The Seventieth Annual Meeting of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions will be held in Plymouth Congregational Church, Syracuse, N. Y., commencing Tuesday, October 7, at 3 P. M., and closing Friday morning, October 10. The Annual Sermon will be preached by George F. Magoun, D. D., President of Iowa College, Grinnell, Iowa, Tuesday evening, at half past seven o'clock, in Plymouth Church. Supplementary meetings will be held during the week in the First Presbyterian and the Park Presbyterian Churches. The friends of Missions in Syracuse and vicinity will welcome to their homes the Corporate and Honorary Members of the Board, its Missionaries, and the Pastors of Congregational Churches; also the Officers of the Woman's Boards of Missions, and Professors in Theological Seminaries. All who propose to accept this offer of hospitality are expected to apply to JOHN DUNN, JR., Chairman of Committee on Entertainment, or C. W. BARDEEN, Corresponding Secretary, Syracuse, N. Y., before the first day of September. Soon after that date, cards, introducing applicants to the families that will entertain them, will be sent by mail. Should any applicant fail to receive a card of assignment previous to September 20, he will please write again. Female applicants are particularly requested to sign their Christian names in full. C. W. BARDEEN, Corresponding Secretary. REV. A. F. BEARD, Chairman Committee of Arrangements. PACKAGES FOR MISSIONARIES. Persons sending packages for shipment to Missionaries should state in general terms both the contents and value: as, 66 Books, $7.00," "Clothing, $15.00," etc. There are no specified days for sending out goods; but, in general, it is well to send packages to the Rooms as soon as prepared, that they may be ready for the first shipment. It has very frequently occurred that persons have written to ask when a shipment will be sent, and have just missed the shipment, when, if the goods had been sent at once, with a letter or postal giving contents and value, they would have been in season for shipment. Mark boxes and packages 14 Somerset Street, and address letters to CHARLES HUTCHINS, No. 1 SOMERSET ST., BOSTON. MISSIONARY HERALD, 1879. Subscription price $1.10, including prepayment of Postage. Address CHARLES HUTCHINS, No. 1 SOMERSET ST., Boston, Mass. Letters for Rev. N. G. CLARK, D. D., Corresponding Secretaries, Rev. E. K. ALDEN, D. D., LANGDON S. WARD, Treasurer, Rev. E. E. STRONG, Editor of Missionary Herald, should be addressed No. 1 Somerset Street, Boston Communications relating to the pecuniary affairs of the Board should be sent to the Treasurer; subscriptions and remittances for the MISSIONARY HERALD, to the Publishing Agent. Rev. Rufus ANDERSON, D. D., may be addressed Cedar Square, Boston Highlands. MRS. ELIZA H. WALKER, having care of Missionary children, may be addressed Auburndale, Mass. WOMAN'S BOARDS OF MISSIONS. W. B. M., Boston. MRS. ALBERT BOWKER, President. MRS. BENJ. E. BATES, Treasurer. MISS EMMA CARRUTH, Assistant Treasurer. W. B. M. of the Interior. MRS. MOSES SMITH, Jackson, Mich., President. MRS. E. W. BLATCHFORD, 375 No. La Salle St., Chicago. MRS. J. K. MCLEAN, President, Oakland, Cal. Secretaries. All communications to officers of the Woman's Board, Boston, should be sent to No. 1 Congregational House, Boston. Checks and drafts should be made payable to Miss Emma Carruth, Assistant Treasurer. Letters relating to "LIFE AND LIGHT" should be addressed "Secretary W. B. M." DISTRICT SECRETARIES. New York City and the Middle States, including Ohio, Rev. Charles P. Bush, D. D., No. 39 Bible House, New York City. Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, and Nebraska, Rev. S. J. Humphrey, D. D. Prairie State Bank Building, 112 West Washington St., Chicago, Ill. HONORARY MEMBERS. The payment of $50 at one time constitutes a minister, and the payment of $100 at one time constitutes any other person an Honorary Member of the Board. LEGACIES. "The Ameri In making devises and legacies to the Board, the entire corporate name can Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions" should be used; otherwise the intent of the testator may be defeated. Form for Bequest to the Woman's Board. I give and bequeath to the WOMAN'S BOARD OF MISSIONS the sum of to be applied to the mission purposes set forth in its Act of Incorporation, passed by the Legislature of Massachusetts in the year 1869. THE MISSIONARY HERALD. VOL. LXXV.