The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-04-07
HE FOREIGN MISSIONS
NEXT MEETING or THE AMERICAN
BO1RD or CON WISSLONERS

Work viii be Presented by Rev. Judson
Smith, ID. d., and Returned Missionaries
VIII Make Addresses-It VIII be the
Eighty-eighth Annual.
The eighty eighth annual meeting of
the American Board of Commissioners
for Foreign Missions will be held in
this city October 1915, Tuesday to Fri
day. Preparations for it are we'll ad-
vanced, Rev. c. II. Daniels, D. D., sec
rotary of the home department, will
present the report of the prudential
committee on the home department.
Rev. Judson Smith, d, D., and Rev.
James L.. Barton, d. D., secretaries of
the foreign department, will present a
review of the twenty missions of the
board, three of which are in Austria,
Spain and Mexico, three in India, one
in Japan, three in Africa, four in China,
four in Turkey, and the remaining two
in Micronesia and the Hawaiian Is
lands.a
The treasurer, Il. H. Wiggin, will
make his first annual report as treas
urer. Hitherto he has been treasurer
clerk and assistant treasurer.
Tuesday evening, october 10, Rev. r.
r. Meredith, D. D., of Brooklyn, for
merly of Springfield and Boston, will
preach the annual sermon.
On Wednesday morning the prob
lematic and urgent interests of the
board as determined by the eXpe-
riences of the year and the conditions
| up to date, will be presented. Inter
spersed through this and the remain
ing sessions of the meeting will be ad-
dresses by, returned missionaries. Re-
ports of committees will be presented
and acted upon Thursday morning.
The business meeting and communion
service will be held Thursday AFTER
| noon. Thursday evening an Grafton
on missions and the work Of the board
will be delivered By the president,
Rev. Richard s. Storrs, D. D., of
Brooklyn.
Friday morning farewell addresses
will be delivered by returning mission
aries and by local speaker and Presi-
dent Storrs. The final business will
then be acted upon.
The annual meetings Of the board
had a very small beginning. The first
meeting was held in Connecticut, at
Tarmington, and five commissioners
We're present. The fifth meeting was
held at New Haven
The board has met in New Haven six
times. In 1914. 1918 and 1922 the SEES
sions were held in the philosophical
chamber of Yale college, eleven, four
teen and sixteen commissioners being
present, respectively. In 1881 the meet
ing was held in the rhetorical chamber
Of Yale college; in 1876 at the Center
church and in 1872 at Musical hall.
Not only was the first annual meet
ing of the board held in Connecticut,
but its first president was Connecticut
governor, John Treadwell, LID. He
presided at the first three meetings in
New Haven, retiring from the office
| in 1922. John Cotton Smith, LII D..
was the next president and presided
| at the meeting in 1881. Hon Theo-
| dore Frelnghuysen, LID, was presi-
dent in 1916. President Mark Hop
kins, d. D., LID, presided in 1872.
| 1t will be twenty-five years this fall
since the board met in New Haven.
The general committee of arrange
ments is as follows: Rev. Watson r..
Phillips, d. D., chairman; Rev. Will
liam w McLane, D. D., Rev. George
| P. Fisher, .. D., Rev Charles r. PAL
mer, d. D., Rev, Justin e. Twichell,
D. D., Hon. Nehemiah D. Sperry, Hon
| Simeon e. Baldwin, LID, H. N.
Kochersperger, Rev. d. Melancthon
James, Rev. Newman Smyth, d. d.,
Rev. Norman j, Squires, l., Wheeler
Beecher, Frank w. Pardee, Joseph
Porter, Rev. William J. Mulch, Phi. D.,
secretary.
Committee on finance-Frank w
| Pardee, Nehemiah ID. Sperry, L.
Wheeler Beecher.
| Committee on place-Hon. Simeon E.
Baldwin, Rev. Watson l.. Phillips, Rev
George P. Fisher.
Committee on entertainment-Rev
William w. McLane, Rev. D. Melanc-
thon James, Rev. Harry e. Peabody
P. A. Johnson, Frederick II. Lynch
Rev. Edward P. Armstrong.
Committee on printing-Rev. VIII.
liam J, Mulch, II. N. Kochersperger
Rev. Norman J. Squires.
| committee on reception ana genera
oversight-Rev. Newman Smyth, 10.
seph Porter, Rev. Justin F.. Twichell
Among the most efficient aids in the
prosecution of the work of the Ameri-
can Board have been the Woman's
Board of Missions, Boston, organized
in 1868; and the WonIan's Board of the
Interior, organized in 1869; and the
Woman's Board of the Pacific organ
lied in 1873.
Among the higher institutions fo1
Christian education, aiming always a
the preparation of an evangelical
agency some Of them being under the
direct care of boards Of trustees, but
all of them aided by the board, the fol
! lowing may be mentioned: Contra
| Turkey college, Aintab, established il
1875; Euphrates college, Harpoot, es
tablished in 1878; Jaffna college, Cey
Ion, established in 1877; North Pacific
institute, Sandwich Islands, established
in 1877; Constantinople Home" be.
gun in 1870, and chartered as the
American College for Girls in 1890
Anatolia college, Marsovan, estab
lished in 1885; Ahmernagar high schoo
and the Pasumalai institution, recog.
nized by the government as colleges in
1886; Central Turkey Girls college
Marash, 1886.
| Resides these institutions Theological