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VOLUME LXXXV 1920
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PUBLISHED BY THE DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETY OF THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AT THE CHURCH MISSIONS HOUSE, 281 FOURTH AVENUE
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INDEX
Africa :
See Liberia.
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Alaska, missionary district of Anvik:
Christmas at Anvik, Chapman (illus.) 763
Honor to Whom Honor, Chapman (illus.) 705
Progress in New Buildings', Chapman (letter) 47
Reminiscences, Glenton (letter) 182 The Joy of Service, Glenton (illus.) 633 The Passing of thfe Medicine Man, Deaconess Sabine (illus.) 653 Workers Needed (note) 794 Cordova:
The Backyard Glorified, Ziegler (illus.)
11
Fairbanks:
Scouting in Alaska, Lumpkin (illus.) 149 Visiting the Creeks, Lumpkin (illus.) 371
Fort Yukon:
Letter from Mrs. Burke 330 Juneau:
Easter at Alaska’s Cathedral Church (illus.) 237 Ketchikan:
Practical Social Service in Alaska (note) 738 Nenana:
Accident to Miss Wright (note) 52 Point Hope:
Augustus Reginald Hoare, Stuck 378 Tragedy in the Arctic (editorial) 350 Stephen’s Village:
Letter from Miss Bedell 181 General:
Appeal for Workers (note) 449 Big Alaska and Modest Rowe (edi- torial) 683
Bishop Rowe (portrait) 682 Bishop Rowe, Wood 691 Bishop Rowe and the Province of the Pacific 712
Bishop Rowe as I Knew Him, Jenkins (illus.) 709
Bishop Rowe as an Alaskan Sees Him, Riggs (illus.) 707
Bishop Rowe Foundation Fund (note) 794
Bishop Rowe the Trail Breaker, Stuck (illus.) 693
Bishop Rowe’s Twenty-fifth Anniver- sary, Tuttle 690
Cheers for Bishop Rowe, Ziegler (illus.) 713
Message from Bishop Rowe (editorial) 755
Salmon Shortage on Yukon (edito- rials) 277, 322, 351, 548
•Salmon Shortage, Letter to Editor, Stuck 450
Stuck, Archdeacon, Death of (edito- rials) 684
Stuck, Archdeacon, Memorial Service (note) 793
Stuck, Archdeacon, Minute of Council, 689
Stuck, Archdeacon (portraits) 688, 692
Stuck, Archdeacon, Resolutions St. Peter’s Parish (illus.) 791
Winter Trip, Thomas (letter) 397
Anking, missionary district of :
Bishop’s Summer Holiday (note) 595 Blind Organist in China (illus.) 507 Ruling School (editorial) 351 Ruling School (resolution) 250 Ruling School, The, Lee (illus.) 381 Sojourn in the Gate of the Dragon, Sis- ter Edith Constance (illus.) 261
Ancell, Rev. B. L. — How the New Church Fund of Yangchow Grew (illus.) 145
Andrews, Rev. Theodore — In the Southern Piedmont (illus.) 309
Appeal to All Christians (Lambeth Confer- ence) 622
Appointments of Missionaries, 45, 177, 250, 327, 390, 447, 723
Asheville, missionary district of :
Blue Ridge Missionary Conference, Hun- ter (illus.) 589
Calamity at Christ School, Arden (note) 119
Wayside Shrine (note, illus.) 393
Ashhurst, S. W. — What the U. T. O. Is Doing for Guantanamo (illus.) 655
Atlanta, diocese of :
Discontinuance of Work La Grange, 598 Ham and Bacon, Hunt (illus.) 721 La Grange Helps in Cyclone (editorial) 350
Palm Sunday at La Grange, Phillips (illus.) 353
Aves, Bishop — Tenth Mexican Convocation (illus.) 427
IV
B
Baker, Rev. C. W. — Christmas Among the Karoc Indians (illus.) 779 Bartter, Frances E. — Letter from the Philip- pines (illus.) 806
Board of Missions (last meeting) 43 Boys’ Convention Camp (Kansas) (illus.) 585
Brazil :
See Southern Brazil.
Brotherhood Convention and the Church’s Mission, Randall 72 8
“Bryn Mawrter, A’’ — In Star Valley (illus.) 159
Buchanan, E. Mildred — The Woman’s Aux- iliary in Hankow 337 Buffalo Conference, Gilbert 801 Burleson, Bishop — London, Lambeth and Lordships (illus.) 625
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Caldwell, Roberta S. — Iolani (illus.) 357 Capozzi, Rev. F. C. — Christmas Among Italians (illus.), 783
Carson, Archdeacon — In The Panama Canal Zone (illus.), 645
Chapman, Rev. J. W., D.D. — Christmas at Anvik (illus.) 763
Chapman, Rev. J. W., D.D. — Honor to Whom Honor (illus.) 705 Chapman, Rev. J. W., D.D. — Progress in New Buildings (illus.) 47
China :
Gift to Prevent Blindness (note) 668 Map (district served by Ruling School) 382
The Racial Rut, Newbery (illus.) 313
Christmas in Many Lands :
Alaska, 763 Among Italians, 783 Brazil, 111 China, 759 Cuba, 765
Indians (Sacramento), 779 Japan, 787
United States (Idaho), 785 Virgin Islands, 767 Church Mission of Help, 391 Church Missionary Calendar (note) 793 Church Periodical Club (note) 794 Clark, Ada L. — The Church Service League (charts) 331
Clark, Rev. F. J., elected secretary P. B. and C., 119
Coles, Mary, In Memoriam (portrait) 790 Coles, Mary (editorial) 755
Colorado, diocese of :
Church Conversion Campaign in W. Colo- rado, Ford (illus.) 291
Covers :
January, Painting by Ziegler, Alaska.
February, On Ice, Alaska.
March, The Tetons, Wyoming.
April, The First Easter Morn.
May, Field Day at Boone, Wuchang, China.
June, Ancon Hospital, P. C. Z.
July, Hunting Lodge in Black Hills, S. D.
August, Old Gateway, Santo Domingo, D. R.
September, Southern Mountaineer, Va.
October, Golden Alms Basin.
November, Bishop Rowe, Trail Breaker, Alaska.
December, Winter in Japan.
Cuba, missionary district of :
Christmas on the Isle of Pines, Decker (illus.) 765
Church on the Isle of Pines, Decker (illus.) 289
Trip de Luxe in Cuba, A, Steel (illus.) 137
What the U. T. O. is doing for Guanta- namo, Ashhurst (illus.) 655
D
Davies, Julian T., death of (editorial) 349
Decker, Rev. W. H. — 'Christmas on the Isle of Pines
Decker, Rev. W. H. — The Church on the Isle of Pines (illus.) 289
Departments P. B. and C. :
Christian Social Service, 735, 801
Finance (see meetings of Presiding Bishop and Council)
Missions and Church Extension, meetings, 249, 327 (See also Educational Divi- sion and Work Among the Foreign- Born)
Nation-Wide Campaign, 7, 185, 255, 461, 672, 733
Publicity, 459
Religious Education, 455, 531, 599, 669, 729, 797
Dominican Republic:
Latest News from Dominican Republic, Wyllie (illus.) 493
Our Responsibility (editorial) 483
Duluth, diocese of :
Journey with Bishop Morrison, Backhurst (letter) 49
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Educational Division, Department of Mis- sions, 50, 174, 256, 326, 395, 451, 593, 667, 726, 795
Elliott, Margaret R. — Things I Find to Do (illus.) 465
Emery, Julia C. — Jubilee of the Woman’s Auxiliary (illus.) 465
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Fifty Thousand Miles in Fifty Minutes (pictures) :
Map, 72 Alaska, 102 Anking, 90 Arizona, 111 Asheville, 112 Atlanta, 113 Brazil, 79 China, 94
Church Missions House, 118 Cuba, 73
Dominican Republic, 76 Haiti, 75 Hankow, 88 Honolulu, 100 Japan, 95 Kyoto, 96 Liberia, 82 Mexico, 106 North Carolina, 115 Panama, 105 Philippines, 84 Porto Rico, 77 San Joaquin, 108 Shanghai, 92 South Carolina, 114 South Dakota, 110 Southern Virginia, 115 Spokane, 109 Tokyo, 98 Virgin Islands, 78
Work Among the Foreign-Born, 116
Ford, Rev. W. M. — Church Conversion Campaign in Western Colorado ( illus. ) 291
Foster, George P.— Student Life at Boone (illus.) 291
Fund for the Blind, Lucy Sperry (note) 394
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Gailor, Bishop : (articles by)
Archdeacon Stuck (editorial) 684 Easter Greetings (editorial) 203 Lambeth Conference, The (editorial) 411 Letter to Clergy on Lenten Offering, 249 Nation-Wide Campaign (editorial) 347 Need for Recruits (editorial) 275 New Year’s Greeting (editorial) 3 Portrait, 66
Gardiner, Rev. T. Momolu (letter, illus.) 257
Gardiner, Rev. T. Momolu, portrait and sketch, 792
Georgia, diocese of :
Training in Christian Citizenship, John- ston (illus.) 441
Gibson, Rev. R. F., portrait, 391 G'i bert, Rev. C. K. — The Buffalo Confer- ence, 801
Gill, Rev. J. M. B. — Epiphany at St. Paul’s, Nanking (illus.) 25
Gill, Rev. J. M. B. — Hopeful Happenings in Nanking (illus.) 247
Glenn, John M. — Some Suggestions as to Social Service, 741
Glenton, Dr. Mary V. — Reminiscences (let- ter) 182
Glenton, Dr. Mary V. — The Joy of Service (illus.) 633
Goold, Rev. E. H. — Easter at St. Augus- tine’s (illus.) 430
Goto, Rev. P. K. — Purpose and Hope of Shitaya Mission (illus.) 435
Gray, Rev. A. R., D.D. — Consecration of Bishop Morris (illus.) 169
Gray, Rev. A. R., D.D. — Tenth Mexican Convocation (illus.) 430
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Haiti, missionary district of :
Battiste, Rev. A., death of (note) 392
Hankow, missionary district of :
Changdeh:
A “Clean-up” in the City of Perpetual Virtue, Tyng (illus.) 163 < Need for new buildings (editorial) 133 Wuchang :
Christmas in Wuchang, Sherman (il- lus.) 759
Hospital fund complete (note) 51 Student Life at Boone, Foster (illus.) 281
Wood, Miss M. E., receives degree (note) 793 General:
Deaconess Clark, trip of (note) 595 Forward Movement (note) 448 Fu-ting Lo, Rev., portrait, 171 Hobbie, Theodore, accident to (note) 252
Joy of Service, Glenton (illus.) 633 Ward,. M. De C, (letters) 454, 528 Woman’s Auxiliary in Hankow, Bu- chanan, 337
Hart, Mary E., memorial to, 266
Hassinger, H. N. — In the Uintah Basin with the Bishop (illus.) 717
Hicks, Rev. W. C., D.D., death of, (edi- torial) 278
Honolulu, missionary district of :
Bishop LaMothe, portrait and sketch, 792 Iolani, Caldwell (illus.) 357 Iolani School (editorial) 350 Sister Beatrice’s anniversary (note, illus.) 51
United Offering Workers in Honolulu, Van Deerlin (illus.) 637
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Hospitals :
Alaska :
Practical Social Service (Arthur Yates 'Memorial, Ketchikan) 738 China:
Church General Hospital, Wuchang, fund complete, 51 Japan:
Now Is the Time (St. Luke’s, Tokyo) 715 Mexico:
“Success” (House of Hope, Nopala)
511
West Virginia:
My Two Families (Sheltering Arms) 189
Hudson, Mary L. — South Dakota Deanery Meeting (illus.) 608
Hunt, Florence J. — Ham and Bacon (illus.) 721
Hunter, Claudia — Blue Ridge Missionary Conference (illus.) 589 Huntington, Bishop — Consecration of Bishop Mosher (illus.) 377
Hutchison, Louise — Princeton Conference •(illus.) 515
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Idaho, missionary district of:
Christmas in an Idaho Mission, String- fellow (illus.) 785
Indians :
Duluth:
Letter from Rev. G. Backhurst, 49 New Mexico:
Is It Worth While? 641 North Dakota:
Things I Find to Do, 535 Sacramento :
Christmas Among the Karoc Indians, 779
South Dakota :
A South Dakota Deanery Meeting, 608
Oicimani Hanska Kin, 662
Pictures of the Niobrara Convocation, 37 Utah:
In the Uintah Basin with the Bishop, 717
Wyoming:
Easter Among the Shoshones, 221
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James, Deaconess M— In One Corner (illus.) 571
Japan :
A Vacation Trip in Ainu Land, Morgan (illus.) 295
The Friend of the Ainu (editorial) 278
Johnston, Edith D. — Training in Christian Citizenship (illus.) 441
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Kansas, diocese of :
Boys’ Convention Camp (illus.) 585
Kent, Julia D. — Wellesley Conference
(illus.) 517
Kirkpatrick, Rev. J.— First Visit to Western Nebraska (illus.) 243
Kno, Rev. S. C. — How the New Church Fund of Yanchow Grew (illus.) 147
Kyoto, missionary district of:
Kyoto:
Christmas in Kyoto, One of the Staff (illus.) 787
Easter in Kyoto, Walke (illus.) 217
St. Agnes’s School (note) 597 General:
Letter from Bishop Tucker, 527
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Lambeth Conference, Appeal for Unity, 622
LaMothe, Bishop-elect, portrait and sketch, 792
Lathrop, Rev. C. N., portrait, 390
Leaflets, 186, 603, 673, 745, 808
Ledbetter, Eleanor E. — Easter in the Kar- pathians (illus.) 209
Lee, Rev. E. J. — The Kuling School (illus.) 381
Lenten Offering :
Editorials, 67, 68, 69, 131, 207
Letter to the Clergy, Bishop Gailor, 249
Letter Box: 47, 179, 257, 329, 397, 453, 527
Lexington, diocese of :
Letter from Rev. J. J. Clopton, 180
Liberia, missionary district of :
Cape Mount:
A Liberian Romance, Mahony (illus.) 649
A Newcomer in Liberia, Willing (illus.) 649
Monrovia :
Liberia’s Fourth of July, Ratnsaur (illus.) 445 General:
“Am I My Brother's Keeper?” Ramsaur (illus.) 323
Bishop Overs, consecration (note) 52
Bishop Overs (editorial) 133
Bishop Overs, first visit to field (note) 526
Bishop Overs, portrait, 130
Bishop-elect Gardiner, letter (illus.) 257
Bishop-elect Gardiner, sketch and por- trait, 792
Call of a Great Opportunity, Ramsaur (illus.) 553
Call of a Great Opportunity (editorial) 547
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Map of Liberia, 554 Plea for Industrial Schools, Sherman (illus.) 27
Vey grammar needed (note) 794
Lincoln, Dr. C. S. F. — Three Bottles (illus.) 439
Lindley, Grace — Summer Conference in England (illus.) 605 Lloyd, Bishop:
An Appreciation, 187 Editorial on, 132 Farewell message, 5 Resolutions on retirement, 43 London, Lambeth and Lordships, Burleson (illus.) 625
Lumpkin, Rev. H. H.— Scouting in Alaska (illus.) 149
Lumpkin, Rev. H. H. — Visiting the Creeks (illus.) 371
M
Macy, Dr. R. G. — “Success” (illus.) 511 Mahony, Agnes P. — A Liberian Romance (illus.) 649
Maps :
China : District served by Ruling School, 382
Liberia, 554
Panama and Parts Adjacent, 168 South Dakota, 416
World : Fifty Thousand Miles in Fifty Minutes, 72
World: Distribution of United Thank Offering, 620
McKim, Rev. R. H., D.D., death of (edi- torial) 486
McNulty, Deaconess — My Two Families (illus.) 189
Mexico, missionary district of :
Dr. Macy joins staff (editorial) 484 “Success,” Macy (illus.) 511 Tenth Convocation, Aves (illus.) 427 Tenth Convocation, Gray (illus.) 430 Visit of Dr. Gray (editorial) 413 Milton, Rev. W. H., D.D., portrait, 387 Mize, Bishop-elect, portrait and sketch, 792 Morgan, J. B. — Vacation Trip in Ainu Land (illus.) 295
Morris, Rev. J. W., D.D. — Beginning a Theological Seminary (illus.) 579 Morris, Bishop — An Unprecedented Oppor- tunity (illus.) 359 Morris, Bishop :
Editorial, 133 Portrait, 130 Mosher, Bishop :
Consecration, 377 Editorials, 206, 276
Group at Consecration, opposite p. 345 Moulton, Bishop :
Consecration, 386 Editorial, 350
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Napper, Sara — A Land of Promise (illus.) 659
Nation-Wide Campaign:
Nation-Wide Campaign, Franklin, 185 Mission, not a Movement, Needed, Free- man, 672
Reasons for N. W. C., Gailor, 347 Statement to the Church, 724 See also Departments.
