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HANDBOOK 
 
 On the Work of the 
 
 WOMAN’S MISSIONARY 
 ORGANIZATION 
 
 of the 
 
 CUMBERLAND 
 PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 
 
 by 
 
 Mrs. Johnie Massey Clay 
 and 
 
 Miss Mattie Huber 
 
 January, 1924 
 
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INDEX 
 
 Woman’s Board of Missions 
 
 Organization 
 Object 
 Location 
 Personnel 
 
 Number of Members 
 Election of Members 
 Salaries of Members 
 Meetings 
 
 How Work is Carried On 
 Annual Convention 
 Eligible Delegates 
 Advisory Committee 
 Executive Council 
 Constitution 
 W. B. M. Department 
 
 Synodic Society 
 Object 
 Officers 
 
 Duties of Officers 
 Time of Meeting 
 Delegates 
 Advisory Member 
 Offerings at Platform Meeting 
 Financing Synodic Work 
 Constitution 
 
 Presbyterial Society j 2 
 
 Object 
 Officers 
 
 Duties of Officers 
 Time of Meetings 
 Delegates 
 
 Obligated to Send Delegates 
 
 PALL 
 
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PAGE 
 
 Offerings at Platform Meetings 
 Financing Presbyterial Work 
 Constitution 
 
 Auxiliary 14 • 
 
 Officers 
 
 Duties of Officers 
 Meetings 
 Delegates 
 Dues 
 
 Free-Will Offerings 
 
 Contingent Fund 
 
 When to Remit 
 
 To Whom to Remit 
 
 Funds for Presbyterial Pledges 
 
 Reporting ' 
 
 Second Quarter Offerings 
 
 Societies Listed in Annual Report 
 
 Honorary Members 
 
 Dues of Honorary Members 
 
 Men as Regular Members 
 
 Men and the Standard of Excellence 
 Records 
 
 Life Members 
 
 Privileges of Life Members 
 
 Life Members and Dues 
 
 Special Offerings and Life Membership 
 
 Memorial Members 
 
 Standard of Excellence 
 
 Voluntary Aim 
 
 Constitution 
 
 Helps for Auxiliaries 20 
 
 Mission Study Book 
 Denominational Mission Study Course 
 Annual Report 
 Monthly Topic Leaflet 
 
Missionary Review of the World 
 Future Work Report 
 Secretary-Treasurer Report Book 
 Four-fold Chart 
 
 Compendium of Parliamentary Law 
 Constitution 
 
 Harmony of the Gospels 
 Supplies 
 
 Order of Business 
 
 Suggestions for Auxiliary Members 
 
 Young Ladies’ Society 
 Officers 
 
 Duties of Officers 
 
 Meetings 
 
 Dues 
 
 Contingent Fund 
 Delegates 
 Men Members 
 Participation in the Work 
 Constitution 
 
 Helps for Young Ladies’ Societies 
 See “Helps for Auxiliaries” 
 
 Children’s Band 
 Leader 
 Officers 
 Meetings 
 
 Anniversary Meeting 
 Participation in the Work 
 
 Reporting 
 
 Funds 
 
 Constitution 
 General Helps 
 
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 Helps for Children’s Bands 31 
 
 Everyland 
 
 Here and There Stories 
 General Helps 
 
 General Information 33 
 
 F’uture Work Report 
 Educational Fund 
 Blessing Box Plan 
 Funds 
 
 Financial Aim 
 General Treasury 
 Regular Oiferings 
 Special Offerings 
 
 Special Work 
 Special Days 
 
 W. B. M. Day 
 Mothers’ Day 
 
 Mothers’ Memorial Fund Movement 
 Missions in the Sunday School Move¬ 
 ment 
 
 Tithing Movement 
 Extension Plan 
 Mission Stations 
 
 San Francisco Mission 
 South China Missions 
 Proposed South American Work « 
 Medical Missions 
 Oiir Missionary Creed 
 
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 Wayside Prayer and Benediction 
 
WOMAN’S BOARD OF MISSIONS 
 
 Organization.—The Woman’s Board of 
 Missions was organized May, 1880, in re¬ 
 sponse to a plea by Rev. A. D. Hail, Mis¬ 
 sionary to Japan under the Assembly’s 
 Board of Missions, that Cumberland Pres¬ 
 byterian women might do a work in for¬ 
 eign lands that was possible only to women. 
 
 Object.—To promote an interest in mis¬ 
 sions among the women of the Cumberland 
 Presbyterian Church, and to work in co¬ 
 operation with the Assembly’s Board of 
 Missions for the evangelization of the world. 
 
 Location.—Evansville, Ind. Office rooms 
 in the American Trust Building. 
 
 Personnel.—An up-to-date list of names 
 of Board members is carried in the Annual 
 Report, and caption of W. B. M. Department 
 of the Church paper. 
 
 Number of Members.—The number re¬ 
 quired by the Constitution is nine, four of 
 whom constitute a quorum. The Board is 
 privileged to fill vacancies occurring through 
 the year by appointing active workers to 
 serve until time of Annual Convention. 
 
 Election of Members.—^The Board mem¬ 
 bers are nominated by a Nominating Com¬ 
 mittee selected by the Convention, and 
 elected by the Convention, which election is 
 ratified by the General Assembly. The of¬ 
 ficers are elected by the Woman’s Board at 
 
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its annual meeting following the close of 
 Convention. 
 
 Salaries of Members.—Only the Board 
 members employed in the office and giving 
 full time to the work receive salaries. 
 
 Meetings.—^The monthly or semi-monthly 
 meetings are held at the Board Office. A 
 devotional always precedes the business 
 session. At these meetings business is 
 transacted; problems discussed and plans 
 made for the advancement of the work at 
 large; letters of importance and of interest 
 read. A report of each meeting is sent to 
 all non-resident members, that they may be 
 kept in close touch with the work. A pre- 
 Convention Board meeting is held each year 
 in February or March, with one or more 
 non-resident members in attendance, to out¬ 
 line the Future Work Report and Con¬ 
 vention program. 
 
 How Work Is Carried On.—The work is 
 carried on and sustained through its co¬ 
 operating organizations—Synodic and Pres- 
 byterial Societies, Ladies’ and Young Ladies’ 
 Societies, Children’s Bands and Sunday 
 School Missionary Committees, all of which 
 are auxiliary to the Board. 
 
 Annual Convention. — The Convention 
 meets once a year, on Wednesday befoi*e 
 the third Thursday in May, at the place set 
 for the General Assembly. 
 
 Eligible Delegates.—^Two members from 
 
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every Auxiliary that has paid dues into the 
 Board Treasury during the Convention year. 
 Also first and second delegates from Pres- 
 byterial and Synodic Societies. 
 
 Advisory Committee.—There shall be an 
 Advisory Committee to the Woman’s Board 
 of Missions, such committee to be composed 
 of one member 'from each Synodic Society 
 (preferably a Synodic officer, or someone 
 interested and informed concerning the 
 work), such members to be elected at the 
 annual meeting of the Synodic Society. 
 These members shall constitute the Future 
 Work Committee of the Annual Convention 
 of the Woman’s Board. After Convention 
 it shall become the special duty of the 
 members of the - Advisory Committee to 
 help agitate and urge, each in her state, im¬ 
 mediate and effective effort to put into ac¬ 
 tion the recommendations of the Future 
 Work Committee, and to see that the aux¬ 
 iliaries in her state have an intelligent un¬ 
 derstanding of same, the extent of this and 
 expense to be determined by the Synodic 
 Society. It shall also be her duty to ad¬ 
 vise the Woman’s Board during the year 
 concerning the needs of her state work, or 
 the work as a whole, and such remedies and 
 plans as she deems helpful, having first 
 consulted with her state officers, these sug¬ 
 gestions and plans to be filed, if not pre¬ 
 viously put into execution, for the considera¬ 
 tion of the next Future Work Committee. 
 
 Executive Council.—The Advisory Com- 
 
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mittee referred to above, with not less than 
 three members of the Woman’s Board, shall 
 come to the meeting place of the Annual 
 Convention a day in advance, where an Ex¬ 
 ecutive Session shall be held to study and 
 discuss the needs, plans and problems of the 
 work, the First Vice-President of the Wo¬ 
 man’s Board presiding. The quorum of the 
 committee shall be based on one member 
 from each Synodic Society and three mem¬ 
 bers of the Woman’s Board. A majority of 
 these shall constitute a quorum 
 
 Constitution.—See Annual Report. 
 
