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mes as much per capita as we are, who have had heavy dowments to which I have already referred, and do ot bear the burden of current expenses that we do, and ho have a different method of computing from ours. I n going to prove in the Christian Advocate, (and that aster of statistical investigation, the Rev. J.W.Young, going to give me the thunder), that if we lopt the method of computation some of the other urches adopt, our results will be fully equal to eirs.

Our cause is disparaged by men going up and down ad saying "We Methodists do not give on an average, ty cents per member." I will undertake in closing to how that from the creation of the world, to this very our in this spot, there never was anything more absurd nd slanderous than this computation of an average on ar membership.

In the first place, two per cent. of our church members e aged and indigent men and women, supported by the hurch. I was a pastor for 25 years in New Hampshire, ichigan, Connecticut and New York; I administered, rectly or indirectly, the Poor Fund in all of them, and affirm that two per cent. is a small estimate of the ab-lute number of indigent, worthy men and women.

In the next place this membership of ours includes etty nearly half a million colored people in the South, ›or, very poor, most of them, and what they have is tle of it in cash. They are all in the average and this mputation includes them.

Again, every year there is a varying number at for that year are totally disqualified from givg. There is the poor mechanic that has had to bury ree children in one year. I have followed three at one me, with the fourth dying in the house, to Greenwood. fterwards the afflicted father said to me, "I cannot ve you anything for missions this year. I can hardly eep my pew in the church." Now there is a varying it large number of this sort every year. Again when e mills shut down in Pittsburgh, the workers cannot et anything; when the factories shut down in New ampshire and Massachusetts, they cannot get anything, d yet you compute this miserable average on the embership, including this large though not uniform imber!"

Besides, I want you to consider that there is immense number of Sunday school scholars who are our membership, who have no Methodist parents at 1. They have come into our schools, been converted ider our system, and they are not producers but con

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earn it perhaps if he had not producer in any sense that ducer. She is just as importa by him, unless she has to wo then, you undertake to comp that man and his wife and ch ship! You compute the avera from his wages.

Let me say it is not possibl this world a set of men, all th given as much for the cause o in Methodism have given. Ir tion I raised $80, of which I came out of the few producer cost them more sacrifice than perous Methodist to give the I make no apology for mea of it in the Methodist Church Nineteen years ago next Cl Church, the first meeting a marvellous friend of Mission had a Christmas anniversary told the following story which true ever since. I knew a ma quent prayer that I ever hea Gospel might spread through layman, because I have heard Henry Ward Beecher pray, a prayers as I used to from Mr. obstructed by peculiar views not put any layman up there; of times long since past.) 1 and the next day I asked the he was worth $40,000, for hi missions. He put his hand me a Mexican quarter of a do

I have known a wealthy wo me to take her "mite," 40 cent in a grocery store who gave m

I am not an apologist for n break open a mean man's The way to advance this cau dists have done nobly, for done so.

In the presence of Bishop B the astonishment of everybod and said: "May I say a word Bishop, thunderstruck, for he "I have been in the habit of

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you can and me an instance of a man who said, "I know the Methodists are very stingy when compared with other denominations, that they don't give an average of 40 cents, but they are rich, and selfish, and mean, and therefore, put me down for $50," then I will join the pessimistic company who think the way to advocate the cause is to depreciate what the Fathers have done and the sons are doing.

You have all heard of Dr. Ray Palmer. A thousand years after he is dead, the Christian Church will be singing the grand hymn he wrote, "My faith looks up to thee." Fifty years ago, Ray Palmer preached a sermon in which he drew this picture: "I fancy that I am coming back to the world five hundred years from now," and then, he said, "I shall see Japan open to the Gospel." Well, I had the honor of being present at Dr. Palmer's golden wedding, and he is alive now and writing hymns; and we have an Anglo-Japanese college and a wonderful work in Japan.

