New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-10-07

buTing SeHt C Sne AuPdFsd yea
day" will be presented by the Rev Dr. Henry Ever
DR.; Brown. the son Of congIegationaiis but him
6b While By ran Mil Spgak for his ns
OF the Reformed Church. These formal addresses
yerts from Africa, turkey India. Ceyion, China.
Japan, Mexico and Austria.
ident Henry Churchill Ring S 81 obern College on
Theory and e o6n Years nft IN ~ f f
dent dent Volunteer , Movement; The Vision Of the
Geperation Professor e Harlan Beach Of Yale
students OF This GeneEation." and the Rev. r c.
nc Kehfa 1n Of Warren Mass on Samuel j. Mills
THE EARLY MISSIONARIES
The Bibliotheca sacra" for October. contains an
article on The Significant Cause Of the Haystack
Gapen. who is engaged with the Rev. Dr. 3. q
tenniai history Of the American Board. Dr. Capen
characteriZes the early missionaries and leaders as
The Haystack Centennial Is significant because
OF the principles and methods of the leaders of the
missionary movement There were giants in those
early secretaries and missionaries expecting to find
them en- VIII be surprised d to that
ern viewpoint. and believers in methods of work
TO be sure, their theology is not that which is pop
Ular in these days. There was a sense of the aw-
which has been largely lost They preached the
doctrine Of eternal suTerng in way which sounds
beyond us moderns They believed non Christian
religions be the work of the evil At least
many of the missionaries themselves thus agreed
with the prevailing theology Of their day rather
loftiness of aim and g breadth of sympathy
upon the part of the officials and the leading mis-
sionaries which welnigh amaze US
We have been wont to believe that this Is the
day Of federation and union of churches and that
q hundred years ag0 scotarianism was RE. The
fact is that in the early of the last century
UNCONVENTIONAL lines were drawn less sharply than
they have been since. There a Closentss of CO.
terrain, between Congregationalist and Baptist, at
least in Eastern Massachusetts, which we little
preciate. That was the day of interdenominational
movements such the Bible, education and Sun
forming some of these end believed that Christians
of every name should unite to lift humanity ana
spread the blessings of the Gospel. Thus he was
factor in occurring the union of denomlne tons IN
The American board urged the Presbyterian Cen
eTal Assembly to organize a similar society. But
when the Assembly preferred to unite with the
board ii once elected Presbyterians to member
ship Members of the Dutch Reformed CHURCH co,
operated with the board. which absorbed the United
Foreign Missionary Society in 1926.
The same spirit characteristic of the workers
abroad The first missionaries were ms tructed to
regard the Christian missionaries Of every Protest
ant denomination sent from Europe to the East as
brethren, the servants of the same Master, and
engaged in the same work With them your only
competition will be who shall display most OF the
spirit and 90 most To-. the honor OF Christ" In the
Levant in Ceylon and wherever they met there
the closest fellowship between the missionaries
OF the board and those of the Church Missionary
Society and other boards of Great Britain. In
Bombay a missionary union formed in 1925;
while the Ceylon missionaries, before they reached
their own Held, were the most intimate terms
Of fellowship and communion with the Baptist mis-
sionares.