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Missions 

Easter,  1924 


SUMMER  MISSIONARY  CONFERENCES 


1924— THE  DATES— 1924 

Hood  College  Frederick,  Md....  July  7  to  July  13 

Rev.  Scott  R.  Wagner,  D.D.,  Hagerstown,  Md.,  Chairman 

Bethany  Park  Indianapolis,  Ind  July  12  to  July  18 

Rev.  F.  W.  Knatz,  Fort  Wayne,  Ind.,  Chairman 

Kiskiminetas  Academy  Saltsburg,  Pa.  July  19  to  July  25 

Rev.  A.  B.  Bauman,  Johnstown,  Pa.,  Chairman 

Heidelberg  University.  Tiffin,  Ohio  .....July  26  to  August  1 

Rev.  R.  W.  Blemker,  Canton,  Ohio,  Chairman 

Theological  Seminary  Lancaster,  Pa.  August  2  to  August  8 

Rev.  John  B.  Noss,  Ephrata,  Pa.,  Chairman 

Ursinus  College  Collegeville,  Pa.  August  11  to  August  17 

Rev.  H.  I.  Stahr,  Bethlehem,  Pa.,  Chairman 

Mission  House  Plymouth,  Wis  August  18  to  August  24 

Rev.  E.  H.  Opperman,  Sheboygan,  Wis.,  Chairman 

Announcements  of  the  North  Carolina  Conference  will  be  made  later 

For  Further  Information  Address 

Rev.  a.  V.  Casselman,  D.D.,  Department  of  Missionary  Education 

Room  417,  Schaff  Building,  1505  Race  Street,  Philadelphia 


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The  Outlook  of  Missions 

HEADQUARTERS:   SCHAFF  BUILDING,  PHILADELPHIA,  PA. 

Published  Monthly  by  the  Board  of  Foreign  Missions,  the  Board  of  Home  Missions  and  the 
Woman's  Missionary  Society  of  General  Synod,  Reformed  Church  in  the  United  States. 


CONTENTS  FOR  APRIL 


THE  QUIET  HOUR   146 

GENERAL 

A  Prayer  for  Easter   147 

"If  It  Were  Not  So"   147 

"As  a  Wise  Master-Builder"   149 

HOME  MISSIONS 

Death  of  Missionary  Thomas  J.  Hacker   151 

Notes    152 

Organization  of  Trinity  Reformed  Church,  Sherman,  Cal   153 

Hungarian  Students    154 

The  Sacrifices  and  Struggles  of  Our  Early  Ministers   155 

California  and  the  Reformed  Church   157 

Observations  of  the  Treasurer   161 

The  Commission  on  Social  Service  and  Rural  Work   165 

Religious  Dramas   164 

FOREIGN  MISSIONS 

Can  We  Give  Too  Much?   165 

A  Young  Wilson  for  Japan   166 

Kanda  Church,  Tokyo,  Japan   167 

Travel  Sketches   168 

Has  Japan  the  Stamina  to  Recover?   171 

After  Many  Days   172 

First  Christian  Funeral  in  Yungsui   173 

The  Task  of  Our  Church  in  China   174 

New  Castles  of  Cathay   176 

Book  Reviews    178 

THE  WOMAN'S  MISSIONARY  SOCIETY 

Gaps  in  the  Field  of  Home  Missions   179 

Notes    180 

Miss  Iske  Will  Go  to  China   182 

"Das  Kreuz  Bringt  Rosen"    183 

A  Great  Christian  Institute  at  Vassar  College   184 

Japanese  Kindergarten,  San  Francisco   185 

Girls'  Missionary  Guild  Celebrations   186 

The  Slum-Life  in  Japan   187 

Stewardship  in  the  Home   189 

Literature  Chat   190 

Japan  on  the  Upward  Trail   191 

A  Spring  Hike   192 


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JUI.IA  Hall  Bartholomew 


(HifvxBt  bnttg  tuisth  from  tljp  liFali  btrtly  no  mor?;  htutb  iyatly  no  mor^  Jiominton 
otipr  htm.  —  Somaitfi  fi:3. 


"A  new  day!  Fresh  from  His  eternity  God 
sends  this  cloudless  bit  of  time  in  which  we 
may  work  and  dream  and  pray.  How  price- 
less is  it,  and  yet  our  Father  sends  it  to  us  as 
a  free  gift  of  love !  Shall  we  not  carry  the 
joy  and  song  and  radiance  of  the  early  morn- 
ing into  all  the  hours  of  this  gracious  day?" 


Every  day  is  a  fresh  beginning. 

Listen,  my  soul,  to  the  glad  refrain. 

And  in  spite  of  old  sorrow  and  older  sinning, 
And  puzzles  forecasted,  and  possible  pain. 
Take  heart  with  the  day  and  begin  again ! 

— Susan  Coolidge. 


"Humanity  has  taken  on  new  dignity  since 
Jesus  walked  this  earth.  .  .  .  It  is  the  goal 
and  not  the  beginning  that  determijies  a  jour- 
ney's meaning.  And  Jesus  is  the  goal  of  all 
our  striving.  To  His  perfection  we  seek  to 
approach.  In  His  likeness  alone  shall  we  be 
satisfied." 


"To  know  that  our  life  is  fulfilling  its 
divine  destiny  gives  us  power  to  dispense  with 
many  things  and  to  reinterpret  all  untoward 
things  in  the  light  of  ultimate  triumph." 


Out  of  eternity  this  new  day  is  born ; 
Into  eternity  at  night  will  return. 

— Thomas  Carlyle. 


We  come  into  the  mount  not  only  to  speak, 
but  to  listen.  How  seldom  we  wait  to  hear 
what  God  the  Lord  will  speak !  And  yet  the 
most  important  part  of  prayer  is  not  what  we 
say  to  God,  but  what  God  says  to  us. 

— Samuel  Chadwick. 


No  prayer  did  ever  speed  aright, 

But  forth  it  steals  anon 
And  hangs  in  heaven  a  little  light 

To  lead  its  brothers  on. 

— Frederick  Langbridge. 


We  do  so  little  good  because  we  have  little 
resource.  We  dream  of  the  vast  things  we 
should  have  accomplished  with  talent  and  for- 
tune. Yet  is  not  the  whole  history  of  Chris- 
tianity designed  to  teach  the  contrary  idea — 
the  wealth  of  the  poor,  the  power  of  the 
feeble?  — W.  L.  Watkinson. 


How  become  a  little  child,  you  cry.  Look 
to  Jesus !  The  feebleness  of  Bethlehem  and 
the  manger,  of  Calvary  and  the  grave,  was 
Christ's  way  to  enter  the  kingdom.  For  us 
there  is  no  other  way. 

— Andrew  Murray. 


"For  all  the  joys  Thou  sendest. 
For  gifts  so  full  and  free — 

We  raise,  O  Lord,  a  grateful  song 
Of  heartfelt  praise  to  Thee." 


So  let  us  walk  in  the  sunshine !  About  us, 
invisible,  ever  is  a  ministering  host  of  angels. 
Close  to  us  ever  is  the  benignant  Master.  Why 
should  we  hurry,  or  strive,  or  be  vexed? 

— Margaret  E.  Sangster. 


Where  God  is  reigning  in  the  heart  there  will 
be  an  ever-deepening  detestation  of  sin  on  its 
own  account;  of  sin  because  it  is  sin,  because 
it  is  so  infinitely  hateful  to  God  himself. 

— Joseph  Parker. 


Like  as  Christ  was  raised  up  from  the  dead 
by  the  glory  of  the  Father,  even  so  we  also 
should  walk  in  newness  of  life. — Romans  6 : 4. 


O  for  a  song,  a  glad  ne\y  song, 

A  song  of  joy  and  praise. 
To  sing  the  name  all  names  above. 
The  name  that  tells  of  saving  love, 

The  blessed  name  of  Jesus ! 

— R.  M.  Ofeord. 


OGOD,  who  for  our  redemption  didst  give  Thine  only-begotten  Son  to  the  death  of  the  Cross, 
and  by  His  glorious  resurrection  hast  delivered  us  from  the  power  of  the  enemy.  Grant 
us  so  to  die  dailv  from  sin,  that  we  may  evermore  live  with  Hini  m  the  joy  of  His  resurrec- 
tion, through  the  same  Jesus  Christ  our  Lord.   Amen.— Book  of  Common  Prayer. 


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of  Missions 


Volume  XVI 
Number  4 
Aprie,  1924 


OUR  MOTTO:  The  Church  a  Missionary  Society — Every  Christian  a  Life  Member 

A  Prag^r  Irfnr?  EaBt^r 

OUR  Father,  we  open  with  joy  the  gates  of  our  souls  to  let  the  King  come  in.  Not  for  a 
passing  hour  of  triumph  would  we  receive  Him,  to  send  Him  hence  away  with  broken  heart 
and  prostrate  purpose ;  but  we  welcome  Him  to  abide  forever  as  Lord  and  King.  Prepare  us 
for  His  coming.  May  our  hearts  be  cleansed  of  sin  and  our  purposes  purified  from  evil. 
Search  us  with  candles.  ^  Create  in  us  clean  hearts,  and  renew  right  spirits  within  us.  Then 
with  gladness  and  the  voice  of  praise  we  shall  greet  Him  whose  right  it  is  to  reign.  Amen. 


"IF  IT  WERE  NOT  SO,  I  WOULD  HAVE  TOLD  YOU" 


OUR  dear  Saviour  spoke  these  strange 
words  to  His  chosen  disciples  a  few- 
hours  before  His  tragic  death  on  the 
cross.  He  told  them  of  His  departure, 
and  the  sad  tidings  threw  them  into  a 
tumult  of  trouble.  They  could  not  bear 
the  thought  of  separation,  even  though  it 
was  for  their  benefit.  Hope,  the  guest  of 
their  hearts,  took  wings  and  flew  away. 
Despair  laid  hold  of  their  souls,  and  made 
everything  appear  dark  and  sad.  When 
Jesus  saw  their  distress,  He  said:  'Xet 
not  your  heart  be  troubled;  ye  believe  in 
God,  believe  also  in  Me."  Faith  in  Christ 
is  the  arm  that  lays  hold  of  the  promises 
of  God  in  the  hour  of  sorrow.  The  Mas- 
ter points  every  troubled  heart  to  the  end 
of  all  earthly  trials  in  that  "rest  which 
remaineth  to  the  people  of  God."  He 
assured  His  followers:  "In  my  Father's 
house  are  many  mansions ;  if  it  were  not 
so,  I  would  have  told  you.  I  go  to  pre- 
pare a  place  for  you."  Here,  then,  is  the 
great  anchor  of  hope,  for  the  cable  of 
faith,  which  "entereth  into  that  within 
the  veil."  What  matters  it,  if  we  have 
trials  and  tribulations  here,  all,  all,  shall 
be  well  in  the  home  of  the  blest.  But 
there  hangs  that  impenetrable  curtain, 
which  hides  from  our  present  view  the 
reality  of  the  heavenly  world.  If  we 
could  only  grasp  the  unseen  and  eternal, 
I  am  sure  we  would  shed  no  tears  and 
carry  no  wounds  in  our  hearts  when 
friend  after  friend  departs.    Here,  too, 


we  find  the  secret  of  the  sadness  of  the 
disciples.  Their  sore  experience  found 
an  echo  in  the  wail  of  Thomas:  "Lord, 
we  know  not  whither  Thou  goest;  and 
how  can  we  know  the  way.*'  Oh,  let  us 
pray  God  to  open  our  eyes  that  we  may 
behold  the  wondrous  beauty  in  the  reply 
of  Jesus  to  Thomas :  "I  am  the  Way,  the 
Truth,  and  the  Life ;  no  man  cometh  unto 
the  Father  but  by  Me." 

Words  derive  their  significance  from 
the  circumstances  under  which  they  were 
spoken.  The  last  words  of  our  Lord 
must  be  read  under  the  shadow  of  the 
Cross.  We  are  treading  on  holy  ground. 
We  are  listening  to  the  final  message  of  a 
friend  who  sticketh  closer  than  a  brother. 
These  dying  words  of  Jesus  should  be 
spoken  with  the  same  reverence  and  love 
as  we  are  wont  to  feel  in  speaking  of 
the  dying  word  or  look  of  our  precious 
dead. 

Our  Saviour  told  His  disciples  many 
things,  but  He  said  very  little  in  regard 
to  the  future  life.  The  Lord  Jesus  evi- 
dently meant  to  teach  them  and  us  a 
great  lesson  by  His  strange  silence  about 
heaven.  There  is  a  familiar  proverb 
which  says  that  "speech  is  silver,  but 
silence  is  golden."  The  grasp  of  the 
hand,  the  glance  of  the  eye,  the  quiver  of 
the  lip,  often  stirs  us  more  than  the  peal 
of  the  trumpet.  No  word  of  mouth  could 
have  made  such  a  deep  impression  on 
Peter  as  the  silent  look  of  Jesus. 


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Let  us  ever  remember  that  the  Bible  is 
not  a  full  revelation  of  God  and  of  the 
eternal  world.  St.  Paul  knew  this,  for  he 
wrote  to  the  Christians  at  Corinth :  ''No-w 
we  know  in  part,  but  then  shall  we  know 
even  as  also  we  are  known."  Only  truths 
essential  to  salvation  are  given  to  man. 
Much  was  left  to  inference.  It  is  God's 
glory  to  conceal  a  matter.  Secret  things 
belong  to  Him.  We  are  to  walk  by 
faith,  not  by  sight.  Jesus  did  not  say 
to  the  disciples:  ''Believe  in  the  future 
life,  or  accept  the  promise  of  heaven,"  but 
"believe  in  Me/'  He  is  the  essence  of 
true  faith,  and  they  that  trust  in  Him 
shall  know  the  truth  and  be  freed  from 


the  limitations  of  the  man  who  walks  by 
sight. 

The  words,  "If  it  were  not  so,  I  would 
have  told  you,"  form  a  parenthesis  in  the 
midst  of  one  of  our  Lord's  greatest  prom- 
ises. There  can  be  no  doubt  but  that  the 
whole  passage  is  a  most  precious  prom- 
ise of  a  glorious  future.  As  Christians 
we  would  like  to  know  more  about 
heaven,  the  place,  the  people,  the  occu- 
pation and  the  kind  of  life  there,  but  we 
can  safely  trust  our  future  into  the  care 
of  One  who  loves  us  dearly  and  who 
has  gone  to  prepare  a  place  for  us  in  the 
Father's  House  on  high. 

Ai.i.e:n  R.  Barthoi^omew. 


PUBLIC  SCHOOLS  OPEN  TO  CHRISTIAN  TEACHING  IN 

TOKYO 


The  amazing  news  has  just  been 
received  from  Tokyo,  Japan,  to  the  effect 
that  the  primary  schools  in  that  capital 
city  are  now  open  to  Christian  teaching 
once  a  week. 

There  has  been  a  conviction  growing 
for  some  time  in  the  minds  of  many 
leaders  in  Japan,  that  their  educational 
system  is  weak  in  imparting  the  moral 
fiber  to  their  children  and  youth  that  they 
would  like  to  see.  It  may  be  a  result  of 
this  conviction  that  the  Mayor  of  Tokyo 
recently  called  into  consultation  the  Rev. 
S.  Imamura^  General  Secretary  of  the 
National  Sunday  School  Association  of 
Japan,  and  asked  him  to  suggest  the  best 
method  for  the  spiritual  and  moral 
education  of  the  young  citizens  of  Tokyo. 

Mr.  Imamura  accordingly  presented  a 
plan  by  which  they  could  begin  to  do 
something  at  once  by  sending  speakers 
to  the  different  schools  once  a  week  and 
he  agreed  to  secure  the  speakers.  This, 
the  Mayor  at  once  accepted,  and  a  pro- 
gram for  the  next  few  months  was  made 
out. 

This  is  a  wonderful  door  of  oppor- 
tunity as  well  as  a  great  responsibility 
for  the  Sunday  School  workers  in  Japan. 
After  March,  the  National  Sunday 
School  Association  will  be  solely  respon- 
sible for  the  speakers  and  the  money  to 
provide  the  same.  Mr.  Imamura  reports 
that  $2,500  may  be  needed  per  year  to 
carry  on  this  work  and  that  a  group  of 


lay  Christians  are  already  organizing  to 
get  behind  the  proposition. 

There  are  untold  possibilities  in  the 
movement.  Sunday  School  workers  in 
Japan  have  been  sowing  seed  in  Japan 
for  years,  of  course,  but  one  of  the  things 
that  has  doubtless  contributed  to  it  was 
the  World's  Sunday  School  Convention 
in  Tokyo,  in  October,  1920. 

There  was  the  great  demonstration  of 
the  Convention  itself,  and  for  Tokyo 
there  was  the  wonderful  exhibit  that  was 
attended  by  44,000  people,  and  the  spe- 
cial lectures  throughout  the  city,  attended 
by  35,000  people,  that  were  planned  by  a 
committee  under  the  direction  of  the  Edu- 
cational Secretary,  Mr.  H.  E.  Coleman,  | 
who  is  the  representative  of  the  World's  I 
Sunday  School  Association.  Mr.  Cole-  I 
man  is  now  in  America  on  furlough  and  ^ 
will  participate  in  the  World's  Conven- 
tion in  Glasgow  next  June  before  return- 
ing to  Japan.  Some  of  these  lecture 
meetings  were  held  in  school  buildings 
and  definitely  promoted  by  the  Superin- 
tendent of  Education  for  the  city  and  a 
personal  friend,  who  was  a  business  man. 
There  could  hardly  be  a  better  proof  of 
the  wisdom  of  investing  money  in  the 
Sunday  School  work  in  Japan.  The 
proposed  Brown  Memorial  Sunday 
School  Building  is  greatly  needed  to 
make  the  carrying  out  of  their  growing 
program  possible. 


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Will  You  LOOK  OUT  For  Us? 

IT  IS  A  JOY  TO  DO  THINGS  FOR  PEOPLE  WHO  ARE  PLEASED 
WITH  WHAT  IS  BEING  DONE  FOR  THEM. 

THE  READERS  OF  THE  OUTLOOK  OF  MISSIONS  DO  ENJOY  THE 
FEAST  OF  GOOD  NEWS  THAT  IS  SPREAD  BEFORE  THEM  EACH 
MONTH,  IF  ONE  MAY  TAKE  AT  THEIR  FACE  VALUE  THE  MANY 
FINE  THINGS  THAT  ARE  SPOKEN  AND  WRITTEN  ABOUT  IT. 

WHAT  WE  DESIRE  NOW  IS  TO  ADD  ONE  THOUSAND  NEW 
NAMES  TO  OUR  SUBSCRIPTION  LIST,  DURING  THE  FIRST  WEEK  IN 
MAY,  4-11. 

THERE  ARE  TWO  FRUITFUL  SOURCES  FROM  WHICH  SUB- 
SCRIBERS SHOULD  BE  EASILY  SECURED— THE  SUNDAY  SCHOOL 
AND  THE  YOUNG  PEOPLE'S  SOCIETY.  EVERY  SUPERINTENDENT 
OF  MISSIONS  AS  WELL  AS  EVERY  TEACHER  IN  THE  SUNDAY 
SCHOOL  AND  EVERY  MEMBER  OF  THE  MISSIONARY  COMMITTEE 
OF  THE  YOUNG  PEOPLE'S  SOCIETY  SHOULD  HAVE  THIS  MISSION- 
ARY MAGAZINE,  FOR  IT  IS  THE  BEST  MEDIUM  IN  OUR  CHURCH  TO 
BROADCAST  THE  NEWS  FROM  OUR  MISSION  FIELDS. 

"AS  A  WISE  MASTER-BUILDER" 
A  Personal  Tribute  to  Dr.  James  I.  Good 

THE  writer's  earliest  recollection  of  drew,  however,  to  what  was,  to  him,  a 

Dr.  Good  carries  him  back  not  far  still  more  congenial  atmosphere,  in  the 

from  half  a  century.     It  was  at  the  old-fashioned  sitting  room,  where  mother 

writer's  country  home  in  CoUegeville ;  he  and  others,  with  some  of  the  children, 

a  lad  of  twelve,  the  visitor  a  young  min-  were  assembled,  indulging  in  the  kindly 

ister  of  twenty-eight,  always  welcome  conversations  of  the  heart,  and  where 

there,  and  none' more  dearly  loved.  dogma  dared  not  tread.     Presently  he 

The  Commencement  season  at  the  col-  turned  to  the  piano,  and,  attuned  to  the 

lege  had  brought  with  this  gracious  visi-  simplest,  sweetest  melody,  this  is  what  he 

tor  a  numerous  company  of  older  and  sang: 

more  distinguished  leaders  in  the  Church,  "We  are  building  in  sorrow  or  joy, 

some  of   whom  had  gathered   in  my  A  temple  the  world  cannot  see, 

father's  commodious  study,  where  they  Which  time  cannot  mar  or  destroy; 

were  ardently  engaged  in  the  theological  We  build  for  eternity." 

discussions  of  that  historic  time.  -p^en  followed  the  equally  unpreten- 

Dr.  Good  enjoyed  associations  such  as  ^-^^^^  ^^^^  melodious  refrain,  which  was 

these ;  and  he  took  the  keenest,  yet  a  g       without  display,  and  finally  repeated 

wmsomely  boyish  interest  in  all  his  grave  -^^          appealing  cadences : 

and  reverend  seniors  had  to  say,  an  inter-  ..-r.  •,  i-       u  -u-  a 

est  thoroughly  earnest,  but  always  bub-  ^^^1,^^^"-;  huMmg  every  day; 

bhng  with  peculiar  personal  delight,  not-  Building  for  eternity, 

withstanding  the  fact  that  he  himself  was  I  do  not  recall  having  seen  or  heard 

not  inclined  to  heated  controversy.  that  song  since  then ;  but  through  all  the 

After  a  little  while  he  quietly  with-  years  the  efifect  it  produced  on  the  lad's 


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mind  has  lingered.  Nor  will  the  memory 
of  that  song  be  lost  till  God  call.  Unaf- 
fected, subdued,  pure  voiced  as  it  was 
pure  hearted,  it  found  an  house  for  itself, 
even  the  altar  of  a  youthful  soul. 

And  was  it  not,  after  all,  a  pulsating 
epitome  of  the  unsullied  personality  and 
diligent  service  of  the  singer  himself,  the 
very  sum  of  essential  Christianity? 
Sweetness,  simplicity,  and  constructive, 
constant  industry  in  the  winning  of  the 
world  for  God,  was  the  joy-song  of  his 
very  being,  the  whole  rapt  story  of  his 
busy  life — 

"Building,  building,  every  day; 
Building  for  eternity." 

For  me,  in  that  impressive  introduc- 
tion to  this  gracious  man  was  all  the  later 
fulness  and  final  consummation  of  his 
long  and  useful  career,  the  man  himself, 
ever  intensely  and  busily  here,  yet  seem- 
ing from  some  other  sphere — 
"His  dear  Redeemer's  throne, 
Where  only  Christ  is  heard  to  speak, 
Where  Jesus  reigns  alone"— 
a  sphere  of  which  we  see  so  little  in  these 
days  of  strenuous  strife  and  cruel  selfish- 
ness.  And  if  it  were  left  to  me  to  write 
his  epitaph,  it  probably  would  read  like 
this: 

Thy  Gentleness  hath  made  him  Great ; 

great  only  in  his  victorious  desire 

to  be  Gentle  himself,  gentle  and 

Gracious  in  all  his  relations 

with  Thee  and  with  Thine,  with  Mine, 

And  with  Everybody. 
His  life  displayed  the  great  glory  of  a 
beatitude  in  an  age  of  battleships,  the 
triumph  of  grace  over  force,  the  beauty 
of  benevolence,  the  prevailing  power  of  a 
pure  heart. 

Henry  A.  Bomberger. 


THE  BUSINESS  OF  MISSIONS 

It  would  be  difficult  to  find  a  publica- 
tion on  the  work  of  Foreign  Missions 
that  equals  this  latest  volume  from  the 
pen  of  Dr.  Cornelius  H.  Patton,  Home 
Secretary  of  the  American  Board  of 
Commissioners  for  Foreign  Missions. 
The  title,  "The  Business  of  Missions," 
will  arrest  any  one  who  is  alert  to  the 
signs  of  the  times.  That  the  work  of 
Missions  is  a  business,  and  the  biggest  of 
its  kind  in  the  world,  finds  abundant 
proof  in  these  pages.  There  is  such  a 
reliable  tone  to  all  the  statements  that 
even  the  skeptic  must  sit  up  and  take 
notice.  The  author's  style  is  attractive 
and  his  art  of  putting  things  convincing. 
In  the  seven  chapters,  of  about  thirty 
pages  each.  Dr.  Patton  sets  forth  the  mis- 
sionary enterprise  in  all  its  vastness, 
variety  and  success.  He  is  not  blind  to 
the  great  problems  that  its  promoters 
must  face  on  the  field  and  at  the  home 
base.  Those  who  know  this  genial  mis- 
sionary statesman  would  expect  him  to 
give  a  large  place  to  the  spirit  of  co-oper- 
ation that  prevails  in  every  department 
of  the  work.  The  chapter  on  "Business 
at  Headquarters"  gives  a  clear-cut  analy- 
sis of  the  administrative  work  and  shows 
that  this  cannot  be  done  without  a  Board 
and  its  officers.  That  the  Church  is  in 
the  midst  of  a  new  world  era  is  defined 
in  no  uncertain  tone,  and  that  the  Church 
has  the  word  for  which  humanity  waits. 
Every  one  who  has  the  welfare  of  man- 
kind at  heart  will  want  to  buy,  read  and 
ponder  this  popular  book,  issued  by  The 
Macmillan  Company,  New  York.  Price 
$2.00. 


Will  You  Help  to  Bring 

EASTER  JOYS 

To  the  Missionaries  of  the  Church  in  Japan,  China 

and  America 

By  Paying  This  Year's  Apportionment 
IN  FULL? 


Home  Missions 

Charles  E.  Schaeffer,  Editor 


^  Come,  all  who  love  the  Kingdom,  and  all  who  serve  the  King, 

Together  lift  your  voices,  and  let  our  glad  song  ring. 
The  song  of  our  Salvation,  the  Christian's  only  praise. 
To  Christ,  the  world's  Redeemer,  hymns  of  worship  raise. 


DEATH  OF  MISSIONARY 
THOMAS  J.  HACKER 

ON  the  morning  of  March  4th,  Rev. 
Thomas  J.  Hacker,  D.D.,  our  Mis- 
sionary at  Wyomissing,  Pa.,  fell  asleep 
in  Christ.  Dr.  Hacker  served  as  a  Mis- 
sionary under  the  Board  of  Home  Mis- 
sions for  a  period  of  nineteen  years,  half 
of  which  time  was  spent  at  Roanoke,  Vir- 
ginia, and  the  other  half  in  the  Bausman 
Memorial  Church,  at  Wyomissing,  Pa. 
Dr.  Hacker  was  one  of  our  most  loyal 
and  devoted  Missionaries.  He  had  the 
interests  of  the  Church  warmly  at  heart. 
He  was  always  punctual  in  sending  in 
his  stated  reports  and  championed  the 
cause  of  Home  Missions  on  the  floor  of 
Classes,  Synods  and  General  Synod. 
Before  he  became  a  Missionary  he  served 
for  fifteen  years  as  a  member  of  the 
Bi-Synodic  Board  in  the  Eastern  and 
Potomac  Synods,  and  in  this  way  became 
thoroughly  acquainted  with  the  Home 
Mission  work  and  policy  of  the 
Reformed  Church.    He  was  a  Church 


parliamentarian  and  knew  the  Constitu- 
tion and  customs  of  the  Reformed 
Church  as  few  men  understood  them. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  special  Commit- 
tee appointed  by  the  Eastern  Synod, 
together  with  a  similar  Committee  of  the 
Pittsburgh  Synod,  to  co-operate  with  the 
Board  of  Home  Missions  in  receiving 
the  national  Hungarian  Churches  into 
our  fellowship.  It  should  be  stated  that 
Dr.  Hacker  prepared  the  tentative  plan 
which  subsequently  became  the  basis  of 
the  Tiffin  Agreement,  which  was  the 
legal  document  signed  by  the  officials  of 
the  Conventus  and  which  brought  these 
Hungarian  congregations  into  organic 
fellowship  with  the  Reformed  Church  in 
the  U.  S. 

