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98 INTER·SEMINARY ;\IISSIONARY ALLIANCE.Protestantism came in, there were 20,000 followers of Xli.vier, Catho·lics tbut Christians in more than in name i they were ready to endurepersecution for their religion. Very few lapsed from their religion andnow they claim 70,000. Yet they fe.l discouraged. An extract from aRoman Catholic journal says, U The influence of the Protestants is increasingyear by year. The Prote~tant missionaries are able to paralyzeRoman Catholicism."Th. missionari.s of the A. B. C. F. M. have incr .... d fifty percent. within a short time and the oth.r boards probably can show •like increase.Nearly one half the Christians are outsidl-\ the Samurai class whichis one of the great hopes of Christianity. The majority of the execu.tive committee of the legislature in a certain province are Christians,three out of five j and out of forty in the legiFilature, eight are Chris.tiBns. There are some in the very highest ranks,-the first vice· minis·ter of the department of justice j a professor in the Imperial Universityi the families of other professors, and some students.We hop. that b.fore long Japan will b. received into the familyof Christian nations and be accorded all the rights and privileges whichthese nations accord to one another.DR. ASHMORE, 41 y.ars in China.- My heart is filled with the reoport from the Mt. Hermon bOY" I had h.ard that that spirit w .. dyingout, but as I have been talking with many of them, I find it still isstrong.The field j the men; the means i constitute our problem.God opens the fieId,- Ue is doing it in China, India and Japan.We are told to lift up Our eyes and see the field ripe for the harvestthat he that reapeth receiveth wages and gathereth fruit unto lif~eternal. When I went to China, people called it a hard field then wehad little to show for our labors; but we stood in the pr~mise andworked on. But to-day, even in China, there is not a single miSSionarywho is not gathering in his harvest. As a member of the kingdom ofGod I must work. Christ is king. Come forward and enroll yourselves&8 Bis soldiers.NOTs:-The inspiring addres~e8, of Saturday eVE"ning, by Rev. Osborne Drs B IGordon and Brooks, were unwritten and so could not be obtai ed' f' I1tcation. • n or PIl b·,','-•••ll.EPORTS OF COMMITTEES. 99REPORTS .I.Report of the Executive Committee.Th. Executive Committee b.g leave to pr.sent the following report:At a call.d m •• ting h.ld in Boston last D.cemb.r, at which allthe mfimbers of the committee were present, the programme of thepresent convention was prepared. The accounts of the Executiveand the Correspond.nc. and Publication Committe. of the pr.cedingyear were audited and found correct and sustained by proper vouchers.The annual assessment was reduced from 30 cents to 25 cents percapita. This h .. been collect.d and a full account of all receipts anddisbursements will be found in the Treasurer's report which will bepresented to the succeeding Executive Committee for their aUditing.Noting the fact that the Corr.spondenc. and Publication and theExecutive Committees have been almost without inter·communicationin the past, and believing tha.t the interests of the work require thatthe two committees work somewhat in unison, that each may knowthe progress the other has made in enlisting the interest and co·operationof new seminaries in the Alliance, we recommend that the Chairmanof the Correspondence and Publication Committee communicate as frequently8S possible with the Chairman of the Executive Committeestating what progress has been made in the direction of increasing theinfluence of the Alliance, and any other matter of interest to bothcommittees.W. grat.fullyacknowl.dg. the hand of God as Se.n in themarked growth and prosperity of the Alliance, aDd pray that Ilis gracemay be bestowed richly upon us and Uis blessing be continuallywith us.W. A. MANSELL,H. H. BELL,C. C. TORREY,A. A. PARR,B. L. WHIT1tIAN.