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2 women's Then came the of the missionaries to the assemblage already referred to. TOIL FOR FELLOW WOMEX. MISS SINGH'S SINGING WINS MUCH APPLAUSE FROM THE DELEGATES. Work for Woman" was the topic of the Conference at Carnegie last night, and Miss Lilivati Singh, of Luckncw College, wearing her native costume, paid such a touching tribute to Abraham Lincoln and American and English Institutions that the was recalled by the audience, which never handclapplng until Miss Slngu returned to the front of the platform. She responded to the encore by singing a song In the Indian vernacular, and did it in a manner so pleasing to the audience that the applause was almost as marked as before.

All of the addressee and papers by the women last night were received with manifestations of heart approval. The programme managed with great skill, the speakers keeping within time limits, and the variety was marked. Every speaker received a hearty greeting. The programme included papers by Mrs. Duncan Mc- Laren, of Edinburgh; Miss Isabella Thoburn, Miss Singh.

Mrs. W. A. Montgomery, of Rochester, and S. L.

Keen, of Philadelphia. Mrs. Joseph Cook, of Boston, read a paper entitled "A Great Need." by Mrs. Isabella Bird Bishop, of London. Mrs.

Bifhop had intended to be present, but i.ess prevented her coming to the Conference. Mrs. J. T. Gracey, of Rochester, presided, and after prayer by Mrs.

Mary Lowe Dickinson, of New- York, introduced Mrs. Cook, who read Bishop's paper. Mrs. Bishop wrote as a traveller who hai'4 Fpent eight years in Journeying about Asia, where she studied the Oriental religions. She said of these: The study of these Oriental creeds and their fruits compels me.

to the conclusion that there is no resurrection power In any of them, and that taw sole hope for the religious, political and moral future of the countries of Asia lies in the acceptance of that other and later Oriental creed which is centred in that Divine person to whom. In spite of her divisions, Christendom bows the adoring kn Among the prominent and outstanding fruits or these religions which have fallen bo low are shameless corruption and Infamies of practice pant belief In the administration of government, which have obtained the panction of custom. Law is simply an engine of oppression, and Justice a commodity to be bought and Fold like any other, which the poor have no means of buying. Lying Is universal, and no shame attends the discovered falsehood. There are polygamy and polyandry, with their Infinite degradation, and the enthronement and deification of vice, many of the deities of India being the incarnations of unthinkable wickedness.

There are unbridled immoralities and corruptions, and no public opinion to condemn them or to men in doing right. Infanticide is openly prac-1 There is no truth and no trust between man and man. and no man trusts any woman. Every system of medicine In the Bast is allied with witchcraft, sorcery and demonolatry. Immorality pre-: vails universally.

Borne of the nations are given up to unmentionable Infamies, and nearly always the priests and monks are in advance of the people In immoral practices. Let us steadily bear in mind the fact that, though during this century nearly 4.000,000 persons won by missionary effort have been baptized Into the Christian Church, there are now more than more heathen mid Moslems In the world than century began. We must face the truth. i Miss Th'burri. who.

the speaker said, established the first Christian college for women in Asia, said, in part: Women are beginning to be awakened to the fact that they are not in the world to be ministered unto but to minister. Power is not manifest by the work we undertake, but by our BUeceFs with our task and the j.rwer for the missionary task will be found In education. Love, which we often call the greatest thing In the world, can do less for suffering than skill. Of the kindergarten I feel as did Miss Wlggin. who said: "No one who has the opportunity to become a klndergartner will want to be an angel." In our work in India have found work for every faculty that we possess.

We have had to make bricks without straw As a result of our experience there lam free to say that it is a cruelty to send a worker there without a thorough preparation. We do a poor work if it dor-c not inspire others to go and do likewise. The speaker said that the missionaries met the same difficulties that Church people were confronted with here. Bad books, public immorality and dangerous amusements appealed to the young IbCre as they did here. yesterday." said Miss Thoburn, her voice quivering with indignation.

"Miss Singh, one of our young women, was approached by a theatrical agent, who offered her alluring Inducements to go on the stage as an actress. She would be furntehed with a teacher free of cost." Miss Thoburn eloped her remarks with a ringing appeal to Christians to devote the best talents in them for the benefit of humanity. Miss Singh was Introduced as a former pupil of Miss Thoburn. She went from the Lucknow school to Calcutta University, where she. took a front rank In scholarship.

