The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1905-10-13

have never yet been sufficient to meet
the expenses of the Ministers Home
Some churches have sent rs or 81
cents. One church sent nine cents
Do not fail to give to all the cause'
you have been giving to, but save the
old ministers part. This is next tt
saving souls" An Offering was ther
taken for the Home, which amounted
to $27.5O. This was followed by the
election Of Deacon Burr Hawley, Of
Stepney, for moderator.
The afternoon session was opened
with Devotional Service, led by Re,
G. L. Chamberlain. The Association
was called to order by the newly elect
ed moderator.
Rev T. &. Deuchfield was reelected
secretary and treasurer. The various
committees we're then appointed, aft.
er which the letters from the churches
LOux and Chamberlain.
The Banksville Baptist church was
admitted to the Fairfield County Bap
fist Association.
The
CAUSE OF THE AMERICAN BAPTIST
MISSIONARY UNION.
was ably set forth by Rev w. E. Wit.
ter, D. D. He said that "there had
been over 10000 baptisms the past
year on the ASiatic and African shores,
and in the Philippines there were over
5000 converts. Could as we'll have had
Is. 900 II there had been the men to
=! reap the fields. Why are there no
more laborers?" He said it was 'for
the reason that the cause mad not
been properly set before them. There
! would be enough if we would only set
before them the call of Christ. There
were 100 baptisms in upper Burmah
| within year. Two missionaries
were there, absolutely unable, work
ing day and night to reap the harvest.
1t seems hard, we think, to say fare
WE'LL to those we love and see them go
| over the seas to foreign lands, but
there was Michigan mother, who was
anxious to say farewell to her only
daughter that she might go to the
er Witter said 1.-THE happiest hour of
his life was when his boy came home
from college and told him that five
young men had offered themselves for
the foreign field and be was one of
them" Brother Divine then spoke
few words in behalf of the State Con-
vention. He said. II believe we are
in the fringes of great religious
awakening. God is on the giving
hand, not only in Asia, Africa, Aus
tralia and the Philippines, but here.
At least 300 out of the 1900 baptisms
in this state during the past year are
due to the work of the Convention"
The meeting devoted to the inter-
Mission Society was opened oy Mrs G..
W. Nicholson, of Bridgeport, who
read portion of the 45th chapter of
Isaiah. Prayer was offered by Mrs
Silliman of Norwalk. Reports were
read by the ASsociational Secretary,
Mrs Golden, also by the secretaries of
the various societies.
Mrs w. B. Parshley was then intro
duced. She spoke of her work in ia
pan and gave hopeful news as to the
prospect of christlanized Japan. Her
husband was teacher in theological
seminary there, and, as soon as he re-
gains his health, they expect to return.
She said that 1.-THE seminary work
lasts from September until May: and,
as soon as their vacation began, they
would pack up their bags and start
out on missionary work. They would
sometimes travel Thousand miles.
They made themselves one with the
people, and in that way could get
close to them" She said 'sThe one
need of Japan to-day is religion.
Buddhism has been tried and found
wanting. When the war first broke
out, the emperor would not allow
Christians to go to the front and work
as soldiers. But later, he gave 100000
to the Y. M. G. A., to help at the
front, but the crown prince has for the
teacher of his children Christian
woman"
The evening session began with De-
votional Service, led by Rev T.. Olaf
ford, of the Swedish Baptist church, of
Bridgeport.
Rev 6. B. BoIles, of the Second Bap-
fist church, of Danbury, delivered an
address on '"The Need Of Perspective. :"
Everyone can be said to have per-
spective of some sort. True perspec-
tive is of God. Lack of spiritual per-
spective is most serious disability.
| Israel lost world-leadership through
lack of perspective.
Perspective tends to make us sane.
1t demands that the widest possible
knowledge should he had. Wider
knowledge and wider knowledge alone
will correct the disturbed moral per-
spective. Disturbed perspective
makes us unfit for the help of our
neighbor and friend. Faulty perspec-
tive causes egotiSm-a special center
in self. Some people think that the
| PURE GOLD OF THE GOSPEL
is to be melted in their own crucible
and moulded in their own thought
forms. When the perspective of truth
is correct, we notice it Eliminates.
Discernment of truth is one thing,
willingness to accept it is another
We may know that the things are
true, but we may not be willing to &C
cept them as truth, and this will make
our position with God. The little
that we can understand of God is not
so important as what he sees in us
A man was once asked by woman
what he thought about God. Madam,
he replied, 1T matters little what
think about God. It matters every
thing what God thinks about me.
Brothers and sisters, let us 20 back tt
our churches, believing in The NeeG
of a Perspective and with Oper
minds, seek to understand things ir
their proper light"
A hymn was then sung by male
,, quartet, which was followed by ser
mon by Rev J. w. Richardson, o
Stamford. He spoke on "The Church
Member and the Church Cradle"
''CHRIST1ANITY FORBIDs OUR NEG
, LECTING THE CHILD.
: Neglect the child! How repulsive i