The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-08-23

Rev. james r. LpdIow's New Field OF
Labor.

Rev. james r. LudIow's New Field Of
Labor.
The following from the Yokohama Japuss
Ga=xfte Of July II gives news of mission
AIRY well known in Seattle:
That port with 50 much shipping attached
to il rs Kobe should lack branch Of the Seq
mems Mission has often been source Of won-
derment 10 ~. And especially during recent
days have proceedings In the Kobe consular
courts made il appear Ill the more desirable
that there should be in our sister port some in
ssitution 70 tend Jacks interests. So we are
pleased now to hear that the blank is abou. TO be
niied. The Rev. James p. Ludlow, of the In
transitional Missionary Association OF New
York, and who was called to japan some time
ago by the National Missionary Alliance. has
been appointed TO open the new and important
and engage in work which 10 allied
with such IN Institution. Ia recognition
Of frequent suggestions, Mr.. Austen.
OF the Yokohama Mission, we under
stand. wrote to the American Seamen's Friend
Society. of which association Mr.. Ludiow is
chaplain, urEing the want ola mission ct Kobe.
with the result that Mr.. Ludlow was chosen to
take up the work, and, having received the as
sent OF the Alliance, that gentleman has accept
ed the post, and Will leave for Kobe this month.
In the Inauguration Of the work there viii be
much to furnish. and all periodicals, pict sriais
or magazines that friends of the cause
can donate viii be timely and &C
ceptsble- We are asked 10 state that any
thing left st the Yokohama Sea-
mems Mission. No. 81, win be duly forwarded.
Mr.. Ludlow appears to be essentially the man
for the place. For thirty years he has been a
life director OF the American Seamen's Friend
Society. and then he ha also an actual knowl-
edge OF the sea and those among whom his
work win be. In 1879 he was sailor boy and
whaler in japanese seas and all adjacent waters
northwards Four years later saw him bap-
tszed at Honolulu. where he Joined the Sea-
mems Bethel. He was afterwards cast away and
lived among the South Sea Islanders for . time.
He followed the sea until prepared to take COM
mand, when he left the quarterback TO pursue
college and theological courses N preparation
for the ministry. He graduated fully and his
first ten years were spent IN San Francisco,
where he did much for the sailors. For an equal
period he was pastor IN Seattle. Puget sound.
where his house Was open to sailors. For
health's sake Mr. Ludlow made the world trip In
the bark Eta Loring, so we'll known in Yoke
hama, and was here in her in 1873 He built
missionary steamer for work among the Indi-
many islands OF Puget sound and San Juan
archipelago, and the shipping entering those
waters from all parts Of the world. Reverses'
necessitated the sale Of the steamer, and later
Mr.. Ludlow ives sent TO Japan, where he is
about to actively re-enter sphere for which no
man in this country is better fitted than he
His wife is the daughter of the Rev. K. Johns
ton, thirty years the seamen's chaplain at Sand
ridge, Melbourne. Australia, and for many
years he was associated with her father in that
work.