The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-10-28

of the great need of money in mission
airy work and urged all to give literally.
The services closed with prayer by
DIR, Daniels.
AT COLLEGE STREET CHURCH,
Mr.. Hervey c, Hazen, missionary to
Madura, South India, spoke at the Col
lege street Congrs gatlonal church to a
large congregation, His address was
extemporaneous, but was full of elo-
quence and force. He chose for his text
Mark xvi, Is; go we into all the world
and preach" etc After expounding
and applying the text he told of the
work in India. He said in part;
india contains 2SS,OOO 900 of people.
Our mission work is in Madura, which
| is about the size of Massachusetts. We
have eleven stations in different parts
of our territory. Under these there are
three hundred congregations, connected
with which are 531 helpers"
I'VE have now 1851 Christian con-
| verts, My own parish covers a terri
tory of 2,O67 square miles, in which there
are $500 villages with an aggregate of
425,000 souls. Under my care are sixty
three congregations and thirty-four mis-
sionary schools. The work of the mis-
sionary is extensive and varied. He
must care for these congregations and
the schools, superintend the building of
churches and houses, settle quarrels, pro-
tect native Christians, and, in fact, do
a little of almost everything. 1t costs
S25 to build a native church. They have
mud walls and matched roofs and are
about 12x24 feet inside. The allowance
of the board for repairs in one station
is $3S and in that station are twenty
eight buildings. These buildings must be
maintained and also new congregations
in the station must be provided with
churches out of this sum,
1.-THE difficulties i'm missionary work
are a. caste, (2) custom, (3) material
ism, (4 opposition from the heather.
1.-THE net gain in the whole mission
last year was FOL souls. In his own
parish the net gain was four hundred
souls"
He closed his Sermon by saying: en-
dia is all ripe. Shall we be allowed to
reap the harvest?"
/ He delivered a sermon at the Grand
avenue Congregational church in the
evening.
REV. MR.. DE FORESTS ADDRESS.
1 At the Church of the Redeemer last
evening Rev. ]. H. De Forrest of Japan
spoke on the missionary work in that
country. He said that the great prob
lem before the missionaries in Japan is
to give the gospel to a nation of forty
millions, with people spirited and in
dependent, with a history ten times
older than our own, and with virtues
second to those of no nation of the
| world, as well as vices which strike at
the root of national life. This is the
problem which confronts the mission
workers in Japan.
The missionary work of Japan may
be divided into three stages: First of
all when the missionary is teacher
and a father, he is recognized by the
most revered title which the people
know how to use. The early churches
We're formed by enthusiastic Japs, who
trusted the missionaries and wished to
entrust to them the initiative in every
thing. During sixteen or eighteen years
self-supporting churches We're formed
and the Doshisha university was built
up. Japan was at that time a perfect
heaven for missionaries. The second
stage was when the japanese began to
know the world better. Hundreds of
young men came to the nations of the
west. Some became Christians and
went home to join Christian movements
in Japan. Others saw the evils of Chris
tendon, the protected harlots, drinking
saloons, our 5000 murders a year, sui
cides, divorces and strikes. They circu-
lated this widely in Japan and it be-
came a sort of anti-missionary litera-
ture.
Still others saddest of all who be.
came Christians in Japan Were dumb
founded at the evils they saw in Chris
tendon and renowned their Christian
ity. Some of these who had been, all
around the world and had been in Jap
anese legations said that the japanese
had yet to find nation more moral
than Japan. During this time the ma
tionalistic spirit arose and was felt in
1.-The church. Japanese Christians began
to dislike to recognize creeds and wish
ed to make their own. Then there came
a higher citizenship, revolutionary phil
osophy and sciences. All of these tend.
ed to discredit in measure missionary
work. In spite of the erratic thinking
of some of the leaders there never was
so rapid an expansion of Christian
spirit as was seen in Japan. The Chris
tian religion has taken root and already
is at the bottom Of national life. II
all missionaries were to leave Japan
within five years Christianity would still
go on and win.
A large and appreciative audience lis
tened to the address. Mrs. Logan OF
Micronesia also spoke on her work
among the Micronesian islands, explain
ing the various phases of the work
with its difficulties and successes Mr.
De Forrest has been in this country
about a year and expects to return tc
Japan.
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