The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-12
IN FOREIGN LANDS
PRESBYTERIAN MISSION WORK is
DISCUSSED AT THE DAYTON
AVENUE CHURCH.
ANNUAL PRAISE OFFERING.
ACTUAL WORKINGS OF THE So
CIETY EXPLAINED TO THE
CONGREGATION.
ADDRESS BY REV. DIR. PHRANER
Mrs. Wells Apt Illustration of the
Condition of Women i'm Vari-
Gus Countries.

The annual praise offering service of
the Woman's Foreign Missionary So
ciety of the Dayton Avenue Presbyte-
rian church was held at the church,
Dayton avenue and Mackubin street,
last evening. The exercises consisted
of a report of the actual workings of
the society for the enlightenment of
those members of the congregation
who are not of it's active members, and
addresses by Rev. DR.. Phraner, of
Orange. N. Y, secretary of the Cen
trail Presbyterian board of foreign
missions, and Mrs. s. B. Wells, secre-
tary of the Northwestern branch Of the
same organization.
Mrs. NJ D. Edwards, president of the
local society, presided, and also pre-
scented the annual report of the society.
Only the nature of the work and it's
manner of prosecution were dwelt up
on, to the exclusion of moneys raised
and devoted to the missionary cause,
a matter which was reserved for
later business session.
DR.. Phraner who has been connected
with missionary work for many
years, and who has travelled extern
sively in foreign countries, spoke upon
the Importance Of Outstanding the
heather, and emphasized his assertion
by reciting instances of the crying
needs Of these people which had come
under his personal observation, speak
ing forcibly upon the potency of Chris
tianity as lever by which the women
of foreign countries in particular, were
being raised to a higher plane.
In nearly all heather countries, he
said, women at the best, occupied only
the most degraded positions. In some
countries they were scarcely recog-
niZed as human beings. This was par
ticularly true in India and China,
where the most attrocious cruelty was
practfced upon Womankind The
speaker had addressed many audiences
in heather lands, but when he remem-
bered the conditions Of the women of
those lands, recalled by the sight of
so many women before him, enjoying
all Of the blessed privileges CT civili-
cation and Christianity, it caused his
heart to ache in pity. 1t was impos-
sible for the people of this country to
realize the conditions as they existed
in the missionary fields of China and
India. Here the wives and mothers
were more slaves, while the female
children were murdered as soon as they
were born. Christianity, however had
already its uplifting influences were be-
ginning to be evidenced and the great
benefits which it was bestowing where
1t had been received was the most
powerful argument why the church of
America should continue to send mis-
sionaries to the foreign field.
Aside from the evangelical results
accomplished by the missionaries, at
tention was called to the priceless con-
tributions which they had made to his
tory, anthropology, science and litera-
ture. They were primarily humanitar-
ians in the broadest conception of the
term, and more comprehensive under
taking than their maintenance, the
speaker declared, was beyond concep-
ton. The apathy which seemingly had
taken possession of the honae church
In this matter, DR.. Phraner assigned 10
ignorance of the Importance of the
work and eXhorted his listeners to
awaken to the needs of the hour.
Mrs. Wells drew a striking contrast
between the life Of the heather woman
and that of the woman Of this country.
showing by means of a unique illustra-
ton consisting of several glasses con-
tanning pure, sparkling water and
others filled with dark, repugnant
liquid. The one represented the stages
or life of the woman of Christianized
countries. the other the dregs of heath
endom. One was brightness and purity
throughout, the other blackness and
gloom. Into the glasses containing the
dark liquid was poured a substance
which before the eyes of the audience
cfanged its contents to the sparkling
water of the other glasses. This the
sneaker said, was emblematic of the
effect of the blood of Christ, whose
cleansing power was made known to
the heather by the missionary. The
people of this country possessed that
blood and it was a solemn obligation
to send it to their fellow beings where
Its glorious possibilities were unknown.
Mrs. Wells expressed regret and mild
Indignation that the foreign mission
airy movement should be the subject
of criticism. and particularly among
Christian people. In the Judgment day.
she said, the King of Kings would say:
You knew and experienced the bles-
sedness of Christianity; did you send
the glad tidings of redemption to your
brothers of benighted lands?" No ex-
cuse would be possible. The answer
would then be. "Inasmuch as We did
1t not unto the least of these, We did
1t not unto meg depart from me-