Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1891-10-14

heavily on the werk In India. In the Marnfht
mission part Of the missionaries and native
agents gave up two months salary to prevent
clio sing schools and dismissing preachers. DR..
Bissell died under the strain OF trying " do
the work OF three men. The hsdura missAea
Is less than half manned. Many villa -es turn
ing from heathenism and begging for teachers
had to be refused. In Coylon the people now
pay most Of the expense.
In Japan II has been a yoar Of progress. l0sO
members being added to the churches, and
toward the close OF the year there was great
reaction in public sentiment In favor of
Christianity. Although Christians number
but one In 1000 Of the population. they bad thir
teen Of the 800 in the frst national parliament
In view OF the great progress and oppor-
tunities ii is hoped that tho coming year may
hot be ono OF such severe retrencbment. ~
Asiatic Turkey. China, Africa aud Pacific
islands-This includes twelve missions-threo
Turkish four Chinese, three African and two
in Pacific islands. al employing 5ll missionary
workers, ten going out and t~o having died in
1891.
Asiatic Turkey-iIere this board Is almost
Tho Only Gospel Agency.
It's field include. 10000 square miles and some
2O,c00,00O peorle-one-third Armenian. and
Greeks and the rest Moslems, inaccessible as
yet. over one-fourth tho $50 missionaries and
one-fourth tho money Of the board are de-
voted 20 this field The years work has given
good returns. In spite of oi'il oppression in
creasing poverty,a year 81 clol, "a and the mis-
chief Of sectarianism, the G angel ldtion Of
this great empire goes on faster and stronger.
Here, as elsewhere, retrenchment ha. been
hard To bear, but the trial has borne rich fruit
In China, with her 100000 square miles and
quarter of the worlds population. conservs-
tism Is unmooring from the past. The present
disturbances arc signs Of a ferncnt caused by
the new life. TIE high and common schools
of the Foo Chow mission are unusually -four
ishing aud command the favor OF native
officials. Similar progress is noted from other
missions in China. We are In great need OF
new laborers.
In Africa the volume OF missionary labor
Has Grown Four-Fold
in two decades, but in our three fields we have
only seven more laborers than we lad among
the Iulus twenty years ago.
In the Pacific islands we nste the North
Pacific Missionary institute at Honolulu with
new buildings and added facilities. Except on
Ponapape-where the violent and unwa iran ted
course Of tho Spanish authorities has sus-
pended our work and driven out Ave mission
aries-work in tho Micronesian field has had
good success. On the Morhocks, however,
Mr.. Smelling lancnts unfaithfulness OF native
pre- achers and Eackwardn,ss in the churches
and schools.
A general summary OF mission work for
1891 shows the average congregations to
be 20, $780, American ard native laborers,
3lSj; churches, 4l0; Whole Number Of pu.
pills under instruction, tj,403.
Continuing. the repnr, says:
In accordance with tho action of the board
at its annual meeting in 1917, sso,gJ7S5 OF the
mainder Of the Otis legacy IL set apart for now
missions; balance Aug. 81, 1901, sss,5'9.eC; APP
praised value of securities now held, SlOo,-
S32J0
Legacy Of sBmuel w. Sweet. Boston-Tho
remainder Of this legacy (SjO9J3.2D Is "set
apart TO meet special calls for brief period Of
years, especially in Japan and China" ex-
pended during the year, $4,000; balance Of
legacy Aug. 81, 1891, SS963.25.
The Morning Star" (fund for rcpairs)
amounts To St52640 The permanent funds
Of the board amount to s3G0. ls2.Il. The gem
eral permanent fund amounts to sslS. AZ.
The permanent fund for o1cer. amounts ~
$50, COS; the income Of the fund officers, ap-
piled to salaries, was s35l%6s. The william
White Smith fund amounts to t5,HO. Ths
Harris School Of Science fund from y. y. Har-
ria, is held in trust for supsort Of the
| school at Kyoto, Japan, Sc5,0v. The An
atolia college endowment fund. collected by
Reverend q. Il. Herrick, ID. D., amounts TO
fund amounts. MS last year, to son. The Mis-
sion scholarships fund a.aO.A.s to $:14j.G3.
The &. Merriam female scholatship fund
amounts 10 5000. The EuphTates college fc-
male teachers fund amounts TO s2JN. The
Benjamin Schneider memorial fund. collec ted
by Mrs. Schneider In memory OF her husband,
and to give aid TO needy students ia Central
Turkey, amounts to slpl7.
After singing Hail to the Lord An
| nointed," tho meeting adjourned till even
Ing.
There was an overflow meeting in the
evening in the Baptist church, with u ser
mon by DR. Marsh of Noburn Mass