Payw /VUsc- / Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2019 with funding from Columbia University Libraries https://archive.org/details/surveyofneedsmilOOunse SURVEY OF NEEDS T. B. RAY SURVEY DIRECTOR Mill ions for the Master BAPTIST 75 MILLION CAMPAIGN NASHVILLE TENNESSEE CONTENTS Pa»e Foreword . 3 Foreign Missions ... 5 Christian Education. 53 Home Missions . 77 State Missions. 91 Ministerial Relief.. 104 Orphanages . 105 Hospitals . 113 FOREWORD VERY delegate who attended the Southern Baptist Convention in Atlanta, May, 1919, was con¬ scious of the presence of great, impending issues. Everyone felt that the denomination must undertake something worthy of itself in this day when the world is turned upside down reeking with need and charged with opportunity. It was not sur¬ prising, therefore, that the Convention launched a campaign to raise seventy-five million dollars for its missionary and benev¬ olent enterprises. How this campaign originated no one knows. It w r as not the plan of any one man or of any group of men. As the Conven¬ tion developed, it seemed to arrive at the conclusion that this great task should be un¬ dertaken and, believing that it was follow¬ ing the unmistakable leading of the Spirit of God, the Convention, with great enthu¬ siasm. committed itself to the 75 Million Campaign and appointed a Commission of fifteen to devise ways and means for carry¬ ing unto success this great project. Soon after the Convention adjourned and after conference with the Secretaries of the State and General Boards, the Commission laid its plans and set its organization into operation by adopting Principles of Proced¬ ure for the Commission, electing Dr. L. R. Scarborough, of Texas, as General Director and locating the headquarters of the Cam¬ paign in Nashville, Tenn. Afterwards, the Executive Committee of the Commission completed the organization by electing B. C. Hening. Assistant Director; Highl C. Moore, Publicity Director; T. B. Ray, Survey Di¬ rector; Frank E. Burkhalter, Secular Press; Mrs. W. J. Neel, W. M. U. Director; Mrs. Janie Cree Bose, W. M. U. Organizer; I. J. Van Ness, Treasurer. The question of the distribution of this fund to the various objects was referred to the Executive Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention for adjustment. This committee met and allocated the money as follows: Christian Education Foreign Missions Home Missions State Missions Ministerial Relief Orphanages Hospitals $20,000,000 20,000,000 12 , 000,000 11 , 000,000 5,000,000 4,700,000 2,125.000 At a subsequent meeting, the item of $175,000 for the National Memorial was referred to the Home Mission Board for ad¬ justment, and, in addition, the committee passed the following resolution: “That the $75,000,000 be divided equally between the Southwide and State causes; that $20,000,- 000 be apportioned for foreign missions; $12,000,000 forborne missions; $3,000,000 for Southwide educational institutions; $2,- 500,000 for Ministerial Relief, and that the remaining $2,500,000 for Ministerial Re¬ lief be raised at the end of the five-year Campaign and within the succeeding two years.” It was understood that the slates would provide a total of $20,000,000 for Christian Education, including the $3,000,000 for South-wide educational institutions above O o named; $11,000,000 for stale missions; $4,- 700 000 for orphanages, and $2,125,000 for hospitals. The proportion for these objects will vary somewhat in the states to meet pe¬ culiar conditions in certain states, but, for all practical purposes, the original alloca¬ tions will be followed and it is hoped and expected that the sum apportioned original¬ ly—and more—will he raised for every ob¬ ject. The Executive Committee of the Commis¬ sion ordered the Survey Director to institute a survey of the needs to be met by the 75 Million Campaign. The results of this sur¬ vey are given in the following pages. The worthiness of the needs have been as thor¬ oughly tested as possible. The needs in the various states were not only reviewed by tbe institutions which are to benefit by the Fund, but by the State Mission Boards as well. Cablegrams were sent to the foreign fields and the missions, in some instances, passed many days in deciding on their five-year pro¬ gram. Every effort was made to insure con¬ servatism as well as comprehensiveness in making up these programs. The survey of the Home Mission Board was conducted in the same thoroughgoing manner. So that the statement of the needs to he met by the $75,000,000 Fund can he considered as be¬ ing the minimum needs which our denomina¬ tion should undertake to meet at this time. The investigation has revealed that the amounts included in the $75,000,000 Fund for the various divisions are not sufficient. Specific needs have been cited which aggre¬ gate far above the $75,000,000. It is un¬ questionably true that Southern Baptists, faced as they are by actual known needs, ought to expend upon the work they have laid out during the next five years at least $ 100 , 000 , 000 . The results of the survey are set forth here in the following general divisions: Foreign Missions, Christian Education, Home Mis¬ sions, State Missions, Ministerial Relief, Or¬ phanages, Hospitals. “For the first time in the history of our people,” writes a special Committee of the Commission, “we have merged all our benev¬ olences into one budget with a reasonable percentage for every object. For the first time we have undertaken a task that chal¬ lenges the faith and heroism of us all. For the first time we have planned a simulta¬ neous Southwide campaign to enlist every pastor, church and member. For the first time since the war between the sections, the Southland is abundantly prosperous, and we, as a denomination, are amply able to con¬ tribute this $75,000,000. There is work enough for all. Will you be a worker in this vineyard of the Lord? “The prospect of success kindles the imagination. Denominational papers will fly into countless homes with healing in their wings; relief will go to our heavily bur¬ dened schools and they will be freed for their mission of light and learning; the wounded and sick will feel the soothing balm of Gilead in the Baptist hospitals of the world; the aged and dependent minister will be assured of sustenance and the dark cloud that hangs in the sky of many a preacher as he fears an impoverished old age will be dissipated; the cry of the orphan for bread and clothing and training will be heard and heeded and pure and undefiled religion thereby exemplified; the base of supplies in the homeland will be strengthened to meet any world emergency; the gospel of Christ will be carried to the uttermost parts of the earth, bringing salvation and deliverance to those wdio sit in darkness and in the shadow of death. Heaven will rejoice and all the earth be glad.” 4 FOREIGN MISSION BOARD SUMMARY OF NEEDS PROPERTY 148 Residences for Missionaries $ 663,800 Land and Buildings for 58 Churches 1,064,350 Land, Buildings and Equipment for 147 Schools 3,265,875 Land, Buildings and Equipment for 20 Hospitals and Dispensaries 189,600 Church Building Loan Funds 540,800 Extension (opening 18 new stations) 457,500 Six Publication Houses 471,700 Miscellaneous 255,175 Additional Property Expenditures in Europe 2,773,450 NEW MISSIONARIES 93 Men for Evangelistic Work 36 Women for Evangelistic Work 64 Men for Educational Work 61 Women for Educational Work 27 Men Physicians 3 Women Physicians 13 Trained Nurses 4 Men for General Mission Work Total New Missionaries (if men are married) 489 Equipment and Outgoing Expenses of 489 New Mis¬ sionaries 317,750 Total for Property and New Missionaries ANNUAL MAINTENANCE Current Expenses, $2,000,000 per year for five years Grand Total $10,000,000 10 , 000,000 $20,000,000 5 Courtyard of the Forbidden City, Peking, During the Victory Celebration FOREIGN MISSION BOARD GENERAL STATEMENT HE first section of our Survey is de¬ voted to the needs of the Foreign Mission Board. In this section we give, first, a general survey of the needs to be met and follow this by detailed estimates, with comments on the same, of the needs in the various fields. It will be noted that one-half of the twenty millions apportioned to foreign missions will be used in providing additional property equipment and the equipment and outgoing expenses of 489 new missionaries. The remaining half, or ten mil¬ lions, will be spent upon the annual maintenance of the work. The term “annual maintenance” includes the expenses of administration at home, the salaries and traveling expenses of foreign and native missionaries, the running expenses of the schools, hospitals, publication houses, rents, etc., etc.—the regular current expenses. It was not possible to include all the requests that were made in the Survey. More than two million dollars were eliminated on property items alone, to say nothing of other new missionaries and expansion. This sum would have been very much larger but for the fact that the missionaries considered it useless to make larger estimates than have been made. It will be noted also that less than a half mil¬ lion dollars is included for expansion. This means that outside of reconstruction work, which we hope to do in Europe, we are practically tak¬ ing care of the old work we have been so mea- gerly supporting, and bringing it up to something like the proper standard. What about those un¬ limited opportunities that are contiguous to all our old missions and which could be entered from these old missions to such good advantage? Fac¬ ing the needs as they are in our foreign mission work, one is forced to the conclusion that after we have spent the twenty million dollars set aside for foreign missions in the 75 Million Campaign. Ave are onlv ready to make a beginning. The great untouched regions beyond are still beyond us. A missionary says: “Our opportunities are limitless and the needs so great that they just overcome us. But we rejoice in the victory at home and hope for more equipment and more men and women. How wonderful is our Lord!” The thrill of joy that has shot through our present missionary force upon receipt of the news of the 75 Million Campaign has been all but pa¬ thetic. How long have they called without re¬ ceiving help! The prospects of receiving more adequate support is almost too much for them. One of them says: “And now the plan to raise $75,000,000 and send out many new workers to the foreign mission fields—what can we say to that? It is simply wonderful, glorious! We will try to do our part praying.” The Igbajo Baptist Church and Cong A Congregation at One of the Niger Delta Churches AFRICAN MISSION SUMMARY OF NEEDS PROPERTY NEEDS Eighteen Residences for Missionaries Land, Buildings, Equipment Seven Schools Buildings and Equipment Two Hospitals Church Building Loan Fund Extension (three new stations) Miscellaneous $63,000 94,000 24,500 10,800 11,000 7,375—$ 210,675 NEW MISSIONARIES Three Men for Evangelistic Work Three Single Women for Evangelistic Work Two Doctors Three Nurses Seven Men for Educational Work One Single Woman for Educational Work Total New Missionaries (if men are married), 31 Equipment and Outgoing Expense ($750 per missionary) 23,250 Grand Total $ 233,925 Street Scene Showing Blacksmith Shops, Ogbomoso 7 DESCRIPTION OF NEEDS FRICA is the largest of all the conti¬ nents. It is half again as large as North America. Our work is in Ni¬ geria amongst the Yorubans, one of the most virile tribes in Africa. Ni¬ geria is on the West Coast and is as large as our Southern States east of the Mississippi omitting Florida and South Carolina. It has a population about the same as that of our eastern tier of South¬ ern States. RESIDENCES FOB MISSIONARIES Abeokuta For Evangelistic Family $ 3,500 For Educational Family 3,500 For Evangelistic Woman Worker 3,500 Oyo For Evangelistic Family 3,500 For Doctor 3,500 For Nurses and Single Woman 3,500 Ogbomoso For Principal Theological Seminary 3,500 For Vice-Principal Theological Seminary 3,500 For Evangelistic Family 3,500 For Doctor on New Site for Hospital 3,500 For Nurses and Single Women 3,500 For Second Doctor 3,500 For Educationalist in Academy 3,500 Lagos For Educationalist High School 3,500 For Second Educationalist High School 3,500 Iseyin For Evangelistic Missionary 3,500 Niger Delta For Missionary in Charge of Delta Work 3,500 Industrial School (to be centrally located) For Second Missionary 3,500 Comfortable, sunproof, well-ventilated and thoroughly screened houses are essenfiat To the health and efficiency of missionaries laboring in the Tropics. To the tired and sometimes weary missionary, the home is a veritable haven of rest. To our lady missionaries, the modest, comfortably furnished home is her heart’s desire and delight, for there she, as a true woman, can dispense good cheer, comfort and rest, not only to those of her own household, but to the occasional guest, 8 Womcu’s Society, Ogbomoso to the government official, trader or missionary whose good fortune it is to be entertained in her home. The modest, comfortable missionary home makes for health, happiness, effectiveness and efficiency in missionary service. GIRLS’ SCHOOL, ABEOKUTA Enlarging the Present School $ 3,500 Dining Room, Laundry, Kitchen 1,000 Second Addition to the School 15,000 CIRLS’ SCHOOL FOR THE COUNTRY NORTH OF IBADAN Location to be Decided Later 5,000 A great native need in West Africa is for housekeepers, homemakers and wives who will be true helpers and companions to their hus¬ bands. There are plenty of women (some men can count theirs by the score), but not many wives. A practical education for girls and young women that includes the study and practice of Domestic Science in its relation and applica¬ tion in West African life and social conditions is one of the great outstanding needs of Ni¬ geria. For several years, in a small way, we have been doing this work at Abeokuta, but the time is ripe and the call urgent to enlarge and develop this phase of mission work. Training women to be true wives is one of the most effective ways to help solve and to overcome the great polygamy question that now confronts all Mis¬ sions in West Africa. DAY SCHOOLS AND ACADEMY New Day School Building, Ogbomoso $ 3.000 Boys’ Academy, Ogbomoso 5,000 Second Building, Boys’ Academy, Ogbomoso 10,000 Additional Equipment, Boys’ Academy 1,500 High School Property, Lagos 30,000 The youth of Nigeria are turning from the religions of their fathers. The coming of the white man and the civilization that follows in his wake, the introduction of railroads, automo¬ biles, motor-vans and other vehicles, changes in the political situation, the new and larger op¬ portunities for trade and commerce—all of these have combined to implant within the rising gen¬ eration new ideas, new viewpoints, new ambi¬ tions, a dissatisfaction with the old and primi¬ tive ways of their fathers. They want to emerge from the things of the past and have a place in the new order of things. To meet this situa¬ tion, we must have modern, well-equipped Christian day schools and academies, where the boys and young men may have an opportunity to help themselves enter into the advantages of Christian civilization and education. The con¬ version of these pupils and students and their identification with our Baptist churches ensure for Baptists in the years to come a certain num¬ ber of influential laymen, financially able to aid and provide in a large way for the home mis¬ sion work of Nigeria and the foreign mission work in other African Colonies. THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY Furniture and Equipment $ 2,000 Complete Building 2,500 Additional