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 President . . . .Mrs. John S. Bussing 
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 Treasurer . . . .Mrs. Kenneth G. White 
 
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 THE STATELY TEPEES. 
 
 A Memory and a Message 
 
 Mrs. Alfred E. Myers. 
 
 <ip^ROM out the silver circle of the years," we look, beyond 
 the quarter-century of service just closed, back to those 
 historic days early in the seventeenth century when, in the 
 "Church in the Fort" on the island of Manhattan, our fore- 
 fathers gathered for the worship of God. 
 
 It was a group of earnest and devout men and women, 
 with their pastor — Hollanders — true to their religious con- 
 victions and loyal to the Church of the Netherlands, who met 
 here. On that very spot in the years to come, thousands in a 
 day would find their port of entrance into the New World, 
 where their futures would be guided and influenced by the 
 principles and religious teachings of those who worshipped 
 in the church in the Fort. 
 
 As the years passed on, many churches were established in 
 and about New York, along the banks of the Hudson and its 
 tributaries, and through the States of New Jersey and Penn- 
 sylvania, all bearing the name of the Dutch Reformed Church. 
 
 Out on the frontier settlements of Illinois, Michigan and 
 Wisconsin, the little church and school house were erected side 
 by side, to grow in the lapse of years intO' the stately Church 
 edifice, the College and the Theological Seminary. 
 
 And still westward our churches were extended, in Iowa, 
 Minnesota, Nebraska, the Dakotas, Kansas and Montana, 
 until to-day they span the continent from the point of begin- 
 
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ning on the Atlantic Coast to the shore of the Pacific Ocean. 
 
 In the great Southwest our Indian missions, and in Ken- 
 tucky our Mountain missions, testify to aggressive missionary 
 enterprise, while in the new State of Oklahoma we are grow- 
 ing apace with the towns and cities that in this wonderful land 
 develop so quickly from a village of tents. 
 
 We thank God for His goodness and for His loving kind- 
 ness in all the years that are past, and we praise Him for 
 giving to us the joy of service in His Kingdom on earth. 
 
 "The silver circle of the years is closed and clasped," but 
 looking forward into the future we recognize the opportunities 
 and the responsibilities awaiting us. As handmaidens of the 
 King, we are pledged to His service, and to the extension of 
 His Kingdom on the earth. 
 
 ''Lift up your eyes and behold." There are coming to our 
 doors, and making their homes in every town and city of our 
 land, people from every race and nation on the globe, many 
 of them heathen, actually setting up their temples for the 
 worship of their gods of bronze and stone along our streets 
 and thoroughfares. Others, without God, professing that 
 they know Him not. Some with vain philosophies and dan- 
 gerous sentiments against government and law ; the follow- 
 ers of Buddha and Confucius, the Mahommedan, the infidel, 
 the anarchist. What are we doing for these, our neighbors ? 
 
 From the days when the slave ship brought its cargo- of 
 human souls to our shores, until the present time, what have 
 we done to elevate and educate and Christianize the Negro, 
 our neighbor in the Southern States? 
 
 The islands of the sea, Cuba, Porto Rico, Hawaii, the 
 Philippines, with their large populations under the yoke and 
 bondage of the Romish Church, are holding out their hands 
 for help. What answer have we given to this appeal from our 
 island neighbors? 
 
 Many tribes of Indians are yet without the Gospel. In the 
 mountain fastnesses of the South are homes destitute of the 
 knowledge and love of Christ. In Mexico, in Alaska, in 
 South America, our neighbors are calling, "Come over and 
 help us." How have we answered this appeal? 
 
 And the problems of the city, how they crowd upon us ! 
 The poor, the sick, the aged, the little children, the unem- 
 ployed, all holding out pleading hands to us, their neighbors. 
 How have we answered them? 
 
 God grant us a clearer vision of what His will is, a greater 
 courage in undertaking new responsibilities, a stronger faith 
 in laying hold upon His promises, until "the Kingdoms of 
 this world are become the Kingdom of our Lord, and He 
 shall reign for ever and ever." 
 
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A MICHIGAN PADSONAGE. 
 
 Out of the Past 
 
 Mrs. John S. Allen. 
 
