Litchfield enquirer., 1859-07-28

MEETING OF RETURNED MISSIONARIES AT SOUTH HADLEY-It is one of the chief honors of the Mount hoiyoke Female Seminary, of South Hadley, that not few of it's teachers and pupils of former years nave themselves to the service of Christ in the Foreign Missionary field For the purpose oi confirming and increasing the attachment of the members of the Seminary to this great enterprise of the Church, meeting of those ladies who were for merly connected with the Institution, but are now engaged in missionary service, and who happeuetl at the present lime to be :n the country, together with such missionary brethren as gre at home on leave of absence. was held at South Hadley, on Thursday, the 30th ut It resulted in numerous and exceedingly pleasant gathering of representa- lives of many of the mission stations of the A. B. C. M., which body was also officially represented in the person of it's Senior Secretary. There pre- sent, as we learn, from correspondent of the Con- gregdtionaAt, fourteen gentlemen together with fif teen ladies belonging to the different missions and several children of their families. These, with friends invited to meet them, made up an assembly of more than hundred, who were most hospitably entertained by their fair hosts of the Seminary.
 The assemblage of 50 many apostles of the mod crn Church, who hrd all seen hard, and some of them long, service in heather lands constituted of itself, an impressive scene It was ascertained, inquiry, that those persons had, in the aggregate, performed three hundred and ninety-eight years of missionary labor! Each of the gentlemen gave the audience opportunity of hearing his voice in a brief address, in the of the day, the hours of which were most pleasantly and proftably passed in these and other appropriate exercises. The com pany reluctantly separatcd feeling that it had been their privilege to enjoy day of rare interest.
 Great regret was felt by all account of the un- auoidable absence of Miss Fisk, of the Nestoriau mission . former teacher in the Seminary, who had hoped to be present. Her more recent and most successful experience, at the head of the Female Seminary at Oroomiah, had awakened quite gene ral and strong desire to meet her.
 Dr. Anderson showed his appreciation of the i'm portance of the Seminary in the cause of missions, by saying that no college in the United States did he turn with SO much anxiety, while feeling the pulse of missions, as to this Institution.
 In the evening there were gathered upon the stage the following missionaries: Rev. Messrs. Meigs Rowland, Miner, Smith and Mills, Mrs. Rowland, Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Mills and Mrs. Hosington, all from Ceylon MT. and Mrs. Webb of the Madura mission i; Mir. and Mrs. Hagen, Mir. and Mrs. Wilde, and Mrs Hume of the Mahratta mission; DI. Perkins, Mrs Stodtasd and Mrs. Stocking, of the Nestorian mis- sion Rev. Mrs. Clark. Alexander and Smith, from the Sandwich Islands Rev. Mir. Laurie, of West Koxbury, formerly missionary at Mosul; Rev. Mr. Beade, of Hartford. Ct., formerly missionary to Sy ria Mir. Beebe of the South Armenian mission, and Mrs Eli Smith.
 Of the ladies present. five had been teachers in the Mount Hoyoke Seminary and one other was a graduate. Dr.. Anderson stated that sixty gradu- ates of the Seminary had been missionaries of the A. B. c. F. M. and that twenty eight were now in the field 4s