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(Elip Spirit nf iixHHtmta

AN ILLUSTRATED MONTHLY REVIEW
OF CHRISTIAN MISSIONS

HUGH Li. BURLESON, Editor CHAS. E. BETTICHER, Managing Editor

Vol. LXXXI August, 1916 No. 8

THE PROGRESS OF THE KINGDOM

NOT because this is an August
issue do we give the advice with
which this item is headed. Quite
aside from seasonal
Let Us considerations, it is
Keep Cool p r e - eminently a
time for the people
of the United States to keep cool. The
terrific catastrophe in Europe was
largely precipitated by misunderstand-
ing and unwarranted apprehension.
The immediate cause of the war was
chiefly psychological. Nations in a
sort of nightmare saw others attack-
ing them and sprang to the attack. It
would seem that a little more cool-
headedness among the rulers of
Europe might have prevented the
present chaos.

At any rate it is a good plan before
avenging an injury to be sure that an
injury was intended. Prolonged pa-
tience is not a mistake when grave
issues are being decided. If against
our desire we are forced to intervene
in Mexico, we should at least not be
hurried into it by an attack of hysteria.

But unquestionably the spirit of
fear is abroad in the world, and if
given sway it may lead to vast mis-
fortunes. An example of this is seen
now and again in comments which the
public press makes concerning a pos-

sible conflict with Japan. Echoes of
a like character are even heard in the
halls of Congress. To proclaim such
an idea, or to instill it in the mind of
the nation, is nothing less than wicked.
We may easily hypnotize ourselves
into believing that any sort of bogie
man threatens, but if we clash with
Japan the fault will most certainly be
our own. In this connection we de-
sire to quote with utmost approval the
words of Judge E. H. Gary, president
of the Steel Trust, in speaking before
the American Iron and Steel Institute :
“We do not approve of suggestions
occasionally made in the Congress of
the United States, or elsewhere, that
there is imminent danger of trouble
with Japan, for we understand that
conflict is sometimes brought about by
insinuations and insults. It is neither
desirable nor necessary to have any
serious controversy with Japan. Ex-
cept as the result of mutual arrange-
ment, we wish for nothing they pos-
sess, and we believe they seek
nothing that belongs to us. We would
not oppose any legitimate effort on
their part to progress in competition
with us, and the same disposition may
be expected of them. They have
shown wonderful capacity and skill in
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paneling their commercial interests,
and we admire them for it. We have
no feeling of envy or covetousness,
and the same is true of them. In fact,
the feeling of the great majority, and
indeed practically all of the American
people, towards all other nations and
nationalities, is one of genuine and
sincere friendship. We can and will
be of service to them, and they can be
of service to us. The more they
prosper, the richer we become ; the
more influence and power they pos-
sess, the better it will be for us if we
are alive to our duties, our obligations
and our opportunities. The great
future advancement of all the nations
of the world in every worthy particu-
lar will result from friendly co-opera-
tion— a desire and effort to be of serv-
ice, every one to all others.”

AS we begin this editorial we are
struck by the fact that it is a long
time since anything has been said in
these columns
The Church about the Christian-
and the Jew ization of the Jew-
ish race. Is not
that fact a commentary upon the atti-
tude of the Church toward the whole
problem? Somehow we seem to have
taken for granted that to turn the Jew
toward Christianity is an impossible
task. Our churches in New York and
other great cities become submerged
by a growing Jewish population, and
the reason given for their removal is
that “they were surrounded by Jews.”
The hopeless note which such a state-
ment indicates should set the Chris-
tian Church to thinking seriously upon
its mission and the methods of ful-
filling it. The task which was set for
the men of the first century ought not
to be impossible for the men of the
twentieth.

It is a problem, and admittedly a
difficult one. There is much to justify
the feeling that a Jewish population
is impervious to Christian influence,
but there is nothing to justify the

Church in despairing of the power of
the Holy Spirit to change even the
Jew. Certainly our own Communion
has not faced with sufficient serious-
ness its obligation to reach the men of
“all kindreds, and peoples and nations
and tongues” who are gathered with-
in our national borders. In spite of
some high ideals and large visions we
are still an esoteric Church.

It is good, therefore, to hear of an
honest and successful effort to carry
out our obligation toward our Jewish
brethren. There appears elsewhere in
this issue a brief article touching upon
this subject and written by one who
is actually engaged in the work. The
success already achieved is an earnest
of better things.

IN this issue appears an interesting
statement by Dr. Rudolph B.
Teusler, prepared at our request, con-
cerning the general
The Future question of hospi-
of Medical tal and medical
Missions work in mission
lands, having in
view particularly the situation at St.
Luke’s International Hospital, Tokyo,
Japan. Probably even those of us
who are laymen recognize that a great
change is taking place in the medical
fraternity. Specialization, with the
hospital as its central point, is becom-
ing a most important factor in medi-
cine. Doubtless Dr. Teusler is cor-
rect in saying that if we are to com-
mand the services of the best men to
teach the principles of the Christian
faith through their medical skill, we
must be prepared to provide them with
adequate facilities for the highest
exercise of their profession. This
seems to be a sound argument in favor
of the development of centers like St.
Luke’s International Hospital. In
this connection it is timely to quote the
following comment, made in the jour-
nal of the American Asiatic Associa-
tion :

“An effort to establish in Tokyo a

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thorough and modern hospital under
American control and ownership
should appeal to Americans, and it de-
serves their interest and support. The
hospital is not only an urgent neces-
sity, affecting the welfare of every
foreigner resident in or passing
through Japan, but it will prove a con-
vincing and clear-cut demonstration
of the practical methods adopted by
liberal-minded Americans in evincing
their genuine friendship for Japan.
Like other nations, the Japanese be-
lieve a thing when they see it, and
here is offered an opportunity to prove
to them in a most practical and con-
crete way the sincerity of our oft-
repeated assurances of friendship.”

AS has been foreseen, the mis-
sionary forces of the world are
bound to suffer grievously because of
the destruction of
The Call so much of the best
for Help young manhood of
the nations. Not
in material wealth only, or chiefly, will
the awful waste be felt. Many Euro-
pean missions in non-Christian lands
are sadly under-manned and running
at half-speed. While there is a par-
tial compensation in the fact that na-
tive helpers have bravely undertaken
responsibility, it is impossible for the
newly-trained Christians to meet the
need in all respects. Not only Amer-
ican money but American manhood
will certainly be called upon. An in-
stance in point is furnished by a letter
from the Rev. W. E. S. Holland,
M.A., formerly warden of the Oxford
and Cambridge hostel in Allahabad,
India, now principal of St. Paul’s Ca-
thedral Mission College in Calcutta.
Two of the men on his staff have been
killed in the war, and two or three
other men from Oxford and Cam-
bridge who were to come out have
enlisted.

English missions in India certainly
have a claim upon America, and the
appeal is being made for two first-

class young Americans to join the staff
of this college, which is rapidly be-
coming one of the finest Anglican col-
leges in the whole of India. They
should be unmarried, with university
qualifications, keen personal workers,
and ready to fit into a self-forgetting
brotherhood of service. The oppor-
tunity offered is described as incal-
culable. An ample salary will be paid,
free quarters supplied and travel ex-
penses met on a five-year agreement.

This is only a sample of other calls
which are to follow. It has always
been our conviction that a closer
touch with the work of Mother Church
in India would be of great value to us.
It was altogether reasonable that up
to this time we should have kept out
of India, where the English Church
is doing such effective work, but when
the call for help comes, either to asso-
ciate ourselves with work already un-
dertaken or perhaps to establish work
of our own, our responsibility in the
matter should be carefully weighed.

BEYOND doubt all Christian people
are more eager than ever for the
coming of world-wide peace, but as
the months drag
Praying on, and the war

for Peace zone widens and

the contest grows
more terrific, our public prayers for
peace is not increasing in intensity.
Oftentimes services are held without
a definite petition for this great need
being voiced. Although this may look
like forgetfulness on the part of the
clergy it is probably due to something
else. The first shock of the war has
long passed. Like other evils, we have
grown somewhat familiar with it. The
intensity and the fervor of our peti-
tions in the early days, and the spirit
which gave them birth, can perhaps
not be exactly reproduced. Then, too,
the one or two prayers to which the
resources of some of the clergy seem
to be limited, have grown familiar and
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for frequent use. These and other
facts doubtless have an influence upon
what seems to us a slackening of inter-
cession.

Yet as the need grows deeper and
the shadow darker we should pray
more earnestly and lead our people so
to do. Is it not possible that the clergy
may be approaching the matter in a
somewhat cumbersome and artificial
way? Long prayers, abounding with
specific petitions, desirable as they may
be on some occasions, are not neces-
sary to call out the devotions of the
congregation and to awaken in their
hearts a real cry for peace. It seems
to the Editor that the Church has pro-
vided us with the very thing we need
to make it possible that no service,
however brief, shall be held without
a petition for peace. He would sug-
gest that in all services, especially the
Holy Communion, immediately before
the benediction there might properly
be said the versicle and response from
the Office of Evening Prayer :

V. Give peace in our time, O Lord.

R. For it is thou , Lord, only that
makest us dwell in safety.

These voice the double need which
we all feel; that is, for the cessation
of the war in Europe, and for the
preservation of our own nation from
the maelstrom of war. Also these
words are entirely familiar to Church
people, and the congregation would in-
stinctively answer the call of the ver-
sicle by making the response. Where
it has been tried the effect is excellent,
and the impression is deepened by the
fact that the congregation gives actual
voice to its own petition. The inser-
tion of this versicle and response in
the service is not liturgically objection-
able, but follows the practice in many
of the Church’s ancient offices.

That Churchmen, both as congrega-
tions and individuals, shall continu-
ously pray for peace is of course the
important matter. As a means of so

doing, the above suggestion may com-
mend itself to some. May God soon
give the response we have so long
sought !

AT the moment it seems that the
question at issue between the
United States and Mexico will be
amicably settled.
The Way Out But he is a rash
In Mexico person who would
prophesy the per-
manence of the agreement. More and
more we are recognizing the instabil-
ity of the entire situation, dependent
upon and resulting from the ignorance
of the population. How can the aver-
age Mexican be just in his estimate
of the United States when the average
American, with so much larger op-
portunities of knowledge, has so often
misunderstood the Mexican ? What is
to be expected of a nation two-thirds
of whose people cannot read and
write?

It is interesting to note that since
the minds of many have been focused
upon Mexican affairs there seems to
be a better recognition of the great
need of education and training — ex-
actly the sort of work which the
American missions in Mexico have
been attempting for many years; and
there is food for thought in a corre-
spondence which appeared recently in
The New York Times. Responding
to a letter which had previously ap-
peared, Mr. Everett P. Wheeler, a
well-known Churchman, states :

“Your Worcester correspondent
asks : ‘Why should not the govern-

ment of the United States offer to
spend, say ten million dollars, to es-
tablish schools, colleges and universi-
ties to train the youth of Mexico in
the arts of self-government?’ The
youth of Mexico undoubtedly need
training, but allow me to call attention
to the fact that the religious people of
this country have been trying to do
exactly what your correspondent sug-
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Church has had a bishop and twenty-
five clergy in Mexico, many of them
native Mexicans. They have estab-
lished schools, a college settlement
house, industrial school and farm.
Other religious bodies have done the
same. The Young Men’s Christian
Association also has been giving re-
ligious, intellectual and physical train-
ing. But when they have appealed to
the people of this country for sup-
port, and assured us that ten times the
money they were spending could be
used to advantage, most of our citi-
zens unfortunately have turned a deaf
ear.

“This government cannot undertake
to establish universities in Mexico.
That is no part of the business of the
American government, but individuals
can and should give all possible sup-
port to the enterprises already begun
for this very necessary purpose. We
are told that the Mexican expeditions
will cost $125,000,000. This comes
out of the taxpayers. If these tax-
payers had been willing to give a tenth
of that sum, probably the expeditions
we have been obliged to send would
have been unnecessary.”

LAST month we printed an article
on “How Our Church Came to
Georgia,” in which appeared a picture
of “The Beehive
The Lesson Church” on St. Si-

of the Bees mon’s Island. It

was so called be-
cause at a critical period in the history
of the parish it was found that a
swarm of bees had filled the steeple
with honey, from the sale of which
the indebtedness was liquidated and
the repairs made. Out of this grew a
little later a “Beehive Missionary So-
ciety.”

Following out this interesting bit
of history, a correspondent writes us
enclosing a poem inspired by the story
of the bees, written by the Rev. Dr.
John Henry Hopkins in 1843, while

he was visiting in Savannah. In his
volume of poems published in 1883 he
makes a pathetic little preface, say-
ing that it was written and published
at the urgency of an enthusiastic
friend who thought that the proceeds
would be “something handsome for
missions.” “But,” says the author
sadly, “the venture was a loss, and I
bore the entire cost of publication.”
It is a pity that Dr. Hopkins could not
have lived to see the missionary
awakening of to-day, to which no
doubt his prayers and poems contrib-
uted more largely than he realized.

THE BEES OF S. SIMONS

There lies, far in the bosom of the seas,
An island fair;

The summer long the patient little bees
Are busy there.

The honey that they gather all year round
Buzzing from flower to flower,

They hoard it in a quaint bee-hive they’ve
found

In the old church tower.

Their store is taken every year, nor do
The bees complain ;

They know that God will send, next spring,
a new

Supply again.

The produce of their careful gatherings goes
To men in lands abroad,

Who preach “glad tidings of great joy” to
those

Who know not God.

Like Jonathan, when fainting he did roam
. The hungry waste ;

How was he quickened when an honey comb
He did but taste !

So to these weary laborers on lone shores
This little hive supplies
The amber droppings of its annual stores
To light their eyes.

Poor Christian ! e’en in such small folk as
these

A lesson see.

Doth God take such good care for tiny
bees

Yet none for thee?

Then say not, Little Faith, thou hast no
power

To gather honey tco,

All round thee bloom the flowers, and every
flower

Is filled with dew.

THE SANCTUARY OF MISSIONS

THE TRANSFIGURATION

Master, it is good to be

High on the mountain here with
Thee ;

Here, in an ampler, purer air,

Above the stir of toil and care,

Of hearts distraught with doubt and

.grief, .

Believing in their unbelief,

Calling Thy servants, all in vain,

To ease them of their bitter pain.

Master, it is good to be
Where rest the souls that talk with
Thee ;

Where stand revealed to mortal gaze
The great old saints of other days ;

Who once received on Horeb’s height
The eternal laws of truth and right ;
Or caught still smaller whisper, higher
Than storm, than earthquake, or than
fire.

Master, it is good to be
Here on the Holy Mount with Thee;
When darkling in the depths of night,
When dazzled with excess of light,
We bow before the heavenly voice
That bids bewildered souls rejoice,
Though love wax cold, and faith be
dim,

“This is My Son, O hear ye Him.”

— Dean Stanley.

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THANKSGIVINGS

E thank Thee —

That the opening of the third
year of European war finds us
still at peace.

That the important work of build-
ing St. Paul’s College, Tokyo, Japan,
has been begun. (Page 533.)

For the steadfastness and devotion of
the women who are the life of many
a small mission. (Page 551.)

For those who minister so unselfish-
ly to the child life of America.
(Page 539.)

For the tireless zeal and brave pa-
tience of Anglican missionaries in
Alaska. (Page 549.)

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INTERCESSIONS

E pray Thee —

That the prayers of the
Church may be heard and peace
established in the earth. (Page 529.)

That we may more effectively min-
ister to Mexico in making known the
power of the Gospel. (Page 530.)

That thy Church may have a truer
understanding of medical missions
and their needs. (Page 543.)

That the seed sown in summer con-
ferences may bear rich fruit in the
lives of our Church workers. (Pages
555 and 570.)

That we may seriously lay to heart
our failure to reach the Jewish race
with the message of thy Son. (Page
537.) .

To move thy people freely to give
of their substance for the advancement
of thy kingdom and the salvation of
all men.

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PRAYERS

V. Give peace in our time, O Lord.
R. For it is thou, Lord, only, that
makest us dwell in safety.

FOR PEACE AT HOME

0 Father of mercies, the Hope of
all in need, we Thy children
abiding in this goodly land of
ours, comforted by its Christian lib-
erty, its just law and its happy unity,
turn to Thee in these days of strife
and blood on other shores and ask
that Thou wilt preserve us from the
miseries of war. We ask it in the
name and for the sake of our Lord
and Saviour, Jesus Christ. Amen.

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FOR PEACE ABROAD

UNTO Thee, O Lord, we cry, in the
night of the world’s darkness, for
the coming of the dawn of peace.
Is not the earth Thine? Are not the
hearts of all men in Thy keeping?
Remember the desolated homes, the
long suspense of waiting, the sorrows
of the exiled and the, poor, the growth
of hate, the hindrance of good, and
make an end of war. By the love we
bear towards fathers, brothers, lovers,
sons ; by the long agony of trench and
battlefield and hospital ; by the woe
brought home to the hearts of mothers,
and by the orphaned children’s need;
hasten Thou the coming of the ages
of good will. Raise up leaders for
the work of peace. Show us our part
in this redemption of the world from
cruelty and hate and make us faith-
ful and courageous. In the name of
Him whose kingdom is our heart’s de-
sire and whose will for men is love,
our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
Amen.

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THE REV. MR. TAGAWA, BISHOPS McKIM AND TUCKER AND DR. REIFSNIDER

THE NEW ST. PAUL’S COLLEGE BEGUN

By the Rev . J. Armistead Welbourn

MAY 29 was a day of great com-
fort and pleasure to all con-
nected with St. Paul’s College,
Tokyo, for it marked the official be-
ginning of the long-expected new
buildings. As one approached the site
of the college on that fine spring after-
noon he saw that at last the broad field
had a sign of something doing. The
many little sheds Japanese builders re-
quire were up, many temporary bam-
boo fences too, covered now with the
red and white curtains usual on fes-
tive occasions.

Quite a crowd of college students
and school boys were gathered in the
enclosure, and under the tent that
marked the position of the chapel, the
foundations of which were visible,

were many teachers in the college,
with a fair number of Japanese and
foreign ladies.

From the Central Theological Col-
lege across the road came the proces-
sion of clergy, with the officials of the
college and the two bishops in the
rear. The officials, who were in col-
lege gowns and hoods, were Rev. Chas.
S. Reifsnider, L.H.D., president; Rev.
J. S. Motoda, Ph.D., principal; Rev.
J. Hubard Lloyd, vice-principal; Rev.
Mr. Suto, secretary of the college ; and
Mr. J. McD. Gardiner, a former presi-
dent of St. Paul’s.

During the singing of a hymn the
procession entered the tent. Bishop
McKim immediately began the service
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ers and singing. Rev. Mr. Tagawa
read the short lesson from I Cor. iii :
10-15, and after the singing of “The
Church’s One Foundation,” Mr. Suto
read the list of the contents of the
stone. The actual closing of the stone
by Bishop McKim was next, and this
was accompanied by appropriate
prayers.

Dr. Motoda made the address of
the occasion. In this he spoke briefly
of the history of St. Paul’s, founded
by Bishop Williams in 1874, the many
changes until the present school was
licensed by the government in 1898
and the college opened in 1907. Then
there was something about the build-
ings to be built now, and those to be
put up later; he also mentioned the
further hopes for the development of
the college in “establishing on this
plain of Ikebukuro, a great institution
of learning, to advance the principles
of Christianity in Japan.”

