South Bend News-Times, Volume 36, Number 222, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 10 August 1919 — Page 18

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OSK hundred and At millions cf dollars to carry th American Idea into all the lands cf the earthl That, In a word, is th? d'Gnltion r.f campaign recently put through by the Methodist Episcopal Church, which has called upon the irn, wumn and children of the United States to pl'dge th"ir moral financial support to carry out the work of trie church started 100 years ago. The campaism to ralao tho Sin.OOO.C0O fund was made in connection with the celebration of the centenary of the founding of the- first mission of the Methodist Episcopal Church. A hundred years ao the foreign missionary movement of the Methodist Church In America was born. Since tbn H has pprrad tr all heathen lands and in its make it nan loft churches. 6choola. hospital?, community centers and an awakening in the minds of the people that to live Is to live tho American way. When it was determined that tho Methodist Episcopal Church, ns an after-war move, should make an effort to increase its work in foreign fields, accepted Kaders in all walks of life were called into consultation. -Is the time opportune?- was the Question put. As in Ml bis undertaking. It -ai deemed necessary that conditions should be Idral or tte plan might fall, -be war. the greatest of all 3. had ju.t ended and a state of mind cx.stt.l v.tich never had exited before. The answer as the same from all. Th, rt..on for tue answer was the mo Ancrlca had pent her troops to to .ave Europe for c Z . La olt necessary tor the

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tbe ,t armies o! .Vmerica and her Possible for the pcoPlBut it is not only in Europe that the h rMist Prepare the people and CbU the eves o he deluded. It must cpen the ejc ot laI,d3and this be done in all .crusa rr-roral l, the goal of the Methodist Episcopal ChÄent Alison, a. head of the tatest ot nation,. -r appealed to for advice. The pre gave the following response: gI think it vould fmlnr tune a misfortune of everlasting contun ' .. .v.. wi!nnan' program

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for the worm snoum There are many calls for money, but hat th, ork undertaken sbouid be continued at its full force seems to

me of capital necessity. In far-c Africa there U a popuia- caa readwiU not bc overlooked. Hon of 120,000.000 and an area of 12.- wtfQ onQ lbe first m5Ssionarics 000.000 square miles. The African rcturncd from china and told his story races have S A3 variaica of speech. tQ the wonderlag public, he said, quotThcre are the Bantu, the Bushmen, the lnp Abraham Lincoln: Hottentots, the Pigmy and the negro. .((Jod mugt hayc 1(jyfd the commoa And they worship a thousand ods. It pcoplc because ne made so many of Is to reach these and other peoples and tlipn. TheQ he a(ided, "There are bring them to the American idea that 400 000 000 Chinese." the Methodists of the United States CMna h me

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boats the home3 of hundreds of families who dump refuse into the water. And in the river cities the people drink river water, dipped out with

There U Mahanimcdanlsn. which buckets, has ensnared millions in Africa in a Gravc8 ar0 cverywhere. in mcsJ drab blanket that smothers progress. ßXcat ccnters to secure ground for any It teaches fatalism, no atonement for ,arge instltuti(m tyery graye on tJje sin. no rcaemption by eacrince. It has ßitL must be bought up Th(J boneg cf failed to lift the negro out of ignor- au fop hundreds of ance and had xuade slavery and slave yrarSf perhaps are carried In a COVtradmg religious institutions. ercd jar to some more obscure bury And this U coupled with paganism. lng placp. The fi flt Qf th . H

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expenditure in the American v.-as sl.aiterc d. and the Christian m!.s-io:iar will try to rc-

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that misconception tnai xia. us una cu üave Dorri mortgagcd for th lt Krr; KQt-.,..r, rhinn and licions and sorr.n thirtv-two dialects. Vnltrd States.

