New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-10-10
AMERICAN BOARD or MISSIONS.

| INTERESTING REPORT BY THE TREAsUBER-1IF
LADIES HOLD A SPECIAL MEETING-YEw MEM
BERs, ETC.
SYRACUSE, n. Y, Oct. 9.-At the third day :
session Of the American Board Of Commissioners Tor
Foreign Missions there dminuion OF numbers or
enthusiasm.
The ireasurer's report shows the following f1eis
Cost of mi~sons-Io the Zuus Tl7,s3I: 10 European
Turkey S3f. Gs2 10 Western Turkey, S161l3; L" en-
tra Turkey. >si 800 70 Eastern IrAcy; rllo'i T.,
Ell Gno ,n Is1,s,n s53 SOC Mission t. sandwich L.
Lands. SGOe3; Micronesan Mission. $1,000; Dakota
Mission, $40 .55S Mission To Western Mexico fb.'vi
ia snein ~ 80: to Austria SI2I52 total, $751; sol.
Cnst of agences ~ G9j; cos. publication. S7,e37
cost Of administration. ~lc3S3; total expenditures
with last years balance. SOL s3s6.
Ec.eipts-Trom donations, S2s3 G27; from lcgacics.
s2277o0; from other sources, SG.96s total receipts
Legacy Of Asa OILS. Of NewLondon. Conn., received
from The cVccuiors Securities amounting AZ not above
~ 10000 So o93 Il; income from Investments
1884 20; gain "n sales, ~l539; total. S73I02s -
Apphod toward The expenditure 81 ne year. including
rcstorcd estimates ard enlargement 81 The work,
S7i.~l7 81 amt pavmcni Of tie debt OF September l.
ISIS tei.5"S 2Jl >l66f39 D. Balance as pr iedeei'
SSlpj71 ~. Ine vanc oi the Investments ~ this sum
tSol"57O 80 Is - appraised, S'"-'f Ihe o,ecliot-
s'l retain United states bonds amounting TOE ''o""i
The board ls- received and expended from the he
rrnme about >17.0oo.no": ha. orrsniE'6 not FIR on
800 native churcht~. WITH our $1,000 COMMITMENTS
has sent out JJo ordained missionaries and about 200
'marfiri iadY missi"Iai1os; las ndnceH i" "rtlns
twenty lafcul.rs ha- i--icd In oriy-iN languages
$500 different educational and religious
rlhictIo - and hss had under instruction more Than
10000 ir,ie Ateri 900. 900 Of The uneyangrlz.d
are rtck'arl as failing to flc care ~ tac American
BuarL
81. Tlona. Eoulin,. 81 ihe Reformed Church, in a e-
hc.,nrs -pc Co., ,-on,at jhr lr-etnl. O. that body
AH,r rem.f,. hF Dr. Bacon. Apheus Hardy. DR..
William q. -, o. and Paiio Parsons. committee on the
rsptr ON TIE Mission 10 Contra Africa" recon-
mcudoi tLat explorations De- continued. and the new
mission Doe c-t,ni, led The recommendation WAS en-
ihusticaily adopted.
The Woman Board OF Missions held separate meet
ING 40 the Fourth Presbyterian Church. Reports were
read by Mr. Dr. \. T. Beard. OF the NrwNork branch
Mrs Moses smith, Of the Woman Board Of the Interior
and Miss Abby Childs OF The Womaus Board Eostoni
the woman's Board of the Pacific was heard from 10y
letter Addresses were made hy Mrs. J.. W. sheffield
of the North China Mission; Mrs G. Parsons, Of Nj
comcdia, Turkey; Mrs. DR.. rchauflcr OF tonSian-
unopic; Ms Il. A. VI. Locke OF the Bulgarian Mission
and Miss Pavson. Of Foochow, CHINA.
In the afternoon the usual communion services were
held IN the Plymouth Church. ani conducted by Dr.
Leonard Bacon OF New-Iavcn, and Dr. j. Jenkins. OF
Springfield, Mass; aud ~ INC Park c-byieimu
church, conducted by Or +. r. Webb, OF Boston, ana
Dr. J. ". Hough. Of Jackson. Mich