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CANDIDATES’  CONFERENCE,  1910 


The  Missionary  Herald 

Volume  CVI  JULY  1910  Number  7 


The  -Sixth  Annual  Conference  of  the 
American  Board  with  newly  appointed 
and  prospective  missionaries 
Br^er*1  occupied  the  week  from  May 
” 25  to  June  1.  The  company 

was  larger  than  ever  before,  and  in 
ability  and  preparation  was  felt  to 
register  high-water  mark.  Thirty-one 
names  were  on  the  list,  though  two, 
Howland  Cross,  of  Northfield,  Minn., 
and  Mrs.  Ruth  Dietz  (C.  H.)  Haas,  of 
Selinsgrove,  Pa.,  were  unable  to  be 
present.  The  names,  home  addresses, 
and,  so  far  as  determined,  the  assign- 
ments of  those  composing  the  group 
on  the  opposite  page  are  as  follows : 
1.  Dr.  0.  Houghton  Love,  Brooklyn, 
N.  Y.  2.  Dr.  Cyril  Herbert  Haas, 
Selinsgrove,  Pa.,  to  Central  Turkey. 
3.  Lawrence  Conant  Powers,  Tiskilwa, 
111.,  to  Madura,  India.  '4.  Murray 
Scott  Frame,  Wooster,  Ohio,  to  North 
China.  5.  John  Paden  Dysart,  Gran- 
ville, 111.,  to  South  Africa.  6.  Henry 
Stratton  Martin,  Brookfield  Center, 
Conn.,  to  North  China.  7.  Mrs.  Rose 
Lombard  (H.  S.)  Martin.  8.  Darwin 
Ashley  Leavitt,  Beloit,  Wis.,  to  Cen- 
tral Turkey.  9.  Frederick  Paul  Beach, 
Lexington,  Mich.,  to  Foochow,  China. 
10.  Robbins  Wolcott  Barstow,  Lee, 
Mass.,  to  Eastern  Turkey.  11.  Charles 
Henry  Holbrook,  Lynn,  Mass.,  to  West- 
ern Turkey.  12.  Leonard  Jacob  Chris- 
tian, Albany,  N.  Y.,  to  Foochow,  China. 
13.  William  Finney  Tyler,  Glaston- 
bury, Conn.,  to  Shansi,  China.  14. 
Ruth  Ethel  Mulliken,  Fremont,  Neb., 
to  South  China.  15.  Edith  Curtis, 
Oberlin,  Ohio.  16.  Grace  Elizabeth 
McConnaughey,  Benzonia,  Mich.,  to 
Shansi,  China.  17.  Ernest  Wilson 
Riggs,  to  Eastern  Turkey.  18.  Isa- 
belle Maude  Phelps,  Springfield,  Me.,  to 


North  China.  19.  Estella  Laverne  Coe, 
Oberlin,  Ohio.  20.  Gertrude  Harris, 
New  York  City,  to  Marathi,  India.  21. 
Lulu  Gertrude  Bookwalter,  Essex  Falls, 
N.  J.,  to  Ceylon.  22.  Janette  Estelle 
Miller,  Highland  Park,  Mich.,  to  West 
Central  Africa.  23.  Gertrude  Helena 
Blanchard,  Gardner,  Mass.,  to  South 
Africa.  24.  Mrs.  Gertrude  Leila  Thorpe 
(W.  F.)  Tyler.  25.  Hermon  Yale  Tyler. 
Five  others  in  attendance  upon  the 
Conference,  but  unable  to  be  included 
in  the  picture  were : Robert  Elmer 
Chandler,  New  Haven,  Conn.,  to  North 
China.  Helen  Augusta  Davis,  Danvers, 
Mass.,  to  North  China.  Irene  La  Wall 
Dornblaser,  Springfield,  Ohio,  to  China. 
Sophie  Sherman  Holt,  Duluth,  Minn., 
to  Western  Turkey.  Grace  Kellogg, 
Brookline,  Mass. 

The  usual  program  of  informal  talks 
on  missionary  life  and  conduct  occupied 
the  several  mornings  of  the 
Roui^d*** 8 week,  each  of  the  executive 
officers  addressing  the  ap- 
pointees in  matters  connected  with  his 
department,  the  young  women  receiv- 
ing special  instructions  from  represent- 
atives of  the  Woman’s  Board.  The 
afternoons  and  evenings,  as  usual,  were 
left  free  for  rest  and  recreation,  for 
individual  conferences  by  appointment, 
and  for  purchase  of  outfits  and  inspec- 
tion of  the  Board’s  offices  and  equip- 
ment. Two  notable  addresses  were 
those  by  Prof.  Edward  C.  Moore  and 
Pres.  Albert  Parker  Fitch,  one  on  the 
Intellectual  Life,  and  the  other  on  the 
Spiritual  Life  of  the  Missionary.  On 
the  closing  morning,  at  the  Mt.  Vernon 
Church,  Boston,  the  Lord’s  Supper  was 
administered  to  the  group  and  their 
friends  by  the  pastor,  Rev.  James  Rich- 

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ards.  The  Farewell  Service  was  held 
this  year  in  the  Beneficent  Church, 
Providence,  R.  I.,  where  a large  con- 
gregation from  the  churches  of  the  city 
and  vicinity  listened  to  a few  ringing 
words  of  hope  and  purpose  from  each 
of  the  appointees  and  bade  them  God- 
speed. As  in  former  years,  on  the 
Sunday  also  several  delegations  from 
the  Conference  spoke  in  some  of  the 
churches  of  Boston  and  vicinity. 

A supper  with  Prof,  and  Mrs. 
Moore  on  the  Friday  after  “ doing’ ’ 
Cambridge,  and  a luncheon  at  Mr.  H. 
A.  Wilder’s  in  Newton  after  the  morn- 
ing session  of  Monday  (Memorial  Day) 
in  Eliot  Church,  were  two  delightful 
and  memorable  events  of  a joyous 
week.  This  annual  Conference  is  more 
and  more  an  incentive  and  encourage- 
ment to  the  officers  of  the  Board,  as 
as  well  as  to  the  new  missionaries. 

While  the  appointment  to  the  several 
fields  of  these  thirty-one  gifted  and 
eager  young  people  is  an  event  full  of 
promise  and  cheer  for  the  Board’s  work, 
it  would  be  a mistake  to  suppose  that 
it  means  a substantial  enlargement  of 
the  missionary  force.  Unfortunately 
losses  occasioned  by  death  or  other 
compelled  withdrawals  are  scarcely 
made  good  by  even  this  considerable 
re-enforcement.  Any  real  increase  on 
the  field  has  yet  to  appear  from  the 
missionary  awakening  of  this  time. 


Of  those  attending  the  Conference 
this  year,  three  are  children  of  mis- 
sionaries, Mr.  Riggs,  Mr. 
Personal  item.  Chandler,  and  Miss  Davis; 

two  are  returning  to  Tur- 
key after  some  years  of  missionary  work 
there,  Mr.  Riggs  and  Miss  Holt;  four 
of  the  men  hold  fellowships  in  their 
respective  seminaries ; one  of  the  phy- 
sicians is  leaving  a responsible  and  lu- 
crative position  to  undertake  the  work 
of  a medical  missionary  at  one-third 
his  present  salary;  for  the  first  time 
the  Board  has  appointed  an  ordained 
woman,  though  Rev.  Isabelle  Phelps 
will  hardly  be  addressed  by  her  title 
on  mission  ground.  The  small  boy  in 
his  mother’s  lap  represents  the  six  chil- 


July 

dren  divided  equally  among  the  three 
families  of  this  group. 

In  anticipation  of  the  observances  by 
which  the  centenary  of  the  American 
Board  is  to  be  marked,  cer- 
of "the0 Board  tain  terms  familiarly  asso- 
ciated with  it  which  have 
often  been  remarked  upon,  naturally 
come  into  prominence.  Among  mis- 
sionary societies  our  foreign  Board  has 
a small  vocabulary  of  its  own.  The 
full  name  of  the  society  has  hardly  a 
parallel  in  the  catalogue  of  similar 
bodies.  The  American  Board  of  Com- 
missioners for  Foreign  Missions  is  a 
title  which  has  both  provoked  criticism 
for  being  cumbersome  and  won  attach- 
ment for  being  suggestive  and  stately. 
If  a choicer  name  might  have  been 
given  to  it  one  hundred  years  ago,  no 
other  is  felicitous  enough  to  have  the 
slightest  chance  of  displacing  it  now, 
with  the  historic  flavor  which  a century 
has  imparted  to  it. 

Corporate  Member  is  another  name 
to  which  the  American  Board  seems  to 
hold  a kind  of  copyright.  Other  mis- 
sionary bodies  are  corporate  in  their 
organization  and  equally  entitled  to 
call  their  members  by  that  name,  but 
somewhat  singularly,  as  if  by  some 
kind  of  unwritten  consent,  whenever 
the  term  “Corporate  Member”  is 
used,  it  is  understood  as  meaning 
membership  of  the  American  Board. 

Another  designation  of  which  the 
Board  enjoys  a sort  of  monopoly  is 
Prudential  Committee,  particularly  as 
applying  to  a body  whose  function  is 
not  so  much  critical  and  cautionary 
as  it  is  administrative  and  aggressive. 
The  article  on  page  298,  by  one  who 
has  been  long  intimate  with  the  per- 
sonnel of  this  Committee  and  in  sym- 
pathetic co-operation  with  its  members, 
has  more  than  usual  interest. 

Northfield  is  to  have  another  busy 
summer,  with  conferences  upon  vari- 
summer  ous  departments  and  phases 
Conferences  of  Christian  work  covering 

at  Northfield  near]y  tWO  months,  with 

almost  no  intermissions,  and  culmi- 


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nating  in  the  General  Conference  of 
Christian  Workers,  lasting  from  August 
4-21.  This  is  the  twenty-eighth  season 
of  such  gatherings  at  Northfield,  which 
owe  their  origin  and  very  largely  their 
inspiration  and  popularity  to  the  late 
D.  L.  Moody.  Among  the  seven  con- 
ferences announced  for  this  summer, 
two  are  distinctly  missionary,  one  home, 
the  other  foreign,  both  having  to  do 
especially  with  women’s  work.  The 
foreign  mission  conference  is  to  be  in 
the  form  of  a summer  school,  at  which 
mission  pioneers  from  the  outposts  of 
the  church  are  expected  to  give  in- 
struction. Among  the  chief  speakers 
will  be  Dr.  S.  M.  Zwemer,  of  the  Ara- 
bian Mission,  who  is  an  explorer  and 
fellow  of  the  British  Royal  Geograph- 
ical Society,  well  known  both  as  an 
author  and  an  authority  on  Moham- 
medanism. But  the  mission  interest  of 
the  Northfield  conferences  is  not  con- 
fined to  these  two.  There  is  a mission- 
ary flavor  belonging  to  them  all,  espe- 
cially to  the  General  Conference,  which 
brings  together  Christian  workers  of  so 
many  different  names  and  types  from 
all  over  the  world. 

Two  more  names  in  the  American 
Board  catalogue  of  missionaries  have 
passed  over  into  the  starred 
list.  Both  of  them  have 
been  for  many  years  iden- 
tified with  work  in  the  Turkish  empire : 
Dr.  H.  N.  Barnum,  continuously  for 
over  fifty  years  at  Harpoot  in  the  East- 
ern Turkey  Mission,  and  Miss  Corinna 
Shattuck,  for  nearly  forty  years  suc- 
cessively at  Aintab,  Adana,  Marash, 
and  Oorfa,  in  the  Central  Turkey  Mis- 
sion. Both  were  strong  personalities 
and  eminent  for  force  of  character, 
though  after  very  different  types.  Dr. 
Barnum  was  calm,  cautious,  and  thor- 
oughly judicial  in  his  make-up  and 
measures;  Miss  Shattuck  was  intense, 
adventurous,  and  intrepid.  Dr  Bar- 
num was  the  statesman  missionary, 
whose  grasp  of  situations  and  tactful 
handling  of  them  made  his  counsel 
much  valued  and  sought.  Miss  Shat- 
tuck was  of  a more  militant  mold, 


breaking  through  obstacles  and  bridg- 
ing crises  by  sheer  force  of  will.  A 
frequent  occurrence  in  Dr.  Barnum’s 
life  most  completely  characteristic  of 
it  was  when  official  measures  of  the 
Turkish  government  were  submitted 
to  his  judgment  and  made  conditional 
upon  his  decision.  The  scene  in  Miss 
Shattuck’s  history  most  truly  typical 
of  her  was  when,  single-handed,  she 
faced  an  armed  mob  of  Turks  and 
turned  back  their  murderous  assault. 
The  deaths  of  both  these  missionaries 
were  singularly  in  keeping  with  their 
lives.  Calmly  in  his  missionary  home, 
as  “beside  the  silent  sea,”  Dr.  Barnum 
‘ ‘ awaited  the  muffled  oar.”  Miss  Shat- 
tuck, consenting  at  length  to  give  up 
her  work  after  more  than  thirty  years 
of  fighting  disease,  determined  to  cross 
the  seas  and  get  home  to  New  England 
again  for  a new  lease  of  life.  In  spite 
of  remonstrance  she  began  the  voyage 
which  her  indomitable  will  sufficed  to 
bring  her  through.  Here,  amid  the 
comforts  of  hospital  and  invalid  home, 
she  entered  into  victorious  rest.  Long 
will  the  works  of  these  two  heroic 
missionaries  follow  them  in  blessing 
both  abroad  and  at  home,  as  they  rest 
from  their  labors,  one  in  the  homeland 
and  the  other  on  the  foreign  field. 

It  is  evident  that  Miss  Corinna  Shat- 
tuck, of  whose  character  and  death 
record  is  made  on  another 
M^shattuck  page-  had  no  expectation 
that  her  end  was  near 
when  she  planned  to  come  to  America. 
With  her  wonted  indomitable  courage 
she  had  believed  she  could  do  much  for 
her  beloved  work  in  Oorfa  by  present- 
ing its  interests  to  the  friends  here. 
On  her  death  her  few  remaining  rela- 
tives consented  to  the  burial  of  her 
remains  in  the  Newton  Cemetery,  where 
the  American  Board  has  a lot,  and  she 
lies  by  the  side  of  Mrs.  Dr.  S.  M. 
Schneider  and  near  the  graves  of  Dr. 
C.  H.  Wheeler,  Mrs.  0.  P.  Allen,  and 
Mrs.  W.  F.  Williams,  of  Turkey.  The 
funeral  service  was  held  Wednesday, 
May  25,  in  the  chapel  of  the  cemetery, 
which  was  filled  to  overflowing  with 


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July 


friends  from  near  and  far,  many  Ar- 
menians being-  present.  An  abundance 
of  flowers  came  from  all  quarters. 
Addresses  were  made  by  Pres.  J.  E. 
Merrill,  of  Central  Turkey  College, 
and  by  Secretary  Barton,  Secretary 
Patton  leading  the  company  in  prayer. 
A striking  and  most  impressive  feature 
of  the  service  was  the  singing  of  the 
hymn,  ‘‘Peace,  Perfect  Peace,’ ’ by  a 
quartet  made  up  from  the  secretaries 
of  the  Board,  together  with  Rev.  George 
A.  Hall,  of  the  Prudential  Committee. 

This  centennial  year  of  the  American 
Board  is  fast  being  made  monumental 
by  the  lengthening  death 
Death *Roi[,en'nK  roll  of  missionaries  who 
were  pioneers  in  its  serv- 
ice. Most  of  them,  like  Mrs.  Greene  in 
Japan,  Dr.  Barnum  and  Miss  Shattuck 
in  Turkey,  have  been  under  commission 
of  the  Board  continuously  from  the  be- 
ginning to  the  end  of  their  missionary 
life.  Others,  like  Dr.  Post,  of  Syria,  be- 
gan work  with  the  American  Board  and 
afterward  continued  their  missionary 
service  in  another  denominational  con- 
nection. Another  of  these  who  has 
recently  died  is  Dr.  Henry  H.  Jessup, 
the  eminent  colleague  of  Dr.  Post  in  the 
Syrian  Mission. 

He  was  commissioned  to  that  field  by 
the  American  Board  in  1856.  For  the 
first  six  years  he  was  stationed  at  Trip- 
oli ; then  he  removed  to  Beirut,  where 
he  was  in  continuous  service  until  his 
death.  It  was  a great  acquisition  for 
the  Presbyterian  Board  when  the  trans- 
fer of  that  mission  carried  Dr.  Jessup 
with  it,  for  he  was  a missionary  of  su- 
perior type.  He  was  a man  of  com- 
manding ability  and  intensely  energetic. 

There  was  a knightliness  about  him 
well  suited  to  the  land  of  the  crusades, 
which  also  made  forceful  his  appeals  at 
home,  especially  to  young  people.  Few 
missionary  visitors  to  colleges  and  theo- 
logical seminaries  were  so  welcome  and 
effective  as  Dr.  Jessup.  Much  of  the 
extensive  growth  and  large  prosperity 
of  the  Syrian  Protestant  College  at  Bei- 
rut was  due  to  his  strong  personality 
and  abounding  missionary  activities. 


A capacious  building  of  three  and 
a half  stories  was  recently  dedicated 

German  Institute  ^ Christian  people  in 

for  Medical  Germany.  Chiseled  in 
Missions  the  stone  across  its  mid- 

front it  bears  the  name,  whose  equiva- 
lent in  English  is,  “German  Institute 
for  Medical  Missions.”  That  such 
special  provision  should  be  made  in 
this  age  to  train  students  for  medical 
work  on  mission  fields  is  natural,  as  it 
is  also  that  Germany  should  be  forward 
in  the  undertaking.  What  is  more  sur- 
prising, while  it  is  highly  satisfactory, 
is  the  place  where  this  building  is 
located.  It  is  at  Tubingen  and  in  close 
alliance  with  its  university,  whose  fame 
has  so  long  been  for  hindrance  rather 
than  furtherance  to  the  progress  of 
Christianity.  But  now  at  the  very  cen- 
ter from  which  the  assaults  of  Baur 
and  Strauss  were  directed  against  the 
historical  credibility  of  the  Christian 
gospel,  special  opportunities  are  given 
to  missionaries  of  that  gospel  to  qualify 
themselves  for  an  important  branch  of 
their  work. 

The  importance  of  understanding  the 
people  for  whom  we  undertake  mission 
work  is  often  empha- 
As  others  See  Us  sized.  In  order  to  do 
that  it  is  necessary  so 
far  as  possible  to  get  their  point  of 
view.  And  that  means  not  only  to  see 
them  as  they  see  themselves,  but  to  see 
ourselves  as  they  see  us.  It  is  the  great 
safeguard  against  blunders  “ to  see  our- 
sels  as  ithers  see  us,  ’ ’ according  to  the 
familiar  lines.  How  we  look  to  the 
people  in  one  mission  field  is  strikingly 
told  by  a worker  among  the  Albanians. 
One  of  the  local  beys  on  whom  he  called 
said  to  him  : — 

“ I know  that  you  came  over  here  to 
do  a good  work,  to  elevate  the  Albani- 
ans, and  so  make  them  to  be  less  and 
less  fanatics,  and  later  perhaps  you  will 
be  able  to  solve  the  greatest  problem 
of  our  nation  — to  give  to  all  the  Alba- 
nians only  one  religion  and  so  to  unite 
them  for  the  benefit  of  our  country. 
But  in  order  to  accomplish  these  things 
you  have  to  make  use  of  the  present 


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unprecedented  opportunities  which  are 
before  you,  and  to  work  with  the  true 
spirit  of  the  American  people,  having 
always  in  your  mind  their  wise  maxim, 
‘Time  is  golden.’  If  you  do  so,  you 
shall  have  the  sympathy  and  the  sup- 
port of  the  whole  Albanian  nation,  but 
if  you  continue  as  in  the  past  to  be  slow 
you  will  most  surely  lose  their  sympathy 
and  support.” 

Another  Albanian  with  whom  this 
mission  worker  conversed  expressed 
himself  to  like  effect  in  still  more 
pointed  and  searching  words:  — 

“We  know  that  you  have  the  bottle 
with  the  right  medicine,  which  if  given 
to  our  sick  people  will  save  them  at 
once.  But  what  is  the  use  ? You  only 
are  showing  it  to  us.  When  we  ask 
you  to  open  it  and  give  us  from  it  you 
say,  ‘ Wait  a little.  It  is  not  the  right 
time  yet.’  We  feel  that  we  are  dying. 
If  you  truly  love  us,  and  if  you  want 
indeed  to  save  us,  open  the  bottle  right 
away  and  give  us  from  it.  If  you  do 
not,  please  let  us  try  some  other  medi- 
cine or  leave  us  to  die  in  peace.” 

What  stronger  appeal  could  be  made 
in  behalf  of  our  American  mission  work 
in  Albania  than  to  see  ourselves  as  these 
Albanians  see  us  ? And  the  same  is  no 
doubt  equally  true  in  the  case  of  other 
countries. 

The  recent  experience  of  one  who 
undertook  to  increase  the  number  of 
subscribers  to  the  Missionary 
rDoWiaty  Herald  in  the  club  of  a certain 
New  Jersey  church  will  be  of 
interest  to  others  making  a similar 
attempt,  and  perhaps  a welcome  ex- 
ample. Envelopes  were  placed  in  the 
pews  over  Sunday,  and  information 
about  the  magazine  given  in  the 
church  bulletin  and  from  the  pulpit 
with  a request  for  subscriptions.  No 
response  whatever  came  to  this  appeal. 
Then  letters  were  written  to  forty 
different  men  in  the  church,  and  the 


result  was  that  one  out  of  every  four 
to  whom  the  request  for  subscription 
was  addressed  in  this  form  made  a 
favorable  answer.  In  this  way  the 
Herald  club  in  that  church  was  nearly 
doubled.  No  doubt  there  are  many 
other  churches  in  various  parts  of  the 
country  where  an  equally  favorable  re- 
sult could  be  secured  by  using  a similar 
method. 


The  Prudential  Committee,  having 
no  funds  with  which  to  meet  an  urgent 
call  sent  from  the  Con- 
stantinople  station,  has 
authorized  a special  ap- 
peal in  this  place  for  the  sum  of  £T.150 
($660).  The  case  is  this:  Balukesir  is 
a thriving  town  of  23,000  inhabitants, 
three-fourths  of  them  Moslems,  the 
capital  of  an  independent  province  in 
the  Brousa  district  of  Asia  Minor. 
The  soil  is  fertile,  and  near  by  are 
mines  of  silver,  lead,  copper,  and  other 
metals.  Eight  or  ten  families,  with  a 
number  of  young  men,  have  held  reg- 
ular weekly  services  for  many  years, 
with  no  aid  from  without  and  only  a 
rare  visit  from  a native  preacher  and 
two  short  visits  from  a missionary,  four 
years  apart.  For  a long  time  they 
were  forbidden  to  hold  services,  but 
under  the  new  regime  there  is  full 
liberty  given,  and  a large  number  are 
interested  in  gospel  truth.  They  have 
no  building,  but  of  late  a house  has 
been  offered  them  which  could  easily 
be  made  into  a church.  There  is  prom- 
ise of  a self-supporting  church  from 
the  outset  if  the  modest  sum  of  $660 
is  secured  for  their  building.  The  peo- 
ple will  raise  all  they  are  able  toward 
this  building,  and  when  this  is  pro- 
vided they  will  support  their  preacher. 
Shall  they  not  have  what  they  need? 
Can  this  small  sum  not  be  readily  and 
promptly  provided  with  which  to  es- 
tablish a self-supporting  church  in  a 
most  needy  and  promising  location? 


THE  PRUDENTIAL  COMMITTEE  OF  THE 
AMERICAN  BOARD 


By  Secretary  E.  E.  STRONG 


IN  the  last  Herald  the  story  of  the 
founding  of  the  Board  was  told, 
with  a brief  record  of  some  of  its 
founders.  At  its  memorable  meeting 
in  Bradford,  June,  1810,  the  General 
Association  of  Massachusetts,  on  short 
notice,  and  having  no  precedents  to  go 
by,  evolved  a constitution  so  admirable 
that  it  has  required  only  the  slightest 
changes  during  the  century  that  has 
passed.  The  plan  of  organization  out- 
lined by  Drs.  Worcester  and  Spring  on 
their  chaise  ride  between  Andover  and 
Bradford,  and  adopted  two  days  later 
by  the  Association,  has  borne  the  test 
of  time.  The  ponderous  name  affixed 


CHARLES  STODDARD 
1832-1873 

to  the  society,  the  American  Board  of 
Commissioners  for  Foreign  Missions, 
has  sometimes  been  objected  to,  but 
notwithstanding  its  heaviness  it  has 
doubtless  been  a help  to  the  Board, 

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as  indicating  its  national  character  and 
its  freedom  from  denominational  re- 
strictions. To  the  executive  body  was 
given  the  name,  The  Prudential  Com- 
mittee, not  common  in  our  nomencla- 
ture. More  than  one  attempt  has  been 
made,  both  from  within  and  without, 
to  change  this  term  to  correspond 
with  the  executive  committees  of  other 
boards.  It  has  been  said  that  the 
name  suggests  caution  rather  than 
action  or  enterprise,  that  prudence  is 
not  the  chief  function  of  an  executive 
body.  Notwithstanding  this  argument 
the  name  is  still  adhered  to  as  giving 
the  Committee  of  the  Board  a certain 
distinction,  and,  while  not  accurately 
defining  its  functions,  adds  something 
of  prominence  to  its  position. 