Miss Singh said. In part: It was my privilege a few days ago to visit Washington, and there I walked out to Lincoln Park. The thing that most Interested me th're was the statue of your great Lincoln, with the Emancipation Proclamation In one hand and the other hand resting on the head of a slave child. As 1 stood there looking at the representation of the man we all love the thought came to me that we women of the Orient should feel the seme gratitude to you people here in America and to the people of England as do the colored people who were given their freedom by Lincoln. (Great applause.) The speaker said tbat.

while she would not speak in a derogatory way of the abilities of the Bible 111 Om missions ij fields, she was present for the skilled labor which Is so much needed In India al the present time. "We wan' to know more than to be able to read." said she "Paadtta Ramabai is able through the education she possesses not only to read, but to superintend the building of artesian wells. Fifteen years ago there was only one Christian college in Asia. even that was heathen, for it was the practical supervision of heathen of- Now there arc- three colleges in India, two in Japan and three in Turkey, while there are numbers of high schools in the cities and larger villages. "The Responsibility of Women in Foreign Missions" was the subject of the paper by Mrs.

Duncan McLaren. She said In part: To seek to the worr.anhood of the world to the high plane where (Sod would have her take her place is most certainly a great and difficult undertaking, when we think of the numbers to be reached and of the obstacle? in the way. Certainly in this direction Increase of knowledge brings increase of responsibility, for the more we study missionary problems the more closely do we pee BOW much of the real undermining work in missions lies to woman's hands to accomplish. Rivers cf error must be stemmed at the fountain head, and the source of the polluted rivers of. idolatry and superstition is always found in the home.

It is therefore In the homes that Christian women must seek to replace these poisoning streams with the water of life. eW know tnat the tightly shut doors of the zenanas will only open to a woman's touch, that it must be a woman's voice that tells there the story of redeeming love, and the fame is true in modified degrees of heathen homes the wide world over. In these days the cry of heathen women reaches us through many an avenue, we cannot plr-ad ignorance of their great woes and' their still greater needs; thus our responsibility is indeed heavy and the call to the rescue is pressing and urgent. Mrs. Montgomery, of Rochester, who spoke on "The Outlook," said that the surest proof of the.

vitality of missions was to be found In the criticism it provoked. "All men unite to praise the dead," caid she, "and we may solace ourselves when our good is evil spoken of, for we may assure ourselves that what we are doing Is being felt. The fragrance of Mary's box of alabaster ointment will always be an aggravation to some, who would have had Mary sell the ointment and give the money to the poor. The missionary boards sometimes say. 'You are robbing Peter to pay should I say but we all know that the women who give most largely to missions are the very ones who are most liberal in the support of the Church.

The great mass of women In this work are in it because they love 'he Lord Mrs. S. L. Keen, of Philadelphia, was the last rpeakT. and she had a number of young women from China, Japan.

Armenia. India and Turkey come to the front of the platform, where they were introduced. One of the girls was the daughter of Pundit a Ramabai, and she mail" a brief speech In English, telling of her mother's work. A Koordlsh Christian womun. said to be the only Koordish Moslem woman ever converted to Christianity, HEALTH AND ACCIDENT INSURANCE As furnished by the Policies of the Fidelity and Casualty Co.

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HENRY W. TCTN'O. MRS. MOSES SMITH. made an address In her native tongue, and it was translated by one of the delegates present.

The Rev. Dr. Andrew Lionpacre, of this city, closed the meeting with prayer and benediction. HER WORK FOR THE HEA TFIEX TKIRT'TE PAID TO THE WORTH OF THE CONVERTED NATIVE WOMAN. At the Central Presbyterian Church In the morn- Ing the meeting was up to a discussion of "Women's Work in Foroipn Missions." Amonp the speakers were Miss 80110 H.

Bennett, Richmond, Mrs. Uosea Smith. Chicago; Miss A. B. Boston: Mrs.

H. C. Campbell, Wlestoeny Miss France? B. Hawley, K. S.

Ptrachan. Hamilton, Miss Corlnr.a Sbattuck, Turkey; Mrs. .1. Howard Taylor. Chlnn.

and Mrs. J. Falrley Daly, Glasgow. Judson Smith presided. Miss Childs spoke of the necessity of encouraging the heathen t6 read Christlnn literature nnd of providing the proper literature for them to rfad.

Mrs. Campbf-11 said she was convinced that medical missions accomplish as much toward the conversion of the heathen as any other one thing In the world, but she was much opposed to the custom now In vogue of giving preachers a medical educatl say- Ing that she thought thp medical work and the care of sonls should not be attempted by the same man. Miss Hawley said no lasting good could be accomplished without the establishment of schools. Mrs. Daly said: In Scotland we believe In education, higher when It is possible, primary when the higher is not available.

There Is no division of opinion on this point. Bishop Sergeant told me a story. I promised to pass the story on at every meeting I held in India. This is the story. "When 1 was a young man I went home to England for the first time In many years, and had the pleasure of addressing a meeting of children.

