New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-04-30

Mahometsnsm right from American missions
Speaking of the South African war he said:
Of the nden hP ph history Of The Continent o
TIE Beers as people are not fighting the British.
out of that viii come unity. it clearly
Beers in Cape Colony are far better of than those
70 the north. and those who are now fighting will
have now.
Bishop Hartzen has received extensive conces-
sions from the British authorities in South Africa
and every assistance possible. He said he be-
neyed II the most extensive grant Of land for
misAonary purposes made He wishes TO
secure $4,000 S2soe0 year to carry the work.
At ST. Georges Protestant Episcopal Church yes
terday morning Eugene Stock of London. preached,
saving in part:
Many, of you no doubt say: Does 4 do any good
TO send the Gospel to these people?" What bust,
nes is IT Of ours What good Is accompiishsd and
CHRIST SAID TO GO preach the Gospel to every
Soe OF yon may say t9o TN. nave not a dde
nultituds?" His reply was: How many loaves
Piled: Bring them TO me-" And he took them and
brake them and save to the multitude, and they
of the fragments twelve basketsful
nus Is always the result OF obeyins the command
which to You seemed impossibie but He will also
not be able to contain it From You iaymen how
sp; er & i[oae man and IhoIe gr sone
and daughters We want you to put the same
spirit ana energy into the missionary movement
soon all the nations of the earth will acknowledge
that the Lord is God
The Rev. Theodore NJ McNair preached yester-
day morning in the Fourth Presbyterian Church.
West End-ave. and Ninety-irst-st. Mr.. McNair is
a delegate to the Conference from Japan. He said
among other things:
In order to understand the difficulties encoun-
tered by missionaries in Japan it IS necessary to
understand the conditions that exist there Japan
N is the foremost in civilization among the ORR
he he se Hed hrs OF me people d t are
glory in it. They continue the worship of their
worship the Emperor as the son of Heaven 1t is
strange that this idea should still exist among
the common people, but among the best minds and
er IN the minds of these heather connected with
their deities. The deity is still dog OK, a
morals, because where there is no power there can
be no punishment for moral dereliction.
All the benevolence in the land is the result Of
the teachings Of Christianity. FiliaI piety al
to the Placing Of the old on the
20 oie rms practice is now almost stamped out,
,,5 Many japanese are led by contact with ire
declare that ali religion is absurd. Many fntelli1
gent men say that religion is like garment-to
men occupy positions Of political and educational
difficult.
A new menace to Christianity lies in the fact
mat the Church is 10 be brought under the con-
.rol Of the Government. and all its doctrines ex-
faint bsaf f sad Nea s this is not not time
tiarify will be the religion of Japan If mus he
SO Western improvements, such as the railroad
10 much unless the morality of Christianity be
placed behind them 10 support and develop them
The Rev. Alan Ewbank OF the South American
Missionary Society of London spoke on the sub
5ect Of THE Divine Purpose In Missions at Grace
Episcopal Church in Broadway. yesterday morn
ing. He said in part:
The text that have taken is as true of the mis-
the Baptist It is found in John s vas and I re SUhn
There Vas man sent from God. whose name was
ness Of the Light, that all through him might
The the vne pasP B there Is wOrd
TIE The word missionary. if it is considered in the
Is sent So is it with the word Apostle which is
from a Greek verb nearing 10 send Christ is the
great type OF a missionary, for He says of Him
self that He was sent into the world by the Father
any sacrifice in d. life of duty
The preacher toiu several thrilling expert |
enoes of missionaries in South America, who had
stayed at their stations rather than their
lives in returning home. He said that the mis-
sionsry did convert ii was his duty to open
a highway for the coming Of the Lord who could
convert the hearts Of men. He appealed for more
workers, who, he said were needed than
money.
Walter 3. Sloan of London secretary of the
China Inland Mission. preached yesterday morning
at the Washington Square Methodist Episcopal
Church. He took for his the parable of the
fig tree, which, because of its refusing to bear
fruit, was cut down and into the fire. The
effete religions of China he kened such tree /
He sought TO show that the time had come when
they also, because of this barrenness and decay,
should be cut away TO make place for the fruitful
planting OF Christianity.
TO this end Mr. Sloan traced the history of mis-
sionaTy work in China He said in part:
china Was practically O IS5 against the
OF Nankin between that country and England was
drawn up. Then il that Western Europe
made its footEoid upon the of the great
Monaghan Empire. Then it that five seaports
were throws open to European settlement and the
island OF Hong Kong ceded TO England For
the next twenty years the work of the missionaries
sent out from London was in these coast towns.
But during all this time the vast interior of the
empire with the exception of one city, remained
sealed 10 western influences That city was Han
kOW, eight hundred miles inland the great
river of lang-tse-Kiang. Nevertheless, there were
eleven great provinces into which had come not
single word OF the Gospel. To show how tremen-
oous was this yet untrodden field ] may say that
one OF these eleven provinces numbered popula-
ton as great as France
The first step into this vast interior country
taken Ia 1888, when Joseph Taylor established the
China Inland Mission. At that time one hundred
missionaries from England responded to the cali,
ana tli,VO was raised Native prejudice has been
slowly overcome, however; the prevalence of the
AIsnoarin dialect other dialects had rendered
eVanselizatlon easter and native schools have been
at work equipping the young with the TO
convert their own people Instead of the three
hundred communicates of 1854 in the inland prov
inees, there are now one hundred thousand. In
hundred, with an additional six hundred native
workers.
Mr.. Sloan exhorted his audience 10 lend their SUD-
10 the for the greatest part of the work
still he done
The Rev. DR.. "A. 7. Pierson preached in the morn
ing the Church of the Puritans, Harlem saving
in part
that compares with the history of missions for
that is story of perpetual miracles.