New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-10-14
WINNING FOREIGN FIELD
MISSION BO4RD MEETING.
Changes in Turkey and China Point
to Final Triumph.

SHdHScS III uThcY anu IHtHu Il OHt
to Final Triumph.
For the first time in the history of the American
Board Of Commissioners for Foreign Missions 1t
was possible yesterday for speakers at the annual
meeting to say that Turkey and the Turks and
parts of China were friendly to the efforts of the
devoted men and women sent TO those countries by
the American board to preach the Gospel.
Those persons who attended the opening OF the
ninety-ninth annual meeting in the concert hall
of the Academy OF Music in Brooklyn, after hear
ing an address of welcome by the Rev. Dr. Albert
j. Lyman told by the Rev. DR.. Samuel B.
Capen president of the board, that the barriers
were down in two of the greatest mission helds
OF the world, and that 1t the duty OF the
Church to occupy them Immediately with all the
forces at its command More men, more women,
more money We're necessary, he said, and there
was spirit Of hopefulness among the delegates
that these would be supplied in the ensuing year.
More than one thousand men and women were in
the concert hall, seven hundred being delegates.
They were from every Congregational centre in
this country and from nearly every foreign field.
There was much interest in the centennial meet
ing in 1910 Kansas City wants it. and Cleveland
is working hard to get it. One of the officers of
the board said yesterday that it slated for
Boston, where the American board has its head
quarters
The Rev DR.. R. J. Kent, of the Lewis Avenue
Church. led the devotional exercises with which
the meeting opened. In welcoming the dele
Brooklyn and said:
You have to tell US of new mornings every
where, in Japan not only, but in China, and where
even now rains it's fire by the Golden Horn IN
deed. you yourselves. brethren, have given us the
the breadth of your vision, and the tervor OF your
enrich the very homes which to-day receive you
brother guests. You have made local churches
versaL
CHANGE IN FOREIGN FIELDS
DR.. Capen. in responding, said the delegates
had been gladly anticipating the meeting in Brook
lyn. and took up the subject of future
work, saying:
few HAS weeks sS dsn IN Sna eh
lenged attention. Now changes have suddenly been
be false belief If did press our
opportunity. Where better than IN Brooklyn, amid
car the board declare that the time has come TO
quicken step and march to the final triumph?
As the Rev. Dr. Cornelius II. Patton Of he
corresponding secretaries Of the board was III. the
paper on The Year at Home read by the
Rev. Harry Wade Hicks. A new district was rec
commended between the Mississippi River and the
Rocky Mountains. territory which now belongs to
the Interior District. which comprises an churches
II the new district is established. with headQUar-
ters at Omaha. It would include 1.S2 churches.
leaving 1.SS9 the Interior District. There was
iced the paper said of sixty missionaries. not
including wives. Every year the number required
n
candidates. This lack. DR.. Patton wrote, created
one OF the most serious problems before ne com
mittee having the question in charge. OF the inan-
cIal situation Dr. Patton
We find that the gifts from churches and indi-
Viduals, aside from the receipts OF the wCmanS
boards, show a gain Of tl4.333 y over 1907. On
the |h9e The receipts were SgTpFsnF6 e2gs 10
and young peoples societies fell on $685. 40; the
fund eace haye r Sl ss 3ss 81 There is
total gain receipts for the OF 5000 - our
total expenditures were fss0.oli 81 and our total
Of si5255 g This added to the deficit Of tie year
before, $36t35 81 leaves total deficit OF $40 S9l o.
EDUCATIONAL. WORK ABROAD.
As the centennial OF the board will also be the
centennial Of the foreign mission movement In
America. DIT. Patton urged that the twelve months
preceding the Tooth year be used to establish bet
ter the work in the minds ana hearts Of the
boards constituents In writing OF the oppor-
unity for contributing to the support OF the higher
educational institutions in the foreign field he
said
In view of the remarkable economy OF the educa-
uonal work abroad. it constituting only about
America and considering the spiritual ana intel
iectuai life Of whole nations and for training the
leaders in the kingdom movement Of TODAY, and
considering also how widely the field Of educa-
We believe that there must be those who have
means and whose hearts God shall touch TO 10 this
chance begging long?
1T is impossible for the work of this board
day In Turkey to be separated from this mighty
reformation in that empire" said the Rev Or.
James L. Barton the foreign secretary, In report
ing The Work Abroad" He attributed much
Of the feeling and inclination Of the Young Turk
party, responsible for the order Of things in
the Ottoman Empire TO the teachings OF the Chris
tian schools. maintained many years at great haz-
ard. lie said
Politically we and the interests we have fostered
are in close contact with the seethirg
ganizing, developing national life OF Japan. China,
India and Turkey, every phase OF which bears di-
rectIy upon all departments Of work The
new circumstances with the consequent aspra-
tons and unprecedented endeavors Of the Asiatic
races, compel to modify operations
that may meet the demands thus made
upon and bring 10 bear upon the condi-
lions the fun formative power Of the Gospel we
preach
FEATURES OF THE YEAR
Some of the most significant features OF the year,
Dr. Barton said were the great shortage in Amer
lean and native Christian workers the deficiency
Of funds which support the general work the IN
usual demand made upon the boards educational
institutions. China's need OF aid from outside to
enter into her rightful Inheritance a great and
nation. the development OF national conscious
in India and the practical freedom of Turkey