The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1862-06-20
From the Christian Messenger.
Our Mission in India.
LITTER PROM aEy. Z. ". P,nKEs.
WrsLEYponE, March ID, 1862.

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through the Messenger Our object III this
was to let the friends OF our cause comIence
with us, ard thus see the workings OF Mis-
sion n its oncouragementS and discourage
ments as the Mission grew. We think tnat
III this way all can be more familiar With
Mission work than il they nave only the gen
eral news.
While at Bijnow we endeavored to keep
our friends posted with regard to all our move
mcnts, but since coming here we have remain
ed silent. Our silence has been caused by
want Of leisure, partly, and partly from the
fact that, our field being new, we G ,uld not
well report until we had time to ook around
us and view our ground. We have now seen
our field, laid our pans and commenced up
or our work. Hence, NC report concerning
our situation.
LuckimDore, as district Is about one half
as large as all Vermont, and has population
about twice as large, containing about O0O,-
600 sous There are no cities IN the district,
bat it i, made up Of small villages from one
10 three miles apart, with an occasional large
village. The people are nearly ali farmers,
and are generally sample and unprojudiceJ as
compared with city people In country
ike tuis we nave the disadvantage that We
have no city III which 10 concentrate our ef-
forts. Yet such are the customs OF the cOun.
try that we can readily reach the people, and
perhaps more etfecCu4Iiy even than IN CITIES.
Que custom, that Of markets. greatly assists
US in our work There are certain villages
oil th ,ad al riB
MoeS These are from three to five miles
apart On certain fixed days OF each week
the merchants all 90 to certain village.
The villages all around, for three or four
miles, come on this day for their trade, and on
no other, as perhaps none OF the merchants
live in the village. The merchants the next
day move on to another village, and thus 90
the same round week alter week, the villages
and the market days Tor each village beng
permanently fixed. We take advantage OF
this custom and 60 10 these bazaar villages
on bazaar days to preach Jesus to the people,
and we arc always sure OF Il good audience.
Our plan for this district Is, to form circuits
tor our NATIVE preachers II such way that
each preacher can go to u certain number OF
bazaars each week and follow it up week al
ter week We also design establishing schools
in AL the large villages throughout the entire
district But to do this we need men and
money. We ueed native preachers and
teachers. We now nave only One native
preacher and two teachers to assist us 10
reaching population Of 100000. Pray
that our Iaborers may oe increased. No one
can fail to see that the field as described is u
very interesting field, and beautifully .ald out
Tor missionary work. 1t is looked upon with
interest, as j. differs from most Vi cur Mis-
sion stations, being a country Instead OF i
city field
Another interesting feature OF this village
Work is the tact that Il number Of estates IL
the district are owned By European Christian
gentlemen, who desire TO have schools estab-
lshod among their people. The cppl slton
and persecution is thuS removed, and a man
can become Christian with no tear OF losing
his property. l. is Impossible to tell to v bat
extent this may hep our work, yet We ieel
sure that 1t Will help Us some. The part OF
our Work, however, which Is look ed upon with
the greatest interest at present is our native
Christian village, which we are now estab-
listing in this district, about twenty miles
from the station OF Luckinlpore. Our village
is known by the name OF 'WeSIeypore. Our
great object in esta bIlshlng thls village is to
afford home for the poor and prosecuted
Christians among us. 1t IS well known that
Christians often nave to torsake home, friends,
property and all tor Christ. They come to
us with nothing; what can they do! The
land generally belongs to heather meu, who
will give none to Christians. No heather
man will hire them, or give them home in
their village. Our object then, is to afford
home Tor such as these. One example will
illustrate this:
There is at present a very intelligent young
man with Us, whose former home was at Ba-
reilly. He there heard oil Christ and saliva
ton. Once hearing he desired to hear again
and again. lie at length obtained Bible,
read, inquired, became convinced and con-
yerted He met with such opposition from
the first that he was obliged to do all in Sc.
cret. When he became fully decided TO
openly confess Christ he went 10 the Mission
AIRY aud asked II he could DE protected al the
Mission House. Being assured that he could
he returned to MS home, took his wife aud
child ana started Tor the Mission. His friends
however, learned what he was doing, and sue.
ceeded IN getting possession OF his wife and
cnlId aud conveyed them back to her father.
He aioue succeeded IN getting away. The