New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-10-11
THE FOURTH SECTION.

THE FOURTH SECTION.
.DnprssFs BY MINISTERS CONNECTED WITH THE
TURKISH. PERSIAN. GREEK. INDIAN, AND OTHER
MISSIONS.
At2p. M. Yesterday, a large congregation
met in the Church, and addressed by
a large number of foreign missionaries who were dele
rates TO the Evangelical Alliance. Each speaker was
confined TO ten minutes The following are among the
more striking things said;
The Rev. Dr. Bliss said that about 1000 miles east, on
the line OF latitude Of the City Of NewYork, was the
eouailv large city OF COnstantinOplo COnstantinOpe
was the great commercial center IRON when sueaned
All Inc wares which flowed not only through the Turkish
smnTe alone hut through large part OF Central and
Western Asia Thousands OF merchants came there ior
nurposes of trade and subjected TO all tho intel
ccal and moral influences that 20 be found there
great of them carried back to their dsiht MONIES
onoTies 10 give them newspapers and tracts, and thus
they carried back with them Christian IDEAS ana teach
ing Constantnope had been selected by the mission
aries 40 years ago as their first station, and
from it they had spread all over inc Iurklsh
empire, until there were now 100 men and women
engaged in tho work People might think
that this was largo army, and they would be some
thing like an army they all in one place. But so
vast was the country that IL much as II You put
20 Of thom in Eew-Ensland, % III the south, 80
I'm the Middle States anu 30 more In the West. The
ars two missionaries who crossed the Black Sea could
mud no convey snce. except by chartering vessel and
they %Sss GG across 1 hc ck sea every day Of the
week aud they carried hundreds and thousands OF pas
sengers and great variety OF merchandise Then rail
roads were being built and these steamers and railways
were nat many helps Tor the spread OF tne Gospel
because they could send by these means their BiDle
their tracts and their papers with facility never be-
Tine Rsy r. Labaree OF Persia said that thePersan mis-
siOn was the eastern outpost OF the Christian
Church Western Asia. Between Persia and India on
the southern side, and toward the north among tue
hordes of TartarY, there none to stand up and
proclaim tho living Gospel Recent events had brought
Persia prominently before the Christian world FIRST
came the famine, with its terrible decmaton OF the
millions OF the land. which had SO deeply en-
listed the warm sympathies OF Christians in
ali norts'0f the world Then recently there had
been the visit OF tho Shah 1t should be remembered
that Persia was the weak point OF Accommodation.
Tine inhabitants OF Persia heretcs 70 Islam. They
had gone from the old church that held sway over
the greater portion OF the Mosem world. Thus they
were more inclined than orthodox Mussu mans 70 listen
with attention and interest TO new doctrines Besides
was in their constitution to he liberalminded.
They had been educated IN bigotry by the
Christian yet they naturally tolerant, and they
struggIed against the faDacism In which they were
brought up. They had also generally come to the
looked on with amazement as contributions came in
world and though tho ecclesiastical classes had thought
that il was merely Christian trick TO ensnare them,
act Of Christian love- Mr.. Labaree then re-
ferred to the great revival OF active religion
great Evangests OF Persia and Of whose devoted pety
and cheerful selfsacriflce he gave several striking
preudces OF the Mussumans against the HISTORIANS had
given way to a better feeling Formerly they looked
upon them with contempt. and would have deemed it
social pollution have out Of the dish with
them Now that was changed, and they ate together
like equals Such facts showed that the gospel was
The Rev M d. Kalopothakes next referred TO the
TO to the contemptuous manner in which many people
wrote and spoke OF modern Greece he asked what would
America herself be after being deprived hundred years
OF the Gospeli Would she be any better In Greece,
Protestans had not only to struggle against Ignorance
and infdelty they had everywhere else, but also
against Intense national prejudice In favor Of the
Greek Church. Greek who went over TO Protestant
ism was looked upon traitor to his native land The
speaker then adveed 70 the persecutng and ntoerant
character OF the Greek Catholic Church. and complained
bitterly OF the respect which Rtuasts paid To that com
The delegates then sang the hymn "Al hail the power
of Jesus nane after which Mr. Thomas OF India, gave
an interesting account of the mission with whicn ne
specially connected. century ago an advertisement
NATIVE Christian Now there we're $1,000 Fhe ratio Of
during the past ten years had been 60 per cent
W. Yorke OF Madras said that during the last year
10000 had been gathered into the fold He
robOrated the statements OF Mr. Thomas and then de-
scribed windy mission school for girls.
The Rev A. Grant from South Africa said that after
the mission had been founded In 1884, they had labored
for ten years without a single convert being made He
was abandon the work for lack Of funds, when
Sir Peregrne Maitland sent Tor hln ana sald he would
give him enough TO live on IL no would stay, as 1t
cheaper to keep missionaries than soldiers among the
Zuus AT present there were COO converts, and there
were five native pastors OF churches.
The Rev. Mr.. Carpenter said that In Burmah there
ten missionary associations with $50 churches,
and about 10000 disciples many OF whom belonged to
despised race. NneIenths Of the work now dong
by native missionaries. 10 or 30 OF whom had been
ordained and exercising all the prerog atives
Of the Christian ministry After giving other stastos
OF progress Mr. Carpenter said that he believed II
great Christian denominations would give themselves
entirely TO this work OF foreign missions Chris
would multiply faster the earth than present
and tho whole world would be brought into the gdou
OF Christ
The Rev DIR. Joshua Doolittle was announced as the
last speaker at the meeting. He began by exhibiting
handsomely carved specimen OF Chinese ancestr
tablet which, he said was the great stumbling block in
the path Of Christian effort In China The Chinese wor
shipped their ancestors with much and feryor as
they did their gods and thus the spirit of natural aec
ton enlisted against the Gospel Dr. DoOttle gave
several anecdotes illustrating the piety of Chinese con
yerts aud closed by asking every present pfay
tho conversion OF the Chinese every Saturday
which was Sunday morning IN the Celestial Empire