On  this  Centennial  Year  some  things 
may  well  be  said  in  regard  to  this 
Prudential  Committee.  At  the  first 
meeting  of  the  Board  three  men  were 
elected  as  members,  William  Bartlett, 
Dr.  Samuel  Spring,  and  Dr.  Samuel 
Worcester.  These  with  others  who 
have  been  elected  within  the  hundred 
years  make  seventy-nine  who  have  thus 
been  honored,  not  including  its  presi- 
dent and  vice-president,  who  in  1889 
were  made  members  of  the  Prudential 
Committee  ex  officiis.  Of  these  elected 
members,  thirty  were  chosen  in  the 
first  half  century  and  forty-nine  in  the 
last  half  century.  The  number  of  the 
Committee  has  been  increased  from 
three  at  the  first  to  five  in  1818  and 
to  thirteen  in  1860.  At  the  present 
time  the  By-Laws  fix  the  number  as 
twelve.  It  is  found  that  the  average 
length  of  service  of  the  thirty  mem- 
bers chosen  between  1810  and  1860  was 
fifteen  and  one-third  years ; since  1860 
until  the  present  time  the  average 
length  of  service,  including  the  pres- 
ent membership,  has  been  eight  years. 
Among  those  whose  terms  of  service 


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were  exceptionally  long  were  Charles 
Stoddard,  forty-one  years;  John  Tap- 
pan,  thirty  years ; Dr.  Nehemiah  Adams, 
thirty-two  years ; Alpheus  Hardy,  twen- 
ty-nine years;  and,  longest  of  all, 


A.  C.  THOMPSON,  D.D. 

1849-1893 

Dr.  Augustus  C.  Thompson,  forty-four 
years. 

One  who  goes  carefully  over  the  list 
of  Prudential  Committee  men  from  the 
beginning  will  be  impressed  by  the 
high  character  of  those  who  have  been 
called  to  this  service.  Thirty-nine  of 
the  number  were  laymen  and  forty 
clergymen.  It  may  well  be  doubted 
whether  any  list  of  equal  length  could 
be  found  embracing  men  of  ability, 
devotion,  and  adaptation  to  the  form, 
of  service,  superior  to  these  whom 
God  has  given  to  this  Board  during 
the  hundred  years.  From  the  days 
of  Jeremiah  Evarts,  Samuel  Spring, 
and  Samuel  Worcester,  they  have  been 
men  characterized  by  breadth  of  view 
and  deep  devotion  to  Christ,  ready  to 
undertake  heavy  responsibilities  and 
give  time  and  thought  required  for 
the  prosecution  of  this  foreign  mission- 
ary work.  Evarts  was  a lawyer  and 


a statesman,  and  his  eighteen  years  of 
service  did  much  to  give  prestige  to 
the  Board  at  its  start.  And  he  has 
been  succeeded  by  many  men  widely 
known  in  commercial  and  legal  circles, 
whose  presence  on  the  Committee  has 
inspired  confidence  in  its  financial  man- 
agement, and  whose  counsels  on  all 
matters  of  administration  have  been 
of  greatest  value.  We  may  not  men- 
tion here  names  of  those  who  still  live, 
but  it  cannot  be  out  of  place  to  refer 
to  a few  who  in  the  past  have  given  so 
much  valuable  time  and  thought,  aside 
from  their  active  business  occupations, 
to  the  administration  of  this  trust  for 
the  kingdom  of  God.  Such  men  were 
Charles  Stoddard,  John  Tappan,  John 
Aiken,  Linus  Child,  Alpheus  Hardy, 
Abner  Kingman,  Ezra  Farnsworth, 
J.  Russell  Bradford,  Joseph  S.  Ropes, 
Charles  C.  Burr,  and  William  P.  Elli- 
son, and  we  are  constrained  to  add  to 
this  list  of  departed  worthies  the  name 
of  Elbridge  Torrey,  still  living,  though 
withdrawn  from  service. 

Not  less  devoted  were  the  labors  of 
clergymen,  preachers,  pastors,  and 
theological  professors,  men  of  learning 
and  wide  influence ; but  should  we  at- 
tempt to  make  even  a partial  list  of 
these  men  we  should  not  know  whom 
to  omit.  It  is  difficult  for  those  not 
entirely  familiar  with  the  work  of  the 
Board  to  appreciate  the  amount  and 
value  of  the  services  rendered  by  the 
members  of  the  Prudential  Committee. 
They  have  given  their  services  freely, 
at  no  little  cost  of  money  as  well  as 
time,  some  of  them  coming  long  dis- 
tances at  their  own  expense.  The  meet- 
ings at  the  beginning  were  held  irreg- 
ularly; in  1815  they  began  to  be  held 
quarterly.  For  over  seventy-five  years 
the  rule  has  been  to  meet  weekly,  but 
with  occasional  omissions  in  case  there 
is  no  pressing  business.  The  sessions 
last  from  two  to  four  hours,  or  more, 
should  occasion  require.  The  time  spent 
in  the  sessions  is  by  no  means  the 
whole  or  even  the  heaviest  part  of 
the  service.  Sub-committees  on  the 
several  missions  as  well  as  upon  differ- 
ent branches  of  the  work  — on  finance, 


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on  legacies,  on  the  Home  Department, 
on  publications,  on  appropriations,  on 
mission  property,  and  various  other 


ALPHEUS  HARDY,  D.D. 
1857-1886 


branches  of  work — constantly  have  mat- 
ters referred  to  them  for  consideration 
and  report,  often  involving  protracted 
study  and  correspondence.  It  is  ex- 
pected they  will  familiarize  themselves 
especially  with  the  particular  missions 
to  which  they  are  severally  assigned, 
and  that  they  will  know  enough  of  the 
whole  wide  field  to  act  intelligently 
on  questions  presented  from  all  the 
missions. 

One  who  has  watched  the  sessions  of 
the  Committee  for  over  thirty  years 
and  has  observed  the  deliberation,  pa- 
tience, and  conscientious  attention  given 
to  the  matters  presented  has  often 
been  filled  with  admiration  for  the 
men  who  have  rendered  this  service, 
and  has  marveled  at  the  good  provi- 
dence of  God  which  has  given,  during 
this  nearly  third  of  a century,  such 
wise,  faithful,  and  devoted  men  to  this 
work.  And  the  writer  may  be  per- 
mitted to  add  that,  so  far  as  he  can 
judge,  the  former  days  were  not  better 


than  the  present.  The  Prudential  Com- 
mittee is  not  conspicuous  in  the  eyes 
of  the  world,  but  it  has  been  an  agency 
of  immense  service  to  the  cause  of 
missions.  It  has  so  conducted  affairs 
that  a breath  of  suspicion  has  never 
been  raised  against  its  financial  integ- 
rity, and  the  American  Board  has  a 
commercial  standing  throughout  the 
world  unsurpassed  by  that  of  any  sim- 
ilar institution. 

Though  business  necessarily  occupies 
the  sessions  of  the  Committee,  the 
docket  for  the  meeting  often  covering 
from  twenty-five  to  forty  different 
items,  aside  from  reports  of  sub-com- 
mittees, there  is  always  time  reserved 
for  deliberate  devotional  service;  not 
a brief  invocation  merely,  but  reading 
of  the  Scriptures  and  a prayer  that 
seeks  to  embrace  the  common  and  spe- 
cial needs  of  the  work.  Not  seldom 
a special  session  for  prayer  and  spir- 
itual converse  has  been  held,  in  which 
the  members  have  been  brought  into 


COL.  CHARLES  A.  HOPKINS 
Present  Chairman 


closest  touch  with  the  God  of  missions. 
It  may  also  be  said  that  though  no 
rule  requires  it,  it  has  been  the  prac- 


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tice  for  at  least  thirty  years,  and  pre- 
sumably longer,  to  take  no  important 
action  until  practical  unanimity  among 
the  members  is  secured.  Of  course, 
in  such  a body  of  men  of  independ- 
ent judgments,  different  views  will  be 
taken.  There  has  been  perfect  free- 
dom of  discussion,  but  ordinarily,  when 
opinions  differ  widely,  the  matter  un- 
der discussion  is  withdrawn  or  put  over 
for  consideration  at  a later  date,  or 
the  case  put  in  another  form,  so  that 
practical  agreement  may  be  secured. 
It  has  often  seemed  a marvel  how 
patient  deliberation  by  men  who  are 
moved  with  one  spirit  and  desire  will 
open  the  way  for  the  solution  of  most 


perplexing  difficulties.  The  only  marked 
instance  in  which  united  action  could 
not  be  secured  was  the  time  of  the 
theological  divergencies  a score  of  years 
ago.  To  a remarkable  degree  the  spirit 
of  harmony  has  marked  the  delibera- 
tions and  action  of  the  Committee,  and 
the  personal  relations  of  its  members 
to  one  another  have  been  most  happy 
and  fraternal. 

Prominent  among  the  notable  bless- 
ings which  God  has  bestowed  upon  the 
American  Board  during  its  century  of 
life  may  well  be  named  his  gift  to  its 
councils  of  the  men  who,  year  after 
year,  have  constituted  its  Prudential 
Committee. 


GREETING  OF  THE  STUDENT  BROTHERHOOD 
OF  BOMBAY  TO  ITS  CHRISTIAN 
PRESIDENT 


By  Rev.  ROBERT  ERNEST  HUME,  ph.d. 


AN  occasion  of  much  interest  and 
inspiration  has  just  been  wit- 
nessed at  Chateau  Petit,  a pala- 
tial residence  belonging  to  one  of 
the  millionaire  Parsees  of  Bombay. 
The  building  is  one  whose  extent  and 
elegance,  magnificence  of  furnishings, 
beauty  of  grounds  and  gardens,  and 
splendor  of  the  special  decorations  — 
all  seem  to  belong  more  to  fairyland 
than  upcountry  in  India. 

The  occasion  was  the  presentation  of 
a greeting  by  the  Students’  Brother- 
hood of  Bombay  to  their  president, 
Narayanrao  Ganesh  Chandavarkar,  jus- 
tice of  His  Majesty’s  High  Court  of 
Judicature  and  vice-chancellor  of  Bom- 
bay University,  on  his  elevation  to  the 
Knighthood. 

The  gathering  was  composed  of  the 
leading  citizens  of  Bombay,  met  to 
congratulate  an  Indian  on  becoming  a 
Knight  of  the  British  Realm.  There 
were  all  sorts  of  headgear,  denoting 
the  various  religions,  races,  and  sub- 
divisions. But  most  notable  of  all  was 


the  number  of  Indian  women  of  the 
different  social  groups,  mingling  so 
freely  in  the  mixed  company.  Lady 
Chandavarkar  herself,  hardly  able  to 
speak  English,  who  shared  in  the  felici- 
tations along  with  her  far  more  pro- 
gressive husband,  was  a striking  in- 
stance of  the  way  in  which  Indian 
women,  sometimes  of  their  own  wish 
and  sometimes  without  their  desire, 
are  being  carried  along  in  the  stream 
of  modern  civilization  and  progress 
which  has  been  transforming  India 
from  the  age-ridden  conservatism  of 
the  past. 

First  an  Italian  lady  who  happened 
to  be  visiting  Bombay,  Miss  Giachetti, 
professor  of  piano  at  Pesaro,  Italy, 
gave  a vocal  selection  in  Italian,  with 
accompaniment  on  the  grand  piano, 
which  must  have  seemed  as  strange  to 
most  of  the  audience  as  did  the  nasal 
singing  of  some  Indians  who  followed 
to  the  ears  of  the  English. 

Then  a Mohammedan,  Mr.  Mirza 
Ally  Mohomed  Hossein  Khan,  a grad- 


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uate  of  and  later  an  instructor  in  Wil- 
son College,  afterward  a student  in 
England,  now  one  of  the  leading  bar- 
risters of  Bombay,  explained  in  behalf 
of  the  Students’  Brotherhood  the  pur- 
pose and  significance  of  the  occasion. 
His  commanding  figure  and  the  ex- 
quisite English  in  which  he  gave  the 
most  finished  speech  of  the  program 
made  one  wonder  how  much  longer 
either  Englishmen  or  Indians  will  con- 
sider that  the  former  are  the  superior 
conquerors  and  the  latter  the  con- 
quered, always  to  remain  inferior. 

Then  the  secretary  of  the  Students’ 
Brotherhood  presented  an  address  to 
their  president:  — 

Dear  Sir  Narayanrao  Chandavarkar : 

“We,  the  members  of  the  Students’ 
Brotherhood,  desire  to  approach  you 
with  an  expression  of  our  heartfelt 
pride  and  pleasure  at  the  signal  honor 
which  His  Gracious  Majesty,  the  King- 
Emperor,  has  done  to  you  by  con- 
ferring on  you  the  distinction  of  a 
Knighthood. 

“ Your  kindness  of  heart,  your  sweet- 
ness of  disposition,  your  courtesy  of 
manner  towards  all,  high  and  low,  rich 
and  poor  alike,  your  earnest  and  mani- 
fest interest  in  the  well-being  of  all 
your  fellow-citizens,  irrespective  of 
race,  caste,  or  creed,  have  endeared 
you  to  all  sections  of  the  community, 
and  have  made  them  feel  a peculiar 
sense  of  participation  in  your  honor 
and  exaltation,  as  if  in  you  it  was  their 
city  that  was  honored  and  exalted. 

“And  indeed  no  more  eminent  citizen 
could  have  been  chosen  for  high  dis- 
tinction. 

“Your  public  career,  extending  over 
more  than  a quarter  of  a century,  has 
been  marked  by  a many-sided  activity, 
by  a rare  ability,  and  by  untiring 
energy  devoted  to  the  noblest  and 
highest  ends.  As  a journalist,  as  a 
professional  man,  as  a social  and  re- 
ligious reformer,  you  have  earnestly 
and  incessantly  labored  to  place  the 
loftiest  ideals  before  your  countrymen 
and  to  promote  the  realization  of  those 
ideals  in  social  and  individual  life.” 

Then  His  Excellency  the  Governor, 


Sir  George  Sydenham  Clark,  as  chair- 
man of  the  proceedings,  made  a few 
remarks,  in  which  he  said : — 

“No  one  can  appreciate  more  highly 
than  I do  those  great  qualities  which 
have  been  referred  to  in  the  address. 
He  stands  out  as  a type  of  which  India 
possesses  too  few  examples  at  a time 
when  there  is  supreme  need  for  sober 
counsels  and  lofty  guidance.  He  has 
known  how  to  assimilate  the  best 
teachings  of  the  West  with  the  learn- 
ing of  the  East,  and  he  has  grasped 
the  fact  that  the  ideal  of  Indian  nation- 
hood can  never  be  realized  without 
social  reforms  of  a radical  character.” 

The  Hon.  Sir  Narayan  replied  to  this 
in  a very  humble,  sincere  way.  He 
recalled  how,  when  his  uncle  brought 
him  from  upcountry  to  Bombay  forty 
years  ago,  he  came  under  the  influence 
of  an  English  lady,  Miss  Mary  Carpen- 
ter, who  was  devoting  herself  to  the 
work  of  inspiring  educated  Indians  to 
lift  up  their  women,  and  also,  so  far  as 
possible,  to  relieve  the  degraded  con- 
dition and  misery  of  Indian  widows. 
Her  efforts  and  tears,  her  prayers  and 
example,  went  deep  into  his  heart,  and 
he  resolved  to  devote  himself  also  to 
that  cause.  Now  when  he  asked  him- 
self how  far  he  had  striven  to  do  that, 
and  when  he  looked  at  the  results  which 
had  been  achieved,  and  especially  when 
he  considered  in  what  condition  Hindu 
society  still  is,  he  felt  that  he  was  want- 
ing a great  deal  in  what  he  ought  to 
have  done.  He  blamed  no  one  else  as 
much  as  himself. 

When  this  man  ventured  to  go  to 
England  that  he  might  learn  there  as 
much  as  he  could  of  the  secret  of  the 
progress  of  England  in  order  to  give 
his  life  in  service  to  the  progress  of  his 
own  country,  his  fellow  caste-men  ex- 
pelled him.  Now,  when  he  is  knighted 
by  the  English  sovereign,  all  classes  of 
the  community  gather  to  do  him  honor. 
Hardly  ever  have  the  prayers  and  utter- 
ances of  any  preacher  in  a Christian 
house  of  worship  been  so  deeply  im- 
pressive as  when  this  man  conducted 
service  on  Sunday  in  the  Prarthana 
Samaj  Hall.  It  is  blessing  to  this  land 


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when  a man  of  such  a character  is 
worthily  recognized  by  the  English 
government.  Such  simplicity,  humil- 
ity, and  moral  and  religious  earnest- 
ness are  rarely  seen.  Fortunate  for 
India  that  she  has  such  a leader  in  this 


presidency.  Fortunate,  too,  for  the 
Students’  Brotherhood  to  have  such  a 
president.  In  this  organization  are 
doubtless  many  of  the  young  men  who 
will  become  the  future  leaders  of  this 
part  of  India. 


AN  IMAGINARY  VISITOR 


Personally  Conducted  at  Silinda  by  Rev.  THOMAS  KING 


In  the  sketchy  article  which  follows  by  one  of  our 
missionaries  at  Mt.  Silinda,  he  gives  free  range  to  his 
fancy,  not  as  to  the  facts  which  he  presents,  but  in 
the  method  of  calling  attention  to  them.  He  imagines 
a visit  to  his  station  by  some  one  who  is  rather  strange 
to  mission  work,  and  is  seeking  first-hand  information 
as  to  how  it  is  carried  on.  As  the  writer  uses  both  mon- 
ologue and  dialogue,  the  reader  will  need  to  keep  the 
distinction  clear  between  the  visitor  and  his  mission- 
ary guide.  As  a help  to  this  the  visitor’s  words  are 
given  in  quotation  marks.  — The  Editor. 

SO  you  would  like  to  see  the  work 
we  are  doing  here ! I should  be 
delighted  to  pilot  you  around. 

You  must  not  forget  that  this  is  our 
rainy  season,  and  it  is  hard  to  keep 
things  looking  at  their  best. 

I think  we  will  start  in  at  the  work- 
shop. Here  we  are  ! Let  us  take  the 


first  floor.  This  is  Mr.  Orner,  who  has 
charge  of  our  industrial  department. 

If  you  had  happened  in  at  any  time 
during  the  past  month  you  would  have 
seen  him  with  his  corps  of  boys  unpack- 
ing and  cleaning  all  this  machinery  that 
has  been  stored  away  for  years.  We 
are  glad  that  we  can  show  it  to  you 
today  all  in  place  and  running  smoothly. 

You  should  have  seen  these  boys  when 
they  discovered  this  iron  planer  moving 
back  and  forth  automatically. 

This  grinding  mill  is  a timesaver.  In 
a few  hours  as  much  meal  can  be  ground 
as  our  boys  could  do  in  a week. 


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An  Imaginary  Visitor 


This  other  new  machinery  is  all  valu- 
able to  the  work  of  our  mission,  but 
you  may  be  especially  interested  in  this 
printing  press.  Two  years  ago  we 
printed  a little  Chindau  hymn  book  on 
it,  which  we  hope  soon  to  replace  with 
a much  larger  one. 

Now  come  down  to  the  carpenter  shop 
to  see  Mr.  Hirst  and  his  boys  at  work. 
A busy  crowd,  are  they  not? 

Who  says  that  you  cannot  do  any- 
thing with  the  African?  Of  course 
they  are  very  slow  here,  as  in  all  their 
work ; but  this  wood  is  exceedingly 
hard,  and  it  takes  a long  time  to  do 
nice  work. 

That  china  closet  is  for  the  Portu- 
guese Commandante’s  wife.  We  can 
see  their  place  from  here,  as  it  is  only 
seven  miles  away.  These  two  cabinets 
are  for  the  machine  shop. 

Some  weeks  ago  all  this  force  was 
busy  at  the  sawmill,  and  at  making 
brick  and  tile. 

We  shall  now  go  over  to  the  school- 
house.  A large  school,  you  say. 

“Who  has  charge  of  the  educational 
work?  ” 

Dr.  Lawrence  is  the  superintendent 
and  Miss  Clarke  is  the  principal,  but 
the  heaviest  load  falls  on  Miss  Clarke, 
as  the  doctor  has  his  medical  duties, 
besides  assisting  Mr.  Orner,  who  is 
allowed  half  time  this  year  for  the 
study  of  the  language. 

‘ ‘ Surely  this  is  too  much  for  one  lady 
to  do?  ” 

Yes,  double  the  work  that  any  woman 
ought  to  be  asked  to  do. 

“Who  looks  after  all  these  boys  and 
girls  out  of  school  hours  ? ” 

Mr.  Orner  has  charge  of  most  of  the 
boys,  and  Miss  Clarke  has  charge  of 
the  girls  in  the  dormitory,  and  the  rest 
are  in  the  mission  homes. 

Perhaps  you  would  be  interested  to 
walk  over  to  where  the  boys  are  put- 
ting up  a building  for  Dr.  Lawrence. 

“Are  all  these  boys  masons?  ” 

No,  just  one  boy  really  knows  how 
to  build.  With  the  exception  of  one 
other  boy  who  knows  a little,  they  are 
all  apprentices,  and  this  is  their  first 
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“Where  did  the  builder  learn  his 
trade?  ” 

From  the  missionaries,  of  course. 

“Whose  oxen  are  those  I see  at 
work?  ” 

They  belong  to  the  mission,  and 
these  two  spans  are  kept  at  work 
every  day,  unless  it  rains  too  hard  to 
be  out.  You  see,  we  have  a great  deal 
of  work  now  hauling  the  brick  and 
stone  for  the  new  buildings  about  to  be 
erected,  and  wood  for  the  large  kiln  of 
tile  and  brick  on  the  other  side  of  the 
forest.  And  you  see  that  forty-acre 
lot  down  there  in  corn  and  beans? 
They  have  plowed  that.  It  is  impos- 
sible for  us  just  at  present  to  keep  up 
with  the  work. 

“What  is  that  large  building  that 
stands  out  on  the  hill  ? ’ y 

That  is  our  cattle  kraal  for  the  mis- 
sionaries’ cows  and  mission  oxen,  and 
also  a stable  for  horses. 

“How  many  men  have  you  on  the 
station  to  carry  on  all  this  work  that 
I have  seen?” 

Just  five  at  present,  and  you  have 
not  seen  all  our  work.  Tomorrow  I 
shall  take  you  to  our  church,  or  rather 
to  the  place  where  we  hold  our  serv- 
ices. We  are  anxious  to  build  a church, 
but  have  not  yet  enough  money.  The 
members  have  done  very  well  in  their 
giving,  one  walking  165  miles  to  give 
a dollar. 

‘ ‘ How  much  more  do  you  need  be- 
fore you  begin  to  build?” 

We  ought  to  have  a thousand  dollars 
more. 

‘ ‘ Surely  the  Christians  in  America 
would  send  you  that  amount  at  once 
if  they  knew  how  badly  you  need  such 
a building,  would  they  not?” 

Well,  I do  not  know.  They  seem  to 
be  putting  China  and  Japan  in  the  fore- 
front just  now  and  leaving  Africa  in 
the  background . 

“You  have  a large  number  of  people 
at  your  services?  ” 

Yes,  they  attend  very  well  indeed. 

“How  do  the  Christians  in  Africa 
compare  with  those  in  America?” 

In  some  ways  the  standard  is  higher, 
and  in  others  of  necessity  very  much 


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lower.  An  African  when  he  is  con- 
verted never  thinks  he  can  take  a drink 
of  any  kind.  His  beer  that  he  has  used 
so  long  and  loved  so  well  is  absolutely 
given  up.  But  you  must  understand 
that  their  ideas  and  ideals  on  the  whole 
are  very  inferior  to  ours.  I never  could 
give  the  impression  that  seemed  to  be 
left  by  some  missionaries  when  I was 
at  home  that  these  Christians  are  our 
equals  in  any  sense,  nor  have  we  any 
right  to  expect  them  to  be.  We  are 
much  more  strict,  however,  in  our  dis- 
cipline of  wrongdoers  here  than  the 
home  churches  are.  We  suspend  for 
lying  and  stealing  and  other  faults  that 
are  apt  to  be  overlooked  at  home. 
A while  ago  one  was  refused  admission 
by  the  other  members  because  he  did 
not  pray  quite  as  they  thought  a Chris- 
tian should. 

“What  I have  seen  and  heard  has 
been  very  interesting  to  me,  but  do 
you  not  find  the  work  trying  ?” 

Very  trying  indeed  at  times  on  ac- 
count of  their  stupidity.  I have  been 
trying  to  teach  some  of  the  boys  with 
the  oxen  to  distinguish  between  a 
wagon  road  and  a guava  tree,  but  as 
yet  I have  not  succeeded.  They  still 
insist  on  driving  over  the  tree,  though 
they  have  acres  to  turn  the  wagon  on. 

Mrs.  King  sent  one  of  her  girls  for 
lemons  the  other  day.  She  was  care- 
fully shown  by  the  girl  who  usually 


brings  them  just  where  to  go.  In  a 
short  time  she  returned  with  fifty-eight 
beautiful  green  oranges.  Another  in- 
stance will  suffice,  though  I could  give 
you  hundreds. 

Yesterday  I told  one  of  the  boys  to 
load  a pig’s  trough  on  the  wagon  and 
bring  it  up  to  the  kraal.  Imagine  my 
surprise  to  see  a load  of  native  melons 
appear ! 

These  things  would  certainly  annoy 
any  sane  person,  and  when  you  are 
endowed  with  a Scotch-Irish  tempera- 
ment it  makes  it  no  easier. 

“Do  not  all  these  things  prevent 
you  from  getting  time  for  study  and 
growth?  ” 

Undoubtedly  for  study,  but  not  for 
growth.  Under  such  circumstances 
one  is  bound  to  grow  either  better  or 
worse ; better  if  he  realizes  that  alone 
he  is  not  sufficient  for  all  these  things, 
and  he  is  driven  to  his  knees ; worse  if 
a worldly  spirit  is  permitted  to  enter. 

