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VOL.
XXVI
ALLEGHENY,
PA.,
SEPTEMBER
15,1905
No.
18
deed,
but
coming
through
wars
and
anarchy
such
as
never
yet
have
been--coming
by
the
interposition
of
Immanuel
as
King
of
kings
and
Lord
of
lords,
in
power
and
great
glory.
The
Bishop's
prayer
follows:-
"Almighty
God,
whose
is
the
spirit
of
unity
and
concord,
and
who
makes~
men
to
be
of
one
mind
in
an
house,
be,
we
beseech
thee,
With
thy
servants
who
shall
soon
assemble
on
these
shores
to
seek
for
a
basis
of
peace.
Overrule
their
de
liberations
with
thy
heavenly
wisdom,
fill
them
with
the
spirit
of
brotherhood,
and
so
hasten
the
day
when
all
men
shall
beat
their
swords
into
plowshares
and
their
spears
into
pruning
hooks,
when
thy
children
shall
be
taught
of
the
Lord
and
when
great
shall
be
the
peace
of
thy
children.
All
of
which
we
ask
through
Jesus
Christ,
our
Lord,
Amen,"
KISSIONABY
MOTIVIIS
SilT
FOBTH
The
following
letter
will
be
read
with
interest
by
many.
It
appears
that
Secretary
Barton,
of
the
American
Board
of
Foreign
Missions,
communicated
with
Mr.
J.
D.
Rockefeller,
requesting
his
contribution
to
the
work
being
done
by
the
Board,
and
Mr.
Rockefeller
commissioned
his
Private
Secretary
to
look
into
the
matter
and
to
report.
It
was
on
the
strength
of
that
report
(see
the
letter
below)
that
Mr.
Rockefeller
contrib
uted
the
$100,000,
the
acceptance
of
which
made
such
a
stir
last
spring.
Whether
Secretary
Barton's
share
of
the
donation
was
one-half
(the
amount
allowed
solicitors
in
some
other
similar
societies)
we
are
not
informed.
The
letter,
or
"report,"
it
will
be
noted,
deals
with
Foreign
Missions
from
the
standpoint
of
Oivilization
rather
than
Ohristiankation.
It
appeals
to
morals
and
trade
and
dollars,
rather
than,
as
of
old,
to
flames
and
devils
and
torments.
Mr.
Gates'
report
to
Mr.
Rockefeller
runs
thus:
THE
V
ALUIl
OF
FORIlIGN
MISSIONS
"We
have
had
long
interviews
with
Dr.
Barton,
and
we
have
examined
each
item
of
proposed
expenditure
presented
by
him
in
detail,
with
maps
before
us.
We
have
given
it
careful
attention,
both
here
at
the
office
and
at
my
home
in
Mont
Clair.
In
every
instance
we
were
satisfied
that
the
money
asked
would
be
wisely
expended
and
would
fill
a
r,eal
need
and
perform
substam,.al
service
for
mankind.
"No
one
can
observe
foreign
peoples
at
all
without
be
ing
impressed
with
the
great
need
of
foreign
people
in
educa
tion,
medicine
and
surgery,
morals
and
religion,
appltcations
of
science
to
agriculture,
manufacture,
transportation,
hy
giene,
civil
and
social
institutions
and
in
all
thmgs
which
tend
to
relieve
man
from
misery
and
make
for
health,
hap
piness
and
progress.
"A
vast
amount
of
good
has
been
done.
Statistics
of
mere
converts
furnish
no
sort
of
measure.
The
fact
is
that
heathen
nations
are
being
everywhere
honeycombed
with
light
and
civilization
and
with
modern
industrial
life
and
applications
of
modern
science
through
the
direct
or
indirect
agencies
of
the
missionaries.
Look
at
Japan,
for
illustration.
Quite
apart
from
the
question
of
persons
converted,
the
mere
com
mercial
results
of
missionary
effort
to
our
own
land
is
worth
I
had
almost
said
a
thousand-fold
what
has
been
spent.
