The Portland daily press., 1899-09-06
THE EVENING SESSION.
Two Missionary Addresses Greatly In-
terested Large Audience.

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Two Missionary Addresses Greatly In
terested a Large Audience.
In the evening City hall was crowded
and the audience listened to two able and
extremely interesting missionary ad-
dresses. A chorus Of about one hundred
voices led by DR.. II. NJ. Nickerson Of
Portland conducted the praise service
which opened the exercises. After a
prayer Rev. Alfredo Brewster OF Friend
ship, the missionary superintendent,
made her report. She had sent to each
sosiety In the state series of questions
and les societies had reported. OF the
number reporting 40 had no missionary
committee and " had active committees
while Al were inactive. In all O., ,749. .98
had been contributed for foreign missions
| ty Ill sooleties. In 81 societies there had
been an increase In the amount contrib.
| uted and In 46 the same amount or less
had been given. Three hundred and
| forty-three members OF the societies are
tithe giyers, 90 societies have members
preparing for mission work while 116
have none preparing. Fifteen societies
are praying that some Of their members
may enter the mission field and 10 societies
are not praying. Sevsnty-six societies
furnish missionary books and 40 do not.
Miss Brewster made special mention
or great many societies among them
the following: The society at Pine Point
has raised sa5 for missions. all It's men,
bers are 1.-THE glvers, one or more of Its
members are preparing for missionary
WORK, 1t has an active mission commit.
tee and new missionary books.
/ The Williston society, Portland, is
working for home missions and the girls
are pledged to raise $40 annually for mis-
sion work. Rasorville has raised $3l.60.
paid the debt on Its chapel and has 13
tithe giyers. At Milo the society has
taken charge of the monthly church
meetings. Harrington has raised $50
besides sending barrel worth s5i So
Waterville has eight members preparing
for mission field. Congress street, Port
land, has given $50. Topsham has given
$50. Hammond street, Bangor, s55, and
Belfast Baptists 5000. Cape Elizabeth
has all Its members tithe giyers. Belfast
has given sS7.06, Hartman 80 cents per
month for each member for African mis-
sions, Brewer has given $50, Isl and Falls
has given S82 10. Woodfords and Gorham
Congregationalists $50 each, East Wilton
S34.ss, Gardiner SSl, for home missions. .
| Rev. s. N. Adams of Westbrook then
presented banner to the Free Baptist
society for the largest amount given for
the mission work, amounting to 1884. 90,
and the president of the society made in
response to Mr Adams's remarks very
appropriate speech.
| Rev. DIR. MeElyeen then conducted a
| five-minutes of meditation and prayer In
which he gave the audience for medita-
tion the following thoughts: "Prac-
tice the presence of God," which he asked
the entire congregation to repeat after
him In unison and the other was from
the. .biographer of Whittier: "To live near
the hsart Of Christ was His creed"
Then came another solo by Rev. E. NJ.
Lamb of Salem. he has q beautiful bar
itone voice and his songs promise to be
one of the most enjoyable things of the
convention.
| Mrs. Mary L. Leayitt was then intro
duced. She Ia quite an aged woman, but
her address on Madagascar was thrilling
ly interesting. She said that as her hair
grew whittier every year she was glad to
find the number of young people SPRING
ing up to carry on the work growing more
numerou 8. She warned the young peo-
pie that while the Lords army is gain
ing in strength the army Of satan Is also
getting stronger. In the courss of her
introductory remarks she roundly scored
the Christian Scientists who have placed
| in their temple in Boston the picture of
Christ aud of Mrs. Eddy side by. side, and
who worship this woman and pray to her.
She said that If there were any ministers
| within the sound of her voice who had In
du Iged in higher criticism they had done
more to shake the faith of tha common
people In the Bible than Ingersoll ever
did. This sentiment was loudly applaud
ed. She then went on in eloquent lam
guage to describe her visit to Madagascar
in 1889, and told in an inimitable man.
ner of her journey from Tamat ave up in
to the centre of the country in q sort OF
sedan chair, borne by 10 native men who
ran along with great speed and with
far greater ease than she ever saw exhib-
itsi by any other carriers. She was eight
days on this journey and her descrintion
of the trials and difficulties of that trim
were very amusing.
She then went on to tell OF the capital
of Madagascar, called Antananariyo,
which has l0o,0O inhabitants and i6
churches, whers few years ago thers
wers nothing but mud huts, save thrse
wooden buildings. The natives there were
idolators and practiced cruelties beyond
belief. Today they ara nearly all Chris