Putnam patriot., 1910-11-18

You have just heard that rare ad- dress Of Mr Lincoln deep. spiritual and Illuminating and Nathan like. il points it's finger at you. The foreign flood Is different from that of few years ago Then the current was Teutonic and Scandinavian and now it is Selavonic and Latin Thirty diff ferent dialects I am told can be spoken in the Coe Brass plant of Terrington. The secretary Of the Connecticut Bible Society has on hand the scriptures printed in forty different tongues and even then had call al his office the other day for a copy of the Word of God i'll a language not in stock.
 Out in the country places as we'll as in the cities. the Pole. Bohemian and Italian come and their children and ehildrens children may become part and parcel of our Connecticut Congregationalism if brotherhood is believed and behaved. In one Of our rather remote towns the wealthiest resident k Bohemian and he has to enter into comparison financially with a more than well-to-do American manufacturer of political prestige
 Do you know where missionary work is needed? In our native churches so that they will be willing to welcome the families of foreign birth or extraction and thus infuse into their own insulated and often ineffective life th.s varied and vigor- ous blood to give vitally to the native church and make it in big. broad. beautiful way the very body of Christ. not being ministered unto by few but ministering unto many.
 There Is not need for the whole sale organization of independent for eign speaking churches but there Is tremendous need of the wide warm incorporation of the foreign folk in- 10 our already organized Connecticut Congregationalism. Our foreign churches are not growing fast and few have come to self support but many kinds of foreign folk are found in our old established churches and the numbers should be multiplied fast and many Our Italian work looms large. but We must he patient long process of education Is neees- saFv for this hpx and flow of chil- dren from southern Europe to crys- talize into Congregational and il Wili lake anoiher generation to re- veal oUr faithfullness and zeal wish the Missionary Society of Con neetieut had A dozen polygiot general missionaries engaged in getting these new corners 70 our shores into our Congregational churches. speaking to the adults in their native tongue and encouraging the children to enlis; in our American Sunday school ....t thus in the near future hrf lsing about blend understandable because Of It's oneness wish " had district or country surerir endents who would be alert and aggressive in starting Sunday schools. holding services in school heaSes. pitching gospel tents in wss side spots during the summer, setting quickly on the ground when and where new industry starts and people gather. assisting freely with personal service perplexed pastors. advising and aiding temporarily pas torless churches and it thrills one to know that generous beQnest has just come connected with certain church to support a general missionary who will serve net only this church but the country round. Soon We must start on sustaining a. single strong Congregational plant in the heart of our fast growing strategic cities But that is another story and must be told next year.
 What then in shoxt is the policy of the Missionary Society of Connec~ ticut concerning which re appeal for your hearty and generous support.
 A gospel of purity and power in every place in Connecticut The coan- try church where it alone ministers to . community nsst beveli manned. Niseiy equipped. and vortAtly matnr taiaed with genercas grant t needed Where there are morc cAureAes than are needed. cooperation in every case and consolidasi0n iA some eases.
 Alertness h af1ing nsw and needed
 Alertness In aiding new and need ed enserprises and giving ouch ahund- dant not scanty aid that seifsupport vili be speedy ana snrN
 More general mtDtonaxy work