"For
illustration:
Our
commerce
today
with
the
Ha
waiian
Islands,
which
are
now
Christianized
and
no
longer
take
missIOnary
money,
is,
I
am
told,
$i7,000,000
a
year.
Five
per
cent
of
that
in
one
year
would
represent
all
the
money
that
was
ever
spent
in
Christianizing
and
p.ivilizing
the
natives.
When
the
missionaries
went
there
the
Hawali
ans
were
cannibals,
without
a
dollar
of
exports
or
imports.
Today
these
islands
are
composed
of
great
wealth.
What
is
true
of
Hawaii
is
true
of
Japan.
Missionary
enterprise,
thE-refore,
viewed
solely
from
a
commercial
standpoint,
is
im
mensely
profitable.
From
the
point
of
view
of
subsistence
for
Americans,
our
import
trade,
traceable
mainly
to
the
channels
of
intercourse
opened
up
by
missionariel'l.
is
enor
mous.
Imports
from
heathen
lands
furnish
us
cheaply
with
many
things,
indeed,
which
we
now
regard
as
necessities.
"Gladstone
declared
that
modern
applications
of
steam
and
modern
machinery
had
multiplied
the
productive
power
of
each
man
in
England
by
(was
it
not?)
600
over
what
it
was
200
years
ago.
Never
mind
the
exact
figure.
We
know
the
multiplication
is
great.
Missionariel!l
and
missionary
schools
are
introducing
the
application
of
modern
science.
steam
and
electric
power,
modern
agricultural
machinery
and
modern
manufacture
into
foreign
lands.
The
result
will
be
eventually
to
multiply
the
productive
power
of
foreign
coun
tries
many
time9.
"This
will
enormously
enrich
them
as
buyers
of
American
products,
and
enormously
enrich
us
as
buyers
of
their
pro
ducts.
We
are
only
in
the
very
dawn
of
commerce,
and
we
VIEWS
FROM
THE
WATCH
TOWER
ZIONISM'S
S:PLIT
OF
THE
LID
OF
FAITH
The
recent
division
of
the
"Zionists"
into
two
parties
is
evidently
along
the
lines
of
faith
and
unbelief--a
sitting.
Dr.
HerzI's
death
prepared
the
way.
Zangwill,
one
of
the
principal
subsequent
leaders,
favored
the
acceptance
of
the
offer
of
the
British
Government
of
a
large
and
fertile
tract
of
land
in
Africa,
nearly
a
thousand
miles
south
of
Palestine.
He
threw
the
weight
of
his
influence
toward
it
and
swayed
a
conslderable
number,
who
doubtless,
like
himself,
viewed
the
Zionist
movement
merely
from
the
humanitarian
standpoint.
It
is
to
the
credit
of
the
movement
as
a
whole
that
it
rejected
the
proposal.,
It
proves
that
the
Zion!st
movement
is
not
merely
for
sOClal
1;Jetterm.ent
of
the
~uss~an
Jews,.
~ut
mainly
a
race
regeneration
bmlt
upon
faith
lD
the
dlV~ne
promises
which
attach
to
Palestine-the.
Land
of
ProIDl.se.
It
is
worthy
of
note
that
not
one
AmerIcan
representative
joined
the
Zahgwill
split,
though
he
visite~.
this
country
specially
to
advocate
the
acceptance
of
the
Bntish
offer.
THE
MOVEMENT'S
GBOWING
FOBOE
It
is
worthy
of
note
also
that
each
year
this
Zionist
move
ment
gams
favor
with
the
Jews.
At
its
start
a
few
years
ago
the
learned
generally
scoffed
at
it.
Now
we
read
that,
notwithstanding
the
death
of
the
able
leader,
Dr.
Herzl,
the
last
congress
held
at
Basle,
Switzerland,
was
one
of
extra
power
intellectually.