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Praise, gratitude, love and hope are the notes to be No general on the eve of battle ever said, "Men you are short of ammunition, your rations have given out. Most of you are cowards and sluggards." Away with averages improperly computed, and statements that never move the mean, but make the liberal cringe and even tend to harden them!

The Fathers did wondrously, and wherever and when ever the cause is properly presented, their children (always allowing for a few exceptions), will give liberally. (Applause.)

Bishop Hurst was then introduced by Bishop Harris, and spoke as follows, taking for his subject "The Historical Obligation of American Christianity for the

World's Conversion: "

Bishop Hurst.-I was expecting to share the triumph of this hour from a distance, and so wrote to Dr. McCabe; but I received from him a peremptory telegram-from this knight who is going to spread for us a Cloth of a Million threads of Gold-that I must be here. And I have obeyed, though with most unwilling steps.

Mr. Chairman, I shall speak of the American obligation for the world's conversion. It has not been, as yet, four centuries since Columbus revealed to the world this western continent, and laid it as a gift at the feet of Queen Isabella of Spain. She had sold her jewels to She had sold her jewels to buy the three little vessels which turned their prows to ward these unknown western lands. And yet, within that brief time this great population has grown to its

current has ever entered into than the warm, strong, lovin of France. They came from the Waldenses, whose rich the glaciers of the Alps. short from the chill air of th leum which they reared there and glorious temple of Heav They came to us from Ho Island where we sing and pra to make offerings to the broa Yes, they came to this free l Alva and his employer, Char reared a Republic behind t rear here this grand Republi into the veins which have bee Lexington, and won at last i receive the surrender at App

They came from Scandin Swedish,-they all came her purple current was just as pu vently as in the arm of Gu the hour of victory at Lutzer of earth for the light befo children of the old Vikings, the western fiords of Norway the treasure of their grand vit

The Germans we cannot f man, the English historian, has lived on three rivers-th the Hudson.

And so he has. We know

went all through Germany, found it well. So the Germa after the ploughshare of t struck deeply into the soil There came those who escap land and Scotland, and ev largely Protestant then, comp But when she gets her parlia then we shall have hope agai land.

Why did all these currents low gold like the conquerors continent-Pizarro and Cort came for the liberty of consci worship God as their hearts And now, out of this pure co this wonderful ecclesiastical li

enomenon is the most marvellous chapter inthe whole

story of mordern times. Look at it clearly,-we who e living here in this land of Protestantism are deliber. ely and persistently sending missionaries and planting issions all over the continent of Europe. Why so? is the child, full grown into his manhood, into judgent, into a conviction that the needs of home are the preme needs of the world, who turns his face from the ld of his love and the birthplace of his soul, where he s won his victories, back to the old fireside where his thers lived.

A German preacher was preaching in Cincinnati, back the forties. There sat before him a young infidel king notes of the German sermon to which he was lisning, that he might go and report it to his infidel club. s the young man began to write, his pencil began to ow unsteady, and it fell. The young man was help38. He became a convert to the Christian faith. In a w weeks he united with the little German church of e preacher of that evening. In a short time he came New York and stood before the Missionary Board d begged them to send him as a missionary to Gerany. The Missionary Board said: "We cannot afford we do not believe in it; it seems an unreasonable ing."

But he persisted, and won. When they saw the fire Jacoby's eyes, they had to send him; and he went er there less than forty years ago, and planted that ble German Mission, Thank God, the preacher of at evening, Wm. Nast, is still living, and celebrates w the 50th anniversary of his career as the planter of erman Methodism in America.

What is our German field to-day? It stretches from e North Sea down to Lake Geneva, and our ministers the Germany and Swiss Conference have only to take neighborly walk in this same Geneva, to shake hands th their brothers of the Italian Conference, which retches from the base of Vesuvius in the South, to eneva in the North.

