The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-04-13
THE CAUSE OF MISSIONS.
CHILDREN'S ANNU4L MISSIONARY
 SERVICE

Held at Center Church Yesterday Afternoon
 Interesting Addresses and Other Exer-
 cises.
 Very interesting exercises were held at Center church yesterday afternoon in observance of Good Friday, the same being the anniversary missionary ser- vice. Rev. J. K, Browne, American Board missionary to Harpoot, Turkey, was present and gave the children delightful description of his work there. The following program was renderedi Singing-Hymn 1O66, two verses. | Scripture Reading.
 Prayer, closing with the Lords Prayer Scripture Recitation-By childpen of the | Orphan Asylum.
 Recitation-John Gherke.
 | Singing-Jesus Bids Us Shine-By chill
 dren of English Hall Eewing School
 MT. Browne then addressed the ohil- dren in substance as follwsl
 q have been in Harpoot for nearly twenty years The city Is very old and dates back to ancient wars between the I tOllll4lShs 1h0 PGORl0 lllOlV call the land 'Eden.' All the surround ing country is connected with Bible tales and on a clear day you may see the peak of Mt. Ararat dimly outlined against the sky, The city lies between two beautiful mountain ranges and the l Euphrates river is close at hand. In l the valley and within half hours walk of each other there are at least twenty five small villages. It is not an uncom- mon thing for one to preach at one in the morning and another in the eVen- ing.
 We have regular monthly and week. Iy concerts, and if you were to look in you would see them all sitting on the floor in regular rows. They leave their shoes outside, and I have often stum- bIed over a pile of them which had not been taken care of The children all love the Bible. Sometimes the first row will get up and recite a whole chapter in Turkish, then the next will sing a song in Egyptian, and so on until six or eight languages have been used. Their dresses also differ as much as their languages. In the fall and winter they move into the cattle stalls and live there until spring, because it Is SO much
  warmer.
 q will tell you about a school we had in a little town not far from Harpoot. We had minister there once, but they stoned him and drove him out of the town. Although he had been there only six months, he had converted seven young boys. The boys were sorry to have him go away, as they would have to return to their old school. When they went back they were called Prots. a short name for Protestants, and the way they pronounce it represents the same word as lepers. The teacher call ed them up before the school and said they had been talking about Christ and that he was going to beat that idea out of them. One boy suggested that the whole school be allowed to pass by and spit upon them. This was done and those seven boys stood there without a murmur until they had been spit upon and then sang Must Jesus Bear the Cross Alone2
 ''Some of the time we would have to live six or eight months out of the vil- lage, eating and sleeping in the stables among the people. have been preach ing in these places and had grown men come in jeering and smoking their pipes. I have seen them stand and lis- ten. Their faces would get red as if they felt guilty, and then they would fall on their knees and with the tears running down their cheeks would ask | God to forgive their sins. My thoughts would then go back to Jesus, who was | born in a manager, and as I saw these poor men kneeling there among the ami | mals I thought what 8 scene that must | have been when Jesus came into the | world.
 "The lady missionaries do not tell about this part of the work when they | come back; they think they have a more pleasant part to relate, but they | all have this hard work to do and with | Gods help they do it."