Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-19
BOARD OF AMERICAN SOCIETY
Managers Meet to Hear Report and
Prepare for COnven-
tion Work.

The session Of the general board Of the
American Christian Missionary society at
First Christian church, Twentieth street
and Capitol avenue, occupied three hours
yesterday forenoon and was followed at 2
in the afternoon by a similar session of the
general board of the Foreign Christian
Missionary society. Seventy-fve attended
the mornings session, which was con-
Quoted by the superintendent, W. ]. Rus
sell of East End church, Pittsburg, with
Prof. Clinton J. Lockhart OF Drake uni
versity acting as secretary, and which
was confronted with three novel PROPOSE
lions and an abundance Of statistical
reports Of an encouraging nature.
Most important of these propositions
was that OF DR.. II. o. Breeder of Des
Moines, president Of the convention. He
recommended the organization of an evan
gellstic bureau or department OF the
American Christian Missionary society,
which should have a corresponding secre-
tary and assist in supplying churches with
proper evangelists, and which should
supervise the preparation Of evangelists,
perhaps, as one means, By establishing a
certain evangelistic training course in the
denomlnational schools.
Wants Prohibition Talk.
The third variation from the cheering
but monotonous reading Of reports was the
effort of Rev. J. A. Lord, an editor of the
Christian Standard, to have adopted a
recommendation that on the program of all
future conventions a place be made for an
address on prohibition There we're some
demurrers to this and the matter finally
went to the committee on recommendations.
The only business transacted was the
election OF Rev. A. j. Wyler of Nashville,
Tenn, as president of the Board Of Man
ayers Of the American Christian Missionary
society, and of Rev, f. H. Keller Of Car
%rollton, Mo-, as its secretary. They will
assume responsibilities of the offices imme-
dlately after the Tuesday session, at which
the reports approved this morning by the
general board are to be submitted to the
general body.
Report of Acting Board.
The hfty-second annual report Of the act
ing board Of managers was the first consid-
cred by the general board. 1t comprises a
book Of sixty-six pages, but was approved
In toto after being gone over lightly by Cor
responding Secretary B. L. Smith. Some of
its essential features follow:
During the year we have assisted in the
support OF ga missionaries, an increase OF
40 over the number of any previous year.
These missionaries have labored to an
days. Have visited and assisted 97 places.
Have organized or reorganized lOl churches;
have received into the various churches
by confession of faith in Christ as the
divine Son of God and baptism into his
name. Fffty-six houses of worship have
been erected. The year has shown a net
increase IN the spendable income of the
in special funds, like the fund for Gall
weston, Tex Jacksonville, Fla. etc. The
increase In the general fund was $~6,57s.67.
There is a state board of missions in each
of the thirty-nine states. The summary
of their work Is: Missionaries employed,
as; churches and places, helped; 1,s77; mem
beers received into churches, q $50; churches
organized and r~eorgan!zSd, liz; amounts
collected on fields for local work, S765, sSS. "a;
amounts for state missions, S1S4, S95. 20.
Comparative table of receipts for home
missions:
GS SH%iatSu ..;'.... 49,. sss.s3 8 ,st ISL; ,ss SIS 49, q
E. I. societies:... Nsas.f7 Sis.$ss i i2i5ss
L. A. and other
From individuals. s,s75.S7, 4,iSS7s 4,s67.SS
Other sources, in
manent funds. 2o275.ss, 47.4O2s7 s2.sol.O7
Total 49,. $685. 80 ss1, 7ls.S $50, $50. 90
This is a loss of ~ss,s22.24 as compared
with the receipts of the previous year,
1902:
ciety ..%;"f::. '.u..:""..-... SIS, 1923, IS
ciety 81, 1908
Board OF Church Extension. ........ 54,S67. IS
Board OF Ministerial Relief. ......... s,3264 Al
Various state boards ......."..d.. 34,S95. rs
Christian Woman's Board of Mis-
sions Observation-Disclosures. 1873, O34.0
Total .,-,...,................,.S5 S9, $751;
Some Evangelista Do Harm.
In the course Of the discussion of this.
q. A. Hoffman CT st. Louis, statistical secre-
tary, declared that newspapers are some
times responsible for giving an evangelist