The Book of a Thousand Facts There is nothing so eloquent PUELISHED BY “MISSIONS” FOR THE BOARD OF MISSIONARY COOPERATION OF THE NORTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION 276 Fifth Avenue, New York top: picnic of the Japanese church vacation school, Seattle, bottom: graduates of the karen woman’s BIBLE SCHOOL, RANGOON, BURMA • * **** < » -UJ -!r!-mlr!-!-nH-!ri-mt ; :!-l- & &£<> 7 t\ 7 t\ # E'TrSri 11 houi F HH translating /vro human terms the manifold activities and fields M IN WHICH the missionary societies and other organizations of the NORTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION ARE ENGAGED, AND REVEALING ALSO THE CALLS AND CLAIMS OF WORLD EVANGELIZATION AND CHRISTIAN MINISTRY COMPILED BY HOWARD B. GROSE AND WILLIAM B. LIPPHARD “There is nothing so eloquent as a Fact’’ :::: «_a ♦'♦.V ttn ♦♦♦♦ 51/7 1 'i i> 7 ~j- 'L!> "i 4.x|> ♦V«V pi -i '/Tvj n U. T\/ 4 V I' JjXj ♦/TvTi ♦ \VM ✓ 4 ^ 4 i t «««« • •^4 ♦♦♦♦71 syiZi w :YY; :axi>; THE GREAT COMMISSION (1) Back of all missionary facts and all missionary effort stands the supreme fact of history, Jesus Christ and His final Commission to His disciples, “Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature” (Mark 16:15). FACTS OF BAPTIST HISTORY (2) Baptists trace their history back through various groups, of which the so-called Anabaptists are the most promi¬ nent in Europe in the Reformation period, to the New Testa¬ ment faith and practice of the early disciples who gathered themselves into churches under apostolic ministry. ( 3 ) In the days of Cromwell in England Baptists braved persecution and death in behalf of soul liberty and separation of church and state. John Milton and John Bunyan were Baptists in those great days of the struggle for civil and religious liberty. (4) The First Baptist Church in the United States was founded in Providence, Rhode Island, by Roger Williams, in 1639. lie made Rhode Island the first state in which full religious liberty and absolute separation of church and state were constitutionally guaranteed and actually practised. From a beginning marked by violent opposition and persecu¬ tion in New England, the denomination has grown till it ranks as one of the two largest bodies of Protestant Christians in this country. (5) The modern foreign mission movement in England found its chief instigator and promoter in William Carey, a Baptist. (6) The foreign mission work of American Baptists had its first organized form in the General Missionary Convention of the Baptist Denomination in the United States of America for Foreign Missions (called for short the Triennial Conven¬ tion), established in Philadelphia, May 18, 1814, in answer to the call of Adoniram Judson from Burma. The American Baptist Missionary Union (which became the American Bap¬ tist Foreign Mission Society of today in 1910) was organized in May, 1846, after a separation from the Southern Baptists. (7) The home mission work took organic form nationally by the organization of The American Baptist Home Mission Society in New York, April 27, 1832. Jonathan Going was its first corresponding secretary and John M. Peck its in¬ spiring field pioneer and promoter. (8) The publication work took national form in the or¬ ganization of the American Baptist Publication Society in Washington, February 25, 1824. The Society was trans¬ ferred to Philadelphia in 1826, taking its present name in 1845. (9) Woman’s nationally organized missionary work is carried on by the Woman’s American Baptist Foreign Mission Society, organized April 3, 1871; and by the Woman’s Ameri¬ can Baptist Home Mission Society, organized February 1, 1877. ( 10 ) Back of all other organized forms of denominational work is the local church, an independent autonomous body whose liberty of action is limited only by its own voluntary action, and whose basic principle therefore is that of a pure democracy in which the majority governs and pope, priest, prince or potentate has neither place nor control. THE NORTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION ( 11 ) The Northern Baptist Convention was organized at Washington, May 16, 1907, and the first annual delegated meeting held in Oklahoma City in May, 1908, with former Secretary of State Charles E. Hughes as President. Succes¬ sors in office include Harry Pratt Judson, Emory W. Hunt, Henry Bond, Edward S. Clinch, Shailer Mathews, Clarence A. Barbour, George W. Coleman, F. W. Ayer, D. C. Shull, E. L. Tustin, Mrs. W. A. Montgomery, F. E. Taylor, C. S. Shank, Carl E. Milliken, now in office. Rev. W. C. Bitting has been Corresponding Secretary from the beginning. ( 12 ) Eminent men of the denomination have been chosen as Convention preachers, including names honored in mem¬ ory, as P. S. Henson, Walter Rauschenbusch, Henry L. More¬ house, L. A. Crandall and Henry C. Mabie. ( 13 ) Attendance of registered delegates at Conventions has ranged from a minimum of 956 at Oklahoma City to a maximum of 3,662 at Buffalo in 1920. (14) The Convention includes 5 National Missionary Societies; 2 Boards of the Convention (Ministers and Mis¬ sionaries Benefit Board and Board of Education); 37 State Conventions; 59 City Mission Societies; 62 educational insti¬ tutions: Theological Seminaries, Training Schools, Colleges and Junior Colleges, and Academies. ( 15 ) The Convention constituency is estimated at 1,361,- 996. There are 8,757 ordained ministers, many of whom, however, are not in the active ministry, and 8,730 churches. 1 2 THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND FACTS TWO VIEWS OF THE JUDSON MEMORIAL AT AVA, BURMA. LEFT PICTURE SHOWS MISSIONARY A. C. HANNA, A GRANDSON OF ADONIRAM JUDSON, STANDING BESIDE THE MEMORIAL AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY A World Enterprise ( 16 ) The foreign mission enterprise of Northern Baptists now includes io mission fields in the non-Christian world, namely, Burma, Assam, South India, Bengal-Orissa, South China, East China, West China, Japan, Belgian Congo and the Philippine Islands. ( 17 ) On these fields are 127 mission stations with build¬ ings, equipment and missionary staff, and 3,806 outstations. ( 18 ) Adoniram Judson had to wait nearly seven years be¬ fore baptizing his first convert. Last year missionaries reported the baptism of 19,287 converts, the largest total in the hi years' history of the Society. The previous high record was 18,415 in 1922. ( 19 ) On these fields 2,003 churches enroll 227,317 mem¬ bers. More than 60% of the churches are self-supporting. ( 20 ) The work of the Society also includes cooperation and financial assistance to Baptists in 11 countries in Europe —France, Germany, Russia, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Esthonia, Latvia and Lithuania. These European fields reported 9,649 baptisms last year. ( 21 ) In lands where modern medical science is unknown and multitudes have no healing remedies for their ills, the missionary physician is indispensable. The Society maintains 29 hospitals, 53 dispensaries, in charge of 49 medical mission¬ aries, who are assisted by 310 American and native nurses. . ( 22 ) Last year was a record year in medical service, more than 215,000 patients having received treatment. ( 23 ) Education is essential for the development of char¬ acter and training of Christian leaders as well as to enable illiterate people to read the Bible in their own language. More than 126,000 pupils are enrolled in the 4 colleges, 34 seminaries and training schools, and 3,426 other schools. ( 24 ) Baptist missionaries have translated the Bible in whole or in part into more than 30 dialects and languages. ( 25 ) The most recent achievement in Bible translation is that of Dr. William Ashmore of China, who in 1923 completed the translation of the entire Bible into the Swatow dialect. ( 26 ) Financial support has grown with the expanding work. During the first year, 1814-1815, total receipts were $1,059. For the year ending April 30, 1924, total foreign mis¬ sion receipts, including those of the Woman’s Society, were $2,706,285.72. ( 27 ) The foreign mission budget for next year is $1,879,- 350, and that of the Woman’s Society is $528,960, a total of $2,408,310. ( 28 ) More than 825 missionaries including wives are in service. This includes hundreds of ordained ministers, scores of physicians and teachers, several industrial instruc¬ tors, business managers, builders, secretarial workers, one sea navigator, the captain of the Gospel Ship, and several hundred women missionaries. ( 29 ) A well organized staff of Japanese, Chinese, Filipino, Indian, Burmese, Assamese and African workers is associated with the missionaries. The total number of these workers is 7,735, besides 1,937 workers in Europe. Burma ( 30 ) Burma, the mission field of Adoniram Judson, has an area of 236,000 square miles, compared with Texas with 265,000 square miles. Its population is estimated at more than 13,000,000, while that of Texas is 5,097,574. ( 31 ) Northern Baptists have practically full responsi¬ bility for mission work in all Burma. ( 32 ) Burma now has 1,153 organized Baptist churches, of which 903, or 78.3 per cent, are self-supporting. No state in the Northern Baptist Convention can show a higher per¬ centage of self-supporting churches. ( 33 ) Total church membership is 86,027. Only 5 states in the Northern Baptist Convention, namely, New York with 181,638; Pennsylvania with 146,876; Illinois with 92,891; Massachusetts with 91,455; and New Jersey with 91,409, have a larger Baptist population. ( 34 ) Baptist churches in Burma raised 700,713 rupees ($233,571) toward the support of their work last year. ( 35 ) Evangelism shows progress, the baptismal records for the past 5 years being as follows: 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 3,421 3,919 3,674 7,452 5,460 ( 36 ) A Christian chapel now marks the site of the prison at Aungbinle, where Adoniram Judson suffered unspeakable tortures during his imprisonment. A flourishing Christian school for girls is maintained in this village of 600 people. ( 37 ) Burma faces a serious situation because of losses by death and withdrawals. Nine stations are now vacant and 7 others soon to be vacated, while returning missionaries will supply only 5, leaving 11 stations unoccupied. Missionaries say, “We count on the churches at home to meet this emer¬ gency.” ( 38 ) The Mission maintains Judson College, 4 theological seminaries or training schools, and 903 schools with 35,760 pupils under instruction. THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND FACTS ( 39 ) That the people appreciate education is shown by the fact that 741 schools, or 81.6 per cent, are financed on the field and receive no funds from America. ( 40 ) Although Baptist missionaries have been in Burma for no years, there are still vast sections unoccupied. Mis¬ sionary Ernest Grigg has a virgin field of 135 miles, from Maymyo to Lashio. This includes the headquarters of a lead and silver mine that employs 10,000 men. ( 41 ) Judson College at Rangoon is the only Christian institution of full college grade for the 13,000,000 people in Burma. This enrols 305 students, of whom 170, or 56 per cent, are active professing Christians. ( 42 ) From July to December of last year the Christian students in Judson College engaged in 14 evangelistic cam¬ paigns, in which 57 students participated. This resulted in 441 conversions. LAHU BOYS AND GIRLS ON THE OPENING DAY OF THE SCHOOL YEAR AT KENGTUNG, BURMA ( 43 ) A 10 year contrast makes an impressive showing: Missionaries. Native workers. Organized churches. Self-supporting churches.... Church members. Schools of all grades. Pupils. Native contributions. 1914 1924 Per cent Increase 191 217 14 2.483 2,681 8 1,009 1,153 14 768 903 17 65,912 86,027 30 743 908 22 28,626 35,760 25 $130,483 $233,571 79 ( 44 ) Note particularly the fact that while church mem¬ bership increased 30 per cent during the 10 years, contribu¬ tions from the churches increased 79 per cent. ( 45 ) Burma has an immigration problem. Into this rich province thousands of people from the sun-baked poverty stricken districts of India are coming every year. More than a million are now in Burma, and more than half the popula¬ tion of Rangoon is of Indian origin. These people are respon¬ sive to the gospel and the mission maintains three churches for them. A well equipped school has increased in enrolment from 348 five years ago to more than 800. In five years Mis¬ sionary W. H. Duff has baptized 609 of these immigrants. ( 46 ) Burma is one of the most cosmopolitan sections of Asia, with more than 40 races, speaking 40 different tongues. ( 47 ) In the Sgaw Karen churches in Rangoon there were 844 baptisms last year, the largest total in 20 years. ( 48 ) At Bassein, considered one of the model mission stations of the world, the entire plant consisting of 25 build¬ ings, with the exception of two residences, was erected without any financial aid from America. ( 49 ) The Burma Mission Press in Rangoon with its mod¬ ern plant is one of the leading publishing establishments in Asia. It is self-supporting, pays for all its equipment, pro¬ vides the salaries of its missionary staff and 200 other em¬ ployees, and from its profits finances the wide distribution of Christian literature. Its output runs into scores of books and thousands of pages every year. ( 50 ) The Burman Bible translated by Adoniram Judson 100 years ago is a masterpiece in Bible translation. Many races in Burma now have the Bible in their own tongue. ( 51 ) There are nearly 12,000 church members in the Mong Lem field in China just across the border of Burma, where Missionary W. M. Young has been in active service since his return from furlough in 1921. Last year 2,453 Were baptized on this field, 95 of whom live in a section where Christians were vigorously persecuted a year ago. The great revival which began in 1922 has continued. Last year nearly 40 new chapels were built. ( 52 ) Eight Baptist missionaries in Burma have been awarded the coveted Kaiser-i-Hind medal for “distinguished public service in India.” This honor is conferred by the King and represents to the civil service of India what the Victoria Cross represents to the military service. ( 53 ) Burma, having the largest mission field, has the largest share of the budget, $251,148 for next year. ( 54 ) The four missions in British India—Burma, Assam, Bengal-Orissa and South India—with a church membership of 192,603, have nearly as many Baptists as the six New England States with 197,514. Assam ( 55 ) Assam is one of the most difficult mission fields in British India. There are many races and tribes, speaking 67 languages, and illiteracy is general. ( 56 ) Assam has an area of 53,015 square miles, or a little larger than that of Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont. The population of these three states is 1,585,140, while that of Assam is 7,600,000, or five times as great. ( 57 ) Baptists entered Assam 90 years ago, when two pioneer missionaries from Burma visited this section. Today 27,070 members are enrolled in 299 churches, of which 179 or 60 per cent are self-supporting. There are now in service 79 missionaries and 602 native workers. ( 58 ) Out of their poverty the Assamese churches con¬ tributed last year $11,718. They added 3,075 by baptism. ( 59 ) Baptist missionaries are using 15 of the 67 lan¬ guages. Tribes using the other languages are still unreached. ( 60 ) The great Manipur State until several years ago was closed to missionaries. The native prince then per¬ mitted medical work, and a new station, Kangpokpi, was opened during the early part of the New World Movement. This district now has 28 churches with 3,076 members; 17 SCHOOL AND PUPILS AT TURA, ASSAM 4 THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND FACTS evangelists are in service, and 625 converts were baptized last year. ( 61 ) Assam has 250 mission schools with 6,519 pupils, heading up in the Jorhat Christian Schools with its three de¬ partments—Bible School, Academic Instruction, and Indus¬ trial Training. Here 160 students, representing 13 tribes, are being developed into Christian leaders. ( 62 ) At the last annual meeting of the Manipur Associa¬ tion 1,045 delegates attended, some of whom walked from two to six days to be present. The entertaining church of 345 members furnished hospitality for the four days’ meetings. ( 63 ) Assam is one of the great tea producing countries of the world, more than 1,500,000 chests of tea being exported annually. One-fifth of the Baptist church members are workers on the tea plantations. ( 64 ) The budget for Assam totals $112,134, of which $65,000 pays the salaries of missionaries and $35,000 main¬ tains the work. ( 65 ) In Manipur for part of a village to become Christian sometimes means the formation of a new village. A student at the Mission school returned home and told the gospel story to his fellow-villagers. After some time a group of younger men and women decided to separate themselves from the heathen village and its customs. They pulled down their 30 houses in the wettest part of the rainy season, carried the material down the mountainside about a mile, and there built a new village. A substantial church building now stands on one of its choicest sites. ENDICOTX CHAPEL, SOORIAPETT, SOUTH INDIA Bengal-Orissa (66) In the Bengal-Orissa Mission Baptists are responsi¬ ble for a territory of about 12,000 square miles, with a popu¬ lation of more than 4,000,000, or about that of Massachusetts. ( 67 ) Although Baptists carry on the only missionary work in this territory, there are but 33 missionaries in service. (68) These people cling to Hinduism more tenaciously than those of any other section of India. After 88 years of work here there are only 23 churches with 1,678 members. ( 69 ) Missionaries stress the field’s importance by declar¬ ing that “when the day comes that Bengal shall be won for Christ, the conquest of India will then be at hand.” ( 70 ) The first missionaries to Bengal-Orissa were Rev. and Mrs. Jeremiah Phillips, appointed by the Free Baptist Churches of the United States. Since that time there have come from Mr. Phillips’ family 18 missionaries, who have given 220 years of service to India. ( 71 ) The Balasore Industrial School, with its faculty of 13 teachers, gives instruction in carpentry, blacksmithing, machine work, motor cars, polishing and drawing. About STUDENTS OF THE HUCHOW BOYS’ SCHOOL WHO WERE BAP¬ TIZED AT ONE SERVICE half of the student body of 75 are Christians who spend part of their spare time in evangelistic effort at the bazars. ( 72 ) At Jamshedpur the Tata Iron and Steel Co., em¬ ploying thousands of men, operates one of the largest steel industries in the world. Missionaries have been working here since 1919. Church membership is nearly 200 and last year contributions of 13,000 rupees ($4,220) were made for current expenses and for a new building dedicated February 22, 1925. In April, 1924, another church of 60 members was organized among the English-speaking population. ( 73 ) In the past 20 years the Indian Church at Kharag¬ pur, under the leadership of Pastor K. C. Mohapatra, has grown from 6 to 237 members. ( 74 ) The territory occupied by the Bengal-Orissa Mission is one of the most densely populated of all India. It averages more than 500 persons to the square mile. ( 75 ) The budget of the Foreign Mission Society provides for only $51,431 for Bengal-Orissa. Adding contributions received on the field makes $67,469 available, a small sum for work among 4,000,000 people. South India ( 76 ) A record year in evangelistic results is reported from South India. The total number of baptisms, 5,684, is the largest in the history of the Mission, with the exception of the great ingathering in 1878 under Dr. John E. Clough. This makes nearly 14,000 additions by baptisms in three years and adds a great community to the Mission. ( 77 ) Dr. A. W. Rider contrasts the facts of yesterday with the facts of today: “In the day of Lyman Jewett but a handful of converts; now over 80,000 Christians. Then, no aids to workers; now, churches, schools, hospitals, and auto cars. Then the ‘Lone Star,’ now a constellation of 200 churches in the sky of South India.” ( 78 ) The South India Mission, in spite of long years of discouragement, has made marvelous progress. There are now 218 churches with 80,521 members, 1,265 schools with 33,470 pupils, 7 hospitals, 8 dispensaries, 2,157 Indian work¬ ers, and 127 missionaries on this field. ( 79 ) During the touring season of 1924 Rev. E. E. Silli- man of Narsaravupet spent 56 days on the field, camped in 23 places, visited 85 villages, inspected 23 schools, held over 100 meetings, witnessed the baptism of 279 believers, and observed the Lord’s Supper in 17 churches. ( 80 ) “The year 1924 had its moments of depression, but we have also seen the glory of the Lord and walked in heavenly places,” writes Rev. F. P. Manley from Nellore. ( 81 ) A notable achievement in self-support is reported from Kurnool. Last year the entire force of field workers, 3 THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND FACTS 5 evangelists and 76 teachers, was maintained by funds raised on the field. Total contributions of the 3,285 Indian Chris¬ tians at the station were Rs. 6,018-15-0 ($1,954.20). A re¬ markable record, considering the poverty of the people. ( 82 ) Fifteen new churches were organized in the South India Mission last year making a total of 218 churches, of which 62 are entirely self-supporting. ( 83 ) On the Gurzalla field 1,000 people applied for bap¬ tism last year. Missionary E. O. Schugren baptized 500 of these, bringing the church membership to 1,994. ( 84 ) After 35 years of service in India, M. Grant Stait, M.D., wife of Rev. F. M. Stait, has been awarded the Kaiser-I-Hind gold medal by King George for “distinguished public service in India.” She began her medical work at Udayagiri in a little mud hut, but now is in charge of the finely equipped Etta Waterbury Memorial Hospital. During ten months of 1924 her hospital ministered to 5,889 patients. ( 85 ) For a county 530 square miles in area Rev. and Mrs. J. A. Curtis of Donakonda are responsible. It has 94,047 inhabitants living in 118 villages, 105 of which contain Chris¬ tians. There are no cities; 3 towns have slightly over 3,000 inhabitants; 4 have over 2,000. The Christian constituency includes 11,967 persons, of whom 6,006 are church members, or more than our entire church membership in Arizona. (86) The Theological Seminary at Ramapatnam cele¬ brated its Jubilee in 1924. During the past 50 years 13 mis¬ sionaries and 28 Indians have served on the faculty and 1,448 students have attended its classes. Of its living graduates, 480 are in active Christian service in our Baptist Mission, 84 in other missions, while others are in secular employ¬ ment. The present student body numbers 114. ( 87 ) At Nellore, where Dr. Clough baptized 2,222 in one day, the visitor can inspect the great church record book containing the names of over 40,000 converts who have been baptized into the fellowship of this historic church. (88) The Clough Memorial Hospital at Ongole is the only suitable hospital available for a district of 600,000 people. It provides for men, women, and children; people of all castes, classes and creeds; rich and poor; ignorant and educated; white and black. Clinics have been established from 25 to 35 miles away in every direction. At one day’s clinic about 100 patients receive treatment. ( 89 ) At Kanigiri last year 96 of the total baptisms of 252 were pupils in the Mission schools. Six new churches were organized on this field, making a total of 22. A HAKKA MOUNTAIN VILLAGE, SOUTH CHINA ( 90 ) The Mission church at Ongole established by Dr. Clough in 1867 now has a membership of 10,500. Although many castes and classes are represented in its membership, it has never had a division or serious difference. * ( 91 ) A survey of missionary personnel shows how urgent is the need of new missionaries in South India. Of the present staff of 43 male missionaries, 1 has served 51 years; 2 have served 41; 13 between 30 and 40; 3 between 25 and 30; 3 be¬ tween 20 and 25; 6 between 15 and 20; 5 between 10 and 15; and only 10 missionaries have served less than 10 years. One of these missionaries is 86 years of age, one is 77, one is 70, 4 are between 65 and 70, 4 between 60 and 65, 10 between 55 and 60, 3 between 50 and 55, 3 between 45 and 50, 6 between 40 and 45, and only 10 are under 40. ( 92 ) Nevertheless, because of insufficient funds and the compelling demands elsewhere, South India received during 1924 not even one new missionary, man or woman, the first such year in 40 years! China at Large ( 93 ) The Chinese number more than one-fourth of the world’s total population. One person out of every four on the globe is a Chinese. ( 94 ) China, including Mongolia, has a land area of about 4,300,000 square miles, and is thus larger than the United States, which has 3,616,484 square miles. ( 95 ) Northern Baptists conduct mission work in three sections of China—East China, around Shanghai; South China, centering at Swatow; and West China, 1,800 miles up the Yangtze River from Shanghai. ( 96 ) There are 228 missionaries in service—100 in East China, 63 in South China, and 65 in West China. With them are associated 1,025 Chinese workers. ( 97 ) In the three missions there are 183 churches with 10,809 members; 234 Sunday schools with 16,688 pupils; and 313 mission schools of all grades enrolling 16,558 pupils. ( 98 ) Owing to superstition, ignorance and lack of sanita¬ tion, China has an annual death rate ranging from 40 to 50 per 1,000 as compared with 14 per 1,000 in the United States. ( 99 ) In all China there are only 1,000 modern doctors, of whom about one-third are medical missionaries. ( 100 ) Few people realize what substantial sums are raised on the fields, as is indicated in the table: Contributed Raised in in America China* East China. $137,861.91 $184,175.00 South China. 68,724.46 86,227.00 West China. 75,109.55 7,877.00 *This includes fees paid by pupils in mission schools, fees paid by patients in mission hospitals, and gifts from Chinese churches for local support. East China ( 101 ) Heading the educational system in East China is Shanghai Baptist College, founded in 1907 and supported jointly by Northern and Southern Baptists. There are 700 students and the faculty numbers 66, about equally divided between missionaries and Chinese. Of the students in the graduating classes of the high school 96% have been Chris¬ tians, and hardly a student has graduated from the college department without having become a Christian. Each year from 50 to 150 students have confessed faith in Christ. ( 102 ) Wayland Academy, at Hangchow, a city which usually has 10,000 students in its schools, was the only school, either private, mission, or government, to open on time, the civil war having prevented the others from opening. ( 103 ) Missionary C. S. Gibbs of the University of Nan¬ king has developed a course of treatment 98% effective for 6 THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND FACTS rinderpest, which has caused many deaths among the cattle. He has already treated over 2,000 animals, and also worked on diseases among poultry, goats, bees and silkworms. ( 104 ) How about the results of this practical service? Dr. Gibbs says: “These personal contacts with the rural peo¬ ple of China have been unusually blessed in an evangelistic way. A good part of my time has been spent in Chinese villages living as the Chinese do. Evangelistic services were held every Sunday and every evening. Whole villages would come to hear me or the native evangelists preach. Thousands of villagers have been led to Christ as a result of these meetings following a hard day’s work in the field with the cattle or chickens, or growing crops.” ( 105 ) The missionaries at Huchow greatly helped the refugees during the recent civil war. At one period about 5,000 of them were cared for. ( 106 ) A conspicuous illustration of Chinese appreciation of missionary service is found in Ding Hae, where Missionary L. C. Hylbert is at the head of a large Mission school of nearly 500 boys. His work has so impressed the Chinese that they have made generous gifts for school buildings and equipment. One Chinese merchant alone gave $200,000. The school is endorsed by leading officials and the Public Minister of Edu¬ cation. It has an endowment fund, of which $193,000 was contributed by Chinese; and of its annual budget $29,000 is raised on the field. South China ( 107 ) Last year more than 120,000 persons attended the every-night Gospel meetings at the Swatow Christian Insti¬ tute. Its schools enrolled 700 students. About 40 persons were baptized as a result of revivals during May and November. ( 108 ) The Christian Institute now directs a newly estab¬ lished leper colony supported by the Swatow government. ( 109 ) With no other hospital for 300 miles north, west and east and for 70 south, several million people are dependent on the Sunwuhsien Mission Hospital for medical help. “At all times,” writes Dr. C. E. Bousfield, “we endeavor to make the hospital the strongest center of evangelism anywhere in our region.” Eight patients were recently baptized as a direct result of the hospital work—a common record. ( 110 ) Daily Vacation Bible Schools are popular in South China. In the Swatow district alone there were 66 last sum¬ mer, with 304 teachers and 4,489 pupils. Practically all the teachers were Mission school students serving without pay. (HD The school system in South China finds its cap¬ stone in Swatow Academy. Nineteen years ago there were 15 students who had to be coaxed to remain and study. Now there are 465 alert, intelligent young men. They all pay tuition fees and crowd the entering class. The Chinese con¬ tributed over $30,000 for the new administration building of Swatow Academy. ( 112 ) Twenty years ago one city in South China was so hostile to foreigners that our missionaries had to pass it in sedan chairs with the curtains closely drawn. Recently a prominent citizen of that city gave $1,000 to help erect one of our Mission buildings and secured from his friends an ad¬ ditional $15,000 for the same purpose. ( 113 ) Teaching Bible classes at Swatow Academy in the early fall seemed to make little impression; but the truth went home and 22 students decided to confess Christ, while 50 or 60 more signed for special study. By the end of the term the number of definite decisions was raised to 37. Of these 22 have been baptized; three-fourths of them the first Christians in their families. ( 114 ) There were 7 baptisms during 1924 at Chao- chowfu. Some of these converts suffered unto blood for their faith. One woman was badly beaten because she presumed to be the only one in her village to become a Christian. ( 115 ) Another who drew about $5 a month from a rela¬ tive for her living was threatened the loss of this allowance if she became a Christian. She wavered, went hungry, but finally chose her Lord and was baptized. ( 116 ) An officer of the southern army who was stationed for about six weeks at Sunwuhsien came to the Mission hos¬ pital and was cured. He attended the hospital worship when he came for treatment, and then asked if he could bring his soldiers for worship. On the advice of Missionary Bousfield he brought his inferior officers and his men numbering 95 Sunday after Sunday until they were sent to another city. ( 117 ) An evangelistic band composed of a Bible woman, Chinese pastor, and Missionary J. L. Bjelke visited all the 8 regular places of worship in the PIopo field and 80 other villages. There were 67 confessions of faith and bap¬ tisms; 36 of these from the out-stations. ( 118 ) The hospital at Ungkung did an especially valuable work last year by giving inoculations for the bubonic plague. Over 2,000 people died from the plague; but of the nearly 2,000 persons inoculated at the hospital very few took the dis¬ ease. Thus the medical work saved many lives and com¬ manded the respect of the people in increased measure. ( 119 ) In a recent evangelistic campaign throughout the South China Mission, public meetings with an aggregate at¬ tendance of over 30,000 were held in chapels, ancestral halls, public forums and squares. Practically everywhere the atti¬ tude of the people was friendly. ( 120 ) The magic lantern was an invaluable adjunct, the series of pictures always ending with views of the Life of Christ. Special all-day meetings were held with every group of churches visited. West China ( 121 ) The West China Mission is so far away that mails to New York average about three months in transit. Mis¬ sionaries going there travel as long a time from Shanghai to their field as from New York to Shanghai, so slow is the jour¬ ney up the Yangtze River. ( 122 ) Chengtu Baptist College, in cooperation with West China Union University, heads our educational system in West China. To it come the students from the lower schools and from it go pastors, doctors, teachers and dentists to serve in the cities included in our mission area. There are 48 stu¬ dents enrolled in the College, 8 in the Union Normal School, and 75 in the Union Middle School. SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND, CHENGTU, WEST CHINA THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND FACTS 7 ( 123 ) The Chinese Home Mission Society has opened work among the Ch’uan Miao aborigines of the Suifu Prefec¬ ture. They have no written language, no schools, no organized church, and worship no gods save their ancestors. ( 124 ) The School for the