The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-10-24
MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.
Buffalo Man Reports on Work in the
 South.

Chicago, Oct 23.-The report of the committee on Chinese work was read at today's session of the American Mis- sionary Association. During the year, the report shows Ill Chinese converts were added to the roll of the Congregational Association of Christian Chinese. This is the greatest number ever converted in any year through the efforts Of the or ganization.
 President Frank c. woodworth, D. D., of Tougaloo University. Tougaloo Miss. spoke on The Industrial Training. It's Place and Mission in Race Elevation Industrial training, he said, had in 1t the element of danger that 1t leads to the in- tensification of the idea that the negro's mission Is to be that of a servant to oth- CTS.
 Rev David Beaton reported progress fin missionary work in the Indian and Alas ka Mission, and Rev. F. E. Ramsdell de- clared that the missions of Porto Rico has increased in power and usefulness.
 Rev. J.. G. Merrill, D. D., President of Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn, spoke concerning cities as the strategic center of missionary work. He said that the Chinaman, if reached at all, must be cared for in the cities, while the Aineri- can highlander and the Indian will have nothing done for them if the association 
 '"The late census has put upon the wall the handwriting that seals the doom of those who would do the work of the present hour in the South on the basis of conditions that existed half century ago. Few are the black men of the South who, at the end of years toll. receive the just recompense for their labors. The ideal for the South Is teacher well equp> ped intellectually and morally in com e-- AoS, txx nhrr A- trict of the South, while an intelligent. moral, as well as religious, minister for the negro churches of the same religion.
 But 1t will be many years before there can be found for the negro population of the South schools at all adequate to meet and vice that the rapidly increasing black race is giving rise to-. The whole coun- try is threatened with such ruin as the Goths and Vandals never could have vis- tied upon Roman civilization if we let breed the millions whose ignorance and vice multiply beyond computation and call In reguisition no force to counteract
 Rev. Frank s. Fitch of Buffalo. made the report upon the Southern mission work He declared that the Church In the South labored, under great difficulties section. In spite of these difficulties, he said, the Church was meeting with en-
 Educational work in the States South of the Ohio River was described by Rev. George B. Ball. His report shows gain of $50 per cent in attendance at the col legiate school of the Association.
 in the evening addresses were delivered by Rev. Gilbert Walton and Rev. l.. A. Planving They touched upon the work done among the negroes In the mountain regions of Tennessee and Kentucky.
 At yesterday afternoons session the fol- lowing resolution was adopted:
 '"rhe American Missionary Association of Congregational Churches at Its ffty- fifth annual meeting held in Oak Park, Illinois, Tuesday evening, october s2. 1901. desires to express Its cordial approval of the act of President Roosevelt in enter Booker T. Washington, justly honored representative of his people. thus ignor- ing race prejudice. publicly and officially affirming the equal rights revealed by our great exemplar and master, even Christ.