Some Obseryations This Manual contains more infor¬ mation than many whole volumes. Please hold a Foreign Missionair Rally in your church Sunday night» February 23d. One sermon might be preached on the growth of the Foreign Society. Please do not fail to post up the large bulletin in your church. It has a telling message. An offering from every member of every Church should be our slogan. A number of the great missionary workers are passing to their eternal reward. If you have not ordered March Offering supplies, better attend to it to-day. A number of new Living-link Churches have already been enrolled. It is hoped many more will be added during March. A number of individual givers will rank with the Living-links by giving 1600 or more* Remember, the watch-word for the year is $500,000. This will require a great united effort. But we are able. A number of churches are planning to go higher in their gifts this year. Some will support a hospital each. Let it be borne in mind that the Foreign Society is ready to receive annuity gifts at any time. A number of new missionaries have already been appointed since the Louisville Convention. They will go out soon. Others will be appointed before the year closes. Study “Gains Last Year,” on page 12. It is interesting. It is hoped we can show an even greater number of gains during the current year. The missidharies will do their part. Every preacher should throw him¬ self into the March Offering cam¬ paign with enthusiasm. It is a great opportunity for service, for growth, and spiritual awakening. The Church that stands aloof from the missionary enterprise cuts itself off from one of the chief sources of its power, and closes one of the doors of opportunity. Now is the time to begin to prepare for the Toronto Convention. A large offering for missions is a fitting pre¬ paration. If you have not read “Among Central African Tribes,” a book of 157 pages. Sec. S. J. Corey packed with good things about the Congo Mis¬ sion, you have missed Wmething good. The “Foreign Society Annual” is more appreciated this year than ever before. The supply has been ex¬ hausted. “Father Time” continues his rec¬ ord. See page 2. What W£ do for the world’s evangelization must be done soon. Read “The New Year,” on page 21. It will whet your appetite for more, and quicken you for larger things. Please study “That $500,000” on page 23. It is not dry. “A Little Argument With Myself,” on page 27, contains enough for a number of sermons. It goes to the point, and no mistake. Why not debate with ourselves and less with the other fellow? A Foreword. TT is hoped this manual will prove helpful to the preachers and others who are preparing the churches for their annual offering for Foreign Missions. Much time and care have been given to its preparation. It contains the latest information concerning the world field. We believe the cuts, and diagrams and all the illustrations, together with a number of articles will all prove help¬ ful. The object has been to make this manual an improvement upon all that have’gone before. We are sure it gives more information. Many facts are given here concerning the work not found elsewhere. A careful study of this doc¬ ument and a due regard to its sugges¬ tions, we are sure, will greatly increase the offerings for the world’s evangeli¬ zation. PARTI tifje Jforeign S'Otietp “FATHER TIME” Is making his record year by year. He notes great changes. The world grows better. Light is breaking everywhere. But some fail to see and feel and act for the Kingdom of God. 2 Growth in Ten Years of the Foreign Society ' 1902 1912 Per Cent of Increase Missionaries. . 115 172 50 Native Force. . 223 1,085 386 Organized Churches. . 74 155 109 Membership. . 6,019 13,464 123 Sunday-schools. . 96 273 182 Sunday-school Scholars.. . 6,771 18,398 166 Day-schools and Colleges. . 35 99 183 Pupils. . 1,904 5,481 183 School Fees. . $1,206 $11,790 877 Hospitals and Dispensaries . . 15 25 67 Patients Treated. . 64,442 158,827 146 Medical Fees. . $1,067 $8,501 698 Missionary Contributions. . $5,483 $11,543 118 Total Raised on Field. . $30,003 $59,040 96 Income of Society. . $178,323 $400,728 124 Personal Gifts of $500 or More During the missionary year ending September 30, 1912, the Foreign Society received the following personal gifts of $500 or more: A Friend. .. $18,300 00 Delbert L. Soule. $770 00 R. A. Long. .. 10,175 00 Miss Stella D. Ford. 700 00 Horace Morse. . . 10,100 50 Miss Louise B. Cole. ...... 700 00 A Friend. 5,050 00 Mr. Alexander. 600 00 A Friend. 5,000 00 G. H. Waters. 600 00 Mr. & Mrs. M. J. Allen. . 4,798 00 Mr. & Mrs. I. W. Gill. 600 00 Mrs. T. J. Pepper. 2,500 00 Mrs. Ida W. Harrison. 600 00 John M. Galbreath. 1,617 50 Mr. & Mrs. Philip H. Gray 600 00 Diantha H. Taylor. 1,200 00 Miss Margaret Pugh. 525 00 Frank Coop. 1,050 00 Mrs. Sudie E. Flint. 505 00 A. McLean. 1,010 00 Geo. H. Becker. 500 00 Miss Viola Compton . .. . 1,000 00 Chang Hsiun. 500 00 N. J. Nicholson. 1,000 00 Susan H. Bailey. 500 00 Miss Lucy Conger. 1,000 00 C. O. Ewing. 500 00 W. H. Cowdery. 1,000 00 Theodosia Lyons. 500 00 A. R. Teachout. 1,000 00 R. H. Stockton. 500 00 A Friend. 1,000 00 Mrs. Alla E. Powell. 500 00 J. Coop. 993 00 Dr. Chas. F. Powell. 500 00 $ 3 Growth in Thirty-Seven Years The following tahle shows the record of the Foreign Society for the past thirty-seven years. These are cheering figures. We have every reason for thanksgiving. This showing must be carefully studied to be correctly appreciated. *< fD P No. of Contrib¬ uting Churches. Amount Con¬ tributed by Churches. No. of Contrib¬ uting Sunday- schools . Amount Con¬ tributed by Sunday-schools. . Total Amount Contributed. Missionaries. Native Helpers... Total Missionary Force. 1876 30 $20 00 $1,706 35 2 2 1877 41 548 18 2 2,174 95 2 2 1878 68 565 03 47 $195 10 8,766 24 5 5 1879 209 1,881 73 52 210 26 8,287 24 9 9 1880 324 2,723 09 69 246 02 12,144 00 10 10 1881 217 1,637 54 198 750 00 13,178 46 13 13 1882 524 4,940 77 501 2,175 00 25,063 94 11 11 1883 473 4,764 95 516 3,205 00 25,004 85 19 1 20 1884 585 7,189 90 699 4,125 00 26,601 84 22 3 25 1885 648 7,191 00 787 5,125 00 30,260 10 26 7 33 1886 653 7,004 32 820 6,035 00 61,727 07 31 13 44 1887 774 10,304 73 1,064 10,513 00 47,757 85 32 13 45 1888 990 15,181 72 1,217 15,662 00 62,767 59 37 23 60 1889 1,038 17,214 67 1,417 19,123 00 64,840 03 43 27 70 1890 805 13,505 88 1,251 17,765 00 67,750 49 53 28 81 1891 991 18,000 63 1,511 21,411 00 65,365 76 58 34 92 1892 1,355 24,259 85 1,452 22,907 00 70,320 84 63 37 100 1893 1,208 23,818 49 1,571 18,690 00 58,355 01 65 44 109 1894 1,806 30,679 63 2,276 23,486 00 73,258 16 66 55 121 1895 2,403 36,549 99 2,525 27,553 00 83,514 16 68 66 134 1896 2,459 39,902 00 2,605 28,418 00 93,867 71 76 67 143 1897 2,586 39,568 28 2,810 30,027 00 106,222 10 87 77 164 1898 2,907 45,650 20 3,180 34,334 00 130,925 70 93 108 201 1899 3,051 57,781 00 3,187 39,071 00 152,727 38 98 131 229 1900 3,067 65,964 00 3,260 42,705 00 180,016 16 111 146 257 1901 2,762 62,007 00 3,216 42,841 00 171,898 20 111 160 271 1902 2,822 68,586 00 3,365 48,116 00 178,323 68 115 223 338 1903 2,825 79,785 00 3,310 51,630 25 210,008 68 117 290 407 1904 2,915 89,545 01 3,532 56,832 47 221,318 60 143 295 438 1905 2,834 95,500 00 3,552 61,817 60 255,922 51 154 312 466 1906 3,178 109,018 00 3,638 66,809 65 268,726 00 154 333 487 1907 3,415 123,468 00 3,785 77,158 73 305,534 54 155 410 565 1908 3,457 128,347 00 3,742 75,180 20 274,324 39 167 594 761 1909 3,396 146,081 00 3,775 77,199 24 350,685 21 170 634 804 1910 3,227 138,098 48 3,864 90,251 82 360,712 92 170 761 931 1911 3,023 139,501 20 3,787 83,041 35 379,082 03 169 759 928 1912 2,971 135,835 49 3,981 92,751 92 400,728 44 172 1085 1256 4 Growth of Foreign Society Receipts 1882 1897 1912 $ 25,063 $ 106,222 $ 400,728 The above illustrates the growth of the receipts of the Foreign Society from 1882 to 1912. Quite an increase. Now for still larger things. 