Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-05-31

Tho total receipts OF tho American blDlc
society for the year ending March 3lst
were $500. 223.32. This society is doing
noble work the world over.
Let every pastor, let every Methodist
remember the little Moravian church with
more members in missionary than in homo
churches giving s25o.OOo year for the
sacred cause.
The American Bible society put in cir
culation 1915 copies or portions of the
Bible, and the British and Foreign Bible
society 1850 copies in Turkey. Palestine
and Egypt during the past year.
The Choctaw Nation. in the Indian
Territory, have long had law to prevent
excessive cruelty to animals; inspired, it
seems, not from any example of the
whites, but from their own instincts OF
humanity. Tho penalty is fine of thirty
lashes.
Tho Foochow mission work is in very
interesting state in many ways. A series
of meetings having been held. over thirty
probationers have been added to the
church. Mr.. Ahok, who before he became
a Christian volunteered to give several
thousand dollars toward the founding of a
college, was one of the number.
A Bassa chief pleaded with Miss Mich
ener for a teacher: Please send by
America" be said. "Ask them to send
we teacher. We all right; we getting
old; we no want we children grow up in
night like we." Then he said. Tell them
come quick" And "thcre is enough work
in Bassa to employ fifty missionaries, ,"
wrote the missionary in the field. Indeed
the laborers arc few.
Miss Sharp reports that good revival
work has occurred in the Monrovia eli
beria) church. A camp meeting was held
which closed early in March. Thirty
persons were received into the church the
preceding Sabbath; among them were
some Kroos who had been under Miss
Sharp's instruction. She thinks the Mon
rowan church never occupied higher
ground, spiritually, than at present.
One pastor sent thank offering of {
hundred dollars for revival by which the
membership of the church was doubled
In this he was wise; but if some churche
would quadruple their missionary gifts thu
prospects for revival by means of which
their church membership would be doubled
would be largely increased. Giving open.
the heart. Chaplain McCabe tells of mar
who one day gave him large sum fo
| church extension, and was converted tho
next morning.
The receipts of the missionary society
from the conference collections for the
period from Nov. 1, 1881, to May 1, 1882
show almost invariably some advance In
the different conferences. Though the
| advance is by no means what the cause
i demands, it shows progress. Tho New
England conference gained nearly $4,000
and the Newark conference nearly $4,000
| others less sums. The total receipts fol
the past six months have been 1927 ,145 so
l being an increase over the same time last
year of nearly l per cent. On the whole
| VIC have reason to take courage; the face
of the church being evidently set toward
greater advancement.
The Independent; says: The American
Baptist Telugu mission has received, by
baptism, twenty eight more converts a
Ongolc. The Rev. j. +. Burditt says, the
Telugu preachers are born orators. Theil
sermons are modelled after those of the
missionaries, with more of the Socrati(
method. The preacher often makes hi
point more effectively by asking question
to which the people will give a ringing
response. Sometimes he will addSess SOM
person in the congrcgation-generally {
preacher-who will reply, and a dialogue
will be carried on, to which the congrega
ton will listen with great attention. Illus
tration and parable are much used, anC
alsop antomime, which sometimes becomes
ludicrous. The Rev. j. E. Clough state!
that in tour among the villages, from
which he returned January 3lst, he hap
tized $50 persons. He started out Febru
airy 9th on another tour.