New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-10-16
MISSIONS CHOOSE HUB
NEXT MEETING IN BOSTON.
american Congregational Board De
plores Financial Apathy.

The centennial meeting OF the American bodIu
of Commissioners for Foreign Missions will be held
T., ION ar BOSTON and IT is expected that all the
national Congregational societies and the national
council will meet there at the same tlme' 4hlS
was the result of prOtracted DEBATE at uie ouSi
ness session of the American Board in the Church
of the Pilgrims in Brooklyn. yesterday. The CON
gregational churches at Kansas city, which hao
been led to expect the centennial at that place.
telegraphed that they would forego the e&pecta
ton If they could be assured of the meeting OF
1913 with the meetings of the other societies and
the council at the same time. And so far as the
American Board could do so at this time IL was
decided acQuiesce in Kansas C1tys request
The next annual meeting will be held at Mlnneap-
oils The election of officers resulted In the seIec-
ton again as president of the Rev. Dr. Samuel b.
Capen. The establishment of a new district in the
Middle West left in the hands OF the pru-
Dental committee.
Professor Harlan P. Beach, of New Haven, In
an address on Face to Face with Our Missions.
said that the condition of affairs filled those who
loved the work with gratitude. misapprehension'
regret and humiliation. The churches at nome
had failed, he said IN measuring up to the needs
of the work. But there cause for thankful
when what had been accomplished was re-
viewed. He had made tour OF los stations re-
Gently. He saw much in other accomplishments OF
other boards that superior to that being done
by the American Board. but by and large taken as
a whole. he said. the work OF the American Board
was Incompatible. Then Professor Beach said;
The name OF the board should be changed. 1t
should be called the Bureau Of the handicapped.
There is not woman In the field that does
not have to do ten times as much as should be eH
aeR Of money lack Of men and Women and this
affects the missionaries physically making the list
o. 9uaty of he %orR o is not as as
should be It brings about a m!srepresenting of the
aim Of the missions to the natives. The mission
aries will be found writing to Presbyterians for
Churches If were ei't Presbyteran should OBJ.
ject to this. Our missionaries are doing good
can be done; We are having too much success in
sustain it. Here at home there are too many
churches unemployed. They should work for the
ers can be upheld
The report on the treasurer's report praised the
work done. deplorcd the debt statement and said
that it should be recognized that this was the age
of the automobile. Speed the thing. 1t was
not a matter of money in the churches, but of
stewardship among the members. Money was being
planted in great buildings simply to make great
display. The money should be used rightfully and
the report said. Drofessed to be connected with the
Almighty by wireless The connection should be
made good.
In the morning session at the Academy Of Music
the whole gathering Of over one thousand persons
and applauded when the Rev DR.. Hiram
Bingham, of Honolulu. spoke of what he had done
in Micronesia, in the Gilbert Islands. DR.. Bling
hams father was a missionary in the Hawaii ISL
ands. In his work DR.. Bingham has translated the
Bible in Gilbertese, which has an alphabet of thr-
letters. and he has also compiled dictionary
of the language. He assisted by his wife in
his tasks, and frequently i'll that he was
forced to suspend his activities. He came to the
meeting of the board from st. Luke's Hospital.
where he suffering from an attack of pneu-
monia. Dr. Bingham is seventy-seven years old.
In the evening there were addresses on Men and
Missions' by the president the Rev. DR.. Capen,
and J. N Shenstone, Dr. Talcott Williams, of
Philadelphia, and the secretary Harry Wade Hicks.
Dr. williams attributed the bloodless revolution
in Turkey to the educational evangelstic work
of the Christian missionaries, especially to those
of the American board The opportunity to con-
vert Japan lost forty years ago. he said,
because the board was not equal to its opportuni-
ties but China was ready for a quickenng effort,
and this time there should be no tagging.
In the afternoon yesterday there was mission
rally for women in the Clinton Avenue Church.
One of the speakers Mrs. Alice NJ. Williams, Of
Shan-s, who a furlough TO this country
during the Boxer uprising in China, in which her
husband was beheaded. The closing session of the
American board meeting will be held this morning
in Plymouth Church. The closing address will be
delivered by the Rev DR.. Newell Dwight Hills.
The election of officers resulted follows: Presi-
dent Dr. Samuel B. Capen; vice-presidents. the Rev.
Henry Churchill King: corresponding secretaries
the Rev. DR.. James L. Barton and the Rev DR..
Cornelius H. Patton: recording secretary. the Rev.
DR.. Henry A. Stmson; assistant recording secre-
tary the Rev DR.. Edward n. Packard: editorial
secretaries, the Rev. DR.. Elnathan E Strong,
emeritus and the Rev. William E. Strong; asso-
ciate secretary, Harry Wade Hicks; treasurer,
Frank H. Wiggn; auditors, Edwin II. Baker, Will
lam B. Plunkett and Herbert ]. Wells; prudential
committee. for term expiring 1911 Arthur II. Well
man, the Rev. Albert P. Fitch, Henry H. Proctor
and the Rev Lucius W. Thayer; for term expiring
1909 Arthur Perry.