New-York tribune., 1902-05-22
NEW. YORK DAILY TRIBUNE THURSDAY MAY o. 1902

The commissioners listened with evident inter
est to the Rev. Courtenay H. Fem, of the Pres
oytery of Pekng, chairman of the standing COM
mittee on foreign missions, who presented the
committees report, which was in part as fol-
lows:
China SofTor Wien ed m ali hearts during
the awful summer of 1900 is only beginning to
reyesed eyS year ago it was only by faith thai we
that not in forty years would the empire again
reacn the point of progress attained before the
Peking in control Of the government, But what is
and progress for which she had deposed the En-
for the broPdfy has Of Se boar ss af ah & y h
IN Peking and Pao-Ting-Fu but the increased regl-
ment have enabled the board to undertake the work
missionaries who lost their all The native Chris
tians have been reimbursed by the local magis,
the losses of the missionaries in other places have
reduced for sake Of the benehcal of such
Ha9 is o beeP a fe the ord has called home
to Himself a larger number than usual of
eign Missions must have reported to This assem-
bly, debt and not small one. either Those who
are responsible for saving us from debt are the
dead. and not the living.
The Rev. DR.. Arthur L Brown, one of the sec
retaries of the Board of Foreign Missions, who
returned recently from tour of inspection in
the Asiatic field. the next speaker, and
missions. He said in part:
Far in the interior of Laos saw shops with
rows of bottles labelled Scotch whiskey" French
brandy and Australian beer In Bangkok: l
delightful juice" Near the siliman Institute,
building bearing the Infamous inscription, 'Ameri-
gress passed the law forbiddng any American
sell intoxicants, opium or firearms in any islands
of the Pacific not governed by civilized power;
by law to debauch the Pacific Islands, why is 1t
not wrong and preventable by law to debauch the
influence pouring into Asia from Christian nations
be polluted by slime from the pit?
from the foreign field is not whether there Is
sioLaries are wise or our methods SOUND out
whether the church at home will rise to the oppor-
sdent Vonpteer Movement The evangeIizaton
OF the world in this generation" is not prophecy;
men What men? Those of five hundred years
hence? Nay, but those who are living now and who
all The cause of Christ in Asia is straitened. rot
by the Holy Spirit. not by the heathen but only by
ourselves.
The Rev. DR.. Henry c. Minton. as chairman
of the committee on bills and overtures, present
ed a resolution to send a delegation from the
General Assembly to the International Coun-
ell of the Alliance Of Reformed Churches. which
is to be held in Liverpool next summer. The
basis of representation will permit OF large
delegation from the General Assembly, possibly
sixty Eight OF the delegates have been select
ed They are DR.. van Dyke, the moderator; Dr
Roberts the stated clerk; DR.. Noble, the per-
0anent clerk: Dr. Minton, DR.. Moffatt, or Scran-
ton; DR.. Kerr, of Omaha: General Ralph +:
Prime OF New-York; William H Lannlng. or
Pittsburg and r. K. Nipple. OF Philadelphia
In the continuation of the discussion or foreign
missions before the end of the morning session
the Rev. Drs. Graham Lee and w. II. Underwood
described the works and voiced the needs OF
Korea The Rev Isaac Boyce. Of Jalapa, Mex
leo spoke about the work in that country. and
DR. B. C.. Haworth of that in Japan