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THE MISSIONARY SURVEY
W. C. Smith, Managing Editor
Published monthly by the Presbyterian Committee of Publication, 212-214 North Sixth
Street, Richmond, Virginia. Single subscriptions 75 cents a year. In clubs of five or more
60 cents. Entered as second class matter, at Richmond, Va., under the Act of March, 3, 1877.
Volume 111.
MARCH 1914.
Number 3.
EDITORIAL,:
A Good Sign 163
PUBLICATION AND SABBATH SCHOOL EXTENSION
Two Points Made Clear 166
This From One of Our Sunday School Missionaries 167
Back to the Home 170
THE WOMAN'S AUXILIARY:
How the Auxiliary Plan Worked in a Church of 500 Members 172
An Announcement 173
A Message of the Annual Report 174
A Physician's Chart of Four Societies 174
One Good Way to Use the Survey 174
Optional Program 176
HOME MISSIONS:
Our Camera of the Shears and Pen 177
Life Service for Home Missions 179
Home Mission Heroism — A Fact From the Frontier 179
The Mexicans at Your Door 180
Echoes of Battles on the Border 181
The Influence of the Mexican Revolution on the Work in El Paso 182
Instituto Industrial Mexico-Texano 184
Our Mexican Fellow Citizens 185
The Penitentes 186
In the San Marcos Field 187
Key West, Florida 189
Beginning to Know Each Other 190
Can You Tell? 191
The March Missionary Meeting •• 191
Treasurer’s Report of Home Missions 192
THE JUNIORS:
Jack's Puzzle Box 194
Benito ! 194
As Thou Hast — An Incident That Really Occurred 197
Alicia Pina 197
How Tomas Was Cured 198
Our Juniors and the Mexicans in Texas 201
Junior Program for March, 1914 (Foreign) 202
CHRISTIAN ^EDUCATION AND MINISTERIAL RELIEF:
Prayer for Old Age 203
A Hero of the North 203
Hampden-Sidney College 204
Our Presbyterian Educational Institutions 206
The Church’s Responsibility 207
FOREIGN MISSIONS:
Monthly Topic — Mexico 208
A Sunday in Matamoros 211
Intervention Needed in Mexico y 213
Conditions of the Evangelical Work in Mexico 214
Our 'Work in Matamoros 215
Something Concerning the Congo Native 217
Another Illustration of ‘‘Africa's Crying Need” 219
“Father” Stuart's Memory Honored at Two Funerals 221
A Memorial Chapel to Dr. H. C. Dubose 222
“A Blessing to Be a Leper” 224
The Girl's Industrial School, Kochi, Japan 226
News From East Brazil 228
A Bulletin 229
My Ambition 230
San Benito, Texas 231
A Prayer 232
Summer Conferences for 1914 233
Graduating Exercises of the Presbyterian Industrial School for Girls. . . . 234
Notes From the Border 235
Do You Know? 237
Senior Program for March, 1914 237
Foreign Mission Receipts, January, 1914 237
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The | Missionary Survey’s Campaign
for 50,000 Subscribers
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The Goal : One Subscriber to every 5 Communicants.
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JACK GAINS A THOUSAND!
Is not this good news?
At last the little climber has started
up the pole again.
After sticking at the 24,000 mark
since last August, during which time it
was a battle royal to keep from slip-
ping back, the Survey’s subscription
list has begun to gain.
How nobly Jack’s friends have been
working can be conjectured when it is
noted that he has been able to put a
clean thousand additional subscriptions
under his circulation Hag during the
month of January, and now holds a
firm grip at 25,000.
This will be positively joyous tidings
to many who are watching the little
figure with greatest interest. Every
mail brings expressions of deep concern
in the circulation climber’s success, and
his plucky fight to reach the top and
plant his pennant on the 50,000 mark.
But he is only half way there !
Friends you will have to be diligent;
everybody must work. Leave no stone
unturned to secure new subscribers
and watch the expirations to secure
prompt renewals. Certainly be sure
vour own subscription does not lapse.
Jack, what do you think about it
now, old fellow ?
“ Never before felt so hopeful /”
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212-214 North Sixth Street,
Richmond, Virginia.
EDITORIAL
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cents a year; In clubs of
five or more, 50 cents. En-
tered as second-class mat-
ter November 1, 1911, at
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mond, Va., under the act
of March 3, 1877.
A GOOD SIGN.
AT this time, when the executive
committees are watching with
the deepest concern, if not anx-
iety, the year’s rounding up of
their receipts; when every courteous
etfort is being made by the vigilant
secretaries to remind church and socie-
ty treasurers that “the books close
March 31,” and when there is appre-
hension on the part of many students
of Benevolent Finance that the end of
the fiscal year will reveal a dishearten-
ing deficit, there appears on the hori-
zon at least one positive, definite sign
of hopefulness.
It is the marked increase of interest
in missionary literature. When people
begin to be informed, interest is quick-
ened and support soon follows.
Not since this magazine was launch-
ed two and a half years ago, has there
been such a stream of inquiry coming
through its daily mails: “How shall t
go about organizing a young people’s
missionary society?” "Where may I
secure literature for an Immigration
meeting?” “What is the best method
of circulating the Survey?” “What
books would you recommend on Ko-
rea missions?” "To whom shall I ap-
ply for a program for a Mexico meet-
ing?” and a hundred other questions
coming from certain people whose very
inquiries show their interest has only
recently been quickened; otherwise
they would have known these things
without asking.
Coincident with this development
and confirming its significance there is
a marked increase in subscriptions to
the Missionary Survey, and as notice-
able a decrease in unrenewed subscrip-
tions.
The January records in this office
reached a high watermark. No less
than four thousand subscriptions came
pouring in during that month, and
more than a thousand of them were
new. Whether this be the result of
activity on the part of old sub-
scribers, or the voluntary entry of newT
members into the Survey’s family of
“fact seekers,” it gives cause for great
encouragement. The magazine is forg-
ing into new territory, and we firmly
believe these new friends added will
join hands with the faithful Survey
cupporters in the grand task of putting
this magazine in every home of the
Church.
But there is another confirming fea-
ture in this good sign. It is the un-
precedented sale of the Church Calen-
dar of Prayer.
Last year it looked like a bold ven-
ture to print 10.000 of these booklets,
because not near so many as that had
been sold in previous years. The issue
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was exhausted by March 15. This year
an increased number was printed, and
10,000 of them had gone before Janu-
ary 15— two months earlier than last
year. It is now interesting to watch
how .rapidly the balance on hand is
melting away, at ten cents a copy.
And what does it mean?
Simply this : More of our people
than ever before are finding and using
the power of Intercessory Prayer. There
is no foolishness in the purchasing of a
Prayer Calendar. It means purpose;
it means business.
The Calendar carries a list of the
missionaries, showing their stations
and the character of their work; it
names the vital needs of the various
benevolent causes; details of the meth-
ods employed to meet them, and the
personnel of the ranks engaged at
home and abroad to put them into ef-
fect. It places a date by each of these,
and there are one or more for morning
and evening of each day in the year.
That means to pray, and pray defi-
nitely. Six thousand more Southern
Presbyterians are doing this thing now
than two years ago, if Calendar sales
are any criterion.
Who can compute the power of this
accretion to the program of definite
prayer in our Church?
Truly, these are substantial signs of
quickened interest and a harbinger of
increasing support all along the line.
To the Thousand.
To our one thousand new subscribers
we extend a glad welcome into the Sur-
vey’s circle of earnest inquirers. we
invite you to roam at will through all
the departments; you will find in each
one of them something interesting and
instructive.
We call your special attention to
Mrs. Williams’ article on page 174.
telling how to make most practical use
of the Survey. T he value of your copy
of the magazine — to yourself, to your
church, and the world — will depend
upon how you use it. Mrs. Williams
has certainly discovered an excellent
way.
Still More Ways to Advance.
Last month a number of methods
were suggested for getting the Survey
into all the homes of our congregations,
and they have been taken up in some
quarters with surprising promptness.
For instance, some sessions have al-
ready ordered a full supply of maga-
zines for their congregations to insure
reaching every home.
A Virginia lady wrote stating that
as she regarded the Missionary Survey
worth at least a dollar a year, she was
remitting that amount to cover her
own renewal and giving the name of a
friend to whom we could send the extra
subscription. She further suggested
that there were doubtless many other
Survey friends who might be glad to
do the same thing if the thought should
be brought to their minds. She may
be right. We gladly pass along the
thought.
A young lady in Georgia wrote, ask-
ing for twenty-five copies of the Feb-
ruary issue, saying, “I will pay you
five cents each for them, and my Sun-
day School class will sell them each
month to a selected list of patrons, like
the boys sell the Saturday Evening
Post. We will sell them at ten cents
and put the five cents profit in our class
treasury. Next month I hope to order
fifty copies.”
There’s a piece of organized class en-
terprise ! Incidentally, that class will
win new subscribers and put into its
treasury the price of every sixth new
subscription.
To Club Agents.
It would facilitate the work for both
you and (his office if, when asking us
for a complete list of Survey subscrib
ers, in your congregation, you wouh
forward us a list of your church mem
hers. A great many churches have suel
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a list printed in pamphlet or year
book form which could he brought
down to date by vour pastor or ses-
sion with little trouble. We would
then have only to check the subscrib-
ers’ names and affix the expiration
dates and return to you. Otherwise,
we must prepare and send you a com-
plete list of all subscribers receiving
their mail at your post-office, as it is
obviously impossible to keep our mail-
ing list classified according to congre-
gations.
For instance, a request for a list of
subscribers comes from a congregation
of 150 members in a city where there
are two or more Pre=bvterian churches.
We must give you a list of all the sub-
scribers in that city in order to include
your congregation, and even then there
would be omissions where members
have suburban post-offices. Also there
is the country congregation receiving
its mail through two or more contigu-
ous post-offices.
The method suggested above is di-
rect and comprehensive. However, if
such a list is difficult for you to pro-
cure, do not hesitate to call on us to
supply the full information; that is
what we are here for, and we do it
cheerfully, because we are so glad you
have the purpose to use it.
Another word to our faithful club
agents: Some of you seem to be under
the misapprehension that our sugges-
tion to arrange your subscription list
so all would expire with the same
month, was a request for our own con-
venience. It was not; because it makes
no difference with us. We are prepar-
ed to handle the business with you as
often during the year as you have re-
newals to forward. The suggestion
was for vour own benefit. It greatly
simplifies vour work if you can make
vour canvass for renewals just omie a
year. Of course, we are not saying
you might then close your Survey
books for twelve months, for we are
counting on you to be continually on
the lookout for new subscribers. On
this score there is no measure to our
greediness, and we hope there is no
limit to your ambition.
Surveying the "Land of Chosen.” This is Miss Lavalette Dupuy, at Camp Survey, on Mooten
San, Near Kwangju, Korea.
Branch Department at
Texarkana,
Publishing House:
212-214 North Sixth St.,
Richmond, Va.
TWO POINTS MADE CLEAR.
AS THIS is the month for the
special collection for this branch
of the work of our church, we
want to make very clear two
points which very often are not clearly
understood.
1. — What is included in the work of
this Committee?
This work is described by the title
of “Publication and Sabbath School
Extension.” The Publication Depart-
ment is the business end of our work,
and consists in preparing, and publish-
ing, and sending out to the Sunday
Schools their lesson literature, and the
papers for young people, and the Mis-
sionary Survey. Also, under the head
of publication comes our large busi-
ness of supplying books of various
sorts which our people order from us,
and printing and circulating books
and tracts, the authors of which are
members of our own church. We also,
as you know, prepare the hymn books
which our people use, particularly the
new Psalms and Hymns, Standard
Songs and Assembly Songs. The last
items all belong to the Publication De-
partment.
On the other hand, the department of
Sabbath School Extension is the evan-
gelistic end of our work. It consists
in organizing Mission Schools in all
parts of the South, and in giving free
Sabbath School literature to needy
Schools, these being either new schools,
or old ones that are not able to pay
fully for their own Sabbath School
supplies.
I may say about this last aspect of
our Sabbath School Extension work,
that we rarely ever- have to supply any
school a long time. Very soon these
new schools come to the point of pay-
ing for their own literature, which they
order from us; and the older schools
which we help a wdiile usually very
soon become self-supporting; and all
of them make it a point of honor to
pay for their own literature just as
soon as possible.
But the main feature of the work of
Sabbath School Extension is in organ-
izing and helping mission schools.
2. — To which of these divisions of
work is the money contributed by the
Church to be devoted?
To Sabbath School Extension only.
Not one cent of the money goes to the
publication end of this work, which
is strictly a business enterprise. This
is self-sustaining, and has been greatly
prospered by the blessing of God and
the favor of His people. While we
give our literature at a very low rate
to our schools, at a lower rate than
most other denominations charge, yet
by the very skilful management of our
Secretary and Business Manager, Mr.
Magill, the work is self-sustaining and
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The Mission Sunday School Goes After the Child and the Parent, Too.
yields profit enought to enable this
business end of the enterprise to con-
tribute a little each year to the evange-
listic branch of the work.
So please remember that every cent
of the money which is contributed in
this March collection will go through
the workers for Sabbath School Ex-
tension to the young people in neglect-
ed districts, in mining towns, in lum-
ber camps, in mill towns, in isolated
rural districts, in neglected foreign set-
tlements, in untouched negro settle-
ments; every cent of it will be used to
save our church from being in the ranks
of those to whom the Master of Life
shall say in the last day, “I was hun-
gry and ye did not give me to eat; I
was thirsty and ye gave me no drink;
1 was a stranger and ye took me not
in; sick and in prison and ye visited
me not.”
Will not every church and Sunday
School and society keep this in their
minds and hearts when making this
offering?
THIS FROM ONE OF OUR SUNDAY SCHOOL MISSIONARIES.
THERE is many a community where a
Sunday School could not be started
except by the aid of some outsioe
Christian worker. This is true for several
obvious reasons:
First, the community frequently has no
leader, no one to take the initiative. Second,
if there should happen to be one in the com-
munity capable of assuming the leadership,
he hesitates to start the work because of
certain difficulties in the way. There may
be factions in the community, some are “at
outs” with their neighbors, the denomina-
tions may be ‘‘so mixed,” or a Sunday
School may have been started before and
failed. When the organizing of a Sunday
School is suggested in such a community,
the record of the past with all its diffi
culties exaggerated arises to discourage
any member of the community from
undertaking the task; whereas an out-
side earnest Christian w-orker, it matters
not of what denomination, provided he is a
“On Time” at the Community Sunday School.
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LMakch, 1914.
Christian first, can often come in and be-
cause he is disinterested in “neighborhood
quarrels,’’ because he shows faith in the peo-
ple, and especially because of his deep love
for souls, can by God’s help give the com-
munity a Sunday School which will be a real
blessing for years to come.
Under just such conditions our Extension
Work is a most valuable aid. There arc
neighborhoods which could be mentioned
where our work planted Sunday Schools two
or three years ago and these, so far as we
could see, would never have had Sunday
Schools had it not been for this Extension
Work. One community was very desirous of
a Sunday School and had gone so far as to
buy a nice organ, hoping that by getting an
organ a Sunday School might follow,— their
zeal thus leading them to “go at it back-
wards’’ and on the wrong principle, solely
because as they themselves said, they did
not knowr “exactly how to go about organiz-
ing a Sunday School.” Our Extension Work
started the school for them two years ago
and it is still a most active school. A library
has been given them by our town church
close by, and our pastor there preaches for
them once a month. Only recently I re-
ceived a most appreciative Christmas letter
from them, expressing their deep gratitude
for all our work has done for them. There
is not a Presbyterian among them, but
whether “Presbyterians” may or may not be
made there, souls may be saved through
God’s using our Presbyterian Extension
Work in that community.
The Sunday School Extension Work often
changes the ideals of homes and uplifts the
lives of individuals by planting a Sunday
School in a neighborhood where the ideals
are degraded and the people indifferent to
true Christianity because, it may be, of a
long standing Catholic influence, or because
of a lack of any religious influence.
May I tell you of one community where
the Catholic influence has been strong for
years? When a Sunday School was sug-
gested there, a rough citizen — a “cowman” —
rough, but with a big heart — came to me
and in all kindness and honesty advised
against trying to start a Sunday School, as it
would surely prove futile there. That Sun-
day School has now been going about three
and a half years, a small church organiza-
tion has grown out of it, three of the mem-
bers of that man’s family are members, and
one of them a most consistent and earnest
worker.
When the work started there such customs
as “raffling,” etc., for making money for the
church were not considered at all wrong.
Now the young people of the Sunday School
are In an Organized Class which has pledged
itself to refrain from such things and they
will not think of participating in any money
making schemes which may seem to be of a
doubtful nature. They have made enough
money at their socials to get a nice Sunday
School library and other equipment besides
sending twenty-five dollars to our Orphan’s
Home one year.
Let me tell you of another family, dear
friends of mine, who have been greatly
changed since the starting of the Sunday
School in their community. Before the
starting of the Sunday School I doubt wheth-
er they read the Bible much. The wife was
a Cumberland Presbyterian, but the husband
was not a Christian. Now the mother,
father, and little girl have read and re-read
Foster’s Story of the Bible, the father hav-
ing read it straight through once. In that
home you will find a framed certificate the
reward to their little child for having per-
fectly recited the Child's Catechism. The
mother and father are both Christians and
members of our church. They rarely ever
fail to ask for prayers if I happen to spend
the night in their home. The Christian Ob-
server is a regular visitor there now, thanks
to our faithful worker, Mr. Shive. Surely
the Sunday School work has proved a bless-
ing to this home and, so far as we can tell,
the Sunday School would not have been
started had it not been for our work, for the
man referred to above, has told me since
that it took the nerve of a missionary to
Africa to attempt it there!
The opportunity is great. Many a com-
munity is anxious for a Sunday School.
Often they will keep them up in the face ol
great difficulties, if started in the true
Christian spirit, — with a desire on the part
of the leaders to carry the Gospel to the
people.
In a new town we had no available place
in which to meet, except a new unfinished
building which was being erected for a pool-
hall. The stores were open all day Sunday
and merchants came from their stores to
Sunday School, only to return to their busi-
ness, to desecrate the Sabbath by continuing
to sell goods. A base-ball game was going
on nearby. The solemnity of the service was
interrupted by a very officious little burro, —
tfae property of one of the Sunday School
children — which, with his head near the
door, insisted on “lifting up his voice” with
loud accent to disturb us. Still the Sunday
School was started and the minister who was
there, Mr. Glasgow, preached the first ser-
mon in that town.
That was four and a half years ago. Now
if you should visit that town, you would
find a population of over three thousand and
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A Mission Sunday School in North Carolina.
you would hear the church bells ringing.
The little "Pool-Room Sunday School" has
grown into three virile Sunday schools and
churches. Among these is a large and
flourishing Presbyterian Sunday School
with a church organzation, and nice house
of worship, — due to the efforts of the effi-
cient following-up work of the home mis
sionary, Mr. Glasgow.
In another new town the Sunday School
had to meet nearly all last summer out un-
der a big oak tree. This was our “Hans
and Fritz" Sunday School! Two little Ger-
man brothers named Hans and Fritz were
among the charter members. I am sorry to
say they have lagged in their attendance but
their little German friend, Alfonse, is still a
faithful member.
The Sunday School Extension Work can
often start an extensive Home Mission
Work close to an old established church so
that it can be loooked after as a mission of
that church. Two of our ministers have
afternoon preaching appointments each
once a month at three Sunday schools which
were opened up by the Extension Work.
Three of these six schools have become or-
ganized churches and we hope at one of
them to soon erect a building.
Statistics.
The total figures for the Sunday School
Extension work in Western Texas Presby-
tery show the following results since June,
1909:
Number of schools organized alto-
together 31
Number of schools dead 9
Number of the original schools alive
now 22
New schools (of various denomina
tion), — outgrowth of this remnant
(of various denominations) 10
Total number alive now 32
Under the care of our Church 14
Number of church organ zations (now
Presbyterian ) 7
Average for each year — 7 Sunday schools
plus 1 church organization.
Hence, judging from this record of the
past four and a half years the Sunday
School Extension work is a valuable asset to
our beloved Church, both from the stand-
point of real mission work and also of
Church Extension.
You will notice that there is an actual net
increase of schools at present date of one
school though nine have died! So many
have grown out of the original ones.
On the Way to Sunday School.
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BACK TO THE HOME.
THAT the co-operation of the
Home is absolutely necessary to
the life and success of our work
for young people is the central
thought of a little pamphlet for men
and women just issued by our Com-
mittee of Publication under the above
title. In clear practical terms it puts
forth the need. We quote briefly from
its pages :
“This appeal to the makers of the homes
of our church is a distinct cry for help, and
we know that when you understand our
cry, you will stand behind us, and with us,
yea, even in front of us in this great work.
Students of the Teen Age find that there
are certain great needs the church must
meet, and I believe that they use that
“must" in some of the same spirit that made
the Boy Jesus, the Teen Age Boy, say, when
his parents found h:m in the Temple, “Wist
ye not that I must be about my Father’s
business.”
Then it outlines these needs and tells
what the Committee of Young People’s
Work is doing to meet these needs, and
closes with :
What Can You Do To Help Us?
You can help us in so many ways. Here
are some of them:
1 Pupils
1. Through knowledge of -j Books
( The Book
Knowing your own boys and girls, you can
know also their “crowd,” and then by obser-
vation and by reading in magazines, in
wise books on child study, you can give us
such intelligent and effective hacking that
our work is half done before we begin.
Your Bible Study in the Home may follow
the course of our Sunday School lessons, and
not only give information, but dignity and
untold force, to the work which we are try-
ing to do by class work “one day in seven.”
“If mother and father are taking a course of
Bible Study, truly it must he worth while,”
— so runs the thought of your son or daugh-
ter, and the mercury rises to stay.
2. Through hearty co-operation in the
plan for this four sided development.
Remember that the long tramp on Saturday
afternoon, giving time for intimate knowl-
edge with the pupil, is just, as important
a part of the Young People’s work as the
missionary meeting on Friday afternoon. A
word in praise of “this so-called new order
of things” will help wonderfully. Will you
give it?
3. Through the realization that you can
make or mar a Sunday School teacher.
Talk her up! Brace her up! Know her'
Take her out in your car sometimes! Have
her in to d'nner or tea! Perhaps she is dis-
courager or sick or tired, and your help may
lift her over the hardest kind of place. Why
is she teaching in Sunday School anyhow?
Did you ever stop to think? Tt isn’t the
easiest job in the world. There isn’t any
money in it. What makes here willing to
spend so much thought and strength and
time on these boys and girls? It is worth
thinking about.
4. Through active leadership whenever
and wherever poss’ble.
Wist ye not that toe must be about our
Father's business?
Back to the Home — A Little Talk
for Men and Women. By Anna
Branch Binford, Presbyterian Com-
mittee of Publication. Price, 5c; 50c
a dozen.
Plastic Material for the Sunday School
Missionary.
WE MUST FACE THE FACTS!
STUDY THESE TWO CHARTS AND ANSWER THE QUESTION,
IS THIS A CHRISTIAN NATION ?
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OVER
THREE MILLION
WHITE
CHILDREN
OUT OF
SUNDAY
SCHOOL IN
THE
SOUTH.
SAVE THE
YOUNG PEOPLE
TO-DAY
IF YOU WOULD
SAVE
THE CHURCH
AND
NATION
OF TO-MORROW
DIAGRAM SHOWING AGE AT WHICH
VOUNG PEOPLE ARE CONVERTED.
SHOW YOUR INTEREST BY A WORTHY GIFT TO SABBATH
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HOW THE AUXILIARY PLAN WORKED IN A CHURCH OF
FIVE HUNDRED MEMBERS.
By One of Them.
TTERE was a “ raison d'etre' ’
back of the reorganization of the
Woman’s Work in the Broad
Street church. It may be given
under two heads:
1st. A strong and deeply rooted de-
sire that we abandon cliqueism and
bring about a unity of purpose and ac-
tion, obtained with the “few,” thus
proving once again the theory of secret
forces silently at work.
This desire antedated the action of
the Woman’s Conference in Atlanta,
and doubtless had its “silent” influence
on that body of intelligent and loyal
women. Their plan “worked,” and at
once commended itself to us. The wo-
men of the Broad Street church real-
ized, however, that the leaven must
rise slowly, yet we tried not to allow it
to become chilled. There was much
opposition, and every reason for cau-
tious, conservative action.
