New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-05-15
THE ANNIVERSARIES.
AMERICAN BAPTIST MISSIONARY UNION.

AMERICAN BAPTIST MISSIONARY UNION.
The Board of this organization, which usually as
sembles two days prior TO the general meeting and I'M
der whose direction the foreign missions OF the Baptist
denomination in the Free States conducted, assem-
bied at the Oliver street Chuich on Tuesday. Some
four hundred clergymen in attendance, and mauy
Of the leading lay men from the Eastern, Middle aud
Western States. Judge HARRIs, the Chairman, beng
absent, Ex Gov. Colby OF New.dampshire, presided.
The first day was chiefly devoted TO the appointment
tf Committees The main features Of interest wasthe
reading Of the report of Committee appointed last
year 10 investigate matters Of difference between the
Executive Committee at Boston and the Mission ar1es
In general this report sustained the Executive Com
mittee but reflected somewhat on the course OF the
deputaton-the Rev. Drs. Peck and Granger, who
visited the missions some three years since-in their
calling a council who passed upon the course OF
missionary who had made complaint against another
missionary for immoral conduct. A controversy has
also existed in the denomination on various subjects
connected with the regulations in force some regard
ing the supervision exercised as too stringent.
The Report the occasion OF conslds rable debate
Yesterday The Rev. DIR. Brown, Of Assam, CON-
planned Of the ground which had been assumed 10
paper adopted ast year, which described the relation
between Missionaries and the Home direction as that
Of the "emplOy ed, ," or "agents" Of the Union. He
regarded the relation as in the nature of CO.
partnership. Missionaries willing to accord to
the Executive Committee the right to appropriate
money as they please for schools or any other object
but they demanded to stand as equals, and when new
IWeS were poPoSeu, W eAPie9o tneh "P'A'"A SSA"'S
their adoption.
President WAYLASD did not see how any man
could complain if he employed to do things ne
wanted to. But, men might wish to found new Sta
tors or 90 to making school books even transating
the same werk which another was engaged, and it
might then be necessary to give him Instructions.
The Rev DR.. Brown said all the Missionaries want
ed was that authority should not be extended as to
be absolute and that the Executive Committee should
not withdraw q Missionary without that being
approved by the Mission to which he belonged
The Rev. DR.. HAYNE considered that in the growth OF
modern secretarysm there was an element worse than
Episcopalanism, and that man might yet be glad TO
take diocesan epscopacy for regulation in preference
to its arbitrary rule
After considerable discussion, the Rev. DR.. Will
LIANs delivered an eloquent address, and submitted
RESOLUTION that, without indorsng in dets either all
the history of the past the comments that history
found in the Report of the Committee of Reference,
the Board gratefully and unitedy accepted its general
statement Of principles to the relation of the Mis-
sionares to the Churches and approved its concluding
recommendation that the brethren abroad aud at
home suspend further discussion, aud await, in mu-
tua prayerfuness and patience, the return of that
better intelligence yet to be hoped for on the present
platform. This resolution was unanimously adopted.
The afternoon and evening were devoted to reports
on the various Missions. The Missionary Union, COM
posed of life members constituted by the payment of
$780, and annual representatives from congregations,
meets this mon ing The Hon. G. n. Briggs Of Massa'
chusetts is expected TO preside.