.YVA V'jCC ' /' Present Condition OF THE Foreign Mission Work OF American Friends. Girls’ Training Home, at Ramallab, Palestine. PRESENT CONDITION OF THE FOREIGN MISSION WORK OF AMERICAN FRIENDS. The Paper of Mahalah Jay, Read at the Five-Years Meeting of Friends, held in Indianapolis, Ind., in October, 1902. Nicholson Printing & Mfg. Cc. Richmond, Indiana. 1903. Mission Residence and Printing Office at Victoria, Mexico. (Samuel A. Purdie and wife on the balcony.) PRESENT CONDITION OP % The Foreign Mission Work of American Friends. Foreign Mission work in the form now exemplified in all the Yearly Meetings, of locating missionaries in foreign fields to reside among the people and teach them, is a thing of but a few years’ trial by American Friends. Indiana Yearly Meeting was the first to establish such work. Samuel A. Purdie and wife, first of this class of mis¬ sionaries, entered Mexico in 1871, scarcely thirty-one years ago. They began work at Matamoros, in the State of Ta- maulipas. The work of this Yearly Meeting in Mexico, has been nearly all within this State, and has been conducted mainly on three lines — the press, the school and the church. A religious monthly paper was started in 1872, and is still issued from the mission press. It goes, in small numbers, to every Spanish-speaking country on the globe, including all important Spanish speaking islands. School books and other books and tracts in large numbers have been prepared or trans¬ lated and printed at the mission aud circulated among the people, some years as many as a million pages. It still is a very effective arm of the service, though less of this work is now done. Last year 270,000 pages only were issued. Schools were started from the first in a small way ; the girls’ school, later known as Hussey Institute, at Matamoros, has been continuous for twenty-nine years. Preparations are now being made in Victoria for a school of higher grade and a Bible Institute for young men. A building is provided, a qualified northern teacher is on the ground and the school opens this fall. 6 Foreign Mission Work of American Friends. The Gospel, preached with power, has won many to Christ in the years since the founding of the mission. Meetings have been gathered in many places. Seven monthly meeting have been set up. Six Mexicans of intelligence, and filled with the Holy Spirit, have been recorded Ministers of the Friends’ Church. These all continued faithful; some have finished their work on earth, others labor on. Other preachers and ex- horters are recognized workers in the mission. The church membership, within reach of Friends’ meetings, now is less than five hundred. Hussey Institute, Matamoros, Mexico — Built 1885. The mission has three buildings at Matamoros — a church, a school building, and Hussey Institute ; cost of this property, $10,000. At Victoria there is the printing establishment and missionaries’ home, a building for the Young Men’s School, and a meeting-house not yet completed ; estimated cost of all these, $10,000 more. Five missionaries from the United States are now in the field. About $7,200 have been raised in Indiana Yearly Meeting the past year for foreign missions. Foreign Mission Work of American Friends 7 Arthur H. Swift. H. Alma Swift. IOWA YEARLY MEETING. Iowa Yearly Meeting began missionary work in the Island of Jamaica, West Indies, in 1883. Its work is among two dis¬ tinct classes of people — the colored population born upon the island, and the coolies, or people from the East Indies, brought A Scene in Jamaica 8 Foreign Mission Work of American Friends. Captain L. D. Baker, the generous benefactor of Friends’ missions in Jamaica and Cuba. there as laborers, and their children. These last, especially, are strictly heathen people. The work has expanded from year to year, till now they report twelve missionaries in the field at two principal stations, with ten out-stations, three churches, five hundred and thirty church members, and an average attendance at all their places of worship of seven hun¬ dred and eighty persons each Sabbath. This mission has a well-established training-home for girls and is opening such a home for boys, and there is a large number of day-scholars under its care. Seventeen buildings belong to the mission, viz. : Eight meeting-houses, four school-houses, three mis¬ sion-homes and the tw r o training-homes. The value of all this Foreign Mission Work of American Friends. 