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 -—St. Paul’s Letter to the Ephesians. 
 
 JANUARY. 1909 
 
 ttd expresslyV for Church laymen by 
 jene M. Gamp and published by the 
 Churchi; Laymen^s Union, a federation of 
 La^^ein^a Leagues, Scab^X^*^^ other Soci¬ 
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What do these missionary organiza¬ 
 tions ofnChurch laymen seek to do? 
 '^i^e answer is: To teach laymen 
 the life habit of going to the Churches 
 work^ without waiting Jor that work 
 to go to them. Can this lie done/ It 
 been done. The method: Estab¬ 
 lish a training school and educate 
 volunteers. Give thtm worth while 
 iasks^ definite directions, sympathetic 
 and ambitious leadership, confidence, 
 targe liberty of action, and fhen expect 
 
 results. Things that 
 few cities have done, 
 
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 cities can do. 
 
 laymen 
 
You desire to be informed about the Church's 
 general progress and prospects 
 
 TAKE FOEATT MINUTES 
 
 and read this little book to the end. Or at 
 least take 5 minutes and read the head lines. 
 They tell the same Story in even briefer form. 
 
 THE CHURCH GROWING 
 
 in Membership and Members Increasing 
 
 Their Gifts 
 
 LA YMEN ARE HELPING MISSIONS 
 
 That branch of the Church Catholic known in law as 
 .the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States 
 of America has, within the limits of the United States, 
 886,403 members. The gain last year was 3 per cent. 
 During the three decades from 1870 to 1900 the gain 
 was 218 per cent. During the same decades the popu¬ 
 lation of the United States gained 98.5 per cent. 
 
 During the eight years since 1900 the Episcopal 
 Church increased its membership by 185,000, and since 
 1870 it has been growing in membership approximately 
 as much each decade as it grew in all the decades from 
 the planting of the, Church at Jamestown in 1607 down to 
 1870. Here are growths by decades to 1900 and during 
 the past eight years: 
 
 1830, 
 
 30,939 
 
 i860, 
 
 146,600 
 
 1890, 
 
 509.149 
 
 1840, 
 
 55,427 
 
 1870, 
 
 220,000 
 
 1900, 
 
 699,582 
 
 1850, 
 
 79,986 
 
 1880, 
 
 344,789 
 
 1908, 
 
 886.403 
 
 Financial contributions of Episcopal Church members last 
 year, to all causes, amounted to $17,952,508. Churchmen 
 
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 in the foreign Missionary Districts, and in Europe gave 
 last year $347,ocx), but if gifts of Churchmen within the 
 United States only be reckoned, the amount per member 
 is $20, a higher sum than is given by members of any other 
 religious body in America. About seventy-five per cent ot 
 this nearly $18,000,000 is expended in the maintenance of 
 work and worship attended by those who give the money, 
 the other twenty-five per cent to the poor, to Church ex¬ 
 tension at home, to spread the Gospel abroad. Contribu¬ 
 tions of Church members have more than kept pace in 
 amount with increase in the number of those members. For 
 example, the total contributions in 1870 were $4,200,000, 
 but in 1900 they were $13,000,000. 
 
 To maintain the Christian work of all America, under 
 every name, costs not quite $300,000,000 a year. This sum 
 supports public worship, erects new churches, advances edu¬ 
 cation, takes care of the poor, and maintains all missionary 
 efforts at home and abroad. Amounts contributed annually 
 to causes that are strictly missionary are $30,000,000. 
 Christians of all names send from the United States into 
 foreign lands each year about $9,000,000. Christians of 
 England and Scotland send $11,000,000. Christians of all 
 other countries send $2,000,000. Of money contributed to 
 missionary causes by Christians of the United States, more 
 than $20,000,000 is expended on missionary work at home. 
 
 In the United States in January, 1909, there are a large 
 number of things that give the Christian enthusiast hope. 
 There are two things, at least, that give him pause. Saving 
 the hopeful things to be. mentioned last, the discouraging 
 things are the lack of proportionate growth in Sunday 
 School membership, and the alarming proportion of divorces 
 to marriages. In several bodies, the Episcopal among 
 them, Sunday School children hardly increase in numbers at 
 all. The proportion of divorces to marriages is one in 
 twelve! It adds to the. disgrace, but must be recorded, that 
 this showing is worse by far than in any other nation that 
 counts itself civilized. 
 
 Within the Episcopal Church some of the encouraging 
 things are: i. A better feeling between Anglican and 
 Eastern Orthodox Churches. 2. Larger sense of responsi¬ 
 bility for the welfare of the State, the growth of tempei- 
 ance, and the social well being of all mankind. 3. Lay- 
 
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men being more willing than formerly to do personal work 
 for missions. 
 
 Throughout Christian America, all forms and names, the 
 encouraging things include: i. The formation of the Fed¬ 
 eral Council and the bringing together of Protestant Com¬ 
 munions, not in organic but in working union, so that the 
 day of Protestant Church dissensions is gone. 2. A week 
 of Prayer that is observed during the first Week in Advent, 
 as the old one, recommended by an English organization 
 for the first Week in January, has never been. 3. The 
 Roman Catholic Church in America no longer a Missionary 
 District and directed from a foreign city. 4. The opening of 
 Turkey to Christian missionary effort, with full religious 
 liberty, and the awakening of China to moral, social and 
 religious reforms. 
 
 PARISH HONOR ROLLS 
 
 They are Filled with such as Give most 
 Work and Money to others. 
 
 At the beginning of each calendar year it is well to take a 
 survey of the world from a Christian point of view. It is 
 quite well to remember, in that connection, two things that 
 are sometimes forgotten. One thing is, that if next year’s 
 survey is to be more profitable than this one, aggressive 
 effort is essential. The other thing is, that the place to 
 begin aggressive effort is with ourselves. Let us begin a 
 brief study of Church conditions by reckoning ourselves to 
 be, as all are, a necessary part of some congregation. Par¬ 
 ishes are congregations which have places of work and wor¬ 
 ship in comrhon. A parish is governed by a rector, wardens 
 and vestrymen, and supported by the people who worship 
 in its Church. Parishes are grouped into Dioceses, usually 
 on State lines but some large States are divided into several 
 Dioceses. A Diocese is governed by a Bishop and a Con¬ 
 vention. The Bishop is elected by the Convention, and he 
 and his work in the Diocese are supported by the people of 
 the Diocese. 
 
 Each parish has a four-fold financial obligation: i. It 
 must maintain its work and worship. 2. Bear its propor¬ 
 tion of Diocesan expenses. 3. Assist Church extension in 
 
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Its city and Diocese. 4. Contribute to the spread of the 
 Gospel in this and all other lands. The first of these items, 
 its own work and worship, may be reckoned money expend¬ 
 ed on itself; the other three as that given to others. A 
 parish roll of honor is therefore, the 'proportion of the latter 
 to the former. If for every $1 that a parish spends on 
 itself it gives to others 3 cents—strange to say there are a 
 few such parishes—it may be said that such parish belongs 
 on the roll of dishonor. 
 
 The average for the whole Church is $i expended on its 
 own immediate work and 30 cents given to others. The 
 record for America not only in the Church but in all relig¬ 
 ious bodies, is held by St. Thomas Church, New York, 
 with St. Bartholomew’s, New York, a close second. Last 
 year St. Thomas Church expended $44,000 to maintain work 
 and worship at the Church which is attended by its givers, 
 and gave to others $214,000. That is, for each $i expended 
 upon itself, if upon itself it can be called, it gave almost $5 
 to charitable and missionary causes, wholly beyond its own 
 congregation. 
 
 Some parishes elect upon their vestries one man who is 
 familiar with missionary news and needs, and whose par¬ 
 ticular task is to speak and work for extra parochial causes. 
 He is the attorney for the poor and the heathen; the guard¬ 
 ian of the interests which cannot attend and plead their own 
 needs. If the parish spends $i on itself and gives 15 cents, 
 for example, to others, he seeks always to increase the latter 
 amount. A vestry committee reported that a new organ 
 could be installed for $2,000. The o^der was about to be 
 voted, when some one moved that the price be made $2,200. 
 With some impatience, the organ committee chairman re¬ 
 stated the amount. The answer was that at least 10 cents 
 must go to causes outside of the parish for every $i that 
 went for a new organ or else the vote would not be 
 unanimous. The amendment was accepted, the new organ 
 was purchased at $2,200, and its music was far sweeter be¬ 
 cause $200 had gone, to others. 
 
 Archdeaconries, or as some Dioceses call them, Convoca¬ 
 tions, are organizations in Dioceses to establish new churches 
 and maintain weak ones. At the. head is an Archdeacon 
 or Rural Dean, whose duty it is to search out neighbor¬ 
 hoods wherein the Church should be established, and the 
 emplovment and oversight of missionaries. Missions are so 
 
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called because they are supported, wholly or in part, by 
 funds coming from others. When missions are able to 
 maintain themselves they become parishes and are admitted 
 to union with the Diocesan convention. Contributions to 
 Church extension work in Dioceses here in the Unitea 
 States are quite small. In all Dioceses they amounted last 
 year to only $180,000. 
 