Nebraska, diocese of :
Letter from Rev. W. M. Puree (illus.) 329
Negroes :
Atlanta:
Ham and Bacon (Fort Valley School) 721
Georgia:
Training in Christian Citizenship (St. Athanasius’ School, Brunswick) 441 North Carolina:
Easter at St. Augustine’s, 231 Hunter, Mrs. A. B., resignation, 44 The Joy of Service (St. Augustine’s) 633-
Southern Virginia:
Russell, Mrs. J. S., death of, 526 St. Paul’s School closes thirty-second year, 448 Texas:
Letter from Archdeacon Walker, 259
New Mexico, missionary district of : Acknowledgment of gifts, 54 Is It Worth While? Peters (illus.) 641 Newbery, Alfred — The Racial Rut (illus.) 313
Newbold, A. E., death of (editorial) 414
News and Notes : 51, 119, 183, 251, 327, 392, 448, 526, 595, 668, 793 Noe, Susie P. — The Church in a Cotton Mill Community (illus.) 651
North Carolina, diocese of :
Easter at St. Augustine’s, Goold (illus.) 231
In the Southern Piedmont, Andrews (illus.) 309
Resignation of Mrs. Hunter (illus.) 44 The Joy of Service, G lent on (illus.) 633
North Dakota, missionary district of : Things I Find to Do, Elliott (illus.) 535
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Oicimani Hanska Kin (The Fifty Years’ Trail) (illus.) 662
Our Cover and a Bit of History (Alms „ Basin) 621
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Overs, Bishop •
Consecration, 52 Editorial, 133 Eirst visit to Liberia, 526 Portrait, 130
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Page, Bishop — The Busy Missionary (illus.) 489
Panama, missionary district of :
Bishop Morris (editorial) 133 Bishop Morris, portrait, 130 Consecration of Bishop Morris, Gray (illus.) 169
Great Step Forward (editorial) 349 In the Panama Canal Zone, Carson (illus.) 645
Map of Panama and Parts Adjacent, 168 Unprecedented Opportunity, Morris (illus.) 359
Week’s Impressions of the Panama Mis- sion, Werlein (illus.) 29
Peters, M. C. — Is It Worth While? (illus.) 641
Philippines, missionary district of :
Among Igorots in the Philippines, Rout- ledge (illus.) 629
Consecration of Bishop Mosher (edi- torials) 206, 276 Diocesan Chronicle (note) 794 Exchange for Filipino work (note) 597 Letter from the Philippines, Bartter (illus.) 806
Phillips, Rev. R. T. — Palm Sunday at La Grange (illus.) 353
Porterfield, Margaret H. — Opium Burning at Shanghai (illus.) 241
Porterfield, W. M. — Cooper Memorial Gym- nasium (illus.) 575
Porto RicO, missionary district of :
Easter in San Juan, Woodruff (illus.) 227
Letter from Mrs. Droste, 180 The Church at Mayaguez, Woodruff (illus.) 227
Pott, Rev. F. L. H., D.D. — Death of Rev. H. N. Woo (illus.) 171
Presiding Bishop and Council:
Editorial, 131
First meeting in Washington (picture) 42 Meetings, 45, 119, 175, 387, 723
Prevost, Rev. J. L.— Rural School Creates Community Spirit, 737
Progress of the Kingdom :
A laska :
Big Alaska and Modest Rcwe, 683 Boy Scouts, 134
Message from Bishop Rcwe, 755 Salmon Shortage on Yukon, 277, 322, 351, 548
Progress of the Kingdom (Con.)
Stuck, Archdeacon, his death, 684 ' Tragedy in the Arctic (death of Mi Hoare) 350 An king :
Kuling School, 351 A tlanta :
Cyclone at La Grange, 350 Dominican Republic:
Our Responsibility, 483 Hankow :
Changdeh, need for buildings, 133 Honolulu:
Iolani, need for new school, 350 Japan:
A Friend of the Ainu, 278 Kansas:
Boys’ Convention Camp, 550 Liberia:
Bishop Overs, 133 Great Opportunity, 547
Mexico :
Dr. Macy joins staff, 484 Visit of Dr. Gray, 413 Panama:
Bishop Morris, 133 Great Step Forward, 349 Philippines :
Bishop Mosher, 206, 276 Shanghai:
Boy Scouts, 134 Cooper Memorial, 550 Woo, Rev. H. N., death of, 134 Yangchow, need for church, 133 Southern Brasil:
Return of Dr. Morris, 486 Spokane :
“Busy Missionaries”, 485 Tokyo:
Red Letter Day, Hirosaki, 486 St. Luke’s Hospital, 685 Utah :
Bishop Moulton, 350 Opportunities 'in Utah, 686 Western Nebraska:
Gift to Kearney Academy, 278 General:
Bishop Gailor and the Lambeth Confer enee, 483
Davies, Julian T., his death, 349 Easter: He Is Risen, 204 Foreign-Born Americans, 205, 206 Gailor, Bishop, editorials by:
Easter Greeting, 203 Lambeth Conference, 411 Message, 67
Nation-Wide Campaign, 347 Need for Recruits, 275 New Year’s Greeting, 3 Goodwin, Deaconess, resignation, 414 Good Tidings (Christmas) 756 Hicks, Rev. W. C., death of, 278 Lenten Offering, 67, 68, 69, 131, 207
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Progress of the Kingdom (Con.)
Lloyd, Bishop :
Farewell Message, 5 Note on, 132
McKim, Rev. Dr., death of, 486 Newbold, A. E., death of, 414 Presiding Bishop and Council, 131 Spirit of Missions :
Should increase circulation, 413 United Thank Offering Number, 485, 549, 686
Summer Conferences, 485, 550 United Thank Offering, 619 Welcome to Departments, 413 White, Rev. F. S., resignation, 134 Wood, J. W., D. C. L., election, 68
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Ramsaur, Rev. W. H. — Am I My Brother’s Keeper? (illus.) 323
Ramsaur, Rev. W. H. — Call of a Great Op- portunity (illus.) 553
Randall, Rev. E. J. — Racine Conference, 519 Randall, George H. — Brotherhood Conven- tion and the Church’s Mission, 728 Red Letter Day in Hirosaki (illus.) 509 Remington, Bishop — -Pictures of the Nio- brara Convocation (illus.) 37 Remington, Bishop — The Man Plus the Plan (illus.) 417
Roberts, Rev. John — Easter Among the Sho- shones (illus.) 221
Routledge, Deaconess — Among Igorots in the Philippines (illus.) 629 Rowe, Bishop See Alaska.
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Sacramento, diocese of :
Christmas Among the Karoc Indians, Baker (illus.) 653
Sabine, Deaconess — The Passing of the Medicine Man (illus.) 653
Salina, missionary district of :
Bishop-elect Mize, portrait and sketch, 792
Sanctuary of Missions: 9, 70 (illus.), 135, 208, 279, 352, 415, 487, 551, 624, 687, 757 (illus.)
St. John, Alice C. — Now Is the Time, 715
Schmidt, Victoria C. — The Woman’s Aux- iliary of Brazil (illus.) 805
Schools and Colleges :
Asheville :
Calamity at Christ School, Arden, 119 China:
Cooper Memorial Gymnasium (St. John’s, Shanghai) 575
Ruling School, 381
Student Life at Boone University, Wuchang, 281
Schools and Colleges (Con.)
Honolulu:
Iolani School, 357 Japan:
Consecration of All Saints’ Chapel (St. Paul’s, Tokyo) 591 New School Year at St. Agnes’s, Kyoto, 597
Southern Brazil:
Beginning a Theological Seminary, 579 See also Negroes.
Shanghai, missionary district of :
Nanking :
Epiphany at St. Paul’s, Gill (illus.) 25 Hopeful Happenings at Nanking, Gill (illus.) 247 Shanghai •
Boy Scouts (editorial) 134 Consecration of Bishop Mosher, Hunt- ington (illus.) 377
Consecration of Bishop Mosher, pic- ture, opposite p. 345 Cooper Memorial Gymnasium, Porter- field (illus.) 575
Cooper Memorial Gymnasium (edito- rial) 550
Opium Burning at Shanghai, M. H.
Porterfield (illus.) 241 Three Bottles, Lincoln (illus.) 439 Yangchoz v:
How the New Church Fund Grew, Ancell and Kno (illus.) 145 Need for New Church (editorial) 133 General:
Woo, Rev. H. N., Pott (illus.) 171 Woo, Rev. H. N., death of (editorial) 134
Sherman, Rev. A. M. — Christmas in Wu- chang (illus.) 759
Sherman, Mrs. R. A. — Plea for Industrial Schools in Liberia (illus.) 27
Sister Edith Constance — Sojourn in the Gate of the Dragon (illus.) 261
Smith, Rev. P. S. — A Virgin Island Christ- mas (illus.) 767
South Carolina, diocese of :
The Church in a Cotton Mill Community, Noe (illus.) 651
South Dakota, missionary district of : Letter from Rev. Delber Clark, 179 Map of South Dakota, 416 Oicimani Hanska Kin (The Fifty Years’ Trail) (illus.) 662
Pictures of the Niobrara Convocation, Remington (illus.) 37 South Dakota Deanery Meeting, Hudson (illus.) 608
The Man Plus the Plan (editorial) 412 The Man Plus the Plan, Remington (illus.) 417
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Southern Brazil, missionary district of : Pelotas:
Twenty-second Council (note, illus.) 596
Woman’s Auxiliary of Brazil, Schmidt (illus.) 805 Porto Alegre:
Beginning a Theological Seminary, Morris (illus.) 579
Christmas in Summertime, Thomas (illus.) Ill
Return of Dr. Morris (letter) 527 Return of Dr. Morris (editorial) 486
Southern Mountaineers :
Asheville:
Calamity at Christ School, Arden, 119 Patterson School, Ledger wood (pic- ture) 112 North Carolina:
In the Southern Piedmont, 309 Virginia:
In One Corner, 571
Southern Virginia, diocese of :
Russell, Mrs. J. S., death of (note) 526 St. Paul’s School closes thirty-second year (note) 448
Spirit of Missions :
Should increase circulation (editorial) 413 United Thank Offering Number (edi- torials) 485, 549, 686 United Thank Offering Number (note) 668
Spokane, missionary district of :
“Busy Missionaries” (editorial) 485 The Busy Missionary, Page (illus.) 489 Steel, Archdeacon — A Trip de Luxe in Cuba (illus.) 137
Stringfellow, Rev. R. S. — Christmas in an Idaho Mission (illus.) 785 Stuck, Archdeacon:
Augustus Reginald Hoare/378 Bishop Rowe, Trail Breaker (il'lus.) 693 Letter to Editor on salmon shortage, 450 Memorial service to Archdeacon Stuck (note) 793
Minute on death adopted by Council, 689 On the Trail (picture) 692 Portrait, 688
Resolutions by St. Peter’s, Morristown, N. J. (illus.) 791 Yukon Salmon, The (illus.) 581
Summer Conferences:
Blue Ridge Missionary Conference, Hun- ter (illus.) 589
Encouraging Signs (editorials) 485, 550 Geneva, The Pastor (illus.) 521 Princeton, Hutchinson (illus.) 515 Racine, Randall, 519 Sewanee, “The Mountain” (illus.) 581 Wellesley, Kent (illus.) 517
Summer Schools Second Province, 327, 328, 393
Summer Student Conferences :
Lake Geneva (illus.) 599 Silver Bay (illus.) 599
Sunday School Mission Caravan in Canada (illus.) 729
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Tennessee, diocese of :
“The Mountain” (Sewanee) (illus.) 581
Texas, diocese of:
Letter on Negro work, Walker, 259
Thomas, Rev. W. A., Letter on winter trip, 397
Thomas, Rev. W. M. M. — Christmas in Summertime, 111
Three Missionary Bishops-elect (illus.) 792
Tokyo, missionary district of :
Hirosaki:
Red Letter Day at Hirosaki (illus.) 509 Red Letter Day at Hirosaki (editorial) 486 Tokyo:
Consecration of All Saints’ Chapel, St.
Paul’s, Welbourn (illus.) 155 Now Is the Time, St. John, 715 Purpose and Hope of Shitaya Mission, Goto (illus.) 435
St. Luke’s Hospital (editorial) 685
Tucker, Bishop, Two Definite Tasks (let- ter) 527
Tuttle, Bishop: Message to the Children of the Church, 71
Tuttle, Bishop: His Message (editorial) 67
Tyng, Rev. Walworth — “Clean-up” in the City of Perpetual Virtue (illus.) 163
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United Thank Offering: (articles on
work done by)
Alaska, 653
Cuba, 655
Hankow, 633
Honolulu, 637
Indian (New Mexico), 641
Liberia, 649
Fanama, 645
Philippines, 629
Negroes (North Carolina) 633 South Carolina, 651 Utah, 659
United Thank Offering : Our Cover and a Bit of History, 621
United Thank Offering Number (editorials) 485, 549, 686
United Thank Offering Number (note) 668
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Utah, missionary district of :
Bishop Touret relinquishes Utah (note) 184
Consecration of Bishop Moulton (edito- rial) 350
In the Uintah Basin, Hassinger (illus.) 717
Land of Promise, A, Napper (illus.) 659 Opportunities in Utah (editorial) 686 Utah’s Fifth Bishop (portrait and sketch) 386
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Vacation Camps B. of St. A. (letter, illus.) 453
Van Deerlin, Hilda — U. T. O. Workers in Honolulu (illus.) 637
Virginia, diocese of :
In One Corner, Deaconess James (illus.)
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Virgin Islands :
A Virgin Island Christmas, Smith (illus.) 767
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Walke, Rev. R. A. — Easter in Kyoto (illus.) 217
Walker, Archdeacon (letter on Negro work) 259
Ward, M. DeC. (letters) 454, 528 Welbourn, Rev. J. A. — Consecration of All Saints’ Memorial Chapel (illus.) 591 Welbourn, Rev. J. A. — The Doshikwai and St. Timothy’s Church, Tokyo (illus.) 155
Werlein, Rev. H., Jr. — A Week’s Impres- sions of the Panama Mission (illus.) 29
West Virginia, diocese of:
My Two Families, Deaconess McNulty (illus.) 189
Western Nebraska, missionary district of : First Visit to W. N., Kirkpatrick (illus.) 243
Gift to Kearney Military Academy (edi- torial) 278
Where to Write and Whom to Address, 123 White, Rev. F. S., Domestic Secretary re- signs, 134
White, Rev. F. S., installed as dean (illus.) 253
Willing, Agnes O. — A Newcomer in Li- beria (illus.) 335
Woman’s Auxiliary :
Bishop Lloyd : An Appreciation, 187 Church Service League, 58 Church Service League, Budget, 391 Church Service League, The, Clark (illus.) 331
Church Service League, Meeting National Committee, 401
Committee on Publication, 122 Executive Board, meetings, 57, 400, 739 Hart, Mary E., Memorial, 266 Jubilee of the W. A., /. C. Emery (illus.) 465
Message from Supply Secretary, 744 Minutes Triennial Meeting, 59 New Prayer, The, 673 New Secretaries, 334 Officers’ Conferences, 56, 121, 194/ 265, 338, 398, 740
Some Suggestions as to Social Service — Glenn, 741
Student Summer Conferences, 539 Summer Conference in England, Lindley (illus.) 605
United Thank Offering of 1922, 55, 619 United Thank Offering Pageant, 807
Woodruff, Iva M — Easter in San Juan (illus.) 227
Woodruff, Iva M. — The Church at Maya- guez (illus.) 379
Work Among the Foreign-Born : 173, 254, 325, 396, 452, 525, 592, 666, 627, 796. Also :
Christmas Amohg' Italians, Capozzi (illus.) 783
Easter in the Karpathians, Ledbetter (illus.) 209
“Every Man in His Own Tongue’/ (edi- torial) 206
Our Inheritance (editorial) 205
Wright, Alice, meets with accident (note) 52
Wyllie, Rev. W. — Latest News from Do- minican Republic (illus.) 493
Wyoming, missionary district of :
Easter Among the Shoshones, Roberts (illus.) 221
In Star Valley — “A Bryn Mawrter ” (illus.) 159
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Ziegler, Rev. E. P. — Cheers for Bishop Rowe (illus.) 713
Ziegler, Rev. E. P. — The Backyard Glori- fied (illus.) 11
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Spirit of missions
Vol. LXXXV JANUARY, 1920
No. 1
CONTENTS
Frontispiece: Jimmy the Bear and His Partner. 2
Editorial: The Progress op the Kingdom 3
The Nation-Wide Campaign Reverend R. Bland Mitchell 7
The Sanctuary op Missions 9
The Backyard Glorified Reverend Eustace P. Ziegler 11
Epiphany at Saint Paul's, Nanking ..Reverend J. M. B. Gill 25
A Plea for Industrial Schools in Liberia Mrs. R. A. Sherman 27
A Week's Impressions op the Panama Mission Reverend Halsey Werlein, Jr. 29
Pictures of the Niobrara Convocation Bishop Remington 37
Meeting op the Board of Missions 43
The Presiding Bishop and Council 45
Our Letter Box : Letters from the Reverend Dr. Chapman, Anvik, Alaska ; the
Reverend George Backhurst, Bemidji, Minnesota 4j
Educational Department 50
The Woman's Auxiliary 55
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JIMMY THE BEAR AND HIS PARTNER From a pen and ink drawing by the Reverend E. P. Ziegler ( See page 11)
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THE PROGRESS OF THE KINGDOM
THE SPIRIT OF MISSIONS comes to its readers with confident hope for the work of the New Year. The Christmas commemoration of Our Lord’s first Advent is also the glad recognition of His continuing Presence with His Church by the operation of the Holy Spirit.
