MISSIONARY CENTENARY I H ftlQ.IQIQ r 1 WORLD SURVEY Jl ‘Program of Spiritual Strategy and Preparedness AFRICA BRAZIL CHINA CUBA JAPAN KOREA MEXICO UNITED STATES CHURCH EXTENSION Methodist Episcopal' Church. South Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2016 https://archive.org/details/missionarycentenOOmeth l* ADDRESS «l or THK MISSIONARY & BIBLE SOCIETY ' # METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN AMERICA : ADOPTED IN THE CITY OF N E IV V OR A APRIL 5, 1319. {'• ;X> jkto- fjocfi : » i:raR 4 M PALI, wuNtki:, coknkk nt> iv.um ell qs for the devel- opment of a Christian leadership. EDUCATIONAL WORK I. The Task Before Us To provide educational facilities for the children of our Church. To develop a capable leadership prepared to handle the demands of a great work. II. What We Have Cranberry College, for boys, in the State of Minas Geraes. Union College, for boys, in Rio Grande do Sul. Piracicaba College and Methodist College, for girls, in the State of Sao Paulo. American College, for girls, Petropolis. Isabella Hendrix College, for girls, in the State of Minas Geraes. American College, for girls, in Rio Grande do Sul. A seminary and two professional schools (pharmacy and dentistry). III. What We Propose to Do. Send 15 missionary teachers and develop 35 native teachers. Do our share in co-operating with other evangelical Churches and form a union seminary. Establish an evangelical university. Put on an efficiency basis Granbery College by manning and endowing it properly. Found an industrial and agricultural school. Create 33 parochial schools. 17 Brazil MEDICAL WORK I. The Task Before Us There is need of clinic work in our institutional Churches ; otherwise there is not much medical work to be done. The emphasis given to medical work in other fields should be turned to our Publishing House plant. This is one of the crying needs of Brazil. II. What We Have There is an evangelical hospital in Rio de Janeiro patronized and kept up by the various denominations. The clinic of dentistry and pharmacy at People’s Institute, Rio de Janeiro. III. What We Propose to Do Provide 1 doctor and 1 dentist. Build 1 day nursery and 1 convalescent home. 18 Brazil EFFICIENCY PROGRAM FOR FIVE YEARS (In addition to present income) 1919-1923 GENERAL WORK From From ^ Evangelistic Educational Medical Total Brazil Home Base F land a . n ...$387,550 $345,500 $75,000 $ 758,050 $170,080 $ 587,970 Budget 472,150 149,950 9,000 631,100 148,200 482,900 Publishing interests 71,800 71,800 3,000 68,800 $931,500 $495,450 $84,000 $1,460,950 $321,280 $1,139,670 Analysis of Above EVANGELISTIC EDUCATIONAL MEDICAL 78 churches. 1 6 missionary teachers. 1 doctor (native). 1 2 parsonages. Enlargement of Granbery 1 dentist 1 Publishing House. College. Clinical service for People’s 1 Bible school. 1 8 parochial schools. Institute, Rio de Janeiro. 22 missionaries. Share in Union Seminary. WOMAN’S WORK Evangelistic Educational Medical From Total Brazil From Home Base Property and land.. $680,000 $680,000 $680,000 Budget 105,000 105,000 105,000 $785,000 $785,000 $785,000 Analysis of Above EVANGELISTIC EDUCATIONAL MEDICAL 30 new missionaries, to be distributed according to the needs of the field. Girls’ school in: Rio de Janeiro. Porto Alegre. Petropolis. Piracicaba. Bello Horizonte. Ribeirao Preto. NOTE. — The above figures represent the total askings for the two Brazilian Conferences. 19 I CHIN A • min ■ MAP OF CHINA TINTED PORTION OUR TERRITORY Shanghai: China’s Commercial Center; population, 1,000,000. Hoochow: China’s Intellectual Center; population, 000,000. Iludiow: China’s Silk Center; population, 200,000. The key centers to over twenty million people. Southern Methodism’s work in China, is noted for its com- pactness, intensiveness, correlation, and success. Study it. China "If our great Church could hear the cry one hundred years ago, if the hearts of our forefathers were touched then, surely our hearts should be stirred now by China’s Mace- donian call.” GENERAL SURVEY I. The Task Before Us A mighty nation in the throes of a new birth. The old educational system has proven insufficient. A new one is in process of formation, promising intellectual freedom to women as well as to men. Old faiths, traditions, and superstitions show signs of a mighty collapse. Buddhists, imitating Christianity’s practical propaganda, seek to revive their religion in the hearts of the people. Christianity, once despised and persecuted, is now looked to for guidance and leadership. Christian schools are overflowing. Churches and chapels are not sufficient to accommodate the crowds. The need for Christian doctors and hospitals was never greater. Christianity can control China’s change and supply all the demands, intel- lectual and spiritual, necessary for the future progress and betterment of the Chinese people. II. What We Propose to Do Equip our evangelistic work with missionaries, both men and women. Build churches, chapels, institutional plants. Enlarge and perfect our great educational system. Provide the means and men to bear our part in making Christian literature for a nation whose people are literary and yet whose literature knows nothing of a Christ, and to give, as far as possible, to this great reading public of China a literature which shall instruct the people in the ways of truth and righteousness and shall inspire all to the greatest endeavor. Build and conduct hospitals and medical schools to minister to China’s millions in misery. Develop native leadership in all branches of work, with an indigenous, self-supporting, and self-propagating Church as an ultimate aim. 23 China “ We must advance or in the near future be left standing on the outside of closed doors." EVANGELISTIC WORK I. The Task Before Us To give the Gospel adequately to the more than 20,000,000 among whom we labor. To train more Chinese leaders and develop the latent powers and re- sources of the growing Chinese Church until the same shall become a self-supporting, self-propagating, and indigenous Church. II. What We Are Now Doing Developing the most comprehensive and connectional system of aggressive evangelism in that section of China. Producing trained Chinese leaders in Church and Y. M. C. A. work and kindred activities. Building up a rapidly increasing membership, steadily progressing in self- support. Conducting Bible-training schools for both men and women. Sharing in a Union Theological Seminary. III. What We Propose To Do Send 1 1 men and 1 4 women for evangelistic work. Erect churches, institutional plants, and chapels sufficient and of such a quality as to command the respect of the Chinese. 24 China "The Christian college in China is a great field for the true democratization of J joung men.” EDUCATIONAL WORK I. The Task Before Us To enlarge and perfect the system already in existence, the purpose of which is to give a complete course of instruction and training, reaching from the primary school through the college, and to indoctrinate, as far as possible, the entire student body with the principles and teach- ings of Christ, thus preparing all for the highest citizenship and serv- ice in both Church and State. II. What We Have “The Soochow University system,” a correlated system of education from primary up to and through college. Primary schools at many of the out-stations. Middle schools at some of our missionary stations. A compact, well-organized, and efficient college at Soochow. At Shanghai the only law school in all of China under mission auspices, an integral part of the Soochow University system, with large potentiality. McTyeire Memorial, at Shanghai, the leading school for young women in China. Virginia School, a first-class high school, at Huchow. Susan B. Wilson, a high-grade grammar school, at Sungkiang. Laura Haygood Normal School ; also day schools at Changchow. III. What We Propose To Do Send 15 men and 10 women for educational work. Establish more primary middle schools. Establish vocational and industrial schools. Supply 26 Chinese teachers for General Board work. Supply 25 Chinese teachers for woman’s work. Equip for efficiency all of our schools, especially those for the training of preachers and leaders. 25 China The medical missionary is often the first messenger of Christ to lpiocl( at the door of the heathen heart. MEDICAL WORK I. The Task Before Us To bring to the masses who are afflicted with plagues, cholera, diphtheria, and like the diseases, the healing touch of Western medicine. To bring the blessing of surgery as it is practiced in Western schools to the suffering multitudes. To teach the public the principles of sanitation and other methods of wholesome living. To establish hospitals and nurse-training schools and to assist in estab- lishing medical colleges for men and young women. I. What We Have A hospital at Soochow. A hospital at Huchow. III. What We Propose To Do Send out 9 physicians and 24 nurses for General Board work. Enlarge existing plants. Build and equip a hospital at Changchow. Build and equip a hospital at Sungkiang. For women: Enlarge the medical school and move it, together with the Mary Black Hospital and Nurse-Training School, to Shanghai. Send 8 women physicians and 3 nurses. 26 China EFFICIENCY PROGRAM FOR FIVE YEARS (In addition to present income) 1919-1923 GENERAL WORK From From Evangelistic Educational Medical Total China Horn Ease P r operty and land $431,100 $271,700 $205,400 $ 908,200 $135,450 $ 772,750 Budget 102,890 190,465 114,000 407,355 106,240 301,115 Literary work.... 9,250 9,250 9,250 $543,240 $462,165 $319,400 $1,324,805 $241,690 $1,083,115 Analysis of Above EVANGELISTIC EDUCATIONAL MEDICAL Erect churches, institution- al and otherwise, and chapels sufficient and of such quality as to com- mand the respect of the Chinese. Send out 1 1 missionaries. Establish more primary and middle schools. 1 5 educational mission- aries. Supply 26 Chinese teach- ers. Equip all schools, especial- ly those for the training of preachers and leaders. Build and equip: Hospitals atChangehow. Hospitals at Sungkiang. Send out 9 physicians and 24 nurses. WOMAN’S WORK From From Evangelistic Educational Medical Total China Home Base Property and land $ 30,575 $ 75,291 $409,900 $515,766 $50,140 $465,626 Budget 106,430 43,460 112,250 262.140 262,140 $137,005 $118,751 $522,150 $777,906 $50,140 $727,766 Analysis of Above EVANGELISTIC EDUCATIONAL MEDICAL 1 8 missionaries. 1 0 missionaries. 8 doctors. Sungkiang Bible School. McTyeire Primary School 3 nurses. Huchow Bible School land. 1 business manager. workers. McTyeire main building. 1 evangelist. Soochow city evangelistic work. McTyeire primary and evangelistic work. Allen Memorial Chapel. Virginia School equipment. Laura Haygood Normal equipment. Davidson School teachers, etc. Mary Black Hospital and Nurse-Training School, Shanghai. 27 Havana: Candler College. Matanzas: Irene Toland School. Cienfuegos: Eliza Bowman School. Caniaguey: Pinson College. Cuba "Taking stock after eighteen years of organized missionary activities, tvc are encour- aged by the results. Yet as rve look upon the field and realize that relatively such a small per cent has been reached, ive feel more than ever the pressure of our responsibility." GENERAL SURVEY I. The Task Before Us To overcome the religious indifference which is prevalent throughout the Island. To combat the alarming spread of “isms.” To discharge our evangelistic responsibility to one-third of the popula- tion. To combat the increasing spread of immorality. To help develop a worthy leadership imbued with Christian ideals. II. What We Propose to Do Maintain an island-wide, organized, systematic, aggressive evangelism. Develop native pastoral leadership to the highest degree of efficiency. Occupy, as early as possible, the remainder of the territory for which Methodism is responsible. Maintain our present high standard in education. Strengthen existing schools and colleges and establish parochial schools as evangelistic agencies and as feeders for our higher schools. Help create and publish an adequate evangelical literature. 31 Cuba “ Evangelism from the opening of the mission has been a first consideration of the missionaries. The possibilities and opportunities for evangelism are almost unlimited.'' A CAMPAIGN ON A LARGE SCALE IS SORELY NEEDED EVANGELISTIC WORK I. The Task Before Us To reach the untouched masses. Only one person in two hundred of the population is an evangelical Christian. To reach the number for which Southern Methodism is responsible — 860,0000 our share. Only 4,000 have been reached. To GIVE THE CUBAN PEOPLE BIBLICAL CHRISTIANITY; TO GUIDE THEM INTO AN INTELLECTUAL CONCEPTION AND ACCEPTANCE OF CHRIST AS THEIR ONLY HOPE OF SALVATION. To evangelize the many easily accessible and unoccupied small towns yet unreached. To foster self-support and self-propagation of the native Church. II. What We Are Now Doing Seven missionaries and ten Cuban preachers give full time to pastoral work. Seven missionaries and two native preachers give part time to evangelis- tic work. Each evangelistic missionary and native preacher is responsible for 40,000. Special series of evangelistic meetings of the revival type are being con- ducted. III. What We Propose to Do Increase our force by four missionaries. Put into service as pastors seven Cuban preachers. Press evangelism in the Sunday school. Inaugurate institutional features wherever feasible. Provide thorough training of native ministry in Candler College and in Bible and Theological Institutes. 32 Cuba "We are still trying to train native leaders, equip all students for general usefulness, diffuse Christian ideas and ideals, and uplift the community life. THE SCHOOLS ARE CREATING AN ATMOSPHERE IN WHICH GENUINE EVANGELI- CAL TRUTH CAN LIVE AND CROW." EDUCATIONAL WORK I. The Task Before Us To leaven the mass of 600,000 Cuban children with Christian doctrine. To provide Christian education for the children of our Church. To maintain our present high standard in education. To train boys and girls to become leaders in Church, community, and State. To strengthen existing schools and colleges. To establish parochial and common schools. To promote the founding of Christian homes by educating both boys and girls. II. What We Have Candler College High School, for boys and for ministerial training, Puentes Grandes, Havana. Candler College Grammar School, for boys and girls, Virtudes 10, Havana. Pinson College, for boys and girls, Camaguey. Irene Toland Schools, grammar and high school for girls, Matanzas. Eliza Bowman School, for boys and girls, Cienfuegos. III. What We Propose to Do Send eight missionary teachers and provide for more native teachers. Double the present capacity of boarding schools for both boys and girls and complete their equipment. Establish immediately three parochial schools in provincial capitals and others later in large towns. Strengthen the Ministerial Training Department of Candler College. Train teachers for our parochial schools. 33 Cuba “Good literature, adapted to the needs and intellectual conditions of the people, is a prime necessity for the evangelization of any country.” LITERATURE I. The Task Before Us To help create an adequate evangelical literature in Spanish. To finish paying for our Publishing House in Havana. To thoroughly equip our Publishing House. To maintain a depository of evangelical and other good books and pamphlets in the Spanish language. To provide an abundance of tract and leaflet literature in Spanish. II. What We Have A mission organ, El Evangelista Cubano (“The Cuban Evangelist”), published twice a month, Spanish and English. A Sunday school quarterly, Revista Trimestral, in Spanish; circulation 2 , 500 . Half million pages of tracts circulated in one year. El Testigo (“The Witness”), Publishing House in Havana. Thoroughly equip the Publishing House at Havana. III. What We Propose to Do Thoroughly equip the Publishing House at Havana and free it from present embarrassments. Provide two men giving full time to the editing and publishing of evan- gelical literature. Improve existing publications and make a drive for largely increased circulation. Publish one million pages of tracts and leaflets a year for free distribution. 34 Cuba EFFICIENCY PROGRAM FOR FIVE YEARS (In addition to present income) 1919-1923 GENERAL WORK From From Evangelistic Educations! Literature Total Cuba Home Baae Property andland $ 90,750 $182,750 $273,500 $34,500 $239,000 Budget 52,600 32,390 3,000 87,990 31,580 56,410 Totals $143,350 $215,140 $3,000 $361,490 $66,080 $295,410 Analysis of Above EVANGELISTIC 4 missionaries. 7 Cuban preachers. Institutional plant, Havana. 3 new church buildings. 8 parsonages. EDUCATIONAL 5 missionary teachers. 8 Cuban teachers. 2 schools to be housed. 