 There is a Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, of 
 which every baptized person in the Church is a member. It 
 has a Board of Missions, elected by the General Convention 
 of the Church at its meeting every three years, which is 
 charged with the duty of spreading information concerning 
 the general missionary work of the Church, of raising 
 money, and of administering work in all Missionary Dis¬ 
 tricts, and among dependent races like Indians and Negroes 
 in organized Dioceses. The Board of Missions is composed 
 of Bishops, priests and laymen, an equal number of each. 
 
 Missionary Districts are groups of parishes and missions 
 that are unable to bear the expense of their own administra¬ 
 tive and extension work. Some of these Districts are in 
 our own South or West, some in territorial dependencies 
 like Hawaii and the Philippines, and some in foreign coun¬ 
 tries. Each District has at its head a Bishop elected by the 
 General Convention and supported by missionary funds. 
 
 DOING EACH HIS PART 
 
 What Apportionments are, and How and 
 By whom they are made. 
 
 Vestries of parishes make annual budgets. Missionary 
 committees of Dioceses do the same. The Board of Mis¬ 
 sions makes up its budget each May, for its fiscal year Sep¬ 
 tember I to August 31. In parishes. Dioceses and Board 
 the amounts appropriated are, in effect, financial obliga¬ 
 tions. If worshippers do not contribute the sums needed 
 money has to be borrowed, or the work suffers. In the case 
 of the Board of Missions, on which work in many parts of 
 the world depends, appropriations must be met, or the 
 money markets must help out with loan funds. Recently, 
 the Board has provided a reserve fund, so that it now bor¬ 
 rows from its own money, when it must. 
 
Committees of Dioceses divide amounts needed for Dio¬ 
 cesan extension work and work throughout the world among 
 the parishes and ask each to contribute its share. This 
 apportionment is not a tax, but a statement of an equitable 
 share of the entire sum to be raised. Incomes of parishes 
 are taken as basis for amounts asked. In older and wealth¬ 
 ier Dioceses 5% per cent of incomes is asked for; in newer 
 and weaker ones, 2^ per cent 
 
 Missionary societies conduct their financial affairs on a 
 most economical scale. Hardly a business house gets on 
 with so few bookkeepers. The amount taken out of each 
 dollar passing through a Board’s hands to pay for the co^t 
 of administering it wisely, varies in different years, but in 
 most American societies it is from 4 to 6 cents. In the 
 Church’s Board it sometimes reaches 8 cents, but the Board 
 handles a good deal of money as specials, for which it 
 charges nothing for administration. Were all included, the 
 administration cost would be about 5 cents; a showing that 
 will compare well with any commerciil house in the world. 
 
 Some persons become interested in particular forms of 
 work, and contribute money to them. These are called 
 specials, just referred to, and their amount, passing annually 
 through the hands of the Board of Missions, is $300,000. 
 
 Church women long ago organized the Woman’s Aux¬ 
 iliary to the Board of Missions, and later formed the Junior 
 Auxiliary. There is even a Babies’ Branch. These Aux¬ 
 iliaries have societies in parishes and missions, called 
 branches. These branches send money and boxes of cloth¬ 
 ing in liberal contributions. The Woman’s Auxiliary 
 undertakes to contribute to the Board each year, to apply 
 on the latter’s appropriations, the sum of $100,000. 
 
 It always lays by certain sums each year, and presents 
 them in the form of the Woman’s United Offering. The 
 presentation is iwade at a service held during each General 
 Convention. The growth of this Triennial Offering has 
 been marked. In San Francisco in 1901 it passed the 
 $100,000 mark amid great enthusiasm. In Boston in 1904 
 it amounted to $150,000, and at Richmond in 1907 its total 
 was $225,000. For the most part these United Offerings 
 are used to support woman workers, but some memorial 
 buildings have been erected for use on mission fields. 
 
 Some years ago Sunday School children began to make 
 
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offerings each Lent to world missions. Within a few years 
 some Schools have added the practice of offerings each 
 Advent to missions at home. These offerings by Church 
 children have increased rapidy each year. In recognition 
 of work well done a Sunday School Auxiliary to the Board 
 of Missions has been created. Last Lent the children gave, 
 in their boxes, $137,170 to world wide missionary effort. 
 
 Very important parts of missionary work are the medi¬ 
 cal, the educational, and that for dependent races. The 
 medical work has developed hospitals in many lands, and a 
 corps of physicians and nurses. It is a valuable adjunct to 
 the spread of the Gospel because it teaches the science of 
 health; beacuse it is, indeed, the Gospel in another form, 
 and often in the form best understood by those who would 
 be reached. Educational work has brought into existence, 
 among many others, St. John’s College, Shanghai, St. Paul’s 
 College, Tokyo, which are exerting tremendous influence 
 upon the intellectual and political life and development of 
 the two great nations of the Far East. Work among de¬ 
 pendent races has ^brought into existence, among many 
 others, St. Paul’s Industrial School at Lawrenceville, Va., 
 St. Augustine’s School at Raleigh, N. C., for colored stud¬ 
 ents, and the splendid schools and other work under Bishop 
 Hare, in South Dakota. 
 
 GENERAL GIFTS INCREASE 
 
 Now Almost an even Million Dollars for 
 Domestic and Foreign Work. 
 
 Contributions of Church people, made through the Board 
 of Missions to support work within the United States, 
 steadily increase in amount. In even figures, here are sums 
 given in the years named. They do not include special gifts. 
 
 1878, $117,000 
 t888, 207,000 
 
 1898, 270,000 
 
 1904. 359 >ooo 
 
 1905, $419,000 
 
 1906, 446,000 
 
 1907, 418,000 
 
 1908, 479,000 
 
 This money is used in part as follows: For work in the 
 Missionary Districts and in the newer Dioceses, wholly in 
 
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our own West and South, $175,000 a year; among Indians 
 and Negroes, $80,000 each; in the Philippines $40,000, Porto 
 Rico $13,000, Hawaii $10,000, and the Panama Canal Zone 
 $3,000. The number of workers runs into the hundreds, 
 of course. Many of the workers are teachers. 
 
 The Church took its first step toward work in foreign 
 lands by sending a missionary to the Christian land of 
 Greece, in 1829. In 1834 it appointed the first missionary 
 to China and two years later the first to Africa. In 1835 
 the China work was begun in earnest, the first in heathen 
 lands. Following immediately upon the success of Com¬ 
 modore Perry, himself a Churchman, in gaining entry into 
 Japan, work was begun in the island empire of the Far 
 East. Before the Civil War the foreign work of the Church 
 had gained much success, the South leading in the contribu • 
 tions. The War well nigh broke up the work. Contribu¬ 
 tions to that work, like those to work at home, steadily 
 increase. Here are amounts for a series of years. 
 
 1878, 
 
 $109,000 
 
 1905. 
 
 $391,000 
 
 1888, 
 
 163,000 
 
 1906, 
 
 414,000 
 
 1898, 
 
 221,000 
 
 1907, 
 
 467,000 
 
 1904, 
 
 316,000 
 
 1908, 
 
 512,000 
 
 These amounts are expended, in part, as follows: In 
 the two Missionary Districts of China $131,000, in the 
 two in Japan $119,000, in Africa $52,000, in Cuba $22,000, 
 in Brazil $27,000. Eight Bishops American born, and two 
 Bishops native born, are in charge of the Church’s work 
 in these foreign districts. Native priests and Deacons 
 number 129. In all foreign fields there were last year 
 2,409 baptisms, and 1,361 confirmations. After work that 
 has been maintained with vigor since the close of the Civil 
 War, and which got a small start before that War, the 
 whole number of communicants of the Church in all of 
 its foreign fields is 11,170. There are 201 elementary 
 schools, other than Sunday Schools, and in them are 7,489 
 pupils. Institutions for higher education are many, and 
 rank among the foremost of the institutions of the coun¬ 
 tries in which they are located. Contributions by native 
 Church people in all of these foreign fields reached a total 
 of $107,000 last year. 
 
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LAYING FOUNDATIONS 
 
 The Church Establishing Itself in Thirty-two 
 
 Districts 
 
 UNITED STATES AND ENGLAND 
 
 LEADING 
 
 In the Church in the United States are 65 Dioceses, fully 
 organized and self governing. There are 17 Missionary 
 Districts within the United States proper, and four in polit¬ 
 ical dependencies or territories. There are eleven Mission¬ 
 ary Districts in foreign countries, counting the Churches 
 in Continental Europe one. The mark — before the per¬ 
 centage indicates loss. 
 
 In some Districts much money is annually expended, and 
 the number of communicants is small. Remember that 
 conditions now obtaining in Missionary Districts obtained 
 in years past in the East, where now the Church is strong. 
 Older work must help the new, as it itself was helped. 
 Membership figures by no means tell the whole story. 
 Schools are supported by present outlays, and foundations 
 for the future are being laid. 
 
 The first column of money in what follows is amount 
 given to the Missionary District at present to support its 
 work. The second column shows amount given by the 
 people themselves toward their own support, and to World 
 Missions. 
 
 District 
 
 Bishop 
 
 Members 
 
 Growth 
 last year 
 
 Given to 
 Them 
 
 They 
 
 Give 
 
 Alaska. 
 
 . P. T. Rowe. 
 
 841 
 
 
 39,000 
 
 6,141 
 
 Honolulu. .. 
 
 .H. B. Restarick. 
 
 1,205 
 
 . 10 
 
 10,000 
 
 33,465 
 
 Philippines. 
 
 . C. H. Brent. 
 
 350 
 
 
 39,000 
 
 Porto Rico. 
 
