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 IMPORTANCE OP 
 MARCH OFFERING 
 
 It would overestimarte 
 
 the impdrtaiMJe of thei March OflPering 
 for Foreign Missions the first Sunday in 
 March.^' 
 
 1.*—tt important to the churched 
 
 themselv^i very life and future 
 
 usefulness depend in a large measure 
 
 2it---tVliatever ma the niethod of 
 the church for Missions during the year, 
 Murch; 7th ihc^ldJ)e^ a of emphasis; 
 
 and infof^atihn; a inspiration for 
 Foreign ;;Missiohs*j.--:/::a^ 
 
 
 FOREIGN CHRISTIAN 
 MISS ION ARV SOCIETY 
 
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 3.^The work ofForeign Society 
 is now larger in the regions®Jond than 
 at any former period, and itis obligations 
 are correspondingly increased. 
 
 Box 884 CINCINNATI, QHIO 
 
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 4.-r*^e reports of our Commission to 
 the mission fields bring to; us a clear 
 and distinct voice for an immediate ad- 
 ; vance in all Asia. Not to heed this 
 voice would- be sheer- shortsightedness. 
 
 Please order your March Offering; 
 supplies fb-day, and begin a thorough 
 preparation for a great offering. 
 
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 ourselves” 
 
 A Missionary Ideal for the Local Church 
 
 ♦I.. 7**® *®®’ 'diagram above is one of slogans oi 
 
 2^ stE ~ over the world churches 
 
 ® ”u *® reach this ideal. Some have reached it and others 
 
 SoS aTKa!!^ should do as much 
 
 <.!»„!* if >^“f®«^le tha 60% of the amount given for Mis^ 
 
 sions should be spent for Foreign Missions for the following reasons: 
 
 I the ratio quite generally recognized in nearlv all the 
 
 ThrBan«r?f ^ »t the Presbyterians, 
 
 me Baptists, SS%, and the Congregationalists more than 80%. - 
 
 nf the ^^® fcalieve the ratio for Foreign Missions is only fair because 
 
 fireivn? w scope of such work. The Foreign Society does on the 
 foreign field what all of our societies do for the homeland. 
 
 ca,,,^ef ml i*®'i®’'* *® no more than just, be- 
 
 e of the largeness of the Foreign Missionary enterprise. “ 
 
 in ALnSfi'*®? '"®*’® ^*0>000,000 our people expended all told 
 
 in America last year, we also invest our lives here. 
 
A FOREWORD 
 
 The March Offering Manual has come to be a neces¬ 
 sity. The preachers and other leaders expect it. 
 
 It has been the aim of the Foreign Society to make 
 this issue as good as the best. It will be found full of 
 valuable information and meaty things about the world- 
 task. It has cost much labor and pains in its prepara¬ 
 tion. 
 
 The Manual has been divided into parts for proper 
 classification and for greater convenience. 
 
 This document will repay a careful and thoughtful 
 reading. It embraces a vast amount of information. 
 We believe it will help the March Offering. 
 
 The article in Part C, “The Missionary Enterprise 
 Criticised,'’ is one of the strongest missionary docu¬ 
 ments we have ever published. Do not fail to read all 
 of it. 
 
 Our medical work on the foreign field is quite fully 
 set forth. A much larger work is being done than many 
 of the friends have supposed. 
 
 Altogether, it is hoped this Manual will awaken 
 thought, stimulate interest, and insure larger returns 
 from the March Offering for Foreign Missions the first 
 Sunday in March. 
 
 Let us express the hope that this Manual will be 
 filed for future reference. " 
 
PART 1 
 
 The Foreign Christian Missionary Society 
 
 As goes the preacher, so goes the March Offering. 
 
 Last year Africa led all the countries in which the Society 
 does work in the number of conversions. The number of 
 baptisms was 1,034. 
 
 The preacher is the key-man in the March Offering. 
 
 The total number of additions last year was 2,729. 
 
 This is the fortieth year of the history of the Society. 
 Let us celebrate the year by a great advance movement. 
 
 If the preacher is a missionary man, the church will be 
 a missionary church. 
 
 During the past thirty-nine years the Society has re¬ 
 ceived and expended $5,738,196. This small amount has 
 planted New Testament Christianity in all the fields in 
 which we are doing work. It is a great showing. And 
 our churches are far stronger at home because of what they 
 have done abroad. 
 
 Please let no church fail to observe the March Offering 
 the first Sunday in March. We must not give up this day 
 for world-wide evangelization. The churches must be 
 
 taught and inspired for the task before them. 
 
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 9 
 
In 1876 only thirty of our churches contributed to For¬ 
 eign Missions, and they gave only $20. Last year 3,187 
 churches gave $141,604. This is growth. The advance 
 must be continued. 
 
 Much of the success of the day will depend, of course, 
 upon the preparation put into it. 
 
 Our first and most insistent appeal is to the preacher. 
 
 Last year the receipts amounted to $464,149, a gain over 
 the previous year of $29,965. There has been a gain every 
 year for fourteen years, except one. The receipts have more 
 than doubled in ten years. During the past five years the 
 receipts have increased $103,037, or an average of more than 
 $20,000 per year. 
 
 Do not forget the 181 missionaries far out on the heathen 
 field. 
 
 It is time to prepare for the March Offering. 
 
 How the years do fly! How the work does grow! 
 
 Do not fail to observe the first Sunday in March as a day 
 devoted to Foreign Missions in your church. 
 
 Order the March Offering Envelopes, the Pastoral Let¬ 
 ters, and all necessary supplies. They are furnished free of 
 charge. 
 
 Hold a Foreign Missionary Rally in your church. 
 
 See that a thorough canvass is made in your church. See 
 every member. 
 
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WHY TAKE THE MARCH OFFERING? 
 
 We take the March Offering for the following reasons: 
 
 (1) Our Lord waits yet ‘‘to see of the travail of his soul and 
 be satisfied/’ 
 
 (2) He told his disciples to go into all the world and preach 
 the gospel to every creature. This was his last com¬ 
 mand and has the authority of his life and love back of 
 it, and it must be obeyed. 
 
 (3) Multitudes of those for whom he died have never heard 
 of him, and they cannot believe in him of whom they 
 have not heard. 
 
 (4) We believe that if the church is faithful, the difficult task 
 can be accomplished, for the Book of God is pledged to 
 this victory in a thousand promises. 
 
 (5) We believe that the only way to do great things on the 
 mission field is for the churches to co-operate and put 
 their offerings together. One church cannot well build 
 a hospital or a college, or establish a mission station. 
 
 (6) We believe that “the light that shines farthest shines 
 brightest near home.” 
 
 Nashville, Tennessee. Carey E. Morgan. 
 
 WHY I OBSERVE THE MARCH OFFERING 
 
 Wm. Ross Lloyd 
 
 (i) It is supreme in the heart of Father, Son, and Holy 
 Spirit—Heaven’s Goal. 
 
 {2) It is the supreme need of the church for her own growth 
 Harmony. Healing, unity, and inspiration to the un¬ 
 saved at home. 
 
 (3) It is the supreme need of myself as a faithful steward. 
 I am debtor, teacher, recruiter, financial agent, or a 
 hypocrite. 
 
 (4) It is the supreme need of one billion men, women, and 
 children, unutterably pitiable and helpless, who cannot 
 wait an hour. 
 
 (5) It is the supreme need of the unborn billions to prepare 
 for their advent into Christian homes. 
 
 (6) It is the supreme need to “hasten the coming of the day 
 of God” and to stop all sorrow in the whole earth. 
 
 (7) It is the supreme joy of our departed loved ones and all 
 
 “spirits of just men made perfect in heaven” to know 
 that you and I are doing this supreme work. World¬ 
 wide evangelization is the one topic on the “golden 
 streets.” . 
 
 (8) It will be my supreme regret in eternity if I neglect this 
 supreme opportunity to work at this supreme task. 
 
THE VALUE OF A COLLEGE LIVING-LINK 
 
 Intro. I. We are the only Living-link school among us. 
 
 Notice 2. The Living-link idea is growing in power. 
 
 3. This indicates that it is considered beneficial. 
 
 1. What is the General Value of a Living-link? 
 
 1. It brings the missionary and his supporters into closer 
 touch. 
 
 2. This touch is personal and definite, and therefore more 
 powerful. 
 
 3. It also makes possible more definite information both 
 ways. 
 
 4. It makes supporters and missionary realize more vividly 
 their responsibility. 
 
 5. It enables the supporters to choose their own represen¬ 
 tative. 
 
 6. It is special and therefore more intense along all lines. 
 
 II. What is the Value of a College Living-link? 
 
 1. Those students as a class will be leaders in their respec¬ 
 tive churches. 
 
 2. They come from many churches and therefore can spread 
 the benefits more widely. 
 
 3. It plants a great idea in the most fertile soil. 
 
 4. It plants the idea at the most propitious time. 
 
 5. It preoccupies the ground and prevents worldliness. 
 
 6. It bends the twig in the right direction. 
 
 7. It furnishes a worthy and general bond of union—Col¬ 
 lege Spirit.. 
 
 Con. I. The college Living-link is the most important Liv¬ 
 ing-link. 
 
 2. All our colleges could be and should be Living-links. 
 
 3. Prayerful consecration, preparation, and effort will 
 secure the desired result. 
 
 Prof. H. L. Calhoun. 
 
 Lexington, Kentucky. 
 
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FOREIGN SOCIETY 
 Gains Last Year 
 
 GAINED—Medical Treatments, 20,848. 
 
 GAINED—Schools, 8. 
 
 GAINED—Churches, 7. 
 
 GAINED—Church Membership, 993. 
 
 GAINED—Sunday-schools, 58. 
 
 GAINED—School Membership,, 839. 
 
 GAINED—School and Medical Fees, $2,484. 
 
 GAINED—Church Buildings, 11. 
 
 GAINED—Contributing Churches, 65. 
 
 GAINED—Contributing Sunday-schools, 71. 
 
 GAINED—Personal Gifts, 322. 
 
 GAINED—In Amount of Personal Gifts, $1,175. 
 
 GAINED—Miscellaneous Receipts, $23,745. 
 
 GAINED—New Living-links, 28. 
 
 GAINED—Total Receipts, $29,965. 
 
 EFFICIENCY 
 
 Business Efficiency to be Consecrated to God’s Service: 
 
 Exodus 18:25: And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them 
 
 heads over all the people. 
 
 Exodus 36: 1: And Bezalel and Oholiab shall work, and every wise-hearted 
 
 man, in whom Jehovah hath put wisdom and understanding to 
 know how to work for the service of the sanctuary, according 
 to all that Jehovah hath commanded. 
 
 Luke 12: 42: And the Lord said. Who then is the faithful and wise steward, 
 
 whom his lord shall set over his household. 
 
 “The reason,” says Dr. John R. Mott, “why so many churches ac¬ 
 complish so little for the world’s evangelization is because they have 
 no adequate plan and because they have not enlisted the leadership 
 of men combining business sense and missionary spirit.” 
 
 The late Mr. John H. Converse, of the Baldwin Locomotive Works 
 in Philadelphia, very truly said: “When business men apply the same 
 energy and intelligence to the work of missions which govern in their 
 commercial ventures, then the proposition to evangelize the world in 
 this generation will be no longer a dream.” 
 
 Dr. Munger has said that “there is no better test of a minister’s 
 character and ability to carry on and lead a parish than in the way in 
 which he manages its charities.” 
 
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PREPARATION FOR THE MARCH OFFERING 
 
 1 . Realize its Importance.—Nothing is more vital to 
 the success of missions than that pastors and leaders shall 
 put the question of world-evangelization in its right place 
 in the church. In the light of Christ’s last words to his dis¬ 
 ciples, it is hardly imaginable that he would place a local 
 church’s relationship to world-wide missions anywhere but 
 at the very front of its endeavor. If Foreign Missions bulks 
 large in the thought of pastor and people, the offerings on 
 which Foreign Missions depends will bulk large also. 
 
 If this work is relegated to a little corner of the church’s 
 life, in thought and emphasis, the offering will be fully as 
 puny as the conception of the task. The March Offering for 
 Foreign Missions is the opportunity of the people to carry 
 out Christ’s supreme command to go into all the world and 
 preach the gospel to every creature. To fail to realize the 
 importance of this opportunity is to handicap both Christ 
 and the giver. Let the pastor read and ponder and absorb 
 great literature on God’s world and God’s work, and let the 
 Bible be to the front in it all. 
 
 2 . Create an Atmosphere.—People will not give self- 
 forgetfully “off a cold collar.” If saving the world is the 
 biggest thing in this world, every church ought to be 
 electric with the world-passion of Jesus. There is an at¬ 
 mosphere that loosens heart-strings and purse-strings—fill 
 the church with it. Begin and end with prayer. Preach, 
 teach, talk, and get others to talk. There is no better way 
 than to get a little group of people around you who want to 
 follow Jesus’s program, and pray and talk with them about 
 the task. They will be a wall of fire about you, burning in 
 and burning out. The whole church will feel the impact of 
 such an inner circle. 
 
 Get others besides yourself to talk about Foreign Mis¬ 
 sions in public, and to pray likewise. Make no apologies, do 
 no begging, banish all cant. Stand out before the people 
 with tenderness and boldness, and help them to see that 
 there is no compromise in the church’s platform. Preach 
 missionary sermons, tell missionary stories, array mission¬ 
 ary facts, proclaim missionary victories, challenge the people 
 to share in the greatest task on earth. Sear the souls of the 
 people with the horror and ignorance and pitiful need of 
 pagan fields, and then flash before them the mighty victories 
 of God as he walks and works in these distant lands. 
 
 3 . Make Worthy Plans.—How often men have preached 
 that the supreme task of the church was to evangelize the 
 
world, and then taken the offering with less planning than 
 that exercised in a Sunday-school picnic. If it’s the 
 biggest task, then lay the biggest plans. Will Christ be 
 pleased at big missionary sermons when the plans for the 
 offering are on a miserable vest-pocket contribution basis? 
 When Billy Sunday goes to a city for an evangelistic cam¬ 
 paign, the churches are alive with plans three months in 
 advance. Is a church’s share in a local evangelistic cam¬ 
 paign of any more importance than a church’s share in 
 world-wide conquest? Do not most of us fail right there? 
 Are our plans on a par with our preaching? Organize com¬ 
 mittees, distribute literature, present facts, show the people 
 what they are doing and what they might do. 
 
 Do not fail to send out pastoral letters and envelopes with 
 the names of the people on them. Take everybody into your 
 confidence, and take nothing for granted. Work, and have 
 others working for a record attendance on the first Sunday 
 in March, and lay plans to reach every one who does not 
 attend. It is well to get some of the best people pledged in 
 advance in a generous way, and then use their pledges as an 
 incentive to others. Lay your plans as carefully as you 
 would for church dedication or a great evangelistic cam¬ 
 paign, and then try and bring the working abreast of the 
 planning. 
 
 4 . Execute.—The March Offering day can be made a 
 day long to be remembered. It should be a spiritual day, 
 a happy day, and a decisive day. Don’t preach too long. 
 Mark Twain told of being moved to give $ioo for Foreign 
 Missions early in the pastor’s burning appeal. But the ser¬ 
 mon lasted so long that it lost its point, and the listener 
 gradually suffered reversion, until he finally stole ten cents 
 from the plate when it was passed. 
 
 Have everything conveniently arranged, so that the offer¬ 
 ing can be smoothly and quickly taken. Make it easy with 
 pencils and pledge-cards for people to subscribe if they have 
 not brought the money. Best of all, make an Every-Member 
 Canvass, reaching those in attendance for pledges as far as 
 possible, and-then, through a strong committee, follow up 
 the work until every one is faced with a personal appeal to 
 support the great work. On the offering day study to make 
 not only the preaching effective, but also the songs and the 
 whole service. Send the people away feeling that a great 
 obligation has been faced in a worthy way, and with the 
 assurance that if Christ has not had his way in their hearts 
 it is no fault of theirs. 
 
