The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-04-18
AN EXHIBIT Of MISSIONS
A Showing of Everything Relating
to Home and Foreign Mis-
sionary Work,
More Than Four Hundred Relig-
ious Societies Are Engaged
in That Line.
Wide Range Of the Exhibit-Grcat Revival
of Interest in the Work Would
Follow.

CHICAGO, April 17.-William G. Douglas
of the Baltimore American, has undertaken
to arouse interest in a plan to make a
worlds exhibit of missions at the Colum-
bian exposition, and he is receiving much
encouragement from the missionary socie-
ties and the churches. There are in the
world more Than our hundred missionary
societies. Each one has in various lands
its force of missionaries and teachers, and
quite a number of them have their physi-
CLANS and hospitals us aids in the work of
evangelizing the heather. AS the various
denominations in this and other Christian
countries are nearly all more or less engaged
in promoting missionary work, such an ex-
hibit as is proposed would surely have very
general interest. The project includes an
exhibition of everything relating to mission
airy effort, domestic and foreign, through
out the world, By sll denominations, in
GLIDING ''idols, plaster casts and photo
graphs of idols, work of missionary pub
fishing houses, and of the medical stats
Peruvian idols, idols of New Zealand, the
headache idol of Alaska. the gods of India,
and China, scenes of Indian worship, Brah-
minism, Buddhism, ancestral Chinese wor-
ship, and the work of city missions,
with photographs of the little waits saved
from the streets. The Catholic Sisters of
Mercy, the Kings Daughters and similar
organizations, the foreign and domestic So
c%leties, the deaconesses and Episcopal Sis
terhoods' work could illustrate their meth
DDS. The non-denominational work of the
Hebrew Daughters, who carry out the work
of love to God and man, the work of women
in the harems of Turkey and the zenanas
of India and China could be shown; also
statistics showing o missions aid a
world wide growth of the spirit OF civil
and religious liberty, and how missionaries
break down race and religious prejudice
both against Christians and Jews in Russia,
Turkey, Persia, China, India and other
countries. Ihe relations of missions TO
social problems would be represented in the
Protestant and Catholic rescue homes, and
the work Of such undenominational organ
%lzatlons as the Salvation army. The alpha
bets and languages of missions would b.
shown. Chinese ancestral none to pre-
vent financial embarrassments in the other
world, Buddhas, praying machines and
devil worshipping in Siam would be ex-
exhibited. Models of heather TEMPLES
might be erected, and photos and stereopti-
can views might be exhibited; as, for in
stance, of the great shway Dagon pagoda
at Rangoon. India, and of Buddhist idol
houses. Statistics of the progress OF
and the literature Of mis-
sions and of heather lands would
be shown. The monkey temple of Be
mares, and t he monkeys as an object of
for the worship of the people. The SYM
bolisms of silva would be shown, with tri-
dent, three eyes, a black throat, holding a
crescent, a rattle, a tigers skin and all eie-
plants skin. The drawbacks to missions
and why the name of Christian is too often,
IN the Moslem mind, the synonym for hyp-
cred in the final published report of the
Christian villages of India might
be Illustrated"