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SURVEY 
 
 of the 
 
 Missionary and Educational Work 
 
 of the 
 
 Congregational Churches 
 
 1921-1922 
 
 Issued by 
 
 The Commission on Missions of the National Council 
 287 Fourth Avenue - New York City 
 
TABLE OF CONTENTS 
 
 Page* 
 
 A Panorama . 1 
 
 How to Uso This Survev. 2 
 
 The Romance of the Treasui'A' . 3 
 
 The Missing Millions . “1 
 
 The American Missionary Association . 5 
 
 The Congregational Education Society.. 12 
 
 The Congi’cgational Foundation for Education. 15 
 
 The Church Extension Boards . 17 
 
 The Congregational Boai‘d of Ministerial Relief. 31 
 
 The Annuity Fund for Congregational Ministers. 32 
 
 The Woman’s Home Missionary Federation. 33 
 
 The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. 36 
 
 The Woman’s Boards . 53 
 
 Total Askings . 60 
 
 The Five-Million-Dollar Budget . 61 
 
 What Is Our Share ?. 62 
 
 We Can Do It. 63 
 
 These Have Done It . 64 
 
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THE SURVEY 
 
 A PANORAMA 
 
 the contents of this Survey number are intended for 
 earnest people. Those addicted exclusively to light literature 
 4 ^ ' should drop these pages at once. Entertainment, however, there 
 should be in them for people who love the worth while. Here is a 
 sweeping panorama of human life, and that where life is interesting, 
 where it is changing and improving, agonizing and conquering; life 
 where the will of man finds the power of God, and that by a process in 
 which we ourselves have a vital part, through our missionary enterprises 
 whose total work is comprehensively surveyed herein. 
 
 Enthusiasm is justifiable in the face of the greatness of our denomi¬ 
 national adventures. Through them 800,000 earnest souls in America 
 interest themselves in 80,000,000 souls in all quarters of the earth. That 
 is, each of us through our missionary endeavors alone is interested in 
 100 people in all lands. Some 40,000,000 of dollars in capital is at 
 work in this enterprise; 10,000 paid workers are engaged, and over 
 100,000 volunteer workers are serving. Geographically, we reach every 
 state in the Union, Alaska, Hawaii, Porto Pico, the Philippines, Europe, 
 Asia, Africa, and the Islands of the Sea. In range of activity, for the 
 body we feed the hungry, cure the sick, and enrich the industrial and 
 commercial activities of many races; for the mind we provide education 
 for children, youth and adults, and equip for leadership men of many 
 races. We minister to world-wide social order primarily through fhe 
 making of men, but directly through constructive statecraft. Above all, 
 we reach the souls of men with the power of God through the Gospel. 
 
 The war precipitated a crisis in this far-reaching endeavor. The 
 doubling of costs everywhere made the normal missionary income wholly 
 inadequate. Sensing the necessity of action the denomination set itself 
 with vigor to meet the emergency, calling this activity the Congregational 
 World Movement. This was but a name for the work of a Commission 
 instructed to bring to the churches all the facts. At the last meeting of 
 the National Council that Commission was merged with the Commission 
 on Missions, which is now charged with this endeavor in addition to its 
 earlier functions. This Survey is the fundamental document of the 
 Commission and the Societies for 1921 and 1922. 
 
 As in New Testament days, Christ himself seems to be looking upon 
 one, young, strong, cultured, rich, who is asking the way of life. As the 
 Master looks upon this fine youth among the nations. He loves America, 
 and directing eyes and heart toward the needy, bids us invest of our 
 great resources in the lifting up of fainting men. To us Congregation- 
 alists doubtless He is not commanding, ‘‘ Sell your all and give to the 
 poor,” but surely He is saying no less than that out of our abundance 
 we should provide fully for the needs which lie at the door of our 
 responsibility as represented in these pages. Surely we will not turn 
 • away sadly because we love ourselves and our possessions better than 
 Christ and His brethren. 
 
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 A. M. 258 
 
 HOW TO USE THIS SURVEY 
 
 HOULD these printed pages remain in the bindery they would never 
 accomplish their purpose. Equally, they will fall short of their object 
 unless they find their way clear through to the minds and hearts of 
 hundreds of thousands of responsive Christians. 
 
 The individual will find in these pages aid in determining how much and 
 where he wishes to invest in the welfare of his fellow men by way of regular 
 contribution. Perhaps he will have accumulated more or less capital which, 
 rather than convert into coupon-yielding bonds, he would prefer to invest 
 where the dividends will be redeemed human life. This Survey will guide 
 him in such, investment. It may be that this investment will need to be made 
 in the nature of a legacy, or of an anticipated legacy, called a Conditional Gift, 
 concerning which the Commission, or any one of the Societies, will be happy 
 to furnish detailed information. Finally, he may pass on this Survey to 
 someone else, or lead some group in the study of its pages. Some subscribers 
 will have two copies of the Survey because it is printed by both The Mission¬ 
 ary Herald and The American Missionary. This will be a welcome duplica¬ 
 tion to those whose interest prompts them to pass it on. 
 
 Missionary committees and leaders will find this their fundamental 
 text. The general missionary committee will want to make the facts here 
 given the basis of the budget taken in connection with the apportionment 
 sent by their Association or Conference. (See page 62.) 
 
 The Every Member Canvass Committee will desire to have every can¬ 
 vasser intimately acquainted with the details of the missionary budget of his 
 church. Such information is here in compact form. It might be well for 
 every canvassing team to carry a copy with them for reference. Likewise, the 
 missionary committees and leaders of the various organizations—^Woman’s 
 Society, Sunday School, young people’s organization, men’s organization, 
 etc., should make specific use of detailed information here given in connection 
 with whatever missionary program may be put on, that definite denomina¬ 
 tional information may accompany general instruction. 
 
 The pastor needs a text-book of concise information on the missionary 
 program of the denomination. He will therefore want this Survey at hand 
 for constant reference. He will discover here also a storehouse of homiletic 
 material for various needs, and particularly for missionary sermons. For 
 deteimiining the missionary program of the church and its departments the 
 Survey is indispensable. He will want to see that there is a copy in the hands 
 of every responsible leader, and that they understand its value. 
 
 Study groups, whether in schools of missions, which are most desirable, 
 or in mission study classes. Church School classes or other organizations, may 
 well use the Survey as a text-book for a given course, for which purpose the 
 Missionary Education Department of the Education Society will provide 
 helps. Where other text-books are used, supplemental material should be 
 presented from this denominational handbook. 
 
 Additional copies for use of committees, classes, etc., will be furnished 
 gratis by the Commission on Missions. Order through Rev. H. D. Sheldon, 
 287 Fourth Avenue, New York City. (Board bound copies, 25c.) 
 
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 These methods are only suggestive, and the inventive mind will find many 
 ways in which to make practical use of this material. ‘‘If ye know these 
 things, happy are ye if ye do them.” 
 
A. M.259 
 
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 S3 
 
 THE ROMANCE OF THE TREASURY 
 
 ORDID finance? No! Spiritual 
 Romance. Out from the love of 
 past generations, through lega¬ 
 cies and funds, $1,500,000 fiows annu¬ 
 ally through your missionary treas¬ 
 uries—Spiritual Romance! Like the 
 transfusion of blood, the life resources 
 of some half million souls in Congrega¬ 
 tional churches is constantly going into 
 the veins of millions to the ends of the 
 earth, as represented in anywhere from 
 $3,000,000 to $5,000,000 annually— 
 
 Spiritual Romance! In the last two 
 hard years the Congregational people 
 of America have more than doubled 
 their missionary contributions, never 
 from sordid, always from unselfish 
 motives—Spiritual Romance! 
 
 The illustration makes graphic this 
 spiritual dynamic. The vertical lines 
 represent the years from 1910 to 1920. 
 
 The horizontal lines, the percentage of 
 increase (10 per cent per line) for each 
 Society name and in the case of the 
 heavy black line that of the total. 
 
 Starting points are arbitrary. The 
 figures show per capita giving in 1910 
 and 1920. That leap upward of every 
 line in the last two years registers the 
 fact of deep, unselfish interest in hun¬ 
 dreds of thousands of Congregational 
 Christians. This is the Romance of the 
 Treasury. 
 
 Let us not miss the weighty consid¬ 
 eration that this Romance of the 
 Treasury has meant the enrichment of 
 the spiritual life of our churches. 
 
 Testimonies are offered on every hand that earnest response to the Congre¬ 
 gational World Movement calls have occasioned notable improvement in the 
 total life of the churches. There is space for one in condensed form. The 
 pastor at Merrimack, New Hampshire, writes that he shrank from the endeavor, 
 but setting himself to it, a church that contributed $76 two years ago paid in 
 $482 last year, and the full apportionment of $645 is assured for 1920. As a 
 result, people who had little interest in the church are now devoted. Some 50 
 are enrolled in three Bible Study Groups, where none cared before. He adds: 
 
 “We are receiving more than twofold value for every dollar we have con¬ 
 tributed. . . . This church is beginning to show real signs of. life. ... I can truth¬ 
 fully say that the Congregational World Movement is the best boon that ever came 
 to this church, and if the people will only keep step with that Movement, I am con¬ 
 fident that we can build up a strong, vigorous church.’^ 
 
 Jesus was right. It is more blessed to give than to receive.” 
 
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 A.M» 260 
 
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 THE MISSING MILLIONS 
 
 HAT, are there still empty bags? Is.not the increase of 102 per cent 
 sufficient? If there were an increase of 102 per cent in missionary 
 resources, it would be. But why isn’t there if the gifts are 102 per 
 cent higher? (1) Not all of the 102 per cent goes to missionary treasuries. 
 Educational institutions and miscellaneous causes receive 14 per cent. (2) 
 The increase applies to but one source of receipts, namely, contributions, not to 
 legacies, funds, etc., yielding heretofore about half of the total. Hence the 
 increase in missionary resources was but 45 per cent. This leaves $1,500,000 
 short of urgent need. 
 
 The supply of this shortage is not sought for the purpose of enlarging 
 our work, desperate as is the condition of the world, but for maintaining 
 the established activities with such development as cannot be avoided where 
 the sacrificial investments of the past have left us rich privileges of the 
 harvest. 
 
 New Gifts 
 
 Income 
 
 '{ Prewar ^ 
 
 ■i 
 
 
 AdditionaHl 
 
 Cost ; 
 
 
 
 Postwar I 
 
 of Work. 
 
 
 
 ^ Cost 1 
 
 000,000 
 
 ^ 
 
 
 
 1 # 3,500,000 J,| 
 
 The smaller chest represents the total prewar receipts for missions, with two bags showing 
 two sources for filling it, half from income of funds, legacies, etc., and half from gifts of the 
 living. The larger chest represents additional money required for postwar needs for the same 
 work, plus $625,000 for causes not in “ prewar costs.” This chest is larger because the additional 
 money needed is $500,000 more than total “ prewar costs.” There is but one bag. because funds 
 are the accumulation of generations for which we cannot wait. Therefore, contributions needed 
 are the former $1,500,000 plus $3,500,000, or $5,000,000, i.e., more than three times prewar 
 contributions. 
 
 The consequences of this shortage are briefly: the American Board—one 
 year’s debt $242,000—necessity of drastic retrenchment unless the gap can 
 be closed. The American Missionary Association—physical plant deteriorated 
 in some instances to the point of collapse and condemnation; cut from current 
 budget, $62,000. The Home Missionary Society—562 fewer mission stations 
 and churches; 344 missionaries dropped; debt $20,000 (see page 27). Other 
 Societies, similar conditions. The dead, from whom have come our receipts 
 from “ other sources,” cannot respond to our appeal. The one resort is to 
 ask the living to heighten the Romance of the Treasury, go the second mile,” 
 and provide for the critical needs set forth in this Survey. 
 
THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY 
 
 ASSOCIATION 
 
 Through this society we Congregationalists minister to certain racial 
 groups whose need of friendly help is greater than that of most Americans: 
 
 The Indian, climbing the difficult path to civilization. 
 
 The Negro, toiling up from slavery to political and economic freedom. 
 
 The American Highlander, hemmed in from modern life by his south¬ 
 ern mountains. 
 
 The Chinese and Japanese, unwelcome guests on the Pacific. 
 
 The IMexican within our border, so often treated with contempt. 
 
 The Porto Kican, whose beautiful, fruitful island—overcrowded, 
 haunted by poverty and disease—has lately come under our fiag. 
 
 Friendly help to these neighbors is supplied through noble gifts and 
 sacrificial service in hundreds of missions, churches, and outstations, in half 
 a dozen Christian colleges and scores of Christian schools—normal, indus¬ 
 trial and agricultural—by social and community effort and by a ministry of 
 healing in clinic and hospital for 
 tens of thousands. It has thus be¬ 
 come one of the foremost agencies 
 for human betterment known to 
 the nation. 
 
 It is proposed to mark the Sev¬ 
 enty-fifth Anniversary of the As¬ 
 sociation by a notable meeting in 
 New London, Conn., November 
 9th and 10th. Pastors and teach¬ 
 ers are urged to rehearse in the 
 ears of their young people the 
 thrilling story of the Association, 
 placing the name Amistad beside 
 
 that of Mayflower. the amistad 
 
 THREE YEAR BUDGET COMPARISON 
 
 General Expenses . 
 
 Southern Schools . 
 
 Negro Churches .. 
 
 General Field Account . 
 
 Porto Rico . 
 
 Indian Missions . 
 
 Oriental Missions . 
 
 Mexican, etc. 
 
 Hawaii . 
 
 Mormon . 
 
 Contingent, detailed in Survey 
 
 1919-1920 
 
 1920-1921 
 
 1921-1922 
 
 $103,645 
 
 $106,080 
 
 $115,741 
 
 220,971 
 
 325,705 
 
 303,595 
 
 34,000 
 
 43,000 
 
 43,500 
 
 38,135 
 
 64,000 
 
 48,150 
 
 21,760 
 
 30,300 
 
 30,280 
 
 31,391 
 
 37,521 
 
 39,110 
 
 16,250 
 
 23,000 
 
 14,000 
 
 23,958 
 
 18,290 
 
 13,081 
 
 4,000 
 
 6,500 
 
 3,000 
 
 
 15,604 
 
 6,500 
 
 
 .280,000 
 
 275,100 
 
 $494,110 
 
 $950,000 
 
 $892,057 
 
 Note: (1) the increases necessary in current work, 1920 and 1921; (2) the cut in 
 appropriations, 1921 and 1922, and (3) that none of the items contingent on receipts 
 could be undertaken in 1921, leaving them the more urgent in 1922. Loss of income 
 through omitted dividends necessitated using legacies to avoid debt and a cut of $62,000 
 in the regular work in 1922. The contingent items, as important as the regular, are all 
 listed in later pages. 
 
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 THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION 
 
 A.M.262 
 
 THE NEGRO 
 
 Numbers and Distribution 
 
 HE Census Bureau announces 
 that in 1920 there were ten and 
 one-half millions of Negroes in 
 the United States, which means that 
 every tenth man among us is of 
 African blood. It also states that, 
 notwithstanding the recent migra¬ 
 tions of colored workmen from the 
 South to northern industrial centers, 
 85% of our Negro population is still 
 to be found south of the Mason and 
 Dixon line. Amid this vast multi¬ 
 tude, nearly nine millions in number, 
 there is room at one and the same 
 time for two opposite streams of ten¬ 
 dency—a stream of progress and a 
 stream of retrogression. 
 
 Progress 
 
 The onward and upward movement 
 of the race in recent years has been 
 conspicuous and most gratifying. Of 
 this splendid advance we have evi¬ 
 dence on every side. Illiteracy is 
 diminished. A steady gain in thrift, 
 industry, intelligence and general 
 well-being, are made evident by in¬ 
 creased farm holdings, industrial op¬ 
 erations, commercial enterprises, sav¬ 
 ings bank accounts, etc. The number 
 of men and women of genuine light 
 and leadership is steadily increasing, 
 while some of African blood by not-, 
 able achievements in the world of art, 
 science, music, education, letters and 
 statesmanship, have won for them¬ 
 selves places of world-wide - dis¬ 
 tinction. 
 
 In this forward movement the 
 churches and schools supported by 
 The American Missionary Association, 
 with others of the same class, have 
 had a large part. The Jones Report 
 to the United States Bureau of Edu¬ 
 cation declares that “ with the ex¬ 
 ception of the state agricultural and 
 mechanical schools, they have fur¬ 
 nished the only facilities for indus¬ 
 trial and agricultural training. Above 
 all they have been and still are the 
 chief agencies for the development of 
 
 sound ideas of life, physical, mental 
 and moral.” 
 
 Retrogression 
 
 While all that has been said about 
 the progress of the Negro is unques¬ 
 tionably true, the very opposite is at 
 the same time also true. There is no 
 reason to doubt the substantial accu¬ 
 racy of Mr. Howard Snyder’s Plan¬ 
 tation Pictures in which he has re¬ 
 cently given to the readers of the 
 Atlantic Monthly and the Century 
 Magazine an account of the condition 
 and character of the Negroes among 
 whom he lives. A shiftless, indolent, 
 insolent, irresponsible set they are— 
 dirty, lazy, disorderly to the last de¬ 
 gree, desperately ignorant and appal¬ 
 lingly immoral—a folk to whom 
 religion seems to be a mere emotional 
 experience, having little or nothing to 
 do with right conduct. 
 
 It is to be feared that the people 
 he described are not exceptional but 
 typical of millions of neglected 
 Negroes in various parts of the South 
 who have never felt the first breath 
 of the modem spirit and whose con¬ 
 dition is no better today—is possibly 
 even worse—than that of their 
 fathers fifty years ago. Such an ele¬ 
 ment in the population—especially 
 when it is numerically large and even, 
 in some regions, a majority—can be 
 nothing less than a menace of the 
 gravest sort to entire communities 
 both to person and to property. So 
 long as such conditions obtain it is 
 impossible to expect any great degree 
 of prosperity and happiness. The 
 foremost white citizens of the South 
 in increasing numbers are becoming 
 keenly alive to the perils of the pres¬ 
 ent situation and are earnestly ad¬ 
 vocating the same thing that the edi¬ 
 tor of the Atlantic Monthly suggests 
 as the single sovereign remedy for the 
 present lamentable condition, to wit: 
 ‘‘ Schools and more schools.” 
 
 School Privileges 
 
 Public schools in many mral parts 
 
A. M. 263 
 
 THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION 
 
 S7 
 
 of the South are, even for white chil¬ 
 dren, none too good; for colored chil¬ 
 dren they are simply wretched. The 
 am_ount per pupil expended respec¬ 
 tively for colored and white children 
 by the counties where a dozen of our 
 A. M. A. schools are located varies 
 from $1.13 for colored and $7.03 for 
 white in the worst, to $11.53 for col¬ 
 ored and $27.41 for white in the best 
 counties. 
 
 HAND SCHOOL, TOUGALOO—FOURTH 
 GRADE 
 
 Teacher Training 
 
 The most serious of all the diffi¬ 
 culties in maintaining an effective 
 system of public schools for colored 
 children is the lack of properly 
 trained teachers. Only colored teach¬ 
 ers are permitted by law and the op¬ 
 portunities for teacher-training pro¬ 
 vided by the state for colored youth 
 are few and meager. In Georgia and 
 Alabama, for example, 70% of the 
 colored school teachers have tempo¬ 
 rary emergency certificates, represent¬ 
 ing a schooling of less than eight 
 elementary grades. For trained teach¬ 
 ers the colored schools of the South 
 must depend almost wholly upon pri¬ 
 vate institutions founded and sup¬ 
 ported by northern philanthropy, 
 among which our A. M. A. schools 
 have a leading place. 
 
 Summary of Work and Needs Among 
 
 Negroes 
 
 I The most extensive work of the A. 
 
 I M. A. is that for the Negroes. In 
 J\ church work there are 72 mission¬ 
 
 aries, 15 churches with 13,500 mem¬ 
 bers and 8,000 in the Sunday 
 Schools. The full apportionment of 
 the Association would hardly provide 
 any increase here, great though the 
 needs are. 
 
 In educational work there are 32 
 schools; 5 elementary, 19 secondary, 
 and 8 higher. Here deterioration of 
 the plant has been such as to cry to 
 heaven for relief. If the full five 
 million dollars is raised it will be 
 possible to appropriate approximately 
 the following sums: 
 
 For rebuilding the Girls’ Dormi¬ 
 tory at Moorhead, Mississippi, de¬ 
 stroyed by cyclone in 1918, $15,000; 
 dormitory at Troy, N. C., destroyed 
 by fire in 1920, $12,000. For com¬ 
 pleting building, standing unfinished 
 for several years at iMemphis, Ten¬ 
 nessee, $15,000. For replacing barns 
 now collapsing at Cappahosic, Va., 
 and Mt. Hermoii, Mississippi, $15,000. 
 For a small beginning on repairs in 
 ])uildings in critical condition at 
 Straight College, $15,000. For pro¬ 
 viding Domestic Science Building, 
 Marion, Ala., where three-fourths of 
 the candidates cannot be taken in the 
 tiny kitchen, $13,000; and for a dor¬ 
 mitory for boys at Dorchester Acad¬ 
 emy, Ga., where the far-aways walk 
 as much as seventeen miles daily, 
 there being no dormitory room for 
 them, $11,000. For the replacing of 
 demolished academic building at Tou- 
 galoo College, $45,000. None of these 
 can be touched out of the current 
 budget. 
 
 The supervisor of white elemen¬ 
 tary rural schools in one of the 
 Southern states rex)orts: ‘‘The 
 negro schoolhouses are miserable, 
 beyond all description. They are 
 usually without comfort, equipment, 
 propel* lighting or sanitation. Most 
 of the teachers are absolutely un¬ 
 trained and have been given certifi¬ 
 cates only because it is necessary to 
 have some kind of a Negro teacher. 
 
 I have found only one in which the 
 highest class knew the multiplication 
 table. ’ ’ 
 
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 THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION 
 
 A. M. 264 
 
 PORTO RICO 
 
 A POPULATION of a million 
 and a quarter, about the same 
 as that of Connecticut, is 
 crowded into a space smaller by one- 
 sixth than the nutmeg state. Nine- 
 tenths of these are peons. Of indus¬ 
 tries the island has very few. There 
 is some manufacture of tobacco and 
 cigars, a very little weaving of hats 
 and lace-making, but the chief em¬ 
 ployments are those of agriculture. ' 
 
 Four centuries of colonial life 
 under Spanish rule have left their 
 stamp upon the people. They have 
 neither in thought nor in language 
 any real equivalent for such words 
 as commonwealth,” or home.” 
 They do not understand democracy. 
 They have no traditions of great men 
 and great achievements. Patriotism 
 is a flower recently planted and 
 thus far of scanty growth. Religion 
 means either the performance of cer¬ 
 tain rites and ceremonies demanded 
 by decrepit and corrupt types of 
 Catholicism, or else it means a matter 
 of opinion; of the spiritual life and 
 all that is involved in following 
 Jesus Christ the average Porto Rican 
 has but a faint conception. 
 
 Missionary work for Porto Rico is 
 divided among the denominations in 
 most brotherly fashion. Each has its 
 allotted place for which it is entirely 
 responsible. Preachers are trained in 
 a Union Theological Seminary. We 
 Congregationalists have a parish of 
 our own in a melilla, or slum portion 
 
 ARRIVAL OF PATIENT AT RYDER 
 MEMORIAL HOSPITAL 
 
 of the city of Santurce, and we are 
 also solely responsible for a section 
 (with a population of about 125,000) 
 at the extreme eastern end of the 
 island in the province of Humacao. 
 
 We minister to the Porto Ricans 
 by means of a group of churches and 
 outstations, with Sunday schools and 
 extensive community service. At 
 Blanche Kellogg Institute, in San¬ 
 turce, we have an excellent training 
 school for girls who are there fitted 
 to become Christian workers and 
 home-makers; at this point is also 
 located the Lucy Elizabeth Fair¬ 
 banks Settlement House, where a 
 most gracious and beautiful work goes 
 on for the poor of the community, 
 which includes industrial training 
 for children and a clinic for babies; 
 and at Humacao we have a very 
 wonderful work in the Ryder Memo¬ 
 rial Hospital, where, in the course 
 of the last ten years our resident 
 physician has prescribed no less 
 than 10,000 times for hookworm; 
 where we minister annually in clinic , 
 and in wards to some 24,000 sufferers, J 
 healing the lame, the sick and the 
 blind and those with various tor¬ 
 ments, and thus practicing tlie gospel 
 of love and service which we proclaim 
 to the waiting multitudes of patients 
 in the hospital portico and in all our 
 churches and missions. The Porto 
 Rican work is very flourishing. It 
 would be hard to imagine how any 
 missionary effort could be more fruit¬ 
 ful. 
 
 In church work there are 2 min¬ 
 isters, 6 woman missionaries and 14 
 native workers serving through 11 
 churches with 900 members. In 
 medical service there are 1 physician, 
 
 4 American nurses and 4 Porto 
 Rican nurses in training. The needs 
 are many and urgent. If the total 
 apportionment is raised we shall be 
 able to provide for a dispensary and 
 clinic now unprovided for except in 
 the physician’s home, and a kitchen 
 and laundry for which there is 
 nothing; total cost $25,000. 
 
