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H ow a Thousand Missionaries 
 Are Supported 
 
 The Support of Specific Missionaries by Specific Churches 
 Advocated at the Ecumenical Missionary 
 Conference, by 
 
 JOHN H. CONVERSE, Esq. 
 SAMUEL B. CAPEN, Esq. 
 LUCIEN C. WARNER, Esq. 
 WILTON MERLE SMITH, D. D. 
 J. Y. DOBBINS, D D. 
 
 W. C. KING, Esq. 
 
 JACOB CHAMBERLAIN, D. D. 
 
 Introduction by 
 LUTHER D. IVISHARD 
 
 FLEMING H. REVELL COMPANY 
 
 NKW YORK : : CHICAGO : : TORONTO 
 
 ... 1901 . . . 
 
The tendency will be more and more for churches 
 to turn over their missionary obligation to societies, for 
 societies to turn it over to boards, for boards to turn it 
 over to executive committees, and executive committees 
 to secretaries, so that in the last result the chief respon¬ 
 sibility for the great work will rest on the shoulders of a 
 dozen men.—President Wayland. 
 
INTRODUCTORY. 
 
 The greatest problem which confro7its us jor the 
 ope?iing century is that of distributing the missionary 
 responsibility which has become congested in official 
 centers. — Rev. A. J. Gordon, D. D. 
 
 The Ecumenical Missionary Conference 
 addresses here reproduced in full outline are 
 deserving of the thoughtful reading which they 
 will doubtless receive. They embody in every 
 case the opinions of eminent men who have for 
 years given the closest attention to questions 
 of missionary finance. The methods here 
 advocated have been thoroughly tested by the 
 churches with which these gentlemen are 
 actively associated. No other solution of “the 
 greatest problem” suggested by Dr. Gordon 
 has been as thoroughly tested by experience. 
 This method had no stronger advocate than 
 Dr. Gordon, who was without doubt one of the 
 greatest missionary pastors of his generation. 
 
 This method does what no other method 
 has been shown to do in equal measure. It 
 immediately increases a church’s missionary 
 contributions by large percentages, and main- 
 
4 A Thousand Missionaries Supported 
 
 tains the increase throughout a period of years. 
 This is illustrated by comparing the contribu¬ 
 tions of ten churches for ten years to the 
 general missionary cause, with those of ten 
 other churches for the same time which during 
 the last half of the period supported their own 
 foreign missionaries. 
 
 I. Receipts for ten years from ten churches 
 for the general missionary cause: 
 
 First five years. Second five years. Increase. 
 $12,3 77 $12,480 $103 
 
 II. Receipts for ten years from ten churches 
 which during the first five years contributed to 
 the general cause and during the following five 
 years supported their own missionaries: 
 
 First five years. Second five years. Increase. 
 
 $ 30,397 $65,495 $ 35>°98 
 
 In the first case there is practically no 
 increase; in the second over one hundred per 
 cent, increase. In the first case the ten 
 churches contributed what happened to be 
 given in answer to a general appeal; in the 
 second the people were moved by the pressure 
 of a specific appeal. In the first case the 
 churches neither assumed nor felt any special 
 responsibility; in the second, they shared with 
 
A Thousand Missionaries Supported 5 
 
 their missionary Board the responsibility for 
 the support of ten missionaries. 
 
 This method has actually enlisted the sala¬ 
 ries of more than one thousand missionaries of 
 the American Presbyterian, Congregational, 
 Baptist, Methodist, Christian and United 
 Brethren Churches, of the Canadian Methodist 
 Church, and of the Church of England. 
 
 The method has so commended itself 
 to the pastors and members of every one of 
 the ninety-nine churches visited by the writer 
 since the Forward Movement was inaugurated 
 in America that every one, without a single 
 exception, has pledged the salary of one or 
 more missionaries. The amounts pledged 
 represent an increase of more than two hun¬ 
 dred per cent, over previous annual con¬ 
 tributions. The entire number of salaries pro¬ 
 vided by these churches is one hundred and 
 fourteen. In addition to these, twelve salaries 
 were pledged by individuals. 
 