dread and Ur ove an comton. of the dead. But in the new China. The Methodist Church is in Japan Jr. pan. Her people 'have suffered Uncle Sam has taught them the Amor- The work of the church in South store conade-nce in America Ly spreadPaganism calls for .-nan 'acriUCC' the China to be created from the because the empire is in need of the much. They have been conquered time ican idea to some extent and is now Amcrica opcns the door of opportun!- ing thn American id'.", for the burial of t,e clAo swipes wun American idea, the unfortunate living religious and spiritual help which the and again, and in the process they considering giving them self-govern- ty to all enterprising Americans. South The Mahod:,t Kii-cl Churca his body, for the Plaug-ttr 01 a sme win corae ialo tLeir own Christian church can -ive The church have acquired traits peculiar to their ment. Progress and the American Amftrica aione can feed the world, and has 137 isionar a:.d loiv.g:: wo:,:to carry mcssac s to the d.ad lor the China necdg only tQ b sjjgwn the j3 picdgrd to do its utmost in spread- overlordrs. brand of civilization must remain aft- AIethodist missionary work there will c rs in South Amc-riea. who have called murder of innocent infants whose wav of tho 'est. Compare tho r,u-, , ,. i. .w. imrst- er American rule is withdrawn. Hence, vrir, fJKn,lt nndrrRtandin. to their standard 2Zj native preach-

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ing its age-old. iron-bound stagnation, the Methodist Church will keep up the South Amcrica is a potential food crs and workers. .e- irw ia.c. The spirit of "progress" has breathed good work begun by the United States factory that can .y more people among a population of '

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teeth appear In Inauspicious irregular- plovr or thcse pcople wi,h tbc modcm f

uy. tractor. How long would a normal. Here ure a few of the things the human farmer be he American or Jai'an r"trols Methodist milU-Ci will eradicate from Chinese continue to use the old plow AH tLt Asiatic ople

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into the people, end it is to carry on Oocrnment. engaged in the great war.

this march of progress that the Meth- Gambling is common among women witn I)Iopcr development, her fertile this organization m o'Hii America.

of a century ago if shown the bene- Japan is the keyston- of the arch 1,0c t.rd itself to car- as well as men in the islands, ar.rt rJ- u -, u-bmt nnd meat Extension of sympathetic co-opcra-

. ... t . t uui.-i Vyiiuiii iiao (in ujji. - Plains nUUlU l UU UV-V. " Deformed clldren no. do p,.i X;;3 0( thc tractor? that is slowly but EUrclv raising itself rv into that land the American idea, most every one smokes. Family cigars onougn to defv all the submarines and tion in t.'ie devUopnif r.t of her intel-

to ceatn wwum. Ane Peopie 01 uma, however, do in me ar tasi. ner inuuence in ho- Nowiiero is the great intiquity of as tig as your arm are lighted by any lU (te wastage in thc world. icctuai ine. HI l'-ck." not Cling to the methods Of the dead rea (now part Of the empire). China rrfan civilization cleatlv shown member of the household who wants a ' v,,rtina alone Las more cattle Tlio ofJerins of a religion as a rererfectly formed babies will rot .be rasL Tbry roadi,y aJopt Jffiprove. rJid the rest of Asia is tremendous. She a" ia tho minda 0f their religious be- I-Uff. Children sometimes learn to ' other natiou except India viving force, buried with their XUOUltrs II tneir mcnts. The Wrst io slow to realize holds the reins among the Asiatic " , vwn smoke before thev can toddle. Meth- J .. , ck ,nicf. nr rtnhlibm.-r.t of rr.fdical relief and

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mother? fall to come fcac trom tac that the industrial Uevdopment of peoples, all of whom are ncn-Chris- . ocit..y is a Confucianist; he is a odist missions now are responsible for valley of ihe bhadow." China will bo a world move a great tian. As Japan goes, so will go China "AAa i,n nhiinso')''W and ,hc care of no less than 2,300.000 of