 . J. H. Van Buren 
 
 459 
 
 •34 
 
 13,000 
 
 5,463 
 
 Foregoing are in territories outside of the limits of the 
 United States proper. The following are within the United 
 States, and some of them are nearing entire self support. 
 
 Arizona.J. M. Kendrick. . 1,158 .04 3,500 14,029 
 
 Asheville. ... J. M. Horner... 2,608 .03 0,000 31,424 
 
 E. Oregon...R. L. Paddock.. 506 8,000 11.306 
 
District Bishop 
 
 Idaho.J. B. Funsten.. . 
 
 Nevada.H. D. Robinson. 
 
 New Mexico.J. M. Kendrick. . 
 
 N. Dakota.. .C. Mann. 
 
 Oklahoma. .. F. K. Brooke. . . 
 
 Olympia.F. W. Keater.. . 
 
 Sacramento . . W H. Moreland 
 
 Salina.S. M. Griswold.. 
 
 S. Dakota. .. W. H. Hare. 
 
 S. Florida. .. W. C. Gray. 
 
 SRokane.L. H. Wells. 
 
 Utah.F. S. Spalding.. 
 
 W. Colorado.Vacant . 
 
 Wyoming. .. Vacant . 
 
 Member! 
 
 Growth 
 last year 
 
 Given to 
 Them 
 
 They 
 
 Give 
 
 1,674 
 
 
 12,000 
 
 19,429 
 
 1,081 
 
 
 
 46,038 
 
 i >539 
 
 . 12 
 
 4,000 
 
 18,398 
 
 2,056 
 
 .04 
 
 T 0,000 
 
 30,985 
 
 2.456 
 
 . TO 
 
 10,000 
 
 33,557 
 
 5,222 
 
 . TO 
 
 4,600 
 
 82,485 
 
 2,900 
 
 
 7,900 
 
 45,425 
 
 1,014 
 
 .04 
 
 8,000 
 
 22,120 
 
 6,101 
 
 -.02 
 
 38,000 
 
 38,733 
 
 3,985 
 
 .06 
 
 10,000 
 
 42,440 
 
 2,109 
 
 
 6,000 
 
 35,918 
 
 1,075 
 
 
 10,000 
 
 23,003 
 
 844 
 
 
 
 9,626 
 
 1.514 
 
 
 
 11,853 
 
 Missionary Districts in foreign lands. 
 
 W. Africa. . .S. D. Ferguson. . 
 Shanghai. .. .F. R. Graves. .. . 
 
 Hankow.L. H. Roots. , . . 
 
 Tokyo.J. McKim. 
 
 Kyoto.S. C. Partridge. . 
 
 Cuba.A. W. Knight. . . 
 
 Mexico.C. S. Aves. 
 
 Brazil.L. L. Kinsoving. 
 
 Panama. 
 
 Europe. 
 
 Haiti.J. T. Holly. 
 
 2,434 
 
 •03 
 
 38,000 
 
 $12,236 
 
 790 
 
 •13 
 
 68,000 
 
 2,328 
 
 1,171 
 
 •13 
 
 65,000 
 
 2,991 
 
 T556 ■ 
 
 •03 
 
 73,000 
 
 5.400 
 
 1,248 
 
 .09 
 
 60,000 
 
 4,117 
 
 1,172 
 
 .27 
 
 25,000 
 
 20,512 
 
 1,986 • 
 
 -.01 
 
 23,000 
 
 17,189 
 
 1,036 
 
 .06 
 
 31,000 
 
 8,139 
 
 652 
 
 
 
 
 T ,447 
 
 .08 
 
 8,000 
 
 271,713 
 
 711 ■ 
 
 -.09 
 
 2,510 
 
 The work in the Panama Canal Zone is in charge of an 
 Archdeacon, and that on the Continent of Europe in charge 
 of a Bishop deputed from time to time by the Presiding 
 Bishop. It is expected that an early meeting of the House 
 of Bishops will be held for the purpose of electing Mission¬ 
 ary Bishops for Western Colorado and Wyoming. 
 
 The oldest Christian missionary society in the world is 
 the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign 
 Parts, formed in England for work in English colonies, 
 and since broadened into a general society. It was this 
 Society which founded so many missions in America (Trin¬ 
 ity, New York, among them), that are now famous as great 
 parishes. The largest Christian missionary organization in 
 
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the world is the Church Missionary Society, having work 
 in many parts of the world, and supported by members of 
 the Church of England. The oldest society in America is 
 the. American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Mis¬ 
 sions. The great volunteer organization of the Roman 
 Catholic Church is the Society for the Propagation of the 
 Faith, with headquarters formerly in Paris,, but lately 
 transferred to Rome. Most great societies of England do ' 
 work in foreign lands only. The Episcopal Church in 
 America does both home and foreign work through one 
 Society, but almost all other bodies have different societies 
 or boards for the different work. The great Christian mis¬ 
 sionary nations are Great Britain and the United States. 
 Christian nations of Continental Europe do little beyond 
 their own borders. 
 
 TTVO JVAYS TO DO IT 
 
 Missionary Methods That Obey Scientific 
 
 Laws 
 
 THE WAY JESUS CHRIST DID 
 
 The Church is growing in number of communicants, and 
 in influence upon America and the world. Much money rs 
 contributed annually for its support at home and its exten¬ 
 sion at home and abroad. The amount of this money annu¬ 
 ally increases. The income of the Church’s Dome-tic and 
 Foreign Missionary Society has doubled within ^he past six 
 years. Speaking in a language that the business man can 
 understand it is a worthwhile proposition. But as in the 
 world’s affairs, much yet remains to be done. Tn taking 
 hold of these tasks which still confront, two policies may 
 be pursued. 
 
 I. Strengthen more and more a central organization. 
 Add to the number of salaried secretaries, increase the bud¬ 
 get of travelling and office expenses, multiply the number 
 of returned missionaries to make appeals, increase the 
 amount and ex^pense of illustrated literature, and plan mas.s 
 meetings in distant cities, with famous speakers, in a never- 
 ending attempt to arouse men to do their dnty. Permit 
 appeals by separate organizations which labor for the poor, 
 
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the Negro, the Indian, for education, and a half dozen more 
 of special interests. Finally, elect Bishop and Rector 
 because, so it is reported, they have peculiar gifts for mak¬ 
 ing others contribute, money. 
 
 2. Raise up societies of men in parishes, in cities, in Dio¬ 
 ceses, who themselves study the Church's economic, mis¬ 
 sionary and educational problems, and intelligently adminis¬ 
 ter them in their own parishes, cities and Dioceses. The}' 
 sympathetically consider all causes having claims upon 
 them, select such as have the strongest claims and that 
 contribute most to the comprehensive and world-wide cam¬ 
 paign, and set about meeting needs without waiting to be 
 asked. Induce men in each city—the city is the economic 
 centre—to come together once a year and consider their 
 common duty to their parishes, to Church extension in sub¬ 
 urbs and near-by towns, to the spread of the Gospel in all 
 the world. Train men to give systematically as to time, 
 and intelligently as to cause. Teach that there are no mis¬ 
 sions in China, or even in our own West, but that the 
 Church is in these and other parts of the world, as she 
 ought to be, and that missions, if they exist at all, are in 
 the hearts of Christian men and women. 
 
 When Saul journeyed to Damascus he met some one who 
 said He was Jesus. The conversion of Saul was an 
 exceedingly important matter. Think what hung in the bal¬ 
 ance. Jesus Vv^as and is the Source of all spiritual power. 
 Read the story as related in The Acts and see whether Jesus 
 used His power and completed the task. Had He done so 
 He would have shown ignorance cf an economic law. Note 
 that He went only far enough to inspire the conversion. 
 Then He called in another to complete it. He did not Him¬ 
 self go to Straight Street, but left the initiatwe with the men 
 in the house in that street. The lessons are that the cen¬ 
 tral Authority did not exercise its power; that Christ had 
 confidence in men, even in one man, Ananias, who said he 
 was not equal to the tasl:; and that Jesus, taking care to 
 stop, St. Paul spiritually turned about and came to Him. 
 
 The tasks are, in future, to be taken hold of in the eco¬ 
 nomic way: as Christ did missionary work. Those tasks 
 are so great in number, and so far reaching in effect, that 
 no one ought to conclude, upon perusal of what has been 
 accomplished, that there remains no call to himself and 
 his offerings. And what are those tasks? 
 
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ALL THE JVORLD 
 CALLS! 
 
 SHALL IVE HEED ? 
 
 There ought to be established a college whose faculty is 
 an itinerant one. On its endowed foundations should be 
 chairs of Christian Missions, the English Bible, Religious 
 Education, and Christian Social Service. President Gar¬ 
 field said that a college consists of Mark Hopkins—presi' 
 dent of Williams when Garfield was a student there.—on 
 one end of a log and a boy on the other. Dioceses and 
 cities wherein the Church is weak can furnish the log and 
 the boy. V/hat they need is the Hopkins, especially a Hop¬ 
 kins who can inspire laymen to work, for in her lahy the 
 Church possesses a vast and almost undeveloped resource. 
 They need as well one who can teach others to teach the 
 English Bible, for young men are coming up to our uni¬ 
 versities shamefully ignorant of the Word of God. 
 
