The Newtown bee., 1904-04-15
TOWN TOPICS. A SUNDAY WITH MR HUME.


 A SUNDAY WITH MR HUME. HE coNeREeAr1oNA1 CHURCH rEo
 PILE SPEND A SABBATH DAY IN LIS TENING TO THE STORY OF THE EX- TENSION OF GODS KINGDOM.
 The Outlook of last week had an edi .orial commenting upon the words of m eminent A merican who had just that he found that many of the con- suls were unfit for their positions and and the missionaries dared | say nothing against the cOnsulS "be- | cause they were in the same boat" This criticism, like most sweeping l is entirely unjust. At var iOuS times many missionaries have been in NewtOwn, and those who have spoken of them have always said that they were exceptionally fine men, who would command large salaries any where in the home land. Rev Edward s. Hume, who spent Saturday and Sun gational people, left the impression of being an intelligent, wise and very suc- cessful worker in the mission field. Saturday afternoon he spoke to the ladies in their "mite-bag5 meeting at the home of Mrs W. M. Reynolds, chiefly on work in India with girls; Sunday morning at the church service the self-propagating power of Chris tian missions was his theme; for the Sunday school children he sang a Christian hymn in the Marathi lan- guage and repeated the Lords prayer as the little Indian girls and boys say h0 Trl C,,r1ou evening, he told of the work accom- plished by the $50 Endeavorers in the church of which he is member in Bombay. Does any one ask: Do mis- sions pay? In the church to which Edward Hume's brother, Robert, breaches, in AhMednagar, India, on Sunday morning there is cOngrega- tion which fills it four times, one com pany of people coming in as soon as the preceding one is dismissed. MT Hume's father, who went to India 65 years ago, thought his work was fail ure. He could count but two converts, and one of these went back to heathen- ism; But a companion of Edward small village who said he had book at home that said what the missionary had said. Going to this mans house it was found that this book, which contained the preachers words, was a Bible given to this man many years before by theEMr Hume who thought he had failed in his work. The native Christians have learned how to give. Just before MT Hume came on his fur tough to this country collection for a new church was taken in the church in Bombay and $40O was raised in half an hour by people who live in a land where millions are existing-nOt liv- ing-on two cents day. We in Amer of how much we shall have left; the native Christians often give knowing that nothing will be left. To make up that collection of $4OO some gave their entire salary for two years. Rev MT Lawrence of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., was once visiting in India. He was given $5 to take to America for the poorest member of his congregation. Some years after he was ready to give the S5 back, saying he had found no one as poor as those who had first given the money to him.
 Marriage is very important thing time of women is spent in discussing prospective marriages. Much money must be spent at marriage. It must be spent, no matter whether the fath. CT or uncle has it to spend or not. If he does not have it, he borrows it. Seventy-five per cent is the uniform rate; and when the money-lendeI knows that he has his victim in close corner l 1900 per cent has often been asked. When man has four or five daughters on his hands to marry off it can easily be imagined that he has business before him. One case was known where man had had seven wives and yet had not lived day with too young to act the part of wife.
 The missionary of to-day is an all round man; he does many things. He is whole sanitary commission in him self. During the plague of a few years ago in the High school in Bombay fol on-Christian girls lof high caste, where there is never more than an at tendance of 40, there were 30 deaths while in the schools for Christian pu pills, having an attendance of betweer 700 and 800, there was only one death and that was the death of a day-scho- lar. Being Christians does not mak, the native Indians immune from dis ease, but it teaches them that 'clean Illness is next to Godliness,' and clean Illness is good preventive of disease
 A lions of pounds sterling in ''cleanine up" Bombay.
 The visit of MT Hume to the Con gregational church was welcome one He was greeted heartily at all services Notwithstanding the very indictment weather of Saturday afternoon gathered in the ladies' meeting at thu home of Mrs Reynolds; and the attend ance at the Sunday morning servic was surprisingly large considering tha the bottom of the frost depths yawnet on the roads. We grasp the hand o MT Hume as worthy successor of thu apostles, and bid him Godspeed until that good day coming when we hop to meet him with our Saviour "face-to face" in the great roll-call of the vic torious host of the all-conquerinI Lamb.-[Otis w. Barker
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