9 property is reckoned to be $ 16,000. The mission is in good condition, and the prospects encouraging. The interest in the work is increasing in Iowa Yearly Meeting. It reports $5,700 raised this year for foreign missions. PHILADELPHIA FRIENDS. Next in the order of time was the establishing of Friends’ mission in Tokio, Japan, in 1885, by the Woman’s Foreign Missionary Association of Friends of Philadelphia. They have five foreign missionaries in Tokio at this time, and two at an out-station supported by another board. The mission is provided with good buildings for the meeting, and the school and the homes of the missionaries, which have cost $15,189, and this year a property has been purchased for $1,200 at Mito, an important sub-station of the mission. Mary Morton Haines, who herself was for some years a missionary in Tokio, writes: The Foreign Missionary Association of Friends of Philadel¬ phia is thankful to report much blessing to have rested on the work in Japan during the past five years. Although crippled by the loss of our faithful pioneer mis¬ sionaries, Joseph Cosand and his wife, the work so well started by them has, in the main, been carried on by those who have succeeded them. At the main station under our care in Tokio the mission force, consisting of Gilbert and Minnie Pickett Bowles, Mary A. Gundry and Edith Dillon, were rejoiced early in last summer to welcome Sarah Ellis, who went to aid in the work of the Girls’ School, and, as way opened, in the general work of the mis¬ sion. Gilbert and Minnie Pickett Bowles have their home in the mission residence, which is close to the Girls’ School, where a comfortable home is provided for the three foreign ladies whose w r ork is chiefly in the school. The number of pupils has been larger the past year than at any time heretofore, and the hearts of the teachers rejoice in recording fifty pupils in average attendance, nearly all of whom are Christians. A stone’s throw from the school building, and right on the street, stands the meeting-house, with seating capacity for two hundred, more or less. Over the entrance is a sign-board, bearing the text John xvii: 3, “ This is Life Eternal, that they IO Foreign Mission Work of American Friends Mission Residence. Girls’ School Building, Tokio, Japan. [This commodious School Building was destroyed by fire, Twelfth Mo. 13th, 1902.] Foreign Mission Work of American Friends. n might know Thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom Thou hast sent.” It is a silent witness for the truth. A remarkable instance lately came to the notice of our workers of the conversion, through reading this text as he passed daily, of a dissolute man. Now, rejoicing in his Saviour, and desiring to serve Him, he is endeavoring to earn a little money to buy ground to set up a sign-board containing some of the gospel truths so precious to him. This he wishes to place near the railroad between Tokio and Yokohama, where many will read the Words of Life. Friends’ Meeting House, Tokio, Japan. The chief out-station in connection with Friends’ work in Japan, is Mito, under the care of The Woman’s Foreign Mis¬ sionary Society of Canada Yearly Meeting. At Tsuchiura the Meeting and First-day School are kept up by resident native Christians, encouraged by visits from the members, Japanese and foreign, of the Evangelistic Committee. At Ishioka, an earnest and gifted Japanese evangelist is in charge of the work. He wrote some months ago : “ Christian 12 Foreign Mission Work of American Friends. work seems pretty difficult; yet by and by their attention is coming toward Christianity, I believe. I am praying to the Lord to get His preaching power at present and in future.” Since the disorganization of the Society of Friends in 1894, occasioned by the National vs. the Quaker element at the time of the Chinese and Japanese war, the missionaries have not seen their way clear to reorganize under the name of Friends, but the church work is carried on under the care of an Execu¬ tive Committee composed of Japanese, who are, in belief and practice, true Friends, and some of the missionaries. With this organization there have been no appointments as ministers made, though the several evangelists working with