Dr.  Hacker  was  universally  beloved 
and  respected  by  his  brother  ministers. 
He  was  the  Treasurer  of  Lehigh  Classis 
while  he  was  pastor  of  Zion's  Church, 
Allentown,  and  also  of  Reading  Classis 
at  the  time  of  his  death.  We  was  a 
builder  of  churches.  The  magnificent  St. 
John's  Church,  at  Shamokin,  was  built 
during  his  pastorate  there,  where  he 
began  his  ministry,  and  the  beautiful 
building  at  Wyomissing,  which  was  the 
crowning  act  of  his  ministerial  career, 
is  just  nearing  completion.  It  is  a  thing 
of  beauty  and  shows  the  remarkable  good 
taste  and  judgment  of  our  departed 
brother.  By  his  own  efforts  he  collected 
a  splendid  sum  of  money  for  this  build- 
ing. It  was  one  of  the  last  hopes  of  his 
life  that  he  might  live  to  see  the  structure 
completed,  but  this  desire  was  not 
granted  him. 

He  was  buried  on  March  8th  with 
services  at  his  late  residence  in  Wyomis- 
sing and  in  the  Bausman  Memorial 
Church   and    also    in   the  Bergstrasse 

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NOTES 

THE  Sunday  evening  Picture  Services 
at  Centenary  Church,  Winchester, 
Va.,  are  proving  to  be  very  popular  and 
helpful  to  the  many  people  who  attend. 
The  films  used  are  largely  based  on 
stories  of  the  Old  Testament,  making 
them  very  real  and  living  when  before, 
because  of  their  ancient  date,  people 
thought  they  had  no  vital  message  for  the 
present  age.  The  pictures  are  attracting 
all  ages  and  classes  of  people,  and  many 
have  testified  to  their  spiritual  value. 
The  boys  and  girls  of  the  Sunday  School 
know  their  lessons  better  and  show  a 
greater  interest  in  them.  People  who 
never  attend  Church  elsewhere  are  being 
brought  into  the  Christian  life  by  means 
of  these  services.  During  the  Lenten 
season,  the  pastor,  Rev.  Francis  R.  Cas- 
selman,  is  planning  to  use  a  series  of  pic- 
tures on  "The  Five  Crises  of  the  Life  of 
Christ,"  which  it  is  beHeved  will  bring  all 
who  see  them  to  a  closer  relationship 
with  the  life  of  our  SavioUr. 

ik     5|<  ^■ 

On  February  28  an  organ  recital  and 
concert  were  given  in  Emmanuel  Church, 


Allentown,  Pa.,  Rev.  J.  P.  Bachman, 
pastor,  by  Prof.  Frederick  E.  Starke, 
who  is  at  present  organist  in  the  great 
Baptist  Temple,  Philadelphia,  of  which 
Dr.  Russell  H.  Conwell,  the  noted  lec- 
turer, is  the  pastor.  Prof.  Starke  is  an 
organist  of  high  rank.  He  was  assisted 
by  Emily  Stokes  Hagar,  one  of  the  best 
of  American  sopranos.  This  was  the 
first  concert  of  this  kind  since  the  instal- 
lation of  the  pipe  organ,  and  it  was 
greatly  appreciated  and  enjoyed.  The 
proceeds  were  placed  in  the  Organ  Fund. 
On  February  24  the  monthly  musical 
service  was  rendered,  the  program  hav- 
ing been  arranged  by  Mrs.  J.  O.  Linda- 
man,  organist  and  choir  leader. 

^  5jj  ❖ 

The  East  Market  Street  Mission, 
Akron,  Ohio,  of  which  the  Rev.  W.  E. 
Troup  is  the  pastor,  conducted  evangel- 
istic services,  March  16-30,  with  Rev.  and 
Mrs.  Aldridge,  of  Syracuse,  N.  Y.,  as  the 
evangelists.  hc 

Miss  Martha  Zierdt,  formerly  social 
worker  in  Grace  Mission,  Detroit,  has 
now  taken  up  the  work  in  the  Mission  at 
Omaha,  Neb.,  which  is  without  a  pastor. 


V 


4 


Emanue:Iv  Reforme:d  Church,  Warren,  Pa.   Rev.  J.  Frederick  Reimers, 

Pastor 


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Centenary  Mission,  Winchester,  Va., 
of  which  Rev.  F.  R.  Casselman  is  the 
pastor,  is  meeting  the  needs  of  the  com- 
munity in  many  ways.  Miss  Kathryn  Y. 
Allebach,  the  social  worker,  recently 
organized  a  Mothers'  Meeting  for  the 
mothers  of  the  55  cradle  roll  babies. 
This  meeting  is  held  once  a  month  with 
a  special  speaker  and  a  social  hour,  all 
of  which  promises  to  be  very  helpful. 
^    ^  ^ 

The  Mission  at  Warren,  Pa.,  of  which 
Rev.  J.  F.  Reimers  is  the  pastor,  recently 
enlarged  its  church  building  most  satis- 
factorily, and  we  take  pleasure  in  show- 
ing a  picture  of  it  as  it  now  appears. 
This  Mission  is  making  excellent  prog- 
ress and  is  meeting  all  its  obligations 
incurred  in  the  building  project. 

*  *  * 

In  a  remittance  received  by  the  Treas- 
urer of  the  Board  from  Mrs.  Anewalt, 
Treasurer  of  the  Woman's  Missionary 
Society  of  General  Synod,  was  included 
$1,000  which  she  informed  us  had  been 
raised  by  the  Japanese  members  of  our 
Mission  in  San  Francisco,  Cal.,  to  pay 
for  some  extras  on  the  building  opera- 
tions and  also  to  complete  the  furnish- 
ings. This  shows  a  very  fine  spirit  and 
shows  how  willing  these  people  are  to 
help. 

Dr.  Charles  E.  Vermilya,  who  suc- 
ceeds Dr.  Alfred  Williams  Anthony,  as 
Executive  Secretary  of  the  Home  Mis- 
sions Council,  has  been  for  several  years 
Superintendent  of  Frontier  Work  of  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  with  office 
in  San  Francisco,  having  charge  of  vari- 
ous forms  of  Methodist  Home  Mission 
work  west  of  the  Mississippi  River  and 
comes  well  qualified  for  his  new  duties. 

*  *  * 

Mrs.  John  Ferguson,  the  new  Presi- 
dent of  the  Council  of  Women  for  Home 
Missions,  succeeding  Mrs.  Fred  S.  Ben- 
nett, after  a  term  of  about  eight  years, 
brings  experience  as  a  member  of  the 
Executive  Committee  and  many  other 
committees  of  the  Council  and  also  per- 
sonal qualities  fitting  her  for  this  impor- 
tant position. 


ORGANIZATION  OF  TRINITY 
REFORMED  CHURCH, 
SHERMAN,  CAL. 

Rev.  Milton  Monroe  Noacker,  Pastor. 

W^ill  the  friends  of  the  Reformed 
Church  in  the  East  rejoice  with  us  in  the 
fact  that  in  this  great  city  on  the  Pacific 
Coast,  growing  by  leaps  and  bounds,  until 
now  we  count  them  by  the  millions,  Trin- 
ity Reformed  Church,  in  Sherman,  Cal. 
(a  suburb  of  Los  Angeles),  was  form- 
ally organized  under  extraordinary  cir- 
cumstances Sunday,  February  24,  1924? 
At.  9.45  A.  M.  the  Sunday  School  opened 
its  services  with  an  attendance  of  53. 
Sunday  before  we  had  an  attendance  of 
57.  At  11  A.  M.  the  regular  morning 
service  opened  with  an  attendance  of  70 
people.  Rev.  E.  F.  Evemeyer,  of  San 
Francisco,  Superintendent  of  Missions 
on  the  Pacific  Coast,  was  present  and 
preached  the  sermon.  The  pastor,  Rev. 
M.  M.  Noacker,  read  the  names  of  40 
people  who  will  constitute  the  charter 
membership  of  Trinity  Church  in  Sher- 
man. Of  these,  28  were  received  by 
letter,  representing  Congregationalists, 
Lutherans,  Methodists,  Presbyterians, 
Missionary  Alliance,  and  the  Church  of 
England.  One  was  received  by  reprofes- 
sion  of  faith.  Six  infants  were  baptized  at 
the  morning  service,  and  two  in  the  eve- 
ning, a  total  of  48  additions  to  the  fellow- 
ship of  the  Church.  It  was  truly  an 
auspicious  event.  In  the  language  of 
one  of  the  members  of  the  Church,  ''This 
was  a  great  day  for  the  beginning  of 
Trinity  Church  in  Sherman."  In  all  my 
ministry,  which  extends  over  a  period 
of  more  than  a  quarter  of  a  century 
in  the  Reformed  and  Presbyterian 
Churches,  East  and  West,  I  have  never 
had  such  a  unique  and  happy  experi- 
ence. God  has  blessed  the  development 
of  this  work  in  a  remarkable  way.  The 
foundation  is  solid  and  upon  it  we  hope 
with  Divine  Guidance  to  build  a  Church 
strong  in  the  faith,  working  mightily  to 
extend  the  Kingdom  in  this  fast-growing 
city.  We  ask  the  interest,  prayers  and 
help  of  our  Reformed  brethren  through- 
out the  Church. 


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HUNGARIAN  STUDENTS 

There  are  at  present  sixteen  Hunga- 
rian students  in  our  three  educational 
institutions  at  Lancaster,  in  the  Academy, 
FrankHn  and  Marshall  College,  and  the 
Theological  Seminary.  On  the  afternoon 
of  March  6th  the  heads  of  these  insti- 
tutions, together  with  Professor  A.  Toth 
and  representatives  of  the  Board  of 
Home  Missions  and  of  the  Hungarian 
Federation,  met  at  Lancaster  to  deter- 
mine the  policy  of  caring  for  these  stu- 
dents and  providing  for  the  funds  which 
may  be  necessary  to  support  them.  At 
the  close  of  the  conference  a  very  delight- 
ful dinner  was  served  by  Mrs.  Toth  in 
the  newly  acquired  home  of  the  Profes- 
sor. It  was  a  very  delightful  social 
afifair.  After  dinner  the  Hungarian  stu- 
dents entertained  the  company  with  songs 
and  addresses  in  both  the  English  and 
Hungarian  languages.  Suitable  responses 
vere  made  by  Dr.  George  W.  Richards, 
President  of  the  Theological  Seminary ; 
Dr.  Charles  E.  Schaeffer,  General  Secre- 
tary of  the  Board  of  Home  Missions; 
and  Dr.  D.  A.  Souders,  Superintendent 
of  the  Immigrant  Department. 


There  are  also  three  Hungarian  stu- 
dents attending  the  Central  Theological 
Seminary  at  Dayton,  Ohio,  under  the 
instruction  of  Rev.  John  Azary. 


GOING  HOME 

WHEN  I  go  home  at  the  close  of  day 
A  path  by  the  woods  I  choose  as 
the  way, 

I  love  to  watch  the  lingering  light, 
The  golden  sun — its  beauty  bright. 

I  am  not  alone  as  I  walk  along, 
A  laugh  I  hear  and  a  burst  of  song — 
Just  happy  toilers,  their  day's  work  done, 
There  by  the  woods  in  the  setting  sun. 

Then  a  house  I  see,  a  door  opened  wide, 
And  a  welcome,  too,  from  those  inside — 
I  linger  awhile  but  I  go  my  way 
Toward  my  home  now  at  the  close  of  day. 

At  last  a  door  is  open  for  me. 
My  home  is  reached,  too,  and  I'm  glad 
you  see, 

For  I'm  thinking  the  while  of  the  Home 
above 

Where  toilers  rest — where  all  is  love. 

Elizabeth  W.  Fry. 


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THE  SACRIFICES  AND  STRUGGLES  OF  OUR  EARLY  MINISTERS 


Rev.  J.  Nevin  Bauman 


REMEMBRANCE  is  frequently  en- 
joined in  the  Scriptures.  Sometimes 
as  a  virtue,  the  discharge  of  an  obligation 
of  gratitude  to  those  who  have  gone 
before  us  in  the  way  and  in  the  work  of 
the  Lord ;  sometimes  as  a  lesson  to  guide 
us ;  and  then  again  as  an  inspiration  and 
incentive  to  patient,  trustful,  manly 
endurance. 

Were  there  hardships  in  the  experi- 
ence of  the  early  ministers,  that  differ- 
entiate their  experience  from  that  of  min- 
isters in  these  later  times? 

I  have  before  me  an  article  written  by 
the  wife  of  one  of  the  early  ministers  of 
our  church,  in  response  to  a  request  that 
she  tell  some  of  the  hardships  in  the 
church's  work  of  her  day.  In  it  she  told 
of  conditions  and  experiences  on  w^hat 
was  then  the  Western  border  of  our  Mis- 
sionary activities.  She  told  it  with  the 
cheerful  optimism  that  ever  character- 
ized her  life,  and  closed  with  these 
words : 

"Hardships !  nay  all  joy."  But,  after 
all,  the  joy  she  knew  was  largely  wrought 
out  of  great  trials,  and  distilled  out  of 
stern  privations.  Yes,  there  were  hard- 
ships peculiar  to  those  early  days,  the 
result  of  those  times  of  national  begin- 
nings. Theirs,  was  pioneer  work  on  the 
border  that  gradually  moved  from  the 
Atlantic  coast  ever  westward.  It  accom- 
panied the  process  of  our  country's  settle- 
ment, and  was  a  vital  part  of  that  great 
experience. 

The  experience  of  our  earlier  ministers 
answered  to  the  experience  of  the  earliest 
settlers  of  our  great  country,  who  out 
of  hitherto  untamed  natural  and  physical 
conditions,  established  homes,  prepared 
the  soil  for  cultivation,  and  battled  with 
hardships  in  their  new  task  and  faced 
dangers  for  which  they  were  none  too 
well  equipped.  The  conditions  which 
confronted  the  early  colonists  of  Amer- 
ica, forced  them  to  rise  to  the  plane  of 
the  heroic. 

Very  like  that,  though  in  a  grander 
conquest,  the  pioneers  of  our  Church, 
toiling  on  the  missionary  fronts,  wrote 


in  deeds  the  story  of  their  lives.  Their 
work  was  mainly  digging  the  trenches, 
and  laying  the  foundations  of  a  super- 
structure that  was  to  rise  in  beauty  and 
grandeur,  which  few  of  them  were  to  live 
to  see.  With  skies  cleared  of  the  clouds 
which  then  lowered,  and  looking  from 
the  towers  of  structures  which  they  made 
possible,  that  work  in  the  trenches  seems 
glorious,  and  a  halo,  to  our  vision, 
encircles  it.  But  to  those  unfolding  the 
glory,  and  framing  the  halo,  it  was  all 
seen,  at  that  time,  in  aw4ng  obstacles,  in 
depressing  hardships,  in  heroic  self- 
sacrifice,  and  in  a  magnificent  faith  that 
grasped  the  promise  whose  fulfillment 
the  physical  eye  could  not  see.  The  real 
story  of  it  all  has  never  been  written.  I 
dare  say  it  will  never  be  w^ritten.  The 
bare  outline — often  cruelly  bare — may  be 
found  on  the  pages  of  the  Church's  his- 
tories. The  real  living  facts  are  found, 
partly,  in  time-faded  diaries,  much  of 
it  too  sacred  for  the  public  ear ;  and  the 
still  greater  part  is  written  in  the  annals 
of  the  recording  angel,  whose  proclama- 
tion waits  the  great  day  of  the  revelation 
of  all  things. 

To  one  source  of  information  I  have 
had  some  access.  To  have  witnessed  in 
childish  wonder  and  incomprehensibility, 
was  what  I  now  regard  a  precious  privi- 
lege. 

Forget  the  progress  of  a  hundred 
years.  Blot  out  from  memory  the  ever 
thickening  settlement  of  our  vast  coun- 
try, the  building  of  automobiles  and  even 
carriages,  and  the  threading  of  our  land 
with  its  great  railroad  and  telegraph  sys- 
tems. Imagine  there  had  never  been,  the 
things  that  now  stand  as  the  main  factors 
in  our  comforts  and  conveniences.  See, 
as  though  you  had  never  seen  anything 
else,  the  conditions  of  the  log-cabin  and 
candle-dip  era,  and  you  will  be  able  to 
realize  the  general  handicaps  under  which 
those  pioneers  lived  and  wrought  their 
work. 

The  social  cheer  that  comes  through 
frequent  contact  with  fellow  workers, 
and  that  means  so  much  to  a  normal  min- 


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ister,  was  largely  denied  them  because  of 
wide  separations  and  wretched  means  of 
travel,  or  of  any  form  of  communication. 
A  sense  of  loneliness  is  a  burden  on  the 
mind  and  heart  and  soul,  which  only  they 
who  have  experienced  it  know. 

Congregations  had  to  be  gathered  and 
organized,  and  churches  to  be  built.  The 
work  of  many  of  those  ministers  was  to 
create  a  source  of  income  for  their  own 
support.  How  they  lived  through  those 
creative  years,  may  sometime  be  recog- 
nized as  among  the  notable  wonders  of 
the  world.  Mission  boards  were  in  all 
but  a  helpless  infancy.  Their  treasuries 
were  a  far  off  dream;  and  the  average 
pioneer  minister  was  as  poor  as  the  pio- 
neer Mission  Boards.  These  are  among 
the  hardships  that  made  up  the  daily  and 
life-time  routine  of  their  ministry. 

Today  a  new  system  prevails,  possible 
under  the  better  conditions  of  today,  and 
now  regarded  as  essential.  Missionary 
Avork  is,  at  least,  reasonably  supported, 
financially.  Built  churches  are  regarded 
necessary  for  missionary  enterprises. 
How,  it  is  asked,  could  they  work  effec- 
tively without  such  an  encouragement? 
And  few  today  see  how  they  could.  And 
yet,  without  such  support  and  encour- 
agement, those  early  ministers — and  for 
nearly  all  it  was  a  missionary  work — did 
work  effectively;  though  God  alone 
knows  the  hardships  involved,  and  the 
heroism  it  forced  into  exercise. 

Born  on  what  was  then  the  frontier, 
both  of  sentiment  and  of  missionary 
work,  and  in  the  home  of  a  frontier  min- 
ister, I  can  recall  and  can  now  in  a 
way  understand  what  I  could  not  then 
grasp — the  trials  which  perhaps  a 
dozen  ministers  in  that  general  section 
experienced.  Ill  supported,  I  always  feel 
as  if  I  understood  the  miracle  of  the 
widow's  oil  and  meal,  and  as  though  the 
miracle  had  all  been  pressed  out  of  the 
incident.  I  had  seen  so  much  of  practi- 
cally the  same  thing,  and  extending 
through  a  so  much  longer  stretch  of  time. 
Even  making  all  due  allowance  for  the 
different  economic  conditions  of  the 
times,  it  is  hard  to  reason  out  how  a 
minister  could  live  and  maintain  a  home 
on  one  hundred  and  fifty  dollars  a  year. 


I  have  never  been  able  to  reason  it  out, 
but  I  saw  its  reality. 

The  ministers  were,  as  a  rule,  widely 
separated  from  each  other.  Their  occa- 
sional meeting  required  a  day's  or  even  a 
two  days'  hard  journey.  Except  by 
irregular,  at  best  by  a  weekly  mail,  they 
had  no  communication  with  the  centers 
of  the  nation's  or  of  the  church's  life. 
Long  journeys  were  necessary  on  horse 
back,  and  often  on  foot,  to  preaching 
points  forty  or  sixty  miles  away,  and 
often  through  piled  and  drifted  snow  that 
blotted  out  every  so-called  highway,  and 
every  landmark. 

One  such  journey  in  particular  I  read 
from  a  minister's  diary.  He  had  gone  to 
fill  an  appointment  twenty-five  miles  dis- 
tant. On  his  return,  a  blizzard  swept 
the  country,  piercing  in  its  cold,  and 
blinding  in  its  snowy  veil.  Soon  all  sem- 
blance of  a  road  was  gone.  There  were 
no  landmarks  to  guide.  The  horse  which 
conveyed  him  labored  on  and  on,  far  into 
the  night,  and  then  stopped  all  but 
exhausted.  It  was  before  a  little  cabin, 
miles  away  from  the  road  they  were  sup- 
posed to  be  traveling.  With  difficulty  the 
minister  dragged  his  benumbed  body  to 
the  door  and  knocked.  Was  that  miser- 
able little  cabin  tenanted?  It  seemed  Hke 
a  last  hope  shadowed  by  a  great  and 
depressing  doubt.  But  to  his  joy  a  voice 
called,  heavy  with  Hibernian  brogue:  'Tn 
God's  name  who  is  out  in  a  night  like 
this  ?"  The  door  was  opened,  a  welcome 
extended,  and  a  provision  made  out  of 
most  straitened  means,  for  the  unex- 
pected guest.  Two  days  later  he  was 
able  to  reach  his  home  where,  during  this 
time,  a  wife  had  waited  in  wasting 
anxiety,  and  who  afterward  wrote  and 
said,  ''Hardships!  nay  all  joy!" 

Why  have  I  written  as  I  have? 

1.  Because  those  early  struggles  of  our 
pioneer  ministers  are  worthy  the  honor- 
ing remembrance  and  recognition  that 
has  here  found  too  weak  an  expression. 

2.  Because,  here  and  there,  there  still 
remain  in  the  flesh,  those  who  battled 
through  those  hard  experiences,  and  who 
bear  in  their  bodies  the  marks  of  the 
Lord  Jesus.    May  this  modest  tribute 

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CALIFORNIA  AND  THE  REFORMED  CHURCH 
By  Theodore  P.  Bolliger,  D.D. 


THE  Reformed  Church  in  the  U.  S. 
now  has  six  congregations  in  the 
State  of  California,  six  ministers  in 
active  service,  and  not  quite  500  mem- 
bers. Of  the  six  congregations,  two  are 
Japanese,  two  are  German  and  two  are 
English.  These  congregations  own  five 
Churches,  one  community  house,  and  one 
parsonage.  As  the  Japanese  work  richly 
deserves  separate  treatment,  I  shall  con- 
fine myself  in  this  article  to  the  other 
congregations  only. 

When  I  think  of  what  the  Reformed 
Church  has  in  California  today,  my  mind 
insists  in  bringing  up  a  bit  of  past  his- 
tory. We  are  just  a  little  further  now 
than  we  were  forty  years  ago.  Once 
there  was  a  San  Francisco  Classis.  It 
led  a  humble  existence  from  1874-1889. 
This  Classis  belonged  to  the  Potomac 
Synod  and  the  missions  were  supported 
by  the  Home  Mission  Board  of  that 
Synod.  At  the  time  of  its  greatest 
promise  there  were  five  congregations 
and  about  eight  preaching  places.  A  total 
membership  of  360  had  been  gathered, 
at  least  three  Churches  had  been  built, 
and  two  parsonages  had  been  secured. 
The  locations  of  these  last  hopes  may 
well  be  recalled :  San  Francisco,  Ala- 
meda, Oakland,  Stockton,  Napa.  These 
congregations  were  all  German.  Why 
did  this  noble  effort  of  the  Potomac 


Synod  so  quickly  sink  into  its  grave? 
From  the  records  the  answer  is  as  clear 
as  it  is  distressing;  short  pastorates,  long 
vacancies,  insufficient  supervision,  two 
unworthy  shepherds,  lack  of  funds. 
Possibly  back  of  it  all  was  the  fundamen- 
tal reason  that  the  vision  of  the  Potomac 
Synod  as  to  the  home  missionary  possi- 
bilities of  the  Far  West  seemed  foolish- 
ness to  the  greater  part  of  the  Church. 
Even  today,  forty  years  after,  the  vision 
is  not  yet  very  vivid. 

To  secure  a  proper  background  a  few 
words  about  California  itself  must  be 
slipped  in  here.  California  is  popularly 
called  the  ''Golden  State.''  The  name  is 
well  deserved.  None  other  has  such  an 
amazing  variety  of  fauna,  flora  and 
physical  features.  Its  bigness  is  over- 
whelming. To  cover  the  State  it  would 
be  necessary  to  take  Maine,  New  Hamp- 
shire, Vermont,  Rhode  Island,  Connecti- 
cut, Massachusetts,  New  York  and  Penn- 
sylvania. The  highest  mountain  in  the 
U.  S.  (Whitney),  and  the  deepest  depres- 
sion (Death  Valley,  480  feet  below  sea 
level),  are  both  in  California.  Every 
fruit  and  grain  of  the  temperate  zone  and 
every  plant  of  the  tropics  flourish  within 
its  boundaries.  Even  a  partial  list  makes 
the  mouth  water  in  joyful  anticipation: 
Oranges,  lemons,  grape  fruits,  figs,  dates, 
pomegranates,  pineapples,  olives,  grapes. 


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California  also  specializes  in  "nuts." 
Every  variety,  both  human  and  edible, 
grows  luxuriantly.  California  supplies 
the  world  with  half  the  fruit  it  consumes, 
including  oranges,  grapes  and  raisins. 
The  oldest  living  things  known — gigantic 
trees — flourish  there.  These  mighty 
sequoias  are  common.  The  highest  sends 
its  top  315  feet  into  the  air;  the  thickest 
has  a  circumference  of  95  feet.  While 
David  was  still  playing  his  harp  among 
his  sheep  in  the  hills  about  Bethlehem, 
the  aborigines  of  America  already  rested 
under  the  shade  of  those  same  California 
trees.  They  are  good  for  some  thousands 
of  years  more. 

The  Eastern  and  Central  States  have 
poured  their  best  and  most  vigorous 
blood  into  California.  At  a  picnic  of 
lowans  in  Los  Angeles  County  held  some 
years  ago,  there  were  more  native  lowans 
present  than  are  found  in  any  city  of 
Iowa  with  one  exception.  Seven-eighths 
of  the  inhabitants  are  ''outsiders."  Forty 
years  ago  Los  Angeles  had  about  12,000 
people.  About  that  time,  from  my  fath- 
er's congregation  in  Kansas  two  families 
moved  to  California  and  bought  land  sev- 
eral miles  from  the  little  city  at  $100  an 
acre.  Today  a  small  lot  from  these 
farms  is  worth  more  than  the  entire  80 
acres  cost  then;  and  at  least  1,000,000 
people  call  Los  Angeles  their  home. 
When  I  preached  in  the  First  Reformed 
Church  of  Los  Angeles,  the  pastor  asked 
the  folks  hailing  from  a  number  of  States 
to  hold  up  their  hands.  When  I  asked 
the  native  Californians  to  do  the  same,  I 
found  that  they  were  outnumbered  by 
both  the  Pennsylvanians  and  Ohioans. 
This  pouring  in  of  Reformed  people  into 
Los  Angeles  has  been  going  on  for  forty 
years,  and  most  of  them  have  gone  to 
other  denominations. 

