The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-06-04

to the credit of this society, that US works do follow it, after it rests from It's labors, But it is also true that there remains a large volume of work begun by the New West, and depend- Ing upon us for support undertaken by this society at the behest of the churches, and still needing to be done by the society and sustained by the churches. During these last three years, however, this society has had to do the work of two societies with the receipts of one. These have been years of hard times. The larger societies have been burdened with debts. 1t has been impossible to make men under stand that this society's need was as great as that of the larger societies with their larger debts. You will hard ly believe that this society has passed through this crisis and incurred debt of less than twenty-five thousand dol- lars. But to do this it has had to hard en it's heart and withhold aid where 1t knew that it was needed, and give small sums where large ones were de- served. Yet it is not too much to say that but for such aid as this society
  and certainly more than one academy, would have been obliged to suspend
 The work of this society has been greatly hindered by the special appeals for the debts of the other societies. The time has come when these are less pressing. The American board is out of debt. So is the Congregational Home Missionary society. So will pe soon, we hope, the American Mission ary association. Now is the time for heroic movement for Christian educa- ton. Let every church find what has been the amount in past years of it's contributions to the two societies whose work is now in the hands of the Congregational Education society, and by a substantial increase enable us to do this important work without embar- rassment or diminution If the magni- tude of the work were understood as it ought to be, it would not be a difficult matter to double the society's re- sources. Now that the hard times are passing and the burden is lifting from the other societies, this should speedily be done.
 ADDRESS BY REV. R. A. ROWLEY.
 Rev. R. A. Rowley, superintendent of the Congregational Sunday School and Publishing society of Oregon and southern Idaho, said
 The society that sends me forth is your own society, the Congregational Sunday School and Publishing society of Boston. Our work as a society in the newer portions of the country Is to organize new and assist destitute Sun day schools.
 My field embraces the whole of the state of Oregon and the south half of Idaho, territory 400 miles long in one direction and 600 miles in the other, or measuring from your New England distances and from Boston as a starting point, my field would reach to Buffalo, N, Y, one way and to the northern point of Maine in the other.
 The past year we have organized 84 new Sunday schools with member ship of 2,5oo, the greater part not hay ing had the privilege of Bible teaching for years, and at least 300 of whom have never till this year been to any kind of religious service. Last May I gathered fifty people in a small school house at N. Never before had there been any religious services of this kind, not ever af uneral in the history of the place, and there were children present from twelve to sixteen years of age born in that neighborhood who never had any such privileges.
 At the close of the organization three young girls, nine, eleven and thirteen years of age, came to the front of the room and stood gazing upon me very intently. On my asking the older one Did you enjoy the Sunday schoolg she replied, "Oh, yes sir; very much and the second one said, "and we never were to a Sunday school before" while the smallest little one with her wide staring eyes said, And we never saw preacher before." This accounted fo' the gazing; ! was the missiong linl in their case. One young lady came tc me with tears in her eyes, saying, "Sir would it be possible for us to have { school like this in our valley?" I ask ed, Where is your valley?" Leading me to the door and pointing up to tai mountain just before us, said, Jus
 over that mountain" I asked how far
 -Four and one half miles" When dit you come over?" This morning. heard there was to be a preacher here | to-day and Sunday school, so came. | When are you going back" "Oh, jus
 as soon as we get through here" Fou | and one-half miles to ask for help fo
 her valley, and four and one-half mile | over that lonely steep mountain trai | before she could get rest. Nine mile
 to bring this Macedonian cry for help Enquiring as to what they had ove | there, she said, "No church, no schoo
 house. no Sunday school, no nothing | but there were thirty mine children o school age who never had had Sunda. school.
 | I crossed that mountain trail tW'
 weeks later. There was no road; onl,
 a trail, and it was steep, and I mus
 needs lean we'll forward on my hors | and in places grasping his mane wit :. one hand and at times an ear with tn 1 other; so up we climbed. A short res
 on top and just as steep a descent. 1 did not have to hold on by his ears go | ing down. On reaching the valley
 found the people gathering. There wa
 no house prepared for the service, but
 lady gave me the use of her house.
 the best in the valley. This lady nov
 twenty three years of age had bee
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