FOR THE YEAR ES ees MUL COO OEE eee eee eee eee eee e222 2 SUGGESTED PROGRAM I. Bible Reading: The Sacrament of Giving (free). 2. WHAT Let the leader ask the questions in the first section and the different members of the Society give the answers. The one who has the question ‘“What of the Future?”’ may learn from her state secretary the state aims for 1918. Each church is asked to strive for a 15% increase in the enlistment of women, young women and children, sub- scribers to “‘Missions’’ and missionary contributions. 3. Reading: Grandmother’s Philosophy (2c). 4. WHO Quiz by leader: National and District officers: their duties. 5. WHERE Display the Five Year Program posters (25 cents for set of eight). Have some one speak briefly about each chart, adding facts from THE GUIDE POST. Leave the chart, “The Whole Task’’ for the last. Have the society read it in concert. Ask the Treasurer to state the length of time for which the annual contribution of the circle cares. (Divide $75,232, the cost of supporting the work for one day, by the amount the circle gives per year. The result will indicate the part of a day for which the circle cares.) 6. Thought Question: Is this the measure of our ability and consecration? ‘The GUIDE POST f 1917-18 Indicates the way to a complete knowledge of the ete WHERE WOMAN'S AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY Foreign Department—Ford Building, Boston, Mass. Home Administration Dept.—450 E. 30th St., Chicago, Ill. WHAT CRARGESUNEA DACA ROCA RADAUSEROGUSROGEREERODACDDREREEUGEUAOLRCDEREOORERORAEEDORLMCDORODEEUCSELTUCE RUA LUGRDGLORGORUGCRAGEOECSRCROCUSUEUOCULEGNGECUGOOGCOROLINARLOCUR CEU GDEDUGLGUUECGUUGECAUOEUUERGRDAGLGEUDUEODAAEEOURORORAEASTECEROGQGUOUOURSEOSOSSDORSUUEORSEGUGLOORESLUGRUDEDECOSEOCUDEROORSDROT SESE RROCED WHAT WHAT IS THE WOMAN’S AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY? It is a Society comprising all women members of Baptist Churches in the territory of the Northern Baptist Convention, and all women contributing to the Society. Mem- bership in local circles or societies is secured through active participation in missionary work. The National Society received its present name in 1914, when the Woman's Baptist Foreign Missionary Society and the Woman's Baptist Foreign Missionary Society of the West, both organized in 1871, were united into one Society. WHAT RELATION DOES IT SUSTAIN TO THE DENOMINATION GENERALLY ? It is one of the co-operating Societies of the Northern Baptist Convention, a cor- porate body, organized in 1907, to promote the unity and efficiency of the denomina- tion. These co-operating societies are the: American Baptist Foreign Mission Society American Baptist Home Mission Society American Baptist Publication Society Woman's American Baptist Foreign Mission Society Woman's American Baptist Home Mission Society. The Finance Committee of the Convention approves the budgets of the Co-operating Societies. These budgets include amounts expected from legacies and invested funds, three TITLES Oe amounts to be secured from individuals and expected contributions from churches, (in- cluding all departments). The General Apportionment Committee distributes to the churches, through the State Apportionment Committee, the amounts which it is expected the churches will contribute. Each Society makes its own plans for securing individual gifts. For 1917-18, only one apportionment for foreign missions is sent to each church. This apportionment includes the amount to be used for the work of the A. B. F. M. S. (63%) and the amount to be used for the work of the W. A. B. F. M. S. (37%). Each church is asked to face unitedly the whole task, deciding