It is the Holy Spirit Who accomplishes our Lord’s Presence and it is the Holy Spirit in our hearts Who enables us to respond to that Presence.
So the whole Church to-day is praying for an outpouring of the Spirit of Christ, that the eyes of our understanding may be enlightened and that our hearts may be kindled with glad, unselfish enthusiasm for the extension of the Kingdom of God.
THE Holy Spirit is the Lord and Giver of Life— and wherever there is life there is the working of Spirit. Now, as we know it, life is organic. It is manifested by external, visible means. It must express itself ; and so we have the order, harmony and beauty of the growing world. The first mention of the Holy Spirit in the Bible is where “the Spirit moved upon the face of the deep” and wrought order out of chaos; and “where the Spirit of the Lord is there is liberty”, because liberty means freedom restrained and protected by law.
It was by the operation of the Holy Spirit that the timid band of sorrowing disciples on the Day of Pentecost became an organized Church : for while the Church is primarily a spiritual body, yet as a living body on earth it must be organized, although the organization exists, in order to promote and increase, and not to retard or hinder, its spiritual power.
THIS is the sufficient answer to those who complain that we spend too much time in amending canons and improving the organization of the Church. If the Church is alive and possesses the indwelling Holy Spirit, it must be always increasing its efficiency for practical work. The Church is alive and is growing in usefulness and power: and therefore its organiza- tion is becoming more and more definite and effective. Heretofore we
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have been handicapped by individualism in its various forms. The parishes have too often felt themselves independent of the diocese ; and the diocese not infrequently has adopted an attitude of mere voluntary and federated union with the Church as a whole, although we know of course that this contradicts the whole genius of the Church. A bishop is not consecrated as a bishop of a particular diocese but as a bishop of the Church of God and his assignment or election to a particular diocese is only an accident. We must get closer together as brethren and fellow-workers in our Church. We must realize our solidarity and that from Maine to California, from Minnesota to Texas, we are members one of another, interested in and responsible for the conditions that obtain in the weakest diocese or mis- sionary district in the land.
Let us pray the Holy Spirit to quicken in all our people this sense of responsibility for the work of the whole Church and thus justify the Nation-Wide Campaign.
THE General Convention of 1919 in Detroit took a great step forward towards the realization of the solidarity of the Church when it decided that at least those organizations which represent what we may call extra- diocesan activities might properly be consolidated and put under one management. This is the primary meaning and import of the new Canon 60. It creates a Council of twenty-six members, sixteen elected by the Convention and eight elected severally by the Provinces, with a bishop- president, elected by the General Convention for a term of years and a treasurer elected ex-officio a member of the Council. Out of the member- ship of this Council are constituted at least five departments, viz: (1) A department of Missions and Church Extension; (2) a department of Re- ligious Education; (3) a department of Social Service; (4) a department of Finance and (5) a department of Publicity. The bishop, president of the Council, is ex-officio chairman of each of these departments. Each de- partment must prepare an annual budget to be passed on by the Finance Department and approved by the Council. The bishop, president of the Council, is the executive officer of the Council and carries out its legislation and its plans.
We have used the phrase “bishop, president of the Council”, because the title “presiding bishop” is misleading. Bishop Tuttle is still the pre- siding bishop of the Church for the discharge of all the duties of that office except those described in Canon 60. An account of the first meeting of the Council, held in Washington City, November 25, 1919, appeared in the December number of “The Spirit of Missions”.
THE Woman’s Auxiliary — which has done more to arouse the conscience of the Church to the vital importance of its missionary work than any other agency — will now, under the new organization, have a definite voice and vote in determining the missionary policy of the Church. Each de- partment will have an executive secretary and the council members of each department have the right to associate with themselves twelve additional members, some or all of whom may be women. Thus the eight women elected by the Provinces may and probably will become members of the department of Missions and Church Extension.
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THE new organization is the result of an evolution which began as far back as the General Convention of 1901, when Bishop Satterlee, with the approval of all the bishops then on the Board of Missions, introduced a canon creating a representative council of the Church to act in the interim between the meetings of the General Convention. The movement failed at that time, but Bishop Lloyd and other members of the Board have worked patiently and intelligently ever since to educate the Church to a belief in the necessity of some such arrangement.
Now that the organization has been effected it will require sacrifice on the part of those whom the Church has chosen to take the lead under the new regime ; and it is to be hoped that every member of the Church will co- operate, by earnest prayer and unselfish service, towards bringing to per- fection that which has been undertaken, we believe, by the direction of the Holy Spirit of God. T. F. G.
A FAREWELL MESSAGE
On the first editorial page of “The Spirit of Missions” for January, 1900, there appeared, under the head of “Salutatory”, a message of greeting to the bishops and other clergy and the laity of the Church from the recently-elected General Secretary of the Board in charge of the missionary work of the Church. After twenty years of service Bishop Lloyd, in presiding at the last meeting of the Board of Missions, in December, 1919, gave its members the following message, which we share with the whole Church:
WANT to say a word on my own behalf. I want to say thank you to 1 somebody. It is a day of rejoicing for the Board of Missions; the day of the consummation of the prayers of the people. Do you realize that when I came here we thought that half a million dollars was a burden the Church could not be asked to bear? Six hundred thousand dollars was the limit intrusted to the Board of Missions, and thoughtful men used to stand on this floor and say, ‘It is not right and just that we should burden the Church with increased loads/ And I remember how I used to feel, and I look back again and I see how your guiding and your own steadfastness and your own courageousness has somehow heartened the people until Detroit came, and on your recommendation, without an indication of appreciation, the General Convention authorized a budget of three and a quarter million dollars for the Board of Missions. You did it, you know, and you did it by astonishing self-forgetting. You ought to be grateful.
“The other thing you want to be grateful for is that the Church has finally found out that a headless body cannot have intelligence and it has really and indeed created an organization with intelligence and with authority to act. You don't realize it, but all these years in order to carry out your behests it has been necessary to win the favor of individuals — it has been absolutely the only single means by which the Board’s business could be carried on. The individual man had to be convinced that what the Board proposed was a thing worth doing. Any priest in any parish in America could say to me, T am not interested’. Any bishop in any diocese could say to me, T am not interested’. And yet things have gone so that as I look back I don’t believe any of us has occasion to do other than thank God for the wonders He has wrought.
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“And then to come to our personal relation. You have been very- generous, you know. Sometimes I have been perfectly certain you were going to destroy the Church in not being able to see the way of wisdom as I proposed it, and I have gone upstairs heartbroken, only to thank you later for not yielding to my point of view because you had had more of that thing called common sense than I had on that particular occasion. You have saved me a good many times from doing what would have been hard to correct, even while you have tried my soul by being so slow. And all the time it has been easier to bear because I have known that you had in a way a difficult person to deal with. I have not always, in spite of my in- tention, been able to make the Board understand what I was after; and many times they have had to take me on faith. This was especially the case at the beginning — I don’t know what would have become of me if it had not been for my dear old fathers, Bishop Doane and Dr. Huntington, who never hesitated to tell me the truth when they disagreed with me. In those days the Board’s generosity and patience became very apparent ; and I have rejoiced in it all these years, until the crowning act of your generosity came last fall when the desire of my heart, which had been growing for years and which I knew had to come sometime and which I wanted to have a hand in, was made possible by your doing a thing which I confess at the moment took my breath away. It was when you author- ized and made possible the Nation-Wide Campaign by ordering the treas- urer of the Board to underwrite the expense of it that you did the biggest thing, the most generous act, you have done since I have been in this office. That one thing would have mTlde me glad for all the years if I had had nothing else, because you had to do it on faith.
“The Nation-Wide Campaign brought to the General Convention what I never saw there before. For one day the Spirit of God controlled that splendid body of men. I have never seen in my life, a witness of the power of the Spirit of God in Christian men as I saw it manifested in the joint meeting of the two Houses at Detroit. It was the day that made me know the Campaign was according to the will of God, and would do what it was undertaking to do. It was made possible by your having the courage to tell us to go ahead. We cannot know now what the issue will be in dollars, but we do know what the issue of the Campaign is in the purpose for which it was created. It has proved that if the Church has a chance and is given a chance, it will do what the Christ bade it do. If anybody has held the Campaign back anywhere, I am ready to say that investigation will prove that it was the pessimism of the clergy that has hindered it. You know I am not criticizing in saying this. There is nobody in this Church who knows the burdens the clergy bear as I know them ; nobody who knows how everything they have done has been hindered and stopped by the poor flatness of the vision of men, until they could not help it. But wherever there has been a clergyman who could see beyond this day and could think in terms of the Spirit of God and not in terms of an insurance company, the thing has been demonstrated you know, so that we turn over to the Council a Church that is actually at work. There is not one diocese in the Church, I believe, to-day but is actually working, organizing the people whose business it has been to take care of the business of the King- dom of God. There is no heritage we could give to the Council comparable in value to this.”
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THE NATION-WIDE CAMPAIGN
IT is in order, paraphrasing the prophetic remark of the Reverend William A. Sunday, to exclaim with regard to the Nation-Wide Cam- paign :
“Look out ! The Episcopal Church has waked up!”
That much has been demonstrated by the returns at hand from the nation-wide canvass of December seventh — and more. They are modest at National Headquarters, conservative, inclined to err on the side of caution, refreshingly un-po- litical like, in brief, in the respect that they refuse to claim victory until the last figure from the most backward parish is in. But the simple fact is that there is every- thing in the trend — there is ample warrant in the figures already at hand to indicate that the $42,000,000 drive is over the top. The Hinden- burg line wasn’t smashed in a day ; but from the time the first line of trenches was captured, it was an ab- solute certainty that the 27th Di- vision was going through.
So with the Nation-Wide Cam- paign. Partial returns from a repre- sentative group of dioceses show that a majority of quotas have been subscribed, and many of them have been over-subscribed. The mes- sages already received encourage us to believe that we too are “going through”.
Consider these returns from the South. Norfolk sends word that the diocese of Southern Virginia has passed the $600,000 mark, with a prospect of attaining a total of $800,- 000 or even a million, when all the pledges have been counted up. In the diocese of Virginia, according to Richmond advices, 170 parishes have pledged $270,000 annually for the three-year period.
Partial reports from South Caro- lina show that of nineteen parishes heard from eighteen have met their quota and a majority of these are over-subscribed. Like reports of over-subscriptions come from the diocese of Atlanta, where the can- vass was held in a violent storm, and from the diocese of West Vir- ginia and the diocese of East Caro- lina. Kentucky is running close to its $86,000 quota.
So far only meagre returns have been received from New England and the Eastern States, though re- ports are at hand indicating that Philadelphia — the diocese of Penn- sylvania, and the only report as yet received from a metropolitan centre — will send in a total of $3,000,000 or double the quota assigned to it. In a single Philadelphia church $104,000 was subscribed. Another reports two subscriptions totalling $22,000 a year. The diocese of Beth- lehem reports an incomplete return of $83,034. Central New York has its canvassers still at work, with re- turns varying from thirty per cent, of quota to over-subscription.
Chicago is giving a whole week to the canvass. Scant returns at hand show all quotas met. Leaders in the diocese of Missouri wire confidence in meeting the full quota. All the parishes in the diocese of West Texas which ‘carried on’ December seventh, report their quotas over- subscribed, with the returns still coming in, since a recent storm there caused a postponement of the can- vass in many places. Far off Oregon sends returns of 25 out of 41 parishes with a total of $75,428.
The note of wide-awake enthus- iasm dominates every report sent in. Like a mighty army, the Church is on the move. Headquarters con-
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servatism is undoubtedly justified by business-like Church administra- tion. In those offices where Mr. Franklin, chairman of the executive committee of the Joint Commission on Nation-wide Campaign and Dr. Patton, the Nation-Wide Campaign director, are receiving the returns, however, quiet confidence is the hand-maiden of business-like con- servatism. It is pointed out that in many dioceses the drive has not yet been made; and in these the moral impetus of what has already been accomplished will be a powerful in- centive for those forces still held in reserve to go over the top with a rush. So also is it true that in many dioceses, returns are being made slowly. What is especially signif- icant, is that wherever the completed returns are in hand, the result is up to expectations and beyond.
The Hindenburg Line wasn’t smashed in a day ; but when the last battalion of the A. E. F. reported after that drive had ended, all that was left of the drive was an unpleas- ant memory.
Especially cheering to the man- agers of the Nation-Wide Campaign in connection with the returns are the human incidents which illustrate the manner in which the individual has been reached by the campaign. In one Southern parish, for instance, a house and farm have been con- tributed to be used as a home for homeless girls. In the same parish a Negro church has established a home for the care of old women.
It is interesting to note, also, that Mr. Lewis B. Franklin, chairman of the executive committee of the Na- tion-Wide Campaign carried his own “precinct”. Saint George’s Church, Flushing, Long Island, in which Mr. Franklin worships, increased its pledges over last year by 394, pledged $7,235 for parish support as against $2,400 last year, and $6,159
for missions as against $1,800 last year.
Discussing the results of the can- vass to date, Mr. Franklin says:
“We know that there are many places where the campaign was not conducted with enthusiasm and thoroughness, and of course no such results as those now coming in may be looked for in these quarters. These first reports show what the Church is capable of doing. They seem to be setting a standard by which the whole Church will be measured in this, its greatest effort. They are the forces which will impel those units which have not suc- ceeded, to build their records up, in the months to come, to a higher plane of achievement.”
The Reverend Dr. Robert W. Pat- ton, national director of the Cam- paign, said :
“Naturally we have heard thus far from only a few dioceses and com- munities. These reports come from those units of the Church which made most efficient preparation for the Campaign. Every report thus far received, and there have been a considerable number for so short a time, shows either a quota sub- scribed or over-subscribed. But it is to be anticipated that reports from a large part of the Church will be delayed several weeks at least.”
Most important of all the develop- ments since “Mobilization Day”, and regarded as more significant than any of the results of the canvass in assuring ultimate success for the Campaign, was the action of the Presiding Bishop and Council at its New York meeting on December eleventh in making the Nation-Wide Campaign one of the six depart- ments of this forward-facing body. With this final consolidation of all the forces, Churchmen feel that last- ing success is now assured.
“The Episcopal Church has waked
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For the twenty years of devoted service of Thy servant Arthur Selden Lloyd. (Pages 5 and 43.)
For the new year of opportunity and responsibility opening before The Spirit of Missions, and we pray Thee that it may be guided by Thy Spirit in this its eighty-fifth year of service.
For the widespread interest in and work for the Nation-Wide Campaign. (Page 7.)
For Panama and the opportunity of greater service in Thy Name. (Page 29.)
For the faithful devotion of the Indians of South Dakota. (Page 37.)
For the sixteen years’ work on the part of the Board of Missions in guiding the general missionary work of the Church. (Pages 5 and 43.)
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To grant Thy blessing upon our work in the new year.
That the Presiding Bishop and Council may be given wisdom to carry the great responsibility which has been placed upon them by the Church: that the Church may be loyal and faithful to Her leaders: that working together we may both perceive and know what things we ought to do and also have grace and power faithfully to fulfill the same. (Pages 3 and 45.)
To raise up those who will see opportunity for serving Thee in the out-of-the-way places, and who will answer the need for workers in the field. (Page 11.)
To guide the Wise Men of the East in their approach to Bethlehem and to inspire those who interpret the Christ to the inquirers. ( Page 25. )
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SUMMER IN ALASKA
From a 'painting by the Reverend E. P. Ziegler
SO far as working for. the King- dom is concerned I doubt whether it is possible to find any- where in the world more of the back- yard variety than here in Alaska. It’s a big backyard and on the start I remember that I felt as we all used to feel when our dad told us to clean it up. Sorting and throw- ing stuff in a pile for ten years or so, no wonder a fellow straightens up his back, stretches out his arms and looks around to see how his little part of the chore is coming along. About the time that you’re thinking of quitting, another tin can shows up, you bend down and dig it out, inspect the label if there is one, learn from it what the contents are if there are any, what grade, who the manufacturer was and to what service it was put or whether any further service can come there- from.