Some months previous missionary boxes had been given out to the children, anrl the boxes worp to be returned on the. day I addressed them. One little girl had a box which was unlike those carried by the others, and upon being questioned she said that when the boxes werV given out she was a month too young, hut as toon as she had arrived at the proper age she had her brother make a box for her. nnd so she made her offering with the rest of the children." The Bishop took the box back to India with him and told the story one day to a congregation of natives. One of them, after" the meeMng.

asked for the box. which was given him. He had other similar boxes made of clay, and they by this means built a church which has four hundred "members. iliss Rhntluck paid: There was a girl who came to one of our colleges but on account of her health wns not able to remain more than one year. She left, and went out with her unmarried brother and labored among people.

Soon word was brought to Us that the villagers were seeing visions nnd dreaming dreams nnd later that she had brought to Christ tho entire community In which she lived. Mrs. Taylor paid: The work of soul saving, gathering of converts from the heathen, is accomplished through the native Christian rather than through the Twelve years ago, when I first went to "hina. we were the first missionaries to visit the section we went to. There were twelve million women in the province, hut not one Christian There were a few Christian men.

but no women The woman whom I had as an ercort this being made necessary by the etiquette of impressed me much. Her face whs sad, n'nd I gradually learned her story. She had not been allowed to speak to her hnshani for three after marriage. She had birth to eight' girl" and had only been permitted to keep two of them. After she had been with me four we started out on an evangelistic journey and at one place In a barn we gathered the audiences and told them of Jesus.

It wns then tbat. I learned value of native women. One evening, nx she was sitting beside me and I was exhausted, she drew mv head down on her shoulder and told me to keep quiet and rest while she told the audience the story of Calvary and of the Cross. It to me that the story was never so beautiful, and oh. the glory which shone from her face, and the audience was soon melted to tears and one and all renounced their heathen gods nnd adopted the religion of Christ.

Following Mrs. Taylor, Mrs. Roberts, who has a school In Central New-York, Introduced three child widows from India. The girls did not seem to he more than fifteen years old. an! they have been In this country two or three years.

MISSION PRESS WORK. IGNORANT NATIVES SOON TRANSFORMED INTO EXCELLENT COMPOSITORS. "Mission Presses, Their Conduct and Management," was considered at a meeting in Carnegie Music Hall yesterday afternoon, at which the speakers were the Rev. Dr. A.

W. Rudisill. of Irdla. and Hubert W. Brown, of Mexico.

A paper written by Gilbert Mclntosh. of China, was read for him. Pr. Rudisili. who Is agent for the Methodist Kpiscoval Publishing House in Madras, fraid.

In part: 80 essential Is an electrotyping foundry In this time of rapid progress In cheap literature (hat no publishing house in American or European cities engage in the whirl of competition In cheap printing without its aid. and not until th" same process is in printing Oriental vernaculars with their many delicately curved letters, can large quantities of books be printed at pmall cos) In order to meet the demand for Illustrations In commercial work and In Christian literature the mission press must be equipped with a I.hoto-engrr.vlng plant. suggestion that mission presses in large cities should be thus furr.Uhed has been put into practical opiration in the press of rrhlcfa I am the agent When I first undertook to bring this about, practical men raised objection that it woula involve the employment of In these lines, who must proceed to Indl 1 nnd be engaged for some years in Instructing the natives, and that the expense would be so greal as to render the undertaking unadvlsable. By help of Providence I was enabled to set up the various at home ami l(- To operate them. Then removing them to India.

1 there taught the natives what I bad learned at home. found ttat by the combined use of photo-engraving, electrotyping. steam printing, booklet machines, and the cheap labor to be had in Madras, tt wns possible for us to these booklets at the of fifty thousand pages for $1. In view of the fact that one of the gravest connected with mission work Is how rind employment for tin rapidly Increasing converts, Is greatly to be desired thai all the employes of a mission press should Christians, is only just that those who arc of lie household of faith should tlrft be provid. for Somf- native Christian whom I took fourteen yean i'go an- now workmen, and one of them Is foreman of our Job department.

As Instance of his ability, it is a gratification to say that together with assistants, has done thcosMMMtag work for tin- embossed literature for the blind, which our Is now issuing In Qulurathl, Miilayl.mi. Marathi. Tamil. and Canarese To prepare this manuscript for embossing presented difficult tusk fur the typesetters; but native Christian, who some yearn before had entered our as un apprentice, bo mastered every detail of connected will; this work that he deserves rank among the most skilled compositors of London or New-York. Tlv- Hindoo Christian in chaige of Mm photo-engraving department is also notaMe Instance whar cun be accomplished throuKh native Christian baa not only been euccescful In learning to halftone and line work by sunlight, but in cloudy weather or the wet weasoii can photograph electric liuht.

