The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-04-28

eLCs and attention to any words oil teAti'
mony or Of counsel which you may id
dress to US. And that this may be time
OF fresh impulse-When powers for ser
vice will be increased, and more progress
mRde-by HraspiDg the promises and
pleading them as We have never yet done.
The President, MEa. Schenck, respond
cd in very hsppy words. Following is
MRS. scHEScE's RESPONSE AND OPENING
..rl ADDRESS.
at ia my pleasing duty in behalf Of the
parent society to respond to your kind
expressions OF welcome and Christian
love. No true parent doubts the welcome
that awaits her in the hearts and homes
Of her children, especially II they know in
advance OF her coming, that everything
may be In order for her comfort, and the
preparation such 90 will reflect credit
upon the thrift and management oil her
household.
We feel al home wherever Christian
women are working for the advancement
Of Christ's Kingdom. We ought to feel
especidliy at home when We come TO this
region to plan for the conversion Of q lost
world to Christ, for was 1t not the birth.
place OF foreign missions as regards our
beloved Christ.
Do not the names OF Lowry, Clemens
and PAUL, and others, recall past devotion
and II within our hearts the desire that
the succession should be kept up and the
Presbyterian Church learn to look to the
early home OF Foreign Missions for re-.
Inducements to the ranks oil Missionaries,
Early in the history Of our society call
came Tor lady to Gil o most important
post as q missionary In q heather land,
The veteran worker who urged the ap-
peal, said, "Look to the churches In the
Valley Of the Ohio; for no better workers
are now in the field, or ever have been,
than those which came from the houses
and churches there.
We accept your loving greeting in the
name OF Elder Brother, Christ our Lord,
whose work we are doing, and for whose
sake you have received us, We are pray
ing that we may bring you rich blessing,
aud that each one present may experiences
fresh baptism OF the Holy Spirit. We
enter with glad hearts upon the work be-
fore US,
The glow and flush Of our decsnuIal
year did not end with the tenth annual
meeting. This Society has moved on Q
tide Of remarkable history since April
last. God 10 showing Us Presbyterian
women that He is using US for the direct
accomplishment OF His wise designs III
subduing this world to the dominion OIL
our divine Lord aud King, He has been
grinding, pruning, testing, developing IT.
and enlTusting this organization with
greater and understanding interest, year
by yOAr. We must press close to our
Leader, and because the Kings business
requires haste, we must DO ready for rapid
action at his bidding. We cannot realize
the events which In rapidsuCcession have
filed the past eighty years Of this mis-
RioEary century, but 1t needs no prophetic
eye to discern the fact that the future will
far outstrip 1t.
That We may see clearly the plan and
purpose Of him who has organized victory
Ia this conflict with the prince Of this
world, and who In carrying 1t on to COM
plelion Is relying on and using, the com
blned powers oil the women and children
Of our church, let US look at the work, the
workers and the poHsr,
The Work: While the whole world Il
open to missionary progress and the seed
Oi truth Is sown to some degree In every
heather land, the foundation OF Chris
tianity and civilization muat be laid among
the women and children, who are to mould
and govern future generations, and who
are now the welghtiest allieslwhiCh Satan
employp. "As the Christian mother is said
to be o foundation stone In q Christian
church go the heather Ia In idolatry.I
Here Ia one great work, this power wrested
from'the grasp OF the destroyer and given
10 the "Lord OF lifs." We fDd open doors
In every heather land, but how little do
we think Of the vast opportunities To
which these doors lead.
An open door in Japan shows Kanaga,
a city OF hundred aud twenty thousand
people, the centre Of district containing
millions, and all with no teacher Of Gods
truth save one missionary and a native
helper. An open door In China shows US
one province Of two hundred and fifty
thousand souls with not one Christian
teacher established there, and the call to
enter In go earnestly Jade has to wait for
means and missionaries. Educational
movements on broad scale and In rapid
succession are brought 10 our hand with
the clear voice Of the Master saying In re.
gard to each, "Do this for no." Schools
must be opened where none exist, and
multiplied, enlarged and raised In their
standard where there are Bible readers
and medical missionaries; Teena visitors
must be sustained and every branch Of
Christian effort increased and equipped.
We must double the number Of our mis-.
sionaries aud send religious truth far and
wide.
The Workers: BY these we mean not only
the missionaries whom we call ours lat out
1907, but :.the various agencies repeated
in our report as sustained by our consti.
tuency. These are Of various degrees Of
efficiency as missionaries, teachers, board.
ing and day schools, and the multiform
means there employed, to spread the
truth and elevate the people. These are
wheels within wheels, oil tending TO one
result.
The mightest force In the world Is the
gospel. This Is the plan Of God to saliva.
ton. lie who spoke through human lips
said, "And |, II be lifted up from the
earth, will draw men unto me-" Christ Is
now extending his mighty drawing power
In every heather land, 30 that the old
questions, What Is truth D.? What think ye OF
Christ? are the questions which agitate
thought in India, China and Japan 10.
day, and give opportunity 10 the Chris.
tian teacher 10 answer by declaring,
"Him who Is the light OF tue world and
Redeemer OF mankind"
Let US give All Illustration oil this: A
newly organized church at Turnabon
which worshiped for a time In q heather
temple, was turned out Of II, raised 500
10 four days for the erection Of church
edi6ce OF their own. An intelligent Jap.
anese, not himself q christian, seeing this
remarks: "Thls ID Christ; this is the power
that Ia 10 save the nation" All our works
are employed In making Christ known to
the people.
The number OF foreign missions OF our
church is far below the demand, 1tiSBaid
that II all the members OF the graduating
classes Of the theological ssminaries Of our
church were 10 give themselves 10 the
cause OF foreign missions, they would not