The
movement
is
in
accord
with
proph
ecy,
and
delay
will
only
enkindle
the
desire
and
hope
and
faith
necessary
to
a
successful
entrance
into
the
land
when
once
the
Turks
grant
the
privilege
of
so
doing
and
some
de
gree
of
self-government.
In
a
slgned
statement
Professor
Warburg
of
the
Berlin
University,
an
eminent
Zionist
and
economist,
says:-
"The
East
African
resolutions
are
not
a
backward
step.
The
fact
that
Zionism
can
afford
to
decline
the
British
offer
is
a
proof
of
its
strength
and
determination
to
remain
stead
fast
in
adherence
to
its
basic
principles.
Zionism
does
not
cont,emplate
an
economic
experiment,
but
the
rene'Yal
~f
na
tional
life
by
the
Jewish
peoples,
whose
fu~ur~
hes
In
the
Orient.
The
world
must
reahze
that
the
ZlODlsts
are
bent
on
the
restoration
of
Palestine
to
IsraeL"
A
press
report
of
the
conference
thus
describes
some
of
its
features:
Herzl
was
called
the
new
Moses,
at
first
derisively,
but
now
he
deserves
the
name
in
earnest.
His
words
are
quoted
everywhere
as
those
of
the
new
prophet
of
regenerated
Israel.
Delegates
from
the
intellectual
aristocracy
of
the
world
were
there.
It
is
doubtful
if
any
parliamentary
body
ever
}.{'ld
equalled
it
in
brain
power.
The
flower
of
the
Jewish
people
were
there.
The
or~tors
spoke
in
English!
German,
Russian
French
and
claSSiC
Hebrew.
All
phySical
types
were
r:presented-giants,
dwarfs.
Jerusalem
rabbis
in
Ori
ental
robes,
speaking
to
English
baronets,
all
bound
together
by
the
common
idea
of
re-building
the
Jewish
State
in
Pales
tine,
where
the
Jews,
now
crushed
by
Cossack
rule,
shall
show
the
world
what
the
race
can
accomplish
through
concerted
effort.
Scholars
and
writers
galore
were
there;
the
foremost,
Nordau
and
Marmock
of
Paris,
Warburg
of
Berlin
and
Zang
will
of
London.
Nordau,
pale
with
emotion,
opened
proc~edings,
stand
ing
near
Herzl's
vacant
seat.
Sobs
were
audible
throughout
the
hall
as
with
admirable
oratory,
Nordau
eulogized
the
dead
leader'
to
an
immense
audience
standing
with
bowed
heads,
the
Jewish
mourning
attitude.
Nordau
stigmatized
the
selfishness
of
the
Jews
who,
al
though
best
able
to
second
Herzl's
efforts.
were
holding
aloof.
He
pictured
the
Jewish
people
as
a
family
divided
against
itself.
He
exclaimed,
"Our
people
had
Herzl,
but
Herzl,
alas,
had
no
people."
Addressing
HerzI
as
though
present,
he
invoked
the
dead
leader's
emperor-like
personality.
He
said:
"Rest
in
peace,
for
what
you
built
we
shall
forever
treasure."
KEE:PING
THII
LOBD
INFOBK!lD
Bishop
Potter
(Episcopalian),
of
New
York
"subway
tav
ern"
fame,
promptly
prepared
the
following
prayer
for
his
people
on
the
eve
of
the
Russo-Japan
Peace
Conference.
From
the
wording
of
the
prayer
the
Lord
may
be
expected
to
infer
that
the
arbitrators
are
"saints"
and
representatives
of
saint
ly
nations.
The
mention
of
the
Millennium,
when
swords
will
be
beaten
into
plowshares,
seems
a
trifle
strained
in
view
of
the
fact
that
armaments
on
land
and
sea
are
increasing
as
never
before
and
wars
are
multiplying,
and
presumably
the
Bishop
is
a
pre-Millennialist,
whose
hope
is
the
conver
sion
of
the
world
by
the
preaching
which
has
accomplished
so
little
in
nineteen
centuries.
