New-York tribune., 1900-04-27
COMI7Y IN MISSION WORK.
IT Is NOW DESIRED BY MANY. AND THAT
FEELING Is SPREADING

FEELING Is SPREADING.
Consideration of the question whether union and
cooperation in mission work practicable and
desirable was begun at 10 a. m. in Carnegie Hall,
where the Rev DR.. Fl. NJ. King chairman of the
American Baptist Missionary Union spoke the
Spirit and Limitations of Missionary Comfy" and
the Rev DR. Alexander Sutherland secretary of the
Missionary Society Of the Methodist Church in
Canada, gave a general summary of the situation.
This was followed by discussion. Dr. King said
in part:
and all denominations in which union could be
practice that is held be vital, ought to unite
/ their work when prosecuted on the same mission
to transplant and perpetuate divisions which have
passed away from the laying of emphasis upon
unimportant matters Let those who are in reality
tce walk and work together.
Where field has already been taken possession
of by one missionary body that body should have
the exclusive right to cultivate it, no matter how
promise of the harvest There should be no inter-
original settlers shoud be- earefu H
Missionary expansion does not give the right to
Great centres Of population too large for any one
society to compass, and large enough for the rep
without danger of frietion. may be exempted from
In entering upon territory there may be-
there hGud nd be- end mGass rs & division 81 S Of the field
lines, not for the sake of restricting missionary
ing Of the Gospel of scattering more widely the
need of the kingdom and of bringing speedily
the heather World But it 80 t be that any soeety
OF m he d Or pr IS
unable to cultivate the new field the responsibility
0r its His Gam " may ask f0r aid or
Among the missionaries of different societies
occupying the adjacent fields the common
Sye for m chs m and the me- regard @ for the
will prompt to frequent conferences, in which the
and fully considered, and ali matters which might
lead TO friction, and about which there Is any pos
In the spirit of prayer and in the holy light of
1t should be understood that concessions to
be expected only 80 far as they involve no sur
demand disloyalty conviction the
pon OF It IS he hof o coT m To- M
a modus vivendi when convictions are divergent.
and of private judgment that we claim for our
selves, and stI to love them, and honor them, and
iberaiity that is Christianity.
SMALL GROUNDS OF DIFFERENCE.
DR.. Sutherland said. among other things
When closely and impartally ipyesstigated the
shrink into small proportOns-too small to plead as
pons Of the U Vineyard @ ana vast M
though the time may not be opportune to introduce
union Of Protestant Christendom. Yet as TO the
mission work there is % now remarkable com
! sensus of opinion among missionaries. and also
| In promoting the spirit and practice of comfy
Ha6e are r m tgs wncn snUGG De
helds of labor. and all unfrendly criticism OF the
TO be In h second pae there Se are seT Hran al td h
needs to be cultivated among the missionaries. The
ssm spirit needs to be cultivated among members
would be found helpful:
Conference between representatives of the home
boards as to the lines on which comfy and
operation are especially desrab Bile Instructions from
cultivate assiduously the spirit of comfy, but by
nation in EACH foreign m ed OF CHmmttee Of
OSpd Of
senatives from each mission willing to cooperate
of practical comfy such amalgamaton of small
9f nfT @ p9np ed 1nd n
nnd ion the K and
| In report and sent to the home boards for APP
That all the boards and missions will at once
! cooperate would be too much 10 expect. but If
way and demonsrate the pTactcab biiity of comity
soon follow,
Among the other speakers Bishop c. C.
! Penick, Of the Protestant Episcopal West African
| Mission. who made the suggestion that all the de-
nomina tions represented at the Conference
tribute to the maintenance of great central
sion bureau TO be conducted on the co-opera tive
| plan; the Rev. DIR. George W. Knox. of the Union
! Theological Seminary who said the present meth
! DDS Of the missionary system wasteful In the
| extreme and that in the four seminaries in Toxic
Japan there were not enough students TO keep one
faculty busy; the Rev. Or. Johnson. Presbyterian
| of London. Ontario. who created a diversion by
arising and protesting against the great map which
| hangs at the OF the stage because Canada was
| represented in the color Central Africa
and the Rev Dr. Schrieher, OF Berlin, who advised
q settlement of all differences and working to-
| gether for the common end.
IN EDUCATIONAL WORK
| Comfy in educational work was considered at
the Central Presbyterian Church yesterday after
| noon The Rev DR. d. Stuart Dodge. of the Board
| OF Trustees of Syrian Protestant College Beyroot
Syria. advocated establishing great college in mis-
| sion lands. He said that communities stepped I'm
| superstitons. enslaved by hoary and degrading
faiths, or buried I'm grovelling and cruel paganism
to be lifted Of spiritual and physical cor
ruptiOn and made heirs of all the privileges of the
best civilization. and the agents accomplish this
! stupendous task must be born and trained the
| soil! Institutions OF higher learning be plant
| cd in the lands themselves, with Il curriculum in
| each instance as FUN and thorough the sd-
vanccmcnt of the nation would allow.
1he Rev. DR. ID. Il. Sheffield. president OF the
! North China College. spoke briefly, and the Rev
| DR. George B. Smyth of Foochow, China. said that
! everything the Christian Church could 90 10
awaken q higher intellectual life among the Chinese
! would aid them in the acceptance of the Christian
! religion DR.. Smyth added that through the far
seeing policy OF President Mckinley and Secretary
| Hay opportunites unheard o. before had been