5 The mission steamer Oregon at Kinsbassa, lower Congo, loading cargo and wood. Missionary A. F. Hensey can be seen on the lower deck What Church Did It? or What Church Became a Living-link? The LARGE Church. The SMALL Church. The Church with MORTGAGE. The CITY Church. The COUNTRY Church. The Church with a BUILDING enterprise. The DOWNTOWN Church. The MISSION Church. The Church whose situations and problems are just as PECULIAR and just as DIFFICULT as yours. 6 New Living-links Last year nineteen nezv Living-links were enrolled. It is hoped that a larger number of churches will join this company this year. We believe they will. Already some ten or twelve are assured. Some are sending their offer¬ ings at this time. We have 500 churches that could support their own missionary and be all the richer and better for doing so. There are now more than 100 Living-links. This method has proven a great blessing to the churches participating and it has proven a wondrous help to the cause of missions. Some of our stronger churches have not yet come into this fellow¬ ship, but we are expecting their enlarged help soon. The Experience of One Church The following is the experience of one church. We could repeat this many times if we had space. The Hopkinsville church is not wealthy. Magic In It The Hopkinsville church is delighted with the Living-link plan. We raise more money and raise it more'joyfully than before we adopted it. We see what our gifts do now, as we could not formerly. We have enjoyed personal communication with our missionary and his family also. We rec¬ ommend the plan. There is magic in it. H. D. Smith. Hopkinsville, Ky. This Church now gives over $1,000 each year which goes into the General Fund. The Apostle Paul. The First Living-link Church The following is an extract from a letter of the first Living-link missionary to the first Living-link church ivhich supported him. « ‘When I had departed from Mace¬ donia, no church had fellowship with me in the matter of giving but ye only, for even in Thessalonica ye sent once and again unto my need. “I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things that came from you, an odour of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable and well pleasing to God. ‘ ‘And my God shall fulfill every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.”— Phil. 4:15-19. 7 The Living-Link Possibilities By E. W. ALLEN The essence of the Living-link idea is that it brings Foreign Missions home. What the globe in the school-room is to the great round world, so is the Living-link idea to the Great Commission. It reduces the vast undertaking to a small scale, bringing it within range of the practical. The essential difficulty of Foreign Mis¬ sions is the remoteness and bigness of the enterprise. In a general way to the average man the proposal to convert the world to Christ is too far away and blurred a notion to engage his enthusiasm. The membership of our Churches and a surprisingly large proportion of our ministers have at best only hazy impressions of religious conditions in foreign lands. At bottom our missionary lethargy is due to ignorance. Advantages of the Living-Link Ideal ist. For a man to join with all the other members of the con¬ gregation in supporting a missionary, makes the work personal. 2d. It furnishes a missionary to the church, and a church to the missionary, thus answering the specious, carping spirit of all opposed to co-operative efforts. 3d. It does away with the feeling of the unreal and far-off in missions. 4th. It increases the self-respect of a church as it comes to have a definite and worthy part in the world’s evangelization. 5th. It transmutes mechanism of a society into the magnetism of personality, and the apathy of the ordinary church dies when by this means it becomes an apostolate of truth. 6th. For most, the “Go” in the Great Commission is impos¬ sible, but this aids in translating the “Go” into “Send.” 7th. It ties the church to a distinct part of the heathen world. The personal touch with a definite field is the most successful way of bringing missionary information, and through that inspiration to the home church. 8th. It visualises the needs of the field, a powerful lever for opening pocket-books. gth. It is a source of spiritual enlargement and enrichment to the home church by this definite participation with Christ in work abroad. loth. It establishes direct communication with the field, which is the world. Letters from a church to its missionary, and from a missionary to his church are veins and arteries along which mis¬ sionary blood flows. nth. The Living-link is the missionarj^ radium. The church, minister, and missionary all feel it. The light needs to shine full in the face all the time. i2th. It spiritualizes church life. The atmosphere of the church contains so much world ozone that no one wishes to turn from God’s business to petty, personal bickerings. 13th. The constant example of its missionary’s heroism and consecration is contagious in the Living-link church. 8 i4th. The current that sweeps abroad comes back home with quickening power. The Living-link church comes to feel that it will never do to accomplish less at home than its missionary does abroad. 15th. It brings the missionary lessons of the Sunday-school and of the Endeavor Society into the realm of the actual. i6th. It creates the normal church life and spirit out of which other workers for home and foreign fields will surely come. 17th. It sets a minimum financial standard for missions, and hence enlarges the standard of giving. i8th. It promotes regularity and system in giving. 19th. By its appeal for generosity it fosters a spirit of support for all benevolences. 20th. It breaks down the antagonism to missions and criticism because of excessive expense of missionary machinery. Every dollar contributed is followed to the field. 2ist. It gives directness and objectiveness to prayers. 22d. It enlarges the life of the individual Christian in giving him a personal representative in the great movements for the world’s evangelization. 23d. It furnishes an unseen but strongly felt force in the minister’s life in supplying a touch with world work. 24th. It develops the minister in making him responsible for the careful management of these concrete missionary interests. 25th. It helps the pastor in giving him an associate or fellow worker. 26th. It furnishes the pastor with first-hand evidence of the power of the Gospel, for the triumph of the Gospel in heathen lands is the Gospel’s best apologetic. 