With the benediction from the
bishop the service was over, and dur-

ing the singing of “Stand Up, Stand
Up for Jesus” the procession wended
its way back to the Divinity School.

The new St. Paul’s was really be-
gun!

From the laying of the cornerstone
described above to the St. Paul’s that
is to be, as shown in the architect’s
drawing, is a far cry, but we have
faith to believe that the seed here
planted will come to full fruition.
Our bishops and missionaries in Japan,
as well as many influential Japanese,
are urging on us the need of a great
educational center which shall do for
Japan what Boone and St. John’s Uni-
versities are doing for China. If, as
one of Japan’s leading statesmen has
declared, Western education without
the religion of Christ will be fatal to
his country, our obligation to provide
such an institution as this is apparent.
Surely the American Church will not
let Japan lack the help that has been
given so generously to another great
nation of the Orient. — Editor.

DR. MOTODA MAKING THE ADDRESS

A RITUAL MURDER IN INDIA

By Rev. Hebert Halliwell, Bangalore, South India

INDIA is fast becoming a country
of violent contrasts and striking
contradictions. The West has im-
pinged on the East, but there is very
little affinity. India has adopted much
of the Western habit and custom, but
mentally she stands very much where
she has stood for age-long centuries.
The wealthy Hindu will buy an up-to-
date motor-car and go to the races in
it, but the same day, he will have risen
early and done “puja” before the fam-
ily idol. His brow, smeared with ashes
or painted with the vermillion caste-
mark, will attest his adherence to the
old order.

Not only so, but superstition retains
its grip as tenaciously in the twentieth
century as in the nineteenth. During
the last twelve months half a dozen
cases of “suttee” or self-immolation
have taken place in the largest city in
the Indian Empire, Calcutta, up till
recently the seat of government of the
Governor-General and Viceroy. This
is a rite forbidden by law, and punish-
able with very severe penalties, but it
is practised, and when performed is
regarded by strict Hindus as entirely
meritorious.

Within the last few weeks a start-
ling case of “ritual murder” has come
to light. It occurred in the Azamgarh
district, a place well within the influ-
ence of the holy city of Benares. The
“thanadar,” or local police-station ser-
geant, had occasion to visit a burial-
ground. He found there four men
standing by the side of a newly filled-
in grave. He put one or two search-
ing questions, when a sound came
from the ground directly under his
feet. He had the presence of mind to
capture the three or four grave-dig-
gers. Another cry was heard and
when the grave was opened, there
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a month old. The thanadar did his
best for her, but she died.

The girl, it seems, had one tooth
when she was born, and this fact, ad-
ded to the disgust with which Indian
parents greet the birth of a daughter,
prepared their minds for other events.
Three days after her birth some pigs
of the village were found dead, and
this was attributed to the presence of
the baby with the tooth. The next day
a calf died. The day after, a house
in the village was burned down, and a
Brahman was called to exorcise the
spirit of bad luck. The soothsayer
confirmed the theory that the baby
with the tooth was possessed of a “rak-
shasha,” but he volunteered to expel it
on the usual terms of liberal hospital-
ity for himself and his party. That
night the baby’s father fell ill. He
jumped to the conclusion that the rak-
shasha in his daughter was too strong
for the Brahman’s “mantras,” so he de-
termined to get rid of the baby.

Similar tragedies are the direct re-
sult of Hinduism, which even today
has such marvellous hold on the people
whom we sometimes glibly speak of as
India’s millions. Is there any doubt
that these people need Christ? — Mis-
sionary Review of the World.

THE Moravians were the first
Protestants to declare that the
evangelization of the heathen was ob-
ligatory upon the Church. Missions
has been the life of the Moravian
Church and it has saved its life by
losing it. It has 47,000 members in
its home churches and more in its for-
eign missions, the communicants be-
ing 32,000 and 36,000 respectively — an
unparalleled record. It has one Amer-
ican or European missionary to every
87 of its home communicants.

THE CHURCH AND THE JEW

By John L. Z acker

The author of this article is acting as a missionary evangelist in Pittsburgh,
conducting what is called the New Covenant Mission, in which Bishop Whitehouse
has taken an active interest. Mr. Zacker is a candidate for Orders in our Church
and has recently been married to Miss Maud E. Smith, a Churchwoman paid by the
diocese of Pittsburgh, who has been working in the New Covenant Mission.

ASK the average Christian what
he knows of this subject and he
’ will probably confess that he
ought to know more, but he rarely
seeks to know much. There is an idea
prevalent that the Jews are not any
longer persecuted — that this belongs,
with all the other dark things, to the
Middle Ages. But how about Russia
and Roumania, for instance? Not
long ago there was a break between
America and Russia on account of
the latter refusing to grant equal
rights to the Jewish people at the ap-
peal made by our country. Let us
quote some of the laws which are at
present enforced against them :

“All Jews born in Russia shall be
regarded as aliens and pay special
taxes. They must serve in our army,
but cannot become officers or officers’
servants. They shall not serve in the
navy, nor hold any government or
municipal office. No synagogue shall
be opened without special permission,
and no public prayers held except in a
synagogue. Married Jews, converted
to Christianity, are divorced by their
conversion, but their wives, if they
remain Jewesses, may not marry
again. No Jew shall buy or rent
landed property. With certain excep-
tions, Jews shall only dwell in speci-
fied provinces and not near the fron-
tier. Jews are not allowed to collect
their debts when ordered to leave the
country. Jewesses, however, may re-
main, if they apply for a yellow ticket
which brands them as prostitutes.”
The writer was born and raised in
that country, and he can hardly ex-

press in words some of the cruelties
and injustices perpetrated against his
brethren during the massacres, some
of which he has personally experi-
enced, hiding in dark cellars with
some of his relatives until the fury of
the first onslaught had subsided.

Thus these wanderers were driven
to seek a home elsewhere, and they
were naturally attracted to freer and
kindlier lands. Many went to Eng-
land, but the largest number have
come to the United States. In 1886
there were 18,000 Russian Jews who
migrated to America, and two years
later 33,000 landed at New York,
while at the present time it is esti-
mated that there are 3,500,000 in this
country, with 1,500,000 in New York
City alone. This means that one per-
son in every four on Manhattan Island
is a Jew, which is the largest Jewish
population in any city in the world,
and perhaps accounts for the fact that
many Jews look upon America as the
Promised Land.

In the last century authorities say
that 204,000 Jews have accepted
Christ by public confession in Holy
Baptism. One Church Society in Lon-
don was responsible for 72,000 of
these converts. Among these are emi-
nent men of God, such as Bishop Hel-
muth, of Huron Diocese, Canada, who
has not only expended his fortune on
the Church, but has given also of his
health and strength; Bishop Alexan-
der, the first Bishop of Jerusalem;
Rev. Dr. Ewald, called the “mission-
ary genius,” besides receiving a Ph.D.
diploma for his translations from the

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Talmud ; the Rev. Paulus Cassel,
D.D., a man of many degrees and high
positions, which he resigned to become
a simple missionary in Berlin, where
he is said to have led many hundreds
to Christianity; Dr. Neander, writer
of the finest ecclesiastical histories ;
Margoliouth, famous Oxford pro-
fessor ; Edersheim, lecturer and
author of the greatest biography of
the Life of Christ; Rabinowitz and
Lichtenstein, both great preachers, be-
sides a galaxy of other names, much
too long to mention.

Our Attitude Toward the Jews

Archbishop Benson has said that the
gain of Israel is the gain of the world,
and the Church does not yet know it.
We are not serious enough about the
Jew! The early Apostolic Church
was a missionary organization, and
there was a great deal of strife be-
fore the Apostles, who were Jews, de-
cided to bring the Gospel to the Gen-
tile. Even when St. Paul undertook
specific work for the evangelizing of
the Gentiles, he wrote : “I could wish
that myself were accursed from Christ
for my brethren, my kinsmen accord-
ing to the flesh” ; and again he says :
“Brethren, my heart’s desire and
prayer to God for Israel is, that they
might be saved.” He answers a ques-
tion that is often put to the missionary
by even some earnest Christians :
“Has God cast away His people? God
forbid, for I also am an Israelite, of
the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of
Benjamin” (Rom. 11:1). There is
not a bishop, priest or layman in the
whole Church that is not indebted to
this Jewish Apostle Paul for a knowl-
edge of Christianity, and what are we
doing for his “kinsmen according to
the flesh” in this country in return?

Did not Christ tell us to begin at
Jerusalem? Did he not say that He
came to save the lost sheep of the
house of Israel? We have practically
the New Jerusalem at our very doors,
a wondrous missionary opportunity ;

but do we realize that our Church has
not even one fully equipped Jewish
Mission in the whole of the United
States ? How many remember the
unique accomplishments of Bishop
Schereshewsky in China, the first one
to have translated the Bible into
Mandarin. This -was done after he
was paralyzed, using only one finger
on a typewriter. He was a Jew !

America has put little into the He-
brew-Christian propaganda as yet ;
nevertheless, in the last thirty years
the Church has had three bishops who
were Jews, the product of Jewish mis-
sions, such as they are. There is no
Church, no Prayer Book, no liturgy
that appeals to the Jew so strongly as
that of our own Church, which is
Apostolic, Jewish, and teaches the ful-
filment of Judaism. A few days ago,
after addressing the Clerical Union in
Pittsburgh on this subject, one of our
rectors stated that a son of a rabbi,
with his family, had joined his Church
through baptism. This is only a token
of the spirit of restlessness that pos-
sesses this people in these troublous
times, and if the Church is ready to
meet the Jew with Christianity, the
Jew will meet it half way. Thus
“through your mercy, they (the Jews)
may obtain mercy.”

IN a list of things that Christian
missions have done, the following
are mentioned : They have created a

great system of Christian schools and
colleges, having a present enrolment
of over a million and a half pupils ;
they have introduced modern medi-
cine, surgery, and sanitation into the
darkest quarters of the globe, by
means of six hundred and seventy-
five hospitals and six hundred and
ninety-three dispensaries ; they have
translated the entire Bible or portions
of the Scriptures into five hundred
languages and dialects, distributing
last year alone over nine million
copies.

A* TYPICAL CABIN

CHILDREN THAT THE WORLD FORGOT

By Elise Morris

JUST how Billy came to St. An-
drew’s is an old story now. But
the path he trod was that chosen
by many other mountain boys — and
this was how it happened. Billy was
one of four, all children of unde-
veloped mental and physical attain-
ments, with no souls at all, so far as
they knew. Despite the fact that four
men were responsible for the coming
of these children, they never had
quite enough clothes to keep them
warm, and there never was enough
food to satisfy their hunger. Their
cabin was the usual mountain home,
of rough logs, huddled down in a cir-
cle of gnarled old apple trees. The
door stood open the year through, not
for air, because plenty of that came
through the cracks in the wall, but for
light. There were no windows at all.
With thousands of acres of woods
about them, there never was quite
enough fire on the stone hearth. The
cooking was done on the coals or in

the ashes. The entire culinary equip-
ment consisted of one old penknife
and the lids of lard tins.

St. Andrew’s, the school on the
mountain top, had had its eye on Billy
for some time. It was for Billy and
his brothers, children whom the
world had forgotten, that the school
had been established by a little group
of men who belonged to the Order of
the Holy Cross. At first the moun-
tain people were afraid of these men
in their rough white robes. There
seemed some mystery about it all.
Why should these men come from the
busy world to find the little children
every one else had forgotten? Why
had they come? Billy found out on
the morning that his mother lay moan-
ing on her bed and there was no food
in the cabin. It wras to St. Andrew’s
that he turned for help.

“We had a struggle with the boy’s
mother,’’ Father Harrison, the head
of the school, explains in speaking of

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Billy, “to get him to St. Andrew’s.
Maternal love, as unreasoning as that
of a she-bear, made her cling to her
young. Only by threatening to re-
fuse her food did we win her consent
to let us educate the boy.”

But when at the end of the first
year Billy stood with the other moun-
tain boys in the chapel of St. An-
drew’s, his young body well clothed
and fed, his face lighting up with
pride, in his eyes a gleam of newly
awakened intelligence, the old moun-
tain woman realized what the giving
up of her boy was meaning. Billy
was learning the importance of keep-
ing his mind and body clean ; he was
learning how to plant gardens that
would grow ; he was learning how to
make the old apple trees bear fruit ;
he was learning that log cabins could
be built so there would be light and
heat too ; he was learning the mystery
of printed words on pages ; he was
learning the meaning of the big things
of life.

Billy is a type, a true type of the
boy of the Southern Appalachian

Mountain region, for whom the school
of St. Andrew’s was established in
the Tennessee mountains.

When the first little frame school-
house was built on the mountain, ten
years ago, the coming of the priests
was resented by the people. There
seemed a barrier higher than the tall-
est peak between these men in their
white robes and the people in their
wretched cabins. There was a child-
ish suspicion in the hearts of the
mountain mothers of the true designs
the men might have on their boys.
To win their confidence meant years
of patient service.

From its first frame cottage state,
St. Andrew’s has grown into a school
with a plant that will comfortably
house one hundred boys. The three
well-furnished dormitories are fur-
nace-heated, with running water and
with matrons and trained nurse in
charge. The school is equipped for
manual training as well as literary
education. The boys are given a thor-
ough English education, and for those
who are anxious to go on there are
lessons in French, German, Latin and
Greek. There are shops where car-
pentry and cabinetmaking are taught,
and from the work on a hundred-acre
farm the boys learn scientific agricul-
ture. A business course has been
added this year so that those who go
out into the world will not be unpre-
pared for whatever their lot may be.

The Nashville, Chattanooga and St.
Louis Railroad has established a
demonstration farm adjoining St.
Andrew’s. Through this means the
mountain boys are given the benefits
of the experiments tried by high-
salaried experts, so that some day
they may go back to their valley acres
and reclaim what has been lost from
the soil, through ignorance of farm-
ing and indifference to results.

In the carpentry shop the boys are
learning to build houses that will be
homes, and not four log walls daubed
together with mud. A home where

BILLY’S MOTHER

ST. ANDREW’S SCHOOL

comfort displaces the old disease-
breeding conditions will follow the
century-old log cabin. The open
door, scant heat and insufficient cloth-
ing of the mountain people let in the
first cases of the tuberculosis with
which the Southern mountains are be-
ing ravaged. One case, without
knowledge of the dangers of infec-
tion, has bred countless others where
living conditions are such that its vic-
tims are pitifully simple to reach.
Houses with windows and lamps to
burn at night — these were unknown
luxuries for many mountain homes.
“We just set by the fire a spell,” ex-
plained a mountain woman, when
asked what they did after supper. If
they had books, no one could read.
So they “just set,” and just sitting
means the inertia that has held the
mountain people in its grip. With a
knowledge of reading there will be
activity of mind, and also an activity
of body to secure the light by which to
read.

The boys do most of the work on
the place (except raising the crops),
cutting wood, and assisting with the
general care of the school, yet the lads
have superfluous energy to devote to

football and those games that make
for fair play, that encourage a spirit
of sacrificing individual interest for
the good of the whole. They play the
games that mean a strengthening of
mind as well as body.

The pupils are daily instructed in
the meaning of the word religion and
what it typifies, of what goodness and
godliness mean in life, of its indefin-
able relationship to all the beautiful
things of life. And each year the re-
flected influence of St. Andrew’s is
being felt in the valley. Feuds are
disappearing. A disregard of the
holiness of the marriage vow and the
sacredness of parenthood, formally so
frequent in the mountains, is becom-
ing a thing of the past. The St. An-
drew’s boys are growing up and going
back to the valley. After all the chief
sins of the mountains can be laid to
ignorance.

St. Andrew’s sent out its first
graduate in June of 1915. A young
lad with serious face and a realization
of the true meaning of life, a lad who
came from a small farmhouse in the
valley, has taken his place as a student
in the University of the South. But
this boy has proven an exception in

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A MOUNTAIN BOY

Many of these boys possess a keen knowledge
of woodlore

that he possessed the ability and am-
bition to work until he got the neces-
sary preparation to enter a college.
The boys that St. Andrew’s are help-
ing will not go out into the world as
college professors or great lawyers,
but they will be fitted to hold their
own in trades, or as farmers on their
own neglected lands.

No matter how great the needs of
the school there are always means to
be found to aid the boys who have
the ambition to go on after they leave
St. Andrew’s. The majority of them,
though, will go back to the valley,
fortified to meet whatever their life
may bring to them. Many of these
boys, the majority of them in fact,

have never before been twenty miles
away from home, and they know noth-
ing of the activities of civilization.
Shut off from the world, the mountain
boy has led his hard life, died too often
has led his hard life, died too often
from accident, tuberculosis, or some
disease incident to his condition in
life, while the world passed on, few
knowing, few caring that these things
should be.

Millions have been given for the
Southern negro— millions well spent
in the building of Tuskegee and Lam-
bertville. At Sewanee, in the Tennes-
see mountains, St. Andrew’s and its
white-garbed men of the Holy Cross
are working for these children, so
long forgotten and passed' over by the
world in their unconscious isolation.
In the Tennessee mountains they have
built, one stone at a time, as it were,
with only a small endowment, a little
colony of shops, schoolrooms and
dormitories. Beside the gilt cross that
tops the chapel the roof of the school-
house is sharply defined against the
sky, for along with the religion that
teachers the love of God, St. An-
drew’s is sending into mountain and
valley another religion — that which
teaches respect of self and love of man.

AN INTERESTING GIFT

NOT long ago the rector of a parish
discovered some old volumes of
The Spirit of Missions in one of the
church buildings. There were not
enough complete years to be of service
as a file, and yet there were enough
to make up shortages in other files.
The rector therefore consulted his
vestry and word has just come to us
that we are to receive all of these old
volumes. There may be other such
cases throughout the country, or there
may be individuals who have discov-
ered odd years of The Spirit of Mis-
sions and do not know what best use
to put them to. In such cases send
the volumes to us, for we can put them
to good use.

WHY SPEND SO MUCH ON MISSION •
HOSPITALS?

By Rudolf Bolling Teusler, M.D.

THE cash and pledges for St.
Luke’s Hospital, Tokyo, have
reached about $400,000, includ-
ing the $75,000 given in Japan by the
Emperor and the committee organized
by the premier, Count Okuma. With
four-fifths of the sum required for
the new hospital assured, it has been
decided to start building promptly,
and the purchase of the hospital site
will be completed as soon as possible
after my return to Japan. The plans
for the new institution are now in the
hands of expert hospital architects,
undergoing practical criticism before
their complete adoption.

From a material standpoint one of
the chief advantages of the new St.
Luke’s will be its influence in the Far
East as a working model for modern
hospital construction and organization,
and every effort will be made to build
with these ends in view.

The response from the Church to
the appeal for our Tokyo hospital has
in many cases been very generous,
but there are a large number of our
people who do not fully realize the
changed conditions in Eastern Asia
during the past ten years, and fre-
quently I have heard it questioned
whether the expenditure of so rela-
tively large a sum is justifiable for a
mission hospital. After sixteen years
of active service on the ground I am
convinced it is fully justifiable, and
that it is the only wise course for the
Church to pursue. We cannot ex-
pect success unless we meet in a sat-
isfactory way our problems as they
arise, and to-day in the East our mis-
sion medical work is seriously in peril
unless we take immediate and vigor-
ous steps greatly to increase its effici-
ency.

