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MAY 1918

Number 5

Turkey’s Menace in the Transcaucasus

Recent dispatches from Switzer- land, reporting the latest information from within Turkey, indicate that condi- tions there are not becoming worse than they have been, but, on the whole, are rather improv- ing. The Turkish officials seem to be increasingly friendly to the mission- aries, and helpful in the matter of distributing relief.

There is greater uncertainty with reference to the situation in the Transcaucasus. The Bolsheviks, in their treaty with Germany, gave the Transcaucasus to Turkey, and not only the region which was taken from Turkey in 1878, but beyond, including Erivan and presumably the railroad line to the Caspian Sea; and this line goes directly to Baku, one of the great- est oil centers in the world. The plan was undoubtedly Germany’s project to secure for herself possession of this rich territory, and incidentally a north- western route toward India, as the route originally sought, by way of Bagdad and the Persian Gulf, has not opened up successfully.

The United States Government has received no direct communication from the American consul at Tiflis since the latter part of February. Dispatches were sent from the American Board missionaries and from the American consul by courier to Teheran, Persia, and from there cabled to Washington. These reported the conditions as ex- ceedingly threatening, the Turks push- ing to the north to take possession of the territory which the provisional government, with capital at Tiflis, was planning to defend. The majority of the provisional government constitute Armenians and Georgians, who are

making common cause against a com- mon enemy, the Turks, Tartars, and Teutons.

The American Committee for Ar- menian and Syrian Relief has made an appropriation of $400,000 for relief purposes, but is unable as yet to trans- mit the fund. The State Department inquired of London by cable if they had any communication with Tiflis, and the reply came that communication was cut off, so that just at present it is impossible to give any definite infor- mation as to the situation in the Trans- caucasus.

Our missionaries, seventeen of them, with children, besides other Americans who are there for the distribution of relief, are in difficult circumstances. For them prayer should be earnestly offered, and not only for them, but for the Armenians and Georgians, whose very existence is threatened. It does not appear that the Turks or the Tartars would be inclined to injure the missionaries themselves, but the poor people are in a terrible situation.

With eyes intent upon France and what is happening there, we must not forget Mexico, so re- r„eMe^hment centlv a danger spot in the other direction, and where the task of reconstruction is now on. The reestablishment of gov- ernment and of order, we are assured, is being accomplished, despite some outbreaks of banditry, which are likely to continue for a long time. Dr. How- land, writing from Mexico City the middle of March, affirmed that no one there would have reason to think there was unrest in any part of the country. The intrigue between Germany and Mexico is less to be considered, now

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that it has been revealed and dis- credited. On the whole, the United States may regard its neighbor on the south with a good measure of confi- dence that she will settle down to a period of comparative stability and prosperity.

Missionary work, also, in Mexico is in process of readjustment. The trans- fer of fields between the Southern Methodists and the American Board, involved in the general realignment of mission forces in the land, is being pushed, the Methodist Bishop Denny seeming to regard the exchange as practically decided. The Union Semi- nary at Mexico City, of which Dr. Howland is the head, has opened its new year well, with fifteen boarders in what is really the first class. Most of these men are said to be well pre- pared, or at least better prepared than might be expected under present con- ditions. Ten special students are very regular and are doing good work.

The new restrictions put upon for- eigners in their religious work in Pushing Mexico, and the new rules Missionary affecting mission schools Work and churches, have discour-

aged some of the missions in their work. Others are undaunted and even more aggressive. The Methodist Board (North) is pushing with great success, and making “drives” of all kinds in all departments. In their main church at Mexico City they have a Sunday school attendance of 500, and aim at 600. One of their superintendents received over three hundred into the church in his district during 1917 ; has held in- stitutes for the workers and others for laymen, and is successfully developing self-support; and this in the “Zapa- tista” territory.

As one indication of the American Board’s purpose to push on in Mexico, we call attention to the recent appoint- ment of two new missionaries as re- enforcements, Rev. Leavitt O. Wright and Rev. Harold H. Barber. Concern- ing these appointments, it is inter-

esting to note that Mr. Wright is a son of two of our Mexico missionaries, Rev. and Mrs. Alfred C. Wright; that his wife, formerly Miss Marion How- land, is a missionary daughter; and that Mr. Barber expects to take with him, as his bride, Miss Barbara How- land, the other daughter of Dr. and Mrs. John Howland. Mexico is evi- dently in the blood of our missionaries there.

A group of young Chinese students from American colleges are about to sail for France to assist the Fiander" Young Men’s Christian Asso- ciation with the thousands of Chinese coolies at work behind the French lines on roads and encamp- ments. The number of these coolies has been variously stated; 150,000 is a conservative estimate. Most of them have been brought across the Pacific and Canada in units of about three thousand, under the charge of mission- aries and others who speak the Chinese tongue. It will be remembered that Dr. James F. Cooper, of the American Board’s Foochow Mission, brought one such company in 1917. British officers and some civilians have shared in this leadership. Eleven British Mission Boards have united in the plan to send more of their Chinese-speaking mis- sionaries with these labor units as interpreters. This is not only a valu- able opportunity to educate and influ- ence these Chinese, whose world travels and war experiences will make them radiating centers of information on their return home, but the friendly missionary interpreter will also make their work more efficient and keep up their spirits to the point of effective- ness.

One of the men who will join this service is Shaowu Peter Chuan, grad- uate of the American aSSwS? Board’s college in Tung- «**'■> chow, and about to com- plete his last year in Hartford Theo- logical Seminary. Mr. Chuan has been

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heard on many of the most prominent Forum platforms in the East. During the last year he has spoken at the Ford Hall meetings, the Brookline Forum at Harvard Church, the Mal- den Forum and the Portland Forum, under the leadership of G. Waldon Smith. He speaks in fluent English, and in his pocket is the gold watch which he won for the finest oration in Chinese at the last annual confer- ence of the Chinese students in Amer- ica. He is something of an athlete, a fine baseball player, and holds the tennis championship for Hartford Seminary.

Mr. Chuan is the son of a Manchu family, and his father is numbered as the first graduate of the American Board’s college at Tunghsien. The father has recently retired from the headship of the North China Language School in Peking. His eldest brother is one of the two surgeons-general of the Chinese army, and is now at the head of the Chinese Anti-Plague Com- mission, recently organized, with full authority. His second brother is a graduate of Yale, and one of the few Chinese students who have been elected to a college fraternity in America. He is now traveling secretary of the Chinese Christian Students’ Associa- tion of America, and will be at the head of the Bureau in America which arranges for the Chinese Young Men’s Christian Association workers to get to France. The family have many friends in America, who will follow the career of the two younger brothers in France and in this country with great interest. They are the type of new leaders that China needs, representing a deep and unselfish devotion that would gladly give life itself for the good of China. In addition to this, they represent the best results of mis- sionary work in China, having come through the missionary colleges, with additional training in America, and will return to China to put their lives into direct Christian work, whole- heartedly and effectively.

A recent letter from one who is close to the life of South Africa, both white and black, ends ofmteheCWorMHoPe this sentence, “I

wonder if you realize how universally, out here, America is counted on to win the war, and is there- fore regarded as the hope of the world.” How are we to account for this dependence on America? Because of its size ; its wealth ; its intelligence, courage, resourcefulness? Or is it simply that, as the latest comer (save China) among the Allies, it is felt that the United States will turn the scale, which was quite evenly balanced be- fore? Perhaps the last is the truest, as it certainly is the modest explana- tion for us to accept.

But one cannot help thinking, as it is good to hope, that involved in this judgment is the conviction that Amer- ica stands so loyally and unyieldingly for the cause of democracy, that she is so bound to the principles of free- dom, justice, and fair play, that she must pledge heart and soul to maintain them; that although at the start she may mishandle her time and strength, she will at least muddle along till she finds herself, and that she will fight unselfishly to the bitter end for the welfare of the world.

Tremendous floods are not confined to China. Now it is Africa’s turn.

Word has come that Zulu-

Afuca Also ^an<^ has keen cut off from

Natal by serious floods, which have washed away bridges and spread death and destruction over a great area. The Umvoti River, in Zululand, without warning of rain- storm or other sufficient explanation, but possibly, it is thought, because of a cloudburst near its source, came down in a wall of water seventy feet high, drowning many Europeans, Indians, and natives. At the same time occurred a storm at Beira, the American Board’s station in Mozam- bique territory, which actually carried the mission house out to sea. Fortu-

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nately it was not occupied at the time, Mrs. Maxwell and her boys being tem- porarily in Natal. Mrs. Maxwell, it seems, was on her way up to pack her goods; happily, she found on arrival that some kind neighbors had removed them from the house before it put to sea.

This mission house, like all others in Beira, was perforce “built upon the sand.” In addition, it was upon the street that fronts the sea, and so situ- ated that the water washing on the sand was known to be encroaching on it, in spite of planting of trees and piles. Attention of the Beira govern- ment had been called to the fact ; there had been talk of constructing a dike or wall along the water front; plans had been formed for safeguarding this temporary house till a more substantial and more safely located building could be secured. Mr. Maxwell’s sickness and death had interrupted all plans for the station; now the unexpected has happened, and the problem of that house is removed. We await further particulars concerning the wreckage which the “great waters” have wrought.

In 1914 there were recorded in Japan 241 suicides of those under sixteen years, 801 between Suicide stream sixteen and twenty, and 3,086 between twenty and thirty. A brilliant but dissatis- fied university graduate, having ex- amined, as he said, all religions for their answer to human life, without avail, in the year 1902 flung himself into the river above a famous water- fall, and his battered body was found a few days later on the rocks, 600 feet below. Another youth did the same, and another, and another; until, in spite of police, barricades, and every effort to prevent the stream of sui- cides, in ten years 248 men and women had ended their lives in that way and at that spot.

It is in view of such astounding facts, and their revelation of the mood of doubt and despair which prevails

among Japan’s student classes, that the Students’ Christian Literature Distribution Society finds its field of utmost need and its special incentive. There is a growing response to its work. The monthly paper, which in 1912 was admitted to 172 schools, now reaches 1,330, with an enrollment of 410,000 students. In each case, the consent of the principal is secured to the circulation of this evangelical but non-sectarian Morning Star. Now it appears that the teachers in the ele- mentary schools, 116,000 of them, are also ready to receive the literature. The problem is now a financial one: how to get the $6,000 needed each year for this most promising work. Dr. Sidney L. Gulick, who has the enter- prise on his heart, writes that one friend has promised him $500 if he can secure a similar sum from other sources. He hopes that from friends in many of the mission boards he may secure $50 or $25 for this work.

Rev. Henry A. Neipp, of Ochileso, in the West Central Africa Mission, whose skill and ingenu- 'v*n7tcd: ity in mechanics have

wrought many benefits to the work of that station, intimates that he could make good use there of a light-weight water turbine, such as he thinks have been in some cases dis- carded in this country with the devel- opment of gasoline motors. He would be glad also of accompanying shafting and flywheel. The falls at Ochileso are famous, and are a valued asset of the station. They make available 350 cubic feet of water a minute, with a head of 20 feet. If one of our readers is able to help in this matter, he will be rendering a real service to mission work in Africa.

It shows how the war has been cut- ting down the supply of missionaries that, for the first time in

chi‘naf°rcing 1918> this May issue of the Missionary Herald is able

to announce the sailing of two new

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appointees to our missionary staff, Rev. and Mrs. Henry Smith Leiper, who go to the Chihli District of the North China Mission. Mr. Leiper is a graduate of Blair Academy, New Jersey, 1909; Amherst College, 1913; and Union Theological Seminary, 1917. He received the m.a. degree from Co- lumbia University, and has completed required residence work for the PH.D. degree. His practical experience has

REV. AND MRS. HENRY SMITH LEIPER

been varied : as Young Men’s Christian Association officer, Student Volunteer secretary, and assistant pastor in New York and Brooklyn churches. During both college and seminary days, he served as organist, and has had experi- ence also in choral music. The son of a Presbyterian minister, he was or- dained in that church in 1915. He became a Student Volunteer in 1910, was specially interested in China, and shaped his courses in the Seminary and in Columbia with missionary work in China in view.

Mrs. Leiper was educated at Dwight School, Englewood, N. J., and at Smith College. After her marriage, in 1915, she took certain courses at Union Sem- inary. In college, she was the leader of the Student Volunteer Band during senior year. For two years she taught Italians English and geography in a night school. On leaving college, she took up work as traveling secretary for the Student Volunteer Movement, both visiting colleges and having office experience. North China' will know how to use these specially qualified

workers, and will give them royal welcome.

An interesting sidelight upon the story told in the April Missionary Getting Herald by Mr. Cooper, of the Beneath conversion of two Brahman the skm young men of Madura, stu- dents in the American College, and his comment that it was sure to raise opposition and perhaps persecution, appears in a letter from its Madura correspondent in the New India of December 31, 1917. The New India, as its name indicates, stands for the national and home rule party in India, and is the mouthpiece of a good deal of the unrest and aspiration of the leaders of Indian “new thought.” It is understood that Mrs. Besant has editorial connection with the paper.

The contribution from its Madura correspondent began as follows, “Great alarm and consternation prevails in Hindu circles over an attempt at con- version of two Brahman young men into Christianity, under the influence of certain American missionaries.” The facts are then given as published in a local Madura paper : the names of the young men and their family con- nection are indicated; the fact that one of them is possessed of a house and some landed property, of the value of 15,000 rupees ($5,000) ; that he has just attained his majority and is now the sole responsible member of his family; that for the past three or four months he had been seen in the com- pany of Rev. Mr. Cooper, and had been moving in the Young Men’s Christian Association circle ; that the wife of the secretary of the local Young Men’s Christian Association had visited his house, and that the wife of another Young Men’s Christian Association worker had been daily going to his house to give lessons in English to his wife. The disappearance of the two young men from Madura is re- lated, and the fact that they were found at Palamcotta, where it is said they had gone at the instance of Mr.

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Cooper, “with a view to get themselves baptized into Christian religion”; that the grandfather and mother of the wife of the more well-to-do young man had been to Palamcotta, found him under the protection of a missionary, and tried to take him over to Madura; and that he had declined to return, saying that he had belief in Christian- ity, and had determined to go into the Christian fold.

There follows the description of a public meeting, attended by a large gathering of Hindus and a few Mo- hammedans, at which speeches were made by a number of gentlemen, con- demning in strong terms the evil in- fluence of missionaries and Young Men’s Christian Association workers in Madura, “whose one object in this country is proselytism.” Resolutions were adopted denouncing the conver- sions, calling upon the missionary body to explain their action, appoint- ing a committee to take such effective steps as may be necessary to prevent the conversions, and leaving it with them to call another meeting for tak- ing further steps, as may be deemed advisable.

Christianity may gain in Madura as it is found to be operative even upon Brahmans, and as opposition takes the place of passive disregard of it.

A Comparison of Attitudes

Exception has been taken by one or two correspondents to a sentence in an article entitled “Ten Facts the War Has Shot Home,” which ap- peared in the January Missionary Herald. The sentence reads, “It is as shameful as it is absurd to contribute dollars to the destroying of men and nations and nickels to the redeeming of mankind.” The protest is against speaking of “this noble war for the defense of human liberty” as for the destruction of men and nations.

Promptly and emphatically let it be affirmed that the Missionary Herald did not mean to discredit America’s part in the war, or even to intimate

that as a nation we were doing too much therefor. A sentence in the arti- cle, just before the one quoted, indi- cates the purpose that was in mind, “It is time for the church to wake up to the splendor, size, and significance of its foreign missionary undertaking and to get behind it, as we are getting behind the war." It was recognized that we were supporting the war loy- ally and unstintedly; that we were giving our sons, our money, our time, our labor, and our sympathy to the cause which we feel holds the liberties of the world. The American Board, its officers, its missionaries, and, we are persuaded, its constituency, un- flinchingly back our country in this war. We believe it must be fought, and fought to a victory for our side.

At the same time, we recognize that war is a destroyer; that its particular work is not constructive. It is neces- sary sometimes to destroy one building before another and a better can be built. The immediate and direct busi- ness of United States troops, equip- ment, munitions, and expenditures in this war is to destroy men and nations, at least to the point of winning a sur- render. There can be no doubt about that. And the foreign missionary enterprise, whose influence is for the redeeming of men and nations, is busy at the task for which in this war we mean to clear the way. In that sense, the war and foreign missions are working to the same end. Is it not, then, as shameful as it is absurd to pour forth men and money without measure for the destructive work of war, and to offer few heartfelt prayers or to contribute indifferent nickels for the implanting of the Christian principles of freedom, justice, fair dealing, and good will in the non- Christian world? That is all the un- fortunate sentence was meant to say. It was not a slap at the war; only a comparison of attitudes, wherein a multitude of Christian people are re- vealed as undervaluing the construc- tive service of foreign missions.

IN THE GOVERNOR’S COURTYARD AT TAIYUANFU It was under the tree in this picture that the missionaries were murdered during the Boxer uprising

FIGHTING PNEUMONIC PLAGUE IN SHANSI

By CHARLES W. YOUNG, m.d.