Why, in this backyard I have been astonished at times to find filled cans in good condition lying
unused, again I have found some half-used and thrown aside, some with the contents about to spoil, some sour, some ready to explode, many without labels and hard to decide upon and some with false labels.
It’s exciting also. I have thrown by mistake or sudden impulse a per- fectly good article into the pile, un- able to rescue it. Some rolled out by themselves and rebuked me for my lack of good judgment. Some later nourished me and even saved my life. My enthusiasm in regard to this “menial” profession is so great that I fairly tremble in my haste to reveal the many wonders which have presented themselves- while my back has been bent. I have learned more about tin cans than a cousin of mine who has made a million dollars in the business, but he is putting up the product while I am putting the waste to practical use, redeeming apparently hopeless material and myself.
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The Backyard Glorified
This introduction is parabolic. The backyard is my mission, the tin cans are mostly men, some women. I love them, they are a passion with me, they develop me, why not ? They have converted me from a heartless and brutal scavenger to a sensitive, sympathetic artist, patient, with a desire to be just and chari- table.
For the enlightenment of those who are interested or who may be considering entering this field of en- deavour I shall relate a few of the thrills which I have experienced, wdth a hope that they may be of sufficient inducement, to some man or woman to take up a rake and make his or her way to the yard. Do you know what a big yard it is? It comprises the deeply-indented coast, the vast interior, the remote Arctic regions. We are showing you pic- tures of all these. Take your choice.
A mining camp of five or six hun- dred at the other end, two hundred miles away, the richest of its kind in the world — copper. We’ll go up there, preach to ’em and at ’em. We’ll not argue with them now, we’ll tell ’em, inform ’em. We’ll argue afterwards. We’ll tell ’em the human race has been praying for thousands of years just as we breathe because there is air, just as we hunger because there is food, etc. After the service we’ll go up to the staff house and we’ll have that “argument” all right. We’re not arguing with a lot of ignoramuses either, they’re college-bred men, mining and civil engineers. It’s great. How often do you get a chance like this?
Next we’ll go down to one of the bunk houses, smoke some rank to- bacco and remark incidentally that it’s unfortunate that the Episcopal Church is composed of such cultured people, and after we have been talk- ing with them and reminiscing over the past few years with some of the
ON THE TRAIL
old timers with whom we have been on the trail, someone will say, “Well, next time I’m going to church, too”, and you can say, “Well, maybe we’ll not let you in.” Then we’ll all laugh. But he’ll be there next time.
Men do not talk about their salva- tion or mothers ; these topics are too sacred on short acquaintance.
, But they let you bury their dead, baptize their children ; they like your church, the Red Dragon and you. (They gave us twenty-five hundred dollars toward our completed new church.) These men work under- ground— they are laborers, and are vitally interested in what the Church has to do with those “who labor and are heavy laden”. How often has your parson had a chance or taken a chance to tell them what the Church thinks about it and them? If you’re lacking in brains or a tongue, they’ll give you credit for your nerve. Here’s your chance.
There’s a little town just five miles below. We’ll make it tonight down the trail in a dog team. How still it is from up here. A mist hangs over it and the gasoline lights are blink- ing through the trees, and the smoke . from the stovepipes in cabins and tents is going straight up. It’s very cold. Then we hear phonographs and are in town. We go to the hotel and a 'couple of drunks are in the next
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JUNEAU, THE CAPITAL OF ALASKA, WITH DOUGLAS ISLAND ACROSS THE CHANNEL
THE WHARF AT CORDOVA From a pen and ink drawing by the Reverend E. P. Ziegler
room and no one can sleep, so we’ll go to Jimmy’s cabin. Jimmy apolo- gizes for the strange odor but we sleep through it. The odor is due to their having used the place for an undertaking parlor a day or two previously when “Mag the Rag” and Joe were prepared for burial. “Mag” was cut to pieces with a razor and Joe was found dead in his bunk a day later. Joe was not an accomplice, but was supposed to have been a witness in some way. “Mag” had $30,000. There isn’t much fun here, I’ll tell you. The whole town is pale and sick morally. At 30 degrees below zero the whole town went to the double funeral. There is just a suggestion here of what we talk little of.
I baptized a baby before I left town and the remembrance of the pretty, homelike interior as the mother was bathing the children from a dishpan is with me as I
write. Access to homes such as this is what permits the personal touch which is so valuable to the priest. Intercourse is, I believe, much more personal in a country like Alaska than in the more densely populated, cultivated regions. The various strata composing society are neces- sarily more often thrown together — they must experience the same pleasures, difficulties, joys, sorrows. Money, station or family cannot change temperature, climate or transportation facilities here. Gen- erally in Alaska the rich and the poor eat out of the same dish and dance to the same piper.
Our best friends: Who are they? Did you ever hear Mr. Tutt’s say- ing: “I find but very little difference between the man in jail and the one outside of it”? The man who has been most zealous for good turnouts at one of our missions on the Copper River has just sent us an appeal to
The Backyard Glorified
help him raise $1,000 to keep him out of jail. He plead guilty to boot- legging. He’s a good fellow, but he’s a bootlegger, too. No one knows what crimes you and I are guilty of. I buried a man from the church a while ago. He lived in sin with the woman he loved, raised a little, unpromising orphan, and took care of him for years with no obliga- tion upon himself to do so — just the goodness of his heart. I know an outcast woman here who supports two younger sisters and a crippled father in the States. She doesn’t like it. It is sin. There are many who do like it. I was conversing with a friend the other day who had just been convicted of larceny. He told me that the superintendent of a Sun- day-school had made a whiskey still, coil and all. Most men who make stills are not Sunday-school super- intendents and vice versa. Never- theless, he’s out of jail and the crook who was found out is in jail.
If our bishop tells the truth about Alaska some Alaskan editor will sledge him in an editorial and allude to the Church’s work as Bishop Rowe’s “game” and the bishop as head “dealer”. I have lived in Cor- dova for some time, and it’s a tough town with many fine people in it, and as for the other towns, what I have seen of them, they’re tough, too, and there are fine people in them. But we’re all of the country — friends and fellow citizens.
These anecdotes are simply pro- saic little pieces of realism which one meets with to right and left. Part of the Church’s campaign is to be in the midst of it, living it, ad- justing things for the betterment of all concerned whenever and wher- ever the opportunity presents itself. It is not the business of the preacher to preach down to the men and women who are the makers and pio- neers of the country. We are of the country and part of them. We all
have problems, they and we. I often glory (and in it is my only as- surance) that my mission is God- given, else it is presumption on my part to act as an advisor or teacher. A country like ours has much to teach- the Church when it comes to love and charity, and until we learn it our churches will be deserted so far as the workingman and those who are stigmatized as “unworthy of charity” are concerned. And Christ’s Church needs them all, the Master drew no lines, He hated sin and really loved the sinner.
How do we meet them? Every- where. In pool-halls, saloons, on the streets, on the creeks, in the camps. This is the life.
Jimmy the Bear was a most pro- fane man and a tough one, but he lost his life in a snowslide in an attempt to rescue a partner. There was no chance for him in a General Convention, but he died a hero.
Anyone with red blood, a love of adventure and a zeal for Christ’s Church would look upon all of this as an opportunity. What more fer- tile field? A rocky one at present and a hard one for years to come, but its fruitfulness is coming. It will be after many a missionary is dead and buried, after many of our now prosperous towns have been de- serted. This is the history of all missionary work on frontiers — planting and planting again.
For young men who believe that it takes about ten years to even get acquainted with your parish, I should say that this is a most ro- mantic, thrilling backyard, but it takes much besides a seminary to train for it. In the providence of God we are doing wonders. The longer one lives in it the greater becomes the wonder to think that the backyard is so vast. And when the thaw comes I know that another can will show up. There’s one now !
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EPIPHANY AT SAINT PAUL’S, NANKING
By the Reverend J. M. B. Gill.
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THE teaching of the Epiphany is the most valuable if it can be brought forcibly to the heart and mind of Christians, and this is in a special sense true in the case of a little congregation of Christ’s fol- lowers who are set in the midst of heathen darkness like ours here at Saint Paul’s, Nanking.
This year we determined to de- part from our usual observance of the day and try a new method. It was a wonderful success, far exceed- ing our most sanguine hopes. There was a celebration of the Holy Eucharist at eight-thirty in the morning, with sermon ; and at six in the evening a special service con- sisting of Evening Prayer and a miracle play followed by a short sermon and the Service of Lighjts.
Our beautiful Christmas decora- tions of evergreen and white were still in place and formed a perfect setting for the miracle play. The play was enacted by eleven baptized girls from the government orphan- age, and represented the Christian virtues of Peace, Joy, Mercy, Truth and Love as spreading the Light of Christ under the leadership of Gos- pel, overcoming and converting the sins of Contention, Sorrow, Cruelty, Falsehood and Hatred. Each of the white-robed virtues carried a lighted Candle, and when the black-gowned
sins, one by one, were overcome and converted, they were clothed in robes of white, given golden crowns, their candle lighted with the Light of Christ, and they were taken into the assembly of the virtues. And at the end the whole assembly were warned by Gospel that their labors were not ended, and exhorted to go forth and spread the Light of Christ’s Gospel in all the dark places of the earth. They marched out singing a recessional, “The Light of the World is Jesus”. All during this miracle play the crowded con- gregation sat in absolute silence — a very remarkable thing for a Chinese congregation to do. The miracle play was followed by a hymn and a short sermon on Christ as the Light of the World, and our Christ- ian duty to receive into our heart His light and spread it in the dark- ness of superstition and sin.
On each side of the chancel steps was a large candle, and beside them trays of small candles to be given to the congregation. We explained the two large candles as symbols of Christ’s Divine and Human na- tures, and how we should come to Him and receive light that we might transmit it to others. Then all the lights in the church were put out and the two large candles lighted by the priest. Beginning from the re$f
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benches the whole congregation passed in single file up the aisle and each one received a small candle which they lighted from the large ones and returned with their lighted candles to their seats. Then, at a sign from the priest, the whole con- gregation, as one person, raised their candles aloft and chanted the “Gloria Tibi”. After the Benediction, by the light of their candles the congre- gation sang “From Greenland’s Icy Mountains”, which in Chinese, much more fittingly than in English, ex- presses the missionary lesson.
After the service we told the people they might extinguish their candles and take them home with them. But to our glad surprise the lesson had sunk too deep into their hearts for that. They said “No, we will never put them out ourselves. We will take them home and let them burn themselves out.” And so, they went out from* the church compound into the dark streets of this heathen city bearing with them the Light of Christ. How it did move one’s heart to see those one hundred and ninety-six light-bearers — men, women and children, old and young, with hearts stirred by the teaching they had received — going out into the night ; and how truly had God’s Holy Spirit used this sim-
ple ocular demonstration of Christ’s mission to the world of men to grip their imagination and move their hearts.
To Miss Porter and myself, the only foreigners among them, there came an almost indescribable feeling of exaltation, and of thankfulness to God our Father for the blessed privi- lege of preaching His redeeming gospel to these children of His, and of beholding something of its power in their lives.
There were in the rear of the con- gregation six men from Peking, guests in a hotel just across the street from our church, who had just drifted in with the crowd, and as our Chinese priest, Mr. Chung, and I came out and stopped to speak to them, they said that they were greatly impressed by what they had just seen and heard, and asked if we would take them back into the church and allow them to have a candle and light it at the large one too. They said “We too want to receive some of this light about which we have just heard.” Of course, we gladly agreed to do as they wished and Mr. Chung took this opportunity to tell them more of the Christ, Who once again was being manifested, as at the first Epiphany, to men from the Far East.
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BOYS’ INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL AT CLAY-ASHLAND, LIBERIA
A PLEA FOR INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS IN LIBERIA
By Mrs. R. A. Sherman
We are indebted to Miss Seaman of our Liberia Mission for the opportunity of publishing the following paper, remarkable as being written by a member of the Vey tribe who was educated at the House of Bethany. It was read by the author before a meeting of the Woman's Auxiliary of Saint John’s Church, Cape Mount.
Missionaries are those, as
we all know, who are sent out to do some special work for Christ and generally as teachers and preachers in heathen lands. To be a missionary is a sacred position, for the first duty of each missionary is sacrifice. Before entering upon such a sacred duty, it is necessary for each one to first examine his or her motives to see if he or she has any that are selfish, any political ambition, or any ideas of self- aggrandizement. If these are ab- sent, then see if he or she is inspired by the pure motive to serve human- ity for its betterment and is fully determined to live a life of consecra- tion and devotion to God and of service to man.
As teachers, missionaries are ex- pected to educate and enlighten those who grope in intellectual darkness, and teach the heathen about Christ in the simple forms as set forth in the Gospels, instead of doctrines of sects. In dealing with the heathen it is necessary to make
the best impressions upon their minds, and I am of the opinion that in order to be able to fight against Mohammedanism which is spread- ing so rapidly that nearly all the heathen around us and even in our midst are adopting it as their relig- ion, the missionaries will have to desist from teaching and preaching denominational doctrines, thereby condemning one another; for such teachings are too complicated for the heathen, and only tend to con- fuse their minds, create a suspicion and distrust in our religion and drive them away. Education is first needed before they can comprehend our views and understand the dif- ferent denominations and the rea- sons which brought about the divi- sions.
I am convinced that one of the principal reasons why Christianity is not making the progress which one should expect, is because of our edu- cational system. Permit me to say that the education given to the young men and women who are sent
A Plea for Industrial Schools
from heathenism to receive the light of the Gospel from our mission schools, is not sufficient to enable them to earn a livelihood and con- sequently they are in most instances forced to go back into the interior without that thorough training which would cause their comrades to look up to them for examples. Now if I am allowed to suggest, I feel that in all missionary schools, there should be a branch or branches for industrial training whereby each boy or girl can be taught carpentry, masonry, tailoring, shoemaking, en- gineering, farming, housekeeping, sewing, bookkeeping, music, each in a professional manner. I feel and am confident that better results would accure from your efforts.
I suppose that some of us have observed the Mohammedan teach- ings. They teach their scholars medicine, horoscoping and such other sciences as enable them to earn a reasonable livelihood. So in order to convince the heathen of the supe- riority of Christianity, we must give at least equal advantages to those who adopt our religion in order to induce their heathen brothers to emulate their examples. Education upon a higher basis is in great de- mand, and it would not be amiss for missionary schools to adopt an aca- demic, or a high school or even a college course and we will soon see the mighty change for improvement which will follow.
As ambassadors, missionaries hold a responsible position because every act, and every word of an ambas- sador is weighed. A single act of his may destroy all of his usefulness as a Christian teacher. There are some missionaries who, it is sad to say, have done far greater damage by sowing seeds of discord in the minds of the heathen children than they ever dreamed of, and in a way they considered inspiring, by instill- ing into their minds that they are
superior to the governing class, and by making such a marked distinc- tion between the two, that they become enemies instead of being united, and in the end great dis- turbances grow out of their teach- ings which might not have been taken in the light in which they were intended. I say this in order that you should guard against such evils when you launch out upon actual service in the interior where there lies before you a great harvest only awaiting the reapers.
Remember when sending out mis- sionaries into the interior, that you send out proper persons ; persons who are willing to lay aside the pleasures of life and consecrate their lives to God and devote their entire service to the duties of this high office.
Let us do something for Christ. If we cannot sacrifice our lives and devote our services in foreign fields, or even around us, we can do some- thing by contributing our little mite in order to assist the work, which will also be appreciated. May the day soon dawn when this society can send out such zealous mission- aries to carry the tidings of the Gos- pel throughout our interior, as these our dear friends from across the briny ocean, who have left behind them their beloved relatives, the friends of their childhood days, their homes with all their comforts and pleasures, and have so willingly and so freely sacrificed all these to come here to do service for Christ and to educate our children.
Dear friends, do not despair, for there is no one that has left house, parents, brethren, or friends who shall not receive manifold more in this present time, and in the world to come, life everlasting.
I thank you both in behalf of my- self and supporters for this oppor- tunity of serving you and for the privilege of expressing myself.
GOING THROUGH THE CANAL
A WEEK’S IMPRESSIONS OF THE PANAMA MISSIONS
By the Reverend Halsey Werlein, Jr.
TO a man serving his second dec- ade in the ministry of the Church who in all the years has gained no experience save such as can come to the rector of parishes, the sudden call to become a mission- ary has in it certain elements of excitement. I confess to something akin to terror when upon opening a telegram I read : “Offer you tem- porary appointment Canal Zone.
If you can go, leave first steamer from New Orleans and re- port to Carson. . . . Answer by
wire quick. A. W. Knight.” I had formed set notions concerning mis- sionaries and the qualities essen-
tial to their success. In a summer's vacation in the Orient I had dropped in on several of these frontiersmen of the Kingdom to admire ever after- wards their quiet strength, their calm, subtle influence and their in- difference to the anxieties of ordi- nary flesh and blood. I felt equal to shouldering none of their prob- lems; I preached missions with greater confidence, but I was sure that I belonged in the beaten tracks at home.