The foregoing facts demonstrate whit may be done in the way of training native Christians to me skilled workmen in mission presses. MASS FOR INDIA'S AID. At the India famine mass meeting In Carnegie Hall Sunday evening Dr. Barrows, of Oberlir. College.

will give an Introductory address, after which India missionaries and others will treat the following In ttn mlnuts meecb.es: "Wbat NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE, FRIDAY. APRIL 27, 1900. SPEAKERS AT YESTERDAY'S MEETINGS OF THE ECUMENICAL CONFERENCE. Causes to Famine in India?" "Has the India Government Done Anything to Prevent Famines?" "How Does the India Government Handle This Famine?" "Facts and Statistics of This Famine." "What an Indinn Famine Is "Why Nations Should Help 1n Famine Relief" and "What the Vnitfd States Do." The Rev. Dr.

Harris, of Temple Israel, Harlem, has issued an appeal to the Hebrews of America to Fwell the fund for the starving millions of India. He proposes that J'll Rifts be accumulated under one the Council of Jewish Women. COMITY IX MISSION WORK. IT IS DESIRED BY MANY. AND THAT PEELING IS SPREADING.

Consideration the question whether union and co-operation In mission work are jiraeticable and desirable vat begun al a. m. in ramngie Hall, where the Rev. 11. M.

Kins, chairman of the American Baptist Missionary I'ninn, spoke on the "Spirit and of Missionary Comity" and the Rev. Alexander Sutherland, secretary of the Missionary Society of the Methodist Church In Canada, gave a general summary of the situation. This was followed by a discussion. Dr. King said in.i'iirt All branches of the sume general Church division and nil denominations in which a union could be effected without surrender of any faith or practice that is.

held to be vital, ought to their work when prosecuted on the same mission Held. It not only unnecessary, but culpable, to transplant and perpetuate divisions which have resulted from circumstances which have long since away or from the laying of emphasis upon unimpon i in matters. Let those who are in reality of the anie mind ml of the same faith and practice walk and work together. Where a Held already been taken possession of by one missionary body that body should have the exclusive right to cultivate it, no matter how accessible and attractive the Held or how rich the promise of the harvest. There Should be no interference and no competition.

The claims of the original settlers should be carefully acknowledged. Missionary expansion dors not give the right to enter upon territory that is already pre-empted. Grent centres of population, too large for any one society to compass, and large enough for the representatives of two or more societies to enter without danger of friction, may be exempted from the operation of this rule. In entering upon new territory there may be. there should be, an amicable division of the field, a careful and friendly drawing of the boundary not for the sake of restricting missionary activity, but for the of extending the preaching of the Gospel, of scattering more widely the need of the kingdom, and of bringing more speedily under Christian cultivation the barren wastes of the heathen world.

Rut If tt mi be that any society, by reason of limited resources or tne pressing demands of its other flHils. finds Itself, or Is found, unable to cultivate rhe new field the responsibility for which It has assumed it may ask for aid or surrender its claim. Among the missionaries of different societies occupying the same or adiacent fields the common love for and the supreme regard for the coming of His kingdom which tlrat love engenders wiil prompt to frequent conferences, in which the interests of the common work ghall be frankly and fully considered, and all matters which might lead to friction, and about which there Is any possibility of shall be examined in the spirit of prayer and in the holy light of Christ's radiant presence. it should be understood that concessions are to be expected only so far as they involve no surrender of truth that Is conscientiously held. Comity can never demand disloyalty to conviction or the violation of conscience.

It has its limitations at this point. Tt is the business of onmltv to discover modus vivendi when convictions are divergent. To grant to others the same rights of conscience and of private judgment that we claim for and still to love them, and honor and rejoice In their successes, that is comity, that Is liberality, that Is Christianity. SMALL GROUNDS OF DIPFERKNCE. Dr.

Sutherland said, among things: When closely and Impartially investigated the causes which keep evangelical Christians apart shrink Into small proportions too small to plead as a justification of rivalry, wasted resources and vast portions of the vineyard left unfilled. And, although tiT- time may not be opportune to introduce the large and complicated question of the organic union of Protestant Christendom, yet as to the desirableness of comity and co-operauon in foreign mission work there is now a remarkable consensus of oplni'in amor.tr missionaries, and also among leading members of the home boards. In promoting the spirit and practice of comity there are certain things which should be Btudiously avoided, such as the unnecessary overlapping of fields of labor and all unfriendly criticism of the missionaries of sister Churches or their methods of work. In the second place there are certain things to be carefully cultivated. The spirit of comity needs to be cultivated among the missionaries.

