Morning journal and courier., 1886-04-23
In the Evening.

ADDRESSES BY REV. DIR. CUSHING OF UPPER
 BURMAH, REV. DIR. AsHMAN OF CHINA AND
 REV. MIR. CLARK OF INDIA.
 About seven hundred people attended the Calvary Baptist church last evening to hear the addresses made before the Women's Baptist Foreign Missionary society, which closed their annual convention yesterday af- ternoon, Rev. T. S. Samson, pastor of the church, after prayers introduced the Rev Mir. Clark of India, who delivered a short but interesting address, telling of the mis- sionary work done in India and the promis- ing effect it had on the people of that coun- Rev. Dr. Cushing, of Upper Burmah, was in trodueed and during his address he said Only by dwelling among the heather will you find out their great poverty of moral in tellect and that their morals are rotten. Their great need is Christianity. We ought to feel practically as well as theoretically that the only way to save these people is by the word of Christ and how to put it before them. The work of each one of us is not to work in the church alone, but in distant lands, and so do our whole duty towards Christ.
 The Rev. Dr. Ashman, who has been for thlrty-slx years missionary in China, was next introduced and during his address spoke of the great work done by the Christian wo- men workers i'll the cause, and proceeding said: So, dear Christian sisters, we feel that your work is an eminent and scriptural- ly authorized one, and if they can beat us men in the work let them, and let us thank God if they can, and we should be ashamed to let them. Years ago it was the mems work, now it is the women's.
 You have heard of gross darkness in these foreign lands, but how small is your idea of this darkness. If I were to make America as dark, would have to destroy all the churches, bibles, books and everything that relates to or had word about to issue decree that no one mention the name of Christ, and then let generation after generation die, and finally I would have gen sration of children that when you asked them who Christ was, they would stare at you and say they didn't know. Then you would have some idea of the darkness of these lands.
 Here we stand for a minute face to face in China, which has arisen into prominence in few years, and before go any further would say, ''Do not allow the Chinese who are strangers in your country to be treated as they are" for fear that they may retaliate and treat your people in China as they are we were to get into any trouble with China, it would behoove our people with their wooden ships to keep out of the way of the ironclad ships of the Chinese for fear they would be blown out of the water. When we de- cided to allow no more Chinese immigration, they readily took it up and agreed with us, but they do demand that their peo- pie here be treated as they ought to be- Now, if our people in China should be re- talisted on, and should appeal to China to protect them, would they want the same treatment the Chinese have received herea And once more appeal to you to treat them right, for have they not right under our free American flag to be protected by you2 [Applause.]
 You ask me to show you true heathenism. I would gather thirty aged women in this land of darkness and thirty bedridden wo- men of America into one place, and I would show you thirty women who, although suf- fering bodily pain, would be peaceful in mind because they knew Christianity; on the other hand would show you thirty women with forlorn faces and disturbed minds, not knowing where they are going after death or who Christ was and then you would see heathens
 After Rev. Dr. Ashman had finished the choir sang hymn, and Rev. Mir. Jerome pronounced the benedictiou.