The East is more critical to-day
than it has ever been before. Its
people are more capable of discrimin-
ating comparisons and their leaders
are quite familiar with our home stan-
dards. Mission hospitals, medical col-
leges, schools for nurses and dispen-
saries should compare favorably with
the best we have at home. The heart
of medicine is diagnosis, and to-day
this can only be supplied through a
modernly equipped hospital with ade-
quate laboratories and a staff of ex-
pert specialists in the several branches
of medicine and surgery, working to-
gether and in constant touch with one
another. This principle of team work
in modern medicine has become
fundamental, and mission hospitals
can be made to form an ideal place for
its practical application. The medi-
cal missionary has no personal ends
to gain from a financial standpoint in
the practice of his profession. He
gives this up when he becomes a mis-
sionary. He is paid a fixed salary
and his whole time is devoted to his
work. Give him a proper hospital set-
ting, and if he is true to his trust we
at once establish practical founda-
tions for advanced medical work
along definite modern lines. Anything
less than this is not only very unfair
to our medical workers, it is untrue to
the responsibility we have assumed
in undertaking medical mission work.

There is no question but that our
medical missionaries fully recognize
this, but I have been much impressed
by the fact that the Church at large
here in the United States does not
recognize it, and it is pathetic to see
how far short of the actual needs the
clergy and laymen of all our churches
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medical work in non-Christian lands.
If we are not more awake to our re-
sponsibilities and more responsive to
the actual demands of the situation,
the medical work in Asia will be taken
out of our hands, and — to say the
least — a very valuable asset in our
evangelistic work will become a thing
of the past.

There is little or no participation in
this country to-day on the part of the
Church in hospital work, and we speak
of philanthropy almost as a thing
apart from Christianity, which gave
it birth, and though unacknowledged
is still its chief inspiration. We do
not want this grave mistake repeated
in the East. The Church should un-
flinchingly establish and maintain the
highest standards of medical work in
non-Christian lands, and every effort
should be made to keep our hospitals
active centers for direct evangelistic
work. It is useless any more to build,
except perhaps in the extreme interior,
inadequate hospitals, under-equipped
and insufficiently supported. The
Church must stop thinking of its mis-
sion hospital work in terms of the
bargain counter, and realize that it be-
comes an insult to our profession of
Christianity to allow anything but the
best when we give it in the name of
Christ and His command to heal the
sick and succor the helpless. Any-
thing less than this will not suffice,
and we had as well look the matter
squarely in the face and make up our
mind what we are going to do. Al-
ready we have dallied too much, and
we will certainly seriously regret it
if we continue our present half-
hearted, inadequate methods. Three
or four thoroughly modern hospital
plants should be established by our
Church in Japan and China in the im-
mediate future, and made centers for
direct evangelistic and Christian edu-
cational work. I believe we are los-
ing a splendid opportunity by not do-
ing this, and already the chance is
slipping through our fingers because

of the indifference of our Church
people here at home. There is no
use trying to dodge the facts — they
are quite evident to those who will
look, and need little study to bring
conviction.

There is one very practical reason
why we must build thoroughly modern
hospitals if we propose to carry for-
ward successfully our medical mission
work. It is imperative that we appoint
only men with first-class undergrad-
uate and post-graduate medical quali-
fications. Such men are not easy to
secure, even here at home. With the
very small salary we offer, and no out-
look for material future increase, it
is difficult to interest men who know
that by staying at home they can with-
in a few years make several times the
salary they will ever receive as medi-
cal missionaries. The education of a
physician to-day is expensive in time
and money, and even moderate suc-
cess in the profession assures a good
living and substantial yearly savings.
We do not want as missionaries men

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545

who are sure of less than this. In ad-
dition to renouncing any idea of pro-
portionate financial returns, practical
obstacles arising from family and so-
cial connections must be overcome,
and the uncertainty from a profes-
sional and personal standpoint in
undertaking work so far away must
be met and conquered before foreign
service can be accepted. If with these
serious and real obstacles to medical
mission service we fail to provide ade-
quate hospital and professional facili-
ties in the field for modern work, it
becomes practically impossible to se-
cure high-grade men for appointment.
Men who have spent years fitting
themselves for work in connection
with modern laboratories and hospitals
cannot afford to accept positions
where these facilities do not exist,
and where their training will not be
put to use. To-day they are taught
dependence upon specialists and are
accustomed to laboratory co-operation.
The bone and sinew of their profes-
sional life is bound together, and de-
pendent upon modern hospital organi-
zation and team work. They only
know this “group professional work,”
and they rightly feel it would be a
mistake to cut themselves off from it.
Also they question their own fitness
for any other type of medical work,
and their own professional growth if
separated from modern hospital life.
The handicap demanded at present in
the foreign mission field is too heavy,
and no man is willing to place himself
in an atmosphere unfavorable to the
development of the profession to
which he has given his life.

To secure first-class medical men,
therefore, in mission fields, it is essen-
tial that we furnish modern hospitals
and modern laboratories in which they
can carry on their work intelligently.
With such men the question of salary
is of less importance than that of ade-
quate and up-to-date hospital equip-
ment. Until we fully recognize and
act upon this fact we cannot hope

properly to develop our mission medi-
cal work in Eastern Asia. With proper
hospitals we can obtain a much wider
hearing in medical circles here at
home, and command a better and more
numerous group of volunteers for
missionary service.

I do not believe it is wise to accept
any man for appointment under the
Board unless he is applying from defi-
nite missionary motives. A mission
hospital is missionary in its influence
if the heads of its departments are
missionary. Without this it becomes
a philanthropy.

The hold of the medical missionary
on the hearts and lives of the people
he serves is strong, and if he is true
to his ideals the practical results to
the spread of Christianity are very
real and far reaching. The whole
Orient is awake to the claims of
Christianity. Men are eagerly scan-
ning its exterior, and seeking beneath
the surface for its direct application
in solving the practical problems
which are to-day confronting them as
individuals and nations. It is not suf-
ficient that we preach Christianity to
them ; we must demonstrate it as well,
and in no qualified terms or methods ;
honestly proclaiming and insisting
that the saving of their bodies and
their souls must go hand in hand, and
that only within the shelter of true
Christianity can this be effected.

THE Fifteenth Infantry of our
army is stationed at Tientsin,
China. Recently the children of the
regiment, under the direction of
Chaplain and Mrs. W. H. Watts, gave
a sale and entertainment, the proceeds
of which were devoted to the chil-
dren’s ward of St. Luke’s Hospital,
Shanghai. This, together with their
Easter offering for the same object,
amounted to $500 and has been sent
to Bishop Graves. This does great
credit to the Fifteenth Infantry and
the Americans in Tientsin who inter-
ested themselves in the enterprise.

WHAT AN AMERICAN SAW IN ASIA*

By Willard Price

I saw hundreds of villages in which modern sanitation was absolutely
unknown.

I saw glittering Oriental cities, the pride of the East, and under the shining
lacquer and gold paint I saw suffering and filth and want no man can describe.

I saw rotting bodies, empty minds, naked souls.

I saw Disease, stalking up alleys, wading ankle-deep* through garbage to
enter the doors of the people.

I saw, in one land, the stains of parental vice on the skin of two out of
five of the children.

I saw a mother selling her babies that their older brothers might not die
of starvation.

I saw pallid factory girls of twelve and even ten years of age, who worked
thirteen hours a day, seven days a week, standing constantly while at work,
and received a pittance of a third of a cent per hour. This, moreover, in a mill
advertised as the “model factory of the Orient !”

I saw things which I have not the heart to set down and you would not
have the heart to read.

I saw life in its lowest terms.

AND YET—

I saw love in its highest terms.

I saw Christ yearning over Asia.

I saw the response of Korea to that yearning. A nation turning to Chris-
tianity at the rate of three thousand conversions a week !

I saw the dawning of a new China, not in the political kaleidoscope, but in
the spiritual changes which have led to the abolishment of opium, have brought
six thousand of China’s strongest leaders to accept Christ.

I saw a three-hundred-year-old statue of Buddha, and almost in its lap an
impertinent three-year-old automatic telephone booth. The ancient religions of
the East are being found wanting and cast aside.

I saw the mission schools from which the Chinese Government has selected
the first ten girls to be sent to American colleges under the Boxer Indemnity
Fund. They were the best-equipped ten that could be found in China. All
were graduates of mission schools ; all were Christians.

I saw hundreds of closed shops on Sunday. Neighboring them I saw hun-
dreds of open shops, consuming all the Sunday business. Every closed store
was owned by a Christian — not a “rice Christian,” but a real Christian, whose
pocket had no rule over his conscience.

I saw a beaten man board our ship at Wuhu and heard him tell of the
crushing overburden of medical work that had killed his predecessor and was
killing him.

I saw everywhere undermanned hospitals, undermanned schools, under-
manned churches ; a missionary force powerful in quality, petty in quantity.

I saw Asia, sore, ragged and dull, with her foot on the threshold of the
house of Christ, hoping for an invitation to enter.

I saw, upon returning to America, a rich and happy nation, eager and
generous to a fault, but unthinking, storming the movie theater, swallowing
a lump in their throat for pity of the ragged child in the play — while Asia zvaits.

’'Adapted and abridged from the World Outlook for June and printed in the Missionary Review of
the World for July, The Spirit of Missions for August, 1916.

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ON PARADE ON THE CAMPUS

BOONE UNIVERSITY BAND

By Robert A. Kemp

'npHIS band has in its eight years
existence developed from an in-
strument of torture into an or-
ganization of some little finish. Having
had to make its beginning with abso-
lutely no experience, even on the part
of its organizers, and having had to
create its own ideas of band music, it
naturally progressed but slowly and
painfully. And although the Chinese
student has by no means so small a
predilection for music as most people
believe, and pursues the same with
more than ordinary industry and at-
tention, yet in China the musical at-
mosphere, as westerners understand
it, is an almost perfect vacuum, and
the start must indeed be made from
the beginning.

But it is entirely to the credit of

these young musicians that they are
now making a little reputation for
themselves and can expect to be called
upon to supply music for the larger
events of the year in Wuchang and
Hankow. Their last invitation, to
play for the British Empire Day Cele-
bration in Hankow, won for them the
following little puff in the English
paper of that city :

“There were some five and twenty
instrumentalists, and those who had
never heard the band before were sim-
ply astonished at the way in which
the pieces played were rendered ; it
was a revelation to them to learn how
Chinese can be trained to discourse
foreign music so perfectly.”

The band was organized in the first
place by financial help from the Uni-

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Boone University Band

versity and friends, and from its mem-
bers, and by gifts of instruments. It
has always had the hearty support of
the University staff and has proved to
be one of the prominent features of
University life, providing a course of
training which is particularly beneficial
to the Chinese student. It develops
that sense of precision which music
demands, inculcates self-control and
self-confidence, and schools them in
that feeling of mutual responsibility
and interdependence which they must
acquire to be of use in any organized
effort. Apparently the students great-
ly profit by this training, for it is a
significant fact that the majority of
our recent graduates have been mem-
bers of the band, and that of our pres-
ent staff of graduate teachers nearly
all are ex-bandsmen.

As a direct aid to missionary en-
deavor the band is distinctly a help in
several ways : It supplies musicians

for the students’ Sunday afternoon
missionary campaigns in the city ; it
provides a musical feature which helps
to attract the large numbers of gov-
ernment school students who attend
the regular Saturday night course of
popular lectures in the University
Library ; it offers a systematic training
in music to the great number of em-
bryo teachers who will later need it in
their work, and it prepares many of
our divinity students to better guide
the musical part of the church services
of their future congregations.

Music is very properly a part of the
instruction in Boone University, which
stands as one of the pioneer and model
institutions of the country, and pro-
vides in this way a valuable demon-
stration of how a young man’s talents
may be developed to his very great
advantage, supplying a means of
wholesome enjoyment when it is most
urgently required. A young man upon
leaving college and plunging into the
life of a great Chinese city is beset by
the worst kinds of temptation and evil
example. He finds no decent conven-

ience for filling his recreation hour, no
parks, no outdoor games, no libraries,
no street cars, no good concerts — none
of the simple amusements an active
mind demands ; none of the good but
plenty of the bad. And so by training
him to amuse himself and his com-
panions in a way not only decent but
profitable, we do him a great service.

This side of our educational work
deserves as hearty support as do all
the other sides. And we believe this
can be managed in a very simple way.
There must be many unused band in-
struments lying about the houses of
our Churchpeople in America, and we
can assure these people that, if they
would make a gift of any such instru-
ment to the Boone Band, it would pass
the remainder of its life in a highly
useful role, and that this kindly act
would be most deeply appreciated, and
would help not a little in the work of
the Kingdom.

Our present instruments must be re-
placed, and we could nicely use any
kind of brass instrument, excepting
slide trombones. All brass instruments
can be altered in our workshop and
so adapted to our needs, which is not
true of wood-wind instruments. But
wood-winds in high pitch are urgently
required.

The Rev. C. F. Howe of Boone Uni-
versity is at present in the United
States and will be glad to correspond
with any person willing to donate such
an instrument and to arrange for its
forwarding. A note in care of the
Mission - House, 281 Fourth Avenue,
New York, will always reach him.

AS in the days of Christ, blindness
is still one of the commonest af-
flictions in the East. In China it has
been estimated that one person in
every eight is blind. Poorly ventilated,
smoky rooms, unhygienic conditions,
and dense ignorance of sanitary laws
are the chief causes. Naturally the
medical missionary concerns himself
largely with the relief of blindness.

“IN THE WAKE OF THE WAR
CANOE ”*

SO much has been written re-
garding the splendid work that
is being done in Alaska by
Bishop Rowe, Archdeacon Stuck
and their helpers, and this work is
to many readers so familiar, that it
is an added pleasure to read of what
is being done on the Canadian side
of the line, as described in Arch-
deacon Collison’s book.

There has been a very intimate
relationship between the Canadian
and American missionaries, and
wherever it has been possible one
work has helped and stimulated the
other. In fact, we have inherited
some of our most interesting work
from the English Church. Bishop
Bompas and Archdeacon MacDon-
ald were frequent visitors to what
is now American territory, and the
very active work being done at Fort
Yukon received its first impetus at
the hands of these men. It is par-
ticularly gratifying, therefore, to be
able to cite another instance of the
stalwart faith and long service in
the case of Archdeacon Collison,
who was the first missionary to
some parts of British Columbia. The
Lord Bishop of Derry, in his intro-
duction to the book, writes :

“This is the record of a wonderful
triumph of the Cross. Foremost
and throughout it is this. But even
for a reader quite indifferent to re-
ligion it ought to have an absorb-
ing interest. In the simplest and
least pretentious language it records
a career of the most dramatic ad-
venture. Captain Marryat never re-
corded such experiences for the de-
light of schoolboys.

*In the Wake of the War Canoe. The Vener-
able W. H. Collison. Archdeacon of Metlakahtla.
Published by E. P. Dutton & Company, 681 Fifth
Avenue, New York, N. Y. Price, $1.75 net.

“To be landed with one’s wife in
Northern regions, from the last ship
of the season, among savages, and
to be told as the farewell word of
civilization: ‘You will all be mur-
dered’ ; to be chased in an open
canoe by sea lions and narwhals,
into whose dense masses a disobe-
dient sailor had fired ; to be chased
again by a shark so huge that his
dorsal fin overtopped the stern of
the canoe, and so menacing that in
despair they struck at his head with
a pole, and he dived down and left
them ; to be prostrated with fever,
and to have pagan medicine men
whooping and dancing around your
bed, conscious that if you die they
will be rid of you, and if you live
they will claim the cure — these,
with storms at sea, the wars of In-
dian tribes, conflagrations and earth-
quakes, make up a fine catalogue
of adventures.”

Beginning at the time the call first
came for men to go out to British
Columbia as missionaries, Arch-
deacon Collison briefly outlines the
chief events in the work of discov-
ery and gives the outstanding char-
acteristics of the people. Once hav-
ing gotten himself there, however,
he begins a simple and fascinating
account of his life. The following
quotation gives a forceful picture of
the people as they were, and then
the marked contrast which was the
result of Christian training:

“One of the first of the Nishka
chiefs to embrace Christianity was
Kinzadak. He had been an adven-
turer as a young man, and led an
expedition as far as the Takou In-
dians at the head of the inlet of this
name in Alaska. Whilst there the
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guests with a sense of their wealth
and power, bound some fourteen of
their slaves and, having procured
a young forked tree, placed it in po-
sition on the beach, and then laid
the slaves, who were bound, with
their necks on the lower branch.
The young men of the tribe then
performed the death dance around
them, accompanied by the noise of
their drums and songs. Then, at a
given signal, a number of them
sprang on the upper branch, bring-
ing it down by their united weight
on the necks of the slaves, whose
cries and struggles were drowned
by the chant and drums. This was
continued till their cries were
hushed in death.

“Shortly after, when all were en-
gaged in a feast in front of the
camp, suddenly one of the slaves
who had been placed nearest to the
extremity of the branch and had
only been rendered insensible for a
time, started to his feet and, utter-
ing a wild whoop which awakened
the echoes all around, rushed off
into the forest. For a few moments
all were paralyzed with astonish-
ment, as he appeared rather as a
spectre than a being of flesh and
blood. Then, having recovered from
their surprise, the entire band of
young men who had acted as the
executioners, gave utterance to one
united whoop and rushed off in pur-
suit of the fugitive. After a long
chase a chorus of howls, resembling
that of a pack of wolves, announced
his capture. Soon they emerged
from the forest, and marching the
unfortunate captive to the place
from which he had fled, he was
again laid on the branch, on which
a number of them jumped and
quickly crushed out his life. As
slaves were the most valuable prop-
erty possessed by the Indians, this
was done to convince those whom
they were entertaining of their
wealth.

“Kinzadak and his men were in-
dignant at the manner in which they
had been received, and on their re-
turn down the inlet they ransacked
a village belonging to the Takous,
carrying off much booty. This be-
came a casus belli between the
Takous and the Nishkas for a num-
ber of years, in which they avoided
meeting one another. But as soon
as Christianity triumphed amongst
the latter, they issued an invitation
to the Takous intimating their de-
sire to restore the property they had
taken away. In response to this in-
vitation, the Takous sent their head
chief, accompanied by a number of
the leading men of the tribe. They
arrived on the Nass in a large canoe,
and a great amount of property was
contributed and made over to them,
and a general peace made and con-
firmed.”

The book is filled with stories of
adventure on land and sea. Thrill-
ing as is the account of the miracu-
lous escape from death and mishap
at the hands of savages, it is no more
subtle in its power than is the simple
account of how this brave man
fought disease — and won.

“Before her marriage, Mrs. Col-
lison, as a deaconess, had nursed
the wounded on the battlefields dur-
ing the Franco-German war, and
was present at the surrender of
Metz. She was the first white
woman to take up her residence
amongst the Tsimsheans at Metla-
kahtla, and afterwards the first
amongst the then fierce Haidas of
Queen Charlotte Islands, where her
skill in ministering to the sick and
in dressing the wounds of those in-
jured tended in so small degree to
bring them under the influence of
the teaching of the Gospel of Sal-
vation.”

