Show RAISE PRAISE FOR FOE CATHOLICS Protestant Speaks Speak of Missionary Work In China Ci St Louis Oct Oct 11 At the an annual annual annual nual meeting of the American board boad or vf commissioners commissioner for foreign missions which Is holding holdin a three days das session in Pilgrim Congregational church Rev Henr Henry Heny A A A Stimson D D of New York recording secretary said sid It I can be a source of joy jO to no Chris tian tan tobe to b told of the te mistakes of Catholic missionaries in their policy in China In China thiS city which is the head hea of the largest larest Jesuit Jesul province In the world save only that aS of Orleans Orleas we are glad to remember that It i Is due to t the Jesuits Jesuit alone that there tere is any ny respect for Christianity in m the Philippine islands and that the and the Roman Catholic mis opened their earliest missions in J China and kept Christianity Christani alive alve all al through the middle ages aes They The will wf cor their mistakes of policy if they have made them as aO am we will wil ours and then faith will il grow brighter and purer with wih tIm tha persecutions and martyrdom as we ho hor e does our own Rev Kev Re Judson Smith foreign secretary of Jn the the American board read rea a paper on China the Situation and Outlook He said In part The doom of the dynasty d aty and of the policy poli it embodies is pro pronounced pronounced no O diplomacy no force of arms ars arsu can save v them the t if t f powers even e they should u wish to prolong their h life ii will h fight against an in a Irresistible fate The futura wil will reveal rev al a new China and ad that will wi be a a new world with wih a glorious des de tIny before it It Whet what is now to be done Are our missions to be closed cosed up and ad the work of evangelizing China abandoned Not un unless unless unless less we we have decided to give up all al mis missionary missionary effort Unless all al signs sigs fall fail fai this day of blood bloodshed bloodshed shed and loss of life Is sure to be followed by an immense enlargement of our mis ml missionary missionary opportunities In China At the evening session phenomenal phenomena in terest was wa given to the proceedings by the introduction of Peter Cushman Jones ones of Honolulu who brought the greetings from Irom rom the Hawaiian Evangelical association tion ton and thereby thereby connected with wih current curent history histo the history of the American Americ board boad In Ia li the Hawaiian islands since Oct OcL 23 1519 when seventeen persons two of them ordained sailed sied from Boston Bosto In the brig Thaddeus Th dd us to begin a mission there |