Do you ask what is the origin of our other European issions? It is of the same fine fibre. The Danes have me to our Missionary Board and have applied for ork in Denmark, and have simply gone home with their ld of the Gospel? The Swedes have done the same. ence we have in the Scandinavian Peninsula a vast netork of missions. It was my privilege to preach a year o in a Swedish city, when the Pastor of the State urch, near by our own church,was present, and, giving e a warm grasp of the hand, said: "I thank God that u are here, and I wish you God speed."

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fence, about it. These thirty thirty kings, and in the midd Harold the fair-haired.

Harold sought the hand of a to him, "No; you are only one of Norway. I will be queen of no queen at all. I will be a gre Said he: "I will never cut my them all, and brought all Norv that my own." She said: "I w a life time." And so she wai It required ten long years to g one great sea fight off Stavang setting sun, he slew all the cor the lady became his queen, and first united Norway.

Sɔ will it be to Norway in a of all the people in the truth mission in that country exte Trondhjem, and our churches a people beneath the one crown

In Sweden, a member of the istry is just now a member of Rev. J. M. Erikson. He was ticket in the heart of Stockh which elects in Sweden, and s (Applause). But it never cost a five cent postage stamp for h he is to day-an honor to y Methodism.

Do you ask why are we in I sions is more important than I Dr. Vernon to Italy to gather who are co-operating with him the field, we should have to do is a spiritual enforcement. W do it. God has ordered it, and wise. It is a necessity. Gilber a fanatic if you please, or an did it, and he always smiled, b vision, and saw what was going the Italy of the coming years.

Look at Bulgaria. I will co few dozen people to day in tha of giving, and faith, and sacrific not proven by uniting as br Balkans, within the last six we of every dollar that you have g dozen men to send by the first

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of our brothers, the treasure of the Gospel which we that from Spain we have a have found in this new land. of these United States. valley and the whole ter river to the Pacific ocean w of francs by Thomas Jeffe parte. We owe Spain the Give us time and w

Now look at our mission fields further away. Behold our great Indian Empire. "Well," you will say, "you cannot apply that principle to the India field." Do we, as children, owe India anything? Of course not. There is no bond of relationship."

Do not be quite so fast. There was a time when Greece consisted of only a few barbarous villages. Long, long centuries before " the blind old man of Scio's rocky isle," went with his harp through those villages; long before the fabled wolf was born which became the nurse of Romulus and Remus; far back in the time when the old Pelasgic race lived in Italy, when they did not know what cement was, and could only put the stones together for rude walls without anything to join them; long before there was a Goth in mother Europe, there was history in process in the vast continent of India. The Teutonic family was lying back there, in its Aryan cradle, getting ready for its battle fields over all continents and in all ages. Our Aryan ancestors looked down into the valley of the Ganges, went southward, drifted eastward, and carried with them the same Sanskit speech which is to this day, the substratum of your present nervous, pungent Anglo-Saxon tongue. In the high table-lands of India, and in the valleys of the Indus and the Ganges, was nursed the Aryan race, and when our noble William Butler went back to India, thirty years ago, he was only a young Aryan boy taking the Gospel back to the land of his ancestors.

So in planting missions around the globe, even American Methodism; we are only filling our premeditated destiny, and giving the truth to those who gave us life. The very Hindu is our brother, and we are his keeper. There is not a land to which we have sent a mission. ary, to which we are not under obligation. If Paul could say as he wrote to the Romans, "I am a debtor to the Jew and the Greek," the American Methodist must say, "I am a debtor to the Swede, the Norwegian, the Dane, the German, the Frenchman, the Italian, the very Hindu,-I am a debtor to them all, because all of them have sent their life into our life, and made us what we are to-day."

There are four countries in Europe that we have forgotten in our missionary appropriations. When Dr. McCabe gets his two millions-for that sum is sure to come annually, as certainly as to-morrow's sun-our children will wonder why we made the figure so low, as one million for 1886. They will wonder why our two heroic secretaries Reid and MaCabe were so modest at

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propriation for that land.

