The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-10-14

hdru grlAu' UAoy were not driven to IL
by the spurs OF duty, but led on by the
golden wand of love The dirty little
Hindoo child who makes his way, naked
and unkempt. to the mission school is
fairer in the eyes of these loving mission
aries than the curled darlinas of America,
arrayed in all their silks and satins and
founces of lace. They often speak of the
uncouth natives just out Of heathenlsm,
or perhaps still in heathenism, with their
faces scarcely turned to the light, as
'our noble Zulus," ''our splendid Nal
frs" ''our generous hearted Fingoes,.
and it was very evident that their hearts
were in the work to which they had SO
Loyalty given their lives.
Another impression DIR. Clark haa !e-
ceived was the way in which our MI
sionaries readily adapted themselves 10
their fields and to the people among
whom their lot was cast. The genulne
Yankee ingenuity and old-fashloneo Con-
necticut keenneSs were shown III op9
adaptation of means to end, ana Oh all
means to the great end of upl1Itlng Ine
people and bringing them into VlUal fela-
tions to the Lord Jesus Christ. he TOLD
about a missionary from Connectlcut In
Western India who had estaDllSneu an
industrial school and started a planta-
tion of aloes and constructed factory for
the making of hemp, in order that the
native converts, who by the espousal of
Christianity were thrown out OF their old
employment and their old homes, might
have some self respecting 1leans of liveli-
hood.
He described the mission station of
Amanzimtote, in the heart of Natal.
which looked like little Vermont viii
lage, W tn it's white houses and fences
and beautiful little cemetery. dronped
down from the skies amid the dale. palm
and banana trees and sugar cane of tropi-
cal Africa.
Everywhere the missionaries seemed to
carry with them Whit of America not
at its poorest, but at its best and highest:
not the America of the saloon and the
brothel and the political ring, but the
America of the church and the school.
house and the Christian home.
Another impression that the speaker
bought home with him from this and
from other journeys in mission lands,
was that of the high respect in which
our missionaries are held by the natives
among whom they labor, especially when
the missions have been long established,
He described the beautiful hospital OF
Madura. which was built exclusively by
the money given by rich Hindoo mer-
chants and princes out of per onal love
and esteem for DR.. Van Allen, who is at
the head of medical missionary work in
the Madura district. He described also
Ii our psn 'HsLo no aUtenu6Q, or birthday
reception of the rajah of the native state
of Rutlam, which is in the field of the
Canadian Presyterians, where the native
rajah or prince always shows the mission
aries and their friends the most distin-
guished consideration, and who this year
dispensed with the dances of the Nautch
girls who always before had celebrated
his birthday, out of respect to the wishes
of the missionaries who had their resi-
dence within his domain.
But the most gracious and the deepest
impression which had been made upon
the speakers mind by this long Journey
in missionary lands was the growing de-
votion on the part of the missionaries and
their converts to the highest ideals of
Christian living; their Increasing spirit
uality and sense of communion with the
Unseen. He declared that on this visit
to India he saw many more Indications
that the secret Of the abiding presence of
God had been learned by the mission
aries, and was made a more i'm portant
part of their teaching than on his visit to
these same stations four years ago. A
great wave of spiritual power, attended
by II gracious revival had swept over
many parts of the missionary field dur
ing the last two years, and many mis-
|sionaries had told him that their expert
enco in these days of famine and plague,
or retrenchlnent and seeming disaster,
had been more wonderful than ever be-
fore, that they had entered into 'ithe Sc
eret of His presence >" Older missiona-
ries and younger alike had shared in this
blessing, this new baptism of spiritual
power, and, as was natural, their con-
verts in many cases had caught the spirit
of their teaching
In closing the speaker alluded to the
wonderful work which God could accom-
plish through one devoted missionary
like Andrew Murray, who has trans
formed South Africa, or like William
Carey, whose shoemaker's hammer, that
aroused SO much interest at the great
Christian Endeavor convention at San
Francisco, was exhibited by the speaker.
The lesson was drawn that, glorious as
thad been the triumph of missionaries in
the past, the greatest triumphs were still
before us, and that through the power of
the spirit of God the victories of the days
gone by will be insignificant compared
with those of the future. Glorious as the
past has been, God is liable to give us
much more than this"
Tonight Vice President Blatchford pre-.
| sided. Following the prayer by Rev.
Geo. Phillips, D. D., of Rutland, Vt,
and congregational singing, Secretary
John r. Mott gave an address on the
students volunteer movement after which
there was an address by Rev. John Hen.
ry Burrows, d. d., OF Chicago, who was
president of the worlds parliament Of
religious.
| Tomorrow promises to be the most i'm.
portant day of the session as the election
of officers occurs then.
RI;ndefoHd. Ra