The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-04-18
DESCRIBES SSlON WORK
FIELD DAT SERVICE AT CHURCH
 OF REDEEMER.

pr. Capen, President of American
 Board Tells of Foreign Missionary
 EieEd--Dr. Clarke Discusses Great
 Benefit of Home Missionary Effort
 One Solution of Immigration Problem.
 A large congregation gathered at the lChurch of the Redeemer yesterday morning to participate in the field day service. The visiting speakers of the Iday were President Samuel D. Capen, IL. D., of Boston, president of the American Board of Foreign Missions, land Rev. J. B. Clarke, D. D.. Of the Home Missionary society. An interest ing service was held and the speakers were introduced by Rev. Dr. Watson L. Phillips, pastor of the church.
 Dr. Capen, in commencing, said that he would not attempt to give details in treating of the foreign mission work but would merely sketch the progress O. that branch of Christian effort. He said that the societys first great step to success was made when natives of various lands were trained to act as preachers and teachers of their own particular people. He said that the educated native can appeal to his peo- ;ple os no white missionary can.
 The result of this system was so sat- isfactory, said Dr. Capen, that to-day the society has 4,000 native teachers scattered about various countries.
 In the matter of education, Dr. Capen stated that the society has at present seventeen colleges and expends annu- ally s19O,OOO, while the pupils under in- lstruetion approximate 5,000,000 Anoth- CT great educational feature of the so- ciety's work, he explained, is the pulp lication of books and papers in twenty six different languages at the rate of 100000 pages a day.
 He touched briefly on the need of missionaries skilled in medicine. He spoke of the civilizing effect of mission work among savage people, and said in concluding: Trade follows the mis- sionary He is the great enlightener, and through his efforts and by his ex- ample the savage people are induced to accept the articles of rcivilization.
 Rev Joseph B. Clarke, D. D., of New York, as secretary of the Home Mis- Isionary society told of the religious work done in this country. He said in part;
 "A little more than 200 years ago a Igreat Home Missionary movement be- gan in America, the greatest says one eminent judge. in the history of the world And it began here in Connecti- cut. It was then. in 179S, that the Con lgregational churches of this common wealth began sending their best pas tors into the new settlements of the land for four months at a time. They were paid $4 week for their services, and the people raised $4 more for the supply of their vacan pulpits. They went out preaching the gospel plant ing the church, administering the ordi- nances, and building up all the institu- tions Of a Christian civilization. Why did Connecticut take this trouble and go to this expense? Because the Chris tian people of this state were afraid. They were haunted with a prophetic dread of states growing up and coming Into the union without churches and schools, without Christian homes or Christian Sabbath. They were afraid lof barbarism and hence they were will ling and eager to loan their best minis ters to the new settlements, to prevent lthat dire disaster Other states fol- lowed the example of Connecticut; other branches of the church initiated the Congregational churches of the state. and in the course of a hundred Iyears there have come into being more than thirty home missionary societies.; all of ther national all of them Protest ant and evangelical. which have ex- lpended more than $150,000,000 in the eff sort to keep America a Christian na- tion.
 Here is the secret, if it be any long Ter a secret. of the rapid growth of : church power in the United States. Look at our great Presbyterian church , with it's 10000 churches and It's million , land half of members. Yet an emi- |. l.nent Presbyterian said to me but the lother day, that none-tenths of all these , churches were planted by home mis- lsionary money Look at the great Bap- ltist and Methodist bodies with their 90,000 churches and their 10000 commu- lnicants. Yet any intelligent Methodist , Ior Baptist will tell you, as they have , told me, that nearly every one of their , churches owes it's life to home mission lary culture. Look at our own little ! branch, the Congregational household , with it's e,000 churches and it's 6O0,00C 7 lcommunicants. Yet five-sixths of all $ these churches would have no existence to-day but for home missionary aid. I "Wha. and where would be these 7 lgreat bodies, Presbyterians, Methodists f Baptists, Congregationalists, Episcopal : and Reformed but for home missions
 Would they be represented to-day by Q lanything but ancient graveyards. or 7 whose s-grown walls we might be I liable to decipher this inscription: Sac 9 red to the memory of defunct denom- f lination.'
 g "But this is not all. The gravest problem before the American people to- !, day is foreign immigration. We have : been anxiously asking the question l what is to be the effect of this great