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Volume XXVI
Number 8
September, 1934
SEP 21 1934
Outlook
of Missions
Logical stjS
WOMEN AND MISSIONS
“Workers Together with Him”
Greta P. Hinkle
Thoughts on Leaving Baghdad
Mrs. David D. Baker
Women and Home Missions
Charles E. Schaeffer
The Year’s Work at Miyagi College
Carl D. Kriete
Our Women Evangelists in Japan
Mrs. Florence L. Seiple
Women’s Evangelistic Work in China
Our Girls’ Schools in China
“Close Ups” of Our Japanese Friends
on the Pacific Coast
The Outlook of Missions
SCHAFF BUILDING, PHILADELPHIA, PA.
Published Monthly, September to June inclusive, and bi-monthly during July and August, 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
Evangelical and Reformed Church
JOHN H. POORMAN, Editor-in-Chief
Charles E. Schaeffer, Home Missions Greta P. Hinkle, Woman’s Missionary Society
John H. Poorman, Foreign Missions John M. G. Darms, Men and Missions
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CONTENTS
“Workers Together with Him” 233
The Quiet Hour 234
Thoughts on Leaving Baghdad 235
Women and Home Missions 236
Faithful Unto Death 237
Statement to the Classes by the Board of Home
Missions 238
Jacob Orth, the Founder of the Reformed Church in
the Dakota Territory (Continued) . 239
Observations of the Treasurer 243
The Board of Home Missions Holds Important Meet-
ing . 244
The Social Service Commission 245
Women and Foreign Missions 246
President Kriete Reviews the Year’s Work at Miyagi
College 246
Our Women Evangelists in Japan 248
Women’s Evangelistic Work in China 250
Chen Teh Girls’ School, Shenchow, China 251
Ziemer Memorial Girls’ School, Yochow, China 252
Japanese Woman Educator on Goodwill Mission 253
A Worship Program 254
Men and Missions 255
“Close Ups” of Our Japanese Friends on the Pacific
Coast 257
Literature Chat 264
Life Members and Members in Memoriam 264
Girls’ Missionary Guild Third Cover Page
Mission Band Third Cover Page
DIRECTORY
Board of Home Missions
President : Rev. Charles E. Miller, D.D., LL.D.
Vice-President : Rev. Frederick C. Seitz, D.D.
General Secretary : Rev. Charles E. Schaeffer, D.D.
Recording Secretary: Rev. Purd E. Deitz
Treasurer : Joseph S. Wise
Super intendents :
Rev. William F. DeLong, D.D., Church Building
Rev. John C. Horning, D.D., Central-West
Rev. Edward F. Evemeyer, D.D., Pacific Coast
Rev. Theodore P. Bolliger, D.D., Northwest
Rev. Rufus C. Zartman, D.D., Evangelism
Members of the Board: Rev. Charles E. Miller, D.D.,
LL.D., Rev. Frederick C. Seitz, D.D., Rev. Purd E.
Deitz, Rev. H. Nevin Kerst, D.D., Rev. Josias Friedli,
D.D., Rev. David Dunn, Rev. Calvin M. DeLong,
D.D., Rev. Allan S. Meek, D.D., Elder Emory L.
Coblentz, Esq., Elder Randolph S. Meek, Elder Till-
man K. Saylor, Elder Maurice G. Lipson.
Board of Foreign Missions
President : Rev. Charles E. Creitz, D.D.
Vice-President : Mr. Henry C. Heckerman
Secretary : Rev. Arthur V. Casselman, D.D.
Assistant Sec. and Assistant Treas. : Rev. John H. Poorman
Treasurer : Rev. Jacob G. Rupp, D.D.
Field Secretaries : Rev. Jacob G. Rupp, D.D., Allentown,
Pa.; Rev Dani< I Burghalter. D.D., Tiffin, Ohio.
Members of the Board: Rev. Charles E. Creitz, D.D.,
Rev. Albert B. Bauman. D.D., Rev. George W.
Richards, D.D.. LL.D , R v. William F. Kosman,
D.D.. T?ev. Calvin M. Zeuk. Rev. Edgar F. Hoff-
meier, D.D., Rev. Tillman W. Hoernemann. D.D., Rev.
Gerard H. Gebhardt, Elder David A. Miller, Elder
J. Q. Truxal. Elder Henry C. Heckerman. Elder
Edward S. Fretz, Elder John B. Mohler, Elder E.
Fred Bloemker, Elder G. Willis Hartman. M.D.
Members Emeritus: Rev. Frederick Mayer, D.D., Elder
William W. Anspach.
Woman’s Missionary Society
President: Mrs. F. W. Leich, 600 Elberon Ave., Dayton,
Ohio,
Vice-Presidents : Mrs. L. L. Anewalt, 1036 Walnut St.,
Allentown, Pa.; Mrs. D. J. Snyder, 29 Division St.,
Greensburg, Pa.
Recording Secretary : Mrs. D. E. Remsberg, 607 Maiden
Lane, Roanoke, Va.
Corresponding Secretary : Miss Bessie R. Shade, 314 Wal-
nut St., Royersford, Pa.
Treasurer : Mrs. Thomas Jarrell, 1420 Ingraham St., N.
W., Washington. D. C.
Statistical Secretary: Miss Mathilde Berg, 2425 N. 32nd
St., Milwaukee, Wis.
Executive Secretary : Miss Carrie M. Kerschner, 416
Schaff Bldg., 1505 Race St., Philadelphia, Pa.
Secretary of Literature : Miss Greta P. Hinkle, 416 Schaff
Bldg., 1505 Race St., Philadelphia, Pa.
Director, Educational Commission : Mrs. Edwin W. Lentz,
311 Market St., Bangor, Pa.
Secretary of Girls’ Missionary Guilds and Field Secretary
of Girls’ Missionary Guilds and Mission Bands: Miss
Ruth Heinmiller, 2969 W. 25th St., Cleveland. Ohio.
Secretary of Printing: Mrs. Henry Gekeler. 3861 W. 20th
St.. Cleveland. Ohio.
W. M. S. Editor , Outlook of Miss ons : Mis< Greta P.
Hinkle, 416 Schaff Bldg., 1505 Race St., Philadelphia.
Secretary of Thank Offering: Mrs. L. V. Hetrick, 200
Porter St., Easton, l’a.
Secretary of Life Members and Members in Memoriam :
Miss Ella Klumb, 2744 N. 48th St., Milwaukee, Wis.
Secretary of Christian Citizenship : Mrs. Maude B.
Trescher, 113 S. 2nd St., Jeannette, Pa.
Secretary of Stewardship : Miss Helen L. Barnhart, 826 S.
George St., York, Pa.
Secretary of Organization and Mcmbcrshp: Miss Carrie
M. Kerschner, 416 Schaff Bldg., 1505 Race St., Phila-
delphia, Pa.
Secretary of Central l Vest: Miss Helen Nott, 2938 N. 9th
St., Milwaukee, Wis.
Historian : Mrs. Irvin W. Hendricks, 259 S. Main St.,
Chamber-'burg, Pa.
Literature Depositories
416 Schaff Bldg.. 1505 Race St.. Philadelphia, Pa.
2^6Q W. 25th St., Cleveland, Ohio
The Outlook of the Month
Women and Missions
“Workers Together With Him”
long ago a traveler returning from a journey around the world made this significant
^ statement, “In the midst of the darkness that one encounters everywhere, one comes
across happy bright spots here and there, groups of people working together in confidence that
the kingdom of righteousness will surely come if the friends of Christ will but dispel their
fears and follow Him. Generally speaking, these groups of hopeful people are women.”
It was said of Mary MacArthur, the English leader of working women, who died a few
years ago, that “with Mary something great was always going to happen and she created an
atmosphere in which it did happen.” Is not that one of the outstanding accomplishments of
the many groups of Christian women all over the world, creating an atmosphere of adven-
turous hope in which it will be possible for God to work out His purpose? Results of these
fellowships are by no means limited to the creating of atmosphere, but if there were no other
achievements, this service to the establishing of the Kingdom of God would be immeasurable.
I
Since Bible days, women have had their share in the joys and responsibilities of Christian
service. At times, they have taken the lead in overcoming what have seemed insurmountable
difficulties. Again they have been quick to follow when others have pointed out the needs and
a way. Today, throughout our land thousands, yes even millions, of women and girls are
working together in order that their fellowmen may have the more abundant life. Incidentally
in these Christian fellowships their own lives have been greatly enriched and their horizons
widened. Through their study and reading, an intelligent interest in present day world con-
ditions has been developed. They have a deeper knowledge of the world program of their
church, a more complete understanding of all its Boards and an intimate acquaintance and
share in its world service activities.
May we ever continue to create this atmosphere of adventurous hope, to radiate confidence
in the triumph of right and set ourselves to the joyous task of “working together with Him.”
Greta P. Hinkle.
Note
To subscribers who sent in their renewals
during the past month: In case you find that
the expiration date on your wrapper has not
been changed, kindly be patient. It will be
changed with the October issue. The vaca-
tion season has interfered with our usual
prompt service in this particular.
Editor.
The Quiet Hour
Julia Hall Bartholomew
And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to
preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred , and tongue, and
people. — Rev. 14: 6.
Be still and strong,
0 man, my brother! hold thy sobbing breath,
And keep thy soul’s large window pure from wrong.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
‘Time teaches us that it is more dangerous to
flounder in the shallows than to dare the depths.”
Perhaps one of the greatest pleasures an individual
can experience is to feel himself a significant helper
in the rebuilding of his world.
— H. A. Overstreet.
Let the attention of the life-hungry American
people be directed to the fairer spots on the horizon
of possibility, and their own dynamic quality will be
answerable for the outcome.
— Arthur Farwell.
Who loves the rain
And loves his home.
And looks on life with quiet eyes.
Him will I follow through the storm;
And at his hearth-fire keep me warm.
— Frances Howard Shaw.
Sure good is first in feeding people, then in dress-
ing people, then in lodging people, and lastly in
rightly pleasing people with arts, or sciences, or
any other subject or thought.
— John Ruskin.
Now with a re-created mind
Back to the world my way I find;
Fed by the hills.
— Hermann Hagedorn.
When thy heart, with joy o’erflowing,
Sings a thankful prayer.
In thy joy, O let thy brother
With thee share.
When thy heart enfolds a brother,
God is there.
— Theo. C. Williams.
Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclu-
sions, because we have made them a texture of wine
and dreams, instead of the tough fibre of the human
heart.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Upon the yellow slopes of far-off farms,
I see the rhythmic cradlers, and the sheaves
Gleam in the binder’s arms.
— Lloyd Mifflin.
“He . . . Who also in his spirit bore
A beauty passing the earth’s store,
Walked calmly onward evermore.”
Now, the foundation of that steadfastness and
constancy, which we seek in friendship, is sincerity.
For nothing is steadfast which is insincere.
— Cicero.
Dreams — and the kingdom of quiet!
Only the dead leaves lie
Over the fallen roses
Under the shrouded sky.
—Rosamund M. Watson.
Tall trees, your name is peace,
You are the channel of God;
His mystical sap. . . .
Sings in your cells;
Its rhythmical cycle of life
In you is fulfilled.
— Evelyn Underhill.
0 winged brother on the harebell, stay —
For He that framed the impenetrable plan.
And keeps His word with thee, will keep with man.
— Edwin Markham.
“The ripe, rich tint of the cornfields.
And the wild geese sailing high — -
And all over upland and lowland,
The charm of the goldenrod — -
Some of us call it Autumn,
And others call it God.”
The Prayer
OGOD — forasmuch as without Thee we are not able to please Thee; mercifully grant that Thy Holy
Spirit may in all things direct and rule our hearts; through Jesus Christ our Lord. — Amen.
— Common Prayer.
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The Outlook of Missions
Volume XXVI
September, 1934
Number 8
Thoughts on Leaving Baghdad
By Mrs. David D. Baker
“'TWENTY dirhams . . twenty-one . .
1 twenty-two . . . ; twenty-three dirhams
. . sold!” The auctioneer hammers and
twenty-three hammers beat at my heart as a
coolie carries out of the door Betty’s little
pink and white baby crib. That little bed was
a gift from the kind women of Maywood be-
fore we left for Baghdad. And there go her
book-shelf, her little table and chair, her
bigger bed. Must her room be emptied?
Yes, it is empty, and now for the other rooms.
