The Nevada County picayune., 1921-11-24

readily to the overtures that we send
 to them and they are sending their
 children into the mission and day
 school sustained by the church here
 in the South. We have home mis. 1 sionaries and teachers preaching and
 teaching them in 10 different languages
 The heathen has indeed come to our
 doors and we must aSsimilate him and
 make him d good law-ahding citizen
 or he will talks his stand against us. But all dc not respond to our teaching and we see that the Mohammand Mos que and the Bhudistic temple are be- ing erected in the land of religious liberty, and taking advantage of the freedom purchased hy our Revolution ary fathers in establishing this land where God might be worshipped ac
 cording to dictates of conscience, but
 they are preverting this great privilege
 and are bringing false lights and
 few of our American born are being
 duped by them and have cut them
 selves adrift from the solid foundation
 of the Christian religion that has been
 handed down to Us from the martyrs of the past.
 But all these are not our greatest
 problems an are not the main things
 that perpleX those who look into the future of our land The greatest prob lem for home missions in America to- day is the great body of men and wo- men around us of our own "kith and kin who are not followers of the di- vine Master. Jesus Christ and are not in our churches nor Sunday schools, but living a life of indifference and sin. Arkansas has a population of 100000 but less than 50O000 are in any church or make any pretension of religion. There are 350,O00 children of public school age who do not attend any Sun day school and there are 100000 adults not in any church. About one half of these never darken the door of church or Sunday school save for a are in the South 15,0O0,0O0 who are not connected with any church or Sunday school and 5O,0OO0OO adults in the United States who take IT. stand for Christ and His church. These are the real home mission problems of our land today and the question is what can be done to persuade them to come with Us flor the Lord has spoken good concerning Israel"
 There is a great crime wave sweep ing over the land now and much law lessness abounds and we hear every day of violations of the prohibition laws and each daily paper teens with accounts of murders, thefts and di- vorces Now. where do the law-break ing class come from? The professed Christian and regular church-gOer or lUe HOl pToltSSOI anu uol-CllulCil anu non Sunday. school attendants? Sta tiStics are hard to confute and they speak with the tones of thunder and we can appeal to them as to where our criminals and lawbreakers come from. Several penitentiaries composed of white men almost exclusively were re- gently canvaSsed and it was found that go per cent of these unfortunates were not trained in religious homes nor were regular attendants of church and Sun day school An officer of the state made investigation of those convicted of law violations and there was less than one tenth of one per cent found to be regular in church attendance. The great ma ajority, then of those found violating our prohibition and other laws come from this large class of non-professors and non church and sunday school attendants or from those who had their names of church records but were known as "dead-head" mem