A. M.265 THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION S9 
 
 OUR ORIENTAL NEIGHBORS 
 
 HE Oriental is here and by our 
 invitation. Eirst came the Chi¬ 
 nese in large numbers to do our 
 hard work. Chinatown in San 
 Francisco was built and smaller 
 Chinatowns in many other cities. 
 Here our first Oriental work was be¬ 
 gun in 1852 and we were the first on 
 the field. Chinatown has gradually 
 grown smaller but the need of work 
 for that race has not diminished. We 
 have now nine missions to the Chi¬ 
 
 ful and challenging opportunities. 
 
 The serious problem before us is 
 that of housing. We have crowded 
 them into impossible rooms not only 
 insufficient but unattractive. The 
 Japanese church shown here is a store 
 room. A Sunday School of 150 chil¬ 
 dren, a church service of 125 and 
 evening schools during the week 
 are conducte d—all in a small 
 store room. Many of the Oriental 
 mission houses are no better. Thou- 
 
 JAPANESE CHURCH 
 
 nese. The work has been important 
 not merely for what it has accom¬ 
 plished for the people here but for 
 the missionary zeal which has been 
 built up among them for their home 
 land. 
 
 Then came the Japanese, forming 
 what is now known as the Japanese 
 problem. Alert, intelligent, enter¬ 
 prising, anxious for Americanization 
 and responsive to the Christian Gospel 
 •—they afford us one of our most hope- 
 
 sands of these Orientals look to us 
 for the fuller expression of the Gospel 
 of the Brotherhood of Christ. 
 
 The full apportionment would 
 allow a beginning toward providing 
 buildings for our poorly housed 
 Japanese and Chinese missions, pei*- 
 haps $25,000. 
 
 The Hawaiian Board is affiliated 
 with the Association and is doing a 
 supremely important work, especial¬ 
 ly among the Orientals. 
 
THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION 
 
 A.M* 266 
 
 S JO 
 
 fifty years. Gradually our work has 
 l)een reduced until now we have 
 but two schools for the Highlanders 
 looking to us for support—Pleasant 
 Hill and Piedmont. It is the con¬ 
 sensus of opinion, both that of the 
 state authorities and our own corps 
 of workers, as well as the local resi¬ 
 dents, that Saluda Seminary no 
 
 mountains for Chidstian education. 
 
 The needs of Piedmont College 
 have been well advertised but they 
 can hardly be exaggerated. The col¬ 
 lege will close the year with a large 
 debt. Its students are of the highest 
 character and ability. The college 
 sends them forth not only scholars 
 but Christians. 
 
 THE HIGHLANDERS 
 
 GIVE THEM A CHANCE 
 
 the beginnings of Berea, 
 the Association lias been carry- 
 ' ing on the liighest type of edu¬ 
 cational work among the Highlanders 
 of Kentucky and Tennessee, North 
 Carolina and Georgia. Gradually the 
 educational standards have been 
 lifted up, thousands of the best young 
 people of the mountains have been 
 educated and moved out. The late 
 war revealed to us how vast is the il¬ 
 literacy and the ignorance of Ameri¬ 
 canism among this people. It is 
 doubtful if any work in the country 
 has brought back better returns than 
 our investments here for more than 
 
 longer functions as a missionary 
 vschool. The community henceforth 
 will assume the responsibility for the 
 high school education of its own chil¬ 
 dren. Saluda, as an A. M. A. school, 
 will be closed but the work will go on. 
 
 The money received from the sale 
 of the Saluda buildings, together 
 with a special legacy for mountain 
 work, will be used at Pleasant Hill 
 and all our energies concentrated 
 there. The present condition of the 
 plant, however, will necessitate much 
 larger investments than these re¬ 
 sources supply. It must be made the 
 outstanding school in the heart of the 
 
A.M.267 
 
 THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION 
 
 sn 
 
 THE INDIANS AND THE MEXICANS 
 
 HE Indian is as independent in 
 spirit as in the days when he 
 was lord of America. But he 
 lias not learned to take care of him¬ 
 self and shows little initiative. 
 
 The Protestant work on four reser¬ 
 vations in the Dakotas has been al¬ 
 located to the Congregationalists. 
 From the reservations, those who can 
 afford it send their children to Santee 
 Normal Training School. From 
 Santee, a large per cent of the best 
 Indian leaders have come. This year 
 Frank Black Hoop, an alumnus, re¬ 
 turns as the leader of the band and 
 instructor of music. He was gradu¬ 
 ated from Hampton last June, and 
 while there led the great Hampton 
 
 PITILTP FRAZIER AND AlDTlIEPt 
 
 Band. In another year, Pliilip 
 Frazier, a Santee alumnus, will hnisli 
 at Oberlin College, and return as a 
 leader among his people. His mother 
 still thinks and talks entirely in Da¬ 
 kota. The affection and reverence 
 Philip has for her is an object lesson 
 to millions of American sons and 
 daughters. 
 
 Unless the five million apportion¬ 
 ment should be exceeded, it will not 
 be possible to enlarge or improve 
 either the Indian or Mexican work. A 
 merely casual reading of these dispas¬ 
 sionate pages is enough to show how 
 modest is the five million apportion¬ 
 ment as it affects the A. M. A. 
 
 One out of every eight Mexicans 
 
 on the American continent is now re¬ 
 ported to be on United States soil. 
 They are scattered in every border 
 city, and are much in evidence in 
 cities like San Antonio and El Paso. 
 But many of them are scattered in 
 little adobe villages throughout New 
 Mexico from ten to thirty miles from 
 railroad centers. Here thev live a 
 primitive group life, knowing little of 
 the real values of life. The only 
 open door to these priceless treasures 
 are the small and inadequate mission 
 schools. 
 
 The American Missionary Associa¬ 
 tion is making five contributions to 
 the uplift of these Mexican people by 
 maintaining four village schools, a 
 settlement house and a boarding in¬ 
 dustrial school for boys and girls. 
 
 Thirteen hundred and sixty-five 
 dollars runs one of these village 
 schools. The parents, very poor, show 
 their gratitude through contributions 
 in chickens, eggs and fire wood. 
 
 Rio Grande Industrial School 
 
 Five miles from the beautiful city 
 of Albuquerque, on the Rio Grande 
 River, stand two commodious build¬ 
 ings that form the living quarters and 
 recitation rooms of sixty Mexican 
 young men and women. The school 
 l)ossesses IGO acres of splendid farm 
 land undei* the cai'e of a trained 
 fai'inei’ who is educating the boys in 
 belter methods adapted to the needs 
 of the Southwest. There is also a 
 Manual Ti'aining School where the 
 boys are taught the best methods of 
 wood and iron work, and the girls 
 educated in faian, dairy and domestic 
 science. 
 
 Some ten years ago, there came 
 from the village school at Cubero a 
 Mexican girl, one of the eight chil¬ 
 dren of a widow. She finished at Rio 
 Grande and secured a scholarship at 
 Schauffler Training School. She has 
 returned to Cubero, married the best 
 man in the town and maintains the 
 neatest, cleanest and most refined 
 home in the community. 
 
CONGREGATIONAL 
 
 EDUCATION SOCIETY 
 
 niS SOCIETY co-operates with 
 our churches in training our 
 entire Congregational constitu- 
 ('11 cy for Christian living and ser¬ 
 vice. It outlines the religious educa¬ 
 tion program, leads in its realization 
 and co-operates with the Publishing 
 Society in furnishing any religious 
 education literature. Its work under¬ 
 lies that of all our missionary socie¬ 
 ties and agencies. 
 
 THE CHURCH SCHOOL 
 
 HE field of operation is the 743,- 
 000 members of our 6,000 Sun¬ 
 day Schools. The Society seeks 
 to awaken our churches to their op¬ 
 portunity, to assist local church lead¬ 
 ers in planning their program, to fur¬ 
 nish study courses for training teach¬ 
 ers and leaders, to see that best grad¬ 
 ed lessons are used, best equipment 
 l)rovided, the whole program unified. 
 
 With children and youth, where 
 work counts for most, the effort of the 
 Society centers. The supreme oppor¬ 
 tunity of the church to claim the fu¬ 
 ture is with its school, from which 
 • comes 75% of all increase in church 
 membership, and from whose ranks 
 40% are now lost to the church, large¬ 
 ly through avoidable inefficiency, 
 and chiefly during the adolescent pe¬ 
 riod. We are wholly without expert 
 guidance in this critical period and to 
 supply this serious deficiency we have 
 inclu(ied in the budget, contingent on 
 increased receipts, ‘‘ Intermediate 
 Church School Secretary,” $6,000. 
 
 Two of the most timely movements 
 of the day for meeting the lack of ad¬ 
 equate religious education are the re¬ 
 ligious day school and the daily 
 vacation Bible school. Other denomi¬ 
 nations are furnishing literature and 
 promotional secretaries. For this com¬ 
 pelling challenge we ask $11,000. 
 
 YOUNG PEOPLE 
 
 HIS department seeks to help 
 our churches into successful 
 work with young people: 
 
 By developing sympathetic local 
 leadership. 
 
 By helping our churches really to 
 understand young people, giving 
 them a much larger place in the life 
 of the church and developing a pro¬ 
 gram intended to enlist them perma- 
 nentlv in Christian service. 
 
 By suggesting programs for differ¬ 
 ent groups, plans whereby these may 
 be co-ordinated in the local church 
 and linked up to the denominational 
 program through the Pilgrim Federa¬ 
 tion. 
 
 By conducting denominational ral¬ 
 lies and institutes at interdenomina¬ 
 tional gatherings, promoting young 
 people’s meetings in connection with 
 District Associations, State Confer¬ 
 ences and National Councils, and by 
 planning special week-end institutes 
 and summer conferences. Only $450 
 a year (!) has been available for this 
 strategic service and the work has had 
 to be done incidentally by those bur¬ 
 dened with other responsibilities. The 
 young people deserve better of us. For 
 the securing of a Young People’s Sec¬ 
 retary and the support of the depart¬ 
 ment we ask an increase of $8,000. 
 
 STUDENTS 
 
 HE task here is to reach for 
 Christ and Christian service, 
 primarily through the efforts 
 of student pastors, our 20,000 Con¬ 
 gregational students at tax-sup¬ 
 ported educational institutions. 
 There are in the United States not 
 less than 30 educational institu¬ 
 tions, aside from our Christian 
 schools, in each of which there are 
 over 200 Congregational students. 
 
A, M.269 
 
 THE EDUCATION SOCIETY 
 
 S J3 
 
 From, these are to come leaders of 
 American life in all its phases. From 
 them we may secure splendid religious 
 leadership if their interest is con¬ 
 served and directed. We now aid in 
 the support of 21 student pastors. We 
 snould have not less than 27 such 
 leaders. In this budget we ask for 
 support to place six more, in universi¬ 
 ty centers, still leaving teachers’ col¬ 
 leges untouched, calling for an in¬ 
 crease of $13,000. 
 
 In many such institutions as those 
 at Ann Arbor and East Lansing, 
 Michigan, equipment is utterly in¬ 
 adequate to handle student work. 
 The local churches cannot meet the 
 demands. Our student pastors need 
 homes and facilities without which 
 spiritual values arp sacrificed. To 
 make a small start here we place in 
 our budget, contingent on receipts, 
 $34,000. 
 
 A supreme aim of the student de¬ 
 partment is to enlist our choicest 
 youth for Christian leadership. No 
 subject received such serious consid¬ 
 eration at the recent meeting of the 
 National Council. In co-operation 
 with the special Recruiting Commis¬ 
 sion appointed by the National Coun¬ 
 cil, and with the help of the Mission¬ 
 ary Societies, State Conferences, etc., 
 a persistent effort will be made to stir 
 our entire membership, to interest 
 every home, church, minister. Church 
 School teacher, and young people’s 
 worker in united effort to secure re¬ 
 cruits for Christian leadership. The 
 National ('Ouncil antlioiazed expendi¬ 
 tures up to $15,000 for recruiting. 
 This is a legitimate charge againsr 
 This Society. We do not see the pos¬ 
 sibility of including more than 
 $11,780, an increase of $3,500. 
 
 The original function of this Socie¬ 
 ty was aiding students in preparation 
 for the ministry. The amount we 
 now give or loan is pitiably small, 
 while some men and many women 
 are denied aid altogether. The bud¬ 
 get calls for $17,900, an increase of 
 $9,000. 
 
 SOCIAL SERVICE 
 
 INCE it is the task of the church 
 to permeate all human life 
 with the spirit and program of 
 Jesus Christ, it is the aim of this de¬ 
 partment : 
 
 1. To promote through institutes, 
 conferences and all available means 
 that spirit of brotherhood which alone 
 makes possible a solution of our burn¬ 
 ing problems. 
 
 2. To supply reliable data of suc¬ 
 cessful social experiments and critical 
 situations. 
 
 3. To suggest ways and means of 
 building a better social order. 
 
 4. To promote discussion groups 
 and open forums in our churches. 
 
 5. To provide a manual of social 
 service for the local church, with 
 leaflets adapting the program to spe¬ 
 cial types of community. 
 
 6. To secure recognition for the 
 social point of view in curricula, 
 teacher training and programs for 
 young people. 
 
 7. To prepare and suggest study 
 courses for social study groups. 
 
 More and better literature is in¬ 
 sistently called for by pastors. To 
 supply this, with the consequent ad¬ 
 ditional clerical work, we ask a modest 
 increase of $2,000. 
 
 MISS ONARY EDUCATION 
 
 UR program of religious educa¬ 
 tion must be inspired by the 
 spirit of service or it fails to be 
 truly Christian. 
 
 The Missionary Edm'ation Depart¬ 
 ment works witli all our missionary 
 societies. Us function is that of d(‘- 
 veloping a j)i’ograin of st udy and of 
 training in service and giving tliat 
 shall create vital interest in the work 
 of all. 
 
 This Department works through 
 personal interviews, correspondence, 
 conferences, institutes, addresses in 
 churches, and the distribution of lit¬ 
 erature. 
 
 Some of the specific ways of work¬ 
 ing are as follows: 
 
 1. The Missionary Education 
 
THE EDUCATION SOCIETY 
 
 A.M, 270 
 
 S J4 
 
 Chart plan for Church Schools. (Sec 
 leaflet, Missionary Education in 
 the Church School.”) 
 
 2. Suggested plans and methods 
 for special programs in individual 
 schools by correspondents or person¬ 
 al interview. 
 
 3. Publication of the Manual of 
 Principles and Methods of Missionary 
 Education, manuals on the Graded 
 Program and leafllets on special 
 topics. 
 
 4. Promotion of local Schools of 
 Missions and of conferences and in¬ 
 stitutes, especially during the sum¬ 
 mer. 
 
 5. Distributing information as to 
 plans and methods that have worked. 
 
 For constructive work in this new 
 department of such vital consequence 
 to the entire denominational program 
 a little more money is needed for 
 clerical work and printing, increase, 
 $ 2 , 000 . 
 
 DISTRICT AND FIELD WORK 
 
 N addition to the fleld work 
 constantly being done by gen¬ 
 eral and departmental secre¬ 
 taries, there are ten district secre¬ 
 taries commissioned to carry this en¬ 
 
 tire religious education program to 
 our churches. These secretaries as¬ 
 sist state conferences and local 
 churches in all phases of work repre¬ 
 sented by this Society. The personal 
 attention of these secretaries is given 
 to religious education problems, plans 
 and programs. Their offices are 
 equipped to meet local needs. They 
 are freely at the service of our 
 churches. 
 
 Calls from the churches and Sun¬ 
 day Schools for more help are insist¬ 
 ent. Two additional workers are 
 urgently demanded at once. The 
 splendid success of the work increases 
 expenses. Moreover, when we must 
 replace men or employ new ones, our 
 old salary scale is not adequate to se¬ 
 cure satisfactory men. Wisdom de¬ 
 mands that the budget be lifted from 
 $51,099 to $68,099, an increase of 
 $17,000. 
 
 ADMINISTRATION AND PUBLICITY 
 
 ROWING work calls for en¬ 
 largement of oversight bud¬ 
 gets. Therefore for increased 
 rent, clerical help and printing we 
 are compelled to ask for an increase 
 of $5,000. 
 
 THE BUDGET 
 
 1921 
 
 1922 
 
 General Administration, Rent, Publicity, Salaries (see p. 14) 
 
 $29,755 
 
 $34,755 
 
 Social Service Department (p. 13). 
 
 12,102 
 
 14,102 
 
 Missionary Education Department (p. 13). 
 
 12,846 
 
 14,846 ■ 
 
 Student Department (p. 12). 
 
 8,280 
 
 11,780 
 
 Young People’s Department (p. 12). 
 
 450 
 
 8,450 
 
 Student Aid (p. 13).-. 
 
 8,900 
 
 17,900 
 
 University Pastorates (p. 13). 
 
 19,363 
 
 32,363 
 
 District Secretaries, Assistants and Offices (p. 14). 
 
 51,099 
 
 68,099 
 
 Contingent . 
 
 5,000 
 
 5,000 
 
 Subsidy The CJmrch School and Pilgrim Elementary Teacher 
 
 7,000 
 
 7,000 
 
 Intermediate Secretary and Expenses (p. 12). 
 
 
 6,000 
 
 Deficit from last year . 
 
 17,300 
 
 17,300 
 
 Religious Day Schools- (p. 12). 
 
 
 11,000 
 
 Equipment for University Centers (p. 13). 
 
 
 34,000 
 
 Subsidy Congregationalist .. 
 
 23,000 
 
 23,000 
 
 Education Society apportionment administered by States.. 
 
 7,600 
 
 7,600 
 
 Total Budget . 
 
 $202,695 
 
 $313,195 
 
 Income Permanent Funds and Legacies. 
 
 38,000 
 
 38,000 
 
 Needed from Churches. 
 
 $159,408 $275,195 
 
THE COiNGREGATIONAL 
 
 FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION 
 
 ONGREGATIONALISM is the 
 mother of colleges and educa¬ 
 tional institutions. These have 
 inherited the spirit of liberty of their 
 mother. They recognize the relation- 
 shii) to Congregational churches 
 which the facts justify, and in the 
 past generation many of them have 
 slipped away from any vital connec- 
 
 war brought crises to many of the 
 weaker institutions which were occu¬ 
 pying fields of importance. With in¬ 
 come at a dead level or decreasing, 
 the problem was how to meet mount¬ 
 ing expenses. Some were closed; 
 some suspended temporarily; others 
 now face the necessity of one or the 
 other course. 
 
 MAKE WAY FOR OFR FUTURE LEADERS 
 
 tion, not to say legal connection, 
 with the church fellowship because 
 there has been no vital connec¬ 
 tion between colleges and institutions, 
 financially speaking. This spirit of 
 independence, normally commendable, 
 has resulted in institutions irresponsi¬ 
 ble to the churches and churches with 
 little sense of responsibility for the 
 institutions. This has been lamenta¬ 
 ble from the standpoint of both. 
 
 Financial conditions following the 
 
 In view of the financial crises in 
 our educational institutions they 
 were included in the Emergency 
 Fund and in the apportionment of 
 1921. So far the results have not 
 been over satisfactoiy, not only be¬ 
 cause the returns have been meager, 
 ])ut because the puzzling questions in¬ 
 volved of 1 ‘elative need and im])ort- 
 ance of institutions, togelhei* witli the 
 ('onditions undee whic'li aid should l)e 
 given, were so great as to l)e almost 
 
THE FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION 
 
 A*M.272 
 
 S J6 
 
 insolvable, while the churches them¬ 
 selves have been puzzled as to why 
 certain ones, if not most of the insti¬ 
 tutions, should be objects of their reg¬ 
 ular benevolences. 
 
 Facing these quandaries, the Con¬ 
 gregational World Movement re¬ 
 quested the Commission on Missions 
 to appoint a committee for a careful 
 study of the situation. This commit¬ 
 tee having gone into the question 
 most carefully reported at the meet¬ 
 ing of the National Council, and after 
 careful consideration a plan was 
 adopted recommending the establish¬ 
 ment of The Congregational Founda¬ 
 tion for Education. The action pro¬ 
 vides for a board of eighteen trustees, 
 one-third pastors, one-third educators 
 and one-third laymen. The executive 
 officer of the Foundation is to be 
 the president, employed to give all his 
 time to the Foundation. 
 
 The financial operations are to in¬ 
 volve (a) the continuation in the ap¬ 
 portionment for 1921 and 1922 of the 
 7 per cent for institutions, to be 
 handled by the Foundation; (b) the 
 president and trustees to raise addi¬ 
 tional money sufficient to bring the 
 current funds to $500,000 annually 
 during these two years, and to raise 
 in subsequent years a like amount or 
 more; (c) the trustees and president 
 to plan for raising an adequate en¬ 
 dowment, determining its amount 
 and the processes after consultation 
 with the State Conferences so far as 
 possible. 
 
 The purposes of the Foundation 
 are expressed in the recommendation 
 of the Commission on Missions 
 adopted by the National Council at 
 Los Angeles: 
 
 1. To promote the ideals of the 
 churches of the Congregational fellow¬ 
 ship through institutions of secondary 
 and higher education which possess those 
 ideals and share in that fellowship. 
 
 2. To make available the resources of 
 our fellowship for the counsel and en¬ 
 couragement of these institutions in the 
 realization of our common purposes. 
 
 3. To establish a permanent fund, the 
 income of which shall be used to aid the 
 
 upbuilding and maintenance of these in¬ 
 stitutions. 
 
 4. To provide an agency for the study 
 of the educational problems of these in¬ 
 stitutions and for the administration and 
 distribution of these funds in such ways 
 as shall best further the common inter¬ 
 ests and ideals of these institutions and 
 our churches, by the maintenance in 
 these institutions of high standards of 
 educational efficiency and moral and re¬ 
 ligious purpose. 
 
 The needs of onr educational insti¬ 
 tutions vary from those of strong 
 corporations which yet can enlarge 
 their work indefinitely to those of 
 missionary institutions which face 
 emergency, and even death. Doubt¬ 
 less the churches do not feel that the 
 apportionment should make provi¬ 
 sion for the stronger institutions, and 
 probably they will welcome the plan 
 under which even the weaker mis¬ 
 sionary institutions may be counseled 
 and aided more wisely and more ade¬ 
 quately than could be done under the 
 missionary apportionment. 
 
 In the confidence of this ultimate 
 success on a large scale the Commis¬ 
 sion on Missions urgently requests the 
 churches to look upon the 7 per cent 
 retained in the apportionment for 
 1921 and 1922 as one of the important 
 items of that schedule. Its payment 
 will put the Foundation upon its feet 
 for action and enable it to meet a few 
 of the more serious crises in the lives 
 of our weaker institutions. Immedi¬ 
 ately the moral value of such backing 
 will make it possible for the institu¬ 
 tions themselves to secure more sup¬ 
 port locally, thus giving opportunity 
 to the Foundation for finding itself, 
 making its plans and actuallv carry¬ 
 ing out its purposes. The Commis¬ 
 sion therefore confidently asks the 
 churches to provide through their ap¬ 
 portionment the sum of $350,000 for 
 the next year. It is our confident ex¬ 
 pectation that the Foundation will 
 henceforth be able to render substan¬ 
 tial assistance and fraternal guidance 
 which will make it unnecessary to in¬ 
 clude these institutions in the appor¬ 
 tionment, except for local groups of 
 churches, and at their option. 
 
THE CHURCH EXTENSION BOARDS 
 
 What Are the Church Extension Boards ? 
 
 name, ‘‘ The Church Extension Boards/’ does not stand for a spe- 
 / I cific corporation but is a convenience for'designating three distinct mis- 
 V5r sionary corporations which are administered by a common Board of 
 Directors, with a common General Secretary and a common Treasurer. These 
 are; The Congregational Sunday School Extension Society, The Congrega¬ 
 tional Home Missionary Society and The Congregational Church Building So¬ 
 ciety. The reason for the common administration is obvious in that these three 
 organizations have immediately to do with the interests of the local church. 
 
 What Does the C. S._S. E. S. Do ? 
 
 The functions of the C. S. S. E. S. are fourfold: (a) The planting of 
 mission Sunday Schools; (b) The nourishing of mission and branch Sunday 
 Schools; (c) The aiding of Sunday Schools in securing proper literature; and 
 (d) Co-operation with the Education Society in the religious education pro¬ 
 gram of our Church Schools. (See Tabular Report, Page 18.) 
 
 What Does the C. H. M. S. Do ? 
 
 The functions of the C. H. M. S. are fivefold: (a) The organizing of new 
 churches; (b) The aiding of weak churches (see page 29) ; (c) The doctoring 
 of sick churches; (d) The burying of dead churches, including the winding 
 up of affairs of churches no longer needed and the merging of churches where 
 there is overlapping; and (e) The fostering of all our churches, that is, this 
 Society maintains a force of 85 Superintendents, Assistant Superintendents, 
 General Missionaries, Pastors-at-I^arge, etc., who give their entire time to pro¬ 
 moting the whole denominational program in associations, conferences and 
 local churches. The Program of Evangelism, for example, is subsidized and 
 forwarded by the Home Missionary Society and its affiliated state and city 
 organizations. Likewise, anything that will advance the work of the churches 
 is of concern to this Society. 
 
 What Does the C. C. B. S. Do ? 
 
 The C. C. B. S. assists churches in securing adequate church Imildings 
 and parsonages for their ministers. This is done by making grants practically 
 gifts to the churches except that they are covered by mortgage and ai’c recov¬ 
 erable inxase of the failure of the church, and loans with no interest or low 
 interest, payable in installments covering usually ten years on church build¬ 
 ings and five years on parsonages. Incidentally, a multitude of services is ren¬ 
 dered to the churches, affecting property, such as proper titles, insurance, 
 taxes, location, architectui’e, etc. 
 
