The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-04-18
TWO FINE ADDRESSES
DELIVERED IN PLYMOUTH CON-
 GREGATIONAL CHURCH

Yesterday in Futherauee of the con- gregationaI Field Day Here-Dr. Jad-
 son Smith and pr. c. H. Richards
 Spoke.
 At the morning service in Plymouth church yesterday the speakers were pr. Judson Smith, the senior secretary of the American Board, who presented the work of that society in foreign lands, and Dr. Charles H. Richards, who spoke on behalf of the five homeland societies supported by the Congrega- tional churches.
 i Dr. Smith gave q brief history of the American Board; it's beginning early in the century; it's first missionary, sent to Bombay, India; its occupancy of one field after another, Japan being the last. So great has been the growth of this work that the American Board now has twenty missions under it's care, through whose agencies seventy-five million people are reached; it occupies thirteen hundred strategic points, and t1iC 6OopCl lS Dl0dcllGu III lWellly-SEHG1l different languages.
 1 Dr. Smith spoke of the three-fold na- ture of the work carried on-the evan- gelistic the educational and the medi- cal. Of the latter he said that not so much was generally known. Thousands of cases are treated every year in the hospitals under the care of the Ameri- can Board, and to each patient the gos- pel is preached The speaker told of lone poor woman who, forlorn, homeless, abjectly poor and with oncoming blind ness, wandered to the door of a hospi- tai. There she was taken in, treated, lsaved; and now she is a hospital-r1la- tron, sympathetic, helpful, a Christian, and great power for good.
 | To show what is done in the educa-
 tional department Dr. Smith set before l his audience a vivid word-picture of two cultured, Christian, Chinese gen.
 tlemen, one of them a pastor, the other a teacher, both of whom died nobly for the faith during the Boxer movement. These martyrs. he said, were worthy to have their names placed beside those whom the church has for centuries been glad to honor.
 pr. Smith spoke of the growth of the iWork, which is everywhere hopeful, and lin some quarters unparalleled. He said that the present financial embarrass- ment of the Board was due to the great I progress of the work; he referred to the need of more money and more men, and closed with an eloquent prophecy of
 what the future might bring when the earth should indeed become the Lord s,
 and the New Jerusalem shodid descend and remain among men. ~- Dr. Richards, the second speaker. be- gan his address with tribute to Dr. l Smith and to the American Board and went on to say that this great foreign
 work could not be sustained unless the
 work in the homeland were also well sustained; that it was necessary to ed- ucate people here and to increase the number of Congregational churches at home, if we are to reach around the world and evangelize all nations Iii 1 proof of this he referred to the large amount of money which is contributed for the work of the American Board by home missionary churches, and to the fact that these churches are sending out a goodly number of missionaries to the foreign field Dr. Richards com pared the five home societies to the five fingers of the hand. First is the Sum day school society, which starts Sum- day schools in places where there is no religious agency; then, when the school has grown, the education society pro- vides it with a 1ninister-an educated one. The Home Missionary society does it's work church organization is the result The American Missionary association meets the needs of special 4 classes whose needs are great, and supp l plements the work of the other organ izations, and finally the Church BuiId- Ting society completes the result by helping erect church edifices.