Dean and Projessor in Union Medical College, Peking

PNEUMONIC plague broke out at some unknown place at an un- known date in Mongolia, west of Northern Shansi. It was probably late in November, for early in Decem- ber Mr. Greene (of Peking) had a telegram, in the routine of his Flood Relief work, saying that an epidemic had appeared near Patsebolong, Mon- golia, and was spreading rapidly. Within a fortnight it had moved along the great caravan and trade route into Shansi, and appeals for help came from the China Inland and Scandinavian missionaries in that region. Late in December, Dr. Lewis, of the Presby- terian Mission at Paotingfu, together with Dr. Eckfelt, of the Union Medi- cal College Hospital, went to investi- gate, expecting to go at least as far as Saratsi, in Mongolia. When they got to Suiyuan, which is the seat of the Tartar general in control of that terri- tory, they were obstructed. This man said there was no plague, and strongly

intimated that these doctors were not desired there.

They had no choice but to return to the end of the railway, retracing sev- eral days’ journey. In the three days since they had been over the road in the other direction, the plague had spread along this trade route and to the surrounding villages. Meantime the traffic on that railway had been stopped, and Dr. Wu Lien-teh, who was prominent in the suppression of the Manchurian epidemic, was sent by the government. He also was un- able to do anything, on account of the obstruction of officials and local inhabitants.

The central government slowly be- came aroused, and appointed a High Commissioner on Plague Prevention, General Chiang Ch’ao-tsung, formerly head of the gendarmerie in Peking. In seeking doctors to help, the govern- ment approached the Union Medical College, as it had seven years ago, at

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the time of the Manchurian epidemic. Three doctors offered themselves — Dr. Smyly, Dr. Chang, and myself. At that time, General Chiang was going on an inspection tour to Tatung and Fengchen, on the Peking-Suiyuan Railway, of which I have spoken. This was important, as Peking is only thirteen hours by rail from the end of the line, and the terminus, Fengchen, was already infected. General Chiang wished the three of us to accompany him on this tour, together with the chief sanitary inspector of the South Manchurian Railway, Dr. Tsurumi, whom the Japanese Legation had brought from Dalny, as well as Major Kosugi, physician of the Japanese Legation.

I had been invited by the physicians of the legations in Peking, who had organized a Legations Health Board, to act as adviser, as at the present time there is in Peking no legation physi- cian who was there seven years ago. It was evident to the Health Board that the Chinese government was concentrating its attention on the

northeast front of the advance of the disease, and neglecting another and almost as important one.

There are several large roads lead- ing from the infected region into the populous Shansi plain. Near the north- ern end of this plain is the capital of Shansi, Taiyuanfu. This city will be remembered as the scene of many of the martyrdoms in the Boxer outbreak in 1900. I remembered it also, as I was here on Red Cross work, after the battle of Niangtzukuan, during the Revolution.

I had been in touch with Dr. Ed- wards, of the English Baptist Mission here in Taiyuan, since we had heard of the outbreak to the north; but we were able to give him the news, rather than he us. When the plague spread south, into the jurisdiction of the governor of Shansi, he wished to send Dr. Edwards and other foreign doctors up north; but it soon became evident that the disease was sweeping like a forest fire southward, and that to go there was to leap into the middle of the conflagration.

OUTSIDE THE WALLS AT PAOTINGFU

This is the name given a sort of rest house in which the Emperor, or any of his family, was sup- posed to spend the night when going on a visit to pay respects to departed ancestors at the eastern imperial tombs

Already the Legation Health Board had urged the Chinese government to stop all southward traffic through the arm of the Great Wall that runs trans- versely across between the northern and central thirds of the province. Neither the central nor the Shansi provincial authorities were sufficiently aroused then to take the warning while it was yet time. Before they acted, the disease was already “inside the wall.”

Dr. Edwards and others were able to persuade Governor Yen, who is an intelligent and progressive man, to close these passes, and then the doctors began to call for reenforcements. They telegraphed to Peking, where they evidently think that doctors stand idle on every street corner. We refused to go until assured that the passes were closed, but when we received a tele- gram that that had been done and that the governor was willing to do any- thing asked of him; and also that no one in the province had had any experi- ence with plague, and that they wanted some one to come and help with the organization of the work, it sounded like a call to me.

I persuaded General Chiang to re- lease me from my invitation to go north with him, in favor of the work at Taiyuanfu. He was unwilling at first, but later agreed, and he and the Minister of the Interior gave me a very nice letter to the governor of Shansi, and also telegraphed him of my com- ing. He was very cordial, and asked me how long I could stay. I frankly told him that depended on him. If he was going into the work wholeheart- edly, I would stay as long as possible; but if not, I would go back very soon, as I had left important work in Peking.

He said he would back us in any necessary measures, and he has cer- tainly “played the game.”

A “Shansi Provincial Plague Pre- vention Bureau” was already organ- ized. The chief medical officer was head assistant in the English Baptist Hospital at the time of my visit during the Revolution, so I had the advantage of previous acquaintance. There had apparently been some jealousy on the part of this Bureau toward the medical missionaries. The director is Mr. Nan, chief of the Provincial Police, a man familiar with the whole province and

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with his hand on police everywhere. It was soon made clear to the Bureau that nobody wanted to diminish their authority; that we wished to work through them and with them. They are now working most harmoniously, and have even gone to the extent of dismissing three officials when it seemed they were not equal to the task of fighting the plague vigorously.

I arrived on January 20. Already Dr. Edwards, of the English Baptist Mission, and Dr. Wampler, of the Church of the Brethren Mission, were in the field, together with several of the ordained missionaries of the first named mission, in whose field we were working. I found Dr. Percy T. Wat- son, of our Fenchow station, here with his assistant, Dr. Ma, one of my old pupils. He had also brought two of his male nurses from Fenchow.

On the train with me were Dr. Bru- baker, of the Church of the Brethren Mission, and Dr. Willoughby A. Hem- ingway, of the American Board’s hos- pital at Taikuhsien. Within a few days we were joined by Dr. Dickson (Presbyterian), of Shuntehfu, Chihli, and Dr. Francis F. Tucker, of our Tehchow hospital.

Dr. Mackillop Young (Scotch Pres- byterian), who had been through the Manchurian epidemic, wired that he was ready for service, and came a thousand miles to help. In addition to Dr. Chang, who came with me, Dr. An, one of our internes at Peking, volun- teered, and was released by the Union Medical College Hospital. Another of our graduates, Dr. Sun, was later added to our personnel. Finally Dr. Hoyte, of the China Inland Mission at Ping Yang, went to Fenchow to watch the road and try to prevent the entrance of the disease into the Shansi plain from the west.

Thus every medical missionary is on plague duty. That means that families are left behind and stations are with- out doctors, and that is no small item ; for aside from the fact that they are days from a physician, there is the added anxiety for their dear ones, who are daily in the presence of death. I hasten to acknowledge also the serv- ices of the ordained missionaries who worked with the doctors — one doctor and one ordained missionary in each center.

I have been here now five weeks, and the result of the work is becom-

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ing evident. “Inside the wall,” twelve townships have been infected. In seven of these we have had workers. Plague has been stamped out of four of these and is well under control in two more. Of the five yet unworked, the infection is probably light except in one. We hope to move parties into these soon.

“Outside the wall,” but still in Gov- ernor Yen’s jurisdiction, are thirteen townships, all of them heavily infected. In only one of these is there any work, and there the opposition of people and

officials is such that little can be done. When the area inside the wall is clear, we are planning to attack the more difficult problem outside. With the fine official backing, it should be possible to do as well as we have done here. The difficulty is going to be to hold our present workers, many of whom feel that they must return to their regular work. The men at a greater distance are busy in flood re- lief and are also seeking for helpers, so that nearly all the available men are now at work.

THE SQUARE OUTSIDE THE RAILWAY STATION, BOMBAY

THE SPIRIT OF THE TIMES IN INDIA

By Rev. ROBERT A. HUME, d.d., Ahmednagar

FOR many reasons, educated India has for some time been deeply interested in politics. Japan’s victory over Russia, the Home Rule controversy in Ireland, the world trend toward democracy, this present war, and the part which India has taken in sending troops and in supplying money for the war — all these causes have made many Indians ardently de- sire and demand a much larger share in the government of their country.

Internal divisions, due to conflicting religious and racial considerations, have clearly shown that in the past no strong and stable government was possible except with British control. Therefore, latterly, those who are am- bitious for Indian Home Rule have made strenuous efforts to lead the two chief elements of the country, viz., the Hindus and Mohammedans, to unite on some common basis of political de-

mand. Taking advantage of Britain’s war entanglement, ambitious Indian leaders have been widely and sedu- lously pushing a Home Rule campaign, which has compelled the Secretary of State for India in the English cabinet, Mr. Montagu, to come to India, per- sonally and carefully to look into the situation, to hear what all parties have to say, and to prepare to place some proposals before Parliament, which is the source of supreme authority in the governance of India.

POLITICAL INVESTIGATIONS

Since the viceroy, Lord Chelmsford, a strong, devout man, is the king-em- peror’s representative, and therefore the highest official in the Indian em- pire, he must appear to all India as higher than the visiting Secretary of State; also, though he is a compara- tively new viceroy, because he must

BOMBAY TOWN HALL

In which all great meetings and government functions are held

know much about the country and must have great influence in helping to determine government policy, the viceroy has gone with the visiting Secretary of State to the principal centers of influence.

Unitedly they have received about one hundred and fifty deputations, which laid before them proposals for political changes. In addition, at the invitation of local governments in dif- ferent parts of the country, they have held interviews with some three hun- dred and thirty representative gentle- men, who are believed to be informed and experienced, so that the viceroy and the Secretary of State may have the opinions of men of all standpoints.

As missionaries are, in the main, aloof from political matters, quite rightly not many have been invited to these interviews. At the request of the government of the Bombay Province, however, I was one of the three hun- 212

dred and thirty gentlemen who were asked to meet the officials — the only American missionary included, I be- lieve.

After some months, proposals for a measure of Home Rule will be placed before Parliament. Were it not for acute Indian demands, this thorny question would not have been consid- ered while the war demands concen- tration on its vigorous prosecution.

CHURCH UNION

Christians of many denominations seem to be drawing together in an effort at church union. Last December, I was sent as a delegate of the Marathi Mission to the Presbyterian General Assembly, to ask that body to give its benediction to proposals for the possi- ble formation of a “Western India United Church,” much on the basis of the South India United Church. But the assembly went farther, and unani-

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mously resolved to direct its Commit- tee on Church Union to approach many churches with a view to considering the formation of a United Church for all India, the basis and organization of union to be considered by all.

PRAYING TOGETHER

In connection with the call for prayer for unity, issued by the American Episcopal Commission on Faith and Order, many churches in India ob- served the week of January 18 to 25 for earnest prayer and for meetings held together. In the Anglican Cathe- dral, in Bombay, a union service has been held, in which the bishop led in the English part, Rev. J. Malelu, pas- tor of our church in Bombay, led in the Marathi part, and a Presbyterian

Indian minister led in the Gujarathi part of the service.

In Ahmednagar, the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel missionary invited our mission to join in a union service in their house of worship. In this service, the pastor of our First Church, Rev. Henry Fairbank, and I were among the speakers. We then invited the Society for the Propaga- tion of the Gospel missionaries and congregation to join in a similar union service in our church. They accepted our hospitality, and the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel missionary and Indian minister came and took part in the service.

This was the very first time when such union services were held by these two missions in India.

LINES FROM MISSIONARIES’ LETTERS

Red Cross Palestine Unit ( Before sailing )

“My little boy said, the evening before he was taken sick (unto death), ‘Father, we’re soldiers, aren’t we?’ I have my uniform on tonight for the first time. In a sense, we are marching together in spirit as never before.” — Jesse K. Harden, M.D., of Marsovan, Western Turkey Mission.

Jaluit, Marshall Islands, December 15, 1917

“The natives . . . are not worrying much about the war in Europe; . . . their attitude is not to be wondered at, for naturally they can have no conception of the horrors of a civilized war, or of the intense cold and suffering of a European winter in the open, living, as they are, in a land of perpetual summer and where war was banished a generation ago, shortly after the introduction of the gospel.” — Rev. Carl Heine.

Sholapur, India

“We were very thankful when the news came that the Board had closed its hard year without a deficit. We feel something as a soldier must sometimes feel, at the front, when the enemy approaches and he suddenly wonders whether he has ammunition enough to last through the engagement. When we hear that the fiscal year closed with the balance on the right side, . . . then we reprimand ourselves as being of little faith.” — Katherine V. Gates (Mrs. L. H.).

Hongkong, March 11,1918

“Our time in those missions (Ceylon and Madura) was not lacking in strenuousness nor in interest. Everywhere we saw noble past achievements and challenging opportunity, which seemed to stand right out and shout at us. Nowhere did we see greater or more pressing need than in our own mission (Marathi).” — Rev. Alden H. Clark, returning to United States on furlough.

FLOOD DAMAGE AT TIENTSIN AND TEHCHOW

$8,367.00

A Statement and an Appeal

OUR readers know about the terrific floods that last year submerged 15,000 square miles of territory in North China. The Missionary Herald has by pictures and text portrayed, from time to time, the extent and character of this disaster, that desolated hundreds of towns and villages, made between one and two million people homeless, laid waste farming country over wide areas, drowned out portions of the country field of all our North China Mission stations, and, in particular, wrought its havoc in the two station compounds at

Tientsin and Tehchow.

After the rush of salvage and relief work was over, the mission undertook careful examination of the extent of the damage, and the nature and cost of needed repairs. At length, full and detailed report has been rendered, covering the items of requirement at both the sta- tions of Tientsin and Tehchow. Not counting sums needed for repairs of property maintained by the Woman’s Board and the Woman’s Board of the Interior, nor the item of a compound wall at Tientsin, which for the present is held in abeyance, the amount required for restoring these two stations is $10,458 (Mexican), which at the estimated rate of ex- change of $1.25 gives

$8,367, American Currency.

It is hoped that help in raising this sum may be furnished by the China Medical Board and theGrinnell-in-China Movement, both of which organizations have property interests in these stations; but first and finally the mission looks to the American Board for the provision of this sum of $8,367, urgently needed for repairs on mission residences, school buildings, hospitals, and compound walls.

Here is an uncalculated, unexpected, extra need, which through no fault of mission management or lack of foresight suddenly confronts the Board’s treasury, and at a time when it is already heavily drawn upon by the exigencies of the war.

There is no escape from the obligation to make these repairs, and they cannot be indefinitely postponed. They must be met at once, to preserve the property that is left and to maintain the work.

The Prudential Committee felt there was no other way but to authorize the making of these repairs, and to appeal to its constituency for special gifts to meet the emergency. It voted that such an appeal should be made through the Missionary Herald, which presents it in this form.

Will readers of the Missionary Herald send their gifts, designated for this special purpose, to Frank H. Wiggin, Treasurer, 14 Beacon Street, Boston?

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THEY ARE WORTH EVANGELIZING

West Central Africa boys who have been drawn to school at Bailundo. Thousands more wait for the Good News to be proclaimed to them

EVANGELIZING IN AFRICA

By Rev. HENRY S. HOLLENBECK, m.d., of Angola, W.C. A.

Evangelistic work in Africa,

or in this western part of it, at least, is quite a different matter from that carried on at home. “De- cision meetings” out here have not been found effective; and evangelistic work is characterized by the total ab- sence of “trail hitters.” This is no reflection on evangelism or evangelists, but merely a comment on native char- acteristics. Sudden decision is the rare exception.

Lying to the south of the Congo is a vast region which now presents an open door for evangelism in nearly every part, as some sections have done for years. Yet in spite of good work done by widely scattered missions, immense areas occupied by multitudes of people still remain practically un- touched. In the Portuguese colony of Angola alone, there is an estimated population of from six to seven million natives. Among these, a few thousand

have been evangelized, and perhaps four or five thousand of them have become Christians. Probably less than five per cent of them have been reached, even to the extent of hearing the gospel message. Tribes consisting of hundreds of thousands of people are still untouched, though all are open to the gospel, and in such places as have been visited the evangelist finds hear- ers more than willing to listen.

Where a little knowledge of the gos- pel has been spread abroad, there is often a keen desire for more. The missions meet more appeals than they can possibly answer in near-by regions, and are in no position to consider work in the regions beyond.

Before passing judgment on the limitation of the areas evangelized and the seeming tardiness of results, it is essential to take into considera- tion something of the history of the people, together with their disposition

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and distribution. The population is broken up into numerous tribes, each having its distinct language and cus-

THE RAW MATERIAL

toms. In times past, they were inces- santly at war among themselves, plundering and being plundered, and there still remain intertribal feuds and an abiding mutual distrust.

