fq | Tie WORLDS CRY’ \ Tor the LORDS MONEY’ olden Opportunities*<— cal FoR . GOOD INVESTMENTS & “Uh | (ity rs Mi ssiona. ry é an “ oocre ty i Pp | rs Me thod ist ane Cs) ae ee iat ni ll as ih = ‘ind =a Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2021 with funding from Columbia University Libraries https://archive.org/details/worldscryforlord00unse “* KEELER CHAPEL,” BALIUAG, PHILIPPINE ISLANDS Made of Oregon Pine and Bamboo; the Roof of Corrugated Iron ; Cost of Building, $750 The World’s Cry for the Lord’s Money Golden Opportunities for Good Investments THE MISSIONARY SOCIETY OFS TEE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH 150 FiFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK Edited by CHARLES H. MORGAN The World’s Cry for the Lord’s Money IMPERATIVE MISSION NEEDS a=] UR missions in various foreign fields make A] splendid returns every year in converts. The Methodist Episcopal Church in India, China, Japan, Korea, Africa, South America, Mexico, and Europe has a larger aggregate of communicants to report for 1905—232,934, according to the Metho- dist Year Book—than the same Church reported in the United States in 1818, at the end of fifty-two years of labor. The growth is most encouraging; but it might easily be, and would be, vastly larger if our faithful mis- sionaries and native workers had more adequate provision for the housing of converts. In many places they are laboring utterly without property, either houses of worship or places of residence owned by the Society. “Rented places are generally both uncertain of tenure and unsuitable in character. Some of our pastors are compelled to live in unsani- tary houses and under conditions which invite plague and endanger health. We must have houses of worship and pastoral rest- dences of our own, otherwise our efforts will be crip- pled. All our missionaries agree on this point. 5 Here are some of their testimonies as to the necessity of owning churches and parsonages: They give us a foothold in the enemy’s country. They create confidence in the permanency of the work. They become centers of evangelistic work. They prove that we have come to stay. They advertise themselves as definite headquarters. The people always know where to come for worship or to see the pastor. They give converts confidence in the future. They encourage our people to develop local resources in self-support. West China will come to full self-support as soon as the stations are supplied with church buildings. They secure the respect of the local authorities and give the mission a standing in the community. An enterprise that can be driven from one rented house to another cannot command popular respect. Capricious or unfriendly landlords cannot drive us from our own property. In ———— (China), we have been working twenty years and have achieved no success, because we have been forced to change so many times. The work has spread so rapidly that the Mission- ary Society has not been able to provide for property needs, except in a small way in its annual appropria- tions. In the last three years only $210,000 has been set apart for this purpose, and much of this total has gone to school, hospital, and publication buildings and equipment. The evangelistic work must now be suitably equipped with houses of worship and res- idence, and we hope the urgent calls from our vari- ous fields will receive a prompt and liberal response. The churches at home have a Board of Church Ex- tension; the churches abroad must depend entirely on the Missionary Society. Bear in mind that a comparatively small gift, $100, 6 $250, $500, will secure a village church without other help; secure a church or residence with local help; secure a church or residence aided by the appropri- ations; and encourage the native brethren to struggle for the balance. Remember, also, that a gift sufficient to erect a church, carries with it the privilege of giving it a name as a memorial building. Who will provide a house of God for one of the fol- lowing needy places? Write the Missionary Secre- taries, 150 Fifth Avenue, New York. SPANISH METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, IQUIQUE, SOUTH AMERICA SOUTH AMERICA SOUTH AMERICA CONFERENCE CHacaBuco—Growing railroad town, 100 miles west of Buenos Ayres. Valuable property and prosperous church. Larger building needed. Gift of $500 would*be met by $1,500 on field, ensuring good church and parsonage. DoLtorEs—One hundred and twenty miles from Buenos Ayres. In spite of their poverty, people have saved $65 gold for house of worship. Five hundred dollars would secure it and inspire effort toward self-support. Banta BLANcA—Seaport with prospects of becom- ing a great city. Lot given us has trebled in value. Building fund of $3,900 gold. Gift of $1,000 would make possible the securing of balance need- ed to erect fine building, and parsonage could be built without further help. Cuivitcoy—Population 12,000. Ninety miles west of Buenos Ayres. Society has secured land and church. $500 outside help would enable congregation to build $2,000 parsonage and save $300 a year, missionary money, that now goes for rent. ’ FLores—Large and growing section in Buenos Ayres. Devoted membership and promise of strong, in- fluential church. $1,000 would secure good site for church building. A gift of $500 would be du- plicated by $500 from people. Prompt action needed; values rising. 