us have proven themselves true gospel ministers, and others often take part acceptably in the meetings. Tract distributing, translation and publication of books (Life of Stephen Grellet, of Elizabeth Fry, of George Fox, Offices of Holy Spirit by Dr. Dougan Clark, etc.), classes for young men in English and the Bible, cooking and Bible classes for the women, and Bible Women’s house-to-house visiting, in addition to the regular meetings and First-day School work, and the Girls’ Boarding School, have been means to the great end of bringing souls to Christ in the Sunrise kingdom. KANSAS YEARLY MEETING. The Foreign Mission Board of Kansas Yearly Meeting fur¬ nished the following account of their mission. Their work is among the Indians of Douglas Island, Alaska, and vicinity, less than one thousand in number. They report two hundred church members, an average attendance at meeting of one hun¬ dred and twenty-five, and two hundred in the Sabbath School. The mission reaches the white settlers as well as the Indians. This Yearly Meeting raised $1,039 for foreign missions this year. REPORT. The Friends’ Mission at Douglas Island, Alaska, which is owned and managed by the Friends’ Mission Board of Kansas Yearly Meeting, was founded in 1887. The following build¬ ings are at this station : The mission dwelling-home, value $1,200 ; church building, value $1,800 ; old school-house, value Foreign Missio?i Work of American Friends. 13 $300; native school-house on the beach, value $200; total, $3,500. There is also at the sub-station of Takou one log cabin and a new tent. Church services and Sabbath Schools are held at Douglas for both whites and natives, and a day-school has been taught by a missionary teacher about seven months in the year for several years. A missionary holds meetings and preaches to and teaches the natives at Takou. There are four missionaries maintained at Douglas, and much assistance has been given at Takou harbor. About $1,400 annually is ex¬ pended at these stations by Kansas Yearly Meeting. Teachers at Ramallah, Palestine. Katie Gabriel in the center. NEW ENGLAND YEARLY MEETING. New England Yearly Meeting, after contributing to the work of English Friends in Syria for several years, in 1888 took separate charge of the mission in Palestine, at Ramallah, situated a few miles north of Jerusalem. Besides its distinct¬ ively Gospel work, its main features have been its medical 14 Foreign Mission Work of American Frie?ids. work which reached, from its dispensary, 1,335 patients the last year ; and its training-home and school for girls, now hav¬ ing thirty-four inmates, both of which have been ably man¬ aged or assisted by educated native workers ; and its seven day- schools in neighboring districts, these having an average aggre¬ gate attendance this year of 150 pupils. Thirty-six church members, one hundred and fifty adherents, an average attend- Girlsof the Girls’ Training-Home, Ramallah, Palestine. ance of one hundred and twenty-five at meetings for worship, six Sabbath schools with one hundred and fifty scholars are reported this year, and $6,499 raised in the Yearly Meeting for foreign missions. Four acres of land are held by a clear title from the Turkish government, upon which as the work has broadened, in addition to the mission home a laundry build¬ ing has been erected, walls built, stone walks laid, two large cisterns dug, and in 1897 a large addition built to the home at a cost of $6,000, making the whole plant valued at $25,000. Fast year an important and much needed training- home for boys was opened. Applications were far in excess of Foreign Mission Work of America?i Friends . 15 accommodations, even though a nominal fee was demanded toward the cost of training. There are now eighteen carefully selected, bright, active boys in this home. Both girls and boys in these homes are trained in industrial pursuits, in addition to their school studies and daily instruction in the Bible. Boys of the Boys’ Training-Home, Ramallah, Palestine. WESTERN YEARLY MEETING. Western Yearly Meeting, after assisting Indiana Yearly Meeting for several years, in 1889 established a mission of its own at Matehuala, in the neighboring Mexican State of San Luis Potosi. The mission now has three principal stations, seven foreign missionaries and a number of native helpers. They report four established churches and a church member¬ ship of one hundred and fifty-eight, one hundred and thirty- nine pupils in schools, and $4,668 raised in the Yearly Meeting the last year for foreign missions. One Quarterly Meeting of this Yearly Meeting supports two missionaries, husband and wife, at Johannesburg, South Africa. 