The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-10-12
MESSAGES OF GODS LOVE
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 of missions throughout the world in that time betokens the sure coming of the kingdom of God. Encouraging signs of divine favor are seen to-day in all our mission fields.
 Continuing, the speaker said: s'I was asked to speak to you a word from the west this evening, but you will excuse me for the Aggression have made from the subject assigned me. This I may say: We all come back here bringing a tribute of grateful reverence to your noble state" -fs
 An impressive part of the meeting was when Vice President Blatchford, after having referred to the fact that Connecticut had furnished the first president of the American Board in the person of John Treadwell, Esq, later a governor of the state, said that the grandson of Governor TreadWell was present at the meeting.
 He then descended from the platform and warmly grasped the hand of pr. Isaac TreadWell and expressed his keen satisfaction at meeting him there. He read from two ancient documents of Governor TreadWell-one a Thanksgiv- ing. proclamation written in 1910 by Governor Treadwell, and the other the Laws of Yale College and a certifi- cate to the effect that John Treadwell was a candidate for a degree, signed by President Thomas Clapp in 1763.
 Rev. w. E. Griffith of Ithaca, N. r.. spoke on ''The Congregationalism of New York" He said that the Congre- gational churches had been swallowed up in the early history by the Presby- terians. As pastor of Congregational church he found it necessary to treat the people a little different from what is done in New England. However, in the fact that Almighty God was the source of all power, he found ground in common with all Congregational ists.
 In the course of his remarks he took occasion to state that his researches had led him to the conviction that John Alden must have been an Irishman and not an Englishmen, and that Miles Standish was in all probability a Ro- man Catholic. In this he saw the type of the true Christian church. He said he took the Pilgrim Fathers as our ideals, and believed their influence would be more and more felt as time went on.
 Mrs. Leavitt of Boston, one of the founders of the w. c. T. U.,' was next introduced She spoke very earnestly of the noble work of the missionaries in all parts of the world, which she had had a chance to observe in her travels, covering a period of nine years in the work of the w. c. T. U. She, with equal earnestness, branded as lies the stories told against the missionaries by evil-minded Europeans.
 Rev. MT. Jefferson of Chelsea, Mass. was called upon, but gave way to older speakers.
 Rev. MT. Williams of South Dakota spoke briefly. He said he considered himself a New Englander. New Eng lands benefactions had extended as far as he had been. It was a wonder tc him that New England had offered such support as it had to the rest of the country, having a soil, as one declared which produced rocks and men. MT. A. R. Thain, editor of the Chi cago Advance, declined to speak owing to the Iateness of the hour.
 General o. o. Towards appearance on the platform was greeted with hear. ty applause. He said, in part: If you find Methodists, Baptists and Roman Catholics getting together and hiring 8 minister you have Congregations church. That is just the way we are forming churches all over our country I have been away up in Alaska to tho | Chilcoot Pass, almost to the Klondike l met seven different tribes of Indians l and can talk to you about them. i We hear it asserted that we drove 1 the Chinamen out of our country. Wt 1 did not; we did what we could fol
 them. It was not the Christian people 1 who drove them out, but those who i were not Christians.
 We have still a great work to do il
 this country. Men are striving to make
 a line of cleavage between the rich ant the poor of our land. They can't do it They shall not do it. tApplause) Let
 Us have unanimity among our peopIe General Howard also denounced tn, ifalseheods which Mere being circuIates