The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-10-09

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placed by our own venerated father for this
closing OF q fifty years service In this blessed
caus }; and that here, In the temple OF God, at
the close OF these solemDitles, we lit up for
him, the prayer. which OF the close OF his event.
iul HE. the Royal Psalmist offered for himself,
20 God thou has taught me from my youth,and
hitherto have declared Thy wondrous works.
now also, when am old and grey headed. oh
God tors1ke me not until | have showed thy
Strength u ito This generation. and thy power
TO every one that Is 10 cOmer
Resoiued, That a lifting compliment to this
work 50 well begun, we request our Home Sec.
rotary, II consistent with his present onorous
duties; toprepare, at this Convention, history
lean Indians.
On motion the report was accepted and
the resolution contained therein was ac-
ceped.
The congregation then joined in singing
"Glorious things of Thee are spoken"
Rev. DR.. $. T. Seelye Of Easthampton.
Mass, then moycd that the report on the
italian mission be deferred until evening
and that time then he gwen 10 its dis
cussi0n.
Rev. DR.. n. G.. CLARK hoped the report
would be read now as there was still time
during The morning session to discuss it and |
as the exercises for the evening were al |
ready decided upon.
Rev. Mr. Dagsctt, of the committee on
Italian missions, then read the following |
report:
REPORT or COMMITTEE on THE MISSION TO
ITALY.
The annual report proposes the suspen
sion of the mission to ltaly. If this were
| proper q measure Of rotrenchment re-
! sorted To under financial PRESSURE in COM
| mon with the greater part Of this Board
and of its constituency, your committee
would think from the policy thus indicated,
choosing rather to appeal anew to the
churches in behalf of this as well rs our
other enterprises. But ii is one Of those
changes which u wise economy may at any
time dictate for reasons peculiar to he case
presented. Yet it is enforced by the con-
sideralion that the deficiency of receipts
compared with expenditures, is proportion
ally greater in the department of our work
| in nomnnlly christian lands than in any
| other. Italy is in some respects unlike
every other field occupied by this Board.
Protestant organizations of an evangelical
character have hecn operating there for
several years. principally the Wadensian
churches the Italian Free church. and the
plymouth brethren" Our Board did not
originate the work now in question, but as
sulilcu IL Nv WY VI experiment, Will us
stations and evangelist. about two years
ago, us part OF the transfer from the
Gamer lean and Foreign Christian Union"
1t la. been continued by us as il had been
begun by that body, in corporation with
the Italian Free Church, and hence with
certain principles and methods not adopted
in our workc clswhere. Nor have the re-
suits hitherto been such as to satisfy us
with that corporation. Yet should We now
attempt TO modify the work after our own
distinctive manner, us by making the
churches scliSupporiing and also stricter
in their terms of admission, and by only
aiding, instead Of wholly Importing candi-
dates for the ministry, the prospects of any
consid, rible success would be, in the judy
ment of the prudential committee and of
the mi. sonarics, at best distant and doubt
ful. 1t would tend also, we think, to a
positive competition with the agencies
named instead of the public co operation
hitherto attempted, and hence to hinder
rather than to further the common cause,
In view of the various churches now oper-
Gting there, differing indeed from our own,
yet in the main disseminating pure gospel
we should tli1k it incompatible with the
Christian comfy ever approved and prac-
tisod J.. this Board now for the first time to
place ~ their side n mission properly our
OWN, and for the same reason we would not
l di,jinc lively modify the enterprises already
/ begun. In the. circumstances, the least
questionable course is to leave the field to
brethren of various ccclcsiasiical bodies
who are there organized and active against
papai error, and who may be strengthened
) by liberal aid from abroad without our for
mai alliance. We therefore recommend
) for adoption the following resolution:
That in accordance with the recommends
ton from the prudential committee, our
8 mission to ltnly be suspended.
I In behalf of your Committee,
o. Il. ID ,GGETT, Chairman,
kcV. Or. Sccicy, then arose, and in
4 strong terms opposed the acceptance of the
rcpor, and the adoption of the resolution
/, lie said when the paper was read the day
= before, lie was meyer more sorry at the
e PRONUNCIATION Of anything than he was of
, that. 1t WAS an acknowledgment of defeat
!, AMI ath ,ugh lie had the highest respect
: for Dr. Gulch, the reasons which he sets
3 forth fra retirement from the field are
: not sufficient. 1t is us ii he said the pet
: scheme OF the board won't work in Italy,
: and hence we won't do anything. The
:. whole argument is that the board and mis-
Z sipnarics have not power enough to make
T., decent christians ont of the Italian people.
u The speaker did not believe that Christ,
i when be said "Go into all the world. :"
i meant to leave nut Italy. 1t was not best
!. to give up Italy because it was n hard nut
To crack The paper referred To saws in
d substance Il can't, | can't, and therefore
3 won't!' The speaker wanted some better
y excuse than that. The Lord had said to
Il DR.. Guhck. "Put your head down on the
+" other side of the boat" but the doctor says
d ''Lord. you don't know anything about
G this malter!" daughter and applause }
| nu uI Ilu ia ntt 4 ,nt
y DR.. Gulici was coming home and still to
?. work for the board Tell them, said the
e speaker, 10 stick to Italy or we won't let
= them come HON. What care the people
for Austria, France and Spain in compare
d son with Italy, whose glorious memories
y thrill all hearts? We ought not to let it 20
Y beyond the reach of the board, if we do
our whole work in nominaly christian
n lands amounts to nothing.
:, Rev. Dr. \. { Thompson, of Boston,
1t followed in IN earnest plea in favor of the
"a resolutions He did not believe in attack
II ing a imam who was not present TO defend
$ himself. and thought Dir. Gulck's opinion
E, worth vastly mort than than that of the
I. brother from Easthampton The report
il showed that the Italians would not do any
thing for themselves 1t was the cousum-
IL mate wisdom Of sixty years experience
e. which said that-ihe principles of Christ
le cond'nt be carried out there.
Rev. Allen lla2en, mis- ionary in India
ri endorsed the report of the committee in be
half OF the missionaries from India.
- Rev. DR. n. G.. Clark then followed in q
re brief bat emphatic advoeation of the re
Y port. He expected opposition and wa
II, glad il had come up before the meeting
: The board had held off from Italy unit
d they were obliged to take it and now four
flfths of the debt of the board rested on
h, these papal lands. 1t WIS our duty Il
J., teach them to help themselves. But il
- Italy there was too much romance it la,
D. acrowd pouring into it with no ideas o
christianity or system. A church was late
lie ~ dedicated in Florence with great pa
- rade bet not one cent of its cost came from
that city. The board has more PROMISING