BAPTIST MISSIONARY M A N U A L 1 9 0 4 iiEUiHS0 JOINTLY BY Bit Ba ft is t m ission ary SOCIETIES HOME AND FOREIGN BAPTIST MISSIONARY MANUAL 1904 C HE American Baptist Mission¬ ary Union The American Baptist Home Mission Society <. U* The American Baptist Publication Society Woman’s Baptist For¬ eign Missionary Society, Woman’s Baptist Foreign Missionary Society of the West The Women’s Bap¬ tist Home Mission Society A* The Woman’s American Baptist Home Mission Society THE AMERICAN BAPTIST MISSIONARY UNION I. ORIGIN AND GROWTH 1. AWAKENING OF THE MISSIONARY IMPULSE HE Church of Jesus Christ is es¬ sentially a missionary organization. The source and incentive of its mis¬ sionary enterprise are found in the Saviour’s love for every human soul, in his desire that this love shall live again in the heart of all his followers, and in his last great command to the Church to proclaim the gospel to all mankind. During many centuries the Church made only few and scattered efforts to reach the great hea¬ then nations of the East with its priceless boon. In 1792 William Carey and his associates awak¬ ened the missionary conscience of the English Baptists, and set in motion currents of influence that flowed out into many channels of church life. It was not until twenty years later that this missionary impulse, spreading to the United States, found congenial soil in a little group of students at Williams College, and later bore fruit in the formation of the American Board of Com¬ missioners for Foreign Missions (Congregational), the first foreign missionary society in America. It was under that society that Adoniram Judson and Luther Rice with three other young men sailed for India in 1812. 2. MISSIONARY ORGANIZATION AMONG THE BAPTISTS The astounding news that Judson and Rice had become convinced of the truth of Baptist principles, closely followed by an appeal from them to the Baptists of America to undertake their support in a mission to the people of India, met with a quick response. Various independent societies, which sprang at once into existence, united in 1814 in the formation of a Baptist foreign missionary society, commonly known as the Triennial Convention. Through, this society the Baptists of America worked unitedly until 1846, when the growing agitation regarding slavery led to the withdrawal of the Baptists of the South, to form the Southern Baptist Conven¬ tion, while those of the North maintained their organization under the name of the American Baptist Missionary Union. Continuing the work as it had been begun, this “Old Established House’’ has seen ninety years of ever widening activity and increasing usefulness. 3. GRADUAL DEVELOPMENT The guiding hand of Providence is unquestion¬ ably discernible in the inception of the mission¬ ary enterprise among the Baptists of America. That same guiding hand has manifestly been present in the several stages of progress as that work has extended from one land to another until seven great fields (eight, including missions in Europe) are now under the care of the Missionary Union. Surely it is true that a measure of fidelity to a God-given trust is rewarded by still larger op¬ portunities for service. Into none of these seven fields did the Missionary Union seek to force an entrance. The door thrown open by an unseen hand was itself the invitation. The Lord was thrusting his laborers into his harvest. To have failed to enter would have been to refuse a sacred trust. Thus the march has been made from Burma to Assam; from Assam to South India; from South India to China; from China to Japan; after Japan, Africa; and now in these later days the Philippine Islands. In these seven fields 102 stations have been established as centres from which the light streams out to irradiate the surrounding regions. Enrolled in the service of the Union are 520 missionaries who have devoted their lives to the peoples of these lands. Associated with these missionaries in the work of evangelization are 4249 native workers; preachers, teachers, and Bible women. Out of the millions of heathen 117,031 have been led to confess Christ and as¬ sociate themselves together in Baptist churches. II. SPHERE OF OPERATION 1. BURMA Burma, as it is the oldest field of the Union, is the one upon which the largest effort has been ex¬ pended. Here, and in South India, have been gathered by far the largest numbers of those led out of the darkness of heathenism. The story of the mission is fascinating, particularly that part which describes the eager reception of Chris¬ tianity by the Karens. The faithful labors of Judson, the patient endurance of persecutions and sufferings, the seven long years of waiting for the first convert, have been followed by rich fruitage. At first the progress was slow, dis- hearteningly slow. Previous to 1850 only three stations had been permanently established. All of these, Rangoon, Moulmein and Tavoy, were only on the outer fringe of that great country. Only two of Burma’s many races had been touched. s To-day our work is conducted in twelve distinct languages or dialects and touches 47 peoples and tribes. A glance at the location of three of the stations established within the last ten years will show how the work has expanded in widening circles. Haka in the Chin Hills is three weeks journey from Rangoon, away in the northwest, close upon the borders of Assam. Myitkyina is in the extreme north, close to the Chinese bor¬ der, among the wild Kachins. Kengtung, far in the northeast among the Shans, is forty days distant by cart from railway connection with Rangoon. Twenty-one other stations, 27 in all, mark the intermediate stages of the progress from that first little group upon the shore to the remote borders of the land. There are 179 missionaries now laboring in Burma, assisted by 1900 native workers. A church membership of over 43,000 requires of the missionaries and their native associates Christian nurture and training in the principles of the Christian faith and life. Valuable auxiliaries to the efforts of the missionaries are such institu¬ tions as the Rangoon Baptist College, the theo¬ logical seminaries for Karens and Burmans at Insein and the Baptist Mission Press. 2. ASSAM Our missionaries went to Burma, compelled by force of circumstance; to Assam they went by invitation. Far inland up the Bramaputra River, Nathan Brown and O. T. Cutter went in 1836 to begin a mission. From the station opened at Sibsagor in 1841, the work has spread down the valley toward the sea and back from the river into the hills on either side. Here, as in Burma, many tribes present their mute appeal. A large and inviting field is found among the immigrants who swarm into the valley to work upon the tea gardens. Back among the hills are the Garos, the Nagas with their many branches, the Mikirs, the Daphlas, the Rabbhas and many others to whom the missionaries minister. The native Christians are proving most efficient evangelists, carrying the gospel to villages where the mission¬ ary could only with the greatest difficulty pene¬ trate, and to tribes whose language he does not know. Of these helpers there are 240 working with 51 missionaries. Over 7,500 are now disciples of Jesus Christ, an earnest of the multitudes who shall give honor to his name in the valley and among the hills of Assam. 3. SOUTH INDIA (TELUGUS) Passing from Burma and Assam to the land of the Telugus a notabl'e contrast is met. Instead of many races and many languages we find one race, one speech. Instead of Buddhism and ani¬ mistic faiths, the missionaries have to deal with Hinduism and Mohammedanism with all their deadening influence upon the social life. During the long period of waiting in the early history of the mission, stations were established at On- gole, Nellore and Secunderabad. In 1878 came the great Pentecostal blessing, and with it the necessity for the immediate and extensive en¬ largement. In recent years the great Ongole field with its church of many thousands has been divided and many new centres established. New stations have also been opened in the Deccan, where the work is largely among Mohammedans. Events of the past year give ground for hope that the bonds of caste are beginning to loosen. In one field a number of Sudras have been baptized who were brought to Christ by despised non-caste preachers and Bible women. Many problems confront the missionaries in this field. The endeavor to train the Telugu Christians along the lines of self-reliant and self- sustaining church organization enlists the inter¬ est and the earnest thought of all the workers. As factors that will contribute largely to this ob¬ ject, as well as to the general ends of evangeliza¬ tion and social progress, are the theological semi¬ nary at Ramapatan, the college at Ongole, and plans, as yet in infancy, for industrial training, together with an extensive system of primary, secondary and high schools which are efficient auxiliaries in extending the knowledge and influ¬ ence of Christian truth. This field reports over 55,000 converts, while the working force consists of 99 missionaries and over 1300 native helpers. The number of stations is 28. 