It was not until Mrs. Winsborough
was providentially with us that the
psychological moment seemed to have
arrived, when in spite of a good deal
of holding back, and several “you-will-
see” prophecies, the new plan worked
its way through into a completed pro-
gram, and was actually “on the boards”
while the conservatives were standing
back saying, “It. will never do to tear
down the old lines;” “Our traditions
are all leaving us.” Right here the
writer will say that when a society
dating back in organization to 1848,
having a prestige of sixty years of va-
ried and unbroken service, was with
the others merged into a united whole,
every man and woman possessing any
sentiment felt as if a great tree in the
forest had been felled.
But again that sort of faith which
Paul eulogizes asserted its strength,
and gave courage to those who favor-
ed the change, encouraging them to
push on “toward the marK.”
2nd. The General Assembly recom-
mended the change in the organization
of the Women’s ' Work. “Old Line'
Presbyterians, while they openly main-
tained their luke-warm attitude, agreed
to join the new and “see” if it would
work. ,
The following plan was accepted :
A Central Committee of five — Pres-
ident, Vice-President, Secretary, and
Treasurer; these with the chairmen
of the standing committees, form an
Executive Committee. The standing
committees are seven — Foreign Mis-
sions, Home Missions, Orphans’ Home,
Christian Education and Ministerial
Relief, Sabbath School Extension, Pas-
tors’ Aid, and Woman’s Business Club.
The Committee is complete in itself,
its work being outlined, and a special
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day being assigned to each program.
Every woman in t lie clftirch and con-
gregation is urged to attend the Mon-
day afternoon meeting, but only the
committee in charge of the meeting is
responsible for the program.
Each chairman is expected to arouse
an interest in her particular cause, and
also to keep alive in her own heart and
stimulate in others a comprehensive
interest in all phases of our Church’s
beneficence.
To accomplish special work demand-
special effort. If the women of our
Church will determinedly devote two
or even less hours a week to the study
of what our Church stands for, we
shall be edified and compensated be-
yond measure.
When in Fatherly tenderness, God
speaks to His people, “Bring }re all the
tithes into the storehouse, that there
may be meat in mine house,” do we not
stand appalled and ashamed that we
have doled out to God our “tithes” of
time, with half-shut hand, in an un-
generous spirit, but according to our-
selves full time for things of slight
importance?
The duties of the Home and Foreign
Secretaries of Literature are to prepare
yearly Study Class programs, and as-
sign the work.
The Presbyterial Secretary has
charge of the Presbyterial Work.
The chairman of the Business Wo-
man’s Club and Secretary of Young
People’s Work are given much liberty
in action. No two branches of the So-
ciety do more good, or have been more
actively at work.
Nothing has been pleasanter than
what has been accomplished in a social
way by the Pastors’ Aid, eliciting such
remarks as these: “I am glad to know
you. Mrs. S — ; I have long wanted to
meet you;” “These are such pleasant
occasions;” “I have never felt at home
before in the church ;” “I have lived
here three (or one, or several) years,
and I do not know the Presbyterian
ladies, even on my own street;’’ “The
church had always seemed such a cold
place.”
A woman of charming and gracious
manner is in charge of this part of the
work, and has a fine field in which to
broadcast the good seed of the King-
dom. Her responsibility extends to
the stranger, the sick in hospital and
home, and to any help she can render
the pastor.
“Can all this be accomplished?” does
one ask. While only a half year’s ex-
perience has been ours, yet much en-
couraged, we are sowing in hope, con-
fident of the result.
But more and more fully we realize
that without the help of God we can
do nothing of lasting value. “It is the
Spirit that giveth life,” and only He
can give the spirit of love and contin-
uance in our work; only God can give
us unity of desire, unity of purpose and
unity of action. And how humbly do
we stand and wait before the great
Giver in our great need.
AN ANNOUNCEMENT.
The Woman's School of Missions, of Mon-
treat, which is the development of the Wo-
men's Conferences of past years, is happy to
announce that Mrs. S. H. Askew will conduct
the course of Bible Study at its session July
21-26, 1914. Mrs. Askew is well known
throughout the church as a Bible student of
rare gifts, and she asks that all Societies
having written or printed Year Books will
send her a copy. Address Mrs. S. H. Askew,
No. 16 Arnold Street, Atlanta, Ga.
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THE MESSAGE OF THE ANNUAL REPORT.
The importance of the statistical report is
being appreciated. No longer does the up-
to-date Presbyterial have these reports given
verbally by the delegates. A narrative re-
port from these representatives is usually
greatly enjoyed, especially when the delegate
speaks so she can be easily heard.
But the statistical reports have been se-
cured by the energetic Presbyterial secre-
tary in time to prepare a large wall chart of
paper or cloth, upon which every society re-
port is thrown. This chart hangs in plain
view during the entire session.
What msesage is conveyed by these re-
ports? What is their value to the workers
who are striving to increase the growth and
usefulness of the society?
The Annual Report is to the intelligent
Missionary student what the “Symptom
Chart’’ is to the medical doctor.
The skilled physician first seeks some tell-
tale symptoms from which to gain a clue to
the patient’s needs.
The statistical report of our societies sets
forth the symptoms which unfailingly indi-
cate certain results.
Let us take a physician’s view of four typi-
cal society reports.
A PHYSICIAN’S CHART OF FOUR SOCIETIES.
SYMPTOMS
DIAGNOSIS
REMEDY
Church of Longview
Church Membership 100
Missionary Societies in Church 1
Name: The Foreign Missionary
Society
Society Membership 10
When Organized? 1899
Study and give to Foreign Missions
only.
Lack of balanced rations;
Long distance vision only;
Inability to see clearly objects close
at hand.
Supplement present diet with Home
Mission food This varied menu
will attract all classes of women
and growth in membership and
increased interest will result in both
Home and foreign Mission work.
Church of Slow Valley
Missionary Society of 60 members
Average attendance . 15
Study Classes 0
Missionary Surveys taken 0
Prayer Calendars 0
Spiritual Aenemia;
Mal-Nutrltion;
Slow Starvation;
Dwarfed Development.
Appoint wide-awake Program and
social Committees; Secure at least
30 subscriptions to the Survey; Place
30 or more Prayer Calendars; Or-
ganize a Study Class.
Ladies’ Aid of Busy Town
25 Members. Work hard six months
to prepare for Bazaar, by which
825.00 is made for Mountain School.
Near sighted vision.
Wasted time, and Poor Arithmetic.
Let each member earn part of hor dol-
lar at home, and spend some of the
society time in study and prayer for
WORLD WIDE Missions.
Church of Progress Hill
Church Membership 150
Members in Missionary Society.. 50
New Members 10
Increase in gifts to all causes 20%
Surveys taken 40
Prayer Calendars 60
Study Classes 2
Growth Steady; Pulse Normal; Vision
Perfect; Circulation Natural;
Splendidly Healthful.
Continue same diet, exorcise and out-
look. Long life and much fru-
certain,
ONE GOOD WAY TO USE THE SURVEY.
Mrs. J. M. Williams.
AS WE discuss the best way to
use the “Survey”, please excuse
me if I speak from a personal
viewpoint. We might general-
ize and theorize, but to the practical
it must come down to me and my way
or you and your way.
We are indeed blessed in having so
helpful a co-worker in our Mission
study as (he Survey — such a pleasure
Tht Woman’*
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WOMAN’S AUXILIARY.
Prompt Cash Payment of Thanks.
and stimulus as it has been to me,
words cannot express. I love it so well
that when I am done with it nothing
is left but a few jagged pages and be-
draggled covers. This may seem a
strange manner of loving, but if the’
editors knew all the good things which
had first been gleaned from their nice,
newsy, clean-smelling magazine, even
they would not censure my destructive-
ness.
We would not think much of a me-
chanic who loved his tools so dearly
that he would not take them out of the
tool chest. Xow I consider the Survey
nothing but a chest full of tools valu-
able to every wise Mission worker.
Shall we preserve the chest and let the
tools lie and rust? Shall we leave so
useful a magazine neatly piled on a
shelf, accumulating dust and finally
ending its days in the kindling box or
garbage pile? Do not think I object to a
reference file; it is convenient at times.
But if you desire to keep such a file
of your Surveys it might be well to
get two copies. This is the plan in
our home. I value the magazines in
their new “Binder,” but best of all is
mv own dear home made tool chest,
with its ready helps for any time of
need.
Possibly most of us are busy house-
keepers. You have little time for read-
ing— your Survey may have to he for
hours, or maybe days, unenjoyed. But
the first spare moment that comes take
a pencil and sit down to read. If you
can snatch but a short time, read only
a few pages, but by all means read them
carefully. Try to read with mind and
heart open — not full of other matters.
Mark each picture that should be
saved, and each article that you will
need for future reference or informa-
tion. When the rest time ends, put
the magazine away, carrying in your
head better a few important facts than
a general hasty gleaning of the whole
magazine. We must not expect to
digest in a few moments the result of
months of careful labor on the part of
God’s servants who edit this journal.
When mind and hands are once
more comparatively free, take it up
again. Possibly the busiest people are
the ones who enjoy the Survey most.
When stockings need darning, the mag-
azine may lie open near at hand, and
a glance now and then gives worthy
food for thought. It may stand close
by when dishes are being washed or
other duties are being accomplished.
If a pencil is not convenient, shame-
lessly “dog ear” the pages you need
to preserve.
After the Survey is thus well read
and much marked, its mission is not
ended, though by this time it doubt-
less looks old and delapidated and
seems to cry for mercy. When a quiet
restful evening finallv arrives, get busy
with scissors and cut out the pictures,
poems and articles you marked before-
hand. These are to be carefully tiled.
I use small wooden boxes, each one
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plainly labeled. — such as Africa, Bra-
zil. Cuba, etc., others being Children’s-
Articles, Poems, articles of general
use, — there being in all about a dozen
boxes. These may be sub-divided as
you find advisable. For instance the
box marked, “General Use,” mav have
an envelope marked. “Poems” and
“Scripture Exercises;” another is
marked. “Medical Missions;” another,
“Educational and Industrial.” The
programs or outlines given in the
Survey should all be saved as they give
good ideas of arrangement, and other
useful hints. Each box should have an
envelope for pictures relating to its
division. Nothing is more valuable
than picture-teaching. We like illus-
trated books in other lines. Let us
keep pictures to illustrate our programs
and to bring us in touch with the far-
away lands and our fellow workers
there.
You can see the conveince of such a
librarv. more valuable and usable than
any book written.
When a program is to be prepared,
consult your clippings; when you wish
to inform yourself upon a mission or
missionary, go to your home-made en-
cyclopedia. Of course read every use-
ful book you can, a fine missionary
library is of great benefit. But for
everyday “tools”, give me my “chest"
of clippings !
On file should always be kept the
last Annual Report, so valuable to mis-
sion workers; and near at hand have
the Prayer Calendar. It is advisable
to have two copies of the latter also as
it is full of treasures, that like the
Survey, may be cut up and “abused”
and much used.
If we can afford to subscribe to mag-
azines in other lines, costing $1.50 or
more, surely we can use $1.00 for two
yearly subscriptions to the Survey, —
one to keep, if keep we must, and one
bv all means to use.
Wesson, Miss.
OPTIONAL PROGRAM.
For Societies Including All
MARCH — Young People’s Work
Opening Hymn of Praise, 515— “Praise the
Lord.”
Business — Promptly and wisely transacted.
Hymn 474 — “Christian, dost thou see them.”
Announcement by the Leader of the subject
for this meeting —
1. The Work of Sunday School Extens-'on.
2. The Work for Young People in Socie-
ties— Sunday Schools.
Both of these are under the control of the
Presbyterian Committee of Publication,
R'chmond, Va. -Texarkana, Ark.-Tex.
For further pointed facts see Survey — De-
partment of Publication and Sabbath School
Extension.
Prayer for clear understanding of this great
work.
Hymn 330 — “The Lord’s my Shepherd.”
Scripture Reading — John 10:1-18.
“Other Sheep have I,” 10 minute talk on
these other sheep which Sunday School
Extension forces are striving to reach.
(See What? Where? Why? How? of
Sunday School Extension in Survey for
February).
Hymn 491 — “The Son of God goes forth to
War.”
Work of Sunday School Missionary. (See
Spiritual Values in Sunday School Ex
? our Causes in Their Work.
and Sunday School Extension.
tension. Free distribution by Presby-
terian Committee of Publication).
Prayer for these sturdy, self-sacrificing
pioneers.
Hymn 501 — “Hark the Voice of Jesus say-
ing.”
Relation of Women’s Societies to Young
People’s Work. (Pamphlets: “Back
to the Home.” Price, 5 cents. Duties
of Secretaries of Young People’s So-
cieties, free distribution — Presbyterian
Committee of Publication.)
Hymn 499— “Lord, Speak to me.”
Leader read Luke 14:25-31.
Closing Prayer — Lord Jesus, in the old days
many of the multitude turned back from
following when you told them what was
the cost of discipleship. Forbid that any
one of us here today shoul fail you for
this reason. We know that r'ght leader-
shin of these young people means study,
work, thought, self-denial, love and pa-
tience untold, but help us, “counting the
cost,” remembering the price you paid,
to say “Lord, here am T — use me to save
and train this young life for your ser-
vice.” Amen.
(All numbers of Hymns taken from
“Psalms and Hymns.”)
OUR CAMERA OF THE SHEARS AND PEN.
THERE being a dearth of came-
ras among our missionaries to
the Mexicans in Texas, we have
supplemented the pictures they
managed to send, by borrowing, by
means of the shears, characteristic Mex-
ican pictures from current publications.
This has enabled us to make the ap-
peal to the eye as well as to the mind,
for our Texas-Mexican work.
All Christian people must be imp-
pressed at this time, as never before,
with the far-reaching importance of
evangelical missions among the Mexi-
can people who have come into the
United States. They are crossing the
border now by the thousands, and un-
ending stream, day and night, men.
women and children ! Many of these
refugees will remain with us and aug-
ment our present population of 350.000
Texas-Mexicans : and it rests largely
with us whether they will discharge
well or ill their part in the destiny of
America. Other thousands will return
to Mexico after the Revolution sub-
sides, for the "Mexicans are to a large
extent a peripatetic people; and in
times of peace travel is just as good
southward across the Rio Grande as it
is hitherward. These multitudes of re-
turning Mexicans will go back either
better or worse from their stay in the
United States.
The work among the Mexicans in
Texas, therefore, is not exclusively
Home Missionary. It is Christian work
for our God and King, and work that
we as a church, have not given deserv-
ed support.
God in His providence has called a
halt, temporarily, in the labors of our
noble foreign missionaries in the Re-
public of Mexico, many of whom at this
juncture are devoting themselves to
work among the same people on this
side of the Rio Grande.
As our hearts are torn by the stories
and pictures of destruction and cru-
elty which fill our newspapers and
magazines, do we not shudder at the
wickedness of the human heart, and
feel that something should be done to
put an end to such savage ruthlessness?
Basket Peddlers.
The eyes of the whole world are
turned upon the seat of war, and all
civilized nations, recognizing that we
are “bound in the bundle of life” with
the Mexican people, look to the United
States to use its utmost efforts to re-
store stable government to our unhappy
neighbor republic. Does not a higher
feeling, too, stir within our hearts,
prompting us to acknowledge our in-
creased responsibility as a Church for
the Mexicans who have sought asylum
within our borders, whether their res-
idence may be temporary or perma-
nent?
Now is the time for our Church to
pour out its prayers, its men and its
money for the Mexicans in Texas. We
have an established and fruitful mis-
sionary work among them, with three
American evangelists and their wives,
six native pastors, who also have ex-
ceptionally gifted wives, seven candi-
dates for the ministry, and 1,006 com-
municants. We have, too, the begin-
ning of a school in the Texas-Mexican
Industrial Institute at Kingsville, Tex-
as, that will be a force in the evangeli-
zation of the Mexicans, if — and this
is true of all the work — adequate equip-
ment is furnished, and money to carry
on the work.
Will not each reader turn the cam-
era of imagination upon this field —
where the fight is on, the firing line is
thin, the commissary is low, and sup-
plies are inadequate, because we who
hold the base of supplies are not re-
leasing the stores placed in our charge
by our God and King for his work?
And may the determination be indeli-
bly fixed upon our hearts and conscien-
ces to meet this need for prayer, and
men and money.
Borne
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LIFE SERVICE FOR HOME MISSIONS.
IIomer McMillan, D. D.
ONE of the insistent notes at the
recent convention of the Stu-
dent Volunteer Movement, in
Kansas City, was the necessity
for a genuinely Christian America, be-
cause of America’s influence among the
nations of the earth. The life of our
people must not witness against Christ
and contradict the message of our mis-
sionaries to the non-Christian world.
While the chief object of the great
convention and the purpose for which
it was called, was to recruit men and
women for service in the Foreign field,
those students who are to live their
lives and find their work in the United
States were urged to give themselves
to a definite service for Christ.
One of the most urgent needs of our
Home Mission work, and a need which
must be supplied if the influence of
this great nation is to be positively
Christian, is men and women who
will volunteer for life service in the
Home Mission field. Satan's forces
cannot be routed and lasting results ac-
complished in a day. Victory often
comes only after a siege. John Little
found this true in Louisville. His
colored mission was not built in a few
weeks. J. P. Hall and Edgar Tufts
did not build the schools at Plumtree
and Banner Elk, which stand as great
lighthouses in the mountains, during a
summer vacation. These and many
other missionary triumphs are the re-
sults of years of devotion to a great
work which was begun with no idea
of abandonment, it was this definite
giving of self to a definite task that
enabled them to hold on in the face
of hardships and discouragements in-
numerable, and refuse to be turned
aside to other work more inviting and
less exacting. The same is true of
many other Home Missionary heroes
who are known, honored and loved
throughout our Church.
There was never a time in the his-
tory of our nation when there was
greater need for men and women with
the missionary spirit of Christ. The
harvest truly is plenteous. From all
sections of our ever-enlarging Home
field there is a call for laborers of
power and consecration. Mountain
people with their problems of isola-
tion, ignorance and poverty; immi-
grants from all lands and all religions;
negroes, needing education and Chris-
tianity ; cities sunken in sin and shame ;
men, women and children in mills,
mines and factories; everywhere God-
less, Christless, helpless multitudes
challenge the Christian manhood and
Christian womanhood of this genera-
tion for an exact duplication in the
Home field of Foreign missionary de-.
votion and sacrifice.
When men and women offer them-
selves without reserve to this work, the
Church will pour out her treasure for
their support. He who gives himself
to any cause show's for that cause his
greatest love.
HOME MISSION HEROISM— A FACT FROM THE FRONTIER.
Rev. Samuel M. Glasgow.
IX THE presence of the open scoff
of the world that “the preacher is
in the ministry for what it pays,”
and of the tacit fear in many a
Christian heart that the fire of self-
sacrifice and deep loyalty to Christ and
His Gospel is burning but dimly in the
ministry of our day, hear the follow-
ing simple, beautiful refutation that
is being enacted today on the mission
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[March, 1914.
field of the Rio. Grande in Texas.
Born in a pioneer Presbyterian min-
ister’s home, hearing God’s call in
young manhood, “Go, preach My Gos-
pel," this young man gave up a com-
mercial position in which he was earn-
ing $1,200 a year, and entered upon
the ministry of Christ, in which he has
now been actively engaged for six
years. In none of the Home Mission
fields that he has served has he ever
received a salary approaching his
former earnings, yet in all these years
not one note of regret for his choice
has ever found expression on his lips,
because it had not found lodgment in
his heart.
After serving for a period in his
present work, the time came for an in-
crease in his salary. But there was
dire need of an additional missionary
in the expanding field where he was
preaching, and this young soldier of
the Cross voluntairly went to the Home
Mission Committee of his Presbytery,
and offered to continue at his meager
salary if they would take his increase
and apply it on the salary of the ad-
ditional worker so greatly needed.
For two years now he has silently
made this sacrifice, and though in that
time he has been ill some six months
or more, has undergone a number of
serious surgical operations, and for a
while was even denied his regular sal-
ary that a substitute might minister to
his people, yet in all, never a murmur,
never a word of bitterness nor a re-
gret ! Patient bouyant, efficient, “hav-
ing put his hand to the plough,” he
looks not back, but down the furrow,
where the day of service shall find its
close in the peace and joy of Home,
and of His presence, and of the souls
that God has given him.
Austin , Texas.
THE MEXICANS AT YOUR DOOR.
Miss Louise James.
Though 1 read of the need in Africa of men
to teach God’s word,
And of souls that are dying in India, not
knowing of Jesus our Lord,
It is not of these in the morning, comes the
question o’er and o’er —
But, “What have you done for the Mexican
girls, living right here at your door: ’
Never a Chinese famine waif, comes to me
at noon as I rest,
And never a little Korean lad wakes the
longing to help, in my breast,
And never the dusky Negro’s cry, or the
Is so loud, or comes so persistently
as the Mexicans here at my door!
As I sleeplessly toss on my pillow,
not daring to turn out my light,
I picture my probable terror if God
were to call me tonight.
0, what can I answer? I know he
will say, “Child, I have asked
thee before,
Hast thou given the message I sent
by thee to the Mexicans here at
thy door?”
Sabinal, Texas.
At the Well.
Home
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ECHOES OF BATTLES ON THE BORDER.
Miss E. V. Lee.
Miss Lee, though exiled by the Revolu
tion from her loved station at C. Victoria,
Mexico, is wasting no time in repining, but
is busily engaged in work for the Master
on the Texas side as opportunity offers.
In her letter accompanying the following
article, which was written by special request,
she says:
"The recent battle in New Laredo, just
across the river, was hard fought — many
killed and wounded. The Constitutionalists
DURING my period of waiting on
the border of Mexico, I have
some opportunities to see our
Home Mission work in Laredo,
and it lias many interesting features.
Type of Mexican Soldier.
were repulsed, though they say they will
soon try it again.
"Meanwhile, their wounded are here in
Laredo, Texas. The local Red Cross is in
charge of them, with three emergency hos-
pitals. All the nurses are volunteers, and 1
am one of them. I have been up three con-
secutive nights, and go again tonight. I am
only too glad to do what I can to help the
poor people; and Laredo is responding
nobly to their need.’’
Rev. Walter S. Scott is in charge of
the Laredo field, and his efforts for the
good of the people are untiring. He
holds services not only in the church
itself, but in private homes, some of
them far out in the suburbs.
Just now there are many opportun-
ities to reach the refugees from Mex-
ico. Many have come, leaving literally
all they owned; some have lost all their
possessions.
Laredo, a town of 19,000 or 20,000
inhabitants, three-fourths or more of
w horn are Mexicans, is besides,
thronged with refugees. Every pos-
sible place of accommodation is taxed
to the uttermost. It makes one’s heart
ache to see and hear these exiles as they
gather in groups every where, with
but one theme of conversation — the
latest developments and outlook in
Mexico.
During a ten days’ stay here of Rev.
J. T. Malloy, a missionary of the
Northern Presbyterian church in Mex-
ico. he spoke every day to the refugees
•rathered at the station. These were
largely men. and on one occasion, a
Sunday afternoon, with several of our
girls from the Mexican church, I ac-
companied him. We sang hymns, and
Mr. Malloy spoke to more than a hun-
dred men. who listened attentively.
Many of these had been coming every
day he said, and they always heard a
clear Gospel invitation from one who
is peculiarly fitted for such work.
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While Mr. Malloy was here Mr.
Scott was opening up some new work
elsewhere, and so he was not with us
for the Christmas celebration. Boxes
of clothing had come, sent in response
to his appeals, and as directed, we
opened them and supplied many needy
ones.
We found many who gladly accepted
help. To one large family of refugees,
whose destitution was told us by a mem-
of our church, we sent a bundle of
clothing chosen from one of these boxes.
Other articles found their way to New
Laredo, on the Mexican side of the
river.
The friends who sent Mr. Scott mon-
ey for his Christmas tree and celebra-
tion would have enjoyed seeing the
pleasure of the children. A happier
set it would have been hard to find. We
were sorry that Mr. Scott could not
be with us. He was at Taylor, busy
with the celebration there. On Christ-
mas Eve, after our exercises were over,
his people by a unanimous vote sent
him a message of greeting and regret
that he had not been with us.
The work that is going on in Laredo
is the same that is in progress in many
mission points in Texas.
Type of Mexican Soldier.
Never has there been such an oppor-
tunity to reach the Mexicans. The ref-
ugee members of these are of the better
class, and the workers realize that many
can now hear of Christ and his truth,
and we pray that many may find a
refuge indeed, a hope and stronghold
that they can carry with them when
they return to their native land.