Lodi-Shafter  was  the  first  charge  I 
visited.  It  is  served  by  Rev.  William 
Thiel.  The  two  congregations  are  located 
in  the  famous  San  Joaquin  Valley,  more 
than  250  miles  apart.  The  pastor  had 
arranged  for  special  missionary  services 
and  thus  gave  me  an  opportunity  to  pre- 
sent both  the  home  and  the  foreign  mis- 
sionary activities  of  our  Church.  The 
people  of  the  charge  are  German  Rus- 
sians.   They  are  a  Church-going  people, 


Ebenezer  Reformed  Church^ 
Shafter,  California 


who  love  their  Bible  and  the  House  of 
God,  and  are  not  afraid  of  long  sermons. 
They  proved  this  that  day.  A  Reformed 
congregation  was  organized  three  miles 
from  Lodi  in  1903.  Some  years  later  a 
congregation  was  also  organized  in  the 
beautiful  little  city  itself.  In  1921,  these 
two  united  to  form  the  present  prosper- 
ous and  promising  congregation.  The 
following  pastors  have  served  this  flock : 
M.  Nuss,  J.  F.  Youngblut,  F.  C.  Schnu- 
elle,  F.  A.  Ritterhaus,  and  William  Thiel. 
The  congregation  possesses  a  good 
Church  and  a  good  parsonage,  well 
located  near  the  heart  of  the  town. 

The  San  Joaquin  Valley  is  a  little 
empire  in  itself  stretching  300  miles  from 
north  to  south  between  the  mighty  Sierra 
Nevada  and  Coast  Range,  varying  in 
width  from  forty  to  eighty  miles.  Long 
ago  the  valley  was  the  home  of  great 
cattle  ranches ;  then  followed  an  era  of 
gigantic  wheat  farms  even  to  50,000 
acres.  A  long  series  of  dry  years  caused 
the  break-up  of  ranches  and  farms  and 
ushered  in  the  era  of  irrigation.  The 
valley  is  very  level,  with  a  slight  dip 
towards  the  center;  from  the  snow-clad 
mountains  countless  streams  flow  down ; 
great  irrigation  projects  have  carried 
these  streams  to  the  thirsty  acres;  from 


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the  earth  wells  of  moderate  depths  yield 
almost  inexahustible  supplies ;  and  in 
twenty-five  years  that  valley  has  been 
transformed  into  an  Eden  of  almost  unbe- 
lievable productiveness.  Lodi  is  at  the 
northern  end  of  this  valley.  It  is  a  thrifty, 
prosperous  community,  located  in  one  of 
the  finest  table-grape  sections  of  what 
is  now  considered  the  greatest  grape-rais- 
ing valley  in  the  world.  Though  every 
variety  of  grapes  is  raised  in  that  local- 
ity, fine  table  grapes  are  their  specialty. 
Our  Reformed  people  there  are  nearly  all 
engaged  in  some  form  of  this  industry. 
Shafter  is  more  than  250  miles  to  the 
south  of  Lodi,  and  is  located  in  a  part 
of  the  valley  recently  opened  up  to  cul- 
tivation. Here  also  the  raising  of  fruit 
and  grapes  is  the  chief  industry.  The 
Reformed  congregation  was  organized 
five  years  ago  by  Rev.  F.  C.  Rittershaus. 
The  people  are  German  Russians.  They 
built  their  own  Church  without  any  aid 
from  the  Board.  It  is  a  neat  frame  struc- 
ture adequate  to  their  needs.  On  the 
Wednesday  night  that  I  visited  them  the 
building  was  well  filled.  The  people  asked 
for  a  sermon,  but  also  wanted  a  mission- 
ary address,  hence  I  gave  them  both. 
This  community  and  its  congregation 
have  bright  prospects  for  growth.  The 
time  is  not  far  distant  when  Shafter 
should  have  its  own  pastor,  even  though 
it  may  be  necessary  to  grant  missionary 
support  for  a  time. 

The  San  Joaquin  Valley  has  wondrous 
possibilities  for  development.  As  irriga- 
tion projects  multiply  still  more,  the 
population  will  greatly  increase.  More 
opportunities  for  the  Reformed  Church 
will  show  themselves.  As  it  was  my  good 
fortune  to  have  a  number  of  near  rela- 
tives living  in  the  Valley  I  was  afiforded 
the  opportunity  of  going  through  the 
entire  length  of  it,  and  also  to  and  fro  by 
auto.  Bakersfield,  about  twenty-five 
miles  south  of  Shafter,  was  the  most  con- 
venient starting  point  for  my  onward 
journey.  It  is  the  center  of  one  of  the 
most  remarkable  oil  fields  in  the  country. 
The  hillsides  are  covered  with  gaunt  der- 
ricks. Numberless  tanks  covering  an 
acre  and  more  litter  the  landscape.  The 
''chug  chug"  of  gasoline  engines  fills  the 
ear,  the  vapors  and  odors  of  gas  fill  the 
nostrils,  and  streams  of  black,  sticky  crude 


oil  are  running  on  all  sides.  We  had 
allowed  ourselves  several  hours  before 
train  time  to  make  a  long  drive  through 
these  unaesthetic  but  mighty  profitable 
scenes.  Automobile  owners  were  enjoy- 
ing to  the  full  a  merry  gasoline  war  then 
raging.  Eight  to  thirteen  cents  per  gal- 
lon were  prevailing  prices.  California 
has  more  autos  per  capita  than  any  other 
State.  They  all  seemed  in  use,  too. 
Everybody  was  madly  rushing  to  get 
somewhere  else  and  doing  it  at  thirty 
miles  per.  The  ride  from  Bakersfield  to 
Los  Angeles  presented  some  unique 
features.  Over  a  mountain  range  we 
went.  Down  into  the  Mohave  desert  the 
train  rolled.  Strange,  weird  vegetable 
growths  that  looked  like  the  freaks  of  a 
nightmare  adorned  the  hot  sands.  The 
thermometer  was  skylarking  around  115 
degrees.  There  was  a  ghastly  fascina- 
tion about  it  all  that  got  hold  of  my 
imagination  and  heart.  Some  time  I  hope 
to  spend  a  few  weeks  in  that  desert  and 
enjoy  myself.  Only,  alas,  by  that  time 
those  enterprising  Californians  will  prob- 
ably have  it  irrigated  and  transformed 
into  a  garden  of  delights.  Thus  progress 
often  ruins  our  dreams. 

Towards  evening  Los  Angeles  was 
reached.  The  Reformed  Church  has  two 
congregations  there,  the  First  Church  and 
the  Japanese  Church.  I  shall  confine  my- 
self now  entirely  to  the  First  Church. 
For  forty-five  years  Reformed  Church 
members  have  been  pouring  into  that 
region  and  been  promptly  absorbed  by 
other  denominations  or  entirely  lost  to 
the  Church ;  for  there  was  no  Reformed 
congregation  until  1913.  The  impetus  to 
the  organization  came  in  a  strange  way. 
More  than  forty  years  ago  from  a  little 
Swiss  congregation  in  Kansas  which  my 
father  was  serving  at  the  time  several 
families  moved  to  the  vicinity  of  Los 
Angeles,  then  a  city  of  12,000"^.  Others 
followed  during  the  years  until  about 
thirty  souls  from  that  Church  had  yielded 
to  the  pull  from  the  west.  Among  the 
first  group  that  went  was  Mrs.  Verena 
Leuzinger.  She  was  staunchly  Reformed, 
and  through  the  long  years  cherished  the 
hope  that  some  day  a  Reformed  congre- 
gation might  be  organized.  She  remained 
faithful  in  her  devotions  and  contributed 
liberally  to  other  denominations ;  but  kept 


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First  Reformed  Church, 
Los  Angeles,  Cae. 


on  hoping  for  the  coming  of  a  Reformed 
minister.  In  1913  her  hope  became  a 
reahty.  The  First  Reformed  Church  of 
Los  Angeles  was  organized  and  the  fol- 
lowing year  a  Church  was  secured.  Mrs. 
Leuzinger  personally  gave  two-thirds  of 
the  purchase  price.  At  the  organization 
two  former  members  of  that  little  Kansas 
congregation,  boyhood  friends  of  mine, 
were  elected  into  the  Consistory.  For 
these  reasons  I  had  a  special  desire  to 
spend  a  few  days  with  this  Church.  The 
Reverends  A.  Steinebrey,  A.  F.  Lien- 
kaemper  and  G.  Grueningen  have  been 
the  pastors.  The  congregation  has  had  a 
hard  struggle.  The  location  has  become 
unsuitable,  as  negroes  have  moved  into 
the  neighborhood.  A  relocation  is  im- 
perative, and  steps  towards  that  end 
have  already  been  taken.  With  a  suitable 
building,  rightly  located,  the  future  is 
assured.  The  mission  was  begrm  by  the 
Tri-Synodic  Board,  and  transferred  to 
the  Home  Mission  Board  of  the  General 
Synod  about  three  years  ago.  No  small 
credit  for  keeping  the  congregation  from 
dissolution  belongs  to  Rev.  G.  Gruenin- 
gen, the  present  pastor.  During  a  long 
vacancy,  when  no  man  could  be  found  to 
take  up  the  work,  he  supplied  the  pul- 
pit. Finally  the  little  flock  succeeded  in 
persuading  him  to  give  up  a  promising 


business  career  and  accept  the  permanent 
pastorate.  The  Lord  has  signally  blessed 
his  labors.  To  me  it  was  a  great  Sun- 
day that  I  spent  with  the  Loj-^  Angeles 
people.  I  gave  them  a  home  missionary 
sermon  in  the  morning,  an  address  on  the 
Winnebago  Indians  in  the  afternoon,  a 
sermon  to  the  Japanese  in  the  evening, 
and  a  final  farewell  talk  at  the  reception 
which  the  Japanese  brethren  arranged. 
Then  came  a  fifteen-mile  ride  to  Pasa- 
dena to  Rev.  Mr.  Grueningen's  home,  and 
a  conrerence  on  the  CaHfornia  work  that 
lasted  until  long  after  midnight. 

Of  the  instructive  drives  about  the  city 
and  surrounding  country,  of  the  beauty 
of  mountains  and  canyon  and  ocean,  of 
the  quaint  old  missions  and  famous  spots, 
space  does  not  permit  me  to  speak.  Just 
one  little  picture  would  I  give.  Before 
breakfast,  while  guest  of  the  pastor,  I 
walked  out  into  his  yard  and  picked  me  a 
few  ripe  figs,  some  oranges,  a  grapefruit 
or  two,  a  handful  of  plums  and  a  bunch 
of  grapes.  I  might  also  have  picked 
lemons  and  a  dozv^n  other  kinds  of  fruits 
and  nuts;  but  I  felt  that  I  already  had 
enough  for  breakfast.  No  other  active 
pastor  of  our  Church  has  such  a  variety 
of  good  things  growing  in  his  yard. 
Verily  Rev.  Mr.  Grueningen  dwells 
beneath  his  own  vine  and  fig  tree,  in  a 
land  where  milk  and  honey  flow ;  and 
there  is  none  to  make  him  afraid. 

My  general  impression  of  the  status  of 
the  California  work  and  the  prospects  is 
very  favorable.  The  future  holds  bright 
hopes.  The  most  necessary  immediate 
step  is  the  organization  of  a  California 
Classis.  There  are  now  five  charges,  and 
a  sixth  has  recently  been  enrolled.  That 
is  enough  to  start  a  Classis.  The  Jap- 
anese congregations  belong  to  the  Kansas 
Classis,  2000  miles  away.  The  other  con- 
gregations belong  to  the  Portland-Oregon 
Classis,  1,000  to  1,400  miles  away.  The 
pastors  cannot  attend  their  respective 
Classes  on  account  of  the  time  and 
expense  involved.  This  Classis  should 
come  soon.  The  Reformed  Church  has 
been  pretty  slow  in  getting  the  Western 
vision;  but  there  are  abundant  oppor- 
tunities still  left.  We  can  yet  go  in  and 
grow  up  with  the  State  of  the  golden 
future. 


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OBSERVATIONS  OF  THE  TREASURER 
/.  S.  Wise 


IN  the  maze  of  every  day  office  work, 
one  encounters  many  interesting  things. 
Opening  the  mail  is,  of  course,  the  first 
thing  to  be  attended  to  in  the  morning. 
Most  people  would  think  that  the  Treas- 
urer's mail  consists  chiefly  of  those  very 
welcome  letters  which  usually  begin  with, 
^'Enclosed  please  find  check."  How^ever, 
such  is  not  the  case.  After  having  been 
away  the  week  end  and  on  my  return 
early  this  Monday  morning,  I  found  the 
usual  accumulation  of  mail  awaiting  me. 
I  traveled  all  of  Saturday  and  Sunday 
nights,  and  made  five  addresses  on  Sun- 
day in  three  Churches  in  the  vicinity  of 
Altoona.  Three  small  checks  were 
received  on  Saturday  and  taken  care  of 
by  my  assistant.  In  today's  mail,  I  found 
four  checks,  none  of  them  for  very  large 
amounts,  one  urgent  request  for  a  check 
for  the  Jewish  work  in  Philadelphia,  one 
bill,  two  notices  from  Banks  giving  due 
dates  for  notes  amounting  to  $40,000.00 
and  thirteen  other  letters  on  a  variety  of 
subjects,  all  of  which  must  be  answered. 
They  can  not  be  answered  ''right  off  the 
reel"  for  each  one  involves  the  searching 
of  records,  conferences  with  the  archi- 
tect, with  Dr.  Schaeffer,  or  with  one  of 
our  District  Superintendents  before  an 
intelligent  reply  can  be  given.  Those  per- 
taining to  the  Church-building  Depart- 
ment are  more  or  less  technical  and  may 
be  answered  easily  after  conferring  with 
the  Architect,  but  one  from  Superinten- 
dent Horning  concerning  the  purchase  of 
a  parsonage  at  Cedal  Rapids,  Iowa,  is  not 
quite  so  easy.  Only  partial  provision  for 
this  has  been  made  by  the  Board.  We 
must  decide  at  once.  Shall  we  go  beyond 
the  Board's  instructions  or  shall  we  run 
the  risk  of  having  our  Missionary 
deprived  of  a  home  within  a  month  or 
so  ?  Superintendent  Horning  asks  me  to 
decide.  Now  what  shall  I  do  ?  Even  Dr. 
Schaeffer  is  not  in  the  office  today  and 
so  I  can  not  confer  with  him.  A  telegram 
must  be  sent.  Shall  I  say,  "we  can  not  go 
beyond  our  instructions"  and  by  that  act 
bring  distress  and  perhaps  actual  suffer- 
ing to  our  faithful  Missionary  and  his 


good  wife  and  children,  or,  shall  I  say 
''Go  ahead  and  close  the  deal"?  The  lat- 
ter course  will  bring  hope,  comfort  and 
good  cheer  to  the  Missionary  and 
undoubtedly  stimulate  his  enthusiasm  for 
the  work  he  is  commissioned  to  do.  On 
the  other  hand  it  places  me  in  a  position 
for  censure  for  going  beyond  instruc- 
tions. Such  decisions  must  be  made  quite 
frequently.  The  Board  usually  approves, 
but  sometimes  says,  "don't  do  it  again." 
Now,  every  officer  always  wants  the  full 
approval  of  the  Board.  Such  a  problem 
places  him  between  his  satanic  majesty 
and  the  deep  sea  (no  reflection  on  either 
the  Board  or  the  Mission).  But  the 
answer  must  be  given  and  the  "swivel 
chair"  job  loses  its  lustre  by  becoming  a 
real  task. 

Dr.  Bolliger,  the  Secretary  of  the  Mis- 
sion Board  of  the  Northwest,  after 
acknewledging  the  receipt  of  a  check  and 
some  notes,  I  sent  him  last  week,  "comes 
back  at  me"  with  this  puzzling  proposi- 
tion :  "Now  since  I  shall  have  to  discount 
the  one  or  the  other  and  possibly  both 
of  the  notes  that  will  fall  due  in  May,  I 
am  going  to  ask  you,  by  any  or  all  means, 
to  take  care  of  the  note  that  is  due  on 
April  15,  so  that  I  will  be  in  a  position  to 
present  your  other  notes  to  my  bank." 
The  note  he  refers  to  is  for  $5000.00  and 
between  now  and  April  15  there  is  a 
month  intervening.  If  that  were  the  only 
note  coming  due  between  now  and  then,  I 
would  cheerfully  O.  K.  his  proposition. 
But  alas,  there  are  many  other  notes  com- 
ing due  in  the  meanwhile  and  to  definitely 
promise  compliance  is  another  one  of  the 
problems  that  must  be  faced  almost  every 
day.  My  task  would  be  a  very  easy  one 
if  it  only  involved  the  receiving  and  pay- 
ing out  of  money,  with  a  sufficient 
income.  But  it  becomes  anything  but  a 
sinecure  when  the  income  is  nearly  a 
half  million  short  on  the  Forward  Move- 
ment promises  and  less  than  half  of  the 
apportionment  paid  in  the  present  fiscal 
year,  now  nearly  ended.  Dependent  upon 
the  hope  that  the  apportionment  for  this 
year  will  be  fully  met  and  that  hundreds 


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[April 


of  delinquent  subscribers  to  the  Forward 
Movement  will  pay  up  during  the  next 
few  months,  promises  have  been  made  to 
our  bankers  that  our  notes  will  be  very 
materially  reduced.  Therefore,  Mr.  Bol- 
liger's  proposition  is  in  reality  a  real 
poser. 

A  month  ago,  I  sent  out  a  follow-up 
letter  regarding  the  offerings  of  Home 
Mission  Day.  In  the  haste  of  sending 
them  out  and  the  difficulty  for  our  office 
help  to  connect  cert^ain  pastors  with 
Charges  and  congregations  that  were 
vacant,  on  their  checking  lists,  some  of 
these  letters  went  to  pastors  whose 
offerings  had  been  sent  in.  Of  course, 
such  mistakes  are  bound  to  occur  when 
lisjts  are  checked  up  by  persons  who  are 
not  thoroughly  familiar  with  the  changes 
in  pastorates  that  are  constantly  occur- 
ring, and  likewise,  when  remittances  are 
nikde  through  the  Classical  Treasury. 
For  example,  the  Treasurer  of  East 
Pennsylvania  Classis  reported  a  certain 
amount  given  by  Kreidersville  Charge. 
The  young  lady  in  checking  the  lists, 
failed  to  associate  the  Rev.  George  E. 
Koperihaver,  of  Cherryville,  Pa.,  with 
Kreidersville  Charge  and  hence  the  letter 
stating  that  their  Home  Mission  Day 
o^ffering  had  not  been  received,  was  sent 
in  error.  There  is  plenty  of  room  for 
just  such  errors  to  occur.  Had  I  person- 
ally had  time  to  check  up,  I  am  sure  there 
would  have  been  very  few,  if  any,  errors. 
The  point  I  wish  to  make,  however,  is 
that  after  all,  there  were  only  a  limited 
number  of  such  errors  made  and  the 
effect  of  the  Circular  was  that  the  Home 
Mission  Day  offering  was  increased  over 
$1000.00  within  a  few  weeks,  with  some 
still  coming  in.  It  is  surprising  how 
much  specified  money,  that  is  greatly 
needed,  is  permitted  to  remain  in  local 
treasuries  for  months  at  a  time,  some  of 
it  often  forgotten  and  finally  absorbed 
in  the  apportionment  or  in  the  congre- 
gational expense  account.  That  is  very 
discouraging  to  us  who  are  daily  strug- 
gling to  make  ends  meet. 

Some  of  the  replies  I  received  are  very 
illuminating.  One  is  offended,  another 
is  kind  and  polite.  One  apologizes, 
ai>other  explains.  But  on  the  whole,  the 
answers  are  satisfactory  and  heartening. 
Sometimes  I  am  discouraged  and  then  I 


receive  a  timely,  sympathetic  and  hopeful 
letter  which  causes  me  to  take  fresh  hold 
and  go  on  my  way  rejoicing.  Rejoicing 
because  the  problems  are  hard  to  solve 
for  there  is,  after  all,  no  glory  in  solving 
the  easy  ones. 

Thus  you  see,  my  friends,  that  we  have 
much  to  do.  I  have  written  these  obser- 
vations in  order  to  let  you  see  just  a  few 
of  our  daily  tasks,  knowing  full  well  that 
your  good  wishes  for  the  success  of  our 
work  are  genuine  and  sure.  What  I  have 
said  concerning  my  problems,  I  know 
pertains  to  practically  all  of  the  depart- 
ments and  phases  of  our  Church  work  as 
represented  by  all  the  Boards  that  are 
housed  in  the  Schaff  Building. 

One  good  brother  writes  that  all  of  the 
work  represented  here  is  ''top  heavy." 
But  that  is  another  story.  I  wish  it  were 
possible  for  him  to  come  and  see.  Those 
wko  come  usually  see  so  much  that  they 
go  away  well  satisfied  and  are  ready  to 
endorse  what  is  being  done. 


LITERATURE  FOR  THE  BLIND 

Estimates  indicate  between  70,000  and 
105,000  blind  people  in  the  country. 
Christian  Literature  available  in  form  for 
their  use  is  most  limited.  The  first 
volume  of  Dr.  George  Matheson's  book, 
entitled  ''Representative  Men  of  the 
Bible,"  and  a  short  sketch  of  Dr.  Mathe- 
son's life  will  be  published  and  dis- 
tributed. 


(Continued  from  Page  151) 
Church  near  Ephrata,  where  interment 
was  made.  The  following  ministers  offi- 
ciated at  the  services:  J.  M.  Mengle,  C. 
E.  Schaefter,  C.  E.  Creitz,  L.  M.  Erd- 
man,  Martin  Schweitzer. 


(Conthmed  from  page  156) 
bring  some  cheer  and  compensation  to 
their  far  spent  lives. 

3.  That  it  may  serve  to  awaken  a  ful- 
ler appreciation  and  a  larger  sense  of 
gratitude  in  those  who  under  better  con- 
ditions labor  on  in  their  work,  and  that 
it  may  be  an  inspiration  to  a  more  patient 
endurance,  and  to  a  more  daring  heroism 
in  the  Christian  conflicts  of  today. — The 
Christian  World. 


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Home  Missions 


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THE  COMMISSION  ON  SOCIAL  SERVICE  AND  RURAL 

WORK 

James  M.  Mullan,  Executive  Secretary 


REPORTS  OF  SYNODICAL  COMMITTEES 


FROM  the  reports  of  the  several  Syn- 
odical  Committees  to  their  respective 
bodies  at  the  last  annual  meetings  we  note 
the  following  significant  utterances  and 
recommendations : 
Eastern  Synod: 

"Your  Committee  earnestly  reiterates 
its  faith  in  the  social  message  and  min- 
istry of  the  Christian  Church.  That  faith 
alone  will  overcome  the  world  .  .  . 
Besides  this  militant  faith,  the  Church 
greatly  and  most  urgently  needs  to  face 
the  question:  By  what  method  can  the 
kingdom  of  God  be  most  efficiently 
propagated  and  consummated?  .  .  . 
The  Church  is  beginning  to  see  that  the 
organic  and  effective  way  of  establishing 
the  kingdom  of  God  is  through  the  con- 
servation of  her  children  and  youth  by 
means  of  genuine  Christian  education  in 
home,  church  and  school.  We  are  per- 
suaded that  it  is  the  Spirit  of  God  who  is 
leading  the  Church  into  these  new  paths 
of  vision  and  venture.  And  we  believe 
that  our  Reformed  Church,  with  her 
noble  educational  heritage,  is  called  of 
God  to  take  a  foremost  place  in  this  great 
endeavor  to  place  the  child  into  the 
midst  of  all  our  labors  for  the  kingdom." 
Potomac  Synod: 

"Your  Committee  on  Social  Service 
and  Rural  Work  is  pleased  to  report  that 
there  is  an  increasing  interest  in  our  sub- 
ject and  that  a  considerable  amount  of 
work  is  being  done  in  some  localities, 
both  urban  and  rural,  for  the  betterment 
of  living  conditions.  The  human  social 
needs  are  greater  in  the  country  than  in 
the  city  and  many  of  our  rural  churches 
have  put  on  programs  that  have  afforded 
both  adults  and  young  people  a  more  ade- 
quate opportunity  to  live  under  con- 
structive environment.  We  heartily 
commend  those  pastors  and  congrega- 
tions that  are  trying  to  work  out  for  their 
communities  the  social  needs  as  they  see 
them,  and  we  believe  that  with  the  con- 


tinued study  of  the  subject  we  may 
expect  to  see  increased  results  from  year 
to  year." 

Pittsburgh  Synod: 

"Your  Committee  fears  that  all  too 
many  persons  think  of  Social  Service  in 
terms  of  a  program  to  be  executed,  rather 
than  a  spirit  to  be  cultivated  and  utilized. 
A  harmonious  life  is  to  be  developed  and 
that  includes  both  all  individuals  and  all 
relationships.  'Where  two  or  three  are 
gathered  together  in  My  name,  there  am  I 
in  the  midst  of  them,'  has  surely  a  wider 
application  than  merely  considering  it  in 
reference  to  a  church  meeting.  Where 
two  or  three  are  gathered  together  in  the 
home,  in  the  school,  in  a  business  trans- 
action, in  an  industrial  concern,  in  poli- 
tics, in  the  office,  on  the  playground,  in 
church,  in  any  relationship  whatsoever, 
there  Social  Service  is  involved  and  is 
possible,  and  is  obligatory  upon  the 
Christian.  Too  many  men  are  waiting 
for  a  program  for  Social  Service  unmind- 
ful of  the  fact  that  public  worship, 
religious  education  and  the  various  agen- 
cies of  the  Church  to  meet  local  needs 
are  fundamental  forms  of  Social  Service. 
A  socialized  church  is  a  church  that  by 
sermon,  worship,  education  and  agencies 
to  meet  local  needs,  seeks  to  make  the 
Gospel  of  Christ  and  the  principles  of 
His  teachings  effective  in  social  relation- 
ships, with  the  great  objective  of  a  Chris- 
tian Social  Order  always  in  view.  .  .  . 
The  Church  must  concern  herself  about 
work  and  play,  home  and  health,  educa- 
tion and  ideals,  beauty  and  art,  as  well 
as  religion.  We  must  see  the  rural  prob- 
lem in  this  larger  social  aspect  also." 

Ohio  Synod: 

"That  in  view  of  the  urgent  needs  of 
the  rural  chruches  and  the  extensive  ter- 
ritory to  be  covered,  with  only  one  gen- 
eral Rural  Worker,  this  Synod  provide 
a  full-time  Synodical  Rural  Field 
Worker    to    co-operate    with  General 


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Synod's    Commission."     (This  recom- 
mendation was  adopted,  to  take  effect  at 
once^  and  Rev.  C.  W.  Brugh  was  elected 
to  fill  the  position.) 
Mid- West  Synod: 

''That  the  Synod  help  to  the  extent  of 
$75.00  to  create  a  loan  library  of  books 
on  Rural  Church  Work,  at  the  Mission 
House,  for  use  by  pastors  at  the  cost  of 
the  postal  charges  for  the  transmission  of 
the  books. 

"That  the  program  committee  be 
instructed  to  set  aside  adequate  time  for 
two  simultaneous  open  forum  discussions 
on  the  city  and  rural  church's  conditions 
and  methods;  these  conferences  to  be 
planned  and  conducted  by  the  Synodical 
Commission  on  Social  Service  and  Rural 
Work." 

Synod  of  the  Northwest: 

"The  social  service  of  the  Christian 
Church  is  founded  upon  the  human  rela- 
tionship to  God  as  brought  about  through 
Jesus  Christ  our  Saviour. 

"The  social  service  of  the  Church  can 
be  accomplished  efficiently  only  as  the 
Church  recognizes  and  acknowledges  the 


absolute  authority  of  the  Word  of  God, 
seeks  its  direction  in  this  Word,  and 
works  by  this  Word. 