“Would  not  your  life  be  easier  and 
more  enjoyable  if  you  had  taken  up 
work  at  home  ? ” 

Yes,  perhaps  easier  and  more  enjoy- 
able as  the  world  looks  at  things,  but 
no  one  can  count  any  work  easy  if  he 
is  shirking  duty  and  being  constantly 
overborne  by  the  thought  of  cowardice. 
You  know  that  the  great  apostle  to  the 
Gentiles  got  the  most  comfort  and  ease 
out  of  life  when  he  was  accounted 

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worthy  to  share  in  the  sufferings  of 
his  Lord. 

It  is  unfortunate  that  we  cannot  call 
on  our  veteran  missionary,  Dr.  Thomp- 
son, but  he  is  away  looking  after  the 
medical  work  at  Chikore. 

‘ ‘ I am  glad  to  have  seen  so  much  of 
your  life  here,  and  it  has  been  most 
kind  of  you  to  take  the  time  to  show 
us  around,  I trust  I shall  be  able  to 


THE  WORLD 

America’s  First  Great 

By  GEORGE  J 

WE  have  all  taken  our  turn  as 
spectators  at  the  food  fairs, 
the  dog  shows,  the  agricultural 
exhibits,  the  automobile  shows.  Soon 
we  are  to  be  provided  with  a mission- 
ary exposition.  This  may  sound  to 
some  like  an  untried  innovation,  but 
our  English  cousins  have  been  profiting 
by  the  idea  for  some  time.  There  is 


help  you  in  some  way.  Perhaps  I can 
interest  some  of  my  friends  in  your 
struggle  to  get  a church  building,  for 
it  seems  to  me  it  would  have  a great 
influence  on  the  native  mind.” 

Thank  you  most  heartily.  I hope 
that  you  will  succeed.  It  has  given  us 
real  pleasure  to  have  you  with  us,  and 
we  shall  hope  to  see  you  at  Silinda 
again.  Good-by. 

IN  BOSTON 

Missionary  Exposition 

. ANDERSON 

far  more  attractive  material  with  which 
to  arrange  exhibits  in  missions  than  in 
any  other  field,  and  certainly  as  good 
reasons  for  the  effort. 

Nearly  thirty  years  ago  the  germ  of 
the  plan  was  started  in  a modest  way 
by  Mr.  Hubert  Malaher,  then  secretary 
of  the  Missionary  Leaves  Association. 
Possessed  of  the  showman’s  instinct,  he 


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MAKING  THE  CHINESE  PAGODA,  ORIENT  IN  LONDON 


carried  the  method  to  no  small  success. 
So  the  matter  rested  until  another  in- 
ventive Englishman,  Rev.  A.  M.  Gard- 
ner, came  upon  the  scene.  Recently 
called  from  a Congregational  pastorate 
to  the  organizing  staff  of  the  London 
Missionary  Society,  he  was  groping  for 
some  mode  of  missionary  approach  suit- 
able to  large  industrial  towns.  Chanc- 
ing in  1903  upon  one  of  these  local 
church  exhibits,  he  was  struck  with  the 
possibilities  of  the  idea.  In  his  hands 
the  missionary  exposition  has  reached 
an  extensive  development.  From  mere 
collections  of  relics  and  brief  tableaux 
it  has  broadened  into  immense  enter- 
prises, occupying  great  metropolitan 
halls,  drawing  thousands  of  spectators, 
and  involving  the  outlay  of  many  thou- 
sands of  dollars.  Largely  as  a result 
of  his  pioneer  ingenuity,  every  promi- 
nent mission  board  in  England  now  has 
its  organizing  secretary  for  this  work. 

Perhaps  a glimpse  or  two  at  one  of 
these  big  affairs  will  make  the  plan 
more  clear.  Let  us  take,  for  example, 
The  Orient  in  London,  the  great  expo- 
sition held  in  that  city  during  the  sum- 
mer of  1908.  Here  were  presented  in 
all  the  vividness  of  life  ‘‘the  habits, 
ideas,  occupations,  arts,  and  handicrafts 


of  the  nations/’  as  well  as  the  working 
efficiency  of  a great  mission  board’s 
agencies.  Not  only  were  the  specta- 
tors shown  for  whom  the  missionary 
work  was  done,  but  how.  In  the  Af- 
rican kraal,  the  Hindu  village,  or  be- 
neath the  Chinese  pagoda,  missiona- 
ries conducted  their  hourly  talks,  while 
all  around  thousands  of  visitors  were 
amazed  at  the  vividness  of  it  all.  To 
people  these  “foreign”  scenes  a small 
army  of  volunteer  workers  was  neces- 
sary, and  to  this  end  9,500  stewards 
were  in  training  for  months  previous. 

In  addition  to  these  scenes  and 
tableaux,  smaller  spaces  were  given 
over  to  arrays  of  missionary  relics  and 
the  like,  biograph  and  living  picture 
shows,  to  mission  lectures,  and  above 
all  to  the  thrilling  Pageant  of  Darkness 
and  Light.  This  was  an  elaborate 
spectacle,  reproducing  in  four  dra- 
matic scenes,  with  music,  the  conquests 
of  Christianity  in  north,  east,  south, 
and  west.  Not  only  from  the  Lon- 
don throng  was  the  Orient  patronage 
drawn,  but  from  even  distant  sections, 
sometimes  a score  of  excursions  com- 
ing into  the  city  on  a single  day. 

But  some  cautious,  and  perhaps  eco- 
nomical soul  inquires  how  all  this  dis- 

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play  and  expenditure  serves  any  pur- 
pose not  available  through  opportunities 
now  offered.  That  is  a just  inquiry, 
and  exactly  the  point  that  will  interest 
all  who  will  be  able  to  attend  the  Bos- 
ton exposition  next  spring.  In  a word, 
the  missionary  exposition  is  the  most 
remarkable  agency  for  arousing  those 
indifferent  to  missions  that  has  yet 
been  devised.  Indeed  thus  far  it  has 
proved  the  only  way  to  reach  in  large 
numbers  at  one  time  that  great  ma- 
jority who  know  little  of  and  care 
less  for  their  duty  to  lands  across 


REV.  A.  M.  GARDNER 


the  sea.  This  applies  with  as  much 
force  to  a large  proportion  of  church 
members  as  to  the  unchurched  masses. 
At  these  people,  then,  the  missionary 
exposition  directs  all  the  strength  of 
its  appeal.  In  addition,  hundreds  al- 
ready interested  in  the  support  of 
missions  are  given  a new  idea  of  the 
work  they  are  aiding  and  are  brought 
into  helpful  contact  with  both  agents 
and  agencies.  As  an  interested  attend- 
ant at  the  Orient  exhibition  afterwards 
wrote,  “The  most  convincing  exhibit 
is  the  missionaries  themselves.” 

The  exposition  idea  applied  to  mis- 
sions is  really  just  the  natural  sequence 
of  conditions  in  other  walks  of  life. 
It  is  an  appropriate  adaptation  to  the 
new  demands  of  these  busy,  careless 
days.  With  the  increase  in  foreign 


travel  and  ready  access  even  to  remote 
corners  of  the  earth,  much  of  the  in- 
teresting mystery  of  foreign  missions 
has  been  lost,  and  with  it  some  of  the 
missionary  motives  which  inspired  our 
forefathers.  Hence  arises  the  occasion 
for  presenting  this  great  cause  of  world- 
wide brotherhood  in  a peculiarly  vivid 
and  striking  way.  Few  will  doubt  that 
this  appeal  to  the  imagination  is  made 
strongest  through  the  eye.  We  have 
tried  the  mind  and  the  heart  and  the 
ear  with  only  tolerable  success  for  lo ! 
these  many  years.  Now  we  are  to  vis- 
ualize the  foreign  fields,  that  even  to 
the  neglectful  the  needs  may  be  start- 
ling, the  opportunities  alluring,  and  the 
duty  plain. 

Somewhat  by  the  process  I have  fol- 
lowed in  telling  this  story,  first  re- 
viewing the  history  of  the  idea,  then 
noting  the  impressive  spectacle  of  its 
great  success,  and  finally  estimating 
the  indubitable  values  of  such  under- 
takings, certain  mission  boards  were 
led,  a couple  of  years  ago,  to  speculate 
upon  the  possibilities  of  such  an  expo- 
sition in  Boston.  After  some  maneu- 
vers and  investigations,  matters  so  far 
progressed  that  Mr.  S.  Earl  Taylor 
was  released  by  one  of  the  Methodist 
bodies  to  guide  the  preliminary  work, 
and  finally  was  sent  to  England  to 
study  such  productions  as  The  Orient 
in  London  and  Africa  and  the  East. 
On  his  return  sufficient  enthusiasm  had 
been  generated  that  over  forty  organ- 
izations came  together  and  The  World 
in  Boston  was  incorporated,  a guaran- 
tee fund  of  $60,000  secured,  and  the 
enterprise  definitely  started. 

There  was  no  little  dismay  when 
Mr.  Taylor,  the  general  secretary,  was 
summoned  back  to  the  Laymen’s  Mis-4 
sionary  work  in  his  denomination.  But 
The  World  in  Boston  was  not  to  fail. 
A determined  effort  to  secure  from  the 
London  Missionary  Society  the  services 
of  Rev.  A.  M.  Gardner,  the  man  who 
has  made  the  missionary  exposition 
what  it  is,  was  at  length  rewarded. 
Last  March  he  arrived  on  the  ground, 
and  immediately  assumed  charge.  New 
enthusiasm  spread  rapidly  throughout 


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all  the  co-operating  societies.  With  a 
manager  acknowledged  on  all  sides  as 
the  best  equipped  in  the  world,  it  may 
confidently  be  expected  that  America’s 
first  great  missionary  exposition  will  be 
an  unqualified  success. 

But  one  man  cannot  make  a success- 
ful exposition  any  more  than  one  wave, 
however  large,  makes  an  ocean.  Mr. 
Gardner  has  thrown  himself  unreserv- 
edly into  the  taxing  duties  incident  to 
so  elaborate  an  enterprise,  but  he  does 
not  undertake  entire  responsibility  for 
the  results.  Upon  the  twoscore  mis- 
sionary societies  and  the  500  churches 
of  Greater  Boston  devolves  a large 
share  for  the  ultimate  fruits.  In  the 
first  place  at  least  8,000  stewards  or 
volunteer  workers  must  be  rallied  and 
trained  before  the  opening.  This  im- 
mense task  is  already  under  way, 
supervised  by  Secretary  R.  B.  Guild  of 
our  Church  Building  Society.  Specially 
equipped  teachers  are  now  conducting 
classes  aggregating  300,  whose  members 
will  instruct  subordinate  groups.  The 
other  parts  of  the  great  machine, 
board  of  directors,  finance,  publicity, 
have  also  been  set  in  motion,  and, 
guided  by  its  efficient  engineers,  Mr. 
Gardner,  Mr.  C.  C.  Miles  as  assistant 
secretary,  and  Mr.  Taylor  as  consult- 
ing secretary,  The  World  in  Boston  is 
gathering  momentum. 


Not  the  least  interesting  fact  about 
this  first  exposition  of  ours  is  that  it 
will  include  both  home  and  foreign 
missions.  In  this  way  that  peculiar 
variety  of  Christian  who  believes  in  the 
work  at  home  but  not  abroad  will  be 
attracted  to  it.  Boston’s  largest  exhi- 
bition hall,  Mechanics  Building,  has 
been  engaged  for  the  period,  April  24- 
May  20.  A budget  of  $85,000  has  just 
been  determined  upon,  seemingly  a 
large  sum,  but  comparatively  modest 
when  the  items  of  rental,  construction, 
advertising,  and  the  like  are  calculated 
in  the  light  of  a really  great  enterprise. 

No  one  who  has  carefully  considered 
the  idea  imagines  that  America’s  first 
missionary  exposition  will  be  her  last. 
From  the  success  which  may  readily 
be  anticipated  in  Boston  will  no  doubt 
follow  a wide  and  varied  application  in 
this  country,  as  in  England.  Across 
the  water  it  happened  that  the  prov- 
inces showed  the  way  for  London’s 
triumphs.  Even  so  in  the  United  States 
it  will  apparently  be  for  Boston,  con- 
servative old  city  in  staid  New  Eng- 
land, to  point  out  the  path  for  others 
to  follow.  To  those  who  know  some- 
thing of  the  spirit  of  the  West  it  is 
interesting  to  speculate  what  Chicago 
or  Seattle  will  sometime  do  with  this 
remarkable  method  of  missionary  prop- 
aganda. 

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REV.  HERMAN  N.  BARNUM,  D.D., 
OF  HARPOOT 


GOD  chooses  his  workers  and  sends 
them  where  he  wills,  often  where 
they  have  not  intended  to  go. 
Dr.  Barnum,1  whose  death  we  record 
this  month,  after  fifty-two  years  of 
service  under  the 
American  Board,  did 
not  at  the  time  of  his 
ordination  intend  to 
become  a foreign 
missionary.  His  defi- 
nite plan  was  to  en- 
gage in  home  mis- 
sionary work,  and 
with  this  in  view  he 
preached  for  nearly 
a year  as  a home 
missionary  in  Ver- 
mont. His  eyesight 
was  then  so  impaired 
that  he  planned  to 
seek  health  by  a year 
of  travel  in  Europe. 

On  reaching  Constan- 
tinople he  was  asked 
by  the  missionaries 
to  remain  and  labor 
with  them.  He  re- 
plied that  he  would 
gladly  do  so  if  work 
was  shown  him  which  he  could  do. 
Such  work  was  soon  found,  which  he 
took  up  without  returning  to  America, 
and  he  received  appointment  as  a mis- 
sionary of  the  Board  in  1858.  A year 
later  he  was  designated  to  Harpoot, 
Eastern  Turkey,  and  joined  that  station 
in  1860.  That  has  been  his  home  for 
a half  century.  There  is  one  name  only 
on  our  roll  of  581  missionaries  now  in 
service  that  stands  before  that  of  Dr. 
Barnum. 

1 Herman  N.  Barnum,  D.D.,  born  in  Auburn,  N.  Y., 
December  5,  1826 ; received  his  early  education  in  Mt. 
Morris  Academy ; entered  Amherst  College  in  1848 ; 
was  graduated  from  college  in  1852  and  from  Andover 
Theological  Seminary  in  1855;  married  Mary  E.t 
daughter  of  Rev.  Dr.  William  Goodell,  of  Constanti- 
nople, July  6,  1860.  The  degree  of  Doctor  of  Divinity 
was  conferred  upon  him  by  Amherst  College  in  1873  ; 
died  at  Harpoot,  Eastern  Turkey,  May  19,  1910.  Mrs. 
Barnum  and  three  children  survive  him. 

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The  service  which  this  eminent  serv- 
ant of  God  has  rendered  at  Harpoot 
during  these  fifty  years  is  as  conspicu- 
ous for  its  variety  as  for  its  length. 
There  is  not  a branch  of  missionary 
work  in  the  large 
and  important  city 
and  province  where 
he  spent  his  days 
in  which  he  has 
not  ministered.  For 
many  years  he  toured 
among  the  villages  of 
Kurdistan,  preaching 
the  gospel  in  Turkish, 
organizing  schools, 
and  preparing  teach- 
ers. He  became  a 
master  of  the  Turkish 
language,  and  this 
gave  hin  easy  access 
to  the  leading  men 
and  officials. 

He  was  greatly 
beloved  and  thor- 
oughly trusted  by  all 
classes.  The  officials 
especially  believed  his 
word,  never  anticipat- 
ing he  would  get  the 
better  of  them  by  any  trickery.  He 
thus  became  known  throughout  East- 
ern Turkey  as  a diplomat  without  any 
deceit  and  one  whose  judgment  could 
safely  be  followed.  A Turkish  gov- 
ernor once  gave  to  a newspaper  corre- 
spondent, seeking  information  as  to  the 
state  of  affairs  in  Eastern  Turkey,  a 
letter  of  introduction  to  Dr.  Barnum, 
in  which  he  wrote:  “Dr.  Barnum  is 
my  friend.  He  knows  more  about  the 
situation  in  the  interior  of  Turkey  than 
any  other  living  man.  What  is  more, 
you  can  rely  absolutely  upon  what  he 
tells  you.  See  him  by  all  means.’ ’ 

A characteristic  incident  is  told  of 
his  once  having  been  met  by  some  rob- 
bers, stripped  of  his  money,  his  watch 


H.  N.  BARNUM,  D.D. 


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Rev.  Herman  N.  Barnum,  D.D.,  of  Harpoot 


311 


and  most  of  his  belongings  taken  from 
him.  But  while  the  process  of  robbery 
was  going  on,  Dr.  Barnum  began  to 
talk  without  resentment  and  yet  plainly 
to  the  robbers,  telling  them  of  the 
wrongfulness  of  the  act  and  the  cer- 
tainty that  the  judgment  of  a just  God 
would  come  upon  them.  They  listened 
and  then  hesitated,  became  so  impressed 
by  the  friendly  yet  stern  warning  that 
they  changed  their  minds  and  handed 
him  back  the  watch  and  other  articles 
they  had  taken.  On  parting  they  said  : 
“ There  are  other  robbers  on  this  road. 
They  will  rob  you.  We  will  send  a 
man  with  you  to  protect  you  to  your 
journey’s  end.”  And  this  they  did. 

Almost  from  the  beginning  of  the 
Harpoot  station  Dr.  Barnum  labored 
in  association  with  Messrs.  Allen  and 
Wheeler  for  the  development  of  Chris- 
tian work  in  that  city  and  in  the  large 
province  of  which  it  is  a center.  The 
growth  he  was  permitted  to  witness, 
in  securing  which  he  had  a large  share, 
has  been  wonderful,  and  his  heart  was 
filled  with  gratitude  as  he  laid  down 
his  work,  dying,  as  he  wished,  among 
the  people  for  w om  he  had  lived  and 
labored. 

Among  his  loved  associates  at  Har- 
poot for  seven  years,  from  1885  to  1892, 
was  Dr.  James  L.  Barton,  now  Foreign 
Secretary  of  the  Board,  who  bears  the 
following  testimony  to  Dr.  Barnum’s 
character  and  worth : — 

“All  who  knew  Dr.  Barnum,  Turk, 
Armenian,  missionary,  and  European, 
learned  to  put  great  value  upon  his 
judgment  relating  to  all  classes  of  ques- 
tions. For  more  than  twenty  years  his 
counsel  has  been  constantly  sought  on 
subjects  religious,  personal,  national, 
and  diplomatic,  and  every  one  who 
sought  received  the  best  he  had  to  give, 
and  that  was  always  of  a high  order. 
He  has  constantly  been  in  close  corre- 
spondence with  the  representatives  of 
the  United  States  government  at  the 
Porte  regarding  political  conditions  in 
the  interior  of  Turkey,  while  at  the 
same  time  the  local  civil  governors  and 
officials  of  high  rank  have  openly  de- 
clared that  Dr.  Barnum  understood  the 


conditions  in  the  country  better  than 
any  Moslem.  It  has  been  the  custom 
of  the  country  frequently  to  change 
the  heads  of  the  vilayets,  and  it  was 
not  an  uncommon  experience  for  the 
incoming  governor  to  seek  upon  his 
arrival  a prolonged  interview  with  the 
frail,  white-locked,  modest  missionary, 
whose  grasp  of  the  local  situation  was 
regarded  of  too  great  value  not  to  be 
utilized. 

“He  was  pre-eminently  a man  of 
peace.  One  governor-general,  for  in- 
stance, had  trouble  with  the  warlike 
Dersim  Kurds,  who  occupied  territory 
some  thirty  miles  in  the  mountains 
northeast  of  Harpoot.  The  governor 
had  decided  to  send  in  Turkish  troops 
and  strike  a crushing  blow.  Although 
he  had  begun  to  make  preparations  he 
concluded  he  had  best  consult  the  mis- 
sionary about  the  entire  matter.  After 
being  closeted  with  Dr.  Barnum  for 
several  hours  preparations  for  war 
ceased,  the  chiefs  of  the  Kurdish 
bodies  were  invited  to  the  capital  as 
the  guests  of  the  governor,  who  gave 
them  a feast  of  honor,  made  them 
some  presents,  sent  them  back  his 
friends  and  allies,  and  the  country  was 
at  peace.  The  governor  received  a 
decoration  from  the  sultan  for  the  di- 
plomacy and  skill  with  which  he  han- 
dled the  case,  while  the  missionary 
with  contentment  continued  his  mis- 
sionary work. 

“Had  Dr.  Barnum  remained  in  the 
United  States  he  might  have  become 
conspicuous  in  diplomatic  circles.  In 
fact  his  name  has  been  mentioned  more 
than  once  as  ambassador  to  Constanti- 
nople. In  every  instance  he  has  de- 
clined to  give  the  suggestion  any 
thought  whatever.  This  unassuming, 
quiet,  scholarly,  devoted  missionary, 
through  his  fifty-two  years’  residence 
at  Harpoot,  throughout  which  time  he 
has  been  in  constant  contact,  not  only 
with  all  the  students  of  Euphrates  Col- 
lege, but  also  with  the  leading  Arme- 
nians and  all  of  the  government  officials, 
both  civil  and  military,  in  that  part  of 
Turkey,  has  been  a mighty  force  for 
individual,  social,  and  national  right- 


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Miss  Corinna  Shattuck 


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eousness.  New  Turkey  owes  more  to 
him  than  history  will  ever  record/ ’ 
For  three  or  four  years  Dr.  Barnum 
has  been  unable  on  account  of  the  in- 
firmities of  age  to  labor  as  previously, 
but  he  was  still  a power  for  good  in 
the  station  and  throughout  the  mission. 


Recently,  as  feebleness  increased,  it 
was  manifest  that  the  end  was  near. 
He  reviewed  the  past  and  faced  the 
future  full  of  faith  and  trust.  It  was 
a beautiful  and  blessed  end  of  a life 
of  intense  devotion  to  Christ  and  his 
kingdom. 


MISS  CORINNA  SHATTUCK 

By  JOHN  E.  MERRILL,  ph.d. 


MISS  CORINNA  SHATTUCK  was 
born  at  Louisville,  Ky.,  in  1848. 
Brought  up  by  her  mother’s  par- 
ents at  South  Acton,  Mass.,  she  was 
educated  at  Framingham  and  taught 


MISS  CORINNA  SHATTUCK 


school  at  Maynard,  both  in  the  same 
state.  She  went  out  to  Turkey  at 
twenty-five,  and  so  has  given  more  than 
thirty-five  years  of  service  to  that  coun- 
try. In  Central  Turkey  she  was  con- 
nected first  with  the  Girls’  Seminary 
at  Aintab  and  then  with  the  Girls’  Col- 
lege at  Marash,  but  her  great  work 
has  been  at  Oorfa,  where  her  normal 
activity  was  the  supervision  of  schools 
and  Bible-women,  together  with  such 


help  and  advice  as  she  might  give  in 
church  affairs.  The  crisis  of  1895  added 
greatly  to  her  opportunities  and  cares. 
Her  saving  of  the  crowd  of  men, 
women,  and  children  which  filled  the 
Protestant  church  at  Oorfa  has  become 
historic.  Thereafter  she  gave  herself 
without  stint  to  the  support  and  train- 
ing of  widows  and  orphans,  and  exten- 
sive industrial  work  and  a school  for 
the  blind  developed  from  this  activity. 
In  connection  with  this  relief  work  she 
gave  special  attention  to  the  teaching 
of  the  Bible. 

Miss  Shattuck  lived  a life  of  peculiar 
isolation.  Most  of  the  time  at  Oorfa 
she  had  only  one  woman  associate,  or 
none.  Few  travelers  ever  visited  Oorfa, 
and  few  members  of  the  missionary 
force.  The  nearest  mission  station  was 
three  days’  journey  to  the  west.  This 
isolation  made  her  intimate  friendship 
with  the  people  of  the  city  of  peculiar 
significance,  both  to  her  and  to  them. 

Her  life  was  marked  by  unusual  sac- 
rifice. Continually  in  physical  weak- 
ness, she  devoted  herself,  not  to  the 
care  of  her  health,  but  soul  and  body 
to  her  work.  She  has  not  taken  recre- 
ation, because  there  was  for  it  neither 
time  nor  opportunity.  Usually  she  has 
not  left  Oorfa  during  the  summer,  for 
her  widows  and  orphans  could  not  get 
on  without  her.  In  clothing  and  food 
she  has  economized  almost  to  the  last 
degree.  Her  entire  house  has  been 
given  over  to  the  needs  of  her  work. 
During  the  twelve  years  from  1895  to 
1907,  in  her  own  house  she  had  no  bed- 
room of  her  own,  and  lacked  for  all 


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Missionary  Qualifications 


31b 


those  years  the  privacy  and  the  oppor- 
tunity for  rest  which  that  would  sig- 
nify. Only  failing  strength  led  her 
finally  to  yield  to  the  persuasion  of 
others,  and  to  reserve  for  her  own 
private  uses  a single  room.  But  these 
sacrifices  seemed  to  her  a slight  thing, 
compared  with  the  financial  difficulties 
which  compelled  her  to  give  up  or  to 
postpone  cherished  plans  for  the  work. 

Miss  Shattuck’s  life  was  one  of  tire- 
less energy.  In  the  orphanage  she  was 
among  the  first  to  wake  and  the  last 
to  sleep.  The  immense  output  of  the 
needlework  industry  passed  under  her 
personal  supervision  and  inspection. 
She  remained  at  her  post  last  winter, 
although  plans  had  been  approved  for 
her  return  to  America.  Her  final 
journey  was  undertaken  alone,  against 
the  earnest  protest  of  the  missionaries 
at  the  port  where  she  embarked.  When 
she  landed  in  Boston,  brought  off  the 
steamer  on  a stretcher,  she  wished  only 
quiet  and  rest,  looking  forward  to  still 
more  endeavor,  if  God  should  so  will, 
for  the  city  of  her  adoption. 

