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HIS Utah Missionary, whose life sketch of his field is given on another page, sounds the note of advance. He has the true missionary spirit. He is in the thick of the fight. He sees what could be done for righteousness, for the salvation of needy men, for the reformation of sin-cursed and salooncursed communities, if only the disciples of the Lord were as business-like and zealous and strategic as the men are who are hunting after the mighty dollar. He is willing to give his life, but he wants to make it tell.

We commend his appeal to our readers. Listen to him: "Here is the fact-a tremendous chasm exists between the church and these men (the working men, miners, of his community). We must BRIDGE it. We say emphatically and unreservedly that comparatively it is a waste of time and money to fuss along in such a field as this with a little twentyby-thirty meeting-house. Better draw off your forces and let another denomination experience the agony of slow death. We believe in the Church, and our passion is for the glory of Jesus Christ. It is time we were prodding Satan. His path here has been too rosy. The lamps have been concealed in the pitchers long enough. The call now comes to break the pitchers

and blow the trumpets and to cry aloud, 'The sword of the Lord and of Gideon ""

There is blood in this appeal to advance. We need to hear the call from every part of the field. The day of small things is the day of weak things when the time demands large things. In such fields as this missionary occupies we must do much more or see what we have grow less and less. Our work among the foreigners, too, must be greatly enlarged if it is not to become contemptible in comparison with the demands.

What we need especially is breadth of vision, capacity to see things in the large. One great object lesson, whether in the great city or in the Utah mining camp, would be of utmost value to open the eyes of our people to the necessity of doing things on a larger scale. When everything else is advancing, it is fatal for the Church to stand still. To be stationary is to shrink and shrivel. Nothing could do Christians so much good as to get busy prodding Satan. Let us make the path of the home missionary a little rosier and smoother for a change.

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Editorial

The Other Side

UNDAY observance is rapidly becoming a thing of the past, wherever it interferes with financial profits at least. As a result, hundreds of thousands of our people are losing their right to one day's rest out of the seven. The Sunday laws are violated so commonly that few people think of trying to secure their enforcement.

An illustration of the common tendency is afforded, we are sorry to say, by President Roosevelt, who has seemingly allowed his sympathies to mislead his judgment. The case is this: Mr. Sargent, the Commissioner-General of Immigration, issued an order that immigrant inspection at Ellis Island, the New York port of entry for aliens, should not proceed on Sunday, in order that the force of employees there might have a Sunday's rest during the summer months. President Roosevelt was appealed to, on the ground, according to public statements, that some shiploads of immigrants were kept on shipboard from arrival Saturday night until Monday, and suffered greatly thereby, as the steerage was hot. He gave an order arbitrarily rescinding that of his Commissioner-General, and Sunday inspection must now proceed the same as on other days. For this certain newspapers hailed the President as champion of the suffering immigrants.

But let us look at the other side of it. Going below the surface a little we come upon some facts that make it a question whether the poor immigrant and his sufferings form the real ground of appeal. The steamship companies, which have millions invested in the steerage traffic, and which make it pay enormously, are compelled to feed the immigrants until they are landed at Ellis Island;

compelled also to carry back to Europe at their own expense any steerage passengers not admitted to the United States for the various reasons covered by our laws. laws. Of course the steamship companies do not wish to feed the immigrants over Sunday, at a cost of fifty cents per head, provided the Government inspectors can be made to work on Sunday. Hence the urgent appeal to the President.

How about the suffering immigrants, penned up in summer heat? Well, the extra hardship of twenty-four hours cannot count for so very much, as contrasted with the overcrowding and harsh treatment they have already received. More than that, it is doubtful whether they would be any better off in the slum and tenement-house districts of the metropolis, into which thousands of them go, or even in the third-class cars that would carry others of them towards the West. After a study of this matter of soliciting immigrants in Europe, in order to secure transportation fees and commissions, and of the wholesale evasions of our laws, for which the transportation companies cannot escape responsibility, we confess to a feeling that this whole idea of compassion for the immigrants smacks of hypocrisy, and is a subterfuge. The orders of the Commissioner-General interfered with dollars, and dollars protested and won the day.

The other side, further, is that immigrants are coming in, during six days of the week, altogether too rapidly for the best interests of the country, without hurrying them through on the seventh day. The force of inspectors and other employees at Ellis Island is overworked, and it is practically impossible for them to give the kind of inspection that should be

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given. Compel them to work seven days, and the result is that the country will suffer much more seriously than will a few hundred immigrants kept one day longer on shipboard. The employees have rights, as well as the foreigners. Back of all this lies the principle of Sunday rest and observance. It is not likely to benefit the immigrant, as a first impression, to find everything going on about as though there were no Sunday. At best, it is difficult to keep him within any limits of Sunday observance. Such a beginning will increase the difficulty.

The order of Commissioner-General Sargent was a proper one, just to the Government employees, unjust to nobody. It should have been allowed to stand. The President's action rescinding it was hasty, ill-considered, and had the appearance of summer hysteria. The effect of it must be bad upon the morale of the inspection force. A Government departmental head should not be interfered with except in an emergency; and no one will pretend that this case comes under that class. If the President would be equally decisive and prompt in seeing that the laws are brought to bear more rigidly upon the steamship companies, it would be much more to the purpose. Every Christian must sincerely deplore any movement that enlarges the encroachments upon Sunday rest. It is quite in line with compelling Ellis Island employees to work on Sunday that the New York Central Railroad Company has thousands of Italians at work laying its new tracks on Sunday, pushing the work harder on that day than any other because work then interferes less with the regular train running. If anybody needs thought and protection, it is the workers who are compelled to labor on Sunday in order that a multitude may play. The whole influence of the Government should be thrown on the side of Sunday observance.