Laredo , Texas.
THE INFLUENCE OF THE MEXICAN REVOLUTION ON THE
WORK IN EL PASO.
Rev. C. R, Womeudorf.
EL PASO’S Mexican population
has increased very much during
the past year. The revolution-
ary movement in North Mexic\>
has been aggressive, and has overrun
most of the towns and territory. Many
Mexicans, especially sympathizers and
employees of the government party,
had to flee to this country or suffer the
consequences, generally execution.
Francisco Villa, the socalled “Ban-
dit,” who is in general command of
the revolutionary forces in the North,
is a terror to all who have anything to
do with the Huerta government. Four
hundred and eighty-seven Cipaniaros
arrived in El Paso from Chihuahua,
capital of the adjoining State, ordered
out because they participated in a Hu-
erta celebration.
Francisco Villa appropriates and
confiscates the property of the rich,
executes all Federal officials captured,
as well as higher Federal employees.
With a band of his men he went to the
railroad station between Chihuahua
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and Juarez, the border town, shot the
operator, took charge of the wire, and
at 1 :30 A. M. came into Juarez, just
across the Rio Grande, and captured
the city, with many of the Federal gar-
rison, and executed by wholesale. Hun-
dreds in the night escaped to the Texas
side.
This happened in November, and
still the city of Juarez is largely depop-
ulated. Many Federal employees are
here in El Paso with nothing to do.
Many of the higher class left their
homes, some of which were confiscated
and are being occupied by Villa’s men.
The Revolutionists don’t allow fam-
ilies to remove their household goods to
this side, and the families are afraid to
return to their homes. We know a
mother and five children who had a
comfortable home in Juarez, who had
to leave all. We gave them some bed
clothing and a stove. Friends here and
from elsewhere have sent us money to
relieve this suffering.
At this time there is a great deal of
want and suffering among the agglom-
erated masses of Mexicans in El Paso,
who have come bv the thousands for
refuge; and they still come. A man
attended our meeting one night with his
wife and sister, and said that they had
come a fourteen days’ journey, walking
all the way.
One advantage in this great influx
from Mexico to the United States, on
account of the wide devastating effects
of the revolution, is the removal in
general of the friction and ill-feeling
between Mexican and American. A
year ago this was felt : now we see noth-
ing of it.
Western people are kind-hearted and
generous, and a great deal of help has
been administered to the refugees.
After the last battle in Juarez Ameri-
cans in general helped the 225 wound-
ed. and soon the Red Cross Society
crossed over the river and took full
charge.
All this is helpful in our Mexican
work. We have had more new people
at our meetings. We have had more
children in Sabbath School. Lately our
small adobe house has been well filled.
We have had as many as fifteen young
men at a meeting. I received four
young men the last Sabbath in 1913.
During the year we received eleA^en
members.
To-day El Paso has probably 30.000
Mexicans. Other denominations are
considering this an important and
promising field. The Methodist Church
has recently acquired a $50,000 build-
ing, to be used as soon as possible as a
kind of “Moody Bible Institute,” to
prepare Mexican workers.
All we lack to meet the emergency
and use the opportunity is a house and
equipment. We'll work and do the best
ice can until we get this needed help.
El Paso, Texas .
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JNSTITUTO INDUSTRIAL MEXICO-TEXANO.
Rev. ,T. W. Skinner, D. D.
THE first year's work of the Texas-
Mexican Industrial Institute
blazed a trail in the wilderness.
There is no longer a question
either as to the need for such a work,
the response from the Mexicans, or the
general method of its accomplishment.
The second year is moving along a
found path. Xow to make it a high-
way for the King!
We were not allowed to do some
things we wished. Xo money ! Xow we
see that it was well. Tex.-Mex. is not to
be a mushroom, grown in a few hours,
but a giant oak with the growth of a
century, a landmark of the Church and
an artesian fountain for the Mexican
people.
God’s approval and directing wis-
dom have been manifested in unnum-
bered ways. The sympathy and inter-
est of many friends have been aroused,
and have made possible the opening
work of the school. Xot a single large
gift has marked this year, but a multi-
tude of smaller offerings — of money,
mules and horses, cows and pigs, of im-
plements, furniture, and seed; of bed-
ding, and also clothing for some of the
boys. Chiefest among the helpers have
been the Woman’s Missionary Socie-
ties, and the young people through
their societies, and the Sunday School.
Our daily schedule is four hours’
school work, two hours’ study, and four
hours’ farm work. The studies range
from primary to second year high
school. The average age of students
is over sixteen years. Several stu-
dents have the ministry in view. A
special course of Bible study in Span-
ish. conducted by Rev. W. A. Ross, of
Brownsville. Mr. Tice, a refugee mis-
sionary of the Friends’ School at Vic-
toria. Mexico, has stayed with us for
a time, assisting in the school work.
These two brethren brought spiritual
inspiration and blessing.
Eight hoys remained at the school
during summer vacation, doing all the
farm work. Mr. John McWilliams, a
theological student from Austin Semi-
nary, spent his vacation here and ren-
dered valuable service.
The sixty-acre cotton crop was al-
most a total loss from boll weevil; but
the forage crops of Milo maize. Kaffir
corn, sorghum and cowpeas did well.
A 150-ton silo was erected in the late
summer, partly filled from the second
cutting of the cane. The school has se-
cured a herd of over thirty cows, to be
paid for from the sale of cream. Mr.
Charles Flato, Jr., of Kingsville, do-
nated a Sharpless cream separator.
With twelve young calves in the pen,
our dairy is well begun. In another
year this department will be a source
of revenue.
Xow comes the big question. What
shall we do about the Mexican boys
clamoring for admittance? We have
crowded boys into every available nook.
The little dining-room is so full that
Mrs. Skinner threatens dire procedure
if another boy is received. (But she
will be the first to beg, “Just that boy:
he looks good. Let’s take him.”) We
have reached and overreached our pres-
ent very cramped quarters.
We have three urgent needs:
Fifty annual scholarship funds, of
$100 each, $5,000; one two-story brick
dormitory, to house fifty boys on second
floor, and pro\ ide dining-room and
chapel on first floor, $10,000; an elec-
tric light plant. We have the engine,
hut need dynamo, storage batteries,
switchboard, wire and fixtures. Our
saving in insurance alone will repay
(he investment in a few years, to say
nothing of the nightmare now owned
A Shack Mules on One Side the Partition and Missionaries on the Other.
by the president on account of oil
lamps, $500.
In a few years Tex.-Mex. is going to
sound such a challenge in the ears of
the Church that people of large means
will compete with each other for the
privilege of partnership with God in
the work of this school. At present
large gifts are not asked. With the
above three items financed, Tex.-Mex.,
with God’s blessing, will undertake to
do its appointed work for the next five
years. This is a modest estimate for
the initial stage of work so big with
opportunity for service.
And now, this year, 1914; this month,
to-day, with conditions as they are in
Mexico, is the voice of God calling to
Ilis Church, “Awake, O Zion; behold
the fields white to the harvest!”
Tex.-Mex. is a gateway to Mexico.
Kingsville , Texas.
OUR MEXICAN FELLOW CITIZENS.
Rev. E. S. Rodriguez.
Cuero. — This important mission field
is slowly opening to evangelization
and Christian activity. Although there
have been no accessions this year to the
church, we are glad to see some good
indications and developments.
We have a Sunday School organized,
with twenty-five pupils and three offi-
cers. Most of these scholars are Roman
Catholics. We have in attendance as
many as forty-two sometimes.
The church services are well attend-
ed also. The devout Romanists and the
priest are very active in trying to urge
their people to go to their church. The
priest on one occasion came to our mis-
sion church and peeped into the house,
finding it full with his people hearing
with reverence the word of God. That
very night an invitation was extended
to our friends, urging them to accept
Christ as their Saviour. Twelve or
more made their stand for Christ. We
expect an abundant harvest this year.
The American Presbyterian Church
of this place is vitally interested in this
work. Their prayers are being answer-
ed.
Edna. — Here is a new field and one
that promises a rich harvest. This year
eleven new members have joined the
church ; others are coming in. Just re-
cently eleven members from the San
Marcos churches have moved to El
Ganedo, about eight miles from Ed-
na. We have some thirty members in
Edna and El Ganedo. There is a Sun-
day School with about thirty-four
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scholars, two teachers and a superin-
tendent who has to ride a bicycle fifteen
miles to preside over his Sunday
School. We expect to organize a church
here right soon.
Gonzales. — This church has made
some improvements to the lot, amount-
ing to $28.10. There has been only one
accession to the church this year. We
are right near a very active Roman
church. Nevertheless, half of the chil-
dren taking part in the Christmas ex-
ercises were Roman Catholics.
The Christmas exercises at Gonzalez
and Cuero were well attended. At the
latter place, of eighteen children par-
ticipating in the program, only five
were Protestants. This proves that the
gospel is gaining ground. Yv e are pray-
ing every day for an organization at
Cuero and at Edna.
May this year bring happy news of
many souls won in these new fields.
Cuero , Texas.
THE PENITENTES.
E. Josephine Orton.
On Wednesday morning of Holy Week,
which was our spring vacation, we left our
spring house-cleaning and went to Ensenada,
a litle town about two miles from Tierra
Amarilla, to see the “Penitentes,” a fanatical
religious sect somewhat after the order of
the Flagellants.
During Holy Week numbers of them go
out from their Morada, a house built near
their church, and walk over the hills and
through the woods beating themselves. 1
had read about them and heard more, and
was curious to see if their practices were as
bad as had been pictured. We were told
that Wednesday would be the best day to
see them, as then would occur “La procesiou
de sangre,’’ the procession of blood.
Two of the school girls went with us to
show the way. After a delightful walk over
the hills, we came to a place where we had a
good view of the church and the surround-
ing country. We waited here a long time,
and were about to return home discouraged,
when we saw several white objects on a hill
at a little distance. We hurried toward
them until near enough to see plainly and
hear the snapping of their whips; then we
crouched among the bushes.
There were eight in this group; we after-
ward saw five in another, accompanied by at-
tendants who piped on shrill little instru-
ments and chanted mournful strains ending
with “La sangre de Dios” the blood of God.
They wore but a single white garment —
little more than a trunk, and a thick black
veil enveloped the head and face. Their
whips were fringed to make a long brush at
one end. These they flung over the shoulder,
making a sharp snapping sound as they
struck their raw and bleeding backs upon
which a small cross had been cut in the
flesh. Their garments and whips were
drenched with blood. They uttered not a
sound, but their drooping figures flinched
every time the whip struck the quivering
flesh, and it took all the devotee’s strength
to draw it back.
I could not but think what a sad, sad
sight to Him who suffered and died to make
full atonement for our sins. — The Home
Mission Monthly.
Procession of Penitentes.
A Valuable Addition to Protestant Christian ity in Texas. Mr. Trevino is Shown in the
Center, Standing.
IN THE SAN MARCOS FIELD.
Rev. E. Trevino.
THE evangelization of the Mexi-
cans is made hard bv many rea-
sons.
In the first place, the Roman
Catholics are accustomed to think that
the Mexicans belong to what they con-
sider the “true Christian church.” In
fact, the Roman Church has in its stan-
dards some of the teachings of the Bi-
ble, and this has made her more dan-
gerous for the humanity. As the poison
is dangerous still when it is hidden in
honey, and as it is hard to persuade a
person, showing him a piece of poison-
ed honeycomb and telling him that this
is poison, so it is hard to persuade the
Roman Catholics that they do not be-
long to the “true Christian Church.”
In the second place, when they look
at their temples, beautified by great
and handsome images, gold candle-
sticks, costly ornaments and profusion
of lights; when they see their priests
clothed in their attractive and rich
robes, the most natural conclusion of
the human mind in the presence of
such grandeur and splendor is, “Here
is a religion proper of an Almighty
God!”
There are some other reasons, of
which we cannot talk about on account
of the limited space we have, but in
spite of the difficulties we have stated,
wd are glad to tell the readers of The
Missionary Survey that the Gospel of
salvation has found its way into the
minds and hearts of the Mexicans, and
many have been saved.
In the picture are some young peo-
ple, members of San Marcos and Reed-
ville churches, that took part in the
last Christmas exercises. Japan, Korea.
Mexico. Africa. India and China were
represented by them, and in short
address, they gave some details about
the religious condition of those coun-
tries.
“Little Possibilities" of the San Marcos Sunday School.
Who that looking at this group of
young people would not realize the
great future that might await our worn
if we have the means to develop their
mental powers as well as we are trying
to develop their spiritual lives?
But this is not the most hopeful
fruits of the gospel that we can pre-
sent. Here is another picture of little
uPosibilities',’> who are growing up in
Christian homes. The children of the
primary class of the San Marcos Sun-
day School. This class was organized
by Miss Esther Trevino, a niece of the
evangelist of this field. She is an or-
phan girl. She attended the Sunday
School of the American Presbyterian
Church for several months, and being
there inspired to organize this class,
she came to the superintendent of our
Sunday School and asked permission
to form it. She collected the money to
buy the little chairs.
In September last, by the kindness
of Mrs. Sloon, of the Church of San
Saba, she found her way open to at-
tend the Daniel Baker College, of
Brownwood, Texas, and she with much
regretfulness had to leave her class, kto
the superintendent appointed little
Miss Ophelia Trevino as teacher of this
class, and she is at the right side of
the picture.
The Westminster League of Dr.
Hill’s church, of Dallas, is paying the
tuition of this girl. She is thirteen
years old.
These are we think encourageous re-
sults of the work that for several years
our Church has been doing among the
Mexicans in Texas, and we are very
sure that there is not one person who
is very well acquainted with the work
who is not longing for doing much
more for this work, that has in such
a remarkable wav the signs of Cod’s
blessings.
San Marcos , Texas.
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KEY WEST, FLORIDA.
Past, Present, and Prospective.
Homer McMillan, I). I).
KEY WEST is the furthest south
of our most southerly State. In
climate and situation it is unlike
any place in the United States.
It is the terminus of the “Over-Sea'
railroad, and is only ninety miles from
Havana. Until the building of the
Florida East Coast railroad, which is
one .of the greatest engineering feats
ever attempted, the only connection
with the outside world was by boat.
Now 1*25 miles of steel and concrete
connect the mainland with the island,
and solid Pullman trains carry passen-
gers without change from New York
to Key West.
Though the settlement of the island
dates from 18*20, and includes some of
the South’s finest families, the greater
part of the population comes from Cu-
ba, the Bahamas, or other of the West
Indies. In appearance, custom and
population, it is a typical AYest Indian
town, and is more foreign than Amer-
ican.
Key AYest. because of its location, is
destined to be a very important port
and is certain to become much better
known than it is today. The entire
South Atlantic and Gulf Coast is ex-
pecting a rapid growth in population
and a tremendous expansion in busi-
ness with the opening of the Panama
Canal. Key AA'est seems to occupy a
position to receive the greatest benefit
from his gigantic undertaking.
For eighty years Presbyterians had
been going to Key AA'est. Finding no
church of their own. they united with,
and helped build up the churches of
other denominations. Tf the Presby-
terian Church had followed her own
people, instead of being the last it
would perhaps be the leading church
in Key AYest. Tn 1D0D a church of 32
members was organized. Tt began with
the most promising prospects. The
little congregation was earnest and en-
thusiastic. In a few months the Island
was visited by a most destructive hur-
ricane. Homes were destroyed and
business was demoralized. Before this
loss could be recovered there was a
second storm. In the few years of its
existence, five ministers have been in
charge of this little church. Some
remained a few months, and some only
a few weeks. But in spite of the dis-
couragements and disappointments the
Sabbath School has been maintained,
and the few members have held loyally
to the purpose of having the church
and a minister. For more than two
years, in the absence of a pastor, a
U. S. naval officer, stationed at Key
AArest. conducted the Sunday service
and held the mid-week prayer meeting.
An officer of the Army was superin-
tendent of the Sunday School. Both
these worthy men have been trans-
ferred to other stations.
There is certainly a field in Key
AA’est for a Presbyterian church. The
present population is placed at 25,000.
This number will be greatly increased
in the next few years. It is conser-
vatively estimated that not more than
ten percent are connected with the var-
ious Protestant churches. The Chris-
tian Scientists have a church. The
Holy Hollers have a mission. The
Catholic Church has only a nominal
hold on the Cubans, and is fast losing
that. Scores and hundreds of them
need only instruction and encourage-
ment to unite with the Protestant
churches. An evidence of this is found
in the experience of a young minister
who went to Key \\rest a few years ago
seeking health. He was asked to take
charge of a Methodist mission located
in the Cuban section of the city. He
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devoted his ministry to these people.
As a result, over 200 have been received
into the church. This is the only dis-
tinctive work for the Cubans in Key
West.
Any man with ability and devotion
wanting a task that will measure his
strength, will find Key West an invit-
ing field. Only a man with genuine
missionary spirit should undertake a
work like this. It is virtually a For-
eign field, with all the hardships, dis-
couragements and heartaches; and re-
quires the same consecration, zeal and
perseverance. Enlistment should be
for life, or at least for a term of years.
It is not a ninety day service or a sum-
mer campaign. And this is just as true
of many another Home Mission field.
Time is a necessary element in mission-
ary success. It is a siege, and not a
march.
Key West occupies a position of
strategic importance in its relation to
Cuba. As a mission field, it must be
considered in its bearing upon our For-
eign Mission work. The Cubans come
and go. Those who come to the United
States are singularly open to the Gos-
pel. Many return with the message to
their own people. Rev. E. N. Someil-
lan of our Tampa Cuban mission, was
brought to Christ in Key West. He
went back to Havana and spent several
A^ears in the ministry there. Now, at
the call of the Executive Committee of
Home Missions, he has returned as
missionary to his countrymen in the
United States.
Thus, while presenting many diffi-
culties that call for the best talent and
deepest consecration, Key West is a
field of wonderful opportunity. As-
sociated in the work is a band of earn-
est Christian people, who have shown
their loyalty and devotion to the Pres-
byterian Church by holding on in the
face of many discouragements. They
need the support and encouragement
of the whole Church.
BEGINNING TO KNOW EACH OTHER.
We are beginning to realize the size of the
moral obligation to Latin America. The
problems are being pressed close home.
Statesmanship and diplomacy are perplexed
to know whether to interfere in Mexican
politics. There is no perplexity in the issue
of Mexican immigration. Thousands are
taking matters into their own hands. All
along the border the natives of old Mexico
are streaming into the United States out of
their distressed fatherland.
Why does the Mexican so frequently show
antipathy to the United States? Many Mexi-
cans bitterly hate the American. Why? Pre-
judice? Ignorance? Jealousy? Is their atti-
tude unreasonable, and to be treated as
such? Two peoples ought not to dwell side
by side in enmity, even smothered enmity.
Neighbors ought to be friends. The spirit-
ual problem of our Mexican border is the
vindication of essential Christianity. It is
our best chance to convince the Mexican
A Scene In Juarez, Showing Some of the Peon Class and Ox Carts Used by Them.
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neighbor that we are a Christian people; to
show him that he is unjustified in his anti-
pathies; to bring forth fruits meet for re-
pentance of our past sins; to demonstrate
tile reality of the Christian graces of sym-
pathy and helpfulness.
Sympathy is a powerful solvent. The bar-
rier of language is a serious hindrance to the
mutual approach of the American and Mex-
ican. One eager worker recommends that
no missionary of the church along the Mex-
ican border, certainly no superintendent or
general missionary, should lack a command
of the Spanish lauguage. Christian euuca-
tlon could render no more signal service in
the discharge of our country's duty to the
Mexican, and to Latin America generally,
than by magnifying the study of Spanish in
the curriculum. We must know our neigh-
bors before we can do anything vital tor
them or they for us. Strange speech is one
of the most serious barriers to neighbor-
lines.
CAN YOU TELL?
(Answers to These Questions Will Be Found in the Home Mission
Department.)
1. — Whose homes are confiscated
and occupied by the "Bandit's men I”
2. — Who "peeped” in a church, and
found his members attending service (
3. — Where was our work, though the
first started, outstripped by other de-
nominations ?
4. — What is an urgent need in Home
Mission work?
5. — Who voluntarily gave up an of-
fered increase, in order that the money
might help pay the salary of another
worker (
6. — Where is there but one theme of
conversation, and what is it?
7. — What young girl organized and
conducted a Brimary Class, and on
going oil’ to school turned it over to a
younger cousin ?
8. — Where did a Naval officer lead
prayer meeting, and an Army officer
act as superintendent of Sunday
School ?
9. — How are we "bound in the bun-
dle of life” with the Mexicans?
10. — Who pleads, in spite of crowded
quarters, — "Just, that boy, he looks
good, let’s take him”?
11. — When did a crochet needle do
good missionary work?
THE MARCH MISSIONARY MEETING.
The Mexicans in Texas.
"The Mexicans Are Part and Parcel of us.” — Mrs. John V. McCall.
1. Bible Reading — Hebrews 1.
2. Hymn 198 — “Ye Servants of God, Your
Master Proclaim.’’
3. Prayer — That the Name of Jesus may be
exalted, and that our lives may be
surrendered to His service.
4. A Whip versus a Life.
5. Recitation — The Mexicans at Your Door.
6. Moving Pictures from the Texas-Mexican
Border.
7. The Promise of the Panhandle.
8. Our Present Responsibility for the Mex-
icans in Texas.
9. Hymn 496 — “Laborers of Christ, Arise.”
10. Our Year’s Share in the Work of Assem-
bly’s Home Missions; plans for larger
service next year, and other Business.
11. Prayer — That we may see in the Mexican
our brother and sister, and strive to
bring them into obedience to our glo-
rious Elder Brother.
Rotes —
4. Contrast the spirit of devotion exhi-
bited in “The Penitentes” and in
“Home Mission Heroism, and the re-
sultant influence for righteousness.
6. For variety, instead of depending upon
material in this number, newspaper
and magazine incidents may be
used.
8. This may be a brief resume of present
conditions, as indicated by articles
in this number, closing with an ap-
peal for the work in this wonderful
time of opportunity.
10. Show the need of more adequate co-
operation in the Assembly’s Home
Mission Work. .
Send for copy of Annual Report and
leaflets.
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You Have One month More! Any contribution received up to that ®
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Send All You May Have on Hand! Amounts, whether small or (
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L or before 7
• MARCH 31. I
TREASURER’S REPORT OF HOME MISSIONS, JANUARY, 1914
1914
Total Receipts for January $ 14,806.77
Receipts.
April 1, to January 31 —
From Churches $ 57,859.73
“ Sabbath Schools 4,066.68
“ Missionary Societies 6,401.47
“ Individuals 17,790.18
“ Legacies 5,042.23
“ Board of Domestic Missions 750.00
“ Special Evangelistic Fund 3,962.38
“ Soul Winners’ Society 10,213.68
“ Interest 2,794.21
“ Literature 125.68
“ Church Erection Loans 3,600.33
“ Lewis Memorial Fund 1,000.00
1913 Increase Decrease
$ 12,153.78 $2,652.99
$ 58,154.34 $ 294.61
4,206.76 140.08
4,937.96 1,463.51
17,516.93 273.25
4,680.23 362.00
875.00 125.00
3,595.50 366.88
9,414.52 799.16
3,820.36 1,026.15
140.59 14.91
2,119.40 1,480.93
1,000.00
$113,606.57 $109,461.59 $5,745.73 $1,600.75
Bills Payable $ 16,000.00
Permanent Loan Fund. 18,650.00
Oklahoma Pres. College 20,814.35
Balance March 31, 1913 68.14
$169,139.06 Net increase. $4,144.98
February 4, 1914.
G. M. Sharp, Treasurer.
Essential Missionary Principles. Holund
Allen, M. A., Revell it Co., pp. lt>8, $1.00.
Formerly a missionary in China, Dr. Al-
len is well qualified, Doth by experience ana
ability, to discuss this vital tlieine. It is a
strik.ug, almost a startling, presentation
from a philosophical and Christian stand-
point. The auiuor takes the mnest grouuu
tor Foreign Missions that we have ever
known, anu w ill shock even Foreign Mission
advocates by some positions maintained.
