The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-05-20
SIN FOR ST. PAUL
TO MAKE TENTS
Suggestion Made by a Mission
airy atPTesbyterian Convention.
SHOWING NEED OF WORKING
CONTENDS he has RIGHT TO
ADD TO INCOME.

nj EW YORK, Nay 19.-At the bust
IN neess meeting today of the Pres
byterian general assembly, Rev
Van Dyke. moderator, preached, Today
marked the beginning Of the centen-
NAL celebration of the Presbyterian
home missions. which is being held in
connection with the general assembly.
Rev. DR.. Samuel A. Martin. president
Of Wilson college, Chambersburg. Pa,
presented the thirty-seventh annual re-
port Of the board Of missions for freed
men.
More money was received during the
year than for any similar period in
eight years. Nearly 1000 pupils have
come under Presbyterian instruction,
and the number of churches and mis-
sions has increased from 342 to 353.
The treasurer's report shows receipts
from all sources during the year ended
March 81, 1902, were S1S5,S04. After ali
Expenditures were deducted there re-
manned a balance Of S1.057- The report
does not include in any way the $685.
254 contributed by churches and schools
for self-suppOrt- Rev. DR.. E. P Co
wan, corresponding secretary and
treasurer Of the board Of freedmen, ad-
dressing the assembly. said the Pres
byterian church would have to bsstir
itself and do its share Of work among
the freedmen If the day was to be ush-
cred in when the freedmen could take
their stand, not only as political, but
spiritual, equals Of the whites.
Appeal For Freedmen.
Rev. John n. McGonigle Of St. Au-
gustine, Fla. also made an appeal for
the freedmep's mission. The average
cOlOTed preacher in the south was ig-
nOTant. He offered an amendment to
the report Of the standing committee
recommending that the contributions
Of the church to the freedmen's work
be increased 80 per cent. The report
Of the freedmen's board. with the Rev.
Mr.. McGOnigle's comment, was accept
ed and adopted. Rev. DR.. r. A. Nc
Kinley of SteUbenville, o., presented
the report of the board of education.
In their eighty-third annual report
the board Of education announce that
they have met all the financial engage
ments Of the year without mourning
any debt, but have a somewhat dimin-
ished balance. The receipts from the
churches, Sabbath schools and Young
Peoples societies amounted to S44,17O,
as compared with S43,940 last year.
Only the fact that the number OF
candidates enrolled for the year was
abnormally small made it possible TO
carry out the purpose to make a better
provision for them than in recent
years, 800 being given 10 students in
the collegiate and seminary courses,
and $50 TO students in the preparatory
sc 70 lnf Z
since 1894
The number Of candidates under the
care Of the board during the year was
572 The income was scarcely suffi-
cient to provide for them and the re-
port points out that If there should be
an increase Of, say, 100 next year,
there would be no little anxiety with
regard to the $4,000 which would be
needed for the emergency. There were
received by legacies during the year
s2.479. The amount paid to candidates
this year is $55,580. as compared with
SAC. 1873 last year. Under the circum-
stances. it has not been possible Ia
make any additions TO the reserve
fund.
About 125 missionaries from the west
ern states gathered in the Central
Presbyterian church tonight and at
tended a meeting under the auspices Of
the home mission board.
Salary Of Missionaries.
The question was raised at the moral
propriety Of a missionary, working on
a small salary, doing work on other
branches or following commercial pur-
suits, in order TO increase his financial
compensation.
By some it was contended that this
was strictly wrong. Rev. DR.. Cole, a
home missionary from Alaska. himself
an Indian, instanced his own case IN
discussing the ethics Of the question.
He said that he was working on a