3Boar& of jforeign flDtssions 1Reformc& Cburcb in Hmerica 25 East 22& Street IRew CttB Missionary statistics FOR KIUSHIU Prepared by the First Missionary Conference of Kiushiu, held at Fukuoka, March 1910. TABLE 1. Population, Kiushiu and Okinawa 7,884,965 Population per square mile .... 450 Missionaries of all denominations . . 82 Japanese paid Evangelistic Workers 131 Communicants 5,280 Population to one Missionary . . 96,158 Population to one Japanese Worker 60,190 Population to one Communicant . 1,490 TABLE II. Population to One Missionary. KIUSHIU . . China India .... Africa Japan Fukien Province 96,158 104,819 63,797 40,027 46,856 60,520 Arcot Mission 69,444 Amoy Mission 93,750 South Japan Mission 83,333 TABLE III. Population to One Native Worker. KIUSHIU . 60,190 Japan 24,046 China 35,353 India 8,230 Africa 6,803 Amoy Mission 25,210 Arcot Mission 4,126 South Japan Mission .... 46,666 TABLE IV Population to One Protestant Communicant. KIUSHIU 1,490 Japan 851 China 2,402 India 563 Africa 324 United States 5 Amoy Mission 1,710 Arcot Mission 858 South Japan Mission 2,008 Cbe appeal of tbe Japan ilBleslons. The Council of Co-operating Missions, represent, ing over one hundred and fifty Presbyterian and Reformed missionaries working among the Japan- ese people, held its annual meeting August 5th to 10th, 1910. The morning session on August 6th was devoted to a Conference on Rural Work. A careful study was made of the religious condition and the actual needs of the rural population; problems and methods of rural evangelistic work were dealt with in papers, and animated discus- sion was carried on. There was entire unanimity on the follovting points: 1 . That the rural population, fully three-fourths of the population of Japan, has never yet enjoyed even an inadequate presentation of the Gospel. 2. That, to evangelize this rural population, two or even three times as many missionaries as are now on the field are imperatively needed. 3. That such reinforcements of missionaries, to labor principally in the towns and country, would be welcomed by Japanese Christians, would be protected by the Japanese government, and would enjoy ths fullest opportunity for devoted work. 4. That it is extremely desirable that American Christians should once more exercise the solici- tude for the spiritual condition of this island em- pire that was so marked a feature of their attitude when the country was first being opened up in the fifties and sixties. 5. That special effort should be put forth to make plain to missionary volunteers the urgent call to self-sacrificing service presented by the unevangelized millions of Japan — a call second to none other in the world. 6. That the missionaries who are now on the ground, though many of them confined to school work and others to evangelistic work in cities, should nevertheless bear on their hearts the bur- den of the untouched missions, and should be constant in prayer and supplication and endeavor that Christian heralds may be raised up and sent forth, till the Gospel message shall be sounded forth even in the highways and byways of this great empire. EO. 4M. NOV. 10