American Baptist
Foreign Mission
Society
J923
ONE - HUNDRED-NINTH
ANNU AL REPORT
Presented by the Board of Managers
at the Annual Meeting held in
Atlantic City, N . J., May 23-29, 1923
Foreign Mission Headquarters
276 Fifth Avenue
New York
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CONTENTS
PA G E
PREFACE
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B Y -L A W S
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O F F IC E R S
GENERAL
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R E P R E S E N T A T IV E S :
G E N E R A L R E V IE W
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I n t r o d u c t io n .........................................................................................................................
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T h e W o rld S i t u a t i o n a t t h e B e g i n n i n g o f t h e N e w Y e a r
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P o l it ic a l C o n d i t i o n s i n I n d i a ..................................................................................
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T h e P o l i t i c a l S i t u a t i o n i n t h e F a r E a s t .....................................................
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B a p t i s t P r o g r e s s i n E u r o p e .......................................................................................
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T h e S e v e n t y - f i f t h A n n i v e r s a r y of t h e B a p t i s t s of S w e d e n
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T h e M e e t in g o f t h e B a p t i s t W orld A l l i a n c e ...........................................
D e v e l o p m e n t s i n R u s s i a ..............................................................................................
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R e l ie f W o r k i n E u r o p e ................................................................................................
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A N o t e w o r t h y A c h i e v e m e n t i n R e l ie f W o r k ..............................................
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F i n a n c i a l S u p p o r t of R e l ie f W o r k i n E u r o p e ..............................................
T h e S e r v ic e of C o m m i s s i o n e r J. H . R u s h b r o o k e .........................................
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C o n d it io n s i n F r a n c e .....................................................................................................
E v a n g e l i s t i c P r e a c h i n g T o u r s in E u r o p e ........................................................
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S e r v ic e of S p e c ia l R e p r e s e n t a t i v e W . O . L e w i s .........................................
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D e v e l o p in g a n I n d ig e n o u s C h r i s t i a n i t y ..........................................................
P r o g r e s siv e S e l f - s u p p o r t o n O t h e r F i e l d s .....................................................
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N a t i v e L e a d e r s h i p i n t h e F a r E a s t .................................
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E d u c a t i o n a s a F a c t o r i n M i s s i o n a r y A c t i v i t y .........................................
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P l a n s f o r J u d s o n C o l l e g e ...........................................................................................
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T h e M i s s i o n a r y a s a n A g r i c u l t u r a l i s t ..........................................................
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P r o g r e s s a t S h a n g h a i B a p t i s t C o l l e g e ............................................................
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O r i e n t a l S t u d e n t s i n A m e r i c a ...............................................................................
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C e n t r a l P h i l i p p i n e C o l l e g e .......................................................................................
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A R ecord Y e a r i n E v a n g e l i s m ..................................................................................
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E v a n g e l i s t i c P r o g r e ss i n I n d i a a n d B u r m a ...................................................
E v a n g e l i s t i c A c h i e v e m e n t s i n t h e F a r E a s t ..............................................
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T h e E v a n g e l i s t i c E m p h a s i s .......................................................................................
N a t i o n a l C h r i s t i a n C o n f e r e n c e s i n C h i n a a n d J a p a n ......................
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T h e C h i n a B a p t is t C o u n c il a n d t h e I n t e r - M is s io n C o m m it t e e . . 49
A S p e c ia l C o m m i s s i o n t o t h e F a r E a s t ............................................................
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A d d it io n s t o P r o p e r t y ...................................................................................................
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D is a s t r o u s S t o r m s i n C h i n a ....................................................................................
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T r a n s f e r o f t h e N i n g y u a n S t a t i o n i n W e s t C h i n a ................................
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T h e F u k u i n M a r u A g a i n S a i l s t h e I n l a n d S e a .......................................
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N e w I n t e r e s t s of t h e G o v e r n m e n t o f B e l g i u m i n B e l g i a n C o n g o 54
E v a n g e l i s t i c P ro g r e ss N o t w i t h s t a n d i n g P e r s e c u t i o n ........................
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A n I n c r e a s e i n M i s s i o n a r y S t a f f ......................................................................
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A R e v ie w of t h e P o l ic y o f t h e S o c i e t y .............................................................
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G o v e r n m e n t G r a n t s - i n - A id .......................................................................................
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F i f t y Y e a r s o f M i s s i o n a r y S e r v ic e ......................................................................
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L i t e r a r y C o n t r i b u t i o n s of M i s s i o n a r i e s ..........................................................
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G o v e r n m e n t a l R e c o g n it io n o f M i s s i o n a r y S e r v ic e ..................................
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N e w M is s i o n a r i e s a n d t h e W o r k of t h e C a n d i d a t e D e p a r t m e n t . . 6 0
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S p e c ia l S e r v ic e of R e v . R . B . L o n g w e l l ............................................................
H e a l t h of M i s s i o n a r i e s
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T h e W o r k of t h e M e d ic a l S e r v ic e D e p a r t m e n t .........................................
* C a l l e d t o H i g h e r S e r v ic e ..............................................................................................
T h e B o a r d of M a n a g e r s ..............................................................................................
B o a r d M e e t in g s a t I n d i a n a p o l i s , N o r t h f ie l d , a n d C h i c a g o
S e c r e t a r ia l S t a f f ............................................................................................................
D e p u t a t i o n S e r v ic e o f M i s s i o n a r i e s a n d M e m b e r s of t h e B o a r d . .
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P u b l i c i t y ..................................................................................................................................
D e v e l o p m e n t s i n t h e S t a t i o n P l a n ......................................................................
S p e c i a l G i f t s ........................................................................................................................
J o i n t M a g a z i n e .................................................................................................................
H o m e s f o r M i s s i o n a r i e s a n d M i s s i o n a r i e s ’ C h i l d r e n ...........................
T h e G e n e r a l B o a r d o f P r o m o t io n a n d t h e F i n a n c i a l C a m p a i g n . .
T h e F ie l d A c t iv it ie s o f t h e B o a r d o f P r o m o t i o n .......................................
T h e C o m m i t t e e o n t h e F u t u r e D e n o m i n a t i o n a l P r o g r a m ..................
T h e S p i r i t u a l E m p h a s i s ...........................................................................................
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H o w t h e D e f ic it W a s R e d u c e d ................................................................................
A C l o se r S t u d y .................................................................- .............................................
B a n k B o r r o w in g ..............................................................................................................
R e c e ip t s for t h e Y e a r A n a l y z e d ...........................................................................
R e d u c ed E x p e n d i t u r e s o n t h e F o r e ig n F i e l d ..............................................
S a v i n g s i n H o m e E x p e n d i t u r e s .............................................................................
L e g a c ie s a n d A n n u i t y A g r e e m e n t s ......................................................................
M i s s i o n A c c o u n t s a n d M is s i o n T r e a s u r e r s ...................................................
A d v is o r y C o m m i t t e e to t h e F i n a n c e C o m m i t t e e .........................................
M e t h o d of F i n a n c i n g W o r k o n t h e F i e l d .......................................................
F i n a n c i a l a n d B u d g e t P o l i c y ....................................................................................
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T h e B u r m a M i s s i o n .....................................................................................................
T h e A s s a m M i s s i o n .......................................................................................................
T h e B e n g a l - O r i s s a M i s s i o n ......................................................................................
T h e S o u t h I n d i a M i s s i o n .........................................................................................
T h e E a s t C h i n a M i s s i o n ..............................................................................................
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T h e W e s t C h i n a M i s s i o n .........................................................................................
T h e J a p a n M i s s i o n ............................................................................................................
T h e P h i l i p p i n e I s l a n d s M i s s i o n ..........................................................................
T h e B e l g ia n C o n g o M i s s i o n ......................................................................................
S y n o p s e s o f R e p o r t s f r o m E u r o p e ...........................................................................
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R e p o r t o f T r e a s u r e r .....................................................................................................
C e r t if ic a t e of A u d it o r s ..............................................................................................
B a l a n c e S h e e t ...................................................................................................................
G e n e r a l I n v e s t m e n t s .....................................................................................................
O t h e r F i n a n c i a l S c h e d u l e s ..................................................................................
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S t a t i s t i c a l T a b l e s ......................................................................................................... 243
M i n u t e s of t h e 109 t h A n n u a l M e e t i n g .......................................................... 263
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PREFACE
T N
the
early part
of
the
19th century
the
position
of
Baptists
in
America was not one o f great prominence.
W ith little organiza­
tion, they were widely scattered and without facilities in those days for
easy communication among themselves.
The formation o f the English
Baptist Missionary Society, which had taken place in 1792, and the early
efforts o f the pioneer missionaries in India had, however, aroused a deep
interest in this country, so that considerable money was raised and sent
to their aid.
The interest thus awakened and fostered was accentuated
also by the reading o f letters from Dr. W illiam Carey, which appeared
from time to time in the M assachusetts Baptist M issionary Magazine.
W hen in the early part o f 1812 a company of five young men was set apart
tor service in foreign lands, and sailed from our shores, a deep impression
was made upon Baptists, although the volunteers were o f another denomi­
nation.
One of these young men, Adoniram Judson, read his New Testament
with great thoroughness during his voyage to
India, and as a result
accepted the Baptist view o f baptism and wrote a letter which was re­
ceived in Boston, January 19, 1813, in which he sa id : “ Should there be
formed a Baptist Society for the support of missions in these parts, I
should be ready to consider myself their missionary.” This challenge pro­
foundly stirred the Baptists, so that they began at once to make plans
to undertake this work.
Luther Rice, another o f the young men, having
experienced a like change in belief, returned to America to plead the cause
o f missions among the Baptists, the direct result of his efforts being the
organization at Philadelphia, M ay 21, 1814, o f “ The General Missionary
Convention o f the Baptist Denomination in the United States of America
for Foreign M issions,” popularly known as the Triennial Convention. The
delegates assembled on M ay 18, a fact which has led to the erroneous
statement frequently made, that the Convention was organized on that date.
It is significant that the call to engage in foreign mission work was the
first thing that led to organization and unity among the Baptists in this
country.
In 1845 the Southern Baptists withdrew because of a difference
o f opinion growing out o f the slavery question, and in 1846 the name o f
the Society was changed to The American Baptist Missionary Union.
The
name was again altered in 1910, becoming American Baptist Foreign M is­
sion Society.
The headquarters were established at Boston, M ass., in 1826,
and in 1920 were removed to N ew Y ork. A t the annual meeting in 1908,
the Society became a cooperating society of the Northern Baptist Conven­
tion.
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BY-LAWS
A s A dopted at Annual Meeting, 1910, and
Subsequently Amended
AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN
MISSION SOCIETY
P
ream ble
This corporation, organized and existing under the laws of the states of Pennsyl­
vania, Massachusetts and New Y ork, for the purpose of diffusing the knowledge of
the religion o f Jesu s Christ by means of missions throughout the world, has, pursu­
ant to the power bestowed on it by the several states of Pennsylvania, Massachusetts
and New York, adopted the following by-laws:
A R T IC L E I
M
e m b e r s h ip
The membership o f the Society shall be composed as follows:
(a) O f
all
persons who are now life members or honorary life members.
(b) O f
annual members appointed by Baptist churches. A n y church may appointone
delegate, and one additional delegate for every 100 members, but no church shall be
entitled to appoint more than ten delegates.
(c) O f
all
missionaries o f the Society during their terms of service.
(d) O f
all
accredited delegates to each annual meeting of the Northern Baptist Con­
vention.
(e) O f the officers of the Society and the members of its Board of Managers.
S e c . 2.
No member shall be entitled to more than one vote.
S e c tio n
i.
A R T IC L E II
O f f ic e r s
The officers o f the Society shall be a President, a First Vice-president, a
Second Vice-president, a Treasurer, a Recording Secretary, and one or more adminis­
trative Secretaries. The President, thp Vice-presidents, the Recording Secretary and
the Treasurer shall be elected by ballot at each annual meeting. The administrative
Secretary or Secretaries shall be elected by the Board o f Managers.
S ec . 2. The President shall preside at all meetings of the Society; in the case of
his absence or inability to serve, his duties shall be performed by the Vice-president
in attendance who is first in numerical order.
S e c . 3.
The Treasurer, the Secretaries and such officers as the Board of Managers
may appoint, shall be subject to the direction of the Board, and shall discharge such
duties as may be defined by its regulations and rules of order.
Sec.
i.
S e c . 4. The Treasurer shall give such security for the faithful performance of his
duties as the Board of Managers may direct.
S e c . 5Each officer elected at the annual meeting shall serve from the close of the
annual meeting at which he is elected, to the close o f the next annual meeting, and
until his successor is elected.
A R T IC L E I II
B o ard o f
M an agers
The Board of Managers shall consist of the President of the Society and
twenty-seven persons elected by ballot at an annual meeting. A t the meeting at
which these by-laws shall be adopted, one-third of the managers shall be elected for
one year, one-third for two years, and one-third for three years, to the end that
thereafter, as nearly as practicable, one-third of the whole number of managers shall
be elected at each subsequent annual meeting to fill the vacancies caused by the
expiration of terms of_ office. A s many more shall be elected also, as shall be neces­
sary to fill any vacancies in unexpired terms.
S ec.
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A M E R IC A N BAPTIST FOREIGN M ISSION
SOCIETY
Sec. 2. The Board o f Managers shall meet at the principal office o f the Society to
organize as soon as practicable after the annual meeting.
S e c . 3. The Board of M anagers shall have the management of the affairs of the
Society; shall have the power to elect its own Chairman and Recording Secretary and
to appoint or elect one or more administrative Secretaries of the Society and such
additional officers and agents, and such committees as to it may seem proper, and to
define the powers and duties of each; to appoint its own meetings; to adopt such
regulations and rules as to it may seem proper, including those for the control and
disposition of the real and personal property of the Society,
the sale, leasing or
mortgaging thereof, provided they are not inconsistent with its A ct of Incorporation
or its by-laws; to fill all vacancies in the Board of Managers and in any office of
the Society until the next meeting of the Society;
to
establishsuchagencies and to
appoint and remove such agents and missionaries as to it may seem proper by a
three-fifths vote of all members present and voting at the meeting when said vote
is taken; it being understood, however, that in case of missionaries of the Society,
an absolute majority of the Board shall be necessary fo r suspension and a twothirds m ajority o f the whole Board fo r dismissal; to fix the compensation of officers,
agents and missionaries; to direct and instruct them concerning their respective duties;
and to make all appropriations o f money; and at the annual meeting of the Society,
and at the first session of each annual meeting of the Northern Baptist Convention, to
present a printed or written full and detailed report o f the proceedings of the Society
and o f its work during the year.
S e c . 4. The Board of Managers shall appoint annually one of its members, whose
term does not expire with the current year, to act as an additional member of the
Committee on Nominations, without the right to vote.
A R T IC L E IV
E lig ib ility
to A p p o in tm e n t
A ll officers, all members of the Board o f Managers and all missionaries must be
members of Baptist churches.
A R T IC L E V
A n n u a l and
O th er
M e e t in g s
The Society shall meet annually on the third Wednesday in M ay, unless for some
special reason another time shall be fixed by the Board of M anagers in conference
with the Executive Committee of the Northern Baptist Convention and with repre­
sentatives of its other cooperating organizations. The meeting shall be held where
the annual meeting of the Northern Baptist Convention shall be held. Special meet­
ings may be held at any time and place upon the call of the Board o f Managers.
A R T IC L E V I
R e la tio n s
w ith
N o rth ern
B a p tis t
C o n v e n tio n
With a view to unification in general denominational matters, the Northern
Baptist Convention at each election may present nominations fo r officers and fo r the
Board of Managers.
Sec. 1.
S ec . 2. The persons elected each year as the Committee on Nominations of the
Northern Baptist Convention, shall be fo r that year the Committee of this Society on
Nominations for its officers and members of its Board of Managers to be then elected.
Se c. 3. The A nnual Report of this Society, as soon as it shall be prepared, shall
be forwarded to the officer or committee of the Northern Baptist Convention authorized
to receive it.
A R T IC L E V II
B allo ts a n d V otes b y S tates
S e c . i . On all ballots for officers
there shall be reserved a space after
after the names o f the nominees fo r
be inserted the name or names o f any
case may be.
and fo r members o f the Board of M anagers
the name of the nominee fo r each office, and
the Board o f Managers, in which spaces may
other person or persons to be voted for, as the
S ec . 2. (a) When any motion is pending before the Society, its consideration
may be temporarily suspended by a motion that a vote on the subject shall be taken
by the delegations from the States, and such a motion shall be deemed carried when
supported by one-fifth o f the delegates voting; and upon the report o f the result
by States, a motion to concur shall be in order; and in case it shall be decided in
the affirmative, the matter shall be deemed settled, but if the Society votes not to
concur, the matter shall be dismissed from further consideration at that meeting of
the Society.
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B Y -LA W S
(¿0 On a vote by States, each State shall be entitled to as many votes as it has
State Conventions and an additional vote fo r every ten thousand members of Baptist
churches within each State Convention in affiliation with the Northern Baptist Con­
vention.
^ I f in any State there be no State Convention in affiliation with the Northern Baptist
Convention, but there be in such State twenty-five Baptist churches which contribute
money fo r said Society, said State shall be entitled to one vote and an additional vote
fo r every ten thousand members o f such contributing churches.
(c) The vote o f each delegation from a State shall be determined by the m ajority
o f its delegates voting.
(d) A motion to vote by States shall be in order at any time while a motion is
pending, shall not be debatable, and shall not close debate on the original motion.
(e) The statement o f the number of votes to which each State shall be entitled, pre­
pared by the Statistical Secretary o f the Convention and approved by the Executive
Committee thereof, shall be authoritative for this Society.
A R T IC L E V I I I
A m e n d m e n ts
These by-laws may be amended by a two-thirds vote of the members present and
voting at any annual meeting o f the Society, provided written notice of the proposed
amendment shall have been given at the preceding annual meeting of the Society, or
such amendment shall be recommended by the Board of Managers.
R
e s o l u t io n
G o v e r n in g P
ro cedu re
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a
V
o te b y
S tates
Resolved, Whenever a vote by States is ordered, as provided in the by-laws, either
of two undebatable motions shall be in order:
( 1) That the debate now close, that the Society recess for fifteen minutes to
allow the delegates from the territory of each State Convention to meet in their
designated places on the floor o f the Society to take the vote, and that at the
close of the recess the vote be reported to the Secretary, recorded, and announced, or
(2) That the vote by States be reported, recorded, and announced at a certain hour
at some future session o f the Society, that the delegates from the territory o f each
State Convention meet at the close of this session of the Society, in their designated
places on the floor, and either then and there take their votes, or provide for further
discussion within the delegations at their convenience at some other time and place,
before the hour of reporting the vote as above provided.
In case the second of these motions should prevail, debate on the main question
may continue at the pleasure o f the Society, but a motion to close the debate
shall be in order at any time.
When the vote by States has been reported, recorded, and announced, the motion to
concur, provided for in the by-laws, shall follow immediately without the intervention
of any other business and without discussion.
OFFICERS
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OFFICERS
P R E SID E N T
SE C O N D V IC E -P R E S ID E N T
F R E D T . F IE L D
Massachusetts
M R S. C. D. E U L E T T E
Illinois
F IR S T V IC E -P R E S ID E N T
R E C O R D IN G S E C R E T A R Y
R E V . JO S H U A G R A V E T T
Colorado
W IL L IA M B . L IP P H A R D
New York
HOME SECRETA RY
F O R E IG N S E C R E T A R Y
P. H. J . -LER R IG O , M. D.
JA M E S H. F R A N K L IN , D. D.
A S S O C IA T E S E C R E T A R Y
F O R E IG N S E C R E T A R Y
W IL L IA M B . L IP P H A R D
JO S E P H C. R O B B IN S , D. D.
TREA SU RER
C A N D ID A T E S E C R E T A R Y
G E O R G E B. H U N T IN G T O N
P. H . J . L E R R IG O , M. D.
BOARD OF MANAGERS
Chairman, Prof. Frederick L . Anderson, D. D. Vice-Chairman, Mornay Williams.
Recording Secretary, William B . Lipphard.
Fred T . Field, President of the Society, Boston, Mass.
C L A S S I. T E R M
Prof. Frederick L. Anderson, D. D.,
Newton Center, Mass.
Charles H. Button, Frankford, Pa.
Rev. Carey W. Chamberlin, Beverly, Mass.
Seiden W. Cummings, D. D., Redlands,
Calif.
E X P I R E S 1924
Prof. K . S. Latourette, New Haven, Conn.
Thomas H. Stacy, D. D., Center Sand­
wich, N. H.
Frank H . White, Ridgewood, N. J .
Herbert J . White, D. D., Hartford, Conn.
Mornay W illiam s, Englewood, N. J .
C LA SS II. TERM
H. M. Fillebrown, Pawtucket, R. I.
J . A . Francis, D. D., Los Angeles, Calif.
W. A. Jameson, Mt. Vernon, N. Y.
Carter Helm Jones, D. D., Philadelphia,
Pa.
C. E. Milliken, L L . D., Augusta, Me.
Prof. H. B . Robins, Ph. D., Rochester,
N. Y.
William T. Sheppard, Lowell, Mass.
F. E . T aylor, D. D., Indianapolis, Ind.
M. J . Twomey, D. D., Newark, N. J .
E X P IR E S 1925
C L A S S I I I . T E R M E X P I R E S 1926
W. S. Abernethy, D. D., Washington, D. C.
Pres. Emory W. Hunt, D. D., LL. D.,
Lewisburg, Pa.
A. C. Baldwin, D. D., Philadelphia, Pa.
O.
R . Judd, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Henry Bond, Brattleboro, Vt.
T. Otto, Syracuse, N. Y .
G. A . Hagstrom, D. D., St. Paul, Minn.
G. E . Huggins, Montclair, N. J .
Rev. Carey J . Pope, Lincoln, Neb.
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PROMOTIONAL AGENT
The General Board of Promotion of the Northern Baptist Convention, J . Y . Aitchison,
D. D., General Director, 276 Fifth A ve., New Y ork City.
GENERAL REPRESENTATIVES
A . W. Rider, D. D., 3 13 West Third St., Los Angeles, Calif.
A . M. Petty, D. D., 405 T ilford Bldg., Portland, Oregon.
Frank Peterson, D. D., Room 700, 529 Second A ve., South, Minneapolis, Minn.
STATE PROMOTION DIRECTORS
Arizona— Rev. H. Q. Morton, 216 Noll Bldg., Phoenix.
California, North— C. W . Brinstad, D. D „ 408 Humboldt Savings Bank Bldg., 783
Market St., San Francisco.
California, South— F. G. Davies, D. D., 506 Columbia Bldg., Los Angeles.
Colorado— F. B . Palmer, D. D., 602 Exchange Building, Denver.
Connecticut— R ev. H . B . Sloat, 720 Main Street, Hartford.
Delaware— W. G. Russell, D. D., 1701 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa.
District of Columbia— H. W . O. Millington, D. D., 308 Munsey Building, Wash­
ington, D. C.
Idaho— Rev. W. A . Shanks, 601 Empire Bldg., Boise.
Illinois— Rev. A . E . Peterson, 143 N. Wabash A ve., Chicago.
Indiana— C. M. Dinsmore, D. D ., 729 Occidental Bldg., Indianapolis.
Iow a— G. P. Mitchell, D. D., 424 Valley National Bank Bldg., Des Moines.
Kansas— J . T. Crawford, D. D., 918 Kansas A ve., Topeka.
Maine— E. C. Whittemore, D. D., W aterville.
Massachusetts— H. A . Heath, D. D., 702 Ford Bldg., Boston.
Michigan— John E . Smith, D. D., 368 Capital National Bank Bldg., Lansing.
Minnesota— Rev. E. H. Rasmussen, Office Equipment Bldg., Room 700, 529 Second
A ve., South, Minneapolis.
Missouri— Rev. M. D. Eubank, M. D., 110 7 McGee St., Kansas City.
Montana— Rev. G. Clifford Cress, B ox 1932, Lewistown.
Nebraska— Rev. F . W. Ainslee, Hedde Bldg., Grand Island.
Nevada— Rev. John Speed, Reno.
New Hampshire— Rev. D. S. Jenks, 922 Elm St., Manchester.
New Jersey— C. E. Goodall, D. D., 158 Washington Street, Newark.
R ufus M. Traver, D. D., 158 Washington St., Newark.
New York— R . E . Farrier, D. D., 487 South Salina Street, Syracuse.
New York City— C. H. Sears, D. D., 276 F ifth A ve., New York.
