New-York tribune., 1901-01-04
FOREIGN MISSIONARY WORK
THE NINETIETH ANNUAL REPORT OF
THE AMERICAN BOARD HAS
JUST BEEN ISSUED.

Boston. jan S.-The ninetieth annual report of
the American Board of Foreign Missions was made
public to-day 1t says in part:
There is evidence on every side of the awakening
life in India The educational system and mission
schools changing the very methods OF thought
opened and their influence Is felt all ideas regard
wife are changed and exalted The growth OF fe-
male education in one purely native State, that of
that in that State twenty-five years ago there
only two girls schools. with twenty-five pupils.
d4es pupils. while now there are Jos schools, with
girls are attending boys schools The movements
necessitate marked social changes both in practice
Lin-Chng station suffered in common with Pang-
Chuang, in the province OF Shantung. North China.
though In a less degree, from the prosecutions by
Boxers which began in September of 1899 The
time until well into March of 1900 it unsafe
third Of the Christians with this station
unately there but little personal violence The
missionaries took an estimate OF mission and per-
estimate TO the official with plain ntimation that
he would d be eHgeGfea s 10 make the loss good any
precautionary measure. as both the civil mill
Of the persecution upon the Christians vsrted
Some complied with the demands of friends ana
put up their kitchen gods and said they no
longer Christians; some made their escape dis
the storm. among them all of those who have been
6aptized- During the per persecution several came
g. 1900 twenty-five were thus received. The work
BY the operation of the new treaties missionaries
can reside in all parts OF the empire of Japan and
more accessible. The students of the empire are
InauirI9g. and thought is turning 20 the great
ature is loud and, persistent. The missionaries Of
the inspiration OF these new Conditions are and ISens r
urging that they be reinforced and strengthened
Ten years ago there were eighty-eight mission
ares ares OF tnls Board IN Japan OF whom twentysix
representing % % the three w9men's Boards. There
five single women decrease of thrteen u TT 1,
"raatnsd missionary sent TO the mission ap-
pointed IN 1880 The mission calls for three new
families al once to occupy vacant places Unless
reinforcements are sent, instead OF an advance
movement the mission must begin retreat
The number Of Japanese i'm the Hawaiian ISL
there twelve evaneeiists and one woman
5lnIe Teader. Ihe exceedingly rapid change of To-
Islands. moving from point OF demand for
ntIer @ 10 anoner o ana from one pantation to
and development OF churches among them slow
Never before since the revolution that initiated
INC new order OF things in Spain in the year 1859
pressed against not only the Gospel but against
no pd 1 m vnenght e,s ana action In Granada the
versitv two three different times In The corrse
i'~0ad daylight tearing down the sign that was ,n ~
sloe or me public door stoned the house break
the neghborhood Not until after repeated CONN.,
raInts h,, dq tne Governor make any pretence OF
This is but an Illustration OF what has taken
nsce th N tne prnvince OF Cadiz: in Barcelona and
devnned by the liberal party IN spain ' ~
r'arked feature in the events az fbe ,,aor oo,
lerted with the mission Of the American BOARD has
feen the interest In the work Of the societies of
Christian Endeavor and their exfeneion in cnain
al al who are interested in the International Inst
can be located AT Madrid I'm the centre NJ cna,r
The Institute also is the BIRTHPLACE Of the CbrIs
tan Fpdeavor movement I'm Spaln There ara .v,o
In thr1sian ,s Endeavor societies in the school In
There has been sDecial Interest I'm evfandino tbo
Spafn "ct"ous III
With the exception OF johannesburg the yvorI, or
the Zulu Mission South Africa has not been within
the area OF the war field and has NOT suffered or
been affected by g. " "