for itself how best this may be done, whether through the use of duplex envelopes with one budget to cover all causes, or by a division of responsibility among the church proper and all its departments. WHAT FORM OF ORGANIZATION HAS THE W. A. B. F. M. S.? A President, two Vice-Presidents, a Recording Secretary, and twenty-seven other members constitute the Board of Managers. These officers are elected annually, and are unsalaried. , The Society is organized in two departments, the Foreign Department and the Home Administration Department, each with a Vice-President at its head. The Foreign Department has in charge the direction of the work on the foreign field, and the examination and recommendation of missionary candidates. The four CUUUTOUREQUUDGQUCHOTESUEERSCCRDOGEUEOCESECSUOCEDESURCGRSEORDCOGESOOSEOSOLOUDEUCCUSTUORSCEEGUSESOGESEDG UAV ECUCUSOECEGHESPESUCUGEGEUTEOCEAEDDCANCEEEUCORGGOCTUOLORDECEROUODCUSEOOLSG GEL ELUEUUGOEOGEREECREOUOTOUSOOSOG GOCE ESRAELGGUGROUCRUDERDOUOREQOSUECGERSER SUAS SOUS EDEN EESERESELOUETEOESEUSTEROOT ERT O RS members of the Board from Boston and vicinity, with the Foreign Vice-President as Chair- man, constitute the Foreign Department. The Foreign Secretary and the Associate For- eign and Candidate Secretary, Executive Officers of the Foreign Department, also the Treasurer, have headquarters in-the Ford Building, Boston, Mass. Since the work in foreign fields is so closely linked with that of the American Bap- tist Foreign Mission Society, it is a great advantage that both Societies have headquarters in the same building. The hearty sympathy, co-operation and wise counsel of the Board of Managers of the A. B. F. M. S. are of great value. This co-operation, and that of the Reference Committees on the field, lessen the responsibility and strengthen the work of our Foreign Department. The Home Administration Department is responsible for the organization, educa- tion and inspiration of the forces at home, that the work in the foreign field may be supported. It works in the closest harmony and co-operation with the Home Department of the A. B. F. M. S., the two uniting in their presentation to the churches of the great foreign mission enterprise for which the Baptist denomination is responsible. The Home Administration Department is organized in three sections: 1. The Administrative, which looks after the work of organization, putting the policies and plans of the Society into operation, and other administrative matters. 2. The Field, which cares for the educaticnal and inspirational work throughout the territory by the use of Field Secretaries, missionaries on furlough and other workers. ) five CUUUELEUED PAGAL EUS DESO OETA EAD TORS CEE ST OER EE CEPTS CETTE E ASSOLE EERSTE 3. The Publication, which publishes and sends out to the constituency literature needed for its information and stimulation, reports of the condition and progress of the work abroad, and annual reports of the Society. The headquarters of the Home Administration Department are at 450 E. 30th St., Chicago, Ill. WHAT RESPONSIBILITIES ARE COMMITTED TO THE CONSTITUENCY GENERALLY ? The task is so large, and the opportunties so numerous that the territory has been divided into ten districts, each one with an organization modeled after the National Society, and with the responsibility for developing its own constituency. All District Officers are unsalaried. Each District is responsible for a definite share of the work of the Society on the foreign field, including the salaries of certain missionaries and the support of certain schools, hospitals, buildings, native evangelists, and other workers. Thirty-four states are included