New-York tribune., 1902-05-20


lsreer audiences than ne will face tonight but
II is not the fault of several thousand people
who have been making strenuous Efforts for the
last fortnight get tickets Of admission to Car
negie Hall. The applications for seats rcceiI ed
bv the Home Mission Board. under " hose aus
pices the popular meeting is TO be held. would
III three or four halls as large his one. The
large uptown churches with iive and six and
seven hundred members have received five
tickets each. The cIergymen and members of
the churches in eight Presbyteries in ard about
this civ have been considered by the board.
Letters have come from towns hundred miles
from this city asking for boxes and seats; the
-o,,-ine business Of the board in the Presby-
-e-fan Building has been wellnigh dropped the
entire force in the Offices being used TO give
satisfaction 10 those desiring to hear the Presi-
dent II the board makes many friends by
holding the meeting as il loses by being unable
n grant the favors sometimes requested and
sonctin1es demanded. the officers viii feel that
human rature is better than Il is sometimes
pictured
Tie Presidents party will leave Washington
soon after noon. and will be met al Trenton 10y
Robert c. Ogden and General a. Noel Blake
man. a committee Of the Home Board Dinner
VIII be served on the train. Carriages viii meet
the members Of the party in Jersey City, and
they will be driven directly 10 Carnegie Hall
where boxes have been reserved for them While
the President is announced 10 speak only in
Carnegie Hall. il is the hope Of man, who are
obliged TO attend the overflow meeting, 10 be
held in the Central Presbyterian Church, only a
block away. that in the goodness Of his heart
he will think Of them also and before the over
fow meeting adjourns will at least come 10 that
meeting and give a home mission greeting
them.
Were II not for the unusual Importance of
the main meeting. the overicv meeting would
he considered a very important With Dr.
Spinning OF Orange. as the presiding officer.
home mission host in himself: and speakers
Dr. s. Hall Young. Of Alaska Of the heroes
of modern missions. DR.. s E. Wishard, OF
Utah. one OF the best known opponents OF Nor
u7onism in the denomination: DR.. Milton E
Caldwell. fresh from Porto Rico, and the Rev.
DR.. Charles F Richardson. of Montana. faith
ful worker in that great State The moderator
who draws an audience at any place whenever
he is announced, IS TO speak at both meetings
If this attractive programme the President
lends his presence. there will be no disappoint-
Tnent.
WORK IN THE FAR WEST.
The home mission centennial started out well
yesterday with review Of the last century
by three OF the brightest men in the Church
DR. Henry c. McCook. Of Philadelphia: DR.. S. J.
NiceoIls, Of St Louis and DR.. Edgar P. Hill, Of
Portland Nothing more romantic has appeared
in recent literature than the story Of brave men
and braver women who left homes OF culture in
the East TO carry the Cross Of Christ TO the peo-
pie Of Western Pennsylvania and Ohio. and
Kentucky and Illinois. and other settlements
across the prairies and over the Rockies to
the Golden Gate Nor the herosm Of the
fathers greater than that endured by their sons
and daughters Of the present time. II young
man or a young woman desires 70 undertake
2 life filed with hardships, privations and lonely
DAYS and wears. there Is no better opening
more golden opportunity, no richer reward than
that which the Board Of Home Missions offers
The Brothers in Black had their innings yes
terday al the assembly meeting in the morning
and AZ the popular meeting At night; If the
whole truth were told one would say that the
morning meeting was also a popular one. for
the colored men ara adopts al causing laughter
from their staid white brethren. single illus
trstion from one OF the speakers may he given
here
You Nil hear from US. my brethren. Now
are AZ the foot OF the ladder but you can
depend upon this. We are rising Last Saturday
afternoon. al University Heights. after we got
Of the train found the steps leading from
the railroad 10 the campus filed with people,
white brothers and white sisters We stood on
the lowest step and looked Up. II seemed like
a hard climb. but a step was cleared ahead
planted our feet where their feet had stood,
and by and by, by climbing up and up. and
moving up 70 those who ahead OF US.
gained the University Heights SO by and by
We shall have control OF banks and railroads
and newspapers. and We viii shove up those
who ahead and reach the heights at last
One Of the colored speakers lamented the
fact that white people failed TO discriminate
between negroes and negroes. There is just
much difference" he said between us black
people as there is between you white people
The good for nothing blacks who hang around
railway stations you sweep by in your pala-
ual trains no more represent the intelligent
blacks than the dwellers in the slums Of great
cities represent this Intelligent audience"
The twice told tale Of the decline in the num-
Der Of candidates for the ministry heard
again yesterday, but the Board Of Education
seems 70 think that in recent years the causes
ot this decline have been sufficiently considered
and that II remains now only 10 endeavor 10
remove them. and hence the board presses on
me attention n the assembly and OF the Church
the Importance Of revival Of ministerial inhu-
ence and OF private family and public prayer
for more laborers as the best means of arrest
ing the decline and Of obtaining an increase Of
candidates.
CREED DISCUSSION LIVELY
ME tne commissioners are attending 20 the
siea1 mission meetings they are not Indifferent
- 'ne important creed discussion booked for
ihuIsuay- As they meet in the writing rooms
a. the church or al their hotels they discuss
ieeis 'iF situation Opinion seens to be crys-
tallizing 10 the effect that the renort Of the
c"iiii'iIuee "hieh pertains to the present Con-