Throughout the book, one is con-
stantly impressed by the Archdeacon’s
faith in God, which makes him equal
to any emergency.

THE TRIP TO KEYSTONE

A South Dakota missionary sends the following story, asking that his name
be not mentioned:

AFTER we had had our Easter
services in this mission it oc-
curred to me that I might visit
some of the smaller places which do
not have services, but where there
are some of the Church’s children, and
give them the privilege of making
their Easter Communion. So I wrote
to one who I learned lived in Key-
stone, who answered immediately say-
ing they would be glad to have me
come. So I set the date. I had to
travel the 23 miles by stage, and ex-
pected to go in what the driver called
the “Flivver” or “Tin Lizzie.” Any
one will recognize that this is a Ford
car. When the day came, however, I
had to make the trip by team, because
“Lizzie” was busy elsewhere. It was
a long dusty ride up the mountains,
lasting six hours. We arrived safely,
however, and without event save that
one of the horses took sick, and had
to be exchanged for a rancher’s horse.

On our way we passed through
Rockerville, which at one time, had
1,800 people, but now has one family.
It was a placer mining camp. I saw a
hole from which in ten days $70,-
000 had been taken.

Keystone was made famous by the
“Holy Terror” mine. “Some name,”
as we would say. The story is that a
man had been driven from his home
by his “Xantippe.” He went out on
the side of the mountain to reflect
upon the troubles of man. He ab-
sent-mindedly picked up a rock, and
as is the habit of prospectors, hit it
with his pick. To his amazement he
discovered it to be loaded with gold.
He immediately “located.” Someone
later asked him what he was going to
call the mine. He said he was going
to name it after his wife. What was
that? “Holy Terror.” “Well, that is

not your wife’s name.” “No, but she
is a “Holy Terror.”

This proved to be a good mine and
paid big dividends, but the rich vein
ran out after a few years, the mine
was closed, and the town went back.
There is some developing work being
done there now, but there are many
empty houses. Still every one in the
camp now, for the first time in years,
has a job.

I expected to find two or three
Churchpeople, minister to them as best
I could, and return. Listen to the sur-
prise. I was entertained at the home
of a lovely woman, with years upon
her shoulders and a grown-up family,
who have left her to found families
of their own. Her interest in chil-
dren, however, is not gone, and she has
organized a Sunday-school with thirty-
seven children, and a Bible class of
six grown-ups. With much hard
work they have been able to supply
each one with a prayer book, and
teach them all the service, so that in
the evening when fifty-five gathered
in the Methodist meeting-house we
had complete evening prayer, with the
chants sung and all the responses said.
In addition we had both adult and in-
fant baptism. Three grown-ups and
three mountain babies were received
into Christ’s Holy Church. The next
morning seven made their Easter
Communion. I was almost ready to
return home when a mother walked
into the camp with her four children
to be baptized. They live three miles
out, and have not missed a Sunday
service. So we received them into the
Church, making in all eleven who were
baptized.

Here we have a loyal Church-
woman, who one might think has al-
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finds herself tucked off in the moun-
tains among poor people, with children
growing up without the Church’s min-
istrations, she sets to telling them
about God and His love. Her work
reminds one of what Luther said :
“When I rest, I rust.” To those who
have made their One Day Income Of-
fering, or to those who have made an
extra effort to complete their appor-
tionment, I am sure this story will be
refreshing. We cannot all live in
Keystone and organize a Sunday-
school of forty-three, but we can “do
our bit,” as the English say and make
it possible for the Church to carry on
her work. We are all commissioned
to tell of the Holy Love, and if the
Church has neglected any out-of-the-
way places, even as I am sorry to say
I neglected Keystone, let us take the
lead ourselves.

This mining camp is visited by a
Congregational minister twice a
month. Why don’t we go there on at
least the alternate Sundays? Well,
to tell the truth, we have no one to
send. Our parishes now are a hun-
dred miles square. If I had a “Tin
Lizzie” I could get to this camp for
Sunday night services, and they would
be so welcome to these mountain folk.

When it came time to return I
found that “Lizzie” was on the job, but
her master had the cruelty to load her
down with the mail, some freight and
seven adults. On the steep grades she
protested a bit, and the parson, having
the softest heart, was compelled to
walk. On the down-grades, how-
ever, she was all excitement, espe-
cially when we whirled around the
side of a cliff. On such occasions it
was suggested that the parson walk.
He walked.

AN URGENT NEED

ST. PAUL’S Normal and Industrial
School, Lawrenceville, Virginia, is
putting before the Church its great
need of a dormitory for girls. The

rapid growth of the school, and the
great demand for training, make the
situation urgent. There is in Law-
renceville a building recently com-
pleted for the young men, which ac-
commodates 100 and has adequate
modern facilities, but the dormitory
room for girls is limited in space and
unsatisfactory. They are crowded
into portions of buildings and are ac-
commodated in attics and basements.
Archdeacon Russell says :

“I wish to call your attention espe-
cially to the crowded condition.
There is absolutely no privacy for the
girls. In neither of the two girls’
buildings is there a room where a par-
ent can visit a daughter or a room
available for social intercourse and de-
velopment. Last year the health of
our girls was not so good, and the phy-
sician attributed much of it to the
quarters.

“For lack of accommodations we
must turn away every year from two
to three hundred deserving girls, and
for the past two years the conditions
have been so crowded that we have
been forced to keep two double beds
in a room for the accommodation of
six students. I have been very hope-
ful that this condition would have been
remedied long ago.

“With the improvements we have
placed at our brick-yard this year I
feel safe in saying that a building like
that for the boys could be erected for
girls at a cost of $15,000. A dormi-
tory for seventy-five or eighty girls
could be built for from $10,000 to
$12,500.”

FOR a woman of North Africa to
dare assert her opinion or to think
for herself is considered rebellious
against her husband and God. “You
are a woman and have long hair and
small understanding, therefore you
rely on your husband’s judgment in all
things.” So declares the Moslem.

THE CRY OF A SMALL FLOCK

By the Rev. P. C. Kdwakami

INE years ago, that is on the
25th of April, 1906, I had re-
ceived an order from Bishop
McKim to take mission work in Ha-
chioji and its vicinity. The town had
been worked very earnestly by Evan-
gelical Church, Dutch Reformed, Con-
gregational Church, Salvation army
and other sects since twenty years,
but they gave up their work on the
half-way. The people were very in-
different with religion. Not only that
the town being a famous place for the
textile industry, having nearly 5,000
labours, were lost to virtue and true
faith. I who had not much experi-
ence on the mission work could not
help feeling the burden is too heavy.
However, I went there on the fourth
of May with courage, obeying the
command.

The first problem which should be
settled at once was “how and where
should be a church established?” But
having ho friends to talk to about it
I put up myself in a hotel and told
to the owner what I came for and
asked him to recommend a proper
house to suit the purpose. Under his
guidance I went around the town and
could not find a good house except
one which is very small. Next day
I moved there and declared to every-
body whom I met that the mission
work is begun. Since then about a
year Rev. Mr. Tai came from Kawa-
goe and held holy communion for us
couple. This was only public prayer
we could attend during this time and
every sun day. I was a minister and
my wife was a congregation. That
was all and no other persons there.
Afterwards, except one holy com-
munion a month every other week I
held a meeting for preaching doctrine
at night. Several students hearing of
this meeting attended every time we

held, and three of them became a
catechumen studying Christianity very
earnestly. And we changed our serv-
ice one a week instead once every
other week. They were very earnest
congregation. They were baptized
April 12, 1909. And they were con-
secrated by Bishop McKim on the
17th of October the same year. They
were our first fruits in our church.
Hereafter we had our service every
sun day regularly morning and even-
ing and our congregation increasing
by degree were numbered fifteen or
sixteen and showed a sign of progress.
That is the third year we got four
baptized, fourth year six, the fifth
year one, the sixth year four, the
seventh year one, the eighth year nine,
and the ninth year six and two cate-
chumen, and all together counting one
came from another church we have
forty-five members in our church and
increased our attendance every sun
day. During nine years we had Rev.
Messrs. Tai, Walke and Reifsnider
respectively, and they worked very
earnestly. From the Easter of this
year we named our church Resurrec-
tion Church. Now it is very neces-
sary for us to build a new church. If
we have a nice and great building it
is very obvious that we can easily get
more congregation in this city that
has population more than 40,000.
Morever lately they think that Chris-
tianity is very important to people.
Since April this year we are deposit-
ing money. Each member is full of
self-governing spirit and gives mis-
cellaneous expenses besides certain
amount which is contributed to the
mission as clergy’s salary fund. We
do not wish to ask other’s assistance
idly but it is above our small power
to have a church and property in near
future.

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A NEW MEXICO COUNTY THAT MAY
BECOME A PARISH

By the Rev. B. H. Eckel

A NOVEL and remarkable mis-
sionary meeting of Church-
women, not yet reported in any
of the Church papers, was held in
Mesilla Park, New Mexico (the Rev.
Hunter Lewis, missionary-in-charge),
on the seventh of June. Though called
at first merely a “get-together meet-
ing,” it developed into, and took the
name of a “Convocation of Church-
women of Dona Ana County.” Forty-
one women were present, representing
all the organized missions in the coun-
ty, namely: St. James’s, Mesilla Park;
St. Andrew’s, Las Cruces ; St. Luke’s,
La Union (P. O., Canutillo, Texas) ;
St. Augustine’s, Organ ; and St.
John’s, La Mesa. Mrs. George Rout-
ledge, of El Paso, diocesan president
of the Woman’s Auxiliary, presided.

This meeting was an outgrowth of
the organization in the winter of
branches of the Woman’s Auxiliary
and Junior Auxiliary composed of
Mesilla Park and Las Cruces people.
A corporate Communion was held in
the morning, at which a short address
was made by the Rev. Mr. Lewis. The
afternoon session is described as being
“a real missionary meeting,” and an
important feature of it was an instruc-
tive explanation of the scope and meth-
ods of work of the Woman’s Auxil-
iary,— new to many of those present.

The “convocation” decided to ef-
fect a permanent organization for the
study of missions and the promotion
of missionary work in Dona Ana
county, and to meet twice a year. The
next meeting will be at La Union in
November. Dona Ana county is about
seventy by sixty miles in extent. The
Rev. Mr. Lewis is the missionary of
the entire county, and ministers regu-
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named, besides holding services at San
Marcial and Rincon, thus serving
along the Rio Grande valley for about
150 miles. He hopes, and is aiming,
to create eventually a single self-sup-
porting parish embracing the churches
of Dona Ana county, with Mesilla
Park as the center. This town,
though a very small place of only a
few hundred inhabitants, is the seat
of a state agricultural and mechanical
college, and we have here an excep-
tionally beautiful and well-appointed
yellow-brick church, a parish-house,
and a rectory. Mr. Lewis has long
exercised an unusual personal influ-
ence upon the student body. The
vested choir is composed largely of
young men from the college, and
many of the students have been led
to confirmation.

The recent extension of missionary
activity in the county, and the prom-
ise of the unification of this field into
a real parish, are due to the gift of an
automobile to the missionary by per-
sonal friends in the East. He calls his
machine “the mission car.” After two
Sunday services in Mesilla Park he is
able now to go to Organ, a little mining
town at the foot of the Organ moun-
tains, eighteen miles away, now being
operated by the Phelps-Dodge Copper
Co., where he has a congregation of
seventy-five people in the afternoon,
and then returns for night service in
Mesilla Park. The services of the
Episcopal Church are the only public
worship in the town, and at present
they are held in a public school house.
Although the town has been in exist-
ence fifteen years, the first Com-
munion service ever celebrated there
was held on Low Sunday. By a re-
cent social event the people have raised
$12 towards a church building — the

News and Notes

first money in hand for the object —
which they turned over to the mis-
sionary on June 7th, the date of the
“Convocation of Churchwomen.”

At La Union a lot has been given
and about $500 towards the erection
of a church to cost $1,300.

1 he development of this unique
rural parish, designed to embrace a
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state of Delaware or the Diocese of
Pennsylvania, in an as yet sparsely
settled but growing state and mission-
ary district, will be watched with pe-
culiar interest by the Church in other
parts of the land. It is an exception-
ally interesting example of a courage-
ous and wisely planned missionary
enterprise, and seems to contain the
promise of ultimate achievement.

NEWS AND NOTES

THE summer Conference of
Church Workers in the Province
of New York and New Jersey met at
Hobart College, Geneva, N. Y., July
5 to 15. It proved to be the largest
and best Conference yet held. Bishop
Fiske, Coadjutor of Central New
York, and Bishop Stearly, Suffragan
of Newark, were present, and each
acted as pastors of the Conference for
part of the session ; both united in the
services on Sunday the ninth. Among
the lecturers were Dr. Tomkins of
Philadelphia, Dr. Gray, Educational
Secretary of the Board of Missions,
Mr. Ferris of Rochester, Mr. Crouch
of the Social Service Commission, and
others. Thirteen study classes formed
the chief feature of the Conference,
the first two hours of the morning be-
ing given to this purpose. They were
admirably attended and proved in-
tensely interesting. General sessions
for discussion on vital topics were held
and recreation was not forgotten.
Two hundred and thirty-two people
were registered during the session.
The next session will be held in the
same place, July 2 to 13, 1917.

*

THE Commencement of St. Augus-
tine’s School, Raleigh, N. C., was
held on Wednesday, May 31. There
were three graduates in the Collegiate
and ten in the Normal course, and six
nurses received diplomas for the com-
pletion of two and one-half years of
studies. This will hereafter be
lengthened to three years. At the

meeting of the Board of Trustees on
May 31, steps were taken to raise
the collegiate standard of the school,
looking forward to the time when it
shall be proper to grant degrees.

The Commencement address was
delivered by Dr. Talcott Williams, di-
rector of the Pulitzer School of Jour-
nalism of Columbia University. Dr.
Williams also addressed a crowded
gathering in the court-house in
Raleigh on the same night in com-
pany with the Hon. William G. Mc-
Adoo, Secretary of the Treasury, both
of whom were guests of the Raleigh
Chamber of Commerce.

The Rev. Edgar H. Goold has been
elected Principal of St. Augustine’s
School, and the Rev. A. B. Hunter,
Honorary Principal. Mr. and Mrs.
Hunter will continue to work at the
school with which they have been con-
nected for over twenty-eight years.

During the past year there have been
431 students divided as follows: Col-
legiate, 24; Normal, 13; Preparatory
and Practice School, 363; Nurses, 31.

Nine teachers have given their time
to the work of industrial training and
over 2,000 hours each week have been
given to industrial work and over
2,000 hours to industrial training.

HE Rev. Shirley H. Nichols, of
our Tokyo mission, and Miss
Hasu Gardiner, a member of the
staff of St. Agnes’ School, Kyoto,
were married on June 20th and sailed
on the 22d for this country.

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News and Notes

ON June 10, there died at his home
in London the Rev. R. Ward-
law Thompson, D.D., retired secretary
of the London Missionary Society.
Dr. Thompson was the son of a mis-
sionary to Africa, and served as the
secretary of the London Missionary
Society since 1881. On account of
failing health, he resigned the active
work of secretary a year or so ago,
but retained his connection with the
Executive Committee. He was highly
honored, not only in his own Com-
munion (Congregational) on both
sides of the Atlantic, but was pro-
foundly respected by all Communions
in Great Britain and upon the conti-
nent. He was known as the Nestor
among European missionary secre-
taries.

*

A mid-Western bishop says:

IF I get an opportunity I should like
to say this to the people who give,
and to the Board that administers the
gifts: When you send a missionary
to a heathen people in China or Africa
you do not expect the heathen to sup-
port the missionary from the outset —
as it wouldn’t be reasonable. Now
that is exactly our position here. Our
heathen don’t want us, don’t see why
we come, have tried various experi-
ments in religion, and are sick of
them all. They are content to doubt
everything, to be material, animal.
They don’t know their need of con-
version, and, poor souls, they don’t
know what conversion is. Is it rea-
sonable to expect them to support the
clergy? There is only one answer.

*

SOME years ago a city missionary
in Boston met a prominent gentle-
man who said : “Looking over my ex-
pense account I found the following
item: Pug terrier, $10; and the next
line, City Missionary Society, $5. I
have not felt quite easy about the mat-
ter ever since, and I want to give you
another $5.”

Has your Parish a complete file of
The Spirit of Missions? If not,
why not begin to secure one now ?
Ask the rector to publish a request for
back volumes and odd copies in the
parish paper. Collect all that you can
in this way and then get in touch with
us and we will see what we can do
for you. We have a number of back
volumes which we are willing to sell
at a nominal price.

Miss Harriet M. Bedell, our missionary at
Whirlwind, Oklahoma, writes:

I HAVE just returned from Chilacco
where a splendid class of seventeen
young Indians was confirmed. We are
now planning and beginning our sum-
mer camp, visiting among our blanket
Indians. It is all very interesting and
full of opportunities in spreading
Christ’s Kingdom.

*>

THE Conference for Church Work
held at Cambridge, Mass., June
23- July 8, was the most successful in
the history of this gathering. Eight
bishops in all were in attendance :
Bishops Parker of New Hampshire
and Perry of Rhode Island acted as
the pastors of the conference; Bishops
Brent of the Philippines and Roots
of Hankow each gave a course of lec-
tures, while Bishops Brewster of
Maine, Rhinelander of Pennsylvania
and G. Mott Williams of Marquette,
together with Bishop Lawrence, the
diocesan, by their presence and par-
ticipation showed their interest in the
work of the conference, which in-
cluded courses on religious education
and social service, as well as missions.
The number of registrations was
largely in excess of that of last year,
forty-eight organists and choirmasters
from all parts of the country being in
attendance on the Summer School for
Church Music under the leadership of
Mr. R. G. Appel. For information as
to next year’s conference, apply to
Miss M. DeC. Ward, 415 Beacon
Street, Boston, Mass.

OUR LETTER BOX

Intimate and Informal Messages from the Field

A chaplain of one of the New York regiments
now in Texas, who is a clergyman of the Church,
and to whom a Communion service had been
loaned for his use, writes under date of July 11:

YOU will be glad to know that at
the celebration of the Holy Com-
munion on Sunday at 5.45 A. M., at
which your chalice and paten were
used, almost the entire regiment was
present, and between 100 and 200 men
took the Communion. My fondest
expectations as to usefulness have been
surpassed. The interest in the serv-
ices, the eagnerness of the men to
consult and talk seriously with the
chaplain, the appreciation by the men
of my efforts to get their letters to
them promptly, and the gratitude of
the men in the hospital for the atten-
tion I can give them, are all very won-
derful. Men have come to me to say
that they want to prepare for confir-
mation, to tell me about their families,
and numberless other concerns in
which they are deeply interested.

*

Not all the shadows have been taken out of the
lives of the women of China by the establishment
of the republic. Progress has undoubtedly been
made, but the social customs of years are not
quickly transformed, as appears from the follow-
ing extract from the letter of a missionary:

IF Dante were to rewrite his most
famous book he would probably
have the critics of missions given a
second birth into Chinese families.
One of our servants is the daughter
of a lantern-maker, a small shop-
keeper and not of the very poor. The
mother drowned with her own hands
six out of her nine daughters. The
burden of caring for their hair and of
binding their feet, even more than the
expense, was her reason. She drowned
them quickly in infancy, to be sure,
before she had got to love them too
much. She might indeed have sold
them into slavery. But that is where

the respectable Chinese draw the line.
It is more humane to drown them.
Our servant, who was spared by
special intercession of her father, is
an excellent woman and is now a
Christian. Her own daughter is a
Christian school-teacher.

