Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1841-03-10
VERMONT TELEGRAPH.
BRANDON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH. 10, 1s4l
WILLIAM G. BROWN, EpIron.
FOREIGN MISSIONS.


Dear brethren We wish to call your
attention TO this important field of beneyo-
lent effort The Board are in great want
of funds at this moment to carry on their
Heavenly enterprise OF sending the word
of life to the poor, perishing heather in
foreign chimes. For various reasons there
has been sad deficiency in the receipts
of the Mission Treasury for the last few
months. Only about $4,000 have been
received per month, when 5000 are need
ed for the successful prosecution of the
work already in operation. The salaries
Of the Missionaries have been reduced to
the lowest extent compatible with chris
tian beneyoence. And yet with all the
economy of the Board in relation to ex-
penditures abroad, we can see no alterna-
tive, unless immediate relief is granted,
but that they should Involve themselves
in embarrassing debts, or recall some of
their Missionaries. Shall the former be
done2 Who will say that they could be
justified in trusting to future benevolence,
when their most urgent appeals are inef-
fectual now! Shall the latter alternative
be resorted to, and the little focks that
| have been gathered on Pagan hills be left
without shepherd
The last year has been harvest year
for Christian Missions. In the Sandwich
Islands alone, ten thousand souls have been
! gathered from the wastes of heathenism ;
aud where but a few years since, the
| gloom of moral night hung over all the
Islands, is now the largest single church
in the world .:.->
! Accounts from many Of our Eastern
Missions have been OF highly encourag
ing nature. AT Mergui, about 40 have
been baptized, and two new churches con.
stituted. A verv extraordinary move
ment has recently been made among the
Karens, and the number OF converts has
been estimated at about two thousand
4 A letter from Mr.. Kincaid, dated Akyab,
May %, 1910, says, "You will be hap
py 70 learn the wonderful triumph of tht
gospel in the Bassein province. 1t com
! menced among the Karens in the latte
(, part of 1897, aud now there are more thai
taco thousand rejoicing in the glorious lib
4 erty of the gospel. Brother Abbott a
!. Sandoway is in communication with then
!, and has fifty or more promising youns
men in school All the men who hav
f come over the hills, represent the wor
e as still going on; spreading from villag
to village in every direction Thcugl
the desoiating march Of war has broke il
# upon some of the peaceful villages, an
: driven the Missionary from his station
J vet facts justify the assertion that th'
:, fields of Burmah are white for the har
= vest. -" -
= In view of these things, shall glooi
q and grief fill the hearts that are now re
, ioicing amid their labors on heathe
l. ground, AMI burning with desire to s?tea
l. light and love and happiness through a
those chimes Of sin, by the report that
merican churches have proved treache
al Gus to their promise of support by ain
Of and prayers, which they so solemn
" pledged2 Already do they anguish
o. mid their labors as they think of their b
~ loved land, and feel that hearts are e
;. ,ranged. and that forgetfulness has taxi
us the place of love.
I'm Will our brethren read the followir
en- extract of a letter from brother INGALI
~ dated. Mergui, May ls, 1910, which ,
copy from the N. Y. Baptist Register, a
nd respond to its appeals by relieving t
nj. board Of their present embarrassments
'n- Our hope Is in Northern Baptists. "
~. have always shown that they have hea
zee to feel and money to give, when duty a