The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-05-14

| dustrial bureau. They befriended ] these orphans, gathered them up and | took care of them. They knew right | well that you at home here and the 1 people in England would never allow l their work to lack for funds. We have calculated that there must be nearly | fifty thousand of these orphans scat tered over what we call Armenia, ab- | solutely desolate, absolutely helpless absolutely at the mercy of the Turk l What will happen to them? They will starve in the street. they will die from the diseases that follow in the wake of such terrible destitution and suffering, lack of nourishment and lack of shell ter from the cold. They will wander off into Turkish and Kurdish houses | and villages and be absolutely lost to l Christianity. They will serve to swell the number of Mohammedans in Tur- key. This is what we must save them | from.
 We have, as you know, in every mis- sionary station these impromptu or phanages that have been established by the missionaries. The work is just being organized. These hildren met us with the cry, T am an orphan. Won't you take me in?' I will venture to say that our missionaries never go on the street without having this cry poured into their ears almost continu- ally. It is a cry that goes to their hearts because it means taking these children who are the rising generation, the hope and promise of the future, as if they had been given us by God, and putting them under Christian infiu- ences and bringing them up to Chris tian manhood and womanhood.
 I remember very well when I first went to Turkey and engaged in shool work how we used to hall the coming of every child in the school, rejoicing that our work was enlarginH So it grew by ones and twos, by f1ves and tens, and when we had a school of a hundred or a hundred and twenty five we thought we had magnificent oppor- tunities. And so we had; but think of it to-day There are two hundred and fifty of these orphans right in that dear old missionary compound, boys and girls, splendid looking young boys, nice looking young girls, bright noble, growing up into Christian manhood and womanhood. So all over western Turkey and Central Turkey also;
 in every mission station you have these bodies of children who are under our missionary care. Now that is a work for us to do.
 I do not know that I have right to
 say anything about it, but still I have always felt a very strong desire that the Board should take this orphanage work the American Board taking the
 boys and the Womans Board the girls.
 How does it stand at the present mo-
 ment? In every station our missiona- ries are giving their time to this work.
 Our mission boards are giving them
 the ground and the buildings in many cases to use and are furnishing them
 with tition in our schools, but the funds which come as Special dona- tions" to carry on this work do not ap- pear in the receipts of our Boards.
 They are doing the work, you are do- ing the work, your missionaries are do-
 ing the work and I would that these large sums coming in constantly were contributed to the Board. I believe there would be great increase and
 great gain for all the work. Why? Because-and that brings my talk to
 just where I started-the matter of defniteness in work and the matter of
 human sympathy and interest always
 brings the money in it's train"
 I would not say a word contrary to
 what the Womans Board and the
 American Board have seen to be the
 wise thing to do. I know that this is
 the first thing which occurs to us and , to them; it is assuming a great work that we may not be able to carry on,
 but I believe that the heart of the American people is so warm and so
 tender that there never is going to be a time when you an go before an
 American audience and say, These
 orphans, whom God has given into our hands to raise up as generation for Christ, are in need of schools, of
 to get full contribution box. So I commend to you this matter of defi-
 niteness in respect to the care of the orphans. I know you do it somehow,
 but I do wish, dear friends, that you
 would do it as a part of your own work, and take all the name and the glory of it, which is yours.
 I want, too, to say one word of ap- preciation in regard to your branch work and in regard to your work in in- dividual societies. I want to tell you of the help and the joy that you are to |, your missionaries abroad. I wish I , could make every one of you under
 stand the feelings of your missionaries
 when they think that here in New Ha-
 ven and all through the cities and
 towns and villages of Connecticut and
 of all our states there are bodies of
 women who are working and praying
 and planning and sacrificing their
 own interests and their own comfort
 for them. I wish you could all know
 as you go to your small meetings in your churches, how strong is the bond , which the missionaries feel connecting , you with them; could know how yor , interest, your prayers, your upholding hand how your words of approbation, , are helping them in their work.
 want to thank you all for the pleas- ure of meeting the New Haven Branch l face to face; it is a pleasure that have long anticipated.
 5 Junior Possibilities
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