 (See Supply List for leaflet on history of 
 Woman’s Board.) 
 
 WOMAN’S BOARD OF MISSIONS 
 DEPARTMENT 
 
 The W. B. M. Department, so called, is a 
 space in the Church paper allowed the Wo¬ 
 man’s Board and its work over the Church 
 through the courtesy of the Board of Pub¬ 
 lication and the Editor of the paper, for 
 the purpose of disseminating missionary 
 news and information, and the upbuilding of 
 missions in the Cumberland Presbyterian 
 Church. The Editor of the Department is 
 employed by the Woman’s Board. These 
 pages are open to every Missionary Society 
 in the Church, and, indeed, their contribu¬ 
 tions are solicited by the Board and the 
 Editor, as a means of increasing mission¬ 
 ary interest and activity. 
 
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THE SYNODIC SOCIETY 
 
 The Synodic Society in our woman’s work 
 is that organization which conforms to the 
 Synod in the work of the Church at large, 
 or in the men’s work. It is auxiliary to the 
 Woman’s Board of Missions, and is com¬ 
 posed of all Auxiliaries, Young Ladies’ So¬ 
 cieties, Children’s Bands, Sunday School 
 Missionary Committees, and Presbyterial 
 Societies located in the bounds of that par¬ 
 ticular Synod. 
 
 Object.—Its object is to enlarge and 
 strengthen the missionary work of the 
 Presbyteries, and the missionary organiza¬ 
 tions within its bounds. 
 
 Officers.—The officers of the Society are 
 a President, Corresponding Secretary-Treas¬ 
 urer, Recording Secretary, Secretary of Ex¬ 
 tension, Secretary of Tithing and Chairman 
 of Committee on Missions in the Sunday 
 School. The Synodic Society elects no Vice- 
 Presidents, the Presidents of Presbyterial 
 Societies being the Vice-Presidents of the 
 Society, and serving in the absence of the 
 President in alphabetical order of Presby¬ 
 teries. 
 
 Duties of Officers.—See Annual Report. 
 
 Time of Meeting. —In the fall, same as 
 that of the regular Synod, the time and 
 place usually regulated by that body. 
 
 Delegates.—^The Synodic meeting is a 
 delegated body composed of a first and sec- 
 
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ond delegate of each Auxiliary in its 
 bounds, and first and second delegates from 
 each Presbytery, 
 
 Advisory Member.—The Advisory Mem¬ 
 ber is the delegate from the Synodic Society 
 to the Woman’s Convention, her duty being 
 to serve as delegate to Convention, and as a 
 member of the Future Work Committee, 
 and to agitate and urge in her Synod im¬ 
 mediate efforts to put into action the rec¬ 
 ommendations of the Future Work Report; 
 also to serve as Advisory Member from 
 her Synod during the year to the Woman’s 
 Board. 
 
 Offerings at Platform Meeting.—In Syn¬ 
 odic meetings there is usually a missionary 
 
 platform meeting some evening, rendered 
 
 before the joint assembly of the Woman’s 
 Synodic Society and the Synod, in which a 
 plea is made for financial assistance, and 
 an offering taken. This offering, having 
 been taken on the plea of missions, should 
 be sent to the Woman’s Board of Missions. 
 
 Financing Synodic Work.—With the half 
 of the Synodic and Presbyterial Contingent 
 Fund, and half of the Blessing Box Fund, 
 and sometimes by other special plans. 
 
 Constitution.—See Annual Report. 
 
 (Leaflet, “Our Synodic Work”, in stock at 
 Board office. See Price List.) 
 
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THE PRESBYTERIAL SOCIETY 
 
 The Presbyterial Society is that organi¬ 
 zation in our woman’s work which conforms 
 to the Presbytery in the work of the Church 
 at large, or in the men’s work. It is aux¬ 
 iliary to the Woman’s Board, and is com¬ 
 posed of all the Auxiliaries, Young Ladies’ 
 Societies, Children’s Bands, and Missions in 
 the Sunday School Committees within the 
 bounds of that particular Presbytery. 
 
 Object.—To enlarge and strengthen all 
 missionary work within the bounds of the 
 Presbytery. 
 
 Officers.—^The officers are a President, 
 Vice-President, a Recording Secretary, a 
 Corresponding Secretary-Treasurer, a Sec¬ 
 retary of Tithing, a Secretary of Extension, 
 and a Chairman of Committee on Missions 
 in the Sunday School. 
 
 Duties of Officers.—See Annual Report. 
 
 Time of Meetings.—Most Presbyterial So¬ 
 cieties meet twice a year, in connection with 
 the meeting of Presbytery. 
 
 Delegates.—The Presbyterial meeting is a 
 delegated body composed of first and sec¬ 
 ond delegates of each missionary organiza¬ 
 tion within the bounds of the Presbytery. 
 
 Obligated To Send Delegates.—The Pres¬ 
 byterial Society is obligated to send one or 
 more delegates (is entitled to two) to the 
 Woman’s Convention and to the Synodic 
 meeting. 
 
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Offerings at Platform Meeting.—In Pres- 
 byterial meetings there is usually a mission¬ 
 ary platform meeting some evening, ren¬ 
 dered before the joint assembly of the Wo¬ 
 man’s Presbyterial Society and the Pres¬ 
 bytery, in which a plea is made for finan¬ 
 cial assistance, and an offering taken. This 
 offering, having been taken on the plea of 
 missions, should be sent to the Woman’s 
 Board of Missions. 
 
 Financing Presbyterial Work.—^With the 
 half of the Synodic and Presbyterial Contin¬ 
 gent Fund, and half of the Blessing Box 
 Fund, and sometimes by other special plans. 
 
 Constitution.—See Annual Eeport. 
 
 (Leaflet, “Our Presbyterial Work”, in 
 stock at Board Office. See Price List.) 
 
 THE AUXILIARY 
 
 The Auxiliary is a Society in the local 
 congregation organized for the purpose of 
 promoting interest in, and prayer for, mis¬ 
 sions, and securing offerings for missions. 
 
 Officers.—^The officers of the Auxiliary' 
 are President, Vice-Presidents, Secretary- 
 Treasurer, and such other officers as the 
 Society deems necessary. 
 
 Duties of Officers.—See Annual Report. 
 
 Meetings.—Held monthly, or oftener. 
 
 Delegates.—The Auxiliary being auxiliary 
 to the Presbyterial Society, the Synodic So¬ 
 ciety, and the Woman’s Board, is therefore 
 
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obligated and urged to send delegates to the 
 Presbyterial and Synodic meetings, and to 
 the Woman’s Convention. 
 
 Dues.—The dues of an Auxiliary member 
 are thirty-five cents a quarter, or one dollar 
 and forty cents a year. Thirty cents of the 
 quarterly dues is for the Woman’s Board, 
 and five cents each quarter is for the Pres¬ 
 byterial and Synodic Contingent Fund. 
 
 Free-Will Offerings.—In addition to the 
 dues, at each regular meeting members shall 
 have an opportunity of presenting free-will 
 offerings. An Auxiliary member pledges to 
 pay only $1.40 a year when she joins the 
 Society, but it is earnestly hoped that her 
 love for and interest in the work will be 
 such that she will desire, and find a way, to 
 make free-will offerings over and above her 
 dues. Seldom does a really interested mem¬ 
 ber fail to do this. 
 
 Contingent Fund.—This is the extra five 
 cents per quarter which goes to the Pres¬ 
 byterial and Synodic work, and is equally 
 divided between these two organizations. 
 
 When To Remit.—By the 25th of the 
 months March, June, September, and De¬ 
 cember. 
 
