The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-16
FOREIGN MISSIONS.
CARNEGIE HALL FILLED WITH
THOSE INTERESTED.
Harrison Presides, and John w.
Foster Proves to BE the Star
Speaker o!3 the Eveuing-Some
Grave Facts to Consider.

NEW YORK, Nov. 15.-The Carnegie
great crowd of Presbyterians inter-
ested in foreign missions. The plat
form was occupied principally by min
listers. The announcement that ex-
President Harrison was to preside
proved a great attraction. When the
ex-president arrived he was heartily
applauded. The Hon. John w. Foster,
ex-secretary of state, was also on the
platform. The Rev. John R. Davis
acted as chairman and introduced
ex-President Harrison as a great and
good man."
General Harrison began his speech
by saying that the Presbyterian church
had been greatly celebrated for It's
power Of resistance. 1t had stood fast
for love and liberty; 1T had stood 1ast
for education: it had been in the Uni
ted States the pioneer of education; 1t
had stood for the highest scholarship
and it had stood against that pseudo
altitudinous philosophy, that from the
study of Gods work, finds there IS no
God and from the study Of his Word
that he had given, US no word.
He continued: ut has been siren
nous in its opposition to this doctrine
and has stood with the stiffness of
a steel beam for the faith delivered by
the fathers, and it still stands for the
essential doctrine of the inspired word.
It is not an intolerant church. No body
Of Christians In the world opens its
arms more wide to those who love the
Lord. 1t is catholic in its co-opera-
ton with the churches. The mission
ary spirit is inherent in Christianity
and we meet here tonight in this meet
ing, which eliminates our efforts, to
take counsel as Presbyterians as to
how we can advance the cause of for
eign missions.
Il have sometimes in missionary
meetings heard speakers talk about the
needs of the board. That seems to
grocery bills are not paid and who
will talk about the needs of his but
Ter. We are not here to talk about
the needs of the board but our needs,
the needs of the church. We are here
to summon you to the duties which
your church membership implies and
which implies much more when you
consider the great head of the church.
I think I may say to you, Hold fast
the good doctrines, not the shepherd. ="
Fhe next speaker was the Hon. John
t.
General Fosters address was sum-
mary of his observations on the work
of the Protestant missions in Asia, first
in a tour Of the world made two years
ago, and in a second visit to Japan
and China in connection with the peace
negotiations of the present year The
review embraced the work of the mis-
sioparies in Syria, India, Burmah, the
Holy Land and Egypt, in the Turkish
empire, Ceylon, the Straits settle
ments, China Corea and Japan. and
it also discussed the three great nom
Christian religions-M ohammedanism,
Hindooism and Buddhism.
India he styled the citadel of Brah-
manism, a perfectly organized system
supported by caste, apparently i'm
pregnable to the attacks of Christi
anity. A first glance created the inn
preston that the missions We're max
ing little progress a sai1st it, bur a
more careful eXami 7dtion showed that
all the great moral and social reforms
were the direct result OF the introdac-
ton of the gospel. no :ably the pro,li.-
ton of human sacrifice and torture in
the religious rites, the burning IF
widows, the killing of female children,
reforms as 20 child marriage; the
establishment Of schools and ~nNeses,
the zeal create FIR education :nd
the awakened interests of the Brah-
mans for publication and reform in
their religion.
After a passing lliusion to Grahlna,
General Foster discussed the great
Chinese empire and the work anu pI cs-
poets of missions there.
Notwithstanding the superst:tious
character and low grade of morality
of the mass Of the people, l. was
claimed the gospe. had developed gone
of the most stirling examples Of re-
generation and fruitful Christian life,
and that the Chinaman was by no
means beyond the spi,ttua. influences
of our religion.
The recent riots, he asserted, grew
out of general hatred to foreigners nd
not from religious intolerance. The
American missionaries had not been
great sufferers and the government
had shown a greater readiness to pun
ish the offenders and repair the losses
than was evinced by our authorities
when riots against the Chinese had oc-
CURED in the United States. But The
missionaries were in China in con-
fornity with the treaty and local law,