The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-19
Stirring Reports Are Presented
 from Mission Field
CHINESE ARE HEARTLESS
Illustration is Made of the Famine in China Which Resulted in Many Deaths While the Wealthy
 Man Looks On.

Hot Springs, Ark, May 1S.-After a
 night session devoted to talks in native
 tongue from members of the Osage and Pawnee Indian tribes and from Mexicans on the Texas frontier interpreted through
 field workers of the organization, the | ifty-third annual session of the Southern Baptist convention came to final ad- | journment today.
 The session passes into history as the greatest in the history of the denomi- nations move in this country. Reports
 from home and foreign mission depart ments, from the Sunday school board, from the Baptist Young Peoples union. and from the Woman's Missionary union 1 made in this body all evidenced the 1 growth of the organization and pledges
 for even greater extensions of these de- l partments were made.
 The last work of the convention was the naming of a standing prohibition 1 committee to carry out the declarations | iterated in the resolutions passed at the morning session.
 The committee is composed of A. J. Barton J. A. Johnson, S. P. Brooks, J. l B. Gambrell, J. B. Cranfl, J. A. Naples, 1 R. w. Daniels and P. E. Burroughs of 1 Texas. w. T. Amis of Arkansas, H. A. | Summerville and c. V. Edwards of Lou isiana. S. c. Wolf of Oklahoma, w. T. Lowrey of Mississippi, E. E. Folk of Tennessee and ". D. Upshaw of Geor- gia.
 J. B. Brendall. missionary to the Paw nee Indians, presented Chief Powell and 1 David Dillingham;. Both spoke on the advance of the missionary work in their lands and pleaded for missionaries to be | sent among them.
 Work Among Indians. l J. A. Day, missionary for the Osages, presented Orlando Kaworthy, a Carlisle graduate, who is helping in the work of civilizing his people The native made 1 an address in which ne described his l people as steeped in sin and presenting | a most worthy field for mission work 1 c. D. Daniels of the Mexican frontier l work introduced A. Trunanda and Y. 1 Barra, who addressed the convention re- citing the need of an extension of the work among their people.
 Let them die; there are too many of us now" This was the answer made to missionaries in China who appealed to the | wealthy men of that nation for help, | while countless millions of their people were dying from hunger and lack of shell ter during the terrible famine of last year. | according to the report of T. F. McRae, through whose hands the $75O,OOO contrib | to ha wa distributed
 Such is the sentiment of the wealthy in that unChristian nation," said MT. Me- 1 Rae. While the missionaries were ac- | lively at work endeavoring to ward off the famine they knew would follow the floods of the summer, and were appealing to America and other Christian nations for money and other aid, we, too, asked the wealthy interests of China for assistance, 1 but they turned to us deaf ear.''
 Natives Starved. | MT. McRea, a Clinton college (Miss) l graduate had just returned from China, himself a victim of famine fever, which he | declared mercifully removed hundreds of 1 thousands of the natives before actual 1 starvation killed them He told of seeing | hundreds of thousands gathered about the 1 walls of the cities in camps, killing their women and children when they finally | came to realize that help for a winter living could not be given.
 | But the great multitude of China ap- preciate our help" said the speaker.
 The Chinese look upon us as their great | friend. This is occasioned through the Boxer indemnities and the work America did for her during those trying famine periods.
 l The reception tendered Secretary Taft on his arrival at Shanghai means more 1far 1 people of the nation came to do him honor and the streets and fields were filled with l hundreds of thousands who took an in terest in the public receptions. China vio- | lated tradition as old as her history when she permitted her women to be pres | el't at the public functions. Before that time woman in China had never been permitted to take part in any affair thus | closely allied with the empireR
 Sums Collected.
 The address was closed with an earnest 1 appeal for mission funds. The sum of $S25, 900 has been apportioned for collection for home and foreign mission for the next year by southern Baptists The chairman J. B. Grambell of Texas of the committee | on estimates and apportionment, made his report to the convention at the afternoon | session, which was adopted. The sums 1 assessed to the various collections are as follows:
 Home Foreign State Missions. Missions Alabama ...-........... 35,OOO 5 45,0o0 A H. nanA fsf.