New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-05-28

Proposed NO sctfOn but simply related the acting out
the committee in tub, their adventures by land and
water the strange lands they visited and the strange
speeches they heard and finally their safe their
own land and friends. This impromptu remark
ceived with merrment by the Assembly and the subject
OF Southern correspondence again retired for time into
the shadows OF the Bills and Overtures Commttees
abode. The standing committee the Board Of Home
Missions made their report through their chairman the
Rev. ]. J. Brownson d. d. This report and that on
Foreign Missions always received with much interest
by the Assembly for they the great popular benevo
lent enterprises of the Church. and give opportunity for
the home missionaries, many Of whom always pres
ent 70 tell their experience, and advocate the
The Secretaries Of the Board given opportunity to
make the first speeches and their weknown eloquence,
brought to the hall hundreds Of local Presbyrans The
Secretary. whom the New School Boards gave to the
present Board at the reunion, the Rev. Henry
hendail, d. d.. spoke In the morning he Is IS
years old, graduate OF Hamilton College and
formerly pastor Of the Third Church. Pittsburgh.
In the opening Of his address he spoke at length upon
the providentia Arrangements Of God God always leads
His Church to those situations where strong IN
this land peculiarly secured virtue the founders the
American nation. II the Mississippi and the St. Law
renee great avenues to the interior had opened avail
able points into the Atlantic, the first immigrants would
nave sailed as explorers always love to do up to the
treeess prairies and settled and either persisted by
posure been killed by Indians scattered wide apart
nave FAILED TO establish and sustain churches and
schools as instead was done by the NewEngland colo
Mes God directed those colonies 10 shore dense
forests compelled them TO live close together and Indians
kept them there until they had laid the foundations OF
Christian civilization. Then when the Jesuits
had penetrated the eternal fogs Of the St
Lawrence Gulf, and the French had acquired
territory both north and south, the French and
Indian and later purchases to Americans
an increased domain for the Christian civilization
But they were yet without the far Northwestern terri
tory, then unknown. By-and-by that remarkable dele
cation Of the Flathead Indians from beyond the
Rocky Mountains to ask for missionaries led by
derfu Providence met the missionaries who
the Sandwich Islands, and found the people there mystic
riously prepared to receive them. That delegation
opened the way that exposed 10 the nation through the
missionaries who went 10 these Indians, the that
Jesuts and British fur traders ALLEVIATE
the whole Northwestern territory from the citizens Of
the United States So by Divine Providence the nation
received it's domain-could any doubt for what
great services in the Of evangezng and blessing
the world The Secretary closed by urging that the
Home Missionary Board pointed out the true work
Providence intended the nation do present while in
the distant future the little deeds of to-day might prove
mighty influences upon the nation and the world
In the discussion which followed the Rev. Maby
Gelson of Ann Arbor Michigan, related details Of
the mission Of the Fathead Indians referred TO above,
not familiar 10 all DR. Whitman one OF the two mis-
sonaries who with their wives to the Flatheads,
intimate friend OF the speaker and personally
related 10 him that day after arriving at the Waa
Waa. at dinner party scout came in and being asked
for intelligence reported that Secretary Webster and
President Tyler had given their and the country
all but surrendered into the possession of the Hudson
Bay Company. That the of the information
which led 10 Dr. Whitmans immediate journey over the
desert and plains and praies IN the Fall 70 Washington,
and the famous reversal OF President TyleTs decision.
The last morning speaker the Rev. sheldon Jack
D.. ID.
many have that there is romance about the Home
Missionary work there is in Foreign Missions. He had
stood the top of a sxsOry house in Southern Colo
rado built at least early as the Fifteenth Century.
There great cities in North America ago; and
there to-day thousands and thousands OF the wor-
Slippers Of the sun, and crueites as horrible as any III
India
In the afternoon Secretary Cyrus Dickson. D. d., was
the first speaker He is OF about the same age as
his colleague, below the medium stature OF norld com
plexiOn and auburn hair DR. Dickson elected sec
rotary while pastor of Churchin baltimore and has as
eXecuijye ability HIS address touched upon ali the
salient points of the Home Missionary work in the country
the Chinese element, the German element the inseaf
bic relation of Home ~ Foreign Missions. the Importance
of instruction in doctrine to the children of the Church
nationality. their interrupted language. their value as
home people. aud the absolute necessity OF their evan
gciZatiOn, for Americas sake well ar their own In
closing the Secretary urged the ministers before nm 10
history of the nation which Dr. Kendall sketched this
morning; to tell them TO what great future points
them perils in the way that the Cross OF Christ
is their only salvation. and that this must be made known
ana valued by every citizen OF the great Republic
AT close of the session the Committee ON Bins ana
Overtures the Rev C. A. Dickey, ID. D., OF ST. Louis,
Chairman reported several decisions. petition TO
delay action the rotary eldershlp decision OF tie
PresbyteT1es denied and the house sustained the
Committee. the Southern correspondence question
the action already reported the Com Com
mittee fully sustained the telegraph Will nave
announced this reaches YOU Inc almost uhahifnou
adOptiOn this may De taken the utmost
which this Assembly be expected To do. There Is
real desire reunion here and remarkable readiness
Law aside all that has passed but more POSITIVE ue
termination than exists here not TO say that the past
ha
II may hardly be supposed the subject VIII not ieeuf
again.