 A QUARTER Century of Missions ! How much it holds 
 of loving and of doing ! It speaks of thousands scat- 
 tered near and far throughout our land ; who, made one in 
 Christ, sought by service and sacrifice to bring the uplift of 
 His gospel to all Americans, East and West, to Indians, 
 Mountaineers, Orientals, Aliens, to all who dwell under our 
 flag. 
 
 No record of what these years have brought to the 
 Women's Executive Committee can be complete without af- 
 fectionate mention of one whose hand led, and whose voice 
 persuaded during eighteen years of continuous service as Sec- 
 retary, Mrs. Kate B. Horton. It is indeed fitting that her 
 pen should tell of what was the earliest purpose and work of 
 the Committee, as we find it in her Fifteenth Anniversary 
 leaflet. "Remember this date — Nov. 8, 1882. That day in 
 Newark, N. J., the Jubilee Convention of the Board of 
 Domestic Missions was held and in planning greater work 
 the Board urged the women of our denomination to organize 
 for work in the home field. 
 
 "Thus urged, some women, less than a score in all, re- 
 sponded and then and there the Women's Executive Com- 
 mittee was formed. 
 
 "When officered and equipped the new organization sought 
 work to- do. The Domestic Board was building churches in 
 
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CHURCH AND PARSONAGE, THOMAS, OKLAHOMA. 
 
 the home field and paying its missionary pastors such salaries 
 as its treasury permitted, but the women trained to^ consider 
 minor details of household economy found themselves won- 
 dering how a minister with a salary of $600 or $800 and a 
 family of six or more could afford to pay rent. 
 
 "Like an inspiration, then, our work flashed upon us and 
 we said, 'We will build parsonages for our missionary pastors 
 and their families.' Our first appropriations were for two 
 .parsonages in South Dakota, our next for repairing a church 
 in New York." 
 
 The work on church and parsonage thus linked together 
 at the very beginning, has ever since been inseparable. 
 
 In twenty-five years one hundred and twenty-one of these 
 homes have been built. 
 
 When we speak of "building" a church or parsonage, it 
 does not mean that we have given the full cost of the building. 
 The rule is invariable that we give only what the people 
 themselves cannot possibly raise. 
 
 This early work of the Committee still claims a large 
 place, and together with it, under the term General Work, a 
 many-sided ministry is carried forward, which covers special 
 gifts, Christmas and missionary boxes and the student mis- 
 sionary work. 
 
 The year 1908 marks the opening of another department 
 of work, and finds the Committee taking its place in an effort 
 to help solve the problem of Christianizing the millions of 
 aliens now coming into our country. The specific work to 
 
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A KENTUCKY MOUNTAIN HOME. 
 
 which providential leading seemed to point was a neglected 
 tield among the thousands of Japanese in and near New 
 York. 
 
 A specially fitted worker was foimd in Mr. E. A. Ohori, a 
 Japanese student at our Seminary in New Brunswick, who 
 welcomed the opportunity of preaching Christ to his fellow 
 countrymen. 
 
 And so our work has widened with the years, new oc- 
 casions teaching new duties, and as we look beyond to what 
 the future holds we see no horizon limit, but an ever growing 
 nation, gathered from every people of the earth a hundred 
 millions of souls and more, all these to be wrought into a 
 Commonwealth of Christ that shall one day Christianize the 
 world. 
 
 Our First Special Mission — The Indians 
 
 Mrs. Charles A. Runk. 
 
 COLONY MISSION. 
 
 T N 1895 the first Indian Mission was started in Colony, Okla- 
 homa, by Rev. Frank H. Wright, our pioneer missionary. 
 The Columbian Memorial Church was erected there, and a 
 parsonage, and Rev. and Mrs. Walter C. Roe took charge of 
 the work with such energy and wise control that the results 
 have been far beyond any calculation. 
 
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COLUMBIAN MEMORIAL CHURCH, COLONY, OKLAHOMA. 
 
 From this centre of Christian life have gone out influences 
 so far reaching that it is impossible to trace them. The 
 whole community has been elevated and God's blessing has 
 truly rested upon the labors of these faithful workers. 
 
