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

the brain. For year we helped the H. linois Ministerial Relief society provide him with the best of medical care at a sanitarium; and though the battle went against us, it will always be a comfort to his widow and orphan children and a solid satisfaction to us that that noble Christian soldier was given a fighting chance for his life, the best that medi- cal skill could supply and a respectable Christian burial
 Friends, I thank you for your kind attention. l would not have you divert to our treasury single dollar that rlghtfully belongs to this grand Home Missionary society or any of It's noble allies; but I would have you plan and sacrifice for this work for our disabled veterans; and whenever you hear men tion of our Six societies, remember that little maiden of the Christian poet Cow per
 "rhe little maiden still replied,
 Nay; Master, we are Seven"
 ADDRESS BY REV. VIM. SHAW.
 Rev. William Shaw. superintendent of the Congregational Sunday School and Publishing Society for Georgia, Alabama and Florida, said:
 It is with great pleasure that bring to you the greetings from my field of labor, and, from the sunday-school workers of Georgia, Florida and Alaba- ma.
 Florida greets you, although she can not send her orange blossoms, whose sweet Fragrance and beauty have al ways been the admiration of those who have come to visit us. Two years ago there came down from the north, or perhaps the northwest a. cold blast, which destroyed forty million dollars of property, blighting and blasting human hopes and prospects, making sad the heart of many a brave man and Wo- man; but the better day is coming to us. Hope is sustained by living faith and sees again the blossoms and golden fruit, and in year or two this most southern state will regain her financial prosperity, and that means success to our church and Sunday school work. Georgia and Alabama, those great cotton and iron and coal producing states, have a bright future before them. They are fast becoming great centers of industry. The rush of com petition, in our present state of com merce, is making it necessary that | manufacturing shall be at the place of production in order to save transporta- tion; hence eastern capitalists and manufacturers are coming south and erecting cotton mills and foundries. The day for urging people to Ego 1 vest for the future homes and better 1 prospects is now past; blizzards, cy- clones, long cold winters and dry sum- mers have proven to the sad experience | of thousands that the land of the fu- 1 ture of this country is not west of the Mississippi river, but in the south land, with its mild winters, good climate, | freedom from blizzards and cyclones. | The people are coming south and al- l ready colonies are being formed, and | great tracts of land are being pur- l chased and towns are springing up in many places. The people coming to us are our own people from the east and west, coming like the cold wave, as it seeks the heated vacuum. Soon it will be impossible to have such a thing as a |
 | A residence of fifteen years in the 1 south, five years of which were spent in the service of the Home Missionary | society in Georgia, and eight years in the work of the Congregational Sunday School and Publishing society, has giv- 1 en me an opportunity to investigate and learn the nature and possibilities of my field. Eight years ago MT. H. P. Shares of New Haven and MT. Knowles | of Worcester, Mass, made it possible | by their gifts for us to have our first state Sunday school superintendent in l the south. At the request of Dr. Dun ming, then secretary of our Sunday School and Publishing society, I began the work and have been actively en- gagged in urging the organization iof | Sunday schools and the better prepara- tion of the teachers at work in them
 Just at that time the Congregational | Methodist churches Of Georgia and Alabama came into fellowship with us and an open door of usefulness was af- forded us to engage in planting Sunday schools and stimulating Bible study and the training the children and young people. This work has been going on l rature and continued help till they could come to provide for themselves we have now a large body of childrer and young people, who have showr their aptitude to adapt themselves tc the better methods of teaching, and arc becoming strong adherents to oul church principles and loyal to our de. nomination.
 
 In Florida our Sunday schools vii compare favorabiy with those of any denomination in any state in the Union
 In Georgia and Alabama the worl has been more of formative character and in the churches that came to us the work of training has gone forward amid many discouragements and hin drances, the churches failing to keep III with the schools, in the better and more logical method of Bible study; the de mand has been for ministry tha could lead and be in full sympathy witt p-to-date methods. Mistakes hay, been made, misconceptions and misun derstandings have occurred on the par of those whom we have helped "sinc' the war" The older brother has looked with suspicion upon the new movemen and never has been satisfied with thi younger southern brother. Perhaps tn rural spirit of Jesus Christ and Hi teachings has never been truly applied by either. The inquiry of one of old What shall we have?" may have en