The same spirit needs to cultivated among members of the boards at home. Methods like the following would be found helpful: Conference between representatives of the home boards as to the lines on which comity and cooperation are especially desirable. Instructions from the home boards to their missionaries not only to cultivate assiduously the spirit of coml'y, but by conference with other missionaries to promote the policy of co-operation In mission work. The for mation In each foreign field of a Committee of Consultation and Reference, composed of representatives from each mission willing to co-operate, such committee to the larger questions of practical comity, such as amalgamation of small congregations, occupation of new fields nnd the establishment and maintenance of priming presses. hospitals anil dispensaries.

iiKlgmem and recommendation of said committee to be embodied in a report and sent to the home boards for approval or otherwise. the boards ami missions will at once co-operate would be too much to expect, but if ever, two or three could lie induced to the ami demonstrate the practicability of comity and co-operation, doubtless other missions would coon follow. the other speakers were Bishop C. C. Penick, of the Protestant Episcopal West Mission, who made the suggestion that all the denominations represented at the Conference contribute to the maintenance of a gre; central mission bureau to be conducted on the co-operative plan: the Rev.

Dr. George W. Kncx. of the Union Theological Seminary, who said the present methods of the missionary system were wasteful In the extreme, anc: that in the four seminaries In Toklo, Japan, there were not enough students to kee 4 one faculty busy: the Rev. Pr.

Johnson, a Presbyterian of London. Ontario, who created a diversion by and protesting against the great mnp which hangs at the far of the stage, because Canada was represented In the same color as Central Africa, and the Rev. Dr. Schrieher, ol Berlin, who advised a settlement of all differences and a working together the common IX EDUCATIONAL WORK. Comity In educational work was considered at ii.c Centra: Presbyterian Church yesterday afternoon.

The Rev. It. d. Btuan Dodge, of the Hoard of Trustees of Syrian Protestant College, Beyroot, Byria, advocated establishing a great coll ge in mission lands. He said that communities steeped In superstition or enslaved by boary and degrading faiths, or burled In grovelling and paganism, were to be lifted out Of Spiritual and physical corruption nru i made h.

all Ihi privilegas of the best rlvUlsatloa, and the agents to accomplish this stupendous tasl must born and trained the poll. Institutions of hlpl Ing must l.c planted In the mi: themselves, with rurrl ilnm In Instance as full and i as the vanccmeni of the nation would allow. Hey. Dr. Sheffield, president of tax North china Collage, spoke and the Rev I Btnyth, Poochow, China, s.ild thai everything the Christian Church could do to awaken higher intellectual itfi among the Chinese would aid them in the acceptance of the Christian religion Dr Smyth added that through the fnrseeing policy of President McKlniey nnd Secretary Hay opportunities unheard of before had been opened to Arr.prlrnn mtsstonarlet In the East.

This statement wae received with henrty applnuse Dr. Mary Mills Patrick, president of the American College for Girls at gave a MRS. W. M. BATRD.

Tory of Institution, which offers an advanced education to all the nationalities of the East. After a talk by the Rev. Albertus Pleters, of Nagasaki. Japan, on educational work there, an Interesting paper by the Rev. Dr.

F. F. Eillnwood. secretary of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church, was read by the Rev. Dr.

Henry T. McEwen, as Dr. Elllnwood was suffering from a cold. The paper. In part, was as follows: It has long been a matter of regret, especially view of the always Inadequate supply of funds, that not only educational work but other ln work of missions should so often be de overlap, and th.is call for multiplied appliances, with corresponding increase of expense, It possible in the interest of the common work, to save tens of thousands of dollars, and at the time and strengthen spirit of the.

1 to? spectaclfl of four or five Protestant organisations In one great central elty, Its hospital, its printing press, itV collece and Its girls' seminary, and each necSrv to produce an entire Christian ti.re is deplorable from the standpoint of ho. who are called upon for missionary support If we are met by the objection that so long as hrlstlan denominations differ in their conscientious in respect to points of doctrine, church order or practical methods of Christian work. It may not Se found possible to unite In the theological traming of a native ministry, yet it may be quite possible to co-operate in general preparatory courses, or In medical "education, or in the training of the- yottng for teachers, or for other secular pursuits. The paper was discussed by W. Henry Grant, the Rev.

Dr. George B. Smyth and the Rev John F. Goueher, of Baltimore. CO-OPERATION AND DIVISION' OF FIELM.

"Co-operation and Divl-ion of Fields in Occupied and Unoccupied Territory" was the subject of the meeting at the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian dmrcb yesterday afternoon. Dr. Alexander Sutherland presided. were made by Dr. H.

G. Guinness of London; the Rev. Dr. John W. Butler, of Mexico, and the Rev.

F. P. Haggard, of Assam. Tne were followed by enthusiastic Bye minute speeches from the Rev. J.

Hudson Taylor, of West China; the Rev. O. Owen, of Peking, china; the Rev. Dr. Ryckman.

of Canada; the Rev. Theodore If. MeNnlr, of Japan; the Rev. Alan Kwbank. of South America: the Rev.