27th. For the missionary it supplies comradeship and fellow¬ ship in toil and loneliness. It gives him precious anchorage in the homeland. He knows that somebody cares all the time, and he is strengthened by the consciousness that all the time some one is praying for him. Now all these numerous advantages should stimulate more churches in undertaking the support of their own Living-link mis¬ sionary, and should foster care-taking plans for continuing the support of a missionary when once undertaken. If any church has fallen down in its support of a missionary it has been due to its failure in perceiving the manifold advantages, and to a failure to follow a few simple methods. The average church of 300 mem¬ bers can easily support its own missionary abroad and be faithful and just in its support of all home interests. MY MISSIONARY SUBSTITUTE The salary of a missionary is $600 per year ; which amounts to $50 per month, $12 per week, $5 for three days, or $1.65 per day. For the next tzvelve months I agree to pay a substitute on the foreign fields for {Mark the time) - Months —-- Weeks - Days Date- Signed-~ Residence 9 Tremendous Value of the Native Force The Foreign Society supports a native force of workers on the foreign fields numbering 1,085. They are of great value in spreading abroad the gospel among their own peo¬ ple. Most of them were educated in our own schools and colleges. The number has increased from 223 in 1902 to 1,085 (or 386 per cent) in 1912. In the first years of our history in these lands we had no schools and, therefore, labored under great disadvantages. We had no sufficient way of preparing men and women for teaching and evangelistic service. In the past ten or fifteen years we have made great advances in the matter of schools in all lands where we are now doing work. The For¬ eign Society is supporting six Bible colleges where men are being especially prepared for the Christian ministry. These are training schools in addition to ninety-three other schools that are maintained. In these Bible colleges there are 295 young men preparing for evangelistic service. These schools help tremendously to give strength and power to all our work, as do our colleges in the homeland. Where would we be and what would we be without our colleges? The fathers Bokale, Africa Miss Nobu Nakagawa, Mr. Yang, of Nankin, Nathaniel Sita Ram, Japan China Jubbulpore, India recognized the need of an educated ministry in the very be¬ ginning of our work. And so the missionaries soon began to call for schools in pagan lands, where God had sent them to preach his gospel. There is a force of 88,500 native workers in all lands sup¬ ported by all boards and all churches. They constitute a strong arm of the service. They are part of the whole ad¬ vance guard of the Kingdom of God in the non-Christian world that is moving with tremendous tread, overthrowing heathenism and bringing in the reign of Christ. 10 The salaries of our native evangelists vary all the way from $24 to $250 per year. The average salary is only about $65. Some of these are being supported by individual friends. If we had 500 more native preachers in addition to the present force, it would be a great gain indeed. Some of the preachers we now have are very efficient. They are growing in grace and knowledge and power. . They preach mighty sermons. They are leaders of a nation. They are the heralds of a new day. Americans can never evangelize Africa or China or Japan or any other non-Christian land. Each country must evan¬ gelize its own people. The chief work of the missionary is in training and equipping an indigenous ministry and work¬ ing force. This course is apostolic. This is the history of all Christian nations. This is the most telling method in present-day world-evangelization. A. E. Cory says, ‘‘China’s ultimate conquest must be by the Chinese.” Our religious neighbors appreciate the value of the na¬ tive force. They take great interest in educating and train¬ ing them. The Methodist Church, for example, has 9,212; the Congregationalists, 4,854; the Presbyterians, 4,252; the Northern Baptists, 3,988, etc. We want to double the num¬ ber of our native evangelists as earlv as possible. To this end we ask the co-operation of the friends. The advantages of the native worker and preacher are easily understood. He does not have to learn the language of the country. It is his own mother tongue. This he has perfectly. Dr. Royal J. Dye says, “No white man will ever be conceited enough to think he can speak with the same exactness of idiom as the native.” The native evangelists understand their own people and know how most effectively to reach them. They are acclimated and they are not com¬ pelled to take furloughs and rest awhile in the hottest months of the year. The food and water and houses and other material conditions are suited to all their temporal needs. They are thoroughly consecrated and are ready to make any sacrifice for Christ’s sake. A missionary says, “They go to live the ideals they teach, and their faithful living as much as their teaching has made their message powerfully effective.” They have given unquestioned proof of their faithfulness. Some of them have shown their will¬ ingness to suffer martyrdom. Some have been in the service of the Foreign Society for a quarter of a century. Many are really great preachers. 11 Raised on the Foreign Field Last Year Medical Fees.$8,501 School Fees.11,790 Missionary Offerings . . 7,834 Self-support. 20,938 Gains Last Year Gained—326 native workers. Gained—11 church organizations. Gained—2,422 additions by baptism. Gained—25 new Sunday-schools. Gained—2,198 in Sunday-schools. Gained—$6,461 receipts on the fields. Gained—^19 new Living-links. Gained—194 Contributing Sunday-schools. Gained—$9,710 in Sunday-school offerings. Gained—237 personal offerings. Gained—269 in total number of offerings. Gained—54 per cent in personal gifts. Gained—$6,627 in miscellaneous offerings. Gained—$21,646 in total receipts of the year. FORM OF BEQUEST I give and bequeath to the FOREIGN CHRISTIAN MISSIONARY SOCIETY, of Cincinnati, Ohio, a corporation existing under the laws of the State of Ohio, the sum of $-, and the receipt of the Treasurer thereof shall be a sufficient discharge to my executors for the same. 12 The Names of Those Missionaries Who Have Died in the Service ‘‘ Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay dozvn his life for his friends/* INDIA. Miss Sue E. Robinson. Miss Hattie L. Judson. E. M. Gordon. G. L. Wharton. JAPAN. Mrs. Josephine W. Smith. Charles Elias Garst. CHINA. Mrs. Carrie Loos Williams. Albert F. H. Saw. Edwin P. Hearnden. Mrs. Edwin P. Hearnden. Thomas J. Arnold. C. E. Molland. AFRICA. Dr. Harry N. Biddle. Miss Ella C. Ewing. Mrs. Edith L. Eldred. TIBET. Dr. Susie C. Rijnhart. Dr. Z. S. Loftis. DENMARK. Dr. A. O. Hoick. ENGLAND. Mrs. Mary B. Moore. Marion D. Todd. “These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.” 