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MOTIVES FOR THE MARCH OFFERING 
 
 1 . A Gracious Gratitude.—If our people were filled 
 with deep gratitude for God’s wonderful gift of the gospel, 
 our contributions for Foreign Missions would flow like 
 water. The whole plan for the offering should be set on 
 the foundation of thanksgiving. If hearts are overflowing 
 with gratitude there can be no begging—gifts will come as 
 an expression of joy. The Bolenge, Africa, Christians bring 
 their missionary gifts as a thank offering. Remind the * 
 church that they are all the product of missions and that all 
 good things in our lives and times come from Christ. A 
 gracious gratitude to God will open deep fountains of giving. 
 
 2 . The Wondrous Success.—This is a motive to giv¬ 
 ing of tremendous appeal. Missions is the most success¬ 
 ful enterprise known. To deny it is to deny the evident 
 working of God. This is the united testimony of more than 
 24,000 missionaries now living, the testimony of all the mis¬ 
 sionaries who have lived in the past, the testimony of kings, 
 of presidents and diplomats, and statesmen. It is the testi¬ 
 mony of millions of men and women now enjoying Christian 
 privileges and Christian hope, that once sat in darkness. 
 Appeal to the motive of success by telling the story of our 
 Congo mission. The same ratio of growth here in America 
 last year would have given us 400,000 converts. Recite the 
 victories of the Philippine Islands, where last year with a 
 meager force we baptized almost 1,000. Think of more than 
 800 native workers, of more than 5,000 in our schools, of our 
 wondrous hospital work, and of nearly a million dollars’ 
 worth of property acquired. Look where you may and the 
 facts of success overwhelm us. 
 
 3 . The Appeal to the Heroic.—How the self-forget¬ 
 ful sacrifice of R. Ray Eldred and wife in Africa, and of 
 James Ware and Mrs. Ethel Garrett in China shames our 
 penuriousness! The last word Mr. Eldred said to the little 
 church at Longa before starting on his long trip was, “Count 
 no cost too high for Africa.” He sleeps beneath the jungle 
 trees of the equator, but his dauntless spirit challenges us 
 to be men on March 7. Is service to be cheaper than money? 
 
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Are we to hold our coin more precious than he did his life? 
 It is a deaf ear, indeed, that cannot hear the call of distant 
 Tibet as it is voiced in the sacrifice of Dr. Susie Rijnhart and 
 Dr. Z. S. Loftus. The graves of G. L. Wharton in India and 
 Charles E. Garst in Japan send their white challenge to the 
 souls of men in this soft age. All that is dear and sacrificial 
 in our past missionary history demands that we shall be 
 honest with God and with ourselves on the first Sunday in 
 March. 
 
 4 . The Constraining Love of Christ.—This motive 
 overtops all others. Here is the supreme test. If we do 
 not respond to the love of our Lord, then our souls are 
 dead indeed. Let us not hide from the truth, but face it. 
 If our people are not constrained by the love of Christ to 
 carry out his program, we have forfeited our right to exist 
 and have sunk to a low tide in our Christianity. Would we 
 know the secret of worthy missionary giving? Let us open 
 our souls to the constrained love of the Nazarene. As we 
 see His marred face, his wounded body, and his broken heart, 
 all suffered in our behalf, will we dare place in his wounded 
 hands an unworthy gift for the work which cost him his life ? 
 
 5 . The Missionaries Depend Upon Us.—Our brethren 
 on the mission fields are prayerfully and anxiously look¬ 
 ing to our churches March 7. Their larger plans for a 
 forward movement depend upon what we do. Their hearts 
 are burdened with program.s for enlargement. Forward 
 is their slogan! They are hampered.on every hand for lack 
 of funds. Their hearts are on fire to plant more churches, 
 to organize more Sunday-schools, to support more or¬ 
 phans, to enlarge and equip their hospitals, and to plan 
 more day schools. They long to go into places where the 
 gospel has never been preached. They long to plant the 
 banner of the cross on virgin soil. They would not be 
 worthy of their high calling if they did not have the vision 
 of great conquest. The call for advance everywhere is most 
 imperative. The missionaries beg for more helpers. They 
 stagger under the weight they are carrying. They can be 
 relieved by an increased force. Our promises as churches 
 are at stake. We must not forfeit the confidence of the mis¬ 
 sionary. Failure at home will court failure on the fields. 
 Every indifferent church, every forgetful member, every 
 neglectful preacher helps to discourage the brave missionary 
 at the forefront of the contest with heathenism. 
 
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FORWARD! 
 
 “Any way so that it is forward,” said Livingstone. This 
 should be a slogan for our churches now. Forward! 
 This is our Lord’s command. On from Jerusalem to the 
 ends of the earth. This was his program for the ages. He 
 never thought of his church contenting itself with quietness 
 and luxury and ease and selfishness. 
 
 The call to advance with him is now most imperative. 
 All doors are open. The whole field is known as never be¬ 
 fore. The languages of the earth are mastered. There are 
 no more far-away places. All the world is one neighborhood. 
 All mankind is now a community. Electricity has eliminated 
 distance and time. A whisper in Washington is heard in 
 Peking and Tokyo and Bombay. The paper published in 
 Boston is read around the earth. 
 
 All peoples are coming to be one people. A congress of 
 the world and a court of nations are at hand. There is more 
 and more a world-consciousness. Every part of the world 
 recognizes every other part. Never before a time like this. 
 It is a day for big men, for large thinking, for an expanded 
 program. Religious toleration is well-nigh universal. False 
 religions are perishing. They wither in the light of the 
 cross and in the atmosphere of the modern world. Pagan 
 faiths are passing. All the world is stirred with new life. 
 Jesus came to give life. Heathen nations are awakening 
 from the slumber of ages. China is emerging from age-long 
 darkness into light. India begs for knowledge and guidance. 
 Africa is a land of opportunity. Her big, black hand 
 stretches out for mere crumbs that fall from the tables of 
 Christian nations. The world is more open to the gospel 
 than to business or modern inventions. Men everywhere are 
 incurably religious, and ask for the bread of life rather than 
 food for the body. 
 
 The present world situation is a challenge to every dis¬ 
 ciple. He dare not draw back. To stand still is disloyal. 
 
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To hesitate is treason. Forward is the emphatic word. 
 Forward with Christ, our glorious Leader! Let this be 
 our slogan in these March Offering days. Send the word 
 down the whole line. Forward with the old gospel. 
 That gospel is the same forever. It is the power of God unto 
 salvation in all ages, in all climes. It meets the cravings 
 of the heart. It is designed for every man, everywhere. 
 Forward by way of the upper room. Forward upon our 
 knees. Nothing can equip us but prayer. 
 
 Forward together! All with one accord. Every member 
 on the firing line. Encourage the men in the forefront of 
 the battle. Hold up their hands. Bring up the reserves! 
 Bring them out of the barracks to the battle! The whole 
 army must fight as one man. To meet the crisis of the hour 
 let no man run away. 
 
 Forward in hope. The men who win are the men who 
 stand on the heights with their faces toward the morning. ' 
 Pessimism is unchristian. Never such an optimist as Jesus. 
 When the world was all dark he saw Satan fall like lightning 
 from heaven. 
 
 Forward with our missionaries. We must not leave 
 them alone. Two went down to death last year. They 
 need every word of cheer we can give them. If we fail in 
 the March Offering we break faith with the soldiers at the 
 front. We must share their burdens. They stagger under 
 the weight they carry. Every ounce we lift will help them 
 so much. Forward, heart to heart, shoulder to shoulder, 
 hand to hand. Forward, the whole company—the mission¬ 
 aries, the preachers, the churches, the business men. 
 
 Let Forward be the slogan March seventh! 
 
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STUDENTS IN THE MARGARET K. LONG GIRLS’ SCHOOL, 
 
 TOKYO, JAPAN. 
 
 This is the High School class graduated from this great institution 
 for the year 1914 . Beginning at the right is Miss June Kawai. She 
 is the daughter of one of our early Christians in Japan. The next is 
 Miss Sakao Nikaido, who is the daughter of one of our Japanese pas¬ 
 tors. And the next is Miss Momoyo Takahashi, who was for some 
 time a day pupil. And the fourth is Miss Sumi Miyazaki, who is the 
 daughter of one of our former pastors in Japan. We are all naturally 
 very proud of this splendid group ready for Christian service. It is 
 the opinion of a large number that these young women are worth 
 converting and worth educating. And the missionaries in Japan feel 
 that they will be very useful in spreading abroad a knowledge of the 
 Word of the Lord. 
 
PART II 
 
 ABOUT GIVING 
 
 THE PRIVILEGE OF GIVING 
 
 Human selfishness defeats its own ends. He who refuses 
 to give himself for others, who closes the petals of his charity 
 and withholds the fragrance of his sympathy and love, finds 
 that he loses the very thing he tries to keep. The springs 
 of his manhood dry up. His finer nature becomes atrophied. 
 He grows deaf to the cries of help from his fellow men. 
 Tears that never are shed for others’ woes sour to stinging 
 acids in his own heart. 
 
 Refuse to open your purse, and soon you cannot open 
 your sympathy. Refuse to give, and soon you will cease to 
 enjoy that which you have. Refuse to love, and you lose the 
 power to love and be loved. Withhold your affections, and 
 you become a moral paralytic. But the moment you open 
 wider the door of your life and, like the rose, send out with¬ 
 out stint your fragrance and beauty, you let the sunshine of 
 life into your own soul.—Arthur Fischer. 
 
 HE IS DEAD 
 
 “He is dead whose hand is not opened wide. 
 
 To help the need of a human brother; 
 
 He doubles the length of his life-long ride 
 Who of his fortune gives to another; 
 
 And a thousand million lives are his 
 Who carries the world in his sympathies. 
 
 To deny 
 Is to die.” 
 
 WHAT WILL YOU DO? 
 
 There are souls in China, Japan, and Africa who need Jesus Christ 
 as much as you do, and they can never be happy here or hereafter 
 without him. What can you do to help them to know your Christ? 
 The church asks every member to give as God has prospered him; to 
 give systematically at least once a week. We ought not to give less 
 than the tenth of our income. Just now there are special opportunities 
 to send men and women who are willing* to give up country and home 
 and friends for Christ’s sake, to meet the emergencies in Japan, China, 
 and Africa. Are you willing to make a sacrifice and send them? 
 
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SERMON OUTLINE 
 
 ABOUT GIVING 
 
 Text: I Cor. 4: 2. 
 
 1. Unostentatious. 
 
 Matt. 6:3, 4. ‘‘When thou doest alms, let not thy 
 left hand know what thy right hand doeth: that thine 
 alms may be in secret: and thy Father who seest in 
 secret shall recompense thee.’’ 
 
 2. Cheerful. 
 
 2 Cor. 9:7. “God loveth a cheerful [a hilarious] 
 giver.” 
 
 3. Liberal. 
 
 Luke 6: 38. “Give, and it shall be given unto you; 
 good measure, pressed down, shaken together, run¬ 
 ning over^ shall they give unto your bosom. For with 
 what measure ye mete it shall be measured to you 
 again.” 
 
 4. Sacrificial. 
 
 2 Sam. 24: 24. “Neither will I offer burnt-offerings 
 unto Jehovah my God which cost me nothing.” 
 
 5. Systematic and proportionate. 
 
 I Cor. 16: 2. “Upon the first day of the week let each 
 one of you lay by him in store, as he may prosper.” 
 Deut. 16: 17. “Every man shall give as he is able, 
 according to the blessing of Jehovah thy God which 
 he hath given thee.” 
 
 While no hard and fast proportion is fixed under the 
 New Covenant, certainly the obligation cannot possibly be 
 less under the gospel than under the law. 
 
 Preach a sermon upon the highest motives in giving. It 
 is a great theme. 
 
 The love of money is as old as the race. The scramble 
 for money has always been widespread and furious. 
 
 Juvenal said: “No temples have been erected to the god¬ 
 dess of money, but her majesty is the most sacred of all.” 
 
 15 
 
A MEETING OF THE COINS 
 
 An allegory has been published telling of a “special meet¬ 
 ing of coins” held in the collection plate. The pennies at¬ 
 tended in large numbers, the nickels were well represented. 
 The chairman, a nickel coin, was understood to have at¬ 
 tended collection-plate meetings in every part of the coun¬ 
 try. Several dimes, even quarters, stated that although they 
 had been in the habit of fattening collection meetings with 
 fair regularity, they had lately been so much employed at 
 the cinematograph shows on Sundays that they, too, found 
 it increasingly difficult to be at the collection. One five- 
 dollar bill wrote that he was so incessantly required at the 
 golf club that he had retired from collection-plate duties, but 
 hoped occasionally to send one of his half-brethren in his 
 place. A telegram was received from A. Cheque, Esq.: 
 “Fully prepared to come, but detained to settle a motor car 
 transaction.” A three-cent piece, who had been sitting un¬ 
 noticed between two nickels, said he had been brought to the 
 meeting by a poor widow who, though she could hardly 
 spare his services, gladly gave him up out of love. 
 
 THE SCRIPTURAL RULE OF CHURCH FINANCE 
 
 (i COR. i6: 2) 
 
 WHY Everyone? 
 
 MORE GIVING. GIVE MORE 
 
 FURTHER IMPRESSION IMPOSSIBLE WITHOUT EXPRESSION. 
 EVERY ONE NEEDS THE GRACE WHICH GIVING GIVES. 
 
 WHY Every Week? 
 
 GOOD BUSINESS: GIVING MORE FREQUENTLY. 
 
 GIVE MORE STILL. 
 
 GOOD RELIGION: GIVING IS AN ORDAINED 
 
 PART OF WORSHIP. 
 
 WHY A PART OF Everything? 
 
 EXPRESSES GRATITUDE FOR GOD’S BOUNTY. 
 
 PARTNERSHIP IN WORLD’S REDEMPTION. 
 
 MEETS REQUIREMENT OF CONSTANTLY RECURRING 
 RECOGNITION OF GOD’S OWNERSHIP OF ALL. 
 
 SECURES HIS PROMISE, “HONOR WITH FIRST- 
 FRUITS—SO.” (PROV. 3:9) 
 
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The Every Member Canvass. “Millions in it.” 
 
 HOW IT IS DONE 
 
 First of all and always a Mis¬ 
 sionary Committee. This Commit¬ 
 tee, which should never be fewer 
 than three in number, should be 
 carefully selected with reference to their enthusiasm for mis¬ 
 sions and their fitness for leadership, and, together with the 
 pastor, should have general charge of the campaign. 
 
 The Canvassing Committee 
 should be selected by the Mission¬ 
 ary Committee, but need not be 
 confined to its membership. In¬ 
 deed, ordinarily, we should advise that from ten to fifteen 
 per cent of the congregation be utilized in making the can¬ 
 vass. Great care should be taken in the selection of the 
 members of this Committee, and when the Canvassing Com¬ 
 mittee has been selected we strongly recommend that on 
 public announcement of their names they should be called 
 forward and presented to the congregation, while the pastor 
 offers a prayer of consecration by which they shall be set 
 apart to their work. 
 
 THE CANVASSING 
 COMMITTEE 
 
 MISSIONARY 
 
 COMMITTEE 
 
 There is no greater work than 
 the evangelization of the world. 
 The biggest commercial and indus¬ 
 trial enterprises should not be given 
 precedence over this still larger undertaking. 
 
 The late Justice Brewer, of the Supreme Court of the 
 United States, worked enthusiastically in the personal can¬ 
 vass of his own church. 
 
 The members of the Every- 
 Member Canvass Committee should 
 meet as soon as possible after their 
 appointment for preliminary organ¬ 
 ization. There should be at least one meeting a week for 
 prayer and conference during the campaign. 
 
 17 
 
 ORGANIZE AT 
 ONCE 
 
 BEST MEN 
 REQUIRED 
 
Subscription cards and duplex 
 envelopes should be ordered at once, 
 so that there may be no delay when 
 your canvassers are ready for work. 
 
