Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1910-04-28
Miss panforth. the MIssIonary.

Miss Mary Danforth, secretary of the
Woman's Foreign Missionary society,
spoke to = large congregation in the
Methodist church last night and gave q
missionary address that WIS decidedly
worth hearing. She is lacking neither in
earnestness nor humor and has the gift OF
making a subject, vital to herself, appeal
likewise to the sensibilities of her
hearers.
The words "heathen" and ssthe sub
merged tenth" are being dropped from
our vocabulary, she said, as we realize
that the so-ealled heather and submerged
souls are those who have lost their con.
%neetion with the father heart Of God.
When the broken link between God and
the individual soul is put back, the lift
ing-up process begins. That link must
be human flesh and blood, filed with the
Holy Spirit, which moves the missionary
to draw the soul wandering in darkness
into the sunlight of Gods favor, into the
power and beauty of His love. No spot
is so vile, so burdened with sin, but that
one, who is willing to give himself or
herself without reserve, can be that links
Not all the beauty Of the world wa.
bestowed by the Creator upon the United
States. Other countries have charms,
aud in the foreign missionary field it
often happens that "eyery prospect
pleaBes and only man is vile." India,
Japan and Korea have many features
lovely to the eye, and many discomforts
that are a sore trial to civilized fa%stidious.
ness. Living in native houses may
sound picturesque hut to the missionary
it suggests a disgustingly crowded occu-
pancy with all manner OF creeping,
crawling ohjeas. Dirt and verinin are
every here visible, and The ''missionary
wrinkle across the nose soon becomes
deeply marked from e constant smelling
OF tbinPs.
For five years Miss panforth was a
pioneer worker 10 Japan, y here she has
had tue happiness OF seeing hospital and
training schools established in her field
the native girls quickened into new life
through religion and education and the
population raised TO a higher STANDARD
through the leaven Of their work.
One peculiar duty The missionaries take
upon themselves Is that OF goblet weens
~ prospective marriages since the custom
OF the country makes il advisable for a
Bible woman to have q husband, and the
missionaries do not wish their pupils to
be unhappy CT lost 10 tue cause in heath.
Gu homes. As japanese couples marry
without previous acouaiGiance or even
each other, Miss Danforih caused
widespread excitement hy arranging al
meeting for the candidates IN her matri-
inoniai agency and gave a most amusing
account Of Der chaperonage a the bash.
ful pair, hom she could not prod into
conversation or even induce 10 look Of
each other. The marriage turned out So
successful. however, that the father Of
the girl requested Miss Danf1rthfs good
in settling his other seven daugh-
.ers.
Korea she described as rich IN iron.
'oal aud gold bat the people are too sn.
perstitious to mine, dreading to disturb
heir ancestors. They rave no inhibition
energy and after the japanese built a
Tour miles long in the country,
he conductors had TO 90 ahead OF the
and sweep The sleeping Koreans Of
he track, hich was the %cleanest spot in
They firmly belize e that the earth
$ fiat and some OF them will not venture
.hree miles from home for fear they will
all of the edge and be lost.
A collection was taken at the close OF
he address, the speaker protesting a de-
ire not to %disapnpint the people, who she
.new were expecting Ii.