 The Church Extension Boards, then, constitute the fellowship of all the 
 churches in promoting the welfare of all the churches by all possible means. 
 
 The Tabular Report on the following page will amply reward minute 
 study by those who are concerned that the churches of the Pilgrim faith should 
 be faithful to their commission. The home missionary statistics apply to home 
 missionary churches only, except in the last colmun where, aside from Con¬ 
 necticut and Massachusetts, the need for men applies to all the churches. 
 
THE CHURCH EXTENSION BOARDS 
 
 A.M. 274 
 
 S J8 
 
 TABULAR REPORT OF HOME MISSIONS IN 1920 
 
 States 
 
 No. of 
 
 workers 
 
 No. of 
 
 churches 
 
 No. church 
 
 members 
 
 No. ac¬ 
 
 cessions 
 
 Churches 
 
 built 
 
 Churches 
 
 organized 
 
 To self- 
 
 support 
 
 Men 
 
 needed 
 
 California, No. 
 
 .. 34 
 
 46 
 
 2,080 
 
 409 
 
 0 
 
 3 
 
 1 
 
 0 
 
 California, So. 
 
 . . 54 
 
 53 
 
 2,760 
 
 672 
 
 3 
 
 1 
 
 11 
 
 5 
 
 Connecticut . . . 
 
 63 
 
 69 
 
 3,004 
 
 228 
 
 0 
 
 1 
 
 1 
 
 4 
 
 Illinois . 
 
 . . 61 
 
 55 
 
 6,246 
 
 765 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 3 
 
 7 
 
 Iowa . 
 
 oo 
 
 18 
 
 1,344 
 
 214 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 10 
 
 Kansas . 
 
 . . 21 
 
 17 
 
 1,922 
 
 230 
 
 0 
 
 1 
 
 0 
 
 18 
 
 Maine . 
 
 . . 69 
 
 106 
 
 3,010 
 
 165 
 
 1 
 
 9 
 
 0 
 
 14 
 
 Massachusetts . 
 
 . . 144 
 
 173 
 
 10,941 
 
 906 
 
 1 
 
 1 
 
 15 
 
 7 
 
 Michigan . 
 
 . . 53 
 
 64 
 
 3,634 
 
 706 
 
 1 
 
 9 
 
 1 
 
 8 
 
 Minnesota .... 
 
 . . 37 
 
 93 
 
 3,345 
 
 472 
 
 3 
 
 3 
 
 0 
 
 8 
 
 Missouri . 
 
 , . 22 
 
 24 
 
 2,114 
 
 187 
 
 1 
 
 0 
 
 3 
 
 1 
 
 Nebraska . 
 
 . . 16 
 
 11 
 
 593 
 
 95 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 37 
 
 New Hampshire 
 
 . 39 
 
 48 
 
 1,705 
 
 107 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 2 
 
 5 
 
 New York .... 
 
 . . 73 
 
 68 
 
 5,385 
 
 434 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 4 
 
 7 
 
 Ohio .. . 
 
 . . 35 
 
 26 
 
 3,845 
 
 653 
 
 1 
 
 0 
 
 1 
 
 0 
 
 Rhode Island . . 
 
 . . 12 
 
 13 
 
 1,000 
 
 129 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 2 
 
 0 
 
 V ermont . 
 
 . . 48 
 
 37 
 
 1,601 
 
 85 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 7 
 
 Washington . . 
 
 . . 52 
 
 61 
 
 2,823 
 
 474 
 
 0 
 
 2 
 
 1 
 
 10 
 
 Wisconsin .... 
 
 . . 49 
 
 77 
 
 2,997 
 
 203 
 
 0 
 
 3 
 
 2 
 
 12 
 
 National Territory 540 
 
 803 
 
 28,320 
 
 3,615 
 
 12 
 
 17 
 
 3 
 
 131 
 
 Total . 
 
 . .1,444 
 
 1,862 
 
 88,669 10,749 
 
 25 
 
 38 
 
 50 
 
 291 
 
 1919 . 
 
 . .1,437 
 
 1,846 
 
 87,381 
 
 9,555 
 
 20 
 
 19 
 
 37 
 
 269 
 
 SUMMARY OF REPORT OF C. 
 
 C. B. 
 
 s. 
 
 FOR 
 
 1920 
 
 Grants and loans paid to churches 
 
 ill 1920. . . 
 
 
 
 
 $465,726 
 
 Appropriated in 
 
 1920, 99 grants 
 
 amounting 
 
 to. 
 
 .^238,137 
 
 
 
 Appropriated in 
 
 1920, 68 church loans andg 
 
 to. . . . 
 
 196,715 
 
 
 
 Appropriated in 
 
 1920, 48 parsonage loans amtg. to. . 
 
 71,675 
 
 
 
 
 21^ 
 
 3 grants and loans 
 
 amtg to 
 
 . . . • 
 
 .... 
 
 506,527 
 
 No. of applications left over to 1921, 133 amounting 
 
 to. . 
 
 
 436,275 
 
 Amount of loan funds at 
 
 work in 
 
 churches July 1. . 
 
 
 
 1,023,000 
 
 Value of property on which aid paid in 12 months 
 
 
 
 2,310,000 
 
 SUMMARY OF REPORT OF C* S. S. E. S* FOR 1920 
 
 Number of field workers . 54 
 
 Number of new mission Sunday Schools organized. 109 
 
 Number of mission Sunday Schools reorganized. 37 
 
 Number of Sunday Schools visited by C. S. S. E. S. woi’kers. . . . 2,623 
 
 Number of conventions and conferences participated in. 872 
 
 Gi’ants of lesson literature in 18 states amounting to. 1,290 
 
A, M* 275 
 
 THE CHURCH EXTENSION BOARDS 
 
 S 19 
 
 SOME SAMPLES OF FRONTIER WORK 
 
 (By “ Frontier ” is meant chiefly the remote sections of the states between the 
 Mississippi Valley and the Pacific Coast, plus Alaska. Thousands of extensive com¬ 
 munities sparsely settled are without religious ministry or served by home mis¬ 
 sionary workers. The Snowy Mountain Parish is an example, etc.) 
 
 FIE Snowy Mountain Parish. 
 At the foot of the Snowy Range 
 of mountains in Central Mon¬ 
 tana lies this great field. The student 
 pastor in order to reach all of his 
 preaching points makes a round trip 
 of sixty miles a Sunday. His sched¬ 
 ule includes three Sunday Schools 
 and five preaching engagements, a 
 rather full program. The people of 
 this region mainly are dry farmers 
 and in spite of drought are making 
 good. At present the houses of wor- 
 
 a section of country taking in Boun¬ 
 tiful and Sandy, near Salt Lake City, 
 Plymouth Church in the city itself, 
 almost under the shadow of the Mor¬ 
 mon Temple, and Five Points, a dis¬ 
 trict on the outskirts of Ogden. In 
 this fourfold field, Sunday School 
 and Young People’s activities are in 
 session every Sunday, and many 
 week-day activities are also organized. 
 These indicate the possibilities all over 
 the state and amid frontier conditions 
 everywhere. 
 
 A SNOWY MOUNTAIN l*KOSI*U("I’ 
 
 ship are poor little boxes of buildings 
 or log cabins. With the return of 
 prosperity several points will be 
 ready to build. The citizens are in¬ 
 telligent and resourceful and will not 
 always remain upon the home mis¬ 
 sionary list. Such work is a good in¬ 
 vestment. It takes a high-grade man 
 to serve such a field, and he must be 
 paid a living salary. 
 
 A Message from Utah. One of 
 the outstanding opportunities along 
 Sunday School Extension lines is in 
 
 If the whole apportionment is re¬ 
 ceived, it will be possible to add .$100 
 to each home missionary’s salary, 
 conditioning it on the churches served 
 doubling the amount, also to restore 
 of the lost workers 100 on the frontier 
 at a total outlay of $30,000. The 
 Sunday School Society would be able 
 to prejiare the way for these mission¬ 
 aries at a cost of $140 each, and the 
 (fiiui*ch Building Society could aid in 
 securing needed buildings at an aver¬ 
 age of $445. 
 
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 THE CHURCH EXTENSION BOARDS 
 
 A.M. 276 
 
 SOME SAMPLES OF RURAL WORK 
 
 OLLBRAN, Colorado, as a dem¬ 
 onstration parish is becoming 
 known throughout the land. 
 (See former Survey, page 30.) The 
 response of the people of Plateau Val¬ 
 ley to the larger program has been 
 remarkable. In a recent financial 
 canvass it was discovered that nearly 
 everyone within a radius of ten or 
 fifteen miles had given something to 
 the work. Through a comity ar¬ 
 rangement the Methodist church at 
 Plateau City has been turned over to 
 Congregational direction as a part of 
 the larger par¬ 
 ish for a definite 
 period of years. 
 
 The spiritual 
 interest seems to 
 have deepened 
 in the face of 
 t h e financial 
 drives. The par¬ 
 ish car with its 
 electric gener¬ 
 ator and mov¬ 
 ing picture out¬ 
 fit is kept in 
 constant use. 
 
 During the sum¬ 
 mer, a worker 
 under the Sun¬ 
 day School Ex¬ 
 tension Society 
 conducted Sun¬ 
 day Schools in 
 the outlying regions, successfully di¬ 
 rected the Camp Fire Girls, and as¬ 
 sisted in other forms of Bible study, 
 recreation, the putting on of pa¬ 
 geants, etc. 
 
 The first unit of the parish house 
 will be ready this fall, providing rest 
 rooms, kitchen, dining room and other 
 forms of social service. 
 
 In Alabama, a state six and one- 
 quarter times larger than Massachu¬ 
 setts, and entirely rural, Thorsby 
 stands for community building, Avith 
 a program of religious and educa¬ 
 tional ideals. The toAvn itself, with 
 a population of about 600. is located 
 geographically in the center of the 
 
 state and constitutes the hub of Con¬ 
 gregational activities in Alabama, 
 where wfithin an area of 52,000 square 
 miles there are sixty Congregational 
 churches mth about three thousand 
 members and two thousand Sunday 
 School pupils. Thorsby has become 
 one of the ‘ ‘ Larger Parish Centers, ’ ’ 
 and the Thorsby Institute has de¬ 
 veloped into The Alabama Religious 
 and Educational Institute, with a 
 state-wide program. Under the di¬ 
 rection of the Congregational 
 Church Extension Boards, with its 
 
 expanded pro¬ 
 gram, it stands 
 for concrete 
 demonstratio n s 
 of the greater 
 possibilities of 
 communitv life 
 
 C' 
 
 and develop¬ 
 ment, with the 
 church as the 
 center. In addi¬ 
 tion to the pas¬ 
 toral leadership 
 and I-nstitute 
 faculty, a Sun¬ 
 day School Ex¬ 
 tension worker 
 has been ap¬ 
 pointed whose 
 task is that of 
 developing Sun¬ 
 day Schools. 
 
 The Director of Rural Work has for 
 his function the initiating of demon¬ 
 stration parishes similar to*Collbran 
 and Thorsby. For forty-eight states 
 we have just one specialist in this de- 
 l)artment. If the full apportionment 
 is provided, it will be possible to place 
 three more at a cost of $15,000. The 
 full budget will also alloAv us to re¬ 
 store 100 of the missionaries dis¬ 
 missed, at a cost of $30,000. The 
 Sunday School Society would be 
 able to prepare the way for these 
 missionaries at a cost of $140 each and 
 the Church Building Society could aid 
 in securing needed buildings at an av¬ 
 erage of $445. 
 
A.M. 277 
 
 THE CHURCH EXTENSION BOARDS 
 
 S2\ 
 
 SOME SAMPLES OF FOREIGN-SPEAKING WORK 
 
 T is an anxious moment for the 
 immigTant who lands at Ellis 
 Island. Home missionary ac¬ 
 tivities begin at this point where we 
 are supporting a social worker who 
 seeks to render all possible service as 
 the newcomer 
 enters the United 
 States. Through 
 twenty nationali¬ 
 ties we are now 
 working in every 
 part of the land. 
 
 Various groups 
 look naturally to 
 the Congrega¬ 
 tional church for 
 leadership. It is 
 a problem of rais¬ 
 ing up leadership 
 within the va¬ 
 rious groups, of 
 erecting houses of 
 worship, and of 
 assisting in the 
 salaries of minis¬ 
 ters. It is pa¬ 
 thetic to witness 
 the heartfelt ap¬ 
 preciation 0 f 
 those who are 
 helped by the Society. 
 
 As a sample of the work with the 
 twenty nationalities listed below, 
 s.tudy the record of the German 
 churches, largely German-Russian, as 
 given in the last Year Book. Total 
 churches, 244; members, 17,657; 
 Young People’s Societies, 3,495; ad¬ 
 ditions, confession, 1,823; by letter, 
 624; total, 2,477; removed, 1,443— 
 
 1,004 gain ; total benevolences through 
 missionary societies, $20,221; Pil¬ 
 grim Memorial, $1,164; other Congre¬ 
 gational gifts, $17,877; undenomina¬ 
 tional offerings reported, $28,948; 
 Woman’s Home Missionary Federa¬ 
 tion, $605; grand 
 total, $68,815. 
 
 Loveland, Col¬ 
 orado, may be 
 taken as a typical 
 German - Russian 
 church. It was 
 organized i n 
 1901, with twen- 
 
 tv-five members, 
 
 »■ ' 
 
 the first church 
 erected in 1905, 
 the second in 
 19 15, seating 
 peo¬ 
 ple, the church 
 property, valued 
 at pre-war prices 
 at $20,000, could 
 not be duplicated 
 for $60,000; total 
 membership, 378; 
 total benevolence 
 1920, $1,893. 
 
 The entire apportionment would 
 enable us to return to service about 
 forty foreign-speaking workers at an 
 annual' cost of $10,000. The Sunday 
 School Society would be able to pre¬ 
 pare the way for these missionaries 
 at a cost of approximately $140 each 
 and the Church Building Society 
 could aid in securing needed build¬ 
 ings at an average of $445. 
 
 FOREIGN-SPEAKING MISSIONS—1920 
 
 Armenian. 19 
 
 Assyrian . 1 
 
 Bohemian . 4 
 
 Chinese. 1 
 
 Dano-Norwegian. 22 
 
 Finnish . 52 
 
 French. 4 
 
 German. 89 
 
 Greek. 3 
 
 Indian. 2 
 
 Italian. 22 
 
 Polish . 1 
 
 Portuguese . 2 
 
 Slovak. 10 
 
 Spanish. 14 
 
 Swede-Finn . 2 
 
 Swede . 48 
 
 Syrian. 1 
 
 Turkish-Armenian . 1 
 
 Welsh. 6 
 
 Total. 304 
 
S22 
 
 THE CHURCH EXTENSION BOARDS 
 
 A.M. 278 
 
 SOME SAMPLES OF CITY WORK 
 
 ^^ARLY home missionary work 
 was exclusively for frontier 
 >i^ and rural places. But Amer¬ 
 ica has come to be a country of cities. 
 More than half our population are 
 city dwellers. 
 
 Tlie city is a liome missionary 
 field. It calls for heroic service and 
 larg*e initial expenditiu'e. The de¬ 
 nomination which does not broaden 
 its base in the populous and resource¬ 
 ful cities is certain to deteriorate. 
 
 The Extension Boards now have a 
 Director of City Work, Rev. L. H. 
 
 fifty, are organized. The present 
 plant is worth $100,000. It was se¬ 
 cured by grants and loans from the 
 Church Building Society. 
 
 This is the only church in the com¬ 
 munity. The hearty co-operation of 
 the tourist colony as well as of per¬ 
 manent residents is enlisted. There 
 will need to be no permanent outlay 
 of missionary money. 
 
 Another city development of dif¬ 
 ferent character but of urgent im¬ 
 portance is in Canton, Ohio, where we 
 have a church of more than 800 mem- 
 
 MTAMI BEACTT, FLA., ARCHITECTS’ PLAN 
 
 Royce, whose whole time is given to 
 starting and developing churches in 
 our city centers. 
 
 Mr. Royce has lately concentrated 
 his attention upon a growing suburb 
 of Miami, Florida. A long peninsula 
 across Biscayne Bay is the ocean 
 front of the city. It is rapidly being 
 settled. A fine Spanish Mission 
 church was planned to meet the needs 
 of the hundreds of people there. The 
 auditorium and parsonage are al¬ 
 ready completed. A church of 32 
 charter members, a Sunday School of 
 125, and a Woman’s Association of 
 
 hers, representing 500 families. It is 
 in a teeming manufacturing center. 
 They have built for community ser¬ 
 vice. They provide for physical, so¬ 
 cial and recreational needs. The 
 church plant is valued at $250,000. 
 The Church Building Society has 
 given generous aid with grants and 
 loans. 
 
 Other city cases of extreme urgency 
 calling for exceptional aid are Han¬ 
 cock, Michigan, which in sixty years 
 has sent to our benevolent societies 
 $47,000 and is now caught in its 
 building crisis by a labor upset which 
 
A.M.279 
 
 THE CHURCH EXTENSION BOARDS 
 
 S23 
 
 MIAMI BEACH, FLA., AUDITORIUM AND PARSONAGE 
 
 cripples it; Wichita, Kansas, United 
 Church, which has in hand a new 
 building to cost .$130,000 to meet ex¬ 
 traordinary needs; two churches in 
 Greater New York to care for the 
 thousands of Negroes of the recent 
 migration; Chattanooga, Tennessee, 
 where Pilgrim Church is struggling 
 to secure a $60,000 plant. 
 
 For the entire country, with mort^ 
 than a hundred great cities, Ave have 
 only one man for this imporlant city 
 work. The full a])poi‘ti()iimeiit 
 
 would permit us to employ three 
 more city specialists at a cost of 
 $15,000 for salary and expenses. 
 It would also permit us to restore to 
 service 100 citv missionaries, one to 
 each of 100 cities. The cost Avould 
 be about $30,000. The Sunday 
 School Society could prepare the Avay 
 for them at a cost of $140 each; the 
 Church Building Society could aid in 
 securing buildings at an average of 
 $445 oi* ten times that amount for 
 om*-t(Mith of them. 
 
 CANTON, O., FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH 
 
S24 
 
 THE CHURCH EXTENSION BOARDS 
 
 A.M. 280 
 
 SOME SAMPLES OF WORK IN EDUCATIONAL CENTERS 
 
 NE of the most significant de¬ 
 velopments of recent American 
 life is the rapid growth of tax- 
 supported institutions of higher edu¬ 
 cation. There are now over 250 such 
 institutions, including universities, 
 agricultural and technical schools, 
 with state normal schools and col¬ 
 leges. Frequently these great institu¬ 
 tions are located in small communi¬ 
 ties whose resources are wholly inade¬ 
 quate to meet their religious needs. To 
 quote the I. W. M. Survey: 
 
 “ Many surprising conditions are be¬ 
 ing disclosed. A few instances will illus¬ 
 trate. One state college with 2,000 
 students during the twelve months is in 
 a small community with but one church 
 whose building will not seat more 
 than 250 people. Another is five miles 
 
 distant from the nearest church. An¬ 
 other is served by two little churches 
 with less than forty members each, wi);h 
 buildings so small and so badly located 
 that they are almost useless. There are 
 many student communities without a 
 church that is able to support a ministry 
 adequate to the needs of the faculty and 
 students.’’ 
 
 The local communities are not only 
 unable to provide the religious care 
 for such institutions, but it is not 
 their exclusive responsibility. As the 
 students come from all over a state or 
 from all states, so the responsibility 
 for adequate religious equipment and 
 service should be shared by the state 
 and national religious organizations. 
 Take as an example the opportunities 
 at Ann Arbor, Michigan. 
 
 ANN ARBOR 
 
 Home of the University of Michigan 
 
 Net University enrollment, 10,623. School of Music, 600; High School, 900. 
 Total student population, 12,000. 3,500 to 5,000 other transient residents. 
 
 Students from all states and most countries. 325 
 foreign students in 1921. $2,000,000 foundation for 
 
 Oriental women. Tremendous growth — Enrollment 
 1890, 2,153; 1900, 3,441; 1910, 5,383; 1921, 10,623. 
 
 Congregational students, 1,067, half men. In next ten 
 years, 5,000 to 8,000 different Congregational students. 
 
 Congregational Church opposite main entrance from 
 city. See cross at 180. Built in 1872; seats 900; 762 
 members; 152 in faculty families; members and Con¬ 
 gregational students, 1,829, double seating capacity. 
 
 People regularly turned away Sundays. Dare not ask 
 for new members — no seats. No social rooms for 
 
 in 30 years, 144 
 Building opera- 
 
 student work. Increase in members 
 per cent; University, 365 per cent, 
 tions imperative. 
 
 LEGEND 
 
 180, Cong’l. Church 
 1, Univ. Hall 
 4, Law Building 
 32, 33, 34, U. Bldgs. 
 
 83, Zeta Phi Frat. 
 
 45, Mich. Union 
 75, Sigma Chi Frat. 
 
 51, Alpha Delta Phi 
 
 200, School of Music 
 
 Black rectangles. University 
 
 buildings 
 
 Open rectangles. Public build¬ 
 ings 
 
A. M.28J 
 
 THE CHURCH EXTENSION BOARDS 
 
 S25 
 
 But little imagination is necessary 
 to be gripped by such a situation. 
 Right at the main entrance from the 
 city, surrounded by 10,000 alert stu¬ 
 dents from everywhere and going 
 back to everywhere to be leaders in 
 all phases of human life, what a 
 strategic opportunity to mold the 
 world! But, although the state ap¬ 
 propriated at the single session of 
 1920 $4,800,000 for buildings and 
 equipment, the church, built forty- 
 nine years ago, turns students away 
 regularly for want of room and has 
 no equipment for work among stu¬ 
 dents. It is too much to ask that a 
 small community should assume this 
 service unaided. The local church is 
 willing to do its best. It has plans 
 for building operations. Certainly it 
 would not be too much to ask that 
 over and above normal assistance 
 that church should have the backing 
 of the Building Society for $25,000 
 at the very lowest. The fuU appor¬ 
 tionment would make this possible for 
 Michigan one year, and for some 
 other state each year. It seems too 
 little to ask when we consider that in 
 the student bodies of to-day are found 
 the world’s leaders of tomorrow. 
 
 Or we may turn to the State Agri¬ 
 cultural Colleges. We might as well 
 stay in Michigan for this sample also. 
 At East Lansing, Michigan, is located 
 the State Agricultural College. It is 
 a typical case of the small town with 
 the comparatively large institution 
 calling for service beyond its resources 
 and centering responsibility there 
 that is denomination wide. 
 
 Here is a clear field with no over¬ 
 
 lapping. Population 3,000; enroll¬ 
 ment 1,500; only one church, with 
 other denominations assisting in stu¬ 
 dent work. Here is a strategic oppor¬ 
 tunity ; a procession of youth determ¬ 
 ining their futures; church members 
 to be kept close to church work, and 
 others won to the church; possible re¬ 
 cruits to be won for the rural ministiy 
 that will do the job; a supply of 
 agricultural missionaries for all the 
 fields of the American Board in 
 China, India, Africa, the Balkans, 
 etc., if properly cultivated. 
 
 Plans are under consideration for a 
 combination of four denominations. 
 If this is not feasible doubtless the 
 present plant will continue with three 
 other bodies assisting in maintaining 
 a student pastor and other workers. 
 To make good there should be a plant 
 costing from $100,000 to $200,000. 
 The town is devoted to the work and 
 can possibly provide half of the 
 amount. The churches of the state 
 will co-operate. The ordinary grant 
 for a town of 3,000 from the Build¬ 
 ing Society would not exceed $5,000. 
 Five times that amount would be too 
 little for the challenge here where 
 work is for students who cannot 
 build church buildings but who can 
 build the Kingdom of God. To make 
 a grant of $25,000 would cut off from 
 aid ten average churches of the 80 
 now on the waiting list. We need 
 such grants for perhaps 50 such op¬ 
 portunities, but unless the additional 
 money required is given, it will be im¬ 
 possible to meet such strategic oppor¬ 
 tunities. Our churches will surely 
 heed such a call. 
 
S26 
 
 THE CHURCH EXTENSION BOARDS 
 
 A. M. 282 
 
 SOME SAMPLES OF NEGRO WORK 
 
 HE Negroes of the North, 
 mostly migrants, present a 
 great unmet missionary 
 portunity. The 
 exodus, the de¬ 
 pression—t hen 
 what ? Problems 
 by the score, of 
 adjustment, so¬ 
 cial, political, re¬ 
 ligious, economic. 
 
 Numbers re¬ 
 turned South, 
 but many still 
 come North, evi¬ 
 dently here to 
 stay. They 
 spread out and 
 settle down. Thus 
 the race problem 
 i s permanently 
 nationalized. 
 
 What are our 
 churches doing ? 
 
 The Negro De¬ 
 partment of the 
 Home Missionary 
 Society is in 
 
 t' 
 
 touch with the constituency where the 
 opportunity is great, advising and co¬ 
 operating. 
 
 Out of thirty Negro churches, two 
 are new, four are yet unrecognized, 
 and there is a call for six more at 
 the very least. 
 
 They lead in so¬ 
 cial service. At 
 Springfield, Dr. 
 