Out go our dining-room chairs, our table;
out go the dishes we’d bought so anticipat-
ingly in Edinburgh; there the pots and pans
— why, they look all bright and shiny in the
morning sunshine. I didn’t know I loved
them so. Ah, that coolie has our rosewood
table on his back; we bought it cheaply in
a dirty little second-hand shop in the bazaar,
but it was rosewood and hand-made in India
and we were always pleased with it. Our
bookcase follows after; our Baghdad Amer-
ican carpenter made it out of teak, the only
thing we’d ever had made that really satis-
fied in every detail. And there! he’s ham-
mered away the Encyclopaedia; we bought that
with gift money when David graduated from
Seminary. We did want to take it with us,
but Ohio is far and freight is high. Some
things had to be left behind no matter how
much we wanted them. Our boxes of books
and pictures and linen and rugs had already
made weight enough. My desk leaves next;
David had it made for me only two Christ-
mases ago. There’s no stopping anything
now; the auction (horrid word!) is on and
things are going fast. What matter that every-
body says they’re going well? They’re going,
going, going — and the house is empty.
A Moslem baby sits in Betty’s high-chair
now, a little Jewish-American boy plays in
her creeping pen, while a tiny Armenian girl
girl sleeps in her baby bed; a German mother
uses our oil stove; an English doctor drinks
his morning tea from our dishes; a Hindu
refers to our Encyclopaedia; a Jewish family
Our Motto: The Church a Missionary Society — Every Christian a Life Member
SEP 21 1934
lOGICALSU
sits around our dining table. What Happy
times we’d had around that table, just the
three of us! Dust and heat might rage with-
out, family and friends be thousands of miles
away, but what did anything matter when we
were safely gathered after a morning’s separ-
ation? There were those very special days,
birthdays and anniversaries, when joy was
almost perfect, as the chocolate cake gleamed
in the center of the table. Is any of that hap-
piness carried with it into the table’s new
home? Do the echoes of morning prayers
come to the hearts of its new owners? Guests
of varied descriptions often joined us in the
dining room. Boys from the school — Jews,
Moslems, Christians; teachers from the
school, Baghdad and Syrian friends of all
occupations and differing religions; mission-
aries from Iraq, Turkey, Syria, Arabia, India,
China, Japan; friends from America, Betty’s
little American, English and Baghdad friends
— all sorts of nice folks had gathered there.
Twice the Christian women of Baghdad had
stood around it for tea on the Day of Prayer;
twice the Girls’ Club had had its Christmas
party around it. Such lovely memories! —
and the auctioneer told us afterwards that
the wife of the man who bought the table
didn’t like it! If she’d only known all this, I
wonder if it would have made any difference.
A Jewish family plays our victrola now.
Do “Finlandia” or Bach’s “My Heart in Deep-
est Need” as played by Albert Schweitzer on
the organ bring to them what they brought
us? Saleh, our school librarian, carried out
our living room chairs. I wonder will he
feel the presence of any of the folks that sat
in them? The International Club came; the
Freshmen came to read Shakespeare, the
chorus came (a little Jewish girl practices
on the piano now) ; the Book Review Club
came; the boarders came. They came last
Christmas time one night and sat in them as
we darkened the room and sang with only the
tree for light. An Armenian bishop sat in
one; the English bishop in Jerusalem sat in
( Continued, on Page 253)
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Home Missions
Charles E. Schaeffer, Editor
Women and Home Missions
TT would be very difficult to sum up the serv-
ice rendered the cause of Home Missions by
the women of the Reformed Chui'ch. Their
interest in the work goes back to those early
days when Missions in the denomination first
assumed organized form. In 1826 when “The
American Missionary Society of the German
Reformed Church” was organized there were
at the same time established several auxiliary
societies which were constituted of “males”
and “females.” But the specific organization
among the women did not take place until
February 20, 1877, when under the leadership
of Mrs. S. B. Yockey, of Xenia, Ohio, a
Woman’s Missionary Society was organized
in the Reformed Church there of which her
husband was the pastor. Similar societies
were formed in other congregations but the
first Classical Woman’s Missionary Society
was that of Illinois Classis in 1883. Several
other Classes followed during the course of
the same year. The first Synodical Society
was that of Pittsburgh Synod in 1886.
The General Synod of the Reformed
Church met in Akron, 0., in 1887, and the
officers of the Pittsburgh Synodical Society
and others from various Classical Societies
attended the same and took steps to organize
a General Synod’s Society. On June 2, 1887, in
Grace Reformed Church, Akron, 0., twenty-
five women assembled representing five Synods
and eleven Classes, and there the Woman’s
Missionary Society of General Synod was
organized with Mrs. S. B. Yockey as the Pres-
ident. Two committees were appointed, one
in the interest of Home Missions and the other
in the interest of Foreign Missions. The Com-
mittee on Home Missions requested the Board
of Home Missions to name some special mis-
sion point to which the funds of the Society
might be applied. The Board suggested the
Mission at Sioux City, Iowa, to be taken
under the special care of the Society.
From that time on the Woman’s Missionary
Society has never failed in its support of the
Home work. With increasing numbers in the
membership the interest in and the contri-
butions to Home Missions have steadily
increased.
It is along three special lines that the
women have during all these years been a
factor in aiding the work of the Board:
1. Financially. While at the first the con-
tributions were small they have steadily in-
creased until now the annual budget for Home
Missions is over $32,000. The women have
assumed the entire support of the Indian
School at Neillsville, the support of the
deaconesses and the Japanese work on the
Pacific Coast. They have contributed many
Church-building Funds and have aided many
individual Missions as well as various phases
of the work. The Thank-offering boxes bring
in a handsome sum of money each year, of
which the Board of Home Missions gets a
reasonable share. Financially, the women are
a great help to the Board in its work.
2. Educationally. From its very beginning
the Society has believed in publicity and in
the work of educating its constituency. Thus
early it began to publish the Woman’s Journal
— which was merged into The Outlook of
Missions. It has published hundreds of tracts
and thousands of leaflets and other literature
for the purpose of keeping its constituency
informed regarding the work in hand. By its
Girls’ Guilds and Mission Bands it has en-
listed the interest of the youth so that the next
generation may have a type of membership
well informed and vitally related to the work.
3. Inspirationally. The Woman’s Mission-
ary Society has served to create a missionary
atmosphere in many of our congregations and
in the Church at large. Here we have a group
of more than 20,000 women who seem never
to grow tired in advocating the cause. In
many of our congregations they are almost
the only agency that keeps the missionary
fires burning and the missionary passion
alive. Should this influence in behalf of
Missions be suddenly withdrawn from our
Churches, the whole cause of Missions would
suffer irreparable loss.
It is therefore with a sense of great grati-
tude and real satisfaction that we can count
on the women of the Reformed Church as
among the most loyal and most ardent sup-
porters of the work. For the good work they
have wrought in the past we sincerely thank
them and we trust them for what they may be
able to accomplish in the future.
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Faithful Unto Death
Miss Bessie Y. Stewart, my efficient and
devoted secretary, passed away in the Cooper
Hospital, Camden, N. J., on the night of
August 1st. Because of her long and faithful
service in the office of the Board of Home
Missions it is fitting that the following tribute
should be paid to her life and labors.
On June 1, 1908, when I entered upon office
as the General Secretary of the Board of
Home Missions, a rather timid and modest
young lady entered and offered her services
as my secretary. She stated that she had
recently assisted Dr. Charles R. Watson, of
the United Presbyterian Board of Foreign
Missions in the preparation of the manuscript
of a book which had now been finished. I
took her on probation for two weeks with the
understanding that the contract could be
mutually terminated at the end of that period.
But the two weeks were extended to twenty-
six years and two months and terminated only
by her untimely death.
Miss Stewart was the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Stewart, of Haddon Heights,
N. J., and was born in Merchantville, N. J.,
on October 26, 1889. At an early age she
was received into the membership of the
United Presbyterian Church, but when the
family moved to Haddon Heights she iden-
tified herself with the Presbyterian Church in
the U. S. A. Her long association with the
Board of Home Missions of the Reformed
Church in the United States made her better
acquainted with this denomination than her
own. She knew the name of every minister
of our Church and was familiar with every
detail of organization and activity. She qual-
ified herself especially for the work of the
Board of Home Missions. She manifested a
deep interest in all its operations. Her rela-
tion to the Board was vital, not professional
or perfunctory. During all these years she
had full charge of the office. She attended
practically every Board Meeting and took
down in shorthand almost every word that
was spoken and every action that was taken
at those meetings.
She was most efficient and faithful in all
her services. She had a remarkable memory
and could recall actions taken by the Board
and correspondence conducted, with wonder-
ful accuracy. Her devotion and loyalty to
her work was indeed most beautiful. She was
possessed of high ideals and was a lover of
the true, the beautiful and the good. She
Miss Bessie Y. Stewart
loved flowers and there never was a Board
Meeting but she decorated the table with a
bouquet of flowers. On June 1st of each year,
as these years came and went, we celebrated
our anniversary and on those occasions there
were always flowers plucked by her hand
from her own garden on my desk. On June
1st a year ago our friends from near and far
joined in the celebration of our 25th Anniver-
sary as workers for the Board.
She loved books and usually carried an
armful of them to her home. She loved beau-
tiful thoughts and ideas. Many a time her
eyes would fill with tears, not of sentimental-
ism, (for she was not a sentimentalist), but
when some great truth in beautiful form
would possess her soul.
She possessed wonderfully good judgment
on delicate and difficult problems. She had
a high sense of integrity, honesty and fairness,
yet withal a deep sympathy and an abiding
faith in goodness. Never in thought, word
or deed did she reveal anything that was low
or vulgar. Her serious thoughts had rest in
heaven. Gracious and affable to all who came
into or went out from the office, she en-
deared herself to many who formed her
acquaintance. She wrote thousands of letters,
hundreds of articles and scores of pamphlets
and tracts and all her work was done with
remarkable speed and accuracy. For years
she assumed practically full charge of the
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[September
Home Mission section of The Outlook of
Missions. She gathered the material herself,
wrote articles and read the proof. She knew
every phase of the work so intimately that she
made herself practically indispensable. She
was at once my eyes, my hands, my memory.
I could be absent from the office for weeks
and months, if necessary, and upon my return
I would find that ail matters had been
promptly and efficiently attended to.
A year ago she complained of illness and it
was found that a major operation would be
necessary. She came back in due time but
she was no longer the healthy and vigorous
girl of past years. Her health was shattered,
her body was broken, her strength was gone.
But she kept bravely at her desk almost to the
very end. Her last service rendered wras in
Statement to the Classes by
Dear Brethren:
The organization of the General Synod of
the Evangelical and Reformed Church last
June affects the work of Home Missions both
in the organization and in the practical work
on the field. Already several conferences
between the representatives of the Board of
each denomination as well as a meeting of the
two Executive Committees have been held.
The two full Boards will meet in Columbus
next January when mutual policies and a
united program will be further considered.
In a few cases plans are already under way
for the uniting of mission churches in re-
spective communities. As time goes on more
of this can no doubt be accomplished. It is
agreed by both Boards that so far as new
work is concerned this shall be undertaken by
the Joint Board and not by either Board
separately. The thing that now stands in the
way for an early and complete union of the
two Boards is the fact that our Board finds it-
self so heavily involved in debt. We must
set our own house in order before we can
function effectively as a united Board. Every
effort is being put forth by our Board to bring
this to pass at an early date. There are two
accounts which give the Board the greatest
concern. The one is the heavy obligations to
various financial institutions.
The Mortgage Redemption Plan has been
in operation for two years and has succeeded
in securing subscriptions amounting to
$255,000, of which $87,500 has been received
in cash. Through this means the Board has
paid off in bank loans about $80,000. At the
connection with the meeting of the Board on
July 17th and 18th. She just pulled herself
together for that service. She wrote out the
lengthy Minutes of that meeting, and then
yielded to the advice of her physician and
underwent another operation. Her frail body
was too weak and too saturated with the
poison of her disease to bear up under the
strain. So she quietly fell asleep on the night
of August 1st. Euneral services over her body
were held in the home of her parents on
Saturday afternoon August 4th and were in
charge of her pastor and the undersigned.
Thus a truly lovely and beautiful character
has gone from us, but the charm and memory
of her unselfish and devoted life will linger
with us as a benediction.
Charles E. Schaeffer.
the Board of Home Missions
same time a number of Missions have put
their debts to the Board on a liquidation basis
through the Life Insurance plan; the amount
thus far provided for is approximately
$200,000.
