The Penn's Grove record., 1920-03-26

American Duty
To The Italians
Should Be Educated and Taught
Evangelical Christianity to
Govern Themselves

Rev. A. D. Domenica, of Philadel-
phia, made a forcible and timely ad-
dress on "Americanism' in the Baptist
Church last Sunday evening. He was
born in Italy, converted to evangelical
Christianity thru the influence of his
brothers on their return from Ameri-
ca, lived in Newark, N. j., for years
and was educated in Yale College.
he is a polished orator who under
stands Americanism and the full needs
of the immigrants from the old world.
He is pastor of the First Italian Bap-
fist Church in Philadelphia.
Rev. Domenica said America owed
much toI the Italians who first discov-
cred and has the first claim on it.
Columbus, the d~iscoverer, was a &C.
moan navigator in the employ of Spain
which was the great maratime nation
in 1892. The English claim is by dis
coveries made BY John Cabot, who was
a Venitian navigator while in the en-
ploy of King henry VII. Amerigo
' e-pucci, a ~rlorentlne navigator en-
ployed by the King of Spain discover
ed the continent in 1899. So you see
the Italians have the first claims on
America by discoveries and is named
for an Italian.
From Italy has come classic litera-
ture, science and law.
There are over hve millions of Ital-
ians comprising immigrants and their
first generation in the United States.
There are more Italians in New York
City than in Naples. They have large
IaluIHes, some ten to fifteen children.
1ou see an American lady riding in
her sedan, nursing a poodle dog. In
a few years the dog dies and goes
,vncle a4I good dogs go. The childless
lady will be the last of her family and
race. You see the Italian oma with
a bundle on her head another under
one arm and the other hand leading
three children. She is the mother of
your active citizens of the next gen
Grafton. 1t is up to you leading Amer
leans today TO decide what they shall
De and what qualifications they shall
have to govern and maintain the ma
ton OF free people.
The Americans have a goodly heri-
tage from the free thinking English
Ileopla to maintain. Compare the
AnaL3h speaking people in the United
States where the Puritan principles OF
education and q Irce = open Bible
prevailed from the first settlement
With that OF Mexico, South America
and Italy. Up to 1870, when the
church and State was made separate.
s~eventy-fve per cent of the Italians
could neither read nor write. In the
last so years under the education of
the State unrestricted by the Church,
rs per cent of the inhabitants have
learned to read and write. The edu-
Gated Italians in Italy have little use
[ for the native Church there. They
know how their ancestors were kept
in ignorance and but few had the PRIV
ilege of education and the advance
ment of the race.
In America under the free education
Italians are making great strides
While the hard working immigrants
build your railroad and do the labor
Gus work in the factories, their chill
dren are advancing in the learned pro-
LESSONS and in business life. Go down
South Broad Street, Philadelphia, ano
YOU will see homes Of Italians costing
ten and fifteen thousand dollars. Al
assistant district attorney in Philadel-
phia is an Italian.
Many illiterate Italians are made
citizens. Great drives are made to
give them citizens papers and make
voters. Many illiterate citizens with
the of the ballot become dan
gerous to our institutions, unless oil
Tected by the Puritan spirit of evan
pelical Christianity. These people
Wyybo do not know need kindly direction
and Christian sympathy. The neeo
TO be taught Americanism which IS g
knowledge of moral principles IN the
minds and souls of men. This can be
ACQUIRED only by a study of the oper
Bible, the free gospel without rltu'
alistic forms and ceremonies, by evan
gelical Christianity. intellectual ed
uoation is not sufficient alone Tor
people to be a self-governing body
Moses was raised amidst Egyptian
culture but the moral principles taught
bv his mother who knew OF the guld'
ing spirit of Jehovah was what mould
ed his life.
In order for a free people to exist
there must be an absorption of the
moral and spiritual principles from the
Bible. The gospel of Christ is the
power unto salvation.
It is the duty of the present day
Americans to see that the next gen
Grafton is properly educated and evan
gelized to be qualified to govern them
selves when they become the maJorVs
ruling people.
Salem County Healthy
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