Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-10-17

give an lde0 OF now the Work mas
grown in China, Japan. Ceylon, Africa, South
America and among the North American In
dams and what the status OF missions Is at
present in those countries as well as rumber
Of others. In India and Ceylon publishing
houses have been established ><or the purpose
OF furnishing a free circulation OF Christian
literature and schools for advanced training as
well as intermediate schools and boarding
schools too numerous to recount. The speaker
said that much might be told of the good work
that is being done. A Methodism that has done
SO much in the way of bringing light into the
darkness of heathendom may well be expected
to contend successfully with the powers
| OF Buddhism, Brahminisnn and Fetichism. He
made an earnest appeal for more generous con.
tributions to mission work and asked that the
sums donated be more in consonance with the
wealth of tie church. Not all Of tho divisions
of the church represented in the conference
maintain missions to the heather. and Mr.. Town
send suggested il those WHO are not 30 engaged
at present are unable to sustain mission by
themselves they should cooperate in the work.
He urged more cooperation in the mis-
sion field, to the end that greater amount OF
good might be accomplished with the same
amount Of energy and money. He asked for
the foundation OF great Methodist journal de-
voted to the interest of all the mission work of
the church and pointed ont how much more
could be accomplished IL there we're 1renewed
interest in the matter of missions and if an in
creased amount OF money were given out of the
vast wealth OF the church.
NEW FIELDS ENTERED SINCE 1881.
The first invited address was by Rev. c. H.
Kiraeof. United Brethren in Christ fold con-
stitu;ion), on the subject, New Fields Entered
Since 1884," Mr.. KiTacof said that he had
been asked to deliver an address. but that the
subject assigned to him was such as to suit it
better to written paper. In the form in
which he presented it to the conference it was
a carefully prepared and detailed account o.
the new missions that had been founded by
the Methodist church and others in all parts OF
the world since the first ecumcnical confer
ence held lii the City Road Chapel, London,
ten years ago. Among the other missions to
which he referred were those in North America,
among the Indians on the Omaha reservation
In British Columbia, among the Chinese and in
the southwest among the Mexicans.
Ihos. Lawrence, esq, of the Primitive Meth
odist church was to have delivered the second
invited address, but he was absent and at the
request OF the delegation from the Primitive
Methodist his place taken by Rev Thos
Mitchell. preacher of the same denomination
from Hull. England. Mr. Mitchell said that
the church he represented had entered the
mission field twen.y-one years ago, and he told
in few brief sentences of the work accom-
piished by the church in the course OF these
years. lie said that in tie discussion Of mis-
sions the conference had reached the
table land in the importance of its
work. Subjects treated at theother sessions
mad been important. 1t WAS true. but
their chief value lay in sharpening the wits
and the tongues OF the delegates to work upon
the more important problem of mission work.
He was unwilling 10 monopolIze the attention
Of the conference for amy considerable time
knowing as he did how much more worth while
it would be to listen to the remarks of mis-
siOnaries who had returned to tell of their
work.
REV. DIR. A. b. LEONARD.
Rev. DR.. A. b. Leonard OF New York deliv-
ered the second essay Of the evening upon the
subject. missions in Christian Lands" Dr.
Leonards essay was a long and rather rambling
discourse, in which he touched upon almost
all OF the matters that are of interest to Meth
odism from church federation to asthetics in
the church ritual In the main it was an in
teresting paper. though only a small share of it
was devoted to missions in Christian lands.
In his paper DR.. Leonard said that in coun-
tries where Methodism is strongest there is
great need of aggressive missionary effort II
Gen. Booth tells the truth about Darkest Eng
land" there are still large fields to cultivate in
the British Isles. The vast influx of immi-
grants into the United States and Canada
makes these countries in particular missionary
ground. So rapidly do they come that our ca
pacity for assimilation is greatly overstrained
and there is decided danger of.congestion. Nor
is there any hope Of relief from stringent inn
migrant laws. No political party il likely to
adopt such policy, as it would lead to certain
defeat Then the Outcry against the foreigner
Is in bad taste, for we are all foreigners either
by birth or ancestors. 1t il a fact that many Of