Miss  Shattuck  lived  a life  of  faith. 


She  was  a woman  of  extraordinary 
business  ability,  and  could  handle  cor- 
respondence with  wonderful  rapidity. 
But  she  was  a woman  of  faith,  with 
an  outlook  toward  the  Unseen.  Most 
of  her  life  was  lived  with  the  thought 
that  the  time  of  her  home-going  might 
not  be  far  off.  And  she  carried  the 
difficulties  and  discouragements  of  her 
location  and  work  and  the  failure  of 
health  and  of  re-enforcements  all  in 
the  habit  of  faith  and  prayer.  Three 
years  ago,  when  it  seemed  to  her  as 
though  she  must  give  out,  a gift  came 
which  she  felt  free  to  use  for  a vaca- 
tion. She  went  for  a few  days  to 
Mardin,  making  the  trip  serve  the  in- 
terests of  her  work,  but  regarding  it 
as  God’s  provision  for  her  in  her  ex- 
tremity, and  returned  refreshed.  She 
was  sure  that  the  Lord  whom  she 
trusted  was  able  to  take  care  of  her, 
and  so  had  peace. 

“Measure  thy  life  by  loss  instead  of  gain  ; 

Not  by  the  wine  drunk,  but  by  the  wine 
poured  forth ; 

For  love’s  strength  standeth  in  love’s 
sacrifice.  ’ ’ 


MISSIONARY  QUALIFICATIONS 

By  Rev.  GEORGE  W.  HINMAN,  Missionary  in  China,  1898-1909 


The  true  missionary,  in  relation  to 
those  for  whom  he  works,  will  be 
kind  without  condescension,  sympa- 
thetic without  credulity,  simple  but 
never  shallow,  patient  but  never  satis- 
fied with  small  results.  He  will  be  a 
teacher  without  dogmatism,  a leader 
without  arrogance,  a benefactor  with- 
out patronage,  using  authority  but 


without  harshness,  using  money  but  so 
as  not  to  produce  servility  or  depend- 
ence, using  the  influence  of  his  unique 
position  with  a restraint  born  of  the 
consciousness  that  great  opportunities 
bring  great  responsibilities  and  great 
temptations.  Such  a missionary  will 
preach  in  a language  that  all  nations 
can  understand. 


HOME  DEPARTMENT 

Conducted  by  SECRETARY  PATTON 


PRAYING  WHILE  WE  RUN 


Two  small  boys  were  late  to  school. 
One  said,  “Let’s  pray  about  it.”  The 
other  panted,  “Let’s  pray,  but  keep  on 
running.”  That  is  our  thought  this 
month.  We  are  giving  thanks  for  all 
the  way  the  Lord  has  brought  us,  but 
are  not  unmindful  of  dread  possibilities 
in  the  coming  three  months. 

The  friends  of  the  Board  are  work- 
ing— that  is  evident  from  the  letters 
arriving  at  the  Treasurer’s  desk,  which 
tell  of  conferences  with  leading  laymen 
about  the  Apportionment  Plan,  with 
Sunday  school  superintendents  and  per- 
sons blessed  with  wealth  and  a willing 
heart.  Gifts  from  churches  and  indi- 
viduals for  the  month  of  May  show 
an  increase  of  $5,000.  That  represents 
a treasure  of  good  will  and  earnest 
effort  far  beyond  the  figures.  May 
spiritual  blessings  come  to  every  pas- 


tor and  worker  who  has  shared  in  the 
privilege ! 

Lest  any  of  us  begin  to  sing  before 
the  battle  is  over  it  should  be  pointed 
out  that  the  total  increase  shown  for 
the  nine  months  is  hardly  a safe  figure 
on  which  to  base  calculations.  Only 
one-third  of  the  increase  in  the  legacies 
is  available  for  this  year;  the  $27,113 
in  special  gifts  does  not  help  the  treas- 
ury at  all,  and  the  balance  of  the  fund 
to  clear  the  debt  must  be  discounted 
from  the  total.  There  has  been  a con- 
siderable increase  in  the  cost  of  carry- 
ing on  the  work  without  being  able  to 
make  an  equally  large  increase  in  the 
general  appropriations,  so  we  cannot 
yet  rejoice  as  those  who  lay  aside  their 
armor.  But  “so  far,  so  good,”  and  a 
song  of  praise  is  in  the  hearts  of  the 
Board’s  friends. 


THE  FINANCIAL  STATEMENT 


Received  in  May 


From 

Churches 

From 

Individuals  : 

From 

Woman’s 

Boards 

From 
S.S.  and 
Y.  P.  S. 
C.  E. 

For 

Special 
i Objects 

From 

Legacies 

Interest 

Miscel. 

Totals 

1909 

1910 

* 

£11,617.78 

* 

£8,909.44 

£16,780.48 
19,643.32  ' 

£959.33 
912.76  . 

£5,042.71 

10,780.22 

£1,681.29 

8,627.42 

£1,422.50 

1,296.50 

£41,350.62 

61,787.44 

Gain 

Loss 

£2,862.84 

£46.57 

£5,737.51 

£6,946.13 

£126.00 

£20,436.82 

♦Churches  and  Individuals  . 


(Total,  1909 
l Total,  1910 


£15,464.51 ) Gain  ^ 
20  527  22  ) ^"oss 


For  Nine  Months  to  May  31 


1909 

1910 

£165,776.47 

• 

£45,248.38  i 

£160,709.15 

176,160.39 

£8,702.92 
8,897.62  | 

<46,724.67 

73,83S.44 

£66,501.83 

114,255.80 

£16,047.66 

15,846.51 

£7,595.86 

35,935.58 

£498,246.63 

635,959.19 

Gain 

Loss 

£15,451.24 

' £194.70  j 

£27,113.77 

£47,753.97 

£201.15 

£28,339.72 

£137,712.56 

(Total,  1909 

♦Churches  and  Individuals  . . . \ 

(Total,  1910 


£191,964.54  ) 
211,024.85 ) 


Gain  £19,060.31 
Loss 


314 


1910 


Home  Department 


315 


SHINING  EXAMPLES 

A remarkable  thing  happened  in  the 
First  Congregational  Church  of  Chicago 
after  the  National  Missionary  Congress. 
Although  this  church  is  in  the  very 
storm  center  of  city  mission  work,  and 
is  confronted  by  problems  which  would 
appall  an  ordinary  congregation,  the 
pastor  and  some  of  the  leading  mem- 
bers became  so  stirred  by  the  recital  of 
the  need  of  the  non-Christian  world  at 
the  Congress  that  immediately  a move- 
ment was  started  looking  to  a special 
centennial  offering  for  the  American 
Board.  It  was  voted  in  the  midweek 
service  to  secure  $1,000.  No  collection 
was  taken,  but  at  the  close  of  the 
next  Sunday  morning  service  individ- 
uals handed  in  pledges  for  $1,050.25. 
On  the  next  day  additional  pledges 
brought  the  sum  up  to  $1,180.25.  One 
woman  over  seventy  years  of  age,  who 
has  a crippled  right  hand  which  pre- 
vents work,  and  who  lives  on  a pension  of 
twelve  dollars  a month,  was  one  of  the 
donors.  The  father  of  one  of  our  mis- 
sionaries in  China  was  in  the  forefront 
of  the  movement.  This  gift,  coming 
under  such  circumstances,  we  regard 
as  one  of  the  most  significant  events 
of  this  centennial  year. 

The  cheering  thing  in  the  day’s  work 
is  to  hear  of  churches,  east  or  west, 
small  or  large,  rich  or  poor,  which  are 
making  high  scores  in  benevolent  in- 
creases. One  pastor  reports  that  the 
Apportionment  Plan  and  the  Every- 
Member-Canvass  was  the  proper  combi- 
nation in  his  church,  for  in  a campaign 
marked  by  earnestness  and  enthusiasm 
the  church  has  pledged  its  full  appor- 
tionment for  next  year,  including  an 
even  $100  for  the  Board  in  contrast  to 
a gift  of  $5.75  last  year,  and  slightly 
over  six  dollars  the  year  before.  The 
entire  church  has  reached  new  convic- 
tions concerning  world  responsibility. 

In  the  Eliot  Church  in  Lowell  the 
same  testimony  holds . Some  of  the  lead- 
ing members  feared  that  an  Every-Mem- 
ber-Canvass  for  benevolences  would  in- 
jure church  support,  so  they  first  raised 
the  entire  subscription  for  the  church 


budget  the  coming  year,  and  then  com- 
pleted the  apportionment  of  $600,  al- 
though under  the  old  methods  they 
have  rarely  come  through  a year  with- 
out the  possibility  of  some  small  deficit. 
The  churches  which  were  stirred  by  the 
Laymen’s  Campaigns  are  still  sending 
in  their  reports  of  things  accomplished. 
The  Central  Church  of  Providence  has 
added  one  more  gem  to  its  crown  by 
taking  up  the  support  of  Paul  Corbin 
and  his  wife,  of  China,  as  an  increase 
above  their  usual  gift.  The  church  in 
Glen  Ridge,  N.  J.,  is  to  take  up  the 
salary  of  the  man  who  goes  to  the  Phil- 
ippines (when  he  is  found)  at  $600,  and 
with  the  assurance  that  this  gift  is  dis- 
tinctly an  extra  above  their  former 
missionary  offerings. 

Wherever  the  men  of  the  church  are 
called  together  to  be  given  a chance  to 
discuss  and  to  determine  the  figure  of 
their  benevolences  for  the  coming  year, 
and  wherever  the  Every-Member-Can- 
vass  is  being  used  as  the  climax  of  an 
enthusiastic  campaign,  the  results  are 
proving  that  the  men  are  willing  and 
that  the  plans  are  adequate. 

Let  this  illustration  suggest  the  spirit 
of  loyalty  that  is  moving  in  many  of  our 
churches.  When  a state  chairman  of 
apportionment  sent  a letter  to  all  of  the 
churches,  urging  them  to  keep  in  line 
in  this  movement,  and  suggesting  that 
the  pastor  should  deal  with  the  men 
and  reach  conclusions,  one  church  wrote 
back  that  they  had  not  had  a pastor  for 
years,  nor  was  there  remaining  a single 
male  member  of  the  church.  There 
were  a few  women  back  in  the  moun- 
tains working  their  stony  farms,  but 
they  said,  “We  will  keep  in  line  be- 
cause we  love  the  past  of  our  Church, 
and  of  this  church.”  The  entire  ap- 
portionment was  only  twenty-four  dol- 
lars, but  that  same  spirit  in  the  middle- 
sized  and  the  stronger  churches  means 
a new  era  of  power  for  Congregation- 
alism. 

THE  JOY  OF  GIVING 

The  most  blessed  thing  about  mis- 
sionary offerings  is  the  number  of 
instances  of  real  sacrifice  that  become 


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July 


known  now  and  then.  The  other  day 
there  was  brought  to  our  office  a pack- 
age containing  five  shining  ten-dollar 
gold  pieces,  the  gift  of  an  elderly  woman 
in  grateful  recognition  of  three  rela- 
tives who  have  been  missionaries  of  the 
Board.  One  of  these  was  a member  of 
the  Haystack  Band,  another  was  one  of 
the  first  missionaries  to  the  Sandwich 
Islands,  and  the  third  was  one  of  the 
first  missionaries  to  China.  Perhaps 
this  will  suggest  other  memorial  gifts 
in  recognition  of  the  work  of  mission- 
ary relatives. 

One  man  from  Oklahoma,  a veteran 
of  the  Civil  War,  sends  forty-five  dol- 
lars as  a thanksgiving  dollar  for  every 
year  of  his  Christian  experience.  One 
woman  sends  a small  offering,  saying 
that  as  the  money  comes  to  the  Board 
Rooms  her  daughter  is  now  in  the 
group  of  new  missionaries  here  at  the 
Training  Conference,  so  that  her  gift 
represents  a mother’s  highest  devotion. 

Few  gifts  have  awakened  our  sym- 
pathy more  than  a fifty-cent  piece  sent 
a few  days  ago  with  the  following 
note : — 

“This  is  just  a little.  There  is  very 
little  earning  for  the  last  three  months. 
My  husband  has  not  been  working  and 
has  not  been  feeling  well.  This  is  a part 
of  what  I earned  today  at  the  wash  tub. 
I don’t  feel  any  too  well  either ; but 
there,  never  mind,  that  is  too  like  com- 
plaining, and  I wish  I could  give  more.” 

A missionary  sends  in  a gold  Turkish 
pound.  Many  years  ago,  while  a mis- 
sionary on  the  field,  he  was  robbed  of 
this  coin  by  brigands  on  the  road,  but 
recovering  it  later  he  kept  it  as  a 
pocket  piece  for  years  as  a constant 
reminder  of  his  deliverance.  The  re- 
cent centennial  appeal  led  him  to  de- 
vote it  to  the  work  in  Turkey.  Some 
of  you  saw  in  a recent  number  of  the 
Bulletin  mention  of  the  school  that  was 
needed  for  Ceylon,  to  cost  thirty-five 
dollars.  One  woman  telegraphed  for 
the  privilege  of  taking  it  up.  Since 
that  day  nine  different  persons  have 
sent  the  cash  to  carry  that  work  on. 
It  suggests  that  hearts  are  open  as 
never  before. 


A letter  comes  from  a family  in  the 
South  inclosing  a check  for  $100 : 
“Saved  in  household  expenses  in  our 
home  during  the  months  of  January 
and  February  by  dispensing  with  the 
help  of  a maid,  the  rest  of  the  family 
assuming  her  duties.  We  want  the 
women  and  children  of  Turkey,  suffer- 
ing from  famine,  to  know  that  some  of 
us  here  in  America  have  heard  their 
cry,  ‘Give  us  bread  or  we  die.’  We 
send  this  with  our  sympathy  and  love, 
leaving  it  to  your  judgment  where  and 
how  the  money  shall  be  used.” 

HERE  AM  I — SEND  ME 

As  long  as  men  and  women  like  these 
thirty  now  in  the  Training  Conference 
are  offering  themselves  for  the  work 
abroad,  friends  of  missions  can  remain 
optimists.  The  Secretaries  have  felt 
that  the  Board  has  never  sent  out  so 
strong  a group.  Four  of  them  are 
fellowship  men  from  their  seminaries, 
with  one  or  two  years  of  study  abroad 
to  crown  their  equipment.  In  their 
farewell  service  at  Providence  their 
addresses  were  exceedingly  keen,  ear- 
nest, and  attractive.  Three  of  the 
number  have  no  support  provided  for 
them  as  yet.  Does  any  individual  read 
these  words  who  would  like  to  make 
an  investment  of  $500  a year  to  sup- 
port one  of  these  splendid  young  men 
or  young  women?  If  any  person  has 
been  considering  the  possibility  of  mak- 
ing a memorial  gift  to  the  Board  which 
would  provide  a building  in  one  of  our 
schools,  or  add  new  equipment  to  some 
department  of  a college,  or  erect  a 
long-needed  church  for  some  faithful 
congregation  (investments  represented 
by  sums  from  $300  to  $3,000)  give  the 
Home  Secretary  the  joy  of  describing 
some  of  these  needs. 

A MAN’S  JOB 

This  expression  has  come  into  vogue 
in  connection  with  the  conventions  of 
the  Laymen’s  Missionary  Movement. 
It  has  been  used  repeatedly  by  speakers 
in  the  men’s  banquets  and  has  met  with 
instant  response  on  the  part  of  the  au- 


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diences.  The  purport  of  the  phrase, 
of  course,  is  clear.  It  is  intended  to 
convey  the  idea  of  the  dignity  and 
greatness  of  the  foreign  missionary  en- 
terprise, to  suggest  that  this  movement 
is  worthy  of  the  interest  and  devotion 
of  the  best  men  of  the  churches.  If 
it  is  also  intended  as  an  allusion  to 
the  fact  that  foreign  missions  have 
been  left  too  largely  to  the  women,  no 
one  will  be  likely  to  quarrel  with  the 
statement. 

Nevertheless  we  confess  to  not  liking 
this  phrase.  In  the  first  place  it  is  not 
dignified  to  speak  of  bringing  the  world 
to  Jesus  Christ  as  a job.  The  word 
has  too  many  belittling  associations 
to  make  its  use  in  this  connection  ap- 
propriate. The  young  men  who  are 
offering  their  lives  for  the  service  of 
Christ  in  China  or  Turkey  are  not  seek- 
ing a job.  And  the  men  who  are  to 
stand  behind  them  at  home  in  prayer 
and  giving  should  not  have  their  part 
in  such  an  undertaking  set  forth  in  the 
terminology  of  the  employment  bureau. 
Moreover,  it  is  not  true  that  foreign 
missions  are  a man’s  job.  They  belong 
to  men  no  more  than  to  women.  If  the 
women  should  take  this  phrase  seri- 
ously and  proceed  to  withdraw  from 
missionary  work,  it  would  be  about  the 
most  serious  blow  the  cause  could  sus- 
tain. The  cause  of  world  evangeliza- 
tion owes  more  to  women  than  can 
possibly  be  estimated.  Probably  two- 
thirds  of  all  the  missionaries  are  women. 
In  our  own  Board  the  proportion  of 
women  to  men  is  379  to  202.  As  to 
the  character  of  their  work  it  is  inex- 
pressibly fine.  There  is  nothing  in  all 
the  realm  of  human  achievement  nobler 
than  the  work  of  the  teachers  and  work- 
ers sustained  by  the  Woman’s  Boards 
of  America. 

So,  also,  with  the  devotion  of  the 
women  at  home.  As  a matter  of  fact, 
the  gifts  of  the  men  have  always  far 
exceeded  the  gifts  of  the  women ; but 
that  should  not  blind  us  to  the  truth 
that  during  all  these  years,  when  for- 
eign missions  have  been  struggling  for 
recognition,  the  devotion  of  the  women 
has  been  a mainstay  in  the  work,  and 


today  is  affording  a model  for  the  new 
activity  and  methods  of  the  laymen  in 
this  work. 

We  would  not  take  this  catchy  phrase 
too  seriously,  yet  we  do  feel  like  utter- 
ing a mild  protest,  lest  it  be  regarded 
as  implying  more  than  is  true.  It  is 
not  that  the  women  have  done  too 
much  (alas,  most  of  them  are  doing 
nothing  at  all !),  but  that  the  men  have 
done  too  little.  We  welcome  a pleasant 
rivalry  of  sexes  in  this  business  of  the 
Lord  ; but  we  hope  we  never  shall  lose 
sight  of  the  fact  that  ‘ ‘ we  are  laborers 
together  with  God.” 

EFFECTIVE  WORK  BY 
MISSIONARIES  AT  HOME 

This  year  has  brought  great  oppor- 
tunities to  many  of  our  missionaries 
who  have  traveled  with  the  Laymen’s 
Missionary  Movement  in  the  East  and 
West.  The  testimony  from  them  all 
is  that  never  were  the  churches  of 
America  so  open-hearted  to  the  mis- 
sionaries’ support.  Mr.  Perkins,  of 
Aruppukottai,  India,  says:  “When  I 
was  here  before  it  seemed  one  had  to 
apologize  for  giving  a missionary  ad- 
dress. Now  you  all  are  eager  to  hear. 
You  give  us  new  courage.  We  feel  as 
though  you  were  standing  with  us,  and 
that  we  could  go  forward  with  a larger 
joy.”  Mr.  William  Hazen,  of  Shola- 
pur,  did  a most  thorough  piece  of  work 
in  the  churches  of  Chittenden  County, 
Vt.,  visiting  all  the  churches  in  the 
association  with  two  exceptions.  The 
margin  of  his  support  not  fully  cov- 
ered by  the  First  Church  of  Burlington 
will  be  taken  up  by  others  of  these 
churches,  and  many  gifts  under  the 
Station  Plan  have  been  received  from 
individuals.  He  carried  an  outfit  of 
stereopticon  slides  and  made  the  Ori- 
ental picture  one  of  reality  and  attrac- 
tiveness. President  Merrill,  of  Aintab, 
Dr.  Jones,  of  Madura,  Mr.  McNaugh- 
ton,  of  Smyrna,  Dr.  Pettee,  of  Japan, 
Mr.  Knapp  and  Mr.  Clark,  of  Nagar, 
have  become  well  known  to  large  and 
interested  audiences  of  men  during  the 
year’s  work. 


FOREIGN  DEPARTMENT 


SOME  THINGS  LEARNED  IN  ONE 
HUNDRED  YEARS 

Exaltation  of  Medical  Missions 

By  Secretary  JAMES  L.  BARTON 


IN  the  earlier  days  of  modern  mis- 
sions the  medical  missionary  was  an 
incident.  He  was  a missionary  who 
also  practiced  medicine  in  the  course 
of  his  evangelistic  work.  It  was  not 
expected  that  he  would  have  a hospital, 
and  in  many  cases  not  even  a well-reg- 
ulated dispensary.  He  carried  with 
him  a few  fundamental  remedies,  was 
able  to  do  simple  surgery  without  as- 
sistance or  apparatus,  and,  like  the 
others,  he  preached.  At  the  same 
time  many  of  the  ordained  missionaries 
who  had  never  taken  courses  in  medi- 
cine practiced  simple  surgery  and  doled 
out  medicines. 

Until  past  the  middle  of  the  last  cen- 
tury medical  work  was  unorganized, 
although  under  the  American  Board 
there  were  and  had  been  many  able 
physicians  and  surgeons  who  accom- 
plished without  modern  equipment 
what  many  physicians  of  the  present 
day  are  unable  to  excel.  The  modern 
hospital  in  the  mission  field  is  a dis- 
covery of  the  present  missionary  gen- 
eration. This  has  necessarily  led  to  a 
more  clearly  defined  line  of  division 
between  the  work  of  the  preaching  and 
teaching  missionary  and  the  missionary 
physician.  This  may  be  called  the  be- 
ginning of  the  recognition  that  there 
is  a place  for  specialists  among  the 
regularly  appointed  missionaries. 

As  the  work  was  better  organized  it 
became  apparent  that  if  the  missionary 
physician  kept  up  with  his  profession 
and  held  himself  in  readiness  to  re- 
spond to  the  calls  that  came  to  him, 

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he  must  look  upon  medical  practice  as 
the  work  which  had  been  peculiarly 
committed  to  him.  At  the  same  time 
prejudice  among  the  native  peoples 
against  the  foreign  doctor  had  beon 
gradually  giving  way,  and  as  a result 
the  calls  for  his  services  became  more 
numerous  and  the  work  more  exacting. 
All  this  led  to  a demand  for  the  prac- 
tice of  more  critical  surgery,  and  calls 
to  cases  of  serious  illness  multiplied. 
It  was  manifestly  impossible  for  such 
to  be  properly  treated  unless  they 
could  be  wholly  under  the  doctor’s 
care.  No  severe  case  of  sickness  could 
be  wisely  dealt  with  so  long  as  the  pa- 
tient remained  in  his  own  house,  at- 
tended by  those  who  were  wholly  igno- 
rant and  untrustworthy.  Under  such 
circumstances  surgical  dressings  were 
often  removed  to  exhibit  the  details  of 
the  operation  to  an  inquisitive  crowd, 
with  the  result  that  the  condition  cf 
the  patient  was  made  more  deplorable 
by  the  very  attempt  of  the  missionary 
to  afford  relief. 

The  only  natural  result  of  such  con- 
ditions was  the  missionary  hospital. 
At  first  these  were  exceedingly  unpre- 
tentious ; only  a few  rooms  into  which 
the  patients  might  be  taken  and  cared 
for  under  the  doctor’s  directions  and 
attended  by  native  assistants  whom  the 
doctor  himself  had  trained.  In  the 
meantime  there  was  great  advance  in 
the  practice  of  medicine,  and  especially 
in  surgery,  in  Christian  countries.  It 
could  not  be  expected  that  young  men 
and  women  trained  in  the  modern  med- 


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ical  schools  would  be  content  to  prac- 
tice their  profession  under  external 
conditions  that  gave  promise  only  of 
disaster.  The  tendency,  therefore,  in 
the  simple  mission  hospitals  and  dis- 
pensaries was  towards  modern  operat- 
ing rooms,  antiseptic  treatment,  and 
better  lighted  and  ventilated  wards. 
This  naturally  localized  the  medical 
missionary,  who  seldom  found  himself 
far  away  from  his  hospital  and  dispen- 
sary. The  patients  began  to  seek  the 
missionary,  whereas  formerly  the  mis- 
sionary sought  the  patients.  The  ne- 
cessity of  searching  for  those  who  need 
the  medical  missionary’s  services  has 
largely  passed,  although  the  doctor  is 
always  alert  to  seek  out  those  who  are 
unable  to  come  to  him. 

It  must  be  stated  here  that  the  med- 
ical conditions  prevailing  in  the  interior 
of  Africa  differ  widely  from  those  in 
Turkey  and  China.  But  even  in  all 
parts  of  Africa  the  absolute  need  of 
the  hospital  is  recognized. 

