The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-10-13

this great society, honored in all Eng llsh-speasing lands-a society Whlch mas right to appropriate to itselr tne memorable saying of John Wesley, MY parish is the world We give welcome to the president, whose eloquence, year after year, has inspired our annual as- semblles, and who stood at the helin when the waves rose high, steering the good ship into smooth sea. You. sir if l may barely revert to days of con tention-have the distinction in thls body of being first in war, first i'll could our preference prevail, would keep you in official station. To your honored associate, the vice president; to the prudential committee. whose arduous labors have no reward but the pleasure of doing good; to the secreta- ries, who know no rest; to all others concerned in the administration of the
 board, and to the Christian men and women by whose exertions and gifts this organization is kept in being and carried forward in its work, we tender cordial welcome. Let me emphasize the greeting which we extend to the missionaries whose faces we are per- mitted to see to-day. We, whatever service we may be able to render to the cause, belong to the home guard It is they who come from the front where are the dust a..d heat of conflict. l have to add that I am authorized by the president and fellows of the uni- versity to present to this assembly their salutations, and to invite you, should baUa tho 1aS tn tp vie the libraries, museums and other pub lie rooms of the institution, under the escort of persons who will be appointed for the purpose
 Five and twenty years have passed since the last meeting of the board was held in New Haven. Let me refer briefly to the relation of this place and of the college to the missionary work and to the board from an earlier date. It was in S09-eighty-eight years ago that a youth from the Sandwich Is lands, Obookiah by name, who was brought hither by sea captain was found sitting on the doorstep of one of the college buildings, in the old brick line, weeping because there was no one to instruct him. This circumstance was closely connected with the estab 1ishment of the mission school at Corn wall, with the dispatch from Boston, in 1919, of the first missionary company to those islands. Three years later Gin 1822) another band of missionaries, in the presence of great concourse of people, embarged here at what was then known as 'Tomlinsons Wharf, for the same destination. You will re- Co l,o tt,,er >f the board was held Gin 1810) in the par sonage of the Rev. Noah Porter of
 Pennington, the father of the late
 President Porter, where the five com- missioners met under the presidency of that sturdy Puritan magistrate Gov ernor John Treadwell. The meetings of 1914, 1918 and 1922 were convened in the | lecture rooms of Yale college. Among the missionaries of the board who have | been educated here are Meigs and 1 Thurston, Eli Smith and Azariah Smith, Brewer and David Stoddard, Peter Par ker Aitchison and Macy and Blodget, and many others, some of whom are equally worthy of attention.
 The response was delivered by the president, Rev. Richard s. Storrs, D. D.. IL. D., of Brooklyn, who said, in part:
 q am happy to respond on behalf of the members of the board to the hearty and cordial welcome we have just re- ceived. We are very glad to hold this meeting of the board in this, your beau- tiful city.
 :In his address Professor Fisher spoke of what happened here 150 years ago.
 He might have gone further back than that even and spoken of the founding Of Yale college 196 years ago. This noble institution was founded for the
 purpose of educating men for the min istry. It had a professor of theology fifty years before it had professor of mathematics. Now that the institution has beautiful buildings and is finely equipped it is fulfilling the purposes of it's founders more effectively than eyer
 From all lands Christian workers re- turn here to the place where they re- ceived their early training and inspira-
 ton for service.
 q understand" said the speaker, "that the grandson of the first president
 of this board, Governor John Tread l well of this state, is present in this audience. We feel honored by his pres- ence with us, and will he come for ward and take a seat on the platform?
 Gater Dr. Isaac Treadwell the de-
 scendant referred to, went on thesplat- form and met President Storrs) T was present at the meeting of the
 board held in this city twenty-five years | ago. In looking over the minutes of
 that meeting I found that of fifteen
 members from New York at that meet ing but two are now alive, Rev. Dr. Ely and myself and eighteen from Con- necticut but one is now living. Breth- ren, we are reminded by this of the words of Scripture, we must work, for the night cometh when no man can work We are grateful to you for the kindness of your reception The addresses were followed by sev- eral reports.
 Rev. Dr. Phillips, on behalf of the committee of arrangements, announced that the hour of the afternoon session had been changed from to 2:15, and the evening session from 7:30 to 7:45. He also announced that mail would be collected and distributed from one of the side rooms. Also that guides would be provided to show visitors through the university buildings.
 A summary of his report was presented
 by the treasurer, F. T. Wiggin of Boston, as follows:
 Expenditures.
 Cost of missions
 Mission of West Central
 Africa ........... SIP. jA.2S