The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-06-05

ana liberal estimate, and II the SWed-
ish Mission Covenant Body, which is
Presbyterian in its tendency, certain
Baptist, Methodist and Presbyterian
ly, If not in its constitution, and the
churches and others, provide for 10 per
cent, then 35 per cent. are afforded re-
ligious advantages. In North Wiscon-
sin are $4,000 foreign born Scandina-
VANS and their children. The Lutheran
church is doing something. The Swed-
ish Mission Covenant Body is doing
something. So are the Methodists and
Baptists. We have a promising work,
both Swedish and Norwegian, there.
Minnesota in the great Scandinavian
state of the country, with nearly
quarter of a million born in the home
land. North Dakota had 35 900 Scandi-
navian born people in 1890, and has
more in 1896. We are occupying only
one point in that great state. We have
church at Fargo, and the pastor there
has been trying to overlook a work at
Cooperstown, a hundred miles to the
west and north. Thousands of Swedes
are in the mining regions of Montana
and Idaho. Probably not per cent
have any religious privileges. One wo-
her little daughter with her. Coming
to a creek, usually crossed upon step
ping stones, she found the water con-
siderably above her waist. She dis
robed, putting her clothing in a bundle
and carried it to the opposite side; then
she fetched her child across, dressed,
and went on to the meeting. Her re-
turn home was accomplished in the
same manner. Immigrants are going
into North Wisconsin, who want and
need a church. In the northern part of
Minnesota a million acres of the Red
Lake reservation is just open to settlers,
and millions more are there for the peo-
pie who readily occupy them.
Rev E. D. Curtis, D. D., of Indiana,
was the next speaker. He said that a
large share of the pioneers of Massa-
chusetts and New York carried Congre-
gationalsm to Illinois and Ohio, but the
pioneers of Indiana came mostly from
the south, and so there is not so much
Congregationalism there as might be
wished. 1t is the custom of New Eng
land to give only to thrifty communities
but the line should be drawn at Indiana.
When Mr. Curtis first went to Indiana
there We're only twentyfour Congrega-
tional church in Indiana. A few min
listers and missionaries had carried on
the best of their ability. There are
now 1900 church members where there
were then 2.200 and now there are over
| 5000 Sunday school scholars.
Rev. j. K. Harrison of California said
| that people go to California with exag-
| gerated ideas, expecting to get rich md
| to have an ideal sort Of existence. Many
| ministers go there with that impress
| sion. The fact is that while there is a
| great deal of good in California, there
| is also a great deal of evil. While the
| state is the second largest in the Union
and is very prosperous it is nevertta-
| less a pioneer state. All the customs
| are unsettled. In fifteen of the coun-
| ties there are no Congregational
| churches. There are, however, commu-
| mites all over California that are OPEN
| ing up for the work.
| Rev. A. A. Brown of Wyoming and
| the Black Rocks said that the western
man had been much abused, but that
he was nevertheless usually a man
| with a manly heart.
Mr.. Hawkes. said that he wished as
| good and upright men everywhere as he
! has found in the west. In number and
value the churches in his district have
| increased over 100 per cent. during the
| past four years. Congregationalism is
| theism for that country. The people
| like it because they can easily under
| stand its theories. When they meet
| excitable religious enthusiasts they ask
| them to explain their religion and de-
| sire to find out the good in it. When,
on the other hand, they are told that
| Congregationalism stands for goodness
and righteous living, then they say that
! that is business and what they want.
| Everywhere in the west there is the
| confidence that the Congregational
style of getting at things is the right
| way.
| Rev. w. A. Hawkes. of Utah told of
1 the way in which the politics of that
| new state are run by the Mormons, and
| said that the immoralities practiced
| and taught In the Mormon church are
such that they could not be described.
| He, however said that affairs We're
| taking better turn recently and that
| many younger MormonS are breaking
away from the evils of the cast. He
! said that the Mormons this spring sent
/ out fourteen hundred missionaries, but
that the signs of the times are ominous
for them and that it will probably not
be many years before there is COM
| plete change in the deplorable state OF
| affairs which now exists, although IN
not SO bad a degree as formerly.
Rev William e. Barton, d. D., pas
| tor of the ShaWmut Congregational
| church of Boston offered greetings to
the Home Missionary society in behalf
| of the Congregational Education soci-
| ETY.. He spoke of the two theories in
| regard to the mission of the church
| one that it's mission is to minister by
| it's sacraments to the needs of men, and
| the other that the chief office of the
| church is the preaching of the gospel
| Congregationalism stands not for the
minimizing of the first, but for the ex-
| altatiOn of the second of these two
functions. The need of an intelligent
| aity and an educated ministry, and ii
| is no small part of the glory of New
| England that her ministers have had a
| splendid educational training, Mr.. Bar
| ton said, that great as is the blessing
| received in a large institution. the truth
remains that our frontier schools, where
| the greatest thing impaired to the stu
| dent is the personal influence of the
| teacher, do give man some things that
| are not in the curriculum Of Yale CT
| Harvard or leland Stanford Or ChfHa-