The other account is that which involves
the appropriations to the Missionaries. Be-
cause the Church at large failed to sustain its
standard of giving through the apportion-
ment, the Board has for several years been
unable to pay its Missionaries in full. In
spite of drastic salary reductions amounting
to more than 40%, and in spite of the fact
that a large number of Missions went to self-
support during the last two years the Board
owes $125,000 in back salaries. When we re-
member that this burden is being borne by
about 150 Missionaries and their families the
situation becomes heartrending and well-nigh
intolerable. Something must be done to
relieve this situation. The Board is making a
special appeal to every member of the Church
to contribute at least one dollar in connection
with
HOME MISSION DAY, NOVEMBER 11,
and during the entire month of November to
pay these back salaries. The 350,000 mem-
bers of the Reformed Church should not find
it difficult on this basis, to raise the full
amount of these arrearages. The slogan
“ DOLLAR DAY FOR OUR HOME MIS-
SIONARIES” should be heralded far and
wide and the hearty cooperation of every
member enlisted. The Board requests the
Classes to give this appeal earnest considera-
tion and to appoint well qualified persons
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Home Missions
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who will organize every congregation in the
Classis and secure the cooperation of every
member. Much personal work will be re-
quired, not in the nature of a campaign, but
in personal solicitation of at least a dollar
from every member. The thing will not be
accomplished by passing resolutions merely.
It can be done only by personal effort. We
believe that all of our ministers have the wel-
fare of their brother ministers who labor as
Home Missionaries, sufficiently at heart to
throw themselves enthusiastically into this
plan. If this special effort will meet with
success, it will bring joy and relief into the
homes and hearts of many of our brethren
who have patiently carried this burden for
several years.
The Board earnestly requests the Classes to
urge upon pastors and congregations the pay-
ment of the apportionment in full so that no
further debt need be incurred by the Board.
The new General Synod at Cleveland made
no change in the amount of the apportionment
for the several Boards. This apportionment
laid by the General Synod at Akron is con-
siderably less than it was in former years
and should be within the reach of every
congregation.
It is to be regretted that so much emphasis
mast De laid upon money and so much effort
be put forth to raise the budget, because this
temporarily tends to obscure the real mis-
sionary work that needs to be done. But it is
clear that no advance step can be taken until
the financial situation has been corrected.
The work waits to be done. The merger of
the two denominations opens large fields for
aggressive Home Mission effort. Already the
two Boards have formulated A POLICY for
the future to include among other features,
the ministry to underprivileged groups, the
work of Evangelism and of Social Service.
But the carrying out of this policy must wait
until the financial condition of our Board is
cleared up. Consequently we appeal to all
our pastors and people to put forth every
effort to place our work upon a cash basis so
as to enable us not only to balance the budget
but also to go forth to the accomplishment of
the larger task of Kingdom building.
Respectfully submitted,
Charles E. Miller, President,
Charles E. Schaeffer, General Secretary.
August 1st, 1934.
Jacob Orth, the Founder of the Reformed Church
in the Dakota Territory
( Continued )
Theodore P. Bolliger
THE visit of Rev. C. Kuss in the Dakota
Territory in 1875 was an important
event. The German Russian immigrants had
arrived with a certain prejudice against higher
church authority. In the old country the
dignity and the authority of the pastor had
been too much emphasized; his spiritual and
civil powers were too closely associated; the
authority of the Church was often unwisely
asserted; therefore, it was probably inevitable
that under pioneer conditions a decided turn
towards complete congregational independ-
ence should early manifest itself. Hence, the
coming of Rev. Mr. Kuss was of great im-
portance. The distribution of funds, given
by the Reformed congregations in the east,
moved the suffering immigrants deeply; the
explanation of the government and usages of
the Reformed Church in the United States
with the wide liberties enjoyed by the indi-
vidual congregations, appealed to them; and
the action of the Home Mission Board of the
Synod of the Northwest, which made the or-
dination of the school teacher, Jacob Orth,
possible, quite won them. As a result several
of the settlements immediately effected a tem-
porary organization by electing elders and
deacons; although congregational constitu-
tions were not adopted until later, with the
exception of the congregation at Yankton.
When Teacher Jacob Orth returned to
Dakota as the Rev. Jacob Orth, the joy of the
people was great. He brought with him the
unofficial promise of the Mission Board and
of the officers of the Sheboygan Classis that
missionary support to the amount of $500 a
year should be given him, and all Dakota
should be his parish; at least such is the tra-
dition still living in South Dakota. How-
ever, the minutes of the Mission Board do not
show that the Classis ever made an official
request to the Board nor that the Board ever
acted officially in the matter; hence, it is clear
that there was only a gentleman’s agreement
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which never went into effect because some-
thing had happened.
When Rev. Mr. Orth called the represen-
tatives of the congregations together, they
strenuously objected to the plan of accepting
missionary aid. They would be under obli-
gations to no one, but would raise the $500
themselves. The resolution not to accept
missionary aid certainly did honor to their
good intentions, but just as certainly reflect-
ed on their good judgment. The members at
that time were nearly all poor, and some of
them very poor. One disastrous year had
already swept over them and several more
were to come. Only six months before,
through the efforts of Rev. Mr. Kuss, a con-
siderable sum of money had been distributed
among the sufferers, and even during his visit
in June little incidents like the following were
common: “One brother came to the services
with something on his feet, which could no
longer be called a pair of shoes. He received
$3.00 to buy flour, and got a pair of new
shoes.” A little later, “An old woman of sixty-
four years walked eight miles to see me to
get help to clothe the children of her daugh-
ter.” But the people were hopeful because
prospects for a good harvest were promising;
but a few days later, on the very day that Mr.
Kuss was to begin his homeward journey, the
agonized wail was heard, “ ‘The grasshoppers
have come again.’ With blanched faces, the
people looked into the sky frightened by the
approaching scourge.” Nevertheless, the elders
and deacons of the congregations which had
been organized, considering only their desire
to be independent, refused the aid proffered
by the German Home Mission Board. As
events soon proved this was a tragic mistake.
Most of the members could pay nothing, even
with the best of intentions. The meagre sal-
ary promised the pastor could not be paid;
and Rev. Mr. Orth had to struggle for his own
daily bread in the sweat of his brow. Dis-
tressing, grinding years were his lot.
Even under these adverse conditions, im-
migration constantly increased, and the num-
ber of new settlements, which meant new
groups to be shepherded, also increased. In
the spring of 18.76, the Immanuel congrega-
tion, now a part of the Tripp charge, adopted
a constitution; in the fall of the same year
the Ebenezer congregation, now a part of the
Menno charge, also adopted a constitution,
and in 1878, the St. Peter’s congregation, now
a part of the Menno charge, as well as, the
Neukassel (or Cassel) congregation were or-
ganized about the same time. In spite of
crushing economic conditions, the pastor and
his various flocks did not lose hope, as may
be seen from a letter which Mr. Orth wrote
during the summer of 1876, from which I
quote a few sentences, “The revivals which
we had during the past winter have helped.
I have been able to organize more congrega-
tions. Next spring we will build a house of
prayer, with twenty-five families. The site
chosen is two miles west of the Lutheran
Church. Another group of 32 to 35 families is
ready to be organized. About thirty-five miles
west of Yankton, on the Missouri River, there
are about twenty families, where I will preach
for the first time on July 8. Two other points
of ten or twelve families are not ready as yet
to be organized. I am careful in organizing,
so that the organizations may also endure.
The entire membership which has joined the
organized congregations so far, now numbers
115 families. Forty-five were also received
by confirmation. I must constantly hurry
(jagen) from place to place; but to me it is
neither too much nor too little, if only the
word of God is victorious and is advanced.”
During this time the services were still held
in private homes, which were often crowded
to suffocation; hence, the last three congre-
gations named set to work to erect modest
places of worship. Money was scarce, but
stones were plentiful; hence the people fur-
nished most of the material, and did all the
work, and erected stone churches. The lum-
ber for the roof, floors, pews and doors had
to be hauled in from Marion Junction, more
than twenty miles away. It was a happy day
for the pastor when the services could be held
in the little churches, as his friend, Rev. H.
Bentz, testifies in a little biographical sketch
which he wrote after the death of Rev. Mr.
Orth, in which he said: “Reverend Orth’s
labors were excessive and injurious to his
health. During the early years of his minis-
try, he was often obliged to preach in private
houses, which were small and low in the ceil-
ing and thus unsuited for such large audi-
ences. In this way, by exposure during his
long and tedious journeys and by the ill
effects of preaching in confined and unsuit-
able places, he undoubtedly laid the founda-
tions of his suffering and early death.”
Within less than two years from the time
of Rev. Mr. Orth’s ordination, two of his con-
gregations— Salem and Odessa — were ready
to unite with the Sheboygan Classis, with a
communicant membership of 286, and 237
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unconfirmed members. The following year,
1878, these congregations were transferred to
the newly organized Nebraska Classis, but by
that time the number of congregations had
grown to six, with a total of 707 communing
and unconfirmed members. The name of the
new charge was “Yankton” and consisted of
the following congregations: Salem, Odessa,
Neukassel, Immanuel. Peters and Friedens.
The Salem congregation was located at Yank-
ton, and Peters later changed its name to
Saron. All are still in existence, except the
Yankton congregation, which dissolved after
about ten years.
Pastor Orth and his elder were present at
the meeting of the Nebraska Classis when his
charge was officially received into the Classis.
They both reported at length as to the condi-
tions among the German Russians in Dakota.
At one of the evening services the elder was
invited to make an address, which “aroused
surprise on account of its spiritual contents.”
From this meeting the pastor returned to
throw himself with renewed energy into the
labors in his vast field; for he served not only
the six organized congregations, but also a
large number of groups not yet organized,
scattered over a territory of about fifteen
hundred square miles. One of these com-
munities which was regularly served, if
judged merely by its size, should have been
organized long before, but the people were
mostly Lutheran and could come to no de-
cision. In the meanwhile, they attended the
services faithfully and came to the Lord’s
Supper, with the Reformed folk, without hes-
itation. So the minister determined to bring
the matter to a decision. One Sunday after-
noon in August, he drove in his buggy to
the private home where a large assemblage
awaited his arrival. He drove up, stopped,
and quietly remained sitting in his buggy.
Some of the young men came up ready to un-
hitch the horse and feed it; for they delighted
to do something for the pastor. What was
their astonishment, to hear him say: “No, no,
boys, you must not unhitch. I do not know
whether I am able to stay here.” In a few
moments the older men hurried to the side
of the buggy and urged the pastor to enter
the house and begin the service, for an unus-
ually large number had come together. But
the older men also were told: “I am not
sure that I can remain here.” Finally, how-
ever, he yielded to their pleading, entered
the house, and began the service. Everyone
sat up and took notice while the pastor read
the Scripture lesson, from the eighteenth
chapter of the first book of Kings, and heard
the challenging words, “How long halt ye
between two opinions?” A few minutes
afterwards they heard the text and received
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another jar. The text taken from I Corinth-
ians 11: 19, had these words: “For there
must be also factions among you; that they
that are approved may be made manifest
among you.” In the German which Rev. Mr.
Orth used, these verses are still more expres-
sive; so I venture to put them here also:
“Wie lange hinkt ihr auf beiden Seiten . . .?”
“Es muessen Rotten unter euch sein. . . In
the sermon he plainly informed the people
that his many congregations demanded his
entire time, and unless they could decide to
organize as a Reformed congregation, he
would be unable to continue to serve them.
That brought the desired decision and a few
weeks later a Reformed congregation was or-
ganized. To be sure, some of the Lutheran
families refused to unite and stayed away, but
most of these gradually came back and con-
tinued to worship with the Reformed.
After some months the two groups decided
to erect a church, because the attendance had
grown to the point where no private home
could contain the people who wished to attend
the services; for even though the two groups
would not unite into one congregation, both
groups were glad to worship together, no mat-
ter which pastor conducted the service. With
united effort a neat little church was quickly
built, though it was neither dedicated nor
given a name, so as not to offend either party.
Mr. Orth conducted services in the new
church several times before the Missouri
Lutheran pastor put in his first appearance.
When he heard that the Reformed minister
had already preached from the pulpit he re-
fused to enter it, saying: “No, I will never
stand in the same place from which a Re-
formed preacher has already flung about his
false doctrines.” That aroused a storm, and
the result was that most of the Lutheran peo-
ple joined the Reformed church, and with
their children have loyally remained in the
church ever since.
For five years. Rev. Mr. Orth was the only
minister of the Reformed Church in Dakota.