in the territory of the Society. In these are 78 State Secretaries, Senior, Young Woman’s and Children’s and 656 Association Secretaries, Through them it is possible to reach every member of the Constituency of the Society. Nineteen of the states are themselves organized. It is our aim to have a Woman’s Missionary Scciety in every church, and to have the young women and children organized for missionary instruction and service. The W. A. B. F. M. S. promotes its work for young women jointly with the W. A. B. six PULL EADULOCEETEACET RULE ACUTE AEA AAEA EN EEEPR OGURA A OTA TELE CE SUED ERECS UATE ST AECL DECAT ENED EGEA CE OUUDEUODEGSESEESERESOLEE LODE OLEUEQUEUEGELEEOECOECECRS EEL OOLEODEU LEG OUSULEDEROUUSERSECUSTOSREDECCOEESULEE SECA GLOCEOREOUTEECEEREEEUEEGLO DULAC TRO SOREOEEDECESCEUUEDEGUUCEGECUCUEAEE REET O TEEPE EES H. M. S. under an organization called the WORLD WIDE GUILD, with Miss Alma J. Noble, Executive Secretary, and Miss Helen Crissman, Field Secretary. The work for children under 12 years of age is conducted also in co-operation with the W. A. B. H. M. S. through an organization known as the Children’s World Crusade. This works in harmony with the Sunday School and aims to develop in all children an intelligence concerning missionary work, and a consciousness that it is the duty of all Christians to help in saving the world. The Executive Secretary is Miss Mary Noble. WHAT OF THE FUTURE? The Five Year Program is bringing results, as the following tables show: Districts States Aim Reported Reported Reported Attaining Attaining March, Bye ea Nee March, 1915 March, 1916 March, 1917 1917 Goal 1917 Goal 1918 Aim 1. Women’s Societies ..... " } . 2 11 4,700 5,000 2. Women enlisted ....... 100,941 106,914 131,082 3 16 151,000 250,000 3. Young Women’s Societies 589 1,241 1,874* 6 20 2,200 3,000 4. Young Women enlisted.. 4,216 18,505 Pall W727) 3 11 30,000 50,000 5. Children’s Societies .... 596 864 584 ie 5 1,300 2,500 6. Children enlisted ....... 11,402 19,596 15,018 | 11 28,000 37,500 7. Sunday Schools enlisted. 1,077 1,538 22233 3 15 2,800 5,000 8. Subscribers to MISSIONS. 36,576 42,049 43,819 | 5 55,000 100,000 9. Receipts on Apportionment$2 14,021 $251,426 $259,377 5 19 $288,600 $420,000 10. slotal@income ae oe ne $275,963 $325,671 $441,750 4 17 $410,000 $650,000 *1917 objective attained. A determined effort by every State to attain every goal will guarantee success for the future. seven UUETCUATUAOTACTOELT DEATH TUG SEUEDE PACU EEROE ENC AP TART E EEOC TOPE T ESET ARTE COD SEU TOTES TATED E TOPO CREATE ERS EU TE ATCC DSR E ET ATE OT EAA ES EPA UT TONER ERED EA DEG GEOUEN ERG TE ATAU S TERT T ARO OLOTED POURS ETO LES REO DECERD ORO SUSORR ECU EUEEE SER SCT EAR EDOT ERS TRS IDO ERON SCD AET ERT ERC PACT ONT ERA Ere Ee wWwHO WHO ARE THE OFFICERS FOR 1917-18? NATIONAL OFFICERS Honorary President, Mrs. John Edwin Scott, Pasadena, Cal. President, Mrs. W. A. Montgomery, 144 Dartmouth St., Rochester, N. Y . Foreign Vice-President, Mrs. H. W. Peabody, Beverly, Mass. Home Administration Vice-President, Mrs. Andrew MacLeish, 459 Longwood Ave., Glencoe, III. Recording Secretary, Mrs. T. E. Adams, 2033 E. 88th St., Cleveland, Ohio. Honorary Foreign Secretary, Mrs. H. G. Safford, Ford Bldg., Boston, Mass. Foreign Secretary, Miss Nellie G. Prescott, Ford Bldg., Boston, Mass. Associate Foreign and Candidate Secretary, Miss Helen Hunt, Ford Bldg., Boston, Mass. Home Administration Secretary, Miss Eleanor Mare, 450 E. 30th St., Chicago, III. General Field Secretary, Miss Ella D. MacLaurin, 450 E. 30th St., Chicago, Ill. Treasurer, Miss Alice E. Stedman, Ford Building, Bosten, Mass. Publisher, Miss Frances K. Burr, 450 