Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1884-11-06
nvAAeElIsr AND ExrLoHnH.
Two Noted Clergymen at Delaware
Avenue Church suday.

avenue Church suday.
Delaware venue. Baptist Church was
filed Sunday morning by those anxious
10 hear the Rev. Henry Grattan Guinness
and the Rev. DIR. James Cameron. The pastor
and the two disting guests oocu-
pied the platform. Covering some 20
feet square OF the ohanoel wall was
skeleton map OF China. It's various
provinces were indicated by c0ntrasted
coloriDg, and all over 1t were eccentric
lines In red, Engaging in different dirso
tions, showing the somewhat extended
pereerinations Of DR.. Cameron through
the celestial land.
Mr.. Guinness Ia spare man OF dignt-
fed mien, with regular features, intel
leotusl, and possessing placid benign
expression. His long gray hair 10 swept
back from his temples, reminding one, in
that respect OF Henry Ward Beecher. His
diotion Ia choice and Of the magnetic
order, and he IL remarkable for thor.
oughly English enunoiatioa. DIR. Cameron
is quite q contrast TO his brother
evangelist; he is lanky Sootchman, dark
and bsetle-browed. He speaks with
slight Caledonian accent bat his words
are dissinot and clear.
Mr.. Guinness took for his text Daniels
Interpretation of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
dream. The speaker took this subject as
an illustration OF what might be accom-
plished by original investigation of the
scriptures. After stating the usually
understood psralieIisms OF the great
image as accepted historically in the
Babylonian, Medo-Persian, Greek, and
Roman empires and their successive over
throw, Mr.. Guinness passed on to
demonstrate that the present mo-
msnt is that which Is indicated
in the overthrow Of the image by
the great stone and It's transformation
into a mountain covering the whole earth.
The Apocalypse might be called the
second book Of Daniel. In It will be
ound the counterpart Of Daniels revsla-
tion. Many people complain how diff
oult 1t ia 10 understand the Revelations
and say that the Apocalypse Ia inoompre-
hepsible 1t is not difiult-what would
be use of an incomprehensible revelation.
The speaker urged upon his hearers the
study Of prophecy, and in remarkably
eloquent passage described Christ's com
ing, the golden light tintiDg the peaks OF
the mountains in the early gray Of the
morning.
/ dt O'ClOch III tud AAtdtuUUu tuo h6oOuu
bsrvioe Of the day commenced. In addi-
| tion to those already mentioned the Rev.
Harry Trait occupied the pulpit. After
q few preparatory remarks upon his early
ideas OF missionary life, DR.. Cameron
tutned to the large map upon the wall
and commenced most interes ting and
instructive lecture upon China and his
mission there. His relation Of incidents
connected with the domestic life Of the
Chinese, the typography Of the country,
its racial and diAleosic peouliarities, were
novel and interesting and would tend
somewhat to subversi0n OF the In
formation upon that country usually
found in school and story books.
At home the Chinaman is filthy. A
traveller In their land finds very limited
bill of fare. For three weeks, the
speaker, while on the march through
the provinces, could obtain nothing but
rice and q oondiment which was eaten
with 1t made up OF deoomposed vegetable
matter, according to q recipe resembling
Judging by the speakers description)
that used here for sauer kraut, but Of \
very antiqusted intensity. There are
numerous dialects In China, but these
are to be- found mostly on the eastern
seabosrd. In the north and west, the
language is Mandarin which ia the
court language. After making allusion
to his heightened journeys through
the territory Of the MAnsas, In the north
west, a district occupied by people
distinct in habits from the Chinese, and
that Of the Yaren or wild men of the
mountins, the speaker treated his
audience to some MandAmin talk. Its
strange broken measure caused great
msrriment among the audience. DR..
Cameron said all Chinese oitiea are walled
in there being an outer and an inner wall.
The inns or lodging places of the poorer
classes are small and squslid.. There
are some very fine and substantial houses
in the larger cities. A relatively small
part Of the Chinese make rice their staple
food. In some large districts it is NOT
J known. Almost every kind of trade
J known to us is carried on-but in
Chinese way. II there is q
country in the world that can support
itself, 1t is China. Its territory stretches
from the tropics to 4bo north; II hat
, fruits and grains, gold, silver, iron and
coal. Yet look at its stationary oOndi
tion. The Chinese ask, whs
cal you teach usf They destroyed
the Woosung railroad Immediately IL wa
handed over to their oontrol-the onl,
line ever built in their land. The,
knsw the mariners compass, and printed
. before we did. There are numerou
missions and churches dotted over tn
land. There is no ordinary means 0
0 travelling but by walking, or, II you cal
afford il, by the sedan chair or pslanquin
r Before closing, the lecturer made sn ~
i. peal for help in the Chinese mission, nc
Of money, but OF men, Pastor NeedhaI
promised that the next time DR.. Camera
came he would bring his native dress an
= pig tail.
/ at the evening service Mr.. Guinnes
8 again occupied the pulpit. After givin
d the condition OF the missionary isld
Europe he proceeded to explain that th
It Northern Baptist Society that met latel
q In Detroit has taken off his hands II
q whole OF the Congo missionary field l
10 South Africa. He delivered up to thi
10 society 20 mission stations, two steaI
~ launches and other property in all value
h at $150,000. The district comprises
N territory as large as all that part Of Il
10 United States east Of the Rocky Moul
IN tains. In 1t there are spoken q de Z;
ts different dialects. Already q RrsmmI
A and dictionary, the latter takir
i'd three years to compile, Of the
rs languages have been completed. ~
Z, Guinness furnished great deal Of ado
rs tional information describing the dill
entities that had to be overcome and q
IN lives that were sacrificed for each missi
Ks averaged against one missioDary's Iii
n There are 49 600, GOO Of population IN I
locality, all Of various negro tribes. 7
speaker stated that he had had t
pleasure Of bsptiziDg the first two Con
ly natives in Lendon. He concluded will
an stirring appeal for workers in that d
Ig. tant country.
B. After the services = great number
I'M those present came forward to exchar
he greeting with the evangelists.
ts- Guinness leaves for Liverpool on Wedn
"a. day and DR.. Cameron returns to Phi
IT, delphia.
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