New-York tribune., 1900-04-25

Inspired men Of God are engaged in this great g
enoe that Ser new IN s sa sna
the missionary work which have here,otore pee N
place the word Of G Cod which viii accomplish
more ,nan anythlng that man can say Say OF @1 nnoe
from o Word
Re1 Of OF Of india
the progress of Christianity In India ana s,ated d
among the natives. and that eventually HindoOism
and Brahminism would cease to exist
DIR. AsHMoRE ON CHINA
An extremely interesting address delivered
by the Rev. DR.. William Ashmore, of Shanghai.
upon China. In part he said:
At the beginning of this century or even fifty
years ago, who ever dreamed of what we see now
in the China that is passing away! The passing
century Is led With siupendous events but among
hemisphere none loom up into more startling prom
greatest empire on the face of the earth. The
cause for this is not found in the decrepitude of old
vdual constituents of her nativity not old. The
Individual Chinaman is remarkable for vire traits
a business man, diplomat sailor. BY and by
he will be soldier. Then let the world look
capabty of being built into a new strurt-
}bet when his S happens ;, to }
IN the enervaJion produced by luxurious and riot
OF hs coapse are o
and some from without Among the internal
dynasties and of many generations of evdoers.
Offlcial classes in China have come to consider
their peculations and extortions legitimate right
The Empress Dowager offers TO assassns rewards
If sSd or f M Is In In ns unto
death Il is the opinion of those in China who
BILE. China has lost all power of recuperation She
has exhausted all her moral resources. The ethics
of morality are mere names without significance,
and so the great body poltic Of China lies rolling
sea Foremost of the causes from without is the
into collision. Ii is a of the survival OF
the the ,,tst httes Western ideas methods education ,
must go under. There is no hesitation as TO which
1t is unsafe to prophesy, but with some knowledge
of the forces at work we may not be amiss In in
fha d tn b viii m on tag
China At present China is at the mercy of am
into Russian and a French sphere of influence
But 1t will not continue The Chinese viii con-
rule China: China once upltfted and on her feet
@ n the hs ana Tob
Russia has better prospect. but she will not dom
the Anglo-saxon and the Germanic peoples to act
the part of the Good Samaritan and help China get
China that is to be will ally herself with the
West A rsconstrncted China win become mighty
factor In the worlds noitical and industrial future
and in the worlds religious future
AT THE CENTRAL. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
At the Central Presbyterian Church the
interest of the audience was especially aroused
American Bible Society, told of the poisoning OF
two Protestant missionaries in the Philippines. it
vas alleged by the priests One of the two. Sgnor
Castelles. escaped with his life, and at pres
ent attending the Conference The other succuInbed
to his fate. The speaker then related how with
the subugation of the island by the United States
the work left undone by Sgnor Castelles had
again been begun and with renewed energy Con-
tinuing DR.. Fox said:
The priests of the Roman Catholic Church held
in fhn gIiry{r J-oI
years. They translated into the native languages
several , grammnrs and lexcons. but not one word
tongues spoken In these islands and many
In cuba the work Of the Bible societies in trans
lating the Bible into Spanish. so that it may be
YEARS, Forty thousand Of theso Ribes have been
and In Rer Porto Rico % IT, @ is nsf T R
inf Of c B6 may now be
the henng as Of the the aenn2v 1 hre
were fty-six versions Of the Scriptures BY 1s6e
the number had risen to 220. by 1870 It had eaped
century with over versions Of the Bible or some
portion thereof.
The Rev DR.. f. w. Parker. of India told how
the Bible had been translated into the various
languages spoken in that country. Pamphlets cor
tanning some portion Of the Scriptures had been
printed and distributed among the people at the
cost of one cent copy. The mere reading of the
Bible, he said. had made many conversions.
Joseph King the Australian secretary of the Lon
don Missionary Society, said that the work of the
Bible societies among the Australians had been
tended with much adversity.
The aboriginal tribe of Australia" he con-
tinued, lis of the lowest type found on the face of
the earth. II Is a fact that by intercourse with
the whites they have 20 great degree adopted the
baSer habits of the superior race. This condition
is perhaps the saddest of all A great missionary
work is being done, however. in New w-Guinea where
there Australian and London society.
Evangelistc work is also successful with the Chi
nese immigrants, who work on the sugar planta-
tons
The Rev. DR. Grattan Guinness spoke of the
evangelistic work of the Bible societies which has
been begun in the republics of South America.