 The American churches struggled with the 
 problem of missionary finance all through last 
 century and succeeded in enlisting only one- 
 tenth of a cent a day, or about thirty-five cents 
 a year, from the average church member. Is it 
 
6 A Thousand Missionaries Supported 
 
 not worth while hearkening to the counsel of 
 the business men and pastors who speak 
 through the following pages, and try for at 
 least the first year of the century a method 
 which has increased the per capita missionary 
 contributions of the members of ninety-nine 
 churches to over three dollars a year ? 
 
 An interesting question is suggested by the 
 facts embodied in the title and discussion. 
 May not the method which has secured the 
 support of one thousand missionaries provide 
 for twenty-five thousand? If so, the financial 
 problem of the world’s evangelization is solved; 
 for in the judgment of conservative and reli¬ 
 able authorities twenty-five thousand mission¬ 
 aries properly distributed can present and fully 
 explain the message of Christianity to every 
 creature during this generation. 
 
 Luther D. Wishard. 
 287 Fourth Avenue, New York City. 
 
 March 18, igoi. 
 
THE METHOD ENDORSED BY CHURCH 
 COUNCILS AND MISSIONARY 
 SOCIETIES 
 
 Baptist. —Churches and individuals shall 
 be encouraged to contribute such sums as shall 
 meet definite needs of the work of the Union, 
 as for example, the work of a missionary.— 
 Action of the American Baptist Missionary 
 Union, 1899. 
 
 Congregational. —Resolved, that the For¬ 
 ward Movement be inaugurated to develop 
 interest in foreign missions among the 
 churches, and especially to secure the adop¬ 
 tion of missionaries by churches, individuals 
 and families.—Action of the American Board, 
 1898. 
 
 Canadian Methodist. — The Movement 
 wisely guided will result in stimulating and 
 developing widespread interest in missionary 
 work among young people, and in securing 
 substantial additions to the income of the 
 Board.—Action of the Missionary Society of 
 
 the Methodist Church of Canada. 
 
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8 A Thousand Missionaries Supported 
 
 Presbyterian. —It is hoped that not a few 
 men and women of wealth may see it to be 
 their duty to have their representatives on the 
 foreign field, and that congregations may also 
 see their way clear to support a missionary. 
 More than five hundred of the seven hundred 
 missionaries were so supported before this 
 special effort (the Forward Movement) was 
 inaugurated.—Reports of the Foreign Board 
 adopted by the General Assembly, 1898 and 
 1899. 
 
 Church of England. — During the last 
 three years of its first century, which closed 
 April, 1899, the Church Missionary Society con¬ 
 ducted a three years enterprise for the pur¬ 
 pose of promoting a definite and substantial 
 advance in foreign missions. Individuals, fami¬ 
 lies and congregations were asked to adopt 
 one or more missionaries of their own. At the 
 last report three hundred and seventy-one 
 missionaries were thus supported. 
 
Address by 
 
 JOHN H. CONVERSE, Esq. 
 
 Member of the Advisory Committee of the Pres¬ 
 byterian Forward Movement in 
 Foreign Missions. 
 
 Systematic beneficence can best be pro¬ 
 moted and the interest of the people can best 
 be aroused and maintained if they have a 
 definite object in which their interest is cen¬ 
 tered. The interest of the pastor also can be 
 largely increased if he knows that he has a 
 fellow worker on the foreign field. 
 
 Let us carefully define what we mean by 
 the support of missionaries by churches. It is 
 not that a church shall undertake this work 
 without any relation to its missionary board; 
 it simply means that a church shall pledge 
 itself to contribute annually a sum equal to the 
 support of a foreign missionary, or a dozen if 
 it pleases. It means that the supervision of 
 the work of the missionary shall be centered 
 in the board. 
 