Edward C. Kunkle, D. D ., 276 Fifth A ve., New York.
North Dakota— Rev. Fred E . Stockton, 405 F irst National Bank Bldg., Grand Forks.
Ohio— R ev. Fran k G. Cressey, Ph. D ., Granville.
Oregon— O. C. W right, D. D ., 405 T ilford Bldg., Portland.
Pennsylvania— W . G. Russell, D. D., 1701 Chestnut St., Philadelphia.
Rhode Island— William Reid, Ph. D., 305 Lauderdale Bldg., Providence.
South Dakota— S. P. Shaw, D. D., 1520 South Summit A ve., Sioux Falls.
Utah— Rev. M. L. Rickman, 326 Dooley Building, Salt Lake City.
Vermont— W. A. Davison, D. D., Burlington.
Washington, East— Rev. A . H. Bailey, 516 Empire State Bldg., Spokane.
Washington, W est—J . F . Watson, D. D., 433 Burke Bldg., Seattle.
West Virginia— R ev. A . S. K elley, 2 13 Yt Fourth St., Parkersburg.
Wisconsin—A . LeGrand, D. D., 17 17 W ells St., Milwaukee.
Wyoming—J . F . Blodgett, D. D., 405 South Park A ve., Casper.
GENERAL REVIEW OF THE YEAR
1922-1923
GENERAL REVIEW OF THE YEAR
1922-1923
N beginning the one hundred and tenth year of its existence
as one of the great missionary agencies of the Christian
church, the Am erican Baptist Foreign Mission Society,
known by that name since 1910, has reason for feeling pro­
foundly grateful for D ivine guidance and m anifold blessings
in all phases of its w ork during the past year. It has been a
year of continued progress in political stability throughout
the w orld, with the notable exception of sections in Europe, of
economic revival and industrial recovery at home, o f significant
evangelistic success on the mission fields, and of substantial
readjustment in the S ociety’s financial situation. In present­
ing this One H undred and Ninth Annual R eport to the con ­
stituency, only the more important events of the year can be
chronicled, since limitations of space prohibit m entioning the
numerous and wide variety of detailed items each of which
has nevertheless contributed to the gratifying progress o f the
year. A s in previous years, the reports from the different
fields are published in a separate section, while the custom ary
financial tables are included in the report of the Treasurer.
I
The World Situation at the Beginning of the New Year
A forecast of the new year, based on a survey of world con­
ditions as they existed at the close of the fiscal year, cannot
be otherwise than hopeful. The restoration of normal con­
ditions observable with a few notable exceptions throughout
the world, w hile not as rapid as had been hoped, has neverthe­
less been gratifying.
Som e of the clouds that loom ed so
om inously on the international horizon in preceding years
have gradually vanished.
Conditions in the Far East are
decidedly more favorable. China, although still disturbed by
internal political misunderstandings and civil war, is neverthe­
less endeavoring to bring order out of chaos and seems to be
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entering upon a period of industrial expansion and econom ic
improvement. In Japan the liberal and dem ocratic forces are
increasing in influence in the governm ent, while in her inter­
national relationships a lessening of tension and a develop­
ment of friendly understanding have occasioned wide-spread
favorable com m ent. In India the political turm oil of recent
years is gradually but surely subsiding as the beneficent effect
of British rule becom es more clearly recognized b y the popu­
lation and the success of the reform scheme becom es more
apparent.
In A frica the territorial redistribution and the
mandate system are provin g m easurably satisfactory, and the
form er policy of exploitation is bein g replaced by a p olicy of
com m ercial developm ent for mutual benefit. The im portance
of moral agencies in the developm ent of this immense con­
tinent is also com in g to be more fully appreciated. Conditions
in the United States have undergone marvelous changes
within the last tw o years. T h e financial depression of 1921
has been follow ed by a period of industrial prosperity, such as
the m ost optim istic business forecasts did not dare to antici­
pate. T h e theological agitation, so wide-spread since the end
of the war, has rendered a distinct service to Christianity in
that it has led multitudes o f people to determine for them ­
selves anew the reason for their faith and the spiritual realities
of their religious life, an experience w hich probably accounts
in some measure for the increase in church-m em bership as
reflected in the statistics of the Federal Council of Churches.
There has been a noticeable increase in public interest in
Am erican participation in w orld affairs and the responsibility
of the nation in helping to solve the still unsolved problems
o f readjustment in Europe. This change in Am erican senti­
ment is of hopeful significance for Europe which, with the
relationship between France and Germany, with the deplor­
able conditions in Russia, with the limited im provem ent in
other countries, is facing a precarious future.
It is therefore not difficult to understand how the m ission­
aries should be faced with many perplexities but also evi­
dences o f the manifest blessing of God upon the w ork.
In
view of its contacts with multitudes of people, through scores
of evangelical leaders in E urope; through hundreds of mis­
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sionaries in Asia and A frica, and through thousands of native
associates scattered in cities and tow ns and rem ote jungle vil­
lages, the Society must always be vitally concerned in the
general w orld situation. T he foreign-m ission task is fraught
with increasing significance in the light of recent w orld de­
velopm ents. T h e rising tide of race consciousness, the new
econom ic and com m ercial m ovem ents, the unsatisfactory
status of w orld relationships grow in g out of the war, and
many other factors com bine to render the task of the foreign
m issionary one of great delicacy and difficulty. On the other
hand, the turbulence and turmoil which fill the world seem to
be closely paralleled by a new consciousness of spiritual need
upon the part of peoples the w orld over. God has given the
missionaries the answer to these spiritual questionings so that
in almost every one o f the great fields movem ents are now
taking place which m anifestly com e from the Spirit o f God.
The missionaries are taking full advantage of the tide of dis­
satisfaction and earnest inquiry and are using every endeavor
to direct the inquiring thousands into the w ay of God.
Political Conditions in India
In India there has unquestionably been a distinct change in
the general and political situation which today is far better
than it was a year ago. This has been greatly facilitated by
tw o good harvests, thereby im proving the econom ic conditions
o f the people. Lord Reading, viceroy of India, at a recent
address in Calcutta said :
The worst o f the critical period in India is passed and the present year
compares very favorably with the first year o f my viceroyalty.
Racial
animosity is no longer so acute and is daily tending to diminish.
This summarizes the situation in India today. H opeful signs'
are noticed in the direction of organized self-assertion on the
part o f the depressed classes.
The first bulwark of caste
dominance in political matters has been stormed. F or the
first time in the history of India the lower castes have asserted
themselves against the intellectual oligarchy of the upper
castes and have seized the political pow er in their own hands.
M any Indians are gaining political prominence. Mr. J. W .
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Bhore, C. B. E., an Indian Christian, was appointed H igh
Com m issioner for India in L ondon follow in g the death o f Sir
W illiam M eyer, the first man to hold this office. Mr. Shapuyi
Saklatwala, a nephew of Mr. Jamshedjee Tata and a form er
em ployee o f the Tata Iron and Steel W ork s in Jamshedpur,
has been sent to Parliament by the Labor party, representing
North Battersea. Five members of the new ly elected legis­
lative assem bly in Burma are members of our Karen Baptist
churches.
M uch progress is likewise being made toward
securing the privilege o f citizenship for Indians residing in the
British D om inions.
T h e Imperial Conference of 1921 ex­
pressed its opinion that in the interests of the solidarity of
the British Com m onwealth the right to citizenship of Indians
dom iciled in other parts of the Em pire should be recognized.
T he year has also been o f great significance for Burma.
Om itted originally from the R eform Government planned for
India, Burma now has a new constitution of her ow n which
in its liberality, especially regarding the franchise, surpasses
that granted for India. T he Legislative Council consists of
27 elected members and 24 members nominated by the G over­
nor. The new constitution is exceedingly interesting, espe­
cially in that the w om en of Burma should have the vote. In
view of their status and their com m and over the other sex this
seems perfectly natural, whereas in India wom en do not enter
the Council unless there is a resolution of the Council in favor
of their d oing so. Thus household suffrage is being estab­
lished in Burma.
W h ile the activities of Mr. Gandhi and the non-cooperative
leaders had previously been involvin g India in turm oil and
confusion th e.w ork ing of the Reform ed Constitution has been
unmistakably pointing the w ay to true progress. Sufficient
evidence has demonstrated the desire o f the administration to
w ork in full sym pathy with the new legislature. Sir Sivasw am y A iyer, the Indian delegate to the A ssem bly o f the
League o f Nations, said p u b licly:
There has been much talk o f the troubles in India at present, but no
sane Indian entertains a desire to break away from England.
W e are
sensible o f the advantages which we have and will continue to have under
the British Government, and no right-thinking person wants them to cease.
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The achievements during the past year of the Reform ed Con­
stitution, its steady granting of the demands voiced by edu­
cated Indians for decades, its gradually increasing dignity,
authority, and influence apparently ju stify the statement by
Lord W interton, U nder-Secretary for India, to the effect that
the promises which have been made to India are being surely
and steadily fulfilled.
The Political Situation in the Far East
Significant changes are also noted in political conditions in
the Far East. W ith ou t question the Conference on the L im i­
tation o f Arm am ents held in W ash in gton City in the winter
of 1921-1922, accom plished much in the im provem ent of inter­
national understandings. T h e visitor to the Far East today
finds that the tension has been noticeably relieved, and that
the danger of unfriendly developm ents between governm ents
in that part of the w orld and A m erica has been lessened. R ep­
resentatives of the Board w ho visited China and Japan in 1922
report a decided change in international relationships.
In
China civil strife continued during the greater part o f 1922,
almost w ithout cessation. A t present conditions seem to be
m ore stable, but it is difficult to make any reliable forecast. In
Japan the liberal or dem ocratic forces in the political world
appear to be grow in g in power. A strong m ovem ent for com ­
plete independence is observed in the Philippine Islands. It
cannot be doubted that the outcom e of the Conference on the
Lim itation of Arm am ents and other recent developm ents in
the Far East have proved beneficial to the w ork of all foreignmission agencies.
The general drift in the w orld at large in the direction of
self-expression and self-determination has had its inevitable
effect on the religious life o f the people.
Native Christian
bodies have becom e more restive under the thought of foreign
domination. T h ey have com e into a larger self-consciousness
and are increasingly anxious that Christianity shall not be
know n in their lands as a foreign religion.
T h e situation
presents unusual problem s for several denominations.
By
reason of their distinctive principles, such problem s should be
more easily solved b y Baptist missions. T o some extent the
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aspirations for a larger measure of self-expression and selfdetermination are accom panied b y larger efforts tow ard selfsupport, and a number of large gifts have been made b y native
business men in recent years either to the w ork of the Society
or to institutions w hich they have founded under the guidance
of the missionaries and native Christians. A t the same time
the churches in general need to be stimulated to make larger
contributions for the support of their ow n work.
Baptist Progress in Europe
F or m any years the Society has manifested an interest in
Europe. W h ile it has not been the p olicy to send foreign
m issionaries to European countries, the Board has been glad
to have fellow ship, and cooperation in practical ways with in­
digenous and autonom ous Baptist bodies in many parts of
Europe has always been maintained. N early a hundred years
ago the first contribution to Europe was made through c o ­
operation with the few Baptists w h o were discovered in
France. A little later J. G. O ncken was baptized in the R iver
Elbe near H am burg, Germany, by Prof. Barnas Sears, of
H am ilton, N. Y ., and alm ost im m ediately thereafter the M is­
sionary U nion (n ow the Foreign M ission S ociety) began to
furnish financial assistance to the Baptists of Germany.
E very student of European Baptist history know s the great
extent to which the Baptist m ovem ents in almost every part
of the continent are traceable directly or indirectly to the w ork
in Germany. In later years the Board began to assist Bap­
tists in the Scandinavian countries. In a limited w ay groups
in Russia received aid w hile Baptists in Central and South­
eastern E urope were helped through a com m ittee organized
in Germany. D u ring the past year the Board has been fur­
nishing assistance to Baptist groups in Poland, Latvia,
Esthonia, Lithuania, Czechoslovakia, France, Belgium , N or­
w ay, and Denmark. In Sweden and Germany the appropria­
tions w ere practically discontinued several years ago.
At
present a small amount is continued to assist the theological
schools at Stockholm and at H am burg. On account of con di­
tions in Russia, it has been im possible as yet to resume m is­
sionary relationships there, although much has been done in
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cooperation with the A m erican R elief Adm inistration to fur­
nish physical relief to Baptists and others in that country.
The Seventy-fifth Anniversary of the Baptists of Sweden
In 1848 the First Baptist Church in Sweden was organized.
Since that date the progress of Baptists in that country has
been both rapid and substantial. N otw ithstanding the re­
m oval of more than 30,000 of their number to Am erica, their
membership is over 60,000 at the present time. T h ey have a
w ell-developed theological school, an aggressive Foreign M is­
sion Society, a denom inational weekly with a large circulation,
and numerous able leaders. In July they celebrate the seventyfifth anniversary of the organization of their first church, and
they have invited the Society to send fraternal representatives,
which the Board is glad to do in view of the cordial relation­
ships which have s.o long existed between the tw o groups.
Representation o f the Society will be arranged in connection
with attendance of its members upon the m eeting of the B ap­
tist W orld A lliance, which follow s im m ediately the Swedish
celebration.
A s a record of the relations that have lon g existed between
the Baptists of Sweden and Am erican Baptists, it is appropri­
ate to repeat here a portion of the address delivered by Rev.
C. E. Benander, D. D., at the m eeting of the Baptist W orld
Alliance in Philadelphia in 1911:
In speaking o f Baptist work and influence as one o f the agencies for the
furtherance o f true Christian life and principles in our home land, we
deem it befitting at the outset to call attention to the fact that Sweden
has been, and still is, to some extent, an American Baptist mission field.
A s early as 1855 The American Baptist Publication Society, of this city,
great in its many noble achievements for the extension o f the kingdom
o f heaven upon earth, was led to take loving and supporting care o f the
young Baptist child in our country, which at the time was poor, despised,
and persecuted.
In 1866, the American Baptist M issionary Union, now the American
Baptist Foreign M ission Society, which, as we all know, is one o f the
regiments o f honor in our L ord’s great and victorious army of missions,
planted its benign banner in Sweden.
The
substantial support o f the
Union at once called into existence our seminary for the education of
ministers, and also furnished means for sending out a considerable number
o f gospel messengers in various provinces.
Thus the work, which was
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already begun, could be advanced with increased force and efficiency.
Through the gracious blessing o f God it was attended by an almost un­
equaled success, to which the history o f our mission is known to bear
abundant testimony.
The work o f sowing and reaping has been inter­
changing incessantly on the Swedish field.
F rom this field my fellow
delegates and I have come to this W o rld Congress with hearts thrilling
with harvest joy.
M indful o f our L ord’s words, “ T hat he that soweth
and he that reapeth may rejoice together,” we would especially call upon
the representatives o f the American Baptist Foreign M ission Society and
T he Am erican Baptist Publication Society to share this jo y with us.
The
seed, sown under the auspices o f these societies in Swedish ground, is o f
the true mustard species o f the parable, and through the grace o f God
the tree has already grown large and rich in branches.
M any years ago it was said that no m issionary investm ent
had ever yielded larger returns than the contributions made
by the Publication Society at first, and for many years b y the
Foreign M ission Society, in support of the Baptist w ork in
Sweden. T h e returns have been large indeed. Incidentally
the Society has been greatly benefited through this connection
with the Baptists o f Sweden, since many of its m ost useful
missionaries in various parts of the w orld are the children of
Swedish Baptist parents.
The Meeting of the Baptist W orld Alliance
Plans for the third m eeting of the Baptist W o rld A lliance
to be held in Stockholm , Sweden, July 21-27, 1923, have been
so w idely announced to the denom ination that they scarcely
need to be reported here. Th is great denom inational gather­
ing will undoubtedly be o f far-reaching im portance to Baptist
w ork in all parts of the w orld. From the begin n ing of prepa­
rations for it the Board o f M anagers has therefore taken a
deep interest in the Stockholm m eeting and has cooperated in
every practical w ay. W ith the approval of the Board, Secre­
tary James H . Franklin has served as chairman of the special
com m ittee appointed b y the Northern Baptist Convention to
prom ote attendance, and A ssociate Secretary W illiam B. L ip phard has directed the publicity for this meeting. It is note­
w orth y that the Baptists in a country w hich until recently
was regarded as a mission field of the Society, are now the
host o f the Baptist W orld Alliance. The Board has arranged
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to be represented at the m eeting of the Baptist W o rld A lliance,
and it has also thought it wise to make arrangements for
limited representation o f the missions and of the native Chris­
tian bodies in several countries.
Developments in Russia
From time to time the Board of Managers has received let­
ters from individuals in Russia and from Dr. J. H . Rushbrooke
and Dr. W . O. L ew is regarding developm ents am ong Russian
Baptists. It is not possible even yet to state positively the
exact progress made by Baptists in Russia in recent years,
since many of the churches in that country believe it is unscriptural for them to count their members. It is estimated,
however, that since 1914 they have increased in numbers from
about 100,000 to at least 1,000,000. Some are of the opinion
that the present strength of Baptists in Russia is 2,000,000 or
m ore, but neither D octor R ushbrooke nor D o cto r L ew is is
w illing to hazard a guess. In one of his interviews with a
governm ent official, D octor R ushbrooke was told that the
Baptists were som ething like 3,000,000 strong in Russia. In
Russia there have been tw o groups, one know n as Baptists and
the other as E vangelical Christians, with separate organiza­
tions, but h olding to the same principles and form of church
governm ent. Partly because o f the preference of leaders in
the tw o groups, and partly because of a desire o f each to hold
its distinctive name, it was exceedingly difficult to secure the
cooperation of all of those popularly known in Russia as
Baptists and E vangelical Christians.
More than a year ago it was reported that the Baptists and
the Evangelicals were seriously considering the form ation of
an A ll-R ussian Baptist U nion. A ll available inform ation was
brought to a m eeting of the E xecutive Com mittee o f the Bap­
tist W orld Alliance in L ondon in the summer of 1922, and the
follow in g action was taken by that com m ittee:
T h e Executive Committee o f the Baptist W o rld Alliance assembled at
the Baptist Church House, London, on A ugust 1, 1922, expresses its grati­
fication and thankfulness in learning that the baptized believers o f Russia,
gathered hitherto under the names of the A ll-R ussian Union o f Evan­
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gelical Christians and the All-R ussian Baptist Union, are earnestly seeking
to be united in one body, and
W h e r e a s , The Executive Committee is convinced that these two bodies
are one in belief and in polity, indeed in all save name,
R esolved , That this Executive Committee expresses the hope that the
union o f these two groups may be speedily consummated.
On O ctober 10, 1922, the Board of Managers of the Society
took the follow in g a ctio n :
V oted , That the Board express its pleasure at hearing o f the proposed
union o f groups o f baptized believers in Russia, and its most hearty ap­
proval o f the action which was taken by the Executive Committee o f the
Baptist W o rld Alliance in London, A ugust 1, 1922.
Other Baptist bodies in A m erica and in England sent mes­
sages to the Baptists in Russia expressing the hope that a
union o f the Baptists and the Evangelicals could be effected.
A t the present time it is im possible to secure reliable inform a­
tion from Russia direct, but the last reports indicated the dis­
position on the part of the tw o groups to effect a union and
to establish one theological school for the use of both groups.
In this connection it should be stated that a considerable sum
of m oney, collected m ore than ten years ago for the establish­
ment of a Baptist C ollege in Russia, is in the hands o f the
A m erican members of the Executive Committee of the Baptist
W orld Alliance.
It seems evident therefore that during recent years the Bap­
tists in Russia have made progress that probably is w ithout
precedent in the history of our denom ination. It also seems
clear that m issionary agencies must be exceedingly cautious
lest b y some written or spoken w ord the Baptists in Russia be
placed under suspicion b y their governm ent.
U nw ise p ro­
cedure ju st now on the part o f any m issionary agency m ight
easily be misinterpreted and could w ork serious injury to the
Baptist m ovem ent in Russia.
Relief W ork in Europe
T he chaotic business conditions in m ost European countries
since the w ar are so well know n to the public that no special
com m ent is required here. In general, the currency in m ost
countries on the Continent o f Europe has depreciated steadily
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in value, with the corresponding- effect on exchange rates.
Fortunately in som e of the countries in W estern Europe, there
has been an im provem ent in the econom ic conditions to such
an extent that appropriations for relief-work, under the direc­
tion of C om m issioner J. H. R ushbrooke, have been steadily
decreased. In France Rev. O. Brouillette completed his service in
relief work in the devastated areas and returned to America in the
spring. Extended mention was made o f his work in previous an­
nual reports. The Board placed on record its grateful apprecia­
tion o f his valuable service. He will long cherish the assurances
o f gratitude which he received from the French people.
However, the savings effected in the western countries of
Europe have been rapidly consumed by the heart-sickening needs
in Russia, especially in the famine areas. In view o f the distress
already wide-spread in 1920, the Baptist Conference held in Lon­
don in July o f that year recommended a program o f relief work
for the ensuing three years for adoption by Baptist bodies in En­
gland, Canada, the United States, and Scandinavian countries.
The Society was requested to contribute at the rate o f $166,000
per annum for three years, or a total of $500,000 before N ovem ­
ber 1, 1923. The response of Northern Baptists to the special
appeal in the winter of 1920-1921 was very generous, but the
offerings in recent months as reported elsewhere have been
distressingly disappointing, with the result that in the midst
of the third year of the relief program , at least $75,000 is still
required to meet the full $500,000 expected of Northern B ap­
tists. H ow ever, in the winter of 1921-1922 and again in the
winter of 1922-1923 large shipments of cloth ing and other sup­
plies were sent to various sections of Europe and Russia. It
is im possible to estimate accurately the value of such supplies,
but it is safe to say that, including the large shipments of
clothing (about three thousand heavy bales and barrels) the
total offering of Northern Baptists during the last tw o and
one-half years has been well above $1,000,000— possibly
$1,500,000 for relief-w ork in Europe.
A Noteworthy Achievement in Relief Work
E xtended mention was made in the report of last year of
the service of relief rendered in Europe through the shipment
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o f clothing, shoes, soap, toys, and m iscellaneous supplies for­
warded on “ T h e Ship of F e llo w sh ip ” in the fall o f 1921.
W ith the alleviation o f distress that had been made possible
through that service, it had been hoped that during the spring
and sum m er m onths conditions in E urope w ould have so im­
proved as to make similar relief measures no longer necessary.
Fortunately m ost countries had experienced an im provem ent
in conditions, so that the shortage of cloth ing was not nearly
so acute as it was during the preceding winter. In the case
o f Russia, how ever, conditions had becom e w orse instead of
better. R eports b y agents of the A m erican R elief A dm in is­
tration, confirm ed b y our European Com m issioner, Dr. J. H.
R ushbrooke, indicated an appalling need of clothing. In Sep­
tem ber the F oreign M ission S ociety’s representative, Dr. W .
O. Lew is, visited Russia and sent back to the B oard a report
that described conditions alm ost incredible. R ecog n izin g the
fearful need and rem em bering the m agnificent response w hich
had greeted the appeal in the fall of 1921, the Board felt under
obligation again to undertake this relief service, not only in
givin g expression to a feeling of sym pathy but also as a
dem onstration o f genuine Christian helpfulness.
A t its
O ctober m eeting, the Board decided unanim ously to present
this need to the denom ination. A brief advertising cam paign
was projected and another slogan was invented, “ Rush a Ship
to Russia.” A letter was sent to every pastor, requesting the
cooperation o f his church, and a letter was also forw arded to
the friends w h o supplied packages last year, asking their
assistance in this second achievement. T h e denom inational
periodicals, “ T h e B aptist,” “ The W atchm an-E xam iner,” and
the others, including the N ovem ber issue o f “ M issions ” (the
publication of w hich was slightly delayed through the courtesy
o f the ed itor), once m ore generously devoted colum ns and
pages o f space in givin g the plan wide-spread publicity. The
response o f the denom ination was beyond anything that had
been anticipated. It was realized that in the limited time
that had been set for the collection of the supplies, only a
fraction o f what had been gathered together in the preceding
year could reasonably be expected.
Nevertheless, nearly
seven thousand packages w ere received at the tem porary
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warehouse, and the entire shipment consisted of 1,091 bales
o f clothing, 8 bales o f children’s clothing, and 26 cases o f m is­
cellaneous supplies. These w ere forw arded from N ew Y ork
on one o f the steamships o f the Am erican R elief A dm inistra­
tion, of which Mr. H erbert H oover is chairman. T h at organi­
zation transported this entire shipment from N ew Y o rk to
R ussia w ithout expense of ocean freight to the denomination.