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iwins 111 iiui ruiatu im impetus io commerce, iuu::stry, enter- uuring me nexi century. 11 is lmperars and thrown into the bush because prise and invention fel: by all other atlve that Methodism relax not a whit, they are "bad luek." nations. but rather increase her efforts to The "medicinal" concoction admin- The ractitioners of the old school spread the gospel In Japan, lstered by the witch doctor, and which of Chinese medicine agreed with Dar- Ia Japan the people have no fewer kills oftener than it cure., will be a win that only the "nttcst" should sur- than S.000,000 gods and goddesses. It thing of history. vive. Some time'ago. during an -pi- is 1,500 years since Buddhism took Through superstition, disease will amic of diphtheria. suf:ertr3 were ad- hold in Japan. Today the religion has not be permitted to continue until it vised to "use women's toe nails, decayed until only the ornate traphas claimed thousands of victims. bamboo pith and bedbugs; grind to a pings remain, Shintoism. the first primWhile some American dollars are powder and sprinkle the throat." itivc religion of apan, still hold3 its rarrvintr the American idea into dark- It is to awaken these Doocle that thp crasD on th'-i people. Shinto has no

est Africa, other American dollars will Methodist Church has determined to Eacred literature, no ethical code. One absolutely foreign to the

find their way into the Far East. In spend millions

China, "the land cf need and plenty." idea to China,

urd the United States, bh

rheep than any other country except sanitation institution?, .tr.iin ?hp leads the world in the Propaganda for a sehr.

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Vusfralia She leaus me vsonu iu nuusm. - .v.. iale'of chilled meats. Gnat as is the rystem which will nable the South mineral wealth of the Continent, thc Amr ricai. L.-tter to gra-p the American wealth of forest and field is greater, idea.

Brazil produces more coffee than tht the lea.n of the efforts 0 ie

a spirit worshiper when Cc is in xrou- i.i. W. His religion ia one of dragons; -ori; .. devils, elves, imps and o,l,us in which the spirits of dead humanit

are hero and there present; where In all the sections of the Old World United State3 can drink, and Peru Methodist Episcopal Church will be

eternal shades walk about; in which the American collars placed In the -rows the finest cotton known. expended in Mexiro. the wealthy, unhills, trees and fivers even diseases Carc of the Methodist Episcopal Tne people of South Amiricaa.sk developed, war-riddta republic to our have personalities bearing woes and church will be used in spreading the ajd l0 take the next step. Thy have- south. In this country TCT.OCj square terrors to all men. American idea. But the work does n t learned intensive cultivation and miles and a population of 1o.112.OjS American dollars, however, will not not end there. In tho New World as Ihe modem short cuts which increase human beings and IS J diücrent diabe expended merely In lands that are well as the Old. the Methodist mission production a hundredfold. The Chris- lects. t ie missionary and foreign

United is at work teaching the young and the r-l0n missionary, it is held, is the cne worker will couue eor uit,

to take the American has merely to obey the mitudo who States. A large portion of the Meth- old. bringing to them the word of of lLe chosen ones to show South about a true understanc c.c, . " orilat rnismr.al centenary mission America, showing, theni how to live nripa knu- in work. Ican me-tLcMs. The natural wean- o

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American money will go "to Is tho religion of tho majority of the d wl fi2d lts 10 lhe 1hllip' rights and work for the common good Not to vcry ,cng ago when South Mexico include : ..... 1 rr ninr of all. vnrrir.i frt asked to be tbov.n. oil a ear, 1- per

the nine men out t;f every ten who And more

a r-r-x rl! hivnr ihit ATtrinTi tr J.mnn. Here i& the rpasnn th unnr classes. To the Japanese Da- pmes

.ni--tiftn rrTir tn th. wnrM Anri M-rhndut PniRronal Churrh t nnrt. triotism is relirion. and that relirinn There are S.000.000 ocoDle In these The work in Uie .New v.orld takes there was trickery and

tie women only one in a thousand ine ajnonr tb roonle of the Land of U Shinto. Islands, yarded by Uncle Sana, with in all of North and South Amcrica nd ..hio.

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