Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-11-20


l:15 p. nj. to s o'clock p. M. when u
missionary mass meeting will be held,
and addresses will be made by DIR.
Lambert and Bishop Duncan.
MISSIONARY ANNIVERSARY.
The anniversary of the Missionary
Board of the Virginia Conference was
held at Cumberland Street Church at
O'Clock last night in the presence OF
an audience that filled the entire seat
ing capacity. Rev DIR. w. e. Ed
wards. president of the board. pre-
were conducted by Rev. r. NJ. Maxey.
THE BOARDS REPORT.
Rev. L. b. Betty read the report of
the board. 1t calls attention to the
spiritual needs of the world, and the
church is urged to supply these needs
through the propagation of the gospel.
1t says the board desires to give en-
phasis to the Importance aud value of
domestic mission work, in connection
with the foreign. The report also re-
fers to the devotion given by the
women to the work in the Foreign and
Home Mission Societies. and says that
God has graciously blessed their faith
full labors. In the seventy charges
within the bounds of the Conference
the work has in the main been attend
ed with profitable resorts.
AMOUNTS RAISED.
The following amounts have been
raised during the year: Foreign mis-
sions, s17,420.3O; domestic. $lo,214.1S;
Womans Foreign Missionary Society,
50, 404.03; Rosebuds, S2.574.06.
DIR. LAMBUTH'S ADDRESS.
Rev. w. r. Lambuth, of Nashville.
Tenn. senior general secretary OF the
Board of Missions of the NJ. e. Church,
South. was introduced. and for more
than an hour held the rapt attention
of his audience in an address replete
with valuable information in reference
to the missionary work in Japan.
China and Corea. from which the fol-
lowing important facts are cleaned:
IN FOREIGN FIELDS.
The Methodist Episcopal Church,
South, has work in six foreign fields
China, Japan, Korea, BriZal, Mexico
and Cuba. In these fields there are
1877 missionaries; % native preachers;
over 10000 members, with an increase
of ISL last year; PA organized
churches, 10 OF them self-supporting; 8
hospitals and dispensaries; 10000 pa
tents treated annually; 80 Bible wo-
men; 5000 women and children under
religious instruction. The 10000 MEM
bers raised $4,000 last year for mis-
SlnnS. ana III auulllOn tHey anu their
friends contributed 100000 towards the
Twentieth Century Fund.
In the United States under an assess
ment of $3.50, 900 the church contributed
S230,000. to which If we add the amount
raised by the Woman's Foreign Mis-
sionary Society, we have sum equal
to $373. POS, or about 20 cents Il member,
just n trifle more than a postage stamp
month. There was an increase last
year in collections by the amount OF
$4,000. Three years ago only one dis
trict in the entire connection paid it's
missionary assessment in full; two
years ago there were four; last year
twelve. and this year II have already
been reported. In list of 80 confer
ences. the Virginia stands 6. having
paid S1S.7l3 on an assessment of S22.-
500 or SO per cent. Surely by n united
and well-pianned effort the balance of
S3,SO0 could be secured.
MISSIONS AND OBJECTIONS TO
MISSIONARIES.
First objection-It takes 50 to send
dollar TO the foreign field. On the
other hand, DR.. Lambuth replied, one
gold dollar is worth SIP in Mexico.
S2l5 in Japan and about SOS in China,
varying with the rate of exchange. He
added that all we had to do in order
To send $40 to Yokohama or Shanghai
was to go to any Norfolk bank buy
New York exchange and mail it, to be
negotiated by the receiver-the cost
being absolutely nothing, save the five
cent postage stamp.
Second objectionable expense of ad-
ministration. To this objection tho
Doctor replied as to expense. on
cents in every dollar Is applied to the
work In the mission fields, while the
remaining cents must be made to COW
er the expense of collection. disburse
ar itaic
cludes salaries of secretaries and trea
surer, clerical help, the publication of
monthly periodical. the printing Of
leaflets, mailing OF circulars, dissem
NATION of literature, and a large CORE
spondence.
This is less than the cost of admin
lstering any Missionary Society In tha
country -eXcept-t@a;-and in Thea
of the great insurance companies tho
cost rises to II and Is and IS per cent
Third objection-The salaries of the
missionaries are too high
Answer = DR.. Young J. Allen. in
Shanghai. China, who could command
Slo'ooO year from the Chinese Gov
eminent, gets only SLIGO; DR.. y
Parker who was offered 81, n vcor
10 become the president of a Chinese
college. refused, preferring to prose-
cute his missionary work He gets tho
same; and yet he stands fifth in rank
as Chinese scholar in the empire.
having translated complete mathe-
NAUTICAL series from Algebra to Calcu
lus.
Dr. w. III. Park. who studied at Van
derbilt University; is n graduate of
Bellevue Hospital Medical College in
New York, and who studied further in
the University of Edinburg, mt the
Royal Opthaimic in London, and i'm
the hospitals of Paris. gets only the
modest sum of 500 per month, and is
allowed no perquisites. though he
brings in through his practice over
$4,000 year; and. during the past six