Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-06-05
Total for New England i.

The amount includes what was spent
in New England and what was con-
tributed to the national society. The
woman's organizations have paid into the
| treasures of the five national Congrcga
tional societies 1913, 363.7S, s57, GA "a of it
coming to the home missionary treasury,
thus providing for appropriations to 81
missionaries, besides special offerings for
aiding the work of the three foreign de-
| partments and the Indian school at Vini-
| ia, T. The total offerings of the wom-
ans organizations in nine years Is 1878,
1852. 3d. of which 1914, All 03 came to the
| Congregational home missionary society
| Maj. Gen. o. O. Howard president of
the society, delivered his annual address.
He said:
Whenever l think of this missionary
society, and think of it very
often, and endeavor to pray for all
connected with it, especially for its
field laborers, 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 national character,
we present to ourselves and to the public
our best side. We gather up baskets full
of Observation-Disclosures of workers
who are distributed all over our land,
many of them reaching out to remote
places. and we commmend them.
recently spenta Sabbath in New York
city. We have few missions there which
we hope will lead to Independent churches,
and among them is one called 1.-THE Camp
Memorial Church and Mission" located
at 141 Chrystie street The front of the
church editice does not exceed 30 feet the
auditorium and back building cover, per-
haps, 100 feet in extent. In the morning
We had fair audience; in the afternoon
Sunday school, perhaps 200 pupils; at
8 O'Clock a room full of worshippers for
the dedication of the new auditorium-a
room extended and newly fitted In which
service the pastor Rev. H. G. Miller Rev.
DIR. Stimson Of Broadway tabernacle, and
Rev. Dr. Virgin Of the Harlem Pilgrim
church, were present and participated
Again, In the evening, / endeavored to
speak to the brethren, the house being
fairly well filed, and saw there at every
service marked evidences of the work OF
the Holy Spirit. There were, perhaps 90
converts, mostly young men, who showed
in their utterances change that had come
over them, similar to that which fell up
on the people at the day of Pentecost. Not
one could forget the day, and even the
hour, of this conversion. This extraordi-
nary 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 90
forth and carry the glad tidings to others
And yet, when looked around in that
quarter Of the metropolis and felt that in
their immediate vicinity there are perhaps
40, 900 or sc, 600 Germans, Italians, Rus.
siars and all sorts of Americans an
parently unrt ached by the great message
Of salvation. l could not help saying to
myself: What is this little lighthouse
amid so much daiknes-s What arc these
few workers among SO many souls un-
saved?'' Garry the glad tidings into every
house where you can gain admission, into |
every nook ard corner. Speak in Ger |
man, in Italian, in Russian, In English |