Show I I SAYS NEW YORK WILLBE WILLBE WILL WILLBE BE FOREIGN MISSION MISSIONFIELD I FIELD IN YEARS I I I NEW l' YORK March arch 2 Prediction that years hence the island of Manhattan Man hattan will bo be a foreign missionary field to which a Christian church ChUlch wille will willbe he be e sending workers was made yesterday yesterday yester yester- day morning by Dr Charles Oharles Jefferson I in his tenth anniversary sermon at tho the Broadway tabernacle the oldest Congregational Congregational Con- Con church in tho the United States While the church has been filled with doubts and md fears he lie said raid there thoro has been an ever depressing estrangement between the church and largo large classes of our population It is 15 a worldwide phenomenon Philosophy and anil science i have shaken en religious faith Socialism has made tremendous strides in ill every i Christian country and the tic end is not yot yet Manhattan island is moro more and moro more the Paris of pleasure seekers sockets and tho the London of business it is 15 more and more morea a foreign city Of our out pop population the Roman Catholic church claims there thero arc are at least non Christians leaving a Protestant remnant only of which is 50 60 less than it was twenty years ago Only Ony tho the smallest fraction of these nominal Protestants have havo any connection con con- I with ith the tho churches |