Blind at Chengtu, under the superintendency of Missionary H. J. Openshaw, is an unusual feature of the work. During the year 6 little fellows were baptized. The staff includes 2 sight and 2 blind teachers be¬ sides an instructor in the work department. There are 16 students who should become teachers for other schools among the 150,000 blind in Szechuan province. The school has greatly stimulated giving on the part of the Chinese. ( 125 ) The hospital at Yachow last year ministered to 1,171 new patients through the dispensaries. These and former patients have made 7,960 revisits. The 215 in-patients were in the hospital a total of 4,599 days; 608 persons were vaccinated and 303 operations performed. ( 126 ) The superintendent of all the schools in the Kiewei district recently asked Rev. and Mrs. A. G. Adams to take his little son into their home in Kiating, to educate him and help him become a good man. ( 127 ) Progress in self-support of the boys’ schools in Suifu district was made in 1924. During 1923 $685.90 was collected in school fees; in 1924, $1,107.62, an increase of $421.72, or an average gain of 62%. The largest gain was made in the out-station schools where only $40 was received last year as compared with $185. This is more significant since practically all the constituency has been affected by the most devastating flood of 50 years. Japan ( 128 ) There are 1,349 Protestant churches in Japan, with 134,547 members. ( 129 ) Northern Baptists have 69 missionaries and 250 Japanese associates. There are 32 Baptist churches, with 4,389 members, and 3,058 pupils in the 35 mission schools. ( 130 ) Appropriations from Northern Baptists amount to $141,320, while Japanese churches and school pupils con¬ tribute $56,829, making $198,149 available for mission work. ( 131 ) The first Baptist church in Yokohama was organ¬ ized March 2, 1873, with only the missionaries as its con¬ stituent members. Now there are 5 churches in the city, with membership of 551 and 4 schools. ( 132 ) The Mabie Memorial School at Yokohama, the only Christian school for boys in that prefecture, was founded in 1917. Buildings costing $215,000 had been erected. The earthquake destroyed the entire plant. Only four typewriters were salvaged. Nevertheless, when school opened in tem¬ porary buildings less than two months after the disaster over 400 boys reported. The students now number 415. ( 133 ) The Tabernacle in Tokyo served as the residence of 159 fam ilies during the year following the earthquake. When a family became able to rebuild its own home another family at once took its place. ( 134 ) More than 1,500,000 people live on the scattered islands of the Inland Sea. Last year the Gospel Ship under Captain J. F. Laughton sailed 2,685 miles and 100,000 people heard the Gospel message. ( 135 ) A branch of the Tokyo Tabernacle, with its varied religious and community service activities, has been estab¬ lished in the slum section of the city. During a recent series of evangelistic meetings, 52 people made decisions for Christ. ( 136 ) Soon after the earthquake a Japanese physician volunteered his services to Dr. Axling at the Tabernacle and the gallery of the fire-swept concrete shell of a building was transformed into an emergency hospital. At an evangelistic meeting he and his two nurses were among the first of 63 peo¬ ple publicly to declare their new faith in Christ. In March, 1924, his health broke from overwork, and in May he died. During his six months of active service he had cared for 22,042 calls and cases. ( 137 ) The Society lost $506,386 in property and equip¬ ment by the earthquake. This was the greatest loss ever suf¬ fered by American Baptists in their foreign mission work. Thus far only $182,953 has been received for reconstruction. , Philippine Islands ( 138 ) In the Philippine group are 3,141 islands, with a combined area of about 115,000 square miles. Only about 400 of the islands are inhabited, the total population being about 10,500,000. ( 139 ) Baptist mission work is conducted in two islands, Panay and Negros, each of which has an area of about 10,000 square miles. There are three mission stations, Iloilo and Capiz on Panay, and Bacolod on Negros. ( 140 ) Baptists began work in the Philippines 25 years ago. Now there are 34 missionaries, 232 Filipino workers, 86 churches with 5,581 church members, 23 schools with 1,875 pupils, 2 hospitals and 4 dormitories. ( 141 ) Appropriations for the Philippine Mission total $ 55 ) 335 * Receipts on the field amount to $36,945. ( 142 ) Last year 412 students were enrolled in Central Philippine College, formerly known as Jaro Industrial School. ( 143 ) On Negros island a student begged Missionary W. 0 . Valentine to visit his village. There he found 3 Chris¬ tians. He examined and baptized 9 converts, organized a church and examined 4 more candidates for baptism upon the next visit of a pastor. Ten days later materials had been gathered for erecting a chapel. The student wrote: “Imagine our joy, converts and members working together for the erec¬ tion of our chapel. We hope to hold services in it next Sun¬ day.” Thus within two weeks a new church had been organ¬ ized, three-fourths of its members baptized and a chapel built ready for occupancy, all without one cent of mission funds. A few weeks later this church reported 16 new additions by baptism and an out-station Sunday school. ( 144 ) Baptists and Presbyterians have worked together for years in Iloilo, a city of over 50,000 people. The Presby¬ terians are now withdrawing leaving the entire field to Bap¬ tists. Some friends have made it possible to purchase the Presbyterian buildings. At the Union Mission Hospital, now to be maintained by Baptists, 1,482 in-patients and 2,341 out-patients, a total of 3,823, received treatment last year. ( 145 ) A revival is in progress in the Bacolod field. Last year 1,233 were baptized. MABIE memorial’s GRADUATING CLASS IN FRONT OF TEM¬ PORARY BUILDING ERECTED SINCE THE EARTHQUAKE 8 THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND FACTS BAPTISM AT THE CENTRAL PHILIPPINE COLLEGE ( 146 ) The Capiz station was opened in 1903 by Dr. and Mrs. P. H. J. Lerrigo, who were soon joined by Rev. and Mrs. J. C. Robbins. (Dr. Lerrigo is now Home Secretary of the So¬ ciety and Dr. Robbins is Foreign Secretary for British India.) There are now 18 churches with 1,410 members, 5 schools and a hospital (founded by Dr. Lerrigo) which last year treated 1,297 patients. ( 147 ) Students of Central Philippine College conduct 14 Sunday schools with an average attendance of 250. Belgian Congo ( 148 ) Belgian Congo in Africa has an area larger than the entire section of the United States lying west of the Rocky Mountains. ( 149 ) Only 4,000,000 of the present population of 12,- 000,000 are being reached by foreign mission agencies; 4,000,000 more are Vithin the radius of present influences, and the remaining 4,000,000 must be reached by new agencies or by the expansion of the work of organizations now in the field. The 326 Protestant churches have 58,639 members. ( 150 ) Northern Baptists began work in Belgian Congo in 1884 by taking over the Livingstone Inland Mission, started in 1878. There are now 48 missionaries assisted by 749 African workers. Of the 37 churches with 14,040 mem¬ bers, 16 are entirely self-supporting. ( 151 ) The remarkable increase among Congo churches is shown by the following comparison: 1914 1924 Increase Missionaries. 47 44 6% 185% Native workers. 294 778 Organized churches. Churches entirely self-support- 20 36 80% ing. 8 20 150% Church members. 4.506 14,871 230% Native contributions. $2,054 $2,507 63% ( 152 ) For work in Congo, American Baptists contributed $54,013, field receipts were $4,738, a total of $58,851. ( 153 ) The entire field of Tshumbiri with 9,700 square miles, larger than New Jersey, and a population of 31,000, has only one missionary family, Rev. and Mrs. P. C. Metzger. ( 154 ) In 1917 missionaries at Sona Bata sent the first African teacher among the Bayaka tribe. Now there are 34 schools with over 1,100 pupils, 200 baptized believers, and several thousands attending religious services regularly. ( 155 ) Medical missionaries are cooperating with the Belgian Government in a campaign against sleeping sickness. The Colonial medical service furnishes free medicines for mission hospitals and dispensaries. King Albert recently made Missionary W. H. Leslie, M.D., of Vanga, a Chevalier de l’ordre Royal du Lion, as a recognition of his services. ( 156 ) The-first white missionaries were sent in 1924 to Moanza, six days’ journey from Vanga, the nearest mission station. Rev. and Mrs. Thomas Hill, living in a mud hut until funds are available for a house, are responsible for this field 90 miles square, inhabited by seven different tribes. ( 157 ) During the 15 years since the establishment of the Evangelical Training Institution at Kimpese, 73 men and 64 women completed the course and were graduated. More than 70% of these are out on the field preaching and building up strong Christian communities. ( 158 ) For the past 10 years the missionaries in the Bel¬ gian Congo have laid great stress on self-support. As a result almost no foreign money is now used in support of native churches, schools, teachers or even traveling evangelist- overseers, save in the newer stations; and even at Vanga con¬ tributions already cover two-thirds of these expenses. ( 159 ) Dr. Hjalmar Ostrom reports an average of 100 pa¬ tients a day being treated at the Mission hospital at Ntondo. ( 160 ) Missionaries at Sona Bata are responsible for a territory of 10,000 square miles. One-third of the people in this district know the Gospel, one-third have heard about it, and one-third have not yet had an opportunity to hear it. ( 161 ) The remarkable revival in the Sona Bata field which began in 1921 continued through 1924. Previous to 1921 there was a church membership of about 1,500 and bap¬ tisms averaged about 150 each year. Since 1921 more than 10,000 baptisms have been reported, and the interest continues. Europe ( 162 ) In the year of Waterloo (1815) there was no Bap¬ tist church on the mainland of Europe. In 1850 there were about 4,000 church members. In 1900 the number had risen to about 220,000. Now it is certainly not less than 1,250,000, and perhaps exceeds 2,000,000. ( 163 ) The first Baptist Church in Sweden was organized in 1848. Persecution was severe against the early Swedish Baptists. In 1922 or 74 years later, Swedish Baptists reported 21 associations; 681 churches; 60,530 members; 436 ministers; 721 local preachers; 2 colleges; 73 students for the ministry; 109 foreign missionaries; expenditure for foreign missions about 350,000 kroner (nearly $100,000). ( 164 ) It is a noteworthy fact that there is a Swedish Bap¬ tist foreign missionary to every 600 members, a record unequaled by Baptists elsewhere. ( 165 ) The first Baptist Church in Denmark was organized in Copenhagen in 1839. There are now 32 churches with 5,427 members; over 1,500 baptisms in the last five years. ( 166 ) The work of German Baptists began in 1834, but it was not until 1848 that Baptists were recognised by the authorities. There are now 235 churches, 1,078 regular preaching places, and 58,854 members. ( 167 ) On October 1, 1880, a theological seminary, with 4 years’ curriculum, was opened in Hamburg. The building was enlarged in 1914 and now accommodates over 100. ( 168 ) In 1851 evangelistic efforts were made by German Baptists on behalf of their fellow countrymen who had settled in Poland. There are now 73 churches with 10,453 members, 47 pastors and 139 lay preachers there. ( 169 ) The constitution of Poland assures religious free¬ dom, but local authorities under the influence of Roman Catholic priests persecute those who join other denomina¬ tions. During 1922 four Baptist preachers were arrested on trivial pretexts; 3 times the police interfered with Baptist meetings; 3 times Bibles and literature were seized, and 4 times meetings were attacked by drunken mobs. ( 170 ) The first Baptist Church in Czechoslovakia was organized near Prague in 1885 with 16 members. There are now 25 organized churches; 3,146 members; 20 church build¬ ings; 155 preaching places; 98 Sunday schools. THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND FACTS 0 ( 171 ) Baptist work in Esthonia began only 46 years ago, and Baptists have been constantly persecuted. Scarcely any of the leading men have escaped imprisonment, banishment or other punishment. The establishment of Esthonia as an independent state has brought real freedom. There are now 38 churches; 24 church buildings; 74 preaching places; 5,060 members; 23 ordained pastors, and 40 Sunday schools. ( 172 ) On April 22, i860, the first Baptist church in Nor¬ way was organized on a farm near Skien with 7 members. There are now 4,681 Baptists in 42 churches distributed over the whole country and organized in 4 associations. The church in Oslo (Christiania) with 533 members is the larg¬ est. In 1910 the Baptist Theological College was established there. It now has 15 students. Norwegian Baptists main¬ tain an evangelistic and philanthropic work on behalf of the deep sea fishermen around the North Cape, and also support several foreign missionaries on the Upper Congo. ( 173 ) Baptism in Latvia was first administered on the night of September 9, 1861, to 72 persons, and was followed by the first observance of the Lord’s Supper. At the opening of the 20th century foreign mission work was systematically undertaken, 5 Bible women being sent to India and a mission¬ ary to China. The war ruined all. Great numbers perished on the battlefield; multitudes took refuge in the interior of Russia; the capital city of Riga, which had about 600,000 in¬ habitants at the opening of the war, had less than 200,000 at AT THE WELL, NARSARAVUPET, SOUTH INDIA the close. Gradually the exiles and refugees found their way back to Latvia, the denomination revived, and an energetic work commenced. ( 174 ) Baptists stand third in the number of churches in Latvia. The 84 churches have 9,402 members. ( 175 ) The history of modern French Baptists begins in a little village in French Flanders in 1810. Here a farmer dis¬ covered a long hidden Bible and he and his neighbors soon came to the Baptist position. In 1832 the Society came to the aid of several little groups. The years since then have been filled with quiet heroism in the face of obstacles and persecu¬ tion. In 1922 80 French churches reported 2,000 mem¬ bers. ( 176 ) Reports from Russia are uncertain. In 1914 the best information obtainable put the number of baptized be¬ lievers in Russia, including “Evangelical Christians” and “Baptists,” at 106,000; a cautious estimate of the present strength of these bodies, which now have accepted a common declaration of faith and order, gives it as 1,000,000. A mem¬ ber of the Russian Government in 1923 gave as his estimate 3,500,000; if this be taken as the “community strength” it is probably well within the truth. The fact that can be accepted is that there has been, and is, a movement of enormous power—the deepest and widest religious movement in Russia. ( 177 ) Baptist churches in these n countries of Europe reported a total of 9,649 baptisms last year. BIBLE CLASS AT HANGCHOW, EAST CHINA THE WOMAN’S AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY In General ( 178 ) The Woman’s American Baptist Foreign Mission Society, with its 11 fields and 108 stations; its 250 mission¬ aries, 240 Bible women, 1,620 trained native assistants; its 1,100 schools touching over 181,000 pupils, from little tots in kindergarten to college students and trained nurses; its 200 evangelistic and educational workers, 14 doctors and 29 nurses; women and children of Japan, China, Philippine Islands, Burma, India and Africa, who have not been minis¬ tered to, affords a channel through which Baptists may minis¬ ter to women and children of Eastern lands. ( 179 ) The Society has for its purpose the elevation and Christianization of women and children in foreign lands. ( 180 ) Its service is being given in Kindergartens, Village Schools, Boarding Schools, High Schools for Girls, Colleges, Schools of Mothercraft, thereby helping from childhood to motherhood. ( 181 ) In British India there is a Burmese Woman’s So¬ ciety, a Karen Woman’s Missionary Society, a Telugu Woman’s Missionary Society, and a yearly meeting of the women of Bengal-Orissa, all outgrowths of its work. ( 182 ) There is a kind of work that only women can do, with every field calling desperately for help. The Society’s appointees are three this year! ( 183 ) Recently when some preachers in a certain field went to be ordained, a bench was brought up by the men themselves immediately behind their own, and upon inquiry it was found that the preachers demanded that their wives should have a part because they had been so helpful. Africa ( 184 ) In Belgian Congo, where Baptists labor, distances are so great and doctors so few that patients needing care must often travel a whole week to receive treatment. ( 185 ) In Sona Bata, with a population of 80,000, there is one woman registered nurse. ( 186 ) The first woman doctor went to Africa in 1898. During the past year she treated 8,000 out-patients. She has also been training her patients in giving, and the receipts from the out-patients’ dispensary are 10,000 francs. ( 187 ) The Boarding School at Vanga has 250 pupils, 60 of them girls. During the year 14 of the girls were married; 10 THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND FACTS ii became wives of teachers and are out in the work, the others married Christian young men working on the station. ( 188 ) The majority of schoolgirls are professing Chris¬ tians; s were baptized during the year and 5 others converted. ( 189 ) The villages occupied by our out-schools number more than 170, with about 15,000 pupils, more than one-third girls and young women, 220 of whom professed conversion during the year. ( 190 ) The older people come in increasing numbers seek¬ ing the Way of Life, giving up their fetishes and other heathen practices. The women’s services are well attended, from 250 to 300 every Sunday, and on big Sundays 800 or more. Assam ( 191 ) At Kangpokpi, Manipur State, 900 Christians gath¬ ered last January, half of them women. Steps were taken to teach the women and girls to read the Bible and hymnbook, and a distinct advance in 1924 was thus made possible. ( 192 ) Both day and night school pupils have increased, totaling 252 this year as against 27 the year previous. ( 193 ) The two trained Tangkhul Naga girls from Now- gong Girls’ School soon to take up work among their women folk will mean a new day for the Christian hill women of Manipur. ( 194 ) A missionary in Tura has completed the transla¬ tion of a little book on Anatomy and Hygiene for her school. The Garos have no medical books in their language. ( 195 ) The Training Classes of the Nowgong Mission Girls’ School grow larger year by year. The total for the whole school is 216. ( 196 ) At Kangpokpi the work among women has been excellently carried on by the missionary wives. Out of 1,018 baptisms during the past year 586 were women. ( 197 ) Association time is one of great rejoicing in Assam. At the last gathering the women had a special session, with a report of the year’s work from each village. ( 198 ) Every day when the women prepare their family meal (twice) they take out a handful of rice from the allow¬ ances and put that aside for the Lord. All the women to¬ gether had raised $50 by this handful of rice. This money was given for the salaries of 3 village teachers. At this time 47 young people were baptized. China at Large ( 199 ) Christian Missions are in China first to lead indi¬ viduals to know Christ and second to build up a living Chris¬ tian community. If we are to establish the Christian Church in China we must change and train the “woman-half.” ( 200 ) All over the great Republic Chinese women are recognizing that women are as important as the men to the future stability, improved society, and higher ideals of a na¬ tion, and with fervor they are entering into their heritage. ( 201 ) China’s greatest problem is the fact of untaught children. Of 99,000,000 children of school age only 4,218,695 are in schools, and only 125,513 in Christian schools. In other words, for every girl in Christian schools there are three in government or private schools and the rest get no schooling. Not one in a thousand of China’s girls are in school or Chris¬ tian homes. (202) Our medical work in China includes Nurses’ Train¬ ing Departments in our hospitals. This work is often the entering wedge into non-Christian homes. We have Day Nurseries, Christian Centers for Community Service; Vaca¬ tion Bible Schools and all the agencies helpful to change the thought and life of the pgople. ( 203 ) In 1844 the first Boarding School for girls was opened in Ningpo, East China. SCENE FROM TEACHERS’ PLAY, NOWGONG, ASSAM ( 204 ) In 1874 the first Woman’s Bible Training School came into being at Swatow, South China. East China ( 205 ) The Union Hospital at Huchow last year treated 1,640 in-patients and 14,028 out-patients. ( 206 ) A fine training school for nurses is conducted in the out-patients’ department of the hospital wards. A special course in Bible study is an essential part of this training, for evangelistic work is carried on by all the Christians employed in the hospital, including 20 nurses on the staff. ( 207 ) The increase in attendance of 31 women and 17 children at the Christian Homemakers’ School at Ningpo, following the enlargement of accommodations, proves the demand for this kind of school. ( 208 ) Twelve were mothers who brought from 1 to 4 children, whom they left in charge of the school nursemaids during school hours; 22 were married women who brought no children; 12 were young widows; the others unmarried girls deprived of early advantages in schooling. ( 209 ) A Chinese widow seldom remarries, so a widow of 21 or so as an uneducated non-Christian faces a lonely, mean¬ ingless future, but if she can be reached with the love of Christ, become a Christian and be educated, she may look forward to a useful life in the uplifting of her own people. ( 210 ) Over 50,000 people used the Christian Center in Hangchow in a single year. Half the cost of maintenance was raised among the Chinese. ( 211 ) Ninety-eight per cent of the girls of our Boarding Schools become Christians before they leave. ( 212 ) There is a fine Woman’s School in connection with the Shanghai Baptist Seminary, for the wives of theological students, with classes for the children. ( 213 ) Conditions in China have greatly complicated school work in the war zone. At Ningpo it was difficult to maintain class morale because of rumors. Many of the young women teachers are realizing that they must meet unusual persecution for being Christians, because of the recently organized anti-Christian movement, and they are showing by their lives a greater earnestness than in the past. ( 214 ) The Society has in Huchow a boarding and day School of Mothercraft, unique in all China. It is for mature women with no chance for study when girls. It receives children from infancy to eight years of age and makes their physical, mental and moral development a feature, the nur¬ sery being under trained supervision during school hours when the mothers are studying. ( 215 ) Every student is a member of a daily Bible class. The children’s department serves as a laboratory where stu¬ dents can observe the results of proper care. THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND FACTS 11 PRIMARY CHILDREN IN MAY FESTIVAL AT HANGCHOW ( 216 ) In the rapidly growing industrial work at Shaoh- sing 170 women find employment “consistent with Christian principles,” and it is planned that all workers shall attend church, and Bible women visit among the homes. ( 217 ) Christian girls from our schools conduct large street Sunday schools in the Kindergarten rooms in Hang¬ chow and teach in 4 other Sunday schools. South China ( 218 ) The unmarried “female of the species” was not considered advisable for missionary service in the early days. It was a Methodist Bishop who wrote home that when a field was found too difficult for a man, a woman should he sent. In 1873 Miss Adele Fielde was transferred from Bangkok, Siam, to Swatow, South China, and began a constructive program. ( 219 ) Miss Fielde visited 20 women, most of them old and poor, only one of whom could read. One of them, how¬ ever, in three months committed to memory the entire book of Mark and 30 hymns, also three chapters of Luke. (220) This was the beginning in Swatow, by an American woman, of the Bible Woman’s work and the subsequent estab¬ lishment of Bible Women’s Training Schools by all denomina¬ tions in all parts of the missionary world. ( 221 ) At Kityang Hospital an increased number of leprosy treatments has been made possible through the work of the China Medical Board at Peking. This has made medi¬ cine that formerly cost $300 a liter available for $25, thus enabling the missionary doctor to give weekly treatments for only $10 for the year. (222) In 1879 the Woman’s Society sent its first medical missionary to China. A small hospital for women was built at Swatow, and Dr. Caroline Daniels began ministering to both the body and soul of the Chinese. ( 223 ) At Changning the hospital ministers to patients from three provinces. Medical work has also been done at four out-stations. ( 224 ) In South China a new movement was made to en¬ list churches in the support of Bible women. At the Girls’ School in Kityang the number of pupils has increased over 40% and tuition fee receipts nearly 141%. ( 225 ) The Abigail Hart School in Swatow, opened in 1874 with s pupils, now has 200. Swatow boasts 6 boarding schools. One station has a self-supporting school of 150 pupils and 6 teachers. ( 226 ) Baptist missionary work is now carried on in three provinces among people speaking two dialects: Swatow and Hakka. In 6 stations the Woman’s Society representa¬ tives do evangelistic work in schools and inland villages. West China ( 227 ) At Suifu a little Chinese Inn has been transformed into a Christian Hospital. This makeshift hospital has been widely used of God as a blessing, proving a great opportunity of winning country women and children for Christ. ( 228 ) At Cecelia Kindergarten in Suifu, with its 156 lively children, occupying the new plant has been the year’s thrilling event. This is a lovely home in which to carry on a Christlike work for childhood. ( 229 ) In the Union College at Chengtu the Society is try¬ ing a carefully conducted experiment in coeducation. This province is so remote that this innovation comes to encourage higher education among the girls, as the distance to Women’s Colleges in China is too great. ( 230 ) There is a Woman’s Normal School at Chengtu, as well as a Baptist Girls’ School, of which a Christian Chinese woman is principal. ( 231 ) The first Baby Welfare Week in Chengtu met with large response from fathers and mothers. Chinese challenge was, “If the present generation is strong, then the nation may hope to be strong also.” SCHOOLGIRLS OF NINGPO, CHINA, AT PLAY Japan ( 232 ) The kindergartens everywhere have continued to open the doors of homes to our missionaries. A kindergarten grandchild has been the means of leading a Buddhist priest into the light of Christianity, and today he is a foremost Christian evangelist. At the Morioka compound a gate bear¬ ing the name of a little kindergarten girl will soon be erected by her Buddhist grandfather as a memorial to her joy in this Christian institution. ( 233 ) A three-story dormitory building to accommodate 45 student girls, the gift of an unknown friend, is being erected in Tokyo, with a little apartment for two missionaries. Space will be left for the addition of a smaller three-story portion to be built for office girls, many of whom not only need but want a safe place to live. ( 234 ) One of the Society’s schools in Japan has the record of having every graduate but 5 in 25 years finish the course as a Christian. ( 235 ) A big temperance rally was held recently in the Baptist Church in Himeji, attended by the 400 Japanese boys and girls of the combined Sunday schools maintained by the Hinomoto Schoolgirls in Himeji and vicinity . — Vida Post. ( 236 ) Japan’s liquor bill is over a billion yen. The Sun¬ day school children carried home circulars reading, “Stop drinking for our sakes!” “Drink is a devil! Destroy the devil for our sakes!” Burma ( 237 ) At the laying of the cornerstone of Atlandis Hall, the new Jubilee Building in Mandalay, the following interest¬ ing facts were presented: Number of pupils admitted from July, 1887, to August, 1924, 1,458; present membership, 300 12 THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND FACTS pupils and 14 teachers; number of baptisms, 196; Christian pupils who have become teachers, 69; Christian pupils who have become nurses, 17; pupils who have become wives of Christian teachers, myooks, preachers, etc., 25; pupils who have become Bible women, 12; total number in direct Chris¬ tian service, 123. ( 238 ) The Ellen Mitchell Memorial Hospital, Moulmein, receives patients from a fifty mile radius, brought in by train, steamer, gharries, oxcarts, rickshas, and the strong arms of friends. It ministers to rich and to beggars; cares for father¬ less and motherless babies and for friendless women; listens to the appeals of helpless lepers. It is always ready to minister. ( 239 ) This hospital is a boon also to the large boarding schools of Moulmein. Doctor, nurse and Burmese assistant woman all teach both Bible and medical subjects. ( 240 ) They have to write their text-books as they pro¬ ceed. The physician also teaches First Aid at Morton Lane. In a single month this indefatigable doctor examined nearly 2,000 school children from the Mission schools of these sta¬ tions. Another month she treated 15 dispensary patients daily, besides 26 in the hospital, made 37 outside professional calls, and performed 13 operations. ( 241 ) Ellen Mitchell Memorial Hospital figures for the mission year: Total number dispensary patients, 2,844; hos- pital patients, 497; days of hospital care, 7,942; daily average number hospital patients, 22; total number of operations, 170; maternity cases, 68; outside professional calls, 437; nurses in training, 14. ( 242 ) Mission Schools of the Society are large, efficient and important factors in the Christian life of Burma. Two schools train women for full time Bible teaching. ( 243 ) The Karen Woman’s Bible School at Rangoon en¬ rolled 66 the past year and a dormitory is just being finished (the Jubilee gift of the Southern New York Association) which will make a greater work possible. ZENRIN SUNDAY SCHOOL BOYS, KOBE, JAPAN ( 244 ) The Burman Woman’s Bible School at Insein had a record attendance of 26. Because of the influence of this school the “Burman Woman’s Missionary Society” for all non-Karen women had its beginning this year. ( 245 ) The girls’ school at Kemendine enrolled 500. The students maintained 6 outside Sunday schools, giving regular Christian teaching to 250 children. The girls support a young Bible woman who graduated at the head of her class in the Burman Bible School. ( 246 ) The Morton Lane High and Normal School num¬ bered 427 girls, trained by Christian teachers and workers. Great joy came from the acceptance of Christ by several Buddhist girls who are graduating from the normal course. ( 247 ) The Girls’ High School in Mandalay exerts a strong influence in a Buddhist community through its staff of missionary teachers, its 350 pupils, 15 native teachers and Bible woman. There are schools of grammar grade in nine centers, all full to overflowing. ( 248 ) The Rangoon Women’s Committee employs 31 Bible women. It is the policy to let the native people assume some of the burden. Many Bible women among Karens are supported by their own people. ( 249 ) The Burma Woman’s Bible School last year gradu¬ ated 10, representing 6 races. This year 29 were enrolled. ( 250 ) In the Karen Woman’s Bible School the completion of the Girls’ Dormitory was a great event, with 48 girls actually housed and comfortable! ( 251 ) Among the girls in Burma the religious life is keen; the Christian activities of the English Girls’ High are varied. The girls from the church choir and most of the teachers and senior girls teach in Sunday school. School prayer meetings are conducted entirely by the girls, and 11 baptisms resulted from the spiritual development among the students. * ( 252 ) Lan Ma Wa Daw School is in the heart of Rangoon. The average attendance at Sunday school equals the average daily attendance in day school. No special awards are offered, nor is there any compulsion. The children show their interest by bringing many visitors. ( 253 ) Karen jungle work is used as an objective for the town school. The pupils spread the Christian spirit by visit¬ ing nearby Karen villages, composed mostly of non-Chris¬ tians, and giving small gifts to the villagers. ( 254 ) A girls’ school at Taunggyi among the Shans is an immediate necessity and money is being raised by private subscription on the field. A Chinese-Burmese woman has given rupees 1,000; the government has granted a good site, and the governor has consented to lay the foundation stone. The first building will be a hostel. ( 255 ) Two field workers have been appointed by the All Burma Woman’s Missionary Society, to travel all over Burma telling about the new society formed in Bassein. ( 256 ) The work of these women is to form new societies, strengthen weak ones, hold evangelistic services, and render any service possible. For years they have been doing Bible women’s w r ork in Bassein District at no expense to the Society. They had a little property and were able to provide for their own needs. When the call came to enter the new work they were ready to give up their comfortable home and enter upon this difficult task. They are still working within salary and only their traveling expenses are paid by the Society. This Burman Woman’s Society through voluntary offerings had a balance of 2,000 rupees to begin the New Year on. ( 257 ) At Nvaunglebin, the Karens voted to give up all TEACHING STAFF, MAUBIN, BURMA THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND FACTS 13 school appropriations and assume full support, thus making available the money from the Woman’s Board for evangelism. ( 258 ) Among the activities in which the Burmese girl participates is an English organization known throughout Burma as "Girl Guides,” similar to our Camp Fire Girls. These guides are active in church and Sunday school and a true missionary spirit is fostered among them. ( 259 ) Morton Lane School is self-supporting. Other schools from kindergarten to high schools in Burma and India take their standards from Morton Lane. ( 260 ) In Bassein area, of the 135 villages in the parish all the roads in the western section are waterways. One must go about eight miles by auto and eight by waterways, with canals connecting, to the little villages for meetings. Mission¬ aries pay week-end visits, sometimes but once a year. ( 261 ) The Pwo Karen School at Bassein has grown from 42 to 200. An interesting incident is told about one young Pwo Karen girl at this school. During the time of strikes in Burma she went before the town elders and explained why it was unnecessary to have a strike there. It was such an un¬ usual procedure for a girl and so brave, that the elders listened and there have been no strikes since. ( 262 ) The deep religious life of the students at Judson College, which is part of the University of Rangoon, is very marked. The Governor of Burma is ex-officio Chancellor, and Miss Helen Hunt is Dean of Women’s College. South India ( 263 ) The Nurses’ Training School at the Hospital for Women and Children in Nellore has 18 nurses in training, and two head nurses who are graduates. In September 13 nurses w r ent up for the South Indian Medical Missionary Association Examination; 7 passed with distinction, and 4 with credit. ( 264 ) The year’s report of Nellore Hospital shows 1,361 in-patients; 8,367 out-patients; 47,646 treatments; 369 opera¬ tions; 176 out-calls, and 232 maternity cases. ( 265 ) In America there is one doctor for every 1,500 people. The Ongole District, with more than 600,000 people, had not one doctor until the Hospital at Ongole was opened. ( 266 ) This has been a red-letter year in the Girls’ School at Nellore, with its 215 students and 13 teachers. Results have been most encouraging, especially in the Training School classes; 29 young women took examination for teachers’ cer¬ tificates, 24 secured full passes, and 12 girls were baptized. ( 267 ) In the Deccan, a territory ruled by the Nizan, the Woman’s Society has interest in 6 stations; in 2 of them the work appropriation is expended by missionary wives, who have not only helped in school work but given aid in cases where there was no doctor or nurse available. ( 268 ) The Government has disallowed the widow stipend for want of funds, hence the school standard must be lowered by two classes next year. Mohammedan girls are married early and then the Gosha rules are so strict that they will not allow the girls to continue their studies. The higher classes have been entirely filled by widows who planned to become teachers and earn their living. ( 269 ) The Bible Training School for Women in Nellore has more applications for Bible workers than can be supplied. The influence of the school is spreading throughout Telugu land. Graduates are going as gospel workers to many towns and villages. The aim is to supply trained Bible teachers and village Bible women throughout the surrounding districts. Philippine Islands ( 270 ) The Girls’ Dormitory in La Paz is a gratifying ex¬ ample of the influence of a Christian home life. One girl stands out as the only Christian in the Dormitory when school opened. She felt from the first the responsibility of bringing her friends to Christ and she has been a remarkable personal worker. After her graduation last year she entered Doane Evangelistic Institute to prepare for larger service. The motto of Doane Hall is, "The Bible our message and every one a messenger.” ( 271 ) The recent work of two Bible women up North in the Sara field has resulted in about 60 converts, 10 of whom have been baptized. This particular work at Barotac Viejo is causing the local priest a great deal of concern; so much so that he went to the chief of police and told him about it, sug¬ gesting that something must be done or the whole town would become Protestant. The chief willingly arranged it so that three of the young men helping with the market preaching were caught in the act, they were fined 15 pesos. Then the chief deacon of the church went to the mayor and secured a permit to preach; the young men paid the fine and went back to preaching. So the priests’ action served to put more zeal into the church, and supply more converts for baptism. Union Christian College of the Orient ( 272 ) Baptist women are especially interested in five Union institutions of higher grade in the Orient: The Women’s Christian College in Madras; the Women’s Medical College in Vellore, India; Ginling College in Nanking, China; Women’s Union Christian College in Tokyo, Japan; Women’s Medical College, Shanghai, China. ( 273 ) Shanghai Medical College is looking to Ginling College for a group of young women who will study medicine in Shanghai. One condition of the gift for this valuable plant is that the work shall be evangelical and Christian. ( 274 ) Fourteen denominational Boards are cooperating in the Madras Christian College. The inscription for this chapel is "Erected to the Glory of God and in Memory of an Unknown Giver.” Giving in the Orient ( 275 ) Teachers and girls in the Kemendine Girls’ School, Rangoon, gave over $800 for various objects last year, and raised nearly $100 for treats for children in the schools and Sunday schools. ( 276 ) At an Associational meeting of five Garo churches last fall, after arranging for the support of evangelists, help for a needy church and a new school in a heathen village, there was a good balance in the treasury of the association funds collected from the rice money. It was voted to give rupees 100 (about $32) to the Woman’s Foreign Mission Society for use in the Tura Girls’ School. Further, without any suggestion they voted to write letters to the other three RECEIVING HER DIPLOMA AT SENDAI, JAPAN 14 THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND FACTS GIRLS IN MISS WHELPTON’S DORMITORY, BACOLOD, P. I. Garo associations asking each to give rupees 100 also to the Society for the same purpose. If done, this will mean rupees 400 given directly by the Garo Christians for the education of girls in the Garo hills. ( 277 ) The contributions raised by the girls in Ongole as proceeds of the food saved through fasting on the Day of Prayer amounted to rupees 26, annas 10, pies 3. The contri¬ bution represents sacrifice on the part of the girls, and it means devotion and gratitude from the Hindu schoolgirls, about 20 of them, who added their bit too. ( 278 ) As a result of the day of fasting and prayer, the women of Jorhat, Assam, brought the price of a day’s food and some brought more. The boys from the primary board¬ ing department went without bread for 24 days to raise rupees 10 and the older boys gave the price of a day’s food. An additional gift of rupees 12 has just been received from this station. ( 279 ) Another gift of $144 has been received from the Hinomoto Girls’ School, Kindergarten and Sunday schools in Japan. This gift was given “to help our parent Society at this time of financial difficulty, and to express the gratitude of all connected with the school for the thirty years of sup¬ port our Society has so generously given us.” This amount was almost 300 yen. ( 280 ) The following is taken from a letter of one of the Society’s missionaries: “I want to do something to help out about the debt. I cannot bear to take so much salary when the Board is in debt. I have tried it and find I can get on all right besides saving for vacation, with rupees 50 less per month, so I am sending an order to have the Treasurer pay our Society $100 from my salary and six months later I’ll send $100 more. I shall certainly be much happier and I will pray much for the giving at home too.” ( 281 ) Another missionary writes: “That great debt is dreadful! It pains me very much to think that my salary is being borrowed. It makes me feel that I don’t want to take it, as I do without things if I must borrow'.” ( 282 ) An additional gift has come from the Himeji Girls’ School, in Japan, of $17.50, continuing their gift of last year for the Day of Prayer, and making a total of 130 yen. THE AMERICAN BAPTIST HOME MISSION SOCIETY The Task in Terms of Men, Money and Objective ( 283 ) An analysis of the personnel and mission activities yields the following items covering one year (approximately the same for 1924-25): Ordained missionaries, 398; teachers, 260; doctors, 5; nurses, 4; others, 113; communities in which work is done, 500; churches, 277; outstations, 194; community centers, 25; boarding schools, 26; 1 day school; 1 hospital; 1 dispensary. ( 284 ) Expenditures of money for the various types of work are classified as follows: Sustentation of churches (in¬ cluding the work of evangelists), $195,173; colporter-mission- ary and chapel car work, $99,663; missions among American Indians (including Bacone College), $69,086; Hebrew work, $600; Mormon areas, $6,641; educational work for Negroes in the South, $224,097; work among New Americans, $135,055; among Orientals in the United States, $20,000; among Span¬ ish-speaking people in the United States, $23,930; Alaska, $1,500; Jamaica, $5,000; Cuba, $36,331; Porto Rico, $32,091; Haiti, $4,037; Mexico, $48,639; Central America, $28,846. For buildings and equipment: Churches and manses, $180,- 723; schools, $167,084; hospitals, orphanages, old peoples’ homes, health centers, etc., $40,713. Evangelism ( 285 ) The Evangelistic Campaign inaugurated by the Society for Northern Baptists is meeting with widespread approval and formal endorsement. The Executive Committee of the Northern Baptist Convention took this action: “It was voted that the Executive Committee of the North¬ ern Baptist Convention having learned of the purpose of the Home Mission Society to inaugurate a national plan of evan¬ gelism for the year beginning July 1, 1925, and in view of the approval of the other agencies operating in the same terri¬ tory, expresses its approval of the purpose to make this a major denominational task for the coming year, and com¬ mends it to the churches and pastors for their loyal and pray¬ erful cooperation.” ( 286 ) That there has already set in a movement heading up in more intensive evangelistic efforts is evidenced by the reports coming in from churches in widely separated com¬ munities. The campaign was opened by a series of mass meetings and conferences in Boston early in May. These meetings will cover the New England territory and will be followed by other conferences during the early summer and fall in other parts of the country. ( 287 ) The directors of evangelism under joint appoint¬ ment of State Conventions and the Home Mission Society are the organizers of numerous evangelistic conferences, per¬ sonal workers’ leagues, and church programs for all-year- round evangelistic effort. In one state alone 64 week-end evangelistic meetings were held last year as the result of plans promoted by the director of evangelism for that state. ( 288 ) From an evangelistic conference promoted by another director 700 ministers and laymen returned to their communities to organize evangelistic bands of lay workers. ( 289 ) The same evangelist attended 35 associational meetings, 47 evangelistic conferences, conducted meetings of two weeks in 14 different towns, besides 32 special children’s meetings, 37 young people’s meetings, 30 special “Census¬ taking and Witnessing Day” services in Bible schools, de¬ livered 250 sermons and addresses, conducted 200 after¬ meetings, wrote 800 letters, and traveled 10.000 miles. ( 290 ) In the field of evangelism as in foreign-speaking work the Society cooperates with State Conventions, City Mission Societies and Foreign-speaking Conferences. ( 291 ) Evangelisrn has been given right of way this year in ail of the Latin American fields. In I’orto Rico Mr. and 15 THE BOOK OF A Mrs. Fred J. Peters, general evangelists, have met with marked success in the revival of the spiritual life of the churches, and the stimulating of the members to public wit¬ nessing and systematic giving. They report 1,000 converts. Baptisms on Latin American fields during the last conven¬ tion year total 1,057. ( 292 ) In Cuba the evangelistic activity continues on almost all of the fields. Each issue of the Cuban Baptist paper brings news of special meetings and of baptisms. ( 293 ) Recently in Bavamo, Cuba, under the leadership of a visiting pastor, 53 persons confessed Christ. ( 294 ) In Mexico cheering word comes of the quickening of the church at Puebla. In Monterey the members are full of enthusiasm at the prospect of soon beginning work on their new building. There Is Still a Frontier ( 295 ) Today there are many sections in the mountain¬ ous regions of the West where hundreds of people cannot attend a religious service, not even a Sunday school, without traveling from 20 to 50 miles over mountain ranges with horses and wagons, because no service is held nearer. ( 296 ) In one western county having an area of over 5,000 square miles, religious work is carried on in only four or five places. Out of the 24 school districts in the county 21 are without religious work of any kind. ( 297 ) Another county has an area of 4,600 square miles, and out of the 18 school districts only 3 have any religious work carried on in a regular work. These concrete examples of religious destitution tell their own story of home mission work yet needed in the West. They are only two of scores. ( 298 ) The dedication of the church edifice of the First Baptist church of International Falls, Minn., marked the conclusion of one of the longest and most important engage¬ ments of Rev. Earle D. Sims, church invigorator of the Home Mission Society. He worked during the winter and spring months on the building, upon which he spent $12,000. Be¬ sides the work of construction he conducted four evangelistic campaigns of two weeks each, and also gave considerable time to deputation work in the state. ( 299 ) Rev. L. M. Darnell, formerly pastor-at-large in Arizona, has begun work as general missionary for Utah. He spent March and April in evangelistic work in Salt Lake City, Moab and Soldier Summit, with encouraging results. ( 300 ) Utah, with three-fourths of its churches receiving home mission aid, was the first to pay in full its mission quotas for 1925. These quotas were by no means small considering THOUSAND FACTS the membership of these churches that carry on in an en¬ vironment impossible to describe to those who have never lived in Mormon communities. Indians ( 301 ) Indians are entitled to a square deal. They were here first. The Home Mission Societies are carrying on work among 14 tribes. ( 302 ) The students of Bacone College early in the spring term held a series of meetings in which the missionary oppor¬ tunities among the Indian tribes of the United States, Mexico, and South America were presented. It is reported that 42 Indian young men and women declared their readiness to make Christian service their vocation in life. There are 28 Indian tribes represented in the student personnel at Bacone. ( 303 ) The Crow Indian Baptists are the first to adopt a list of objectives. These are definite and practical, covering a large number of activities and aims. How many of our white churches would adopt similar lists? Increase of 10% of membership—a quest for others. Personal Workers' Training Class—10% of membership. 10% of membership observing family worship. 50% of membership observing grace at meals. 10% of membership to bring their own Bibles to church services. One evangelistic camp meeting at each church. Contribution of time by members for specific personal work in the camps, under direction of the missionary, equivalent to one day per member for the year. Sunday school, total of officers and teachers to be Indians. One Crow youth, in educational institution, definitely preparing for min¬ istry or missionary work. 59% of membership regular givers. 5% of membership Tithers. Annual meeting and roll call—a feature day. Adoption of church budget, total income divided as follows: J4 mission¬ ary benevolences; ]4, current expenses; % Social Building Fund; H support of native ministry. 50% of membership attend Sunday services. 50% of membership attend Crow Indian Association. 15% of membership subscribe for Missions. Organization of a B. Y. P. U. officered and conducted by Indians. Organization of an Improvement Club—a composite of night school, sing¬ ing school, lyceum and Chautauqua. ( 304 ) Missionary W. A. Petzoldt, who has built his life into the Crow Mission field and now superintends the largely developed work, says some of these objectives may seem low, but it was deemed better to begin with a moderate standard and reach it than to set the scale too high and discourage effort. What the Indians pledge they mean to live up to. ( 305 ) Two decision days were held at Sherman Institute, the Government Indian School at Riverside, California, one in January, the other at Easter. Over 125 decision cards were signed; 94 boys and girls united with the Student Church; 51 boys and 43 girls, including 6 girls and 14 boys who were re¬ ceived through the First Baptist Church of Riverside on con¬ fession of faith and who were immersed. All of these 20 came BAPTIST INDIAN STUDENTS AT HASKELL INSTITUTE, LAWRENCE, KANSAS 16 THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND FACTS A COMANCHE INDIAN AND HIS DAUGHTER from Baptist Mission territory; and 370 boys and 280 girls are enrolled in this school. ( 306 ) Baptists now have three orphanages. There are two for Indian children. Murrow Indian Orphanage, adja¬ cent to Bacone College, Oklahoma, cares continually for 60 children. Kodiak Orphanage in Alaska has won a large place in the affections of the Indians of that northern territory. The Home for Chinese boys in Berkeley, California, is one of the latest home mission projects among the Orientals of the Pacific Coast. Every effort is made to give the boys and girls in these three orphanages the Christian education that will make them useful members of their communities. New Americans ( 307 ) The two Home Mission Societies are committed to the faithful prosecution of mission work for Slavic as well as for nearly 20 other foreign-speaking racial groups in the U. S. The American Baptist Home Mission Society has under appointment 10 Russian, 16 Czechoslovakian and 15 Polish missionary pastors, in addition to 3 workers in cosmopolitan Christian Centers and 4 teachers in the Slavic departments of the International Seminary at East Orange, N. J. ( 308 ) When Konrad A. Fleishmann, at the age of 23, arrived in America in 1839 from Germany and began preach¬ ing in Newark, N. J., the foreign-speaking missionary work by Baptists in the United States began. In 1843 the first regular German Baptist church in America was organized in Philadelphia. The growth of German Baptist churches, with the aid of their English-speaking brethren through the Home Mission Society, was rapid. Today they carry on their work independently, supporting their own missionaries at home and abroad. This group of Baptists now numbers 33,000. ( 309 ) Baptist work among the Roumanians forms a most interesting chapter of our home mission history. From the beginning they impressed their English-speaking brethren with their fidelity and earnestness. Aggressive work is now being done in several of our larger cities which would do credit to any group. They have been handicapped for want of trained leaders. The Roumanian Department of the Inter¬ national Seminary opened with five promising students. As the only evangelical denomination doing any missionary work among them, Baptists have a great responsibility. ( 310 ) At the last meeting of the New Jersey Foreign¬ speaking Conference, held at the International Seminary, East Orange, there were Poles, Russians, Czechoslovaks, Roumanians, Hungarians and Italians, all pastors or teachers. In several States the foreign-speaking workers are accustomed to gather annually for conference and Chris¬ tian fellowship. Friendships exist between missionaries of various racial groups although such races in Europe have been historic enemies. . ( 311 ) The International Seminary at East Orange, N. J., is one of our institutions effectively fostering racial under¬ standing. Thus will the love of Christ, if allowed to have its way, blot out inherited prejudices. ( 312 ) Hungarian Baptists, beginning their church life in 1900, now have 30 churches and about one-third as many missions; their membership is about 1,600. They are organ¬ ized into a vigorous Union which maintains three periodical publications, promotes aggressive evangelistic and mission¬ ary plans, standard Sunday schools and young people’s organizations, and enthusiastically supports the general denominational program. Mexicans in the U. S. ( 313 ) During recent years there has been an increasing flow of Mexican migrants across the southern border. Con¬ versions among them are frequent and the call for Christian leadership for them is great. The answer of the Home Mission Society to this call is the Spanish Department of the Inter¬ national Baptist Seminary at Los Angeles, where courses are given that equip Mexican students for Christian work. ( 314 ) The Society has been able to appropriate about $30,000 a year for the Mexicans in our country. That is one dollar a year for every one hundred Mexicans. ( 315 ) The story of the Rosehill Mexican Church is an example of the growing Baptist consciousness among the Mexicans. Rosehill, on the edge of Los Angeles, in a district so hilly that the lots are cheap, has attracted a rapidly grow¬ ing colony of Mexicans, and among them some Baptists. They assembled in the homes of one of their number, under the leadership at first of a student from the Seminary. Later a Mexican tailor became leader, and the attic of the Mexican house was fitted up for a meeting place. Here an active and spiritual group of believers has developed. A church has been organized, with the tailor as pastor without salary; the Sunday school swarms all over the house and outside in the sunshine for its classes; and now the Baptist City Mission Society is erecting, on lots given by an American lady, a regulation chapel for their use. A self-supporting Mexican Baptist church is thus in prospect. ( 316 ) A Mexican track worker in Kansas spends his Sun- A LARGE CROW INDIAN VILLAGE, MONTANA THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND FACTS 17 OUTDOOR KINDERGARTEN OF OLIVET CHURCH, CHICAGO days, whenever possible, in going to neighboring towns and cities to preach the gospel to his countrymen in their native tongue. A group of Mexicans in a railroad construction camp heard of him, and sent him an urgent invitation to come and preach to them. He went early on a Sunday morning, but found no place where a meeting could be held. In the village there was but one small church. Although it was not a Bap¬ tist church, he decided to go to the morning service and ask them for the use of their building Sunday afternoon for a ser¬ vice for the Mexicans. They told him they could not lend the church to any other denomination except for funerals. Disap¬ pointed, he went back to the railroad camp. There he cleaned up a box car and gathered 25 Mexicans into it for the service, at which his daughter sang gospel songs and he told the story of Jesus and His love. When he gave the invitation, 11 out of the 25 made public confession. When the railroad work was finished the camp broke up, but during the following year he received news from 6 of the 11 that they had united with Baptist churches in Mexico. Broadcasting in Spanish ( 317 ) Rev. Benjamin Urquidi, pastor of the Mexicana De El Salvador Baptist church of Los Angeles, California, occa¬ sionally holds a service in Spanish that is broadcast from the Los A ngeles Times station KHJ. Many responses have come to him as a result of these gospel messages put on the air. Usually he is assisted by some one who can sing. One time a Mexican, unknown to the Mission and not professing to be a Christian, put his radio apparatus in the open window and a street meeting resulted. At another time two Mexican con¬ gregations joined in a “listen in” gospel service, a dealer loan¬ ing them an excellent receiving set for the purpose. ( 318 ) Missions among the Mexicans in the United States is the title of an attractive booklet written by Rev. Edwin R. Brown, director of Mexican work in the Southwest, and pub¬ lished by the Literature Department of the Board of Mission¬ ary Cooperation. It is recommended by the Department of Missionary Education for use as supplementary reading for mission study groups and in the preparation of missionary programs during 1925-26. ( 319 ) When it is remembered that the custom in Latin America is to give up the entire morning to the Bible school, and that this is the most popular service of the whole week, it is readily seen that few places present such possibilities in the line of religious education. ( 320 ) Last October a new country chapel in the moun¬ tains about twelve miles from 'Adjuntas was dedicated. There had been an organized church in that district since 1911, meeting in the house of one of the members. When one of the floor timbers gave way under the weight of the congre¬ gation it was felt that the building of a chapel could no longer be postponed. A special designated gift of $400, combined with an equal appropriation from the Society and the help of the local church, was sufficient to build a simple chapel. Mexico ( 321 ) Mexico is in an unexampled religious ferment. The present government represents the success of an anti-clerical movement that has curbed the political power of the Church of Rome. There has also been a schismatic movement from the midst of the church itself. A few priests have attempted to found a Mexican Catholic Church with a married clergy, free circulation of the Bible, and absolute independence of Rome. All of this is creating a situation favorable to gospel work in Mexico as never before. ( 322 ) Early in March at Saltillo the cornerstone of the first new building of the Baptist Boys’ High School was laid. The event aroused great interest locally. A crowd of all classes of people was present, including representatives of the City Government and the Public Board of Education. The state band sent by the authorities took part in the pro¬ gram. Rev. A. B. Rudd, general missionary in Mexico, aided in the ceremonies. The work at this educational center is rapidly advancing. The building has to house also the Theological Seminary supported jointly by the Foreign Mis¬ sion Society of the Southern Baptist Convention and The American Baptist Home Mission Society. In its present quarters the boys’,school is overflowing, and its influence will be multiplied as more buildings and teachers are provided. ( 323 ) The following letter from a business man some¬ where in New York State is a self-explanatory testimonial: “Gentlemen: Recently, in Puebla, Mexico, I was taken sick and spent three days in your Hospital there. They charged me very little, and so, in appreciation of the excellent care and attention I had at the hands of Dr. Bingham and the nurses, I am sending you a check in the amount of $200. I would say that you have a very nice hospital in Puebla, with good people in charge of it, doing good work.” Cuba ( 324 ) During Decemoer, 1924, two new church edifices were dedicated in our Cuban Mission, one at Bayamo and one STAFF OF THE PUEBLA HOSPITAL, MEXICO at Cespedes. The one at Bayamo was designed by the De¬ partment of Architecture of the Home Mission Society. It is built of brick and concrete, and besides the auditorium with a gallery it has in the rear a two-story section with four school rooms below and an apartment for the pastor above. The cost was $30,000 of which the local church pledged $5,000. ( 325 ) The first Protestant church in Cespedes, which 18 THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND FACTS dedicated its new home, is the result of the conversion of an influential business man of the place. The little group of be¬ lievers there have never had a pastor, being dependent on the ministrations of the Baptist pastor from a neighboring town. Under the leadership of this Christian business man they have secured lots for both meeting house and parsonage and erected a commodious frame building, with the help of small grants from the Home Mission Society, at a cost of $5,000. They are now building a parsonage and then hope to have the help of the Society in calling and supporting a pastor. Mr. Routledge says the home life of this business DEDICATING A MISSION AT TIA JUANA, MEXICO man is an exceptionally good example of what a Christian family should be and do. He represents a mixture of English and Greek racial stocks, and is married to a Cuban-Chinese woman. ( 326 ) Last November the kitchen, dining room and a small frame recitation hall at Cristo were destroyed by fire. It was only after great efforts that the girls’ dormitory, the best building of the whole institution, was saved. As indi¬ cating the spirit of the school, the teachers and pupils at once set about collecting contributions for a new building and suc¬ ceeded in raising $3,500. The Society expects to replace these frame buildings with a more permanent edifice, costing $40,000. The work of this school is fundamental to the suc¬ cess of the entire Cuban Mission. ( 327 ) Los Colegios Internacionales is proud of one of its graduates of the Class of 1921, who has just obtained her doctor’s degree with high honors from the University of Havana, winning with it a traveling scholarship that will enable her to spend a year in graduate work in some European University. Porto Rico ( 328 ) Special Evangelist Fred J. Peters says: The Sun¬ day school which we attended in Cayey on March 1st was the largest we have led so far, 358 being present. It was impossi¬ ble to teach such a number in classes in a church with no equipment for individual classes. We just took charge of the entire school. ( 329 ) What an opportunity is here for a great work to be done! Here we have the future generation of Porto Ricans in our hands, if we will only rise to the occasion, and build good school accommodations for these crowds. In the district of Cayey, outside the city, there are Sunday schools with no building; they meet in the open — one with 200 attendance with a little room 9x12 feet. Salvador ( 330 ) The Baptist mission force in Salvador has been strengthened by the arrival of Mr. and Mrs. V. C. Seafler. These young people are from West Virginia and Illinois. After graduating from the Northern Baptist Theological Seminary in Chicago, Mr. Seafler was in the pastorate in Mason City, Illinois, for two years. His theological studies were interrupted by service in France. ( 331 ) Property has been acquired during the past year in four towns of Salvador as sites for future church buildings, and deeded to The American Baptist Home Mission Society at no expense to the Society, the money being raised on the field. One small group raised $350 within the last year to purchase a lot for a church building. What greater proof could we have of the sincerity of the Baptists of Salvador in asking the Society to send to them a pastor and provide for regular instead of occasional services? Unfortunately, the budget will not budge, and this group of people must wait. Nicaragua ( 332 ) Miss Eleanor M. Blackmore, her furlough long overdue, continues to remain at her post in Nicaragua, in order to supervise the work of the Nicaragua pastors, in be¬ half of The American Baptist Home Mission Society. So far no one has been found to take the place of the Rev. D. A. Wilson. Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Skeeters are hard at work learn¬ ing the language and developing the Boys’ Department of the Baptist High School in cooperation with Miss De Moulin of the Woman’s Society. Jamaica ( 333 ) News that Baptists in the United States are inter¬ ested in stimulating education among the deserving youth of Jamaica has stirred Baptist parents in Jamaica to such an extent that a larger number of boys apart from those awarded scholarships by The American Baptist Home Mission Society have applied for entrance in the College. All of the conditions bearing upon the grant of the Home Mission Society to Ja¬ maica have been met by Jamaican Baptists, including the maintenance of a home for the teacher toward whose support Northern Baptists contribute part of his salary. Haiti ( 334 ) I heard an interesting story about St. Louis Vazeinbeck, one of our lay pastors. He was captured during one of the Caco revolutions, and was led away into the bush where he was condemned to be shot. Before the execution, however, he asked permission to read his Bible. This was granted, and he read a chapter or two aloud. The secretary of the band, wishing to show his ability, took the Bible from him and commenced to read. He read on and became deeply interested. As a result he pleaded for the man’s life. Then others, observing his attitude, took his part. At last it BAPTIST SEMINARY STUDENTS AT RIO PIEDRAS, P. R. THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND FACTS 19 seemed as if the men would fight about it, so St. Louis said that rather than kill one another they had better execute him. He was a Christian, and was not afraid to die. This brave speech won completely the secretary and the general, who released him. The secretary, however, discovered that the party opposing liberty for St. Louis had sent some men through the bush to kill him before he could reach the road, so he himself accompanied St. Louis to the outskirts of Trou. — A. Groves 11 'ood, I laiti. Jews ( 335 ) In accordance with the policy that forced the Home Mission Society to withdraw support from new undertakings on account of decreased income, the Hebrew Mission of Buf¬ falo has been deprived of $2,400 income beginning May 1. The Society will continue to contribute $600 per year. ( 336 ) The Northern Baptist Committee on Jewish Evangelization is made up of representative Baptists and officials of Baptist Mission Boards and Societies who have approved of the beginnings of Hebrew work made in Buffalo and appreciate the spiritual necessity for maintaining it and extending it to include a ministry to Jews by every Baptist church that finds Jewish families in its neighborhood. Negro Schools ( 337 ) The large sum of $550,807 passed from the hands of students in our Negro schools last year into the treasuries of the fourteen mission schools supported and partially sup¬ ported by the Home Mission Society in the South, for board, tuition, room rent and incidental expenses. Most of this money doubtless was earned by these students who labor during their long vacations in the cotton and corn fields of the South, or as porters on Pullman cars and waiters on the steamers of the coastal or interior waters. Imperative Needs ( 338 ) Three of our best Negro mission schools in the South need teachers’ houses costing $5,000 each, if we are to get and keep on a $1,500 salary professors who could get $3,000 or more elsewhere, and who are necessary to make a strong Christian school. Two power-houses are needed. ( 339 ) The Spanish-American Department of the Inter¬ national Baptist Seminary in Los Angeles, California, has an increased enrolment numbering 17, and sorely needs a dormi¬ tory to make it possible for additional students to attend. ( 340 ) Cristo College, Cuba, has outgrown its equipment entirely. Many boarding school students are not received for lack of room. The growth of the school has been brought to a standstill until new buildings long promised can be erected. Porto Rico is in need of a boys’ high school. ( 341 ) New buildings are needed in Mexico for the growing churches. The most urgent duty that confronts Northern Baptists in Central America is the founding of a training school for pastors and teachers. ( 342 ) The Society should be enabled to place suitable buildings over the basements where many heroic congrega¬ tions are now worshiping in growing communities in the West. ( 343 ) The foreign-speaking work is steadily demanding a larger quota of men and means. ( 344 ) The home for Chinese boys in Berkeley, Cali¬ fornia, is one year old and when a new boy was taken in the other day, making the 26th, all space for the care of unfortu¬ nate Chinese boys was exhausted. Enlargement is necessary. ( 345 ) From many cities the appeals are coming for the establishment of Christian Centers. The Society carries on its Christian Center work cooperatively with the Woman’s Home Mission Society, State Conventions and City Mission Societies. THE WOMAN’S AMERICAN BAPTIST HOME MISSION SOCIETY Fifty Years of Achievement ( 346 ) The Society will celebrate its fiftieth birthday in 1927. The women of the Northern Baptist Convention as an expression of their love and loyalty are now gathering golden gifts to repair losses and strengthen existing work. These gifts are being gathered in terms of leaves, twigs, branches and boughs, and as a whole will represent an entire Golden Tree of Opportunity and the sum of $500,000. This amount will be expended upon the fifteen Golden projects which seemed neediest among the many demanding attention. ( 347 ) A West End Community House is proposed for Boston, to be built in cooperation with other agencies. This new plant will extend Christian work in a cosmopolitan com¬ munity where work is already established. ( 348 ) Judson Neighborhood House in New York will be bought. For seven years the Society has supported workers in this large Italian community. ( 349 ) To the first unit of the Mexican Christian Center at Phoenix, Arizona, the Golden Anniversary Fund will add another unit. ( 350 ) At Toreva, Arizona, Hopi families are shut off from the water supply high up on the Mesa. The desired Com¬ munity House will give needed health facilities, besides a contact with the “living water.” ( 351 ) The recent disaster at Kodiak Orphanage is reason for a sufficient expenditure there to replace the main building and furnish new equipment. ( 352 ) Monterey, Mexico, will have a greatly needed school building, and thus share in the benefit. ( 353 ) San Salvador needs more room particularly for students desiring secondary school work. A missionary train¬ ing course is to be included to train future leaders. ( 354 ) At Mather the faculty is able to care for twice the number of students now enrolled, but no living quarters are available. A new dormitory for Mather is one of the Golden Projects. ( 355 ) At Hartshorn Memorial College, where Negro college women have no dormitory of their own, a dormitory and administration building is proposed. ( 356 ) A building is also to be bought for the Women’s Department of the Berkeley Baptist Divinity School, Cali¬ fornia. This will be for the use of young women West of the Rockies who are training to be missionaries. ( 357 ) Two endowments are included in the list of Golden Projects. A sum will be devoted to the extension of Christian Americanization work, and another to establish permanent scholarships at the Baptist Missionary Training School. ( 358 ) Particularly necessary is the item of the fund which will care for equipment and emergencies on the mission fields. Needs outside of the operating budget are continually arising. The largest individual designation In the Golden Anniversary Fund will be devoted to “working capital.” The Finance Committee of the Northern Baptist Convention has suggested this to save the Society’s paying interest as it must during the early months of the > r ear. ( 359 ) A Golden Tree is needed to make these Golden Projects possible. Each leaf will serve to heal some wound in the homelands and sustain the work of taking “Christ in 20 THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND FACTS Every Home.” In looking forward to 1927, do not forget the Golden Anniversary of the Woman’s Home Society. Golden Anniversary Gifts ( 360 ) Massachusetts can boast of buying the first leaf, twig and bough. Recently a group of seven Italian boys known as the Knights of the Cross in Worcester, Mass., sent in one dollar for a golden leaf in the Golden Tree of Oppor¬ tunity. The women of the Florida Baptist Church, Berkshire Association, Western Massachusetts, took the first golden twig; while the West Somerville Church and Women’s Society bought the first golden bough. ( 361 ) From other sources, too, pledges or money have come. Ethel Downsbrough, missionary at the First Italian Baptist Church, Philadelphia, has sent from her Italian peo¬ ple $100, representing everyone from the smallest tot to the oldest man and woman in the Bible class. ( 362 ) Missionaries from all sections have written in that they and their people wish to have a part in the Society’s birthday celebration. As alumnae of the Training School the Central District Association voted to raise $1,000, equivalent to a golden bough, in memory of Miss Martha M. Troeck. ( 363 ) At a meeting held in Katherine House, where 14 members were present, $615 was joyfully pledged. ( 364 ) Plans are stirring for the National Association to raise another $1,000 for a golden bough in honor of Miss Mary G. Burdette. The Christian Center ( 365 ) The open door of the Christian Center attracts those of all lands, East, West, North and South. At a Christ¬ mas celebration this year, the “Mary” was a Mexican girl, the “angel” of the annunciation a recently baptized Rou¬ manian, and in the company of angels were Hungarians, Slovaks, Negroes and Croatians singing “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.” The very air is charged with the spirit of friendliness. ( 366 ) In such a spirit 27 Christian Centers with their workers have been established in as many neighborhoods; presently the mother and father come to see their children perform, learn English, and join in the religious services. ( 367 ) Thus the Christian Center is a clearing-house for racial prejudices, where a circle of understanding is estab¬ lished in an atmosphere of Christian teaching. ( 368 ) Daily Vacation Bible Schools grew tremendously this year. They filled such a need that many Christian Cen¬ ters have converted them into Schools of Week-day Religious Education. ( 369 ) Aiken Institute had the world’s record for the Daily Vacation School, with an enrolment of 1,012 and aver¬ age attendance of 449. Frances Campbell’s kindergarten, boston CHURCH VACATION SCHOOL, SAN PEDRO, CAL. ( 370 ) The largest figure for Week-day Bible School comes from Birmingham, Alabama, where 1,400 boys and girls were enrolled. ( 371 ) Eight different churches in Cleveland are combining in the Christian Center for Negroes for a teachers’ training class. About 70 men and women are preparing to do their part in the Sunday schools. ( 372 ) Rare characters are coming from the homes in¬ fluenced by the Christian Center. They may be found in the denominational colleges, Baptist Missionary Training School, and in hospitals training for serviceable lives. One, at least, is serving in the mission field. The Indians ( 373 ) Fourteen missionaries of the Society are helping the Indians in Montana, Arizona, California and Nevada. ( 374 ) At Auberry, for five years the Indians saved so that this fall they might refinish and paint their chapel. When it reaches 14 degrees below zero they come to church regardless of the cold. Special revival meetings are held at intervals, and little children come leading their parents. ( 375 ) The Indian women on the reservations are taught how to keep house, sew, and properly care for their babies. The daily round of duties, starting sometimes at 6 in the morn¬ ing and not ending until 10 at night, gives the Indians ample opportunity to learn of Christian service through the example of the faithful missionary. ( 376 ) Any and every emergency must be met by the missionary out on the lonely Indian fields. A recent letter from Elizabeth Cady of Coarse Gold tells of a startling ex¬ perience with a drunken Indian, who later was apparently thoroughly repentent and under conviction of sin. ( 377 ) The same missionary, after some meetings held by Dr. Kinney, felt the revival spirit at work, and conducted a series of evangelistic services, a new experience, with a number of reconsecrations and new professions of faith. The Negroes ( 378 ) A few eager Negro women gathered in a basement of a church in 1877 to learn how to read the Bible under the tutelage of Misses Giles and Packard. Now hundreds flock to our Negro schools and colleges of the South. Spelman, a Grade A college, heads the list of 10 schools where 56 teachers give every form of instruction, ranging from advanced college work to the fourth grade. ( 379 ) At Spelman, 26 out of the school, where practically all are professing Christians, have decided for some form of Christian life service. ( 380 ) At Hartshorn Memorial College the Christian En¬ deavor has 112 members, which includes every one of the TIIE BOOK OF A THOUSAND FACTS 21 boarding school students. Encouraging reports of baptisms from the Southern schools show that 25 of the older students at Benedict College have accepted Christ. ( 381 ) Florida Normal and Industrial Institute has its largest enrolment of boarding students, and many had to be turned away for lack of space, after the workshop, garage and barn were filled. Excellent work is done, and the whole school is heartened bv the new academic building, Anderson Hall. ( 382 ) Missionaries carry their share of the burden of converting the Negro problem into a Negro program. Eleven missionaries organize Bible groups and aid those needing in every possible way. ( 383 ) A missionary in Birmingham, Alabama, where 1,400 boys and girls are on the Week-day Bible School roll, says: “An invitation was extended by the pastor for the re¬ ception of members in one of our churches. Immediately a young Negro schoolboy came up to accept Christ on the basis of the story of The Conversion of the Jailer. ‘I believe in Jesus and want to be baptized. I am willing to trust Him and live for Him the rest of my days. I want you as a church to pray for me,’ were his words. From this same atmosphere has come a student now at Morehouse College who is prepar¬ ing for the ministry.” ( 384 ) From the East to the West reports show the results of Christian Center work and missionary endeavor among these people. In Chicago during the fall months a special decision day was set. From the children’s church 16 boys and girls expressed their desire to follow Christ. ( 385 ) Another agency of the South is the Fireside Schools. This organization has a monthly magazine, Hope, with a circulation of 35,000. There are over 225 active Fire¬ side School organizations in 19 Northern states. Christian Americanization ( 386 ) “You no make buttonholes. I make for you. I no can speak English. I can’t tell story Jesus—I can make buttonholes for you tell story of Jesus.” It is just such con¬ tacts that the Christian Americanization Secretary endeavors to make for the church woman and a New American friend. Nearly 3,000 volunteers have been enlisted to seize the oppor¬ tunity of acting as a real friend. Greeks, Syrians, Chinese, Hungarians, Mexicans, Polish, Armenians, Japanese are all eager to understand America and America’s God. ( 387 ) One volunteer writes: “I cannot fill out the record card. We do not do very much along Americanization lines. I call on three Italian families, but I haven’t kept account of my calls. One of my families went to Italy two years ago and came back in June. If they had had no American friends GAYE HARRIS (CHRISTIAN AMERICANIZATION SECRETARY) WITH SOME FRIENDS “PATHFINDERS” AT KATHERINE HOUSE, INDIANA HARBOR they could not have gotten out of Ellis Island. I wrote to Senator Hale and the Commissioner of Labor in Washington and finally got them through. I clothed three little girls in one of the families—send them to school and take them to Sunday school every Sunday. I do all their sewing—one item this fall making 66 buttonholes in underwear and sewing on 72 buttons. I am now making three winter coats for them. I keep no account of what I spend on the number of garments I make. I call on two Greek families occasionally. Am sorry I cannot fill out the card.” I feel sure the Master has a record even if this dear little woman has not kept one. ( 388 ) Another volunteer who cannot fill out the card has written on the back: Six women teach Chinese men in our Sunday school. One woman teaches Greek men in our Sun¬ day school. We have work for Greek and Syrian children. ( 389 ) “Now I must tell you about two ‘super’ volunteers I have found and I doubt not that there are others I’ve not yet met. One lovely modest little woman, a member of the First Church of Hollywood, began her volunteer work over five years ago. She had leisure and a big heart and has given from three to five days a week ever since. She has 9 Mexican women as English pupils, now, 2 girls for music, having their lessons once or twice a week as she goes among the homes, and gathers groups of children for Bible stories at the Christian Center. She also substitutes for the teachers in the Spanish Seminary when there is illness. This is all she tells, but can you imagine all or even part of what this consecrated woman has meant to all the homes she has touched, for her‘class’ is a changing one? Surely in her quiet lovely way she has inter¬ preted Christian America to many strangers within our gates.” ( 390 ) “A fine woman in San Pedro has become the ‘aunty’ to a whole colony of Japanese. As teacher of the Mission Sunday school and in the girls’ club she found en¬ trance into scores of homes, and from the letters we have read from Japanese girls, women and young men to this volunteer, we know how much her loving life has meant to these so- called unapproachable Orientals. She devotes all of her spare time to the work and has a constant stream of Japanese callers as well as ‘stacks’ of letters from all parts of the world from her ‘children’.” ( 391 ) « A Volunteer from the First Church of Long Beach to this same group of Japanese in San Pedro has been teaching the girls millinery in a class for three years. How her face lighted up as she talked of her girls and how welcome she is in their homes, where millinery has been the means of con¬ tact whereby many girls have found Christ and are now in the church. This volunteer said, ‘When I first went, I waded through deep sand, then there were rough roads, but now there is a paved highway.’ 1 wonder if this is not a truly vivid pic¬ ture of the way the gospel travels when taken by faith and Christian love to ‘one of the least of these, my brethren.’” 22 THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND FACTS AMERICANIZATION MEETING UNDER MRS. C. S. SHANK AT SEATTLE (These fine incidents are from Naomi Fletcher, Christian Americanization Secretary for California.) Foreign-Speaking ( 392 ) All nations have sent their people to America. The missionaries to the New Americans, who work with foreign¬ speaking churches, Christian Centers or missions, are forming a network over the United States. People of various na¬ tionalities are sought out and connected with their own church where they will meet people who talk the same language. Recently two Porto Ricans, one South American, one Chilean and an Ecuadorean entered the baptistry of the Sixth Avenue Baptist Church as a result of the work among the Spanish¬ speaking people in New York City. ( 393 ) “Last Sunday an old Chinese woman was standing outside the gate of our church here at Fresno holding a chubby small boy of about a year in her arms. So wistful did she look that I called her in,” writes Amy Purcell. “The children helped me entertain her as we went from room to room where she could see the various classes. Then she went into the assembly room where we had our opening exercise. After a few songs and prayer she got up and went out. I followed her to the door, where she took my hand and held it tight. We did not have the medium of a spoken language, but that old wrinkled face was wreathed in a smile, and the light in her eyes made me know she felt that a good place to be.” ( 394 ) “Another strange thing took place at Sunday school last Sunday. One of our young men brought in three Indian men—‘Hindus’ they are called here—who are at State Col¬ lege with him. Mr. Chen, who has just been baptized and to whom his religion means a great deal, had brought these other men of the Orient. At the close of Sunday school the Chinese young men gathered around the Indian men and for an hour or more we all talked of college life, friendships in America, Christ’s teachings, and many kindred topics. And then we heard Mr. Chen say, ‘Come to American church. It’s a good place.’ ” ( 395 ) The Woman’s Home Society has one missionary among the French people at East Douglas, Mass. The young people have asked for a teachers’ training class because it is so hard to get teachers for the classes. In December 8 converts united with the church. Orientals ( 396 ) A bit of far-off Japan anc! China has been trans¬ ported to Seattle and San Francisco, where an eager group of women gather at the Japanese Woman’s Home with their children for all sorts of activities. The Chinese Mission School has a range from the kindergarten to a class of older boys and men just from China. ( 397 ) In the towns of Fresno, Locke and San Pedro there are also missionaries helping students in financial straits, visiting the Chinese women who rarely come out of their homes, giving the children of the neighborhood kindergarten care. The community at Locke recently raised $250 for play¬ ground equipment. The Girl Reserves there won the flag at the Girl Reserves’ Divisional Rally. ( 398 ) Souls are saved. Students pledge their lives to Christian ministry across the seas. A Buddhist woman given the light of the Gospel was baptized. She says, “I am so happy. The Bible seemed like an open door to me. I have peace in my heart.” The People of the Southern Seas ( 399 ) In El Salvador, where the clinking of spurs and jangling of swords announces the arrival of city authorities, a license is necessary for the liberty of preaching the gospel. From place to place missionaries go in these Spanish-speaking countries of Mexico, Cuba, Porto Rico, El Salvador and Nicaragua. Hundreds of tracts are distributed, hymns sung, small churches revived, and loyal, faithful Christians strength¬ ened en route. Where four years ago in some towns a “be¬ liever” was not safe, now the workers find anxious homes ready to receive them. ( 400 ) Great educational advantages have been offered. El Cristo and Rio Piedras schools prepare girls for teaching. Managua boasts of a boarding department with high school grades. The wife of a high government official sent by the United States to Nicaragua, while visiting this school ex¬ pressed her great satisfaction with the work. She felt that more was done for the country by schools like ours than through external help. At Puebla, Mexico, the Colegio Bau¬ tista Howard has classes ranging from kindergarten to normal grades. American teachers must be sent in greater numbers, however, if the standard is to be raised. * ( 401 ) Besides teachers and missionaries, there are two missionary nurses among the Spanish-speaking peoples at Puebla in the hospital Latino-Americano. ( 402 ) At Santurce, Porto Rico, a story is told of boys and HYMN-SINGING AT THE JAPANESE WOMEN’S HOME, SEATTLE THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND FACTS 23 GRADUATE NURSES OF OUR HOSPITAL AT PUEBLA girls so anxious to spread the gospel that the Intermediates have started their own Sunday school. There is no building or room in a building to accommodate such a group, so they meet under the shade of a tree. Their pupils come bringing their own little tiny box seat or bench. Forty-five attended one day and were all taught by Intermediate girl teachers. Alaska (403) Baptist influence in Alaska emanates from the Kodiak Baptist Orphanage. Little neglected children whose homes have been ruined through the low morality and high mortality prevalent in this far-away land are given an oppor¬ tunity to build Christian characters. Four workers guide the boys as they do chores, or the girls as they cook, sew and help in the house. Morning and evening prayers emphasize the religious atmosphere. (404) Recently this Orphanage suffered a severe loss. The main building, with furniture, furnishings and the per¬ sonal belongings of two missionaries, was destroyed by fire. That morning the Lord’s Supper had been observed in Chapel, and the great Tree of Life explained. The children and work¬ ers from their own earnings had pledged $6o for the Golden Anniversary of the Woman’s Home Society. The day had been particularly glorious, and now the workers and the chil¬ dren were gathered in the superintendent’s room to listen to Mrs. Rickman, who was reading. Suddenly Betty Rickman called out, “O look!” One of the boys opened the door and THE 1925 NEEDLEWORK CLASS AT PUERTO DE TIERRA, P. R. gave the alarm of fire. The workers and Mrs. Rickman quickly searched the dormitories for children. Then came relief and jov when the children were gathered in front of the blazing building and it was found that all had been saved. Now the primary room of the chapel is being used for kitchen and the auditorium for dining and store rooms. Church suppers are held daily. Cooking utensils and dishes had been lost so that just a few at a time can be fed. The little boys are dressed like girls and no one is permitted the luxury of an entire bed. But out of all that has been lost a greater thing has been born, unselfishness. The one thought of all is to build out of the ruins a home, founded on the spirit of sacrifice, courage and love. The Baptist Missionary Training School (405) Ending its forty-fourth year of service the Baptist Missionary Training School has over i ,ooo graduates on home and foreign fields. Adequate preparation is afforded mission¬ aries, teachers and pastors’ assistants. (406) Field and practice work are particularly empha¬ sized. Chicago with its many nationalities offers a large life laboratory for the student endeavoring to understand certain races. Raymond Institute is used as the “workshop” of the Training School. All sorts of classes and contacts are formed here under the careful supervision of experts. JAPANESE CHILDREN IN SEATTLE MISSION Women’s Department of the Berkeley Divinity School (407) This Society has cooperated with the Berkeley Baptist Divinity School in the conduct of its Women’s Depart¬ ment. The Divinity School courses as at present offered are open to women on equal terms with men. Additions are to be made to them so that there shall be offered all the courses necessary for training women to become missionaries, religious educational directors, pastors’ assistants, church secretaries and workers in similar fields of Christian service. The school is particularly desirous of obtaining young women from west of the Rockies. 24 THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND FACTS ( 408 ) The figures show the work in proportionate size to the budget appropriation for each. 1. ADMINISTRATION.$60,086.00 Headquarters acts as a radio station for receiving and broadcasting work, workers, and results. 2. FOREIGN-SPEAKING. ........ 53,399.00 Fifty-four missionaries in 36 states. 3. CHRISTIAN CENTERS . 51,184.00 Twenty-seven centers, 56 workers in 14 states and Port .0 Rico. 4. SPANISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES ... .. 57,320.00 Seventy missionaries and teachers, 2 missionary nurses, 5 probation nurses in Central America, Cuba, Mexico, and Porto Rico. 5. NEGROES . 42,990.00 Eleven missionaries, 56 teachers, 8 schools and col¬ leges. 6. BAPTIST MISSIONARY TRAINING SCHOOL . 24,500.00 Forty-fourth year, over 1,000 graduates, 1 to 3 year courses for missionaries, pastors' assistants and secre¬ taries. 7. INDIANS... .. 21.196.00 Fourteen missionaries in Montana, Arizona, Cali¬ fornia and Nevada for the Crow, Hopi, Piute, Mono, and Kiowa tribes. 8. ORIENTALS. 13,224.00 Eight teachers in Chinese School, San Francisco, 5 workers in Japanese Woman’s Home, Seattle, 7 mis¬ sionaries in Fresno, Locke, San Pedro and Seattle. 9. KODIAK BAPTIST ORPHANAGE . 9,800.00 Five workers among 50 orphans. 10. CHRISTIAN AMERICANIZATION . 14,000.00 Twelve secretaries in 7 states enlisting over 2,000 volunteers. THE AMERICAN BAPTIST PUBLICATION SOCIETY Missionary Field Work ( 409 ) Colporter-missionaries are serving in Mexico, Cuba, Porto Rico, El Salvador, and in 30 of the United States; 49 in active work last year. ( 410 ) Two colporter-missionaries have been set at work among the miners of West Virginia and Colorado, largely foreign-speaking people. ( 411 ) West Virginia has 1,200 mining centers, 300 of which have no church nearer than two miles. Work success¬ fully begun must be maintained. ( 412 ) Colporter house-to-house visitation in out-of-the way places in the Far West began with two workers. It has developed so that last year the colporter-missionaries visited 96,599 families, spent 75,776 hours in religious conversations in the homes, distributed 28,409 copies of the Scriptures and religious books and 2,052,280 pages of tracts. ( 413 ) On foot, by horse, mule, wagon, chapel car, auto¬ mobile and chapel auto, colporters are today reaching people in the most remote frontier localities. ( 414 ) Two additional colporter-mission¬ aries have been appointed for Montana, and one each for Western Washington, Nevada and North Dakota. Demands for this work are growing, calling for larger resources. ( 415 ) Spanish-speaking colporter-mission¬ aries are working among Mexicans in Southern California, Colorado and Arizona. Two new churches and Sunday schools, 2 meeting houses, and 229 conversions—these are outcomes of the work of Rev. Pablo J. Villaneuva, in charge of the new chapel autocar, “The Crawford Memorial.” ( 416 ) Several of these “sky-pilots” have been at work in the deep-woods logging camps of the West and Northwest. Lives have been transformed, bad habits broken, thrift en¬ couraged, wanderers put in touch with anxious home friends, and many converted. ( 417 ) Chapel Car Good Will has been in Oregon. At North Bend a church was organized a year ago which now has 85 members, a Sunday school of 75, young people’s society of 22—starting with 3 children and 7 adult Baptists in a Sunday school service. Unusual results: 3 of its young men preparing for the ministry; 5 others volunteered for definite Christian service at home or abroad; tithers’ league equal to 50% of the church membership; church property worth $7,000. Able and successful pastor, of course. ( 418 ) Rev. and Mrs. J.D. Chappelle, of Chapel Car Good Will, in the year’s work organized a Sunday school and mis¬ sion at Rain Rock, Oregon; put the church at Broadbent out of debt and in revived condition; in one month took part in raising $1,700 and dedicating two meeting houses; added 18 members to the church at Bandon; and gave the hand of CHURCH VACATION SCHOOL, JAPANESE BAPTIST CHURCH, SEATTLE THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND FACTS 25 fellowship to 102 new members received into the churches with which the missionaries labored. Religious Education ( 419 ) Of 20,500,000 children in the United States, only 5,350,000 arc in Sunday schools! That constitutes the na¬ tion’s problem. ( 420 ) The Publication Society maintains a Leadership Training Service for Sunday school teachers and officers. ( 421 ) The 1,500 Church Vacation Schools held in our Baptist churches enrol more than 100,000 boys and girls. ( 422 ) Ten States have paid directors of children’s work, and many others have volunteer directors training and assist¬ ing workers with beginners, primary and juniors. ( 423 ) From 1,000 to r,5oo Training Institutes are pro¬ moted by the Society in large cities, small towns and rural fields. ( 424 ) The Christian Life Program for Young People is designed to unify the active young people of the local church. ( 425 ) The Society aids in cultivating interest in the Week-day Religious Education movement in all parts of the country. The Publishing Department ( 426 ) The Publishing Department issues 66 different periodical publications, which have an annual output of about 50,000,000 copies. ( 427 ) The Book Publishing Department has in charge the printing of the Bible and of helpful literature, which in¬ cludes a series of 9 tracts on “Evangelism” in English, and 9 in Bohemian; 3 Americanization tracts in Italian, Hungarian, Polish, Roumanian and Slovak. The New Testament and Psalms in Esthonian has just been printed. ( 428 ) Since its establishment the Society has distributed more than 69,000,000 pages of tracts. ( 429 ) The Society aids financially in the publication of 10 monthly religious papers for the various foreign-speaking Baptists in America. ( 430 ) In 56 years the Society made nearly 500,000 grants to pastors, students, Sunday schools and churches, not only in this but all other countries. ( 431 ) To Poland the Society has sent plates of the Polish and Russian New Testament, that the Russians and Poles may readily obtain the Gospel in their own tongue. A CHAPEL AUTO IN USE BY THE PUBLICATION SOCIETY THE MINISTERS AND MISSIONARIES BENEFIT BOARD ( 432 ) Churches today are recognizing as never before their obligations to provide lifelong support for their minis¬ ters in return for lifelong service. ( 433 ) The salary of the minister is pitiably small and in most cases prevents him making provision for old age or even for the rainy day. Few know of the suffering of many minis¬ ters and their wives due to lack of food and clothing. ( 434 ) In spite of the recent increases of salaries the aver¬ age support of the ministry is actually lower now than for¬ merly. ( 435 ) Protestant denominations consequently are organ¬ izing to make a just provision for their worthy workers. ( 436 ) The total number of ordained ministers (as re¬ ported by the Year Book of 1924-25) in the Northern Baptist Convention is 8,757. ( 437 ) In addition to these ministers there are mission¬ aries, widows and dependent orphan children of ministers, which increase this number to approximately 13,000. ( 438 ) The Ministers and Missionaries Benefit Board was organized to help provide for the needs of these classes when they no longer could provide for themselves. ( 439 ) The Board of Managers consists of 21 members appointed by the Northern Baptist Convention. The term of service is 3 years and there are 7 members in each class. ( 440 ) The Board was formed in 1911 and incorporated in New York State in 1913. ( 441 ) During the current year the Board made benefi¬ ciary grants to 534 men, 856 women and 338 children. ( 442 ) Every State Convention either has a Committee of Cooperation or the State Convention Board itself passes upon the applications from that state for beneficiary grants. Approval by the individual State Committee or Board is a prerequisite for a grant by the Ministers and Missionaries Benefit Board. ( 443 ) This plan assures every worthy worker of recogni¬ tion and eliminates those who are not eligible. ( 444 ) A modest grant of $300 per year is the income at 5 per cent of $6,000. It can be readily seen by everyone how necessary it is that the Permanent Fund should be increased. ( 445 ) The budget of the coming year includes provision for a total of 2,043 beneficiaries. With present resources the average grant in this budget will be $161.55. 