Directors: Rev. George Mooar, D.D., Hon. E. D. Sawyer, Rev. E. P. Baker, James M. Haven, Esq., Rev. Joseph Rowell, Rev. John Kimball.
Secretary: Rev. W. C. Pond. Treasurer: E. Palache, Esq.
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE.
Your Committee, to whom was referred that part of the Report of the Executive Committee which concerns the Chinese, beg leave to report as follows:
1. That in estimating the success of their work, the difficulties under which it has been prosecuted must be borne in mind; the fact that it has been carried on in the face of an intense hostility to the presence of Chinese upon our shores, extending not only to the lower classes, but also, in not a few localities, including influential clergymen and laymen, and became so far a dominant sentiment, that both the great political parties have yielded to it by inserting anti-Chinese planks in their platforms.
2. That this work ought to be not only generously supported and vigorously maintained, but, so far as practicable, extended, especially by the establishment of schools and mission work among the Chinese in the mines.
3. That while your Committee recognize the difficulties in the way of establishing a mission in China, they also see that there would be great advantage, both direct and indirect, in thus connecting a foreign with the home work, and they recommend the Board to give serious consideration to the proposition, and to carry it into execution, if, on a more thorough inquiry, it shall be found practicable to do so without interfering with the other work of the society, or with the work of other Evangelical missions in China.
Lyman Abbott, Chairman.