 DeBerry has the 
 most extensive 
 plant in America, 
 employing eleven 
 worker s. In 
 Brooklyn, Dr. 
 
 Proctor is pro¬ 
 jecting a great 
 successful pro¬ 
 gram. N e w 
 Haven and Hart¬ 
 ford have two 
 workers each. Chicago and Cleveland 
 are adding social workers. The new 
 work under Dr. Garner in New York 
 
 is calling for a staff to meet the largest 
 single opportunity of the country. De¬ 
 troit, the major success of the year, has 
 
 grown from twen¬ 
 ty-five to one hun¬ 
 dred and fifty 
 members, has a 
 plant worth $23,- 
 000 against noth¬ 
 ing a year ago, 
 has two workers, 
 a community pro¬ 
 gram, including a 
 home for working 
 girls, club rooms 
 for boys, work 
 for unemployed 
 women, motion 
 pictures. This 
 group of 
 churches is hand¬ 
 icapped, not by a 
 lack of leaders of 
 training and 
 vision, but for 
 equipment equal 
 to the oppor¬ 
 tunity. 
 
 Rev. H. M. Kingsley, as Director of 
 work among Negroes in the North, 
 has responded to calls from churches 
 and groups in Boston, New York, 
 Buffalo, Cleveland, Chicago and 
 other cities. He started Plymouth 
 
 Church at Detroit 
 and assisted in 
 getting Dr. Gar¬ 
 ner to come to 
 New York. He 
 cannot begin to 
 respond to the 
 urgent calls for 
 his services. He 
 is equally at 
 home in churches, 
 conferences, 
 among groups of 
 laborers in street 
 meetings or dis¬ 
 cussion groups. 
 His services are exceedingly valuable 
 as an interpreter of present condi¬ 
 tions as well as a superintendent. 
 
 op- 
 
 rLYMOUTII CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. 
 
 DETROIT 
 
 OFFICERS OF PLYMOUTH CHURCH 
 
A.M. 283 
 
 THE CHURCH EXTENSION BOARDS 
 
 S27 
 
 WHAT DO WE NEED IN CHURCH EXTENSION? 
 
 1. Men. We need more men, but especially stronger men. Ministers 
 themselves are foremost in confirming this statement. Doubtless, about one- 
 half of our ministers do not have regular college and seminary training. We 
 hasten to say that education cannot replace piety, and hasten again to insist 
 that piety cannot make good the want of education. Both are essential. 
 
 By last year’s Year Book, of 5,924 churches, 1,331 w'ere pastorless. 
 
 There are 650 fewer pastors serving churches than in 1914; 93 were 
 •ordained in 1920; 139 died. Many were diverted to other callings. 
 
 The Extension Boards are seeking (1) a grading up of our work all 
 ^ong the line; (2) to see that every minister has a man’s job; (3) the elimina¬ 
 tion of overchurching; (4) the proper development of the individual field; 
 (5) an adequate support for every minister (See page 28). 
 
 The Home Missionary Society appeals for five bands of young men to go 
 out under guarantee of at least $1,500 and house, or equivalent, with automo¬ 
 bile where necessary: a Rocky Mountain Band; a Montana Band; an Okla¬ 
 homa Band; a Washington Band; and a Dixie Band, each of five strong men. 
 
 2 . Money. Money needs are expressed at the minimum in the full appor¬ 
 tionment; there is no overload. The increase of salaries is imperative. 70 per 
 oent of missionary pastors have less than $1,500 per year; 28 per cent are 
 under $1,000. The full apportionment would make it possible to add on an 
 average $100 to each home missionary salary, requiring the churches served * 
 to do at least as much, and to promote salary increases for all pastors. 
 
 The restoration of the force to its full quota is the second essential. 
 We have dropped 344 missionaries since 1914. There are 562 fewer home mis¬ 
 sionary stations than in 1916; 27,485 fewer pupils in home missionary Sunday 
 Schools, and the average cost for a year’s labor is 70 per cent higher. Here 
 the church’s nerve of growth is cut. 
 
 Better building equipment is the third challenge. Compare the rapid 
 advance in business and public buildings with that in church construction; 
 note that more than two-thirds of our churches are handicapped by inadequate 
 building facilities, and realize that not to speed up our building construction 
 is to tie the hands, especially of the pastors. That way lies failure. 
 
 Sunday School extension we have been playing with. Think of a great 
 nation-wide denomination spending less than $100,000 annually on extending 
 the Sunday School, when two-thirds of our Protestant children and youth 
 are without religious education! We ask that it be increased to $125,000. 
 
 What was done with the money is the natural question asked. One 
 is told that in two years home missionary contributions have increased 86 per 
 cent, and the others comparably. (1) Unescapable expenses were met— 
 rents, travel, printing, promotion, all increased unavoidably. (2) Toward 
 restoring the 351 missionaries dropped since 1914, 7 additional men were put 
 at work. (3) The major portion of the money went to increase low salaries. 
 So nearly as can be gathered from twenty treasuries this has amounted to 
 about $150,000, or an average increase per pastor of something over $100. 
 (4) Building grants have averaged $792 higher than in 1919, an aggregate in¬ 
 crease of $78,408. With the Sunday School Extension Society it has meant 
 better salaries for the field force and the employment of twenty college stu¬ 
 dents for summer work. 
 
 The askings therefore for new money are: 
 
 For the Home Missionary Society to restore 344 workers to the force. ... $134,660 
 
 Increase in pastors’ salaries. 233,000 
 
 Services outlined in Survey of the Sunday School Extension Society. 47,624 
 
 Building Society, toward meeting the tremendous building demands. 178,000 
 
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 THE CHURCH EXTENSION BOARDS 
 
 A, M.284 
 
 PASTORS’ SALARIES 
 
 VERY able-bodied pastor should receive at least $1,500 and parsonage. 
 The following table is a study of salaries from this standpoint. 
 
 >W order followed is that of percentages below the minimum. Districts are 
 those of superintendents’ areas. (See notes for states.) 
 
 1920 Salaries by States and Superintendency Districts 
 
 States 
 
 Under 
 
 $1000 
 
 $1500 
 
 $2000 
 
 $3000 
 
 % under 
 
 and Dists. 
 
 $1000 
 
 —1499 
 
 —1999 
 
 —2999 
 
 and over 
 
 $1600 
 
 Missouri. 
 
 4 = 10% 
 
 7 = 17% 
 
 12=28% 
 
 13=31% 
 
 6 = 14% 
 
 26% 
 
 Kansas. 
 
 7= 9% 
 
 19=26% 
 
 30=40% 
 
 15=20% 
 
 4= 5% 
 
 34% 
 
 aRocky Mtn. 
 
 7 = 10% 
 
 18=25% 
 
 22=30% 
 
 17=23% 
 
 9 = 12% 
 
 34% 
 
 Rhode Island.... 
 
 6 = 18% 
 
 6 = 18% 
 
 9=28% 
 
 8=24% 
 
 4 = 12% 
 
 36% 
 
 Iowa. 
 
 27 = 13% 
 
 50=24% 
 
 65=32% 
 
 54 = 26% 
 
 11= 5% 
 
 37% 
 
 6Middle Atlantic. 
 
 20 = 18% 
 
 23=21% 
 
 31=28% 
 
 19 = 17% 
 
 18 = 16% 
 
 39% 
 
 Minnesota. 
 
 24 = 17% 
 
 34 = 24% 
 
 42=29% 
 
 31=22% 
 
 11= 8% 
 
 40% 
 
 Illinois. 
 
 39 = 15% 
 
 63=24% 
 
 72=28% 
 
 57=22% 
 
 30 = 11% 
 
 40% 
 
 California, S. 
 
 15 = 15% 
 
 23=24% 
 
 36 = 36% 
 
 11 = 11% 
 
 14 = 14% 
 
 40% 
 
 cSouthwestern. . . 
 
 1= 8% 
 
 3=25% 
 
 4 = 33% 
 
 2 = 17% 
 
 2 = 17% 
 
 40% 
 
 dCentral South... 
 
 6 = 13% 
 
 14 = 31% 
 
 12=27% 
 
 7 = 16% 
 
 6 = 13% 
 
 42% 
 
 Indiana. 
 
 2= 8% 
 
 8 = 33% 
 
 6 = 25% 
 
 4 = 17% 
 
 4 = 17% 
 
 42% 
 
 Nebraska. 
 
 13 = 10% 
 
 43 = 33% 
 
 50 = 39% 
 
 18 = 14% 
 
 5= 4% 
 
 43% 
 
 Ohio. 
 
 50 = 27% 
 
 35 = 19% 
 
 39=21% 
 
 36 = 19% 
 
 26 = 14% 
 
 45% 
 
 New York. 
 
 52=21% 
 
 69=28% 
 
 47 = 19% 
 
 43 = 18% 
 
 34 = 14% 
 
 46% 
 
 California, N. . . . 
 
 10 = 12% 
 
 29=36% 
 
 25=30% 
 
 10 = 12% 
 
 8 = 10% 
 
 48% 
 
 Wisconsin. 
 
 41=25% 
 
 37=23% 
 
 38=23% 
 
 36 = 22% 
 
 11= 7% 
 
 48% 
 
 Massachusetts. , . 
 
 76 = 15% 
 
 172=34% 
 
 104=20% 
 
 84 = 16% 
 
 77 = 15% 
 
 48% 
 
 Connecticut. 
 
 55=20% 
 
 80=30% 
 
 68=25% 
 
 51 = 15% 
 
 27 = 10% 
 
 50% 
 
 Washington. 
 
 33=29% 
 
 23 = 20% 
 
 36 = 32% 
 
 17 = 15% 
 
 5= 4% 
 
 50% 
 
 South Dakota... . 
 
 21=20% 
 
 32 = 31% 
 
 39=38% 
 
 9= 9% 
 
 2= 2% 
 
 51% 
 
 Michigan. 
 
 46 = 24% 
 
 61=31% 
 
 43=22% 
 
 29 = 15% 
 
 15= 8% 
 
 55% 
 
 Oregon, Idaho. . . 
 
 12 = 19% 
 
 24 = 39% 
 
 14 = 23% 
 
 9 = 14% 
 
 3= 5% 
 
 58% 
 
 North Dakota. . . 
 
 21=32% 
 
 19=29% 
 
 15=22% 
 
 10 = 15% 
 
 1= 2% 
 
 61% 
 
 Vermont. 
 
 31=20% 
 
 70 = 46% 
 
 34 = 22% 
 
 13= 9% 
 
 4= 3% 
 
 66% 
 
 Montana. 
 
 26=45% 
 
 14 = 24% 
 
 10 = 17% 
 
 6 = 10% 
 
 2= 4% 
 
 70% 
 
 Maine. 
 
 79=48% 
 
 33=20% 
 
 31 = 19% 
 
 15= 9% 
 
 6= 4% 
 
 72% 
 
 New Hampshire.. 
 
 47 = 30% 
 
 68 = 43% 
 
 22 = 14% 
 
 12= 8% 
 
 8= 5% 
 
 73% 
 
 Hawaii. 
 
 46 = 65% 
 
 9 = 13% 
 
 6= 9% 
 
 6= 9% 
 
 3= 4% 
 
 78% 
 
 eSoutheastern. . .. 
 
 60 = 66% 
 
 15 = 16% 
 
 7= 8% 
 
 4= 5% 
 
 5= 6% 
 
 84% 
 
 /Colored. 
 
 55 = 75% 
 
 16 = 22% 
 
 2= 3% 
 
 0= 0% 
 
 0= 0% 
 
 97% 
 
 Totals. 
 
 932=23% 
 
 1137=28% 
 
 971=24% 
 
 636 = 16% 
 
 361= 9% 
 
 51% 
 
 
 We are Gaining. —We added $600,000 to pastors’ salaries last year. The aver¬ 
 age salary in 1920 was 11.8% higher than in 1919 and 45% above 1916. In 1919, 
 63% fell below the $1,500 minimum, and 29% below $1,000, as compared with 
 51% and 23% in 1920. 
 
 Much Remains To Do. —Over half of our pastors are without a living wage, 
 23% receive less than $1,000. The average salary is $1,600. $1,400,000 should be 
 
 added to salaries at once. 
 
 We Have a Plan.—A definite, persistent campaign is on to stimulate churches 
 to increase salaries. $700,000 is needed to lift low salaries to the $1,500 minimum. 
 Another $700,000 should be added to salaries now above the minimum, but still in¬ 
 adequate. The C. H. M. S. asks for $233,000 to aid weak churches on condition that 
 they provide the other two-thirds. 
 
 Note. — aRocky Mountain; Col., Utah, Wyo. hMiddle Atlantic; D. C., Md., N. J., Pa., Va., W. Va. 
 cSouthwest; Ariz., N. M. dCentral South; Ark., La., Okla., Tex. eSoutheast; Ala,, Fla., Ga,, 
 Ky., Miss., N. C., S. C., Tenn. ^Colored Conventions; Ala., Ga., La., N. C., S. C., Tenn., Tex. 
 
A. 1VI.285 
 
 THE CHURCH EXTENSION BOARDS 
 
 S29 
 
 WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF THE NEEDS WERE NOT MET? 
 
 one can give categorical word as to what will happen in a world in 
 which Divine Providence rules. But speaking from the standpoint 
 of human observation, three things would seem to be expected from 
 failure in this particular. 
 
 1. The Church of the Pilgrims would deteriorate. Church exten¬ 
 
 sion work has to do with the beginning and continuing life of the churches. 
 In its strength the churches are strong, in its weakness the churches are 
 weak. A survey is a diagnosis discovering weak spots. We note three symp¬ 
 toms demanding attention: (a) A certain element of weakness which calls 
 for vigorous extension work. 61 per cent of our churches report 100 members 
 or less; 38 per cent report 50 members or less; 44 per cent fail to report any 
 additions on confession; 14 per cent of our membership is on the absentee list; 
 three times as many members are dropped as are taken from our roll by 
 death, (b) The loss of churches. 96 churches were dropped from our list in 
 1920; 61 new churches were organized—a net loss of 35. The record for five 
 years is: in 1915, 6,103 churches; in 1916, 6,089; in 1917, 6,050; in 1918, 
 6,019; in 1919, 5,959; in 1920, 5,924—a loss of 179. Had we maintained the 
 average addition of new churches before 1914, that is, 139 per year, we should 
 have shown a net gain of 73, a difference of 252. (c) Relative loss of mem¬ 
 
 bers. The Protestant gain in the census decade amounted to 23.4 per cent. 
 The ‘Congregational gain 9.2 per cent, twm-fifths that of the Protestant 
 churches as a whole. The gain in population was 14.9 per cent against our 
 9.2 per cent, or less than two-thirds as fast as the population. 
 
 These figures are not recorded as the whining of the pessimist, but as 
 facing the facts squarely, in confidence that the appeal for church extension 
 work will make it possible to recover our position in the column of advance. 
 In this we have occasion for courage in the fact that 1920 saw the largest num¬ 
 ber of accessions in our history and a net gain of 1.35 per cent, restoring the 
 Congregational churches to an average increase equal to that of the popula¬ 
 tion of the country. Given adequate resources in men and money the Church 
 Extension Boards can and will convert retrogression into procession. 
 
 2 . We should lose our spiritual life. No individual, church or denomi¬ 
 nation can hope to retain spiritual life while facing religious obligations and 
 opportunities without concern and without endeavor. That the Congrega¬ 
 tional Christians of America should have no concern about their obligations 
 is beyond thought. Moreover, the pages of this Survey make evident that 
 the concern is vital and the determination to meet the case strongly is firm. 
 
 3 . Christ’s Kingdom would recede. True, the Lord God may deal with 
 other forces. The fact is ultimate, however, that so far as we are concerned, 
 if we fail to meet the present opportunities the Kingdom of Heaven will fail. 
 
 The fundamental ‘challenge to American Christians who believe in the 
 redeeming power of Jesus Christ is the fact that of our Protestant population 
 old enough to consider church membership, there are two who are not members 
 to one who is, and that of those under twenty-five years of age, there are two 
 not in Sunday School to one who is. All the churches deal with this situation, 
 but Church Extension forces are their shock troops for advance. 
 
 The budgets on the following page show the money needed for reinforce¬ 
 ments that will surely turn retreat or mere holding on into victory and 
 progress. They are based on the continuation of the amount of work done 
 last year at the same cost, with additional items specifically noted in the pre¬ 
 ceding pages, making up the contingent budget which cannot be appropriated 
 until the money is assured. 
 
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 THE CHURCH EXTENSION BOARDS 
 
 A, M. 286- 
 
 home MISSIONARY SOCIETY BUDGET FOR 1922 
 
 1920 1920 Current Needed 
 
 Net Receipts 
 
 National Society. $390,128 
 
 Cal. No. 17,337 
 
 Cal. . 29,675 
 
 Conn. 45,902 
 
 Ill. 33,353 
 
 Iowa . 20,277 
 
 Kans. 14,636 
 
 Maine . 20,922 
 
 Mass. 94,350 
 
 Mich. 29,085 
 
 Minn. 41,310 
 
 Mo. 8,895 
 
 Neb. 15,410 
 
 N. H. 15,332 
 
 N. Y. 42,161 
 
 Ohio . 15,373 
 
 R. 1. 6,687 
 
 Vt. 17,801 
 
 Wash. 20,592 
 
 Wis. 25,862 
 
 City Societies . 131,627 
 
 Total.$1,036,715 
 
 Less Income from Investments, Legacies, 
 
 Expenditures 
 
 Budget 
 
 Budget 
 
 $410,954 
 
 $423,698 
 
 $547,774 
 
 18,636 
 
 26,570 
 
 27,000 
 
 19,371 
 
 20,101 
 
 25,000 
 
 45,902 
 
 39,460 
 
 50,000 
 
 22,926 
 
 34,360 
 
 35,000 
 
 16,557 
 
 25,000 
 
 25,000 
 
 14,814 
 
 15,530 
 
 19,000 
 
 20,763 
 
 22,840 
 
 27,000 
 
 97,625 
 
 107,529 
 
 125,000 
 
 25,827 
 
 29,410 
 
 30,000 
 
 33,699 
 
 42,457 
 
 43,000 
 
 8,487 
 
 13,165 
 
 13,000 
 
 14,473 
 
 15,920 
 
 18,000 
 
 14,261 
 
 18,100 
 
 18,500 
 
 36,678 
 
 40,345 
 
 48,000 
 
 18,469 
 
 20,316 
 
 24,000 
 
 5,503 
 
 6,415 
 
 7,000 
 
 20,622 
 
 25,612 
 
 26,500 
 
 21,238 
 
 25,500 
 
 28,500 
 
 20,007 
 
 22,000 
 
 26,000 
 
 130,254 
 
 143,280 
 
 169,000 
 
 $1,027,066 
 
 $1,117,608 
 
 $1,332,274 
 
 etc. 
 
 
 332,274 
 
 Contributions needed .$1,000,000 
 
 (0/ the total budget, for N. Y. office arid national field work: 1920, $92,866; 
 current budget, $85,950.) 
 
 CHURCH BUILDING SOCIETY BUDGET FOR 1922 
 
 1920 1922 
 
 New York Office and National Field Work. $74,018 $44,200 
 
 District and department field work. 16,513 190,000 
 
 Property upkeep, taxes, legal fees. 6,006 6,000 
 
 Grants ana Pans to churches. 467,944 633,800 
 
 Total. $564,481 $703,000 
 
 {Current C. C. B. S. Budget about $600,000.) 
 
 Less estimated income: 
 
 Repaid loans and grants. $185,000 . 
 
 Property sales. 38,000 . 
 
 Legacies, interest, etc. 55,000 . 
 
 Total. 
 
 Contributions needed 
 
 $278,000 . $278,000 
 
 . $425,000 
 
 SUNDAY SCHOOL EXTENSION SOCIETY BUDGET 
 
 FOR 1922 
 
 1920 1922 
 
 New York Office and National Field Work. $22,855 $19,426 
 
 Missionary Service of National Office. 38,414 61,590 
 
 Missionary Service of Cooperating States. 15,694 25,200 
 
 Grants of literature. 1,291 2,400 
 
 Survey items contingent on receipts. 16,384 
 
 Total. $78,254 $125,000 
 
 {Current C. S. S. E. S. budget, $118,194.) 
 
THE CONGREGATIONAL BOARD 
 
 OF MINISTERIAL RELIEF 
 
 ME work of this Board is to aid 
 Congregational ministers re¬ 
 tired from service, widows of 
 ministers and orphaned children of 
 ministers who are too young for self- 
 support. Fourteen State Relief So¬ 
 cieties co-operate in this task. Grants 
 are made on the ground of service 
 rendered and to meet the disasters of 
 life, poverty, sickness and sudden 
 death. 
 
 The Year 1920 
 
 The National Society received from 
 gifts and other incidental sources 
 $74,349.15 (besides $6,712.67 from 
 State Societies) ; from interest on en¬ 
 dowment, $60,129.97, and from lega¬ 
 cies, to be added to endowment, $15,- 
 635.73. $92,058.53 was paid to 383 
 
 gi’antees, and $19,571.24 to State 
 Societies for distribution by them. 
 
 The State Societies received $24,- 
 045.87 from contributions (in addi¬ 
 tion to $19,571.24 from the National 
 Society) ; $21,607.48 from invest¬ 
 
 ments, and $3,729.90 from lega¬ 
 cies. $53,843.56 was paid to 287 
 grantees and $6,712.67 to the National 
 Society. 
 
 A study of these figures shows how 
 meager are our pensions to life-long 
 servants of the churches. Surely 
 none will argue that our askings 
 under the $5,000,000 apportionment 
 are extravagant. 
 
 The National and State Societies 
 therefore disbursed $145,902.09 to 670 
 pensioners, representing upwards of 
 1,000 persons. 
 
 Multiplying Appeals 
 
 The day (August 10) that this page 
 is prepared, the mail brings the fol¬ 
 lowing applications: 
 
 1. From Vermont. For one of the 
 most beloved ministers, retiring from 
 a pastorate of 38 years at the age of 
 
 85, having completed 56 years in the 
 active ministry. 
 
 2. From Illinois. For the widow of 
 a former officer of the National Coun¬ 
 cil, left with three young children, 
 who has sought heroically to support 
 herself and her little ones by teach¬ 
 ing school. 
 
 3. From South Dakota. For a man 
 75 years of age, retiring after noble 
 and self-sacrificing service. 
 
 4. From California. For a faithful 
 minister and his wife that their 
 meager grant of $150 should be 
 doubled. 
 
 5. From Washington. For clothing 
 for a man 76 years of age and his 
 wife, 72 years. 
 
 Imperative and Increasing Obligation 
 
 The Board’s full apportionment in 
 1922 would add approximately 20 per 
 cent to its present income, exclusive 
 of legacies. As tlie endowment far 
 more than covers all expenses, this 
 entire increase would go to meet iieAV 
 applications; to enlarge the present 
 inadequate grants; and to enable the 
 Board to make a beginning of the 
 proposed Service Pensions ” to all 
 retired ministers deprived of the rea¬ 
 sonable comforts of age, not as relief 
 from destitution, but as a tribute of 
 esteem for noble service, rendered 
 with such slight return as to leave 
 old age unguarded. Applications 
 pending today, if granted, would 
 threaten a deficit by the end of the 
 year. AIoreoA^er, the number of ap¬ 
 plicants is bound to increase until a 
 large proportion of our ministers 
 reach the years of age guarded by the 
 beneficent provisions of the Annuity 
 Fund. Our respect and love for our 
 veterans enhance the imperative, 
 
 Now when I am old and gray¬ 
 headed, forsake me not.” 
 
THE ANNUITY FUND FOR 
 
 CONGREGATIONAL MINISTERS 
 
 HE Annuity Fund is the organ¬ 
 ization authorized by the 
 National Council to provide an¬ 
 nuities for Congregational ministers 
 in co-operation with the ministers and 
 the churches and to administer for 
 this purpose the income of the Pilgrim 
 Memorial Fund and other endow¬ 
 ments. 
 
 This Fund was temporarily placed 
 upon the Apportionment Schedule 
 in 1921, in order that the older men 
 now annuitants, or about to become 
 annuitants, may receive the largest 
 practicable benefit from the movement 
 for the protection of the ministry, and 
 the raising of The Pilgrim Memorial 
 Fund. 
 
 Of the maximum annuity of $500, 
 contemplated by the certificates under 
 the '' Original Plan,” the member’s 
 payment provides $100 and the in¬ 
 come from the Endowment Fund at 
 the present time provides $200. The 
 churches are asked to provide the re¬ 
 maining $200 by the assignment, for 
 this purpose, of a small percentage in 
 the Apportionment Schedule. With¬ 
 out this provision many men would 
 pass through their old age with only 
 a portion of the annuity they had 
 hoped to receive, for the trustees 
 would not be warranted in making 
 full payments while the Pilgrim 
 Memorial Fund, the chief endowment 
 of the annuity Fund, is only partly 
 collected. For 1922 one per cent of 
 the Apportionment is so assigned. 
 
 For a Few Years Only and Not for 
 Endowment 
 
 These contributions from the 
 churches are not to increase the per¬ 
 manent funds. When, in the judg¬ 
 ment of the Actuary and the Trustees, 
 the Endowment, which is increasing 
 steadily day by day, can safely as¬ 
 
 sume the payment of the full annuity, 
 a place in the Apportionment wiU no 
 longer be required. 
 
