The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1919-02-13
GREAT BRITAIN JOINS WITH
UNITED STATES FOR PEACE
REV, JOSIAH T. C. BLACKMoRE OF
LONDON, ENGLAND TELLS OF
THE CLASPING OF HANDS.
Admits That The United States Is
Greatest Nation On The Face
OF The Earth.

! Memories Of Carthage camo wildly Ii
an IntelliGcncrr reporter last evening
; when he listened to q vivid description
of the people and scenes OF North Africa
| brought by Rev. Josiah T, G.. Black
! moro, a representative Of the Methodis'
| Centenary movement. who is spending
few days in the city in the Interest
Of his work.
Rev. Mr.. Blackmore is q native OF
North Devon. England, and is a Metho-
dist missionary. IIe was raised amid
those picturesque scenes portrayed IN
Lorna Doone." TO whose author Mr.
Rlackmore Is L. blood relative. After
hclng connected for years with Lon
don Stock Exchange the degraded
state Of women under the moslem Gus
tom led him to take UP work in Al
geria thirteen years ago. He is now IN
this country in connection with the
great Centenary movement. His wife
and three children are still In Africa.
but may join him in this country this
summer.
Mr.. Rlnckmore stated that this Is his
first vsi, to this country and he Is very
enthusiastic about the spirit OF his
cousins" here as ne calls them. America
he says. Is now the most needed. th9
most appealed 10. and the most loved
of all nations for her unselnsh Ideal
ism IN getting into the war when she
could hive kept out. Prohibition, he
SAW W.. strengthen her world leader
ship
Mother England was never so proud
Of her strapping daughter as today
when. standing by her side, she finds
she has TO look UP in order to sec her
face" enid Mr.. Blackmorc. America
"a mother Of no nation but daughter OF
all and 80 s. provldent!ally fitted 10
lead. All have vested blood interests
in her. Ro thinks that England and the
United Stnton will Join hands across
tho sen in Tho fellowship OF brother
hood.
Speaking or Africa, Mr. Blackmore
stated that tho Sahara dcscrt Is rs OK
tenEIvt IA tho Enl,od s,atca and onoc-
tuGlly divided tho people OF North
a rr!rn from tioun IN tho southern part
OF the country.
"Thn North Afr;cnn7 AFRO Of the
whito race" nnid no, "sunburn nHd dirt
prntlucn Tho imprcssIon on tho touTisI
that thusn people Rrn darh-sklnned IN
III The tourist EinntH Tho better cihHe
people or r2oA the faco OF Ehutup-
womon roapIns through q chinlS In tho
door. These pnnniu arc known iAo
world over tGday ua llcrheTa, In ininnh
Linnn ;h1y wcre tho i.arharinnn.
"Chrial!anity eatrred North Africa
rom Tho earliest Imon AMI pronrorcd /
lhcre Tho I,crberH furnished tho !
,Hhrizlinn church with such men na
Iyrran, TertuIiiien and tho Ernnt
tuguattnc. Later thu Chrirtiana DO
creased In their fnithflnazn TO tho !
p"nrirlca of lho Mrnter ami decay FOL
itjwnd Hrher, The Mnslcni invasion
rom hrnhir took p!aco in thu seventh |
rPhturE, ChriEiin":ty was oSerwhnifnod.'
In North Afrirn, M u Fanuli or tho |
invasion an,Oo0 ChriH'!nnH |
tlsRpnenrod. MuhaNrRdinism Ina TO- |
saino,i luprnre evur uIHur, Tho l'or-
beFa hsrn rpJrnNnaoh baeit 10 tho
nrintiivu m6th"d Of iIfn prtctie"d j" |
hhrnhs ma lime"
"'i'hn french own fnur.nrthH or Nth |
!friea. They have boen very E"od 10 /
Il" natives creating schools fnr bnyH
md ritz. l.aInIy thHy have granted tho
RI nnhise - Il largo proportion Of tho !
la;iVus, encouraged by Americas r1
,sriri,su III lilo IhuIipinah. They pro-
e? having American missionaries IN
hair onlnn.ra sven above ttnan Er
heir own ruueE they knnw Amrrirers
nave no political designs mp thor
leevea
Nest Of our success Is duo our
'omes where We receive boys and girls