The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-10-09
The Sixiy.Fif.h ANIMAL Meeting.
second pays PrOccedings-Evcnins
session.
ruywsDAY,s PROCEEDINGS.

occasions, and the exercises were vi ah eA-
ceedingly interesting character
President Hopkins was in the chair and
after the singing of antioch"
.Jly to the world the Ior Is come,
Let earth receive her King"
PRAYER was offered by Rev. Dr.. Forsyth
Hon W. C. Dodge of New York, wee
pre,i lent of tie bard, then addressed the
board ami assembly. Although lee was a
P,esb, terrain he liked once year to be Il
Congregational. st, AMI perhaps the treas
nrer would like 90 have him twice yer
daughter and applause What can we
10 to maize our absent friends think rs we
do Tonight, ard he filled with some warn
enthusiasm that we feel 1t would be well
that ia the fret place, ministers should
secure Il large numbc' 4 the publications.
oi the hoard after ''H- meeting AID dis
uilGIe ih"o to the. parishes.
The mun qn' on Of tins neein- Is
ihat ot huuce jbc wealth rt the c"i.n-
uy Is unlimited. Il i not nil ont of the
church, rul 81 majority Of i, il IN the church.
During the sixty p,' yeats OF The existence
Of this hOard they iHYe received about : a.
900. 900. which sorDs large .um, hut
much work Is yet to be done. During aud
since the in this country there has been
spent $500, 000,0 UJ IN the building Of rail
roads. The majority of il has been fur
nished in this country, and the Congrcga-
tional church has spent many millions of
this itself. On account of these railroad
bonds many are prevented from giving to
the church. One of my friends said after
his failure, lie was glad lie had spent some
thing for the American Board, for what he
had spent there he had saved while whal
he saved he had lost. The Presbyterian
church has much of this wealth also. A
friend from England in visiting here, said
to me- he was perfectly astounded mt the
vast wealth of this country, and he also re-
marked that there was much dress here
more than could he seen in Europe have
said before that if the ladies vino cOulC
have two bonnets year would dispense
with one, it would amount to more than
the receipts of the board FIR n year. Can
there then be any excuse for not occup, iop
all these fields to Tie utmost? We Cln't
simply send out q missionary 10 a station
and feel satisfied, for we must enlarge as
God enlarges the work. He closed will
the hope that more missionaries would
come up to the wol6.
Rev. II. J. Bruce Of the Mahratta mis-.
sion, was the next speaker. lie proposed
to speak upon the self-supporI of ,ht
Mahratta mission in India. IN the first
place there is much difficulty found. II II
man becomes convert and Ii IS cast,
man. he is thrown out uf he family. tht
means of his livelihood taken away and lis
mother prepares the funeral rites of hei
son. With the experience of years ther'
is found many mistakes. The village sys
TEN is one called 81 the compound sys
TEN another. The question of self-sun
port was agitated first in 1867. 1t was fel
then there must be something done and thu
churches must take more responsibility
They gave too much from the lmpl's o
the moment and system must be intro
duced.
The kind of system was hard to decide
upon. The native christians were sool
awake to the idea of the missionaries.
had meeting at my own station in lSj
on the subject. The r.ativcs were urged Il
adopt some system by which they Nigh
become self-supporling. They prayed owe
the matter and resolved to give twentlet
part of their income for the stiv.ce of tn
Lord. A month later an annual meeiin
was held The question hal been prcsse
upon all They all came tngethe". Ia
was the burden of their prayers. AlI(
several days discussion they adopted I
their rule of onctclill of their incon
for this work 1t was not made obligaiOl
but neal ~ all gave a written pledge 10 III
effect
1t WAS difficult at first to make all mcn
bers 10 pledge this but it was finally made
success As the churches were insirut Il
in giving the amount increased and II
year 1870 it amounted to 700 rupees
1850
In the Brookflcld association in Mass
chusetts, one of the most liberal. are
churches. same as in the NJ lhrilta missio
amount raised for home and missona
purposes WAS S9,5l5; with membersh
of SOL They gave 2s days labor
Mahratta and 81 days labor at Massach
sets. Amount Of giving should be propC
tionately increased in ratio regarding prl
of labor. Many women here no dou
have given for benevolence but in Mahr
ia the women have nothing to pay.
The question this afternoon was how
could pay this debt, Our India missions
les could tell you how to do H. they rais
33b per cent last year. Possibly
churches here could learn something FRI
them.
The congrey CATION then sang the TWEEN
third hymn.
Rev. |. Il. Dwinell. d. D., of San Fra
cisco, Cal, then addressed the assemb
lie spoke briefly at first on the propagaii
of christianity. Sacrifice was consider
the great principle Of christianity. r
principle is noble, it is noble to do .
which costs us something When stea
or came to Oaklan and the drawbrl,
broke, carrying its human freight into
water, an italian fisherman went do
three times bringing to land n man VI
the fourth time the fisherman went do
forever. The land was thrilled by
heroism displayed. But the sacriice, vi
from love to Christ may be made just