 Approved by the National Council 
 
 The National Council at Los An¬ 
 geles unanimously adopted the follow¬ 
 ing resolutions presented through the 
 Commission of Missions: 
 
 ‘‘ Whereas, The ministers now ad¬ 
 vanced ill their ministry will not be 
 able to make requisite accumulation 
 for an old age annuity under the 
 ' Expanded Plan ’ in the compara¬ 
 tively brief period of active service 
 remaining to them, and 
 
 Whereas, The ' Original Plan,’ 
 more favorable in its immediate re¬ 
 sults for these older men, is unable 
 with the present endowment to pay 
 the full benefits provided by the 
 certificates of membership, therefore. 
 The Commission on Missions 
 recommends the continuance of the 
 provision through the Apportion¬ 
 ment Plan to enable the Annuity 
 Fund to maintain these annuities un¬ 
 der the ‘ Original Plan ’ at the maxi¬ 
 mum after January 1, 1922. This 
 will provide for all members of this 
 Fund who have served the churches 
 for thirty years an annuity of $500. ’ ’ 
 
 Fulfilment of Sacrificial Foresight 
 
 More than 1,000 men are members 
 of the Annuity Fund under the 
 
 Original Plan ” and are making 
 annual payments from their scanty 
 salaries in the faith that the churches 
 will provide their full part. By de¬ 
 voting to this purpose $1.00 in each 
 $100 given under the Apportion¬ 
 ment, we assure these faithful min¬ 
 isters that the modest protection of 
 their age to which they have looked 
 forward will be forthcoming. TJie 
 churches surely will keep faith ivith 
 these men of God. 
 
THE CONGREGATIONAL WOMAN’S 
 HOME MISSIONARY FEDERATION 
 
 HE Congregational Woman’s 
 Home Missionary Federation is 
 the national body which repre¬ 
 sents the several Woman’s State 
 flonie Missionary Unions in their 
 work for the advancement of Congre¬ 
 gational Homeland Missions. It was 
 organized because 
 of two needs in¬ 
 creasingly felt in 
 our woman’s home 
 missionary work. 
 
 One of these was 
 the need of a cen¬ 
 tral body which 
 should represent 
 C 0 n g r e gational 
 women interde- 
 n 0 m i n ationally, 
 since separate 
 Unions could not 
 .speak for the de¬ 
 nomination ; the 
 other the need of 
 a similar body to 
 make efficient the 
 work undertaken 
 by the state organ¬ 
 izations througli 
 a closer linking to¬ 
 gether of interests 
 and through defi- 
 11 i t e promotion 
 along the lines of 
 education and ac¬ 
 tivities. 
 
 Unity in the 
 Federation gives 
 standing with the 
 National Council and the National 
 Homeland Societies. Through the 
 Federation, Congregational women 
 are represented on the Council of 
 Women for Home Missions and thus 
 share in the larger interdenomina¬ 
 tional activities and interests which 
 are becoming more and more impor¬ 
 
 tant. In 1919 tlie Federation assisted 
 in financing representatives at twen¬ 
 ty-three such Conferences. 
 
 Working through its constituent 
 State Unions, the Federation pro¬ 
 vides home mission programs and 
 literature, promotes mission study 
 
 classes and con¬ 
 ferences, projects 
 home mission cam¬ 
 paigns and enter¬ 
 prises, and by 
 these means de¬ 
 velops in our 
 women an intelli¬ 
 gent interest in 
 and support of de¬ 
 nominational re¬ 
 sponsibilities. 
 
 Through the 
 Pilgrim Prayer 
 Guild the Federa- 
 t i 0 n co-operates 
 with the Commis¬ 
 sion on Evangel¬ 
 ism. The Guild 
 is a Fellowship 
 and its purpose is 
 to deepen the 
 prayer life that 
 
 til is unused power 
 may lie released 
 for service by 
 ihose women who 
 for any reason are 
 unable to engage 
 in the more active 
 service for the 
 
 Kingdom of God; 
 to bring these women into heart¬ 
 warming touch with those who are 
 
 able to assemble at stated times for 
 
 prayer, study and work; to direct 
 this work that it may be the control¬ 
 ling influence in personal co-opera¬ 
 tion of life, service and gifts. Liter¬ 
 ature is provided and devotional 
 
 THE CONGREGATIONAL 
 WOMAN'S HONE 
 MISSIONARY FEDERATION 
 
 THROUGH 
 
 State Unions, Association, 
 Alliance or County 
 Organizations 
 and 
 
 The Local Church 
 
 PROMOTES 
 
 Efficient Organization 
 Mission Study 
 Summer fonference Attendance 
 Work for Young People 
 and Children 
 
 An intelligent interest in 
 and support of the work of 
 the Home Societies 
 
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 THE WOMAN^S HOME MISSIONARY FEDERATION A, M. 290 
 
 reading recommended, including tlie 
 Lenten Fellowship of Prayer .pro¬ 
 vided by the Commission on Evangel¬ 
 ism of the National CVmncil. 
 
 OUR FINANCES 
 
 lIeretofoj*e the income of tlie Fed¬ 
 eration has come from funds pro¬ 
 rated among the Homeland Societies 
 and also from dues of the State 
 Fnions based upon the annual re¬ 
 ceipts of the Unions. 
 
 In order that the Woman’s Home 
 ^Missionary Federation mav moi-e 
 fully i*ep]*esent the Woman’s State 
 11 omc jMissionarv 
 
 t' 
 
 Unions nationally, 
 some change in its 
 financing is im- 
 j)eratiYe. The nec¬ 
 essary promotional 
 (‘xpense incurred 
 by tlie S t a t e 
 Unions in raising 
 their share of the 
 money for national 
 benevolence should 
 be credited on ap¬ 
 portionment. 
 
 At a meeting of 
 the secretaries of 
 the National 
 Homeland Socie¬ 
 ties June 16, 1921, 
 the following rec- 
 0 m m e n d a tions 
 were offered liy a 
 subcommittee of 
 the Federation, 
 
 Avere approved by the secretaries and 
 later favorably voted upon by the 
 Commission on Missions June 25, as 
 folloAvs: 
 
 THE WOMAN’S HOME 
 MISSIONARY UNIONS 
 
 Share 
 
 In the support of missionary 
 pastors and Sunday School 
 workers 
 
 In the establishment of hospi¬ 
 tals and social centers 
 
 In the building of churches and 
 parsonages 
 
 In the maintenance of Christian 
 education 
 
 In the work of Ministerial Relief 
 
 IN THE WHOLE TASK OF 
 MAKING AMERICA A 
 CHRISTIAN LAND 
 
 On the basis of the increased ap¬ 
 portionment this will furnish an in¬ 
 come which will make it possible for 
 the Federation to do the expanding 
 work it is called upon to do; this 
 pi mi to become opeixitive January 1, 
 1922. The total receipts-of the State 
 Unions will be reported in the C. W. 
 H. M. F. column in the National 
 Council Year Book. 
 
 THE STATE UNIONS 
 
 Thirty-nine State Unions are 
 united in the Congregational 
 Woman’s Home Missionary Federa¬ 
 tion. Each Union 
 is r e s p 0 n s i b 1 e 
 witliin its own ter¬ 
 ritory for the car¬ 
 rying on of the wo¬ 
 man’s home mis¬ 
 sionary work. Each 
 Union, therefore, 
 faces a twofold 
 task. First, the 
 missionary educa¬ 
 tion of its women, 
 second, the meet¬ 
 ing of its financial 
 responsibilities. 
 
 A most neces¬ 
 sary and efficient 
 activity of the 
 State Unions is 
 represented by the 
 home service—the 
 provision for the 
 needs of our mis¬ 
 sionaries in their 
 homes by the family boxes prepared 
 by local auxiliaries and sent as a token 
 of good will to these missionaries 
 who prize them most highly. 
 
 (1) That the Unions retain 5 per 
 cent of their total contributions to the 
 Homeland Societies to meet the pro¬ 
 motional expense of raising the 
 money. In this case the National So¬ 
 cieties Avill not rebate 5 per cent of 
 these gifts as heretofore. 
 
 (2) That the State Unions pay to 
 the Federation not less than 2 per 
 cent of their total receipts to finance 
 the Federation. 
 
 Co-operating with the Joint Com¬ 
 mittee on Missionary Education, the 
 Federation provides outlines for 
 young people’s organizations, pro¬ 
 grams and missionary activities. 
 There must be efficient organization 
 if tasks such as these are to be accom¬ 
 plished and this involves a plan of 
 work by which the State Union is fa¬ 
 miliarized with the fields where its 
 money is assigned. With these fields 
 
A. M,291 THU WOMAN^S HOME MISSIONARY FEDERATION 
 
 S35 
 
 it establishes j)ersoMal relationships 
 that their needs may be visualized. 
 
 Tlie State Unions are actively in- 
 tei-ested in impoitant denominational 
 eiitei’pi'i^os. These include fields of 
 all the Homeland Societies. 
 
 AMERICANIZATION 
 
 Congregational women have definite 
 obligations to the foreign women 
 in our midst and have made large 
 investment in the building and 
 equipment of Schauffler Missionary 
 Training School, as well as provid¬ 
 ing scholarships that trained work¬ 
 ers may intelligently and sympathet¬ 
 ically present the claims of Chris¬ 
 tian ideals. The Unions also support a 
 goodly number of the missionaries who 
 are preaching the Gospel to the stran¬ 
 ger within our gates. (See page 21). 
 
 CHURCHES AND PARSONAGES 
 
 During 1919 thirty-seven Unions 
 sent to the treasuiy of the Chin-ch 
 Building Society $18,000 to make pos¬ 
 sible sanctuaries for the woi'ship of 
 God and homes for our ministers. 
 
 Women’s State Unions support 
 work in Negro Schools (See page 6) 
 and among the Highlanders of the 
 mountains of Tennessee, Georgia and 
 the Carolinas (See page 10). During 
 the year 1919 the State Unions sent to 
 the treasury of The American Mis¬ 
 sionary Association $51,129.16. Schol¬ 
 arships in our Education Society 
 academies and colleges are always at¬ 
 tractive and the State Unions desig¬ 
 nated $10,000 for these scholarships in 
 1919. 
 
 PLEASE LET US HELP? 
 
 HEY only lasted five minutes 
 each, those four Sunday School 
 addresses, but they were talks 
 concerning missionary activities, and 
 were made 
 by a live 
 home mis- 
 s i 0 n a r y 
 worker, and 
 really meant 
 someth i n g 
 to those who 
 heard them. 
 
 They were 
 made o n 
 four succes¬ 
 sive Sun¬ 
 days before 
 the mem¬ 
 bers of a 
 g r o w i n g 
 school in 
 the Southwest with growing inte]*est. 
 
 On the fourth Sunday the speaker 
 was invited into the Primary Depart¬ 
 ment, where the little folks handed 
 her a one dollar bill asking her to use 
 it in building churches or organizing 
 Sunday Schools where people could 
 learn to be good. Then they were told 
 of a Mexican Mission, where the 
 
 roof had been blown off the Imilding, 
 and the little folks asked that their 
 offering might go to that place. It 
 will not put on the new roof, but it 
 
 will h e 1 p. 
 und above 
 all 0 t h e 1 * 
 t li i n g s , 
 teacli those 
 little people 
 the gladness 
 of giving. 
 
 Immemo- 
 rially, the 
 women have 
 been glean¬ 
 ers foi' mis¬ 
 sions. There' 
 a, r e hun- 
 d r e d s of 
 tliousa, n d s 
 o f dollai'S 
 waiting thus to he gathered in. But 
 in addition to this important service 
 the women of our churches set them¬ 
 selves to secure regular and substan¬ 
 tial support of all our missionary en¬ 
 deavors. For the Homeland Societies 
 their aim for 1922 is $700,000, or 
 more than twice as much as was raised 
 in 1920. 
 
THE AMERICAN BOARD OF COM¬ 
 MISSIONERS FOR FOREIGN MISSIONS 
 
 Founded in i8io, the oldest Foreign Mission Board in America. As 
 pioneers in many fields, its missionaries have opened doors for the Gospel' 
 of Christ and for Christian Civilization throughout the world. 
 
 The Cabinet Officers ^ 
 
 Standing,.from left to right: Secretaries Bell, Clark, Belcher (Assist. Treas.), 
 Edd 3 \ Seated: Secretaries Strong, Barton, Gaskins (Treasurer), Patton. 
 
 AN INVENTORY OF A GREAT WORK 
 
 19 Missions, working in 30 different languages. 
 
 800 Missionaries and associate missionaries. 
 
 4,941 Native teachers, preachers, and helpers. 
 
 1,252 Schools, in 19 great Missions. 
 
 70,000 Pupils in all schools—the leaders of the future. 
 
 30 Colleges, normal and training schools. 
 
 12,000 College boys and girls under training. 
 
 82 Hospitals, centers of relief and preventive medicine. 
 500,000 Treatments per year in the name of Christ Love. 
 $2,100,000 Total receipts from churches and friends. 
 
 $275,000 Contributions of native churches. 
 
A. M. 293 
 
 THE AMERICAN BOARD 
 
 S37 
 
 YESTERDAY AND TO-MORROW 
 
 In all the Board’s history no greater victory was ever achieved from 
 out the jaws of calamity. On July 1 a current deficit for this year alone of 
 -$200,000 was revealed in the figures, in addition to the debt of $242,000 carried 
 over from 1920. The facts were spread abroad and answers poured in. When 
 the books closed we had cleared the year safely and taken from the old debt 
 $80,614. A deep sense of gratitude to God pervades every word of this Survey. 
 Clearly this work is in God’s hands. 
 
 Every friend of the Board enters the new year with a sense of guidance 
 and achievement. All records for gifts have been broken. Receipts from 
 individual givers in answer to the special appeal exceeded highest hopes. In 
 spite of business depression 3,400 loyal supporters sent in their gifts, piling 
 up the gratifying total of $124,000, an increase of 100% over last year. The 
 increased goal of the new Apportionment produced a gain of $91,856 from 
 the church treasuries. More than two hundred cliurches sent gifts which gave 
 not a penny last year. When More People give a Larger Gift, then Loyalty, 
 Determination and Sacrifice are Here. 
 
 WHAT OF THE FUTURE > 
 
 This Survey is published too early to print the actual budget for 1922. 
 The National Council has declared tliat retrenchment is unthinkal)le. They 
 direct the Board to go forward with courage. But the new l)udget must be 
 based upon receipts, rather than upon needs. Something like $80,000 must 
 iie written into the budget to reduce the de1)t. Rigorous economies will be 
 pushed further as costs come down, but we cannot meet the demands of the 
 work unless the Board receives its full share of the whole apportionment. 
 
 Apart from the Woman’s Boards, the apportionment donations this yeai* 
 were less than $850,000. The Board’s full share of the $5,000,000 Appoi*- 
 tionment would be $1,275,000, AN ACTUAL AND NEEDED INCREASE 
 OF $425,000. With this we could meet every item in this Stjrvey, expaiid 
 our colleges, replace outworn buildings, extend the merciful work of oui’ 
 hospitals and multiply our churches and conveils in every field. If tlu' 
 churches will pour in the full Apportionment your missionaries will hea]) 
 up the proofs of God’s grace and of the power of the Gospel of Christ. 
 
 THE STORY IN FIGURES—INCLUDING^THE WOMAN’S BOARDS 
 
 Receipts 
 
 American Board Receipts. $1,404,154 
 
 Received from Woman’s Boards. 556,403 
 
 Total Receipts . $1,960,617 
 
 Expenditures 
 
 Cost of Missions. $1,710,395 
 
 Home Administration (American Board only) . 169,608 
 
 Paid Off on Last Year’s Deficit.•. . 80,614 
 
 Total Expenditures . $1,900,617 
 
 BOARD’S SHARE OF APPORTIONMENT NOT RECEIVED 
 
 $425,000 
 
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 THE AMERICAN BOARD 
 
 A,M.294 
 
 THE ASSETS OF HUMAN DEVOTION 
 
 devotion of four generations of earnest Christians is back of the 
 / J American Board. The prayers, the money, the lives of hundreds of 
 VJr tliousands of lovers of Christ and men have gone into this far-reaching 
 service for the human race. Today this devotion is exemplified in the gifts of 
 half a million souls, in the free service of many thousands at home, and par¬ 
 ticularly in the self-sacrificing labors of 800 missionaries who represent the 
 Ijest America can give, the truest idealism of our couiury in its service for the 
 world, and a sul3lime ol)edience to the commands of Christ in the service of 
 liumanity. They have offered their life service for the sowing and reaping 
 inade possible by our dollars. Every subscription for the Apportionment and 
 for personal gifts has behind it this living, praying, personal investment of 
 your missionary staff. 
 
 TYPICAL WORKERS OF THE FIGHTING FRONT 
 
 Lorin A. Shepard, M.D., of Aintab, Turkey, the son of a famous missionary 
 father, graduate of Yale and the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New 
 York; like all the missionaries in Turkey, he has faced war, disease, and chaos. 
 
 A brighter day is coming, for which we 
 pray. 
 
 DR. SHEPARD 
 
 Rev. Hugh Hubbard of Paotingfu, 
 China, tells of extraordinary opportuni¬ 
 ties in evangelistic work. The gifts froni 
 the Sunday Schools should send workers 
 into five new counties. Christ’s message 
 never had a greater hearing, nor bigger 
 results than today in China. Hubbard, 
 from Amherst and Union Seminary, rep¬ 
 resents the new generation of young mis¬ 
 sionaries, and faces the new day dawn- 
 
 HUGH HUBBARD 
 
 ing in China. 
 
 Rev. Prank Laubach of Mindanao, about to enter new lines of educational 
 work, striving to lay deep foundations for the future Union Christian Church 
 of the Islands, a brilliant speaker and a prophet of the brighter dawn remind¬ 
 ing us of the needs of reinforcement and 
 equipment for our small group of work¬ 
 ers in Mindanao. 
 
 Rev. C. C. Fuller, South Africa, rep¬ 
 resents the practical approach of the 
 missionary to backward peoples. 
 
 Through preaching and teaching, 
 through agriculture and industry, new 
 standards are implanted. Africa waits c. c. fuller 
 with vast stretches yet unreached. 
 
A. M. 295 
 
 THE AMERICAN BOARD 
 
 S39 
 
 FOREIGN MISSIONS AND INTERNATIONALISM 
 
 **They shall speak of the glorious majesty of His Kingdom.'* 
 
 EDAVARD EVERETT 
 iIlI hale once said it marked a 
 new epoch in human affairs 
 when for the first time, at a meeting 
 held in the interest of the American 
 Board, a map of the world was hung 
 in a New England pulpit. lie explain¬ 
 ed how that event inaugurated the 
 process of educating the people of 
 the United States in the conditions 
 and the affairs of other countries. 
 The international mind, of which we 
 are hearing so much in these days, 
 got its start at that time. 
 
 With equal truth and propriety, 
 Dr. Hale might have added that from 
 the hanging of the map in the pulpit 
 began also the process by which the 
 non-Christian world has come to its 
 knowledge of America, as a land 
 which stands not only for industrial 
 and commercial strength, but for jus¬ 
 tice and goodwill towards all man¬ 
 kind. For over 100 years the foreign 
 missionary has been the true inter¬ 
 preter of American ideals and life. 
 Through him, in spite of the hauteur, 
 discourtesy and ofttimes dishonesty 
 and immorality of worldly Americans 
 visiting foreign lands, the non-Chris¬ 
 tian nations for the most part under¬ 
 stand what America really is. And 
 that, in no small measure, accounts 
 for the fact that the backward nations 
 everywhere today are looking to 
 America for example and help. 
 
 Tell us the secret of America’s 
 greatness and success,” said a com¬ 
 pany of Chinese officials and literati 
 in an interior city. When informed 
 by a representative of the American 
 Board that we trace our greatness and 
 success to the fact that we received 
 our ideals from the Pilgrim Fathers, 
 who founded the nation for God, and 
 who stood for the principles of democ¬ 
 racy in Church and State, the magis¬ 
 trate who was presiding replied, ‘‘ I 
 am convinced you have spoken the 
 truth and that China’s hope lies in 
 the same direction.” 
 
 The war has brought a new status to 
 the missionary; he is recognized now 
 as the true internationalist, the ac¬ 
 knowledged builder of the sure foun¬ 
 dation for world peace and prosperity. 
 Statesmen, educators, captains of in¬ 
 dustry vie with one another in urg¬ 
 ing that the Church of Christ, with 
 its message of righteousness, peace 
 and goodwill, holds the solution for 
 the world’s woe. The American 
 Board is the agent of the Congrega¬ 
 tional Churches for the applying of 
 that solution; through it we all ma.y 
 have a hand in the healing of the 
 nations. ’ ’ 
 
 At the time of the Paris Peai'c 
 Conference, the official delegation of 
 the Georgian Republic waited upon a 
 representative of the Ainerican Boai*d 
 and urged that missionaries should be 
 sent to them, in order that their na¬ 
 tion might have schools and hospitals 
 such as their neighbors the Arme¬ 
 nians had received at our hands. 
 ■‘We are too weak and ignorant,” 
 they declared, “ to stand alone. We 
 need your help if we are to be a true 
 democracy.” As showing what tbe 
 Gospel of Christ can do to change 
 the temper and thought of a people 
 and to offset mistaken views of na¬ 
 tionalism, it should be noted that the 
 Protestant Christians of Japan with 
 remarkable unanimity have opposed 
 the oppressive policy of that country 
 towards Koi*ea, and today are found 
 in the front ranks of the liberal party 
 which is seeking to overthrow the mii- 
 itary regime and to establish demo¬ 
 cratic principles and institutions. 
 
 Clearly this is no time to let the 
 work of the American Board lan¬ 
 guish; rather we must rally to its sup¬ 
 port with new loyalty and apprecia¬ 
 tion. A battleship in these days costs 
 $30,000,000. The American Board 
 last year cost $2,000,000. We need 
 battleships, no doubt; but far more 
 we need the Ambassadors of Christ to 
 foreign lands. 
 
S4U 
 
 THE AMERICAN BOARD 
 
 A, M. 296 
 
 MEDICAL MISSIONS 
 
 **Heal the Sick^* 
 
 WHAT FIGURES SHOW 
 
 Medical Missionaries. 45 
 
 Foreign Nurses. 12 
 
 Hospitals. 32 
 
 WHAT FIGURES SHOW 
 
 Dispensaries . 50 
 
 Patients (estimated).154,000 
 
 Treatments (estimated)....504,000 
 
 ICKNESS is always pitiful, 
 wherever it occurs, but sickness 
 in mission lands makes an ap¬ 
 peal for relief that is fairly agoniz¬ 
 ing. For the malpractice of native doc¬ 
 tors multiplies its dangers and dis¬ 
 tress, superstition sharpens its ter¬ 
 rors, and cold-hearted self-interest 
 casts out to their fate the weak and 
 defenceless, the infant and the aged. 
 
 No part of the American Board’s 
 ministry is more widely appreciated 
 or more influential than its hand of 
 help for the prevention and relief of 
 disease. The missionaiy physicians 
 and nurses, the hospitals and dispen¬ 
 saries, are outstanding gifts of Christ 
 tliroughout the non-Christian lands. 
 
 After all, figures like those above 
 tell l)ut little of the story. They do 
 not show the locations of the work. 
 The Board’s different fields never pre¬ 
 sent equal need of the medical mis¬ 
 sionary. Japan, the Balkan states, 
 Czechoslovakia, Spain and Mexico al¬ 
 ready have modern 
 medical knowledge 
 and equipment. 
 The need today is 
 greatest in the 
 huge and populous 
 lands of China, 
 India (with Cey¬ 
 lon), Africa, and 
 Turkey. In them 
 the Board’s medi¬ 
 cal effort is largely 
 centered. 
 
 Nor do the fig¬ 
 ures show the scope 
 and influence of 
 this work; w^hat is 
 
 Dr. Frank Van Allen 
 
 For 33 years medical 
 missionary at Madura, 
 South India, and head 
 of the famous Albert 
 Victor Memorial Hos¬ 
 pital. the gift of 
 grateful patients. 
 
 lieing accomplished in dealing with 
 plague in the interior provinces of 
 North China, or by inoculation to 
 stamp out an epidemic of typhus in 
 India or Turkey; or in indoctrinating 
 communities with the primary prin¬ 
 ciples of sanitation until they show 
 better houses, cleaner babies and less 
 malaria and tuberculosis. The whole 
 field of preventive medicine, of physi¬ 
 cal culture and instruction, is not 
 reflected in any statistics. 
 
 The prestige and good will which 
 are gained by these efforts of medi¬ 
 cal missionaries cannot be indicated 
 by figures. The work of doctors and 
 nurses in North China during times 
 of plague, famine and flood has won 
 the esteem-and co-operation of gov¬ 
 ernors of provinces and high officials; 
 likewise the regard of princes of na¬ 
 tive states and district officials in In¬ 
 dia has been drawn to the mission¬ 
 ary enterprise through the generous 
 and skilled devotion to the public 
 welfare of medical 
 missionaries. When 
 Dr. Cyril Haas of 
 Adana, Central 
 Turkey, was 
 stricken with 
 typhus fever two 
 years or more ago, 
 special prayer was 
 offered for his re¬ 
 covery in the 
 Mohammedan 
 mosques of the 
 city, the sugges- 
 
 tion coming from of Wiinams Hospital, 
 the milltarv com- famine and flood relief 
 mandcr of the re- 
 
A. M.297 
 
 THE AMERICAN BOARD 
 
 S4J 
 
 gion who had greatly appreciated the 
 services of the hospital and of the doc¬ 
 tor in charge. 
 
