Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-10-12
RETROSPECT
Of Twenty-Five Years Service
In Mission Work,
The Theme of Secretary Clark of
Foreign Board,
who Has Grown Old in Arducus labors Tor
Tbs Grand Cause

MADISON, Wis Oct. ll.-Increased at
tendance marked this mornings session of
the great Congregational missionary meet
ing. Rev. Judson Smith Boston, gave the
central address. II was an urgent plea for
the fullest intellectual preparation for mis-
si1nary work. President ID. X. Angel,
Ann Arbor, and Dr. Washington
GLADDEN., Columbus, Ohio, talked along
the line blszed by DR.. Smith. G.
c. Creegan, New York, secretary for
middle district and said the American board,
before the close of the century, ought TO
extend fuller fellowship to women, who
gave N million dollars year, for missions
and generally extend the good work Rev.
4. n. Hitchcock, Chicago, secretary for the
interior district, strongly urged manual
education as part OF missionary work.
Rev II. II. lessup of Syria, gave q nara
tive Of his 40 years as "A missionary. This
afternoon various missionaries informally
related their experiences.
"a Retrospect of Twenty-nine Years.
was the subject, this evening, by
Rev. N. G. Clark, ID. d., the retiring
foreign secretary, at the annual meeting of
the American board. DIR. Clark was
elected secretary at the meeting of the
American board in Chicago, 1850 lie re-
viewed at length the state of things in the
work at the close of the war, and during
the intervening generation. Owing to his
age and i'll health, the paper was read by
Rev DR.. Webb of Boston, chairman of the
prudential committee DR.. Clark paid warm
tributes of praise to the officials and mis-
sionaries with whom he had been associated
so lorF. lie advocated the principle of
self support by the native churches organ
il ID by the missionaries, and added as fol-
lows: Closely come nected with the matter of
self-support sthat of higher Christian edu-
cation and also of industrial training, not only
for the sake Of raising up an efficient native
ministry but Of awakening "A new life and
energy on the part of believers, which shall
lead TO habits of industry and to a better
livelihood generally among the people.
The pIinclple adopted ia the Hawaiian Is
lqI lis and lsrg ly in Micronesia, and gener-
ally in the earlier missions of the board,
was that all Christian people owe TO the un-
evangeliz is simply instruction in the gos-
pei of Christ, and that oil efforts for educa-
ton should be limited strictly to the train
ing cf native Cvargeli st.. The English
rgu7ge was not to be taught, but only the
vernacuar; ard, in the native language
ever, no instruction in the arts or sciences
was TO be gwen, nothing beyond the
T, aiding of tie Scriptures. This seems 10
haze b en- the g, neral plan pursued by most
missionary societies; but the history of
missions has shown that for the develop
ment Of Christian community, whose
mt mbeTship should be vigorous and self-reli-
an competent to support and advance the re-
ng.uus institutions necessary for perma-
neLt Christian civilization, some broader
view of the education required must be
adopted. The experience OF the board in
the Sandwich Islands, and also in India after
80 and more years of missionary labor
there, is sufficient to illustrate the made
quacy of this early view of missionary edu-
cation. Of late years vigorous efforts have
been made to supplement the work begun
in these different fields, by the institution
of high schools and colleges that should be
inadequate TO the needs of the people. 1t is
now recognized that Chri,tianity means
more than simply instruction in the
vital elements of the gospel; it
enters into the entire life of man;
and the wisest culture Is that which con-
siders bin in his intellectual and social
as well rs his spiritual life. 1t is only as
the man and the whole man is developed
that Christianity vindiCates its claim to the
sovereignty of human hearts.
BY reason Of the present rapid means of
intercommunication nations are brought
t0pether, and no Christian community,
even on mission ground, can escape the in
vasiOn of false theories of science, of
morals, or of religion. The conceptions OF
materiilism and hrmani'arianism must be
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