In times past, an individual could hope to maintain himself only as a member of some community; and the community required strict observance of all its peculiar and particular laws and customs. Those in authority in the community were vested with the power of life and death ; or worse still, of selling into slavery. Repeated of- fenders were usually disposed of, sooner or later, in one of these ways. The belief in witchcraft is no doubt grounded in part on the secret use of poisons to dispose of undesirable citi- zens, or of those who disregarded the authority of those higher up.

To sum up, the difficulties which confront plans for widespread evangel- ism are: the frequent change in lan-

guage from district to district; the mutual suspicion and intertribal con- tempt, which renders it difficult for a member of one tribe to carry on effec- tive evangelistic work in another tribe; conservatism and the restrain- ing power of the old customs and be- liefs, which require years for their breaking down; the opposition of the representatives of old cults.

To prove the effect of these influ- ences, it is only necessary to consider the work of successful missions which in a period of twenty-five to thirty-five years have not succeeded in passing the boundary lines of neighboring tribes, even where the border line was less than twenty miles distant. The ordinary individual from another tribe would not dare, even were he so in- clined, to face the risk of considering the gospel message. Suppose that one did understand the message, which is a long step for some of them, and de- sired to accept it; he would have to face the combined opposition of those in authority, and any action he might take would be treated as insubordina- tion, which is high treason, for which he must be duly punished. He might be put into the hands of the medicine man, who would first threaten him, and if he persisted, might go to the

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extent of secretly administering a fatal dose of poison, as an example to others. As an alternative in former times, he might have been sold into slavery.

If there were several of one mind, and they persisted in the face of oppo- sition, they were always confronted with a knotty problem in case of sick- ness, which is so common that it would not be long in appearing. Knowing but little of the cause of disease, aside from witchcraft and poison; having no medicine and no doctor to consult, to whom could they turn ? The natural helper would be the old medicine man, who would wish them no good and whose rites and practices are inti- mately linked with those things from which they want to break away. This always proves a severe test, and has been the means of many a downfall

and backsliding, and occasionally even the breaking up of a promising work.

To one familiar with the conditions, it is not a matter of surprise that it is so difficult for these people to stand for Christ and his teachings without some substantial helper right at hand. It seems certain that for effective evangelism, under present conditions, a permanent work is required; and for genuine conversions, the presence of a teacher or preacher is an essential. For fully developed fruit, the school is an indispensable factor, and the preacher must of necessity be a teacher. The ultimate success of the work must depend upon the number of effective permanent preachers who can be put into the field, and one of the most important phases of the work now is the development of just such preachers.

SOME MISSIONARY GRANDCHILDREN

By Rev. GEORGE T. WASHBURN, d.d., of Meriden, Conn.

For forty years (1860-1900) Dr. Washburn was a mis- sionary of the American Board in South India. He was the founder and first principal of what was then Pasumalai College and is now the American College, Madura, of which Rev. William M. Zumbro is the present head. A letter from Dr. Washburn, just re- ceived, indicates his desire to aid for a term of five years, from a personal fund he had put into the care of the Board, certain students in the college in whose career he takes a special and deep interest. His ex- planation of who these young men are, how he comes to be so peculiarly concerned about them, and what their history shows as to missionary method and achievement is so telling and delightful that we ven- ture to give it this unintended publicity. — The Editor.

THERE are three young men in Madura, two the sons of pastors, one the son of a teacher and cate- chist, either in or ready for college, whom I would like to help to the ex- tent of one hundred dollars a year for the next five years. It is not because they are good boys and bright boys, as they are — one at the top of his class and the other two in the upper half — but it is because they are the second generation of our Pasumalai Famine Orphanage, “our grandchildren,” as they call themselves.

It was in the autumn of 1877 that

their fathers and mothers, then little children, drifted in upon us, wanderers from nowhere, homeless, parentless, some of them in the extremes of rags and emaciation— mere bags of bones, their bodies covered with a fine, fuzzy, yellow fur, sure token of long-con- tinued and remorseless starvation. Being human beings ourselves, we could not but take them in, and feed and shelter them. Having recently left our own children in America to be cared for by others, we were only too glad to spend on these little ones some of the care and attention we would have lavished on our own children.

They came to us raw heathen — at least, their parents were. They fell naturally into their new environment, and for thirteen years and more grew up around us, knowing us as their parents, and being educated and trained under our eye. They had the best the mission schools could give them, and when prepared, some ten or

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a dozen entered the service of the mission to become pastors, preachers, and teachers, while others became doctors, printers, and farmers. One of them has been for twenty years the beloved pastor of one of the largest and most benevolent churches of our mission. Another, for many years a pastor in our mission, has later pre- sided over a church of the Danish Mission in Madras. A third has lately been transferred from the pastorate of the Church of Scotland’s Mission congregation, in Madras, to the charge of a mission district left vacant by the missionary’s accepting a chaplaincy in the army.

And now it is the children of these — our children, in a sense — that are interesting me, and would be interest- ing Mrs. Washburn, were she here to share in the present situation. Four of this second generation are already in college or have graduated, one hav- ing gained his m.a. degree from the Madras University and now in mission service. I have good hope that eight or ten of the children of these orphan waifs of the famine, forty years ago, will gain their university degrees and enter on some Christian work for their own people.

The above outcome from that little group of heathen children of forty years ago is, I think, somewhat re- markable. It has been a source of deep gratitude to us, who almost by chance took up the work of minister- ing to that bundle of human suffering dropped at our door, nowise suspect- ing its outcome. I am quite aware that it is not exceptional. Such cases must have repeated themselves among the massacred Armenians again and again. Still, such cases are unusual, at least in India.

And, if I am not mistaken, it has its missionary lesson. These children were brought, by the nature of the situation, into much closer personal contact daily with the missionaries than even our boarding school pupils, and so they caught the spirit that animated the bungalow work and workers, as children catch the spirit and ways of the family. I was about to illustrate this by two or three ex- amples from the orphanage in later service, but I see my letter is growing too long. It is, after all, the personal influence of the missionary and the convert that does the work.

And so the Master appears to have thought. When he wished to perpet- uate and extend his influence after he left the world, he did not organize a theological seminary. Not at all. He selected twelve plain, sympathetic men — as Mark says — “to be with him”; as a matter of fact, to form one family in which he was the center: to live their domestic and public life with him, to observe the spirit and temper with which he dealt with himself and other people in every situation, how he took the wear and tear of daily life, to listen to his talk with others and to converse with him in private, so that at length they knew him, entered into his plans, absorbed his spirit. He kept them with him till the last supper was over, till Gethsemane and the arrest were past. Thus he arranged that his life before them should create a new life in them.

The modern missionary in pagan lands is situated much as Christ was among the Jews. Both are introduc- ing and advertising a new conception of religion, and the best advertise- ment of it and example of it is the missionary himself.

THE MARRIAGE OF THE DATU’S DAUGHTER

By Secretary ENOCH FRYE BELL

HERE we have the much photo- graphed Datu Tongkaling, with his new son-in-law, Jose, a Silli- man graduate and a Visayan. Such an intermarriage is not common, and from one point of view, at least, it has some interesting possibilities. Jose, the edu- cated Christian, identifies himself with the virile though “pagan” Bagobo. He has already made a beginning toward the education and religious uplift of his adopted people.

From the Bagobo point of view, he was married to the Datu’s Daughter — thereby receiving his “d.d.”( !) — some months ago. Yet there must be the legal marriage — something that would satisfy government and also the old gentleman himself, who is nothing if not shrewd and sagacious. Jose natu- rally wanted a Christian wedding right at the start. Consequently, after an exasperating delay for him, a real wedding scene oc- curred on the eve- ning of Monday, the 7th of January, 1918, at the resi- dence of His Excel- lency the Datu, at half after nine o’clock. Invitations had not been issued before that very evening, as the coming of the padre himself had not been certain ; but when the date was determined upon, then the gongs made up in noise what they may have lacked in gentility and propriety. The stalwart sons of the chief did the beating, and really it was one of the most rhythmic per- formances I’ve ever heard. The gloom of the room but enhanced the effect. Now I cannot say that the tribe all

flocked to the wedding. I don’t even know how many were there outside of the family. I do know that many were kept away from fear that the doctor had come to vaccinate the crowd, as smallpox was prevalent in that district at the time.

The family was there, any- how— that is, one or two wives of the Datu and some of their chil- dren. Every- b o d y was dressed in his best beads and bolo.

Of course, I can’t describe the hall where the affair took place. Tongka- ling’s house is the biggest hut on stilts I was ever in. It consists of one fifty- foot room, with a small sleeping com- partment up under the roof. The walls are dark and crude, but the variegated China plates with which the top beams are adorned, bespeaking comparative wealth, add a certain luster as well as interest to the rude simplicity of the building. Right in the center of the room hang the Chinese gongs of bronze — another sign of wealth — while hang- ing over the beams, in the distance, can be seen the white hemp, stripped for the loom on the left, upon which the women do such fine weaving in colors. At the end farthest from the open fire is a platform, where the boys have usually slept, but now given over to the use of the two American guests. Here we are supposed to dress and un-

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UNDER TONGKALING’S BIG HOUSE

The fish was caught from the mission launch in the Davao Gulf. The boy holding the fish is a murderer, but having committed the crime under trying circumstances, he was pardoned by the Court of First Instance. The lads to the left are all Bagobos

dress, bathe, and sleep, no one ever so much as imagining a screen necessary ; though Mr. Augur, for “dignity’s sake” — he can be great on dignity when the occasion seems to demand it — has in- sisted upon putting a chair or two in front of his bathing basin, his feet, at least, securing some privacy.

As for the wedding itself, Augur was master of ceremonies, director of the dance, and officiating clergyman — all three. It was he who suggested to Jose that the wedding take place that evening or, at the latest, next morn- ing ; it was he who improvised a suit- able method of procedure, even to a processional by the secretario (mean- ing myself) on the mouth organ; and it was he who practiced the principals in their parts and finally pronounced them married. If any man could inject life into the affair, Augur was that man ; the gloom was dispelled where he shone — particularly when the sister of the bride was induced to overcome her superstition and serve as brides- maid, and the bride herself braced up and came to time.

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light of civilization, to the mouth-organ strains of “Lohengrin.” Tongkaling outbrided the bride as the center of at- traction. He cared little for the claims of music. He had a step all his own; but he made up in dignity what he lacked in wedding rhythm.

The procession stopping before Augur, and the music closing with a grand and glorious flourish, Augur, by the light of a candle (held on either side of him by a boy), read the service Congregational in the good old English language. He said nothing, however, about a ring, nor did I hear him warn man against putting asunder what God had joined; but he uttered with fitting dignity the “by the authority” busi- ness, proclaimed the pair “man and wife” at least once, and pronounced the benediction. Then, as an inspired after thought, he took the old chief’s hand, placed it on the hand of his daughter, and had the chief put the daughter’s hand into the hand of the groom. A prayer and another bene- diction, a few strains from Mendels- sohn— “just to brighten things up,” said Augur — and the formalities were over.

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For some time after the ceremony, the bride clung to the groom — seem- ingly in fear some dreadful thing would yet happen to exorcise them all. Like every bride-to-be, she had wept copiously and nervously before the ceremony; but, just like a woman, she had held her head high and said her say in true womanly fashion. Next morning we tried to get her to pose for a picture, but she would not.

After the wedding ceremony, the Datu made a speech on the subject, “The Diversity of Wedding Customs,” or words to that effect. On the whole, I judged he favored the Bagobo kind — which somewhat resembles that of Salt Lake City. Then came a short talk

to the groom, most of which I failed to grasp; but I know that it conveyed the hint that now the boy would act like a true man if he built a cage for himself and put his little bird there for safe keeping. It was high time that he did his own supporting. As this was probably just what the bride wanted, I expect to hear soon that they are snugly housed in a part of the new schoolhouse.

Then, about 11p.m., we ducked under our nets into our cots ; the others sought their mats; and while the shadows played with one another in the light of the fire, we all fell asleep in the midst of the romance and the unreality of Bagobo land.

DATU GANSA, CHIEF OF THE MANDAYAS

Although we have heard less of Datu Gansa than of Datu Tongkaling. he is well known to the missionaries, and an intelligent leader of his tribe

EXPERIENCING RELIGION

Harry Lauder, Scotch comedian, for years devoting himself to money get- ting, regardless of calls for liberality, lost his only son over there in France. An old friend said to him, “Harry, we are all proud of the wonderful way you have borne this heavy blow.” His answer was: “When a man has been hit as I have been, there are only three

ways open to him — drink, despair, or God; and I am looking to God for the consolation and courage I now need.” Here, then, is the source of the power that must be depended upon to do the work needed. It is the experi- ence of religion.

From ‘ ‘ Grace Church Greetings ’ ’ for January, Cleveland, O.

HOME DEPARTMENT

THE FINANCIAL STATEMENT FOR MARCH

Receipts Available for Regular Appropriations

	From Churches	From Individuals	From S. S. and Y. P. S. C. E.	From Twentieth Century Fund and Legacies	From Matured Conditional Gifts	Income from General Permanent Fund	Totals
1917	$11,773.86	$6,829.99	$505.03	$2,343.38	$16,675.00	$1,458.50	$39,585.76
1918	10.824.29	6,774.68	618.83	4.996.49	10,000.00	1,656.00	34.870.29
Gain Loss	$949.57	$55.31	$113.80	$2,653.11	$6,675.00	$197.50	$4,715.47

For Seven Months to March 31

1917	$188,041.02	$25,736.34	$9,709.50	$157,199.06	$26,075.00	$14,127.10	$420,888.02
1918	187,471.79	25,846.75	10,052.81	145.294.15	25.053.36	14,620.92	408.339.78
Gain		$110.41	$343.31			$493.82
Loss	$669.23			$11,904.91	$1,021.64		$12,548.24

CAN WE BREAK THROUGH?

A study of the receipts for March reveals a further loss from the churches and a large loss from Conditional Gifts. The former is the joint responsibility of all pastors and of all friends of the Board ; the latter is beyond our control. Putting together the loss in church gifts for February and March, we have the disturbing result of a total decrease of $2,066.06.

The serious fact before us is that most of the churches are now raising their offerings through the pledge sys- tem, and even if we faced a serious deficit or some new and wonderful opportunity for advance, yet it is most difficult to secure an increase in church gifts. Looked at from this point of view, the Apportionment is not a stab- ilizer, but an impediment. Must it be so? If the fact above was widely known throughout the churches, and if pastors shared the responsibility, letting their congregations know how 222

much it meant to the pastor that the church gifts to the Board were falling this spring, would not many individ- uals see to it that the gifts of the churches broke through the Appor- tionment into new ground? The Ap- portionment is the minimum.

To meet the situation, some way must be found to increase the gifts from the churches in the next few months. The devotion is in the hearts of our people. Most of our congrega- tions are ready to be asked to meet the special war needs of the American Board. They are expecting it. It is now known that the increased war expenditures have passed beyond $80,000, and that in the face of the increased need there is a decreased response. The multiplicity of appeals is well known, but it is more than met by the new spirit of willingness in the hearts of God’s people. Other mission boards have found their friends ready to do more than ever to prove their conviction that the missionary enter-

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prise is building the spirit of democ- racy into the nations that need it most, that it is advancing God’s righteous- ness in a day when that righteousness is at stake in the world. Our own churches have taken the lead in many communities in generous giving, and they only await the knowledge of the facts and the definite extra appeal to more than meet the needs of your missionaries overseas.

THE INSTITUTE PLAN STILL EFFECTIVE

Already in these columns we have reported the success of the series of Institutes which has been a part of the Board’s mid-winter field work. Bellows Falls, Vt., Northampton and Fitch- burg, Mass., and Manchester, N. H., have been the centers reached thus far. In all four places a gratifying attend- ance has marked not only the special conference hours with pastors and other local church workers, but also the popular evening meetings. Out- lying towns were reached by the team workers through speaking appoint- ments for services, so that all together a fairly wide area was included in each Institute.

One pastor near Manchester, N. H., writes: “I was too late to secure a speaker from the team for my church, but fifteen of us had the great pleasure and inspiration derived from the Mon- day sessions of that splendid Institute. I cannot remember attending any meetings that were more helpful and illuminating and inspiring than these meetings. I’ll make no exception of the meetings of the National and In- ternational Councils which I have enjoyed. Had I known of the meetings earlier, I could have secured a larger attendance. I have come back from the Institute determined to win some of my young people for definite Chris- tian work as life’s vocation. I am de- termined to do all in my power to raise the standard of giving in my church. I am urging and praying from the pulpit that our world-wide vision may be clear, our sense of the world need

so deep and impelling, and our reli- gious life so spiritual and intense, that we shall be led to give generously both money and our sons and daughters for the work of the Kingdom.”

Two more of these Institutes are to be held before the series is completed. One will be at Brockton, Mass., April 30 — “Kingdom Come Rally” — with spe- cial emphasis placed upon reaching an influential group of business men. Another will be held at Bristol, Conn., May 18-20.

The success of the entire series will doubtless commend the plan to pastors in other centers, who may care to consider similar Institutes for their churches during another winter.