13 Three Christian young men at Bo- lenge, Africa. There are several tailors with Singer sewing ma¬ chines in the Bolenge congregation who make the clothes, such as are seen in the picture. Worthy of Note Last year the gifts on the foreign fields, that went directly into the work, amounted to more than the total regular expenses of the Foreign Society; so that, for every dollar our brethren in America put into the work, as many dollars were actu¬ ally expended in sending abroad the light of the gospel in the dark places of the earth. This is an encourag¬ ing fact. Where the Money Was Spent The following statement shows where the money was spent last year for Foreign Missions by our Foreign Society: China . India. Japan . Philippine Islands Africa. England. Tibet.. Scandinavia. Cuba. Turkey. Hawaii. $98,248 56,927 56,146 41,143 31,324 9,582 8,061 5,114 4,784 300 132 14 FINANCIAL EXHIBIT OF THE Foreign Christian Missionary Society For the Year 1911-1912 The following financial exhibit is in many ways. worthy of careful 1911 study. It means much 1912 Gain Number of contributing churches. 3,023 2,971 *52 Number of contributing Sunday-schools 3,787 3,981 194 Number of contributing C. E. Societies 939 829 *110 Number of individual offerings. 1,202 1,439 237 Amounts. $379,082.03 $400,728.44 $21,646.41 Comparing the receipts from different sources shows the following 1911 1912 • • Gain Churches. $139,501.20 $135,835.49 *$3,665.71 Sunday-schools. 83,041.35 92,751.92 9,710.57 Christian Endeavor Societies . .. 11,287.90 10,145.78 *1,142.12 Individuals and Million Dollar Campaign 55,178.92 85,116.80 29,937.88 Miscellaneous. 34,961.98 41,589.65 6,627.67 Annuities. 46,790.97 31,200.00 *15,590.97 Bequests. *Loss. 8,319.71 4,088.80 *4,230.91 Gain in Regular Receipts, $41,468.29; loss in Annuities, $15,590.97; loss in Bequests, $4,230.91. TEN LEADING CHURCHES The following are the ten leading churches in gifts for Foreign Missions last year, including offerings from Church, Sunday-school, and Endeavor Societies: Louisville, Ky. (First).$2,985 Denver, Colo. (Central). 1,625 Akron, Ohio (High St.).1,512 Cleveland, Ohio (Euclid Ave.). . 1,393 Los Angeles, Cal. (First). 1,350 Beatrice, Neb.$1,200 Des Moines, la. (University PI.). 1,160 Chicago, 111. (Hyde Park).1,100 Fresno, Cal. 1,059 Chicago, 111. (Englewood).1,006 TEN LEADING STATES Ohio. . $64,516 Indiana. . $22,776 Missouri. . 35,570 Iowa. . 17,854 Kentucky. .31,181 New York. . 11,765 Illinois. . 28,454 Pennsylvania. . 11,076 California. .28,173 Virginia. . 10,694 15 Japan consists of five principal islands and a number of smaller islands. Area, 161,198 square miles; population, 47,215,630. Religions; Shintoists, 24,900,000; Buddhists, 19,858,000; Animists, 2,000,000; Roman Catholics, 62,158; Greek Church, 15,098; Protestants, 69,252; missionaries (men and women), 853; native workers, 1,535; stations and out-stations, 1,214; schools, 156; pupils under instruction, 12,295. We began our work in Japan, May 31,1884. C. E. Garst and G. T. Smith were the first missionaries. Our chief stations at present are Tokio, Osaka, Sendai, Fukushima, and Akita. There are a number of other places where we are doing work. We have two colleges at Tokio, one for men and one for women. Our Bible college is also located here. We are in much need of additional build¬ ings in Japan. 16 Belgian Congo. Area, 900,000 square miles; population, 30,000,000. Re¬ ligions: Animist fetish worshipers, 29,370,000; Mohammedans, 600,000; Catholics, 17,000; Protestants, 15,000; stations and out-stations, 656; mis¬ sionaries, 190; native workers, 1,542; schools, 548; scholars, 16,600; pro¬ fessing Christians, 26,000. We began our work in Africa in 1897. This was in the Congo Free State. Our first missionaries there were Dr. H. N. Biddle and Prof. E. E. Paris. The work has made phenomenal growth. One of the best Churches in our whole brotherhood is the one at Bolenge. We have lost three missionaries by death in Africa. 17 LU-CHOWFUB . ,, inANK (haoHsienI y /N /m\l\]i)t\593 Native helpers. 32,236 Total force. 39,829 Church members . 876,292 Additions last year . 87,067 Schools. 11,129 Scholars . 429,974 Total income.$12,290,005 Income from the fields. $2,035,247 These figures are taken from the January (1912) num¬ ber of the Missionary Review of the World. We will pub¬ lish the figures for 1913 as soon as they are available. 48 LARGER THINGS The time has come for us to undertake things on a larger scale than in the past. We are able to do far more than we have ever accomplished or even attempted. We have not begun to give as the Lord has prospered us. We are growing in wealth and in numbers every year and every day of the year. As good stewards of His marvelous grace we must increase the number and the amounts of our gifts. Not till the whole church is fully enlisted can we feel that we are doing our duty and meeting the require¬ ments of our Lord. We are well able to double the force on the field and to support and equip them adequately. Only as they are thus supported and equipped can they do their utmost for the cause to which they have devoted their lives. The work already begun needs school buildings and chapels and hospitals and homes. More is needed for buildings alone just now than the Society receives in a year. Our educational institutions require endowments even as our colleges and universities at home. One society in America is asking for five millions for the endowment of its schools; another has raised two millions for the same purpose. Our Lord, in whom we trust, will stand by us and prosper us if we will do what we are able to do. He will send us men and means of every kind if we pray and give to the limit of our ability. He takes delight in manifesting His power in blessing His obedient children. FOREIGN MISSIONARY STATISTICS Prepared by I. W. Baker, of the Laymen’s Missionary Movement. Society. Membership. Gifts. . A verage. United Presbyterian. • 135,205 $335,645 $2.48 Reformed Church in America .. .. 116,815 207,404 1.77 Presbyterian Church in United States (Southern) . 282,000 452,000 1.60 Advent . 25,000 34,887 1-39 Congregational . • 730.718 721,396 .98 Presbyterian in U. S. A. • 1,311.819 1,285,125 .98 Protestant Episcopal. 928,000 737,161 •79 Methodist Episcopal . • 3.156,804 2,190,318 .69 Baptist . • 1,342,199 824,575 .61 Methodist Episcopal (South) . • 1,835,000 881,520 .46 Disciples of Christ. . 1,300,000 520,000 .40 United Evangelical . 73,551 28,120 .38 Lutheran (General Synod). . 232,247 85,348 .36 Reformed Church in United States. 297,110 108,673 •36 United Brethren . 280,000 98,000 •35 Lutheran (General Council). 479,575 58,002 . 12 49 The Growth of Christianity Turner, the historian, in his “Sacred History of the World,” gives these figures as illustrating the growth of Christianity during the centuries: First century . Second century . . . . Third century . Fourth century. Fifth century. Sixth century .. Seventh century . . . , Eighth century . . . . Ninth century ...... Tenth century . Eleventh century . . Twelfth century . . . Thirteenth century Fourteenth century Fifteenth century . . Sixteenth century . . Seventeenth century Eighteenth century 500,000 2,000,000 5,000,000 10,000,000 15,000,000 20,000,000 24,000,000 30,000,000 40,000,000 50,000,000 70,000,000 80,000,000 75,000,000 80,000,000 100,000,000 125,000,000 i55»ooo»ooo 200,000,000 adherents adherents adherents adherents adherents adherents adherents adherents adherents adherents adherents adherents adherents adherents adherents adherents adherents adherents Turner’s estimate goes no farther, but we have the figures of a recognized authority, M. Fournier de Flaix, who, as the result of the most elaborate and painstaking inquiry, gives the total esti¬ mated number of Christians in the world at the present time as 477,080,158. This leaves the figures for the nineteenth century probably near the 300,000,000 mark. M. de Flaix gives the present status of the world’s religions thus: Hinduism . Buddhism. Confucianism . Shintoism. Judaism. Taoism . Mohammedanism. Polytheism (many gods) Christianity . 