The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-06-28
THiRTEGntT- ANNIVERSARY
A Week Of Meetings AZ Clifton
Springs, N. Y.
THE INTEREsrING DISCUSSIONS.

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One Hundred and twenty Seven For
eign Missionaries We're Present
and twenty-five Countries
Represented.
10 the Editor: The thirteenth an
/ nual meeting of the international Mis-
/ slonaIy Union has just closed, June
nth, week OF delightful meetings at
! Clifton Springs, y. l., l27 foreign mis-
sIonaries beng invited guests of DR..
/ Foster at his sanitarium. u coun-
! tries and Il societies of different de
, nominations were represented by re
! turned missionaries, IL Of whom. in
Guiding several newly appointed, go
out to their fields this year.
The recognition meeting, the first
; night when, as each heather country
was called, the missionaries rose in
turn giving name, mission station, the
board sending them out and such
further items of interest as could be
told inside Of two minutes, was itself
AN Introduction to everybody and
hencefOrth they were ali one family.
Bishop McCabe, the magnificent sing
er and preacher, led the first devotion
al meeting which gave the keynote
OF personal conservation, Mrs. Capron,
ofss orthtield memory, and 80 years a
missionary in India, opening up the
Scriptures on the mission Of the Holy
spirit" Bishop Perrick, of Africa,
speaking of conservation OF self and
property, said IF every christian in the
United States would pray the Lords
prayer and give a penny each day to
help answer the petition Thy King
dom Come, the debts of all our mis-
sion boards would be paid and an over
plus of As millions be raised this year
against the less than millions last
year all told for the eyangelization of
the world" 1t seems such a simple
thing to do. Extracts from many let
ters of absent members of the union,
bringing recent news from the labor
ers at the front all over the world. DIR.
Hamlin showed by recent letters from
Turkey how their common sufferings,
the sympathy and food given to the
starving had completely overcome the
intense hatred and bitterness of the
Gregorians and that all the Armenians
were coming together in worship like
brothers. Later on he told the mar
vellous story of the years of struggle
in founding Robert College at Constan-
tinople.
TURKEY AND CHINA.
! The morning session was on
Turkey and the manifold reports show
ed that during all the awful scenes OF
massacres and of subsequent suffering
and starvation, every missionary had
nobly stood at his post, even women,
left, in some instances utterly alone had
refused to leave, and how many lives
had been saved thereby, also that Miss
Clara Barton's great work was in full
harmony and sympathy with the relief
work of the missionaries. On Sunday
night Miss Iesitch, of Ceylon, gave
many stirring incidents and made a
mostpowerful appeal for the suffering
and starving Armenians. Thursday
afternoon was given to Japan. Re
ports from many fields told of it's mar
vellous progress.
Miss Talcott, of the American Board,
who is known as the Florence Night
ingale of Japan, was induced to tell OF
their work in the hospitals at Hiro-
shima, where nearly all the wounded
of both armies were brought and she
was privileged for full year to minis
er both to the bodies and souls of the
! soldiers. Many stirring incidents We're
/ given China was the theme at the
night session and the great audience
/ as usual at night, filed the beautiful
new tabernacle to OVERLOOKING. There
were SO missionaries on the platform,
and as many of them as the time
: would permit spoke in rapid succession
! of their experience, giving US some
/ faint impression of the vastness of the
/ undertaking to reach one third of the
! inhabitants Of the globe through that
most difficult language. Saturday
/ forenoon DIR. Hamlin and others dis
cussed the question Of Russia's influ
ence on missions in Turkey.
THE TURKISH MASSACRES.
He claimed that Turkey was only
the cats paw for China to kill out
professionalism, and said that if Russia
ever gains the day in the East, every
missionary will have to leave Turkey,
unless the United States stands firm
for our treaty rights, which she has
not done hitherto.
DR. Gulick arraigned with severe
Indictment the christian governments,
especially our own, for failure to take
action in the case of the Armenian a.
trocities. Property had been destroyed
and Americans murdered, and
yet the government had taken
no active measures for in
demnity. DR.. Chamberlain declar-
ed that missionaries deserved as
good protection from their govern
ments as those that sell rum.
Strong resolutions were drawn up on
the subject and adopted at the closing
meeting.
The reason for Englands backing
down. after treatening to use force to
stop the massacre was given by the
Rev. Jones, of Corea: That the Rus
sian ambassador told the English am
bassador to go ahead as fast as they
chose, but to remember that Russia
had 100000 men just over the border,
and when England began fighting they
would come in and not stop till they
reached the Mediterranean. Russia |
would not tolerate any other power in I
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