New-York tribune., 1900-04-29

| founder of the great English brewing house. His
father, 1t Is said. refused accept his legitimate
| share OF his fathers estate because OF religious
! scruples and because he wanted to engage in re-
| lgious work. The father of the Rev. Harry GUM
ness is at present at the head of large missionary
T,ain4g 3 school in the city OF Lond2p t9 WHICH he
Guinness is greatly Interested in missionary sta
three mon na5 the there inca and nqa % ere are are
TO be firmly established. Mr. Guinness has started
mission work The nearest forests are thirty t miles ht
to tidewater Mr.; Guinness says he has the same
when in one year succeeding famine thousand
| Il believe that this Conference marks a new era
In the religious history of the world said the Rev
DR.. q. ". F. Birch. of the New-York Presbytery
to a Tribune reporter yesterday. THE tremendous
enthusiasm on the part of the clergy and the laity
and the great interest taken in the subject of mis-
sons by the public generally, supplemented by the
reports from the field, convince me that the next
century will see the world practically Christianized
It is Just about one hundred years ago that Will
lam carey, the consecrated cobber,' Sidney
missionary project While he cobbed he studied Gtet
@ 1l F Thy day M bis sng ssn a
set out for India; He was held up by the Indian
gin fields within the next decade shall
The tangible results of the present Conference
VIII be highly significant" said the Rev. DR.
Phraner 1T seems 10 that so far as missionary
eHort Is concerned there Is practically a unity
among Protestant bodies or soon will be II has
not been possible to tell the denomination of the
speakers, so broad has been the pervading spirit
o h @ daR @ OF it the %d kind Id ever T
PRESIDENT Of the United States. former President
ana the Governor or the greatest State In the
Union 1t has given to the world message that
minister might say the same thing as WIS said
by President Mckinley but II would not be so i'm
The missionaries Of Siam will remain undisturbed
as long as Siam retains It's integrity" said John
Barrett, former United States Minister to that
country, yesterday. SLAM is present a buffer
State. and both France and Great Britain desire
her to continue such. The present King will
Prince who has been attending Earopean cSlIeges
sprited msny SsI seven ver or eight years Is broad
wa"na ICCw IN MS S rathers footsteps The King
The address OF Mrs. Baird. missionary from
Corea will be long remembered by those WIN
heard II. Mrs. Baird is a spare woman of the
Down East" kind, with ringing voice and an
Impressive manner One of the stories she told
on Wednesday at Carnegie Hall was substantially
as follows:
"One of our converts was a prepossessino ,ri5o,
She had a number Of suitors in the village ard
among them was man who much smitten
with her' She exercised the prerogative that
American widows claim, and when the suitor tol5
her he wanted her for his wife che re,,sAa -.
That made the man very angry. and he went awav
muttering, Then he got his friends tosetbsr snd
one night they went to her little home and car
rled her off by force. She stoutIy fought then,
as they took her over the three or four miles he
tween her house and that OF her wouid-be hus-
Dand, ana L m sure you'll be glad to know that AT
, Iie END or the journey the men who stole that
WIDOW were all tired out, and the chief consnira-
TORS We're glad enough 20 drop her with whole
SKIN Mrs. Baird's narrative was greeted witb
hearty laughter by the delegates ~
When We organized school at Lake Svassa
nearly twenty-five years ago. said the Rev Dr
Robert Laws. OF Scotland, a big Scotchman with
burr on the end of his tongue TO a Tribune
we decided to institute a series of rewards for at
tendance. The children would come one dav ana
then stay away for week, as fancy swava1
them. On prize day the little fellows would ha ar
ranged In rows and the prizes would be d,str,h
uted To the best boy or girl would give tbras
needles to the second three pins. TO the next two
pins, and when had given out all the nrs
ana needles we would take double hanifuI or
salt, Whlch then was almost unheard of deIi-
CdCS at Lake NyaSSa, and go down the line Tha
cnlldren would take pinches of salt and eat a.
srhlh oy grain with the most intense delight If
Nyassa give him little lump of salt StIrar -
sweet stun are rarities. Some OF the liftie FI
lows; aiter the school was established WOuI1 vrao
up their portion or salt and dart off throueb ~
WOODS 10 their mothers. who shared In the freat :
You people here at home little know OF soma =,
tho Vexations We have to combat In Southern