Building 10.000 Twins in Their Cradles 9 King of Ogbomoso with Two of His Favorite Wives A converted, educated. Biblically trained na¬ tive ministry is not only a tremendous asset, but an absolute necessity to an effective and evan¬ gelistic Mission. We have a few such men, but we need scores more. In no part of the world is there a greater need for staightforward, clear- cut, scriptural, unadulterated presentation of New Testament teachings than is to be found among the people of West Africa. To train men to preach the gospel, to rightly interpret the Word of God, to lead our churches according to New Testament ideals and practices, to com¬ bat the many errors and isms and to help stem the advance of the Mohammedan hosts, we must have our Theological Seminary at Ogbomoso manned and equipped so that it may be to our African Mission what our great Seminaries and Bible Schools at Louisville, Ft. Worth and New Orleans are to our Southern Baptist Convention. INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL Portable Machinery $ 500 Industrial School Plant 5,000 A centrally located, well-equipped institution for the training of mechanics and introducing more modern methods of farming would render a colossal service, not only to the Baptist cause, but also to the Colony of Nigeria, and, inciden¬ tally, to the United States and other pa'Ts of the world, for in the future Nigeria will doubt¬ less figure in a large way as an exporter of cot¬ ton, corn, peanuts and palm oil. Some of the natives of Nigeria will follow a professional, political or business life, but the crreat mass of the male population will work with their hands, either as mechanics or farmers. To train Chris¬ tian mechanics and farmers is a work overflow¬ ing with possibilities of usefulness and blessing to a community. A centrally located industrial school could render signal service to our Mission as a whole; with its experienced and skilled super¬ visors and its trained builders and carpenters, it should insure the erection of Mission buildings that would be a credit to our Mission. MEDICAL WORK Oyo Completing and Etpiipping Hospital $ 2,500 Hospital Building 10 000 Ogbomoso Completing and Equipping Hospital 2,500 Additional Hospital Building 10,000 “Preach the Gospel, heal the sick,” is the Scriptural injunction. In a country where cli¬ matic, hygienic and sanitary conditions are ad¬ verse to health, and where there are numerous communities of from 5,000 to 150,000 population, great centers without any qualified physician, with an infant mortality of 50 per cent and more, where the teeming thousands are steeped in ignorance, superstition and fetish worship, surely there is a heart-breaking need for the twofold phase of mission work that preaches the Gospel and heals the sick, ministering to the spiritual and physical sickness of the needy multitude. Southern Baptists have no well-equipped hos¬ pital in Nigeria. Your medical missionaries have for years been doing their surgical work in grass- roofed sheds and outhouses, and yet the Lord has given a large measure of success and blessed their efforts. What a happy day it will be for those needy communities, for the medical missionaries and for Southern Baptists when we have one or two thoroughly up-to-date, well-equipped hospi¬ tals! These will give facilities and provide op¬ portunities for preaching the Gospel and demon¬ strating Gospel teaching to multitudes in all ranks of life, as no other phase of mission work can do. LIGHT AND POWER PLANTS Oyo $2 000 Ogbomoso 2 000 This is for the purpose of furnishing electric lights for the Mission residences, the school build¬ ings and the hospitals at the Ogbomoso and Oyo Stations, also to make possible the use of the X- ray apparatus at the hospitals. What a boon the electric light will be to the missionaries and to the students of our Seminary and Academy! Water Carriers, Ogbomoso 10 What a saving to the eyes of all concerned to replace the dim light of kerosene lanterns and lamps with electric lights! It will, after the initial expense of installing the plant, be a great economy from a financial point of view, kero¬ sene sells at one dollar per gallon, and oftentimes lamps are out of commission for want of lamp chimneys, which cannot he obtained nearer than Lagos, two hundred miles, or perhaps England, nearly 5,000 miles distant. CHURCH BUILDINGS Church Building Loan Fund $10 800 Native Workers' Houses (at $375 each) 3 375 These houses, simple in plan and construction, supply the need of the native worker for a home and also offer the following advantages to our mission work: 1. Provides one or more rooms as camping quarters for the missionary when visiting out- stations. 2. Being built with a large central room, it provides a meeting place that can be used as a school or church until such time as a regular school ©r church building is needed and can be erected. 3. It facilitates the plan for transferring the native worker from one station to another. 4. It should demonstrate to the native com¬ munity wTiat a Christian home from the native standpoint should be and how it could be main¬ tained. The policy of the African Mission is to en¬ courage native congregations to build and keep in repair their houses of worship. In place of direct grants in aid, or of the Mission erecting the church building, it is for the good of the church that, as far as possible, they provide the money to erect their building. Should special con¬ ditions arise and some financial help he needed, the Church Building Loan Fund will provide a way for the church to obtain a loan for a certain period at a definite rate of interest. The repay¬ ment of these loans, with the interest thereon, will make it possible to help manv of our churches to e^ect suitable buildings for their church and Bible School work. NEW WORK—EXTENSION WORK Opening Work in the Delta Region $ 500 Opening Work at Iseyin Station 500 To Extend Work in the Hausa States 10 000 DELTA REGION A large work in this region was organized and supervised by the late Rev. Mojala Agbebi, one of our Baptist leaders at Lagos a truly great man now passed to his reward. This work, located in the Niger Delta, and extending on to the main¬ land, needs the supervision of a missionary. This is a w T ork of great possibilities, if a patient, sym¬ pathetic, tact I id and Biblical leadership can bo given to it. ISEYIN Ibis is a large and important town on tin main highway between our two Mission Stations- Oyo and Shaki. A great Mohammedan town, yet there is a company of young men who are re¬ sponding to our native worker and who are anxiou- to see a Baptist church organized there. A Mis- sion station at Iseyin would link up the Oyo and Shaki work, besides forming a center from which work could be carried on in several smaller towns or outstations. We must enter Iseyin as soon as possible. EXTENSION WORK Hausa States and Soudan. Already, small com¬ panies of Baptists from our Yoruba churches have gone to the large trading centers in the Hausa States for the purpose of trade. They meet for worship and Christian fellowship, and at least one church building has been erected and services conducted in the Hausa language are held every Sunday. These Christian companies should be¬ come centers of Christian influence, and the means to open doors of opportunity in these large and important Llausa cities. A fund should be avail¬ able for visiting these cities and making a survey of the Hausa and other fields, also to give partial and occasional oversight to these Christian com¬ panies and, as opportunity presents, to proceed with the Hausa work. NEW MISSIONARIES Man for Evangelistic Work, Southeast of Ogbomoso Second Doctor for Ogbomoso Trained Nurse for Ogbomoso Man for Theological School, Ogbomoso Second Man for Theological School, Ogbomoso Second Trained Nurse, Ogbomoso School Man, Abeokuta School Man for Academy, Ogbomoso Woman for Evangelistic Work, Abeokuta Woman for Evangelistic Work, Oyo Woman for Women's Work, Ogbomoso Kindergarten Teacher, Oyo Second Trained Nurse, Oyo Doctor for Oyo Man for High School, Lagos Second Man for High School, Lagos Second Man for Evangelistic Work, Iseyin Second Man for Evangelistic Work, Niger Delta Second Man for Industrial Work The above list of new missionaries, consisting of ten families, three nurses, two doctors and four single women, are necessary additions to our present staff to ensure continuity of work and to use the added equipment to its desired and pos¬ sible capacity. These, in addition to our present staff, will give a total of forty-seven missionares to the millions of people within the present scope of the Nigeria Baptist Convention. 11 LATIN AMERICA 12 ARGENTINE MISSION SUMMARY OF NEEDS PROPERTY NEEDS Nine Church Buildings Buildings and Equipment for Four Schools Publication Work Church Building Loan Fund Extension NEW MISSIONARIES Four Men for Evangelistic Work One Man for General Station Work Two Men for Educational Work One Single Woman for General Station Work Two Single Women for Educational Work Total New Missionaries (if men are married), 17 Equipment and Outgoing Expenses ($650 per Missionary) $ 11,050 Grand Total $ 263,550 DESCRIPTION OF NEEDS buildings. It is next to impossible to get even our own people to realize that we are more than wanderers and strangers. The impression on the general public is much worse. One who has his own property is regarded with far more respect than a renter. Our rented halls place our work on the same basis, so far as the public mind is concerned, with working men’s societies, political party meetings, etc. Almost without exception, the churches for which we are asking buildings are seriously hampered for want of sufficient room. The general idea of the Mission is that we should not attempt to build any imposing struc¬ tures for the present, nor would it he possible with the modest amounts which we have requested. We want to build sufficiently large auditoriums to ac¬ commodate the congregations, even on special occasions, provide them with light and ventilation and agreeable appearance; also Sunday school rooms, which can be used for primary day schools, where desirable. For chapels in the smaller towns where we have work, away from the larger centers, we are very anxious for a fund which may be used largely as a bu’lding and loan fund. N our recent Mission meeting we have tried to meet your request and to foresee the real needs for advance in the next five years. We have worked through the program thor¬ oughly and tried to fix our minimum needs. The estimates indicating the appeals for men and money do not mean that we could not use more men and more money. We believe we are con¬ servative in our requests. CHURCH BUILDINGS First Church, Rosario (for completing build¬ ing) $ 1.000 North District Church, Rosario 3,000 Church Building, Pringles 1.500 Southwest District Church, Buenos Aires 15 000 Constitucion Church, Buenos Aires 30,000 Land and Church Building, Montevideo 21,500 Once Church Building, Buenos Aires 25.000 Mendoza Church Building 10 000 Chapel Talleres 3,000 Church Building, Corrientes 5,000 Church Building, Asuncion, Paraguay 10.000 Church Building Loan Fund for Entire Mis¬ sion 25,000 Our work has suffered greatly because of inap¬ propriate buildings. We worship in rented store- $ 108,500 72,500 . 30,000 25,000 16,500—$ 252,500 13 Don Pablo Besson, the Baptist Patriarch of Argentina Ihe items for the church buildings at Corrientes, Pringles and Asuncion represent extension. They are all very important for especial reasons. In particular, the amount for the church at Asuncion is urgent because the native Argentine Board, which is opening Mission work in Paraguay, needs to have this substantial; encouragement in its good work. PUBLICATION BOARD $30 000 In a very real sense, the progress and stability of the entire work depend upon the development and circulation of Christian literature. We are just getting to the point where we are able to see definite promise in this line of our Mission ac¬ tivity. For this work we should have at least >30,000 l gold I in the next five years, and we can confidently say that if this work be duly strength¬ ened, we can expect steady progress all along the line. SCHOOL EQUIPMENT Boys’ High School. Buenos Aires $50 000 Theological Training School, Buenos Aires 12.500 Equipment Girls’ School, Rosario (rented premises) 5,000 Agricultural School 5,000 The Mission has been discussing and planning in a general way for a number of years a good boys’ school in the Argentine capital. It is indeed time we were realizing our hopes in this respect. \\ e recommend that the beginning be upon a mod¬ erate plan, both as to the number of students and equipment. The next logical step in educational work is a girls’ school. The logical point seems to be Rosario. We suggest that Mrs. J. L. Hart be at the head of this school, the need of which is thor¬ oughly recognized. Our plans for the Theological Training School propose a separate building, located near the future Boys' High School. It will be splendid to have a home for the boys. At present, there are eight students, seven of whom live in our rented house and one comes in for classes. The eicrht make a hopeful group. We also urge the opening of an Agricultural School to meet the evident need of better farmers and herdsmen in this country, almost wholly dedi¬ cated to such pursuits. Perhaps, many of the sons of our present converts could be induced to leave the cities and go to live well on farms. Such a result would be a great blessing now and the basis of future strength for the work. NEW MISSIONARIES Man for Evangelistic Work, Cordoba District Man for Evangelistic Work, Entre Rios District Man for General Work, Montevideo Man for Evangelistic Work, Bahia Blanca District Man for Evangelistic Work, Tucuman District Man for Educational Work, Buenos Aires Single Woman for High School, Buenos Aires Single Woman for Girls’ School, Rosario Single Woman, for General Work, Montevideo Man for Work in Agricultural School While our Mission realizes the needs and the importance of all the distinct phases of mission¬ ary activity, our belief is that the work of evan¬ gelization is the most important of all. In en¬ deavoring to carry it forward we have found our¬ selves badly undermanned. For the past ten years our missionary ranks have received absolutely no reinforcements. We are now rejoiced that better days seem to be looming ahead. 