The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-12-13
FOREIGN MISSIONS.
Annual Report of the American
B~oard-America, Hawaii
and Spain.

bOSION, Lee. Id, loStt-lnS fAulcIlCdhi
Board of Foreign Missions made public
today its aighty-seventh annual report.
The receipts from the New England
States were as follows:-Maine, SIS, 00S.2 II;
New Hampshire, $23, 169. 90; Vermont, $15.-
$40. "a; Massachusetts, 1921, 646.06; Rhode
Island. $1S,0 67. SO; Connecticut, $SO,0S7.07,
making a total for New England of
1886, 4s4. IL.
The receipts from other States and
territories were as follows:-New York,
$54, 036. oS; New Jersey, s7,740.S6; Pennsyl-
vania, So, 325. %; Maryland, $8s7.59 Della
ware, $40; Virginia, $685.; West Virginia,
s27S.14; District of Columbia, $~3,S3s.9o;
North Carolina, $1s6.32; South Carolina,
$40; Georgia, s14S.41; Florida, S462.79,
Alabama, s44.S6; Mississippi, s14.70; Louis
lana, $500; Tennessee, $246. IS; Arkansas,
$3.50; Texas, s4e.6o; Indiana, $l,351.64;
Kentucky, $685. 8 Missouri. $3,93S.50; Ohio,
SIG, 1856. 90; Illinois, $SS. 915. Al; Michigan, $lS;-
1886; Wisconsin, 9,249.9S; Iowa, $l3,l36.a5;
Minnesota, s. 45S. ID; Kansas, y, 5 199s. %
Washington $ss5.s5 North Dakota, $42s. e;
South Dakota, I,SS7.5S; Montana, $Is.Sz'
Idaho, s27.12; Wyoming, $l22.91; Utah,
s74.1o; Arizona s2o4. IS; New Mexico, So 80;
Canada We're $4,5s5.s5. The total receipts
from all sources were $642, 7S1.01.
The report deals at length with Turkish
massacres and says that while many
Christians were killed or fled, the number
of protesting Christians exceeds that pre-
viouS to the outrageS.
The wounds left by massacres and rob-
berry have been slowly healing, though IN
several places the suffering has been
quite as great as in the previous year.
Relief work has been continued a large
part of the year; care for orphans left by
III taaSSapras has absorbed time and
strength of the missionary force, and the
volume of business accumulated at Con-
stantinople and coming upon the treas
urer of the mission has more than doubled
the usual duties of this office. The gener-
Gus gifts hat have come well nigh from
every European state for the relief OF the
of orphans, distributed in part by special
representatives, but Usual by the mis-
sionaries, are gratefully acknowledged and
have revealed the essential unity of the
civilized world in a most impressive way.
The marked feature is the greater ac-
feasibility of the whole Armenian nation,
the increased fruitfulness of Christian la
Dor, a stronger and more widely dlfTused
desire for evangelical teaching and for
the privileges of mission schools. The de-
mand for indemnity for losses incurred
at Harpoot and MaraSh, amounting in all
to $500, 900, was pressed, unhappily as yet
without result. The changed conditions
at Constantinople and the arrival OF Dr.
Angel, the new United States minister
10 liz L " IL, hdS ~ SAPSSN
ed to secure early n satisfactory ac-
ton in regard to this claim and all other
material questions at issue between our
government and Turkey. 1t is a pleas
ure to repeat former Acknowledgements to
the diplomatic and consular representa-
tives of our W and of other. govern
ments, especially OF England, for their
efforts in behalf of our missionary inter-
ests. The distribution of funds from all
countries for the relief of suffering and
the care of orphans, involving this year
the handling of 1851, 29S. z.
In Hawaii one great drawback to rapid
progress is the backward condition OF the
Hawaiian churches. Through lax ideas
of Christian disciples too large a proper
ton of Hawaiian church members are
not only ignorant of the fundamental re-
quisites of personal piety, but indifferent
to the obligations of common honesty IN
the fulhllment of such business contracts
as the regular payment OF the promised
salaries OF their pastors.
The fact that the missionaries are clti-
zens 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 into daily
contact and relations. That which per-
haps more than any other one thing
among the visible influences that prevail
in the community has served as an obsta-
Gle to the spread of the gospel in Spain,
has been the and powerful ul-
tramontane sympathies of the Queen Re-
gent: This influence Predo ahasa &c en- :
the most distant village and gives cour-
age and strength to the r~eactionary ele-
ment throughout the land. The front
door of the Reformed Spanish Protest
ant Episcopal Church in Madrid remains
closed, even after the three years that the
congregation has been publicly Worship
ing in it. The Queen Regent is a good
mother, an intelligent sovereign and a vir-
tuous queen, but the entire weight of her
unmeasured influence is thrown against
everything that savors of the evangelical
religion. In spite of this opposition, the