The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1889-06-10
HAMS AND FOREIGN MISSIONS,

sary OF the Btble IN Hawaiian.
Yesterday was notable mission
airy anniversary in the Congregation.
al Church here. AT the morning
service of Central Union Church,
Rev. E. G.. Porter of Lexington,
Mass, delivered an address on the
missions of the American Board in
the Turkish Empire, before a large
congregation that was held in close
attention from first to last. Rev. S.
E. Bishop gave an able discourse on
Home Missions at the evening SER
vice. Hon. A. +. Judd, Chief JUS
tice, delivered an address at Hawai-
ahao Church in the evening, in cele-
bration of the jubilee anniversary
of the first issue of the Bible in the
Hawaiian language.
TURKISH MISSIONS.
Rev. E. G.. Porter's text was
Acts 15:36-"And some days after
Paul said unto Barnabas, Let us go
again and visit our brethren in
every city where we have preached
the word of the Lord and see how
they do" 1t was the policy of the
early church, not only to make
known the good tidings among the
Gentiles of the Greek and Roman
world, but to follow up their work
in every place where the Gospel had
been preached. There was thus es-
tablished within few years the
closest connection between the
church in Jerusalem and those other
churches. 1t had fallen to the lot of
the speaker, with DR.. March of
Hoover, Mass, TO visit the mission
airy churches of the East. He had
been connected with the college
work in Turkey, while DR.. March
had been missionary at Tripoli. On
their way they passed through
Buda-Pesth, the capital of Hun
gary, and saw some of the work
among the Jews there. Thence
they visited Belgrade, the capital of
Servia, of late the centre of inter-
est in connection with Queen Nata-
lies divorce. But whatever they
might hear about the rulers of this
people, the people of middle and
eastern Europe deserved their SYM
pathy. Next they went to Buchar-
est, capital of Roumania, the gran
airy of all those municipalities. Their
errand in that part was, however, to
the people of Bulgaria, who obtain
ed religious freedom among other
advantages from the treaty of Ber-
lin. The American Board recog-
nized the hand of God in the eman-
cipation of Bulgaria, as, before any
effort had been made in that direc-
ton, the college of the Board had
educated band of good men for
their political leaders. The preach
er described the college as a beauti-
full and striking object overlooking
the towers of Constantinople, which
had 1900 to $500 students. When
the Russian war broke out the peo-
pie of Bulgaria looked to the gradu-
ates of this college for their leaders.
These men have continued in posi-
ton, SO that the majority of officials
were graduates of this college. They
(the mission visitors) were told by
those men that we're it not for that
college there would be no Bulgaria
to-day. The good results of free
institutions under such q class of
statesmen were evident in the coun-
try, although but ten years old, be-
ing far advanced in the culture of a
high civilization. The two churches
in Sophia are crowded. About half
of the congregation of one church
wore the uniform of the Bulgarian
army. In the library they were
shown on one shelf all the books
that existed in the Bulgarian Ian
guage ten years ago. Now the ma
tive press is pouring out books by
the hundred. Whether Russia will
dethrone, Prince Ferdinand as it has
Alexander he could not say, but
the people of Bulgaria were not a
warlike people. There was brig
andage in the country, although just
over the border in Macedonia, under
Turkish rule, brigandage was ram,
pant.
Reaching Constantinople, Mr..
Porter said there were there three
objects of especial interest as vel
as prominence-the college, the BIZ
BILE house at STEAMBOAT, and the girls
school at Scutari. Even the magni
ficent mosques were in many res
poets eclipsed INTELLECTUALLY by tn,
beautiful Bible house. Its presses
were going continually, throwing of
"lesves for the healing of the ma
TONS" The girls school laugh
by American ladies was attended b,
| pupils from all parts of Turkey
There were nine different language
spoken by the girls, but they wer,
all taught in English. The schoo
overlooks the hospital in which Flor
ence Nightingale ministered to tn
British soldiers from the Crimeal
war. Mr., Porter described tn
Sunday School work of American
ladies in Constantinople, and the Y
M. @. A. class composed of men i
all the various costumes of that city
drawn together for instruction b
those Christian women.
The visitors went round by Troas
past the island of Patmos, Smyrna