The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-06-05
they exist at all, and vice Haunting itself

without restraint in open day.
In the rural districts of Alabama,
where a majority of Congregational
churches are located, the people are in
great straits to raise money to pay taxes,
and many of their homes are advertised
Ito be sold by the sheriff. The women are
going back to the old -fashioned spinning
wheel and loom to clothe their children.
This restitution is not the result OF sloth
and Incidence. There is little sale for
their products, and when they go to mar
ket they get no money, but have to barter
for few goods at enormous prices. Many
OF their children are being raised with
out education, and in some places they
grow up to manhood and womanhood
without the gospel
Maj. o. o. Howard president of the
! society, delivered his annual address. He
said:
Whenever I think of this missionary
society, and I think of it very often, and
endeavor to pray for all connected with
it, especially for it's field labors, my
mind, after wide ranging, always returns
to the one thing, namely, the Holy Ghost.
When we come together in a conference,
especially in one of a national character,
our best side. We gather up baskets full
of achievements achievements of work
ers who are distributed all over out land,
many OF them reaching out to remote
places, and we commend them.
Il recently spent Sabbath in New York
city. We have few missions there which
we hope will lead to independent church
es, and among them is one called "The
Camp Memorial Church and Mission,
located at al Chrystie St. The front of
the church edifice does not exceed 30 feet,
the auditorium and back building cover,
perhaps, 100 feet in extent. In the morn
ing we had a fair audience; in the after
noon a Sunday school, perhaps 200 pupils;
at o'clock room full of worshipers for
the dedication of the new auditorium
room extended and newly fitted, in
which service the pastor, Rev H. G.
Miller, Rev. DIR. Stimson of Broadway
tabernacle, and Rev. DIR. Virgin of the
Harlan Pilgrim church were present and
participated.
Again, in the evening" endeavored to
speak to the brethren, the house being
fairly well filled, and saw there at ever
service marked evidences of the work of
the Holy Spirit. There were, perhaps, 20
converts, mostly young men, who showed
in their utterances change that had
come over them similar to that which
fell upon the people at the day OF Pente-
cost Not one could forget the day, and
even the hour, of his conversion. This
extraordinary time to these young men
when they came out of the darkness into
the light was distinctly emphasized, and
under the direction of their pastor, who
is himself endued with the Holy Spirit,
they are bound together in mutual pledges
to go forth and carry the glad tidings to
others.
And yet when I looked around in that
quarter of the metropolis and felt that in
their immediate vicinity there are per-
haps 40, 600 or $4,000 Germans Italians,
Russians and all sorts of Americans APP
parently unreached by the great message
of salvation, l could not help saying to
myself, "What is this little lighthouse
amid SO much darkness? What are these
few workers among SO many souls I'M
saved?" Carry the glad tidings into every
house where you can gain admission, into
every mock and corner. Speak in German,
in Italian, in Russian, in English, in
any language, in every language, the
wonderful works of God.
Yes. the spirit is ready to go before us
in the field and prepare the way on the
prairies, on the plains, at the mines, in
the mud houses. in the hill country of
Tennessee, Georgia and Carolinas, among
the fishermen and those who gather
sponges along the shores of the ocean,
ready to penetrate the darkest places in
our cities, to cleanse the very Augean
stables amid the lowest dens and broth
els of the cities. The central worker at
any mission, be it man or woman, must
have sprimarily such equipment as the
Holy Ghost can give.
For every official, for every missionary,
for every member of this society who
carries the glad tidings from Canada to
Key West, from San Antonio to Duluth,
and from the ST. Johns of Nova Scotia
to the golden gate of California, let us
here and now ask for a rebaptism of the
Holy Spirit.