientals--more than
a million of them-had broken their
caste and. forever made impossible
further participation in the religious
rites of their kinsmen.
''They are merely waiting for Chris.
tianity'', he went on, "to develop a
new life and new opportunity for
them and to redeem country which
they now know has been blighted for
ages by heatl.enism.
In concluding his stirring address
the far-traveler said:
"The world cannot be made safe
for democracy while there exist in it
hundreds of millions who will so to bed
hungry tonight, never having had a sat-
isfactory meal in their lives, and know
ing that in all the remainder of their
lives, they may never hope for single
full meal. The world cannot be made
safe for democracy so long as three
fourths of the people of the world live
where ninety-three per cent of the pop
ulation are illiterate.
The world cannot be made safe for
democracy so long as sanitation and
medical science are at such low ebb
that twenty millions out of thirty
six million babies die, as compared with
but twelve millions in America. This
gangrene must be taken out of the
human system. If we permit ourselves
to be lulled to sleep and attempt to
build a world democracy on top of such
conditions as these, we but prepare the
way for an explosion that will rock the
foundations of civilization, imperil our
own as well as all civilized life. You
cannot end the red flag in Russia by
force. You cannot put down this
movement by law. You can never solve
the problem, until the races receive an
education, better sanitary conditions,
the possibility of conception Of what
lies ahead of them. They can only
attain this through Christianity. If
conditions remain as they are, their
traditional religion will step in and for
bid the adoption of the remedy.
Safety for world democracy is SINH
lar to the problem of prohibition. We
found local option would not work. 1t
was better than nothing, but saloons
in one state partially nullifed the dry
conditions in another. Nationwide pro-
hibition was the solution. So with the
solution of the world situation. The
only way to have democracy safe in