The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-16
PARK.
The Home Mission Pield Calls for the Atten-
ton of Speakers and Visitors.

The Christian Woman's Board Of Missions
began its session yesterday at Bethany,
and will be continued during to-day and
tomorrow. The principal feature of the
morning, i'll connection with its exercises,
was the address delivered by the Rev. NJ.
L. Streator. He spoke on "Montana and
its Needs" and gave, in the course of his
remarks, an idea of the size OF the United
States and the relative distance of various
principal points from the country's physi-
cal center, Cairo, III. He had. in the view
Of the audience. a map on which were
drawn a number of cOncentric circles. with
that place in the center. But the North
west, he said, is a land of magnificent dis
tances. He had the radius of the first
circle from Cairo to New Orleans, OF the
second from Cairo to Key West. Fla, OF
the third from Cairo to EastpOrt, Maine. OF
the fourth from Cairo to!Cape Flattery, WI.
The circumference of the hrst reached the
Gulf of Mexico, but to the northwest t only
reaches as far as Omaha. at the eastern
boundary of Nebraska. 1t Is as tar IRON
Omaha to Cape Flattery as IT. is from Omaha
to PASSPORT. The circumference Ot the sec
ond circle embraced the extreme southeast
ern and southwestern points OF the eouh-
try-key West, Fla. and BROWNSVILLE, lex.
To the northeast it included New raven
Conn.,, and Albany, \. Y. 1t stretches pe.
yond all the great lakes on the north, Du1
only reached to the nearest corner OF Mob
tana. The circumference of the third circle
passed through the extreme limits Oh MAINE
and went far beyond the confines OF the
United States OH the north. east aDH south.
In the West it passed through AA1Zoha'
Utah, Idaho. Montana and beyond the fei-
lowstODe Park. The radius of the fon.fth
circle gave a fine sweep of its great curve
in the north through the extreme part IN
Hudson'S bay. In the northeast, beyond
the utmost limits of Maine, it passes through
Newfoundland. To the east, far out III the
Atlantic ocean,, it went more than LOU
miles beyond New York city. To the south
east the circle reached nearly l,0OO miles
beyond Florida, and in the south 1t passed
through Central America, within ten, de-
grees of the equator. Thedistance TO East
port is 100 miles, while the distance to
Cape Flattery is 800 miles.
The lecturer then described Montana ge-
graphically, and said that it is largert than
the kingdom of Italy and nearly as large as
the empire of Japan. Its taxable property
in 1881 was S6s.Ooo.OOO. The total output Of
mineral wealth in 1883 was S3l4,WO, while
the aggregate value OF Its PRODUCTS tlitb
year was S47. 900, 900. i,
Mrs. Z. l.. Christian, of Chicago. delivered
the Assembly lecture at10O'clock on "Christ
or Belial; a Fragment of History"
Her remarks were chiefly on the Importance
of q nation or individual choosing at The
right time the way to good or evil. Inc
power of the American Nation Tor good or
evil she described at length. and Linen SAID
that the whole world was waiting its action
on the temperance question. She make q
strong appeal to every voter TO espouse 1T.
At2P. NJ. exercises were led by Mrs. D..
w. Davis, after which came the report or
Mrs. NJ. T.. Shank, of IrvingtOn. secretary
of the Christian Woman's Board of Mis-
sions. She reported as follows: Present
--l.A IL 80. 4 ... .ln Of M M
l,Sf4: paid into general treasury, S2,SI6.9o;
number of children's bands, 81; number OF
new auXiliaries, II; numbe OF new chill
dren's bands. 10; number of new young Ia
dies bands, 8. After this Rev. j.. w.
Jenkins. former missionary to Jamaica,
spoke on the work of the board In regard
to affairs i'll that island. At ) o'clock there
was a further discussion of the best meth
DDS TO be employed in evangelizatlon. b. Is.
Tyler. of New York. presiding. The lecture
of the evening, by ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Chase. instead of being OH THE West" az
announced. was in regard to "Old Mexico"
an account of his recent trip there. His
talk was illustrated by q display of some
he collected. AT 10 A. NJ. today Mrs. Chris
tan Will speak on the subject of the &c. w.
Il. NJ" and the Assembly lecture. an hour
later. will be on '"The Responsibility of In
iidelity," by j. b. Barney. OF Illinois. The
evening address will be by b. b. Tyler. on
''Woman and the Gospel" Tomorrow will
be Historical day, and promises to be one of
the best Of the session. In the morning
Thomas Jefferson" In the afternoon Mr..
speak on Literary EdIcation in Indiana"
The evening entertainment will be q con-
cert by the M~artInsville choir.
At "a meeting OF the Board of the State
Sunday. school Association yesterday ii was
voted to retain l.. l.. Carpenter. of Wabash,
as State Sunday-scheol evangelist, and also
to appoint in each district a district SUN
day-School~ evangelist.