The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-01-09
MISSION BOARDS
| Of NORTH AMERICA
|l,t,resting Figures From
MARKERS in Field as TO What
Is Being Done.
|SuE STATISTICS AS W
THE NUMBER ABROAD
Ihpre Are Many Mission Study
Classes in Higher Educa-
tionaI Institutions.
By w. V, FRANCIS.
Ic Tribune

IL, Leased Wire to The Tribune,
TyEW YORK. Jan. S.-Every week
.us 10 bring out something new anG
.,srstinc in the way OF report from
IA. Mission field or from those al homo
1 rso are helping to look after and sup
AZ the work. The close of the yea
l,,rked the session Of the QuadrcnniaI
,,,vsution of the Student Volunteer
|Ioremcnt for Poreigu Missions al
! p.hestsr, N Y. This movement be
.r in The year 1886 and the result
4 ',.ms 20 have Justified the most san
-;re hopes Of the little band who
IslIrd it into being. The primary func,
IA, of the movement is that of a
Uniting agency seeking to enroll Il
\ rsciept number of woll-qualjfed vol.
4 rleers TO meet the requirements of the
ITsiop boards of North America
/T,tbout any elaborate statement as to
H. success of the enterprise the fol
Ibripg statistics were submitted In the
srort read at Rochester. II was stated
|s,t The number of volunteers who
Lad actually sailed was as follows; In
l lpS al tho Toronto convention il was
rurted that $50 volunteers had sailed
I iaipg ihe preceding four years. In
IL ouadreunium following. 1000 voluu-
|sers sailed, as was reported at the na
Itopsl convention in 1906. In the four
|nars which have since elapsed, 1888
|ronnteers have sailed. the entire num-
La reaching the magnificent total since
liz beginning of the movement in
|lrb OF 4546, In regard 30 finances
IT. YEARLY contributions are now Sl27.-
In, an increase Of $47 900 since four
|Iar. ago. There arc at present POSI-
\ |rissioD study classes in the higher edu.
Iaionsl institutions in this country and
|isbsds with = membership of 25.203
|srollcd students, which almost doubles
IL figures reported IN 1905.
/ Collections for Hospitals.
The plans of Inc committee having
rhargr The ANIMAL collection Of funds
IN tbc Now York hospitals deserve
|k greatest praise for the successful
|,iuagcmeul Of all the preliminary ar.
|mgemcnis. but unfortunately the
|',Siher was not auspicious. The great
II storm Of the season was raging
|sicn Christmas SUNDAY arrived and the
|,euli ia tho collection was so disas-
Ilfu2 lh'lA hb' I'IlDN lIR lfllrG mas
|fHod hv George Macculloch Miller.
|er.dcnt 81 tho association. "Owing
n The severe storm and the almost
|EpsSahlc condition of thc streets on
|nrSpial Sunday the church attend
|.see fell below that Of probably any
|sndav IN wears, with the consequence
|nst the annual collection for the hos
pals. on which their free work on he
|hlf Of the sick and destitute is 10 an
|plcnt depeudeut. was not half the
|sssl amount Inasmuch as the demand
|Bou most of the churches respecting
Pa collections puts the supplementary ~
|sleclon ont Of the question. am
|rsed TO make an earnest appeal 10 all
Pee members Of The various congrc-
|2llons who wcrc unable 10 attend their
|rFctlyc places Of worship to remit
|f'i contributions to their pastors. !
|Tdlally comply with this request, and
Pause Of my knowledge Of tho press
IL needs Of tho hospitals urge that
|Slrbut'ons bc sent as promptly and
|s1cFously as possible -
To Be Dedicated Anew.
! NAV iutcres; some Of nv readers
|slesrD the use 10 be made Of the fash.
Pablo church of which Father Duccv
r. 70 many years the rector The
4 |abolic News says: son Saturday
|,arnlng, December Is. Archbishop Far
II aid mass for the Cloistcred Order
Il laTie Rrparairice in their new quar-
4 ,nst ST Leo 5 in East Twenty Eight h
|s'st'. During The lifetime of the late
III. Thomas Duccy, this church had
|rtu The scene of many imposing ccrc.
|fy1es as it had been the center Of =
Il soru-o out body. Father Ducey had
|sa.arnd himself 10 al who kncM him