Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1924-12-04

great marble auditorium and the
tomb of the unknown soldier. AS an
example of "get up and get" the
Adventist establishment at Takoma
Park is pertinent. In the New Ma
tional Museum is the Roosevelt col
| lection which will attract the aver
age citizen as well as instruct those
who have eyes to cooperate with
thinking brains. There is great
collection of pictures and war relics
uniforms, medals, guns, ct cetera.
had preached on Sunday. Now we
attended prayer meeting on Thurs
day night and are escorted to the
great depot with its vast shed
through which we go to our train,
and head for Kentucky. Next day
we cross the mountain ridge of Olive
Hill and go scooting down into
Louisville at 1925 p. m. A group of
friends from the church are there
with an automobile. We stop lit
tie while in one home to see dear
old friend who has lost his wife in
our absence, and then we come on
to this hospitable place which is
open to us like our own. A preacher
friend calls in and the long journey
around the world has ended, unless,
to be particular, we shall walk over
to Dearing Court, where the James
home stands, but that's not far
away.
We have been gone from Oct 7,
1920, to May 10, 1922, and have
been in 30 states, the District of Co.
lumbia, Territory of Hawaii, Japan,
Korea, Manchuria, North China,
South China, Straits Settlements
Burma, India, Egypt, Palestine,
France, England, Scotland, and both
Canada and Mexico, besides seeing
something of Wales, Italy, Sicily and
Corsica from the ship. We lived
nearly / ! months among the mission
aries and natives of Japan; had spent
seven weeks in India; and had been
in Jerusalem-my second visit there.
We had viewed antiquities of Peking,
the Great Wall of China, the splen-
did new Peking Union Medical Col
lege; experienced a thousand miles
or more of unusual travel in South
China between civil wars, and knew
what it was to spend night in a city
garrisoned by thousand men when
twice that number of robbers were
expected in from the mountains. The
Pacific threw me and j. H. Pennell
down as we walked the Markings
deck, and the Atlantic tore away a
partition, some stairs, ventilating
funnel and part of the rail in storm.
One morning the washstand-a tall
thing like hall clock, broke loose,
and by the time'I held it till stew
ard removed it, no breakfast was
or hn nf
Japan's Crown Prince when he re-
turned from his visit from England;
walked among the numerous pagodas
of Rangoon; witnessed the Prince of
Wales arrival in Calcutta; inspected
the famous Nikko temples of Japan,
the Tai Mahal and other antiquities
of India including interesting visits
to Benares, Lucknow, Delhi and
Bombay. Earthquake shocks were
experienced and ashes from Japans
most active and vicious volcano fell
about our summer home in Karui-
zawa. We crossed the Red Sea,
went to Cairo, saw the pyramids and
sphinx, rode the camel, elephant and
donkey; travelled "de luxe" on Chi
nese trains and Indian bullock carts,
etc. Some. of the war-torn section of
France was seen; old friends in Eng
land and Scotland were met and a
host of experiences which do not
come from staying at home were
encountered. 1t was, to US, a great
trip of more than $4,000 miles. By
means of an increased supply of Ian
tern slides, some Oriental costumes,
and a lot of souvenirs, we are pre-
pared to describe to those who may
have opportunity to hear. A book of
travel has been published.
Those who read this may well be
glad they are in America instead of
in some Of the famine ridden and war
torn countries of the old world.
Though our taxes are high, you may
be glad you are not Briton, pay
ing as they are compelled to do. If
your government doesn't always
come up to your expectations, you
might console yourself that it is a
very great deal better than South
China, for instance, where, recent
mail tells me, there is no govern
ment at all. Whoever can surround
himself with band of soldiers may
take charge of place and run it for
what he can get out of it. Robbers
(ex-soldiers) are very numerous and
make life hard for the poor people
who prefer honest toll to such a
course.
But if our material conditions are
better than those of the far east and
some of the nearer east, what of our
spiritual conditions? Japan has 4O,-
100000 unevangelized, that is, they
have not once heard the Savior's
name. China has 430,000,00O peo-
pie, one-fourth of the whole world,
with no good government, no ade-
quate plan for employing and sus-
tanning the people, and without even
modern sanitary science to keep the
babies from being blinded at birth
or enable them to come up to vigor-
Gus maturity as here. All their lives
they are subject to bondage through
fear of the evil spirits in whom they
do believe. India has 315, 100000,
cut up into several pagan religions
and cursed with caste which sub-di-
vides them into thousands of IVA
ter tight" compartments, so the
sweeper or the barber can never rise
to anything higher. Both China and
India are notable for their ignor-
ance, though the people are capable
of education. Nine-tenths of the
Indian men are uneducated and SO
out of 100 of the women are in the
same condition. We are in land
of schools and colleges, and we are
in the midst of Bibles which we may
read for ourselves and learn Gods
will to mankind. II we never see
another preacher, we are very much
better off than the foreign heathen