Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1892-07-30

you I've my sympathy and prayers.
w. j. TwILLEY.
Centennial. Mis~ion,ry Meeting nj
BeIhe'.
Just al out one hundred yearo ago
a young cobbler got very much in
! terastnd in the study of geography.
Day after day IS he would work away
in his shop he would have his crude
nap of the world before him. As he
studied geoera 1hy he naturally be-
came interested about the people in
the different parts of the world. and
especially interested about their
SOULS welfare He would study his
| New Testament and then study his
map until his heart was So enthrsed
with the idea OF carrying the Gospel
TO those who did not have it rs to
emho!den him tn make n proposition
in regard to the matter before a
meeting If the minister of his day.
He was discouraged by every one at
first, but finally by his perseverance,
he succeeded in getting them to take
some stops towHrd sending the Cos
pei to those who had it not. And
thus molcrn missions began. That
cobbler was William Corey, who
went as the first foreign missionary
from England.
Tho Baptists are celebrating this
year, us the one hundredth anniver-
say. sincr Corev sale AZ mission
airy to India. Hence the centennial
missionary MEETINGS that are being
held all over tn, countrv. It is to
enthuse new life in MI christians, to
cause them to realize more and more
the OBLIGATIONS resting npon each in
dividual to curry the Gospel into all
the world.
On Saturday and Sunday, 10th and
18th insts.. - meetir- of this kind
was held ct Bethel Baptist Church.
Besides the good speeches mace by
some of orr home talent there we're
eloquent and interesting speeches
made by men from a distance.
On satu day IN ,rning the meeting
was addressed by a. l.. Owen, D. d..
ofPorts mouth, Va, on the centen-
NAL of missions.
Thi; speaker TOOK his audience by
storm. He first broue thefore them
very vivid picture of VIM. Corey
and his times, showing what strug-
gle Corey had to get the ministers of
his day to realize that it was the duty
O. all christians to carry the Gosoel
tie those who have it no.. Then he
came down later to the time when
Judson and Rice sailed as mission
aries of the Congregntionalists from
this co lntry but before thevrrachcd
their des nation changed their doc
trinal views and joined the Raptists.
While Judson remained in Burmah
Rice came hack home to stir up the
brethren. And thus foreign mis-
sions started in America.
The speaker was not Ashamed of
the fact, that the first foreign mis-
sionary from e lgland and from this
country were Baptists.
But, said the speaker, we have only
learned the b c's of missions. We
have been going to school for one
hundred years AID this is the COM
menrem mt year.
Then came an eloquent appeal for
an increase in our contributions for
foreign missions.
L ,e 'xt speaker was Rev. S. u.
Gr;msley. Hespoke of the work in
Brazil. After giving description Of
the country, he brou sht wildly be-
fore his audience, as to what must be
the condition of the people from the
force of circumstances. Priestcraft
and infidelity was busy doing its
WORK in Brazil. But they were ready
and will ng to hear and receive the
Gospel. The sue, ess OF the mission
aries already sent there proved this.
Then followed a speech full of
facts End statistics by Rev. w. w.
Wool, on the missionary work in
Mexico. Much the same condition of
affairs there as existed in Brazil.
On Sunday morning Rev. A. B..
Rudd, returned missionary from
Mexico, gave a most interesting
speech concerning his work there
and the missionary work in general.
His audience was sorry when he
stopped speaking.
Rev. s. U. Gri1nsley preached a
most excellent missionary sermon on
Sunday morning also.
In the afternoon the large audience
was swayed hither and thither by
the eloquence of VIM. Ellyson, Esq,
of Richm ond, Va, who is the CORES
ponding secretary of the State Mis-
sion Board of Virginia. He spoke
principally of the work of the State
Board, pointing out what it had ac-
complished and showing what the
Board hoped to accomplish.
Rev. G. G. Bundick followed Mr..
Ellyson with a talk on Cuba, as a
missionary point. He pointed out
the great success of the mission
work there and then closed with a
strong plea for an increase of contri-