 To Whom To Remit.—Remit dues and all 
 offerings, excepting Missions in the Sun¬ 
 day School offerings, by the 25th of the 
 months above mentioned, to the Board's 
 Secretary-Treasurer. Particularly necessary 
 is it that a full report be sent at the end 
 
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of the first quarter, (March 31), that the 
 statistics may be had for the Annual Ee- 
 port. The Auxiliary Secretaiy-Treasurer 
 should send the Contingent Fund of the So¬ 
 ciety to her Presbyterial Secretary-Treas¬ 
 urer, who divides the amount, retaining 
 half for the Presbyterial expenses and 
 sends the other half to the Synodic Treas¬ 
 urer, for expenses of the Synodic work. 
 
 Send all Missions in the Sunday School 
 offerings that are intended for the Woman’s 
 Board Treasury to the Board’s Secretary of 
 Missions in the Sunday School Work. 
 
 Send all payments for literature supplies 
 to the Board’s Secretary of Literature and 
 Extension. 
 
 Funds for Presbyterial Pledges.—Contin¬ 
 gent Fund and offerings toward Presbyter¬ 
 ial pledges or undertakings, should be sent 
 to the Presbyterial Treasurer, unless there 
 is some specially appointed person to re¬ 
 ceive such funds. 
 
 Reporting To Presbyterial Secretary- 
 Treasurer.—^Though societies remit directly 
 to the Board Office, a very definite report 
 should be sent the Presbyterial Secretary- 
 Treasurer each quarter. She needs the facts 
 for the efficiency of her work, and to make 
 summarized report to her Synodic Secretary 
 and to the Board’s Secretary-Treasurer. 
 
 Second Quarter Offerings.—Money sent to 
 the Board Office during the last month of 
 the second quarter (June) is not included 
 
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in the Annual Report, as the Convention 
 Year closes May 31. Those offerings are 
 the beginning of records for the new Con¬ 
 vention Year. 
 
 Societies Listed in Annual Report.—Only 
 the names of societies that contribute to the 
 Board Treasury during a Convention Year 
 appear in statistical portion of the Annual 
 Report. New societies that have not had 
 time to send in their dues or offerings are 
 listed elsewhere in the Report. 
 
 Honorary Members.—Usually men mem¬ 
 bers, who, because of their sympathy with 
 and interest in the work of missions, desire 
 to become affiliated with it. 
 
 Dues of Honorary Members.—The dues of 
 honorary members are $1.00 per year. 
 
 Men as Regular Members.—Men are 
 gladly received into our work as regular 
 members on the payment of $1.40 per year. 
 Whether honorary or regular members, they 
 are privileged to vote. 
 
 Men and Standard of Excellence Records. 
 —Because men members cannot be regular 
 in attendance, they are not counted in aver¬ 
 age attendance at meetings, and other items 
 on our Standard of Excellence for auxil¬ 
 iaries. 
 
 Life Members.—On paying $30.00 in free¬ 
 will offerings (over and above regular dues) 
 into the Woman’s Board General Treasury 
 within one year, an individual or Mission¬ 
 ary Society is entitled to a Life Membership 
 
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Certificate. This Life Membership can be 
 bestowed as an honor gift by an individual 
 or a Missionary Society. 
 
 Privileges of Life Members.—A Life 
 Member has the right to be enrolled as a 
 voting member in her own Presbyterial or 
 Synodic meeting (but in no other save her 
 own), and in the Woman’s Convention. She 
 can serve on committees, and has all the 
 privileges of a regularly elected delegate. 
 
 Life Members and Dues.—Life Members 
 are not exempt from dues, nor from any 
 other obligation belonging to the Auxiliary 
 member. 
 
 Special Offerings and Life Membership.— 
 No offerings save W. B. M. Day and Con¬ 
 vention offerings and free-will offerings ap¬ 
 ply on Life Membership. 
 
 Memorial Members.—Auxiliaries, or fam¬ 
 ilies and friends of some departed loved 
 one, are privileged, through this beautiful 
 idea of Memorial Membership, to have the 
 loved one enrolled as a Memorial Member 
 of the Woman’s Missionary Organization on 
 paying $30.00 in free-will offerings into the 
 General Treasury of the Woman’s Board. An 
 attractive Memorial Certificate suited to 
 framing will be promptly mailed to the one 
 sending in the offering and name. 
 
 Standard of Excellence.-—A Standard of 
 Excellence as outlined by the Future Work 
 Committee and adopted by the Convention, 
 is made up of items calling for the accom- 
 
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plishment of certain things in our work, or 
 the striving toward certain goals. Credits 
 are given for the number of points gained, 
 and the Society that measures up to every 
 requirement is called a 100% Society. Ev- 
 eiT 100% Society helps to bring up the 
 work of our Missionary Organization to a 
 higher standard, and if a Society does not 
 reach attainment, it is in a healthier condi¬ 
 tion because of striving at all; and the work 
 at large is strengthened because of any ex¬ 
 tra effort put forth on the part of societies 
 to advance their particular work. 
 
 Voluntary Aim.—The Voluntary Aim 
 grew out of the fact that certain societies 
 found certain items in the general Standard 
 of Excellence to be impossible to them be¬ 
 cause of local conditions. Societies were then 
 asked to set an aim of their own, including 
 the suggested items in the Future Work 
 Report, and to report their aim to the 
 Board’s Secretary-Treasurer right after 
 Convention, so that at the end of the Con¬ 
 vention Year the items could be checked up 
 and it ascertained whether or not they had 
 reached their goal. 
 
 Constitution.—See Annual Report. 
 
 Leaflets, “Practical Reporting”, “System 
 of Reporting”, and “What It Means to Have 
 an Auxiliary”, (showing relation of Aux¬ 
 iliary to Presbytery, Synod and Conven¬ 
 tion), give Auxiliary workers much needed 
 information. 
 
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HELPS FOR AUXILIARIES 
 
 Mission Study Book.—Each year the 
 Board adopts a Foreign Mission Study Book 
 that is in use in most all denominations, 
 not only that necessary helps may be had 
 for carrying on a study course, but that our 
 Church may be united with a mighty army 
 of Christian workers in studying about and 
 praying for the same country. A booklet 
 of programs (generally called “How to 
 Use”) is issued with each new Study Book. 
 At the end of the calendar year societies 
 are notified of the book to be used the en¬ 
 suing year, through the W. B. M. Depart¬ 
 ment and a letter from the Literature De¬ 
 partment. 
 
 Denominational Mission Study Course.— 
 A very attractive booklet of programs that 
 cover a study of the work of our Missionary 
 Organization from the Woman’s Board to 
 the Auxiliary, including Mission Stations, 
 missionaries, and movements launched from 
 time to time for the advancement of the 
 work. 
 
 The general theme of this course is 
 “Throwing LIGHT on Cumberland Presby¬ 
 terian Missions,” and the thought of Light 
 is carried out through the entire set of pro¬ 
 grams, it being emphasized in each devo¬ 
 tional and study lesson. 
 
 While these programs are mainly for new 
 societies, they will be of great interest to 
 old societies, and will be welcomed by them. 
 
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because they afford the opportunity for 
 most interesting, informational and inspira¬ 
 tional meetings. 
 
 With the use of the Programs, Handbook, 
 Annual Report, also leaflets on our work 
 and workers called for, one can have a 
 rather complete knowledge of all our work 
 and plans for carrying it on. 25 cents. 
 
 Annual Report.—Contains minutes of 
 Convention, President’s address, annual re¬ 
 ports of Board and Synodic officers, annual 
 reports and messages from our Missions, 
 records and statistics of the year’s work, 
 constitutions for all organizations from 
 Woman’s Board to Children’s Band. 25 
 cents. 
 
 Monthly Topic Leaflet.—On our denom¬ 
 inational work, or subjects of vital interest 
 to missionary workers. Published monthly 
 and mailed to subscribers a month in ad¬ 
 vance. The Leaflets meet a need of socie¬ 
 ties that do not carry the Foreign Mission 
 Study Course, but many use them along 
 vdth the Study Book programs. Individual 
 subscribers find them both informational 
 and inspirational. Two cents each; 15 cents 
 per dozen, if mailed to one address; $1.80 
 per year’s subscription of twelve Leaflets a 
 month. 
 
 Missionary Review of the World.—A 
 splendid missionary magazine which brings 
 with it every month a wealth of informa¬ 
 tion along every line of missionary activity. 
 