8 ConcorpiaAa—An excellent work. People struggling to raise building fund of $3,000. Gift of $1,000 would ensure success and a self-supporting society. MeErRcEDES.—site secured. Willing and liberal people. $500 would mean chapel at once. OTHER East CoAst Portnts.—A dozen other places in Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay could be named where gifts of from $300 to $500 would immediately secure much-needed churches. ANDES CONFERENCE ANGOL.—Population 7,500. Work began in car- penter shop. People would not rent property be- cause afraid of fanatical priests. Many converts, FRONTIER CHAPEL, SOUTH AMERICA among them a man who became mayor. Friend bought splendid property, at a cost of $2,000, and holds it for Missionary Society. We can sell part of the lot for $500, but need $500 more to erect brick church. It can be called by the donor’s name. 9 Cura CanTtiIn—A new town of growing importance. Some of our people moved there from Victoria; have regular services by a local preacher, and a Sun- day school. A lot and building materials are se- cured; $100 would assure the erection of a chapel. ConcEpcion—Girls’ College. Hereis a property worth $30,000 and it is a great evangelizing power among the girls of the middle and higher classes. It needs more facilities. $3,000 will equip it for its larger mission. YuncaAI—A faithful member preaches as he can. It is an interesting work. The people have gath- ered materials for building. They need money for doors and windows and the purchase of a lot. NORTH ANDES MISSION The place where we need property first and most is in Callao. Our work was begun here about four- teen years ago and is now quite extensive, though we do not own as yet a single piece of real estate. When once we have property our work assumes a per- manent form, but as long as we occupy only rented houses we are but transients. We need $10,000 in addition to $5,000 which we have already raised. With this we could buy a half block in a very good location, and on it could be placed the schools, mis- sion home, and church. Some of the buildings now on said property could be used at once, and others could be used after partial remodeling. This would enable us to cut down our rents, which now amount to about $1,500 annually. We should buy early as the price of property in Callao and Lima is going up every day. A place near us that could have been bought three years ago for $5,000 is now held at $8,o0o0o and this is a fair sample of the advance. Rents are being raised in proportion. 10 In Lima we have collected in the Spanish con- gregation about $1,000 for church property and we need $3,000 more to add to this to buy a lot, and then $10,000 to erect a church. Lima is a city of 130,000 population and is growing rapidly. There is but one Protestant church in the city and that is Angli- can, and does practically nothing for the evan- gelization of Peru. Methodism should be represented here by a good, substantial church building instead of being cramped up, as it now is, in poorly arranged halls that are in reality only store rooms, and rented ones at that. In the interior we have a church in Tarma, or- ganized by Bro. Knotts, and in Huancayo one under the care of a native pastor, Senor Guerrero. These are both doing well and are making a winning fight against idolatrous Romanism in those places. We need $1,000 in each place to buy a lot, with building already on it, that could easily be arranged and made convenient for permanent occupancy. 11 VNIHO ‘Had-DNVIN JO HOUNHO MON CHINA HINGHUA CONFERENCE Sinciu—-Missionary residence needed, costing at least $2,500. It is acounty seat. The county is very rich and populous. Our native church one year ago reported: Members, 649; probationers, 345; inquirers, 825; baptized, children, 344. Total 2,163. We have the money for-a new man. He has not been found, at this writing, but Bishop and Board are looking for him, and he will be here long before we get a residence built. AnTAU—Residence for the Medical Missionary, al- ready provided for by our appropriations. Hospital site bargained for already, to be paid for by con- tributions on the field. Here is our seaport, with population of 100,000. A medical missionary could not have a finer field. But he must have a house to live in, estimated cost, $2,500. Binc-HAI—A seaport. It will be.a very important trade center soon, as small steamers are stopping: there. We have been there for nearly forty years and are still renting. It will be a presiding elder’s district headquarters in a few years. The Church in all this region is very prosperous, but not a single church building worth mentioning is owned by us. At least $1,000 is needed. The people would give liberally. A memorial to a loved one for $1,000! Who will build it? Kio-SauH—A very large market town. We have been there over thirty years. Still we are in inde- 13 scribably