190,000,000 souls 147,000,000 souls 256,000,000 souls 14,000,000 souls 7,186,000 souls 43,000,000 souls 176,000,000 souls 117,681,669 souls 4yy,080,158 souls Destined to Take the World The nineteenth century witnessed a greater advance in Chris¬ tianity than any of its predecessors. It was this century which saw the birth of Foreign Missions and the rapid growth of that great evangelizing movement which is surely destined to take the world for Christ. These figures are taken from an issue of the Christian Herald. 5a What Business Has a Business Man With Foreign Missions S. M. ZWEMER The word business comes from the Anglo-Saxon byzig, which means active, diligent; and the fact that the term man-of-business means what it does and only that, speaks vol¬ umes regarding the character of our age. Other professions may have leisure, brook delays, or be sedentary in character. The man of business is always on the go. The commercial world has no place for the careless, dull, indolent, listless talker or idler. Push and Pull are written on every door. Competition is keen, enter¬ prise lively, advertisement startling, and ambition world-wide. Now the one great and only business of the Church is missions, and from the nature of modern business and the character of For¬ eign Missions, two things are very evident. To impress them on you is strictly business and will not take five minutes of your time. 7 . Your business is connected with Foreign Missions and you are indebted to them. This is true whether you are a Christian or not, and whether you believe in converting the heathen or con¬ sider the enterprise Quixotic and hopeless. Whatever branch of finance or trade you are engaged in, I challenge you to read up its history and you will find yourself face to face with Foreign Mis¬ sions. There are no banks or drafts in heathendom. There is no partnership in Mohammedan lands, for no one trusts his neighbor. The history of architecture, drainage and transportation all land you in the story of mediaeval missions. Modern commerce is the fruit of Christianity no less than modern civilization. The fact that London and New York, and not Pekin or Constantinople, are the financial pillars of the world, is due to Columba and Augustin. Peschel, the great geographer, said: “Geography, commerce and the spread of the Christian religion have singularly enough a com¬ mon history.” Missions not only promote but create commerce. Ipecac and quinine and india-rubber were discovered by mission¬ aries; the first steamships on African lakes were built for mis¬ sions; ploughs were first sold in Turkey by American missionaries; Yankee clocks have followed Yankee school-teachers from China to Peru. Commercial facts like these are so numerous and novel that I commend to you their perusal in books like Warneck’s “Modern Missions and Culture,” or the Ely Volume on “Missions and Science,” You owe a debt to Foreign Missions as a business man. The heathen have a claim on you at least six days a week. Some of 51 the indispensables of your lunch and the comforts of your home are the result of heathen labor. And no modern business man denies that he owes a duty to his employees. Many of your costly imports are brought to the wharves by heathen slave-labor. Who gathered and dried the tea in India, Ceylon and China? Who toiled at the looms in Persia and Afghanistan to fill your tapestry department? Did the negroes who carried your ivory to the coast ever hear of your Savior? You say all business men are not interested in billiard-balls or piano-keys. Granted. But look at your desk. Whence came the tools of your profession? Your bottle of mucilage and your box of stamps owe a debt to the Arabs of Hadramaut. Your eraser and the handle of your fountain-pen came froni South America, the neglected continent. The graphite of your pencil from dark Siberia, and your finest grade of ink from China. If you are in the drug or grocer trade look down the list of oils, balsams, gums, and barks, and see what you owe to heathen lands. In the business world no man liveth to himself. A famine at the Antipodes changes stock in Wall Street. The occupation of the New Hebrides by missionaries lowered quotations on arrow- root. Livingstone’s last journey opened half a million markets for piece-goods. The value of exports and imports of Hawaii for a single year are twelve times as much as the total sum spent from the beginning until the end by foreign missionaries in evangelizing and civilizing its people. War destroys markets and has closed more open doors than opened closed ones. But the missionary is the pioneer of commerce and the herald of civilization. If you want a wider market send out more missionaries. The man who reads a primer wants a shirt and his wife a broom. Uganda will soon import American carpet-sweepers. It ought not to take a business man long to see that missions pay, even in the lowest sense of the word. Now while you profit by this world-market you can not hide from yourself the fact that much of this wealth costs the lives of men for whom Christ died, and that they have died practically in your service, never having heard the Blessed Name. Here lies a great responsibility for business men, and they should show to the world that they have a stake in the greatest business enterprise ■* and the most stupendous Trust of the twentieth century—Foreign Missions. II. Foreign Missions needs you, because you are a business man. When the world was half asleep and wholly drowsy, in the Middle Ages, monks were missionaries. Now it is daybreak every¬ where and monks are out-of-date. We want business men for the business. There are certain words of David, oft quoted, about the King’s business requiring haste. They were a lie to begin with, • 52 and as applied to Christ’s Kingdom are only partly true and wholly inadequate. The King’s business requires a great many things more imperatively than haste. His work requires the very quali¬ ties in its servant, which you possess if you are a successful busi¬ ness man. Capital, caution, confidence, attention, application, ac¬ curacy, method, punctuality, dispatch—these are the elements for efficient conduct of business of any sort. They are the very ele¬ ments that have built up and would to-day rejuvenate the business at the old stand of Foreign Missions. This business of Foreign Missions is sorely in need of less criticism and more capital. You can supply it. It is acknowledged on the Best Authority to be the most paying investment in the world. Ten thousand per cent (or an hundred-fold) is guaranteed; and has been paid to investors again and again. The enterprise of « carrying the gospel to every creature is older, has more branch offices, and covers a wider territory than the Standard Oil Com¬ pany, and furnishes better