Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-11-06
THE AMERICAN BOARD.

| The seventy-seventh annual meeting of the
| American board of commissioners for foreign
missions was held in St. Louis last month.
| The venerable president of the society, Mark
Hopkins, d. D., being absent in Europe, Hon.
| Alphens Hardy was called to the chair. Five
corporate members died during the past year,
all of them in New England. Forty during the
year were added to the list of missionary Ia
| borers, twelve or them in Africa, eighteen in
the Turkish Empire, two in India, four in
| China, and one each in SPAN and Micronesia,
and two among the Dakotah Indians. There
are nineteen more under appointment soon to
go forth.
| For the first time in several years the cur
rent annual expenditures have been met by the
| current receipts, and, also, the deficit at the
commencement of the year of over $14, 900
has been reduced to the small sum of So, 059 90.
The total receipts for the year aggregated
S451, 314.10; the expenditures, including the
deficit, so far as paid, amounted to S453, 27539.
OF this sum "A per cent. came from New
England. This unusually large percentage
was due to legacies. New York, Ohio and
New Jersey made the largest per cent. OF adj
vance in contributions, The problem how to
raise the annual income of the board to GER
tain minimum of 100000 is still unsolved.
The report of the foreign secretary was of
striking interest. The survey embraced the
seventeen missions of the board. Besides Mr..
Pinkerton in southeastern Africa, seven de-
voted women, wives of missionaries, have
passed to their reward, making the past year
exceptionally sorrowful. The report was es-
pecially full on the work in Africa, the Turk
ish Empire, China, Japan, and India. A large
and constantly increasing number of Moham-
medans attend the preaching of the gospel in
Bombay. There is remarkable growth and
| success OF woman's work in the Madura and
Ceylon missions, through the labors of mis-
sionary ladies, and well trained native Bible
women. Net less than 10000 women and girls
have thus been told the story of the Cross in
the Madura mission.
Among 2O,O00,O0O of people the board now
has ninety-four churches, with 6,726 members
and thirty-nine seminaries, colleges ard high
schools, for the Christian education'of youth
including Robert college. One thousand young
men are enjoying the advantages OF higher
education, and the one small school for girls
at Constantinople twenty years ago, is, to-day,
represented by eighteen seminaries, with near
ly 700 pupils, and very many com
mon schools in all parts of the
country. In the annual sermon
preached by Rev. A. J. s. Dehrend, of Provi
dence, the obstacles in the way of the worlds
conquest for Christ were boldly delineated,
chiefest among them personal devil; and
then the Grace of God, the gospel message
the risen Christ, and the holy spirit were
dwelt upon as more than match for ali an
tagonists.
No annual meeting of late has been of higher
interest or developed more gratifying promise
in tbs field of missionary effort. The former
officers were reelected, except that Rev II. A.
Stimson was made recording secretary in place
of DR.. Mears. Portland is to be the place of
the next animal meeting, and DR.. E. P. Good
win, of Chicago, the preacher.