26 THE BOOK OE A THOUSAND FACTS ( 446 ) The amount of this grant is tragically inadequate, but the only way it can be increased is by enlarging the Per¬ manent Fund or by direct gifts. ( 447 ) In addition to the beneficiary grants the Ministers and Missionaries Benefit Board has provided a cooperative Retiring Pension Plan. ( 448 ) In this Plan the minister cooperates with the Board in providing at age 65 a Retiring Pension larger than other¬ wise could be given. ( 449 ) Already 1,648 Certificates of membership in the Retiring Pension Fund have been issued for ordained minis¬ ters and regularly commissioned missionaries. The number is steadily increasing. ( 450 ) Beginning with the second year of membership the Board, out of current funds, provides 70 u /c of the annual cost. ( 451 ) The cost to the minister in the first year of mem¬ bership is 6 per cent of the salary received for that year. Especially among men receiving lower salaries this necessary cost is heavy. To help in this condition many of our churches have wholly or in part provided for the dues of at least the first year. ( 452 ) The number of these churches on this honor roll is steadily increasing, although it is still far below the number which ought to place this item in the annual church budget. ( 453 ) Ninety-nine per cent of the Episcopal churches provide the payment of these dues of their rectors. Is the Episcopal form of church government more effective in mat¬ ters financial than the democratic? A BENEFICIARY NEARLY 100 YEARS OLD AT HER DEATH ( 454 ) Again recurs the self-evident truth that the only sure foundation is an increased Permanent Fund, which will avoid the fluctuations in the benevolences of our churches and guarantee a regular payment to beneficiaries and pen¬ sioners alike. ( 455 ) The present Permanent Fund is $7,461,136.97. By the figures and in the judgment of experts this amount should be increased in the near future to $20,000,000. ( 456 ) In order to guarantee existing pension contracts there is $3,899,951.48 in the Retiring Pension Reserve Fund. ( 457 ) In the Retiring Pension Fund provision is made before the days come when the minister no longer can work. The minister cooperates in providing this pension. The Board has received many letters indicating the increased A PIONEER PREACHER 40 YEARS IN SERVICE efficiency of the work of the minister when there is an assur¬ ance that his old age is modestly provided for. ( 458 ) All funds are invested only in securities legal for trust funds. ( 459 ) Every legacy is at once transferred to the Per¬ manent Fund, the income only to be used in the general work. ( 460 ) An Annuity Bond upon the death of the donor likewise becomes a part of the Permanent Fund, only the in¬ terest being used. ( 461 ) The Finance Committee is composed of three members. The chairman is Mr. Arthur M. Harris, formerly vice-president and treasurer of the Banking House of Harris, Forbes and Company; Mr. Andrew K. Van De¬ venter, treasurer of the Southern Pacific Railway Company; and Mr. J. Herbert Case, deputy-governor of the Federal Reserve Bank in New York. ( 462 ) The Committee on Beneficiaries consists of 5 mem¬ bers, Dr. E. P. Farnham, chairman. As soon as an applica¬ tion has been approved by the local State Committee or the Committee of the State Convention of the state in which the applicant’s service has been rendered, the application is con¬ sidered by the Committee of the Board. If approved it is then presented to the Board for formal and final action. ( 463 ) An expert actuary of the Travelers Insurance Com¬ pany, Mr. H. Pierson Hammond, is the regularly employed Actuary of the Board. Every month the Board reports to its actuary the numbers joining the Retiring Pension Fund, their ages and salaries. Monthly statements are received from the Actuary as to the amount necessary to be provided in the Retiring Pension Fund Reserve to guarantee the pensions. ( 464 ) In case of total and permanent disability prior to age 65 the Board has voted that a man shall receive not less than $500 per annum to age 65, when his contract will termi¬ nate and his normal pension will begin. Meanwhile his an¬ nual dues will be provided by the Board. ( 465 ) The accounts of the Board are audited quarterly by a well known firm of expert accountants. ( 466 ) All securities owned by the Board are held in trust by The Equitable Trust Company of New York, which collects all coupons and accrued interest, reporting to the Board monthly the amount of its receipts. ( 467 ) The overhead expenses are exceedingly low, being less than 4 per cent of the receipts. THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND FACTS 27 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS’ ASSOCIATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO THE BAPTIST BOARD OF EDUCATION Facts that Tell ( 468 ) The contribution of the Baptist colleges to the ex¬ tension of the Kingdom cannot be put into figures, but figures often give interesting facts. ( 469 ) One Baptist college has trained more than 400 min¬ isters and 65 missionaries and a majority of the presidents and professors of 4 colleges, besides presidents and professors in many others. ( 470 ) Another Baptist college has given to the Foreign Mission Society more than 52 missionaries, among them many of the most distinguished missionaries of the denomination, and several secretaries. ( 471 ) Another Baptist college, much smaller in enrol¬ ment, has sent out over 60 missionaries. ( 472 ) In one Baptist college nearly 200 out of the 400 students are preparing for the Christian ministry and mission¬ ary work. ( 473 ) In the Baptist seminaries 86 per cent of the stu¬ dents are coming from Baptist colleges, and 84 per cent of the student volunteers now on the field came out of them. ( 474 ) It is difficult to see how the denomination could replenish its ministry or maintain its missionary work were it not for these colleges. Furthermore, they are training thousands of young people for all avenues of life and giving them this training in a Christian environment and under Christian teachers. What this means to the church and to the Kingdom it is impossible to estimate. ( 475 ) The State has neither the ability, spirit, nor motive to undertake the care of the students in tax supported institu¬ tions of higher learning. The State is prevented by constitu¬ tional prohibition from attempting this task. What the State cannot, may not do, the Church must do. ( 476 ) The University Pastor is our solution of the diffi¬ culty. The Board of Education is embarrassed by appeals from parents of students, Christian leaders, and University Administrators, for the enlargement of this work. If it is a success at 32 colleges and universities, why should any of our boys or girls be denied this help during their critical years. Three Classes of Activities ( 477 ) The activities of the Board of Education divide themselves into three general classes, so far as they are repre¬ sented in the budget. In addition there are many educational services rendered by the Board through its executiveofficers and committees. These three activities are represented in: (1) The care and nurture of Baptist students in the large state universities and educational centers, calling for an ex¬ penditure of approximately $86,000; (2) The education of Baptists in the great world task of Christian missions — mis¬ sionary education — with an approved expenditure of $70,000; (3) The assistance, advisory and financial, given to Baptist schools and colleges — an investment of $475,000 for the year. From a Political Viewpoint ( 478 ) A liberally endowed Christian college is the best guarantee of permanency of American institutions and ideals. In the last analysis, Christian schools are the only safeguards of a Democracy. For in a Democracy “the way from the tow path to the White House must be kept open” and a lib¬ erally endowed college is the way to keep the path open. — President Milton G. Evans, Crozer Theological Seminary. A Covenant Between the Baptists and Their Schools ( 479 ) Higher education in America was born of and was nourished by the church, and so far as church interest has continued active the colleges have served the purpose of the church. The great independently endowed universities arc without church affiliation because the churches were indiffer¬ ent to the interests of the schools and blind to their own best interests. ( 480 ) The ideal relation of the denomination and the schools is that they be bound in a covenant. The Baptists of the North should say to our 50 institutions of learning: “You belong to us. We will make it possible for you to meet your opportunity.” And 50 schools should say to the Bap¬ tists of the North: “We belong to you, and we will seek by' all that in us lies to make the Baptist contribution to the work of the Kingdom ever finer and stronger.” Resources of Baptist Schools ( 481 ) The resources of Baptist schools and colleges have been increased by $7,814,322 during the New World Move¬ ment in the four years preceding April 30, 1924. Of New World Movement receipts 17.4 per cent have been used to strengthen our educational institutions. It was a serious attempt to make possible the giving of education under Christian auspices. ( 482 ) During the past year the more needy schools re¬ ceived money for current expenses from the Unified Budget of the denomination. Without this aid several of our schools would have been compelled to close their doors. 28 TIIE BOOK OF A THOUSAND FACTS ( 483 ) Mark the growth in these two periods: 35 Years Ago, and Now Acade- Col- Semi- Stu- Value Endow- mies leges naries dents Property inents 1800 . 25 19 5 5,357 84,851,229 $6,396,131 1925. 19 29 16 33,972 48,783,000 75,625,770 10 Years Ago, and Now Value of Endow- Students Property ments 1915 . . 19,019 $27,662,388 $38,117,232 1925 . 33,972 48,783,000 75,625,770 The Terms on Which Baptists Can Have Schools ( 484 ) The one thing we have learned from the tax sup¬ ported schools is that it is no longer true that Mark Hopkins, a log, and a student make a university. Equipment is neces¬ sary. Baptists can have schools on the same terms as those by which we have mission stations in China. We must value them enough to pay the cost. The Denomination Is the Constituency ( 485 ) No school can live without a constituency. Let the denomination be the constituency of our schools and be true to its responsibility, then Baptists can make a great con¬ tribution to the Kingdom of Him who said: “I am the Truth.” If we fail our schools, many of them will die, and others will become secularized. The Presidents of five of our schools said: “Without the financial help through the New World Movement, my school would have closed its doors.” The State Universities Must Not Crowd Out the Christian College ( 486 ) The past fifty years has seen the remarkable growth of the State university. Their endowment is the treasury of the State; their equipment is all that the scientific investigator can desire, and all that the ambition of the ad¬ ministration can ask. The throngs of students as they come and go are impressive. One-quarter of a million of them! Will these institutions crowd out the Christian college? They have not done so as yet. Christian colleges also have an en¬ rolment of one-quarter of a million (30,000 of these are Bap¬ tist boys and girls) and this attendance is growing by leaps and bounds. The State school must not crowd, out the Church school. The State cannot propagate religion; this is the busi-. ness of the church and, because students are human they are religious, and need Christian teaching and nurture for their true education. Baptist Educational Institutions ( 487 ) The Seminaries and Training Schools are: Berkeley Baptist Divinity School, Berke¬ ley, Cal.President C. M. Hill Chicago Divinity School, University of Chi¬ cago .Dean Shailer Mathews Colgate Theological Seminary, Hamilton, N. Y. Crozer Theological Seminary, Chester, Pa. .President Milton G. Evans Kansas City Seminary, Kansas City, Kans. President P. W. Crannell AFTER A CABINET MEETING AT THE UNIVERSITY PASTOR’S HOME, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Newton Theological Institution, Newton Centre, Mass.President George E. Horr Northern Baptist Seminary, Chicago.President George W. Taft Rochester Theological Seminary, Roches¬ ter, N. Y.President Clarence A. Barbour Swedish Baptist Seminary, St. Paul, Minn. President G. A. Hagstrom Training Schools Baptist Missionary Training School, Chi¬ cago .President Mrs. Clara D. Pinkham Kansas City Training School, Kansas City, Kans.President P. W. Crannell Baptist Institute for Christian Workers, Philadelphia.President J. M. Wilbur Danish Training School, Des Moines, la. . . President N. S. Lawdahl International Seminary, East Orange, N. J. President Frank L. Anderson Norwegian Baptist Divinity House, Chi¬ cago .Dean N. Gunderson ( 488 ) This is the list of Colleges: Bates, Lewiston, Maine. Brown, Providence, R. I. Bucknell, Lewisburg, Pa. Carleton, Northfield, Minn. Chicago, Chicago. Colby, Waterville, Maine. Colgate, Hamilton, N. Y. Denison, Granville, Ohio. Franklin, Franklin, Ind. Grand Island, Grand Island, Nebr Hillsdale, Hillsdale, Mich. Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo, Mich Keuka, Keuka Park, N. Y. Linfield, McMinnville, Ore. Ottawa, Ottawa, Kans. Redlands, Redlands, Cal. Rochester, Rochester, N. Y. Shurtleff, Alton, Ill. Sioux Falls, Sioux Falls, S. D. Des Moines, Des Moines, Iowa. . . William Jewell, Liberty, Mo. President C. D. Gray President W. H. P. Faunce President Emory W. Hunt President Donald J. Cowling President Ernest D. Burton President A. J. Roberts President George B. Cutten President Clark W. Chamberlain President Charles E. Goodell President J. M. Wells President W. G. Spencer President A. A. Hoben President A. H. Norton President L. W. Riley President F. E. Smith President Victor L. Duke President Rush Rhees President George M. Potter President Fred G. Boughton President J. W. Million President H. C. Wayman Junior Colleges Broaddus, Philippi, W. Va.President Elkanah Hulley Colorado Woman’s, Denver, Colo.President J. A. White Frances Shimer, Mt. Carroll, Ill.President W. P. McKee Hardin, Mexico, Mo.President S. J. Vaughn Rio Grande, Rio Grande, Ohio.President H. T. Houf Stephens, Columbia, Mo.President James M. Wood ( 489 ) The Baptist Academies are: Alderson, Alderson, W. Va.Principal M. F. Forbell Bethel, St. Paul, Minn...Principal A. J. Wingblade Coburn, Waterville, Maine.Principal Drew T. Harthorn WINTER HIKE, STUDENTS’ CLUB, FIRST CHURCH, BOSTON BAPTIST INDIAN STUDENTS AT HASKELL THE ROOK OF A THOUSAND FACTS 29 EAST AND WEST MEET AT THE COLORADO WOMEN’S COLLEGE Colby, New London, N. H.Principal H. Leslie Sawyer - Cook, Montour Falls, N. Y.Principal Bert C. Cate Doane, Granville, Ohio..Principal H. R. Hundley Hebron, Hebron, Maine.Principal R. L. Hunt Higgins, Charleston, Maine.Principal W. A. Tracy Keystone, Factoryville, Pa.Principal Curtis E. Coe Maine Central, Pittsfield, Maine.Principal E. R. Verrell Peddie Institute, Hightstown, N. J.Principal R. W. Swetland Pillsbury, Owatonna, Minn.Principal Milo B. Price Ricker, Houlton, Maine.Principal E. H. Stover Suffield, Suffield, Conn.Principal Brownell Gage Vermont, Saxtons River, Vt.Principal J. B. Cook Wayland, Beaver Dam, Wis.Principal E. P. Brown The Budget for Schools (490) The amount in the Unified Budget for Schools and Colleges is $ 475 , 000 . This amount can be used only for operating expense of the schools, and it does not make advance possible. It does, however, enable some schools to live and others to maintain their present undertakings. Further, it declares that Baptists have a National Educational Policy whereby the whole body assumes responsibility for our weak¬ est member. Educational projects in the newer parts of the country are aided by Baptists who live in the parts of the country where schools have profited by the generosity of several generations of benefactors. Student Secretaries (491) The Board of Education has two Student Secre¬ taries: Allyn K. Foster, D.D., and Miss Frances P. Green- ough. They have rendered a very remarkable service to our students, visiting our Baptist schools, and going to State and independently endowed universities. Their task is to counsel with local religious leaders, to help with organizational prob¬ lems; to make addresses; but most of all, to meet students and help them find Christ, the way, the truth, and the life; to show them where they may serve, to impress upon them the greatness of the church, and how they may become part of this great world enterprise. Why Gospel Teams? (492) Picture a group of college students—men and women—representatives of a State University in a neighbor¬ ing town, leading various groups and meetings during a week¬ end, including a picnic hike and athletic contest, father-son and mother-daughter suppers, Sunday school classes and the regular Sunday services, both morning and evening. Such groups are known as Gospel Teams, and are under the leader¬ ship of the University Pastor or local Baptist Church. And the actual results of such Gospel Team work? (493) The young people, especially of the High School age, are brought face to face with the challenge to live life at its very best under the leadership of Jesus Christ, and such a challenge brought to them by a group of consecrated Chris¬ tian students — just the group to make the strongest appeal to the High School age. (494) The young people’s department of the local church is greatly stimulated. (495) Many young people thus catch their first vision of the value of a college education and, above all else, know that Christ can be found on the campus of a college or University. (496) Many students who are members of such Gospel Teams, for the first time seriously face the call to Christian service. The Theological Seminaries are reaping the results of such work, and within the ranks of our University Pastors is at least one who followed the gleam first seen as a member of a Gospel Team in a State University. A Messenger to His Own People (497) A Japanese student was baptized by the Baptist minister in a western college town. Upon graduation, after an absence of several years the student returned to Japan to visit his home folk and home town. The town hall was rented for a general reception and after many speeches of welcome he was called upon for a response. The gist of his reply was that when he left Japan his country was trying to imitate everything English, but on his return he found the> were imitating everything American — everything except that which makes the very heart of American life — namely, Jesus Christ. This was followed by an urgent appeal to his family, relatives, and fellow-townspeople to accept Jesus Christ. Today that Japanese student is teaching in one of our State Universities. The Girl Who Lost Her Mother (498) A girl came to the Student Secretary with many questions as to the work in her home community and church, and as to the ways she could render the greatest service, especially among the young people of her church. Several times during the conference she remarked how much it meant to her to be able to talk over these problems with someone, and as she left the room she said: “I lost my mother a few months ago.” Whence the Teachers of Our Schools? (499) A young woman was completing her course for a HOW THE NEW GYM AT COLGATE UNIVERSITY WILL LOOK WHEN FINISHED IN SEPTEMBER 30 THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND FACTS master’s degree in Home Economics. Slie had had her under¬ graduate work in another State University, and had been greatly influenced by the University Pastor of that institu¬ tion. She had dedicated her life to Christian service and came with the question as to where in our denomination she could render the greatest service. As a result of that conference she is now Director of Home Economics in one of our Baptist schools. Impression Results in Expression ( 500 ) At the Sunday morning service in a college town the Student Secretary presented the work done by the Board of Education through its various agencies. At the close of the service, when the invitation was given by the pastor to join the church, practically the entire student class of young women, including several seniors, came forward, asking for student membership in the church. A Strategic Working Place ( 501 ) Two years ago a town was visited where there is a Normal School of 2,700 students, of whom 2,200 are women. The local Baptist pastor had a vision of what could be done among these Normal students by the church, if sufficient en¬ couragement and support could be given. Plans were made for the work of a local student secretary. An outstanding woman student of Denison University was found, who had taken the course in Religious Education. An effective piece of student work has been organized and now young women are coming from that Normal School ready to serve as Chris¬ tian leaders under the denomination or as opportunity offers. Cooperation with a College Counsellor ( 502 ) A woman in the local church of a college town was deeply conscious of the responsibility and unlimited privilege which a group of students presented to her local church. As a result of the visit of the Student Secretary, new plans were afoot: 1. For bringing the students into a closer fellowship with the permanent membership of the church. 2. For mak¬ ing it possible for the students to render a much larger service among themselves, through Bible and Mission Study Classes, discussion groups, and young people’s organizations, and 3. For offering to the students opportunities for serving both the local church and the denomination. ( 503 ) There is no place where Christian cooperation will tell for more in the spiritual uplift of the nation than in the religious work of our higher education .—Calvin Coolidge. The University Pastors ( 504 ) The Board of Education has placed 32 University Pastors who minister to 7,200 Baptist students. That we have not yet met our responsibility is clear when we remember that in the territory of the Northern Baptist Convention there are 30,000 Baptist students in tax supported institu¬ tions of higher learning. DEBATING TEAM OF BATES COLLEGE JOHN ROGERS HEGEMAN HALL, KEUKA COLLEGE ( 505 ) The University Pastor: 1. Influences students to worship with the local Baptist church; 2. Promotes Bible study; 3. Makes a home for students away from home; 4. Develops lay leaders, and recruits for the ministry and missionary work. ( 506 ) In 1913 there were 2 University Pastors to care for Baptist students at great Universities. In 1922 there were 32. ( 507 ) At every point where the University Pastor is at work, the method approves itself by its results. Often these pastors are changing the very atmosphere of university life. One of them went to a state institution which gloried in the reputation of being the “most godless school in America.” The following summer he took 25 representative students with him to a conference of Christian workers. And con¬ tinued effort has changed the attitude of student and adminis¬ tration to religion. What They Talk About ( 508 ) What do students talk of to the University Pastor? They talk of their homes, their hopes and discouragements, their sweethearts and lovers; they talk about such things as other human beings talk about, and, just because they are human, they talk of the affairs of the spirit. ( 509 ) A University Pastor kept a list of those who came to call, and the subjects of the conversations. Nineteen stu¬ dents came in to talk about “things eternal.” A law student wanted some reading matter to clear up his thinking on cer¬ tain religious questions. A girl majoring in science, about to complete her university course, is suddenly awakened to the fact of a spiritual realm, and sought direction. Two students had difficulty in taking Reserve Officers’ Training Corps and squaring it with Christian convictions. A professor wanted to talk over his ideas about the Bible. Another raised the question of the influence of belief on conduct. This does not take into account dozens of ’phone calls, informal visits with students who drift in with no definite purpose, talks with students who stop on the campus walks to ask questions, and the discussions following class periods. Aiding Foreign Students ( 510 ) The University Pastors are doing a notable piece of w'ork for foreign students. There are thousands of these lonely students from the Near East and Far East; some of them are Christians who have come from a country where they heard the Christianity of Jesus taught, to a country where they see the Christianity of America lived—and they have a fearful disillusionment. We ought to pray for them “that their faith fail not.” But some wise, warm-hearted Christian should help them with fellowship and interpreta- THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND FACTS .31 tion. The University Pastor is such an interpreter. I Ie is an evangelist, winning men from non-Christian religions to faith in Christ. He incarnates fellowship and service. His home is open, his time free. He gives himself in friendship to those who are half the earth’s circumference away from friend and kin. And how varied is the service he renders. He helps them find opportunities of earning, he frequently finds a way for them through financial difficulty, and sometimes acts as legal guardian. The Pastor at the American University is doing the work of a foreign missionary. A Foreign Student Council (511) There are 300 foreign students at the University of Chicago. Rev. B. W. Dickson, the University Pastor, ministers to this group. The picture (p. 350 ) is of some he has enlisted as his helpers. They endeavor to relate the foreign students to the churches of the community; to assist in intro¬ ducing them to Christian homes. The Rare Home Touch (512) The University Pastor uses the local church as the center of religious life for students; his residence as a home for boys and girls away from home. There is no difficulty in finding club life, clubs and fraternities abound; but homes which are open to students are not easy to find. And the pastor of students is getting very near to a great human need in the student, and very near to all that is finest in him when he makes the student feel at home. Indian Students and Their Pastor (513) Haskell Institute is a State School for Indians in Kansas, and 229 of the students call themselves Baptists (a testimony to the worth of our home mission work among the Indians). The picture is a group that was entertained at the home of the University Pastor. These Americans are getting ready to take their places and serve the Kingdom with the New Americans. (See p. 351 .) “Inasmuch” (514) A Chinese Baptist student— 10,000 miles from home, his people in the war district, no word since before Christmas, impossible to get a cable to them, graduation day on February 14 th, bills to be met—well, the personal bank account of the Minister to Students just had to respond to such a situation. There are many instances where immediate help is necessary. What strategy it would be to make it possible to help all such! The University Pastor a Recruiting Agent (515) A University Pastor writes: “A few years ago Dr. Lerrigo said to me, ‘I am in great need of three engineers to go out as builders to the foreign field, and I cannot find them.’ COLBY ACADEMY, NEW LONDON, N. H. We had here a young man in the college of engineers who had considerable experience in construction work. He was a good draftsman; was 18 months in France in charge of a corps of engineers. One day I said to him, ‘Lloyd, how would you like to go to a mission field as a representative of our Foreign Mission Society? They need engineers.’ Without hesitation he said, ‘I would like to go.’ “He was engaged to a young woman in our group of Baptist girls—a college graduate. When he made his decision known to her, she exclaimed, ‘I am so glad! I have wanted to be a missionary ever since I was a little girl.’ They were appointed by our Board and are now in Bengal-Orissa. We now have 6 of our Baptist young people who have gone out from our group in the last few years.” The Young Lawyer Who Accepted (516) The University Pastor so interpreted the message of Jesus and so emphasized his call, that a law student, with no religious background, gave his life to the service of the church. This man is now in a theological seminary preparing for work in China, and we see the University Pastor as the recruiting agent of the church. The Atheist Converted (517) A University Pastor found that the strongest man among the students in the Law School of the University of Wisconsin w r as an atheist. For two years he sought to win him for Christ. The former atheist is now a lawyer and a leader of the Christian forces in one of our great cities. This is what the University Pastor does to provide for citizenship in our land. ADMINISTRATION AND WOMEN’S BUILDINGS, KANSAS CITY SEMINARY * What the Mothers Think (518) Fathers and mothers appreciate the human and divine service that is being rendered by these University Pastors. One mother writes: “I can plainly see that he misses his own home less because he is able to be in your home so frequently. I am glad that you live in Lawrence. We thank you for the kind interest in our dear boy and for all that you have done for him.” Another mother writes to the University Pastor: “I am very thankful indeed that my daughter is taking an interest in the things of the Kingdom, for there is where our main interest centers.” A Former Mohammedan Baptized (519) A Persian student, named Riza Bagghi, brought up a Mohammedan, attended the California College of Agricul¬ ture. He came under the influence of the University Pastor and took Christ as his Saviour and Lord. He added “Peter” to his name, and says he washes to live and serve, as did the 32 THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND FACTS great apostle whose own name was changed through contact with Jesus. The Evangelist Among Students (520) Out of 35 Baptist students who graduated in 1924 at the University of Nebraska, 10 were baptized during the course. (521) Here are changes wrought by the grace of God through the ministry of the University Pastor at the Univer¬ sity of Nebraska. The young cattleman, who would not give his heart to Christ because he was out for number one, when he surrendered to Christ served as president of the University Christian Association, then as state secretary of the Associa¬ tion, and now is a missionary among students in Cairo, Egypt. LIBRARY OF THE BERKELEY DIVINITY SCHOOL, CALIFORNIA (522) A student, careless of church and religious obliga¬ tions, yielded to Christ, was baptized, and became an in¬ structor in another University. His pastor says of him: “He is the superintendent of my Sunday school. He is my right- hand man.” (523) On Mothers’ Day three students were baptized. The mothers came 150 miles to be with their boys that day. These mothers are ready to testify of the worth of the Uni¬ versity Pastor’s work. (524) A student who had so little Christian background that he scarcely knew what a church service was, was won to Christ and to the work of foreign missions, and is now in one of our theological schools and under appointment of our Society. The woman he is to marry was a Roman Catho¬ lic, but she is now studying in one of our schools, in order that she may do her part in bringing the light to the dark places of the earth. Keep This List of University Pastors (525) Here are the names and addresses of the University Pastors. A parent will serve his child well by letting the Pastor know that his son or daughter is going to the univer¬ sity next autumn. Boston and Vicinity.Rev. N. C. Fetter, 16 Ellery St.. Cambridge, Mass. Boston and Vicinity.Miss Lois Maupin, 21 Ellery St., Cam¬ bridge, Mass. Cornell University.Rev. J. D. W. Fetter, 502 E. Seneca St., Ithaca, N. Y. University of California.Rev. O. P. Goslin, 2539 Dwight Way, Berkeley, Cal. University of Idaho.Rev. Edker Burton, Moscow, Idaho. University of Chicago.Mr. B. W. Dickson, Y. M. C. A., University of Chicago. University of Illinois.Rev. M. S. Bryant, 807 South 4th St., Champaign, Ill. University of Iowa.Rev. E. J. Smith, Iowa City, Iowa. University of Kansas.Rev. Charles W. Thomas, 934 Indiana St., Lawrence, Kans. University of Michigan.Rev. H. R. Chapman, 503 E. Huron St., Ann Arbor, Mich. PROPOSED NEW CHAPEL AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO University of Montana.Rev. Wm. L. Young, Missoula, Mont. University of Nebraska.Dr. C. J. Pope, 1440 Q St., Lincoln, Nebr. Denison University.Rev. S. W. Hamblen, Granville, Ohio. University of Pennsylvania.Rev. F. B. Igler, 4007 Baltimore Ave., Philadelphia, Pa. State College, Pennsylvania. . . .Rev. Clarence A. Adams, 107 Park Ave., State College, Pa. Des Moines University.Dr. Howland Hanson, Des Moines, Iowa. Ohio State University.Rev. Thomas J. Hopkins, 160 West 10th Ave., Columbus, Ohio. University of Wisconsin.Rev. C. W. Smith, 429 N. Park St., Madi¬ son, Wis. University of Minnesota.Rev. Frank Jennings, Minneapolis, Minn. Rio Grande College.Rev. W. R. Barbour, Rio Grande, Ohio. Kansas Agricultural College. . . .Student Helpers. Bucknell University .Rev. R. M. West, Lewisburg, Pa. Iowa Agricultural College.Rev. R. B. Davidson, Ames, Iowa. University of Washington.Rev. F. B. Mathews, Seattle, Wash. Iowa State Teachers College. . . .Rev. R. C. Deer, Cedar Falls, Iowa. Michigan State Normal School. .Miss Ruth M. Campbell, 506 Emmett St., Ypsilanti, Mich. Ohio University.Rev. W. W. Ludwig, Jr., Athens, Ohio. Michigan Agricultural College.. .Rev. Bennett Weaver, East Lansing, Mich. California Agricultural School.. .Rev. Nathan M. Fiske, Davis, Cal. University of Maine.Rev. L. C. Wilson, Orono, Me. University of Oregon.Rev. H. W. Davis, Kincaid St., Eugene, Oreg. Massachusetts Agri. College. . . .Rev. John B. Hanna, Amherst, Mass. Colorado School of Mines.Mr. Frank I. Olmstead, Golden, Colo. University of Nevada.Rev. Hermon D. Pettit, Reno, Nev. What Is Missionary Education? (526) Content: Missionary Education is that phase of religious education which emphasizes those Christian ideals, principles, and aims of the New Testament dealing with the world wide extension of Christianity. (527) Method: For the achievement of those ideals, principles and aims, Missionary Education seeks to furnish to ministers, leaders, individuals, and churches such material, methods and plans as will produce an intelligent and sympa¬ thetic participation in the program of Christian Missions. What Missionary Intelligence Does for a Church (528) It will furnish enthusiasm for all the work of the church. (529) It will help many young people to settle the ques¬ tion of life service. (530) It will help to make giving a privilege instead of compulsion. Many churches have solved their financial difficulties with the missionary motive and materials. Growth in Missionary Education (531) The Department of Missionary Education of the Board of Education has entered upon its sixth year, and the demands for its materials and methods have been such that THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND FACTS 33 IOWA assembly’s 1924 MISSION study class its budget has increased 600% in five years. A large propor¬ tion of the budget is spent in the preparation of free materials. ( 532 ) In addition to the executive staff, including the Secretary of the Department, Associate Secretary, Field Secretary, and the Secretaries of the World Wide Guild and Children’s World Crusade, the Department has 775 volunteer secretaries at work in the territory of the Northern Baptist Convention, rendering gratuitous service. ( 533 ) The Department of Missionary Education placed 108 teachers of study classes in summer conferences last sum¬ mer. These representatives gave 247 missionary addresses as against 194 the preceding year. Life service decision increased from 386 to 506. The Church School of Missions ( 534 ) Last year there were 360 Church Schools of Mis¬ sions reported, many of which achieved remarkable results. These classes represent the study of the Home and Foreign Mission themes by the entire church in its various age groups. ( 535 ) Dr. J. Whitcomb Brougher said of the school in his church in Los Angeles: “It aroused great enthusiasm among all our people. It furnished instruction and inspiration for completing the New World Movement financial campaign. It brought a great spiritual blessing to the whole church.” The three year record of this Church was—1921, attendance 2,404, average 401; 1922, attendance 2,714, average 452; 1923, attendance 4,391, average 732. Some Testimonials ( 536 ) First Baptist Church, Los Angeles, had 47 mission study classes in all, the highest educational record reported last year. Giving record: Home expenses $32,000; Missions $40,400; other benevolences $12,500; per capita giving of resident members, $27 to missions, $56 for all objects. ( 537 ) Six weeks’ period of intensive mission study at First Baptist Church, McMinnville, Oregon, began with 163, closed with 297. Between 80 and 100 determined to do some type of Christian service. Mission Study Classes ( 538 ) Last year 7,856 mission study classes were re¬ ported. The average class has 20 members, making a total study class attendance of 157,120. The reading program record showed 12,183 program meetings based on the study- book materials, reaching not less than 365,490; or a grand total of 522,610 through these two mediums. ( 539 ) A four year record in Mission Study Classes gives these figures: 1920-1921, 4,439; 1921-1922, 5,567; 1922-1923, 7,000; 1923-1924, 7,856. Missionary Reading That Pays ( 540 ) The First Baptist Church, Keene, N. H., reported: Our church read a total of 643 books; total number of points 3 , 205 ; one man, 90 years old, read 19 books; his wife, 83 years old, read 35 books and 11 issues of Missions. Pageants and Plays ( 541 ) The Department of Missionary Education has an equipment of over 400 costumes and 200 flags of mission lands, available to churches of the denomination on a rental basis, for use in pageants, plays and missionary meetings. These costumes are continuously in demand. World Wide Guild ( 542 ) This year marks the tenth birthday of this im¬ portant branch of missionary education. The Guild today numbers 4,223 Chapters and about 47,000 members. The constituency is world wide, including Chapters in many coun¬ tries and among all nationalities. ( 543 ) The promotional work of the Guild is done by volunteer secretaries in association, state and district. The activities are many and varied. ( 544 ) The Reading Contest enlists about 150 Chapters which qualify, the conditions being stiff. The Chapter in Huchow, China, qualified last year, reading the books in English. Two Chapters have qualified seven consecutive years. ( 545 ) Two years ago Miss Elizabeth Vickland dedicated her book on Assam, Through Judy’s Eyes, to the Guild, and this year Dr. Grose has dedicated to the W. W. G. a special edition of his new book, Never Man So Spake. This is a very distinct honor and greatly appreciated. ( 546 ) The Guild gifts to the Continuation Campaign, with a quota for a three year period of $50,000, were as fol¬ lows: “1921-22, $37,969; 1922-23, $32,000; 1923-24, $46,891— a total of $116,860, or 234 per cent good. This last year the special gift, which wasknown as the Red Letter Day Campaign, was fixed at $36,000, to carry the entire missionary and educational work of the denomination for two days—February 6-7. Reports from 32 of 38 states gave a total of $39,000. Children’s World Crusade ( 547 ) Like the W. W. G., this also functions through the Missionary Education Department. It is the “missionary club” for boys and girls under 12 years. In these groups of Crusaders, Heralds and Jewels the children study the opportunities and needs of our world family. ( 548 ) Eight years ago there were not 100 mission bands of juniors reported. Incomplete returns last year report 1,935 Crusader Companies using the study books. ( 549 ) The emphasis is placed on education, but giving finds place in the training in self-expression. For three years GUILD GIRLS AT LAST YEAR’S IOWA BAPTIST ASSEMBLY 34 THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND FACTS the Crusaders have cooperated in the Continuation Campaign with great enthusiasm. ( 550 ) The first year, through the “Foot of Dimes from Every Crusader” plan, the gifts totaled $10,705. The sec¬ ond and third year, through the ingenious device, “Crusade Up Dollar Hill,” the gifts amounted to $11,339 and $12,847, SECOND GROUP OF CRUSADERS IN JEFFERSON AVENUE CHURCH, DETROIT, TO START THE EXPRESS FIRST CRUSADERS IN THE JEFFERSON AVENUE CHURCH TO FURNISH WHEELS FOR THE C. W. C. EXPRESS a grand total of $54,891 for the boys and girls of the C. W. C. ( 551 ) C. W. C. Day, an annual missionary rally, is among the newer plans to awaken interest. April 25 was the date this year, and it was designed that the gifts through the C. W. C. Express should support the entire missionary work of the denomination from 7 a. m. till 8.30 p. m. The goal was $10,000, the receipts from 35 states were $12,800. THE STATE CONVENTIONS Arizona Baptist State Convention ( 552 ) Arizona, large and sparsely settled western state, has a population of 407,702, living in an area of 113,956 square miles—or less than 4 people to the square mile. ( 553 ) Baptists number about 6,000 of the total 40,000 Protestant church membership. ( 554 ) There are 47 Baptist churches, which include 7 Negro, 3 Indian and 4 Mexican churches. ( 555 ) Only 18 of the 33 American churches are self- supporting, 15 receiving aid from the State Convention. ( 556 ) Three churches are now erecting new houses of worship, while six others are sorelv in need of them. ( 557 ) Last year the Convention adopted the “parsonage” idea for its secretary and erected a substantial home for him. ( 558 ) Three new churches were organized last year—two American and one Indian, the latter having chosen its own Indian pastor. Several mission churches are expected to reach self-support this year. ( 559 ) Arizona offers a field where chapel cars can render good service and the car “Glad Tidings” has been in the state all the year. Several colporter-missionaries and a director of Sunday school work are supported by the Convention. ( 560 ) Five new missionaries are needed this year, three for service with American churches and two among Mexicans. ' ( 561 ) The budget for the new year totals $34,328, of which $19,861 is for missionary work, the remainder for reli¬ gious education, church building, promotion and adminis¬ tration. Northern California Baptist Convention ( 562 ) California, the second largest state in the Union, has an area of 158,297 square miles and a population of 4,021,- 320. There are two Conventions, and totals for both show 54.274 Baptists enrolled in 258 churches. The ratio of Bap¬ tists to population is thus 1 to 74. ( 563 ) According to Secretary C. W. Brinstad, the North¬ ern California Convention leads the denomination in per¬ centage of baptisms and in per capita giving for missions. ( 564 ) Baptists face great opportunities, for the rapid subdivision of large ranches creates thickly settled com¬ munities untouched by the gospel. ( 565 ) There are 16 counties in Northern California with a population of 128,494 which have no Baptist work. ( 566 ) The immigrant problem is pressing. Immigrants from Europe are increasing, while Negroes and Mexicans are coming in large numbers. Japanese and other Orientals already in the state present a delicate problem. ( 567 ) Encouraging missionary progress is reported. The Japanese Mission has outgrown its equipment; the Mexican Mission already has 12 outstations and needs reinforcements. The newly dedicated auto chapel car is in constant service. ( 568 ) The Convention needs new buildings for more than a dozen American churches, additional chapels for Mexicans, more colporters, and at least 25 automobiles for outstations. ( 569 ) The budget for the year is $142,000, of which $40,000 is for the support of missionaries, evangelists and field workers, and $70,000 for church property and equipment. Southern California Baptist Convention ( 570 ) The Convention reports 145 churches, enrolling 36,794 members. The rapid increase in population opens many new communities for churches and Sunday schools. ( 571 ) All sorts of places are used for church services. In one community, with 10,000 people, the only available building is a dance hall. The Sunday school averages 150. ( 572 ) A mission among Mexicans at another place also uses a dance hall. Ten were converted, including the pro¬ prietress of the hall. ( 573 ) Mexicans migrate into Southern California in large numbers. The pastor of one of the Mexican churches has established 15 preaching stations within as many miles of his chapel. Most of the Mexican missions had revivals last year. ( 574 ) The Convention supports 2 evangelists and 4 col- porter-missionaries — one in the mountain districts, one in new communities, one each among Negroes and Mexicans. ( 575 ) The budget for next year is $115,906, which in¬ cludes $66,656 for support of missionary pastors and col¬ porters, evangelists and general workers, and $18,750 for new chapels and mission buildings. TIIE BOOK OF A THOUSAND FACTS 35 Colorado Baptist State Convention ( 576 ) Last year the Baptist churches added 3,283 to their membership, 1,465 by baptism. This is a larger number than the entire membership in the state after the first 15 years of missionary activity. ( 577 ) The first Baptist mission was organized in 1866. Today there are 22,203 members in 140 churches. ( 578 ) The ratio of Baptists to population is one to 46. Colorado's area is 103,948 square miles. Single counties are larger than Connecticut and Rhode Island combined. ( 579 ) The State Convention has under appointment 49 missionaries for full time service—double the number of any other denomination. ( 580 ) Notable evangelistic achievements are reported. A year ago there were 47 Baptists at Vona, a town with a population of 250. Evangelist E. M. Steadman closed a meeting March 15 with 144 accessions, 109 by baptism. The church has assumed self-support and is spending $5,000 in enlarging its building. ( 581 ) At Craig, as a result of chapel car activity, a Bap¬ tist church of 135 members was organized, and a $10,000 building erected and paid for. ( 582 ) Following the revival meeting at Plum Valley by Missionary McNeil there were 40 accessions to the newly organized church. A feud between cattle and sheep men was settled. Gospel harmony replaced shooting animosity. THE TENT OUT OF WHICH GREW THE FINE NEW FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF CRAIG, COLORADO ( 583 ) There are 100,000 Mexicans in Colorado. The budget for next year is $49,128,‘exactly like last year. This includes $3,350 for promotional expenses, $7,328 for adminis¬ tration, and .$38,450 for salaries of missionaries, general workers, missionary pastors and other activities. Nothing can be done to meet new opportunities among these people. ( 584 ) In a new district in Denver 1,200 new houses were built during the last two years. There is no church of any denomination in the district. For Baptists to enter this new field an adequate building must be assured. Connecticut Baptist State Convention ( 585 ) This is one of the few organizations with a century of history, having celebrated its centennial in 1923. ( 586 ) Baptists now number 28,448, with 154 churches. In a population of 1,531,255, 1 out of every 54 is a Baptist. The area of the state is 4,965 square miles. ( 587 ) Last year the Convention furnished financial aid to more than 20 churches, many of which are the only Protes¬ tant churches in their communities. Were the Convention to withdraw its support these communities would have no evan¬ gelical church services. ( 588 ) Last year 2 of these churches became self-support¬ ing, while a third dedicated a newly completed building. ( 589 ) Baptists lead in missionary effort among the foreign-speaking peoples. In cooperation with the Home Mission Society 15 missions are maintained among Italians, Hungarians, Czechoslovaks and Russians. ( 590 ) The budget for next year totals $46,225, which includes aid to churches, salaries of missionaries, religious education and administration expenses. Idaho Baptist Convention ( 591 ) Idaho, another of the large states in the Far West, with an area of 83,088 square miles, has a population of only 492,071. This means less than 6 people to the square mile, while in little Rhode Island there are 512. ( 592 ) Idaho has 5,671 Baptists and 48 churches. One person out of every 87 is a Baptist. ( 593 ) The Convention assists in the support of mission¬ ary pastors who serve on 35 different fields. Of these pastors 5 are the only Protestant workers in their communities. ( 594 ) With so widely scattered a population the fields are of vast extent. The two pastors at Dubois and Arco have a parish consisting of an entire county each, with no other Protestant ministers in the two counties. ( 595 ) In the agreement reached with other denomina¬ tions concerning adequate development of territory, two communities allocated to Baptists more than a year ago are still without pastors for lack of funds. Baptists must either furnish men for these fields or agree to their assignment to some other denomination. ( 596 ) The Convention anticipates economic prosperity following the completion of the American Falls dam, which will bring thousands of acres of fertile land under cultivation. Illinois Baptist State Convention ( 597 ) There are 509 Baptist churches in Illinois with a membership of 92,891, in a population of 6,964,950. Thus 1 person out of every 75 is a Baptist. ( 598 ) Last year Illinois churches reported 4,680 baptisms —the largest number ever repoited in a single year. ( 599 ) Throughout the state 42 church buildings are now under construction, recently completed or planned for the immediate future, involving an estimated expenditure of $1,548,000. This does not include Chicago. ( 600 ) The disastrous tornado in Southern Illinois in March destroyed the $60,000 new Baptist church at Mur- physboro, killed 15 members, injured hundreds more and wrecked the homes of 75% of the membership. On the Sun¬ day before there were 600 in the Sunday school of that church. At several other places in the tornado zone many Baptist families incurred heavy losses. ( 601 ) The State Convention employs three district superintendents, an associational missionary, a state evan¬ gelist and a director of Religious Education. ( 602 ) The budget for the new year is $58,600, of which 36 THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND FACTS $11,500 is to help support 35 missionary pastors serving small and weak churches. Indiana Baptist State Convention ( 603 ) With 494 Baptist churches and 77,334 members in a population of 3,060,416, 1 person out of every 40 in Indiana is a Baptist. ( 604 ) The two Christian Centers, Brooks House and Katherine House, have had a remarkable growth. Four foreign-speaking pastors are now employed in the districts surrounding these centers. The budget includes $9,000 to¬ wards the support of these centers. ( 605 ) New Sunday school buildings are sorely needed. One small church without aid erected a new building for its school of 200 and within one year again faced excessive over¬ crowding with an enrolment of 500. ( 606 ) The budget includes $5,000 for aid to small churches. Last year 35 churches were aided, either with grants to current expenses or Edifice Fund loans. ( 607 ) Vacation Bible Schools are extensively promoted during the summer months, 76 having been conducted last year with an average attendance of 109. ( 608 ) The Convention has purchased a piece of property for its own headquarters. Iowa Baptist State Convention ( 609 ) Baptists entered Iowa long before it became a state, and organized the first church in 1834. ( 610 ) In 1839 there were 3 churches, which organized the first Association with 10 delegates. Nine delegates sat in a row on a log, while the moderator sat in front doing business. ( 611 ) In the nearly 100 years since then, the denomina¬ tion has grown so that there are today 48,057 Baptists en¬ rolled in 360 churches. With a population of 2,505,569 this means 1 out of every 52 is a Baptist. The area of the state is 56,147 square miles. ( 612 ) Iowa has the largest summer conference in the territory of the Northern Baptist Convention. Last year 2,000 were in attendance. A new auditorium is to be erected with 2,000 seating capacitv. ( 613 ) For missions and beneficence the churches, during the four year period ending April 30, 1924, contributed more than $200,000 a vear. ( 614 ) The Convention helps to maintain about 50 mis¬ sionary pastors and has 6 general W'orkers in the field. Stu¬ dent pastors are maintained in 3 state educational centers, and the Convention cooperates with Swedish, Negro and Danish Conferences. ( 615 ) The budget for the new year is $53,000. Kansas Baptist Convention ( 616 ) One person out of every 24 in Kansas is a Baptist, for there are 572 Baptist churches with a total enrolment of 77,163 in a population of 1,813,621. This includes 18,000 Negro Baptists located chiefly in the cities. ( 617 ) Baptists rank third numerically among the evan¬ gelical denominations. ( 618 ) The Convention has a unique opportunity for evangelizing thousands of Mexican immigrants. Nearly Co Mexican converts were baptized last year. ( 619 ) The Convention has a rural church problem in that 86 churches are in the open country and 136 in small towns and villages. ( 620 ) During the past five years nearly 25%of additions to membership have come as a result of state mission effort. ( 621 ) The excellent equipment of the Sunset Home and Hospital at Concordia is an achievement of last year. ( 622 ) Kansas Baptists are proud of their two schools, Ottawa University and the Kansas City Theological Sem¬ inary, both of which are steadily growing in enrolment. United Baptist Convention of Maine ( 623 ) Maine, with a population of 782,541, has 400 Bap¬ tist churches and 34,139 members—a ratio of one Baptist to every 23 of the population. ( 624 ) Although the state has 400 Baptist churches, about 200 are in rural communities, where population and financial resources are slowly diminishing. ( 625 ) For 50 years the Convention has sought to evan¬ gelize French immigrants from Canada, who now constitute more than i2}4 per cent of the total population. ( 626 ) Baptists in Maine have placed great emphasis on education. Two colleges, Colby and Bates, enrol more than 1,200 students, while 5 academies furnish education to 1,000. ( 627 ) The Convention takes great pride in the growth of the Ocean Park Summer Conference. From small beginning ten years ago it has grown to an enrolment of more than 1,000. ( 628 ) The budget for the new year totals $50,084. Massachusetts Baptist State Convention ( 629 ) This is the oldest Baptist Missionary Society in the Western Planisphere, having been organized in Boston May 26, 1802. In the early days its missionaries traveled as far West as Ohio. ( 630 ) The Convention now represents 350 churches with 93,000 members. Since there are 4,127,653 people in Massa¬ chusetts, this means 1 Baptist to every 44 of the population. ( 631 ) All but 28 of the Baptist churches in the state have at some time during the past 123 years received Convention aid. This year 74 churches are receiving aid. ( 632 ) The Convention supports 18 missionaries, who are assisted by many volunteer workers for service among 7 for¬ eign-speaking peoples, in 27 towns. ( 633 ) Ten Italians were recently baptized at Lawrence; the Portuguese church at Fall River has had to be enlarged. 1 \ y j • • V v I r- ^ ’ ■ \ « * • tpsT. ^ 4^' T* _ L > SS^^Th El jit . ~,T JP >■ IOWA PASTORS’ CONVENTION HELD AT DES MOINES UNIVERSITY THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND FACTS 37 ( 634 ) A new mission has been organized among Russians in Maynard; while the French Baptists are now supporting their own colporter. ( 635 ) Two religious education directors aid in the de¬ velopment of the 334 Baptist Sunday schools. ( 636 ) Last year 55 Vacation Bible Schools were con¬ ducted, with a total enrolment of 5,707. ( 637 ) Of the 1,071 delegates at the Ocean Park Confer¬ ence 561 came from Massachusetts. ( 638 ) The budget for the new year is $120,748. The Convention needs new buildings in 4 towns, ought to enter 4 new suburban communities, and provide new equipment for Italians and Russians. • Michigan Baptist State Convention ( 639 ) The State work has five Departments, with a Direc¬ tor for each. ( 640 ) Director of Evangelism conducts campaigns, pro¬ motes work of other evangelists in the churches, helps churches organize and conduct campaigns of personal evan¬ gelism. Many revival results are shown. ( 641 ) Director of Town and Country Work fosters small town and rural churches, visits and advises, helps locate pas¬ tors, assists in evangelistic services, every-member canvasses, vacation school work and rural life institutes. ( 642 ) Director of Religious Education put on teacher training classes in 16 churches this year, 200 students re¬ ceiving instruction. Department promotes two summer as¬ semblies, provides program and handles details of B. Y. P. U. convention, thus discovering and developing future leaders. ( 643 ) Stewardship and Church Efficiency Director in¬ troduces stewardship methods, aids in putting on every- member canvass, leads in special money campaigns. Has helped churches raise many thousands of dollars. ( 644 ) Upper Peninsular missionary cheers the weaker churches and develops promising missionary fields, working with English-speaking, Swedish and Finnish churches. ( 645 ) In Dollar Bay our Swedish Finnish Church occu¬ pies unused Episcopal edifice. Henry Ford’s great new plant at Iron Mountain swells population, and opens large door for work among the 4,000 or 5,000 people buying lots and build¬ ing homes. ( 646 ) New feature is organizing Baptist City Unions in several major cities outside of Detroit. Home Mission So¬ ciety helps care for some strategically located churches in four cities. Fine opportunities. ( 647 ) Sunday school so large that it has to meet at three different periods, so small is its temporary structure — that is the situation of Olivet Church, Lansing, with its 250 to 300 scholars. ( 648 ) The Pennsylvania Avenue church school, Lansing, has to crowd its 150 members in the basement of a meeting house which has been condemned as unsafe. ( 649 ) New buildings and development of foreign-speak¬ ing work are immediate needs. Minnesota Baptist State Convention ( 650 ) Organized in 1859 with 68 small churches and a membership of 1,686. Since that time 55,509 baptisms have been recorded. ( 651 ) There are now 234 churches with 30,266 members, or a ratio of 1 Baptist to every 89 of the total population. ( 652 ) Baptist work began in 1847, when a Vermont school teacher of pioneer missionary spirit—Harriet Bishop— arrived in what is now St. Paul and founded the first Sunday school, which grew into the First Baptist Church. ( 653 ) Minnesota Baptists contribute more than $150,000 each year for distinctly denominational missionary work, exclusive of local support. ( 654 ) Minnesota is the stronghold of Swedish Baptist churches in America, the first church having been organized in 1855. There are now 89 Swedish churches in the state with a total membership of 8,797. ( 655 ) This record is traced back to Rev. F. O. Nelson, who, banished from Sweden, came to Minnesota in 1850. ( 656 ) Denominational progress the past year includes opening new fields, organization of 3 new churches, comple¬ tion of 4 new buildings, several parsonages and other build¬ ings remodeled, while baptisms exceed those of a year ago. ( 657 ) The budget for next year is $93,000, which will support 55 missionaries preaching in 7 languages, and will maintain a gospel ministry in 56 communities, together with all the usual activities of a well organized State Convention. ( 658 ) Minnesota needs a church edifice fund, more col- porters and missionaries, Christian centers, beginning of work among Finns and Roumanians, and the opening of a vast un¬ touched region in the northeast. Montana Baptist State Convention ( 659 ) Montana is so large that it requires 24 hours for a fast train to travel from one end of the state to the other. ( 660 ) There are only 55 Baptist churches in this vast territory with a total membership of 4,400. Since the popu¬ lation is 464,806, this is 1 Baptist to every 154 persons. ( 661 ) Montana, with 146,997 square miles, is the third largest state in the Union. There are less than 5 people to the square mile, while New Jersey has 426. ( 662 ) Naturally the churches are widely scattered. If you enter the state over the Northern Pacific, you would travel 150 miles before seeing the first Baptist church. There are churches in Montana 600 miles apart. ( 663 ) Many churches face the acute need of more ade¬ quate edifices. Seven important centers ought to have new or enlarged buildings immediately. ( 664 ) The experiment attempted in cooperation with the Home Mission Society in three communities of “Every Community Service” is proving successful. Large increases in membership are reported. In one community a new build¬ ing has been dedicated, and the other two report increased contributions. ( 665 ) Ten men are needed for missionary work in as many promising fields. A territory 150 miles long, with a town of 5,000 people in the center without a Baptist church, offers an unusual opportunity. (666) In a state of such vast distances, automobiles are indispensable. On some fields the dead have to be buried from 50 to 100 miles from the place of death. ( 667 ) The Convention supports 20 fields, each containing one or two churches too weak to support a full time minister. (668) The budget for the year is $47,100. ( 669 ) A large group of Baptists without a church organi¬ zation was recently found at Glendive, 90 miles west of Miles City, which has the nearest Baptist church; and Bismarck, N. D., about 200 miles east, has the nearest Baptist church in that direction. ( 670 ) Seven churches need houses at once to care for their growing activities. ( 671 ) A Bible school of 150 members is crowded into a one-room building! ( 672 ) Another church is in a Normal school town, where out of an enrolment of 400 students the live pastor has gath¬ ered in his young people’s organization 100 coming teachers. 