Norwich bulletin., 1914-10-12
TOLD OF MISSIONARY LABOR
Four Workers From the Foreign Field Spoke at Rally at Central Baptist Church of the Gospel in Ja- pan China and India Described Collection Taken for Wonan's Baptist Foreign Missions.

Meritorious addresses by four mis- sionaries who have ESen active ser vice in the East were listened to with much interest by the large con- gregatton present at the Sunday eve ming service held at the Central Bap- tist church under the auspices of the Woman's American Baptist Fpreign Mission society, After the organ pre- Jude, the professional, Onward Chris tian Soldiers, to which the missionary societies marched into the church from the adjoining Sunday school room, and the singing of hymn, Rev, Joel B, Slocum. D. D., the pastor, extended to all present B hearty welcome. Mrs, Charles W. Gale then read the seccnd Psalm as the scripture lesson, after which a fervent prayer was offered by Rev. G. H. Strouse, the pastor of the First Baptist church. The India Sunset song was exceilently rendered by the church Qua-tette.
 Work In India.
 Miss L. Jennie Crawford, of Han yang, Central China, who was to have been one of the speakers, was unable to be present and her place was taken by Mrs. Jerome Sondericller, who gave 8 helpful though rather short talk on her experiences in India and in Eng land. Mrs. Sondertcl1er was one of party of missionaries who spent three months in India.
 Miss Kate M. French of Secunder- abad, South India, was the next speak CT. "One of the questions continually asked about mission york;" said Miss French, is Does it pay?" While she was in India Miss French was accosted by beautiful young native girl with, Tt is a lovely work, but Is it worth while?" Miss French answered that it is not really a question of whether 1t pays or not; we have King who has given us a command to carry the gospel to the ends of the earth and we must obey this command
 Miss French said she thinks the peo- pie of India in their poverty and life Of darkness are worth everything we can do for them. Miss French spoke of the conversions made among the children who believe in spite of the many temptations laid in their way, and who grasp the opportunity of learning about the Saviour. In her she had compared the offerings of the converted people of India with the offerings of the people of UT own coun- try and found that the people in that far off land give more per capita by far than the Christians in our own land.
 The next speaker was Mrs. H. G. Stafford of Boston, secretary of the foreign department. In speaking of her trip to the Orient Mrs. Stafford said that she stopped off at Japan. While in that country she visited the Baptist Girls school, which is located just outside of Yokohama and which consists of six large white buildings, where so girls are being prepared for their work in the world. Mrs. Stafford spoke of the great temple in Tokio. In the temple there is an enormous collection box in front of the god. No one worships before lowing and drop ping his or her contribution in the box. On feast days the officials some times take out of the box as much as one thousand dollars, the contributions of these poor people
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