16 Foreign Mission Work of American Friends. The following account of their Mexican mission is pre¬ sented by a member of their Foreign Mission Board. Western Yearly Meeting has an established mission at Matehuala, Mexico ; owns the mission property, which is used for home for missionaries, school and printing department, also chapel for church services — property valued at $7,000; also owns buildings at Cedral, used for the same purpose, with the addition of Medical office — property valued at $4,500. The work was opened at Matehuala, Eleventh Mo., 1888, at Cedral later, and the last, promising station of Catorce Real, was opened last Fourth month. The Medical work was opened nearly two years ago and has made rapid progress in preparing the way for the reception of the Gospel. The educational and evangelistic work are making commendable progress. Each one of the principal stations has one or more sub-stations, where the Gospel is preached, and at one point, Ea Paz, a church and school are organized. The work is being extended into many parts of the field, by preaching, distributing literature, and the entrance of the Bible itself. A printing press is owned by E. M. Sein, one of our missionaries, who publishes a paper called El Catolico Convertido , which has a large circulation, and is a means blessed of God in teaching truths, and disclosing the errors of Romanism. Our schools are taught by faithful, con¬ scientious teachers, and are doing satisfactory work. There is increasing desire on the part of the people for the privilege of sending their children to our schools. The wide range covered by the medical work, bringing numbers under the influence of the Gospel, the number of young men who have come to learn the “Way of Life,” the financial aid given by the native church in meeting current expenses and also in relief of needs sur¬ rounding it, are tokens of increased interest and life — all due to the blessing of the Lord upon every effort put forth in His name. To Him be all the praise ! OHIO YEARLY MEETING. Ohio Yearly Meeting dates the founding of its China mis¬ sion 1890, though its pioneer missionary, Esther Butler, had been in the country learning the language and the conditions for missionary work, in the mission of another denomination three Foreign Mission Work of America?i Friends. 17 years before. This mission has two principal stations, two churches, eighty church members and five hundred adherents, one boarding school and three day schools. Group of Bible Women — China. Ohio Yearly Meeting has also a successful mission in Now- gong, central province of India, conducted by four women, two supported by the Ohio Board and two supported from other sources. The Yearly Meeting reports $11,000 given for foreign mis¬ sions this year, and $3,900 given outside the Yearly Meeting; total, $14,900 for their whole foreign work, a larger amount than usual, being increased by some special gifts and legacies. We take the following, in regard to the China mission, from Esther Butler’s report on the subject: Friends’ Foreign Missionary Society of Ohio Yearly Meet¬ ing owns three and one-half acres of land at Nanking, China, 18 Foreign Mission Work of American Friends. on which have been erected three large, substantial brick build¬ ings— Home, Boarding School, and Hospital. Also, there is a chapel arranged for to be built at once. The actual outlay for land and buildings, $8,900, present value one-third more. The church was organized in 1892 ; the girls’ boarding school and hospital both opened in 1896. For the years 1902 and 1903 six missionaries are resident at this station. Full Hoh mission station was opened in 1898 ; the church organized in 1900. Property owned by Society — one small lot, 100 feet deep, 36 feet wide, on which has been built a small semi foreign brick house. Cost for lot and building, $758. Estimates have passed the Board for buying land and erecting chapel and dispensary. Five missionaries resident at this sta¬ tion for 1902 and 1903. Four