Don't Cheapen Yourself

"Friend, don't penny the Lord's cause." This text we find in The Baptist Vanguard, the paper published by the printer students of the Arkansas Baptist College and edited by President Booker. It is a good text for a homily on stewardship. Do not penny or nickel or dime the Lord's cause, when your ability says dollars instead of dimes. On the other hand, do not fail to give the penny or nickel if that represents your ability. The moral is, do not cheapen yourself or cheapen the cause by doing less than vou ought. Nothing is more harmful to one's character than this self-cheapening. Read again the text and remember it at the right time-the time for giving-"Don't penny the Lord's cause.”

Religion and Manhood

In one of his addresses at a Missionary Conference, Dr. Chivers made these points concerning Christianity and college men.

A man's religion makes his manhood manlier, and adds to everything he is and does. True Christian faith is the child of the light. Man is never asked to do injustice to his rational nature. Christian missions are a ministry of enlightenment and culture. The Puritans were nothing if not religious, and so, sixteen years after landing, established Harvard College. A large part of the energies of the church has always been devoted to education. College men to-day lead in all the world's life. Sometimes the charge is made that the trend of educated men is away from the church. Is the charge true? A careful summary of painstaking investigation reveals these statistics: The percentage of Christians in the student bodies in colleges and universities has been: 1775-95. 12%; 1795-1800, 5%; 1800-8, 15%; 1810, 10%; 1810-25, 25%; 1825-50, 33% ; 1858, 40%; 1860, 45%; 1900, 50%; 1902, 52%. Among young men in the world one in twelve is a Christian, while in our colleges one in two is a Christian. The enlightened and cultured are therefore six times as ready to accept Jesus Christ as their Saviour, as their fellow men not so well favored.

Our schools should be enswathed in an Pastors should seek atmosphere of prayer. and seize opportunities for evangelistic work among the bodies of college students.

NOTE AND COMMENT

HAT is a breezy description of pioneer work which is given by one of our Utah missionary pastors on another page. He knows what he is talking about, talks sense, and more than that, is doing a noble work. He shows the situation just as it is, and indicates how it must be dealt with, if we are ever to make real progress. We wish some rich Baptist might be spurred on to give this brother $20,000 for such a work as he proposes. When Christians go at their church enterprises as though they meant business, and as though the enterprises were business of utmost pith and moment, then those who need the gospel will be drawn to it.

A German scholar, Dr. Ernst Troeltsch, writing on the rôle Protestantism is playing in the world's economy at the present time, speaks of the Baptist as "the unswerving follower of the most obvious teaching of the Bible, always disinclined to read into Holy Writ meanings that are not prima facie evidence to the common intelligence.' There is still abundant room and need for a denomination which this description fits, and we trust that it belongs to our own. It is our high mission to make it true. Some of the most grievous evils that afflict our religious life are the result of reading into the Bible things that are not there.

There were four home mission study classes at the Silver Bay Conference this year, which is three more than at any previous session. About one-third of the delegates engaged in the study of the new text book, "Aliens or Americans?" and the subject proved a live one. Dr. Chivers was one of the teachers, and he had many visitors to his class exercises. We believe that American Protestants are going to wake up

evening of great interest will result. More than that, a series can easily be made, with this program as a basis.

Secretary Morehouse has his own way of taking a vacation, and it is not to be commended. For example, when he should have taken a good rest, he made a long trip to Omaha to speak at the convention of the Baptist Young People's Union. For his August recreation he prepared an address for the summer meeting at Martha's Vineyard. The good doctor commonly finds his rest in more work, but he is hereby warned that it does not pay to try to find out what the limits of human endurance are.

While the story printed in this issue is not strictly missionary, it touches a side of the church life that is vital. There is no question that when the church comes more fully to be a Christian brotherhood, in which the ties of affectionate interest and sympathy are real, there will be a vast increase of power and a quickened spiritual life that will mean the advance of missionary, as of all other interests of the kingdom of God.

A layman in one of the large churches in a thriving town in the interior of New York state has organized a missionary society for the men of his church. He was led to do this because, he says, men are neglected along the line of missionary intelligence, and because it is expected that men will give to further the cause of Christ. This they do, but the question is whether they will not give more cheerfully and liberally if they become acquainted with the actual needs of the people at home and abroad. In his plan, there is an annual fee of one dollar, and for this each member receives a subscription to THE BAPTIST HOME MISSION MONTHLY and the Missionary

to the urgency of the immigration prob- Magazine; this will furnish the storehouse lems. The large numbers coming will prove a blessing if the fact of numbers stirs our Christian people to enter in earnest upon the work of evangelization.

The Home Mission Society has issued a program for the missionary meeting, entitled "The Unevangelized in America," prepared by Mr. Parker C. Palmer. Used in connection with the literature of the society, as indicated in the program, an

of material for a monthly missionary meeting of lively interest. We commend this idea to other churches. Why should all the organization for the specific purpose of study and inspiration be left to the women's organizations and the young people's societies? We think there has not been sufficient appeal to the men, and shall watch with interest the experiment our friend is making.

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