The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-24
Secretary of American Tract So.
ciety Appeals for Funds
To Supply Arithmetics to the
People of Uganda.
SAYS THEY NEED THEM
TO Be Able to Compute the Mum.
ber of Wild Animals
Slain by the Hands of "Our Be.
loved Former President

Denver, Colo, May 24-"The board
OF Foreign missions wants more arith-
met1es. These books are wanted by the
natives in Uganda, who wish to be able
to compute the number of lions and
tigers and giraffes slain by our beloved
former president
This was one of the requests made by
DR.. Judson Smith, of New York. secre-
tary of the American Tract society,
who spoke before the general assembly
of the Presbyterian church today.
In presenting the report of the So
ciety, he pleaded for more funds. He
said that while with little money the
society had been able to do great work,
necessary headway could not be made
unless donations were great. He found
new cause for what he believed was
a lack of interest in Christianity in
America.
THE greatest work --et to be done by
the church." he said, lies in the Amer
lean home. America never will be
saved until the threshold of the home
is crossed. 1t is all very we'll to preach
from the churches, but the home re-
mains unchristian. You must get into
the home for that is where the fault
lies"
1t was in Speaking of the lack of
funds and the aid rendered the board
of missions in the preparation of liter
ature that he found occasion to refer
to the hunting expedition of President
Roosevelt. He said that while it was
not the province of the tract society to
publish arithmetics yet it would be
done because the natives of Uganda
needed them. The purpose he supposed
was for the computation of animals
slain in the African jungle by the be
loved former president"
The reference brought storm ~
plause.
Dr. E. P. Cowan of Pittsburg, treas
urer of the board of freedmen, spoke in
behalf of the report asking more funds
for the relief Of the negroes Of the
south. He said that more than $4,000
worth of property in churches and
schools had been acquired by the board
but the advance is being held up for
Tack Of funds. Following DR.. Cowan,
the Rev NJ. A. Mayer of North Caro-
Greensboro, N. c., both negroes, urged
further support of the negro institu-
tions in the south. They said that the
congregations are rapidly becoming
self supporting, but for the present
must receive aid. Both speakers were
received with continued applause.
The afternoon the report of the
standing committee on education was
received and a discussion followed.
This evening there will be a popular
meeting in behalf of the freedmen
movement at which the negro repre-
sentatives of the church from the south
will speak.
school Fight Is Started.
Denver, May 24.-The report of the
standing committee on education which
already has caused widespread COM
ment in circles of the general assembly
of the Presbyterian church will be
brought up this afternoon for consid-
Grafton and it is believed that a fight
against nonsectarian schools in favor of
the Christian college Will be made.
The session of the assembly convened
at O'Clock this morning with devo-
tionaI services as usual and the trans
action of miscellaneous business. The
report of the standing committee on
freedmen also was made and precipi-
tated a discussion which took up con-
siderable time.
Tonight there will be popular
meeting in the interest of home mis-
sions which bids fair to be of interest
inasmuch as the women who are taking
the lead in this direction have laid
plans for a campaign to cover the COM
ing year in the interest of work in the
foreign districts of the cities.