5 new schools. Double the capacity of Candler College. Double the capacity of Pinson College. LITERATURE Publishing House and Book Depository in Havana. WOMAN’S WORK Evangelistic Educational Literature Property and land $102,450 Budget 57,000 From From Total Mexico Horne Base. $102,450 57,000 Totals .... $159,450 $159,450 Analysis of Above EVANGELISTIC EDUCATIONAL 3 missionaries. 7 native teachers. Double the capacity of Eliza Bowman School, Cienfuegos. Double the capacity of Irene Toland College, Matanzas. Put domestic science in both schools. LITERATURE 35 MAP OF JAPAN TINTED PORTION OUR TERRITORY The gateway of commerce and travel he. tween America and Asia. Strategic mission field of the world. Kyoto: Ancient, capital. Population, 500,- 000 . Osaka: Population, 1,400,000. Kobe: Kwansei Gakuin, Palmore Gakuin, Damhuth Memorial Itihlc Woman’s School. Population, 010,000. Hiroshima: Hiroshima Girls’ School. The territory covered by our mission bus a population of twelve million. Of the five largest cities of Japan, three are within our boundaries. Japan “ The Key to the Orient.” So recognized by the American and other "world powers. GENERAL SURVEY I. The Task Before Us To give the Gospel to a people eager for the elements of Christian civil- ization. To reach the young life of New Japan, upon which the old religions have very little hold. To meet the new evils appearing from every side because of the rapidly changing industrial and social conditions accelerated by the trade expansion caused by the present war. To re-enforce the missionary body, in order to push the Gospel into ever- widening fields, and to supply the demands of the mission schools. To co-operate in producing Christian literature for a nation of readers. To win the nation through the children by strengthening the Sunday schools. To create an educated Christian leadership of ministers and laymen. II. What We Propose to Do To open 12 new evangelistic stations for Women’s Council workers. To send 30 men and 29 women missionaries. To build 40 new churches, with Sunday school and reading rooms. To build missionary residences and establish social centers in strategic places. To send one missionary for work among government school students. To open central Gospel halls for factory and railway employes. To bring our educational institutions to a higher standard of efficiency and to make the pervasive spirit thoroughly Christian. 39 Japan “ In the great nation of Japan Christianity may develop a constructive leadership for the Orient rvhich will profoundly influence the entire Church of Christ.” EVANGELISTIC WORK I. The Task Before Us To reach with the Gospel message the dissatisfied multitudes who are turning from the old religions to test the truth of Christianity. To train and conserve the thousands of inquirers who were enrolled as a result of the National Evangelistic Campaign and others still going on. To reach the Japanese in Korea and Manchuria with the Gospel. To conserve the results of mission schools, Sunday schools, and kinder- gartens established in our territory. To organize adequately for special evangelistic and social work in two or more manufacturing and railway centers. To make better provision for the reaching of government school students. To bring our chapels to the self-supporting and self-propagating period as quickly and safely as possible and thereby co-operate in the building up of the Japan Methodist Church. II. What We Have Eight mission stations and circuits. Lambuth Memorial Bible Woman’s Training School, Kobe. One evangelistic center in Oita for women. Twenty-eight Bible women. Twenty-five Japanese evangelistic workers. Eighty-two preaching places. III. What We Propose to Do Establish 1 2 new stations. Send 52 missionaries. Erect 3 large evangelistic and social center halls in Osaka, Koke, and Kyoto. 40 Japan "Japan is to achieve in the Orient the educational assimilation of our Christian civilization.” EDUCATIONAL WORK I. The Task Before Us To provide adequately for the housing, teaching, and Christian training of the large numbers of non-Christian students who desire to enter our schools every year. To provide a well-trained Christian ministry, also an educated Christian leadership of laymen, both being necessities of the nation. To contribute to the general education of New Japan by co-operating with the authorities of the national school system. II. What We Have The Kwansei Gakuin, at Kobe, the largest Methodist institution in for- eign fields of the same grade, with an enrollment of 1,272 students, a teaching staff of 56, a high school, a theological school, and several courses of college grade. (The Canadian Methodist Mission has joint ownership. The Japan Methodist Church co-operates in admin- istration.) Hiroshima Girls’ School, the largest mission school for girls in Japan, wfith an enrollment of 850 students. It has a primary school, a middle school, a higher school, and a splendid kindergarten teachers’ training school. Palmore Gakuin, an English night school at Kobe, the largest and best equipped of its kind in Japan. III. What We Propose to Do Send 5 missionaries for educational work. Provide a native kindergarten teacher for each new station. Better equip the kindergarten work in every station. Take one unit in the Woman’s Christian College, in Tokyo. Co-operate with other Methodist missions in establishing a middle school for Japanese in Korea. Promote the expansion scheme of the Kwansei Gakuin, perfect the col- lege departments, and secure a university charter. Develop further the Hiroshima Girls’ School for the better realization of its great mission to the young womanhood of the country. Enlarge the plant of the Palmore Gakuin to meet the demands of the increasing number of students. 41 Japan MEDICAL WORK I. The Task Before Us Medical work in Japan is done mainly by the government and private Japanese practitioners. II. What We Have Our mission does not undertake medical missions in Japan. III. What We Propose to Do Instead of medical work, the highly important work of the Christian Lit- erature Society is to be more liberally supported, the distribution of Christian books and tracts to be systematically provided for in each mission station and school. To contribute one unit to the maintenance of a Union Methodist Publish- ing House in Tokyo. 42 Japan EFFICIENCY PROGRAM FOR FIVE YEARS (In addition to present income) 1919-1923 GENERAL WORK From Home Base From Evangelistic Educational Medical Total Japan Property and land $400,605 $273,500 $ 674,105 $76,400 $ 597,705 Budget 197,876 65,500 263,376 13,527 249,849 Endowments 400,000 400,000 400,000 $598,481 $739,000 $1,337,481 $89,927 $1,247,554 Analysis of Above EVANGELISTIC EDUCATIONAL MEDICAL 50 native workers. Additional building at Pal- Emphasis to be put on 20 missionaries. 20 missionary residences. 50 churches and chapels. 3 gospel central halls. Equipment for evangelistic work among students. more Institute. Endowment for Kwansei Gakuin. Endowment for Hiroshima Girls’ School. New building at Hiroshi- ma Girls’ School. 5 new buildings at Kwan- sei Gakuin. 8 smaller buildings at Kwansei Gakuin. Christian literature. WOMAN’S WORK From Japan From Home Base Evangelistic Educational Medical! Total Property and land $150,836 $27,730 $178,566 $178,566 Budget 66,949 21,897 88,846 88,846 Endowments $217,785 $49,627 $267,412 $267,412 Analysis of Above EVANGELISTIC EDUCATIONAL MEDICAL 29 women missionaries. Unit in Woman’s College, No plans for medical work. Open 1 2 new stations. , Tokyo. Open large institutional Kindergarten for each new centers. station. Train more Bible women. Trained kindergartners for new work. 43 Korea The one-time “Hermit Kingdom ” norv in touch Tvilh Tvorld movements. GENERAL SURVEY I. The Task Before Us To give the gospel to 1,252,841 people for whom Southern Methodism is wholly responsible. To build churches and provide an efficient leadership for them. To establish Bible Institutes and Institutional Plants for men and women in our largest centers. To organize Sunday schools after a modern pattern and prepare and distribute a Christian literature. To put our schools on an efficiency basis, emphasizing industrial work for men and women. To equip and thoroughly man our medical plants. II. What We Propose to Do Send 28 men and 3 1 women missionaries within the next five years. Build and equip 50 new Churches. Provide a special Sunday School Secretary. Establish common schools and kindergartens for boys and girls. Train 84 Bible Women and 48 teachers for common schools. 47 Korea “We have the tremendous advantage of having no popular and strongly entrenched religion to uproot before our faith can be planted .” EVANGELISTIC WORK I. The Task Before Us The ratio of Christians being only one to each 1 1 9 of the population, our task is a tremendous one. A definite propaganda to revive Buddhism and to implant Shintoism in Korea calls for renewed evangelistic effort. The greater part of our cities, with faces to the past — untouched, unsatis- fied, and often unapproachable — to be sought for Christ. The smaller part — hungry, seeking, untrained to avoid the pitfalls — these to be satisfied with Christ. II. What We Are Now Doing Eight men and eleven women are working as evangelistic missionaries. Rural Churches are receiving scant attention. The time and energy of our present force of workers are consumed on the organized work. They have no time left for an aggressive drive among the non-Christian multitudes. III. What We Propose to Do Send 1 6 men and 20 women missionary evangelists. Establish in our mission stations institutional centers for men and women. Establish Bible Institutes for men and women. Provide for a better trained native leadership through Theological Sem- inary and Woman’s Bible School. 48 Korea “ The value of our schools to the missionary enterprise is unquestioned. They save to the Church the children of Christian homes and are indispensable in the work of train- ing Christian leaders for the future." EDUCATIONAL WORK I. The Task Before Us To provide Christian institutions of learning for the children of our Church. To furnish the intellectual leadership which rightly belongs to Chris- tianity. To give to Korea’s benighted womanhood the right to know, to think, and to reason. II. What We Have One high school for boys in Songdo. One-half interest in a high school for boys in Wonsan. Several thousand pupils in our common schools for boys and girls. Two high schools for girls — Holston Institute, in Seoul, and Carolina Institute, in Songdo. One industrial school for women, at Wonsan. III. What We Propose to Do Send 7 men and 7 women missionaries for educational work. Furnish our share in the Chosen Christian College enterprise. Equip and man the academic departments of Anglo-Korean School. Establish 24 common schools for boys and girls and 1 4 kindergartens. Provide a “special” school for young women at Songdo. Put on an efficiency basis Holston Institute, Songdo, and Carolina Insti- tute, Seoul. Lay emphasis on industrial education for women. 49 Korea ''The medical n >or£ is a valuable agency for reaching the unevangelized. It makes to them a most direct and powerful appeal." MEDICAL WORK I. The Task Before Us To make the medical work we already have thoroughly efficient. To relieve suffering caused by insanitary living and to deal a death blow to sorcery and witchcraft. II. What We Have Hospitals in Choon Chun, Songdo, and Wonsan. Nurses’ training School, Songdo. Co-operation in Union Medical College and Nurses’ Training School, Seoul. A promising itinerant medical work. III. What We Propose to Do Send three physicians and four nurses. Provide our share of outlay for Severance Medical College. Enlarge and thoroughly equip existing institutions. 50 Korea EFFICIENCY PROGRAM FOR FIVE YEARS (In addition to present income) 1919-1923 GENERAL WORK From From Evangelistic Educational Medical Total Korea Home Base Property and Iand....$262,025 $123,650 $ 71,450 $457,125 $44,126 $412,999 Budget 201,505 216,015 61,600 479,120 479,120 $463,530 $339,665 $133,050 $936,245 $44,126 $892,119 Analysis of Above EVANGELISTIC EDUCATIONAL MEDICAL 50 churches. Share in Chosen Christian Share in Union Medical 5 institutional plants. College. College. 1 theological seminary. Songdo School equipment. Equipment of hospitals. 1 6 missionary residences. Hostels and other work for Choon Chun, Songdo, 1 6 missionaries. government school stu- Wonsan. Maintenance of native dents. 3 doctors. workers. 5 missionaries. 2 doctors’ residences. Sunday school rooms. 3 missionary residences. WOMAN’S WORK From From Evangelistic Educational Medical Total Korea Home Base Property and land $ 67,900 $ 63,850 $ 3,800 $135,550 $ 625 $134,925 Budget 125,245 167,735 14,550 307,530 860 306,670 Endowments $193,145 $231,585 $18,350 $443,080 $1,485 $441,595 Analysis of Above EVANGELISTIC EDUCATIONAL MEDICAL Institutional plants in cen- Industrial school for worn- Nurses' training schools in ters. en, Wonsan. Seoul and Songdo. Woman’s Bible School. 1 2 primary schools. 4 nurses. 84 Bible women. 9 itinerating teachers. 20 missionaries. 48 primary school teachers. Addition to missionaries’ 7 missionaries. residences and one new 1 “special school” for residence. women, Songdo. 51 o u Mexico GENERAL SURVEY I. The Task Before Us The evangelization of 1,750,000 people — 60 per cent, illiterate, all superstitious, aroused, inquiring, and spiritually hungry. The education of leaders and of the people themselves, so far as laws will permit. To aid the Government in this work, which is straining every nerve. To combat poverty and the want of hygiene by providing missionary doctors and nurses. The establishment of social settlement work. The preparation of native leaders, the most urgent need of all. II. What We Propose to Do Add to our present force of missionaries 8 men and 5 women; also 40 native teachers — 29 men and 1 1 women — 2 physicians, and 2 or more nurses. Reopen the hospital we already have and add another. Inaugurate industrial education and increase facilities for normal training. Open two or three centers for the training of evangelistic workers, both men and women. Begin social settlement work. Patronize and sustain the Union Theological Seminary and a joint pub- lishing house and evangelical paper. 55 56 Mexico EDUCATIONAL WORK I. The Task Before Us An unprecedented demand for education. The woman’s work is much hampered by provisions of the new Consti- tution. II. What We Are Now Doing Normal school for girls in operation at Saltillo. High schools at Monterey and El Paso. III. What We Propose to Do Take over the work of the Congregationalists at Chihuahua, if the plan of redistribution carries, and of the Disciples at Piedras Negras and Monterey. Double the capacity of the Normal School for Girls. Inaugurate special training for Bible Women. Increase the effectiveness of the schools at El Paso and Monterey and establish schools at once at Chihuahua, Torreon, Durango, and Nogales. Open at least three new schools for girls. Inaugurate manual training and industrial schools. Support the Union Seminary and supplement its work by special courses at El Paso and perhaps at Monterey. 57 Mexico MEDICAL WORK I. The Task Before Us The people are in great need, especially in rural districts, of medical prac- titioners, dispensaries, and nurses. The work may be interfered with by new laws. II. What We Have One valuable hospital property and a good reputation at Monterey. III. What We Propose to Do Reopen Monterey Hospital and, if possible, establish one at Torreon or Chihuahua. Open a dispensary at Durango. Send 2 doctors and 2 nurses. 58 Mexico EFFICIENCY PROGRAM FOR FIVE YEARS (In addition to present income) 1919-1923 GENERAL WORK From From Evangelistic Educational Medics Mexico Home Base Property and lancl....$ 78,500 $126,300 $ 5,000 $209,800 $ 44,600 $165,200 Budget 198,000 356,900 27,500 582,400 127,705 454,695 Endowments $276,500 $483,200 $32,500 $792,200 $172,305 $619,895 Analysis of Above EVANGELISTIC 8 missionaries. 20 chapels. 1 2 parsonages. Native evangelists and pas- tors. EDUCATIONAL Further development of Lydia Patterson, Lau- rens, and Effie Edington Schools. 5 additional teachers (American). 10 additional teachers (Mexican). MEDICAL Repair hospital at Monte- rey. Open another. 2 doctors and sufficient nurses. WOMAN’S WORK From From Evangelistic Educational Medical Toted Mexico Home Base Property and land $ 2,000 $228,400 $230,400 $230,400 Budget 42,500 66,600 109,100 $15,550 93,550 $44,500 $295,000 $339,500 $15,550 $323,950 Analysis of Above EVANGELISTIC EDUCATIONAL MEDICAL Equipment of social settle- Normal school building at Dispensary and nurse in- ment at Durango. Saltillo and salaries of 2 eluded in evangelistic Salaries of 3 evangelistic new missionaries and 3 budget. missionaries. native teachers. Salaries of 5 native evan- 3 new centers of work. gelistic workers. 