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No live Auxiliary member can well afford 
 to be without this inspiring source of in¬ 
 formation, as it furnishes material for pro¬ 
 grams, facts and statistics for papers, talks, 
 and charts, pictures for posters and hand¬ 
 work, and suggestions as to best methods 
 of conducting the work, as well as inter¬ 
 denominational news items from all the mis¬ 
 sion lands. Subscription rate, $2.50 a year. 
 (The Board receives a liberal discount on 
 subscriptions sent in through this office.) 
 
 Future Work Report.—The Report is 
 mailed to societies from the Board Office 
 soon after the close of each Annual Con¬ 
 vention, also supplied upon request during 
 the year. It should be studied thoroughly 
 and kept before the Society in some way. 
 (See page 33). 
 
 Secretary-Treasurer Report Book.—Con¬ 
 taining blanks to be filled out by Auxiliary 
 Secretary-Treasurer, original to be sent to 
 Board’s Corresponding Secretary-Treasurer; 
 a copy to the Presbyterial Secretary-Treas¬ 
 urer, and a copy retained for local record. 
 Every Society needs to provide itself with 
 one of these booklets for making its quar¬ 
 terly reports. 10 cents. 
 
 Four-Fold Chart.—A diagram showing re¬ 
 lation of societies from Auxiliary to Board, 
 carrying lines for names of officers of the 
 Board, Synod, Presbytery and Auxiliary; 
 the purpose of the chart being to acquaint 
 
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our people with our channels of work, lead¬ 
 ers, etc. 10 cents. 
 
 Compendium of Parliamentary Law.— 
 
 This little book is a simplified form of Rob¬ 
 ert’s Rules of Order, and is so arranged by 
 Mrs. John F. Lewis as to be easily under¬ 
 stood. It would prove helpful to every offi¬ 
 cer or member of our Missionary Societies, 
 and each Society should be a class in train¬ 
 ing for efficient leadership and intelligent 
 participation in all of the business sessions 
 of the work. This book was adopted at the 
 1917 Convention for use in our Missionary 
 Organization. 45 cents. 
 
 Constitutions.—The Auxiliary constitu¬ 
 tion, and all constitutions from the Chil¬ 
 dren’s Band to the Woman’s Board, are 
 given in the Annual Report, also are fur¬ 
 nished in leaflet form upon request. 
 
 Harmony of the Gospels.—A small book¬ 
 let containing a complete Harmony of the 
 Gospels and a Summary of Acts. Especial¬ 
 ly helpful to Bible students and Sunday 
 School teachers. The booklet was presented 
 to our Missionary Organization by Rev. 
 Carl Lasley, that the amount received from 
 the sale of the entire lot of booklets might 
 go into the Board Treasury as his contribu¬ 
 tion to missions. Buy a copy and help the 
 Board to sell others. 25 cents. 
 
 Supplies.—Books, booklets, leaflets, mite 
 boxes, report book and blanks—all helps 
 necessary for the conduct of the work—are 
 
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carried in stock, and named and priced on 
 a Supply List which is prepared at the end 
 of each year and mailed to missionary or¬ 
 ganizations and Sunday School Missionary 
 Committees; also kept on hand for those 
 who write for them. (Order all supplies 
 from the Literature Department.) 
 
 Note.—Many of the above mentioned 
 helps—-also those mentioned on Supply List 
 —are suitable for and usable in Missions 
 in Sunday School Work. 
 
 ORDER OF BUSINESS 
 
 Reading of Minutes 
 Roll Call and Offering 
 Report of Committees 
 
 Report of Special Commit¬ 
 tee or Delegate 
 
 Unfinished Business 
 Communications 
 New Business 
 Adjournment 
 
 Note.—Societies would find Mrs. J. F. 
 Lewis’ Parliamentary Law Book of much 
 help in conducting the Business Period of 
 the monthly meeting. 
 
 SUGGESTIONS FOR AUXILIARY 
 MEMBERS 
 
 “Members should attend every meeting of 
 the Auxiliary in a spirit of prayer. 
 
 “Members should be present at the hour 
 
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appointed for the meeting and should re¬ 
 main to the close of the session, if possible. 
 
 “Each member should put her best men¬ 
 tal and spiritual efforts into the prepara¬ 
 tion of any particular duty assigned to 
 her. 
 
 “All dues and all special offerings should 
 be paid promptly, remembering that the 
 failure of members to pay their moneys 
 quarterly affects the finances of the Board, 
 causing deficits, etc. 
 
 “Each member of an Auxiliary should try 
 to interest others and to increase the mem¬ 
 bership. Each woman should have a pray¬ 
 er list, including the missionary workers. 
 Missions, etc. 
 
 “Each member should realize that the 
 success of the Woman’s Missionary Societ^r 
 depends upon the faithful performance of 
 duty by the members. Competent officers 
 count for much, but they cannot accomplish 
 any great results without the loyal support 
 of the members. 
 
 “Each member should give loyal, enthus¬ 
 iastic service.” 
 
 YOUNG LADIES’ SOCIETY 
 
 This is a society of young ladies in the 
 local church organized for the purpose of 
 promoting interest in missions, prayer for 
 missions, and securing offerings for mis¬ 
 sions. 
 
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Officers.—President, Vice-President, Sec¬ 
 retary-Treasurer, and such other officers 
 as the Society deems necessary. 
 
 Duties of Officers.—See Annual Kepoi't. 
 
 Meetings.—Should be held monthly or 
 oftener. 
 
 Dues.—^The Society is privileged to speci¬ 
 fy its own dues. Same should be sent to 
 the Treasurer of the Woman’s Board by the 
 25th of the months of March, June, Septem¬ 
 ber, and December, and a report sent to 
 the Presbyterial Secretary-Treasurer. 
 
 Contingent Fund.—^The Young Ladies’ So¬ 
 ciety is not required to pay Contingent 
 Fund. 
 
 Delegates.—This Society is obliged to 
 send delegates to the Presbyterial and 
 Synodic meetings, and the Woman’s Board 
 Convention. 
 
 Men Members.—Members of a Young La¬ 
 dies’ Missionary Society are urged to so¬ 
 licit their gentlemen friends as regular or 
 honorary members, with dues of $1.40 and 
 $1.00, respectively. 
 
 Participation in the Work.—Young La¬ 
 dies’ Missionary Societies are solicited to 
 make contributions to the Educational 
 Fund, to observe all Special Days, or to 
 take part in the observance of them. And, 
 in every way possible, to become fully iden¬ 
 tified with all the aims, purposes and plans 
 of our Missionary Organization. 
 
 Constitution.—See Annual Report. 
 
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HELPS FOR YOUNG LADIES’ 
 SOCIETIES 
 
 See “Helps for Auxiliaries”, also Supply 
 List for Studj^ Becks and leaflets for young 
 people. 
 
 CHILDREN’S BAND 
 
 “Childhood is pre-eminently the time for 
 training. Habits of thought and action ac¬ 
 quired during these impressionable years 
 rule adult life to an amazing extent. If 
 both a sense of responsibility for intelligent 
 service and a habit of action in the face of 
 need are not developed within our boys and 
 girls, such qualities will not characterize 
 the adult life of our Church in the next 
 generation. Furthermore, by failure to 
 train our children for intelligent service, 
 we are very definitely training for irre¬ 
 sponsibility, indifference, or inaction in the 
 face of need. Which is our Church do¬ 
 ing?” 
 
 It is true that* at the present time we 
 have several thousand children who are re¬ 
 ceiving more or less instruction along niis- 
 sionary lines in our Sunday Schools as a 
 result of our systematic effort to teach 
 missions through a Missionary Committee 
 in the Sunday School. And ,we would in 
 no sense depreciate the tremendous value 
 
 and hope for the future of missions in the 
 Cumberland Presbyterian Church in this 
 fact. Indeed, when we consider the possi- 
 
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bilities bound up in these thousands of 
 children under missionary influences in our 
 Church schools, we are almost overwhelmed 
 with gratitude that God has so abundantly 
 blessed our efforts in this direction. But 
 this is not enough. 
 