 In order to carry this out, the church must 
 
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io A Thousand Missionaries Supported 
 
 be organized into a missionary society. 
 Pledges should be asked for each year. The 
 people should be invited to make their pay¬ 
 ments annually, monthly, weekly, or as their 
 convenience may dictate. Permit me to men¬ 
 tion a concrete example of this method. I 
 refer to a church in the suburbs of Philadel¬ 
 phia. Its annual contributions to foreign 
 missions were about one hundred and forty 
 dollars a year up to twelve years ago. The 
 pastor persuaded the people to consider the 
 question of supporting a foreign missionary. 
 Pledges were asked, with the result that 
 twenty-five hundred dollars were subscribed 
 the first year. Instead of sending one mis¬ 
 sionary, two were sent. The work has been 
 steadily maintained for twelve years, and the 
 increase in the contributions of the church to 
 the mission cause has been thirty-fold. 
 
 In the Presbyterian Church, with over seven 
 hundred missionaries, nearly six hundred are 
 specifically supported. In the Congregational 
 body the proportion is similar. It would seem 
 as though the problem had already been 
 solved, and if there is any significance in the 
 leadings of divine providence, this is the 
 
A Thousand Missionaries Supported n 
 
 method to awaken in our people an interest in 
 foreign missions, to draw out systematic 
 benevolence, and to engage the prayers of all 
 of Christ’s followers in this most important 
 work. 
 
Address by 
 
 SAMUEL B. CAPEN, Esq. 
 
 President of the A?nerican Board of Commissio?iers 
 for Foreign Missions 
 
 After weighing all objections at their full 
 value, I think it still remains true that there is 
 a work to be done by individual churches in 
 assuming the support of individual missiona¬ 
 ries. One of the greatest needs of the hour is 
 to enlarge the gifts of our churches. How 
 shall we enlarge the gifts? I reply, by increas¬ 
 ing the number of the givers. One of the best 
 ways to do this is to make this work more 
 interesting by giving the individual churches 
 their own specific and definite work. I 
 believe this plan has the following strong 
 advantages: 
 
 First.—It makes the missionary problem 
 
 seem more capable of solution. To many 
 
 minds this problem seems now so vast, the 
 
 numbers to be reached so immense, that they 
 
 are paralyzed and can do nothing. When you 
 
 suggest, however, That if thousands of the 
 
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A Thousand Missionaries Supported 13 
 
 churches at home will each take a field of its 
 own and cultivate it, the whole heathen world 
 will soon be covered and cared for, there is a 
 definiteness about the suggestion which seems 
 practical. 
 
 Second.—It will reduce the waste of money. 
 The pastor of one of our strongest churches 
 whose gifts to foreign missions have been very 
 small, told me recently that the men in his 
 church gave away a great deal of money, but 
 they liked to give it to things they could see. 
 The things that were out of sight were unreal 
 to them. As a result their gifts often go to 
 support enterprises of doubtful value and are 
 practically wasted. If the proverb, that “Not 
 only is he idle who is doing nothing, but he 
 is idle who might be better employed,” is 
 true, it is equally true that, “Not only is he 
 wasting who throws away his money, but he is 
 wasting who might use his money to better 
 advantage.” 
 
 Third.—The indifferent are reached by this 
 individual plan of work, because they become 
 interested in some person who in a very defi¬ 
 nite and real sense is their representative at the 
 front. There is nothing clearer in all the his- 
 
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 tory of the past and present than that men 
 become interested, not so much in abstract 
 ideas as in individuals who represent those 
 ideas. The interest centers first upon the man, 
 then upon his work. It is the Bible story over 
 again: great events, great changes revolving 
 around a person. Let our churches have some¬ 
 one at the post of danger whose suffering and 
 needs they will make theirs, and there will be 
 no lack of sympathy and practical support. 
 