Here not only are many girls sold
into slavery but many others are mar-
ried into something little better. The
daughter of a heathen next door
neighbor, I remember, was to have
been married last year to a man, of
course, not of her own choosing.
About one month before the wedding
she took nearly the only possible
means of escape, suicide in the neigh-
borhood well.

♦F

Miss Fanny M. Earl, of Hartford, Conn., a long-
time reader of The Spirit of Missions, in renew-
ing her subscription, sends this interesting com-
ment:

THE June number of Spirit of
Missions is of special interest to
me, as my parents moved to Ottawa,
111., in 1844, and I well remember
Bishop Chase. When a mission was
started in the town, about 1846-7,
Bishop Chase would tell the congrega-
tion when to stand up, when to sit
down and when to kneel. As a child,
it made an impression on me. Some
time in the ’30s, I think, his nephew,
Dr. Samuel Chase, had been in Ot-
tawa, and had a mission. I don’t know
how much the old bishop weighed, but
I distinctly remember seeing him alone
in the Rev. C. V. Kelly’s carry-all,
driving to church. There was no
room for any one else ! Bishop
Whitehouse confirmed me, and I was
always a great admirer of him. He
was not understood by many, but a
kinder heart never beat.

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558

Our Letter Box

A young woman who is deeply interested in our
Mountain Mission work sends us the following
picturesque statement of an existing need:

EVERY one knows the story of the
beggar, who asked for a shirt to
be sewed on his button, and here is a
somewhat similar case. The workers
at the Mission of St. John the Baptist,
Ivy Depot, in the Ragged Mountains
of Virginia, have been presented with
a door-knocker and are trying their
best to build a house on it. For years
they have lived upstairs in two rooms
in a farm house, in which they do their
own work and to which they must
bring their own wood and water.
They are most anxious to build a
bungalow' near the Church in order
properly to carry on their social and
religious work among the moun-
taineers. The. site will be given by
one man and the people are getting so
interested in the idea that the men
promise to make a road up to the
house ; one man says he will make a
kitchen table, another a cabinet for
the Victrola records, another a mail
box, and still another man has prom-
ised to make a book shelf as soon as
he knows the size of the rooms, and
his wife wishes to stain it. The bun-
galow will cost $1,200, of which $948
is in hand, and any sum, small or
large, will be most thankfully re-
ceived, and can be sent to Miss Anna
Williamson, care Archdeacon Neve,
R. F. D. No. 2, Ivy Depot, Virginia.

The Rev. Allan L. Burleson, writing from Gua-
dalajara, Mexico, on May 6th, sends $5.00 gold,
saying:

THIS represents the proceeds of
nineteen pigs ; for we here use
pottery pigs instead of mite boxes,
which have never been sent to us. The
offerings in the nineteen pigs amount-
ed to $135.75 (pesos) paper currency,
or an average of $7.14 per pig. I think
this is a pretty high average, for all
the children are from families not
well-to-do, some of them very poor.
And a peso to these children is as
much as a dollar to the children in the
States.

A member of a branch of the Woman’s Aux-
iliary writes:

I THOUGHT perhaps you might
like to know what one branch of
the Auxiliary did toward helping to
get a house for Dr. Chapman, our
missionary at Anvik, Alaska. At a
meeting of our branch I mentioned
Archdeacon Stuck’s appeal for Dr.
Chapman, and though we had a small
meeting, the members took it up with
interest and we sent on $14 toward it.
Now, of course, I know that is a very
small sum, but it occurred to me that
if many branches did likewise, the old
saying that “Many a mickle makes a
muckle” would be realized, and even
if it was only $1,000 of the $5,000
asked for, that our Auxiliary in the
whole United States could give, it
would be quite a material aid.

♦V

The Rev. Douglas I. Hobbs, priest in charge of
Trinity Parish, Winchester, Tennessee, sends a
Sunday School offering of $50.00 accompanied by
the following statement:

THIS is a small mission, with only
about forty communicants and a
Sunday-school of one and a-half
dozen children. Of this offering, $28
came from a poor colored girl, every
cent of it earned by her own labor.
This girl, Edna Houghton, is only
about seventeen years old and is the
servant in a family of country people.
She is the only colored communicant
belonging to the mission, and lives five
miles in the country, but she never
misses a service. Do you think this
might appeal to some one else as an
illustration of the fact that “When
there is a will there will be a way” ?

**♦

With a gift of $2, sent early in July, comes
the following:

I AM pleased to be allowed to make
this small offering. I am rather
past earning much and have only what
our great generous government gives
her Old Soldiers for their past serv-
ices. I have always been a “mission-
ary man,” and have set apart from my
monthly income a small payment for
missions regularly, for some years.

HOW IT WAS DONE

By the Rev. Charles IV. Shreiner

SEVERAL years ago the scholars
of the Church School of the
Church of the Atonement, Phila-
delphia, gave to missions the sum of
$53. The following year they gave
$160; 1910, $300; 1911, $500; 1912,
$550; 1913, $600; 1914, $750; 1915,
$850, and in 1916, $1,400.

The plan that made possible the in-
crease from $53.00 to $1,400.00 in
seven years is the subject of this
paper. To be accurate, I must use a
word that many of us abhor, and that
word is “apportionment;” but it has
been through the apportionment to the
classes that our school has been able
to present this wonderful offering at
Easter, 1916.

We started by giving the strongest
classes — strong in numbers and effi-
ciency— an apportionment of $25.
Classes of the same number, but of
younger scholars, $20, and so on
down, the lowest being $10. There
were quite a number at that amount.
When Easter came a careful record
was kept and a comparison made of
what the classes were apportioned and
what they gave ; then at the first busi-
ness meeting of the teachers after
Easter the new apportionment was
made for the next year, with the idea
in mind that the total number of
classes was to increase the total offer-
ing $100. In other words, that year
they gave $300, and the next year they
were to give $400.

We asked the teachers how much of
the extra $100 they would make them-
selves responsible for, bearing in mind
the success that they had for that
year. We found the class that was
apportioned $25 was willing to try $35
for the next year, and the class that
was apportioned $20 was willing to
try $25. The class that was appor-

tioned $10 was willing to try $12.50
next year. All new classes coming
into the school to start at $10. The
result was that instead of giving $400,
as they were expected, they gave $500,
an increase of $200 over the year be-
fore ; and so each year the classes have
attempted to do better. Last year the
apportionment was $700 and the
school gave $850. This year the ap-
portionment was $1,000, and we gave
$1,400. There are now four indi-
vidual classes giving $100 or more
apiece, others $75, and so on down to
the new classes at $10, each giving ac-
cording to its ability.

I can very well imagine some one
asking: “Where did the money come
from?” May I answer: From four
sources — duplex envelopes, extra ef-
fort, the mite boxes and the mission
store.

Duplex envelopes are provided for
every pupil in the school, with the ex-
ception of the members of the kinder-
garten. One side is for contributions
to school expenses, the other for mis-
sions. The pupils are instructed by
their teachers to divide their offering
evenly — those who give two cents put-
ting one cent in each side of their en-
velopes. The six and seven-year-old
children in the primary department
understand the system quite as clearly
as their parents in the Bible classes,
and almost without exception hand in
their envelopes regularly, a penny or
more in each side. When the school
closes in June for the summer months,
the pupils are urged to put their offer-
ing in the envelopes Sunday by Sun-
day, and to turn them in when school
opens in September. Year before last
sixty pupils turned in every envelope
during the year, last year ninety, and
this year one hundred and twenty.

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560

How It Was Done

The missionary offering this Easter
from the envelopes amounted to $350.

“Extra effort” is a term which we
apply to such activities as cake and
candy sales, or lectures given by one
or more classes to help make up their
apportionment. All “extra effort”
must be made before Lent begins.
This rule has been made to prevent
a money-making spirit pervading the
school during Lent. Last year one
class of boys sold Christmas trees to
their friends and relatives ; several
lectures were given in the parish house
during the winter, and a series of five
cake sales was held on Saturday
afternoons in January and February.
The returns from this source in 1916
amounted to $350.

Mite boxes are distributed to each
child at the beginning of Lent and col-
lected on Palm Sunday. In addition
to this, however, purple boxes are pro-
vided immediately after Easter to
all those pupils and teachers who are
willing to take one of these to be used
during the entire year. In some cases
a class takes one box to be used in
common, bringing their extra offerings
to Church School on Sunday and
placing them in the box, which the
teacher cares for. The sum of $575
was turned- in from all mite boxes
this year.

The mission store is conducted for
the months of January, February and
March, the store keeper being one of
the teachers of the school ; the sales-
men being the scholars ; the customers
being parents, or any one who will
buy ; and the articles of sale being
matches, clothes-pins, candles, wash-
cloths, bath-towels and bath mats. The
store is open Tuesday afternoons and
Saturday mornings for the salesmen
to get their supplies. All money is re-
turned to the storekeeper, who keeps
an account for each scholar and each
class, and then, ten days before Easter,
pays the bills and deposits the profits
with the treasurer of the school for
the benefit of Missions. I might add

that we only buy and sell articles of
merchandise on which we can make a
profit of 100 per cent. This year the
store cleared $125.

The secretary of the school keeps in
close touch with these four endeavors,
giving credit to each scholar and to
each class for any money that is
earned from any or all of these efforts.

Our school is self-supporting. For
the last six years not a penny has
been given by the vestry for the sup-
port of the school, but through the
duplex envelopes the school has been
raising from $500 to $800 a year to
maintain itself and to defray the run-
ning expenses of the parish house.
Thus we are in some measure experi-
encing the fulfillment of Jacob Riis’
declaration, made years ago, when he
said that for every dollar sent to the
heathen God gave us $10 worth of
purpose for our work at home.

When our 400 scholars determined,
in the spring of 1915, to raise $1,000
this year, we agreed that such a sum
was the limit of our school's ability.
On Easter night, when we presented
over $1,400, we realized that we had
been mistaken; $1,000 was not the
limit of our ability, and next year we
are hoping to do something even more
worth while — this in spite of the fact
that our children are not blessed with
much of this world’s goods. Their
Easter offering represents work, thrift
and sacrifice, and our children surely
know what those three words mean.

SOME one has been analyzing the
names in “Who's Who in Amer-
ica,” and he has found that one name
in twelve is that of a minister’s son,
and that such names are eighteen
times as numerous as those of the sons
of other professional men. Then a
study of the names of men who have
been famous in English history shows
that the sons of ministers number
1,270; the sons of lawyers, 510; and
the sons of doctors, 350.

i>oto 0m Cfjurcf) Came to <0ur Country

XI. HOW OUR CHURCH CAME TO TENNESSEE

By the Rev. E. Clozves Chorley J D.D.

ABOUT the year 1769 a small
group of farmers from South-
western Virginia settled on the
banks of the Watauga River, in a part
of the country which had been ceded
to England by the treaty of Fort Stan-
wix. When the settlement was ef-
fected it was supposed that the terri-
tory was under the government of
Virginia, whereas it was actually with-
in the limits of North Carolina. Under
these circumstances the immigrants
formed the “Watauga Association,'’
and wrote their own constitution. In
1777 the district was annexed by
North Carolina and known as Wash-
ington County. For a brief period
this was succeeded by an organization
known as the State of Franklin, with
John Sevier as Governor. In 1790
Kentucky and Tennessee were united
as “the Territory South of the Ohio.”
Four years later the latter became an
independent State and was admitted
to the Union in 1796.

/. Church Beginnings in
Tennessee

The founder of the Church in Ten-
nessee was James Hervey Otey, who
afterwards became its first and much-
loved bishop. He was one of the
twelve children of Isaac Otey, a Vir-
ginia farmer and member of the
House of Burgesses. Rudiments of
education James received in what was
then known as an “old field school,”
from which he passed in turn to an
academy at Bedford and the Univer-
sity of North Carolina. His coal-black,
straight hair, and his height of six
feet and four inches, earned for him
the nickname of “Cherokee.”

Shortly after his graduation in 1820
he was appointed to a classical tutor-
ship in the university. It became part
of his duty to conduct the daily
prayers in the college chapel, a task
which he found increasingly irksome.
Relief came in the shape of a present
of a copy of the Book of Common
Prayer. Using it at first in the chapel
he was led to study its contents. Study
led to admiration ; admiration to con-
viction, and to the end of his life he
loved to be called “a Prayer Book
Churchman.” At the expiration of
his tutorship Otey married and re-
moved to Franklin, Tenn., where he
opened a school for boys. At the end
of eighteen months he went back to
North Carolina and took charge of a
school at Warrenton. The parish of
Warrenton was then served by a
young deacon, William Mer’cer Green,
who had been a classmate of Otey’s

ST. JOHN’S CHURCH, ASHWOOD
Built by Bishop Polk and his three brothers

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How Our Church Came to Our Country

at the university. The combined in-
fluence of Green and the great Bishop
of North Carolina, Ravenscroft, led
Otey into the Church. He was bap-
tized by his college friend, and after-
wards confirmed by the bishop in 1824.
He immediately commenced his prep-
aration for Holy Orders and was ad-
mitted by Bishop Ravenscroft on the
tenth day of October, 1825.

Immediately after his ordination he
returned to Tennessee and reopened
his school at Franklin, about eighteen
miles from Nashville. To the care
of this school he at once added the
establishment of regular Church serv-
ices, which were held in the lower
room of the Masonic Hall. The soil
was hard and uncongenial. What is
known to history as ‘‘the Great Re-
vival” had swept through the State
and left behind it a strong prejudice
against any form of liturgical wor-
ship. In after days the bishop de-
lighted to tell of overhearing a raw-
boned native say to a companion :
“Come, let’s go and hear that man
preach and his wife jaw back at
him an allusion to the fact that Mrs.
Otey was, the only one in the congre-
gation to make the responses. Unde-
terred by the fact that there was not
a single communicant of the Church,
outside his own family, in the entire
State, the young deacon buckled on
his armor and preached the word in
season and out of season. In addi-
tion to his services at Franklin he
rode horseback to Nashville on alter-
nate Saturdays and preached to a
congregation of six persons, two only
of whom were communicants.

In 1826 the attention of the Domes-
tic Committee of the Missionary So-
ciety, which was then but six years
old, was drawn to Tennessee, and the
Rev. John Davis was directed to visit
the State where it was believed that
many promising fields were open. In
a letter dated November 12, 1827,
Mr. Davis reports concerning the
work at Knoxville; “I organized a

church on Easter Monday.” He
preached twice on Sundays ; in the
morning to a small number, but in the
afternoon to a congregation which
taxed the capacity of the Court House.
He adds: “They have sometimes

talked of building a church” — a proj-
ect which, however, was long delayed.
During a four weeks’ vacation Mr.
Davis visited Kingston, Columbia,
Nashville and Franklin, in all of which
places he found some old Episcopa-
lians who rejoiced once again to join
in the services of the Church. At
Columbia he reports the presence of a
number of families of wealth and in-
fluence who “would receive a mission-
ary very joyfully and treat him with
great kindness.” At Franklin he
found an interesting congregation, and
notes that “they even talk of procur-
ing an organ this winter.” At Nash-
ville prospects were not so encourag-
ing. The unworthiness of a tempo-
rary ministerial supply had worked
great injury ; so much so, that “the
prospects of the Church are quite
blasted for the present.”

The work at Knoxville did not de-
velop as Mr. Davis hoped. The people
were engrossed with politics to the ex-
clusion of all interest in religion. Not
one dollar was contributed to minis-
terial support, and the prospects of a
church building were so remote that
the missionary decided to remove to
Columbia, where, with the assistance
of Mr. Otey, a congregation was or-
ganized “under auspicious circum-
stances.” Nashville was visited twice,
and to that important point Mr. Davis
transferred his residence. The vestry,
which had been for some time inac-
tive, resumed its responsibilities and
the congregation increased consider-
ably during the winter. In 1829 the
vestry reported twelve or fourteen
Church families and a congregation
of forty to fifty persons. Mr. Davis
suffered from persistent ill-health,
and on November 15, 1829, left Ten-
nessee for Alabama.

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563

Mr. Otey, meanwhile, having been
advanced to the priesthood turned to
his old bishop, Ravenscroft, with an
urgent request to make an episcopal
visitation to the scattered congrega-
tions in Tennessee. The bishop ar-
rived at Nashville at the end of June,
1829, and brought with him the Rev.
Daniel Stephens, D.D., who immedi-
ately opened a school at Columbia and
became rector of the newly organized
parish of St. Peter’s in that town.
Bishop Ravenscroft did not shrink
from administering sharp discipline to
the erring minister at Nashville, and
promptly suspended him from the ex-
ercise of his office. Though this was
at first resented by the vestry, further
reflection convinced them of the jus-
tice of the act, and a considerable sum
of money was raised for a church
building and the sum of $800 per an-
num was pledged for a clergyman.

During the bishop’s visit the diocese
of Tennessee was organized. The
Convention met in the Masonic Hall,
Nashville, July 1 and 2. The three
clergymen — Otey, Davis and Stephens
— were present, and six laymen. Four
parishes were received into the union
with the diocese: Christ, Nashville;
St. Peter’s, Columbia ; St. Paul’s,
Franklin, and St. John’s, Knoxville.
There were about fifty communicants
in the whole diocese. Not one of the
churches had its own building. In
December of that year the Rev.
George Weller, who had served as
secretary of the Domestic and Foreign
Missionary Society, was appointed to
Nashville, and shortly afterwards
established a Sunday-school. The
corner-stone of a church to cost $1,600
was laid on July 5, 1830, and the build-
ing was consecrated by Bishop Meade
of Virginia, July 6, 1831. During the
visitation of Bishop Meade he laid
the corner-stone of the churches at
Franklin and Columbia. The follow-
ing year a visitation was made by
Bishop Ives, successor to Ravenscroft
in North Carolina. It was memorable

for the fact that John Chilton and
Samuel George Litton were ordained
to the sacred ministry. These were the
first ordinations in Tennessee. At the
Convention held during the bishop’s
visit, Trinity Church, Clarksville, was
admitted into the union.

II. Bishop Otey
The year 1833 was notable for the
diocese. In June of that year the dio-
cesan convention convened at Frank-
lin and proceeded to elect a bishop.
There were present the eight clergy-
men at work in the diocese and nine
laymen. The choice fell upon James
Hervey Otey, the pioneer missionary
of the State. He was consecrated in
Christ Church, Philadelphia, on Janu-
ary 14, 1834. Bishop George Wash-

RT. REV. JAMES II. OTEY, D.D., LL.D.

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How Our Church Came to Our Country

ington Doane preached a noble ser-
mon in the course of which he pointed
out that :

“Here is a bishop who has never had
a church to preach in, and has never
yet had a living at the altar, but has
been obliged to labor for his chil-
dren’s bread in the laborious though
most honorable vocation of teaching;
spending five days out of seven in a
school, and for years has not had a
month’s recreation.”

