The Nevada County picayune., 1921-11-24
TeXt-Luke 24 :47, last clause.

There are three kinds of missions foreign missions. home missions and omissions. X minority hold to the first view, larger number to the second, ol home missions, in theory at least, but the majority will be found in the last class and whatever their pretensions they are great on the omissions There are great problems confronting us just now and need our most earnest and wise considerations and we want to get in line with Christ and His directions He said, Begin at Jerusalem, then Judea, then Samaria and then the ut termost parts of the earth" and you have His entire program in those few words. We want to consider the first direction, beginning at Jerusalem,' y and Prescott is our Jerusalem and Ar kansas our Judea and the Indians and negroes our Samaria. There are 250,- 900 Indians in this country and we owe them the gospel of Jesus Christ as that is the only panacea for them or any wild or lost tribe. They have been given too much fire water" and too little of gospel but where the gospel has been given them it has made new creatures of them and they become civ ilized and make good citizens and that, too, before they are dead Indians" Roosevelt was very favorably inn pressed with the mission work among them and after seeing with his own eyes the beneficent effects that the mis- sionaries had in preaching to them, he was an ardent supporter of the mis- siOns to them.
 Then there are 3.OOO,OOO mountain whites and they need our helping hand as they have been long the objects of ignorance and deadly feuds have marred their otherwise peaceful lives. It has been shown recently by the mission schools established among them that sound Christian education coupled with the gospel may elevate and sober them. We must give them the school and the church and with teacher and preacher we can do great work for them in their desola- tions. Billy Sunday says that the pur- est white blood in America will be found in the Southern mountains.
 Then there are 1O,0OOOOO negroes among us here in hte South and they are subjects of our home mission en- deavors. The people of the South did not bring them from Africa and en- slave them. but the English, Portu- guese and the New England Yankee brought them and then sold them al profit They are capable of being good law-abiding citizens, or the worst of criminals, and when they have the gospel and a good religious education. they are quiet and can be absolutely depended upon to preserve law and order Upon investigation it was found that there is not a ease where a negro had Christian education that he committee the unnameable crime that strikes such terror into the hearts of our southern people. So give them the Bible with good wholesome teach ing and this menace is removed. we should remember his fidelity during the Civil War when the men ot the Confederacy were at the battle front and left the women and children in the hands of the negroe slaves and thls trust was not misplaced and there was no case of violence to woman or child. There is no case of such unselfishness and fidelity in all history as that dis played by the Southern black during that dark period of war.
 Then we have 100000 foreigners among us here in DiXieland and the! come with foreign notions Of religion and are liable to do great harm ano they. are a living menace to us till we reach them with the same gospel thai has changed all races for the better when fully tried. They have the bom' to enforce their views and 1t is goins to be a race as ot which will get hin first, the home missionary or the l. W w., Atheist or meddler. They respont