 Nor do figures show what is accom¬ 
 plished in the prolonged contacts and 
 intimacies of hospital experiences. 
 The mission hospital in Davao 
 in the Philippines has done much to 
 overcome the fears and seclusion of 
 the wild tribes back in the hills. In 
 the interior provinces of China, off 
 the line of railroad, the medical 
 missionary has been most effective in 
 dispelling the fear of the ‘‘ foreign 
 devils.” The fanaticism of religious 
 devotees and the despairing self- 
 abasement of outcasts in India have 
 again and again been overcome 
 through the ministry of medicine to 
 the relief of their sickness and pain. 
 And in Africa, where the most en¬ 
 trenched foe against the progress of 
 Christianity is the witch doctor with 
 his charms and his tyranny, the best 
 ground-breaker is the medical mis¬ 
 sionary. The spread of the Gospel, 
 the getting hold in villages and dis¬ 
 tricts before untouched, has been due 
 repeatedly to the good reports that 
 have been carried home by those who 
 have been blessed in mission hospitals. 
 
 Again, figures do not reflect what is 
 accomplished in infusing the spirit of 
 helpful service into nurses taught to 
 give of their best to their suffering 
 people. They are coming out now from 
 training schools connected with one 
 and another of these hospitals, first 
 fruits of an enterprise which is to fur¬ 
 nish the trained'hand and the loving 
 heart to meet the calls of pain and 
 distress. China’s recent experience 
 of famine over wide areas and includ¬ 
 ing countless, multitudes of its people 
 revealed the new spirit of sympathy, 
 tenderness and responsibility for the 
 sick on the part of the Chinese who 
 had had the experience of hospital 
 service and of nurses ’ training 
 schools. 
 
 It is impressive to think how little 
 this ministry of mercy costs; how 
 much a dollar given to its support ac¬ 
 complishes. Amei’ican Board hos¬ 
 
 pitals expect to receive from the 
 Board Treasury little more than the 
 support of the foreign staff. Hospitals 
 and dispensary fees and gifts of 
 grateful patients meet to a large ex¬ 
 tent the other expenses. And the 
 buildings and equipment for this 
 medical work abroad cost absurdly 
 small amounts as compared with such 
 undertakings in this land. The an¬ 
 nual outlay on a single hospital in a 
 city of 100,000 in the United States 
 in addition to the fees it collects, 
 would be sufficient to pay the annual 
 cost to the American Board’s Treas¬ 
 ury of maintaining all its medical 
 work, covering eighty-two hospitals 
 and dispensaries, and serving 154,000 
 patients. 
 
 Good testimony to the value and 
 efficiency of medical missions is the 
 fact that the China Medical Board 
 which is spending millions of dollars 
 to introduce western standards of 
 medical science in China is aiding the 
 American Board in the maintenance 
 of two of its North China hospitals. 
 
 Pre-eminent among the needs of the 
 Board’s medical work just now is the 
 taking back of seven hospitals in Tur¬ 
 key whose work was assumed by the 
 Near East Relief during war days, 
 and upon which that body spent over 
 a million dollars in renovation and 
 equipment; which investment it is 
 l)repared to turn over to the Ameri¬ 
 can Board upon condition thai it will 
 accept the responsibility of main¬ 
 tenance. The general poverty oc¬ 
 casioned by the Avai* will compel a 
 subsidy to these hospitals for a few 
 years, an annual outlay in all of per¬ 
 haps $40,000 a year, which sum must 
 be secured if this work is to be saved. 
 
 If—The calls for Christ-like min¬ 
 istry are practically unlimited. If 
 the Board should receive its full ap¬ 
 portionment, it could consider send¬ 
 ing one more medical missionary to 
 China, one to India, one to Africa, at 
 an average expense of $3,000 each, 
 and possibly reopen four of the seven 
 hosj^itals in Turkey at an annual out¬ 
 lay of $20,000. 
 
S42 
 
 THE AMERICAN BOARD 
 
 A.M. 298 
 
 INDUSTRIAL MISSIONS 
 
 **To Make Them Not Only Good, But Good For Something.** 
 
 
 
 
 Experimental Farms 
 
 Seed Selection and Distribution 
 Development of Stock Breeds 
 
 
 Industrial Training in Boarding Schools 
 Domestic Science Training for Girls 
 
 Better Training for Many Trades 
 
 
 
 A Development of Modern Missions Bringing Practical and Industrial Advantages 
 
 to Backward Communities 
 
 NE HUNDRED years ago a 
 farmer and a printer were in¬ 
 cluded in the missionary party 
 sailing with Hiram Bingham to 
 Hawaii. The early missionaries to 
 the Indians included Agriculture in 
 their teachings. Most of our mission¬ 
 aries have given practical advice and 
 instruction to their schools and con¬ 
 gregations. Civilization has a hun¬ 
 dred tongues to speak its message to 
 backw'ard peoples. 
 
 Prof. Peabody, of Harvard, once 
 said that a traveler in Turkey could 
 tell that he Avas approaching an Amer¬ 
 ican Board iMission Station from the 
 better farms, better homes, cleaner vil- 
 age streets, and general improvement 
 of the countryside. This is an ideal 
 commendation of mission AAmrk on its 
 pi’actieal side. The monumental vol¬ 
 umes of Dr. Dennis’s Christian Mis¬ 
 sions and Social Progress,” i)rove the 
 vast results of such mission work for 
 uplift of mind, relief of ])Overty, ban¬ 
 ishment of infection, successful war¬ 
 fare on disease, 
 great public re¬ 
 forms, and the 
 abatement of the 
 evils of barbarism. 
 
 In any program 
 of expansion and 
 development of the 
 Board’s enterprise 
 this line of work 
 must be greatly 
 emphasized, as the 
 p 0 p u lations Ave 
 seiwe are mainly 
 agricultural in oc¬ 
 cupation. This is 
 overAAdielmingly so 
 in Africa, India 
 and China. Agri¬ 
 
 cultural missions, in Avhich the Amer¬ 
 ican Board has been engaged for one 
 liundred years, are now commending 
 themselves to other boards and are 
 having a iioteAvorthy development. At 
 the same time Ave do not overlook the 
 other industries like carpentry, black- 
 smithing, leather AA^orking, brick mak¬ 
 ing, etc. A hundred thousand dollars 
 might aatII be spent immediately in 
 enriching the industrial departments 
 of our schools and colleges. 
 
 In China 
 
 Dr. EdAvard L. Bliss and Mr. 
 Charles Riggs, an Agricultural grad¬ 
 uate, conduct an experimental farm, 
 selecting seeds, vines, and small fruits 
 adapted to the thousands of acres of 
 barren hillsides which ought to be¬ 
 come fields and gardens. The stan¬ 
 dard of living of thousands of farm¬ 
 ers is being raised through better 
 stock breeding, improved agricultural 
 methods, poultry raising, and indus¬ 
 trial training for their children. 
 
 If—There is .just 
 one agricultural 
 station for all 
 Chin a—hunger¬ 
 ing China! If the 
 .1^5,000,000 is sub¬ 
 scribed, the send¬ 
 ing of one more ag¬ 
 ricultural mission¬ 
 ary to China could 
 be considered, cost¬ 
 ing $3,000. 
 
 In the Balkans 
 
 The well-knoAAm 
 missionary, D r. 
 
 House, has brought 
 his experimental 
 farm to a high 
 
 Rev. J. Henry House, 
 D.D. 
 
 Cresiclent Agricultural 
 and Industrial Insti¬ 
 tute at Salonica, who 
 is proving that an 
 industrial school can 
 be thoroughly Chris¬ 
 tian, and whose work 
 is praised by the 
 Greek Government. 
 
 Albert E. EeRoy. 
 
 Principal of Aman- 
 zimtoti Institute, “the 
 Hampton of Natal,” 
 who is training Zulu 
 young men for leader¬ 
 ship in native affairs, 
 and whose work re- 
 ■ceives generous help 
 from the British Gov¬ 
 ernment, which knows 
 a strong missionary 
 when it sees one. 
 
A. M,299 
 
 THE AMERICAN BOARD 
 
 S43 
 
 state of usefulness. Seeds, plants, 
 and fruits are available for the Dis¬ 
 trict, and large uuiiibers of boys 
 receive a modern practical ■ train¬ 
 ing. The Government fidly approves 
 the results of such work. No opposi¬ 
 tion is stirred. A recent gift of $50,- 
 000 has been promised from the Hall 
 estate to enlarge the usefulness of 
 this institution. 
 
 In Africa 
 
 Amanzimtoti Institute is our 
 
 IJampton ” for South Africa. 
 Here boys and girls are trained to 
 earn a livelihood and to render an 
 honest day’s work in various trades. 
 The Government helps to support 
 these departments. Last summer, 
 under Government direction, an Ag¬ 
 ricultural Conference gathered all 
 our Christian teachers and preachers, 
 and gave them agricultural and prac¬ 
 tical instruction for their communi¬ 
 ties and congregations. It was in¬ 
 tended to make this an annual fea¬ 
 ture of modern missionary work. The 
 new sugar plantation, out of profits in 
 1920, paid all the expenses of evan¬ 
 gelistic and educational work, over 
 $8,000. Needless to say, it can make 
 no such showing at the present price 
 of sugar. 
 
 In East Africa lies our greatest 
 equipment. With immense ti’acts of 
 land granted by the Government of 
 about 60,000 acres in extent, our mis¬ 
 sion farms include 1,500 acres under 
 cultivation. A trained agriculturist, 
 Mj*. Alvord, has leaiaied the language, 
 and is beginning his work of direc¬ 
 tion. All the boys and girls are 
 trained in lines that uplift living 
 standai’ds. 
 
 In West Africa the annual report 
 informs us that the boys and girls in 
 one boarding school cost the mission 
 less than a dollar and a half per year 
 because agriculture meets the bills. 
 .The books, slates and supplies come 
 from the orange and pineapple plan¬ 
 tation. The cost of the clothing of 
 the children is met from the cotton 
 plantation, and the food is raised in 
 
 the sweet potato and corn fields. 
 
 The native jmstors receive an infini¬ 
 tesimal wage, because they make their 
 own living on their plots of land, and 
 the new converts help the preacher to 
 plow and plant and harvest. This is 
 what makes possible a ten dollar a 
 year wage for our native workers in 
 that region. 
 
 If—For great Africa,with its virgin 
 soil and untrained people, we should 
 like to provide two more industrial 
 missionaries. If the $5,000,000 is 
 raised, this additional service can be 
 considered. It will cost per vear 
 $ 6 , 000 . 
 
 In India 
 
 The Marathi Mission has long 
 stressed industrial training. In the 
 Madura Mission, John X. Miller’s 
 great school at Pasumalai includes 
 practical departments for its eight 
 hundred boys, aiding in self-help, 
 and giving training in trades crafts. 
 A conditional $10,000 legacy can be 
 claimed as soon as we can build a new 
 building for this great school. 
 The Board is sending out a missionary 
 who will study village industrial life 
 and aid the peo])le in keeping out of 
 debt to the ra])acious land-owners 
 aud in introducing nioi-e remunei’a- 
 tive methods aud crafts. 
 
 In Turkey 
 
 An Agricultin*al Department and 
 large farms are desirable in couuec- 
 tioii with every boai'ding scliool aud 
 college. It liel])s to solve tlie prob¬ 
 lem of self-help, as in the Moody 
 School at Noi'thfield and Mount Iler- 
 mon in this country, and it gives the 
 teaching needed for the future farmer 
 and artisan. 
 
 The American Board, which origi¬ 
 nated this line of work, in recent 
 years has hung back as compared 
 with other denominations from lack 
 of funds. When the churches will raise 
 the $5,000,000 budget, we shall 
 be able to begin an advance 
 in industrial and agricultui’al devel¬ 
 opment. 
 
S44 
 
 THE AMERICAN BOARD 
 
 A. M* 300 
 
 TWELVE OF THE TWO HUNDRED AND FORTY-FIVE 
 
 MEN MISSIONARIES 
 
 Kev. John Howland, 
 D.D., Mexico, 1882 
 
 President and Professor 
 ill Union Theological 
 Seminary, Mexico City, 
 a joint undertaking of 
 all the mission hoards 
 and coniniunions in that 
 land. 
 
 Kev. George A. Wil¬ 
 der, D.D., South 
 Africa, 1880 
 
 Born in the land, of mis¬ 
 sionary iiarentage, one 
 of the prospectors and 
 founders of the Rhodesia 
 Branch, who has shared 
 in all its growth. 
 
 Mr. Leeds Gulick, 
 Japan, 1921 
 
 Of the third generation 
 of a famous missionary 
 family, son of Dr. Syd¬ 
 ney Gulick, he returns 
 to the land where he 
 was horn, specially 
 traineil to work with 
 hoys on mission fields. 
 
 Kev. John S. Porter, 
 Czechoslovak Mis¬ 
 sion, 1891 
 
 The Board’s only mis¬ 
 sionary in this new re- 
 puhlic who faces oppor¬ 
 tunities undreaipt of be¬ 
 fore tlie war. 
 
 Kev. Henry C. Mc- 
 Dowell, West 
 Africa, 1919 
 
 Winning his spurs as the 
 first missionary to be 
 supported hy the Negro 
 Congregational churches 
 in southern United 
 States as their repre¬ 
 sentative in Africa. 
 
 Dr. Phillips F, Greene, 
 Turkey, 1921 
 
 Of the third generation 
 of a well-known mission¬ 
 ary family in Turkey, 
 he goes to devote him¬ 
 self to the reconstruc¬ 
 tion of mission work in 
 the land of Ins hirth. 
 
 Kev. Edward Fair- 
 bank, Marathi, 1883 
 
 Born in India, of mis¬ 
 sionary parentage, is in 
 charge of a district in 
 which entire groups and 
 communities are turning 
 to Christianity. 
 
 Kev. John J. Ban- 
 ninga, D.D., Madura 
 Mission, 1901 
 
 Principal of Pasumalai 
 Seminary from which go 
 forth pastors and evan¬ 
 gelists through South 
 India and Ceylon. 
 
 Rev. Harry S. Martin, 
 North China, 1910 
 
 Principal of Charles E. 
 Jefferson Academy, near 
 Peking, which draws its 
 students from all centers 
 of the North China Mis¬ 
 sion to fit them for 
 Peking Universit.v or to 
 preiiare them directly 
 for life work. 
 
 Rev. Willard L. Beard, 
 D.D., Foochow, 1894 
 
 Head of Foochow Col¬ 
 lege, graduating its stu¬ 
 dents to Fukien Univer¬ 
 sity or qualifying them 
 directly for life work, 
 an invaluable aid to the 
 development of churches 
 and communities con¬ 
 nected wdth the Mission. 
 
 Kev. James K. Lyman, 
 Turkey, 1913 
 
 A typical missionary 
 hero of the war years in 
 Turkey. Mr. Lyman’s 
 experience makes a mar¬ 
 velous stoi-y of trying 
 responsihilities met and 
 effectually handled. 
 
 Mr. Charles H. Riggs, 
 Shaowu, 1916 
 
 He combines his mis¬ 
 sionary ancestry and 
 specialized college train¬ 
 ing in going as agricul¬ 
 tural missionary to help 
 solve the problem of the 
 poor farmers in a hill 
 country of Cliina. 
 
A.M.30J 
 
 THE AMERICAN BOARD 
 
 S45 
 
 EDUCATIONAL MISSIONS 
 
 **Goy Teach All Nations** 
 
 22 Seminaries and Training Schools 
 
 Number of 
 
 Students. . . . 
 
 . . 657 
 
 9 Colleges (5 in Turkey not included) 
 
 U it 
 
 a 
 
 . . 2,000 
 
 56 Boarding and High Schools 
 
 « « 
 
 a 
 
 . . 6,822 
 
 1167 Elementary Schools 
 
 (( (( 
 
 (( 
 
 . .52,345 
 
 Total Schools, 1,254 
 
 Total under 
 
 instruction. 
 
 . .61,824 
 
 
 ’HAT your own school 
 days meant to you in 
 broadened outlook, lasting 
 friendships, preparation for life 
 service, ideals, and golden days, 
 these mission schools and colleges 
 mean to their students—and more be¬ 
 cause they have less. What Amherst, 
 Williams, Carleton and Pomona have 
 meant to the Congregational churches 
 of America, these colleges mean to the 
 churches on the foreign field—and 
 more, because they are their sole de¬ 
 pendence for an educated ministry. 
 What Christian education has meant 
 to America, these schools mean to a 
 dozen lands. They are the “ red 
 schoolhouse beside the church,” and 
 they mean more because they are not 
 the outgrowth of a Christian environ¬ 
 ment but a vital leaven in non-Chris¬ 
 tian surroundings. 
 
 1. Magnitude and Economy. The 
 American Board shares directly in the 
 education of 60,000 children and 
 
 young people in 14 
 countries and over 
 1,200 schools. 
 There are theolog¬ 
 ical seminaries and 
 kinder gartens, 
 high schools, col¬ 
 leges and normal 
 schools. Industry 
 and commerce, ag¬ 
 riculture and engi¬ 
 neering, music and 
 art and domestic 
 science, each have 
 their place. If the 
 Board were to de¬ 
 vote its entire in¬ 
 come to the sup¬ 
 
 Bev. Alexander Mac- 
 Lachlan, D. D. 
 
 President of Interna¬ 
 tional College at 
 Smyrna, one of our 
 great educationalists. 
 His college is attract¬ 
 ing Moslem students 
 and converting them, 
 too. 
 
 port of these schools, it would have on 
 an average about $150 per month of 
 the school year to spend on the teach¬ 
 ers, equipment and upkeep of each 
 school. As a matter of fact, the 
 Board does not pay aU the expenses. 
 Tuitions, special gifts, income from in¬ 
 vested funds, and in some instances, 
 government grants carry a part of the 
 load. But the type of economy prac¬ 
 ticed by the Board is evident when 
 we recall that it saves enough from 
 this $150 a month to support over 200 
 American missionary homes in 110 
 centres of missionary residence scat¬ 
 tered over the world, to have a share 
 in dispensary and hospital work of 
 45 American medical missionaries, 
 many of them isolated, and in addi¬ 
 tion an interest in 600 native 
 churches, and then conducts this far- 
 flung educational work, including 
 colleges and theological seminaries, on 
 
 what is left. 
 
 2. STIiATEGV. 
 church learned tlic 
 strategy of tlu' 
 school — save tbe 
 children and you 
 save the nation. It 
 is as true on the 
 mission field as in 
 America. The Ro¬ 
 man Catholics have 
 made most effec¬ 
 tive use of this 
 policy. 
 
 The school has a 
 further strategic 
 missionary service 
 in the production 
 of trained Chris¬ 
 tian leaders 
 
 Centuries ago the 
 
 Rev. Williiim M. Zum- 
 bro, D. D. 
 
 President of tlie Amer¬ 
 ican College, Madura, 
 India, an institution 
 of high grade, drawing 
 students of all castes 
 and uniting them in a 
 community based on 
 Christian Ideals. 
 
S46 
 
 THE AMERICAN BOARD 
 
 A. M. 302 
 
 through Christian higher education. 
 American Protestants have been fore¬ 
 most in applying this policy. The re¬ 
 sults are seen in the work of the Amer¬ 
 ican Board all around the world. In 
 America we hear only of men who 
 have attained eminence in our West¬ 
 ern civilization and know nothing of 
 liundreds who are molding communi¬ 
 ties and nations in other environments 
 and who are the product of mission- 
 arv education. To one who knows 
 the evangelical movement in Turkey, 
 the names Bezjian, Djejizian, Krikor- 
 ian, Levonian, Hagopian, Papazian, 
 Sivaslian, and a score of others are 
 synonyms for leadership, names of 
 men who are products of American 
 Board educational work. The same 
 is true of President Ebina of Japan, 
 of Pastor Li and the Chuan Brothers 
 of China, of Tilak and Santiagu of 
 India, of Dube of Africa, and of lit- 
 erallv hundreds of other native lead- 
 ers. In certain countries it is hard 
 to name any leaders who do not con¬ 
 fess marked influence from the mis- 
 
 sionarv educational movement. 
 
 «■ 
 
 Beyond saving the children and 
 training leaders, there is a still high¬ 
 er strategy in missionary education, 
 the preparation of the native churches 
 to undertake themselves the training 
 of their own children and the prepar¬ 
 ation of their own leaders. Of this 
 policy the Central Turkey Mission 
 with its Cilicia Evangelical Union, its 
 graded native school system of eleven 
 years, its Central Turkey College and 
 Marash Theological Seminary, has 
 furnished a marked demonstration. 
 
 3. Spiritual Efficiency. Spiritu¬ 
 al results in education depend on the 
 spirit of those who control the 
 schools. Unquestionably the school 
 can be made an unparalleled instru¬ 
 ment of spiritual achievement. Mis¬ 
 sion educational institutions are con¬ 
 fessed oil all hands to bo unique be- 
 ('anso ol‘ theii* intlnonoo on the foiana- 
 lion of cliai-aotor. There are mission 
 schools, like the Boys’ Academy at 
 Shaowu, China, with the record that 
 not a. student has presented himself 
 
 for graduation who had not become 
 a Christian. Students are under the 
 daily pressure of Christian atmos¬ 
 phere. In the majority of cases they 
 receive in school their strongest im¬ 
 pulses toward Christ. Spiritual re¬ 
 sults are a definite part of the objec¬ 
 tive of the educational missionary, not 
 statistical or in the nature of addi¬ 
 tions to church membership, but obe¬ 
 dient opening of the life to the influ¬ 
 ence of Christ and deep abiding spir¬ 
 itual change. The spiritual leaders 
 who have gone forth from American 
 Board institutions are proof of their 
 spiritual efficiency. 
 
 The Board undoubtedly could re¬ 
 duce its budget by cutting off this ed¬ 
 ucational work, but it would lose 
 thereby also its fruits which are out of 
 all proportion to the expenditure. In 
 Aintab, Turkey, people beg for $2,000 
 to make possible the continuance of 
 common and high school for 500 boys 
 and girls. On the various fields of 
 the Board on the average a year of 
 schooling for a boy or girl can be se¬ 
 cured by a five-dollar bill. There are 
 colleges where the lack of $10 keeps 
 young men from a college training. 
 In some places a village school for 50 
 pupils can be housed permanently for 
 $200. $500 will cover the margin of 
 annual deficit of—a college! $2,000 
 will open a new department. 
 
 With our high commitments to the 
 world-wide extension of the Kingdom 
 of our Saviour Christ, can the Congre¬ 
 gational churches afford to consider 
 the saving of the money which they 
 have been expending here ? Can they 
 withhold that needed for advance? 
 
 If—A few of the educational needs 
 presented in former Surveys could 
 be met if the $1,275,000 for the Amer¬ 
 ican Board should be secured in fulL 
 As samples of possibilities, we men¬ 
 tion six village scliools in Ceylon, total 
 eost $3,000; oui* share of the Banga¬ 
 lore Union Seminary in India, $3,000; 
 our share of tlie ('ost of literature is- 
 ,sued interdenominationally, $4,000; 
 and toward our share for the all-im¬ 
 portant union universities, $10,000. 
 
A.M. 303 
 
 THE AMERICAN BOARD 
 
 S47 
 
 EVANGELISTIC MISSIONS 
 
 There*s a Story to Tell to the Nations.** 
 
 WHAT FIGURES SHOW 
 
 Ordained Missionaries. 181 
 
 Churches . 671 
 
 Preaching Places.1,997 
 
 WHAT FIGURES SHOW 
 
 Communicants . 80,343 
 
 Added last year. 5,284 
 
 Catecumens and Adherents. 194,417 
 
 ^■TllE people of the Congregational 
 /1 churches should understand 
 
 that the Gospel is still Good 
 
 News on the fields of the American 
 Board. Of the 75,000,000 dependent 
 upon us for light, the vast majority 
 are as ignorant of the Christian mes¬ 
 sage of love and goodwill as though 
 that message had never been given. 
 
 / The chief im¬ 
 
 pression we desire 
 to convey in this 
 Survey is of a suc- 
 c e s s f u 1, God- 
 blessed, evangelis¬ 
 tic advance. Evan¬ 
 gelism is the chief 
 aim of the Ameri¬ 
 can Board. This 
 the heart, and 
 
 IS 
 
 center of our work. 
 It should be under¬ 
 stood, too, that the 
 situation has ma¬ 
 terially changed in 
 . recent years. No 
 longer is it the problem to make 
 here and there an occasional convert 
 from heathenism; the problem on 
 many fields is to take care of the large 
 number who are asking for baptism. It 
 is the problem of huge success. Under 
 such conditions we simply must have 
 the funds to provide sufficient evan¬ 
 gelists and teachers. We think if the 
 Congregational churches know this 
 fact when they canvass for funds, it 
 will make a vast dilference in their 
 response. 
 
