The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-10-09
ANNUAL MEETING OF THE AMER,
loan BOARD OF FOREIGN
MISSIONS.
Official Report Showing the
Receipts and Finances
of the Year.
Over Half a Million Taken, In
Guiding Bequests, Lega-
cies and donations.
Statement OF Operations in
Asia, Africa Mexico
and Europe.

COLUMBUS, o, October S.-The
seventy fifth annual meeting of the
American board Of foreign missions
| convened in the Presbyterian church
here to-day. The venerable president,
Mark Hopkins, d. d. LID, occupied
the chair. Rev. w. A. Stemson, re-
cording secretary, read the material
portion of the minutes of their last
annual meeting.
The report of the committee on
home department was read by thes
retary, A. K. Alden, ID. ID. During
the year 10 corporate members, includ-
ing the name of the secretay, J..
o. Means, d. D., Massachusetts; Hon.
F. Hammond, Illinois: S. w. Williams
LID, Connecticut, and Hon. Reuben
Hitchcock, Ohio, have been called to
rest; eleven missionaries and twenty
one assistant missionaries have en-
tered upon their work in the foreign
field.
The receipts of the American board
for the year have been: From churches
and individuals, $237 1926; from four
woman boards, $149, ,030; from Sunday
schools, $5505; from legacies, $115, ,567;
total, $577, ,472-$6OO0 less than from
the same sources last year. Adding
receipts from the Otis bequest, gives
"a total of $588, 1853, of which $428, ,851 is
from donations, 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. Fewell, of Jamaica
Plains, Mass, have notified the board
that it will receive, as residuary lega-
tees, a sum considerably in excess of
the $250,OOO, at first reported, A like
um is given to home missions.
After the reading of this report, the
secretary, n. G., Clark, d. D., followed
with general survey of foreign work
during the year. The revival among
the Zulus shows a permanent result
in the highest tone of Christian life
and a remarkable movement in behalf
of temperance. Portuguese traders have
succeeded in temporarily driving the
missionaries of the West Central At
rican Mission from Bihi and Bailunda
down to the coast, but the Mission
will continue to be vigorously prose
cuted.
The labors of the mission in Micron-
sia are attended by remarkable trans
formation of character among the ma
tives. More than 500 additions have
been made to the churches in Turkey,
and the outlook in European Turkey
was never more hopeful. Eighty thou
sand copies of the Scriptures, or por-
tions of the scriptures, were issued
from the press in Constantinople,
amounting, with other Christian lite
nature, to over eleven million pages.
No detriment, as yet, has come to
missionary work in China, through
the invasion of the French.
The government officials are much
more friendly in their attitude than
formerly and the rapid advance of the
gospel leads the mission to call for
reinforcement at once, of twelve or
fifteen missionaries.
Great spiritual awakenings have
come upon the churches in Japan
which have added to their number of
converts the past year more than go
per cent. The year has been one of
large promise to the missions in MeXi-
co, Austria and Spain.
A brief summary shows that the
board has twenty one missionaries in
all parts of the globe. Its missionar-
les preach the gospel in twenty-five
different languages, in more than 800
towns and cities. 1t has nearly 1900
young men and women in col
leges and high schools, and more
than 10000 children in Christian
common schools; fourteen new
churches have been organized, and
about 2,4OO converts have been re-
ceived into Christian fellowship
larger number than any preceding
year.
An address of welcome by REVIVE.
Moore, D. D., and the annual sermon
by President A. L. Chaplin, of Beloit,
Wis.,, occupied the evening. The at
tendance from abroad will reach from
1,2oO to 1,5OO-25O persons coming by
special train from Cleveland and
Oberlin alone. q