New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-10-11
HAYSTACK CENTENNIAL
Addresses by Drs. Hopkins, Tucker
and Broom and Mr.. Capen
rRy Telegraph to IN, rs4b,,.,

North Adams, Mass. Oct. 1o-The F5aystsok cs,-
'ei1ilia ceieorauoh begun In rainstorrn as seems
fitting when the famous thunder shoxsr which .ro.
the Eve Williams College students to III.
for shelter IS remembered. ended with brilliant sun
shine flooding the Berkshire Valley ana giving IN.
changing autumn foliage glory comparable only N
me splendid work eommemorated by this anniver-
sary FROM sunrise until shutdown and for four OF Eve
hours after the sun sank behind the hills e.vona
the Haystack Monument two ana three slrnuIta
neous meetings were in progress. with the excep-
ten OF brief intermissions for mails A. ~.
VISITORS were eating strolling about the ground
they talked mainly % missions mission cn,.rn,sa.
mission workers. mission schools. mission converts.
mission sacrifices. mission opportunities All felt
ne rorce and wisdom OF the expression by Presi-
49, tlophihs that the three or four thousand per
sOIIs gathered IN WLiamstown and North Adams
rom al parts OF the Union ana from many coun
ules IN Europe and Asia ana America were sane
--sh II lhteIAsence and full OF moral earnestness -
N9t only clersymen. but also college presidents
- Ae,s' lawyers. physicians. we'll as teachers
ano etaoents and farmers. were present IN forra
- Psy homage 70 the OF the hsystack ana 10
CuIua'e themselves for the first time or anew 20
the cause for which the :, en Of 1905 praved ana
SCORED All felt, as one speaker said that they
NsTe on holy ground and that they should tread
sSs.ay, as they walked whers the American foreign
mission movement was born: not that othar rrer
nAa not gwen the matter thought and were deeply
1elesleo IN the matter OF the salvation Of the
heashen, but that here Samuel J. Mills and his
associates met the crisis by Offering themselves
The day opened with the ringing OF the college
chimes IN the beautiful tn 0rnpson Memorial Chapel
OF Mlllams College. the bells striking at eB and
continuing for fifteen minutes Then came an i'm
pfess'Te prayer meeting in Mission Park. This
was followed after the breakfast hour by col
ege conference meetings. and these IN turn BY two
Simultaneous meetings. al which stirring addresses
we're made by President Hopkins OF Williams Col
lege' President Capen OF the American Board
PRESIDENT HYDE Of Bowdoin College. President
tucker OF Dartmouth College, Professor Edward
g Moore, Of Eervard University; Dr. Edward Jud-
son OF New York the son OF Adonirarn Judson.
the famous Baptist missionary 10 Buruah, and the
Rev DR.. Newell Dwight Hills, Of Brooklyn
IN the afternoon. IN Mission Park between two
and three thousand persons gathered near the Hay
stack Monument The principal addresses were de-
lYereo By Arthur Judsop Brown secretary Of the
presbyterian Board Of Foreign Missions and John
X Mott. the head OF the World Students Fedora
ton Brief responses OF greeting were given by
nsuve CHRISTIANS from Japan China, Turkey,
africa, Bohemia. Mexico. India Ceylon and Hawaii
large thank Offering was taken after an APPEAL
oy Dr. Mott In the evening meetings were held in
city.