The  next  factor  in  the  development 
of  this  work  was  the  trained  nurse. 
This  indispensable  assistant  in  every 
case  of  severe  sickness  is  comparatively 
a modern  discovery  even  in  America. 
She  was  unknown  in  the  East.  It  is 
within  the  last  half  of  the  present  gen- 
eration that  it  has  been  deemed  by  the 
Board  wise  to  commission  and  send  out 
a trained  nurse  as  a missionary.  It  is 
interesting  to  note  how  quickly  the 
idea  has  taken  root.  The  able,  devout, 
missionary  trained  nurse  has  already 
made  a place  for  herself,  not  only  in 
the  missionary  hospital,  but  as  an  insti- 
tution among  Eastern  peoples.  The 
first  nurses’  training  school  in  Japan 
was  connected  with  our  mission  hos- 
pital in  Kyoto.  At  the  present  time, 
in  connection  with  every  missionary 
hospital  that  has  been  blessed  with  a 
trained  nurse,  there  are  schools  for 
training  Christian  nurses  from  among 
the  native  girls  who  have  already  re- 
ceived an  education  in  mission  schools. 
A new  Christian  profession  has  thus 
been  opened  to  the  Eastern  woman, 
while  through  such  gladly  accepted 
services  Christianity  is  commended  to 


homes  that  otherwise  would  be  closed. 
The  trained  nurse  has  more  than  dou- 
bled the  effectiveness  of  work  done  by 
the  medical  missionary. 

There  is  a time  limit  to  the  demand 
for  medical  missionary  services  in  the 
East.  Naturally  the  medical  profes- 
sion is  attractive  to  the  bright  young 
men  of  those  countries  who  have  re- 
ceived their  education  in  Europe  or 
America.  A limited  number  of  these 
who  have  the  true  missionary  spirit 
work  with  the  missionaries.  Others 
set  up  in  practice  for  themselves,  not 
a few  as  earnest  Christian  physicians. 
It  can  be  readily  understood  that  it 
would  be  unfortunate,  to  say  the  least, 
for  missionary  physicians  to  appear  in 
their  medical  practice  as  competitors 
or  rivals  of  native  doctors  who  are  en- 
deavoring to  earn  an  honest  living  by 
an  intelligent  practice  of  medicine. 
Already  in  Japan  the  Japanese  physi- 
cians have  reached  such  a stage  of 
training  that  the  missionaries  are  as 
satisfied  with  them  as  with  a mission- 
ary doctor,  and  the  people  prefer  them. 
There  is  now  no  call  for  more  medical 
missionaries  to  Japan.  In  China  and 
Turkey  we  must  expect  the  same  re- 
sults in  time,  although  that  time  is  not 
close  at  hand. 

It  is  universally  recognized  that  the 
medical  missionary,  especially  among 
a primitive  and  rude  people,  is  able  to 
accomplish  much  as  a pioneer  in  break- 
ing down  prejudice,  disarming  suspi- 
cion, and  winning  a hearing  for  the 
preacher.  Among  more  civilized  peo- 
ples he  and  his  staff  are  powerful  dem- 
onstrators of  some  of  the  fundamental 
principles  of  Christianity.  Often  the 
sermon  of  the  Christian  physician, 
nurse,  and  hospital  is  more  powerful 
than  those  preached  from  the  pulpits. 

It  has,  however,  been  demonstrated 
that  if  overemphasized  the  missionary 
character  of  the  work  sinks  into  the 
background.  He  who  went  out  to  his 
work  as  a missionary  physician  may  be- 
come a mere  doctor.  Without  any  de- 
cision as  to  policy  or  any  agreement 
between  the  different  missionary  soci- 
eties in  actual  practice  throughout  the 


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world,  about  one  missionary  in  ten  is 
a physician.  At  the  present  time  the 
American  Board  has  less  than  that 
number,  but  there  is  pressing  need  of 
the  twelve  physicians  who  are  lacking 
to  make  up  the  one-tenth. 

The  missionary  physician  supplements 
the  work  of  the  preacher  and  teacher 
who  follow  up  the  results  of  medical 
practice.  When  patients  return  to  re- 
mote villages  and  carry  with  them  the 
new  Christian  vision  they  have  caught 
while  in  the  hospital,  the  Christian 
preacher  and  teacher  must  follow,  to 
cultivate  the  seed  that  has  been  sown. 

The  present  tendency  is  to  perfect 
more  thoroughly  the  great  central 
medical  plants,  equip  them  with  two 
physicians,  either  one  of  whom  is  com- 
petent to  keep  the  work  going  alone, 
and  to  make  the  training  of  nurses 
under  a competent  missionary  nurse  a 
feature.  These  great  central  hospitals 


FIELD 

Strategic  Ground 

( European  Turkey  Field ) 

In  notes  recently  made  by  Rev.  P.  B. 
Kennedy  on  Albania  as  a mission  field, 
special  point  is  made  of  its  strategic 
character  and  of  the  urgency  of  present 
opportunity  there : — 

“Albania  is  the  magnificently  moun- 
tainous country  in  the  western  part  of 
Turkey  in  Europe  bordering  on  the 
Adriatic.  Work  has  just  been  com- 
menced here  by  the  American  Board, 
although  it  has  been  interested  for 
many  years  in  the  Boarding  School  for 
Girls  in  Kortcha,  successfully  conducted 
by  Miss  Sevasti  Kyrias,  whose  recent 
resignation  will  necessitate  important 
changes.  The  work  has  been  under 
constant  persecution  both  by  the  gov- 
ernment and  by  the  Greek  Orthodox 
Church.  At  the  present  time  this  school 
has  sixty  day  scholars  and  twenty  board- 
ers. Girls  are  being  declined  admis- 
sion for  lack  of  room,  as  the  present 
quarters  are  very  cramped. 

“ As  this  nation  is  just  awakening  to 


are  welcomed  by  the  trained  native 
doctor,  who  is  now  able  to  take  much 
of  the  more  common  practice  that  once 
came  to  the  missionary.  The  two  phy- 
sicians are  necessary  to  prevent  the 
closing  of  the  hospital  when  the  physi- 
cian in  charge  is  away  for  furlough  or 
on  vacation  or  when  he  may  be  ill. 
There  is  a consensus  of  judgment  that 
the  mission  hospital  and  dispensary 
plant  should  be  large  enough  to  accom- 
modate the  constantly  increasing  num- 
ber of  patients  who  flock  to  them,  that 
they  should  have  at  least  two  mission- 
ary physicians  in  charge  and  a trained 
nurse  from  home.  The  China  Medical 
Association  has  recently  expressed  it- 
self clearly  upon  this  point. 

So  long  as  mission  work  is  carried  on 
among  the  people  of  the  East  we  can- 
not but  follow  in  the  footsteps  of  Jesus 
Christ,  who  spoke  as  never  man  spoke, 
and  “healed  all  manner  of  diseases.’ ’ 


NOTES 

the  use  of  its  language,  the  need  and 
opportunity  for  Christian  literature  are 
beyond  description.  I think  it  is  the 
last  nation  on  the  face  of  the  earth 
that  has  not  the  Holy  Bible  in  its  own 
language,  although  the  British  and  For- 
eign Bible  Society  is  now  considering 
taking  up  this  work.  They  have  placed 
a large  printing  press  in  Monastir  for 
this  purpose.  The  Albanians  them- 
selves have  commenced  the  publication 
of  several  newspapers.  Now  is  the  op- 
portunity to  give  them  Christian  liter- 
ature, lest  other  influences  mar  their 
bright  future. 

‘ * Evangelistic  work  is  also  being  com- 
menced in  Elbasan,  a city  in  Albania 
three  days’  journey  by  horse  north  of 
Kortcha.  Efforts  are  being  made  to 
open  a large  institution  for  boys  and 
young  men . Albanians  themselves,  both 
Christians  and  Moslems,  are  eager  for 
it.  Such  an  institution,  and  possibly  a 
hospital  later  on,  would  advance  greatly 
the  interests  of  Christ  at  this  strategic 
point.  A trip  by  horse  (there  is  no 


girls’  school,  kortcha,  boarding  department 


other  means  of  conveyance)  through 
this  country  is  not  only  intensely  inter- 
esting, but  reveals  its  great  importance 
as  a missionary  field.  To  reach  the 
Moslem  world  you  must  reach  Turkey. 
To  reach  Turkey  you  must  reach  the 
strong,  virile  race  of  Albanians,  who 
hold  so  many  positions  of  leadership 
throughout  the  empire,  especially  in 
the  army.  To  reach  Albania  the  splen- 
did providential  opening  amongst  this 
strong,  independent  race  must  be  im- 
proved.” 

Rediscovering  China 

C Foochow  Field) 

With  a joy  too  great  for  words,  Rev. 
Edward  H.  Smith  finds  himself  after 
a furlough  of  eighteen  months  back  at 
his  station  in  China,  with  its  familiar 
scenes.  But  some  of  their  familiarity 
has  disappeared  even  in  that  short 
space.  Such  changes  have  taken  place 
as  made  it  necessary  almost  to  redis- 
cover his  field  of  work.  The  material 
progress  made  in  so  brief  an  interval 
Mr.  Smith  pictures  -thus : — 


“Bigger  schools  and  more  of  them; 
the  opium  reform  pushing  the  drug 
steadily  and  finally  out  of  the  empire ; 
the  city  streets  lighted  by  night  and, 
wonder  of  wonders,  swept  by  day; 
uniformed  and  orderly  police  keeping 
order  on  these  same  streets,  while  the 
postman  makes  his  rounds,  delivering 
newspapers  and  letters.  Telephone 
bells  resound  in  the  schools  and  larger 
stores  as  well  as  in  yamens ; but  the  best 
of  all  is  the  persuasive  influence  of  the 
Christian  Church,  felt  and  acknowl- 
edged as  never  before  in  the  new  life 
and  thought  of  this  wonderful  decade. 
The  village  or  city  that  has  not  felt  the 
thrill  of  the  new  day  is  a marked  ex- 
ception. The  opportunity  is  now  be- 
fore the  church  to  do  a real  spiritual 
work  in  the  hearts  of  sincere  men  and 
women.  It  is  not  a time  of  crowded 
chapels  and  great  excitement  over  the 
foreign  religion.  But  spiritual  leaders 
of  the  church  agree  that  intelligent 
and  honest  men  and  women  are  accept- 
ing the  gospel  as  perhaps  never  before. 

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Educational  Advance 

“Again  the  tremendous  power  and 
sweep  of  the  educational  movement 
impresses  one.  It  is  growing  by  leaps 
and  bounds ! It  is  the  most  popular 
topic  of  conversation  and  discussion. 
The  church,  having  always  stood  for 
education  is  now  in  a position,  if  prop- 
erly re-enforced  and  equipped,  to  make 
a profound  impression  on  this  move- 


ment, with  great  possibilities.  Our 
schools  ought  to  be  made  and  kept  the 
best  of  their  kind.  Foreign  teachers 
are  needed  in  every  station  to  take 
charge  of  this  work  that  alone  can  give 
us  an  adequate  evangelistic  force  of 
native  helpers  to  carry  it  on.  We 
labor  among  a strong,  self-reliant  peo- 
ple. Can  one  fear  for  the  future  of 
the  church  when  it  is  in  the  hands  of 
such  men  as  these?” 


LETTERS  FROM  THE  MISSIONS 


WESTERN  TURKEY  MISSION 

LEAVENING  THE  LUMP 

That  a new  leaven  of  thought  and 
spirit  is  at  work  among  the  Turkish 
people  since  freedom  of  speech  has 
been  realized  becomes  increasingly 
manifest.  Our  missionaries  are  ob- 
serving it  with  deepest  interest,  in 
which  intense  satisfaction  is  not  un- 
mixed with  some  apprehension.  They 
recognize  it  as  conditioning  materially 
the  methods  and  progress  of  their 


DR._  RIZA  TEWFIK  BEY 


work.  Miss  Etta  D.  Marden  in  a re- 
cent letter  from  Constantinople  ex- 
hibits something  of  the  leavening 
process,  as  follows:  — 

‘ ‘ Our  Board  and  its  missionaries  have 
long  waited  for  the  very  things  that  are 
happening  here  today,  and  we  are  re- 


joicing with  an  exceeding  great  joy. 
Our  school  full  of  Moslem  children,  our 
friendly  relations  with  our  Turkish 
neighbors,  and  later  the  various  nation- 
alities coming  together  in  public  meet- 
ings, all  of  these  things  indicate  the 
trend  of  the  times.  At  intervals  the 
latter  part  of  the  winter  we  have  been 
having  what  we  call  here  ‘ Confer- 
ences,’ really  lectures,  for  both  men 
and  women.  Those  for  men  have  been 
conducted  by  Mr.  Krikorian  and  a 
Turkish  gentleman,  Dr.  Riza  Tewfik 
Bey,  a student  and  philosopher,  a 
member  of  parliament,  and  the  most 
brilliant  speaker  in  the  city.  During 
these  late  years  of  repression  many 
Turks  have  found  solace  and  interest 
in  the  writings  of  Herbert  Spencer. 
In  our  first  conference  Mr.  Krikorian 
gave  a sketch  of  the  life  of  the  philoso- 
pher and  a brief  outline  of  his  philos- 
ophy. Dr.  Riza  Bey  followed  with  an 
elaboration  of  his  First  Principles,  in 
a very  masterly  way.  Later  we  had 
conferences  on  Evolution,  addresses  by 
both  these  men,  the  audience  being 
composed  of  all  nationalities,  and  lim- 
ited only  by  the  size  of  our  rooms. 
How  much  we  need  more  room ! Do 
you  think  we  shall  ever  have  it? 

“ On  Easter  Sunday  Dr.  Burton,  pres- 
ident of  Smith  College,  gave  a masterly 
address  in  the  Bible  House  on  the  limita- 
tions of  knowledge,  interpreted  by  Mr. 
Krikorian.  The  chapel  was  full  of  the 
three  nationalities,  all  charmed  by  the 
earnestness  of  this  ‘lovable’  man,  as 


ST.  PAUL’S  INSTITUTE,  TARSUS 

1.  New  Hall  (unfinished).  2.  Hospital.  3.  Dormitory.  College,  School,  and  Dining  Rooms.  4.  Small 
Dormitory.  5.  Mission  Residence.  6.  Dormitory,  and  Academy  Schoolroom 


one  of  my  Turkish  students  called  him. 
Dr.  Riza  Bey  was  present  and  spoke 
also,  thanking-  Dr.  Burton  for  his  ad- 
dress, and  for  the  suggestive  thoughts 
it  contained.  Religion,  he  said,  should 
not  separate  us,  but  draw  us  together. 
May  we  not  surely  believe  that  a new 
era  has  dawned  upon  Turkey  when  two 
such  men  address  such  an  audience  in 
such  a place  ? ” 


CENTRAL  TURKEY  MISSION 

THE  NEW  AND  THE  OLD  AT  TARSUS 

Inclosed  with  a letter  of  Dr.  Thomas 
D.  Christie  from  Tarsus,  April  21,  was 
the  accompanying  picture.  It  shows 
the  buildings  new  and  old  of  St.  Paul’s 
Institute,  so  numbered  that  they  may 
be  readily  identified.  The  following  is 
Dr.  Christie’s  description  of  them  in 
their  present  condition  : — 

‘ ‘ The  floors,  the  stairs,  the  partitions, 
the  doors  and  windows,  and  the  fittings 
needed  for  the  chapel  and  the  laborato- 
ries must  wait  till  we  receive  the  $10,000 
that  they  will  cost.  We  are  now  put- 
ting in  two  of  the  four  floors  for  chapel 
and  dormitory;  that  brings  us  to  the 


end  of  our  resources.  By  laying  down 
loose  boards  last  Friday  we  were  en- 
abled to  hold  in  the  chapel  the  com- 
memorative services  of  our  more  than 
twenty  dear  martyrs ; a thousand  peo- 
ple were  in  attendance.  The  services 
were  most  impressive.  On  Sunday  a 
like  number  listened  there  to  the  preach- 
ing of  the  gospel.  Henceforth,  until 
our  Tarsus  church  get  their  new  build- 
ing, they  and  we  are  to  use  the  chapel 
together.  The  old  church  building  will 
hold  only  about  three  hundred,  so  the 
new  arrangement  gives  great  occasion 
for  thankfulness.  Besides  the  chapel, 
the  hall  will  give  us  ten  or  twelve  reci- 
tation rooms,  a gymnasium,  two  labo- 
ratories, a library,  two  rooms  for  geo- 
logical and  botanical  specimens,  and  a 
dormitory  to  hold  at  least  seventy-five 
beds.  What  the  building  will  mean  to 
us  when  completed  you  can  easily  im- 
agine. It  is  made  of  the  best  stone, 
with  foundation  walls,  thirty-nine  inches 
thick,  that  go  down  forty  feet  through 
the  ruins  of  six  ancient  cities  of  Tar- 
sus. So  we  hope  the  house  will  do  good 
service  for  Christ  and  his  church  for 
many  a century  after  you  and  we  are 
gone.” 


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July 


EUROPEAN  TURKEY  MISSION 

SIGNIFICANT  AND  WELCOME  TESTIMONY 

Rev.  Robert  Thomson,  writing  from 
Samokov,  Bulgaria,  the  25 th  of  April, 
begins  his  letter  with  the  following 
incident : — 

“An  orthodox  neighbor  was  calling 
on  Miss  Abbott  on  business  the  other 
day,  and  in  the  course  of  conversation 
said  to  her  : ‘ I can’t  tell  you  how  much 
I admire  the  work  of  the  missionaries 
here.  They  don’t  try  to  make  people 
Protestants,  but  only  to  make  them 
good.’  ” 

Mr.  Thomson  then  goes  on  to  express 
his  personal  appreciation  of  the  testi- 
mony in  warm  and  grateful  terms. 
Just  because  the  personal  note  is  so 
strong  and  full  in  the  letter  of  a man 
pre-eminent  for  modesty,  it  cannot  fail 
to  awaken  intensely  sympathetic  chords 
in  other  hearts.  Accordingly  we  quote 
the  rest  of  his  letter  nearly  in  full : — 

“I,  in  my  turn,  can’t  tell  you  how 
thankful  I am  to  hear  this  testimony, 
the  first  put  in  just  that  way  that  has 
come  to  my  ears.  If  this  testimony 
comes  from  Samokov,  where  we  proph- 
ets are  in  a sense  without  honor ; from 
Samokov,  which,  till  within  recent 
years,  has  been  so  suspicious,  cold,  and 
even  unfriendly,  what  may  we  not  be- 
lieve is  the  feeling  in  other  parts  of 
the  country?  I could  never  work  to 
proselytize  people  to  Protestantism ; 
but  I do  work  to  make  them  good. 
And  I think  that  most  of  my  colleagues 
are  of  the  same  mind.  I believe  also 
that,  with  God’s  help,  we  are  slowly 
helping  to  make  this  nation  good.  But, 
please  observe,  that  is  a kind  of  work 
that  does  not  show  in  statistics,  and 
can  show  but  little  in  reports.  And 
there  is  the  difficulty.  We  do  not  seem 
to  be  doing  much,  and  in  the  nature 
of  this  particular  mission  I don’t  be- 
lieve we  shall  ever  seem,  statistically, 
to  be  doing  very  much;  but  all  the 
same,  I believe  that  our  leavening  and 
uplifting  work  is  far  more  real  and 
widespread  and  powerful  than  even  we 
have  any  idea  of.  The  above  testi- 
mony confirms  my  belief. 


“And  another  confirmation  comes 
from  the  remarkable  gatherings  of 
ladies  who  last  week  met  to  greet  and 
listen  to  Miss  Rouse,  the  women’s  sec- 
retary of  the  World’s  Christian  Student 
Federation.  It  was  a perfect  revela- 
tion to  our  ladies  who  were  present 
at  these  meetings  how  much  longing 
after  Christ  there  is,  how  much  desire 
for  higher  and  better  ideals  amongst 
these  ladies,  how  much  aiming  at  just 
what  we  aim  at,  yet  all  outside  of  our 
work,  though,  as  we  believe,  almost 
wholly  due  to  our  work,  and  all  un- 
willing as  yet  to  show  more  than  a 
very  guarded  sympathy  with  us,  be- 
cause of  inherited  prejudices  and  the 
fear  of  public  opinion.  Yes,  this  peo- 
ple is  being  won  for  Christ,  no  matter 
how  disappointing  our  statistics  may 
seem.’’ 


FOOCHOW  MISSION 

THE  COLLEGE  OUTLOOK 

We  are  indebted  to  District  Secre- 
tary W.  L.  Beard,  of  New  York,  for 
the  following  extracts  from  letters  of 
Rev.  G.  M.  Newell  and  Mrs.  L.  P. 
Peet,  and  of  a communication  from 
Dr.  Gilbert  Reed  describing  his  visit 
to  the  Foochow  Mission  on  invitation 
of  the  college  faculty.  Together  they 
give  a cumulative  impression  of  the 
exceptional  opportunity  and  inviting- 
outlook  now  confronting  Foochow 
College. 

“It  is  the  best  opening  so  far,  I be- 
lieve,’’ writes  Mr.  Newell,  upon  the 
beginning  of  the  school  year.  “The 
college  department  is  the  largest  we 
have  ever  had  so  far,  with  twenty  boys 
in  the  first  college  year.  The  other 
boys  came  back  in  good  numbers  and 
do  not  leave  very  much  room  for  new 
boys.  Quite  one  hundred  took  the 
entrance  examinations,  of  whom  we 
admitted  only  forty-eight.  Among  the 
new  boys  we  have  a fine  class  in  the 
Chinese  course  of  about  fifteen.  They 
are  far  ahead  of  the  English  boys  in 
preparation,  and  of  course  are  all  from 
our  day  schools,  from  which  quite  a 


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number  of  our  English  course  boys 
also  came.  We  have  260  boys  in  all 
this  year,  the  most,  I think,  that  we 
have  ever  had.  There  is  much  interest 
just  now  in  Mandarin  and  bah-ee,  the 
latter  a colloquial  character  much  like 
the  Mandarin.  Evening  schools  are  to 
be  opened  this  year  throughout  the 
city,  where  working  people  can  learn 
these  two  subjects.” 

Mrs.  Peet,  after  remarking  upon  the 
need  of  expected  re-enforcements,  con- 
tinues : — 

“There  never  has  been  a finer  out- 
look in  Foochow  Mission  than  at  the 
present.  I go  tomorrow  to  call  on  the 
ladies  of  the  Imperial  Commission  of 
Education.  They  called  here  last  Mon- 
day. On  Saturday  I called  on  the  wife 
of  the  Tartar  general.  Everywhere 
the  doors  are  open.  What  an  oppor- 
tunity here  and  now  in  Foochow  ! We 
have  had  distinguished  guests  call  here. 
One  day  the  lieutenant  general  asked 
to  call  at  one  o’clock ; but  before  he 
arrived  the  viceroy,  ruler  of  33,000,000 
people,  walked  into  the  house  and  made 
a long  call.  Mr.  Peet  had  asked  Guok 
Sek  Sang  to  be  here  and  see  that  the 
proper  forms  of  etiquette  were  ob- 
served. These  one  can  call  opportu- 
nities. Would  that  we  could  speak 
Mandarin ! ” 

Dr.  Gilbert  Reed,  who  preached  to 
the  students  on  Sunday  and  addressed 
them  again  the  next  day,  speaks  par- 
ticularly of  the  exercises  of  the  last 
day  as  being  of  great  interest  and  sig- 
nificance. He  says : — 

‘ ‘ Only  two  or  three  other  cities  in  the 
empire  could  have  afforded  such  a dis- 
tinguished gathering  as  was  present  on 


this  occasion.  Besides  the  viceroy  and 
all  the  civil  authorities  holding  office  in 
the  city,  there  were  present  the  Tartar 
general,  the  lieutenant  general,  the 
heads  of  government  schools,  several  of 
the  local  gentry,  Dr.  Samuel  L.  Gracey, 
the  doyen  of  the  consular  body,  and  a 
good  number  of  missionaries  from  the 
different  societies.  After  gathering  in 
the  large  hall  of  the  college  building 
and  an  address  by  one  of  the  students, 
I was  called  upon  to  speak  on  the  sub- 
ject, ‘ The  Foreign  Help  that  Should  be 
Given  to  China  in  Her  Educational 
Problem.’  On  this  occasion  I used  the 
Mandarin  language,  -as  this  could  be 
understood,  not  only  by  the  official 
guests,  but  also  by  those  students  that 
had  been  selected  to  be  present.  After 
this  there  came  different  responses  from 
the  Tartar  general  and  from  the  vice- 
roy, showing  the  real  appreciation  of 
the  educational  work  carried  on  in  this 
mission  college.  At  the  close  some 
thirty  of  the  officials  and  heads  of  the 
colleges  were  invited  to  dinner  at  Mr. 
Peet’s  residence.  A few  days  later  the 
provincial  treasurer,  with  five  other 
officials,  invited  Mr.  Peet,  Dr.  Gracey, 
and  myself  to  a feast  at  the  treasurer’s 
yamen  as  an  act  of  reciprocal  kind- 
ness. The  recognition  thus  given  to  the 
Foochow  College  under  the  auspices  of 
a mission  board  may  be  regarded  as 
almost  sufficient  to  counterbalance  the 
lack  of  recognition  from  the  Board  of 
Education  of  all  schools  under  foreign 
control. 

‘ ‘ The  work  done  by  such  schools  also 
deserves  larger  recognition  and  more 
generous  support  from  the  societies  at 
home.” 