unsuitable quarters. We have lost by death at this place four preachers, all ordained elders, three of whom, at least were victims of the bubonic plague, or other diseases contracted by living in this unhealthy location and house. We must build. These people subscribed over $100 one Sunday evening last spring, toward a church. They need at least $500. VILLAGE CHAPELS-~We have a large number of places where they are worshiping and the pastor is living in native houses, loaned or rented, with no sanitation, no conveniences of life,no essentials to health and decency. Without seeing these conditions, no American can understand them. Through them we have lost some of our most valuable workers. It requires from $100 to $200, in addition to what the people can give, in order to build properly. The people give far beyond their ability.in many places. We know of no such givers as a class in Christian lands as our Chinese Christians. Ua-cai—We have a good eaters Piss and $150 subcribed, whenever we can help them with a like amount, for building a chapel. CuING-TAH—They have made heroic efforts, and built a good church holding 300 or more. It is under cover, but requires $100 more to finish it. They need a parsonage also, as it will be the head of a new cir- cuit next conference year. A very prosperous church, and all that region seems to be turning to Christ. The parsonage aid should be at least $100, or $200 in all. They have given and pledged about $300. O-su—The headquarters of circuit. A great salt- producing region on the seacoast. Old chapel unfit for human habitation. A liberal people will subcribe $200, if helped $200 more, to build a good village chapel and parsonage. 14 BAH-Go-LAU—A large and important market town, where we have been for over thirty years, and ac- complished little, largely because cur chapels have been so fearfully unsuitable in every way. Now we are in a little shop, on the main street, no yard of any kind or size. Plague cases numerous all around every summer. Preacher and family must move elsewhere every year for four months of hot weather, while work goes to pieces. At the small outlay of $200, we could remedy all this, with an additional $100 or more given by the people, and our work would cease to be so largely in vain. There are ten or a dozen other places where the needs and opportunities are no less imperative and inviting. In several places the people have built, but have not been able to finish up properly. Such places can be helped out by $50 to $100, and the sacrifices already made by the people will bear much more fruit. In every case of a gift for a chapel of $100, or more, the building may be named by the donor as a memorial or otherwise. CENTRAL CHINA MISSION Yanc-cHow—Is a fu city of more than 100,000 in- habitants, and is located on the grand canal about fifteen miles from Chinkiang (north) and is in the heart of a rich farming district. It is a rich city, the home of many retired officials, and has all the vices common to a rich unprinciplied community. Buddhist priests and immoral houses abound in great numbers, and the evil influences emanating from this place to other citiesin the Yangtse Valley cannot be discribed. Ifthereis any place where our work needs to be strengthened it is at Yang-chow. The needs are as follows: First, and most important, we need $300 to build a suitable parsonage on chapel grounds for a native preacher. The present 15 parsonage can be used to a very good advantage for a graded school leading up to our higher schools. Secondly, we need $600 to buy enough street front and erect buildings on the same for suitable inquiry rooms, book rooms, and chapel keeper’s room. Thirdly, we need $2,500 to build another foreign evangelist’s house on our present compound. Fourth- ly, we need $500 to build an addition to our present foreign missionary residence. The work here could be carried on with much better results if it were pos- sible to make the above-mentioned improvements. NORTH CHINA CONFERENCE HvaI-LAI-HSIEN—Asks for $75 in order to put the parsonage for the preacher in suitable condition. We have an old building on the grounds, but in such a dilapidated state that we cannot use it. Much of the material in said building is in good condition, especially the wood. At present the preacher has no suitable home for his family. We must do something at once. Mi-YUN-HSIEN—Require $100 to provide place for street chapel preaching onmarket days. The build- ing used for street chapel was formerly a shop with no depth. If we want people to come in to hear the preaching we must have a comfortable place; at least room to sit down. We wish to enlarge the building in native style, in order that the preacher may have three times as many hearers comfortably seated as he has now. YEN-CHING-cCHou—Estimated need, $100; our chapel is too small now for our growing Sabbath congrega- tions, and is badly arranged and unsuitable for at- tracting street congregations. There is a large mark- et every other day in this city, with crowds of men at our very door. We must rearrange our front and greatly enlarge our chapel in order to meet our 16 