I seemed, however, to read a note of urgency in Bishop Knight’s tele- gram. To “report to Carson” was a simple task in itself, but the words
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loomed before me until they as- sumed the importance of the com- mand to “carry the message to Gar- cia”. And now, eighteen days after the Western Union envelope was placed in my hand, I am seated on a high screened porch with the Ancon Hospital at my back and before me, through the waving fronds of cocoa- nut palms, the broad sweep of the Pacific. Eight of those eighteen days have been spent in the delight- ful task of being broken in by Arch- deacon Carson.
I find most of my ideas of mis- sions and of missionaries overturned. I had pictured the workers, beneath their brave exteriors, as patient and weary souls, exhausted by their in- ability to find points of attack in their missionary campaign. It is true that I had no reason to believe the Church’s representatives at Ma- nila and Shanghai and Tokyo such; but I regarded them as exceptions and continued to hold my earlier no- tion. I had visions of loneliness and gloom, so many knots of salt water from home. I could feel in antici- pation the slow atrophy of unused intellectual faculties. It has taken less than the octave of days to re- move all these illusions. Mission- ary work is nothing on earth but the old parochial work heightened, intensified, melodramatised.
The missionary does not have time to get lonely. But, apart from the demands of the work, he finds everywhere, I fancy, countrymen who have preceded him conspiring against the slightest symptoms on his part of monophobia. The doc- tor from the quarantine station in the inspection of the arriving steamer begins to put him through the customary questionnaire, but upon the instant that he learns the man before him is a clergyman of the Church cries out, “A friend !” and extends his hand. The customs officers are courteous to all honest-
appearing passengers ; they are af- fable to the missionary, taking care that he receive at once the letter of welcome from his archdeacon friend. He no sooner gets to the hotel than the archdeacon rushes from the train that has borne him across the Isth- mus to greet and take in hand the new recruit. The two then lunch — not at the impersonal hotel but at the hospitable residence of another missionary, in whose absence on va- cation the white-haired, gracious sis- ter presides as hostess. And after the newcomer is settled in the arch- deacon’s house on the Pacific and the fact of his arrival is published in the newspaper, come additional words of welcome over the ’phone from other towns of the Zone in the voices of friends made in the states many years ago. When, moreover, the missionary makes his round of calls on the governor, the general, and other dignitaries of the govern- ment, he discovers staff officers whom he has met in his travels or who have been with his brothers in the army. And all he meets share with him the fate of being far from home. To understand the warmth of Christian brotherhood one must become a missionary.
Such cheer and such fellowship he inherits, of course, from the gen- eration or more of predecesors who have lent dignity to his calling. It humbles him while it makes him rejoice in their sacrifices. It seems unfair that he should be known where they labored for recognition, that he should immediately take part in a charming social life to which they for years, perhaps, were stran- gers. But such is the missionary’s fate in the Canal Zone and in the Republic of Panama. And, al- though it 'is true that his work is only half of it foreign and the rest is performed among his own com- patriots, it probably is a fair sample of what his co-workers experience 30
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everywhere. Thanks to the conse- cration of hundreds of holy lives and to the inerrancy of the law by which the upholders of the. flag follow the bearers of the cross, it is hardly pos- sible nowadays to get so far from the Church’s centers of population as to find oneself totally banished from companionships affording at least a passable substitute for home.
The recruit is thus rescued at the very beginning from nostalgia. He cannot, however, escape bewilder- ment. He is bewildered, not by the difficulty of learning where to com- mence his campaign, but by his in- ability to understand how the short- handed staff in the field are able to accomplish so many of the tasks that clamor to be done. Two white and two Negro clergymen have car- ried through a labor in this area of five hundred square miles that would baffle the brawn and brain of as many sons of Hercules. Arch- deacon Carson alone baptizes some six hundred souls and officiates at
some two hundred burials annually, and has been keeping up under his duties for eight years. In this week just past I have not been able to pre- serve a record of half his ministra- tions. I only know that he has made the rounds of hospitals, that he has solemnized marriages and conducted funerals almost daily, that he has received numerous official callers, and that the only time to which he can claim title is from ten at night to six in the morning.
And no clergyman of the Canal Zone could fear any possibility of mental relaxation in this work. If he thinks he could, I challenge him to preach to the congregation of Saint Luke’s at Ancon. I do not want to be personal ; it is enough to say that the speaker at Saint Luke’s must face weekly many whose names are household words in the states. At Saint Luke’s we have over a hundred children in the Sunday-school, taught by a staff of trained instructors in that tho-
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roughly modern and expensive system of text books known as the “Christian Nurture” series. When the ministrant hears the volunteer choir of Saint Luke’s — it’s pride and joy — and confronts the honorables and excellencies that compose its congregation he has great difficulty in believing himself a missionary.
It is, accordingly, good for him to accompany Archdeacon Carson in some of his other multifarious activ- ity. My first duty was to preach to the leper colony at Palo Seco. Any clergyman who has read R. L. S. on Father Damien has a desire at one time or another to proclaim the gospel message to this forlorn and forsaken class. To do so, simple as it is, is to be following a little more closely in the steps of Him Who not only had compassion on the multitude but Who also visited the outcast and unclean. Archdeacon Carson has been bearing sweetness and light to these poor people for five years, during four of which he has been their sole pastor. We boarded the government launch
from the Balboa docks at seven- forty-five on the Friday morning after my arrival. I shall never for- get the freight that went with us — a pyramid of bright and shining garbage cans reflecting the glare and some of the heat of the early sun ; or our landing through the surf, when we had to watch for the oppor- tune moment and make a leap and dash for the dry shore ; or the ring- ing of the bell that heralded our arrival and announced the hour of worship. The approach to the col- ony by way of the Pacific entrance to the Canal and around a wooded headland in the long groundswell of the western ocean lost interest in our contemplation of Palo Seco it- self, rising in shaded terraces above the beach. After vesting — a cassock of Russell cord suitable for Trinity Church, San Jose, California, is at best unseasonable for the tropics, but it was all I had — we took our places in the well-appointed little chapel. Archdeacon Carson could not have realised the effect of the opening hymn upon my emotions, I
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am certain, or he would have se- lected something less overwhelming to a new missionary on a sentimen- tal journey than the stanzas begin- ning, “Pass me not, O gentle Sav- iour”. When the voices of these un- homed sufferers rose in those plain- tive notes, I was borne back through the centuries to the Judean highroad and beheld the white robes of One in His royal progress and heard the miserere of others like these before me beseeching the Great Physician to pause; and something not per- spiration mingled in the little puddle that streamed from my chin to the floor. All the afflicted joined in the refrain in accents of a joyous faith — the bass who had sung in the cathedral of the Barbadoes among them. And then I came to realize that they were singing to One Who heard, Who was not absent, Who was in some way answering their prayer. It was that knowledge that gave me heart to address them on the text, “Be strong and of a good courage ; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed : for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest”.
We stood at the door bowing and speaking to the worshippers as they returned to their quarters, and afterwards we made the round of the wards where the more advanced patients were bedridden. I have envied Archdeacon Carson his fluent Spanish on a number of occasions — such as visits to the thoroughly Panamanian hospital of Santo Tomas and to the pungent city market — but I have never envied him so much as then. Half of these lepers do not understand English.
We returned to beautiful Ancon feeling very grateful to these friendly souls. Both of us were con- scious of the tremendous, almost Gargantuan joke of the visitation: they supposed that we were minis- tering to them!
Since this is a sentimental jour- ney, I must not omit my first im- pressions of Saint Paul’s, Panama, which, as many of my readers know, is a large concrete structure devoted to West Indian Negroes. Three flags hang side by side from the heavy wide beams of its nave, the British, the American, and the Pan- amanian. The congregation is or- ganised very much as an American parish, but its communicants are different from American Negroes. They are better educated, for one thing : the enthusiasm American
Negroes feel for revivals, for noise and excitement, they give undemon- stratively but loyally to the Church. I was surprised to find the church nearly full a half-hour before the time of service and quite full, with groups also looking through the windows, when we marched in sing- ing the processional. I have never heard such singing as that rising from the throats of nearly a thou- sand Negroes that Sunday night. As I faced them from the east wall of the sanctuary, first I felt a sort of spinal thrill that seized later on my heartstrings; then my eyes be- came blurred, and I lost the sense of all reality, at least of workaday reality. I seemed no longer within the confines of wood and stone, for here, surely, was a great white throne. I gazed down upon the masses of dusky faces, and they ap- peared to reflect the radiance; they were the choristers of the mighty throne room ; they were angels, yel- low angels and brown angels and black angels; the shining objects waving before me in time with the music ceased to be fans, but were wings, gauzy, diaphanous, celestially bright.
The pale blue of the Pacific be- yond the red and brown rooftops of Panama City and the shimmer and rustle of the palm fronds make me realize once more that I am on
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the earth — in a very lovely and be- witching nook of it. I am convinced that here the Church has a sublime opportunity, which, I fear, She has ignored too dismally in the past. Here at Ancon we worship in Saint Luke’s Chapel ; our right to do so lies in- Archdeacon Carson’s tenure of the hospital chaplaincy. Al- though the chapel seats hardly more than a hundred and fifty adults, it provides the only services in the Zone for the white communi- cants of the Church. There are sub- stantial and large churches here be- longing to the Baptists, the Union- ists, and the Roman Catholics. We have some equipment for work among the West Indian Negroes; we have only, this chapel for our own people. The congregation of Saint Luke’s, despite their present handicap, are thoroughly aroused to the opportunity. Our location at Ancon is excellent ; we are central for residents of Panama City and of Balboa, while the bulk of our membership lives at Ancon almost within sight of the diminutive stee- ple. But I for one cannot suppose that the enthusiasm of the mem- bers will continue permanently in the present discouraging church plant.
If the question be asked, why can- not the communicants of Saint Luke’s build for themselves a worthy place of worship, the answer is obvious. There are hardly more than a hundred of them at present under these difficult, depressing con- ditions. Most of them, while well- to-do and generous, are salaried people ; they represent the brains rather than the fortunes of the States. They are here not for life but for a limited number of years, at the conclusion of which other Churchmen will take their place. When the appeal is made they will do their utmost.
But here, for the national Church, is an opportunity seldom equalled. The Canal Zone is a lasting Ameri- can possession. The city of Pan- ama-Ancon-Balboa will endure. And here among the intelligent, selected citizens that form our population there will always be many hunger- ing for the ministrations of the Mother Church of the English- speaking race.
What an opportunity for some large-hearted, liberal lover of Amer- ican institutions and of the Church that has created and fostered them to place here for God and for his own people a permanent memorial !
A GROUP OF THE CLERGY SERVING IN THE INDIAN FIELD OF SOUTH DAKOTA
THE ENCAMPMENT, NIOBRARA CONVOCATION, 1919
PICTURES OF THE NIOBRARA CONVOCATION
By Bishop Remington
Niobrara is a little town on
the Nebraska side of the Mis- sion, about opposite its Anglicized mate “Running Water” — an even smaller village. It was at Running Water that I took a flat-boat one spring morning, in great anxiety to cross the Missouri to Niobrara be- fore the ice came down the river. Like Nazareth, one might wonder if any good thing could come out of Niobrara, and yet that name also has been one by which and through which a great nation has been con- quered for the Christ. The great Bishop Hare was first “Bishop of Niobrara”, and today when the greatest gathering of Christian In- dians in America assembles we bear testimony to the name by calling it the “Niobrara Convocation”.
Ever since I was a boy in the Sun- day-school at Holy Trinity Church, Philadelphia, I had been hearing about this great gathering of the Dakotas from the lips of Bishop Hare, and then in my early ministry from Bishop Johnson and Bishop Biller. When called to minister to
these people as their suffragan bish- op, I kept saying to myself : “Now at last I will go to a Niobrara Convo- cation”. And I was not disappointed in my expectations. The spirits of the missionaries to the Dakotas brooded there, some of them with a living voice, and some with the manifestation of their presence in the blessed Communion of the Saints.
Wakpala, the scene of this year’s convocation, is not far from Mo- bridge — a twelve - year - old town which boasts the largest and finest hotel in South Dakota, and is a place which bids fair to become the most enterprising city in northwest- ern South Dakota. At Wakpala we have Saint Elizabeth’s school for Indian boys and girls, and it was there that the two bishops and their wives established themselves in “the palace”, a three roomed cottage with bath ; the home of Deaconess Baker during the lonely months of her consecrated labors. The water at Saint Elizabeth’s is good for bathing, beyond question,
The Niobrara Convocation
BISHOPS BURLESON AND REMINGTON
but for drinking purposes it tastes too much of the salt which loses not its savour, and the sulphur which dies not. As we drove up to the high plateau upon which the school buildings stand in an orderly row, we looked across the valley and there on another high plateau was the circle of tents of our Dakotas. They had sprung up like mush- rooms and they would fade away as quickly, but now at a distance of about a mile as the crow flies one could see the busy preparations ; wagons filled with all the parapher- nalia of the camp, with men, women and children crowded in and faith- ful Sunka, the dog, trailing along behind; “Fords” and automobiles honking their way between guy ropes ; Indians everywhere on ponies carrying messages. In the center was the big booth made in truly cruciform shape, fashioned as Moses must have fashioned the first taber- nacle— out of trees, with branches for a roof — a shelter from the sun, though not from rain in this land
of nearly perpetual sunshine. Near- by was the women’s tent, where the women congregated, squatting on the ground according to their cus- tom.
Let me say at the very beginning that I have never heard any group of people stand on their feet and talk with as little self-consciousness, and with greater powers of natural ora- tory and graceful gesture. The men particularly are excellent actors, so that with the most meagre knowl- edge of their tongue, I could often sense their meaning by their sign language. The women speak with- out gesture.
This is an impressionistic picture I am trying to give. I am not go- ing to report the minutes of the meetings, nor even the good things that were said. I want you to catch the high lights and the shadows, and envisage the atmosphere of the meet- ings. If I were making titles to chapters they would read something like this : I. “How a Wise Bishop Leads his Flock”, II. “Soldiers of the Country and Soldiers of the Cross”, III. “How Blind Siopa Found the Light”, IV. “Tipi Sapa’s Reward”, V. “An Offering of Men”, VI. “Gloria in Excelsis”. Let me go on then with my chapters and help you to see the rough painting I am making.
I.
Bishop Burleson, our wise and great leader among the Dakotas, is one well qualified for the task the Church has set him. If I had not loved and trusted him before, this convocation would have determined my convictions. He came with no small knowledge of Indian charac- ter and customs, and in the three years he has been laboring among the Dakotas, he has shown untiring energy, great patience and wise leadership. He moves forward slowly, with all the facts in hand ;
PREPARING THE FEAST
he plans largely, and above all he has the happy gift of expressing himself in terms understood of his people. His very presence is evi- dence of cheerful faith and calm, impartial judgment. As the sun- light drifted through the boughs of the booth, with his greying hair and tanned straight features, robed in the scarlet which the Indians love, he made a picture not to be forgot- ten, as he pleaded with his Dakotas to stand for the high ideals of their Christian teaching and heritage. Among other wise things the bishop has done is the course he has pur- sued with the missionaries of long service in the field. He has sought their counsel and advice in many matters and where possible has put the responsibilities upon their shoulders. Dr. Ashley, archdeacon in the Indian field, is a tower of strength. With his experience of over forty years in this field, and his intimate knowledge of the language
and history of the Dakotas, he is invaluable. He too is an unforget- able figure in any Niobrara convo- cation. He illumines every discus- sion with quaint humor, and straightens out many difficulties with his keen insight and fair- minded dealing.
II.
There have been many “home comings” of the soldiers on the res- ervations, and some I fear which have done more harm than good, for the revival of pagan dances and feasts have not lent themselves to Christian self-respect. The service of thanksgiving for the return of our Indian soldiers at convocation was therefore both an object lesson and an inspiration. Having been a chap- lain in the war, I was given charge of this service. Can you see some twenty Dakotas in the uniform of their country receiving a charge from their Bishop “Akicita” (soldier) to lift high the standard of the Cross 39
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“TIPI SAPA”
and to be as faithful under that banner as they were under the Stars and Stripes. Over two hundred dol- lars was given at this service as a thank-offering by the parents of these boys. One woman came with three dollars in her hand. Three boys she had, one still abroad, an- other in this country, and another in that other country where all faith- ful soldiers of Christ come at last. No one can know the blessedness of giving until he has been to a Nio- brara Convocation.
III.
