The record-union., 1898-04-01

of Africa, you must do it by giving them
educated teachers and preachers of their
own color. A cultured colored preacher
was sent as a missionary to Africa, the
natives took him down to the river and
scrubbed him several hours to see II
they could not get the black off When
they found he was not white man, but
a real negro, they opened their hearts
and homes to him. and so he was en-
abled TO reach them.
Viewed at from the standpoint Of a
statesman, patriot and Christian, the
work of home missions is beyond all
price, for every church it plants becomes
a city set upon hill-a beacon light or
the perilous sea of life, shedding light
upon the midnight of sin, warning the
tempest tossed mariner and guiding the
ship Of state into a haven of rest and
safety. Every Christian school opened
among our exceptional population,
serves as a strong pillar upon which ma :
tional greatness rests and high moral
character may be built
The abnormal growth and abounding
corruption of our great cities show also
the Importance Of sending them the
home missionary. In all of them can
be seen social evils invading the peace
and security of families, estranging the
child from the parent and the parent
from the child: so that these fetid pools
found in our lar=e cities overflow and
threaten to deyastate the surrounding
country Even our rural districts, free
as they are from many of the threaten
ing evils of our great cities, are III i'm
i / II e - nic~f
The glad tidings of salvation are as
strange a sound to many as if the name
CT Jesus had never been uttered in their
hearing, thus emphasizing the unspeak-
able Importance of sending to the peo-
pie of the country and city alike the gos-
pei which is the power of God unto sal
walton.
Furthermore, this country exerts a
moral influence over the world. As our
republic form of government relaxes
the hand of despotism in Europe, SO our
Christianity molds characters in lands
remote. Our land has the gospel, we
may say. China, India and Africa nave
only a few tapers burning along their
shores, and yet the field is one, and home
and foreign missions are so allied that
they can not be divorced without the
most serious detriment to both. They
are related to each other as the sun and
light. The church that forgets that
there is a difference between home mis-
sion work on the one side and foreign
mission work on the other will do both
parts of it's work the best. They were
connected first of all in our great COM
mission that remission and repentance
-, .-Ia@ ,al afn oil n a.
tions Those who plead the needs of the
home heather as an excuse for doing
nothing to help the heather abroad have
not been found to have been more alive
or more liberal in their service in be-
half of the heather at home.
In reading the gospel we find these
two thoughts first; the love of God indi-
vidualized to every soul. We read Of the
disciple whom Jesus loved. He loved
Mary and Martha. He loved me-" says
the apostle, " and gave Himself for
me-" Here that love is individnalized
and made personal, but because Of the
depths of that love we find it brOadens
out, until it takes in all nations and
generations of the world, for it was this
same Jesus who stretching forth his
hand toward all His disciples says: BE
hold My mother and My brethren" So
it is if we love our home land, it will but
lift US out of ourselves, and make US
feel that we belong not only to the small
circles about us, but to the great church
of God that would fain fill the world.
The church that neglects the one cannot
prosecute the other.
Here is a most vivid illustration of our
relation to the far lands. While Rev.
Lindsay, D. D., was holding meetings in
a small church in Glasgow, at one of his
afternoon sessions he describes this
scene. A woman in a tattered bonnet, a
faded shawl and a great blue mark
across her face, a baby half hidden in
the dirty shawl, and little girl. shoe
less and stocking1ess, by her side, and a
young lady, gently cultured, highly cul-
tiyated by her, with one arm round the
little bairn. and her hand on the wo-
mans shoulder, striving to bring back
to her that womanhood that she had
lost. Is not that picture of the home
church, of the church of Christ enriched
by all the gifts that God has given it,
stretching forth it's hand on these
heathens who are still beyond the fold
OF the Savior?
The more deeply we feel the binding
force of our Savior's last command:
60 ye unto all the world and preach
the gospel to every creature - the more
deeply must we feel the imperative need
of bringing to bear on our whole people
the saving power of the blessed gospel OF
the son of God, that this nation may
do it's part in the great work of the
worlds evangelization.
Following Mrs Kidd, Mrs. H. Carr
gave as a recitation, Helping to Raise
the Debt" Mrs. P. D. Browne of San
Francisco spoke earnestly on the sub
ject of prayer and an interesting paper
was read by Mrs. Belle Royce of Chico
on THE Possibility of the Negro
A duet, Sweet Hour of Prayer" was
rendered and the session closed with
a conservation service led by Mrs.
Sherman of the street
Church.
EVENING SESSION.
In the evening, after praise service and
an excellently we'll rendered selection by
the choir. Mrs. W. Perkins, Synodical
President of Home Missions, delivered
an address. taking for her subject,
Home Missions"
Mrs Perkins spoke of the Womens
Board of Home Missions, of the great
good done by it in the past and of its
possibilities in the future. The women
composing it have taken a strong
stand for righteousness, and while
others work for the souls of those in
alien lands their labors are confined to