MISSIONARY EDUCATION CONFERENCES

It is not too soon to think about these strong summer schools for the training of leaders for missionary education. Despite war conditions, the Missionary Education Movement plans to set up the usual number of con- ferences.

Blue Ridge, N. C. June 25 — July 4

Silver Bay, N. Y. July 5 — July 14 Ocean Park, Me. July 19 — July 28 Geneva, Wis. July 26 — August 4

Estes Park, Col. July 12 — July 21 Asilomar, Cal. July 16 — July 25

Seabeck, Wash. July 30 — August 8

The call of our young men into mili- tary service, and of our young women and older people into various forms of war activities, will make the securing of strong delegations to these confer- ences unusually difficult. Only as we keep our vision clear shall we be able to realize that these summer gather- ings are essential to the on-going of our church life. Let us not forget that the great aim of the present world struggle is righteous internationalism and world brotherhood, the very things for which Christian missons have al- ways stood. Our missionaries are the most fair-minded observers of inter- national conditions. Our missionary work is absolutely vital and funda-

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mental, if the present war is not to be fought in vain. Every gathering which helps us to keep our vision clear and our purpose strong is to be commended. For that reason let us Congregational- ists have the largest and strongest delegations possible at these mission- ary summer schools.

Circulars announcing the plans for the conferences in detail will soon be available. Apply to Rev. Miles B. Fisher, d.d., 14 Beacon Street, Boston.

“THE CHURCH, THE WAR, AND THE DAYS AHEAD”

A team of three speakers has been made up for a tour of the Pacific Coast in the interests of the Tercentenary plans of the denomination. These are Secretary Patton, representing the American Board; Dr. W. W. Scudder, representing the National Council; and Miss Miriam Woodberry, repre- senting the Home Missionary inter- ests. Beginning with Easter Monday, the Congregational Associations of the Coast have arranged their meetings on a schedule to admit of the attend- ance of these speakers. There will be six Association meetings in Washing- ton, three in Oregon, and nine in Cali- fornia. The general subject for the meetings will be “The Church, the War, and the Days Ahead.” Special attention will be paid to the part which the Congregationalists of America should play in the reconstruction of church and social life, and the bring- ing in of world democracy. Dr. Patton is expected to present at each confer- ence a world outlook in the matter of the extension of the Christian religion. He will also speak in behalf of the Pilgrim Memorial Fund for ministers, of whose executive committee he is a member. The other special theme as- signed to him is “Evangelism at Home and Abroad.” The church leaders on the Coast have taken great interest in arranging these meetings.

The arrangements in each state are under the charge of the following per- sons: Rev. Lucius 0. Baird, Seattle,

Wash.; Rev. Arthur J. Sullens, Port- land, Ore. ; Rev. L. D. Rathbone, San Francisco, Cal., representing Northern California; Rev. George F. Kenngott, Los Angeles, Cal., representing South- ern California. Dr. H. H. Kelsey will accompany the tour during part of the trip. It is planned to have Secretary Patton speak at the following colleges : Pullman, Whitman, Reed, Pacific Grove, Berkeley Theological Seminary, Leland Stanford University, and Pomona. On Sundays he will occupy pulpits in be- half of the American Board.

The trip will occupy the time up to the middle of May. On the return trip, Secretary Patton will stop off at Den- ver, and will speak at the Iowa State Conference at Ames. On the way out, he will address meetings at Toronto, Can., Chicago, and Minneapolis.

HOME DEPARTMENT NOTES

The Rogers Park Church, Chicago, Dr. John R. Nichols, pastor, is happy over the adoption of Rev. Charles L. Storrs, of Shaowu, China. It is the first time the church has entered into this relation. The church, as a whole, raises $450, while a generous layman, himself a member, agrees to add $650, a total of $1,100 ; but the church wisely proposes gradually to assume a larger proportion of this amount.

Recently the West End Avenue Dutch Reformed Church in New York celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of the pastorate of Rev. Henry E. Cobb, D.D. The church desired to com- memorate this anniversary by raising a sum of money to present to Dr. Cobb. They decided to consult Dr. Cobb in advance regarding the form of the investment. Their action was based upon his reply. They presented him, at the anniversary, with an envelope containing four thousand dollars, with which to construct a memorial building in their South China Mission, in honor of Dr. Fagg, the predecessor of Dr. Cobb as president of their Board.

FOREIGN DEPARTMENT

AFRICA

A Kamundongo Conference

An article in the earlier pages of this number gives a clear setting forth of Dr. H. S. Hollenbeck’s vision of the West Central Africa Mission’s duty and opportunity in regard to the un- evangelized tribes around Angola. A letter recently received alludes again to this belief, and goes on to tell also of efforts to encourage independence and a missionary spirit on the part of the native church, “for without it I see no prospect of an indigenous church.” As an effort toward self-reliance, the native Christians last autumn held a conference on church and spiritual matters, which was helpful and hope- ful. It was decided to hold another similar conference during the week of prayer, delegates coming from all the outstations. Dr. Hollenbeck says: — “It was a representative body that gathered, and a full program was

arranged. Bible study, followed by a conference with the missionaries, in the forenoon ; a sermon, followed by a conference for the delegates them- selves, in the afternoon; and in the evening a sermon by a native preacher. We made it clear that if anything was left unsettled, the responsibility was with the delegates, and asked for full and free discussion. The first session was given over to considering hin- drances to the progress of the church and its work. Special stress was put upon hypocrisy, and one of the watch- words of the conference was, ‘Beware of hypocrisy.’ That is a timely mes- sage for the church here.

First Steps in Self-Government

“The consensus of opinion was summed up each day by the native secretary, and presented in the form of resolutions to be adopted. The tendency was to take a distinctly higher stand on some things than has been

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taken previously. The question of dis- cipline was brought up, and I will quote from the resolution that the natives brought in, as it throws light on a real difficulty, at the same time helping to alleviate it. It runs about as follows: ‘Partiality of the Mission- aries. In case any one commits an offense, and the elders think that he

HEATHEN VILLAGE NEAR CHIYAKA of the West Central Africa Mission

should be asked to leave the community, the missionaries should not interfere, even if he happens to be one of their valued servants.’ Since the conference, several here on the place have been asked to leave. The cause was an out- break of beer drinking at Christmas, which is a recurrent trouble,, and it seemed time that something radical be done. We hope that it will mark the beginning of a new era, and prepare the way for taking fuller advantage of our opportunities.

“One of our great handicaps is the lack of trained workers who can meet the present situation, and there must be some trained up for the old places, at a time when we cannot train them fast enough for the new openings. The results of the training-school work are highly satisfactory. The spirit of those who have been through the school here is markedly different from that of their predecessors. All graduates from Dondi who went there from here seem prepared to make Christian work their business, and are ready to undertake whatever they are asked, and even to

volunteer for hard jobs. It appears that the Institute is going to do just what was expected of it by many.”

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The Transvaal — City and Country

Rev. Frederick B. Bridgman, d.d., who has returned to Natal after his furlough in America, found many changes, many problems, and much progress in South Africa. We have heard all too little from him, but print the following paragraphs from his latest letter : —

A Mining Company’s Appreciation

“Within the past few months, we have opened three new chapels. Each deserves a paragraph, but I will speak of only one. Our strongest center on the mines has been handicapped by lack of a building, the work being conducted in the crowded, noisy dor- mitory rooms.

“For years, we have besought the management at least to grant the use of a bit of ground where we might build. Polite refusal was the invari- able reply. But as they had enjoyed a long respite during my furlough, I immediately went after them again.

“Fortunately, we had the support of the compound manager, who con- trols the 14,000 natives employed by this mining group. He told the man- agement that our work was a good proposition for the company. These ‘mission boys’ behaved themselves, kept away from drink and gambling, were quiet and industrious; he could call on them any time for any kind of work. He urged the management to help us.

“ To cut a long story short, weeks of ‘watchful waiting,’ combined with gentle prodding, resulted wondrously. We were given entire possession of a brick building, wood floors, steel ceil- ing, electric light with free current, and the location is convenient. The building is easily worth $2,500.

“At the dedication, the place was crowded to overflowing, the door and

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windows being filled with peering faces. The singing from the throng of male throats was tremendous. The contributions came to eighty dollars, going to the salary of the preacher whom these people support. Our friend, the compound manager, came to the service, and the church’s spokes- man voiced appreciation of his help- fulness in the inimitable manner of the African. The fact that their ‘boss’ not only attended, but remained right through the more than two hours, made a deep impression on the people.

Glory in a Hut

“Some of you friends at home re- member Bushbuck Ridge and the remarkable work developed by two converts when they returned from Johannesburg to the wilds. I had a great time recently, when making them a ten days’ visit. Fezi has completed his three years in the Bible school, and it was solid comfort to find him back there doing earnest work. Many of Fezi’s people are working in a village, one of civilization’s outposts, about thirty-five miles from Bushbuck Ridge. Nothing would do but I must visit this group of our membership. So a meet- ing was appointed in the evening, when the boys would be back from work.

“It was a relief to get away from the miserable hotel, its atmosphere heavy with tobacco and whisky. I had walked only half the three miles when a fierce thunder storm burst upon us. Finding shelter in a shanty, the next hour passed watching the terrific light- ning. Wading through mud and water, it was pitch dark on reaching the ap- pointed place, one of the crude shelters where the men are housed.

“It was almost as black inside as out. Gradually, by the flicker of just one tallow dip, I made out that the hut was about fifteen feet in diameter; the low walls of rough stone supported a grass roof the shape of a Japanese parasol. Every inch of the earth floor was packed with the silent, expectant congregation, numbering about sixty,

all young men, excepting several girls from a near-by kraal. The only furni- ture was my table, a soap box on stilts. The storm came back, and proceeding with the service, I stood in a mud puddle, while from above the drops came so fast that I was reminded of a shower bath.

“I have conducted communion under varied conditions, but never in circum- stances quite like these. A dinner pail served as baptismal font; for thebread, we used an enamel wash basin. There was no way but to make preparations right before the audience, and they were intensely interested, I assure you. Not a move in cutting the bread, which I remember was very fresh, or in un- corking the grape juice, escaped those keen eyes. Six young men were bap- tized. But while the thunder crashed without, within this hut there was a sense of the presence of Him who breathed peace upon the disciples. How rough and weird were the sur- roundings, how crude the appoint- ments ; what a contrast to the harmony of architecture and worship in your cathedral churches. Yet we could say, ‘God is in this place . . . this is the gate of heaven ! ’ ”

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INDIA

Barsi Reports a Brahman Inquirer

We gave last month the story of the baptism of two Brahman converts in Madura — the first event of that kind in Madura history. A letter from Rev. and Mrs. Richard S. Rose, of Barsi, in the Marathi Mission, tells of a Brahman student there. The letter runs : —

“Our interest and our prayers are at present especially concentrated on an inquirer called Krishnaji, and we want you to join us earnestly in this matter. Krishnaji is a fine young Brahman, who asked for temporary work in our school while he was study- ing for an examination. We liked him at sight — his frank expression, his

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loud, hearty voice, his sense of humor. He has been with us less than four months, but Tulsiraniji, our Christian teacher, has been quietly influencing him, and he has been drinking in in- formation at many of our services. We began to have a faint glimmer of hope; and on the very day we were leaving for mission meeting at Ahmed- nagar, he walked on to the veranda and said, quite simply, ‘I am going to be- come a Christian.’

“Such a thrill as we felt would com- pensate for months of disappointment. He seems perfectly earnest and stead- fast, although he realizes what his baptism will involve. He has been coming in the evening for Bible study, along with Bapurao, a young Wani (merchant class) inquirer.

“We wish you could see the little gathering. Imagine a corner of the garden under the cork trees, various flowers and trees scenting the air, the evening stars just coming out; a little table, with a lamp, a Bible, a notebook, and a book of Hole’s pictures of the life of Christ; and the little group of people — Krishnaji, wide-awake and eager to hear, his great, dark eyes and white teeth flashing as he asks an occasional question; Bapurao, slower and quieter, but dead in earnest; two 228

mission workers and ourselves. We have felt God very near in these little meetings, and we think of Jesus in his dealings with Nicodemus — just such an inquirer by night as these men. Will not you, on the other side of the world, help us to pray these inquirers into the Kingdom?”

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Ingatherings Near Vadala

Writing from Vadala, Rev. Edward W. Felt speaks hopefully of the results of the work of the evangelists in the villages, known to us as the “Fifty- fifty” campaign, i. e., one evangelist in each of fifty centers. At the time of Mr. Felt’s writing, some months ago, two hundred were ready for baptism in these villages ; some of the criminal tribes which had settled about Vadala were ready for baptism, and others were receiving instruction. A confer- ence of the natural leaders of the dis- trict about Vadala was being planned. “These men — two or three from each community — would not be mission workers, but the natural leaders, men whose influence sways the community for good or ill. At this meeting, we would try both to enthuse and inspire the men, and also to instruct them in ways of service, especially in the tell-

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ing of the gospel story by song and word. We feel that if we can win their whole-souled cooperation, the church will move forward.

“Then, after this meeting, we would plan for Bible study groups in each community, under the leadership of some mission worker, with the aid of these natural leaders. These groups would study the simplest possible lesson plan; then we would hope and pray that all these efforts would head up in a week of evangelism about the week before Easter, in which the groups would go out to near-by villages to tell the story of Christ, and that individuals would work for other indi- viduals. Then would come the annual convention of the churches of the dis- trict, which would be a meeting of prayer and praise.”

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Progress at Sholapur

In a letter written from Sholapur to friends at home, by Mrs. L. H.

Gates, the station secretary, occur the following pictures of progress at Sholapur: —

The Kindergarten’s Dinner

“Among our Christians, there are degrees of poverty — poor, poorer, poorest. The children of them all are gathered into the kindergarten and other schools. During the year they have been bringing their tiny, tiny offerings — it takes forty-four of them to equal one of your pennies. At the suggestion of the kindergarten staff, this money was used to give a dinner to the children of the poorest people. All the children gathered, and those who did not qualify as the poorest helped to serve the dinner to those who did. And it would have been difficult for you to tell which enjoyed it the most. There were about one hundred little children, including those who were giving and those who were re- ceiving. The guests were entertained by the hosts and hostesses, who were

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all children under eight years, prob- ably. It was a really beautiful Christ- mas for them all.

The Young Men

“We are very much encouraged over the work among the young men who have left our school and are working in the mills. They were enthusiastic over a ‘Daniel’s Band’ which they formed a few months ago. Very soon some of their number went to France, in the labor corps, and others dropped out, so that it looked as though their days were numbered as an active band. However, some young men from Ah- mednagar, who used to be members of Mr. Deming’s Social Service Club, have recently come here for employ- ment in the Criminal Tribes Settle- ment. They are taking hold of the Daniel’s Band and putting new life into it. Pray with us that it may be a source of great help to these young boys, who are surrounded by such terrific temptations.

“These boys are a great problem to us. They finish our school when they are about fifteen years old. Many of them have no homes, and no friends who can help them to continue their education. Consequently they secure work in the mills, where they are sur- rounded by Hindu employees and have to curry favor with Hindu employers. They need all the help that we can give them to keep them clean and decent, and outward as well as inward Chris- tians. It is one of our dreams that some day we can have a boarding home for such boys, where they will still be under Christian influence after work hours, and where their evenings can be profitably directed. There are so many influences pulling them down, and they are so young to stand alone ! We have land for such a building and we have boys to live in such a building. Now may some friend be found who will want to provide such a building, that it may save the souls of our boys !

“A source of great encouragement to us is a class of Hindu and Moham-

medan boys from the municipal high school here, who have asked Mr. Gates to teach them Bible. We understand, of course, that their chief reason for the desire is to have practice in the use of English, but it is our prayer that the truth may come home to them and they may come to love the Saviour.

The Sholapur Criminal Tribes

“The Settlement work goes on very well. On January 1, Government turned over to the mission responsi- bility for the second Settlement, which is now under construction. The num- bers of the people will not be largely increased until the wire fencing about the new land is in place. In December, before we had charge of it, some fifty people absconded from the new Settle- ment. They have all been brought back and punishment assigned, but we are glad that it was at that time still in Government’s control. Government has sanctioned an increase in the grant for the coming year, to cover the increased expense of the new Settlement. There is no question but that we have undertaken a huge task, but we have many things to encourage us, and we have faith to believe that the Spirit of God is going to work mightily among those people.”

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Studying Tamil

“First impressions” of a country are not confined to its climate, its food, or even its people. Its mode of speech makes one of the deepest impressions of all, especially when the new arrival must learn to speak said language. Rev. and Mrs. Emmons E. White, two recent additions to the Madura Mis- sion, have been applying themselves to the study of Tamil. Mr. White writes : —

“The language is really rather tough, since there are so many sounds in it which we do not have to make in English. For instance, there are three T’s’: the first is dental, like ours; the second is pronounced by touching the

ON DUTY IN DAVAO HOSPITAL

The wards are made as airy as possible in their tropical location

top of the tongue to the back of the roof of the mouth; and the third is at- tempted by nearly swallowing your tongue while making a sound which is suspiciously like ‘ rl ’ ! If you don’t believe that this is hard, you just ought to have a chance to try it.”

