The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-12-14

can board of foreign missions to-day
,'S4Aaa public lis eishly-seYeuth annual
report,
The receipts from the New England
states amounted 10 a total OF $3SG,4S4 l2.
The receipts from other states and ter
rItorles We're asfollbws: New York, $685.
OsGl New Jersey. s77.7O ge; Pennsyl-
vanl4, ss,s25 %; Maryland, SGO7 80; Del
aware, $40; Virginia, $50 90; West viz,
ginld, S27S II; District of Columbia,
SS,SsS.O5; North Carolina 1896 %; south
Carolina, $40; Georgia, slfO Al; Florida,
S4ds 70; Alabama. S4i4 Sc; Mississippi
Slt7Oi louisiana, SIS or Tennessee
s2ie 70; Arkansas. 81 50; rexus. aib co;
Indiana, si,a5l GA; Kentucky, SIC 80;
Missouri So 93S so; Ohio, Sl6SS6 Og; ILL
nols, SSS,9l5 II; Michigan, StSi735 10;
Wisconsin, S9,249 80; iowa, SlIl36 70;
Minnesota, SSS,f5S 49, Kansas, Sg,i84 O.;
NebrasRa5 $3.50 81; California;, $40
1888 76i Washington, 1896 So; North Da-
kotH, $40 80; south Dakota, Sl,Sg7 bs;
Montana, SIS %: Idaho, S37 II; Wyom-
ing, $l92 81; Utah, S74 10; Arizona, S9O4-
81, New Mexico, $50 So; oklahoma,
S9b 30l The receipts from Canada We're
Si,5J5 Sc! The total receipts from ali
sourees were $642,7S1 or.
The report deals at length with Turk
fish riidssacres and snSs that while
many Christians We're killed or fled, the
number OF protesting Christians exceeds
that previous to the outrages.
The wounds left by massacres and
robbery have been slowly healing,
though in several places the suffering
has been quite as great as In the pre-
vious year. The generous gifts that
have come from well nigh every Euro
peansstate for the relief OF the sufferers
by inassacre. and for the care Of the or
phans are gratefully acknowledged. and
have revealed phe essential unity of the
civilized World IN u most impressive
way.
The demand for indemnity for losses
Mt Karpoot and Manish. amounting
20 100000, was pressed, as yet without
result. The changed conditions at Con-
stantinople and the arrival of DR.. AM
gell.i the new United States minister to
Porte, may reasonably be expected to
secure early and satisfactory action In
regard TO this claim and all other ma
teral questionsatissue between our gov
eminent and Turkey. The distribution
of funds from all countries for the relief
OF suffering and the care of the orphans
involved this year the handling OF $751;
29S.
The rnnssacres In which at least 5000
Armenians were slaughtered were the
result ostehsibly Of an attack on an OF
toman bank of the city by a band of
revOlutlonlsts, but in reality the same
20 hn Nfa1 uhlnl1 dali
uged the whole empire with blood the
previous year. When the sovereign
spoke the word on the third day blood
shed ceased instantly throughout the
city. The criminals have little or no
punishment but the Armenlnns We're
systematically imprisoned, employment
denied them and threats held over
them, until more than 10000 OF their
number within few days fed from the
elty.
In India during the famine food rose
to abnormal prices. As a large number
OF the poor Of fndta-heariy o1e-third
OF ali her people live constantly upon
the verge OF starvation, 1t is easy to
imagine the result of such times ms
tiiese. Grain riots occurred IN many
PLACES; starvation stared millions In the
face. and almost at once became an aw-
full reality.
The plague. or rlbonic fever, first
came TO public nUTice In Bombay. a
panic seized the 100000 inhabitants.
Trains and steamers from the city be-
came crowded with people fleeing to the
country. Tile mortality OF the city rose
from 500 week TO 5000.
The Christians in the city have been
marvelodsly preserved. Among them
only a few cases have occurred. No
death from plague has iaksr place III
Bombay church. Or. Van Allen Is build
ing one OF the finest hospital structures
in Southern India.
Native women have less and less fear
OF attending an European dIspensafy,
and are almost as well represented as
men.
This has been by far the most fruit
ful wear in the history Of the South
China mission. In the Foo Chow, China,
mission within the last two years there
has been an expansion Of field and
growth in churches. schools and hog.
pltal work unparalleled In the history
OF our missions in China There are but
five ordained missionaries In field that
includes 1000, 900 souls. for whom THIS
mission is considered responsible. The
North China mlssloh, located near the
political centre OF the empire, gifihs
access to more than 20,0OOOO0 OF souls,
ably manned and well established In
seven wisely chosen centres, Is one Of
the most important and promising un-
der the care OF the board. " the sham
hi mission, Northwestern China, an
opium refuge was opened early In the
year, which haa attracted q large nttm-
her OF patients. and has been nearly
self-supporiing.
The problems which face the mis-
sionaries in Japan to-day are entirely
different from those OF twenty-five
years ago. The educated Japanese are
carefully studying the social and relg.
Ious questions In which the scholars Of
the west are Interested, ana always the
BEGINNINGS OF enlightenment are tiincs
OF doubt and questioning.
In Hawaii, one great drawback to
rapid progress rs the backward condI-
tlan Of the Hawaiian churches, Too
largo a proportion " Hawaiian church
members are not only Ignorant Of the
fundamental rcquisites Of personal
pety, but Indifferent to the obligations
OF common honesty In the regular pny.
ment OF the promised salaries Of their
In spain The feet that The mission
aries are citizens NJ country ugnlnEt
which there II such strong feeling,
growing out u tie Cubnn question, does