The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-08-04
FOR FOREIGN LANDS.
Mrs. Jennie F.. Waugh and Rev. DR.. Osborne
on Missions at Meridian Street.

There was a fair-sized audience at Meridian
street Methodist Church, last evening, to listen
to the remarks of Mrs. Jennie Tinsley Waugh, a
former resident of this city, and who left here
fourteen years ago to do missionary work in
India. Mrs. Waugh, who came back to this
country some time ago, on account of illhealth,
has spent the last three months of her soiourn
in this city, and now, feeling that her health is
restored, viii leave, in a few weeks, to take up
her life work in far-off India. She said that
when she left Meridian-stree Church, fourteen
years ago, for that heather land she felt up borne
by the prayers of this people, and that each
Thursday night, at p~rayermeeting in this church,
she was remembered, and that this thought
made her strong and kept her faithful She felt
that the years she had passed in India had been
blessed ones, and that the missions there were
doing a great and glorious Christian work for
the women of that dark land. 1t is a blessed
thing to go down into the depths and
bring up these poor fellow-creatures and
make them strong in faith in Christ. She had
found by experience that there is no danger in
going to the ends of the earth if one does but
trust in the Lord; the dangeris in staying in q
safe place without the Lord. We often hear it
said that missionaries go forth taking their lives
in their hands They have a better way than
that. They give their hearts to the Lord, and
their hands are left free to do his work.
She then described the methods of the women
missionaries, who, with a knowledge Of medi-
cine, went among the women, ministering to
their physical sufferings and instructing them in
the word of life. The women were often afraid
to let them come into their houses, and to these
they would show pictures, and contriye in vari-
GUS ways to gain their confidence, and show
them that the religion of Jesus Christ differs
from theirs. That it is not one filled with hor-
rors, but with love, and gentleness, and peace.
She said that the best method Of in
s~tructing the people, and the one they
made great use of, was the magic lantern, by
means of which they showed them pictures rep
ing them the pictures while they told them the
story, and that in this way they could hold and
instruct audiences for four or FIVE hours at a
time. In the Sunday-schools the Berea paper is
used and the same lessons that are employed in
this country. The ten commandments
are first taught as the ground
work, and the first commandment
is a blow at heathenism. Girls are not long in
the schools, as they begin late and are married
very young. More women and girls, by means
Of these women missionaries, are being reached
than men, and Christianity is spreading over
the country which will one day be Christs. In
Lucknow the method is to go from house to
house wherever they can gain entrance, teach
ing the women, and the workers cannot do the
work. There is a demand there for more work
ers.
Mrs. Waugh is a convert to the faith cure; heI
restoration to health having been miraculous
and, as she says, solely through her faith in
Jesus.
Following Mrs. Waugh, DR.. Osborne, son-in
law of DR.. Alabaster spoke. DR.. Osborne viii
as a medical missionary. He will 60 to Pekir
and thence into the country three hundred mile.
further, his field Of labor being near the Grea'
! Wall.