Show HOME HOWIE MISSIONS I I AND PATRIOTISM Relation of Christian Work to Love of Country t REV G e CW W SHELTONS SERMON WHAT MISSIONS HAVE XA VE ACCOMPLISHED FOB FOR THE COUNTRY t Re Charles W Shelton of New NewYork Ne NewYork York Reid Held s secretary of o the Congregational Hom gm Missionary board loa rd spoke morning in tha th First Con Congregational Congregational Congregational church on The Rel of HOnie H mc Missions lons to Christian Patri Patriotism Mr Shelton declared that the work was Identical each being a consecration consecration tion to the country patriot patriotism ism lam consists of oC the addition of o patriot patriotism ism bun to tho the idea of o Christ ChristU If U patriotism IK Is merely love loe of oC coun country country country try because it Is i aurs declared the speaker hat bat is selfishness It Is only as ns the clement element of Christianity comes In that It 11 lo iu I made unselfish The work of home missions said Mr Shelton 13 Is s to make Christian patriot patriotism patriotism patriotism ism an unselfish love for tor country The speaker then answered the tIle ques question question tion lion Have He home missions ions ever ac IC accomplished accomplished anything for tor the country He referred to the work of Marcus the home missionary wh was WOI king in the northwest when hi hat h heard that the Ashburton treaty had been signed giving either England of or m orthe the United States the right to the coast country for merely occupying it That was vas the time when Secretary of State Daniel Webster referred contemptuously to the miles or of rockbound coast separated from ur u by b ranges of or Impassable mountains and anti declarer declared he Ie would nt mv v r Invest In st a dollar or lift a hand to save the th whole territory to the republic But Whitman made the lung long trip overland to the capital and succeeded sucCeeded suc sue lit in saving the northwest to the States In this connection a senator long Ions a ago K o remarked that if congress voted a year ear for tor fifty e years to the thu board which sent out Mar Marcus Marcus Marus cus us Whitman It would not pay the debt the nation owed it Mr Shelton Shelt n referred to the fact that during durl g the civil war one ono out of every four members of o mission churches en on enlisted enlisted listed He also declared that home mis mission missIon mission sion work vork Is 18 doing much to help solve the great problem of the present the Immigration question |