A supplem entary shipment of approxim ately 27 bales of cloth ­
ing was sent to Germany for distribution am ong Russian
refugees. The European representative of the Society, Dr.
W . O. Lew is, was instructed b y the Board to proceed from
his headquarters at Paris to Odessa and meet the steamship
on its arrival, and in cooperation with the A m erican R elief
Adm inistration to arrange for the distribution of its cargo.
M any form alities had to be gone through with before the
cargo could be unloaded at Odessa, and the Soviet Govern­
ment insisted on unpacking carefully a large number of bales
of clothing before they were released for distribution. D octor
Lew is spent some time in M oscow in conference with Dr. J.
H . R ushbrooke, where an all-Russian Baptist evangelical re­
lief com m ittee was organized, and com prehensive plans were
form ulated for the distribution o f the clothing. A program
o f distribution was prepared, with the result that the bales of
cloth in g were despatched by rail to the various centers, from
which their contents were distributed am ong Baptists and
evangelicals and their needy neighbors and friends. A sub­
stantial portion was distributed in accordance with the agree­
ment with H erbert H oover, under the direction of the A m eri­
can R elief Adm inistration, in important centers designated
b y D octor Lew is, irrespective of religious affiliations of the
recipients. Thus the second shipment of clothing, w hich the
denom ination forwarded to Europe, under the auspices o f the
F oreign M ission Society, is an accom plished fact. N othing
was lost on the journey, and every piece of clothing that was
packed at the warehouse in B rooklyn arrived at its destination.
A lth ou gh only a small fraction o f the immense need through­
out Russia could be met, a large amount o f good was never­
theless accom plished.
Christian fellow ship was extended
throughout the areas which had suffered so severely from the
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great Russian fam ine; fraternal relationships with the Bap­
tists and the evangelicals o f Russia were greatly strengthened ;
and m ultitudes of people not affiliated with Baptists reco g ­
nized in this evidence of brotherhood and sym pathy an out­
standing dem onstration o f Christianity in its m ost practical
and serviceable form . T o all w h o had a part in this second
relief achievement, the Board extends its sincere gratitude
and appreciation.
Financial Support of Relief W ork in Europe
Com m endable as was the response o f the denom ination to
the appeal to furnish cloth ing for distribution in Europe, the
fact nevertheless remains that the financial response to appeals
for the support of regularly established relief activities has
been very disappointing. T w o years ago, the constituency
responded to an appeal from suffering Europe with generous
contributions that enabled the Society to forw ard $166,666 to
Europe. Last year $155,435.79 was appropriated for the same
purpose, having been received through special offerings. D u r­
ing the current year, in order to avoid repeated special appeals
to the churches, an arrangement was made, w hereby the Near
East Relief, an organization that had been for several years
undertaking relief w ork in A sia M inor and Greece, and the
Board, on behalf of European relief, united in a joint appeal
in January, the understanding b ein g that offerings so received
w ould be divided equally between the tw o causes. T h e re­
sponse has been far below what had reasonably been antici­
pated, approxim ately only $72,000 being made available for
the Board to forw ard to Europe. Cablegrams have therefore
had to be despatched to Com m issioner J. H . Rushbrooke, in­
structing him to discontinue certain measures of relief that
had been undertaken and to await further action before mak­
ing additional com m itm ents. T o what extent this decline in
contributions is due to the arrangement providin g for a joint
appeal is difficult to determine. It may even be possible that
the disappointing response is a reflection of the feeling of
uncertainty throughout the country concerning the outcom e
o f the dem oralized affairs of Europe, and the possibility o f such
constructive efforts as would lead to a gradual but permanent
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restoration of Europe to normal conditions. It
that the w hole subject of relief w ork in Europe,
it may be undertaken by Baptists, will be given
sideration at the m eeting of the Baptist W orld
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is probable
in so far as
special con ­
A lliance in
The Service of Commissioner J. H. Rushbrooke
Nearly three years have passed since the Baptist Conference
in London in the summer o f 1920. D uring this period, J. H.
R ushbrooke, D. D ., w ho at that conference was appointed
Baptist Com m issioner for Europe, has been rendering distin­
guished service in this important position. H is duties, as
outlined in the action o f the conference, have been “ to coop er­
ate with the Boards in carryin g into effect their program s for
m issionary, educational, and relief-w ork in Europe and in
m aking such representations to governm ents as may be found
necessary or desirable.”
D octor R ushbrooke has been in­
timately acquainted with the Baptists in Europe for many
years, and at the time of his election he had just com pleted
with Dr. C. A . B rooks o f A m erica a survey of conditions
affecting Baptist w ork in practically all of E urope except
Russia. From the very beginning Com m issioner Rushbrooke
has served with great satisfaction to the Boards which he has
represented. N ot only has he given general supervision to
the large relief-w ork carried on under denom inational aus­
pices, but he has accepted responsibility fo r aiding the Boards
in various ways. H e has studied religious conditions in cou n ­
tries in which several Baptist Boards are interested, and has
made recom m endations w hich have always been follow ed so
far as financial conditions w ould permit. It is difficult to
say h ow the proper advice regarding the w ork of the Society
in several sections of E urope could have been secured w ithout
his aid. Through him the Baptist Boards of Great Britain,
Canada, and Sweden, and of the Society have cooperated in
lending assistance to Baptists in several countries in Europe.
T h e direction of relief-w ork in E urope has required tw o
visits to Russia by D octor Rushbrooke during the year. H e
has had close relations with the A m erican R elief A dm inistra­
tion and with the Nansen Com m ission. T hrough the c6urtesy
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of the latter organization he was permitted to visit M oscow
and com e in direct touch w ith Baptist leaders under w hose
general direction the greater part o f the relief supplies from
Baptist sources are distributed.
In the early fall D octor R ushbrooke made a brief visit to
A m erica in the interests o f European Baptists. H e arrived in
A m erica early in O ctober and returned to London late in
N ovem ber. D u rin g these weeks he covered an itinerary that
extended from T exas to Canada, filled w ith speaking appoint­
ments at State Conventions, ministers’ conferences, church
services, and other im portant m eetings. H is time was shared
with Southern and Canadian Baptists as w ell as with N orth­
ern, since he represents not only the S ociety but also the
F oreign M ission Boards o f the Southern Baptist and Canadian
Baptist Conventions.
E veryw here he was given a m ost
cordial reception. H is clear analysis o f conditions in E urope
and his outline o f the problem s and the steps that had been
taken or were being taken under his direction toward their
solution, dem onstrated conclusively that he was the right man
for the im portant task com m itted to him. D o cto r R ushbrooke
made many friends while in A m erica. In his delightful way
he made churches realize m ore clearly than before the strate­
gic im portance o f helping the Baptist cause in E urope during
these days o f readjustm ent and reconstruction. H is presence
also helped to focu s the attention o f people tow ard the m eet­
ing o f the Baptist W orld A lliance at Stockholm in July next.
It is safe to presume that many o f the delegates w h o will
attend that m eeting received from D octo r R ushbrooke the
first suggestion that led them to consider m aking the journey.
D octor R ushbrooke is an indefatigable worker. E very mat­
ter o f im portance is given the m ost careful personal attention,
and the clarity o f his insight and understanding of every situa­
tion appears in the com prehensive reports which com e to the
Board at intervals from his office in L ondon. Rarely is there
occasion for the Board to request additional inform ation. In
his requirements as to the handling of funds and auditing of
accounts, he has set a high standard fo r the com m ittees w hich
direct affairs in the several countries w ith which his w ork is
related.
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T h e Board has held D octor R ushbrooke in high esteem and
at a m eeting in N ovem ber just before his return to Europe
the follow in g action was ta k en :
W h e r e a s , Rev. J. H . Rushbrooke, D . D ., has completed two years o f
service as Baptist Commissioner for Europe, representing the Baptists o f
Great Britain, Canada, and o f the Southern Baptist Convention and o f the
Northern Baptist Convention in the United States, therefore be it
R esolved, That the Board o f Managers o f the Am erican Baptist Foreign
M ission Society records its hearty appreciation o f the tireless industry, the
patient devotion, and the statesmanlike ability with which Commissioner
Rushbrooke has administered the delicate and difficult tasks committed
to his trust.
T he Board congratulates him upon the signal success which
had attended his service.
B y his sympathetic leadership, Commissioner
Rushbrooke has so won the confidence o f the four constituencies as to
choir the quartette into a symphony o f cooperation.
In view of the distinguished service w hich he has rendered,
and in recognition o f the strategic im portance o f the position
to denom inational progress, the Board is prepared to coop er­
ate in the future with other bodies in the continuance o f the
office o f Baptist C om m issioner for Europe.
Conditions in France
F or nearly one hundred years the Society has been inter­
ested in the w ork in France. It is a matter of deep regret
that the apparent results have not been m ore encouraging.
From the days of John Calvin and the H uguenots, the Protes­
tants o f France have faced grave difficulties. Latin influences
have made the w ork hard and progress slow for all evangelical
forces. In addition to the hindrances faced b y evangelicals
in general, the Baptists in France have lon g suffered from
difficulties of their own. F or several decades at least the
dissensions within their ow n ranks have imperiled their use­
fulness as a denom ination. O n no other field in any part of
the w orld has the Society faced such perplexing problem s for
so lon g a period. O ften the question has been raised as to
whether the Board was justified in continuing to expend m is­
sionary funds indefinitely where the internal dissensions were
so far beyond its control. The correspondence filed at head­
quarters gives evidence of unsuccessful efforts on the part of
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several generations of secretaries to deal with the problem s
in France. D u rin g the war, however, the tw o groups o f Bap­
tists in that country seemed to be drawn into closer fellow ship,
and im m ediately after the war there was a m ovem ent tow ard
a federation of all the French-speaking Baptists in France,
B elgium , and Switzerland. Such an organization was effected
in the autumn of 1919, w hich was purely voluntary on the part
of those w h o com posed it, and w ithout pressure from outside
organizations. T h e Board w elcom ed the form ation o f the
French-speaking Baptist U nion, and through its representa­
tives in France in the summer o f 1920, nam ely, Dr. E m ory
W - H unt, Com m issioner Charles A . B rooks, and Foreign
Secretary James H . Franklin, expressed its desire to utilize
the Com m ittee of the new U nion in the distribution o f such
appropriations as it could make in support of w ork am ong
French-speaking Baptists. In the m idst of negotiations there
was a revival o f differences w hich had lon g existed between
representatives o f the tw o Baptist A ssociations, and one church
withdrew from the Union. Since that date several other churches
in France and in Switzerland have withdrawn from the Union
and are unw illing to have fellow ship longer with the Society
on account of its cooperation with the U nion, except under
conditions which the Board believes w ould result in the per­
manent reestablishment of the conditions that seemed to have
been largely responsible for the lack o f progress in previous
years. M eanwhile, the U nion has grow n until it now includes
tw enty Baptist churches in France and three in B elgium , and
represents the largest measure of cooperation w hich seems
ever to have existed am ong the French-speaking Baptist con ­
gregations.
Evangelistic Preaching T ou rs in Europe
D u rin g the summer months of 1922, F. E. T aylor, D . D.,
and C. H . Jones, D. D., tw o mem bers o f the Board of M ana­
gers, w ere sent on a special evangelistic preaching tour to
Czechoslovakia. A n itinerary that had been carefully arranged
by a com m ittee in Prague brought these evangelists from
A m erica into touch with m ost of the cities and tow ns as well
as rem ote villages in which there is any Baptist constituency.
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Thousands were reached with the message of the gospel, and
multitudes of men and wom en testified to their loyalty to
Jesus Christ as a result of these visits. T he tw o itinerant
preachers endured many inconveniences of travel as well as
personal hardships and at times faced considerable opposition.
Nevertheless, they rejoiced to proclaim Christ in this land
w hich for centuries has been an historic battle-ground o f the
faith. W h ile the evangelistic program was being carried out
in Czechoslovakia, W . S. A bernethy; D. D., President o f the
Society, was traveling under the com m ission of the Society as
its special representative to bring fraternal greetings to the
Baptist churches in the several countries of Europe with which
the Society is closely related. M r. W . T . Sheppard, also a
mem ber o f the Board, at his ow n expense, accom panied D o c ­
tor A bernethy on this special m ission.
The impression created upon the churches and upon the
com m unities by the testim ony o f these ministers and the lay­
man, not only brought fresh enthusiasm and confident faith to
many a Baptist group, but in some instances secured for them
a recognition in their com m unities which they had not previ­
ously enjoyed.
Everyw here these tw o deputations were
greeted by immense audiences, and large numbers of people
for the first time not only becam e aware of the existence of
Baptists am ong their ow n countrym en but also heard from
these visiting Am ericans clear presentations of evangelical
Christianity and Baptist principles. In the case of D octor
A bernethy, w ho visited many o f the capitals, the fact that he
was pastor of Calvary Baptist Church in W ashington where
President H arding worships undoubtedly helped to awaken
w ide interest in his visits and his messages.
The success
w hich accom panied the visits of both deputations was most
gratifying and exceeded all that the Board had anticipated.
The Board therefore is glad to announce that tw o missions
o f a similar character have been authorized for the com ing
summer. S. W . Cummings, D. D., a m em ber of the Board,
has been invited to engage in an evangelistic tour o f the
Baltic States of Esthonia and Latvia,, and Rev. Joshua Gravett,
a vice-president of the Society, has been invited to make a
similar tour in Poland.
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Service of Special Representative W . O. Lewis
A tten tion was called in the report of last year to the. ap­
pointm ent of Dr. W . O. Lew is, form erly professor in W illiam
Jewell College, for special service in Europe. It was clear
that in addition to the valuable service rendered b y C om m is­
sioner J. H. R ushbrooke, the Society should have its own
special representative in Europe to face problem s of a peculiar
nature. D evelopm ents in France, to which reference has
already been made, emphasizes /the need for the services of
such a representative not only there but also in other sections
o f Europe. D octor Lew is sailed in July, 1922, and gave his
first attention to problem s in France, visiting every general
section o f the country and securing inform ation regarding the
churches and their w ork. In the early autumn of 1922 he was
sent to make special observations in Russia, where the Board
has been engaged in relief-w ork. A fter his return to France
he was requested in January to make a second jou rney to
Russia in order to give general supervision to the distribution
o f the large shipment of clothing sent b y N orthern Baptists
in response to R ussia’s need. T o this exacting task D o cto r
Lew is was required to give several months, and he has only
recently returned again to France. H e has shown him self
patient, th orou gh -goin g in his investigations, and anxious
to discover h ow the Society can make its best contribu­
tion to the progress o f evangelical Christianity in Europe.
H e has already secured considerable inform ation of great
value to the Board in relation to conditions in Russia
and in France. On account of the interruptions to his regular
w ork D octor L ew is has been unable to make personal in­
vestigations in several other sections of Europe where his
services are required, but he has made a good beginning, and
the Board feels that the Society is fortunate in having his
services.
Developing an Indigenous Christianity
The success o f foreign m issions is measured in part at least
b y the extent to w hich self-supporting churches have been
established and the control o f the w ork given into the hands
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of native peoples. Steady progress in such developed lines
has been made during- the past year. T h e great incom ing
tides of intellectual awakening and national self-consciousness
now sw eeping India are resulting in an earnest desire on the
part of the Baptist Christians to participate in a larger and
more representative w ay in the w ork of the missions in
Burma, Assam , South India, and Bengal-Orissa. On each of
these fields there has been manifested a health}" determination
to accept an increasing- measure o f independence and initiative
and to assist in a m ore pronounced w ay in their own support.
T h e Burma M ission at its annual conference voted to ask
representatives from the Burmese, Karen, and Indian Baptist
churches to sit with the conference each year and to partici­
pate in the discussion of matters relating to the w ork of the
mission. T h e conference also asked the Education Comm ittee
to take definite steps toward securing and training Burmese
and Karen Christians to take charge of schools, and asked the
Reference Committee to find som e one to take charge of the
H sipaw field now w ithout a missionary. W h en it was found
that no m issionary was available for Shwegyin, a Baptist
A ssociation was organized and placed in charge of their own
Karen preachers. This association, com prising 86 churches,
is d oin g an aggressive evangelistic and educational work.
T h e Sgaw Karen Baptist A ssociation has 150 self-supporting
churches with an average membership of 100. Their church
maintains 170 village schools.
T h e Baptist churches of
Bengal-O rissa have requested the Board of Managers to allow
them to send one o f their y ou n g men to A m erica for advanced
training with a view to a larger and more useful service to
the churches of Bengal-Orissa. The number of Indian repre­
sentatives on the m ission conference has been increased to
three. T h e South India M ission reports substantial progress
in the developm ent and use of indigenous leaders. Provision
is now made w hereby fraternal delegates from the T elugu
Baptist Convention will sit annually with the conference and
participate in the discussions and the fram ing of all mission
policies.
W ith the turning over o f responsibility and the developing
o f leadership there is an encouraging increase in givin g by
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the Baptist churches on the several fields tow ard their sup­
p o r t A s a step toward this end the churches in Burma have
united their evangelistic society and their conference under
the name “ T h e Burman M ission C on feren ce/’ and have ap­
pointed as a full-tim e secretary Saya U T h a Din, one of their
m ost able workers, at a salary of Rs. 150 per m onth. The
Burmans have raised Rs. 6,000 toward the erection of a dor­
m itory for their theological seminary. T h e Kachin M ission
is m aking great strides toward financial independence and
should be entirely self-supporting within this decade. The
follow in g letter signed by the minister, Rev. V . W - 'Dyer,
and tw o officials o f Immanuel Baptist Church, R angoon, has
been received by the Board of M a n agers:
A t last the great day o f our self-support has co m e ! F or many years
we have been working toward this end. About four years ago, when you
so kindly paid off our debt o f Rs. 9,000 on the construction o f Community
H all, we promised to endeavor to pay the entire salary o f our pastor as
soon as possible.
In 1920 we paid Rs. 229 per month, and last Thursday
we voted to pay the total amount o f Rs. 525 per month, besides our usual
amount for benevolences and missions.
W e now wish to thank you for
your generous support during the past quarter century, for your money,
your missionaries, and your friendship. W e thank God for the progress
he has given us, and pray that our mutual interest and prayers fo r each
other may continue to strengthen the ties o f Christian love between us.
The Secretary o f the H om e Mission Society o f the Telugu
Baptist Mission which is now entirely responsible for work on
the Kandukuru field, reports:
It is a jo y to know how the churches have taken up this work o f selfsupport.
There is a universal feeling of ownership on the part o f every
Telugu Baptist Christian, a new responsibility, a new life.
The Christians
o f Kandukuru field are feeling the responsibility o f the work, many are
doing voluntary service. They go about witnessing for Christ, teaching
Sunday school and helping in various ways.
twenty o f these voluntary workers.
There are no less than
The non-Christian people o f K andu­
kuru are also cooperating largely in the work.
In every village the head
men have taken special interest in the Christians and helped them.
T h e H om e M ission Society o f M anipur State, Assam , has paid
$300 a year out of great sacrifice for the support of an evangel­
ist. The Garo churches are year b y year assum ing more and
m ore responsibility for their evangelistic and educational
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work. T he church in Jameshedpur, Bengal-Orissa, has raised
Rs. 225 for the pastor, and beginning next N ovem ber they are
to pay Rs. 30 each month toward his salary.
Progressive Self-support on Other Fields
There has been on the other fields a similar developm ent in
the tendency toward maintenance of the w ork of the churches
without aid from Am erica. W h ile econom ic conditions.under
which the people live make it im possible for them to achieve
financial independence immediately, an increasing proportion
of funds required for the maintenance of the churches is never­
theless com in g year by year from the native constituency.
The m ost rapid progress in this direction is being made in
Japan. D uring the past year tw o churches— the Kessenum a
Church near Sendai, and the Tanim achi Church in East
Osaka— have achieved self-support in Japan, There are now
eight Baptist churches, out of a total number of thirty-five, in
Japan w hich are entirely self-supporting. M any other Japa­
nese churches have greatly reduced the amount of their grant
from m ission funds. W hen a church achieves independence
of foreign funds, its appeal to the people is apparently greatly
enhanced. There is reason to believe that in other fields as
well as in Japan, the day is not far distant when many
churches will be entirely self-supporting.
Native Leadership in the Far East
G ratifying progress is also noted in the developm ent of
native leadership in the mission fields of the Far East. This
has been manifest not only in the appearance of individual
leaders but also in the increased participation of the native
Christians in the w ork of administrative bodies.
In Japan
there has been a remarkable increase in church efficiency,
especially where some o f the returned students have been at
w ork after their years of study in the United States. The
splendid accom plishm ents of the Forward M ovem ent o f the
last five years have been a triumph of Japanese churches, “ not
of missionary effort,” as one of our missionaries wrote. The
missionaries coop era ted ; but the m ovem ent was organized,
the plans made, and the special services under Kimura San
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w ere financed by the Japanese churches. In the Philippines
and in China there is also com m endable progress in the initia­
tive and self-propagating spirit of the native Christians. The
W est China M ission has just w elcom ed hom e the first o f its
students from three- years of study in R ochester T h eological
Seminary. A s pastor of the church at Chengtu this con se­
crated y ou n g man w ill inspire and lead the Chinese forw ard
to great things. In the K inw ha station the East China M is­
sion has w ithdraw n its missionaries, with the exception of
three appointees of the W o m a n ’s Society, and has placed the
direction of the w ork in charge of the Chinese. W h ile this
step is in the nature of an experim ent the manner in which
the w ork is progressing seems to ju stify the transfer o f re­
sponsibility. D urin g the year Rev. T . C. Bau, a graduate
of Shanghai College, and pastor of the church in H angchow ,
has been elected to give his full time to the w ork of the
secretaryship of the Chinese A ssociation o f churches. H e will
be considered as A ssociate Secretary of the M ission, w orkin g
with Dr. J. T. Proctor, w h o is Secretary o f the M ission. In
Japan there is a strong m ovem ent in favor of the election of a
Japanese Secretary to be associated with Dr. Charles B.
Tenney, the E xecutive Secretary of the M ission. A ll of these
developm ents indicate the trend toward a larger assumption
of responsibility by the churches and individual Christians.
Education as a Factor in Missionary Activity
Education continues to be a vital factor in the m issionary
enterprise. W ith the new R eform Government m any o f the
nation-building activities of India and Burma are now under
the control and direction of their ow n ministers. N one is
more vital to the welfare o f these countries than the education
and enlightened^ citizenship o f their people. U nder these cir­
cum stances the developm ent of Judson College becom es a
matter of national importance.
A s the only Christian institution for higher learning in all
Burma, this college is facin g new and enlarged opportunities
undreamed of b y its founders fifty years ago, for infusing the
spirit o f Jesus Christ in the intellectual developm ent in this
great province of thirteen m illions of people. There has been
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an increase of 41 per cent, in the enrolm ent since last year.
President H ow ard w r ite s :
A n important factor in bringing about this large enrolment is doubtless
the generous reform movement for the government of Burma, which holds
out prospects for a larger participation on the part o f the people in the
government
education.
of
their country and is an incentive to secure a college
Judson College is bound to play a large part in the working
out o f these reforms.
It is our purpose to present to these men and
women the message of Christ in word and deed and in the spirit o f the
whole college life.
A t the first com m encem ent exercises of the university, Sir
Reginald Craddock s a id :
The great principle which should govern a seat o f learning and guide
its alumni is the formation of character not only in the lecture-room but
in the hostel and on the playground. The lesson to be learned from not
only the professor, the tutor, and lecturer, but from each undergraduate
and from the society o f his fellows, is the search for truth and the dis­
crimination o f what is true from what is false or only half true.
A strong Christian atmosphere permeates the life of the insti­
tution. Fully 69 per cent, of the students are Christians.
Plans for Judson College
Judson College, and plans for its participation as a constitu­
ent college o f the new R an goon U niversity, are dem anding
immediate and serious thought by the Board. The plans have
been sanctioned by the Governm ent and approved b y the
Society. T h ey were first formulated in -1916 and outlined in
detail in the annual report for that year. Developm ent of the
project had to be deferred because of the A var and the'period
of readjustment which follow ed. It is proposed to locate the
college three and one half miles from its present site outside
the city limits of R angoon, where a tract of four hundred acres
overlook ing the beautiful K okine Lake has been secured for
the new university. The foundation-stone for the buildings
of the new R angoon U niversity which are to be erected out­
side the city o f R an goon overlook ing K okine Lake, was re­
cently laid by Sir Reginald Craddock, retiring G overnor and
Chancellor. In the plans as prepared by the architect the
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buildings of Judson College are to be grouped about the
chapel, which is to be the dominating note in its life. Sixty-three
acres have been allocated as a site for Judson College.