 The United States is becoming a nation of cities. The 
 Gospel must possess the cities or it will not possess the 
 nation. Debts on Church property must be paid off and 
 interest payments stopped. The down town problem must 
 be met. Suburbs demand attention. The number of new 
 churches is governed far more by the number of workers 
 than it is by the number of Episcopalians. Land ought to 
 he purchased and held. There is, however, a field far 
 larger than suburbs of our own city. It is the suburbs of 
 all cities. Chicago is the greatest foreign and the greatest 
 home mission field in America. There are the. Rocky Moun¬ 
 tain regions. There is the vast north-west. Into Oregon 
 alone, that undeveloped empire, might well be poured all 
 present contributions to domestic missions. 
 
 As a Government we are discharging fairly well our 
 political obligations to the Philippines and other depend¬ 
 encies. The Church owes the people of these dependen¬ 
 cies no less a debt than its best. Latin America needs a pime 
 Gospel. The African in Africa presents problems, but the 
 African in America presents a crisis. China wakes up and 
 
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asks for God’s Word. Turkey opens her doors, closed for 
 hundreds of years by Mohammedan error. St. John’s Col¬ 
 lege, Shanghai, that Harvard of China, and St. Paul’s 
 College, Tokyo, that Yale of Japan, together helping to 
 revolutionize the Far East, need $500,000, and need it imme¬ 
 diately. Shall Africa have a Christian civilization? The 
 answer rests in part with Church laymen of America. 
 
 As if these were not tasks enough, there is the one of 
 bringing the Church into closer touch with social life, into 
 legislative halls, into Wall Street, into railroad management, 
 into the factory, u’pon the farm. The crops of the United 
 States are annually worth $7,500,000,000. Who sees to 
 it that God gets His share of this vast wealth which He 
 bestows ? He trusts us; and we neglect His work or leave 
 appeals to be made by our rectors. Finally, and in some 
 resJpects more important than all, there is the question of 
 new men for the Christian ministry. Our Church has only 
 2 more clergy than she had last year and 17 fewer candi¬ 
 dates for Holy Orders. 
 
 WITH LAYMEN’S HELP 
 
 The Episcopal Church can take the World 
 
 for Christ. 
 
 One morning last August, under some trees on the bank 
 of the Housatonic River, in the Berkshire Hills of Con¬ 
 necticut, the Rev. Arthur S. Lloyd, D.D., General Secre¬ 
 tary of the Church’s Domestic and Foreign Missionary 
 Society, met laymen from twenty-one cities. Among other 
 things he said to them were these things: 
 
 ‘‘Once men realize their responsiblity to reach out and 
 touch their brethren who know not the Father, and no 
 longer wait for representatives of missionary societies to 
 come to them with appeals that they do so, the Protestant 
 Episcopal Church can take the earth for Jesus Christ. 
 She has the courage, the ability, the money. All that is 
 needed is that laymen shall realize that they, and not the 
 clergy, are the responsible agents. 
 
 “There is nothing the matter with the Church’s mis¬ 
 sionary work in the fields. The trouble is with the Church 
 
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at home. Men wait to be appealed to by rectors for parish 
 support, and by secretaries for support of work at home 
 and abroad, as if they did not know that this enterprise 
 is their own and must be maintained. If men would only 
 put system into their Church allegiance, look into the merits 
 of various forms of work, decide what they will give each 
 year, and then give it without being asked to do so, they 
 would be surprised at the result. 
 
 “Laymen ought to organize tmder leadership of laymen. 
 The clergy have their special work. Leave them free to 
 do it. Don’t fear for the etiquette of the situation. Eti¬ 
 quette will take care of itself. Laymen of the Church 
 can be trusted. They will observe and obey constitution 
 and canons, and pay all needed deference to Bishops and 
 other clergy. You ask if organizations of laymen ought 
 to be official. Emphatically no. Let laymen be free to 
 try new plans. Shall the Board of Missions take charge 
 of a campaign for men and missions? The Board needs, 
 not more work but more help. Ought the Board to manage 
 Summer and City Conferences It is my judgment that 
 it ought never to do so, and that both for the good of the 
 Board and the welfare of the conferences. 
 
 “There is nothing to fear from the cry of over organiza¬ 
 tion. Much work is now left undone because there is 
 nobody to do it. Let laymen organize and do it. The 
 Church in England is more thoroughly organized than that 
 in America. Too little is done, for Church extension in 
 suburbs of growing cities. Let laymen in all cities take 
 hold of it as have laymen in some cities. Too much of the 
 energy of the Board of Missions is consumed in appealing 
 to the Church at home; compelled to do so because other¬ 
 wise. the Church, and especially the laymen, forget and 
 fail to provide supplies for the Church’s real work in the 
 world. How fine it would be if the Board might keep its 
 face always to the front, having the Church solidly behind 
 it! And such will be the case when laymen come, to the 
 Board with offers of help, and so set it free from wasting 
 its energy and your money persuading them to provide 
 means for work which all agree must be done.” 
 
 It ought to be asked by the reader, What do these Church 
 laymen seek to accomplish? In its briefest form, To teach 
 laymen the life habit of going to the Church’s work with¬ 
 out waiting for that work to go to them. If this epigram 
 
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needs explanation let this be added: To train laymen to 
 discharge their duty of work and gifts, a. For parish sup¬ 
 port and advance; b. For Church extension in suburbs of 
 their own cities; c. For world mission, without waiting to 
 be appealed to by rectors, archdeacons, missionary secre¬ 
 taries and returned missionaries. 
 
 If great aims are ever realized definite action must be 
 taken to that end. It is interesting to note that such action 
 in religious matters is usually taken in cycles, and that the 
 same movements are common to the United States and 
 England. One hundred years ago were formed the mis¬ 
 sionary societies, now grown so great. Fifty years ago 
 the Young Men’s Christian Association had its beginning. 
 Twenty-five years ago came the Brotherhood of St. Andrew 
 and the Church Clubs, with the corresponding Christian 
 Endeavor Society in other bodies. 
 
 The Brotherhood’s aims are to encourage personal and 
 regular prayer to spread Christ’s kingdom among men, and 
 personal and systematic work to the same end. It grew 
 out of a young men’s Bible class in St. James’ Church, Chi¬ 
 cago, and has now grown to a membership of twelve or 
 fourteen thousand men in this country alone. There is 
 a Junior Brotherhood, and there are autonomous Brother¬ 
 hoods in Canada, England, Japan and some other countries. 
 
 The Brotherhood is a national organization, with chap¬ 
 ters in parishes and missions. As a way to carry out its 
 rule of service the Brotherhood has led in the holding of 
 noonday meetings in down town sections of cities during 
 Lent, encouraged men to volunteer as lay readers to Arch¬ 
 deacons for Church extension, and last year, co-operating 
 with Brotherhoods in other bodies, it established what 
 seems to be a successful Week of Prayer. The new date is 
 the first week in Advent. 
 
 Church Clubs in cities and Dioceses began with the New 
 York Church Club in 1887, from which time the present 
 Church Club movement dates. There are now Clubs in most 
 cities and Dioceses, and a National Conference or federa¬ 
 tion. The aims are social and literary, and within the year 
 there has been a movement to extend their usefulness, al¬ 
 ready great. There are also i parish Men’s Clubs along 
 similar lines, and in many cities federation of them, in 
 some cases for civic betterment and the 'presentation of 
 public questions. 
 
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Christian 
 Service 
 That Counts 
 
 Your Chance to do Much fVork 
 fVtth Little Money 
 
 Wanted, two thousand members of the Church Laymen’s 
 Union. Joining with us in our work you make it possible 
 for us to reach a larger number of men and arouse their 
 hearts to new missionary interest. The annual membershi]) 
 fee is $5. This fee is for individuals, parish Men’s Clubs 
 or Guilds, and missionary societies in cities, any names. 
 As far as its amount warrants, money from membership 
 fees is used— 
 
 1. To support a Chair of Missions, whose occupant visits 
 principal cities, as invited by Bishops, rectors and laymen, 
 to confer about work by laymen in those cities; the initial 
 chair in what may, with God’s blessing, become a college 
 that has an itinerant faculty, and is known, it may be, as 
 CHRIST CHURCH SEMINAR. 
 
 2. To support a Chair of the English Bible, whose occu¬ 
 pant teaches others to teach the Bible and conducts paro¬ 
 chial missions, staying in one city for a month or more, and 
 then going to another city; the second chair in the proposed 
 College. 
 
 Especially will occupants of these chairs go, if invited, 
 into Dioceses and Missionary Districts where the Church 
 is not strong, and where laymen are unable to provide 
 teachers. 
 
 3. To maintain a Church Summer Conference where, 
 besides an ideal vacation, leaders from many cities and 
 
Dioceses meet Bishops, Archdeacons, secretaries of Mis¬ 
 sion Boards, and each other, inspire and arouse by personal 
 acquaintance, interchange successful methods, and map 
 out co-ordinated campaigns. 
 
 4. To print and put into the hands of Church laymen 
 copies of the annual Church Mission Hand Book and other 
 literature, brief in form for busy men, and calculated to 
 stimulate them to action and to instruct them to work in¬ 
 telligently and successfully. 
 
 Membership in the Church Laymen’s Union is confined 
 to men, and appeal for membership herewith made is not 
 addressed to women. At the same time there are many 
 women who are interested in the Church Summer Confer¬ 
 ences, and who may desire copies of the annual Hand Book. 
 All such are invited to contribute to Conference and print¬ 
 ing funds, and to receive copies of the Hand Book for dis¬ 
 tribution. 
 
