Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-10-15
MISSIONARY WORK.
The 75th Annual Meeting Of the Amert.
can Board of Foreign Missions.

BOSTON, Oct- ii.
The second days session of the American
Board of Commissioners of foreign missions
opened Wednesday with q very large attend
ance. Rev. f. X. Alden. d. D., read re-
port on the work of the home department and
Rev. n. G. Clarke, ID d., foreign secretary,
read review of the past twenty-five years.
The afternoon session drew an immense
audience at the meetings held in Music Hall
and Park St. Church The fremont Temple
meeting opened at so, with an organ selec-
tion. DIR. A. c. Thompson of Roxbury,
called the meeting to order IN the absence of
the president. paper WAS then read by
DR.. 1 thompson, written by Robert n. Gust
of London. The paper began bv few
words to the non-missionary public. The
leisure of those non.working persons was
characterized AS guilty" leizure.
Culpable ignorance concerning the work
was then discussed and the work of the mis-
sionaries as written by the latter WAS called
more interesting than the greatest romances
of fiction.
Next came discussion on ''culpable mig
gardness. Winter regarded it the duty of
all to advance the cause of Christ in far away
lands. Young people who wish to enter mis-
sionary life should be allowed to do so. He
considered missionary the highest type of
excellence that the 10Th century presented
and thought that if there was anv superior
to the English missionary that superior is the
American missionary.
The meeting was next addressed by w.
W. Rankin, treasurer of the Presbyterian
foreign missionary board The speaker com
pared the Presbyterian and American boards
in regard to the origin of each. The Presby-
teran baord hoped to increase the interest
in that denomination on the subject of mis-
sionary work. He spoke on the brotherly
cooperation of the two boards and presented
comparative statistics for years following
the transfer of several members of the Amer
lean board to the Presbyterian board.
Rev. A. Il. Thompson followed the last
speaker and extended congratulations to the
American board on the part of the Reformed
church.
Greetings of other societies were presented
as follows: From the American Trust So
ciety, by Rev. w. w. Rand, ID. d., of New
York of the American Baptist Missionary
Union, by Rev. DR.. Murdock of Boston; of
the American Bible Society, by Rev. +. w.
Gilmore, ID. D., of New York of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Board Rev. A. l.. Long. ID.
d., of Robert College, Constantinople of
the Protestant Episcopal board, Rev. Phillips
Brooks, ID. d., of Boston; of the Congrega-
ton Foreign Missionary Society of Canada,
Rev. +. M. Hill of the American Mission
ary Association, Rev. NJ. +. Stueby, ID. d.,
of New York, and of the Home Missionary
Society by Rev. Walter NJ. Barrows, ID. d.,
of New York.
All these speakers then passed to Music
Hall and repeated substantially their address
es. These two halls not proving sufficient to
accommodate the crowd gathering in the af
ternoon the Park street church was opened
and speedily filed, addresses being made BY
returned missionaries and others.
In the evening four audiences assembled.
At fremont Temple, Rev DIR. X. S. Stores
of Brooklyn, gave an address occupying over
two hours, on 1.-THE promise for the future as
seen in the progress of christianity within the
past seventy-fve years d"
At Music Hall addresses were made by
Rev. DR. J. ii. Barrows of Chicago, Rev.
DR.. A. F. Behrends of Brooklyn, Rev. Jas.
Cook and Rev. Dr. VIM. NJ. Taylor
Two overfowing meetings were held AT
Park st. church and Mt. Vernon church.
They were addressed by returned missiona-
ries and others. The interest in the meetings
seems to be on the increase. No previous
anniversary of the board has called together
so many of its corporate members and no
such crowds have heretofore been seen to its
meetings The address of Dr. Stores is re-
garded as one OF the most brilliant and i'm
pressive of his public discourses.