The Press., 1911-05-10
WILMINGTON.


 from Eph. 5:8. very helpful dis course.
 Mrs. Preston returned from 'The Wollt in Boston" Saturday afternoon, having baen accompanied from New tonville to Stafford Springs by her niece. Miss Gladys c. Preston.
 It is pleasant to have friends from neighboring towns come in to the afternoon servics at 3 o'clock, and it Tts an objective point for drive when Ione dislikes to g out aimlessly on the Sabbath.
 There were 35 registered at Sunday fschool It was V 1ted to give the long time faithful orRanist, Mrs. Hattie O. ! eRCb Cbbius PourtIey, wedding gift Mrs- Dsrrow beirg appoir ted t, ms ke Ysthe purchase.
 | Lett Potter of Hartford and wife motored out to attend the Sunday lservice and to take a look at the pl lace where his youth was passed during vacations at least, his father having been the pastor of the Baptist church for several years.
 Samuel POurtrey and Harriet Oaro- line Robbins were married by Rev. Earl W. Darrow at the Baptist parson- age Saturday evening Mr. Pourtrey lis the care-taker at the Baptist church and Miss Robbins has been for a long time the organist, and these we'll known young people have the best wishes of all in the community.
 John Merrick of Minneapolis writes that i've are planning to start in about two or three weeks for New England, visiting cousin Eliza Thorn at her home in Highland Park and friends in Waukaesan, Ill then Grand Rapids, Mich and Addison, N. Y, before reaching Holyoke, so we may bs three wee ks on our route. !"
 The funds already in hand and free will offerings from friends, John Mer- rick being one, make it possible to commence the work on the audience room of the Baptist church. It is thought by experts to be more desira- ble to have the walls finished in water colors. The Ladies' Aid will work ip unison with the trustees in carry ing forward the Improvements.
 Miss Gladys G. Preston, who is one of the stewards in the rich mans house in Palestine, is very effective in her picturesque costume, and has learned her part so thoroughly that she is not dismayed by the most pug ztinR questions, and the questions that suggest themselves to thousands of people give something of an idea of tAe range of the human imagination. We were fortunate in being privileged fEso sit on the divan and listen as t'the world" passed by.
 "The World in Boston" is a most impressive exhibition and is meeting with the success it so we'll merits. To give an idea of 1t is not easy Going in by the main entrance, No. 99, you very appropriately find yourself in Palestine, and walking down the corridor you come upon familiar Biblical scenes-"The home of Mary and Martha, ' "A rich mans house, !" the home of "Boaz and Ruth, 7" "Persia, ; "The Inn" where Joseph and Mary could not find entrance, and many other points of interest, all with stewards dressed in costume ready to explain and to exhibit the different utensils and articles. You go on from country to country, finding the habi- tations of the people, aud the effect carried out by painted scenery that forms the walls or dividing lines of the corridors. Japan is most fasci. mating with It's Lotus swamps, China with its temples and Indian with it's pagodas. There are maps showing the vast areas where the gospel story has not yet been told, and interesting lectures going on constantly. Every. where are posters, "Ask questions" and people are not: slow to avail them selves of the privilege. Home mis- sions receive their. due share of at- tention- Ellis Island, where the foreigner leaves the steerage of the great shiI-coloYed schools, Indian reservations. On a North Dakota ranch we found Mir. Newton with the Publication society wagon and sbe baby organ that visited this section last summer. In the morning chil- dren are admitted for five cents and hundreds avail themselves of the per- mission. The avidity with which they absorb everything of interest is delightful and the impressions gained must be far reaching. Special trains, with hundreds of people; are coming daily, but there is no uncomfortable crush and no confusion. We were near the entrance when the SIS from Springfield came, tut they made no peroeptible difference, the great hall so quickly accommodated them.
 The Indian's Vision.
 More or less wonderful accounts have