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“Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God, that I will 
 send a famine in the land; not a famine of bread nor a thirst 
 for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord.*’ 
 
 'T' HOSE of you who will take time to read this page, and look at the first and 
 last pictures in this Foreign Mission Day Service, can form some idea of 
 the awful famine among the millions in China. For years America has been 
 nobly pouring of her wealth into the Near East and the Far East in order to 
 prevent millions from starving to death. This kind of famine we can see and 
 feel. There is always a famine in some part of the world. But the greatest 
 famine is the famine for the Bread of Life' and the Water of Life. 
 
 The two famine pictures were taken in our Shenchow District, China, and 
 show groups of famine refugees, many of them old, weak and diseased, coming 
 into the city for aid. We have pictures in the office that are too harrowing to 
 print. 
 
 The worst of all famines is a famine of the heart — the soul longing for help 
 and finding it not, and hope crying in the dark for the light, without an answer. 
 
 Ours is the opportunity on Foreign Mission Day to show a fellow feeling 
 towards the boys and girls, the men and women, in heathen darkness who are 
 appealing to the members of the Reformed Church: “Our souls are hungry for 
 spiritual food; give us of your bread to eat, the true Bread of Heaven!” 
 
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 And tell each crea ture un -der heaven That Thou hast died for all. A - men. 
 
Snbocation ' — (In unison.) 
 
 J NFLAME our hearts this day, O Lord, with love for Thee and obedience to Thy will, 
 that we may freely give of ourselves and our substance to the ingathering of souls 
 who wait for Thy salvation. Increase our laborers, multiply our givers, enlarge our gifts, 
 that we may honor Thee and win mankind to a sincere following of Christ; through the 
 same Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen. 
 
 Leader. — Behold, I say unto you. Lift up your eyes and look on the fields, for they arc 
 ripe already to harvest. 
 
 Response. — Blessed are all ye that sow beside all waters. 
 
 Thrust in the sickle, and reap; for the time is come tor thee to reap; for the harvest of 
 the earth is ripe. 
 
 He that goeth forth and reapeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with 
 rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him. 
 
 All. — And let us not be weary in well doing, for in due season we shall reap, if we faint 
 not. 
 
 Sowing and Reaping.” 
 
 8s. and 7s. (Tune — Cross of Jesus) 
 
 1 We are sowing, ever sowing. 
 
 Something good or something ill. 
 
 In the lives of those around us; 
 
 We are planting what we will. 
 
 2 Not a word we say falls fruitless. 
 
 Not a deed we do decays; 
 
 Ev’ry thought and word and action 
 Will be found in future days. 
 
 3 Grant then. Lord of all the harvest. 
 
 That the seeds we daily sow 
 May refresh the hearts of others. 
 Spreading blessing as they grow. 
 
 4 May each thought and word and action 
 
 Be the growth of Christian love. 
 
 To be found in coming ages 
 In the garner house above. 
 
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 (To be lead in concert) 
 
 C AY not ye, There are yet four months, and then conleth 
 harvest. 
 
 Behold, the harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are 
 
 few. 
 
 Pray ye, therefore, the Lord of the harvest, that he will send 
 forth laborers into his harvest. ^ ^ 
 
 Now, therefore, stand and see this great thing which the Lord 
 will do before your eyes. Is it not wheat harvest today? 
 
 Miss Ai Sato, Winner ge patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. 
 
 Priz^'. Mi-** Behold the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the 
 
 earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and 
 latter rain. 
 
 All men shall fear and shall declare the work of God; for they shall wisely consider 
 of his doing. 
 
 And I say unto you. That many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down 
 with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven. 
 
 Thus saith the Lord of hosts: It shall yet come to pass, that there shall come people, 
 and the inhabitants of many cities; and the inhabitants of one city shall go to another, 
 saying. Let us go speedily to pray before the Lord, and to seek the Lord of hosts: I will 
 go also. Yea, many people and strong nations shall come to seek the Lord of hosts in 
 Jerusalem, and to pray before the Lord. 
 
 Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kindom to God, even the 
 Father. The harvest is the end of the world. 
 
 
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 O GOD, who hast bidden the ends of the earth to 
 look upon Thee and be saved, we. pray for the 
 distant empire of Japan, upon whose land the first rays 
 of the rising sun are shed. May she behold the Sun of 
 Righteousness rise upon her, and bow with thankful 
 adoration to the glorious healing of His wings. May 
 she eagerly awake and receive Thy blessed Law, and 
 become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ. 
 Bless all the workers. Fill us. Thy servants, O Lord, 
 we beseech Thee, with a full sense of our privilege and 
 responsibility in offering this Orient land the light of 
 the everlasting Gospel. All of which we ask in the 
 name of Him who is the Light of the world, our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. Amen. 
 
