The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-02-15
BIG MISSION RALLY.
FOREIGN MISSIONARIES 4D.
 DRESS ENTHUsIAsTIC MEETING

At Center Church Yesterday Afternoon
 Large Audience Greets Mission
 Boards Envoys to Asia and Africa.
 S1,O00,000 to be Raised This Year for
 American Mission Work.
 Said Secretary E. H. Patton of Bos. ton of the American Board of Missions: One million dollars which we are go- ing to raise this year, will be as a sac- rifice to the cause of American mis- sions. This year is the tooth anniver- sary of the historic meeting of Wfl- Hams college students under the hay- stack, from whose efforts the impetus to organize the work of foreign mis- sions proceeded"
 Little did those students, who were crossing a field and when caught in d violent summer rain storm, sougt1t safety under a neighboring llaystack, think that they were laying the foun- dations for a wonderful machine for Christ. When we celebrate the ooca- sion we are going to lay $1,OOOOOO at the feet of Christ to be used in the greatest of Missions"
 It was with this spirit that the mis- sion rally at the Center church yester- day afternoon was pervaded. Every body assembled was earnest in the cause of foreign missions. Dr. New man smyth presided and Rev. w. M. Zumbed of India, F. B. Bridgman of South Africa, Arthur H Smith of China, Secretary Cornelius 1T. Patton of Boston made short addresses and Dr. Darlington medical missionary in Asiatic Turkey, and MT. Shannon, both missionaries, were introduced to the big audience.
 The meeting at Center church was one of series which was held in as may leading cities of the country A conference at 2:30 p. m. yesterday was held at Marquand chapel and at 6.3O a banquet for invited guests was held at the City Mission building.
 Dr. Smyth introduced Rev. w., M. Zumbro of India, who said: Tt gives me great pleasure to again be able to walk across the green, but 1t is indeed sad to note the departure of the way of all the world of many of those wilo in the theological seminary guided my feet in the right way in may days in this dear old college town.
 "The whole life, be it social religious or education, of India, is meeting re- constructive power. The izsassissi66Sfsriss izsasisii66Sfsss- = homes are the greatest factors in this great work. The responsibility is hardly conceived; but the Christian world Is gradually and surely and effectively awakening. There you find Christian schools; even American teachers ini the native schools, carrying with them new thoughts and welding an iniu- ence such as the world has never before seen.
 ''The field is so large: Yet the infiu- ence is as leaven In that vast country. OOGS culll tt IApN l1CCQ QlICCtADll4 support and funds?. Yes, and the great Christian countries are making this same answer universal and uncontro- vertible.
 The natives are unwilling to enter our Christian churches, but they are ready to be educated in our mission schools. We need funds. Nine hundred +1 grand old Yale university by Hon. Elihu Yale-what has that gift does for America and the world? Should not that illustration be sufficient to gain your attention to the schools of India?,
 Rev. F. B. Bridgman of Durban, South Africa. spoke very interestingly of that very rich country. In part his words were as follows:
 What Corinth, Athens and Rome were to the old days Kimberley. Jo- hannesburg are to-day to Africa. Think of it! From the Kimberly diamond mines $25,0OO,O0O worth was produced, and s6OO,oOO,OOO worth of gold was mined in one single year, and perhaps. sur- prisingly, there are 5000 miles of rail- roads south of the Zambesi river.
 Illustrations of the rich and wonder full resources of that country where tho Zulu is a native, being more forcibly the arguments for the need of the work of the missions in that country. Tn that country the Zulu is the ordinary laborer, and in Dunbar there are 10000 of these people. There people of this country flock to the cities to seek re- munerative labor. Think of the great numbers in the country outside of the city oenters and what opportunities to do great good.
 "They can be readily and easily reached, and it is certainly too bad that the American board of foreign missions cannot work in that country more ex- tensively The attention of the Chris tian world finds an opportunity for do- ing perhaps the greatest good in this land overfiowing with the weath which our creator flas endowed mother earth. ''
 MRS, LYONS WHIST.