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

part in the whole work of missions.
The Rev. Dr. Robert Laws spoke especially OF
the Industrial side of missionary endeavor. DR..
Laws has toed for twenty-five years among the
savages who first heard of Christ from DR.. Liv-
ingstone himself. They speak the Banto tongue
DR.. Laws said
Industry is not salvation. This fact you Of New
the feversh activity evident among us there
Would be d hs ba To rs
not make him work t9r that matte man h be
is compelled to- When there Is no winter why
Should the native wear anythng e but S sRe
OF many wno see that even gdesier n pptber
than in simply bathing in ones own sunshine Our
Industrial schools have thrived under the influence
The CHIEF evil Of Africa, however is the immi,
nence and continuance OF war Al enc + ms pn
at msas there haTy r wen was Got
s %n@ o W
In those parts where our missions have been es1
tpiliing the so saving and reaping That the news
world is shown by the fact tina; more conversions
the missionaries who first came among them Be
fore came away learned from one or my brother 1
workers that ore thousand trioesmen We're ASKING
Christ by their fellow natives.
The claims of Africa upon the Christian world
forth by Bishop Alexander Walters. Henry
Richards told of the hopefulness of Africa as a
mission FIELD. The Rev. F. p. Lynch described the
progress which has been made by the missionaries
IL teaching theosavages the use and value of med-
cineS This knowledge has disabused their minds
OF dark forms OF superstition. in connection with
certain herbs and fetiches.
NEEDS in THE JAPANESE FIELD.
Japan was discussed at the Calvary Baptist
Church While t. conceded by each OF the
speakers that Inuch lad been achieved In Japan yet
1T shown that there a tendency on the part
Of the majority of the population to descend
TO agnosticism and sceptcism, and the opinion
expressed b. the speakers that in order sue
cessfully to combat this retrogressive inclination IN
religious faith ;he evangelical workers and re-
sources needed strengthening.
The Rev. :. L. bearing spoke Of the gradual
dying away CT the aatfpathtes which the Japanese
had at one time felt toward foreign elements The
readiness with which they were accustoming Them
selves to the new Institutions was. the speaker
said. unique evidence of the country's progress
The Rev Abertus Peters spoke of the growth of
material civilization and the desire for higher edu-
cation in Japan Between these two forces the
ancient religious faith of Japan had been ground
to dust but in it's place there springing up a
tendency to scepttcism- The problem To- be solved
in Japan how take the Gospel into all parts
| of the nation and convert the inhabitants TO
Christianity. One of the requirements IN the solving
OF this problem DIR. Peters said the sending Of
| a larger force of evangelical workers 10 Japan.
II necessary also to develop the facilities for
education and to increase institutions OF the char
acter Of those of the Young Mems Christian Asso-
| citation
The Rev julius Sopyer, who only reached this
city from Toxic yesterday described the efforts of
the Buddhists to neutraize the abors of the Chris
| tan missionaries in Japan.
| Addresses were also made by Mrs j. H. Pettee
and the Revs. C. F. Reed, o. R. Avison and W. NJ,
| Baird.
| PROBLEMS ON THIS CONTINENT.
| Practical consideration of the religious problems
| of the native races in North and South America
| was had the Madison Avenue Presby terrain
Church. The Rev. l. T. Chamber lain presided. and
| among those who spoke signor Castillo. who
represented the British and Foreign Bible Society.
He told especially OF the effect of Catholicism upon
| the native OF Central and South America.
| Speaking of the missionary work In South America
sgnor Castillo said that the most formidable work
| is in Bolivia. He continued:
millions but the missions scattered and not
! equally distributed The masses of the people are
practically beyond the influences OF Professionalism
in beginning the work Of bringing Hight to these
| sonaries to teach the creole and Spanish classes
| thus necessarily leaving alone the lowest native
these places of the world meet disease OF the most
| virulent Many overcome by death be-
fore they have hardly begun their labors
| The Rev DR. G. w. Chamberlain who has la
bored among the natives of Brazil for thirty eight
years. spoke on the subject of education the
| great power among the people OF that cNIntry.
| The distribution of literature among the lower
classes of Mexico as an agent toward higher
civilization was strikiRgly told Of by the Rev Dr.
| Church. He said: Evidence Of this be seen
in the city Of Mexico itself. The daily papers have
enlarged their circulation to such extent that
| the price per copy in many cases has been reduced
| to cent One may cabmen. porters and
| hall servants eagerly purchasing a newspaper anc
perusng its contents with Intelligence Such things
! not known three four years ago
The Rev. Hubert W. Brown. Of Mexico, took fol-
his subject The Religious Problem of Latin Amer
lea; the Rev. J. Taylor Hamilton and the Rev
| D. Barbroke Grub spoke The Aboriginal Pa
gan Problem" and the Rev. II. Grattan Guinness
of Edinburgh told of the missionary work fo
| Professionalism now being begun in Bolivia and Peru
In the Chapter Room of Carnegie Hall Hebrew
in All Lands was the subject The Rev. DR.
David W. Terrence medical missionary to Pales
tine, gave some striking examples of how the mis-
sionary who could heal the sick could get hearnf
for the Gospel of Christ where other missonarie
had totally failed. The Rev. j. Farley DAILY anC
Mark Levy also spoke.