The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-16

new aspirations after fuller and richer
life in Christ.
Through it they came into the conscious
ness OF larger fellowship; they we're no
longer shut up within the narrow routine
of their own local congregation, saddened,
perhaps. by its spiritual coldness, or dis
couraged by its poverty and lack OF growth
ard apparent failure. The spiritual infiu-
ence of the auxiliary is seen in the home
and graciously acknowledged by our breth-
rem.
Brother Muckley says of it: I want to
hand in my testimony after nearly seven
years of almost constant travelling amolg
our people in the interests of church extern
sion; it is the rarest thing to find the hus-
band Of a c. w b. NJ woman opposed to
organized missionary work
Brother Arthur, of Rochester. says 1t Is
his best aid in the spiritual uplifting of his
people. Again, quoting from Brother Muck
ley. he says: Believing, as we preachers do.
that mems characters are nodded very
and believing that we need very wide-
spread missionary zeal among our churches
in order that local and general work may
fail TO push c. w. b. NJ. day? 1t will be a
red-letter day for all our organized mission
airy work when the women in all our
w. b. NJ. A
1T is doing awqrk that nq,otAer mission
airy society is doihg, It is developing the
hitherto unused talent of the church. 1t Is
training our future missionaries.
1T is wonderfully adapted to woman's
work and ways of working. 1t is an econo-
mizer of force AS such at home. it uses
just money enough to keep the machinery
in good running order. Its large force Of
tage here. Our general and state officers,
district managers, auxiliary officers and
members are ever at work. This enables
them to reach many communities.
SENDING OUT LITERATURE.
I'm disseminating literature, it does not
send out great piles of it once year, to be
scattered over the seats and tables of the
churches until gathered up by the janitor.
in the vain hope of kindling a missionary
fire. But it sends it to the auxiliaries to be
read, talked over and prayed over knowing
that the seed must be sown in human
hearts in order to bring forth fruit.
"As a builder of churches in the needy
West, as a helper of missionary points and
weak churches in many States of its Bible
chairs, schools and varied work. we need
not speak. In all, and through all, it has ex-
allied Gods word and has educated minis
tiers, teachers and missionaries, and by the
broad missionary spirit has stimulated the
churches to a growth in knowledge and en-
couraged them to put forth greater efforts
for the evangelization of the world
1.-THE missionary correspondence begun by
our dear Sister Pearrie, which first set the
c. w. B. M. wheels in notion has also been
intimate innate feIawsbin Ma a s m1re
Blessed be letters and every true c. w.
B. M woman will say thrice blessed be
these little white-winged messengers of
Christian love, which have encouraged the
disheartened, strengthened the weak COM
forted the sorrowful and have been of such
inestimable value to our scattered member
ship.
"As have watched and studied this work
from its beginning and given to it my little
gifts, my earnest prayers, it has been my
growing conviction that woman'S board
can find among the women and children of
our own and foreign lands an open field.
That 1t is the most neglected, the most
needy, and will yield the largest returns
here and hereafter. That this is largely our
mis- a homo n ha
uttermoSt parts of the earth.
God is calling to this work By the per-
secution of Christians in Armenia; by every
unspeakable outrage of womanhood and
childhood by the Turk; by its widows and
our dear missionaries have passed through
during the last year; by their heroic sacri-
fees; by their prayers and pleading for
help. Hear Bessie Farrar: 1t makes one cry
here and there come repeated messages:
Send some one to teach US; come and teach
us; stay with us that we may learn
Every time ! hear of Sister Graybiel
sending the orphans she has rescued from
starvation to other missions because she
cannot keep them, say with her: We are
as able as any other people to rear and
train these children for usefulness in the
kingdom of Christ, and we ought to do ii.
The greatest Joy of my heart is that our
New York sisters have shown their practi-
cal sympathy for our missionaries and the
pershng ones, for whom Christ died, by
adopting twelve of these little ones.
I'm Indianapolis tonight the torch-bear-
ers are many, and the songs triumphant.
Affair in India feeble few are standing.
Their torches are lighted, but they CLEAN
family in the murky light, where the pesti-
lence walketh in darkness and famine
more light-bearers. They are calling to US:
Send the light; send the light