JYybr.0 ay} 02 Juan UoUl iy VNIHO ‘OVIHD-AY-NEIL LY HOUNHO YAO needs. Here our work is in a most promising con- dition, more hopeful than at any other point on the district outside of Peking itself. We have here one of our finest young preachers, Chen-Wei- ping. It was at Yen-ching-chou that his father Chen-Ta-yung, his mother, one brother and a sister, and more than fifty members were killed in t900. He goes to his new appointment with the one great desire to avenge their death by build- ing up a great church of true Christians to the glory of God and as a lasting monument to his dead. We most earnestly ask the whole Church to pray for brother Chen and his work SAN-TUN-YING—A large market town. We have been trying for years to secure a small property in the town but without success. Last winter for $200 we might have had good property, suitable for our work. No regular services have yet been held in the place. It will be impossible to do so till we secure property. Estimate that $210 is needed from abroad. LIN-NAN-TSANG—Is a large and busy market’ town. It-is in the midst of a very=fertile; district) “The population of the town is some twenty or thirty thousand,while the surrounding country is densely populated. There are hundreds of interested in- quirers in this district. Twenty thousand or more copies Of Gospels have been sold in the region during the last year. Two or three preachers and colporteurs are here every market day— six times a month. The preaching lasts the whole day through or until the workers are exhausted. There is a fine prospect of building up a strong church here and it is in the direction we need to extend our work; where no work has been done by any Mission. The sum of $819 is required from the United States, 18 Hu-Ko-cHuANG—This society is in the village of Ku-au-chiao, near the market town of Hu-ko- chuang. Recently there has been an increase of interest. Pastor Cheng who was sent to the cir- cuit this last Conference became interested in se- curing a chapel. He won the confidence and hearts of the people, and in a short time secured subscriptions amounting to over $125. Pastor Cheng was taken ill a few weeks ago and has just died (July 31, 1905). He was greatly beloved in that region and wherever he had labored, also by all his brethren on the district. He was for two years past head teacher of the district training class of twenty or more men preparing for Christian work and the ministry. Since he had set his heart on this chapel and did so much toward it, we wish to make it a memorial chapel and to raise all the funds by subscription. He was supported by the Halsey Street Church, Newark, New Jersey; perhaps they may wish to do something to aid this plan. This representation is sufficiently full to enlist the inter- ested sympathy of allwho may readit. The need is great. of $189 from abroad. Har-yANG—is a busy market town of several thou- sand people on the railroad. From Hai-yang we can reach the whole region. Estimated need $1,872. Tunc-E—Services have been held there for about six months; we went there at the suggestion of the American Board people from Pang-chuang, who indicated that they did not care to cross the Yellow River for work south of the river Later our man Chen from Tai-an visited Tung-E. He found more than a hundred people interested and anxious for us to open work there. The property which we hope to buy is near the west gate of this city of 15,000 people. Donation of $378 required. 19 Yu-cHtH—Estimate $189; is a large market town about 14 miles from Fei Cheng and will be worked in connection with the work at Fei Cheng, by meetings held on market days when people come from all the region and have time to listen. Be- sides Tung-E and Yu-chih, there are at least four other places where we need property as badly, and where people are urging us to come. Yen-ma- chuang, estimate $420, is one of these. Tar-aN—There is required from abroad $420, for the native preacher’s house. It is badly needed so as to make room at the school for its steady growth. The pastor lives in one of the buildings desired for school purposes. WEST CHINA MISSION Uin-cHuan—About a year ago our people bought a lot for about $175; built a substantial box brick church that comfortably seats over 300 people, and has commodious rooms for preacher. Total cost is $1,300, and they are asking aid to the amount of $600. Ho-cHEo—For the last ten years’ has been talked of as being strategically important; being a crowded and very busy place, property is expensive; but a lot extending from a fairly good street to the city wall has been offered us for $800. The native church expects to raise one half of its cost, and needs donation of $400. Pisan—Needs $1,000 for a church at once, of which the natives will give one third. CuuNG-KING District—There are about half a dozen villages in the Chung-king District in which churches ought to be built within the next year, costing about $200, of which one third wiil be furnished by the native church. 