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 A LOOSE LEAF 
 
 MISSIONARY 
 SCRAP- BOOK 
 
 Its Value and Construction 
 
 Piiblifilied by the 
 
 DOMESTIC and FOKEKJIV MISSIONAK Y SOCIETY 
 of the PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH 
 asi FOURTH AVENUE, NEW YORK 
 
 No. 3014 I M. S. P. Feb. 07 
 
A LOOSE LEAF MISSIONARY 
 
 • SCRAP-BOOK: 
 
 Why Yo u Need It 
 
 a. Facts are classified, compact, and al¬ 
 ways ready for immediate use. 
 
 h. Facts can be reclassified by sep¬ 
 arating and rearranging the leaves. This 
 is easily done by pressing the springs, 
 untying the cords or bending the brass 
 clamps that hold them together. 
 
 c. The scrap-book (or part of it in a 
 separate cover) can be given to any one 
 who is asked to write a missionary paper, 
 thus providing him in the smallest pos¬ 
 sible compass with all the facts about our 
 work in a given place. 
 
 d. For the convenience of leaders 
 who have to meet criticisms of missions 
 by detailed knowledge of particular 
 places, the value of such a scrap-book is 
 very great. People who think they do 
 not believe in missions can easily be won 
 over by definite facts. It is an easy mat¬ 
 ter to ask them: which missions do you 
 
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not believe in? which missionary so¬ 
 ciety in the country named ? Ask if 
 they have ever seen the station or the 
 missionaries they criticise; where they 
 found their information, etc. These 
 questions are usually enough to show 
 them that they have a very vague idea 
 as to the source of their own impres¬ 
 sions. Then they are generally very 
 glad to let some one else talk a little. 
 That is the time to tell the definite and 
 interesting facts of mission work that 
 have warmed your own faith and love, 
 whether in the particular place under 
 discussion or in another country is a 
 matter of detail. But you must have 
 facts to put in the place of their theories 
 or you have lost your chance. The scrap¬ 
 book of classified missionary facts will 
 become the arsenal from which you draw 
 your most useful ammunition. Critics 
 often trust a statement in a magazine 
 like the Atlantic Monthly more than 
 they trust one in a missionary book or 
 paper. 
 
 How to Make It 
 
 I. Covers. The kind made for loose- 
 leaf business ledgers is too expensive for 
 general use, but covers made for college 
 
note-books with eyelet holes in the cover 
 corresponding to holes punched in the 
 paper are lo\F-priced and satisfactory. 
 Home-made covers can be substituted. 
 
 II. Paper, (a) The size varies ac¬ 
 cording to taste; but have it sufficiently 
 large to hold all ordinary illustrations, 
 and also to allo'w for the pasting in of 
 clippings, and to hold three parallel col¬ 
 umns of printing, when necessary {e.g,. 
 Twelve by nine inches). If covers are 
 to be bought, see that the paper is 
 punched and cut to fit them. 
 
 (h) Cheap paper has been found just 
 as satisfactory for the scrap-book as any 
 other, and in some ways is better for use 
 in case clippings need to be removed, as 
 the-paper tears instead of the clippings. 
 
 (c) Stiff fly-leaves of different colors 
 can be used to advantage for separating 
 the material on one topic from that on 
 another. 
 
 III. Glassification. The most con¬ 
 venient method is by place and date; and 
 under each place by institution and date. 
 In this way, for instance, all information 
 about Shanghai is placed together, and 
 in the Shanghai material all connected 
 with Jessfield is put together; and this 
 material is further classified under such 
 
headings as St. John’s College, St. 
 Mary’s Hall, St. Mary’s Orphanage, etc. 
 The same system would be applied to 
 other localities. Facts not peculiar to 
 any one place are arranged by subject 
 {e.g.f The Character of Missionaries; 
 The Character of the Convert; The Con¬ 
 vert Converting Others; Criticisms An¬ 
 swered, etc.). 
 
 IV. (a) Method of Clipping. Take 
 The Spirit of Missions, for example. 
 Secure two copies, if possible, and cancel 
 with a pencil mark all the odd-numbered 
 pages of the first copy and the even- 
 numbered pages of the second copy. 
 This will prevent confusion later on. 
 Suppose you want for your scrap-book 
 simply the material on China. You have 
 then but to consider printed matter 
 about it which is not cancelled, turning 
 from one copy to the other, whenever in 
 reading you would turn a page. In this 
 way you go on through the two copies of 
 the magazine and cut out everything on 
 China, and leave in them everything on 
 every other subject untouched and ready 
 for the formation of a scrapbook on 
 other countries. If two copies of an 
 article on missions cannot be secured, 
 clippings can be pasted so as to show two 
 
sides. This is, however, less convenient. 
 
 (6) Date the clippings. Write on the 
 margin of the article the date and name 
 of the publication containing it, before 
 cutting it out. 
 
 (c) Read the article carefully. 
 
 (d) Divide it, if necessary, according 
 to the scheme of classification which you 
 wish to follow; but if you divide an arti¬ 
 cle see that each part is labelled as to 
 date and source before you cut and paste 
 it. (Unidentified clippings have little 
 force with critics.) 
 
 (e) Paste in your scrap-book, lightly 
 at the four corners, and fasten the leaves 
 together into your cover. 
 
 W/io can Mahe It 
 
 Scrap-books can be made by members 
 of a missionary society, and the process 
 greatly increases their missionary infor¬ 
 mation. They can also be made by in¬ 
 valids and others who wish to do some¬ 
 thing for their Church and are not able 
 to work through the usual organizations. 
 
 Where to Keep It 
 
 When made, the scrap-book should be 
 placed among the reference books of the 
 missionary library. 
 
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