This
transfer is imperative for the future growth and development of
the college and makes available much needed room for Cushing
High School and our Normal and English High Schools, which
will occupy the site and buildings vacated by the college. H alf
the expense of this transfer will be borne by the Government, and
the Society will be asked to provide approximately $500,000.
With courage and faith in the denomination, the Board is facing
the serious problem o f financing this gigantic undertaking, believ­
ing that Northern Baptists w ho gave to Burm a her first Chris­
tian missionaries more than a hundred years ago, will not now
at this critical hour withhold their hearty support from so impor­
tant an undertaking on behalf of an institution bearing the
name and holding the ideals and spirit o f A doniram Judson.
The Missionary as an Agriculturalist
The prosperity of India is destined to rest upon agriculture
rather than industry. Three persons out of every four gain
their livelihood out of the soil. T h e progress of the w orld has
affected agriculture equally Avith other occupations, and unless
Indians and Burmans can be equipped with k now ledge as well
as capital for developing the resources at their disposal, it A v i l l
be im possible for them to bear their share of the econom ic
burdens from which no nation on the road to self-governm ent
can escape. In many places the farmer is learning to look
to the agricultural- m issionary as his friend and guide, and
his old suspicion toward new m ethods has been modified. T h e
econom ic influence o f high prices com bin in g with the intensi­
fy in g demand for increased production has stimulated in a
marked w ay the adoption of im proved methods. T h e w illin g­
ness o f the farmer to learn how to im prove the quality and
quantity o f his crops constitutes the dawn of an era o f intensi­
fyin g cultivation. Training in agriculture therefore assumes
new significance in its relation to m issionary activity. A t the
neAv school of agriculture maintained by the Society at Pyinmana, Rev. B. C. Case reported forty applications for adm is­
sion tw o months before the opening. M any haAre had to be
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turned away. The applicants were practically all Christians.
The average age o f those m aking application was eighteen
years. T en different languages were represented, and the
districts from w hich they came extend from M yitkyina to
T a v oy and from K en gtun g and L oikaw to Sandoway, with
the intervening districts well represented. Th is school will
therefore directly help the econom ic life of the Christians in
all parts o f Burma. E very year the number o f students and
courses w ill increase b y an equal amount until by the fourth
year in addition to the literary subjects there will be twelve
courses in agriculture continuing throughout the year.
R ecogn izin g the great influence w hich this school is to have
in the future life on the country, the Burma Representative
Council of M issions officially com m ended m ost heartihr the
establishment of this school of agriculture at Pyinmana.
Progress at Shanghai Baptist College
Shanghai Baptist C ollege rejoices in an increase of more
than one hundred in its total enrolment for the year. There
are now 565 students, of w hom 265 are in the College, the
remainder being enrolled in the M iddle School. A m o n g them
are 27 w om en students. A year ago there were seven wom en
students in a total enrolment of 450 at the institution. There
have been many im provem ents in the physical equipment of
the College during the year. The entire campus has been
thoroughly graded. M uch of the land needed to be raised
at least six feet in order to give it a proper level along the
shore of the river. The campus now covers about fifty acres
of land on w hich are situated eight large buildings and tw enty
smaller buildings, including' homes for members o f the faculty.
T he new academ y and the w om en ’s hall are nearing com p le­
tion. This latter structure when com pleted will be the largest
dorm itory on the campus.
The Departm ent of Natural
Sciences is now housed in the new Science H all, with abun­
dance o f space and light and excellent equipment. The dedi­
cation cerem onies for this building will take place in June.
It is interesting to note that one of the room s in the Science
B uilding is given over to the w ork o f the Shanghai Industrial
Research Laboratory under the direction of tw o Chinese chem ­
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ists. Investigations are being made in textiles, coal, oils, and
minerals.
T h e W o m e n ’s College is developing rapidly. The students
have been organized into a Y o u n g W o m a n ’s Christian A ss o ci­
ation. R ecen tly this association presented an evening’s pro­
gram for the entire college.
U nder the social conventions
existing in China there cannot be the relations between men
and w om en students which exist in A m erican colleges, but
the presence of the y ou n g w om en on the campus is a matter
of great significance for the future of China. T h e men stu­
dents hail the establishment of coeducation with the highest
approval because of the opportunities which it presents to
their sisters for the training of their minds and the culture
of their souls.
Oriental Students in America
A b ou t fifty students from different sections of the Orient,
w hose religious affiliations are Baptist, are at present in
A m erica for advanced study. Intimate and continued contact
is not possible with all these students, but with those w h o are
here b y appointm ent of the m issions the Board endeavors to
maintain personal relationships.
There are eleven students
n ow in the U nited States under appointm ent by the m issions
in their respective countries. In addition to these, eight other
students during 1922 returned from the United States to their
homelands. One of these returned to Burma, five to China,
and tw o to Japan. A ll ha\re gone into some form of active
Christian service. The policy of the Board in financially as­
sisting such Oriental students as are recom m ended b y the
missions for postgraduate study in A m erica is heartily sup­
ported b y the missionaries and native churches and is regarded
as one of the m ost significant steps taken by the Board in
recent years. A lready these devoted Christian men, returning
to their ow n lands with the best training A m erica offers, are
serving in positions of large usefulness and influence.
Central Philippine College
W h en representatives of the Board met representatives of
the Philippine Island M ission in conference at Shanghai, in
M ay, 1922, the strategic im portance of the Jaro Industrial
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School in the developm ent of a trained Filipino leadership was
given full consideration. It was urged that the institution,
which has been of h igh-school grade, should be developed as
rapidly as possible into a Junior College. D u rin g the past
year this im portant change was brought about. T h e Jaro In ­
dustrial School, which has rendered a fine service in 'spite of
the limitations under w hich the w ork has been conducted has
now becom e Central Philippine College. The future o f this
institution will depend in large measure on the support o f the
denom ination. Adequate buildings and additions to the staff
of teachers are imperative. Furtherm ore there is a grow in g
interest on the part of the Filipino constituency in this new
institution. T h ey have already begun to make financial con ­
tribution tow ard the developm ent of the college. But while
their ability in a financial w ay is limited, the faith of the little
group of workers at Jaro will be rewarded inasmuch as such
an institution as Central Philippine College is imperative if
future Filipino leadership is to be assured.
A Record Year in Evangelism
The Board takes great pleasure in announcing that on the
ten mission fields of the Society during the calendar year 1922,
the missionaries report the baptism of m ore than 17,000 con ­
verts. Com plete figures are published in the statistical sec­
tion. Th is is the largest total w ithout exception reported in
any one year of the history of the Society. The previous high
record was in 1905, when more than 15,000 baptisms were
reported.
Evangelistic Progress in India and Burma
India and Burma are today more open and more responsive
to the Christian message than at any time since the days of
W illiam Carey and Adoniram Judson. From all sections of
Burma and India com e encouraging reports of evangelistic
triumphs during the year. From Bana in the far North with
2,813 to T a v oy in the South with 128 baptisms there has been
a steady and wholesom e grow th on the Burman field. From
the Chin H ills com es a report o f 175 baptisms as com pared
with 130 last year. A strong evangelistic m ovem ent is taking
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place am on g the hardy warlike Kachins, and large numbers
will be received into the church this year. Dr. David D ow nie,
our veteran m issionary of South India, w r ite s :
We
in South India are preaching the same old gospel our fathers
preached, an d the fields are white already to harvest.
There is no mission
in India preaching a purer faith or with more success.
Rev. Cornelius Unruh, of Nalgonda, review ing his term of
service as he was about to leave on furlough, w r ite s :
During this term we have baptized 1,800 people and have , made six
churches self-supporting, and ten new outstations have been established.
Interest in Christianity is growing all the time among the caste people.
There are great hopes for the future here in India.
A Brahmin recently
stated: “ Y o u should not think that your work is in vain.
w orking among us.
The gospel is
Perhaps I and those o f my age might not come out
openly and embrace Christianity, but you may be sure our children will
do it.
T he gospel will have victory in this country.”
This witness gives
great courage to our workers.
One o f the outstanding signs of progress during the year
in the A ssam M ission has been the unusually large number
o f conversions in both hills and plains. M any stations passed
all previous records. A num ber o f these new Christians were
Brahmins, and m ore are to follow . This is highly significant
o f the present trend o f our w ork in this im portant field. Rev.
John Firth .writes from Assam :
The gospel has a ready hearing.
I never saw anything like it.
If I
could only multiply myself into being several men instead o f one in the
presence o f these things!
A t the L ew is M em orial H ostel in Gauhati, H indu, M oham ­
medan, and Christian college students b y their ow n w ill and
suggestion are eating together at the same table. T h e food
is cooked by a M oham m edan and served by one set of servants.
A few years ago this w ould have been im possible.
Rev. W h eeler B oggess, w ho has served tw o years as general
evangelistic m issionary for South India, reports:
W h ile touring on the Ongole and Podili fields, I spent a week in each
field, visited forty-nine different villages and preached seventy-three times
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to thousands o f people.
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In the Podili field I can see a great advance in
the living and the giving o f the Christians.
In not one o f the twenty-three
villages I visited on that field did I see on any Christian, his children,
or in his home, any heathen charms.
There is evidence that the local
preachers and teachers have been doing faithful work, and the people have
given much more than ever before.
The reduction in appropriations on
this field as in others developed neglected traits in the Telugu Christians.
The Kurnool field reports 348 baptisms, the largest number with
one exception ever recorded in any single year in the history o f
this field. Seven entire villages have been won for Christ. One
church gave Rs. 600, another Rs. 400, two gave Rs. 200 each, and
four gave Rs. 100 each.
The total contributions last year
amounted to Rs. 3 , 776 . A ll the workers in this field, including
preachers, teachers, and evangelists, are now supported entirely
by the Telugu churches.
Evangelistic Achievements in the Far East
Throughout the year there has also been an encouraging evan­
gelistic interest in the fields of the Far East. T he situation in
Japan is well described by one o f the missionaries in T ok yo:
There are evidences that religion has come to a new day in Japan.
the special evangelistic campaign
carried out by the Baptist
Movement, a significant fact came to the surface.
In
Forward
This fact is that a
generation o f young people has come upon the scene upon w hom the
pagan faiths have little or no hold.
M ost o f our converts were young
people who knew little or nothing about Buddhism and Shinto. . . The
time was when Buddhism and Shinto felt that it was their mission to
fight Christianity.
T oday the situation has changed so greatly that they
themselves are fighting for a place in the nation’s life.
E specially hopeful appears the situation with those churches
which have had new buildings for their w'ork during the year.
The Y otsuya Church reports that congregations have doubled
since the new building was dedicated. T h e Sunday-school
attendance has trebled, Bible classes are held in connection
with every Sunday service. The church is laying enthusiastic
plans for self-propagation and the extension of the preaching
o f the gospel.
T he situation in China is not such as to make possible great
evangelistic accom plishm ent in point of numbers.
F or a
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decade it has been the definite p olicy of the S ociety to cultivate
the field w hich is already occupied w ithout endeavoring to
extend the w ork very w idely until a sufficient num ber of
church leaders could be trained w h o m ight assume large
responsibility for the m ore extensive effort. O n the basis of
this p olicy and in view o f the financial limitations together
with the size of the staff which it has been possible to main­
tain, increased emphasis has been placed upon the training of
church leaders. T h e evangelistic results in the educational
institutions already demonstrate the value o f the p olicy by
w hich it is hoped to secure for the future a large b o d y of
educated and spiritually m inded men and w om en in the co n ­
stituency o f the churches. Thus in Shanghai Baptist College
a series of evangelistic meetings is held in each semester
with gratifyin g response am ong the non-Christian students.
A survey of the student b ody reveals a proportion of only
tw en ty-tw o per cent. Christians in the first year o f the
academy, while sixty-three per cent, in the first college class
are Christians, and the senior college class is one hundred per
cent. Christian. One of the m iddle schools (academ ies) re­
ports a similar senior class 100 per cent. Christian. ' H in ­
drances of various kinds have prevented such a perfect record
in every institution, and yet the evangelistic impulse and pur­
pose prevail in them all. T he Christian students are bearing
witness in their daily life to the pow er of God. E vangelistic
effort is evident in the Chinese churches w hich report a steady
grow th in membership by baptism.
This grow th w ill be
stimulated still more, year by year, through the Christian
y ou n g people w ho are g o in g out from the educational institu­
tions.
The Evangelistic Emphasis
T h e record of Shanghai Baptist College, or of any of the
educational institutions, furnishes unmistakable evidence of
the distinct spiritual atmosphere developed in these schools.
A t the Capiz School, in the Philippine Islands, a small institu­
tion with only ninety-six students, tw enty-one are members of
the Baptist church, of w hom thirteen were converted during
the past year. A t the Jaro Industrial School fifty out of a
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total of one hundred and fifty high-school students were bap­
tized during the year. T he Christian students at Jaro render
valuable assistance in connection with Sunday schools in the
immediate vicinity of the school, as teachers and workers.
These eleven Sunday schools have an average attendance of
about three hundred and fifty. A n d so the story m ight be
- continued with illustration after illustration from different
fields and different institutions. Some are facin g obstacles
greater than others and find themselves circum scribed by
social conventions or pagan indifference, but in general the
year has shown abundant spiritual fruitage.
The hospitals also report similar accom plishm ent.
The
evangelistic impulse in the hearts of doctors and nurses finds
its records in the reports from these institutions. The Board
exercises every possible care in the selection of its workers,
and even in the case of specialists the requirement is indis­
pensable that they shall be men of God w hose hearts are set
upon the extension o f Christ’s kingdom . One illustration is
of special significance here. This did not com e to the Board
in the regular formal reports from the field, but reached head­
quarters through other personal channels. A m issionary of
the Society was sent to the field as a teacher of b iology in one
o f the union universities o f China in which the Board partici­
pates. Since it is required that even a professor of science
wrho seeks appointment as a m issionary shall be a living testi­
m ony to Jesus Christ, the incident is not surprising. Four new
students not in the scientific courses of the college, and not
Christians, believed that disease was caused b y evil spirits.
T his you n g m issionary professor o f b iology learned of the
futility of the efforts of an evangelistic colleague to persuade
these students of the im potence of dem ons in the presence of
the L ivin g God. A rran gin g an interview with the four you n g
Chinese, this biologist took them on a personally conducted
tour of his laboratory, with the aid of the m icroscope. A t the
end of the interview all five were kneeling in prayer on the
laboratory floor, after w hich the Chinese went forth, their be­
lief in the pow er of demons forever shattered, declaring their
purpose to seek out the L ivin g God and Jesus Christ his Son.
A ll four have becom e Christians.
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National Christian Conferences in China and Japan
A t the epoch-m aking m eeting in China, held in M ay, 1922,
and know n as the National Christian Conference o f China, the
Board was represented b y tw o mem bers, R ev. Carey W .
Chamberlin and P rofessor K . S. Latourette, and b y F oreign
Secretary J. H . Franklin. These representatives have been
able to interpret to the Board the spirit and purpose o f the
greatest Christian Conference ever held in the Far East. The
gathering, w hich was com posed o f delegates from all o f the
larger evangelical denom inations, was Chinese in its atm os­
phere. The addresses delivered by able Chinese leaders were
w orthy of any religious gathering in the w orld, and they re­
vealed a discernm ent w hich was all but surprising even to
veteran missionaries. It is obviously im possible to make at
this time any full report o f this remarkable conference, which
has done m uch to develop self-consciousness and a sense of
solidarity am ong the evangelical Christian forces o f China.
It is to be hoped that members of the constituency have read
the reports in the denom inational journals and elsewhere.
One practical result o f the conference was the form ation of a
permanent body know n as the National Christian Council.
This organization will in n o wise limit the freedom o f any of
the cooperatin g m issions or churches. It has no authority
of its ow n with reference to the w ork of any of the missions
and is strictly advisory in its capacity. H ow ever, the Council,
heartily supported by m ost of the missions and the Chinese
Christians in general, w ill enable the individual bodies to make
still more effective contributions and thus hasten the evangeli­
zation o f the largest b ody of people on earth. W ith the dis­
tinct understanding that connection with the National Chris­
tian Council o f China does not in any wise involve a sacrifice
o f freedom on the part of any denom inational group to carry
on its ow n w ork in its own way and to stand loyally for its
ow n distinctive practises and principles, and upon the hearty
recom m endation of the missions in China, the Board is givin g
a limited measure of support to the w ork of the organization.
A similar National Christian Conference was held in Japan.
A s such a m eeting in Japan was not quite so unprecedented
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as was true in China, it has not attracted as m uch attention in
A m erica. There have been frequent interdenom inational con ­
ferences and a large measure of solidarity am ong the Christian
forces. Nevertheless, the conference in 1922 was probably
m ore far-reaching in its influence than any of its predecessors.
The China Baptist Council and the Inter-Mission Committee
F ollow in g the National Christian Conference in Shanghai
representatives from the three missions of the Society in China
met and form ed tw o significant organizations. A Chinese
Baptist Council was created o f representatives from the mission­
ary staff o f the three Chinese missions and of representatives from
the three Chinese organizations within the territory o f the mis­
sions. A Chinese Inter-Mission Committee was organized to be
composed o f missionary representatives from the three missions.
H eretofore there has been only slight relationship am ong the
several m issions in China. There has been, of course, frater­
nal interest and occasional exchange of visits on the part of
missionaries w ho were passing through the territory of a sister
mission. It is now expected to bring the three areas in China
closer together, and through the tw o organizations mentioned
to coordinate plans and to prom ote the com m on task along
similar lines. T he China Baptist Council will prom ote fra­
ternal and intimate relationships am ong the Chinese Chris­
tians in the three different areas. Differences of dialect are a
natural barrier, and the distances separating one mission field
from another stand in the way of the developm ent of a united
Baptist church in China. I f there is to be any unity o f pur­
pose and program on the part of the Chinese Baptist churches
there must be some means by which the membership of the
churches, at least through their representatives and leaders,
can becom e acquainted with one another and can meet to­
gether to plan their progress. In view of the need for closer
cooperation the future w ill doubtless reveal an enthusiastic
developm ent o f these new organizations.
A Special Commission to the Far East
In order to take advantage of the National Christian Con­
ferences, which were held in China and Japan in May, 1922,
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the B oa rd .of M anagers requested Rev. Carey W . Chamberlin,
of B everly, Mass., Chairman of its standing com m ittee on
m issionary w ork in the Far East, to accom pany Foreign Secre­
tary Franklin on a brief visit to the fields in this region. In
addition to attending the conferences, which are m entioned
elsewhere, Mr. Chamberlin and Secretary Franklin were able
to visit various stations of the Society in Japan and East
China, and Mr. Chamberlin found it possible to extend his
visit to include an inspection of m uch of the w ork in South
China. T h ey were able as well to attend the Baptist InterM ission Conference, held at Shanghai in M ay, an organization
w hich endeavors to correlate the w ork o f the several m issions
in China. These representatives of the Board were able to
confer on the field with missionaries and with Chinese and
Japanese leaders regarding m issionary problem s of m ajor im ­
portance which cannot be discussed satisfactorily through cor­
respondence, and they have brought to the Board first-hand
inform ation o f great value in the administration of the w ork.
Additions to Property
Som e imperative property needs in the Far East have been
m et during the year. Three m issionary residences were pro­
vided— at H an gch ow and K ityang, China, and at Jaro in the
Philippine Islands.
Many more houses should have been
built to meet the requirements of the m issionary staff. A
small appropriation was made, in cooperation with other
boards, tow ard the purchase of land for a M iddle School
B uilding at W e st China U nion U niversity in Chengtu. From
funds rem aining from the sale o f the M ission Press in the
Philippine Islands several years ago, a share in the lighting
plant for the U nion H ospital in Iloilo, and a section of a
N urses’ H om e in connection with the hospital at Capiz, were
provided. T he home must be enlarged within the near future.
From specific gifts the W o m a n ’s B uilding at Shanghai B ap­
tist College has been com pleted.
A lvah H ovey M em orial
D orm itory, w hich is a com panion building to Scott H all at
W aseda U niversity in T ok yo, Japan, has also been brought
near to com pletion. A new building for the Y okoham a Bap­
tist Church has been made possible, as well as much needed
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church buildings at Shiogama near Sendai, and in T o k y o for
the Y otsu ya congregation.
In South China at K aying
A ca dem y a dorm itory is nearing com pletion. Repairs necessi­
tated by the ravages of the typhoon are in progress. A new
plant is being built for the H uch ow U nion H ospital in East
China. The Board cooperates with the M ethodist Episcopal
Church, South, in the maintenance of this institution, and the
China M edical Board has given liberal assistance.
The
Shanghai Am erican School began w ork on its new building
during the year, and our Board has given its share toward*
the expense in order that the children of missionaries in China
may have the privilege of a high-grade educational institution.
This school will serve the missionaries of the South China as
well as the East China M ission. T he hospital building at
Suifu, in W est China, is nearing com pletion, and at Y ach ow
in the same m ission a middle school building will soon be
available for use.
Disastrous Storms in China
The mission fields in South China and East China have
suffered during the year from the ravages of unprecedented
storms. On A ugu st 2, 1922, in the region of Sw^atow, South
China, nearly fifty thousand people were killed by the most
severe typhoon which had visited this region within the
m em ory of the oldest inhabitants. T en outstations o f the
South China M ission were destroyed, and twenty others were
seriously damaged. Four Chinese preachers lost m em bers of
their families in the storm. H eavy damages were incurred by
the Christian constituency in business, crops, and property.
The Chinese the w orld over gave more than a million dollars
toward the relief of the sufferers. Missionaries of the Society,
with those of other denom inations, gave aid in the distribution
of relief funds and supplies, thus givin g a practical dem onstra­
tion of Christianity to the people which they had not witnessed
heretofore. In the Swatowr region m ore than $25,000 is still
needed for repairs to the property of the Society. T he failure
of the denom ination to make more generous response to the
appeals of the Society for aid in restoring this property has
been disappointing.
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Several weeks after the catastrophe in South China, a v io ­
lent storm ravaged the region o f N in gpo in East China. A
careful survey o f the situation revealed som e three hundred
thousand people left in destitute circum stances in Chekiang
Province. One of our missionaries writes of the situation in
East China:
T he floods which caused such distress in Chekiang Province were ter­
rible in their destructive force.
places.
W ater broke forth in the most unexpected
Bridges were swept away, dikes destroyed, houses thrown down,
* villages blotted out o f existence, hillsides carried down into the streams,
men crushed under falling buildings, fields filled with débris, thousands of
acres o f rice utterly ruined, and rivers swollen out o f all recognition.
T h e immediate effect o f the floods upon mission work has been tw ofold.
It has
affected
Chekiang.
very
seriously the
financial ability
of
the
church
in
In the affected area those whose living depended upon the
products o f the fields have lost all for this year.
Those who are engaged
in trade have suffered as well, as collections are necessarily poor when
harvests are bad.
O n the other hand, the churches have been drawn to­
gether by sympathy for each other in a common calamity.
In all the form er years of m ission w ork, this province has
heretofore been prosperous.
It has never been visited by
famine as some other sections of China.
Transfer of the Ningyuan Station in W est China
In 1920, upon the recom m endation o f the W e st China M is­
sion, it was decided that the N ingyuan station in W e st China
should be transferred from the Society to the Australian Chris­
tian M ission, w hose principles and practises are similar to
those o f Baptists. This organization had no w ork in W est
China, but was w illing to undertake the task, and set about
securing missionaries and getting them to the field. Several
reasons made this transfer advisable.
N ingyuan is sixteen
days’ journey by pack-train from the nearest other station of
the W e st China M ission. E xcept in this one case, it is co m ­
paratively easy to travel from station to station in W e st China,
for the other stations are on the banks o f rivers while N in g­
yuan is separated b y a lofty mountain range. T h e process of
transfer to the Australian Christian M ission will involve a
considerable time. R ev. J. P. D avies has been designated to
represent the Society during the period of transfer. T h e m is­
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sionaries o f the Australian Society have already entered
H w eilich ow , nearly one hundred miles south of N ingyuan.
This city was regarded as an outstation, but as Australian
missionaries enter the region from the south through Yunnan
they com e to H w eilich ow before N ingyuan. Some time must
elapse before the new missionaries can master the language.