 A year ago the additional work devolving on Mr. Roe as 
 superintendent of all the Oklahoma work, both for the Board 
 of Domestic Missions and the Women's Executive Com- 
 mittee, rendered it necessary that another worker should be 
 placed at Colony to carry on the personal, painstaking labor 
 among the individual Indians, which has been Mr. Roe's 
 policy from the beginning. The Committee was most for- 
 tunate in securing the services of Rev. Richard H. Harper, 
 who, with his family, is now living in a comfortable home, 
 enlarged and arranged for this purpose by a beautiful 
 memorial gift. 
 
 Working together in perfect harmony, these two efficient 
 pastors have the ever increasing work well in hand. 
 
 Last May the church was struck by lightning and partially 
 destroyed ; as the seating capacity was already too small, it 
 was decided to enlarge as well as rebuild, and thanks to many 
 friends, Indians as well as white people, we have to-day a 
 beautiful, well proportioned building, which still retains, 
 however, the outlines of the little stone church we have so 
 loved. 
 
 The Arthur Brokaw Memorial Chapel has been dedicated, 
 and will soon be a centre of Christian activity for those 
 Indians living in its vicinity. 
 
 KIGHT 
 
A MESCALERO APACHE HOME. 
 
 APACHE MISSION. 
 
 In 1900 Mr. Wright started our mission among the 
 Apaches, known as Geronimos' Band, and held as prisoners 
 of war near Fort Sill, Oklahoma. This band consists of about 
 two hundred and fifty people, who live in twelve villages, 
 scattered over the reservation given to them. 
 
 For twenty years they have been under the care of the 
 War Department, and in many ways they are well trained and 
 do good work, but the curse of gambling has a strong hold 
 on them, and especially the women are very hard to reach. 
 
 Owing to the conditions of their lives, our plan there has 
 been rather different from that of any of our other missions. 
 We have the Van Alst Memorial Orphanage, which makes a 
 happy home for nineteen boys and girls who would otherwise 
 be sadly neglected, and a day school and kindergarten, with 
 fifty-three scholars, learning not only the daily lessons from 
 books, but many sweet lessons of kindness to one another, and 
 a tender care for all God's creatures. 
 
 Preaching services are held every week, also Sunday 
 School and Christian Endeavor meetings regularly. 
 
 Until her marriage, Mrs. L. L. Legters, as Miss Maud 
 Adkisson, was the loved and loving Principal of the mission, 
 and for the past year Miss Hendrina Hospers, has had that 
 place, and is rapidly making herself known and loved by the 
 people, while she is ably supported by the teachers and other 
 workers. 
 
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settler's home, new MEXICO. 
 
 Miss McMillan, for several years the faithful teacher of 
 the day school, was compelled to resign on account of ill 
 health, but because of her interest in the Apaches, especially 
 the women, she is now doing personal mission work for them, 
 visiting them in their homes, where she reads the Bible and 
 prays with them, and she has formed a Missionary Society, 
 which is now contributing regularly tO' the cause of missions 
 at home and abroad;, the women earning the money by the 
 work of their hands. 
 
 The Indians themselves desired her to do this work, and 
 they pay the larger portion of her salary. 
 
 This mission is unique in many features, and is one of the 
 sweetest and most helpful that we have. Working among 
 children, trying to fit them to meet the new conditions which 
 have come to the Indian tribes, what possibilities there are, 
 and what a responsibility, not only for the teachers, ^but for 
 all of us, to see to it, that there is no lack of material means, 
 no withholding of opportunities, which may open new lines 
 of life and action for these boys and girls. 
 
 COMANCHE MISSION. 
 
 In the autumn of 1905, three Comanche Indians, Nah- 
 watz, Periconic and Howard White Wolf, came to the East 
 to ask that a minister be sent to tell their people about the 
 Savior. We all know the story of their visit and its result, 
 and how the Vermilye Memorial Chapel was built; later a 
 parsonage was added, and in 1906 Rev. and Mrs. L. L. 
 
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OLD NAMAVOIA, AN EARLY CONVERT. 
 
 Legters began making a Christian home there, which will 
 increasingly become a centre of light and hospitality. 
 
