The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-05-14

he said that though he was crushed to
the earth with his sorrow he felt it to
be his duty to go at his work, and lie
knew that the Lord would sustain him
and give him abundant compensation
for all his suffering,
Dear friends, we commit the interests
of this great work to your sympathy, to
your prayers to your cordial co-opera-
ton and your generous support,
Mr.. Jesup, AS you know, the Ameri-
can Sunday-School Union is nationals
it covers the whole ground of this great
country. And yet it is districted, And
we have with us tonight the Rev. Mr.,
Foster, who Is the secretary for the
New England district, and he viii
speak to you about the condition of the
work in New England. I have the
pleasure of introducing to you the Rev.
Mr. Foster
Rev. Addison p, Foster For a great
many years New England has been
deeply interested in the work of the
American Sunday School Union, and
has given to it regularly and most gem
erously. The usual generosity has
been manifested this year, as in the
past year, SO that now for two or three
years there have been supported, in
whole or in part, by the gifts of New
England donors, some twenty seven
missionaries, out of the whole number
sustained by the American Sunday
School Union, The work that has been
carried on in the years gone by through
the gifts of New England givers has
been expended very largely in the far
west, and in the southwest and in the
south. But of late years there has been
recognized a new necessity of effort in
behalf of neglected districts in New
England itself, so that in the last three
years there has sprung up a work on
the part of the American Sunday
School Union in outlying rural districts
in New England. We have some five
missionaries ordinarily at work in New
England to-day We have one or two
in Maine, one in New Hampshire, one
or two in Vermont, and one in Massa-
chusetts. AS a result of that work in
the last three years in New England,
there have been ISL Sunday schools or
ganized in New England itself There
have been brought into those schools
over 1000 young people who otherwise,
so FAR as we can judge, would have had
no gospel privileges, and there have
been reported some 242 conversions in
those schools. We used to suppose
that New England was so we'll provided
for with gospel privileges that such
work was utterly needless; but in the
movements of population, the drifting
away of people from the hill towns into
have been closed throughout New Eng
land, and far back from the river val
leys, and the consequence is that innu-
merable communities are becoming
utterly destitute of religious privileges.
And the only thing that can meet their
needs, divided as they are in their re1i-
gious sentiments, is this union work Of
the American Sunday School Union
New Haven has a most remarkable
record for it's gifts, for it's sympathy in
the world of this great society For
many years, as far back as 1858, this
church and other churches of this city
and a great number of individuals have
been most generously and kindly help
ing the society. 7 want to speak to you
most briefly of two or three instances
of giving here in this city. Hiram
Camp, referred to by him who spoke
just before me- began to give in the
year 1875, and continued his giving for
term of fifteen years. He gave five
hundred dollars year at first, present.
~ increasing it to twelve hundred dol
lars. Five missionaries We're supported
by him at different times One of these
was Mr.. e. B. Stevenson, who is now
assistant superintendent in the north
west; there was one Mr., William L. De-
Graft, now superintendent of our work
in the Rocky Mountain district; and a
third was Mr. M. B. Hills, now the
Rev M. B. Hills, the most able and ell
oquent pastor of the Central church in
Chicago. a man Of marked power.
What was the result of the work that
Mr.. Camp sustained through these fif-
teen years? Five hundred and thirty
five Sunday schools organized, seven
teen thousand persons brought into
these schools who otherwise would
have had no gospel privileges, so far as
we can see, and over $500 conversions,
while out of these schools were organ
lied probably thirty-six new churches.
Another instance is that of Mr. Will
liam A. Ives, a member of this church.
Many of you will remember him with
great interest He gave for the term of
twenty-three yearsregularly, ordinarily
five hundred dollars a year His gifts
averaged $472 a year through that
whole term of twenty three years. He
supported in large measure a missiona-
ry in the southwest What were the
results of his efforts in these dire2-