20 Cuentu—For the new hospital the following dona- tions are asked: For $1,000 donor can name a large medical, surgical, or women’s ward, 25x4o feet, with. twelve beds in it. The name will be cut on a marble slab 18x36 inches over the mantel. For $500 can name an Official ward. Three such wards in the second story; one of them is a corner room and has five windows, and is 18x23 feet; $500 will also endow a bed. For $300 can name the fine chapel, a room agebyedenieet, lighted on threes sides by, eight full sized windows. For $250 can name and furnish a private ward. There are twelve of these about 14 feet square. The sum of $2co will send a church bell with which to “‘ring out” the old superstitions and “ring in” the new gospel of truth. The sum of $150 will put down an artesian well which will furnish both hospital and missionaries with pure water. Now they never have water in its natural state to drink. A gift of $100 will furnish the ward for foreigners where some poor wanderer, who is far from home, may find the Saviour. A gift of $10 dollars will buy a bed, and $5 more will furnish it. At least one hundred such gifts are needed. VIGNE VUATVHd *HOUDHO TV¥dOOSIda LSIGOHLAW INDIA NORTH INDIA CONFERENCE Bupaon District, ALApuR—No house or chapel where people may meet together to worship. This village contains about 5,000 inhabitants. There are about 450 Christian converts in the town and in its neighborhood and about 200 inquirers. People are very poor, but they will help by means of their hand labor and also will give about $10. Cost, including the price of the land, $216; about $206 are needed. VAZIRGANJ—A big town with about 2,500 inhabitants; no house for preacher or for worship. It will cost about $200 including the price of the land. There will be great help given to the work by gift of this amount for this building. Putui—A big village; great need for a chapel; it will take about $100 to build a small chapel. The people according to their means will be able to give about $8. KuMARGAUN—We greatly need a house in this vil- lage; not long ago the native rpeacher living there in a rented house was turned out simply for this reason: that they said he would convert and spoil the whole village. Bishop Warne has advised that a good house be built. It will cost about $267, and $20 can probably be raised from the Christians. BAKsENA—About 200 Christians; population about 2,000; a house and a chapel are needed for a 23 village of Chamars (tanners) near this village, having more than a hundred inquirers. There being no house, the preacher goes daily to work among them. They have service on Sundays under the trees. To build a house and chapel will cost about $180; perhaps $8 from the Christians, and they will also help by their labor in building the house. KacHLA—A chapel is very much needed for this place. About 300 Christians are living in the village, and there is every prospect of good work. One ordained preacher is stationed here. People desire to have a church and may be able to pay about $17. We will get the land free of cost. The chapel will cost about $200. GARHWAL DistTRICT, SRINAGAR-—-Old capital of Garh- wal; occupied by a native preacher, exhorter, and teacher; $500 needed for a church. A growing commercial center. The preacher a good worker; a suitable house would quadruple his efficiency. Kotpwara—Church needed, costing $500; railway terminus; occupied by two workers; people will con- tribute $30. It would be possible to get large congregations. Docappa—Church and parsonage needed. Import- portant station, occupied by one teacher; $1,000 for combined building; field can give $300; needed from the States $700. MorapaBabd District—We need houses for the preacher in charge of the following circuits: (1) Kanth; (2) Rajpura; (3) Rasulpur; (4) Bilart. We have a preacher and two or three other workers living in each of these places; but we have to rent houses at a high rate, and often we have difficulty in getting a house at any price. Nothing can be raised on the fieid for this purpose. The net amount required for the purchase of land and the houses is $200 for each. Such houses 24 for our preachers and workers create confidence in the permanency of the work; they become evangelistic centers; people come to know us when we have one permanent place of residence for the preacher, and resort to his house as they will not do if he is constantly changing his dwelling place. OvupH District, LAKHIMPUR—A city of perhaps 20,000 people and center of large district. Have a small Christian community and a chapel, but need a preacher’s house, costing about $600. Could raise $100 of it locally. SIDHAULI—A circuit center, where we have about a hundred Christians, but have neither church nor preacher’s house, so we are liable to be turned out at any time. Church would cost $400 and house $200, making $600 needed from abroad. IraunjJA—Also a circuit center, with a population of about 10,000 in the city itself, and 50,0co or more in the circuit. Need both a preacher’s house and a chapel, the former to cost $300 and the latter $400, so that a gift of $700 is asked. BARABANKI—A most important center. Have had work here for thirty years and have perhaps 200 Christians, but never had any property and cannot consequently get a