The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-03-14
REV, DR. MABIE'S SERMON
DELIVERED AT CALVARE BAP-
 TIsT CHURCH.

"chri.,lanisy Which Ha. Given Japan
 Her New Ideals and Energies''-"Rs-
 suits of Christian Missions in Their
 Broadsst Eense"-Attsmpts Made to
 rucnIcate Christianity Into Russia. The pulpit of the Calvary Baptist a church was occupied yesterday morning i by the Rev. Henry c. Mabie, D. P. or < Boston, the home secretary of the Bap- E tist Foreign Mission society.
 The music was finely rendered ana was as follows:
 Anthem-"The Lord Hath Done Great Things" .... .................Ste Stevenson offertory-"o Lord, Thou Art My Strength .. ......--...........-.G .GoudIo
 It was announced that on Wednesday z the ladies benevolent society wouio ] have as a guest Mrs. Ernest Hall Sup Il per will be served at 6:3O p. m. to be fol- < lowed at 7:3O p. m. by stereopticon lec- r ture called Pearl of the Antelles.
 The following quotation is from let ter written by MT. Ferris:
 We are here near the great Pyramid.
 
 1 The other day we passed through the k land og Goshen and saw the ruins of < Pithom,' one of the treasure cities ' built for Pharaoh by the children of Z Israel. Exodus i, Il. The explorers < have found actual grain storehouses, in the form of deep chambers which may have been the very structures built by the Israelites.
 fnrsT o1r 1r0es { which some scholars identify with f sMarah' of the Bible, Exodus KY, 2S. The waters are of a bluish-green color. 7 We are having a fine time and i often think of you all.
 That the joy which will be felt on 4 the return of the pastor and his wife may take concrete form, the Bible school proposes to decorate a panel in i the wall of the schoolroom as a happy \ surprise to MT. and Mrs. Ferris. Any member of the church wishing to share N in this expression of appreciation can, < by designating the purpose of the do- < nation, place it in the boxes as they are passed, or can hand 1t to any officer of $ the school.
 \ Dr. Mabie who preached yesterday < morning has travelled extensively 7 among the foreign mission fields of Asia and in his address gave many pictures of the work in it's concrete forms, | which always prove interesting to his hearers. While dealing with the pro- gress os the work in many lands. in Japan, China, Burma, the Philippine l Island and Europe, Dr. Mabie special | ized respecting Japan, Russia and the 1.,4sx ,e features wherein quite irrespective of the political interests involved the signs of the spiritual kingdom of Christ are apparent.
 As touching Japan the great vitalities of many kinds which within half cen tury has brought out that empire into the rank it now holds. The speaker re- ferred principally to the Christian re- Iigion. It is this which gave Japan her new ideals, and her new energies which have so impressed our time. Harbinger of western knowledge, her humanities, her chastened conceptions of govern 1nent and all else that have contributed to her influence in gaining through treaty relations with Great Britain, so much sympathy from the while Prot estant world are largely the fruits of Christian missions in their broadest sense.
 It cannot be doubted that Providence is making use Of this unparalleled up lift of all Oriental nations for the u1ti- mate Christianization-Chi and other % mid-Paciflc and trans Pacific regions. Several new and fresh illuminations respecting what is going on in Russia # as touching the kingdom were given by # Dr. Mabie. He cited the fact that whereas the Russian Catholic church in Europe has always prohibited the use Of the Scriptures by the common peo- pie, the Greek Catholic church of Russia had long permitted it's general use The result is that among multitudes of her people the truth of Revelation are working like a leaven. Many incipient reforms are at work and will continue to work. May we not yet expect some great spirit like Luther in Germany to rise up and lead host into more spiritual con- ception of Christianity The Baptist union alone has over 10000 communi- cants in the churches of Russia. About 2,000 per year are being brought into their fellowship. The students represent many thousands more.
 Dr. Mabie told of community of sev- eral thousand Mennonite Baptists in south Russia who in the past twenty years have placed three of their young
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