14 Seminary Building. Pernambuco Woman’s Training School Building, Pernambuco NORTH BRAZIL MISSION SUMMARY OF NEEDS PROPERTY Six Residences lor Missionaries Land. Buildings and Equipment for 5 Schools Church Building Loan Fund Launch $ 21,000 180,000 50,000 3.000—$ 254.000 MISSIONARIES Five Men for Educational Work Five Men lor Evangelistic Work One Physician One Single Woman for Educational Work Total Number of Missionaries (if men are married), 23 Equipment and Outgoing Expenses ($650 per missionary) 14,950 Grand Total $ 268,950 Students Collegio Americano Baptista, Pernambuco 15 Rear View Pernambuco College Campu* DESCRIPTION OF NEEDS ORTH BRAZIL is more than sixty times the size of Virginia, is ten times as large as Texas, has a territory over two and a half times that of the Southern Baptist Convention. The evangelization of this vast land has only begun. The two best evangelized fields are Bahia and Pernambuco. Leaving the city of Bahia, one may ride two days on a train that goes to the northern boundary of the state, pass much people and many good towns, but he will see only one Baptist church and one preaching point. The State of Pernambuco has sixty-nine counties. We have work established in only fifteen, and in most of them only one church. Yet these two states are where we are strongest. RESIDENCES FOR MISSIONARIES Changing School Building into Residence, Bahia $3,000 Residence for Second Missionary, Bahia 6,000 Residence for Missionary, Sergipe 6,000 Residences for Three Missionaries, Corrente 6,000 Comfortable houses for our missionaries in North Brazil needs no comment further than to call attention to the latitude in which this Mis¬ sion is located. SCHOOL EQUIPMENT College, Pernambuco Completing and Furnishing Left Wing of Main Building $ 6,000 Remodeling Old Building 10,000 Remodeling Seminary Building for Kitch¬ en, Baths, etc. 9,000 Erection Right Wing Main Building 25,000 Addition to Main Building to Provide Chapel and Class Rooms 50,000 Building for Theological Seminary, Pernam¬ buco 25,000 Renovation of Woman’s Training School Build¬ ing, Pernambuco 5,000 Equipment of Industrial School, Corrente, $5,000 per year 25,000 School at Casca, Bahia First Building 15,000 Two Residences for Missionaries 5,000 Equipment 5,000 The Collegio Americano Baptista is our literary and commercial high school, located in Pernam¬ buco, which makes possible a trained lay leader¬ ship for North Brazil. The student body has quadrupled in four years. Its matriculation is now 400. With adequate quarters it will enroll 1,000 students and mightily influence them for the Gospel of Christ. The institution needs $50,000 immediately and $50,000 next year to complete projected buildings. The North Brazil Seminary in Pernambuco is, at present, domiciled in a two-story building which was erected without expense to the Board. That structure, however, will be remodeled to form a part of the projected high school building. The Seminary student body, both for the sake of a more liberal discipline than they can now enjoy, and for the sake of a deeper spiritual life, needs separate dormitory and class-rooms. The denomi¬ nation has just bought five acres and the house which serves the Woman’s Training School. Back in the Palm Grove, on the rear of this property, is one of several excellent sites for the needed new quarters. They will cost $25,000. The reasona¬ ble expansion, then, which the Seminary asks for these next five years is a missionary for distinctly theological teaching and a simple, serviceable, separate home. The School for Christian Women Workers has passed the experimental stage. It has taken hold of the heart of the denomination as nothing has ever done. They are giving its home. The house which the Training School occupies is old, but 16 solid ami roomy. But, as it lias been rented prop¬ erty all these years, we could never make any changes. Now that the property is ours, and is to be used by the Training School, it must be re¬ modeled, repaired and refitted, so as to make it habitable for the young women who are to be trained here for Christian service. The Brazilian constituency is to furnish the grounds and buildings for the Baptist Industrial Inst itute at Corrente. That represents great lib¬ erality on their part. The equipment will need to come from the Board. Next year they need a launch, school furniture and a wagon. The fol¬ lowing year, as the buildings go up, they will need other school equipment and agricultural and industrial supplies. Mr. Hayes and Mr. Terry have made careful estimates of their needs and place them at $5,000 a year for five years. The Instituto Baptista Bahiano is a new school located in Casca. Casca is located in the moun¬ tainous region 2,000 feet above sea level, and is 180 miles interior from Bahia. This is a promis¬ ing Baptist center. In this district there are more than thirty prosperous churches and many flourishing congregations. The Brazilian people are donating 100 acres of land, which includes an excellent building site. The location is ideal. The school, which ha's been conducted heretofore in the city of Bahia, will be moved to Casca, where, separated from the severe temptations of Bahia City, the students will have a much safer environ¬ ment in which to do their work. This new situa¬ tion is full of promise. CHURCH BUILDING LOAN FUND $50,000 Three years ago there were reported in North Brazil twenty-eight church houses. This year there are seventy-eight. And that tremendous growth has been achieved without one dollar be¬ ing given by Southern Baptists to any of these churches. Two large school properties besides stand as a monument to the Building Loan Fund of our Mission. The Fund was started by the gifts of missionaries, and they have no fear as to its financial stability. They ask for a larger reserve fund merely that they may enlarge their opportunity and heed sooner the many requests for help. A loan on reasonable terms of month¬ ly payments is a stimulus to llie churches to erect their buildings. No work is considered perma¬ nent in Brazil until it has a house of its own. That is why we want to help every Baptist church and many of the schools to help themselves and develop the spiritual muscle that such activity will grow in the denomination. LAUNCH (for E. A. Nelson) $3,000 Brother Nelson, called by many the “apostle of the Amazon,” goes over vast stretches of water in carrying on his work. His usefulness would be greatly multiplied by the use of a good launch and his health would likewise be fortified. NEW MISSIONARIES Man for Educational Work, Manaus Man for Evangelistic Work, Para Man for Evangelistic Work, Interior State of Bahia Man for Evangelistic Work, Parahyba Man for Evangelistic Work, Corrente Man for Evangelistic Work, Piauhy Second Physician, Corrente Single Woman for Primary Normal Department Training School, Pernambuco Man for Principal of High School, Pernambuco Man for Science Teacher, Pernambuco Man for Theological Seminary, Pernambuco Second School Man, Casca, Bahia No adequate evangelistic force can be main¬ tained in connection with undermanned institu¬ tions. Educational and administrative work once begun cannot be left without executives. Expe¬ rience teaches us that, if an institution is under¬ manned, it invariably draws on the men who would gladly give themselves to evangelism, but will not withhold their help in an emergency. Often both the Board and the Mission can but turn to them with such a plea. Sometimes what they think will be a temporary mission becomes their life task. It is a blessing that men with the evangelistic spirit are in our educational and en¬ listment leadership. So ought it to be, for they, too, have a wonderful, if indirect, evangelistic op¬ portunity and duty. The Mission justly pleads that the two groups of workers be kept adequate and proportionate, that it may attain and maintain its reasonable standard—a minimum of one evan¬ gelistic missionary for every million souls. A Load of Empties, Pernambuco 17 Baron’* Palace Used as Dormitory, Rio College Main Building of Rio College and Seminary SOUTH BRAZIL MISSION SUMMARY OF NEEDS PROPERTY Three Residences for Missionaries Land, Buildings and Equipment for 18 Schools Land and Buildings for Four Churches Church Building Loan Fund for Entire Mission Carroll Memorial Publishing House MISSIONARIES Ten Men for Evangelistic Work Five Men for Educational Work Three Single Women for Educational Work One Single Woman for Evangelistic Work Total Number of Missionaries (if men are married), 34 Equipment and Outgoing Expenses ($650 per Missionary) 22,100 Grand Total $ 1,071,100 $ 15,000 746.500 112.500 75,000 100,000—$ 1,049,000 J. S. Carroll Memorial Publishing House, Rio 18 Sugar Cane Mill, South Brazil DESCRIPTION OF NEEDS UST after the close of the Civil War a considerable number of people from the South emigrated to Brazil. Among these were some Baptists, notably Col. A. H. Hawthorne. Soon an agitation began which had for its purpose the rousing of Southern Baptists to mission efforts in Brazil. In 1881, W. B. Bagby and wife, of Texas, landed in Brazil, and after a time started a work in Rio de Janeiro, which spread over the wide territory of Southern Brazil, and was afterwards organized into the South Brazil Mission. Within the territory of the South Brazil Mission are more Baptist churches and more church mem¬ bers than in any other of our Foreign Mission Fields. The needs of this South Brazil Mission are vast: RESIDENCES FOR MISSIONARIES For Director of Boarding School, Victoria $5,000 For Evangelistic Family, Victoria 5,000 For Director Campos School 5,000 As a matter of economy it is very important that we build houses for our missionaries in Bra¬ zil. Rents are so high that the amount paid out in rents in a few years will reimburse us for the amount we would spend on the erection of build¬ ings of our own. For instance, the missionary who will be in charge of the school at Victoria will have to pay $840 a year rent. The amount spent in six years in rent would pay the cost of a residence. It is not only economical from a financial viewpoint, but from the viewpoint of the health of the missionary that comfortable resi¬ dences be provided for these workers. CHURCH BUILDINGS First Baptist Church, Rio $100,000 Church Building, Nictheroy 2,500 Church Building Loan Fund 75.000 To Buy Property in Paranagua 2,000 To Finish Curityba Church 8,000 The creation of a Church Building Loan Board is the result of much thinking and pray¬ ing. We see exceedingly high rents going out al¬ ways to the ungodly, when with a proper organi¬ zation and help we could use that money to erect and pay for our own church buildings. If we continue to have poor, out-of-the-way houses, we shall continue to be poor forever, for such places will continue to attract and receive only the poor¬ er people. And we are not saying that we shall not reach and save them. We love them, we love them all, therefore we want to extend our work and influence to all classes and not limit ourselves to the poor. Due to the fact that a hill has been removed from the very heart of the city of Rio, in order to fill in the harbor, a most desirable piece of prop¬ erty has been put on the market. Here, facing a beautiful park recently created, the First Baptist Church has acquired a magnificent lot. No better location can be found in this great city. In secur¬ ing this lot the church used most of the $50,000 given out of the Judson Centennial. The lot might have been secured at a lower rate if the 19 First Baptist Church, Sao Paulo church had been willing to accept certain favors from the government. This it steadfastly refused to do and manifested the true Baptist spirit, even though it had to pay more for the lot. Now it is necessary to erect on this lot a building com¬ mensurate with the great plans of this church. The building proposed will be used not only for a church, but also for a great day school. The erecton of this building will strengthen our work throughout Brazil. The church will supplement very considerably the amount here requested. SCHOOLS Rio Baptist College and Seminary Dormitory, College $ 40 000 Property for Rua Bispo School 60,000 Residences for Professors in Rua Bispo School 30 000 Normal School Building 100 000 Open Air Gymnasium 15 000 Dormitory for Rua Bispo School 60 000 Remodeling Baron's Palace for Seminary 70 000 Second Dormitory, College 40 000 Library Etiilding and Books 55,000 Science Building and Equipment 50,000 Victoria Academy Girls’ School Grounds and Dormitory 7.000 Boys’ School Grounds and Dormitory 7.000 Land and Building for Central School 15.000 Apparatus and Material 6,000 Residence for Director of School 5.000 School at Cachoeira 10,000 Reforming Buildings and Enlarging Dormi¬ tory, Campos School 4,000 Lot and Building for Girls’ Boarding Depart¬ ment, Campos School 18,000 Furnishing for Girls’ Boarding Department, Campos School 2.000 Equipment for School, Curityba 500 Fund to Equip and Start Seven Day Schools in Santa Catharina Field 2.000 Boys’ School Building, Curityba 20 000 Sao Paulo Girls’ School 100 000 Industrial School, Matto Grosso 10 000 Boys’ School, Bello Horizonte 25,000 This educational program embraces the enlarge¬ ment of our secondary schools in Victoria and Campos, and the founding of several other schools of like character in a strategic center of each of several states. Bello Horizonte has been chosen for the center in the great state of Minas; Curi¬ tyba for the state of Parana, and schools of the industrial and agricultural type are planned for the vast states of Matto Grosso and Rio Grande do Sul. When we think how the woman’s work is lag¬ ging for lack of leadership among the women, we realize the great need for a woman’s college. Some of our students in the Seminary are well trained, but their wives cannot read, or can read only a little, and have no training sufficient to enable them to take their places beside their hus¬ bands. And this is a day when we Baptists must begin to move among the very best educated and cultured people of the land. The South Brazil Mission most heartily voted to ask the Board to make the Girls’ School at Sao Paulo a real woman’s college, and at the earliest possible date. They ask that a grant of $100,000 be made for putting up a great combination building for the institution. There is no question as to the great and urgent necessity for such an institution in Brazil. There is not a single evangelical or Protestant woman’s college in all Brazil! Female education is greatly neglected in all Roman Cath¬ olic countries and there is no provision made in Brazil for the higher education of women, except in some normal schools, and these are rare. The five-year program of Rio Baptist College and Seminary, the threefold institution in the great federal capital, calls for equipment which in round numbers reaches the half-million mark. It is not the program of mere visionaries, but rep¬ resents real needs in substantial equipment for an institution that by the end of the five-year period may expect to have at least a thousand students enrolled. Rio de Janeiro represents one of the greatest single opportunities in the Mission fields of today. It is the key to the evangelization of the vast republic, which is about half the territory and population of South America. We could not lay out a plan for this great city of at least a mil¬ lion inhabitants, with its arteries of communica¬ tion connecting it with the utmost limits, com¬ mercially, politically and socially of the republic, on a smaller basis. There was never such an hour of opportunity in Rio as the present. With the enlarged sympathies for all things American, with the adoption of the system of the United States Navy in the Brazilian Navy, the North American system of education in the Brazilian schools, and like changes in many other phases of social activity and organization, we could not wish for a more opportune time to launch a 20 Mounted for a Missionary Trip greater enterprise in education than any hereto¬ fore undertaken. We have an institution which is already known widely over Brazil and highly con¬ sidered by the population of Rio. It has been classed in a category with the two leading institu¬ tions of the Brazilian Government, in Rio de Ja¬ neiro. With this beginning we should go on up easily to the first place in Brazilian education, es¬ pecially in the federal capital. At present we have over four hundred students and pupils under the care of more than thirty teachers. In 1923 we should have the Seminary building. This department will have seventy-five students approximately near the end of the five-year period and ought to be given a building to itself. In all our plans we wish to give the training of the ministry the place of greatest honor. The crown¬ ing site of the campus is the one