The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-08-19

/ during the year She told of the inception
| of the work and its growth IN eloquent
| language.
Rev. r. N. Wheeler, OF Fern Hill. Ia
coma, who was for several years ms
| sionary in India and who humoronsiy
| refers TO his initials standing for For
| eign Missionary" Wheeler, delivered
| stirring address upon the work IS ne sa"
| il there and upon its needs.
Chancellor C. G. Stratton, OF the Port
| land university, spoke of the great work
| women had done in connection with for
| eign missions and in all other fields OF de-
nominational work.
Rev. DR.. Bushong delivered an impress
sive benediction, and the session ad-
journed.
The evening session at 7:3o was opened
| with prayer by DR.. ]. w. Bushong, of
| Portland, Or. Dr.. George c. Wiiding. OF
| Vancouver. read the Bible lesson and then
| introduced to the conference Rev. James
| Endicott. of the Manitoba conference,
stating that Mr.. Endicott was to sail
shortly for China to become a missionary
to the western districts Of that country.
| Mr.. Endicott spoke for about half an
| hour, his main idea being to impress his
hearers with the importance of missionary
| work. He said that the missionary cause
| was not forlorn hope and that life
| could not be better spent than in the
| work of saving souls in foreign
land. Many persons could not realize
| that al the present time there were more
| heather than in the time of Christ, than
| in the beginning of the present century,
| than twenty years ago. The missionary
| was once made from man who had been
q failure at home, but now only the
best eq uipped young men and women were
wanted. and such were waiting all over the
| land to be sent away on missions.
Although there were grand opportunities
at home there were greater abroad. lie
closed with on appeal for financial aid in
the work and the congregation then united
in singing the missionary hymn, "The
Watchman's Report"
DIR. c. G. Stratton, chancellor of the
Portland university, the speaker OF the
evening, was then presented as one who
had for over thirty-five years labored on
the Pacific coast and who was remem-
bered by hundreds of young people for his
kind words and actions toward them
when in trouble and distress.
DR.. Stratton preceded his lecture by the
remark:
''All The great eras of this church
through the Christian centuries have been
marked by coincident movements within
and without her bosom"
He spoke for nearly an hour, empha-
sizing in the course of his lecture the fact
that every movement in the whole HIS
tory of the past nineteen centuries
had been for the best interests of
Christianity, and that all of Gods plans
had been laid beforehand and nothing left
to chance. He sketched the history of
the early church in its struggles and of
the influence of the Greek civilization
upon 1t. The Greek tongue had been ere
ated by God, il seemed so that it might
be enshrined in the Bible, and that wnen
the Scriptures were once committed to
writing in that language il had ceased to
he spoken tongue that every nicely of
construction might be understood and
translated without the slightest change
of meaning in our own day. The Roman
empire also was in every way we'll
equipped TO be protector of the infant
religion. Christ came in the Augustan
age. when the whole world was at peace.
Had he come before We might have said
that the story OF his coming was myth
and the belief In him a superstition. But
this was not the case. He added
THE newspapers of tomorrow morning
will not give better or truer picture OF
Seattle than does the Bible of the time of
Jesus Christ.
The period of the Reformation was then
discussed. together with the causes of the
great awakening all over Europe. 1t was
wonderful that America had been dis
covered only when it was needed, yet
God had always prepared the
world for the striking of the
hour. The causes of the settlements of
the Catholic races being made not in the
northern part of this continent. but in the
southern and middle parts. were told of
and then the doctor SPOKE at length of the
settlement of New England by the hardy
Pilgrims. 1t was not intended by God
that the United States should be bigoted
and narrow nation, and his hand was seen
in the continent OF North America being
settled as IL was.
The doctor then came down TO the early
history of Methodism in the United
States. Methodism was founded IN En-
gland, and the new idea of itlnerancy first
took root there, but England was not
adapted TO it. The United States, how
ever, was the ideal country for such sys-
tenn. What church was so well adapted
10 follow the pioneers over the
Alieghenies aud down the Ohio valley to
the valley Of the Mississippi as the Metho-
dist church? The i,inerant preacher,
with Bible in one end of his saddle-bags
and hymn book in the other, was close
follower on the track of the settler.
Hardly before he had erected his cabin the
man on horseback was found at the door,
ready to preach the Gospel Tn itinerant
preacher came when the world was ready
Tor him.
The missions to China and the need OF
work among the millions Of that country
10 bring them to Christianity were the
next subjects to be touched upon.
The current of hostility against the
Chinese was but an eddy in the current OF
history. aud 1t would be swept away IN the
end. Every steamer from the Orient 10
the western shores of the United states -
shuttle weaving a web which IN the end
Will oInd together in Christian fellowship
the TWO countries. Applause.
The speaker then closed With nara
ton OF the great advance which has been
made IN the opening OF China TO our
trade and an eloquent prophecy of the
good vet 10 come of closer relations With her
TO be brought ABOUT by the missionaries OF
the church.
When DR.. stratton had taken his seat
DIR. q. e NlldIng made a few remarks
aud then the congregation sang the hymn
Joy 10 the World, the Lord Has Come,