The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-02-19
MALL .ISsOCIArrON.


 Annual Meeting of the Local Branch Yes-
 terday-Officers Elected-Address by Dr. l.. $. Chamberlain of New York. The annual meeting of the McAll
 Mission association of this city was held at United church chapel yesterday
 afternoon. Rev. pr. Newman Smyth presided.
 The treasurer, Miss A. McAlister, re- ported the receipts for the year as $614.- 95
 The secretary, Mrs. Charles G. Cur tis, was i'll and unable to be present. Her report on the aid given by the as- sociation to the McAll mission work in
 France during the past year was read
 by Miss $. Darrow
 The following officers for the ensuing year were then elected: President, Miss
 Elizabeth Bradley; vice president, Mrs.
 Robert Brown; recording secretary,
 Mrs. Charles G. Curtis; corresponding
 secretary, Miss Cornelia Cady; treas
 urer, Mrs. E. V. Reynolds; auditor,
 Robert Brown; managers, Mrs. Frank Benedict, Mrs. E. A. Anketell, Mrs. G. F. Burgess, Mrs. Frederick Cowles, Mrs. George M. Baldwin, Miss A. A. McAlis- ter, Miss Mary Skinner, Mrs. F. J. Ev- ans, Mrs. A. J. Boyer, Mrs. W. M. Par sons, Mrs. J. McD. Root, Mrs. Samuel
 Hemingway, Miss M. Dickerman and
 Miss Botsford
 The local association has during the
 past year started a new mission at Boulogne Sur-Mer in France. The mis- sion boat is called "Le Bon Messager." "
 After the election of officers Dr. Le- ander $. Chamberlain of New York, formerly of the McAll chapel in Paris,
 spoke on the associations work in
 France. He said that there were at present 120 mission stations in Paris, while the association has also missions in Sicily, Sardinia, Algiers, Lyons and Toulouse. The mission boat work. In Paris is especially successful. The board of directors of the association Is situated in Paris and is composed of clergymen not having direct relations with the mission. The entire yearly expense of running the missions is less than $S0,00O, and Dr. Chamberlain said that there is not a mission in the world which, under the same conditions, could accomplish so much work with so little money as the McAll mission. MT. Me All's place at the head of the mission was filled on his death by Rev. Dr.
 Charles Gregg, who was educated at the University of Edinburgh. On his graduation at the age of twenty Dr. Gregg gave himself to the lowliest part of the MICAH mission work when he could have taken high position in
 professional life, and has been since closely associated with the work The mission has lately been compelled to retrench and withdraw from much of it's work in Algiers, Lyons and Tou- louse on account of lack of funds. Dr. Chamberlain said that there was not a village in France but where large au- diences would gather to hear the Bible readers and workers connected with the missions, although the country is overwhelmingly Catholic. Even the nominal Protestants of France are only as 1 to 50 compared with the Catholics but no Protestants in Christendom are doing such a work in proportion tc their numbers as are these Protestants The doctor said that he did not wish home missions but asked a share oi
 what was left over from these for the | McAll mission.
 | In closing he said: Put the charac- 1 teristic French zeal on the side of re- | ligion and you will have a missionary I force of untold vigor."