 Let the canvassers go two and 
 two, and make the whole canvass 
 in one Sunday afternoon, from 2 
 o’clock to 6 o’clock. 
 
 The membership list should not 
 be divided geographically, but by 
 voluntary selection. This method 
 provides for the consideration of all 
 personal and business relations that will make the canvass in 
 the main congenial to both the canvasser and those can¬ 
 vassed. 
 
 ASSIGN NAMES 
 JUDICIOUSLY 
 
 A SUNDAY 
 AFTERNOON 
 
 HAVE SUBSCRIPTION 
 CARDS READY 
 
 The members of the Canvassing 
 Committee should decide upon the 
 amounts they will give per week to 
 missions before beginning the can¬ 
 vass. When conviction has found definite expression in the 
 life of the canvasser, his appeal will have greater weight with 
 the one canvassed. 
 
 MAKE PLEDGES 
 FIRST 
 
 The Canvassing Committee 
 should go out in pairs. This is the 
 apostolic method, and has worked 
 so well that we strongly recommend 
 it. It will be well for an experienced man to take with him 
 one of the younger members. This has a large educational 
 value. 
 
 GO TWO BY TWO 
 
 The following are among the 
 points that may well be remembered 
 by the canvasser in connection with 
 each visit: 
 
 (a) Equip yourself with subscription cards and, if pos¬ 
 sible, with the sample cf the Duplex Envelope. 
 
 (b) Pray for the one you are to canvass prior to the inter¬ 
 view that he or she may be led to a full surrender to Christ 
 and to his plan for the world. 
 
 18 
 
 POINTS FOR EACH 
 INTERVIEW 
 
(c) Realize that the money offering which is needed can 
 only come as an expression of interest on the part of the indi¬ 
 vidual whom you are seeking to enlist. Seek, therefore, to 
 enlist his interest as well as to secure his subscription. 
 
 (d) Avoid arguments so far as possible. Be ready to 
 give information. 
 
 (e) Distinguish between sincere and insincere objections, 
 and handle them accordingly. 
 
 (f) Do not agree to a postponement without a definite 
 agreement as to when you will return with the cards. Do 
 not leave the cards or accept a promise that they will be filled 
 and returned to you by mail. If you were selling a house you 
 would not leave the contract and permit the buyer to fill in 
 the price as he pleased. Always be present when this trans¬ 
 action is done. 
 
 (g) Note on the blank pages at the rear the name of the 
 objector, with any reason which may be given for not con¬ 
 tributing. The objection may be met subsequently with suit¬ 
 able missionary pamphlets and by other methods carefully 
 planned to this end. 
 
 The experience of the pastor 
 should be utilized. Through long 
 experience he has doubtless located 
 most of the difficulties and objec¬ 
 tions that are urged by people who do not contribute, or who 
 contribute inadequately to the missionary cause. He can 
 render important service in coaching the canvassers. 
 
 It is not necessary nor always 
 advantageous to begin the canvass 
 with the largest subscribers. One 
 of the most successful and deeply 
 spiritual money-raisers in America began a successful can¬ 
 vass for the missionary offering by going to the poorest 
 member of his church, a woman who was in part dependent 
 upon charity. By a distinct personal sacrifice she was able 
 to save and contribute five cents per week, and had great joy 
 in making this weekly contribution. 
 
 There is no sufficient reason 
 why friends to the church may not 
 properly be solicited for the work 
 of world redemption. Give them a 
 share in this glorious enterprise. Allow the children also to 
 contribute. 19 
 
 FRIENDS AND 
 CHILDREN 
 
 URGE SUBSCRIPTIONS 
 NOT ALWAYS 
 MOST IMPORTANT 
 
 UTILIZE PASTURES 
 EXPERIENCE 
 
Aim to have the whole canvass 
 completed during one Sunday after¬ 
 noon. 
 
 The Committee may canvass for 
 both missions and current expenses if the church so decides, 
 and thus hiake the one canvass for the year do. If the local 
 expenses, however, are being met, then the canvass should 
 be for missions only. 
 
 Let a report of results be made 
 to the whole church at the evening 
 service following the canvass. The 
 whole evening should be given to it. 
 
 If there are some who, on ac¬ 
 count of illness or absence from the 
 community, cannot be seen, arrange 
 to secure their pledges through cor¬ 
 respondence. Let your ideal be EVERY MEMBER A SUB¬ 
 SCRIBER TO THE GREATEST ENTERPRISE IN 
 THE WORLD! 
 
 A pastor says: ‘Tt is my candid 
 opinion that the Every-Member 
 Canvass is one of the biggest move¬ 
 ments that has ever struck the church life of our city.” 
 
 ‘Tt stimulates the spiritual life of the men.” 
 
 ‘ ‘Tt has given to the canvassers a vision of the greatness 
 of the task which Christ has committed to his church.” 
 
 One church reports an increase of 400 per cent in their 
 missionary pledges. 
 
 J. H. Goldner, pastor Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio, 
 whose church made the every-member canvass and increased 
 the income twenty-eight per cent, says: ‘‘Each week a fixed 
 percentage of the money paid into the church treasury is 
 transferred to the missionary treasurer and sacredly used 
 for its intended objects. We would no.more think of using 
 this money for local expenses than we would think of em¬ 
 bezzling. Each month the C. W. B. M., A. C. M. S., F. C. 
 M. S., and O. C. M. S. receive their checks as regularly as* 
 the minister or the janitor receives his. 
 
 WHAT THEY SAY 
 
 CANVASS ABSENT 
 MEMBERS 
 
 REPORT TO THE 
 CHURCH 
 
 HAVE DEFINITE 
 TIME LIMIT 
 
 20 
 
THE EVERY-MEMBER CANVASS 
 
 An Every-Member Canvass properly conducted results 
 in increasing both the number of givers and the amounts 
 given. Thus in one church of 1,400 members the number of 
 givers was increased from 188 to 889. In the Pomona church 
 the number of givers was increased from 176 to 425. In the 
 Norwood church an Every-Member Canvass resulted in an 
 increase of 100% in the number of givers for missions, an 
 increase of 50% in the amount pledged, and at the same time 
 an increase of 75% for current expense. An Every-Member 
 Canvass was made in twenty-two Methodist Episcopal 
 churches in Buffalo, with the result that their offerings were 
 increased 127%. In 1908 the Baptist churches in Toronto 
 in an Every-Member Canvass increased their gifts from 
 $23,000 to $55,000. Three years later another canvass was 
 made and the offerings were increased to $82,147, which was 
 an average of $9.20 per member. In the Every-Member 
 Canvass in the United Presbyterian Church 75% of the 
 churches were enlisted and the offerings for Hpme Missions 
 increased 50%, for Foreign Missions 40%. 
 
 ^ SPraper 
 
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 tfjat ^orb map be prcacfjcb in tbc cartb, 
 until all nations; sifjall fenoto tbc glorious! trutb 
 of tbe one libing anb true #ob; anb are ealleb 
 bp ®bP unbping lobe baefe to tSTbpbelf. until at 
 last tbe toibe, toibe toorlb shall bnoto the 
 Jfatber—<@ob, anb there shall be one flock, 
 one ^hephtrb, one #ob anb Jfather of all. 
 ^men. 
 
 21 
 
MISSIONARY GIFTS 
 INCREASING 
 
 1. IN CANADA 
 
 Home and Foreign Missions 
 1909 $1,492,000 
 
 1912 2,500,181 
 
 2. THE UNITED STATES 
 
 Foreign Missions 
 
 1907 
 
 $8,449,693 
 
 1908 
 
 8,916,589 
 
 1909 
 
 10,086,216 
 
 1910 
 
 10,497,798 
 
 1911 
 
 11,030,715 
 
 1912 
 
 14,942,523 
 
 1913 
 
 16,230,000 
 
 God Wills: 
 
 That Every Creature 
 
 Be Given the Gospel. 
 
 That Every Ch ristian 
 
 Help to Give the Gospel 
 to Every Creature. 
 
 That Every Church 
 
 Be Made Up of Chris¬ 
 tians Who Will Help to 
 Give the Gospel to Every 
 Creature. 
 
 Paul’s Plan of Church Finance 
 
 
 Periodic 
 
 Upon the first day of the 
 week 
 
 WORSHIPFUL 
 
 HABITUAL 
 
 PRAYERFUL 
 
 CHEERFUL 
 
 This graphic plan 
 
 of finance is recom¬ 
 mended by the Lay¬ 
 men’s Missionary 
 
 Movement for adop- 
 
 Personal 
 
 Let each one of you 
 
 EACH MAN 
 
 EACH WOMAN 
 
 EACH BOY 
 
 EACH GIRL 
 
 NO PROXIES 
 
 NO MERGING 
 
 Provident 
 
 Lay by him in store 
 
 FOREHANDED 
 
 DELIBERATE 
 
 THOUGHTFUL 
 
 INTELLIGENT 
 
 tion in every local 
 
 church. This plan 
 
 works if you work it. 
 
 It will solve every 
 
 financial difficulty. 
 
 Proportionate 
 
 As he may prosper 
 
 GENEROUS 
 
 CAREFUL 
 
 RESPONSIBLE 
 
 FAITHFUL 
 
 Preventive 
 
 That no collection be 
 made when 1 come 
 
 NO DEFICIT 
 
 NO INTEREST ON 
 LOANS 
 
 NO WORRY 
 
 NO RETRENCH. 
 
 MENT 
 
 
 The above is a fine sermon outline. Try it. 
 
®Ife ©bspruiationa ** 
 N* s* nf llittb larak. 
 
 The New Testament has 
 much to say about money, 
 for Christianity is a religion 
 that deals with man where he 
 lives. 
 
 John Ruskin said: “After 
 hearing 2,000 sermons, I have 
 not heard a single one in 
 which the clear issue between 
 God and mammon was pre¬ 
 sented to his hearers by the 
 preacher.’’ 
 
 Give is a great word. 
 Christ gave it a new and a 
 fuller meaning. Our Lord 
 sanctified it. 
 
 THE EVERY-MEMBER CANVASS 
 
 INCLUDES LOCAL EXPENSES 
 AND BENEVOLENCES 
 COMMENCES ON A SUNDAY 
 COMPLETED WITHIN A WEEK 
 REPORTED THE NEXT SUNDAY 
 THOROUGHLY PREPARED FOR: 
 
 (A) The People INFORMED 
 
 FROM THE PULPIT 
 IN SERVICES AND SOCIETIES 
 BY LITERATURE DISTRIBUTED 
 LETTER EXPLAINING PLAN 
 
 (B) Supplies PROVIDED: 
 CARD INDEX IN DUPLICATE 
 LITERATURE AND LETTER 
 SUBSCRIPTION FORM 
 SAMPLE OF ENVELOPE 
 
 (C) Canvassers coached 
 
 BOTH MEN AND WOMEN 
 SELECTED BY JOINT COMMITTE] 
 OBJECTIVES OF THE CANVASS 
 
 (A) EXPRESS CHURCH’S 
 INTEREST 
 
 (B) INFORM OF WORLD-WIDE 
 WORK 
 
 (C) ANSWER OBJECTIONS 
 
 (D) ENLIST IN SERVICE 
 
 (E) SECURE SUBSCRIPTIONS 
 
 SET APART BY PUBLIC PRAYER 
 GOING TWO AND TWO 
 SUNDAY AFTERNOON 
 TO ALL WITHOUT DISTINCTION 
 
 23 
 
HOW THE MONEY CAME TO THE FOREIGN 
 
 SOCIETY DURING 1913-14 
 
 This diagram explains why the work does not go 
 forward faster. The receipts are irregular month by 
 month. The Society is compelled to borrow money 
 from October to March. Many do not send their gifts 
 until September. Look at the diagram! There should 
 be a steady stream from October to September. Let us 
 try this year to level up the diagram somewhat. Please 
 do not put your offering off until the last month. The 
 every-member canvass and monthly remittances will 
 help. If you have adopted the “Budget Plan,” please 
 forward every month. 
 
 24 
 
TWO THINGS THAT SHOULD NOT BE MIXED 
 
 Quite often a pastor or church officer writes in that the 
 missionary funds have been borrowed to help out on current 
 expenses, and the money not having been returned, there is 
 no missionary offering to send in. One can hardly imagine 
 a more disappointing or dangerous missionary situation than 
 the above. What right has any church Board or treasurer 
 to take the money sacredly intended by the giver for missions 
 and use it for any other purpose? It not only robs the mis¬ 
 sionary cause, but it robs the giver of his own freedom in 
 giving to a certain cause. Besides, it takes no stretch of the 
 imagination to prophesy what will happen to the missionary 
 interest of such a church when the missionary givers dis¬ 
 cover their gifts have not been sacredly applied to the pur¬ 
 pose intended. The sad procedure portrayed in the picture 
 is more apt to occur in the church that employs weekly giv¬ 
 ing for missions or the budget plan than anywhere else. The 
 remedy is a separate missionary treasurer to look as carefully 
 after the missionary funds as the regular church treasurer 
 looks after the local funds, and a monthly or quarterly remit¬ 
 tance to the Missionary Society. 
 
 THE STORY OF A NICKEL 
 
 Yesterday he wore a rose on the lapel of his coat, but. 
 when the plate was passed to-day he gave a nickel to the 
 Lord. He had several bills in his pocket and sundry change, 
 perhaps a dollar's worth, but he hunted about and, finding 
 the poor little nickel, laid it on the plate to aid the churchy 
 militant in its fight against the world, the flesh and devil. 
 His silk hat was beneath the seat, and his gloves and cane 
 were beside it, and the nickel was on the plate—a whole 
 nickel! 
 
 25 
 
On Saturday afternoon he met a friend, and together they 
 had some refreshments. The cash register stamped thirty- 
 five cents on the slip the boy presented to him. Peeling off 
 a bill, he handed it to the lad, and gave him a nickel tip when 
 he brought the change. A nickel for the Lord and a nickel 
 for the waiter! 
 
 And the man had his shoes polished on Saturday after¬ 
 noon and handed out a dime without a murmur. He had a 
 shave and paid fifteen cents with equal alacrity. He took a 
 box of candies home to his wife, and paid forty cents for 
 them, and the box was tied with a dainty bit of ribbon. Yes, 
 and he also gave a nickel to the Lord. 
 
 Who is this Lord? 
 
 Who is he ? Why, the man worships him as the Creator 
 of the universe, the One who put the stars in order, and by 
 whose immutable decree the heavens stand. Yes, he does, 
 and he dropped a nickel to support the church militant. 
 
 And what is the church militant? 
 
 The church militant is the church that represents upon 
 the earth the triumphant church of the great God. 
 
 And the man knew that he was but an atom in space, and 
 he knew that the Almighty was without limitations, and, 
 knowing this, he put his hand in his pocket and picked out 
 the nickel and gave it to the Lord. 
 
 And the Lord, being gracious and slow to anger, and 
 knowing our frame, did not slay the man for the meanness 
 of his offering, but gives him this day his daily bread. 
 
 But the nickel was ashamed, if the man was not. 
 
 The nickel hid beneath a quarter that was given by a poor 
 woman who washes for a living. 
 
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PART III 
 
 This article has been condensed from “ Tourist Directory of Christian Work.” 
 
 THE MISSIONARY ENTERPRISE 
 
 CRITICISED 
 
 There are at least four classes of critics, as follows: 
 
 1. Those friendly to the work and see defects or think 
 they do. Some of these criticisms are undoubtedly just and 
 should be heeded. Others are based on misapprehensions 
 and should call forth temperate and full explanations. 
 
 2. Criticism by those who are ignorant of the aims and 
 motives and objects of the work. This is a large class. 
 Many of these never saw mission work, never saw a mis¬ 
 sionary, and never read a missionary book. 
 
 3. Critics who oppose the essential character of mission¬ 
 ary work. Some of these oppose Christianity in the home¬ 
 land. They will never be silenced. They are inaccessible to 
 the Christian argument. Their criticisms have been demol¬ 
 ished over and over again. 
 