He brought the Word and the Sacraments to
all the widely scattered groups; he organized
them into regular congregations as fast as
they were ready to take the step; he defended
and shepherded them against the “inroads of
various irresponsible sects which were spread-
ing like a virulent cancer.” The number of
his congregations and preaching places grew
to fifteen; in fact, it is stated that in the eight
years of his ministry he actually brought
about the organization of eighteen congrega-
tions. This seemingly impossible task was
made possible by the fact that many of these
groups had been accustomed to take part in
the old country in devotional meetings con-
ducted entirely by laymen; devotional meet-
ings similar to our prayer-meetings of a gen-
eration ago. At some of these gatherings the
reading of a sermon by an elder was fre-
quently added. These meetings, as long as
they were held under the supervision of the
pastor, accomplished much good. But they
also fostered undesirable attitudes and prac-
tices, which in some cases after the death of
Mr. Orth, produced an extreme individualism
and opposition to church authority, which dis-
rupted many congregations. If our Reformed
Church had been able to send five ministers
into the Dakota Territory in those early days,
and given them a modest missionary support
and, furthermore, if the people would have
had the spiritual insight to welcome the aid
offered by the Home Mission Board and
would have been ready to co-operate heartily
with the Board, the Classis and the Synod,
then an astounding harvest would have been
reaped. Thus many of the unchurchly devel-
opments of a later day could have been
avoided, and the hardships of the pioneer cir-
cuit riders would have been greatly reduced.
But ....
In 1880 the Nebraska Classis sanctioned the
division of the Yankton charge, but as no
other pastor was available at the time, Rev.
Mr. Orth continued to carry the entire bur-
den. As pastors were found the field was
divided and thus gradually the present
charges known as Menno, Tripp, Scotland,
Delmont, Kassel and Marion emerged.
But the man who laid the foundations of
our church in the Dakota Territory was never
properly supported by his many congrega-
tions and preaching places. He was always
poor. The present pastor of the Menno
charge, Rev. John Bodenman, in his historical
sketch of the charge, which sketch received
the approval of a committee of elders of the
charge, makes this statement: “Pastor Jacob
Orth wore himself out gradually by his stren-
uous church activities. His numerous con-
gregations did not lift him out of his poverty.
We are unable to give them the testimony
that they did for him what they could. In-
sufficiently clothed he traveled during the cold
winters, and these hardships finally brought
on sickness. He died soon after he had passed
his forty-sixth birthday.”
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Observations of the Treasurer
J. S. Wise
AS this old world rolls ceaselessly on
through unfathomable space, one is
often impressed with the unchangeableness
of time. Modern youth excuses its follies by
flippantly reminding its elders that times have
changed. That claim in some respects may
be right, but in many others it is without
foundation. We have much to learn in these
so-called remarkable days in which we live.
Have you ever read the full story of Joseph
as recorded in the book of Genesis? In it we
find that the same human envy and greed in-
spired the same passions and crimes that are
prevalent today. We still have much to learn
from the life of Joseph.
Pharaoh dreamed. Joseph interpreted it.
Superstition? Perhaps. Nevertheless, the
seven years of plenty were followed by seven
years of famine.
“And the seven years of plenty, that was
in the land of Egypt, came to an end. And
the seven years of famine began to come, ac-
cording as Joseph had said: and there was
famine in all lands; but in all the land of
Egypt there was bread. And when all the
land of Egypt was famished the people cried
to Pharaoh for bread: and Pharaoh said unto
all the Egyptians, Go unto Joseph; what he
saith to you, do. And the famine was over
all the face of the earth: and Joseph opened
all the storehouses, and sold unto the Egyp-
tians; and the famine was sore in the land of
Egypt. And all countries came into Egypt
to Joseph to buy grain; because the famine
was sore in all the earth.”
That is what happened about 3,650 years
ago and this is what is happening now: —
The Philadelphia Inquirer of August 11,
1934, says:
“Drought Cuts Food Crops to Lowest Level.
Secretary Wallace Predicts Higher Prices to
Consumers. Report Shows Corn Production
Lowest Since 1894, Oats at 1882 Output .”
The foresight and planning of Joseph saved
the lives of the people of his day. Can any
one guess what would happen to the people of
our age should the drought, the grasshoppers
(locusts) and our crop-destroying program
continue for the next seven long years?
Is not the world passing through a similar
experience? After a long period of plenteous
times and reckless prodigality, the day of
reckoning has arrived. We call it “depres-
sion.” But who, or, what is to blame?
Money was plentiful and those without it
were urged and encouraged to borrow it, at
high rates of interest, and plunge into invest-
ments galore. In response to vigorous adver-
tising, thousands of people were induced to
buy homes beyond their means, only to lose
them after their savings were gone. Appar-
ently they were not to blame. Everybody was
doing it. No provision was made for the
lean years ahead. Out of a clear sky the de-
pression came and the people’s wealth melted
away before they realized what it was all
about. Even now it is beyond the comprehen-
sion of most of us and we are dumbfounded
at the anomaly of living in a land that de-
stroys its surplus food while multitudes of
the world’s poor are starving. We certainly
need another Joseph to show us the way out.
Now, what has happened in the Board of
Home Missions? In five years of plenty the
net receipts for the General Work of the
Board are shown below in contrast with four
and a half lean ones:
Fat Years Lean Years
1925
. . $313,618.66
1930 .
. $319,684.68
1926
. .. 340,481.33
1931 .
. 276,884.43
1927
. .. 352,681.80
1932 .
. 254,452.85
1928
. .. 350,958.59
1933 .
. 210,146.37
1929
. .. 330,760.66
1934 (i/2) 119,722.79
Deficit January 1, 1929. .. .$261,338.51
Deficit July 1, 1934 241,528.92
In spite of the lean years, by rigid econ-
omy, the Board has been able to reduce the
deficit by approximately $20,000.00. These
figures are taken from the Profit and Loss
Account and do not include the Church Build-
ing Department. In that Department our
loans to Missions on their church buildings
were as follows: —
January 1, 1929 $1,405,078.58
July 1, 1934 1,384,226.96
If we could have collected all the interest
due from the Missions on their debts to the
Board, we would have a far more interesting
story to tell. The general world depression,
the falling off of the apportionment receipts,
and the failure of the Church at large to fully
grasp the hardship that has been placed upon
the Missionaries and the Board’s officers, who
are compelled to carry the heavy burden of
approximately one-half of the present deficit,
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that is the cause of the Board’s distress. Is
this right? Will it be corrected on Home
Mission Day? Is it not possible to make it a
real Dollar per Member Day? Joseph col-
lected a generous proportion of the corn in
seven years for the relief of the people. We
can relieve the distress of the Missionaries in
one day, if we will!
The Board of Home Missions Holds Important Meeting
THE semi-annual meeting of the Board of
Home Missions was held at the Pennsyl-
vania Hotel. Philadelphia, on July 17th and
18th. All the members were present except
Dr. J. Friedli and Elders Tillman K. Saylor
and Randolph S. Meek. Mrs. E. W. Lentz
represented the Woman’s Missionary Society.
Because of his inability to attend the meetings
of the Board. Elder Meek presented his resig-
nation as a member of the Board and of its
Executive Committee. In his place the Board
appointed Elder Charles S. Adams, of Esterly,
Pa., to membership on the Board, and Dr.
Calvin M. LeLong, of East Greenville, Pa., to
membership on the Executive Committee.
The following resignations were accepted:
Rev. Francis J. Schmuck, from Trinity,
West Hollywood, Cal.; Rev. Charles Bogar,
from Hungarian Church, Pocahontas, Vir-
ginia; Rev. Samuel Ramaker, from Omaha,
Neb.; Rev. William C. Feller, from Cedar
Rapids, Iowa; Rev. William G. Lienkaemper,
from Salem, Oregon; Rev. Elmer E. Leiphart,
from Faith, Philadelphia, Pa.
The death of Rev. Andrew Urban, of
Buffalo, Hungarian, was noted.
The following were ordered to be com-
missioned:
Rev. A. V. Vondersmith, Charlotte, N. C. ;
Rev. Chas. A. Rodenberger, Third Church,
Greensburg, Pa.; Rev. J. Paul Kehm, First-
St. Stephen’s, Baltimore, Md. ; Rev. E. Horst-
man, Salem, Oregon.
Two Missions went to self-support, viz.:
Seventeenth Avenue, Denver, Col., and the
First, Omaha, the latter forming a self-sup-
porting congregation by a union of it and a
nearby Evangelical congregation.
The report of the Treasurer showed that
during the first six months of the current
year $66,797 were received on the apportion-
ment, and $73,090 were paid on appropria-
tions to the Missionaries. In the Church-
building Department the net receipts were
$35,946. The report showed that during the
last six months $40,375 were paid on the
debt in the General Fund.
The Mortgage Redemption Plan directors
reported that the total pledges to date amount
to $248,240, of which amount $86,243 has
been collected in cash and $61,112 has been
given in lieu of cash by the Missionaries from
their back salaries, or a total of $147,355. A
number of Mission Churches have placed
their obligations to the Board on a liquida-
tion basis amounting to $166,400.
The matter of salary arrearages to the Mis-
sionaries gave the Board great concern. The
total arrearages now amount to $121,025, of
which $55,693 has accumulated since last
July. Definite plans were proposed to raise
this full amount by the end of the year. The
month of November which is Home Mission
Month, centering on Home Mission Day,
November 11th, is to be set aside as a season
of ingathering. Every member of the Re-
formed Church will be challenged to con-
tribute a dollar or more for this purpose.
“A Dollar Day for Home Missionaries” is to
be the slogan which will be laid upon the
heart of every member in the Church. With
the co-operation of pastors, consistories and
people this goal can easily be reached and the
burden lifted from the shoulders of our faith-
ful Missionaries. Dr. Wm. F. DeLong has
been appointed as the director of this special
effort and he will launch the movement at an
early date.
In his report to the Board the General
Secretary called attention to the fact that
October 1st will mark the 25th Anniversary
of the Superintendency of Dr. John C. Horn-
ing. His entire ministry has been spent in
connection with the Board of Home Missions,
either as Sunday School missionary, mission-
ary pastor or missionary superintendent. He
organized 16 new Missions in his territory,
which is the Middle West. He was instru-
mental through the Progressive Project to lift
the entire indebtedness of the Missions in the
former Interior Synod. During these twenty-
five years he has traveled over 700,000 miles
in the discharge of his duties as Superintend-
ent of the Central West Department.
The Board gave considerable time to the
consideration of problems presented by the
Lhiion of the Evangelical Synod and the
Reformed Church. A joint meeting of the
two Boards will be held in Columbus, Ohio,
on January 15th and 16th, 1935. The Board
concurred with the action recently taken by
the Board of Home Missions of the Evangel-
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ical Synod in stating its task to be: “(a)
providing religious privileges for neglected
communities in the nature of establishing mis-
sion Sunday Schools, preaching places, etc.,
without thinking primarily in terms of organ-
izing new congregations; (b) undertaking the
rehabilitation of lives along the lines of inner
mission work; (c) fostering evangelism in
our congregations.”
The Board also authorized its Committee
on Finance to make a complete survey of all
our investments and liabilities and report to
the Board at its January meeting. The serv-
ices of the Superintendents and of the Treas-
urer were continued as at present to the end
of the fiscal year.
The Executive Committee will meet at head-
quarters on October 12th, 1934.
The Social Service Commission
Evangelical Synod Pronouncement
THE Commission on Christianity and So-
cial Problems of the Evangelical Synod
of North America has sent to the clergy of
the Synod an invitation to help their church
to “take a firm position on social questions.”
The communication reads in part as follows:
“There is a growing conviction on the part
of many clergymen and of scores of respon-
sible lay people within the Christian Church
that:
“1) Inherently and by nature the Church
of Jesus Christ is possessed of resources for
the significant motivation and the adequate
ordering of human living, resources which
are as yet possessed by no other institution or
movement within the horizon of our day.
“2) In its present life and institutional
form the Church of Jesus Christ is falling
far short of a real expression of its genius as
the medium of God’s voice and will to man-
kind.
“The Commission on Christianity and So-
cial Problems of our church is therefore re-
called into being (by the General Conference
of last October at Cincinnati, Ohio) in order
that our church may make every effort to rid
itself of the irrelevant activities and the self-
evident involvements in a pagan society which
long accommodation to a pleasant world
automatically brings upon it. Further, that
our church may sincerely seek and find the
kind of repentance that is productive of faith
in a God-conditioned world and a determina-
tion to strip off those things which have so
seriously impeded the flow and muddied the
life-giving stream of the Christian Gospel.
Again that our church may vigorously renew
its search for the things essential, and pene-
trate once more the now largely buried re-
sources of its power unto life in the image of
Him who is both its humblest servant and its
almighty Lord.