The whole appeal is based upon Chiist, and
possessing the spirit of Christ; and, uucom-
promis ngly cuts the ground from beneata
all sensational, sentimental, and unworthy
motives. It seems to imply that if a man is
a Christian, he must have the spirit of
Chr st; and if he does not believe in Foreign
Missions, he canot have the spirit of Christ;
and at the same time announces the paradox
that one may be intensely interested in For
eign Missions and yet have no real mis-
sionary zeal whatever. If the Church meas-
ured up to this high standard, surely most
objections to Foreign Missions would vanish,
for ordinarily such objections are directeu
against unwise methods, or unworthy ap-
peals rather than aga nst essential princi-
ples of Missions. While the book deals
chiefly with Foreign Missions, there is such
a profound discussion of the abstract and un-
derlying princ pies of all Missions, as to
adapt it especially for use as a a text book
for any class desiring to study the subject of
Missions front the broadest standpoint.
Fifty Missionary Heroes. By Miss Julia H.
Johnson, Fleming H. Revell Company, $1
net.
Fifty Missionary Heroes is an admirable
collection of brief biographical sketches of
Home and Foreign missionaries that every
boy and girl, and older people too, ought
to know'. The sketches are charmingly writ-
ten, and are intended to create missionary
interest by an acquaintance with the life and
work of heroic men and women. The stories
are short and entertaining, and make you
want to know’ more about the persons of
whom you read.
The book is cordially commended for use
by Junior Study Classes, Missionary Circles
and Bauus, anu would Lie a valuame auduiou
to any Sunday School library.
The Horizon of American Missions. I. N.
McCash, LL. D., Secretary of The Ameri-
can Christian Missionary Society, Revell
& Co., pp. Ib8, $1.00.
The awakening interest in Home Missions
is not only the result of the splendid litera-
ture being produced on the subject, but is
itself the source as well of an ever in-
increasing supply, to meet the demand
created by this new' interest.
Dr. McCash brings the Church under spec-
ial obligation for the vigorous and fresh
treatment, bringing the facts up to date.
The preface furnishes the key note of his
discussion, stating that "Vision frequently
has but one dimension, — length. . . . Horizon
is needed — vision in all d.rections, — daylight
observation of things related to each other.
.... A statesman has not only vision but
horizon. Such a perspective is the need of
the hour.”
Space permits only a few quotations as
specimens of the contents of this book. In
the chapter on Foreign Factors, he quotes
Bishop Hendricks in the following str king
language: "At a recent missionary meeting
in Canton, where there were fifty Chinese
men wrho w'ere engaged in Christian work as
native preachers in their own land, it trans-
pired that twenty-five out of the fifty had
been converted during their stay in America.
Who can question that GoJ has brought the
Asiatics here that they m ght seek after and
find God.”
This is enforced by the further statement
that Ng Poon Chew, editor of the Chines^
Daily paper of San Francisco, visited recently
his native village and eplained Christianity
to the people. He went into the temple of
the idol which his grandfather taught him to
worship, and before w'hich he had poured
libations and made offerings. He told the
dolaters of the true God and of Jesus Christ
His Son. All the people heard his message
gladly, and in two days the seven hundred
families composing that community, de-
stroyed their idols.
JACK’S PUZZLE BOX.
Again Jack's mail is crowded with
puzzle answers. He is delighted to find
so many bright and happy little cor-
respondents, and it has been so pleas-
ant to read their letters, for nearly all
of them express an interest in what
Jack is trying to do on the flag-pole.
There is one feature he does not en-
joy— that is, the correspondence is so
one-sided — for he cannot possibly an-
swer by mail these letters though much
he would like to do so — but there are
so many and, you know, Jack’s busi-
ness is climbing. Another thing that
gives him a twinge of pain is that he
cannot give every puzzle-solver an
award, instead of just one on each side
of the River.
The answer to the enigma in the Feb-
ruary Survey is circulation. Yes; of
course, that’s all Jack thinks about day
and night; and nearly everybody got
it right, as in the case of the January
charade, but a little Tar Heel girl
“touched the button’’ first. She surely
was quick; and she wants her Mission-
ary Survey award for one year to go
to her aunt in another State. This lit-
tle girl’s name is Mary Kenna Walker,
of Barium Springs, N. C. Her aunty
has been notified and the magazine
forwarded.
Over on the west side of the big river
they are quick, too — and the girls are
likewise in this case the quickest. My !
how Missouri, Arkansas, Texas, Lou-
isiana and Oklahamo did come tumb-
ling in! But little Miss Agnes Jones,
of Batesville, Arkansas, started first
and arrived first. Why, that girl mail-
ed her answer away in the night ! The
solution to the February charade is
subscribers (sub-scribe-burrs), and
Agnes saj^s she wants her grand-
father, over in Texas, to be bless-
ed this next year of his life by the
Survey’s monthly visits. All right,
little friend, he will have had the first
visit by the time you see this.
BENITO.
IX THE doorway of a little adobe
hut, on the rocky ledge of a lonely
hillside, sat a boy with long black
hair and great deep brown eyes.
Benito was not happy, although he
lived in a little village where all the
people were his relatives, and all loved
him.
He had heard about other people
and towns and cities, and also of Chris-
tian schools. That, in fact, was what
made Benito sad now. A new Chris-
tian school had just been started in a
valley five miles away, and Benito
wanted to go but his father had no
money; in fact, the whole village was
poor. He would find a way!
A Mexican Maiden Stringing Peppers. Mexican Oven in the Background Shows How They
Cook Out of Doors.
When his father brought the fish in
for dinner, the boy said:
‘‘Padre. I will go to school.”
‘‘I should like it, my son,” said the
father, and sighed. “But -where is the
money ?”
“I shall earn the money,” said
Benito.
Soon Benito and a friend started
out to look for work. These boys, who
had never done a hard day’s work in
their lives, set out to walk to Colorado.
three hundred miles. On arriving they
found work as shepherd boys. Day in
and day out. under the scorching sun,
they tended their sheep. When they
had saved up enough money, they went
back home, and found that in the val-
ley below a new large school had been
built, with board floors, and many win-
dows, and wonderful doors that rolled
away out of sight.
One morning as the bell on the school
house was calling, “Come, come, come,”
two men walked over the mountain
road toward the school. They were
thinking how glad that teacher would
be to know that two more boys were
anxious to come under her care !
They met the teacher on the road and
confidently asked their question, but
her face looked troubled.
“I am so, so sorry,” said the teacher,
“but the school is full and I can take
no more children.”
The joy went out of the fathers’
faces, and slowly and sadly they re-
traced their footsteps.
But the father of Benito, would not
give up hope. He went to see the
Evangelist’s wife. When he told her
how bright and eager his boy was, she
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talked with the teacher, although she
knew that the teacher had already too
many boys. But their earnestness won.
and the teacher finally relented, and
consented to take not only Benito, but
his companion as well.
Benito was very bright, and sur-
prised his teacher by his quickness in
liis studies.
When Christmas came, bringing a
barrel of presents from the distant
church which supported the school, an
"English Bible was given’ to Benito;
and from all the pretty words in the
Spanish language (and there are
many) he could not find enough to
thank the teacher. Then he found a
Spanish Bible, and asking the teacher
its price he quickly bought one, and
his companion followed suit.
These two little boys in their bare
adobe hut, pored over the books to-
gether. and carried them wherever
thev went.
Wh en the time came for Benito and
his friend to work in the fields instead
of in the school room, an invitation
came to the teacher to visit his village.
“Please, please teacher, you will
make me so happy,” said Benito, his
beautiful dark eyes aglow with excite-
ment.
She accepted, and soon they were
welcomed royally in the little village,
where at every doorway the people
were standing to welcome their own
bovs and the visitors.
Benito’s home was filled with neigh-
bors late into the night, and while the
teacher was playing with the little
ones by the fire, Benito, putting a little
catechism into her hand, asked if she
would hear him what he had learned,
lie had had the book only a week, but
not until she had reached the fiftieth
question did the lad falter.
When the neighbors had gone, the
mother, assisted by Benito, prepared
for the night. From the one bed many
beds were made, parts being taken off
and spread on the floor for the Evan-
belist’s wife and children, part for her
own boys in the corner, part for the
teacher: and soon all was quiet.
But after all were asleep save the
teacher. Benito slipped in, and taking
down his books, studied for another
hour or more.
There are hundreds of boys just as
hungry for study as Benito, and there
are many schools for Mexican children
that have not sufficient teachers nor
sufficient money. Benito will some
day become a minister and teacher of
his people.
Let us hope that many voting peo-
ple who read his story will help to give
other Mexican boys and girls the op-
portunity7 that Benito and his father
forged for themselves. — Over Sea and
Land.
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AS THOU HAST- AN INCIDENT
THE patient little burro had drop-
ped its load of wood as Pablo
released the heavy rope which
held the sticks in place. A
slight touch of the whip in the boy's
hand was a signal for the animal to
take advantage of its freedom, and
Pablo entered his home. It was a
plain Mexican “casa” consisting of two
tiny rooms, but the white walls and
clean bedding in rolls on the floor gave
evidence of more than usual house-
wifely care.
Pablo’s mother was a widow, and
the loss of her husband and several
children seemed to make her affection
for her remaining boy and girl more
keen and thoughtful.
Pablo was tired, and the frugal sup-
per of “frijoles” and “tortillas” never
looked more inviting than this evening.
As the young people ate, the mother
began in her soft Spanish tongue:
“Ah, my children, tomorrow is the
feast day. the Fiesta of San Lorenzo,
in our neighboring Plaza, and you
shall accompany me to the home of
your father’s brother, and enjoy the
good things which he will provide.
Ah ! the music and the ‘Saints’ and the
feast you will delight in. and the Padre
will add his blessing!”
Silence fell upon the little group for
a moment, and the mother’s face
clouded with disappointment, for she
had expected a happy response to the
ALICIA
S. B.
SOME six years ago, on one bright,
beautiful morning in February.
Alicia Pina opened her lovely
brown eyes for the first time. Her
mama grande (grand mother) said:
“Buenos dias, hi j ita una, me alegro
mucho al conocerte!” (Good morning,
THAT REALLY OCCURRED.
announcement of the proposed visit,
for what Mexican boy or girl does not
welcome with delight an opportunity
to attend a Fiesta, to meet friends, to
watch the races, and to eat oranges and
candy? But happiest of all is he who
is fortunate. enough to have the price
of a ride on the merry-go-round ! What
matter if it is moved by a big strong
Mexican and the music of the violin
and guitar does not harmonize?
Presently Pablo spoke: “Oh, mother,
I cannot go. Did I not promise ‘la
maestra’ to help carry stones and
adobes for our new school building? I
have no money to give, we are very
poor; but I am strong and can work.
‘La maestra’ tells the boys and girls
so many wonderful things in the school,
and we are very happy. In our Bible
lesson yesterday she read of the boy
who carried the loaves and fishes and
the blessing he brought to the multi-
tude. The boys and girls all like to
help in the new building so that other
children may come and learn about
Jesus. Oh. mother, may I givt my
work?” The mother’s eyes filled with
tears, but there was gladness in her
heart, for her desire above all else wTas
that her children might receive the
teachings of the American missionary
who had brought so much of hope and
brightness to the dull, listless lives in
the little Mexican Plaza, and with a
happy heart she responded: “Yes, my
son, you may have your desire.”
PINA.
Ross.
little daughter, I am pleased to know
you!) Then, her grand mother told
her of the beautiful world in which she
had come to live. How blue the skv '
was. how cool the sea breezes, how
beautiful were the flowers and birds !
This little girl came not only to
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gladden the heart of her kind grand-
mother. but also of her papa v mama.
She was the first little girl who had
come to live in that humble little Mex-
ican home, and they, too, were de-
lighted to have her. When she was
yet, a tiny little baby, these good par-
ents, who were Christians, carried her
up to the church and she was baptized.
They gave her to God.
Alicia grew every day, and played
with the little pigs, little lambs and
little goats, all of which she loved and
petted.
The day came when she was three
years old, and her father. Don Adolfa,
a faithful deacon of the church carried
her to the Sunday School, and the
very first Sunday, much to the surprise
of the teacher. Alicia knew the Golden
Text, and not one Sundav since has
she failed to know it. She has a won-
derful record, three years in Sunday
School, has memorized three times
fifty-two verses (3x521 of the Bible,
memorized and recited perfectly the
child’s catechism, also many Gospel
hymns.
During the year 1913 she did not
miss a simile Sunday from the Sunday
School. For this perfect attendance,
she received a beautiful cross and arm
gold medal, and a Testament for hav-
ing recited the catechism.
So von see, my dear little friends in
Alicia Pina. Age Three.
the home land, how worth while it is
to send the Gospel to our little Mex-
ican neighbors. There are many little
Alicias, Marias, Magdelenas, Salemas,
Juans, Pedros and Solomons waiting
and eager for the glad tidings of Jesus
and his love; so do not each of you
want to have a share in sending them
the Bread of Life?
Brownsville , Texas.
HOW TOMAS WAS CURED.
Mrs II. L. Boss.
My home is an adobe hut on the out-
skirts of one of the great cities of Mex-
ico; a very small, smoky hut it is, with
no tables, only boxes for chairs and
straw pallets for beds. But 1 can go
outside, of it and look at the blooming
flowers, the bristling cactus, the tall
palms that point up to the blue sky
and the great bleak mountains away
jn the purple distance,
You would never think I had been a
cripple, would you? But I used to
have twisted feet and ankles, and how
I was cured is the story I am going
to tell you.
My father was very poor and worked
for a rich man who paid him only
eighteen cents a day. I had many lit-
tle brothers and sisters, and often we
were cold and hungry, because eigh-
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Tomas.
teen cents would not buy food and
clothes for us. In spite of this, how-
ever. mv brothers and sisters were
happy, for they could run and play.
But I could not walk on my crooked
feet and I had no crutches — only a
long stick with which to drag myself
about.
Sometimes my mother would take
me to the great Cathedral in the city
and we would kneel before the image
of the virgin; and my mother would
weep and pray to the image to make
my feet straight, so that 1 might run
and play and grow into a strong man.
Often as we came out of the church
1 had noticed hung on its great doors
tiny clay models of arms and hands,
legs and feet- all parts of the body —
1 asked my mother, one day, why mey
were there, and she told me that any
one afflicted in any member of the
body could, with two reales — twenty-
five centavos — buy a model of that
member from a priest and that within
two weeks lie would be healed by the
virgin. 1 made up my mind that 1
would in some way secure this money,
for I knew my father was too poor to
give it to me.
Every day for dinner my mother
made for each of us four tortillas to
eat with our beans. 1 knew I could
sell three of these for a centavo to a
neighbor who always bought her tor-
tillas instead of making them. And
so each day I ate only one of my little
corn cakes, hiding the others from my
mother's sight. With the help of my
long stick, 1 dragged myself to the
neighbor’s house and she paid me a
centavo for my tortillas , which, on my
return I hid in the cracks of the
adobe, behind some clothing hung on
the wall. At last I had twenty-five
centavos , and I asked my mother to
take me to the Cathedral. On the way
I showed her the money and told her
what 1 meant to do with it. Oh ! how
happy we were, for at last the virgin
would hear our prayers.
At the church we asked for the priest
who sold the little clay models, and I
soon held a tiny foot in my proud
hands. We carried it outside and
hung it on the church door, our hearts
overflowing with fervent prayers to
the virgin that she would at last look
down on my crooked feet and remem-
ber all the days I had gone hungry to
pay for the ottering I had brought her.
We went back home and that night
I could not sleep, for some way I had
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Where Tomas Lived.
the feeling that the dear Maria would
come to my pallet and touch me in the
darkness and that in the morning I
would run and jump and play. JBut
I waited in vain through all that
night and through ail the other nights
of those two weeks. Then my heart
grew hard and bitter and I grieved
my mother very much by refusing to
go to the cathedral to pray. I told
her that the virgin did not care for
me and would never heal me. Then
poor mother went alone in great fear
to pray that I might not be cursed for
my wicked words.
A year passed by and one feast day
I went with the other children to the
Plaza to see the gay Hags and the
happy people. I was sitting on a
bench alone while the others moved
about along the pretty walks. After
awhile a man came and sat down be-
side me. It was an American, but he
spoke to me in Spanish and asked me
about myself. lie was so kind and
gentle that before I knew what I was
doing I was telling him all about my
crooked feet, my prayers to the virgin,
and the little clay model which I had
bought with my precious centavos.
When we were ready to go home he
went with us and talked very earnest-
ly to my father and mother.
He came back many times and I
knew that my poor mother was very
much torn in her mind between her
wish to let the kind stranger help us
and her fear that the priest or the
virgin would curse us for having any-
thing to do with this alien. I often
heard her slip out of our hut at four
o’clock in the morning and I knew
she was going to early prayers to keep
away an evil visitation.
One day when the American came
to talk with my mother, I overheard
their conversation and I broke in bold-
ly upon it. “Dear Mamacita ,” I im-
plored,, “let me go with the kind man
who otters to help me. If the virgin
has any mother heart at all she will
not blame you for trying to get my feet
straightened. If the dear little Jesus
had been a lame boy I know she would
have tried to have him healed.”
That is how it happened that the
very next day I went with him to a
big, big house, called a hospital. A
pretty Mexican nurse took charge of
me and she was so Kind that I was not
timid with her. So I asked her what
they were going to do with me. She
laughed and answered that first of all
they were going to feed me. Then she
held up one of my arms and 1 saw
tears in her eyes. “We cannot cure
your feet without hurting you, dear
Tomasito, and we could never bear to
hurt a little boy whose body was so
weak and thin. You must eat every-
thing I bring you, so you will get
plump and strong.”
Tomas on Ilis Way to Worship, Accompanied
by a Friend.
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And I did cat every thing she
brought, though often 1 dropped tears
in my milk and soup, because I knew
my little brothers and sisters had that
gnawing ache in their stomachs which
1 had always supposed was a part of
being alive.
I would like to tell you about those
weeks, after I was strong, when the
good doctors twisted my feet and my
pretty nurse helped me to bear the
pain by telling me about my kind
Father God and my best Friend Jesus.
Every day she taught me the truth
which I had never known : we prayed
together and she read to me from the
Bible. When I came out of the hos-
pital. can you imagine how sweet it
was to walk on two straight feet t
But it was sweeter still to have such
joyful love in my heart to Jesus.
Now, my mother and father and my
older brothers and sisters are Chris-
tians, and 1 hope to go to school and
learn enough to be a preacher, so that
I can tell my people about Jesus, who
alone can save them.
Won’t you help us to get Christian
schools, won’t you se • J Us more tea di-
ers and doctors and ministers, so that
we may learn more about the only true
Christ?
Brownsville, Texas.
OUR JUNIORS AND THE MEXICANS IN TEXAS.
Program for March.
“If there be some weaker one
Give me strength to help him on:
If a bi nder soul there be
Let me guide him nearer Thee.’’
— Whittier.
1. Hymn — “In the Harvest Field.”
2. Prayer — Of thanks that we may help
glean in the Harvest Field:
and pet'tion that we may be
loving, patient workers.
3. Our Missionary Alphabet —
A — Matthew 7:7.
R— Acts 1:8.
C — Psalm 37:5.
D — Psalm 37:4.
E— Matthew 20:28.
F— Luke 12:32.
G — John 4:24.
H — Matthew 10:39.
I — 2 Timothy 2:12.
J — John 4:34.
K — 1 Corinthians 6:19.
L — Luke 15:10.
M — Psalm 32:10.
N — Matthew 7:21.
O— Psalm 119:18.
P — John 1:45
Q — Thessalonians 5:19.
P— Psalm 33:1.
R— John 4:35.
T— Jabn 16:33.
lT — Psalm 75:1.
V — Psalm 76:11.
W — 1 Corinthians 16 : 13
X — Psalm 99:5.
Y— Matthew 5:13.
Z — Psalm 97:8.
— Selected.
4. Hymn — “Work. For the Night is Com-
ing.”
5. Ttecitation — "Waiting.”
6. How Ben to Made His Way.
7. Helping to Build the Scboolhouse.
8. With the Boys at Tex-Mex.
9. What I have Heard and Seen.
10. Recitation — “The Mexicans at Your
Door.”
11. What is Our Church Doing for the Mexi-
cans at Our Door, and How am 1
Helping?
12. Hymn — "When He Cometh, to Make up
His Jewels.”
13. Transaction of Business — Including some
definite plan of co-operation
with the work of the Assem-
bly’s Home Missions.
14. Prayer Sentence — That the Mexicans in
Texas may be brought to
know and serve our Saviour.
Notes —
3. Give this out in advance, and have the
children recite the verses from
memory.
9. Have the children bring Mexican news
notes or pictures — papers and magi-
zines are full of them.
11. If more information is needed than can
be obtained in the Home Mission
Department, write to the Commit-
tee, 1422 Hurt Building. Atlanta,
Ga., for leaflets, inluding Annual
Report.
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JUNIOR PROGRAM FOR MARCH, 1914 (FOREIGN.)
Topic — Mexico.
Song — Hark ’tis the Shepherd’s Voice I hear.
Scripture Reading — Acrostic — Go Work To-
day.
Prayer — For the Mexican children whose
fathers are in the war.
For the poor, whose poverty is
more distressing on account of
the war.
For our work that is suspended for
a time.
For Miss McClelland’s school at
Matamoros.
Song — Selected.
Minutes.
Roll Call — -Answer with a verse of Scripture
on Work.
Business.
Oi'R Stations in Mexico.
Recitation — Won’t You Divide?
Questions — 1. What church claims to have
done the first mission
work in Mexico?
2. Who was certainly the first
to circulate Bibles?
3. When did the Methodist
Episcopal Church begin its
mission?
4. In what condition was the
country at that time?
5. What was Dr. Butler’s de-
sire?
6. How did the Jesuits regard
this?
7. What course did Dr. Butler
pursue?
8. What is our Church doing in
Mexico?
9. Why are most of our mis-
sionaries out of Mexico
now?
10. Who of our missionaries
stayed in Mexico?
11. What must we do now for
their help?
Story — Lolita.
Reading — Seeing a Real Battle.
Close with the Lord’s Prayer in concert.
Suggestions.
Before the meeting have tapes cut long
enough to reach from Nashville on the Map,
to the various stations. As each is men-
tioned have a child pi na tape from Nash-
ville (the Committee’s headquarters), to the
station in question.
Let the children learn “Qur Stations in
Mexico” and repeat in concert. The little
rhyme will tend to make them remember the
names more easily.
Impress the children with Mexico’s great
need of their prayers at this time. For until
Mexico becomes a Christian country, revolu-
tions are likely to occur frequently.
Miss Dowd’s School at Kochi. Under this one shed much is done — ablutions, ironing and
washing clothing, preparing vegetables, washing rice, dishes, pots, etc.
Address all Communications to
Rev. Henky H. Sweets, D. D., Sec’y.
122 Fourth Ave., Louisville, Ky.
Make all Remittances to
Mk. John Stites, Treasurek
Fifth and Market Streets,
Louisville, Ky.
PRAYER FOR OLD AGE.
“Oh, most merciful God, cast me not oil' in the time of my old age; for-
sake me not if my strength faileth. May my hoary head be found in right-
eousness. Preserve my mind from dotage and imbecility, and my body from
protracted disease and excruciating pain. Deliver me from despondency in
my declining years, and enable me to bear with patience whatever may be
Thy holy will. 1 humbly ask that my reason may continue to the last; and
that 1 may be comforted and supported that 1 may leave my testimony of the
reality of religion and of Thy faithfulness in fulfilling Thy gracious
promises. And when my spirit leaves this clay tenement, Lord Jesus,
receive it. Send some of the blessed angels to convey my inexperienced soul
to the mansions which Thy love has prepared; and, oh, may I have an abun-
dant entrance ministered unto me into the kingdom of our Lord and Saviour
Jesus Christ." — Archibald Alexander.
A HERO OF THE NORTH.
Stuart G. Steele.
THE world is quick to recognize
some of its heroes and lauds the
men who on the field of battle
win great victories, but there
are those, oftentimes, who on the har-
der field of life fight the good fight of
whom the great world does not hear,
er hearing, values them far too lightly.
Yet these are the men, strong and brave
and true, who win real victories. One
of them was Cyril K. Jamieson, the
Presbyterian missionary at French
River, Canada, a notice of whose death
appeared in the papers some time ago.
He wa3 young when the call came —
just in the flower of his manhood — but
his attainments at Toronto University
had given promise of a useful and bril-
liant career. Indeed, the papers spoke
of him afterwards as one of the coming
leaders of the church, and well he might
have been. After his university course
and a short career in journalism, he
took his place “on the firing line” of
Home Missions, laboring for a time
near Parry Sound. Then he went to
French River, and in a small milling
village, many miles from the railway,
faithfully and well he worked. It was
not an easy field, and Mr. Jamieson
did’ not spare himself in the work. In
summer, on Sunday morning, he would
go out to the fishermen on the Bustard
Islands, four miles out in the bay, hold-
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ing service with them, and coming back
for the evening meeting at the village.
