Santee Indian School Agencies and Results MEXICAN MISSIONS: In New Mexico six schools, chiefly in re- mote mountain villages for back- ward rural population. — Rio Grande Industrial School, near Albuquer- que^ a central boarding institution for intensive training in Christian and economic virtues. Extensive trucking farm, cannery and stock raising. — In Texas, school and com- munity work connected with Mexi- can church, ministering to crowded urban population in El Paso. Refu- gees largely from Mexican states occupied by the American Board. Our work the conservation on our side of the border of the product of foreign missions. CUBAN MISSIONS: The Latin- American Institute at West Tampa, Florida, a school and home for de- pendent boys and girls in connection with a Cuban church. MISSION SCHOOLS IN UTAH: Two academies and three smaller schools continuing the much larger and devoted work of the past which has now chiefly developed into regu- lar Congregational churches. Flower Sellers, Hawaii The Problem of Neighborhood THE SITUATION: Our neigh- bors, the most diverse types of the race; fellow citizens divided by the deepest human sundering, physical and mental, social and moral; the hardest problems of humanity be- come home-problems. THE PURPOSE: The full Amer- icanization of all Americans under democratic conditions. — Their mor- al and spiritual assimilation to the Nation and its Faith, involving all fundamental fellowships and oblit- erating all arbitrary distinctions. THE HANDICAP : Instinctive and acquired race antipathies. — The Americanizing energies of the Na- tion depleted. — Exceptional peo- ples usually congested where recep- tion of alien elements has passed the saturation point, or else in areas of backward civilization where im- mediate neighborhood is inadequate to its task. THE ALTERNATIVE : Either to fit all Americans for Democracy or to abandon Democracy in America. THE RELIANCE: The persistent moral energy of Christianity rever- ently conscious of its source in God. ! Neighbors Negro Cuban Indian Eskimo Chinese Mexican Japanese Hawaiian Highlander Porto Rican American Missionary Association 287 FOURTH AVENUE NEW YORK / 10 / Porto Rican Chapel Agencies and Results SOUTHERN EDUCATIONAL MISSIONS: Three theological schools; six colleges; about forty secondary and elementary schools. — Over six hundred officers and in- structors, with ten thousand five hundred pupils. — Seventy-six indus- trial instructors. — Seventeen school farms in eight States. — Differen- tiated curricula to fit urban and rural conditions. — Helpful co-opera- tion from leading citizens of the South. SOUTHERN CHURCH WORK: Over one hundred commissioned workers annually serving one hun- dred and seventy-five churches. — Eight regularly organized State Conferences, with their local Asso- ciations, in fellowship with the Congregational churches of Amer- ica. — Ten thousand Sunday School scholars. — Special attention to re- ligious life in schools. — Important beginnings in urban and rural in- stitutional work. INDIAN MISSIONS: Six North- western reservations occupied; also a mission in California. — The work touches the chief tribes of the Da- kota "nation"; also the Ponca, Crow, Mandan, Gros Ventres, Ari- kara and Pitt River tribes. — Twen- ty-three churches ; fourteen hundred members ; five schools, including Santee Normal School. — The Santee Mission Press. Chinatown Agencies and Results ORIENTAL MISSIONS: In - California and Washington. — For Chinese, five churches, twelve schools ; for Japanese, eight church- es, seven schools. — Other mission- ary methods : Settlement activities and dormitories, special evangelism for women and children, work for students in Universities, itinerant evangelism among construction and agricultural camps. PORTO RICO MISSIONS: At the east end of the Island an ex- clusive field of a hundred thousand people. — Two Missionary Districts; twelve organized churches; a med- ical mission. — In San Juan, Blanche Kellogg Institute and the Santurce Settlement. — A union Evangelical Press jointly sustained with the Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians and United Brethren. Central Hos- pital recently completed. Dispen- sary work at all stations. HAWAIIAN MISSIONS: Four ordained American and five Oriental Evangelists maintained through the Hawaiian Evangelical Association. ALASKAN MISSION: At Cape Prince of Wales, the largest Eskimo church in the world. A herd of two thousand reindeer for the economic benefit of the people. NEGROES. Number one out of every ten Amer- icans. — Once en- slaved, now suffer- ing every ill of a socially depressed group, plus violent color prejudice. — Below the nation's average in health, wealth, education, civic intelligence and civilized morality — Yet capacity for improvement ten thousand times proved. — Vastly increasing in num- bers, houses, ownership of land, variety of occupatio n. — Rural strength and gains as an agricul- tural producer and proprietor, especially notable. — Reduced illiter- acy lifo in last ten years. — Advanc- ing in racial self respect, initiative and moral control. — The most re- ligious of all Americans. The first Amer- INDIANS, leans — still three hundred thousand ; one-half yet pagan; speaking two hun- dred and fifty dia- lects. — Once pos- sessed of the whole continent, now en- gulfed by white civilization, pressed from decreasing reservations on to small individual holdings, which compel the aban- donment of tribal life and raise problems of a living and a "job." — The Federal government designs gradually to launch each Indian on a career of individual ownership and responsibility. — Greed, graft and red tape hinder. — Whiskey, tracoma and tuberculosis menace. — Twenty-four thousand children have no school. CHINESE. Seventy thousand pilgrims of poverty ; one-half massed in California. . — ■ Chiefly enterprising, h a r d- working and literate Cantonese, feared and now excluded as "cheap labor." — One- third of Chinese pop- ulation scattered in agricultural