4. CHINA Of the mission fields of to-day none has a stronger hold upon the thought and interest of the church than the great empire of China. Within a decade after the death of Robert Mor¬ rison, Protestantism’s pioneer in China, the Mis¬ sionary Union had begun work in the southern and eastern part of the empire. Ten years earlier the first Chinese converts had been received by our missionaries at Bangkok in Siam, where a number of the earlier Chinese missionaries served their apprenticeship. Both Swatow and Ningpo have proved to be fruitful centres from which other stations have been opened. Of grow¬ ing importance to the work both in South and the East China fields are the theological schools conducted at Swatow and Shaohsing for the training of those who are to aid in giving to China the gospel of the living God. Not until 1889 was any effort made to penetrate to the interior of China. Now, Suifu, Kiating andYachow are three centres of light in the prov¬ ince of Szchuan, bordering upon the forbidden land of Tibet. A station has also been estab- 5 lished in Hangyang, one of the three cities unit¬ ing to form the great centre at the confluence of the Han and Yangtse rivers. Since the interruption in 1900 unparalleled op¬ portunities have offered on every side, and the work has been pressed with renewed vigor in the Eastern, Southern, Western and Central China missions. Since that date 27 new missionaries have joined the workers in China, six of whom in 1903 undertook the long and dangerous journey up the Yangtse river into western China. The four missions now present a total of 15 stations and 87 missionaries, with 273 native helpers and a membership of 4259. 5. JAPAN Protestant mission work was begun in Japan in 1860, six years after Commodore Perry’s appear¬ ance before the gates of the empire. The work begun by Jonathan Goble of the Free Mission Society was taken over by the Missionary Union in 1872, when that missionary pioneer, Dr. Nathan Brown, was sent out to assume charge of the work in this new field so marvelously opened. The work begun at Yokohama and Tokyo has ex¬ panded during thirty years until now nine sta¬ tions are in operation, two of which are on the northern island of Hokkaido. Fifty-eight mis¬ sionaries are credited to this field. They have the assistance of 124 native workers in caring for over 2000 Christians and in presenting the claims of the gospel to the many millions of heathen. The Japanese have welcomed with amazing eagerness the material aspects of Western life. While not equally receptive of the spiritual teach¬ ing of Christianity, they have been remarkably approachable and the progress already made in¬ spires the workers with courage and hope. Pecu¬ liarly interesting phases of the work are the efforts to reach and uplift the degraded people of the Liu Chiu Islands and the visitation of the number¬ less islands of the Inland Sea by means of the “ Fukuin Maru ” or Gospel Ship. 6. AFRICA It was not until 1884, when Dr. Guinness transferred to it a number of the stations of the Livingstone Inland Mission, that the Missionary Union undertook work in the great dark continent. The very year in which the transfer was com¬ pleted witnessed the beginning of a great revival centering in Banza Manteke in which hundreds accepted Christ. The chain of stations along the mighty Congo River from Mukimvika on the coast to Ikoko 300 miles above Stanley Pool is about the same in number as at the beginning, though some have been abandoned or transferred to other societies, while some new ones have been estab¬ lished. Many noble lives have been given up in « the endeavor to bring light and life to the de¬ graded and unhappy people of the Congo State. Yet they have not been without their fruitage, and to-day the mission stations are little oases of peace and safety in a region where cruelty and oppression abound. Thirty-two missionaries carry on the work at eight stations, aided by 306 native helpers. Their converts number 3692. 7. PHILIPPINE ISLANDS As a result of the treaty of Paris the Philippine Islands were opened to Protestant missionary effort. The Missionary Union by a remarkable providence was able to share in the opportunity thus presented and to enter the field equipped for immediate activity. Work was begun among the people speaking the Visayan dialect. Workers already familiar with the language were able to meet the people at the beginning with portions of the New Testament in their own tongue. In 1900 a station was opened at Jaro on the island of Panay and another the following year at Bacolod on the island of Negros. The year 1903 has seen the establishment of a third station at Capiz in the northern part of Panay. From the first missionaries were astonished at the great eagerness of the people to hear the Bible message, and there remains to-day a spirit of open mindedness to the truth and a desire to ex¬ amine carefully the teaching of the Word that are equally surprising when we consider the long centuries of Catholic domination. The mission¬ aries of all denominations are convinced that this is a day of golden opportunities. The mission has been weakened by the enforced withdrawal of some of the workers, but the work has been strongly reinforced and it is hoped that by the close of the present year the missionary force will be measurably adequate to the urgent calls. A noble band of native workers is being gathered about the missionaries, and in these three short years a membership of 425 has been enrolled. 8. EUROPE In several of the countries of Europe the Mis¬ sionary Union in earlier years maintained mis¬ sionaries to aid in spreading the principles of Baptist faith and practice. The method now adopted is that of giving aid to the churches through a committee of brethren in those coun¬ tries, who oversee and direct the work. This is true in France, Germany, Sweden, Russia, Fin¬ land, Denmark and Norway. In Spain the older method is still in force. Though bitter opposition has been experienced, in many cases, from the authorities of state and priestly churches, the progress has been steady and encouraging. The work has had the greatest success in Sweden, 7 Germany and Russia, where the members of Baptist churches number 40,000, 30,000 and 20,- 000 respectively. The Russian Baptists or Men- nonites, in addition to furthering the work in their own land, have sent several missionaries to the Telugus and contribute a large part of their sup¬ port. In all of these great fields evidences of the favor of God have been multiplied. Yet the fruitage already seen is but an earnest of rich blessings for the future. From every field comes the call to press forward and possess the promised land. Never before have the people been so seriously attentive to the gospel message as pro¬ claimed by missionaries and native preachers. Never before have Christian schools enjoyed such opportunities of inculcating the truths of Chris¬ tianity. Never before have medical missionaries found the people so ready to accept spiritual ministration. In every line of missionary activ¬ ity the worker stands before wide open doors of invitation that he longs to enter. “If the churches could only see the need and the oppor¬ tunity,” is the missionary’s cry. The need for men is urgent to occupy and hold the ground already gained, and when this need is met there remain the innumerable calls from the regions beyond. Just a step in advance from many of the present stations would mean the occupation of positions of great strategic importance in the battle of our Lord against the forces of evil in the heathen world. III. ADMINISTRATION The organization through which the members of our Baptist churches are enabled to share in these world-wide activities of the Kingdom, is the American Baptist Missionary Union. This Society chooses its officers and Board of Managers at its annual meeting, held, as are those of the other national societies, in connection with the May anniversaries; the Secretaries, Treasurer and the Executive Committee being elected by the Board of Managers. The President of the Union is Hon. H. Kirke Porter, of Pennsylvania; the Chairman of the Board of Managers is Pro¬ fessor William Arnold Stevens, LL. D., of New York. THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Administrative authority is held and exercised in the intervals between the annual meetings of the Union by an Executive Committee of fifteen ministers and laymen. The Chairman of the Committee is President Nathan E. Wood, D. D., of Newton Theological Institution. Upon this Committee rests the responsibility for the over¬ sight and direction of all the work of the Mission- 8 ary Union at home and abroad. Meetings of the Committee are held twice each month. Under the direction of the Executive Committee the work of the Union is conducted by departments with clearly defined spheres of activity. THE HOME DEPARTMENT The administration of the Home Department is in charge of Henry C. Mabie, D. D., the Home Secretary. Under his direction are all home agencies for the cultivation of the missionary spirit in the churches, the collection of funds, and the seeking of suitable candidates for mis¬ sionary service. In 1903, Rev. E. H. Dutton was associated with Dr. Mabie as Assistant Sec¬ retary, with special oversight of work among the young people of the denomination. Miss Ella D. MacLaurin is also