The
Millennium
is
near
in-
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(275-276)
Vor. XXVI ALLEGHENY, PA., SEPTEMBER, 15, 1905 No. 18 VIEWS FROM THE WATCH TOWER ZIONISM’S SPLIT OF THE LINE OF FAITH The recent division of the “Zionists” into two parties is evidently along the lines of faith and_unbelief—a sitting. Dr. Herzl’s death prepared the way. Zangwill, one of the principal subsequent leaders, favored the acceptance of the offer of the British Government of a large and fertile tract of land in Africa, nearly a thousand miles south of Palestine. He threw the weight of his influence toward it and swayed a considerable number, who doubtless, like himself, viewed the Zionist movement merely from the humanitarian standpoint. It is to the credit of the movement as a whole that it rejected the proposal. It proves that the Zionist movement, is not merely for social betterment of the Russian Jews, but mainly a race regeneration built upon faith in the divine promises which attach to Palestine—the Land of Promise. It is worthy of note that not one American representative joined the Zangwill split, though he visited this country specially to advocate the acceptance of the British offer. THE MOVEMENT’S GROWING FORCE It is worthy of note also that each year this Zionist movement gains favor with the Jews. At its start a few years ago the learned generally scoffed at it. Now we read that, notwithstanding the death of the able leader, Dr. Herzl, the last congress held at Basle, Switzerland, was one of extra power intellectually. The movement is in accord with prophecy, and delay will only enkindle the desire and hope and faith necessary to a successful entrance into the land when once the Turks grant the privilege of so doing and some degree of self-government. . In a signed statement Professor Warburg of the Berlin University, an eminent Zionist and economist, says:-— “The East African resolutions are not a backward step. The fact that Zionism can afford to decline the British offer is a proof of its strength and determination to remain steadfast in adherence to its basic principles. Zionism does not contemplate an economic experiment, but the renewal of national life by the Jewish peoples, whose future lies in the Orient. The world must realize that the Zionists are bent on the restoration of Palestine to Israel.” . A press report of the conference thus describes some of its features: Herzl was called the new Moses, at first derisively, but now he deserves the name in earnest. His words are quoted everywhere as those of the new prophet of regenerated Israel. Delegates from the intellectual aristocracy of the world were there. It is doubtful if any parliamentary body ever held equalled it in brain power. The flower of the Jewish people were there. The orators spoke in English, German, Russian, French and classic Hebrew. All physical types were represented—giants, dwarfs. Jerusalem rabbis in Oriental robes, speaking to English baronets, all bound together by the common idea of re-building the Jewish State in Palestine, where the Jews, now crushed by Cossack rule, shall show the world what the race can accomplish through concerted effort. Scholars and writers galore were there; the foremost, Nordau and Marmock of Paris, Warburg of Berlin and Zangwill of London. . Nordau, pale with emotion, opened proceedings, standing near Herzl’s vacant seat. Sobs were audible throughout the hall as, with admirable oratory, Nordau eulogized the dead leader to an immense audience standing with bowed heads, the Jewish mourning attitude. Nordau stigmatized the selfishness of the Jews who, although best able to second Herz!’s efforts. were holding aloof. He pictured the Jewish people as a family divided against itself. He exclaimed, “Our people had Herzl, but Herzl, alas, had no people.” . Addressing Herzl as though present, he invoked the dead leader’s emperor-like personality. He said: “Rest in peace, for what you built we shall forever treasure.” KEEPING THE LORD INFORMED Bishop Potter (Episcopalian), of New York “subway tavern” fame, promptly prepared the following prayer for his people on the eve of the Russo-Japan Peace Conference. From the wording of the prayer the Lord may be expected to infer that the arbitrators are “saints” and representatives of saintly nations. The mention of the Millennium, when swords will be beaten into plowshares, seems a trifle strained in view of the fact that armaments on land and sea are increasing as never before and wars are multiplying, and presumably the Bishop is a pre-Millennialist, whose hope is the conversion of the world by the preaching which has accomplished so little in nineteen centuries. The