E. 30th St., Chicago, Ill. World Wide Guild Executive Secretary, Miss Alma J. Noble, 200 Bryant St., Buffalo, N. Y. eight Ne CEMETEEATA LTT ETDE NEU ACTEREA ROU EUEU LECT EMP AEEUETAGEEASEDADEASRUA TSO SERU GER EUSEODCLSUE GCOUB CURE TL CEEU CECA CEA AURELESDEEA EU ECUAE TUE CE CLO CULE OPC C DU CEE TRL EES ASC RELECTL ESC OEUCOECUEETEOCUCEDOODLOEL EERO CUCEUCOECURESERTEOTESUO REO EEORDACOCUDELORUA DES SOU CLT OERORDCOELOULEUEU OUT EDEOUEM OTTO EOD EY World Migs Guild Field Secretary, Miss Helen R. Crissman, 2969 Vernon Ave., Chi- cago, Children’s World Crusade Secretary, Miss Mary Noble, 200 Bryant St., Buffalo, N. Y. Jubilee Promotion Secretary, Mrs. Harriet Newell Jones, 4341 Baltimore Ave., Phila- delphia, Pa. The BOARD OF MANAGERS is composed of the President, the Vice-Presidents, the Recording Secretary, the Foreign and Home Administration Vice-Presidents of each Dis- trict and seven members at large. MEMBERS AT LARGE Mrs. G. B. Germond, Honorary Member. Mrs. Geo. W. Bodwell, Lynn, Mass. Mrs. C. D. Eulette, 6342 Normal Blvd., Chicago, Ill. Mrs. Charles W. Gale, Norwich, Conn. Mrs. W. A. McKinney, 5549 Woodlawn Ave., Chicago, III. Mrs. Jas. D. Phillips, Topsfield, Mass. Mrs. Milton Shirk, Kenwood Hotel, Chicago, IIl. Mrs. C. S. Young, 37 Crescent Ave., Newton Center, Mass. nine COCUEUECPTOUEDED TEEPE TEC EEUU ECE EP ee VECO PUEDE a eee VEDA Edt DISTRICT OFFICERS Atlantic District President—Mrs. Howard Wayne Smith, 4107 Pine St., Philadelphia, Pa. Foreign Vice-President—Mrs. Edgar O. Silver, 66 N. Walnut St., East Orange, N. J. Home Administration Vice-President—Mrs. H. N. Jones, 4341 Baltimore Ave., Phila- delphia, Pa. Treasurer—Mrs. Wm. E. Morris, 1502 N. 19th St., Philadelphia, Pa. Young Woman’s Secretary—Miss Grace Hales, 115 E. Upsall St., Germantown, Phila- delphia, Pa. Central District President—Mrs. T. T. Leete, Jr., 114 Chicago Blvd., Detroit, Mich. Foreign Vice-President—Miss Elizabeth Church, 3144 Vernon Ave., Chicago, Ill. Pa SR ae ta Vice-President—Mrs. David W. Beggs, 409 Park Road, La Grange, Treasurer—Mrs. C. H. Otis, 5431 Woodlawn Ave., Chicago, IIl. Young Woman’s Secretary—Miss Alice Brimson, 426 W. 62nd St., Chicago, IIl. Sunday School Secretary—Mrs. Geo. McGinniss, 80 S. Le Grand Blvd., Aurora, Ill. ten CGUOEUAGEOOUSEAGRUCLOREUOOSISUSAMEEUDEROSEOCLEDERSGLOUIEOUCRICESEESOCECCECOCOOCLOUSSEDCUIORC NGL SRELUELUSRORESCDCGDEOLSCCOOOLOOSEOCSUUECCOTEOULETOLUGCCECLUCTECOCEEAST COUMEUTNEUESUUGACOEEESUERENOUUDCESESODEURELTEOECUCCRCUSEACERCOUUOSUOGOOTEETSCCCSONCOUOECOCLOORATREOSOD EEOC SON Ont oNereereoneceoee Columbia River District President—Miss E. M. MacDowell, 201 17th St., Olympia, Wash. Foreign Vice-President—Mrs. G. F. Dearborn, 108 Ward St., Seattle, Wash. Home Administration Vice-President—Mrs. James Failing, 243 |1th St., Portland, Ore. Treasurer—Mrs. F. E. A. Smith, 711 E. Davis St., Portland, Ore. Young Woman’s Secretary—Mrs. Henry Elliott, Jr., 20014 New York Block, Seattle, Wash. East Central District President—Mrs. F. P. Beaver, 215 W. Second St., Dayton, Ohio. Foreign Vice-President—Miss Margaret Day, P. O. Box 52, Indianapolis, Ind. Home Administration Vice-President—Mrs. C. H. Prescott, 1624 Hazel Drive, Cleve- land, Ohio. Treasurer—Miss Alberta C. Dickinson, 2033 E. 88th St., Cleveland, Ohio. New England District President—Mrs. F. E. Crawford, 703 Mt. Auburn St., Watertown, Mass. Foreign Vice-President—Miss Ada Brigham, 40 Chase St., Newton Centre, Mass. Home Administration Vice-President—Miss Grace T. Colburn, 1335 Centre St., Newton Centre, Mass. Treasurer—Mrs. F. L. Anderson, 169 Homer St., Newton Centre, Mass. Young Woman’s Secretary—Miss Marion Clapp, 67 Winchester