 When remitting membership fee ask for copies of this 
 Church Mission Hand Book for 1909 to put into the hands 
 of Church laymen. Select names carefully and ask only 
 for such number of copies as can be used to real advantage. 
 Enclose 10 cents, stamps taken, for postage if the number 
 asked for be twenty-five or under. If more than this num¬ 
 ber, it is preferable to send by ecxpress, receiver to pay 
 charges. Exjpress charges on printed matter are small. If 
 envelopes for mailing are desired, remit at rate of i cent 
 each. 
 
 This Hand Book sacrifices much to brevity. It is made 
 for busy men. Many matters of tremendous importance 
 are treated in few words. It is impossible to do otherwise. 
 All who desire missionary literature, either from Mission 
 Boards or purchased from publishers, are invited to apply 
 to the editor. It is especially desired to give assistance to 
 mission study classes, teachers and members. 
 
 Every man who reads this is urged to secure without 
 delay the Journal of the Convention of his Diocese, the 
 annnual Report of the Board of Missions, and either the 
 American Church Almanac or the Living Church Annual. 
 Having any or all of them, he is urged to study them with 
 care, especially the financial statements and the objects 
 for which financial appeals are made. For addresses 
 through which to secure these publications apply to your 
 rector, or write to the editor of this Hand Book. 
 
Parish 
 
 Loan 
 
 Library 
 
 A ‘Book that Aien will read 
 
 Mr. JOHN A. ELY, Ass’t Treas., 
 
 23 Union Square, New York. 
 
 Enclosed please find check for. 
 
 Annual Membership Fee 
 
 1909 
 
 For .-.-.-. 
 
 In the Church Laymen^s Union 
 
 We want .Copies of the Church Mission Hand 
 
 Book, -.. envelopes, and promise to use them as a 
 
 Mission Library among men; or at least see they are put into 
 hands of men who ought to be better informed about the work 
 of the Church. 
 
 '4 
 
 Signature . . *. . 
 
 Date. . 
 
 You are invited to join the Church Laymen’s Union. 
 You are also asked to move, at its next meeting, that your 
 parish Men’s Club or Guild join. The fee is $5. a year. 
 
 Make draft, money order or check payable to John A. 
 Ely, assistant treasurer, Church Laymen’s Union, 23 Union 
 Square. New York. 
 
 Do it now! 
 
Following are Readers, members of Missionary Organizations, leaders in the Church 
 
 in this city, with whom any movement in the Church that seeks to extend personal volunteer 
 work for missions ought to be in touch. Some are men, some women, and all are interested, in 
 some measure, in missions in their broad sense, viz. as the Hand Book outlines. 
 
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 M^hat City? 
 
Men of Each City, Attention! 
 
 DEFINITE 
 
 OUTLINES 
 
 OF WORK 
 
 For LAYMEN 
 
 What Form Fits You ? 
 
 If organized, what is there for laymen of a given city 
 to do? Do not existing organizations prosecute all lines 
 of work open to them, or if they do not, may they not 
 undertake, the few that remain, and so avoid a fancied 
 multiplication of organizations? Here follow twelve sug¬ 
 gestions for work that is peculiarly the privilege of laymen 
 to perform. If on their own initiative they take hold and 
 do it, they will be attacking the work from the right end. 
 The suggestions are for laymen of a given city, all par¬ 
 ishes, including those in adjacent towns. 
 
 1. A society or committee of men, fitted by tempera¬ 
 ment and training, to foster money gifts and system in 
 benevolence: a. For the support of parishes; b. For relief 
 from present debts; c. For the purchase of sites and the 
 erection of new Churches; d. For apportionments to mis¬ 
 sions ; e. For adequate salaries for clergy. 
 
 2. A committee to study the temperaments, qualifications 
 and resources of young men of the city who may, perhaps 
 ought to, be persuaded to study for Holy Orders. A 
 growing Church has 17 fewer candidates for the ministry 
 in 1908 than she had in 1907. As there are tithes of money 
 gifts, so there are tithes to the Sacred Ministry from 
 cities. Who is it who now sees that your city furnishes its 
 just proportion of young men to be educated and set apart 
 for God’s work? 
 
 3. A corps of men to speak for missions, their news and 
 needs. Returned missionaries are often out of touch with 
 conditions at home, and there are too few of them that 
 all may hear them. Missionary literature, admirable to 
 
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follow the .spoken word, is poor propaganda. The unin- 
 terested will not read it. In all cities are men who like to 
 do 'public speaking. In all are parish Men’s Clubs, con¬ 
 gregations and missionary organizations in constant need 
 of good speakers. An organized bureau, with speakers 
 on all forms of work at command for winter evenings, 
 what possibilities are now going to waste! 
 
 4. A Men’s Missionary Society in each parish, to have 
 charge of details of missionary meetings, including care 
 that some such meetings be held; to elect one member on 
 the vestry, perhaps to convert some vestrymen to missions; 
 to raise apportionments to missions and see. that money is 
 sent to treasurers as soon as raised; to increase the propor¬ 
 tion of money sent outside of the parishes to that expended 
 upon its own needs; in short, to inform every member of 
 the parish concerning the work of the parish, and especially 
 the. finances of the parish and its performances and prom¬ 
 ises to missionary causes, and make it unnecessary for rec¬ 
 tor, archdeacon or missionary secretary ever to ask for 
 money from pulpit or chancel steps, because all that ought 
 to be given is given without being asked for! 
 
 5. Church extension in suburbs of growing cities and 
 in towns tributary to them. Some laymen do admirable 
 work as lay readers, but Church extension consists of much 
 more! Study of land values, of street, school and trolley 
 extensions, finances, economics of new work to old. Bish¬ 
 ops and archdeacons are appealing for help. 
 
 6. The Church owes boys and girls a liberal education 
 in the English Bible, the Book of Common Prayer, in 
 Church history and missions, just as the State owes them 
 the same in secular matters. The State provides school 
 houses, superintendents of education, trained instructors, 
 institutes and summer schools. Where is organized and 
 adequate effort to enable the Church to provide the same? 
 
 7. Thousands of men will attend a religious service if 
 held out of doors who will not enter a Church because it 
 is a Church. All cities contain magnificent cathedrals that 
 stand unused. A splendid floor, a beautiful vaulted roof, 
 light, heat, seats, men! That’s Union Square, New York, 
 and every other public park in every other city, seven days 
 each week, six to seven months each year. The Cathedral 
 of St. John the Divine, New York, offers no more. 
 
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8. The labor question, the poor, the sick, the wayward 
 boy, the unemployed, the city and national governments: 
 these, offer sociological and civic opportunities for the 
 Church to perform that for which she was placed in the 
 world. In your city what body of Church laymen makes 
 it its business to see that the Church avails herself of these 
 opportunities or even makes a study how she may do so? 
 
 9. Summer conferences for leaders. Other bodies long 
 ago realized the value of such gatherings. The Church 
 might well provide three to six such locations, central to 
 large areas. The influence of these meetings is tremem 
 dous. They provide opportunity for the planning of a com¬ 
 mon campaign, for workers to meet Bishops, missionary- 
 secretaries and other leaders, for inspiration and informa¬ 
 tion. From all points of view they justify their cost. 
 
 10. A Church House in the business centre of the city, 
 to be for the city what Exeter Hall was to London for 
 so many years, viz.: a place where gatherings were almost 
 daily held for the betterment of the City, the State, the 
 World. The House might contain offices for Bishops and 
 Church organizations, a hall for Diocesan Convention and 
 public meetings, and rooms for social purposes, wherein 
 a common acquaintance may be cultivated. In Advent and 
 Lent noon meetings should be held. It may be remarked 
 incidentally that South of Chambers street. New York 
 city, for an hour daily six days each week, are 150,000 
 men—the greatest field in the world in which to reach men! 
 
 11. Schools are needed to train laymen to work intelli¬ 
 gently and effectively. Bible teachers, Sunday School 
 superintendents, missionary speakers, lay readers, evan¬ 
 gelists for outdoor meetings, mission study classes—why 
 has the Church waited so long before establishing such 
 jchools? 
 
 ‘ 12. The. Missionary Councils - of the First, Second and 
 
 Third Departments appeal to men of each principal city in 
 their respective Departments to plan and hold Missionary 
 Conferences in their respective cities annually. Such Con¬ 
 ferences might consider: a. What was done last year; b. 
 What ought to be done next year; c. Who will do it. It 
 should come to be, not a force from without, trying to 
 arouse men of the city to do their duty, but a power from 
 within which reaches out and touches work of the city, 
 the diocese, the world. 
 
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LATEST PLANS 
 FOR PROGRESS 
 
 Good toward others and a 
 
 Proper Care for our own Pur dens 
 
 SUNDAY SCHOOL COMMISSIONS 
 
 A new cycle of time has come, and has brought new 
 movements with it. The past half dozen years have seen 
 mighty strides, and these strides give large promise for 
 the future. Thirty-three Protestant bodies, having eighteen 
 million members, and adherents of many millions more, 
 making a total of more than half the population within 
 the United States, are represented in a Federal Council of 
 the Churches of Christ in America. The Council is a bod} 
 of 450 men. It is without power to legislate for, or even 
 to advise concerning, the internal affairs of Protestant 
 bodies. All such bodies have all power they ever had. It 
 is a Council that advises and sometimes acts along common 
 lines of Sabbath observance, uniform laws governing 
 divorce and remarriage, religious education in schools, tem¬ 
 perance, the immigrant and his instruction in American 
 ways, and that very vital matter the avoidance of duplica¬ 
 tion of effort in fields at home and abroad. 
 
