New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-10-21
MISSION PROPERTY BOUGHI
A PURCHASE IN CHILL By THE MErr
ODISTS.
THE sELF-sUPPoRTINo PLAN OF THE BulLppm
AND TRANSIT FUND SOCIETY. WHICH sElIs
THE PROPERTY TO BE ABANDONED

THE sELF-sUPPoRTINo PLAN OF THE BulLorm
AND TRANSIT FUND SOCIETY. WHICH sErls
THE PROPERTY. TO BE ABANDONED.
The Board of Managers Of the Methodist MI.
sionary Society at a special meeting Monday aftI,
noon decided to purchase the mission property Ia
Chill of what Is known as the Building and Tran.
ait Fund Society of this city. and to conduct tk1
missions as the other missions are conducted Ths
purchase price Is 100000 which Is to be palA /,
twenty annual instruments Of 5000 each With
interest at c1h per cent. The purchase Of TIM
property and the absolute transfer OF the missona
10 the Missionary Society mean the end Of an N.
terestIng experiment In self-supporting mission
work.
the personal superintendence Of William Taylor
now Bishop Taylor of Africa. He had been
street preacher In California. an evangelist IN
South Africa and had done irregular missionary
work In India. The methods Of missionary 10
cieties were not altogether to his liking. and be
devised q plan which he called the plan Of self.
support. The missions In Chill were begun on this
plan and when, In 1884. their founder was elected
Missionary Bishop Of Africa they were placed
under the care OF an organisation known az the
Building and Transit Fund Society
Missionaries and teachers by this plan receive
outfits and are sent to the field and provided with
places In which to live and to hold worship. and
with travelling expenses when engaged In evan.
eelstic work. The care Of property, repairs. taxes
insurance ETC., the society expects to supply. bit
the salaries OF the workers they must get then.
selves.
In 1893 the Building and Transit Fund Society Of.
fered to transfer the Chill missions and missloa
property to the Methodist Missionary Society. FREE
OF debt on condition that the work be conducted on
the self-supportng plan. The Missionary Society
accepted the gift on the condition laid down. sub.
feet to the superior authority Of the General Con.
ference The General Conference at It's meeting
last May In Cleveland was so hurried that 1t sim.
ply referred the whole matter to the Board Of Man.
ayers with full power. The Board has been con.
Quoting the Chill missions on the sef-supportins
plan with great difYiculty. When the transfer was
made 1t was understood that the friends Of self.
support In the Church would contribute 10000 or
s25 600 a year to their maintenance. The Mission.
sry Society had pledged itself February 20, 1924 to
administer such sums as might be contributed for
this purpose Several appeals were made for this
object, but all told the contributions have not az.
eregated $1,000 The Missionary Society made
small appropriations from its own treasury. which
1t had not promised to do
On Monday, when the whole matter was to b
settled finally It vas nearly the unanimous opln-
lon that the society could not successfully conduct
the Chill missions on the self-supportin2 plan, and
turn the property the donors. AS the result Of
a conference between a committee OF the Board and
the Building and Transit Fund Society, IL re.
ported that the latter would transfer the propery
for $4,000. payable. already stated. in twenty
annual instruments and allow the society to con-
duct the missions on its own plan. or they woui
receive Il back again After a long discussion T.
was decided. BY vote Of IS to Il, to purchase III.
properly.