Morning journal and courier., 1883-11-10
The Spread of the Gospel.

Interesting MfssIoBa ary Discourse at St.
 PauPs Church Last Evening by BIsh-
 Op EnfOtt-What is Nee Ted in Texas
 and Mexico,
 The regular Friday evening meeting at St. Paul's church was held last evening in the main audience room of the church and was addressed by Bishop Elliott. a missionary in western Texas. He claimed that the manner 5of going out to do missionary work without money and without scrip was not in the line of the disciples work. Miraculous support would not do for men who had human wants m the present time. Organization has been grafted upon the church, organization filled with the spirit of God, and that is doing wonders in sustaining missionary effort. But men are not to be converted mechanically. There must be God-ike zeal. Sin is organ ized. Go out into the missionary fields in the West and see the saloons and brothels that fill a new community and you will see that Gods help must be given to those who go out there to work expecting that souls are to be converted mechanically.
 There should be no distinction among missions. All originate in Christ. Foreign, home, parochial, all have the same purpose and should be supported. The Saviour, when tempted, looked out across the ages and saw our souls and resisted the temptation to sell f1shness, and out of his unselfishness proceed ed all missionary spirit and religious labor.
 Within the last twenty years missions have grown and hourished all over the world. There is still room for more interest in this matter.
 The field in which labor is the western part of Texas, between the Colorado and the Ri0 CrQnda rIvAF9 When T firGt ant thara communication was entirely by stage and the work was slow and laborious. There were in all that vast tract of country six churches scattered about and diff fcult of access. I had to travel 500 miles to reach one church. Two of our churches were destroyed by cyclones the next year after we went there. But we have prospered and the six churches have become twenty churches. We finish, occupy and pay for one ecclesiastical building every four months. The number of communi- cants has grown from four hundred and twenty to over eleven hundred. Through the goodness of the bishop of Connecticut made an address before the Womans Auxil- iary assembled in Middletown in 1880. They have helped me in the education of the young. Williams Hall is we'll equipped by the gifts of the Woman's Auxiliary and I de- sire to emphasize my thanks for their gener- ous assistance here tonight. Rev. Nathaniel u AdA WHO Wd5 H01l SuuCdLCu III GuiS country and Heidelberg, has charge of this school I believe this school will be great blessing to the community. At San Anto- nio also we have 8 school. In this school VIC accommodate many day scholars, but have only room for six boarders. As immigration increases and the trains that rest neither day nor night bear their loads of men and women and children out to these broad ields our responsibility increases and we need more room for scholars.
 We know the power of this church for the formation of character. We know that the young, if properly educated, will be powers in the communities in which they live. I re- ceived 8 letter not long ago from 8 mother who was very anxious to send her daughter to our school, but we could not accommodate her. She might be educated into 8 woman of influence and capable Of much good. On such foundations States are formed. We are in the presence of the wonderful develop ment of State and one that is most cosmo. politan in it's character. Is it strange that we want to extend our work Then beyond us lies Mexico with it's constantly growing population. It is 8 great problem, what the church Is going to do with this population, which wants missionaries and churches axd schools.
 There are in Texas 40, GOO square miles that are still untouched by railroads. There is not one man representing this church in that country. have long been endeavoring to place an evangelist there, but have not been able to on account of a lack of money. How ever, hope to soon. I have found difficulty in keeping in the field the missionaries we have already. Perhaps I should not speak of our financial straits to parish that has been so liberal as this one. But the facts are as I have stated and want you to fully realize the needs that confront us. Men without the gospel will degenerate. Can we see the thousands on those western frontiers sink into degradation and despair without doing all in our power to save them