New-York tribune., 1900-11-16
METHODIST MISSION WORK.
GENERAL COMMITTEE FIXES THE SUMS
TO BE SPENT ABROAD.


The General Missionary Committee of the
Methodist Episcopal Church resumed its sessions
yesterday morning in st. Paul's Church, West
End-ave. and Eighty-ffth-st. The session
taken up largely in the consideration of the pro-
posed reduction of $4,000 in the money for the
foreign missionary field. 1t was decided to
make reduction as to distribute it over the en-
tire appropriation for home and foreign fields.
which IS about 81 100000. OF this latter sum
the foreign field gets 81 per cent about
$614 607; the balance or about $463, ,65S goes to
the home field
There are five districts in the foreign field,
namely. Europe. South America and Mexico,
Southern Asia, Eastern Asia and Africa. The
committee appointed committees of five to take
up each district and the question of apportion
ing the allowances for such territory.
Bishop Cranston. of Portland. Ore, spoke
the proposition of including the Philippine Archi-
pelago in the Eastern Asia District He recently
returned from Manila after Investigating the
conditions there. and was listened to with close
attention. It was noticed that he pronounced
Philippine with the accent on the last syllable
and the i'' long. like in pine tree.
Il see that Bishop Cranston, who is evidently
posted, pronounced the word Philippine differ
emily from most of U.S. said DR., James NJ. Buck
ley. of this city. The usual pronunciation I
believe, is 'Philippeen.'"
'Oh, yes: 1 know" said Bishop Cranston,
that is the way the Romansts pronounced It.
But we want to remove every vestige of Rome
from those islands. and we might as well change
the pronunciation of the name 1 propose to
say Philippine
Many Of the members of the committee ap-
plauded the sentiment. The incident note
worthy indicating the temper of the COM
mittee, with its vast resources in the matter of
proselytng in the Philippines. The question of
grouping the archipelago not definitely dis
posed of.
THE APPROPRIATIONS MADE.
The afternoon session spent in receiving
and acting upon the reports of the committees
on appropriations for mission fields.
For Southern Asia ii was voted to devote these
amounts: For North India, $54 600; for North
west India, $4,000; for Bengal, $1250O; for
| South India $4,000; for Bombay 500, 500 for
Maylasia. $10,250 for Burmah. S5277; for the
Philippines, $1,000 with the recommendation
that $1,000 in addition be asked for out of the
thank offering; also So 900 for North India out
OF the thank Offering.
Bishop Hurst asked: ''Is this fund for the
Philippines to be distributed from home or
abroad, from Manila, and what does Manila
mean? 1t is under the United States flag. and
when Bishop Warren any other bishop goes
lHcIeJ IL is NOT dS d DlSHOp, OUT as a Supeflfl-
tendent. He is simply citizen. President Nc
Kinley himself has ordered the Philippines put
down as a part of the United States on the maps,
and so it cannot be foreign mission field
After several bishops had spoken to this ques-
ton, was finally decided that the matter of
| Jurisdiction was something for the General Con-
ference to decide.
Bishop Thoburn, Of India, said before the dis
cussion closed For all we know-and it looks
| quite probable just now-the United States in
ten years Will be governing a hundred millions
Of Cinnamon"
The report on South America, which was
adopted. was: For the South American Confer
ence, $45.271; for the West South American
Condemnation Chill, $19,520; for Lima 50, ,713.
II voted to apply $1,000 of the entire ap-
preparation and the amount of the sale OF prop
erty In Brazil to the reduction of the debt, and
to turn over to the Board an overdrawn account
OF $4,000. After some discussion involving the
respective rights of the committee and the
Board. it decided turn over the mission
work in Brazil to the Methodist Church South
Inc reason Tor this was the fact that the COM
mittee has but few Portuguese missions, while
| the South Church has few others in South
America.
Bishop Hartzell made plea for the adoption
OF the report for Africa, which recommended
large increase over the appropriation of last
year. He spoke of the great possibilities Of the
Continent, which he called New Africa Lii
beria'" he said, lis going to have a political
tuture OF some importance 1t is paying off its
England and America"
The committee voted to give Africa 500 S6S
divided as follows; Liberia, 1856; East Central
Africa, $10,625; West Central 50 7SS 1t was
voted, also, to add to this amount S25,OOO pro-
vided 1t could be raised
URGED TO RETURN TO CHINA
The night session began promptly at o'clock
The Rev. DR.. Baldwin led in prayer, in which he
alluded to the efforts that are being made to
Christianize the heather nations particularly in
the Chinese Empire. Bishop Charles H Fowler
Of Buffalo. was chairman of the session. He
said. in part:
We are commissioned as a body to go forward
and carry to fruition this great labor in the
neid or missionary work. Greene, the English
| historian. tells Of Pitts inspiration. and at a
time that Pitt was going about and in the most
bombastic fashion saying: There is only one
man that It. can save England, and I am that
man Then came into existence religiousIy
three great empires, the empire of Great Britain
the German Empire and the United States All
! these were made possible by the statesmanshin
| OF Pitt. He stood upon the moral sense and
patriotism or the common people though II has
been said that his work would have been ahso-
| lutely impossible were 1t not for John Wesley
so we have to-day these three great Protestant
empires hanging like jewels around the necIr ~
John wesley, to whom are under the most
unmeasured obligations as members Of the
Anglo-Saxon race. The three greatest events in
christian history are the labors of St Paul the
| hring on Fort Sumter and the blowing nm ~
the Maine. The latter helped to make the great
Anglo-Saxon race one, when the men of the
| ne Of he Co,,fh