occupied at present by the Palace of the Baron, which can be remodeled for the use of the Seminary. Dr. Shepard, President of Rio College and Seminary, says: “I believe that our educational work will be put on such a basis that in five years after the last building for schools herein projected, is finished there will be no need of our Foreign Mission Board sending more missionaries to Brazil. The prepared native workers by that time will be so great that it will be unnecessary to send more men. The possibilities of the near future are so great that one is almost overwhelmed with joy and the responsibility of the present hour.” CARROLL MEMORIAL PUBLISHING HOUSE, RIO Machinery, Tvpe and Working Material ($5,000 a year) $25 000 For Houses for Missionaries, Houses for Workmen, Chapel and School to be Built on Property Owned by Publishing House 20 000 For Colporters and Bible Work (including traveling expenses) 15.000 Literature and Publications 40.000 With ihe acquisition ol the excellent property through the gift of Mrs. J. S. Carroll for our Bra¬ zilian Publishing House, a great step forward was made, but the property without the necessary working tools can add but little to our efficiency. At the present time we are greatly handicapped by the aforesaid lack. The fact is, that beside the two new linotype machines, all of our other machinery and type has been in use since 1900. You can imagine in what state it all is at the pres¬ ent time. Then, also, for the house to be able to satisfy all the needs of the work in all of its departments: Church work, Sunday schools, B. Y. P. U. work, colleges, seminaries, we urgently need complete outfits for bookbinding, lithography, ruling, stereotyping, etc. We are also convinced of the urgent need of a good business center in the heart of the city, a house large enough to ac¬ commodate an adequate shop, offices, storerooms, as well as a good assembly hall, a real Baptist center for the great capital of Rio as well as for all the Baptists in Brazil. We need badly ade¬ quate buildings for the different departments, to be erected on the property we already own, as well as houses for the missionaries connected with the Publishing House and houses for workmen. NEW MISSIONARIES Man for Evangelistic Work, Florianopolis Man for Evangelistic Work, Santa Maria Section, Rio Grande do Sul Single Woman for Boarding Department, Campos School Man for Educational Work, Curityba Man for Evangelistic W'ork, Matto Grosso Field Man for Evangelistic Work, Northern Section, Minas Geraes Field Man for Evangelistic Work, Cruz Alta Section, Rio Grande do Sul Man for Evangelistic Work, Campinas Single Woman for Victoria Academy Man for Evangelistic Work, Southern Section, Minas Geraes Field Man for Evangelistic Work, Braz, Minas Geraes Field Man for Evangelistic Work, Western Section, Minas Geraes Field Man for Educational W'ork, Florianopolis Man for Rio College and Seminary Kindergartner for Rio College and Seminary Second Man for Rio College and Seminary Single Woman for Evangelistic Work Among Women, Rio Man for Victoria Academy Man for Evangelistic Work, Sao Paulo “We need and shall continue to need more workers. In all of the fields we shall need more workers, educational and evangelistic. Our ap¬ peal for workers is the lowest possible for the five years. We are doing more than we can do; that is, we are trying to do all and are doing noth¬ ing well. It is literally true that each man is so busy that we cannot get together and plan wisely for the whole task and even if we plan there is no one to carry out the plans.” 21 A Country Horae in Chile A Chilean Bakery CHILIAN MISSION PROPERTY NEEDS Bible Training School, Santiago $ Girls’ School, Temuco Church Building Loan Fund Residences, Two Missionaries 20,000 20,000 5,000 10,000—$ 55,000 MISSIONARIES Man for Bihle Training School Man for Evangelistic Work Two Single Women for Girls’ School 3,900 $ 58,900 Total Number of Missionaries (if men are married), 6 Equipment and Outgoing Expenses ($650 per Missionary) Grand Total DESCRIPTION OF NEEDS HE first need of our Chilian Mission is more preachers. We need more foreign missionaries and more native preachers. Although Rev. W. D. T. MacDonald has for many years worked successfully in Chile, and has built up twelve churches, with a membership of about 1,500, we are still in the pioneer period. We have some native preachers, but they are poorly trained. We must at once develop plans for the training of others. Hence the absolute necessity of the Bible Training School at Santiago. This Train¬ ing School will provide at first not only Bihle training, but literary training. Gradually there will be built up a boarding school for boys and men which will furnish competent leaders. Along with the training of preachers and lay¬ men for our work must go the training of the girls. It has been decided to locate the Girls’ School at Temuco, which is the center of our present Baptist work. There are several hun¬ dred girls in our Baptist families, and we esti¬ mate that sixty of these would be gathered into the school during the first year. The churches already organized are in des¬ perate need of buildings in which to worship. A modest Building Loan Fund would greatly en¬ courage them and make possible the acquisition of a number of building lots, as well as the erec¬ tion of several church buildings. 22 O N G O Iv NE person out of every four in the world is Chinese. Multiply all the people in the United States by four and place them east of a line drawn north and south through Kansas City and you will have a fair understanding of the immensity and density of the population of China. Our work is splendidly placed in four vital areas of the Chinese Republic. The North China Mission is located in Shantung Province, which has recently been so widely discussed in connec¬ tion with the Peace Treaty. This widespread dis¬ cussion shows the importance of this section of china. The Central China Mission is located in the region of Shanghai, which city is, in many respects, the leading city in China. The Interior China Mission lies chiefly in Honan Province, which great section is becoming the crossroads to trade. It is located in the midst of a vast popula¬ tion. The South China Mission, which was the first opened by our Board, lies in Kwong Tung and Kwong Si Provinces, in the far south. The main center is Canton, which is one of the great cities of the world. From this southern region go forth practically all Chinese emigrants. In the southernmost part of Kwong Tung Province is located our newest Mission, with headquarters in the city of Pakhoi. We are well placed for tak¬ ing part in the great advance toward which the marvelous opportunities of China beckon. Southern Baptists began work in China in 1845 by the appointment of J. L. Shuck, of Virginia, who had gone out to China ten years before under the appointment of the Triennial) Convention. Three lives almost span the history of Southern Baptist work in China. Mathew T. Yates, Shang¬ hai, 1846-1888; R. H. Graves, Canton, 1856-1912; J. B. Hartwell, Hwanghien, 1864-1912. 23 CENTRAL CHINA MISSION SUMMARY OF NEEDS NEW PROPERTY Nineteen Residences for Missionaries $ 83,500 Land, Buildings and Equipment, 8 Churches 49,200 Land, Buildings and Equipment, 19 Schools 494,400 Church Building Loan Fund 25,000 Miscellaneous 31,200 New Stations 61,000—$ 744,300 NEW MISSIONARIES Five Men for Evangelistic Work Three Single Women for Evangelistic Work Nine Men for Educational Work Seven Single Women for Educational W ork Three Men Physicians One WYman Physician Three Trained Nurses One Architect and Builder Total Missionaries (if men are married), 50 Equipment and Outgoing Expenses ($550 per Missionary) 32,500 Grand Total $ 776,800 Eliza Yates Girls’ School, Shanghai DESCRIPTION OF NEEDS HE Central China Mission is located in the Kiangsu Province, with four main stations—Shanghai, Soochow, Chinkiang and Yangchow. The three first-named compose the famous “\ates Triangle.” For a long time the Mission was spoken of as the “Yates Mission.” Dr. Mat¬ thew T. Yates served in this Mission about forty- one years. He entered the field in 1847. After the following list of needs of the Central China Mission was made out, a cablegram came from the Mission urging that several hundred thousand dol¬ lars more be added for other objects, but the re¬ quest could not be granted. SOOCHOW Land and Residence for Missionary $ 5,500 Building for Bing Hwo Jao Church 5,500 Land and Building for East Gate Chapel 2,000 Motor Launch 1,600 Land and Buildings for We Ling Day School 8,000 Five Primary Schools—Land and Buildings 40,000 Land and Primary School Buildings, Bing Hwo Jao 8,500 Land and Buildings for Chapel and School, West District 2,000 Land and Buildings for We Ling Girls' School 18,000 Development of Yates Academy 18.000 Yates Academy, which had its beginning in a little outhouse in Missionary McDaniel’s yard in 1905, has gradually developed into an institution worthy of its name. Boys graduating from this school are able to enter any of the colleges in China. It now has sixty-eight graduates. We are anxious to complete the equipment of this school in order that the missionaries in charge may de¬ vote their best thought and strength to the real work of the school rather than so much to the property and equipment questions. We are too near to having a good plant to wait ten years for its completion. Another important institution at Soochow is the We Ling Girls’ School. This school is to be de¬ veloped into a high school for girls and needs the additional equipment requested. Good success has attended the efforts put forth in this school and the future for it is very bright. The five primary school buildings requested will not only be used for primary school work, but will also be used as chapels for evangelistic effort. These buildings will furnish excellent facilities for reaching the vast population in the districts around Soochow. The residences for missionaries and buildings requested for the churches of Soochow should by all means be provided without delay. CHINKIANG Residence for Evangelistic Missionary $ 4.800 Church Building 12,000 Land for Enlargement of Church 3,200 Land and Church Building for Second Baptist Church 4.000 Equipment for Outstations 8.000 Boys' School (with Industrial Features) 18.000 Girls’ School 8,500 Improvement of Bihle School Campus 4.000 Property South and West of Church 8,500 Dormitory, Class Rooms and Furniture for Bihle School 10.000 Two Residences for Foreign Teachers in Bible School 8.000 Woman's Evangelistic School and Settlement 20 000 Maypole Drill, Eliza Yates School, Shanghai We Ling Girls’ School, Soochow One of the great needs of Chinkiang is ade¬ quate buildings for the First Baptist Church. With Sunday school facilities, Chinese pastor’s quarters, reading room, day and night schools for boys and girls, a better opportunity for far-reach¬ ing service cannot be found. The land and build¬ ings for the Second Baptist Church are hardly less urgent. There are eight outstations in the Chinkiang field. A number of these are churchless without home for pastor or room for school work. As¬ sistance given towards providing equipment for these outstations would stimulate the spirit and greatly encourage the people. It has been decided to have in Chinkiang a school taught in the Mandarin dialect. The other schools in the Central China Mission are taught in the Shanghai dialect. The Mandarin-speaking section is large and we must have a school. The school will probably be located at Chinkiang. It will be started as a primary school and worked up to a school of middle grade, probably with industrial features. One of the greatest needs of the Chinkiang sta¬ tion is equipment for the Bible School. This school is not an institution of the full-fledged theo¬ logical seminary grade, but attempts to give a Biblical training for ministers and colporters, who cannot take the full training. It has already done good work under very difficult conditions. The students have to sit on narrow backless benches, on dirt floors, without fire in the winter and without comforts at any time. The sleeping quarters are crowded and the recitation rooms are only makeshifts. YANGCHOW Residence for Evangelistic Missionary $ 4,800 Land and Church Building 12,000 Motor Launch 1.600 Girls’ Boarding School 25,000 Ing Si Gai Day School 13,500 Shien Leong Gai Day School 18.000 Boys’ Boarding School 25.000 Residences for Two Educational Missionaries 8,000 The Girls’ School at Yangchow is very much overcrowded. Nineteen girls sleep in one small dormitory room. The present building is in a bad condition. A number of the girls are in a temporary building, and yet this is the only mid¬ dle school we have for girls in the Mandarin section. Four of the teachers are orphans, edu¬ cated by this school. They receive only $6 per month salary, while other teachers as well pre¬ pared cannot be secured for less than $20 per month. We ought to match the spirit of these orphan girls, and at the same time remember the sacrificial work done by Miss Mackenzie in con¬ nection with this girls’ school. The Boys’ Boarding School, Yangchow, is in as urgent need of buildings and equipment as is the girls’ school. It is impossible to conduct the boys’ school successfully without providing it with the proper facilities. It is the purpose in Yangchow to develop some other strong day schools. The material that can be gathered in such schools is practically limit¬ less, and the evangelistic phase of this work is of the utmost importance and significance. SHANGHAI Eliza Yates Memorial Girls’ School $50,000 Normal Training School 50,000 Extension of Ming Jang Boys’ School 33,500 The Eliza Yates Girls’ School. Shanghai, was started by Miss Lottie Price, in 1897, in Dr. Bryan’s barn, with five pupils. It has grown until it now enrolls 162 pupils. It has one very good building, but this building is not sufficient for its growing usefulness. The Mission proposes to develop this school into a college for young women, and the amount requested for this future development is very modest indeed, when we take into consideration the sphere this school as a college for women will occupy. It is a signifi¬ cant institution. In connection with the Eliza Yates School will be developed a normal school for the training of teachers. The primary schools are suffering from lack of a sufficient number of teachers, and their inability when secured for this work. Each main station and many outposts are begging for kinder- gartners for work among the children. At present we are using, in the few more favored places, the cast off teacher material from other de¬ nominations. We are begging for funds to in¬ crease, through our schools, our opportunity to put young China into the way of salvation. We are already behind other denominations and the Chinese Government in the standard of our school work. Our present staff of native teachers is both inadequate and unfit for the demands of the work. It is very important that another teacher for the development of this normal school be sent out at once. As the Eliza Yates School, with its normal department, on the present compound in Shang¬ hai is developed, it is quite likely that the Ming Jang Boys’ School will have to be moved to othes 26 quarters, or at least a considerable readjustment in buildings must be made. This Ming Jang Boys’ School has developed with great rapidity and has made a splendid record for itself. It will perform a great service for the Mission if properly equipped. SHANGHAI BAPTIST COLLEGE AND SEMINARY Seven Residences at $5,200 $36,400 Five