6 new missionaries. 1 2 new native teachers. 59 Woman's Work. SUE BENNETT MEMORIAL, LONDON, HY. bflOME DEPARTMENT mmm ALAMEDA, CALIF. • s - JAPANESE SUNDAV SCHOOL, H s Woman’s Work — Home Department GENERAL SURVEY I. The Task Before Us To evangelize the foreign-born people now on Southern soil. The education and evangelization of the negro, fitting him for leadership. To magnify our opportunity among the people living on the Gulf Coast. To secure the services of educated men and women for home mission work. The preparation of nurses for district work. The social redemption of the cities. The evangelization of the negroes. The education of the mountain people. I I . What We Propose to Do Strengthen the work in the mountains by properly equipping schools im- planted therein. Provide for dependent girls and multiply centers to care for the inde- pendent working girls. Raise the standard of our negro work and multiply Bethlehem Houses. Erect additional buildings for our Mexican schools. Increase the capacity of our work at New Orleans by additional build- ings and enlarged playgrounds. Erect dormitories for girls in connection with State universities. Enlarge the capacity for service to the French by schools and settlements. 63 Woman’s Work — Home Department MOUNTAINS AND MINES I. The Task Before Us To give religious and industrial training to the mountain people of Laurel County and its adjacent counties, in the State of Kentucky, a territory of 1 50,000 people. To develop the mountain people in Transylvania County and its adjacent counties in the State of North Carolina, by industrial, cultural, and religious education. To help Americanize and evangelize the foreign and indifferent people of our mines in West Virginia, Oklahoma, Texas, and the Lead Belt of Missouri. II. What We Have Sue Bennett Memorial School, for mountain boys and girls, London, Ky. The campus covers 23 acres. There are 1 1 buildings, and the prop- erty is valued at $80,000. There are 1 7 teachers and 408 students The course of study covers academic, normal, preparatory, vocational, commercial, and musial training. Brevard Institute, North Carolina. It contains 26 acres, 1 1 buildings, and is valued at $75,000. There are 14 teachers and 271 students. Two Wesley Houses have been established in mining districts. Eight deaconesses have been engaged in four different mining sections. Eight hundred and twelve families have been reached through their efforts in 1917. III. What We Propose to Do We propose to erect a high-school building, a chapel, and add to the boys’ dormitory at Sue Bennett Memorial. Erect a boys’ dormitory at Brevard Institute. Double the number of deaconesses in the mining sections where we are already at work. 64 Woman’s Work — Home Department THE NEGRO I. The Task Before Us To help train the negro women for home-making, for child-training, and for right home ideals. To protect the young negro girls and train and educate them for woman’s task in the world. To bring to bear upon civic authorities the necessity for clean and healthy living conditions. To help educate the children for a safe citizenship. To bring about racial co-operation and help in every way to alleviate the friction and prejudice between the races. II. What We Have The industrial training of the girls at the Annex in Paine College, Augusta, Ga. Paine Annex consists of 3 acres and 3 buildings, val- ued at $30,000. The accommodations and facilities are wholly inadequate. Bethlehem House, Augusta, Ga., a small building and a double lot, which furnishes inadeqate quarters for the religious, social, and civic betterment of the people. The Bethlehem House, Nashville, Tenn., co-operating with the Socio- logical Department of Fisk University, serves as a training center for negro workers. III. What We Propose to Do Erect two more dormitories at Paine Annex, increasing the capacity to accommodate 300 girls. Erect a building for teaching industries at Paine College. Build an administration hall, to include a library, rooms for societies, and a large dining hall, at Paine College. Remodel and equip the Augusta Bethlehem House. Increase the capacity of the Bethlehem House at Nashville, Tenn., by erecting an administration building providing a chapel, class and club rooms, equipment for industrial training, and a gymnasium. Multiply the number of Bethlehem Houses wherever the need appears. 65 Woman’s Work — Home Department CITY WORK I. The Task Before Us The supreme task of the Church of God in America is the evangelization and social redemption of the great cities. There are sixty cities within the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, where the population exceeds eight thousand. To Americanize the foreign-born people in these cities and to teach the unskilled English-speaking people and the religiously indifferent. To lift the 700,000 cotton mill people of the South out of ignorance and superstition. To protect the young working women and to throw about them a Chris- tian environment. II. What We Have There are 36 City Mission Boards within the bounds of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, organized for the social evangelization of more than 40 different communities. Jointly with the Woman’s Missionary Society, they maintain 7 Co-opera- tive Homes for young working women and 40 Wesley Houses or other social institutions in foreign, negro, cotton mill, and other English- speaking industrial sections. Last year 92 deaconesses personally reached 23,200 homes. The Wesley Houses served 208 industrial classes, 19 night schools, and 265 clubs, that bring education, manual training, and the teaching of English to foreign groups. Seven Co-operative Homes for young working women are maintained. In one city alone from these homes 750 young women were turned away for lack of room. III. What We Propose to Do To extend our present method of social evangelism. To hold the educated youth of the Church for the Church’s service. To increase the number of deaconesses and missionaries to meet the demands of the vast home mission field. To provide Methodist dormitories at State schools and universities. To build a hospital for the special training of Christian nurses for district service. To provide scholarships for giving language preparations to those who serve in the foreign communities. To increase the erection of Co-operative Homes. 66 Woman’s Work — Home Department LATIN AMERICANS I. The Task Before Us To reach the more than a million Mexican people in the United States. To assist in eliminating the wretched poverty, illiteracy, lack of industrial skill, prejudice, and atheism which make these people a menace to our great Southwest. To bring the blessing of the Gospel to the Cubans in Florida. To educate, to lift out of dirt and squalor the Cubans in Florida, and to evangelize the foreign-born citizens who come to American soil. II. What We Have At Laredo, Tex., Holding Institute, a large boarding school for boys and girls; 1 5 teachers and 376 students are registered. The Homer loberman Clinic and Wesley House, Los Angeles, Cal., which ministers to a population of 7,000 people. Wolff Settlement, at Ybor City, Tampa, Fla., serves a community of 12,000 Cubans. In West Tampa three missionaries serve a Cuban community of 9,000. III. What We Propose to Do Erect a girls’ dormitory at Holding Institute, remodel the boys’ dormitory, and supply the need for a large administration building. Within the next year erect a Wesley House at Tampa, Fla., with play- ground equipment, day nursery attachment, clinic, kindergarten, social club and class rooms. Buildings of proper proportion must be erected at Los Angeles and a Wesley House at Key West. NOTE. — “Latin Americans” in this survey means the citizens of the United States of Mexican and Cuban extraction, the alien Mexican (both resident and refugee), and the immigrant from Cuba. 67 Woman s Work — Home Department “/ consider Oriental missions in the United Stales most important, for Orientals in the United Stales have a larger hearing when they return home. Our people say they know what Christianity is because they } ave lived in a Christian land.” ORIENTALS I. The Task Before Us To evangelize 10,000 Japanese and 1,200 Koreans allotted to the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, by the Pacific Coast Evangelistic Association. To maintain social evangelistic centers. To give Christian environment to the Oriental immigrant. To Christianize our portion of the 5,000 foreign children. II. What We Have We maintain a force of 5 Japanese and Korean preachers and 6 other trained workers in this Oriental work. There are 150 Japanese, 250 Koreans, and 258 children in the Sunday schools. At Alameda, Cal., we own Mary Helm Hall. The property is valued at $11,900. Tire Sacramento River Circuit serves the most numerous Japanese popula- tion of any appointment. At Walnut Grove the Japanese themselves have erected a Japanese mission home and social center on a leased lot. A Japanese pastor serves this circuit. At San Francisco a commodious hall is rented for the Korean congrega- tion. This is known by the Koreans as the Korean center of North America. There are 250 Oriental Church members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in California. III. What We Propose to Do Purchase a building at Oakland adequate for Church, school, and social work, and furnish rooms which may be rented to transient Japanese. Establish a Church, educational, and social center at Dinuba. 68 Woman s Work — Home Department Our Italian pastor sa])s: “ Roman Catholicism is stronger in Ne n> Orleans than it is in Rome.” GULF COAST To Americanize and evangelize the foreign fisher folk on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi. To help the women and children of the Italian and French people of New Orleans to higher standards; to Christianize and relate these people to the great Protestant faith. To educate and interpret Christianity to the French people of Louisiana. To greet and serve the immigrants as they arrive at Port Galveston and to help them to become Christian citizens. II. What We Have At Biloxi, a Wesley House, where two trained workers serve the fisher folk through the day nursery, kindergarten, clubs, classes, and evange- listic visitation. St. Mark’s Hall, the gospel settlement on Esplanade Street, New Orleans, stands as the incarnation of the social spirit of Christ. Four trained workers are in charge. At Houma there are two trained workers conducting clubs and classes among the scattered French people as the beginning of a larger work. A port missionary as the representative of the Church of God stands at Port Galveston to help the immigrants in their hour of need as they reach our shores. III. What We Propose to Do To erect a church and gymnasium at Biloxi, Miss., for the enlargement of the work among the fisher folk. To extend this social and evangelistic work at other points on the Gulf Coast. To purchase property and erect a suitable building for the enlarged work at St. Mark’s Hall, New Orleans. To provide a gospel center for rescue work and service for the “down- and-out” in the congested sections of New Orleans. To begin educational work for the girls of the French people of Lou- isiana. To make permanent the immigration work at Galveston. 69 Woman’s Work — Home Department EFFICIENCY PROGRAM FOR FIVE YEARS (In addition to present income) 1919-1923 Mountain Work $ 158,600 City Work 442,000 Latin Americans 1 5 1 ,000 Gulf Coast Work 82,500 Orientals, Pacific Coast 33,000 Negroes 243,000 Dependent Girls 1 00,000 Total askings $1,210,100 Total askings $1,210,100 ANALYSIS OF ABOVE MOUNTAIN WORK CITY WORK LATIN AMERICA Brevard Institute: Boys’ dormitory, girls’ dormi- tory, increased teaching force. Sue Bennett School: Chap- el, gymnasium, library, high-school building. Wesley Houses at mines. Methodist dormitories at State colleges and uni- versities. Wesley Houses and Co-op- erative Homes. Holding Institute: Admin- istration building, boys’ and girls’ dormitories. Arizona, new school build- ing. Homer Toberman Clinic and Settlement, building and clinic. Wesley House at Ybor City, Tampa, Fla. GULF COAST ORIENTALS NEGROES Biloxi Wesley House, chapel and gymnasium. New Orleans, St. Mark’s Hall, modern building and increased force. Extension of French work. Property for Japanese work at Oakland, Dinu- ba. Property for Korean work at San Francisco. Paine Annex: 1 industrial building. 2 girls’ dormitories. 1 administration build- ing. Bethlehem House, Nash- ville, Tenn., administra- tive building. Multiply Bethlehem Houses in Southern cities. DEPENDENT GIRLS Vashti Industrial School: Remodel administrative building. Three Co-operative Homes. 70 DEPARTMENT of HOME MISSIONS 71 Home Missions Worth While The Protestant Churches of the United States last year put about $14,000,000 into Home Missions and about $16,000,000 into Foreign Missions. President William R. Harper: “America is the world’s greatest mission field because of what it is and what it is to be.” Of the 1 1 0,000,000 people in the United States, 26,000,000 are Protestant com- municants, 15,000,000 are baptized Roman Catholics, 2,200,000 are Jews, and about 1,500,000 are of other faiths. Of the remaining more than 65,000,000, about 20,- 000,000 are children. Forty-five million persons live in the United States without any Church affiliation whatever. Rev. Richard Stowe, D.D. : “The future of the whole world is pivoted on the question of whether the Protestant Churches in the United States can hold, enlighten, and purify the people born or gathered into its compass.” The Methodist Episcopal Church, South, last year raised and expended for Home Missions and Church Extension, exclusive of loan funds, $1,1 1 1 ,350 under the following agencies: Department of Home Missions, $147,952; Conference Missions, $406,- 695 ; Woman’s Department of Home Missions, $224,832; Board of Education for Negro Work, $12,000; Duke Fund for Missions, in North Carolina, $10,000; Board of Church Extension, $309,95 1 . Rev. Josiah Strong, D.D. : “He does most to Christianize the world and to hasten the coming of the kingdom who does most to make thoroughly Christian the United States.” Objectives in Home Missions To demonstrate and make effective in our own land the mission of Missions. To make the United States of America a spiritual world power by making it thor- oughly Christian. To take the Gospel to the morally destitute and religiously illiterate in the cities, about the rim of the towns, in the factory villages, in the hill recesses, and in the neglected tenant houses. To do something for our 10,000,000 Negroes in keeping with our opportunity and our responsibility and their educational and religious needs. To provide an intelligent, capable, adequately trained religious leadership to the 200,000 Indians within our Southern territory and to carry forward educa- tional, community, and religious activities in their behalf. To awaken our Southern people to the importance of the assimilation and evangel- ization of the immigrants in our territory through Church schools, public schools, English night schools for adults, and through the native American 72 Methodist pastors by such means and methods as may be adopted after a due survey and study have been made. To create sentiment and develop methods for the effectualization of country life, with its social, educational, recreational, and religious institutions, whether that life be lived on the plains or among the hills. To give small Churches and poor communities a sufficient and efficient ministry; to provide for insuring a proper support to every acceptable itinerant preacher through an adequate supplemental pastoral fund in every Annual Confer- ence. To bring about the construction and adoption of a financial plan which Boards of Lay Activities, presiding elders, and stewards can put into operation in bringing pastoral charges to a living, respectable self-support. To enlist and enroll 20,000 Methodist laymen as lay helpers to the pastors of our 16,381 Churches that get religious service from their pastors only once a month. There are 50,000 unordained laymen preaching the Gospel in Great Britain. To create and execute in our cities an intelligently wrought-out policy with a com- prehensive and well-articulated program upon which all the forces and re- sources may be united for a constructive and continuous Christian propaganda. To establish, maintain, and employ sane, efficient, aggressive, and officially directed evangelism in promoting revival work through the Church. To produce, publish, and distribute, wherever needed, a leaflet and tract literature dealing with the important phases of denominational doctrines and polity of Christian belief and living and with such theological and philosophical error as may be required for the establishment and protection of Christian truth and holy living. n The Rural Church Population 1 . Of the 34,000,000 people in the South, more than 65 per cent, live on farms or in small villages. 