Then, too, we must send lions in Roumania, and Bulgaria into the heart of other force in Greece, with must send another to Pale base of operations. That Europe, and the highway w will take time, and larger g come.

In Europe, and all over breath of this inspiration. taking Europe and India perhaps thirty thousand, ministers. I do not menti are true Methodists, and church economy.

If we should grow weak total abstinence, or the de the class meetings, or the 1 that we planted in our gen they would come over he that we first taught them, laid down for them. Ther and a broad constituency, help.

Many of them have gain You would not hear a wor ment of the State Church i can example. Our people us for help. They have 1 know of the appropriations ber.

It is too late to take a ba solutely appropriated the dism is given already for the books. Now we are lo it good. Our hope will be

Mr. Scribner, one of the trade in this city, the senio cerne a few years ago, once ers never trust the public

manngerint comes to me for

often ahead of the very men who propose to lead it. There are people now here, and all over our American land, that are begging for the opportunity of swelling this great figure up to still greater dimensions than we have dared to name. They are expecting it in India, in

Germany, in all these lands.

They are looking for it, like Simeon for the great salvation, but not because they want more salary. Why, I tried in many cases in India, to get a man to talk with me about his salary. But they all refused to say one word upon the question. I thought at last I had found one who would converse upon the subject. It was a preacher's wife, and I shall never forget the look with. which she stared me in the face. I knew the income was too scanty, and next to nothing. She looked at me closely, and I was ashamed that I had said a word, when she replied: "Why do you ask me ?" I said, "Because I have my fears." "Well," she said, "don't you know that God takes care of his own?" The tears did steal into her eyes. and that was all my satisfaction. At the last General Missionary Committee meeting, among other good things that it did, but without knowing, was to take care of that man's salary.

Do our foreign missionaries expect this large increase from any relation to the question of salary? Not at all. Look at that German conference of one hundred men. One year ago they cut down their salaries five per cent., and last June ten per cent., to give the proceeds to the missionary work in their land. That is what our foreign workers are constantly doing-giving their lives and their savings. What they want is the round million to help them extend their work. They know, too, that it will come. They are sure that all American Methodism is going to support them in that grand march which they are making for the world's salvation.

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than it is able to supply, an lion was raised this year, as tee at its meeting next No and a quarter, to anything will come pouring in upon mittee, finding this enco Church, made largely incre The appropriation made 1884 for 1885 was $850,000 appropriated, $1,000,000. appropriations for work in Now, that is the work th in raising this million. T money appropriated. I ho

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Bishop Harris.-Before it is my duty to read to and resolution adopted una Board at their meeting day

Whereas, It is understood tha the Missionary Society, to be h the 17th inst., a departure is to well established custom of takin

Resolved that in the judgme collection to be taken at the An ety, to be held in the Academy regarded as the inauguration of present fiscal year, ending Oct. appropriated by the General Co tions may be paid through the by the subscriber.

Now, I have the pleas Chaplain McCabe.

Dr. McCabe.-The hour all remain here until we ge of many meetings that w Mr. President, we must redeem our obligation. This young child of American Christianity-our beloved Meth-country in our effort to rai odist Episcopal Church-has its duty to do for the great outlying world, at home and abroad. We are not blind to it. The necessity is on us, now, and for all the years to come, to give to others as God has given to us. (Applause).

I did hope that somehow tions to $900,000 by the cl

by a great rally of the Ch

would be raised.

If I am to be disappoi Grant did when he failed

Bishop Harris introduced Mr. John M. Phillips, Treas- time he tried. We are s urer of the Missionary Society, who said:

Mr. Phillips.-I will only take two or three minutes of your time. The year to which I allude in anything I have to say is the Missionary financial year, running from the first of November of each year to the 31st of following voor When the General Mis

everybody sees it can be do "The Million is coming as

Collectors were then app gregation. $4,300 in subs cured from the audience, w scriptions previously obtain

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