foothold. Have a house for preacher offered for about $500, and will be greatly encouraged by donation of that amount. CoLONELGANJ—Another circuit center with no prop- erty whatever. It will take $200 for a house and $400 for a chapel. GonpAa—One of our largest cities. Have a good girl’s boarding and boy’s day school, but no church. Need donation of $1,000 for this. Can add $200 on the field, probably. BaLRAMPUR—Capital of a native state, where we are trying to get a foothold. May be compelled to leave any time, as we have no property, and renters 25 do not want us. Need $300 for a preacher’s house and $400 for a chapel. The above are but a very few of the places where the Oudh district needs property. In all the cases named we would much profit by having a place from which we could not be turned out, and having a definite place of our own would give us standing. PitiBHIT District, BIHARI—Can get no suitable property to rent here, and yetit is center of a circuit. Needsa preacher’s house for $100. BarGAN—We can get no house here, but it is a splen- did place for work; $67 would build us a house. Nuriya—A large center with 150 Christians, but no preacher’s house and no chapel; property is very much needed; $67 would build a home for the worker, and $100 a village chapel. KicHa—lIs a center; we have not been able to develop it, as we have no property at all; $50 would build a pastor’s house. MrraNnpuR—About 80 Christians here, but no prop- erty; $60 would build a home for the preacher. In all of these places property would give us stand- ing and take away the danger of being likely to be thrown out of rented property whenever we baptize anyone and the people get angry about it. SOUTH INDIA CONFERENCE SHANKARPALLI—sub-circuit. Extent about 250square miles. The town giving name to the circuit is a railway town and large shipping center for a good farming region of wide extent. There are 15 villages within a radius of three miles, in three of which are Christian communities aggregating over 60. Many inquirers in these and other villages. Three workers are serving in this field. Urgently need a building that will furnish accommodation 26 VICGNI ‘UV 1IOM ‘ALOALILSNI NOISSIW WOO for two families and a large room for school pur- poses and church services. The cost will be about $300, which is-asked as a gift. LINGAMPALLI—Sub-circuit. About 270 square miles in extent; a railway town. Christian community of about 25 in two centers. There are a goodly number of hopeful inquirers in several villages. Room for two families of workers, for religious services, and a school needed. Probable cost $325, required from the United States. GoL_LaGupA—Sub-circuit, Extent about 280 square miles. Its importance is due to the fact that it is a convenient center from which to work an exten- sive field, closely studded with towns and villages. We were compelled to build here, as no houses available for rent. Building furnishes comfortable accommodation for two families and has an extra room, large enough to serve for church services and for a school. We require fully $400 to cover its cost. RAICHUR—25,000 inhabitants. Railway junction and head of Raichur Circuit covering 4,000 square miles, with population of 500,000. $200 needed _ for site and $2,500 for missionary residence. SHORAPUR AND YADGIRI—Two circuits, each having at least 200,000 population. Christian community over 600. Two houses needed at $1,000 each for native preachers and their helpers. CENTRAL PROVINCES CONFERENCE TANDuR, Koscui, KoHtr, AND Parci—We ouyht to have four school house chapels to cost $175 each. These centers command each an area of about 200 square miles and an average of 100 villages each, or a population of some 20,000 people from each Center. 28 VIKARABAD—The center of the circuit, where our two boarding schools are located; also urgently needs a school house chapel, but a larger building is needed than at the other places, costing not less than $2,000, which is asked as a donation. JABALPUR—Population of the city 90,000; a good site for a church paid for at a cost of about $1,200. We ought to build achurch here which will cost $8,000. Also a second missionary residence to cost $3,000. These amounts are greatly needed as gifts from the United States. CHoTE CHINDWARA—A preacher’s residence and a chapel; cost of each $400. Kuanpwa—A home for girl widows, and others, to cost $800. Three buildings at headquarters of sub-circuits combining residence for a preacher and a chapel, $350 each. These sums asked as gifts. Nacpur—Population 120,000; a missionary residence is needed, cost, $3,000; fortunately we have a site; it would be almost impossible to purchase a site there now. Who will meet the cost of the residence? Bastm—A schoolhouse for the boys’ orphanage and missionary residence; each to cost $5,000; will name the school after the donor, making it his or her permanent memorial. Three residences for the native preachers at the head of circuits or sub- circuits, $200 each. Donations of amounts named asked from the home field. Raipur—We have a building lot of ten acres con- veyed by the government for the Mission free of cost; a