 M ost Merciful Saviour, look down in pity upon the countless millions in China who 
 know Thee not. May the light of Thy Gospel shine upon them. Open their eyes 
 that they may see the way of life and steadfastly walk in it. We pray Thee bless the 
 Church in China, and all the workers as they go forth to sow seed, and may it bring forth 
 fruit to Thy glory and the increase of Thy kingdom in China. Stir up our minds and 
 hearts that we may more effectually help the Church to fulfill her mission. We. ask this 
 in the name of Him, who gave His life, even Jesus Christ the righteous. Amen. 
 
 Sow in the Morn Thy Seed.” 
 
 S. M. (Tune — Lake Enon) 
 
 1 Sow in the morn thy seed. 
 
 At eve hold not thy hand; 
 
 To doubt and fear give thou no heed. 
 Broadcast it o’er the land. 
 
 3 And duly shall appear. 
 
 In verdure, beauty, strength. 
 
 The tender blade, the stalk, the ear. 
 And the full corn at length. 
 
 2 Thou know’st not which may thrive. 
 The late or early sown; 
 
 Grace keeps the chosen germ alive, 
 When and wherever strown. 
 
 4 Thou canst not toil in vain; 
 
 Gold, heat, and moist, and dry. 
 Shall foster and mature the grain 
 For garners in the sky. 
 
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“The fragrant 
 sheaves of the 
 wheat 
 
 Made the air above 
 them sweet; 
 
 Sweeter and more 
 divine 
 
 Was the scent of the 
 scattered grain, 
 
 That the reaper’s 
 
 hand let fall 
 
 To be gathered 
 again 
 
 By the hand of the 
 gleaner, 
 
 Sweetest, divinest of 
 all. 
 
 Was the humble 
 
 deed of thine. 
 
 And the meekness of 
 thy demeanor.” 
 
 Congregation and New Chapel at Odaka, Japan 
 
 (J^ur jfoxtti, Jf ruitss, inanceg 
 
 (To be read by a teacher) 
 
 I N Japan, our Church supports 55 foreign and 
 178 native workers; in China, there are 49 
 foreign and 138 native workers. In Japan, we 
 have 103 places of worship, 4,003 communicant 
 members, 7,659 Sunday-school scholars, 1,053 
 students, anti 180 kindergarten pupils. In China, 
 we have 36 places of worship, 696 communicant 
 members, 1,920 Sunday-school scholars, 431 stu- 
 dents, 1,057 in day schools, 24 kindergarten pupils 
 and 29,129 individuals were treated last year in 
 our hospitals. The cost of the work in Japan 
 for 1921 amounted to $272,520.81, and in China, 
 
 $117,334.61. The total valuation of our Mission properties in Japan is $1,145,227.50, and 
 in China, $176,079.68. Total valuation in both Missions, $1,321,307.18. 
 
 New Church at Yonezaw-a 
 
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 (To be read by a young girl) 
 
 Dr. William F. Hoy sa 3 '^s; “The Japan Mission has not become a silent partner of 
 my life. I do not wish to forget my first love in the foreign service of our Lord Jesus 
 Christ with whom there is no respect of nations or persons. Two years ago, on my 
 return to China, I met two Bishops from India, both Methodists, who told me that they 
 knew of no Mission the world over that surpassed the Japan Mission of the Reformed 
 Church in the United States in personnel, organization, methods and successes. This 
 should be a very gratifying testimony to the Board and to the Church.” 
 
 3l^ecitation— “ Come Labor On.” 
 
 (To be recited by a young man) 
 
 |^pmn-“ O Where Are the Reapers?” 
 
 (To be sung by a choir) 
 
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 Superintendent. — This is harvest time in North Japan. ^\. 
 nation is awake to the light. Never before have the conditions 
 been so favorable for the spread of the Gospel. The way is 
 open, and the time is ripe. Will we avail ourselves of the 
 opportunity? Will we thrust in the sickle and reap for the 
 Lord a rich harvest of souls? 
 
 Assistant Superintendent. — There are many cities and 
 towns in our Japan Field where religious services have been 
 held for 30 and 40 years without chapels. Is this not a proof 
 on the part of our Japanese Christians of their devotion to 
 Entrance to Middle School. Christ and of their faith in our Church? Should we not help 
 North Japan College provide them with houses of worship? 
 
