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 Persistent Calls 
 Demand Answer-Yes o«No 
 
 t ur representatives on the field 
 have done and will do their part 
 Will the men and women 
 at home do theirs? 
 
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Wfie Call anb ttje liifaegttiient 
 
 The Foreign Work of the Presby- 
 terian Church has recently developed 
 so rapidly that the annual appropria- 
 tions have not kept pace with even a 
 normal growth, and unusual open- 
 ings have necessarily been neglected 
 till the situation in places has become 
 acute, especially in the educational 
 and evangelistic departments. 
 
 Therefore, after most careful con- 
 sideration, and much correspond- 
 ence, and selecting from the objects 
 approved by the Missions those de- 
 manding immediate attention, the 
 Board has, with the authorization of 
 the General Assembly, instituted a 
 financial campaign for objects abso- 
 lutely necessary in addition to the 
 regular work. 
 
 A Million DoUar Investment will 
 
 be necessary at once if we are to 
 meet the demands, be assured of 
 holding ground already taken, and 
 make an advance at all in accord 
 with the pressing requirements of the 
 work, with the ability of the church 
 and with the enlargement and de- 
 velopments at home. 
 
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Christian Strategy demands it, and 
 the forward steps are such as wise 
 judgment and true faith demand in 
 view of present world conditions 
 and the clear call of God. 
 
 The Magnitude of the Investment 
 of the Presbyterian Church in For- 
 eign Missions is not yet fully appre- 
 ciated by the Church at large, though 
 appropriations for the year ending 
 March 31, 1916, were $2,255,918- 
 .29, and the total actual contribu- 
 tions and credits for the work were 
 
 $2,287,398.81. 
 
 Two and a quarter millions is but 
 
 a small item when we consider: The 
 size of the problem, the unfinished 
 work, and the abounding capacity of 
 our people in the face of present 
 opportunities. Is it not our duty to 
 go forward to meet our task and to 
 sound a call to other churches to go 
 forward with us? 
 
 It is proposed therefore that: 
 
 Every member of the Presbyterian 
 Church shall be given the oppor- 
 tunity to contribute in 1916-17 to- 
 
ward this million dollar fund such 
 a gift as they may feel able to give, 
 in addition to their regular contribu- 
 tions to the Foreign Board. 
 
 Board Secretaries, returned mis- 
 sionaries and others will be in readi- 
 ness to co-operate in local campaigns 
 covering as many days as necessary 
 — these proposed campaigns to con- 
 sist of sermons and addresses, men’s 
 dinners, luncheons, and such other 
 gatherings as may locally seem wise 
 and desirable. 
 
 Every Missionary Committeeman 
 and Pastor will be interested and 
 
 will desire that his own church shall 
 be identified with this new advance 
 in a time of world wide changes. 
 He should not wait, but is urged to 
 write at once for further information 
 and co-operation to: 
 
 The Home Department 
 
 OF THE 
 
 Board of Foreign Missions of the 
 Presbyterian Church in the U. S, A. 
 
 156 FIFTH AVE., NEW YORK 
 
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 Hatin America 
 
 Commercial, Political 
 $100,000 and Social conditions in 
 Latin America were 
 never so studied by North America 
 as they have been during the war. 
 If strong men in the United States 
 are really awake to the opportunity, 
 they will share and lead in the next 
 ten years in a development on all 
 lines entirely eclipsing everything in 
 the past. The development is in- 
 evitable; it is only a question of 
 leadership and conservation. Clear- 
 ly it must include a great advance 
 by the Church of Christ unless we 
 fail ignominiously. 
 
 The work must be reconstructed 
 in Mexico where the Board has 
 agreed to remove its operations to 
 
the Southern States which have been 
 almost unoccupied and it must be 
 in a position to join in the united 
 development of publications and 
 higher schools. 
 
 Colombia with 4,000,000 popula- 
 tion, is left entirely to our mission- 
 aries. Ours is the only church mis- 
 sion in Venezuela and Guatemala. 
 
