The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-10-28
WAS MISSIONARY DAY
SPECIAL SERVICES IN THE con-
GREGATION1L CHURCHES.

Church Chapel-WOrk IN ihulat Au'heS
and Micronesia Desoribed-The Horrors
of child widows in India-opposition to
Missionaries in Turkey.
Yesterday was missionary day in all
I the Congregational churches through
I out the city Special services were held
\ and the congregations were addressed
by prominent missionaries. Some time
ago the American Board of Foreign Mis-
Il sions met in Brooklyn, N. ", and de-
4 cided to make campaign in New Eng
4 land for the purpose of awakening in
! terest in missionary work. According
ly they sent out men who have been
and will continue to be in the mission
airy service. Their plan is to hold
"missionary rallies" in the different
3 Connecticut Congregational churches
Yesterday was their day in New Haven.
AT UNITED CHURCH CHAPEL
There was special missionary SER
y vice at United church chapel in the at
ternoon yesterday, under the auspices or
the New Haven Y. w. c, A., the meet
ing being largely attended The SER
4 vices began with prayer by DR.. Phillips
of the Church of the Redeemer. Mrs.
/. H. C. Hazen, of the Mandura mission,
India, then spoke, relating her ex-
n perience among the natives. She said
that the station at which she is station
ed is about thirty miles from physi-
clan, and she is forced to minister to
the people in sickness. Many of the
diseases are of such nature that they
cannot wait for a physician to come
thirty miles. There is no clock in most
of the families to time the taking of
medicine, neither are there spoons to
take it in, so that the physician or
person treating patient is obliged to
call at the right time during the day
and give medicines personally.
Mrs. Hazen said that in her district
there are $4,000 villages. She then told
of the terrible troubles of widows in
India, as they are supposed to be re-
sponsible for their husbands death.
They are summed by all their relatives,
are not allowed to visit their neighbors
and are looked upon as outcasts from
society They are all clothed in plain
white garments, and many of them
are hardly more than babies, as they
are betrothed while yet very young,
and if by chance the boy to whom they
are betrothed dies, they are considered
widows and live the rest of their lives
as outcasts, insulted and Summed by
all. Many of them are sent to the
temples to become dancing girls. Mrs,
Iazen then called the attention of the
ladies present to the fact that Thanks
,rivy; ,,cr dat jc, hon and
them to give more literally to the mis-
sions in Thanksgiving in that they dc
not have to endure the troubles which
beset the women of India. In ONE pro
ince in India there are 1000 little girls
under four years of age who are widows
and have to endure all the horrors of
that position. They are allowed only
one meal a day and are obliged often to
go as slaves to the parents of their dead
husband. She told of one middle aged
woman whose husband was one of the
richest and most intelligent man in the
town. but he died and his widow was
compelled to stay in dark room fol-
three months and was obliged to endure
all sorts of humiliation.
Great difficulties attend all those ma.
tives who embrace Christianity. Mrs
Hazen related one instance in which q
man became converted and was about
to be baptised when the village sorcerel
told him that great calamity would be.
fall hmif he did so. The man persisted
and soon after his son died, poisoned by
the sorcerer. The man persisted il
his resolve to become a. Christian, and
finally he himself was poisoned. His
meeting of the Christians until finally
she with her child was poisoned. This
lis only an example of hundreds of cases
Mrs Hazen spoke feelingly of various
phases of the missionary work, and hel
remarks impressed her audience strong
ly.
Mrs. Logan is missionary at Ruk
in Micronesia, a group of islands II
the Pacific ocean. Mrs. Logan said thai
her station was four hundred miles from
the Asiatic shores. The missionaries
working there have not the incentive Of
thinking that they are laying the found
alton of a great Christian nation, as car
those missionaries in China, Africa anc
other continental stations The depress
ing influence of living among heathens
cannot be imagined. Mrs. Logan TOLD
several interesting anecdotes illustrat
ing the difficulty of the work. She sale
that echoes of the work done on one
island are carried to the next one, ant
so on, and in this way great spread i:
given to missionary teachings,
DIR. W. A. Farnsworth of Turkey mex
spoke on work in his field. He has
been in Turkey forty-tWo years. DIR
Farnsworth said that very few of thu
people of the east have the Bible il
their own language. The first work O
the missionary should be to translate
the word of God into the language o.
the people among whom he is to work
He spoke of the immense Bible house il
Constantinople which is a splendid
monument to American Christian ben
EVIDENCE One thousand Bibles go fortl
from there each year printed in the
language of the people to whom they
are sent Besides these there are an
nually sent out over one thousand re
ligious and educational books, alst
printed in the language of the people
He also described the opposition me
with by missionaries in Turkey. Tit
American college for girls in Constan
tinople is doing a work equal to that o.
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