Residences at $3,200 16,000 To Remodel Nortli Dormitory for Six Families 800 Two Academy Dormitories, Class Rooms for 300 Students 48,000 One Primary Building 8,000 Library 40,000 Chapel 32,000 Land Raising 32,000 Yangtsepoo Social Center 12,800 Water and Light Plant 12,800 Workshop and Laundry 4,000 Science Apparatus 16,000 Books and Library Equipment 16,000 Equipment for Various Departments 12,000 Shanghai Baptist College and Seminary, lo¬ cated in Shanghai, is supported by both Northern and Southern Baptists. It is the purpose to make this a high-grade college and theological semi¬ nary, which will serve all China for higher train¬ ing. Baptists should have one such high-grade institution in China. We regret to say that South¬ ern Baptists are far behind Northern Baptists in their support of this institution. Two hundred and seventy-one thousand six hundred dollars has already been spent upon securing land and equip¬ ment. Of this amount Northern Baptists have spent $191,100, which is $110,600 more than the $80,500 Southern Baptists have given. For addi¬ tional building and equipment there is needed $286,800. In order to bring our part up to that given by Northern Baptists we should pro¬ vide $198,000 toward the amounts itemized above. EXTENSION Church Building Loan Fund for Mission $25,000 Equipment New Station, Wusih 44.200 Opening New Station, Rugao 16,800 Wusih is an enterprising city of 200,000 in¬ habitants. It is the center of a thickly populated unevangelized territory. It is one of the largest rice and cocoon markets in China. There is a unique opportunity for Baptist work here. We are already doing an extensive outstation work around Wusih and should take hold of this new field in a vigorous way by locating missionaries on the ground and providing equipment. The Central China Mission has been for many years eager to occupy territory around Rugao City, east of Yangchow. Rugao is a city of 100,000, in a splendid country. There are eighteen market towns in this section. It is in a center of a thou¬ sand square miles containing 5,500,000 people. In four adjoining counties we have work already. Th is field oilers a great opportunity for evan¬ gelistic, school and hospital work, where we were pioneers and where we have five small churches. In these five counties we ought to reach with the Gospel great hosts of people. The call for the Church Building Loan Fund for the Central China Mission has in it the same urgency and the same reasons for the establish¬ ment of such a fund, as in the other Missions. This method of encouraging the churches to help themselves has proved to be very effective. NEW MISSIONARIES Man for Evangelistic Work, Soochow Single Woman for Evangelistic Work, Soochow Family for Educational Work in Yates Academy, Soochow Single Woman for We Ling Academy, Soochow Man for Evangelistic Work, Chinkiang Single Woman for Evangelistic Work, Chinkiang Man for Educational Work, Chinkiang Single Woman for Educational Work, Chinkiang Man for Evangelistic Work, Yangchow Single Woman for Evangelistic Work, Yangchow Man Doctor, Yangchow Three Trained Nurses, Yangchow Woman Doctor, Yangchow Specialist for Ear, Eye and Throat, Yangchow Two Men for Educational Work, Yangchow Single Woman for Girls’ Academy, Yangchow Single Woman for Ing Si Gai Girls’ School, Yang¬ chow Man for Evangelistic Work, North Gate, Shanghai Single Woman for Educational Work, Cantonese School, Shanghai Single Woman for Normal School, Shanghai Second Woman for Normal School, Shanghai Man for Educational Work, Ming Jang Boys’ School, Shanghai Man for Chair of Physics, Shanghai College and Seminary Man for Biology and Geology, Shanghai College and Seminary Man for English, Shanghai College and Seminary Man for Education, Shanghai College and Seminary Man for Evangelistic Work, Wusih Doctor, Rugao Architect and Builder for the Mission In all our surveys we deal with the many phases of Mission work. It would be well for us to keep in mind constantly the main purpose of missionary effort. The purpose is expressed well in the following words of Dr. R. T. Bryan: “We come to China to evangelize—that is to win souls for Christ and to train them for efficient service. In other words, we come to establish self-supporting, self-controlling, self- propagating churches. Any work that does not either directly or indirectly assist evangelism has no part in our program. In a broad sense, then, all of our work is evangelistic. School work is school evangelism; medical work is medical evan¬ gelism; literary work is literary evangelism. And so on with all that we ought to do.” 27 Hospital, Chengchow Kaifeng Baptist College Dormitory INTERIOR CHINA MISSION SUMMARY OF NEEDS NEW PROPERTY Thirty-two Residences for Missionaries $ 132,350 Land, Buildings and Equipment for Thirteen Schools 262,975 Land, Buildings and Equipment for Six Churches 59,000 Land, Buildings and Equipment for Three Hospitals 20,850 Miscellaneous 10,350 Church Building Loan Fund 10,000—$ 495,525 NEW MISSIONARIES Nineteen Men for Evangelistic Work Two Single Women for Evangelistic Work Five Men for Educational Work Six Single Women for Educational Work Four Men Physicians One Woman Physician One Trained Nurse i Total Number of New Missionaries (if men are married), 66 Equipment, Outgoing Expenses ($650 per missionary) 42,900 Grand Total $ 538,425 DESCRIPTION OE NEEDS HE Interior China Mission is located in the populous province of Honan and a portion of the province of Anhwei. The work radiates from four great centers: Kaifeng, the capital; Chengchow, Kweiteh. and Pochow. The mission was founded in 1904, and being comparatively new, it is in great need of much equipment. KAIFENG City Compound Equipment Girls’ School Building Residence for Single Women Women’s Industrial Building Tsao Men School Second Dormitory for Girls’ School Brick Wall around Girls’ School Kindergarten Equipment New Residences Land for Residences Kaifeng Baptist College Land $10,000 Recitation Building 18000 Primary Building 10.000 Light and Power Plant 12.000 Industrial Building 15.000 Dormitories 3 and 4 25.000 Agricultural Department 15.000 Science Hall 30 000 Residences 4, 5, 6 Administration Building 12,000 and Library 50 000 $30 000 10 000 4 000 10 000 10 000 8.500 2.500 850 32.000 2.500 197.000 For ten years we have been working in the great capital city of Kaifeng, a city such as would have appealed to the Apostle Paul because of its strategical importance as the political, educa¬ tional and business center of one of China’s great¬ est provinces, with thousands of officials, students and soldiers who gather here from all parts of the province, and later scatter to all parts of this great land, and with its tens of thousands of merchants, artisans and coolies. What an oppor¬ tunity to preach the Gospel of Salvation! And we have the finest location in the city, a splendid lot one hundred feet front, on one of the very best streets in the heart of the city, and 350 feet deep, reaching through to the next street. Past the front door more than thirty thousand people go every day. The equipment of this City Mission plant can be delayed no longer. At present there is no high school for girls in the province and proper equipment will give ours at Kaifeng the chance to become the first, largest and best high school in the province. Then also there is the very important consideration of pro¬ viding high school and normal training for the girls of our ever-increasing Christian constituency in our four stations. If it were just for one sta¬ tion, such a large plan would not be desirable, but for the whole mission it seems imperative. Our idea in industrial school work is not merely that of providing industrial training for the Chi¬ nese per se. Il is rather a means to an end. It might have been better if we had called it a de¬ partment of “self-help.” If they could be taught a trade during the first three years they are in school, by which they could maintain themselves during the next four or eight years they are in school, the number of boys we could help would be greatly increased. By teaching them to work we would both save their self-respect and help to make real men of them. Again, the educative value of industrial work, when properly carried on, is in itself most valuable. We now have a beautiful twelve-acre tract of land for our Kaifeng Baptist College campus, and we hope soon to add to this another eight acres. On this we have erected a large dormi¬ tory, a residence, and a chapel, together with several smaller buildings. These buildings are well built. The school is strategically located in one of the greatest provinces of China, with a population estimated at thirty-five millions. In the whole province there are only three other Christian schools of the same standard as ours, and they have all been started within the last few years. In no other center in China have the Baptists a like opportunity to get in on the ground floor, and by the building of a great Christian school, help to win a province for Christ. CHENGCHOW Residence for Doctor $ 4.000 Residence for School Man 4.000 Hospital, Woman’s Department 6.500 Hospital Equipment 3.500 Six Residences for Evangelistic Missionaries 25.000 Woman’s School Residence 4 000 Land Required for Development 5 000 Residence for Second Doctor 4000 Houses for Chinese Hospital Helpers 850 Residence for Kindergarten Teacher 4 000 Kindergarten Building 1.700 Repairs on Lawton House 850 Two Residences for Chinese Teachers, Girls’ School 850 Chapel for Mohammedan Work 4 000 Land and Building for Institutional Work 12.500 Boys’ School Building 4.000 Repairing House for Teachers 425 Scarcely less important than the capital city is Chengchow, due to the fact that it is located at the junction of the Peking-Hankow railway. With the railway running east and west, Chengchow is a city of marked importance. Since the coming of the railway it has grown marvelously and presents a unique opportunity for successful mission effort. The new missionaries called for and the church building projects enumerated are decidedly urgent. At Chengchow is located our one hos- 29 pital in the Interior China Mission. Dr. Louthan and the Mission have been calling for reinforce¬ ments and for additional buildings for many years. The present hospital ought to be equipped and a woman’s department ought by all means to be added right away. This need should not longer be denied. POCHOW Academy f 9,400 Residence for Missionary 4.000 Hospital 10 000 Additional Land for Girls’ School 1 000 Four Residences for Evangelistic Missionaries 16 000 Land and Enlarging Church 3,500 Residence for Doctor 4 000 Residence for Single Woman 4,000 Farm for Industrial Work 6,500 Equipment for Dairy, Farm, Carpenter Shop 1,700 Automobile 850 Place for City Work 4,000 Additional Land for Boys’ School 1,700 About ten years ago our Board took over from the Gospel Mission the Pochow field, with the hope of providing more effectively for the work there than the Gospel Mission had been able to do. Pochow is the largest city in the Anhwei province, and with the surrounding counties, has a population of some three or four million in¬ habitants. Still that great field remains as it was when we took it over from the Gospel Mission ten years ago. Only one new worker has been added. They are still without any trained native assist¬ ants, and there is scarcely any hope of getting any. The Bostick brethren have been laboring a long time in Pochow with very meager equipment. Their work has been attended with remarkable success. The modest requests here made for addi¬ tional equipment should certainly not be refused. For the protection of the health of these mis¬ sionaries a doctor should be sent to Pochow, even though we leave out of consideration the vast good he might do in relieving the suffering of the Chinese in that densely populated region. The new doctor should, of course, be given a hos¬ pital. It is possible that the local contribution towards this hospital would be very considerable. There has been developed at Pochow a very interesting industrial school work, the efficiency of which would be greatly increased by the small amount of equipment requested. The equipment needed for the development of the evangelistic side of the work in Pochow is very urgent. The missionaries, church buildings and the auto¬ mobile which have been requested should by all means be provided without delay. The Pochow field will yield great evangelistic returns. KWEITEH Adjoining Property East of Compound $ 2,000 Building on Property 850 Rebuilding Church 5,000 New Premises Inside of City 1,250 Land and Residences for Two New Mis¬ sionaries 8,000 Hsia I Hsien New Station 1,250 The newly acquired station at Kweiteh must be strengthened at once. Mr. and Mrs. Townshend, as independent missionaries, have done a very creditable work, but the property is in restricted quarters and must be enlarged for the future progress of the work. Other missionaries must be sent to help build up necessary institutions. It is a field of wonderful possibilities. MISCELLANEOUS Bible Training School for Men for the Mis¬ sion $ 4,000 Bible Training School for Women for the Mis¬ sion 4,000 Church Building Loan Fund 10,000 The mission is calling for a small amount with which to build up a Bible training school for men, and a similar school for women. These needs should be promptly met. The necessity for trained men and women for missionary work exists in the Interior Mission which obtains in all our mission fields. This phase of our work must receive very adequate attention. NEW MISSIONARIES Kaifeng Man for Country Evangelistic Work Single Woman for City Work Single Woman for Girls’ School Man for Industrial School Work Three Men for Evangelistic Work in Country Doctor Man for Agricultural Work, Industrial School Woman Physician Single Woman for Kindergarten Work Man for Normal School Work Man for General Supervisor of Day Schools in Mission Chengchow Doctor Single Woman for Educational Work Man for Evangelistic Work, Kung Hsien Man for Evangelistic Work Mi Hsien Man for Evangelistic Work Hsien Cheng Second Man for Evangelistic Work Mi Hsien Second Doctor Trained Nurse Woman Doctor Single Woman for Kindergarten Work Two Men for Evangelistic Work in Important Outposts Man for Institutional Church Work Pochow Man for Evangelistic Work Doctor Single Woman for Educational Work Single Woman for Evangelistic Work Four Men for Evangelistic Work in New Sta¬ tions Man for Educational Work Kweiteh Man for Evangelistic Work Single Woman for School and Evangelistic Work Man for Evangelistic Work 30 Kathleen Mallory Hospital, Laichow Oxner Memorial Hospital, Pingtu NORTH CHINA MISSION SUMMARY OF NEEDS NEW PROPERTY Twenty-two Residences for Missionaries $ 103,350 Land, Buildings and Equipment, 18 Schools 194,950 Land and Buildings for Two Churches 19,000 Land, Buildings and Equipment for Seven Hospitals and Dispensaries 32,250 Church Building Loan Fund 25,000 Extension (Six New Stations) 167,500 Miscellaneous 19,450—1 NEW MISSIONARIES Nineteen Men for Evangelistic Work Seventeen Single Women for Evangelistic Work Thirteen Men for Educational Work Six Single Women for Educational Work Five Physicians Six Trained Nurses One Dentist One Man for General Sunday School Work Total New Missionaries (if men are married), 107 Equipment and Outgoing Expenses ($650 per Missionary) 561,500 69,550 Grand Total $ 631,050 Kindergarten Children it Play, “Building Churches,” Tengchow DESCRIPTION OF NEEDS UR North China Mission is located in the great province of Shantung, that vital province in Northeast China over which there has been so much conflict of