 “Because training in service involves not 
 merely the teaching of facts that children 
 may know, but also a training to do by re¬ 
 peated practice in doing, it cannot easily 
 be accomplished in a single crowded Sun¬ 
 day School hour once a week. Many most 
 important kinds of ‘doing’ are not adapted 
 to Sunday, and, in the nature of the case, 
 much of the Sunday School work must be 
 impressional rather than expressional. This 
 IS not to say there should be no missionary 
 teaching in the Sunday School, but that be¬ 
 ginning there it should be carried far be¬ 
 yond the school limits of time and method. 
 
 “So we come face to face with the 
 Church’s need of a society for the children 
 in which they shall grow not only into the 
 knowledge of what needs to be done and 
 how to do it, but also into the habit of do¬ 
 ing these things. Churches and parents 
 may excuse the lack of these organizations 
 by the plea that the children are too busy, 
 that there are no leaders, that circum¬ 
 stances prevent; such explanations do not 
 alter the inevitable result. Once we glimpse 
 the importance, for their own future hap¬ 
 piness and for the good of Christ’s growing 
 
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kingdom, of establishing the habit of in¬ 
 telligent, unselfish service within our chil¬ 
 dren’s lives, we shall find that some other 
 parts of the training which keeps them so 
 busy may better be diminished than this 
 training in service omitted: we shall then 
 find or make the leaders and we shall bend 
 the ‘circumstances’ to our will!” 
 
 Indeed, in our eagerness to extend our 
 hold on the Sunday School through a Mis¬ 
 sionary Committee, we stand dangerously 
 near overlooking the tremendous importance 
 of organizing our children into Mission 
 Bands, and gathering them into groups for 
 the definite purpose of teaching them not 
 only the missionary idea, but training them 
 how to give expression to these impressions 
 gained through Missions in the Sunday 
 School by “doing” with their own hands, 
 and serving through the activities of their 
 own minds, in the organization where mis¬ 
 sions is the one chief and definite purpose. 
 
 We need to get our children into Mis¬ 
 sion Bands to teach them not only the 
 Why of Missions but also the How of Mis¬ 
 sions. The How of Missions is as neces¬ 
 sary to the future leadership of our work 
 as is the Why. This can be learned only 
 in missionary organizations. So let us urge, 
 plead, pray, then answer our own prayers 
 by working to get our children into Mis¬ 
 sion Bands as well as to get Missionary 
 Committees in our Sunday Schools. 
 
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Children’s Band.—A Children’s Band is 
 a society of children organized for the pur¬ 
 pose of being taught the Why and How of 
 Missions. 
 
 Leader.—There must be a leader for the 
 Band, an older person who will meet with 
 them, and teach and train them, and have 
 general oversight of their meetings, ar¬ 
 range the programs for same, and act as 
 Treasurer of the Band, or appoint same. 
 
 Officers.—A President, First and Second 
 Vice-President, and a Recording Secretary, 
 chosen from among the children. 
 
 Meetings,—It is left to Bands to have 
 their meetings monthly or oftener; but 
 when the children composing the Band are 
 small, monthly meetings seem a long time 
 off to them, and for this reason some Lead¬ 
 ers prefer the semi-monthly meeting. 
 
 Anniversary Meeting.—^The anniversary 
 meeting, to be held about the date of the 
 Band’s organization, could be observed each 
 year with profit to the Cause. The chil¬ 
 dren like to do things, and not only enjoy 
 taking part on the program, but receive 
 training that counts to them and to the 
 work. Mothers of the Band children might 
 be guests of the Band at its anniversary af¬ 
 fair, or the Auxiliary members could be 
 entertained. This special event gives the 
 children something to look forward to and 
 plan for, and helps them to feel their im¬ 
 portance in the work. 
 
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Participation in the Work.—Children 
 should be encouraged to take part in the 
 meetings, and to sometimes help conduct 
 them. Handwork should be planned for 
 them; they should be asked to read and tell 
 short missionary stories, and to read 
 EVERYLAND, the missionary magazine 
 for boys and girls, if old enough; and they 
 could be told, in a simple way, of the mis¬ 
 sionary work of our denomination, and be 
 shown how they can help this work to grow 
 by working and giving as best they can. 
 
 Reporting.—Band Leaders send all oifer- 
 ings to the Board’s Secretary-Treasurer at 
 the end of each quarter, with a report of 
 meetings held, members gained or lost, 
 name of Leader, etc. A copy of this re¬ 
 port is sent to the Presbyterial Secretary- 
 Treasurer for her records. "Bands will use 
 the Auxiliary Secretary-Treasurer report 
 book until other arrangements are made for 
 them. 
 
 Funds.—The Band shall determine for it¬ 
 self what its dues shall be. It is generally 
 thought best not to fix any definite sum 
 but to encourage giving by “expecting” an 
 offering each time. 
 
 Constitution.—See Annual Report. 
 
 HELPS FOR CHILDREN’S BANDS 
 
 Everyland.—A missionary magazine for 
 boys and girls from ten to fifteen, with a 
 
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corner for smaller children. There is no 
 other magazine that could take its place for 
 use in the Children’s Band or Sunday 
 School, as it gives training along the lines 
 of the child’s interests and needs, by meth¬ 
 ods which are attractive to children. It 
 contains fascinating stories of life and con¬ 
 ditions in other lands, and pictures which 
 are not only interesting in themselves, but 
 provide attractive material for posters, 
 charts and handwork. Price, $1.50 a year. 
 (The publisher allows the Board a nice dis¬ 
 count on each subscription sent through the 
 office.) 
 
 Here and There Stories.—Foreign and 
 home stories for boys and girls. Attractive¬ 
 ly written, and full of life and action. Their 
 purpose is to acquaint boys and girls with 
 children of all lands, including our own, to 
 create sympathetic attitudes toward them, 
 and thus lay the foundation of world friend¬ 
 ship in their own lives. Published month¬ 
 ly, excepting July and August. Both for¬ 
 eign and home stories mailed to subscribers 
 for ten months for twenty-five cents. 
 
 General Helps.-—See Supply List for study 
 course material, books, booklets, leaflets, 
 mite-boxes, etc., mentioned in children’s di¬ 
 vision. (The Supply List and a Study Book 
 announcement are mailed to Children’s 
 Bands at the end of each calendar 3 ’'ear. 
 
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GENERAL INFORMATION 
 
 FUTURE WORK REPORT 
 
 From 1907 to 1919, a committee was ap¬ 
 pointed at the Convention each year to out¬ 
 line the work to be undertaken or carried 
 on the next year, and called the Future 
 Work Committee. At the 1919 Convention 
 action was taken that the Woman’s Board 
 outline the Future Work Report. 
 
 About in February, each year, the Board 
 has a special meeting, with one or more 
 non-resident members in attendance, to 
 plan for the coming Convention, and to con¬ 
 sider the “Thoughts”, or suggestions, sent 
 in by auxiliaries or individuals for the ad¬ 
 vancement of the work, and to count on the 
 “Banner for Best Thinkers”, if used in the 
 Future Work Report. 
 
 If the suggestions are new or usable, they 
 are incorporated in a list of recommenda¬ 
 tions drawn up by the Board, and pre¬ 
 sented at the Executive Council on the 
 evening preceding the Convention, for ex¬ 
 planation and discussion. The Advisory 
 Members of the Woman’s Board forming 
 the Future Work Committee for that Con¬ 
 vention, take these recommendations and 
 add or eliminate items in their committee 
 meetings, and near the close of the Con¬ 
 vention, submit their report to the body for 
 consideration and action. The Future 
 
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Work Report adopted by the Convention 
 becomes our policy of work for the new 
 Convention Year. 
 
 (Only the Thoughts that reach the Board 
 office by February first, count on the Ban¬ 
 ner given by the Board at the Convention 
 each year to the Synod having sent in the 
 largest number of used Thoughts that year.) 
 
 EDUCATIONAL FUND 
 
 This is a fund created for the education 
 of missionary candidates, and though vol¬ 
 untary, is the obligation of all, for the 
 Board has no other fund to meet this very 
 urgent need. Educated missionaries we 
 must have. This is a day of specialists and 
 specializing along definite lines, and no class 
 of people has its resources so drawn upon 
 as the missionary. They MUST BE edu¬ 
 cated and fully equipped for their work. 
 Every Society should feel honor-bound to 
 make a contribution to the Educational 
 Fund sometime during the year. 
 
