The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-08-12
MISSIONARY NOTES.

The Baptist Visionary Union lacks ABOUT $zO,0OV OF
the $40 ooO to relieve It's treasury from debt
The increase OF dsbt last year was $4,000
Drs. Whitney aud Osgood. OF tho American Baptist
Mission In China while recently the way to shan
Wa Flu, in the INTERIOR attacked and robbed by
mob OF outlaws Dr. Osgood was slightly wounded.
Tho authorizes underworld, though Intellectually,
10 bring The maleiactors to account
The Conference OF Missionaries IN China Ii event
scarcely less Significant, and with probably as much
promise Of good, as the great gathering Of Presby
terlans at Edinburgh. Reports Of their proceedings
continue to come to tho American religious press.
What vast field Of usefulness is the "Land OF Sinim',
and how small tho band that have gone up to possess
i'll The number OF churches in China is now 9Sl.
There $50 churches in Durmah, and nine enths OF
the evangclisc work Is performed By native preach
ers. A gentleman in Australia, IL Is said, spends
$25 900 year in the circulation OF Mr.. Surgeons
sermons
Mission work in Japan, though encouraging, Is
much straitened for lack Of Scriptures In the YER
nacuiar.
The Baptsts, like other denominations, have been
raging that the Lord would send forth laborers
into His vineyard, and lately, when twsnty-ssven
graduates from of their universities offered them
selves missionaries to the heather, the Mission
Board was not able to accept them. The Rov. j. B.
vinton apty describes the case by saying that the
Church not willing to pay the express charges the
answers 10 Its prayers.
Within the past six years, under the labors Of Bap-
list missionaries in Virginia. there have been
II 760 conversions, 81 new churches constituted,
% houses of worship built and ISL Sunday
schools organized. There arc Al missionaries
Of the denomination in that field who last year or
gapized II Sunday schools and
churches and sustained OIL Sunday schools ut
mission stations They baptized S4l converts and as
sisted In meetings In where l6l7 others
fessed faith IN Christ.
Since 1915 over ono hundred Protestant churches
have been organized 10 the Turkish Empire.
At tho August meeting Of tho American Bibo So
cety in this city appropriations OF money amounting
10 81 81 were made and grants oil books 10000, in
cluing SO4 Tor the foreign ncid and tive volumes Tor
the 6nd Provision also made for the publication
Of the Psalms III Japan and for new edition OF the
New Testament ia Honolulu for the Gilberts Island
Tho receipts for July $685. sl3 aud the number OF
copies of scripture issued So il6 volumes.
The Methodist Mission House IN this city learns from
INDIA that the Mussulman population IL worry much
CITED over the Turco Russian war; and subscribing
large sums Of money 10 help the Turks The procla.
mutton of jahad. or religious war, by the Sheikh-u
Islam at Constanfinopie, Is beng felt in india 1t
would not take much to excite the Mohammcdans to
another terrible mutiny, but tie British are better
prepared Tor II now than they were In 1851 The
sionary correspondent, who passed through the mu-
tiny OF 1857, adds that they are Gods hand now,
they were then
Bishop Andrews, who has just returned from an ex
tensve missionary tour, reports the Methodist mis-
si0ns IN Northern Europe IN excellent condition the
Increase Of Chnrch property Norway during the past
year haspecn s13 1885, aud OF Church 81 43s tho
visionary collections amounted to $749 IS the
total collections oil the Church to $50 S07 90 the
amount assessed The societies tor sell support for
tho coming year Is $3l6 as against ST. 2loraised III
1901
Tue Rev. S. L. Baldwin, superintendent of Method.
is MISSIONS IN China, writes IRON Foochow concern
lug most caIanitous hood hch swept over that
reg Of country And At toe time OF writing June
1851 the rain .til failing In torrents and one
could predict the result The destruction In the CITY,
the suburbs and the surrounding country was I'M
mcnse The lower stories OF The houses the island
OF Tong entirely Hooded, and water Is rapidly
rising to the upper stories o. many OF them.
More than u dozen houses on tho street below
the mission promises had fallen during the night
before he wrote The short bsdgo between the island
ana the land swept away by The food and the
door OF the long bridge"lbe Bridge OF len thousand
Agcswas entirely submerged and ABOUT MY feet oi
" entirely swept And 10 add TO the disusters
famine in Snant ung destroyed many thousands OF per
aud presidential lever that followed carried oil
many thousands more Locusts are devastating por-
lions Of kIans-si Honan. Nganhwci and other prov.
inces Great Hoods have immense damage AT
Canton Tho every direction seems heavily
laden with calanitous tldings Surely Gods Judg-
ments are over that land.
The number OF commandments In foreign missions OF
the Protestant Episcopal Church Is about 500 whom
there are IN Airca 2j0 Ia Cnina 2l7 tl94 Eatives AID
70 orcigners IN japan Al $50 natives and foreign
ersL ana In Haytl, $50 There are candidates Tor
holy orders IN AFRICA 10 IN CHINA and several Haytl
rue number of foreign nilsson stations maintained
by the Protostant Episcopal Church In America Ia AZ,
IL Of which arc In West Arics 10 In China Ia Japan