"That  social  service  must  be  borne  by 
the  spirit  of  brotherly  love. 

"The  goal  of  social  service  must  be  the 
glorification  of  God  in  Christ  Jesus. 

"The  officers  of  Synod  are  instructed 
to  make  arrangements  for  a  lecture  at 
the  next  session  of  Synod  on  the  topic, 
'The  Christian's  Attitude  on  the  Social 
Question.' " 

The  above  Synods  all  have  provided 
for  a  Committee  on  Social  Service  and 
Rural  Work,  and  authorized  the  sending 
of  the  chairman  in  each  instance  to  the 
annual  meeting  of  the  General  Synod's 
Commission.  They  called  attention  of 
classes  or  pastors  to  the  Summer 
Schools,  and  with  one  exception  solicited 
the  co-operation  of  the  rural  pastors  in 
the  Commission's  efforts  to  complete  the 
survey  being  made  of  the  entire  Rural 
Reformed  Church.  Other  important 
actions  were  also  taken  in  support  of 
social  service  and  rural  work. 


RELIGIOUS  DRAMAS 


There  is  a  Committee  on  Religious 
Dramas  that  should  be  of  considerable 
value  to  church  leaders  and  organizations 
in  search  of  religious  plays  and  pageants 
for  amateur  production.  The  Committee 
was  appointed  some  time  since  by  the 
Commission  on  the  Church  and  Social 
Service  of  the  Federal  Council  in 
response  to  increasing  demands  for  mate- 
rial not  only  for  the  purpose  of  enter- 
tainment, but  also,  and  chiefly,  for  relig- 
ious educational  purposes  on  the  part  of 
young  people's  groups. 

The  Committee  expects  to  issue  an 
annual  volume  of  religious  dramas  which 
it  is  hoped  will  be  a  standard  collection 
to  which  religious  leaders  in  search  of 
such  material  will  turn  instead  of  being 
obliged  to  go  through  numberless  pam- 
phlets and  manuscripts. 

The  first  book  has  been  prepared  and 
published,  entitled  "Religious  Dramas, 
1924."  It  contains  ten  plays,  selected 
after  a  most  conscientious  and  painstak- 
ing work  of  reading  and  evaluating  liter- 
ally hundreds  of  plays.    The  plays  were 


selected  with  regard  to  religious  mes- 
sage, dramatic  technique,  literary  qual- 
ity, and  educational  merit.  They  consist 
of  three  types :  First,  Biblical  Dramas ; 
second,  fellowship  plays  and  projects, 
centering  around  Christian  community 
building  both  at  home  and  abroad ;  and 
third,  extra-Biblical  plays  of  the  individ- 
ual spiritual  life. 

Rev.  Fred  Eastman  is  chairman  of  the 
Committee.  He  says  of  the  plays  in  this 
book — they  have  "come  through  fire," 
referring  to  the  process  of  selection 
through  which  they  were  chosen.  "Never 
before  has  any  such  collection  been  made. 
It  was  attempted  because  of  the  increas- 
ing demand  from  churches  and  various 
religious  organizations  for  plays  and 
pageants  that  could  be  produced  by  ama- 
teurs in  churches  and  parish  houses." 

The  book  has  been  published  by  the 
Century  Company  and  can  be  obtained 
through  our  Publication  and  Sunday 
School  Board,  at  1505  Race  Street,  Phila- 
delphia, Pa.    Price,  $2.00. 


Foreign  Missions 

Allen  R.  Bartholomew,  Editor 


Beneath  the  cross  of  Jesus  I  fain  would  take  my  stand, 

The  shadow  of  a  mighty  Rock  within  a  weary  land ; 

A  home  within  the  wilderness,  a  rest  upon  the  way. 

From  the  burning  of  the  noontide  heat  and  the  burden  of  the  day. 


CAN  WE  GIVE  TOO  MUCH? 


SO  much  is  being  said  about  giving,  in 
our  day,  that  some  of  us  have  come  to 
believe  that  we  are  giving  too  much.  It 
is  no  proof  that  much  is  given  because 
we  hear  so  much  about  it.  On  the  con- 
trary, may  it  not  be  true  that  too  little  is 
given  to  the  work  of  the  Lord  ? 

Giving  is  a  test  of  living.  Christians 
who  give  not,  do  not  live.  They  cannot 
grow  and  they  do  not  prosper.  They  may 
have  a  name  to  Hve,  but  are  dead.  We 
can  be  like  Christ  only  as  we  give  like 
He  gives.  "He  gave  Himself  for  us." 
There  should  be  no  Hmit  to  our  giving, 
except  it  be  the  Hmit  of  need  and  ability. 

"There's  a  wideness  in  God's  mercy, 
Like  the  wideness  of  the  sea." 

Giving  is  a  test  of  faith.  It  is  a  testi- 
mony of  the  love  we  bear  for  Christ  in 
our  hearts  in  the  face  of  an  unbelieving 
world.  We  should  give  as  unto  the  Lord, 
and  not  for  self-glory. 

St.  Paul  gave  the  Christians  at  Corinth 
a  plan  that  we  do  well  to  adopt  in  our 
giving.  It  is  sound,  simple  and  scrip- 
tural. Set  apart  each  week  a  certain 
amount  as  the  Lord  has  given  us  earning 
capacity.  This  is  a  very  convenient 
method  for  most  people.  Giving  "every 
week"  insures  that  we  give  regularly. 
The  great  trouble  with  so  many  people  is 
that  they  give  too  seldom.  Paul's  plan 
also  helps  us  to  know  how  much  we  give. 
Those  who  do  not  give  regularly  think 
they  give  many  times  as  much  as  they 
really  do  give.  Some  Christians  must 
blush  when  they  find  out  how  little  they 
give  for  the  spread  of  the  Gospel  in  all 
the  world. 

"The  first  day"  of  the  week  is  fixed  as 
the  most  suitable  time  for  giving  to  the 


Lord.  How  appropriate  the  day — "the 
day  of  all  the  best,  emblem  of  eternal 
rest."  We  receive  our  most  sacred 
thoughts  on  the  Lord's  day.  It  is  a 
reminder  of  the  great  resurrection  gift  of 
Christ  to  the  Church.  What  act  can  be 
more  beautiful,  than  giving,  for  the  holy 
day !   Who  could  refuse  to  give  then  ? 

The  amount  of  our  giving  is  to  be 
determined  by  our  getting.  If  we  receive 
little,  our  gifts  can  be  small.  If  we 
receive  much,  our  gifts  should  be  large. 
In  either  case,  the  blessing  will  be  sure. 
Our  prosperity  is  to  be  the  measure  of 
our  liberality.  God  gave  to  us  that  we 
may  give  to  others.  He  trusts  us,  and 
we  are  to  trust  Him  that  He  will  give  us 
all  things  richly  to  enjoy. 

Every  Christian  should  be  a  giving 
Christian.  The  chief  cause  of  trouble  in 
many  congregations  is  that  so  few  of  the 
members  are  giving  according  to  their 
ability.  We  are  to  give  freely,  willingly, 
heartily.  Whenever  people  are  forced  to 
give,  the  gift  loses  its  value.  Where  com- 
pulsion begins,  their  love  ends.  Jesus 
said,  "I  lay  down  my  life  for  the  sheep." 
His  was  a  voluntary  death.  As  we  think 
of  Jesus,  and  what  He  did  for  us,  should 
we  not  in  all  sincerity  say : 
"Were  the  whole  realm  of  nature  mine. 

That  were  a  present  far  too  small. 
Love  so  amazing,  so  divine. 

Demands  my  soul,  my  life,  my  all"  ? 


"My  sins,  my  sins,  my  Saviour! 

Their  guilt  I  never  knew 
Till  with  Thee  in  the  desert 

I  near  Thy  passion  drew ; 
Till  with  Thee  in  the  garden 

I  heard  Thy  pleading  prayer, 
And  saw  Thy  sweat-drops  bloody 

That  told  Thy  sorrow  there." 


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[April 


A  YOUNG  WILSON  FOR  JAPAN 

YEARS  ago  there  was  a  fine  boy  in 
the  Middle  School  Department  of 
North  Japan  College.  His  name  was 
Gidan  Suzuki.  He  was  reared  in  the 
home  of  a  Christian  rninister,  and  him- 
self early  gave  his  heart  to  God.  He  was 
bright  in  his  studies,  and  a  good  writer 
and  speaker.  In  the  Inter-school  Ora- 
torical Contest  of  the  city  he  took  first 
prize. 

After  graduation  from  the  Middle 
School  he  entered  the  government  col- 
lege, and  from  there  the  Law  Depart- 
ment of  the  Tokyo  Imperial  Universitiy. 
His  standing  in  the  University  was  such 
that  he  was  asked  to  become  a  university 
professor  after  graduation  and  proper 
preliminary  preparation.  He  remained 
in  his  university  for  two  years,  pursuing 
post-graduate  studies.  Then  the  gov- 
ernment sent  him  for  three  years  of 
study  in  Europe.  His  subject  was  the 
science  of  government.  He  studied  under 
the  best  men  in  Europe  in  his  line — in 
Italy,  France,  Germany  and  England. 

On  his  way  back  to  Japan  he  stopped 
in  America  for  some  time.  As  was  nat- 
ural he  visited  his  former  teacher  in  Lan- 
caster, Pa.,  and  told  his  experiences  and 


Prof.  Gidan  Suzuki 


plans.  He  is  to  be  professor  of  the 
science  of  government  in  the  Tohoku 
University,  located  at  Sendai.  He  will  be 
right  across  the  street  from  North  Japan 
College,  his  mother  school.  With  the 
splendid  training  he  has  had  he  will  be 
one  of  the  greatest  authorities  on  the 
science  of  government  in  the  Far  East. 
And  he  will  not  only  be  an  authority, 
but  he  will  be  a  leading  force  in  realizing 
his  political  ideals  in  his  own  country. 
He  will  be  a  young  Wilson  in  Japan.  And 
what  are  his  ideals  ?  They  are  the  ideals 
of  democracy,  brotherhood  and  interna- 
tional good  will — the  same  as  those  of 
the  lamented  ex-President,  whom  he 
admired  as  one  of  earth's  greatest. 

And  what  is  there  beneath  these  ideals, 
and  what  is  their  dynamic?  It  is  a  sin- 
cere and  earnest  Christian  heart.  He 
told  me  that  his  happiest  hours  in  Europe 
were  when  he  attended  the  services  of  a 
little  church  in  the  outskirts  of  Berlin, 
where  a  faithful  pastor  broke  to  his  pious 
flock  the  bread  of  life.  This  young 
man  will  be  one  of  the  makers  of  a 
newer,  more  Christ-like  Japan.  And  so 
the  leaven  of  North  Japan  College  goes 
working  on.  D.  B.  Schneder. 


100  PER  CENT  HONOR  ROLL 

The  following  Societies  are  100% — 
every  member  a  subscriber  to  The  Out- 
look OF  Missions  : 

Salem,  Buffalo,  N.  Y. 

Emanuel,  Lincolnton,  N.  C. 

Dubbs  Memorial,  Allentown,  Pa. 

St.  John's,  Bucyrus,  O. 

Ohmer  Park,  Dayton,  O. 

First,  Greensboro,  N.  C. 

First,  Nashville,  Tenn. 

Immanuel,  Indianapolis,  Ind. 

St.  John's,  4th,  Baltimore,  Md. 


(Continued  from  Page  172) 

world  in  the  best  sense.  "Therefore,  my 
beloved  brethren,  be  ye  steadfast,  unmov- 
able,  always  abounding  in  the  work  of  the 
Lord,  forasmuch  as  ye  know  that  your 
labor  is  not  in  vain  in  the  Lord." 

Sincerely  yours, 

William  Edwin  Hoy. 


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KANDA  CHURCH,  TOKYO,  JAPAN 
Henry  K.  Miller,  D.D. 


VERY  few,  if  any,  members  of  the 
Kanda  Church,  when  they  read  or 
heard  about  the  Jewish  tabernacle  in  the 
wilderness  imagined  that  the  time  would 
ever  come  when  their  house  of  God  also 
would  be  a  tent.  As  soon  after  the  great 
earthquake  of  September  1,  1923,  as 
arrangements  could  be  made,  church 
services  were  held  in  some  of  the  mem- 
bers' homes  and  in  the  Tokyo  Mission- 
ary Residence.  This  was  a  very  incon- 
venient way  of  doing  things  and  in  the 
course  of  time.  Pastor  K.  Kodaira 
secured  from  the  Japan  Sunday  School 
Association  two  U.  S.  Army  tents  and 
had  them  pitched  on  the  lot  where  the 
burnt  church  building  had  stood.  The 
larger  one  was  used  for  meetings,  and  the 
smaller  for  the  missionary's  Adult  Bible 
Class  and  other  purposes.  In  the  larger 
tent  army  cots  were  used  for  seats. 
Attendance  under  the  circumstances  was 
a  rather  shivering  experience,  but  it  is 
surprising  how  many  people  came. 

The  urgent  need  for  a  building  of  some 
sort  was  quickly  recognized.  With  a 
view  to  modernizing  Tokyo,  the  authori- 
ties announced  that  the  erection  of  per- 


manent buildings  would  not  be  permitted 
for  some  years.  Even  had  there  been  no 
such  prohibition,  it  would  have  been 
impossible  for  us  to  put  up  a  permanent 
church  building,  for,  first,  we  have  no 
land,  the  former  building  having  stood 
on  a  very  small  rented  lot  of  ground,  and, 
second,  we  did  not  have  the  needed 
money.  Hence,  it  was  decided  to  build  a 
shack  or  ''barrack"  on  the  site  of  the  .old 
building  at  an  estimated  cost  of  $2500. 
The  inevitable  complications  soon  arose, 
the  contractor  not  being  able  to  handle 
the  job,  and  thus  the  work  was  delayed. 
However,  the  temporary  building  was 
sufficiently  near  completion  to  permit  it 
to  be  dedicated  on  December  23rd.  Also 
the  Christmas  celebration  of  the  Sunday 
School  was  held  in  it  December  25th. 
The  presents  distributed  to  the  children, 
aside  from  the  usual  cakes  and  oranges, 
consisted  of  articles  for  school  use.  Sun- 
day morning  church  services  have  been 
held  in  the  ''barrack"  regularly  since 
then.  In  due  time  the  other  services  will 
be  resumed. 

There  is  an  attendance  of  more  than 
sixty  at  the  Sunday  School  service.  At 


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first  the  pupils  were  all  newcomers,  but 
gradually  a  few  of  the  former  ones  put 
in  an  appearance. 

As  a  form  of  relief  work,  a  kinder- 
garten was  started.  In  this  the  Japan 
Sunday  School  Association  co-operated 
with  the  Kanda  Church.  It  paid  the 
kindergartner's  salary  for  three  months 
and  later  made  a  monetary  contribution. 
Since  January  1st,  1924,  this  work  has 
been  under  the  care  of  the  Mission's  Kin- 
dergarten Committee.  A  casual  visitor, 
noting  the  lack  of  equipment  and  other 
deficiencies,  might  form  a  poor  opinion 
of  the  enterprise,  but  things  will  get  into 
good  running  order  in  due  time.  Mean- 
while some  of  the  many  children  whose 
homes  were  burnt  are  kept  off  the  streets 
and  are  under  good  influence. 

In  Kanda  Ward  there  lived  few 
abjectly  poor  people.  The  population, 
aside  from  a  considerable  number  of  stu- 
dents, was  largely  made  up  of  the  mer- 
cantile class.  Of  course,  these  suffered 
heavy  losses,  but,  with  a  little  aid  in  the 
way  of  food  and  clothing,  many  are 
making  a  new  start.  However,  members 
of  Kanda  Church  that  were  burnt  out 
have  not  been  able  to  contribute  much  to 
the  support  of  the  church.  The  Mission 
has  assumed  the  entire  support  of  the 
church  for  at   least  six  months  after 


the  earthquake.  By  the  end  of  February 
the  congregation  financially  will  be  nearly 
where  it  was  before  the  great  calamity. 

While  there  is  need  for  relief  work, 
the  chief  emphasis  ought  to  be  placed  on 
reconstruction,  and  our  Reformed  Church 
people  can  afford  a  vast  amount  of  real 
aid  by  making  it  possible  for  the  congre- 
gation to  acquire  a  new  church  home, 
for  the  members  cannot  under  present 
circumstances  do  much  themselves  along 
this  line.  To  acquire  land  and  erect  a 
suitable  church  building  adapted  to  mod- 
ern metropolitan  conditions  will  cost 
$50,000  or  even  more. 

A  beginning  in  this  important  work  has 
been  made.  In  a  suburb  called  Kofu  a 
good  lot  at  a  moderate  price  has  been 
secured,  and  work  has  been  started  on 
the  parsonage  for  Kanda  church.  The 
rented  house  at  present  occupied  by  Mr. 
Kodaira  was  so  badly  damaged  by  the 
great  earthquake  that  the  owner  decided 
to  sell  it  rather  than  spend  a  large  sum  of 
money  on  repairs.  Hence,  Mr.  Kodaira 
received  notice  to  quit,  and  the  building 
of  a  parsonage  became  a  pressing  neces- 
sity, it  being  practically  impossible  to  rent 
another  house.  This  project  will  cost 
nearly  $4,500,  which  amount  is  to  come 
out  of  the  Kanda  church  building  fund. 


TRAVEL  S 

Christopher 

December  2,  lizaka.  Here  is  a  tiny  lot 
and  a  tiny  chapel  built  some  years  ago, 
the  whole  having  cost  $500.  Pastor  Seo 
is  an  old  friend ;  he  delights  to  tell  how 
he  got  his  first  impression  of  Christianity 
from  hearing  me  sing  and  preach  at  a  big 
meeting  at  Sakata  twenty-odd  years  ago. 
He  has  called  me  to  baptize  two  young 
men  and  two  young  women.  He  and  his 
wife  and  four  children  haVe  no  place  to 
lay  their  heads  except  on  the  mats  in  the 
rear  of  the  little  chapel.  I  promise  to  do 
all  in  my  power  to  secure  the  little  sum 
necessary  to  help  build  a  decent  house  for 
them.  At  the  same  time  I  remind  him 
that  the  congregation  owes  the  Mission 
a  small  sum  borrowed  when  the  lot  was 
bought  and  the  present  chapel  built.  He 


Noss,  D.D. 

says  that  the  people  who  incurred  that 
obligation  are  gone.  I  tell  him  that  it  will 
not-  do  to  allow  the  stigma  of  an  unpaid 
debt  to  rest  upon  the  church,  and  he 
says  that  he  will  see  to  it  that  it  be  wiped 
out. 

I  lodge  in  a  large  Japanese  inn  built 
on  the  edge  of  a  ravine  over  one  of  the 
hot  springs,  rich  in  radium  salts,  that 
have  made  lizaka  famous.  The  builder, 
Mr.  Horie,  a  former  member  of  the 
church,  has  lately  gone  to  his  reward. 
Mrs.  Horie  treats  me  as  if  I  were  a 
prince.  I  vow  once  more  that  next  trip  I 
will  bring  Mrs.  Noss  to  enjoy  with  me 
the  rare  scenery  and  the  wonderful  o  yu 
(hot  water.)  A  Mr.  Nozaki  from  the 
nearby  village  of  Amarume  calls,  and  we 


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talk  of  the  old  days  when  our  mutual 
friend,  Pastor  Ichimura,  boarded  at  the 
little  inn  kept  by  the  Hories  down  in 
the  town  and  sowed  the  good  seed  of  the 
Gospel  in  this  region. 

December  15,  Hizume.  Here  is  a 
young  pastor,  Mr.  Sabanai,  who  believes 
in  country  folks,  especially  country  chil- 
dren. He  runs  a  kindergarten  at  Hizume 
in  a  building  belonging  to  the  community. 
I  am  asked  to  speak  to  the  audience  gath- 
ered in  that  building  Saturday  evening. 
On  the  way  from  the  railway  station  to 
Hizume  we  pass  through  the  village  of 
Akaishi,  where  one  of  the  branch  Sunday 
Schools  (really  a  Saturday  afternoon 
school  in  this  case)  has  been  started,  and 
I  must  needs  talk  to  these  children  also. 
How  one's  heart  goes  out  to  them !  They 
may  be  uncouth,  but  so  wbolesorrie  and 
unspoiled.  At  Hizume  I  ask  the  leading 
member  what  he  would  wish  me  to  speak 
of.  His  face  lights  up  and  he  says, 
'Tlease  talk  about  'The  Joyful  Life.'  " 
Then  he  shows  me  a  copy  of  a  little  tract 


which  I  wrote  three  years  ago,  urging 
personal  Christian  work.  I  sent  out  sev- 
eral thousand  copies,  and  never  heard  of 
them  afterwards.  Concluding  that  the 
appeal  had  fallen  flat,  I  forgot  the  very 
existence  of  the  tract.  But  here  in 
Hizume  I  find  one  who  seems  through 
it  to  have  learned  the  secret  of  a  happy 
Hfe. 

After  a  restful  night  at  the  inn  in  the 
village,  I  rise  early  and  walk  down  the 
valley  to  the  railway  station,  Mr.  Sab- 
anai accompanying  me.  Sleet  and  snow 
have  fallen  in  the  night,  and  the  scenery 
is  intoxicating.  Sabanai  San  tells  me 
that  he  is  raising  money  to  buy  a  lot  this 
year,  and  to  build  a  chapel  next  year, 
taking  advantage  of  the  new  one-third 
and  two-thirds  offer. 

December  16,  Kawamata.  Stopping  at 
home  just  long  enough  to  eat  a  bit  with 
the  family  at  the  noon-meal,  I  go  on  by 
train  again  to  Kawamata.  From  the  rail- 
way station  at  Matsukawa  one  rides  in  an 
overcrowded  autobus.   This  ride  I  do  not 


Pastor  Se:o  and  FamiIvY,  Iizaka,  Japan 
-For  lack  of  parsonage,  they  live  on  a  few  mats  in  the  rear  of  the  tiny  chapel  built 
10  years  ago.    Wanted:    $1,500  for  a  parsonage  at  this  place 


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enjoy.  I  reflect  with  satisfaction  that 
papers  are  in  order  in  the  vault  at  the 
Mission  Office.  It  is  a  rough  mountain 
road  down  the  side  of  the  valley  of  the 
Abukuma  River,  over  a  dizzy  swaying 
bridge  with  precipitous  approaches,  up 
out  of  the  valley  and  over  the  hills. 
Moreover  the  seats  are  arranged  for 
Japanese  thighs,  so  that  there  is  no  place 
for  a  westerner's  knees  except  under  his 
chin. 

Kawamata  is  pastorless.  Mr.  Utsugi, 
a  valiant  man,  has  been  drafted  into  the 
army.  There  is  a  woman  evangelist, 
formerly  Miss  Seki,  of  my  own  Waka- 
matsu,  now  married  to  Mr.  Higashi,  of 
the  San  Francisco  Y.  M.  C.  A.  They 
were  friends  at  school  and  became 
engaged.  Then  he  slipped  off  without  a 
proper  passport,  got  into  California 
somehow,  and  later  sent  for  her.  The 
Japanese  Foreign  Office  refused  her  a 
passport.  Then  he  came  over  after  her 
and  got  into  trouble  with  the  authorities 
in  consequence.  But  he  was  able  at  last 
to  get  permission  to  return  to  California, 
and  the  two  are  about  to  sail  as  these 
lines  are  being  written.  These  two 
friends  gather  for  me  a  fine  congregation. 

January  12,  Kogota.  Elder  Momma, 
who  is  a  Christian  first  and  incidentally  a 
man  of  affairs,  acts  here  as  agent  of  the 
Lord  of  Soma  (Nakamura),  who  owns 
a  great  deal  of  land  in  the  vicinity.  In 
the  local  Agricultural  School  there  are 
twelve  Christian  students,  who  with  the 
cordial  permission  of  the  authorities  are 
today  organizing  a  Y.  M.  C.  A.  I  am 
asked  to  address  the  whole  student-body 
at  the  close  of  the  week's  work,  Satur- 
day noon.  I  dine  with  the  master  of  the 
dormitory,  a  Greek  Christian,  who  is 
most  cordial.  The  afternoon  is  spent  with 
the  young  men.  Various  speeches  are 
made;  but  I  think  that  the  best  is  that 
of  Mr.  Momma,  who  says  that  the  young 
men  should  feel  free  to  go  in  and  out  of 
his  home  as  if  it  were  their  own.  In 
the  evening  a  large  meeting  for  the  pub- 
lic is  held  at  the  home  of  Mr.  Momma. 
I  am  entertained  overnight  at  the  home 
of  a  young  man  whom  I  baptized  some 
time  ago,  who  hopes  to  enter  the  Semi- 
nary in  April.  The  home  is  spacious, 
having  been  formerly  a  hotel,  now  put 


out  of  business  by  the  coming  of  the  rail- 
way. Another  young  man  is  pathetically 
eager  to  become  a  minister.  His  father, 
who  formerly  held  the  position  now  occu- 
pied by  Mr.  Momma,  has  lost  his  health. 
Mr.  Momma  and  I  have  a  talk  with  the 
family  and  succeed  in  persuading  the 
young  man  that  in  the  circumstances  it 
is  his  duty  to  remain  a  layman  and  help 
his  father. 

January  13,  Ishinomaki.  The  new 
chapel  has  just  been  finished.  Only  the 
hardware  ordered  from  America  has 
been  delayed  by  conditions  at  Yokohama. 
So  the  windows  are  temporarily  fastened 
with  nails.  Consequently  we  are  almost 
suffocated  by  the  odor  of  the  fresh  var- 
nish. But  we  have  a  delightful  service 
of  worship  in  the  new  sanctuary.  Pastor 
Nakayama  is  one  of  my  disciples.  I 
found  him  at  the  potter's  wheel  thir- 
teen years  ago  at  Hongo,  near  Waka- 
matsu.  In  my  sermon  I  discuss  the  thesis 
of  Stoddard's  "Revolt  Against  Civiliza- 
tion," saying  that  we  need  not  worry 
about  bad  heredity,  which,  after  all,  is 
very  much  the  same  for  all  of  us,  but 
have  confidence  that  by  the  power  of 
Christ  we  all  may  be  made  over  into  new 
men,  especially  if  we  take  good  care  of 
our  children. 

Then  we  have  a  long  session  with  the 
Committee  of  the  Church.  The  congrega- 
tion has  promised  to  raise  $2,750  toward 
the  cost  of  the  project,  but  recently  there 
have  been  signs  of  flinching.  We  at  the 
Office  are  asked  to  credit  certain  expendi- 
tures which  are  of  a  local  character  and 
do  not  belong  to  the  project  itself.  Elder 
Sugano  is  quite  emphatic  at  times.  He 
is  the  treasurer  and  has  to  bear  the  brunt 
of  it  all.  But  finally  all  see  the  reason- 
ableness of  our  position,  and  it  is  heartily 
resolved  to  pay  up  in  full.  The  pastor 
invites  Elder  Sugano  to  stay  for  dinner, 
Mrs.  Nakayama  serves  a  delightful 
repast  of  rice  and  eels,  and  the  Pastor, 
Elder  and  I  climb  the  hill  to  enjoy  the 
view  of  the  Bay  of  Sendai  and  the  mouth 
of  the  Kitakami  River. 

