St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-06-17

his subject, and held the close atten-
ton of the large audience, who would
willingly have listened longer He
said: | have just come from what is
called the fag-end of civilization. Why
is it that you here in st. Johnsbury are
morally so much better than are the
Zulus in South Africa Because you
have the sunshine, and they are in a
worse than Egyptian darkness. They
are strangers to the light-with no
hope, no peace, no JOY, no ray of light
beyond the grave. Talk about Spirit
ualismi Let the brother who told us
about it last night come with me to
South Africa and | will show him Spir
itualism in full bloom. The condition
of the XuluS is somewhat different from
what it was in 1919. My views were
much modified when went there; the
reality of the work is vastly different
from what it is sometimes pictured.
| The Zulu didn't want the gospel. a
Zulu chief asked me, in response to an
| invitation to attend school, what I'd
pay him for coming. Take a young
.
he wants cash to buy pick, OF hoe,
or Il blanket. There he stands, in his
normal state; he looks like Il savage ::
he is one, but he is Il fine specimen of
| the unciviliZed. Work for him awhile ::
when he has mastered the alphabet he
| feels like a man he thinks of what he
reads, and of what yOu tell him about
mans destiny. 1t is interesting to
watch the progress of ideas which ger
inmate in the soul of Il savage. While
he thinks of the inner man he does not
| forget the outer. On Saturday night
you hear II knock the savage is there.
He wants Il shirt; it is brought out I;
he tries to put it on, but begins at the
wrong end help him; see him the
next day as he enters the sanctuary
with the garment on he does not sit
with the umapparelcd, for he has risen
in the scale of civilization He soon
sends for Bible and hymn book !;
builds IL good house and marries one
who like himself has been converted.
Mr.. Tyler then spoke frclingly of the
faithfulncss and enthusiasm of the na-
tive workers, and closed by asking that
Christians might pray for the mission
aries, since it is Il sweet assurance of
remembrance, and buoys up the hearts
of the workers far away. Amy report
of Mr.. Tylcr's remarks lacks the
warmth and zeal with which hc spoke,
and that heart must have been indeed
Indifferent which was not interested i'll
what he said.
The cause of the Freedmen was pre-
scented by Rev. G. s. WoodwOrth, who
paid tribute to VcrmOnt's love of Iiber-
ty and education, and then gave an
account of what was being done and
what needed to he done for the elcva-
ton of race which was in America
some three months before the Pilgrims,
and which we had made poor and ig
nOrant.
The closing exercise of the evening
was an interesting and effective speech
on Sunday school work, by Rev. A. f.
Dunning, who has been appointed by
the Congregational publishing society
to take charge of Sunday school work
in that denomination. His idea was
to awaken an interest in this matter
among Congrcgationalists who, as he
proved, are behind other dcnomina-
tions i'll this regard. This work, he
said, is important and cannot safely he
neglected. No church can do without
Sunday schoOl, for church without
Il school is like a childlcSs family. We
have the church of the Goth century i'll
our hands, and it is almost in our pow
er to mould it as we will. He then
spoke earnestly upon the denOmina
tiOnal responsibility in this respect.
He gave several hard, and deserved,
raps mt the Sunday school literature of
the day, maintaining that the adicct
i've Sunday school had become an cX-
preston of weakness when applied to
literature. Teachers, he said, want
their pupils well clothed, but when it
comes to providing them with mental
food, the main thing seems to he to get
something cheap! Mr.. Dunnimg's re-
marks were forciblc and to the point,
and his audience gave him an audible
approval. He wants state committee
appointed to work with him to secure
a higher standard of sSunday-school
work.
The sessions of the convention close
to-day with the completion of business
already brought before the body, and
the sacrament of the Lords Supper.
The hour of going to press prevents
any fuller or further report.