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THE PHILIPPINES

The Hospital’s Record

Davao Mission Hospital treated 8,259 patients in the year ending De- cember 31, 1917, according to the concise report just received from Dr. Lucius W. Case, physician in charge. In addition to the hospital cases, 6,644 persons received help at the dispen-

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sary; these, with the number seen on outside calls and in visits by nurses, bring the cases treated up to 15,368 in number.

There were 121 more in-patients admitted in the year reported than in 1916. Many applications for admis- sion were refused because of the lack of accommodations. Only the most serious cases were accepted, which accounts for a relatively high percent- age of deaths. Many patients, brought long distances on cots or by launch, were practically moribund when they arrived. Because of thegreateramount of the work in the hospital, only a few outside calls, as compared with former years, could be made.

The nationality or tribe of the in-

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patients is a suggestive list: Japanese, 350; Visayans, 232; Tagalogs, 24; Ilocanos, 11; Bagobos, 4; Calagans, 4; other wild tribes, 21; Chinese, 10; Mestizos, 10 ; Americans, 4 ; Spaniards, 3. The list of diseases treated includes a variety of lung troubles, malaria in all forms, beri-beri, hookworm disease, fevers, dysentery, etc., while 26 major and 148 minor surgical operations helped keep Dr. Case busy.

TURKEY AND ROUNDABOUT

College News from Smyrna

We are permitted to quote the fol- lowing from a letter received by a missionary detained in America, from a former student at the International College in Smyrna. The writer is a European who at one time lived in Smyrna: —

“The college boarding department has been discontinued, as food has become so dear that it was impossible to procure it. . . . There are now about one hundred day students, many of whom are old boys. The preparatory classes have been done away with also, as teachers failed. Mr. Reed is nomi- nal director, and has proved a genius. Nearly single-handed, he had to fight huge odds, but he did it.

“The ‘belligerent’ teachers, who were formerly not allowed to go on teaching, have now, through the be- nevolence of the Vali, received author- ization to remain as teachers. It was he also who, when the college had to be closed by the Turkish government, was able to give an extra license so that on September 23 the school could again be opened. Lessons began Octo- ber 1, 1917.

“The girls’ school has also continued its course, but, as students are few, only one building was used. There is no boarding department, except for teacher and homeless girls. Miss Mc- Callum is not teaching, but is doing matron work; Miss Pohl has been ap- pointed acting, director.

“The outstation work had to be dis- continued; the pastors in Magnesia and Bourdour are well, but their schools are stopped. The pastor of Afion Karahissar has been exiled, but luckily his family could be brought to Smyrna.”

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^Conditions in Palestine

“Great Britain has freed Palestine. Will America assist in industrial re- construction?” So asks Mr. Stephen Trowbridge, who had come back to Cairo, early in March, to hasten the sending of supplies for the relief work in Jerusalem and the region about the Jordan. Motor trucks loaned by the Standard Oil Co., and Ford machines bought in Cairo, are being used to carry supplies up from Egypt. Three orphanages in Jerusalem shelter 500 children. The relief committee’s clinics are crowded; six soup kitchens tem- porarily feed 8,000 destitute, as the Turks had stripped the city of all food. Six hundred Armenians exiled from Adana were reported in Jerusalem, while many others are east of the Dead Sea and in the Hauran — toward Busrah.

The refugees who have been lace making are now hampered by lack of thread, 800 women being turned away in February. The committees are ar- ranging to develop boys in carpenter- ing, mechanics, shoemaking, tailoring, and agriculture, along the same lines as the work begun in Erivan and Alexandropol by Dr. Raynolds, Mr. Yarrow, and the others of our Board workers in the Caucasus.

The Palestine workers report that the people have been treated well by the British troops, and that cries of welcome are heard as the battalions march by.

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Governor of Bethlehem on Christmas Day

In the January number of this jour- nal, we spoke of the fact that Mr. Isaac N. Camp, detained in Egypt on the way to his designated field of Sivas,

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Western Turkey, had become attached to the General Staff Intelligence, XX Corps Headquarters, Egyptian Expeditionary Force. Later, intima- tion came to us of his being on duty “in the city of Christ’s birth at Christ- mas time,” but no details reached us till about Easter, when a letter was received from him directly. Under date of January 24, in Cairo, he writes : —

“I have forgotten whether I wrote to you from Bethlehem at Christmas time or not. Suffice it to say that I was then acting Governor of Bethle- hem and an acting lieutenant colonel. For twenty-two days in December I ‘carried on’ in that capacity, until the permanent governor came along. Then I was put back to my old work; and, having had rather a strenuous time of it, was granted a leave of ten days.

“It was a great privilege to be gov- ernor of Bethlehem on Christmas Day and to attend midnight high mass in the Church of the Nativity. What I have seen of the remarkable devotion and self-sacrifice of priests and nuns in the Holy Land has caused me to look upon Catholics with a great deal more catholicity of judgment than a few years ago. Many of them have stood by their guns as nobly as our own people have in Asia Minor; and they have been persecuted by the Turk and their work and buildings despoiled in an almost unbelievable fashion.”

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JAPAN

Kumi-ai Churches to Support a Station

A letter from Rev. George M. Row- land, d.d., of Sapporo, brings news of the decision of the Hokkaido Bukwai ( Local Conference) of Kumi-ai churches to undertake the support of one evan- gelistic station, with its own budget. Dr. Rowland says: —

“The decision was made in June, 1917. At that time we made some prominent laymen trustees, with their ministerial brethren of the Bukwai ;

and that is what makes the thing go. The place, Muroran, has been selected, and a man is pretty well settled upon. Now Muroran becomes a municipality. I doubt if any other conference in Japan has taken up and shouldered a new evangelistic station like this. Our Hokkaido churches are something to be grateful for, even in comparison with the other Kumi-ai churches. I’m proud to have been associated with them these twenty odd years.”

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MEXICO

In Chihuahua

Rev. Alfred C. Wright, of the Mex- ico Mission, writes from Chihuahua, saying : —

“I have returned recently from a trip of ten days to the mountain region west of here with the pastor of the church at this place. We held services in Cusihuiriachic, C. Guerrero, and San Isidro, with very good results as to attendance and attention.

“I took part in each place, though in Guerrero, where we have a chapel, I did not go into the pulpit. The others, being in private houses, do not come under the head of public services.

“Really there is no danger of any trouble in such places, as very few, indeed, of the congregation know that they are living under a new constitu- tion, nor do those who do know it have any knowledge of its specifications. We spent four nights on the floor of the common day car, second class (there is no first class now), and one night in a freight car, to which we had to transfer round the wreck of an engine which had fallen through a bridge ahead of us, and where we waited twenty-four hours for another engine to take us in.

“While conditions at present are not disturbed, the tales of suffering to which we listen in nearly every family visited are horrible. No one has any hope of speedy and permanent settle- ment of things here.”

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CHINA

A Chinese Annual Meeting

As friends of the China missions well understand, more responsibility each year is devolved upon the Chinese Church. A recent letter from Rev. Edwin D. Kellogg gives an idea of the aptness and businesslike methods of the Chinese in assuming these new cares. The difficulties in financial situ- ation, owing to the lowering of rates of exchange, was presented to the Chi- nese annual meeting last fall. The complications seemed to demand that they raise some $700 more next year than they had found in the year just closing. The missionaries made some suggestions as to the ways and means of finding the additional amount, but it was a thoroughly Chinese plan which was finally adopted. Mr. Kellogg writes : —

“The Chinese have not been satisfied with their Home Missionary Society and its results for some years, and so they took this society as the means of finding additional money. The means adopted were practically an assessment of the entire Chinese and missionary community. It ran some- thing like this : $5 from each mission- ary and teacher of English ; $2.50 from each preacher; $2 from each evangel- ist; $1 from each teacher; 50 cents from training class men and hospital assistants; two dimes from each bap- tized Christian; one dime from each learner, and one-half dime from each student in lower primary schools. This plan, if carried out, promises to net some $500 more than last year, and they seem confident that the plan will work. The Chinese are accustomed to taxes for theaters, and very likely this plan will be effective.

The Mission Meeting

“Our annual meeting this year has been most gratifying in many partic- ulars. For one thing, never before have the Chinese themselves been so completely in the saddle as at this

meeting, and, generally speaking, with excellent results. The election of the Executive Committee for next year was, I think, a thoroughgoing pattern after political methods at home. The slate was all made up beforehand, and thereby was elected with a rousing majority on the first ballot. The choices for the committee were almost without exception excellent. The com- mittee is composed of younger men than formerly, two of them being our recently graduated Nanking theolog- ical students.

The Agricultural Department’s Plans

“The annual meeting was also made an opportunity for launching the new agricultural scheme. This seems to have the very cordial backing of the Chinese. During the meetings, some $3,000 from Shaowu itself was sub- scribed, and it seems likely that $5,000 will be reached for the whole field. This money is to be equally divided between the experiment station, which is jointly under the direction of the mission, and the Chinese committee. The other half of the fund goes into a company which hopes to realize good returns from work which they may undertake on the basis of what they may learn from the experiment station.

“A large tract of land, about a mile and a half from the East Gate com- pound, is in the process of acquisition, and there all kinds of agricultural experimentation may be carried on, as the tract of land contains earth of varying qualities, as well as being partly hillside and partly lowland. The main stress at first will be laid on supplying milk for foreign and Chinese use, reducing the price of the same, and providing other forms of nourish- ing food at cheaper prices.”

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Helping the Distressed at Paotingfu

The missionaries in North China have been “moving up” like the fire engines at a four-alarm fire in a big city. As the doctors have been called

A COUNTRY FAIR CROWD IN THE INNER COURT OF THE BOARD’S CHAPEL AT YEN CHIAO, CHIHLI

Mrs. Arthur H. Smith, of Peking, is giving a talk to a group of country women

into Shansi to fight the pneumonic plague, the college professors, evan- gelists, and ordained men have moved on to responsibilities in managing flood relief work, and the schools and general work have proceeded with less detailed supervision than usual, though they are doing fine work none the less. Rev. Emery W. Ellis, of Lintsingchow, in Shantung, who is in charge of the general evangelistic and station work there, writes of going to Paotingfu, in Chihli, to help for a month, since the flood brings special and severe problems there. He says: —

“The military governor of this province has given $1,000 for mate- rials for roadmaking, and the project promises to enlist local help to a certain extent. The disbursement of the relief funds means a large amount of work. There has been the enlistment of 440 men for the Tunghsien road, and now, for local roadmaking near Paotingfu, about four hundred men will be en- listed. To house these men, to provide for their food, to secure faithful work — all this means much close oversight.

“At the outstations, food is being given for the flood sufferers; about

seven thousand are being aided. The distribution of clothing has been another form of work that has taken time and thought. Women refugees, to the number of 100, are cared for by Miss Abbie Chapin, of Paotingfu, in a temple near at hand. Relief work is also being carried on from about ten of the Paotingfu outstations.”

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A Welcome to the “Late” Speaker

We quote the following from a further account by Rev. Obed S. John- son, of Canton, of the assembly held in the Hongkong Congregational church, a description of some parts of which, as given by Rev. Charles A. Nelson, we printed last month: —

“Prominent speakers from Hong- kong and Canton addressed the assem- bly on widely varying but pertinent topics. The subtle Chinese sense of humor was frequently in evidence. One evening a prominent Chinese doc- tor of Hongkong was to address the meeting on ‘Hygiene.’ The time for speaking arrived, but not the speaker. The chairman of the evening, who happened to be the pastor of our Can-

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ton church, acceptably entertained the audience until the speaker arrived, ten minutes late.

“The chairman immediately con- cluded his remarks, and before intro- ducing the speaker announced, ‘Let us now all join heartily in singing hymn No. 15;’ and we all did sing, with unique appreciation, ‘The great physi- cian now is here.’ ”

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A Paotingfu Survey

It is very rewarding occasionally to look over a station’s work as a whole, not simply touching the high lights, as our correspondents, who are both busy and modest, are apt to do. These “Station Letters,” as we call them, keep us in touch with native workers and with the numerous responsibilities of the missionaries. One has just come from Paotingfu, written by Mrs. Harold W. Robinson, who joined the station in 1916. We quote a few paragraphs: —

“So far [to late December, 1917], the preaching at regular church serv- ices this fall has been by teachers from the boys’ school, by various helpers and evangelists, and by outsiders. This has given variety, but the church needs a regular pastor, and recently a great step in advance has been made by call- ing Chang Heng Ch’iu, who is now helping Mr. Price [Rev. F. M. Price, of the East Street Mission in Pao- tingfu ; see Missionary Herald, Septem- ber, 1917], for this work. Street chapel services are held daily in the centrally located street chapel, in charge of Mr. Pei. He reports an average attendance of forty at these services, and that about twenty are in a class studying to come into the church. Every after- noon he collects a crowd of little boys, who come in to sing.

Flood Relief in the Country Fields

“There are nine country evangelists, who this fall, of necessity, have com- bined flood relief with the regular work. Plans have been made to use the country chapels as flood relief sta-

tions, and this will probably be done as soon as arrangements can be made with the proper officials. The country field about Paotingfu is so large that it cannot be properly worked with the funds and helpers available. At the village of Li Hsien, people are desiring to join the church in such numbers that the church officers will take their names only if a guarantor is found for them. These inquirers come largely from the higher classes.

“This year, because of the floods, it was considered at first unwise to hold the annual church meeting for workers from the country; but later it was decided to continue the custom, even though the attendance might be small. It was held November 23-26, and the attendance was 156, as against ninety last year. After the general meeting was over, station classes were held for both men and women — thirty men pupils and twenty country women. Mr. Price was in charge of the men, and has graduated six who have com- pleted a course.

“Miss Abbie G. Chapin’s work seems so large and so varied that it is diffi- cult to find a beginning, and I am sure there is no end ! If we had good roads, I should be tempted to suggest roller skates for Miss Chapin, to save time from walking!”

Mrs. Robinson does not attempt to give detailed stories of Miss Chapin’s work, though she mentions a few — like women’s classes, evangelistic tours, supervision of Bible-women in city and country, industrial and relief work, etc.

East Street Work

“The Bible classes for military stu- dents, and the lectures at the East Street Chapel under Mr. Price’s super- vision, have been largely attended. This year a new feature has been in- troduced, to hold a Bible class for business men on every alternate eve- ning. The attendance, while not as large as we hoped for, has yet made it possible to get in closer touch with

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the men, who have been very respon- sive. A reading room is kept open all the time, in which some one is gener- ally found reading. Recently a teacher has been engaged to be there on certain evenings to teach the boys singing, which they enjoy so much that they come to sing on evenings when there is no teacher.

Union Christmas Services

“We have just closed a series of interesting Christian entertainments. The first one was of special importance, as it was a union service of the Young Men’s Christian Association, the Pres- byterians, and the American Board missions, and was held in the largest hall in the city. Admission was by ticket, and the hall was full of people who were really interested, both church people and non-Christians. Among other features was a union chorus of Chinese and foreigners from these missions.”

Shaowu Dramatics

Mrs. Edwin D. Kellogg sent to friends in this country a circular letter giving the story of last Christmas in Shaowu. There was a genuine home celebration on the part of the mission- aries, and Sunday schQol affairs as well; and then Mrs. Kellogg says: —

“It is the custom in the school for the boys to give a play every Christ- mas night, and this year they put on Pilgrim’s Progress. The Chinese act easily, but our boys are loath to spend time in rehearsing. We did, however, succeed in persuading them to have four rehearsals of this play, which we helped them dramatize and put on in ten acts.

“The church was crowded. More than five hundred had gathered, and all who could get standing room were there. Pilgrim’s Progress gripped that crowd in a way that greatly surprised me. The Cross scene — -a hard one for the boys to do well— went off effec-

THE STARS IN THE DRAMA ON FAIR DAY AT YEN CHIAO VILLAGE, CHIHLI

.. T^.e Chinese are very fond of the theater. At a fair admission is free, the expense being met by a municipal appropriation.” Many actors are young boys, like two at the right in this picture The beard, headdress, and posture of the actor at the right are those universally indicating ruler or prince. The figures in the background are stage attendants

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tively, and the singing of ‘At the cross, at the cross,’ behind the scenes was very helpful. In the scene Vanity Fair, the boys were in their element, and we were shown a lively Chinese Fair, where the people quickly changed from a gay, rollicking crowd to a fierce mob, ready to kill Christian and Faithful.

The fight between Apollyon and Chris- tian was also put on with much vim, and ‘took’ with the audience. The play closed with the scene Beulah Land, and with the singing of ‘Jeru- salem the golden.’ I was surprised to find how indigenous to China Pilgrim’s Progress seemed when thus presented.”