January  20,  Wakuya.  This  is  one  of 
the  principal  towns  in  Miyagi  Ken. 
There  are  two  churches,  Congregational- 
ist  and  ''Christian;"  hence  we  have  not 
started     one.     The  Congregationalist 


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Church  is  pastorless;  but  it  carries  on, 
having  the  powerful  support  of  the  chief 
banker  and  business-man  of  the  place, 
Mr.  Yokoyama.  He  was  wild  in  his 
younger  days,  but  was  impressed  by  the 
preaching  of  Dr.  DeForest.  Then  came 
a  serious  illness  and  a  sudden  conversion. 
He  has  Professor  Kajiwara  visit  his 
home  once  a  month,  inviting  the  princi- 
pal men  of  the  town  to  hear  a  lecture  on 
the  Bible,   and  they  come,   from  the 


Mayor  down.  On  this  occasion  it  is  my 
privilege  to  address  the  gathering  in  Mr. 
Yokoyama's  mansion  and  be  the  guest 
of  the  family.  One  could  ask  no  more 
delightful  opportunity.  I  have  heard 
since  that  a  delegation  from  the  Congre- 
gationalist  Church  has  inspected  the  new 
chapel  planned  for  Ishinomaki  by  Mr. 
Guinther,  announcing  the  intention  of 
building  one  like  it  in  Wakuya. 

— Jottings  from  Japan. 


HAS  JAPAN  THE  STAMINA  TO  RECOVER? 
(Excerpts  from  an  article  by  Dr.  Charles  S.  Reifsynder,  of  Tokyo) 


'*Before  the  earthquake  Japan  had 
decided  on  a  new  foreign  policy ;  namely, 
the  attainment  of  national  power,  not 
through  imperial,  militaristic  expansion, 
but  through  industrial  development.  .  . 
The  earthquake  has  unquestionably  fixed 
this  policy.  .  .  . 

"Immediately  after  the  earthquake, 
one  of  the  first  acts  of  Premier  Yama- 
moto  and  his  partially  formed  cabinet 
was  to  cut  the  army  and  navy  appropria- 
tion in  the  budget.  ... 

''Out  of  the  earthquake  Japan  has  won 
a  sounder  esteem  than  that  which  fol- 
lowed the  Russo-Japanese  War.  Then, 
together  with  admiration  for  the  plucky 
little  nation  successfully  fighting  the 
giant,  there  was  a  feeling  of  amused  con- 
descension, which  soon  turned  to  dislike. 
It  became  mutual.  But  I  have  seen  a 
transformation  in  attitude  take  place  in 
both  Japan  and  the  United  States.  .  .  . 
The  immediate  response  of  America  to 
Japan's  need  came  as  a  tremendous  sur- 
prise to  the  Japanese  people.  In  travel- 
ing in  and  out  of  Tokyo  on  the  trains 
and  afoot,  with  the  refugees,  I  heard  over 
and  over  such  words  as  these:  'We  have 
suspected  the  intentions  of  the  United 
States  towards  us.  As  we  saw  its  power 
revealed  in  the  war,  we  felt  that  sooner 
or  later  this  power  would  be  used  against 
us.'  .  .  .  'But  now  that  you  have  so 
wonderfully  come  to  our  relief,  we  know 
that  your  friendship  must  be  real.' 

"The  certainty  that  Japan  after  the 
earthquake  has  a  greater  destiny  than 
before  lies  in  the  nature  of  its  leadership 
and  the  character  of  its  people.  .  .  . 


There  has  been  some  adverse  comment 
on  ministerial  leadership  as  exhibited 
during  the  disaster.  There  is  the  specific 
charge  that  the  government  obstructed 
the  American  destroyer  fleet  in  its  relief 
work.  In  this  case  I  happen  to  know  the 
facts.  .  .  .  The  action  of  the  Japanese 
admiral  was  based  on  a  standing  order, 
and  he  had  not  been  notified  of  the  spe- 
cial permission  granted  by  the  Navy 
Department.  There  was  no  opposition 
to  foreign  relief  but  rather  a  lack  of 
co-ordination  between  the  Navy  Depart- 
ment and  the  lesser  officers.  The  matter 
was  closed  and  there  were  no  further 
incidents  of  similar  character.  .  .  .  • 

"In  most  cases,  charges  of  official  slow- 
ness, listlessness  and  lack  of  control 
came  from  the  port-city  foreigner,  who 
has  a  chronic  complaint  against  the  gov- 
ernment. In  my  opinion  the  government 
met  the  crisis  with  energy  and  resource- 
fulness. 

"Again,  the  holding  up  of  the  cable- 
grams of  foreigners  is  charged  against 
the  government.  The  truth  of  the  matter 
is  that  the  government  gave  foreigners 
precedence  over  its  own  people.  I  heard 
a  man  at  American  Embassy  headquar- 
ters say  that  he  had  been  at  the  Foreign 
Office  when  a  Japanese  remarked  that 
Ambassador  Hanihara,  at  Washington, 
must  be  happy  to  have  found  out  his  fam- 
ily in  Tokyo  is  safe.  'But  he  doesn't 
know,'  answered  those  to  whom  the  man 
was  speaking,  'we  haven't  yet  sent  him 
word.' 

"As  a  phase  of  its  thoughtfulness  in 
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[April 


AFTER  MANY  DAYS 

Dear  Friends  in  the  Reformed  Church : 

I  recently  visited  Shanghai  and  Nan- 
king on  business  and  in  attendance  at  a 
large  educational  conference.  I  do  not 
wish  to  write  about  the  educational  con- 
ference at  this  time.  I  wish  to  repro- 
duce, in  spirit  at  least,  some  of  the  experi- 
ences I  had  on  board  steamers  down  the 
river  and  up  the  river. 

I  sailed  from  Hankow  on  a  Japanese 
steamer.  I  found  the  captain  one  of  the 
most  genial  men  I  have  ever  met ;  and  we 
had  many  conversations  on  things  Japa- 
nese in  general  and  on  Christian  educa- 
tion in  Japan  in  particular.  He  knew  a 
great  deal  about  the  history  of  North 
Japan  College  and  he  had  some  knowl- 
edge of  the  two  founders  of  North  Japan 
College  and  also  of  Dr.  Moore,  Dr. 
Schneder,  Dr.  Noss  and  Dr.  Faust.  It 
did  my  heart  good  to  hear  him  speak  in 
the  warmest  commendation  of  our  work 
in  Tokyo  and  in  Sendai  and  vicinity. 
This  man  went  out  of  his  way  in  his 
attentions  to  my  daily  comfort  while  on 
board.  We  encountered  cold  rain  and 
snow  storms;  and  it  was  his  great  care 
that  I  should  be  comfortable. 

On  board  the  steamer  were  several 
Japanese  families  from  Hankow  going 
home  on  furlough.  Imagine,  if  you  can, 
the  pleasure  that  broke  forth  on  the  coun- 
tenances of  the  women  when  they  learned 
that  I  knew,  years  ago,  their  old  teach- 
ers in  the  Girls'  School  which  they 
attended  in  Tokyo  and  that  I  knew  some 
of  the  teachers  there  today.  I  could  tell 
them  many  things  about  their  teachers. 

These  women,  their  husbands  and 
children  are  Christians,  and  I  know  that 
they  carry  in  their  lives  a  likeness  unto 
Him  whom  they  love.  One  of  the  little 
boys  came  to  me  one  day  and  said  in 
English,  as  well  as  in  Japanese,  'T  love 
Jesus  and  I  love  you."  It  was  indeed  a 
pleasure  to  have  prayer  with  these  people. 
It  brought  home  to  me  the  fact  that  those 
who  labor  in  Christian  schools  in  the 
Far  East  build  better  than  they  know 
and  that  their  work  is  multiplying  and 
carried  out  into  the  various  duties,  rela- 
tions and  services  in  life  and  reproduced 
in  this  way  as  good  seed,  many  times 


in  good  soil.  I  am  convinced  that  the 
Far  East  is  being  leavened  in  many,  many 
ways. 

On  my  return  trip  I  again  met  with 
the  kindest  personal  appreciation  and 
attention  on  the  part  of  the  captain. 
Among  the  passengers  was  a  middle-aged 
man,  born  in  Sendai.  Our  conversation 
was  like  unrolling  an  old-time  manuscript 
of  the  earlier  years  in  Sendai.  He  knows 
many  of  our  missionaries  and  quite  a 
number  of  missionaries  of  other  denomi- 
nations throughout  Japan;  and  he  con- 
stantly spoke  in  the  highest  terms  of 
appreciation  of  the  work  in  Sendai,  and 
he  mentioned  some  of  the  missionaries 
by  name.  He  had  heard  of  the  efforts  of 
the  early  founders  of  North  Japan  Col- 
lege and  the  Girls'  School.  Of  the  Girl's 
School  products  he  had  this  to  say.  ''My 
wife  and  her  two  sisters  and  nine  other 
girls  from  among  our  relatives  are  grad- 
uates of  the  Reformed  Church  Girls' 
School  in  Sendai."  Then  he  told  me  a 
long  story  about  his  grandfather  who  was 
at  one  time  a  prominent  figure  in  Sendai 
and  whom  I  knew  and  who  is  now  way 
down  in  Formosa  living  an  official  life  in 
a  small  way  and  yet  living  a  Christian 
life  in  a  big  way,  and  who  writes  today, 
"I  am  serving  Christ  in  Formosa;  I  am 
following  Him ;  I  am  making  Him  known 
in  every  way  I  can.  I  am  over  eighty 
years  of  age.  Sometimes  in  a  family  way 
I  am  lonely;  but  in  God's  way  I  am 
always  at  peace." 

Dear  friends,  this  is  but  a  side  light  on 
my  experience  on  board  steamers  up 
and  down  the  great  Yangtze  within  the 
last  few  weeks.  You  see  in  a  few  words 
how  I  came  into  contact  with  streams  of 
Christian  life  that  have  issued  from 
Christian  work  in  Tokyo  and  Sendai; 
but  what  all  these  experiences  mean  to 
me  I  am  not  able  to  tell  you.  It  is  impos- 
sible for  you,  or  any  other  person,  to 
follow  the  life  currents  that  issue  from 
Christian  centers  of  religious  work.  No 
doubt  the  same  thing  occurs  in  all 
Christian  countries;  and  what  a  blessed 
assurance  it  is  that  wJien  we  sometimes 
get  tired  and  are  discouraged,  the  great 
source  of  life  is  pulsating  through  people 
whom  we  influenced  for  Christ  and  the 
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FIRST  CHRISTIAN  FUNERAL  IN  YUNGSUI 


WHO  ever  heard  of  a  person  dying 
where  the  family  did  not  call  in 
any  priests  to  bang  drums  and  mumble 
incantations?  Why  everybody  burns 
paper  money  and  fragrance  sticks  at  a 
funeral !  Don't  these  Christians  burn  any 
paper  money?  These  and  a  number  of 
other  questions  passed  about  among  the 
crowds  who  came  to  see  how  the  Chris- 
tians would  conduct  the  first  Christian 
funeral  in  Yungsui. 

Mr.  Tang  was  an  old  style  school 
teacher  and  very  well  known  in  the  city 
and  the  country  round  about.  He  was 
sixty-four  years  of  age.  He  had  two 
daughters  but  no  son,  which  is  considered 
a  great  misfortune  in  China.  His  teach- 
ing in  country  schools  brought  him  little 
more  than  his  food.  His  wife  and  one 
widowed  daughter  made  their  own  living 
at  home  by  making  bean  curd  for  sale. 
The  old  gentleman  had  been  teaching 
school  about  twelve  miles  from  Yungsui. 
His  old  malady  of  consumption  renewed 
its  ravages.  The  family  w4th  whom  he 
was  staying  in  the  country,  fearing  he 
would  die,  had  him  carried  to  the  city  at 
night.  After  getting  home  he  soon 
appeared  to  be  much  better.  On  Sunday 
before  Christmas  he  was  present  at  the 
communion  service.  On  the  following 
morning  he  met  with  the  Christians  at  the 
organization  of  the  Yungsui  Church.  He 
was  in  the  best  of  spirits  and  spoke  sev- 


FiRST  Christians  Baptized  at 
Yungsui,  China,  Easter,  1923 
Mr.  Tang  sits  at  the  extreme  right 


eral  times  in  the  meeting.  On  the  way 
home  he  became  very  weak  and  had  to 
be  helped  to  his  room.  Soon  after  reach- 
ing home  he  peacefully  passed  away. 
Since  the"  family  were  in  such  straitened 
circumstances  the  Christians  took  up  a 
donation  toward  the  purchase  of  a  coffin. 

It  is  customary  in  the  Chinese  Church 
to  have  several  preaching  services  at  a 
house  while  the  corpse  is  waiting  burial. 
The  friends  of  the  deceased  in  China 
think  they  are  not  respecting  their  dead 
unless  they  are  making  a  show  with  noise,, 
firecrackers,  feast  and  so  on.  They 
like  lots  of  noise  instead  of  the  quiet 
which  is  the  sign  of  Christian  training. 
Early  Christmas  morning  about  sixty  or 
seventy  people  gathered  on  the  street  in 
front  of  the  house  for  a  service.  The 
house  was  too  small  for  even  a  small 
crowd.  The  coffin  was  placed  in  the 
room  opening  into  the  street.  Another 
meeting  was  held  that  evening  at  which 
several  hundred  people  gathered  and 
packed  the  narrow  street  for  some  dis- 
tance each  way  from  the  house. 

The  next  morning  about  eight  o'clock, 
the  Christians,  enquirers,  Sunday  School 
children  and  friends  collected  at  the 
house  to  escort  the  body  to  the  grave 
about  a  mile  and  a  half  from  the  city. 
The  coffin  was  one  of  the  ordinary 
Chinese  heavy,  wooden  type.  It  required 
sixteen  men  to  carry  it.  The  children 
sang  hymns  as  we  passed  through  the 
street.  Flags  and  banners  were  carried 
for  a  short  distance  beyond  the  town 
limits.  At  the  grave  there  was  a  hymn, 
prayer  and  a  few  words  of  comfort  and 
exhortation  to  the  bereaved. 

We  have  heard  from  many  sources  that 
people  are  saying  that  if  the  Christians 
care  for  their  dead  in  this  manner  then 
we  will  not  believe  the  rumors  formcrly 
spread  about.  It  had  been  reported  that 
believers  of  the  foreign  doctrine  had  no 
regard  for  the  dead. 

Ward  Hartmax. 
Yungsui,  Hunan,  China. 


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THE  TASK  OF  OUR  CHURCH  IN  CHINA 

Matt.  11:4,  5.  And  Jesus  answered  and  said  unto  them,  Go  and  tell  John  the 
things  which  ye  hear  and  see ;  the  blind  receive  their  sight,  and  the  lame  walk,  the 
lepers  are  cleansed,  and  the  deaf  hear,  and  the  dead  are  raised  up,  and  the  poor 
have  good  tidings  preached  to  them. 


HOW  frequently  are  we  missionaries 
struck  by  the  fact  that  conditions  in 
China  often  give  an  illuminating  insight 
into  our  Bible  study.  The  same  social 
conditions  against  which  Amos  thun- 
dered are  daily  disclosed  before  our 
eyes.  The  same  worship  of  Mammon 
against  which  Jesus  fought  an  apparently 
losing  battle  presents  a  Chinese  wall 
which  we  find  it  most  difficult  to  pene- 
trate. Paul  was  called  by  the  Spirit  into 
Macedonia  but  no  large  delegation  of 
Philippians  welcomed  him  when  he 
entered  that  city.  Even  so,  we  who  have 
been  called  to  preach  the  Gospel  in  China 
find  most  of  the  people  quite  indifferent 
to  our  efforts.  And  yet  we  know  that 
we  have  been  called  to  this  work  and  that 
the  Spirit  of  Jesus  is  leading  us  in  it.  Ion 
Keith- Falconer  has  said,  ''A  call  is  a  need 
made  known  and  the  power  to  meet  tJtat 
need."  With  this  definition  in  mind,  per- 
haps there  can  be  no  better  way  to  show 
the  task  of  our  Church  than  to  show 
briefly  conditions  in  China  today. 

Any  student  of  economics  soon  notices 
the  extremes  of  wealth  and  poverty  in 
this  country.  The  Bible  student  at  once 
thinks  of  the  Israelites  who  lounged  on 
ivory  cots,  fattened  by  their  ill-gotten 
gains.  There  are  poor  people  in  America 
but  really  we  Americans  do  not  know 
the  meaning  of  poverty.  We  mission- 
aries see  it  at  its  worst  daily.  We  Amer- 
icans pride  ourselves  on  having  the  rich- 
est men  in  the  world,  but  if  one  bears  in 
mind  comparative  values,  China  has  men 
as  rich,  probably  richer,  than  our  Rocke- 
fellers and  Fords. 

Going  hand  in  hand  with  such  extremes 
in  wealth  is  found  its  twin  brother,  exploi- 
tation of  the  poor  by  the  rich.  The  scale 
of  wages  is  so  low  that  a  workman  can- 
not support  his  wife  and  children  on  his 
wages.  His  wife  and  children  must  go 
out  and  work.  Clerks  in  the  store  are 
paid  a  very  poor  wage  because,  says  the 
astute  shopkeeper,  '*He  is  sure  to  steal 


enough  to  make  it  up."  When  sickness 
or  death  comes  into  a  poor  family  money 
must  be  borrowed.  Two  to  seven  per 
cent  a  month  is  by  no  means  an  unusual 
rate  of  interest.  The  result  is  financial 
slavery. 

As  for  the  blind,  the  insane,  the  lepers, 
and  the  like,  their  case  is  simply  hopeless. 
Like  Lazarus,  they  sit  at  the  rich  man's 
door  and  beg.  Just  the  other  week  a  man 
in  the  hospital  chose  to  die  rather  than 
have  his  leg  amputated.  Such  cases  are 
not  rare. 

Aggravating  these  conditions  in  the 
Port-cities,  not  yet  in  Hunan — is  the 
introduction  of  the  factory  system.  Large 
factories  in  Shanghai,  Hankow,  and 
other  cities  most  shamefully  exploit 
labor,  especially  women  and  children. 
We  people  in  Western  Hunan  must  look 
forward  to  such  conditions  in  the  future, 
for  coal  is  plentiful  and  of  good  quality 
while  the  many  rapids  of  the  rivers  are 
all  waiting  for  their  electrical  harness. 

We  do  not  wish  to  give  the  idea  that 
the  rich  people  of  China  are  unusually 
heartless.  Just  as  in  America  and 
Europe,  greed  and  selfishness  are  found 
in  extreme  forms.  How  many  years  has 
it  taken  the  Gospel  of  Jesus  to  penetrate 
into  the  social  life  of  America  and 
Europe,  and  how  far  are  we  from  the 
goal  that  Jesus  set  for  us !  Before  Chris- 
tianity came  to  China,  the  rich  had  organ- 
ized many  philanthropic  societies  such  as 
Life  Saving  Societies  on  Rivers  and 
Lakes,  orphanages,  public  granaries 
where  food  is  stored  for  the  poorer 
classes  against  famines.  Societies  for 
Furnishing  Coffins  to  Paupers,  etc. 
These  societies  are  often  very  well  man- 
aged. But  they  lack  the  motive  spirit 
and  too  often  are  merely  alleviating.  No 
preventive  measures  have  been  taken 
except — in  so  far  as  I  know — where  mis- 
sionaries have  opened  schools  for  the 
blind,  hospitals  both  general  and  leper, 
orphanages  filled  with  the  loving  Spirit 


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of  Jesus  Christ,  etc.  The  missionaries 
are  being  imitated  by  the  Chinese,  usually 
Christian  Chinese,  in  forwarding  such 
work.  Missionaries  have  also  taken  the 
lead  in  establishing  playgrounds,  cleaning 
cities,  and  in  fighting  girl-slavery,  opium, 
intoxicating  liquors,  fool^-binding,  and 
other  harmful  practices. 

M11.1TARY — Bandits — Opium 
The  above  conditions  in  China  are 
aggravated  at  the  present  time  by  the 
military — bandit — opium  situation.  I 
deliberately  treat  soldiers  and  bandits 
together  as  the  soldiers  and  bandits  are 
viciously  intertwined.  Estimates  of  the 
number  of  soldiers  in  China  vary  from 
one  million  to  two  million  five  hundred 
thousand,  the  latter  number  being  prob- 
ably the  more  nearly  correct.  The  excuse 
for  such  a  large  number  of  soldiers  is 
bandit  suppression.  But  no  real  organ- 
ized attempt  is  made  to  suppress  the  ban- 
dits. In  fact,  one  is  often  forced  to  the 
conclusion  that  the  military  and  the  ban- 
dits have  a  thorough  understanding. 
Only  those  bandits  who  are  at  enmity 
with  the  soldiers  are  suppressed.  In  fact, 
soldiers  become  bandits  and  bandits 
become  soldiers  daily.  Many  of  the  most 
prominent  military  officials  in  China  have 
been  bandits  at  some  time  in  their  career, 
usually  getting  their  start  as  successful 
brigands.  I  am  in  no  sense  a  military 
man,  but  from  what  I  have  heard  and 
seen  I  venture  the  assertion  that  if  Chi- 
nese officialdom  really  wished  to  sup- 
press the  bandits,  two  hundred  thousand 
well  drilled  and  equipped  soldiers — 
properly  led — could  utterly  crush  ban- 
ditry in  a  comparatively  short  time. 

Under  present  conditions  the  people 
suffer  grievously.  Soldiers  and  bandits 
are  alike  feared  by  farm  villages  and 
small  cities.  In  fact,  many  of  them 
frankly  state  their  preference  for  the 
bandits.  When  fighting  takes  place, 
either  between  soldiers  and  soldiers,  ban- 
dits and  bandits,  or  soldiers  and  bandits, 
villages  and  cities  are  looted  and  burned, 
women  are  raped,  girls  are  carried  off  as 
slaves  to  soldiers  and  bandits,  men, 
women  and  children  are  murdered.  At 
such  times  the  only  hope  of  the  people 
is  the  missionary  and  his  home  as  a  haven 


of  refuge.  And  even  this  hope  is  gradu- 
ally disappearing.  Bandits  are  every- 
where seizing  foreigners  and  holding 
them  for  ransom.  We  of  Western 
Huhan  have  again  and  again  been  fortu- 
nate in  escaping  such  danger.  At  present 
our  district  is  in  the  hands  of  competent 
military  men  who  are  gradually  suppres- 
sing all  bandits,  either  by  driving  them 
out  or  taking  them  into  the  army. 

Hand  and  glove  with  militarism  goes 
opium.  A  few  years  ago  opium-growing 
was  almost  wiped  out  in  China.  But  the 
military  men  need  money  to  keep  up  their 
establishments.  Unable  to  get  it  from 
legitimate  sources,  they  have  encouraged 
the  growth  and  trade  in  opium,  in  some 
cases  even  forcing  it  upon  the  people. 
The  pipe  is  everywhere  seen,  used  openly 
in  many  cases.  Calling  on  the  commander 
of  our  district  the  other  week,  I  was 
unable  to  see  him  because  he  was  smok- 
ing opium.  Going  from  his  headquar- 
ters directly  to  the  headquarters  of  an 
under-officer,  I  was  escorted  into  his 
office  where  he  was  stretched  out  on  a 
couch  cooking  his  pill  preparatory  to  a 
smoke.  Apparently  no  shame  attaches 
to  the  use  of  opium  today.  General  Chen 
has  established  quite  large  and  efficient 
schools  in  Paotsing,  the  money  for  which 
all  comes  from  the  taxes  and  sale  of 
opium. 

The  great  mass  of  the  Chinese,  both 
educated  and  illiterate,  are  ignorant  of 
hygienic  laws.  Diseases  and  suffering 
are  everywhere  found.  Chinese  doctors 
have  undoubtedly  found  good  remedies 
for  some  diseases,  but  medical  charges 
are  so  high  that  the  poor  cannot  afford 
them.  For  many  diseases  they  have  no 
remedy.  Of  surgery  they  are  woefully 
ignorant.  Missionary  hospitals  and 
Western  preventive  methods  taught  by 
missionaries  are  doing  much  to  meet 
these  conditions. 

While  the  Chinese  have  several  forms 
of  religion,  Confucianism,  Taoism,  and 
Buddhism  confusedly  intertwined — only 
sporadic  efforts  are  made  to  teach  the 
religious  truths  in  them.  To  most  of  the 
people — again  I  say  educated  and  illit- 
erate— these  religions  are  crass  supersti- 
tion. But  the  Christian  Church  is  teach- 
ing the  Gospel  to  poor  and  rich  alike,  and 


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the  list  of  those  who  have  found  life  in 
Christ  Jesus  is  daily  growing  longer. 

The  conditions  which  I  have  mentioned 
above  have  had  several  inevitable  results 
on  China.  Most  noticeable  is  the  wor- 
ship of  money.  The  one  aim  of  a  Chinese 
is  to  get  rich.  Poverty  and  its  attend- 
ant sufferings  can  be  escaped  only  by 
amassing  riches.  While  it  may  seem 
improbable,  yet  I  am  sure  the  power  of 
money  for  either  good  or  evil  is  greater 
in  China  than  in  America.  Rich  and 
poor  alike  think  and  talk  money.  Inquir- 
ers turn  cold  when  they  face  the  burden 
of  the  cross.  They  can  remain  in  good 
standing  at  their  temple  by  an  expendi- 
ture of  a  dollar  or  two  a  year.  Worship 
at  the  temple  once  a  year  is  all  that  is 
required.  The  Christian  Church,  with 
its  teachings  of  perpetual  service  and 
stewardship,  asks  entirely  too  much. 
Many  Chinese  are  willing  to  become  rice 
Christians,  that  is,  to  join  the  Church  for 
the  sake  of  a  good  job.  Mixed  motives 
are  often  found  among  American  Chris- 
tians. Jesus  Christ  fought  Mammon  from 
one  end  of  Palestine  to  the  other,  and 
Mammon  finally  hung  Him  on  the  cross. 
And  we  know  that  the  Risen  Christ  is 
walking  by  our  sides  through  Western 
Hunan  leading  and  guiding  us  in  our 
fight  against  Mammon  in  China.  By  His 
Grace,  we  are  winning  many  from  the 
service  of  wealth  to  the  service  of  God. 


I  would  not  have  you  think  that  the 
Chinese  are  a  miserable,  forlorn-looking 
people.  Many  of  them  are  certainly  mis- 
erable and  forlorn.  Yet  with  it  all  they 
are  a  happy  and  cheerful  people.  This 
is  no  doubt  in  part  due  to  the  fatalism 
that  is  everywhere  found.  Their  fight 
against  conditions  has  been  hopeless,  if 
indeed  one  can  find  any  fight  against 
conditions.  As  a  result,  in  cases  of  dis- 
tress or  suffering,  the  one  comforting 
word  offered  is  "Muh  yu  deh  fah-dz." 
(There  is  no  way.)  In  answer  to  this  we 
bring  a  message  that  in  Christ  Jesus 
there  is  a  zvay,  and  that  the  way  of  salva- 
tion. 

We  Americans  can  do  one  of  two 
things.  We  can  either  draw  into  our 
shells  like  fat  slimy  snails,  or  we  can 
lend  the  helping  hand.  The  Christian 
American  has  no  alternative.  He  must 
lend  the  helping  hand.  Jesus  Christ,  Son 
of  God,  came  to  His  people,  the  Jews. 
They  did  not  want  Him.  They  hung  Him 
on  a  cross.  But  thank  God,  He  came.  I 
have  tried  to  show  above  how  sadly  the 
Chinese  need  Him.  Our  Church  in 
America  must  answer  the  question 
whether  or  not  Jesus  Christ  shall  walk 
through  China  causing  the  blind  to  sec, 
the  deaf  to  hear,  the  lame  to  walk,  to 
preach  the  Gospel  to  the  suffering  people. 