 Societies and individuals are privileged to 
 choose their beneficiaries of this Education¬ 
 al Fund. When this is not done, the offer¬ 
 ings sent in will go into the General Edu¬ 
 cational Fund for the benefit of those for 
 whom no special provision has been made 
 by their friends. 
 
 (For detailed information write to the 
 Board’s Secretary-Treasurer.) 
 
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BLESSING BOX PLAN 
 
 The Blessing Box is a small box which is 
 to bo had at the Board Office, and is in¬ 
 tended to receive offerings contributed when 
 blessings come into one’s life. The “Bless¬ 
 ing Box Plan” has been adopted by several 
 Synods as a means of financing their Pres- 
 byterial and Synodic work. The auxiliaries 
 supply themselves with the Blessing Boxes, 
 ' into which they make their “blessing offer¬ 
 ings”. Once or twice a year these boxes 
 are opened in an Auxiliary meeting, mem¬ 
 bers telling of their blessings, and the con¬ 
 tents of the boxes is sent to the Presbyter- 
 ial Secretary-Treasurer, who divides the 
 amount equally between the Presbyterial 
 and the Synodic work, thus providing funds 
 for the financing of both. 
 
 (See Supply List for price of boxes.) 
 
 « FUNDS 
 
 Financial Aim.—At the Convention each 
 year the Future Work Committee recom¬ 
 mends to the Convention that our Mission¬ 
 ary Organization raise a certain amount of 
 money during the Convention Year. The 
 sum specified is called our “Financial Aim”, 
 and usually it is enough to cover the run¬ 
 ning expenses of the year and to allow a 
 margin for the taking up of new work, or 
 enlarging the old. Dues and ALL offerings 
 apply on the Year’s Aim, 
 
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General Treasury.—^This is a term used 
 to differentiate our main treasury from 
 those special funds that must be kept sep¬ 
 arate and held in reserve for special work 
 or undertakings. 
 
 Regular Offerings.—Include Free-will Of¬ 
 ferings received at Auxiliary meetings; 
 Synodic and Presbyterial Offerings that 
 reach the General Treasury for regular 
 work; W. B. M. Day Offerings; Sunday 
 School Missionary Offerings that are not 
 designated for a special object; and all 
 such offerings that come into the General 
 Treasury to be used for the regular work 
 —-such as rents of Missions, unassumed 
 salaries, office expenses, literature, print¬ 
 ing, stationery, postage, etc. Regular 
 OffeHngs enable the Board to launch 
 new work and expand the old. (Sunday 
 Schools are given credit for all offerings 
 received, unless they are sent through the 
 Auxiliary, in which case the Auxiliary re¬ 
 ceives credit.) 
 
 Special Offerings.—Include the South 
 American, Medical Missions, Mothers’ Day, 
 Educational, and Building Funds; Presby¬ 
 terial and Synodic Offerings sent in for a 
 stated purpose, and all offerings intended 
 for special objects. Special Offerings are 
 used to pay for mission buildings and their 
 furnishings, for carrying on special work, 
 etc. It is money paid into the treasury for 
 a specific use, and no matter how the Board 
 
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might be needing funds for regular ivork, 
 these Special Offerings could not be touched. 
 This would be “diversion of funds”. 
 
 SPECIAL WORK 
 
 The history of our Special Work is inter¬ 
 esting, and dates to the courageous step 
 taken by Kentucky Synod when that Synod 
 organized themselves into a co-operative ef¬ 
 fort (between the men and women of the 
 Synod), and voted to pay the salary of Rev. 
 Gam Sing Quah with the offering taken in 
 the missionary platform meeting of Synod. 
 The salary was then $1,000 a year. As the 
 offering in the platform meeting prior to 
 that had not exceeded $35.00, this action re¬ 
 quired both courage and faith. 
 
 This action was taken in the Synodic 
 meeting, October, 1917, and Kentucky as¬ 
 sumed the salary of Rev. Gam, beginning 
 with the month of November of that year, 
 and has continued to pay his salary since 
 then. Finding they could do more, in their 
 Synodic meeting two years later, Kentucky 
 Synod raised Rev. Gam’s salary to $1,200.00 
 per year, and not only has the offering in the 
 platform meeting met this obligation, but 
 has created a surplus, which, by action of 
 the Synod in the fall of 1921, was set apart 
 for Medical Missions. And again did Ken¬ 
 tucky prove her vision by taking the lead 
 in a great movement, with the result that 
 
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Kentucky came to the rescue in November, 
 1923, with an offering of $395.19 for Medical 
 Missions. 
 
 Very soon this idea of co-operative work 
 assumed by Synods and Presbyteries, spread 
 over the Church. At the present time the 
 special work assumed by organizations and 
 individuals is as follows: 
 
 Illinois Synod; Illinois followed Ken¬ 
 tucky’s example by assuming the salary of 
 a native helper in the San Francisco Mis¬ 
 sion. Upon the resignation of this worker, 
 the Synod created a Rev. George Coleman 
 Educational Fund, and Special Offerings to 
 this Fund has become their Special Work. 
 
 Kentucky Synod; Salary of Rev. Gam, 
 $1,200 per year. One Educational Scholar¬ 
 ship assumed. An individual supports a 
 worker in the Honam Mission. 
 
 Missouri Synod; Assumed the salary of 
 the Jin Rickisha Worker. Lexington Pres- 
 b 37 tery donated a piano, costing $503.65, to 
 the Canton Mission. Bible Woman at Canton 
 Mission supported by an individual. 
 
 Pacific Synod; Individuals are sending 
 $10.00 a month for the Canton Educational 
 Fund. 
 
 Tennessee Synod; Educating Rev. and 
 Mrs. W. L. Swartz, and have obligated 
 themselves to meet their salary when on 
 the South American field. Also responsible 
 for the salaries of two workers in the Shek- 
 
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ki Mission. The Greeneville Auxiliary sup¬ 
 ports a worker at the Sha Kai Mission. The 
 Chattanooga Christian Endeavor Society 
 pays the salary of a Tong Gaw Mission 
 worker. The Arrington St., Sunday School 
 (Nashville) carries the salary of a Shek 
 Won worker. Two individuals support a 
 worker in the Canton Mission. 
 
 West Tennessee Synod: Meets salary of 
 a worker in Ti Won Mission. Assumed one 
 Scholarship. Salaries of two workers at Ti 
 Won are being met by the Dyersburg Auxil¬ 
 iary. An individual supports a worker in 
 the Shek Won Mission. 
 
 Texas Synod: Supports a worker at Shek 
 Won Mission. One-fourth Scholarship as¬ 
 sumed. Salary of Shek Won Mission work¬ 
 er assumed by an individual. Building a 
 Memorial Missionary Library at Bethel Col¬ 
 lege. 
 
 SPECIAL DAYS 
 
 W. B. M. Day—Woman’s Board of Mis¬ 
 sions Day.—Since the fall of 1907, the sec¬ 
 ond Sunday in October has been set apart 
 as a time that the work of the Woman’s 
 Board of Missions! shall be presented to 
 the congregation by the Auxiliary, through 
 a public service. Its purpose is four-fold: 
 To increase interest in the work of our 
 Missionary Organization through informa¬ 
 tion; to win friends to the Cause of Mis¬ 
 sions and enlist them as members of the 
 
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Auxiliary; to promote spirituality; to se¬ 
 cure offerings for the Woman’s Board 
 Treasury. Through these means a larger 
 work is undertaken and maintained. A W. 
 B. M. Day program and helps are mailed 
 to societies each year in time for the ob¬ 
 servance of the regular day. The societies 
 that find it impossible to render the pro¬ 
 gram at that time usually arrange to have 
 it at a later date. (A leaflet on W. B. M. 
 Day can be procured from Board Office.) 
 
 Mothers’ Day.—Mothers’ Day in the Cum¬ 
 berland Presbyterian Church is observed on 
 the same date of the National Mothers’ Day, 
 the second Sunday in May. The object of 
 the National Mothers’ Day is to pay loving 
 tribute to living mothers, which is indeed a 
 thoughtful and beautiful thing to do. But 
 the purpose of our Cumberland Mothers’ 
 Day is even greater: Out of gratitude for 
 a precious living mother, or in memory of 
 a sainted mother, v/e have the opportunity 
 to make an offering to our Mothers’ Me¬ 
 morial Fund, which fund is used for the 
 uplift and education of Chinese mothers, 
 women and girls, and for the education of 
 our Chinese ministerial candidates. Moth¬ 
 ers’ Day programs and helps are sent to 
 societies each year in time for them to 
 plan well for the service. 
 