BOARDING THE FERRYBOAT OUTSIDE TUNGHSIEN

THE PORTFOLIO

Help from America

See that monkey-faced babe. When little children are starving, their skin grows taut and their eyes pop out until they look like wee apes. This particu- lar child is trying to draw food from empty breasts that hang limp against the bony body of a woman who looks to be seventy years old. By all reason and expectation, the miserable morsel of humanity should have perished within a month of birth, for the mother has scarcely clothes or food for herself, or yet nourishment for her child.

A great and beautiful and heart- breaking hope sustains her, and myr- iads of others — that the Americans will come with relief. “They little know of America, who only America know.” In the far, waste places of

earth, where famine stalks, the name that is synonymous with rescue and life is America. There are no peoples so remote or benighted that they have not heard of America, the almoner nation. I have had personal experi- ence of this attitude in the famine- smitten fields of North Japan, of mid- China, of Persia, of Kurdistan, of Russia, of Roumania, and of Armenia. All the ingenuity and effort of Ger- many could not possibly build up such a reputation as has made America’s name unique among the oldest nations of the earth.

Is it any wonder, therefore, that thereupon I put my foot through the regulations of the local American Committee for Armenian Relief, and assured that starving mother and babe

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a place on the relief lists ? Necessarily the committee has to be systematic and rigid, giving out of its scanty store only to certain most desperate classes. It is conducting its work on a basis that would win encomiums from the Associated Charities of the world. Every penny contributed gets to the field — a New York business man pays all the administrative expenses of the American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief — and is disbursed by Americans or by American-trained natives under American direction. It is but common justice to say that if it had not been for the presence of Amer- ican missionaries on this field, skilled in the language, accustomed to local conditions, and able to command the assistance of a great corps of trained native workers, the vast humanitarian service which America has done for the Armenians and the Syrians would have been impossible.

With Yankee ingenuity, the relief workers have established extensive industrial enterprises in the Caucasus, so that no actual relief is given di- rectly, except to orphans. Women are paid for carding and spinning wool at home. Refugee men weave this on looms made by the refugees into cloth that is made up by refugees into clothes for other refugees — ten thou- sand orphans will be clothed from these looms in Erivan alone. Cooperating with the London Lord Mayor’s com- mittee, the American relief workers are, so far as possible, reaching the entire quarter of a million refugees in the Caucasus, their efforts being especially desperate this winter, be- cause of the famine conditions.

All plans look to the rehabilitation of the refugees in their former homes, after we have finally put the firm of William, Mohammed & Co. out of busi- ness. When one considers the com- plete devastation of hundreds of entire towns and villages, the destruction of flocks, herds, and other live stock, as well as of crops, and the entire loss of household effects and of material

with which to resume business, it will be seen that the task to which America has laid her hand is no small one. . . .

It is estimated that something like a million Armenians still remain alive in Turkey. These survivors have grad- ually made their way toward the centers where American consuls and missionaries are distributing relief. Yes, despite all, the Americans have remained by the task, regardless of peril to themselves. They are the envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary of the generous, sym- pathetic heart of their country. Some day they will be publicly recognized and honored. Meantime they are pay- ing a price for the privilege of repre- senting America. Only those who have had to listen to the cry of the starving for food when there is no food, to the frantic pleas of mothers that their little children be accepted as a gift, and to the despair of men who are helpless to care for their families, can know what a toll is extracted from the spirit.

William T. Ellis, in ‘ ‘ The Saturday Evening Post," March 30, 1918.

Jesus’ Decision in the Wilderness

To the suggestion that he should ap- pease the desires of his man-nature by causing stones to be made bread, Jesus had answered that man does not live by bread alone, but by every word which proceedeth out of the mouth of God. It is impossible to think of this as pre- senting itself to the Man from Naza- reth as a personal problem only — the problem of youth, with its hungry desires for food, a mate, houses, trap- ings. But whether settled for himself or humanity, the question was never reopened. This is no story of a plain man finding himself, but of a soul un- selfed from the beginning, apprised of his power, sure of his high calling, seeking behind the material lack the essential disharmony which his mes- sage was to heal.

Socially minded as he showed him-

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self to be, he must have faced here and struck out of his own course the futil- ity of attempting to achieve the King- dom by the relief of immediate social discomfort. Hungry as his time was, sore with poverty and injustice and oppression, when he went back to it, it was not with any palliative, but with the keen sword of the Spirit. The misery of his world rose up against him, assailed him through his great gift of compassion, threatened to en- gulf him ; but always we see him strik- ing clear of it, committing himself to the Word with such confidence as a bird commits itself to the air or a great fish to the deep.

But if Jesus rejected the principle of direct relief as a means of bringing

the Kingdom to pass, he was even more explicit in his condemnation of direct political action as establishing it. For the devil in Jesus’ time was no mere hoof-and-tail bogy, but that Lucifer whose seat was once in heaven. And what else can the worship of him mean in connection with the kingdom of this world and the power and glory of them than the use of satanic means, political intrigue, jealousy, faction, conspiracy, by means of which the rebellious angels fell? We shall come closer than this to the mind of Jesus touching the social organization, but we shall get nothing more decisive than his “Get thee behind me ! ”

From “The Man Jesus,” by Mary Austin.

THE BOOKSHELF

Three Books on Buddhism

The Story of Buddhism. By K. J. Saunders. New York: Oxford University Press. Pp. 159. Price, $1.15.

The Heart of Buddhism. By K. J. Saunders. New York : Milford. Pp. 96. Price, 60 cents.

Nichiren, the Buddhist Prophet. By Masaharu Ane- saki. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Pp. 156. Price, $1.25.

Fifty years ago Buddhism was practically unknown in the Western world as a subject of serious study. Today, in a well-stocked library, scores of books on this religion may be found upon the shelves. That these three books should come under review at the same time is significant of the new interest. The subject is so remote, not to say abstract, with reference to present-day facts and concerns, that this can be explained only on the ground of an increasing interest in everything which affects the lives of our fellowmen. It is a human as well as a scientific zeal which lies back of this literary study and output.

Mr. Saunders, who is the literary secretary of the Young Men’s Chris- tian Association movement for Burma,

India, and Ceylon, in his “Story of Buddhism,” writes frankly from the Christian point of view. While sym- pathetic and fak in its approach to Buddhist thought and life, his book is almost as much an apologetic for Christianity as a description of Bud- dhism. Not only at the end, but all the way through, the author argues for Christianity as the only possible fulfillment of Gautama’s longing, the only solvent of the woes which afflict the lands where this faith prevails today. This is said by no means as detracting from the value of the book, but only as indicating its point of view. It is a mission study book rather than a scientific treatise. As such it will be found both interesting and informing, a thoroughly readable little volume. We recommend it heartily to Student Volunteers, newly appointed missionaries, and all who desire a good introduction to this fascinating subject.

“The Heart of Buddhism,” by the same author, is a brief anthology of Buddhist hymns and teaching stories. The translations are original and are

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done with fine literary skill, certainly so far as the English is concerned. The repose, the music, the perfume, the pessimism of the East haunt many of these stanzas. A good example is this, which is called “The Four Riddles”: —

“ What bringeth human life to earth?

What still disdaineth to be bound ?

Who pass in woe from birth to birth ?

From what can no release be found ?

“ ’Tis passion bringeth man to earth ;

His mind disdaineth to be bound.

All sentient beings know rebirth ;

From misery no escape is found ! ”

In reading these translations, one realizes the charm of the early Bud- dhist literature of India, but also the intellectual and spiritual stagnation to which it led. The value of the book is enhanced by copious notes.

Professor Anesaki, of the Imperial University of Tokyo, won many friends and admirers in America when filling, for three years, the chair of Japanese Literatureand Life at Harvard Univer- sity. One fruitage of the visit to our shores is this story of Nichiren, whom he calls “The Buddhist Prophet,” who lived in the thirteenth century. This little biography opens up what will be to most people a new and interesting chapter in Japanese history. Presi- dent Harada, of the Doshisha, well known to our readers, has spoken of Nichiren as “the most interesting figure in the whole history of Bud- dhism in Japan.” After reading Pro- fessor Anesaki’s book, one feels that an interesting parallel might be drawn between Nichiren and some of the Hebrew prophets. We find deep re- ligious passion, the ardent spirit of the social reformer and student of public affairs, the reversion to ancient simplicities, the gathering of disciples, and the suffering of bitter persecution. Nichiren’s attitude toward the Mongol invasion bears strong resemblance to that of Isaiah and Jeremiah toward the political foes of their time. The parallelism, however, fails at the chief point. Nichiren was not without the

forward look. He had his vision of a reconstructed world, a Nirvana on earth, but its motive and dynamic lay in a soulless and godless system' of a remote past. “Back to the Buddha of India” was his cry. He even depre- cated Japan’s substitution of the Amida Buddha, or the Universal Spirit of Enlightenment, for the historic Sakya Muni of the faith.

Nichiren’s end was characteristic. True to the genius of his Master, he withdrew from the world, and among mountain snows acquired “true Bud- dhahood.” He seems to have been a prophet not only without honor, but without effect, since Japan continued on her mystic and superstitious way without restraint. Yet the story is worth telling. Aside from its histor- ical interest, and this must be very great to many Japanese, it reveals to the world a teacher of great ability, of high character, a man of real power, of sincerity and righteousness, who, according to his light, in an exceed- ingly dark age sought the truth for the good of his fellowmen.

C. H. P.

Faith, War, and Policy. By Gilbert Murray. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co. Pp. 255. Price, $1.25 net.

A collection of addresses and essays on the European War, whose value in this book form will be, as the writer declares, largely historical. The papers included cover issues through March, 1917.

Heroes of the Campus. By Joseph W. Cochran. Phila- delphia : The Westminster Press. Pp. 168. Price, 60 cents net.

Brief sketches of notable missionary heroes whose records began in their college days: of Pitkin, of Yale and China; of Mills, of Williams, founder of the American Board of Commission- ers for Foreign Missions ; and of many others whose fight of faith began while they were still undergraduates.

The Mexican Problem. By Clarence W. Barron, with introduction by Talcott Williams, LL.n„ of Colum- bia University. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co. Pp. 137. Price, $1.00 net.

A commercial and economic study of Mexican affairs.

WORLD BRIEFS

The Sultan has granted a site of eight acres for an Anglican cathedral in Cairo.

Christian graduates of the Imperial Uni- versity of Japan have founded a magazine, to be called The University Review. It will discuss social and political matters from a Christian standpoint.

The son of Prof. Graham Taylor, of Chicago University, acting as assistant to the United States consul at Petrograd, is believed to be safe in Russia, though no direct message from him has been received since early in January.

More money is declared to be given for their Buddhist and Taoist religions by the Chinese of the province of which Canton is capital than is given by all the Protes- tant Christians of all America for all the mission work of the non-Christian world.

Twenty young men of the American Marathi Mission Church in Bombay have enlisted for war service. Some went to Mesopotamia, others to East Africa, and a few enlisted in the University Corps of the Indian Defence Force. One recent convert laid down his life in Mesopotamia in the interests of the Empire.

At a late meeting of the Medical Mission- ary Association at Kodaikanal, India, a resolution was passed in favor of a thor- oughly equipped institution for the training of Christian physical directors for work in Indian schools. The Indian government is understood to be interested in the plan. It also favors the introduction of the Boy Scout movement into India.

England has decided upon the form of memorial to be given to the next-of-kin of every member of His Majesty’s forces who has fallen in the war. It is to be a bronze wall plaque, five inches in diameter, bearing an emblematic design, and will be accompanied by a scroll suitably inscribed. More than 800 designs were submitted, and a prize was awarded the successful com- petitor.

The Christian community in China, in- cluding enrolled inquirers, numbers over 500,000. There are 618 centers with resi- dent missionaries, and Christian worship is carried on in 7,078 places ; 5,517 foreign missionaries (309 of them Congregational- ists) are in China, and 20,460 Chinese Chris- tian workers are in the employ of missions and churches. One out of every fourteen Christians is in mission or church employ. There are 151,490 pupils in mission schools,

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and 330 mission hospitals, served by 383 missionary and 118 Chinese physicians, 106 of whom are women.

During the evangelistic campaign of 1917 in Madura City, India, song sermons, given by Rev. H. A. Popley, of Erode, were very successful. It had been believed that Hindus would not attend a Christian church, but hundreds of Hindus came to hear Mr. Popley at these meetings. Organizations of musicians and singers from various churches, called the Bajanai, were of great assistance in the services.

A copy of The Natal Advertiser has just reached our office, in which appears a re- port in full of a paper on “The Native Medical Man,” read by Dr. James B. Mc- Cord, of the Board’s staff in Durban, South Africa, at the annual meeting of the Natal Native Affairs Reform Association. It was a most illuminating document, full of humor, but stating plainly the dangers from the native practitioner and closing with a sug- gestion for a solution of the difficulty, which brought hearty applause from his listeners.

In place of the long, unsatisfactory emi- gration laws in India, a new plan has been worked out for Indians going to British Guiana, Trinidad, and Fiji which is called “assisted colonization.” Under this new plan the relation between employers and laborers is made more normal ; grants of land are to be available for laborers who desire it after they have worked for three years ; protectors of immigrants are to be appointed in India and in each colony ; provisions are made for housing, wages, medical treatment, and education, and for repatriation for those who desire it. The emigration of entire families is to be en- couraged, and women unaccompanied by their families are not to be accepted as immigrants.

One of the most interesting articles in a recent number of Asia, the journal of the American Asiatic Association, is by Tyler Dennett, of the Methodist Centenary Com- mission, and is called “The Missionary Schoolmaster, Who Began with Outcastes, Now Teaches the Rajah’s Sons. ” “ School- master ” in this case is a generic term, but Mr. Dennett makes most significant gen- eralizations. “The great defect,” he says, “of the average mission and government school in China and India has been that it does not yet think in terms of citizenship. The mission school is designed, primarily, to prepare for intelligent church member- ship ; the government school tends chiefly to prepare clerks for government offices,

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especially in India. Because of the tre- mendous impetus given throughout the Orient to the desire for self-government by the American policy in the Philippines, accelerated as it has been by the present war, any school which expects to win or keep the confidence of the people will have to consider this new aspect of ideas.” He praises the union movement among mis-

sions along educational lines and calls at- tention to the fact that missionary school- masters now ‘ ‘ must be prepared to conduct schools better than the returned student who has finished his course in pedagogy at Harvard, Yale, Oxford, or Cambridge, and to offer the broadest kind of training for citizenship in the new governments which are or which are to be. ”

THE CHRONICLE

Births

January 30. In Pasumalai, Madura, India, to Mr. and Mrs. James H. Lawson, a daughter, Carolyn.

February 13. In Erivan, Russia, to Rev. and Mrs. Ernest A. Yarrow, a daughter, Jean Florence.

Sailed for the Field March 27. From San Francisco, Miss Annie L. Howe, returning to Kobe, Japan.

Arrivals on the Field February 10. In Durban, South Africa, Rev. and Mrs. Charles N. Ransom, return- ingto Natal ; Mr. and Mrs. Ray E. Phillips, joining the staff at Johannesburg, in the Transvaal ; Mr. and Mrs. Wesley C. Atkins, joining the station at Durban ; Miss Caro- line E. Frost, returning, after furlough, to Adams ; and Miss Fidelia Phelps, rejoin- ing Inanda Seminary after furlough in America.

Arrivals in this Country

March 21. In New York, Rev. and Mrs. Edward B. Haskell, d.d., of Philip- popolis ; and Miss Mary M. Haskell, of Samokov, Bulgaria.

March 23. In New York, Rev. and Mrs. Reuben H. Markham, of Samokov, Bulgaria.

March 31. In San Francisco, Miss Jane T. Taylor, of Davao, Mindanao, P. I.

Dr. Ruth A. Parmelee, of Harpoot, has been speaking in various places in the Northwest, though nominally resting with her sister in Butte, Mont. We under- stand that after making forty addresses in that region she visited friends in Oregon, and had begun to be in much demand near Portland, Forest Grove, etc., in that state.

DONATIONS RECEIVED IN MARCH

NEW ENGLAND DISTRICT

Maine

Bangor, All Souls C'ong. ch., 150, llammond-st. Cong, ch., 75, both toward support of missionary, 225 ; Forest-av. C'ong. eh., 10, Brewer, 1st C'ong ch.

Brownville, Cong. ch.

Castine, Cong. ch.

Dexter, Cong. ch.

Garland, Federate ch. (Cong.) Lewiston, Pine-st. Cong. ch. Limerick, Rev. and Mrs. George A. Mills,

Machias, Cong. ch.

Norway, 1st Cong. ch.

Portland, Woodfords Cong. ch. Waterville, Cong. ch.

West Paris, Finnish Cong. ch.

235 00 18 96 1 10 14 00 18 00 3 50 56 00

5 00 25 95 4 00 56 83 90 38

1 00 529 72

New Hampshire

Bath, Cong. ch. 10 60

Chester, Cong. ch. 25 00

Exeter, Phillips Cong. ch. 50 25

Hancock, Cong. ch. 8 00

Hanover, In memory of Mrs. C. O.