 4. Some criticisms come from conflicting interests. 
 Those who sell rum in Africa or opium in China, or traffic 
 in the purity of native girls, of course, object to missions. 
 Almost every port city in non-Christian lands has dens of 
 vice kept up by those who pander to the lowest passions. 
 Men of this kind are, of course, virulent haters of mission¬ 
 aries. 
 
 Charles Darwin asserted that the foreign travelers and 
 residents in the South Sea Islands who write with such hos¬ 
 tility there are men who find the missionaries an obstacle to 
 the accomplishment of their evil purposes. There are also 
 native priests like the silversmiths of Ephesus, who find 
 their craft in danger and circulate falsehoods regarding mis¬ 
 sionaries as plotters, etc. It is not uncommon in Chinese 
 cities for placards to be conspicuously posted charging mis¬ 
 sionaries with boiling and eating Chinese babies. 
 
 27 
 
SOME CURRENT CRITICISMS 
 
 1 . “Missionaries are inferior men.” The man who 
 makes this objection simply knows that he does not know 
 the missionaries, but that he is generalizing from some ex¬ 
 ceptional individual. There are undoubtedly missionaries 
 who say and do foolish things, just as some of us at home do, 
 and once in a while prove to be incompetent. Ninety-four 
 per cent of the business men of the United States are said to 
 fail at some time in their lives. Why, then, should a few mis¬ 
 sionary failures be deemed an adequate ground for condemn¬ 
 ing the whole class? Travelers and officials like Charles 
 Darwin, Lord Lawrence, Sir Robert Hart, Hon. John W. 
 Foster, Secretary Wm. J. Bryan, and Hon. Chas. Denby, and 
 scores of others have borne high testimony to the worth of 
 missionaries. Some of the strongest men in our brotherhood 
 are in India, and China, and the Philippines, and Japan, and 
 Africa. 
 
 2 . “The converts are not genuine, but are attracted 
 to the missionary in the hope of employment or sup¬ 
 port.” There are about three million native communicants 
 connected with foreign missionary churches, and the total 
 number of native agents is about one hundred thou¬ 
 sand, and many of them are paid either wholly or in 
 part by the native Christians themselves. The number 
 who are aided in any way by the foreigner is relatively sig¬ 
 nificant. The great body of native Christians have no finan¬ 
 cial motive whatever for confessing Christ. Hon. Charles 
 Denby, for thirteen years American Minister at Peking, 
 China, has reminded the world that during the Boxer upris¬ 
 ing the “Province of Chih-li furnished 6,200 Chinese who re¬ 
 mained true to their faith in spite of their danger, suffering, 
 and impending death.” It is said that 15,000 converts were 
 killed during the riots, and not as many as two per cent of 
 them apostatized. In the face of these facts the old allega¬ 
 tion that the Chinese converts are treacherous, venal, and 
 untrue must be renounced. Let us not call them “rice Chris¬ 
 tians” any more. 
 
 3 . “Missionaries are universally hated by the natives 
 
 28 
 
while the ordinary foreigner is tolerated.” This is 
 grossly untrue. The missionaries are far more popular with 
 the people than any other foreigners. They travel freely, un¬ 
 armed and unprotected, and it is comparatively seldom that 
 they are molested. When they are attacked, it is by a class 
 of ruffians. The missionaries in the vast majority of cases 
 are loved by the Chinese with whom they succeed in estab¬ 
 lishing intimate relation, and they are almost universally 
 respected by all classes in the communities in which they 
 are well known. 
 
 4 . “Missionaries make trouble for their own govern¬ 
 ments.” Hon. Wm. H. Taft, Ex-President, in an address 
 in New York City, April 20, 1908, referred to this criticism 
 and emphatically denounced it as unfounded. 
 
 5 . “Missionaries injure and denationalize their con¬ 
 verts.” Christianity never injured nor denationalized any 
 one. It simply made him a better man, more honest, more 
 intelligent, more charitable, and more loyal to his own 
 country. Why should it injure an Asiatic to stop wor¬ 
 shiping demons and begin worshiping the true God; to 
 renounce drunkenness, immorality, and laziness, and be¬ 
 come a sober, moral, and industrious citizen ? The fact is 
 that native Christians in Asia and Africa are the very best 
 element in the population. 
 
 6. “Missionaries preach sectarianism instead of 
 fundamental Christianity.” This is precisely what they 
 do not do. There is far less sectarianism on the foreign 
 field than at home. Denominational lines are often vir- 
 tually obliterated. Where they are made prominent, the 
 fault is usually with the home church. 
 
 7 . “There is much to be done in our own land, and 
 charity begins at home.” A New York pastor said that 
 we ought to give less for Foreign Missions and more for 
 the conversion of “the foreigners within the shades of our 
 churches.” If, however, he had looked into the report of 
 the Charity Organization Society of New York he would 
 have found a list of 3,330 religious and philanthropic agen¬ 
 cies in his own city. A high authority declares that there 
 
 29 
 
is no other city in the world except London where more is 
 being done to point the lost to the Son of God than in New 
 York. 
 
 Saint Louis has one church for every 2,800 of population; 
 Chicago, one for 2,081; Boston, one for 1,600, and Minne¬ 
 apolis, one for 1,054. the United States there are about 
 200,000 Protestant church buildings, or one for every 380 of 
 the non-Catholic population; there is one Protestant min¬ 
 ister for every 514, one Christian worker for 75, one com¬ 
 municant for 4. “For every missionary the church sends 
 abroad she holds 54 at home.” A million Americans are 
 engaged in distinctly religious work, about 150,000 of whom 
 devote themselves to it as a separate calling. 
 
 How is it abroad? In South America there is only one 
 ordained missionary for 154,000 people; in Africa and India, 
 one for 186,000; in China, one for 603,000! 
 
 * 
 
 The running expenses of all the churches in the United 
 States absorbed $158,000,000 in 1900; in New York City alone 
 they were $8,895,000. In general our home churches spent 
 94 cents in America for every 6 cents they give for the evan¬ 
 gelization of the world. That is, they give 94 cents to Chris¬ 
 tianize 100,000,000 who HAVE the gospel, and 6 cents to 
 evangelize 800,000,000 who HAVE NOT the gospel. 
 
 8. “Missionaries are forcing another civilization on 
 lands which already have civilizations of their own that 
 are adapted to their own needs.” No other objection to 
 Foreign Missions is more common, and no other is more 
 baseless. The missionary does not force his civilization 
 upon the natives, nor does he interfere with native customs, 
 except when they are morally wrong. A higher type of civili¬ 
 zation does follow the labor of the missionary, but this is an 
 incidental result, and not an object. No native is obliged to 
 become a Christian against his will. The missionary simply 
 offers and explains the gospel. Surely a missionary has as 
 much right to do this as English or American manufac¬ 
 turers have to offer and explain their flour, and cotton, and 
 machinery, and liquor. 
 
 9 . “The religions of other races are good enough for 
 
 them.” Then they are good enough for us, for the people 
 
 30 
 
of other races are our fellow men with the needs of our 
 common humanity. We have not heard, however, of any 
 critic who believes that Hinduism and Buddhism are good 
 enough for Europeans and Americans. 
 
 It is difficult to understand how an American who in¬ 
 herits all the blessings of our Christian faith can deny those 
 blessings to the rest of the world. Christianity found the 
 white man’s ancestors in the forests and swamps of North¬ 
 ern Europe considerably lower in the scale of civilization 
 than the Chinese and Japanese of to-day. Jerome wrote that 
 "‘when a boy living in Gaul he beheld the Scots, a people in 
 Britain, eating human flesh; though there were plenty of 
 sheep and cattle at their disposal, yet they would prefer a 
 ham of the herdsman or a slice of the female breast as a 
 luxury. The gospel of Christ brought us out of the pit of 
 barbarism. Why should we doubt its power to do for other 
 races what it has done for ours?” 
 
 10 . “Missionaries are accomplishing very little.” 
 This objection might fairly offset the objection that mission¬ 
 aries are making revolutionary changes. Both cannot 
 be true. The fact is that missionary work *is remark¬ 
 ably successful, and more so now than ever before. The 
 Government census in India shows that while the pop¬ 
 ulation from 1891 to 1901 increased two and one half 
 per cent, the Protestant church membership increased fifty 
 per cent. The gain in China in twenty-eight years was over 
 one hundred per cent. In 1886 the Korean missionaries re¬ 
 ported the first convert. Seven years later there were only 
 about one hundred in the whole community. Now there are 
 over 300,000. Now the number of converts annually is about 
 150,000. The whole church membership in foreign lands 
 has doubled in about thirteen years. Modern missions in 
 heathen lands have been conducted a little over a hundred 
 years, in most fields far less than this, and yet the number 
 of converts is already greater than the number of Christians 
 in the Roman empire at the end of the first century. No 
 other work in the world is so successful and no other yields 
 such large returns for the expenditures made. 
 
 Said the great Canon Farrar: “To sneer at missionaries, 
 a thing so cheap and so easy to do, has always been the 
 fashion of libertines, cynics, and worldlings. So far from 
 having failed, there is no work of God which has received so 
 absolute, so unprecedented a blessing. To talk of mission¬ 
 aries as a failure is to talk like an ignorant and faithless 
 man.” 31 
 
PART IV 
 
 MISSIONS IN GENERAL 
 
 WHAT FOREIGN MISSIONS HAVE DONE 
 
 They have made the name of Jesus the best known name in the 
 world. 
 
 They are preaching the gospel statedly in over ten thousand dif¬ 
 ferent places. 
 
 They have planted in the leading foreign lands the church of 
 Christ, with a membership of 2,644,170. 
 
 They have created a great system of Christian schools and colleges, 
 having a present enrollment of over a million and a half pupils. 
 
 They have stimulated the governments of the leading nations of 
 the East to establish educational systems of their own. 
 
 They have changed the map of the world. 
 
 They have introduced modern medicine, surgery, and sanitation 
 
 into the darkest quarters of the globe, by means of 675 hospitals and 
 963 dispensaries. 
 
 They have enriched every known science—biology, philology, 
 zoology, etc. 
 
 They have been the principal agents of relief in famines, and have 
 made scientific investigation of the causes which lie at their root. 
 
 They have taught people habits of cleanliness and the laws of 
 health, thus lessening the spread of plague and pestilence. 
 
 They have upheld the idea of the dignity of labor among those who 
 regard toil as menial. 
 
 They have established a multitude of trade schools in which devel¬ 
 opment of Christian character keeps pace with growth in manual skill. 
 
 They have taught the use of modern tools and agricultural imple¬ 
 ments and thus increased the efficiency and wealth of many nations. 
 
 They have greatly extended the markets of America by creating in 
 Oriental peoples a thousand appetites which only international trade 
 can supply. 
 
 They have helped to abolish human slavery, and shown the Chris¬ 
 tian way of caring for the aged, orphans, blind, deaf mutes, insane, 
 and lepers. 
 
 They have transformed the commerce of the world, increased its 
 variety, and enlarged its volume. 
 
 They have lifted women from a condition of unspeakable degrada- 
 
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tion and trained a new generation of Christian mothers, wives, and 
 daughters, who are making homes and introducing new ideals of social 
 life. 
 
 They have translated the entire Bible, or portions of the Scriptures, 
 into 500 languages and dialects, distributing last year alone 9,272,211 
 copies of the Word of God. 
 
 They have reduced many strange tongues to writing and have 
 created a literature for whole races, producing annually a vast amount 
 of good reading in the shape of books, hymnals, and papers for all ages. 
 
 They have transformed the people of the Fiji Islands, the New 
 Hebrides, Melanesia, and other island groups from cannibals to civi¬ 
 lized human beings. 
 
 They have enabled Bulgaria to rise to the level of national inde¬ 
 pendence. 
 
 They have furnished the incentives which made possible Japan’s 
 peaceful evolution from feudalism to constitutional government, and 
 from opposition to Christianity to the granting of full religious liberty. 
 
 They have been the main agent in the extraordinary awakening of 
 the people of China by which, turning their backs on the history of 
 4,000 years, they have adopted Western ideas in government, educa¬ 
 tion, and commerce, and are showing an amsizing readiness to receive 
 the gospel of Christ. 
 
 They have started a movement in Korea which is going forward 
 with such unparalleled rapidity that this nation bids fair to become 
 Christianized within a generation. 
 
 They have held the home churches true to the essential purpose 
 of the gospel, have broadened their outlook, deepened their devotion, 
 and demonstrated the universal and all-conquering character of Chris¬ 
 tianity. 
 
 In view of these magnificent achievements there can be no question 
 but what the foreign missionary movement bears the seal of success. 
 The victories of the past and the opportunities of the present consti¬ 
 tute a sublime challenge to the church for the conquest of the remain¬ 
 ing strongholds of Islam and paganism. Such considerations as these 
 should convince the people of our churches that we are indeed living 
 in a new era of missionary work, and that the hour of Christianity has 
 struck for the non-Christian world. 
 
 The march of the conquering Christ through Europe which trans¬ 
 formed the people of that continent from pagans to Christians is an 
 accomplished fact. The majestic movement has now reached the 
 shores of Asia. History on a gigantic scale is making under our very 
 eyes. We see the Kingdom growing apace. We see nations being 
 bom in a day. What a time to live! What a time to preach! 
 
 . MASS MOVEMENTS 
 
 Twice recently news items of the mass movements 
 among the lower classes in the north of India have been 
 noted. Just now comes to hand the results of a first-hand 
 study of this movement by the India Witness, of Calcutta. 
 
 It finds that in territories covered by only twenty mission- 
 
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aries there have been baptized in the last few years some 
 140,000 of these so-called “untouchables.” Another sign of 
 awakening lies in the fact that the word “untouchable” is 
 now protested and Hindu leaders are agitating for the adop¬ 
 tion of Christian social service methods to save the 70,000,000 
 of them to the native faiths. The Witness declares its study 
 shows that 15,000,000 of them can be won right now, and 
 quite as easily as the 140,000 have been, if the leaders can 
 only, be furnished. The leaven has been working and they 
 are ready for the gospel invitation. Such a vast body of re¬ 
 deemed in a land already in the ferment of change would turn 
 the tide in Christ’s favor. What a challenge to Christendom! 
 
 JE.SUS SHALL HAVE IT 
 
 Keshub Chunder Sen said, in a brilliant peroration to an 
 address delivered in Calcutta several years ago: “England 
 has sent out a tremendous moral force in the character 
 and life of that mighty prophet to conquer and hold 
 this vast empire. None but Jesus ever deserved this 
 
 bright, this precious diadem, and Jesus shall have it.” To 
 those who believe the Kingdom of God is being planted on 
 this earth there is eloquent and profound prophecy in the 
 words of India’s great moralist and patriot. The leaven of 
 Christianity has already permeated far into the lump of 
 India’s life. Her whole mental attitude is changing. Caste 
 was her law, both social and religious, but the mind of India 
 not only no longer justifies caste, but is recognizing its anti¬ 
 social and semi-barbarous nature; slowly she is realizing 
 that there is neither bond nor free in Christ. India’s woman¬ 
 hood is awakening. There are five times as many girls in 
 school as ten years ago. The land is being dotted with pro¬ 
 gressive societies which are resolving that caste and woman 
 slavery must go; slowly she is realizing that there is neither 
 male nor female in Christ. For twenty centuries the Hindu 
 has sat upon his heels and dreamed and meditated and specu¬ 
 lated and become so calloused to his shackles that he has not 
 chafed under them. To-day a divine discontent is surging 
 through his bosom. He is slowly turning from ancient 
 
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speculations to modern science and history. If to our minds 
 the missionary task is only the rescuing of individuals from 
 darkness, the task has been well worth while; but if it is the 
 planting of the Kingdom of God as leaven in the lump, then 
 India is becoming one of the marvels of missionary history. 
 
