Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1846-09-24
American Board of NI;Ssionx

FIRST DAY-Epalinr Sess'ou.-on ~.
mug VI Ue AIHua Hefnnn was delivered bv r.;
HAYES OF Hartford The SPEAKER comn,oty heV' DR.,
ing that the American Board vas formed tbir, oy say
ago IN the pafor OF clergyman of CoDnect;ce I h
five men, three from Massachusetts and t, by
nscrcnt one OF |nom SuIl survive He spoke Of tho
difficulties they had to encounter ami tP OF the
means; and asked attention while re,,Io, Iocb OF
past history Of the Board First: The viarao reu me
the field OF Missions Once but few pIace on1elt OF
tor Missionary labor and many Of the Miss ~ oeIoI
Ilshed by the London Society were nearly exn,t 49,.
own missionaries were driven away from HiD@ston
NC. This was thIry-three years ago lust Febrarv
but now how changed China, ilindosan, the Islans
of the Pacific, Australasia, Africa are OPEN and even
Turkey has by late decree of the Sultan been PR
giousy reyoutonzcd. There are now no less than
five millions Of souls accessible to rs. The other
points treated of in the discourse were the increase OF
Missionary spirit; the wise and able manner in which
the affairs of the Board have beenconduced; the sue
cession of able and faithful missionaries, &c.
SECOND DAY.-On "Wednesday, letters were read
from Hon. Theodore Frelnchuysen President of the
Board, ard from several of the Corporate Members
giving reasons fer their not-auendance. Reports OF
the condition Of the Missions among the North Amer
lean Indians were read.
The Report of the Prudential Committee concerning
children of Missionaries sent to this country to be edu-
Gated was read. The idea of sending such children
here was first started by letter from the Missionaries
at Ceylon dated October 1899, and farther urged IN
1890 A plan of compromise was then proposed Oy
the Committee, and submitted to the Board, beng
virtual adoption of the views of the CeyIon Mlsslona-
ries. This plan was adopted, The Committee also
expressed its belief that the plan of SPECIAL CoM-
to attend to the education of these children, was
not practicable neither did they think exPedlent to
establish SPECIAL Fund for this purpose, and NAM
! tanned that the Drpspnt is the best,
The reading of this Report was followed by MI
Spauldlng, the missionary who wrote the trst ietter
from Ceyon in 1899 He was pleased with the ne
port We had law before but the close OF TINS Ne
port savors also of gospel He was not IN favor OF a
semDary-there no pas1al character "a sL'oH ai
institution lie could not be satisfied uiesS go
sure his children would be treated as nc "ouip cb
them The project also locallzes e "otir in behalf
and prevents general creation OF '!"P"L' ont
of the missions which would otherwise be calleu ouN
! by those children. 49,. ,,b;oct he
tween Rev. Dr. Scudder Mr. Ward OF tho hIdu tm
Mission Mr. Smith of Syria ana o,n lea s'"''e'''
! bowover seemed pretty nearly to agree az. poor+
hoM w. 90 Sess;ou-The discussion on TINS hePort
III nt;n,od and ended by the unanimous accep-
tsnce of the Report. Rev. Mr.. EVEN orougnt up the
s"hiect ofa wider diffusion of missionary intelligence
Judge Garland OF Pa spoke OF tne lalhhg OH III the
circulation ofthe Herald and Daysprlng.
SECOND DAY-Eveaing.
Dr. Halves repeated in the North Church the dis
course he delivered on Tuesday evening. At the bu-
sness session in Centre Church several Anti-Slavery
memorials were referred to a Select Committee. Al
so several memorials on the subj ect of polygamy.
As chairman of the committee to whom was refer
red the subject of Slavery and Polygamy Chancellor
Walworth reported that nothing had transpred du-
ring the year to make it necessary to agitate these
subjects farther The Missionaries Of the Board, since
its foundation have had occasion to meet only four
cases of poygamy in applications for admission to the
church, and only one person, in such circumstances,
had to the knowledge of the Board, been admitted;
and he sga1 %o-,, twenty years age, who
I IN had equal claims to be his wife TLi ~, L-
dead es some on twelve or fifteen years The report
stated t one ssnten; m common with all Chrstians
us report s, c"ed , fGeSpectng its unawdiness
warm discussion of CON