Latterly he took up the work at the
newly opened port, "The Ivey,” ten
miles down the shore, and had a morn-
ing service there, often traveling in and
out among the rock islands in his small
gasoline launch, a rowboat in which he
had placed an engine, when much lar-
ger boats would not venture from the
harbor.
In the winter he went with his dog
team along the line of the new railway,
visiting the construction camps, telling
the men the glad story of salvation. One
trip he went as far as Parry Sound,
seventy-five miles, and on the return
journey was lost on the bay, out all
night on the ice ! So he worked, and
in his work he was ably assisted by his
devoted wife. For in the village a La-
dies Aid was organized, and a build-
ing fund for a church commenced.
4 nere were discouragements, many of
them, but with heroic spirit they were
met and overcome. And a grateful
people appreciated their minister and
his wife. When their house was de-
stroyed uy fire this spring, and the
young couple, having lost almost all
their belongings, spoke of moving, a
fully signed petition urged them to
stay, and in the fall the building of the
church was commenced.
Put the call came. And the maimer
of Mr. Jamieson’s death was a fitting
end of his unselfish work among us.
in trying to ascend rapids on the Pad
River, his launch was capsized and
wrecked. With his wife and another
lady, he was left stranded on an island
of rock in the midst of a wide river
with treacherous undercurrents. For
two days and nights they were there
without food or shelter, while parties
from the French, not knowing the
route they had taken, were searching
vainly in other directions. On the
morning of the third day Mr. Jamie-
son decided to try and swim to the
mainland, hoping to reach a fisher-
man’s shack at the mouth of the river
and there to obtain help. So after
prayer, and with the words, "Remem-
ber, whatever happens, it is all for the
best,” he left them, lie would signal
from the high rock on the other side
of the far channel, lie said. He never
reached the rock. A few hours later
the rescue party from the French found
the two ladies. Some days afterwards
they found his body. Now, the whole
community mourns his loss.
Why was he taken, when we need
men of his spirit so much on the firing
line? Why? We do not know. But
of one thing we are sure, that safely he
has crossed the great divide, and that
in Immanuel’s Land he will hear, "Well
done, thou good and faithful servant,
enter thou into the joy of thy Lord.”
And the story of his life work among
us is a call to action, that, loyal and
true, brave and faithful, we should
strive for the King. — The Presbyterian
(Canada.)
HAMPDEN-SIDNEY COLLEGE.
Its Three-Fold Service to State, Church, Education.
HAMPDEN-SIDNEY COLLEGE opened
its doors on January 1, 1/76. It lias,
therefore, just entered upon its 139th
year of unbroken life, with a record of ser-
vice to God and country that is astonish ngly
rich and fruitful. In point of age Hampaen-
Sidney stands second among all the colleges
of the Southland, and tenth among all the
institutions of learning in the Western
Hemisphere. It is older by six months than
the Declaration of independence, and older
by thirteen years than the Const uuion of
the United States. During more than a cen-
tury and a third, covering the lifetime of
four generations of men, it has never closed
its doors except in vacation.
The college has always stood for the
th ngs that are best in culture and charac-
ter. Never a large institution (the largest
student body ever enrolled numbered only
155), she has placed the emphasis upon
quality rather than quantity. As a cohere
Hampden-Sidney Campus. Main Building in the Background.
of liberal arts, she has striven to give to her
sous mat oroad aud thorough training that
\n in best equ p mein tor the work of nfe.
The extent of her literary unpress is shown
by the fact that nearly one-naif of ail her
matriculates have eutereu the leninea pro-
fessions— Teaching, Preaching, uaw, anu
Meinciue. Alore man tour nuuored of urn
sous have uevoted tnemseives to ihe various
ueparimeuts of educational work, she Uas
tru neu thirty-one presidents of colleges, uni-
versities, anu tueo.ogiodi seminaries, ana oas
hunuieu professors in like institutions.
Arore signiucant si il is the tact that troai
her faculty, or from her student bouy, have
gone forth the founders of seventeen insti-
tutions of higher learning, North ana
South.
In the matter of patriotic service, Hamp-
den-Sidney s contribution to the history of
State ana nation has been extraordinarily
large, and it is out of all proportions to her
numeiical strength. Five times since the Col-
lege was founded the tocsin of war has sound-
er, and in each of these wars her sons have ral-
lied to their country's standard, viz., the
War of the Revolution, the War of 1812, the
Mexican War, the Civil War, and the span-
ish-American War. Three times have the
students of the College enlisted as a body
and marched to the battle's front as the
“Hampden-Sidney Company.”
Furthermore, the service the College has
rendered in t mes of peace is scarcely less
remarkable. Hampden-Sidney has furnished
one President of the United States. Her
sons have sat in the cabinet and have gone
as ambassadors of their country to the
courts of Europe. Thirty-four of her
alumni have been members of the Congress
of the United States (Senate and House).
In the brief four years of its existence, nine
Hampden-Sidney men sat in the Confed-
erate Congress, including its brilliant speak-
er. She has trained nine Governors, wno
have serveu in six states — from Alaryiand
to Missour.. In addition to those who have
adorned the bench in other States from New
York to Florida and Cahlornia, and in the
Philipp. ne Islands, sixty-seven of her alumni
have sat upon the bench in Virginia alone,
and one hunored anu twenty have served in
the Legislature and in Constitutional Con-
ventions in that State.
But in another field of high endeavor
Hampden-Siuney has played an equany con-
spicuous part. Her sons have ever stood at
the forefront of every gieat enterpr.se of the
Church of God. From the shores of the
Chesapeake to the heart of far Cathay, from
the frozen hills of Alaska southward to the
equator, they have served, and are still serv-
ing God and their fellowmen with rare devo-
tion. In the history of the Church of God,
at home and abroad, there would be many a
void and vacant page if the work achieved
by Hampden-Sidney men were blotted out.
She has sent into the ministtry of the Gos-
pel more than five hundred men, a number
equal to one-half her total graduates. While
a large majority of these were Presbyterians,
yet the ministry of five denominations has
been enriched by Hampden-Sidney men, and
she has trained three bishops of the Episco-
pal Church, including the present bishop of
Virginia. Besides more than a hundred men
who have pursued their theological studies
elsewhere, twenty-six and one-half per cent,
of all the matriculates at “Union Seminary
in Virginia” during ninety-six years were
Hampden-s^ney students. Of three hun-
dred and three ministers on the roll of the
Synod of Virginia, eighty-six are Hampden-
Sidney men. Of twenty-seven missionaries,
nine are Hampden-S’dney men.
Law and Medicine, also, which, together
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with the Ministry, are properly classed with
the learned professions, have drawn more
than eight hundred men from among her
student body.
Hampden-Sidney College is doing more
efficient work today than at any time in her
long and honored history. Of the men whom
she has trained for advanced educational
work, forty per cent, are now in active ser-
vice, and of the men sent into the ministry,
nearly one-half are “in harness’’ today.
A college that points to a record so distin-
guished challenges our highest admiration,
and deserves the cordial support of all who
believe in the essential value of Christian
education.
The Needs of the College.
Additional endowment $150,000 00
A new gymnasium 25,000.00
A new science hall 75,000.00
Two additional residences 10,000.00
An additional water supply 8,000.00
OUR PRESBYTERIAN EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS.
THE Executive Committee has
just completed one of the larg-
est tasks ever undertaken for
the educational system of our
Church. Thev have on the press a
book, “Our Presbyterian Educational
Institutions”, which gives pictures of
all the theological seminaries, colleges,
academies, institutes, etc., and pictures
of the presidents and’ principals.
It also contains a brief statement of
the special features, interesting histor-
ical facts, and needs of all of the educa-
tional institutions connected with the
Church.
It is our purpose each month to give
some information concerning this great
department of the Church’s work in
the Survey. We take great pleasure
this month in presenting a photograph
and a brief statement concerning the
oldest of our colleges, Hampden-Sid-
ney College, at Hampden-Sidney, Vir-
ginia, now7 enjoying an era of great
prosperity under the presidency of
Rev. H. Tucker Graham, D. D.
Right at this time a great Synod-
wide Campaign for a large increase in
the Endowment of this College is be-
ing carried on under the efficient lead-
ership of Rev. A. C. Bridgman.
We hope to publish similar sketches
of all of our institutions, giving them
in the order of their establishment.
At the meetings of Presbyteries and
Synods last Fall scores of conferences
on educational matters were held and
many addresses on Christian Educa-
tion delivered. Many of the Presb-
teries have planned to hold conferences
this spring.
The next General Assembly, to be
held at Kansas City, is to be called
an “Education Assembly”, and two
evenings have been set apart for the
consideration of this work. The Ex-
ecutive Committee is planning an ex-
tensive exhibit of all of the educational
work of the Church to be set up in the
church where the Assembly meets.
We have printed for free distribu-
tion some leaflets of great merit, set-
ting forth the vital importance of
Christian Education.
We are helping a number of the
States to plan campaigns which we
hope will result in deeper interest and
a more liberal support of all of our
Educational Institutions.
OJkHoHnn education and
If in istrnal Relie)
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THE CHURCH’S RESPONSIBILITY.
Pr. S. S. Jolly.
TIIE watchword of the General
Conference of the Methodist
Church has been. “Get on the
firing line.” This is a fitting
cry for the victorious host, now be-
come a world-power for righteousness,
and urging its campaigns on the crowd-
ed throngs of the city and on far-off
fields in distant wilds.
As department after department of
the Church takes its place, we wonder
what must be the place of the Board of
Ministerial Relief? Caring for the
wounded and worn-out, and cheering
the widows of the heroes departed. It
might properly be called the Red Cross
Society of the Church.
Our plea is deeper than sympathy,
even though sympathy has its place.
It has its foundation, in the first in-
stance, in a well-grounded principle of
economics. It used to hold that wages
were considered to be a remainder after
the expense and profits of the business
were deducted, but now it seems to be
a sound economic principle that wages
must be paid according to the efficiency
of the worker, without regards to the
expense, profit or loss of the business in
which he is employed.
Tiif. Preacher’s Work.
Does not this give 11s a ground for
believing that there ought to be a strong
economic reason for the support of the
veteran preacher? He is working for
the Greatest Concern of the ages. He
is not making clocks, nor has he crea-
ted machinery for new devices, but he
has labored, and is working now for
his Lord. He has told and can tell now
with a tremor and a thrill the “Old.
old, story” that saves men. Who can
pay the man who brings joy in the
presence of angels? As long as he lives
he should be a profit-sharer of the
great cause in which he has labored,
and a just provision should be made
for his loved ones. As long as (he
work goes on which he has started, he
or his should share in the returns.
Society is an organism with its indi-
viduals related and working for a com-
mon good. We pay taxes and go to
bed and sleep content with a knowledge
that the policeman watches through the
night and safeguards our homes. Tax-
payers share the burden and by a com-
munity of interests, secure a condition
which would be impossible were each
individual called to work alone.
Society’s Watchman.
The preacher is society’s best watch-
man. 1 1 is labor and life, his leader-
ship and love, his message and mis-
sion prevent more crime and safeguard
more communities than any other pow’-
er in the world.
Upon this ground we appeal for the
comfort of those who have brought you
peace and social contentment, that you
have a care for those who have grown
gray and a>-e worn out maintaining the
felicities of youth and establishing the
joys of your old age.
The voice that echoes the joy of the
wedding bells, that stands at the altar
as men are rescued from sin, that trem-
bles with emotion and assures with
hope bv the side of your dead, which
calls your boys and girls to nobler and
better lives, must not be forgotten. The
preacher must be remembered and sup-
ported when age and infirmity sap the
strength and vigor of better days.
To-day, as the tramp of hurrying
feet go forth to battle, and the cry of
the valiant echoes the faith of our
Church, may God bless the heroes of the
glorious past and save their children
to be the leaders of a victorious future.
“As his part is that goeth down to
battle, so shall his part be that tarrieth
by the stuff, they shall share alike.”
Veteran Preacher, December, 1912.
Rev. S. H. Chester, D. D., Editor, 154 Fifth Avenue, North, Nashville, Tenn.
MONTHLY TOPIC— MEXICO.
THE political situation in Mexico
is. if possible, worse than ever.
Both sides are fighting under
the black flag. Under any such
government as prevails, or has pre-
vailed for some time past, the use of
the words “treason” and “rebellion”
seems ridiculous. We believe that Gen-
eral Carranza would, if he could, have
his side of the controversy conducted
in a different way, but he does not
seem to be able to control his subordi-
nates. It was probably because he
knew that he could give no guarantees
as to what they would do that the at-
tempted negotiations between him and
President Wilson through Mr. Wm.
Bayard Hale came to naught. The
newspaper correspondents may have
been doing injustice for sensational
purposes to General Villa, but if they
have not he is a barbarian of the first
water, and any government set up in
Mexico in which he might exercise the
controlling influence would probably
be little, if any, improvement over the
present one.
We suggested some time ago, in view
of the manifest undesirability of
American intervention alone, the idea
of international intervention to put a
stop to the present carryings on of the
Huerta Government and of the so-
called constitutionalists, as well, in
order that the legitimate interests
which the whole civilized world must
have in such a country as Mexico
might be taken care of. We have been
pleased to see a very able discussion of
this subject in one of the publications
issued by the Bureau of International
Conciliation. The trouble about it in
this case, however, is, that the work of
establishing an international police
force will necessarily require so much
time that not much would be left in
Mexico worth being taken care of to
any of the countries concerned before
it could be applied to that country.
The Outlook, of New York city, has
been advocating, very sensibly it seems
to us. an arrangement between the more
important countries of the Western
Hemisphere, the United States. Brazil.
Argentina and Chile especiallv. by
which they should unitedly inter-
vene and attempt to restore order.
Such a united movement would
greatly simplify the matter and do
away with many of the difficulties
and inconveniences and evil conse-
quences that would inevitably attend
intervention by any of the countries
mentioned. Whether or not this sug-
gestion will prove practicable, however,
we are now unable to foresee. Our
Washington government is dealing with
the matter with fuller information,
both of the facts and the questions in-
volved, than it is possible for any one
else to be possessed of; and we have
unbounded confidence both in the wis-
dom and the high Christian motives
that are controlling President Wilson
and Secretary Bryan in all their hand-
Federal Soldiers at Matamoros.
ling of this difficult and delicate mat-
ter. We should not forget also that
Providence has not abandoned its con-
trol of affairs in Mexico, and that they
are being overruled so as to work out
the divine plan for the establishment
of Christ’s Kingdom in that land and
in the world.
Letters from the field published in
this number of the Survey tell the story
of our own work as it is being carried
on at present. Matamoros is the only
point where the regular work goes on.
Mr. Shelby and Mrs. Morrow were botli
at Montemorelos until Mr. Morrow had
to leave on account of an injury to his
hand and had to go to Monterey to
place himself under the care of a sur-
geon. At this writing we have not
heard whether he has been able to re-
join Mr. Shelby at Montemorelos. We
do not regard either of them as in any
danger of their lives, but they are not
able to do anything more than look
after the property at Montemorelos
and visit the people in their homes. The
regular exercises of the school have, of
course, been suspended temporarily.
New Board of Foreign Missions.
The Board of Foreign Missions of
the Presbyterian Church of Korea was
organized by the General Assembly of
that church, which met a little more
than one year ago. This board began
its work by sending its first foreign
missionary to one of the islands of the
archipelago lying between Korea and
Japan. Some pioneer work has al-
ready been done in these islands by
llev. II. D. McCallie, of our mission,
working from Mokpo as a central sta-
tion. At its last meeting the Korean
General Assembly issued a call for one
thousand dollars, to be raised by the
native churches for missionary work
in China, and asked that a distinct ter-
ritory in China might be set aside for
its foreign mission field. Although
this may seem a small beginning for a
new and distinct foreign missionary en-
terprise, it seems to us to have great
significance.
Some time ago the question was rais-
ed whether the immense task of sup-
plying China with the number of for-
eign evangelists necessary to meet ex-
isting conditions might not be greatly
lessened if it should be found practi-
ticable to utilize some of our Korean
Christians for that purpose. It is
recognized that a Korean missionary
in China would be in some respects un-
der a handicap. China for long years
looked upon Korea as one of its subject
provinces, and had no very great re-
spect and consideration for the Korean
people. We see no reason, however,
why individual Korean Christians pos-
sessing the qualities of vigor and force,
which the Chinese admire, and in ad-
dition to that, the fiery evangelistic
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zeal which has thus far characterized
the Korean Church far more than it
has the Church in China, should not
easily overcome the handicap referred
to.
With reference to the language
problem, educated Koreans are already
familiar with the Chinese written lan-
guage, and would have little difficulty
in mastering the spoken dialect in a
short time. Those Korean ministers
who came originally from the unedu-
cated masses would nevertheless be on
very decided vantage ground as com-
pared with any Western foreigner so
far as the Chinese language is con-
cerned, and would probably be able to
acquire a speaking knowledge of it in
one-third of the time required by the
man from the West.
Death of Mrs. A. A. McFadyen.
A cable dated January 17, brings the
sad news of the death of Mrs. A. A.
McFadyen on that date at her home in
Hsuch-on-fu, China. Dr. and Mrs. Mc-
Fadyen had only recently returned
from their furlough home, and were
looking forward with eagerness to an-
other eight years of service, with con-
ditions so wonderfully changed and op-
portunities so greatly enlarged as com-
pared with what they were during their
term. The mere announcement by ca-
ble is all we have received as yet. We
hope to have an account by letter of
the circumstances of her sickness and
death in time for publication in our
next issue. The tender sympathy of
many friends in the homeland will go
out to the bereaved husband, and let
us also not forget to remember the
bereaved station in our prayers.
The Centennial of American Mis-
sions in India.
Some very interesting meetings have
recently been held in Bombay and
Ahmedagar, India, in celebration of
the centennial of American missionary
w ork in India. Dr. S. B. Capen,* pres-
ident of the American Board, was pres-
ent at the Bombay meeting and read a
letter from President Wilson, in which
the President said:
“I feel that I should not let the occa-
sion pass without a word of recogni-
tion of the great educational, Christ-
ianizing and civilizing benefits which
have accrued to that part of the world
through the devotion of those self-,
sacrificing and self-forgetting men and
women who, for the sake of a righteous
cause and the good of humanity, exiled
themselves from home and friends and
country.”
It will be remembered that the East
India Company which controlled the
situation in India one hundred years
ago, endeavored to exclude all foreign
missionaries from the country, on the
ground that their wTork would proba-
bly result in complications and dis-
turbances which would interfere with
the company’s trade. There was a fierce
struggle in the British Parliament, in
which William Wilberforce led the
forces which demanded religious toler-
ation and the privilege of carrying on
mission work, and in which he w\as
finally successful.
Since that day some of the finest tes-
timonials ever given to the value of the
work of foreign missions have been
those given by many of the great men
who have represented Great Britain in
the government of India.
Dr. Capen in his admirable address
at the Bombay meeting told of the cen-
tury of development of the Christian
Church in America, claiming that
“God’s blessing has come to our nation
largely because a hundred years ago
we came out of our provincialism and
narrowness and began to live for oth-
ers.”
•Since the above went to press the cable brings news
of Dr. Oopen's stt Iden ileath In Shanghai. He was en-
route home from the Homhay Conference, by way of
China and Japan, visiting the mission fields.
Girls of the Matamoros School.
A SUNDAY IN MATAMOROS.
Rev. H. L. Ross.
The last Sunday of November all the
ministers, native and foreign, in this
part of our field, gathered in Mata-
moros for the regular “Fifth Sunday
Meeting.” The three services were well
attended, the congregations ranging
from 125 to 150.
The night service was especially at-
tractive. Two girls of the Boarding
School received Bibles as premiums
for having recited the Shorter Cate-
chism. This makes eight premium
Bibles and three Testaments that
the pastor. Rev. C. A. Guthrie, lias
given out to members of the Sunday
School in the last few months. A re-
cent graduate of the Boarding School
and a pupil were received into the
church and the Lord’s Supper was cel-
ebrated.
It is gratifying to note that the hard-
ships of war have seemed to increase
the spirituality of the church. Two of
the families have lost a member in the
recent battles, and others have a father
or a son at the front.
Most effective work is done on Sab-
bath afternoon by the girls of the
school. Immediately after dinner all
Fiesta — Matamoros Plaza.
Members of the Mexican Mission.
enjoy the ‘‘quiet hour,” and you
would not imagine that so many girls
were in the house with you. At 2
o'clock there is a call to study and from
then on until church time, with the
exception of an hour or so for supper
and rest, the great fundamentals of the
Christian religion are taught in the
Bible, Catechism and hymns. No one
can measure the extent of this influ-
ence, when these girls shall go out as
teachers or to form their own homes.
It is a beautiful sight to slip into the
parlor and see Miss McClelland with
half a dozen little tots piled around
her looking at the pictures in the
“Beautiful .Stories,” or to return a little
later and find the whole company in a
semi-circle around the room singing
the gospel hymns.
There is a great opportunity for mis-
sion work open here for some young
woman equipped to direct the domestic
science department. May the Master
lead the the right one to volunteer for
the place.
If more information is desired write
to Miss Alice J. McClelland, Matamo-
ros, Tamaulipas, Mexico, Brownsville,
Texas.
lu the Streets of Matamoroa,
Photo by Robert Runyon. Some of the Constitutionalists Officers.
INTERVENTION NEEDED IN MEXICO.
Rev. H. L. Ross.
It is reported that Ex-President Taft
secured from government specialists
the following calculation of the cost of
armed intervention by the United
States in Mexico: 200.000 men for two
years, at the cost of $1,000,000 per day
and a sacrifice of 50,000 lives.
Rev. A. B. Carrero, of Dallas, Tex.,
a native of Mexico and a Presbyterian
minister, well says: "We need inter-
vention ? Yes, we do. But not the in-
tervention of soldiers with cannon and
firearms. We need the intervention of
Christian soldiers, Christian teachers,
and missionaries, who will devote their
time, their energy and their lives to
the betterment of Mexico. The best
weapon is the word of God. The best
Mexicans are those who are Chris-
tians.”
Review of Soldiers of Blanco’s Army.
Photo by Robert Runyon. Six Cannons Captu red at Victoria by the Constitutionalists.
CONDITIONS OF THE EVANGELICAL WORK IN MEXICO.
Rev. Leandro Garza Mora.
It was about thirty years ago that
the work of evangelization began in
earnest among the Mexicans. The op-
position of the Roman Church has
been tenacious. They have used every
means in their reach to hinder the
work, even sacrificing seventy workers
and believers, whose deaths were the
result of papal fanaticism.
But the work has overcome all ob-
stacles, and has been established in all
the States of the Republic. Thousands
of churches have been organized, many
church buildings erected, great schools
and colleges built up, and there are one
hundred thousand members in the
churches of the evangelical denomina-
tions.
The work extended slowly but surely
until the outbreak of the civil war,
which began November 20, 1910, and
continues even more terrible than ever.
As is natural, this bloody war has par-
alized the work in almost all the field;
but it has not destroyed it, as with joy
we have noted on visiting some of the
congregations and families that they
are as faithful and enthusiastic as for-
merly, and even more so. Such great
suffering and misery have seemed to
revive their religious sentiments. But
the collections have diminished very
much, both because most of the minis-
ters are in the Revolution (though
some are with the government forces),
and also because the price of everything
has gone up. Of course, our native
ministers are suffering a great deal.
Yet we have well grounded hopes
that when this fratricidal struggle is
over, an epoch of great prosperity will
follow, and our churches will extend
their sphere of activity and influence,
since we believe that many Mexicans
of evangelical faith will have places of
importance in the government, and
will help very much in the support and
propagation of the gospel in Mexico.
There is not an evangelical church
in the Republic that is not praying to
God for the peace of the nation, and
we trust that our American brethren
will aid us with their prayers also.
Indeed, the work needs the sincere
sympathy of Christians the world
over, since it is the Lord’s work and has
as its object the conversion of souls.
Even in the midst of circumstances so
lamentable as those through which the
nation is passing, caused by the long
and bloody civil war, we are continu-
ally finding proofs of the presence and
approbation of the Lord in our work.
The times that we have visited some of
our congregations we have had evidence
of the work of the Holy Spirit in the
hearts of sinners. In Clementina there
were seven additions to the church and
three at Cruz during a series of ser-
vices. These conversions are wonder-
ful, some of (he persons being notori-
ously dissolute and others very fanat-
ical.