S. Bullock, of Jamaica, and the Rev. William C. Buchanan, of "Vr Guinness believed that the first thing to be considered wns the unrrached parts of the world; that the churches were too much given to concentrate attention upon what was being done to the exclusion of what was still undone. The Rev.

F. P. Haggard, of Assam, believed that If there was to be comity abroad there must be comity at home. As an example of a problem In division and an overcrowued fleld. he stated that in the Thirteenth Ward of il is a population of 2fi persons and no 1 ureh, while in the Kleventh Ward In the exclusive Back Bay district there are 8.000 people and thirty-three churches.

In his opinion the matter of the proper division of the missionary fields should be left to the missionaries on the fields. He gave a brief history of missionary worK In Assam since the opening of the State, in and said that four societies were how working together In perfect harmony. The Rev. .1. Hudson Taylor and the Rev.

Mr. Owen also spoke. comity Would be economy. The discussion of comity was continued last night In the Central Presbyterian Church, which was crowded in every part when the Rev. Dr Wallace Radcllffe opened the session.

Mrs. W. A. Montgomery, of Rochester, spoke first In an Impressive way about the outlook for women's foreign misfionary work. She satd the.

women's societies, by careful organizations, by an army of unpaid workers and a flood of missionary literature, had taken no small part In bringing contributions to the missionary cause in the last twenty years. To oppose work on financial grounds was as if a great business house should object to paying its agents or spending money on Its advertising department. A thousand kindergarten teachers were needed, and a thousand women to carry into closed homes the Gospel of healing, and the work of the societies would never cease till all the women In the churches had been gathered in the movement. The Rev. Thomas Barclay, of Formosa, raid the idea that the heathen were observing the differences between Protestant denominations exaggerated.

In fact, the Chinamen did not even distinguish between Protestants and Catholics. The speaker urged that comity in missionary work was necessary to avoid overlapping and waste of money. There were loud calls for reinforcements from home, which "were not forthcoming, and missionaries should not fight each other, but work together So long as the churches were divided at home they would be divided abroad. There was grf.at difficulty however, he said. In arriving at any conclusion as to exactly what was to be done In the way of comity in missionary work.

The Rev. Thomas W. Pearce, for twenty years the representative of the London Missionary Society In China, said he had been working all along in perfect harmony with brethren belonging tv seven sections of the Protestant Church. He advocated a unity among denominations, admitting of diversit) of opinion, thought that a bureau information on the mission field would be excellent. The speaker thought that many laymen who gave liberally to Christian missions did not care by which society the world was evangelised It was pertinent to inqulie far societies home could instruct their missionaries to work with others, and certainly a home hoard could tell a young mis-lonary to cultivate the acquaintance of the missionaries on the The bor.ls of union would thereby be formed at the outset and strengthened as the went by.

Mrs. Alice Qordon Oullrk gave an Interesting review of the missionary work In Spain. She spoke of tae Ignorance of the women there, and told how the need Of teachers caused formation of a normal school. In rcbolarshlp the Spanish girls showed ereat aptitude, and took as high a standing as the men When Spanish war broke out ftftv Spanish airls of the International Tnst.tute followed the teachers across the frontier to prepare themselves be earnest, active cannot afford" oaid Mrs. Oultck, "to have an educational trust In America, and while It is not possible to nil foreign mission fields all the necessary, we can.

at least, train the natives to tike our places when we are gone CONFERENCE NOTES. The feature of to-day's programme of the Ecumenical Conference is the laymen's mass meeting in Carnegie Hall in the evening. over which President Angeil of the University of Michigan will preside. The committee consist! of Frederick B. Schenck.

chairman: Arthur W. Mllbury, secretary; William K. Dodge, Henry C. Conger, Charles A. Bchleren, R.

C. Morse, Charles M. Jesup, W. K. Lougecj K'lwln M.

Rulkley, John S. lluyUr, Darwin R. an.l William 11. Parsons. The music will be conducted by Ira I).

Bankey. assisted bj c. Juclhiih Hushuell barytone, of Calvary church, aid a male chorus, composed of member a of the Musurgia. Inquiries are kg received If this meeting Is for men only. It Is not.

and it Is hoped that the women will turn out In force. Senittor Roosevelt. Governor Woiroti of Massachusetts, Governor Dyer cf Rhode Island, Qoyernor Stone of Pennsylvania, Governor Nash ox Ohm. Governor Smith of Maryland and Governor Voorheos of New Jersey have sent messages of re gret thai they will not be to be present. The list of contains more than f.mr hundred representative men.