Millennium is near in [38627] deed, but coming through wars and anarchy such as never yet have been—coming by the interposition of Immanuel as King of kings and Lord of lords, in power and great glory. The Bishop’s prayer follows:— “Almighty God, whose is the spirit of unity and concord, and who makest men to be of one mind in an house, be, we beseech thee, with thy servants who shall soon assemble on these shores to seek for a basis of peace. Overrule their deliberations with thy heavenly wisdom, fill them with the spirit of brotherhood, and so hasten the day when all men shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks, when thy children shall be taught of the Lord and when great shall be the peace of thy children. All of which we ask through Jesus Christ, our Lord, Amen.” MISSIONARY MOTIVES SET FORTH The following letter will be read with interest by many. It appears that Secretary Barton, of the American Board of Foreign Missions, communicated with Mr. J. D. Rockefeller, requesting his contribution to the work being done by the Board, and Mr, Rockefeller commissioned his Private Secretary to look into the matter and to report. It was on the strength of that report (see the letter below) that Mr. Rockefeller contributed the $100,000, the acceptance of which made such a stir last spring. Whether Secretary Barton’s share of the donation was one-half (the amount allowed solicitors in some other similar societies) we are not informed. The letter, or “report,” it will be noted, deals with Foreign Missions from the standpoint of Civilization rather than Christianization. It appeals to morals and trade and dollars, rather than, as of old, to flames and devils and torments. Mr. Gates’ report to Mr. Rockefeller runs thus: THE VALUE OF FOREIGN MISSIONS “We have had long interviews with Dr. Barton, and we have examined each item of proposed expenditure presented by him in detail, with maps before us. We have given it careful attention, both here at the office and at my home in Mont Clair. In every instance we were satisfied that the money asked would be wisely expended and would fill a real need and perform substanwal service for mankind. “No one can observe foreign peoples at all without being impressed with the great need of foreign people in education, medicine and surgery, morals and religion, applications of science to agriculture, manufacture, transportation, hygiene, civil and social institutions and in all things which tend to relieve man from misery and make for health, happiness and progress. “A vast amount of good has been done. Statistics of mere converts furnish no sort of measure. The fact is that heathen nations are being everywhere honeycombed with light and civilization and with modern industrial life and applications of modern science through the direct or indirect agencies of the missionaries. Look at Japan, for illustration. Quite apart from the question of persons converted, the mere commercial results of missionary effort te our own land is worth— I had almost said a thousand-fold what has been spent. “For illustration: Our commerce today with the Hawaiian Islands, which are now Christianized and no longer take missionary money, is, I am told, $17,000,000 a year. Five per cent of that in one year would represent all the money that was ever spent in Christianizing and civilizing the natives, When the missionaries went there the Hawaiians were cannibals, without a dollar of exports or imports. Today these islands are composed of great wealth. What is true of Hawaii is true of Japan. Missionary enterprise, therefore, viewed solely from a commercial standpoint, is immensely profitable. From the point of view of subsistence for Americans, our import trade, traceable mainly to the channels of intercourse opened up by missionaries, is enormous. Imports from heathen lands furnish us cheaply with many things, indeed, which we now regard as necessities. “Gladstone declared that modern applications of steam and modern machinery had multiplied the productive power of each man in England by (was it not?) 600 over what it was 200 years ago, Never mind the exact figure. We know the multiplication is great. Missionaries and missionary schools are introducing the application of modern science, steam and electric power, modern agricultural machinery and modern manufacture into foreign lands. The result will be eventually to multiply the productive power of foreign countries many times. “This will enormously enrich them as buyers of American products, and enormously enrich us as buyers of their products. We are only in the very dawn of commerce, and we (275-276)
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