The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-02-12
The Work of Foreign Missions.

The Missionary Herald for January has it's
usual Annual Survey of the missions connected
with the American Board, from which we make
the following extract. The = Survey !" says:
Since the last Annual Survey was prepared, in
telligence has been received of the death of one
ordained missionary, and one male and three te-
male assistant missiOnaries-the veteran DIR.
King, so long the honored representative of
tine Board in Greece Mrs. Sanders, who had but
recently returned to Ceylon, in the hope of years
of active labor for the women of that country {;
Mrs. Riggs, after many years OF selt-sacrlhclng
devotion to the social and religious welfare of the
Indian tribes of the Northwest, and Mr.. and Mrs.
Abner Wilcox, who recently came to the United
States, after more than 80 years of faithful and
useful labor at the sandwich Islands in connection
with the schools. Some also, not yet fallen
asleep, through failure of health, or for other
reasons, have ceased from their missionary work
and from connection with the Board, and Il very
considerable number have found 1T necessary to
visit their native land for rest and the recovery of
health. On the other hand, one ordained mis-
sionary, one physician, and four women, have
returned to their fields after such a visit, and
(including two missionaries and their wifes who
were formerly in the work, but had been released,
and now enter again upon it) 81 new laborers--
ii ordained missionaries, 2 physicians, one other
unordained man, Is married and 5 unmarried
women-haye gone out.
The year has been one, to say the least, of GEN.
eral we'll sustained progress in the mission fields.
There have been trlalS-ln eStern turkey, very
sore trials-but the addition of 1000 members,
by profession, to the mission churches decided
progress in nearly all the missions, in the very
hopeful work of developing native talent-raising
up in the mission schools and Summaries, efficient
and acceptable pastors, preachers, and teachers
marked progress also in the direction of sclfsup-
port and of missionary effort among the churches
in the development of a selfsustaining. self
propagating Christianity, of selfgoverning
churches, with a working Christian spirit a
state of things in Syria which leads the mission to
say, there was never seen a brighter day in the
history of the Syria mission than the present
such openings in Persia, among others than Mes
torians, and such a change Of present and pro-
spective plans as call for a change of name, SO
there is no longer a HISTORIAN mission, but a
mission to Persia the sending out ofso considera-
bic a number of new laborers the going forth of
a brother. beloved for his own sake and beloved
for the fathers sake, to commenc a new mission
in Japan the liberality of the churches at home
toward the Board, and the progress of the move
ment connected with Woman's Boards of Mission;
all these are among the things which cheer and
call for gratitude. Never were there stronger
motives for conservation to the work of Christ
for earnest and we'll directed efforts to complete
the work begun-and never more occasion for
earnest and prevailing prayer on the part of all
who look for the triumphs of Christ's kingdom in
earth.