“It would appear inevitable then, that
the church would and should have a signifi-
cant word to say and find something vital to
do on the subject of the world evils of our
time, on war, on the life-blasting institution
of child labor, on the cursed existence of race
prejudice, on the enslavement of the laborer,
and the multitudinous other ills that a mor-
ally sensitive God-conscious society will seek
constantly to purge itself of. Beyond that,
yet indelibly bound up with it, the church
would have mighty words to say of hope, not
for a return of prosperity from around the
corner, but hope in the power of God for the
regeneration of the world, of courage against
powers and principalities that have all but
stilled the voice of prophecy among us, and
of sacrifice which in the name of Jesus is to
be hailed as a privilege and not borne grudg-
ingly as a burden.”
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enjoy every issue and give some articles at every meeting.”
Mrs. Edgar Whitener, High Point, N. C.
Foreign Missions
John H. Poorman, Editor
Women and Foreign Missions
IT has been estimated that the contributions
of the Woman’s Missionary Society of Gen-
eral Synod to Foreign Missions, during the
47 years since its organization, have exceeded
one million dollars. This vast sum represents
the sacrificial giving of tens of thousands of
noble, warm-hearted women who have studied
the work, prayed for it and given their sons
and daughters for its maintenance.
During these years the Society has been
assuming an ever-widening circle of activities
on the foreign field until practically every
phase of the work for women and children is
being supported by its members.
It has almost become a habit for the Board
of Foreign Missions to turn to the Society for
assistance, whenever some special need has
arisen which could not be met otherwise.
The response has usually been prompt and
favorable.
Some of the finest and best equipped build-
ings erected in Japan and China by our
Church were made possible by the gifts of the
W. M. S. G. S.
The articles which follow set forth most of
the educational and evangelistic work fostered
by the Society. Mention should also be made
of the blessed ministry of the Hoy Memorial
Hospital and the Abounding Grace Hospital
in China as well as the flourishing Kinder-
gartens in Japan and the Girls’ Schools in
Iraq.
President Kriete Reviews the Year’s Work
at Miyagi College
IT is a great privilege to have a part in
preparing for life nearly four hundred
girls and young women, who will have a large
share in moulding the thoughts of the coming
generation, and entirely unhindered by any
official or other restraint, to have been per-
mitted to give them the Christian foundation
for their lives. Our community fully under-
stands our Christian purpose, and with this
knowledge has continued to give us its sup-
port. This confidence of our public is a
source of great pride and encouragement to
us.
Under this Christian influence there has
been a large number of students who have
made the great decision of loyal obedience to
Jesus Christ and His way of life. This num-
ber includes some of the brightest girls in the
school, and among them some who have with-
held their decision for several years of
thoughtful consideration, making their decis-
ion just before graduation.
It has been a sore trial, however, that at a
time when our kind of education is so much
needed, and when we have succeeded so
largely in winning a place in the educational
world of this country, we have been so seri-
ously handicapped by lack of funds that we
have had to make very drastic changes in
some of our policies. Through the hearty
co-operation of our faculty, we have been
able to meet the cut in our annual appropri-
ation, but the reduction in the number of our
missionary teachers is a source of serious
concern to those who are responsible for this
work. A long continuance of this policy of
reduction in missionary personnel cannot fail
seriously to affect our efficiency and prestige.
Faculty
During the past year many changes in our
faculty personnel have been made necessary.
Our Japanese faculty in the High School con-
sists of ten regular and four part-time teach-
ers, and in the College of ten regular and
ten part-time teachers. With only one excep-
tion all of the regular teachers are baptized
Christians. All hut four of the part-time
teachers are Christian.
Our American faculty has also been consid-
erably reduced, being smaller than it has
been any time in the past ten years. We have
only one American teacher, Miss Garman, on
the High School faculty, and in the college
we have Miss Hoffman, Dean of the Home
Economics Department, who is also teaching
twenty-one hours; Miss Smith, Acting Dean
of the English Department, who is teaching
twenty hours, and Miss Peterson, Acting Dean
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of Music Department, and Miss Hanold, who
are both carrying heavy schedules. Miss
Lindsey and Miss Hansen have been on fur-
lough during the period covered by this
report.
Death took two members of our faculty
during this year. Miss Fusako Ishida, our
youngest teacher, a brilliant student and
capable musician, and withal a most winsome
strongly Christian character succumbed to
typhoid fever after an illness of only a few
weeks. Miss Mary E. Schneder, as you know,
passed through the door of death into eternal
life on April 12th. Her self-sacrificing life
and her triumphant overcoming of death have
made a deep impression on the whole school.
Students
Our student body in April, 1934, numbered
368, of which number 228 are in the high
school and 140 in the college. The number
of applicants for the high school this year far
exceeded previous years. A total of 120
students paid the application fees, and though
we had intended to take in only fifty, on the
day of matriculation we found ourselves with
sixty-one students enrolled in the first year
class. Tears were shed by those who failed
to make the entrance, and there were frantic
appeals from parents, but even sixty was more
than we can accommodate in our classroom
space. In the college, too, we had a gratifying
number of applicants and took in forty-nine
new students. This enrollment is particularly
gratifying in view of the fact that the tuition
for the newly entering students had been
raised.
Religious Activities
The Y. W. C. A. continued as usual to be
the centre of the religious life of the school.
Assisted by able faculty advisors, this volun-
tary organization, through its various activi-
ties gave opportunity for the expression of
the religious life of the students. Discussion
groups for clarifying their thought about
their own religious experiences, the Friday
night school for employees of the Govern-
ment Postal Savings Bank, a monthly chapel
prayer meeting, and co-operation with the
school in the annual evangelistic campaign
are the principal activities. In the high
school the work centres largely in various
clubs, and much of the religious work is car-
ried on in co-operation with the College Y.
W. C. A. This year’s evangelistic services
were addressed by Miss Michiko Kawai. Out
of her fruitful life and rich Christian experi-
ence she gave our girls most thought-provok-
ing addresses, and in addition she gave her-
self generously in personal interviews which
resulted in decisions to accept Christ as
leader, and His way of life. A number of the
girls who made this decision have already
been baptized, while some others are still
awaiting the permission of their parents.
The Fiftieth Anniversary
Plans for the celebration of our fiftieth
anniversary in 1936 are under way, and in-
clude in addition to many meetings to be held
at that time, the publication of a history of
the school and the raising of an endowment
fund.
We believe that God has led and is leading,
and that He desires to lead into even greater
usefulness, if we have but the faith and love
to follow Him. We pray therefore that we
on the field, and you at home, may continue
to wait on Him for His guidance, and to fol-
low where He leads into ever greater fields of
service and richer and richer blessings, so that
through us and through this school God’s
kingdom may come.
Respectfully submitted,
C. D. Kriete,
President.
May 12, 1934.
Warning
An over-heavy, suave man of between forty-
five and fifty-five years of age, posing as
“J. C. Norton,” has recently been calling on
annuitants of the American Bible Society, and
in one instance defrauded an unsuspecting
woman of nearly $1,000. This man, with an
ingratiating manner, carrying a forged letter
of introduction, and well acquainted with
annuity processes and principles, is likely to
continue in his unscrupulous activities unless
apprehended. Pastors, religious workers,
and particularly persons interested in annui-
ties should be on their guard against him.
Information as to his whereabouts should be
sent at once to the American Bible Society,
Astor Place, New York City.
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Our Women Evangelists in Japan
Sendai, Japan, May 23, 1934.
Dear Friends:
In presenting the annual report of the
Women's Evangelistic Board for the period
from April 1, 1933, to March 31, 1934, it
may be of interest to give the personnel of
this Board. There are six members, three
Japanese and three appointed bv the Mission.
Two of these Japanese members are ap-
pointed by Tohoku (North Japan) Classis.
They are, first, the Rev. T. Taguchi, who was
a student at Lancaster Theological Seminary
from 1923 to 1925 and is now a teacher in
the Theological Department of North Japan
College (Tohoku Gakuin) here in Sendai, but
before becoming a teacher here, was for a
number of years in the direct pastorate at
Aomori City. The second appointee of
Classis is Mrs. Jo, who is the wife of the Rev.
Y. Jo, of Fukushima, whom some of you
will remember having met while he visited
the United States during 1925 and traveled
through the home church in company with
Dr. C. Noss. The third Japanese member is
one appointed by the women evangelists from
among their own number, as they have a
right to representation on this Board. They
elected Miss Y. Soekawa, who is a graduate
of the Bible Training Course of Miyagi Col-
lege and is now a woman evangelist at Shi-
roishi, a town of about 40,000 inhabitants,
located about thirty miles south of Sendai.
The Mission representatives on the Board are
Mrs. Zaugg, Mrs. Seiple and Mrs. Engelmann.
We meet every other month here in Sendai
and the officers are Mrs. Seiple, Chairman;
Mrs. Zaugg, Secretary, and Mr. Ankeney,
Treasurer,* though not a voting member of
the Board.
In April. 1933, there were nineteen women
evangelists in our employ. Two resigned in
June, one to be married, and the other because
of ill health. Miss Kasahara, who was a
member of the 1933 graduating class of the
Bible Training Course of Miyagi College
worked only from April to October when she
passed away to her final rest. During the
summer and fall six women were employed,
thus raising our force to twenty-two workers
by the end of October.
As our fiscal year runs from January first
to December thirty-first, therefore, at the close
of 1933, we had to tell the workers that our
Board of Foreign Missions had cut the whole
budget for 1934 by 40% and we were com-
pelled to adjust our budget to that cut, begin-
ning in January, 1934. On December 27, 1933,
the Women’s Evangelistic Board met and pray-
erfully considered how to make this cut and
keep the work going. It was necessary to re-
duce each woman’s salary 20% over a previ-
ous cut of 10%, making it altogether 30%, and
cut the travel to their out-stations and other
parts of the work 50%, and in some cases
more. Mrs. Zaugg as Secretary had the difficult
task of writing to the women at this late date
that, in January, 1934, they would receive this
reduced salary. Could you have heard the
lovely letters in reply to this, you would real-
ize that every cent spent in training and main-
taining this group of twenty-two workers for
Christ in Japan had been money well spent.
Just what is the work of a woman evangel-
ist is a question in the minds of many per-
sons, no doubt. She works side by side with
the pastor, and in many of the Sunday Schools
all the teaching is done by the pastor and the
woman evangelist. In the out-stations she
often has Sunday School services on Wednes-
day, Thursday and Friday, as well as on
Sunday at the main station. She plays the
organ, teaches the children to sing, and espe-
cially to pray, helps the larger children to tie
the babies on their backs when Sunday School
is over, and sees to it that they all get into
their own clogs, which they have left at the
entrance to the church. But one might say
that this is the play part of her work, for she
visits in the homes of these children to try to
get the families interested. She conducts
women’s meetings and calls on the women of
the congregations. In towns where there are
silk mills she works among the young women
of those mills. One woman has a large class
of young girls whom she is teaching knitting,
embroidery and the making of artificial flow-
ers. In the summer time some of the women
have what is almost the equivalent of daily
vacation Bible schools.
In so many places the pastor’s wife can not
help her husband in his outside work. She
usually has a family and her home duties are
heavy. There are few conveniences to lighten
her household work, and in many places water
must be drawn from a well in the style of
‘The old oaken bucket.” The pastor’s home
is an open house and every one calling must
be served tea. Some of these pastors are
married to former women evangelists and
their wives continue to do splendid work.
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Others have wives who, in some cases, have
only just become Christians, and for these
women the work is difficult, if not almost
impossible. It was very hard for this Board
to refuse to send women evangelists in re-
sponse to the many requests which came to us
from pastors, who so greatly need just the
kind of help these women can give, as only
the one woman who graduated from the Bible
Training Course of Miyagi College on March
23, 1933, could be employed.
In the spring of each year, usually May,
we have held a spiritual conference, calling
together the women evangelists and those of
the pastors’ wives who could attend. At these
conferences we always tried to have a well
known earnest Christian Japanese woman
come and give lectures on Christian work
and also a series of Bible study hours. We
have had the privilege of having Miss Michi
Kawai several times. One of the great ben-
efits from a conference of this kind is the
personal contact of our women with these
experienced older women who have done suc-
cessful Christian work for so many years.
Our women pour out their hearts to such
Christian elder sisters and are happier to go
back to their lonely places and work more
enthusiastically to carry on the Master’s work.
The women have so few good Christian
books and no money to buy any, and then,
too, there is such a dearth of Christian liter-
ature. Our Board has a small lending library
which the women use, we paying the out-
going postage and they the return postage.
Unfortunately not many new books have been
added lately.
In the past it was our custom not to send
any woman to help the independent churches,
but we are now sending workers, when we
Statue Will Be Erected
Committee Completes Work in Tribute
A statue will stand soon in the grounds of
the Shogaku temple in Meguro Ward in honor
of Hatsuo Misawa, otherwise known as
Masaoka, who became an exemplar of self-
sacrificing womanhood when she killed her
own son to prevent the assassination of the
son of her master, the Lord of Sendai in the
early days of the Tokugawa Shogunate.