Blaisdell, 10 00

ltindge, 1st Cong. ch. 37 50

Washington, Cong. ch. 3 00 144 35

Legacies. — Nashua, Mrs. Mary A. B.

Moore, add’l, 18 00

Bindge, James Bragg, by Henry

W. Hayward, Ex’r, ' 3,324 03—3,342 03

Vermont

3,486 38

Brattleboro, Swed. Cong. ch. 3 00

Cambridgeport, Cong. ch. 84

Jericho, 1st Cong, ch., toward sup- port Rev. William Hazen, 35 00

Morrisville, 1st Cong. ch. 11 09

Orwell, Cong, ch., 49.65; Friend,

200, 249 65

Springfield, Mrs. S. H. Gilfillan and

Mrs. A. W. Flanders, for Africa, 10 00

Waitsfield, Cong. ch. 22 50

West Fairlee, Cong. ch. 6 60

West Rutland, Cong. ch. 30 35 369 03

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Massachusetts

Amherst, South Cong1, ch. n 50

Ayer, 1st Cong. ch. 20 00

Becket, North Cong. ch. 7 35

Beechwood, Cong. ch. 6 00

Boston, Mt. Vernon Cong, ch., to- ward support Rev. H. A. Neipp, 93 ; Park-st. Cong, ch., Florence St. J. Baldwin, 50; Shawmut Cong, ch., 24.23; Armenian Cong, ch., 10 ; Baker Cong. ch. (East Boston), 6.60; Old South Cong, ch., 5; Cong. ch. (Allston), for

Turkey, 5 ; Benjamin Durham, 7 ;

Florence A. Whitney, 5; M. B.,

25, ' 230 83

Brookline, Leyden Cong, ch., Rev.

Frederick H. Means, 15 00

Cambridge, Pilgrim Cong. ch. 61 53

Concord, Trinitarian Cong. ch. 42 75

Dedham, 1st Cong, ch., toward sup- port Rev. C. A. Clark, 70 00

Deerfield, Orthodox Cong, ch., Mrs.

Marion Stebbins, 5 00

Fitchburg, Rollstone Cong. ch. 105 18

Greenfield, 2d Cong, ch., toward

support Rev. A. F. Christofersen, 125 00

Groton, Cong. ch. 5 90

Hadley, 1st Cong. ch. 16 75

Hardwick, Calvinistic Cong. ch. 12 00

Harvard, Cong. ch. 10 00

Haverhill, Center Cong, ch., 56.76 ;

1st ch. of Christ (Bradford),

49.50, 106 26

Hingham, J. Wilmon Brewer, for

Battalagundu, 4 00

Lakeville, Friend, 50 00

Lakeville and Taunton Precinct,

Cong. ch. 50 00

Lowell, Eliot Cong, ch., of which 5 from Mrs. Fannie A. Barney,

36.67; A. D. Carter, 150, 186 67

Lunenburg, Cong. ch. 10 00

Methuen, Mrs. J. T. Mercer, 5 00

Millers Falls, Cong. ch. 11 00

Monson, Cong, ch., toward support

Rev. H. J. Bennett, 16 50

New Bedford, North Cong. ch. 115 35

New Salem, Cong, ch., 16.50 ; North

Cong, ch., 2.50, 19 00

Newton, Eliot Cong. ch. 210 00

Newton Highlands, Cong. ch. 265 50

Northboro, Esther E. Allen, for

work in India, 1 00

Pigeon Cove, Swed. Cong. ch. 2 75

Randolph, 1st Cong. ch. 22 47

Richmond, Rev. William M. Crane, toward support Rev. E. L.

Nolting, 83 33

Sandisfield, 1st Cong, ch., Mary S.

Hawley, 25 00

Sheffield, Cong. ch. 18 55

Somerville, Highland Cong, ch.,

52 ; J. E. S., 10, 62 00

South Hadley Falls, G. 100 00

Springfield, South Cong. ch.,

Friend, for Sholapur, 30 ; Olivet Cong, ch., 27.83, 57 83

Sunderland, 1st Cong. ch. 33 00

Townsend, Cong. ch. 7 42

Upton, 1st Cong. ch. 12 59

Vineyard Haven, Madison Edwards, 5 25

Warren, Cong. ch. 18 88

Webster, 1st Cong. ch. 55 50

Westfield, 2d Cong. ch. 15 50

Westhampton, Cong. ch. 50 00

Winchester, 1st Cong. ch. 338 25

Worcester, Friends, 50 00

, E. 100 00

, Matured Cond’l Gifts, 10,000 OO- 12,853 39

Legacies. — Boston, Betsey R. Lang, by Frank H. Wiggin, Trustee, add’l, 9 28

Newton, Hannah A. Jackson, by William F. Bacon, Ex’r, 760 ;

Annie M. Robertson, by H.

Beecher Robertson and Murray W. Robertson, Ex’rs, 1,815.07, 2,565 07 North Brookfield, Mrs. Josephine C. Whiting, by L. Emerson Barnes, adm’r, add’l, 354 06

Springfield, Emily Piper, by James G. Dunning, Ex’r, 1,401 ; Levi Graves, by D. W. Wells, Trus- tee, add’l, 100, 1,501 00 — 4,429 41

17,282 80

Rhode Island

Barrington, Cong. ch.

East Providence, Riverside Cong, ch.

Providence, Free Evan. Cong. ch. Wood River Junction, Cong, ch., Friend, for Turkey,

60 10

7 06 20 60

5 00 92 76

Young People’s Societies

New Hampshire. — Wolfeboro, Y. P. S.

C. E. 15 00

Massachusetts. — Chelsea, Central Y. P. S.

C. E., Junior Dept., for Africa, 2;

Lowell, Eliot Y. P. S. C. E., for

Shaowu, 10 ; North Weymouth, Pilgrim Y. P. S. C. E., Senior Dept., 2.50;

Sheffield, Y. P. S. C. E., 3; Winchen-

don, North Y. P. S. C. E., for Mt.

Silinda, 6, 22 50

37 50

Sunday Schools

Maine. — Portland, Woodfords C. S. S. 4 77

New Hampshire.— -Concord, West C. S. S.,

for Tehchow, 5 00

Vermont. — Sharon, C. S. S. 5 00

Massachusetts. — Beechwood, C. S. S., 6 ;

Boston, Highland C. S. S. (Roxbury), for work in Africa, 38.15 ; East Weymouth,

C. S. S., 6.17 ; Lee, C. S. S., of which 50 for native preacher in India and 20 for student in Japan, 70 ; Quincy,

Bethany C. S. S., 12.03 ; Revere, Trinity C. S. S. class (Beachmont), for work among Armenians, 1 ; Somerville, West C. S. S„ 5.42; Topsfield, C. S. S., 2.50;

Woburn, 1st C. S. S., 21.78; Worcester,

Plymouth C. S. S., for Inghok, 8.60, 171 55

Rhode Island. — East Providence, Newman

C. S. S. 4 11

190 43

MIDDLE DISTRICT

Connecticut

Ashford, Cong. ch.	3 15
Berlin, 2d Cong. ch.	54 70
Bridgeport, King’s Highway Chapel,	17 92
Bridgewater, Friends,	90 00
Greenwich, 2d Cong. ch.	19 75
Hartford, 1st ch. of Christ,	518 00
Madison, 1st Cong. ch.	40 00
Meriden, 1st Cong, ch., toward sup-
port Rev. J. S. Augur,	25 00
Middletown, 1st Cong. ch.	19 07
New Haven, United Cong, ch., for
work of Rev. R. A. Hume, 800 ;
Congregational Club, 22.23,	822 23
North Haven, Cong. ch.	90 40
Plantsville, Cong. ch.	42 58
Plymouth, Cong. ch.	16 96
Pomfret Center, One who cares,	50 00
South Glastonbury, Cong, ch., Mr.
and Mrs. E. T. Thompson,	6 00
Suffield, 1st Cong. ch.	70 00
Wallingford, 1st Cong. ch.	180 00
Washington Depot, Swed. Cong. ch.	3 00
Weston, Norfield Cong. ch.	10 50 — 2,079 26

1918

Donations

245

Legacies. — Berlin, Julia Hovey, by Nathaniel D. Miller, Ex’r, add’], 208 34

New London, Martha S. Harris, by William H. Rowe, Alfred Coit, and Walter C. Noyes,

Ex’rs and Trustees, 5,153 30

New Milford, Emily Roberts, by New Milford Security Co., adm’r, 100 00— 5,461 64

New York

Bedford Hills, E. R. Minns, 30 00

Brooklyn, Lewis-av. Cong, ch.,

87.50; Parkville Cong, ch., 25.01; Mapleton Park Cong, ch., for Ceylon, 25 ; Elizabeth S. Day, for work in Turkey, 2, 139 51

Buffalo, 1st Cong, ch., of which 50 from Woman’s Guild and 2,000 from William H. Crosby, all to- ward support Rev. C. M. Warren, 2,050 00

Churchville, Union Cong. ch. 24 38

Flushing, Broadway Cong, chi,

Annie Ross, 5 00

Forest Hills, ch. in the Gardens, 40 10

Ithaca, 1st Cong. ch. 29 36

New York, Manhattan Cong, ch., Women’s Guild, toward support Rev. and Mrs. F. B. Bridgman,

85; Forest-av. Cong, ch., 10;

B. S., 100,

Ontario, Immanuel Cong, ch., to- ward support Rev. G. G. Brown,

Port Leyden, Cong. ch.

Poughkeepsie, James D. Keith,

Pulaski, Cong. ch.

Smithtown Branch, Florence N.

Tyler,

Westmoreland, 1st Cong. ch.

Woodville, Cong. ch.

Legacies. — Brooklyn, Charles A.

Hull, add’l,

7,540 90

195 00

13 00 7 16 100 00 2 00

1 25 38 00

9 00— 2,683 76 47 50

New Jersey

2,731 26

Glen Ridge, Cong, ch., toward sup- port Dr. F. Van Allen, 275 00

Jersey City, Mrs. Widlake, for

work among Armenians, 10 00

Montclair, 1st Cong, ch., Friend, 15 00 Passaic, Cong, ch., William L.

Lyall, for work among Armenians, 50 00 Westfield, ch. of Christ, of which

10 from Rev. S. L. Loomis, 110 00 460 00

Pennsylvania

Toledo, 1st Cong, ch., toward sup- port Mrs. M. M. Webster, 122.50 ;

Washington-st. Cong, ch., 40.67, 163 17— 620 02

Legacies.— Elyria, Mrs. Mary J.

Levagood, by Cong. Conference of

Ohio, 13 75

633 77

District of Columbia

Washington, 1st Cong, ch., toward support Rev. L. S. Gates, 294 ;

S. W. Mudd, for deputation ex- penses of Dr. J. A. Blaisdell, 50, 344 00

West Virginia

Ceredo, Cong. ch. 6 55

Georgia

Atlanta, Central Cong. ch. 10 87

Florida

St. Petersburg, Cong. eh. 20 00

Young People’s Societies

Connecticut. — Farmington, Y. P. S. C. E.,

10; Milford, Plymouth Y. P. S. C. E.,

10, 20 00

Pennsylvania. — - Fountain Springs, Junior

Y. P. S. C. E. of Christ Cong. ch. 1 50

21 50

64 36

7 00

28 61 6 00

105 97

INTERIOR DISTRICT

Tennessee

Memphis, 1st Cong. ch. 8 86

Alabama

Birmingham, Independent P r e s b .

ch., Woman’s Soc. 13 00

-, Woman’s Home Miss. Union, 4 00 17 00

Sunday Schools

Connecticut. — Greenwich, 2d C. S. S., to- ward support Rev. Lewis Hodous, 13.62 ; Norwalk, 1st C. S. S., Pathmakers’ Class, for Sholapur, 2.50 ; Putnam, 2d C. S. S., toward support Dr. H. N. Kinnear, 48.24,

New York. — Canaan, C. S. S., 3 ; West- moreland, 1st C. S. S., 4,

New Jersey. — Newark, 1st C. S. S., of which 25 for Africa,

Pennsylvania. — Minersville, C. S. S.

Ernest, Union ch.

Minersville, Cong. ch.

Philadelphia, Park Cong. ch. Legacies. — Philadelphia, Caroline E. Furber, add’l, less expenses,

15 00 28 00

25 00 68 00

541 27

Ohio

609 27

Texas

Austin, Ira H. Evans,

Indiana

Fort Wayne, J. S. House, Fremont, Cong. ch.

Michigan City, A. H. Miller,

50 00

25 00

4 37

5 00 34 37

Cleveland, 1st Cong, ch., 38; Grace

Cong, ch., 6.15, 44 15

Columbus, 1st Cong, ch., toward support Rev. M. S. Frame, 225 ; Plymouth Cong, ch., toward sup- port Charles H. Riggs, 125, 350 00

Lexington, Cong. ch. 5 00

Newark, Plymouth Cong. ch. 3 95

Newton Falls, Cong. ch. 2 25

Petersburg, Rachel Davies, 5 00

Shaker Heights, Plymouth Cong.

ch. 29 00

Springfield, Lagonda-av. Cong, ch.,

10; 1st Cong, ch., Mr. and Sirs. J. Frank Petticrew, for Pang- chwang, 7.50, 17 50

Illinois

Aurora, 1st Cong. ch. 15 00

Canton, 1st Cong, ch., toward sup- port Rev. E. W. Felt, 14 40

Chicago, Rogers Park Cong, ch., of which 500 from F. H. Tuthill, all toward support Rev. C. L.

Storrs, 600 ; University Cong, ch.,

60; Austin Cong, ch., 14.18; Fir- man Cong, ch., 10; F. H. Tuthill, toward cost of exchange in China,

962.50; Friend, 22.85, 1,669 53

Earlville, Cong. ch. 5 00

La Moille, Cong. ch. 14 50

Loda, Cong. ch. 35 40

Mayfield, Cong. ch. 13 50

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May

Morrison, Robert Wallace,

Oak Park, 1st Cong, ch., Clarence S. Pellet,

Paxton, Cong. ch.

Peoria, 1st Cong, ch., toward sup- port Rev. M. S. Frame, 150 ; Union Cong, ch., 7,

Plymouth, Cong. ch.

Polo, Independent Presb. ch. Woodbum, Cong. ch.

30 00

100 00 18 00

157 00 3 40 30 00

10 00— 2,115 73

Legacies. — Princeton, Lydia A. Anthony,

100 00

Michigan

2,215 73

Detroit, 1st Cong, ch., toward sup- port Rev. J. H. Dickson, 250 ; Mt. Hope Cong, ch., for Africa, 14,

East Lansing, Cong. ch.

Pine Grove, 1st Cong. ch.

Royal Oak, Cong. ch.

St. Clair, 1st Cong. ch.

264 00 3 45 7 50 60

40 00 315 55

Wi sconxin

Eau Claire, 1st Cong. ch.

Emerald Grove, Cong. ch.

Genesee, Cong. ch.

La Crosse, 1st Cong. ch.

Madison, Plymouth Cong. ch. Menomonie, Cong. ch.

Milwaukee, Plymouth Cong, ch., to- ward support Dr. A. R. Hoover, Oconomowoc, Cong. ch.

Platteville, Cong. ch.

Union Grove, Cong. ch.

Whitewater, Cong. ch.

Williams Bay, 1st Cong. ch.

200 00 9 00 5 75 75 00 17 00 50 00

250 00 11 00 10 00 25 00 33 75

15 00 701 50

Legacies. — Elkhorn, Eva H. Wales, by Winifred Bird Hand, Ex’x,

953 88

Elbowoods, Mrs. Susan W. Hall,

for Tehchow,	25 00
Harvey, 1st Cong. ch.	17 00
Stady, Cong. ch.	5 00 —	— 54 00
South Dakota
Aberdeen, Cong. ch.	4 49
Belle Fourche, Cong. ch.	12 80
Dupree, Cong. ch.	5 60
Estelline, Cong. ch.	16 00
Faulkton, Cong. ch.	72
Gothland, Cong. ch.	3 20
Houghton, Cong. ch.	3 20
Lebanon, Cong. ch.	2 56
McLaughlin, Cong. ch.	3 36
Myron, Cong. ch.	5 00
Scenic, Cong. ch.	80
Spearfish, Cong. ch.	6 56
Wheaton, Cong. ch.	6 40	— 70 69
Nebraska
Exeter, 1st Cong. ch.	41 50
Franklin, Cong, ch., Friend,	10 00
Linwood, Cong. ch.	14 50
Omaha, Plymouth Cong. ch.	25 00
Scottsbluff, David Martin,	50 00 141 00
Kansas
Gaylord, 1st Cong. ch.	10 00
Kansas City, 1st Cong. ch.	10 70
Newton, 1st Cong. ch.	9 00
Sedgwick, Cong, ch., Woman’s Miss.
Soc.	4 00
Topeka, Central Cong. ch.	51 48	— 85 IS
Colorado
Highland Lake, Cong. ch.	7 50
Rocky Ford, Mrs. Demus,	1 00—	— 8 50

Minnesota

1,655 38

Argyle, Cong. ch.