2. 48 per cent, of those on farms in the South are tenants, as follows: Missis- sippi, 66.1 percent.; Georgia, 65.6 per cent.; South Carolina, 63 per cent.; Alabama, 60.2 per cent.; Louisiana, 55.2 per cent.; Oklahoma, 54.7 per cent.; Texas, 52.2 per cent.; Arkansas, 50 per cent.; North Car- olina, 42.3 per cent.; Tennessee, 41.1 per cent.; Missouri, 29.6 per cent.; Maryland, 29.5 per cent.; Florida, 26.6 per cent.; Virginia, 26.5 per cent.; Kentucky, 33.9 per cent.; Kentucky, 33.9 per cent.; West Virginia, 20.4 per cent. Enemies of the Rural Church Tenancy, absentee landlordism, bad roads, poor schools, poor farming, absentee pastors, absentee teachers. Promoters of the Rural Church Land owning by farmers, good roads movement, consolidating schools and erec- tion of adequate school buildings, leadership of ministers in community life, residence of teachers with the people whom they serve. Our Methodism Rural Table I. shows that out of 6,150 pastoral charges, exclusive of the foreign field, with 19,31 1 Church organizations, only 2,003 are stations, 806 are two-point charges, 738 are three-point circuits, and 2,603 have four appointments or more. In other words, 15,276 of our 19,31 1 Churches are in four-appoint- ment circuits and get “preaching” only once a month. Two-thirds of the 2,214 Churches in three-point circuits get service only once a month. We have 16,381 Churches (or 85 per cent.) that get service from their pastors only once a month. * * WBm * T - V One Objective To enroll and put into service 20,000 laymen as lay helpers to the pastors on circuits, in order to assure public worship in every Methodist church every Sunday when there is need for such service. Our Rural Pastors Table II. tells its distressing story. Last year, closing last fall, we had, out of 6,150 pastors, 819 who had received less than $400; 1,268, or more than one-fifth, that received less than $500; and 1,585, or more than one-fourth, that received less than $600. Only 1,723 in the Church received over $1,000, although there were 2,003 station preachers. The Conference Boards of Missions are giving assistane to 2,073 pastors out of 6,150. Ta- ble III. shows these and other valuable facts. 74 What to Do 1 . Awaken a sense of responsibility, a conscience in the people, upon the matter of a living wage for their ministers. 2. Bring about the construction and adoption of a financial plan for the Church that the Boards of Lay Activities, presiding elders, and stewards can put in operation in bringing pastoral charges to a living, respectable self-support. 3. Produce sentiment that will demand the creation of such supplemental funds in every Conference as will insure for every married itinerant pastor an annual support not less than $1,000 and a residence, and for every single itinerant Pastor not less than $600 Finances Required Funds sufficient to meet the situation should be raised by each Conference. The Board of Lay Activities has this as its prescribed duty. There should be complete co-operation between the Board of Lay Activities, the Board of Missions, and the President and his cabinet of each Conference. Table I. — Charges Having 1 to 10 Appointments CON 7 KKKNCS. I 2 3 4 S 6 7 8 9 IO Total. Alabama 42 17 17 20 31 21 IQ I I 6 I84 Baltimore CT a 8 27 34 20 23 Q 4 2 210 Central Texas J J 86 21 30 46 19 18 220 Columbia 7 4 2 13 Denver 14 3 17 East Columbia 16 c 2 23 East Oklahoma CQ j 24 20 21 12 C C 2 I48 Florida 64 35 15 29 17 8 J 3 I 172 German Mission 12 6 j 18 Holston 59 27 *5 29 28 21 20 13 8 5 235 Illinois 8 7 12 8 2 37 Kentucky 46 19 29 27 3 4 128 Little Rock 4O 13 15 X3 22 22 IO 2 4 1 5° 29 4 33 j . . 5 .Louisiana 42 21 33 24 13 IO 2 145 Louisville 4 Q 15 22 38 34 II 3 I 173 Memphis c6 18 14 37 33 l6 6 2 182 Mississippi . . . 35 16 20 36 21 22 8 158 Missouri. C3 31 43 38 7 I 173 Montana. 14 14 New Mexico 23 8 4 3 5 2 3 I I 5 ° North Arkansas 66 23 22 45 20 14 7 5 I I 204 07 31 20 cc 44 26 5 287 North Carolina 47 2K 20 j j 35 36 25 11 8 2 209 North Georgia.. . . 81 31 29 5° 48 18 3 3 2 267 36 20 23 27 31 21 10 1 169 North Texas . 63 30 2& 35 22 6 1 185 Northwest Texas.. . C4 15 24 27 17 II 2 2 I 153 Pacific. 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Total 77 Mountain Population Location Eastern Kentucky, Eastern Tennessee, Western North Carolina, Southwestern Virginia, Northern Georgia, and Northwestern Arkansas. Number Total population of the sections, about 3,000,000. Number without adequate educational and religious facilities, about 300,000. Prerequisite A careful survey under the direction of the Home Missions Council by sympathetic investigators. Schools There are about 200 Church and independent schools, of which 3 per cent are col- leges of limited grade, 36 per cent, day schools, and 61 per cent, boarding schools. More than half are owned and supported by Churches, 93 being maintained by three distinctive Southern Churches. The accompanying table shows the 1 0 of our Church, exclusive of those owned and controlled by the Woman’s Department. Our Mountain Schools Niin. Location. Acres in Campus. | Buildings. Total Value of Plant. Total Value of Equipment. Total Debt. Fac- ulty. Enroll- ment. Income for 1916-17. Men. Women. Boys. Girls. Tuition and Other Fees. Conference. Other Sources. Total Income. Ferrum Train. School.. Ferrum, Va . 376 5 $65,000 $ 540 $11,000 2 6 62 82 $ 500 $10,919 $4,453 $15,872 37 3 1,740 235 3,000 2 3 38 32 587 1,700 2,287 Morrisville, Tenn 33 9 35,000 12,500 None 3 6 102 77 1,966 3,200 5,166 Lindsay Wilson Train- 11 5 44,500 600 3,000 2 4 120 136 300 3,000 125 8 33,900 3,210 10,000 4 8 131 110 3,884 1,930 150 5^964 Rutherford College Rutherford College, N. C. 50 3 35,000 1,500 9,900 5 1 125 20 1,800 1,300 885 3,985 Sandy Valley Seminary Paintsville, Ky 5 2 70,000 500 10,000 2 6 104 146 5,000 200 750 5,950 6 4 14,200 750 3 2 50 42 1,530 290 1,180 3,000 Young Harris College.. Young Harris, Ga 1,100 0 45,000 8,050 8 5 260 173 2,000 2,014 1,050 5,064 Weaver College Weaverville, N. C 21 4 40,400 2,713 13,400 9 3 62 38 2,146 2,115 2,622 6,883 Churches The Churches are called upon to provide a competent and sufficient ministry with equipment for community service of various kinds. Co-operation and not competition should characterize the endeavors. Minimum Proffer 1. $50,0000 a year for five years for religious and social service workers in the six States. 2. $10,000 a year for five years for each of the 10 schools. X. Total Minimum Askings For Mountain Work, $750,000. I ' **' 78 Our Responsibility Foreigners There are 400,000 Mexicans in Texas and 400,000 more in New Mexico, Ari- zona, and California. There are 60,000 Italians in Texas, 50,000 in Louisiana, 40,000 in Mississippi and Alabama, and 30,000 in Florida. There are 30,000 Cubans in Florida. There are 60,000 Bohemians in Texas and Oklahoma. There are 50,000 Poles in Texas and Oklahoma. There are 250,000 Germans in Texas and large numbers in Missouri and Louis- ville. There are large colonies of Greeks, Syrians, and others in Florida and coast terri- tories. There are 70,000 Japanese and 60,000 Chinese within our territory. o O Our Strategy English night schools for adults in 50 places. Foreign-speaking ministers. American missionaries who speak their language. American pastors preaching everywhere in English to the foreigners in their com- munities. Urgent Needs 1 . $50,000 a year for five years to maintain English night schools for adult foreign- ers. 'iU»* , ,-hrt )■ i><5 6 SO^° 3l 4 00 $ 2. $50,000 a year for five years to maintain missions and missionaries for foreigners. 3. $100,000 immediately to erect churches for foreigners. a. Tampa, $15,000. e. San Antonio, $5,000. b. Key West, $5,000. f. Bohemian, $10,000. H-'l ** 0 c. New Orleans, $20,000. d. Houston, $5,000. f. g. Mexican, $30,000. h. Italian, $10,000. 4. $300,000 to equip schools for Mexicans, including Mexican Institute, San An- tonio, $100,000; Patterson Institute, El Paso, $100,000, and a Western Insti- tute, Arizona, and California, $100,000. i*.V o Total Askings For foreigners, $900,000. 3 % p kp 1 79 Negroes There are 10,000,000 negroes in the United States, of whom 9,000,000 are in the South. Tables I. and II. show the Church membership. Tables III., IV., and V. show their schools. Table VI. shows what schools the white Church Boards are maintaining for them. Tarle I. — Independent Negro Denominations Denominations. Number of Church Organiza- tions. Number of Members. Number of Sunday Schools. Members in Sunday School. Value of Property. ' Total 33,220 3,789,898 30,999 1,452,155 $45,191,422 Baptists, National Convention _ Colored Primitive Baptists in America.. . ... United American Freewill Baptists.. Church of God and Saints of Christ... Church of Liv. God (Christian Workers Friendship). Church of Living God (Apostolic Church) ... Church of Christ in God Voluntary Missionary Society in America (col.).. .. Free Christian Zion Church of Christ (colored) Union Methodist Church .. . . Union A. M. E. Church (colored) Independent Methodist Episcopal Church 18,534 797 251 48 44 15 9 3 15 36 77 2,261,607 35,076 14,489 1,823 2,676 752 848 425 1,835 4,000 4,347 1,500 620,000 5,592 568,608 240,798 3,059 4,397 18,066 17,910 166 100 1 43 13 6 3 7 35 78 924,665 6,224 3,307 150 886 585 289 390 340 1,000 3,372 24,437,272 296,539 79,278 6,000 23,175 25,700 9,700 2,400 5,975 30,000 170,150 African M. E. Church.. African Union Methodist Protestant Church. . . . African M. E. Zion Church.. Colored M. E. Church .... .... ..... Reformed Zion Union Apostolic Church (col.) Ref. Methodist Union Episcopal Church (col.) .. .. Colored Cumberland Presbyterian Church 6,647 69 3,180 3,196 45 58 196 6,285 66 3,100 2,900 36 54 196 292,689 5,266 107,692 95,000 1,508 1,792 7,000 11,303,489 183,697 4,833,207 3,500,000 37,875 36,965 210,000 Table II. — Negro Membership in White Denominations Denominations. Number of Churches. Members of Church. Number of Sunday Schools. Members in Sunday School. Value of Property. Total . 6,210 515,161 5,330 293,202 $12,103,655 Seventh-Day Adventists 29 562 26 529 100,000 Baptists, Northern Convention _ 10S 32,639 10,876 35,706 7,545 329 106 12,827 5,732 1,561,326 Free Baptists. . . .. 197 177 186,130 Primitive Baptists.. . _ . . 797 2,300 Christian (Christian Connection) 92 88 4,001 270 69,505 Church of God in N. America, Gen. Eldership 15 11 5,500 Congregationalists.. 156 11,960 9,705 1,528 490 174 10,339 4,319 459,497 170,265 Disciples of Christ .. . 129 117 Churches of Christ. 41 24 597 14,956 Independent Churches . .. 12 13 435 2,750 General Synod of Evan. Luth. Church in U. S. A Evangelical Luth. Synodical Conference of N. A Methodist Episcopal Church. 1 48 3,750 64 15 1,164 308,551 2,612 1,258 1 38 3,745 53 25 1,653 204,810 5,000 41,400 6,104,379 Methodist Protestant Church 1,650 62,651 Wesleyan Methodist Connection in America 22 16 769 21,000 Moravian Church (Unitas Fratrum) 2 351 2 217 8,000 Presbyterian Church in U. S. A 417 27,799 50 433 24,904 752,387 Cumberland Presbyterian Church .. . 1 1 75 1,000 Associate Reformed Synod in South 1 18 1 35 200 Presbyterian Church in U. S 44 1,183 42 1,160 32,850 Protestant Episcopal Church 198 19,098 188 13,779 1,773,279 Reformed Church in America 2 59 1 52 Reformed Episcopal Church 35 3,086 28 1,357 45,000 Roman Catholic Church* .. 36 38,235 277 33 3,151 678,480 Church of United Brethren in Christ 10 8 236 3,100 Evangelical Lutheran Joint Svnod 3 65 4 280 2,700 •Of Ohio and other stated. 80 Table III. — Colored Schools Classified on the Basis of Ownership and Control Ownership and Control. Number op SCHOOIS. Counted Attendance. Teachers and Workers. Income for Current Expenses. Value op. Property | Total. 1 Large or Important. Small or Less Important. Total. Elementary. Secondary. College and Professional. Total. White. Negro. All private and higher schools 747 3S8 359 107,206 SO, 376 24,189 2,641 5,851 1,358 4,493 84,241,572 $35,870,125 Public control 122 122 ... 23,527 9,812 12,662 1,053 1,317 38 1,279 1,215,112 7,373,179 Federal schools. 1 1 1,401 400 1,001 106 33 73 172,257 1,756,920 Land grant schools 16 16 4,875 2,595 2,268 12 400 400 544^520 2, 576; 142 State schools 11 11 2,638 1,466 1,132 40 188 2 186 246,834 1,394,547 City high schools 67 67 8,707 8,707 4S4 3 481 200,000 1,500,000 County training schools 27 27 ... 5,906 5,751 155 139 139 51 ',501 145,570 Private control 625 266 359 83,679 70,564 11,527 1,588 4,534 1,320 3,214 3,026,460 28,496,946 Independent schools 118 46 72 14,851 12,273 1,841 737 1,141 249 895 1,099,224 12,369,441 Denominational schools 507 220 287 68,828 58,291 9,686 851 3,390 1,071 2,319 1,927,236 16,127,505 Under white boards 354 160 39 51,529 43,605 7,188 736 2,562 1,069 1,493 1,546,303 13,822,451 Under negro boards 153 60 194 17,299 14,686 2,498 115 828 2 826 380,933 2,305,054 Table IV. — Colored Schools Maintained by States. Teacher-Training and Industrial Courses States. Location. Counted Attendance. Teachers. Income. Value of Property. Total. Elementary. Secondary. | College. Total. State Appropri- ation or Grant. Other Sources. Total 2,638 1,466 1,132 40 188 $246,834 $218,917 $27,917 $1,394,547 Alabama .. .. Montgomery 714 575 139 31 21,500 16,000 5,500 70,000 Kansas _ Topeka . 82 45 37 14 15,830 12,000 3,830 131,395 Do Quindaro . 106 27 79 26 38,148 28,766 9,382 $ 195,300 Maryland Bowie. 50 12 38 8 8,053 7,167 '886 ' 33,500 New Jersey Bordentown 93 72 21 18 27,755 27,755 99,159 North Carolina Elizabeth City 249 181 68 8 6,074 5,360 714 45,000 Do Fayetteville . _ . 227 174 53 7 5,544 4,969 575 38,700 Do Winston-Salem 165 78 87 10 5,258 4,900 358 51,700 Ohio Wilberforce.. 231 191 40 29 77,000 77,000 436,893 Virginia Petersburg 573 282 291 25 27.898 22,000 5,898 i- 233,900 West Virginia Bluefield 148 20 128 -- 12 13,774 13,000 774 59,000 Table V. — Schools Maintained by Land Grants. Agricultural and Mechanical Schools Total 4,875 2,595 2,268 -- 400 $544,520 $259,851 284,669 $2,576,142 Alabama Normal 264 179 85 27 29,209 22,695 6,514 182,500 Arkansas Pine Bluff 170 130 40 12 24,003 13,636 10,367 141,456 Delaware Dover 71 71 8 13,159 10,000 3,159 42,150 Florida Tallahassee 345 185 148 34 34,168 25,193 8,975 131,421 Georgia Savannah 390 280 110 21 25,369 16,667 8,702 68,449 Kentucky Frankfort . 234 108 126 19 22,327 8,505 13,822 156,700 Louisiana Baton Rouge 160 102 58 23 31,384 21,102 10,282 95,250 Maryland Princess Anne 123 38 85 12 15,528 10,000 5,528 44,950 Mississippi Alcorn . 484 337 147 24 47,774 36,774 11,000 258,500 Missouri... Jefferson City 264 122 142 33 42,162 3,125 39,037 226,375 North Carolina Greensboro.. 150 60 90 26 32,518 16,500 16,018 129,700 Oklahoma. Langston .. 408 219 189 28 46,400 10,400 36,000 153,827 South Carolina Orangeburg- 726 529 197 33 44,216 30,754 13,462 297,300 Tennessee. . Nashville 300 119 181 25 39,819 12,000 27,819 193,915 Texas Prairie View 552 115 437 46 49,985 12,500 37,485 237,200 West Virginia Institute . . . 234 72 162 _ _ 29 46,499 10,000 36,499 216,449 81 Table VI. — White Church Boards Maintaining Schools for Negroes Denominational Boards. Number op Schools. Counted Attendance. Teachers. Total. 1 Large or Important. Small or Less Important. Total. Elementary. Secondary. College. Total. White. Negro. Income for Current Expenses. Value of Propertt. 354 162 192 51,529 43,605 7,188 736 2,562 1,069 1,493 81,546,303 113,822,451 24 24 ... 5,536 3,186 2,100 250 419 139 280 304,861 3,870,744 1 1 125 125 14 11 3 7,746 16,500 5 3 2 440 409 31 37 15 22 29,910 184,602 29 29 6,922 5,448 1,380 94 383 212 171 235,764 1,733,589 8 6 2 1,642 1,444 198 ... 96 12 84 63,868 915,900 9 1 8 1,147 1,147 26 13 13 18,319 72,000 18 18 5,059 3,263 1,600 196 266 65 201 230,160 2,605,687 12 12 808 755 53 71 41 30 42,975 309,500 1 1 ... 202 82 106 14 19 6 13 23,050 125,000 85 32 53 8,915 7,833 930 152 423 84 339 200,124 2,151,321 1 1 51 30 21 5 5 7,300 51,000 24 10 14 2,988 2,720 268 ... 176 12 164 118,526 628,743 15 11 4 2,870 2,470 370 30 57 26 31 88,512 455,600 10 6 4 1,317 1,250 67 166 44 122 28,367 211,265 112 7 105 13,507 13,443 64 — 404 384 20 146,821 491,000 Total Baptist: American Home Missions Society Women’s Am. Home Mis sions Society Christian Woman’s Board Missions Congregation Am. Missionary Society Friends’ Society and other Friends’ Ag’y Lutheran Board for Colored Missions Methodist Episcopal: Freedman’s Aid Society. Woman’s Home Missionary Society Meth. Episcopal Church, South Presbyterian (N.) Board Mis for Freedmen Presbyterian (South) Protestant Episcopal United Pres. Ch. Bds. of Freed men’s Mis Seven small boards Roman Catholic Bd. of Mis Facts From the Tables 1. There are 28 State and Federal institutions of secondary and high grade. Of these, 16 are agricultural and mechanical schools. Their total income is $963,61 1, and the value of their property is $5,727,609. 