The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1899-12-01
CIRCULATION:
$40
1850
Town TOPICS.
"Christianizeu in Spots.

CLEARLY BY SOME STARTLING MARIA
TIoNs.-saE SPEAKS INTERESTINGLY
1.-TWO SERVICES IN TIE CoNGREGA
TIoNAL OHURCH.-sOME STREET WAITS
WHO ONLY KNEW TIE NAME OF JESUS
AS "a CUss WORD. '-ANARCHIsM
TAUGHT IN SUNDAY sCHOOL.-READY
TO SHARE TIE LAST wORM.-PRAYER
STICKS ON THIS SIDE OF THE GREAT
WATER.
Ii was a real treat to those who we're
present at the two services in the Congre
gational church, last Sunday, to hear MRS
Harriet S. Caswell run in rapid narration
over incidents in home missionary work
thas she had witnessed In various parts
Of the United States. 1t was treat, AND
it was more too. lie was q genuine in
spiration, for anyone who listened atten-
lively to Mrs Caswell (and who at those
services did not listen attentively ?)can
hardly help in the future being more Of
an enthusiast for missions and doing
more for missions than ever before. Mrs
Caswen is Secretary of the Womsn's De-
Missionary Society. She is constantly
on the wing, having traVt led through all
the States and Territories to stir up the
churches to new zeal in pushing the war
fare of the kingdom. There ia gener-
GUS lady in Massachusetts who pays all
Mrs CAswells travelling expenses, and
tells her to spare not the money In press
ing unrelentingly on, but at the same
time counsels her to spare herself when
eyer she can py little extra outlay.
This is a suggestion OF how those who
have the wealth can make their wealth
count in the great struggle OF the ages,
between the everlasting right and the
everlasting wong. We may not be able
to speak eloquently and tenderly our
selves, but there are others whom God
has gifted in this way and we can have
them represent US. We cannot literally
fulfill Christ's command "Go," but we
can have others go in Christ's name and
in our room.
At the morning service Mrs Caswe Ii
spoke of "Heathenism in America" She
showed that there was ldoDatry as dark
and ignorance about the old, old story as
dense in America as could be found any
where in the world. This Is not Gods
country yet, not all of it. 1t is q bright
| jewel In the diadeR4 that is being prepaI
ed for the brow of the King of Kings,
but the jewel has vet many a flaw and
unpublished facet. We write as nearly as
we can as If Mrs Caswell were speaking.
The Poet Longfellow's daughters once
Joined with some members of the Har-
ward Divinity school to find in Boston lOC
waits from the street who had never seer
Christmas tree.
They found them, and found, too
that they had never heard anything
about the Christ child. Bethlehem, the
little town nestled among the Judean
Hills, might as we'll have been in some
deep valley between the mountains OF
Mars, for all they knew of any occurrence
that happened there whose influence has
transformed the world. In New Yerb
City tenement houses were entered where
four families were found occupying a
sing ApOtAt M4 AuuGAOUb says buhG
fifth family had the center and was tax
ing boarders, though, / surmise, this
statement OF it Is someW hat exaggerated
but it Is bad enough. In Chicago | went
into Sunday school where the children
were maintaining the best or order; there
was no one who bad to say to the boys
"Be quiet" or to the girls, "Stop your
Whispering" "What are they teaching
these children p l asked. ''What kind OF
a school is thisP" This Is an Anarchist
school" was the reply, land they are
teaching these children to hate our dag,
to destroy our institutions and to nurse
the poisons of anRrchism in all its forms
in their breasts" "And are there other
schools like this In American Eyes,
there Ia one in Cleveland and one in Gin
cinnati and others elsewhere" l have
learned since through personal inquiry
that this Anarchist school in Chicago has
been given up, but think of the mischie-
Vous seeds that have been sown! With
guide In San Francisco went into q
Chinese ioss-house, and saw Mongo-
liam presenting to an idol an offering
worth 800. 1 asked "Why is it neces,
sary for this man to give 80 much :
Something less valuable would have done
as well''; and the reply was, "Why, this
offering in made to his God, and nothing
Ia too good or toe large to give to his
god" On! that the Christian people of
America had this idea, that nothing ie
too good or too large to give to their
God. We should not, then, be looking
into depleted treasures or making these
frantic appeals to carry ON our work,
A lady who had beautiful home on a
ranch learned that on the outside of the
ranch was tribe of IudiansIt that lived on
worms. These Digger Indians said that
they thought so much of Miss Virginia
Dox that they were ready to share their
last worm with her. Miss Dox deter.
mined to reach these Indians. She
placed candy, bread and anything she
could think Of to tempt them to come
toward her, but they were very suep'c-
ious of her intent. At length she gained
their confidence little aud they came to
get what was placed on the ground for
them. Every day this lady put her
tempting bait nearer her home. "What |!
you would not receive these dirty, de-
graded Indians into your beautiful home
would your" demonstrated her friends.
Miss Dox merely replied that the Lord
Leans Chriat might have naDt ar, anUaI IN