late. It has a popu¬ lation almost as large as that of the territory covered by the Southern Baptist Convention. Our work has been very prosperous, but still there are vast regions not touched. In the Taian field there are, at least, twenty cities ranging from five to ten thousand inhabitants each, where the Gospel has scarcely ever been preached. The spiritual condition of the people is most distress¬ ing. A missionary seeing the people returning from their temples, where they had gone to wor¬ ship in hopes of staying the cholera plague in Tengchow, remarked: “It is pitiful to see the people going to their temples, dressed in white clothes, the mourning color, wailing aloud and bumping their heads on the ground before the dumb idols, thus announcing the deaths of their loved ones, and opening the way for them to enter the abode of departed spirits. This is all a part of their system of ancestor worship, and is the strongest obstacle to the advance of Christianity in China.” We need the following equipment in our North China work: RESIDENCES FOR MISSIONARIES Women Evangelistic Missionaries, Chefoo $ 5.000 Educational Missionary, Chefoo 5.000 Evangelistic Missionary, Hwanghien 5,000 Evangelistic Missionary, Lungkow 5,000 Educational Missionary, Hwanghien 5.000 Medical Missionary, Hwanghien 5,000 Evangelistic Missionary, Laichow 5,000 Single Women, Girls’ School, Laichow 4,000 Medical Missionary, Laichow (completion) 850 Evangelistic Missionary Family, Laiyang 4.000 Single Women, Laiyang 4,000 Educational Family, Laiyang 5,000 Evangelistic Family, Pingtu 5,000 Medical Missionary Family, Pingtu 5,000 Evangelistic Missionary Family, Taian 5,000 Educational Missionary Family, Taian 5,000 Evangelistic Missionary Family, Tengchow 3,500 Two Educational Missionary Families, Teng¬ chow 7,000 General Mission Medical Man 5,000 General Mission Dentist 5,000 One of the most economical expenditures of the Board is that of providing comfortable houses for the missionaries. Many of the missionaries have lived in unsanitary and uncomfortable Chi¬ nese houses, but this is always done at a great risk to health. CHURCH BUILDINGS Church Building, Hwanghien City $16,500 Church Building, Chao Yuen, Hwanghien 2,500 Church Building Loan Fund 25.000 Woman’s Evangelistic Work, Hwanghien 1,700 Tent for Evangelistic Work, Hwanghien 250 Tent for Evangelistic Work, Laichow 250 Evangelistic Equipment, Pingtu 5,000 Tent for Evangelistic Work, Tengchow 250 Chinese Ambulance—Patient Arriving at Hospital 32 Qne of the prime necessities of the missionary endeavor is suitable church buildings in which to worship. We cannot expect to win the Chinese with poorly ventilated, poorly lighted, rented mis¬ sion quarters on side streets. It is the policy of the Board to help the churches in the great centers to secure as early as possible good church plants, and in addition to these there should be provided an adequate Church Building Loan Fund which would encourage the churches in the smaller towns especially to erect for themselves church buildings. At Hwanghien all of our institutions are lo¬ cated outside of the city for the reason that for thirty years the missionaries worked there before permission to even rent a building in the city was granted. For several years the door has been open and we have gained a foothold inside. There is every reason to believe that we can have a great work in this great commercial city if we can provide the proper church building. Another unique and pressing need for a church building is in the important city of Tsingtao. With a large plant and proper leadership Baptists could come quickly to the front in Tsingtao and preach the gospel to thousands all over this prov¬ ince. SCHOOLS Girls’ Boarding School, Chefoo $ 8,500 Kindergarten Building, Cheefoo 1,250 Boys’ Boarding School, Chefoo 12,500 Boys’ Academy, Hwanghien 5.000 Building for Carter Girls’ School, Hwanghien 10,000 Equipment for Carter Girls’ School, Hwang¬ hien 5,000 Electric Light System, Hwanghien 1,700 Kindergarten Building, Laiehow 850 Electric Light System, Laiehow 1,700 Boys’ Boarding School, Laiyang 4.00C Girls’ Boarding School, Laiyang 4.000 Pingtu Institute 25,000 Effie Sears Memorial Girls’ School, Pingtu 8.500 Electric Light System, Pingtu 1,700 Boys’ Boarding School, Taian 4,000 Girls’ Boarding School, Taian 4,000 Kindergarten, Tengchow 850 Boys’ Boarding School, Tengchow 6,000 Girls’ Boarding School, Tengchow 7,500 Land, Buildings and Equipment, North China College 88.000 Additional Land, Tengchow Compound 3,500 The outstanding feature of the denomination’s program in North China is the combined educa¬ tional institutions which will include a Junior College, Middle School for Boys, Normal and Kindergarten Training School, Woman’s Bible Training School, Industrial School and Bush Theological Seminary. By this concentration the educational program will be strengthened. The Judson Centennial will contribute fifty thousand dollars to this enterprise, but the additional amount included in the five-year program is essen¬ tial to its success. Baptist Church, Laiehow It appears now Tsingtao will be given back to China, or possibly put under international con¬ trol. It is for this reason that the Mission has asked that the money be sent out for the land for the college. There is great danger that all the desirable sites in Tsingtao will be taken up or that they will be so high that we cannot afford to buy. Prompt action is necessary if we secure the land. Land is not cheap even now. Another reason for securing land at once is that for industrial purposes we must have the land as the foundation. All Chinese boys can farm. It is our hope that we can, in connection with the school, teach the Chinese how to help themselves and not be afraid of manual labor. We must buy all the land now we hope to use, or we may not be able to get it at all. This combined institution, we believe, is des¬ tined to perform a far-reaching service in the North China field, and it should be developed as rapidly as the missionaries and the money can be provided. It has been decided to have high schools for boys in three of our mission stations in North China, and high schools for girls in as many stations. Grammar schools for girls and boys will be maintained in all other mission stations. The amounts asked for the various grammar and high schools are very urgently needed. 33 Woman’s Building, Warren Memorial Hospital, Hwanghien We need at once money for the girls’ school at Hwanghien. The present building should be torn down and rebuilt on another site. The present building is unsafe. Both the location and the building are very poor. There are sixty girls in this school and a long waiting list. Accommoda¬ tions should be provided for 100. The needs of all of the other school buildings mentioned here have been before the mission for a considerable time. If our work is to be de¬ veloped, these needs must be speedily met. MEDICAL WORK Buildings and Equipment, Warren Memorial Hospital, Hwanghien $13,700 Hospital Building, Laichow 5.000 Equipment Hospitals, Laichow 4.000 Dispensary, Laiyang 5.000 Hospitals, Pingtu 7,000 Well Pingtu Compound 1,700 It is necessary to move the present men’s hos¬ pital at Pingtu to higher and drier ground. The present location is very undesirable. Money should be provided for this purpose at once. The Woman’s Hospital has been made possible out of the Judson Centennial Fund, and the two should be erected at the same time. The first hospital at Hwanghien was built at the cost of $3,000. This amount had to provide for the land, buildings and wall running around the same. It can readily be imagined the kind of buildings that went up. Since that time the Woman’s Hospital has been torn down and a new building erected. The men’s building stands. The men’s building should be torn down and a more up-to-date hospital put in its place. The hos¬ pital is so crowded that it would be condemned bv any competent board of medical examiners. We must not suffer the first hospital Southern Bap¬ tists built to be condemned. In our present men’s hospital we haven’t a single private room. EXTENSION (SIX NEW STATIONS) Residences Two Evangelistic Missionary Families, Dalny $13,000 Church Building, Dalny 11,500 Residences Two Evangelistic Missionary Fam¬ ilies, Harbin 10,000 Church Building, Harbin 4,000 Residence Evangelistic Women Missionaries, Hsintai 5,000 Residences Two Evangelistic Missionary Fam¬ ilies, Hsintai 10,000 Residence Educational Missionary Family, Hsintai 5,000 Residence Medical Missionary Family, Hsintai 5,000 Girls’ Boarding School, Hsintai 4.000 Boys’ Boarding School, Hsintai 4,000 Dispensary, Hsintai 2,500 Church Building, Hsintai 4,000 Residences Two Evangelistic Missionary Fam¬ ilies, Tsingtao 15,000 Church Building, Tsingtao 10,000 Residences Three Evangelistic Missionary Families, Tsi Ning Chow 15,000 Church Building, Tsi Ning Chow 12,500 Residences Three Evangelistic Missionaries, Tsinanfu 20,000 Church Building, Tsinanfu 16,500 We have not opened full-fledged work in Tsinan, the capital of Shantung province, a city of 100,000 inhabitants. Certainly it must be our re¬ sponsibility to give the gospel in this strategic city. We have more Baptists in Shantung Province than we have in any other province in China, and yet we have no church in the capital. There are 3,000 Christians in the churches in the country south of Tsinan, to say nothing of those east of it. 34 Many students will go to Tsinan for education. Surely it is the part of wisdom to open up work in this city. In the western part of the Province of Shan¬ tung there lias been a wonderful growth in our Baptist churches. The native association has car¬ ried forward a vigorous home mission program, and our Gospel Mission brethren have also done a very successful evangelistic woik in that region. Tsi Ning Chow is second in size to the capital of the province and is one of the great commercial centers of both old and new China. In the re¬ gion of this city there are 600 converts who have been organized into four churches. The native workers sent out by the native association have gathered into these churches large numbers of converts, but they are unable to train those they have won for the reason that they have had no special training themselves. They are pleading for some missionaries to come to their aid. This is one of our great opportunities in China. We need two families to work with the Christians in the schools and to preach the gospel. These fam¬ ilies, of course, need a place in which to live. Hsintai is another great center in this same west Shantung field. The multitudes throng in this region. A vigorous mission station should be opened here with provision for the missionaries to have boys’ schools and girls’ schools, together with a church and hospital facilities. The Board and the North China Mission have long planned to press a vigorous mission work amongst the millions of Chinese in Manchuria. We have now some of our best young men from our schools in the large centers in Manchuria. Mukden, Harbin and Dalny are growing rapidly. Dalny is now the fifth port in China in volume of trade. The iniquities in these cities are unspeak¬ able. We should move with strong forces into Manchuria at once. NEW MISSIONARIES Chefoo Man for Evangelistic Work Single Woman for Evangelistic Work Man for Educational Work Single Woman for Kindergarten Work Hwanghien Man for Evangelistic Work Man for Evangelistic Work, Lungkow Second Man for Evangelistic Work Two Single Women for Evangelistic Work Man for Educational Work Single Woman for Educationa I Work Physician Nurse Laichowfu Man for Evangelistic Work Single Woman for Evangelistic Work Man for Educational Work Physician Two Trained Nurses Laiyang Man for Evangelistic Work Two Single Women for Evangelistic Work Man for Educational Work Single Woman for Educational Work Trained Nurse Pingtu Man for Evangelistic Work Single Woman for Evangelistic Work Man for Educational Work Physician Trained Nurse Taian Two Single Women for Evangelistic Work Man for Educational Work Single Woman for Educational Work Tengehow' Single Woman for Evangelistic Work Man for Educational Work Trained Nurse New Work Two Men for Evangelistic Work, Dalny Single Woman for Evangelistic Work, Dalny Two Men for Evangelistic Work, Harbin Two Men for Evangelistic Work, Hsintai Two Single Women for Evangelistic Work, Hsintai Man for Educational Work, Hsintai Single Woman for Educational Work, Hsintai Physician, Hsintai Two Men for Evangelistic Work, Tsingtao Two Single Women for Evangelistic Work, Tsingtao Two Men for Evangelistic Work, Tsi Ning Chow Two Single Women for Evangelistic Work, Tsi Ning Chow Two Men for Evangelistic Work, Tsinanfu General Man for General Sunday School Work Physician for General Mission Work Dentist for General Mission Work Five Men for Educational Work, North China College Single Woman for Educational Work, Normal School Judson Building, Girls’ Academy, Canton Tungshan Baptist Church, Canton SOUTH CHINA MISSION SUMMARY OF NEEDS NEW PROPERTY Nineteen Residences for Missionaries $ Land, Buildings and Equipment for 23 Schools Buildings and Equipment for Eight Hospitals and Dis¬ pensaries Twelve Church Buildings Extension (Five New Stations) Miscellaneous Church Building Loan Fund Literature NEW MISSIONARIES Twelve Men for Evangelistic Work Seven Single Women for Evangelistic Work Ten Men for Educational Work Twenty-nine Single Women for Educational Work Twelve Men for Medical Work One Woman for Medical Work Total New Missionaries (if men are married), 105 Equipment and Outgoing Expenses ($650 per missionary 68,250 82,600 421,550 111,500 155,150 228,000 78,300 40,000 126,700—$ 1,243,800 Grand Total $ 1,312,050 Main Building China Baptist Publication Society, Canton DESCRIPTION OF NEEDS HREE dialects are spoken by the peo¬ ple within the hounds of our South China Mission, the Mandarin dialect, the Cantonese, and the Hakka. These dialects are so distinct that they amount to practically different languages. Missionaries using one dialect will not be able to do successful work in any of the others. KWEILIN Bible Training School for Evangelists $ 3.000 Branch Preaching Hall 3.000 Additional Fund for Building Church 10.000 Girls’ School Building 10.000 Woman’s School Building 5.000 High School Building 6.000 Hospital 20.000 Three Dispensaries 1.500 Buying and Equipping Book Room for City 4.000 Buying Land and Grading Compound 5 000 Sewerage and Water System 5.000 Four Residences 12,000 Boys’ School Building 5,000 The center of our work for the Mandarin-speak¬ ing people is at Kweilin, in Northeast Kwang Si Province. This is our newest work in South China. Both because it is new and because of its success, it is in great need of equipment. We have appropriated money enough for the pur¬ chase of a church lot in the center of the city of Kweilin. The situation is superb. It is very earnestly requested that money be appropriated for a church building. The school work in Kweilin is developing nice¬ ly. Already there is a girls’ school, occupying a wooden building, which is both inadequate and dangerous. It should have a new building. For the boys’ school $5,000 was raised in the Judson Centennial Fund, hut this is not sufficient to take care of its growing needs, so an additional $5,000 must be provided. The mission is exceedingly anxious to have two other schools, a Bible training school for evan¬ gelists, in which men will be trained for direct evangelistic and colportage work, and some will do preparatory work for the seminary. It is urged also that we must provide for a woman’s training school, in which Bible women would