The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1900-05-02
MEDICAL WORK.
TOPIC UNDER DISCUSSION AT THE
ECUMENicAL CONFERENCE.

Ecumenical conference i'll Carnegie
hall was Medical Work" A number
of interesting papers were read treating
of this branch of mission duties in its
various phases. The devotional exer-
cises which preceded the business ses-
sion were conducted by DR.. Henry Fos-
ter of the Clifton Springs sanitarium.
Medical work; its relation to mis-
sionary work as whole; practical
proofs of its value, importance, limita-
tions, and results" was discussed in
papers by the Rev. DIR. George E. Post,
professor of surgery of the Syrian
Protestant college, and DIR. @. f. Hart
ford Battersby, of the Livingstone Med
ical college, England.
DIR. f. Howard Taylor, of the China
inland mission, read paper on "Qual-
tications for Medical Work." and DIR. o.
r. Avison, of Seoul, Korea, read the
concluding paper on Comfy in Medi-
cal Work.
Chancellor McCracken, of the New
York university, presided at the Madi-
son Avenue Reformed church, where
Literary Work" was under discussion.
'"The Extent and Value of Literary
Work in the Mission Field, ''by the Rev.
Timothy Richard, of China; Literary
Workers, a paper written by Rev. X.
S. Mcdonald, read by the Rev. j. Fair
ley Daley, of Glasgow.
christian literary work in mission
fields" was discussed by the Rev. Rich
ard Lovett, of London. "The foreign
work of the American Tract Society"
was the title of an address by the Rev.
DIR. ID. j. Burrel. Other papers were
"The Christian Literature Society of
India" by the Rev. George r. Patter-
son, secretary of the society; "The Pub
fishing Center at Constantinople, by
the Rev. DR.. E. M. Bliss, and 1.-THE
Society for the Diffusing of Christian
and General knowledge Among the
Chinese" by the Rev. d. 2. Sheffield,
of China.
At the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian
church, Periodicals and Reports of So
cities, General Missionary Ltera-
ture" and Religious and Secular
Press" were discussed by the Rev. DR..
E. E, Strong, Mrs. J. G. Gracey and the
Rev. A. Woodruff Halsey, d. d.
AT the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian
church meeting, DR.. E. M. Bliss, of the
Independent, dwelt upon the press as a
means for the distribution of mission
airy information. He contradicted what
he said in a very widely extended i'm
preston that the press is not interested
in missions and claimed they are inter-
ested whenever they have the genuine
missionary news.
AT the meeting at the Church of the
Strangers, Mrs. Wellington White, for
me-ly of the Presbyterian board of
China, created a profound impression by
her startling picture of procession of
blind she had seen in China.
They were led through the streets
with painted faces, gaily bedecked with
flowers and ribbons, headed by an old
woman who owned them and who COM
PEELED them to lead immoral lives. She
also told of the work of DIR. Mary Niles
among the girls. She said blindness
waB common among the people, owing
to the climate and unsanitary condi-
tiohs Rich parents had been induced
by the missionaries to have their daugh-
ters taught to read by the Bradley
method.
New YORK, April 30.-Carnegie hall
was not filed when the Indian mass
meeting, under the auspices of the Ecu.
menical conference, was called to order.
President Seth Low, of Columbia uni
versity, was the first speaker. He con-
trasted the population of the United
States, rs, 900, 900, with India's 250, ,OO0,-
900, and said that the United States. to
be as thickly populated, would have
750,000,000.
Mr.. Low then introduced Rev. DR..
John H. Barrows, president of Oberlin
university. Mr.. Barrows described the
differences in the selfishness of castles.
He said that India was a continent
rather than country. A continent
with nearly 300 900, 900 people, one-third
of which were on the verge of starva-
ton.
Bishop Henry Q. Potter said that the
evident interest displayed at the meet
ing should focus itself. 1t should be-
come operative and active.
Rev. DIR. johnson, missionary of
' Central India, said he had passed
through three Indian famines. He told
some pitiful and pathetic stories of the
sacrifices of women-especially of
women for their children.
The daughter of Rami Bey was in
troduced by Chairman Low. Her story
was about $50 girls saved in the famine
of 1897 by her mother. Others also
| talked.
Chairman Low announced that 20
students from the Union theological
seminary would take upa collection,
and added:
"The Chinese merchants Of British
Columbia united few days ago to send
a collection for the sufferers in the
burned city of Ottawa. If the Chinese
have learned the lesson of brotherhood,
how much more should we exemplify
it,"
A list of names of prominent men
was read as composing committee to
collect money for the famine sufferers.
The contributions tonight amounted to
s1,667. Miss Helen M. Gould, who oc-
cupied one of the boxes. pledged 5000.
Sectional meetings were held in the
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Central. Presbyterian church, d. b. st.