light and warmth to humanity. Why are business men afraid to sink capital in this Divine Trust? But it is more than mere capital that the business needs. Foreign Mis¬ sions need you yourself. A business enterprise needs business men to direct it, to extend it, to carry it on. Some of the most successful missions were inaugurated by laymen or business men. There is to-day a wider and louder call for consecrated business men in the Foreign Mission field than there ever was before. The whole problem of industrial missions, which lies back of that other problem of obtaining a self-supporting native church, will have to be solved by men of business. The cause of Foreign Missions needs the help of business men in its administration; business men who will give their time and talent to this important work and make it their business to do the Lord’s work in a business-like way. Blowed a Bugle Blast One of the boldest of missionaries was Baron Von Welz, pioneer to Dutch Guiana. Because he would not keep silent, but kept blow¬ ing his bugle blast in men’s ears, summoning the sleeping church to propagate the faith among unbelieving peoples, he was laughed at as a dreamer and fanatic, and denounced as a hypocrite, heretic, and blasphemer. Such men are God’s agitators, sent to marshal the conscience of the church, to mold the law of its life and methods of its work in conformity with his Word and will. The madness of one generation is often the wisdom of the next. The men that are martyrs to the hatred and violence of one age are the saints that a succeeding age canonizes. 53 MORE SIGNIFICANT While the above figures are full of encouragement, yet the growth of Christian missions from 1895 to 1908, or in the short period of only thirteen years, is still more significant. In 1895 the total membership in all heathen fields was 995,793; in 1908 the membership was 2,056,173, a gain in thirteen years of 1,060,380, or more than double in thirteen years. In 1895 the total number of additions was only 63,081, while in 1908 the number was 164,674, or an increase of more than 100,000 in thirteen years. The number of missionaries leaped from 11,765 to 19,875, or a gain of 8,110 during the same period. This is no less significant. This is an annual increase of more than 623, or nearly two per day. The number of native helpers increased from 55,118 to 98,955 in thirteen years, or a gain of 43,837, or nearly eighty per cent. These are cheering figures. The income of the missionarv societies of the world have grown in thirteen years from $13,620,972 to $22,846,465, or an in¬ crease of $9,225,493. Then again, the number of scholars in mission schools has grown from 786,002 to 1,290,582, or almost doubled. What marvelous things our eyes are permitted to see! The hand of the Lord is upon us. His Spirit fills the hearts of His people more and more. What may we not expect in the next twenty-five years? 54 A Worthy Life Purpose I will place no value on any¬ thing I have or may possess, except in its relation to the ' Kingdom of Christ. If anything I have will advance the interests of that Kingdom it shall be given up or kept, as by keeping or giving it I shall most promote the glory of Him to whom I owe all my hopes, both of time and eternity. May grace be given me to adhere to this^ —DAVID LIVINGSTONE Income of Leading American Foreign Missionary Boards for 1911. Methodist Episcopal. $2,217,127 Presbyterian. 1,718,526 Baptist Missionary Society .. 1,163,988 American Board (Cong.). 1,032,026 Protestant Episcopal. 855,042 Methodist Episcopal (South). . 780,170 Disciples of Christ (F. C. M. S. and C.W. B. M.) 528,082 Southern Baptists . 510,009 Presbyterian (South)... 452,513 United Presbyterian. 332,388 55 Missions in China 0 (From “The Chinese Revolution,” by Dr. A. J. Brown.) As far back as the first decade of the sixth century, Nes- torian monks appear to have begun a mission in China. They traveled beyond the bounds of the Roman Empire across deserts and mountains to ‘‘the land of Sinim.” A quaint monument at Hsian-fu, the capital of Shen-si, is the only remaining trace of what must have been an interesting and perhaps a thrilling missionary enterprise. The Roman Catholic effort began in 1293. This effort was a failure. But another effort was made in 1581, which proved successful. In 1670 the priests reported 300,000 bap¬ tized Chinese. In the nineteenth century the growth of the Roman Catholics was rapid. They are now strongly en¬ trenched in all the provinces and in most of the leading cities. They now have 1,201 foreign priests and 550 Chinese priests, 3,846 sisters, 6,025 churches and chapels, and about one million members. _ The first Protestant missionary to China was Robert Morrison, who sailed from London alone, January 31, 1807, under the appointment of the London Missionary Society. He was twenty-five years of age. The East India Company would not allow a missionary on any of its ships, and Mor¬ rison came to New York to see if he could secure passage on an American vessel. Here he met David Washington Cin- cinnatus Oliphant, who owned a line of ships, and he con¬ veyed him to China free of charge. The young man sailed on the good ship Trident the middle of May. On the 8th of September that solitary friendless man landed upon Chi¬ nese soil. That was the beginning of a new day for China. A distinguished Chinaman said the recent Revolution began when Morrison reached the country in 1807! 56 It was seven years before Morrison baptized his first con¬ vert in a lonely spot where unfriendly eyes could not see him. This was July i6, 1814. Progress was slow. At his death, in 1834, there were only three Protestant Chinese Christians in the whole empire. That was twenty-four years after his arrival. The following table showing the growth of Christianity in China is eloquent: 0 00 M . 0 communicants. 1814. . I a 1834. . 3 1842. . 6 a 1853. . 350 a 1857. . 1,000 a 1865. . 2,000 n 1876. . 13,515 .( 1886. . 28,000 n 1889. .37.287 n 1893. . 55,093 1897. . 80,682 a ' 1903 . .114,687 a 1910. .278,628 a The present Protestant missionary work in China dicated by the following figures: Missionaries, 4,299; Chi¬ nese ministers, teachers and evangelists, 11,661; schools, 3,145; hospitals, 170; church members, 278,628. F. A. McKenzie, editor of the London Times, said: ‘‘The missionaries are the men who began the work of awakening China. Their work is not to be measured by their enrolled 57 converts. They have been the pioneers battering down prejudices and misunderstandings. They brought modern medical knowledge to China, and China is now adopting it. They brought Western learning. They have been not only teachers of religion, but advance agents of civilization.” During the Boxer persecution in 1900 one of the Chinese preachers, on refusing to apostatize, received a hundred blows upon his bare back, and then the bleeding sufferer was told to choose between obedience and another hundred blows. What would you have answered? The half-dead Chinese gasped, ‘T value Jesus Christ more than life, and will never deny him!” Before all of the second hundred blows could be inflicted, unconsciousness came, and he was left for dead. A friend took him away by night, bathed his wounds, and secretly nursed him to recovery. Dr. A. J. Brown says, ‘T saw him and looked reverently upon the flesh that was seamed and scarred with ‘the marks of the Lord Jesus.’ ” China is Moving All is change in China. Laws and customs and methods of trade and even religion. To friends of missions the re¬ ligious changes are the most significant. The old religions of China have received their death¬ blow. Confucianism is passing. Idols have been destroyed. Temples are being used by the government either for sol¬ diers or educational or governmental purposes. A better use has been found for them than heathen worship. Tem¬ ples are not used for worship as frequently as in the past. The people are too poor to express their devotion in them. The great hordes of broken-spirited people have no heart 58 to try what has done them no good in the centuries bygone. Millions cry out like children in the dark for light and help. They feel after God and do not find him because they have no man to guide them. It is a time for sympathy and help. The Buddhist nunneries have been abolished by decree of the new. government. The buildings are to be used for schools or public halls. The history of Japan is being re¬ peated. The face of all Asia is changing. China is moving with a rapidity never dreamed of by the most hopeful. But China is not becoming Christianized. How can she with less than 4,000 missionaries? The number is all too small. Yes, China is moving, but wither? Some com¬ munities are going in the direction of light and toward God. A torch has been lighted. A hand is there to guide the way. Great independent churches are springing up. Commu¬ nities are being transformed. A new and better order is being established. But what of the thousands of communities where the enchanting name of Christ has never been spoken? Old China is broken in pieces, and new China will follow in the better way if shown how. The land is in a liquid state, and can be . molded into the image of God if the Chris¬ tian people of the world will act now. But there is not a day to be lost. The open door of opportunity will speedily be closed. Soon the present state of mind and conduct will be hardened into indifference or infidelity. I What will our people do the first Sunday in March to help solve the greatest problem that has ever been before the Christian world? We will show our apostolic temper and attitude if we rise up like a mighty host and send our sons and daughters to save a nation that asks out of deep anguish for salvation. It is a time for heroic action in every Church. Please make it so in your congregation. 59 The growth in number of Christians is large. But this is not a full measure of all that has been accomplished. By no means. It is only a very small part. Note a few changes that have been wrought. And even these are only a few. 1. National Assembly established at Pekin. This would answer to our Congress. Later Provincial Assem¬ blies were called. China was provided for a graded system • of representative bodies from town councils to a National Congress. 2. The Manchu rule has been thrown off, and a Re¬ public now exists. This is almost beyond belief. 3. The anti-opium movement is one of the greatest re¬ form movements in the history of the world. The mission- 60 aries were back of the movement. No less than 5,000 opium pipes were destroyed in Hang-Chou at one time. Thousands of acres which were formerly devoted to the cultivation of the poppy now grow in grain and vegetables. 4. Anti-footbinding societies were formed years ago by missionaries. In 1906 an imperial edict advised parents not to bind the feet of their daughters. 5. The criminal code was changed. Methods of pun¬ ishment are more humane. Certain cruel punishments are now prohibited. 6. The queues are now cut. Almost all the Revolu¬ tionists cut their queues. The triumph of the Revolution probably means the end of this custom. Many other changes which show the influence of the new order in that land. Before and After Hospital Care After a year’s illness the heathen Chinese parents of this girl thrust her out to starve, to beg, or to steal. One of our missionaries found her and took her to one of the mission hospitals. This picture was taken after she began to improve. The missionaries called her “The Hospital Skeleton.’’ This is the same girl Jafter months^of tender treatment and care. When she came her soul was as starved as her body. She is now an excellent Christian girl,^ and helps among children in the^hospital. 61 China and Trade Fifty years ago China was so far away in time that it had no appreciable effect upon Amer¬ ican life. News traveled slowly. Trade was almost impossible. It is not so now. Transporting produce to market i^in wheelbarrows—the old way Hunter Corbett and Calvin Mateer, young missionaries who sailed for China in 1863, were six months in reaching their desti¬ nation in a sailing vessel of small tonnage, few conveniences, and no comforts. •V' . ' V An oil company in America re¬ cently sold $14,500,000 vrorth of oil in China in one year. When the Chinese saw the missionaries lighting their houses with kero¬ sene oil, they wanted to light their own homes in the same way. Some years ago a family in Portland, Ore., sent an agent to Hong-Kong to introduce its flour. The people did not want it, but the agent stayed, gave away samples, and after much labor and great cost a market was created. Now that firm is overrun with orders. Numerous mills run day and night to sup¬ ply the demands. The cotton growers of the United States find their chief foreign market in China. A church building at Wei- hsien typifies the elements that are now entering China, for it contains Chinese brick, Oregon fir beams, German steel binding- plates and rods, Belgian glass, Manchurian pine pews, and Brit¬ ish cement. The Chinese are establishing their own water, steam, and elec¬ tric power plants and are build¬ ing mills of all kinds. The Han- Yang Iron & Steel Works, oppo¬ site Hankow, begun in 1894, now employs over 4,000 workmen. They make iron and steel for Chinese railways, bridges, and warships, and produce pig iron cheaper than it can be produced Tarveling in China—the old way in America. Pig iron can be laid down from China at San Fran¬ cisco cheaper than it can be placed in the same city from Pennsylvania steel works. Pekin now has well-paved streets, sidewalks, sewers, street cars, telephones, electric lights, and uniform police force. Scores of other cities are undergoing like transformations. The first railroad in China was built in 1876. It ran from Shang¬ hai to Wu-sung, only fourteen miles. Great was the excitement of the populace, and no sooner was it completed than it was bought by the Government, the road-bed torn up, and the engine dumped into the river. That ended the railway building until 1881. Now there are 6,300 miles in operation, and several thou¬ sands in course of construction. Railways have inaugurated in China a new era, and when a new era is inaugurated for one-fourth of the race, the other three- fourths are certain to be affected in many ways. A tobacco company has an¬ nounced its determination to put its cigarettes into the hands of every man, woman, and child in China. Brewers and distillers have a like ambition. China has been one