 THE DEEP UNDERCURRENT IN INDIA 
 
 When Henry Martyn went to India, steeped in supersti¬ 
 tion and wedded to her idols, he cried out in despair that one 
 had as well expect the dead to arise as to expect to convert 
 Hindus. To-day there are one and a half million in the Prot¬ 
 estant community in India. Christian work is being carried 
 on at 11,000 places, and there are more than 35,000 native 
 leaders engaged, together with nearly 5,000 foreign mission¬ 
 aries, in the tasks of leadership. 
 
 The mere statistical account of the Christian movement 
 in India does not indicate a tithe of the sweep of the Chris¬ 
 tian movement in that hoary old land. In physics it is reck¬ 
 oned that the force which raises one thousand tons one foot 
 is equal to that which raises one ton one thousand feet. The 
 raising of the national life of a great population of more than 
 three hundred millions is represented by the last equation in 
 that axiom in physics. India’s millions are still practicing 
 old forms, but with the soul of them lost out. In the place 
 of the soul of them they are putting the thought of the mod¬ 
 ern world; the valley of dead bones is showing signs of life. 
 
 A STRIKING CONTRAST 
 
 The Churches News Association is authority for the fol¬ 
 lowing statement: 
 
 Reports now fairly complete indicate that there will go 
 into new churches and into buildings intended to advance 
 the Christian cause in America between $35,000,000 and 
 $40,000,000 this year. Delays in construction operation may 
 carry some of this outlay over for a time. The church- 
 erection outlay in the United States for the year will reach 
 about $40,000,000. 
 
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This sum is $3,000,000 to $5,000,000 above the normal, in¬ 
 dicating that causes that affect business in general and have 
 hurt gifts to missions and to charities, do not prevail against 
 the carrying forward of new projects. The largest outlays 
 along these lines are in New York and New England for the 
 East, in California because of new structures going up for 
 use at the Panama Exposition, and in the Southwest. The 
 Middle West has been building churches in considerable 
 numbers for the last five years, and this summer slacks up 
 to some extent. 
 
 The American people put into Christian work of all forms 
 $400,000,000 a year. This amount grows steadily, having 
 nearly doubled in the last fifteen years. Some people say 
 the church is losing ground and that people do not go to 
 church as they once did. However that may be, they give 
 money in larger sums and seem not to have been affected in 
 so doing by financial stringency in other lines. Of the total 
 amount named, $45,000,000 a year goes to home missions, 
 and $35,000,000 into new structures and enrichments; about 
 $16,000,000 goes into Foreign Missions, and the balance into 
 maintenance. Apart from these, Christian people give large 
 sums to charities and to public relief of all kinds. Indeed, 
 while Christians number only about a third of the popula¬ 
 tion, they give $3 of every $4 that goes to charities, educa¬ 
 tion, earthquake and flood disasters. 
 
 The above statement is in striking contrast with the an¬ 
 nual expenditure on the foreign fields. The income of all the 
 societies in this country for 1913 was about $16,400,000. 
 The expenditure tor the homeland includes some 100,000,000 
 of souls who in a very important way now have the gospel at 
 their very doors, while the expenditures in the regions be¬ 
 yond include about 800,000,000 who do not have the gospel 
 in any sense. These great facts are basis for thinking by 
 Christian people. 
 
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THE BIGGEST AND BEST BUSINESS ON EARTH 
 
 This old Avorld boasts of some gigantic business enterprises, but for 
 mere bigness the church of Jesus Christ beats them all. 
 
 The church is the biggest FINANCIALLY. She has more capital 
 invested and vastly larger annual receipts and expenditures than any 
 other institution on earth. 
 
 The church is the biggest NUMERICALLY. No other enterprise 
 has as many members in the firm or is serving such large numbers. 
 No other religion has as many followers as Christianity. 
 
 The church is the biggest PRODUCER OF OTHER BUSINESS. 
 The by-products of the Church have been the great commercial enter¬ 
 prises of the ages. The per capita commerce of Christian lands is 
 more than double that of lands where the church is not known. 
 
 The church offers the best opportunities and the BIGGEST DIVI¬ 
 DENDS on investments. The promised interest is 30, 60, and 100 
 fold. This is guaranteed by One who has never broken his word. 
 
 The church is not only the biggest and best business on earth; it is 
 the greatest corporation with the GREATEST LEADER of the ages. 
 It is a corporation with a trust in the real meaning of the term. It 
 holds its charter from the King of Heaven, and is the only corporation 
 that exists solely for the good of all mankind. It is built up, held 
 together, and inspired to action by the greatest Leader, the Lord Jesus 
 Christ. It is the one corporation that will never fail, for it is built on 
 the Rock of Ages. 
 
 THE COMMISSION 
 
 “As the Father hath sent me, even so send I you,” is the calm, 
 direct statement of Jesus Christ to his disciples as he stood in their 
 midst at evening on his resurrection day. That these words were ad¬ 
 dressed to each one there present cannot be doubted. That this com¬ 
 mission, spoken on that tremendously interesting occasion, is of force 
 always, and applies to every disciple in every age of the present order 
 of his Kingdom is equally certain. This commission, coming as it does, 
 from the heart of the risen Saviour, should sink as deeply into our 
 hearts as it sank into the hearts of those to whom it was originally 
 spoken. 
 
 “As the Father hath sent me.” How significant the first little word 
 is! Who can fathom all that it meant to him'who spoke? In it are 
 gathered up the infinite love with which, and the holy purpose and 
 object for which, the Father sent him. “So send I you.” Again, how 
 significant the first little word is! Again, who can fathom all that 
 Jesus meant and felt in its use in this connection? In it is gathered up 
 our Saviour’s passionate longing that his followers should adequately 
 and consistently show him, and through him the Father, unto men. 
 
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 Come Over and Help 
 CHINA’S APPEAL 
 
 Confucians Mohammedans Christians 
 380 Millions 20 Millions One-fifth Million 
 
PART V 
 
 MEDICAL MISSIONS 
 
 Of The 
 
 Foreign Christian Missionary Society 
 
 Illustrated 
 
 INTRODUCTORY 
 
 This exhibit of the medical work of the Foreign Society 
 is necessarily imperfect. There are defects in historic facts 
 which we regret. The fullest information available is pre¬ 
 sented. The photographs sent us are not always the best. 
 The missionaries did the best they could in securing the pic¬ 
 tures. It was our purpose to present a more complete repre¬ 
 sentation of actual operations in the hospitals and their re¬ 
 sults, but in this we have been disappointed. It is not an 
 easy matter to secure good pictures. - 
 
 The following pages, however, will give some measure . 
 of the great work being done by skilled and industrious and 
 devoted men and women in alleviating the suffering of the 
 pagan world. The medical arm of the service is most valu¬ 
 able. 
 
 The Foreign Society supports i8 hospitals and dispen¬ 
 saries, and last year the treatments reached 181,564, a gain 
 of 20,848 over the previous year. The treatments average 
 about 500 per day, or nearly 20 per hour. 
 
 THE VALUE OF MEDICAL MISSIONS 
 
 The most successful mission work has been done in those 
 places where the missionaries first ministered to the diseased 
 conditions of the men whose souls they were seeking to save. 
 David Livingstone won his way through Africa with his 
 medicine chest and a few well-chosen surgical instruments. 
 Dr. Peter Parker opened China to the gospel at the point of 
 the lancet. Dr. Allen saved the life of a Korean prince after 
 the native doctors had tried in vain to staunch the flow of 
 blood with sealing-wax. Dr. Carr succeeded in establishing 
 a mission in Persia when other methods had signally failed. 
 The history of missions shows that medical work is the key 
 that unlocks the door to the heathen heart. Simple help like 
 the pulling of a tooth, the lancing of an abscess, the giving 
 of a dose of quinine, or the application of sulphur ointment 
 has opened regions hitherto unaccessible. 
 
HIGH TESTIMONY 
 
 The ministry of healing is itself Christlike. 
 
 Christ was the first great medical Missionary. 
 
 Medical missions are the pioneers of evangelism. 
 
 Christ is the Head of our profession.”—Sir J. Y. Simpson. 
 
 Medical missions are permanent agencies of evangelism. 
 
 “A medical missionary is a missionary and a half, or 
 rather, a double missionary.”—Robert Moffat. 
 
 The hospitals planted by the missionaries inspire and 
 teach the people to establish their own hospitals. 
 
 Last year the medical missionaries of the Foreign Society 
 gave 181,564 treatments. These are wonderful figures. 
 
 “Heal the sick that are therein and say unto them, the 
 Kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.”—Jesus Christ. 
 
 “Medical missions are of immense service in breaking 
 down opposition, softening hearts, making clear to the 
 rough, untamed people of these parts the real meaning and 
 bearing of the gospel message, and so preparing the way 
 for its reception.”—The Bishop of Lahore. 
 
 “I am a missionary, heart and soul. God had only one 
 Son, and he was a Missionary and a Physician. A poor imi¬ 
 tation of him I am, or wish to be. In this service I hope to 
 live, and in it I hope to die. It is something to be a follower, 
 however feeble, in the wake of the great Teacher and only 
 model Missionary that ever appeared among men. May we 
 venture to invite young men of education, when laying down 
 the plan of their lives, to take a glance at that of missionary? 
 We will magnify the office.”—David Livingstone. 
 
CHINA 
 
 DR. MACKLIN’S HOSPITAL, NANKING 
 
 Dr. Macklin did our first medical work in China. It was 
 a small beginning in the face of prejudice and much stubborn 
 opposition. Dr. Macklin reached China, January 29, 1886. 
 The decision to plant a mission in Nanking has proven a wise 
 one. 
 
 The medical work was begun at once in a very primitive 
 way. There was no building for a hospital. F. E. Meigs 
 made an appeal for a building before the National Conven¬ 
 tion at Allegheny, Pa., in 1891. The money was raised in 
 the name of or in memory of the late O. A. Burgess, of In¬ 
 diana. The well-known and much-beloved A. M. Atkinson, 
 of the same State, led with a gift of $1,000. This was the 
 first hospital our people ever undertook to build on foreign 
 soil. It was proposed to call it the O. A. Burgess Hospital, 
 but Dr. Macklin preferred to call it “The Christian Hos¬ 
 pital.” It was so named. The building was completed in 
 1892. The Chinese attended the dedication. 
 
 The rich Chinese gave much help to Dr. Macklin. They 
 made him generous gifts for his work from time to time. 
 Many thousands were treated each year. Year before last 
 about 18,000 patients were treated. In connection with this 
 work he preached the gospel to great numbers. Hundreds 
 became obedient believers and rejoiced in a saving knowl¬ 
 edge of Jesus Christ. 
 
 One rich Hankow merchant made a gift to the hospital 
 of three and one-half acres of land in the city, worth many 
 thousands of dollars. This was to provide a ward for the 
 poor. Another Chinaman contributed money for two iso¬ 
 lated hospitals. These were for those with contagious dis¬ 
 eases. And still another, a Christian, gave $2,000 gold. And 
 yet some ask if a Chinaman is worth saving and if any are 
 truly converted. 
 
 “The Christian Hospital” has especially cared for the 
 poor from the very beginning. The first poor “Lazarus” 
 was taken up off the streets over twenty-five years ago, be¬ 
 fore a hospital or dispensary was started, and Dr. Macklin 
 even had three leper paupers before the main hospital was 
 built. 
 
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No pen can describe all the good this great institution 
 has accomplished. It has sheltered thousands of the poor 
 and dying, it has opened the hearts and purses of the official 
 class and commanded their support. It has led hundreds to 
 Jesus Christ, who is Lord of the Chinaman as he is of the 
 American. Not only so, but the institution has brought a 
 new train of thinking and new conceptions of life. It has 
 helped to bring them face to face with a new world. It has 
 helped to set in motion forces and agencies that only the 
 future can measure. 
 
 Nanking is now the largest and most important mission 
 station of the Foreign Society in all the world. It has grown 
 step by step and year by year. We own, all told, in that city 
 fully $100,000 worth of property, and it is constantly advanc¬ 
 ing. No one influence has contributed more to the great 
 success than The Christian Hospital. 
 
 W. R. Hunt, who has long been associated with him in 
 service in China, speaks of Dr. Macklin as follows: “No 
 man puts more reverence into his service nor less trimming 
 on his coat. The Chinese love him and revere him all over 
 the country. He loves men in the Savior’s way of loving 
 them, and that to lift them up. He is a prince among men.” 
 
 HOSPITAL AT NANKING, CHINA. THE FIRST HOSPITAL BUILT 
 BY OUR PEOPLE ON HEATHEN SOIL 
 
 42 
 
CHINESE GIRL BEFORE ENTER- CHINESE GIRL AFTER ENTER¬ 
 ING THE MISSION HOSPITAL ING THE MISSION HOSPITAL 
 
 SCHOOL AND HOSPITAL 
 
 This is another view of the Nanking Hospital. The school 
 building has been erected since the hospital was constructed. 
 
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DR. W. E. MACKLIN 
 
 For twenty-six years he has been a 
 medical missionary at Nanking. He 
 does much preaching, and besides he 
 translates many books. Dr. Macklin 
 is one of the most useful missionaries 
 in all China. 
 
 SOLDIER AT DR. MACKLIN’S 
 HOSPITAL AFTER THE NAN¬ 
 KING BATTLE DURING 
 THE RECENT REVO¬ 
 LUTION 
 
 The famines in China 
 cause the death of mil¬ 
 lions. Dr. Macklin fed 
 great numbers. 
 
 The famine now in 
 Southern China 
 threatens to exceed the 
 world-war in loss of 
 life. Two millions face 
 starvation within 
 twelve months, it is re¬ 
 ported. Unprecedented 
 floods in two provinces 
 in South China is the 
 cause of this famine. 
 
 A FAMINE BABY 
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HOSPITAL AT LU CHEO FU, CHINA 
 
 THE LUCHOWFU HOSPITAL 
 
 The Luchowfu Hospital is one of the most important in¬ 
 stitutions of the Foreign Society. It was opened by Dr. 
 James Butchart in a quiet way April i, 1901, after the stormy 
 days of the Boxer movement. 
 
 It is located on a fine lot of about one acre in an excellent 
 part of the city. The city has a population of 75,000. We 
 are the only people doing missionary work in that great 
 center. The building cost not much over $7,500. There 
 have been additions and improvements made since the build¬ 
 ing was first completed. 
 
 The medical work began some years before that. It was 
 first conducted in a native Chinese house. To this the people 
 offered stubborn opposition. They beat the man who owned 
 the property. Opposition gradually passed away, and now 
 it is one of the most popular institutions in the Republic. Its 
 influence reaches far and near. Patients come a hundred 
 miles or over to receive treatments. The name of Dr. 
 Butchart is known and honored in all that region. 
 
 Two-thirds of all the local Christians came through the 
 
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hospital. It is a strong evangelizing agency. Many thou¬ 
 sands are treated here annually. Last year there were 31,096 
 treatments. The fees of the hospital have always been large. 
 Last year they amounted to $2,258. In the past ten years 
 the fees of this one hospital have run to $18,403.95. These 
 fees have helped tremendously in keeping down expenses. 
 They come from well-to-do Chinese who are able to pay for 
 operations and other medical attention. 
 
 One valuable result of the hospital is the establishment 
 of a second hospital in Luchowfu by the Chinese themselves. 
 This is one of the important goals of missions in that land, 
 to inspire and provoke the people to establish and maintain 
 their own hospitals. In a few years the Chinese will do all 
 this for themselves, as Japan is now doing, and it will not be 
 necessary to spend American money on hospitals in that 
 field. 
 
 The building is a beautiful one. The gospel is preached 
 here every day. Many are led to accept Christ. 
 
 DR. BUTCHART AND DR. WAKEFIELD WITH MEDICAL ASSIST¬ 
 ANTS AND STUDENTS AT LUCHOWFU HOSPITAL 
 
 46 
 
ONE OF DR. BUTCHART’S PA¬ 
 TIENTS BEFORE OPERATION 
 
 ONE OF DR. BUTCHART’S PA¬ 
 TIENTS AFTER OPERATION 
 
 This operation made a profound impression upon the Chinese. 
 