associated with the Home De¬ partment in the work for the young people. Also under the direction of the Home Secretary are the nine District Secretaries through whom the churches in the various sections of the North are brought into more vital relation with the mission¬ ary work as conducted by the Missionary Union. A list of the District Secretaries follows: NEW ENGLAND DISTRICT (Maine, New Hamp¬ shire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut)—W. E. Witter,'M. D., D. D., Dis¬ trict Secretary, Tremont Temple, Boston, Mass. NEW YORK DISTRICT (New York and New Jersey —four Associations: East New Jersey, North New Jersey, Morris and Essex, Monmouth)—Rev. Charles L. Rhoades, District Secretary, 312 Fourth Avenue, New York. SOUTHERN DISTRICT (Pennsylvania, Delaware and New Jersey — four Associations: Camden, West, Trenton, Central—District of Columbia and States South and Miscellaneous) — Rev. Frank S. Dobbins, District Secretary, 1420 Chest¬ nut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. MIDDLE DISTRICT (Ohio and West Virginia)— Rev. T. G. Field, District Secretary, Granville, Ohio. LAKE DISTRICT (Illinois, Indiana and Michigan) —E. W. Lounsbury. D. D., District Secretary, 324 Dearborn Street, Chicago, Ill. NORTHWESTERN DISTRICT (Wisconsin, Minne¬ sota, South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana and part of Idaho)—F, Peterson, D. D., District Secre¬ tary, 1901 Fifteenth Avenue, S., Minneapolis, Minn. SOUTHWESTERN DISTRICT (Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma, Indian Territory, New Mexico, Utah and Arkansas)—I. N. Clark, D. D., District Sec¬ retary. 1334 Olive Street, Kansas City, Mo. MIDDLE WESTERN DISTRICT (Iowa, Nebraska and Wyoming)—Henry Williams, D.D., District Secretary, 1233 Thirteenth Street, Des Moines, Iowa. PACIFIC COAST DISTRICT (California, Oregon, Washington, N. W. Idaho, Arizona and Nevada)— Rev. A. W. Rider, District Secretary, 906 Broad¬ way, Oakland, Cal. Manly J. Breaker, D.D., 402 Board of Education Build¬ ing, St. Louis, Mo., also acts as a special agent for the Missionary Union in Missouri. 9 THE FOREIGN DEPARTMENT The work of the Foreign Department is con¬ ducted by Thomas S. Barbour, D. D., the Foreign Secretary. To this department belongs the supervision of the work of the missionaries of the Union in all its great fields. The election of com¬ mittees of reference for advisory action upon the field, and the assignment to sections of the Ex¬ ecutive Committee of particular fields for more thorough and careful deliberation upon all ques¬ tions relative to them, combine to secure the full¬ est consideration with regard to all contemplated action. THE TREASURY The Treasurer of the Missionary Union is Mr. Charles W. Perkins, who in 1903 was chosen to the office so long occupied by Mr. E. P. Coleman. All the funds of the Union are in his charge. In¬ vestments are made by him with the approval of the Finance and Executive Committees, and he sends to the field all money to be expended in mission work, as directed by the Executive Com¬ mittee. LITERATURE DEPARTMENT This department is in charge of the Editorial Secretary, Rev. F. P. Haggard. Its task is to furnish the churches with bright, interesting and instructive literature covering the entire field of the Union’s activity. This it seeks to do by the publishing of The Baptist Missionary Magazine and leaflets presenting various phases of the work abroad or some motive or appeal for a larger missionary interest. The Editorial Secre¬ tary is also the Recording Secretary of the Exec¬ utive Committee, and has in his care the records of the Committee, the archives of the Union, and other miscellaneous details connected with the office administration. The headquarters of the Missionary Union are in Tremont Temple, Boston, Massachusetts. ENLARGEMENT AND OUTREACH Recent years have witnessed many important advances in the work of the Missionary Union. Many new missionaries have enlisted to share in the service which the Union seeks to render to the peoples of many lands. A corresponding en¬ largement of the home agencies has been neces¬ sary for the adequate maintenance and direction of the work abroad. The larger interest among the members of the churches has made possible this forward movement to meet the urgent demands of the work. The constituency of the Missionary Union is thus reaching out through its various agencies in the endeavor to render a larger obe¬ dience to our Lord’s great command to “disciple all the nations.” 10 THE AMERICAN BAPTIST HOME MISSION SOCIETY METROPOLITAN BUILDING, NEW YORK ORGANIZATION AND METHODS RGANIZED in New York City, April 27, 1832. Its object: “To promote the preaching of the Gos¬ pel in North America.” Its general offices: The Metropolitan Building, corner Fourth Avenue and Twenty- third Street, New York City. Its officers: A President, two Vice-Presidents, Cor¬ responding Secretary, Treasurer, Two Auditors, Recording Secretary, and an Executive Board of 21 members in three classes elected each for three years. The Society meets annually in May; the Executive Board the second Monday of each month, except August. Several assistants at the Rooms are required for the large correspondence and work of the Society. There are also a Field Secretary and an Edi¬ torial Secretary, with five Superintendents of Missions, three for the West, one each for the Germans and French Canadians; and general missionaries for other nationalities. In addition to this, there is union of effort according to defin¬ ite plans of co-operation with about forty other organizations, as State Conventions, City Mission Societies, etc. The thirty-three Northern and Western States and Territories are divided into ten districts, each in charge of a District Secretary for the cultiva¬ tion of the missionary spirit in about 9,000 churches, with nearly or quite a million members. There are three great departments of work: (1) Missionary; (2) Church Edifice; (3) Educa¬ tional. For each of these features, other denomi¬ nations generally have separate societies with a full complement of officers; but with us all are under one organization, at the minimum of ex¬ pense for administration. MEMBERSHIP The Society shall be composed as follows: 1. Individual annual members upon the payment of ten dollars. 2. Annual members appointed by contributing churches on the basis of one for each church; and an additional member for each $50.00 contributed ; pro¬ vided that no church be entitled to more than ten members. 11 3, Honorary life members, whether so constituted by the payment, either by themselves, by friends, or by churches, of $50.00. Every such member shall have a vote in the meetings of the Society, so long as he continues to be an annual contributor to the treasury. But no person shall vote in the meetings of the Society who is not a member in good standing of a regular Baptist church. 4. All persons constitued Members for Life previous to June 1, 1902. MAGNITUDE OF OPERATIONS Its work is prosecuted in every State and Ter¬ ritory of the Union, in Alaska, Porto Rico, Cuba, Mexico, and the Dominion of Canada, among 23 different nationalities or peoples. In the older states work is carried on almost exclusively among the foreign populations; in the West, among all; in the South, among the Negroes; and among the Spanish-speaking peoples of Porto Rico, Cuba and Mexico. For the year ending March 21, 1904, the Society issued 1430 commissions to its ap¬ pointees, not including the wives of missionaries, as usually reckoned in the force on foreign fields; it supported wholly or in part 31 schools for the Negroes and Indians; and aided in the erection of 102 meeting houses. Its missionary force last year was distributed as follows: In the New England States, 59; in the Middle and Central States, 133; in the Southern States, 238; in the Western States and Territories and Alaska, 907; in the Canadian Dominion, 10; in Mexico, 22; in Cuba, 11; in Porto Rico, 15. Its missionaries have reported 5832 churches organized; 184,490 persons baptized, and quite as many more received by letter and experience; over six million religious visits made; a vast number of copies of the Scriptures sold and dis¬ tributed; over 10,000 Sunday Schools organized; and a very large number of meeting houses erected. Nearly or quite 100,000 have received Christian instruction in its schools for the colored people and the Indians. Altogether, its work was never larger, never more prosperous and promising than now. The Society is the great pioneer evangelizing and constructive Home Missionary organization of American Baptists. I. MISSIONARY DEPARTMENT Varied Nature of the Work. There are five distinct sub-divisions of its mission field: (1) To Americans; (2) To the foreign populations from Europe and the Orient; (3) To the Indians; (4) To the Negroes; (5) To the Spanish-speaking peoples of neighboring countries. THE PIONEER PREACHER AND PASTOR From 1832, when its westernmost fields were Michigan, Illinois and the Eastern settlements of Missouri and Arkansas, its missionaries have kept 12 pace with the expansion of the country, going to Texas in 1840; to Oregon in 1845; to California in 1849; to Utah, briefly, in 1870, and continu¬ ously since 1881; to Alaska in 