J.  Frank  Buche:r. 
Shenchow,  Hunan,  China. 


NEW  CASTLES  OF  CATHAY 

"In  Xanadu  did  Kubla  Khan 
A  stately  pleasure  dome  decree," 


WHEN  reading  Coleridge  in  high 
school  and  college  many  of  us  per- 
haps have  wondered  just  what  sort  of 
a  palace  the  famous  old  Emperor  of 
China  built  for  himself.  Unfortunately 
we  know  little  about  it  beyond  the  dream 
of  the  poet.  There  are,  however,  new 
castles  in  Cathay  which  we  can  more  eas- 
ily investigate,  to  discover  in  what  man- 
ner they  have  been  erected.  These  new 
castles  of  Cathay,  like  the  young  Lochin- 
var,  have  come  out  of  the  West.  They 
are  the  churches,  the  hospitals  and  the 
schools  which  American  zeal  and  gener- 
osity have  placed  in  China. 


Lest  to  some  the  comparison  of  Mis- 
sion buildings  to  old  time  castles  seem 
somewhat  strained,  I  hasten  to  mention 
briefly  a  few  of  the  facts  which  lead  to 
this  resemblance.  Where  do  we  find 
buildings  created  with  infinite  labor, 
every  stone  and  stick  being  carefully  cut 
by  hand  ?  Where  do  we  find  the  artisans 
banding  themselves  together  into  guilds 
to  protect  themselves  from  the  rapacity 
of  military  governors  ?  Where  do  we  find 
these  governors,  like  petty  despots,  forc- 
ing the  merchants  who  pass  up  and  down 
the  rivers  to  pay  illegal  toll  on  all  their 
goods?    Surely  not  in  the  history  of  our 


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own  age  and  nation.  However,  the  his- 
tory of  the  Middle  Ages  records  all  of 
these  conditions  which  are  also  to  be 
found  in  China  today.  There  are  also 
some  outward  and  perhaps  more  strik- 
ing resemblances  between  our  own  past 
and  the  present  as  it  is  in  seen  in  China. 

Our  Mission  buildings  are  perched 
high  upon  a  hill  overlooking  the  river,  in 
true  medieval  style;  the  night  watch  still 
makes  a  clamor  at  night  to  inform  citi- 
zens that  all's  well ;  in  case  of  threatened 
attack  by  outlaws  the  city  gates  are  still 
closed  and  each  citizen  hangs  his  lantern 
in  his  doorway  and  stands  ready,  spear  in 
hand,  to  defend  his  altar  and  his  family. 

In  Shenchow  at  present  we  have  four 
buildings  nearing  completion,  two  resi- 
dences and  the  two  school  buildings. 
These  require  the  labor  of  about  one 
hundred  and  twenty  workmen.  Earlier 
when  there  was  more  sawing  and  stone 
cutting  to  be  done,  between  two  hundred 
and  fifty  and  three  hundred  persons  were 
employed.  These  figures  seem  imposing 
when  compared  with  the  amount  of  work 
but  one  must  not  lose  sight  of  the  fact 
that  in  America  the  work  could  be  done 
by  one  quarter  the  number.  Here  we 
have  no  machines  and  so  every  bucket  of 
cement,  every  plank  and  every  lath  must 
be  made  by  hand.  Were  it  not  for  the 
fact  that  the  price  of  labor  is  very  cheap, 
the  cost  of  building  would  be  prohibitive. 
The  contractor  pays  wages  that  are  per- 
haps slightly  higher  than  those  paid  by 
others  for  the  same  class  of  work,  yet  the 
day's  wages  of  a  sawyer  would  not  pay 
the  postage  on  two  letters  to  America 
and  the  price  of  a  "movie"  ticket  would 
more  than  pay  the  highest  priced  work- 
man. 

If  economies  are  made  in  wages,  the 
money  thus  saved  must  help  to  pay  the 
cost  of  materials.  Local  building  sup- 
plies are  not  especially  high  but  every- 
thing which  must  travel  any  distance  is 
sure  to  be  taxed  wherever  there  is  a 
local  customs  station  (and  their  name 
is  legion)  and  frequently  between.  By 
the  time  supplies  from  America  reach 
their  destination,  the  freight  and  custom 
duties  frequently  amount  to  practically 
as  much  as  the  original  cost  of  the  order. 


Another  difficulty  encountered  in 
building  in  China  is  the  obstinacy  of  the 
local  workmen  about  adopting  new 
methods.  The  apprentice  system  is  still 
in  vogue  in  China  and  the  workmen 
are  very  loathe  to  depart  from  the  time- 
honored  methods.  Even  such  a  simple 
matter  as  the  use  of  a  plumb  line  requires 
constant  supervision.  The  workmen 
insist  on  following  old  customs  and  cere- 
monies, and,  as  an  example  of  this,  all 
the  scaffoldings  have  a  twig  of  evergreen 
placed  at  the  top  to  bring  good  luck. 

The  slowness  with  which  the  workmen 
adopt  new  methods  is  one  of  the  reasons 
why  building  is  such  a  slow  process  in 
China.  Another  reason  is  the  difficulty 
of  navigation.  The  Yuan  river  has  a 
great  number  of  rapids  and  would  not  be 
considered  a  navigable  stream  in  any 
other  country.  At  some  seasons  of  the 
year  there  is  only  a  few  inches  of  water 
at  certain  places  and  supplies  arrive  very 
slowly.  Sometimes  forty  or  fifty  large 
junks  may  be  held  up  at  one  of  these 
rapids,  waiting  for  rain  to  swell  the  river 
so  that  they  can  pass  and  this  delay  may 
last  for  weeks  or  even  for  months.  As 
this  is  written  we  are  still  waiting  for  an 
order  of  goods  which  left  Changteh,  one 
hundred  and  twenty  miles  below,  more 
than  six  weeks  ago. 

However,  the  buildings  are  now  practi- 
cally completed.  A  few  more  months 
will  see  us  installed  in  them  and  blessing 
the  names  of  those  who  have  made  this 
increased  equipment  possible.  How 
much  of  a  blessing  it  will  be,  can  be  evi- 
dent only  to  one  who  knows  the  cramped 
quarters  in  which  the  schools  have  been 
working.  The  expansion  will  give  us 
opportunity  to  do  many  things  which  we 
have  dreamed  of  doing  but  which,  up 
until  now,  we  have  had  no  possibility  of 
carrying  out.  The  efficiency  of  our  work 
will  be  increased  one  hundred  per  cent 
by  this  improvement. 

Ethelbert  B.  Yosx. 
Shenchow,  Hunan,  China. 


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BOOK  REVIEWS 


Labour  in  India.  A  Study  of  the  Conditions 
of  Indian  Women  in  Modern  Industry.  By 
Janet  Harvey  Kelman.  Published  by  George 
H.  Doran  Company.    Price  $4.00  net. 

Within  an  almost  incredibly  short  time  eco- 
nomic and  social  conditions  in  India  have 
undergone  great  changes.  Miss  Kelman  spent 
sixteen  months  studying  these  changed  and 
changing  conditions,  v^^ith  special  attention  to 
the  work  of  women  in  factories  and  indus- 
tries. She  writes  of  the  causes  of  poverty, 
aspects  of  village  life,  habits  and  customs  of 
the  people.  She  then  describes  the  coming 
of  modern  industry,  tells  where  the  cotton  and 
jute  grow,  and  how  women  are  employed  in 
the  fields,  mills  and  factories.  She  discusses 
wages  and  methods  of  payment,  conditions 
within  mills,  housing,  health,  and  relations 
with  the  employers.  One  is  rather  startled  to 
learn  how  vast  a  number  of  the  women  in 
India  are  employed  in  work  outside  the  home ; 
how  they  give  opium  pills  to  babies  so  that 
they  may  keep  quiet  while  the  mother  is  ai 
work ;  how  underfed  and  tired  are  the  mothers 
and  children.  It  is  well  that  this  book  has 
been  so  ably  done.  It  should  be  widely  read. 
Women  in  India  and  industrial  problems  there 
are  important  subjects  of  the  times.  India  is 
not  remote ;  it  constitutes  a  large  part  of  the 
great  British  kingdom,  and  it  is  so  near  to  us 
that  all  of  its  problems  are  of  deep  interest. 


William  Carey.  The  Biography  of  the  Great 
Missionary  Pioneer.  By  S.  Pearce  Carey. 
Published  by  George  H.  Doran  Company, 
New  York.    Price  $3.50  net. 

Not  a  few  books  have  been  written  about 
"the  great  cobbler  missionary,"  certainly  one 
of  the  most  unusual  and  fascinating  characters 
in  missionary  literature.  Even  those,  how- 
ever, who  have  read  all  others  will  find  a 
great  deal  that  is  quite  new  in  the  present 
book,  by  the  great-grandson  of  Carey.  It  is 
a  complete  story  of  Carey's  life,  giving  details 
of  every  period  and  exhaustive  information 


gained  from  family  letters,  diaries  and  the 
like.  The  author  spent  some  years  in  India 
and  tells  us  he  "sojourned  in  every  place 
Carey  dwelt  in,"  while  he  studied  all  the  situ- 
ations of  Carey's  labors  and  searched  libraries 
in  Calcutta,  where  he  procured  much  perti- 
nent information.  Much  is  told  also  of  the 
family  life  of  this  devoted  missionary;  he  was 
married  three  times ;  the  wives  are  individually 
portrayed;  one  learns  of  the  character  and 
experiences  of  each.  Many  vivid  and  inter- 
esting incidents  are  described;  many  stories 
told  which  reveal  almost  marvelous  experi- 
ences. The  great  subject,  wealth  of  material 
and  literary  quality  make  this  exhaustive  and 
authoritative  life  one  of  the  great  missionary 
books.  It  is  excellently  illustrated  and  has 
a  good  index. 


The  Apostolic  Age.  By  William  Bancroft  Hill, 
D.D.  Published  by  Fleming  H.  Revell  Com- 
pany, New  York.    Price  $2.00  net. 

It  is  quite  probable  that  many  students  are 
needing  and  wantmg  just  this  sort  of  a  book. 
In  the  Introduction  the  author  says :  "The 
Apostolic  Age  is  for  every  student,  the  most 
important  period  of  church  history  except  his 
own."  Undoubtedly  this  is  a  very  true  state- 
ment; and  therefore  this  book  should  reach 
the  library  of  many  a  missionary  and  Chris- 
tian worker.  To  have  a  clear  knowledge  of 
the  beginnings  of  Christianity  is  very  essen- 
tial for  the  intelligent  thinker.  Professor  Hill 
has  made  such  a  comprehensive  study  of  these 
earliest  days  of  the  Christian  Church  and 
analyzed  the  methods  and  plans  of  the 
Apostles  in  such  a  manner  that  he  has  given 
us  a  most  helpful  book.  The  foreign  mission- 
ary is  constantly  coming  into  contact  with  the 
same  situations,  problems  and  characteristics 
as  those  of  the  Apostolic  Age.  To  know  that 
age  intimately  is  a  great  asset  to  his  effective 
life.  From  the  pages  of  this  book  he  may  get 
in  close  touch  with  those  first  missionary 
times  and  see  clearly  the  plan  of  his  work. 


(Continued  from  page  171) 
the  treatment  of  foreigners,  the  govern- 
ment displayed  toward  the  Chinese 
caught  in  the  disaster  an  attitude  worth 
remembering  in  view  of  the  usual  idea  of 
Japanese  feeling  toward  China.  The  gov- 
ernment is  expatriating  all  Chinese  in 
Tokyo  providing  them  with  free  trans- 
portation to  Shanghai  and  in  addition 
giving  students  fifty  yen  and  merchants, 
coolies  and  the  destitute  ten  yen.  There 


are  still  in  Tokyo  about  500  Chinese 
whom  the  government  is  housing. 

'T  regard  Japan  today  as  a  greater, 
stronger  nation  than  before  its  tremen- 
dous losses.  I  believe  the  earthquake  has 
given  it  the  opportunity  to  become  the 
moral,  spiritual  and  material  leader  of 
Asia.  .  .  .  Fortunately,  Japanese  fear 
of  the  attitude  of  the  world,  as  well  as 
Western  mistrust  of  Japanese  intentions, 
has  been  eliminated.  Beyond  a  doubt,  in 
my  opinion,  Japan  will  recover." — Asia. 


The  Woman's  Missionary 


Society 


Flora  Rahn  Lentz,  Editor, 
311  Market  St.,  Bangor,  Pa. 


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Go  labor  on;  spend  and  be  spent,  thy  joy  to  do  the  Father's  will; 
It  is  the  way  the  Master  went;  should  not  the  servant  tread  it  still? 
Go  labor  on;  enough,  while  here,  if  He  shall  praise  thee,  if  He  deign 
Thy  willing  heart  to  mark  and  cheer:  no  toil  for  Him  shall  be  in  vain. 


GAPS  IN  THE  FIELD  OF  HOME  MISSIONS 


THERE  live  in  America  some  people 
who  come  between,  who  do  not  fit 
into  any  denominational  missionary  pro- 
gram, whose  handicaps  cause  great  gaps 
in  an  otherwise  fairly  adequate  Home 
Mission  program.  Time  has  come  when 
Mission  Boards  can  no  longer  maintain 
an  oblivious  attitude  toward  the  situa- 
tions, when  they  can  no  longer  afford  the 
spiritual  escape  through  these  unoccupied 
gaps  in  the  Home  Mission  Field. 

During  the  last  few  years,  at  the 
Annual  Meeting  of  the  Home  Mission 
Council  and  the  Council  of  Women  for 
Home  Missions,  considerable  discussion 
has  been  directed  toward  ways  and  means 
of  reaching  with  the  Gospel  these 
neglected  groups  of  people.  This  year 
the  discussion  led  to  adopting  a  budget 
for  Joint  Co-operative  Service  as  fol- 
lows: Religious  Work  Directors  in  Gov- 
ernment Indian  Schools,  $11,200;  Stu- 
dent Fellozvship  for  Christian  Life  Serv- 
ice, $6,000;  Follow-up  of  New  Ameri- 
cans, $4,800 ;  Literature  for  the  Blind, 
$1,200;  Funds  for  Special  Work  of  Joint 
Committees,  $1,500. 

The  twenty-two  Women's  Mission 
Boards  constituent  to  the  Council  of 
Women  for  Home  Missions  will  be 
responsible  for  one-third  of  the  total,  or 
$8,233.  The  Woman's  Missionary 
Society  of  General  Synod  is  one  of  the 
Constituent  Boards  and  is  requested  to 
give  $150  toward  this  Co-operative 
Service. 

We  think  we  hear  some  one  ask, 
"Why  contribute  toward  putting  Relig- 
ious Directors  in  Government  Indian 
Schools  when  we  have  a  school  at  Neills- 


ville  for  Indian  children?"  A  great 
many  other  Mission  Boards  have  their 
Indian  Schools  and  yet  there  are  more 
than  thirty  thousand  children  enrolled  in 
Government  Schools.  The  first  Religious 
Work  Director  was  placed  in  a  Govern- 
ment Indian  School  in  1921 ;  this  year 
eight  of  the  schools  have  such  directors,, 
who  are  responsible  for  all  Protestant 
young  people  in  the  schools,  irrespective 
of  denomination.  The  officials  in  these 
schools  have  always  objected  to  denomi- 
national and  sectarian  teaching  but  wel- 
come the  inter-denominational  effort.  The 
opportunity  for  personal  work  is  very 
great. 

Either  the  thirty  thousand  children  in 
Government  Schools  must  be  deprived  of 
religious  instruction  or  Mission  Boards 
must  do  the  work  co-operatively. 

The  Student  Fellowship  for  Christian 
Life  Service — that  portion  of  the  Student 
Body  which  stresses  the  needs  of  the 
Home  Mission  Field — will  need  the 
financial  and  moral  support  of  Mission 
Boards  at  least  until  it  gets  a  real  start 
in  its  work. 

Another  most  worth  while  piece  of 
Home  Mission  service  is  the  recently 
established  system  of  Follow-up  of  New 
Americans  from  the  Port  of  Entry  until 
they  are  settled  in  their  first  American 
home.  When  the  fear  of  detention  or 
deportation  is  a  memory,  imagine  what 
it  must  mean  to  have  a  Christian  friend 
call  and  help  the  family  get  settled,  find 
a  suitable  Church  home,  get  the  children 
into  school,  etc.  The  year  1923  was  the 
first  complete  year  of  Follow-up  of  New 
American  service.    In  that  year  7,300 


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cases  were  referred  to  local  churches. 
Most  of  the  cases  were  families  with 
three  or  more  members.  It  is  estimated 
that  at  least  21,000  persons  were  touched 
by  this  work.  Some  of  these  were 
Reformed  people  and  were  helped  into 
Reformed  Churches.  Before  we  organ- 
ized this  Protestant  Follow-up,  we 
admired  the  efficient  system  as  it  was 
used  by  the  Roman  Church  and  Hebrew 
Societies.  Shall  we  share  in  the  Protes- 
tant responsibility? 

One  of  the  first  questions  likely  to  be 
asked  when  we  speak  of  Literature  for 
the  Blind,  is  "How  does  that  fall  into 
the  sphere  of  Home  Missions?"  If 
people  who  see  need  the  inspiration  of 
missionary  literature,  why  do  not  the 
blind  who  have  their  missionary  prob- 
lems as  they  come  into  contact  with 
•other  blind  people?  There  are  in  Amer- 
ica about  100,000  blind  persons.  The 
■supply  of  Christian  literature  in  braille  is 
most  limited  and  the  expense  involved  in 
publishing  and  distributing  it  so  great 
that  there  is  no  danger  of  overlapping  in 
this  work  even  if  many  organizations  and 
Boards  supply  literature.  The  American 
Bible  Society  provides  Bibles,  the  State 
•Commissions  for  the  Blind  are  interested 
but  the  cost  of  producing  has  greatly 
limited  the  supply  of  general  literature. 
If  there  is  to  be  missionary  literature  the 
Mission  Boards  must  make  suitable  pro- 
vision. We  are  preparing  the  children 
to  think  about  their  responsibility  to  the 
blind  through  a  chapter  devoted  to  the 
subject  in  the  1924-25  "Better  American 
Series"  for  leaders  of  Junior  Mission 
Study  Groups.  What  the  Mission  Boards 
are  asked  to  do  this  year  is  furnish  $1280 
to  co-operatively  publish  and  distribute 
the  first  volume  of  Dr.  George  Mathe- 
son's  book,  entitled  "Representative  Men 
-of  the  Bible,"  and  a  short  sketch  of  his 
life.  This  book  by  the  brilliant  blind 
preacher  and  author,  who  became  blind 
:at  the  threshold  of  his  career,  whose  han- 
dicap made  it  necessary  to  adjust  his 
plans  for  marriage  and  work,  will  be  an 
inspiration  to  those  who  cannot  see  but 
■can  read. 

We  trust  this  brief  outline  of  the  pro- 
posed plan  for  co-operative  service  will 
open  further  inquiries.    The  Executive 


Board  of  the  W.  M.  S.  G.  S.  will  be 
requested  to  give  $150  toward  it.  So 
far  the  W.  M.  S.  G.  S.  contributes  $200 
annually  toward  the  work  of  Farm  and 
Cannery  Migrants  With  the  additional 
$150  it  will  mean  $350  toward  co-opera- 
tive work  in  the  Home  Mission  Field. 
The  wisdom  of  doing  it  in  this  way  must 
appeal  to  everyone  as  an  economical  and 
logical  Protestant  approach  to  handi- 
capped and  neglected  groups  of  Ameri- 
cans. At  this  writing  it  seems  as  though 
it  might  be  a  seed  for  thought  that  the 
district  synods  should  take  responsibility 
for  one  or  more  pieces  of  the  proposed 
lines  of  service.  A  proportional  division 
of  the  $350  gives  $200  for  Farm  and 
Cannery  Migrants ;  about  $70  for  Direc- 
tors in  Government  Indian  Schools;  $35 
Student  Fellowship,  $25  Follow-up  of 
New  Americans;  $10  Christian  Litera- 
ture for  the  Blind;  $10  special  work  of 
Standing  Committees. 

When  the  Protestant  Church  learns 
to  co-operate.  Christian  progress  will  reg- 
ister accordingly  as  the  speed  of  the  auto- 
mobile exceeds  that  of  the  old  time  horse 
and  buggy  method  of  travel. 


NOTES 

The  article  entitled  "Slum  Life  in 
Japan,"  by  Sohei  Kowta,  a  senior  in 
Central  Theological  Seminary,  Dayton, 
Ohio,  gives  valuable  supplementary  read- 
ing for  Chapter  Six  of  "The  Woman  and 
the  Leaven." 

*  *  * 

The  theme  of  the  Prayer  Calendar  for 
1925  will  be  Stewardship. 

Missionary  enthusiasm  in  St.  Paul's 
Church,  Butler,  Pa.,  Rev.  H.  A.  Robb, 
pastor,  is  manifested  through  the  fine 
study  programs  of  the  two  missionary 
societies,  the  Girls'  Missionary  Guild  and 
the  Mission  Band.  In  connection  with  the 
mission  study  on  Japan,  the  Girls'  Mis- 
sionary Guild  is  studying  and  preparing 
the  pageant,  "The  Cross  Triumphant," 
which  they  hope  to  present  at  one  of  the 
Summer  Missionary  Conferences. 

*  *  * 

Rev.  Lee  H.  Downing,  of  the  African 
Inland  Mission,  gave  his  interesting  illus- 


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181 


trated  lecture  on  the  "Black  Savages  of 
the  Uganda  Colony,"  before  the  Woman's 
Missionary  Society  of  St.  Paul's  Re- 
formed Church,  Lancastei,  Pa.,  at  one 
of  their  recent  monthly  missionary  meet- 
ings. 

*  *  * 

The  address  of  Miss  Katharine  Laux, 
Corresponding  Secretary  of  the  W.  M.  S. 
of  Eastern  Synod,  is  changed  to  209  N. 
5th  Street,  Reading,  Pa.    Please  make  a 

note  of  the  change  in  your  directory. 

*  *  * 

Ickesburg,  Carlisle  Classis,  Potomac 
Synod,  organized  a  missionary  society 
with  six  charter  members,  January  20th, 
1924.  Organizer,  Mrs.  William  H.  Mil- 
ler. Mrs.  Miller  also  organized  a  mis- 
sionary society  in  the  same  charge  at 

Blain,  Pa.,  with  six  members. 

*  *  * 

Milltown,  N.  J.,  New  York  Classis, 
German  Synod  of  the  East,  organized 
January  21st,  1924,  twenty-nine  mem- 
bers; organized  by  Miss  Carrie  M. 
Kerschner. 

*  *  * 

Student  Secretary,  Miss  J.  Marion 
Jones,  upon  invitation  from  the  students 
of  Cedar  Crest  College,  Allentown,  Pa., 
visited  the  college  on  March  12th.  Plans 
are  being  arranged  for  visits  to  Ursinus, 
Hood  and  the  Normal  Schools  in  Eastern 

Pennsylvania  during  March  and  April. 

*  *  * 

Potential  leaders — that  is  what  we 
hope  the  278  Reformed  girls  who  are  at 
this  time  in  our  denominational  colleges, 
may  become.  For  the  first  time  in  its 
history  the  Woman's  Missionary  Society 
is  in  position  to  challenge  the  girls  in 
college. 

*  *  * 

During  the  year  6,500  copies  of  the 
Thank  Offering  Service,  entitled  "Among 
the  Sheaves,"  and  1400  copies  of  "Broken 
Bridges,"  the  Thank  Offering  pageant, 
were  sold. 


A  NEW  "AD"  FOR  EVERYLAND 

At  the  recent  services  in  Bangor,  Pa., 
for  the  United  Day  of  Prayer  for  Mis- 
sions, the  twenty-seven  children  who  sub- 
scribed for  the  magazine  told  what  they 
liked  best  about  it.    The  small  children 


told  that  their  mothers,  brothers  or  sis- 
ters read  it  to  them  and  the  older  children 
told  about  the  stories,  clubs,  conundrums, 
etc. 

The  price  of  the  magazine  and  the  rea- 
son for  its  publication  was  told  by  the 
Secretary  who  had  secured  the  subscrip 
tions  not  only  from  children  connected 
with  the  Reformed  Church  but  from 
other  Churches  in  the  town. 


THE  PRAYER  CALENDAR 
The  prayer  for  the  fifth  month  in  1924 
was  written  by  Mrs.  Vornholt,  of  New 
Bremen,  Ohio,  another  missionary 
mother  who  longs  for  a  glimpse  of  a 
mound  in  the  Orient,  for  her  daughter 
Mary  A.  Vornholt  is  buried  in  Sendai,. 
Japan. 

We  recall  the  sad  circumstances  which 
accompanied  the  early  death  of  Miss 
Vornholt,  from  diphtheria  on  March 
2nd,  1920.  Her  career  as  missionary 
teacher  was  brief  in  time  but  she 
crowded  so  much  of  love  into  it  that  hex 
influence  had  touched  many  young  lives. 

It  is  a  strange  coincidence  that  the 
May,  1920,  Outlook  of  Missions  was 
the  memorial  number  for  Miss  Vornholt 
and  that  Mrs.  Vornholt,  four  years  later, 
should  write  the  prayer  for  the  same 
month.  It  will  be  an  inspiration  to  again 
read  the  beautiful  tributes  recorded  in 
that  number. 


Miss  Nau,  Mrs.  Krietk,  Mr.  Kriete, 
Miss  Weed,  Miss  Otte  ;  Mrs. 
Watanabe,  Wife  of  Japanese 
Pastor  at  Yamagata,  Japan, 
with  Her  Baby  in  Center 


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Th^  Outlook  of  Missions 


[April 


MISS  ISKE  WILL  GO  TO  CHINA 

At  the  recent  meeting  of  the  Board  of 
Foreign  Missions,  Miss  Alma  Iske,  of 
Tiffin,  Ohio,  accepted  the  challenge  to  go 
to  China  as  a  missionary.  Miss  Iske  is 
the  third  woman  connected  with  the 
Woman's  Missionary  Society  of  General 
Synod  to  accept  the  challenge  for  foreign 
service  since  January,  1923.  At  that 
time  Miss  Mary  V.  Hoffheins  accepted 
the  challenge  to  go  to  Japan.  The  fol- 
lowing July  Miss  Mildred  Bailey — for  a 
number  of  years  the  efficient  Secretary 
in  the  Philadelphia  office — decided  to  go 
to  China  and  now  Miss  Iske  makes  the 
third  one  to  be  chosen. 

Since  September,  1921,  Miss  Iske  has 
l)een  Organizer  for  Girls'  Missionary 
Guilds  and  Mission  Bands.  The  record 
of  her  service  will  show  her  success  in 
the  field  of  organization.  Under  her 
enthusiasm  and  untiring  efforts  the  Girls' 
Missionary  Guilds  increased  in  large 
numbers  throughout  the  entire  Church. 

Mingled  with  the  feeling  of  regret  for 
the  loss  to  the  departments  in  which  she 
was  so  deeply  interested,  her  friends 
nevertheless  rejoice  that  the  Foreign 
Mission  Board  has  seen  well  to  recognize 
and  appreciate  her  qualifications  for  the 
larger  work  which  awaits  her  in  China. 


THE  MONTHLY  QUIZ 

1.  — Give  the  number  of  Indian  children 

enrolled  in  Government  Indian 
Schools. 

2.  — JVhat  service  ushers  in  the  National 

Convention  of  the  Y.  W.  C.  A.? 

3.  — Hozv  did  the  Japanese  Kindergarten 

children  help  zvith  their  mothers' 
Thanksgiving  party  f 

4.  — How   many    Reformed    girls  h 

Reformed  colleges? 

5.  — Have  you  read  ''Das  Kreiiz  Bringt 

Rosen 

6.  — Give  the  title  of  a  mentioned  book 

that  has  gone  through  300  editions? 

