The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-14
FOREIGN MISSION WORK
EIGHTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE AMERICAN BOARD.
Review of the Turkish MassacreS and
the Famine and Plague in India
China, Hawaii and Spain.

of Foreign Missions made public to-day its
eighty-seventh annual report The receipts
from the New England States amounted to
a total of 1886, II. The receipts from 9TH
er States and Territories were as follows:
New York $54 03603; New Jersey, $7.740.36;
Pennsylvania, $3,326.25 Maryland, $697.59;
Delaware, $40; Virginia. $50.95; West Vir-
ginia $27S.14 District of Columbia, $333S.95;
North Carolina, $196.32; South Carolina, $40;
Georgia, s14841; Florida, $462.79; Alabama,
S44sS; Mississippi. $14.7O; Louisiana, $500;
Tennessee, $24673; Arkansas, $3.50; Texas,
$780, Indiana, 81, 951.64; Kentucky, $56. SO;
Missouri, $393S.5O; Ohio, $l6,3S6,O9; Illinois,
S38 915n; Michigan, $1S As; Wisconsin, 49,
1885, Iowa, $lS,136.73 Minnesota, $S,45S.13;
Kansas, 81, 194.64; Nebraska, $2,5S0.31; Cali
fornia, $40 1876; Washington, $685.; North
Dakota, S42926; South Dakota, $1,S37.5S;
Montana, 1882; Idaho &712; Wyoming,
S122.91, Utah, $7410; Arizona, $2O4S5; New
Mexico, $2O.55; Oklahoma, $3.50. The re-
ceipts from Canada were 81. $685.. The total
receipts from all sources were $642, 7S1O7
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
healing, though in several places the suffer-
ing has been quite as great as in the pre-
tious year. The generous gifts that have
come well-nigh from every European state
for the relief of the sufferers by massacre
and for the care of orphans have revealed
the essential unity of the civilized world
in a most impressive way.
The demand for indemnity for losses in
Cured at Kharpoot and Marash amount
ing in all to $4,000, was pressed as yet
without result. The changed conditions at
Constantinople by the arrival of DR.. Angel,
the new United States minister to the Porte
may reasonably be expected to secure early
and satisfactory action in regard to this
claim and all other material questions at
issue between our government and Turkey.
The distribution of funds from all countries
for the relief of suffering and the care of
orphans involved this year the handling OF
1851. 29S.
Armenians were slaughtered in Constanti-
nOple, were the result oStenSibly of an at
tack on the Ottoman Bank of the city by
revoutioniStS, but in reality OF the same
fanaticism and race hatred which deluged
the whole empire with blood the previous
year. When the sovereign spoke the word
on the third day bloodshed ceased instantly
throughout the whole city. The criminals
have received little or no punishment, but
oned, employment denied them and threats
held over them until more than 10000 of
their number within few days fled from
the CITY,
I'm India, during the famine, food rose
to abnormal prices. AS large number of
the poor of India-nearly one-thtrd OF all
her people-live constantly on the verge of
starvation when prices are normal 1t IS
easy to imagine the result of such times
as these Grain riots occurred in many
places; starvation stared millions In the
face and almost at once became an awful
reality. The plague, or bubonic fever, first
came to public notice in Bombay. A panic
seized the 600 inhabitants. Trains and
steamers from the city became crowded
with people fleeing to the country The
to 1000 The Christians in the city have
been marvelously preserved. Among them
only few cases have occurred No death
from plague has taken place in Bombay
Church Dr. Van Allen is building one of
the finest hospital structures in southern
India. Native women have less, and less
fear of attending a European diSpensary
and are almost as well represented as men.
This has been by far the most fruitful
mission In the Foo-Chow (China) mission,
within the last two years, there has been an
expansion of field and growth in church,
school and hospital work unparalleled In
the history of our mission in China There
are but five ordained missionaries in field
that includes 100000 souls for whom this
mission is considered responsible. The
North China mission, located near the po-
litical center of the empire, giving access
to more than 20.C00.OU0 OF 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.
THE problems which race the MISSION
aries in Japan to-day are entirely different
from those of twenty-five years ago. The
educated Japanese are carefully studying
the social and religious questions in which
the scholars of the West are interested and
always the beginnings of enlightenment are
times of doubt and questioning.
'In Hawaii one great drawback to rapid
progress is the backward condition of the
Hawaiian churches. Too large a proper
ton of Hawaiian church members are not
only ignorant of the fundamental requisites
of personal piety, but Indifferent to the OBJ
legations of common honesty in the regular
payment of the promised salaries OF their
pastors
I'm Spain the fact that the missionaries
are citizens of country against which
there is such a 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
relations. That which perhaps more than
any other one thing among the visible in
fluences that prevail in the community has
served as an obstacle 10 the spread OF the
gospel in Spain has been the well-knoWn
and powerful ultramontane sympathies or
the Queen Regent. This influence predom-
mates entirely in the court, ard from there
reaches the most distant village and gives
courage and strength to the reactionary
element throughout the land. The Queen
Regent Is a good mother. an intelligent SOW
ereign and virtuous Queen. but the entire
weight of her unmeasured influence is
thrown against everything that SavorS or
the evangelical religion