Meeting of the Board of Managers. The furlough of Rev. W. W. Bruere, of India, was extended until November. 333 South America and Mexico. J. S. McLean, A. Longacre, C. C. Corbin, J. M. King, S. P. Hammond, H. Rev. J. L. McLaughlin was appointed treasurer for Welch, G. C. Batcheller, C. S. Wing, A. Speare. the Philippine Mission. The appointment and outgoing of twelve young men for work in Southern Asia was authorized. They must be willing to go on half pay, which is to be provided on the field, doing half missionary work during the first four years, meanwhile employing the balance of the time in learning the language of the people. They must remain unmarried four years, during which time they will be considered on trial, and at the end of the time, if they prove efficient, will be put on the roll and pay of the regular missionaries, and if not efficient their return expenses to the United States will be paid. The Corresponding Secretary was requested to correspond with the Board of Church Extension, and report at the next meeting of the Board what assistance it will give toward purchasing mission property at San Juan, Puerto Rico. Dr. T. B. Wood, of Peru, addressed the Board for fifteen minutes, reporting what had been accomplished toward securing religious liberty in Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru, and Chile, and thanks were given him for his report. Bishop Warne addressed the Board for five minutes on the Mission in Manila, especially as to the need of a church building, and the question of securing Mission property in Manila was referred to the Committee on Southern Asia. The thanks of the Board were given to the United States Government for promise to take active steps for the protection of our missionaries in China. The sympathy of the Board was extended to our missionaries who are in peril from the rebellion or Permission was given to the Chinese Sunday school to use the Board room on Sunday afternoons, at the pleasure of the Board. The Board approved the transfer of its mission work and property in the State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, to the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, said Church having agreed to reimburse the Missionary Society for the actual cash outlay made in the appropriations for the purchase of property. The following officers of the Society and Board were elected: President-Bishop Merrill; Vice Presidents-Bishops Andrews, Warren, Foss, Hurst, Ninde, Walden, Mallalieu, Fowler, Vincent, FitzGerald, Joyce, Goodsell, McCabe, Cranston, Moore, Hamilton: A. K. Sanford, J. H. Taft. G. G. Reynolds, G. J. Ferry, J. S. McLean, J. F. Rusling, J. M. King, J. M. Buckley, Alden Speare, Charles Scott; Recording Secretary-S. L. Baldwin. The following standing committees were elected : Africa. A. K. Sanford, A. Fowler, C. S. Harrower, B. M. Adams, H. A. Monroe, Herbert Welch, R W. P. Goff, Archer Brown. China. J. H. Taft, S. F. Upham, P. A. Welch, G. P. Mains, A. H. Tuttle, W. V. Kelley, J. L. Hurlbut, Reed Benedict. Europe. H. A. Buttz, J. R. Day, A. H. De Haven, J. M. Buckley, Geo. Abele, G. P. Mains, A. H. Tuttle, G. P. Eckman. Southern Asia. J. F. Goucher, E. B. Tuttle, W. H. Falconer, B. M. Adams, J. M. Cornell, C. R. Barnes, J. O. Wilson, G. P. Eckman. Japan and Korea. E. S. Tipple, John Beattie, F. M. North, J. F. Goucher, W. F. Anderson, J. R. Curran, R. B. Kelly, J. B. Faulks. Self-supporting Missions. J. S. McLean, A. Fowler, R. Grant, A. K. Sanford, J. L. Hurlbut, R. B. Kelly, Reed Benedict. Domestic Missions. S. O. Benton, S. W. Gehrett, W. V. Kelley, S. W. Thomas, C. S. Wing, J. R. Curran, W. McDonald, Wm. J. Stitt, C. R. Barnes, B. C. Conner. Finance. E. L. Dobbins, J. H. Taft, G. J. Ferry, Wm. Hoyt, J. S. Huyler, J. S. McLean, E. B. Tuttle, Alden Speare, J. E. Andrus. Lands and Legacies. G. G. Reynolds, L. Skidmore, Alden Speare, P. A. Welch, Wm. Hoyt, Charles Scott, J. F. Rusling, S. Baldwin, G. F. Secor. Publications. J. M. King, J. M. Buckley, J. F. Goucher, A. Longacre, A. K. Sanford, J. B. Graw, John Beattie, W. V. Kelley. Woman's Mission Work. C. S. Harrower, J. R. Day, E. S. Tipple, H. W. Knight, H. Welch, G. P. Mains, L. Skidmore, J. O. Wilson. Estimates. J. M. Buckley, J. S. McLean, S. F. Upham, G. J. Ferry, J. S. Huyler, J. L. Hurlbut, W. J. Stitt. Nominations and General Reference. The Chairmen of the other committees. Apportionments. J. F. Goucher, J. M. Buckley, C. S. Harrower, F. M. North, J. B. Faulks. Audits at New York. E. B. Tuttle, A. K. Sanford, W. H. Falconer, C. S. Harrower, John Beattie, E. S. Tipple, F. M. North, J. O. Wilson. Audits at Cincinnati. Edward Dymond, R. H. Rust, A. J. Nast, James N. Gamble. The following were approved for appointment under the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society: Miss Luella G. Rigby, Miss Grace Stickwell, Miss