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In Brownsville, Texas, there is an
artisan of a very fine family of Mon-
terey, who lived a very dissipated life
and hostile to the gospel. A member
of the church invited him to attend a
series of services, lie was converted
and has given proof that it is the work
of the Spirit, since he has abandoned
his past manner of life and is now an
active and enthusiastic officer of the
church.
Recause of the unfavorable condition
of our field, the permanent committee
of the Presbytery asked me to work
for a while in Texas. Thus, I come
with my family, partly on account
of the danger and in part to es-
cape the high cost of living from which
the greater part of the country is suf-
fering so sorely, since the war has con-
sumed everything. My headquarters
are therefore at Brownsville for some
time.
OUR WORK IN MATAMOROS.
Miss Alice McClelland.
I wonder if, in these times when
Mexico is a synonym for anarchy,
wholesale murder and crime, the Pres-
Parade of Constitutionalists Soldiers, Septem
ber 16th, at Matamoros, Mexico.
byterians of the South know that the
Girls' College at Matomoros is grind-
ing away as though there were no such
thing as war? Does the Church real-
ize that the school only lost three
weeks of work on account of the war,
that a month after the battle the mis-
sionaries returned to their places and
began work as usual in September?
If not, the present writing will serve
to inform the people of the church that
at least one part of the Mexican work
is intact and “doing business at the
same old stand.” The school is being
run shorthanded, to be sure, but we
will have to expect that as long as we
have to employ teachers who are not
missionaries to do the work. Our Do-
mestic Science teacher’s parents were
afraid for her to return on account of
the war, so the missionary in charge
has added the sewing classes to her
other duties and the cooking classes
“are not” at present.
One wonders just what the idea of
the church is concerning Mexico. We
have asked for volunteers for the work,
and there are nibbles, but no bites.
“Conditions arc such that no new work-
ers will be sent till peace is establish-
ed,” we are told. Yet we wonder what
will become of our work in Mexico if
the war lasts ten years, as it may. Will
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Matamoros Girls’ School — Teacher's Room.
the Presbyterian church cease to work
in Mexico? Do we believe that the
mission work that has already been
done has been wasted, and that the
Lord has decided not to evangelize
Mexico after all? “Now,” you will say,
“that missionary is cross and impatient
and wants the Committee to send a vol-
unteer down there when ‘conditions
are such,’ etc.” Well, the missionary
may be cross, but she certainly wants
the Committee to send her a volunteer,
even though the “conditions are such.”
Of course she can see the Church’s view
and realizes that there are good rea-
sons for not sending missionaries to
Mexico at this time, and all that, but
she respectfully begs the church to re-
member that one gets just as tired
when one is doing two people’s work
when there are perfectly good reasons
for having to do it as when said rea-
sons do not exist. What the mission-
ary does ask for is a young woman who
is a trained domestic scientist and seam-
stress. to take charge of the industrial
part of the work. We realize that the
place will not be an easy one. that the
work will be hard and the difficulties
many, but is there no young woman in
the Southern Church who is willing to
undertake it for the Master?
Speaking of “conditions,’ Matamo-
ros is rapidly becoming normal. Since
the taking of Victoria by the Constitu-
tionalists the fear of the return of the
Federals has disappeared, and many
of the families who have- refugeed in
Brownsville all summer are returning.
In the last few weeks many wagon-
loads cf furniture have crossed the in-
ternational bridge, bound for Matamo-
ros. From present prospects Matamo-
ros has seen all the war that was in-
tended for it. A new missionary would
hardly know there was a war in pro-
gress and would certainly not be dis-
turbed in her study of Spanish thereby.
Another mighty good reason why a
missionary ought to be getting ready
to work is because the Protestants have
the best opportunity we haA'e ever had
to work. Here in Matamoros our school
is in great favor because we lent the
house to the Carranzistas for a hos-
pital after the battle. The fact that
we began work in September has had
its influence with the officers also. That
a college for voung ladies could be con-
ducted in a town full to the suburbs
with Mexican soldiers spoke well in-
deed of the officers in charge of the sol-
diers. and they appreciate our trust in
them. The girls have made themselves
useful in the hospitals, caring for the
wounded and making sheets, pillow-
cases, etc.
They have made for themselves a
very enviable reputation for usefulness
and good behavior at. the same time,
and the missionary takes a good deal
of pride in this same reputation.
Matamoros Girls’ School-Teacher’s Room.
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The Constitutionalist party is op-
posed to the Catholic Church, and all
the convents and church schools are
closed in the territory where they have
power. They even contemplate the
complete separation of the Mexican
Catholic Church from Rome, the re-
moval of the images from the churches
and the purification of the priesthood.
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The only services in Matamoros at pres-
ent are in the Protestant churches. The
Catholic church has been closed for
weeks. Many of the soldiers attend
our services. We are going to enter on
the (Jolden Age for mission work in
Mexico. Isn't there some young wo-
man who wants to share in the har-
vest ?
SOMETHING CONCERNING THE CONGO NATIVE.
Rev. N. (i. Stevens.
In compliance with the request of a
friend who wrote asking that certain
information concerning the native,
such as his home, dress, family rela-
tions, way of making a support, diet
and preparation of food, diseases and
treatment of the sick, be sent home for
publication, 1 am writing this article.
Of course, on account of a short so-
journ. my knowledge of such is limited.
First, their homes, and I may say
here that these as well as other tilings,
vary greatly, according to the different
tribes. The houses are small, six by
eight feet: some much larger; others
smaller. These are made by driving
little posts, or sticks, into the ground,
and tying to these similar sticks with
“lukodi” (a vine like the wild grape-
vine), which is greatly used in all
buildings. In other words, it is the
native nail. The next process is the
daubing and filling in between these
sticks with mud.
The roofing is very simple, being
done with grass or palm leaves, though
it requires some skill to put the latter
on.
The accommodation for ventilation
in these houses is poor, as they have
usually only one door, no chimnevs nor
windows. The doors are small: I have
seen them less than two feet wide; the
owners of these were small.
If the cooking is done inside, a fire
is made somewhere in the center on the
ground: they have no floors. Fancy
being caught in one of these little huts
during a rain while the cook is pre-
paring a meal of dried field rats, grass-
hoppers, and the like.
As one would expect, the homes are
nearly void of furniture, which con-
sists of such things as a few old earth-
en vessels, mats used as beds, one or
two benches or blocks upon which they
sit, and maybe a table. I am speak-
ing more of the native who has not
been influenced by the foreigner, for in
other homes you find more modern fur-
niture.
1 now turn to a more delicate sub-
ject— the dress,, and since the natives
have no delineators and fashion books”
they have but little uniformity in their
dress, which varies all the way from
nihil to a white suit, tie and collar,
shoes and a walking cane; and then,
very frequently, over all this a cloak
of haughtiness. The more common
dress for the men is two yards of cloth
tied around the waist, which makes a
simple, but neat appearance.
It is a very common thing, even here
at Luebo, to see little children with
nothing on, save a bell tied around
them, or bracelets fastened around their
ankles.
Tattooing is also a widespread cus-
tom among the natives, and its favor-
ite places of attack are the face, espe-
cially the forehead, chest, and the arms.
This must be a very painful operation,
as it is necessary to insert a sharp
bone, or other instrument beneath the
skin. But they bear it heroically. A
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similar practice is that of filing the two
large front teeth to a sharp point. Also
shaving the heads, with a sharpened
piece of tin, iron or steel.
The fact that a man is rated accord-
ing to the number of his wives, shows
that family relations are not what they
should he. The woman’s lot is one of
continual drudgery, she being not only
the household servant, but must also
work the fields, bring the wood and
water. She is not considered man’s
equal, and is not allowed to eat in his
presence. But strange to say the father
is devoted to his child, and if a mother
fails to care for it property, she is the
sufferer by it.
I think the dowry paid for a wife is
about fifteen pieces of cloth, or eigh-
teen dollars. Though the Lulua cus-
tom, and probably others, is that the
father can demand money at any time,
and unless it is given, take his daugh-
ter back again, to sell to some one else.
There are numerous ways for a na-
tive to make his livelihood. If he has
an aricultural trend of mind, practi-
cally all he has to do is to plant his
corn, sweet potatoes, peas, peanuts,
tomatoes, rice, and other things, and
nature does the rest. When sweet po-
tatoes are once in a field it is almost
impossible to destroy them. The man-
ioc, or cassava root, is one of the prin-
cipal products, as the bread is obtained
from this. If he is inclined to be a
herdsman, dr poultry man, then lie has
his goats and sheep, chickens and
ducks.
Others are good in the industrial
arts, being able to make pots and var-
ious kinds of earthen ware vessels, w e
use the large native jars for drinking
water. They also make mats from the
papyrus and palm trees.
Then too, tin1 traders and company
people employ lots of natives for bring-
ing rubber .and doing other won...
They are sharp and shrewd in trad-
ing, which is the occupation of many.
Every Saturday, at Luebo, the market
is held, where people for miles come
to exchange their goods, which consist
of jars, mats, baskets (all varieties,
large, small, open and closed), vege-
tables, palm oil, soap made from this
oil, rats, and many other delicious
things. I should have said that cer-
tain tribes are great hunters and fisher-
men— hence their way of support.
The diet, as already touched upon,
ranges from little ant, or grasshopper
meat, to hippopotamus, or elephant
meat. The two principal foods are
matamba (native greens) and the man-
ioc. which is made by drying the cas-
sava root and beating it into meal
which is cooked with palm-oil into a
kind of dumpling. Chicken is also
prepared with the oil. or palm nuts.
Most of the missionaries are fond of
these two latter dishes.
The diseases consist of all kinds of
sores, eczema, fevers, wasting and
sleeping sicknesses.
Yesterday, Mr. Crane and I made a
visit to the sleeping sickness camp,
where we saw a very sad place. This
camp is situated out in the woods,
where the victims of this disease are
carried.
There were only four occupants,
three women, and a little girl, and
judging from the looks of one of the
women, who was nothing but skin and
bone, there will be only three left after
a few days.
On the left side of the road, as one
approaches the home, are the graves
of the former patients, and the present
ones sit at the door watching these
graves and wondering how long before
they too shall be carried and buried,
for it might be said to them like to
Sapphira of old, ‘‘Behold, the feet of
them which have buried your compan-
ions are at the door and shall carry ye
out.” But the hospital, which we hope
to have soon, will greatly relieve their
sufferings. Query, where is the physi-
cian who will take charge of this work?
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ANOTHER ILLUSTRATION OF “AFRICA’S CRYING NEED.”
Rev. R. D. Bkdinger.
TWO weeks ago (his message came
from Mutoto: “Mrs. Rochester
is down with another attacn.;
she has fever with it ami is suf-
fering very much.” Mrs. Rochester’s
husband and Mr. Smith were oil on
an itinerary; Mr. and Mrs. McKee
were here in Lusambo, having come to
bring Mr. and Mrs. McKinnon to their
new home and to conduct Mr. Hill
house back to Mutoto. Thus Mr. and
Mrs. Allen were alone with the sick.
Mr. and Mrs. McKee and Mr. Hill-
house departed at once.
Two days later came a second mes-
sage, “Mrs. Rochester is worse; the
pain is more acute and we think she
has appendicitis. Can you not secure
the State physician and come with him
at once? Remember that bv the time
the doctor gets here, if he starts
promptly. Mrs. Rochester will have
been sick ten days. Urge him to come
prepared to operate in case of an emer-
gency.” The commissaire of the dis-
trict was immediately informed of the
situation and the services of the physi-
cian requested. Roth were exceedingly
kind and sympath ic. The doctor was
willing to go, but declared emphati-
cally that an operation at Mutoto was
impossible. Let the reader pause for
a moment and try to solve the proolem
of converting a low pitched mud
house, poorly lighted, with grass roof,
and mats for ceiling, into an operating
room. He urged that she be brought
to the hospital here, but he had never
been over that route and could not
fully appreciate the impossibility of
conveying by hammock the sick over
the 125 miles of rugged hills and deep
gorges, to say nothing of the danger of
exposure to heat and rain. I urged
that he start immediately prepared as
best he could be to operate as a last
and heroic effort to save life. So, it
was decided. The commisaire thought-
fully sent a swift messenger to Lula-
bourg with orders for the doctor there
to proceed at once to Mutoto to assist
Dr. Russo.
There was no time to call a caravan
from the villages and I was forced to
choose mv men from the work line,
leaving Mr. McKinnon, who had been
on the station barely a week, a greatly
depleted force with which to carry for-
ward the work of building, made more
urgent by reason of the fact that the
rains had commenced.
At 10:30 o’clock the next morning
we were ferried across the river and
the four days’ journey begun in earn-
est. Then our troubles began. On the
rive bank we found one of the doctor’s
bundles. The porter had deserted.
The load was given to a hammock man.
In less than a mile we found another
bundle in the path and one of the men
lying beside it as if dying. He suc-
ceeded in fooling us completely for he
quickly recovered as soon as we were
out of sight, so the natives of the vil-
lage informed us upon our return. We
called the chief of the village and asked
him to furnish us a man. After a long
time he returned and said that he could
not find one willing to go. I put one
of my hammock men under the box
and off we started again.
The doctor is a very heavy man.
weighing nearly two hundred pounds.
He should have had twelve hammock
men. He had only six. He made the
mistake of riding up and down the hills
as well as on the levels with the result
that very soon another man fell out. I
saw that we should never arrive at Mu-
toto at that rate and I suggested mv go-
ing ahead rapidly to a village where we
have a church and an evangelist feel-
ing confident that enough men could be
secured there. Alas ! the news that a
State officer was on the road arrived
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ahead of me and the best that could be
done was to secure three men. One
of these refused point blank when he
saw the doctor’s size. The others would
agree to go only to the stopping place
for the night. I gave the doctor two
more of my hammockmen. Picking
up four men along the way we finally
reached the village where we were to
sleep.
The chief with the assistance of the
soldiers succeeded in finding six men
whom we pressed into service the next
morning. Happily before noon we met
a messenger with the word that Mrs.
Rochester was much better and not to
come unless already started. Remem-
bering that the other doctor would
reach Mutoto in a few days, we de-
cided to turn back after having made
about 35 miles or nearly one-third of
the distance. Ten days after the com
missaire’s order left Lusambo the doc-
tor from Luluabourg arrived. He was
not sure that her trouble was appendi-
citis. but he advised that she go at once
to the Pool or to Boma for an opera-
tion. Think of the expense to the Mis-
sion which that will entail. Think of
how it will cripple the work at Mutoto
for two of its most effecient workers
to be absent for several months. Think
of what going home for medical treat-
ment has cost the Mission during the
past year — Dr. and Mrs. Coppedge,
Mr. and Mrs. McQueen, Mrs. Martin
and baby. Why, the cost would more
than pay the traveling expenses and
first year’s salary of one doctor. Think,
too, of the anxiety, wear and strain
upon those that remain which unfits
them for effective service and lays
them open to the ravages of malarial
and other diseases.
Our hearts are brimming over with
joy at the very thought of soon having
a hospital with a trained nurse in
charge at Luebo. This will relieve the
situation there 'but not at Mutoto.
where there are now seven missionaries,
three of them ladies. Tn case of sud-
den and severe illness it would be
fatal to attempt to take the sick to
Luebo and it would require anywhere
from ten days to two weeks to secure
the services of a physician. By that
time perhaps — well, his services might
not be needed. Will not some friend
provide the means for a hospital at
Mutoto?
Last Sunday our native carpenter
was taken sick with pneumonia. We
wanted to send him to the hospital of
the State. His sister-in-law and
friends strenuously objected. They
frankly admitted that they trusted in
their heathen customs and “medicines”
and said. “Leave him to us and we will
tie our ‘fetiches’ to him. rub him with
our ‘medicines’ and he will recover.”
We explained that his life was in the
hands of God. but that God had given
the doctor wisdom with which to com-
bat disease and to provide a nice bed
and house in which to treat the sick:
that God expects us to trust in the
means which He provides as well as in
Himself. At last they consented though
with evident reluctance.
It seems to me that there is some
similarity between this incident and the
attitude of the Church toward her Af-
rican missionaries. The friends of the
unfortunate native are ignorant and
superstitious. The Church cannot plead
ignorance of the needs here. She is
not superstitious. But is she not guilty
of withholding from her missionaries
the means that God blesses for the pres-
ervation of their health, energies and
lives? Did she not say, in effect, to
the large force of new workers recently
sent out. “We are glad that you are
willing to go out to the relief of the
hard, pressed force on the field, the
field which has been called the ‘Grave
yard of missionaries.’ but remember
there is no doctor there, and there is
none in sight, nor is there a single hos-
pital: if you get sick you must simply
put your trust in God.” France at-
tempted to dig the Panama Canal, but
only succeeded in digging a hole large
enough to bury the dead, victims of
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fever and other diseases. Then the
United States took up the task. She
began a determined crusade against
the mosquito, built costly hospitals and
sanitoriums, sent an annv of scientists,
physicians and trained nurses to take
charge of them — then and only then
was the accomplishment of the task ren-
dered possible, ('an the Church afford
to do less for her workers who are not
engaged in digging ditches hut in dig-
ging out the roots of superstition, ig-
norance and sin from the lives of those
who have not yet learned to put their
trust in God? How long will she re-
fuse to extend t he healing hand to the
thousands of pitiful sufferers in this
benighted land who may be won and
saved through its benign touch? Oh.
let us solemnly reflect upon these solemn
words of the Master: “Inasmuch as ye
did it not unto one of the least of these,
ye did it not to me.”
Lusambo , Congo lielge, Africa.
“FATHER” STUART’S MEMORY HONORED AT
TWO FUNERALS.
Chinese Congregations Formed by Missionary Who Served 45 Years in
This Country Gather for Last Rites.
The following is clipped from The China
Press :
Hangchow, November 27. — The Engl sh
funeral service for the remains of Rev. J. L
Stuart, D. D. took place yesterday afternoon
in the residence which had been his home
for nearly four decades. The service was
conducted by Rev. R. J. McMullen of the
Southern Presbyterian Mission and Rev. F.
W. Rible of the Northern Presbyterian Mis-
s'on with the assistance of Rev. W. H. War-
ren of the China Inland Mission, Dr. C. F
Stranee of the Church Missionary Society,
and Dr. J. W. Davis of Soochow, for many
years a colleague of the deceased in the
Southern Presbyterian Mission.
Mrs. E. E. Barnett sang “Sleep On Be-
loved.” The entire foreign commun ty and
a large number of visiting friends were in
attendance.
This morning the Chinese funeral service
was held in the presence of a large and
gr ef stricken congregation composed for
the most part of Christians of tne many
churches in and around Hangchow of which
Dr. Stuart had been founder and for many
years the spiritual father. The service was
conducted by Pastors Sang and Dzen wnose
association with Dr. Stuart beginning n
their boyhood had extended over 35 years.
~ This afternoon a large concourse of friends
notwithstanding wet stormy weather es-
corted the body to its final resting place in
the hills beyond West Lake. The final ser-
vice at the grave was conducted by Dr. P.
F. Price of Nanking. The new made grave
was banked high with the many beautiful
floral tributes which loving fr'ends pro-
vided,
Forty-Five Years in China.
The death of Dr. Stuart, on Monday after-
noon removed from active service one of the
pioneers of the Christian Movement in this
part of China. Dr. Stuart and two others
were the first miss onaries sent out by the
Southern Presbyterian church to any for-
eign fie'd. He spent forty-five years as a
missionary in China, the whole period prac-
tically being spent in Hangchow
Remarkable changes in every realm nave
taken place in the period compassed by his
residence in Hangchow. His first voyage to
Ch'na began at New York as there were
then no transcontinental railroads connect-
ing the two coasts of America. He lived to
see not only the American continent girdled
back and forth by great trunk lines but a
modern railroad connecting his adopted city
of Hangchow w th Shanghai and the outside
world.
The site upon which he established the
work of his mission was on'y a stone’s throw
from the Provincial Examination Halls; he
lived to see built upon their foundat'ons a
modern Normal College with an enrollment
of almost a thousand students. When he
first reached Hangchow he found a city
desolated by the recent ravages of the Taip-
ing Rebels and the country still under the
unenlightened rule of the dynasty against
which the Taiping Rebell'on was a mad pro-
test.
One of his last public services was to ex-
tend to the representatives of the new Re-
public at the Amer’can Recognition Dinner
the congratulations and good wishes of the
American residents of Hangchow.
At the time of his arrival in China the
first beginnings of missionary work in this
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city were yet to be made. Dr. Stuart was
one of a group of two or three men, of
whom he was the last to survive, who, hu-
manly speaking, laid the foundations of the
Christian Church in this region. He lived
to see and to share in the development of a
strong, aggressive, and united church carry-
ing on a broad and effective work througn-
out the whole province.
Kept Abreast of the Times.
Notwithstanding the many great changes
witnessed during his long period of service
Dr. Stuart always kept step with the times.
A sympathetic insight, a sound and impar-
tial judgment, a ripe experience, a fresh out-
look, most of all a largeness of soul which
lifted him above the limitations of most
men, enabled him to harmonize in nis nfa
and influence the hest of the past and of the
present.
To the end one of the strongest construc-
tive forces in his own mission, there was
no man in Hangchow who more truly be-
longed to all missions. Throughout his life
engaged for the most part in the work of an
evangelist, his sympathy and support was
extended to every kind of Christian work
and there is no form of missionary enter-
prise in Hangchow which does not bear the
deep impress of his influence.
In every important enterprise, especially
those of a union nature, all instinctively
A MEMORIAL CHAPEL
Mrs. H. C.
BP>LESSED are the dead which
die in the Lord, from hence-
forth! Yea, saith the Spirit,
that they may rest from their
labours, and their works do follow
them.” The news has just come from
Hangchow that Dr. J. L. Stuart, Sr.,
has entered into rest. About 40 years
ago, he with Mr. DuBose came to Soo-
chow and rented a Chinese house for
a chapel, the first one opened in this
great city for daily preaching of the
Gospel.
Every afternoon as soon as the
doors of the chapel were opened the
crowds flocked in, all wanting to hear
what strange doctrine these foreigners,
dressed in a strange fashion, had to
discuss. For ages Chinese have been
turned to him for counsel and leadership.
He was a strong and consistent believer in
union m ssionary effort, not solely because
such a policy makes for economy and effi-
ciency but rather because to his broad gen-
erous spirit it seemed the right and natural
thing for brothers to work together in unity
and harmony.
The life of Dr. Stuart strikingly illustrated
the power of personal character. To the
casual, acquaintance his most marked trait
was modesty. He was never aggressive in
pressing his views on others. Although of
strong, clear-cut convictions he never lost
patence with those who differed from him
while he always held himself open to new-
light. Men constantly came to him for coun-
sel and advice. They wrere always sure of
a disinterested and sympathetic hearing.
Chinese and foreigners of all the missions
pa d to him a homage w'hich combined con
fidsnce and respect with genuine love. In
the little amenities of ordinary intercourse
as wrell as in the larger issues of mission
work and policy he show-ed an unfail ng
considerateness. It is significant that tne
accepted leader in all missionary enter-
prises in Hangchow was generally spoken
to and of as "Father” Stuart. Men sought
bis counsel and leadership because they re-
spected him, trusted him, loved him and be-
cause they recognized in him a man of
God.
TO DR. H. C. DUBOSE.
DuBose.
accustomed to hearing speakers stand
up in the tea shops and deliver eloquent
addresses on history or some book, but
these two foreign men, told of one trod
who created the heavens, earth and all
things. The people knew of the sun
god, the kitchen god, the moon god.
the god of riches and unnumbered little
gods, which were supposed to control
the thunder, lightning, fire, sword,
famine, etc., but this one living God.
and one Mediator they had never heard
of.
This first chapel was used for daily
preaching during the following six
years, then was exchanged for a large
tea shop directly opposite on this same
busy street. The reputation of this
place as a tea shop was great, not only
Children of the Missionaries at Soochow.
in the city but had extended far out
into the surrounding country, now that
it was leased as a hull for preaching the
Gospel, its reputation was increased a
hundred fold. A w hole generation has
passed away since that time. The old
landlord, the first Christians who
joined the church, have all gone to
their reward, while younger men and
women have taken their places. The
"glad tidings” has spread from this
place to the country where eight or ten
village churches have sprung up. This
tea shop, when leased was not torn
down and rebuilt as a church, but was
only remodeled at very small expense,
by opening a few windows, and putting
in benches for the use of the congrega-
tion and a small stand for the pulpit.