2. There are 1 1 8 schools, 46 large and 72 small, controlled by independent boards of trustees, having an income of $1,099,224 and a value of $12,369,- 441. 3. There are in all 625 private schools, valued at $28,496,946, with a total at- tendance of 83,679, of whom 70,564 are elementary, 1 1,527 secondary, and 1,588 of college grade. 4. Negro denominations own and maintain 153 schools, 60 large and 93 small, valued at $2,303,054, and having an annual income of $380,933. 5. White denominations own and maintain 354 schools for negroes, of which 1 60 are classed as large and 194 as small, valued at $13,822,451, and having an annual income of $1,546,303. Our Obligation It is a moral obligation based generally upon the domestic and industrial relations of the two races in the South, and specifically upon the historic Church relation of our Church and the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church. 82 Needs 1. $250,000 for endowment, enlargement, and equipment of Paine College, Augusta, Ga., as follows: Endowment, $150,000; boys’ dormitory, $50,000; auditorium, $20,000; library, $10,000; gymnasium, $10,000; in- dustrial building, $10,000. 2. $50,000 for enlargement and equipment of Lane College, Jackson, Tenn., prop- erty of Colored Methodist Episcopal Church. 3. $50,000 for enlargement and equipment of Miles Memorial College, Birming- ham, Ala., property of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church. 4. $50,000 for enlargement and equipment of Texas College, Tyler, Tex., piop- erty of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church. 5. $50,000 for enlargement and equipment of Arkansas College, Pine Bluff, Ark., property of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church. 6. $50,0000 for enlargement and equipment of Mississippi Industrial College, Holly Springs, Miss., property of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church. Total Askings For negroes, $500,000. 83 Indians Indian Population in Southern States Total, 199,205, out of 336,000 in the United States. Oklahoma has 119,108; Arizona, 44,617; New Mexico, 20,853; North Carolina, 8,118; Missis- sippi, 1,253; Alabama, 909; Louisiana, 780; Texas, 702; and none other above 600. Schools Table II shows 92 schools, valued at $5,780,214, maintained by the government in Arizona, New Mexico, North Carolina, and Oklahoma, at an annual cost for teachers of $61 1 ,545. Tables III. and IV. give the population of the Five Civilized Tribes and the nine high-grade schools maintained by the gov- ernment for them. In the territory of these Five Tribes there were last year 2,285 public school districts, with 1 8, 1 85 pupils enrolled. The government’s appropriation to assist them was $275,000. Churches Table I. shows statistics of the Churches for the Indians in all the States. It is estimated that the pagan Indians number about 50,000, while another 1 00,- 000 are unclaimed as adherents to Christianity. Table I. — Statistics of the Indian Missions of the Protestant Churches of the United States, 1914 Boards and Societies. i , Baptist Northern... Baptist Southern. Christian Reformed Congregational Friends Independent Evan. Mission... Lutheran, Joint Synod Mennonite. Methodist Episcopal Methodist Episcopal, South... Moravian National Indian Association.. Norwegian Lutheran Norwegian Evan. Luth. Soc._ Presbyterian, Northern.. Presbyterian, Southern. Protestant Episcopal Reformed Church in America. Reformed Church in U. S. tr (German) Reformed Presbyterian Swedish Evang. Miss. Cov. of America United Presbyterian Y. M. C. A Y. W. C. A Total. Tribes. | Churches. Stations.* Or- dained Minis- ters. Com- mis- sioned Help- ers.! Communi- cants. Estimated Adher- ents. t Sunday Schools. r n Enroll- ment. Mission Schools. 1 Teachers and Helpers. Enroll- ment. White. Native. White. Native. Native. Mixed. Native. Mixed. Native. Mixed. 20 118 5 13 99 12 3 5,408 13,582 29 1,220 5 17 220 1 4 2 2 3 4 9 2 90 600 4 300 2 4 62 6 21 24 7 6 1 27 1,538 3,000 20 1,187 1 18 267 10 10 14 8 8 550 1,200 10 769 4 2 6 3 8 3 50 '200 4 81 1 1 9 1 2 2 4 6 4 120 900 4 500 4 4 92 4 6 11 12 2 4 250 560 7 388 25 45 47 25 10 7 15 2,500 6,000 45 1,750 6 20 9 95 15 5 32 2,875 7,187 38 766 3 36 8 2 10 '875 L688 6 514 7 11 18 7 '250 4 100 1 1 1 1 2 100 200 57 134 115 53 42 26 73 8,95^ 18,319 143 7,915 13 57 1,174 2 20 5 7 500 1,200 12 600 1 15 13 1 126 44 25 34 67 6,982 10,000 84 1,500 18 22 138 0 4 7 6 11 4 805 1 ,31S 6 400 1 1 1 1 9 40 1 30 3 1 3 1 ... 2 ... 74 ... 400 3 175 ... 1 5 45 ... 1 ] 1 44 150 1 2 2 3 2 1 1 152 200 4 200 115 2 2 14 2 175 456 556 211 222 152 229 31,880 ... 66,994 425 18,395 53 167 2,007 *, Stations are places where services are held or missions established, but no Churches organized. tllelpers are all unordained mission employees except those reported under heading of "Schools." tAnherents include all communicants, children of Church and Sunday school, and regular attendants at services. 84 Table II. — Indian Schools by Agencies for Year Ending June 30, 191 7. Name of Agency. Indian Population. Number of School Age. Number of Schools in Agency. | Boarding. >» C3 Q Total Enrollment. Average Attend- ance. Number. Indian. Te C .2 *5 c t— 1 i o Z ACHET s w Female. Salaries. Value of School Property. Arizona 44,617 12,581 47 12 35 4,618 3,688 390 124 266 168 222 55262,300 82, 237, 563 Camp Verde 439 117 2 2 74 52 4 4 3 i 3,140 4,585 Colorado River 1,207 371 1 i 103 89 13 6 7 5 8 8,550 70,655 Fort Apache 2,609 792 4 l 3 405 372 30 10 20 17 13 19,115 260,280 Fort Mojave 1 i 159 141 16 5 11 6 10 10,680 80,275 Havasupai 173 40 1 1 29 26 3 1 2 2 1 2,220 3,100 Kaibab 95 24 1 1 19 13 3 3 1 2 2,320 4,123 Leupp 1,536 587 1 i 113 91 12 5 7 4 8 8,520 70,325 Moqui 4,200 1,037 6 l 5 419 356 39 15 24 15 24 21,290 139,750 Navajo 12,080 4,411 5 l 4 709 616 68 30 38 28 40 43,220 373,414 Phoenix 1 i 942 631 73 16 57 33 40 54 740 668 373 Pima 6,253 1,613 10 l 9 570 430 43 12 31 19 24 27^800 115,767 Rice 1 i 253 201 23 10 13 11 12 15,940 104 783 Salt River 1,232 419 3 3 118 89 6 1 5 3 3 4,435 20,215 San Carlos 2,659 867 2 2 152 135 10 4 6 3 7 7,690 31,344 San Xavier 5,112 956 4 4 210 141 10 1 9 4 6 7,220 34,769 Truxton Canyon.. _ 457 147 1 i 107 101 14 3 11 4 10 9,510 138,540 Western Navajo. . 6,565 1,200 3 2 i 236 204 23 5 18 10 13 15,880 117,265 New Mexico 20,853 7,258 29 7 31 3,226 2,185 231 75 156 98 133 150,575 1,170,861 Albuquerque 1 1 473 43 44 14 30 22 22 31,110 251,985 Jicarilla 645 169 1 1 101 86 16 5 11 10 6 10,800 83,128 Mescalero 627 196 1 1 119 113 10 3 7 7 3 7,140 93,145 Pueblo Bonito 2,724 1,240 2 2 190 174 24 6 18 7 17 15,100 134,848 Pueblo Day 8,700 2,554 19 19 1,308 975 50 14 36 14 36 29,805 108,625 San Juan 6,354 2,579 2 2 306 190 26 8 18 11 15 17,310 177,330 Santa Fe _. 1 1 408 352 40 18 22 19 21 26,370 220,400 Zuni 1,803 520 2 1 1 321 252 21 7 14 8 13 12'940 104,400 North Carolina ... 2,282 752 5 1 4 358 243 29 10 19 16 13 17,610 120,765 Oklahoma 14,913 4,936 16 16 -- 2,507 2,000 286 78 208 130 156 181,060 2,251,025 Cantonment 785 223 1 1 128 85 11 4 7 4 7 3,300 39,533 Cheyenne and Arapaho. 1,252 346 1 1 __ 123 108 17 8 9 7 10 5,400 275,474 Chilocco 1 1 676 529 55 17 38 31 24 40,300 793,045 Kiowa... . . 4,554 1,404 4 4 649 553 72 14 58 33 39 45,100 399 j 851 Osage. 2,180 913 1 1 129 95 28 7 21 7 21 19,940 182,210 Otoe 578 166 1 1 84 70 12 1 11 6 6 8,020 63,000 Pawnee 714 203 1 1 73 66 16 5 11 6 10 11,160 104,278 Ponca 1,045 361 1 1 126 108 16 5 11 7 9 10,090 60,793 Redmoon.. .. . . 1 1 36 24 5 1 4 3 2 1,300 Sac and Fox 682 254 1 1 88 53 1 1 1 1,650 33,390 Seger ... _ ._ 758 206 1 1 97 77 18 3 15 7 li 11,200 164,542 Seneca. . 1,668 591 1 1 154 132 16 5 11 8 8 11,190 27,521 Shawnee ... 75“ 269 1 1 -- 144 100 19 8 11 10 9 12,280 107,388 Table III. — Five Civilized Tribes Nation. Grand Total. Restricted Class. Unrestricted Class. Full Bloods. Mixed J or More. 1 to i Total. Less than 1, Includ- ing Inter- Married Whites. Freedmen. Total. Chickasaw... .. .. Choctaw. . .. . . Mississippi Choctaw. .. .. Cherokee .. ... . . ... ._ Creek. . ._ Seminole Total... _ . ... 10,966 25,168 1,660 41,824 18,761 3,127 1,515 7,087 1,357 8,703 6,858 1,254 258 709 90 1,803 541 133 708 1,644 30 2,975 1,157 345 2,481 9,440 1,477 13,481 8,556 1,732 3,823 9,699 183 23,424 3,396 409 4,662 6,029 4,919 6,809 986 8,485 15,728 183 28,343 10,205 1,395 101,506 26,774 3,534 6,859 37,167 40,934 23,405 64,339 85 Table IV. — Government Schools for Five Civilized Tribes Boabdibb Scbool*. Enroll- ment. AT*r»s« Attend- »»e«. Number. d <« •3 a Ex d .2 i 'O c a o ^ Z EPLOY1 jj 13 a ■0. ji is Q 9 Salarlei. Valob. Armstrong Male Academy 142 95 16 4 12 7 9 $10,420 $ 52,836 Cherokee Orphan School - .. 170 126 15 4 11 5 10 9,700 49,556 Euchee Boarding School 124 no 14 14 5 9 9,293 38,525 Euf aula Boarding School _ _ 124 106 14 14 2 12 8,580 32,930 Jones Male Academy 125 103 14 ii 7 7 7 9,720 31,500 Mekusukey Academy _ 141 100 16 _ 16 6 10 9,840 55,696 Nuyuka Boarding School 126 105 15 3 12 6 9 9,375 29,211 Tuskahoma Female Academy ... 123 103 15 15 4 11 9,270 39,855 Wheelock Female Academy 129 101 16 2 14 3 13 9,525 34,006 Total for Five Tribes 1,204 949 135 24 115 45 90 $85,723 $361,115 Church Schools for Indians ARIZONA Roman Catholics: 5 day schools, 142 enrolled; 2 boarding schools, 458 en- rolled. Evangelical Lutheran: 3 day schools, 81 enrolled. Presbyterian: 1 day school, 47 enrolled; 1 boarding school, 147 enrolled. Christian Reformed : 1 boarding school, 70 enrolled. NEW MEXICO Roman Catholic: 2 boarding schools, 310 enrolled. Christian Reformed: 1 day school, 37 enrolled. OKLAHOMA Roman Catholic: 3 boarding schools, 155 enrolled. Reformed Presbyterian: 1 boarding school, 16 enrolled. Our Immediate Duty 1 . Provide a school to train religious teachers, leaders, and preachers for the In- dians of all tribes at an outlay of at least $150,000. 2. Put our Indian Work on a basis commensurate with the claim upon our Church and our capability to meet that claim. 86 Cities Facts About the Cities 1. Our Church operates in 27 cities having populations of over 50,000 each, with a total of practically 5,000,000. 2. Southern States have 48 cities of over 25,000 each, with a total of 3,570,770. Of these, 13 have more than 100,000 and 6 about 250,000. There are 70 small cities that have from 10,000 to 25,000 inhabitants. 3. Of the 13,900,470 immigrants in the United States in 1910, 9,640,000 lived in cities. 4. Wealth, social distinctions, labor strifes, saloons, commercialized vice, political rings, leaders of commerce, makers of literature and art — possibilities and perils — find their first place in the cities. 5. Churches face in the city the problem of the non-churchgoing masses, the indif- ference of capitalists, the contempt of the industrial workers, the moral desti- tution of the slum, the religious illiteracy of the poor, the competition of places of amusement, the enemies of multiplied forms and power. Half of the city population seldom, if ever, enter a church. Our Methodism Lacks 1 . A city policy intelligently based upon a well-wrought-out purpose. 2. Correlation and co-ordination of its city Churches in the city with any view to mobilization, re-enforcement, and avoidance of overlapping any section. 3. A missionary program of anything like comprehensives cope for the evangeliza- tion and Christianization of any city. 4. Organization of its forces and resources in the city into a unifying body for any intelligent, constructive, continuous work of Christian propaganda. Some Clamorous Needs 1 . New Orleans, with 350,000 people, needs $50,000 a year for five years. 2. St. Louis, with 700,000 inhabitants, needs $50,000 a year for five years. 3. Louisville, with 250,000, needs at least $25,000 a year for five years. 4. El Paso, San Antonio, and Tampa, border cities with unlimited opportunities for reaching immigrants, need $50,000 a year for five years. 5. Birmingham, Memphis, Atlanta, Nashville, and Oklahoma City need $50,000 a year for five years. 6. Every city of 50,000 or more need like comprehensive scope for the evangeliza- tion. Asking* No askings can be made until a policy is adopted. City boards must first be organized. But within five years the cities of the South must have $1,500,- 000 for mission plants and operations. 87 Christian Literature True and Alarming 1. Protestantism by its liberality is being dissipated by poorly founded religious views. 2. Spurious doctrines based upon inadequate or false interpretations of Holy Scrip- tures are quite prevalent, especially in poorly churched communities. 3. Fallacies in Christian teachings are taking root in backward communities be- cause the Church is not giving proper and adequate instruction. 4. Abnormal religious life is being built upon false theories of religious experience. 5. Fundamental Christian doctrines are being neglected in many places in the stress upon sectarian claims and denominational differences. 6. Christian doctrines need exposition and re-enforcement. The Neglect is Censurable 1 . Immigrants in America receive no adequate instruction in the teachings, polity, and workings of the American Churches. 2. Roman Catholics do not know what Protestants really believe, and they are not being aided into a proper knowledge of Christianity as Protestants hold it. 3. Protestants in the majority of cases do not know the real meaning of Roman Catholic doctrines and are in no condition to give them help. 4. Indians have no literature in their own languages, and very little simply written religious literature is ever furnished them in the English language. 5. Negroes as a class are victims of superstitions and unintelligent religious notions and must long remain so unless aided by carefully prepared and well-distrib- uted religious literature. 6. Workmen in labor unions require a new message from the Church which only well-prepared literature can deliver. 7. Belated people of all classes and races in the country about the rims of the towns, in religiously destitute sections of the cities, in the mountains, and in and about factories greatly need the instruction in religion which only Chris- tian literature can fully supply. Teach the People 1 . What Protestants really believe and teach. 2. What Roman Catholics really believe and teach. 3. What is true and what is false about Christian Science. 4. What is true and what is false about Russel lism and all other forms of millen- nialism. 5. What is true and what is false about “Holy Rollerism,” “Speaking With Tongues,” “Faith-Healing,” and kindred subjects, which frequently engage the well-meaning but untutored in backward communities. 6. What Methodism believes, teaches, and stands for in doctrine, polity, and service. Total Askings For Christian Literature, $20,000 a year for five years, or $ 1 00,000. Miscellaneous The West Will be provided for out of regular income of the Department of Home Missions and the Board of Church Extension. Church Buildings and Parsonages This work is under the Board of Church Extension and by it will be cared for. Factory Communities 1 . Hie South has 600 cotton mills, with 1 1 ,860,000 spindles. Massachusetts is first in number. South Carolina second, North Carolina third, Georgia fourth, and Alabama fifth. The South has 1 50,000 cotton mill operators and 700,- 000 in cotton factory communities. 2. The Conference Boards of Missions in these States have been providing for these persons, but the entire Church should give assistance. 3. Textile Industrial Institute, Spartanburg, S. C., is a unique institution that allows pupils to study one week and work one week in the cotton factory, alternately. The plant is worth about $100,000. The Church might well put $150,000 into this institution. None is more worthy nor will probably show larger dividends upon the investment. Total Askings For Textile Industrial Institute, $150,000. Department of Home Missions EFFICIENCY PROGRAM FOR FIVE YEARS (In addition to present income) 1 7 I 7- I 'fi.D faJZ) !o(Y\L JS** z.3 pt > * * * Mountain population $ 750,000 ^ / 3 7’ / Immigrant population 900,000; / ® ^ * Negroes 500,000-. / 0 ■ 6 ' Indians 150,000; Christian literature 1 00,000 - p ,, , b ITiS* Cotton mill population \j> 0,000 Supplement to salaries Z$f0,000 $5,400,000 Analysis of Above MOUNTAIN WORK 1 0 schools under Conference ownership and control need $100,000 each. Only $50,- 000 each is asked for. To carry on religious and social service work needed by the mountain population will re- quire not less than $50,000 a year. FOREIGNERS 3 schools for Mexicans need $ 1 00,000 each. 30 churches needed will require $100,000. The missions and missionaries needed will call for $50,000 a year. 40 night schools to teach adults English will cost $50,000 a year. NEGROES Paine College needs $150,000 for endowment and $100,000 for buildings and equipment. 