 (In the history of our work, as the oc¬ 
 casion has demanded, we have observed at 
 one time or another several Special Days 
 
 4J 
 
such as Mrs. Gam Sing Quah Memorial 
 Day, Build a Mission Day, Missior*.s in the 
 Sunday School Day, and others which have 
 served a special, timely need. But W. B. 
 M. Day and Mothers’ Day are permanent 
 Special Days which, by action of Conven¬ 
 tion, are continued from year to year). 
 
 MOTHERS’ MEMORIAL FUND 
 MOVEMENT 
 
 This is a Movement inaugurated as a me¬ 
 morial to Cumberland Presbyterian Moth¬ 
 ers. It came to us as a result of a great 
 longing in the heart of Mrs. Johnie Massey 
 Clay to find something worthwhile and no¬ 
 ble to do in memory of her own mother, 
 Mrs. Mary Frances Massey. 
 
 Mrs. Clay’s love for her Church soon led 
 her to include all our mothers, and to ex¬ 
 tend her search for something large enough 
 and noble enough to be a fitting memorial 
 for all Cumberland Presbyterian mothers. 
 “It must be something to meet a real need 
 in a real way, and not an imaginary need 
 —a monument that could not be built in a 
 single year, but which we would go on 
 building through all the years.” 
 
 She had often troubled over the untaught 
 mothers in our Christian communities in 
 China. We draw the boys and girls into 
 our day schools, and men and women, boys 
 and girls and children into the church and 
 Sunday School, “but we leave the mothers 
 
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and the homes still in the grasp of grime 
 and disease, never dreaming anything can 
 be diiferent.” The experience of home-mak¬ 
 ing, sanitation and cleanliness, of wifehood 
 and motherhood in its highest, noblest sense 
 is unknown to them still. To make Chris¬ 
 tians of them is not enough. The home 
 life and family life must be lifted up. And 
 this can only be done through the mothers. 
 “But when none among them know, who 
 is to teach them? Someone among them 
 must be taught that she in turn may teach 
 others. But who? and how?” 
 
 Then came the thought that here was a 
 task large enough, noble enough, and far- 
 reaching enough to serve as a monument 
 even for our mothers. 
 
 ■'The plan contemplates the observance of 
 Mothers’ Day on the second Sunday in 
 May with an appropriate program sent ouC 
 by the Board, at which time an oifering 
 shall be taken, which provides a fund with 
 which intelligent, consecrated girls from 
 our day schools in China will be sent to 
 Mission Boarding Schools in which they 
 will be taught home-making, cleanliness, 
 and sanitation, and how to prepare food and 
 serve it—where they will be trained as 
 teachers and leaders for their own communi¬ 
 ties. The plan also provides that this fund 
 shall educate our young ministers in China. 
 What more fitting or nobler monument 
 could we build to our mothers than this 
 
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—which shall lift up humanity for aye and 
 aye? (Mothers’ Day literature can be ob¬ 
 tained from Board Office.) 
 
 MISSIONS IN THE SUNDAY SCHOOL 
 MOVEMENT 
 
 This is a Movement inaugurated at the 
 Woman’s Convention in 1918, the purpose 
 of which is to encourage a systematic 
 teaching and training along the line of 
 missions in our Sunday Schools. To get 
 this done it is necessary to have a system 
 of introducing this effort in the Sunday 
 School. “Everybody’s business is nobody’s 
 business”, therefore it becomes necessary to 
 make this effort in behalf of Missions in 
 the Sunday School SOMEBODY’S special 
 business. It is asked that a Committee be 
 appointed for this purpose in the local Sun¬ 
 day School; that the Chairman counsel with 
 her pastor and superintendent and the 
 teachers, enlisting their interest and co- 
 operation. Then through specially ar¬ 
 ranged programs before the Sunday School 
 at regular intervals, she should present in¬ 
 teresting and concrete facts concerning mis¬ 
 sions, and also attempt to build missionary 
 activity and a missionary library in the 
 Sunday School; prevail on the teachers to 
 stress missions in class work; see that mis¬ 
 sionary songs are sung in Sunday School; 
 and that prayers are offered for missions 
 and missionaries. 
 
 4Z 
 
It is not intended that Missions in the 
 Sunday School Through a Missionary Com¬ 
 mittee take the place of, or preclude the 
 necessity of, Children’s Bands or other 
 junior missionary organizations, but the 
 rather, that Missions in the Sunday School 
 shall lead to these by providing interested 
 leaders and the proper atmosphere. 
 
 The plan calls also for a Presbyterial 
 Committee on Missions in the Sunday 
 
 School who shall stress this phase of the 
 work in the Presbytery. And a Synodic 
 Committee on Missions in the Sunday 
 
 School, whose duty it is to stress this work 
 in Synodic meetings and otherwise over the 
 Synod. 
 
 (For further information regarding the 
 Movement write the Board’s Secretary of 
 S. S. Work, or get leaflets from Board Of¬ 
 fice. See Supply List.) 
 
 TITHING MOVEMENT 
 
 The origin of the Tithing Movement was 
 the outgrowth of prayer and a desire to 
 assist our Church financially. The plans 
 for the organization were made by Vint N. 
 Bray in 1911. 
 
 Missouri was the first state to appoint a 
 Tithing Secretary. In 1912, Mrs. Vint N. 
 Bray was appointed Tithing Secretary of 
 the Woman’s Board of Missions. At the 
 Wagoner Assembly, in 1914, the men joined 
 
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the Movement and organized a Board of 
 Tithing. The Chicago newspapers made 
 mention of the fact as the first progressive 
 step of the kind in the United States. 
 
 Mr. Bray served as Secretary and Treas¬ 
 urer until his death, in 1916. His great 
 desire was to see a man placed in the field 
 for the Cause. At the Tithing Rally of the 
 Convention at Memphis, Tenn., after hear¬ 
 ing Rev. Hugh S. McCord’s address, he felt 
 that he was the man for the place but 
 there was not enough money in the treas¬ 
 ury to consider such a move by the Board. 
 
 While he never lived to see the fulfill¬ 
 ment of his heart’s desire, yet it was 
 through his sacred memory at the Memorial 
 Service of the Assembly at Lincoln, Ill., 
 that the way was opened, and the pledges 
 furnished for the support of a field work¬ 
 er. 
 
 At the next meeting of the Tithing Board 
 Bro. McCord was appointed the Tithing 
 Evangelist. With God’s help and approval 
 the work has grown and prospered until 
 nearly every Synod and Presbytery is or¬ 
 ganized; our churches are appointing Tith¬ 
 ing Secretaries and having campaigns; our 
 list has grown until there are nearly 5,000 
 names on the Cumberland Presbyterian 
 Tithing Roll. 
 
 (Leaflet, “History of the Tithing Move¬ 
 ment in the Cumberland Presbyterian 
 
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Church”, in stock at Board Office. For lit¬ 
 erature on Tithing, address the Board’s 
 Secretary of Tithing.) 
 
 EXTENSION PLAN 
 
 This is a plan of organization introduced 
 into our work by Mrs. W. F. Langley, of 
 Tennessee, whereby new societies are gained 
 without paid organizers. 
 
 There is a General Secretary of Exten¬ 
 sion (either a Board member, or a worker 
 employed by the Board), who has oversight 
 of the entire extension work; a Secretary 
 of Extension in each Synod, whose duty it 
 is to see that a Secretary of Extension is 
 appointed in each Presbytery, through 
 whom she works in her respective Presby¬ 
 teries, in behalf of organization. Each 
 Presbyterial Extension Secretary, in turn, 
 according to the plan, divides her Presby¬ 
 tery into two or more divisions, each em¬ 
 bracing several local churches, over which 
 she appoints a Supervisor whose duty it is 
 to organize Missionary Societies, and nour¬ 
 ish them until they are strong enough to 
 hold their own, also to revive weak and dis¬ 
 couraged societies. The Supervisors are to 
 keep in personal touch with the Presbyterial 
 Secretaries, and the latter report every 
 quarter to the Synodic Secretary. Then 
 the Synodic Secretary reports to the Board’s 
 Secretary of Extension at the end of each 
 
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quarter. The plan is comprehensive, and 
 has brought splendid results where it has 
 been worked. (For information regarding 
 the plan of work, write the Board’s Sec¬ 
 retary of Extension; for literature, see Sup¬ 
 ply List.) 
 