 The amount asked for is for evangel- 
 ization and schools, and necessary 
 facilities for the work, including better 
 equipment for two agricultural and 
 industrial schools in Brazil; a theolog- 
 ical seminary for the Methodists and 
 ourselves needed in Chile, with the 
 means to conduct an evangelistic 
 campaign in the great central and 
 populous valley from Santiago to Con- 
 cepcion ; re-establishment in Mexico, 
 and an enlargement of the work of 
 direct evangelism in every field. 
 

 PRIMARY AND GRAMMAR DEPARTMENTS. BOY'S COLLEGE, BOGOTA. COLOMBIA. 
 
^lUiman Snsititiitc, 
 
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 One of the most dis- 
 $50,000 tinct challenges offered 
 the Presbyterian Church 
 is the situation in the Silliman Insti- 
 tute, Philippine Islands. One of the 
 greatest centers of evangelistic, edu- 
 cational activity in the whole mission 
 field is this group of 700 students 
 at Dumaguete, on the Island of 
 Negros. More than 300 were re- 
 cently turned away for lack of ac- 
 commodations. The responsibility 
 of this enterprise falls upon our 
 church. The satisfaction and joy 
 that will come from this bit of far 
 extending service is for some Pres- 
 byterian individual or group— a 
 satisfaction further emphasized by 
 the fact that the native Filipinos 
 themselves are endeavoring to raise 
 an additional $50,000. 
 
 As far back as 1 904 Hon. W. H. 
 Taft, then Civil Governor of the 
 Philippine Islands, said that Silli- 
 man Institute had done more to 
 pacify the Island of Negros than all 
 the efforts of the American Govern- 
 ment. 
 
CLASS IN AGRICULTURE, SILLIMAN INSTITUTE. 
 
Persia— College at ^eljeran 
 
 One of the great 
 $50,000 schools under the con- 
 trol of the Board is the 
 high school at Teheran, with an over- 
 crowded enrollment of 540 Persians, 
 Armenians, Hebrews and Zoroas- 
 trians. 
 
 There is needed $50,000 at once 
 to begin buildings and to furnish 
 initial equipment toward providing 
 t’ e institution urgently demanded at 
 this critical time in the history of 
 Persia. American colleges are 
 found in almost every land. In 
 Persia there is not a college of any 
 sort. 
 
 The people have lost faith in the 
 old way of doing things. They are 
 fully persuaded that Western educa- 
 tion will solve all their difficulties 
 and are determined to have it for 
 their children, and they send them 
 in ever increasing numbers to our 
 school. To provide a true Christian 
 training for the young men of Persia 
 is our special task. 
 
 The land has been secured with 
 the assistance of the Russian and 
 British banks in Teheran. Buildings 
 and teachers are needed. Our Mis- 
 sion is alone in the work in the whole 
 Northern half of Persia. 
 
HIGH 'SCHOOL DEPARTMENT. AMERICAN HIGH SCHOOL. TEHERAN. 
 
^iam 
 
 The Only Missionary 
 $50,000 Organization at work 
 in Siam is the American 
 Presbyterian Church. 
 
 Large areas of the country have 
 never been reached, and no mis- 
 sionaries are now free and prepared 
 for direct evangelistic work in Bang- 
 kok, the capital, with a population 
 of 800 , 000 . 
 
 The Young King himself, edu- 
 cated in England, and eager to ad- 
 vance the interests of his people, 
 praises especially, the educational 
 and medical work of the mission- 
 aries. 
 
 Large Sections of China, to the 
 North and East, can best be reached 
 by the missionaries and language of 
 Siam. 
 
 The King’s Brother, Prince 
 Mehadol, is now in this country 
 studying sanitation, the relation of 
 alcohol to disease, and kindred 
 topics. 
 
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The Newspapers Correspondents 
 
 report him saying : “ I came here 
 
 because I believe I can learn most 
 here and because we need American 
 sympathy and help. We want to 
 trade with you and want you to take 
 an interest in us. King Vajiravudh is 
 the only independent Buddhist sov- 
 ereign in the, world, and as such is 
 regarded as the chief champion of the 
 religion of Buddha. Nevertheless, 
 no foreigners are more welcome in 
 Siam than the missionaries. They 
 have done wonderful things for us, 
 and the Presbyterian Board has 
 greatly aided our educational author- 
 ities. Their deeds are the kind that 
 will live after them, a constant inspir- 
 ation for good ” (JDail^ papers. Sept. 
 
