Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2017 with funding from Columbia University Libraries https://archive.org/details/onehundredthousaOOunse Arttott of tljr JlrrBbtjtmatt Hoarb of iFomgtt UtiaatottB, April 3, “7/ was voted to instruct the Treasurer of the Board to open a fund to he known as the Latin American Development Fund, that a special effort be made to raise a sum of $100,000 gold , for this fund, to be devoted to the develop- ment of the work °f the Missions of our Church in Latin America, in- cluding therein the Philippine Is- lands, and especially to the direct evangelistic work and the provision of native evangelists and preachers. The interest which the Panama Congress on Christian Work in Latin America has awakened, and the duty which it has revealed, the inadequate number of missionaries in these fields, the hopeful and am- bitious spirit of the Latin American 1 peoples and their welcome of all friendly influences which are apt to aid them in dealing with their great problems, the wide-spread religious dissatisfaction and the increase oj intellectual doubt and unbelief, the growing intimacy of intercourse be- tween the United States and Latin America, and the vital necessity of making this intercourse morally sympathetic, and of binding the American nations together in the faith of the Christianity of the New Testament, the manifest danger and failure of international relations gov- erned by principles of selfishness and distrust, and above all the claims of neighborliness and brotherhood and the need of human souls everywhere for the Living Christ — all combine to summon the churches to a more earnest and sympathetic support of the Missions and of the national evangelical churches in Latin America 2 $ 1011,000 Jfnr Satin Auunira HE action of the Board on April 3rd was taken after careful considera- i tion of the pressing needs of Latin America. Today is the day of opportunity in Latin America. The Church in North America has been slow to recognize the obligation it owes to the peoples of Latin America who are without any adequate knowledge of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The claims of Latin America have been over-shadowed by the colossal needs of Asia and Africa. The Pan-Amer- ican Scientific Congress, the Eco- nomic Congresses, the Panama Con- gress on Christian Work, the Re- gional Congresses, the visits of prominent Americans representing the economic, the social, the polit- ical, as well as the religious life of 3 the Nation, have brought into clearer light the great needs and the won- drous possibilities of Latin America. The literature now issuing from the press in such large quantities on Latin America evidences the deep- ening interest in these Republics so closely akin to our own great nation in form of government, in ideals, in hopes, in aspirations. The Church in North America owes a debt to Latin America which it has never paid. The action of the Board of For- eign Missions in authorizing the rais- ing of a special fund of $100,000 for Latin America has already met with favorable reception in many parts of the country. The Latin American Missions of the Board are in Mexico, in Guatemala, in Venezuela, in Colom- bia, in Chile, in Brazil and in the Philippines. The specific needs asked for by the Missions, and approved by the Board, as urgent and pressing are as follows: 4 Sraztl $25,000 CURITYBA — Building for the American School $10,000* The land for the school has been acquired, and some funds are in hand toward building, but the amount named is needed in order to complete the undertaking. The school is in the capital of one of the great southern states. It has be- tween 400 and 500 pupils, half boys and half girls. A dozen nationalities attend the school. CASTRO — Buildings and Equip- ment for the Christian Institute of Practical Arts $3,000 This new co-educational school owns 600 acres of good farm land upon which the students have erect- ed a substantial brick building and several small frame structures. Training is given in agriculture, vari- ous trades and domestic science. The practical work is done entirely ♦Already provided. 5 CHRISTfAN INSTITUTE OF FINE ARTS” CASTRO, BRAZIL by students, the atmosphere is dis- tinctly Christian and the keynote is service. The plant is quite inade- quate for even the present enroll- ment and the modest sum asked for will help the school to equip Chris- tian leaders of a type that our great sister republic needs and desires. PONTE NOVA — Agricultural and Industrial School $3,000 (estima- ted) The Ponte Nova School, like the school at Castro, needs a larger equipment of stock and agricultural implements and buildings. The Ponte Nova school owns some 4600 acres, 500 of it in pasture, the rest in forest, and it needs many miles of wire fencing to protect its pasture lands. In both these schools the boys built many of the buildings by their own labor and the boys and girls together do all the work. In no way can we help Brazil better than by training in such institutions the young men and women who will be the Christian leaders of their communities. 