New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-05-24

THE REV. DIR. r. S. MACARTHUR
-. ..,,o,,,aos and addresses by missionaries.
~ RarreeA read report from Il special commit
see annoin,ed TO consider the advise hiity o. giving
women representation on the Executive Conrh''ee.
The report was adverse, and was adopted """o"'
discussion. oA o.,
aressed the meeting on the importance OF The Work
IN his field and the urgency Of more liberal support
On motion Of Dr. j ~ Murdoch. the convention
adopted a resolution approving and ndorSins 1ne
efforts being made have all matters OF lh'erld-
.,onal controversy submitted to arbitration
6 Wikensoq q Massachusetts, reported for
the Committee on Finance recommending 'hat 50
cial steps be taken TO wipe oft the <t5'" doo' ~
report said that $6ocO should be raised by coh'rpu
lions this year in order to discharge the o'o' anu
carry on the work of the Union. This is % per cent
more than the contributions Of the past year. II
was stated that. unless this money can pe i"S''
during the coming year. foreign MISSION "oh I"uF'
he curtailed and missionaries withdrawn. Inc re-
mort recommended the appointment OF conhiSsio"
IN systematic benevolence 10 unity and consohda'e
the collection of donations and devise plans loi
raising the money needed. The report was adopted
with much enthusiasm
The special feature OF the afternoon session was
the address Of the Rev DR.. Macarthur, OF calvary
BAPTIST Church New-York City. on Pressing Needs
for Foreign Mission Work" d.. Macarthur spoke
In part follows:
Ny recent and hurried trip gave me an opportunity
of studying mission work only IN the HaWamah isn
ends ana in Japan In the former country saw
the good fruage of the abors OF our Congresa
churches and in Japan had the honor OF meeting
representatives Of many churches ana espeCaiy our
aadSressed eoodly numbers Of missionaries from DIFF
ferent parts OF Japan, from Corea, toimost, Child
fuy as to the causes for decreased contributing We
ehail find them partly in the subtle skepucism OF ie
savatlon Of the heather world The recent visit OF
certain heather men TO the Parliament OF hemsiGns
seminate this skeptcism ,-.,.u. ,o,.- ,.r. t,r
Tes f ban 9 hty all Viii hh2 d6 For japan n' CHINA
Ion. India and all the islands OF the sea tooG ib
fact that Britain once the home OF as De, de,
and aow dd Bta aT become @S% 80
gree the mistress OF the world? Our forefatherS
S@a1 Ys5 ssr SS 10 false 81 so s0 we na
it said that such people as the japanese in many
rehyie do 80 not need the Gospel Of christ Those
apas se pe@p are Wna has S done
for them? 1t is at best but an embodment OF crude
snip and ancestor WORSHIP 1t is Phiosopaea s sys
Even Buddhism has been more educational in It's
been Hs fn1n n@o Wholly in but
love Of truth and the practice OF chastity are Ger
quenily affirmed. by writer's competent 70 Judge
that lying ana bo 95e d naona yS
of the longestabshed institutions regua ted by law
One marves that parents virtually sell their daugh-
tiers to vicious lives and that often spch lives are
trbuting to the supper; Of parents
1t is not TOO much 10 say that doatry is ganizei
impurity. There temples in India In whose walls
carved In stone representations which do not adj
has only to visit Benares the capital of heathenism.
70 see the horrible yiene's OF heaIhen attn neTe
sort of worship is offered 10 monkeys Here are
edge; here the foues sights. and the most abom
Unable odors sacred cattle Obstruct the streets here
the hotbeds OF pes;ience. 1t IS said that there
over two thousand temples and shrines In Benares'
lence. have only touched upon those horrid facts
heathenisrn the Parliamen of Religions with some
degree of Christian clothing. Christian culture and
ana Sa5 ence o had
ought to send missonGries to heahensm because Of
Christiani,ys Incubation of sanitary laws humani-
tartan impulses and medical help TO suffering. sor-
rowing. dying men and women.
The following resolution submitted by the Com
mittee on Armenia adopted:
Resolved. That record in the strongest terms
on our fellow Christians In Armenia We respect
fully express 10 the President Of the United States
tain him in the most pecent measures he may take
in defence Of the lives the property and the rights
OF American citizens.
The Rev F. A. Remley delivered sensational ad-
dress. in which he severely attacked the German
race. He spoke TO the question: Are Missions
Needed in Germany" He said in part:
Although the question seems TO be preposerous.
more than four years residence and study Of the con
diSn Of things in Germany sh3 E, me deporabe
for love the German people In Germany every one
Protestants. 10000 Roman Catholics and 10000
Jews. The people grouped together in monstrous
churches and no adequate arrangements are made
for their religious and spiritual instruction -..
In 1891 l attended services in Lutheran church
in Hamburg and there were eighteen persons pres
emit. That church has membership Of a 900 In a
suburb of Leipsic in a church of 1900 membership
day with from ~ TO As persons present The aver,
the churches in the city of I-ePzc according TO
Lutheran pastor ranges from 1900 10 5000 For the
great masses in Germany religion and morality have
necessary connection ana they see nothing I'M
proper in thieves. drunkards. debauchees ana pros
flutes remaining members OF the church
fty that in 1855 there 100000 women in Germany
there are as many such women seats in all the
churches of the city that in large cities 20 per cent
married d1 men Of ali classes are fallen LEIPZIG
paper is authority for ths s tat na IN ' ne
over 600 illegitimaie children were born This
1y the PaG Of tt sSf hs 81 the
Jewish church and the churches OF Jesus Christ!
and it's hotels for travellers engaged in the sale
OF Intoxicating liquors. The drink habit holds the
SF srRs" v RSSpS been and Whisky in 1890 there was
consumed in Germany an average OF over twenty.
s Eng share saV Of epery te babe German autho.
that annually not less thsn 100" peope iI
Twenty-seven per of the inmates of the insane
G the OF Fh the
s5) per committed their e5mes while under
sons annually convicted Of crimes and offences i
the Empire it is estimated that drink Is respenspis
tS per At Sunday school picncs Temperance
wsen sT. Freely used Social life centres in The
beer glass. Hospitality without beer or wine Is I'M
Gambling is rampant in GERMANY The G dnersn
sidered to be the respectable. proper thing TO DO
Germany. seems TO me, stands before rehsiou'