5 schools of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church should have $50,000 each. INDIANS A school to train religious teachers, leaders, and preachers for the Indians of all tribes needed and would cost $150,000. TEXTILE INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTE Textile Industrial Institute, Spartanburg, S. C., for cotton mill operatives, should have $150,000. CHRISTIAN LITERATURE Nothing is needed more than Christian leaflet literature for distribution in religiously neg- lected communities. SUPPLEMENT TO SALARIES To raise 866 salaries now $400 or less to $600 will require more than 1 73,200 a year. To raise 485 salaries now $401 to $500 up to $600 will require more than $48,500 a year. To raise 588 salaries now $601 to $700 up to $1 ,000 will require more than $1 76,400 a year. To raise 637 salaries now $701 to $800 up to $ 1,000 will require more than $127,400 a year. To raise 180 salaries now $801 to $900 up to $1,000 will require more than $18,000 a year. & 0 » BOARD of CHURCH EXTENSION 91 The Foreign Field The surveys from the foreign fields indicate that one of the special features in the Missionary Centenary Movement is to be a great evangelistic drive in important and strategic centers throughout all our foreign fields, culminating in the building of a large number of churches and parsonages. The following is a list of churches and parsonages which have been asked for the foreign fields: BRAZIL: number needed 94 16 CHINA: Number needed 52 31 CUBA: Number needed 4 1 1 JAPAN: Number needed 40 35 KOREA: Number needed 50 25 MEXICO: Number needed 13 5 Total need in foreign field 253 123 The Home Field There are 2,420 homeless congregations, and there are 1,600 homeless preachers. Total church buildings needed, home and foreign fields, 2,673. An average of $200 to each congregation to aid in ' Iding makes a total of $ 534,600 A total of 1,723 parsonages is needed in the home and foreign fields. An average of $150 to aid in building each parsonage makes a total of 258,450 There is needed an average of $2,500 to aid in constructing insti- tutional church buildings in 40 industrial centers, making a total of 100,000 Twenty cities are in need of aid in housing congested industrial cen- ters to the amount of an average of more than $5,000 each ... 1 06,950 Total amount urgently needed above regular income of the Board during the next five years $ 1 ,000,000 LOAN FUND The present demand on the Loan Fund capital of the Board is four times as much as the present $1,1 06,389.8 1 will care for. That the work in the home and foreign fields may be adequately done, there is urgent demand for an increase in this fund of . . . 1 ,000,000 Total $2,000,000 92 c Uhe CENTENARY of AMERICAN METHODIST MISSIONS Address Delivered Before World Program Committee at Memphis , Term. By BISHOP JAMES ATKINS 93 The Centenary of American Methodist Mis- sions; or, Making Democracy Safe for the World The Church of Christ confronts to-day the largest times in all its history. Even the apostolic period is surpassed by the fact that the very successes of the Church have become the burden of its existence and the menace of its future. It is true that the Apostolic Church also faced a world to be conquered, but there is a much larger world now than then and one much more difficult to conquer. The intervening ages of devel- opment have brought to life and to intrenchment, if not to positive enthronement, pow- ers of resistance which at first lay beyond the reach of men’s imagination. The vitaliz- ing forces of Christianity misdirected have made the foes of religion vastly stronger than they could have been otherwise. “Civilization” uncivilized is more nearly invinci- ble than was the bald barbarism of the earlier times. We are called upon to live and act at the very crux of this terrible period. The catastrophe of the ages is on in the presence of the well-nigh universal embroilment in which the race is involved. The situation awakes the prophet in the breast of every thoughtful man. The wide- ness of the outlook and the unfolding tragedies that lie within it bewilder the largest eyes and cause the strongest hearts to tremble; and yet, terrible as the vision is, we cannot but look. It is true that none will dare to foretell when the end will come or what will be the exact settlement of the political and civic issues involved, but all can see that with the breaking up of the old order a new and larger one must come. Nor can there be any doubt that this new order will bring the largest opportunity for the recasting of civilizations that has come to men. The very chaos of the world’s life is calling upon men to exercise their genius for order and organization as never before. While the disorganized state of all human affairs is crying aloud for reorganization and thus challenging the best thought of the most far-visioned men, let us be attent to hear God’s voice to His Church as He speaks to us through the roar of cannon and the crash of nations. A DEMOCRACY SAFE FOR THE WORLD One of the largest of President Wilson’s many wonderful utterances is that in which he stated the aim of America in entering upon this unparalleled war when he said the purpose was “to make the world safe for democracy.” This is truly the largest civic enterprise that has ever engaged the forces of civiliza- tion. That nations, without regard to their territorial extent or military powers, shall be allowed to work out their destiny according to the peculiar genius of each, without fear of being dominated or possibly destroyed by adverse imperial powers, is a consum- mation worthy of all the vast costs of the achievement. It is easy to see that the out- come will be a civic, political, and economic order which will surpass all the pipe dreams of the world’s Utopian statesmen. This is the task of the Entente armies and of those who stand back of them in this titanic struggle. The task of the Church may be well expressed by a simple reversion of the terms in Mr. Wilson’s statement. “The task of the Church is to make democracy safe for the world.” This is, indeed, the larger and the longer task. The mere production of repub- lican forms of government is not enough. The republic of Mexico was bom of a sudden revolution, and for lack of an intelligent and faithful citizenship it is to this day failing to meet the just expectation of the world. The republic of China sprang up like Jonah’s gourd in a night and perished like it in a day. The revolution in Russia quickly set aside a despotic Czar; but the democracy, for the lack of prepared citizenship and seasoned leadership, has run a wild career of dishonesty, treachery and butchery that is enough to make even the deposed Czar blush for shame of his people and to feel that a sufficient penalty has been visited upon those who dethroned him. ■■■■" - ' " '■ ■- F 94 The safety of democracy for the world depends wholly upon the character of the democracy. The task of the Church, therefore, is, by its evangelical and educational processes, to transform the citizenship of the world into preparedness for meeting the issues of this new and larger scheme of life. This, of course, embraces not only the conversion of the heathen world, but also the readjustment of the so-called Christian nations on the basis of the altruistic ideals of the gospel of Christ LEADERS WAKING UP It is gratifying to note that the leaders of the Church are already beginning to recog- nize the need of a larger program if the situation on the religious side is to be adequately met. The startling facts which are calculated to stir the Church to its depths are two. The first of these is the humiliating fact that all the nations involved in this struggle are, with the exception of the Ottoman vassal, the Christian nations. The other is that the nature of the conflict is involving the violation of everything taught by Christ on the scale hitherto undreamed of in the annals of war. The first of these facts goes to show that the peace of the world is not safe until nations are so far enlightened and spiritualized as to recognize the authority of the gospel of Christ. The occurrence of such a war does not prove that Christianity has in it no power to guide the life of nations even as it does that of individuals and communities, but it proves only that some of these so-called Christian nations were not as Christian as they were supposed to be and as they thought themselves. This situation alone, if there were no outlying heathen domains to be con- quered, would impose upon the Church a task of evangelization and education vaster than any yet conceived of. But when we turn to include in this view the millions of heathen who look dumbly on this scene and await the voice of Christianity to explain these orgies of hate and to bring them beyond it, we are appalled at the vastness of the undertaking. But as we face these stupendous issues let us not forget that the task assigned to the Church by Christ, its Founder, was to do the “impossible.” The power to do this has been exemplified in all circles. The individual who cannot by all incentives, inducements, education, and coercion be changed of his spots is instantly made a new creature in Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit, and the same Spirit works to the same end in communities and nations. He unto whom all power is given in heaven and on earth, He who said, “Go, disciple all nations,” He at whose resurrection the graves gave forth their “sheeted dead” in testimony of His power to conquer even death. He, the express Image of the Father’s glory, is with us. He pledges all wisdom, all power, and all resources necessary to fulfill the Father’s promise in Him through us. The time has come for an enlarged interpretation of Paul’s victorious cry: “I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.” And the only becoming battle cry for the Church in the presence of these mammoth issues is that of the Psalmist: “The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge.” I began with the statement that these are the largest times in the history of the world and have already spoken a mere word as to the greatness of the issues involved and of the antagonisms to be met. I have done this because it is never wise to underestimate the strength of an enemy or minimize the size of a work to be done. But there is another side which has in it all the elements necessary for the heartening of courageous men. Let us take a glance at the merely human elements which belong to the problem. THE LARGENESS OF OUR WEALTH The nation’s wealth, while easily within the reach of mathematical calculation, has gone beyond the reach of human conception. It is easy to call the figures, but impossible to grasp the notion. The wealth of the United States now approximates $250,000,000,- 000 and is increasing at a rate, especially in the last three years, that bewilders financiers. It is commonly agreed that we are now coming into possession of enough free capital to begin fairly the development of our immense resources. We are now by far the richest nation on earth, and the close of this century may find us as rich as all others combined. 95 If it be assumed, as it reasonably may be, that the members of the American Churches share equally with the outside millions in the ownership and direction of this wealth, we may come to see something of their power and their consequent responsibility in its use. The two great Methodisms of this country which are joining in the celebration of this Centenary of Methodist Missions now number more than 6,000,000 members. According to the per capita measure, they would thus be in control of about six per cent, of the national wealth, or approximately $15,000,000,000. THINKING IN LARGE FIGURES The language of our common life is forcing our thought into broader fields. Tire astronomers, when calculating the distance of the heavenly bodies, make a million of miles the unit, one. Our larger financiers are making a million of dollars the unit of their calcu- lations. We talk in millions, hundreds of millions and billions. When the first billion-dollar Congress finished its work, the vastness of the sum was sounded forth not only through the ranks of the political parties, but round the whole earth. Now we raise billions a year for war by taxation and many other billions otherwise, and nobody is alarmed, nobody is even surprised. MOVING AS ONE One of the most striking features of this time of stress is that it is causing men to move together as never before. The magnitude of the undertaking calls for united action and gives birth to vast common impulses which are making every man realize his partner- ship in all the movements of the hour. The ennobling and empowering effect of this consciousness can scarcely be overrated. It is making larger men every day. It is multiplying the ordinary unit of life beyond its normal strength and thus in large measure making the race anew. He is an insensible man who does not feel the touch and thrill of this mighty impulse. IT IS EASY TO DO LARGE THINGS Men are finding out, to the great benefit of progress, that it is easier to do a large thing than a small one. The reason underlying this fact is not far to find. Men of large intellect who are capable of creating and managing large estates and businesses are, by all habits of thought, opposed to piddling. To piddle at their own affairs would, they know, ruin their fortunes. Therefore when small enterprises, however innocent or even good, are proposed, they do, if anything, only the small thing demanded. When, on the other hand, the enterprise is truly great, it inspires their respect, engenders their enthusi- asm, and commands their resources. Even to this time the chief fault of the Church on the economic side has been the lowness of its demands. The ministerial leadership has failed to comprehend and reveal the vastness of the work to be done and to preach the whole gospel of Christ concerning wealth, and the laymen have been too easily content to live at ease under the protection of these false standards. THE LAYMAN’S DAY It is a fortunate fact that just at the time when we are called to deal with these large events the laymen are coming into places of power in the councils of the Church. They are already in position to think for the Church in the large terms which belong to the world of economics. They are coming to realize also the force of the old doctrine of the political economists that a dollar is the equivalent of a man’s day’s work and that dollars are not dead substances to be juggled with or gambled with, but living forces capable of being directed to the achievement of all manner of human good or human ill. It will be a blessed day, not only for religion, but for the business and social life of the world, when laymen recognize the truth that a man, by the consecration of his business to the service of God and mankind, may lead a life as truly apostolic in its spirit and outcome as if he bore the parchments of ordination or occupied a pulpit throne. Jesus, the Founder of 96 the kingdom, in His most extraordinary system of economics has commanded us to lay up for ourselves treasure in heaven. On close analysis we find it impossible to do this except in one way. No man can take any of his treasure with him except such as has been produced in his own character by the use he has made of his treasure here. There is not in the whole length of the river Styx a single ferryboat which can transport so much as one grain of gold out of this world into the next. Nor can any man go forward and bring his treasures later. No dead hand can manage a living business, and especially this business. The only way to lay up treasure in heaven is to send it ahead of us, and there is only one way in which this can be done. Nothing can cross out of this material world into the immaterial and eternal world except personalities. It follows, therefore, that the only way we can send our treasure ahead is to put it into persons. And is not this the very thing about which all the work of the Church is conversant as it seeks through education and missions to uplit and save the world? NO LONGER A POOR CHURCH We are still working too largely under standards which were established amidst the desolations following the War between the States. Then and thereafter we