nrfi> /bo y ise. Omeaa T The Endinq of one gear and Alpha The Beqinning of another The board of Foreign Missions and the IPoman’s board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A. 156 Fifth Auenue, "Neu? Ifork City THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS Officers Rev. George Alexander, D.D Mr. James M. Speers. Mr. Robert E. Speer Rev. Arthur J. Brown, D.D. Rev. Stanley White, D.D. Rev. George T. Scott Rev. William P. Schell Rev. Orville Reed, Pli.D.. . . Rev. W. Reginald Wheeler. . Rev. Alfred W. Moore. Edward M. Dodd, M.D. Mr. Dwight H. Day. Mr. Russell Carter.. Mr. Clarence A. Steele. Mr. B. Carter Millikin. Rev. Edwin E. White. T. H. P. Sailer, Ph.D. Rev. George H. Trull. y ... . President Vice-President Secretaries . Associate Secretary . Assistant Secretary . Assistant Secretary . Acting Medical Secretary . . Treasurer . Associate Treasurer . Assistant Treasurer . Educational Secretary Assistant Educational Secretary .Honorary Educational Adviser .... Secretary for Specific Work District Secretaries Rev. Charles E. Bradt, D.D. Central District, Chicago Mr. J. M. Patterson. Southern District, St. Louis Rev. W. M. Cleaveland, D.D., Associate Secretary . Southern District, St. Louis Rev. Weston T. Johnson, D.D. Western District, San Francisco Rev. Ernest E. Hall, D.D. Field Secretary, New York Rev. Edward Roberts. .Among Welsh-speaking churches, Madison, Wis. THE WOMAN’S BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS Miss Margaret E. Hodge Miss Alice M. Davison. . Mrs. John Harvey Lee. . Mrs. John R. McCurdy. . President , .First-Vice.President Second Vice-President . .Recording Secretary Executive Officers Mrs. Charles K. Roys. . . Miss Lucy Lepper. Miss Gertrude Schultz. . Miss Faye A. Steinmetz Miss Marcia Kerr. Miss Ann T. Reid. Miss Mary W. Kerr. . . Mrs. Julia L. Mills. Miss Florence G. Tyler Miss Mary Eliza Clark Miss Rose D. Wilson . General Secretary . Treasurer . Secretary, Missionary Education . Secretary for Young People’s Work Assistant Secretary, Young People’s Work . Candidate Secretary . Secretary for Specific Work . Publicity Secretary Secretaries for Student Work jointly with WOman’s Board (>f Home Missions District Secretaries Mrs. Andrew Todd Taylor. Secretary for Philadelphia District Mrs. James Duguid, Jr. Secretary for New York District Mrs. E. H. Silverthorn. Secretary for Northwest District Mrs. Wallace S. Faris. Secretary for Southwest District Mrs. Evelyn Browne Keck. Secretary for Occidental District Mrs. Charles W. Williams. Secretary for North Pacific District Field Secretaries Miss Mary J. Barry, Mrs. R. M. Graham, Mrs. S. I. Lindsay, Miss Ruth McComb Omeqa and Alpha The Presbyterian Church Works Alone In Population French Cameroun, West Africa. 2,540,000 Colombia, South America. 5,847,491 Venezuela, South America. 2,323,527 Persia " 8,000,000 between and 10 , 000,000 Siam . 8,924,000 Island of Hainan, China. 1,500,000 The Accepted Responsibility of the Presbyterian Church Population Hainan . 1,500,000 French Cameroun. 2,500,000 Latin America, of which Colombia and Venezuela are a part.10,000,000 Persia. 5,000,000 Siam . 5,000,000 4 OMEQA THE BUDGET OF THE FISCAL YEAR April 1, 1921, to March 31, 1922 Allotted to the Foreign Board by the Execu¬ tive Commission for the year beginning April 1, 1921, to be secured from living sources .$3,960,000.00 Total appropriations of the Board for the entire year . 4,001,682.72 Where the Funds Came From Living sources — churches, Sunday-schools and individuals. 2,444,143.06 Woman’s Board of Foreign Missions and Young People’s Organizations. 1,336,639.59 Legacies and other credits. 286,975.59 Total $4,067,758.24 Surplus, $66,075.52 Surplus applied to deficit, carried over from War years, reducing it to $129,562.71 The cost at home for the administration of this $4,067,758.24 on the same basis as last year was 7.9 per cent. Including the Board’s share, 2.4 per cent., of the New Era expenses, the total cost was 10.3 per cent. ALPHA 5 THE BUDGET OF THE FISCAL YEAR April 1, 1922, to March 31, 1923 The Board’s request of the Executive Com¬ mission was for a budget of not less than $5,119,725 The Executive Commission allotted to The Board and the Woman’s Board, to be se¬ cured from living sources. 4,643,000 The Board has appropriated at the beginning of the year a minimum sum of. 3,738,982 THE SCOPE OF THE EXPENDITURE The work of the Presbyterian Church through its Board of Foreign Missions has grown to such an extent that during the coming year the sum of $2,000,000 will be required for the salaries of missionaries, allowances for their children and travel to and from the field. To cover the salaries and expenses of new missionaries, $123,000 will be needed. To supplement the native work on the foreign field (evangelistic, educational, medical, industrial and press work) $1,006,623 will be expended. Other classes of expenditure are health furlough changes, furlough study in America, furlough relief, rent¬ al allowances, cooperative work in the United States, publicity, education, promotion, administration, and the Board’s share of the expenses of the New Era Movement. Gifts for property will be appropriated and expended when received. RECEIPTS ON THE FOREIGN FIELD Raised on the foreign field for the work, additional to the Board appropriations: tuition, medical fees and contributions of the native Church $1,801,022 6 OMEQA and ALPHA THE YEAR 1921-1922 The year’s Budget was received as follows: April . $ 41,529.97 May. 91,651.29 June. 133,432.85 July. 348,628.48 August. 107,336.18 September . . . 113,393.85 October . 287,576.28 November . . . 236,164.38 December .. . . 216,948.18 January . . . . 