The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-05-16
Delegates to the Portland Presby,
terrain General Assembly Spend
Sunday Here.
Preaching at tho Various Churches
by Prominent OlerRymen
Of tho Country.
Interesting Home and Foreign missionary
Meetings Held II tho FirAt Pres
byterlan Church.

Inc delegates TO the Presbyterian general
assembly arrived In Helena at midniRh,
Saturday on eight Pullman sleepers, In
charge OF Assistant General Passenger
Agent B. N. Austin and DR.. William Henry
Roberts, OF Cincinnati. There were 278 in
the party, q good many of them being
ladies. The train was run out to the Broad
water but taken back to the Northern
Pacific depot yesterday morning. The dele
gates did not want to monopolizs the cleo
trio lines running from the city to thl
B~rondwater. Most Of the delegates walked
up town yesterday morning from the depot
to attend divine service. A number Of pri-
vats conveyancss were on hand to bring tha
visitors mp town. but wsro not needed q
the delegates considered ii q luxury to walk
after riding in the cars so long. The
weather was bright and the city looked
we'll, which was an added pleasure for the
delegates. Others rode up town and about
the city and visited the Broadwater and
other points of interest whom not attending
divine service.
An interesting missionary meeting wal
held at the Eleventh avenue First Presby-
terrain church, commencing at 2:45 p. M.
Rev. Dr.. Holmes, Of Albany, N. Y. pre-
sided and opened the session with some ap-
propriate and stirring remarks on the duty
Of the church toward foreign missions. He
was followed by Itsy. DR.. John Very, who
has been 3 missionary in India for twenty
years. He told Of the progress made ii
opening up the understanding and minds
Of the Hindoos concerning tho fundamon-
tai terms Of religion. such AZ God, the soul,
and . future life. Such an advancement
has been made that = missionary can nov
find an audience in almost any part Of India
who will listen to him with m intelligent
understanding when speaking in English.
AZ first the work was very difnoult owing 70
the fact that there were 500 different dia-
lects. The Hindooa have made remarkable
progress in Christian n scientific litera-
ture. Dr.. Wherry said signs wore at hand
which pointed to a great religious revolu-
By many conversions and baptisms.
Rev. Paul u. Bergen, D. D.. OF Chefoo,
China, who has besn a missionary in the
Flowery Kingdom for eight years spoke of
the enormous size of the Chinese empire
and its population. There are two very
ter. One ID their resignation to whatever
may happen. This il not fatRlism, but
something more like q resignation to the
DEGREES of God. The second feature, he
said. was the wonderful reouperative pews +
Of the Chinese people. The doctor said
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mentioned how they had put down the great
II Ping rebellion and paid the English
government q large indemnity. and yet, to
day the Chinese empire is in d fair hnan-
cial condition.
The closing address was made BY d..
John Gillespie, secretary of the board Of
foreign missions, who has recently returned
from a tour around the world. He drew
two striking contrasts in the his
tory Of Japan. description
was given Of the tablet proclamation
issued 300 years ago expelling the Jesuits
proclamation was 50 strong in its terms
that it declared il Jesus Christ should visit
Japan it would BIZ at the peril of his life.
Then followed a word picture of modern
Japan. The doctor ON his tour visited
three ~sslf-BupportinR churches in Toxic
ntss of the Presbyterian Theological semi
nary at Toxic. These churches do not
draw one dollar from the t~raasury OF the
foreign missionary board. He spoke of the
earnestness which charaoterizes the Chris
tian Japanese and said they put to shame
old blind Japanese who had committed to
memory the entire new testament and the
book OF Psalms, which he could repeat
word for word as printed. The dc jap
anese had accomplished this by having Avo
verses read to him at a time by q mission
ary.
In tho evening there was another meet
ing in the interest of home missions. the
church being crowded as at the afternoon
gathering. DIR. w. III. Roberts, stated
clerk of the general assembly. presided.
Addresses were made by DIR. Bailey, Of
Iowa, DR.. Robert Christie, of st. Paul, pro
fessor-elect of the Allegheny theological
seminary, and DR.. Rihaldeher, Of Redwood
Falls, Minnesota. This doctor will preside
at the general assembly at Portland until
the election of a moderator. He started
for Oregon in 1848 and will, on this present
trip, reach that state for the first time. On
his way west in 1S4s he found enough to do
in Minnesota. He was the first minister Of
the first Presbyterian church in ST. Paul.
The delegates left tor Portland at 1901