 White Harvests Abioad 
 
 We hesitate to name particular 
 fields where evangelistic opportuni¬ 
 
 Kev. Watts O. I*ye 
 
 Of China, a graduate 
 of Carlton and (tlier- 
 !in. wlio has inaiigu- 
 ratefl a remarkable 
 evangelistic advance 
 In Shansi and Shensi. 
 
 ties are found, hecause an advance in 
 this department is general through¬ 
 out our 19 missions. The Spirit of 
 God is moving upon the people of 
 every land and our missionaries 
 everywhere are eager to seize the 
 opportunity. If we do not cite 
 Japan, Mexico, Spain, Czechoslo¬ 
 vakia, the Balkans, and Micronesia, 
 it is not because 
 there are no stories 
 to tell. From near¬ 
 ly every mission 
 come reports of 
 scores of native 
 preachers being 
 brought together 
 f 0 r evangelistic 
 training, in order 
 to meet the new 
 situation. Evei*y 
 field seems white 
 to the harvest. But 
 we emphasize six 
 outstanding oppor¬ 
 tunities. 
 
 Africa 
 
 Clij’istiaiiity is on the march today 
 in our West Afi’ica (Angola) field. 
 Tlie Ovimbundu tribe, of 500,000, can 
 be Christianized beyond any doubt, 
 if we in America say so. The Dondi 
 Ti‘aining Institute, supported by the 
 Canadian Congregationalists, is in a 
 position at last to furnish requisite 
 preachers and teachers. Ali'cady the 
 returns are largi'. Idieri^ is no rea¬ 
 son wliy we slioiild not have in a fi'w 
 yeai's as wonderful results in this 
 mission as the Presbyterians are hav¬ 
 ing in the (himei'oon north of us. 
 
 If—We venture to ho]ie that soon the 
 
 Kev. Hilton I’edlcy, 
 I).I). 
 
 Field Secrelary of our 
 .lai)au Mission, wlio 
 insists that Jaiiaii is 
 a riine tield for evan¬ 
 gelism, especially in 
 resitect to the iieoi)le 
 in tlie villages. 
 
S48 
 
 THE AMERICAN BOARD 
 
 A. M. 304 
 
 $5,000,000 will be raised, and if it is, 
 we may ask the Prudential Committee 
 whether $5,000 coidd not be had for 
 reaping in this ripe field. 
 
 Interesting things are happening 
 at Johannesburg, where Dr. P. B. 
 Bridgman and Rev. Ray Phillips are 
 at work. Phillips, backed by the mine 
 owners, is conducting the finest piece 
 of social service work we have heard 
 of. With movies, sports and social 
 clubs he is reaching tens of thousands 
 and making Bridgman’s more strictly 
 evangelistic work a remarkable suc¬ 
 cess-. Some of Bridgman’s con¬ 
 verts returned to their homes near In- 
 hambane, Portugese East Africa, and 
 immediately began witnessing for 
 Christ. God blessed their labors, and 
 now they insist they must have a mis¬ 
 sionary to take charge of the rapidly 
 expanding work. Bridgman has just 
 visited this field and was surprised 
 to find 350 converts had been made 
 from paganism, these being gathered 
 into 26 widely separated groups. 750,- 
 000 pagans remain. Come over and 
 help us, ’ ’ say these earnest young Af¬ 
 ricans. 
 
 If—But when the apportionment 
 is paid in full, it is likely that $3,000 
 will be available for answering this 
 Macedonian cry. Shall we say if or 
 when? 
 
 The Philippines 
 
 The only mission of the Board un¬ 
 der “the flag.” The Philippine Gov¬ 
 ernment and the mission boards are 
 working in hearty sympathy. The 
 scheme of co-operation between boards 
 assigns the island of Mindanao (pop¬ 
 ulation 1,000,000) as our field. There 
 are three great openings, the Filipinos 
 along the coast, the wild tribes in the 
 interior and the Mohammedan Moros 
 in the peninsula which stretches 
 westward. Our missionaries can 
 • hardly make up their minds as to 
 which opening is the best. They want 
 us to enter them all. And why should 
 we not? Are not the Congregational- 
 ists capable of meeting their responsi¬ 
 bility among the denominations ? Our 
 Davao Station, with its church and 
 
 hospital, is centering upon a pagan 
 tribe, the Bagobos, with good results. 
 On the North Coast we have begun a 
 most promising work among the Fil¬ 
 ipinos, who are clamoring for our kind 
 of Christianity. “ The Moros,” Dr. 
 Frank Laubach says, “ offer the 
 greatest chance to reach a Moslem 
 people which has come to the Church 
 in a thousand years.” For them we 
 are doing nothing. 
 
 When— When the gap between 
 receipts and expenditures is bridged, 
 and when the $200,000 additional is 
 available, we hope for $5,000 with 
 which to evangelize this eager people. 
 
 India 
 
 India is the home of the “ mass 
 movements.” Better than any other 
 land it illustrates the new conditions 
 of evangelistic work. In the North, 
 where the Methodist and Presbyteri¬ 
 an Boards are working, we are hear¬ 
 ing extraordinary things—^new con¬ 
 verts by the tens of thousands each 
 year waiting for baptism, village after 
 village coming bodily to Christianity. 
 In our own missions, the Marathi in 
 West India and the Madura in South 
 India, we cannot as yet equal these 
 stories; but similar forces are at work 
 and we may have a mass movement at 
 any time. Our ehief new opportunity 
 is with the ancient Robber Castes, 
 which the Government is settling upon 
 the land and offering to the Board as 
 an exclusive field in education and 
 evangelism. These alert and ambi¬ 
 tious people, to the number of about 
 80,000, may be brought to Christiani¬ 
 ty by an almost inevitable process if 
 we are situated to take hold. The 
 Government and the caste people join 
 in the request for our help. The In¬ 
 dia missionaries say this is the great¬ 
 est chance we have had in 100 years. 
 We need only to appoint two or three 
 new missionaries, as the Government 
 provides land, buildings, and equip¬ 
 ment. One colony we have assumed 
 at Sholapur; those in the south 'we 
 cannot attempt in the present finan¬ 
 cial situation. 
 
A,M. 305 
 
 THE AMERICAN BOARD 
 
 S49 
 
 When—It seems that we cannot 
 long withhold the $4,000 needed for 
 this critical service. 
 
 China 
 
 How it happens that the American 
 Board in China occupies fields of 
 such rare oportunity for evangelistic 
 results we cannot say. Some have 
 felt that hitherto we have neglected 
 evangelism in favor of educational 
 missions. Perhaps we do not deserve 
 the present rich harvests; in any 
 event the oportunity is ours and God 
 holds us to strict accountability. 
 
 Providentially, six years ago when 
 the Board was in financial straits, the 
 thought came to a New England busi¬ 
 ness man that he personally might in¬ 
 stitute an evangelistic advance in 
 China. He offered $1,000 a year for 
 ten years. The field chosen was the 
 northern half of Shensi, where no 
 mission work had been done, and 
 where the population of some 8,000,- 
 000 were known to be peculiarly 
 ready for the message. Rev. Watts 0. 
 Pye being put in charge, surveyed 
 the territory, selected ten Chinese 
 pastors and placed them in five 
 walled cities. The response was as¬ 
 tonishing, especially on the part of 
 magistrates and prominent people. 
 After six years we find the following 
 results: Churches founded 26; con¬ 
 verts made 3,000; young men offering 
 themselves for the ministry 27; pas¬ 
 tors now being utilized 15. A con¬ 
 spicuous feature is the nearing of self- 
 support on the part of several 
 churches. We find a combination of 
 three things in this experiment: a 
 people ready for the Gospel, a mis¬ 
 sionary capable of handling the situ¬ 
 ation, a man at home ready to put up 
 the cash. That combination might 
 exist in almost any field. 
 
 In the capital province of Chihli 
 is our Paotingfu field ; in the Paoting- 
 fu field are twenty counties contain¬ 
 ing about 5,000,000 people; in one 
 of these counties (Tingchow), through 
 the generosity of a member of the 
 Prudential Committee, we were able 
 
 to place two evangelists. Last year 
 they made 1,200 converts. We would 
 like to place two such men in the 
 other counties where similar results 
 might be obtained. The missionaries 
 affirm we can have a church of 10,000 
 members in this region in five years 
 if they are allowed to man the field. 
 
 Oii the Min River, in China, three 
 villages have recently cast away their 
 idols and are urging the American 
 Board to send them teachers. In an¬ 
 other village, where a Christian ser¬ 
 vice had never been held, one of our 
 missionaries arrived late one night 
 when the people had retired. The 
 leading men at once had the town 
 aroused and the largest building was 
 soon filled Avith an eager throng, lis¬ 
 tening to “ the doctrine.” Imagine 
 the sorrow, the tragedy, of refusing 
 such eager folk as these! 
 
 If —If such heart hunger appeals to 
 the Congregational people of America 
 sufficiently to provide the apportion¬ 
 ment, it Avill be possible to listen to 
 the call for a single additional mis¬ 
 sionary for this part of China—ap¬ 
 proximate cost, $3,000. 
 
 Turkey 
 
 It would be a great mistake to pass 
 by Turkey on the assumption that the 
 chaotic political and economic con¬ 
 ditions preclude effective mission 
 work. The challenge of Turkey in 
 some respects is the challenge of trag¬ 
 edy rather than of success; we are 
 challenged to sacrificial loyalty and 
 steadfastness there today just as Ave 
 Avere in China tAventy-one years ago. 
 
 But there is present opportunity 
 even in Turkey. The AA^ay is opening 
 at last for us to reach the Moslems 
 Avith the direct appeal of the Gospel. 
 Converts from Islam are being made 
 at Smyrna, Marash and elseAAffiere. 
 Moslem youth are crowding our 
 schools. We cannot present here 
 the complicated set of causes and 
 conditions which have brought 
 this about, but Congregationalists 
 should realize that it is a glorious 
 fact, one of the strange outcomes of 
 the war. 
 
S50 
 
 THE AMERICAN BOARD 
 
 A,M. 306 
 
 Danjo Sbina 
 
 REPRESENTATIVE 
 LEADERS IN 
 MISSION LANDS 
 
 Chaiigr Po liing: 
 
 Memhei- tlie I'iinioii.-! 
 Kumamoto Baud, from 
 wbicli came founders 
 and leaders of Kumiai 
 churches; an eminent 
 preacher at Japan’s 
 capital; now President 
 of the Doshisha Univer¬ 
 sity at Kyoto, founded 
 Neesima. 
 
 Bhaskarao llivale 
 
 Of the third generation 
 of Indian Christians; 
 product of Marathi mis¬ 
 sion schools; six years’ 
 exi^erience as teacher; 
 graduate of Andover 
 Seminary ; now retnrned 
 to work with the mis¬ 
 sion for his people. 
 
 Li Pen Yuan 
 
 First Chinese pastor of the 
 mother church in Peking com¬ 
 pound ; a preacher of rare 
 power, known and revered all 
 over the North China mission. 
 First Chinese General Secretary 
 of the newly formed Council. 
 His death in the summer of 
 1!»21 was due to his- unsparing 
 devotion. 
 
 Sometime government 
 supervisor of education 
 in Tientsin. Founder 
 and inspiring head of 
 the model Boys’ School 
 of China. Zealous mem¬ 
 ber of Independent Con¬ 
 gregational Church of 
 Tientsin. 
 
 Abraham Haroutunian 
 
 Pastor and leader in 
 the evangelistic and 
 educational work of the 
 Cilicia Evangelical 
 Union. Graduate of 
 Central Turkey College. 
 Aintab (1899), and of 
 IMarash Theological Sem¬ 
 inary. His life has 
 been remarkable for 
 Providential deliver¬ 
 ances during massacres, 
 deportations and out¬ 
 breaks. 
 
A.M, 307 
 
 THE AMERICAN BOARD 
 
 S5j 
 
 MISSIONARY RECRUITS 
 
 Ordained Men 
 
 
 Industrial Superintendents 
 
 Women Evangelists 
 
 
 Agriculturists 
 
 Teachers of All Kinds 
 
 
 Architects 
 
 Doctors 
 
 
 Athletic Directors 
 
 Nurses 
 
 
 Business Agents 
 
 Writers 
 
 
 Stenographers 
 
 HIS Survey calls not only for 
 money but for men. No factor 
 is of so great importance to the 
 success of the missionary enterprise 
 as new missionaries of calibre and 
 consecration, to carry through the 
 undertakings which an awakened 
 Orient demands. It requires about 50 
 new workers each year. 
 
 The greatest contribution a church 
 can make to the extension of Christi¬ 
 anity is to set apart one or more of its 
 own members to the cause, after prop¬ 
 er training has been made possible. 
 Such an act- will enrich the life of the 
 church immeasurably. Have you 
 
 t/ «/ 
 
 ever known a church which sent out 
 a foreign missionary which was not 
 proud of the fact? A few montlis 
 ago the Congregational Church at 
 Shelburne, Massachusetts, celebrated 
 its One Hundred Fiftieth Anniver¬ 
 sary. This church worships in a lit¬ 
 tle white meeting-house on a steep 
 hillside, away from the railroad. It 
 is a typical New England country 
 chui'ch which has been depleted by 
 colonization and steady withdrawals. 
 Yet it maintains a vigorous mission¬ 
 ary life. In the historical statement 
 the fact was brought out that it was 
 from this church that Pliny Piske 
 went out to Turkey in 1819, being the 
 first missionary to the Near East, also 
 his niece, Fidelia Fiske,‘some years 
 later, who being sent to Persia, estab- 
 lislied the first girls’ school in Ihe 
 Neai* East, llie famous ITiamiiah Sem¬ 
 inary. 
 
 d’lie United (-linrcli of New Haven, 
 on the Creen, is fajuons in many 
 ways, but in none moi*e than for its 
 ja^cord on the foreign field. On its 
 
 Foreign Mission Service Flag it has 
 23 stars, representing that number of 
 members who have gone out under 
 the American Board. Among the 
 names are Hiram Bingham, Robert A. 
 Hume, William Zumbro. 
 
 The Church in Faribault, Minne¬ 
 sota, has given to the Board the Pye 
 brothers. Rev. Watts 0. Pve of 
 China, and Rev. Ernest Pye of Tur¬ 
 key, and it rejoices today in having 
 such noble representatives on the fir¬ 
 ing line. 
 
 As you read this Survey, you will 
 note how the Avork has been broad¬ 
 ened these recent years. Not only do 
 we appoint ordained men, physicians 
 and teachers, but useful people of all 
 
 soi’ts. Each vmar avc need fiYe or six 
 
 < 
 
 men fresh from college, as term work¬ 
 ers, for thi'ee or five years, to teach 
 English in our higher institutions 
 and to work among students. 
 
 Last year the Boai-d sent out 51 
 new recruits, covering iieaidy all lines 
 of woi’k. We are glad to I’eport that 
 the outlook for candidates is bettm* 
 than for many years. It is being 
 demonstrated that our young people 
 do not lack the spirit of heroism and 
 self-sacrifice, Avhen they knoAV the 
 world needs them. 
 
 When and If —the conse¬ 
 crated money conies, Ave shall hope for 
 tAvo Avise, sti’ong, devoted missionaries 
 foi* the Philii)pin(‘s and for .$7,000 
 above' other pi'essing (-alls, but this 
 Avill mid to the nnililx'i' of missionai*y 
 resideiHH's n(‘('d(‘d. 3\‘n of tlu'se* ai*e 
 
 now Avaiting. Doubtless $25,000 for 
 five of them could be found if only 
 that neAv money conies forth. 
 
S52 
 
 THE AMERICAN BOARD 
 
 A.M. 308 
 
 RECAPITULATION 
 
 THIS SURVEY SHOWS 
 
 That in the Pi-ovideiice of God we occupy the fields of greatest respon¬ 
 sibility and opportunity in all the world, our position being stra¬ 
 tegic beyond that of any other foreign board. 
 
 That God is calling us to give the Gospel to ready and eager nations, our 
 opportunity in evangelism being unprecedented. 
 
 That when the churches raise the full $5,000,000, it will make possible 
 a noteworthy advance in every Mission and in every department 
 of work. 
 
 That in spite of the splendid advance in the last two years, the con¬ 
 tributions from the churches are still some $200,000 per year 
 slioi’t of supporting the work of the Board even on the present 
 restricted basis. 
 
 That it was through an extraordinary outpouring in July and August 
 of personal gifts, in response to its urgent appeals, backed by the 
 vote of the National Council, that the Board avoided adding a 
 huge deficit to the terrifying debt of last year. 
 
 That two-thirds of the old deficit still remains and must be provided 
 for before the Board can enter upon its new opportunities. 
 
 That unless the present gap between receipts and expenditures is closed 
 and the debt prevented, retrenchment of a drastic nature will be 
 required. 
 
 That to maintain the work at the present level (but how can we with¬ 
 hold an advance?) there is needed an increase in contributions 
 from the churches of at least 33% over those of 1921. 
 
 That the year 1922 will shoAv what policy the churches wish the Board 
 to pursue—retrench, hold on, or advance. 
 
 That unlimited opportunities of widest variety for the investment of 
 large sums of money, where the dividends in redeemed human life 
 and regenerated society will be beyond computing, are offered by 
 our great foreign missionary enterprise. 
 
 That in the realm of internationalism and Christian statesmanship this 
 historic Board, if properly backed, is in a position to render a 
 service of supreme importance to the world. 
 
 That the Congregational people have never failed to respond to the call 
 of their foreign enterprise, when apprised of a critical situation 
 and given a chance to act. Our problem is to get such facts as 
 these presented effectively to the rank and file of our members, 
 especially to the man at the head of the pew. 
 
 That now is the time to make the facts known, and to urge all to stand 
 loyally by the American Board. 
 
THE WOMAN’S BOARDS 
 
 TREASURIES 
 
 The three Woman’s Boards have treasuries separate from that of the 
 American Board and the general board assumes no financial respon¬ 
 sibility for their work. They determine their own budgets, the number 
 of missionaries they will support, and the amount they will appropriate foi’ 
 the work under their care. Without the money paid into the Wom^an’s Board 
 treasuries, the educational, social, medical and evangelistic work for women 
 and children in American Board fields would in great measure cease, as the 
 latter Board makes no provision for this. 
 
 NEEDS 
 
 Circumstances which have led to the critical financial situation of the 
 American Board have affected the Woman’s Boards in like manner. For the 
 past three years expenses have increased far more rapidly than income. 
 With no hope for new work, with all possible reduction in expense, with 
 building projects indefinitely delayed, each Board yet faces a serious deficit. 
 
 COUNCIL 
 
 During the last year the three Boards have formed a central organiza¬ 
 tion, the Council of Congregational Woman^s Foreign Mission Boards. It is 
 advisory only but will promote efficiency by co-ordinating the Avork of the 
 Boards, securing uniform policies at home and abroad, avoiding duplication 
 and confusion on the field, and furnishing a medium of communication foi‘ 
 interdenominational societies. 
 
 WOMAN^S BOARD OF MISSIONS 
 
 14 Beacon Street, Boston 
 
 Territory at Home 
 
 The Woman’s Board of Missions 
 now comprises twenty-five branches 
 and has for its constituency the 
 women and children of about 2,300 
 churches in the Atlantic States. 
 
 Its Goal 
 
 The purpose as stated in its Char¬ 
 ter is ‘‘ the Christianizing, education 
 and physical relief of women and 
 children in foreign lands, in co-opera¬ 
 tion with the American Board.” This 
 purpose is being slowly realized 
 through the primary methods of evan¬ 
 gelization and education, modified 
 and expanded in Christian social ser¬ 
 vice and medical work. 
 
 Its Assets 
 
 At Home: 1,287 women’s mission¬ 
 ary societies with approximately 48,- 
 
 000 members; 1,081 Junior organiza¬ 
 tions which last year contributed over 
 $20,000; 546 Branch officers Avho give 
 freely time, strength and many inci¬ 
 dental expenses for the King’s busi¬ 
 ness. 
 
 Life and Light, a monthly maga¬ 
 zine, is its publication. 
 
 Abroad : In thirty-six higher . 
 
 schools and 300 or more day schools, 
 thousands of girls in training for use¬ 
 ful lives; 250 Bible women who touch 
 with hope and cheer, at the most con¬ 
 servative estimate, 25,000 women each 
 week; hospitals and dispensaries 
 bringing healing every year to at 
 least 50,000 women and cliildren 
 otherwise hopeless sufferers. This 
 work is directed by 141 American 
 missionaries and t(‘mporary work('rs. 
 
S54 
 
 THE WOMAN'S BOARDS 
 
 A. M. 3J0 
 
 Its Liabilities 
 
 HE 3 ^ear’s budget with all possi¬ 
 ble pruning and including 
 nothing for buildings called 
 for $330,577. Toward this the Board 
 can expect from other sources than 
 apportionment $25,000. Its share of 
 the $5,000,000 is $357,500. Had this 
 latter sum been raised, it would have 
 been possible, not to. consider new 
 woi’k, but to make a somewhat more 
 adequate provision for the old work. 
 It now appears that the Board is 
 Jikel^^ to fall short of its $357,500 
 from the churches hy from $100,000 
 to $150,000, and in si^ite of some de¬ 
 creases in expenses to close the year 
 with perhaps $60,000 less on hand 
 than will be needed for 1922 appro¬ 
 priations. Moreover, in spite of large 
 demands for buildings, onbv a small 
 part of the needs have been met. In¬ 
 stead of twent^^-nine new workers 
 called for to fill vacancies, onl^" six 
 
 have been sent during 1921. The mis¬ 
 sionaries have been urged to curtail in 
 every possible way. Thus, instead of 
 the advance anticipated, their long 
 deferred hopes are yet unfulfilled. 
 
 If the fear of a shortage at the end 
 of this year should be rebuked by re¬ 
 ceipts sufficient to start 1922 without 
 a deficit, and if the full share of $5,- 
 000,000 ($385,000 in 1922) should be 
 received, the increase over this year’s 
 funds could then be used for the fol¬ 
 lowing : 
 
 Building projects under way 
 and emergency building 
 
 grants. $50,000 
 
 New workers for vacancies and 
 strengthening staff, with out¬ 
 fits and travel. 15,000 
 
 More liberal provision for in¬ 
 adequately supported work. . 15,000 
 
 Are we not in debt to our self-sacri¬ 
 ficing missionaries and to the least 
 of these ” until we more than meet 
 this increase ? 
 
 BRIGHT SPOTS IN THE PICTURE 
 
 A New Doctor for Ahmednagar 
 
 May, Dr. HaiTiet Clark, a phy- 
 mI sician with well-established 
 i)ractice and splendid equip¬ 
 ment, sailed to relieve Dr. Ruth 
 P. Hume in what has been a ‘‘ one 
 woman hospital ” for six years. Dr. 
 Clark has had experience in Red 
 Cross work in Greece, and is in every 
 way fitted to assume charge of the 
 hospital while Dr. Hume comes home 
 foi* her overdue furlough. The money 
 needed for Dr. Clark’s maintenance 
 has still to be provided. 
 
 Philippine Growth 
 
 At the Jubilee of the Woman’s 
 Board of Missions in 1917, new work 
 was assumed in the Philippines and 
 new money pledged. Because of this 
 fact two sisters are toda^^ at work— 
 Misses Anna and Florence Fox. 
 Anna, an evangelistic missionary, has 
 opened a hostel for girls where she 
 gives Bible training. But there is no 
 
 equipment and no funds to support- 
 these girls who must earn their own 
 way and study the Bible after their 
 day’s work is done. Yet Bible teach¬ 
 ers are sorely needed. Florence Fox 
 is the only nurse in the communit.y 
 and has already found appealing 
 \york in teaching the people simple 
 liygiene and sanitation. 
 
 An International Center 
 
 Amid Turkey’s tumult, our da}^ 
 school at Gedik Pasha, Constantino¬ 
 ple, has kept on its busy way. In the 
 last year 188 children have been re¬ 
 fused admittance because there was 
 no room for them. The 270 in at¬ 
 tendance are packed in like sardines. 
 Children of all nationalities in this 
 cosmopolitan cit}^ mingle in friendly 
 fashion and attend a common Sun¬ 
 day School where the attendance has 
 reached 500. Shall this Christian 
 
 service station ” be forbidden to 
 grow ? 
 
A. M.3n 
 
 THE WOMAN^S BOARDS 
 
 S55 
 
 CURRENTS OF INFLUENCE 
 
 (In the midst of confusion and political oppression the church, in the persons 
 of preachers and teachers, her students and church members, is setting a standard of 
 sympathy and service never before undertaken in China.) 
 
 China’s Attitude Japan’s Seed Sowers 
 
 A t the Wen Shan Girls’ School, 
 Foochow, a new gymnasium, 
 the gift of a former mission¬ 
 ary, has been opened. The Governor 
 of Fukien Province, with imposing 
 military escort, visited tlie school and, 
 in ai^preciation of the program 
 offered, made a gift of $100 for 
 needed apparatus. 
 
 This school is so understaffed that 
 a missionary of three years’ experi¬ 
 ence, who must act as principal next 
 year, recently wrote: ‘‘You know the 
 extremity of our High School this 
 coming fall. Just at the time when 
 education for girls is in such good 
 repute and becoming almost popular, 
 it is nothing short of tragic that our 
 school shoidd be in such a pathetic 
 state. I shall have to teach, super¬ 
 vise, keep unending office hours, con¬ 
 tinue the treasurer’s work, be adviser 
 for all the school societies, whose 
 name is legion in these days when the 
 student motto is Service. Of course 
 it simply cannot be done.” The 
 Hoard has sent temporary workers, 
 but no permanent appointee for this 
 important post. A missionary of the 
 American Board says: “ I think 
 girls’ educational work about the most 
 important work tli(‘re is in (hiina. A 
 well-educated girl makes far moi-e 
 irn{)ressiou than a, W(‘ll-(‘du('a,t(‘d hoy.” 
 