 MISSION STATIONS 
 
 San Francisco Mission.—Our San Fran¬ 
 cisco Mission is the one Mission left us after 
 the exodus, and was saved to us by the loy¬ 
 alty of Gam Sing Quah. It is for Chinese. 
 We own the property—a Mission building 
 erected in 1920-1921 at a cost of $31,000. 
 The Mission maintains a day and night 
 school for Chinese, consisting of kindergar¬ 
 ten and primary departments and an Eng¬ 
 lish school for older boys, during the day 
 and at night; also a Chinese school taught 
 by the Chinese pastor. Rev. Tom Jung. The 
 school in its several departments accommo¬ 
 dates near 200 students. 
 
 We have a Chinese church, with a mem¬ 
 bership of one hundred ten, and a Sunday 
 School with an enrollment of ninety-eight, 
 in connection with the Mission. Miss Julia 
 McCaslin is Superintendent, Rev. Tom Jung 
 is Chinese pastor. Miss Eva Ater and Miss 
 Rosa Gambill, teachers. 
 
 (See Supply List for leaflets on this 
 work. A yearly report and message from 
 the Superintendent appear in the Annual 
 Report each year.) 
 
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Our South China Missions.—The first Mis¬ 
 sion—our Base Station, the hub around 
 which seven other Stations are located— 
 was established by Rev. Gam Sing Quah in 
 1908. Since that time he has established 
 Missions at Honam, Shekki, Sha Kai, Ti 
 Won, Tong Gag, Shek Won, Rickisha and 
 Ti Chung. At six of these places we own 
 our property and have splendid buildings 
 and equipments. These eight Missions stand 
 for eight schools for boys and girls, with 
 a pupilage of four hundred ninety-one; 
 eight organized churches with a total mem¬ 
 bership of one thousand eight hundred and 
 twenty-four; eight Sunday Schools with an 
 enrollment of one thousand and twenty-sev¬ 
 en; sixteen teachers, six Bible Women, and 
 several young men studying for the Gospel 
 ministry. 
 
 (For further information, see “History of 
 South China Work” and other leaflets at 
 Board Office. Also yearly reports and mes¬ 
 sages given in the Annual Report from 
 year to year.) 
 
 PROPOSED SOUTH AMERICAN WORK 
 
 The proposed South American Work has 
 been before us as a Church for a number 
 of years. Unsettled conditions at the time 
 of the war made us defer plans; and then 
 we w^ere urged toward the South American 
 field with an unexpected impetus by the 
 
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death of Rev. John A. Denver, who had 
 gone into the bloody war with the intention 
 of going as a missionary to South Ameri¬ 
 ca on his return. He did not return. The 
 people of West Tennessee Synod petitioned 
 the Woman’s Convention that the proposed 
 South American Mission be named the 
 “John A. Denver Mission”, pledging them¬ 
 selves to generous contributions. The name 
 was granted, and West Tennessee has not 
 failed; but her special efforts were cut 
 short for a time by the urgent need of Mis¬ 
 sion buildings in San Francisco and Can¬ 
 ton, China, and our consequent strenuous 
 efforts to meet those needs. 
 
 The prayers of the Church still ascend. 
 A Mission in South America is a definite, 
 positive purpose. September, 1922, Rev. 
 and Mrs. Walter Swartz laid their lives 
 on the altar for that field, and Tennessee 
 Synod became responsible for their training, 
 and, ultimately, for their salaries. They 
 are now at Moody Bible Institute, Chicago, 
 making their preparation. The Church’s 
 interest in this neglected field increases; 
 more prayers daily ascend; and we will en¬ 
 ter that great open door—there is no doubt 
 of that. Thank God! 
 
 MEDICAL MISSIONS 
 
 Rev. Gam had not been in China long 
 until he began writing of his hope that our 
 
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Church would take up medical work there, 
 because of the need being so great, and the 
 door of opportunity open so wide to us. 
 Through letters, and when in America in 
 1920, he continued to stress this need. 
 
 His converts are also concerned about this 
 phase of work among their people. At one 
 time one of our Chinese Christian women 
 gave to the Board a valuable lot, situated 
 near our Canton Mission, for a hospital, 
 saying in her letter to the Board that she 
 hoped to add funds to this donation, and 
 pleading that a “hospital work be built for 
 Jesus”. Rev. Gam later wrote that during 
 the war going on in his country the Gov¬ 
 ernment confiscated this lot, but he believed 
 it would be released. 
 
 The subject of Medical Missions was pre¬ 
 sented at' Kentucky Synod in 1921, and it 
 was voted that the surplus above Rev. 
 Gam’s salary should form the nucleus of a 
 Medical Missions Fund. This subject was 
 before the Synod again at its 1922 and 1923 
 meetings, and the amount received above 
 Rev. Gam’s salary placed in the Medical 
 Missions Fund. 
 
 Upon completing her work at Bethel Col¬ 
 lege in 1921, Miss Artie Robey was asked to 
 choose some particular course of study that 
 she would like to take in her further prep¬ 
 aration for missionary service. She felt the 
 call of the nursing profession, and named 
 
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China as her field of labor. In the fall of 
 1921 she entered the Walker Hospital, Ev¬ 
 ansville, Ind., for a nurse’s training course, 
 and will finish her hospital work in Feb¬ 
 ruary, 1924. 
 
 At Illinois Synodic meeting, 1921, Rev. 
 George Coleman laid his life on the altar 
 for missionary work, and the Synod started 
 an educational fund for his use. In the 
 fall of 1923, when Rev. Coleman called at 
 the Board Office one day, the need of a 
 medical missionary was put before him. 
 This field of service appealed to him, and 
 on going home and talking the matter over 
 with his wife, they spent the night in pray¬ 
 er. In a few days he notified the Board 
 that it was clear to them he could render 
 best service to humanity through medical 
 missions. He was interviewed at a Board 
 meeting, and in October entered Evansville 
 College for a pre-me'dical course, on the 
 completion of which he will attend a school 
 of medicine. 
 
 In the fall of 1923 the Board received 
 letters from Rev. W. A. Blades, of Tenn., 
 and his son, Edgar, to the effect that the 
 son had surrendered his life to the call of 
 God for foreign missionary work. As he is 
 taking a pre-medical course, and desires to 
 be instrumental in healing body as well as 
 soul, he felt he should continue the study 
 of medicine and go to the field as a medical 
 ■ missionary. He was also interviewed by the 
 
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Board and accepted as a medical missionary 
 candidate. 
 
 Auxiliaries and individuals are solicited 
 and urged to send offerings to the Medical 
 Missions Fund, the purpose of which is to 
 equip our medical missionary candidates for 
 service, and to undertake the work of Medi¬ 
 cal Missions. 
 
 OUR MISSIONARY CREED 
 
 “We believe in God, the Father, and in 
 His Son, Jesus Christ, and in the Holy 
 Spirit. 
 
 “We believe it is our duty to tell the 
 heathen the plan of salvation that God pro¬ 
 vided through the death of His Son and 
 applied through the agency of the Holy 
 Spirit. 
 
 “We therefore believe it is our duty to 
 send them the Bread of Life by the hand 
 of our missionaries, and to pray for our mis¬ 
 sionaries, and to do all in our power for 
 the spread of the Gospel in the earth, that 
 Christ’s Kingdom may come.” 
 
 WAYSIDE PRAYER AND BENEDICTION 
 0 Holy Lord, our Father and our God, 
 
 Hear Thou and answer this ardent prayer 
 of our hearts— 
 
 The Cumberland Presbyterian Church a 
 Missionary Church, 
 
 The Cumberland Presbyterian Church a 
 Missionary Church, 
 
 Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. 
 
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