The Home Missionary Volume 72-73 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ...time to preach that gospel than today. Nine men out of ten who go to Alaska become despondent. It is one thing or the other. Either these men go to the devil or they go to the Lord. They either go down through the gate of the saloon to hell or they go up through the door of the church into glory. It is simply the man who gets hold of them first. Dear friends, you have heard this music. (Sung by Mr. and Mrs. Chafer.) Has it touched your hearts? Have you felt that it might be something in your own life worth listening to? Think of 25,000 men next winter cooped up at Cape Nome, probably without a letter from their home for eight months, who have spent their last dollar and are stranded in the camp. Think of 25,000 such men They will live in dug-outs, they will be coming to the hospital that they may have a place to sleep. This they did last winter. And then think of a great, warm, wide-open church and reading-room now on their way to Cape Nome. And think of this hospital, with its loving ministrants and ministrations, reaching out for these lives. Will it be a good work? Will it be a Christian service? Will it be a doorway of hope to hundreds of souls? That is as far as I dare go to-night. But it is possible--and it is possible, my friends, if yon want it. And so we heard, after the church had been organized, after Miss Benton had opened her reading-room work, after the hospital had gotten on its feet, we heard that the Pacific slope was being shaken by the tramp of 40.000 men who had put their faces toward the new land of gold and who were coming like those who came to the Klondike, and the same ratio who come will either go back or become discouraged. In regard to these three types of work for a moment: It seemed that in Alaska we needed a practical side to...