New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-10-05
MEETING OF AMERICAN BOARD.
EiGHTY-NINTH ANNUAL SESSION OF Thu
GREAT MISSIONARY SOCIETY-STILL A
Def 1T IN FINDS

Grand Rapids Mich oct. f-The American
Board OF Commissioners OF Foreign Missions OF the
congregational Church began its eighty ninth an
nual meeting I'm the Park Church this afternoon.
General Byron NJ. Cutcheon delivered an address
OF welcome: President D. NJ Lamson OF Hartford.
Conn, responded About two hundred delegates
are already here, including missionaries from
emma, Turkey. South Africa and the Pacific isi-
ands.
+. II. virgins submitted summary OF the re-
P''' vi 'he treasurer, which showed that the ex-
nendfres for the support Of missions were ss2s ois:
cost OF agencies 5000; cost OF publications. sO7s3:
cost or administration, E7.6l6 and the total ex-
penses. ST.5co The receipts wer. :ss7 9oe The
deficit on Angus; 81 1885 was saO29l
i"e annual report Of the home department was
presented by Its secretary. the Rev. Dr. Charles
II: Daniels, OF Boston In part IT is as follows:
o mere mas been one inslsent problem confronting
coinihlttee all the year. From wha fever norp
inc business came II was always the same perplsx-
n0M 2 saTy o9n S work which
n,eahs are totally inadequate? The salaries OF
aeds ssrn were reduced ny 10 per cent in all the
o1 T by from 10 to so per cent
churches have shared in the support OF the WORK
trih1,ssd the nscal year. and 22sl have
and individuals were s e. ssIn from ,ss
previous year Of s+s9s H. In the matter OF egacies
ssSTs was an increase over the previous year Of
,,I The receipts FOR the from al sources omit
l<V(.
gam over last year OF Sis.r23 but less than the
average Tor the last five years by $4,000
WIN the total receipts for the year SOL 3Cr and
WIN me total expenditures for the year $50 go "a
me oblisations resting upon the Board for th,
operations or the year are 81 O62 81 The debt NJ
the close OF last year &45 100 81 and upon this
deDt sloOl Wy has been reviewed. leaving a balance
due on the old debt Of fl9.l2s 20 The total obliga-
Tons resting upon tho Board August 81 1898 were
sf,E,l 80 or about 500 less than one year ago
flfteen new missionaries have been appointed and
sent guthrie young men. Of them unmar-
ried three wives OF missionaries and nine single
rios re
follows: West Contra Africa Miss Sarah Stimp-
son; European Turkey. Miss Agnes NJ. Baird: West
grn Turkey. Miss Marie A. Hoffman; Eastern
Turkey, Mrs Charles r. Ashdown, the Rev and
MIS-. r. 5. Stapleton. the Rev. Or. Charles D.
Usher. Miss Theresa l.. Huntington Miss Laura
Ellsworth and Miss Ruth NJ. Bushnell; North
China, Miss Frances b. Patterson: Shansi Mrs.
Elizabeth Graham Atwater Micronesia Miss Jane
D. Baldwin and Miss Elizabeth Baldwin; Central
Turkey, the Rsv. John f. Merrill. The returning
missionaries are thirty
The sermon this evening preached by the
Rev. DR. r. r. Meredith. OF Brooklyn ~ Y, He
spoke in part follows:
christianity is missionary enterprise.
There can be no more accurate. more funda mental,
more exhaustive definition OF II than this Tho
earth Is the great mission field of the triune God,
Jesus stands before us as the model missionary.