Alexander orr, of the Chamber I of Commerce, and George W. president of the United States Mortgage and Trust were yesterday added to the Committee mi Ftecep tlon to British and Colonial Missionary 3 and Dolo- i g.v.ca to the Kcnmfntcal Missionary Conference, The committee lias determined to Invite tir hundred and fifty guests, a number of whom will be leading New-Yorkers, who have taken particular I Interest in the Conference. Many Inquiries are re- ceived as to how to the reception may ue obtained. British and colonial residents of New- York and its vicinity may obtain tickets by writing MRB. GEORGE KfiRRT.

to Henry C. Hunter, secretary of the committee. No. 160 Broadway, and fending for each tl-ket The Methodist Social Union of this city will give a reception and dinner in honor of th" foreign delegates in attendance upon the Conference at the Hotel Savoy this evening. From 6to 7 o'clock the members of the Reception Committee wili receive the guests, nnd a large company will sll OOWI to dinner at 7.

Among the Invited guests, in addition to the delegates, are Bishops Cranberry and tlendrtx, and Rev. W. R. Lambuth. corresponding secretary Af the Millenary Society of the Methodist EpNcopal Church South: Blsri'T 1 Thoburn.

the Rev. Dr. A. B. the Rev.

I r. John Gbucher, the Rev. Dr. C. C.

Creegan, mi-- Bionary secretary of the Congregational fcurch; the Rev. Dr. Arthur J. Brown, of the Presbyterian Church, and th' Rev. John 'i Patoa, Ihe ramcras missionary to the w-Hebi The Lutheran delegates missionaries at law Conference will be en.ertaireil at the Hotel Savoy to-morrow, at v- p.

m. Addresses of wjlMiae be delivered by the Rev. Dr. J. B.

ami -i-Mavor Charles A. Sehlrren of Brooklyn: Drs. Maronsky and Schrelber. Lutheran from Berlin; Dr. Pohimann, of Africa.

Rev Mr ML' of India, r.nd Lutheran missionaries Norway and Finland will deliver addresses. The treasurer of the Conference. George Foster Peabody, of No. 27 reports receipts of From 12.K0 to is yet required to Mature of -his Conference that the question of subscription? to meet every riere- arj lp. and is confident thai the needful balance be Soon in hand.

The Rev. Dr. John c. Paton. missionary of the Islands, was tv irmly greeted by the students of Princeton College last nighr Dr Paton cited a number of bis experiences amonar the savages of the -poke of the of the people and of the Christian work that had been done there, and closed with an appeal to to 'hink seriously of giving their lives to missionary work.

Th, Rev. Dr. J. H. Correll, a delegate to the Conference and for some time a mlsslcniry In Japan, will prench on Sunday morning at the Church or Holy Communion.

A mass meeting will be held under the auspices of the West Side Branch of the Young Men's Christlan Association In Carnegie Hall on Sunday afternoon. Robert E. Bpeef will Short rilks will be givrn by prominent leaders In foreign lands on "What Christ Is Doing for the Nations The lie'- be. a I'nton New-Hebrides: Dr. C.

F. Harford-Batrersbv of the Soudan: Dr. Harry Guinness. of the I'nncnV John R. Mott.

of New- York: Miss UlsvaM Singh of I.ucknow. and Mrs. (Jeraliine Guinness Taylor, of will be the principal speakers. Prominent women delegates of the Conference from Japan. India.

China and Turkey will speak at a special service in the chapel of the Young Women's Christian Association. No. 7 East en Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock. All women are Invitfd. The Baptists.

missionaries, delegates and visitors to the. Conference will hold a worldwide Baptist rally of fellowship in Calvary Baptist Church this afternoon from 4 to 5:30 o'clock. The following receptions for delegates have been arranged: A reception by a committee of the Society of Friends, at the meeting house. No. 144 East to-day at o'clock: a reception and luncheon by a committee of the American Board, at the Hotel Marlhorough.

to-morrow at 12:30 p. a dinner by the Presbyterian Union of the Oranges, at the Country Club. Orange. N. Monday.

April 30. at 7 o'clock: a luncheon by Dr. George D. Dowkontt, for medical missionaries, at Calvary Baptist Church. Monday.

April 30. at 1 p. a luncheon and reception by the New-York juvenile Asylum, and Amsterdam-aye. on Wednesday. May 2.

at 1 p. a reception by the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, in the Presbyterian Building. No. 156 Wednesday, May 2. at 3 p.

a dinner by the Baptist Social Union of New-York, at the Hotel Manhattan. Wednesday. May 2. at 7 p. m.

The Hospitality Ccmmiltee. of which the Rev. Dr. Arthur J. chairman, has prepared its report to be submitted to the Conference May 1.

