THE 
 
 MISSIONARY 
 EDUCATION MOVEMENT 
 
 of the 
 
 United States and Canada 
 156 Fifth Avenue 
 New York City 
 
THE REASON 
 
 Ignorance of missions does not altogether 
 explain the lack of response to the mission¬ 
 ary appeal, but it is, however, the chief 
 cause of indifference. 
 
 The support of missions is a duty and a 
 privilege inherent in the profession of every 
 Christian. Doors of opportunity are wide 
 open to Christianity in every land. Yet 
 every phase of Christian effort languishes 
 because of inadequate gifts. 
 
 If all Christians should give, pray, and 
 serve as devotedly as one tenth of them 
 now do, every need for money and workers 
 would be supplied. But ignorance and 
 indifference prevent. 
 
 The Missionary Education Movement 
 is engaged in a nation-wide cooperative 
 effort to dispel ignorance and defeat in¬ 
 difference, at least in the church of the 
 future, if only partially among Christians 
 of the present. This it is doing by a normal 
 process of education, primarily among 
 children and young people, through study, 
 prayer, giving, and service. 
 
 THE REASON HOLDS 
 
THE METHOD 
 
 Sixty-two home and foreign mission 
 boards unite in using the Missionary 
 Education Movement as a clearing house 
 to produce current literature for use in 
 dispelling ignorance in the churches. 
 
 Twenty denominations are represented 
 in its Board of Managers. Mission study 
 is the basis of the work. The literature and 
 other helps are graded, as in the field of 
 secular education. Leaders are trained in 
 summer conferences, and in countless con¬ 
 ventions and institutes. 
 
 Nothing new is organized in the local 
 church. 
 
 The sole effort is to infuse the missionary 
 spirit into the membership of every church 
 through the leaders and the organization 
 of the existing agencies for religious 
 training,—the pulpit, Sunday-school, young 
 people’s society, men’s and women's so¬ 
 cieties, and the home. 
 
 THE METHOD WORKS 
 
THE COST 
 
 It costs money to conduct such a nation¬ 
 wide system of missionary education. One- 
 third of the needed income is derived from 
 the wholesale distribution of literature. 
 The remainder comes from personal gifts. 
 
 The help of benevolent friends is earn¬ 
 estly sought in providing for the budget 
 of 1916-17. 
 
 The funds are used to maintain the 
 general officers and administrative staff, a 
 staff of editors and educational leaders, a 
 publication department, field workers, two 
 territorial offices, several special conference 
 field secretaryships, and the magazine 
 EVERYLAND for boys and girls. 
 
 Seven summer conferences are conducted, 
 and a bureau of correspondence, consul¬ 
 tation and travel is maintained to co¬ 
 operate with the leaders of denominational 
 and interdenominational religious agencies 
 throughout the country in the promotion 
 of missionary education. 
 
 RESULT JUSTIFIES COST 
 
THE RESULT 
 
 The result in the life of the church can 
 only be reckoned as are the results of the 
 public school system in the life of the 
 nation. The influence is pervasive and 
 evolutionary. 
 
 Giving is becoming systematic — almost 
 automatic — because its practice has been 
 cultivated as a normal part of the scheme 
 of Christian character building. 
 
 Prayer for missions is multiplying. 
 
 Spasms of emotional appeal are giving 
 place to all-the-year-round plans of in¬ 
 struction in missions. 
 
 Young people are learning of modern 
 as well as ancient apostles, journeys, and 
 events, and are getting their evidences of 
 Christianity in part through current church 
 history. 
 
 More than 100,000 mission study classes 
 alone have been held. 2,000,000 members 
 of these classes are now the leaders in the 
 churches. Many more millions of the 
 young and the old have been informed 
 through other methods. Hundreds have 
 entered Christian forms of life-work. 
 
 THE WORK IS ONLY BEGUN 
 
OFFICERS 
 
 Samuel Thobne, Jh., Chairman 
 H. Paul Douglass, Ph.D., Vice-Chairman 
 F. C. Stephenson, M.D., Recording Secretary 
 Harry Wade Hicks, General Secretary 
 James S. Cushman, Treasurer 
 
 FINANCE COMMITTEE 
 George T. Brokaw 
 
 Gulick & Springs, Counselors at Law, New York 
 
 William F. Cochran 
 
 Capitalist, Woodbrook, Maryland 
 
 James S. Cushman 
 
 Cushman & Denison Manufacturing Co., New York 
 
 Frank A. Horne 
 
 President, Merchants' Refrigerating Co., New York 
 
 Frederick R. Leach 
 
 Treasurer, E. R. Squibb & Sons, Manufacturing Chemists, New York 
 
 C. C. Michener 
 
 Director Field Work, League to Enforce Peace, New York 
 
 E. E. Olcott 
 
 President, Hudson River Day Line, New York 
 
 James II. Post 
 
 Director, National City Bank, New York 
 
 Walter S. Schutz 
 
 Schulz & Edwards, Counselors at Law, Hartford, Conn. 
 Edward Lincoln Smith, D.D. 
 
 American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, New York 
 
 Landon K. Thorne 
 
 William P. Bonbright & Co., Bankers, New York 
 
 Samuel Thorne, Jr. 
 
 Delaficld, Howe, Thorne & Rogers, Attorneys and Counselors at Law 
 New York 
 
 Edgar T. Welch 
 
 Secretary and Treasurer, Welch Grape Juice Co., Westfield 
 New York * 
 
 Charles L. White, D.D. 
 
 American Baptist Home Mission Society, New York