P roperty must be appraised, adjustments agreed upon, and
many other matters incidental to the transfer must receive
attention. In view of the heroic and sacrificial service ren­
dered by the pioneer missionaries in this distant station, this
transfer cannot fail to occasion deep regret. N evertheless in
the interests of efficiency and the maintenance of adequate
support for the stations already occupied in W e st China, the
transfer is necessary, and it is fortunate that a Society o f like
faith and practise can assume the responsibility for this field.
The Board is confident that the work will be developed faithfully,
and in view o f the geography of the country m ore efficiently.
The Fukuin Maru Again Sails the Inland Sea
The Board is glad to report that the Fukuin Maru, known
in A m erica as the Gospel Ship, is again sailing the Inland Sea
of Japan. This ship, which was built under the direction of
the late Captain Luke W . Bickel, was taken out of com m ission
early in 1922 in order to permit necessary repairs and rem odel­
ing. D u rin g the m onths when the ship was not in com m is­
sion, the w ork on the islands was carried on under the tem ­
porary direction of Rev. J. A . Foote, of Osaka. In the face of
many difficulties and some obstacles, Mr. F oote has been
directing this difficult w ork during the period while Captain
J. F. Laughton was securing the necessary language training.
T he Board recognizes the services of Mr. F oote with deep
appreciation as he returns to his ow n field in the great city of
Osaka. In June, the ship was again ready to be put in com ­
mission, when the new missionary navigator, Captain L augh­
ton, accom panied b y his w ife, went aboard and took com ­
mand. Captain Laughton com es to the Fukuin Maru with
an enthusiasm and a nautical training which will enable him
to carry on with zeal the unique w ork which was begun by
the late Captain Luke W . Bickel.
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New Interests of the Government of Belgium in Belgian Congo
Since the close of the war Belgium has had leisure to bestow
m ore thought upon the affairs of its b ig C olony which today
grasps and holds attention in a new way. In a recent address
before Parliament, M . Louis Franck, M inister of Colonies,
stated that the tw o gu idin g principles in the governm ent o f the
C ongo peoples were, first, to accept so far as possible the
institutions and custom s of the country as found, and second,
to start from them as a base for advance toward civilization
and progress. H e emphasized the im portance of religious
teaching in the pursuit of the latter in the fo llo w in g w o r d s :
One cannot imagine any factor which could act with greater energy
and power in the direction o f the moral elevation o f the natives than
religious action. Therefore, let us protect the evangelization o f A frica
without establishing distinction between the Christian religions.
The
Honorable M . De Bast was right in saying that we owe all an equal
benevolence.
To
protect them and to sustain them by our help is to
serve in the highest degree the cause o f civilization in A frica .
T h e size of the C ongo area, m ore than eighty times that of the
m other country, the rapidity of com m ercial developm ent, the
necessity for con servin g the man pow er of the colon y, and
many other considerations have led the Belgian governm ent
to assume m ore seriously its responsibility.
Evangelistic Progress Notwithstanding Persecution
A s has been demonstrated in the history o f the Christian
church throughout the centuries, the progress of the gospel
is not impeded b y distress and persecution. In Belgian C ongo
during the past year the new converts have been subject to
bitter persecution b y Jesuit priests, especially in the K w angu
area. Representations have therefore been made to the proper
governm ent authorities, and assurance has been given that
justice will be done. In the very area where the m ost flagrant
cases of persecution have occurred, Dr. W . H. Leslie reports a
year of remarkable grow th. The number of outstations has
increased from fifty to seventy, and D octor Leslie adds, “ I am
som ewhat appalled by the success.” In the Sona Bata area
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the m ighty m ovem ent of the Spirit of God reported last year
has gone forw ard steadily throughout the year. In less than
tw o years 4,500 have been baptized at this one station. In
only lesser degree this evangelistic m ovem ent touches the his­
toric Banza Manteke field. The Prophet M ovem ent so preva­
lent last year has subsided throughout the entire area of low er
C ongo and the K w angu and has left the people hesitant yet
awakened, and ready for sane, constructive Christian teaching.
T he measure of success which may be attained seems only to
be limited by the number and strength of the missionaries
and the staff of C ongo workers.
An Increase in Missionary Staff
W h ile the C ongo staff remained stationary in numbers, or
actually fell behind for a period of m ore than a decade, it is
decidedly encouraging to be able to report at last the entrance
into the service of new missionaries. Rev. and Mrs. A . C.
W akem an, Mr. H enry Erickson, Mr. H . R. Leslie, and Mr.
B. J. K orlin g joined the C on go staff last year and have
already been able to lend valuable aid in the work, although
their chief task during the year has been the m astering o f the
language. It had becom e imperative to increase .the staff on
account of the large number of devoted C ongo workers who
found it necessary to leave the field last year, either because
of sickness or for furlough. In this connection special m en­
tion should be made of unusual services rendered by several
C ongo missionaries. Since the return of Rev. and Mrs. L.
F. W o o d to A m erica on account of Mrs. W o o d ’s serious ill­
ness, Rev. and Mrs. P. C. M etzger have been doing more than
double duty at Tshum biri. This field should have tw o or
more m issionary families, and in service here alone for so long
a period Mr. and Mrs. M etzger have shown a high degree of
m issionary heroism. F or more than a year also Rev. Joseph
Clark, w hose permanent station is N tondo, assumed the
duties o f m issionary treasurer at Matadi notw ithstanding his
forty years’ residence in C ongo and the especially trying
climate of this low -lyin g tow n. T he missionary career is still
inseparably associated with heroism and sacrifice.
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A Review of the Policy of the Society
In view o f changing w orld conditions and the em ergence
o f new m issionary problem s, such as previous generations of
Baptists did not have to meet in their m issionary w ork, the
Board o f Managers felt it advisable, to appoint a special com ­
mittee to restudy the general policy of the S ociety w hich had
been adopted in. 1912 and published in the Annual R eport of
-the fo llo w in g year. Such a com m ittee was appointed a year
ago, and the Chairman, Rev. Carey W . Chamberlin, spent co n ­
siderable time in the Far East in connection with his atten­
dance at the National Christian Conference in China, in order
to study the w ork of the Society and secure inform ation for
the consideration of the com m ittee. A preliminary report has
been presented to the Board, and copies have been forw arded
to the several m issions o f the Society for review before final
adoption. M any features of the w ork must receive further
consideration. It is interesting to note that notwithstanding
the m any changed conditions throughout the w orld, the policy
of the Society needs only slight m odification in its m ajor
emphases, although certain amendments have proved to be
necessary in order to cover phases of w ork w hich did not com e
w ithin the scope of the S ociety’s activity when the policy was
first adopted. A full statement of the policy as it is finally
adopted will therefore appear in the report of another year.
Government Grants-in-aid
Attention was called in the report of last year to the pre­
liminary consideration which the B oard of M anagers had
given to the p olicy o f receiving financial grants from the
British Governm ent tow ard the support of the w ork o f the
Society in British India. A s stated in that report the subject
occupied much time at each of the M ission Conferences in
1921-1922. Definite action upon the acceptance o f grants-inaid was taken b y all four of the India M issions. A special
com m ittee of delegates from Burma, Assam , South India, and
Bengal-O rissa met at K urnool with Foreign Secretary J. C.
R obbins in January, 1922, and submitted definite recom m enda­
tions to the Board. These were referred to a special com ­
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mittee of the Board w h o studied the matter for several months.
W ith the action o f the individual missions and of the joint
m eeting before it and with the report o f its ow n com m ittee,
the Board gave prolonged consideration to the subject at its
m eeting in N ovem b er and took the follow in g action :
W h e r e a s , On M ay 29, 1894, the American Baptist M issionary Union
adopted the report o f its special Committee on M ission Schools the sub­
stance o f which so far as it referred to grants-in-aid was as fo llo w s:
“ Y ou r Committee would recommend that whenever any station seriously
questions the propriety or utility o f government grants, such grants be
not received.
Nay, more, disapproving the principle o f receiving govern­
ment aid for mission-school work, 3rour Committee would recommend to
missionaries and native Christians to discontinue this custom as soon as
practicable” (Eightieth Annual Report, pp. 12-24) ; and
W
hereas,
In view o f the rising national feeling in India, the Missionary
Conferences of South India, Assam, and Bengal-Orissa have expressed
their disapproval of the policy o f receiving grants-in-aid ;
R esolved , That the Board o f Managers of the American Baptist Foreign
Mission Society reaffirms the action of the American Baptist Missionary
Union in 1894, merely substituting the words, “ M issionary Conference ”
for the word " station,”
and approves the action of the above-named
Conferences.
R esolved, That the Board recommends these Conferences to take steps
at once to put this policy o f discontinuing grants-in-aid into effect, with
the understanding that the financial situation and other circumstances may
make it necessary to proceed gradualty.
R esolved, That, while adhering to the above statement of principle and
policy, so far as it pertains to the work of the Society, the Board recog­
nizes the independency o f indigenous Baptist churches, and records it as
its judgment that neither the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society
nor its missionaries have a right to legislate for such churches in this
or any other matter.
T h e Board is of the opinion that this action is in harmony
with the great historic principles of Baptists and that its carry­
ing into effect will result gradually in a final solution o f this
important problem.
Fifty Years of Missionary Service
H alf a century of service on the foreign field is a privilege
enjoyed b y few missionaries. Th is year. Dr. and Mrs. David
Dow nie, of South India, Rev. and Mrs. B. P. Cross, and Miss
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Harriet N. Eastman, of Burma, each com pletes fifty years as
a missionary of the Society.
In 1883 D octor D ow n ie succeeded to the w ork laid dow n by
D octor Lym an Jewett in the Lone Star M ission am ong the
Telugus in South India. In the stirring history of this mis­
sion num bering am ong its’ pioneers the renowned Duff,
Clough, D ay, and Jewett, no m issionary has ever held a more
honorable place in its life than D octor D ow nie. N ot only
am ong his ow n people but everywhere throughout the mission
fields of A sia he is know n and respected. In his early associa­
tion with the mission there was only one station and three
missionaries. D uring the fifty years of service he has seen
the w ork grow until there are today 29 stations and 122 mis­
sionaries, cooperating with w hom are nearly 2,000 Telugu
preachers and teachers. M ore than 75,000 men and wom en
b elon g to the 182 churches, and m ore than 27,000 b oys and
girls are enrolled in the 923 schools.
D octor D ow n ie has
done a vast amount o f literary work, am ong his best known
writings bein g “ T h e H istory of the Telu gu M ission,” a
revised edition of which he has recently com pleted.
Rev. and Mrs. B. P. Cross were appointed missionaries to
Burma on the last day of the year 1872. Mr. Cross is a son
of D octor E. B. Cross, pioneer missionary and associate of
A doniram Judson, and was himself born in Burma. H e was
educated in this country as a civil engineer and had already
started out to make this his life-w ork, when the call came to
him to return to the Karens and becom e their m issionary.
Mr. and Mrs. Cross have rendered valuable service in the edu­
cational wrork of the Bu^ma M ission, at Judson College, and
at the Karen T heological Seminary, but their greatest influ­
ence has been as missionaries to the Karens in givin g Jesus
Christ to this great race which already numbers nearly twro
hundred thousand Christians.
A m issionary once said, “ I never meet Miss Eastman that
it is not a benediction to m e.”
Countless lives have beer
touched and benefited by the presence of this noble m ission­
ary during her service of half a century for the M aster whose
life and example she has so lon g upheld in Burma. Miss
Eastman was a teacher in the public schools of Illinois and
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M ichigan for eleven years, but when the call catne for single
wom en teackers to g o to the non-Christian w orld she dedicated
her life to service on the foreign field. M uch of her time has
been spent in translation w ork and the preparation of Karen
literature. She rendered valuable assistance to the com m ittee
charged with the revision of the Sgaw Karen Bible.
These missionaries in their fifty years of sacrificial service
have toiled nobly and faithfully. Their w ork endures forever.
Th ey have been true light-bearers as they have carried the
message of G od ’s redemptive love to the peoples of India and
Burma. The lives of these devoted servants of God constitute
a challenge to the y ou n g men and the y ou n g w om en of today
to dedicate themselves to the advancement of the cause of
Christ throughout the world.
Literary Contributions of Missionaries
Literary w ork constitutes an important phase of missionary
activity. On the fields missionaries devote time to translat­
ing the Scriptures as well as religious publications into the
language of the people, while those at home and also those
abroad, in so far as time is available, furnish articles for pub­
lication in the various denominational papers. It is not often
that missionaries find time for the w riting of books. The
Board therefore records with appreciation the service rendered
by tw o of the missionaries in Japan during the past year in
such special literary effort. A t the request of the Missionary
Education M ovem ent, W illiam A xlin g, D. D., of T o k y o , has
prepared a volum e on Japan, which will be used as the study
book for foreign-m ission courses in 1924. The title of the
b ook is “ Japan on the U pward T rail.”
T he twenty-three
years of service which he has rendered in the Japanese nation
have prepared him admirably for such a work.
The other
notable literary contribution is a book entitled “ The Political
Philosophy of M odern Shinto,” by Rev. D. C. H olton, Ph. D.,
also of the Japan Mission. The researches of D octor H olton
have w on for him a high place in scholastic circles in Japan.
It is doubtful whether any foreign resident in Japan ever made
a m ore thorough study of such a subject. Similar recognition
is due R ev. H . I. Marshall o f the Burma Mission for his
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scholarly and rem arkably interesting b ook “ T h e Karen
People o f Burm a.” Th is is not on ly a study in anthropology
and eth n ology but is a book o f a distinct character and o f posi­
tive value, adding m uch to the inform ation heretofore avail­
able concerning this great race in Burma.
Governmental Recognition of Missionary Service
T h e Board takes pleasure in recording the fact that another
m issionary of the Society has been awarded the coveted honor
of the K aisar-i-H ind gold medal by the K in g of England, in
recognition o f distinguished public service in India. This
honor is awarded to those men and w om en w h o contribute to
the advancem ent of public interests in India alon g moral, edu­
cational, and social lines. The latest recipient is R ev. R obert
Harper, M. D., w ho has been in the service of the Society
since 1897 and has been stationed at Namkham, Burma. In the
spring of 1922 the region in which he was w orkin g was raided
by an organized group o f native bandits, w h o were repulsed
only after a long struggle in which one of the British officers
and a number of the men were wounded. D octor H arper and
his devoted w ife, w ho is a skilled nurse, rendered m ost valu­
able service before and after and during the actual raid in
w arning the m ilitary authorities, in m aintaining the morale
of the villagers, and in attending to the wounded. In return
for this heroic service he has been awarded this distinguished
medal and is thus the fourteenth Baptist m issionary w hom the
British Governm ent has so publicly honored. A somewhat
similar honor was conferred upon R ev. P. Frederickson, for
forty-on e years in service, in the Belgian C ongo M ission. H e
was awarded the Chevalier d ’Orders du Lion by the K in g of
Belgium for distinguished service in the interests o f the
people of B elgium ’s great colon y on the C ongo. T h e con ­
ferring o f these honors indicates again the extent to which
governm ents are recogn izin g the value o f m issionary service.
New Missionaries and the W ork of the Candidate Department
T here has apparently been an enlarging interest during the
past year am ong the y ou n g people of the denom ination in life
service. Summer assemblies, conducted b y The Am erican
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Baptist Publication Society, and conferences conducted b y the
M issionary Education M ovem ent and the Departm ent o f M is­
sionary E ducation, as w ell as b y the Y o u n g M en’s Christian
A ssociation and the Y o u n g W o m e n ’s Christian A ssociation,
have all contributed to bring y ou n g people face to face with
their obligation in respect to the investment of their lives.
This has been reflected in the increasing correspondence con ­
ducted by the Candidate Departm ent o f the Society.
D uring the past year the follow in g new missionaries began
service on their respective fields :
Burma.
D r. and M rs. G. S. Seagrave, M r. and Mrs. L. C. Whitaker,
M r. and M rs. R. H alliday (in service prior to appointment).
South India.
East China.
South China.
Congo.
Dr. and M rs. Ernest Hoisted.
Bertha C. Smith.
Rev. and M rs. K . G. Hobart, M rs. G. W . Lewis.
B. L. K orling and fiancée M iss Florence Carter, Rev. and Mrs.
C. E . Smith.
The follow in g new missionaries have received their appoint­
ment and are expected to sail in the fall of 1923 or later :
M r. and M rs. B. W . Armstrong, Dr. and M rs. W . H . Bueermann, M r. G.
B. Cressey, M r. and M rs. W a lfred Danielson, M iss Lea Blanche Edgar,
Rev. and M rs. M . S. Engwall, M r. and M rs. J. W . Gainfort, Rev. L. H . R.
Hass, M r. L. T . Helfrich, Dr. and Mrs. E. R. Huckleberry, M r. C. E. Olney
and fiancée, M iss E lv a L . Caul, R ev. and M rs. R. C. O stergren , D r. and
M rs. P. F. Russell, M r. and M rs. H . D . S org, M r. and M rs. W . C.
W h itak er.
The follow in g new missionaries of the W o m a n ’s Board have
also received their appointment by the Society :
Jennie C. Adam s, V elva V . Brown, M . D., Helen H . Clark, M ay A .
Coggins, W . Pauline Harris, Fannie J. Holman, A nn M . Kludt, Grace R.
Seagrave, M . D., Marian E. Shivers, Irene Smedley, M . D ., Bessie M .
Traber.
T h e candidate correspondence is now revealing the value of
a steady and unrem itting effort maintained over a period of
years in keeping in touch with you n ger boys and girls w h o are
lookin g forw ard to missionary service. Correspondence has
been conducted with you n g people in the period o f late ado­
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lescence and in the various high-school grades, and the depart­
ment has been able to give wise direction and helpful counsel
in specific preparation for the chosen task. The seminaries
and the colleges contain many students w ho during these
years have been counseled and encouraged through this pre­
liminary correspondence.
Special Service of Rev. R. B. Longwell
The transfer of Secretarj^ P. H. J. Lerrigo to the position
o f H om e Secretary early in 1922 obviously involved so many
new responsibilities that he could only exercise general super­
vision of the w ork of the Candidate Department. Rev. R. B.
L on gw ell, a m issionary on furlough, w ho has spent sixteen
years in service in Assam , has undertaken the entire w ork of
this department.
H e has conducted correspondence with
scores of y ou n g people in all parts of the country and has
made numerous visits to colleges and seminaries for personal
interviews. H e has proved him self a man of keen penetration
in the estimate of character, of whole-hearted sym pathy in
dealing with y ou n g people, and of tireless energy in the taxing
duties of travel and office work. A full generation of college
and academ y students will have reason to thank God that Mr.
L ongw ell was set aside tem porarily for this task. In return­
ing to his field he will carry with him a heart enriched by
intimate touch with the best y ou n g life o f our churches which
the past year has given him.
Health of Missionaries
There have been no losses to the m issionary staff by death
during the year in any o f the fields in China, Japan, and the
Philippine Islands. There have been, however, some distress­
ing situations which have required mem bers of the missionary
staff for health reasons to return to the U nited States. South
China has suffered the loss of three families, and the health
o f one other fam ily is in a precarious state. The Japan M is­
sion was obliged to invalid home one young couple, but it is hoped
that they may be able to return soon to resume their work. T w o
short-term workers in Japan were also obliged to discontinue
their service on account o f physical disability. In East China
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the strain of carrying alone the burden of medical w ork, and
the educational and evangelistic activities as well, has com ­
pelled the return of one of the medical missionaries after only
tw o years of his third term of service. The W e st China staff
has not suffered depletion of its force for health reasons, al­
though a serious infection acquired while operating on a
patient com pelled one of the doctors to hasten to Peking for
special treatment.
The W ork of the Medical Service Department
T he plans of the M edical Service Departm ent have been
still further extended during the past year. A Field Medical
Supervisor has been appointed on nearly every field, and the
department is now receiving valuable data in respect to the
health of missionaries returning for furlough or on account
o f sickness. T h e burden of ill health borne by the m ission­
aries is perhaps less know n to the constituency than almost
any of the trying circum stances of missionary life. In most
o f the m ission fields there are diseases peculiar to the country,
and missionaries are constantly exposed to the terrible menace
of infections threatening not only health but often life itself.
The hygienic conditions under which the w ork must be carried
on are frequently very faulty. Diet, housing, traveling, cli­
mate, water supply, and other features of the environment
carry their dangers. A m on g the dread diseases from which
missionaries suffer are A frican sleeping sickness, sprue, dysen­
tery, kala azar, and malignant malaria. A lth ou gh the inti­
mate and confidential details of their sufferings obviously
cannot be published, the denom ination ought at least to know^
that the heroic men and wom en who serve as missionaries
pay a heavy price in health of mind and body for the privilege
of carrying the message of the Master across the seas. A
new plan for the sharing of medical expenses has been inaugu­
rated. Each missionary fam ily is now expected to pay the
first fifty dollars, and any expense subsequently incurred is to
be shared by the m issionary and the Board on the basis of
20 per cent, and 80 per cent, respectively. This plan is still
tentative, and the several missions have been requested to give
it consideration at their annual conferences.
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Called to. Higher Service
It is with deep regret that the Board records the names of
missionaries and others identified with the w ork of the Society
w h o during the past year have transferred the burdens of
their w ork to other shoulders and have been sum m oned to a
higher service. Several veteran missionaries are included in
the list this year, and the Burma Mission particularly has
suffered a severe loss in the death o f three w h o have devoted
many years of noble service to the cause of Christ. Their
departure reminds us again that the service of men is tem ­
porary, w hile the results of their service and the missionary
enterprise itself are permanent. T h ey leave behind them a
great unfinished task to be achieved by new volunteers and
other workers w h o take their places.
A t the home o f her daughter in Yokoham a, M rs. W illiam Ashm ore,
Sr., passed away on M arch 8, 1923.
M rs. Ashm ore was first the w ife of
Rev. Nathan Brow n, D. D., one o f our pioneer missionaries to Japan.
A fte r her marriage to Rev. W illiam Ashm ore, Sr., her residence was for
a time at Swatow, China, and for a few years in Am erica until the death
o f her husband.
Few women in the history o f the Society have had a
more intimate relationship to missionary work in various lands.
W ith the death o f Rev. A . L . Bain at Valley, Neb., on June 9, 1922,
the Society lost a missionary who had been serving in the Belgian Congo
almost thirty years.
M r. Bain was born in. 1866 in a godly Scotch Pres­
byterian home in Edinburgh.
A s a child he heard his father read the
story o f David Livingstone’s experiences in A frica.
This left an indelible
impression upon his mind, and when he was eighteen years old he crossed
to Canada, was baptized, and entered W oodstock College to prepare him­
self for mission service in A frica .
H e finished his college work at Central
University in Pella, Iowa, later taking theological training in Louisville.
In 1893, M r. Bain sailed as a missionary for Belgian Congo.
During the'
years that followed he worked hard and tirelessly, trying in every possible
way to win the people o f Congoland to Jesus Christ.
A t various times
he served in Mukimvika, Banza Manteke, Sona Bata, and Lukunga.
A
fellow missionary sa y s : “ H e was wont to gather a little band o f native
disciples about him, instructing them in the W o rd , testing them out in
itineration with himself.
evangelist.
H e was an inspirational teacher and a faithful
H is consuming desire was that Jesus might have the pre­
eminence, both in his own religious experience and in that o f his Congo
brethren.
I know
stronger than his.”
of
no one whose grip
on the eternal verities was
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In the sudden death o f YV. H . Burger, which occurred on December 4,
1922, the Board o f Managers and the denomination suffered a grievous loss.
M r. Burger had been for a long period o f years an honored member of
Emmanuel Baptist Church, Brooklyn, and latterly had served as deacon.
H e had maintained a deep interest not only in matters connected with
the local church to which he belonged but i n . all denominational affairs.
H is interest in missions and his recognized ability led to his election as a
member o f this Board in 1921. H e had served most acceptably as a
member
of
the
Finance
Committee,
taking particular
interest
in the
financial investment phases o f the work and the care of the permanent
trust funds.
H is
summons to lay down the work in which he found
so much joy came at the age o f sixty-three years.
Anna M. Linker Dussman, who died April 26, 1923, at Glenside, Pa., was
born in W illiamsport, Pa„ November 3, 1871.
She was educated in the
public schools o f Philadelphia and spent three years in Temple College o f
that city.
On March 29, 1897, she was appointed a missionary o f the
W om a n ’s Baptist Foreign Mission Society and sailed September 14, 1898,
to Vinukonda, South India.