 25 , 1916 .) 
 
 Will the Men and Women of the 
 Church Meet the Challenge ? 
 
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DR. PEOPLES AND SIAMESE EVANGELISTS, 
 
Cfjma Cbangelisitic anb 
 Cbucational iSteebsi 
 
 Cbangelis^tic 
 
 In scores of the walled 
 
 $50,000 cities of China the out- 
 standing feature is a 
 great stone or brick pawn shop 
 which because of recent social 
 changes has fallen into disuse. One 
 of these can be purchased or a new 
 building can be erected, and fitted 
 out as a church with rooms for a 
 native minister and his family, sev- 
 eral Bible women, occasional guests, 
 and other features essential to such 
 work, at a cost of about $ 5 , 000 . 
 Strong native workers will cost about 
 $500 annually, and are now avail- 
 able. 
 
 It would mean the immediate in- 
 stallation of a work in new cities of 
 such a character as to attract the at- 
 tention of all classes, and from ex- 
 periments already made, should 
 
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mean the interest and early co- 
 operation of scholars and officials, 
 and a self-sustaining congregation in 
 less than five years. An individual 
 can take over the evangelistic pro- 
 gram of an entire city with an orig- 
 inal investment of $5,000 and an 
 annual outlay of $500. What an 
 opportunity for a modest, effective 
 memorial, or plain investment! In 
 addition the work of country evan- 
 gelization and itineration as well as 
 of city chapel preaching needs to be 
 enlarged in each of our seven Mis- 
 sions in China. 
 
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Cbttcatforal 
 
 Christian education is 
 $70,000 one of China’s greatest 
 
 needs. In the City of 
 Peking there has recently been 
 formed a Union Christian University, 
 uniting the various educational in- 
 stitutions hitherto carried on by the 
 Congregational Churches of the 
 United States and England, and the 
 Methodist and Presbyterian churches 
 in the United States. This new and 
 large university requires a new site 
 and buildings, as the plants of the 
 former institutions are too small and 
 are needed for Preparatory Acad- 
 emies. Each organization compos- 
 ing the Union is to give a stipulated 
 sum for the general fund, the share 
 of the Presbyterian church being 
 $70,000, but with the real need of 
 $100,000. This amount is modest 
 when it is noted that this great Uni- 
 versity is located in the Capital at 
 China, in the great province of 
 Chihli with a population of nearly 
 21,000,000 people, and in a posi- 
 tion of extraordinary strategic im- 
 portance, not only for that province, 
 but for the whole Republic. 
 
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THEOLOGICAL CLASS IN CHINA. 
 
 THE SORT OF MEN WHO WILL MAKE CHINA'S EVANGELIZATION POSSIBLE 
 
®nion €bucational OTiorfe 
 in Japan 
 
 All the higher educa- 
 
 $50,000 tional work of the 
 Board in Japan is done 
 co-operatively. Its only higher 
 school for the education of young 
 men and the preparation of Chris- 
 tian teachers and preachers is the 
 Meiji Gakuin which is supported 
 jointly by us and the Board of Mis- 
 sions of the Reformed Church. It 
 is imperative that we strengthen the 
 work of this school, both for the sake 
 of the work in Japan and in the in- 
 terest of the work in Korea, where 
 the Japanese teachers required in the 
 Mission schools should be earnest 
 and well prepared Christian men. 
 In addition to the strengthening of 
 the Meiji Gakuin the Board desires 
 to be in a position to join in the 
 movement for a Christian University. 
 