THE  WIDE  FIELD 


INDIA 

ON  THE  ROAD  TO  HYDERABAD 

The  road  to  Mandalay  has  been  ren- 
dered famous  by  the  catchy  verses  of 
Rudyard  Kipling.  Equally  picturesque 
and  engaging  scenes  may  be  witnessed 


along  other  roads  of  the  Indian  empire. 
Some  things  to  be  seen  on  the  road  to 
Hyderabad  are  thus  told  by  Mrs.  J.  C. 
Knight  Anstey  in  the  Foreign  Field 
for  April:  — 

“The  people!  Beggars,  merchants, 
rich,  poor,  Brahmans,  Pariahs,  Pathans, 


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Sikhs,  fakirs,  fanatics  — a never-ending 
stream.  Now  comes  a veiled  Moham- 
medan woman,  her  bhoorka  hiding  face 
and  figure,  until  she  looks  like  a shape- 
less mass,  two  tiny  holes  for  the  eyes 
allowing  her  to  see  her  way ; here  is  a 
group  of  Comati  women,  laden  with 
gold  and  silver  jewelry,  their  red  and 
white,  white  and  red,  red  and  yellow, 
green  and  purple  saris  making  them 
look  like  a walking  flower  bed;  there 
is  a Mussulman  hadji  wearing  the  green 
turban  which  denotes  that  its  owner 
has  performed  that  pilgrimage  to  Mecca 
which  is  at  once  the  duty  and  the  privi- 
lege of  ‘ the  faithful.’ 

“At  this  wayside  shrine  is  a Hindu 
mother  teaching  her  little  child  to  pray. 
It  does  not  lisp  ‘ Our  Father.’  Oh,  no  ! 
The  mother  makes  it  put  its  hands  to- 
gether before  the  idol  and  bow  its  little 
head  down  upon  the  cold  stone. 

“On  this  tower  on  the  embankment 
stands  a devout  old  Parsee  priest,  who 
is  a familiar  figure  to  all  who  live  in 
or  near  Hyderabad.  An  old  man  with 
white  hair  and  beard,  he  goes  every 
evening  to  meditate  and  pray  before 
the  setting  sun.  He  is  an  impressive 
figure  as  he  stands  silhouetted  against 
the  glowing  sky  which  marks  an  Indian* 
sunset,  but  of  the  Sun  of  Righteousness 
he  knows  nothing. 

“The  devout  Mohammedan  several 
times  daily  obeys  the  call  to  prayer, 

‘ Allah  is  one  God,  and  Mohammed  is 
his  prophet.’  The  Parsee  priest  prays 
towards  the  departing  sun ; the  Hindu 
mother  teaches  her  child  to  pray  to  an 
image  made  with  hands.  India  is  a 
religious  country,  but  it  is  very  far 
from  being  a Christian  country.  Are 
we  praying,  ‘ Thy  kingdom  come  ’ ? ” 

ITALY 

AN  INTERVIEW  WITH  PROFESSOR 

BARTOLI 

The  anniversary  number  of  the  Bap- 
tist magazine,  Missions,  contains  an 
editorial  interview  with  Prof.  Giorgio 
Bartoli,  to  whom  reference  was  made 
in  this  department  last  month.  The 
editor  describes  him  as  “an  Italian  of 


culture  and  learning,  for  twenty-seven 
years  a loyal  member  of  the  Society  of 
Jesus,  for  twelve  years  a Jesuit  teacher 
of  science,  literature,  and  languages  in 
India,  and  in  other  years  a teacher  in 
Jesuit  colleges  in  Ireland  and  Italy,  for 
five  years  a regular  writer  on  the  staff 
of  the  Jesuit  magazine,  La  Civilta  Cat- 
tolica , of  Rome.  In  personality  Pro- 
fessor Bartoli  is  winning.  His  spirit  is 
sweet,  and  he  did  not  allow  it  to  become 
embittered  by  unjust  treatment.” 

In  answer  to  the  editor’s  questions, 
Professor  Bartoli  spoke  freely  and  lu- 
cidly upon  various  points  of  mission- 
ary interest  in  Italy.  Naturally  the 
Roosevelt  incident  came  first.  In  the 
professor’s  opinion  the  Pope  was  simply 
acting  consistently  with  his  system  in 
the  course  that  he  took. 

When  asked  as  to  his  opinion  of 
Protestant  mission  work  in  Italy  as  a 
whole,  he  expressed  his  regard  for  it  as 
highly  important  and  beneficial.  He 
was  firm  in  his  belief  that  evangelicals 
must  not  yield  to  those  who  say,  “Do 
not  preach  to  Roman  Catholics.” 

As  to  enlargement  of  missionary  work 
in  Italy,  he  thought  it  desirable,  espe- 
cially along  the  best  lines,  aiming  to 
influence  people  of  culture  and  leader- 
ship as  well  as  the  class  represented  by 
emigrants  to  this  country.  In  his  judg- 
ment the  Italians  are  not  impervious  to 
pure  doctrine  and  there  is  hope  for 
missionary  work  done  on  a high  plane. 
He  urged  that  the  Italians  who  come  to 
this  country  should  be  looked  after  with 
a view  to  evangelizing  them,  and  thus 
securing  a strong  reacting  influence 
upon  their  fellow-countrymen  abroad. 

When  asked  as  to  the  present  religious 
conditions  in  Italy,  he  said  : ‘ ‘ There  is 
a movement,  but  it  does  not  lead  to 
Wittenberg,  that  is,  to  Protestantism, 
but  to  agnosticism  and  infidelity.  I 
should  say  that  ninety  per  cent  of 
the  young  clergy  in  Italy  are  turning 
toward  infidelity.  And  this  is  the 
fate  of  Italy,  to  become  infidel  unless 
we  can  reach  them  with  the  gospel.” 
“As  to  the  outcome?”  said  Pro- 
fessor Bartoli,  “that  is  a difficult  ques- 
tion. What  I hope  for  and  what  I am 


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devoting  my  life  to  is  a revival  of 
primitive  Christianity,  a return  to  the 
gospel  teaching  of  Jesus.  I have  a vi- 
sion of  a National  Italian  Church  of  this 
purely  Christian  type,  democratic  and 
Scriptural.  All  missionary  effort  should 
tend  in  that  directi  on.’  ’ 

KOREA 

FALSE  CHARGES  REFUTED 

The  Japan  Daily  Mail  of  April  4 
takes  up  the  “accusations  of  political 
intrigue  preferred  against  Christian 
propagandists  in  Korea.”  It  regrets 
the  currency  that  has  been  given  to 
these  charges  in  certain  newspapers, 
particularly  the  Nichi  Nichi,  a journal 
of  ‘ ‘ such  position  and  influence  that  its 
statements  cannot  be  ignored.”  The 


editor  of  the  Mail  inclines  to  the  opin- 
ion that  “ the  time  has  come  when  some 
public  action  should  be  taken  by  the 
missionaries  in  Korea  to  remove  the 
injurious  impression  now  attaching  to 
them  and  to  convince  their  converts 
that  there  is  not  and  never  will  be  any 
connection  between  political  intrigue 
and  Christian  propagandism.”  “That 
missionaries  should  be  accused  of  things 
now  laid  to  their  charge  in  Korea,”  he 
characterizes  as  “ nothing  short  of  a 
public  calamity.”  By  way  of  vindi- 
cation the  editorial  says,  “Throughout 
the  whole  Far  East  missionaries  have 
acted  a great  part  during  the  past  cen- 
tury as  educationists,  as  physicians  of 
the  soul  as  well  as  of  the  body,  and  as 
practical  representatives  of  the  noble 
virtue,  charity.” 


THE  PORTFOLIO 


A Tribute  to  Missionaries  in  India 

There  are  missionaries,  fortunately 
few,  of  narrow  sympathy,  deficient 
education,  and  unsound  judgment,  who 
alienate  from  co-operation  with  them 
those  who  feel  themselves  responsible 
for  the  peaceful  administration  of  the 
districts  committed  to  their  charge ; 
but  the  vast  majority  of  the  mission- 
aries have  not  only  the  interests  of  the 
people  at  heart,  but  are  seeking  to  ad- 
vance these  interests  in  a manner,  and 
by  methods  which  demand  the  sympa- 
thy, encouragement,  and  co-operation 
of  those  mainly  responsible  for  the 
government  of  the  country. 

I have,  during  the  course  of  my  thirty- 
seven  years’  service  of  the  Crown  in 
India,  seen  Christians  molded  by  the 
power  of  the  gospel  of  Christ.  I have 
seen  men  brought  out  of  heathenism  by 
the  gospel  call  and  laid  hold  of  by  the 
Saviour  through  the  power  of  the  Holy 
Spirit.  I have  seen  them  transformed 
by  the  renewing  of  their  minds.  I have 
seen  them  changed  from  glory  to  glory, 
as  by  his  Spirit,  into  more  and  more 
of  likeness  to  their  Lord.  I have  seen 
them  growing  stronger  and  purer  and 


more  Christlike  year  by  year.  I have 
amongst  them  friends  of  whom  I can 
speak  in  precisely  the  same  language 
as  I should  use  when  speaking  of  loved 
and  honored  Christian  friends  in  the 
West. 

Sir  Andrew  Fraser,  K.C.S.I.  ( late 
Lieutenant  Governor  of  Bengal ). 

The  Final  Test  of  Christianity 

We  are  beginning  to  realize  that  this 
whole  manifold  world  of  religious  be- 
liefs, from  the  crudest  forms  of  fetish- 
ism and  animism  to  the  loftiest  reve- 
lations of  Sufistic  spirituality  or  of 
Confucian  idealism,  is  one  great  and 
coherent  evolution  of  the  religious  gen- 
ius of  mankind.  The  comparative 
study  of  religions  and  of  the  historic 
development  of  the  different  religions 
brings  us  face  to  face  with  the  fact 
that  there  are  deep  longings  in  the 
human  heart  which  in  all  climates  and 
under  the  most  widely  varying  condi- 
tions of  human  life  find  expression  in 
religious  systems,  and  we  must  try  to 
understand  them  in  their  continuity 
and  similarity  in  spite  of  all  evident 
disparity. 

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evolution  of  the  religious  genius  of  man- 
kind, we  become  aware  of  what  is  the 
final  task  of  the  Christian  religion  and 
of  Protestant  missions.  It  is  to  show 
quite  clearly,  in  contradistinction  to  this 
whole  religious  life  of  humanity  untu- 
tored and  unaided  by  the  divine  heip, 
that  Christianity  is  the  one  great  reli- 
gion of  God,  and  that  it  must  displace 


and  will  displace  all  other  religions. 
That  will  be  the  final  test  of  Christian- 
ity; there  its  superiority,  its  victory, 
v/ill  be  definitely  settled. 

From  an  address  by  Dr.  Julius  Richter 
at  the  Student  Volunteer  Convention , 
Rochester,  N.  Y.  Printed  in  The  Mis- 
sionary Review  of  the  World  for  June , 
by  permisson  of  the  Student  Volunteer 
Movement. 


THE  BOOKSHELF 


A History  of  Protestant  Missions  in  the  Near  East. 

By  Julius  Richter,  d.d.  New  York : Fleming  H. 

Revell  Co.  Pp.  435.  Price,  $2.50  net. 

Just  when  unexpected  reform  move- 
ments in  several  parts  of  the  Near 
East  have  aroused  unusual  interest  in 
the  peoples  affected,  the  lack  of  ade- 
quate literature  treating  the  subject 
from  the  Christian  standpoint  has  be- 
come most  apparent.  The  leading  Prot- 
estant missions  in  this  quarter  of  the 
globe  are  American  — Dr.  Richter  ap- 
propriately dedicates  his  book  to  the 
Boards  of  the  Congregational  and  Pres- 
byterian Churches  of  America;  but  it 
is  reserved  for  a German  to  cover  the 
whole  field,  master  the  facts,  and  set 
them  forth  in  a scholarly  way.  The 
work  is  done  with  characteristic  Ger- 
man thoroughness  and  accuracy.  Dr. 
Barton’s  “Daybreak  in  Turkey  ” is  con- 
cise and  picturesque ; Dr.  Richter’s 
volume  is  full,  detailed,  and  marshals 
all  the  facts  in  clear,  effective  style. 
We  wish  it  might  have  included  maps. 

The  region  reviewed  is  nearly  as  large 
as  Europe,  being  approximately  2,000 
miles  across  in  any  direction , from  the 
Balkan  Mountains  to  the  Arabian  Sea, 
from  Greece  to  Persia,  or  from  the 
Caucasus  to  the  Sudan.  Constantinople 
is  its  imperial  city,  Turkey  its  militant 
power,  Mohammedanism  its  dominant 
faith,  breaking  with  the  past  its  out- 
standing feature  at  present.  The  book 
contains  the  following  main  sections: 

I.  The  Mohammedan  World  and 
the  Eastern  Churches. 

II.  The  Beginnings  of  Protestant 
Missionary  Endeavor. 

III.  Protestant  Missions  in  Turkey 
and  Armenia. 


IV.  Syria  and  Palestine. 

V.  Persia. 

VI.  Egypt  and  Abyssinia. 

VII.  Missions  among  the  Jews.  The 
Work  of  the  Bible  Societies. 

VIII.  Summaries  and  Statistics. 

The  reader  is  taken  by  the  hand 
and  personally  conducted  to  that  part 
of  the  world  where  Europe,  Asia,  and 
Africa  meet,  and  where  a dozen  left- 
over nations,  part  of  iron  and  part  of 
clay  in  their  make-up,  are  striving  for 
rebirth.  His  eyes  look  upon  a dozen 
forms  of  religion,  each  claiming  to  be 
absolute  and  exclusive  for  its  own  com- 
munities, though  people  are  beginning 
to  think  for  themselves.  Amid  these 
racial,  social,  and  ecclesiastical  cross 
currents,  one  clearly  descries  the  Chris- 
tian consecration,  earnestness,  and,  or- 
dinarily, wisdom  of  the  early  missionary 
pioneers.  He  sees  the  light  and  power 
emanating  from  each  Protestant  mis- 
sion station  and  each  evangelical 
church,  “allowed  of  God  to  be  put 
in  trust  with  the  gospel.”  He  ob- 
serves the  influence  slowly  permeating 
tHe  people,  if  ignored  by  the  hier- 
archies of  the  Oriental  churches.  He 
is  shown  more  clearly  than  usual  how 
such  sects  as  the  Sanussis  and  Babis; 
are  seaming  the  once  unbroken  front 
of  Iolam,  and  how  the  character  and 
words  of  the  Lord  Jesus  command  in- 
creasing respect  from  many  Mohamme- 
dans. The  usual  missionary  agencies, 
preaching,  Bible  translation  and  col- 
portage,  teaching,  medicine  and  sur- 
gery, industrial  shops  and  relief  works, 
the  preparation  and  dissemination  of 
religious  literature,  all  are  described. 


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and  in  the  aggregate  make  the  impres- 
sion of  an  effort  of  wonderful  power, 
joining  many  denominations  and  many 
lands  on  both  sides  of  the  Atlantic,  to 
fulfill  our  Lord’s  command  to  go,  preach 
the  gospel,  and  make  disciples  of  the 
nations. 

Naturally  there  are  some  minor 
errors.  Dr.  Kalopothakes,  of  Athens 
(page  166),  is  a Presbyterian,  not  a 
Methodist.  Frumentius  and  Aedesius 
(page  371)  belong  to  the  fourth  cen- 
tury, not  the  fourteenth.  Pattian 
(page  145)  for  Patlian,  and  Musaret 


(page  178)  for  Musavet  or  Musavat 
are  easy  misprints.  The  Bek  Tashi 
dervishes  (page  161)  instead  of  repre- 
senting “strictest  Islam  ” belong  to  the 
Shia  sectaries.  But  such  errors  are 
incidental  and  only  serve  to  emphasize 
the  general  accuracy  of  the  whole  work 
and  of  all  its  details.  Dr.  Richter’s  cor- 
rectness in  viewpoint  and  perspective 
is  even  more  remarkable  than  his  ac- 
curacy in  matters  of  fact.  His  work 
will  be  the  standard  authority  for  the 
subject  of  which  it  treats. 

G.  E.  WHITE. 


THE  CHRONICLE 


Departures 

May  24.  From  San  Francisco,  Rev.  and 
Mrs.  Robert  F.  Black,  returning  to  the 
Philippines. 

May  25.  From  New  York,  Rev.  and 
Mrs.  William  Hazen,  returning  to  the 
Marathi  Mission. 

May  31.  From  Boston,  Dr.  and  Mrs.  D. 
Z.  Sheffield,  to  attend  the  Edinburgh  Mis- 
sionary Conference,  later  expecting  to  re- 
turn to  their  mission  in  North  China.  Also 
Mr.  Carl  A.  Scheibel,  on  his  way  to  Con- 
stantinople as  an  assistant  to  Mr.  W.  W. 
Peet. 

June  18.  From  New  York,  Miss  Mary 
L.  Graff  am,  returning  to  the  Western  Tur- 
key Mission. 

Arrivals  in  this  Country 

May  12.  At  San  Francisco,  Rev.  and 
Mrs.  H.  E.  B.  Case,  of  Guam. 

May  26.  At  Boston,  Rev.  and  Mrs.  G. 
Milton  Gardner  and  Mrs.  G.  H.  Hubbard, 
of  the  Foochow  Mission. 

May  27.  At  San  Francisco,  Miss  Eliza- 
beth Ward,  of  the  Japan  Mission. 

June  2.  At  Boston,  Rev.  and  Mrs.  Ed- 
ward P.  Holton,  of  the  Madura  Mission. 

Marriage 

April  11.  At  Kobe,  Japan,  Miss  Julia 
Hocking,  for  three  years  a missionary  of 
the  Board,  to  Mr.  G.  E.  Trueman,  the 
Young  Men's  Christian  Association  secre- 
tary. 

Deaths 

April  11.  At  Ing-hok,  China,  Edward 
Huntington  Smith,  Jr.,  five  years  and  two 


months,  son  of  Rev.  and  Mrs.  Edward 
H.  Smith,  of  the  Foochow  Mission. 

May  23.  At  Honolulu,  T.  H.,  Mr.  W. 
W.  Hall. 

Word  has  been  received  of  the  death  at 
Honolulu,  on  May  23,  of  Mr.  W.  W.  Hall, 
who  in  1883  succeeded  his  father,  Hon.  E. 
O.  Hall,  as  Business  Agent  of  the  Board 
for  the  Sandwich  Islands  and  Micronesia. 
This  service  in  former  years  was  quite 
extensive,  though  not  so  onerous  of  late, 
on  account  of  the  changes  in  the  situation 
at  Hawaii  and  the  Island  World.  Mr.  Hall 
has  been  an  ardent  friend  of  the  work,  and 
most  faithfully  and  generously  served  the 
cause  early  and  late.  The  Christian  com- 
munity in  Hawaii  and  Micronesia  have  lost 
a most  devoted  co-laborer  in  the  death  of 
Mr.  Hall. 

Ordination 

April  29.  At  Auburn,  N.  Y.,  by  the 
Presbytery  of  Cayuga,  N.  Y.,  Rev.  Ernest 
W.  Riggs,  under  appointment  as  a mission- 
ary of  the  Board  for  the  Eastern  Turkey 
Mission,  and  now  elected  as  president  of 
Euphrates  College,  Harpoot. 

The  following  piece  of  Chronicle  has 
been  clipped  from  the  Chihuahua  Enter- 
prise of  May  14  : — 

“Dr.  and  Mrs.  James  D.  Eaton  were 
given  a most  pleasant  surprise  at  their 
home  last  evening  in  honor  of  the  day, 
which  was  their  thirty-fifth  wedding  anni- 
versary. Many  friends  called  to  congrat- 
ulate them,  and  a most  enjoyable  evening 
was  had. 

“The  surprise  was  gotten  up  by  the 
members  of  the  Ladies’  Aid  Society,  and 


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it  was  a most  enjoyable  function  — one  of 
those  occasions  which  witness  the  real 
goodness  of  the  human  hearts  welling  up 
and  overflowing.  Every  one  wished  the 
Doctor  and  Mrs.  Eaton  many  returns  of 
the  day  which  marks  a milestone  in  their 
long,  happy,  and  useful  married  life. 

‘ ‘ Dr.  and  Mrs.  Eaton  are  the  pioneer 
Protestant  missionaries  in  this  city.  They 
arrived  here  ahead  of  the  Mexican  Central 
Railroad,  and  for  over  a quarter  of  a cen- 
tury have  been  devoting  their  lives  to  the 
cause  to  which  they  have  dedicated  their 
best  efforts.” 


The  steamship  Zeeland , which  sailed  from 
Boston,  Tuesday,  May  31,  carried  a goodly 
company  en  route  for  the  Edinburgh  Con- 
ference. The  American  Board  was  strongly 
represented  by  its  two  secretaries,  Dr.  Bar- 
ton and  Dr.  Patton,  accompanied  by  Mrs. 
Barton  and  Mrs.  Patton,  and  its  mission- 
aries, Dr.  J.  P.  Jones,  of  India,  and  Dr. 
and  Mrs.  D.  Z.  Sheffield,  of  China.  Repre- 
senting the  Woman’s  Board  were  Miss  E 
H.  Stanwood,  Miss  K.  G.  Lamson,  and  Mrs. 
Agnes  H.  Gordon.  Dr.  Howard  A.  Bridg- 
man, of  The  Congregationalist,  and  Mrs 
Bridgman  were  also  of  the  company* 


DONATIONS  RECEIVED  IN  MAY 


NEW  ENGLAND  DISTRICT 

Maine 


born,  1, 

9 

58 

Belfast,  North  Cong.  ch. 

5 

00 

Benton  Falls,  Cong.  ch. 

10 

50 

Biddeford,  2d  Cong.  ch. 

21 

31 

Bridgton,  1st  Cong.  ch. 

26 

20 

East  Baldwin,  Mrs.  Frank  Brown, 

10 

00 

Falmouth,  1st  Parish  Cong.  ch. 

3 

13 

Gardiner,  Miss  S.  M.  Whitmore, 

1 

00 

Gilead,  Rev.  Henry  Farrar, 

3 

00 

Hallowell,  South  Cong.  ch. 

16 

10 

Norridgevvock,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  G.  Ev- 

erett, 5 ; Friend,  5, 

10 

00 

South  Berwick,  Miss  H.  D.  Sewall, 

25 

00 

South  Paris,  Leander  Brooks, 

1 

00 

South  Portland,  Bethany  ch. 

5 

00 

West  Minot,  Cong.  ch. 

5 

00 

Winslow,  Cong.  ch. 

Yarmouth,  1st  Parish  Cong.  ch. 

9 

72 

20 

00 181 

New  Hampshire 

Bennington,  Mary  A.  Rogers, 

10 

00 

Chester,  Cong.  ch. 

12 

42 

Claremont,  Cong.  ch. 

29 

25 

Colebrook,  Cong.  ch. 

10 

00 

Concord,  South  Cong.  ch. 

25 

00 

Enfield,  Cong.  ch. 

14 

50 

Epsom,  Cong.  ch. 

6 

00 

Hillsboro  Center,  Cong.  ch. 

1 

00 

Hinsdale,  Cong,  ch.,  9.75 ; Emily  H.  Es- 

tey,  1, 

10 

75 

Hudson,  Caldwell  Buttrick,  of  which  550 
for  Madura,  and 550 for  Pang-Chuang,  1,100  00 
Keene,  1st  Cong,  ch.,  for  work  in  Tiru- 


mangalam, 

Laconia,  Gertrude  S.  Blakely, 
Manchester,  Franklin-st.  ch. 
Milford,  Mrs.  Spencer  Guild, 
Newmarket,  Cong.  ch. 
Orford,  Mrs.  J.  H.  P. 
Walpole,  1st  Cong.  ch. 


Vermont 


Burlington,  Mary  R.  Englesby,  25  00 

Castleton,  Cong,  ch.,  toward  support  Rev. 

E.  A.  Yarrow,  30  00 

East  Berkshire,  Cong.  cb.  14  00 

Fairfax,  Mrs.  M.  S.  Forsyth,  4;  Mrs.  E. 

S.  Chamberlin,  1,  5 00 

Jamaica,  Cong.  ch.  10  00 

Milton,  George  N.  Wood,  1 00 

Newfane,  Cong.  ch.  7 50 

St.  Tohnsbury,  South  Cong,  ch.,  toward 
support  Rev.  and  Mrs.  C.  K.  Tracy, 
116.03;  do.  J.  M.  Perham,  2.50,  118  53 

Swanton,  Mary  E.  Dorman,  50  ; Mrs.  Sa- 
rah A.  Jennison,  50,  100  00 


150  00 
2 00 
126  00 
10  00 
1 94 
18 

19  90—1,528  94 


Westminster  West,  Miss  N.  M.  Hitch- 
cock, 5 00 

Whiting,  Mrs.  Frederic  B.  Phelps,  1 00 

Wcodstock,  Cong.  ch.  35  00 352  0? 


Massachusetts 

Amherst,  Friend,  20;  Friend,  1,  21  00 

Andover,  Mrs.  Warren  F.  Draper,  10; 

Lucia  F.  Clarke,  1,  11  00 

Auburndale,  Cong.  ch.  110  00 

Billerica,  Cong.  cn.  7 39 

Boston,  Pilgrim  Cong.  ch.  (Dorchester), 

225;  Mt.  Vernon  Cong,  ch.,  1 ; Miss  S. 

