The New York herald., 1876-11-18
METHODIST MISSIONS.

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APPROPRIATIONS coSTINUED-THREE HUNDRED
AND FORTY THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR
FOREIGN MIssIoSs-poxEsrIc MISSIONS IN
THE BALANCE.
The Missionary Committee Of the Methodist Ep'.co-
pal Church met again yesterday, and, alter religious
exercises. the appropriations continued Japan
granted si5 100. and the missionaries were au-
tnorixcd exchange property which they hold IN
Toxic for other properly offered to them IN foko-
hama. provided that 10 additional expense - put on
the Missionary Society thereby. Bishop Simpson
offered resolution asking the treasurer TO prepare
and report the committee What he paid exchange
last year and The transmission moneys between
this aud other foreign countries. Tho bishop did not
believe that twenty per would be needed the
committee ought TO know exactly how much It costs.
The resolution adopted DIR. Dashell in favor
OF tue Missionary Board issuing their letters OF
credit, the Prcsby do, and thereby the
cost, portion OF the cost. The contingent fund
received appropriation OF S25 0o0 the last
year; $25. 900 given also TO incidentals. 5,00e
than year, aud sl4 900 Tor Office expenses,
decrease OF $1,000.
A proposition came before the last General Confer
encc have the Church Extension Society, the Sun.
day School Union aud the Missionary Society publish
JOINT manual monthly. Another was that the Sunday
School Union AND the Missionary Society, whoss Offices
hero in the building. issue weekly journal
Jointly. which the General Conference indorscd pro-
vded this committee appropriated $4,000 for the
work annually. The Board OF Managers Of the Nh
sionary Society discussed this proposition, and andr
that only four pages would be given in the proposed
weekly 10 missionary intelligence which would be
simply tail to the Sunday school kite, they recon-
mended the discontuuance Of the Missionary Advocate
forf 4 a sho nT -
TO secure the publication OF missionary In The
regular Church papers. Tins recommendation
adopted by the General Committee, and a prolonged
discussion, from which tho above points have besn
gathered, closed
roRgIGx MISSIONS ~ UNITED STATES rKRRIroaixs
Tho appropriations to missions among foreign popu.
lalions III the United States Was then taken up. and
81 0u0 given Arizona For Lack OF inforlnatior
the appropriation TO New Mexico l$S, 000l was LAID
over, aud sICo was granted to the Welsh mission in
Northern Now York, New York Conference, and ST. 900
Ihc Swedish NJ ission San Francisco and Oakland
Cal Tho Northwest swedish Conference, TO be
organized next spring out Of the missions Central
ILLINOIS Minnesota, received 5000 decrease OF
81 OOO the sums given last year 10 the two confer
ences named The Norwegian mission In the Min.
nesoa Conference received $1,000. tho same lass
year.
preparation TO thc Swedish and Danish missions with
IN the Newark Conference, which under discus
at the hour OF aujournment and granted $400
IT. rue Norwegian mission IN tho WISCONSIN Confer
received 81, 500-a reduction OF $5UO The scan
dinavlan missions in the Dss Moines. Eric and New
appropraiions und the swedish mission 10 Minnesota
having been transferred to the Northwest Swedish
% Ssw SSppsd nsS .a n
In the Bethel ship, has been transferred 10 ths
! New York East Con!crencc, and with another mission
OF the kild In that Conference received appr0pris
lion OF 81 200 The Bethel ship having been trans
ierrcd South Brooklyn and gwen TO the Norwegian
work the New York East Conference, grant Of
| 81 500 gwen to it. The German missions IN the
California Conference asked Tor co., but received
81 o0O reduction OF $500 last years appropria-
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50, 900 10 the Central German mission, AZ had lass
year II was proposed 10 give So 50O and amond-
make II 81 000 brought tho fact that the
Germans being used 10 pay their preachers by legal
assessment in their own country, Will not voluntarily
give their pastors here any more relatively than they
would pay at home. This Conference, which EN-.
braces the State oil Michigan and parts Of Ohlc m
diana. Illinois, West Virginia, Tennessee and Kentucky
gave last year TO the Missionary society over O00
that Is ST. 600 than 1t received from the Society,"
Aud yet dollar more could not be raised for thor
preachers Dr. Iebhart insisted that they could raise
500 for missions where they get S. for the minis
,ers But the committee we were sealing down relsn.-
Conference got 81 500. reduction or $780, the East
German received $1,000. cutting down OF 81. 500,
the Louisiana German Conference received II, 500,
| $500 less than last year; the Northwestern Cor
got s. O0j which also $500 less than they had
received; tho South German Conference got s., 900,
81 600 last year; the Southwest German
ceived S. 500, reduction Of ST. 6L0 The Mission IN
an increase OF S4 zoo IN the year 1873 and spr.say
the mission has also been very successful, having
added lhirsy-eght to the membership last year. The
mission is TOUR yoars old, and III present mem.
bershp IL 1lS It's appropriation last year So O0V
but thc committee gave II this year only 80, ,0Ou
For four years past the committee has had
presence the Rev. Gus Gibson, d. d. to advocate
CHINESE MISSION CALfroRsIA.
The missionary Society owns elaborate mission
buildings including chapel schools PASTORS residence
and temporary lodging rooms Tor converts The resi-
dence the Mission Superintendent, DR.. Gibson, 10
claboratey furnished by The Missionary Society, and
yet his estimate presented to the committee sor
saary OF 81 900 In gold Tor himself and 500 TOR
assistant, which he hopes TO get this year. He has
four helpers and i've assstants aud be asks
now for $40, ,903 Rold, or $12, ia in currency.
Eighteen hundrcd dollars of this goes tho
Woman's Chinese Missionary Society, when has apart
ments the Mission building. The rents from The
building and receipts TOR tuition n the school give the
mission about 3D. 900 year. that the treasury OF
the Missionary Society pays onv tho difference
the appropriation Very emphatic protests we msde
by Bishops Harris aud Ames and others that DIR.
Gibson should make his estimates In gold. No o,acr
missionary in this land does so, and DR.. Glib
has been frequently ordered by the Board OF
Managers and by the California Conference to make his
estimates currency which the legal tender Of the
country. Tho disbursement OF the appropriations,
although nominaily madc ny the California 0n6rence
have bccu actually made oy DR.. Gibson. This has
been changed recently and tho presiding elder OF his
missions. Dr. Gibson. knowing this, asked Bishop
Harris to mako him presiding elder this being
fused Dr. Gibson offered his resignation the Mission
Superintendent which the Bishop refused 10 accept
Though DR.. Gibson Was not present discussion az
long. but not earnest took place. There are 23S
Chinese converts tho mission San Fruncisco and
q San jose i've baptized during the past year.
The committee, after spending about hour In this
discussion, and usual tho talk the less iiant
to escape the eutangiement and c0nfun0n Bishop
Amcs moved adjour ment until this morning. which
was carried Alter sleeping IL the committee Will
perhaps promptly and give the mission $40 00O
the amount that several brethren proposed.
FUNERAL OF JOHN S. WILLIAMS.