New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-04-24

Hahnemann Medical College, and considered
the brightest man In his class. HIS father and
mother missionaries in Jamaica. West Indies
where DIR. Henderson born. His sister Is a
missionary TO Southeastern Africa, under the Amer
lean Board and his brother Is a missionary under
the same society in Southwestern Africa.
The speakers Yesterday morning at the Central
Presbyterian Church were the Rev. J. O. Cunning
ham, of Canada. who presided the Rev DR. Vance,
of Nashville; the Rev. Henry T. Chapman
tary of the United Methodist Free Churches OF
England; the Rev. Pau! de Schweintz, secretary
Of the Board of Missions of tho MoravIan Church
and the Rev. Or. II. c. Ma5ie, secretary of the
American Baptist Missionary Union Or. Chap
man said IL part:
The Gospel of Jesus Christ VIII meet the needs of
the universe. 1t will and does fulh' the suhltriest
needs 6e 6 of nhr but Hq 4bd my % n
vergence of views. Your country has sent to
New Era which tells Of the aCa ptation Of the Cos
pei to the Anglo Saxon race But there are India.
the Gospel has met the greatest demands OF the
that race its richest blessings socially and intel
ectually; but India, with its rich Imagination and
geous and the spectacular. and Chirs, with its
idiosyncrasies. are yet unregenerated Where is
the proof that as We say. the Gospel OF Jesus
Christ meet the genius of the Hindoo. ard the
China is case of arrested development. There is
much 70 be seid in favor Of that view Where is
Christ r. TO ST. the pstv Of
methods will have TO be readusted. and some OF
them entirely abandoned but the readtustmert and
the failure Of the povet Of the Gospel faf back
on the huma nifty of Christ the proof tina.
ally every nation viii be included In the reclaim
ing purposes of Almighty God
WORK OF THE MORAvIANs
The Rev. Mr. Schweln!tz OF the Moravian
Church. spoke on the incentive for missionary
work. He said that the Moravian workers had
been taught that the greatest incentive to mis-
sionary work the binding obligation Of the
Christian TO Christ No missionary. he said need
feel any responsibility the results OF his labor
so long as he felt and taught the universal obliga-
ton to Christ. The whole matter reduced to
the simple question of obligation to Christ and
none was excepted from the obligation. He said
that the Mora ian brethren had started out on
that line in May 1852. with only little band of
workers and by 1890 had baptized 1900 adults.
cdr Mabie spoke The Determining Aim in
Missions: It's instrumental Side He said the
word witness" was the largest word In the New
Testament descriptive Of the human side Of Chris
tian work II was Synonymous with the word
martyr" Stephen the frs; witness and the
first martyr Construetively and prospectively ev-
! cry who becomes witness for Christ becomes
! a martyr for him. Pentecost decided once for al
| that every one who became a witness for Christ
at the same time became martyr IN His cause
| The prime fundamental. cardinal principle OF the
! lesson OF Pentecost, 20 women wen as men
! children as well as adults. was "Ye shall becom,
| my martyrs"
| In Carnegie Music Hail the meeting was opened
| by the Rev. Or. Judson Smith. chairman OF tn.
| General Committee. who called upon the Rev DIR
| Charles Cuthbert Hall, president OF Union Theo
! logical Seminary, TO offer prayer. The speaker,
| were the Rev. DR.. Augustus H. Strong presden
| j. Hudson Taylor founder and superintendent o.
| the China Inland Mission and Robert f. speer
secretary OF the Board OF Foreign Missions of IN,
l Presbyterian Church in the United States DIT