7 Bahia School. — Many years ago the Board had a school in Bahia which wielded great influence, but the transfer of missionaries to other parts of the country led to its dis- continuance. It is hoped in the not distant future to reopen it. Bahia is one of the oldest cities of Brazil, and more deeply marked than any other city with the strain of African blood. It is the port city of a vast interior region, and the influence of a strong Christian school will be felt far into the interior. Expansion of the Work of Edu- cation and the Provision of Christian Literature. For this work and the school in Bahia at least $9,000 is needed. 8 (EliUe $15,000 The Union Theological Seminary at Santiago $6,000 The Presbyterian and Methodist Churches have a Union Theological Seminary at Santiago. This Union Movement, while as yet in its begin- nings, has proved a success. At Panama and at all the Regional Con- gresses the one slogan sounded clear and loud was the need of trained men and women in order to provide a strong native leadership. In order to increase efficiency and produce the largest results Union Institutions were recommended. The crying need of the Union Seminary at San- tiago is for a home for the students. Such a home can be secured for an expense not exceeding $12,000. The Methodist Church is willing to take its half of the burden. It is incumbent upon the Presbyterian Church to raise $6,000 at once for this most worthy institution. Santi- 9 ago is a City of 500,000. It is the place for the Union Seminary. It affords ample opportunity for the young men to do evangelistic work, and the other educational institu- tions there furnish splendid oppor- tunities for any extra studies which may be required. This home should be purchased immediately. TALTAL — House for Missionary 30,000 Pesos — $6,300 Gold* In the requests from the Chile Mission this year there is a state- ment of the need for a missionary’s house at Taltal. This need arises from the fact that the Chile Mission has voted to make Taltal the resi- dence of the missionary in charge of its northern field. It is more central and represents a more strategic lo- cality than in Copiapo. In this busy port city houses are hard to secure and rents are high. A residence there will not only make the man in charge more comfortable but it *$500 alre'ady provided. 10 will also enable him to do more for the work. If he has a home of such a kind, he can make it the centre of church activity. At the present time a high rent would be saved. Back of Taltal in the interior is a vast pampa where a large number of companies are taking out salt-petre. They are all ready to help in the work and the Mission feels that with the missionary in Taltal and a native worker to visit the mining camps its influence can be greatly extended. The Mission also would like to open a school in Taltal and it may be pos- sible to combine residence and school house in such a way that the work would be greatly advanced. Retools anti Cftapete VINA DEL MAR— $1,000 Gold Hitherto the two day schools in the suburbs of Vina del Mar, which is an outstation of Valparaiso, have been held in the chapels, but this can no longer be done because of the 11 great success of the schools. There must be a separate building which can be used both for the day schools and for social meetings. The people have promised to give toward the building both material and labor, but this must be supplemented by a grant from the Board. $1000 Gold given to strengthen this work and meet this need would be money well invested. VALLE HERMOSO — (Beautiful Valley) $500 Gold There are some two thousand people in this village, and we have sent a native pastor to work there and in La Ligua, a village just across the river. A chapel would give prestige to our work and at the same time would assure us a permanent place for our services. It would also encourage the people of the village who have accepted the Gospel. $500, together with contributions on the field, will put up a very substan- tial and comfortable chapel. This 12 ROOM WHERE SERVICES WERE FIRST HELD IN A SMALL COUNTRY VILLAGE CALLED ("VALLE HERMOSO” THE BEAUTIFUL VALLEY). work is the beginning of what Chile needs most, the evangelization of the villages and rural populations. Within easy reaching distance there are five or six other villages and small towns that are to be visited by the native pastor. Cfjurci) anb Cfjapete tn Chilian anb i^anttago CHILLAN $500 Gold With a grant from the Kennedy bequest the Mission attempted to build the new church at Chilian. It was not sufficient and there is still need of $500 Gold to complete the payment on the handsome brick building well located and equipped which commands the respect of the people of the town. The congrega- tion is doing its best but street im- provements have just absorbed their money saved for the building fund. Here is a chance for someone to help lift a load. 14 SANTIAGO— Chapels, $1000 Gold Very soon the Mission hopes to be able to make a very much more aggressive evangelistic campaign in Santiago. The experience in Val- paraiso where we have not been de- pendent on chapels that were rented for short periods of time and could be taken from us at a month’s notice, has shown us that if we want a permanent work we must have our own chapels. In Santiago we have two lots, one of which has a small building already and the plan is to enlarge this building into a large chapel and build another on the un- occupied lot. These buildings will be located in districts where we now have work established and in a short time we may hope to see the groups organized into churches. As we increase the number of students in the theological seminary we need more chapels for them to take charge of. 15 (Eolmnbia The needs of the Colombia Mis- sion are so many and so varied that it is not easy to make out a list that can be kept within the limits of $10,000. Among the most pressing needs are the following: 1 . Alterations and repairs on the Boys’ School Property at Bogata $600 2. Alterations and repairs on the Girls’ School at Bogata $400 These are comparatively small sums, but they represent large needs, for the buildings are old ones which have been in use for many years and which imperatively require not only some repairs, but some improve- ments, in order to make them sani- tary and adapted to the present work of these important institutions. 