 Fourth.—The indifferent are to be reached 
 by this new plan of a definite responsibility 
 because they will become more intelligent. 
 Ignorance in our churches is the mother of 
 much of the present indifference. What many 
 in our churches need is not more appeals, but 
 more facts; not more exhortation, but more 
 education. Suppose now a church at home 
 becomes responsible for some individual mis¬ 
 sionary, what is the result? If you have a 
 boy in the army do you not follow every day 
 the division which contains his regiment? 
 Every item of news that has any bearing upon 
 the country, the people, the forces opposed, is 
 of supreme interest to you. In a similar way 
 when our churches become interested in some 
 
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 missionary at the front, they are going to study 
 his field, the conditions of the people, what 
 they believe, how they live, what the gains and 
 losses are from time to time. In other words, 
 we shall have an increased number of intelligent 
 Christians, and they will become interested, 
 not only in the country, but in the field which 
 he is occupying as their field. It will become 
 a part of their parish for which they will be 
 gladly responsible. The missionary may die, 
 but the field will remain and their interest will 
 remain also. 
 
 May I give you an illustration which seems 
 to me to prove the truth of that for which I 
 have' been arguing. It is of a church with 
 which I am very familiar. It is in a neighbor¬ 
 hood where the church-going habit is greatly 
 neglected. The church itself was started a few 
 years ago as a mission enterprise, and almost 
 all of its members are poor. Its gifts a year 
 ago for the American Board were but seventy 
 dollars, but last autumn a young lady who had 
 grown up in the church and who was greatly 
 beloved, gave herself to the foreign mission 
 work. It was out of love to her that these 
 people in their poverty subscribed the whole 
 
16 A Thousand Missionaries Supported 
 
 five hundred dollars needed for her support. 
 So far from their generous gifts reducing the 
 interest in other directions, it has increased it. 
 The contributions to one of our home societies 
 have increased thirty per cent, over last year, 
 and to another over sixty per cent. 
 
 Yes! In developing this new plan of indi¬ 
 vidual churches supporting individual mission¬ 
 aries, I believe intelligence will take the place 
 of ignorance, and interest will conquer indiffer¬ 
 ence. The plan ought not to be despised even 
 if it were only a wise method of providing 
 more money for saving men who need Christ, 
 and the education and civilization which Christ 
 always brings. But it is far more than this: it 
 is a plan which will permanently educate the 
 church in the grandest work of the century. 
 
Address by 
 
 LUCIEN C. WARNER, Esq. 
 
 Chairman of the Advisory Committee of the Con - 
 gregatio?ial Forward Movement in 
 Foreign Missions. 
 
 We have in our denomination over five 
 hundred churches which spent last year over 
 six thousand dollars on an average in support 
 of their own parish work. An inquiry concern¬ 
 ing the foreign mission contributions of these 
 churches reveals the fact that one which spent 
 over five thousand upon its congregational 
 work, gave only fifty to foreign missions, 
 another gave twenty-five, another two hundred 
 and fifty. If we could so influence our churches 
 that the average would be brought up to the 
 record made by one-tenth of the five hundred 
 which are doing their best, we would much 
 more than double the receipts for missions. 
 We have been trying to increase the receipts 
 from some of these churches by laying upon 
 them a definite responsibility. You know what 
 results from solely depending upon spontane- 
 
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 ous collections. If it happens to be a fine 
 Sunday and the minister is in fine condition, 
 he may get a collection of five hundred dollars. 
 If it happens to rain, or the minister, from 
 being over-worked the preceding week, is a 
 little dull, we get a collection of two hundred. 
 Now the needs of the foreign work do not 
 change from year to year in this way. It takes 
 the same amount of money to carry on the 
 same work this year that it did last. We can t 
 support the foreign work with five hundred one 
 year and two hundred another. The church 
 would not try to support its pastor in that way. 
 It did not cut down his salary one-half because 
 it happened to rain on two or three Sundays 
 during the year; no more should we cut down 
 our gifts to foreign missions or any other 
 benevolent work because of rainy Sundays. 
 