 A Union Christian College for 
 Japanese Women is now at last as- 
 sured. The Mission Boards of the 
 Baptist, Methodist, Canadian Metho- 
 dist and Reformed churches, to- 
 
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gather with the Women’s Union Mis- 
 sionary Society, have already agreed 
 upon the plan for this Union College 
 for Japanese Women, to be located 
 in Tokio. It is to be a first class 
 institution of higher grade than is 
 now open to women in Japan, and 
 will be an interdenominational col- 
 lege for training Christian Japanese 
 women for service among their own 
 people, with a curriculum adapted 
 to- the needs of that country, and 
 recognizing the leadership and co- 
 operation of the Japanese as essen- 
 tial to success. No more significant 
 union enterprise has been organized 
 in Japan in the last quarter of a cen- 
 tury than this great institution. Each 
 of the societies cooperating is to con- 
 tribute its quota toward the equip- 
 ment, and $22,500 is apportioned 
 to the Presbyterian Church. Here 
 is an opportunity for some “Great 
 Heart” to do a royal act of love for 
 the womanhood of Japan. 
 
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ALLiMN! OF THE "KOKURIKO JO GAKKO” AT KANAZAWA. THIRTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF SCHOOL. 
 
Siibia 
 
 The outstanding fea- 
 $50,000 ture in India today is 
 
 the great Mass Move- 
 ment toward Christianity now affect- 
 ing large bodies of the people, and 
 unprecedented in the history of Mis- 
 sions. It has been going on for 
 years, but it has been impossible for 
 the missionaries within the limit of 
 the appropriations to meet the press- 
 ing demands made upon them by 
 the large number of those who are 
 open to baptism. It is an oppor- 
 tunity which may pass away. The 
 regular organized work of the mis- 
 sions is insufficient to meet this ex- 
 traordinary crisis and the Board 
 earnestly asks for increased funds to 
 be used exclusively for evangelistic 
 work among the masses of the 
 people of India. 
 
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ittoga Huilbing Jfunb 
 
 One result of the Mass Movement 
 in India is that there are today 20,- 
 000 Christians of this class in the 
 bounds of the Punjab Mission of the 
 Presbyterian Church, more than half 
 of them having come within the 
 last five years. They are farm 
 hands, impoverished, illiterate and 
 living under conditions unspeakably 
 wretched. The problem of the 
 church is to help them where they 
 are. There are now in the Mission 
 1,000 villages in which there are 
 Christians, and there are schools in 
 less than 1 00 of these. 
 
 There is a training school for 
 village teachers at Moga with ninety 
 students, which should be increased 
 to at least three hundred. There 
 should be provided plain buildings, 
 for schools and dormitories, and 
 shops for carpenters, blacksmiths, 
 and others. A farm of at least fifty 
 acres should be provided and given 
 a modern equipment, such as stables, 
 dairy buildings, wells, carts, oxen, 
 cows, poultry, plows, drills, etc., etc. 
 This is practical, and much has al- 
 ready been done with almost no 
 equipment. The possibilities seem 
 unlimited. 
 
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PREACHING SERVICE AMONG THE OUTCASTS OF INDIA 
 
^probeb ^ropertp i^eebsi 
 
 The Board has for 
 $530,000 many years been un- 
 able to make any spe- 
 cial appropriation for new property, 
 and at this time the approved prop- 
 erty list, which means the most 
 urgent properties asked for by the 
 Missions and approved by the Board 
 amounts to $530,000. The list 
 furnished by the China Council num- 
 bers 1 86 different items, and lists 
 from other missions are large and of 
 pressing importance to their work. 
 In each case, care has been taken 
 to eliminate all requests that in the 
 judgment of the majority of the Mis- 
 sion were not urgent, and the re- 
 quests have been pared down to the 
 lowest possible limit. 
 
 No better evidence could be given 
 the church at large of the vast ex- 
 pansion of the work than the simple 
 statement that the Board would to- 
 morrow grant requests for property 
 to the amount of $530,000 as essen- 
 tial to the work if generous donors 
 at home could be counted on to fur- 
 nish the money. 
 
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“CALLS FROM THE FOREIGN FIELD” 
 
 BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN THE U. S. A. 
 
FORM 2^4*8 
 
 NOVCMSEn 1016