The fresh whitewash on the walls and
the new paint on all the wood work
made the whole building very attrac-
tive to the passers ~y. But the wear
and tear of wind and rain, heat and
cold and the coming and going of daily
congregations, during these forty years
has told on the building till now it
shows its age. People wonder why
such handsome buildings are put up by
the Southern Presbyterian Mission for
hospitals, schools, etc., while this build-
ing. in which so many thousands from
all over the empire have heard the
Gospel, in which so many souls have
been born into the kingdom of God
is still left standing as it did forty
years ago, with no repairs and no new
dress to make it abi'east of the times.
The native pastor of this church is
a gentleman from the literary class.
About thirty years ago he heard Mr.
DuBose preaching in this chapel, his
attention was arrested, he came again
and again. He could not get away
from the thought of what came after
death; finally he came to Christ here,
was taught theology here, and has been
preaching here ever since. Recently
he was oi’dained, and is now the pas-
tor. Had Mr. DuBose been instru-
mental in doing nothing else during
his forty years in China, this one soul
brought to Christ, would be well worth
all the expense and the labor, for he
stands daily in this chapel and as “an
ambassador for Christ,” pleads with
men in Chirst’s stead to become recon-
ciled to God.
This chapel should be pulled down
and rebuilt : first, because the pastor
will not feel like apologizing to his
well dressed hearer's for the appearance
of the chapel if it is built new as a
church: second, because there is a large
ti'act of land connected with this chapel
so that a large church could easily be
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erected on this site; third, because so
many new churches, put up with for-
eign money, and after the style of the
home churches have been erected by
other denominations, and the compar-
ison reflects on the generosity of
the Southern Presbyterian Missions;
fourth, because many new public build-
ings have been erected as postollices
and other buildings by the government,
which makes this chapel look more old
than it otherwise would ; fifth, the main
“A BLESSING TO
THE past week’s visit from Mr.
and Mrs. Bailey has been a great
blessing not only to the lepers,
but to all the missionaries of our
station. While they were here we de-
cided to enlarge our present plant to
accommodate 100 lepers instead of the
present 40, and to build a separate
home for the women. Saturday night
we had special prayer that God would
guide us in the matter of selecting a
site for the woman’s home and Monday
night we closed the contract for the
purchase of two Korean buildings and
a beautiful hill adjoining, after which
we had a season of prayer thanking
God for hearing our prayer. We will
move all our leper women to these
Korean buildings and fill the present
women’s quarters with men, which will
mean taking about thirty or more of
the poor sufferers out of the present
cold weather into a comfortable home
and under the influence of the Gospel.
Just a year ago we had the opening
and dedication exercises of our leper
home so last Saturday we had a re-
ception welcoming Air. and Mrs.
Bailey. The exercises were enjoyed
by all. Mr. Bailey made an address
and one of the lepers responded. Mr.
Bell baptized one leper and received
33 into the catechumen class; these 33
stood a very fine examination. After
this we had some special songs from
classes of the girls’ and boys’ schools,
and finally three of the lepers came
reason why this old time honored build-
ing should be replaced by a new one is
that it may attract men and women to
come in and sit quietly and listen to
the message of salvation. Many
changes have come to this city for the
bettering of its condition during these
forty years, and it is to be hoped that
very soon the funds will be forthcom-
ing to rebuild this church on the Yang-
oh- Hang street of Soochow.
Soochow , November 27, 1913.
BE A LEPER.”
out dressed as beggars and gave a
demonstration of how thev had earned
their living before, which wTas a very
great contrast to their present appear-
ance. This, in a way, proved to be an
unnecessary part of the program for
as we all left the place we met three
beggar lepers outside the compound,
all in rags, with their faces in the dust
pleading for help. Lepers usually
make their living by going to the
market places and oowing before
every merchant and begging until he
responds with a cash. This often
takes quite a time, but he will stay
by and finally rub his ulcers on the
man’s goods or his person as a final
resort to force him to make the contri-
bution. Though these merchants give
a good deal toward the lepers it is not
out of love but from force, and there
is more • of a feeling of hatred than
love toward them.
We gave the lepers a little calf last
spring and they had raised it to a good
size steer. It auorded them much
pleasure as a pet. Before the arrival
of the Baileys the lepers said to please
let them kill the fatted calf in honor of
the Baileys’ arrival. So thev killed
and ate the calf, but as yet 1 have not
been able to figure out how this was
an honor to the Baileys when they
never once saw the animal.
During the examination of the cate-
chumen one man was asked if lie was
happy. He replied that, “I consider
An old tile kiln where we kept the first leper patient four and a half years ago. Dr
Forsythe found her out by the roadside almost dead and brought her In. We had no
place for her, so fixed up this kiln nice and warm, and there she was fed and taught the
gospel until her death some weeks later. She came with worn and bleeding feet, and
was a sad picture to behold, but we felt t hat she understood the plan of salvation and
was a saved person.
it a blessing that I am a leper since
for this reason I have come under the
influence of the Gospel and learned
Vfter the woman in the kiln died a collection
was taken from among the . missionaries of
the station, and this three-room building
was put up and five or six lepers have been
cared for there until our present leper home
was finished.
that Christ died for me.” Mr. Bailey
was telling us of a man who was try-
ing to console a poor blind leper who
looked most miseraule. The leper
said, "I do not need your sympathy for
not a pain have I suffered in mind or
body since nineteen years ago when I
first learned to know and love Christ.”
Now we are going to let the leper
women live in these little thatch straw
buildings for two years and by that
time we hope to have plenty money to
build them a nice home. Fifty dollars
will build a nice room to accommode 3
lepers.
‘'This disease from heaven,” Koreans
say, and think it a mistake to try to
cure it.
Kwangju, Korea.
A bird’s eye of our present leper liome given by the missionaries to lepers in India and
the East, and here we have 50 of the poor sufferers; 1 well, 2 wash house, 3 rooms where
they die, or, as the lepers call it, ‘the soul house”; 4 superintendent’s home, 5 men’s side
of the main building, 5 women’s side, 7 women’s ‘‘soul house,” 8 chapel in center of main
building.
THE GIRLS’ INDUSTRIAL
THIS school is a monument to the faith
and patience of its founder, Miss An-
nie H. Dowd. Her wish is that in any
account given of the work her name should
not be mentioned, but this is impossible.
Many of our people have heard of this work
and are ask'ng to be told about it. The
only way to give them the information
which they desire and which they ought to
have is by quoting from a letter recently re-
ceived from Miss Dowd, in which she an-
swers the two questions asked concern ng
the school: “What are you doing, and how
are you doing it?”
In answer to the first question, Miss Dowd
writes:
“We are trying to know, and to do God’s
will concerning the poor girls that He, in a
most marked Provident'al way, sent to us.
We are trying to solve the problem that
Christian workers in every city at home are
doing, namely, how can we help poor girls
to escape the temptations that they have
neither the power to understand nor to es-
cape? How can they be prepared for Chris-
tian usefulness? How can they be prepared
to do their part in building Christian homes?
We believe that God will prepare them for
this work, through the home for them that
He has given us.”
In reply to the question, “How are you
doing it?” Miss Dowd writes:
“God is doing it, by taking them out of
their surroundings and placing them In this
SCHOOL, KOCHI, JAPAN.
Christian home, a home where every teach-
er, foreign and Japanese, has consecrated
her life to Christ. These teachers teach
them the Bible, morning, noon and night.
God lias pronv'sed and does bless the prayer-
ful, faithful teaching of His Word. For
their mental training, they have the Japa-
nese public school course in reaumg, writ-
ing, arithmetic, geography and history. In-
stead of their ethics, we have the Bible and
singing. Instead of the sciences, we teach
them Japanese dress-making, hymn playing
and note reading. Each girl has two hours
a day with her literary teacher and the
evenings for study. Domestic science is
practically taught by requiring each one to
do her part of the cooking and house clean-
ing; one set cooking today, and house clean-
ing tomorrow. EVery girl does her own sew-
ing and laundrying. No servant of any kind
is employed, and the food, clothes and house
furnishings are all simple and plain. We
are trying to prepare them to become effi-
cient and happy wives of poor men. To
form industrious habits, and to instil proper
self-respect, that is ashamed to accept with-
out proper return. We require each one to
do enough embroidery, drawn work, paint-
ing or machine work to pay for her food.
We feel that it is most important for each
one, even while a child, to do honest, faith-
ful work.
“The hours for the day are, rising fifteen
minutes before six, house cleaning, break-
Miss Dowd's School at Kochi. Class Room.
fast, etc., are all completed, and the opening
exercises of the day, consisting of prayer,
Bible, singing, begin at fifteen minutes of
seven. At seven-thirty, work begins. From
that time until the noon meal, some are em-
broidering, some at classes, some at organ,
and some hating Japanese sewing lessons.
From one to two-thirty, the same. At this
time, two-thirty, all have a Bible lesson.
From three to three-thirty, calisthenics.
From this time until five, the work, organ
lessons, etc., continues. At five all have
note singing. The evening meal at five-
thirty, and the evening worship at six.
From six-thirty to eight-thirty is study
hour, some having Japanese sewing, others
books. Lights out at nine.
On Sunday they have classes in catechism
before going to church. After dinner they
have Sunday School in the house. Other lit-
tle girls come in, the older Christian ones
teaching some of the classes. We have 85
at this meeting. After this is the quiet hour.
At four o’clock we assemble in the one
room that is work room, chapel and all, for
hymn singing. The evening services are
held in this same room.
“This is what we, out here, are trying to
do, but it is only half and a small part of
the half of “how are you doing it?” The la-
dies at home are praying and working for
and with us. They are disposing of the
girls’ work, so that we can take in those
that God sends. Some one lady or society
will take one girl as her own, praying for
and receiving goods to the amount of her
food cost, and sending it to us yearly. We
believe in the prayers of these friends, and
are sure that much of the work is due to
them. If you could only know what the
girls are saved from, if you could know the
conditions of poor girls in all lands where
Christ is not known, you would realize the
great necessity of a home like this. As far
as I know, this is the only school of this
kind in Japan. There is only one regular
girls’ school on this island, and that is a
Congregational one, some miles from us.
Needs of the Home.
First, we need equipment. We are crowd-
ed for land and house room. The girls
should not be crowded as they are. We need
a gymnasium. Working as they do, they
should have more playground and attrac-
tions in the gymnasium room. They need
laundry equipment, a mangle. They need a
good kitchen equipment. The kitchen is an
old woodshed. We have never had enough
room to have a room to invite the callers
into, nor a room to separate sick girls from
the others.
“We need ladies who will take all of the
work, sending it out or disposing of it as
they see best. If we, out here, could be re-
lieved of the financial responsibility, we
could do more of direct personal work with
the girls and parents. Or, we need a secre-
tary who will feel called to do all of the
correspondence, bookkeeping, etc. We need
more ladies to take more work to dispose of,
as we have more than we have sale for. I
am sure that you will pray and do all tnat
you can for these poor girls.”
In September, 1911, Miss Estelle Lumpkin
went out to assist Miss Dowd, and they are
now associated in the work. The annual re-
Miss Dowd’s School at Kochi. The Kitchen. This was formerly the woodshed, and owing to
lack of room only the cooking can be done there; the food is prepared outside.
port of last year states that 48 girls were in
attendance at the school, every one of whom
confessed their faith in Christ during the
year. About two years ago Mrs. P. H.
Eager of Clinton, Miss., wrote the little book,
“That Little Pongee Gown,” which has had
quite a wide circulation, and the proceeds of
the sale of which, amounting to over $1,200,
were applied to the erection of the building
in which the school is now conducted.
Anyone wishing special information in re-
gard to the work of the school should cor-
respond directly with Miss Annie n. Dowd,
Kochi, Japan, who will be glad to answer
any inquiries in regard to it.
NEWS FROM EAST BRAZIL.
Rev. H. S. Aelyn.
I HAVE been intending for a long
time to write something for the
Missionary Survey, but have kept
delaying as I have been very busy
with the business of the Instituto Evan-
geleo, and recently have had a great
deal of practice. Last night I was
called to this farm, 16 miles fro
Lavras, to see a man whom I have
been treating for three weeKS, and who
was taken very much worse. I made
the trip at night in the rain over the
mountains by a bridle path. At times
it was necessary to get olf the horse
and light a match to find the path. I
arrived at 10:30 and found the man so
weak that T did not expect he would
live till morning, but at this time —
noon — he is still living and conscious,
though he cannot live long.
He and his whole familv are very
ardent catholics. The messenger who
called me also called the vicar at L<av-
ras, in whose field the man lives. He
was not at home but at a place 6 miles
from here. There were two others in
town but neither would come.
This morning they sent to a town 8
miles away, calling another. This
town is in another parish and the priest
answered that he could not come as
the vicar of Lavras had prohibited him
from performing any ecclerical func-
tions in this parish on pain of com-
plaint to the bishop; as a proof, he
sent the vicar’s letter. In this letter
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the vicar said that he had learned that
he had said mass in a village near here
and he ordered him to not repeat it.
Further he said that he learned that
he pretended performing a marriage
in this parish and that he forbade him
to do it, and that if he did he would
report him to the bishop. But even
if he did persist his act would not be
legal, etc.
I was allowed to read both letters,
but could not copy them. I improved
the opportunity to impress on them
that a religion which taught that 1
man’s salvation depended upon confes-
sion to a priest, could not be a true re-
ligion, if the rivalry between two of
them prevented his confession, and
hence according to their belief — his
salvation.
Since I began this, the vicar, the first
one called, has arrived and is now ad-
ministering the sacrament.
Such incidents as this, do more good
to our cause than many sermons.
The friend of the family, who is in
charge, and who showed me the letters
is one of the most devoted Catholics
I know. It is said that he never misses
an opportunity to hear mass, and that
he confesses most regularly. Six years
ago I was called to his home to attend
a daughter, as I was the only doctor
that they could get. Since then I have
treated several members of his family,
and within the past month I have been
called to his home three times to see a
son upon whom I operated. During
these visits I have had opportunities
to explain our religion, and now with
this practical illustration of the ineffi-
ciency of his I hope he may be con-
vinced that there is no need of having
a man as intercessor between God and
other men.
Later: the patient died and I went
on eight miles to see another patient
whom I am treating for consumption,
and spent the night. The next day 1
started for home at 5:30, but made
several visits on the way and only
reached home at G:30 P. M., after rid-
ing 35 miles on horseback.
December 1. — Today the school nere
will close. F our young men are com-
pleting the gymnasial course, one of
whom will enter the seminai*y at Cam-
pines next year.
The minister who came to preach the
sermon is an ex-Salesian priest, an
Italian, and is a very able and eloquent
preacher. His conversion resulted
from his study of the Bible, when he
was appointed by his Superior to pre-
pare an article to refute an article Dr.
Butler had published in one of the
Pernambuco papers. The article was
never written. His historv is very in-
teresting and I hope some day to tell
you about it.
Dn the 3rd inst., I am going to Bom
Succisso to attend the closing exercises
of Mrs. Armstrong’s and Miss Lee’s
school. All the circle are well and
happy in the anticipation of three
months' vacation from school work.
Lavras . Brazil.
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Foreign Missions of the United States will is-
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number will appear in March 1914 and will
contain the plan, constitution, etc. of the Fed-
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Summer Schools; letters from the Federa-
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Montgomery, now on a trip around the
world; besides other interesting features.
Price of Bulletin, 25 cents a year. Please
send subscriptions early to M. H. Leavis,
Agent, West Medford, Mass.
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MY AMBITION.
Josefina Villarreal.
I REMEMBER as well as if it were
today when I first entered school,
the great desire I had to become
a teacher. I tried to make the best
of every opportunity and at last, to my
great pleasure, I was given a position
of teaching in the Presbyterian school
at Matamoros, and helped in the church
work. The first four years of my teach-
ing, Miss A. E. Dvsart was the prin-
cipal, she was succeeded by Miss Alice
J. McClelland, whom I have aided the
past three years. While I was teach-
ing I had a great desire to get a better
education and to develop mv mind,
both spiritually and morally. I would
often find myself repeating these
words, “Oh ! if I could only get an op-
portunity to attend a good college.”
Very often I talked to Miss McClel-
land and told her my great desire to
attend Daniel Baker College.
I was anxious to attend this college
for I had read about it and about the
spirit of all this institution, but what
encouraged me more than anything
else was that Miss McClelland, my dear
principal, was a graduate of this in-
stitution.
The reason that I have such a great
desire to get a better education is, that
I have a heartfelt sympathy with the
condition of my Mother Country, Mex-
ico, and wish to aid in every possible
way to bring her to Christ. Will this
work be very hard to accomplish? I
have meditated lonir upon this ques-
tion, T know that this is a great work
to undertake, and I feel that it is our
duty to lead the way. I doubt, if the
greater part of the world realizes the
present condition of my dear country.
Mexico.
I cannot state clearly the cause of
such a crisis, but T do know that if tin*
high spirit of Christianity reigned
there, that there would not be so much
strife and bloodshed, but instead there
would be peace, joy, co-operation and
progress.
At the present time I have the great
privilege of being in Daniel Baker Col-
lege. I find that the spirit of this in-
stitution is even greater than what 1
read and heard about it, and a great
many opportunities to accomplish my
purpose while I am here. While here
I do not intend to forget my country
and the object of my coming.
Christ said : “The harvest is great,
but the laborers are few ; pray ye there-
fore the Lord of the harvest, that he
will send forth laborers into his field.”
Feeling that this applies to my coun-
try, I have a. burning desire to obey
His word, and go into the field to win
souls for Christ, and this ever be my
motto: “Mexico for Christ.”
Brownwood , Texas. \
Josefina Villarreal. Brownsville, Texas.
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SAN BENITO, TEXAS.
Miss Anne E. Dysart.
THE first picture is the church,
which was built January, 1912,
so we are just two years old.
Work was begun some time be-
fore but regular services were begun
September, 1911, in the public school
building. We have had our usual trials
with elders and church members, but
taken all in all, we have looked over
these trials and beyond them and have
felt encouraged every Sunday when a
good congregation was present and
listened attentively. We have been
much encouraged by the large number
of Bibles sold, and by the study of the
Bible. We have been encouraged to
see how eager the people are to learn to
sing, and the large number of hymn
books bought. One family of men
who live on a large plantation some
four miles from town walk in every
Sunday and spend the day. They have
bought a number of Bibles and want
other books to study that will help
them understand.
The San Benito Land and \Y ater
Company gave us the two lots for the
church: nearly all the money ($807,001
was given by my friends, manv of
them not Presbyterians.
The second picture is the school, and
is in the church yard. This was built
on faith, but is being paid for. by de-
grees; a friend sent $50.00 this Christ-
mas, and another $5.00. and an un-
known friend. $10.00. "We had 75 pu-
pils enrolled last year, and already
now have in as many as last year. Our
seating capacity is only forty. The
Catholic church has taken on new life
since we came. There was no resident
priest here, now there are two Jesuit
priests here, and very active, especially
in trying to keep the people from send-
ing their children to my school. Both
of the priests have made me a visit,
and talked over all dogmas of the Cath-
olic church. One said, he was ashamed
to say he was a Jesuit. I said, I am
not ashamed to say that I am a Pro-
testant. He said, “but you think of
all kinds of dreadful things as soon as
you know I am a Jesuit.” “Yes,” I
said “I always think of the inquisi-
tion.” The first that visited me asked
me to stop teaching and to stop work
here. I told him that he forgot that
we lived in a free country. We teach
the Bible in school and sing our hymns.
We find more opposition here than in
Matamoros, and the people here at-
tend the Catholic church more.
We have two Spanish families who
attend our services, which is very rare.
It is the first time that I have ever
seen a Spaniard interested in the Bible.
We have three services on Sunday and
one on Wednesday night. "When the
weather is good we have the house well
filled.
■ A large number of men attend this
church, which is rather unusual, as the
men in Mexico are as a rule very in-
different to any religion. The Amer-
ican Presbyterian church of San
Benito have shown a very Christian
spirit toward this work and the Lad-
ies’ aid Society gives me the monthly
offering. The Christian fellowship
shown toward me has made me feel
less the isolation. The Methodist lad-
ies also have shown much interest and
have helped me in many ways.
This third picture is my home, built
with private means, one lot was given
me by the San Benito Land and Water
Company. I was surprised to get a
gift of a lot for myself, but some how
I fell into the good grace of the head
man in the company. These four lots
are on the outskirts of the town, but
it is being built up till we are no longer
alone. The church, school and home
keep me busy. There has been no resi-
dent minister, one comes up from
Brownsville everv other Sunclav. We
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ventists. who are trying to get our
church members. They told me that
they did not work in that way, but I
have not heard anything that they
have done except to visit and try to
convert our people. It is certainly un-
fortunate. As you read this and look
on these three buildings, will you not
pray that, it may all be used to extend
the Gospel among the Mexicans, and
that the San Benito church be a church
The Church.
The School.
now have a Methodist minister living
here and he takes the Sunday that
Mr. Ross does not come. With water,
one can soon have a beautiful yard.
Any thing grows here if you water it;
and as it grows all the year we soon
have plenty of flowers and trees. The
home was built September, 1912, a lit-
tle over a year old. We have a new
trial in the form of Seven Dav Ad-
The Home.
rich in knowledge of the Bible and
filled with the Holy Spirit.
A PRAYER.
LORD GOD, who wilt have all
men to be saved and come to
the knowledge of the truth,
grant that Thy whole church
may readily obey the command of Thy
Son, Jesus Christ, to go and teach all
nations, so that the Gospel of Thy
grace may be known to the uttermost
parts of the earth, and the way be made
ready for the coming of the King.
Speedily fulfill Thy purposes concern-
ing Jew and Gentile. Take away
blindness from Thine ancient people,
and cause them to see Jesus Christ
their Savior. Hasten the day when all
Israel shall be saved, and when the ful-
ness of the Gentiles shall be brought
in. These things we ask in the name
of Him who was given to be a light to
lighten the Gentiles and the glory of
Thy people Israel, Jesus Christ our
Lord. Amen.
Inter-
denomination
Summer Confere
Every c/mr/i
siiou/d be
represen fed
alone of file
conferences
Missionary Education
Movement
L5<3 fifth A vc NewTorK
SUMMER CONFERENCES FOR 1914.
Locations and dates of the Interdenomi-
national Summer Conferences, under the
auspices of the Missionary Education Move-
ment, are announced for 1914, as follows:
Blue Ridge, North Carolina, June 26-
July 5.
Pac'fic Grove, California, July 3-12.
Silver Bay, Lake George, N. Y., July
10-19.
Estes Park, Colorado, July 17-26.
Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, Aug. 4-13.
In addition to these five conferences in
the United States there will be six confer-
ences held in various parts of Canada. As
will be noted by the accompanying map,
these conferences or summer training
schools are so distributed as to reach prac-
tically every large center in the United
States and Canada.
Importance.
Pastors and church officers are find ng
these gatherings of increasing value every
year as training schools for leaders in
church work. Many pastors can join in the
testimony of one minister that “Representa-
tion at these summer conferences has trans-
formed the life of my church.”
Program.
The program for the conferences is care-
fully constructed with a view to deepening
the spiritual life of the delegates and train-
ing them for leadership in the United Mis-
sionary Educational Campaign which nearly
all mission boards have agreed upon for
1914-15.
Mission Study Classes.
For the first session each day the confer-
ence divides into a dozen or more mission
study classes under expert leadership. The
purpose of these classes is to train the mem-
bers for leadership of similar classes in their
churches during the ensuing year.
One series of classes is devoted to the sub-
ject of Graded Missionary Instruction in the
Sunday School.
Open Parliaments.
Following the mission study classes each
day comes a series of open parliaments or
institutes w'here on succeeding days prac-
tically all phases of missionary work are
discussed by the best available experts in
each department of work.
Platform Meetings.
The closing hour of each day will be given
to a platform service addressed by well-
known missionary or other religious leaders.
The last portion of this hour at noonday is
reserved as a period of intercessory prayer.
Recreation.
The afternoon at all of the conferences are
reserved exclusively for recreation. At each
of the conferences there are special facilities
for tramps, athletics, excursions and other
recreative features.
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Vesper Services.
The evenings are occupied with vesper
services or platform meetings, addressed by
representative missionaries from various
fields and by other speakers of recognized
authority on social, missionary and general
religious problems and themes.
Denominational Meetings.
Following the vesper services the dele-
gates meet by denominations under the
leadership of their denominational secre-
taries, to outline in more definite form the
work of their churches for the ensuing year.