 Secretary. — Our most serious problem is that of our oldest church, Kanda, of Tokyo. 
 We do not own the land on which the little frame chapel stands. If additional funds will 
 he provided on Foreign Mission Day, the Board will devote the Dr. and Mrs. B. Baus- 
 man legacy of $11,000.00 towards a church, and erect it in memory of these faithful ser- 
 vants of God. 
 
 Treasurer. — In Sendai City we have four complete church plants in good condition. 
 1 here are eight other cities in North Japan where we have suitable chapels. Our first 
 duty is to provide chapels at A-ki-ta and A-o-mo-ri, where the Christians have made large 
 sacrifices with the promise that our Church in America would assist them. There is one 
 other great city, Hi-ro-sa-ki, where w'e need a chapel if the work is to prosper. 
 
 Teachers. — There are eight large towns of 20,000 and over, such as Ta-i-ra, Ko-ri- 
 ya-ma, Sa-ka-ta and Yo-ko-te, where we have work but no chapels. At Ta-i-ra we have 
 a fine lot and a model parsonage. At Sa-ka-ta the Cook Memorial Church will soon be 
 
 The Newly Erected Middle School Bui 
 
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 completed. The church at Yo-ne-za-wa has been replaced. It is 
 the first building to embody the new plan of having the first floor 
 used for Kindergarten and Sunday-school work with a small sanc- 
 tuary on the second floor. The admirable new kindergarten at 
 Yamagata is a great blessing. 
 
 Boys. — One of the needs for the use of the native evangelists 
 is bicycles. Last year 14 were purchased at a cost of about $60.00 
 each. The Sendai office is asking for tables, desks, bookcases, 
 filing cases, a typewriter and the like. Gifts of $10.00 would help to 
 provide these needful articles. 
 
 Girls.— -There is an urgent need for an addition to the Second 
 Recitation Hall of the Miyagi Girls’ School at Sendai for the Bible 
 Woman’s Training Course. The model Sunday-school, not a year 
 old, which is a part of this Bible Training Course, has 120 scholars; many of them were 
 baptized during the year. This is a good field for our most earnest efforts to lead souls 
 to the Saviour. 
 
 •Son of Prof. Kajiwani 
 Graduate North Japan 
 College 
 
 Superintendent. — In order to safeguard the health of our missionaries, and to enable 
 them to render their best service to the Church, it is necessary to provide them \yith 
 American built houses. Two of our missionaries. Rev. Israel G. Nace and Rev. Gilbert 
 W. Schroer, are in need of homes. They will cost about $10,000 each. 
 
 Pastor.— -The cost of a chapel in Japan varies, depending upon the location, the size 
 and the material used. It is safe to estimate the average cost at $5,000. The church at 
 Yonezawa cost about $7,500. Kindergarten buildings should be erected in four cities, 
 which will cost about $17,000. The city authorities welcome the establishing of first- 
 class kindergartens. An additional kindergarten teacher is sorely needed. 
 
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 1. Saints of God! the dawn is hr 
 
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 3. Broad the shadow of the 
 
 4. Soon will end the time of vs 
 
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 ight’ning. To- ken of our com- ing Lord ; O'er thee 
 )leasure. Breathe up- on Thy (dio- sen band. And with 
 na- tion, Ea - ger millions hith - er roam ; Lo ! they 
 'eep-ing. Soon the reap-ing time will come, Heav’n and 
 
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 irth the field is whit’ning ; 
 ^en- te - cos - tal mea-sure, 
 wait for Thy sal - va- tion ; 
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 Loud- er rings the Master’s word, “Pray for reap-ers, Pray for reap-ers In the har-vest of the Lord.” 
 
 Send forth reapers o’er our land. Faith -ful reap-ers, Faith ful reap-ers, Gath’ring sheaves for Thy right hand. 
 Come,LordJe-sus! quickly come ! By Thy Spir - it, By Thy Spir- it. Bring Thy ransom’d peo- pie home. 
 