Legend says that she learned of a plot against
the son of her master and exhibited to the
plotters the body of her own child^who close-
ly resembled the other boy, to make them be-
lieve that their intended victim had perished.
The Jiji said that the memorial is to be
have enough women to do so, to help them
and are asking these churches to pay some-
thing toward the salary of these women. The
first one to reply was Sakata, the church of
which the late Rev. Tetsuzo Miura was pas-
tor. They pay two yen monthly. The next
one was the church at Fukushima, of which
the Rev. Mr. Jo is the pastor. They are pay-
ing three yen monthly. The third is at
Wakainatsu, where the Rev. Mr. Tan is pas-
tor. They also are paying two yen monthly.
These may seem very small amounts, but it is
a beginning.
May I say here that the women evangelists
were so desirous of holding a spiritual con-
ference this past year, 1933, that they asked
to have a certain amount taken from their
salaries each month and kept here in Sendai.
They were going to try to have it on a fifty-
fifty basis. They did their part, but our
Board could not come across with our half,
so there was no conference and their money
was refunded.
How earnestly we out here are praying that
our Heavenly Father may implant deep in
your hearts such a spirit of thankfulness for
the fact that you were born as Christians in
Christian homes that, when the time comes
for you to make your thank-offering, you will
gladly double what you originally thought
of giving in order that the work of establish-
ing Christian homes, in which future genera-
tions of Japanese Christians may be born,
may go on unabated and with even greater
success in fair Japan.
Respectfully submitted for the Women’s
Evangelistic Board,
Florence L. Seiple,
Chairman.
to Honor Noted Woman
to Masaoka, Who Sacrificed Own Child
unveiled in October on a spot near where the
famous woman died at an advanced age. The
plan was conceived by her admirers four
years ago, and a committee headed by Mr.
Nichiken Hosei, abbot of the Shogaku temple,
was formed to raise funds. Advisers in the
project were Count Okumune Date and Mar-
quis Munekage Date. The statue was molded
by Mr. Totaro Nitta, a noted sculptor, who
employed as models a small wooden image of
Masaoka and Mr. Baicho Onoe, a student of
Mr. Baiko Onoe, the celebrated kabuki actor.
— The Japan Advertiser, Tokyo, July 13,
1934.
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[September
Women’s Evangelistic Work in China
IN his annual report on the evangelistic
activities in the Yochow field. Rev. Sterling
W. Whitener has written these interesting
paragraphs:
“When one reviews the work of the past
year, one is struck by the feeling that this
section of China is really being prepared for
a much larger ingathering into the church.
There has arisen a spirit of inquiry which
has led many to come regularly to the Chapel
preaching services.
“Mrs. Yang Hsu Gwan, our Bible woman
in Yochow, conducted a half day school for
women who wished to learn the thousand
characters during the fall term. This was so
well done that the students requested her to
add sewing and handwork, and make the
class a full day class. She secured four vol-
unteer teachers who are members of the
Yochow Church who were willing to help out.
Thirty-five students enrolled and thirty-three
are attending very regularly. Four of these
women joined the church at mid-year, ten are
now preparing for baptism and all are study-
ing the Bible. Outside of Mrs. Yang’s time,
no other help is secured from the Mission,
Misses Minerva S. Weil and Ruth Liui
Photo taken near Paotsing, China
even the money for the benches was raised
locally.
“The Ladies’ Aid has continued its activi-
ties during the year. Recently when the local
township government, at the instigation and
help of the Hoy Memorial Hospital, put on a
Better Babies Campaign, the Ladies’ Aid got
busy and made a group of suitable prizes and
sold them to those promoting the contest.
“The need for more workers, both foreign
and Chinese, again forces itself on us as we
see a large part of our field still untouched
by any evangelistic effort. . . . We would
like to again call your attention to the need
of a Missionary worker amongst the women
and hope that this vacancy may soon be met.”
The Shenchow Field
Miss Minerva S. Weil, who has been in
charge of the Women’s Work at the Shenchow
Station, gives the following sketch:
Spiritual Conferences were held for two
weeks in Shenchow in fall and two weeks in
spring.
The outstanding results of the fall classes
were the burden of prayer for the unsaved
and the promise on the part of many to have
daily family worship in their own homes. In
the spring meetings there was definite convic-
tion of sin and many expressed a desire to
consecrate their lives for His service.
The noon lunches for all who attended the
classes were provided by the women and
friends interested in these classes. A Girls’
School pupil brought in fifty cents the first
day of the spring classes and gave same to
Miss Liu to use where she saw fit. The money
was given by the girl’s father to buy a new
garment, but she felt led to deny self and
offer the gift to the Lord. This act led a
Girls’ School teacher to give twenty cents and
others brought noodles, food and money.
The balance of thirty cents was given to the
Needlework Guild.
All outstations except Wusuh were visited
by Misses Liu and Weil during the year.
Miss Liu organized a Needlework Guild in
Paotsing.
The Women’s Missionary Society held
monthly meetings.
The World Day of Prayer was observed at
the Evangelical Chapel; the collection of
$8.65 was sent to the Chinese Home Mission-
ary Society.
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In our efforts to raise the standard of liter-
acy the following certificates were given: For
Bible Thousand Character Book, in Sui-Pao,
19; in Shenchow, 20; in outstations, 3; total,
42. For Bible reading, in Shenchow: Four
Gospels, 4; Acts to Colossians, 3; Acts to
Jude, 4; Entire New Testament, 2; total, 13.
Respectfully submitted,
Minerva S. Weil.
Chen Teh Girls’ School, Shenchow, China
UPON resuming duties at Chen Teh last
fall my first impression was one of real
gratification for the expansion and progress
of the school. The first year of the Junior
Middle School had been opened, with a very
satisfying enrollment for the beginning year.
The teachers had carried on as ably as pos-
sible, and Miss Flatter’s year at Chen Teh had
been a real boon to the school.
Concerning the general Christian interest
and enthusiasm among the student body, the
Mission Representative observed that regular
- weekly Bible classes were attended just like
any other classes regularly on the school
schedule. Only in the Junior Middle School
was there any real thinking about choosing or
not choosing to take Bible. Eighty-five per
cent, of the Junior Middle School class chose
to take Bible.
The school is truly grateful for the ap-
pointment of Miss Helen E. Brown to Chen
1 Teh, and the present Mission Representative
wishes to express her gratitude to the
t Woman’s Missionary Society and to the
I Board of Foreign Missions for the appoint-
i ment; and now most enthusiastically wel-
comes Miss Brown to co- working at Chen Teh.
Grace Walborn Snyder.
From the Principal' s Report
Beginning my reports on school matters, I
should express a few words of appreciation
to the friends in America who have aided our
school financially so far, especially when
they are in a state of financial difficulties.
They left no stone unturned in helping our
school to bridge over the critical time. It is
due to such an effort rendered by them we
have almost reached another school year.
As compared with the enrollment in the
previous years, the school has grown by leaps
and bounds. During the spring term 132
students were enrolled. At the close of the
second semester in July, fifteen students in the
Lower Primary School and five in the Higher
Primary School will be graduated. Most
probably the graduated groups will enter our
school next fall. In this respect, I am, indeed,
happier than ever before, because the Lower
Primary graduates will make a good nucleus
of our Higher Primary School.
In general all teachers have done their
work faithfully and zealously. The full-time
teachers have paid special heed to the respon-
sibility of School Literary Society, the super-
vision of evening study and the conduct of
religious service. The team work among our
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school teachers is good. Indeed, the school
is indebted to them for their co-operation.
The school authority never loses sight of
the fact of building up stronger characters
among our students, based on the teaching of
our Lord, Jesus Christ. To cope with the
necessity a Girl Christian Association has
been looked upon by the school as a main
factor leading students to that standard. The
boarders in the school and those who live in
the vicinity of school are regular members.
Ziemer Memorial Girls’
WITH changes in administrative and teach-
ing staff in the school from time to
time, the Mission Representative has constant
adjustments to make. At the beginning of the
fall semester Miss Frances Chiang came to
take up her duties as principal. Miss Chiang
has had various difficulties to face — to secure
the co-operation of a faculty engaged before
her arrival has not been easy, and then to
keep her plans for improvement in the school
within the limits of a reduced budget called
for readjustments. These and other difficul-
ties Miss Chiang has been meeting in a quiet,
conscientious manner.
On all sides one hears of the problems
growing out of trying to meet the require-
ments of an overcrowded curriculum — one
that is subject rather than pupil centered.
Then, too, there are the many calls for par-
ticipation in civic enterprises. The effect of
these demands is greater in a school having a
small enrollment where the number of repre-
sentatives asked for at various times includes
so large a part of the student body. Yet in
the face of all that, we have a group of girls
earnestly striving to develop the Christian
graces and giving of their little free time to
Christian service. Seven girls were received
into church membership in January.
Members of the faculty and student body
who knew Mr. Lu Gi Lung, principal of
Ziemer from 1929 to 1932, were saddened by
his untimely death in April. Our sincere
sympathy goes to the widow who now has the
Hand in hand with that activity in school,
there is an inquiry class which is under the
direction of a Bible woman of our local
church. Those in that group are six.
The curriculum adopted in our school is
that which has been promulgated by the Min-
istry of Education at Nanking. During the
year there were hundreds of students who
have taken Bible study, but those who do not
take that are very few.
A. P. Djang.
School, Yochow, China
sole responsibility of caring for four young
children.
As a school we are grateful to the Mission'
for help given in many different ways. Sev-
eral missionaries serve on the Board of Con-
trol. Mrs. Whitener and Mrs. Yaukey have
given of their time in teaching — the former
in Kindergarten music and the latter in lead-
ing the Bible class composed of primary
children.
Erna J. Flatter.
From the Principal’s Report
Most of the thirteen teachers are experi-
enced, but it is a great pity that they have no
chance to visit schools in large cities. In the
spring five of the teachers attended the insti-
tute conducted by the Central China Educa-
tional Association.
The enrollment for the fall semester was
154, distributed as follows: Junior Middle
School, 44; Higher Primary, 33; Lower Pri-
mary, 60; Kindergarten, 17. Of these 30
were Christian. For the spring term the total
enrollment was 133.
After class the students have training in
several activities, such as class meetings, self
government association, classes in religion
and ethics, first aid, and outside games.
There are about forty students enrolled in
the Sunday schools, and more than that num-
ber attend morning chapel service. There
are close to one hundred in the extra-curric-
ular Bible classes.
Frances Chiang.
“/ simply cannot express in words how much I enjoy my Outlook of Missions and how
much good I derive from it. I certainly would feel badly to miss a single copy.”
Mrs. Clara Rohrer, Los Angeles, Calif.
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Japanese Woman Educator on Mission of
Goodwill to United States
MISS MICHI KAWAI, Japan’s noted
woman educator, is now in this country
preparatory to speaking at a series of mis-
sionary conferences. She came to the United
States at the invitation and under the auspices
of the Committee on Women’s Work of the
Foreign Missions Conference of North Amer-
ica and the Central Committee on the United
Study of Foreign Missions, representing over
108 women’s missionary boards in the United
States and Canada. Miss Kawai is the author
of this year’s mission study book, ‘'Japanese
Women Speak.” It covers the development,
■and woman’s part in it, of her native country
for the last seventy-five years.
In accepting the invitation to come to
America, Miss Kawai wrote: “Let it be a
prayer pilgrimage. My country needs the
prayers and intercessions of your country. It
is beyond my power to explain away many
problems which are stumbling blocks to us
here. There must be many who are ready to
weep with us and suffer with us to have the
Kingdom of God born in this land. I am
selfish enough to say that my going to your
country is for what I shall gain there. I must
gain love — Christian love, Christian forgive-
ness, Christian fellowship of your people for
the Christians here in japan. Yes, I shall
come with this pleading.
“My people are taking notice of my going
and the invitation extended to me by your
Christian agency has had much weight with
those who are interested in International
affairs.”
Miss Kawai is a descendant of one of those
picturesque Japanese families whose lineage
can be traced for generations. Her ancestors
helped to found the beautiful Island of Ise,
dedicated to the Sun Goddess. Her family
was the fortieth in line of Shinto priests who
served at the shrine. This is the original
place of worship of the Imperial ancestors
and all the important political events are
made known there. Closely connected with
the life of all Japan is this historic isle. To
it come the high messengers of the Emperor
to consult; from it is issued information
touching upon the welfare of the Imperial
Family and the entire nation. It is little won-
der that from such a background this out-
standing educator and social worker’s life and
efforts should so profoundly influence the
educational methods and the very ideals of
her country.