other buildings are rented for the use of chapels, dispensaries and day schools. The work has been providentially opened and equipped on lines that meet the three great demands of China to-day — educational, medical, and evangelistic. All China is now asking for “Western learning,” and having finally decided that this is her need, rest assured she will have it. Great opportunities are given us to help in Christian education and training for the evangelization of China by her own people. The medical work has developed and enlarged very much since the troubles of 1900. The five thousand who have re¬ ceived medicine at the dispensaries is, at the very lowest esti¬ mate, but half the number that have heard the Gospel through this agency. The faithfulness of the foreign physicians in staying by the people at the risk of their own lives during the great epidemic of cholera that visited Nanking the past sum¬ mer has been greatly appreciated by the people, and is telling in a most fruitful way in all the missions at that place. The crucial tests through which China passed in 1900 and the supernatural way in which native Christians met persecu¬ tion and death, gave to the religion of Jesus Christ a reality and power, both in the church and out, that she had not felt or known before. The progress of Christianity has been slow and very difficult, but the records of 1900 show it to have been sure. The “Son of Man has found faith” in China. Foreign Mission Work of American Friends. 19 OREGON YEARLY MEETING. Oregon Yearly Meeting’s mission is on Kaak Island, Alaska, which has a population of 400. The mission was opened in 1894. They have now a church of fifty-four members. They recently built a meeting-house, the natives helping to the amount of $300 in cash and labor. At its dedication one hun¬ dred and thirty-one natives requested membership. The mis¬ sionaries write, “We think best to hold them on trial for a while before sending their names in, they are a people of such emotional natures.” The mission has a comfortable dwelling besides the church building. These Indians, like nearly all others of Alaska, spend only the winter months at their homes on the island, the rest of the time they employ in hunting and fishing to make their living. There are now three missionaries in the field most of the year. The amount of $Sio is reported raised this year for for¬ eign mission work by Oregon Yearly Meeting. Robert and Carrie M. Samms. [Pioneer missionaries to Kotzebue Sound, Alaska.] CALIFORNIA YEARLY MEETING. In 1897, California Yearly Meeting opened a mission near Kotzebue Sound, Alaska, far north, looking out toward the Polar Sea. It has been conducted by devoted missionaries, who 20 Foreign Mission Work of American Friends. felt called to carry the Gospel to the few benighted inhabitants of that frozen region, the dwindling race of Eskimos. The population of their large field is estimated at only about one thousand. Three missionaries are at the mission at present, one of them sent and supported by another Yearly Meeting. The missionaries report a church of one hundred and four members, and that a much larger number usually attend the services ; two Sabbath schools with one hundred and eighty- eight scholars, and two other schools. Kotzebue Eskimo. The Alaskan nature is accessible, teachable and responsive,, and the outlook is encouraging. The buildings consist of a mission home of five comfortable rooms, a school-house, which serves on the Sabbath as well, and a warehouse. The interest in the home land is well sustained and means sufficiently sup¬ plied. The Yearly Meeting raised $1,520 for foreign missions- this year. OTHER YEARLY MEETINGS. Baltimore, New York, North Carolina, Wilmington and Canada Yearly Meetings have not opened separate missions, but help in one or several of those of other Yearly Meetings. It is not that these Yearly Meetings do not take equal interest in foreign missions, or are not as able to support separate work Foreign Mission Work of American Friends 21 Dana H. and Otha C. Thomas. [Missionaries now at Kotzebue Mission.] as others, but some of them at least have thought it a wiser policy to strengthen existing missions with their means than Scholars of Day-School at Jiffneh, Palestine. — Baltimore Yearly Meeting. 