St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-02-14
MISSIONARY FIELD DAY.
Interesting Addresses by Missionaries
Carey and FowIe.

Last sabbath was missionary
field day for the North and South
churches and interesting addresses
were given at both churches in the
morning, at a union service of Chris
tian Endeavor and Juvenile mission
airy societies in the evening, followed
by union service in Music hall.
Rev. Otis Carey, native of Mas
sachusetts, but for the past ten years
a missionary in Japan, spoke Sunday
morning at the North church from
the text i'll Numbers, LET us go up
at once and possess it, for we are
well able to overcome it, The dis
course was mainly a record of mis-
sionary work in Japan for the past
II years. Then there were but ten
| Christian natives in the entire coun-
try; now there are over 26 900 mem
bers of Protestant churches, and as
a Nhole they maintain high STAN
dard of Christian living. Seventeen
years ago the government was op-
posed to Christianity, and the sect
called Christians was forbidden by
the written law. That is no longer
true, and although there is yet OPP
position to Christianity among the
people, the government is no longer
opposed to it. If at the close of this
century the entire empireis Christian
the change will not be as great as in
the past II years. Mr.. Carey has a
bright, pleasing manner, strikes at
once into his subject, holds the at
tention of his audience closely and
stops when he gets through. His
hearers were pleased, instructed and
should be benefited
Rev. ]. E. Fowle, for ten years a
missionary in Cesarea, Asia Minor,
spoke at the South church in the
morning upon the work of the Amer
lean Board in his field. In his parish
of so, 900 square miles were situated
several of the places that Paul visit
ed on his missionary tours and the
people dwelling there now were Ar
menians, Greeks and Mohammedans
| or Turks The church and state
were one and whoever renounced his
religion was in great danger of per-
SecutiOn. Famine was of almost
yearly occurrence and it was no
small part of a missionary's duty to
| distribute provisions on such occa-
sions. The morals of the people are
very low and there is no word in
their language for home. Woman is
regarded as a slave and the doctors
of the law are still discussing wheth-
er or not she has a soul. In closing
| the speaker gave the results oflabor
in this section and made an eloquent
| plea for more labOrerS and larger
contributions for this fruitful field
! Mr.. FOwle's address was full of in
! formation and he makes an eloquent
presentation of the missionary cause.
The mass meeting in Music hall in
the evening was largely attended.
Prof. Henry Fairbanks presided and
after prayer by Rev. E. T. Fairbanks
an account of how new fields were
opened in Japan was given by Mr..
| Cary. The bright side of the mis-
sionary's life and the results of his
labors were given in very interest
ing manner. AS an illustrat ton of
the rapid progress Christianity was
making in Japan one of its bitterest
enemies had made the remark to his
Japanese brethren that Japan would
ultimately become a Christian ma
ton.
Rev. Mr.. FOwle followed with an
account of the present outlook in
Cesarea. In speaking of the work of
distributing provisions among the
famine-stricken people he paid an
eloquent tribute to the late Rev.
Giles F. Montgomery, referring to
him as one who was asfaithful, wise,
devoted and successful as any man
he ever knew. The field was ripe for
the harvest and he hoped that anoth-
er Vermonter would offer his services
to the American Board to take Mr.
MOntgOmery's place at Adana. In
closing he presented the greetings of
the missionaries of his section to
their unknown friends in the audience
who were aiding them so much by
their prayers and contributions
Field Secretary Creegan of the
American Board gave a brief history
of what America had done for mis-
sions since the organization of the
Board in 1910. One billion people
were still pagans and the 142 mis-
sionary societies of the world had
great work to accomplish. The
Board had now over $50 missiona-
ries in the field but Africa yet re-
manned the dark continent" and
the great missionary problem was
how to evangelize China. The
Board never needed our prayers and
contributions more than at this
time when from all the missionary
stations came the cry for helpers.
A HANDSOME RECOGNITION
Some time since Lambert Packard,
architect, of this place was invited
to make plans for the Randolph-M
con academy at Ashland, Virginia,