 Services are held regularly in the church, and Mr. Legters 
 also has the opportunity of preaching once a month at the 
 Comanche Government School, where there are one hundred 
 and eighty-five scholars and a number of employees, a grand 
 opportunity for sowing good seed. 
 
 Mrs. Legters has a Bible Class of over fifty women, and 
 the work in all lines is progressing well. 
 
 MESCALERO MISSION. 
 
 In the summer of 1907 Mr. Wright once again turned his 
 face to the West, and visited the Mescalero Apaches in New 
 Mexico, living near the agency of that name, eighteen miles 
 from the railroad. They number about four hundred and 
 fifty and are closely related tO' the Apaches at Fort Sill. 
 
 Finding no other religious organization at work there, 
 and having the assurance that the Indians would welcome a 
 mission. Rev. E. B. Fincher was secured to undertake the 
 work, and has been on the field since October. During these 
 months he, his wife and two- children have been living in two 
 small rooms which they were able to rent, but now through 
 the generosity of Miss Anna M. Sandham, who has made a 
 gift in memory of her mother, a comfortable house will be 
 built in the near future. Some money has been received 
 toward the church building, and it is hoped that the whole 
 amount will soon be in the treasury, and before the summer 
 
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MESCALERO AGENCY, NEW MEXICO. 
 
 is over we trust to have a house of God up among those 
 mountains. 
 
 The Classis of Iowa supplies the means for the support 
 of this mission, a noble gift. 
 
 The reservation is seven thousand feet above sea level, 
 the scenery most beautiful, the air dry and bracing, pine 
 forests abound, clear running streams, and many varieties of 
 lovely flowers ; but alas, so few of the people know about 
 God, the Creator^ who has given so much of beauty to this 
 world, and even in those mountain heights, sin and suffering 
 have found their way. 
 
 Thank God that we are able to bring some light to these 
 darkened lives, and let us remember these people in our 
 prayers and the missionary who is occupying this frontier post 
 of all our work. 
 
 A NEW MISSION. 
 
 In the near future the Women's Executive Committee 
 hopes to open a new mission, the support of which has been 
 promised by the Classis of Pella. 
 
 The outline of our four-fold work, with another branch 
 soon to be added, has been briefly told, but only the outline ; 
 fill in the story, dear friends, yourselves ; multiply your own 
 daily experience of home work, training the children, the 
 countless details which the women must attend to, in order 
 that the wheels of life may run smoothly, add to all this the 
 strange customs and superstitions of the Indians which must 
 
be reckoned with, the 
 i g 11 o r an c e of law, 
 either of God or 
 man, the fierce battle 
 against tuberculosis, 
 and other diseases, the 
 isolation and loneli- 
 ness which bears so 
 heavily on the highly- 
 educated and culti- 
 vated men and wom- 
 en who form our 
 staff of workers, the 
 constant fight against 
 sin in many repug- 
 nant forms ; does the 
 story seem too dark? 
 It would be, and even 
 the most consecrated 
 workers could not 
 endure it, were it not 
 for the grace of God, 
 which helps the m 
 over the dark places, 
 and gives them rich 
 
 ,jj .jG^^^^^^^^^^^^KS^^^^b reward in the knowl- 
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 strumental in the sav- 
 ing of souls, and for 
 the thought also that 
 though separated by 
 miles of prairie, plains and mountains, there is a band of 
 friends who love them and who are sustaining them by 
 prayer and gifts. 
 
 The need is very urgent, the opportunities many, the time 
 is short. Work and give "while it is to-day." 
 
 Let us all have a share in this glorious work ; as we love 
 our country, and desire above all things that it shall be a 
 Christian nation, we must not neglect these poor Indian 
 tribes who have been pushed on and on, until it would seem 
 that there is no place left for them in all this wide land. 
 
 'Tn our Father's house are many mansions," — there may 
 we all meet, and it may be, there will be some red-skinned 
 brothers and sisters tO' greet us whom we have helped to a 
 knowledge of the Savior. 
 
 SCENE IN MESCALERO COUNTRY. 
 
 THIRTEEN 
 
MISSION AT MC KEE, KENTUCKY. 
 