In 1899 she was transferred to M adras, and
again in 1907 to Hanumakonda, later taking up the work at Narsaravupet,
where she was appointed Principal o f the Central School.
On November
30, 1916, she married Rev. John Dussman, who for more than twenty-five
years has been a missionary o f the Society in South India.
M rs. Dussman
has served faithfully and well, working especially among the women and
accompanying M r. Dussman on his long tours throughout the large district
covered by the Vinukonda field where she will be sadly missed.
Rev. Melvin Jameson, D . D ., upon being asked to what field he wished
to be sent, replied, “ I f you have a field where no one else will go, send
me there.”
H e was appointed a missionary M ay 11, 1869, and designated
to Bassein, Burma, where he spent twenty years.
It was said by one o f
his associates who knew o f his tireless and persistent labors, “ The whole
Bassein district was saturated with the gospel.” During his only fur­
lough, 1880-1883, he spent one year as pastor o f the First Baptist Church
at Ogdensburg, N . Y .
A fte r his return to America he spent three years
with the Open D oor Mission o f Ottumwa, Iowa.
The final period o f his
life was spent in A lton and vicinity. H e was instrumental in the founding
of the Cherry Street Baptist Church o f Alton. H e had a large influence
in the formation o f the East A lton Baptist Church and also o f the Bushy
Grove Baptist Church.
M ore than any other person he helped to keep
alive the missionary interests o f these churches, which together contributed
more than $100,000 to the N ew W orld Movement.
H is death occurred
in Alton, A ugust 24, 1922, after an illness o f about a year.
Elias W illiam Kelly, Ph. D ., D. D., whose death occurred in Rangoon,
October 11, 1922, was for forty years a missionary to the Burmans.
He
was born in Collina, Canada, April 17, 1854, and received his education
at Acadia College and Newton Theological Institution. H e was ordained
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at W indsor, N ova Scotia, June 23, 1876, appointed a missionary to the
Burmans arriving at M oulmein, November 6, 1882.
A t the close o f the
third Burman W a r he went to Mandalay to open up the Burman work.
In 1911, as successor to Dr. L . E. Hicks, he was appointed to the principalship o f Judson College, and it was due to his statesmanship that this
college obtained its position as a constituent college in the Burma U niver­
sity and secured the present liberal financial provision for its support.
A s an administrator Doctor K elly secured the entire cooperation o f the
staff in the common task o f upbuilding the college.
The five years of
his principalship were fruitful years in the history o f that institution.
Doctor K elly was a preacher of special ability and acceptance in both
English and Burmese tongues.
H is sermon before the Burma Conference
at its last meeting in M oulmein will be remembered with great appreciation
for many years to come.
principalship o f
W h en in 1921 he was obliged to resign from the
Judson College, he still busied himself preaching and
teaching among the Burmans in Rangoon in so far as his failing strength
would permit.
On the day o f his death he was to have preached the
sermon at the evening session of the Conference.
Doctor Kelly is sur­
vived by his wife, who was M iss M ary L. V an M eter, M . D., a medical
missionary in M oulmein, a son, Arthur C. Kelly, and a married daughter.
A fte r a prolonged illness, M iss Annie M . Lem on died on August 3, 1922.
M iss Lem on first sailed for Burma in 1893 and during her period o f active
service was located at different times at Sandoway, Mandalay, Sagaing,
Meiktila, and Pyinmana.
A fte r twenty-one years o f strenuous missionary
life, and a break in her health, she was obliged to give up her work in
1914 and return to America.
F or the past few years she had taken every
possible measure to regain her health, and throughout her illness harbored
the thought that some day she would be strong enough to return to Burma.
In spite o f her physical handicaps,, her faith remained true and her love
for God and his work uppermost in her heart.
On February 7, 1923, M rs. C. G. Lewis, the widow o f Rev. Charles G.
Lewis, died in the city o f Philadelphia, where for about ten years she had
made her home with her brother and her own five children.
H er husband
gave his life in 1910 trying to furnish relief to the starving Chinese in one
o f the devastating famines that periodically sweep across sections of China.
Frank D. Phinney was born in H ornell, N . Y ., December 7, 1857.
He
was educated in the public schools o f Rochester and in the University o f
Rochester, where he received his M . A . degree.
During his college days
he established himself in the printing business, which prepared him when
the call came in 1882 for the task o f taking over the work o f Cephas
Bennett at the M ission Press in Rangoon.
On October 1 o f that year
he became Superintendent, and served in that capacity up to the time of
his death, December
15, 1922.
On
March 22,
1892, M r. Phinney was
married to M iss Lenna A . Smith, who died M ay 4, 1894; and on April 20,
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1897, he married M iss Jennie E. W ayte, who survives him.
During his
work in Burma M r. Phinney returned to America five times, his last fur­
lough being in 1918.
In the business life o f the community, city, and
province, M r. Phinney filled a large place, having served as President o f
the Rangoon T rade Association for three successive terms and as their
representative on the Board of Commissioners for the Port o f Rangoon.
But with all his business activities and cares it may be truly said o f M r.
Phinney
that his
fundamental
Christ and his church first.
principle
of
life
was
always
to
place
On the day o f his funeral a high government
official was heard to remark o f M r. Phinney, “ M r. Phinney was the finest
American who has ever lived in Burma.”
The Mission Press stands as
material evidence o f a work well done, but the inspiration o f his life
and his place in the memory o f his friends will endure forever.
A t the time of her death at Rangoon, Burma, January IS, 1923, M rs.
M ary M . Rose was eighty-three years old, and she had the distinction of
having been in active service for
over sixty years.
Born in M ergui,
Burma, she was the daughter of Rev. and M rs. D. L . Brayton, well-known
missionaries to the Karens.
A s her parents visited Am erica only twice
during all their years o f service, M rs. Rose spent practically all her life in
Burma.
She could remember well Adoniram Judson and his coworkers.
A t the age of seventeen she married Rev. A . T . Rose, an evangelistic
and educational missionary to the Burmans in Rangoon, and from that
time on she assumed a large share o f her husband’s activities and work.
W h en in 1896 M r. Rose died, a group o f Karen Christians asked her to
begin a school for the special evangelistic training o f women, the project
being made possible by a gift from a Karen who had been converted by
M r. Brayton. The school was begun in 1897, and the work grew until
in 1920 it became known as the Karen W om e n ’s Bible School o f Rangoon,
with an enrolment o f 680 students.
A side from this school work M rs.
Rose was o f great assistance in the translation and literary work fo r the
Karens, translating the Scriptures and
Christian hymns and preparing
Sunday-school lessons and tracts.
A fte r an absence o f nearly nine years, Miss Sarah R. Slater returned
hom e on furlough in January, 1922.
O w in g to the financial condi­
tion o f the Society, M iss Slater was asked to postpone her return to
Burma beyond the expiration o f her furlough.
Just a year, however, after
her arrival in America, on January 29, 1923, M iss Slater passed away very
suddenly.
She received her appointment as a missionary and sailed for
Burma in 1889.
H er work was carried on in the Eurasian School in
Moulmein, where she remained a year.
In 1905 she was transferred to
M andalay to the English School, remaining for two years.
She had not
been well, and so it was thought best for her to go to the hill-station o f
M aym yo. Here she established a girls’ school with inadequate equipment,
which has become a strong force for Christianity in upper Burma. For a
number o f years there has been an urgent request for an appropriation
for a new school building for M aym yo.
It had been M iss Slater’s earnest
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prayer that the W om a n ’s Society might see its way clear to meet this ueecl.
In November a gift was received for the purpose, and the glad news was
cabled to the field to the missionaries in charge o f the school in Miss
Slater’s absence.
Although the gift came while she was on furlough, she
rejoiced that such provision had been made for the girls’ school.
A fellow
missionary says o f M iss S la te r: “ She was a woman with a vision ahead
o f her day.
Thank God for such women as M iss Slater.”
Rev. Franz W iens, whose tragic death occurred in Fresno, Calif., July
31, 1922, was for four years a missionary to the Telugus.
H e was born
in Orechow, Tauria, Russia, November 10, 1880, and when fourteen years
old wras baptized into the Mennonite Church.
H e received his ordination
in 1909 and two weeks later was appointed a missionary.
On the 28th o f
July, accompanied by M rs. W iens, he sailed from Russia for Jangaon,
South India, where he was first stationed.
In the spring of 1912, M r. and
M rs. W ien s relieved Rev. and M rs. Cornelius Unruh at N algonda during
their furlough.
H e retired as a missionary o f the Society M arch 31, 1914.
M r. W ien s, accompanied by Rev. J. Penner, a brother missionary now in
this country on furlough, was returning home late at night when he was
carelessly fired upon by a company o f Fresno firemen who were searching
fo r burglars
A bullet struck him in the back, and he died almost im­
mediately.
During the year several of the most useful leaders among European
Baptists have passed to their reward.
One o f them was Rev. H . A ndru,
o f Compiegne, France, for many years pastor o f the Baptist Church at
L a Fere in one o f the regions devastated by the war.
H e also served as
Treasurer of the Franco-Beige Baptist Association.
M r. Andru was a
delightful Christian brother and will be deeply missed by his brethren in
France.
Another was Professor Gustave Gieselbusch, Principal o f the
Baptist Theological Seminary at Hamburg, Germany, which has been such
a fountainhead of Baptist streams running into various parts of Europe.
Principal Gieselbusch had carried very heavy burdens for many years, and
doubtless the strain o f conditions during and immediately follow ing the
W o rld W a r hastened his death. H e was one of the highly useful Baptists
o f Europe.
A third death was that o f Rev. Claus Peters, pastor o f the
First Baptist Church o f Hamburg, Germany, who was one o f the beloved
and active leaders among the Baptists o f Germany.
In Latvia a great
loss has been sustained in the death of K arl Freywald, who at the time
o f his death was secretary o f the Lettish Baptist Union.
M r. Freywald
was not only a leader among the Baptists in Latvia, but was active in
public life and in government service, where he was head o f a department
o f the Ministry for H om e Affairs.
The Board of Managers
F or the first time in many years the fellowship on the Board
of Managers has been broken by death. Mr. W . H . Burger,
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w h o died on D ecem ber 4, 1922, had been a member since the
annual m eeting o f the Society in June, 1921.
T o fill the
vacancy created b y his death, the Board elected Thom as H.
Stacy, D. D., o f Center Sandwich, N. H . O ther new members
serving during the past year included W . A . Jameson, of
M ount V ernon, N. Y . ; M. J. T w om ey, D. D., of Newark, N. J .;
and James A . Francis, D. D., of L os A ngeles, Calif. A t its
organization meeting in June, 1922, the Board elected Frederick
L. A nderson, D . D., M ornay W illiam s, and W illiam B.
Lipphard, respectively, to the offices of Chairman, V ice chairman, and R ecordin g Secretary.
T he m eetings o f the
Board have been well attended throughout the year, and the
m embers have, as heretofore, devoted considerable time and
thought to the many details of administration as well as to
the larger questions of mission p olicy that have had to be
considered. It is with deep appreciation that the Board re co g ­
nizes the courtesy of the churches and the business organiza­
tions w hich permit pastors and laym en to render this im por­
tant service to the denomination.
Board Meetings at Indianapolis, Northfield, and Chicago
O f the eleven meetings o f the Board held during the past
year, three were held at places other than the headquarters of
the Society in N ew Y ork. In June the Board, as in previous
years, held its m eeting in connection with the sessions o f the
Northern Baptist Convention and the annual m eeting of the
Society, at Indianapolis, Ind. In N ovem ber the Board met at
Northfield, Mass., devoting tw o days to an unhurried and
careful study of the larger problem s in the w ork of the Society.
A t this m eeting F oreign Secretary J. C. R obbins presented a
com plete report of his secretarial visit to the British India
fields, and considerable time was devoted to a consideration
o f conditions in Europe, as the Board had an opportunity of
hearing at this m eeting the Baptist Com m issioner for Europe,
Dr. J. H . R ushbrooke, w ho had just returned from a visit to
Russia. The im portant February m eeting was held in Chi­
cago, at the Belden Avenue Baptist Church. In connection
with the regular sessions, the Board also conducted a series of
Bible and m issionary conferences, which were largely attended
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b y pastors and mem bers of the churches in the C hicago dis­
trict. A rrangem ents for such meetings involve m uch time
and thought as w ell as careful planning, but the results are
decidedly w orth w hile in that they perm it a section of the con ­
stituency o f the Society to receive inform ation and im pres­
sions concern ing the m issionary activity o f the denom ination
in a w ay that otherw ise would be im possible.
Secretarial Staff
T h e administrative officers have devoted a large am ount of
time to field w ork during the past year, in cooperation with
the Field A ctivities D epartm ent of the Board o f Prom otion.
This has placed heavy burdens upon them, for there has been
no diminution in the problem s and responsibilities in con n ec­
tion with their administrative tasks.
Secretaries P. H . J.
L errigo, J. H. Franklin, and J. C. R obbins especially have
visited many churches, associations, and conventions in order
to acquaint the constituency with the needs and problem s in
the w ork o f the Society. A special arrangement was made
in the service of A ssociate Secretary W - B. Lipphard, by
which the Board authorized his givin g part of his time to the
Board o f P rom otion in order to direct tem porarily its publicity
activities and to serve also as A ssociate E ditor of “ M issions.”
One change is noted in the secretarial staff. E. B. Cross,
Ph. D ., w ho has been in the service o f the Society since 1921
and was appointed A ssistant Secretary in the F oreign D epart­
ment in the fall o f 1921, presented his resignation to becom e
effective M ay 31, in order to accept the appointm ent to the
H o y t Professorship of the H ebrew Language and Literature
at R ochester T h eological Seminary, a position for w hich his
previous experience and training had made him well qualified.
T h e Board accepted his resignation with sincere regret, inas­
much as D octor Cross had been rendering m ost acceptable
service and had demonstrated an unusual fitness in handling
the administrative details in the Foreign Departm ent.
Deputation Service of Missionaries and Members of the Board
From the very beginnings o f the missionary enterprise the
service rendered by missionaries at home on furlough in p ro­
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m oting interest and beneficence through visits to churches has
proved of increasing value. E ver since the days when Luther
R ice returned from Burma to acquaint the Baptists o f the
early part o f the nineteenth century with the heroic service
undertaken by A doniram Judson, no prom otional w ork has
been quite so effective as such stories of personal missionary
experiences. Special mention should therefore be m ade of
the devoted and self-sacrificing w ork which has been done by
the follow in g nyssionaries o f the Society w h o during their
furloughs have been engaged in this helpful ministry am ong
the ch u rch es:.
Rev. A . S. Adam s, Rev. J. M . Baker, Rev. S. D. Bawden, H . B . Benninghoff, D . D ., Rev. A . E. Bigelow, Rev. E . S. Burket, Rev. W alter
Bushell, Rev. C. E. Chaney, Rev. C. A . Collett, L. W . Cronkhite, D. D.,
Rev. A . C. Darrow , Rev. J. E. Geil, Rev. G. J. Geis, Rev. A . C. Hanna,
Rev. D. G. Haring, J. C. King, M . D „ H . W . Kirby, M . D., Rev. S. E.
M oon, Rev. John Newcomb, H . Ostrom, M . D., Rev. J. H . Oxrieder, J. T .
Proctor, D . D ., Rev. L . B. Rogers, Rev. Charles Rutherford, Rev. H . E.
SafFord, Rev.
W allace
St.
John,
Jacob
Speicher, D .
D.,
Rev. L .
W.
Spring, Joseph Taylor, D. D., Rev. W . O. Valentine, C. E. V an Horn,
Rev. G. H . W aters.
M ost of their appointments have been made through the Field
A ctivities Departm ent o f the Board o f Prom otion and through
the State prom otion offices. Probably in no previous year
have missionaries entered upon so strenuous a cam paign of
public appointments in churches, at associations, at con ven ­
tions, and in other gatherings. T h ey have given prodigally
o f their time and strength often to the point of endangering
their health, in order that the churches m ight thus receive
first-hand know ledge of the m ovem ents of the Spirit of God
in the great w orld fields. The Board therefore records its
deep appreciation of the willingness of the missionaries to
devote their furloughs to this important activity, and its grate­
ful satisfaction at the value o f their service.
T h e fraternal visit to Europe of Dr. W . S. Abernethy, Dr.
Carter H elm Jones, Dr. Frederick E. T aylor, and Mr. W illiam
T . Sheppard last summer on a m ission o f Christian fellow ship
and evangelism has already been mentioned. These members
of the Board returned with messages of absorbing interest and
inspiration. D uring the year, like the missionaries, they have
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made large contributions of time and effort in telling the story
o f their experiences far and w ide throughout the constituency.
T h e denom ination is indebted to them for a new understand­
ing of the religious situation in the old w orld and a new
realization o f the advance o f the K in gd om on the fields w hich
they visited.
Literature
A s in previous years, the pamphlet literature of the Society
has been issued and distributed through the Literature D e ­
partment of the Board o f Prom otion. Several pam phlets have
been revised and reprinted during the year, w hile a m oderate
am ount o f new literature has also been produced. T w o of
these, the address delivered by the Chairman o f the B oard at
the annual .meeting o f the Society at Indianapolis, and “ A
R eview of A chievem ents of the Past Y ear,” b y H om e Secre­
tary P. H . J. Lerrigo, have been w idely distributed. A co m ­
prehensive assortm ent o f new literature relating to the w ork
o f the Society in Japan is now in preparation for use next
year in connection with the mission study topic, w hich will
be Japan. A new issue of the Guide B ook w ill also be pub­
lished in the fall.
In January the B oard of P rom otion issued a remarkable
publication, entitled “ On the M arch.” Th is was a review of
three years o f progress in the w ork o f the denom ination at
home and abroad since the begin ning of the N ew W o rld
M ovem ent in 1919. W h ile this review intended to show what
had been accom plished as a result o f the stimulus and inspira­
tion of the denom inational program adopted at the Northern
Baptist Convention at D enver during that year, achievements
that have been made possible by gifts not related to the N ew
W o rld M ovem ent were also included. Naturally the w ork of
the Society was prom inently featured in this publication, and
approxim ately ten pages were devoted to presenting the sig­
nificant achievem ents on the mission fields that had taken
place during this period. T he Board takes pleasure in record­
in g its appreciation of the com prehensive and w ell-w ritten
review of foreign mission progress that was included in this
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T h e final edition o f the Annual R eport of the S ociety for
the year 1921-1922 appeared during the summer. As heretofore
the pastors were notified in a special letter that com plim entary
copies w ould be furnished them upon request. Several thou­
sand pastors availed themselves of this opportunity. Such
requests for copies apparently indicate a gratifyin g interest in
the w ork of the Society.
Publicity
A n unusually extensive cam paign of publicity has been con ­
ducted throughout the year in the denom inational press, in
cooperation with the P ublicity Departm ent of the Board of
P rom otion. A ll the administrative officers, including the
Treasurer and the Chairman o f the Board, have written ar­
ticles and there have also been a large variety o f brief items
as well as longer articles and stories from m issionaries fur­
nished the several w eekly papers. In the fall the experiences
of the members of the Board w ho visited Europe were given
w ide publicity. T h e Board again takes occasion to record its
grateful appreciation of the generous am ount of space placed
at its disposal b y the editors o f the denom inational papers for
con veyin g inform ation to the constituency regarding the work
o f the Society. W ithout the effective cooperation o f The Baptist,
The Watchman-Examiner, The Baptist Record, the Baptist Ob­
server, and the Baptist Banner, the Society would be placed at a
serious disadvantage in trying to inform the readers o f these
various papers concerning its work.
Developments in the Station Plan
D u rin g the past year the Station Plan which was returned
to the Society last year by T h e General Board of Prom otion
has been conducted b y the H om e Department. This plan is
providin g a satisfactory method w hereby churches and indi­
viduals w h o desire to make specific designation o f their gifts
to foreign m issions may assume definite relations to some
special field. Letters are prepared by one o f the missionaries
upon the station chosen givin g detailed inform ation as to
the progress o f the work. These letters are duplicated in the
home office and sent to all those w h o are givin g towards the
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w ork at the station in question, together with pamphlets and
printed reports from the field, also the little papers published
by the individual missions. N early 1000 churches and indi­
viduals are n ow availing themselves of the Station Plan in
relating their gifts and their interest to the work o f the Society.
Special Gifts
A number of generous special gifts have been received dur­
ing the year. It is now well understood that the cooperative
plan with w hich the Society is in hearty accord w ill always
need to be supplemented b y givin g our constituency the op ­
portunity to make special contributions toward phases o f the
w ork w hich engage their particular attention. Gifts of this
kind indicate the existence o f an interest in the w ork o f the
Society so keen as to induce special study of its details and
as a result a quickened desire to assume personal responsi­
bility for some portion of the w ork. T h e action of T h e Gen­
eral Board of P rom otion in N ovem ber, 1921, leaves all organi­
zations free to accept such gifts where the initiative com es
from the individual m aking the gift. D u rin g the past year
special gifts o f this nature have provided chapel buildings in
Assam , and in South In d ia ; m uch needed hospital equipm ent
in China, the Chinese themselves having provided the build­
ing; a hostel for students in connection with the w ork am ong
y ou n g men at one o f the large student centers in In d ia ;
autom obiles for busy missionaries w h o have large fields to
o v e rse e ; buildings at one o f the large union universities in
C hina; industrial equipm ent at one o f the C on go stations;
special equipment for the science departm ent of one o f the
colleges in China; and funds for the passage to the field of
several missionaries w hose return was thus made possible.
Joint Magazine
T h e join t m agazine “ M issions ” has had an unusually suc­
cessful year. U nder the capable managem ent o f Dr. H ow ard
B. Grose, w h o has so ably edited this magazine for thirteen
years, the high standard o f previous years has easily been
maintained. In June, the Board authorized A ssociate Secre­
tary W illiam B. Lipphard to devote a portion of his time to
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the service o f the m agazine in collaboration with D octor
Grose, and he was appointed A ssociate Editor. T h e subscrip­
tion list is grow in g steadily, and the magazine now reaches
practically every continent on earth. W h ile endeavoring to
present each m onth a w ide variety o f articles relating to the
many phases of the m issionary enterprise at hom e and abroad,
“ M issions ” nevertheless appreciates also the value of special
issues. T hree special numbers have appeared during the year.
In the O ctober issue considerable emphasis was placed on
stewardship. In D ecem ber, m issionary w ork for the N egro
in A m erica was given special attention, while the February
issue was devoted alm ost exclusively to presenting the forth ­
com in g Baptist W o rld A lliance m eeting at Stockholm and its
significance for denom inational progress.
Homes for Missionaries and Missionaries’ Children
The seven com pletely furnished apartments or houses which
the Board is able to offer missionaries at hom e on furlough
have been occupied during the past year. There had previ­
ously been eight such apartments, but one house at R oxbury,
Mass., was sold because it was found to be inadequately
adapted for such tem porary occupancy. Three cottages are
at Granville, Ohio, a tw o-fam ily house is at N ew ton Center,
Mass., while tw o apartments are made available in the birth­
place of Adoniram Judson at Malden, Mass. These homes
meet an urgent need in the case of missionaries returning on
furlough, w ho find it extrem ely difficult to secure accom ­
m odations for tem porary occupancy. The H om es for M is­
sionaries’ Children have also been fully occupied during the
year. T h e tw o located respectively at Granville, Ohio, and at
M organ Park, 111., are maintained by the Society, while the
third, at N ew ton Center, Mass., is conducted join tly with the
W o m a n ’s Society. A t Granville eighteen children, represent­
ing eleven families, have found a com fortable and well-managed
hom e under the superintendency of Miss Charlotte F. Clark.
O n M arch 1, Miss Clark left the service of the Fannie Doane
H om e in order to becom e the w ife o f Dr. Fred P. H aggard,
form erly H om e Secretary of the Society. T h e Board placed
on record its grateful appreciation of the eleven years o f de­
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voted and efficient service which she had rendered at this
hom e. A s her successor, the Board appointed Mrs. Gerald R.
R ichards, o f A kron, O hio, w hose experience as the w ife o f a
pastor and m ore recently as superintendent of the dorm itories
o f the Young- W o m e n ’s Christian A ssociation made her well
qualified to assume this im portant position. A t M organ Park,
M iss Maud B rook has continued her capable direction o f the
B acon H om e, where thirteen children from seven families
have been accom m odated. T h e hom e at N ew ton Center has
taken care o f nine children from five fam ilies under the tem ­
porary oversight o f M iss A nna H . Smith during the special
leave o f absence for Mrs. M. R. W est, w h o has been in service
there for fifteen years.