 DR. JAMES BUTCHART 
 
 47 
 
 DR. PAUL WAKEFIELD, MIS¬ 
 SIONARY IN CHARGE 
 
TISDALE HOSPITAL, CHUCHOW 
 
 This merciful institution is located at Chuchow, China. 
 The money for the hospital was the gift of J. M. Tisdale, of 
 Bellevue, Ky. Chuchow is the center of a wide Christian 
 work. 
 
 Distinctive medical work was begun by Dr. E. I. Os¬ 
 good, of Hiram College, October, 1899. Before that, how¬ 
 ever, Messrs. Saw, Hunt, and Arnold, missionaries of the 
 Foreign Society, gave out medicine from the gate house of 
 the chapel. This was the first dispensary, and in it the first 
 operation was performed. A door was the operating table. 
 The operation consisted in removing a lower arm of a boy. 
 The patient made good progress, and at last account was 
 still alive. This operation by Dr. Osgood was in the winter 
 of 1899. The medical missionary says that the people 
 showed little interest until about 1907. Then there came 
 to the people in respect to the hospital a new spirit. Up to 
 that time the clinics did not average more than eight patients 
 a day. 
 
 A better dispensary, a small building, was provided by 
 the Ontario Christian Endeavor Societies in 1901. This 
 small outlay brought a new day to the mission. A vast 
 amount of real effective work was done in even this com¬ 
 paratively insignificant building. The work grew until a 
 new and larger building seemed to be imperative. The first 
 land for the new hospital was bought by Dr. Osgood in 1908, 
 and a second piece in 1910. The land cost, all told, $240 gold, 
 and the lot contains about three-quarters of an acre. A new 
 building was erected in 1911, requiring some six months. 
 Dr. Osgood superintended the building. 
 
 The two chief native helpers are Mr. Shen Si-gu and 
 Mr. Ho Wen-bo. Their salaries are $8 and $6 per month. 
 Fully 4,000 different patients are treated here annually. 
 
 During the revolution the hospital had a great number 
 of gunshot wounded. The building of a new railroad also 
 brought many to the hospital that had been injured. 
 
 The hospital has been the center of the Red Cross work 
 
 in this region during the revolution, and has led to the or- 
 
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ganization of a local branch with the leading men of the city 
 as memjDers. The way has thus been opened up to social 
 service, and the city has been led in reforms in sanitation, 
 street cleaning, public lavatories, public park playgrounds, 
 the building of paved or macadamized streets, anti-opium, 
 anti-cigarette, and anti-wine and gambling movements. 
 
 It was here that, following the revolution, a number of 
 educated soldiers were baptized and have been steadfast 
 Christians. The influence of the hospital and the Red Cross 
 and Reform Society work in the city has drawn into the 
 church a number of excellent people. 
 
 It is possible that the people may in the not distant future 
 practically support our hospital work. This is a permanent 
 institution, and the people make much use of it for meetings 
 as well as for the healing of the bodies. The missionaries 
 have tried to identify it with 
 the life of the people. This has 
 been a wise move. 
 
 DR. E. I. OSGOOD 
 
 TISDALE HOSPITAL, CHU CHOW 
 
 Built by J. M. Tisdale, in memory 
 of his two sisters. Aria C. and Annie 
 G. Tisdale. 
 
 J. M. TISDALE 
 
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ANOTHER VIEW OF THE TISDALE HOSPITAL 
 
THE HOSPITAL AT NANTUNGCHOW 
 
 This medical work was opened by Dr. E. A. Layton. The 
 land was purchased for the building in igio, igii', and igi2. 
 A number of small pieces of land were bought at a time by 
 John Johnson and Dr. M. E. Poland. It required a long time 
 to complete the purchase. The cost of the land alone was 
 $2,000 gold, and embraces about one acre. The hospital 
 building was donated by Charles C. Chapman. He gave 
 $5,000 for this purpose. The work on the building began 
 August, igii, and the main building was completed April, 
 igi2. Outbuildings, cistern, fence, etc., were completed in 
 September, igi2. There were so many problems that it took 
 a long time to put up the building. 
 
 The names of the helpers are Wu Sing Ming, Dzaw You 
 Van, and Law Owing; their salaries are about $3 per month. 
 The work commanded fine influence from the very first. 
 Eight hundred patients were treated the first year. This 
 was a good beginning. It was just a little while until tumors 
 and tubercular glands were removed. This made a profound 
 impression upon the people. Other operations were also re¬ 
 garded with great wonder. Within seven months the hos¬ 
 pital received $300 as fees from better-to-do Chinese. In¬ 
 deed, the whole work caused the thoughtful to think, the 
 ignorant to wonder, the superstitious to fear, and the kind- 
 hearted to yield. 
 
 There is now another hospital in Nantungchow, managed 
 by a graduate from Tokyo, Japan. It is financed by Chinese, 
 and they are planning to build about such a building as we 
 have. This is a wholesome influence and shows the trend of 
 things in China, and that the Chinese people can be inspired 
 to plant and support their own hospitals. 
 
 DR. LAYTON, WHO STARTED 
 THIS MEDICAL WORK 
 
 51 
 
 DR. POLAND, WHO BUILT 
 THE HOSPITAL 
 
HOSPITAL AT NANTUNGCHOW. DONATED BY CHAS. C. CHAPMAN 
 
 JOHN JOHNSON, MISSIONARY AT 
 THIS STATION. 
 
 DR. JOHN LIN, PHYSICIAN 
 AT NANTUNGCHOW 
 
 
 
 KITCHEN, WASH-HOUSE, AND FUEL ROOM OF NANTUNGCHOW 
 
 HOSPITAL 
 
MISS MARY JANE CHILES CHRISTIAN HOSPITAL, MANILA 
 
 Philippine Islands 
 
 MANILA 
 
 The above building was bought by the missionaries of 
 the Foreign Society for a Christian hospital November 7, 
 1913. It is an ideal location. It is on Gastambide Street, 
 only one block and a half from Alix, one of the chief streets 
 of the city. The property cost but $7,000. The ground alone 
 is said to be worth $6,000, and the building, when erected, 
 cost $10,500. Three weeks after the property was purchased 
 the missionaries were offered $9,000 for it. The medical 
 work here is in the hands of Dr. W. N. Lemmon. 
 
 The building contains a baby ward, an old people’s ward, 
 and a general ward and clinic. The materials used in the 
 building came from England, China, Australia, the Philip¬ 
 pines, and America—four continents and the Philippine 
 Islands. 
 
 The medical work at Manila was begun, in one room of 
 the mission house, the medicines being placed on one shelf 
 about four feet long. The first patient was one of our Chris¬ 
 tian evangelists, suffering from tuberculosis. 
 
 The hospital work has grown rapidly. There are a num¬ 
 ber of assistants at the present time. Some of these receive 
 as much as $12.50 per month as salary. About 4,000 patients 
 are treated annually in the hospital. 
 
 The amount collected in the hospital annually is over 
 
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$3,000. This money goes for equipment and enlargement 
 of the medical work. 
 
 The missionaries say that the influence of the hospital 
 upon the people is most wholesome. It gives the people 
 higher ideals of living, and also gives them an uplift in Chris¬ 
 tian living in their homes. A large number are led to confess 
 Christ through the instrumentality of the hospital. 
 
 MARY CHILES CHRISTIAN HOSPITAL, MANILA, DAILY CLINIC 
 
 Beginning left to right: 1. A patient. 2. A tubercular patient. 3. Woman 
 with fan outspread. Pillar, our Bible woman, working and talking with patients 
 while they wait for treatment. 4. Nurse. 5. Dr. Lemmon. 6. Baby and mother; 
 mother underfed, baby suffering from pneumonic beri-beri (cured). 7. Man 
 sitting, graduate from our Bible College. 8. One of our evangelists, holding 
 hand to jaw—suffering from anthrax (cured). 9. Woman patient, strong 
 Romanist—trying not to get in picture. 
 
 DR. W. N. LEMMON AT WORK IN OPERATING ROOM 
 
 This picture illustrates work in the operating room. The patient came in 
 almost blind, but is now able to see and walk about. This is a scene in the 
 Mary Chiles Hospital, Manila. 
 
TWO NURSES 
 
 These are two of the nurses de¬ 
 tailed for duty in the Government 
 Infectious Hospital. These nurses 
 handle bubonic plague, cholera, 
 leprosy, smallpox, diphtheria, and 
 other infectious diseases every day 
 during their course. The larger 
 one. Miss Emerinciana Lapinto, has 
 had smallpox. These are two brave 
 Filipino girls, both members of the 
 church. Miss Lapinto is a rich girl 
 in that country, and was disowned 
 when she became a Christian, but 
 she stood firm. And not long ago 
 Dr. Lemmon had the pleasure of 
 baptizing her mother, and so recon¬ 
 ciliation has taken place. The 
 smaller one. Miss Mary Arbon, is 
 an orphan, but a true Christian 
 character of sunny disposition, 
 loved by all her patients. 
 
 DR. W. N. LEMMON 
 
 This good man is a very efficient 
 missionary. His son is taking a med¬ 
 ical course and will follow in the 
 father’s footsteps. 
 
 HELPERS IN MANILA HOSPITAL 
 
DR. C. L. PICKETT R. A. LONG 
 
 At first they did their work in an old Spanish building with 
 a bamboo roof. The people were friendly, but timid and 
 even afraid. 
 
 A SON OF DR. LEMMON AND ONE OF THE PATIENTS IN THE 
 
 MANILA HOSPITAL 
 
 THE LAOAG HOSPITAL 
 
 The medical work at this point among the Ilocanos was 
 begun December i, 1903, by Dr. C. L. Pickett and his wife, 
 Dr. Leta M. Pickett. They are both graduate physicians. 
 
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Land was bought for the present excellent hospital in 
 igi2 by Dr. Pickett, at a cost of $250. The size of the lot is 
 about 1,964 square yards. The cost of the hospital was 
 $8,000, and R. A. Long, of Kansas City, Mo., provided the 
 money. This was a splendid encouragement to the heart of 
 Dr. Pickett and his good wife, and indeed, to the whole 
 Philippine Mission. It was a distinct advance step in the 
 work. 
 
 It required one whole year to put up the building. There 
 was much difficulty in securing the material. It had to be 
 brought a long way in the face of many hindrances. 
 
 Three male medical helpers assist in this hospital, and 
 also four nurses are in training. Mr. Santos Castro is the 
 older and most efficient helper. He has taken a short course 
 in medicine and dentistry in the Spanish University in 
 Manila, and had complete charge of the dental work. He 
 also acts as resident physician when one is necessary. 
 Gerardo Pascua has also been an efficient helper. He is a 
 capable preacher. The salaries of these helpers are about 
 $15 to $20 per month. The nurses receive no salaries, but 
 are furnished with clothing, books, and some little spending 
 money, along with their board. 
 
 During 1913 there were 17,849 treatments in this insti¬ 
 tution. In ten years there were 106,585 treatments. 
 
 Important surgical operations have been performed. Re¬ 
 moval of enlarged glands of the neck have been frequent. A 
 large number of ovarian tumors have been removed, and 
 some of these have been of enormous size. One weighed as 
 much as eighty pounds. 
 
 The financial returns in this hospital have been large. 
 For four years they averaged $3,619.57 per year. This has 
 been a great help in many ways. The hospital has made 
 many personal friends for the missionaries and for the work 
 in general. It has been the means of dispelling much doubt 
 and superstition. It has also afforded the opportunity of 
 putting thousands of pages of literature into hands that 
 otherwise would probably not have received it. The fruitage 
 of such seed-sowing is bound to tell in the future. 
 
 The medical work has afforded the missionaries the op- 
 
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portunity of taking the message of the gospel into many 
 homes where it could not otherwise have been heard. The 
 influence has been universally good. The presence of the 
 hospital in Laoag has won for our missionaries a standing 
 that they would not otherwise have been able to enjoy. 
 
 RESIDENCE AND HOSPITAL OF DR. C. L. PICKETT, LAOAG 
 
 This hospital is in one of the needy portions of the world. 
 It is doing great good. 
 
 DR. AND MRS. PICKETT AND WORKING FORCE OF THE SALLIE LONG 
 
 READ MEMORIAL HOSPITAL AT LAOAG 
 
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PATIENT AT LAOAG HOSPITAL 
 
 PATIENTS WHO WALKED SIXTY 
 MILES TO GET MEDICINE 
 AT LAOAG HOSPITAL 
 
 These come from the mountains. 
 They are a wild people. They hear 
 the gospel gladly. 
 
 ONE WAY OF BRINGING PA¬ 
 TIENTS TO THE HOSPITAL, 
 LAOAG 
 
 DR. C. L. PICKETT AND HIS FILI¬ 
 PINO MEDICAL ASSISTANTS 
 
 Medical missions are an untold 
 blessing to children. 
 
A NEW HOSPITAL WILL BE BUILT AT VIGAN 
 
 SOON 
 
 DR. L. B. KLINE, VIGAN 
 
 The boy on the right of Dr. Kline is Juan Tuscano, who was recently bap¬ 
 tized after recovering from an operation of a growing tumor that was removed 
 from his lower jaw. It was very large and encroached on his mouth so as 
 to render speech and eating difficult. 
 
 The boy on the left is Jasente Agatep, from whom Dr. Kline removed a 
 tumor by what is known as Mayo’s operation. He had an enlargement of the 
 gland on the throat. He is perfectly well. 
 
 It will be remembered that Dr. Kline is supported by the church at Hous¬ 
 ton, Texas. 
 
 The doctor is making a fine record in that old Catholic center. He has 
 been compelled to meet much stubborn opposition, as have other missionaries 
 in Vigan. 
 

 MEDICAL WORK UNDER DIFFICULTIES 
 
 The medical work at Vigan is done under great difficul¬ 
 ties. Dr. L. B. Kline does not have proper light and air and 
 room. He is in an old building. His home and the so-called 
 hospital are all under one roof. He has a wife and two small 
 children. 
 
 Some of the rooms were intended for storerooms for to¬ 
 bacco. The floors and walls are in bad shape. The floors 
 are rickety, and the plastering on the walls broken. It is a 
 good hiding place for germs and rats and spiders and lizards 
 and centipedes. 
 
 The doctor’s operating room is a little partitioned room 
 right on the dusty and dirty thoroughfare. The missionary 
 is compelled to continually struggle against dust and dirt 
 to keep down infection. The drug room is not properly 
 lighted. Here the missionary is compelled to do much mi¬ 
 croscopic work. The little room is crowded with bookkeep¬ 
 ing, cash drawer, and patients all the time. It is a difficult 
 place to serve the suffering. 
 
 The nurses and assistants occupy one of the rooms of the 
 family. They are overcrowded. The family does not even 
 have a bathroom of its own. The hospital helpers, male and 
 female, are compelled to take their daily baths in connection 
 with the hospital. 
 
 Some of the high-class Filipinos refuse the aid that they 
 might secure here on account of the unfavorable surround¬ 
 ings. 
 
 Dr. Kline and his wife are doing the best they can under 
 the circumstances. They need better quarters. They should 
 have them at once. 
 
 This is an old city. It has been a Catholic center for cen¬ 
 turies. The poor and the needy have not been properly cared 
 for. There is an open door here. Let us enter it! 
 
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WORKERS IN THE NEW HOSPITAL AT VIGAN. DR. AND MRS. 
 
 KLINE STAND IN THE REAR 
 
 A Little Boy With Dogs and Hogs 
 
 L. B. KLINE 
 
 We returned from our much appreciated vacation last 
 Saturday, arriving in Vigan just at dark. That same even¬ 
 ing we admitted two patients into the hospital, and sewed up 
 the scalp of a third patient who had been attacked from be¬ 
 hind in the dark. 
 
 Of the two who were admitted as in-patients, one was a 
 little boy,^eight years old. A young Filipino lady, a former 
 appendicitis patient, found the little boy wandering down 
 near the river and brought him to the hospital. He was too 
 sick to be of any use, so he had been turned out of doors and 
 was claimed by no one. He could not stand alone, and had 
 nearly lost the power of speech. From what we could gather 
 he had been numbered among the pigs and the dogs that 
 roam the streets for a week, gathering what he could, for, 
 like the prodigal son, none gave him to eat. 
 