3. Training Department for Colombian Ministers and Evangelists $5000 The most serious defect of our missionary work in Colombia is the lack of a native ministry. We must have such a ministry if the work is to prosper, but we have no facilities for training them. Our Boys’ Schools 16 SOME MEMBERS OF THE BOGOTA GIRLS’ SCHOOL AT CLOSE OF 1911. THE GIRL GRADUATE at Bogata and Barranquilla are de- signed to give the ordinary courses in Grammar and High School grades, but they have no facilities for training the young men who, after completing these courses, need spe- cial preparation for evangelistic work. $5,000 are needed to add such a department. 4. Residence in Bucaramanga $4000 One residence has now been pro- vided for this important city, where we have had only one family whose members have suffered grievously for want of a suitable habitation. The need of that family has now been met, but a second family should be sent to the Station and there is no place for that family to live, as ex- perience has shown that it is perfect- ly impossible to rent a house in which missionaries can be decently comfortable. These are only a part of the urg- ent property needs and they allow nothing for a Training School for Christian workers which is a prime necessity, or for the enlargement of the evangelistic work and the annual budget of the schools. 18 (Guatemala Boys’ Boarding School. . . .$10,000 Among all the countries in Latin America, only Brazil, Mexico and Argentine have a greater population than has Central America, and among these six million people in Central America the great Presby- terian Church has not a single school of any kind for boys and no Bible School or Training School for Christian Workers. We have one hundred places open to us and ask- ing for some one to show them the Word and Way of life, and not a single place in the realm of Presby- terian responsibility is properly cared for. By going into this work aright, it would be but a short time till hundreds of other places would be opened. Several years ago a friend of Mis- sions who visited Guatemala and finding there what he described as a “gem of a missionary proposition” became so vitally interested that he 19 VIEW OF GUATEMALA CITY. has now purchased in Guatemala City a large acreage of land in a most desirable part of the city, which he is holding subject to the Board’s need of it to build a boys’ boarding school. As soon as the Board can raise the funds to begin the school this land will be put at its disposal. The question of paying for the land does not have to be faced at the present moment. The total cost of the school, including the land, should be $20,000, but $10,000 will enable a beginning to be made. The vital relation of this boys’ school to the work of the Mission is revealed when one remembers that in a land like Guatemala the Christian leaders must be trained up from the earliest boy- hood, and it is therefore important that the missionary influence be thrown around them in their earliest years. They live in an environment of such laxity of morals that unless the Mission has some such boarding school it is almost impossible for it to guard the lives of its future lead- 21 ers. It is also hoped that in connec- tion with this school, provision can be made for a school in Christian training for the native workers now connected with the Mission. The re- ports from Guatemala indicate a growing interest on the part of the people in the preaching of the Gos- pel, and the next few years must not be allowed to come upon us unpre- pared; Particularly must the Indian work in the mountain districts be supervised and shepherded. This can best be taken care of by native ministers. Hence the need of a place to train them. A contribution for this boys’ school will be a contribu- tion made at a crucial point in the work. 22 iMi’Xtrn $20,000 The Mexican situation from the missionary point of view is most hopeful, for while Civil War has been raging for many years and there has been great destruction of property and of life, no property of the Pres- byterian Board in Mexico has been destroyed. The Mission is in favor with the existing Government, and with the people. Not a pane of glass has been broken in any of the mis- sion schools or churches. The Girls’ Boarding School at San Angel has eighty pupils. It is flourishing. The Boys’ School at Coyoacan is doing well under native management. Most of the former students — the school has been closed for two years — are either in the army or in some government position. If the institu- tion had funds to take care of the poor boys and orphans with which the country is filled, and who need education but cannot pay tuition, hundreds could be enrolled at once. 23 SOME COYOACAN STUDENTS, MEXICO. There is a flourishing day-school at Vera Cruz. As soon as proper buildings and equipment can be se- cured, a large school will be opened at Merida, Yucatan. Even in the midst of the turmoil and discontent and unrest, and misery and poverty caused by the civil strife, the people are crowding the services of the churches largely conducted by native evangelists, and the number of the pupils in the vari- ous schools is only limited by the capacity of the building and the number of teachers available. The Board has authorized $20,000 for meeting pressing needs in Mexico. THE NEEDS A new residence for missionary at Progresso $3,000 gold Equipment and supplies for High School, Merida. .