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Vol. V.. No. 8 
MANCHESTER, MASS., SATURDAY, FEB. 23, 1907. 
20 Pages. 
Three Cents. 
FROM FAR AWAY JAPAN. 
Rey. F. C. Briggs, Former Manchester Pastor, writes interestingly of his 
Mission Labors in 
The following letter from Rev. F. C. 
Briggs, formerly pastor of the Baptist 
Church, Manchester, and addressed to the 
members of the church, will be read 
with much interest by his many friends 
here: 
Himeji, Japan, Jan. 15, 1907. 
Beloved Friends:— 
‘T often think of you and have long 
wanted to write, but the occasional spare 
moments which I have for writing 
always seem inadequate for the writing 
of a fitting letter to you. Just now how- 
ever I have received a letter from my 
brother saying that he understands | have 
not formally acknowledged your great 
kindness in raising money for the Mary 
H. Briggs Memorial Scholarship fund, 
so I drop everything in order to send you 
this word of deep regret and thanks. I 
cannot understand how I could have 
neglected to give public and formal ex- 
pression to the gratitude to you all which 
filled my heart—for your earnest willing 
efforts and sympathy were deeply apprec- 
iated, and were doubly precious to me 
because of the cause in which they were 
shown. You will be glad to know that 
the amount which you raised(over $100) 
with what has been given by others has 
so nearly reached the needed $1000 that 
since Oct. 1905 one fine young woman 
in the Yokohama school and another in 
the Himeji school have been preparing 
for christian work supported by the 
Mary H. Briggs Memorial Scholarship 
fund. The girl who has been in the 
Himeji School is now married to a 
christian and doing good work in Kyoto. 
A bright girl from the West coast village 
where she is the only christian, is soon 
coming to study, that she may intelligent- 
ly tell her people of the Saviour. 
You will remember that our regular 
work here in Himeji is in church, 
Girls’ School, seven Sunday Schools, a 
Y. M. C. A. and several preaching 
places, and that outside Himeji there is 
a territory stretching 75 mile over to the 
west coast covering about 3000 sq. mi. 
where there is no christian work being 
Eastern Country. 
done beside the little we can do from 
here. But the work is full of hope. 
The Church has passed through various 
Rey. be C.- Briccs 
sad experiences, quarrels, divisions, 
coldness, etc. ,and is now ina promising 
condition, with several truly earnest 
workers and with a general awakening to 
responsibility for the conversion of 
others; a personal workers’ band with 
each member praying for and working 
for the salvation of some definite friend, 
is the latest satisfactory result of this 
awakening. 
The Girls’ School, of which Mrs. 
Briggs is still Principal, has about sixty 
Continued on page J4 
SOCIAL EVENING 
At the Manchester Club. Interesting Lecture 
on Telephone. Singing and Piano 
Selections. 
The rooms of the Manchester club 
were thrown open Wednesday evening 
for a ‘‘social evening,’’. and a pleasant 
time it proved to be for the large number 
who were out. ‘The feature of the even- 
ing was a lecture on the telephone, by 
Wm. K. Merrill, representing the lec- 
ture bureau of the N. E. Tel. & Tel. Co. 
His lecture was accompanied by some 
hundred or more stereopticon views, the 
machine being operated by John Murney 
of Beverly. 
Prior to this a short musical program 
was carried out, including piano select- 
ions by Samuel Rowe, solos by Harry S. 
Tappan and Fred K. Swett, and after the 
lecture a collation of cocoa and ham and 
chicken sandwiches was served. After 
the lecture also everybody present was 
given the priviledge to call up by tele- 
phone friends in any part of this state, 
Maine or N. H., without cost, the idea 
being to demonstrate the efficiency of the 
service. This offer was taken advantage 
of by many. 
‘From the nature of the case,’’ the 
lecturer said, ‘‘the telephone user does 
not learn as much about the telephone 
system he employs as the traveler learns 
about the railway over which he makes 
his journey. One of the great multiple 
switchboards of today may contain as 
many as 10,000 lines and require 200 
operators. It takes months of the ‘time 
of hundreds of skilled mechanics to build 
such a piece of apparatus, in which there 
are several million parts. A 10,000-line 
board contains 4,000 miles of wire; in it 
Continued on page 2 
Rev. C. 4. Lincoln Recetves 
call to 
The Pilgrim church of St. Louis voted 
unaminously at a meeting held Wednes- 
day evening for the purpose, to extend a 
call to Rev. C. Arthur Lincoln, pastor of 
the Congregational church, Manchester. 
Mr. Lincoln was notified of the action 
Thursday morning by telegram. 
Unanimous 
Pilgrim Church, St. Lowis. 
Last Sunday morning, at the close of 
the sermon, Mr. Lincoln read his 
resignation, and asked for a meeting of 
the council to dismiss him at the earliest 
opportunity. His resignation goes into 
effect after March 10. As soon as the 
resignation is accepted he will make for- 
mal acceptance of the St. Louis call. 