38 THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND FACTS He has a one-room church building in which to carry on his social and educational work. ( 673 ) These are only two illustrations of conditions under which some of our best churches and most active ministers are working. Others are just as amazing. Nebraska State Convention ( 674 ) There are 142 Baptist churches in Nebraska, with 23,861 members. The ratio of Baptists to population is 1 to 57, for there are 1,355,371 people in the state. Its area is 77,520 square miles. ( 675 ) About 30 churches receive convention aid. ( 676 ) Last year 3 of these churches reported a 50% in¬ crease in membership. ( 677 ) Two of these churches have dedicated splendid new buildings. ( 678 ) Another has paid off a long-standing debt and is accumulating money for a parsonage. ( 679 ) A seventh has greatly improved its property by joining two buildings together and putting in a basement. ( 680 ) An eighth is building a basement and remodeling the superstructure. ( 681 ) One mentioned above as having a 50% increase is enlarging the church building. ( 682 ) A basement has been added to the equipment of a ninth. ( 683 ) A long-standing debt has been lifted at another place and plans are under way for completing a halted build¬ ing enterprise. All this among that group of churches assisted by the Convention. ( 684 ) Building programs have been successfully under¬ taken at several other points. The First Church, Hastings, is putting up a splendid new building. ( 685 ) The First Church, Omaha, has added a fine educa¬ tional unit to its plant. (686) Chapman, Prairie Creek, Platte Center and Pawnee City have made extensive changes in their buildings. ( 687 ) Colporter Judkins has labored for 20 years in the Sandhills, a sparsely settled region, yet it is possible to find eight-year-old children who have never been to Sunday school and know nothing about the meaning of such words as “Jesus,” “God,” “Bible.” (688) Baptists recently purchased from the Congrega- tionalists the only church building in the town of Arthur. The missionary pastor here has two counties for his parish. ( 689 ) There are 65,000 Bohemians in Nebraska, among them men 40 years of age, born in the state, who cannot speak English. Moral standards are very low, and law enforcement officers find some of the communities a menace to peace and order. Practically no missionary work among them is being attempted. Here is where the financial pinch blocks the road to progress. It would be “new work” and therefore blue penciled. ( 690 ) A mission among Mexicans has been started in Lincoln. The 3 churches of the city have added this to their other financial burdens. ( 691 ) The budget for the new year totals $66,575. The Nevada-Sierra Baptist Convention ( 692 ) The Nevada-Sierra Convention, covering a geo¬ graphical area of 130,000 square miles, which includes Nevada and a part of California, has only 15 widely scattered Baptist churches, with a total membership of about 1,000. There is only one Baptist to every 94 of the population. ( 693 ) Church property is valued at $129,000, and there is practically no debt. Every church has a parsonage. ( 694 ) Membership has more than doubled in the 14 years of the Convention’s history. Sunday schools now enrol 1,300 pupils. ( 695 ) The oldest Baptist church is that of Bishop, founded January 1, 1869, by Rev. Andrew Clark, a veteran of the Civil War. In 1870 this preacher traveled 1,000 miles by team to San Francisco and return to attend an Association. ( 696 ) The budget for the new year is $5,300. One of the greatest needs is for men who will gladly face the sacrifice required in service on this frontier field. NEW HERMISTON MEMORIAL CHURCH, LAS VEGAS, NEV. United Baptist Convention of New Hampshire ( 697 ) The New Hampshire Convention is the next Baptist organization to celebrate its 100th birthday. This will occur in 1926. The first meeting was held in New London in 1826. ( 698 ) New Hampshire has an area of 9,341 square miles. Its population of 450,171 includes 14,542 Baptists, enrolled in 146 churches, or 1 to every 31. ( 699 ) The budget for next year is $30,204. ( 700 ) Of the 146 churches 41 were aided by the Conven¬ tion in 1924, to the total amount of $7,925. ( 701 ) The number of baptisms last year was 459, 102 more than in the year preceding; 20 of these were in the churches receiving aid. ( 702 ) The Baptists and Free Baptists united in 1917 by incorporation to form the United Baptist Convention. The New Jersey Baptist State Convention ( 703 ) New Jersey, situated between two of America’s greatest cities, New York and Philadelphia, presents a dis¬ tinctly suburban problem. With a total population of 3,506,428, 1 person out of every 62 is a Baptist, for there are 62,000 Baptists enrolled in 255 churches. ( 704 ) The foreign population is ministered to by 7 Hun¬ garian, 7 Italian, 3 Polish, 1 Slovak, 2 Russian, and several Swedish and German churches. Only three states have a greater missionary problem in the foreign-speaking need. ( 705 ) The Convention aids 22 American churches. Last year one of these became self-supporting and two new churches were added to the list. ( 706 ) The steady migration of Negroes from the South brings many Baptists, for whom there are no houses of wor¬ ship. The Convention’s Afro-American mission tries to meet this problem. ( 707 ) The Convention promotes a summer assembly at Hightstown, which in five years had 1,419 registrations, with 106 decisions for definite Christian service. Afro-American and foreign-speaking assemblies are also maintained. ( 708 ) Last year the Convention reported 58 Vacation Bible Schools, with a total enrolment of 3,151. ( 709 ) Because of reduced income the Convention has had to cut its budget from $129,000 to $95,000 for next year. THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND FACTS 39 New York Baptist State Convention ( 710 ) In Baptist membership New York is the largest single unit in the Northern Baptist Convention. ( 711 ) With an area of 49,204 square miles and a popula¬ tion of 11,105,625, the state has 1,023 Baptist churches, 822 pastors, and 201,536 members. This means 1 Baptist to every 55 persons. ( 712 ) Church property ranging from city edifices to small rural church buildings is valued at $3,254,830. ( 713 ) Churches reported last year 8,041 baptisms, as compared with 7,494 the preceding year. ( 714 ) The Convention aids in the support of 125 mis¬ sionary pastors, who serve 152 churches. ( 715 ) The Department of Evangelism employs 10 evan¬ gelists, who last year conducted 90 campaigns and served 40 churches. The record shows 3,961 confessions of faith and restorations to Christian service. ( 716 ) The 40 churches appreciated this evangelistic ministry, as indicated in their contributions of $19,790 toward its support. ( 717 ) New York State Baptists contributed n}A per cent of the total receipts for the New World Movement. ( 718 ) A Department of Town and Country Church Work is actively engaged in surveying the entire state. During the last two years there has been a decrease of 50 per cent in the number of pastorless rural churches. ( 719 ) There are several Indian Reservations in the state. The state aids in the support of churches for them, the pastor of the church on the Tuscarora Reservation having served for nearly 49 years. ( 720 ) The Convention is now following a definite plan of districting the entire state, whereby churches in rural sec tions around city centers are grouped into districts for pur¬ poses of fellowship, denominational loyalty and cooperation. ( 721 ) For promotion purposes the state is divided into two districts, the Metropolitan area including the Southern New York and Long Island Associations, which cover Greater- New York and north as far as Tarrytown and White Plains. North Dakota Baptist Convention ( 722 ) North Dakota with an area of 70,837 square miles and population of 686,424 has 98 Baptist churches, with a membership of 7,086, or x Baptist to every 97 of the people. ( 723 ) The State Convention reports an increase of more than 100% in membership during the last 25 years, total membership in 1900 having been 3,319. ( 724 ) During this period contributions increased from $34,825 to $137,548 or over 300 per cent, while the per capita giving rose from $10.49 to $19.41. ( 725 ) The Convention on January 1, 1925, recognized the completion of 25 years of service by Rev. Ole Larson as Scandinavian missionary. This one man assisted in organiz¬ ing more than 20 Baptist churches, helped to organize the Norwegian and Swedish Conferences, and attended the dedi¬ cation of 15 church buildings among Scandinavian Baptists. ( 726 ) The budget of the new year is $35,450 which will cover aid to missionary churches, aid in building operations, support of 8 field workers, and over 20 missionary pastors. ( 727 ) New opportunities include work among the Rus¬ sians, who look to Baptists for spiritual leadership. ( 728 ) The Convention also plans to enter more effectively a district of 20,000 square miles, where there is not one American Baptist church, and only one convention worker. The Ohio Baptist State Convention ( 729 ) The Convention, because of reduced income, has had to make drastic reductions in its missionary work. Sev¬ eral Convention workers were released. ( 730 ) The Convention will celebrate its 100th anniver¬ sary in 1926. Its first meeting was held in Zanesville in 1826. A centennial committee has been appointed to make a thor¬ ough survey of the denominational situation throughout the state, in order to present a comprehensive program for future activity. REV. OLE LARSON OF NORTH DAKOTA ( 731 ) There are 92,396 Baptists in Ohio, enrolled in 496 churches. With a total population of 6,321,529, this makes 1 person out of every 68 a Baptist. The Oregon Baptist State Convention ( 732 ) Oregon with extensive railroad and harbor de¬ velopments faces a new era of economic prosperity. Portland is in its most rapidly developing industrial period. ( 733 ) This means much to us, for the ratio of Baptists to population is 1 to 57. Out of a total population of 846,061, there are 14,867 Baptists enrolled in 116 churches. ( 734 ) A great need is adequate meeting houses. Nearly every town of importance has an outgrown Baptist edifice. Several new churches had to be organized in temporary buildings such as a bungalow or a public school. ( 735 ) The Convention estimates that at least $1,000,000 will need to be spent for buildings during the next ten years. ( 736 ) The Convention supports 2 state evangelists, 2 colporters, a chapel car evangelist, Swedish, Negro and Chinese workers, a superintendent of evangelism, a state missionary, and 8 district missionaries. ( 737 ) The oldest Baptist meeting house on the Pacific Coast, located at Hillsboro, was erected in 1853. Through gifts secured by Mrs. E. C. Shute, the only surviving charter member, the dilapidated building was recently restored and is now used for regular services by a visiting minister. Pennsylvania Baptist State Convention ( 738 ) Five new church buildings were erected by Penn¬ sylvania Baptists last year at a total cost of more than $300,000, and 4 others are under construction. ( 739 ) One person out of every 63 in Pennsylvania is a Baptist. The population is 9.317,647 and there are 146,876 Baptists enrolled in 754 churches. ( 740 ) Last year the churches reported nearly 6,000 bap¬ tisms. In proportion to membership the largest increase 40 THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND FACTS OLDEST BAPTIST CHURCH STANDING IN OREGON came in the churches aided by the Convention, of which there are 80. These averaged i baptism for everv 6 members. ( 741 ) The Convention closed the year without a deficit because expenditures were reduced to meet income. ( 742 ) Pennsylvania Baptists take great pride in their two educational institutions, Keystone Academy and Buck- nell University. The latter has an enrolment of nearly i,ioo. Rhode Island Baptist State Convention ( 743 ) Rhode Island with 1,248 square miles is the small¬ est state in the Union. The 107 Baptist churches have 19,080 members. With a total population of 639,401 the ratio of Baptists is 1 to 34—near the top of the list in this ratio. ( 744 ) The State Convention celebrated its centennial this spring. But Baptist history goes back much farther than a century, for the first Baptist church of Providence, the oldest Baptist church in America, celebrated recently the 150th anniversary of the erection of its meeting house. ( 745 ) The Convention is just completing 2 well equipped Christian Centers in Providence for the Italian work. These model Centers represent an investment of $165,000. ( 746 ) An outstanding example of sacrificial giving is reported from the Russian church, composed of 14 members, all of them poor, toiling for their daily bread. The Conven¬ tion bought a building for them. In less than 18 months these Russians paid all operating expenses and in addition more than $2,000 for repairs. The self-denial banks for the support of the denomination’s missionary program found hearty welcome in their homes. A state wide campaign of evangelism last November and December resulted in hun¬ dreds of conversions. ( 747 ) The budget for next year totals $45,345, which covers aid to churches, religious education, missionary work among Italians, French, Portuguese, Russians and Swedes, and administration. South Dakota Baptist State Convention ( 748 ) In South Dakota 1 person out of every 69 is a Bap¬ tist. The state has an area of 77,615 square miles, and popu¬ lation of 666,380. ( 749 ) The 113 Baptist churches have 9,637 members. ( 750 ) The greatest difficulty in missionary work is the distance to be covered in reaching the scattered population. There are less than 8 persons per square mile on an average. ( 751 ) The Convention employs 2 pastors-at-large, 2 field missionaries, a director of religious education, a colporter- missionary, an evangelist and a field secretary. ( 752 ) Out of the total budget of $52,517, about $36,000 supports the regular missionary work, including the salaries of 24 missionary pastors. Vermont Baptist State Convention ( 753 ) Even with the increasing number of immigrants coming into the state, Vermont faces the problem of a steadily declining population. In this small state of 9,564 square miles there are 352,428 people. ( 754 ) One person out of every 35 is a Baptist, for the Convention reports 107 churches with 10,127 members. ( 755 ) The missionary task of the Convention is clearly indicated in that only 25 of these churches are not aided by it. All the others receive some measure of support. ( 756 ) As one result, Baptists of Vermont are no longer trying to maintain a Baptist church in all communities. The Convention is cooperating with other evangelical denomina¬ tions in an equitable distribution of their church fields. ( 757 ) The new church at Springfield, reported in “Into All the World” a year ago, now has 125 members and a Bible school of 150. The membership in July, 1923, was only 56. The new building will soon be finished. Springfield is one of the few growing communities. ( 758 ) The Italian Mission at Barre is flourishing. There are 3,500 Italians engaged in the granite industry. Other foreigners coming into the state include Finns, Poles and large numbers of French from Canada. ( 759 ) Few people realize the educational problem in a state like Vermont. Only 74 towns out of 246 have junior or senior high schools, leaving 172 without any high school for the children of the community. To meet the need Baptists are supporting Vermont Academy, which is sorely in want of more funds and equipment. Washington—East—and North Idaho Convention ( 760 ) The state of Washington, including the Northern part of Idaho, like California has two Baptist Conventions. ( 761 ) In its area of 160,127 square miles and population of 1,478,214 there are 21,162 Baptists in 176 churches. The ratio of Baptists to population is 1 to 70. ( 762 ) The two Conventions are separated by the Cas¬ cade Mountain range. In the East Convention the churches are widely scattered, and with the exception of those in the Spokane District are separated by long distances. ( 763 ) For the new year the Convention plans to employ 1 field missionary, a religious education director and a director of evangelism, in addition to about 25 missionary pastors and the chapel car workers already in service. Washington Baptist Convention-—West ( 764 ) To the west of the Cascade Mountains Baptists are organized in 4 associations with 100 churches. ( 765 ) Last year was a record year in evangelism, the churches reporting 877 baptisms. With one exception—-802 in 1923—this is the largest total reported in a single year. SUNDAY SCHOOL AT EAST DOVER, VERMONT’ THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND FACTS 41 ( 766 ) The Convention shares in the support of 33 mis¬ sionary pastors and 2 Christian Community Centers. ( 767 ) In cooperation with the Home Mission Societies missionary work is done among the Japanese and Chinese in the western section of this district. ( 768 ) The budget for the new year totals $34,250, of which $15,500 will support missionary pastors, $5,500 will be used for church edifices, and the remainder for other mission¬ ary activity and administration expenses. West Virginia Baptist State Convention ( 769 ) West Virginia has 674 Baptist churches and 72,578 members. With a total population of 1,601,730 the per¬ centage of Baptists is relatively high, for 1 person out of every 23 is a Baptist. ( 770 ) The State Convention has seven departments of work—missions, evangelism, church edifice, woman’s work, religious education, Christian education and finance. ( 771 ) Last year was a record year in missionary achieve¬ ments, evangelistic effort, church building and equipment. ( 772 ) The budget for next year totals $60,000, of which $32,000 is for the salaries and expenses of state missionaries. Wisconsin Baptist State Convention ( 773 ) Although the state is large, with an area of 56,066 square miles, and has a population of 2,801,008, Baptists number only 19,560, with 179 churches. The ratio to popula¬ tion is thus only 1 to 143. ( 774 ) The death of Mr. E. J. Lindsay last December left a great vacancy in the ranks of Wisconsin Baptists. For 50 years without interruption he was a member of the State Board of Managers, serving also as treasurer and presi¬ dent. ( 775 ) The Convention aids in the support of 1 Christian Center, maintains work among Poles, helps support 2 Negro churches, and gives assistance to 51 other churches, both English and foreign-speaking. ( 776 ) It is one of the few states employing a woman state missionary, her service being in great demand. ( 777 ) Through emphasis on evangelism last year, grati¬ fying results were reported among churches, showing en¬ couraging increases by baptism. ( 778 ) The budget for the new year totals $56,900, which covers salaries of missionary pastors, general missionary workers, administration expenses, and the usual activities. The Wyoming Baptist State Convention ( 779 ) In Wyoming, with a population of 82,142, only 1 person out of every 75 is a Baptist. There are 2,947 Baptists in 35 churches. The state has 97,914 square miles. ( 780 ) Wyoming Baptists are poor. They have no rich laymen among them. ( 781 ) Every church with an adequate house of worship is heavily in debt. Five basements for good church buildings stand incomplete because of debts and lack of funds. ( 782 ) Because of great distances weak churches cannot be grouped together. Thus the Convention must pay the greater part of pastors’ salaries. ( 783 ) The constantly changing population makes mis¬ sionary effort extremely difficult. Adversity often follows prosperity and W’hole communities scatter and disappear. ( 784 ) The Convention is sorely in need of missionary pastors of heroic mould, ready for sacrificial service amid dis¬ couraging conditions. Utah Baptist State Convention ( 785 ) The Utah Convention has 15 churches, with a membership of 1,305. More baptisms last year than ever be¬ fore in the history of Baptist missions in the state. ( 786 ) With the aid of the Home Mission Society 3 new church buildings have been erected during the past two years. ( 787 ) Substantial progress has been made along the lines of religious education. Last year the Utah Baptist Sum¬ mer Assembly was organized. ( 788 ) The pressing need is for an enlarged budget, to make possible the opening of new fields and give more ade¬ quate support to work already established. ( 789 ) The dominance of the Mormon religion with its aggressive propaganda makes this one of the most difficult of all our mission fields. BAPTISM AT A SMALL LAKE IN THE SOUTH DAKOTA PRAIRIES STANDARD CITY MISSION SOCIETIES Greater New York ( 790 ) Two organizations carry on the work under the same administrative staff—The New York City Baptist Mis¬ sion Society (for Manhattan, the Bronx, Staten Island ana lower Westchester) and the Baptist Church Extension So¬ ciety of Brooklyn and Queens. ( 791 ) The population of Greater New York was 1,670,247 in 1875; 3,437,202 in 1900; and 5,620,048 in 1920. Optimistic estimates put it at 9,672,000 in 1950. ( 792 ) In every 100 people you meet in New York 78 are foreign born or of foreign parentage; 21 are native born or of native parentage; 1 is colored; not 1 in 100 is a Baptist. ( 793 ) It will be noted that there are more Negro than white Baptists in Greater New York. The alarming fact is that while there are about 30,000 Negro Baptists, there are only 4,650 Sunday school members enrolled. This is not due to lack of children hut to neglect in the field o f religious education. ( 794 ) The City Mission Society, startled by this fact, proposes to establish in Harlem a Religious Educational Center under the immediate direction of a Negro Baptist Auxiliary, manned by the Superintendent of Negro Work md a Director of Religious Education for Negro children. ( 795 ) The number of children attending Greater New York Public Schools in 1924 was 1,029,312. The Sunday THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND FACTS 42 school enrolment of all religious bodies was 473,743. Bap¬ tist Sunday schools, including adult members, had 27,839! ( 796 ) There are about 10,000 Chinese in New York. The only church in Chinatown is Catholic. There are three mis¬ sion interests attempting work under the most impossible accommodations. Kindergarten, Sunday school, English classes and preaching services are maintained, but there are no social or wholesome recreational facilities for Chinese. The time is ripe for Baptists to enter Chinatown. ( 797 ) Miss Mabel Lee (Ph.D. Columbia) is now super¬ intendent of Morning Star Mission, succeeding her lamented father, Rev. Lee To, in this work for her countrymen. ( 798 ) There were 32 Church Vacation Bible Schools in Greater New York in 1924, with 5,000 children enrolled. ( 799 ) What the Vacation Bible School did for one Italian boy who was taken off the streets by it is told in this extract from the letter of Colgate University’s president to the boy’s father in Brooklyn, under date of Feb. 27, 1925: “You will be interested to know that while the average requirement for a semester for each Colgate student is 17 quality points, your son made 36, more than twice as many as needed.” ( 800 ) The budget of the New York Society is $133,477; of the Brooklyn Society, $58,101. BAPTIST CHURCHES~~ l GREATER NEW YORK MEMBERSHIP 1923 ( 801 ) The distribution of every dollar is as follows: Church Extension. English-Speaking Work. Foreign Language Work. Christian Centers. Women’s Work. Religious Education. Interdenominational. Administration. Taxes, Interest and Insurance Contingencies. N. Y. C. B. B. C. E. S. M. S. of B. and Q. 7 cents 20 cents 26 cents 3 cents 27 cents 24 cents 5 cents 21 cents 10 cents 10 cents 6 cents 6 cents 1 cent 10 cents 10 cents 6 cents 4 cents 2 cents 2 cents Boston Baptist Bethel City Mission Society ( 802 ) Most gratifying has been the rapid growth of the Italian Mission in East Cambridge. These people associated themselves together, secured a room and fitted it up for a chapel, without outside help. In spite of poor location the work prospered, due to their earnest spirit and zeal. They asked the City Mission Society for help and two workers were sent them. The Sunday school has increased 300 per cent. They have been moved to a better locality, and their future is especially bright. ( 803 ) The East Boston Italian Mission is so crowded that its Sunday school has to meet in two sections, the boys at one time, girls at another. ( 804 ) The Hyde Park Italian Mission now has a well equipped chapel, baptisms have been frequent, a men’s class of 40 has been organized, and Pastor Frank Valdini is ably lead¬ ing the people forward. ( 805 ) The West End Community House campaign re¬ sulted in pledges and cash approximating $50,000 toward the $75,000 goal, and the cooperation of the churches and inter¬ ested friends assures success. THE VERY FIRST VIEW OF NEW YORK CITY (1628) ( 806 ) Two instances of heroic giving came to light in the West End Community drive. Our Russian congregation, small and in the day of beginnings, pledged $174, which will be increased probably to $200. A working man gave $15, which he received as a Christmas gift from his employer. Buffalo Baptist Union ( 807 ) The New World Movement in Buffalo has meant the largest budget for city missions in the Union’s history. ( 808 ) Property investment increased 250% in 5 years. ( 809 ) An increase in the staff of missionaries from 7 to 17. ( 810 ) The establishing of an office which has become the Baptist service center for a wide zone in Western New York. ( 811 ) More baptisms than during any similar period. ( 812 ) An increase of 50% in the membership of our foreign-speaking churches. ( 813 ) A place of higher respect and stronger leadership by Baptists among the Christian forces of the city. ( 814 ) Nevertheless, the field is needy. Roman Catholics outnumber Protestants in Buffalo 4 to 1. ( 815 ) Out of a Polish population of 185,000, only 125 are members of a Protestant church (our Baptist mission). ( 816 ) Multitudes are atheistic, bolshevistic, socialistic— menace or opportunity. ( 817 ) Our missionaries and membership even experience persecution “with the gospel.” THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND FACTS 43 ( 818 ) Baptists lead Protestants in ministry to the spiritually destitute, especially among new Americans. ( 819 ) We have pioneered the only Hebrew Mission work under Baptist leadership. Baptist Executive Council of Chicago ( 820 ) Chicago has 30,500 white and 45,000 Negro Baptists. ( 821 ) Twenty-five salaried workers among 10 races. ( 822 ) Exceptional opportunities for work among racial groups. Representatives of 15 Russian families recently solicited cooperation and aid of the Council in securing a place of worship and a pastor. ( 823 ) A growing group of Mexicans, many of them Baptists coming from Mexico and Texas, made a similar request; and another group of Mexicans in a different sec¬ tion, struggling independently, ought to be helped. ( 824 ) 1- Seven English-speaking missions in new and prom¬ ising fields ought to be assisted at once in payment of pastors’ salaries and erection of buildings. ( 825 ) For achievements of the past year: 1 foreign¬ speaking church has become independent of missionary sup¬ port; 3 foreign-speaking churches have assumed a larger portion of their budgets; and 2 English-speaking churches have asked for lower appropriations. ( 826 ) New Edifice (1st unit) La Grange church, dedicated September, 1924. Disbanded and dissolved, Spring, 1919. Reorganized and reestablished by cooperation of Executive Council, Autumn, 1919. Self-supporting soon after reorgani¬ zation. First of Chicago churches “over the top” in the New World Movement. Cleveland Baptist Association ( 827 ) In greater Cleveland there are 11,559 white Bap¬ tists gathered into 33 churches and missions. ( 828 ) Last year 566 were baptized. ( 829 ) Nine nationalities are served through 13 workers; and there are 3 workers in the Negro Community Center. ( 830 ) Consecrated laymen built the tabernacle for the new work in the Brooklyn suburb last fall and winter. The Cleveland Association donated $1,000 for lumber and the men did the work. A $3,000 tabernacle now is used for a growing Bible school and church work. A lavman preaches. ( 831 ) Helping growing churches in residential districts erect suitable buildings had been the great work of the past ten years. Glenville, Lakewood, West Park, Nottingham, Brooklyn, all English-speaking churches, have been thus helped. ( 832 ) The Roumanians, Italians, and Hungarians have been assisted to new or better buildings. Others have been helped improve their present plants. * ( 833 ) Laymen have been to the front in leadership the past year in Cleveland in the absence of an executive secre¬ tary. Happy the organization that has business men of vision and consecration for such a task. ( 834 ) A little paper called “The Informer” has its main aim to stimulate the efforts to gather in the money due on the LA GRANGE BAPTIST CHURCH, CHICAGO quotas in the churches. One layman has financed and another edited it. ( 835 ) The Cleveland Association reaches its 400 delegates through the mails by sending direct information worth while. Delegates should be more than names on file in a cabinet. ( 836 ) Budget for the coming year, $44,650. District of Columbia ( 837 ) Four new churches organized last year—Chevy Chase, Highlands, Wilson Ave., and Silver Spring. Each occupies a territory peculiarly its own, and fills a real need. ( 838 ) Four new church properties have been erected. This equipment means increased efficiency and usefulness. ■ ( 839 ) Congress Heights Church added an auditorium to its Sunday school house. ( 840 ) Takoma. Park Church has erected a splendid structure for all uses. ( 841 ) Wisconsin Avenue Church has just completed the basement of what will be a fine church edifice. ( 842 ) The Association has erected a temporary building for the development of the work at the Highlands. ( 843 ) The new Baptist Book Concern is prospering be¬ yond the best expectations. ( 844 ) A unified budget and cooperative effort has resulted In a doubling of benevolent contributions. ( 845 ) During the coming year our chief need will be to strengthen movements already begun, but the eventual goal is the establishment of a Baptist church in every separate and distinct locality within our area. Detroit Baptist Union ( 846 ) Detroit continues its tremendous growth and so our needs constantly increase. Since the census in 1920 every year about 150,000 people have been added to the population, which means that a city fully as large as Grand Rapids has been added to Detroit yearly. ( 847 ) The immediate need is 4 new chapels in new mis¬ sion fields already started. These will require about $38,000. ( 848 ) Two churches must build this year. One is a relo¬ cation; the other in a suburban section has outgrown its tem¬ porary quarters. This will require more than $100,000. ( 849 ) The influx of Negroes from the South presents a tremendous opportunity. Two buildings already begun must be completed and 3 others enlarged, this requiring $100,000. ( 850 ) We have had to close one foreign-speaking mission and may be compelled to discontinue another. When you consider that Detroit is more than 60 per cent foreign, you can see the tragedy of the situation. ( 851 ) What has been accomplished? A constant growth in the number of churches and missions. ( 852 ) Membership in our white churches has been doubled in ten years. 