acquired the habit of thinking of ourselves as a poor Church. I can remember when there was but a single reputed millionaire in our communion, and he w r as more noted for what he kept than for what he gave. We have now grown rich. We have scores, if not hundreds, of members whose wealth has passed the million mark, while our total membership averages large in its holdings and productiveness. There is now no reason why in financial mat- ters we may not measure up to all the reasonable demands of the kingdom of God. Any failure to do so must be accounted for in some other direction. Both our souls and our ecclesiasticism are being frightfully endangered by the luxuries and aimlessness of life which our wealth has brought. There is a way out of this danger, but we must pay high to travel the road that leads to safety. THE NEED OF THE HOUR The greatest need of the hour is a money conscience. Many seem to have lost the sense of their relation to God in making and using of money. Jesus taught with the utmost emphasis that we hold all our gifts and possessions, even life itself, as mere stew- ards of his; and yet in all the wide fields of demand we are not approximating even the Jewish law of the tithe. Very few have even considered the question of genuine sacri- fice in the use of their money, and yet the law of sacrifice is the law of life in the king- dom of God. To become poor in order to make others rich is a test which surpasses that of the stake and the fagot. The heroism of giving is at once the highest in quality and least in quantity. We have many among us who by startling gifts need to purchase lib- erty bonds and escape from the thraldom of a withering and blighting selfishness. The object about which this meeting is conversant is not a subscription nor a collec- tion nor anything of that nature. It is that a company of carefully selected laymen may, after having submitted to them thoroughly made estimates of the needs of the various mission fields at home and abroad, determine what amount we should undertake to raise per annum for a period of five years. It is not my purpose to say so much as a word in regard to the estimates that are to be submitted to you as the basis of your work here. But it is well to note at the outset that we are now raising between $2,000,000 and $2,500,000 per year for home and foreign missions and Church extension — that is, about one dollar per capita for all three purposes. The situation which now confronts us and the one with which you are called to deal is that all mission fields and almost every enter- prise within each field are so hampered by lack of funds that further progress is almost impossible. This meeting is preparatory to a proper celebration of the Centenary of American Methodist Missions. Both the great Methodist Episcopal Churches are joining in the movement and are doing so in a spirit of most beautiful and ennobling fraternity and with 97 a single aim. That aim is not to produce a great pageant, either scenic or verbal, but to plan for a wiser and larger work than has ever been conceived of before by the people called Methodists. Two great union meetings have been already provided for, one in the North and one in the South, with similar programs and the same purpose. You, gentlemen, have been selected and called together for the purpose of consider- ing the data to be submitted to you from all our fields and then — after counsel and much prayer, I trust — to come forth and sound the keynote and to ring forth the bugle blast that is to rouse more than 2,000,000 Southern Methodists to the mightiest and most glo- rious task in all our history. I have delayed till the last to utter the most important word of all — namely, that if we are to accomplish that large results for which this movement calls, we need to be very much in prayer — prayer that our faith may be enriched and enlarged to grasp in good measure the vastness of God’s purpose in this providential occasion, prayer that our love may be fanned into a burning and irresistible passion for the salvation of men. After the size of our task has been determined, the first step will be the organization of a prayer circle in which millions will join daily in asking God’s help in the achievement of all our hopes for the good of mankind. If six millions of Methodists baptized with the Spirit go from their knees to any task, it shall be done. Let us adopt now for our communion and all Methodists Paul’s great prayer for the Ephesians : “That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him; having the eyes of your heart enlightened, that ye may know what is the hope of His calling, what the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what the exceeding greatness of His power to reward who believe, according to that working of the strength of His mind which He wrought in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead, and made Him to sit at His right hand in heavenly places, far above all rule, and authority, and power, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come.” “Now unto Him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, unto Him be the glory in the Church and in Christ Jesus unto all generations forever and ever. Amen.” 98 FINDINGS OF THE COMMITTEE OF ONE HUNDRED on the WORLD PROGRAM MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE MARCH 1 9-2 1 1918 99 Report of Committee on Findings The situation, in the light of the great war, is extraordinary, as it affects the nations of the earth from a political, an economic, and a social standpoint. Readjustment and re- construction following this war are inevitable. The forces at work are world-wide in their sweep and significance and are potential for evil or for good as they are ignored and neglected on the one hand or measured and mastered on the other. If supreme and heroic efforts be not put forth at this juncture, the powers of darkness will be organized and intrenched as never before. We cannot afford to wait. It is the Church’s supreme opportunity. She must rise to the emergency, shape events with a master hand, re-en- force her missionary workers in every field and in every department of Christian activ- ity, adequately equip her institutions at home and abroad, and plant her standards in every field, until she shall have fulfilled the imperial command to preach the gospel to every creature. All power is with God, and the timing of events is also with Him. We are pro- foundly convinced that the hour has struck when the evangelization of the world should be undertaken with renewed zeal, enlarged faith, and a substantial prospect of its being carried to an early and complete consummation. It is this world-wide enterprise for which the Church stands, upon its faithful prosecution the very existence of the Church depends, and to such a task the Church must give her strength and her very life or fail in her alle- giance to her Lord. To Him, therefore, and to this enterprise, we hereby pledge our time, our energies, our gifts, and our prayers. The call to advance rings down the line and, by a remarkable providence, comes at the very time when the Board of Missions has thrown off its indebtedness and when this Board and the Board of Church Extension have added largely to their available assets. We would fully indorse and give emphasis to the action of the Board of Missions in constituting a Centenary Commission and would recommend that the Commission, under the approval of the Board, lay the missionary situation, its claims and its urgent demands, before the approaching General Conference and request that body by special action to give emphasis to this great world program of missions which is due the great commission of our Lord under which the Church has received her marching orders. By every token the Church must go forward, press the battle, occupy the field so providentially prepared, and carry home the message until every creature shall know that Jesus Christ is able to save to the uttermost. To hesitate is to fail in the supreme hour of opportunity. To stand still is to imperil every step already taken. The Church must follow her Lord and go forward. In order that the purpose of the Centenary Celebration may be carried out we rec- ommend, without attempting to prescribe details, that the following lines of endeavor be undertaken: I. INTERCESSION The world crisis and our tremendous resources of men and money create an unprece- dented responsibility, but to depend upon mere human resources would in this spiritual enterprise be presumptive. Spiritual resources infinitely outweigh the material. Christ Himself indicated the order of procedure when He commanded His disciples to pray for laborers. Through prayer we come into harmony with God’s will and have his co-opera- tion in finding laborers and in bringing ourselves under the enlightening and strengthen- ing guidance of His Holy Spirit. Realizing our past shortcomings, we should first seek pardon for failures and lack of faith and then daily and hourly call upon God for help in this crisis of Christianity. We desire to enlist the prayers of all our people for greater zeal and consecration, for a large increase in the number of missionaries, for larger liberality in offerings, and for the dedication of the so-called secular activities of our people to spiritual ends. We commend the plans already in use by the Commission’s Department of Spiritual Resources and Intercession for prayer covenants and the forma- tion of prayer leagues in our Annual, District, Quarterly, and Church Conferences and 100 the creation and circulation of adequate literature setting forth the place of prayer in Christ’s plan for saving the world. Let us advance on our knees. II. PUBLICITY The power of the press today is almost incalculable. Movements, great and small, depend on the co-operation of the press. This movement expects, and undoubtedly will have, the full support of our press. Never was the secular press so eager for Church news. This, the most potential movement of Methodism, is such a heroic challenge that the press will doubtless clamor for its thrilling narratives. We therefore urge our pastors and other leaders to utilize all possible aid of the secular press. We believe that our Board of Missions is justified in employing publicity experts; and we suggest, in view of the valuable and necessary service rendered to all our enter- prises by the Church press, that the General Conference be urged to devise plans for the more adequate support and larger circulation of our Church papers. It is assumed that every pulpit and every organization in the Church will become a medium of publicity and that every member, from the chief pastors to the humblest members, will become heralds of this mighty missionary movement. III. STEWARDSHIP AND FINANCE Recognizing that we hold our property, not as absolute owners, but as stewards, and believing that our marvelous financial prosperity, without precedent in all history, is a definite challenge to our faithfulness, and appreciating the opportunity to transmute material and perishable things into spiritual and eternal values, we direct the attention of our people to the world’s inviting field and ask for investment commensurate with our means and adequate to the needs of our missionary enterprise. We appreciate the splendid surveys prepared by our Secretaries, with the co-opera- tion of our missionaries; and having carefully considered the askings of our several mis- sion fields as presented through officers of our Board of Missions and Board of Church Extension, we are convinced that the aggregate of estimates is conservative and will barely meet our immediate necessities. We therefore recommend that the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, under the auspices of its Centenary Commission, raise as a Centenary Fund $4,000,000 a year for five years, making a total of $20,000,000. We further recommend that the present regular income of approximately $2,000,000 a year — $10,000,000 for the five years — be added to the $20,000,000, making a grand total of $30,000,000 as the goal for five years. The titanic struggle for liberty and democracy into which our country has been precipitated has brought with it new and enlarged responsibilities in America and across the sea, in France, Belgium, Italy, Serbia, and Russia. The heroic spirit of our soldiers and of our people fires our patriotism afresh and inspires us to a renewed sense of obli- gation to sacrificial service. We heartily indorse the action of our College of Bishops in authorizing war work at home and abroad. In view of the rapidly growing demands for chaplains, camp work- ers and their equipment, hospitals, trained nurses, and a personal ministry in camp and in field, and in view of the possibilities growing out of new and inviting fields for evan- gelistic effort in Europe and the Near East, we would recommend the additional sum of $1,000,000 a year for five years, making a grand total of $35,000,000 as a minimum, and that no maximum limit be fixed. We recommend that all our plans for the raising of these additional funds be so laid and operated as not to hinder but to help in elevating the Church’s normal yearly in- come to at least double the present amount, so that we shall be in position at the end of five years to take care of the increased yearly demand on our Board growing out of the five year’s extraordinary expansion. 101 These recommendations are made with the full understanding that the most thor- ough and businesslike financial organization be created by the proper Church authorities and that the raising of the money is to be utilized in the development of the spiritual life of our people, so that they shall be prepared for greater undertakings in every depart- ment of Church activity. IV. ENLISTING WORKERS Hie need of men and women of capacity, courage, high purpose, and deep conse- cration is even greater than the need of money. With the unparalleled demands of the changing order and a world undergoing reconstruction, we are convinced that steps should be taken to enlist for Christian service at home and abroad our best-equipped young men, either now exempt from military duty or hereafter returning from Europe, and many heroic women who are even now ready to serve their Church and their country. V. A PROGRAM FOR AMERICAN METHODISM We heartily concur in the recommendation of the Niagara Conference of the Centenary Commission of the Methodist Episcopal Church that a joint meeting be held at some early date for the formulation of a world program for American Methodism, and we suggest that an appropriate occasion for such a meeting be the Conference of One Thousand to be held at Junaluska, June 26-30. VI. DEPUTATION WORK It is the sense of this meeting that as high strategy for the clearer understanding and more effective promotion of the world program of American Methodism, strong deputations of our laymen, together with pastors and bishops, be secured for immediate special visitation of our work in other lands and that, so far as possible, these visitations be conducted jointly with the Methodist Episcopal Church. To that end we hereby re- quest the Joint Centenary Commission of the two Churches to make adequate provision for the enlistment of such deputation. VII. PERSONAL PREPARATION In view of the supernatural element in all this work of world-wide missions in which the aim is to present Jesus Christ, we would recommend that the greatest possible em- phasis be placed upon devotional Bible study, the deepening of the spiritual life, and that intercession which releases the power of God without which we cannot do the work of God. W. R. Lambuth, Chairman; A. C. MlLLAR, Secretary; R. E. Turnipseed, O. E. Goddard, Belle Bennett, L. G. Glyde, J. S. Carr, Thomas S. Southgate, J. J. Gray, P. M. Enochs, W. H. Stockham. 