-OCTOBER, 1879. - No. X. SEVERAL of our exchanges have singularly stated that missionaries of the Board "are now on their way home from mission fields in all parts of the world," to attend the annual meeting at Syracuse. It would be pleasant to see many of our missionary brethren, and some will be present at Syracuse, though a smaller number than is usual on such occasions. But every one who will be there will be in this country, not for the purpose of attending the meeting, but for health and needed rest. Our missionaries have more important work on hand than to come home for the purpose of attending the annual meeting. THE missionary concert for October will just precede the Annual Meeting of the Board. In view of the unusually important questions coming up for consideration at Syracuse, it is suggested that at the missionary concert. for this month united prayer be offered in all our churches that God would guide his servants in their approaching deliberations, giving them a spirit of faith and of consecration. REV. DR. MEANS has returned from his investigations in Europe concerning Africa. The best sources of information, such as could not have been reached by correspondence, were opened to him both in England and on the continent. The question of entering some of these open fields in Africa by the Board, will doubtless come up for consideration, and awaken much interest at the annual meeting. 66 A LONG-TRIED friend of four score years of age, while sending a special thank-offering to the treasurer, adds these words: Doubtless every Christian heart has joined in the congratulations that have been offered you in view of the prospective increase of your means of usefulness. Should your coffers even overflow, I will hope while I live I may be permitted to add my mite for the advancement of Christ's kingdom on earth." THE political news from Constantinople is not reassuring. The Sultan has dismissed from his cabinet the two Christian ministers, through whose influence it was hoped thorough reforms would be prosecuted. The hopes for any constitutional rule by the Porte are indefinitely postponed. THE following facts concerning Robert College, furnished us by Dr. Bliss, of Constantinople, suggest the varied and wide-reaching influences exerted by this and other Christian educational institutions in Turkey. The whole number of students connected with Robert College since it was founded, now amounts to 912. The largest number in attendance at any one time was in 1873, when it amounted to 216. Only 87 of the students, however, have completed the whole course of study and received diplomas, much the larger number having taken only a partial course for the purpose of fitting themselves for some particular branch of business. Of the 87 graduates, 16 are now in mercantile pursuits, 14 in the civil service of the Porte or some foreign government, 7 in military service, 11 are teachers, 8 are medical students, 4 are bankers, 3 lawyers, 3 editors of newspapers, and 3 are Protestant clergymen. The number of students in attendance the past year has been 151, of whom 52 are Bulgarians, 44 Armenians, 31 Greeks, 15 English, 3 Americans, and the remainder of five different nationalities. THE death of Dr. Joseph Mullens, of which we know only that it occurred near Mpwapwa, July 10, of peritonitis, seems an almost irreparable loss. As Secretary of the London Missionary Society he resolved to know the needs and help in the organization of the mission in Central Africa on Lake Tanganyika.' It was a brave resolve in view of the perils of the undertaking, to one of his age. But Dr. Mullens had endured hardness before. Born in 1820, he was a missionary in India from 1843 to 1866, and returned to England in the latter year to accept the Secretaryship of the London Society. His visit to the United States in 1870 is remembered with delight by those who then met him. He spent twelve months in Madagascar in 1873-74, in the effort to advance the missionary work on that island. It was his noble ambition to do for Central Africa what he had done for other parts of the world, but in the midst of the effort God has called him home. It was largely through the influence and under the direction of Dr. Mullens, that the London Conference on Missions was held last year, and the Deputation of the American Board at that Conference gratefully recalled his kindness on that occasion. May his mantle fall on some one equally wise and courageous and devoted. THIS certainly is the day of large bequests to missions. From England and Scotland, from South Africa and Australia, as well as from America, tidings have come of princely gifts for the advancement of God's kingdom among the heathen. These gifts have been bestowed in many branches of the Christian Church, Presbyterian, Episcopal, Baptist, Wesleyan, and Congregational. We count up over three millions of dollars thus given by only a dozen individuals, within the past year. Is there not in this an augury of that coming day when the wealth of the world shall be subservient to the kingdom of Christ? God's providence is indicating his purpose to make a new and stronger advance against heathenism. Let the poor remember that they may have a share in this work as well as the rich. He who asks for the millions accepts also the mites. |