New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-04-14
MEN FROM MANY CL1MES.
GREAT GATHERING OF MISSIONARIES
EXPECTED SOON

FIRST ECUMENICAL CONFERENCE IN AMER
ICA OPENS IN THIS CITY ON APRIL n
Preparations for the first great Ecumenical
Conference on Foreign Missions held in
America have reached such a stage that 1t is
safe to predict a great success. The Conference
will be called to order in Carnegie Hall on April
21 and will resemble in some respects a con-
gress of nations. because OF the great number Of
it's delegates and the many different countries
from which they viii come The-deiegates Will
number close to two thousand, and among the
countries represented viii be India China.
Japan. Korea Siam. Africa Egypt. Turkey.
Syria, Mexico. Brazil, Danish West Indies. Ger
many. Scandinavia and Canada.
This conference will represent all the Protes-
tant missionary societies and missions Of the
world. 1t will be worldwide in its scope. world
wide in it's sympathies and worldwide in its out
look. Its object is TO enable the foreign mission
workers of all lands to compare notes and i'm
prove methods in every branch of the work; to
promote unity. harmony and cooperation be-
tween missionary organizations. and 10 stinlu-
late the interest of the Christian world IN for
eign missions generally.
HARRISON ITS PRESIDENT
Ex-President Harrison has consented to act
honorary president In fact, the Conference will
be notable for the presence of men who have
gained fame not missionary workers. but as
statesmen educationalists and financiers. and
that not only in America, but in England Scot
land. Germany. Canada and Australia We'll
President Mckinley is expected to come from
Washington 10 attend public reception. Great
Britain will send some of her most renowned
men. Eugene Stock. the secretary of the Mis-
sionary Society of the Church of England. will
be here and with him. it is hoped. will come
the Rev DIR. T. NJ. Lindsay. of Glasgow; DIR. C.
F. Hartford-Battersby of Essex: George A
King. a London solicitor; the Rev. Canon Ed
monds. of Exeter; Judge David G. Barlzley. OF
Belfast the Rev. W. T. y Barber of Cam
bridge and the Rev. r. Wardlaw Thompson. OF
London. Invitations have been extended to the
Archbishop of Canterbury. the Earls OF Aber-
deem and Harrowby. DR.. Munro Gibson. Pro-
fessOr II. C. c. MoUle and Lord Overtoun and
the Earl of Moray. of Scotland. Germany's dele
gates will include some noted leaders. DIR.
Schreiber and DR.. AIerensky. India, IL Is hoped.
will send Baba Kali Charan Banurji. OF Calcutta
The Conference viii also bring to this city men
of mark in literary work in foreign languages
men who have given letters. in Africa. to
peoples hitherto letterless. Others will be here
whose translations of the Bible into divers
strange tongues have fixed in great measure
permanent standards OF literary development IN
many countries Yet others who will be here
hold in their hands. as IL We're. through news
papers and periodicals which they edit in Asia
Africa and the islands of the sea- the mental
growth of thousands. Others will attend the
Conference who have opened the ways OF science
TO young folks at the ends OF the earth through
painstaking drudgery in making school books.
and others still who exert a steady influence
upon the spiritual and moral growth OF hun
dreds of thousands through authorship OF books
that stimulate the higher faculties of men.
SOME OF THE MISSIONARIES
But. interesting these are. IL Is the
missionaries themselves who form the most
crossing feature of the affair. a partial list of
those TO come from India will include Bishop J.
NJ Thoburn. Methodist Bishop of India; Dr.
Jacob Chamberlain. whose story. In the Tiger
Jungle is famous among missionary annals;
Henry C. f. De ST. Dalmas. of the Friends MIS-
sionary Society. London; the Rev DR.. X s Nc
Donald. of the Christian Literature Society; the
Rev Maurice Phillips. of the London Missionary
Society and DR.. John Cross. sent out by the
English Presbyterian Church. China will be
represented by the Rev William Ashmore. who
has for fifty years been a missionary there;
the Rev d. L. Sheffield president OF the North
lor of the China Inland Mission From Japan
win come the Rev. NJ. L. Gordon. the Rev. ]. L.
Daring and the Rev. Julius Soper. From Tur-
key the Rev. II. q. Dwight. OF Constantinople.
and Miss Corinne Shattuck. a heroine OF tho
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