7.  — Name  the  man  who  founded  the 

first  Christian  university  in  Japan. 
What  does  the  name  mean? 

8.  — Who  was  Dr.  George  Mathesonf 

9.  — Name  the  nezv  missionary  from  the 

Executive  Board  of  the  W.  M.  G.  S. 
S.  under  appointment  for  China. 
10. — Who  zvrote  the  Prayer  in  the  Prayer 
Calendar  for  May? 


FORM  OF  BEQUEST 
I  give  and  bequeath  to  the  Woman's 
Missionary  Society  of  the  General  Synod 
of  the  Reformed  Church  in  the  United 
States,  of  which  Mrs.  Lewis  L.  Anewalt, 
of  814  Walnut  Street,  Allentown,  Pa.,  is 
treasurer,  the  sum  of  dollars. 


A  PARTIAL  LIST  OF  INTERDENOMINATIONAL  SCHOOLS  OF 

MISSIONS 

Dates  and  Chairmen  for  1924 

Boulder,  Colorado— June  18-26— Mrs.  Albert  A.  Reed,  670  Marion  St.,  Denver,  Col. 
Lake  Geneva,  Wisconsin— June  23-30— Mrs.  C.  W.  Peterson,  11132  S.  Hoyne  Ave., 
Chicago,  111. 

Minnesota-St.  Paul— June  9-14— Mrs.  J.  F.  Marlatte,  419  Newton  Ave.,  Noith 
Minnesota,  Minn. 

Mt.  Hermon,  California— July  5-12— Mrs.  Paul  Raymond,  90  Santa  Monica  Way, 
San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Northfield,  Massachusetts— July  7-14— Mrs.  T.  Raymond  St.  John,  341  Webster 
Ave.,  Long  Island  City,  N.  Y. 

Southern  California  (Los  Angeles) — June  2-6 — Mrs.  Q.  J.  Rowley,  181  S.  Virgil 
St.,  Los  Angeles,  California. 

Wilson  College,  Chambersburg,  Pa. — June  27- July  5 — Miss  Mary  Peacock,  Torres- 
dale,  Pennsylvania. 

Winona  Lake,  Indiana — June  16-23 — Mrs.  C.  W.  Peterson,  11132  S.  Hoyne  Ave., 
Chicago,  111. 

Chautauqua,  New  York — August  9-15 — ^Mrs.  John  Ferguson,  156  Fifth  Ave.,  N.  Y. 


1924] 


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183 


"DAS  KREUZ  BRINGT  ROSEN" 

(The  story  of  two  German  girls,  twin  sisters,  whose  parents  many  years  ago 
were  married  in  Zion  Reformed  Church,  Decatur,  Indiana,  later  returning'  to  Ger- 
many to  take  up  their  permanent  residence ;  who  through  an  interesting  and  fortu- 
nate experience  are  now  residents  of  the  fair  little  city  of  Decatur  and  members  of 
the  church  in  which  their  parents  were  wed.) 


Dear  Readers : 

Tarry  a  moment  and  ponder  upon  this 
word:  "Das  Kreuz  bringt  Rosen"  (The 
cross  brings  roses).  Does  it  mean  any- 
thing to  you?  Or  does  it  express  some- 
thing you  cannot  appreciate?  Then  let 
us  tell  you  the  story  of  our  life  and  per- 
haps you  will. 

In  faraway  Germany,  in  the  Rhein- 
pfalz,  noted  for  its  natural  beauties  as 
well  as  for  its  historic  scenes,  is  the  place 
we  call  home.  There,  in  the  blessed  fam- 
ily circle,  we  spent  the  beautiful,  carefree 
days  of  our  childhood.  Never  can  we 
forget  those  hours  when  at  our  Mother's 
knee  we  listened  to  the  Bible  stories  or 
in  company  with  our  Father  wandered 
through  the  green  woods  of  mid-summer. 

Only  too  soon  those  wonderful  years 
sped  by  and  we  were  rudely  awakened 
to  the  stern  realities  of  life.  Our  youth- 
ful ambitions  were  to  obtain  an  educa- 
tion, see  the  world  and  become  famous ; 
hut  God's  thoughts  are  not  our  thoughts ; 
instead  we  must  needs  bear  the  cross.  In 
1914,  when  we  were  just  14  years  of  age, 
those  dark  clouds,  which  soon  broke  into 
that  terrible  maelstrom  of  the  great  world 
war,  gathered  ominously  on  the  political 
horizon.  War,  with  its  destruction,  sac- 
rifice and  degradation  was  especially  hard 
for  us  because  of  the  location  of  our 
home  near  the  western  front.  Four  years 
the  thunder  of  cannon  shook  to  its  foun- 
dation the  ancient  home  in  which  we 
lived.  It  was  built  in  the  fifteenth  cen- 
tury and  had  seen  many  wars  before  this 
one,  but  the  structure  was  getting  weak 
in  some  parts  and  often  we  feared  it  must 
soon  crumble  and  fall.  Praise  God,  it 
still  stands.  We  saw  thousands  of  men 
and  boys  take  leave  of  their  loved  ones, 
most  of  them  never  to  return.  Our  own 
brother-in-law  left  us  to  follow  the  call 
of  his  country  and  never  came  back.  His 
final  resting  place  is  among  the  thousands 
of  others  in  the  blood-soaked  earth  of 


Compress  Hill  near  Verdun,  in  France. 
He  was  the  second  son  to  be  taken  within 
two  months,  from  his  mother  by  the  war. 
O,  the  nerve-shattering  reports  that  daily 
came  from  the  front.  But  such  times 
drive  the  people  to  God.  \Miere  could  we 
have  found  any  comfort  or  hope  had  not 
He  who  carried  the  cross  before  us  been 
constantly  at  our  side?  Friends,  do  not 
curse  your  cross^  but  remember  that  your 
Lord  will  eventually  convert  it  into  a 
crown. 

How  wonderfully  the  Lord  has  helped 
us!  At  last  in  1918— peace !  The  can- 
non were  silenced  and  hearts  began  to 
glow  with  new  hope.  It  seemed  that  con- 
ditions would  soon  become  much  Detter 
for  people.  Instead,  especially  in  Ger- 
many, things  became  worse.  The  struggle 
for  bare  existence  soon  grew  to  a  stern 
reality  and  finally,  worst  of  all,  came 
hunger,  constantly  and  always  there, 
never  satisfied.  Our  widowed  sister  with 
her  four  little  orphaned  children  was 
especially  hard-pressed.  Then  God 
showed  us  a  way  out. 

Our  parents,  who  had  spent  a  number 
of  years  in  America,  in  fact  had  been 
united  in  marriage  there,  but  had  not 
remained,  suggested  to  us  the  thought  of 
coming  to  this  land  of  unlimited  possi- 
bilities. On  the  8th  of  January,  1922, 
we  wrote  a  letter  asking  if  someone 
would  be  kind  enough  to  forward  the 
means  and  open  the  way  for  us  to  come. 
Having  no  relatives  and  not  knowing  if 
the  former  acquaintances  of  our  parents 
in  America  were  still  living  we  addressed 
the  letter  to  "Das  Pfarramt"  (To  the 
Pastor),  Decatur,  Indiana.  The  letter, 
after  some  delay,  reached  its  intended 
destination  and  an  answer  came  back. 
To  our  great  surprise  and  gratitude  it 
contained  an  oflPer  to  help  us  come  to 
America  and  give  us  a  home  after  we 
should  reach  there  with  Mr.  and  Mrs.  F. 
H.  Heuer,  who  were  totally  unknown  to 


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[April 


our  parents.  After  some  correspondence 
and  the  making  of  necessary  arrange- 
ments, for  the  most  of  which  we  grate- 
fully acknowledge  the  kindness  of  Mr. 
Matthias  Kirsch,  of  Decatur,  who  is  well 
known  to  many  Reformed  people,  we 
were  finally  ready  on  the  15th  of  August, 
1922,  to  bid  farewell  to  home  and  loved 
ones. 

You  may  imagine  that  it  was  not  an 
easy  thing  to  say  good-bye  to  all  that  was 
near  and  dear  to  us ;  to  a  good  mother 
and  a  godly  father,  to  brothers  and  sis- 
ters, friends  and  companions  of  youth,  to 
our  mother  t(3ngue  and  the  homeland  and 
finally  to  strike  out  into  a  new  world  and 
an  uncertain  future.  On  the  19th  of 
August  we  boarded  ship  in  Hamburg. 
Often  during  the  trip  across  the  Atlantic 
our  courage  nearly  failed  us  when  we 
thought  of  the  past  and  present  and  most 
of  all  the  uncertainty  of  what  the  future 
had  in  store  for  us.  At  such  times  we 
could  comfort  ourselves  with  the  words: 
*'E'en  though  the  way  I  cannot  see; 
Thou,  O  God,  leadest  me."  We  landed 
safely  in  New  York  on  September  2nd. 
Our  first  night  in  America  was  spent  in 
the  Hudson  House,  that  well-known 
refuge  of  immigrants  and  emigrants.  We 
gratefully   acknowledge   the   help  and 


kindness  of  the  Superintendent,  Rev.  Dr. 
Land.  The  next  day  we  continued  our 
journey  by  rail  and  after  a  24-hour  ride 
we  reached  the  beautiful  little  city  of 
Decatur  in  the  grand  old  Hoosier  state. 
Here  we  were  heartily  welcomed  by  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Heuer,  who  received  us  into 
their  hospitable  home. 

We  have  been  in  our  new  home  more 
than  a  year  and  have  gfr^-at  cause  for 
thankfulness.  We  hav  .eceived  many 
kindnesses  from  Mr,  anc  Mrs.  Heuer  and 
other  friends  and  have  been  enabled  to 
be  of  great  help  to  our  loved  ones  in  the 
old  homeland.  And,  O,  how  thankful 
they  are  for  even  the  smallest  gift  that 
we  have  been  permitted  to  send  them. 
We  are  employed  in  the  local  branch  of 
the  General  Electric  Company  and  feel 
quite  at  home  in  these  United  States. 

That^  dear  reader,  is  our  story.  Do 
you  not  agree  that  God  has  wonderfully 
led  us?  We  feel  that  it  has  been  dis- 
tinctly a  work  of  missions.  You  may  feel 
that  missionary  work  is  confined  to  the 
heathen  lands ;  but  we  assure  you  that 
there  are  hundreds  of  opportunities  both 
here  in  America  and  in  the  old  Father- 
land across  the  sea  to  do  missionary 
work. 

LiNA  AND  Emma  Guth. 


A  GREAT  CHRISTIAN  INSTITUTE  AT  VASSAR  COLLEGE 


Vassar  College  has  announced  that 
during  the  ten  days,  June  14-23,  1924,  an 
Institute  of  International  Relations  on  a 
Christian  Basis  will  be  held  on  the 
campus  of  Vassar  College  under  the 
joint  auspices  of  the  Federation  of 
Woman's  Boards  of  Foreign  Missions 
and  the  Council  of  Women  for  Home 
Missions  of  all  evangelical  denomina- 
tions, the  National  Y^  W.  C.  A.,  the 
American  Federation  of  University 
Women,  the  Student  Volunteer  Move- 
ment and  Vassar  College. 

The  purpose  of  the  Institute  of  Inter- 
national Relations  on  a  Christian  Basis, 
as  announced  by  Vassar  College,  will  be 
to  study  the  practicability  of  the  appli- 
cation of  Christian  ideals  to  changing 
national  and  international  aims  and  con- 
ditions, and  to  initiate  research  into  the 


problem  of  readjustment  of  present 
agencies  under  Christian  auspices  in  the 
light  of  this  realignment  of  ideals  in 
^\'Orld  service. 

The  central  committee  responsible  for 
drafting  the  program  and  issuing  invi- 
tations to  speakers  is  composed  of  mem- 
bers of  Vassar  College,  Board  of  Trus- 
tees, Faculty  and  Alumnae,  members  of 
the  Federation  of  Woman's  Boards  of 
Foreign  Missions  of  North  America  and 
the  Council  of  Women  for  Home  Mis- 
sions, National  Board  of  the  Y.  W.  C.  A., 
and  the  Student  Volunteer  Movement, 
with  one  from  the  World  Alliance  for 
International  Friendship  and  other  kin- 
dred Christian  organizations,  with  an 
Advisory  Committee  from  the  Women's 
Colleges  which  have  been  invited  to 
appoint  members. 


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185 


It  is  expected  that  the  program  of  the 
sessions  will  be  made  public  shortly 
after  March  1st.  President  MacCracken 
stated,  in  making  the  announcement : 

"Diplomacy  and  statecraft  have  thus 
far  failed  to  give  us  a  basis  of  enduring 
peace  acceptable  to  the  world.  It  re- 
mains for  religion  and  education  to 
attempt  the  task  of  creating  throughout 
the  world  a  public  opinion  and  a  fervent 
faith  consecrated  to  the  development  of 
a  just  and  lasting  peace.  The  World  Con- 
ference on  Education  at  San  Francisco 
last  summer,  at  which  hundreds  of  school 


teachers  from  all  over  the  world  consid- 
ered the  problem  from  the  point  of  view 
of  education,  is  now  to  be  followed  by 
the  Vassar  Conference,  at  which  women 
of  all  denominations  will  consider  the 
problem  from  the  point  of  view  of 
religious  duty.  Out  of  such  conferences 
ought  to  grow  a  program  for  the  future 
to  build  upon." 

Mrs.  John  W.  Blodgett,  Trustee  of 
Vassar  College,  made  the  announcement 
for  the  College  at  the  meeting  of  the 
Federation  of  Woman's  Boards  of  For- 
eign Missions. 


JAPANESE  KINDERGA: 
September,  1923, 

THE  Kindergarten  of  the  First 
Reformed  Church  of  San  Fran- 
cisco opened  on  August  13th  for  the 
fall  and  winter  term.  The  enrollment 
to  date  is  thirty-eight.  Sessions  are  from 
9  A.  M.  to  2  P.  M.  The  children  range 
from  3  to  6  years  of  age. 

The  Kindergarten  work  in  general  has 
been  conducted  from  the  standpoint  of 
individual  interests.  Because  of  the 
difference  in  ages  the  children  represent 
very  many  stages  of  development.  Dur- 
ing the  first  two  hours  the  play  is  entirely 
individualistic,  each  child  meeting  his 
own  play  problems  and  receiving  such 
help  as  is  needed.  Later  a  group  is 
formed  for  social  experiences,  games, 
songs,  story,  and  for  criticising  and 
admiring  the  handwork  of  the  morning. 

Luncheon  period  has  been  an  opportu- 
nity for  lessons  in  English,  table  manners, 
proper  diet  and  hygiene.  The  children 
have  been  taught  to  lay  the  table,  brush 
up  crumbs,  etc. — ^in  short  to  be  inde- 
pendent in  these  matters. 

The  outstanding  feature  of  the  term 
was  the  opening  of  the  splendid  new 
Kindergarten  room  in  the  Community 
House  on  November  22nd.  The  children 
participated  in  the  moving,  carrying 
practically  all  of  the  smaller  material,  and 
making  trip  after  trip  with  little  arms 
loaded.  It  was  a  very  valuable  experi- 
ence. 


RTEN,  SAN  FRANCISCO 
to  February,  1924 

Mothers'  meetings  have  been  held,  the 
most  successful  ones  being  on  Hallow- 
e'en, Thanksgiving  and  Christmas.  The 
Thanksgiving  party  was  the  climax  of 
real  experiences  which  emphasized  the 
food  idea.  The  children  went  to  the  store 
for  cranberries,  apples,  etc.,  and  helped 
in  the  making  of  jelly.  They  churned 
butter  from  cream  and  helped  in  the  cut- 
ting of  biscuits  which  were  served  at  the 
mothers'  party. 

In  this,  as  indeed  in  all  of  the  activi- 
ties of  the  kindergarten,  vocabulary 
building  is  stressed.  Vital  experiences 
with  English  associations  form  the  basis 
for  the  acquiring  of  the  new  language. 
The  six  year  old  children  who  left  Feb- 
ruary 1st  for  the  Pubhc  School  had  con- 
siderable power  of  Enghsh  expression 
which  will  unquestionably  make  for  prog- 
ress in  their  primary  work. 

The  joy  of  the  Christmas  tree  cele- 
bration was  greatly  enhanced  by  gifts 
from  the  following  Church  societies: 

Tiffin,  Ohio. 

Bluffton,  Ohio. 

Harrisonburg,  Virginia. 

La  Fayette,  Indiana. 

Linton,  Indiana. 

Linfield,  Pennsylvania. 

Respectfully  submitted, 
BeIvLA  H.  DeComp,  Teacher. 


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GIRLS'  MISSIONARY  GUILD 
CELEBRATIONS 

A  Decatur  Guild  Begins  to  Recoru 
History 

Upon  request  of  the  Woman's  Mis- 
sionary Society  of  Southwest  Synod  that 
there  be  a  Y.  W.  M.  A.  in  every  church 
of  the  synod,  the  Woman's  Missionary 
Society  of  Zion  Reformed  Church, 
Decatur,  Indiana,  appointed  Mrs,  L.  W. 
Stolte,  a  committee  of  one,  to  organize 
an  auxihary  to  its  society. 

On  December  6th,  1915,  six  young 
women  met  with  Mrs.  Stolte.  After 
prayer  and  the  explanation  of  the  work 
of  the  auxiliary,  an  organization  was 
effected  with  the  following  officers : 
President,  Miss  Matilda  Sellemeyer; 
Vice-President,  Miss  Letta  Wetter;  Sec- 
retary, Miss'  Lulu  Gerber;  Treasurer, 
Miss  Ella  Mutschler. 

Following  the  ruling  of  the  W.  M.  S. 
G.  S.  to  change  the  name  of  the  Young 
Woman's  Missionary  Auxiliary  to  Girls' 
Missionary  Guild,  this  auxiliary  auto- 
matically became  the  Girls'  Missionary 
Guild  of  Zion  Reformed  Church.  At 
present  the  membership  is  twenty-six. 
Miss  Esther  Sellemeyer,  one  of  the  few 
Guild  members  on  the  Foreign  Field,  is 


a  member  of  this  Guild,  having  become 
a  member  in  July,  1915,  while  on  vaca- 
tion from  Heidelberg  University.  In 
July,  1917,  upon  her  departure  for  China 
she  was  made  an  honorary  member  and 
later,  in  1924,  a  Life  Member  of  the 
Guild. 

Sunday  evening,  February  third,  the 
members  presented  the  beautiful  pageant, 
"A  Quest  for  Happiness,"  closing  with 
the  pantomime,  "Take  My  Life  and  Let 
It  Be."  The  occasion  not  only  commemo- 
rated the  Tenth  Anniversary  of  the  Guild 
but  also  the  consecration  of  Miss  Esther 
Sellemeyer  to  her  work  in  Shenchow, 
who  being  at  home  on  her  furlough 
represented  the  Chinese  girl  in  the 
pageant. 


SYNODICAL  BIRTHDAY 
ANNIVERSARY 
An  elaborate  banquet  and  a  fine  pro- 
gram marked  the  celebration  of  the  tenth 
anniversary  of  the  "Synodical  Girls' 
Missionary  Guild,"  at  St.  Paul's 
Reformed  Church,  St.  Marys,  Ohio, 
February  15th.  The  local  Woman's 
Missionary  Society,  with  Mrs.  Wm. 
Brodbeck,  as  chairman,  assumed  the 
responsibility  for  the  birthday  dinner. 
The  girls,  under  the  direction  of  Mrs.  F. 


Girls'  Missionary  Guild  of  Zion  Reformed  Church,  Decatur,  Indiana, 
Observed  Its  Tenth  Anniversary  by  Presenting  Pageant, 
"A  Quest  for  Happiness" 


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Reed,  gave  the  program  and  entertain- 
ment. The  guild  colors,  blue  and  gold, 
were  used  in  favors  and  decorations.  A 
large  golden  birthday  cake  decorated  with 
ten  blue  candles  served  as  centerpiece.  A 
unique  arrangement  of  tables  to  form 


the  letter  M  suggested  the  motive  for  the 
occasion.  Mrs.  F.  Reed  was  toastmis- 
tress.  After  brief  talks  by  the  pastor. 
Rev.  W.  S.  Rickards,  and  the  guest  of 
honor,  Mrs.  N.  Vitz,  an  interesting  pro- 
gram was  presented. 


THE  SLUM-LIFE  IN  JAPAN 

(The  following  is  the  translation  of  Mr.  Kagawa's  article  which  appeared  in  a 
Japanese  magazine  about  two  years  ago.  ^Iv.  T.  Kagawa  is  one  of  the  outstanding 
Christian  leaders,  of  Japan.  Besides  being  a  preacher,  he  is  a  philosopher,  writer, 
poet,  lecturer,  political-economist  and  labor  leader.  Three  years  ago,  he  published 
a  novel  entitled  "Crossing  the  Death-line"  which  has  gone  through  three  hundred 
editions.  The  novel  is  nothing  but  his  own  biography,  and  is  distinctly  Christian.  It 
is  now  translated  into  English,  German  and  French.  He  is  truly  a  modern  Francis 
of  Assisi,  because  of  the  wonderful  work  he  is  doing  for  the  slum  people  in  Kobe. 
About  his  life  and  work,  read  Fisher's  ''Creative  Forces  in  Japan,"  pp.  100-106;  and 
the  October,  1923,  number  of  Missionary  Review  of  the  World. — Sohei  Kowta.) 


The  Interests  in  the  Slum 
There  are  some  interesting  things  in 
the  slum.  Otherwise,  how  could  I  stay 
in  this  slum  so  long?  This  makes  my 
tenth  Christmas  here.  Indeed  the  slum 
is  a  very  interesting  place.  The  people 
are  interesting.  The  children  are  inter- 
esting. The  women  are  interesting. 
Their  stories  are  interesting.  There  are 
gamblers,  street-walkers,  black-mailers, 
pick-pockets,  and  so  on.  But  oh,  the 
efforts  and  struggles  of  these  fallen  ones 
of  humanity !  They  are  to  me  all  poetry. 
I  am  an  ardent  admirer  of  the  slum. 
Though  I  tremble  even  to  think  of  it,  still 
I  love  it  so  much  that  I  cannot  very  well 
get  out  of  it. 

Angel  the  Second 
Readers,  the  child  is  an  orphan  whom 
the  angel  has  left  on  this  earth.  There 
are  no  flowers  in  the  slum,  but  the  face 
of  the  child  is  the  flower  of  the  Alammal- 
ian  animal,  which  is  much  prettier  than 
the  flower  of  the  plant.  The  faces  of 
the  children  here  are  as  pretty  as  the 
faces  of  the  children  in  the  New  York 
slums.  I  love  children.  The  reason  why 
I  cannot  leave  this  place  is  that  I  do  not 
want  to  go  away  from  the  owners  of 
these  pretty  faces. 
The  children  in  this  slum  love  me  most 
dearly.  There  are  eight  hundred  chil- 
dren here  between  the  ages  of  four  and 
twelve  and  all  of  them  love  me  much. 


Readers,  think  of  it!  Just  imagine  a 
father  who  is  loved  by  eight  hundred 
children.  Isn't  it  a  grand  privilege? 
They  all  love  me,  because  I  constantly 
play  with  them.  And  as  you  know,  every 
child  likes  the  ones  with  whom  he  plays. 

Here  in  this  slum,  I  am  known  by  the 
name,  "Ten-tei"  which  means  teacher. 
One  of  the  peculiar  things  in  this  connec- 
tion is  that  the  first  word  some  of  these 
babies  learn  to  say  is  *'Ten-tei."  When 
I  learned  this  fact  for  the  first  time  from 
a  few  mothers,  I  was  certainly  proud  of 
myself !  I  am  more  loved  by  these  tots 
than  their  parents  are.  But  to  be  frank, 
isn't  this  very  unfair  from  the  standpoint 
of  the  parents?  The  children  were  born 
to  them,  and  the  fathers  work  hard  from 
early  in  the  morning  till  late  at  night  to 
support  their  tots,  yet  the  first  word  these 
children  learn  to  say  is  not  ''Daddy,"  but 
"Ten-tei."  If  I  were  in  their  position, 
I  would  get  angry.  If  those  children 
were  mine,  I  certainly  would  like  to  hear 
"Daddy"  from  them,  instead  of  some 
one's  else  name.  As  a  father  I  want  to  get 
at  least  that  much  right.  Yet  today  the 
laborers  in  the  slum  cannot  demand  that 
kind  of  "extravagant  right"  because  of 
the  low  wages.  "Ten-tei"  stays  in  the 
slum  all  day  long.  He  is  the  children's 
playmate,  teacher,  nurse  and  physician. 
But  the  fathers  stay  at  home  only  several 
times  a  month.    When  they  come  back, 


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the  children  are  in  bed.  So  the  fathers 
at  home  are  looked  upon  as  strangers  by 
their  children.  This  is  the  true  home  life 
in  the  slum.  Ah,  how  long  a  time  we 
^hall  have  to  wait  until  these  laborers 
work  eight  hours  a  day  that  even  in  this 
slum  the  fathers  might  play  with  their 
■children !  But  judging  from  the  present 
-conditions  such  hope  is  an  idle  dread.  At 
any  rate  those  children  like  me  very 
much.  I  call  them  my  disciples.  "Tako- 
•chin"  was  my  first  disciple. 

'Tako-chin/'  My  First  Disciple 
The  real  name  of  ''Tako-chin"  is 
"Taichi,"  but  in  the  slum  no  one  calls 
others  by  their  real  names.  "Tako-chin" 
was  born  in  the  third  year  I  came  to 
this  slum.  His  father  was  very  poor  and 
was  a  day-laborer,  working  for  the 
undertakers.  (The  work  for  the  under- 
takers is  one  of  the  lowest  types  of  work 
in  Japan.)  "Tako-chin"  did  not  like 
school.  He  attended  school  only  a  little 
while.  His  mother  died  of  syphilis  some 
time  ago.  His  brother  has  only  one  eye. 
He  is  sixteen  years  old,  working  also 
for  the  undertakers.  ''Tako-chin,"  too, 
works  for  the  undertakers,  but  his  par- 
ticular job  is  to  take  care  of  the  shoes. 
He  gets  four  yen  a  month,  that  is  two 
dollars  in  American  money.  He  often 
comes  around  my  house,  and  laughs  and 
dances  very  heartily.  I  often  talk  with 
him  through  the  door  of  my  house  while 
writing  my  manuscripts.  This  boy,  as 
T  said  before,  was  my  first  disciple.  My 
second  disciple  was  a  girl  by  the  name  of 
^Tto-chan,"  and  the  third  one  was  "Deko- 
suke."  The  death-rate  in  the  slum  is 
very  high.  So  many  people  die  here. 
The  mother  of  "Ito-chan"  died  only  a 
short  time  ago. 

I  had  one  time  a  girl  disciple  called 
'"Osei-chan."  She  was  an  adopted  child 
of  a  certain  house  of  ill-fame.  Little 
while  ago  I  vigorously  attacked  the  insti- 
tution of  prostitution  in  Japan,  and  her 
family  somehow  had  to  leave  the  city. 
Just  before  she  left  here,  she  came  to  say 
good-bye  to  me.  Unfortunately  I  was  not 
at  home  that  day,  and  "Osei-chan"  waited 
almost  half  a  day,  crying,  "Oh,  I  want  to 
see  my  teacher.  I  cannot  forget  Mr. 
Kagawa  and  Jesus  as  long  as  I  live.''  I 


learned  this  from  my  neighbor  when  I 
came  back  home  that  night  and  could  not 
help  but  crying  myself,  thinking  of  what 
a  pure,  grateful  heart  that  little  girl  had 
for  me.  I  had  attacked  the  business  of 
her  home  and  she  knew  it  very  well.  But 
she  had  never  stored  any  ill-feeling 
against  me.  On  the  contrary,  she  always 
loved  me  much.  She  knew  that  I  was 
fighting  a  battle  of  righteousness.  Chil- 
dren are  always  the  friends  of  justice! 
And  that's  why  I  love  children.  When- 
ever I  think  of  the  tragedy  I  caused 
upon  that  little  innocent  girl's  heart,  I 
can  not  help  but  weep  for  Her.  I  think 
it  was  a  great  honor  for  me  to  have  little 
"Osei-chan"  as  my  disciple. 