Mary A. Cody, Miss Ida Ellis, Miss Charlotte T. Holman, Miss Ethel M. Estey, Miss Florence Plumb. Drs. F. M. North, E. S. Tipple, and Andrew Longacre were appointed a committee to prepare a memoir of Thomas H. Burch, who died May 27. Several appropriations were made for the benefit of the foreign missions, and $515 for fourteen of the domestic missions. THE General Conference did not have time to act upon all the reports of the Committee on Missions. It is probable every report would have been adopted had they been presented for vote. They will be found on page 319. THE General Conference made provision for better THE Missionary Society wishes to speak to all the Episcopal supervision of our foreign missions for pastors and official members of the Church through the pages of GOSPEL IN ALL LANDS and ask for their subscriptions. The price of the magazine has been made so very low that everyone can afford to take it. Where is there a pastor who cannot afford fifty cents a year for it? Will you cooperate with us? Mistakes and Delays. MANY complaints have been received during the past year of mistakes in direction and delays in reception of GOSPEL IN ALL LANDS. It is believed that the change of management will remedy these defects. The Board of Managers of the Missionary Society meet on the third Tuesday of each month and the editor finishes his work on the last pages on the Thursday following. The magazine should be printed, bound, and mailed to all subscribers by the last of the following week. Famine in India. the next four years. Bishop Vincent will reside in Europe and have oversight of the European Conferences and Missions. Bishop Moore will oversee and direct the work in China, Korea, and Japan, and his ready and skilled pen will keep the Church at home informed as to the needs and opportunities of his great diocese. Bishops Parker and Warne will be very helpful colaborers with Bishop Thoburn in Southern Asia. No better appointments for these great fields could be made, and we expect increased prosperity in all of our Missions. Welcome. WE bid glad welcome to Dr. A. B. Leonard, who has returned from General Conference to enter upon his thirteenth year and fourth quadrennium as Missionary Secretary. No secretary has ever been more devoted or efficient. The large vote by which he was returned was a well-merited tribute for past service and present ability. He is well qualified for his enlarged responsibilities as chief secretary. A. B. LEONARD, D.D., Protection for Missionaries in China. tributions. Will not every pastor see if he can obtain a larger collection than last year? Cannot a plan be adopted which will ask a contribution from every member of the church and congregation? The General Missionary Committee in November cannot make appropriations larger than the amount of the collections of the previous year. Historical Note. 335 those who are clamoring" for protection to the missionaries in China. He says: "It should be generally understood that missionaries to the heathen take their lives in their hands, and any Church or religious body that embarks in missionary enterprise does so at its own risk. People who by their own action antagonize a foreign government are not entitled to claim from their own government protection in such action to the extent of embroiling it with the foreign power." Missionaries in China have all the rights of human beings, and American missionaries all the rights of citizens of the United States. It should be under THE editor enters this month upon his twenty-first year of service on this magazine. The GOSPEL IN ALL LANDS was commenced as an undenominational missionary magazine in February, 1880, and the num-stood that missionaries are in China by consent of bers of February, March, April, and May were issued. There was no June number. Commencing with July, 1880, the present editor became the editor and publisher, and continued as such for five years. The magazine was sold to the Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church early in 1885, and since May, 1885, has been the property of the Missionary Society, presenting its work and claims. Previous to 1892 it was quarto in size, and since January, 1892, has been octavo. magazine was published by the Missionary Society from May, 1885, to January, 1889, and by the Methodist Book Concern from January, 1889, to July, 1900. Commencing with July, 1900, the Missionary Society resumed charge of its publication and business management. It will continue helpful to all persons interested in missions, and especially to pastors. We ask that pastors aid the Society by The H. K. CARROLL, LL.D., forwarding the money for their Asst. Secretary of the Missionary Society. the Chinese government, which by its edicts has commanded that they be protected everywhere. They have the same rights on Chinese soil