 The Episcopal Church is allied with this Council through 
 its Commission on Christian Unity. The Church led in the 
 movement which brought so much of union to pass. 
 Twenty-five years ago it presented four propositions as iDasis 
 for unity, three of which were generally accepted. These 
 propositions were famous as the Lambeth Quadrilateral. 
 Whatever their disposition, discussion of them did much to* 
 make possible present conditions in Protestant bodies in 
 America. 
 
 Within the Episcopal Church, of quite recent birth, are 
 Sunday School Commissions and the Church Laymen’s 
 Union. The Commissions have accomplished much for 
 advance in religious education of youth. They exist in 
 nearly all Dioceses, and there is a Sunday School Federa¬ 
 tion of national scope. There are 23,000 ooo children in 
 the United States of public school age. About 14,000,000 
 
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are enrolled in religious schools of some name. In the 
 Episcopal Church, as in some other bodies, the growth of 
 Sunday School membership does not keep pace with the 
 growth of Church membership. During the. past ten years 
 Church schools have hardly increased at all. The number 
 of pupils in Church schools this year is reported to be 
 436,000. But the number reported by the same, authority 
 m 1900 was 439,000, four years ago 434,000, and two years 
 ago 441,000. 
 
 The suggestion has been widely made,that public schools 
 dismiss pupils on one afternoon each week, preferably 
 Wednesday, and that religious schools be provided hy 
 Christian bodies. There, is a growing conviction, shared 
 by Protestant as well as Roman Catholic, that a public 
 school which does not teach a Gospel of any sort is inade¬ 
 quate. 
 
 CHURCH LAYMEN’S UNION 
 
 Workers of Twenty-seven Cities with 
 
 Common Plans. 
 
 The Church Laymen’s Union is a federation of Church 
 laymen’s missionary organizations in principal cities. Its 
 aims are to bring workers into touch, to exchange suc¬ 
 cessful methods, to co-ordinate, effort, to teach Church eco¬ 
 nomics, and to publish literature concerning work by 
 Church laymen to advance the missionary work of the 
 Church at home and abroad. Laymen of Pittsburg, Buf¬ 
 falo, Baltimore, and New York led in forming the Union, 
 and there are now federated in it the Laymen’s Missionary 
 Leagues of Pittsburg, Buffalo and Baltimore, the Lay 
 Readers’ Association of Louisville, the St. Philip Society 
 of Syracuse, the St. Mark’s League of Wheeling, and Sea- 
 bury Societies of Erie, Springfield, Bridgeport and New 
 York. Laymen in Worcester, Providence, New Haven, 
 Jersey City, Amsterdam, Binghamton, Rochester, Cleveland, 
 Toledo, Detroit, Marietta and Parkersburg are studying 
 conditions in their respective cities. 
 
 The Church Laymen’s Union has a Council, composed 
 of three laymen in each of twentv-five cities, in which 
 efforts by Church laymen in behalf of personal work for 
 
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missions is well advanced. Chairmen of Council members 
 in the cities are: 
 
 John E. Morse Worcester; B. A. Oppenheimer, Spring- 
 field ; Clarence W. Foote, Bridgeport; George J. Bassett, 
 New Haven; H. H. Hemingway, Waterbury; Clarence S. 
 McClellan, Jr., Mt. Vernon; Louis O. Morny, New York; 
 Frederick N. Esher, Jersey City; C. Julian Wood, Hack¬ 
 ensack and the Oranges. 
 
 Julian Du Bois, Amsterdam; Myron C. Beeman, Bing¬ 
 hamton ; Herbert D. Schenck, M.D., Brooklyn; W. B. 
 Foote, Geneva; J. A. Van Ingen, Rochester; George T. 
 Ballachey, Buffalo; Chas. S. Shoemaker Pittsburg; W. W. 
 Robertson, Norfolk; Earl C. Schmeiser, Syracuse; Benja¬ 
 min L. Lathrop, Scranton; Malcolm McCormick, Erie: 
 Samuel R. Sague, Cleveland. 
 
 Louis Bartlett, Toledo; William R. Davies, Detroit; 
 Robert Lee Boyd, Wheeling; J. A. Galleher, Marietta; 
 C. M. Martin, Parkersburg. The president of the Union 
 is Eugene M. Camp, New York; the Secretary, George T. 
 Ballachey, Buffalo: Treasurer, Harvey H. Smith, Pitts¬ 
 burg, and the Assistant Treasurer, John A. Ely, 23 Union 
 Square, New York. 
 
 A CHANCE TO COME IN 
 
 You are invited to join the Church Laymen’s Union. 
 You are also asked to move, at its next meeting, that your 
 parish Men’s Club or Guild join. The fee is $5. a year. 
 
 When remitting membership fee ask for copies of this 
 Church Mission Hand Book for 1909 to put into the hands 
 of Church laymen. Select names carefully and ask only 
 for such number of copies as can be used to real advantage. 
 Enclose 10 cents, stamps taken, for postage if the number 
 asked for be twentv-five or under. If more than this num¬ 
 ber, it is preferable to send by express, receiver to pay 
 charges. Ex^press charges on printed matter are small. If 
 envelopes for mailing are desired, remit at rate of i cent 
 each. 
 
 Make draft, money order or check payable to John A. 
 Ely, assistant treasurer, Church Laymen’s Union, 23 Union 
 Square, New York. 
 
 Do it now! 
 
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A RECORD OF RESULTS 
 
 Church Extension, Summer Conferences, 
 Trained Speakers and Schools. 
 
 Volunteer Missionaries 
 
 Bishop Whitehead 'of Pittsburg and Bishop Coxe of 
 Buffalo first organized laymen of their see cities, and gave 
 them the work of Church extension. Both Bishops had it 
 in mind to take the ste’p^ having seen the value of lay co¬ 
 operation during visits to England, but it would seem that 
 Pittsburg got into working shape a little earlier than Buf- 
 lalo. Both were pioneers in the movement, and both were 
 at the front, 'active and enthusiastic after nearly twenty 
 years of successful work, in the forming of the Church 
 Laymen’s Union, aimed to extend the work to other cities. 
 
 Pittsburg laymen have helped to establish no fewer than 
 twenty-eight congregations. Property accumulations 
 amount to the large sum of $310,000. Fields occupied are 
 the growing settlements and city suburbs of Western Penn¬ 
 sylvania. The League has just started a School to train 
 laymen, and it is leading in a project to erect a Church 
 House in the business part of Pittsburg, to contain 
 Bishops’ rooms, offices of the Diocese, a public hall, and 
 reception rooms. 
 
 In some respects the work of the Buffalo laymen has 
 been harder than that of most others. Towns of Western 
 New York and upon the Cattaraugus Indian reservation 
 have not always welcomed the coming of the Church. 
 The League’s work has also been in Buffalo public insti¬ 
 tutions, an especially difficult field. The League has inspired 
 and aided the building of Churches in Springville, Silver 
 Creek, Irving, Gowanda, Depew and among the Indians, 
 and has just permanently located St. Clement’s Church in 
 the Kensineton district of Buffalo. Its members now num¬ 
 ber thirty-five, and they read from 800 to 1,000 services 
 a year. 
 
 New York laymen have established seventeen congrega¬ 
 tions, and seven of the seventeen are now self supporting 
 
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parishes. Six others own their own properties, four ot 
 them free from debt. The Seabury Society conducts the 
 Summer Conference and the Men’s Stag Outing, the 
 Church Workers Comimons, a school to train laymen, a corps 
 of speakers about missions, and has lately taken its share, 
 in a movement, with Bishop Greer at its head, to co-ordinate 
 the v/ork of laymen of New York City, and especially to 
 make it of larger service to the Bishop and his plans. 
 
 Louisville laymen have helped Bishop Woodcock in 
 Church extension, to raise the Diocesan apportionments, 
 and to hold an annual Church Conference. Encouraged 
 by Bishop Paret, Baltimore laym.en have served many mis¬ 
 sions and parishes as lay readers, and are just now under 
 instruction by the Bishop in a Church School, attended by 
 thirty to forty men. They had the splendid help of the 
 Rev. G. Mosely Murray, general missionary, who has just 
 resigned to go to Arkansas. 
 
 Springfield laymen had at the start the inspiration and 
 leadership of the Rev. William T. Dakin, rector of St. 
 Peter’s Church in their city. They gave a new impetus 
 to Church extension in Springfield, and have helped to 
 bring into existence four successful missions. Bridgeport 
 laymen helped in Lent services in a down town location 
 last year. Syracuse laymen, just organized, have held one 
 public meeting, conducted services at the Shelter for LFn- 
 protected Girls and supplied readers for four missions. A 
 mission is now projected in a town five miles out. Some 
 sessions of a school have been held. Erie laymen have 
 begun services in the southern 'part of their city, and Wheel¬ 
 ing laymen, just organized, will help by taking Sunday ser¬ 
 vices in weak parishes. 
 
