The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-10-05
AMERICAN BOARDS MEETING
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sanguine. There are over six hundred thousand members in the churches of our faith and order in the United States.
 The number of deaths has been less than for any of the past five years. The list is as follows: Calvin T. Hurl- burd of New York, elected in 1s46; Samuel Holmes of New Jersey, elected in 1870; Samuel G. Buckingham of Mas sachusetts elected in 1871; Rowland Hazard of Rhode Island, elected in 1871; Nathan F. Dixon of Rhode Island, elected in 1894; Dexter H. Richards of New Hampshire, elected in 1S97 Eff teen new missionaries have been ap- pointed and sent out-three young men, two of them unmarried, three the wives of missionaries and nine single women. A young man and his wife have been taken as the special charge of a Chris tion woman in Connecticut. The other young man has brought some generous contributions to the board, but not enough for his full salary of about $4OO. Two of the single women support them selves and one other is supported from money raised outside the constituency of the board. The names of the new missionaries are as follows: West Gen. tral Africa, Miss Agnes M. Baird; west ern Turkey, Miss Marie A. Hoffman;
 eastern Turkey, Mrs. Charles R. Ash
 down, Rev. and Mrs. R. s. Stapleton, Rev. Charles D. Usher, M. D., Miss The resa L. Huntington, Miss Laura Els worth, Miss Ruth M. Bushnell; North China, Miss Frances B. Patterson; Laf hor A AtyU1 ter; Micronesia, Miss Jane D. Baldwin,
 Miss Elizabeth Baldwin central Tur- key, Rev. John E. Merrill. The return ing missionaries are thirty.
 The committee express great sympa- thy with all the movements of to-day which tend to increase the practice of
 Christian comity in foreign missions, and consequently Christian economy in administration of the great trust in- volved in our work. In recognition of the great demands upon the churches of to-day to speedily seek the evangel- ization of the world, we should as a board be- in the future as in the past,
 heartily committed to the laws of econ omy and comity in mission work. A | band of five young men, all recent grad | uates of Yale university, are about to enter upon a campaign, visiting the leading cities of Connecticut, Ohio and l the middle and South Atlantic states, as we'll as other portions of the coun- | try The receipts of the middle district | have been $9S,39S in donations, $93,SSS | in legacies, total from all sources, of l $248006.
 Rev. A. N Hitchcock, Ph D., district sec, | retary, presents the following report from i the interior districts, the district including fourteen states and territories west of Ohio, l and the southern Mississippi states. With i the close of the present year the district | secretary completes ten years of service un-
 der the American Board. Michigan, South | Dakota and Kansas have state foreign ms- an aggressive movement. The receipts from | this district were S113, 141. There has been a gain in donations from the interior district, l exclusive of the states lately added, of $6,- ! e27.94 The increase in the number of con | tributing churches Is more marked. While 1 the whole number of churches, not counting | the added states, has increased by Is, the
 number contributing to the board shows q l gain of 11S, and the number taking public collections has increased by 72, The total | from Christian Endeavor societies in this | district exceeds $9,50O, a decided advance on any preceding year.
 Res. Walter Trear of san Francisco makes
 the following report from the Pacific coast | agency: The bounds of the district have
 
 Utah, Arizona and New Mexico, an area | neariy eight times as large as New England,
 and which. with Washington. Oregon and | California, is nearly equal to all of our coun- | try that lies east of the Mississippi In all | the added territory, however, we have only | thirty-four churches with q resident mem- barship of one thousand five hundred and
 ninety-five. Tn the entire field of the agency | there are four hundred and thirty-four
 churches, and twenty y-three thousand five hundred and thirty-seyen resident members. | Tho contributions from all sources make
 total of $10,963.90, as against $S.533 the
 year before, Besides the above, $550 have
 been contributed by residents of California. | With this amount added, the increase on | last year is more than the twenty five per
 cent. asked fer The war, having made it
 unsafe for the Morning Star to go on her
 usual voyage from Honolulu, rendered nec-
 essarv the making of arrangements with q
 vessel from this port bearing the English | flag to take the missionaries, and the SUD-
 plies and mail, to the Mcronesan mission | Five missionaries and fifty seven tons of
 supplies for the Micronesian mission were | on tue Queen of the Isles when she sailed | for Kusaie and Ruk. There has been small | increase in receipts in the district of the 1 interlcI, large increase in the middle dis l trict, and also q good increase on the Pa
 cifc There must therefore have been q | large decrease in gifts from the New Eng | for this year, fifteen in number, two of i thotu lave come from New England, four | from the middle district. six from the in- l tarnr, one from Canada, and one from an- other mission in China by marriage. Appli-
 cations for missionary appointment have
 come ir large degree from the west ard l from those who have been educated in west