as other foreigners. Their errand is as legitimate as that of those who go to buy, or sell, or to engage in any enterprise of pleasure or profit. They do not ask any more protection than other American citizens, and they take all necessary risks. The rising of the "Boxers" is not specially against the missionaries, certainly not the Protestant missionaries, but against all foreign ers. They are killing native Christians because they believe, or profess to believe, that they have been inoculated with foreign political ideas by the missionaries. It is not true that missionaries antagonize the government or political institutions of China. They go there to preach the Gospel and to engage in educational and medical work. If they were political own subscriptions, and by soliciting the subscrip- | emissaries, the government of China would not tions of others. A Call for Missionaries. TWELVE unmarried young men are needed as missionaries on trial in Southern Asia and the Philippines. They should be educated and consecrated; willing to work for a bare support, and ready for a four years' probation. The Missionary Society sent out eleven young men last year on this principle, and they proved so efficient the Society is encouraged to repeat the experiment. Who will volunteer? Applications can be made to Dr. A. B. Leonard, Secretary of the Missionary Society, at 150 Fifth Ave., New York. put them in positions of power and trust. Dr. Martin has for years been at the head of the Imperial University at Peking, and Dr. Martin went out as a missionary. Others have been trusted in a similar manner. The insurrection of the "Boxers" has not been fomented by the missionaries, as Mr. Henry's words imply. The missionaries happen to be foreigners; but there are many other foreigners in the empire, and the outbreak is not against the religion taught by the missionaries, but against the political, social, and industrial ideas for which all foreigners are supposed to stand. The charge which Mr. Henry brings is a libel, and his suggestion that the missionaries, their wives and children, be left by our government at the mercy of a mob is inhuman. Why should merchants and tourists and other Americans be protected in China and the missionaries and their families be abandoned? The idea is abhorrent to the sense of humanity. 336 D Prosecution of Missionary Work. Prosecution of Missionary Work. work, and when fields ready for the harvest abound on every hand. There are a hundred reasons now BY H. K. CARROLL, LL.D. for prosecuting with great energy the missionary URING the sessions of the great Ecumenical work, where one could have been given fifty years ago. Missionary Conference in this city one of the Improved means of intercourse have brought all daily papers published a communication from a peoples closer together. Migration has caused an former United States minister to China, indicating intermingling of those different races, tongues, and the writer's belief that the basis of missions had tribes. Our own country is a conglomeration of been gradually changing in the last twenty-five races. We have the heathen at our own door, in a years, and that this was the last great Missionary sense different from that in which the term has so Conference that would ever be held. If it was the long been used by those who do not believe in forlast of the series, it is very comforting to know that eign missions. We must care for those who are it was also the greatest. No one who saw the im- citizens of our own country, or who are soon to bemense throngs in Carnegie Hall, not only in the come such, and we can best do that by endeavoring evenings, but during business hours in the mornings to reach them also in their own home lands. The and afternoons, could have any doubt that the sub- work which spreads out before the Church is conject of missions was a very attractive one. stantly becoming more complicated and more extenSome years ago a cry was raised that the preach-sive. The very life of Christianity now depends upon ing of a certain doctrine would result in "cutting the energy which can be put forth in the evanthe nerve of missions." That doctrine has had its gelization of the world. day, and is now well-nigh forgotten; but the cause of missions is as much upon the hearts of the Christian people of the world as it ever was, and there is no sign to indicate that the nerve of missions has in any way been injured. It is an important fact for men who study the conditions in mission lands and the duty of the Church to evangelize the world, that the Christian governments of the world are taking possession of the countries and peoples of the world. Within a very short time it is quite probable that Christian rule will be extended over all peoples and all countries. The partition of China is impending, and the fate of the