 Mountain Americans — A Call and Its Answer 
 
 BEAUTIFUL day in June was a peculiarly fitting time 
 
 for the beginning of our Kentucky mountain work. 
 From highest peak to lowliest valley "every common bush was 
 aflame with God." But the eyes of the dwellers in the humble 
 cabin homes "were holden" and the glorious vision failed to 
 carry its message of uplift. Here and there might be found 
 one in whose heart still lingered an undefined and unexpressed 
 longing that in some way a new and different life might open 
 to them. The many, however, were wearied and discouraged 
 through oft-repeated disappointment, through long-continued 
 hardship and took up the burden of this new day as hopelessly 
 as they had laid it down on the night previous. Help, loving 
 and strong was close at hand, though they knew it not. 
 
 Many miles away " in the upper room" was gathered a 
 little company of women earnestly beseeching the Father 
 above to bless this new work about to be undertaken in His 
 name for the relief of these other children of His great 
 family ; praying very tenderly, too, for her who was to go 
 forth carrying the glad tidings of great joy to the lonely 
 mountain dweller. Would that we might follow this con- 
 secrated nurse and Bible reader as she traveled all that 
 
 Mrs. Walter J. McIndoe. 
 
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GOING TO CHURCH IN KENTUCKY. 
 
 summer through the valleys and over the hills, following the 
 hidden trails until the lowly home was found. Everywhere 
 made welcome, she ministered untiringly alike to body and 
 soul. Sickness ever present, gave opportunity for tender nurs- 
 ing, for relief and comfort quite unknown before. What better 
 chance to whisper the story of the Good Physician than when 
 the heart had been softened by human love and sympathy. 
 The personal touch, the realization that someone really di'd 
 care, that friends were reaching out the helping hand, brought 
 courage and made life seem more worth while. "Not so 
 much for ourselves, but that our children may have a better 
 chance," was the oft-repeated plea of the parents. A little 
 later to meet this need the teachers came and a new idea of 
 the meaning of school life came into the little town of McKee 
 and its vicinity. Who could have dreamed of the beautiful 
 school-house, with its cleanliness and comfort, its books, maps, 
 pictures and piano. This last a never-failing source of 
 pleasure, for a mountaineer loves music. Over the building 
 floats the Stars and Stripes, seen for the first time by these 
 native-born American children. Listen to the voices of the 
 children, older and younger. Look into their happy faces 
 to-day, if you would know something of what has been ac- 
 complished in a few short years. 
 
 With the coming of the minister, his wife and little ones, 
 great strength was added to the work. The beauty and 
 purity of the home life, the integrity and uprightness of char- 
 acter set up a new standard and won many friends. 
 
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MEMORIAL HOME, GRAY HAWK, KY. 
 
 From the Gray Hawk district came pleading voices asking 
 that they too might share in the blessing, for the good 
 news had spread. The nurse, the Bible reader and the teacher 
 were sent to them. Many a mother's heart has been com- 
 forted by the relief given to her and to her children. Many 
 a "Little Jim" has caught sight of gladness which has made 
 more endurable the suffering that was past being cured. Since 
 the little Memorial home has been completed its doors have 
 been always open to every form of need. Special interest 
 has been shown in the young men and boys, and they meet 
 often in the evenings and are entertained with games and 
 music. So little that is pure and bright has ever come in touch 
 with their lives, and no effort been made to keep them from 
 vice and sin. When the new church is finished here, a room 
 will be fitted up for this special purpose — a. reading-room 
 open and free day and night. 
 
 The encouragements of the work have been many, but the 
 outlook is even more promising if we can but realize and 
 grasp our opportunities at once. Beyond Gray Hawk lies the 
 little settlement at Tyner. Hundreds, yes, thousands of 
 young people may be reached from this point, boys and girls 
 eager for an education, and who' can never have their chance 
 unless we give it to them. Purchase a large tract of land 
 here, erect dormitories, establish an industrial plant, so that 
 the hands may be trained to be skillful, taught to make home 
 a place of comfort and happiness, to work the soil properly 
 and secure from it a living. Who can estimate the far-reach- 
 
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ing- influence of such a step forward. Shall we, may we go 
 in and possess this new land? ''Inasmuch as ye have done 
 it unto one of the least of these, ye have done it unto Me" — 
 the King's approval shall be the reward. 
 