102 ACTION REGARDING CENTENARY GENERAL CONFERENCE ATLANTA, GEORGIA MAY, 1918 thirty-five 'Trillions for tf&issions 103 General Conference Action Regarding the Centenary In response to memorials from the Board of Missions, the Board of Church Exten- sion, and the Laymen’s Missionary Movement concerning a Missionary Centenary, your Committee on Missions makes the following deliverances and recommendations: As a General Conference we meet at a time when the age-old contest between Christianity and heathenism has drenched the world in blood, and the powers of darkness threaten to engulf humanity in a mighty cataclysm. All Europe is bleeding. Lands despoiled, cities burned, homes destroyed, husbands dead, widows in mourning, children starving, schools closed, vice rampant, poverty everywhere, the hearts of men are sore and broken. Throughout the earth the children of men are in gloom and despair. They raise their helpless hands toward heaven and ask: “Is God dead? Where is Christian- ity, that all this ruin and gloom have come upon us?” In the midst of this wreck and despair is the Church of God to pursue the even tenor of its way, with no heroism to match that of the soldier boys who have buckled on the sword and gone forth to give their lives in order that the world may be free? Is the Church to say that the government is doing all that America needs to do for the broken and despoiled and despairing peoples of Europe and the rest of the world? Does our Church have no distinctive work to do for them? The world that existed prior to the international earthquake will never be the same again. No man can go through a great trial in which every faculty of mind and spirit and body is put to the extremest test and afterwards be the same man he was before that trial began. The same is true of peoples and nations and Churches. This great world trial will prove the savior of life unto life or death unto death, not only as to nations, but as to Churches, ours among the others. To wrap ourselves in comfortable complacency means that our salt will lose its savor and that corrosive selfishness will eat our spiritual life. The Church of God has always gone where sorrow and suffering abound. Her commission is, and was the commission of her Lord, “to preach the gospel to the poor, to proclaim release to the captives, the recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, and to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.” In this hour of world-wide gloom and sorrow it is the duty of our Church to proclaim to the broken- hearted peoples that there is a balm in Gilead. It should be her joy, as it wall be her glorious honor, to cure souls that are sore and sick. Every patriotic American should thank God for the government of the United States. That she has raised the war above the plane of barbarity and made it a war for humanity; that she has made it a war for Christian principles and not one for commerce and dominion, except as these things come as the natural fruits of righteousness and justice to others; that she has mag- nanimously handed over billions of dollars to sustain her allied nations; that she is straining every power of purse and resource of field and mine and factory to make the world safe for democracy — makes our hearts throb with unbounded thankfulness and unalloyed patriotic pride. But shall the government strain all her resources to the utmost limit and we as a Church make no unusual effort to perform our Heaven- imposed duty to give the Gospel of the Son of God to the sorrowing and dying? The duty is not only great; the opportunity is equally great. Almost every one of the twenty and more allied nations considers America her best friend. The suspicious former years have disappeared, and now a friendly hand will be held out to any conse- crated missionary or preacher we may send to them. The doors are wide open. We are asked to enter in the name of Jesus. At no other time in the last hundred years would Protestantism have had so joyous a welcome in chivalrous France, and the preachers from America would be more gladly received there than those of any other Protestant country. Is there a man in Southern Methodism whose heart would not expand with grace and holy enthusiasm if his Church would lead out in carrying a free evan- 104 gelistic gospel to heroic and glorious France? Russia, held down for hundreds of years by ignorance, cruelty, vodka, and superstition, has broken the bonds of her thraldom and is now wandering in a social wilderness like lost children. The Russians are a very religious people and naturally a bright people. They appeal to our Christian charity as no other people in modern times have done. To them liberty now means license to do whatever their selfish desires suggest. They need to learn the great principles of Christian tolerance and self-restraint and justice and honesty. They need to be planted on the solid foundation of unchanging truth. The future of Europe very largely depends upon recovering this great people of 185,000,000 souls to Christ. There is no more fruitful missionary field. And Italy is white unto the harvest. And in Macedonia and Serbia the cry is coming again, as it did to Paul nearly nineteen hundred years ago: “Come over and help us.” The opportunities in China and Brazil were never before as great nor the needs so pressing. Our government is consecrated to the doctrine that liberty shall not perish from the earth; the Church is consecrated to the doctrine to tell God’s love, God’s compassion, God’s wisdom, and God’s gift of His Son to the whole wide world. The government has called upon all its citizens to economize in wheat, that the people of Europe may have bread; we call upon the people of our Church to economize in their expendi- tures, that the souls of the people in all these lands, as well as in our -own, may be fed on the bread that came down from heaven. The government rightly requires that we deny ourselves meat, that men and women across the seas perish not; we should deny ourselves many luxuries and comforts, that these same men and women may have “the food which abideth unto eternal life,” which the Son of Man pledged us to give them. The government has withheld from us sugar that we did not need, in order that the bodies of our allies may be healthy and strong; we, as Christians, out of the love for our Lord, should withhold from ourselves useless adornments, that the lives of our broken and despairing brothers and sisters may be sweetened by “the grace that was given unto us." In the midst of these conditions many men and women of our Church, as did the little company of prophets and teachers at Antioch, have been listening for the Holy Spirit to say unto them, “Separate us unto the work whereunto thou hast called us,” and that voice has been heard. Already there is a sound of marching in the tops of the mulberry trees, and “Jehovah has gone out before us.” At the meeting of the Board of Missions in 1916 our worthy Secretary, Dr. W. W. Pinson, called attention to the fact that the year 1919 would be the centenary of the organization of a missionary department in the Methodist Episcopal Church in America and suggested that proper plans be inaugurated, in co-operation with our brethren of the Methodist Episcopal Church, for an advance movement along all missionary lines in connection with a proper celebration of that event. A Centenary Commission was created, and a few months ago it called upon one hundred carefully chosen laymen to meet at Memphis, Tenn., and agree upon a program commensurate with our duty and opportunities. In response to that call one hundred and seventy-five ministers and laymen, men and women, gathered from every part of our territory at the appointed time, March 1 9. The Holy Spirit brooded over that meeting. Men of affairs opened their eyes and hearts to the world’s needs and went to their knees for divine guidance. Their inquiry was. What does God require at our hands in this great crisis in the world’s history? They concluded that the amount of money that will be needed for the next five years and that should be raised by our Church is as follows : First, $2,850,000 to maintain our work among the mountain peoples and the negroes and in the industrial centers and to inaugurate plans for reaching the neglected peoples in the great cities of the South. Second, $2, 1 40,000 to be used by the Board of Church Extension in building churches in foreign fields and in building churches and establishing institutional plants in territory in the United States that is distinctively missionary. — ^ Third, $2,500,000 to be raised By” assessments bylEe”Conference Boards of Missions 105 of the several Annual Conferences to be used in a more adequate support of the home mission fields within their own bounds. Fourth, $7,870,000 for a forward movement along all lines in missionary work in foreign fields. Fifth, $3,000,000 for Woman’s Work in the Foreign Department, for benighted womanhood. Sixth, $1,290,000 for the Home Mission Department of Woman’s Work, in estab- lishing and enlarging Wesley Houses, Bethlehem Houses, and other needed equipment or saving women in our own land. Seventh, $5,350,000 for evangelistic preaching and gospel service among the broken and sorrowing peoples of France, Russia, Italy, Belgium, and Serbia, and other work made necessary by the effects of the war. These seven items, amounting to $25,000,000, or $5,000,000 a year for five years, beginning with 1919, are in addition to the sum of about $2,000,000 a year now being raised by missionary assessments and specials and are to be raised by voluntary subscriptions. It is a gigantic task. It is big enough and comprehensive enough to arouse the admiration and enthusiasm of the biggest and the least man among us. The One Hundred on a World Program were of the opinion that it could be accomplished by much prayer and much preaching on stewardship. They have, therefore, made inter- cession the first item of their program, stewardship the second item, and the raising of this great Centenary fund the third item. They believe that such a program will cause the fires of a holy Christian enthusiasm to break forth into a bright flame in our own land and will be the cure for the sordid materialism naturally following a great war unless the Church steps out with renewed consecration to God. The world is sore at heart and full of suffering and sorrow. Only a resurrected Christ can save it from utter ruin. Hie gospel that saved our own broken Southland from despair at the close of the War between the States can again save our beloved citizens from materialism and a sordid selfishness, and it can cure the broken peoples of Europe and of the other nations of the world. As a Church we owe it to America and, above all, we owe it to our Saviour to make manifest that we believe that Jesus Christ is the power of God unto salvation to every man that believeth. The spirit of benevolence and helpfulness is abroad in the land as never before in our history. By voluntary subscriptions about $150,000,000 has been raised for the use of the Red Cross in a single year, and $52,000,000 has been raised for the Y. M. C. A. work in the military camps; and the young men and women who have heard the voice of humanity and the voice of God and gone forth to engage in loving administration to the wounded and to exalt the Christ among the soldiers have not only won our enthusiasm and admiration, but have proved a leaven of saving grace among our own people at home. The Church of God cannot be less heroic. The hour has struck for mighty things. The time is at hand when the Church must step forth in power and with a holy enthusiasm. We appeal to all our people, small and great, to rally to this Centenary Movement and demonstrate that the Church of God has been established for the healing of the nations. The task is great, but our great Leader declared that all things are possible with God. We therefore recommend: 1. That the World Program of the Committee of One Hundred be adopted by this General Conference as the program for the whole Church, and we hereby commit into the hands of the Centenary Commission the task of carrying through that program. 2. We request that each Annual Conference, in lieu of the usual Missionary and Church Extension anniversaries, set aside one day of its next session to the Centenary Movement and that, beginning at ten o’clock on said day and contiuuing throughout the afternoon and evening, the Conference session be devoted to promoting this program. Ten per cent, of the Centenary Fund subscribed and paid in each annual Conference in excess of the regular income will be paid to each Annual Conference Board of Missions by the Centenary Commission. 106 Thirty-five Millions for Missions The Committee on Findings of the Memphis Meeting of One Hundred on World Program recommended that $35,000,000 be raised within the years 1919-23 for mis- sions. This report, adopted by the Committee of One Hundred, presented to Southern Methodism a challenge worthy of its faith and traditions. It should be understood that the setting of this financial standard of $35,000,000 for five years, or $7,000,000 per year for the next five years, was done only after it was ascertained by a most thorough and scientific survey of the Home and Foreign Mission fields that this amount would be necessary for the maintenance of our present work and for any appreciable advance all along the line. It should be further understood that this $35,000,000 is to comprehend every phase of missionary endeavor undertaken by the whole Church. ANALYSIS OF THE $35,000,000 The $35,000,000 budget is made up as follows: Present Income for Missions, $2,000,000 Per Year, $10,000,000 for Five Years A careful estimate of what is now received by the Church through its usual chan- nels for missions approximates $2,000,000 per year, or $10,000,000 for the five-year period, 1919-23. In making up the budget for the Missionary Centenary it was thought proper that the amount that is expected from yearly income should be included in the total askings of the Missionary Centenary. Thus there would be no confusion as to the real task before the Church. The yearly income includes returns from the assessments for Home and Foreign Missions, specials for home and foreign work, amounts from Conference Missions levied by Conference Boards of Missions, the amounts raised by the Woman’s Missionary Societies for Home and Foreign Missions, and specials raised by the same societies for the same objects. The yearly total from the above-mentioned sources approximates $2,000,000, or $10,000,000 for the five years. Home Missions, General Board, $2,850,000 The Home Department survey calls for $2,850,000 for the five years, or $570,000 yearly. It is contemplated that this sum shall take care of the various items mentioned in the Home Mission survey, such as the maintenance of work among the Indians, the Negroes of the South, the mountain peoples, textile communities of the South, and also the inauguration of plans to reach the great cities of the South for Christ. Annual Conference Missions, $2,500,000 A survey of Conference Missions reveals the fact that the inadequate support of Con- ference Missionaries is one that calls for strenuous and immediate action. Board of Church Extension, $2,140,000 Churches in the foreign fields are to be built. Churches and institutional plants in territory that is distinctively missionary in the United States must be erected. There- fore a fund of $ 1 , 1 40,000 for special fields is called for. Further, the necessity of having a loan fund with which to lend sums to new missionary enterprises is urgent. With assist- ance from such a fund, many a worthy missionary cause could get a start which would otherwise be compelled to wait. Therefore a loan fund of $ 1 ,000,000 is placed on the budget for this urgent need, making a total of $2,140,000. These amounts are to be raised by the Board of Church Extension. 107 Foreign Missions, General Work, $7,870,000 A complete survey of the seven Foreign Mission fields calls for an outlay of men and equipment to an amount approximating $1,600,000 per year for the Foreign Depart- ment of the General Board. A forward movement all along the line calls for the equip- ment, up to a standard of efficiency, of all the foreign work. The call to extend the bor- ders of the kingdom is not more pressing than the one to equip and adequately man the terri- tory already occupied. Foreign Missions, W ork, $3,000,000 The surveys from the Foreign Work of the Woman’s Council call for $600,000 per year in equipment and new missionaries. Benighted womanhood in the foreign fields calls for a great and sustained effort on the part of the Woman’s Department for the foreign fields. Home Missions, Woman’s Work, $1,290,000 The Flome Missions Department of the Woman’s Work calls for a program to ex- tend the number of Wesley Houses, Bethlehem Houses, and other features of the work of that department. To carry forward these newly outlined plans $1,290,000 is nec- essary. $5,350,000 War Work Fund Great fields for service, with unlimited opportunities to preach the gospel, will be found in Europe and the Near East now, and especially at the close of the great World War there will be inviting fields in Italy, Russia, France, Belgium, and Serbia. There will be a great demand for service in “camp and field, at home and abroad.” The Com- mittee of One Hundred on World Program called upon the Church to raise for this work a fund of over $1 ,000,000 a year for five years, thus rounding out the $35,000,000. ^ ,., v 'JloauMV . la 6 / 108 BENSON PRINTING CO.. NASHVILLE