“How Blind Siopa Found the Light” should be a chapter of real interest had I space to dwell upon it. Samuel Simley (Siopa) was a faithful helper under Bishop Hare. He is seventy-three years old and totally blind. Some one found out that he was in need, and so it was decided to give him a “handshake” — that means “passing the hat’' in the Indian language. In no time twenty-six dollars was put into his
trembling hands, a sum which would keep him three months with the little he already has. He was led in holding on to a stick, with his hands encased in white cotton work- ing gloves. He stood before us trembling with excitement. I could not forbear telling them the story of the two Scotchmen in the Great War. A shell blinded one and wounded the other severely in the legs. One said, “I cannot walk”, and the other, “I cannot see”, so the legless man got on the back of the blind and was eyes for him as he carried his comrade back of the lines. By a ”handshake” his comrades be- came eyes to Siopa, and his legs went on their way rejoicing.
IV.
“Tipi Sapa” is the Dakota name for the Reverend Philip Deloria. He is the priest-in-charge of the work on Standing Rock reservation where we were holding the convocation. For thirty-six years he has been a faithful pastor and teacher to his people. The son of a medicine man and a chief of his tribe, he was con- verted in the early days by the sing- ing of a hymn “Guide me, O Thou Great Jehovah”. You should hear him sing that hymn still, with head thrown back and eyes closed, and with the fervour still of a converted man. No need to ask Tipi Sapa to be faithful to his calling. He is known and loved by every one of the Dakotas and is perhaps the out- standing figure among our Indian priests. As evidence of their love and recognition for his long ser- vice he was presented with a purse which totalled over six hundred dollars. Quite a handshake? Yes! But his reward was not monetary, and he knew it. He first turned towards the altar and thanked God for giving him the Light, and then thanked his people for their gener- osity.
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V
“An offering of men” is a chapter on recruits for the ministry. One deacon and two priests were ordain- ed, while seventeen helpers and cate- chists were set apart by a special service. It was a fitting expression of the spirit of giving. I would to God it were as easy to find recruits for the ministry in the white field ! Not many great, not many with a fine theological training, but fit in- struments were these for their spec- ial fields. The Church must ask for the best and we will get them among the Dakotas, for all honor the work of the ministry, though the salary we pay would look insig- nificant to a carpenter or a brick- layer in these days.
VI
And now we come to the climax of the convocation ; but before that I must mention a kindly and gener- ous thing the Dakotas did. Miss Francis, the first teacher at Saint Elizabeth’s School, one who was
much loved and who served long, was present. In the most graceful fashion the Dakotas gave her a “handshake” of one hundred dol- lars, in loving thankfulness for her life and service, and her spirit, still young, renewed its vigor in the lov- ing thoughts of her old friends.
The Gloria in Excelsis was the final act of presenting the offering. The women and children came with theirs in their hands to give the bishop. One woman brought it in a wonderful beaded bag which she explained belonged to their treas- urer who had died. This is their invariable custom, when the treas- urer dies her beaded bag must go to the bishop. When the checks and the dollars and the pennies were all counted it was discovered that the women had given over five thousand dollars ; the men twelve hundred, so that with thank offer- ings and “handshakes” the total ex- ceeded seven thousand dollars.
Well could we sing; “Glory to God in the highest and peace among men in whom God is well pleased”.
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INITIAL MEETING OF THE PRESIDING BISHOP AND COUNCIL, WASHINGTON, D. C., NOVEMBER 25, 1919 From left to right: Dr. Milton , Mr. Baldwin , Bishop Murray, Mr. Baker, Bishop Lines, Mr. Sibley, Bishop F. F. Reese, Mr. Mansfield, Mr. Morehouse, Dr. Mann, Bishop Oailor, Bishop Brown, Bishop Lawrence, Bishop Keator, Dr. Phillips, Mr. Wyckoff (back), Bishop T. 1. Reese (front), Mr. Bryan (back), Bishop Perry (center), Mr. Pershing (front), Dr. Stires, Dr. Freeman, Mr. Newbold, Mr. Franklin
MEETING OF THE BOARD OF MISSIONS
AT its meeting in the Church Mis- sions House on December 10, 1919, the Board of Missions said its “Nunc Dimittis”, leaving behind it an honorable record of sixteen years of faithful service. Under Canon 60 the Board of Missions ceased to ex^ ist on December 31st. This last meeting therefore was of special sig- nificance and many matters came be- fore the twenty-nine elected mem- bers who were present.
In opening the meeting the chair- man, Bishop Lloyd, made an address which will be found on page 5.
On motion of Mr. Mansfield a committee of three prepared the fol- lowing minute, which was unani- mously adopted :
Hampshire in place of Bishop R. H. Nelson of Albany, who has resigned. The Reverend Dr. G. C. Stewart of Evanston, Illinois, was elected in the place of the Reverend E. E. Cobbs of Nashville. Mr. George Gordon King was given a place among the laymen on the Board and Mr. Lewis B. Franklin was made treasurer in his stead. Only one change was made in the provinces, the Reverend Dr. R. F. Alsop being appointed from the Province of New York and New Jersey.
On the nomination of Mr. Frank- lin, Mr. Charles A. Tompkins was elected assistant treasurer and Mr. James W. Henry second assistant treasurer for the balance of the year.
For twenty years Arthur Selden Lloyd has led this Church in her mis- sionary work. Under that leadership that work has grown to proportions little contemplated at the beginning of his service. His leadership has been characterized by a spirituality and a vision, growing out of the deepest religious convictions. In all places where this Church has gone his influence has been exerted for the better and nobler things of life and for the extension of the Kingdom, because he has realized that such was God’s will, that only through the operation of that will can men be brought to Christ and that only as we can mould men’s spiritual nature and build up their character can they be made free.
Bishop Lloyd’s devotion to the Church’s Mission has been to us a per- petual inspiration. With the keenest appreciation of his long service and gratitude to God that he has been permitted to give these years to the Church and that we have been permitted to share in his leadership, we part from him now, owing to conditions which a new method and a new organiza- tion have created for conducting our missionary work, with the assurance of our highest regard and admiration and with a love and respect which years of companionship and mutual fellowship have but intensified and strengthened.
Theodore D. Bratton, Carroll M. Davis,
Burton Mansfield.
As a matter of routine, General Convention had elected a new Board, the personnel of which was almost identical with the old one. The only changes made were the election of Bishop Burch of New York in place of the late Bishop Greer and Bishop Parker of New
The Woman’s Auxiliary in De- troit nominated Miss Grace Lindley executive secretary for three years. This nominatio nthe Board con- firmed unanimously. Miss Emily C. Tillotson was elected educational secretary, and Mrs. George Biller or- ganizing escretary, of the Auxiliary.
THE REVEREND A. B. HUNTER AND MRS. HUNTER WITH THE NURSES OF SAINT AGNES’S HOSPITAL
Mr. Franklin, as treasurer of the Nation-Wide Campaign, gave a summary of the reports so far re- ceived from the field, showing how splendidly the Church has taken hold of the plan. The Board expressed its appreciation of the untiring work of all the members of the staff and especially recorded its thanks to the Reverend Dr. R. W. Pat- ton, national director, the Reverend L. G. Wood, vice-director, the Rev- erend R. Bland Mitchell, manager of the centrol office, the Reverend W. H. Milton, D.D., the Reverend R. F. Gibson, the Reverend J. I. Yellott, D.D., Mr. Lewis B. Franklin, Mr. Benjamin F. Finney and Bishop George C. Hunting, head of the Pacific Coast office. It also by unanimous vote expressed its special sense of obligation to Dr. Patton in the following resolution :
Resolved, That the Board would place on record its special sense of obligation to the Reverend R. W. Patton, D.D., who has for a decade past worked out the plans of the missionary campaign which has just been extended to the en- tire nation. It feels that it is largely due to his unflagging faith in this plan
as a means of stimulating the whole Church in all its departments, and his indefatigable efforts to bring the plan to bear upon the Church and make oth- ers see what he had already fully real- ized, that the* present national movement was brought about.
Mrs. A. B. Hunter, who for over twenty-five years has been con- nected with Saint Augustine’s School and Saint Agnes’s Hospital in Raleigh, N. C., has felt compelled to resign. The Board passed the fol- lowing resolution in recognition of this long and faithful service :
Resolved, That, in accepting the resig- nation of Mrs. A. B. Hunter as superin- tendent and treasurer of Saint Agnes’s Hospital, Raleigh, N. C., to date from November 6, 1919, the Board wishes to place on record its grateful apprecia- tion of the valuable service, involving much painstaking effort and self-sacri- fice which Mrs. Hunter has given not only to Saint Agnes’s Hospital, but to Saint Augustine’s School during her connection with them for about a quar- ter of a century.
At the request of Bishop Colmore, provision was made for an addi- tional clergyman in All Saints’ par- ish, Charlotte Amalia, on the island of Saint Thomas, V. I.
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EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
ON the day preceding the Board meeting the Executive Com- mittee met. Several appointments were made. Deaconess Josephine Peterson goes as U. T. O. worker in the diocese of Quincy. Mr. Edward Harrison King, Jr., will be an in- structor in Saint John’s University, Shanghai, and the Reverend Dr. James W. Morris, rector of Monu- mental Church, Richmond, Virginia, has accepted the position of house- master and dean of the theological school at Porto Alegre, Brazil, for three years. Dr. Morris was one of the pioneers in planting our Church in Brazil and his thorough acquaint- ance with the language and people make him a valuable acquisition.
The resignation of the Reverend A. W. Cooke, Ph.D., for twenty years a member of the Tokyo mis- sion, was accepted with regret.
Out of the 260,000 inhabitants of the Hawaiian Islands, some 110,000
are Japanese. Bishop Restarick feels that the condition calls for se- rious consideration and he has asked that a survey be made of the Jap- anese work. Dr. Joseph S. Motoda, D.D., the headmaster of Saint Paul’s College, Tokyo, is eminently fitted to do this and with the consent of Bishop McKim he is about to under- take the survey.
Bishop Thurston, who is now in charge of the united districts of Ok- lahoma and Eastern Oklahoma, re- ported that after going over the budget for 1920 carefully he felt that a reduction amounting to $6,300 might be made in the total amount without injury to the work. This suggestion was much appreciated.
The committee also expressed its appreciation of the work done by Bishops Touret, Page and Thurston, in taking charge of the vacant dis- tricts of Utah, Idaho and Eastern Oklahoma.
THE PRESIDING BISHOP AND COUNCIL
THE second meeting of the Pre- siding Bishop and Council was held at the Church Missions House, New York City, December 11, 1919. Those present were Bishop Gailor, president, Bishops Brown, Lines, and T. I. Reese; the Reverend Drs. Freeman, Mann, Milton and Stires; Messrs. Stephen Baker, William M. Baldwin, John S. Bryan, Burton Mansfield, Samuel Mather, Arthur E. Newbold, Harper Sibley, and Lewis B. Franklin, ex-officio treas- urer. Mr. Julien T. Davies was also present upon request in order to give legal advice.
The relationship between the Do- mestic and Foreign Missionary So- ciety and the Presiding Bishop and Council occupied the careful consid-
eration of the meeting, as it had already received consideration at the hands of the society itself and its counsel. Judge Davies stated there would be no legal change in the Do- mestic and Foreign Missionary So- ciety or in its Board of Directors, but that on and after January 1, 1920, the Presiding Bishop and Council would automatically become the Board of Directors of the Do- mestic and Foreign Missionary So- ciety, thereby filling the places of previous directors whose terms of office expired on that date. The Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, being a duly incorporated body under the laws of the state of New York, will continue in exist- ence as a receiving and holding or-
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ganization. It will be its functiofl to receive such funds as may be spe- cifically left to it, or such funds as may come under the control of the Presiding Bishop and Council. Alt funds therefore to be expended un- der the direction of the Presiding Bishop and Council through its de- partments of Missions and Church Extension, of Religious Education, of Christian Social Service, of Fi- nance, of Publicity, and of any other department to be created, shall be held by the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society. In this connec- tion it was made clear that any funds left to the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society might in the fu- ture, as in the past, be designated for the use of any of the departments under the control of the Presiding Bishop and Council.
Having cleared up this legal tech- nicality, the Council addressed itself to other matters. It was
Resolved , That it is the sense of the Presiding Bishop and Council that the work of the Joint Commission on the Nation-Wide Campaign properly comes within the scope of the work entrusted to the Presiding Bishop and Council by Canon 60, and be it further
Resolved, That it is the sense of the Presiding Bishop and Council that the work of the Joint Commission on the Nation-Wide Campaign be continued as a general policy of the Presiding Bishop and Council and carried out through a department to be organized for that purpose.
The object of this, resolution was to continue the inspiring and splen- did work of the Nation-Wide Cam- paign under the direction of its pres- ent managers and departments, and at the same time to affiliate this work with the Presiding Bishop and Council so that there will be no duplication of effort.
The Presiding Bishop and Council heard with great satisfaction of the continued activity and support of the Woman’s Auxiliary, which had voted to be known hereafter as “The Woman’s Auxiliary to the Presiding
Bishop and Council”, and Bishop Gailor was authorized to thank the Auxiliary.
A resolution was passed authoriz- ing the treasurer until further no- tice, to continue to pay the definite and existing obligations already in- curred by the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, the General Board of Religious Education, and the Joint Commission on Social Ser- vice. The effect of this resolution is to carry on the work uninterrupt- edly and to assure the regular pay- ment of salaries and other obliga- tions already incurred.
The following additional members of the department of Missions and Church Extension were elected : Bishops Burch of New York and Francis of Indianapolis, the Rever- end Dr. Manning of New York and Dean Davis of Saint Louis, Messrs. Julien T. Davies of New York and George Gordon King of Rhode Island, and Mrs. Loaring Clark of Tennessee.
The following were elected as ad- ditional members of the department of Social Service : Bishop Brewster of Connecticut, the Reverend Dr. Bowie of Richmond, Va., the Messrs. John M. Glenn of New York and Clinton R. Woodruff of Phila- delphia.
The following were elected as ad- ditional members of the department of Publicity: Bishop Johnson (Colo- rado), editor “The Witness”; the Reverend E. L. Goodwin, D.D., edi- tor “The Southern Churchman” ; the Reverend Beverley D. Tucker, Jr., Virginia Theological Seminary; the Reverend R. F. Gibson (Macon, Ga.), Editorial and Publicity depart- ment, Nation-Wide Campaign; the Reverend Austin Smith, editor “The Churchman” ; Mr. F. C. Morehouse, editor “The Living Church” ; Mr. William Hoster, publicity expert.
The next meeting will take place in New York, January 8, 1920.
OUR LETTER BOX
Intimate and Informal Messages from the Field
WILLING TO BE TOWED TO THEIR VILLAGES
The many friends of our veteran missionary in Alaska, the Reverend John W. Chapman, D.D., of Anvik, will be glad. to read of progress in the erection of his new dwelling, and to have this opportunity of accompanying him in a summer journey. Under date of September twelfth, Dr. Chapman writes :
THE bishop and Dr. Stuck left us on the 5th of August. On the afternoon of that day, we began tearing down the old house. It came down, literally, over our heads. Within three days we were comfort- ably settled in the temporary quar- ters that we expect to occupy until the new house is ready. In just one week from the time when the work- men began tearing down the old
house, the sills of the new house were laid and construction had be- gun. At this date, less than six weeks from the beginning of the work, the log walls of the new building are completed, the roof is within three or four hours of being completed, and the floor joists are being laid.
Beside the actual work of build- ing, the sawmill has been kept in operation during a good part of the time. Many of the neighbors, both native and white, have been desirous of getting lumber, and many rafts have been brought in, to be sawed
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MANY RAFTS HAVE BEEN BROUGHT IN
on shares. This insures much more lumber than we shall need to com- plete the building. The indications are, that we shall be able to get logs enough in this manner, to provide for another building.
The rafts brought by the natives contain more and better logs than ever before. There were three rafts of sixty fine logs each. One enter- prising young fellow wishes to bring 150 logs to be sawed on shares, as soon as the next season opens. The loss of much fish during the rainy season that we had this year, has made the natives, generally, dcsir- ious of building smoke houses, and this takes much lumber.
When I saw the building going on well, I took Isaac Fisher with me and made a visit to the Shageluk people. Many of them were living in temporary fishing camps. Some were out in the creeks that are tri- butary to the Shageluk slough, getting dry logs for steamboat fuel. Others were herding reindeer ; and a few were off. trapping. The
people who live at Hologochakat, in the upper end of the slough, were out on the Yukon, fishing, and we saw them out there.
In two or three places we found them in the midst of breaking camp after the season's fishing, and willing to be towed to their villages. The boats, filled with men, babies, dogs, blueberries and household stuff were so interesting a sight that I was glad that I had my camera and could photograph them. Nothing quite like it could be imagined.
We met most of the people. Some who were absent had left directions regarding the baptism of their chil- dren, and two children were brought down to the slough from the rein- deer camp, to be baptized.
We did not see the deer, but I am told that the herd has considerably increased during the year. I believe it now numbers about 500 deer.
I found the people everywhere desirous of schooling for their chil- dren, and for the ministrations of the Church.
