The New York herald., 1875-11-17
METHODIST MISSIONS.
FINISHING UP THE APPRoPRIATIoNs-$679 900
FOR MISSION WORK AT HOME AND ABROAD


FOR MISSION WORK AT HOME AND ABROAD
ADJOURNMENT
me General Missionary Committee met again yestcr.
aay Blshop Andrews presiding The appropriations
began where they left on the cyenlng Italy
The sum Of $l7,475 given to tho Italian mis-
sions On the question Of giving So 500 70 Mexico in
stead of SIS 800, the sum given last year and com
promise with the sum OF $50 439 asked for by Dr.
Butler, the SuDerintendent there Bishop Haven
and Bishop Simpson advocated s25, 900 to be gwen
Dr. Dashen, the Secretary, apprsed the commit
tee that lad had promised TO sustain a new mis-
sonary in Northern Mexico. This will allow of the re-
ducton Of 81, 400 from this SUN COMPROMISE was
made on $24 0OO OF which 81. 500 goes to new work
Japan without discussion, received $l7 400 To all
these sums for foreign missions be added twenty
per cent for exchange the appropriations represen
rod excent To Africa he coutinyept tnnd raaca,ad
$25 000 incidental expenses $50 000 office expenses
SIS, 600 and for disseminating missionary information
and circulation of the Missionary Adr0cdte So 900
5000 appropriated for transfers TO Oregon and
Washington Conference; $500 were added to the South
Kansas Conference; $3.50 we're transferred from the
Central German Conference TO the Chicago Ger
man Conference. The aggregate amount thus
appropriated is s679 1873 80 This overran the original
estimate 81, 1873; the foreign missions received
Of this overflow s., 033 The appropriations as whole
lish large missionary map, a specimen OF which
hung in the hall Of the mission room
AT THE AFTERNOON SESSION
Bishop Haven presided 4 resolution to make two
$679 l3S, the amount needed TO carry the mission
airy work, and the other representing the debt of
$50 O00-was offered and discussed pro and There
were many who favored uniting the two sums and call
ing for aggregate Of $3.50 600 which will take only
$50, S67 OF the debt vote taken motion TO
lay the whole amount 1864 1888 including debt and ap
preparations, before the Church in one lump and
ried.
. Adjourned sine die.
BOARD or MANAGERS MEETING.
Inc Board OF Managers met at halfpast three O'Clock
and Dr. Hunt led the devotlons. The minutes were
read and approved Bishop Peck presided. IL was
agreed 10 pay the missionaries in China 81 $50 salary
IN Mexican dollars and those in India ike sum ia
rupees, with l25 rupees added for each child The In
da Conference allowed sell their ssion house
IN Aahabad and apply the proceeds to another object
The Board approved of Miss Green. NJ d., as medical
missionary TO India sent out by the Women's Foreign
Missionary Society, TO take the place of Miss Swayne
NJ. d. who desires to return home Three hundred
dollars were donated to transfer a missionary from
Chicago to California for the scandinavian work there
Four hundred dollars granted for transfers two
men TO Walla Walla and Grand Run, CaL Some years
ago the Methodist Episcopal Church It's mission
aries to the Dales, which they pre-empted. They
were subsequently driven away by the Indians. A
large and important town has since grown up there
and for several years the Methodiss have press
Ing their claim before Congress and the Cabinet for the
patent Tor this town. They have at last succeeded
and the Board of Managers have appointed a commits
sion to arrange matters with the residents and settlers
OF that place. Bishop Peck, who has recently come
therefrom will meet that commission next Monday
afternoon and lay statement Of the facts before them
The income to the Missionary Society from the Daes
will by and by II believed be OF great help but Tor
the present there can be nothing available thererom.
The Board then adjourned