44 THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND FACTS ( 853 ) Just dedicated the First Polish Baptist Church of Detroit. This work was begun by Pastor Joseph Rzepecki five years ago with nothing. We now have a church member¬ ship of 156, a well organized church, Sunday school, and young people’s society, and church property worth $50,000. ( 854 ) Jefferson Avenue Church, begun in 1921, already has over 600 members, is giving to missions at the rate of $6,000 per year, and has increased its goal for next year. ( 855 ) Northwestern Baptist Church, aided in 1922 to get a new property and building in its present location, gave for missions in 1923 $5,000, in 1924 $6,000, and for the present year has asked that its budget be raised to $7,000. ( 856 ) As the city is constantly expanding, the Union has purchased five new properties, Mortencrest, Southfield, Lin¬ coln Park, River Rouge, and Fort and Eureka. These prop¬ erties cost $27,800; they are not paid for; they constitute our next opportunity. ( 857 ) The budget calls for $59,000, not counting in the building propositions. The Union has averaged a total ex¬ penditure of about $250,000 each year for five years past, and must do as much or more the coming year. ( 858 ) In Detroit, Michigan, a large number of Mexicans are employed in the Ford plant and in other industries. Re¬ cently one of them became ill and a brother from Kansas City came to look after him. When the sick man died, the brother secured his place in the Ford plant, and being a Baptist, began to preach the gospel to his countrymen. Soon the Detroit Baptist Union provided a church in which the Mexicans could worship, and a thriving work is being carried on among them. Los Angeles City Mission Society ( 859 ) Sixteen new white American fields call for Baptist Sunday schools and churches. This year we are helping three of these fields to secure property; assisting in the erection of two Negro churches; three others should be assisted also. ( 860 ) Entering one new Mexican field, site donated, and new chapel being erected largely from funds designated for Mexican work; 50 conversions and 32 baptisms last year. ( 861 ) Large numbers of conversions and many baptisms in our Mexican work, which covers 9 churches and missions. ( 862 ) Our First Mexican Church has dismissed more than 30 members to form a new church just outside the city, in the largest Mexican community in the United States. ( 863 ) Japanese work successful in spite of disturbed con¬ ditions. Five recently received for baptism on the Moneta field, over 300 enrolled in Sunday school at East San Pedro. ( 864 ) Records show that 31 who have confessed Christ in baptism in our Japanese work have returned to Japan and are bearing faithful witness for Him there. ( 865 ) Urgent demand for a new Japanese work near the business district of Los Angeles. Large numbers of Japanese, forced from the farms, are driven to the city for employment. (866) Our Christian Center increases in popularity and efficient service. The medical and dental clinics meet a great need and open many doors for our faithful missionaries. ( 867 ) The Woman’s Auxiliary assumes responsibility for our industrial and relief work, and is actively promoting Christian Americanization. (868) The Woman’s Home Mission Society has rendered invaluable service by sending Miss Naomi Fletcher, who for three months has perfected Christian Americanization. ( 869 ) Our Christian Center affords equipment for carry¬ ing on the Mexican Branch of our International Theological Seminary, which is meeting with high success under Dean Detweiler and his able corps of instructors. ( 870 ) The North Anderson Street Mexican Church finds its home at the Christian Center. Every department of work is advancing under the leadership of Pastor Urquidi. The Baptist Union of Philadelphia and Vicinity ( 871 ) This mission organization serves also as a coordi¬ nating agency for all Baptist movements in Philadelphia. ( 872 ) Aside from the maintenance of its regular work there is need for an enlarged equipment at the dispensary of the Italian Baptist Community House. ( 873 ) The Fourth Baptist Church, now in a downtown community, asks the Union to take over all of its neighbor¬ hood work. This will mean a considerable addition to the budget but puts into use a splendid property. ( 874 ) All our foreign work is prospering. The Slovaks in Philadelphia are particularly hard to reach but the greatest impression ever made upon them is now noticeable. PICNIC OF THE SLOVENIAN MISSION, CLEVELAND ( 875 ) The work at Olney Baptist Church began some¬ thing more than three years ago. It was anticipated that it would require five years of appropriations of $1,000 a year. The church, however, has found itself at the* place where it no longer needs appropriations from the Union. ( 876 ) The budget for 1925-26 calls for $47,806. Pittsburgh Baptist Association ( 877 ) The Association touches all sides of Baptist work in an industrial center with a large foreign-speaking population. ( 878 ) In 10 churches and missions we are working among Russians, Hungarians, Slovaks, Italians and Swedes, ( 879 ) Missionary workers are doing a community work in 3 churches in polyglot communities. ( 880 ) Fifteen English-speaking churches were aided this year in the support of pastors. Ten churches thus aided have become self-supporting since 1919. ( 881 ) One worker gives part time to Morals Court cases. She has many cases and her efforts are of great value in re¬ claiming erring persons and directing them toward a better life. ( 882 ) An Americanization Secretary enlists and directs volunteer service in foreign-speaking homes; also assists in solving the problem of volunteer workers in all of our missions. ( 883 ) Our director of Religious Education fosters teacher training classes and approved methods in Bible school work, and directs 25 Church Vacation Schools. He also assists Negro Bible Schools in these Vacation Schools. ( 884 ) Rankin Christian Center in its second year of operation has a staff of 9 workers, aided by 25 volunteer workers. Attendance is now averaging 8,000 per month. ( 885 ) Emphasis is placed on evangelism and help is given so that every church may have evangelistic meetings. (886) The South Hills section is undergoing a wonderful development and a new church should be established at once. THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND FACTS 45 Baptist Union of Rochester and Monroe County ( 887 ) The Baptist churches of Rochester have building enterprises in process at present aggregating $2,250,000. (888) Two Baptist churches recently occupied a full page in the photogravure section of our leading daily paper. ( 889 ) One week’s attention was given to the rural church at Greece, which is rapidly becoming a suburban church. It had been an ordinary country church for a hundred years, but under the aggressive leadership of its young pastor, Rev. Fred E. Dean, and with aid of the Union, it has just erected a modern educational and recreational building, to which will be added a little later a fine auditorium. This church is now ministering to the entire life of the community, socially, recreationally, and religiously, and its building and program are attracting wide attention. ( 890 ) At the other extreme appeared a full page illustra¬ tion of the new building of the Baptist Temple, which is com¬ bining a modern church and Sunday school plant with a four¬ teen story office-building “in the heart of Rochester.” ( 891 ) The Union is conducting the only Christian Center among the 35,000 Italians of Rochester. It has recently pur¬ chased a commodious building for the Italian church. ( 892 ) The Union is carrying on the only Protestant work among the 10,000 Poles of Rochester. We have an attractive chapel and two dwellings with ample grounds. ( 893 ) The Union is cooperating with the Mt. Olivet Church (Negro) in developing a Community Center for the Negro population. Four dwellings have recently been pur¬ chased for the erection of a commodious auditorium. ( 894 ) The budget for the coming year is $16,240. San Francisco Bay Cities Baptist Union ( 895 ) Four churches have been dedicated—Elmhurst, Allendale of Oakland, Thousand Oaks of Berkeley, and Bur¬ lingame Church, at a total cost of about $80,000. ( 896 ) Several churches have reported during this past year the largest attendance and interest in their history, in¬ cluding First Oakland; First San Francisco; Tenth Avenue Oakland; Burlingame Church, and the Russian Church. ( 897 ) The Chung Mei Home for Chinese Boys main¬ tained by the Union, the only institution of its'kind in Amer¬ ica, has outgrown its buildings and is raising funds for a new one. There are 34 boys now cared for in this Home, supposed to contain room for but 25. Tents in the yard are necessary to supplement the sleeping quarters. ( 898 ) The Russian Church of San Francisco is in most encouraging condition. There have been numerous additions recently, some by baptism, others, newcomers from Russia. ( 899 ) The Polrero Hill Neighborhood House in connec¬ tion with our Russian work last year ministered to 49,368 peo¬ ple on a budget from all sources amounting to over $20,000. ( 900 ) The Mexican mission on the east side of San Fran¬ cisco Bay is under the direction of Rev. Edward W. Watson, former missionary to Cuba. Steps are being taken to pur¬ chase the present building of Beth Eden Baptist Church. St. Louis Baptist Mission Board ( 901 ) The great need in St. Louis is “adequate equip¬ ment.” We are thankful for progress made the past year. ( 902 ) Three new buildings have been completed and dedicated—Fourth Church auditorium; Tower Grove Sunday school building; Italian Chapel. ( 903 ) In addition to these, the Ebenezer Church has purchased a lot and is raising funds for a new building. ( 904 ) Half a dozen other churches in the St. Louis Asso¬ ciation greatly need added equipment. Two of these, Bethel (now worshiping in a dilapidated store building) and South¬ west Church (now using a small frame structure), must speedily be provided with church homes. ( 905 ) Baptists have assumed responsibility for the evan¬ gelization of the Italians. Thus far it has been possible to carry on work in the down-town Italian section only. In a vast stretch of the city lying just to the west of Kingshighway occupied mainly by Italians, nothing whatever of a religious nature is being done there, for want of funds. ( 906 ) The outlook for Italian work in the down-town sec¬ tion is bright. Pastor J. F. Plainfield and his associates are doing work of an unusually high type. ( 907 ) Another new field is a large section to the extreme northwest of the city, with 25,000 people and no Baptist church. CHOIR OF THE SLOVAK BAPTIST CHURCH, PHILADELPHIA 46 THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND FACTS ( 908 ) Our churches record 2,047 additions the past year, the largest number reported in any one year in our history. ( 909 ) The budget last year exceeded $57,000. The churches gave last year $108,979 to missions. One new church and one new Sunday school was organized. ( 910 ) The St. Louis churches are planning for a city-wide Campaign of Evangelism in the Spring of 1926. THE BOARD OF MISSIONARY COOPERATION ( 911 ) The purpose of the Northern Baptist Convention in establishing the Board of Missionary Cooperation was to have in continuous service an agency of the Convention charged with two major duties: (1) To develop teamwork all along the Baptist line, from the individual church to the national society; and (2) to collect and distribute, as pro¬ vided in the annual budget, funds coming from donation sources. ( 912 ) That fact has a bearing on all of the other 999. ( 913 ) The Board was created “to coordinate those activi¬ ties of our participating organizations which have to do with stimulating the interest of our churches in our denominational program.” ( 914 ) The Board of Missionary Cooperation has com¬ pleted its first year and has tried earnestly to bring about a real advance in the application of cooperative methods. ( 915 ) Stimulation of interest is undertaken through Field Activities, extension of the Every Member Plan through the Stewardship Committee, the Literature and Stereopticon Service and Publicitv. ( 916 ) During the year the Field Activities Committee cooperated with State Convention officers and local Associa¬ tions in holding 74 Bible and Missionary Conferences, 17 Pastors’ Institutes, 95 Church Officers’ Councils, and 37 Spe¬ cial Campaign Conferences. ( 917 ) In cooperation with the National Council of Baptist Laymen, 54 Laymen’s Banquets were held; speakers were pro¬ vided for 34 state conventions, and for 26 summer assemblies. ( 918 ) A total of 5,687 days of service was rendered in carrying out the Field Activities program. This is equivalent to the service of one person during 15 years, 6 months, and 27 days. In all 201 different individuals assisted in this work. ( 919 ) The Board functions as both a publishing and dis¬ tributing agency for denominational literature. It publishes the material required for its own task in raising the budget, and also the literature descriptive of missionary work. ( 920 ) Last year’s most important publication was an 80- page illustrated booklet, “Into All the World,” which con¬ tained a description of the work and needs and the budget ask¬ ings of each organization in the united program. ( 921 ) With a view to coordinating publications, the Board has appointed a committee to make advance plans and review all publications proposed by Committees and Societies; and this committee is now planning the most effec¬ tive circulation of literature at the least possible expense. ( 922 ) In its distributing capacity, the Board makes avail¬ able not only its own publications, but those of other denomi¬ nations, and publications of a general religious character. ( 923 ) The Board acts as a service agency for State Con¬ ventions, Associations, and other denominational gatherings in providing literature for free distribution and sale, and fur¬ nishes local churches and their organizations with advice and material for programs for meetings, study classes, etc. ( 924 ) In Stewardship, Secretary Agar spent about half his time in the conduct of church officers’ councils, and the at¬ tendance has ranged as high as 416 at a single council. The Young People’s Stewardship Essay Contest awakened a good deal of interest, and 20,000 copies of the leaflet giving the conditions of the contest were ordered. ( 925 ) The Stereopticon division produced 30 new lec¬ tures, with a total of 180 sets, besides 8 new hymn sets. Old lectures and hymn sets were added to and revised. Slides have been sent to all parts of the United States and to Paris, Esthonia, Denmark, Porto Rico, Japan, China, Burma, South India, Africa, and the Near East. A total of about 1,300,000 people saw the lectures and heard the messages. ( 926 ) In publicity the use of our old and valued Baptist periodicals was supplemented by a special service in coop¬ eration with the editors of state bulletins. A majority of the state bulletins now use a ready-printed section, in the form of a cover or insert, prepared and supplied by the Board. A circulation averaging around 50,000 copies has been attained in a few months, which means that a valuable addition has been made to our facilities for carrying the united program message into all parts of the Northern Baptist area. ( 927 ) A characteristic of the past year has been the in¬ tensified effort in all departments to make all parts of our Northern Baptist organization better acquainted with the larger aims of the denomination and with the best practical methods for making the power of our membership more fully available for carrying the gospel into all the world. ( 928 ) It is planned to continue on these lines in the new year. In proportion as every Baptist individually does ac¬ cording to his ability, we shall all together, more unitedly and effectively, meet the requirements of a faithful stewardship, and carry out the commission of Christ. GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS American Baptist Historical Society ( 929 ) The library of this Society at Chester, Pa., pos¬ sesses one of the few important collections of Baptist books, magazines, newspapers and other Baptist items in the world. ( 930 ) The Society needs a $150,000 building, also an agent to travel and discover the priceless Baptist material still preserved in the older homes but liable to be lost. ( 931 ) A Baptist meeting house was to be replaced by a new city building. The original record box and cornerstone contents are now in possession of the Society. ( 932 ) A Welsh Baptist minister died in a Ministers’ Home. Through the interest of a friend important records which would have been discarded are now preserved. ( 933 ) In Indiana the record books of two churches were found, one covering the period from 1820 to 1855, the other from 1867 to 1879. They are now in the archives. ( 934 ) A manuscript letter of John Mason Peck written in 1841 to the General Baptist Association of Indiana accept¬ ing the position as general agent for the Western Baptist Publication and Sunday School Society was recently discov¬ ered and is now preserved, a unique item of Baptist history. ( 935 ) A Baptist layman in Pennsylvania. gathered inv portant Baptist associational minutes and other publications of half a century ago and bound them in neat and attractive form. His daughter has donated them to the Society. ( 936 ) A century old residence in New Jersey was being THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND FACTS 47 razed for a bank building. In the attic were a large number of the earliest Minutes of the Philadelphia Baptist Associ¬ ation, and one of the only two copies known of a baptismal certificate which [Morgan Edwards, the earliest writer on American Baptist history, had printed and used as early as 1762. ( 937 ) The Society possesses autograph letters of Chief Justice John Marshall, John Rippon, and Rev. David Jones, eminent Baptist chaplain in the Revolution, to his friends James Madison, James Monroe and Edmund Randolph. Baptist Young People’s Union of America ( 938 ) The activities of the Union include rallies, training institutes and summer assemblies, and disseminating material for use by city, state and provincial organizations and local young people’s societies. ( 939 ) The Board of Managers is formed into four de¬ partments to promote Devotional Life, Stewardship and Tith¬ ing, Life Service, and City, State and Associational Work. ( 940 ) The budget of the Union is $16,000. ( 941 ) The Union cooperated with other denominational agencies in the development and promotion of the Christian Life Program “for all Baptist young people” of the Northern Baptist Convention; in arousing interest in the Stewardship Essay Contest and securing enlistment in the plans for the ob¬ servance of Self-Denial and World Outlook weeks. ( 942 ) An annual convention attended by 3,000 to 5,000 is the largest single undertaking of each year. This year’s meeting will be in Indianapolis July 8-12. ( 943 ) It is estimated on very incomplete data that there are about 5,000 societies and 150,000 members. Norwegian Baptist Conference of America ( 944 ) The Conference comprises 40 churches with about 2,000 members. Baptisms last vear, 120. ( 945 ) The churches are scattered throughout New York, Massachusetts, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North and South Dakota, Washington, and Canada. ( 946 ) The Conference seeks to bring the gospel to all people of Norwegian birth or ancestry, and employs workers who can reach these people in their own language. ( 947 ) A new worker for the Atlantic coast, where Nor¬ wegian immigration is still large, will care for that field. ( 948 ) [Minimum requirement for next year is $6,500. General Conference of German Baptist Churches ( 949 ) The German Baptist churches have their own missionary society, educational society, publication society, orphans’ home society, ministers’ pension fund, old people’s and deaconesses’ homes. ( 950 ) The General Conference meets triennially; the next meeting is in Pittsburgh in August, 1925. ( 951 ) The Conference includes 286 churches, 31,837 members, and 286 ordained ministers. ( 952 ) The baptisms last year numbered 1,198; $411,445 was raised for current expenses, $260,058 for missions. Swedish Baptist General Conference ( 953 ) The Conference was organized in 1879. It com¬ prises 336 churches with 32,293 members; baptisms in 1923-24 2,101. Contributions for current expenses $894,073. Danish Baptist General Conference ( 954 ) Organized 1910; has 42 churches, 3,893 members; meets every other year in September. Other Foreign-Speaking Conferences ( 955 ) American Magyar (Hungarian) Baptist Union, organized 1908. Has 29 churches and 1,300 members. ( 956 ) Czechoslovak Baptist Conference, organized 1909. Includes 20 churches, 1,849 members, has 12 missions. School, International Baptist Seminary of East Orange. Raised for all purposes $36,229. ( 957 ) French-speaking Conference of New England, or¬ ganized 1895; 8 churches, 33 baptisms. ( 958 ) Finnish Baptist Mission Union of America, organ¬ ized 1901; 20 churches, 842 members, 50 baptisms. Raised $21,019 for current expenses. ( 959 ) Italian Baptist Association; 55 churches, 3,03c members, 290 baptisms; contributions for all purposes $25,000. School, Italian Department, Colgate University. ( 960 ) Polish Baptist Conference, organized 1912; churches 10, members 878, baptisms 142; contributions $10,000 for current expenses. ( 961 ) Roumanian Baptist Association of America, or¬ ganized 1913; churches 5, members465, baptisms 22; missions 13 with 185 members; $16,000 raised for all purposes. ( 962 ) Portuguese Baptist Conference, organized 1919; churches 5, members 306, baptisms 38. ( 963 ) Eastern Russian and Ukrainian Evangelical Bap¬ tist Union, organized 1919; 26 missions with about 500 mem¬ bers. School, the International Seminary. Facts from Many Sources ( 964 ) The plan to provide additional Christian workers for Baptist churches in Jamaica has been launched at Calabar College, Kingston, with an attendance of 20 students. ( 965 ) The International Baptist Seminary at East Orange has been incorporated by special act of legislature in New Jersey, and endorsed by the Department of Labor at Washington as an institution for the training of students who come from Europe. Enrolment 57, with 15 in Spanish- American Department at Los Angeles. ( 966 ) Easter was a glad day in Baptist mission centers in New York City. Sixty converts were baptized; and within a few weeks preceding 74 others had been baptized. ( 967 ) An enrolment of 200 each has been reached in the college departments of Shaw University, Morehouse College and Bishop College, and nearly 300 at Virginia Union Uni¬ versity. ( 968 ) The Publication Society has added to its staff a Director of Rural Sunday School Work, in the person of Mrs. F. Way land Ayer. ( 969 ) The Hebrew Mission of Buffalo is one of the later movements undertaken on behalf of all the Protestant churches by the Buffalo Baptist Union, which has bought a house and assumed financial responsibility. This is the only evangelical work done among the 30,000 Jews of the city. ( 970 ) To afford colored girls of Virginia a better chance for college training, the General Education Board has appro¬ priated $300,000 for endowment of Virginia Union University, on condition that a like amount be secured from other sources for new buildings and equipment. ( 971 ) There is significance in the fact that at the first general conference of the Christian Churches of West China at Chengtu there were present 287 Chinese and 157 foreigners. Baptist pastor Donald Fay of Chengtu, a Yachow and Rochester graduate, was among the ablest Chinese delegates. ( 972 ) A fact everywhere admitted—the World Wide Guild and Children’s World Crusade owe very much to the wise leadership of the Misses Alma and Mary Noble. ( 973 ) The First Baptist Church of Los Angeles not only had a church school of missions last year, but had organized mission study in various groups aggregating 47 classes. Note the record of giving; Home expenses $32,000; missions THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND FACTS 48 $40,490; other benevolences $12,500. Per capita giving (resi¬ dent members) $27 for missions, $56.66 for all objects. (974) William Axling says: “I have come to the conclu¬ sion that we cannot propagate Christianity. We must com- municate it.” (975) Dr. Henry C. Mabie, one of the world’s missionary statesmen, gave a missionary measuring rod: Our Interest in Missions measures our Christian Character. Our Knowledge of Missions measures our Christian Attainment. Our Partici¬ pation in Missions measures our Christian Efficiency. (976) The Newton Theological Institution celebrated its one hundredth anniversary in June in connection with the commencement. It has had a remarkable history, which will be made known more widely to our people through this happy centennial celebration. (977) Another of our seminaries with a notable celebra¬ tion is Rochester, which reached its seventy-fifth anniversary this year. (978) The South India Mission during this year will com¬ plete fifty years of missionary work in the Deccan. Missions has in hand a historical sketch by C. R. Marsh. (979) Missions began its existence in 1910 as the com¬ bined missionary magazine of Northern Baptists. It has made its place as the leading denominational missionary magazine. Its subscription list of 50,000 is less than one-half it should be, and this is one of the thousand facts that should be speedily changed. (980) The denominational literature is informing, edu¬ cational, attractive and effective. Pastors who do not know this at first hand deprive themselves and their people of one of the most far-reaching and influential means of creating in¬ terest not only in missions but in the church work as well. (981) These 1,000 Facts have been made humanly inter¬ esting, as far as possible. Use the imagination and see if even the dryest statement will not surrender some living detail, or in some way translate mere fact into throbbing activity or high purpose or noble idealism. We see what we look for. (982) One of the notable instances of advance in self- support comes from Kurnool, the field of Missionary W. A. Stanton. All his workers—10 pastors, 3 evangelists and 76 teachers—were maintained by funds raised on the field. (983) A young Italian who idly dropped in at Mariners’ Temple service at which two Chinese were baptized, remained to pray and gave his heart to Christ. (984) If the many Baptist laymen who awoke to de¬ nominational needs and claims in March and April, 1925, will stay awake and begin the same kind of activities in June, 1925, they will make a different year of it. (985) The First Baptist Church of Redlands, California, has had a School of Missions for five seasons, with attendance rising to an enrolment of 464 in the fifth session. The church’s allotment in the New World Movement was $67,250, its sub¬ scription reached $68,185. In the last two years its member¬ ship increased from 476 to 898. Some may see a connection between these three facts. (986) The last three years have recorded more than 53,700 baptisms on the foreign fields—a total unequaled in any like period in the Society’s history. The record for the no years of service is 413,172 in non-Christian lands. (987) Statistics in The World Missionary Atlas show that in their combined work our Baptist Foreign Mission Societies rank among the four or five largest in the world. (988) Baptisms reported by missionaries of the Home Mission Society during the year ending April 30 totaled 4,639. This does not include baptisms traceable to labors of the 22 general evangelists, nor baptisms following evangelistic work in the 15 Negro schools in the South. (989) The Publication Society gave away and sold 46,316 copies of the Scriptures last year. (990) The Woman’s Home Mission Society puts $51,184 into the important and immediately repaying work of the 27 Christian Centers, located in 14 States and Porto Rico. (991) According to the world totals in the Baptist Year Book for 1924 there were 10,426,680 Baptists in 1923, giving 1,000,000 to Russia. The churches were put at 73,199, the ministers at 55,324. The totals include all varieties of Bap¬ tists; we doubt the value of the figures for anything more than estimates. (992) The list of our Northern Baptist missionaries in foreign lands will be found in the American Baptist Year Book; also the list of home missionaries, with their addresses. (993) In the Northern Baptist Convention territory there are 37 State Conventions and 432 Associations. (994) Northern Baptist churches raised in 1923-24 for current expenses $23,664,055; for beneficence $8,835,858— total $32,499,913. (995) The Negro Baptists of the entire country are cred¬ ited with 21,808 churches, 19,296 ministers, 3,137,160 mem¬ bers. They raised $3,161,505 for current expenses, $856,920 for beneficence—total $4,018,425. (996) There are 43 Foreign-speaking Conferences, hav¬ ing 919 churches, 80,197 members, and 698 ministers; they reported last year 4,533 baptisms. (997) The Baptist World Alliance has Dr. E. Y. Mullins as President; Dr. J. H. Rushbrooke as Secretary, and Dr. Clifton D. Gray as American Secretary. Its next meeting will be held in Toronto, Canada, in July, 1928. (998) If you think it easy to collect 1,000 Facts, suppose you try to collect and prepare for the printer—say 100. (999) It was with gladness that Missions gave its issue of July, 1924, to the service of the denomination in carrying its readers “Into All the World’' via the special edition that made such telling appeal. ( 1000 ) It is with like joy that Missions devotes this issue of June, 1925, to a similar service, presenting to our entire constituency this collection of 1,000 Facts concerning all phases of our denominational work. The Editors submit the result with the hope that every Fact may find lodgment in such wise as to produce the response that shall make many more thousands of Facts possible, to the extension of Christ’s reign and the fuller realization of His Great Commission. « i « TO THE THOUSAND FACTS ADD THIS CONVICTION: THAT IF THE £ H INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THESE FACTS COULD BE VITALIZED v § IN THE MIND, HEART AND CONSCIENCE OF NORTHERN BAPTISTS, 1 1 THE FUNDS NEEDED FOR 1925-26 WOULD BE ASSURED IN ADVANCE. H $ I Denominational Directory The Northern Baptist Convention President—Hon. Carl E. Milliken, Maine. Corresponding Secretary—W. C. Bitting. D.D., 5109 Waterman Ave., St. Louis, Mo. Treasurer—F. L. Miner, 1000 Valley Nat’l Bank Bldg., Des Moines, la. American Baptist Foreign Mission Society Address of all Secretaries: 276 Fifth Avenue, New York President—Fred T. Field, Massachusetts. Foreign Secretary—James H. Franklin, D.D. Foreign Secretary—Joseph C. Robbins, D.D. Home Secretary—Rev. P. H. J. Lerrigo, M.D. Associate and Recording Secretary—Wm. B. Lippl.ard. Treasurer—George B. Huntington. Woman’s American Baptist Foreign Mission Society 276 Fifth Avenue, New York President—Mrs. H. E. Goodman, Illinois. Foreign Vice-President—Mrs. Nathan R. Wood, Massachusetts. Administrative Vice-President—Mrs. Howard Wayne Smith, Pa. Foreign and Candidate Secretary—Miss Mabelle Rae McVeigh. Administrative Secretary—Mrs. L. J. P. Bishop. Treasurer—Miss Alice M. Hudson. The American Baptist Home Mission Society Headquarters: 23 East 26th Street, New York President—Judge Frank S. Dietrich, Idaho. Executive Secretary—Charles L. White, D.D. Secretary of Missions—Frank A. Smith, D.D. Secretary of Education—G. R. Hovey, D.D. Treasurer—Samuel Bryant, New York. Architect-Secretary—George E. Merrill. Superintendent of Evangelism—H . F. Stilwell, D.D. Superintendent of Work in Latin North America—Rev. C. S. Detweiler. Field Representative—Alonzo M.Petty, D.D.; Director Indian Missions —Bruce Kinney, D.D.; Director Mexican Work—Rev. E. R. Brown; Director Chinese Work—C. R. Shepherd, Th.D.; Director Christian Centers—Rev. J.M.Hestenes; Director Hindu Work—Rev. Theodore Fieldbrave. Woman’s American Baptist Home Mission Society 276 Fifth Avenue, New York President—Mrs. G. W. Coleman, Boston. Executive Secretary—Mrs. Katherine S. Westfall. Missionary Correspondence Secretary—Clara E. Norcutt. Organization Secretary—Ina E. Burton. Christian Americanization Secretary—Alice W. S. Brimson, Chicago. Editorial Secretary—Miriam Davis. Treasurer—Mrs. Mary E. Bloomer. American Baptist Publication Society 1701 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. President—A. M. Bailey, D.D., Washington. Executive Secretary—W. H. Main, D.D. Treasurer—George L. Estabrook. Business Manager—H. E. Cressman. Bible and Field Secretary—S. G. Neil, D.D. Religious Education Secretary—W. E. Chalmers, D.D. Social Education Secretary—S. Z. Batten, D.D. Book Editor—D. G. Stevens, Ph.D. Editor-in-Chief S. S. Publications—-Owen C. Brown, D.D. Branches: Boston, Mass., 16 Ashburton Place; Chicago, Ill., 125 N. Wa¬ bash Ave.; Los Angeles, Calif., 313 W. Third St.; Kansas City, Mo., 1107 McGee St.; Seattle, Wash., 439 Burke Bldg.; Toronto, Canada, 223 Church St. Board of Education 276 Fifth Avenue, New York Secretary—F. W. Padelford, D.D. Associate Secretary—Geo. R. Baker, D.D. Secretary Missionary Education—Rev. W. A. Hill. Secretary World Wide Guild—Alma J. Noble. Secretary Children’s World Crusade—Mary L. Noble. Address last two, 218 Lancaster Ave., Buffalo, N. Y. The Ministers and Missionaries Benefit Board 276 Fifth Avenue, New York President—Avery A. Shaw, D.D. Secretary—E. T. Tomlinson, D.D. Associate Secretary—Peter C. Wright, D.D Treasurer—Arthur M. Harris. The Board of Missionary Cooperation Address all Correspondence to 276 Fifth Avenue, New York OFFICERS Chairman—W. H. Witty. Vice-Chairmen—Mrs. G. C. Moor, E. J. Steinberg. Acting Executive Secretary—W. H. Bowler, D.D. Recording Secretary—William B. Lipphard. Assistant Treasurer—H. R. Bowler. ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE Foreign Mission Society—Frederick L. Anderson, D.D.; Home Mission Society—G. W. Palmer; Woman's Foreign Mission Society—Mrs. H. E. Goodman; Woman’s Home Mission Society—Mrs. George W. Coleman; Publication Society—Joseph E. Sagebeer; Education Board —Mrs. C. D. Eulette; M. & M. Benefit Board—Arthur M. Harris; State Conventions—Henry Bond, E. H. Rhoades, Jr.; Schools and Colleges—Clarence A. Barbour, D.D.; Standard City Mission So¬ cieties—W. T. Jerome, Jr. Members-at-large—Mrs. W. A. Montgom¬ ery, Mrs. John Nuveen, J. W. Baker, Ray L. Hudson, James McGee, John M. Moore. Ex-officio—W. H. Witty. LITERATURE AND STEREOPTICON BUREAUS Main Bureau: 2 76 Fifth Ave., New York; Branches: 2328 So. Michigan Ave., Chicago; 700 Ford Building, Boston; 504 Columbia Bldg., Los Angeles. Stereopticon Lectures may also be had from State Secretaries marked S. Directors of State Boards of Promotion (Star indicates that Director is also State Convention Secretary) Arizona—*Dr. H. Q. Morton, 216 Home Builders Building, Phcenix. California, N.—*Dr. C. W. Brinstad, 1213 Humboldt Savings Bank Bldg., 783 Market St , San Francisco. S. California, S.—*Dr. W. F. Harper, 506 Columbia Bldg., Los Angeles. Colorado—*Dr. F. B. Palmer, 317 Colorado Bldg., Denver. S. Connecticut—Rev. H. B. Sloat, 720 Main St., Hartford. S. Delaware—Rev. Wm. G. Russell, 1701 Chestnut St., Philadelphia. District of Columbia—*Dr. H. W. O. Millington, 320 Woodward Bldg., Washington. Idaho—*Rev. W. A. Shanks, Empire Bldg., Boise. Illinois—*Dr. A. E. Peterson, 2320 So. Michigan Ave., Chicago. Indiana—*Dr. C. M. Dinsmore, 1729 No. Illinois St., Indianapolis. S. Iowa—*D r . G. P. Mitchell, 406 Valley Nat'l Bank Bldg., Des Moines. S. Kansas—*Dr. J. T. Crawford, 918 Kansas Ave., Topeka. S. Maine—Dr. E. C. Whittemore, Waterville. Massachusetts—*H. A. Heath, D.D., 702 Ford Building, Boston. Michigan—*Dr. John E. Smith, 368 Capital Nat’l Bank Bldg., Lansing. S. Minnesota—*Rev. E. H. Rasmussen, 700 Office Equipment Bldg., 529 2d Ave., So. Minneapolis. S. Missouri—M. D. Eubank, M.D., 1107 McGee St., Kansas City. Montana—*Rev. E R. Curry, Box 604, Helena. Nebraska—*Rev. F. W. Ainslie, Hedde Building, Grand Island, S. Nevada—Lester T. Randolph, Salt Lake City, Utah. New Hampshire—*Rev. D. S. Jenks, 922 Elm St., Manchester, N. H. New Jersey—*Dr. C. E. Goodall, 158 Washington St., Newark. New York—Dr. R. E. Farrier, 487 So. Salina St., Syracuse. Metropolitan Board of Missionary Cooperation—Dr. C. H. Sears, Rev. E. C. Kunkle, 276 Fifth Ave., New York. North Dakota—*Dr. F. E. Stockton, 405 First Nat’l Bank Bldg., Grand Forks. Ohio—*Dr. T. F. Chambers, Granville. S. Oregon—*Dr. O. C. Wright, 505 Odd Fellows Bldg., Portland. S. Pennsylvania—Rev. Wm. G. Russell, 1701 Chestnut St., Philadelphia. S. Rhode Island—*Rev. William Reid, 304 Lauderdale Bldg., Providence. South Dakota—*Rev. John L. Barton, Hub Bldg., Sioux Falls. Utah—Lester T. Randolph, Salt Lake City. Vermont—*Dr. W. A. Davison, Burlington. Washington, E.—*Dr. A. H. Bailey, 501 Empire State Bldg., Spokane. Washington, W.—*Dr. J. F. Watson, 433 Burke Bldg., Seattle. West Virginia—*Rev. A. S. Kelley, 213■/£ Fourth St., Parkersburg. S. Wisconsin—*Dr. A. Le Grand, 1717 Wells St., Milwaukee. S. Wyoming—*Rev. J. P. Jacobs, D.D., P. O. Box 1545, Casper. State Convention Secretaries Not Directors Connecticut—Dr. E. E. Gates, 720 Main St., Hartford. Delaware—Dr. Geo. D. Allison, 808 Franklin St., Wilmington Maine—Dr. I. B. Mower, Waterville. New York—Rev. H. C Colebrook, Syracuse. Pennsylvania—Dr. C. A. Soars, 1701 Chestnut St., Philadelphia. Standard City Mission Societies—Class A Boston—Rev. A. A. Forshee, 525 Tremont Temple. Brooklyn—Rev. C. H. Sears, 276 Fifth Avenue. Buffalo—Rev. E. H. Dutton, 409 Crosby Bldg. Chicago—Rev. Benjamin Otto, 2328 So. Michigan Ave. Cleveland—Rev. D. R. Sharpe, 1134 Schofield Bldg. Detroit—Rev. H. C. Gleiss, 325 Ford Bldg. Kansas City, Mo.—Rev. C. P. Jones, 1107 Magee St. Los Angeles—Rev. J. B. Fox, 313 West Third St. New York City—Rev. C. H. Sears, 276 Fifth Ave. Philadelphia—Rev. O. T. Steward, 1701 Chestnut St. Pittsburgh—Rev. W. C. Chappell, 832 Bigelow Place. Rochester, N. Y.—Rev. A. E. Isaac, 43 Fitzhugh St. St. Louis—Rev. S. E. Ewing, 706 Security Bldg. San Francisco—Rev. C. E. Tingley, 408 Humboldt Bank Bldg. Edward Danger Printing Co., Inc., Jamaica, New York City