be trained and mothers of families would he taught to read. We have a medical missionary stationed at Is.weilin, who is trying to reach out to the vast multitudes in the Mandarin-speaking field. The medical work has met with great encouragement. It should be provided with a hospital. Another feature of work that has been quite successful in Kweilin is the use of a bookroom for the distribution of literature and for dealing personally with individuals. It is quite necessary to provide a cheerful and more inviting room for this purpose. For the missionaries at Kweilin we need four residences. YINGTAK Addition to Church $ 3 000 Furnishing Boys’ School Building 1,000 Girls’ School Dormitory 5,000 Kindergarten (addition to Judson Centennial) 500 Addition to Primary School Building 4 000 Interior Primary Schools 5,000 Hospital 10.000 Three Residences 13,500 The center of our work for the people speaking the Hakka dialect is Yingtak. In this city already we have erected some school buildings, a church, a hospital, and some residences for missionaries. It is necessary to erect an addition to the church. The Boys’ Boarding School and the Girls’ Boarding School have experienced a very credit¬ able development. They have grown to such a 37 Residences of Employes, China Baptist Publication Society, Canton degree that it is necessary to provide additional space for the accommodation of those who are crowding in. In order to provide for the students coming to the Girls’ Boarding School, it has been necessary to use one of the buildings that has formerly been occupied by the primary school. The primary school situation is seious. It is impossible to do in Yingtak the primary school work for the whole Hakka field. Some of the students come through robber-infested mountains, a journey requiring five days. On account of con¬ ditions it sometimes requires two weeks. If the children of Christian parents could reach a Chris¬ tian school in one day, and the parents could be assured that in case of sickness they could reach their children, a great many more children would enter the primary schools. These primary schools would act as feeders of our grammar and high schools. The girls marry so young that it is neces¬ sary to reach them in these primary schools if they are reached at all. Most of them marry be¬ fore they reach the age of twelve unless we first get to them in the schools. It is the desire, there¬ fore, that we shall have a primary school, with a missionary in charge, for every day’s journey. A doctor is greatly needed at Yingtak. When he is secured it is necessary to provide additional hospital facilities. WUCHOW Addition to Church $15,000 Girls’ School 25 000 Boys’ School 20 000 Woman's School 8 000 Kindergarten 5 000 Hospital 50 000 Improvement of Compound 10.000 New Land and Development 7.000 Water Supply 7,000 Four Residences 18,000 The centers in which the Cantonese dialect is spoken are Wuchow, Shiu Hing, Macau, Kong Moon, and Canton. In the great city of Wuchow, after many, many years of waiting, we have been able to acquire sufficient land for the majority of our main buildings. The work has grown to such an extent that it is necessary to acquire more land in order that the Girls’ School, in particular, may have enough ground upon which to develop. This Girls’ School must also have buildings. All of the schools, from the kindergarten to the Boys’ School and the Girls’ School in Wuchow are in very critical need of more buildings and equip¬ ment. One of the outstanding needs of the whole South China Mission is that of completing a great hospital plant which has been projected at Wu¬ chow. This plant, when completed, will cost be¬ tween $75,000 and $100,000. Already the first and a portion of the second story have been built, but in order to complete the building we must have at least $50,000 more. When this building is completed the institution will be practically self-supporting, and will attempt to occupy a field which is practically limitess. In order to carry out the great work this hospital should perform, there should be in it a staff of at least four foreign doctors. The evangelistic work of the Cantonese-speak¬ ing section of the province of Kwang Si, embrac¬ ing perhaps 4,000,000 people, should certainly have the two evangelistic missionaries who have been requested. In this field there are hundreds of untouched cities and market towns. In Wuchow there is no city water system, and not likely to be for a long time. Water must be carried by hand for use in the hospital and other mission buildings. Such a practice is not only very expensive, but dangerous to the health of the missionaries. A water supply must be developed. This necessity for providing a water supply holds also in everyone of our mission sta¬ tions in South China. We have reached the time when it is necessary to enlarge our church building at Wuchow. It is 38 Faculty and Students, Graves Theological Seminary, Canton impossible now to teach satisfactorily the Sunday school of more than 300. The crowds at the preaching service often overtax the capacity of the building. SHIU HING Remodeling House for Boarding School $ 800 Residence 3,600 The workers at Shiu Hing are living in a small one-story building, surrounded by other buildings in such a way that the breezes are practically all cut off. The seriousness of this situation will be appreciated when we recall the far southern loca¬ tion of this city. It is certainly necessary that a comfortable building be provided for our women workers in Sliiu Hing. The school building also is in serious need of remodeling. MACAU Opening Preaching Hall, Book and Reading Room $ 1,200 Church Equipment, Boys’ and Girls’ Schools 2,500 Additional Church, and Boys’ School Building 3 000 Additional for Girls’ School Building 2.000 Land for Residences 4 000 Two Residences 9.000 Residences for Chinese Workers 3,000 Macau, down by the sea, is a very important city. Recently land has been secured for the church building which makes it possible now for us to develop the work in a very much more satis¬ factory manner. The church equipment and the additional sums requested for the Boys’ and Girls’ Schools, as well as that asked for the book and reading room, should be readily provided. The necessity for providing residences for the mission¬ aries is apparent. KONG MOON Church Building 2,400 Girls’ School Building 8.000 Woman’s School Building 4,000 Kindergarten 1,800 Hospital 20,000 Church Building, San Ooi 5,000 Book Room 1,500 Grading of Land 300 Two Residences 7,500 Kong Moon and its companion city, San Ooi, are the centers for one of the most thickly popu¬ lated regions of China. Certainly the mission¬ aries in charge could request no less than the modest sums they have asked for church buildings in each of these two cities, and for buildings for the Girls’ School and the Woman’s School. It would he hardly possible to find a more needy section for the development of a hospital. The kindergarten and book rooms are methods of mission work which will pay large returns in these two great cities. The health of some of our missionaries has al¬ ready been seriously undermined by our failure to provide them residences. We should not neglect this duty longer. CANTON Evangelistic Center on Bund $50 000 Student House 20,000 Wai Oi Paat Church (Memorial to Dr. Graves) 11.000 Church on Tung Shan Compound 50.000 Two Girls’ Day! Schools in Tsz Yap Field 2.000 Two Kindergartens, in Connection with Tung Shan Kindergarten 1,000 Graves Seminary Buying and Grading Land 4.000 Repairing Administration Building 2.000 Dining Room and Gymnasium 11,200 Furniture for Same 2.000 New Dormitory and Equipment 15,000 39 Woman’s Training School, Land, Building and Equipment 20,000 Settlement House for Training School 5,000 Pooi To (Girls’ Boarding School) Furniture for Present Dormitory 3,000 Buying Graves and Grading Land 1,000 High School Administration Building 40,000 Furniture and Equipment for Same 9,000 Finishing Present Primary Building Primary Class Room Building 20,000 Furniture and Equipment 3.000 Science and General Equipment 5.000 Library Fund (for opening) 2,000 Help on Gymnasium Building 15,000 Equipment for Gymnasium 1,000 Grammar School Roomf Building 30,000 Furniture and Equipment 4,000 High School Dormitory Building 30,000 Furniture and Equipment 4,000 Land for Future Development of Junior College or Normal School 30,000 Pooi In (Woman’s School) Administration Building 7,000 Furniture for Same 3,000 Dining Room and Dormitory 8.000 Furniture for Same 2,500 Furniture for Old Dormitory 1,500 Bath Rooms and Closets 1,000 Opening Girls’ School and Chapel near Tung Shan 500 China Baptist Publication Society Printing and Circulating the Scriptures, $10,000 Annually 50,000 Salaries of Chinese Translators and Writ¬ ers, $6,000 Annually 30,000 Campaign of Education and Indoctrina¬ tion, $8,000 Annually 40,000 Waterworks and Sewerage, Tung Shan $15,000 Filling Pond, Tung Shan Compound 1,000 Three Residences, Tung Shan 15,000 Equipment for Pooi Ching Academy (Boys’ Academy), 5,000 a year for five years 25,000 To Contribute One Dollar to Every Three to Tung Shan Baptist Hospital up to 10,000 Canton is one of the largest cities in the world. It is the oldest of our Southern Baptist mission stations. In this great city we have already de¬ veloped some of our strongest and most effective institutions. The Girls’ Boarding School, called Pooi To, is at the head of our Girls’ School system in the South China Mission. This institution al¬ ready has departments ranging from the kinder¬ garten to the high school. It also has a normal training department which is to receive very much more attention in the future. It is expected also that tins school will eventually be advanced to the college grade. One of China’s crying needs is for more competent teachers. While it has some very creditable buildings, Pooi To needs prac¬ tically everything that a growing institution for the training of young women requires. Another interesting institution in Canton is the Boys’ Academy, called Pooi Ching. This institu¬ tion has been developed largely through native enterprise. One Chinese gave to it a building which cost over $20,000. These Chinese are now engaged in an effort to raise $150,000 for this institution, but even so it is not possible for the Chinese to raise a sufficient amount to provide for the proper development of this growing institu¬ tion. They must have assistance. The school will eventually reach the college grade. The Graves Theological Seminary is the largest seminary now operated by the Foreign Mission Board. It has an enrollment of almost 100 stu¬ dents, and has a most encouraging outlook. It is in great need of more land, more dormitories, a dining room, and a gymnasium. The kitchen and dining room now in use are pitifully inadequate. There has recently been organized a Woman’s Training School, and the same co-operation will be maintained with the Graves Seminary by this school as is maintained by the training schools in Louisville and Fort Worth with the seminaries there. The initial building and equipment must be provided at once. Into Canton flock every year literally tens of thousands of students. What can be done to evan¬ gelize these students? Our plan is to erect a Baptist student house in the center of the student section, near our church. It will contain a lecture hall, chapel and library, supplied with select Chi- nest literature, a dining room, kitchen, servants’ quarters and as many sleeping rooms as the money available will pay for. We propose to include in this Student House living quarters for a special foreign missionary, who will go out designated for work among the students. On account of the fact that little effort is made on the part of the schools to provide comfortable living quarters for the students, a student house like this would meet a unique opportunity. Someone has well said, “This is the quick of China’s needs.” The $20,000 requested for this building offers oppor¬ tunity for a great investment for the Lord. Some outstanding requests are made along the line of church buildings. The whole mission is agreed that $50,000 for the erection of a church building on Tung Shan Compound is one of the most urgent needs in South China. More than a thousand students are on our compound in Canton. It is utterly impossible to provide church facili¬ ties for them in the chapel we have already erected. A great church plant is a necessity which everyone must recognize. The chief street in Canton is called “The Bund.” The people who stream into the city ride or walk along this street. On it are located the depart¬ ment stores. The steamer wharves and passenger boat landings are on the Bund. One railroad sta¬ tion is near one end of the street and another is near the other end. We are anxious to establish on this main street a great evangelistic center. We have no place in the city of Canton in which to preach to a crowd. We could get great crowds every day in the year if the place were properly 40 Wuchow Hospital Now Being Erected handled. The foreign missionaries could multiply their influence. One of the missionaries says: “It grips us even to think of having a church placed there. What a stimulus it would be in a thousand ways! Of course, it would require a large sum of money to buy land on the best street in Canton, and we should not put up a shabby building on such a street. Night school, lectures, various features of an institutional character would be included in the work, but the main ob¬ ject is to evangelize.” $50,000 would be required to erect such a building. The missionaries are exceedingly anxious to have $11,000 for the Wai Oi Paat church, as a memorial to Dr. Graves, who labored for more than fifty years in South China, and who spent a great portion of his life laboring in connection with this church. Such a memorial would be most fitting, and peculiarly so when we remember that this church has been, and is now, one of the most effective evangelizing centers in Canton. An institution of general character located in Canton is the China Baptist Publication Society. This society is designed to provide literature not only for our South China Mission, but for all our missions in China. The amounts included in the list of needs for this society are very con¬ siderably below that which the mission requested. We could most profitably spend twice as much as is included for it here. In the one item alone of printing and circulating the Scriptures, it could profitably spend the total amount which is re¬ quested for all of its departments. NEW FIELDS In its recent meeting the South China Mission voted unanimously to ask the Board to include in the five-year program the opening of work in five new fields. Kwei Cheo Province Chapel, Land and Building $12,000 Hospital, Land and Building 12.000 Compound; Boys’ School 5.000 5.000 Girls’ School 5,000 Book Room 2.000 Three Residences 9,000 Hunan Province Chapel, Land and Building 12,000 Hospital, Land and Building 12,000 Compound 5,000 Boys’ School 5,000 Girls’ School 5,000 Book Room 2.000 Three Residences 9,000 Yunan Province Chapel, Land and Building 12,000 Hospital, Land and Building 12.000 Compound 5,000 Boys’ School 5,000 Girls’ School 5.000 Book Room 2.000 Three Residences 9,000 East River Field Compound Land and Wall 5.000 Water and Sewerage 3.000 Chapel 15.000 Book Room 3.000 Three Residences 13.500 Kindergarten and Primary School 3 000 Woman’s Bible School 3,000 Kiang Si Province Compound Land and Wall 5.000 Water and Sewerage 3,000 Chapel Book Room 5.000 Kindergarten and Primary School 3.000 Woman’s Bible School 3 000 