The Portland daily press., 1896-10-07


tails and dispensaries have gathered their
patients by the IL, 900, and Ethe word re-
oeived In the waiting rooms and wards hos
often been borne to distant villages and
given the first sense of a Sayiour's love
to hundreds of souls. An advance in the
state of woman's education is found in
the fact that though no girls with bound
feet are now received as pupils in the
Bridgman school for girls at Picking, Its
| numbers exceed those of any former
year.
| In the Fooohow mission there is marked
| advance in seif-support among the
| churches. After the fearful events at
Ku-cheDg, and the salutary dealing with
the offenders, great wave of prayer
seemed To roll over all these adjacent
| regions, followed by great spirit of In
quiry and numerous hope full conv ersions.
Large mum bers were received to all the
churches of this mission at the first two
communion seasons this year, and tho
| interest is still continued. So great and
general is the interest that whole villag-
| es have come to the missionaries for
| teachers, offering to provide for their sup
port, in one Or two instances opening an
ancestral temple for the use of the school
and for public worship. This is new
| thing in China.
Field work in western Turkey has been
almost impossible, a missionary effort
has beenlargely confined to the schools
and churches at the oenters. An unus-
ual religious interest has marked the
later months of the year at many points,
and the differences between the Gregor-
lans and tt Professionals have almost dis
appeared. The missionaries deem it
peculiarly the day of opportunity.
Unusually large GLASSES gathered In all
the higher schools year ago, and with
few exceptions the pupils have remained
| to- HHr,o of% DIV
ated from Anatolia college, four women
from the American college at CONSTANT.
nople. and goodly GLASSES from the seven
| high schools and girls boarding schools.
| ConstantinOple has been the center of
intense excite nent, of diplomatic dicus-
| sion, of a widespread and most bene-
| ficent agency of relief. The United States
ed himself vigorously and constantly to
guard the interests of the missionaries,
with the happy result that no missionary
| life has been lost and his services are
gratefully recognized. When mission
property at Harpoot and Marash, to the
amount of $40, coo, was destroyed an i'm.
mediate demand for full indemnity was
presented to the Turkish government,
and vigorously pressed, unhappily With.
out result thus far. If we were to count
the money which the board has expended
upon buildings in these fields in the ways
of grant in aid, as WE'LL AS in building
actually held by the board, the tot al loss
should be fully 5000, 900. Grave questions
touching the security of persons and
domiciliary rights, as we'll as this ques-
tiOn of indemnity, are still awaiting set
| tlement.
Probably the worst disaster on record
is that which fell with such terrific force
upon Oorfa, Central Turkey, Dec. 2S.
when at least 5000 fell in TWO days. near
ly half Of the number crowded in the
Gregorian church, which was fred and
guarded till all was over.
.. The regular work fof these years has been
carried on in the higher schools, large
Glasses have been graduated and the de-
mand for higher education seems plainly
on the increase. Touring has been diff.
cult in every place, impossible In many
places, and there are lew statistics from
the out-stations.
lowed these events in many places,
shared In by Gregorians and Protestants
alike, the churches are filed with wor.
shippers, women in great numbers gath
or in meetings for prayer, AMI the spirit
ual harvest seems ripe on every hand.
| The appropriations for the work abroad
In 1899 were $572, 600, and for the current
year $3.50, 900. nearly half of this great
| reduction falling upon the work fol
this year. In 1891-92 the board sent Al
new missionaries to the Held, in the year
| just closing seven have been sent.
This evening the annual sermon be-
| fore the board was delivered by Rev. S.
N. Packard of Syracuse. New York,
| whose topic was emissions and the Pes
ticostal Church, -