In Session At Grand Rapids

Grand Rapids, Mich., Oct. 5.- Several hundred delegates and many missionary workers are attending the eightyninth annual meeting of the American board of foreign missions, which held its opening session here this afternoón. The appointment of committees and other routine business occupied the remainder of the session. This evening the annual sermón was delivered by Rev. Richard R. Meredith of Brooklyn. The present convention will be watched with much attention through out the country, as it is expected to take action in reference to the extensión of missionary work in the newly acquired territory of the United States, and it is also probable that the gathering will voice the sentiments of mission workers for or against territorial expansión.