St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-26
Consideration of Home Missions and Aid
for Colleges by the General
Assembly.
The Cities the Homes of Infdels, Social
lists, Communists and all Glasses
of Criminals.
DR.. Howard Crosby Comments Upon
the Report of the Com m1ttee
on College Aid.
pertinent Remarks on ID octrinal Dis
agreement--Doings of the
Evening Session.


the consideration of home missions and aid
for colleges. After disposing of report
from the committee on bills and overtures,
DR.. II. F. Hickok opened the first order of
business at 10 a'cl0ck by reading the report
OF the standing committee on home mis-
SlOnS, In which the work in great cities is
spoken of as follows:
The peril which threatens to-day with de-
struction our civil order, our peace and purity
OF homes OF the people, comes from the great
cities of the land; criminals of every sort.
free-thinkers, infidels, socialists, communists,
and the high priests of every species of error,
make the large cities their hiding and abiding
places, and the scenes of their ceaseless
activities. If the laboring classes have be-
come 1nfdels, we need to know why it is So
If we are told by them that they stay away
from the churches because of their inability
to dress well enough to appear in the average
Protestant church, or that they believe that
the churches are mainly under The control OF
capitalists, and in sympathy with them, we
must meet these questions and make the
necessary adjustments. The unsettled and
disturbed condition of affairs in our cities
during the winter past, the conflict between
labor and capital, seem to make it more than
ever our duty to apply the remedy; to give
the gospel more fully to all the people in our
great cities as the only panacea for the social
and all the other ills that are caused or
fostered by them. We cannot act too prompt
ly or vigorously.
AS TO sELF-sUPPoRT.
The report also called attention to the
necessity of more rigid supervision of home
mission work within their own bounds, and
that whenever possible, feeble churches
should be induced to assume self-support.
That in view of rapid growth of population
in the West the necessity of awakening all
churches to the tremendous importance of
prosecuting the home missionary work with
greater vigOr than ever before, it is believed
that not less than $4,000 should be pro-
vided during the coming year, this amount
to include the balance of debt; that the
WomanS Missionary society and Sunday
school be urged to do all in their power, and
that Sunday, July 4, an especial collection
should be taken.
FINANCES.
AS to its financial status, it was stated
that the receipts from all sources amounted
to $671, 72S.70; expenditures, S7O7, 1876 90.
The board began the year under an indebt-
edness Of $139, 7OS. The amount con-
tributed last year has been S671, 72S.7O; for
current work, 1926, 434. 10; for the debt,
SILT, 531. 81; for permanent and trust funds,
$12, 1889; for sustentatIon department.
SIS, 614.70; leaving the total Indebtedness
at end of year. $43, 634.50. The number OF
missionaries employed during the whole OF
part of last year was 1,367. AS result OF
their labors, 1896 have been gathered into
the churches, 1851 by confession of faith
and 6, 1874 by letter. Since 1880 the con-
tributions from the churches have increased
from 1886, 900 to $452, 600. In Mormon
Utah the board is waging war vigorously.
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schools, 1000 pupils and Ali church mem
bers. The board has in all SO schools and
1879 teachers-24 Indian schools, 25 in Mex
leo, 3S in U tah and 2 among the Southern
whites. The report recommended further
that DR.. T. S. Hastings, DR.. Alfred Yeo-
mans, Messrs. j. F. Joy, j. D. Vermilge
and Walter NJ. Altman be appointed mem
berS of the board for three years. DR.. w.
G. Roberts spoke of the emergencies to
which the board had been pushed for neces-
sary funds. They had tried to avoid COM
ing to the assembly with debt, but ii
could only have been accomplished by TAX
ing away the very necessities of life from
missionaries and their families. The
board is S35, 900 in debt, but he was graft
fled to know it was no more. Fifty dollars
given to home missions meant soul saved
Rev. r. M. Page, missionary, spoke q
good word for DR.. Roberts and the board
for their uniform kindness and impartial
treatment. Rev. J. d. Hewett of Kansas
spoke of the increased need for missionary
work in that section. Rev. l.. Mar
shall of st. Claire county, Illinois,
said that missions should be sustained Just
as beacon houses are placed on shores tc
guide the mariner. He spoke mournfully
of the manner in (which whole slices oil
Germany" had settled down in his country
and proceeded to turn Sunday into day OF
SOCIAL ENJOYMENT
instead of day of fasting and prayer.
Elder Warren Van Norden who is a sue
cessful merchant of New York, sa id in ref
erence to the Indebtedness he did not eX-
pect soul saving to be done on business prin-
ciples. Too many complain of hard times
when they are able to take trips to Europe.
This same expression, '''hard times,' is a
cunning device of the devil used as mask
when the plate is passed" This assertion
created loud applause. Rev. W. W. 10th
erah said he wished the board
could have $1,000, 1000 instead of S75O-
described the terrible evils of poly, amy
treated it as a matter of indifference, little
dreaming that a kingdom had been estab-
lished there and dislOyalty is paraded. Men
like Henry Ward Beecher had gone out
there, and being Hospitality received by the
Mormons, had been deceived into reporting
that MormoniSm was not so bad as it had
been painted. Rev. j. V. Guenther OF
Newark, n. j., a German pastor, made a
telling defense of his coantrymen and gave
forcible Illustration of the practical value
of home missions by telling how some
thing like twenty German Presbyterian
churches in that section have grown out of
little mission which he started thirty
years ago. The report was adopted by a
rising vote.
AID FOR COLLEGES.
In the afternoon DR.. Howard Crosby
presented the report Of the standing COM
mittee on aid for colleges and academies.
which appeals for the most generous pro-
visions possible, that the work of increas-
ing Christian educational institutions may
keep pace with the tide of population. II
is stated that the receipts have been:
Contributions of 1922, I'll. II from churches,
S22, S49.39 from in dividuals and $780, 3 from
legacies were received, making total of
S45, GIL 40. There are twelve institutions now
under charge of the board, with property
valued at $780, There have l,529 churches
contributed to this cause during the wear
In making appropriations for this year of
1856, the board found that three-quarters of
a million of new educational property was
asking help of our church upon the condi-
lions on which the church had made offer of
helping it. The list of appropriations for
1856 includes five new colleges and seven
new academies. When the immense region
through which they are distributed is consid
cred, and the rapidity with which population
is increasing in every part, it will be seen that
for twelve new communities to provide their
own schools and to offer them to the church.
does not indicate g. zeal so inordinate that it
Dug hit to be checked.
In commenting upon the report DR..
Crosby said:
I hope the report will not be regarded as a
mere form. The tide of infidelity is rushing
through the educational institutions of the
country and it is a great danger that the
church has only recently awakened to.
DIR, Hervey d, Ganse next made very
earnest address, saying:
We must aim to give Christian education the
predominance. The secular schools fiaunt
their infldelity in the face of those who ween