 New York and Louisville laymen have led in co-ordina¬ 
 ting lay effort in their respective cities. Upon invitation of 
 the Seabury Society, of New York, given in the spring of 
 1908, there came together committees representing the 
 Church Club of New York, the. Bronx Church Club, the Fed¬ 
 eration of Parish Men’s Clubs in Manhattan and Richmond, 
 the Brotherhood of St. Andrew and the Junior Clerg\^ 
 Missionary Association. A committee was appointed to 
 '^^ait upon Bishop Greer to secure his approval of the step, 
 and to tell him that men of New York desire to be of larger 
 sendee in the work of the Church. A meeting was held 
 
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in Synod Hall in May, addressed by Bishop Greer, and 
 attended by five hundred men. 
 
 Last November the Bishop of the Diocese formed a cen¬ 
 tral committee, representing- all organizations of men, other 
 than parochial, with himself at its head. A second meet¬ 
 ing was held, attended by nine hundred men. A third is 
 planned for next April. To the central committee Bishop 
 Greer stated that the Convention of the Diocese of New 
 York is in session two days each year and every moment 
 is taken up with official business. There is needed, said 
 he, another convention or conference, composed of men 
 and meeting once a year, unofficial and enthusiastic, to 
 whom the Bishop and others can bring the attention of 
 new plans, and through whom information can be spread 
 and public opinion formulated. 
 
 ANNUAL COUNCIL 
 
 It Hears Reports for One Year and Makes 
 
 Plans for Another. 
 
 Under the leadership of Bishop Woodcock, laymen of 
 Louisville have gone farther in effective co-ordination than 
 any other city. So general and yet so specialized is the 
 central organization, called the Laymen’s League, that 
 every Church layman who is willing to work can be fur¬ 
 nished with something' worth while and within his ability 
 to do. No organization has been wiped out, nor had its 
 scope dwarfed. Four times a year there are conferences 
 of all workers, and once a year a general Council with a 
 mass meeting, a dinner and a survey of the whole field. 
 Organizations working in the League are: Lay Readers, 
 Sunday School, Missions, Church Literature and Publicity, 
 Clergy Aid, Church Institutions, Brotherhood of St. 
 Andrew, Medical, Employment, Finances, and Records and 
 Statistics. Most of these explain themselves by their 
 names, but it may be further stated that Lay Readers help 
 in Church extension, the Missions help to raise appor¬ 
 tionments, the Publicity employ the daily newspapers to 
 keep the Church’s work in the public mind, and the Church 
 Institutions keep hospitals and charities before the Church. 
 
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The Literature Department has just established a library. 
 The Sunday School Committee has almost revolutionized 
 religious education, in the Diocese, so successful have been 
 its efforts. The president of the League is a layman, W. E. 
 Pilcher. 
 
 TRAINING FOR LAYMEN 
 
 Schools in Each City, With Week Night 
 Classes and Practice. 
 
 BEST MISSIONS START SMALL 
 
 Schools to train laymen to work have just been established 
 in four American cities. These schools are the first of 
 their kind in the world. The Church Workers Commons, 
 begun in Christ Church, New York, in January of last 
 year, was a success from the start. The other three schools 
 are in Baltimore, Pittsburg and Syracuse, and are on the 
 same lines. Faculties are found among clergy and laymen 
 of the city, but men of more time at command ought to 
 be provided by a college the faculty of which is an itin¬ 
 erant one, and available for a few weeks each year at 
 these schools. Classes are held on Sunday afternoons and 
 week nights. Instruction covers the reading of the Prayer 
 Book service, including voice culture, the preparation and 
 delivery of Bible readings and missionary addresses, includ¬ 
 ing audiences to criticise, the history of the Church and 
 of the Prayer Book, the superintendence and conduct of 
 Sunday Schools, Mission Study classes. Church finance, 
 constitution and canons of the Church, Church economics, 
 especially the economics of Church extension, and Chris¬ 
 tian socialism. 
 
 Practice is afforded advanced pupils in reading the 
 Chureh service in parish churches and missions, after being 
 licensed to do so, in speaking before parish Men’s Clubs, 
 and in raising money for the support of the schools them¬ 
 selves. Extension work is afforded in suburban missions. 
 Students are trained for volunteer work only. 
 
 The Schools not only teach laymen to work, and afford 
 them practice in it, but they teach that long neglected study. 
 Church economics. They do even more. They attract 
 
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laymen to them. Many laymen desire to know how to 
 work for the Church. Coming to be taught, they remain 
 to hear plans, and soon an interested corps of workers 
 results. 
 
 The Church extension, the oldest and largest form of 
 effort, deserves a fuller account. Always obeying laws of 
 their Dioceses governing the founding of new places of 
 worship, and under direction of the proper authorities, 
 laymen belonging to these organizations, licensed as lay 
 readers and often graduates of the .training schools, go 
 into small towns or suburbs of their cities and make door 
 to door canvasses. They do not seek Episcopal Church 
 families exclusively or especially. Rather they seek fam¬ 
 ilies having children not attending Sunday Schools, and 
 families not having Church homes. Usually they make 
 their appeal to men who are interested in the upbuild¬ 
 ing of the community, and often bring together men 
 to vote to start and support the venture, no women being 
 present at the initial business session. Services are held 
 in parlors, rented halls or vacant store rooms. Expository 
 Bible readings are given sometimes in place of sermons. 
 That is, the Bible is taught as it would be in a class. 
 
 The start is almost invariably made in a small way. 
 Often rental of only $5 a month is paid. One New York 
 mission rented the rear of a stable and paid $3 a month. 
 The people themselves bear all of the expense of main¬ 
 tenance, and often the cost of fitting up the room as well. 
 Thus self support and local self government are secured 
 from the start. Sometimes three in four of the persons 
 enrolled are not Episcopalians, showing that the crux of 
 Church extension in almost any suburb is not the finding 
 of well to do 'Episcopal families but the going into that 
 suburb of a leader who will teach the Gospel, use the Book 
 of Common Prayer, counsel the people while they accumu¬ 
 late funds, put their organized work into wise shape, and 
 bring a parish into existence. Laymen in this work are 
 business and professional men, and they invariably serve 
 without stipends. When their work has advanced to the 
 point of self support, including the salary of a rector, a 
 parish is organized, a priest called, and the volunteer lay¬ 
 man retires, his work accomplished. 
 
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WORTH THEIR COST 
 
 Church Summer Conferences Help Education, 
 Bible and Mission Study 
 
 PERMANENT LOCATION NEEDED 
 
 Northfield, Silver Bay, Winona, the Chautauquas and 
 similar Summer vacation places have been of much help 
 to the educational and missionary work of religious bodies 
 in America. All of them are crowded each Summer with 
 leaders and general workers. Five years ago the American 
 Church Missionary Society, an Auxiliary of the Board of 
 Missions, started a Church Summer Conference at Rich¬ 
 field Springs. The same year Miss Lucy C. Jarvis of the 
 Connecticut Woman’s Auxiliary started a Church Summer 
 School at New Milford, Conn. A year later, when the 
 Society transferred its Brazil and Cuba Missions to the 
 Board it transferred its Summer Conference to the Seabury 
 Society of New York. A year later still. Miss Jarvis trans¬ 
 ferred the New Milford School to the same Society. 
 
 Succeeding Church Conferences have used the halls of 
 Smith College, St. Faith’s and the Kent Schools, and for 
 1909 have been invited to use St. John’s Chapel and the 
 Refectory of the Episcopal Theological School at Cam¬ 
 bridge, Mass. The invitation has been accepted and the 
 dates, July 17 to August i, fixed. Among the teachers this 
 year will be the. Rev. Dr. Samuel Hart, the Rev. Harvey 
 Officer, Jr., the Rev. Samuel R. Colladay, and the Rev. 
 Everett P. Smith. It is expected that a Stag Outing for 
 men only will be held during the first two weeks of August, 
 but the place for holding it cannot be announced before 
 March. 
 
 These Church Conferences are intended chiefly for lead¬ 
 ers in Woman’s Auxiliary, Laymen’s Leagues and Sea¬ 
 bury Societies, Sunday School Commissions, and the miS' 
 sion study work of the Educational Secretary of the Board 
 of Missions. Classes are held mornings, and afternoons 
 are left open for recreation. Those who attend this Sea¬ 
 bury Conference come from New England, New York, 
 Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland and Virginia, with 
 a very few from the Middle West. 
 
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Attendance at 'present Conferences, especially that of 
 the Seabury, has outgrown borrowed accommodations, and 
 permanent quarters, larger in size, must be provided. Not 
 only so, but Sunday School Commissions of two Dioceses 
 desire dates, and there is a growing number'of Christian 
 Socialist workers who wish a week-end date. Of the value 
 to the Church and her missionary work there is no ques¬ 
 tion. 
 
 By resolution adopted at the Conferences of 1908 the 
 Society was authorized to appoint committees on attendance 
 and permanent location of future Conferences. The So¬ 
 ciety has named: 
 
 Albany—Mrs. H. W. Thompson, Mrs. W. M. Cooke; 
 Central New York—Mrs. C. G. Irish; Central Pennsyl¬ 
 vania—Mrs. Rogers Israel, Mrs. D. W. Coxe, Miss Lois 
 Sancton; Connecticut—Mrs. H. F. Giraud, Mrs. R. W. 
 Woodward, Miss E. J. Plympton, Mrs. J. H. Barbour, 
 Miss Jennie A. Pratt, Miss Frances E. Cole; Long Island— 
 Mrs. J. L. Hutchins, Mrs. F. W. Norris, Miss E. L. Smith. 
 