Ave., Brookline, Mass. eleven MULETELERTUTT ET EECACTT TETAS PR DERCLCEA AEE eee eee ee eet New York District President—Mrs. William F. Gurley, 514 Fulton St., Troy, N. Y. Foreign Vice-President—-Mrs. Walter C. Mason, Skaneateles, N. Y. Home Administration Vice-President—Mrs. R. B. Montgomery, 484 Willoughby Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. Treasurer—Mrs. George A. Vaughn, 441 Washington Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. Young Woman's Secretary—Mrs. James H. Pratt, 1000 Park Ave., New York City. Northwestern District President—Mrs. D. D. MacLaurin, 141 W. Gilman St., Madison, Wis. Foreign Vice-President— Home Administration Vice-President—Mrs. George E. Young, 3021 Park Ave., Minne- apolis, Minn. Treasurer—Mrs. E. A. Thayer, 1930 S. Irving Ave., Minneapolis, Minn. Young Woman's Secretary, Miss Carolyn E. Smith, 812 Goodrich Ave., St. Paul, Minn. Rocky Mountain District President—Mrs. T. S. Young, 78 Sherman St., Denver, Colo. Foreign Vice-President—Mrs. F. W. Hart, 1016 30th St., Denver, Colo. Home Admin. Vice-President— Mrs. R. B. Smith, 1314 Downing St., Denver, Colo. Treasurer—Mrs. J. F. Schlotter, 326 E. San Rafael St., Colorado Springs, Colo. twelve CUUTTCCTTTTETOCCOCEEOOEOeeeeeeeeeeee Young Woman’s Secretary—Mrs. John A. Weaver, Greeley, Colo. Children’s Secretary—-Miss May Moss, Colorado Springs, Colo. South Pacific District President—Mrs. Bertram C. Davies, 96] Arapahoe St., Los Angeles, Cal. Foreign Vice-President—Mrs. Grace Goodspeed Van Zandt, Box 234, San Diego, Cal. Home Admin. Vice-President—Mrs. T. S. Tompkins, 779 S. Pasadena Ave., Pasadena, Cal. Treasurer—Mrs. J. M. Brough, Biggs, Cal. Young Woman’s Secretary—Miss Genevra Brunner, 152 N. Parkview, Los Angeles, Cal. West Central District President—Mrs. R. W. Ramsay, 613 Laramie St., Atchison, Kan. Foreign Vice-President—Mrs. S. E. Price, 946 Cedar St., Ottawa, Kansas. Home Admin. Vice-President—Mrs. Edw. Johnson, 3220 Woolworth Ave., Omaha, Neb. Treasurer—Mrs. J. B. Long, 31 S. Main St., Council Bluffs, Iowa. thirteen CU WHERE WHERE DO THE MISSIONARIES WORK? In Burma, the largest and richest province of India, where after more than a century of endeavor, the Baptists number over seventy thousand in more than a thousand churches, 72 per cent of which are self-supporting. Recent statistics show 8,406 boys and 5,004 girls in 39 boarding, 17 day and 168 village schools taught by 569 native teachers. A veteran missionary in charge of one of the boarding schools says, “I have one most urgent plea to offer. Since I came to Burma, nearly fifty years ago, all the missionaries have worked hard to get the girls to come to school. Now the girls wish to come and there is no room. For Jesus’ sake, | ask help for these girls.” In Assam, where Baptist missionaries speak fifteen different languages among people of 167 different tongues. Five Bible women and 137 native teachers supplement the work of our eleven single women missionaries. In one hill town a three day meeting was held with a group of about ninety, of whom thirty-five were women and children. They walked twenty miles and then built for themselves tents of grass and branches of trees. Several women were baptized, services were held, and medicine given and sold to those who needed it. After the missionaries left, the native Christians walked the twenty miles back to their village to tell all that had been done and the messages they had heard. fourteen CRUAESTOOSUAEUEUAUEAUAARAD DEEL CASUAACVESERCAA ADA EEAUS ECCT UE EMCA EEC LAEAET ACTEM TEARS OTAA DCE ENAA UE EASUN AAA OPCEESOSON NAT EOOAPENAUOUATCOETECOOOTDELTUNSUOREUASREUTTREDOCDRAAGOCREUCNEAOOEIUCUTSCNOOLORLEGTROOCESOVCREOTTSDCCROUUT