It was Dr. Inazo Nitobe, exchange pro-
fessor in the universities of America, and one
time Japan’s representative at Geneva, who
really “found” Miss Kawai. Shortly after she
graduated from her school in Japan, Dr.
Nitobe met her. He immediately recognized
her ability and the promise of unusual leader-
ship and secured for her a scholarship in
Bryn Mawr College. Before leaving college
Michi Kawai dedicated herself to the leading
of the women of Japan into lives of useful-
ness and service for others.
After years spent in social service and edu-
cational work, during which period she served
as General Secretary of the Japanese National
Y. W. C. A., she not only traveled throughout
her own country but also Great Britain,
Europe, Siberia, Manchuria, the United States
and Canada. Miss Kawai’s influence left its
imprint upon all those with whom she came
in contact. Everywhere she was welcome.
Her ambition, however, had not been ful-
filled. She resigned from her activities as
National Y. W. C. A. Secretary to establish
her own school for the educating of the
daughters of the first families of Japan, where
they would meet the girls from the rural dis-
tricts on the same social plane — a revolution-
ary educational thrust in the training of girls
of even modern Japan.
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another; a Moslem mollah filled (quite com-
pletely!) still another. And we sat on them;
missionaries use their own houses and chairs
more than other folks, I believe. We sat on
them before the fire in winter or under the
fan in summer, reading letters and magazines
from home, writing letters, balancing budgets
I both school and home) , studying, talking,
dreaming. All three of us had sat in them
as convalescents more than once, when life
looked less rosy than usual and some things
were hard to understand. Now it seems
milleniums ago that we had sat there dream-
ing dreams of the years to come in Baghdad;
lately we had only asked each other, "How
long?” All finished now; everything is out
and the house is empty.
Yes, there may be some place other chairs,
other tables, other pots and pans and dishes.
There surely will be other friends.
But broken dreams are hard.
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A Worship Program
Prepared by Miss Carrie M. Kerschner, Executive Secretary,
Womans Missionary Society of General Synod
For use in the opening worship-service of Sunday Schools or on any other occasions
where a devotional program of a missionary character is desired.
The material for this program is to be found in this issue of The Outlook of Missions.
This program outline is just a suggestion for the use of available material in The Outlook
and not to be followed slavishly. The best way to do is to make your own program to suit
your own school.
If this program is too long, it may be shortened by eliminating the “Two Two-minute
Word Pictures” or some of the “Six Two-minute Reports.”
PRELUDE: Jesus Calls Us
Call to Worship:
Be strong
We are not here to play, to dream, to drift;
We have hard work to do and loads to lift;
Shun not the struggle, face it, t’is God’s gift;
Be strong, be strong!
Response (by a class of Intermediates) :
I would be strong, for there is much to suffer;
I would be brave, for there is much to dare.
Hymn: Dare to Be Brave, Dare to Be True (Sung by a selected class)
Scripture:
Prayer: For courage to face the difficult tasks in working together to build the Kingdom.
Introductory Remarks (by the Superintendent): Compile from editorial, “Workers Together
with Him” (2 minutes)
Two 2-Minute Word Pictures (by two men): Compile from articles Women and Home Mis-
sions and Women and Foreign Missions, pp. 236, 246.
Six 2-Minute Reports (by six women): These are six projects supported by the Church but
especially by the women and girls. (Compile from the Annual Reports given on
pp. 246-252, and “Close Ups from Japanese Friends on the Pacific Coast” — figures
may be procured from the Budget Report of the Woman’s Missionary Society of
General Synod.) Adhere strictly to the time limit of two minutes.
Offertory —
Supt: Let each man do according as he hath purposed in his heart; not grudgingly or of
necessity; for God loveth a cheerful giver.
Hymn Response: (To “Wellesley”)
Grant us, Lord, the grace of giving
With a spirit, large and free,
That ourselves and all our living
We may offer unto thee. Amen.
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Men and Missions
John M. G. Darms, Editor
Dr. Schneder’s Challenge to Men
After all, the salvation of the world, spirit-
ually, morally, politically, economically, de-
pends upon the very thing that the Christian
Church stands for, and is, and does. This has
never been so clear as now. And the strength
of the Church depends primarily upon the
virile strength and activity of the men of the
Church.
And the men of the Church cannot be at
their best without the vision of the world
won for Christ. The great virile apostle was
Paul with his world vision. And the men of
the world will heed the message and the
appeal of the men of the Church, if they are
really serious and in earnest about it.
Recently the mayor of Tokyo, now a city of
five million people, spoke at a little luncheon
with the directors of the Y. M. C. A. of that
city. And he spoke with profound apprecia-
Africa’s Tribute
In the heart of Africa- — at Victoria Falls,
Southern Rhodesia, Africa — the continent in
which David Livingstone labored as an ex-
plorer and a missionary, a bronze statue of
him was unveiled today by fellow Scots.
More than 1,000 persons, including African
residents who came here from Scotland,
native Christians and public officials saw
the monument uncovered by Livingstone’s
nephew, Id. U. Moffat, former prime minister
tion of the real moral and spiritual contribu-
tion that missionaries and Christianity are
making to Japanese life. As a matter of fact,
he himself has become deeply influenced, and
carries his burden in the spirit of unselfish
service. During his official career it happened
twice that he came into close personal contact
with missionaries.
All Christians, but especially the men of
the Church, are face to face with the greatest,
hardest, sublimest task that can confront
mortal man. It is the task of the world’s
salvation. With the laymen in America, lay-
men in the missionary countries are already
rising up. There are already many in Japan,
who see the task clearly, and are facing it
courageously and sacrificially. — From a letter
to the Secretary of the Reformed Churchmen s
League.
to a Great Man
of Southern Rhodesia. Songs heard above
the roar of the falls were a part of the relig-
ious ceremony which followed the unveiling.
The statue, erected by the Federated Cal-
edonian Societies of South Africa at a cost of
$50,000, faces across a chasm, 400 feet deep,
toward Devil’s Cataract. To its left across
the gorge is the tree, on an island, on which
Livingstone carved his initials, “D. L.,” the
day he discovered the falls in 1885. (A.P. )
A Project for Our Men
The men of the Reformed Church should
be greatly concerned about our Home Mis-
sionaries, who for a period of many months
have received only a fraction of their meager
salaries. Many of them are in dire financial
distress and are praying and hoping for early
relief. Some can hardly hold on much
longer. To their honor be it said that though
their spirits are flagged, yet have they never
defaulted in their arduous duties nor deserted
their post. During the coming months, when
a campaign will be launched to pay up the
back salaries of our missionaries — amounting
to over $100,000 — every man in every church
of our great missionary church, a church built
upon home missionary achievements, should
be active and contribute to the point of sacri-
fice in order to raise sufficient funds and to
clean the slate of this blot, which otherwise
will remain as a stain upon our heroic history
and make the men of coming generations rise
up and say: Where were the men of the
Church in 1.934?
We men will answer now. To a man, we
will help valiantly and preserve our self-
respect and the fair name of Christ’s men in
bringing speedy relief to some of the finest
and most courageous and spiritual men in our
church — our home missionaries. Christian
men — to the task! One hundred thousand
men in action can make this important enter-
prise a complete success.
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[September
Board of Foreign Missions
Comparative Statement for the Month of June
1933
1934
Synods
Appt.
Specials
Totals
Appt.
Specials
Totals
Increase
Decrease
Eastern
...$3,192.26
$254.61
$3,446.87
$3,447.70
$647.50
$4,095.20
$648.33
Ohio
... 1,472.60
47.08
1.519.68
2.023.64
1,227.85
3,251.49
1,731.81
Northwest
. .. 181.60
181.60
98.33
11.10
109.43
$72.17
Pittsburgh
. . 770.52
56.03
826.55
699.89
59.30
759.19
67.36
Potomac
. .. 1.055.47
83.00
1.138.47
1,329.12
486.60
1.815.72
677.25
Mid-West
. . 455.00
17.11
472.11
1.037.41
1,037.41
565.30
W. M. S. G. S...
2.704.98
2.704.98
2.704.98
Miscellaneous . . .
26.15
26.15
15.00
15.00
11.15
Annuities
3 700 00
3 700 00
3 700 00
Bequests
450 00
450 00
450 00
Totals
..$7,127.45
$3,188.96
$10,316.41
$8,636.09
$6,597.35
$15,233.44
$7,762.69
$2,855.66
Net Increase $4,917.03
Comparative Statement for the Month of July
Synods
Appt.
1933
Specials
Totals
Appt.
1934
Specials
Totals
Increase
Decrease
Eastern ....
$4,159.89
$1,047.07
$5,206.96
$4,377.52
$1,403.47
$5,780.99
$574,03
Ohio
821.22
376.04
1.197.26
1.160.12
411.02
1,571.14
373.88
Northwest . .
434,29
25.00
459.29
478.72
2.00
480.72
21.43
Pittsburgh .
549.77
5.00
554.77
1.485.82
169.35
1.655.17
1,100.40
Potomac . . .
1.911.35
45.61
1.956.96
2.066.80
703.97
2,770.77
813.81
Mid-West . .
509.96
509.96
375.87
60.00
435.87
$74.09
W. M. S. G.
S
2.782.14
2,782.14
7,269.44.
7.269.44
4.487.30
Miscellaneous
10.00
10.00
51.00
51.00
41.00
Annuities . . .
530.00
530.00
3.072.56
3.072.56
2.542.56
Bequests . . . .
878.35
878.35
1,470.96
1.470.96
592.61
Totals . . . .
$8,386.48
$5,699.21
$14,085.69
$9,944.85
$14,613.77
$24,558.62
$10,547.02
$74.09
Net Increase
.$10,472.93
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Rev. Mr. Orth was a man of keen intelli-
gence, deeply pious and quite unselfish; just
another humble worker in the vineyard of the
Master. He wras a man of the stamp of John
Philip Boehm — another schoolmaster — wrho
laid the foundations of the Reformed Church
in Pennsylvania. Among the pioneers of our
Church in the West, for faithfulness of serv-
ice and largeness of results, there is no other
that holds a higher place. He bore the care
of the congregations and the care of his
family of thirteen children, plus poverty and
privations, without flinching. In dugouts,
and shacks, and primitive homes, he conduct-
ed his services. To eighteen congregations
and preaching places he broke the bread of
life; but the entire eighteen did not provide
him and his loved ones with the necessary
daily bread. Two weeks before his death, his
close friend, Rev. H. Bentz, visited him. He
was in great pain and spoke with difficulty.
In the course of the labored conversation,
Pastor Orth said: “I have worked myself to
death.” The text of the funeral sermon was
Hebrews 13: 7: “Remember them that spake
unto you the word of God; and considering
the issue of their life, imitate their faith.”
He was buried in the Reformed cemetery near
Lesterville. A simple iron fence surrounds
the grave. Nothing more. No marker, no
memorial. Only an iron fence. And yet he
founded eighteen congregations! Are not
these his abiding monuments? He had done
what he could. But he worked himself to
death.
The Woman’s Missionary
Society
Greta P. Hinkle, Editor
“Close Ups” of Our Japanese
CALIFORNIA occupies over one-half of
the Pacific Coast line of the United
States. It is 1,000 miles long and its area is
158,297 square miles. Its varied climate
makes possible a wide variety of products
and as a result its agricultural wealth is not
to be considered lightly.
As early as 1866, Japanese began coming
in small numbers to the shores of our land,
but not until 1891 did the number for a single
year exceed one thousand. The United States
census shows the total of Japanese residents
for the year 1930 to be 97,456. They came to
America mainly for economic reasons as did
European immigrants and most of them came
as farm laborers. After hard labor and
thrifty saving of many years, they began to
lease land for themselves and take large con-
tracts for harvesting the crops on farms and
orchards and also to own land. Today they
own 74,769 acres and cultivate 458,056 acres
of land throughout California. It is an un-
deniable fact that California has increased
its industrial strength and gained billions of
dollars since the Japanese immigrants came.
But the arrival of the Japanese laborer in
large numbers brought alarm to the white
laborers who stoutly demanded measures that
would effectively restrict their unwelcome
competitors. Some of the land laws passed
as a result of this agitation are:
1. The anti-alien land law of 1913, forbidding the
sale to the Japanese of any agricultural land whatso-
ever, and also forbidding its lease to them for a
period of more than three years.
