The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1893-11-23
ASTONISHED THEM.
A Coed Brother Who Declines to Go on
Mission Tunkenpg Tour.


A Geod Brother Who Declines to Go on
Mission Junkeapg Tour.
MINNEAPOLIS. MINI, Nov. t2.-Some-
thing of sensation was created in the
Methodist national missionary confer>.
ence to-day when Rev. Dr. j. o. Peck,
of New York, one of tas corresponding
fsecretaries of the official board, and who
had been designated by that body to
make years tour Of the mission fields
OF Asia and Malay, arose to question of
personal privilege and announced that
he had decided to stay at home.
A trip of this character is one of the
few rich pickings that fall once in life
time to those high up in the missionary
movement, and no one of them, whether
Bishop or plain Elder, has ever been
known before to refuse to embrace such
an opportunity of seeing strange lands
at TIE expense of the society Hence
the nurmer of surprise and astonish-
ment that greeted Dr. Peck's announce
| ment.
He went on to say that while the
Board itself had made no suggestion in
the matter, he had come to the conclu-
sion that in view of the financial strin-
gency and the depletion of the COM
ference treasury, it would be neither
wise, prudent nor right to incur the ex-
pense that his trip would involve, and
in addition to this, he felt that he was
needed at home and could be of better
service to the cause until existing con-
ditions had passed away.
When he had resumed his seat Bishops
Foss and Fowler, DR.. j. M. Buckley, and
other delegates expressed their satisfae-
tisn and appreciation of the New
Workers. magnanimity and his self sacri-
flee for the cause.
The pruning knife was again welded
with a vengeance in making the mission
appropriations to-day.
Piteous appeals for at least last years
allowances were made by many of the
Presiding Elders, but the conference was
sbdurate and even in the last few cases
where a disposition toward liberality
seemed to be manifest Bishop Walden,
the Holman" of the committee, was
prompt with objections and protests ard
demand for fair play all around
--s e--
What a Kindly Action Did for a
Lamb Astray.
about three years ago." said a we'll
known writer to me the other night Il
was passidg down Broadway one after
noon and saw, to my inexpressible pain
and regret, a young fellow knew down
South in a state of inebriety both alarm
ing and huaniliating. The boy was as
handsome and as clever a lad as | ever
saw, and was then on the staff of one OF
the city papers. | followed him from
distance to see what would become of
him. Presently l saw him disappear in
to the portals of the mammoth whole
sale store of the merchant king, Charles
Broadway Roass. In q few minutes he
reappeared with the millionaire by his
side. They went to the old New York
Hotel, where Mr.. Rouss had the young
man cared for, paid his bills, and he hav-
ing lost his position in the meantime,
sent him heme with means to seek other
0ulplOy lutut WIlen no WIS dDle. L ndu
young man is now as sober and capable
a young fellow as we have in the South.
He is power in the politics of at least
two Southern States, and will be in Con-
gress before he is forty. What the COM
mercial philosopher said to the young
man that day OH Broadway don't know.
Perhaps he didn't say anything. Rouss
isn't given to preaching. But the kind
Ay act of holding out hand to this
''lamb that had gone astray' made
man of him and probably saved him
from the marble slab and the long trench
that await the friendess dead who die
on debauch in this great city, why
did Rouss help him2n you ask. BE
cause he was Southern soldiers son,
guess that's all.'-Philip W. Avirett's
letter on Men We Meet" in the Chicago
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