 Note the effect of having a church provide 
 for a definite missionary, or for a definite work. 
 It may be the support of a college such as the 
 Broadway Tabernacle recently took for its 
 special responsibility. We laid this responsi¬ 
 bility upon that church, and the church will 
 not be any more likely to cut down its contribu¬ 
 tions from year to year than it will to vary the 
 
A Thousand Missionaries Supported 19 
 
 salary of its own pastor. What we want to 
 promote in our churches is such a feeling of 
 responsibility that each individual will under¬ 
 stand that it is not a matter of whether or not 
 he happens to go to church the day the collec¬ 
 tion is taken; it is not a matter of what the 
 sermon is, but it is a matter of duty, of system 
 and of conscientious communion with God. 
 He knows each year just what he has to do. 
 If we can build up this custom of systematic 
 benevolence, this feeling of responsibility 
 among our churches and individual members, 
 we shall largely increase the gifts for missions. 
 
Address by 
 
 WILTON MERLE SMITH, D. D. 
 
 Pastor Central Presbyterian Church , New 
 
 York City . 
 
 Seven years ago the Young People’s 
 Society of Christian Endeavor of our church 
 requested the Session to be permitted to send 
 a missionary into the home or foreign field. 
 The Session said we would better unite with 
 them and send a missionary who would repre¬ 
 sent the entire church. In about six months 
 we had a missionary in the Kentucky moun¬ 
 tains in the village of Hyden, sixty miles from 
 the railroad. The whole county is among the 
 mountains. There is not a single church in 
 the county with a settled pastor and a regular 
 service; nor was there a Sunday school, 
 although there was a population of about five 
 thousand. The result has been that within six 
 years we have absolutely changed the face of 
 that town. We have built a beautiful little 
 church costing twenty-five hundred dollars; 
 we have Christian Endeavor societies; a large 
 
A Thousand Missionaries Supported 21 
 
 Sunday school and five out-schools, and Hyden 
 Academy. Very many district school houses in 
 that country are presided over by those who 
 have been educated at our academy. The 
 teachers go out to the little settlements among 
 the mountains and establish Sunday schools. 
 The work we are doing there is evangelizing 
 the whole county. The whole town is changed; 
 sidewalks have been built everywhere; new 
 houses are going up. At times the principal 
 business in Hyden consists in boarding stu¬ 
 dents who come from far and wide to our 
 academy. 
 
 But that did not satisfy our church. They 
 said, “We must have a missionary on the 
 foreign field.” In 1895 we sent a missionary 
 to Peking under our Foreign Board. His wife 
 became seriously ill and they had to return. 
 We had spent twenty-five hundred dollars 
 in that venture, and it all seemed fruitless. 
 We did not propose, however, to be deterred 
 by the first failure, and in 1898 we sent 
 out two young men, graduates of Yale and 
 Princeton. They have been studying the 
 language ever since. They are now pre¬ 
 paring to go farther inland to found a station. 
 
22 A Thousand Missionaries Supported 
 
 Last fall they wrote home: “Can’t you send a 
 medical missionary?” We found one who 
 was one of the brightest young men in the 
 Presbyterian hospital. He said, “I am willing 
 to go, but my brother is just graduating in 
 theology and he wants to go to China,” and so 
 we sent them both. They and their wives left 
 for China last September, and are now with 
 our other missionaries in Nanking. A sister of 
 one of the young men whom we first sent out, 
 having joined the party at her own charges, 
 desires to be considered one of the mission¬ 
 aries of our church, so we have in Nanking 
 seven foreign missionaries almost ready to 
 preach the Gospel to the heathen. We have 
 already selected our station, about two hun¬ 
 dred miles from Nanking, in An Hui province. 
 