 God’s e - ter- nal har-vest home : Saints and angels ! Saints and angels ! Shout the world’s great harvest home. A-men. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 Jf ir£St Conference of (i^ur Cbangelicitsi m Cijma 
 
 Missionary Paul E. Keller writes: “We rejoice to report the first Conference for and 
 with our evangelistic workers in the Yochow District. Such was the deep interest created 
 that the evangelists are asking for an annual Conference. They recognize the fact that 
 they must assume larger responsibility in the task of making China a Christian nation. 
 Two of the graduates of last year of Huping Christian College have spent their first year 
 in the Nanking Theological Seminary, while two others began their Seminary training in 
 the fall. We have been cheered by the first fruits of thfe' Forward Movement to reach the 
 field. Lots for several chapels have been purchased and several of the chapels are in 
 course of erection. Two houses for the native evangelists have also been built. Lin 
 Hsiang has been w'aiting for a chapel for many years. 
 
 Our Evangelists in Yochow District, China 
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 In former years 
 the cry was to get 
 opportunities for 
 work in Japan; 
 now there is a 
 ;nore urgent cry to 
 ret workers to lay 
 hold of the oppor- 
 tunities that lie 
 open on every side. 
 
 Bishop Roots, of 
 Hankow, declares; 
 “Unfortunately the 
 new China will not 
 wait on our con- 
 venience.” 
 
“Our deeds live after us, and go before 
 us, and make a way for us. . . . We do 
 not shake off our yesterdays, and sustain 
 no further relation to them, — they follow 
 us, they constitute our life, and they give 
 accent and force and meaning to our pres- 
 ent deeds.” 
 
 Mr. Hsiung and Rev. Tan 
 
 ^ of i^eebs! from (J^ur Cftina Jf lelb 
 
 Pastor. — What are the more pressing needs in our evangelistic work in China? 
 
 School. — There are 20 preaching places where we have no chapels, and the Main Street 
 chapel in Yochow, which was destroyed, by fire caused by rioting soldiers, five years 
 ago, should be rebuilt without delay. 
 
 How much does a chapel plant cost in China? 
 
 About $4,500, including room for Day Schools for boys or girls, and for work among 
 women. 
 
 What new station was opened by our China Mission last year? 
 
 Yungsui, where Missionary Ward Hartman is at work among the Miao tribes, the earliest 
 inhabitants in China. 
 
 What does Missionary Hartman need for his work? 
 
 A chapel, a residence, and a house for the Chinese worker, the total cost being about 
 
 $ 6 , 000 . 
 
 Our Rvangelists and Bible Women In Japan 
 
Why was 1922 a notal^le year for Huping Christian College? 
 
 Because it was granted a Charter by the District of Columbia on July 11, 1922, and cele- 
 brated its Twentieth Anniversary on October 10, 1922. 
 
 What are the needs of this growing institution? 
 
 An additional Dormitory to care for the many young men who must now be turned away 
 for want of room. A Science Building is also needed so that Huping students may 
 receive a proper Christian education. 
 
 What will he the cost of these buildings? 
 
 A Dormitory will cost about $10,000 and a Science Building will cost about $20,000. 
 
 How do the Day Schools help the work? 
 
 By giving the boys and girls in our 26 preaching places the advantages of a Christian 
 education. From this number- we must expect our Evangelists and Bible Women. 
 
 What are the needs of the Day Schools? 
 
 Suitable lots and buildings at a cost of about $5,000. Land and building materials can be 
 bought for less now than a few years ago. Bricks cost only one-third as much as in 
 
 normal times. 
 
 What is the most urgent need in our medical work? 
 
 The completion of the Hoy Memorial Hospital at Yochow City at a cost of about $40,000. 
 
 Day School at Yunchi, China 
 
 What is a most urgent need of our new missionaries? 
 
 We should provide residences for our Missionaries Winter, Bysted, Ruhl, Laubach and 
 Yaukey. Six thousand dollars will pay for a house. 
 
 What workers are greatly needed at this time? 
 
 Physicians, both men and women, lady teachers for the Girls’ Schools, and two men with 
 business training. 
 
 Pastor. — Let us hope and pray that the members of our Church will provide these needs. 
 
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Graduates Eastview Schools, Shenchowfu, China 
 
 Lord of the Harvest! Bend Thine Ear.” 
 
 L. M. (Tune, Duke Street) 
 
 1 Lord of the harvest! bend Thine ear, 
 For Zion’s heritage appear; 
 
 Oh, send forth lab’rers filled with zeal,' 
 Swift to obey their Master’s will. 
 
 2 Our lifted eyes, O Lord! behold 
 
 The ripening harvest tinged with gold; 
 Wide fields are opening to our view; 
 The work is great, the lab’rers few. 
 
 3 Under the guidance of Thy hand 
 May Zion’s sons to every land 
 Go forth, to bless the dying race 
 As heralds of redeeming grace. 
 