22 Foreign Mission Work of America?i Frie?ids. to start weak ones of their own. In most cases they do some definite part in the missions they assist. Accordingly, Baltimore Yearly Meeting has long aided Indiana in the Mexican work, supporting one while a boys’ school and at present a native evangelist. It supports a traveling secretary of the Japan Scripture Union, and a girls’ day school in con¬ nection with New England’s mission in Palestine, besides its numerous smaller or special gifts to other work. It is a large contributor to the work of the American Friends’ Board. It reports this year $2,129 for foreign missions. New York Yearly Meeting’s Board assists in the work of four Yearly Meetings. At Victoria, Mexico, of the Indiana Yearly Meeting mission, New York has a boarding and day school for girls, Penn Institute, ninety pupils, two foreign missionaries and three native teachers. It has provided its own building for this boarding school. The property is valued at $3,400. New York also aids the Ohio Board in its mission in India, and supports two missionaries at Luh Hoh, China. It supports a native evangelist in Japan, and two teachers of Girls of Penn Institute, Victoria, Mexico. Foreign Missim Work of American Friends. 23. day schools in Palestine. Its contribution this year to foreign mission work is $4,206. North Carolina’s Foreign Mission Board directs its ef¬ forts principally to the support of its missionary, Annie V. Edgerton, who works in the mission of the Ohio Board in India. She went out the last of the year 1898, and has proved an efficient worker in caring for the thirty-two orphans at the Nowgong orphanage, is a teacher in day school and Sabbath school, visiting Zenanas and embracing all opportunities to lead souls to Christ. She has acquired the use of two of the lan¬ guages of India, the Hindi and Urdu, and thus is equipped for evangelistic work. The North Carolina Foreign Mission Board is credited with $605 this year for foreign missions. Individ¬ uals in the Yearly Meeting support at least four children in India. Wilmington Yearly Meeting has for four years sup¬ ported a native worker in the Mexico mission of Western Yearly Meeting, and three years ago sent out a missionary to the Kotzebue Sound mission of California Yearly Meeting and supports her there. They now propose to take for their chief work a station in Cuba in connection with the American Friends’ Board. Their receipts this year for foreign missions are $1,192. Canada Yearly Meeting’s Foreign Mission Board has long been interested in Japan, working with the Philadelphia Board. In 1899 they assumed the support of the station of Mito, and sent out their missionaries, Gurney and Elizabeth S. Binford, who are very industrious workers. Their time is much occupied with Bible classes taught in their own house. This work is largely among students. Elizabeth Binford has mother’s meetings, cooking classes and Bible classes for women and girls. A native evangelist, M. Kato, a faithful worker among his countrymen for man}' years, works with them. The church gathered there numbers fifty-seven, and two Sabbath schools, two hundred and eleven. This Yearly Meeting con¬ tributed $1,128 this year for foreign missions. The American Friends’ Board of Foreign Missions, organized in 1894 under provisions made in the Quinquennial Conference of 1892, continued till 1900 to discharge its func- 24 Foreign Mission Work of American Friends. Missionaries in Cuba. tions as a bureau of information and a medium of communica¬ tion between the boards of other denominations and Friends. In 1900, with the authority and instructions of seven Yearly Meetings, it made preparations to take up also field work in Cuba. It followed the plan laid down in the uniform discipline in its further organization for this class of work, and is incor¬ porated under the laws of the State of Indiana. It appointed an agent, through whom it selected a location in the north¬ eastern part of Cuba, a region destitute of missionaries and of the gospel ; it sent out four missionaries in the fall of 1900 and has sent three since, making seven missionaries in Cuba at the present time, and one Cuban evangelist is working with them. They are holding two stations now—Gibara and Holguin — and some other preaching places with church and school and colportage work in successful operation. A third station at Banes, the headquarters of the United Fruit Company, has the buildings ready for occupancy this winter, and the arrange¬ ments are made in part for building at Tanamo Bay, the head¬ quarters of the Cuba Fruit Company, with the expectation of Foreign Afission Work oj American Friends. 