Show riiu THIRD Of lib KIND L Ecumenical Conference Foreign 1 For-eign Missions Convenes I IT GATHERS IN NEW YORK < ifat I Two Thousand Missionaries from Almost Al-most Every Quarter of tho Globe Lt Present Every Branch of tho Christian Religion is Represented Except the Roman Catholic tho Greek and a Branch of the Anglican Angli-can Church Former President Harrison Presides New York April 21VJth an ox President of the Unl ell Stales Benjamin Benja-min Harrison to bid them welcome there gathered today In Carnegie hall more than 2000 missionaries from almost I al-most every quarter of the globe For ten years preparations have been underway I under-way for this meeting known aa the ecumenical conference on foreign missions mis-sions IL Is the third of Its kind over held Every branch of the Christian church Is represented except the Roman Ro-man Catholic tho Greek and that branch of the Anglican church known as the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel The great hall was completely filled L when exPresidciu Harrison began his address or welcome On the platform wcre many clergymen and statesmen of worldwide fame Seated with the great body of delegates were many workers from foreign lands whoso i j bright costumes added a dash of color I to the scene KxPrcsldent Harrison was given u great reception lie said In part1AflflISONS I HARRISONS ADDPvESS I Tho gigantic engines that are driving driv-ing forward a material development aro being speeded as never bcfoie The din of the hummer and the ax and hum of wheels I have penetrated the abodes of solitude ihc world has now fev nulel places Life Is strvmiuus he boy Is started in his school = upon the i run and the pace Is nol often slackened until the panting man falls Into his grave 11 Is to be a generation thus Intent I to a generation that has wrought wondrously won-drously In the realms of applied science 1 thai God in lily word and by the I preacher nays All these arc worthy only and In proportion as they con nUnite to the regeneration of mankind Every Invention every work l everyman every-man every nation must one day come to this weighing platform and be ap uraiscd To what other end is all this stir among men this Increase of knowledge knowl-edge That these great agencies maybe may-be put in livery and lined up in the halls I of wealth to make life brilliant and soft or become the docile messengers of I a countinghouse or a stock exchange or the swift couriers of contending armies or the couriers who wait In the I halls of science to give glory to the I man into whoso hand God has given the key to one of Ills mysteries Do all I these ral Inventions those rushing Intellectual developments exhaust their j mlnitrv Jn the making of men rich and the reinforcing of arnlies and n tri2 N < tih Jrci t tlJ nro J idiots forerunners They will find a heralds voice there will be an annun i elation and a coronation I AVI3LCOMKD THE DELEGATES 4 Following Gen Harrison the Rev I Judson Smith D D chairman of the general committee welcomed the delegates dele-gates Responses on behalf of the I i delegates were made by the Rev Ward I I law Thompson for the British delegation t delega-tion Drs Morenslcy and Schreiber of I time German delegation the Rev Joseph King of time Australian delegation and llri Rev Jacob Chamberlain M D D I D for he t missionaries generally The I rest of thin session was dEvoted to the report of time general committee prc I Eoniud by the Rov S L Baldwin D D 1 secretary of the committee The foreign missionary work of the world Is conducted by seven great societies so-cieties They aro the Christian Missionary Mis-sionary society which represents the Evangelical party lu the Church of England and is almost as large as the other six together the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel l ting t-ing tho Catholic party In the Church of England and which declined to attend the conference the London Missionary society of the Congregational church the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions the missionary society of the Methodist Episcopal chinch and the American Baptist Missionary union MILLIONS SPENT ANNUALLY The Protestant foreign missionary societies of Lime world spend about 15 000000 a year exclusive of money expended ex-pended on missions in England and America Every cent of this vast sum Is ufced to convert nonChristians to Christianity This great work was Ural started In the close of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nlnej teenth The conference now In session r Is held at the close of this century as a filling time and to make way for the great work of time century about to dawn PURPOSE OF GATHERING As slated by one of the leaders the one great purpose of thla gathering of workers from all corners of the earth Is to look back over Iho l century clos ing and to survey and prospect the work of the future The greal problem now Is how to get money and then how to get thc greatest great-est portion of every dollar glvcn to the I I nonChristian whom It Is desired to convert Al present It Is said 92 cents Ion I-on thc dollar actually reaches the heathen It is said the cost of admin I istration may be much reduced and It Is hoped by this conference to effect this result resultWHO WHO ARE PRESENT In the list of honorary vlcepresidenls such names as Grover Cleveland J Plerpont Morgan Seth Low William E i I Dodd C A Shicron cxGov W J I Northen of Georgia and Miss Helen I Gould appear I Among the delegates are many ills tlngulshed English clergymen Inelud J i lag the Rev V T A Haxtcr Lees j I school Cambridge mtosionarv to I I China Dr 1 D A Hevkley secretary of time Irish Missionary society and the j I Rev W E foil sins London missionary mission-ary society mlsMonary fiom Madagascar C Madagas-car j Others present from foreign parts arc j I Dr and Mrs Horghegrevlnk of the I Nurse Board of Missionaries from I Madagascar Mlhs Binldon lho London Missionary society Mlshop w R Hid It l > y bishop of Caledonia 13 C Jool Iadhury m Fricmls Missionary I society Birmingham I England and the Rev I I F Gal pi a from China I I h 1 IKUftl INENT WOMEN Some of the prominent women present pres-ent are Dr iracu Kimbill I resident physician at Vassal college the American i Ameri-can woman who gal noil fame It few years ago by defying the Sultan of Turkey Tur-key to carry out his throat of death If slit did nol leave his dominions Mis lohn 1 W Childivss u Nahhvillc I Tenn Mrs John M Gaul of the romans Boaid of Missions Mrs Moses Smith oft of-t Womans Bon id of the Interior and Miss A E Baskerville of ihe Baptist Bap-tist Missionary f toclety in i India ENTEUTAINING DELEGATES When not In session the delegates will be various entertained The British and colonial residents are preparing I pre-paring a leception for the delegates I from Knllsh sections This will be held Monday night The Presbyterian union will entertain Us delegates at the Hotel Savoy on I Monday night cxPresldenl Cleveland having promised to attend if possible the Methodist Social union will receive its delegates at the Savoy on Friday night the Congregational club will entertain en-tertain its quota Monday night at the Pouch mission In Clinton avenue Brooklyn the Baptist Social union at the Hotel Manhattan on May lId UnIted States Senator William P j I FrycthasJocn Invitcdto reslij at the I great cosHcktlng to be held Friday Fri-day night next at I I Carnegie hall Tonight To-night a 1 national welcome will be held 1 at Carnegie hall under tho auspices of the hospital committee when an address I ad-dress of welcome will he came by President Presi-dent McKJnlov Goy Roosevelt will I also address 1 the conference and the response re-sponse will be made by former Presi j I dent llarrlon |