Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-21

faith; favors the establishment OF mis-
sionary training schools after the fashion
OF the Gordon school: calls attention to the
work that Harvard students propose to DO
in India through Prof. Carter and TO that
which Yale will d. In China, and concludes
It's report with the suggestion that minis
tiers encourage those so inclined to turn TO
missionary work; that the oficials OF the
church consider the matter at their January
meeting and also the qualifications OF young
people for the foreign field; that the Mis-
sionary s~ociety's secretary continue to keep
in touch with colleges with a view to OBJ
tanning their best output for the foreign
fields.
MissIonaries Appear Again.
The missionaries who had appeared at the
morning session and we're recalled In the
afternoon spoke only very briefly and made
an unvarying appeal for achievements In
fields that they have found so ripe for the
sowing OF the seed. but so large that they
can cover only a fraction Of what needs
attention. DIT. Dye, from the Congo state,
Africa. displayed the robe Of an African
chief. which garment looked like a sunny-
sack fringed with excelsior; also the fun
garb OF an African woman, which really
was so trihing a matter as not to be worth
mentioning. He held up two tiger tails,
the fetishes that are his peoples only OBJ
ject of worship and which are supposed 10
keep of diseases. He states that the Afri-
cans Of his district have no God, or had
none until he brought them the true one.
He showed a 1ve-pound brass ring taken
from the neck of a native girl 4 years old.
and said that women wore SIMILAR ornaments
weighing twenty-five and thirty pounds.
He showed a knife used by the natives in
the rear Of his village for decapltating men
for a cannibal feast only six months before
his arrival. The villagers are now being
converted In great numbers and are aban-
doning their barbaric customs.
Miss Kellar again pleaded with the con-
vention to have faith in the Chinese con-
verts, reporting that some Of them had TO
stand true through fifteen days Of torture
that ended in death, during the recent out
breaks. Mrs. Madden OF japan reported
the wonderful change in feeling toward the
missionaries there since she and her hus-
band went there seven years ago.
Introduces Local Committeeman.
In the course Of the meeting President
Mclean commended ribbon maps made by
girls near Cincinnati as worthy OF imitation
by girls everywhere interested in foreign
mission work: introduced Chairman Payne
and Judge w. w. Slabaugh OF the local
arrangement committee as men the conven-
tion should know and instituted the plan Of
having the doors closed and guarded SO
that no one could enter or leave except
while the ~assemblage was singing. The
benediction on the foreign work was pro-
nounced by Rev. Martin. formerly Of the
First Christian church Of Omaha, but now
of Bellaire, O.. The benediction on the as
semblage was by Rev. Stephen J. Corey Of
Rochester. Patriarchs OF the church and
parents of some Of the missionaries were
introduced at various times during the aft
ernoon. Among the latter were Professor
and Mrs. ]. Mad. Williams Of Drake univer-
sity. parents of Rev. Herman Porter WILL
Jams. who has gone to the Philippines with
his wife to do missionary work.