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Our Letter Box
The Reverend George Backhurst went from the diocese of Albany two and a half years ago to take the position of general missionary and super- intendent of Indian Missions in the diocese of Duluth. His headquarters are at Bemidji, and although he is only able to give the church there one service on Sundays and one day of parochial work each week, he has cleared the church of over two thousand dollars’ indebtedness and installed a new organ and altar and other furniture since he has taken charge. A letter recently received from him given an account of a journey in which he accompanied Bishop Morrison on a visitation to the northern part of the diocese last August. He says:
ON account of the General Con- vention, and the Nation-Wide Campaign, Bishop Morrison would not take a vacation this year, and conse- quently the month of August was the only time he could allot for his visit to this part of the diocese.
Our first service was at Wild Race Rapids. As we came over the hill the church bell was ringing partly in welcome to the bishop and partly to call together the waiting Indians.
Again we traveled another twelve miles in the mud to Nay-tah-waush where Evening Prayer was held. Then to bed? Oh, no — another twenty-two miles back to Mahnomen so as to be ready for an early train to Ogema, from where we were to drive six miles to White Earth. After morning service in this place the bishop left us to drive thirty miles to Detroit, where he could get a train back to Duluth. Three days later we met the bishop again at Bemidji and traveled with him sixty-six miles to Mentor, where service was held. On the following morning another one hundred miles to Bena, an Indian vil- lage. We entertained hopes of getting away again at six in the evening, but found on arrival that the freight had already left for the west. However, after service a car was hired to drive us to Cass Lake, some thirty or more miles away. Just as we were starting the Indian priest whispered to the bishop that another candidate for con- firmttion, an old man, had arrived. He had come ten miles and must not be disappointed. The good bishop agreed and back we went to the little church.
On Sunday at Cass Lake in the morning and at Bemidji in the evening the bishop confirmed and preached. At noon on Monday we boarded a logging train for Redby, fifty miles north. In spite of a heavy thunder storm the church was wed filled. Then we drove six miles to the agency for another service at the little church which is appropriately named Saint John's in the Wilderness.
Our next service was at Tenstrike, where a good congregation was assem- bled. We have no church here, but a large guild room, formerly a saloon, is doing good work. Early the follow- ing day we were called to get the 5 :30 train going north. . At Northome, forty miles away, the day was spent in" visiting and holding classes and in the evening service was held in the converted Presbyterian church. The village blacksmith conducted us to the depot in time for the 9 :20 train going south. The train was late, two and a half hours, so that we arrived back at Bemidji at two o’clock in the morning and left again at half-past seven for Walker, thirty-two miles south. Here we crossed Leech Lake to Onigum. the Indian agency where service was held in Saint John’s Memorial Church. After church Miss Pauline Colby en- tertained us at lunch in her pretty little cottage near the church. Miss Colby is the veteran worker among the Indians, supported by the United Offering of the Woman’s Auxiliary.
The next Sunday found us at Pons- ford, at the Breck Memorial Church, where a good congregation of Indians were assembled and the day after we bade our genial bishop good-by.
When one travels over this field nowadays in comparative ease, in spite of late trains and poor roads and stormy lakes, and thinks of the early travels of Bishop Morrison, with no trains or automobiles, one is filled with admiration and respect for this strong man of God.
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THE EDUCATIONAL DEPARTMENT
W. C. STURGIS, PH.D., SECRETARY
I WANT to take this opportunity to make a suggestion regarding the observance of the so-called “Mis- sionary Day” in Church schools. Heretofore, the children have col- lected their offerings during Lent, and have made their presentation on or about Easter. I feel convinced that this is a mistake. The season of Lent is a time for self-examina- tion and introspection. The seasons of Advent and Epiphany, on the other hand, are times of outgoing, when our minds are centered on the coming of the King. Epiphany is peculiarly the season for giving to the King and to His cause. I won- der if it would not be advisable, therefore, to select Advent as the season during which the children collect their offerings, and the Feast of the Epiphany as the day of pres- entation ? With this in view, I have prepared two Forms of Service, one to be used on the Sunday next before Advent, and to be in the nature of a service of self-dedication, the other — a service of presentation — to be used on the Feast of the Epiphany. Of course, it is too late to put these changes into effect now. The Ser- vice of Dedication will, therefore, be issued for use on Quinquagesima Sunday, and it is suggested that the Service of Presentation be used on or about Palm Sunday. I hope, however, that the clergy and super- intendents of Church schools will consider the proposed change seri- ously, and let me have their opinion.
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In connection with our previous course on “The Missionary Aspects of the Bible”, I want to call atten- tion to a book entitled “A Lawyer’s
Study of the Bible”, by Mr. Everett P. Wheeler, a prominent lawyer of New York. It takes up, among other vital subjects, a consideration of certain disturbing elements in our social system, and applies to them the principles of the Gospel as the only solution. To anyone studying the Bible in its missionary signif- icance and as a guide for modern life, the book will be exceedingly valuable. The author has kindly presented a number of copies to the Library of the Church Missions House, so that the book can be lent to anyone interested in the bearing of Christian precepts upon the pres- ent social unrest and social progress.
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An article which had a large sale in my department at the General Convention, was the “Game of Home”, which we issued some years ago, but which has never been prop- erly advertised. It resembles the very popular game of Parchesi in general plan, but is missionary in character. It would make an ad- mirable present for a boy or a girl, as it gives an idea of the missionary field in a most attractive way. The price is fifty cents, postpaid.
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There has been a large demand for the 1920 Calendar published by the Churchwomen’s League for Patri- otic Service. Unfortunately, the supply is now exhausted, and copies can no longer be secured from this office. Small supplies were sent to various Church booksellers in differ- ent parts of the country, but we have no means of replenishing our stock, and the publication must be regarded as now out of print.
NEWS AND NOTES
TAKEN ON THE NINETIETH BIRTHDAY OF SISTER BEATRICE
THE ninetieth birthday of Sister Beatrice, who with Sister Al- bertine came from England in 1867 to found Saint Andrew’s Priory, Honolulu, was celebrated on No- vember 1, 1919, by a reception to which the mayor sent the municipal band. The two venerable sisters have never left the islands save for one brief visit to San Francisco. Their last night in England was spent at the Keble rectory. What a link with the past !
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THE fund for the erection of the first unit and auxiliary build- ings for the Church General Hospi- tal, Wuchang, is now complete. This happy result is largely due to the untiring work for the past two years of Miss Helen Littell, the sec- retary of the woman’s committee which so efficiently aided the Board in raising this fund.
THE Reverend Bertram A. War- ren, rector of Saint Paul’s Church, Walla Walla, Washington, in the district of Spokane, is plan- ning to change his method of mis- sionary teaching and giving. It has been the custom of the parish to in- clude the offerings of the Church school taken on the Sundays in Lent with the mite-box gifts. Mr. Warren believes it will be of greater educa- tional value and result in larger gifts if one Sunday or more in the six months preceding Easter is made “The Church for Others” Sunday. His plan includes reaching each member of the congregation with a copy of “The Spirit of Missions”, each month if possible, and to start the mite-boxes out by October 1st, so that an interest in missions and an opportunity to give will go hand in hand. We shall be interested to know how this plan works out.
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News and Notes
ON a clear, cold winter’s day Saint Paul’s Cathedral, Erie, Pa., was the scene of a very inspir- ing service when the Reverend Dr. Overs of the Church of the Ascen- sion, Bradford, Pa., was consecrated Bishop of Liberia on December 18, 1919. The Right Reverend Daniel S. Tuttle, D.D., presiding bishop of the Church, was the consecrator, as- sisted by Bishop Darlington of Har- risburg and Bishop Israel of Erie. The presenting bishops were Bishop Whitehead of Pittsburgh and Bishop Talbot of Bethlehem. Bishop Lloyd, the bishop-in-charge of Liberia, was to have been the preacher but he was held up in Buf- falo by one of the heaviest snow- storms on record in that part of the country, and his place was taken by Bishop Talbot.
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SINCE it has been reported that several packages sent by branches of the Woman’s Auxiliary or their friends to Saint Stephen’s Hospital, Fort Yukon, Alaska, last summer, have not been acknowl- edged, Archdeacon Stuck asks us to say that he was present when the large shipment of summer mail ar- rived and that some of it was in such bad condition that the marks show- ing the origin of the packages were torn off or obliterated by moisture so that it was impossible to identify them. It is believed that all pack- ages sent were received in one con- dition or another, and those who sent gifts and have had no acknowl- edgment are asked to accept this explanation of an unintentional neglect.
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SOME who were present at the General Convention of 1913 in New York may remember the Rev- erend F. A. K. Russell, the delegate from Liberia, whose appeal for his people made a strong impression. Word has just come to the Church Missions House that the launch in
which Mr. Russell was returning to Tobacconnee after a trip to Mon- rovia to purchase supplies for the school, was wrecked. No lives were lost but several cases containing books and other merchandise for the mission went to the bottom and Mr. Russell suffered severely in the loss of his personal effects. There was no insurance and Mr. Russell writes that he is seriously embarrassed.
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A CALL has been issued for a World Survey Conference to be held in Atlantic City, January 7-10. Representatives of nearly a hundred religious bodies are expected to be present.^ Further particulars may be had from Tyler Dennett, Inter- church World Movement, 222 Fourth Avenue, New York, N. Y.
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ONTIL a bishop is consecrated for Utah that district will re- main under the charge of Bishop Touret, whose address is now Boise, Idaho. Western Colorado is now under the care of Bishop I. P. John- son of Colorado, who may be ad- dressed at Wolfe Hall, Denver. Bishop Beecher has for the present oversight of Salina. Address in- quiries to him at Hastings, Neb.
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THOSE who enjoyed the charm- ing story of “Christmas at Ne- nana” in the December, 1919, issue of “The Spirit of Missions”, will regret to hear that the author, Miss Alice Wright, has met with a serious accident from burning. We have not received particulars as to how it occurred, but her colleague in the mission, Miss Blacknall, writing on November 14th, says: “Miss Wright is still in bed and the doctor thinks she will be here at least a month longer. The accident occurred eleven weeks ago yesterday and she cannot sit up or move her limbs yet. It does seem too bad just as she was ready to leave on her furlough!”
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FOR the first time in its history, the Sixth Form of Boone Uni- versity, Wuchang, has been divided into two sections on account of its size. There are now seventy stu- dents in the college department and 343 in the school department.
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SAINT Hilda’s School, Wuchang, is now full to its utmost ca- pacity and it has been found neces- sary to make a ruling that no chil- dren can be received below the third grade. There are twice as many girls in the Middle School as there were two years ago.
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SECRETARY of State Robert Lansing has accepted the posi- tion of chairman of the general com- mittee of the Interchurch World Movement of North America. In his letter of acceptance Secretary Lansing said : “I am highly honored by being selected to lead so great a movement and accept the position with the assurance that so far as I am able I will do my part in ad- vancing a cause which appeals to every man who seeks a new and better world, founded upon the principles of Christianity.”
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WITHIN the past year the way has been opened for work among the Kalingas and Ifugaos, two of the races in the mountains of northern Luzon in the Philippines. These are both strong, active peoples with a love of home and cleanly habits. Some of their young men have been attending the Trinidad Agricultural School at Baguio where they have come under the influence of our missionary, the Reverend C. R. Wagner, who has baptized seven- teen of them. They attend the ser- vices at our chapel in Easter School. It seems a pity that these promising young men must go back to homes where they will be deprived of the help of a Christian environment.
CHILD Labor Day will be ob- served throughout the country as follows: On January 25th in the churches, on the 26th in the schools and on Saturday the 24th in the synagogues. Much has been done to do away with this plague spot of our modern civilization, but much still remains to do. The National Child Labor Committee, 105 East 22nd Street, New York, N. Y., will be glad to send information and sug- gestions as to the possibilities of ef- fective service in the campaign against this still persistent evil.
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T HE Reverend Joseph R. Walker who has been in charge of Saint Timothy’s Mission, Columbia. S. C., for a little over a year has in that time paid off half the debt on the church, remodelled the parish house, increased the Sunday school one hundred per cent, and presented a large class for confirmation. Mr. Walker is anxious to make the mis- sion a center for welfare work in the community and to this end wishes to secure the services of a trained welfare worker. Bishop Guerry commends the enterprise to any who are interested. ,
THE executive committee of the Ponce, P. R. branch of the Home Service section of the Red Cross, of which our missionary the Reverend L. M. A. Haughwout is chairman, issues a report showing a very active year. Financial assist- ance was given to the families of soldiers in camp and to the victims of the earthquake and influenza epidemic. Besides the money given, personal letters were written, pack- ages forwarded, physicians and medicines provided, business and legal advice was given and many other offices filled, too numerous to be recorded. The nineteen rural dispensaries which were opened proved of great help in checking the iivfluenza epidemic.
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SAINT Alban’s mission, Marsh- field, Wisconsin, in the diocese of Fond du Lac, is on the honor roll of the Church. With a communicant list of seventy-four and an appor- tionment of $152, it has sent over $400 this year to the Board of Mis- sions, and in addition has pledged $100 for the work at Valle Crucis. This is really a remarkable record and we congratulate the vicar, the Reverend Henry A. Link, and his people.
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FOLLOWING the precedent set in 1860 when H. M. Edward VII of England — then Prince of Wales — visited this country, the New York Bible Society presented a copy of the Bible to his grandson, the pres- ent Prince of Wales, during his recent visit to this country. The presentation was made by Bishop Burch. The volume was bound in sealskin, the coat of arms embossed on the outside being made from the same die as that used fifty-nine years ago.
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LAST summer the Reverend Harvey Huang, our Chinese priest at Saint John’s Church, Han- kow, organized a night school which had an enrollment of 150 men — ricksha coolies, carpenters, weavers, tailors, blacksmiths, peddlers, etc. From eight to ten they were taught reading and writing, the use of the abacus, hygiene and Christian doc- trine. Each Sunday evening there was a simple service, the address be- ing given by a different member of the staff each week. A social hour followed. The experiment has been successful and it is hoped may be- come permanent.
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THE annual meeting of the Home Missions Council and of the Council of Women for Home Mis- sions will be held on January 13-15, 1920, at 156 Fifth Avenue, New
York. The two councils will unite in several joint sessions. Partic- ulars may be obtained from Alfred W. Anthony, executive secretary, at the above address.
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THE eighth International Con- vention of the Student Volun- teer Movement will be held at Des Moines, Iowa, December 31, 1919 — January 4, 1920. Delegates are ex- pected from more than one thousand institutions. These conventions are only held once in every four years and the most careful plans have been made for an exceptionally interest- ing programme. Full particulars may be obtained from the executive secretary, Wilbert B. Smith, 25 Madison Avenue, New York.
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AN ACKNOWLEDGMENT
The Reverend C. S. McClellan, Jr., who is in charge of an immense parish in that part of the state of Texas which is included in the district of New Mexico, asks us to publish the following appreciation of the help he has re- ceived :
IT has been a source of great satis- faction and encouragement to me here in my missionary work along the Mexican border to have received such generous gifts of books, Church literature, money and a missionary box from the Church Periodical Club,' the War Commission of our Church and the ladies of Christ Church in New York City.
The help of these good people has been continuous and they have in- timated by their personal corre- spondence their willingness to co- operate with me in every way to further the work of our Church here in the “Big Bend” of Texas, where in a territory of some 25,000 square miles I have nine congregations or mission stations under my personal supervision.
So generous has this aid been and so important in progressing our mis- sionary activities here that I feel that public mention of it should be given, hence this letter.
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TO THE PRESIDING BISHOP AND COUNCIL
THE UNITED THANK OFFERING OF 1922
THE contrast between the United Thank Offering for 1916 and 1919 reveals a growth in strength, sacrifice, hope, and a renewed determina- tion to help win the world for Christ. Those who were privileged to share in the beautiful presentation service in Saint Paul’s Cathedral, Detroit, on the morning of October the eighth, could not but realize that strong spirit- ual forces had been at work among the women and that these forces carried back into every diocese and missionary district would be a stimulus and inspiration during the coming three years. The fact that the United Thank Offerings given at the last three Triennials have amounted to over a million dollars helps us to see the greatness of future possibilities. The gain in 1916 of forty-seven thousand dollars and in 1919 of one hundred and thirteen thousand dollars indicates what we have every right to expect when all Churchwomen know the real meaning of “united” and “thankful”. It is a cause for gratitude that four hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars was laid on the altar in Saint Paul’s Cathedral in Detroit. A large sum of money however we may look at it, but coming as it did for the most part through comparatively small contributions, made during a period when the drain of war demands was heavy, it has an increased value, and shows with what faithfulness the United Thank Offering custodians have done their work.
From the 1919 United Thank Offering, workers in the home and foreign fields will be supported, those who can no longer continue in active service will receive care, young women will be trained for future service in the Church, while $5,000 for building purposes will go to each of the following missions: San Juan Navajo Hospital, Farmington, New Mexico, the
school at Guantanamo, Cuba, the chapel at Saint Hilda’s, Wuchang, China, and to Valle Crucis, North Carolina, for the rebuilding of Auxiliary Hall.
