The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-04-18
PRESBYTERIAN MISSIONS.
Meeting Of tho Ladies' Board of Missions
Addresses by Rev. Drs. Prime ard Adams.

DJee,ipu Of tho Ladies', Board Of Missions
Addresses by Rev. Drs. Prime and Adams.
Yesterday afternoon q public meeting OF the
Ladies' Board of Missions held In the University
place church, corner of Tenth street. Reports were
presented from the missionaries sustained by the
Board iu Africa China Syria, and among the Indians
IN Arizona, New Mexico and other Of our Western
Territories giving encouraging signs OF progress in
those missions. The treasurers report showed that
the society had expended s2,5Si. including S570 TO
the Gaboon mission In Africa, 1920 TO the Syrian
mission, $3.50 to China, $3.50 to the HISTORIAN mis-
slon 5000 to the Cherokee Indians and $500 to New
Mexico, and 1t has balance OF 1912 left.
The Rev. DR.. Prime addressed the meeting on the
subject of foreign missions aud the importance OF
woman In this, well as in other spheres OF Church
work. The success OF any movement he said, de.
pended upon its being In the line OF Gods provi.
aence. IL was not long, he remarked, since the
Christian Church awOke from the apathy In which
1t lay for 200 years alter the Reformation In regard
to missions among the heatnen. Ana when William
idea to o body OF ministers they secuted
it, and the chairman OF the meeting, In a
convert the heather He would do 1t without VII.
liam Carey's assistance, and he might therefore set
his mind at rest on this point THIS, however, was
the starting point for an interest in missions. which
has increased until, in the providence OF God, the
whole world Is now opened to the gospel. The his
tory Of this first movement shows Is to have been In
answer to a divine call. And now there seems to DO
another movement equally divine ana equally ex-
WOMEN ARE TO LEAD.
IT is not more than ten years ago when the Wo-
mems Union Missionary Society was organizc3. 1t
but within the last two or three years the movement
has spread into every denomination and new era
then SPOKE Of Tt Inc DEGRADATION OF women in Moha
medan and heather countries and ut the same time
demonstrated the power which the sex weld IN
those countries illustrating 1t by incidents OF cxpe
rience during his recent travels. In China the
maternal authority Is superior to the paternal, and
he thought this furnished powerful motive Tor
sending The Gospel to that land that this authority
may be sanctiled. In India the monuments, Gs wen
as some OF the present customs, testify to the power
and influences when woman w.elds there to-day.
1he Doctor illustrated again by high caste hlldoo
who had entertained nim very munihccntly
in Bombay, but VINO refused to eat or drink
with MN. or even In hts presence. When asked Tor
an explanation the llindoo declared that II was not
because OF any prejudice that lie had TO the Doctor
or 10 Christianity, but because II iG was known no
should become social outcast Dr. Prime there
back thousands who would to-day discard moatry
and accept the Gospel, and thus IS another strong
reason for sending 1t TO them by the hands of
women. TGe Doctor thought that what Is most
needed to-day by the Church Is not money nor mis-.
sionares but baptism OF the Holy Ghost
Dr. WILLIAM ADAMS said the oblgatians OF the
Gospel rested rs much upon one as another.
WOMEN ARE AS MUCH CALLED TO PREACH AS MEN.
When the Saviour was ascending to heaven lie CON-
manded His disciples TO farry In Jerusalem until
they were endowed with power from on High, and
then go and preach the Gospel TO every creature.
work, and IL was not until thunderboit OF persc.
cution fell upon them that they went everywhere
preaching the W0rd, except tie Apostles The word
translated preaching here the Doctor showed meant
talking, and every Christian, lie insisted, had an
equal right to tell the story or Jesus and HIS love.
John Newton, being once asked by woman why he
objected TO women preaching, replied that God had
appointed men instead OF women that the excel
lency Of the glory might be u God and not OF men,
which, IN the latter case, might be claimed for fe
male persuasiveness. The Doctor gave some reml-
niscences Of his early life, when Harriet Newell
and nffarVvn r. o.
land to India missionaries, to SHOW what change
had come over the sentiment OF the Church In re-
gard 10 employing women IL this work during his
own lifetime aud closed with few words Ia regard
a home missions.