The Portland daily press., 1898-10-07
HOW TO FILL TREASURY.
American Board of Missions Discusses
Ways and Means.

American Board Of Missions Discusses
Ways and Means.
SpeciaI A gent To Be Put In the Field to
Arouse Interest in Churches-Annua1
Address BY President Lamson.
Grand Rapids, Mich, October eat
this mornings meeting Of the American
Board of Foreign Missions addresses In
tended to suggest ways and means Tor
filling the treasury were made by Revs.
W. Fl. Walker, NJ. A; Daniel =. Bradley,
d. d.; A. R. Thain, d. D.; j. =. Looa.
E. q. Pitkin. r. E. Grabill and Presi-
dent Fuller of Drury college.
An immediate effort to raise SSooo to
put a special agent into the field to arouse
interest in churches, was successful, the
amount being received from pastors and
laymen. A committee Of two from each
of the cooperating committees was au-
thorized to take charge of what was desig-
mated as the forward movement OF the
American board. The report on the nome
department WAS presented by Rev. =. ID.
Thwyng, D. D., president OF Adelbert
college, Cleveland.
The report attributed the decline of re.
ceipts so far as it has occurred. to rise
of the assurance that Christianity differs
from other religions not in kind but In
degree only, to. the dscline OF belief IN
the serious lasting peril in which the
souls of heather are placed by falling to
know or accept of the gospel, to the num-
erOus religious and philanthrop1o agencies
which have been developing during the
last twenty-five years and which have alb
sorbed gifts. The report recommended
the support of individual missionaries, by
individual churches, colleges, families
| and persons.
Rev. Charles A. Dickinson, D. D., OF
Boston, made a report on missions in
Secretary Smiths department.. President
G. ID. Hartranft of Hartford, Conn.,,
| made report on missions in Secretary
Barton's department.. Rev. Q. 5. Mills
of Cleveland, delivered an address on the
same subject.
The next annual meeting, the ninetieth,
| will be held at Providence, r. l., Rev.
j. @. Vose being chairman OF the local
committee of arrangements. Dr. vose Is
q member of the prudential coplm1ttee IN
Boston, All officers of the board were re-
| elected.
The following were elected as new
| mem bsrs: Rev. Edward g. Porter, Rev.
q. r, W, Scott H. H. Proctor and Henry
| Lee, ESQ.,, of Massachusetts; Rowland e..
Hazard and Rev. Wallace Nutting of
Rhode Island; Dyer B. Holmes, New
York; William H. LamDe OF Pennsyl-
vania; William w. Mills, Ohioi Rev. D.
P. Breed. Iowa. Rev. Calvin B. Moody
and Margaret J. Evans, head OF the
woman's department in Carlton college,
Minnesota, for rs years. This Is the tlrst
| time in it's history that woman has been
elected o member of the board.
| The preacher selected to delivsr the an
nual sermon next year 10 the Rev. George
B. Adams. d. d., pastor of the first
and his alternate is the Rev. E. @.
Moore, of Providence, r. l.
This evening the board was addressed
by President Angel Of Michigan universe.
ty and ex Minister of the United States to
Turkey. President Charles 81. Lamson
of Hartford, Conn.,. then delivered his
first annual address His presidency is
recognized as worthy of the succession to
DIR. Stoors. Dr. Lamson said:
The most serious question of the CEN
fury is now before our nation: Shall we
colonies, enlarge our territory? With or
against our will, some real expansion Is
necessary. AS a Board we can make no
utteranoe concerning annexation, we have
no political message, we assure all ma
tions that no political advantage shall
come to America through our missions.
We desire to give, not to receive, yet we
have an ambition for expansion. We de-
sire that the spirit Of education that has
inspired us shall inspire all lands and
make them national. having first made
them worthy of so great gift. We have
mission not to appropriate lands, but
to create nations. 1t is greater glory
to Christianize the world than to make it
American, Having learned that In the
long run the union of Church aud State
is the enemy of both Church and State,
we pledge ourselves to that superior wis
dom, that religion and the State are
united, as power and motion, as light
and color, as life and body, law and
order. The national life, the necessary
consequent and growth of the religious.
What God hath joined let not man put
asui,der. Through the expansion of re-
ligion shall come the expansion of Amer
lea We shall become really great by
giving the unnational races that gospel
that has been the sourcs and power OF
our State. A Board of Foreign Missions
is the true American Board.
The dominant masculine interests are
business and politics. To these interes is
the Board makes it's appeal. 1t is a bust
n So organization, conducted on business
methods, and Its increase means the in
crease of the business of the world. Com
mercial increase is the necessary attend :
ant and result of Christian expansion. Ii
the gains of commerce that have followed
missionary work could be reckoned,. they
would many times over meet all the ex-
penses of the Missionary Board OF this
missionary century. The business ma
asks, .sDo missions pay9" Certainly II
we pay for missions But under the ordi-
nary and visible standards and ambl-
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