Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-28
|ADVENT|STS TELL
| OF WORK IN INDIA
Bible Is Taught Nations in Sew
eraI languages by II
EvangeIistic Workers.
SUNDAY POSTAL SERVICE
is BASIS OF PROTEST
Regulation Against Delivery of Mail
Declared to Result in Com
pulsory Observance.

Reports from mission stations through
out India and Burma. a paper on the
| Evils of Compulsory Sunday Legisla-
| ton and the appointment of committees
of the North American Division Confer
| ence We're the matters which took up the
| time of the delegates to the world con-
| ference of Seventh-day Adventists at Ia
koma Park this morning.
! Much interest was manifest among the
delegates in the report of the work of
the denomination in India. This report
was submitted by Prof. J. L. Shaw. SUI
perintendent of the India union mission.
He reported that there were seventy-two
evangelical workers in the territory OF
/ India and Burma. and that the field is
divided into five local missions Bengal.
comprising the Bengal. Oriya. Santhali
and Assamese language areas; North In
| da covering the Hindi. Rihari. Rajas-
THANH Punjabi and Bundhi language
areas. West India. comprising the lam
suage areas of Marathi and Gujerati;
South India, including the Island of Cey-
lon and comprising the language areas
of Tamil. kanarese. Malayan and Singha-
lese. and Burma, including the country
| of Burma.
| Under the direction of the union mis-
| sion. the international Tract Society
! with its printing department. is operated.
| There was an Industrial school a Mel
| kila. in upper Burma. A Burmese quar-
| terly ma gaZine is being issued. There
| are eighty-five members In the Burmese
| mission. Work among the karens has
| been started and a mission station has
| been opened in the Shan states. In Ben
| gal there four mission stations. at
| Calcutta. karmatar. Gopalgunge and
Babulmohal \ monthly magazine is be-
| ing published in the .BenGaf language,
| circulated by a number of Bengali col
| equipped treatment rooms and a health
| food factory. At karmatar there are
| five vernacuar village schools and one
English school, At Babuimohal there
are three schools.
Other Work in India.
There is also mission school
operated in the north Of India among
the Hindustan people in the mountains
of Carnival and mission work has
been started also at Naj.babad. with
dispensary and school for girls. There
is training school at Mussoorie, in
the Himalaya mountains. Mission work
is being carried on in west India at
Lanuvla and Panvel. in the Marathi
language. and at Kalyan, where there
are two village schools and a we'll
equipped dispensary.
| In south India there are mission
stations at Nazareth and Trich inopoly.
| with q church and school building. 100
/ pupils and six teachers, also a dis
/ pensary.
| The report of the mission work at
Nazareth and Trichinopoly. in south
| India. was submitted by Elder j. s.
| James of Nazareth. who is In charge of
the work The report of the school
work carried on at karmatar was
given by Miss Della Burroway, who is
| in charge of it.
/ The report Of the work in Burma was
| given by Elder r. A. Beckner Of Man
dalay. who read an interesting paper
/ describing the work in that far-away
| land
| The paper on the Evils of Sunday
Legislation" was read by Elder w. A.
Colcord of Takoma Park. member of
the American Religious Liberty Asso-
| citation. He declared that the Sunday
closing proviso attached to the last
post Office appropriation bill. which has
resulted in closing the first and sec
ond class post offices for the delivery
/ of mail Sunday. was in effect COM
pulsory Sunday legislation. He said. in
part:
When men make laws prohibiting
any labor or business on Sunday that
! is just as truly requiring Sunday OBJ
| servance as when they command men
TO go to church on that day. The for
mer is only prepatory and necessary
step to the latter. This it would seem.
ought to be TOO plain to need any dis
cussion. So far Sunday laws
quire anything, they require Sunday
| observance. and that in far they
prohibit the doing of anything on Sun
| day. such the pursuit of any ordi-
nary labor. trade. business calling.
amusement or paStime. they enforce
Sunday observance.
Enforcement of Observance.
1T is not necessary that a Sunday law
should affect all classes and prohibit all
work. and require all to go to church be-
| fore it enforces Sunday observance. If it
prohibits but person from doing one
| thing on Sunday. it enforces Sunday OBJ
servance in that extent. If a law pro-
/ hibtS military drills in the army on Sun
| day, Sunday observance is enforced upon
/ the army to this extent
Committees were appointed for the
/ North American division conference,
| which was created Yesterday a. follows:
Elder {. r. McVagh, Elder c. +. Wight,
Prof. Frederick Griags, Elder G. F. Wat
son, Elder II. c. Hartwel. Elder NJ n
| Campbell. Elder o. 4. Olson and Elder f.
| X. Slade
On plans and recommendations: Elder
f. r. Palmer Elder Charles Thompson
| Elder J. Fl. Schilling. Prof. C. w. Irwin.
| Prof. o J. Graf. Elder w A. McCutchin,
l.. 4. Hansen. Eluer Meade MCGUIRE. H.
ii. Hall, DR.. W. a. Rube. Elder +. T.
Russell. Elder G. b. Thompson. Prof. c.
| S. Longacre. Elder A. ]. Haysmer and
| Elder y. {. Strachan.
! On finance-Eder w T. Knox of
| Takoma Park: Prof II. a. Morrison of
Lincoln. Neb.: Elder II. w. Cattrell of
Portland Ore. Elder X. W. Parmele of
| New Orleans: Elder Allen Moon of Chi
| cage: E..der w. b. White of Boston;
Elder |. Fl. Evans of Shanghai China;
| and Elder l.. NJ. Bowen of st. Helena
!. Cal.
/ On credentals-Elder f. E. Andross,
~
| of Takoma Park: c. e. Stevenson of At
| lanta. Elder r. \. Underwood of Meso-
potamia. Ohio. and Elder A. r. Robinson
| of Lincoln. Neb.