Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-05-17

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ProRrees orthe american Foreign Mission.
ary Effort. ou
At the ecentannual meeting of the Ameri-
can Board Of Commissioners for Foreign
Missions, cheering accoants were given
of the progress Of The work of COM
verting The heathon. The official report
of the Board estimates the total number of
souls which have been converted by the mis-
sions Of The Board since It's organization at
fifty thousand hopeful converts, A large
portion Of these were in the Sandwich Islands
which were for many years the favorite field
for missionary effort. A former Consul from
the United States stated that tho hopeful
conversions Of the Missionaries did notin the
majority of the cases prove to be permanent
ones although they 0still continued on the
records; but even if half of the hopeful con-
verts proved to be truly regenerate, it leaves
an twenty-five thousand souls snatched from
inevitable perdition a work the impiensity
Of which no finite mind can estimate,
II was stated that but ten millions of dol
lars had been expended by the Board during
its whole existence showing that these souls
have been converted at the rate Of 5000 each;
or, estimating one-half the hopeful as real
conversions at $4OO each Will the Ameri-
can people allow the heather to be lost when
they can be saved at so cheap q rate? a
The present number of enrolled members
in all the missions is $4,000. The average ad-
ditons during the last ten years have been
1880, and the annual expenditures about
$3.50, 600, averaging about s22O for each new
member. An impression prevails with many
q that the heathen are more susceptible to the
preaching, of the gospel than nominally
Christian people, who have grown up under
1T. These financial statements throw some
oglight on this question, and offer much encour-
agement to Christian nations II has often
been stated that Mr.. Burchard, revival
preacher of great experience, offered to con-
tract to convert the people ofany town at $40
head. Mr.. Burchard was man unusually
blessed in this work, but from the two state
ments, estimating also the superiority Of his
ability, an approximate estimate can be made
of the comparative labor of converting heath
EN- and Christian nations. CpA Oaa
The Board say that the call is urgent from
China, where 'Prosidence is shaking the
foundations of the Empire, doubtless to pre-
pare more fully the way of the Gospel" The
Board think that after the Christian ma
tions have bombarded the principal cities Of
China, slaughtered indiscriininately their
people, and laid the country under tribute,
Providence will have signally prepared the
Chinese mind for Christian influences. 7
'' The fayorite missionary field at present il
among the HISTORIANS and Armenians o.
Persia and Turkey, whose religion is Sc
much like ours that they are termed by th'
Board Oriental Christians" and of course
being near enough to orthodoxy to be saved
it becomes the more important that the sligh
difference should be removed, that they may
be brought into that unity which distin
guishes all denominations of Christians il
this country. So marked is the effect of tn
preaching of the gospel among the Arme
mans Of fConstantinople, that one of the olde
missionaries was, led to exelaim "This is
day of miracles" and another said, "It really
seems as though the heavens were about t.
drop down upon us abundantly." The Boart
forcibly inquire whether, at this interesting
moment. the work shall be allowed 70 dro
for want Of support. ! j ,A&2G &lNA0
''The Rev. Andrew Pratt of the Souther
Armenian Mission, spoke of the incompre
hensible grandeur of the revolution iwhic
God was carrying on in his mission. H
said that in Marash, where six years ag
there we're but nineteen Protestant men, ther
were now nine hundred converted souls
Whether these souls which were converte
from krmeniau Christianity we're brougt
into Methodist Christianity, or Presbyterian
or Episcopalian Christianity; is not statec
therefore, we are unable to estimate precisel
the value ofa conversion of a Christian peopl
to Professionalism, who never had any caus
to protest, and whose doctrines are not NOR
differentf from ours, than oufsaare from cac
other The Reverend gentleman said furthe
although the poorest people in that cour
try, they had built church that would SCI
l2OO persons. Many of them could not
the same time get enough to eat. One womal
a school-teacher, who was obliged to eat CT
cumbers for five or six days together la
summer, because they were cheap and woul
fill up the stomach, and she could not afior
bread, came to Mrs. White and said 81
wanted TO give something; she had two III
dergarments, and thought she could spa
one Of them. Her wages were 81 70 p,
month. Many who had subscribed toWal
building the church were obliged to tai
their plates generally Of copper, and 81
them in the market" atn a l7ie
Surely when this poor woman, who
obliged to eat cucumbers because they a
very flling:atIt the psice-sFilling her bel
with the east wind 'as Solomon describ
it--can deprive herself Of a change of an u
dergarment to give one to the Lord, wealt
Christians in this country, who fare sumpt
ously and change their undetgarrnents eve
day, can not withhold, 80 81 3 sSog asa
Others, he said gsuiT's 20 = y
."GaEe their ieWelrv which had heen in 1