In 1922 we shall gather in Portland, Oregon. What will be the amount of the United Thank Offering then? Our general secretary asked in De- troit that we set our mark at a million dollars. We can easily reach this if each and every one of us will make a special effort to find Church women who are still uninterested because they have never had the purpose of the United Thank Offering put clearly before them. Any woman who learns of this offering, its history and what it has already accomplished, must find her imagination kindled by the unlimited possibilities for its future useful- ness and will long to have a part in an effort, the influence of which reaches literally to the uttermost parts of the earth.
Not alone does the offering affect the life of women, but through the life and work of the missionaries it reaches out to entire communities, bringing to men, women and children in dire need the light of the Gospel of Christ.
Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these, ye have done it unto me.
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THE NOVEMBER CONFERENCE
THE November Conference was held at the Church Missions House on the morning of the 20th. As is the custom it was preceded by the Holy Communion, Bishop Lloyd being the celebrant. Before the opening of the conference the bishop spoke to the women of the change in the work of the Auxiliary which the action of their representa- tives in Detroit had brought about. These changes as well as those re- sulting from the passing of Canon 60 mean greater opportunities and wider fields of usefulness.
But as the bishop reminded us “large opportunities bring large chances of disaster”. In all the prep- aration for properly meeting these opportunities the Church must keep its perspective and never lose sight of the reason for doing the great tasks which are summoning us.
After Bishop Lloyd’s address Miss Lindley spoke of the plans on foot for the enlarged work of the Aux- iliary. Plans as great as these need time for their completion. After the meeting of the Presiding Bishop and Council and of the Executive Board of the Woman’s Auxiliary it will be possible to make detailed sugges- tions for the new undertakings which await us.
Deaconess Goodwin spoke of the many young people who have taken part in the Nation-Wide Campaign, many of whom have acted as speak- ers and have been in other capacities most helpful. Numbers of these young people will pledge themselves to service when the canvasses are made and one of the duties before us is to provide adequate tasks for those who will offer themselves to the Church.
Miss Withers spoke of the forma- tion of the Church School Service League and of its development
which will mean so much in the re- ligious life of the children of the Church. She made a strong appeal for the support of this endeavor em- phasizing the necessity of securing and training leaders to carry on the work of the League.
MissTillotson spoke of the classes at Detroit and of the significance of the fact that so many women found it possible during those crowded days to attend them. People do want to know of the things which have to do with the work of the Church in the world and are willing to make the necessary sacrifice of time and effort. It is hoped that in the. future even more than in the past the Auxiliary will find it pos- sible to offer greater opportunities for study and training to those who desire both.
Miss Lindley then spoke of the action taken by the women at De- troit in regard to the box work which they voted should be reorgan- ized on Red Cross lines. The Aux- iliary is fortunate in having had for their guidance in this important un- dertaking the advice of Mrs. Leon- ard Wood whose service in the Red Cross during the war is well known. Through Mrs. Wood it has been possible for the Auxiliary to secure the co-operation of Mrs. Powell Clayton who has generously placed her time at the disposal of the Aux- iliary and is now making plans which will later be published in full. Mrs. Clayton was present at the con- ference and spoke. As head of the women’s work of the Chattanooga Chapter of the American Red Cross she rendered remarkable service dur- ing the war and the Auxiliary is to be congratulated upon having the benefit of her wide experience in the reorganization of so important a branch of their work.
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FIRST MEETING OF THE EXECUTIVE BOARD
IN the things accomplished in De- troit next in importance to the enlargement of the scope of the Auxiliary and the invitation sent by the Auxiliary to the other Church societies for women to help create a Church League of Service, was the creation of an Executive Board. To have a body of sixteen women repre- senting the Auxiliary and qualified to speak for the Auxiliary between Triennials, to assist the executive secretary in carrying on the business of the Auxiliary is an inspiration and encouragement.
There had been a meeting in De- troit for organization when Miss Corey was elected chairman and Miss Matthews secretary and plans were talked over informally, but the first regular meeting was held on Thursday, December eleventh. The celebration of the Holy Communion was held in Calvary Chapel and the meeting in the Church Missions House. Eleven of the elected mem- bers were present: Miss Eva D.
Corey, Miss E. R. Delafield, Mrs. M. C. Adams, Mrs. Loaring Clark, Mrs. John Ames, Miss Matthews, Miss Winston, Mrs. Pancoast, Mrs. Stevens, Miss Sturgis, Mrs. Phelps, and the honorary member, Miss Em- ery, the executive secretary and the other secretaries of the Auxiliary.
A committee was appointed to bring in resolutions expressing the sense of the Auxiliary’s great loss in Bishop Lloyd’s retirement. The first business was the consideration of by-laws presented by Miss Delafield, the chairman of the committee ap- pointed for this purpose in Detroit. It is hoped that these by-laws may be printed here later. They provide for standing committees on the United Thank Offering, on appoint- ments under that offering and on publication. An advisory committee wag also appointed to work with the
educational secretary in perfecting her plans for missionary education.
To the great regret of the other members Miss Brent found it impos- sible to accept her election as the representative of the Sixth Province and Mrs. Theopold of Minnesota was elected in her place.
Miss Delafield, speaking for the committee on appointments under the United Thank Offering reported the approval of the application of Mrs. Estelle Swann Royce for Pan- ama and of Deaconess Josephine for Quincy. An educational plan was presented by Miss Tillotson which will be printed later. The plan for “putting the box work on Red Cross lines” voted in Detroit was one of the most important mat- ters before the Board. If this was to be seriously and thoroughly done it had seemed wise to ask the help of Red Cross leaders and the execu- tive secretary asked the assistance of Mrs. Leonard Wood. Mrs. Wood was and is much interested in the plan but she could not do the details of planning herself. She asked Mrs. Powell Clayton and Mrs. Austin Baldwin to do it and to their very great kindness is due the plan pre- sented to the Executive Board by Mrs. Powell Clayton and enthusi- astically endorsed by the Board. The general method at “Headquar- ters” (the Church Missions House) will continue as established for so long a time ; the only radical change here will be that it will be the pur- chasing department for those dio- ceses which prefer to use it instead of buying their material themselves. It is proposed that the dioceses shall be “distributing centres” — not only as they have in the past in assigning boxes but now also in the distribu- tion of the finished article — that all work shall be standardized and that tfie Red Cross rooms in our parishes
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shall be used for providing the needs of the mission institutes. It is also proposed that we should copy the Red Cross in asking for a dollar from each member of the Auxiliary in order to obtain a fund for starting this plan. With an expression of deep gratitude to Mrs. Clayton she was asked to come and put the plan
in operation and it is a pleasure to announce that the box work will be under her care with Miss Underhill's able assistance.
The date for the next meeting was left to the decision of the ex- ecutive secretary in consultation with the chairman and after a long, full day the meeting adjourned.
THE CHURCH SERVICE LEAGUE
THESE resolutions were passed at a business meeting of the Woman’s Auxiliary in Detroit.
“We invite all other Women’s Church Societies to join with us in creating a Church League of Service, such a league to be a federation of women’s organizations, not in any sense a merger. That to conduct the business of this League and to prepare for its future development there shall be formed a National Council, with three representa- tives from each society, and nine others elected by the Council.
On Friday, December twelfth, representatives of the seven societies of Church women having national organization met at the Church Mis- sions House first for the celebration of the Holy Communion and then for organization. As the invitation had come from the Woman’s Aux- iliary the representatives of that or- ganization had elected Miss Mat- thews to call the meeting to order and she was elected temporary chairman and Mrs. Sterling, tem- porary secretary. Nine members at large were elected.
The name of the organization or federation was voted upon and it was decided that it should be “The Church Service League”. It is hoped that the dioceses will proceed to form their diocesan councils and the parishes theirs. These latter are to be known as “units” of the League and it was voted that each unit must undertake some work in the five fields of service — parish, community, diocese, nation, world —
to be recognized as a part of the League. Several committees were appointed : i. e., on by-laws, voca- tions, nominations, finance, etc. It was decided that the next meeting should be on January 16th and that it should be the annual meeting when permanent officers will be elected.
Perhaps it will seem to those who read this short account as though little had been done beyond prelim- inary business and, of course, such is true in the sense that all that could be done was to start the ma- chinery, but the biggest fact is the meeting itself and the hope it holds for the future of women’s work in the Church. That there is such a federation which will prevent over- lapping, which will help the differ- ent societies to know and assist each other, which will make it possible to find and undertake new work and which will present a united appeal to all Church women is one of the best and most hopeful steps forward ever taken by the women of our Church.
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THE JANUARY CONFERENCE
THE January Conference will be held on Thursday, the fifteenth, at 10:30 in the Board Room at the Church Missions House. It will be, as is usual, preceded by a celebra- tion of the Holy Communion at ten o’clock in the chapel.
MINUTES: WOMAN’S AUXILIARY TRIENNIAL MEETING
(Continued from December)
Nebraska offered the following resolution:
Whereas, That in these United States there are 4,000,000 children under legal age employed in various occupations con- trary to the laws of health and morals, therefore be it
Resolved, That 'the Woman’s Auxiliary in Convention assembled petition the Gen- eral Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church to use its influence in forming pub- lic opinion and creating laws to make uni- form laws throughout these United States to protect the children of this country. Councils to be Formed. The recommenda- tions from the Conference Committee that the National Council should take over the work formerly done by the Committee on Co-operation and that similar councils should be formed in each diocese and dis- trict after consultation with the bishop were accepted.
Literature for Blind. A resolution offered by Mrs. Clark, of Tennessee, on literature for the blind was referred to the Church Periodical Club.
United Offering Committee Report. The
report of the United Offering Committee was presented by Mrs. Wurts, of Newark, and adopted as follows:
The word “thank” was inserted into the name of the United Offering so that here^ after it is to be known as the United Thank Offering; the title of the United Thank Offering officer to be left to the pleasure of each diocese; the names of all United Thank Offering missionaries who have died dur- ing the three years to be read at the Tri- ennial Corporate Communion Service. The resolutions on the United Offering presented by the Conference Committee were passed as follows:
1. Resolved, No woman hereafter shall be supported by the United Offering who has not been suitably trained for the service to which she may be appointed, and who does not present testimonials satisfactory to the Woman’s Executive Board, as to her com- petency and fitness, accompanied by a cer- tificate of good health.
2. Resolved, That no woman who is sup- ported in whole or in part by the United Offering shall receive less than $1,000 a year, with the understanding that if her board and lodging are provided this may be reduced to $600.
3. Resolved, That the increased amount from the United Offering, 1919, which may be placed at the disposal of the Board by the Woman’s Auxiliary shall be used in the first place to increase to the amount named in Resolution 2, the salary of those workers
already supported by the United Offering, where the work of such women has demon- strated their efficiency.
Executive Board Elected. At the begin- ning of the afternoon session the report of the Nominating Committee was presented by Mrs. Adams, and after prayer, election for the Executive Board was made and the following members were elected, the first eight names being the unanimous choice of the provinces, the remaining eight the members at large:
Province I — Miss Eva D. Corey.
Province II — Miss E. R. Delafield Province III — Mrs. Marcellin Adams. Province IV — Mrs. Loaring Clark Province V — Mrs. Herman Butler Province VI — Miss Edith Brent Province VII — Mrs. John Ames Province VIII — Mrs. Louis Monteagle
Miss Matthews Southern Ohio
Miss Winston Kentucky
Mrs. Pancoast Pennsylvania
Mrs. Stevens Michigan
Miss Sturgis Massachusetts
Mrs. Phelps New Jersey
Mrs. Burleson South Dakota
Mrs. Foxley Louisiana
The election was then held for three mem- bers of the Executive Board who should rep- resent the Woman’s Auxiliary on the Na- tional Council of the Church Service League, which election resulted in the choos- ing of Miss Sturgis, Miss Delafield and Miss Matthews.
Auxiliary Prayer. The report of the Com- mittee on the Prayer for the Auxiliary was presented by Mrs. Markoe and the following prayer was adopted:
ALMIGHTY God, our Heavenly Father, bless, we pray Thee, our work for the extension of Thy kingdom, and make us so thankful for the precious gift to us of Thy beloved Son that we may pray ferv- ently, labor diligently and give liberally to make Him known to all nations as their God and Saviour. We ask this for His dear sake. Amen.
United Thank Offering Prayer. The re- port of the committee on the United Thank Offering prayer was presented by Mrs. North and the following prayer was adopted :
OLORD, our Heavenly Father, we pray Thee to send more laborers into Thy Harvest, and to grant them Thy spe- cial grace for every need. Guard and guide the workers in the field, and draw us into closer fellowship with them. Dispose the hearts of all women everywhere to give
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gladly as Thou hast given to them. Accept from grateful hearts our United Thank Of- fering of prayer and gifts and joyful ser- vice, and bless it to the coming of Thy King- dom, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Assessments. The report of the Commit- tee on Assessments was presented by Miss Matthews and was accepted as follows:
Whereas, The Special Committee on Pro- gramme, Conference and Co-operation have been put to great expense in preparing for this Triennial, and in view of the fact that we have created an Executive Committee, and as it and such special committees here- after created must have funds for their work, the following plan is recommended to furnish the necessary money:
1. The diocesan branches of the Woman’s Auxiliary shall be divided into five classes:
Class A — Those pledging $20 annually (for the next three years).
Class B — Those pledging $15 annually.
Class C — Those pledging $10 annually.
Class D — Those pledging $5 annually.
Class E — Those pledging $3 annually.
Each diocese shall settle for itself to which class it wishes to belong.
2. Your Committee recommends that the executive secretary of the Woman’s Auxil- iary be instructed to send a pledge card as soon as possible to each diocesan branch, asking it to state to which class it wishes to belong for the next three years.
Jubilee Fund. The report of the committee on the Jubilee Fund was presented by the chairman, Mrs. Monteagle, and with amendments was accepted as follows:
Whereas, The Woman’s Auxiliary has fit- tingly resolved to observe its fiftieth anni- versary and has appointed a committee to recommend the nature of the observance of this Jubilee, the committee makes the fol- lowing recommendations:
1. That there shall be created an “Emery Fund for Missionaries Home on Furlough”, to be given over to the Board of Missions, or their successors, to be for all time a trust fund, the interest of which shall be used for women missionaries on furlough in such way as the Executive Committee of the Woman’s Auxiliary or its successors shall approve.
2. It is also recommended by the com- mittee that the “Emery Fund for Mission- aries Home on Furlough” shall reach the sum of $50,000, to be completed by the date of our fiftieth anniversary, October, 1921.
3. The committee recommends that the raising of this Fund shall be left to the Executive Committee of the Woman’s Aux- iliary created at this Triennial.
The chairman reported that $3,000 had already been received for this fund and that Mrs. Markoe, of Pennsylvania, would act a.s treasurer.
Monday, October 20th.
Executive Board Organized. The general secretary reported that the Executive Board had held a meeting and organized with the election of Miss Corey, of Massachusetts, as chairman, and Miss Matthews, of South- ern Ohio, as recording secretary.
The committee on the United Thank Of- fering reported, and with amendments the three following resolutions were adopted:
I. Resolved, That the United Thank Offering of 1922 be given to the Board of Missions or any organization which has suc- ceeded, or may hereafter succeed to its func- tions, for women's work in the mission field, including the training, sending and support of women workers and the care of such workers when sick or disabled.
Provided, That one-tenth of the offering be set aside as a permanent trust fund to be invested and administered by the Board of Missions or any organization which has succeeded to its functions, the income to be applied to the support of retired United Offering workers, also
Provided, That the sum of not less than $10,000 be devoted to the erection, comple- tion or renewal of a building or buildings approved by the Board of Missions on the recommendation of the president of the Board of Missions and the Executive Board of the Woman’s Auxiliary. Also,
Resolved, That to our united gifts shall be added our united and earnest prayers that God will put it into the hearts of many faithful women to give themselves or of their substance to the work of the Master in the Mission fields.
II. Whereas, The United Thank Offering is shared in by many women not in the Auxiliary, be it
Resolved, First, that we record our pleas- ure in this fact and the fact that the Wom- an’s Auxiliary United Thank Offering treas- urers are used by other societies, and
Secondly, that in 1922 the United Thank Offering Service shall be planned for by the National Council and planned for all the women of the Church.
III. Resolved, That seats be provided for the treasurers or custodians of the United Thank Offering or their substitutes at the United Thank Offering Service in 1922. Reply to Greetings. The report of the committee on the reply to greetings from Mrs. Davidson, the Society for the Propa- gation of the Gospel and the Church Mis- sionary Society, was made by Mrs. Sious- sat, chairman, and resolutions of thanks were presented by Mrs. Henderson, of Ala- bama, chairman of the Committee on Com- plimentary Resolutions.
Adjournment. The Triennial Meeting then adjourned.
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