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Luneabuyh, ", Nay 18th, 1878,
notice Of tchich ,Uas gireR ia The
Herald Of Nay PAN.
MISSIONARY FRIENDS An earnest
desire to do all known duty, and q
vivid consciousness OF tue magnitude
of mission work, and the pressing
needs Of the same, demanding the i'm
mediate attention of all who are strive
ing for the advancement of Christ's
Kingdom, induces me though reluct- |
antly TO appear before you this after
noon to offer few remarks.
l am aware that every individual,
cannot with the minds eye, see the
sunken condition of the heather, or
the necessity of employing means for
the spread of the purifying and saw
ing influences of Christianity among
them;
sour prayers be with you; those who know
The value OF a soul to save,
Must pray for those who seek to show
The heather hope beyond the grave"
AS we are laboring for the orphan
girl, Frances Blake, who is at the Or
phanage at Bareily, India, l think
it will not be amiss to speak briefly
of the history of this institution. AT
the time of the terrible famine of 1860
in India, the English Government
collected hundreds of furnishing chill
dren, the boys in one town and the
girls in another to save them from
starvation. But they could only ex-
tend temporary relief, and therefore
waited for their friends to come for
ward and claim them but the famine
was so severe, and so many died that
no Hindoo or Mohamedan hand was
proffered to save those poor children
thus lying between hope and despair.
The missionaries took the case to God,
and laid it all before Him, and after
anguish of soul, and Jealous prayer,
decided to take one hundred boys, and
one hundred and fifty girls, and trust
in God for the result.
This was q bold adventurer for the
missionaries were few, and in poverty !;
and had no means in hand to provide
for them, no shelter or support.
But their feelings and judgement
chung to the conviction that it was
right and necessary to do so, and that
the good Of the mission, and the glory
of God, would be promoted by it. and
some how or other the Lord and His
church would find the means to do it.
Fears were awakened that it could
not be done that it would bankrupt
the mission; and the oft repeated in
quiry arose, how are you going to
sustain, or feed, or clothe, or shelter,
OF edusated them? Brother Buffers
reply was, ~ do not know, but believe
the Lord will provide.
The English Government was glad
to have the children taken off their
hands, and readily consented to let
the missionaries have all they would
take. On going to Moradabad to re-
ceivc them they found that the Mo-
hamedan wretches, rather than have
them fall into the hands of missieha-
ries had actually distributed some Of
them in houses of deepest degradation
to be trained to life of darkest crime
and guilt, but the Government in
terfered, and made tile orphans over
to the missionaries.
The poor little creatures were sent
to Bareilly and laid down at the mis-
sionaries' door. They were ofall ages
from thirteen down TO the babe of three
months. Most of them were weak
and emaciated, and in most deplora
BILE condition and few of them were
dying, whom no care could save; sc
they lost out of their number fifteen
A girl by the name Of Maria, 9
Jealous laborer for the conversion o.
her benighted sisters, and the frs
native of1ndia who joined the Meth
odist church at Bareilly, became s
martyr to Jesus, three years before
the famine, at the time of the Seapoy
rebellion in 1857. She was slain
and there on the very spot where he'
blood baptized the soil of Bareilly
has sprung up rich harvest Of good
for the daughters Of India. The
, Mission House stands on this very
ground, the Orphanage and Schoo
house close by. But those precious
children were cared for, and it is nov
thirteen years, and many of then
: have graduated bright with intelli