Morning journal and courier., 1891-03-28
INDIAN STORIES AND WAYS.

Annual Ch1ldren's Missionary Meet
 ing in Center Church-An Enter
 tain1ng and Instructive Talk-Ori-
 ental Salutations-Indtan Singing.
 The annual children's missionary meet ing was held yesterday as usual on Good Friday at p. m. at Center church. The order of exercises was as follows:
 1. Scripture reading.
 3. singing-"There is green hill far away" 4. Oriental salutations.
 5, Singing-Marathi lyrics.
 G. Address-Mr. Edward Fairbanks, Ahmednagar, r. singing.Marathi % lyrics
 g. singing.,".Joy to the world, the Lord has g. Benediction.
 Dr. Phillips, the chairman, started it up by saying, "We will begin, children, as we always ought, by reading out of the scrip ture," and he read the story of the cruci-
 ixion, from St. John, xix, IF. A prayer was then offered by Rev. MT. Luckey of the. Humphrey street church, and the above given hymn then sung, after which Dr. Phil
 lips continued: "I suppose you have heard minister of the first church that was ever established therein Bombay. He has some gentlemen with him-they aren't native Hindoos, they are Americans they'll show us three forms of Oriental salutations-the high, middle and low caste" These gentlemen then performed
 these feats for the childrens entertainment and instruction, dressed in the native cos tune. Then "we have with us also," con- rtinued the chairman, 'some Marathi
 singers. You'll see the tune is very like
 some of our own tunes, though you can't
 understand the words. Let's see if we
 can follow the tune while they sing these strange words" Twelve girl singers led by Hindoo gentleman, all in native cos
 tunes, then took their places and sung to tune that sounded very familiar. The next thing in order was an address by the above mentioned minister, MT. Edward Fairbanks After some very preliminary exhortations to tue children to try to lis ten to his words, he proceeded: "When was as young as you found out want ed two things when I heard talk; first, l wanted it to be short one, and, secondly, wanted it full of stories. Now, this will be both. Children always say, Tell us some stories, but they always
 get tired of them after while, and so I'll tell you just few, of the beautiful coun- try full of birds and flowers that left when I was young. used to play the l same games as you do, too-marbles and tops and hoops and jumping ropes; we had all those But the stories Pm going to tell you will show you the difference between your life and their life. You go along out there and you find a little stone on the side of the road; that means that someone has stopped there and worshipped that stone. Now isn't that strange way to l dos Well, one time there were thirteen
 hundred and thirty million gods in India then There was god that got angry
 with his son and struck off his head, and so he went to more powerful god and
 wanted him to put on another head. Sc | this god took the first animal that came
 along-it was an elephant-and put this elephants head on. Now you'll see this | god with the elephants head in every temple to-day all over India. He has foul | hands, too, and parasol over him. Now | just think of the gods they worship there and remember whose death we are all
 celebrating to-day.
 The speaker continued further in the same interesting vein, holding the atten l tion of both old and young.
 | "Now," said Dr. Phillips, Eve will heal
 the words Mary sang on the morning o1
 the resurrection, by the chorus in Marath words. "This was done, and then the
 chairman said few words on the nature of the day, and then unanimous vote o1 thanks was given to the choir and Mr
 Fairbanks. The meeting closed with {
 hearty singing of the last hymn on the pro l gram