The General Board of Promotion and the Financial Campaign
T h e w ork o f cultivation and prom otion during the past year
has again been conducted in cooperation with The General
Board of Prom otion as during the preceding three years of
the N ew W orld M ovem ent period.
T h e Society has been
represented upon this organization b y the Chairman o f the
Board, Frederick L. A nderson, by H. M. Fillebrow n, C. E.
M illiken, and H om e Secretary P. H . J. L e r r ig o ; and upon the
A dm inistrative Committee by Frederick L. A nderson. A t
the beginning o f the year certain changes in the organization
of the A dm inistrative Com m ittee w ere brought about under
the direction o f its new Chairman, Mr. A lbert Scott. These
involved the division o f the com m ittee into subcom m ittees,
each charged with special responsibility for a certain phase
of the work. Adm inistrative officers o f the various participat­
ing organizations were coopted into the m em bership o f these
subcom m ittees and have been active during the year in help­
ing to devise plans and carry on the w ork assigned to them.
A dm inistrative officers of the Society w h o have served on the
subcom m ittees include H om e Secretary P. H . J. L errigo on
the Field A ctivities Committee and the A dv isory Committee,
A ssociate Secretary W . B. Lipphard on the P ublicity C om ­
mittee and the Literature Committee, Treasurer G. B. H un t­
ington on the Business Committee. In addition to this the
Chairman of the Board has acted as chairman of the Steward­
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ship Committee for the larger part of the year in place of
Secretary G. N. Brink of the Publication Society, w h o was
prevented from serving on account of illness.
T h e severe shrinkage in financial receipts for the fiscal year
ending A pril 30, 1922, as com pared with the previous year led
to serious consideration both upon the part o f the Board of
M anagers of the Society and the Finance Committee o f the
Northern Baptist Convention as to the financial p olicy which
should be pursued in the new year. It at once became clear
that the extraordinary receipts of the year 1920-1921 ou ght
not to be considered as establishing a new plane o f givin g
w hich the churches m ight safely be expected to maintain dur­
ing subsequent years. The Board, therefore, anticipated the
action o f the Finance Com m ittee of the Northern Baptist
Convention in recom m ending a substantial reduction in its
budget. Accordingly reductions were made in many important
items, and the total budget as finally approved was 25 per cent,
low er than that of the previous year. These reductions in­
volved retaining at home missionaries w ho otherwise w ould
have returned to their field s; reducing the number o f new ly
appointed missionaries to be sent as reen forcem en ts; d iscon ­
tinuing relief in devastated Europe be}rond that provided by
specific o ffe r in g s ; reducing the w ork o f missionaries and
native churches. The budget as thus approved was in cor­
porated with the similarly reduced budgets o f the other par­
ticipating organizations in a join t budget which form ed the
basis for the financial cam paign of the year. T h e goal fo r the
yeai was set at $10,000,000 with the understanding that o f this
sum the first $7,000,000 of distributable receipts w ould be
divided pro rata between the participating organizations and
would be devoted to providin g for the operating budgets. It
was agreed that the next $750,000 of distributable receipts
would be set aside toward the underpayments due certain of
the participating organizations on previous years’ receipts.
Funds received beyond these sums were to be divided upon
the basis of the revised survey.
The Field Activities of the Board of Promotion
T h e responsibility for the prom otional w ork of the year has
been borne by the Field A ctivities Committee acting with
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the General D irector. Its activities began im m ediately after
the N orthern Baptist Convention at Indianapolis and have
continued w ithout interruption through the year. D u rin g the
summer plans were laid for a series of State conferences
throughout the territory of the. Convention for the purpose
o f setting up the w ork o f the winter season. These w ere held
for the m ost part in the early fall, and were follow ed b y in­
tensive cam paigns within the States for the purpose o f ac­
quainting the churches with the inspiring results w hich are
attending the m issionary w ork of our denom ination upon all
fields and arousing them to a larger degree o f support. In
the progress o f this w ork the Society has contributed largely
through the services of its B oard m em bers and secretarial staff
as w ell as through the helpful addresses o f more than thirty
missionaries. It seems clear that the field w ork of the de­
nom ination was never m ore th oroughly organized or effec­
tively carried out than during the past year. Full ack n ow l­
edgm ent should be made of the effective leadership o f the
Chairman of the Committee, Mrs. George W . Coleman, and
o f the indefatigable support of its secretary, Mrs. L. J. P.
Bishop, in the achievem ent of this result.
The Committee on the Future Denominational Program
A t the N orthern Baptist Convention at Indianapolis, a com ­
mittee was appointed by President F. E. T a ylor to outline a
program for the denom ination for the period fo llo w in g the
N ew W orld M ovem ent. T he Society is represented upon this
com m ittee b y H om e Secretary P. H. J. L errigo. The com ­
mittee has had extended m eetings each m onth during the year
and brought to the attention of an inter-board m eeting held in
the M adison A venue Baptist Church, N ew Y ork, M arch 9, a
series o f suggestions coverin g the m ajor items under consider­
ation for conference. A t this m eeting the Board was repre­
sented by F. L. A nderson, D. D., H erbert J. W h ite, D . D.,
and Orrin R. Judd. T h e w'ork of the com m ittee deals both
with the spiritual task facin g Northern Baptists and with a
revision of the denom inational organization for the prosecu­
tion o f the great task. D urin g the N ew W o rld M ovem ent
period the churches have made substantial advance in giving.
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On the other hand, the aftermath of the g'reat war has greatly
increased the cost of carrying- on the work, while problem s of
unprecedented magnitude have emerged upon every side as a
result of the prolonged w orld conflict. T he need both for men
and m oney was never so great as at present. T o form a plan
which will elicit an even greater response from the denom ina­
tion in support o f its missionary enterprises, to visualize and
set before the churches in graphic terms the opportunity of
the hour, to adjust satisfactorily the machinery w hereby the
denom ination is to carry on its cooperative work, are some
of the problem s which face the com m ittee.
T he Board is
earnestly desirous of lending its full support and assistance in
the solving of these problems.
The Spiritual Emphasis
T he Society finds itself in a quandary as it faces present
conditions. On the one hand is the m ighty w ork of God
dem anding that we go forward with renewed energv and
power, on the other hand the necessity for decreasing rather
than increasing the appropriations for the work.
W e are
forced back upon God, the originator of the great work. A s
he is the Lord of the harvest-field, so is he Lord of his p eople’s
hearts and of the resources needed to carry on the w ork of
reaping.
Faced with the prospect of reduced incom e the
Board, in accordance with the suggestion of the Finance C om ­
mittee of the Northern Baptist Convention, put into e ffe ct'a
25 per cent, reduction in its budget during the past year. In
addition to this it was felt im peratively necessary that some
effort should be made to reduce the large accum ulation of in­
debtedness. This meant further reduction in the budget and
as a result a further ham pering of our representatives who
are m eeting the brunt of the battle upon the foreign fields.
The task is manifestly too great for them. Indeed it is beyond
any human power. Our missionaries need the support of our
prayers as never before. T h ey are too few in number to meet
the opportunities of the day. T h ey are struggling under bur­
dens far beyond their powers. It is the earnest desire of the
Society to reenforce them both in numbers and in equipment,
but the present financial situation prevents the possibility at
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this m om ent of givin g our overburdened w orkers the relief
they so sorely need. God is h onoring their faith and devotion
by great outpourings of his Spirit everywhere. M ay w e not
look for parallel outpourings of his grace upon the church at
hom e that w e may do our part through the givin g o f life and
means to render still m ore effective the agencies which we
have set in m otion. “ W e are in the midst of a; great w ork ,”
writes one o f our missionaries, “ God is calling us to carry
the m essage of salvation through Christ to the isolated and
yet unreached places. W e cannot retract nor can we stand
still. W e m ust advance and capture the most remote places
and then in the hearts of fear-stricken peoples establish the
kingdom of G od.”
FINANCIAL REVIEW OF THE YEAR
FINANCIAL REVIEW OF THE YEAR
H E fiscal year w hich ended on A pril 30, 1923, has been
one of very great anxiety to the Board o f M anagers and
to all w ho have had responsibility for the financial
administration of the Society. The previous year had closed
with an accum ulated deficit w hich reached the staggering
figure o f $914,262.50. In harm ony with the general plan ap­
proved b y the N orthern Baptist Convention at Indianapolis
in June, the Society assumed its full proportion o f the ob liga ­
tions still outstanding on account of the Interchurch W o rld
M ovem ent. The net result of this and other adjustm ents was
to increase the deficit to the sum o f $950,089.38. U nder the
shadow of this burden very severe reductions in expenditures
w ere effected and m ost vigorous efifort was made in coop era­
tion with T h e General Board o f P rom otion to realize the goal
o f incom e set for the N ew W o rld M ovem ent Fund. It is with
profound gratitude to God and appreciation o f the gifts o f the
denom ination that the Board reports that the deficit has been
reduced to the sum o f $661,540.10.
T
How the Deficit W as Reduced
T his exceedingly gratifying result was obtained onl}' at the
cost o f real sacrifice. Decreased expenditure rather than in­
creased receipts made possible the reduction o f the deficit.
T h e total incom e applying on the regular and supplemental
budget items was $115,502.39 less than the total for the pre­
ceding year. T h e total expenditures for such items were
$445,982.31 less than the corresponding total last year. A t
the beginning of the year the Board submitted and the C on­
vention approved a regular operating budget that was tw entyfive per cent, less than the budget authorized for the year 1921 1922. B y rigid econ om y in the operations o f the year still
further savings were effected am ounting to over $50,000. The
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B oard definitely planned also to devote the greater part o f a
considerable incom e not applying on the N ew W o rld M o v e ­
ment and therefore designated as a supplem ental budget to
items o f expenditure in the regular budget. Furtherm ore
there was set up in the budget subm itted to the Finance C om ­
m ittee within the total estimated incom e a reserve for con tin ­
gent expenditures and a reserve to be applied if received
directly tow ard the reduction o f the deficit. T h e total incom e
on account o f the regular and supplemental budgets was
$1,746,511.71. T he total regular and supplemental budget
expenditures and appropriations as finally reported on A pril
30 w ere $1,461,233.55. T h e entire balance or $285,278.16 was
transferred to the Deficit A ccou nt. T h e effect o f such re­
strictive measures upon the w ork o f the missionaries is re­
ferred to elsewhere in this report. E xcept for such a con ser­
vative p olicy the financial condition o f the Society at the close
o f the year w ou ld be far more serious.
A Closer Study
T he reduction o f the deficit by so large an amount Avhen
the denom ination contributed less than the entire seven m il­
lion dollars o f distributable funds is explained by the fo llo w ­
ing facts. T h e Board did not authorize appropriations at the
begin n ing o f the year for the full am ount o f the estimated
incom e but held in reserve a total sum o f $356,656.45 made up
as fo llo w s : C ontingent Fund, $51,618.13, later increased by
$5,047.21 net savings in authorized expenditures; R eserve for
deficit, $150,000; A m ou n t unappropriated in supplemental
budget and later applied to regular budget items, $149,991.09.
T h e total expenditures actually authorized therefore were
$356,656.45 less than the total estimated incom e. T h e Society
received $274,857.57 less than the am ount to which it w ould
have been entitled had the full seven m illion dollars o f dis­
tributable funds been collected. T here was, how ever, an ex­
cess over the estim ated receipts from designated funds, from
sources outside donations such as legacies, matured annuity
agreem ents, and incom e o f permanent funds and from funds
n ot applying on the N ew W o rld M ovem ent am ounting to
$203,479.28. T h e net shortage in receipts therefore w as on ly
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$71,378.29. T h e difference between this net shortage in re­
ceipts o f $71,378.29 and the am ount o f $356,656.45 previously
stated as not appropriated or saved in the approved budget is
$285,278.16. This sum corresponds with the excess o f the
total receipts over the total expenditures w hich was applied
to the D eficit A ccou n t.
T h e com plete detailed statement o f the D eficit A ccou n t,
R evenue A ccou n t for the Current B udget, and the General
Balance Sheet o f the Society, accom panied b y the A u d ito rs’
certificate and various schedules o f details, w ill be found on
subsequent pages o f this report.
Bank Borrowings
T he decrease in expenditures and the consequent reduction
o f the deficit have resulted in a substantial im provem ent in the
position o f the Society as respects its bank loans. In the report
o f last year it was stated that on A pril 29 there were notes
outstanding for $1,050,000. On A pril 30, 1923, notes payable
am ounted to $600,000 for the A m erican Baptist Foreign M is­
sion Society and $165,000 for the W om a n ’s A m erican Baptist
Foreign M ission Society, or a total bank obligation for the
two Societies o f $765,000. A s explained last year the A m eri­
can Baptist Foreign M ission S ociety had been accustom ed to
b orrow the funds required to meet the needs o f both itself and
the W o m a n ’s Society. D uring the past year, as a result of
mutual agreement, the W o m a n ’s Society has established bank
credit on its ow n accou n t.an d now shares the burden o f b or­
row in g such funds as are required to carry the deficits and to
provide for the current budget expenditures o f the tw o organi­
zations. T h e smaller borrow ings have been reflected in the
interest account w hich has totaled $26,232.14 as com pared
with $30,878.68 for the preceding year. T h e interest payments
have been adjusted between the tw o Societies, as fo llo w s :
General Society, $19,298.20; W om a n ’ s Society, $6,933.94. The
funds borrow ed by the W o m a n ’s Am erican Baptist Foreign
M ission Society for the m ost part have been paid over to the
General Society to apply upon the current budget appropria­
tions. The am ount due from the W o m a n ’s Society on A pril
30, 1923, on account o f the current budget was $58,009.87,
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w hich added to the sum of $444,124.55 for previous years
makes the total am ount $502,134.42. show n in the balance
sheet as an account receivable. Since the closin g o f the books
the W o m a n ’s Society has paid an additional am ount o f $152,134.42 m ainly from the final rem ittance o f T h e General B oard
o f P rom otion , thus reducing to $350,000 the am ount actually
ow ed to the General Society by the W o m a n ’s Society.
Receipts for the Year Analyzed
T h e total receipts o f the year available for the w ork o f the
Society, including specifics outside the regular budget,
am ounted to $2,104,622.99 as com pared with $2,013,145.51 for
the year 1921-1922. Contributions from churches and in­
dividuals w ere $1,429,218.11 and receipts from sources outside
donations am ounted to $675,404.88. C orresponding figures
for the preceding year w ere: Donations, $1,371,236.76; sources
outside donations, $641,908.75. T h e total receipts applying on
the N ew W o rld M ovem ent were $1,713,465.82; the total not
a pplying on the N ew W o rld M ovem ent was $391,157.17. T h e
budget expectancy in regular donations was $1,281,890; the
actual receipts were $1,100,324.94, o f w hich $20,981.48 was
outside the N ew W o rld M ovem ent.
R eceipts from the incom e of permanent funds, legacies, and
annuity agreem ents matured were nearly $100,000 in excess
o f the budget expectancy and, except in the case o f legacies,
larger than the correspon din g receipts o f last year.
The
largest single item in this group is the incom e o f the John D.
R ock efeller Fund w hich am ounted to $315,908. T h e incom e
o f other permanent and tem porary funds amounted to $113,516.21. T h e greater part o f this latter incom e is available for
the general w ork of the Society. In som e cases, how ever, the
incom e is designated for particular phases o f that w ork o r for
the support o f certain missionaries. E specially helpful was the
unusual am ount o f $58,860.37 available from matured annuity
agreements. Special note m ay be made o f an item o f $20,659.77 w hich represents a refund b y the G overnm ent o f Burma
to apply on the salaries and passage expenses o f missionaries
engaged for a time in the M oulm ein Trade School, an enter­
prise begun b y the Burma M ission and later taken o v e r b y the
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governm ent with full reimbursement to the M ission for all
m oney expended. A n oth er special item is the sum o f $29,218.11 contributed several )rears ago for famine relief in China
and held as a tem porary fund, which was released by the
Board, after taking legal advice, to help in meeting a similar
desperate em ergency in Russia.
R eceipts for the Specific B udget show a very considerable
increase over last year, the total being $358,111.28. O f this
am ount all but $62,159.77 was in donations designated by the
donors for special ob jects outside the regular budget o f the
Society. M uch the larger part of the total specifics, or $242.489.83, including $9,017.86 for repair o f damages caused by
typhoon at Sw atow , was designated for land, buildings, and
equipm ent, $84,278.14 for European, Russian, and other relief,
and $31,343.31 for various phases o f the general work.
Reduced Expenditures on the Foreign Field
A m o n g the measures instituted to reduce expenditures were
the elimination of the item for European Relief, a radical de­
crease in the num ber o f new missionaries sent to the field, and
the retention at hom e o f a limited number o f missionaries on
furlough. T he budget for the year 1921-1922 had carried an
item o f $167,000 for special relief in Europe. N o provision
was made in the year just closed, except as the churches sent
in extra specific donations. These gifts amounted, how ever,
to $54,810.48 which sum was increased to a total o f $84,028.59
by the transfer o f famine funds already mentioned. A noth er
very considerable reduction was in the item for new m ission­
ary appointees. O nly in cases o f m ost urgent need were new
missionaries appointed and sent to the field. The total ex­
penditures in 1921-1922 was $105,651.55, representing twenty
missionary families and eleven single missionaries. The cor­
responding expenditure during the past year was only $32.687.53, w hich provided for seven m issionary families and one
single missionary. T w o o f the seven families were m issiona­
ries previously in the service w h o received reappointm ent to
their form er fields. B y detaining at home some ten or tw elve
o f the missionaries on furlough w h o were due to return to the
field but w ho could m ost easily be spared from their w ork, and
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b y the use o f less expensive intermediate and second-class
steamship accom m odations a material saving was secured in
passage expenses. T h e total for the year was $88,085.14 as
com pared with $115,894.58 o f the previous year. Several of
the detained missionaries w ere enabled to return to the field
through specific contributions from interested friends. V ery
fortunately for the interests o f the w ork on the foreign field,
it was found possible to attain the tw enty-five per cent,
reduction on the total regular budget w ithout further cur­
tailing the appropriations for the support o f churches, schools,
and hospitals, and other phases o f the w ork o f the m issiona­
ries and native agencies, w hich had suffered a severe reduction
in the preceding year. T he total appropriations for these
items was $307,173.10, or approxim ately $200 less than the
total reported a year ago. W h ile the am ount o f m oney appro­
priated by the Board for the w ork o f m issionaries and native
agencies has been practically the same, this very fact has
operated as a practical reduction in the w ork at many points.
Costs o f carrying on m issionary w ork, such as salaries o f na­
tive workers, mission travel expense, cost o f supplies, etc.,
have continued to increase, and a given am ount o f m oney
w ou ld not g o as far during the past year as during the year
before. In many fields and stations, how ever, som e increased
support has been secured from native sources, and the en­
forced decrease in funds from America has been less disastrous
in these cases than might have been anticipated.
Savings in Home Expenditures
T h e total of H om e Expenditures authorized at the begin ­
ning o f the year was $185,000 as com pared with an approved
total o f $195,000 for the preceding year. A ctual expenditures
am ounted to on ly $166,000.27, or a saving o f nearly $19,000.
A little less than $6,000 o f this savings was in the interest
account which, however, is still distressingly large, the net
paym ent after adjustm ent with the W o m a n ’s S ociety being
$19,298.20. T h e remainder o f the savings, or over $13,000,
was in the expense o f con du ctin g the three administrative
departm ents: F oreign, H om e, and Treasury. This sh ow ing
is gratifyin g in view o f the fact that the Society took back
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from T h e General B oard o f Prom otion at the beginning o f the
year the Station Plan Departm ent and has contributed an
unusually large amount of deputation service on the part o f
its officers and missionaries during the year. T h e total ex­
penditure o f the Society for prom otion w ork, in addition to
that provided b y T h e General Board o f P rom otion, was
$6,630.83. H om e expenditures represent 9.12 per cent, o f the
total expenditures o f the Society for the year.
Legacies and Annuity Agreements
Attention has already been called to the fact that receipts
from legacies and annuity agreements matured were larger
than was anticipated. T h e total am ount paid in on account
o f bequests and the settlement o f estates was $136,439.91, of
w hich $601.05 was designated as a permanent fund. T h e re­
mainder, $135,838.86, was made available for the general w ork
o f the Society through the Reserve for Equalization o f Income
from Legacies. Seventy-two estates were represented in this
total incom e. Forty-three annuity agreements were matured
during the year yielding total net proceeds o f $75,363.07.
A fter applying certain designated amounts to the establish­
ment o f permanent funds there remained $70,990.19 available
for the general purposes o f the Society, o f which a portion was
used to bring the R eserve for Equalization of Incom e from
Matured A nnuity A greem ents up to its maximum o f $50,000,
and the balance o f $58,860.37 was applied to the incom e ac­
count in the current budget.
Fifty-seven new annuity agreements were written during
the year, representing gifts in the amount o f $98,861. This is
the largest total for new annuity agreem ents in any one year
since the beginning o f the N ew W o rld M ovem ent period. In ­
dividual gifts have varied from $100 to $10,000. T w enty-five
of the new annuity agreements were issued to friends w ho
already held similar agreements issued by the Society. T he
general reserve for annuity agreements, w hich stood at $1,548,411.06 at the beginning o f the year, has been reduced by the
excess o f m aturing agreements and paym ents to annuitants
over the new gifts received and the incom e earned by invest­
ments to $1,531,818.52. The rate o f incom e earned on annuity
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agreem ents during the year was 4.65 per cent. A detailed
report o f the annuity and legacy reserves w ill be found in
Schedule V I I o f the Financial Tables.
Mission Accounts and Mission Treasurers
In the report o f last year reference was made to the prepa­
ration o f a new system o f quarterly and annual reports to be
rendered by the M ission Treasurers in the several fields. The
new plan was put into effect on N ovem ber 1, 1922, and already
it is apparent that the task o f checking the M ission Treasurers’
accounts and reconciling them to the appropriations originally
authorized by the B oard will be greatly simplified and m ore
accurate results secured. A further necessary step to which
attention w ill be given as soon as sufficient inform ation can be
gathered is the devising o f a special system o f books of
account adapted to the peculiar conditions and requirements
o f each m ission field. Extended correspondence, and probably
personal study o f the conditions on the mission fields, w ill be
necessary in preparation o f such a system o f accounts. T h e
past year has w itnessed the loss of one o f the oldest and m ost
efficient M ission Treasurers, Mr. Frank D. Phinnev o f the
Burma field, o f w h ose death m ention is made in another sec­
tion o f this report. H is place has been filled b y the appoint­
ment o f Air. J. L. Snyder, for many years associated w ith Mr.
Phinney in the Treasury and the M ission Press in R angoon.
Mr. B. L. K orlin g, specially appointed as M ission Treasurer
for C on go-B eige, has begun his w ork auspiciously during the
past year. One o f the new missionaries n ow under appoint­
ment has had special training in accounting and business prac­
tice and, after spending som e weeks in the Treasury D epart­
ment at headquarters, w ill proceed to Assam to be associated
with Mr. T uttle in the w ork o f the M ission Treasury in that
field. A s rapidly as possible measures are being taken to place
this im portant phase o f mission w ork on a m ore th orou ghly
sound and efficient business basis.
Advisory Committee to the Finance Committee
A b ou t a year ago the Board o f M anagers o f the F oreign
M ission Society joined with the Board o f the H om e M ission
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S ociety in requesting the Finance Committee of the C onven­
tion to appoint a special com m ittee of business men to ex­
amine th oroughly into the financial condition and accounting
m ethods o f these tw o Societies, and to make such report and
recom m endations as their inquiries m ight suggest. T h e invi­
tation was accepted, and the Finance Com m ittee has appointed
a committee o f five: Messrs. Raymond B. Fosdick, Chairman;
T rev or A rnett, G eorge W - B ovenizer, J. H . Case, and W illiam
D. Gherky as an A d v isory Committee “ to help the Finance
Com m ittee in givin g counsel, gathering inform ation, and es­
tablishing more uniform m ethods,” with respect to all S o­
cieties and Boards related to the Convention. This committee
has been at w ork for some time through expert accountants
in look in g into the accounting methods o f this and other S o­
cieties. T h e officers o f the Board have been happy to c o ­
operate to the fullest possible degree with this com m ittee.
O w in g to the magnitude o f the task, it is not expected that a
report w ill be made this year.
