Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-09-05
Lnrge Missionary Meeting.

the Evangelical Churches had agreed to unite
in Union Monthly Concert of Prayer for
Home and Foreign Missions. Rev. Messrs.
Sweetser. Bushnell, and James occupied the
pulpit.
The first speaker was Lewis Tappan, Esq,
of New York, Treasurer of the american
Missionary association. He occupied about
forty minutes in abiding to the principles of
the Society, the increasing interest manifested
in them by the churches in this country, the
history of the Association, and the wide field
of usefulness opening before it. He stated
that the number of missionaries now engaged
in the foreign department was seventy. They
are laboring in the Sandwich Islands, Siam,
West Africa, and jamaica preaching the gos-
pei, forming churches, establishing schools,
printing and circulating tracts, and instruct
ing the natives in the mechanic arts and agri-
culture. He said all their missionaries were
intoxicating the principles of Peace, Temper
ance, and Freedom, without compromise or
evasion, and that God had blessed the mis-
sions in proportion to the openness and fideh-
ty with which they had accompanied faithful
preaching with corresponding practice.
Mr.. I. read an interesting letter, recently
received from Rev. G. Thompson, of the
West Africa Mission, in which, he says:
"Ihe Lord is pouring rich blessing upon
us. While the scholars in our school, with
their teachers, have attended meetings for
prayer and exhortation, have preached in the
Chapel every evening for three weeks, beside
visiting from house to house. The meetings
have been well attended, solemn and effica-
cious. Heads of families have come out, con-
fessed their sins, proiessed to give up all to
God, and sustain family prayer, whoever may
be present. Is there not occasion for praise
and thankfulness VIII not American Chris
tians rejoice with us, and pray for us Back
sliders have been reclaimed, confessing their
sins, and Christians have been greatly blessed.
No one here ever knew such time. Not
unto us, not unto us, 0 Lord but to thy
name, give glory, for thy mercy and thy truth
sake 1t would do you much good to hear
Mar-gru and her husband talk and pray, and
labor in this work. My labors are very great,
meetings every evening, the day fully occupi-
ed with classes, business, and personal con-
verse. sWho is sufficient for these things?
May the Lord send additional laborers %
In this connection, Mr.. T. said that Mar
CRU, alluded to by Mr.. Thompson, was one
OF the Amistad Africans, who had, after her
conversion, received an educationin this coun-
try, and was now one of the principal teach
ers in the large school connected with the
mission. He proceeded to speak of the
mission at California, among the Chinese, of
the mission among the Ojibway Indians, be-
yond Lake Superior, where the missionaries
are translating the Bible into the Ojbway
language, Of the mission in Jamaica among
: the emancipated negroes, and the success of
the Gospel there, lately noticed in high terms
of eulogy in New York, by distinguished
member of the bar at Jamaica, of the labors
of missionaries and teachers in Canada among
the tugitiyes from American slavery, of the
success of missionaries in the Slave States, par
ticularly in Kentucky and North Carolina, the
establishment of Ant-Slavery churches in
Z those States, of the circulation of Bibles and
religious tracts among the slaves and ignorant
whites, and the diffusion of Anti Slavery lit
erature among the people generally, of mis-
sionaries recently appointed for Kansas and
Nebraska, and to the Copts in Egypt.
Mr., I. said the Association is aiming to ell
evate the colored race in Africa and Canada
for their own good and also for the welfare of
the colored people of the United States. He
spoke also of striking examples of iberallty
on the part of some self-denying Christians
who acted on the principle of laying their
property on the altar of God and consecrating
it as well as themselves to the cause of the Re-
deemer, and concluded by inquiring whether
it was not the duty of Christian abolitionists
to be as strict, to say the least, in their relig
ious as in their political action. You Twill not,
said he,unite with either of the great political
parties because Of their pro-slavery conduct
and is it consistent to act with religious par
ties, or with those great national Societies who
viii not refuse all fellowship with Slavery, and
all connection with the iniquitous system
Rev. Mr.. Jocelyn made an animated adj
dress. He SAID the hundred home missiona-
ries of the Association, with several colpor-
teurs, were located chiefly in Ohio, Indiana,
Michigan, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, MINES
ota, Kentucky and North Carolina. He spoke
approyingly of missionaries who labor among
the, WEIGH immigrants, principally located in
Wisconsin, and said all the missionaries of the
Association are preaching pure gospel, es-
tablishing churches and sabbath schools, and
contributing to form christian communities
by encouraging education, promoting the
temperance and anti-slavery causes, and a
righteous civil government He SAID there
were obstacles in the way, intemperance,
popery, grasping after wealth, infdelity, sab
bath breaking, slavery, &c. but he said there
have been precious revivals under the minis
trations of the missionaries, and on similar
revivals rest the hopes of the christian patriot
He alluded to the anti-slavery and christian
labors of Mr.. Fee and his associates in Ken
lucky, and said there were eight non-slaYe-
holding churches in Kentucky, and six in
North Carolina formed by the missionaries of
the association. He spoke of the Morayians
who have twelve churches in Kentucky, all
sympathizing with the association.
Mr.. J. alluded to the labors of Bishop Coke
of England, who some forty or fifty years ago
preached against slavery in Virginia, and of
the remarkable success that attended his la
bors while he thus preached, but that subse-