 Doors Opened by Famine 
 
 From refugee woiFrooms in North 
 Cliina, superintended by Woman’s 
 Board missionaries, warmth and cheer 
 have gone to thousands of women. At 
 Lai Shui (Peking field) doors of fam¬ 
 ine have opened big chances to reach 
 the children. Eighty girls were re¬ 
 ceived into a school in a village not 
 before reached. Relief for the starv¬ 
 ing bodies has been poured into China 
 by American friends. What is to be¬ 
 come of hungry minds and needy 
 souls ? 
 
 A Japanese Inspector of Silk Worm 
 Culture in three provinces became an 
 ardent believer in the Christian re¬ 
 ligion through his little son, a kinder¬ 
 garten pupil in the Imadegawa Kin¬ 
 dergarten, Kyoto. Having lost his 
 wife and son, he has become a “ tour¬ 
 ing missionary,” organizing Bible 
 classes and preaching as he makes his 
 business rounds. No tabulation of 
 souls thus taught can be made. This 
 is one instance in many of the influ¬ 
 ence of little children in the Mission 
 Kindergartens. Yet a Japanese mis¬ 
 sionary says, ‘ ‘ The money sent by the 
 Woman’s Board does not cover one- 
 half of the regnlar expenses of the 
 Kindergarten.” 
 
 India’s Hope 
 
 In Japan everybody smiles, in 
 China many smile, in India nobody 
 smiles.” Yet in Capron Hall there 
 ai*e 500 students who have been taught 
 the joy of living. They have been 
 freed from slavery to sui)erstition, 
 
 A STUDENT GOVERNMENT GROUP. CAPRON 
 HALL JIIGII SCHOOL, MADURA, INDIA 
 
 have their own Self-Government So¬ 
 ciety, and are going out into all 
 Southern India as light-bearers. Ma¬ 
 dura District without Capron Hall 
 would be a Massachusetts and Rhode 
 
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 THE WOMAN'S BOARDS 
 
 A* M.3J2 
 
 Island area with no high school girls, 
 no trained women teachers in its lower 
 schools, no educated wives in the 
 Jiomes of its pastors. Yet it has no 
 adequate dormitory, not sufficient 
 class room, no Domestic Science build¬ 
 ing. For years lack of funds has 
 limited its influence. 
 
 An African Product 
 
 Listen to the story of one of the 
 graduates of Inanda Seminary, 
 founded in 1868 by the first mission¬ 
 ary of W. B. M., Mrs. Mary K. 
 
 Edwards, who is still reaping the 
 fruits of her wonderful seed-sowing 
 in South Africa, though in her nine¬ 
 ty-second year. This student was 
 supported by gifts from Turkey. She 
 is now at work in one of the darkest 
 spots in the district—the only girl in 
 all the region who ever went to school. 
 She has opened the first school in the 
 whole countryside, where she is moth¬ 
 ering, evangelizing and training for 
 future service fifty-eight young peo¬ 
 ple. But she is the only Christian 
 worker there. 
 
 WOMAN’S BOARD OF MISSIONS OF THE INTERIOR 
 
 19 South LaSalle Street, Chicago 
 
 BUDGET FOR 1922 
 Receipts 
 
 Receipts from Churches. 
 
 Other Income . 
 
 Disbursements 
 
 Appropriations to the field: Salaries . $78,997 
 
 Work . 79,299 
 
 Additional grants to the field. 
 
 Furlough, travel and outfit grants. 
 
 Administration and promotion . 
 
 Share in denominational charges. 
 
 Toward reducing deficit . 
 
 Left Unprovided for 
 
 $273,000 
 
 25,000 
 
 - $298,000 
 
 $158,296 (1) 
 
 17,500 (2) 
 
 59,600 
 35,000 
 8,000 
 19,604 (3) 
 
 -$298,000 
 
 Balance of deficit . $11,396 (3) 
 
 Needed increase in appropriations. 36,000 
 
 Land and buildings (immediate needs)—Bulgaria, 
 
 $25,000; Greece, $30,000; India, $40,000; China, 
 
 $10,000; Japan, $50,000; Africa, $1,900. 156,900 
 
 Training candidates. 1,000 
 
 Union work . 5,000 
 
 - $210,296 
 
 Notes —(1) Based, dollar for dollar, on appropriations for 1921; (2) i.e., grants, to 
 cover unforeseen needs of regular work; (3) the year closed October 15, 1919, without 
 debt; the deficit October 15, 1920, was $31,000; August 15, 1920, showed a shortage of 
 $67,000, but as figures for 1921 are not complete only the $31,000 of 1920 is included in the 
 budget. 
 
 These figures make no provision for any new work. Increased receipts 
 are more than balanced by unavoidably increased expenses, due to unsettled 
 world conditions. If every cent of our askings is received, we shall barely 
 hold our own, and shall be obliged to try to secure additional gifts for the 
 buildings imperatively and immediately needed. 
 
 It is for the churches to say whether the work which they in faith have 
 undertaken shall go on. 
 
A.M.3J3 
 
 THE WOMAN^S BOARDS 
 
 S57 
 
 AT HOME AND ABROAD 
 
 HE territory of the Woman’s 
 Board of Missions of the 
 Interior comprises the states 
 between the Allegheny and the 
 Rocky Mountains with nineteen or¬ 
 ganized branches. In this its fifty- 
 fourth year it has a force of 115 mis¬ 
 sionaries in ten different countries. 
 They have built up an efficient line of 
 day schools, boarding schools, kinder¬ 
 gartens and colleges, training schools 
 
 and hospitals, social, industrial and 
 evangelistic work, which are pro¬ 
 foundly influencing the life of women 
 in those nations. If the home 
 churches could see these crowded 
 rooms filled with irresistibly attrac¬ 
 tive pupils, could see the changes 
 wrought in their lives, homes and 
 towns, and could see those others 
 ‘‘ without the gate,” no appeal would 
 need to be uttered for 1922. 
 
 THE EDUCATIONAL LADDER 
 
 Bottom 
 
 T the bottom of the educational 
 ladder are the kindergartens. 
 In Glory Kindergarten, Kobe, 
 Japan, the little folks learned last fall, 
 through fascinating story and play, 
 about the great World Sunday School 
 Convention and its motto, “ I am the 
 light of the world.” Every year at 
 Thanksgiving time they bring gifts 
 for the poor of their city, and this 
 year, besides, they filled little envel¬ 
 opes with money for the famine chil¬ 
 dren of China. How is that for in¬ 
 ternational friendship ? 
 
 The Glory Kindergarten Training 
 School graduated twelve fine young 
 kindergartners this year. One of 
 them, who had accepted a position in 
 a Christian kindergarten, was also 
 offered a government position at a 
 much higher salary, and her father 
 did his best to make her take it. But 
 she held firmly to her purpose of help¬ 
 ing to make little Christian citizens. 
 
 Top 
 
 At the top of the ladder are the 
 women’s colleges, so few but so much 
 needed for the training of Christian 
 leaders. The students of Yenching, 
 in Peking, have done this year what 
 no Chinese women ever did before: 
 planned and carried through, with¬ 
 out foreign initiative or supervision, 
 a refuge home which is considered a 
 model even by foreigners, for two 
 hundred little famine victims who 
 would otherwise have been sold into 
 the worst of slavery. 
 
 'Kobe College, with a strategic loca¬ 
 tion, a splendid faculty and govern¬ 
 ment recognition of its high standards, 
 has doubled its enrollment in six 
 years. The college and academy 
 numbered 550 in 1920-21, and for lack 
 of dormitory space 328 girls who had 
 passed the entrance examinations 
 were turned away. The new teacher 
 of social science says, How can I 
 talk about overcrowding in the homes 
 of the poor, to students who are sleep¬ 
 ing in overcrowded dormitory 
 rooms ? ’ ’ An opportunity has come to 
 buy a fine piece of land adjoining the 
 campus, which would give tlie needed 
 room. Shall we let this slip by? 
 Colleges in the Orient as well as in 
 America cannot be maintained with¬ 
 out endowment. For building and 
 endowment to meet the goveiaiment’s 
 requirements, $500,000 is needed in 
 the next four years. 
 
 Says a keen obseiwei’, aftei* a visit 
 to Japan last fall: ‘‘ Whenever I saw 
 a peculiarly gracious and strong and 
 winning Japanese woman, one wlio is 
 a force for good in her community, I 
 came to expect the words, ‘ Ob, she is 
 a graduate of Kobe College!’ ” 
 
 The Rounds 
 
 All the way up the laddei' are llie 
 scores of day schools and the sixteen 
 boarding schools. Every graduate 
 ‘‘ can become the center of a little 
 circle of influence that may spread to 
 far and unseen shores. When a girl 
 is the mistress of a little country 
 school, the field is pretty much liers, 
 
THE WOMAN^S BOARDS 
 
 A. M. 314 
 
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 and we always rejoice to help her in 
 any way, and to watch her as she 
 lights another beacon fire pointing the 
 road to the kingdom.’’ 
 
 In Dindigul, India, is a boarding 
 school which, though essential to the 
 whole mission system of education, is 
 lionsed in tumhle-down structures 
 that violate any number of govern¬ 
 ment rules and have been condemned 
 again and again. $15,500 must be 
 raised for tlie girls’ dormitory and 
 recitation building. 
 
 Bridgman Academy, Peking, has 
 won such a place in the affections of 
 the people that it can afford to be 
 very particular about the government 
 students it takes in; but it must have 
 laboratory equipment or it will not be 
 al)le to meet the entrance require¬ 
 ments of the university. 
 
 At El Euerte, Mexico, is a very new 
 school that has to use kerosene cases 
 for desks, yet has two hundred eager, 
 faithful pupils. 
 
 The boarding school at Lintsing, 
 ('hina, has half its new building com¬ 
 pleted and is obliged to choose be¬ 
 tween building the other half and 
 buying a furnace to make the first 
 half habitable; and the new building 
 is already so full that some of the 
 girls must eat from a shelf in the 
 kitchen. 
 
 Of the institutions at Samokov, 
 Bulgaria, the former prime minister 
 said : Your schools are becoming the 
 backbone of our national life.” This 
 because of their splendid training in 
 character. The girls must still live 
 and work in the old buildings that are 
 literally in danger of falling about 
 their ears; but work has been begun 
 on the fine new plant near Sofia, the 
 capital city, on the land which the 
 government, gave. Money is needed 
 at once to meet the construction costs, 
 which it is estimated will total $100,- 
 000 . 
 
 The Ministry of Healing 
 
 Four doctors and four nurses are 
 the contribution of the W. B. M. I. to 
 the healing of China. In Shaowu 
 
 there has been for years just one 
 woman doctor for over 2,000,000 peo¬ 
 ple. Now there are two Americans 
 and two Chinese, and they expect to 
 revolutionize the medical work for 
 women and children. The long- 
 awaited woman’s hospital is not quite 
 finished, for the money gave out be¬ 
 fore the floor was all down or the win¬ 
 dows all in. $1,250 is called for at 
 once. Similarly, $3,000 is needed to 
 put the necessary equipment into the 
 Kate Ford Whitman hospital in Fen- 
 chow, and the Esther Barton hospital 
 in Taiku is still under construction. 
 These two and the Williams Porter 
 hospitals in Tehchow were in the 
 famine area and were filled last win¬ 
 ter and spring with famine patients, 
 besides which the doctors and nurses 
 gave tliemselves to fighting epidemics 
 and superintending relief work. 
 
 Our Native Co-Workers 
 
 Less in the public eye than the 
 schools and hospitals is the patient, 
 consecrated work of the native Bible 
 women. Going into the homes of the 
 people as no foreigner can, teaching 
 and comforting, these women are a 
 vital part of every mission’s work. 
 Many a future leader has first been 
 brought to school by the Bible 
 woman; many an inaccessible village 
 has been opened up by her. For this 
 work she receives a bare living, and 
 with rising prices times have been 
 hard indeed. 
 
 From kindergarten to college, and 
 out in the remote villages, most of the 
 actual teaching is done by. native 
 teachers, generally under missionary 
 supervision but often carrying great 
 responsibility. With these and the 
 native doctors and nurses, indispen¬ 
 sable to the hospitals, the staff of na¬ 
 tive helpers is many times larger 
 than the missionary force. Mission¬ 
 aries and native workers alike live on 
 the merest pittance, while giving 
 themselves as few of us can realize to 
 the work of the Kingdom. Shall we 
 at home l)e less loval? 
 
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 THE SURVEY 
 
 S6J 
 
 of the churches in the State Conferences, who pass upon it, and the local 
 church is the judge of what its members shall be asked for. In the last 
 resort, we believe it is Christ Himself who is asking this of us. Should it be 
 clear that it is not His call, by all means let it be refused or ignored. 
 
 
 THE 
 
 BUDGET 
 
 
 
 The following figures are from the Year Book, and include contributions 
 from churches, from individuals and “ specially designated gifts.” They cover 
 the calendar year, whereas the Budgets itemized in the several sections of the 
 Survey are for fiscal years, which show somewhat different amounts. Detailed 
 reports of each Society may be had on application. 
 
 1920 Receipts. 1922 Askings. Increase Asked. 
 
 A. M. A. (p. 5) 
 
 Contributions .$396,075 $650,000 $253,925 
 
 Other Sources . 443,371 443,371 
 
 C. E. S. (p. 12) 
 
 Contributions ... 
 
 Other Sources . 
 
 151,998 
 
 27,166 
 
 $839,446 
 
 275,000 
 
 27,166 
 
 $1,093,371 
 
 123,002 
 
 Educational Inst. 
 
 
 179,164 
 
 180,432 
 
 
 302,166 
 
 350,000 
 
 169,568 
 
 C. H. M. S. (p. 17) 
 Contributions . 
 
 632,340 
 
 173,705 
 
 
 1,000,000 
 
 173,705 
 
 
 367,660 
 
 Other Sources . 
 
 
 
 C. C. B. S. (p. 17) 
 
 Contributions . 
 
 Other Sources . 
 
 246,913 
 
 40,423 
 
 806,045 
 
 425,000 
 
 40,423 
 
 1,173,705 
 
 178,087 
 
 C. S. S. E. S. (p. 17) 
 
 Contributions . 
 
 Other Sources . 
 
 77,376 
 
 2,698 
 
 287,336 
 
 125,000 
 
 2,698 
 
 465,423 
 
 47,624 
 
 C. B. M. R. and An¬ 
 nuity Fund (p. 31) 
 Contributions, M. R. .. . 
 Other Sources, M. R. . . 
 
 86,175 
 
 77,836 
 
 80,074 
 
 100,000 
 
 77,836 
 
 127,698 
 
 13,825 
 
 Contrib. An. Fund .... 
 
 
 164,011 
 
 
 177,836 
 
 50,000 
 
 50,000 
 
 W. H. M. F. (p. 33) 
 Share of homeland bud¬ 
 get included in above. 
 
 
 [273,914] 
 
 
 [700,000] 
 
 [426,086] 
 
 A. B. C. F. M. (p. 36) 
 
 Contributions . 
 
 Other Sources . 
 
 845,294 
 
 344,829 
 
 
 1,275,000 
 
 344,829 
 
 
 429,706 
 
 Woman’s Bds. p. 53) 
 
 Contributions . 
 
 Other Sources . 
 
 524,353 
 
 58,472 
 
 1,190,123 
 
 700,000 
 
 58,472 
 
 1,619,829 
 
 175,647 
 
 Miscellaneous . 
 
 
 582,825 
 
 9,015 
 
 
 758,472 
 
 50,000 
 
 40,985 
 
 Totals. 
 
 $4,318,471 
 
 
 $6,168,500 
 
 $1,850,029 
 
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 THE SURVEY 
 
 A» M. 318 
 
 WHAT IS OUR SHARE? 
 
 What It Is Not 
 
 1. It is not so much per member. A simple mathematical process 
 shows that $5,000,000 divided among 819,205 members amounts to $6.10 each. 
 But it will not come that way. It is a rare church which has as mau}^ sub¬ 
 scribers as it has members. The 14 pei* cent of our members on the absentee 
 list are almost unreachable. The faint-hearted, the poor, the sick, the care¬ 
 less, and the non-prcductive must be taken into account. 
 
 2 . It is not a percentage of expenses. It is easy to say that if our sum 
 total of current expenses is $15,000,000 and our total needs for benevolences 
 are $5,000,000, it means one-third of what we pay for our current expenses. 
 Some churches are rich, some are poor. Some churches have home missionary 
 aid; others have endowments sufficient to meet all current expenses. Some 
 churches have tremendous responsibilities for service locally; othei'S have al¬ 
 most nothing to do but to foster their own spiritual lives, it cannot be on the 
 basis of relative exjienses. 
 
 3 . It is not a percentage of former giving. Some churches have been 
 cultivated consistently for generations and are doing their level best now; 
 others, wdiich have nevei' been cultivated, are doing almost nothing. 
 
 4 . It is not exactly the apportionment handed down by the Confer¬ 
 ence or Association. Committees do tlieii* best to ai*rive at reasonable and 
 equitable figui'es, but no apportionment can ever be made absolutely equitable 
 and, of course, no one has any authority to levy a tax on any chui'ch. The 
 apportionment is a fi'aternal suggestion for the guidance of the clnirch. 
 
 What It Is 
 
 1. It is much larger than formerly. The facts presented on page 
 4 make it clear that to maintain the standard of missionary work of the 
 past, there is needed a little over three times as much in contributions of the 
 living as before the war. This is a real challenge, but it is not beyond our 
 reach, providing we ha^m an adequate conception of its worth-whileness. 
 
 2 . It is a proper proportion of income. Nobody knows the aggregate of 
 our income. The New Testament does not make the tithe obligator^^ upon 
 Christians. Experience, however, proves that tithing is a beneficent practice, 
 and that Christians who go beyond this Old Testament standard are the hap¬ 
 piest Christians. It is possible to arrive at a reasonable goal for a church’s 
 benevolent aim by estimating the aggregate income of, its constituency. 
 
 3 . It is somewhere near the apportionment. Probably the apportion¬ 
 ment is so nearly fair that it is as good a figure as any. If it is large compared 
 with other churches, in all probability it is still within reacii, and the meeting 
 of it would bring a spiritual benediction. Not how little is our share, but how^ 
 large a share can we take, may well be the attitude of each church. 
 
 It is notable that the year of greatest increases in benevolences shows 
 the largest number of accessions in our history—71,857. Rhode Island illus¬ 
 trates this connection: missionary contributions, 1919, $23,624; 1920, $52,722, 
 an increase of 123 per cent. Simultaneously, there was a grading up in the 
 whole life of the churches, especially in evangelistic endeavors, and the fol¬ 
 lowing vote was passed by the Conference in May: 
 
 In view of the great advance steps taken by Congregational churches of 
 Rhode Island during the past two years, advance in giving and in solicitude 
 for personal allegiance of men and women to Jesus Christ and His church, and 
 recognizing that for such forward steps we owe much to the spirit engen¬ 
 dered by our Congregational World Movement therefore, 
 
 Be It Resolved, That this Conference put itself on record as approving the 
 team-work spirit of our Congregational World Movement. 
 
A. M.3J9 
 
 THE SURVEY 
 
 S63 
 
 WE CAN DO IT 
 
 The denomination can do* it. The accompanying illustration visualizes 
 Ihe size of the task. The long line represents a conservative estimate of the 
 total income of oiir members. The little black spot in the corner shows how 
 much of that income is T‘(‘quired to produce $5,000,000. No argument is 
 needed in support of the asscition that we can do it easily if everyone does 
 his share. But that is perhaps too much to hope for. The second line shows 
 what would be required if half of our people do nothing. It stands for the 
 income of the other half. That little black spot in the corner represents the 
 
 Income of Total Membership 
 
 If Everybody Gives 
 
 I 
 
 2% Income of J /2 
 Membership 
 
 If V2 Give 
 
 Income of Vs 
 Membership 
 
 If Vs Give 
 
 proportioji needed of the income of one-half of our people. Still no argument 
 is required. The third line represents a safe estimate of the income of one- 
 third of our membership. Suppose that two-thirds of us should do nothing 
 towards this great enterprise, it remains for one-third to provide for that 
 little black spot in the corner representing approximately 3 per cent of the 
 total income of that one-third, and still there is no call for argument. 
 
 The average church can dp it. Here argument is not needed because 
 average churches are doing it. Partial reports from the following states indi¬ 
 cate that the 1921 apportionments have been raised or exceeded: in Massa¬ 
 chusetts 44 churches; Washington 38; Georgia (white) 37; Illinois 34; Wis¬ 
 consin 32; Southern California 24; Florida 26; Maine 25; Kansas 19; Minne¬ 
 sota 16; Montana 16; Northeim California 15; Ohio 14; Tennessee 13; Okla¬ 
 homa 10; North Carolina 8; Louisiana 8; Colorado 7; Oregon 7; Indiana 5; 
 Kentucky 5; Idaho 3; Wyoming 3; Utah 1. 
 
 My church can do it. If dcmonsti*ation is needed here, let thei*c be a 
 careful study of the resources of the church, of the number participating in 
 the missionary enterprise, of the means taken to seciu-e intei'cst in that enter¬ 
 prise, and of the process foi* enlisting that intei’est in adive particij)ation by 
 actually securing subscriptions, and there will be little need of argument to 
 assure the church that it can do its share. The ])rinci])al needs in any given 
 church are that the members should know about the work and therefore be 
 interested in it, and that they should be given adecpiate op])ortunity for tak¬ 
 ing their fair share of the responsibility. 
 
 I can do it. Ultimately the answer to the call lies with the individual. 
 With him it is fundamentally a question of how valuable he considers the 
 enterprise. Generally speaking, we put our income into necessities, comforts, 
 luxuries, extravagances, investments and contributions. Ordinarily we can 
 cut into extravagances, luxuries, comforts, and even so-called necessities, if 
 we seriously want to, many times beyond the amount of our contributions. 
 
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 THE SURVEY 
 
 A. M. 320 
 
 THESE HAVE DONE IT 
 
 J T is easy to theorize. The foregoing propositions seem plausible enough. 
 But actions speak louder than words. Have ordinary churches, facing 
 ordinary difficulties, undertaking fair shares of the enlarged budget, 
 actually reached the goal? Yes. Many of them have and many more are in 
 the process. Not until the end of the year shall we know how many, but we 
 have heard of over 400 where the goal is assured, and in the Emergency Cam¬ 
 
 Examples of churches, 
 
 both large and small, that have 
 
 raised or ex- 
 
 ce(*dod their apportionments are the following 
 
 
 
 Name 
 
 
 Apportionment 
 
 ^Expectation 
 
 Evanston, Ill. 
 
 .. First . 
 
 $45,000 
 
 $30,000 
 
 
 
 (entire amount possible) 
 
 Providence, R. I. 
 
 . . Central . 
 
 20,402 
 
 20,402 
 
 Los Angeles, Cal. 
 
 ..First . 
 
 13,556.40 
 
 18,000 
 
 LaGrange, Ill. 
 
 
 18,375 
 
 20,280 
 
 Bridgeport, Conn. 
 
 . .United . 
 
 12,636 
 
 12,636 
 
 Portland, Maine. 
 
 .. State St. 
 
 12,000 
 
 12,000 
 
 Winnetka, Ill. 
 
 
 11,000 
 
 11,000 
 
 Fort Wayne, Ind. 
 
 
 3,094 
 
 5,000 
 
 Northfield, Minnesota . 
 
 
 4,586 
 
 4,586 
 
 Fitchburg, Mass. 
 
 . . Rollstone . 
 
 3,134 
 
 3,202 
 
 Worthington, Minn. 
 
 
 842 
 
 1,342 
 
 Weymouth, Mass. 
 
 
 679 
 
 900 
 
 Marlboro, N. H. 
 
 
 660 
 
 660 
 
 Boxford, Mass. 
 
 
 642 
 
 800 
 
 Oakham, Mass. 
 
 
 375 
 
 750 
 
 Lincoln Heights, Wash. 
 
 
 185 
 
 350 
 
 Lovell, Maine . 
 
 
 50 
 
 200 
 
 paign of 1919 close to half of the churches lifted their benevolences to the 
 standard called for now. To make it concrete we print a short list taken 
 almost at random. 
 
 Many of our larger churches 
 which two or three years ago they 
 ing to consider. For example: First 
 apportionment of $45,000, $30,000 
 strong possibility that the remain 
 of the year. The First Church of 
 raise a like amount. The latest 
 subscriptions already in a little 
 smaller churches whose appor 
 less than $100 have accepted 
 larger than their former appor 
 courageously and successfully to 
 This great adventure is 
 Christ for the Kingdom of 
 church spire is beckoning 
 It is directing toward God 
 multitudes; in its message 
 
 have undertaken to raise amounts 
 would have been absolutely unwill- 
 Church of Evanston, Ill., with an 
 of which seems assured, with a 
 der will be secured before the end 
 Oak Park, Ill., has undertaken to 
 report from that church indicates 
 below $30,000. Likewise many 
 tionments two years ago were 
 amounts which are several times 
 tionments, and have undertaken 
 raise the amounts suggested, 
 with the program of 
 God on earth. The 
 us to lofty aspirations, 
 the hearts of earth’s 
 is the hope of the 
 passionate spirit pierce 
 
 human race. May its'"^^’* 
 and sanctify the challenge of these pages and enter into the heart of every 
 reader, that God’s mind may rule in us. 
 

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