1886; and into other regions before the construction of trans¬ continental railways, then occupying nearly every new point of importance along these and other lines. The pioneer exploring missionary in the most heroic and self-denying spirit went by prim¬ itive modes of travel over prairies, into mining camps and agricultural settlements and new towns, preaching the gospel, reclaiming wander¬ ers, organizing churches and Sunday Schools, distributing the Scriptures, and securing the erection of houses of worship. In several Western States and Territories this pioneer work is still go¬ ing on extensively. Missionary pastors often have from five to ten preaching out-stations. Many churches become self-supporting every year, but quite as many new ones need our aid. Liberal appropriations are required to keep pace with the great growth of the West. In many Western States most of the churches have had the foster¬ ing care of the Society and have become in turn generous contributors to all of our denominational enterprises. From broad Home Mission fields, sown and tilled by this Society, rich harvests are reaped annually in the interests of foreign mis¬ sions ; and the harvest will be larger in the future for every new church established now. WORK FOR THE FOREIGN PEOPLES Our work among the foreign populations began as follows: Welsh, 1836; Germans, 1846; Scan¬ dinavians, 1848; French Canadians, 1849; Mexi¬ cans, 1870; Chinese, 1870; and from 1887 suc¬ cessively for the next ten years among the Bohe¬ mians, Poles, Portuguese, Finns, Italians, Jews, Hollanders and Japanese; and recently among the Hungarians, Slavs and Russians. There are 299 missionaries among these peoples and nearly 60,000 members in foreign speaking Baptist churches in our land, while thousands more, es¬ pecially of the second generation, have become identified with American churches. The great immigration hither brings an enormous and needy foreign mission field to our own door. During the year 1903 the number of steerage immigrants reached the enormous total of 814,507. Of these 230,622 came from Italy; 206,011 from Austria-Hungary; 136,093 from Russia; 40,086 from Germany; 46,028 from Sweden. Many of these are illiterates; the vast majority of them are Romanists. This influx brings with it both peril and opportunity—peril that forebodes disaster unless the opportunity is seized. The evangeli¬ zation of the alien is one of the great problems of Home Missions, and demands more laborers and more money. 13 NEGRO MISSIONARIES There are 40 Negro Baptist missionaries in the service of the Society, most of these in the West- ern States; 14 in the South, whose work is chiefly in holding Ministers’ Institutes for those who had very limited educational advantages. AMONG THE INDIANS The Society has missionaries among 15 Indian tribes: Cherokees, Creeks, Choctaws, Chickasaws, Seminoles, Delawares, Osages, in Indian Territory; Kiowas, Comanches, Wichitas, Caddoes, Arap- ahoes and Cheyennes, in Oklahoma; the Nava- joes in New Mexico; and the Crows in Montana. The transformation, in ten years, of the Kiowas has been wonderful. The new mission to the Crow Indians of Montana is very hopeful. There are about 4500 Indian Baptists, most of whom are among the five civilized tribes in Indian Territory. WORK IN MEXICO Our work in five States of the Republic of Mexico is steadily advancing. Principal missions are in New Laredo, Monterey, San Luis Potosi, Aguas Calientes, City of Mexico, Puebla. The Society has aided in the erection of seven houses of worship there. La Luz, a semi-monthly Bap¬ tist paper, is published at our mission press in the City of Mexico. PORTO RICO AND CUBA In Porto Rico, occupied early in 1899, we have 21 principal stations and nearly 30 minor stations, over 800 members and church property worth $20,000. In the two eastern provinces of Cuba, we have 20 principal stations and about 20 minor ones; nearly 500 members, and church property worth $35,000. A Spanish Baptist paper for each island has just been published. The opportuni¬ ties here are remarkable. EVANGELIZATION Special attention in recent years has been given to the evangelization of our great cities, the So¬ ciety co-operating with Baptist City Mission Societies in Boston, Brooklyn, Buffalo, Detroit, Chicago and St. Louis. Much more should be done in this direction. From the outset the work of the Society has been primarily and distinctively evangelistic. Its missionaries have been evangelists. During the past year, by means of conferences on evangelism and by the presentation of the matter in meetings of State Conventions and other affiliated bodies, it has taken the lead in the promotion of wisely- directed and comprehensive evangelistic efforts. Its work in this direction has been limited by lack of means, and it only awaits larger offerings for more far reaching and effective service. With $25,000 at its disposal for this purpose a mighty work could be done. 14 II. CHURCH EDIFICE WORK The Loan and Gift Funds. The Society aids mission churches to erect houses of worship, both by loans and gifts. The Loan Fund was es¬ tablished on a good basis from 1870-4; the Gift Fund was established in 1881. The income from the principal of the Gift Fund is about $10,000 annually, or not one-fifth the amount needed. The main reliance therefore is upon personal con¬ tributions designated for this purpose. The loans are at five per cent., to be repaid in annual in¬ stalments within five years. Gifts are so secured that in case a church becomes extinct, or ceases to be a Baptist church, the amount may be recovered and used elsewhere. For every hundred dollars given, three or four times the amount is secured by the stimulus thus afforded. Last year 102 churches were aided; 20 by loans; 77 by gifts; and five both by gifts and loans. The loans amounted to $16,050; the gifts to $57,951.88. At least $60,000 is needed annually for the Gift Fund. The pressing need just now is for chapels for our young churches in Cuba and Porto Rico. A few hundred dollars given to a struggling mission church at the critical moment in its building enterprise is an incalculable bless¬ ing; often indeed saves the enterprise from failure. III. EDUCATIONAL WORK Work for the Colored People. In a very simple and humble way the Society began its educational work for the unlettered Freedmen in 1862. It was primarily for ministers who could not read their Bibles, but others without educa¬ tional opportunities and eager to learn could not be turned away. Step by step the schools devel¬ oped into established institutions; property was bought and buildings were erected mainly by special gifts for these purposes. With the in¬ crease of the colored people from 4,000,000 to 9,000,000; and of colored Baptists from 400,- 000 to nearly 2,000,000 in forty years, there has been an increasing demand for better schools than the low grade public schools of about four months in the year. The bulk of students take only academic courses; a very small per cent, are in college courses; a large proportion are preparing to teach; and about 500 students for the ministry are enrolled yearly. Generally, the schools are co¬ educational; Spelman Seminary, of Atlanta, and Hartshorn College, of Richmond, are for young women only. There are 12 higher and 19 secondary schools. The Richmond Theological Seminary, at Virginia Union University, has a three years’ course for advanced ministerial students ; while also there and at ten other institutions provision is made for those taking short and partial courses. There is an excellent medical school at Shaw University, Raleigh, N. C.; also a law school. The training of 15 teachers is a prominent feature in most institu¬ tions. Industrial education for both sexes receives considerable attention, some schools having good equipment for this purpose. With proper re¬ sources much more would be undertaken. The Society’s distinctive aim in this work is to develop intelligent Christian character and wise leadership. The Bible is studied daily in these schools; hundreds of students are converted every year; nobler ideals of life are inculcated; the missionary spirit for service at home and abroad is cultivated, so that thousands of teachers have proved a spiritual blessing to young and old where they have taught; ministers have wrought in a more consecrated spirit; and a goodly num¬ ber have gone as missionaries to Africa. These institutions are rendering an invaluable service in furnishing qualified leaders in educational and religious enterprises for the 22,000 public schools and the 15,000 Baptist churches of the colored people. Most of the influential men and women among the colored Baptists are products of these schools. Nearly 8000 pupils were enrolled last year in all the foregoing schools. OTHER SCHOOLS For the Indians there are two similar schools in Indian Territory, to which, however, white students also are admitted. A better native ministry is greatly needed for the Indian Baptist churches. For these higher schools especially, a partial endowment of at least a million dollars is impera¬ tively demanded; and special funds for needy and worthy students for the ministry. Besides these, there are eight day schools for the Chinese; four for the Mexicans in