 From his former neglect and exposure he is not expected 
 to recover, but the little fellow will be taken care of as best 
 we know how so long as he lives. 
 
 When money is given to Foreign Missions it goes to cor¬ 
 rect just such conditions. The missionaries are laboring to 
 bring the world to Christ, to raise the standard of living, to 
 correct defects in humanitarian instincts, to raise the fallen, 
 and restore the lost. 
 
 Vigan. 
 
MEDICAL WORK IN AFRICA 
 
 BOLENGE 
 
 The Englewood Church, Chicago, will build hospital. 
 
 SLEEPING SICKNESS 
 
 For years the cause of this strange 
 disease was unknown, but Sleeping 
 Sickness Commissions were sent to 
 Uganda and to the Congo, and the 
 cause was demonstrated to be a micro¬ 
 scopic blood parasite, called the try¬ 
 panosome. The transmitting agency 
 of this parasite is a blood-sucking fly, 
 the tsetse, which injects the blood thus 
 obtained into the next victim, who in 
 turn develops the disease. The symp¬ 
 toms are “apathy and listlessness to 
 an extreme degree.” Later on they 
 simply lie in a profound stupor. For 
 years death was the invariable ter¬ 
 mination of this dread disease, some 
 lingering two years or more, others 
 dying in a few months. It was 
 thought for years that white people 
 were immune. This fondly cherished 
 hope was vain. 
 
 DYING OF SLEEPING SICKNESS 
 
 DR. G. J. P. BARGER, 
 Bolenge 
 
 DR. L. F. JAGGARD, 
 Monieka 
 
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 DR. W. A. FRYMIRE, 
 Lotumbe 
 
The Bolenge Dispensary 
 
 The medical work was opened April 17, 1889, at Bolenge, 
 Africa. Dr. Royal J. Dye was the missionary in charge. 
 We can hardly imagine how trying the first work was. It is 
 said Dr. Dye was compelled at first to hire patients to take 
 his medicine. There is no hospital building at Bolenge— 
 only a small dispensary. 
 
 The land was given to the Mission by the Government 
 in consideration of the medical services rendered. About 
 one acre of land has been set aside for the hospital and dis¬ 
 pensary work. The dispensary was built by the late R. Ray 
 Eldred in 1903, and cost the modest sum of about $300. All 
 of the material had to be taken by hand out of the forests, 
 and from the time the building was begun to the time of its 
 completion required about one year. 
 
 There is only one assistant here, his name being Mboola. ^ 
 He has been an evangelist, but, of course, has had very little 
 training for medical work, and his salary is $50 per year. 
 
 About five hundred patients are treated in this dispensary 
 annually. Altogether there has been more than five thou¬ 
 sand patients treated since the dispensary was opened. The 
 receipts here for medical work are very small, but the influ¬ 
 ence of the dispensary is large. Dr. W. C. Widdowson was 
 for nearly three years at Bolenge, Dr. E. A. Layton two 
 years, and Dr. L. F. Jaggard about one year. 
 
 There is now a medical missionary under appointment, 
 Dr. G. J. P. Barger, and it is hoped that he will soon be at 
 Bolenge, for they have been without a medical missionary 
 there for some time. 
 
 Witchcraft—Voodoqism Opposing the Missionaries 
 
 The witch-doctor of Africa is the arch-enemy of the gos¬ 
 pel and progress along all lines. " He is the high priest of 
 fetichism and is a veritable fiend incarnate when under the 
 excitement of his ceremonies. In the early days of our work 
 in Africa the witch-doctor played a dramatic and serious 
 part in the opposition to the gospel message and workers. 
 
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The early struggle has been graphically described in Mrs. 
 Dye’s “Bolenge.” He was a keen, intelligent man of middle 
 age. His sleight-of-hand tricks were the mystery of the 
 peoples for miles about Bolenge, and the source of his power. 
 At one time he came up to the mission station before day¬ 
 break and, overturning a stone, plucked a leaf; cursing it, he 
 placed it and the stone in the hole; he said, “Whoever stubs 
 their toe on this stone, let him get pneumonia.” The mere 
 tripping up on a stone giving pneumonia is ridiculous. Dr. 
 Dye, threatening the witch-doctor, made him remove the 
 stone and leaf. Many a struggle was made over Bolenge 
 and vicinity, but scientific medicine and the friendly message 
 of the gospel won out. 
 
 Witchcraft’s cruelties are hardly believable. Our mis¬ 
 sionaries almost had to pay the people at first to get them 
 to try their medicines. In fact, one old chief came up and 
 asked for medicine, then he demanded pay for taking it. 
 Now these same people, realizing the value and helpfulness, 
 pay large sums for the larger operations, and our mission¬ 
 aries receive a good, reasonable fee for their medicines, while 
 the power and influence of the old superstitions of witch¬ 
 craft and fetichism are broken and almost forgotten about 
 Bolenge. The people there would laugh at any one sug¬ 
 gesting the old practices as a relief for suffering, or at any 
 one trying to rehabilitate the old tricks and chicanery of the 
 witch-doctor. 
 
 Our younger doctors now at Lotumbe and Monieka are 
 doing for the peoples there what our medical missionaries 
 who worked at Bolenge did there in the early days. Their 
 operations are miraculous to the natives, and the power of 
 witchcraft is being broken in their sections and the gospel 
 is being gladly received. 
 
 What a wonderful change has been effected in only a few 
 years! We are sure the friends rejoice in the work they have 
 been permitted to accomplish in the name of the King. 
 
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WITCH DOCTOR, BOLENGE 
 
 His name was Bonkanza. Mrs. Dye 
 says, “His life was a rare combination 
 of trickery and deceit, with geniality 
 and hospitality.” He urged his chil¬ 
 dren to be friends to the missionaries. 
 
 On account of the treach¬ 
 erous climate there are fewer 
 medical missionaries in the 
 Congo than in almost any 
 other occupied field, yet no¬ 
 where are they so much 
 needed. 
 
 SLEEPING SICKNESS, BOLENGE, AFRICA 
 
 Dr. Royal J. Dye making a regular visit to sleeping sickness camp below 
 Bolenge, where infected patients are isolated. 
 
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INDIA 
 
 HOSPITAL AT HARDA, INDIA 
 
 This is where we opened our first station on heathen soil 
 and where we baptized the first convert from heathenism. 
 G. L. Wharton was the missionary. 
 
 This hospital is one of the most useful owned by the For¬ 
 eign Society. It has always been conducted in a very eco¬ 
 nomical way. First of all, the land was given by a Brahman. 
 This was an extraordinary event. The first building was a 
 
 very small one, erected in 1894, at a cost of $1,335. Dr. C. S. 
 Durand opened this work and secured the first money for 
 
 this building by doing dental work at the Hills. He worked 
 among foreigners and made money. For many years this 
 building has been entirely too small. 
 
 Recently a new piece of land was purchased for a larger 
 and better hospital. This includes six acres, and cost only 
 $328. It was bought by D. O. Cunningham,' of the India 
 Mission. 
 
 There are four assistants in this hospital; some preach 
 and others do medical work. Samson N. Powar is a reliable 
 and a skilled assistant. He is a Hindu. P. T. Lawrence is 
 also a valuable assistant. 
 
 About 13,300 patients are treated annually in this insti¬ 
 tution. Much valuable surgical work is done. The work 
 of the hospital has opened the hearts and the homes of the 
 people as no other work could do. 
 
 The new hospital is now completed. It has been built 
 under maiiy trying circumstances. It cost about $7,000, and 
 will be a tremendous force in the community. The spirit 
 of the people has greatly changed since 1894. All classes 
 of people take a larger interest in it, and even the Moham¬ 
 medans look upon it with very much more favorable con¬ 
 sideration. 
 
 The Scriptures are read and the gospel is preached to the 
 people every morning before the medical work begins. The 
 
 influence of the institution is for good, and only good. 
 
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A GROUP OF LEPERS FROM THE HARDA ASYLUM 
 
 The man in the white coat, to the left of the group, is the keeper. The 
 building shown is the one used as a chapel. Two in the foreground are women. 
 Those whose fingers and toes have fallen off are in the advanced stage of the 
 awful disease. There are many thousands of such cases scattered throughout 
 India. 
 
 A VIEW OF THE LEPER ASYLUM AT HARDA 
 
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THE OLD HOSPITAL AT HARDA, INDIA 
 
 A splendid new hospital has been built, but the picture has not 
 yet been received. We will publish it as soon as it is received. The 
 missionaries have poor opportunities of securing good pictures. A 
 friend in Ohio gave the money for the new hospital. 
 
 DR. C. C. DRUMMOND, MISSION¬ 
 ARY IN CHARGE 
 
 SAMSON POWAR, MEDICAL AS¬ 
 SISTANT AND EVANGELIST 
 
THE HOSPITAL AND DISPENSARY WORK IN 
 
 MUNGELI, INDIA 
 
 Josepha Franklin 
 
 The missionaries say that the hospital and dispensary 
 work in Miingeli has been one of the greatest forces in the 
 district to bring people to Christ. Hira Lai, an old and 
 faithful Chattisgarh Christian, is at the head of this work. 
 Bhikram, a Chattisgarh man who has had a few years in the 
 Bible College, assists him. The number of patients at the 
 dispensary averages about fifty per day. Regular services 
 are held on the veranda for these. There are ten or twelve 
 in-patients. Interest in the Bible lessons is very great. One 
 day a visitor at the hospital asked my sister what was the 
 difference between Satynam (religion of the true name) and 
 Christianity. She said that the teacher of the Satynam 
 had only a fragment of the truth, but that the teacher of 
 Christians had the whole truth. The man seemed quite 
 pleased with this reply, and was ready to hear more. 
 
 Lepers Baptized 
 
 Mr. Benlehr had the oversight of the Leper Asylum in 
 Mungeli. Our missionaries have always had the oversight 
 of the asylum in Mungeli. Mr. Benlehr, when in the station, 
 had a daily service for them. Five of these were baptized 
 on the Sunday when I was there. Most of the congregation 
 went from the church to the river to witness the baptism. 
 
 I have never seen a more pathetic sight. The fingers and 
 toes of the lepers were gnarled and crooked or entirely 
 broken off, while spots and sores disfigured their skin. Their 
 noses were sunken in at the bridge, and in some cases nearly 
 gone. Their lips were thick, coarse, and swollen. Bandages 
 were tied over ulcers on foot and hands. I have never seen 
 much of lepers, so had to struggle to overcome a sense of 
 physical repulsion in order to come near enough to take part 
 in the services. At the same time I could have wept at the 
 pathos of the scene. Mr. Grainger took the confessions of 
 the lepers, and Mr. Benlehr baptized them. The latter had 
 his own hands swathed with cloth, so as not to touch the 
 
 lepers or their clothing. One leper was entirely blind and 
 
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was led into the water by another leper, while a lame man 
 was picked up and carried in by another leper. All gave 
 their responses in such clear tones as to amaze me. 
 
 The Mothers Are Coming 
 
 Before we left the river a leper who seems to be a leader 
 came to my sister and men, and said to her: ‘‘For many days 
 I have had hope that my mother would visit us in our asy¬ 
 lum. Will she not bring her sister and come now?” My 
 sister said we would come, and so we went over the next 
 day. As we neared the gate a few lepers saw us and shouted 
 out: “The mothers are coming. Get ready for a meeting.” 
 Instantly the lepers began running out from rooms all 
 
 Lepers of India. Helpless. Without God. Hopeless. 
 
 around the premises. There were about sixty of them. Al¬ 
 though no one shouted, “Unclean, unclean!” still the lepers 
 kept apart from us. Our chairs were placed by the keeper, 
 who was not a leper, and we sat down in the shade to have 
 a service for them. The spokesman of the day before man¬ 
 aged everything for us, and brought a musical instrument 
 to play on. It was only a gourd partly covered with leather 
 and with one string. It was gayly decorated with peacock 
 feathers. I had been told that the lepers loved to sing, so 
 I told him to play and have all sing for us. They chose their 
 own songs. The first one was a Christian hymn with words 
 running something like this: “Without thee. Lord Jesus, 
 I am very helpless. The burden of my sin was upon me, but 
 you took it down. The river (of Death) is very deep, and 
 my boat (the body) is old and worn out. We all plead thee. 
 Lord Jesus, to take us to the other side.” 
 
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Sing Well 
 
 The mournful air with the repetition of ‘T am helpless 
 without Lord Jesus” at every line seemed to me the saddest 
 thing that I have ever seen or heard. Owing to the training 
 given by Mrs. Rioch and Mr. Grainger, the people generally 
 sing well here. The lepers kept good time, and sang with 
 comprehension. One thing I noticed here, not generally 
 seen among Christians—a singer would face another singer 
 singing a line as if he were telling a most joyful piece of 
 news. The second man also sang, but quietly. At the next 
 line, however, the second man would suddenly begin to sing 
 loudly, as if he had suddenly taken the story from the lips 
 of the first man and were going on with it to a third man. 
 The first man would then begin singing to a fourth man. 
 The man who had the gourd had also a pair of iron rods 
 with chains on them. When he fingered the string with one 
 hand he rattled the rods and chains with the other, and 
 swayed back and forth before the persons to whom he was 
 singingi ' Once I noticed with a sickening horror that the 
 
 • -i' * 
 
 white spots preceding ulcers had appeared on his knuckles, 
 and knew that the falling off of the fingers was only a ques¬ 
 tion of time, and his one pitiful form of amusing himself 
 would be gone. 
 
 The Communion 
 
 Mr. Benlehr said he is not a man who gives way to senti¬ 
 mental feeling, but when he first came here he could not bear 
 to see the lepers at communion. They had individual cups 
 and balanced them sometimes on a stub of hand or a wrist, 
 or, failing in this, dropped the cups. All of the lepers were 
 Christians and listened fairly well to the talk I gave them. 
 When the service was over, the leader came up and said 
 there was an old man in the asylum too ill to get up, and 
 asked us to go and see him. “For,” he said, “I gave him 
 some hope that our mothers would come to see him.” We 
 went over and found the oldest Christian in the asylum. He 
 had no fingers or toes, and nothing that could be called 
 features, but he told us when he came into the asylum and 
 of the different missionaries who had been in Mungeli since 
 then, and of his own baptism. 
 
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Awfulness of Leprosy 
 
 A sight of the lepers makes one realize the force of the 
 expression “moral leper.” One form of the disease is the 
 lack of sensation. Hira Lai told me that rats bite the poor 
 creatures, or they burn their hands without knowing it. 
 Again, the disease attacks the muscles, and the drawing is 
 fearful agony. Burning, itching, and pain and fever torment 
 them night and day. The people here, however, do not have 
 the white man’s horror of the disease. Lepers often live in 
 open sin, and children are born in leper asylums. The asy¬ 
 lum for Mungeli is for men only, although a few women are 
 temporarily in it. Mr. Benlehr is now building an asylum 
 for women lepers in Pendridi. Although the caring for the 
 lepers is a deed of mercy, it is not a means of spreading 
 Christianity beyond the inmates of the asylums. 
 
 Mungeli, C. P., India. 
 
 PATIENT AT THE MUNGELI HOSPITAL 
 
 This patient was there when Dr. Anna Gordon was in charge. A snake 
 had bitten him on the toe, gangrene of entire foot set in. A successful opera* 
 tion in amputating the foot was made by Dr. Gordon, and he fully recovered. 
 This is only one instance of hundreds of cases of merciful help to the afflicted. 
 
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DR. ANNA GORDON AND ASSISTANTS, MUNGELI 
 
 The above is Dr. Anna Gordon and three of the medical assistants whom 
 she trained. The young man and nurse on either side of Dr. Gordon are hus¬ 
 band and wife. They were formerly famine orphans. The young man with 
 the dark coat passed the State examination in pharmacy. 
 