 Why Home Missions 
 
 Miss Elizabeth B. Vermilye. 
 
 npHE Women's Executive Committee is only the agent for 
 the women of the Reformed Church, only powerful as 
 they give it power ; progressive as they stand behind to make 
 good the effort to advance ; with ability measured and 
 limited by the gifts, the interest and the prayers of those it 
 represents. Just as its love and consecration are aided and 
 augmented by you, the women of the church, shall the 
 years bring perfected fruit. 
 
 The Committee asks, therefore, for increased support in 
 the years which lie ahead ; a large and ever larger outpouring 
 of gifts, gold, of sacrifice ; frankincense, of offered prayers ; 
 myrrh, of intelligent interest and co-operation. For what 
 purpose do we ask? That this land of ours may become in 
 truth the land of Jesus Christ. That the work of missions in 
 this land which we love may be pressed forward, until from 
 north to south, and sea to sea His rule may be supreme. 
 
 For what are "Missions"? The organized effort of the fol- 
 lowers of Jesus Christ to extend and establish His Kingdom. 
 Missions are as necessary to the continued life of Christian- 
 ity, as much a part of its vital organism, as breathing is 
 necessary to the life of the human body. If they cease, ere 
 many decades have rolled away, the great pulsing heart of 
 Christianity will have ceased to beat, and this land will have 
 lost the very light of life. 
 
 Do we question the value of that kingdom of light and 
 life and peace to ourselves or to the world? Can we invent 
 a better way of extending it than that instituted by its founder 
 when, with a faith and vision piercing the ages. He com- 
 manded His feeble band of disciples, "Go," "preach," 
 "witness," "your field is the world !" 
 
 For what does the religion and Kingdom of Jesus Christ 
 stand? Surely, as lived and taught by Him — a deep, spiritual 
 life ; broad, religious freedom ; a true knowledge of God ; 
 
honored womanhood ; noble manhood ; sacred and protected 
 childhood ; universal fatherhood ; divine sonship ; human 
 brotherhood ; pure morality ; high aspiration, if imperfect 
 attainment, and a spirit of self-sacrificing- love in imitation 
 of Him who "gave His life a ransom for many." 
 
 Can any one truly claim that this land does not need the 
 extension of such a Kingdom ? Look through the length and 
 breadth of it! Is Jesus Christ indeed the Master of our 
 government^ national or city; of our industrial or social life? 
 Is this nation truly "Christian" in its efforts, aspirations or 
 ideals ? 
 
 No religion or church which it not missionary in its spirit 
 can keep its place among the living religions or organiza- 
 tions of the earth. Our Reformed Church is small among 
 the churches, but it has been honored because of the char- 
 acter of its missionaries, and the equipment for service of its 
 missions. Just as long as it puts forth tentacle^ of love and 
 lays hold on the heart of India and China abroad, of Okla- 
 homa, Kentucky, and other newer parts of our own land — 
 just so long and nO' longer will it retain its life and place in 
 the great church-body of Jesus, the Christ. 
 
 Let us go "forward" into the unknown future with 
 new and stronger purpose to do each her part as opportunity 
 comes to make our church great in the service of her Lord 
 and to win this land of ours for Him and His Kingdom. 
 
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OKLAHOMA CHURCHES. 
 Rev. Walter C. Roe, . . Superintendent of Missions in Oklahoma 
 Rev. Frank Hall Wright, . . . . Evangelist for Oklahoma 
 
 Horton Memorial at Shawnee, . . Rev. M. T. Conklin, Minister 
 Oklahoma City, . . . . Rev. Dr. H. E. Colby, Minister 
 
 Thomas, . . . . . . . . Rev. S. A. Waters, Minister 
 
 Arapaho, . . . . . . . . Rev. J. J. Hoffman, Minister 
 
 Clinton, . . . . . . . . Rev. George Korteling, Minister 
 
 Cordell Rev. C. H. Spaan, Minister 
 
 Gotebo, 
 
 Tulsa (tent work), .. Mr. H. W. Whitacre (worker in charge) 
 The W. E. C. has provided furnishings for these churches, also 
 the parsonages. 
 