2. The drastic alien land law of 1920, forbidding
not only sale of agricultural land to the Japanese in
any form whatsoever, but also forbidding all leases
of such land, including crop-contract leases. This
law forbids the Japanese to purchase shares or stock
in any company, association, or corporation entitled
to hold or acquire agricultural land.
3. The climax of restrictions was reached in 1924
by the passage of the immigration law with its ex-
clusion clause, that stopped Japanese immigration
entirely.
This exclusion of Japanese, setting them
apart from other immigrants who have a
quota, is unjustifiable and conditions of
Christian work among the Japanese in Japan
and in California cannot be understood with-
out some realization of this handicap. But
the Japanese are sensible and reasonable, and
Friends on the Pacific Coast
have learned that the unchristian treatment
they receive represents the passing sentiment
of the thoughtless element and is not the sober
thought of the intelligent people of America,
not even of California.
The Japanese are keen observers and are
eager to learn American ways and ideas.
They readily adopt American homes, dress
and manners. They are not by any means in-
different to religion. They are very thirsty
for salvation. If any one makes an effort to
give them the bread of life and the living
water, their hearts hunger and thirst after
these, and many become earnest seekers after
salvation. After two months of preaching as
supply pastor for the Japanese Reformed
Church of Los Angeles, Rev. J. Mori baptized
three adults and nine children on Palm Sun-
day, March 25, 1934, and there are many
seekers after the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
The number of American-born Japanese in
the state is 76,000. It is quite evident that
the future of the Japanese community in Cal-
ifornia rests upon tbe Japanese American and
Christianization of them is a most urgent task.
The challenge to the Christian Church is to
help Japanese Americans develop into re-
sponsible and dependable Christian American
citizens. Our Church, assisted by the
Woman’s Missionary Society, has sent pastors
and educational directors to California to
carry on this most important work for Christ
and America.
In the Pacific era, when East and West
meet on the Pacific Coast, Japanese Amer-
icans will be an important factor in the
creating of a new civilization on earth. Shall
we see it without Christianity? God forbid!
“Let friend love friend
And strife shall cease.
Disarm the heart,
For that is peace.”
(Most of the material in this article was
written by one of our Japanese- American
university students, a fellow church member.)
In order that societies and guilds may see face to
face some of our Japanese friends on the Pacific
Coast, and get a “close up’’ view of their activities
in establishing the Kingdom of God, we devote this
issue to a pictorial presentation of the work. Use
the following six pages for posters and charts in
your study of the Oriental in our American life.
257
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[September
Community House and Educational Building, First (Japanese) Reformed Church,
San Francisco
First (Japanese) Reformed Church,
San Francisco
Mr. Francis M. Hayashi, one of the young
men sent into the ministry from the San
Francisco Church
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The Woman’s Missionary Society
259
Woman’s Missionary Society, First Church, San Francisco
Summer Vacation School, First Church, San Francisco
A Group at the Open Air Service of First Church, San Francisco
260 The Outlook of Missions [September
Mr. Henry Tani, student at Leland Stan-
ford University, who furnished much of
THE SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL FOR THE PRO-
GRAMS on Orientals in American Life
A GROUP OF THE MEMBERS IN FRONT OF THE JAPANESE REFORMED CHURCH, LOS ANGELES —
taken Easter Sunday
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Sunday School Teachers of First Church, San Francisco
Sunday School of the Japanese Reformed Church at Redwood City, California
Sunday School of the Japanese Reformed Church of West Los Angeles
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Meeting of California Classis at Salem Church, Lodi,
California
Japanese pastors — front row, left to right, Rev. J. Mori, Rev. S. Kowta,
Rev. K. Suzuki, (at right) Rev. Y. Saito. On step, to right of Rev. Mr. Suzuki,
is Mr. Kiningasa, elder, who, with Mr. Kowta, represents First Church, San
Francisco.
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[September
Literature Chat
Carrie M. Kerschner
“/'~\NLY a very few of us have done the best
V-/ we could at the things we have in
hand.” Some of us have said, “What’s the
use?” Others, like the group of whom the
leaflet listed in the September program, “How
It Can Be Done” tells, put their very best
foot forward and achieve, perhaps not mar-
velous, but at least telling, results.
By the time these words will become the
basis of “our chat,” each president and every
departmental secretary will have received her
“PLAN OF WORK” for the year. The “Con-
tact Woman” will no longer need to say,
“What Shall I Do” because her query will
have been answered. Every local Society will
be planning to attend a Workers’ Institute.
All the letters recently received by officers of
societies are most important and should
therefore be not only carefully kept but also
frequently read. Is it necessary to add “ and
carried out to the best of everyone’s ability”?
For the October program: Additional Pro-
gram Suggestions may be procured at 15c
each, 2 for 25c. “True and False Tests” on
the same theme are 10c each, 60c per dozen.
The book itself, “Orientals in American Life,”
is 60c. “A Guide to the Study” of this book
is 25c. Elsewhere in this issue appear six
pages of pictures of Japanese residents of the
United States and the work of our denom-
ination among them. Use these pictures
wherever they fit in the November and Janu-
ary programs.
The June Missionary Review of the World
is entirely Oriental in content. The character-
istics of the Oriental groups being studied by
women’s societies and Girls’ Guilds, places
where they worship in this country, why they
came, etc., are graphically depicted in articles
from the pen of well-known writers. The
magazine may be ordered from either Depos-
itory for 25c.
Much of the material in the November pro-
gram for Woman’s Societies was prepared by
Mr. Henry Tani, of First Church, San Fran-
cisco. Other Christian Japanese also made
contributions. We are deeply indebted to
them and wish we could have printed pictures
of each contributor. See Mr. Tani’s picture
in the group in this issue.
Girls’ Guilds will want to use the Winne-
bago Post Cards for invitations for their
November program. Assorted four cards for
5c. The Peace Benediction listed in Guild
programs is 10c a dozen, 50c per 100. Guild
Packets, larger and better than ever before,
are 40c each.
Woman’s Missionary Society Program
Packets also filled with helpful material sell
at 75c.
Mission Band Packets contain programs for
use with tiny tots, songs, pictures to color,
etc., and may be purchased for 50c. The
song, “All the World,” will be popular with
the boys and girls. It is priced at lc each,
10c a dozen., 50c per 100.
Societies residing in the area of the Eastern
Depository order from the Woman’s Mission-
ary Society, 416 Schaff Building, 1505 Race
Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Those residing in
the area of the Western Depository order
from the Woman’s Missionary Society, 2969
W. 25th Street, Cleveland, Ohio.
New Societies
St. Paul’s, West Hazleton, Wyoming
Classis, organized June 8, 1934, by Miss
Carrie M. Kerschner with 22 members. Pres-
ident— Mrs. Carrie Horning, 218 E. Broad
Street, West Hazleton, Pa.
Life Members and Members in Memoriam
Life Members
Ohio Synod
East Ohio Classis — Mrs. Elva Hartwell, 326
19th Street, N. W., Canton, O.
Potomac Synod
Mercersburg Classis — Mrs. L. P. Teel, 122
Prince Street, Shippensburg, Pa.
North Carolina Classis — Mrs. L. A. Corriher,
Landis. N. C. Mrs. Edgar Whitener, High
Point, N. C.
Members in Memoriam
Eastern Synod
Lebanon Classis — Miss Minnie A. Hicks, 829
Walnut Street, Lebanon, Pa.
Ohio Synod
Southwest Ohio Classis — Mrs. Elsie Schu-
macher, 412 Straight St., Cincinnati, O.
Girls’ Missionary
Guild
Ruth Heinmiller, Secretary
Dear Guild Members:
It was a real joy to meet as many of you as
I did at Summer Conferences. I wish that I
could have met all of you!
By this time you are beginning the pro-
grams on the theme “Forward with Christ."
We hope you will like them. Be sure to adapt
these programs to your own Guild. And don't
you like the cover on the Program Booklet?
Miss Dorothy Keeler, Secretary of the Girls’
Missionary Guilds of Northwest Synod, de-
signed it for you.
Designing this cover is not all Miss Keeler
has done for you this year. She has arranged
the suggested program for the Guild Institute,
which has been sent to each Classical Secre-
tary of the Girls’ Missionary Guild. We
know you will not want to miss the Institute
arranged for your group. It promises to be
one of inspiration, information and enthu-
siasm. Every Guild member will want to
attend !
We take this opportunity to extend hearty
congratulations to the Guilds of Eastern and
Northwest Synods for attaining the highest
percentage on the Synodical Standard and
thereby winning the privilege of sharing the
banner, each Synod holding it for six months.
Who will win it next year? We challenge
each Synod to try! In order to attain the
Standard each Guild in the Synod must work
hard. If you make your Guild an Honor
Guild this year, it will help your Classis and
your Synod to be the very best.
Let us all strive to go forward with Christ!
Most sincerely,
Ruth Heinmiller,
General Secretary of Girls’
Missionary Guilds.
New Guilds
Eastern Synod —
First, Sunbury, Pa. — Organized by Carrie
E. Geiser with 10 charter members. Presi-
dent, Margaret Leader, 334 Spruce Street.
Sunbury, Pa.
Potomac Synod —
St. John’s, Staunton, Star Route — Organ-
ized by Mrs. William Groff with 7 ch rter
members. President, Miss Louise Swortzel.
R. R. 1, Stuarts Draft, Va.
Pittsburgh Synod —
South Bend. Pa. Organized by Rev. S.
Papajian and Mrs. J. E. Smith, with 12 char-
ter members. President, Margaret Anderson.
South Bend. Pa.
Mission Band
Dear Mission Band Leaders:
You will be interested to know that the
General Svnodical Banner for the Mission
Band was awarded to Potomac Synod for hav-
ing attained the highest percentage on the
Synodical Standard. We congratulate Potomac
Synod! May all of you work just a little
harder this year, not merely to attain the
banner but to help the boys and girls of your
church to develop a true spirit of Christian
world friendship.
We were delighted with this year’s report,
which indicated that many more Children’s
Rallies had been held than in previous years.
Programs for such Rallies have again been
sent to the Classical Secretaries of Mission
Bands. Please co-operate with your secretary
and offer to help her in any way.
Reports show that the Reading Course for
Boys and Girls has been taken up in many
more churches during this past year. The re-
port of the General Secretary of Literature
shows that it is being used in a number of
churches where there is no Mission Band.
More books have been added to the Course.
many of which are in school and public
libraries. Encourage the children to make
friends with children of other lands through
this Course.
With kindest regards, I am.
Most sincerely yours,
Ruth Heinmiller,
General Secretary of Mission Bands.
New Mission Bands
Eastern Synod —
Orangeville, Pa. Organized by Mrs.
Chester Brachman with 14 charter members.
Rexmont, Pa. Organized by Mrs. J. Walter
Snoke with 15 charter members.
Queries
1. Has every society and guild departmental sec-
retary received her PLAN OF WORK letter?
(Answer not found in any magazine.)
2. Why are ive grateful to Dorothy Keeler?
3. To ichat Synodical Societies were the Guild and
Mission Band Banners awarded?
4. The challenge to us is to help Japanese Ameri-
cans develop into
In Times Like These
Everybody is interested in the best and safe use of his money. You would
do well to investigate
The Annuity Agreements
ISSUED BY
The Board of Home Missions The Board of Foreign Missions
©^e)
Consider These Advantages
You have the double satisfaction of knowing that your gift helps to send the
Gospel “into all the world” and secures for you a safe, permanent investment.
The annuity agreement both gratifies and satisfies two common and commendable
wants: first, the desire to make a gift; second, the need for an income.
The annuity agreement gives you the assurance of a dependable, regular,
unchanging, promptly-paid income as long as you live.
You are freed from financial anxiety and worry in advancing years and your
old age may be spent in peace, comfort and the spiritual satisfaction of faithful
stewardship.
Annuities never fluctuate or depreciate in value and require no reinvestment
with attendant anxiety, trouble, expense and loss of income.
Annuities are of value only to the annuitants and you receive a regular income
without delay or interruption though the certificate be lost, stolen or destroyed.
Annuities insure you against loss of principal, relieve you of the uncertainties
and worry caused by changing values of invested funds and protect you from loss by
unwise investments.
Safe and Sure
The Board of Foreign Missions was the first organization in the Reformed
Church to issue annuity agreements and has been issuing annuities for over thirty
years. In all this time every payment has been made promptly when due.
The Board of Home Missions has also been issuing annuity bonds for many years
and guarantees the same as a perfectly safe investment.
For Information Address
CHARLES E. SCHAEFFER, Secretary A. V. CASSELMAN, Secretary
Board of FIome Missions Board of Foreign Missions
Reformed Church in the United States
Evangelical and Reformed Church
Schaff Building, 1505 Race Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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