New-York tribune., 1871-10-06
burgh, Penn. Tho Convention will remain In sosSisa
about three weeks.
FORET9N MISSIONS.
SECOND DAYS SESSION AT sALBM-MP0RTANr
EXTENSION OF MISSIONS.

EXTENSION OF MISSIONS.
SALEM, Mass, Oct. 6.--Ths Rev. DR.. Ray
presided at tho morning session OF tho American Board
to-day and after prayer by President Stsrns OF Am
horst College, business meeting Organized. PresE
dent Chaplin of Besit College presented memorial from
the Provisional Committee Of tho Foreign Christian
Union TO the American Board asking them TO include in
their work the evangelzaton OF nominaly Christian ma
tons. The memorial spoke Of the excellent opportnn
ties now offered the continent Of Europe and our own
Southern coast from Mexico to Chill. and earnestly en-
treated that tle evangelical campaign among tho Latn
one tho vote to refer It to Special Committed Appointed
tx 0s Tas easily ears S1s the kfT The pr Rev
E. BstcSu and IN sla Ga Rev. SI SS LAY were @
The bus ness Of tie morning was closed by tho ap
ment Oh the Committees Of the Board for the ensu'
IN me afternoon, the Rev. DIR. ]. W. wellman, in be-
tS a 0s .no special Committee appointed to decide upon
Christian Union asking that the Board enlarge ts work
TO noude the the Latin race gave the
had determined u leave The charge OF the matter to the
Prudential Committee He then made few enthusiastic
simply be an extension Of the Board not calling into ex-
eress ANY new chartered power This brief address
many corporate and honorary members, on what has
been fairly denominated the Southern European Mis-
The first speaker was DR.. Budingtou Of Brooklyn,
Scary wnS ad 70 ea bG % G that be
tee The cry from the field into which the Board was
MIA MIA to come over and help" The friends Of the new
NOV, inont were said TO be proposing missions 70 10
great and oyprweenng influence Of atheism in an athe,
istc land. Historic Christianity had broken down that
church which situated in the land consecrated
by the lives and deaths Of the sants-had by her
srrptnral domination the peoples estranged them
from her She had for all these hoary centuries
striking hands with every form of absoutisn that had
trOdden upon the bleeding masses From thcse shores.
upon which the highest type freedom in religion had
bIru OD ii,
and light the fires upon them anew Tie Board was not
called upon to upon phase OF missionary
work it was only undertaking the hrd into which the
providence OF God had guided Us. 1t believed tnat
was coming to glorious success the continent Of
Europe In closing he suggested that the work in the
southern European Mission DO not taken up uhless
the patrons OF the Board gave the fullest support W ne
Tie Rev DR.. Todd of Pttshed, in giving his firm ad
h sion " Ia" ext nd n Ii tb .ot and with the Amer
BOard it the Churches He therefore urged lne
all churches because nothing could DO done Without
The M,y DR. sorrs Of BROOKLYN followed in fiery and
eloquent address. He said the question with him was
not whether tho Board would cOscnt to undertake. THIS
new mission-ne knew they would; but he wondered
whether they would be able tO carry properly. He
asked the brethren, who sat dOuOtuily III BOSTON anu
elsewhere to rise thus time acclaming tle measure anu
TIE Hon. Peter Parker Of Washington, d. u, next came
forward, an t. with much emotion, said - was hylnY
when this ijOard was In Its cradle Coo grant tnaI
may live TO nee IL in ITS grave he salu tht the
Board in much greater danger than even IN the
dark hours OF the last annual meeting, and argued that
the Board desired enlarge ITS ntl there was plenty
of room at home for hard work. He moved mat tc
whole matter be laid the table until tho next annual
meeting, aud spoke sOrrowfuy about deserted MISSIONS
in China and ELSEWHERE WnCn tho Board nau ao"eu W
fail for want OF support
Dr. Wrllman sad the Special Committee on che ques-
tiun had never contemplated undertaking home work,
but that should be left to other missions The mo-
ton Judge Taylor OF Canandaga N L., that the re-
port of the Committee be accepted, was carried
and after one two amendments, the Rev. Dr. treat
an exhaustive discourse the legal aspects oI
the question before the Board. "a
AlItW WlRT
Rev DR.. Budngtou then presented the following reso-
luton: -,
extending its sovereign work IN nonnAy CnthAn
lands and will Europe South America other foreign
nds oVIeuce the and that the PIa
requested such missions the same
crrer,l r;ucipes acted in
The President then started to MS rect ana
askrd all who appruS ed OF the resolution To RISE Ihe
the grand missionary refrain 1.-THE morning light Is
breaking" Tue Boaru was unanlmousiy III ia'or VI LILO
The Rev Athanase COauerel OF Paris next spoke Wv
idly thanking the Board tor their new movement. de
said: We OF the Latin laborng to-day under
contradiction between liberty and religion Inc WORK
ing classes his country had come to believe that all
religion was q species OF deSpotism, and this had
destroyed tIeir faith In God They hrmly believed that
II they embraced any religion they must give up every
civil and political right he then explained how the
dominance OF the Catholic Church had enected
terrible work. Atheists he thought, were less than
heathen. He anayZed the irreg1ons elements IN the
late with great power aRd closed ny adVs-
ing Board to begin their campaign In the European
Mission with schools not preaching OF the
OF churches.
Various meetings held during the afternoon and
evening the several churches In Saem aud were ad
dressed by the Rev. DIR. Edward BeeCher, President
Serns President Chaplin Of Bel0it College, several prom
inent missionaries and Utbers-