New Mexico and in the Republic of Mexico; and one for Cuba. Evangelization and edification must go together in the elevation of unfortunate and uncultured peoples. IV. LITERATURE Home Mission Literature. The Baptist Home Mission Monthly , full of interesting inform¬ ation about the whole field and finely illustrated, ought to be in the hands of every pastor, Sunday School Superintendent, and Young People’s So¬ ciety, and in tens of thousand Baptist homes. Single subscriptions are only fifty cents a year, with a half rate of twenty-five cents to pastors; club rates as low as thirty cents. Send for sample copy. The Editorial Secretary has charge of The Monthly , and assists in the preparation of special leaflets and pamphlets on the various phases of the Society’s work. Most of these are for gratuitous distribution and can be obtained upon application to the Home office, or to any of the District Secretaries. Those who are preparing programs for Mis¬ sionary meetings, and all who desire to obtain full information concerning a work vital to the welfare of our country, should avail themselves of the Society’s publications. These cover the subjects of Immigration and the Evangelization of Foreign Peoples, Work in Cuba, Porto Rico, Indian Missions, The Negro Schools and Ministry. Send for catalogue of literature, and for special offers in connection with The Monthly. V. IN GENERAL Other Matters. To answer frequent inquiries it may be said that the Woman’s American Baptist Home Mission Society (Boston) is in auxiliary relations with the American Baptist Home Mission Society, its work being chiefly educational; most of its annual resources, or about $20,000 annually, passing through the treasury of the parent society for support of appointees commissioned upon its recommendation. The co¬ operative arrangement includes the joint publica¬ tion, at Boston, of “Home Mission Echoes ” in the interests of both organizations. The Woman’s Baptist Home Mission Society (Chicago) is quite independent in most respects, as in the selection of fields, the appointment, direction and payment of its workers. Of its re¬ ceipts only about $4,500 annually, mostly desig¬ nated, comes into the Treasury of the general Society. To Young* People’s Societies and Sunday Schools the American Baptist Home Mission Society has hitherto, for many years, made no special appeal for specific objects, but has thrown its influence in favor of having these organizations consider themselves as integral parts of church life and work, and so to give with the churches rather than separately. But force of circum¬ stances may compel it reluctantly to abandon this position in order to secure proper recognition of its work and proportionate offerings for it. Christian patriotism as well as Christian duty to the unevangelized millions of America call for their help. This Home Mission work has special claims upon all our young people; inasmuch as it seeks the salvation of the multitudes of young men who have gone West; establishes and main¬ tains Sunday Schools with its mission churches and stations; and seeks the religious and in¬ tellectual betterment of hosts of youth in its Christian schools. The Society earnestly asks every Young Peo¬ ple’s Society and every Sunday School care¬ fully to consider how great are the claims of its vast and varied work upon them, and to give it a rightful and proportionate place in their meetings, in their prayers, and in their offerings. For these purposes interesting literature will be sent on application to the Society or to any of its District Secretaries, whose addresses are herewith given. 17 EXECUTIVE OFFICERS Henry L. Morehouse, D. D. Corresponding Secretary Frank T. Moulton Treasurer E. E. Chivers, D. D. Field Secretary Rev. Howard B. Grose Editorial Secretary Rev. Alex. Turnbull Assistant Corresponding Secretary D. W. Perkins, Esq. Church Edifice Work GENERAL SUPERINTENDENTS N. B. Rairden, D. D„, Omaha, Neb. C. A. Wooddy, D. D., Portland, Ore. O. A. Williams, D.D., Minneapolis, Minn. Rev. J. N. Williams, Providence, R. I. French Missions, Rev. G. A. Schulte, West Hoboken, N. Y. German Missions DISTRICT SECRETARIES F. T. Hazlewood, D. D. New England—Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massa¬ chusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut—Tremont Temple, Boston, Mass. Samuel McBride, D. D. New York—N. Y. and Northern New Jersey—Metropoli¬ tan Building, 312 Fourth Ave., New York City. E. B. Palmer, D. D. Philadelphia—Southern New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Dela¬ ware, and District of Columbia—1420 Chestnut St. Philadelphia, Pa. E. H. E. Jameson, D. D. Lake—Michigan and Ohio—106 Smith Ave., Detroit, Mich. Rev. S. C. Fulmer Wabash—Indiana and South Illinois—1732 Ruckle St. Indianapolis, Ind. J. B. Thomas, D. D. Chicago—Northern Illinois and Wisconsin—324 Dearborn St., Chicago, Ill. O. A. Williams, D. D. Upper Mississippi — Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota—Minneapolis, Minn. Rev. D. D. Proper Central—Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado and Wyoming— Des Moines, Iowa. Rev. James H. Franklin Southwestern—Kansas, Indian Territory, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Arizona—Muskogee, I. T. C. A. Wooddy, D. D. Pacific Coast—Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Nevada, Montana, Alaska and California—302 Goodnough Building, Portland, Ore, Rev. John S. Stump Kanawha—West Virginia—Parkersburg, W. Va. BEQUESTS AND ANNUITIES The proper form of bequest to the Society is as follows: “ I give and bequeath to the American Baptist Home Mission Society, formed in New York in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-two, the sum of —-for the general purposes of said Society.” If for special objects, e. g., for Church Edifice Work, or for Schools for the Negroes or Indians, it should be so dcsi ^DS/tcd» Write to the Corresponding Secretary for particulars about the Society’s annuity plan for large donors who prefer to be their own executors. 18 THE AMERICAN BAPTIST PUBLICATION SOCIETY HE American Baptist Publication Society began its existence in Washington, D. C., February 24th, 1824. In 1826 it was removed to Philadelphia where it has remained ever since. Its first work consisted in the publication of denominational and evangelistic tracts. Pamphlets and books were soon added. In 1840 it began missionary work by the employment of colporters, antedat¬ ing in this form of Christian service all other religious organizations. In 1855 it entered dis¬ tinctively into Sunday School work by the ap¬ pointment of Sunday School missionaries and the publication of Sunday School periodicals. In 1883 the Bible work of the denomination was placed in its charge. In 1891 it began its Chapel Car work. The growth of the Society has been along the lines of a normal and natural development. DEPARTMENTS The operations of the Society are grouped into four distinct departments. 1. The Publishing Department. 2. The Missionary Department. 3. The Bible Department. 4. The Benevolent Department. The Publication Department attends to the publication and sale of Bibles, books, pamphlets, tracts, Sunday School papers and periodicals and Church and Sunday School supplies of all sorts. It not only takes care of itself, but pays the ad¬ ministrative expenses of the other departments, amounting to about $10,000 per year. The Missionary Department attends to the employment and support of Colporter, Sunday School and Chapel Car Missionaries. For this work it uses the income of funds specially desig¬ nated for that purpose; money received from bequests, the proceeds of Children’s Day and the contributions of individuals and churches. The Bible Department attends to the publi¬ cation and distribution of the Bible in many lan¬ guages. It gives the Word of God without charge to Baptist Churches, Sunday Schools, Educa¬ tional Institutions, Missionaries and others not able to purchase for themselves. For this work it uses the proceeds of Bible Day, the income derived from funds specially designated for Bible work, and the contributions of churches and in¬ dividuals. One third of the proceeds of Bible Day received from the Home Field of the American id Baptist Missionary Union is given to that organi¬ zation for its Bible work abroad, and a consider¬ able amount each year is appropriated to the For¬ eign Board of the Southern Baptist Convention for its Bible Work. The Benevolent Department gives to needy Churches, Sunday Schools, ministers and minis¬ terial students, the books, pamphlets, tracts and periodicals issued by the Society, using for this purpose the income of funds placed in its hands and the profits arising from sales. FACILITIES For the prosecution of its work the Publication Society maintains headquarters in Crozer Build¬ ing at 1420 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. In this building a considerable part of its Mission¬ ary and Benevolent Funds are advantageously invested. It also owns and operates a Printing House at 1329 Lombard Street, Philadelphia, thus saving to the denomination the profits of manufacture. For the accommodation of Baptists throughout the entire country it has established and maintains at considerable expense, six branches. These