 Dr. Gordon did a great work as a medical missionary in all this region. 
 She is gratefully remembered by all classes. 
 
DR. G. E. MILLER AND HIS MEDICAL STAFF, MUNGELI 
 
 MRS. DAVID RIOCH AND HER HOSPITAL STAFF AT 
 
 BARELA 
 
 Barela is an out-station from Mungeli. Mrs. Rioch did much work around 
 about Mungeli. She and her husband are now located at Damoh and have 
 charge at present of the orphanage. Poor health and family cares have not 
 permitted her to do as much direct medical work in recent years. 
 
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MUNGELI HOSPITAL 
 
 The hospital is at the right end, then the operating room, then dispensary, 
 and two ward rooms—one for men and the other for women. This hospital, 
 though inexpensive, has done much to break down prejudice and to make 
 friends for the gospel. 
 
 There is a wonderful movement at Mungeli. The 
 signs of a mass movement grow brighter. 
 
 WARDS OF MUNGELI HOSPITAL 
 
 The poor are gathered into these wards and are blessed by the ministry 
 of the medical missionary. The large tree has been a great blessing. It affords 
 an abundant shade. The well is seen in the center. 
 
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HIRA LAL, HOSPITAL ASSISTANT 
 AT MUNGELI, INDIA 
 
 A very capable and a most devoted 
 man. He enjoys the confidence of all 
 classes. Besides doing medical work, 
 he preaches the gospel with power. 
 He is greatly beloved. 
 
 INDIA FAMINE SUFFERER 
 
 The lives of thousands have been 
 saved in India during the famine years 
 by the timely aid of friends in Amer¬ 
 ica and in other lands. 
 
 LEPERS IN ASYLUM CONDUCTED BY FOREIGN SOCIETY, MUNGELI, 
 
 INDIA 
 
 There are about sixty lepers in the asylum, and all are Christians but five. 
 The money for the buildings was furnished by the Leper Mission of Edinburgh, 
 Scotland. This is a merciful institution. 
 
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WOMEN’S HOSPITAL 
 
 This is a hospital and dispensary built in 1905. It is located at Damoh, 
 and not far from the church and great Sunday-school. The wards are in the 
 wing of the hospital. The gospel is taught here constantly. Many have been 
 won to Christ. This hospital was built by the Christian women in England. 
 They did a great service for their sisters in India. 
 
 Dr. Jennie V. Fleming had charge of this institution for a time. She did a 
 good work. 
 
 Dr. Mary T. McGavran now conducts the hospital. Her life and work are 
 very useful. 
 
 THE WOMEN’S HOSPITAL, DAMOH, INDIA 
 The Women’s Hospital, Damoh, India 
 
 This building was begun in igio and completed in 1911. 
 Dr. Mary T. McGavran has had charge of it continuously, 
 except during furlough periods, when Miss Mary Clarke and 
 Dr. Jennie Fleming carried on the work. Dr. McGavran 
 arrived in India in 1895. In 1907 she rented a native house 
 in the town and conducted a hospital and dispensary. That 
 
 78 
 
year she treated 13,770 patients. The first year records over 
 20,000 as being treated in the new hospital. Many days dur¬ 
 ing the winter season she preaches to and treats over one 
 hundred patients in a single day. 
 
 After her morning’s work in the hospital is over, she 
 drives out to the surrounding villages and treats patients 
 who are not able to come to the hospital. 
 
 The building is situated on one of the main streets and 
 within the growing area of the town. This hospital is one 
 of our greatest agencies for reaching people. Dr. McGavran 
 is widely known and is greatly honored and respected. Peo¬ 
 ple come from villages far distant to be treated in her hos¬ 
 pital. 
 
 BOYS’ HOSPITAL 
 
 This hospital is in the Boys’ Orphanage at Damoh, India. The great num¬ 
 ber of boys and young men made a demand for hospital. When a boy is not 
 able to work or study, he is cared for in this institution. 
 
 The Boys’ Orphanage Hospital was built mostly by 
 famine labor. About the years 1901-1902, J. G. McGavran 
 had charge of the most part of the building, though Mr. 
 Rambo and Mr. Rioch shared in the oversight of its erection. 
 Dr. Minnie Rioch had charge of it in a medical way during 
 a part of her first term. Dr. G. E. Miller had charge for one 
 year. Latterly a native doctor from the Government Hos¬ 
 pital attends to the needs of the sick boys in the Boys’ Or¬ 
 phanage Hospital. 
 
 The building is commodious and is well adapted to the 
 needs of the orphans. From two to four boys from among 
 the Orphanage boys are in training as nurses and hospital 
 assistants. They take the Government examinations from 
 time and time, and many of them become proficient nurses 
 and compounders. 79 
 
MEDICAL WORK IN TIBET 
 
 A Hospital to be Built 
 
 MEDICAL WORK AMONG TIBETANS 
 
 On the right is a Tibetan teacher. On the left a Tibetan, 
 holding a prayer-wheel, who had typhus fever about six 
 weeks and was treated by Dr. Shelton. This was Dr. Shel¬ 
 ton’s first fever patient among the Tibetans. 
 
 DR. SHELTON PREPARING TO 
 OPERATE ON HAIR-LIP 
 
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 Record of Thirty-Nine Years 
 
 y’: The following table shows the record of the Foreign Society 
 
 i? for the past thirty-nine years. ^ These are cheering figures. We 
 ^ have every reason for thanksgiving. This showing must be carefully 
 studied to be fully appreciated. 
 
 • ;* . 
 
 ‘ 
 
 1 
 
 No. of Contrib¬ 
 
 uting Churches. 
 
 Amount Con¬ 
 
 tributed by 
 Churches. 
 
 No. of Contrib¬ 
 
 uting ^nday- 
 schools....... .,. 
 
 Amount Con¬ 
 
 tributed by 
 Sunday-schools.. 
 
 Total Amount 
 Contributed...... 
 
 . 
 
 ■ 1 
 
 ^ §. 
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 to 
 
 • 
 
 • 
 
 • 
 
 Native Helpers... 
 
 Total Missionary | 
 
 Force...........! 
 
 "■ ■■ ■ 
 
 
 1876 
 
 30 
 
 $20 00 
 
 '» •' • ' • • • 
 
 • • • •• 
 
 $ 1,706 35 
 
 2 
 
 
 2 
 
 
 1877 
 
 41 
 
 548 18 
 
 2 
 
 
 2,174 95 
 
 i : ■ 2 
 
 •' • • • • 
 
 2 
 
 ■.y'"-' V ' 
 
 1878 
 
 68 
 
 565 03 
 
 47 
 
 $195 10 
 
 8,766 24 
 
 ' ■ 5 
 
 
 5 
 
 ^ •• 
 
 1879 
 
 209 
 
 1,881 73 
 
 52 
 
 210 26 
 
 8,287 24 
 
 9 
 
 • a • • • 
 
 9 
 
 
 1880 
 
 324 
 
 2,723 09 
 
 69 
 
 246 02 
 
 12,144 00 
 
 10 
 
 • • * • • 
 
 10 
 
 
 1881 
 
 217 
 
 1,637 54 
 
 198 
 
 75000 
 
 13,178 46 
 
 13 
 
 • • a • • 
 
 13 
 
 ^ v . 
 
 f ' -. - • 
 
 1882 
 
 524 
 
 4,940 77 
 
 501 
 
 2,175 00 
 
 25,063 94 
 
 11 
 
 • » a « • 
 
 11 
 
 '* • 
 
 1883 
 
 473 
 
 " 4,764 95 
 
 516 
 
 3,205 00 
 
 25,004 85 
 
 19 
 
 1 
 
 20 
 
 
 1884 
 
 585 
 
 7,189 90 
 
 699 
 
 4,125 00 
 
 ^ 26,601 84 
 
 22 
 
 3 
 
 25 
 
 
 1885 
 
 648 
 
 7,191 00 
 
 787 
 
 5,125 00 
 
 30,260 10 
 
 26 
 
 7 
 
 33 
 
 
 1886 
 
 653 
 
 7,004 32 
 
 820 
 
 6,035 00 
 
 61,727 07 
 
 31 
 
 13 
 
 44 
 
 
 1887 
 
 774 
 
 10,304 73 
 
 1,064 
 
 10,513 00 
 
 . 47,75 7 85 
 
 32 
 
 13 
 
 45 
 
 
 1888 
 
 990 
 
 15,181 72 
 
 1,217 
 
 15,662 00 
 
 62,767 59 
 
 37 
 
 23 
 
 60 
 
 • ■ T ' " ‘ 
 
 1889 
 
 1,038 
 
 17,214 67 
 
 1,417 
 
 19,123 00 
 
 64,840 03 
 
 43 
 
 27 
 
 70 
 
 ,; ir ' 
 
 1890 
 
 805 
 
 13,505 88 
 
 1,251 
 
 17,765 00 
 
 67,750 49 
 
 53 
 
 28 
 
 81 
 
 
 1891 
 
 991 
 
 18,000 63 
 
 1,511 
 
 21,411 00 
 
 65,365 76 
 
 58 
 
 34 
 
 92 
 
 
 1892 
 
 1,355 
 
 24,259 85 
 
 1,452 
 
 22,907 00 
 
 70,320 84 
 
 63 
 
 37 
 
 100 
 
 
 1893 
 
 1,208 
 
 23,818 49 
 
 1,571 
 
 18,690 00 
 
 58,355 01 
 
 65 
 
 44 
 
 109 
 
 > f. •. 
 
 1894 
 
 « 1,806 
 
 30,679 63 
 
 2,276 
 
 23,486 00 
 
 ' 73,258 16 
 
 66 
 
 55 
 
 121 
 
 - -fV- 
 
 1895 
 
 2,403 
 
 36,54999 
 
 2,525 
 
 27,553 00 
 
 83,514 16 
 
 68 
 
 66 
 
 134 
 
 .V;;- • 
 
 \'V-'V. ' 
 
 1896 
 
 2,459 
 
 39,902 00 
 
 2,605 
 
 28,418 00 
 
 93,867 71 
 
 76 
 
 67 
 
 1 143 
 
 i-A-y 
 
 1897 
 
 2,586 
 
 39,568 28 
 
 2,810 
 
 30,027 00 
 
 106,222 10 
 
 87 
 
 77 
 
 164 ^ 
 
 ■'v'" ■ 
 
 1898 
 
 2,907 
 
 45,650 20 
 
 3,180 
 
 34,334 00 
 
 130,925 70 
 
 93 
 
 108 
 
 201 
 
 
 1899 
 
 3,051 
 
 57,781 00 
 
 3,187 
 
 39,071 00 
 
 152^727 38 
 
 98 
 
 131 
 
 229 
 
 
 1900 
 
 3,067 
 
 65,964 00 
 
 3,260 
 
 42,705 00 
 
 180,016 16 
 
 111 
 
 146 
 
 257 
 
 
 1901 
 
 2,762 
 
 62,007 00 
 
 3,216 
 
 42,841 00 
 
 171,898 20 
 
 111 
 
 160 
 
 271 
 
 - ifl’t' ' 
 
 1902 
 
 2,822 
 
 68,586 00 
 
 3,365 
 
 48,116 00 
 
 178,323 68 
 
 115 
 
 223 
 
 338 
 
 
 1903 
 
 2,825 
 
 79,785 00 
 
 3,310 
 
 51,630 25 
 
 210,008 68 
 
 117 
 
 290 
 
 407 
 
 
 1904 
 
 2,915 
 
 89,545 01 
 
 3,532 
 
 56,832 47 
 
 221,318 60 
 
 143 
 
 295 
 
 438 
 
 ■M- 
 
 1905 
 
 2,834 
 
 95,500 00 
 
 3,552 
 
 61,817 60 
 
 255,:922 51 
 
 154 
 
 312 
 
 466 
 
 ■■vfe ., 
 
 1906 
 
 3,178 
 
 109,018 00 
 
 3,638 
 
 66,809 65 
 
 268,726 00 
 
 154 
 
 333 
 
 487 
 
 
 1907 
 
 3,415 
 
 123,468 00 
 
 3,785 
 
 77,158 73 
 
 305,534 54 
 
 155 
 
 410 
 
 565 
 
 :U- ■ ■ 
 
 1908 
 
 3,457 
 
 128,347 00 
 
 . 3,742 
 
 75,180 20 
 
 274,324 39 
 
 167 
 
 594 
 
 761 
 
 
 1909 
 
 3,396 
 
 146,081 00 
 
 3,775 
 
 77,199 24 
 
 350,685 21 
 
 170 
 
 634 
 
 804 
 
 t * - 
 .':0' • 
 
 1910 
 
 3,227 
 
 138,098 48 
 
 3,864 
 
 90,251 82 
 
 360,71292 
 
 170 
 
 761 
 
 931 
 
 ; ■ 
 
 1911 
 
 3,023 
 
 139,501 20 
 
 3,787 
 
 83,041 35 
 
 379,082 03 
 
 169 
 
 759 
 
 928 
 
 
 1912 
 
 2,971 
 
 135,835 49 
 
 3,981 
 
 92,751 92 
 
 400,728 44 
 
 172 
 
 1085 
 
 1256 
 
 Cv 
 
 1913 
 
 3,122 
 
 129,871 00 
 
 4,051 
 
 92,853 00 
 
 434,183 00 
 
 181 
 
 832 
 
 1013 
 
 V?-.' 
 
 1914 
 
 3,187 
 
 141,604 87 
 
 4,122 
 
 92,753 17 
 
 464,149 16 
 
 181 
 
 805 
 
 986 
 
 X' ' 
 
1. Because this is the will of Gk)d. He has commissioned the 
 church to preach the gospel to the whole creation. 
 
 2. Because missions lie nearest to the heart of our Lord. 
 This was the one work he assigned his followers after he rose 
 from the dead and bHore he ascended to the Father. • 
 
 Because we hilve obtained mercy that we might witness : 
 for Christ in helping others to find him. ' 
 
 4 - Because the welfare ofi t^^^ church depends upon its efforts 
 to evangelize the world. ' ''When a church ceases to be evan- 
 gelistic, it soon ceases to be evangelical,” ^ 
 
 5. Because our own personal salvation depends upon our obe- « 
 dience to the commandments of ot^r Lord,. "To obey is better 
 
 ^'.thansacrifice.”^^’ \ ^ 
 
 6. Because it is of the very essence of Christianity to be mis- - 
 sionary, progressivej world-embracing. It would cease to exist 
 if it ceased to be ihissionary; if it disregarded the parting charge / 
 
 \-of:its/;Founder.y':;:';:;'. y'y' 
 
 7. Because the nations cannot be saved without the gospel. 
 Commerce, diplomacy, teowledge^ the instrumentalities of civilk ■ ^ 
 zatibn will not fedeein men from sin and nip^^ into fhe like- 
 
 -ness of:Christ^-'>;-y>.X'^ v ^ 
 
 V \ 8. Because there isy salv^ in Christ, and there is salvation 
 in none other; for there is none other name given under heaven . 
 among men whereby men must be saved. ^ 
 
 Because the w^id cannot long exist part, pagan and part 
 Christian. One element or the other must gain the supremacy. 
 
 If Christian people fail to do their pa^, the powers of darkness 
 
 ^.'will-win the^day-^ 
 
 : io.; Because the eheniies of all righteousness-~infidelity, im' 
 temperance, and, worldliness—are in keen competition with the 
 church for the Control of the nations. y ; 
 
 ri. Because success is assured.: “This Salvation of God is 
 sent unto the Gentiles, they will also hear.” The Kingdom of 
 this world shall become the Kingdom of your Lord and of his 
 
 ■■Christi; ;Vv - 
 
 expects to see all nations 
 bow in submission to his authority. He is waiting to see of the 
 travail of his souh that he may be satisfied. 
 
 13. Because we are all well able to do it. The church has the 
 men to go and the funds to support them in the Service. ■ 
 
 14. Because of the urgent calls that come from every field 
 for the gospel. cannot stop our ears to these calls and be 
 
 ' .guiltless.