OD RLCOEAUONEOCEDEVCCNTTEDCOSUACE ONES ERDAG ETA DENN In South India, where we have 340 schools, 295 Sunday Schools, six hospitals and five dispensaries, more than eight hundred native helpers. One medical missionary says, “The year has been full of work of various kinds. I have spent much of it in looking after the school children, visiting the sick people in Government hospitals, and when the plague broke out, doing work in the plague camp, which I visited daily, at the request of the health officer in charge.” In Bengal Orissa, the field cultivated by the Free Baptists, now part of our fellow- ship. An orphanage and a widows’ home, as well as kindergartens and schools are cared for by the eight Free Baptist women missionaries who are now missionaries of the W. A. B. F. M. S. In China, with its teeming millions, where the forty-one women who represent our Society have helped mould the lives of 2,300 boys and girls during the past year. More than 20,000 have been treated in the five hospitals and three dispensaries. At one Sun- day morning service in the hospital, after a nurse had testified to the power of the gospel, seven men and one woman expressed their desire to follow Christ. One of these was a medical student. In Japan, where a great evangelistic campaign recently closed with a thanksgiving service attended by more than a thousand Japanese Christians. The educational work includes a flourishing kindergarten system with a Kindergarten Training School, a Young Woman's Dormitory, six Boarding Schools and a Bible Woman’s Training School. In the fifteen CRUE UUCAEA UTED EORSU AAU AA AEST AERC OURO ERO SE EER TETE EERO TATE TE REET E EEE ROU TOO OT EDT EST SO RE RUSOOE SEAR OETA OGRA ESCO AADC CUU RE EAAOPEEE REDE DE ROD UCECOEUUCEGEUORORTAO RGU D OER EERE SENG EEOU OU ATROROOCUCORTEOERACAOUPEROLGUONEUSEOGECLOATAUEREEDEORGEOROCEOODSRTAGEOU EEDA OCASERUCU TOCA EOECEOR OREO CU CONTEC eee Mary Colby School at Kanagawa, the new college department has an enrollment of 16. In Africa, where we have had only two single women missionaries. Two graduate teachers are added to the force this year. Four more are needed. The plans for the future include our share in the erection of four Baptist hospitals in strategic centers and the sending out of six women nurses to work in those hospitals. In the Philippine Islands, where in kindergarten, hospital, dormitory, orphanage, Academy, and Bible Woman's Training Sahool our thirteen missionaries are winning and building up a host of stalwart Christian young men and women. The work of the past year in these non-Christian lands is summed up in the fol- lowing figures: 765 Village Schools 16 Kindergartens 67 Town and City Day Schools 106 Boarding and Day Schools 35,994 Pupils 862 Sunday Schools 2,586 Baptisms 285 Bible Women Hospitals and Dispensaries 26 73,042 Patients sixteen CUUCTUTEOCUDE ECE eee WHERE MAY I OBTAIN MORE COMPLETE INFORMATION? **Missions.”’ *‘The Annual Report.” “Our Work in the Orient.” *“Oriental Gardens,’’ and other literature listed in the Catalog of Publications of the Society. WHAT—WHO—WHERE WHAT SHALL I DO? Study the field. Give as you are able. Pray earnestly, constantly, ““THY KINGDOM COME.” WHO NEEDS ME? You, with the other women and girls of the Northern Baptist Convention, are responsible for the evangelization of 30,000,000 women and girls in non-Christian lands. Your sisters of the Orient need you. WHERE SHALL I SERVE? Wherever you are needed: In Church, Association, State or District organization; In the Sunday School, the Children’s World Crusade, the World Wide Guild or the Woman’s Society; As a worker at home, or on the foreign field. seventeen