are situated in Boston, New York, Chicago, St. Louis, Atlanta, Ga., and Dallas, Texas. It also employs agencies in many large cities of the United States, and has busi¬ ness connections with Baptist houses in Toronto, Canada; London, Eng.; Stockholm, Sweden, and Cassel, Germany. It thus puts itself in con¬ nection not only with Baptists throughout the United States but throughout the world. It is more than national, it is international. WORK ALREADY DONE The Publishing Department from the begin¬ ning has issued publications of all kinds under about 3,000 titles. If all the printed matter thus far issued from the Society’s presses were gath¬ ered into 12mo. volumes of 250 pages each, the total number of volumes would be in the neigh¬ borhood of 100,000,000. The Missionary Department from the be¬ ginning to April 1st, 1903, has employed 4,281 mis¬ sionaries. These missionaries have visited 1,775,- 121 families, have sold and given away 1,044,- 814 books, have baptized 30,792 persons, have constituted 1,429 churches, have organized 12,- 892 Sunday Schools and have held 13,848 Sun¬ day School Institutes. The Bible Department has raised and distri¬ buted since 1883, the sum of $303,051.26, of which $48,031.36 have been given to the Missionary Union and $13,000 to the Foreign Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. The Benevolent Department has aided 24,101 Sunday Schools, churches and individuals by donations of scriptures, books, periodicals, and tracts, and has bestowed grants for libraries upon 8,955 pastors and ministerial students, at a total money value of $446,291.65. ; THE SCOPE OF WORK It is the function of the Publication Society to provide for Baptist people the literature needed in the Church, the Sunday School, and the home, and thus to bring to bear upon the various de¬ partments of life and work to which our people are related the universally acknowledged power of the press. Every effort is made to give Bap¬ tists such books, pamphlets, tracts, papers and periodicals as will enable them to live the lives and do the work demanded by the present age. It is its function, as well, to see that this liter¬ ature is scattered abroad in our own and other ; lands. To fulfill this function the Missionary, . Bible and Benevolent Departments are an abso¬ lute necessity. Without Colporters, Sunday School and Chapel Car Missionaries, the work of the Society would be sadly crippled. Directly and indirectly the missionaries of the Society are the right hand of its power. Without them it would degenerate into a mere business corporation MISSIONARY WORK IN DETAIL The Missionary operations of the Society in¬ clude, as previously stated, three departments, Colporter, Sunday School and Chapel Car work. It is the duty of the Colporter Missionary to visit the homes of those who dwell in sparsely j settled regions and in the congested districts of our great cities, and to carry with him wherever he goes the Word of God and good religious and denominational literature. Wherever it is possi¬ ble to do so he gathers the people into prayer meetings, establishes Sunday Schools and lays the foundations for subsequent Christian enterprises. He thus reaches those who are generally outside of ordinary religious agencies and deals personally with individual souls. In order to make his work more effective he is being provided, in recent years, with a Colporter wagon. The Society now has in use 43 of these wagons and is adding con¬ stantly to their number. There are at present 102 Colporter Missionaries, operating in 30 States and Territories of this country, in Cuba and in Finland. These men and women work not only amongst English speaking people but amongst the Swedes, Danes, Norwegians, Germans, French, Italians, Spanish, Portugese, Finns, Chinese, Japanese, and the Negroes of the South. The Sunday School is pre-eminently the field of the Publication Society. In a very special sense progress made in Sunday School work in our denomination depends very largely upon its direction and help. It has now in its service 47 Sunday School Missionaries operating in 29 States and Territories. These missionaries give their time and strength not simply to the estab¬ lishment of Sunday Schools, but to the organiza¬ tion and improvement of Sunday School work. It is their duty to create interest in this most im¬ portant field of Christian labor, to hold institutes for the instruction of Sunday School officers and teachers, and to labor in every way for the upbuild¬ ing of the Sunday School cause. A number of them are working in co-operation with State Boards. One of them in three years of wise and inspiring leadership was the means of adding 600 Sunday Schools to the Baptist forces of a Western State. The good they do is incalculable. The Chapel Car work is the Society’s most recent enterprise. The first of these cars was built in 1891. The other five have followed at irregular intervals, the last having been put upon the field in 1900. These cars reach the growing towns and villages of the frontier in which usually there are no churches or religious services whatever. They also help to resuscitate discouraged or abandoned churches and provide religious privileges to rail¬ road men at division points and in connection with railroad shops. No form of Christian work in our day has been so owned of God. Thus far the faith¬ ful missionaries on these cars have been the means of at least 12,000 conversions, have founded 112 churches, established 225 Sunday Schools and have assisted in the erection of 105 meeting houses. The Baptisms growing immediately out of Chapel Car work amount to 41,085. Prob¬ ably no expenditure of money in Christian work on any field has produced results so great and far- reaching. PRESENT NEEDS The Publishing Department needs the more general support of the denomination in the pur¬ chase and use of its books, periodicals and other publications. These publications are of the most varied character and of the highest grade. Many of the brightest and best men and women in our denomination are engaged in producing them. If the Society could have the undivided patron¬ age of all Baptist churches, Sunday Schools and individuals, it would be able to transfer thousands of dollars each year to Missionary and Benevo¬ lent work. Its expenses would not be appreci¬ ably increased and the profits would be multiplied. 22 The Missionary Department needs a larger support from churches and individuals. Its work is too great to be carried on by the profits of the business and the offerings of the Sunday Schools. We should have in the present time $200,000 an¬ nually for Colporter Missionaries, $100,000 for Sunday School Missionaries and $25,000 for Chapel Car work. The calls for enlargement in this department are loud and constant. If we had the funds we could put into the field at once 200 Colporter wagons and half as many Sunday School Missionaries. The Bible Department needs a reinforce¬ ment of interest. There are still in our own land thousands of homes without a copy of the Word of God and thousands of Baptist churches and Sun¬ day Schools are too poor to provide themselves with this most important of books. We ought also to be able to respond to the fullest extent to the calls coming to us for Bibles from our new pos¬ sessions and to be able to put more money into the hands of the Missionary Union and the Foreign Board of the Southern Baptist Conven¬ tion for Bible work abroad. The Benevolent Department needs a larger income. A number of noble Christian men and women have placed in our hands funds, the in¬ terest of which will be perpetually used to supply the needs of other less fortunate brethren and sisters, but the income from these funds is by no means sufficient. We should have at least five dollars for every one we are now able to command. DIRECTIONS FOR CORRESPONDENCE All communications relating to the general in¬ terest of the Society should be addressed to A. J. Rowland, D. D., General Secretary, 1420 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. All communications relating to Missionary and Bible work and all applications for grants should be addressed to R. G. Seymour, D. D., Missionary and Bible Secretary, 1420 Chestnut Street, Phila¬ delphia, Pa. 23 OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY Samuel A.Crozer, Esq. President W. Howard Doane, Mus. Doc. Vice President Hon. Joshua Levering Vice President D. C. Hughes, D. D. Vice President A. J. Rowland, D. D., L. L. D. Secretary & Acting Treasurer R. G. Seymour, D. D. Missionary & Bible Secretary J. G. Walker, D. D. Recording Secretary H. S. Hopper, Esq. Treasurer P. L. Jones, D. D. Book Editor C. R. Blackall, D. D. Editor of Periodicals M. Strien Business Manager Boston W. Smith Manager of Chapel Cars DISTRICT SECRETARIES C. H. Spalding, D. D. New England, 256 Washington St., Boston, Mass. J. B. Simmons, D. D. New York, 132 East 23d St., N. Y. City S. N. Vass, D. D. Southern District, Raleigh, N. C. Rev. T. L. Ketman Western District, 177 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Ill. O. F. Flippo, D. D. Middle District, 1420 Chestnut St., Philadelphia T. J. Walne, D. D. Southwestern District, Dallas, Texas Rev. Harvey Hatcher Middle Southern District, 37 S. Pryor