of the great markets of Western na¬ tions. Agents of American and European manufacturers are in most of the leading cities, and the products of the white men’s fields and factories may be seen in the remotest interior towns. When the Chinese women saw the missionaries’ wives making their clothing with sewing ma¬ chines, instantly they wanted machines. So great a demand has followed that one company in America recently offered a Traveling lin i; China—the new way missionary a salary of $15,000 if he would take its superintend¬ ency of sales in China. He de¬ clined the offer, as he had not gone to China to sell sewing ma¬ chines. One province in China con¬ tains 400 square miles of the best anthracite coal. There is coal enough here, it is said, to heat the world for a thousand years. China’s profoundest need is more gospel preachers to give the nation a change of heart and new social conditions and ideals. Call for More Workers The most moving appeal that comes to the Mission Boards to-day from non-Christian lands is from the people themselves asking for more missionaries, more Christian schools, more Christian hospitals, more Christian literature. The people of the East are losing confidence in their an¬ cestral religions and are becoming more and more conscious of their need of a religion to which they cling in the midst of the developing intellectual life which is now making such rapid progress in the East. When one says that the people of the East do not want Christianity, he must in some way account for the appeals of the people of the East for Chris¬ tian missionaries and for the results of Christian missionary work.—James L. Barton. “We, then, that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves, . . . for even Christ pleased not Himself.’’ We are debtors “both to the Greeks and to the barbarians; both to the wise and to the unwise.” “Freely ye have received, freely give.” “Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them.” “Go ye therefore and teach all nations, . . . and lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.” “If ye love Me, keep My commandments,” 64 Suggestive Program for a Foreign Missionary Rally in Your Church Sunday Night, February 23,1913 This program may be changed to meet any local conditions. No Offering Should Be Taken. General Topic: SUCCESS OF FOREIGN MISSIONS [Let this meeting be led by the pastor or some other live missionary member. The speakers should be notified and all the preliminary arrangements made in good Ume to insure success.] A Devotional* Song. A Missionary Song. Reading of the Thirty-fifth chapter of Isaiah. A Few Moments of Silent Prayer, followed by a number of one or two minute prayers for our missionaries in the different countries. A Missionary Song. A Five Minutes’ Address by the Leader-— Explain the object of the meeting, its general character, the object of the March Offering, etc. A JPive Minutes’ Address: The Missionary Sentiment Among Believers in the Past. 1. When Carey proposed that something be done for the spread of the gospel among the heathen. he was told to sit down. 2. A bishop of the Church of England publicly argued against the missionary enterprise. 3. The Parliament of England declared against the mi^ionary cause, as did the General Assembly of Scotland. 4. One preacher praised the happy ignorance of the untutored savage. 5. One of bur preachers said recently that he would not give one farmer in his State for 10,000 ’ Chinese. A Missionary Song, followed by a brief prayer. ' A Five Minutes’ Address: The Present Total Missionary Forced 1. Total number of missionaries on the field, 19,875. ■ ^ 2. Native helpers, about 100,000. 3. Schools on field, 28,164. 4. Hospitals, about 1,000. 5. Number of missionary societi^ fn the world, 350. A Five Minutes’ Address: The Growth on the Fields. 1. There are more than 100,000. Protestant Christians in India. The sentiment of the peoi^e ' has marvdousiy changed toward Christianity. 2. China has more than a quarter of a million of Protestant Christians, the number has doubled in ten years. Public attitude has made wonderful changes in five years. 3. There were no Christians in Japan fifty years ago, now there are 75,000. This land has made almost miraculous progress since the advent of the missionary. 4. There has been an average of one conversion for every hour, day and night, for twenty*^ years in Korea; great churches have been established. 5. The Foreign Society has about trebled its whole working force in ten years; more than doubled the Christians on the foreign field; trebled the number in Sunday-schools; trebled the number in mission schools; and more than doubled its total income. A Five Minutes’ Address: Obligations of this Church to March Offering. 1. Every Member Canvass fo^ Funds. . 2. A higher standard for personal giving. 3. Our part of the $500,000. 4. New missionaries going out this year appointed by our Foreign Society; many new buildings going up; work being enlarged in every direction. ' 5. Must raise our apportionment. Closing Prayers for All the Work in All Lands. benediction. PLANS FOR NEW YEA^ When you are making plans to invest your savings for the New Year, 1913, please remember the ai^nnuity Plan of the _ ' -Jk Foreign Christian Missionary Society It is a good way to do good with your money while you live, and yet enjoy a certain income from it during all of life. This plan is business and benevolence com¬ bined. The Society will receive amounts of $100 or more, paying interest on the same dur¬ ing the life of the annuitant. At his or her death the money belongs to the Society without further obligation. If from 40 to 45 years of age, 4% interest will be paid; from 45 to 50 years, 5%; if 50 years or over, 6%. The interest is paid semi-annually. A bond is exe¬ cuted for the payment of the interest, properly signed and bearing the seal of the Society. " Larde Income The income is larger than from almost any ^ ^ 5a/e investment. The rate of taxes in most places is at least 2%, from which you are free when you turn the money over to the Foreign Society on the Annuity Plan. This added to the 6% you receive, makes your income equal to 8% in other forms of investment. The income is fixed. It is a certainty. It can not de- > crease. This is one of the great advantages of the Annuity Plan. Safe tv The Foreign Society is as safe as the Government. It is axcty incorporated under thb laws of the State of Ohio. It has property worth more than $600,000, besides n large and growing annual income. A bond of the Society is absolutely good. a fi tfkn C A ^out money will bear interest every day through jreriilallt; C life. Most investments are liable to expire within a few years, or to change in value. Reinvestments are often perplexing, safe and satisfactory ones being difficult to secure. All uncertainties are avoided by the Annuity Plan. This plan is very popular with all who have tried it. Some of the best business men in the country have donated money on this plan. For fuller information ask for Illustrated Annuity Booklet, which is sent free of charge. This plan is especially attractive to those fifty years of age or older. ADDRESS ---- Foreign Christian Missionary Society Box 884 Cincinnati, Ohio Business and Benevolence