Ottoman Empire may be decided at any moment in the council of the Christian powers of Europe. Africa has been appropriated by these same powers, and there is little left in any quarter of the globe which is not under the direct control or influence of Christian government. If the Church, whose aim it has been to reach non-Christian peoples in advance of Christian commerce and Christian government, does not continue on the alert, it will surely fall behind secular enterprises. The Brahman Priesthood. The Hindu, of Madras, an influential native paper, and the organ of orthodox Hinduism, is honest enough to say of the present Brahman priesthood: "Profoundly ignorant as a class, and infinitely selfish, it is the mainstay of every unholy, immoral, and cruel custom and superstition, from the wretched dancing girl, who insults Deity by her existence, to the pining child widow, whose every tear and every hair of whose head shall stand up against everyone who shall tolerate it, in the day of judgment." Of the endowed temples and shrines it says: "The vast ma jority of these endowments are corrupt to the core. They are a festering mass of crime and vice." Recommended Books. Self-supporting Churches, and How to Plant Them, is written by W. H. Wheeler, to Illustrate the Life and Teachings of Rev. C. H. Wheeler, D.D., for 40 years a missionary in Turkey. It is the deNo intelligent man believes that the best govern- sire of all missionary societies that the native ment on earth, even though it be Christian in char-churches in the foreign missions become self-supacter, can do for heathen and Mohammedan peoples what is necessary to be done in order that Christian civilization may be implanted. It needs the missionary with the words of the Gospel to bring men and women into right relations with the Creator and Saviour of the world. This is the first thing. After the knowledge of the Gospel of Christ has been given and received all other good things may be added. porting as soon as possible, but in most cases the possibility does not seem near at hand. How best to obtain the result may be aided by a study of plans that have proved successful, and the work of Dr. Wheeler in this direction is very suggestive. As one of the means used he would permit the church to largely manage its own affairs, and he attaches much importance to giving every member of the church some special work. They were taught the proper use of money, and that if twenty families were to give one twentieth of their incomes to support a pastor, his support would be as good as the average of his members. Of course self-support can much more readily be secured in some countries than in others. We urge missionaries and those interested in the progress of missions to carefully study the book. It is sent by mail for $1, by the Better Way Publishing Company, Grinnell, Ia., or by Miss Emily C. Wheeler, Auburndale, Mass. GOSPEL IN ALL LANDS. AUGUST, 1900. MISSION WORK IN OUDH DISTRICT, NORTH INDIA CONFERENCE. OUDE BY REV. W. A. MANSELL. UDH is a fertile and populous province | Moghul empire. The governors, however, in India, lying between Nepal on the soon became independent of the emperor at north and that portion of the Ganges which Delhi, and reigned as independent nawabs extends from Farrukhabad to within a few and afterward kings recognized by the Britmiles of Allahabad. It is one of the earliest ish government. seats of Indian civilization. Ayodhiya was the capital of the ancient kingdom of Kosala, famous in the Ramayan, India's greatest epic. Kosala was also famous as the early seat of Buddhism. The last king, for his gross incompetency and mismanagement of the state, was, after repeated warnings and vain efforts to effect his reform, finally deposed, and in 1856 Oudh was annexed as a British state. The nobility The ancient capital, Ayodhiya, which was in remote antiquity one of the largest and most magnificent of Indian cities, is now known only by heaps of ruins almost buried in the jungle, and all that remains of it are some half buried ruins in several localities, concerning the identity of which the scholars and antiquarians are by no means agreed. After remaining for centuries under the rule of several succeeding dynasties of Hindu kings, Oudh became, in the middle of the eighteenth century, a province of the retained their hereditary titles and lands, and since the mutiny the province has steadily advanced in prosperity. The nobles of Oudh are now among the staunchest supporters of the British reign. The area of Oudh is about twenty-four thousand square miles, its population is over eleven and a half millions, being 480 to the square mile-one of the most densely populated districts in the world. Of the inhabitants, although the great majority are Hindus-the Mohammedans, having long been the ruling class, exercise an authority |