Show It was unfortunate that Mr Cleveland Cleve-land when he turned home missionary and denounced the west with that characteristic zeal with which the neophyte usually attacks the heathen was not a little better informed as to the location of the class of persons in need of the good services of the home missionaries The board of home missions mis-sions of the Presbyterian church seemed to understand the business much better than the president and in their official report for the year 1895 accurately located the evils against which they were to wage eternal warfare war-fare in the great cities Evidently the presidents prejudice against the west led him to fire in quite a different direction di-rection than that to which the Presbyterian Presby-terian church was looking as is evident evi-dent from the following from the boards report quoted in the Rocky Mountain News of Sunday The abnormal growth and abounding corruption of our great cities show also the Importance of sending them the home missionary In all of them may be seen the social evil invading the peace and security of < families destroy ing household ties estranging the child from the parent i and the parent from the child wickedness assuming the revolting forms of defiance to law and hatred toward every kind of constituted con-stituted government converting many a workshop into a political caucus and honorable handicrafts into confederations confedera-tions against the peace and prosperity of the state infidelity profaning all religion re-ligion and laughing at the idea of the supernatural and immorality leading not only to Sabbathbreaking profanity profan-ity intoxication gambling fraud violence vio-lence and assassination but also to deliberate impiety undisguised anarchy an-archy and scornful atheism The fetid pools found in all our large cities overflow and threaten to devastate devast-ate the surrounding country Perhaps thus far our rural districts are not seriously threatening our peace or our future prosperity For in them we do not as yet encounter the active loud M Iit mouthed anarchy or the bold disregard J of law and social order or the vile political po-litical corruption that destroys the moral sense of the officers of the law in large cities Neither do we witness as yet there that calm ferocity of disposition dis-position which makes one shudder as if in the presence of a fiend in the great centers of population One is not there in special dread of the nightly robber or the danger of the assassin Men do not there breathe infection from dwellings crowded with all that is loathsome and obscene |