The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-12-23
THE PILGRIM PIONEERS.


Their Relation to Foreign Mission
Work-Conversio of the Savages a
Principal End-Their Modern Repre-
sentative-The American Board-Ex-
tent of Their Work.
"Congregatio in Foreign Mis-
sions" will be the theme of an article
by Rev. A. N. Hitchcock, Phi D., Chi
cago, secretary of the American Board
for the Interior, in the next number of
1.-THE missionary Herald" In view of
the approaching observance of Fore
fathers day, and the fact that the next
annual meeting of the board will be
held in New Haven, We reproduce the
article in part as follows: The Pill
grims We're the modern pioneers in for
eign missions. "A reason assigned for
their removal from Holland was that
they might extend the Redeemer's
kingdom in lands where Christ was not
named John Robinson, who remained
pastor at Leyden, wrote to the Ply
mouth colony, urging the conversion of
the Indians. AS early as 1921 the work
was begun. The charters of both Ply
mouth and Massachusetts colonies
COnlH1GnUeu LuS COINSISiOH VI lile oeiN =
ages as the principal end to be sought.
In 1643 Thomas Mayhem and John Eli
OF began work among the Indians.
Other missionaries Joined them and
their work prospered The century
following would doubtless have wit
messed a steady enlargement of this
missionary movement but for theolog
icaI controversies, conflicts with the
Indians, and the war of the Revolu-
ton, which so engaged the thought Of
the people that both spiritual life and
missionary zeal relapsed together.
Toward the close of the eighteenth
century a reaction came and the great
missionary period of modern times
dawned on the world. The London
Missionary society, at first undenomi-
national, but later, like our American
board, left mainly to the control of
Congregationalists, was formed in 1875.
Its missionaries, among whom we
cherish such honored names as Moffat
and Morrison and Williams and Tur-
ner, have gone to every quarter of the
globe. Through their self-denying and
often perllous labors China and India
and Madagascar and Africa and is
ceived the light of the cross. The rec
ord for 1896 showed 416 missionaries,
2557 stations and out-stations, SAP ma
tive 1aborers, 1926 communicates, and
1885, turned into it's treasury.
In 1910, fifteen years after the organ
ization of the London society, came the
birth year of the American board,
From the first the spirit of the Pill
grims has largely controlled its coun-
ellis and inspired its labors. 1t has
drawn to it's support a multitude of the
ablest men and women of our time
Statesmen, judges, financiers, scholars
educators, orators and philanthropists
have been wont to join in its delibera-
lions. Spanning the opening and clos
ing decades OF the nineteenth century
ii has stood in vital relation with al
the great movements of this eventfu
cycle. Its missions have been planted
around the world. Upon some of its
missionaries the sun always shines. lr
fifty languages, thirty of which its oWr
missionaries have first reduced to wri-
ting. it has printed more than 100000.
600 pages of Christian literature. Fiji
teen tribes of American Indians have
received the gospel at its hands. Ore
gon and the great northwest were
saved to the Union through its honoreC
hero, Marcus Whitman. Palestine