 H as this been a hard thing to do? Not at 
 all. Eleven years ago we were giving about 
 two hundred and fifty dollars to foreign mis¬ 
 sions. Our annual offering for the general 
 work of the board was more than ten times 
 that last November. Our annual offering for 
 the general fund is steadily increasing, not¬ 
 withstanding the large expense which we have 
 
A Thousand Missionaries Supported 23 
 
 incurred in the support of our special mis¬ 
 sionaries. 
 
 The interest is so great in our church that 
 when special demands come up there is always 
 someone to volunteer. For instance, we 
 wanted a church at Hyden. A man said, “I 
 will give a thousand dollars;” another man 
 said, “I would like to buy the parsonage;” and 
 another said, “When you are ready for a 
 hospital in China, I want to build the hospital.” 
 Anything that our missionaries want they can 
 have, and have it gladly. 
 
 I have been asked what this all costs us. 
 We took our offering last Sunday for our own 
 missionary scheme, amounting to between five 
 and six thousand dollars, for our special work. 
 I felt a little skeptical about our getting what 
 we needed. It was the largest offering we had 
 ever asked for, but we had every bit of it on 
 the plate; and one man came to me afterward 
 and said, “You want another special mission¬ 
 ary at Hyden. I was waiting, thinking I 
 would take that six hundred. I find you have 
 got all the money without it.” I replied, “We 
 will find use for your six hundred somewhere 
 else.” 
 
24 A Thousand Missionaries Supported 
 
 One of the most important things about it 
 all is that it imparts such tremendous interest 
 to the home church. All the missionaries 
 have kodaks; they send home pictures which 
 are thrown on the screen at our monthly mis¬ 
 sionary meetings, which are the most interest¬ 
 ing and invariably the largest attended prayer 
 meetings of the entire year. The result has 
 been that the interest has reflected upon our 
 own spiritual growth, and I do not believe 
 there is a member of our church who does not 
 rejoice that we have our five missionaries in 
 Hyden and seven in China. These mission¬ 
 aries have been with us. Two of them worked 
 with us six months before they went away; 
 the other two worked three months. We 
 know them. Our children know their faces. 
 We have their pictures on the screen, and their 
 letters are read at every monthly missionary 
 meeting. The whole scheme has worked so 
 successfully in our own church that I wish it 
 were multiplied a thousand times in other 
 churches. Of course, we do it through our 
 home and foreign boards; that is the only way 
 to do it. 
 

 Address by 
 W. C. KING, Esq. 
 
 Chairman Forward Movement Committee ) High¬ 
 land Baptist Church , Springfield , Mass. 
 
 The average individual is too busy to 
 become acquainted with the whole missionary 
 field. He can, however, become acquainted 
 with a single station or a single missionary. 
 From this point his interest grows until it 
 reaches other stations, other lands and other 
 people. I believe in special churches support¬ 
 ing special missionaries for this very reason. 
 
 A word with reference to the effect of the 
 support of an individual upon the home 
 church: Last year in connection with the 
 visits of some of the members of our board to 
 our church, it was suggested that we support a 
 foreign missionary. We were twenty-seven 
 thousand dollars in debt, and our people at 
 first said, “We can’t do it.” The amount that 
 we raised the year before was only ninety-six 
 dollars, and to raise eight hundred dollars for 
 
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26 A Thousand Missionaries Supported 
 
 a foreign missionary seemed impossible. 
 Everyone of our standing committee said, 
 “No,” excepting one. It was decided, how¬ 
 ever, to recommend it to the church. The 
 church agreed to undertake it, and a com¬ 
 mittee was appointed to raise the money. We 
 got up a little circular with a picture of the 
 proposed missionary, and a few words about 
 him and his work. We sent this in a letter 
 with a subscription card and a stamped 
 envelope. The result was that nearly nine 
 hundred dollars were subscribed, and today we 
 have our missionary on the foreign field. 
 
