Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-10-06
FOREIGN MISSIONS.
Fifty.sIxth Annual Session of the
American Board of Commissioners
of Foreign MisslOns-RePOrt of the
Prudential Committee.

OF Foreign M1S9lOnS-hepOft OF the
Prudential Committee.
The seth annual meeting Ofthe American
Board of Commissioners of Foreign Mis-
sions convened in Chicago on Tuesday
afternoon. FOrty-three corporate members
ofthe board were present. The President,
Rev. Mark Hopkins, D. D., LII D., called
the meeting to order, and prayer was of
fered by Rev. DR.. Hickok of Union Col
lege. After preliminary business, the re-
port of the prudential committee was
read by the Rev. Selah B. Treat. We APP
pend some extracts therefrom:
MISSIONARIES SENT FORTH.
During the year l3 missionaries have
been sent forth to various fields, and seven,
after sojourning in the United States for a
time, have returned to their field of la
Dor
The committee cannot refrain from adj
verting, as they have lone in the past
years, to the difficulty which they D
rience in finding men who are DESTROYS of
engaging in the missionary work. They
have but two candidates for the ministry,
now under appointment, and still remain
ing in this country; and they are sorry to
say that they have no special encourage
ment from those who are pursuing their
theological studies at the present time.
On the other hand, our missions are grow
ing weaker and weaker, by reason of an
insufficient supply of laborers; and the
possible issue of this state of things it is
painful to contemplate. There can hardly
be a question that the most pressing want
of the board is a large increase of those
who count it a privilege to "preach among
the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of
Christi
AGENCIES.
The district secretaries, as also the fields
which they occupy, remain unchanged.
PUBLICATIONS.
There have been published, within the
past year, of the Missionary Herald, I60,-
$50 copies, making nranikl.~-sE
If,Isl5 OF the annual report, 5000; of the
abstract of the report, 1850; of the annual
sermon, 1000; DIR. Stones sermon ION the
monthly concert 1000; historical sketch
of the African missions, 1000; of the
quarterly letter to Sabbath schools, (eachl
$500; proceedings of the board in regard
to the Sandwich Islands, $50.
FINANCES.
The committee acknowledge the CO.
operation of the Turkish Missions Aid
Society and other cooperating organiza-
tons, and sketch the financial history of
the year, explaining the necessity which
impelled them to appeal earnestly for aid
on several occasions to the various
churches. On this point they say:
Being obliged to choose between two
evils-a debt on the one hand, appeals, on
the other, they could not hesitate.
There are three ways of avoiding such
expedients. !. We can reduce the appro-
priations to so low a point that there will
be little or no danger of an insufficient in
come. But if we begin this experiment
we may expect to repeat it, till the pros
perity of our missions shall have departed
forever. 2. The churches, after being
s~easonably informed of the amount to be
expended, can transmit the same to the
treasurer, spontaneously and promptly.
3. In case of a deficit, it can take the form
of a debt, to be liquidated at some future
time. In this contingency, however, we
shall probably find ourselves driven, in the
end, to the necessity of e%lecting between
an appeal, at q manifest disadvantage, or
disastrous curtailment.
The committee have been taught by an
experience painfully instructive, that a
large Indebtedness unless the occasion of
it as in 1901, shall be accepted as clearly
proyidential) Is alwaye to be deprecated,
And if the board shall not indicate, now
or hereafter, a preference for q different
policy, they may be expected to conform,
as far as possible to the Injunction of st.
Paul, cove no man anything, but love
n another
The report concludes with a statement of
the receipts and expenses of the society,
which is given more at length in the
Treasures Report.
ANNUAL REPORT.
An abstract of the Annual Report for
1865 was then read by Rev. DIR. Anderson.
1t inalndna . aotoiled account of the state
Of affairs in the Gaboon, Zulu, Western
Central Turkey, Eastern Turkey,
HISTORIAN, Mahratta, Madras, Ma
dura, Ceylon, Canton, Fuh-Chau. North
China, Sandwich Islands, Micronesia, and
American Indian missions. We
no room for this report, and can in
only the general summary, submitted
BY Rev. DIR. Woods:
SUMMARY.
MISSIONS.
Number Of missions Zee. On