The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-14
Work Of Protestant Missionaries In
Turkey.
ARMENIAN MASSACRES
RESULT OF MosLEM FANATIC
ISM AND RACE HATRED.
Indian Famine and Bubonic Plague
Missions In the orient-opposi-
ton In Spain Towards Evangel-
isnl-"Old Catholic" Renounces
Belief-Christian Scientists.

Boston, Mass, Dec. 1S.-The Ameri-
can board of foreign missions made
public today its eighty-seventh annual
report.
The receipts from all sources amount
ed to $642, 7S1. California gave $1o,39S;
Washington, 1895; Montana, s7S; Idaho,
s27; Wyoming, $122; Utah, STA; Ari
IONA, $2O4
The report deals at length with
Turkish massacres and says:
'eWhile many Christians We're killed
or fed, the number of professed Chris
tians exceeds that previous to the out
RACES.
''The wound left by massacres and
robbery have been slowly healing, al
though in some places the suffering has
been quite as great as in the previous
year. Generous gifts that have come
well nigh from every European state
for the sufferers by massacre and for
the care of orphans are gratefully ack-
nowledged and have revealed the es-
sential unity of the civilized world in a
most impressive way.
CLAIM FOR INDEMNITY
'The demand for indemnity for losses
incurred at Harpoot and Manasch,
amounting in all to 100000 was press
ed, as yet without result. The changed
conditions at Constantinople and the
arrival of DR.. Angel, the new United
States minister to the Porte may be
reasonably expected to secure satisfac-
ton in regard to this claim and all
other material questions at issue be-
tween our government and Turkey. The
distribution of funds from all coun-
tries for the relief of suffering and the
care of orphans involves this year the
handling of SS51,12S
RESULT OF FANATICISM.
."The massacres in what at least 5000
Armenians were slaughtered in Con-
stantinople were the result oStensibly
of an attack on the Ottoman bank of
the city by a band of revolutionary
forces, but in reality of the same fan
atheism and race hatred which deluged
the whole empire with blood the pre-
vious year When the sovereign spoke
the word on the third day bloodshed
ceased instantly through the whole
country. Criminals have received little
or no punishment ,Armenians were
Systematically imprisoned, employment
denied them, and the threats held over
them until more than 10000 of them
fed the city.
INDIAN FAMINE.
During the famine in India food
rose to abnormal prices AS a large
number of poor in India, nearly a third
of all her population, live constantly on
the verge of starvation when prices are
normal it is easy to imagine the result
of such things as these. Riots occurred
in many places, starvation stared mil
! lions in the face and almost at once be-
came an awful reality.
PTrRoNTr ET1uFP
"The plague, or blaboriee fever, first
came to public notice in Bombay. A
panic seized the ,000 Inhabitants.
Trains and steamers from the city be-
came crowded with people fleeing to the
country. The mortality of the city rose
from 200 . week to 1000.
1.-The Christians in the city have been
marvelously preserved. Among them
only g, few cases have occurred. No
i death from the plague has taken place
| in Bombay cfilIr CHI. gI1r. Won. Allen is
building one ofithe finest hospital struc-
lures in southern India. Native women
| have less and. less fear of attending an
! European disDensary, and are almost
as well represented as men.
CHINA MISSION.
'"This has been by far the most fruit
! ful year in the history of the South
J China mission within the last two years
there has been an expansion of field
and growth in churches, schools and
hospital work unparalleled in the his
| tory of our missions in China.
There are but five unordained mis-
sionaries in a field which includes 2,000,
| goo souls, for which this mission is con-
sidered responsible. The North China
mission, located near the political cen
| ter of the empire, giving access to more
than 20,000C00 souls, ably manned and
| we'll established in seven wisely chosen
centers, is. one of the most important
and promising under the care of the
board.
JAPANESE PROBLEM.
1.-The problems which face the mis-
sionaries in Japan today are entirely
| different from those of % years ago.
The educated Japanese are carefully
studying the social and religious Ques-
items in which the scholars of the west
are Interested.
IN HAWAII.
I'm Hawaii, one great drawback to
rapid progress is the backward condi-
/! ton of the Hawaiian churches. Too
| large proportion of Hawaiian church
members are not only ignorant of the
| fundamental requirements, but indiffer-
! enJ TO the OD1&allcn OIL common noA-
esty in the payment of the promised
salaries of their pastors.
In Spain, the fact that the mission
aries are citizens of a country against
which there is such strong feeling,
growing out of the Cuban question,
does not seem to be charged against
them by the most of those with whom
they come in daily contact and rela-
ton. That which, perhaps, more than
any other thing among the visible in
| f1uence which prevails among the COM
munity and has served as an obstacle
TO the work in Spain, has been the well
/ known ard powerful ultramortane
sympathy of the queen regent. This in
! fiuence predominates entirely in the
| court, and from there reaches the most
! distant villages, and gives courage and
strength to the reactionary element
! throughout the land. The queen regent
is good mother, an intelligent soVer-
! eign and a virtuous queen, but the
entire weight of her unmeasured influ-
! ence is thrown against everything that
/ .savors of evangelical religion
TIE PROTESTANT WORLD.