A.  Craft,  100;  Mrs.  A.  C.  Thompson, 

50;  Josiah  S.  Tappan,  10;  Friend,  10; 
Friend,  2,  398  00 

Braintree,  Miss  A . T.  Belcher,  15  00 

Brimfield,  1st  Cong.  ch.  20  13 

Brookline,  Marian  L.  Sharp,  35  00 

Cambridge,  Prospect-st.  Cong.  ch.  73  62 

Centerville,  Friend,  5 25 

| Clinton,  Friend,  1 00 

Dalton,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Frank  H.  Cleve- 
land, 2 00 

Dedham,  1st  Cong.  ch.  282  24 

Dover,  Cong.  ch.  2 85 

East  Boxford,  Mary  N.  Cleaveland,  5 00 

East  Bridgewater,  Union  Cong,  ch., 25.73 ; 

Mrs.  H.  H.  Harlow  . 5,  30  73 

Enfield,  Frances  W.  Kimball,  20  00 

Fall  River,  Central  Cong,  'cn.,  32.32; 

Maria  R.  Hicks,  100;  Anna  H.  Borden, 

50 ; Mrs.  Richard  Baxter  Borden,  10,  192  32 

Fitchburg,  Rollstone  Cong,  ch.,  53.21 ; 

Ger.  Cong,  ch.,  15;  Friend,  25,  93  21 

Foxboro,  Bethany  Cong.  ch.  42  94 

Gilbertville,  Mrs.  Agnes  G.  Looney,  50 

Greenfield,  2d  Cong,  ch.,  toward  support 
Rev.  H.  T.  Perry,  125  00 

Hadley,  E.  A.  Randall,  25  00 

Haverhill,  Riverside  Memorial  ch.,  60; 
Leonard  H.  Noyes,  10 ; Mary  W.  Welch, 

5,  75  00 

Holbrook,  Winthrop  Cong.  ch.  56  10 

Holyoke,  Mary  E.  Schneder,  1 00 

Lancaster,  Friend,  2 00 

Lawrence,  Riverside  Cong.  ch.  5 00 

Leominster,  Francis  A.  Whitney,  15;  S. 

E.  Bell,  10,  25  00 

Lexington,  Julia  E.  Johnson,  20  00 

Lowell,  Mrs.  J.  L.  Sargent,  90  00 

Maynard,  Friend,  10  00 

Medford,  Mr.  and  Mrs  David  M.  Wilcox,  100  00 
Mittineague,  H.  A.  Goodman,  3 00 

Monson,  Hattie  F.  Cushman,  15  00 

Natick,  1st  Cong,  ch.,  39.14;  Friend,  10,  49  14 

Newburyport,  Belleville  Cong,  ch.,  143.76  ; 

Rev.  Vincent  Moses,  10,  153  76 

Newton,  Mrs.  Mary  Galway,  1 ; Mrs. 
Harriet  R.  Clark,  50,  51  00 


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Newtonville,  Mrs.  Martha  Jc  Perry,  to 
const,  herself,  H.  M.  100  00 

North  Brookfield,  Mrs.  Wm.  Walley,  5 00 
North  Chelmsford,  F.  E.  Varney,  1 00 

Northampton,  Edwards  Cong,  ch.,  of 
which  226.19  for  Pang-Chuang,  231.19  ; 

Emily  H.  Terry,  10;  A.  M.  Fletcher, 

2.50;' Mrs.  M.  P.  Bridgman,  50  ; C.  B. 


Ludden,  1,  294  69 

North  Weymouth,  Pilgrim  Cong.  ch.  7 75 

Oxford,  Mrs.  Lavinia  B.  White,  1 00 

Pittsfield,  South  Cong,  ch.,75;  Mrs.  John 
T.  Power,  10,  85  00 

Plympton,  Cong,  ch.,  of  which  2.83  from 
Silver  Lake  Chapel,  10  00 

Randolph,  Miss  A.  W.  Turner,  100  00 

Somerville,  M.  C.  and  E.  S.  Webster,  5 ; 

Friend,  for  Philippines,  30,  35  00 

Southampton,  Cong.  ch.  75  00 

South  Ashfield,  A.  F.  Richmond,  2 00 

Southboro,  Pilgrim  Cong.  ch.  22  30 

South  Braintree,  J.  W.  Watson,  2 00 

Southbridge,  Cong.  ch.  22  50 

South  Easton,  Miss  F.  J.  Randall,  5 00 

South  Framingham,  Cynthia  A.  Kendall, 

50;  Elizabeth  S.  Lane,  10,  60  00 

South  Hadley,  Cong.  ch.  29  61 

South  Sudbury,  Miss  S.  B.  Hobart,  3 00 

South  Weymouth,  Old  South  Cong.  ch.  10  00 


Springfield,  1st  Cong,  ch  , toward  support 
Dr.  C.  D.  Ussher,  88.31  ; David  F.  At- 
water, 25 ; Rev.  Louis  F.  Giroux,  5 ; 
W.  F.  Gordy,  5;  A.  S.  Packard,  5; 


Mrs.  Laura  A.  Ward,  2,  130  31 

Sudbury,  Mrs.  Lucy  S.  Connor,  10  00 

Uxbridge,  1st  Cong.  ch.  17  43 

Walpole,  2d  Cong.  ch.  100  00 

Waltham,  1st  Cong.  ch.  56  52 

Ware,  Mrs.  C.  T.  Hyde,  3 00 

Warwick,  Mrs.  James  Goldbury,  5 00 

Wellesley  Hills,  1st  Cong,  ch.,  toward 
support  Rev.  J.  C.  Perkins,  62  73 

Westboro,  Cong.  ch.  85  63 

West  Boylston,  Julia  C.  Dakin,  5;  Mrs. 

Emily  W.  Parker,  10,  15  00 

Westfield,  1st  Cong.  ch.  271  88 

West  Medford,  Cong.  ch.  39  09 

Wilbraham,  Carrie  A.  Moody,  3 00 

Williamstown,  Williams.  College,  class 


of  1892,  H.  S.  Ludlow,  toward  support 
Rev.  George  Allchin,  100;  John  H. 

Hewitt,  20;  Rev.  John  Bascom,  5; 

Rev.  W.  R.  Stocking,  4.40,  129  40 

Winchendon,  Mrs.  G.  O.  Tolmaa,  1 00 

Winchester, 2d  Cong,  ch.,  5;  Mrs.  C.  J. 

Allen,  5,  10  00 

Worcester,  Union  Cong,  ch.,  59.45;  Pil- 
grim Cong,  ch.,  for  Philippines,  35; 

Adams-sq.  Cong,  ch.,  25  ; Central  Cong, 
ch.,  Friend,  5;  Mrs.  Harriet  N.  Saw- 
yer, 5 ; Friend,  35,  164  45 

Wrentham,  Original  Cong.  ch.  20  69 

, Friend,  20  00 

, Friend,  1 00—4,192  16 

Legacies  — Ipswich,  Hannah  B.  Cogs- 
well, by  Emeline  F.  Farley  and  Jennie 
T.  Safford,  Ex’r,  1,000  00 

Seekonk,  Ann  E.  Shorey,  by  George  H. 

Robinson,  Ex’r,  add’l,  1,200  00 

Shelburne  Falls,  Joshua  Williams, 
add’l,  331  23 

Watertown,  Edward  D.  Kin  ball,  hy 
Louis  M.  Kimball  and  Joseph  v. 

Kimball,  Trustees,  86  58 

Westfield,  Mary  Alice  Sommers  Smiih, 
less  expenses,  1,776  49—4,394  30 


8,586  46 

Rhode  Island 

Davisville,  Geo.  Browning,  2 00 

Kingston,  Cong.  ch.  126  00 

Newport,  Luella  K.  Leavitt,  20  ; Blanche 
Leavitt,  15,  35  00 

Providence,  Beneficent  Cong,  ch.,  A.  F. 

White,  20;  Central  Cong,  ch.,  Grace 
R.  Lawton,  10;  Frederic  H.  Fuller, 

50;  Anthony  B.  Day,  10;  Fannie  M. 

Wheeler,  5,  95  00 

Slatersville,  Samuel  O.  Taylor,  5 00 


Thornton,  Rev.  Wm.  H.  Starr,  3 00 

Tiverton,  Caroline  F.  Brown,  2 ; Ann  E. 

Brown,  3,  5 00- 

Legacies.  — Providence,  Walter  P.  Doe, 
by  Edward  B.  Knight,  Adm’r, 


Young  People’s  Societies 

Maine. — Bangor,  Central  Cong,  ch.,  Jun.  Aux., 
10  ; Belfast,  1st  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.,  10  ; Topsfield, 
Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.,  for  Adana,  1 ; Warren,  Y.  P. 
S.  C.  E.,3, 

Massachusetts. — Auburndale,  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E., 
for  school  in  Madura,  30 ; Boston,  Immanuel- 
Walnut-av.  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.,  of  which  125  to- 
ward support  Dr.  W.  T.  Lawrence  and  16  for 
Central  Turkey  Mission,  141 ; do.,  Immanuel- 
Walnut-av.  Int.  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.,  toward  sup- 
port Dr.  W.  T.  Lawrence,  10 ; do.,  2d  Y.  P.  S. 
C.  E.  (Dorchester),  for  Adana,  ,50;  Brockton, 
Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.,  5;  Brookline,  Harvard  ch. 
Porch,  for  Madura,  12.50;  Gloucester,  Trinity 
Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.,  for  Philippines,  5;  Lynn, 
North  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.,  for  Harpoot,  15;  Mel- 
rose, Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.,  for  Mt.  Silinda,  15; 
Newton,  North  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.;  for  Harpoot, 
30;  Somerville,  Franklin  Y.  p.  S.  C.  E.,  for 
Sholapur,  30  ; Spencer,  C.  E . Union,  for  Phil- 
ippines, 6;  Whitman,  1st  V.  P.  S.  C.  E.,  for 
Mt.  Silinda,  15, 


Sunday  Schools 

New  Hampshire.  — Rochester,  1st  Cong.  Sab. 
sch. 

Massachusetts.  — Brookline,  Harvard  Cong. 
Sab.  sch.,  for  Madura,  12 ; Cambridge,  1st 
Cong,  ch.,  Shepard  Sab.  sch.,  for  Ing-hok, 
25  ; Centerville,  Cong.  Sab.  sch.,  1 ; Douglas, 
1st  Cong.  Sab.  sch.,  5 ; Hyde  Park,  Cong. 
Sab.  sch.,  6.26;  Marshfield,  1st  Cong.  Sab. 
sch.,  1 ; New  Bedford,  North  Sab.  sch.,  2.63  ; 
Northampton,  Edwards  Cong.  Sab.  sch.,  of 
which  5.50  from  kindergarten  class,  for  Pang- 
Chuang,  5 from  Ellen  P.  Cook’s  class,  for 
do.,  and  1.62  from  Chinese  class,  12.12  ; So. 
•Framingham,  Grace  Cong.  Sab.  sch.,  toward 
support  Rev.  R.  S.  M.  Emrich,  18.07  ; Swamp- 
scott,  1st  Cong.  Sab.  sch.,  3.49;  Whitman,  1st 
Cong.  Sab.  sch.,  for  Mt.  Silinda,  15  ; Worces 
ter,  Plymouth  Cong.  Sab.  sch.,  for  Philip- 
pines, 11.68;  do.,  Piedmont  Cong.  Sab.  sch., 
4.29, 


MIDDLE  DISTRICT 

Connecticut 

Bridgeport,  Mrs.  P.  Gabriel,  2;  Mrs.  E, 


Burr,  1,  3 00 

Chaplin,  Jane  Clarke,  2 00 

East  Norwalk,  Swedish  Cong.  ch.  3 00 

East  Woodstock,  Cong.  ch.  15  10 

Essex,  1st  Cong.  ch.  26  62 

Griswold,  1st  Cong.  ch.  15  00 

Guilford,  Joseph  E.  Dudley,  20  00 


Hartford,  Park  Cong,  ch.,  toward  support 
Rev.  A.  B.  DeHaan,  150;  Plymouth 
Cong,  ch.,  30;  Mrs.  J.  W.  Cooke,  200, 

The  Misses  Camp,  100,  Mrs.  Chas.  T. 

Russ,  260,  and  Chas.  C.  Russ,  100,  all 
toward  support  Mrs.  Chauncey  Good- 
rich ; Mrs.  Chas.  F.  Howard,  25 ; Rev. 

M.  C.  Welch,  10;  Job  Williams,  10; 
Hewitt  Coburn,  Jr.,  5 ; Mary  F.  Col- 
lins, 5;  H.  B.  Langdon,  5;  Eliza  F. 

Mix,  3 ; Tillie  I.  Washburn,  1 , 904  00 

Huntington,  Cong.  ch.  30  00 

Meriden,  Center  Cong.  ch.  10  00 

Middletown,  1st  Cong,  ch.,  toward  sup- 
port Rev.  H.  N.  Barnum,  51  63 

Naugatuck,  Alice  F.  Stillson,  5 00 

New  Haven,  Pilgrim  Cong,  ch.,  54.75; 
Martha  Day  Porter,  100  ; Rev.  Timothy 
Dwight,  50 ; Theron  Upson,  10 ; C.  L. 
Kitchel,  5,  219  75 

New  London,  Louise  H.  Allyn,  2 00 

Noroton,  Harriet  S.  Niles,  10  00 


—271  00 
1,158  65 
1,429  65 

24  00 


364  50 
388  50 

16  06 


117  54 
133  60 


1910 


Donations 


333 


North  Woodstock,  Cong.  ch. 

Norwalk,  Mrs.  Charlotte  C.  Ferry, 
Norwich,  Broadway  Cong,  ch.,  500;  M. 

Louise  Sturtevant,  25, 

Norwich  Town,  Friend, 

Plainville,  The  Misses  Pierce, 

Salisbury,  Cong.  ch. 

Somers,  Cong.  ch. 

South  Glastonbury,  E.  T.  Thompson, 
Southport,  Cyrus  S.  Bradley, 

Torrington,  1st  Cong.  ch. 

Waterbury,  2d  Cong,  ch.,  add’l,  1 ; John 
Henderson,  Jr., 25, 

West  Suffield,  Cong.  ch. 


3 35 

25  00 

525  00 
75  00 
30  00 

26  41 
10  50 

3 00 
5 00 

4 00 

26  00 

8 56—  2,058  92 


Correction.  — In  June  Herald  Essex 
Conference  should  read  Middlesex 
Conference. 


Legacies.  — Clinton,  Julia  A.  Taylor, 

add’l,  ' 33  75 

New  Milford,  Mrs.  Maria  Bostwick,  by 
Edward  M.  Chapman,  Adm’r,  2,000  00—  2,033  75 


New  York 


4,092  67 


Albany,  Mrs.  L.  M.  Hills.  2;  Friend, 


for  Adana,  10,  J.2  00 

Batavia,  Chas.  D.  Case,  10  00 

Bridgewater,  Cong.  ch.  22  15 

Brooklyn,  Mary  Adams  Wilson,  5 ; E.  F. 
Carrington,  5 ; Miss  I.  Brown,  2;  Mrs. 

J.  R.  Davis,  1,  13  00 

Buffalo,  Wm.  C.  Crosby,  500 ; Rev.  Al- 
fred V.  Bliss,  5,  505  00 

Churchville,  Cong.  ch.  22  00 

Clifton  Springs,  Mrs.  M.  E.  Foster,  10  00 

Crown  Point,  1st  Cong.  ch.  8 20 

East  Greenbush,  Mrs.  Albert  Bushnell,  10  00 

Flushing,  Broadway  Cong.  ch.  5 00 

Geneva,  Friend,  18  00 

Greene;  S.  H.  Jameson,  1 00 

Homer,  Cong.  ch.  11  13 

Jamaica,  James  A.  Towle,  10  00 

Jamestown,  1st  Cong.  ch.  225  00 

Madrid,  Cong.  ch.  17  45 

Moravia,  1st  Cong.  ch.  29  00 

New  York,  Christ  Cong,  ch.,  26.11 ; Mary 


M.  Bailey,  25;  Margaret  B.  Monahan, 
100;  A.  W.  Leighton,  75;  Mrs.  W.  W. 
Ferrier,  10;  Grace  Taylor,  4.25;  -Levi 
P.  Treadwell,  1 ; Mrs.  Sarah  L.  Woodin, 


1,  242  36 

Paris,  Cong.  ch.  12  00 

Poughkeepsie,  James  D.  Keith,  50  00 

Prospect,  Cong.  ch.  2 00 

Riga,  Cong.  ch.  9 00 

Riverhead,  J.  W.  Downs,  5 00 

Rochester,  V.  F.  Whitmore,  50 ; Rev.  G. 

L.  Hamilton,  1,  51  00 

Sherburne,  Charles  A.  Fuller,  50  00 

Sprakers,  Harriet  V.  Quick,  5 00 

Union  Falls,  Friend,  5 00 

Warsaw,  Cong.  ch.  26  70 

Wellsville,  1st  Cong.  ch.  89  25 

West  New  Brighton,  Immanuel  Cong,  ch., 
for  Ing-hok,  15  00 

White  Plains,  Westchester  Cong,  ch.,  to- 
ward support  Rev.  and  Mrs.  T.  S.  Lee,  600  00 — 2,091  21 
Legacies.  — Brooklyn,  Hiram  G.  Combes, 

add’l,  less  expense,  88  22 


Middletown,  Selah  R.  Corwin,  less  tax,  952  50 — 1,040  72 


Pennsylvania 

Lansdowne,  Friend, 

Lincoln  University,  J.  B.  Rendall, 

Mount  Carmel,  W.  T.  Williams, 

Philadelphia,  Harold  Goodwin, 

Pottsville,  Rev.  A.  J.  Quick, 

Ridgway,  C.  D.  Osterhout, 

Sugar  Grove,  M.  E.  Cowles, 

Ohio 

Bluescreek,  Cong.  ch. 

Cincinnati,  Walnut  Hills  Cong.  ch. 

Cleveland,  Hough-av.  Cong,  ch.,  of  which 
20  from  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Geo.  A.  Jacobs, 
for  Adana,  25;  Cyril  Cong,  ch.,  18; 

Jones-av.  Cong,  ch.,  10;  Mrs.  E.  L. 

Findlay,  1,  54  00 

Columbus,  1st  Cong,  ch.,  Mrs.  Ella  J. 

Mahoney,  thank-offering,  100 ; Mrs. 

Ida  M.  White, 25  ; Alice  B.  Sherman,  1, 126  00 
Lakewood,  1st  Cong.  ch.  3 85 

Madison,  Central  Cong.  ch.  54  00 

Oberlin,  2d  Cong,  ch.,  Friend,  25;  1st 
Cong,  ch.,  A.  H.  Currier,  12.50 ; Mrs. 

E.  F.  Wright,  10 ; Richard  S.  Rose,  2,  49  50 

Radnor,  Edward  D.  Jones,  10  00 

Sandusky,  1st  Cong.  ch.  4 64 

Toledo,  1st  Cong,  ch.,  toward  support 
Mrs.  M.  M.  Webster,  122;  Washington- 
st.  Cong,  ch.,  14.78,  136  78 

Wauseon,  Cong,  ch.,  19.85;  C.  F.  Green- 
ough,  1.50,  21  35 564  12 


25 

00 

10 

00 

5 

00 

80 

00 

1 

00 

20 

00 

30 

00- 

4 

00 

100 

00 

District  of  Columbia 

Washington,  Herbert  Knox  Smith, 

Georgia 

Keller,  Emma  J.  Clay, 

Florida 

Callaway,  Della  G.  Washburn,  5 00 

Milton,  Mrs.  H.  S.  Keyser,  25  00- 

Young  People’s  Societies 

Connecticut.  — Granby,  South  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E., 
15;  Hartford,  Farmington-av.  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E., 
for  Ing-hok,  5;  Meriden  Center,  Y.  P.  S.  C. 
E.,  for  Aruppukottai,  30;  New  Milford,  1st 
Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.,  toward  support  Rev.  J.  E. 
Walker,  10, 

New  York.  — Brooklyn,  Lewis-av.  Y.  P.  S.  C. 
E.,  for  Shao-wu,  25;  Riga,  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.,  5, 


10  00 


2 00 


-30  00 


60  00 
30  00 


Sunday  Schools 

Connecticut.  — East  Hartford,  1st  Cong.  Sab. 
sch.,  14.75;  New  London,  1st  ch.  of  Christ 
Sab.  sch.,  toward  support  Rev.  C.  N.  Ran- 
som, 18.80;  Old  Saybrook,  Cong.  Sab.  sch., 
15.91, 

New  York.  — Norfolk,  Cong.  Sab.  sch.,  1.25; 
Northfield,  Cong.  Sab.  sch.,  16, 

Ohio.  — Conneaut,  Cong.  Sab.  sch.,  10;  Toledo, 
Central  Cong.  Sab.  sch.,  for  Adana,  15, 


INTERIOR  DISTRICT 


90  00 


49  46 
17  25 
25  00 
91  71 


3,131  96 

New  Jersey 

East  Orange,  Trinity  Cong,  ch.,  F.  W. 

Van  Wagenen,  66;  Rev.  James  F. 

Riggs,  10,  76  00 

Englewood,  Lee  S.  Hinzenga,  1 00 

Haddonfield,  J.  D.  Lynde,  25  00 

Montclair,  Lydia  B.  Dodd,  1 00 

Mount  Holly,  Mrs.  A.  S.  Robbins,  5 00 

Newark,  1st  Jube  Memorial  Cong,  ch., 

112.06;  Belleville-av.  Cong,  ch.,  Miss 
K.  L.  Hamilton,  5,  117  06 

New  Brunswick,  F.  Z.  Rossiter,  1 00 

North  Paterson,  Agnes  A.  Gould,  1 00 

Upper  Montclair,  Christian  Union  Cong. 

ch.,  Mrs.  A.  C.  Fetterolf,  5 00 

Vineland,  M.  R.  Faulkner,  1 00 233  06 


Tennessee 

East  Lake,  Cong.  ch. 

Grand  View,  Cong.  ch. 

Memphis,  Alma  E.  Childs, 

, Woman’s  Missionary  Union, 

Louisiana 

Monroe,  H.  Kindermann, 


Texas 

Dallas,  E.  M.  Powell, 

Fort  Worth,  1st  Cong.  ch. 

Oklahoma 

Anadarko,  W.  H.  Campbell, 


21  28 
7 00 
1 00 

12  00 41  28 


10  00 


25  00 

40  00 65  00 


45  00 


334 


Donations 


July 


10  00 
56  70 
135  00 


Illinois 

Aurora,  E.  E.  Bouslough,  200  00 

Chicago,  Pilgrim  Cong,  ch.,  Member,  500  ; 

New  England  Cong,  ch.,  100;  Millard- 
av.  Cong,  ch.,  14.76,  614  76 

Denver,  Cong.  ch.  2 17 

Des  Plaines,  Cong.  ch.  13  25 

Dover,  Cong.  ch.  27  58 

Geneseo,  F.  E.  Mathers,  10  00 

Greenville,  Mrs.  Jane  C.  Clark,  1 00 

Gridley,  Cong.  ch.  12  45 

Jacksonville,  Cong,  ch.,  toward  support 
Rev.  Walter  Foss,  125  00 

Kankakee,  Mrs.  M.  A.  Dahl,  1 00 

La  Harpe,  Cong.  ch.  and  Sab.  sch.  60  78 

Lexington,  E.  F.  Wright,  5 00 

Marseilles,  J.  Q.  Adams,  25  00 

Moline,  Rev.  Geo.  G.  Perkins,  5;  Marion 
E.  Williams,  5, 

Oneida,  Cong.  ch.  and  Sab.  sch. 

Peoria,  1st  Cong.  ch. 

Roberts,  Cong.  ch. 

Rockefeller,  Cong.  ch. 

Rockford,  1st  Cong.  ch. 

Toulon,  Cong.  ch.  and  Sab.  sch. 

Waverly,  Cong.  ch. 

Wilmette,  1st  Cong.  ch. 

Yorkville,  Cong.  ch. 

Michigan 

Battle  Creek,  J.  H.  Kellogg, 

Detroit,  1st  Cong,  ch.,  of  which  110  to- 
ward support  Rev.  and  Mrs.  J.  H, 
Dickson, 

Imlay  City,  Cong.  ch. 

Lamont,  1st  Cong.  ch. 

Perry,  Cong.  ch. 

Pontiac,  Cong.  ch. 

Shaftsburg,  Kay  Cong.  ch. 

Three  Oaks,  Cong.  ch. 

Watervliet,  Plymouth  Cong,  ch.,  Geo 
Parsons, 

, Friend,  of  which  340  for  Kustendil 

and  100  to  const.  A.  S.  McPhekron, 

H.  M. 


4 40 
53  35 
43  40 
11  56 
33  43 
18  75- 

-1,472  26 

50  00 

176  00 
20  00 
5 00 
25  00 
5 00 
15  00 
131  72 

’ 50  00 

490  00- 

— 967  72 

Wisconsin 


Aurora,  Welsh  Cong.  ch.  10  00 

British  Hollow,  Thomas  Davies,  50  00 

Emerald  Grove,  Cong.  ch.  3 00 

Fulton,  Cong.  ch.  4 05 

Jackson,  Cong.  ch.  150 

La  Crosse,  1st  Cong.  ch.  200  00 

Martin,  Cong.  ch.  1 58 

Milton,  1st  Cong.  ch.  19  08 

Milwaukee,  Richard  Dewey , 5 ; Mrs.  Lydia 
E.  Williams,  5,  10  00 

Plymouth,  Cong.  ch.  43  41 

Rio,  Kennedy  Scott,  1 00 

Rosendale,  West  Cong.  ch.  10  00 353  62 


Meadville,  Cong,  ch.,7.50  ; A.  L.  Loomis, 

10,  17  50 

St.  Louis,  Pilgrim  Cong,  ch.,  of  which 
104.25  for  Madura,  208.50;  Reber-pl. 

Cong.  ch.  Miss.  Soc.,  for  Harpoot,  223  50 261  00 


North  Dakota 


Eckelson,  Cong.  ch. 

2 36 

Fargo,  1st  Cong.  ch. 

23  56 

Hurdsfield,  Cong.  ch. 

12  00 

Ruso,  Cong.  ch. 

2 50 

Wyndmere,  Cong.  ch. 

4 00 — 

—44  42 

South  Dakota 

Aberdeen,  Cong.  ch. 

24  95 

Brantford,  Cong.  ch. 

14  00 

Elk  Point,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  J.  Fink, 

2 50 

Redfield,  Cong.  ch. 

30  11 — 

—71  56 

Nebraska 

Albion,  Cong.  ch. 

