The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1884-10-09
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COLUMBUS, o., Oct. THE seventy
fifth annual meeting of the American
Board OF Commissioners for foreign
mission convened ut the Second Presby'
terrain church here to-day, the venera.
bile President. Mark Hopkins, ID, ID. L.,
l.. l.. d., In tho chair. Rev. III, a. Stem
SON. Recording Secretary, road the ma
terial portions of the minutes of the last
annual meeting. The report of the
Presidential Committee on The home
department was road by the Secretary,
a, H.. Alden, ID. d.. During the year ten
corporate members, including the name
of the Secretary, John o. Means, ID. d.,
of Massachuse IS; Hon. &. +. Ham
mond, III Illinois; >. Wells Williams, l..
l., d., of Connecticut, N Hon. Robin
Hitchcock, of ohio, have been called 10
rest. Eleven missionaries and twenty
one assistant missionaries have
entered upon the work in foreign
fields. The receipts of tho American
board for the v, q have been:
From churches and individuals, $751;
32J.
From the four woman's boards, sl49,-
0S0.
From Sunday-schools, S5,50s.
From legacies, $ll5,567.
Total, $577, 473.
Being about $1,000 less than from the
same source last year. Adding the re-
ceipts from the Otis bequest gives a total
of S5SS,353, Of which $42S,S5l is from do
nations, a larger sum from this source
than has been received during any one
year in the history Of the board. The
executors OF the estate OF the late
Samuel w. Sewell, of Jamaica Plains,
Massachusetts, have notified the board
that it will receive as residuary legatees
"A sum considerably in excess of the $780,
600 at first reported. a like sum is
given to home missions. After reading
this report the secretary, n.
q. Clark, d. d., followed with
among the Xulus shows permanent re-
suit in the highest tone of Christian life
and u remarkable movement in behalf
of temperance. The Portuguese traders
have succeeded in tenn oratily driving
the mission aries of the West Central
African mission from Bihi and Bailunda
down to the coast, but the mission will
continue to be vigorously prosecuted.
The labOrs OF the mission in Micronesia
are attended by II emar able transfer
nation of character among The natives.
More han $40 additions have been made
to h churches in Turkey, and the out
look in Europe was never more hopeful.
Eighty thousand copies of the Ser pture
or portions of he Scripture, were issued
from the press in Canstantinople,
amounting with other Christian litera-
ture, to owe IL 200, 900 pages. In India,
io%rty-three out of seventy native
churches, are self-supporting. No
as yet, a con o
10 the missionary work in
China, through the invasion eff the
French. The government officials are
mach more friendly in attitude Than
formerly and Ia rapid advance of the
gospel leads the mission To call for rg-it-
torce!nentS at once Of the twelve ar ill
teen missionaries. Great spiritual
awakenings have come upon the
churches in Japan, which have added to
their number in converts the past year
more than 60 per cent. The year has
been one of large promise in mission in
Mexico, Austria and Spain. A brief
summary shows that the board has
twenty-one missions in all parts of the
globe. It's missionaries preach the Cos
pei in twenty-five digerent languages in
more than so towns and cities. 1t has
nearly 1000 Young men and women in
colleges and high schools, and more thar
10000 children in the Christian C ,mimon
schools. Fourteen new churches have
been organized, and about 2,40J con-
verts have been received into The Chris
tian fellowship, a larger number than
any preceding year.
An addressed welcome by Rev. w. Il.
Moore, ID. d., AMI IN annual sernon by
President A.. l.. Chaplin of Beloit, Wis
~consin, occupied the evening. The at
tendance from abroad will reach from
1000 to 1900, $50 coming by special
train from Cleveland and Oberlin alone.