Bishop Otey entered upon a dif-
ficult work, but his faith and courage
never faltered. At the outset of his
episcopate there were in the diocese
five priests and three deacons, and
about 117 communicants. Conditions
severely limited the possibilities of
quick advancement. For fifteen years
confirmations did not exceed fifty per
annum, and in 1844 the diocese had
only 400 communicants. In 1834
there was only one church building — •
Christ, Nashville — but that same year
St. Peter’s, Columbia, and St. Paul’s,
Franklin, were opened. Trinity,
Clarksville, was added in 1838.

But there was “the sound of the
wind in the tops of the mulberry
trees.” In January, 1833, the Rev.
John H. Norinent settled at Knoxville
where the congregation had nominally
existed for five years. He found the
greatest difficulty in securing even a
temporary place of worship, but even-
tually secured an upper room in the
court house where he preached to
gradually increasing congregations.
The population of Knoxville was then
about 2,000, and the nearest Episco-
pal minister was two hundred miles
distant. Mr. Norment was succeeded
by a young deacon, Forbes, under
whose ministry the congregation in-
creased three-fold. In 1836 there were
four communicants. In the immediate
future the work languished through
lack of a minister, and in 1844 Albert
Miller Lee, a professor in the East
Tennessee University, was the only
communicant left. The work was re-

established about 1844 by the Rev.
Charles Tomes, and a building was
fitted up as a chapel. The following
year the corner-stone of St. John’s
Church was laid by the bishop, and
it was consecrated by him in 1848.

In 1833 three devoted missionaries
entered upon work in what was known
as West Tennessee. This was a vast
district, occupied for the most part
by people wTho had migrated from
North Carolina and Virginia. Otey
testified that many of them were
originally Churchmen. Some in de-
spair had attached themselves to other
bodies, but “others, looking for conso-
lation in their Bibles and Prayer
Books, have stood here, solitary but
solemn mementoes of the Church of
their fathers, and have continued to
hope against hope that God would at
last hear their sighs and groans.” To
the northern part of this country went
the Rev. Samuel G. Litton, and estab-
lished the work at Paris and Hunt-
ingdon. Mr. Wright and Mr. Chilton
went out together for a time and
found good success. The latter or-
ganized St. Luke’s Parish, Jackson,
and Zion, Brownsville, in each of
which places services were held in the
Masonic Hall. Mr. Wright preached
at La Grange and organized Emanuel
Church. On August 3, 1833, he ar-
rived at Memphis, and the following
day officiated in the academy. On the
6th, Calvary Church was organized.
He says of Memphis: “Memphis has
about 1,200 inhabitants, and it is
thought by some persons that it will
in a few years number many thou-
sand.’’ A little later he writes that
“the vestry are resolved to build a
house of worship with as little delay
as possible, and as an earnest of it,
the senior warden has engaged to give
half the necessary lumber.” A frame
building which served as a rectory and
a chapel was erected, and in 1844 Cal-
vary Church was consecrated by
Bishop Otey. It is described as a
very plain building. “The communion

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565

table was raised high on quite a wide
platform. The pulpit and reading-
desk were odd enough to be funny ;
they looked like pockets on a school-
girl’s apron — just two little balconies
high up on the wall, with little doors
behind. The stairway leading to these
was outside from the vestry.” Though
Memphis grew by leaps and bounds
this was the only Episcopal Church
for several years. Towards the close
of 1852 Bishop Otey removed from
Franklin to Memphis, which had then
a population of about ten thousand.
One of the objects of this removal
was the organization of another par-
ish. In his journal of December 12,
1852, the bishop records the begin-
nings of this new work :

“This morning at 11 a. m., I com-
menced celebrating the worship of
God in ‘High-tower Hall,’ a room over
an oyster-saloon, and having also a
dancing-academy in an adjacent apart-
ment. The hall is to be used as a
billiard-room during the week, while
it is appropriated to Divine Worship
on Sunday. The association is cer-
tainly by no means desirable. But it
seems that we can do no better; and
the question arises : Shall we worship
in the house of Rimmon, or not wor-
ship at all ?”

As a result of this effort Grace
Church was organized, and St.
Mary’s Chapel, in another part of the
city, was consecrated in 1858.

It is impossible to follow the vary-
ing fortunes of the Church in the
State in any detail. Discouragements
were many, and progress was slow.
Some of the parishes were dormant,
and others went on for years before
they obtained church buildings. In
1833 Leonidas Polk settled at Co-
lumbia and remained there until his
election as Missionary Bishop of the
Southwest Territory in 1838. To the
care of his extensive diocese Bishop
Otey added, for a time, Mississippi,
Arkansas and the Indian Territory,
and journeyed thousands of miles.

III. The War and After

The Diocesan Convention of 1861
met at Somerville just one month after
the outbreak of the Civil War. That
memorable conflict had a disastrous
effect upon the Church in Tennessee.
Parochial buildings were turned into
store-houses, stables, barracks and
hospitals. Many of the parishes were
vacated and not a few of the clergy
served in the Confederate army as
chaplains. The strain proved too
much for the weakened frame of the
bishop, and on April 23, 1863, he
entered into rest, faintly whispering
the words of the Lord’s Prayer.

Not until 1865 were the scattered
forces of the diocese able to gather
for corporate counsel, and on Thurs-
day, September 7, the Rev. Charles
Todd Quintard, M.D., was elected as
the successor of Bishop Otey. Born
in Connecticut in 1824, the new bishop
was a graduate of Columbia College,
and obtained the degree of M.D. from
New York University. For a time he
practiced medicine at Athens, Ga. In
1851 he removed to Memphis and
there became a close friend of Bishop
Otey, by whom he was influenced to
enter the ministry. His diaconate was
spent doing hard missionary work in
Tipton County; on his advancement
to the priesthood he became rector of

BISHOP QUINTARD

566

How Our Church Came to Our Country

Calvary Church, Memphis, and after-
wards of the Church of the Advent,
Nashville. On the outbreak of the
war he became chaplain of the First
Tennessee Regiment, and served in
that capacity for four years. His
graphic story of his experiences was
published in 1905 under the editorship
of the Rev. Arthur Howard Noll. He
entered on the difficult work of re-
organizing the Church in Tennessee
with an ardor and enthusiasm which
never abated. A preacher of command-
ing ability, a profound believer in the
principles of the Tractarian Move-
ment, gifted with a winning personal-
ity, and a tireless worker, he restored
the years that the locust had eaten.
In the work for the negroes he took a
strong personal interest, and always
insisted upon confirming the black
man with the white, although severely
criticised for so doing. He justified
his action by quoting the words of
Bishop Coxe:

“Our mother, the Church, hath never
a child

To honor before the rest,

But she singeth the' same for mighty
kings

And the veriest babe on her breast;
And the bishop goes down to his nar-
row bed

As a ploughman’s child is laid,

And alike she blesseth the dark-
browed serf

And the chief in his robe arrayed.”

For thirty-four years Bishop Quin-
tard ruled his diocese prudently. His
efforts to secure the division of the
diocese and the creation of a new dio-
cese for West Tennessee failed to se-
cure the consent of the General Con-
vention, and on April 20, 1893, Thomas
Frank Gailor, vice-chancellor of the
University of the South, was unani-
mously elected assistant bishop of the
diocese. Early in 1898 Bishop Quin-
tard died, full of years and honor, and
Bishop Gailor became the diocesan.

IV. The University of the South

The University of the South is
geographically within the confines of
the diocese of Tennessee, but it is far
more than a diocesan institution. It
owes its beginnings to two men, close
friends and brother bishops — Otey
and Polk — although their efforts were
warmly seconded by others, notably
Bishops Atkinson, Green, Cobbs,
Gregg and Elliott.

From the outset of his episcopate
Bishop Otey cherished the dream of a
great educational institution for the
Southwest, and his dream was shared
to the full by Leonidas Polk. The
financial depression of 1837 arrested
an ambitious scheme for the estab-
lishment of Madison University, for
which a liberal charter had already
been obtained. Not until 1857 was
the dream realized. On the fourth
day of July the bishops of eight
Southern dioceses, together with rep- .
resentative laymen, gathered on the
summit of Lookout Mountain, near
Chattanooga, to organize the new in-
stitution. The address was delivered
by Bishop Otey ; at its close the name,
University of the South, was sug-
gested, and was formally adopted at
a meeting held in October. The site
selected was an uninhabited mountain
top, heavily wooded and well watered
everywhere. On the 10th day of Octo-
ber, 1860, in the presence of five thou-
sand people, Bishop Polk laid the
corner-stone. Ten thousand acres of
land had been conveyed to the trus-
tees, and within three months more
than half a million dollars had been
subscribed.

Then came the Civil War with its
blighting influences. During its dura-
tion three of the bishops — Cobbs, Polk
and Otey — who had been most active
in founding the university, died, and
the Southern dioceses were grievously
impoverished. When Bishop Quintard
visited Lookout Mountain at the close
of the war in 1865, he found the gar-
den turned into a wilderness. The

PANORAMA OF THE UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH

buildings were in ashes ; even the cor-
ner-stone being smashed into frag-
ments. The splendid endowment had
been swept away, and for a time there
seemed to be no hope of reviving the
work.

One year later, however, some at-
tempt was made, and a grammar
school was opened at Sewanee. Little
by little the waste places were re-

stored. The academic department was
organized in 1871 ; the theological
school followed five years later. A
medical department was inaugurated
in 1892, and a law school one year
later. When the plans of the trustees
are carried into effect the University
of the South will possess a group of
buildings worthy of the ideals of its
founders.

"HOW OUR CHURCH CAME TO TENNESSEE” IN

CLASS WORK

PREPARATION FOR THE LESSON

THE author of this article has kindly-
suggested the following books as
sources of further information: “History
of the Diocese of Tennessee,” Rev. Ar-
thur Howard Noll; “Memoir of the Rt.
Rev. James Hervey Otey, D.D., LL.D.,”
Rt. Rev. Wm. Mercer Green, Bishop of
Mississippi; “Doctor Quintard, Chaplain
C.S.A., and Second Bishop of Tennessee,
Being His Story of the War,” edited by
Rev. Arthur Howard Noll. See also the
“Biography of Bishop Polk” and the re-
ports of the Domestic and Foreign Mis-
sionary Society from 1826 onward.

In addition to these, use some general
history. With regard to the general con-
ditions in Kentucky and Tennessee, a life
of Daniel Boone, and Theodore Roose-
velt’s “Winning of the West” will be
useful.

THE FIRST FIVE MINUTES

Ask a younger class whether they
know of any state whose name contains
no vowel except “e.” An older class
: might be asked about the battle of Look-
' out Mountain, which can be connected
with the establishment of the University
of the South,

TEACHING THE LESSON

I. Church Beginnings in Tennessee.

1. What was the Watauga Association?

2. Tell about the early days of James
Hervey Otey.

3. How did he come into the Church?

4. Tell about the missionary work of
the Rev. John Davis.

II. Bishop Otey.

1. How many persons elected Bishop
Otey?

2. How did the bishop support him-
self?

3. Where did he finally remove?

4. Tell about some of the places of
worship used.

III. The War and After.

1. What was the effect of the Civil
War in Tennessee?

2. Tell of the death of Bishop Otey.

3. Who was Bishop Quintard?

4. How did he feel about the Negroes?

IV. The University of the South.

1. When and where was the corner-
stone of the University of the South
laid?

2. Tell of its early promise.

3. What did Bishop Quintard find after
the war?

4. What is its present condition?

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EDUCATIONAL NOTES

FOR the benefit of those who are
pressing for information con-
cerning the Junior book for next
year’s Mission Study Course, the Edu-
cational Secretary would say that,
while the book itself will not be ready
before October, Mr. Osgood has sub-
mitted a sketch of the contents. The
title will be “Manana”; there will be
a Prologue called “Also America,”
which will contrast in Mr. Osgood’s
inimitable way, the settlers of New
England and New Spain; their pur-
poses ; the original inhabitants and
their characteristics. There will be
six chapters, the first called “For Gold,
for Glory (and for God?)”; the sec-
ond “The Conquering Song,” or “The
Song of the Jungle Peddlers” ; these
two chapters will contrast selfishness
and unselfishness, and will tell the
stories of Pizarro and Las Casas.
Chapter three — “The Pirate’s Raft
Sailing the Spanish Main” — will tell
of Drake and Buccaneers and together
with chapter four — “The Volcano of
Liberty” — will contrast the results of
selfishness and unselfishness. Chapter
five will tell of Bishop Holly in Haiti,
and chapter six of Panama. The epi-
logue, “Manana,” will have to do with
the Monroe Doctrine of the Church.

The bibliography recommends “The
New World (Gray) and “South of
Panama” (Ross), for general back-
ground; for chapter I: “Conquest of
Peru,” volume 2, book 4, chapter 4 ;
the “Discovery of America” (Fiske),
volume 2, page 395 ; and “Along the
Andes.” For chapter II : “Las

Casas” (Fiske and Prescott), and
“Panama” (Bullard). For chapter
III: “Drake” (Bullard), “Sailing the
Spanish Main” (Maesfield). Chapters
V and VI: “Under Drake’s Flag”
(Henty). For chapter IV : “Hidalgo”
and “Mexico” (Enoch). For chapter
V : (The Life of Bishop Holly)

“Porto Rico and Hayti” (Verrill) ;

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“Where Black Rules White” (Prit-
chard). For chapter VI: “Panama”
(Bullard).

A number of requests for maps re-
ceived which we have been unable to
fill. While it is undoubtedly very im-
portant and desirable to have good
maps, their manufacture is too expen-
sive and the call for them too small to
warrant the department in having
them made at present. The Educa-
tional Secretary desires to say, there-
fore, that with the exception of the
small outline maps of China, Japan
and Liberia on sale now, and the wall
maps which may be borrowed from the
library, we cannot supply maps until
the demand is greatly increased. A
great deal of assistance in matters
Latin-American can be obtained
through the folders of the various rail-
roads and steamship companies.

From the Educational Report of the
Woman’s Auxiliary for the Mission-
ary District of Honolulu, the follow-
ing is so cheerful that it deserves to
be published on the Educational Page :

St. Andrew’s Cathedral Auxiliary
reports that “during Lent a class of
five members was formed under Dea-
coness Spencer of Trinity Japanese
Mission, who, because of her five
years work in Japan and her great
love for and interest in these Japan-
ese people, was eminently fitted to
guide us in our study for this year,
i.e., ‘Japan Advancing — Whither?’
. As a result of the influence
of the study classes during the past
two years a desire was created to help
the Japanese of these islands mate-
rially, resulting in a ‘Cherry Blossom
Fete’ which was held two days, May
5 and 6, at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel
and which netted two thousand five
hundred dollars toward the erecting
of a Mission House to be called St.

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569

Hilda’s Hostel. This is to be a home
and settlement for Japanese women
and girls. Thus, in studying the re-
ligion, lives and customs of these
Oriental people, we have been made
not only to understand them better,
but to feel a personal responsibility
for those in our midst, and we are
sure that the future holds great possi-
bilities for our work amongst them.”
♦♦♦

Recent additions to the library in-
clude “The Life of Bishop Hare,”

written by Miss Mary G. Peabody, for
some time the bishop’s secretary, pub-
lished by the C. M. P. C. Also “The
Southern Highlander,” by the Rev.
Walter C. Whitaker, D.D., published
by the C. M. P. C. The latter may be
obtained from the Educational De-
partment at 75c., cloth, and 40c.,
paper. A new edition of the Encyclo-
pedia Britannica is now available for
reference, and will be found most use-
ful in connection with missionary re-
search.

THE LITERATURE OF MISSIONS

BOOK REVIEWS

The Book of Personal Work. John T. Faris,
D.D. Published by George H. Doran Com-
pany, 38 West Thirty-second Street, New
York, N. Y. Price, $1.00 net.

Ordinarily our reviews are confined to
books which may be definitely classified as
missionary in character. In the widest and
most proper sense of the word this book
comes under that classification. It is written
by a graduate of Princeton who is a Pres-
byterian minister and editor of The Sunday
School Times, and is a collection of state-
ments as to the power of personal evangel-
ism. Some time ago a volume appeared
called “Twice-Born Men,” emphasizing the
possibilities of reclaiming the outcast and
the derelict, and kindling anew a spiritual
light in their souls. That book made a
deep impression and awakened many to
their responsibility. The present volume
is not directed toward the submerged and
excommunicated, but tells what may be done
for the friend, the neighbor, the casual ac-
quaintance— the thousands upon thousands
with whom we touch elbows and exchange
views on every subject — except religion; yet
who perhaps only wait a serious and earnest
word to bring them home.

The Church in the Highlands. John Mackay,
M.A. Published by George H. Doran Com-
pany, 38 West Thirty-second Street, New
York, N. Y. Price, $1.50 net.

Many great things have come out of Scot-
land and the history of Scottish Christianity
must always be interesting. Therefore, this
story of the Church in the Gaelic Highlands,
touching as it does the fascinating histories
of Ninian, Columba, the monks and her-
mits, the Reformation and the later days,
will be welcomed by students of Christian
history.

The Rev. W. L. Kinsolving, assistant at
the Church of the Holy Communion, N. Y.,
has published a pamphlet under the title
“Even So Send I You.” This is a series
of three-minute missionary talks to chil-
dren, beginning with the planting of the
Church in Britain and closing with sketches
of the missionary leaders of our own day
and nation. It will be useful to clergy and
others desiring to have at hand facts nec-
essary for brief addresses. The price is 15c.

BACK COPIES OF THE SPIRIT OF
MISSIONS

Miss M. Kimball, 7211 Carnegie Ave-
nue, Cleveland, Ohio — Educational Sec-
retary of the Diocese of Ohio — has the
following copies of The Spirit of Mis-
sions, which she will be glad to send
to any parish or person needing them to
help complete a file, and who will pay
the postage or express.

1906 — June, November, December.

1907 — All but June, July, August, Sep-

tember.

1908 — All but April and May.

1909 — Complete.

1910 — Complete.

1911 — Complete.

1912 — All but August and October.

1913 — -All but January and February.

1914 — All but March.

Mrs. George W. Weidler, 204 North
Twentieth Street, Portland, Oregon, has
the following copies which she will
gladly send to any one who needs them:

1912 — March, April, July, November,

December.

1913 — All but February and November.

1914 — From May through December.

1915 — From January through August.

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The Cambridge Conference

ANNOUNCEMENTS CONCERNING
THE MISSIONARIES

ANKING

Sailed — From Shanghai: Bishop Hunt-
ington, accompanied by the Rev. C. C.
Yen, S.S. “Empress of Russia,” July 15.

HANKOW

Arrived — At Shanghai: Sisters Ursula

and Joan, S.S. “Empress of Russia,”
May 16; Mr. Thacher Souder, S.S.
“China,” June 16.

Sailed — From Shanghai: Rev. T. P. Mas-
lin, Mrs. Maslin and four children,
S.S. “Empress of Japan,” June 3; Rev.
C. F. Howe and family, and Rev. T.

R. Ludlow, S.S. “Empress of Asia,”
June 16.

KYOTO

Arrived — At Vancouver: July 1, Bishop
Tucker, having sailed from Kobe on

S. S. “Empress of Asia,” June 22.

PORTO RICO

Arrived — Bishop Colmore is now at Se-
wanee, Tenn., having left Porto Rico
June 28.