$5,000 gold Equipment and supplies for High School, Chiapas. .$4,500 gold 25 Chiapas is the new territory as- signed to our Board, the field is most promising. Property for the school in Merida, a site has been selected $1,500 gold Church at Vera Cruz, $3,000 gold At least three new Missionaries, $1,000 each $3,000 The above amounts are needed at once. In the very near future large additional sums will be required, for reinforcements, residences and edu- cational institutions. 26 JlflUtpptttPH $10,000 MANILA — Rebuilding of Kitchen wing of the Union Theological Seminary of The Philippines $2,500 The building referred to is one of the original buildings of the Ellin- wood School erected in memory of the Rev. Frank F. Fllinwood, D. D., FL. D., so long an honored and be- loved Secretary of the Board. The Rev. Dr. George William Wright says: “We earnestly trust the $2,500 may be granted and our second dormitory building be put into ten- able shape. It is a matter of proper plumbing and sanitation. We have patched up our baths and toilet wing on the second building and are hold- ing it up by supports, but we need its reconstruction just as we needed the reconstruction of the corresponding wing of the first building.” 27 MANILA STATION — Residence, including land $7,000 gold Additional residences are urgently needed in Manila. We have a large and growing work in this great and rapidly developing strategic city, which is not only the capital and metropolis of the Philippine Archi- pelago but one of the influential centers of the Far East. Our mis- sionaries find great difficulty renting suitable houses and when they do find them they must pay an extrav- agantly high rent. The property now proposed is adjacent to our present homes and is imperatively needed. LAGUNA STATION— To furnish and equip the Student Chapel at the College of Agriculture at Los Banos $500 gold This chapel represents the only Christian work that is done for the large student body of this important institution. The young men are away from their homes, and as the 28 institution is a Government one, it is, of course, wholly secular in character. The Rev. Dr. Charles R. Hamilton is doing a very promising Christian work among these students. A good site has been secured and a suitable building costing $5,000 will be completed in January; but there is no money for the necessary furn- iture, books, periodicals, lights, etc. The unexpected rise in the cost of building materials has made it im- possible to secure these things within the modest sum available for the building. 29 UrttfHitda $10,000 CARACAS — Residences for Mis- sionaries $8,000* For several years the Station at Caracas, Venezuela, has felt the need of owning the houses in which the missionaries live, rents being so high as to be a great extravagance and needless expense to the Board. More than a year ago the Board appropriated to Caracas a sum with which property was to be bought near the church, owned by the Board, as soon as possible. Up to the present time it has been impos- sible to buy an inch of ground or any kind of house, but suddenly this past Summer a good sized lot, not quite two blocks from the church and in the very center of the city, was of- fered for sale, and our missionaries at once asked the refusal of it. On the lot is a two-family house, so *The Women’s Board of Philadelphia has undertaken to contribute $3,000 of this amount an'd the Women’s Board of New York the remaining $5,000. 30 MISSION HOUSE, CARACAS, VENEZUELA. large, that without much alteration it could be made comfortable for three families or could be used as a boarding school, there being ample room on the lot to build one or more additional houses which could be used as missionary residences. The present house is in excellent repair, only needing a little painting and papering. $8,000 is needed in addi- tion to the money already provided by the Board, to buy this house and lot. One New Missionary $1,000 Educational and Evangelistic Work $ 1,000 This work, so important to the success of our missionary enterprise in Caracas, has been seriously crip- pled for lack of funds. 32 “CALLS FROM THE FOREIGN FIELD” Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church 4-* 4) t -Q 41 ! © CO -a u c6 O OQ '"0 c no C «0 U O c cd > T5 C bp J=3 o u» s ! ^ JG *+* 'm I t: O ~ u i o § Q S «» « U D m ° a) rr fli js S - .2 h .£ £ Z _ * £ £ • - RW C J5 o 2 «g to 5T co £ o 0 £ O CL S 2 5 H 4; W ^ ri ■S > ^ U Ex] 4) mx 7 e _c O Q •- *3 *4 0) w v. 3 "a c oo CO ”3 Member of Church of - - - Notes Pledges and gifts should be sent directly to Dwight H. Day, Treasurer, 156 Fifth Ave., New York City, who will credit such gifts, if desired, to the church indicated*