Dr. Brown says he had a hundred men and women helping him in his work. He said that many of the best houses of New-York were opened to the delegates by their owners, while others who could not receive guests rave money to entertain them in boarding houses or hotels. The committee secured free entertainment for all the foreign delegates, nnd for ill the foreign missionaries and wives Delegates from the United States paid their own expenses, but the committee found for them when desired. Accommodations were secured for two thousand persons in hotels find for one thousand in boarding houses.

Luncheon for a thousand persons daily in the neighborhood of Carnegie Hall at a cost of '25 or S3 cents a meal were also secured. The delegates and their wives are. of course, intellectual people, but they would appear to be hard students also, lodged from the large proportion of them who wear spectacles or eyeglasses. CONFERENCE SPEAKERS IN BROOKLYN. In connection with the Ecumenical Conference on Foreign Missions, a special mooting has been arranged for the Eastern District.

Brooklyn, to be held this evening at the Lee Avenue Congregational Church, corner of at I o'clock. The Rev. Dr. Charles C. Creegan will preside, and the speakers from the Conference will be the Rev.

Dr. L. Barton, of Boston, formerly of Turkey; the Rev. Dr. Joseph King, of Australia and Mis? Pauline Root, of India.

GREAT COKE COMPANY FORMED. A NEW-YORK FIRM WITH A CAPITAL OF RjMMsi INCORPORATED. Albany. April With a capital of the New-York By-Product Company, of New-York, to manufacture, deal in and sell coal, coke and their tiled articles of Incorporation to-day with Secretary of State. The company will he; 1 with The directors are John Alyin Young" Henry D.

Benner and Calvert Brewer, of New- York; Robert C. Priiyri. Lawrence H. and Thomas J. Van Antwerp, of Albany, and John W.

Har.Uni.erßh. of Jersey City. The corporation tax amounts: to uow.t FOR THE dkwey arch. The Committee or Perpetuattag the Arch received checks yesterday for boxes ar.l seats for the benefit performances to given on Tuesday afternoon Howard Gould his check for Qefi for box; Mi i Helen M. Gould teal check fcr lei a box.

Villiam It. Oliver ir sent a check for to Olgn for one seat. The will boil Daly's Theatre, and Mr. Oliver will have his seat at Wallack's, H.IVV IX LOW ithOAmVAY. Since the Municipal Assembly approved plan to lay an "asphalt pavement In Broadway from to Forty-seconJ-st.

this summer. President 1 gan of the Borough of Manhattan has been advocating a plan have asphalt pavement laid In Broadway from Fourteenthit. to the Battery. Many Broadway merchants hnve joined In Mr. Coogan's movement.

declaring that an asphalt pavement would improve business in Broadway. Some of the officials say that the THE REV. PR. J. W.

BPnT-ER. traffic In Broadway belo'v la heavy that an asphalt pavement there would nolast long. .7 PLANS FOR IMPROVED CANAL CONSULTING BOARD APPOINTED ET TEa STATE Albany. April Engineer has lost no tn starting opTatlons on the survey for a 152.W0.0C0 targe canal New-York State, from Buffalo ami fr'rr Osxeso to the for which survey 1 was appropriated, by tn? Legislature at its session Just closed. -step must be declls what 13 maximum Sift of leek which since thb la the vital point of any canal location or estimate.

A number of mechanical and pn'umatto locks have teen of them built- fcj Europe, and If of designs be adopted for the Kew-Tcrk at Newark, Little Falls and Cohoes. construction and maintenance and the navigation of tte canal win be expedited. State Engineer Bond his therefore arranged assemble at Albany at mi a corsultinj board prominent ep.gln>rrs, rrhosp reputations suih that their comblr.r-d opinions will confidence In the decision which they reath. The Board is composed of the following engineers: George 8. afortsoa, of New-York, member cl Isthmian Canal Commission and past president- the American Society of Civil Engineers; Mao Dan C.

Klmrman. United States Corps of Enl Klneers. in charge of the I'nlted States canal construction In Tennessee: Professor William H. Barr member of the Isthmian Canal mm anil professor or civil it Columbia elty: Major T. W.

UnltM States Corps EnKinpers. of Buffalo, and Klnathan Sweet, former State ftr.Kin*>er of New-York, of Albany. This Consulting Is to here at ths office of the State Engineer on the of April 27. when plans and details of afl of the devices will put before Board for cobsideration. Meantime formation of surveying pamaa and the organization of details needed for survey are In full and by tiM time the froshets have subsided and the conditions favor accurate opera) wlilbexin all a Song the line between Krie and Hudson, maklsj f-ill use, ho fT as practicable, of work by the Deep Waterway commissions and of records it rh- State whole work is to be completed and the result snbmitted to the Legislature next January.

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