SHANGHAI

Sailed — From Shanghai: Miss Laura E.
Lenhart, S.S. “Empress of Japan, June
3; Miss M. H. Bailey, S.S. “Empress
of Russia,” July 15; Rev. G. F.
Mosher and Mrs. Mosher. Dr. H. H.
Morris and family, S.S. “Empress of
Asia,” June 16.

THE PHILIPPINES
Sailed — From Manila: Miss Blanche E
L. Massie, S.S. “Nippon Maru,” May
19.

Resigned — Miss Lucy L. Soule, to take
effect August 1.

TOKYO

Arrived — At Yokohama: Miss Hallie

Williams, S.S. “China,” June 11, pro-
ceeded to Tokyo same day.

Sailed — From Yokohama: Rev. and Mrs.
S. H. Nichols, S.S. “Empress of Asia,”
June 22.

THE CAMBRIDGE CONFERENCE

An Appreciation

A short account of the Cambridge Conference appears on another page of this
issue, but this little appreciation, by one of its members, gives a glimpse of the inner
life of the gathering which is not found in the more formal note.

WE have returned from the Con-
ference to our dioceses, parishes
and homes ; are they to be en-
riched by what we have brought back
from Cambridge? There we lived for
two weeks, a little community by our-
selves, few of us touching the. outside
world even through a newspaper. We
had not time for anything but to try
to catch and hold the wonderful high
lights that came to us in our services,
lectures and classes.

It was a great joy to meet many
who have grown familiar to each
other, attending year after year these
church courses, but it was an added
joy to meet so many new persons,
many coming even from the far west,

and to know that this Conference is
being more widely recognized as a
place to come for special training in
all sorts of church work. Our one
purpose in seeking for better equip-
ment in our church work is a loving
desire to strengthen ourselves, that we
may the better help in the building up
of the Body of Christ, His Church;
and so the spirit of unity grows, that
we may all be one in Christ Jesus, our
Life and the Life of the Church.

We have been, as it were, on a
mount, and have caught a vision of
Holy Church, and the work that
each of us is to do as loyal members
of the same. May we carry this vision
back with us into our parishes!

The Woman’s Auxiliary

TO THE BOARD OF MISSIONS

MAKING FRIENDS WITH HAITI

A SERIES OF LETTERS FROM MRS. BATTISTE

( Concluded )

February 9, 1916.

On the sixteenth of January I went
to Coustard. Miss Keil, our United
Offering nurse, did not accompany us,
as she was very busy at that time mov-
ing into the “ clinique ” but I asked
Miss Jones, our United Offering
teacher at Port-au-Prince, to go, as I
thought she needed the outing, as she
is confined in school the week through.
It is useless, as a rule, to visit any of
the country stations on a week day,
for you will generally find the mem-
bers out, so Mr. Battiste, our little
daughter, Priscille, and myself got up
at five o’clock Sunday morning of the
sixteenth, breakfasted, and just caught
the six o’clock train near our door,
that took us to the station for the half
past six o’clock train that was to take
us to Coustard.

I have been to Coustard three or
four times, but I never met with a
bigger crowd waiting for the cars. I
was very thankful that Mr. Battiste
thought it necessary to go along — of
course all men think so here, that a
woman cannot get along without them
or some one to represent them — for
the pushing and hurrying were some-
thing awful for a few minutes; then
the gates were opened, and like a herd
of cattle all rushed in and found their
places. There was only one “especial
car” that is, first class ; there were five
other cars that were just packed with
the country people going home from
the Saturday market. There is only

the one train a day, so if you miss that
one you will have to wait until next
day. My only anxiety was the non-
appearance of Miss Jones. Happily
the train was behind time, and Miss
Jones, knowing its habits, was also.
She soon came, accompanied by her
brother, who left her in our care, and
presently we were on our way, pre-
pared to enjoy our ride. But we had
hardly gone three miles before we
made another stop of half an hour.
Something had broken. And so on
through the whole route ; either we
were waiting to get up steam or take
on wood or water, something was the
matter, and we went along quite
leisurely, with abundance of time to
admire the breadth and width of this
once famous cul-de-sac, now laid low
through the frequent revolutions and
the drought that continues to make
cultivation impracticable. Everything
was sun-baked and powdered with the
white dust that the wind that blows
with so much violence at this time of
the year delights in distributing equally
on those that want and those that
don’t want, making it very disagree-
able to travel. Knowing the district,
we had brought our thermos bottle and
were able to moisten our lips with
good, cold water. (That was the ther-
mos bottle’s last trip, it died a sudden
death after we returned home.) Once
in a while, we crossed the bridge of
the Grande Riviere, and if you were
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would hardly think it from its appear-
ance. After leaving the village of
Crois-des-Bouquets the scene changes,
and we have the dusty road without a
stone and miles and miles of cactus,
some the trailing cactus, others great
trees, two stories high. I noticed at
least five or six different kinds that
were not in the least affected by the
drought. The poor appearance of the
huts, with no attempt at cultivation
around them, did not strike me as so
awful as it does a stranger, for to
these country people all over the island
the house is only a place to sleep in and
a shelter from the rain. Arriving dur-
ing the day, you will generally find the
owners absent and a child or two
watching the house. You ask for the
master, he is in his garden. * You look
around and find nothing that can give
you an idea of farming, perhaps not
even a mango tree. If an intimate,
you may be allowed to go to him in
his garden. Generally you go on your
horse, and after riding perhaps for an
hour or two, you will come to his farm
where you are silent through sheer as-
tonishment, at what can be accom-
plished through perseverance and a
few ancient garden implements, con-
sisting of a hoe and a machete. These
alone have accomplished wonders, but
the prosperous look of the garden and
its flourishing condition do not recon-
cile one to the great apparent poverty
of the hut and children just passed.
Poor indeed must be the laborer in
the fields, who is obliged to send to
market or buy from neighbors his
staple products such as potatoes, yams,
malangas, bananas and cassava. The
poorest sell only to buy in exchange
salt, matches, tobacco, soap, and sugar
sometimes. Having cane, they very
seldom need sugar, for the coffee is
often made with the pure cane juice,
making a delicious beverage.

To continue with our journey; at
ten o’clock we arrived at Coustard, a
distance of fifty miles from Port-au-
Prince, and were happy to know that

the service had not yet begun. The
cars stop just before the doors of the
church. We were so tired of sitting
still on the hard benches that the rail-
road company sees fit to provide for
their passengers, that we hurried out,
only to be brought to a sudden stand-
still at the unexpected appearance of
the place where the church had stood.
I knew perfectly what the cyclone had
done to the church, had heard of it re-
peatedly, but yet I was not fully pre-
pared for the perfect desolation that
the aspect presented. Not a post was
left standing, even a large chene tree
before the door, hanging over the rail-
road, had been abandoned by its hun-
dreds of feathery inhabitants that had
as many nests hanging from its
branches, which very pretty yellow in-
habitants kept up during the services
a perpetual chattering, which was to
say the least disconcerting.

The minister, the Rev. Vilvaleix
Coulonge, came out to receive us, ac-
companied by his wife and Mme. Pau-
sianas, president of the Woman’s
Auxiliary branch at Coustard, assur-
ing us that we were not too late. They
wished to prepare a lunch for us im-
mediately, but we preferred to wait
until after the morning service, and in
a very short while had gathered about
eighteen persons under an arbor badly
covered with cocoanut leaves before
the prettily thatched two-roomed
cottage of the minister, the wind still
blowing with great violence. A tem-
porary altar was made from a small
table and placed just inside the door,
the reading desk, or pulpit under the
very small arbor, the harmonium in-
side, I am happy to say, as I played
the hymns that were sung, and was not
troubled with the wind blowing my
book away. The service proceeded
very heartily, Miss Jones leading in
the singing and paying not the slight-
est attention to the blinding dust and
burning sun on her. We have always
considered Miss Jones delicate, and
to be protected from all things harm-

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ful, but she proved to us that she was
more stoical than any of those present,
who were like checkers on a checker
board, so distressing was the wind and
sun. My twelve-year-old daughter
walked straight into the bedroom to
bed.

The service proceeded steadily on
through morning prayer, Litany, Ante-
Communion service and sermon, and,
after, Baptism of two children. (No-
thing could disturb my husband’s
equilibrium, not even an earthquake!)
The Baptismal font deserves I think
special notice. It was of pure lignum
vitae, about nine inches across, and
made from the heart of the lignum
vitae, which is almost black, with a
stand so that it can be held by an
assistant.

You can imagine what time we had
to give to a meeting of the Woman’s
Auxiliary, when church was over at
half past twelve, and the president and
myself proceeded to confer on the
necessities and rules of the society. We
found that the women were working
away with a will, with hardly any idea
of what was intended or meant, but
were blindly trying to obey orders
from those at headquarters who had
at last thought to make them one with
them in the labor of the Saviour.

Mme. Pausianas is quite capable of
conducting the branch and spares no
pains to make herself fully acquainted
with her duties. We were quite
pleased with her businesslike methods
and should have liked to stay several
days with them, for the minister liv-
ing in that sun-baked plain where
every door is tightly closed during the
day against the wind and glare and no
tree is in sight, but the bayahonde,
from almost one end to the other,
needs help, someone with energy to
plan what he in his goodness would
be willing to carry out.

Our car was due at half past one,
and we were back in her and on our
way to Port-au-Prince, feeling that
we had been to Coustard and had

hardly accomplished anything, the
time being so short ; but the members
were quite pleased and we promised
to come again when we hope to make
our stay of longer duration.

We were in a greater hurry to get
home than we were to go. Conse-
quently we arrived at Port-au-Prince
at four o’clock of the same day, very
tired and very dissatisfied with our
visit, seeing that we had spent a great
deal of money and had accomplished
very little. W e hope to go again when
we can stay a little longer, and put
things on a more solid basis. The
president, knowing her limitations,
came to Port-au-Prince and assisted
at one of our meetings at the capital
and went away well provisioned for
the future.

The president of the branch at Der-
landes has been very sick, even to
death’s door. She is now at the capital
and it will be some time before we
think she will be able to go back to
Leogane. There are so few women
among our country people that can
read that the whole of the burden is
generally carried by the president in
our country parishes.

I am sending you by this same oc-
casion a copy of “An Ideal” translated
into French from the October number
of The Spirit of Missions. I thought
it expressed so well what we are try-
ing to teach and tell them.

We expect the bishop very soon,
perhaps by the end of this month. I
hope I may be allowed to accompany
him on his tournee, for then I will
meet those that I have only been able
to reach through writing.

The wife of Bishop Holly died and
was buried last week, on the first of
February.

February 11.

I cannot tell you how disappointed
the boys were not to have seen you or
Bishop Lloyd. Such a letter of dole-
ances that I received from one of them
(Metz Lochard) sick, cold and lonely,
not speaking the Fnglish language. He

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must have been pitiful. T hope by this
time that he is all right. His sister is
spending some time with me now. My
house is the general stopping place for
people from Leogane, as that is my
husband’s parish, and I have known
times when I have had and have still
to provide board and lodging to up-
wards of from fifteen to twenty per-
sons, all that want work, all that want
a doctor, are in trouble, lawyers, etc.
We are only three in family, but we
generally have about ten to provide
for. Sometimes it looks as though
we would succumb, but God has al-
ways provided. There are no little
boarding-places here, or no big, for
that matter, and people always hunt up
their friends and relatives when they
travel and live on them. We have
four or five hotels, but you must have
money to go there.

I hope to send subscriptions for at
least five copies of The Spirit of
Missions for our different branches
of the Woman’s Auxiliary here. There
is such a desire now since the Ameri-
can occupation to learn English that
we will not have as much difficulty as
formerly in translating.

Please excuse this, as I have written
it in the greatest hurry, and while
writing two of our most prominent
members from Leogane (Bigonie)
have come in with pillows and bed
spreads, as if for a little stay. The
man’s head is all wrapped up. I
know he is sick.

February 18.

I did so much want to tell you of
our minister at Mirbalaid, Parish of
St. Andre, who came to see us yester-
day, the Rev. Daniel Michel. My con-
nection with the Woman’s Auxiliary
has brought our missionaries very near
to me, whereas before, I knew nothing
about them, seeing them but once a
year, at the convocation. Now they
come in to see me to talk about their
work, so glad are they to be in the
circle of those working for Christ.

The Rev. Michel reports that he has

eight members of the Woman’s Aux-
iliary in his parish ; he is president and
secretary. His loneliness, as expressed
by himself, is pitiable. No one visits
his parish, and since Bishop Holly’s
death, when he comes to the capital,
he has no one to confer with. Bishop
Holly’s talk was always a liberal edu-
cation,— you could not fail to be in-
structed thereby.

Only three of our ministers out of
twelve have been out of the country,
and they keep on faithfully in a hum-
drum way without feeling the breadth
and depths of our religion, and now
with a new interest in the Woman’s
Auxiliary, which they had never heard
of before, they have awakened to the
fact that they have been deprived of
something.

Rev. Michel in his soft voice, wished
to know if I could get someone to
make two or three linen covers to
cover the tumbler that he used for
Communion. I asked him if he had
no chalice, his Communion set with
everything else belonging to the
church was destroyed in the fire that
had destroyed the church two years
ago, when the army passed by. By
his own efforts he is trying to rebuild.
He has three outlying stations, that
he visits now and then. He com-
plained that the old members remain
faithful, but the young ones drift
away. The great misery here prevents
one from helping the other, but I
would like the old man to have a Com-
munion set.* He is going to save for
it, and is patient and not at all discour-
aged.

April 7.

Enclosed please find the sum of
forty-five dollars and sixteen cents,
being the sum collected from the blue
boxes, and seven dollars for one year’s
subscription to The Spirit of Mis-
sions for seven branches of the Wo-

*This has been given by the Massachusetts Altar
Society, and a set of linen by Juniors in New
Mexico.

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man’s Auxiliary here. I think that
they are doing better, considering the
hard times and the rate of exchange
at four hundred. The whole amounted
to two hundred and twenty-four
gourdes and sixty-eight cents, which
before sending away we convert into
American currency.

I suppose you will overlook our be-
ing so much behind time ; we have
really been waiting on the Des Landes
branch at Leogane; the president has
been at death’s door; and her life has
been hanging in the balance for some
time; only this week is she able to
walk about her room. In her absence
no one knew how to proceed about
the opening of the blue boxes, but fin-
ally on receipt of my letter, the hus-
band of the secretary opened the boxes

and took out the contents, quite arbi-
trarily, returning their boxes to two
or three women, refusing to accept
what they contained. I believe there
was one instance where there were
eight pennies and another twelve. He
said they were not serious, and could
do better. Their offerings amounted
tc twenty-two gourdes, and that was
by no means half of the boxes, the
people living so far away that they
had not received the news yet.

Here ends the story of the Haiti
branch up to the present time.

Bishop Colmore writes of it: “I

am truly proud of the record made by
the Auxiliary with the United Offer-
ing. You will remember they began
late, and the amount they have raised
is equivalent to a much greater
amount in the States.”

REMINISCENCES

By Eugenie Reymond

One day in visiting the Auxiliary rooms, the Rev. A. B. Hunter, of St. Augustine's,
Raleigh, noticed a pencil sketch upon the wall, signed Eug. Reymond, Athens, 1894.
It represents the old tower where Dr. and Mrs. Hill began their work, in 1831. As
Mr. Hunter’s eye caught the sketch, he said that it recalled old days when he visited
Greece and himself was a scholar in the school, taking advantage of the opportunity
given for instruction in modern Greek.

Miss Reymond, who made the sketch, is a retired worker, receiving a grant from
the United Offering and now living in Geneva, Switzerland. We wrote her of Mr.
Hunter’s visit, and he also wrote her, with the result of a letter in return, which recalls
old memories of our mission days in Greece, and seems to unite that early mission
work with these later, and so different, days and years in which Mr. Hunter’s life has
been so freely given for work among the colored people of the South.

IN acknowledging the letter from
Miss Reymond here given, Mr.
Hunter writes :

“I became greatly attached to Miss
Muir while in Athens, which was two
months in the autumn of 1880. She
seemed to be thoroughly in love with
her work and to be devoted to the
children under her care. I shall never
forget my experience with the ‘little
teacher’ to whom Miss Muir assigned
me. That was the name, I think,
which the children of the school gave

him. He took me off in a corner by
myself and heard me read my lesson
in Greek.

“The first Church service which I
ever conducted was in Dr. Hill’s
house and at his request. I think I
have already told you that after Dr.
Hill’s death, Mrs. Hill -asked me to
come out to Greece immediately after
my ordination to the diaconate. But
I felt that I had too little knowledge
of the relations between the Greek
Church and Anglican, and therefore
declined.”

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Miss Reymond’ s Letter

It is not without some misgivings
that I begin to answer your kind let-
ter. I am not a very easy writer in
English, but your letter has given such
pleasure to me, I think that I can say
a few things about Miss Muir and her
school that may interest you. As I
read your name in a letter from Miss
Emery, it is brought to me so vividly
— Miss Muir talking about you, your
sitting amongst the children of our
school and learning modern Greek.
I remember her receiving a letter
from you since you were in St.
Augustine’s School.

I was three years in Mrs. Hill’s
boarding school, teaching French
and drawing. I was there during the
last year of the life of Dr. Hill, and
went away just before Mrs. Hill’s
death. Then Miss Muir and I took
a house together, and we have been
the closest of friends until her death,
fourteen years later. I found her dead
in her bed, after I had been waiting
some time after breakfast was ready
and wondering why she was so long
in getting up.

In the later years she had a good
deal of trouble in the school. The
government had sent to Germany a
Greek to study their ways of educa-
tion, and as a true Greek as he was,
he came back to put down all the old
ways and bring instead the new ones.
At the time and after seeing the be-
ginning, I thought that the characters
of the two nations were too unlike for
the scheme to succeed. We had no
more peace, and Miss Muir had many
heart-sores. Before that she had be-
gun to think about building a new
missionary school in a healthy site be-
hind the station on a hill. Everything
was ready, only a part of the money ;
but the Archeological Society, after
promising to buy the old school, with-
drew, and Miss Muir had much cour-
age. but she was beginning to be very
tired when she died so suddenlv. I
had to shut definitely the old school,

amid the laments of the poor people
and the children, to fight against some
bad deeds, and it was years before I
recovered from the shock of Miss
Muir’s death. I am so happy to write
to some one who knew her. In the
short time where you saw her every
day in her beloved work, you must
have understood something of her
fine qualities. Here my old friends
and relations knew very little of her
and her work.

I was very much interested about
your travel in Switzerland. I could
say that you know better my dear
country than myself. Did you know
Miss Sybil Carter? At Miss Muir’s
death she took me in her heart, came
to see me and stay with me at Geneva
three times. Every time she took me
for a little rest to some place of
Switzerland that I did not know. But
she is gone, too. Since then I had
no occasion to speak English, and I
am afraid I am very deficient in that
way. But never mind, I shall be very
glad to see you and Mrs. Hunter
when you come again to Geneva, if
you can give a few moments to me.
I have been looking with much inter-
est at the booklet you joined to your
letter. What a grand and fine work
it is ! I feel happy at the thought of
what you are doing for that poor peo-
ple, and the results are wonderful. I
have been reading, too, with much in-
terest in The Spirit of Missions,
what is written about the Republic of
Liberia in Africa.

About the war, we are like a little
spot of calm in a whirlwind.

