Morning journal and courier., 1881-02-14
New Haven's Growth.
The Field for Missionary Work i'm NJ
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The Field for Missionary Work in New Haven.
 : meeting in the interest of city evangel- 5zation was held last evening at the Daven- port church. There were 500 or 600 people present The pastor presided. Rev. MT. Mossman made statement in reference to 1.-the field and needs of missionary work in the : city. He was followed by Dr. Barbour, pas Stor of the church in Yale College. Dr. Bar Abour spoke of the extent of Gods work in the world and of the value of cooperative work in fields of usefulness. He spoke of the field in New Haven. Here were now 60, 3OOO people Some who had lived long time here hasdly realized the fact, and seemed to feel as if times were as they used to be- Why, it used to be so that few of the elect lin the city used to run the politics of the city and the college was called upon for counsel and whoever the college used to want for Mayor was sure to go in. The speaker was not personally cognizant of the great growth of the scity, but Dr. Bacon had told him of the great gap in civilization which used to exist be- wilderness still challenged the growth of the two places now united. Now, instead of 82, ,OOO people, there are more than 60, 000 with corresponding increased demand for moral and spiritual care. We don't see cows browsing now on the old Green, as used to bel .the case, so the speaker was informed. But wlth| all the growth of the city Gods work had grown also, as here a new church had sprung| Iup and there another all over the city. Byl .I A<.1 1., l,., Ael work had likewise progressed. We see that |God has provided means for his work OneI great comfort it was to look around the| Christian world and see that we are great Ideal better off than the church was when it| had only twelve disciples, or when a ittle| later at the first general meeting at Jerusalem| there were only 12O pronounced disciplesI that could be mustered So you see, when| i've look at the millions in these years and re- trospectively see that once there were only 12O, that the work has grown since those 1900 years agone. We are not fair judges either of the great amount of work done, for i've do not consider the great effect of the church upon the world in influencing society and politics might iken it to the cannon ball which, whizzing through the air, draws a great current with it. So the church influences better surrounding at mosphere. Let me say one thing of greatl encouragementin in the prosecution of this work is the fact that such meetings as the present. are held and attended A text struck myl eye recently. It is in Hebrews 10th. It isl an exhortation to the Hebrew Christians, that is to the converted Jews, and to alli churches that named the name of Christ The writer of this says, let us hold fast to I the profession of our faith with no waver- ing, and then tsis is added, let us considerl one another to proyoke-in good sense tot spur, to excite, to get an emulation Hp-tok love and good works. in the frequent assem- bling of ourselves together. Now this is in- teresting as view of the early Christian as semblies. They had no churches then with e7, 900 choirs and 5000 ministers - no3 trouble in the gas giving out They had nc fine furniture or carpets. They met n an upper room and they sat flown to consider one another. Now that s beautiful expression, consider one an- other. How many people do you love? They notes and sat down and did the