Three Residences 13,500 Fifty thousand dollars is asked for the open¬ ing of each of these new mission fields. The mis¬ sion considers this to be its most important ac¬ tion, and is enthusiastic for the execution of the project. Multitudes in these great sections await the coming of the messenger. One missionary voiced the sentiments of all when he said: “Our opportunities are limitless and the needs so great that they just swamp us, but we believe in the victory at home, and hope for more equipment and more men and women. How wonderful is our Lord!” CHURCH BUILDING LOAN FUND For Entire Mission $40,000 NEW MISSIONARIES In order to carry out the plans above outlined, to take care of the old work, and to provide for the opening of the new stations, the mission esti¬ mates that the following missionaries will be re¬ quired. This estimate is conservative: 41 Kweilin Man for Evangelistic Work Single Woman for Evangelistic Work Man for Boys’ School Work Single Woman for Woman’s Training School Single Woman for Girls’ School and Kindergarten Woman Doctor Man Doctor Wuchow Man for Evangelistic Work Second Man for Evangelistic Work Single Woman for Educational Work Man for Educational Work Second Man for Educational Work Three Doctors Macau Family for Evangelistic Work Shiu Hing Two Single Women for Educational Work Kong Moon Family for Evangelistic Work Single Woman for Girls’ School Single Woman for Woman’s School Single Woman for Kindergarten Doctor Yingtak Man for Evangelistic Work Single Woman for Evangelistic Work Single Woman for Girls’ School Single Woman for Primary School Single Woman for Kindergarten Single Woman for Woman’s School Doctor and Family Canton Man for Evangelistic Work in Hostel Two Music Teachers for Pooi To One Science Teacher for Pooi To Two Normal Teachers for Pooi To One Art Teacher for Pooi To Two Men for Graves Seminary Two Single Women for Pooi In Woman’s School PAKHOI Pakhoi is our newest mission in China and should have aid as soon as possible in order to put it on its feet. We should have land for a Single Woman for Kindergarten Single Woman to Take Charge of Woman’s Train¬ ing School Doctor to Serve Compound and Work in Tung Shan Baptist Hospital Architect for Entire Mission Business Manager and Treasurer for Mission Man for Educational Work in Pooi Ching Academy Kwei Cheo Province Family for Evangelistic Work Single Woman for Evangelistic Work Doctor! Single Woman for Educational Work Man for Educational Work Hunan Province Family for Evangelistic Work Single Woman for Evangelistic Work Doctor Single Woman for Educational Work Man for Educational Work Yunan Province Family for Evangelistic Work Single Woman for Evangelistic Work Doctor Single Woman for Educational Work Man for Educational Work East River Field Family for Evangelistic Work Single Woman for Evangelistic Work Doctor and Family Family for Educational Work Single Woman for Primary School Single Woman for Woman’s School Kiangsi Province Family for Evangelistic Work Single Woman for Evangelistic Work Doctor* and Family Family for Educational Work Single Woman for Primary School Single Woman for Woman’s School MISSION compound, a residence for the missionary and a chapel in which he would do his work. Our educational work should also be strengthened. PROPERTY Land for Compound Church Building Residence School Building NEEDS $ 2,500 5,000 4,000 8 , 000 —$ 19,500 MISSIONARIES Family for Educational Work Equipment and Outgoing Expenses ($650 per Missionary) 1,300 Grand Total $ 20,800 42 Memorial Window to John Hus in the Baptist Church, Prague EUROPE AND THE NEAR EAST SUMMARY OF NEEDS ITALY Land, Buildings and Equipment for Nine Churches $ 505,000 Church Building Loan Fund 75,000 Publications 95,000 Thirteen Schools 52,000 Miscellaneous 47,500 CZECHO-SLOVAKIA Completion of Church Building, Prague $ 10,000 Church Building Loan Fund 25,000 ESTIMATED ADDITIONAL EXPENDITURES Items Under Investigation t:i ■$ 774,500 35,000 2,773,450 Grand Total S3,582,950 DESCRIPTION OF NEEDS HE War, just closed, has burnt indelibly into the consciousness of the whole world the impor¬ tance and need of Europe. To ignore the opportunity of giving a free Gos¬ pel to Europe in this day when that Conti¬ nent turns to America for leadership would he to pass over one of the greatest opportu¬ nities ever presented to our Baptist people. As early as 1850 the Foreign Mission Board directed its attention to Europe, hut was unable to enter the work from lack of funds. In 1870 William N. Cote, M.D., then a worker in the Latin Quarter of Paris, was appointed missionary of the Foreign Mission Board for work either in France or Italy. Before he chose a location, the Army of Victor Emanuel entered Rome and the gates of the Eternal City were thrown open to the Gospel. This significant event became the deciding factor in locating in Rome our first Mission in Europe. Dr. George B. Tay¬ lor, our second missionary to Italy, entered the work in March, 1873, and filled a mighty missionary career until his death in Septem¬ ber, 1907,—thirty-four years. In 1913 we undertook work in Prague, Bohemia, now the capital of the new State of Czecho-Slovakia, by undertaking the sup¬ port of Josef Novotny. 44 ITALIAN MISSION ME importance of saving Italy cannot be over-estimated. No city since the fall of Jerusalem lias influenced the religious world as much as Rome has, and she still continues to do so. The Italian mind, which had been liberalized greatly just preceding the war by the Modernist Movement, is even more open since the war has closed. The day of opportunity for preaching the Gospel in Italy is at hand. It the needs of Italy, enumerated here, are met, there will be a saving of about $75,000 on Rents, Elementary Schools, Literature and Social Work during the five-year period. This saving of more than 8 per cent is a good business proposition, to say nothing of the greater efficiency that would be obtained in our work by possession of the better equipment. CHURCH BUILDINGS A Large, Well-Located Central Building in Rome Which Would Serve as a Church Building, School Rooms, Headquarters for Our Publications, Missionary Resi¬ dence, Circulating Library $200,000 Additional Books for Seminary Library 2,000 Church Building, Parsonage, School Rooms, Naples 60.000 Church Building, Parsonage, School Rooms, Messina 40,000 Church Building, Parsonage, School Rooms, Milan 75,000 Church Building, Parsonage, School Rooms, Florence 50.000 Church Building, Parsonage, School Rooms, Reggio Calabria 25,000 Church Building, Parsonage, School Rooms, Trieste 50.000 Repairs on Church Building, Pordenone 4.000 Church Building Loan Fund 75.000 Repairs on Church Building, Miglionico 1,000 Church buildings represent our greatest need in the matter of equipment. We are greatly handi¬ capped for lack of suitable places of worship which give an idea of permanence and serious¬ ness to our work. We are woefully behind all other denominations in Italy. It is especially nec¬ essary to have good churches in Italy, the land of imposing buildings. SCHOOLS Elementary Schools or Kindergartens in Twelve Centers Where the Government Schools Are Not Sufficient. This sum in¬ cludes Salaries of Teachers and Equip¬ ment $50,000 Elementary schools and kindergartens present one of the most needy fields which promise “quick results.” The European war has left many or¬ phans and other helpless people on our hands who appeal to us for assistance. These schools can be converted into Sunday schools, as has already happened in several places where, instead of the regular lessons, the Sunday school lesson is sub¬ stituted one day in the week. PUBLICATIONS Bilychnis, Monthly Magazine $30,000 New Weekly Journal for General Propaganda Among Masses 25,000 II Testimonio and 11 Seminatore 10,000 New Books (original and translations dealing with subjects most necessary for the believ¬ ing as well as the unbelieving public. An average ol one volume for every two months) 20,000 Popular Tracts 10,000 Bilychnis, our monthly magazine, must be en¬ larged and improved in order to increase its al¬ ready wide usefulness. The printing press offers to us the greatest field of usefulness. No other denomination has such a hold on the public and no other can supplant or successfully rival us if we furnish adequate means. Competent pastors are sorely needed at once, but it takes time to prepare them, while the printing press opens up to us immediately unlimited fields. We have already acquired the friendship and in some cases the hearty co-operation of a goodly number of Italy’s best thinkers. MISCELLANEOUS Two Orphanages (one for girls and one for boysl $30,000 Home for Ten Old People (Baptists) 10 000 Secretaryship at Naples for Immigrants 7,500 The employment of a man in Naples, the port from which the majority of Italians sail for the United States, and through which many of them return to Italy, would be a splendid stroke in the missionary policy. Such a man could render great aid to immigrants and teach them the meaning of our Baptist work in Italy, thus performing a far- reaching service to our cause. Baptist Church, Altamura, Italy 45 CZECHO-SLOVAKIA HIS new State of Czecho-Slovakia is most strategically located in the cen¬ ter of Europe. At one time it was Protestant, but through Romish op¬ pression, augmented by governmental despotism, the several states comprising Czecho¬ slovakia have become nominally Roman Catholic. The nation is shot through and through with Protestant sentiment. Many of its people have been to America and understand American ideas of democracy. It is entirely possible to win for Protestantism and to the Baptist faith one of the most virile of all the European nations. The percentage of literacy is higher in Bohemia than in any other European State. We are on the ground, ready for service. Before the war, property had been acquired in Prague and the local church had assumed large obligations. Out of the Judson Centennial Fund $3,000 was sent to help the church in erecting its building. The war interfered with the operations. It is necessary now that the building be completed and a burdensome debt paid. We ought to meet the heroic spirit manifested by this church during the stressful war times. In spite of hindrances, it made fine progress. In the next few years we are sure to witness great progress in our work in Czecho-Slovakia. It will be necessary for many of the twenty churches already organized to provide themselves with more adequate buildings, and many congre¬ gations to be organized into churches will also need buildings in which to do their work. It is altogether probable that the Church Building Eoan Fund here specified will have to be very greatly augmented during the years just before us. This is the opportune time for us to enter vigorously into this land of promise. Completion of Church Building, Prague $10 000 Church Building Loan Fund 25,000 OTHER EUROPEAN COUNTRIES While the Foreign Mission Board has in hand a volume of information concerning conditions in Europe, which make it clear that during the next five years we should spend several million dol¬ lars in reconstruction work in Europe and in developing work already organized, the Board does not feel that at this time it should make final detailed announcements concerning the work it will undertake on this Continent. At present the Board has in Europe a commission studying the situation, consisting of J. F. Love, Z. T. Cody and Missionary Everett Gill. Whatever may be the items to be included after this further investi¬ gation, it is clear that at least five million dollars should be spent by Southern Baptists in Europe during the next five years. Touching Czecho-Slovakia to the southeast are the Balkan States, whose importance has been horribly emphasized by the fact that they pre¬ cipitated this great war. Conditions in the Bal¬ kans have profoundly influenced the politics of Europe. Surely nothing could be more impor¬ tant than for this people to be won heartily to the Gospel. Russia is the colossus of Europe. It is larger than all other countries of Europe combined. The population of this vast country is one and three- fourths times as great as that of the United States. Twenty-five different languages and nationalities are within the confines of Russia. Theodore Roosevelt said, “No nation, so much as Russia, holds the fate of the coming years.” It is cer¬ tainly true that no other nation in Europe is in greater need of religious and intellectual enlight¬ enment. There are now in Russia approximately one hundred thousand Baptists. They are organized into a National Baptist Union. Whenever it be¬ comes possible to join hands with these brethren, we can, no doubt, help develop very rapidly a great Baptist work in Russia. Not only in Russia proper, but also in Siberia there has developed a very promising Baptist work, from which there will surely come large spiritual returns, when the day arrives for us to augment their efforts. There will probably be four great centers in Europe from which Baptist missionary effort will radiate—Paris, France; Rome, Italy; Prague, Czecho-Slovakia; and one of the great cities of Russia. The Foreign Mission Board will certainly conduct operations from three of the great centers here named. It is not yet deter¬ mined whether it will undertake work in France. Other Baptist bodies have outlined work for France and the other countries of Europe. There will be made a comprehensive plan which will undertake to preach the Gospel as we see it to the battle-torn and division-filled nations of Europe. THE NEAR EAST The Board now has under investigation the work in the near East, which has formerly been taken care of by the Illinois Baptists. $t is altogether probable that this investigation will result in the Board undertaking to do work in Syria and Ar¬ menia. This addition to our territory will great¬ ly increase our expenses. We cannot go into its details now, but we must face the possibility of spending a very considerable amount of money in Syria and Armenia. Our hearts turn with pe¬ culiar interest and sentiment to the opportunity and privilege of preaching the Gospel in these lands of such sacred associations. 4G Delegates, Japanese Baptist Convention, Kumamoto Faculty and Students of Willingham Memorial School, Fukuoka JAPAN MISSION SUMMARY OF NEEDS NEW PROPERTY Sixteen Residences for Missionaries Land, Buildings and Equipment Eight Schools Six Church Buildings Church Building Loan Fund Publications NEW MISSIONARIES Thirteen Men for Evangelistic Work Two Single Women for Evangelistic Work Three Men for Educational Work Four Single Women for Educational Work One Man for Publication Work Total Number of Missionaries (if men are married), 40 Equipment and Outgoing Expenses ($600 per missionary) $ 24,000 Grand Total $ 819,000 $ 99,000 479,000 107,000 50,000 60.000—$ 795,000 Japanese Children 47 DESCRIPTION OF NEEDS HE good strategy in founding our Japan Mission has long been recog¬ nized by everybody. Mission en¬ deavor in behalf of this most vital nation in the far East is of first im¬ portance. Since this is known to be true by all, it is the more strange how Southern Baptists have been so slow in developing their work in Japan. RESIDENCES FOR MISSIONARIES Land and Residence for Missionary, Naga¬ saki $ 9,000 Fifteen Additional Residences for Mission¬ aries ($6,000 each) 90,000 It is impossible to secure satisfactory residences for our missionaries in Japan. The native houses are built in such a way that it is hazardous for our missionaries to occupy them. It is essential that the missionaries he given houses which will protect their health and lives. o V y — Nut