Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-01-25
IN THE RELIGIOUS WORLD.

the English language that he might be able
to converse with the traders and do a prof
liable business for his people. To do so
he had to run away from his tribe, which
he did, putting himself under the care of
a missionary, who sent him to this coun-
try. He has attained to q good knowledge
of English, and is said, also, TO have shown
average ability in the mastery of Latin,
Greek, mathematics and other studies. he
expects to return and devote his life to the
interests, educational and religious, of his
people. 1t is safe to say that his reap
pearancs will "astonish the natives"
Bishop Taylor writes to the Missionary
society of the Methodist Episcopal church
that "Africa demands the very highest or
der of missionaries, with high ministerial
qualifications, to lay the broad tounda-
tions of our church; passed mechanics
aud engineers, apt to teach and able to
develope the grand resources of his people,
and country, holy in heart and sound in
mind and body" He reports that a new
mission station has been opened at Brara-
ma, also a new station north of Insongile
A church lot has been purchased at Msta-
di, twenty metres front by forty deep, for
a chapel and sehoolhouse soon to be built
The Matsdi post ia an important one, be
ing the starting point of the Congo rail
way, the site of the company's machine
shops, Offices and warehouses, and the seat
of government headquarters. The Metho-
dist church established there has forty
candidates for membership, who will be
received as soon as missionary is perms
nently placed over the church. Lulaburg
is still the principal field of Methodist eff
fort, however. There, Bishop Taylor says;
he recently purchased from the Congo
state government twelve acres of ground;
and as soon as the new missionary steam
boat Kssssi is launched the force of mis-
sionaries will be increased to extend the
work. At Manly missionary farm of
ono hundred acres is demonstrating to the
natives the advantage of scientific agricul
turs. Manly, however, is difficult post
1t is under French dominion, and the
French permit none but their own Ian
guage to be taught in it.
The Rev. DIR. II. G. Harris, in charge of
Methodist mission interests in San Fran
cisco, reports to his society that a flourish
ing and hopeful Japanese church has been
formed in that city. Within the past year
one hundred Japanese nave been baptized
and one hundred and twenty-seven re-
ceived into full membership. For two
years the Japanese meetings have been a
continuous revival, an average of one con-
vert per day being added to the little band
wieh whom the work was inaugursted.
The members of the church now organized
are earnest and aggressive. They are also
exceedingly liberal in their contributions,
and are lsboring to become self-support-
ing in the near future. They feel the need
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held now in rented quarters, and, although
poor, have pledged themselves to raise five
thousand dollars towards it's erection,
considerable part of which has already
been deposited in a savings bank. DR..
Harris appeals for aid to secure for them
q suitable house, and represents contribu-
ton to that end as profitable investment
from missionary point of view, twenty
preachers having already been furnished
from the San Francisco mission to Japan
and the Sandwich Islands, and twenty-five
other converts having dedicated themselves
to the ministry, who are now being educa
ted for active service.
The Rev. A. P. Hopper, D. D., for forty
years missionary in China, presents an
exhibit that can hardly be gainsaid and
that becomes formidable statistical in
dictment of English misrule in Asia. For
ty years ago, when DR.. Hopper went to
China, the number who used opium was
put at two millions. The number now
using it is said to be one hundred millions,
and is, perhaps, double the population of
the United States. Not satisfied with hav-
ing thus debauched an entire race, fasten-
ing the fsngs of death upon one-third of
their number, the body butchers and soul
trafickers, to whom the British govern
ment farms out the privilege, have now
begun the devastation of India through
the like scourge; and to increase its reve-
nues the government itself has authorized
the licensing of shops throughout India
and Burmah for the free sale of opium.
In order to make the dealers active pur-
vsyors of the drug the hcensee must bind
himself to sell a stipulated quantity in a
given time or pay forfeit. The unre-
stricted use of opium Ia also permitted in
Java and by the French in their posses
sions in southeastern Asia. Siam and the
eastern archipelago have also fallen under
its blight. DIR. Hopper shows that six
hundred and seventy million souls are di-
rectly or indirectly afflicted by this curse,
the lives of many and the happiness of all
being sacrificed thereby. And for this, he
solemnly declares, the British government
is chiefly responsible.
The Rev. DR.. Theodore L. Cuyler, of
Brooklyn, on his SEVENTEEN birthday
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avenue Presbyterian church of that city,
of which he was the long beloved pastor,
from the text: ''The days of our years
are threescore years and ten." Few men
attain to his years with fame so cloudless
and with such freshness and buoyancy of
mind and heart. Notwithstanding they
have been devoted to unremitting toll, the
years have dealt gently with Theodore L.
Cuyler, fulfilling the hopes of all who have
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ly minister. No clergyman in Brooklyn,
past or present, ever gained 80 strong .
hold upon the hearts of the entire people
as he. And his popularity lies in the fact
that he lived what he taught. He exen-
plified Christianity as he preached Il. He
never turned aside to busy himself with
controversy or denuncistion; attended to
his legitimate work and blamed none who
disagreed with him or whose methods were
other than his; visited the poor and friend
less as well as the rich and fortunate; had
consoling words and needed aid for the
former and made no sycophantio conces-
sions to the vices or folliss of the latter;
studied books in the morning and men in
the afternoon; was the most pungent and
consolatory preacher of strictly evangeli-
cal truth-scorning sensationalism-that
this country has produced in the last half
century, and still Is the most admirable
Hr1ter on religious topics now contr1Du-
ting to the columns of the religious press.
The country at large wishes that the days
of his years may ripen beyond fourscore
and that the residue, however abounding
in labor, may ever be free from sorrow.
| Pulpit sensationalism has bean carried
| to such an extent in Boston as to have
called for the merited rebuks of the secu-
lar press. ga Bushel of Coal" was re-
Gently exhibited in one of the pulpits Of
our modern Athens, to impress . fashion
able compensation with the enornity of the
fraud praoticed by 'dsalers in dusky dia-
monds" upon the poor. "Pretty Women"
! was the theme of another aspirsnt for
popularity. Still another. having pre-
/ sumsbly exhausted the Bible. gave an anal
/. ysis of the Character of Hamlet" The
same papers that contained abstracts Of
these discourses had reports of alleged
sermons on "a War with Chill, " ''Ths
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