church, schoolhouse, and orphanage. The health of the missionary and the native helpers who reside on the premises, suffers. We have recently had two deaths in the families of two of our workers, brought about through ill health, largely 29 due tothe low, damp, unhealthful accommodations they have to put up with. Fora suitable mission home, workers’ quarters, etc., we need $4,000. If some one could be persuaded to make such a home a memorial, it would be a benediction. Druc—Mr. and Mrs. Richards and workers are compelled to live in an old shed. This they have made to some extent habitable but it is too flimsy and all too insecure, and they are all the time ex- posed to grave risks to health. It is the only place that could be had. In Drug for $3,000 we could build a substantial mission home for the workers, and for an additional $3,000 we could build a school chapel. These amounts are asked as donations. BURMA MISSION CONFERENCE Rancoon—Capital of Burma. Brick church to cost $5,000 needed for the vernacular congregations; of the total amount $3,500 is asked from abroad. RAaNGooN—Frame church needed for Burmese con- gregation; building to cost $4,000 of which $3,000 must be raised out of the country. RaNnGoon—Missionary residence needed, to cost $3,000, $500 of which can be raised in Burma; the remainder is asked for. SyriAM—Burmese suburb of Rangoon. A church- school is needed to cost $1,000, half of which must be secured abroad. Pecu—District center. Frame church needed to cost $3,000, one third of which can be raised locally and the rest is asked for. THONGWA—District center. $3,000 is needed for a church-residence; half of this amount can be raised locally and the remainder is asked for. Datk U—Sub-district center. A church-school is needed. $500 of the required $1,000 can be secured locally. 30 THANDAUNG—A hill station for which a frame church is desired. Of the $4,000 needed, $2,500 must be secured abroad. THANATPYIN—A church-school is needed for this Bur- mese village; of the required $600, one third can be raised locally. TwantTe—Burmese village. $1,000 is asked to make possible the erection of a church-school building to cost $2,000. ol JAPAN JAPAN CONFERENCE SENDAI—The capital of Miyagi Ken, is the largest city north of Tokyo, having a population of about go,ooo, It is the principle educational, military, commercial,a nd religious center of the whole north- east part of Japan. It is the headquarters of the second division of the imperial army. The Meth- odist mission has located here a missionary and his wife of the parent board, and two ladies of the W. F. M. S., besides a native ordained preacher, who is pastor of the local church. ‘This is in need of a new building to cost $3,500. The lot is already paid for and $2,000 can be raised on the field. Net amount needed from the United Statesis $1,500. If the building is secured, we shall have an adequate house of worship for our church society. The present building is old and too small.. The Methodist church here has a larger number of representa- tive and influential men of the city in its member- ship than any other denomination. It is self-sup- porting, and is the only one that is entirely so on this district. With a creditable church edifice, we can press forward the work of the kingdom in this hopeful and receptive city. Christianity has established its hold upon this place, and Methodism ought not to be behind the other denominations, sev- eral of which have fine new church buildings. The local society has done well to raise as much as it has in these stringent times, and we appeal to the friends of Christian missionary work to carry this 32 OG6'6 7809 BHNUOS. LDA PUY YOINYD S0CBY pasiM.t YILNYD 1DIOT NVdV¢ ‘THOWOY ‘HOUNH) TVIUOWAW AIANWVD 'V WVITTIMA FHL project through. For a gift of $1,000, we would be glad to have the donor name the church as a memorial building. Morioka—lIs the capital city of Iwate Ken, and has a population of 30,000. It is on the main line of the Nippon Railway, too miles north of Sendai, or 300 miles north of Tokyo. It is the center of an agri- cultural and fruit raising district, and also has some manufacturers. The Methodists have no mission- ary in this city, but we have a regular pastor, an ordained member of the Japan Conference. He has gathered about him a goodly company of earn- est, devout Christians. The work calls for a church building to cost $1,000. The lot has already been paid for, and $250 can be raised on the field. Net amount needed from the United States is $750. A church building is an imperative need here. Until this year the congregation has worshiped in the par- sonage, itself a tumble-down affair which was on the ground when the lot was purchased. This spring the members built a new parsonage, but they have almost reached the limit of their ability, as none of them are well-to-do. With a church building on a fine lot we own in Morioka, this charge would soon become one of the strongest in the Con- ference, as it is now on the district. For a gift of $500, the donor could name the church as a memori- al building. 