414,593.96 February . . .. 257,941.08 March. 1,669,803.96 Total. $3,919,000.46 Other Credits. 148,757.78 Each of these months rep¬ resented an expenditure of $333,473.56 Churches, societies and in¬ dividuals remitted slowly. The Board had to borrow funds. The interest on borrowed money was $6,378.71. $4,067,758.24 40% of the year’s Budget was received in March. An eleventh hour appeal had to be made. THE YEAR 1922-1923 Monthly or Quarterly remittances of money should be made to the Board. Each remittance should be accurate^ designated if for a special field or object. It is physically impossible to credit without error the mass of gifts coming in the last few days of the fiscal year. WHY NOT REMIT PROMPTLY AND ACCURATELY DURING THE NEW YEAR AHEAD? OTTIEQA and ALPHA 7 MEDICAL DEPARTMENT This new department is in charge of a furloughed medical missionary as Acting Medical Secretary. Its Aim To conserve the health of the missionaries with special reference to the health problems during furlough. To supervise the health qualifications of candidates. To promote and cooperate with the medical branch of the work. 1. Recruiting in colleges, medical schools and hos¬ pitals. 2. Assisting the medical missionaries in every pos¬ sible way, with their problems on the field, with their purchasing of supplies, and with their post¬ graduate study in America. 3. Acting as a general clearing-house for medical missionary plans and policies. ^Literature Individuals invest in the sup¬ port of Missionaries Mission Stations Keeps Mission Stations in touch with supporters at home By Providing By Encouraging Field letters regularly Supporters to corre- throughout the year for spond regularly with the supporters their missionaries The Department Keeps Supporters Informed of vital matters affecting their missionaries, of illness, transfer to other stations, plans for furloughs. Closer relations between missionaries and their supporters is a marked result of the service rendered by the Department. A Distinct Achievement The publication of Pen Pictures, descriptive graphic sketches of every Mission, issued in attractive form, with full page illustrated cover. Also similar sketches in mimeograph fo'rm of each Station. The perusal of these Pen Pictures is a liberal education in the work of the Foreign Board, in its 170 stations. OMEQA AND ALPHA 15 HIGH LIGHTS A feature of the meeting of the General Assembly of the Indian Presbyterian Church, held December 28 to Jan¬ uary 2 at Allahabad, was the impassioned plea of Rev. A. llalla Ram, that the Indian Church send missionaries to other lands. Tibet and Mesopotamia were suggested as possible fields of effort. The discussion that centered around an overture that foreign missionary work be under¬ taken was followed by the appointment of a committee to prepare plans for undertaking this new effort. Resolu¬ tions were also adopted by the Assembly requesting the Indian government to prohibit the sale and manufacture of liquor, except for medicinal and commercial purposes, and also to take action against commercialized vice. Religious services in Chosen (Korea) are largely at¬ tended. The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Korea, which was constituted with seven Presbvteries in 1912, now lias nineteen Presbyteries. The annual meet¬ ing of the Assembly was an occasion of remarkable interest and encouragement. In November the first Korean national Sundav School Convention was held in Seoul and was •/ attended by more than 900 delegates from all over the •country. It was a representative gathering. The Presbyterian Church alone is responsible for the Cameroun field in AVest Africa. The forces of Mohammed¬ anism are coming from the north and those of Christianity are advancing from the south. They are meeting now near the equator. The missionaries who are stationed on this critical line state that the Church in West A frica has never faced such determined efforts on the part of Moham¬ medans to persuade all the remaining non-Mohammedan tribes to become followers of the false prophet. 16 OMEQA AMD ALPHA HIGH LIGHTS ( Continued ) February 10, 1922, as the American Mission Press at Beirut celebrated its one-hundredth birthday, there came as a birthday present the largest order Mesopotamia has yet placed for publications. But the most interesting feature was its delivery by aeroplane in two days from Busrah to Syria. As a rule the exchange of letters by this route takes approximately three months. The greatest degree of religious toleration in the Mo¬ hammedan world is probably found in Teheran, the capital of Persia. During the past year nine converts from Islam, two of them converted priests, have taken charge of regular church services, six of them have preached in the Sunday morning service before congregations of from 200 to 300, the majority of whom were Moslems. Chiengrung in the southern part of the Province of Yunnan, China, is one of the largest in area and in popu¬ lation of any of the unoccupied fields in the world. Fifteen days north of Chiengrung, there are almost 600 converts who are waiting for instruction in the Christian faith, having already clone away with their spirit shrines. In Brazil a mob of 500 men broke into the Presbvte- rian chapel, dragged all the furniture, Bibles, books, etc., into the street, poured kerosene over them and burned everything. Then the} r rushed on and meeting the pastor, Rev. Andre Jensen, would have lynched him on the spot, had it not been for the courage of a jiolice sergeant, who put the pastor and two believers in jail where he kept them for three days until a sufficient number of police were gathered to protect them.