New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-12-04
Farewell Misstopary NLeeting.

A Farewell Meeting Of Missionaries and Teach.
ers destined to the Kaw Mendi and Tissana Mis.
sions in the interior of Africa under the care Of
the American Missionary Association, was held
on Monday night in the Broadway Tabernacle
The building was filed by respectable ard atsen'
tive audience, who took much interest in the
whole proceedings. The meeting was called to
order and Res. S, S. oselyn appointed to preside
The intervals were enlivened with several select
and appropriate hymns, which were sung by Mrs
Bradburys Choir the members of which voluns
teered their services for the occasion Rev. George
Whipple read several verses from the sixth chap
ter OF Isaiah. Rev. S, S. Joselyn next pronounc.
ed fervent prayer, invoking the blessing of God
upon the enterprise for the advancement Of which
the meeting had been called. At the conclusion
of this invocation Rev. George Whipple proceed.
ed to give q brief description OF tho Associa"
ton. He said it WAS organized in 1916
ard was composed Of four different Mission9s
ry Societies formed in different parts Of the
United States. These Societies were as follows
The Committee for the West India Missions fox
the Emancpated Coored People; the Western
Evangelical Society, for the 0iibways the Com
mittee for the Amistad Negroes and the Union
some Of whom were Amistad Negroes. The Com
mittee for the Amistsd Negroes, after sending
them to their native land, aud prosecuting the
mission for some time, merged in the Union Mis-
! sionary Society. The circumstances that led to
| the formation of the American Missionary Assoc
| citation are as follows; In February, 1916 Con-
vention was held at Syracuse, to consider the SUBJ
| ieGt of Bible Missions. The position OF other
| Missionary Boards, in regard to idolatry, poyga-
my, caste, oppression, extortion and Slavery, was
Akknna ,.l1.nk
Convention arrived at unanimous conclusion.
that the Christianity they were sending from land
TO land carried with it fatal disparagement that
forbade its wide extension and deep.rooted recep.
ton and continuance. Committee appointed
by this Convention summoned second Conyen.
| ton for Bible Missions, at Albany, in September
of 1916, which renewed the discussion, and FORM
! ed the American Missionary Association
Soon after the four Associations above mention
ed became merged in the new Society, and the
monthly paper called the Union Missionary gave
place to the american Missionary which has con
tinued to the present time. 1000 copies OF this
paper are distributed every month. The Amer.
! lean Missionary Association has now in the held
thirteen missionaries and teachers at Kaw. Mendi,
in the interior OF West Africa thirteen IN Jamaica,
seventeen in Minnesota Territory, at Red Lake,
| Cags Lake and L axe Winnipeg, among the Ojib-
! ways; seven in Canada, two at the Sandwich
Islands, six at Bangkok in Siam. Beside these
| there are nineteen home missionaries IN SIX OF tho
United States colporteur in Kentucky, for the
distribution of the Bible to slaves who can readi
and missionary in New.Mexco. These make IN
all eighty missionaries and teachers, under inc
direction of the Association
| The speaker then referred to the missionaries
who are about taking their departure ior AIT.
ca These were Rev Mr.. Tcilt and Mrs. Ieht
from Ohio Miss j. Alden from MASSACHUSETTS,,
Miss Hannah Moore of this city, who has labored
| as Missionary for six years among the Chero'
KEGS Mr.. w C. Brown from Louisiana, hey.
Mr. Arnold and his wife from Ohio, and Mr. b.
Gray colored man from the Ooerlm Institute,
Ohio
Rev. Mr.. left next addressed the meeting. he
said he was not ashamed OF the gospel OF Christi
as he bclievedit to be the call OF God to all man
kind. 1t takes the selfish man and makes bin a
missionary everywhere, and the only question he
asks in bis newly awakened devotion TO the VIII
OF God revealed through it's sacred pages, is how
can he best employ his energies Tor the gooo OF
religion This is the influence OF the gospel. He
knew the dea was very prevalent that the great
mass of Christians were not to become Mission
aries, but said the speaker, the true Christian
knows that it is the duty Of nil protesting Christi.
nnity to spread the truths of Christianity far as
his position and circumstances will permit him.
The Missionary, he contended, was amply repaId
for the suffering and troubles he endured by inc
knowledge that what he doing was for tho
greater glory of God and the good OF his race Tho
speaker alluded in o feeling manner, to his sepa.
ration from his friends and country but expressed
himself happy to sacrifice his own will to that OF
the Supreme Being. The Rev. gentleman con-
tinued at greater length urge on his hearers the
duty incumbent on them christians, TO dc all in
their power to disseminate the word of God, and
concluded with an earnest prayer to the throne
of Grace for the success Of the undertaking.
The Rev. gentleman was followed by Rev.
| George Whippe, who delivered charge to the
Missionaries and Teachers who were present, on
the great enterprise in which they had engaged
Addresses were also made by Rev Messrs. LIE.
Wit and George Thompson, after which the meet
| ing adjourned