 INDIAN CHURCHES IN OKLAHOMA. 
 Columbian Memorial, Colony, . . . . Rev. W. C. Roe 
 
 Rev. R. H. Harper 
 
 Apache preaching station, Fort Sill, . . . . Rev. L. L. Legters 
 Vermilye Memorial, Comanche Reservation, . . Rev. L. L. Legters 
 
 COLONY MISSION, OKLAHOMA. 
 (Arapaho and Cheyenne Indians.) 
 Rev. and Mrs. Walter C. Roe, . . . . . . Missionaries 
 
 Rev. Frank Hall Wright, . . . . . . . . Evangelist 
 
 Rev. and Mrs. R. H. Harper, . . . . . . . . Missionaries 
 
 Frank Hamilton, . . . . . . . . Cheyenne Interpreter 
 
 Washee, . . . . . . . . . . . . Arapaho Interpreter 
 
 Miss Johanna Meengs, . . . . . . . . Home Helper 
 
 MOHONK INDUSTRIAL LODGE. . . 
 
 (This work is self-supporting.) 
 
 Though this industrial work is undenominational, it is a very 
 great aid to the Mission. 
 
 Mr. Reese Kincaide, . . . . . . . . .... Manager 
 
 Miss Mary Jensen, . . . . . . . . . . . . Matron 
 
 FORT SILL MISSION— OKLAHOMA. 
 (Apache Indians.) 
 Miss Hendrina Hospers, . . . . . . . . Head Worker 
 
 Miss Anna Heersma, . . . . . . . . . . Home Helper 
 
 Miss C. P. Mahon, Teacher 
 
 Miss Mary L. Ewing, Teacher 
 
 Miss Joan Saunders, . . . . . . . . . . . . Matron 
 
 FORT SILL MISSION— OKLAHOMA— (C?«^^/K«^rf). 
 Miss Roberta Saunders, . . . . . . . . Assistant Matron 
 
 James Ka-way-kia, . . . . . . . . . . Apache Interpreter 
 
 Rev. L. L. Legters, Minister 
 
 COMANCHE MISSION, OKLAHOMA. 
 (.Comanche Indians.) 
 Rev. and Mrs. L. L. Legters, . . . . . . Missionaries 
 
 Walter Koma, . . . . . . . . . . . . Interpreter 
 
 Miss Jennie Lewis, . . Home Helper 
 
 MESCALERO MISSION, NEW MEXICO. 
 (Mescalero Apache Indians.) 
 Rev. and Mrs. E. B. Fincher, . . . . . . Missionaries 
 
 The W omen's Executive Committee expect to open about July i 
 a new mission among Indians in Nebraska. 
 
 MOUNTAIN MISSION, McKEE, KENTUCKY. 
 Rev. and Mrs. Isaac Messier, . . . . . . . . Missionaries 
 
 Mrs. Henrietta Zwemer Te Kolste . . Principal 
 
 Miss Sena Kooiker, .. .. .. .. .. ..Teacher 
 
 Miss Hannah Hoekje, ■ . . . . Teacher 
 
 MOUNTAIN MISSION, GRAY HAWK, KENTUCKY. 
 Mrs. Caroline Hoover, . . . . . . . . Head Worker 
 
 Miss Louise Schermerhorn, . . . . . . . . . . Teacher 
 
 CLASSICAL MISSIONARIES. 
 
 Rev. John Huizenga, Rock Valley, Iowa 
 
 Rev. E. Aeilts, Sioux Falls, S. Dakota 
 
 STUDENT MISSIONARIES. 
 Each summer about twenty-five Students from our Seminaries 
 are sent out by the Committee. 
 
 HOME MISSIONARY PASTORS. 
 The Committee, through gifts to the Board for that purpose, is 
 represented by a number of Home Missionary pastors. 
 
 ALIEN WORK. 
 
 Together with the Board of Domestic Missions the Women's 
 Executive Committee has taken up work among the Japanese in and 
 near New York. 
 
 Mr. E. A. Ohori, Missionary 
 
The Reformed Church in America began in 1628 with the Church in the Fort on Manhattan. 
 Its extension and Mission Stations are indicated on the above map. 
 
 Dra%vn by Miss Mary Bussing, 
 
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