The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-10-05
FOREIGN MISSIONS.
Synopses Of Reports Presented to the
American Board.

American Board.
PROVIDENCE, r. l., Oct. 4-The annual
convention of the American Board of Com
m~issioners for Foreign Missions was con-
tinued to-day. The report of the commit
tee on the treasurer's department was pre-
sented by the chairman, Lucien N. Warner,
who outlined a plan for the distribution of
legacies over a series of years instead of
.exhausting them by consuming them in the
year in which they are severally received.
The annual survey of the work of the
board by the foreign secretaries, the Rev.
DR.. Judson Smith and the Rev. DR.. James
L.. Barton, both of Boston. was presented.
Secretary Barton read the report of the
European Turkey and the eastern Turkey
missions. Marathi, Madura and Ceylon mis-
sions in India, Japan, Austria, Spain and
Mexico. The report showed that every post
brought appeals for larger liberty and a
more aggressive policy in the work of
evangeliZatiOn. Among other things DR..
Barton said: Since the war the mission
aries in Spain have travelled freely and have
carried on their work as before without the
slightest word or look upon the part of any
one hat any Ill will was entertained, while
lin some places ii has been made most evil
dent that the people were especially eager
to greet and honor Americans"
Secretary Smiths department was sur
The missions included are eleven in num-
Der, two in Asia Minor, the western Turkey
Africa, the Zulu, the west central Africa
and the east central Africa missions, two in
the Pacific islands, the Micronesian mis-
Hawaiian islands and four in China-the
Shansi, the north China. the Foo-Chow and
the south China missions. The event Of the
year In Micronesia Is the ending OF tAe
transfer of the CarOlines to the German en-
pire. This undoes as far as that can be the
events of 1887 and 1880 which banished the
missionaries from Ponape, and opens the
way to the immediate and energetic reoccu-
patton of this island as a station of the
board.
In twenty missions, so distributed among
the great continents and nations and
Islands as to encircle the globe, and offering
force of 529 missionaries, assisted by 3,155
native laborers, in LA strategic points
preach the gospel in twenty-six diherent
present membership of 49, LISP, of whom 5.047
have been received or confession this year,
and 1,O21 Sunday schools gather So, O93 pupils
s SCHOOLS h frain s s.oss picked pic e9''s youth a1 Of bosh
sexes, and 1,137 common schools provide
instruction for 1890 pupils, while mission
instruct the Christian communities, and
hospitals and dispensaries minister relief to
l2o,00o. patients, to every one OF whom the
gospel message is given"
At the afternoon session a report of the
on the home department. was
made by hon. >. Is. Cdpen, OF BOSTON,.
The Evangelical Association.
ST. PAUL, Mimi, Oct. 4.-To-morrow
morning Bishop Fischer, of Chicago, will
open the twenty-fourth quadrennial conven-
ton of the Evangelical Association, a re-
ligious organization which has been in ex-
istence for almost a century. The conven-
ton will continue for three weeks There
are 115 accredited delegates TO the confer
ence and practically all of them are now
i'm the city. The delegates from China,
Japan. Great Britain, Switzerland and
Canada, foreign countries. represented, ar
rived in St. Paul at Z o'clock this even
ing. In addition to the delegates there are
as a matter of course a large number OF
strangers in the city attracted by the con-
ventiOn.
One of the principal questions to come
before the conference will be the problem
of missionary work in China. The work in
Japan Is already progressing satisfactorily,
but four years ago the conference appointed
a special missionary agent to investigate
conditions in the fowery kingdom and his
report will be one of the features OF the
present meeting. The meeting Will be pre-
sided over in rotation by the four bishops
of the church. Bishops Fischer and Bowman
of Chicago, Bishop Horn, of Cleveland, and
Bishop Breyfogle, of Reading. Pa.
nm Missionary Societies.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 4-The convention
of the international Union of Women's
Missionary Societies of the Presbyterian