Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-01-02
reign MISSION WORK
THOMAS MARSHALL, D. D, THROWS NEW
LIG6T UPON TIE SUBJECT.
| the Work Has Progressed at Japan, China
China and cOrsa-A Large Increase Of
Converts in the Past Decade.
NOieS in the Work.

II evening at the Second Presby-
Sourch the pulpit was occupied
". Thomas Marshall, ID, Of
bne Of the Secretaries Of the
OF Foreign Missions. Notwith-
z the inclemency Of the weather
as a fair sized congregation pres
d the remarks Of Mr.. Marshall
zhly entertaining. The address
up many new thoughts con-
With the labor Of Outstanding
nations.
peaker started out by saying
was quite natural that those
ntribute TO this work should
pmething Of the result of the
claim that there is no greater
N that OF extending the Cos
only at home, but in foreign
Some $40, 600, 900 has been
ntO the mission fields, and at
of S1,OOO.OO0 annually. The
tOrs, OF course, desire to know,
" they should. l spent some
months In Japan, veritable
and l saw the whole cOnntry,
yond the limits usually trsv-
tourists. / travelled hundreds
and not as many imagine, in
yal style in which we are enabled
his country. The missionaries
len charged from time to time
ing life of idleness and ease,
ACTUALLY travelling and living In
hiss style all over the kingdom.
he I'm a measure. I travelled in
lass style for many miles, but /
bot on the inside of a Pullman. l
q the back Of a donkey, and had
along by a mere tow path over
~ and tramble and across treacher-
btreams. In 1920 the Catholics sue
ed Ia exterminating Christianity,
among other results Of the edict
Jed at that time. some 10000 OF the
Danese were plunged of a rock to
lth. This ediet prevailed until 1872,
no Commodore Perry landed in one
e harbOrs Of Japan, and unfolding
american flag, placed thereon a
Al aud sang one OF the psalms. 1t
~ impressed the natives that
~ la around that scene. 1t was
emit lance Of Gods word that gave
and Might to Japan. We sent our
miss onary to Japan in 1879. The
ktrv o-day has one of the most
sct trAnslations Of the Bible yet
and Nhe work was that Of a
he'd Pre- byterian minister. 1t is
aps a re- parkable fact that In 1872,
en- yearA after the work Of saving
had begun in japan, there were
en- baptized Christians, and the
bnt of mOney expended during all
4 time was 100000. Some persons
hid perhaps say that the work had
an a failure, that II it cost at that
% per capita, II certainly ought to be
andoned. But, nay friends, the saw
! of those ten PERSONS has a wonder
weight and influence on the coun-
There is no amount OF money
NasR wage against an im-iortal soul.
Missionaries ln3Oing that small
Of work, as Il would seem TO an
II, had a large amount OF rub
remove to get at the true mate
At the present time just twenty
after, there are $4,000 children
b In japan. There are also 10000
fast Christians in China, and a
number in Corea, which will
tually become one large training
ol for missionaries to be sent into
an.
IIr. Marshall, in refuting the idea Of
Iury among the missionaries, said
Ong other things, that travel first
IS was by donkey, while the convey
&c of second class is q huge wheel
ROW. The inns, such as one was
igsd to stop at, were anything but
They were small, low
dded, and had little or no con-
liences. For four weeks l slept on a
{ Of stone bed. such as are used all
'ough North China. The room is
imposed OF boughs, branches and mat
z, and one man killed eighteen
rpions In his room one night. The
;Sionary work is anything but ease.
DIARY VS.. :PROGRESsIvE MOTION
, Theme Discussed Last Night by Rev.
e. M. Afford.
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