Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-04-22
MISSION WORKERS
In Conference.-The Branches of the
Christian Church, Except Three,
Are Representations Than 1000
Missionaries Are in Attendance.

Are Representations Than 1000
Missionaries Are in Attendance.
NEW YORK, April 21.-With an ex-
min Harrison, to bid them welcome,
there are gathered to-day in Carnegie
Hall more than 1000 missionaries from
almost every quarter of the globe. For
ten years preparations have been under
way for this meeting, known as the
Ecumenical Conference on Foreign
Missions 1t is the third of its kind
ever held. Every branch of the Chris
tian Church is represented except the
Roman Catholic, the Greek and that
branch of the Anglican church known
as the Society for the Propagation of
the Gospel.
The foreign missionary work of the
world is conducted by seven great So
cieties. They are the Christian Mis-
sionary Society, which represents the
Evangelical party in the Church of
England, and is almost as large as the
other six together; the Society for the
Propagation OF the Gospel, represent
ing the Catholic party in the Church
of England, and which declined to at
tend the conference; the London Mis-
sionary Society of the Congregational
Church; the American Board of For
eign Missions, also of the Congrega-
tional Church; the Presbyterian Board
of Foreign Missions, the Missionary
Society of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, and the American Baptist Mis-
sionary Union.
The sessions of the conference will
last until May l, not including Sun
days On Sundays the delegates will
be assigned to churches in the five city
boroughs and suburban towns to make
addresses and preach sermons in re-
gard to their work.
The Protestant Foreign Missionary
Societies of the world spend about
SIS, 100000 year to advance their
work. That is exclusive of the money
expended on missions in England and
America. Every cent of this vast sum
is used to convert non-Christians to
Christianity. This great work was
first started in the close Of the eigh-
teenth century and the beginning of
the nineteenth. The conference now
in session is held at the close of this
century as fitting time and to make
way for the great work of the century
about to dawn.
AS stated by one of the leaders in
the movement the one great purpose
of this gathering of workers from all
corners of the earth is to look back
over the century closing and to sur
vey the work of the future.
The great problem now is how to get
money and then how to get the great
est portion of every dollar given to
the Christian whom it is desired
to convert At present it is said 81
cents on the dollar actually reaches the
heather. 1t is hoped that the eight
cents or cost of administration may be
much reduced and it is hoped by this
conference to so combine work in the
same fields and by by the elimination
of all unnecessary competition to eff
feet this result.
In the list of honorary vice presi-
dents of the conference are such names
as ex-President Grover Cleveland, ].
Pierpont Morgan, Seth Low, William
E. Dodge, c. A. Schieren, ex-Gov. w.
J. Northen, OF Georgia, and Miss Helen
Gould
Aiming lue uelSsdloo dlO udAy Wis
tinguished English clergymen, includ-
ing the Rev. w. T. A. Barber, Lees
school, Cambridge, missionary to
China; DR.. D. A. Barley, secretary of
the Irish Missionary Society, and the
Rev. w. E. Cousins, London, mission
airy society, missionary from Madagas-
car.
Others present from foreign parts are
Mr.. and Mrs. Borghegrevink, of the
Nurse Board of Missionaries, from
Madagascar; Miss Budden, the London
Missionary Society; Bishop w. r. Rid
ley, bishop of Caledonia, B. c.; Joel
Cadbury, Friends Missionary Society,
Birmingham, England, and the Rev. F..
Galpin, from China