 4 Bid all their hearts with ardor glow. 
 
 The Saviour’s dying love to show. 
 
 And spread the Gospel’s joyful sound 
 Far as the race of man is found. Amen 
 
 Middle School 
 Huping: Christian College, 
 Yochow City, China 
 
 Friends will recognize the face 
 of Missionary Reimert on this 
 picture. Will they help to pro- 
 vide the Reimert Memorial 
 Building at Lakeside, where he 
 fell a martyr in the cause of 
 Christ? 
 
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Miss Tranb and Graduate Nurses of Hoy Memorial Hospital 
 
 Suggested Hymn: “Bringing in the Sheaves.” 
 
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 Dear Friends: 
 
 'jp HERE is not a heathen nation today that is not ready for the Christian reapers. The 
 Lord calls, and the world waits for the Church to go and gather the sheaves into 
 His Kingdom. It is the hour of opportunity for the servants of the Husbandman. 
 
 To nations as to men there is a day of visitation. That day has come for Japan, 
 Korea, China and India. The people are breaking away from their ancient past. They 
 need a hand to help them, a heart to pity them, and an arm to save them. The outlook 
 is one which should stir all hearts to a holy and fervent passion for the coming of the 
 Kingdom of our Lord. 
 
 “Thy Kingdom Come,” we pray daily, and behold it is at hand! There never was a 
 time when the human opportunity for service was so great, the Divine challenge to the 
 Church so strong, and the labors of the missionaries so fruitful. “Saints of God! The 
 Dawn is Brightening!” 
 
 A Woman Saved 
 
 The Bible Woman 
 at Hwa Yung 
 brought a mother, 
 an opium eater, to 
 our Hospital at Yo- 
 chow City. She was 
 cured, and God gave 
 her strength to break 
 off the evil habit. 
 All her children are 
 Christians. 
 
I^elp to llnstocr tljis! draper 
 
 O Lord, we reap, and toiling, pray 
 That Thou wouldst forth more laborers send; 
 Our strength is ebbing with the day. 
 
 While feebly to our task we bend. 
 
 — William E. Hoy 
 
 Worb iHtiout tfie 
 
 HE Board of Foreign Missions will give credit to congregations, Sunday-schools, 
 and individuals contributing $100 and upwards on Foreign Mission Day, with the 
 following understanding: First, that congregations which have subscribed their full quota 
 towards the Forward Movement Budget of $10,800,000 may designate their Foreign Mis- 
 sion Day offerings to some special building or other object in the Forward Movement 
 Survey of Needs for Foreign Missions. Second, that congregations which have not yet 
 subscribed their full quota will receive credit on the unsubscribed portion of their quota. 
 
 The Board believes the entire Church is sufficiently awake to the urgent needs that 
 must be supplied, if our missionaries shall realize their anxious hopes, and we have con- 
 fidence in our liberal and able pastors and members that they will lend their best aid by 
 contributing designated funds, as gifts and memorials, for the most urgent chapels, kin- 
 dergarten, hospital and school buildings and missionary residences in Japan and China. 
 
 All the offerings on Foreign Mission Day are to be sent to the Board of Foreign 
 Missions, Fifteenth and Race Streets, Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
 .Famine Boys Are Fed by Oiir Missionaries at Shenchowfu 
 
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Closing draper 
 
 o HEAVENLY Father, Lord of the Harvest, have respect, we beseech Thee, to our 
 prayers, and send forth laborers into Thy harvest. Fit and prepare them by Thy 
 grace for the work of the ministry; give them the spirit of power, and of love, and of a 
 sound mind; strengthen them to endure hardness; and grant that both by their life and 
 doctrine they may show forth Thy glory, and set forward the salvation of all men 
 through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen. 
 
 Ilorb’sf draper 
 
 
 I. B. Woodbury. 
 
 (Tune. — Day of Rest. 7. 6. 7. 6. 
 
 James W Elliott. 
 
 1. Ho! reap-ers of life’s bar - vest, Why 
 
 2. Thrust in your sharp - ened sick le, And 
 
 3. Mount up the heights o f ^ Wis - dom, And 
 
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 The night is fast ap - proach - ing, And 
 
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 day be - gins to fade? 
 soon will come a - gain 
 hu - man hearts should know. 
 
 
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 The gold - en morn is pass - ing. Why sit 
 
 Shall sheaves lie there un - gath - ered. And waste 
 
 And then a gold - en chap - let Shall be 
 
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 up - on the plain? 
 thy just re - ward. A - men. 
 
 penebiction 
 
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