St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-01-27
The Missionary Rally.
The Campaign Successfully Opens at
st. JOhnSbury.

in their Joint missionary campaign for GU
: country and the world opened aus
picously at St. Johnsbury yesterday
: A large number of delegates from The
,, churches in the neighboring towns, anc
many ministers were in attendance. The
! first session came in the morning al
the South church when the apportion
ment plan and missionary methods were
discussed by various pastors ard church
workers.
The afternoon session opened at 80
O'Clock with devotional exercises led by
Rev. Z. e. French of LyndonYllle. The
first speaker OF the afternoon was Rev. J.
P. Jones of the A. B. c. F. NJ, who spoke
of the mission work IN India. He de-
clared that no ma ion is more religious
than the Hlndoo people, that no nom
christian people is more ready for the
new thought and life OF christian civil
ization. Their nation is historically
bound to the Anglo-SaxOn, and they are
eager to receive the gospel from America.
Upon America therefore rests the chief
responsibility.
Dir. lones was followed by Rev 6. H.
Gutterson, D. D., the Eastern Secretary
OF the A. NJ. A., who spoke briefly. The
society is SO years old with headquar-
tiers in New York and branches IN Bos-
ton and Chicago. The society spends
$500, 600 year The work is scattered
among eight different races and kinds
OF people for training them for christian
living. The work IS extended to the
Eskimo, which represents the extreme
north. Here there is church of 240
members with Christian Endeavor and
Missionary societies, etc. The yellow
man on the coast is not forgotten. With
about Be, 900 Japs here we are bound to
make it possible for them to be enlght-
ened. In Hawaii the work is being car
ried on, where are found the Japanese,
the Corean, and the Chnaman. Here a
| Congregational institution has been
planted tor their education and enlight-
eminent. The poor Indian" is not for
gotten. In the Nebraska schools So
600 Indians are being educated. The
work is being extended among the
Mountaineers OF the South, 100000
OF these people coming within their
reach, When Porto REQ came under the
control Of this country another field for
work was added to this branch, and the
Bible and the spelling book were intro
! duCed, and later school endowed and
built to last that Porto Rico might be-
come as good state as Vermont.
Rev {. II. Patton, the presiding
officer, next introduced Rev. w. N. De
Berry of Springfield Mass, who spoke
for the cause OF his own people, the
colored people of the South. Mr.. De
Berry began by saying he felt that
christian education was one of the most
perfect solvents of the vexcd problem
the education OF the negro. The purpose
OF the educated black men was that they
might enjoy the privileges of other peo-
pie. A little learning made them danger
Gus and they needed more to make them
safe. He likened them to unleavened
| bread, mass of humanity where fer
mentatlon and strife were going on, and
| they needed the leaven to enable them to
use the gifts God had given them Edu-
cation reveals the man to himself no
matter what race or color. One good
sign was that the blacks were becoming
proud OF their ancestry. Education
sOttens the relation between races and
better understanding is the result of
education and christianzation. The
question of civil rights and social priv
leges was vital one. The blacks do not
object to separation but they want the free
privilege to choose their friends and the
same protection that is given to white
people. The eyes of every child of God
were made to see light, and it was the
duty of those who could see to lead
Others to the light. The A. NJ. A. is the
messenger employed to find those in
darkness and to lead them to the sun
light.
DR.. Patton next outlined the plan of
the campaign. 1t had been the privilege
OF the Congregational denomination to
initiate some of the greatest redemptive
work. 1t anaugurated the Foreign and
Home Missions in America the great
education work in America. At the
present time three of the great Boards
are heavily in debt, and it is the
hope that an extra $5,000,0OO may be
raised in addition to the regular amount
needed for the years work 1t was not
the wish of the society to disturb any of
the regular contributions, but that those
willing and able to give should help
raise the extra fund.
Rev. DR.. Frank E. Jenkins of Atlanta,
Ca, spoke for the Congregational Home
Missionary Society, being one Of the
superintendent of that organization.
He said the debt suggested this cam.
paign and it was the duty of the
churches to wipe out this debt Speaking
as one coming from the south, he said
E reconstruction could not be accom-
plished by laws or Congress, but
through the heart OF the people working
from the inside and not from the outside
; The church was reconstructing both the
white man and the black man and the
- {. H. Nj. S. was establishing the chris
tian church and bringing civilization anc
christianity into tie darkest parts of the
south.
William R. Moody of Mortified
Mass, son of the famous evangelist
was the last speaker He said though
the work was divided into foreign and
: home missions it was really all one. He
! gave figures to show that while the ex
pense of maintaining home and foreign
missions had materially increased the
donations had not increased in the same
proportion He appealed for interest If
missions on three grounds; first
patriotic; second, to develop missionary
zeal among the churches; thirdly, tC
arouse individuals to their responsibility
{ Each should take share in supporting
s the gospel at home and abroad and con