St. Atlanta, Ga. WOMAN’S BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETY TREMONT TEMPLE, BOSTON, MASS. Miss Sarah C. Durfee, Providence,R. I. Corresponding Secretaries Foreign Department, Mrs. H. G. Safford Home Department, Mrs. N. M. Waterbury Treasurer, Miss Alice E. Stedman HE Society was organized April 3, 1871, in Clarendon Street Church, Boston, in response to the appeals from missionaries in Burma, and with the cordial approval and co¬ operation of the American Baptist Missionary Union, to which it is auxiliary. Its leading object is the Christianiza¬ tion of women in foreign lands; this to be ac¬ complished as far as possible by furnishing sup¬ port, through the American Baptist Missionary Union, to Christian women employed by the Un¬ ion as missionaries, native teachers, or Bible read¬ ers. Its officers include a board of twelve Directors, elected at the annual meeting, which is held in April, at such time and place as the Directors appoint. The Directors are to devise and use means for diffusing missionary intelligence among the women of the churches, in order to create interest in and secure funds for the special work of the Society; also to recommend to the Mis¬ sionary Union suitable women for missionaries, designate the particular use of the Society funds by the Union, and do all other necessary business. FOREIGN DEPARTMENT The Society now supports 81 missionaries, in eight countries, the Philippine Islands having been recently added to the list. It also grants appropriations, all the way from $50 to $1,000 annually, to 61 other missionaries of the Union for educational, evangelistic and medical work. There are 149 native Bible women engaged in evan¬ gelistic work among the women, touring among the villages and conducting gospel services for women. The schools under the care of the Society number 503, with 18,449 pupils. These schools range in grade from little village day schools, where heathen children are taught to read and write and given some knowledge of the Bible, to the advanced High School with large boarding de¬ partments, in which are being trained the future evangelists, teachers and preachers for the Mission. The Medical Department sustains four hos¬ pitals and several dispensaries in India, and is especially useful in training Christian nurses,who are in great demand. The Summary according to fields follows: Africa, 135 schools, 4,517 pupils; 3 Bible women; 369 baptisms. Telugu Mission, 128 schools, 3,542 pupils; 82 Bible women; 126 baptisms. Assam, 112 schools, 2,235 pupils; 135 baptisms. Burma, 101 schools, 6,883 pupils; 20 Bible women; 191 baptisms. China, 13 schools, 478 pupils; 20 Bible women; 41 baptisms. Japan, 14 schools, 794 pupils; 16 Bible women; 38 baptisms. France and Switzerland, 8 Bible women. HOME DEPARTMENT Funds are secured by contributions sent through local auxiliary circles of women, the young women’s societies known as Farther Lights, Children’s Mission Bands and Junior Endeavor Societies, primary classes in Sunday School, and the Cradle Roll. Summary ; Circles, 1623, with 40,000 mem¬ bers; about 500 organizations for young women, with 10,000 members; and 470 bands and organ¬ izations with 14,000 members. The annual receipts are about $120,000. LITERATURE DEPARTMENT Here may be obtained Annual Reports of the Society, Studies on Missions for women, girls and children, leaflets, stories and poems, mite boxes and collection envelopes. The entire list is given in our Catalogue of Publications. The Helping Hand is the organ of the Society. It is published monthly, 25 cents per year, and has a circulation of about 22,000. The Society also publishes, in connection with the Missionary Union, a paper for children and young people called Around the World , which has a paid circu¬ lation of over 20,000. It is especially adapted for use in Sunday Schools. SPECIAL SERVICE The Home for the Children of Missionaries, at Newton Centre is one of many agencies for aiding in the work of the Union by providing a pleasant and safe home where the missionaries may send their children for education and training. This Home was opened in May, 1882, and has dur¬ ing the past year been filled to overflowing; 25 children have been accommodated. There is the beginning of an Endowment Fund, but at present the home is assisted by contributions from indi¬ viduals and Sunday Schools, the parents meeting the expenses of the children’s board. Hasseltine House holds an important relation to the Society, as here the young women who go out as missionaries may receive a year’s training in Bible study in the Newton Theological Insti- tion, under the care and direction of an exper¬ ienced missionary. It was built and is sustained almost entirely by the gifts of individuals who are interested in the best possible intellectual and spiritual equipment of our missionaries in foreign lands. 26 THE TREASURY In sending money to the Woman’s Baptist Foreign Missionary Society all checks, drafts and Post Office Orders should be made payable to Alice E. Stedman, Treasurer, and addressed to her. To constitute a life member, $25 must be paid at the same time; and as the same money can¬ not make life members and also maintain the annual memberships, the life memberships should be extra. The financial year closes March 31st. FORM OF BEQUEST I give and bequeath to the Woman’s Baptist Foreign Missionary Society, $ . . . . for the pur¬ poses of the Society as specified in the act of incorporation. (Those desiring to give for specific purposes can insert after the word “for,” in place of the words above given, the object desired, as “ Endowment Fund of Home for Children of Missionaries,” “Endowment Fund of Hassel- tine House,” or “Building Fund.”) WOMAN’S BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETY OF THE WEST 1318 MASONIC TEMPLE, CHICAGO, ILL. President , Mrs. John Edwin Scott Foreign Secretary, Mrs. Frederick Clatworthy Home Secretary , Miss Julia L. Austin Treasurer , Mrs. Matilda E. Kline HIS Society was organized May 9, 1871. To organize the women, young ladies and children in every church; to provide instruction and stimulating helps in the form of leaflets, pictures, maps and studies; and to secure a contribution from every one of these without diminishing the gifts to any other worthy object—were stipulated aims. The ultimate object was to reach with the gospel the Zenana-imprisoned women and others who could not be reached by the agencies already on the field. The two general departments are the cultivation of the Home field and the evangelization of the Foreign. For the former we have a Home Sec¬ retary, State and Associational Secretaries, who by correspondence, visiting, and printing press, endeavor to lay the work of the Society upon the hearts of our constituency, and secure funds for its prosecution. For the Foreign work the ob¬ ject is to seek and recommend to the Executive Committee of the American Baptist Missionary Union, suitable women for missionaries, to pro¬ vide for their support and that of native helpers. such as teachers and Bible women, together with the facilities needed for their work. THE FIELDS To Burma Miss A. L. Stevens was sent in 1871, and located at Bassein, in the Sgaw Karen department. Other stations were supplied in the following order: Toungoo, Mandalay, Moulmein, Rangoon, Tavoy, Henzada, Tharrawadi, Shwe- gyin, Loikaw, and Thaton. Thirty-two mission¬ aries have worked in this field during S3 years. The Society sent workers to Assam in 1872, who have occupied Nowgong and Gowhati. Ten young women have served there. The Telugus in South India have heard the gospel message from thirteen messengers of the Cross, located at Hanamakonda, Ramapatam, Nellore, Secunderabad, Cumbum, Ongole and Vinukonda. Swatow, China, welcomed a worker from this Society in 1876. Thirty most efficient and con¬ secrated women have occupied Swatow, Ningpo, Hankow, Yachau, Kayin, Suifu, and Kityang. To the Sunrise Kingdom missionaries were sent in 1886. Eleven have labored in Sendai, Chofu, Kobe, and Osaka. Africa has had two missionaries and now the Philippines have the Society’s first representative. Schools are conducted by most of these missionaries, in which they teach the Bible, win the young to Christ and train them in Christian living. These in turn become teachers in jungle and town schools, or are centres of influence in their native villages. Bible Woman’s work is an important factor in evangelizing pagan peoples. Bible training schools are established in which native Christian women who show aptitude for telling the story of redeeming love are gathered, taught to read and explain the Bible, to pray and sing and lead souls to Christ. They go out as did the early disciples two and two under the direction of the missionary. The long-closed Zenana receives these visitors and in many cases accepts their teaching. Medical Work was opened in Swatow, China, in 1878. Six well-equipped doctors have been sent to Swatow and Kit Yang district, another to Han¬ kow, and three to Burma. The medical profession often opens long closed doors and closed hearts. The Home for the Children of Mission¬ aries is a sort of addendum to the work of the Society—a helping hand to the Missionary Union, as it cares for the children