Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-10-06
FOREIGN MISSIONS.
Meeting ut Chicago of the American
BOarGI-InterestiBg and Very En-
cOuraSinS Reports.

CHICAGO, October 5.-The first ses.
sion of the sixth annual meeting of the CON-
missoners of the American board of foreign
missions commenced this afternoon at three
O'Clock, in FRrWell hall, large number of
members and visitors being present. Rev.
Mark Hopkins, president of the board, called
the meeting to order, and DR.. BlOdgett, Of
Rhode Island, invoked divine blessing on the
meeting. Rev, ). II. Lee, OF Cleveland was
chosen assistant recording secretary.
After the reading of the minutes ). b.
Treat read part OF the report of the home de-
partment. 1t stated that nine corporate
members have died since the last N Getting,
twenty missionaries have been sent out 10
foreign lands, and only two are preparing to
enter the service Ofthe board, and to this de-
partment fact the board calls the atten-
ton of their friends and urges them to make
pro vision, thaLthe want for missionaries may
be supplied. The WOmsn's board have done
a great and successful work, and their useful
ness increaEeS every year. Their influence is
felt in the schools, ID the homes, aud in the
treasury. The years work might be charac-
terized like that of last year-aS unproSperOuS
and unfavOrable. Money has not flowed as
readily as before the panic, and the debt has
been somewhat increased. The income this
year from donations and legacies is four hum
dred and siXty-eight thousand six hundred
and twenty dollars, or nearly one thousand
dollar- less than last year; disbursements
have been four hundred and nifty thousand
two hundred and thirty-eight dollars. The
total Indebtedness now Is ten thousand three
hundred and ninety-six dollars.
n. q. Clark, the foreign secretary, then read
the report OF the foreign department. It no.
ticed, with pleasure, the general progress OF
the work abroad. The SdditiOns TO churches
in the missionary fields have been larger than
usual and the prospects are bright. Twelve
only twenty new lsborers have gone
out though calls for work ara urgent in the
fields of LABOR. The native pastors nearly
equal in number the missionaries, and some
of them are developing great power and hav-
ing grand success The iepOrJ concludes with
a brief Notice of the wOTI being done in Yari-
p a. EHnHwAI m = 1TNvn
which the fol owing are tae principal points:
Number OF MISSIONS, 49, number OF stations,
Is; number of out-StatiOES, 4yS; labOrers en-
ployed by missions, lI52; pages printed for
distribution, 6,l7l,7l4; number Of churches,
23; members, ll,5iS; added during the year,
1904; numbe- Of pupils in educational depart
ment, 2, ,52j.
A. c. Barstow then read the report of the
committee on the request of Mr.. Nutting,
missionary, for pay during something over a
year, for which time it had already been de-
cided by the executive committee that he was
not entitled 10 a salary. Nj. BarstoW reviewed
the case, AMI recorded In behalf or the COM
mittee that they believed Mr.. Nutting was in
the wrong, and suggested that he be allowed
TO Withdraw his application, The report was
adopted, with the suggestion.
Langdon 5. Ward, treasurer, read q report
o: the nnaucial condition q the board. 1t
ghoWs thai for tho year ending August 3Ist,
the expenditures have been for missions,
S4ls,Z5. The largest item in this amount is
for the Western Turkey mission, SS7. .3SS. cost
OF agencies $3.50; of publications, S75ll OF ad-
ministration, Sl693O; making the total eS-
pendItures $3.50, ,23o, which adde- to the debt
o., the board makes grand total Of about
| S11O,n9. The donations have been S}4g,OS (:
leg sc es, ss9, ,712; other assets make total OF
| si3Bl8. The total indebtedness CT the board
| is si4 ,S3.
The president concIudsd the services Of the
| Afternoon by the appointment of YaTlous
| committees. In the evening Rev. J. W. An
| dreWs, president OF Marietta COLLEGE, Ohio,
preached the annual - mon.