The New York herald., 1867-01-15
MISSIONARY ANNIVERSARY.

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| b'shop 'nomson, Rev. A. l.. Long and Rev
john McSiintock and Others-The Missions
| In Cbsnn-rRe Turkish Empire and the q rens
Ocean Yacht Race, &c,
Inc iortyeghth anniversary exercises OF the Mission
airy Society OF Tie Methodist Episcopal Church cele
brated yesterday at sienway Ha, Lieutenant Governor
cahin, of Massachusetts, presiding The meeting was
attended by large number Of ladies' and gentlemen.
MORNING aERyIcv
The morning exercises wero begun al half mast tan
O'Clock by singing tho hymn commencing with the
From all that dwell below tho ske-
Let tho Creators praise arise
The reading OF the Scriptures he ed Pss.m bv Rev
D. Lore, D. D., of Auburn, N Y, then followed, after
which a prayer war offered by Rev. John A. Roche a.
Brooklyn. An appropriate solo then sung by Philip
Phillips
Lieutenant Governor CLARIS offered bis grateful ac
acknowledgements the managers OF the Missionary So
cety for the honor they had conferred upon him. and
esteemed II privilege TO come 70 this cityhe cradle
of Methodsm-and join with those people who had set
such a noble example of benevolence and who had
meeting raised large towards the further
ance OF missionary purposes The success OF The church
was greatly due to the energy Of its friends In New York
Although Europe 0pen to the missionary there
four millions OF recently ensaved people In the South
whose salvation particularly the work OF this Church
Bishop THOMSON followed by an address on the missions
OF China That country, he said was heathfu fertile
and beautiful The particular portion OF China in which
country and yet it was so mild in climate that three
crops could be gathered In single year, and the rose
and pink howered and boomed there even in January.
II contained fifteen million people, three nrst class
and about sixty third class cities Tho Chinese here had
anticipated Europe in many OF the great enterprises
and had common school system long before the
Christian era. They were literary people and were
without panper, peasaniry or any system OF slavery
(Appause. They had always scholars who could recte
from memory all their classics and all their
ries on them. 0aughter) They were the AngloSaxons
of the East Their examination hall annually invited
far
showed that they were not devoid Of the arts and
sciences The written language contained from thirty
10 seventy thousand characters yet these not
necessarily used Confncius employed only five thou
sand Of them in writing the classics and ten thousand
would translate the Holy Scriptures, and sufficient
70 conduct diplomatic correspondence and open
10 the reader tho chief literature of the Ian
guage. To reach all other nations 10 necessary
10 use three thousand and sxty-three languages
while to reach the Chinese only one LANGUAGE was
needed: for the whole world might be divided
into two races-the Chinese OF two hundred millions
and all other nations daughter There were two
ieons-that OF Confucius and buddhism. the former ap
peaing 10 the reason and the latter by pretended nspa
ton There also that Of TaGism and other systems
but all had dcterorated Their Idols had up thirty
thousand and the god-mak advertise their the
potter did his pitchers Iaugbter) Their ideas reli
gion. science, physiology, &c very peculiar. They
believed man was like candes,ick and divided him into
tho wick, taow, &C. in explaining his physical struc
ture. (Iaughter) To say nothing Of missions, Atlantic
cables microscopes telescopes the telegraph and print
ing press would remove these false ideas. Applause
The Chinese had already been brought 10 respect Western
nations by the march of the French and British TO
told of the United States and is civilization ana liberty
and when their Emperor eompmcnted for refusing
were free in other ports. tApplausc.l The iegazed
crimes of infanticide oppression toward women, Sab
bathless round of toll to tho lower classes, opium smo
ing and systems OF mendicancy and theft placed them
beneath other nations and showed that they required
neral and political renovation The Christian religion
already domiccd in China They had there
force OF thrty-six missionaries Their property
was worth thirty six thousand dollars They had
membership OF 154 or over, mission press which
lngs and schools for boys and girls Formed into pro-
times around the earth and such procession IS 20
would fall the land every minute, and was IL
not the duty of the Christian to be Interested in the sal
walton 0f many human sonis who were marching 70
After the singing Of hymn oo by the audience, an
address delivered by Rev. L. LoAa, OF CONSTANT
Dope, the Sclavic element OF the Turkish empire
is relation 10 the progress Of Christianity Mahometan
ism to-day he said, had its only ctdel in the Turkish
empire. The fall Of the Ottoman Power on the Bospho
rus, although not perhaps might be supposed
Prophet The Christians Of Americs had for
ting the operations mainly 10 the iproN sment of
the Christian population Of Turkey as preparatory TO
more direct operations upon the Mahometan portion
God had greatly blessed the abors OF the missionaries
thore There to-day in the empire IL 600 registered
Proestans and the power or evangelical Christianity
beginning be felt and its influence the char
acter O the people such might be expected with
the most the people religion not considered
having anything 10 with a moras--tlsug,-
ter)-but was mere round OF unmeanng cerefnsDes.