 Immediately following that, seven thous¬ 
 and dollars were subscribed toward clearing 
 the debt of twenty-seven thousand. A year 
 ago we came to the annual meeting eleven 
 hundred dollars behind on current expenses. 
 Last year we were only one hundred dollars 
 behind, and that was subscribed in less than 
 five minutes. 
 
Address by 
 
 J. Y. DOBBINS, D. D. 
 
 Pastor Methodist Episcopal Church, Montclair, N.J- 
 
 The people of the church in which I minis¬ 
 ter are brought into immediate relation to a 
 particular person and to a certain portion of 
 the missionary field. Our interest is not now 
 as it used to be, mediate, but immediate; and 
 instead of having our interest fostered only 
 by printed statements of missionary work, 
 we read the letters which are written us by our 
 own missionary representatives, one of them in 
 Burmah, and the other representing us in 
 Montana, where our church has erected several 
 buildings. These letters are brimming with 
 the missionary spirit, and the reading of them 
 makes an impression which long remains in 
 the hearts of our people. 
 
 I wish to emphasize the point already made 
 by other speakers, that this direct relation to 
 an individual and a certain portion of the 
 missionary field, does not narrow, but rather 
 broadens our church life. It is because we 
 
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28 A Thousand Missionaries Supported 
 
 have become related to individuals who are in 
 the mission fields at home and abroad that we 
 are interested everywhere. The church which 
 has no interest in some particular place is in 
 great danger of not having interest in the world 
 at large. 
 
 Further, it has been a delight to us to find 
 that individual members of the church have 
 entered into definite relations with a mission¬ 
 ary. A member of our church who makes her 
 living by her needle, supports one of the most 
 eloquent evangelists in Northern China. 
 
Address by 
 
 JACOB CHAMBERLAIN, D. D, 
 
 Missionary of the Reformed Church in 
 
 India. 
 
 We missionaries believe that the time has 
 come for many churches to support two pas¬ 
 tors, one for the home field and another for 
 the foreign. I have tried this upon the foreign 
 field when the little church which I gathered 
 in India was about to call its first pastor. 
 I laid before them the fact, “Thou shalt love 
 thy neighbor as thyself,” and that church 
 instead of calling one pastor called two; 
 one for themselves, the other for the regions 
 beyond, and those two pastors were ordained 
 at the same time. The same hands were placed 
 on their heads as co-pastors of that church. 
 What can be done at the forefront by the feeble 
 churches, can certainly be done by the churches 
 at home. 
 
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LIST OF BOOKS RECOMMENDED 
 
 The Forward Movement 
 
 Missionary Library 
 
 COMPILED BY 
 
 The Advisory Committee of the Forward Movement. 
 
 Social Evils of the Non-Christian World 
 
 .James S. Dennis, D. D. 
 
 My Life and Times - - Cyrus Hamlin, D. D. 
 
 Transformation of Hawaii - Belle M. Brain 
 Chinese Characteristics - Arthur H. Smith, D. D. 
 In Lands Afar - Edited by E. E. Strong, D. D. 
 The Gist of Japan - - - Rev. R. B. Peery 
 
 The Healing of the Nations, J. R.Williamson, M.D. 
 The Bishop’s Conversion, Ellen Blackmar Maxwell 
 In the Tiger Jungle, Jacob Chamberlain, D.D., M.D. 
 The Chinese Slave Girl - Rev. A. T. Davis 
 The Ecumenical Conference Report; 2 Vols. 
 
 The Cross in the Land of the Trident 
 
 .Harlan P. Beach 
 
 Famous Missionaries of the Church 
 
 C. C. Creegan, D. D. 
 
 Personal Life of David Livingstone 
 
 .William G. Blaikie, D. D. 
 
 The Evangelization of the World in this Gen¬ 
 eration .John R. Mott 
 
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