Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1858-05-21
From the Boston Journal.
Meeting of the American Board
New York; May IA.

New York, May IA.
The great meeting of the week was
held in DR.. Cheever's church to-day. II
was the meeting in behalf of the Amerl-
can Board. Rev. President Hopkins
presided. Prof. Hastings led the sing
ing which was done by the con gregatlon.
Rev. Lyman Peet of the Fuhehaw mis-
sion in China made the opening address,
He said the Chinese worship their an
cestors-they put their name on block
of wood-to this they burn incense
They have no Sabbath and no holy time.
They worship when calamity comes on
them. They bring out the roll of names,
set table with food on it, the Oldest son
becomes the priest of the family, who
places paper money and clothes, sets the
whole on fire and the smoke watts the
gift to the spirit of the ancestor, and
thus he is appeased. The female are
degraded and have no equality with the
men at all. A female child is of little
value gambling, opium eating and i'm
purity are the great vices of the people.
But many things are hopeful. They
have universal language. Most of them
can read. They have no religious
scruples. federation is found among
them. They have made great conces-
sions-will have to submit tothe demand
of the Western Powers that all the EN-
pire shall be opened to all the world
then all this vast Empire can be made
instrumental in turning many to the
Lord.
Rev. Henry NJ. Scudder, of the Ar
cot Mission of the Reform Dutch Church,
next spoke. He made q thrilling ad-
dress. No more powerful, tender, cap
tlvating, has been made this week. He
began by saying that in the words Of
Luther, he "must run over the subject
as a spider runs over the water" He
said-Hindooism is strong-strong in its
intellectual infdelity, strong in its hole
on the popular mind. Its evils are those
of the anaconda. He once stood in 6
t Te mple in India-its vestibule wa:
held up by immense columns, all in one
o stone, all deliberately carved, stone or
e stone far as the eye could See-liy,
: elephants are chained to these as senti
i nels-an immense quadrangular tank fiji
led one room-walls covered with san
d script, the history Of which would taxi
a year to trace-the vast dome held VI
by 500 columns, with soldiers between
1t them, enough to make an army-whil'
Il further on in the dim distance, that thu
Missionary could not penetrate, as it wa
- the holy of holies, was the Idol seated
e To support this temple the monthly sun
u of $4,000 was expended-he could no
III see all this and not feel that HndOOlSn
was might affair. In that field he feI
like grasshopper on blade of gras
l. at the foot of the vast range of the Him
~ malaga Mountains. He should have sun
had he not remembered the little see
and His power who could remove noun
tains. He came home because he ha
been crushed by toll. He was as if /
7 den of wolves he must work with a
his might. Men who stood outside til
u den and said as a caution, &" don't wor
Sc too hard" had better come down into til
~ den and help fight the wolves. Som
Is said the missionary work was none
he making work he had sent to this Ian
Oh his children; they could not stay in Il
ne dia he took leave Of them on the sh
Ks One of his little girls had wept herse
ed almost sick on his bosom before she lie
Pt him; the last he saw of her was with Il
III handkerchief her mother gave her, l
It's to her face. and her face on the rail
Us the ship, and she did not lift her he;
Il" till the ship was out of sight. "Wou
ior | do that for money!" he asked. III
IDS fearful response of the audience was n,
1t Mr.. Scr er said, we want men boo
Oh are good, but we want men not brok.
eu down men; not men who cannot succe,
ny here, but live men, able men, to do Il
Ne great battle on the plains of India.
~ Mr.. Schaufler, Mr.. Thompson, N
'e' Bushnell and Mr.. Carpenter Of Broo
~ lyp made short speeches.
'O' The day was rainy and dark. T
, house was not crowded, but the intere
''' was intense and the impression deIigl
40 full. BURLEIGH.
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