34  71 

Aurora,  1st  Cong,  ch.,  for  work  of  Dr. 

Edward  L.  Bliss, 

20  00 

Broken  Bow,  Mrs.  P.  A.  Coon,  2 00 

Danbury,  Cong.  ch.  10  75 

Hallam,  Ger.  Cong,  ch.,  of  which  36.70 
from  Ladies’  Aid  Soc.  58  70 


Lincoln,  Vine  Cong,  ch.,  55.16 ; Nettie 
Cropsey,  50, 

Rising  City,  1st  Cong.  ch. 

Surprise,  Mrs.  J.  H.  Greenslit, 

West  Point,  Cong,  ch.,  for  Harpoot, 


105  16 
15  00 
2 00 

30  00 278  32 


Kansas 


Fairview,  Plymouth  Cong.  ch.  20  00 

Munden,  John  Rundus  and  family,  4 00 

Paradise,  E.  E.  O’Brien,  7 00 

Rosedale,  1st  Cong.  ch.  3 00 

Stockton,  S.  W.  Noyce,  5 00 

Topeka,  1st  Cong,  ch.,  of  which  30  from 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  G.  Wood,  for  native 
worker,  Madura,  230 ; Grace  Paine,  5,  235  00 
Wheaton,  Cong.  ch.  10  00 

Wichita,  Marv  B.  Dimond,  5 ; C.  H. 


Isely,  5, 

, State  Association, 


10  00 
17  46- 


-311  46 


Montana 


Ballantine,  Cong.  ch. 
Billings,  Chas.  W.  Chafee, 


4 20 

5 00 9 20 


Wyoming 


Cheyenne,  1st  Cong.  ch. 


5 00 


Colorado 

Fort  Collins,  Ger.  Evan.  ch. 


75  00 


Minnesota 

Freedom,  Cong.  ch.  4 46 

Minneapolis,  Plymouth  Cong,  ch.,  toward 
support  Rev.  A.  H.  Clark,  111.11 ; Lyn- 
dale  Cong,  ch.,  40.40  ; Pilgrim  Cong, 
ch.,  35.83,  187  34 

Northfield,  Rev.  Fred  B.  Hill,  toward 
support  Rev.  A.  A.  McBride,  1,200; 

Friend,  toward  support  Dr.  and  Mrs. 

Percy  Watson,  25,  1,225  00 

St.  Paul,  Plymouth  Cong.  ch.  20  42 — 1,437  22 

Iowa 


Cedar  Falls,  Mary  T.  Clay,  1 00 

Eagle  Grove,  1st  Cong.  ch.  15  00 

Iowa  City,  Mrs.  W.  E.  Ijams,  2 00 

Letts,  H.  Lieberkneckt,  10  00 

Malcom,  Mrs.  L.  P.  Lewis,  5 00 

Prescott,  Mrs.  E.  W.  Kelsall,  for  Adana,  50  00 
Saratoga,  Cong.  ch.  4 00 

Toledo,  Mrs.  D.  Stoner,  5 00 

Waterloo,  Rev.  E.  P.  Kimball,  5 00 97  00 


Missouri 

Kansas  City,  C.  M.  Stebbins,  10  00 

Maplewood,  W.  H.  Whitehill,  10  00 


Young  People’s  Societies 

Oklahoma.  — Oktaha,  1st  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E. 
Wisconsin.  — Seymour,  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E. 
Minnesota.  — St.  Paul,  St.  Anthony  Park  Y. 
P.  S.  C.  E.,  for  Adana, 

Missouri.  — St.  Louis,  Fountain  Park  Y.  P.  S. 

C.  E.,  for  Ing-hok, 

Nebraska.  — Exeter,  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E. 


Sunday  Schools 

Indiana.  — Ridgeville,  Cong.  Sab.  sch.,  for 
Philippines, 

Illinois.  — Alton, Cong.  Sab.  sch., 6.60;  Avon, 
Cong.  Sab.  sch.,  Ladies’  Bible  class,  for  Mt. 
Silinda,  49.50;  Moline,  Cong.  Sab.  sch.,  for 
Harpoot,  20, 

Michigan.  — Suttons  Bay,  Cong.  Sab.  sch. 
Nebraska.  — Albion,  Cong.  Sab.  sch. 

Kansas.  — Milo,  Union  Cong.  Sab.  sch. 


Less.  — Louisiana,  New  Orleans,  In  June  Her- 
ald Beecher  Memorial  Cong.  Sab.  sch.,  2 50, 
should  read  1.50, 


1 00 
4 00 

15  00 

7 50 
30  00 

57  50 


2 00 


76  10 
1 50 
9 25 
6 95 

95  80 


1 00 
94  80 


1910 


Donations 


335 


PACIFIC  DISTRICT 

Arizona 

Swansea  Mrs.  C.  E.  Parsons,  3 00 

Washington 

Coupevme,  Cong.  ch.  8 64 

Rosalia,  Carey  Memorial  Cong.  ch.  3 51 

Seattle,  Prospect  Cong,  ch.,  15;  J.  L. 

Claghorn,  4,  19  00 

Snohomish,  Cong.  ch.  15  00 

Tacoma,  Al-ki  Cong.  ch.  10  00 

Washougal  Cong.  ch.  13  50 69  65 


Oregon 


Hood  River,  Truman  Butler, 
The  Dalles,  Cong.  ch. 


-35  00 


California 


Berkeley,  North  Cong,  ch.,  30  ; L.  J.  and 
Miss  L.  G.  Barker,  toward  support  Rev. 

F.  F.  Goodsell,  72,  102  00 

El  Monte,  C.  P.  ch.,  R.  M.  Webster,  4 00 

Los  Angeles,  Ross  A.  Harris,  10  00 

Petaluma,  Cong.  ch.  56  35 

Pinole,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  B.  T.  Elmore,  for 
Pang-Chuang,  5 00 

Redlands,  Rebecca  H.  Smiley,  10  00 

San  Jose,  Mrs.  M.  B.  Hills,  1 50 

Santa  Barbara,  Mrs.  H.  M.  Howe,  1 00 

Upland,  Chas.  E.  Harwood,  toward  sup- 
port Rev.  W.  O.  Pye,  150  00 

, Friend,  2 00 341  85 

Hawaii 

Honolulu,  Central  Union  Cong,  ch., 

2,732.25;  Mary  T.  Castle  Trust,  for 

Nauru  Mission,  100,  2,832  25 

Young  People’s  Societies 

Washington.  — Redmond,  Avondale  Y.  P.  S. 

C.  E.  1 60 

Sunday  Schools 

California. — Bakersfield,  1st  Cong.  Sab.  sch., 

30;  Fresno,  Ger.  Cong.  Sab.  sch.,  for  Arup- 
pukottai,  3;  Oakland,  1st  Cong.  Sab.  sch., 

22.05,  ‘ 55  05 

MISCELLANEOUS 

Germany 

, Friend,  4 40 

Africa 

Chisamba,  Native  ch.,  for  Mt.  Silinda,  10  00 

FROM  WOMAN’S  BOARDS 

From  Woman’s  Board  of  Missions 
Miss  Sarah  Louise  Day,  Boston, 

Treasurer 

F or  sundry  missions  in  part,  12,681  32 

For  purchase  for  use  of  school,  the  horse 
and  harness  formerly  belonging  to  Miss 
Seibert,  125  00 

For  floor  in  Mrs.  Edwards’  house  and  for 
carriage  house,  Inanda,  80  00 

To  restore  full  amount  of  appropriation 
for  touring  Harpoot,  for  year  1910,  132  00 

Toward  new  building  for  girls’  school, 

Talas,  600  00 

Toward  dormitory  for  girls’  school,  Ah- 
mednagar,  900  00-14,518  32 

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

Treasurer  5,000  00 

From  Woman’s  Board  of  Missions  for  the  Pacific 
Miss  Mary  C.  McClees,  Oakland,  California, 

Treasurer  125  00 


19,643  32 


Additional  Donations  for  Special  Objects 

Maine.  — Brunswick,  Bowdoin  College  Chris- 
tian Association,  for  native  helper,  care  Rev. 

R.  A.  Hume,  100;  Hallowell,  Old  South 
League,  for  use  of  Miss  Alice  R.  Kellogg,  1 ; 

Portland,  West  Cong.  Sab.  sch.,  Prim.  Dept., 
for  work  among  children,  care  Miss  Alice  C. 

Bewer,  3.25,  104  25 

New  Hampshire.  — Bennington,  Charlotte  M. 

Whitney,  for  educational  work,  care  Miss  E. 

M.  Blakely,  35  ; Hanover,  Mardin  Union,  for 
Mardin  High  School  Building  Fund,  care 
Rev.  R.  S.  M.  Emrich,  15;  Lisbon,  Mary  R. 
Cummings,  for  the  Sivas  Building  Fund,  10,  60  00 

Vermont.  — Hinesburg,  Aurelius  Sykes,  for 
pupil,  care  Rev.  William  Hazen,  20  00 

Massachusetts.  — Andover,  South  Y.  P.  S. 

C.  E.,  for  Sivas  Building  Fund,  25 ; do., 

Mary  Bullard,  for  use  of  Rev.  E.  C.  Part- 
ridge, 200;  do.,  Rev.  William  L.  Ropes,  for 
Sivas  Building  Fund,  5;  Auburndale,  Cong. 

Sab.  sch.,  for  school  at  Amanzimtoti,  29.50; 

Boston,  Mt.  Vernon  Cong,  ch  , Friends,  for 
Sivas  Building  Fund,  30;  do.,  Mt.  Vernon 
Chinese  Sab.  sch.,  for  work,  care  Rev.  C.  R. 

Hager,  102;  do.,  Central  Cong.  Sab.  sch.  (Ja- 
maica Plain),  Mr.  Capen’s  men’s  class,  for 
native  helper,  care  Rev.  A.  H.  Clark,  50  ; do. 

E.  T.,  for  work  in  Central  Turkey  College, 

250;  do.,  J.  J.  Arakelyan,  for  four  beds  in 
hospital,  care  Dr.  H.  H.  Atkinson,  100;  do., 

Rev.  W.  C.  Rhoades,  for  native  helper,  care 
Rev.  R.  A.  Hume,  1 ; Braintree,  Miss  A.  T. 

Belcher,  for‘pupils>  care  Rev.  G.  P.  Knapp, 

2;  Brockton,  Oscar  C.  Davis,  for  Sivas  Build- 
ing Fund,  25;  Brookfield,  Conference,  by  Rev. 

F.  C.  Richards,  for  Mardin  High  School  Build- 
ing Fund,  care  Rev.  R.  S.  M.  Emrich,  60; 
Cambridge,  1st  Cong,  ch.,  Shepard  Sab.  sch., 
for  student,  care  Dr.  H.  H.  Atkinson,  25; 

Dedham,  Miss  M.  C.  Burgess,  for  work,  care 
Rev.  E.  C.  Partridge,  100;  Falmouth,  Cong. 

Sab.  sch.,  for  work,  care  Rev.  Wm.  Hazen, 

5.75;  Greenfield,  2d  Cong.  Sab.  sell.,  class  of 
girls,  for  work,  care  Rev.  H.  T.  Perry,  10; 

Holyoke,  Friday  Club,  for  use  of  Miss  Susan 
R.  Howland,  5 ; Lincoln,  Cong.  Sab.  sch.,  for 
pupil,  care  Miss  E.  S.  Hartwell,  20;  do.,  Y. 

P.  S.  C.  E.,  for  work,  care  Rev.  Edward  Fair- 
bank,  15 ; Medway,  Village  Cong.  ch.  Ladies’ 

Benev.  Soc.,  for  use  of  Mrs.  R.  Winsor,  10 ; 

Monson,  Hattie  F.  Cushman,  for  Sivas  Build- 
ing Fund,  15;  Somerville,  Helen  J.  Sanborn, 
through  Miss  E.  M.  Stone,  for  Albanian  Girls’ 

Boarding  School,  Kortcha,  10;  Springfield, 

Union  Mission  Sab.  sch.,  for  work,  care  Rev. 

C.  R.  Hager,  48;  do.,  Memorial  Sab.  sch., 
for  native  pastor,  care  Rev.  C.  K.  Tracy,  30 ; 
do.,  D.  M.  Wheeler,  for  native  pastor,  care 
Rev.  Edward  Fairbank,  30;  do.,  Carrie  L. 

King,  for  work,  care  Rev.  E.  C.  Partridge,  5; 

Warren,  1st  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.,  Jun.  Dept.,  for 
work,  care  Mrs.  Geo.  P.  Knapp,  5;  Welles- 
ley, Friend,  for  Mardin  High  School  Building 
Fund,  care  Rev.  R.  S.  M.  Emrich,  5 ; West- 
field,  1st  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.,  for  pupil,  care  Rev. 

G.  P.  Knapp,  30;  Whitinsville,  Friends,  for 
Mardin  High  School  Building  Fund,  care  Rev. 

R.  S.  M.  Emrich,  210;  Worcester,  Nat’l  A. 
and  I.  Relief  Ass’n,  Miss  E.  C.  Wheeler, 
treas.,  for  Industrial  School,  care  Rev.  Wm. 

Hazen,  200,  1,658  25 

Rhode  Island.  — Providence,  Central  Cong. 

Sab.  sch.,  Miss  Fairchild’s  class,  for  Chinese 
boy  in  college,  care  Rev.  E.  H.  Smith,  10  00 

Connecticut. — Colchester,  Friend,  for  work, 
care  Rev.  Wm.  Hazen,  10;  Hartford,  Center 
Cong.  Sab.  sch.,  for  work,  care  Rev.  E.  H. 

Smith,  32.09;-  do.,  Sarah  B.  Colver,  for  work, 
care  Rev.  John  S.  Porter,  25;  Mansfield  Cen- 
ter, Chas.  H.  Learned,  for  hospital,  care  Dr. 

H.  N.  Kinnear,  10;  Meriden,  Center  Cong, 
ch.,  Robert  Scovil  Loux  Memorial,  for  native 
pastor,  care  Rev.  L.  S.  Gates,  8;  New  Haven, 

Yale  Divinity  School  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  of  which 
5 for  St.  Paul’s  Institute,  care  Rev.  T.  D. 

Christie,  and  5 for  American  College,  Madura, 
care  Rev.  Wm.  M.  Zumbro,  10;  Norwich, 

Broadway  Young  People’s  Union,  for  pupil, 


336 


Donations 


July,  1910 


care  Rev.  E.  Fairbank,  15;  Norwich  Town, 
Friend,  for  hospital,  care  Dr.  H.  N.  Kin- 
near,  15 ; Stratford,  Cong.  ch.  Girls’  Mission 
League,  for  Mission  League  Cot,  care  Rev. 
P.  L.  Corbin,  15, 

New  York.  — Brooklyn,  Central  Cong.  Sab. 
sch.,  boys’  class,  No.  16,  for  use  of  Rev.  C.  R. 
Hager,  3;  do.,  M.  Louise  Erwin,  for  work, 
care  Miss  Lillian  T.  Cole,  25;  do.,  Chas.  A. 
Clark,  for  Bible-woman,  care  Rev.  C.  R. 
Hager,  3;  do.,  A friend  of  Africa,  for  work, 
care  A.  J.  Orner,  50;  Buffalo,  1st  Cong,  ch., 
Mrs.  S.  C.  Whittemore,  for  Colburn  School, 
care  Rev.  R.  A.  Hume,  150;  Churchville, 
Cong,  ch.,  for  work,  care  Rev.  L.  S.  Gates, 
40;  Lancaster,  Presb.  Sab.  sch.,  for  work, 
care  the  Misses  Ely,  12 ; New  Lebanon,  Y.  P. 
S.  C.  E.,  for  work,  care  Rev.  E.  H.  Smith, 
10.14;  New  York,  through  West  54th-st. 
Ladies’  Helping  Hand  Assoc.,  for  use  of  Miss 
S.  R.  Howland,  10;  do.,  Grace  H.  Dodge, 
through  Mrs.  G.  F.  Herrick,  for  publication 
work,  care  Rev.  G.  F.  Herrick,  300;  do., 
Friends,  for  Union  Training  School  Building 
Fund,  care  Rev.  Alden  H.  Clark,  1,006; 
Setauket,  Elizabeth  D.  Strong,  for  hospital 
work,  care  Dr.  H.  H.  Atkinson,  2, 

New  Jersey. — Bound  Brook,  Wm.  W.  Smalley, 
for  evangelistic  work,  care  Rev.  J.  E.  Merrill, 

Pennsylvania.  — Athens,  The  Annie  Tracy 
Riggs  Memorial  Hospital  Fund,  by  Jessie  W. 
Murray,  treas.,  for  the  Annie  Tracy  Riggs 
Hospital,  5 ; Bryn  Mawr,  Presb.  Sab.  sch., 
for  scholarship  in  St.  Paul’s  Institute,  40, 

Ohio.  — Cincinnati,  Isabella  A.  Kolbe,  10,  and 
Christine  Holzhauser,  1,  both  for  pupil  at 
Oorfa,  11 ; Oberlin,  The  Oberlin  Shansi  Me- 
morial Asso.,  for  native  helper,  care  Rev.  P. 
L.  Corbin,  83.33 ; do.,  Harriet  W.  Ely  and 
niece,  for  Sivas  Building  Fund,  10;  Ravenna, 
1st  Cong.  Sab.  sch.,  Prim.  Dept.,  for  blind 
children,  care  Miss  A.  L.  Millard,  10, 

South  Carolina.  — Greenwood,  Y.  P.  S.  C. 
E.  of  Brewer  Normal  School,  for  work,  care 
Miss  Sarah  L.  Stimpson, 

Kentucky.  — Berea,  Josephine  A.  Robinson, 
for  Sivas  Building  Fund,  2 ; Lexington,  Rev. 
and  Mrs.  L.  W.  Mahn,  for  native  worker, 
care  Rev.  Geo.  H.  Hubbard,  10, 

Tennessee. — Grand  View,  Cong,  ch.,  for  bed  in 
Williams  Hospital,  Pang-Chuang,  8.35 ; do., 
Cong.  Sab.  sch.,  for  do.,  8;  do.,  Y.  P.  S.  C. 
E.,  for  do.,  1.65, 

Texas.  — Austin,  Woman’s  Suffrage  Asso.,  for 
Elenchie  Tsilka,  Kortcha, 

Illinois.  — Chicago,  Grace  Cong,  ch.,  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Peter  Verberg,  for  work,  care  Rev.  H. 
G.  Bissell,  10;  do.,  Grace  Cong.  Sab.  sch., for 
native  pastor,  care  do.,  18.75  ; do.,  Friends,  for 
Mardin  High  School  Building  Fund,  care 
Rev.  R.  S.  M.  Emrich,5;  Geneva,  Geo.  N. 
Taylor,  for  native  helper,  care  Rev.  L.  S. 
Gates,  20;  Kewanee,  Cong.  Sab.  sch.,  for 
Moslem  school,  care  Mrs.  L.  O.  Lee,  50.15; 
, Friend,  for  work  in  Japan,  1, 

Michigan.  — Bellaire,  1st  Cong.  ch.  Woman’s 
Home  and  Foreign  Miss.  Soc.,  for  work,  care 
Rev.  J.  P.  McNaughton,  3.65;  Delton,  Pine 
Lake  Cong.  Sab.  sch.,  for  pupil,  care  Rev.  G. 

G.  Brown,  7.50;  Detroit,  North  Woodward- 
av.  Cong,  ch.,  for  native  pastor,  care  Rev.  J. 

H.  Dickson,  60;  do.,  1st  Cong.  Sab.  sch., 
Prim.  Dept.,  for  work,  care  Miss  V.  Billings, 
25, 

Wisconsin.  — Florence,  Harold  Rasmussen,  for 
hospital,  care  Dr.  H.  N.  Kinnear,  2 ; Fort  At- 
kinson, Henry  K.  Hawley,  of  which  50  for 
work,  care  Rev.  E.  H.  Smith,  50  for  work, 
care  Rev.  P.  L.  Corbin,  and  50  for  work,  care 
Dr.  W.  A.  Hemingway,  150  ; Menomonie,  1st 
Cong.  ch.  Ladies’  Social  Circle,  for  use  of 
Miss  C.  M.  Welpton,  3.80;  Oconomowoc,  Y. 
P.  S.  C.  E.,  for  native  helper,  care  Rev.  John 
X.  Miller,  2.70;  River  Falls,  Cong,  ch.,  for 
pupil,  care  Miss  A.  C.  Salmond,  15.50;  do., 
Cong.  Sab.  sch.,  for  pupil,  care  Miss  C.  E. 
Chittenden,  23, 

Minnesota.  — Elk  River,  Cong,  ch.,  for  use  of 
Miss  E.  M.  Atkins,  13.23 ; Minneapolis,  Plym- 
outh Cong,  ch.,  for  Union  Training  School, 
care  Rev.  A.  H.  Clark,  731.22;  do.,  D.  D. 


140  09 


1,611  14 
100  00 


45  00 


114  33 
6 00 

12  00 

18  00 
5 50 


104  90 


197  00 


Webster,  for  native  workers,  care  Mrs.  M.  M. 
Webster,  30, 

Iowa.  — Waterloo,  1st  Cong,  ch.,  through  Miss 
E.  M.  Stone,  for  Thessalonica  Agr.  and  Ind. 
Institute, 

Missouri.  — Monett,  George  Cape,  for  Elen- 
chie Tsilka,  Kortcha,  5;  St.  Louis,  Pilgrim 
Cong,  ch.,  for  work,  care  Rev.  G.  S.  Eddy, 
1,061 ; do.,  Pilgrim  Cong.  Sab.  sch.,  Mr.  Dan- 
forth’s  class,  for  native  worker,  care  Rev.  T. 
S.  Lee,  40, 

North  Dakota.  — Carrington,  Rev.  Robert 
Paton , for  missionary  residence  in  the  Philip- 
pines, 

South  Dakota.  — Lowry,  Ger.  Cong,  ch.,  for 
work,  care  Rev.  C.  R.  Hager,  31.30;  Veblen, 
Dr.  and  Mrs.  C.  C.  Hoagland,  for  bed  in  hos- 
pital, care  Dr.  and  Mrs.  F.  F.  Tucker,  15, 
Nebraska.  — West  Point,  Cong,  ch.,  for  or- 
phan, care  Rev.  G.  P.  Knapp, 

Kansas.  — Oberlin,  Otis  L.  Benton,  through 
Miss  E.  M.  Stone,  for  girls’  boarding  school, 
Kortcha, 

W ashington. — Christopher,  White  River  Cong. 
Sab.  sch.,  for  little  boys’  home,  care  Rev.  J. 

E.  Abbott,  10;  North  Yakima,  1st  Cong,  ch., 
Mrs.  H.  M.  Gilbert,  for  building  work,  care 
Rev.  F.  E.  Jeffery,  150, 

California.  — Los  Angeles,  Ross  A.  Harris, 
for  work,  care  Dr.  H.  N.  Kinnear,  10;  Pasa- 
dena, Mrs.  E.  M.  Orton  and  daughters,  for 
the  Albert  Orton  School,  care  Rev.  G.  G. 
Brown,  35;  San  Francisco,  Mission  Cong,  ch., 
for  work,  care  Mrs.  J.  S.  Chandler,  30  ; do., 
Mission  Cong.  Sab.  sch.,  for  school,  care  Mrs. 

F.  E.  Jeffery,  15 ^Saratoga,  Cong,  ch.,  J.  L. 
Pendleton,  for  native  preacher,  care  Miss  O. 

• M.  Vaughn,  75, 

Hawaii.  — Honolulu,  Kate  M.  Atherton,  for 
pupils,  care  Miss  M.  F.  Denton, 

Canada.  — Montreal,  American  Presb.  ch., 
Woman’s  Foreign  Miss.  Soc.,  Member,  for 
pupil,  care  Miss  Minnie  Clarke,  20;  do., 
Cedar-av..  Mission  Sab.  sch.,  toward  support 
of  teacher  or  other  work,  care  Dr.  and  Mrs. 
C.  T.  Sibley,  5, 


774  45 
21  86 

1,106  00 
30  00 

46  30 
21  00 

10  00 
160  00 


165  00 
50  00 


25  00 


From  the  Canada  Congregational  Foreign 
Missionary  Society 


H.  W.  Barker,  Toronto,  Ontario, 
Treasurer 


For  school  purposes  at  Chisamba  and  out- 
stations,  1,203  00 

For  native  teacher,  care  Rev.C.  R.  Hager,  55  00 
For  Dr.  T.  B.  Scott’s  work,  15  00—1,273  00 


FROM  WOMAN’S  BOARDS 

From  Woman’s  Board  of  Missions  for  the  Pacific 
Miss  Mary  C.  McClees,  Oakland,  California, 
Treasurer 

For  Doshisha  Building  Fund,  2,150  00 

For  use  of  Miss  Charlotte  Willard,  232  50 — 2,382  50 

Income  St.  Paul’s  Institute 

For  St.  Paul’s  Institute,  412  50 

10,780  22 

Donations  received  in  May,  51,863  52 

Legacies  received  in  May,  8,627  42 

60,490  94 

Total  from  September  1,  1909,  to  May  31,  1910. 

Donations,  $505,856.88 ; Legacies,  $114,255.80  = 
$620,112.68. 

Pasumalai  Seminary  Fund 

Ohio.  — Cleveland,  Wm.  E.  Cushing,  50;  do., 

L.  E.  Holden,  50,  100  00 

Woman’s  Medical  Mission,  Jaffna 

Massachusetts.  — Springfield,  North  Cong, 
ch.  125  00 

The  New  Hiram  Bingham 
Connecticut.  — New  London,  1st  ch.  of  Christ 

Sab.  sch.,  Prim.  Dept.  3 63 


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