34 PHILIPPINE ISLANDS BUILDINGS AT MANILA SANTA Cruz CHuRcH—The importance of this church lies in the fact that our native work began here with Brother N. Zamora as pastor, and is looked upon by the natives as the head of our work for OUR TEMPORARY CHURCH BUILDING, MANILA Croud at a Good Friday service them. They worship now in a small chapel. Rome has awe-inspiring edifices here. Unless we do something soon here many will conclude we never intend to do anything and will cool in their zeal, possibly going back to Romanism. If we do build it is likely a large number would be drawn toward us and many become settled in their reli- gious life. There is already available $7,000, and $8,000 more is required for such a building as the situation demands. 35 Tonpo—A district of Manila, has something like 50,000 or 60,000 people, about half of whom are said to be open to evangelization. In the district we have nine cheap chapels with a membership of about 700. These chapels are small and inadequate. They are dingy, and were only meant as temporary homes for our people until we could afford to build churches. The people are very poor generally, but the chapels are so inferior to the churches they have been used to, and so lacking in comfort, that they do not attract as they once did. We must have a good church, if plain, if we expect to retain our hold or enlarge our influence in the com- munity. We will do exceedingly well if we raise the cost of the lots, about $1,000; and $3,000 is needed for the church building. The church mem- bership could be increased fifty per cent the first year after completion of building. Santa ANA—A good church here is an important matter because it is the center of our work among some 20,000 people. Now we have nothing but a ‘‘neepa’’ shack, and with a fine church in this district owned by the Catholic church, we must more nearly approximate it if we desire to hold our native people. About $500 could be raised on the field, and $1,500 is needed from abroad. Santa Mesa—Is an important arm of our native work, there being some 15,000 people living in this district. We now have a small chapel built on rented land and should own land and put up some- thing durable if we hold our people. This would call for $1,500 from the United States, in addition to $500 from the field. BINONDO DiIstTRIcT—Is given up largely to the Chi- nese of Manila, of whom there are 27,000. At pres- ent we rent a few rooms over a store as a place for holding our meetings, paying a rental of $25 per 36 A MANILA CHAPEL month, and to meet this expense we maintain a night school. Our Chinese are doing well in help- ing us school their children, but a suitable church will be needed to enable us to do a good spiritual work. The sum of $3,500 is available, and $1,500 is needed from outside. HospiraL—The importance of a hospital with our work here cannot be over-estimated. The death rate of infants and mothers during confinement is larger than any city in the Orient, owing to ignorance of some simple and well-known principles of the med- ical. fraternity. Governor Wright has given us $2,500 for this work, with which we maintain a small dispensary to meet in a measure the above need, butitis not at all what we should have. As the total cost would be $10,000, a gift of $7,500 is required to carry out the enterprise. TRAINING ScHOOL—Our 150 native pastors urgently need such a school, and toward it $10,000 has been given by Brother George Nicholson of lola, Kan- sas, but we ought to have some $5,oo0 more to build and equip properly. MissiONARY HomMres—Three of these, one costing $1,000, and two others $3,000 each, are needed to provide for pastors and other workers. BUILDINGS IN THE PROVINCES The important provincial centers here men- tioned extend from Lingayen, the first and most strategic in the list, situated forty miles north of Manila, to the northern coast of the Island of Luzon. The first four are capitals of provinces, and the last two are prominent cities, while all have large com- mercial, educational, and social relations with surrounding sections of population. The develop- ment of our property in these strong centers is an . essential, in order that the people of all the north- 38 ern part of this leading island may be won and held for Christ and our Protestant religion. (1) A church and parsonage in Lingayen. Building, $700; land, $300; parsonage, $2,000. Total gift needed,$3,000. (2) Church building in Dagupan. church, $1,000, parsonage, $2,500. Total gift needed, $3,500. (3) A church and parsonage in Vigan. Land, $500; building, $1,000; parsonage, $2,000. Total gift needed, $3,500. (4) Land and a church building in the city of Tarlac. Land, $250; building, $500. Total gift needed, $750. (s) A church building and land in Aparri in the Cagayan valley. Land, $250; building, $1,000. Total gift needed, $1,250. (6) A church building and parsonage for Candon, Ilocos Sur. Land, $300; church building, $1,000; parsonage, $2,000. Total gift needed, $3,300. Inquiries or correspondence concerning any of the above needs mentioned in this booklet, and donations for same, are to be sent to the Missionary Secre- taries, 150 Fifth Avenue, New York. 39