 Massachusetts—Miss Elizabeth H. Houghton, Miss 
 Josephine T. Bumstead, Miss Marian DeC. Ward, Miss 
 Mary T. Spalding, Miss L. A. Williams, Mrs. H. H. Eddy; 
 Maryland—Mrs. A. L. Sioussat, Miss Mary Williams; 
 Michigan City—Miss Clara Edgerton ; Newark—Miss 
 Estelle C. Ogden, Mrs. E. J. Ashman, Miss Anna Roches¬ 
 ter, Miss Eliza O. Hoyt; New Jersey—the Misses Roberts. 
 Miss Mary R. Wood. 
 
 New York—Mrs. Mary E. Watson, Miss Mary E. 
 Thomas, Miss E. J. Wheeler; North Carolina—Mrs. F. E. 
 Mosley; Pennsylvania—Miss Mary Bbkiston, Miss A. W. 
 Fisher, Mrs. A. H. Lane Mrs. Daniel S. Merritt, Miss 
 Katherine D. Parry; Rhode Island—Miss Edna R. Gar¬ 
 diner, Miss Mary B. Anthony; Vermont—Mrs. A. G. Cobb, 
 Mrs. A. D. Brown; Virginia—Miss S^llie Stuart; Western 
 Massachusetts—Miss Marion L. Cole; Wes<:ern New 
 York—Miss Lucy G. Arnold. 
 
 Bridgeport—Judge R. W. DeForest; Pittsburg—Rev. 
 Robert N. Meade; New Haven—Frank Westervelt; Water- 
 bury—H. H. Hemingway; Rochester—Charles F. Sault; 
 New York—Louis O. Morny; Mt. Vernon—Clarence S. 
 McClellan, Jr.; Philadelphia—William B. Abbey; Bing¬ 
 hamton—Myron C. Beeman; Newark—Wm. S. B. Dana. 
 
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FINANCIAL SUPPORTERS 
 
 Some Leaders of the Church Giving This 
 Work Money Backing 
 
 FIFTEEN CITIES HELP THIS YEAR 
 
 That many leading men and women in the Church believe 
 in the effort to enlist and instruct laymen personally to help 
 the Church’s missionary work is shown by the fact that 
 they have contributed money to pay the. small but necessary 
 expenses connected with this effort to that end. Only a 
 few names can be given out of many. 
 
 Bishop Tuttle, of Missouri, the Presiding Bishop, and 
 president of the Board of Missions, Bishop Greer of New 
 York, Bishop Darlington of Harrisburg, the 'Rev. Dr. 
 McKim, president of the House of Deputies of the General 
 Convention, the. Archdeacon of New York, the Rev. Dr. 
 Grosvenor, president of the Standing Committee of New 
 York, the Rev. Dr. Huntington of Grace Church, the Rev. 
 Dr. Manning, rector of Trinity Church, the Rev. Dr. Stires, 
 St. Thomas. 
 
 The. Rev. Dr. Clendenin, St. Peter’s, the Rev. Hugh 
 Birchhead, St. George’s, Bishop Courtney of St. James 
 Church, the Rev. Dr. Parks, St. Bartholomew’s, the Rev. 
 Geo. Alex. Strong, Christ Church, the Rev. Percy S. Grant 
 of the Ascension, the. Vicars of Intercession and St. Paul’s 
 Chapels, Trinity parish, New York, the Rev. Dr. W. H. 
 Van Allen, the Advent, Boston, the Rev. Dr. Mann, Trinity, 
 Boston, the Rev. H. M. Medary, the Advocate, Philadelphia. 
 
 Messrs. J. Pierpont Morgan, R. Fulton Cutting, Francis 
 Lynde. Stetson, president of 'the New York Church Club, 
 Hon. Everett P. Wheeler, J. Hull Browning, Ellicott D. 
 Curtis, Wm. Jay Schieffelin, Ph. D., Robert W. Tailer, E. 
 . P. Dutton, George McCulloch Miller, James May Duane, 
 Col. John T. Lockman, James H. Canfield, LL. D., librarian 
 of Columbia University, George Zabriskie, New York, 
 Messrs. George Wharton Pepper, John S. Newbold 
 Edward H. Bonsall, Arthur E. Newbold and Clinton 
 Rogers Woodruff, Philadelphia; Hon. Robert Treat Paine, 
 Boston, William H. Reeves, Phoeuixville, Pa , H. H. Mc- 
 Clintic, John S. McCormTk, Harvey H. Smith and H. D. 
 W. English, Pittsburg, Thomas R. Proctor, Utica. 
 
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Messrs. Spencer Trask, and Andrew B. Jones, Albany, 
 George B. Cliiett, Saratoga Springs, George Gordon King, 
 Mrs. Edwin Parsons, Mrs. W. F. Cochran, Mrs R. T. 
 Auchmuty, Mrs. Richard M. Hoe, Mrs. E. H. Van Ingen, 
 Mrs. Spencer Aldrich, New York, and many others. 
 
 Laymen of the following cities have pledged financial 
 support to extension work of the Church Laymen’s LFnion, 
 because acquainted with plans and approving of them: 
 Worcester, New Haven, Brooklyn, The Oranges, Phila¬ 
 delphia, Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Binghamton and 
 Pittsburg. Money contributed from outside of New York 
 is not used for work in that city. New York laymen sup¬ 
 port their own work and contribute to the national cam¬ 
 paign besides. 
 
 CITY CENTRES 
 
 Three Just Organized and Several Others 
 
 Soon to Be Formed 
 
 Ten missionary organizations in as many cites are feder¬ 
 ated with the Church Laymen’s Union. With dates of or¬ 
 ganization and officers they are: 
 
 1. The Laymen’s Missionary League of Pittsburgh. Or^ 
 ganized 1889-90. President, N. P. Hyndman, vice-presi¬ 
 dent, Harvey H. Smith, secretary, Alfred G. T^oyd, record¬ 
 ing secretary, C. B. Church, treasurer, Jos. A. Knox, Chap¬ 
 lain, the Rev. Robert N. Meade, Archdeacon of Pittsburgh. 
 
 2. The Laymen’s Missionary League of Buffalo. Or¬ 
 ganized 1891. President, H. C. Spendelow, Secretary, W. 
 E. Townsend, treasurer, George A. Stringer, superintend¬ 
 ent, George T. Ballachey. 
 
 3. The Seabury Society of New York. Organized as 
 the Lay Helpers Association, 1900. Present name adooted 
 1905. President, Eugene M. Camp, Secretary, Robert L. 
 Davis, field secretary, Robert R. Morgan, treasurer, John A. 
 Ely. The Society is incorporated under the laws of the 
 State of New York, and has nine trustees. 
 
 4. The Lay Readers Association of Louisville. Organ¬ 
 ized 1905 and forming a part of the Laymen’s League of 
 Louisville. President, Wm. A. Robinson, Secretary, Henry 
 Gray. 
 
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5- The Laymen’s Missionary League of Baltimore. Or¬ 
 ganized 1906. Its only officer is a Chaplain, the Rev. R. 
 F. Humphries. 
 
 6. The Seabury Society of Springfield. Organized 1906. 
 President, F. M. Pudan, Secretary, L. A. Gregg, treasurer, 
 
 F. Tracey Brand. 
 
 7. The Seabury Society of Bridgeport. Organized 1907. 
 President, Hon. Robert W. De Forest, Secretary, Clarence 
 W. Foote, treasurer, H. B. Terrell. 
 
 8. The St. Philip Society of Syracuse. Organized 1908. 
 President, Joseph H. Osborne, vice-president, Frederick 
 Hooker, M. D., Secretary, Rev. Dr. I. M. Merlinjones, 
 treasurer, Paul P. Halbig, and executive committee the 
 foregoing and Earl C. Schmeiser, A. A. West and Dr. 
 Hamil. 
 
 9. The Seabury Society of Erie. Organized 1908. Pres¬ 
 ident, C. E. Zinram, vice-president, C. G. Irish, Secretary, 
 Malcolm McCormick, treasurer, J. K. Hough. 
 
 10. The St. Mark’s League of Wheeling. Organized 
 1908. President, Robert Lee Boyd, Executive Committee, 
 
 G. A. Aschman, M. D., Joseph King, St. Matthew’s, J. D. 
 McGranahan, St. Luke’s, Andrew Diehl, St. Andrew’s, 
 S. P. Norton, St. Paul’s. 
 
 Finally: THE NEXT THING 
 
 This Hand Book sacrifices much to brevity. It is made 
 for busy men. Many matters of tremendous importance 
 are treated in few words. It is impossible to do otherwise. 
 All who desire missionary literature, either from Mission 
 Boards or purchased from publishers, are invited to apply 
 to the editor. It is especially desired to give assistance to 
 mission study classes, teachers and members. 
 
 Every man who reads this is urged to secure without 
 delay the Journal of the Convention of his Diocese, the 
 annnual Report of the Board of Missions, and either the 
 American Church Almanac or the Living Church Annual. 
 Having any or all of them, he is urged to study them with 
 care, especially the financial statements and the objects 
 for which financial appeals are made. For addresses 
 through which to secure these publications apply to your 
 rector, or write to the editor of this Hand Book. 
 
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