pursuits, one-third in trade and in- dustry — only incidentally laundry- men. — Not excessively criminal, but housing frequently unsanitary and surroundings immoral. — Few homes are , transplanted, old faiths lose vitality; the Chinaman in America without a wife and without a God. — ■ Christian Chinese communities and institutions steadily growing, and have had vast reflex influence on the new China and its marvelous trans- formation. Also evangelistic work, chiefly interdenominational, among our 6,000 Hindus. JAPANESE. A sound, stocky, ESKIMO, cheerful, democratic race of fishers and hunters, clinging to our Arctic coasts and struggling for existence under sev- erest climatic and economic conditions known to the human family. — Show marvelous ingenuity in mechanical and artistic results with poor material, as in the snow house, fur clothing, weapons, the lamp, sledge and canoe. — White civilization has brought them em- ployment, schools and the reindeer, also liquor, disease and the lust for gold. — Missions bring sanitation, morality and intelligent faith. Seventy-one thou- sand; 95% congest- ed on the Pacific coast, but tending to scatter among gen- eral population and to adopt American customs of dress and housing. — Emi- gration began via Hawaii, chiefly of agricultural la- bor; now voluntarily restricted by Japanese government. — Quick to learn English, mostly literate, great readers, intelligent on civic affairs. — Have strong and educated leaders, a press and well-developed group sentiments. — Their Buddhism with five thousand enrolled adherents, active and adaptive, imitating mod- ern Christian activities. — Missionary efforts chiefly assist Japanese initi- ative. Immensely fertile HAWAIIANS and beautiful islands form a home for scant 200,000 of peo- ple, incredibly min- gled in blood. — ^The scene of one of the earliest triumphs of foreign missions in complete Christian- ization of a pagan people. ■ — Now the battle to be fought all over again by reason of the inpouring emigrant races. Oriental and heathen. — Jap- anese the preponderant population, constituting with the Chinese more than half. — The dominant religion is Buddhism; the dominant form of Christianity Mormonism. — New England Christianity still mag- nificently sustained by the small but wealthy Caucasian population, led by sons of the missionaries and encouraged by the fellowship and gifts of the homeland churches. PORTO RICANS. Newest neighbors ; a million and more of mixed blood and Spanish tongue in a far tropical island, five-sixths as large as Connecticut. — Neglected and ex- ploited for four cen- turies and cursed by a decrepit and bigoted Romanism. — Economic eiBciency of whole people reduced at least fifty per cent, by hookworm disease. — American rule has added population, preserved or- der, furnished capital, quickened industry, planted schools, fought disease ; is valued for its results, but not loved. — Missions train in self government, foster native initiative, stand for democracy, inculcate thrift, create loyalty, and carry civilization effectively into the lives and homes of neglected masses. Our own kin and HIGHLANDERS. Lincoln's ; made a peculiar group by isolation in the Ap- palachian highlands of eight Southern states. — Few degen- erates, but generally backward. — Their region characterized by little improved land, low agri- cultural productiveness, small trans- portation facilities, few markets, simple industry; their lives by pov- erty and apathy; their religion and social relations by wildness and crudity. — Their isolation now chal- lenged by the school, the cotton mill, the mining corporation and the tourist. — Distinctly Christian insti- tutions especially needed as guides through transitional crisis. MEXICANS. Half a million souls of Spanish speech on our side the border, children of the old Conquer- ors of the Southwest and the Indians. — Very old Americans — their fathers here before the Pilgrims — and very new ones — refugees from Mexican disorder. — Village life stag- nant for two centuries — showing politically the complete loyalty of ignorance, — economically the loss of land by the masses, — educationally the public school present but feebly — religiously the lax grip of tradi- tional Catholicism with an absentee priesthood. The insane self-tortures of the Penitentes fail to prevent practical godlessness.. — Refugee Mexicans in thronging border cities, homeless and impoverished, face new urban stress and opportunity and challenge American kindliness and justice. The expansion of CUBANS. Cuba into Florida represented by some thirty thousand who have followed the cigar manufacturing industry to Tampa and Key West. — Our only present Con- gregational oppor- tunity of service for a people for whom American blood was spilled, to whose destinies we are solemnly bound . — Strangers of excitable blood, with home and religious re- straints broken, — thrust under an exacting industrial pressure, they tend to atheism and revolutionary social ideas. — The Gospel of Christ and of constructive Americanism their supreme need. Mis „______,*__ A. goodly company of more tlian eigkt kundred workers annually, now composed almost equally of American Ckristians of tke dominant stock and memkers of tke [ "neigkkor" races among wkom tkey lakor. It includes pastors, Bikle women, Sunday Sckool missionaries, administrators, college professors, principals and teackers, meckanics and agriculturists, musicians, matrons, treasurers and clerks, settlement workers, pkysicians, nurses, editors and extension agents. In lonely places often, on small pay always, tkrougk Ckristian drudgery usually, tkey love and serve individuals, kuild institutions, re-make communities, estaklisk ideals, proclaim Ckrist. Tkey lakor, under tke American flag, for tke more kackward elements of our population — ckiefly tkose of non-European origin; also for suck exceptional groups as tke Soutkern ^Mountaineers and tke Mormons. Tkey link tke nation togetker witk living ties. (