New-York tribune., 1900-05-01
CHRISTIAN LITERATURE.
CONFERENCE HOLDS THREE MEETINGS
TO DISCUSS THIS TOPIC.

At three meetings yesterday the delegates 20 the
Ecumencal Conference considered the subject of
Christian literature in its bearings upon mission
work One of these held Central Presby-
terian Church in the morning, another at Madison
Avenue Reformed Church in the afternoon, and
the third in the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church.
also in the afternoon. Brief extracts from the
speeches follow:
-, The Rey f,.;x TIMOTHY RICHARD. of the Society
Tor the DIFFUSION OF Christian and General Knowl-
edge Among the ChineseIit has been found neces,
educate the heather to proper understanding Of
the Bible. The preacher speaks with comparative
a nation is born in day they must have been
previously taught by Christian literature.
The Rev. GEORGE OWEN, of the London Mis-
sionary socety-,In 1895 a great reform movement
began among the Chinese with the Emperor at
There was oe great Joy anu in CHINA among the Chris
series of reform edicts which. had they been car
been redeemed One of these gave fun tolera-
ton thTonghout the eRnpire The effect on the the
respect Of the officials and China became me almost
men began to study our on anguage and our sciences
and the people wished to know what was transpir-
lntely unprecedented.. This apparently a sud;
been silently working since the Japanese war.
and is always the case in Eastern .b
suddenly and in masses and thus Will nation oe
Rew RprR that tn he owed his to to the
writings, Of the Rev. Timothy Richard and Dr.
region in Africa was there six and onehaIt n1It
m 6 Rg f56n aae result my un
translated the Gospel of Luke, and the natives
ticulariy attracted by the verse which commands
us to give to our neighbors whatfveT ever they may
The Rev DR.. GARRISON, of St. Louis-It is
sectarian dssension and division which paralyzes
% F 6 6r nd op Chrs US o Tp
doubt in the minds of the people around us ana ana
lorioo on he n3mp
evangezation of the world is the supreme duty OF
spiritual unity.
The Rev. DR. X. S. MACDONAID-I appeal to
the missionary societies on both sides of the At
each of the foreign mission fields of heathendom
such men as will take charge not only OF the ne MGa6 6
the circulation of religious literature Mission
as department of evangelistic effort, and for this
work select men. who have shown the n REQUISITE
ability. should be set apart being supported as be
them
The Rev. E. S STRONG. editorial -ecretary of
the American Board of Commissioner for Foreign
Missions-A hundred years ago a strictly mission
ary periodical was unknown TO the Christian world
Now their name is legion: | have a list Of forty
nine publications in Great Britain and Ireland. most
of them issued monthly. some Of them quarterly,
entirely devoted to foreign missions. while there
their view missionary work at home and abroad
On the continent Of Enr9pe tfI there are nearly h
this side of the Atlantic there is list of thirtytwo
acter A dozen more monthly magazines report
the missionary work Of the churches they repre-
sent. both in the home land and beyond the seas.
There to-day not less than hundred publi-
cations chiefly monthly. which entirely de
voted to foreign missions.
w. J. sL0WAN, secretary of the National Bible
Society of Scotland-Nuch has been said here of
circulation but circulation is not everything. and
a Bible society live by its funds or it's
issues than live by bread alone Its
chief end is not to push into circulation i'm
mense number of Scriptures A Bible society with
that end alone comes to its end. We seek
readers rather than buyers: souls rather than
Other speakers were the Rev: DR.. D. J. Burrell.
Il 7.
Deering of Japan: the Rev Richard Lovett the
Rev. II. W. HurIbut. the Rev. DR. f. NJ Bliss the
Rev. DR. y. z. Sheffield. Mrs. J. r. Gracey, the Rev
Or. a. Woodruff Hslsev. the Rev. DR.. Arthur IT.
Pierson, the Rev. D. c. Rankin and DR. A Schreber.