The herald., 1897-05-25
FMDs THAT ECONOMY BECOMES
NECESSARY
Workers Object Because China Now
Shows Signs of Yielding to
Christian Influence

liamentary tangle on Saturday regard
ing the Presbyterian building was emit
ted from the minutes.
The first regular order was the report
of the board of missions 10 freed men.
The standing committee on the report
reported through DIR. Thomas Law
renee, Ashevile, N. c.. chairman. At
ter reviewing the work of the board
resolutions were introduced commend
ing. the work and urging the boards
claims on the 5000 non-contril,uting
churches and individual givers.
The order of the morning was. the re-
port of the special committee on home
missions. 1t closed with recoEnro nda-
tons that the board of home missions
be directed to so reorganize its methods
of administration that the ex ecutive
work may be placed in the hands of one
.secrstary:'" that expenditures tie made
upon a basis of estimates mace from
averages for several vars preceding and
that the policy of the board be to avoid
debt
At the opening of the afternoon ses-
sion of the assembly Hon. John Wana-
maker proposed that the assembly take
official cognizance of the birthday ot
Queen Victoria. Mr.. Wanamaker in
troduced the following, which the as
sembly ordered to be sent to the queen:
This day being the seventy-eight
anniversary of the birth, the sixt.ieth an
niversary of. the coronation of Her Most
Gracious Majesty. Queen Victo, ia, whose
reign has lasted longer than any other
monarch in the last thousand years, this
general assembly OF the Presbyterian
church in the United States of America
deems It fitting and hereby does send
most cordial Christian greetings to both
the illustrious Christian sovereign and
the subjects of her gentle. generous and
righteous rule over the des'.inies of the
empire upon which the sun never sets -
The regular order of the afternoon
was the consideration of the report of
the board of education.
On motion the assembly resolved to
place the limit of its grants to theologic-
al students at $50, even If this should
result in cutting off some students from
aid.
At the adjournment the discussion
went over as unfinished business.
The annual meeting of the Woman s
Board of Foreign Missions was held to-
day. The morning sesso was devoted
to suggestions as to foreign missionary
work from ladies of the several boards,
and to speeches by Some of the mission
aries themselves.
The evening popular meeting in the
interest of the work among freedmen
was presided over by Hon. John Wana-
maker.
BAPTIST MISSIONS
PITTSBURG, May 24.-The eighty
third anniversary of the American Bap-
tist Missionary union began in the
Fourth Avenue Baptist church today.
The American Baptist Missionary Union,
organized May 49, 1914, has charge of all
the foreign mission work, and also has a
number of institutions fol' higher educa-
tion established under it's control in for
e.gn lands The foreign work, it says,
has been faithfully prosecuted, though
at great disadvantage, resulting from
reduced appropriations. and the failure
to provide reinforcements at points
where additions to the staff of workers
were sorely needed. II is the convlc-
tjon of the executive committee that the
appropriation for the coming year be
made on a scale $50, 900 below that of the
past year, and that in the years to come
the average receipts from all sources
for the preceding five years should be
adopted as the basis of mission appro-
pria tions for any eingle year.
In effect, this will. in heather lands,
compel the actual abandonment of sta
tions upon some of the mission fields,
with the recall of missionary families.
Rev. w. H. Cossum, missionary from
China, said he was opposed to retrench-
ment.
You sent me to China to work." said
he, land you can't retrench me. Yo;:
can't retard work by retrenchment.
say to John D. Rockefeller or to any mar
who offers us money:
"First-Consecrate yourself to God:
make your gift clean and we will accept
H. Otherwise we should not touch it.
/ don't say this about John D. Rookie
feller in particular or alone, but to all
who make such Offers
This statement caused a profound sem
sation. A number Of delegates remon-
strated but they finally dismissed the
matter, saying:
when our brother has been longer in
this country and become better ac-
quainted he will modify his views
The meeting then adjourned without
taking action upon the report.
THE TOBACCO QUESTION
PITTSBURG, May 24-The session of
the general synod of the Reformed Bap-
byterian Church was opened today with
heated discussion over the use of to-
bacco. The question arose over the re-
report of the committee having in charge
the bequest of Francis Land, DID, for
the education of young men for the min
istry. The report recommends that when
expedient students receiving aid should
attend the Cedarville college, and no
student should receive aid who used to-
bacco or indulged in any extravagant
habits.
Dr. Steele of Philadelphia defended
the use of the weed, and a number OF
delegates strongly opposed him. The
questions and report were finally re-
ferred.
The Young Peoples Union convention