I  made  in  this  slum  many  disciples, 
and  I  am  still  making  many.  But  while 
I  was  in  America  for  three  years,  most 
of  them  became  pick-pockets,  gamblers, 
tramps,  and  some  of  them  died  of  small- 
pox. When  I  think  of  these  little  chil- 
dren of  the  slum,  I  really  feel  sorry  for 
them.  Why  can't  I  have  the  power  to 
save  them  ?  In  the  slum  I  am  now  living, 
there  are  three  hundred  and  sixty  illegi- 
timate children.  These  children  are 
naturally  wild  in  their  character.  They 
are  forever  cursed  by  the  god  of  poverty. 

The  Fate  oe  the  Girls 
The  girls,  on  the  other  hand,  become 
prostitutes.  ''Yukie-san"  and  "Hisae- 
san"  of  the  next  door  have  become  pros- 
titutes. Both  of  them  were  my  Sunday 
School  pupils.  I  don't  understand  the 
psychology  of  their  becoming  prostitutes. 
Nevertheless  they  are  now  engaging  in 
that  shameful  profession.  Yukie-san's 
mother  was  the  daughter  of  a  noble  fam- 
ily and  she  herself  was  a  woman  of  high 
character,  but  poverty  had  ruined  her 
home.  When  she  died  *'Yukie-san"  was 
too  poor  to  hold  the  funeral  service,  and 
I  volunteered  to  have  it  for  her.  ''Yukie- 
san"  had  then  her  nephew  with  her,  who 
was  crippled,  blind  and  deaf.  Oh,  how 
devotedly  this  little  girl  served  her 
nephew ! 

It  is  impossible  for  beautiful  girls  to 
keep  themselves  pure  in  the  slum.  Many 
professional  gamblers  want  to  exchange 
the  purity  of  these  girls  with  their 
money.    I  know  personally  many  girls 


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who  were  forced  to  become  the  victims  of 
those  vicious  gamblers.  There  are  so 
many  devilish  beasts,  how  could  the  inno- 
cent girls  keep  their  purity?  Because  of 
poverty  those  girls  go  through  most  piti- 
ful experiences  even  before  they  become 
of  age.  It  is  quite  natural  for  them  to 
have  the  spirit  of  revenge  against  men 
and  society  in  general.  It  is  very  natural 
for  them  to  think  of  becoming  prostitutes 
or  street-walkers,  and  thereby  secure 
beautiful  clothes  which  otherwise  they 
could  not  afford,  and  make  men  their 
playthings,  instead  of  being  themselves 
played  by  men.  "Hisae-san"  is  another 
girl  who  became  a  street-walker,  though 


her  circumstances  were  different  from 
those  of  '*Yukie-san." 

There  are  some  people  who  talk  about 
prostitutes  and  street- walkers  from  sta- 
tistics. They  really  do  not  understand 
what  unfortunate  circumstances  these 
girls  have  to  endure.  I  know  these  girls 
personally.  Both  of  them  are  bright. 
They  had  with  them  splendid  possibilities 
to  grow  into  noble  womanhood,  but  they 
were  sold  only  because  they  were  in  the 
slum.  Don't  blame  them,  kind  reader. 
They  were  all  sold  because  of  their  pov- 
erty. Oh,  if  I  had  enough  money,  I 
would  surely  buy  them  back ! 

(To  he  Continued) 


DEPARTMENT  OF  STEWARDSHIP 

Mrs.  D.  A.  Winter,  Secretary 


STEWARDSHIP  IN  THE  HOME 


WHERE  does  Stewardship  begin? 
The  church  professes  it  and  urges 
it  upon  its  members.  Its  increasing  influ- 
ence is  observed  in  the  expanding  work 
of  the  church  but  the  need  of  its  spirit 
is  felt  in  the  untouched  fields  of  the  world 
and  above  all  in  the  unresponsive  minds 
of  many  professing  Christians.  The 
church  is  the  instrument  of  God  through 
which  its  spirit  is  engendered.  It  is  the 
great  link  that  unites  the  home  with 
God  and  His  great  work  in  the  world. 
The  spirit  of  stewardship  begins  with 
God  and  its  results  start  from  the  Chris- 
tian home.  If  stewardship  is  invisible  in 
the  home,  it  will  be  lost  in  the  church  and 
unknown  in  the  world. 

Stewardship  in  the  home  is  based  upon 
a  love  of  God's  word  and  communion 
with  God  in  prayer  as  a  family  unit. 
There  can  be  no  stewardship  in  the  home 
unless  the  family  altar  is  established. 
Individual  prayer  life  creates  personal 
acknowledgment  of  stewardship,  likewise 
an  atmosphere  of  prayer  brings  steward- 
ship into  the  home. 

Methods  of  stewardship  of  money  in 
the  home  depend  upon  the  division  of  the 
family  funds.    If  the  family  money  is 


divided  conscientiously  between  hus- 
band and  wife,  it  is  a  question  of  faith- 
fully administering  the  individual  share. 
Each  child  may  be  taught  his  responsi- 
bility for  the  Lord's  work  by  the  example 
of  the  parents,  especially  so,  if  he  is 
taught  the  duty  of  sharing  his  bit  with 
the  Lord.  However,  if  parents  keep  a 
common  treasury,  the  Lord's  share 
should  not  be  forgotten  whenever  the 
wage  or  salary  is  received.  The  Lord's 
box  should  be  replenished  proportion- 
ately to  the  amount  received,  and  this  box 
should  be  accessible  to  each  member  of 
the  family  for  his  benevolent  giving. 

Stewardship  in  the  home  implies  the 
giving  of  any  life  to  the  work  of  our 
Master.  Where  the  flame  of  stewardship 
is  kept  burning,  there  can  be  no  snuffing 
out  of  the  flame  of  love  in  the  heart  of 
the  Lord's  work  in  any  capacity,  be  it  as 
a  Sunday  School  teacher,  preacher  or 
missionary.  Stewardship  of  life  is 
implied  as  well  as  of  possessions,  and  the 
prayers  and  good  wishes  of  the  family 
will  not  be  contented  until  any  call  of 
the  Lord  is  faithfully  complied  with. 

Mrs.  W.  C.  Beckmann. 
Plymouth,  Wis. 


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Literature  Ghat 

Carrie  M.  Kerschner 


SEVEN  girls  may  be  chosen  from  your 
Girls'  Missionary  Guild  to  present 
Chapter  5  of  **The  Woman  and  the 
Leaven  in  Japan."  One  girl  may  repre- 
sent an  old  type  Japanese  woman  for  part 
I  of  Outline  on  page  134.  Other  imper- 
sonations may  be  easily  worked  out.  For 
additional  material  on  Madame  Yajima 
consult  pages  813-816,  October,  1923, 
Missionary  Reviezv  of  the  World.  A 
few  copies  are  still  available  at  25  cents 
each. 

Are  you  spelling  Japan  in  different 
terms  than  when  you  began  your  study? 
How  much  credit  shall  we  give  Chris- 
tianity for  the  new  place  women  are  hold- 
ing in  Japan? 

Japanese  novelties  for  sale  may  be 
secured  from  the  Japanese  Art  and  Nov- 
elty Co.,  ICQ  Payson  Avenue,  New  York 
City. 

About  three  hundred  Societies  are 
using  the  Stewardship  Packets.  Are 
you?    10  cents  each. 

Celebration  Packets  have  been  popular. 
35  cents  each. 

Playlets  on  Japan  for  Women  and 
Girls  are  "The  Cross  Triumphant,"  35 
cents  each ;  "Adoption,"  seven  characters, 
three  men  and  four  women,  an  every  day 
story  of  Japan,  25  cents;  "Sunlight  and 
Candlelight,"  two  men  and  three  women, 
25  cents;  "The  Other  Point  of  View,"  a 
scene  from  Japanese  country  life,  four 
women,  two  men,  25  cents ;  "Alice 
Through  the  Postal  Card,"  sixteen  Jun- 
iors, 15  cents  each.  Japanese  Jaunts, 
10  cents.   Japanese  Games,  10  cents. 

We  have  three  Japanese  songs,  easily 
rendered,  for  10  cents. 

Budget  Envelopes,  25  cents  per  100; 
$1.50  per  1000. 

For  Temperance  Workers  a  new  poem 
by  Mrs.  C.  C.  Bost,  "My  Task,"  2  cents 
each. 

Have  you  begun  to  use  the  Thank 
Offering  boxes?  They  are  sent  free. 
Prayer  Calendars,  $2.00  per  dozen. 
Program  Packets  for  use  with  all  the 


Japanese  Study  books,  sell  for  35  cents 
each.  Interdenominational,  "How  to 
use,"  15  cents  each.  Books  as  follows: 
"The  Woman  and  The  Leaven,"  "Cre- 
ative Forces,"  "Japan  on  the  Upward 
Trail,"  50  cents  each;  cloth,  75  cents. 
"The  Honorable  Japanese  Fan,"  for  Jun- 
iors, 40  cents,  paper. 

Everyland,  our  magazine  for  children, 
$1.50;  in  clubs  of  five,  $1.25  each.  The 
Missionary  Review  of  the  World,  $2.50; 
clubs  of  five,  $2.00  each. 


LIFE  OF  JOSEPH  HARDY 
NEESIMA 

IN  1843,  just  at  the  time  when  the  world 
was  astir,  Joseph  Hardy  Neesima  was 
born  in  Tokyo.  Reared  in  the  period  of 
Japan's  awakening  Neesima  realized  that 
if  his  country  was  to  play  her  part  in  the 
world  aifairs  as  she  undoubtedly  would 
be  forced  to  do,  she  must  have  the  edu- 
cation of  the  West.  Determining  to 
acquire  this  education  he  set  out  for 
America  at  the  time  when  it  was  a  crime 
punishable  by  death  for  a  national  to 
leave  the  country.  It  was  nothing  short 
of  miraculous  that  in  1864  Neesima 
eventually  arrived  in  Boston.  Here  he 
was  fortunate  to  find  a  friend  in  Mr. 
Alpheus  Hardy,  the  owner  of  the  vessel 
which  had  brought  him  to  America.  Dur- 
ing the  year  of  study  which  followed 
the  young  Oriental  found  Mr.  Hardy  a 
wise  counselor  and  a  generous  benefactor 
while  Mrs.  Hardy  mothered  him  as  her 
own  child.  He  applied  himself  with 
great  earnestness  to  his  task  of  acquir- 
ing an  education  and  was  graduated  with 
distinction  from  Amherst  College. 

Almost  immediately  his  usefulness 
began.  In  1872  Neesima  was  asked  to 
tour  the  world  with  the  Japanese 
Embassy,  acting  as  their  interpreter.  He 
was  asked  also  to  prepare  an  essay  on 
the  subject  "Universal  Education  for 
Japan."  This  essay  did  much  toward  lay- 
ing the  foundation  for  Japan's  excellent 
educational  system.  Before  leaving 
America,  Neesima  was  of  the  definite 
conviction  that  he  must  establish  in  Japan 
a  college  of  his  own.  Although  many 
high  government  positions  were  repeat- 
edly offered  him  he  held  fast  to  this  one 


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purpose  and  finally,  after  facing  severe 
hardships  and  seemingly  unsurmountable 
obstacles,  Doshisha  College  (Doshisha 
means  "one  purpose")  was  founded  in 
Kyoto. 

Forty  students  were  enrolled  the  first 
year  and  for  years  in  this  center  of 
Shiritoism  and  Buddhism  the  college 
struggled  for  its  very  existence.  Finally 
after  a  nation-wide  fight  for  religious 
education,  Neesima,  with  the  aid  of  his 
friends  of  the  Embassy,  was  instrumental 
in  having  a  clause  granting  religious  edu- 
cation incorporated  in  the  constitution. 
Neesima  not  only  labored  in  founding 
Doshisha  but  gave  a  large  share  of  his 
time  to  evangelistic  work.  He  worked  so 
continuously  that  at  length  he  suffered  a 
complete  physical  collapse. 

Despite  this  condition,  in  1883,  Nee- 
sima began  planning  to  make  Doshisha  a 
Christian  University  for  the  college  had 
now  grown  to  900  students.  His  cam- 
paign to  raise  funds  was  most  successful. 
Doshisha  University  was  assured — but 
physically  Neesima  was  spent. 

In  1890  he  died  and  in  the  city  where 
fifteen  years  before  he  had  to  fight  for 
existence,  four  thousand  people  now 
gathered  to  pay  him  homage.  Neesima 
had  gone  to  the  ends  of  the  earth  in 
search  of  truth  and  having  found  it  had 
given  his  life  that  his  countrymen  might 
know  it. 


Girls'  Missionary 
Guild 

Mrs.  J.  Edward  Omwake,  Secretary 


JAPAN  ON  THE  UPWARD  TRAIL 
Chapters  III-IV 

CHRISTIANITY  has  entered  Japan, 
and  as  ever,  its  leavening  influence 
is  permeating  all  the  relationships  of  life. 
It  is  revealing  men  and  women  to  them- 
selves, to  their  neighbors,  and  it  is  call- 
ing loudly  for  them  (and  they  are 
responding  in  no  mean  way)  to  join 
hands  with  other  nations  in  world  friend- 
ship and  in  world  peace. 


The  Japanese  are  very  courageous, 
chivalrous,  self-controlled,  loyal  to 
friends,  magnanimous  to  foes.  They 
possess  a  high  sense  of  justice,  and  an 
unswerving  faithfulness  to  the  plighted 
word.  An  open  mind  and  a  passion  to 
learn  are  among  the  chief  characteristics 
of  these  people.  The  most  humble  homes 
and  the  most  remote  villages  in  the 
empire  boast  their  quota  among  the  stu- 
dents of  the  land. 

"In  their  thinking  and  in  their  ideals, 
the  students  stand  nearer  to  Christ  than 
any  other  group."  They  are  beginning 
to  "recognize  that  man  is  a  man  no  mat- 
ter where  he  stands,  and  that  in  the  scale 
of  values  character  tips  the  beam 
highest." 

The  Japanese  are  also  beginning  to 
learn  the  meaning  of  "service."  Chris- 
tian missionaries  and  evangelists,  both 
native  and  foreign,  are  reaching  the 
masses  by  such  contacts  as  are  afforded 
by  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  a  Red  Cross  launch, 
a  Ford  car  equipped  with  a  cinemato- 
graph, and  by  playgrounds  and  Vacation 
Bible  Schools  for  the  children.  Once  a 
month  the  secular  press  carries  a  mes- 
sage of  "the  glad  tidings"  to  180,000 
readers.  Through  all  these  agencies  is 
felt  the  impact  of  Christianity  upon  the 
life  of  modern  Japan. 


Use  the  program  in  the  G.  M.  G. 
Packet  which  follows  the  lives  of  some 
of  these  Christian  pioneers  of  Japan,  and 
also  gives  a  splendid  account  of  our 
denominational  work  in  Sendai. 

During  the  social  hour  you  will  enjoy 
the  games  suggested  in  the  leaflet,  "Jap- 
anese Games,"  which  can  be  obtained  for 
10  cents,  from  Miss  Carrie  M.  Kersch- 
ner,  416  Schaff  Building,  Philadelphia, 
Pa.,  or  from  the  Woman's  Missionary 
Society,  8  Remmele  Block,  Tiffin,  Ohio. 


"Could  ye  not  watch  with   Me   one  hour? 

Deep  pain  was  in  Thy  voice 
That  day.    Jesus,  have  men  still  power 

To  grieve  Thee,  or  rejoice? 
Then  is  Thy  joy  this  day  fulfilled, 

Christ  of  Gethsemane ! 
For  everywhere  hearts  Thou  hast  stilled 

Keep  wakeful  watch  with  Thee." 


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The  Outlook  of  Missions 


[April 


The  Mission  Band 

Mrs.  M.  G.  Schucker,  Secretary 


A  SPRING  HIKE 

"Go  forth  under  the  open  sky  and  list 
to  nature's  teaching." 

"Nature  rightly  interpreted,  speaks  of 
God." 

The  Mission  Band  Leaders  can  be  the 
interpreters  to  the  children,  who  wait  to 
hear  for  they  are  naturally  filled  with  a 
sense  of  wonder.  Is  there  any  time  so 
opportune  to  study  the  miracle  of  God 
in  nature  as  a  day  in  May,  when  vegeta- 
tion has  a  resurrection,  when  birds  call 
and  gurgling  brooks  summon?  Jesus 
said:  "Consider  the  lilies."  "Behold  a 
sower  went  forth  to  sow."  "Look  at  the 
fig  tree  and  all  the  trees."  "Look  at  the 
wild  birds."  If  we  will  look  upon  the 
things  of  nature  as  Jesus  did,  they  will 
tell  us  wonderful  things  of  God. 

Announce  that  on  a  certain  Saturday 
morning,  at  ten  o'clock,  the  Mission  Band 
children  will  meet  at  the  church  for  a 
hike.  Each  child  to  take  his  own  lunch. 
It  will  be  surprising  how  many  instances 
of  new  life  will  be  observed  by  the  chil- 
dren— birds,  flowers,  insects,  frogs,  etc. 

One  object  of  such  a  hike  is  to  get  in 
healthy  touch  with  nature;  a  second 
object  is  to  know  nature's  God;  and,  in 
the  third  place,  there  are  missionary 
lessons  to  be  culled  even  from  nature. 
God  wakes  to  new  life  the  sleeping  earth 
in  other  lands  as  well  as  in  our  own  and 
in  some  lands  more  wonderfully  and 
beautifully  than  in  our  own.  God  is 
just  as  mindful  to  send  the  sunshine  and 
the  rain  in  those  lands  as  in  ours.  He  is 
just  as  mindful  apparently  of  children  of 
non-Christian  lands  as  of  us,  excepting 
only  that  they  needs  suffer  from  lack  of 
the  true  knowledge  of  God  and  of  Christ. 

Also,  we  can  give  a  direct  missionary 
feature  to  this  hike.  Lunch  having  been 
eaten,  let  the  children  gather  wild  flowers 
— azaleas,  hepaticas,  anemones,  colum- 
bines, spring  beauties,  etc.  These  may 
be  pressed  and  dried  between  blotting 
paper  or  even  between  leaves  of  news- 
papers and  mounted  on  a  tag-board  card 


of  the  size  of  a  post  card.  The  dried 
flower  may  be  protected  by  a  piece  of  tis- 
sue paper,  the  same  size  of  the  card  and 
pasted  along  an  edge  on  the  tag-board 
card.  The  child  may  letter  the  name  of 
the  flower,  an  appropriate  verse  front 
Scripture,  and  his  own  name  and  address 
on  the  card.  These  flower  specimens  may 
be  included  in  a  collection  of  post  cards 
or  in  a  missionary  box  you  may  be 
intending  to  send  to  Japan  or  China.  A 
foreign  child,  not  unlike  our  own  chil- 
dren, will  treasure  the  dried  flower  curio- 
from  a  boy  or  girl  in  far-off"  America. 


"In  the  hour  of  my  distress, 
When  temptations  me  oppress, 

And  when  I  my  sins  confess, 
Sweet  Spirit,  comfort  me!" 


Pkof.  and  Mrs.  George  S.  Noss, 
Sendai,  Japan,  and  Baby 
Margaret 


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BOARD  OF  FOREIGN  MISSIONS,  REFORMED  CHURCH  IN  THE  U.  S. 

310  Schaff  Building,  Fifteenth  and  Race  Streets 
PHILADELPHIA.  PA. 


THE  BOARDS  OF  MISSIONS  OF  GENERAL  SYNOD 

Headquarters:  Fifteenth  and  Race  Streets,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 


BOARD  OF  HOME  MISSIONS 


President, 
Rev.  Charles  E.  Miller,  D.D.,  LL.D. 
Vice-President 
Rev.  C.  B.  Schneder,  D.D. 
General  Secretary, 
Rev.  Charles  E.  Schaeffer,  D.D. 
Recording  Secretary, 
Rev.  Frederick  C.  Seitz,  D.D. 
Treasurer, 
Joseph  S.  Wise. 
Superintendents, 
Joseph  S.  Wise,  Church-building. 
Rev.  David  A.  Souders,  D.D.,  Immigration. 
Rev.  Tames  M.  Mullan,  Eastern. 
Rev.  John  C.  Horning,  D.D.,  Western. 
Rev.  Edward  F.  Evemeyer,  Pacific  Coast. 
Rev.  T.  P.  Bolliger,  D.D.,  German. 


Attorneys  for  the  Board, 
C.  M.  Boush,  Esq. 

F.  C.  Brunhouse,  Esq. 

Members  of  the  Executive  Committee, 
Rev.  Charles  E.  Miller,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  Rev.  C.  B. 
Schneder,  D.D.,  Rev.  Frederick  C.  Seitz,  D.D.,  Rev. 
I.  Calvin  Fisher,  D.D.,  Elder  F.  C.  Brunhouse,  Esq. 

Members  of  the  Board, 
Rev.  Charles  E.  Miller,  D.D..  LL.D.,  Rev.  C.  B. 
Schneder,  D.D.,  Rev.  I.  Calvin  Fisher,  D.D.,  Rev. 
John  Sommerlatte,  Rev.  Frederick  C.  Seitz,  D.D. 
Rev.  Josias  Friedli,  Rev.  J.  C.  Leonard,  D.D.,  Elder 
F.  C.  Brunhouse,  Esq.,  Elder  E.  L.  Coblentz.  Esq 
Elder  E.  J.  Titlow,  Elder  D.  J.  Snyder. 


BOARD  OF  FOREIGN  MISSIONS 


President, 
Rev.  Charles  E.  Creitz,  D.D. 
Vice-President, 
Hon.  Horace  Ankency. 
Secretary, 
Rev.  Allen  R.  Bartholomew,  D.D. 
Assistant  Secretary, 
Rev.  John  H.  Poorman. 

Trectsurer, 
Rev.  Albert  S.  Bromer. 
Treasurer  Emeritus, 
Elder  Joseph  L.  Lemberger,  Phar.D. 
Legal  Advisor, 
Elder  John  W.  Appel,  Esq. 
Field  Secretaries, 
Jacob  G.  Rupp,  Allentown,  Pa. 

Rev.  Daniel  Burghalter,  D.D.,  Tiffin,  Ohio. 
Medical  Examiner, 
Dr.  John  H.  Dubbs. 


Members  of  the  Executive  Committee, 
Rev.  Charles  E.  Creitz.  D.D.,  Hon.  Horace  Anke- 
ney.  Rev.  Allen  R.  Bartholomew,  D.D.,  Rev.  Albert 
S.  Bromer,  Rev.  George  W.  Richards.  D.D..  LL.D., 
Elder  Joseph  L.  Lemberger,  Phar.D.,  Elder  David  A. 
Miller,  Elder  J.  Q.  Truxal,  Esq. 

Members  of  the  Board 

Rev.  Charles  E.  Creitz,  D.D..  Rev.  Allen  R. 
Bartholomew,  D.D.,  Rev.  Conrad  Hassel,  Rev.  Albert 
S.  Bromer,  Rev.  Frederick  Mayer,  D.D.,  Rev.  John 
M.  G.  Darms,  D.D.,  Rev.  Albert  B.  Bauman,  Rev. 
George  W.  Richards.  D.D..  LL.D..  Elder  John  W. 
Appel,  Esq.,  Elder  George  F.  Bareis.  Elder  William 
W.  Anspach,  Elder  Horace  Ankeney,  Elder  David  A. 
Miller,  Elder  J.  Q.  Truxal,  Esq.,  Elder  Henry  C. 
Heckerman. 

Meetings, 

Annual  Board  Meeting,  first  Tuesday  in  March. 
Executive  Committee  meetings  are  held  monthly  except 
in  July  and  August. 


FORMS  OF  BEQUEST  FOR  MISSIONS 


For  the  Board  of  Home  Missions. 
I  give  and  bequeath  to  the  Board  of  Home 
Missions    of    the    Reformed    Church    in  the 

United  States,  of  which  Elder  Joseph  S.  Wise, 
of  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  is  treasurer,  the  sum  of 
  dollars. 


For  the  Board  of  Foreign  Missions. 
I  give  and  bequeath  to  the  Board  of  Foreign 

Missions  of  tlie  Reformed  Church  in  the 
United  States,  of  which  Rev.  Albert  S.  Bromer, 
of  Philadelphia.  Pa.,  is  treasurer,  the  sum  of 
 dollars. 


WOMAN'S  MISSIONARY  SOCIETY 

President, 

Mrs.  B.  B.  Krammes,  14  Clinton  ave..  Tiffin,  Ohio. 

Vice-Presidents, 
Mrs.  W.  R.  Harris,  279  Wiles  street,  Morgantown, 
W.  Va. 

Mrs.  L.  W.  Stolte,  205  Jones  street,  Dayton,  Ohio. 

Recording  Secretary, 
Mrs.  Joseph  Levy,  Somerset,  Pa, 

Corresponding  Secretary, 
Mrs.  F.  W.  Leich,  119  Klee  Court,  Dayton,  Ohio. 
Treasurer, 

Mrs.  Lewis  L.  Anewalt,  814  Walnut  street,  Allen- 
town,  Pa. 

Statistical  Secretary, 
Mrs.   Anna    L.    Miller,   534   Sixth   street,   N.  W., 
Canton,  Ohio. 

Executive  Secretary , 
Miss  Carrie  M.  Kerschner,  416  Schaff  Bldg.,  Phila- 
delphia, Pa. 

Literature  and  Student  Secretary, 
Miss   J.    Marion   Jones,   416   Schaff   Bldg.,  Phila- 
delphia, Pa. 

Director,   Educational  Commission, 
Mrs.  Irvin  W.  Hendricks.  Chambersburg,  Pa. 

Secretary  of  Thank  Offering, 
Mrs.  Allen  K.  Zartman,  1354  Grand  ave.,  Dayton,  O. 


Secretary  of  Life  Members  and  Members 
in  Memoriam, 
Mrs.  J.  W.   Fillman,  2213  Tioga  street,  Philadel- 
phia, Pa. 

Secretary  of  Girls'  Missionary  Guilds, 
Mrs.  J.  Edward  Omwake,  Greencastle,  Pa. 

Secretary  of  Mission  Band  Department, 
Mrs.  M.  G.  Schucker,  1306  Lancaster  ave.,  Swiss- 
vale,  Pa. 

Field  Secretary,  G.  M.  G.  and  Mission  Bands, 
Miss  Alma  Iske,  14  Remmele  Block,  Tiffin,  Ohio. 

Secretary    Central  West, 
Miss  Ruth  Nott.  1192  Ninth  street,  Milwaukee,  Wis. 

Secretary  of  Temperance, 
Mrs.  C.  C.  Bost,  Hickory,  N.  C. 

Secretary  of  Stezvardship, 
Mrs.  D.  A.  Winter,  329  Walnut  street,  Jefferson- 
villc,  Ind. 

Secretary  of  Printing, 
Mrs.  C.  A.  Krout,  Tiffin,  Ohio. 

Historian, 

Mrs.   Daniel   Burghalter,   Tiffin,  Ohio. 

Secretary  Organization  and  Membership, 
Mrs.  L.  W.  Stolte,  Dayton,  Ohio. 


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