Missionary Exposition Scenes.
Other incidental features such as a model
missionary exposition scene, miss'onary de-
monstrations and special classes for young
people under twenty years of age, combine
to make these conferences of great interest
and value to all classes and types of work-
ers.
Arrangements are also made for confer-
ences of specialists on various subjects to
meet for as long a period each morning as
may be desired.
Faculty.
It is impracticable at this time to give an
accurate list of the various speakers, mis-
sionaries and leaders who will be present at
the conferences, but as in previous sum-
mers the faculty will consist of the foremost
teachers and leaders in missionary educa-
tion as well as secretaries representing all
the leading home and foreign mission
boards and other platform speakers of na-
tional and international reputation.
Who Should Attend.
The pastor and at least one other repre-
sentative of every church should be in at-
tendance at these conferences. It is espec-
ially important that State, District and
Metropolitan leaders attend for the purpose
of getting in touch with local readers and
with the educational plans of the mission
boards for 1914-15.
Sunday-School superintendents and teach-
ers, chairmen and members of church com-
mittees and representative laymen will find
these conferences' an ideal combination of
summer vacation and recreation with prac-
tical preparation for larger usefulness.
Additional information concerning any of
the above conferences may be had by ad-
dressing the Missionary Education Move-
ment, 156 Fifth Avenue, New York City.
GRADUATING EXERCISES OF THE PRESBYTERIAN
INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL FOR GIRLS.
Matamoros, Mexico.
( Translated from uEl Faro” Organ of the Synod of Mexico .)
OX THE night of October first,
there took place in the parlors
of the Matamoros Girls’ School,
an exercise of very great inter-
est to all those who are working for
the education of the youth of Mexico;
for it was the graduation of three
young ladies. Although the number
was small, the program was carried out
in such a dignified way as to thrill us
with joy and hope. This entertainment
should have been held before the sum-
mer vacation, but because a battle was
imminent from the first of May the
school year could not be finished. But
on opening again in September the
three graduates came back and finished
their course.
With a good number of the members
of the church and other friends of the
institution gathered in the hall, the
program was opened with a prayer by
the pastor, Rev. Carmen A. Gutierrez,
which seemed to profoundly impress
the unconverted in the audience. Dur-
ing the evening a number of the girls
sang three choruses in English.
The graduates dressed in beautiful
white dresses that they had made in
the Domestic Science Department,
read their essays and were very much
appplauded. That of Miss Soledad
Galvan on ‘‘The Advantages of the
Christian Religion,” was especially
fine.
The awarding of the diplomas was
very impressive. The whole congre-
gation stood while Rev. W. A. Ross in
his characteristic words of affection
and in the name of the Faculty, the
Three Graduates from the Girls' School at Mitamoros. Modest, Ambitious, Capable Young
Women.
Presbytery and the Mission congratu-
lated each one of the graduates and de-
livered her diploma.
After this Col. Alejandro MacKin-
ney. a member of the staff of Gen.
Lucio Blanco, stationed at Matamoros
at this time, was introduced and made
an address, speaking in the highest
NOTES FROM
Mrs. W.
WE ARE feeling rather dis-
couraged over the dreadful
conditions in our field in Mex-
ico. The work is practically
at a standstill, except the border work
and the girls’ school in Matamoros.
The Constitutionalists have favored
us, and the school goes on unmolested.
terms of Christian education, and
graciouslv giving wise advise to the
young ladies who were just entering
upon the practical duties of life; and
he most heartily praised Miss Alice J.
McClelland and her co-laborers for the
success that had crowned their years of
work.
THE BORDER.
A. Ross.
Miss McClelland has recently secured
one of the Friends’ Missionaries as
matron of the school.
They were all forced to leave Vic-
toria after the battle: conditions there
were so dreadful. Our native minister
is still there, but he writes the church
is practically broken up. and he is
Photo by Robert Runyon. Family of Rev. Leandro Gaza Mora, Brownsville, Texas.
quite anxious to come over on the bor-
der.
Don Leandro Garza Mora had a
very trying experience some weeks ago,
while he was passing through Laredo
bringing his family to Texas. He was
arrested by the rederals, imprisoned
and condemned to be shot, but his
daughter, fortunately, remembered that
he was an American citizen, so she ap-
pealed to our consul there and he was
released.
We wish you or Dr. Smith could
come over to our mission meeting, the
latter part of the month.
The American consul of Matamoros
is arranging to bring Messrs. Sheloy
and Morrow out of Mexico.
Miss Esther Amaya and Mexico Mission School, Harlingen, Texas.
Forrif/n
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237
DO YOU KNOW?
1. — The situation in Mexico?
2. — AY here in the Orient a Board of
Foreign Missions is established ? What
call has it issued?
3. — What seems to he breaking the
Caste System in India?
4. — What has apparently increased
the spirituality of the church at xuata-
moros ?
5. — Some evidences that the Holy
Spirit is working in Mexico?
6. — Any good reasons why some
capable young woman should volunteer
for work in Mexico ?
7. — What is the “native nail” in the
Congo ?
8. — Where there is the greatest var-
iety of meat — from the ant to the ele-
phant?
9. — Some of the hardships of being
sick in Africa? Whose fault is it?
10. — Of the passing of a patriarch in
China ?
11. — Why did one man cinsider it a
"blessing to be a leper?”
SENIOR PROGRAM
Arranged by Miss
Topic — Mexico.
Solo — The Ninety and Nine
Prayer — That war will soon cease in Mexico,
and that peace and prosperity will
prevail.
That God would use the wrath of
man to praise Him.
Scripture reading — Luke 16:1-13.
Hymn — Hark the Voice of Jesus Calling.
Minutes.
Roll Call — Answrer with a missionary fact
about Mexico.
Business.
Reading — The Abuse of Stewardship.
Topical — Invitation to the Missionary.
Influence of the BiDle.
Opportunities for work.
Pointed paragraphs.
Prayer.
Hymn — Christian Seek not yet Repose.
Close with a chain of prayer.
FOR MARCH, 1914.
M ARGARET McNeILLY.
Suggestions.
For the roll call “pointed paragraphs”
could be used.
The daily papers and secular magazines
are full of articles of interest on Mexico,
and these should be used freely.
Make use of the articles in the current is-
sue of the Survey
“Mexico of Today,” by Winton will fur-
nish excellent material for a more compre-
hensive program.
Remember the missionaries who, in this
season of unrest, have been forced to lay
aside their work.
Pray that at th:s, the close of the fiscal
year, our Church may measure up to her re-
sponsibility, that the Committees may be
free from debt.
FOREIGN MISSION RECEIPTS, JANUARY, 1914.
For Regular Work.
Current Funds $44,692.46
Debt Fund 216.28
Rent from Real Estate 22.50
New Missionary Outfit and Travel 450.00
$45,381.24
For Special Work.
Graybill School $ 31.82
McKowen Memorial Hospital 145.00
Annuity Fund 200.00
Sundries 8.90
Gift for Hospital 5,000.00
Trust Fund 2,000.00
$ 7,385.72
Total receipts $52,766.96
Edwin F. Willis, Treasurer.
Nashville, Tenn., January 31, 1914.
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MISSIONARIES OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, U. S.
AFRICA— CONGO MISSION [37]
lbnnclie. 1S97.
Rev. and Mrs. J. McC. Sieg.
Rev. and Mrs. A. L. Edmiston (c)
Rev. and Mrs. H. M. Washburn.
Luebo. 1891.
Rev. W. M. Morrison.
Rev. and 'Mrs. Motte Martin.
Dr. and *Mrs. L. J. Coppedge.
Rev. and Mrs. L. A. DeYampert
(c).
Miss Maria Fearing (c).
Rev. and Mrs. C. L. Crane.
Mr. T. J. Arnold, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Scott.
Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Stezer.
Miss Elda M. Fair.
Rev. and Mrs. R. F. Cleveland.
Rev. and Mrs. N. G. Stevens.
Mr. W. L. Hillhouse.
Mutoro.
Rev. and Mrs. Geo. T. McKee.
Rev. and Mrs. A. A. Rochester
(c).
Rev. and Mrs. J. W. Allen.
Rev. Plumer Smith.
Lnsamho,
Rev. Rbot. D. Bedinger.
Rev. and Mrs. A. C. McKinnon.
E. BRAZIL MISSION. [151
Lavras 1893.
Rev. and Mrs. S. R. Gammon.
Miss Charlotte Kemper.
Air. and Mrs. A. F. Shaw.
Rev. H. S. Allyn, M. D.
Mrs. H. S. Allyn.
Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Knight.
Mr. and Alrss B. H. Hunnicutt.
Miss R. Caroline Kilgore.
Alto Jeiiuitiba. 1900.
Airs. Kate B. Cowan.
Horn Successo.
Aliss Ruth See.
Airs. D. G. Armstrong.
W. BRAZIL AIISSION. [101
A' tu. 190#.
Rev. and Mrs. Jas. P. Smith.
Krngnnea. 190r.
Rev. and Airs. Gaston Boyle.
Campinas 1809.
Rev. and Mrs. .1. R. Smith.
Itapetinga. 1913
Rev. and Mrs. R. D. Daffin.
Deseal va <lo. 190S.
Rev. and Mrs. Alva Hardie.
N. BRAZIL A1ISSION. [Ill
Garanliuns 1SII5.
Rev. and Airs. G. E Henderlite.
Rev. and Airs. W. Al. Thompson.
Pernambuco. 1873.
•Aliss Eliza M. Reed.
Aliss Alargaret Douglas.
Aliss Edmonia R. Martin
Rev. and Airs. W. C. Porter.
Pa oliot in lio.
Dr. G. W. Butler.
Airs. G. W. Butler.
MID-CHINA AIISSION. [711
Tunghlting. 199-1
Rev. and Airs. .1. Y. McGinnis.
Rev. and Mrs. II. Maxey Smith.
Miss R. Elllnore Lynch.
.Miss Kittle McMullen.
Hangchow. ISfil.
Airs. J. L. Stuart, Sr.
Aliss E. B. French.
Aliss Emma Boardman.
Aliss Alary S. Alathews.
•Rev. and Airs George Hudson.
Aliss Venie J. Lee, M. D.
Rev. and Airs. Warren H. Stuart.
Aliss Annie R. A'. Wilson.
Rev. and Airs. R. J. McAlullen.
Air. and Airs. J. M. Wilson.
Air. S. C Farrior.
Rev. G. W. Painter, Pulaski, Va.
Shangli ai.
Rev. S. I. Woodbridge.
Hashing. 1S95.
Rev. and *Alrs. W. H. Hudson.
Dr. and Airs. W. H. Amenable.
•Rev. and Airs. J. Al. Blain.
Aliss Elizabeth Talbot.
Rev. and Airs. Lowry Davis.
Miss Irene Hawkins.
Dr. and Airs. A. C. Hutcheson.
Aliss Elizabeth Corriher.
Kiangyin. 1S95.
Rev. and Airs. L. I. Moffett.
•Rev. and Mrs. Lacy L. Little.
Dr. and Airs. Geo. C. Worth.
Air. and Mrs. Andrew Allison.
Aliss Rida Jourolman.
Mrs. Anna AlcG. Sykes.
Aliss Ida Al. Albaugh.
Aliss Carrie L. Aloffett.
Miss Alildred Watkins.
Dr. T. R. Crawford.
Nanking.
Rev. and Airs. J. L. Stuart, Jr.
•Dr. and Mrs. R. T. Shields.
Rev. and Mrs. P. F. Price.
Soocliow. 1S72.
Airs. H. C. DuBose.
Rev. .T. W. Davis.
Dr. and Airs. J. R. Wilkinson.
Dr. .T. P. Alooney.
Aliss S. E. Fleming.
Aliss Addie Al. Sloan.
Aliss Gertrude Sloan.
Mrs. AI. P. McCormick.
Rev. and Mrs. P. C. DuBose.
Rev. R. A. Haden.
•Airs. R. A. Haden.
Miss Helen M. Howard
Aliss Millie S. Beard.
Chnngohow. 1912.
Rev. C. H. Smith.
NORTH KIANGSU AIISSION.
[59]
Chinkiang. 1SS3.
Rev. and Mrs. A. Sydenstricker.
Rev. and Airs. J. AV. Paxton.
Rev. and Airs. D. W. Richardson.
Rev. and Airs. J. C. Crenshaw.
Rev. and Mrs. T. L. Harnsberger.
Taicliow, 190N.
Rev. and Airs. C. N. Caldwell.
Ilsnchou-fii. 1897.
Rev. Mark B. Grier.
Mrs. Alark B. Grier, AI. D.
Dr. A. A. McFavden.
Rev. and Airs. Thos. B. Grafton.
Rev. and Airs. Geo. P. Stevens.
Rev. F. A. Brown.
Miss Charlotte Thompson.
Rev. and Airs. O. V. Armstrong.
II wain ii f ii . 19114,
Rev. and Mrs. II. M. Woods.
Aliss Josephine Woods.
Rev. and Airs. O. F. Yates.
Aliss Lillian C. Wells.
Yenelieng. 1909.
Rev. and All s. H. W. White.
Rev. and Airs. C. F. Hancock.
Sutsien. 1893.
Dr. and Airs J. W. Bradley.
Rev. B. C. Patterson.
Airs. B. C. Patterson, Al. D.
•Rev. and Airs. W. F. Junkin.
Air. H. W. AlcCutchan.
Aliss Alada AlcCutchan.
Aliss Al. AI. Johnston.
Aliss B. McRobert.
Tsiiig-kiang-pii. 1887.
Rev. and Airs. J. R. Graham, Jr.
Dr. and Airs. James B. Woods.
•Rev. and Airs. A. A. Talbot.
Aliss Jessie D. Hall.
Aliss Sallie AI. Lacy.
Rev. Lyle M. Moffett.
Miss Nellie Sprunt.
Haiehow. 1908.
Rev. and Airs. .T. W. Vinson.
L. S. Alorgan, M. D.
Airs. L. S. Morgan, M. D.
Rev. and Mrs. A. D. Rice.
CUBA MISSION. [10]
Cardenas. 1899.
Mrs. J. G. Hall.
Miss M. E. Craig.
Mr. and Airs. E. R. Sims.
Caiharien. 1891.
Aliss Edith AlcC. Houston.
Aliss Alary Alexander.
Rev. and Airs. R. L. Wharton.
Placet ns. 1909.
Rev. and Airs. H. F. Beatty.
JAPAN MISSION. [36]
Kobe. 1890.
Rev. and Airs. S. P. Fulton.
Rev. and Airs H. W. Myers.
•Rev. and Mrs.W. McS. Buchanan
Ivoehi. 1885.
Rev. and Airs. W. B. Alcllivaine.
Rev. and Airs H. H. Alunroe.
Aliss Estelle Lumpkin.
Aliss Annie H. Dowd.
Aliss Sala Evans.
Nagoya. 1807.
Rev. and *AIrs. W. C. Buchanan.
Miss Charlotte Thompson.
Aliss Leila G. Kirtland.
Rev. and Airs. R. E. AtcAlpine.
Sasaki. 1S9S.
Rev. and Airs. J. W. Aloore.
Takamatsu. 1898.
Rev. and Airs. G. M. Erickson.
Rev. and Airs. A. P. Hassell.
Aliss AI .7. Atkinson.
Tck nsli I ma 1889.
Rev. and Airs C. A. Logan.
Aliss Lillian W. Cuid.
Rev. and Airs. II. C. Ostrom.
Toyoliashi. 1902.
Rev. and Airs. C. I< Gumming.
. . Okazaki. 1912.
Miss Florence Patton.
Miss Annie V. Ration
KOREAN MISSION. [76'
riiiinjn. 1890
Rev. and Mrs L. B. Tate.
”iss Alattie S Tate.
Dr. and Mrs. T. H. Daniel.
ll»l of
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tev. and Mrs. L O. McCutchen.
liss Sadie Buckland.
tev. and Mrs. W. M. Clark,
lev. and Mrs. W. D. Reynolds.
Uss Susanne A. Colton,
lev. S. D. Winn.
Uss Emily Winn,
liss E. E. Kestler.
•liss Lillian Austin.
>Ir. and Mrs. F. M. Eversole.
Iviiiiniiii. I Slid.
lev. and Mrs. Wm. F. Bull.
>Iiss Julia Dysart.
dlss Anna M. Redinger,
dr. and Mrs. W. A. Venable,
br. and Mrs. J. B. Patterson,
lev. and Mrs. J. K. Parker.
Rev. John MeEaehern.
dr. Wm. A. Linton.
Kwiiiigjii. isns.
ttev. and Mrs. Eugene Bell.
Rev. S. K. Dodson.
Miss Mary L. Dodson.
Mrs. C. C. Owen.
Rev. and Mrs. L. T. Newland.
Miss Ella Graham.
Dr. and Mrs. R. M. Wilson.
Miss Anna McQueen.
Rev. and Mrs. J. V. N. Talmage.
Rev. and Mrs. Robert Knox.
Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Swlnehart.
Mr. William P. Parker.
Miss Elise J. Shepping.
Miss Harriet D. Fitch.
Mokpo. ISOS.
Rev. and Mrs. H. D. McCallie.
Miss Julia Martin.
•Rev. and Mrs. W. B. Harrison.
Rev. and Mrs. J. S. Nlsbet.
Miss Ada McMurphy.
Miss Lillie O. Lathrop.
Rev. and Mrs P. B. Hill.
Dr. and Mrs. R. S. Leadingham.
Soonchun. 1013.
Rev. and Mrs. J. F. Preston.
Rev. and Mrs. R. T. Colt.
Miss Meta L. Blggar.
Miss Lavalette Dupuy.
Miss Anna L. Greer.
Rev. and Mrs. C. H. Pratt.
Dr. and Mrs. H. L. Timmons.
Rev. and Mrs. J. C. Crane.
MEXICO MISSION. [11]
I.InnreN. 1SS7.
Rev. and Mrs. H. L. Ross.
MntnmoroM. 1874.
Miss Alice J. McClelland.
San Ileulto, Texas.
Miss Anne E. Dysart.
Brownsville, Texas.
Rev. and Mrs. W. A. Ross.
Montemorelos. 18S4.
Mr. and 'Mrs. R. C. Morrow.
C. Victoria. 1SS0.
Miss E. V. Lee.
Tula. 1012.
Rev. and ‘Mrs. J. O. Shelby.
UNASSIGNED LIST. [3]
Africa.
Rev. T. C. Vinson.
Rev. S. H. Wilds.
Japan.
Rev. L. C. McC. Smythe.
RETIRED LIST. [10]
Brasil.
Mrs. F. V. Rodrigues.
Mrs. R. P. Baird.
Cuba.
Miss Janet H. Houston.
Rev. and Mrs. J. T. Hall.
Japan.
Miss C. E. Stirling.
Mrs. L. R. Price.
Korea.
Mrs. W. M. Junkin.
Dr. W. H. Forsythe.
Miss Jean Forsythe.
Missions, 10.
Occupied stations, 53.
Missionaries, 336.
•On furlough, or in United
States. Dates opposite names of
stations indicate year stations
were opened.
For postoffice address, etc., see
next page.
STATIONS, POSTOFFICE ADDRESSES.
AFRICA. — For Ibanche, Luebo, Mutoto, and Lusambo — "Luebo, Congo Beige, Africa, via
Antwerp." care A. P. C. Mission.
E. BRAZIL. — For Lavras — "Lavras, Estado de Minas Geraes. Brazil.” Bom Successo, Estado
de Minas Geraes, Brazil. For Alto Jequitiba — "Alto Jequitiba, Estado de Minas Geraes, Brazil.”
W. BRAZIL. — For Campinas — "Campinas, Estado de Sao Paulo, Brazil.” Itapetininga, Estado
de Sao Paulo, Brazil. For Descalvado — "Descalvado Estado de Sao Paulo, Brazil.” For Bra-
ganca — "Braganca, Estado de Sao Paulo, Brazil." For Sao Paulo — “Estado de Sao Paulo Brazil.”
For Itu — "Itu, Estado de Sao Paulo. Brazil.”
N. BRAZIL. — For Canhotinho — “Canhotinho, E. de Pernambuco, Brazil.” For Garanhuns —
“Garanhuns, E. de Pernambuco, Brazil." For Natal — "Natal Rio Grande de Norte, Brazil.” For
Pernambuco — “Recife, E. de Pernambuco, Brazil.”
CHINA. — Mid-China Mission. — For Tunghiang — “Care Southern Presbyterian Mission, Tung-
hiang, via Shanghai, China.” For Hangchow“Care Southern Presbyterian Mission, Hangchow,
China.” For Shanghai — "Care Southern Presbyterian Mission, Shanghai, China.” For Hashing
— “Care Southern Presbyterian Mission, Hashing, via Shanghai, China.” For Kiangyin —
"Kiangyin, via Shanghai, China.” For Nanking — “Care Southern Prebyterian Mission, Nan-
king, China.” For Soochow — “Care Southern Presbyterian Mission, Soochow, China.” Chang-
chow. via Shanghai, China — "Care Southern Presbyterian Mission.” North Kiangsu Mission —
For Chinkiang — "Care Southern Presbyterian Mission, Chinkiang, China.” For Taichow — “Care
Southern Presbyterian Mission, Taichow, via Chinkiang China.” For Hsuchou-fu — -"Care South-
ern Presbyterian Mission, Hsuchou-fu, via Chinkiang, China.” For Hwaianfu — -“Care Southern
Presbyterian Mission, Hwaianfu — via Chinkiang, China.” For Suchien — “ Care Southern
Presbyterian Mission. Suchien, via Chinkiang, China.” For Tsing-Kiang Pu — “Care Southern
Presbyterian Mission, Tsing-Kiang-Pu, via Chinkiang, China.” For Haichow — “Care Southern
Presbyterian Mission, Haichow, China.” For Yencheng — “Care Southern Presbyterian Mission,
Yencheng, Kiangsu, China."
CUBA. — For Cardenas — “Cardenas, Cuba.” For Caibarien — “Caibarien, Cuba.” For Cama-
juani — “Camajuani, Cuba." For Placetas — “Placetas, Cuba.”
JAPAN. — For Kobe— “Kobe, Setsu Province, Japan.” For Kochi — “Kochi, Tosa Province,
Japan.” For Nagoya. — “Nagoya, Owari Province, Japan.” For Susaki — “Susaki. Tosca Province,
Japan " For Takamatsu — "Takamatsu, Sanuki Province, Japan.” For Tokushima — “Tokushima,
Awa Province. Japan.” For Toyohashi — "Toyohashi, Mikawa Province, Japan.”
KOREA. — For Chunju — “Chunju, Korea. Asia.” For Kunsan — “Kunsan, Korea. Asia.” For
Kwangju — “Kwangju, Korea, Asia.” For Mokpo — “Mokpo, Korea, Asia.” For Seoul — “Seoul,
Korea. Asia." For Soonchun — "Soonchun, Korea, Asia.”
MEXICO MISSION — For Linares — “Linares. Nuero. Leon, Mexico.” For Matamoros — “Mata-
mcros, Tamaulipas, Mexico." For Montemorelos — "Montemorelos, Nuevo Leon, Mexico.” For
C Victoria — "C. Victoria. Tamaulipas, Mexico.” For Tula — “Tula, Tamaulipas, Mexico.”
Postage on letters from the United States of America to all Foreign Stations (except
those in Mexico and Cuba) is five cents U. S. stamps for the first ounce, and three cents for
each additional ounce or fraction thereof; on printed matter, when properly put up, one cent
for each two ounces or fraction thereof. To Mexico and Cuba the postage on letters is two
cents for each ounce or fraction thereof; on "printed matter,” one cent for each two ounces or
fration thereof.
240
The Missionary Survey
[March, 1914.
Freight sent to members of the North Kingsu Mission must be sent care of Foochong
& Co., Chinkiang, North Kiangsu, China. Parcels sent by mail other than actual samples,
and books must be addressed the same way, and not sent to interior stations. Such parcels must
be accompanied by a statement of contents. The Postoffice will furnish these custom declara-
tions on application.”
Form of Legacy.
“To Executive Committee of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the United States,
Incorporated:
“I give and bequeath to the Executive Committee of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian
Church in the United States (incorporated under the laws of the State of Tennessee) (here
name the amount of the bequest) to be used for the Foreign Mission work fo said Church,
foredeath are safer than legacies.
Legacies of this kind in Mississippi are barred by the Constitution of the State. Gifts be-
which is popularly known as the Southern Presbyterian Church.”
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