In 1912 I have been again to
Athens, to stay for one year with one
of my old pupils, and so I was there
when the Balkanic war broke out. I
went away before the attack of the
Bulgarians on their allies, which had
been expecting some troubles. The
Serbs became sympathetic to me.
They showed themselves most true
and faithful to their allies. While in
Athens I went, of course, to see the

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old school in the Agora, but it was for
me like a body without a soul. I did
not go again. Did you know that a
place near the school had been exca-
vated, and colonnades came out?

It is wonderful to see all the beau-
tiful buildings, schools, libraries,
museums, that make Athens so bright
and which gifts of her citizens who
have made money in all countries of

the world and come back to offer the
best to their country have enriched.
Athens is such a large city now, so
much larger than when I left in 1898;
many fine houses, and such space it
covers, with so many beautiful gar-
dens. From the Acropolis and Lyca-
betus it is so interesting to watch the
size and brightness of the town. In
the moonlight it cannot be forgotten.

THE WOMAN’S AUXILIARY AND ITS
NEXT TRIENNIAL

Representatives and Alternates.

If you have not already done so
please send to the Secretary of the
Woman’s Auxiliary at the Church
Missions House, as soon as possible,
the names and addresses of the five
chosen representatives. The names of
the alternates may be sent later.

Badges (Price ten cents each) :

Badges for these representatives
who have not those used at former
Triennials may be obtained from Miss
Triplett, Secretary of the Missouri
Branch, 1416 Third National Bank
Building, St. Louis, Missouri.

Auxiliary Dates and Places to be re-
' membered :

Headquarters : Sheldon Memorial
Hall, 3646 Washington Avenue.

October 10: Tuesday — Registration.
October 10: 4.30 P. M.— St.

Peter’s, Lindell Boulevard and Spring
Avenue. Quiet Hour.

October 11: 2.30 P. M— Sheldon
Memorial — A business meeting of the
Woman’s Auxiliary Representatives.

October 12 : Thursday, 8 A. M. —
Corporate Communion, with United

Offering — Christ Church Cathedral,
Thirteenth and Locust Streets.

October 12: Thursday, 2.30 P. M.
—Triennial Mass Meeting, Odeon
Hall, North Grand Avenue.

Study classes, conferences, noon
prayers, missionary speakers, interces-
sions will follow.

October 19: Thursday, 8.30 P. M.
— Eight drawing room meetings will
be held.

Business sessions may be expected
from time to time, and the closing ser-
vice will be a Quiet Hour held at St.
Peter's Church.

To Missionaries:

All women missionaries expecting
to be in St. Louis during the Triennial
are asked to notify the Secretary at
the Church Missions House.

Diocesan Officers for 1916-17:

Will the Secretary of every branch
who as yet has failed to do so and
where the officers for 1916-17 have
been chosen, please send at once a
complete list of these officers, both of
the Woman’s Auxiliary and its Junior
Department, including all sections,
giving addresses in full.

THE JUNIOR PAGE

FROM THE JUNIOR DEPARTMENT OF THE DIOCESE
OF WESTERN NEW YORK

Miss Mary E. Hart, 90 Plymouth Avenue, Rochester, N. Y . (Sec. I.) Miss
C. L. Sanders, Stafford, N. Y. (Sec. II.) Miss L. G. Arnold, Geneseo, N. Y.
(Sec. III.)

TWO new plans adopted in the
fall of 1914 have been of great
value in giving District and Dio-
cesan leaders a better idea of the ideals
and accomplishments of the parish
branches. The first of these was a
Letter- Leaflet sent out early in the
year to the parish leaders containing
the Junior prayers and pledges, a poem
on the scholarships, a few definite di-
rections to parish leaders, and an
Honor Standard containing twelve
questions, from the answers to which
a Roll of Honor for the year was com-
piled, and an additional list of nine
questions giving information about the
parish work. The second plan was a
loose-leaf note book with headings
prepared by Mrs. Robins of Rochester
for the keeping of parish reports. We
give below a few extracts from these
report books under the headings : Aim,
Pledges, Prayer, United Offering.

Aim: To instill in the hearts of

the children a larger missionary spirit
in their everyday life. To strive, for
promptness and faithfulness in their
work (also detailed plan for the year’s
work) (St. Michaels, Geneseo).

Aim: To increase the attendance

at each meeting. To increase enthus-
iasm for missions. To teach the chil-
dren to think of others less fortunate
than themselves. To prepare the chil-
dren to be possible Junior leaders in
the future. (Trinity, Rochester.)

Pledge : During Lent each girl un-
dertook to earn as much money as
possible. On Easter Monday we had
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a little party and each told how she
had raised the money. Each girl put
her money in a small globe with a slit
cut out through her own country ; then
the leader told them that that money
was to be used to take the gospel to
all the world by educating children
in all parts of the world. The pledges
had already been taught with the use
of a globe. The rest of the money for
the pledge was raised by means of a
doll party. An admission fee of ten
cents was charged and more than
thirty girls attended. All brought
dolls, even the grown-up girls, and the
dolls were entered in a baby show in
which the judges measured, weighed
and examined them critically and
awarded blue ribbons. The doll which
was to be sent in the box made a fare-
well speech, telling about the trip she
was about to make. (St. Thomas,
Rochester.)

United Offering : At the first meet-
ing in the autumn each girl is given a
“glad-box,” a small white box with a
gold cross on it and the words in gold
“For Thou, Lord, hast made me glad.”
On any and all joyful occasions a
thank-offering is placed in it. When
these boxes are distributed a short talk
on the United Offering is given, a
Bible reading, and a prayer. At the
last spring meeting when they are col-
lected they are placed together in the
center of the circle, opened, the money
counted. (Section III Epiphany,
Rochester) .

WITH THE MANAGING EDITOR

WE are six months old. On the
first of January the office of
Managing Editor was created,
and we began our official life in the
Church Missions House. (Please re-
member that the office is Room 51 on
the fifth floor and that the latchstring
is always out.) What a busy and in-
teresting and happy six months they
have been ! Inheriting from Mr.
Buckwell an excellent system and a
most competent staff, the business de-
tails have been merely a following of
a well-blazed trail. The outstanding
fact of the six months is the
kindly interest of Church people gen-
erally. Certainly ninety-nine out of
every hundred letters have been fair
in their requests and kindly in their
tone ; many have been overly appre-
ciative in their estimate of our work.
All of which leads us, first of all, to
say, “Thank you,” and then to recite
a fact which has been stated many
times, namely, that working together —
you in your parish and we in the
Church Missions House — there is no
limit to the good which we can accom-
plish in the answering of our prayer:
“Thy Kingdom come.”

* * *

The copy for this page is being
written on July 1st, as we are speed-
ing down through Georgia, en route
to Gulfport, Mississippi, to attend the
Conference there. It may interest
some of you to know that in the past
six months we have travelled more
than ten thousand miles on the purely
official business of giving missionary
addresses.

* * *

The above paragraph is written to
emphasize the fact that there is some-
thing more to a missionary address
than the presence of the speaker.
When a representative of the Board
of Missions stands before you, remem-
ber that he is enabled to do so be-

cause the office staff is attending to
details and keeping the work so up
to date that on his return he can drop
right into his place. In other words, the
Church Missions House shelters one
big family. The success of one is the
success of all. Many of you have
met one or another of the officers of
the Board of Missions. Don’t forget
that many another whom you have not
met — members of the office staff — is
truly interested in the success of your
missionary meeting and the enlarge-
ment of missionary interest in your
parish. This is eminently true of the
staff in the Managing Editor’s office.
* * *

Among the interesting comments
which have come lately are these :

“The Spirit of Missions, I can assure
you, is warmly welcomed, and I could give
up almost anything else rather than that
interesting and inspiring little magazine. 1
have taken it for years, and while my life
is spared you shall have this one of your
old friends with you. I cannot help as I
would like, but I shall try to procure new
subscribers. I can though, and do, pass
my copy on to others to read.”

“Thank you for your letter. I love The
Spirit of Missions and the gocd work of
our Board. I’m sorry my subscription has
not been paid — my only excuse is heavy
school work. I send two dollars, one for
my own subscription and one to send the
magazine to a friend. I have been send-
ing her my copies, but I can give them to
some one here. I want to tell you that a
well-educated, cultured Baptist told me she
thought The Spirit of Missions was one
of the very best missionary magazines, if
not the best. She reads it diligently.”

“Yes, I know I’m away behind in renew-
ing my subscription, but it isn’t from lack
of interest, just lack of the necessary time
and energy to get it done. I’ve been a
reader, though not a subscriber to The
Spirit of Missions for a long while, and
it is always a most welcome visitor. Though
I don’t do anything in the mission work
myself, I always want to know what others
are doing and hew the work is getting along.
Thank you so much for your letter. I'm
afraid I’d never have gotten the check
written without your letter as a gentle re-
minder."

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF OFFERINGS

TO APPLY ON THE APPORTIONMENT AND AID
THE BOARD IN MEETING ITS APPROPRIATION

Offerings are asked to sustain missions in thirty-three missionary districts
in the United States and possessions, Africa, China, Japan, Brazil, Haiti, Mexico
and Cuba, and in the Canal Zone ; in thirty-eight dioceses, including missions to the
Indians and to the negroes ; to pay the salaries of thirty-two bishops, and stipends
to about 2,584 missionary workers, domestic and foreign ; also two general mission-
aries to the Swedes and three missionaries among deaf mutes in the Middle West
and the South ; and to support schools, hospitals and orphanages.

With all the remittances the name of the Diocese and Parish should be given.
Remittances, when practicable, should be by Check or Draft, and should always
be made payable to the order of George Gordon King, Treasurer, and sent to him,
Church Missions House, 281 Fourth Avenue, New’ York.

Remittances in Bank Notes are net safe unless sent in Registered Letters.

The Treasurer of the Board of Missions acknowledges the receipt of the fol-
lowing from September 1st, 1915, to July 1st, 1916.

DIOCESE OR
MISSIONARY
DISTRICT

PROVINCE I

Apportionment
for Domestic
and Foreign
Missions,
September 1st,
1915, to
October 1st,
1916

Amount
received from
September 1st,
1915, to
July 1st, 1916

DIOCESE OR
MISSIONARY
DISTRICT

Apportionment
for Domestic
and Foreign
Missions,
September 1st,
1915, to
October 1st,

Amount
received from
September 1st,
1915, to

July 1st, 1916

1916

PROVINCE IV

Connecticut

Maine

Massachusetts ..:....
New Hampshire . . . .

Rhode Island

Vermont

W. Massachusetts . . .

$57,254

4,989

81,891

6,56?

23,239

4,462

15,617

$43,422.78

2,518.02

61,317.83

3,715.29

19,970.32

3,600.96

11,287.31

$194,019

$145,832.51

PROVINCE II

Albany

Central New
Long Island .

Newark

New Jersey . .
New York . . .
W. New York
Porto Rico . .

PROVINCE

York. ..

$27,201

24,577

65,210

44,770

31,765

282,507

29,709

268

$14,910.11

13,615.43

24,245.32

33,928.66

18,659.18

150,103.74

16,483.54

356.64

$506,007

$272,302.62

in

Alabama

Atlanta

East Carolina

Florida

Georgia

Kentucky

Lexington

Louisiana

Mississippi

North Carolina

South Carolina

Tennessee

Asheville

Southern Florida . . .

PROVINCE v

$7,629

$3,063.47

5,675

3,274.92

3,896

7,487.93

5,028

2,859.45

4,636

2,176.74

8,426

5,171.74

2,561

2,221.45

8,587

4,279.02

5,622

3,353.28

6,954

5,824.69

8,820

8,430.09

7,510

3,391.58

2,683

1,917.14

2,194

1,906.69

$80,221

$55,358.19

Bethlehem

Delaware

Easton

Erie

Harrisburg

Maryland

Pennsylvania

Pittsburgh

Southern Virginia ...

Virginia

Washington

W. Virginia

$20,438

5.180

2,764

6.880

11,464

34,828

148,737

25,433

18,663

15,112

23,750

6,822

$15,014.61
4,404.60
1,826.26
3,862.06
6,340.56
22,560.76
122,605.4 2

20.152.00

13.656.01
17,091.22
17,942.20

5,836.21

Chicago

Fond du Lac .
Indianapolis .
Marquette . . .

Michigan

Michigan City
Milwaukee . . .

Ohio

Quincy ......

I Southern Ohio
Springfield . . .
W. Michigan .

$320,071

$251,291.91

$47,252

3.824

4,681

2,490

16,888

2,458

11,077

25,278

2,635

15,698

3,114

6,888

$20,677.45

1,953.99

3,242.77

1,750.92

13,655.54

1,347.09

4,220.82

13,862.37

1,637.40

9,929.61

1,360.67

3,441.86

$142,283

$77,080.49

580

DIOCESE OR
MISSIONARY
DISTRICT

Apportionment
for Domestic
and Foreign
Missions,
September 1st,
1915, to
October 1st,
1916

Amount
received from
September 1st,
1915, to
July 1st, 1916

PROVINCE VI

Colorado

$9,198

$2,906.68

Duluth

3,404

1.852.80

Iowa

8,570

2,521.93

Minnesota

16,772

6,590.22

Montana

5,022

4,460.64

Nebraska

4,124

2,559.45

North Dakota

2,166

1,899.35

South Dakota

3,463

2,728.84

Western Colorado . . .

664

482.79

Western Nebraska . .

1,452

1,271.19

Wyoming

2,158

1,476.62

$56,993

$28,750.51

PROVINCE VII

Arkansas

$3,514

$1,998.67

Dallas

3,330

1,561.91

Kansas

4,640

2,068.91

Missouri

13,362

9.200.50

Texas

6,496

4,794.84

West Missouri

4,929

2,369.9 3

West Texas

2,403

2,016.90

Eastern Oklahoma . .

1,216

899.75

New Mexico

1,068

1,224.15

North Texas

691

873.78

Oklahoma

1,158

912.09

Salina

853

636.82

$43,660

$28,558.25

DIOCESE OR
MISSIONARY
DISTRICT

Apportionment
for Domestic
and Foreign
Missions,
September 1st,
1915, to
October 1st,
1916

Amount
received from
September 1st,
1915, to
July 1st, 1916

PROVINCE VIII

California

$13,756

$5,119.59

Los Angeles

1-5,045

6,669.10

Olympia

5,176

1,952.25

Oregon

4,087

1,577.61

Sacramento

2,492

1,329.42

Alaska

1,007

709.62

Arizona

1,139

921.07

Eastern Oregon

706

358.35

Honolulu

2,011

1.05

Idaho

2,094

1,979.94

Nevada

765

646.90

San Toaquin

1,227

1,080.99

Spokane

2,420

903.16

Philippines

484

216.57

Utah

1,002

736.99

$53,411

$24,202.61

Anking

$194

$18.24

Brazil

242

67.25

Canal Zone

194

252.67

Cuba

814

807.83

Haiti

5.00

Hankow

242

30.00

Kyoto

155

Liberia

406

548.64

Mexico

406

129.25

Shanghai

242

190.26

Tokyo

319

30.45

European Chs

1,624

481.82

Foreign Miscel

18.92

$4,838

$2,580.33

Miscellaneous

$1,716.20

Total

$1,401,278

$887,673.62

OFFERINGS TO PAY APPROPRIATIONS

SOURCE

1916

1915

TO JULY 1

TO J ULY 1

INCREASE

DECREASE

1. From Congregations ....

2. From Individuals

3. From Sunday-schools . . .

4. From Woman’s Auxiliary

5. From Interest

6. Miscellaneous items

$534,127.33

78,003.96

174.238.03
101,304.30

133.096.03
6,304.56

$647,020.08

137,030.24

177,967.01

127,076.28

82,299.72

9,276.63

$50,796.31

*$112,892.75

*59,026.28

*3,728.98

*25,771.98

2,972.07

Total $1,027,074.21

7. Woman’s Auxiliary United Offering 60,000.00

$1,180,669.96

60,000.00

*$153,595.75

Total

*$1,087,074.21 $1,240,669.96

Net decrease *$153,595.75

*Last year to July 1st we had received for the “Emergency Fund” $235,81 3. 92. This year for the
“One Day’s Income Fund” we have received $44,231.42, a difference of $191,582.50. This accounts for
all but about $9,000 of the decrease in offerings from Congregations, Individuals, Sunday-schools and
the Woman’s Auxiliary.

APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE YEAR

SEPTEMBER 1ST, 1915, TO OCTOBER 1ST, 1916
Amount Needed for the Year

To pay appropriations as made to date for the work at home and abroad $1,635,511.75

Total receipts to date applicable on appropriations 1,087,074.21

Amount needed before September 30th, 1916 $548,437.54

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MISSIONARY DISTRICTS AND THEIR BISHOPS

I. AT HOME

ALASKA: Rt. Rev. Dr. Peter T. Rowe.

ARIZONA: Rt. Rev. Dr. Julius W. Atwood.

ASHEVILLE: Rt. Rev. Dr. Junius M. Horner.

EASTERN OKLAHOMA: Rt. Rev. Dr. Theodore P. Thurston.
EASTERN OREGON: Rt. Rev. Dr. Robert L. Paddock.
HONOLULU: Rt. Rev. Dr. Henry B. Restarick.

IDAHO: Rt. Rev. Dr. James B. Funsten.

NEVADA: Rt. Rev. Dr. George C. Hunting.

NEW MEXICO: Rt. Rev. Dr. Frederick B. Howden.

NORTH DAKOTA: Rt. Rev. Dr. J. Poyntz Tyler.

NORTH TEXAS: Rt. Rev. Dr. Edward A. Temple.

OKLAHOMA: Rt. Rev. Dr. Francis K. Brooke.

PORTO RICO: Rt. Rev. Dr. Charles B. Colmore.

PHILIPPINE ISLANDS: Rt. Rev. Dr. Charles H. Brent.

SALINA: Rt. Rev. Dr. Sheldon M. Griswold.

SAN JOAQUIN: Rt. Rev. Dr. Louis Childs Sanford.

SOUTH DAKOTA:

SOUTHERN FLORIDA: Rt. Rev. Dr. Cameron Mann.
SPOKANE: Rt. Rev. Dr. Herman Page.

UTAH: Rt. Rev. Dr. Paul Jones.

WESTERN COLORADO:

WESTERN NEBRASKA: Rt. Rev. Dr. George A. Beecher.
WYOMING: Rt. Rev. Dr. Nathaniel S. Thomas.

Though not a missionary district, the Panama Canal Zone has been placed
under the care of the Rt. Rev. Dr. A. W. Knight.

II. ABROAD

ANKING: Rt. Rev. Dr. D. Trumbull Huntington.

BRAZIL: Rt. Rev. Dr. Lucien L. Kinsolving.

CUBA: Rt. Rev. Dr. Hiram R. Hulse.

HANKOW: Rt. Rev. Dr. Logan H. Roots.

HAITI: Rt. Rev. Dr. Charles B. Colmore, in charge.

KYOTO: Rt. Rev. Dr. H. St. George Tucker.

LIBERIA: Rt. Rev. Dr. Samuel D. Ferguson.

MEXICO: Rt. Rev. Dr. Henry D. Aves.

SHANGHAI: Rt. Rev. Dr. Frederick R. Graves.

TOKYO: Rt. Rev. Dr. John McKim.

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