Tho Bulgarian OF six millions or seven millions or souls
tho principal element and the Slavic element OIL
ninety millions II connected with the Creek Church.
Bulgaria would first give wav to fun evangslizstsn. sn
though missionary work there not successful ~
might expect, II was NOT bst 60 dictate what
OF efficiency should follow the wosk ~ the mis-
sionary in the service Of God sst there mot
mission field in the history OF sSch lahors which had
been successful than the Bulgaria emission TAP
plause) And On the mountains OF Bulgaria il was
no uncommon thing childish voices singing ost
in the clear mo2ntab air 'How 1weet the Oc Jesas
and Ans % dsy wSsS Jesus ss
be driven back where il originated the barn
ing sands Of Arabia Applaasal Az Russia originally
received from the Bulgarian peopis their Christ ianity
and their religious literature, mig not he hoped thai
now in these later days, by reason az the inre. which
Russia akes ia that pcorse Bulgaria, r the srier OF
Divine Providencc may ~, permitted moYs 10 con-
tribute 70 greater deerse in the Religious development
Of that nation and gro her the blessings of living
saithp
On the duty &C csrhtian yosns men 10 oonsesraie
themselves 10 the work Of missions Rev. John hCLis
rocK, d. d. delivered address, stating that ussi0n-
arg work was iAied dnty belonging to every rlergy
rnsn, and thst mere than all. young needed
fDr this work. What shey, wanted especially wN
'pluek," anhopsh ioaa had very little sacritcc,
20 make in visiting. trsse cosfyries As usrstor
ocean YACHT ra and said Of -Ail The world has beef
standing still 9tey. till about the tenth day Of January
or did stand st ut least for little while 20 come down
to oImedor, phrases ast TO ooai three little yaehts
specs upsD the ocean threading their way across th,
Ana when thew got into those old cass,c waters
haJs Wse opened. aasens o.me down 70 the beach e
SOC, and houseS of the nooity and genry threw thor
portals wide npen 70 let thoae Yankee boys 60 IN lap
plAuse.) Why Is ", sfrf What is II an about2 Why
fdr was the srringing up OF the old Ango-Sax an
Anglo. .Nurman blood, tho old Morse blood, the deend
ants OF the old Vikings, That always rise mp nd ops
their hostrs A. hoy snu the brine the r. hd that Ma
made Britain and America masters OF y ,a in orde
thai being masters Of The sea We cai do our Master
| work upon Il, aud go to oo aai. ar the y
70 gorlfy HIS name. e r.c,i.n,ea 20. Gnu" what ar'
slr' Admiration Of 90 sir, "f esserpri< - vas
yonng, men Us 'pnck.n One Of tse. p.as,ers Was
one " .sese Yachts, and everyday IN Engim,d a
.,.ry5Sdy in America will know that mans many :
think there Is good deal in him. tAIspansel 0pi
!. \ Are you Christian, young man. and have VA, "s
''pluckS' U.aughterl II - tho lass,onsr. -. ~
| open 10 you. ,rors
After further allusiA
were concludes -ns 10 missionary labor his rernar
| servicvA when benediction closed the mornii
-. SytSisG srRyrEs
. 4 ~ tne evening a much larger number Of ,as,as n
I Srnuemen assembled, the hall being crovdsa pa
@ m.nry "nm, the oldest living Methodist minister :.
s"rv,ra. Lieutenant n Governor Caain presided n
shall reign whereer the sun snd a. ae nymn, Jes,