of missionaries, thus enabling the parents to continue their work. It was opened in 1893; a good substantial house was built and entered in 1899, at a cost of $8500. It has sheltered children from all our mission fields. The Society has raised $1,025,146, and sup¬ ported 113 missionaries. WOMEN’S BAPTIST HOME MISSION SOCIETY 2411 INDIANA AVENUE, CHICAGO, ILL. President, Mrs. J. N. Crouse Corresponding Sec’y, Miss Mary G. Burdette Treasurer, Mrs. A. H. Barber HE Women’s Baptist Home Mis¬ sion Society was organized in Chicago, February 1, 1877, and duly incorporated under the laws of the State of Illinois, its distinctive object being the Christianization and consequent purification and elevation of home life among non-Christian and degraded populations. In undertaking this department of denominational work the purpose was to do so as an ally of the American Baptist Home Mission Society, the work of the Women’s Society supplementing that of the general organ¬ ization. MISSIONARIES AND FIELDS One hundred and seventy missionaries bear the Society’s commission March 31, 1904. These missionaries are Baptist women of various nation¬ alities whose qualifications for the service required have been tested, and whose gifts, as a rule, have been developed by a course of special study and training. The Fields include Americans, Negroes, Indians, European and Asiatic immigrant pop¬ ulations, Mormons, Mexicans, Cubans, Porto Ricans and Jamaicans in Central America. TRAINING SCHOOL Over six hundred young women have been en¬ rolled in the Baptist Missionary Training School carried on under the auspices of the Society, and located at its headquarters in Chicago. But in this school students are trained for all lines of Christian work open to women, whether in our own country or in foreign lands, and its grad¬ uates are laboring in all parts of the world. Colored workers receive similar training for work among their own people in Caroline Bishop Training School, Dallas, Texas, supported wholly by the Society, and in the Missionary Training School of Shaw University, in whose support the Women’s Baptist Home Mission Society co¬ operates with the American Baptist Home Mis¬ sion Society. *» METHODS I. ON MISSION FIELD 1. House to house visitation and ministry. 2. Mothers’ meetings, Parents’ Conferences and Women’s Classes. 3. Industrial and Sunday Schools and Children’s meetings. 4. Fireside schools and Bible Bands. 5. Local training classes for native workers and Missionary Train¬ ing Schools for women’s work. 6. Co-operation with the American Baptist Home Mission Society in the support of Matrons in schools among Negroes and Indians. II. ORGANIZATION FOR SUPPORT 1. Branches: Auxiliary societies composed of women in local churches. Annual membership, $1.00; life membership, $25.00. 2. What I Can Societies: Organizations of young ladies. Annual membership, $1.00; life membership, $10.00. 3. Missionary Gardeners: This term includes all junior helpers and Mission Bands composed of girls and boys from 8 to 15 years of age. Annual membership, 25 cents; life membership, $2.00. 4. Baby Band : Children up to and including seven years of age. Annual membership, 10 cents; life membership, $1.00. LITERATURE I. Tidings: The official organ of the Society, a thirty-six page magazine published monthly, ap¬ propriately and attractively illustrated, and con¬ taining information concerning every department of the work. Subscription price, 25 cents per year. II. Home Mission Lessons: 1 . For Adults—A series of eighteen lessons arranged for circle study. 25c. per full set, 2c. per single copy. 2. For Juniors—Eight lessons in a little book. Price 5c. 3. For Little Ones—Eight leaflet lessons, 5c. for set. III. Historical Sketches: Eight of these sketches now ready; when completed the series will include about fifteen illustrated pamphlets, of from 60 to 80 pages each, sketching the work of the Society on its various fields. Price 10c. each. IV. Booklets: Our Trio at Rainy Mountain; The Heroine at Saddle Mountain; From Tent to Chapel; Mexico, Pagan and Papal. All finely illustrated. Price 15c. each. V. Besides those mentioned, a large and varied assortment of pam¬ phlets, leaflets and folders, furnishing material for Home Mission study, meetings and programs for young and old. Send for full catalogue. MONEY AND CORRESPONDENCE All money designed for the Women’s Baptist Home Mission Society should be sent to the Treasurer, 2411 Indiana Avenue, Chicago, Ill. All other correspondence should be addressed to the Corresponding Secretary, 2411 Indiana Avenue, Chicago, Ill. THE WOMAN’S AMERICAN BAPTIST HOME MISSION SOCIETY 510 TREMONT TEMPLE. BOSTON President , Mrs. Alice B. Coleman Corresponding Secretary , Mrs. M. C. Reynolds Treasurer , Miss Gertrude L. Davis Superintend't for Alaska, Mrs. James McWhinnie HIS Society was organized Nov. 14, 1877. Its object was “The evan¬ gelizing of the women among the freed people, the Indians, the hea¬ then immigrants, and the new set¬ tlements of the West.” On May 20, 1878, the Society was legally in¬ corporated. By act of the Massachusetts legis¬ lature, approved April 9, 1888, the Society was authorized to carry on its work in any part of North America. EDUCATIONAL WORK Its work has been and is, for the most part, educational; the territory from which it draws its resources is New England. Through its Corres¬ ponding Secretary, State Vice Presidents, and Directors, it has sought to organize circles in the churches of New England. For the first few years, the work was among the Indians and freedmen. In April, 1881, a school for colored girls was opened in the base¬ ment of Friendship Church, Atlanta, Georgia. Here Miss Packard and Miss Giles laid the foundations of the far-famed Spelman Seminary. The same year, Mrs. R. C. Mather gave to the Society the school property at Beaufort, S. C. In 1883 Hartshorn Memorial College, a school for colored girls, was founded by Deacon J. C. Hartshorn, of Providence, R. I., and work among the Mormons at Salt Lake City and Ogden, Utah was commenced. The year 1884 notes the beginning of the Society’s work in Mexico and among the Chinese at Fresno, California. In 1885 the Home Mission Echo was published for the first time, and for twelve years Mrs. Anna Sargent Hunt was its able editor. The years between 1885 and 1904 have been marked by advance in many lines of work al¬ ready established and by entrance into many new fields. In 1886 the first attempt at Baptist work in Alaska was made by the appointment of Mrs. W. E. Roscoe as missionary teacher of this Society at Kadiak. The teaching of 1886 at Kadiak resulted in the building, in 1893, of the 31 Kadiak Baptist Orphanage at Wood Island, and, in 1895, in the building of the first Baptist church in Alaska, which now has a membership of 15, including several of the children of the Orphan¬ age, and contributes every year to home and foreign missions. The Orphanage seeks its sup¬ port from the Sunday Schools of New England. A new feature of the work for the coming year will be the appointment of a medical missionary. The work among the Indians, begun in Indian Territory, has extended into Oklahoma and New Mexico, where a single mission station has been established among the Navajos. At Velarde and Alcalde, New Mexico, schools have been opened for the children of the Spanish-speaking Mexi¬ cans, and much missionary and medical work is done in the homes of the people, who are densely ignorant and held in subjection by the priests of the Roman Catholic Church. The rapid growth of the foreign population in New England has led to the appointment of Bible women, who find large fields for their ministry in the manufacturing cities, where the French Can¬ adians live in large numbers. The work yields constant proof that God’s word does not return unto Him void. In recent years, Cuba and Porto Rico have looked to us for Christian teachers and mis¬ sionaries to meet the phenomenal opportunities presented in those islands. Ponce, in Porto Rico, and Santiago, in Cuba, have been supplied, but the demand far exceeds our ability to meet it. A Swedish missionary is doing faithful work among her own people in Boston, and finds a fruitful field among the immigrants as they arrive. A PLAN OF CO-OPERATION In 1897 a plan of co-operation was entered into between the American Baptist Home Mission Society and the Woman’s American Baptist Home Mission Society. The Echo was changed to Home Mission Echoes and enlarged so as to present the work of the two Societies, the Amer¬ ican Baptist Home Mission Society assuming one-half the expense. Mrs. Reynolds is editor; Rev. H. B. Grose and Mrs. James McWhinnie are assistant editors, and Mrs. Anna Sargent Hunt is in charge of the Young People’s Department. The plan of co-operation brings the two Soci¬ eties into closer relations. The Woman’s Society aims to help the General Society in its educa¬ tional work. Most of the appointments are made upon its recommendation, but the teachers so appointed are supported entirely from the funds of the Woman’s Society. In the twenty-six years of the Society’s history the amount received has been $756,913.81. The number of teachers and missionaries has increased from 5 to 74. The McCormick Press, 10 Waverly Place, New'York