25 opening a mission station there within the next year. The Board has had four buildings erected, two homes for mission¬ aries and two meeting-houses, at a cost of over $6,500, includ¬ ing cost of lot at Gibara. The work at Holguin is carried on in rented property. The receipts of this Board from appropria¬ tions of the Yearly Meetings and of other boards, and from Mission Home, Gibara, Cuba. donations, bequests and other sources, are between six and seven, thousand dollars this year ; the total receipts since begin¬ ning the work in Cuba are about $14,000. All the American Yearly Meetings, except Philadelphia and Canada, have fallen in line with the plan of the Board and grant it appropriations 26 Foreign Mission Work of A?nerican Friends. for the expenses of administration, etc., and are thus virtually united in the work. The Friends’ Africa Industrial Mission, for which funds have been solicited in most of the Yearly Meetings, ob¬ tained the amount deemed necessary to make a start. A board was organized to aid in carrying on its work, composed of two members from each of ten of the American Yearly Meetings, and incorporated under the laws of the State of Ohio. It sent out its three pioneer missionaries last Fourth month. After Edgar T. Hole. Arthur B. Chilson. [First Missionaries of the F. A. I. M.] reaching the region in which they expected to locate, they spent something over a month in selecting the site for the mission, and at length settled on a location some twenty miles or so northeast from the present western terminus of the rail¬ road from Mombasa on the east coast, in British East Africa, near lake Victoria Nyanza, among the Kavirondo people, sup¬ posed to number one million, an unclothed but industrious tribe, who now welcome the coming of the missionaries. The location chosen — post office address, Kisumu — is considered healthful and very satisfactory. The altitude is between five and six thousand feet, on the banks of a beautiful river, with Foreign Mission Work of America?i Frie?ids. 27 waterfalls close by that can be utilized for power, and several springs of the best water to use for household purposes. A mile square has been selected of the most fertile soil, with excellent timber in a dense forest near by. Altogether the prospects are very encouraging. This year $3,173 have been contributed for this work, and a total of $8,724.78 have been received by the Treasurer of the Board during the time that this work has been before our people. Our Caravan Crossing the Yala River, Africa. Elsewhere, in the missions of other denominations, under the Christian Alliance, under independent boards or independ¬ ent of any board, a considerable number of our members are working in foreign fields. We see from the foregoing sketch that, in all the American Yearly Meetings, Friends are engaged in foreign mission work and that their work is in nine widely separated countries. The interest is deep with a part of our membership, but many are not awakened on the subject. The aggregate amount of con¬ tributions reported this year for foreign missions is $55,000, a creditable sum do we think for a church of less than one hun¬ dred thousand members? Yet it is not all we are able to do in 28 Foreign Mission Work of Anierican Friends. fulfilling the great mission of the church. Not half the purses of our membership were reached in collecting this fund. These problems are before us : How our church shall come to do its whole duty, its full obedience to our Lord’s command to “ Disciple all nations”; how we may strengthen the long line of missions we have laid ; how we may guard against future unwarrantable expansion ; how we may gain the strength of union of effort without weakening the sympathy and indi¬ vidual interest that foster our missions in their separate state. May the Lord teach us how to solve them. *=o * Missionaries of American Friends and Their Location, New England Yearly Meeting. Wilfred Rowntree, now at home on furlough . . . Ramallah, Palestine Della D. Rowntree, now at home on furlough . . . Ramallah, Palestine Elihu Grant, Principal of Boys’ School.Ramallah, Palestine Almy Chace Grant.. . Ramallah, Palestine Philadelphia Foreign Mission Board. Mary Anne Gundry.Tokio, Japan Gilbert Bowles. Tokio, Japan Minnie Pickett Bowles.Tokio, Japan Edith Dillon. Tokio, Japan Sarah Ellis.Tokio, Japan New York Yearly Meeting. Nancy L. Lee, Principal of Girls’ School.C. Victoria, Mexico S Mary L. Pickett, Teacher of Girls’ School.C. Victoria, Mexico Margaret A. Holme, in Mission of Ohio Y. M.Luh Hoh, China North Carolina Yearly Meeting Annie V. Edgerton, in Mission of Ohio Y. M. . . Nowgong, India, C. P. Ohio Yearly Meeting. Esther Butler, at home on furlough ; returns soon . . . Nanking, China Lenna M. Stanley .Nanking, China Lucy A. Gaynor, M. D.Nanking, China Effie Murray. . Nanking, China Wilbur A. Estes.Nanking, China Julia B. Estes.Nanking, China George F. DeVol, M. D.Luh Hoh, China Isabella F. DeVol, M. D. .Luh Hoh, China Delia A. Fistler .Nowgong, India, C. P. . . Nowgong, India, C. P. . . Nowgong, India, C, P. ..... Nanking, China ..... Nanking, China Esther E. Baird. Eliza Frankland, recently gone to her home Eva A. Pennington, under appointment for Harriet Shimer, under appointment for . . Indiana Yearly Meeting. Francis L. Hockett.H. Rachel Hockett.H. Lydia E. Pike, Principal of Hussey Institute . H. George C. Levering, Principal of Boys’ School . . . Emily Levering.. Wm. Irving Kelsey, under appointment, Gen. Supt., Anna T. Kelsey, under appointment. Matamoros, Matamoros, Matamoros, C. Victoria, C. Victoria, C. Victoria, C. Victoria, Mexico Mexico Mexico Mexico Mexico Mexico Mexico Western ( Ind .) Yearly Meeting. Eucario M. Sein.Matehuala, Mexico Margaretta M. Sein.Matehuala, Mexico B. F. Andrews, M. D.Cedral, Mexico Bertha E. Andrews.Cedral, Mexico Everett E. Morgan.. Catorce Real, Mexico Clara Morgan.Catorce Real, Mexico Sarah A. Lindley.Catorce Real, Mexico Emery J. Rees, supported by Vermillion Qr. Mtg., Johannesburg, S. Africa Deborah G. Rees, “ “ “ “ “ Johannesburg, S. Africa Oscar Roberts, self supporting.Sekondi, W. Africa 30 Missionaries of American Friends a?id their Location. Iowa Yearly Meeting. Arthur H. Swift, Gen. Supt. Seaside, H. Alma Swift, Seaside Mission . . Alsina M. Andrews, Matron of Girls School, Seaside. Milton Kenworthy, Principal of Boys School, Seaside. Neita Kenw r orthy, Matron of Boys School, Seaside . ... Mary J. White, Teacher, Seaside Sadie Stanley, “ “ Albert N. Courtney, “ “ Ola C. Courtney, “ “ Leah Terrell, “ “ Gilbert Farr, Glen Haven. Anna M. Farr, Teacher, Glen Haven Hectors River P. O. Hectors River P. 0. , Jamaica, W. I. , Jamaica, W. I. Hectors River P. 0., Jamaica,W. I. i Hectors River P. O., Jamaica,W. I. Hectors River P. 0. Hectors River P. O. Hectors River P. O. Hectors River P. O. Hectors River P. 0. Hectors River P. O, . Spring Hill P. 0. . Spring Hill P. 0. , Jamaica,W. I. , Jamaica, W. I. , Jamaica,W. I. , Jamaica, W. I. , Jamaica, W. I. , Jamaica,W. I. , Jamaica,W. I. , Jamaica,W. I. Kansas Yearly Meeting. El wood Weesner . Samuel A. Jackson. Lula Jackson . . Anna Maria Lawrence . Mr. Campbell. Douglas, Alaska Douglas, Alaska Douglas, Alaska Douglas, Alaska . Takou, Alaska Wilmington Yearly Meeting. Martha E. Hadley, in Mission of Cal. Y. M. . . Kotzebue Sound, Alaska Oregon Yearly Meeting. .Kaak Island, Alaska .Kaak Island, Alaska .Kaak Island, Alaska California Yearly Meeting. Dana H. Thomas.Kotzebue Sound, Alaska Otha C. Thomas .. Kotzebue Sound, Alaska Silas Moon . . Anna Moon . . Minnie Newby Canada Yearly Meeting. Gurney Binford, in Philadelphia Mission.Mito, Japan Elizabeth J. S. Binford, in Philadelphia Mission.. Mito, Japan American Friends' Board. Sylvester Jones.Gibara, Cuba, W. I. May M. Jones.Gibara, Cuba, W. I. Emma Phillips. Gibara, Cuba, W. I. Raymond S. Holding.Gibara, Cuba, W. I. Charles C. Haworth ... Holguin, Cuba, W. I. Orpha R. Haworth .Holguin, Cuba, W. I. Maria de los Santos Trevino.Holguin, Cuba, W. I. Friends' Africa Industrial Mission. Willis R. Hotchkiss, Kavirondo Country, British E. Africa, Kisumu P. O. Edgar T. Hole . . . Kavirondo Country, British E. Africa, Kisumu P. O. Arthur B. Chilson . Kavirondo Country, British E. Africa, Kisumu P. O. Mountain Cottage at Ruling, China. Mission Home at Nanking. Hospital. School Building. Friends’ Meeting-house in Gibara, Cuba. Built 1902