The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-03-21

begin q mission In China, in 1890 ELI
smith.anc III. q. o. Dwight conducted an
exploring tour through Armenia and
Persia, and their report awakened the
churches. During this decade, aside
from the revivals In Cey lon and among
the Choctaw, Cherokee. Chickasaw and
Seneca Indians, there were signs OF deep
religious interest In the Sandwich
Islands, where. at the close OIL this period,
learners. In 1880 the receipts OF the board
were $50, ,01D. 81, the total number for the
decade being s707, 1858.
THIRD DECADE, 1s3l-1s4s.
In 1881 Jonas King, who had previously
spent few years in Beirut, Smyrna. and
the island of 1enos, commenced q nilsson
TO the Greeks at Athens. The same year
Mr.. Gooddell removed from Malta, where
he had been engaged In superintending
the mission press, to Constantinople, thus
commencing what Is now the Western
Turkey Mission. In 1S13-33 the Cherokees
and Choctaws were driven from their pos
sessions IN Georgia, and such as survived
the bardships of the journey settled In
the Indian territory. There were four
missions commenced I'm 1888, in Siam,
Singapore, Persia, and at Cape Palmas,
West Africa. The Madura Mission was
begun in 1884, and the Zulu Mission,
outheastern Africa, in 1885. In 1884 Will
lam Arms and Titus Coan explored Pata-
gonia but found no opening for mission.
Lyman and Munson, while seeking to
tablish mission I'm Sumatra, were kill
led by the natives, June rs, 1884. A great
revival occurred in the Sandwich Islands
in 1878, over ten thousand persons hav-
ing been received to the churches within
IL montLs. In 1889 there were 10, 5S7
church members on the islands. In 1S40
the receipts of the board were S241 ,69l. 04.
The total receipts for the decade amount
ed to Il, S43, 422. 81.
AT tie close of this decade the board
had 20 missions, nine of them among In
dian tribes OF North America. There
were 13i ordained missionaries, 10 physic-
ians, 80 other male teachers, printers, ETC.,
and 1856 female missionaries, including
wives; q total of 365 laborers from tnis
country. There were also 122 native help
ers, So churches, 1924 church members
and II, ,6C6 pupils in schools From the be-
ginning the board had sent out 69i male
and female missionaries, and the mis-
sions had issued no less than 233, LOG, ,0S1
pages of printed matter
FOURTH DECADE, 1s41-1s50
The visit of Mar Yohannan, OF Persia,
to the United States in 1912, I'm company
with DIR. Perkins, served to kindle great
interest In behalf OF the HISTORIAN and
other missions. The same-year the mis-
sion i'm Western Africa opened station at
the Gaboon, which, the next year, gave
the name 60 the mission. In 1894 Sec
retary Anderson visited the missions in
the Levant. In 1S43 DIR. Marcus Whit
man, Of the mission TO the Oregon In
dians. led large party OF emigrants with
wagons from the Mississippi river across
the Rocky Mountains to Oregon, and thus
practically secured to the United States a
large ana valuable territory. In 1s45 the
mission in China was divided in the
Southern China and the Annoy missions.
The first Protestant-Armenian church
was formed at ConstantiDople in 1916,
and widespread and hopeful reforma-
tion among Armenians accompan ed and
succeeded this event. In lS47 the Foo
chow Mission was begun by the trans
ference of two missionaries from Siam.
and the latter mission as well as that to
Borneo were discontinued in lS49. Dur
ing this period, at nearly every annual
meeting, memorials were presented on the
subject OF slavery growing out OF the
fact that there We're shareholders connect
ed with the churches among the North
American Indians. In 1Sb0 the receipts
were S251, ,S62. %, and the total amount for
the decade, e, $50, 447.9l At the close of
this period there were "a missions, 157
ordained missionaries, % American teach
ers and printers, 204 female missionaries.
including wives, So churches and 25,s75
members.
FIFTH DECADE, 1S51-1S6o.
In 1851 the Assyrian Mission was set off
from the mission to the Armenians, hav-
ing its central station at Mosul. In 1852
Messrs. Snow, l.. III. Gulick and Sturges
commenced the mission in the Micro
nesian Islands. In 1853 the board met for
the first time beyond the Alleganies, at
Cincinnati, Ohio. The same year the
board declared that the Sandwich Islands
hah vi ri iQ m IN
TO this time 145 laborers, male and female,
had been sent to these islands. There
We're then 26 churches with a total men,
bership of 22, 236. the whole number re-
ceived from the commencement Deing 3S,'
544. In 1854 Secretary Anderson and
Rev. A. T.. Thompson were sent as a
deputation to visit the missions in India,
and the same year a mission was estab-
lished in Shsngai, China. in 1856 the
FIRST Morning star was launched, the child
rem contributing S2s, 505 for her construc-
ton and expenses. In 1857 the Dutc a Re-
formed churches which had hitherto CO.
operated with the board, amicably with
drew, in the hope of prosecuting foreign
missionary work more vigorously under a
beard of their own. subsequentiy the
Arcot and Annoy missions were transferT-
ed TO the care of the Reformed (Dutch)
Board. At the annual meeting OF 1867,
Hon. Theodore Freiinghuysen resigned
as president of the board, and Mark Hop
k ins, ID. ID. was elected in his palce. In
1860 the Cherokee Mission was discontin-
ued The "Juhilee Meeting of the
board was held in Boston in 1850. The
receipts for thst year were t429, 79o.0S for
the decade, s3,31S, ,74s.29 for the fifty
years, IS, 632, ,3l5.b5. AT the close OF this
period there Wee connected with the
board % missions, Isl male missionaries
(l66 of them ordaiped), 196 female assis-
tents (total American 37ol 1877 nstivc help
ers, 144 churches. 10, -22 church mem GERS
and 10, SIS pupils. During the Aalf-cen-
tufy there bad been sent out 415 ordained
men, "a physicians, 12S male assistants,
69l female assistants, making total from
the United Ststes of 15s.
SIXTH DECADE, 1S6l-1S70.
In 1861 the missions in Turkey, called in
1857 the Southern and Northern Arme-
nian, were divided into the Western,
Central and Eastern Turkey Missions, the
Assyrisn Mission being merged in the
last named. In the ssme.year Dr. Blodgett
removed from Shanghai to Iientsin, end
in 1852 the mama OF the mission was
phannad from, the Shon0Eaf n tina Mort N