Big Lake, Cong. ch.

Dexter, Cong. ch.

Fairmont, Cong. ch.

Glyndon, Cong. ch.

Lake City, 1st Cong. ch.

Little Falls, 1st Cong. ch.

Mankato, 1st Cong. ch.

Minneapolis, Plymouth Cong, ch., 165.92 ; 5th-av. Cong, ch., 24; Linden Hills Cong, ch., 20.19; Park-av. Cong, ch., 18; Pilgrim Cong, ch., 10.72 ; Lynnhurst Cong, ch., 4.80,

Monticello, Cong. ch.

Moorhead, Cong. ch.

New Ulm, Cong. ch.

Wadena, Cong, ch., Miss. Soc.

1 22 6 00 1 00 18 28 2 34 8 90 15 00 2 13

243 63 4 05 1 04 10 00

3 45 317 04

Iowa

Atlantic, Cong. ch.

Danville, Belle H. Mix and brothers and sisters, in memory of George H. and Mrs. Sabeth H. Mix, Eldora, C. M. Duren,

Grinnell, Cong. ch.

Montour, Cong, ch., 51.65 ; Mrs M. Tenny, 300,

Peterson, Cong. ch.

Sheldahl, William Herbert,

14 00

1,000 00 25 00 28 00 R.

351 65 5 00

25 00— 1,448 65

Missouri

Neosho, 1st Cong. ch. 32 00

St. Louis, Compton Hill Cong, ch.,

for Sirur, 50 00 82 00

North Dakota

Cando, 1st Cong, ch., for work

among Armenians, 6 00

Dodge, Pilgrim Ger. Cong, ch.,

Mrs. H. Grossmann, 1 00

Young People’s Societies

Illinois. — Beardstown, Y. P. S. C. E., for Mt. Silinda, 6 ; Chicago, Miss. Study and Prayer Union of Moody Bible In- stitute, for Harpoot, 12.50,

Michigan. — Grand Rapids, 2d Y. P. S. C. E.

Wisconsin,.- — Madison, Plymouth Y. P. S. C. E., 5 ; Springvale, Y. P. S. C. E., 9.25,

Sunday Schools

Louisiana. — Abbeville, St. Mary’s C. S. S. Illinois. — Chicago, Millard-av. C. S. S., 8 ; do., Leavitt-st. C. S. S., 3.83; do., Uni- versity C. S. S., 3.06; Dwight, C. S. S., Kingsley and Boys’ Class, for Sholapur, 10: Oak Park, Harvard C. S. S., 6.70; Wilmette, C. S. S., of which 10 from Prim. Dept., 20 from Junior Dept., and 15 from Intermediate Dept., 45, Wisconsin. — Platteville, C. S. S., 6.40;

Two Rivers, C. S. S., 16,

Iowa. — Dunlap, C. S. S., 3 ; Olds, C. S. S., for Aruppukottai, 30,

North Dakota. — Dawson, C. S. S., 1.60; Gardner, C. S. S., 3.10; Harvey, 1st C S. S. 6

South Dakota. — Watertown, C. S. S. Kansas. — Kansas City, 1st C. S. S., for Turkey,

Colorado. — Gordon Valley, C. S. S., 1.16 ; La Junta, Ger. C. S. S., 3.80,

PACIFIC DISTRICT

Arizona

Prescott, Cong. ch.

17 50 5 00

14 25 36 75

1 00

76 59 22 40 33 00

10 70 4 18

14 30

4 96

167 13

25 00

1918

Donations

247

Idaho

Boise, Mrs. E. J. Borjeson, Challis, Cong. ch.

Pocatello, Cong. ch.

Weiser, Cong. ch.

5

5

is

10

00

00

00

•38 00

Washington

Anacortes, Cong. ch.

Everett, Cong. ch.

Monroe, Cong. ch.

Pullman, Cong. ch.

Seattle, Plymouth Cong, ch., 350;

Fairmount Cong. ch., 12.40 ;

Columbia Cong, ch., J. L. Clag-

horn, 5, 367 40 386 89

4 00 8 00 99 6 50

Oregon

Baker, Ira L. Hoffman,

Beaverton, Abram Reichen,

Condon, Cong. ch.

Corvallis, 1st Cong. ch.

Ingle Chapel, Cong. ch.

Jennings Lodge, Cong. ch.

Portland, Highland Cong, ch., 8.60 ; Free Evan. Brotherhood ch., 5 ; Joshua Harris Abbott, to const. himself, II. M., 100,

20 00 10 00 14 50 10 00 5 00 1 90

113 60 175 00

California

Avalon, Cong. ch.

Corona, Cong. ch.

Grass Valley, Cong. ch.

Long Beach, Cong. ch.

Los Angeles, 1st Cong, ch., 102.35 ; Pilgrim Cong, ch., 10 ; Hollywood Cong. ch. and S. S., 6.26, Ontario, Cong. ch.

Paradise, Cong. ch.

Pasadena, West Side Cong, ch., 50 ; 1st Cong, ch., 41.85; Pilgrim Cong, ch., 14.50,

Petaluma, Cong. ch.

Pittsburg, Cong. ch.

Pomona, Cong. ch.

Rio Vista, Cong. ch.

Riverside, Cong. ch.

Rosedale, Cong. ch.

San Bernardino, 1st Cong. ch.

San Francisco, Bethlehem Cong. ch. San Jacinto, Cong. ch.

Santa Rosa, Cong, ch., Grace El- more, for Africa,

Sherman, Cong. ch.

Whittier, Cong, ch., toward support Rev. Cass A. Reed,

Woodside, Cong. ch.

5 64 27 24 8 05 40 30

118 61 62 00 1 44

106 35 19 58

2 07 33 62

1 88 15 00

3 10

4 45 3 35 2 12

5 00 10 00

100 00

9 20 579 00

Hawaii

Honolulu, Central Union ch. 535 00

, chs., through Hawaiian

Board, 117 30 652 30

Young People’s Societies

Washington.- — Olympia, Y. P. S. C. E. California. — Escondido, Y. P. S. C.. E.

Hawaii. , Y. P. S. C. E., through

Hawaiian Board,

Sunday Schools

Utah. — Vernal, Kingsbury C. S. S. California. — Bakersfield, 1st C. S. S., for Mt. Silinda, 30; Paso Robles, C. S. S., 13; San Diego, 1st C. S. S., 5.85,

MISCELLANEOUS

Canada

Hilda, Ger. Cong. Parish, toward

support Rev. C. H. Maas, 11 00

2 50

3 10

2 70 8 30

2 40

48 85 51 25

Legacies. — Cobourg, Rev. Riehard Owen, by John T. Field and James T. Daley, Ex’rs, 100 00 111 00

From the Canada Congregational Foreign Missionary Society

H. W. Barker, Toronto, Ontario,

Treasurer, 65 40

From the American Missionary Association Irving C. Gaylord, New York City,

Treasurer

Income on Avery Fund, for mission- ary work in Africa, 2,426 80

FROM WOMAN’S BOARDS

From Woman’s Board of Missions Mrs. Frank G. Cook, Boston,

Treasurer

For sundry missions in part, 9,626 32 For housekeeping grant for mission- ary, Marathi, 75 00 — 9,701 32

From Woman’s Board of Missions of the Interior Mrs. S. E. Hurlbjt, Chicago, Illinois, Treasurer, 2,300 00 For Lucy Perry Noble Bible School,

Madura, 850 00

For Shaowu Hospital, care Dr. L. P.

Bement, 1,500 00

For deficit on Tehchow Ladies’

House, 50 00

For dormitory for Grace Wyckoff

Memorial School, Tehchow, 2,500 00

For Plant, South Suburb, Teh- chow, 2,000 00

For completion of Ladies’ House,

Tehchow, 30 00— 9,230 00

From Woman’s Board of Missions for the Pacific Mrs. W. W. Ferrier, Berkeley, California, Treasurer, 1,300 00

For salary of missionary, Japan, 650 00 — 1,950 00

20.881 3?

Additional Donations for Special Objects

New Hampshire. — Littleton, C. S. S., Mrs.

W. A. Bacon’s Class, for pupil, care

Miss Katie Wilcox, 7 00

Vermont.— Westminster West, C. S. S., for pupil, care Rev. William E. Hitchcock, 12 00

Massachusetts. — Boston, Mt. Vernon Chi- nese S. S., for work, care Rev. O. S.

Johnson, 32.45 ; do., Old South C. S. S.,

Capron Bible Class, for school, care Miss A. L. Millard, 30; do., Mrs. H. B.

Howard, for pupil, care Rev. E. W. Felt,

10 ; Cambridge, 1st Evan, ch., Janet &

Edith Clark, of which 5 for children’s work, care Rev. E. H. Smith, and 5 for playground, care Rev. R. E. Chandler,

10; do., do., Hubert L. Clark, for work, care Rev. E. H. Smith, 1 ; Glouces- ter, Miss C. A. Lathrop, for work, care Dr. H. N. Itinnear, 3 ; Haverhill, Harriet F. Welch, for use of Rev. L. S. Craw- ford, 1 ; Lexington, Emma O. Nichols, for work, care Rev. J. J. Banninga, 5 ;

Lincoln, Phillips Bradley, for school, care Rev. Edward Fairbank, 15 ; Long- meadow, Mrs. T. W. Leete, for work, care Rev. W. R. Leete, 25 ; Middleboro,

A. G. Newkirk, for pupils, care Rev.

E. H. Smith, 25 ; Northampton, Ed- wards C. S. S., for work, care Dr. F. F.

Tucker, 26.97 ; Norwood, H. P. Ken- dall, for use of Rev. H. A. Neipp, 150 ;

Pittsfield, 1st C. S. S., for schol- arship, care Rev. J. X. Miller, 52.89 ;

Reading, Mrs. Sarah D. Riggs, for King

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School for the Deaf, care Miss C. R. Willard, 6; Southampton, H. B. Lyman, for hospital work, care Dr. H. N. Kin- near, 15 ; Springfield, Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Clark, for bed in hospital, care Dr. and Mrs. F. F. Tucker, 10 ; Three Rivers, Osmond J. Billings, for work, care Rev. E. H. Smith, 10 ; Worcester, Henry Lovell, for hospital, care Dr.

H. N. ICinnear, 20; , E., of which

100 for use of Rev. H. A. Neipp, 100 for Battalagundu, care Rev. B. V. Mathews, and 50 for evangelistic work, care Rev. G. G. Brown, 250,

Connecticut. — Saybrook, Agnes A. Acton, for work, care Rev. H. A. Neipp, 25 ; Willimantic, H. C. Lathrop, for Chris- tian Student Aid, care Rev. W. M.

Zumbro, 10 ; , Mrs. S., of which

500 for athletic goods and outfit for boys’ school, care Rev. H. S. Martin, and 50 for Battalagundu, care Rev. B. V. Mathews, 550,

New York. — Angola, Miss A. H. Ames, for use of Dr. H. N. Kinnear, 1 ; Brooklyn, Willoughby C. S. S. of Clinton-av. Cong, ch., for work, care William S. Picken, 4.12 ; Larchmont, Mary E. Woodin, for hospital work, care Dr. and Mrs. H. N. Kinnear, 10 ; New York, P.

H. Harwood, for outstation work, care Rev. W. O. Pye, 125 ; do., George Rouelle, for work, care Rev. H. A. Neipp, 25 ; do., Friend, through Rev.

R. E. Hume, for theological seminary, care Rev. R. A. Hume, 100 ; Perry Center, Berean Class, for student, care Rev. E. H. Smith, 20,

New Jersey. — - East Orange, Theodore H. Smith, for school buildings, care Rev. G. G. Brown, 200; do., H. A. Watt, for use of Mrs. T. D. Christie, 1 ; Ventnor,

S. S., of which 3 in memory of Eric Neal, all for bed in hospital, care Dr.

I. H. Curr, 28,

Pennsylvania. — Ardmore, Mrs. Charles H. Ludington, for two scholarships and other work, care Mrs. T. D. Christie, 125; Erie, T. M. T. M. Club of Y. W. C. A., for pupil, care Miss Grace Funk, 10,

Ohio. — Cleveland, Mrs. James F. Jackson, for school, care Miss C. R. Willard, 12 ; Geneva, Rev. Bertha J. Harris, for work, care Dr. H. S. Hollenbeck, 10 ; Oberlin, Oberlin- Shansi Memorial Assn., for schools in Shansi, of which 3 from

J. B. Davison, 503 ; Rootstown, Cong, ch., C. S. Seymour, for pupil, care Rev. W. L. Beard, 15,

Illinois. — Chicago, Warren-av. Cong, ch., Mrs. Frank E. Page and friends, for Frank E. Page Memorial Room in Wil- liams Hospital, care Dr. F. F. Tucker, 50; do., F. H. Tuthill, for work among Bheels, care Rev. W. O. Ballantine, 150 ; do., Mrs. C. H. Long, through Inez L. Abbott, for pupil in girls’ boarding school, care Miss E. L. Douglass, 25 ; Des Plaines, Cong, ch., for work, care Rev. J. X. Miller, 25 ; Edwardsville, Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Duckies, for use of Rev. and Mrs. P. L. Corbin, 25 ; Galva, Five friends, for pupils, care Rev. E. W. Felt, 140,

Wisconsin. — Florence, Harald Rasmussen, for hospital, care Dr. and Mrs. H. N. Kinnear,

Minnesota.— Minneapolis, M. Frances Cross, for pupil, care Rev. J. X. Miller, Missouri. — Lexington, A. J. Nolting, for work, care Rev. E. L. Nolting, 25 ; St. Charles, Rose M. Sweeney, for King School, care Miss C. R. Willard, 3 ; St. Louis, Henry Hunter, for native helper, care Rev. A. A. McBride, 100,

698 31

585 00

285 12

229 00

135 00

540 00

415 00

1 00 25 00

128 00

Nebraska. — - Franklin, A. A. Galt, for evangelistic work, formerly care Rev.

H. S. Galt, 50 00

Kansas. — Wichita, Fairmount College, to- ward support Rev. W. N. James, Ana- tolia College, 700 00

California. — Beverly Hills, Nellie Brugge- meyer, for Bible-woman, care Mrs. M.

S. Frame, 25 ; Long Beach, Jane Robert- son, for hospital, care Dr. H. N. Kin- near, 1 ; Los Angeles, Alice S. Barber, for do., care do., 2 ; Ontario, Mrs. E. W.

Thayer, for repairs on dormitories, care Mrs. W. P. Elwood, 100 ; Sacramento,

Mrs. Caroline Stephenson, for work, care Rev. Charles L. Storrs, 25, 153 00

Hawaii. — Honolulu, Central Union C. S.

S., for work, care Mrs. Fanny P. Shepard, 75 00

From the Canada Congregational Foreign Missionary Society

H. W. Barker, Toronto, Ontario,

Treasurer

For native teacher, care Rev. C. A. Nelson,

Egypt. — Ramleh, Alice B. Caldwell, for work, care Miss C. R. Willard,

FROM WOMAN’S BOARDS

From Woman’s Board of Missions Mrs. Frank G. Cook, Boston,

Treasurer

For work, care Miss C. R. Willard, 50 00

For pupil, care Mrs. H. A. Maynard, 5 00

For school, care Rev. E. Fairbank, 25 00 For pupil, care Mrs. H. H. Lee, 25 00

For work, care Dr. H. E. Parker, 3 00

For day school, care Miss Isabelle

Phelps, 200 00 308 00

From Woman’s Board of Missions of the Interior Mrs. S. E. Hurlbut, Chicago, Illinois, Treasurer

For helper, care Miss A. L. Tenney, 45 00

For pupil, care Miss M. J. Barrows, 1 00 46 00

13 00 22 00

From Canada Congregational Woman’s Board of Missions

Miss Emily W. Thompson, Toronto, Ontario, Treasurer

For Bible work in schools, care A. A.

Ward, 100 00

For native teacher, care Rev. C.

A. Nelson, 35 00 135 00

4,562 43

Donations received in March, 56,153 75

Legacies received in March, 14,989 48

71,143 23

Total from September 1, 1917, to March 31, 1918. Donations, $ 561 ,601. 49; Legacies,

$57,653.75 = $619,255.24.

Amanzimtoti Theological Training School Fund

Massachusetts. — Newburyport, Friends,

through George H. Bliss, 117 00

Arthur Stanwood Jordan Memorial Fund

Massachusetts. — Clinton, Rev. William W.

Jordan, 20 00

Angola Fund

Alabama. — Marion, 1st Cong, ch., 4;

Selma, 1st Cong, ch., 4 ; Talladega,

Talladega College, 60.76, 68 75

Mississippi. — Jackson, 1st Cong. ch. 3 00

71 75

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