Method of Financing W ork on the Field
M ore than seventy years ago the M issionary U nion, con ­
fronted with the very difficult problem of authorizing appro­
priations and adjusting accounts for a Avork in lands 10,000
miles from the base of supply, devised and was enabled to
put into operation, evidently with the aid o f some special in­
crease o f resources, a plan o f m aking the appropriations for
the w ork on the mission fields for a year ending six months
later than the hom e fiscal year. The effect o f this plan was
that when the Society closed its books on March 31, the end
o f the fiscal year in those days, the Treasurer reported receipts
w hich applied on the actual expenditures in A m erica for the
year A pril 1 to M arch 31, and on actual expenditures and
budget appropriations on the foreign field for the year O ctober
1 to Septem ber 30. If, for example, the receipts equaled or
exceeded the full am ount o f the budget appropriations there
w ou ld be in hand on March 31 a sufficient sum to meet the
authorized expenditures on the field to the end o f the follow in g
September. W h en, on the other hand, the Society reported a
debt, or m ore accurately a deficit, on M arch 31, it was under­
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stood that this deficit included the am ount necessary to meet
the appropriations authorized for the budget year not yet
actually paid out but representing contract obligations with
the missionaries for their salaries and work.
F ou r very great advantages w ere secured by this plan.
First, it was possible to fix the am ount of appropriations
authorized for the foreign field after the receipts o f the year
were, all in and to increase, decrease, or hold stationary these
appropriations a ccordin g to the actual financial condition o f
the S ociety, and to n otify the missionaries o f the am ount o f
their appropriations before the beginning o f the year in which
they were to be expended. Second, it was possible for the
H om e Treasurer to receive the annual accounts o f the M ission
Treasurers in the several fields and incorporate in his annual
report on M arch 31 the results o f a com parison o f the actual
expenditures w ith the appropriations authorized for the year
on the field w hich ended Septem ber 30 preceding. Third, in
the event o f such an untow ard em ergency as the closin g o f a
m ission field and the w ithdraw al o f the m issionaries laboring
there, the funds appropriated fo r their salaries and w ork for
the six m onths follow in g M arch 31 w ould g o far tow ard m eet­
ing the cost of bringing them home. Fourth , it was possible,
instead o f supplying the Mission Treasurers with large amounts
o f ready cash in advance with w hich to make the authorized
paym ents, to develop a system b y w hich the M ission T reas­
urers. sold drafts drawn on the H om e Treasurer as funds
were actually required. B y this m ethod large savings in
interest were effected because the M ission Treasurers
needed to keep on hand relatively small amounts o f cash
and because the drafts were not presented to the home
office for paym ent until a month or six weeks after they were
sold.
The practise described has been continued from 1852 down
to the present day, except that the hom e fiscal year was re­
cently changed to M ay 1 to A pril 30 and the fiscal year on the
field to N ovem ber 1 to O ctober 31. On several occasion s the
plan has been very carefully review ed by the B oard o f M an­
agers, b y expert accountants, and, at least once, by the
Finance Committee o f the Convention. In every instance the
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decision was in favor o f its continuance as an administrative
necessity and a sound financial policy. W ith in the last year
o r tw o the question has again been raised, and the Foreign
M ission Society has subm itted the w hole matter very frankly
to the A d v isory Com m ittee recently appointed b y the Finance
C om m ittee o f the Convention. This com m ittee, through the
expert accountant em ployed by it, has already given some
attention to the problem but has not expressed an opinion.
T h e Board o f Managers is prepared to give m ost serious
consideration to such report and recom m endations as may
com e from this com m ittee.
Financial and Budget Policy
R eference is made elsewhere in this report to the appoint­
ment and w ork o f a special com m ittee o f the Board on M ission
P olicy. Included in the functions o f this com m ittee was a
review o f financial conditions and plans affecting the work
o f the Society. In the later consideration o f these matters the
B udget Com m ittee o f the Board was associated with the C om ­
mittee on M ission P olicy and their com bined report, prepared
after long and careful consideration, was unanim ously adopted
by the Board at its m eeting on M ay 8. T he report undertakes
to outline the general features o f a financial and budget policy
to be follow ed for the next five years, subject to m odifications
o f detail that m ay be rendered necessary by changing con d i­
tions. T he main features o f this policy may be summ arized
as fo llo w s :
1. The gradual reduction o f the deficit of the Society by
definite annual amounts drawn from the regular incom e, the
aim being com plete cancellation of the debt within five years
from M ay 1, 1923.
2. T he maintenance o f the regular operating budget at a
stable figure on the basis o f the current year’s appropriations
for these five years. This period o f stabilization w ou ld be
utilized b y the B oard in cooperation w ith each o f the ten mis­
sions to secure a thorough study and reorganization o f the
w ork in each field, with a view to greater fruitfulness, a larger
degree of correlation, and increased local support.
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3.
The use of such increased receipts as may be available
above the am ount required to meet the authorized budget to
provide for phases o f w ork now maintained largely from
special sources o f incom e, and to release such funds for extra­
ordinary and urgent needs o f the w ork which cannot other­
w ise be provided for.
SUMMARY OF REPORTS
FROM THE MISSIONS
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Compiled by Mr. R. P. Currier
TH E NEW DEMOCRACY
T V T H E N , a few years ago, the R eform Scheme o f Government was inW
troduced into India upon the basis o f the M ontagu-Chelm sford Re­
port, Burma was left out.
Gradually, however, there has been developed
for her separately a scheme o f partial self-government similar in princi­
ple to that o f the other Indian provinces.
M ay o f last year saw the pub­
lication o f the Burma R eform Scheme in its practically final form .
was
liberal
far
beyond
common
expectation.
Even
forestry
It
and the
University were transferred subjects, that is, they were turned over to
the portfolios of indigenous ministers.
The franchise, owing to the far
higher percentage o f literacy in Burma than in India proper, was wide
out o f all comparison to that of India.
It amounted to an average o f
one vote to each family and an additional one for women upon certain
moderate property
qualifications.
The legislative
assembly consists o f
103 members, a minority o f 24 appointed by the governor, the other 79
elected.
the
The first democratic elections ever held in Burma took place in
fall.
The Lieutenant-Governor
and
his
appointed
“ legislative ”
(really advisory) council went out on December 31, and the new governor
with his elected legislative council took his oath o f office on January 2.
H e with an “ executive council ” o f one Englishman and one Burman will
control
only
the
“ reserved
subjects.”
Forestry,
education,
sanitation,
public works, and many other important fields he will control only as a
member o f the cabinet o f Burmese ministers.
These ministers are created,
in a sense not hitherto true o f any Burmese officer, from among and by
the will o f the people o f Burma.
TRUE DEMOCRACY AND THE KINGDOM
W h a t then have been the direct bearings o f this political situation upon
the work o f our Baptist M ission?
First, the elections have had a bearing.
R eferring to the new legislature
Rev. J. L. Lewis o f Tharrawadd}r points o u t: “ Five o f the 79 are from
selected Karen communities and all five o f these are Baptist Christians.
In T avoy a wealthy Baptist Karen ran on the General Constituency ticket
and won, while in Tharrawaddy district (S o u th )
our Baptist Christian
headmaster, T h ’ra U San Baw, contested the general election with M aung
Tha Nge, a Burmese Buddhist pleader o f Thonze, and won.
It is signifi­
cant that Christians are to have a share in the new government.
In the
next ten years many grave questions must be solved in Burma.”
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There has been a second direct bearing o f the new democracy on the
Kingdom.
The decline o f radical nationalism has relieved the tension of
rivalry in schools and of hostility to preaching.
The Y ou n g M en’ s Bud­
dhist Association, which in 1918 became “ The National Council o f Bur­
mese Associations ” for political reasons, has during the year split upon
the issue of non-cooperation.
It is said that practically all the English
educated young men have taken the “ moderate ” side for a fair trial o f
the R eform Scheme.
One o f the Nationalist papers which last year was
making a hero o f U . Ottama, a Buddhist monk and nationalistic leader,
called the “ Ghandi o f Burma,” has this year spoken o f him with con­
tempt.
“ A s a Buddhist monk,” says U . Ottama, “ I feel most painfully
the fact that while out o f the total population of Burma only one in
fifty is a Christian the Christians have a much larger percentage o f chil­
dren in school than the Buddhists.
Out o f 371,000 primary school children,
28,296, or one in thirteen, are Christians.
or one in five, are Christians.
Out o f 747 college students, 154,
In secondary schools out o f 127,254 chil­
dren, 14,747, or one in every nine, are Christians.”
The National School
movement, organized by the boycotters in 1920, is confessedly holding on
only by its finger-tips.
A n interesting glimpse into the spirit o f this m ove­
ment is afforded by the recent discovery o f a Judson College lecturer who,
while looking into a library book o f the National College, found the fo l­
lowing inscription on the library seal: “ Seek, and ye shall find; knock,
and it shall be opened unto you,” with the Bible reference frankly affixed.
Th e result o f the new nationalism seems to be not so much hostility, as
might have been expected, but aroused public spirit and an awakened in­
telligence that help rather than hinder Christian work.
Rev. J. T . Latta
reporting for the Prome field w rites: “ The evangelists have been touring
steadily and report some baptisms and a good deal o f interest every­
where.
W h ile
H om e-R ule
not do it in practice.
folks
preach boycott, the jungle
Friendship disarms it.”
folks
do
Dr. J. E. Cummings of
Henzada gets to the root o f the matter in these sentences: “ Although
opposition thickened in some places, owing to political Buddhistic agitation,
Burmans are coming to see that in order to be free men, thejT must dare
to differ from those who oppose them, and this very spirit o f daring to
differ gives us a new opportunity.
It means that the power o f custom to
impose a hopeless bondage is being shaken.”
It would not be fair to leave this subject of the political situation
without mentioning a curious but very nearly tragic episode in connection
with it.
A prince o f the dethroned royal family o f Burma has been living
in Indo-China.
Recently he gathered a small force o f Chinese and other
soldiers and suddenly appeared in the vicinity o f our Shan-Kachin station
o f Namkham.
The station was unsuspecting, there being only a handful
o f Indian troops on the spot and no European officer.
O ur own Dr.
Robert Harper took command o f this small band and meeting the “ army ”
outside the town, called a parley.
Tim e was the big thing— time till help
could come up from the plains— and Doctor Harper got it most cleverly.
H e found the demands of the attackers written in Chinese and insisted
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that he could not deal with them till they were translated into Shan.
the shortest task in the w orld !
N ot
Before it was finished the reenforcements
arrived and a small but real battle was fought in which the English officer
who had come up was wounded.
The “ enemy,” however, were routed
and took refuge in a monastery which was burned and the leaders captured
or killed.
Doctor Harper received honorable mention from the Govern­
ment for his very creditable part in the affair and recently received also a
gold K aiser-I-H in d medal.
Doctor Harper writes as follow s about the
effect o f this engagement on one o f his schools: “ A ll the furnishings of
our M u -se school were.destroyed by the Mintha (prince) and his party, and
the buildings would have been burned, had it not been for some o f the
people who remained in their homes and begged that the buildings be
saved.
The walls were cut, the windows were destroyed, and the teachers’
belongings were carried away and later destroyed in the monastery, when
the last assault was made on the enemy’s position.
In spite o f all this we
have a very good school at M u-se, and the teacher commands the love and
respect o f the whole community.”
LINES OF GROWTH
One might expect, however exhilarating the new Burma might be, that
during this transition year the numerical increase in church-members would
have been checked.
Such has not been the case.
Rev. M . L. Streeter o f
Tavoy reports an increase o f seven in the Burman church, four in the
Chinese, and seventeen in the two Indian churches; Rev. H . E . Dudley,
fifteen at Meiktila, o f whom four were Chinese and three Karen soldiers;
Rev. B. C. Case, seventy-one at Pyinmana, twenty-nine being Chins and
one Chinese, and similar reports come from other fields.
M r. Latta reports
for the Thonze field neither “ high-water nor low-water m a rk ” but for
Zigon a “ banner year.”
“ W o r k among Buddhist Shans and Buddhist hill peoples is always most
difficult work,” writes D r. H . C. Gibbens, “ and results are always ‘ handpicked fruit,’ no mass movements ever occurring.
H ow ever, our two
central stations, M ongnai and Loilem, have not been without evidences o f
God’s presence and power, for we have had three baptisms in Loilem and
two in M ongnai from Christian families or from
friendly adherents.”
In English work eight baptisms are reported by Rev. W . G. Evans in
Moulmein and seventeen by Rev. V . W . D yer at Immanuel Church, Ran­
goon, together with thirty in the Chinese branch o f Tmmanuel work.
The Karen figures show 100 baptisms in Tavoy, 141 in Moulmein, 651
in the Rangoon field, 363 in Henzada, and 178 am ong the Bwes in T oungoo.
Similar to the Karen fields are those o f other animistic peoples.
Rev. G. A . Sword writes from the Kachin Mission at N am k h am : “ The
w ork among the Kachins is promising in every respect.
N o t less than
eighty-nine families have become Christians.
O ur greatest jo y came to
us last February when
eighteen
a whole village o f
souls at one time decided to leave
houses
with
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Christ.
Other villages would also come if we only could supply them
with Christian teachers.
W e also have the pleasure o f reporting baptisms
practically every month.”
Chin
H ills,
reports
Rev. J. H . Cope from H aka, far north in the
175 baptisms compared with
130 in
1921.
“ The
Lushais to the west o f us,” writes M r. Cope, “ continue to move over to
the plains o f Burma where I have been looking after them with the little
time I can spend.
T h ey are a fine people, industrious, and not quarrel­
some as are some o f the Chins.
A lm ost a third o f the baptisms this year
have been among them, and with the continued migrations there will be
others to be received, since most o f them on coming to the plains become
Christian.”
But far outstripping any other field in numerical •increase is the ro­
mantic Lahu w ork across the Chinese border.
It is unparalleled in the
history o f the mission except perhaps in the early Karen work.
“ We
started on tour, H arold and I,” writes Rev. W . M . Young, “ with a staff
o f native workers on December 28 and were gone nearly tw o months.
Harold had with the aid o f some o f the native helpers won two villages
that opened a large door in a difficult section.
O n our tour we succeeded
in getting hold o f several other villages in that immediate section, and
up to the present writing about 300 more have been baptized with an
outlook for a much larger ingathering in the near future.
greatly strengthened the work in all the sections visited.
baptized on the trip and 2,643 during the year.
Our tour
Over 2,500 were
I was unable to tour or
send men on tour during M arch on account of clearing the compound and
my building work.
A t least 1,000 more would have been added to the
number o f baptisms if I could have toured the month o f M arch.”
THE RISE OF T H E NON-BURMANS
The non-Burm ese races o f Burma are o f growing importance to the
kingdom.
A t a time when nationalism might be expected to make them
less important, they are being treated with more attention by the missiona­
ries and yielding results, externally at least, more than ever commensurate
to effort.
This means that by the impacts and minglings o f even minor
races in this small pocket o f A sia, non-Burmans, both from within and
without the province, are making themselves forces to be reckoned with.
There are the Lushais, mentioned above, and there are the Lisus, o f
whom M r. Sword says, “ W e are practically forced to open work among
them, for they are very ready to accept the gospel.”
Doctor Gibbens has
opened the new center o f Loileni in his field partly because it is “ strategi­
cally situated to reach the very important hill peoples o f this region, the
Black Karens and the Taungthus.”
There are the Southern or plains
Chins who, Rev. E. C. Condict writes, have been affected by the National­
ist m ovem en t: “ The Christians are the leaders in organizing a Southern
Chin National Association, which we hope will help prepare the soil for
the growth o f the gospel.”
Finallj'-, and perhaps most significant o f all, is
the plain fact, flashing out again and again from the reports, that nearly
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every so-called “ Burman ” and “ English ” missionary, is doing as much
work (o r m ore) for other races in his station as for Burmans, or E uro­
peans.
The Burmese Seminary, the W om an ’s Bible school, and the Mission
Press epitomize the whole racial situation.
Out o f fourteen students in
the first-year class o f the seminary, nine were non-Burmans— a Shan, a
P w o Karen, a Black Karen (the first o f his race to come to the sem inary),
a Taungthu, a T a k in g , a Lisu, a H aka Chin, and two plains Chins.
At
the W o m a n ’s Bible school, M iss Harriett Phinney and M iss Ruth W .
Ranney report that out o f 255 pupils in the thirty years o f its existence
about half have been Burmans, the rest being from eight other races.
At
the M ission Press there are “ 300 employees who do w ork in a dozen
different languages and sometimes speak as many as fifteen themselves.”
LEADERSHIP AND SELF-SUPPORT
Rev. H . I. M arshall, in reporting that the entering class o f the Karen
Seminar}’- had a higher average grade o f education than the last one,
refers to one boy who had three years experience in the war and is the
only Christian in his family.
W h en he was baptized his father laid in
wait to kill him, though he did not succeed.
For such a man to enter the
ministry is obviously a momentous stride ahead.
The report fo r
the
Talaing field in Rev. A . C. D arrow ’s absence is written by K o Chit Pyu
and shows a sound administrative grasp o f the problems o f that field.
In
the Lahu field for many years M r. Y oun g has been the only American,
and the bulk o f the work has been done by Karens to whom the Lahu
work was in every sense as much “ foreign mission ” as it was to M r.
Y ou n g himself.
M r. Y ou n g now has a staff o f eleven Karens with six
Lahus, seventeen W a s, and one Tailei.
“ I think fully ninety per cent, of
the work up to date,” says M r. Y oung, “ has been done through the locally
trained men.
The strongest soul-winner is Rev. A i-N a n , a Tailei preacher.
H e was ordained about eighteen months ago.
H e has baptized probably
1,200 and has himself won a large per cent, o f them.”
One o f the missionaries o f the Burman Baptist Convention, a Judson
College man, wholly supported by the college church, is Saya K o M yat
Min who is working in the Inlay Lake district.
former M orton
Lane schoolgirl
from
H is young w ife is a
Moulmein.
Judson
College has
added to its staff three more o f its own Christian graduates, making seven
in all.
T he treasurer, Saw M yat Pon, has been made a member and sec­
retary o f the faculty.
In Cushing high school one o f the most capable
teachers, a young man o f North Chinese and Burmese blood and the
brother-in-law o f D r. M a Saw Sa, is being released part-time to take his
M aster’ s
degree
in
English.
Another
young
man,
an
Anglo-Indian
trained in our mission, has just returned from Cambridge with the B. A .
degree in Natural Science to join the college staff.
T h ’ra San Ba, a Judson
graduate, has returned from Newton Seminary to become a lecturer in the
Karen Seminary here and in the recent illness o f M r. Marshall has been
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carrying large responsibilities.
M r. M arshall calls him “ the most impor­
tant addition to the staff which the institution has ever received.”
This year the question o f self-support has suddenly become real and
immediate.
The members o f the Sagaing Burman church have taken on
33 per cent, more o f their pastor’s salary, the Namkham Shan churchmembers bought a school building and two teachers’ houses, the Tharrawaddy Karens increased their gifts to the school 60 per cent., the graduates
o f the Burman W om a n ’s Bible school gave one-third of its annual income
out o f their meager salaries, the Henzada Karen women supported the
women workers in their own field and gave Rs. 200 for the general work
in Burma, and the Rangoon Karens celebrated the sending o f “ their spe­
cial missionary ” to Siam.
“ L ast February,” writes M r. C. L. Klein, “ I
anticipated the reductions in income from home and asked the Karens to
take a larger share o f the expense o f this mission.
One o f the elders
spoke this w a y : ‘ F or seventy-five years the M ission Society has been
helping us, and now I think it is time for us to help the Society, so I
propose that from April first all money from American sources be turned
back, no more be asked for our school work, and that we do everything
alone.’
here.
N o American money is spent for preachers, schools, or teachers
I have m y own evangelistic fund, that is all.
Rs. 20,000.”
The Karens raised
Rev. V . W . Dyer o f Immanuel Church, Rangoon, w rites:
“ A t last the great day o f our self-support has come.
have been working toward this end.
For many years we
About fou r years ago, when you so
kindly paid off our debt o f Rs. 9,000 on the construction o f Community
H all, we promised to endeavor to pay the entire salary o f our pastor as
soon as possible.
In 1920 we paid Rs. 229 a month toward the pastor’s
salary and gharry, and last Thursday we voted to pay him the total
amount o f Rs. 525 per month, besides our usual amounts for benevolence
and missions.”
But the most stupendous piece o f self-support has been the new K o
Tha Byu Memorial in D r. C. A . Nichols’ field erected at a cost o f about
$100,000, a magnificent combination
of
church
some “ the handsomest building in Burma.”
and
school,
termed
by
N ot only that, but (quoting
Doctor N ichols) “ T he development o f the work revealed to us that, in­
stead o f a new hall and classrooms only, a girls’ dormitory was needed
even more, that we had to have an electric plant double the size, con­
siderable earth filling, retaining walls, terraces, roads, fencing, a complete
new equipment o f desks and seats, and, instead of shingles, slates imported
from
W ales,
tiles
for verandas
and
corridors,
a covered walk
three
hundred feet long to connect the tw o schools, steel fencing in front o f the
compound, and a new brick house for the American women teachers to
comport with the group in general.”
These brought the total cost to some­
thing over $200,000, and this vast sum (incredibly vaster to a Karen churchmember than to the American reader) the Karens of Bassein undertook to
raise.
Government, o f course, aided on the educational side, and America
gave $15,000 or $20,000, but the chief burden fell upon the Karens.
The
work is finished— “ a whole plant rebuilt in brick instead o f wood ” — and
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it is an enduring memorial not only to K o Tha Byu but to Doctor Nichols
and to the dauntless loyalty o f the Bassein Karens.
THE CHALLENGE AND THE ANSW ER
The question naturally arises: “ W a s not the financial depression at home
a benefit to Burm a?
W o u ld not a further reduction produce financial
independence for the Burma M is s io n ? ”
N o, it would n ot!
T o be sure,
some steps in the way o f decreasing appropriations have been talked o f
and something like financial independence must in these days be the goal
o f every mission field.
But it is not to be walked into so cheaply.
fact is that the preceding chapter is not quite the whole story.
The
One o f
the repeated and prominent notes throughout the year’s reports, in spite
o f courage and faith, is “ difficulty.”
The missionaries do not prolong this
note but they cannot help sounding it often.
from the subconscious.
It thrusts itself up perhaps
It is neither fair nor rational to try to conceal
the fact that the interpreter o f
Christ in Burma— whether foreign
or
national— is up against some o f the hardest nuts the world offers to be
cracked.
The Burma Mission faces a great challenge.
nut to be cracked?
E ver?
with
Is it to be cracked?
H o w is this stupendous
In this generation?
In the next?
The Burma Mission with its Nationalism and its Buddhist solidity,
its
faithful,
blessed
little
Christian
community
growing
steadily
but on the average painfully slowly, with its incipient but yet merely nu­
clear indigenous leadership, with its heroic efforts and fair achievement at
self-support, and its tough, intractable, flaccid mass o f mingling, jarring,
suffering, stirring races still, in spite o f our hundred years, essentially
unreached races, how is Christ through this mission meeting the challenge?
PREACHING TH E GOSPEL
H e is meeting it in many ways.
covers all o f them.
But there is one generic term that
It is “ preaching the gospel.”
Sometimes, perhaps
most often, this consists in simple, direct oral expression of the great
facts o f Christianity and the great message o f the Master, and in that
form probably it has produced all the achievements in such fields as the
Lahu field and the majority of the baptisms.
“ Gospel tracts have been put into practically ever}^ home in the villages
visited,” reports D r. S. R. M cCurdy.
“ In these also a gospel preaching
service was held at which from fifty to ninety per cent, o f the village
was present from one to two hours.
Thousands o f Scripture portions were
sold, and other thousands o f tracts put into the hands o f the adults, while
thousands o f Scripture picture cards were given to the children.
Besides
the longer tours, we have had a number o f what are now termed inten­
sive campaigns, where day after day and night after night we preached
in the same village.”
M iss Julia Parrott also gives a picturesque scene
at her chapel “ by the side o f the road ” where three times a week, “ besides
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the score or two inside, we have sometimes as many as twenty-five p.eople
listening on the outside, for all our meetings are public, since our church
opens on the street.”
But the reports for the year make it clear that “ preaching the gospel ”
means even more than this.
It means the communication o f the spirit
o f Christ to the heart o f a nation by whatever avenues spiritual truth can
be conveyed.
There are many.
In Burma, where the stolidity toward
direct approach is so marked, they figure very largely, as if the Christian
stream dammed in the main channel were working its way through branches
and tortuous subterranean courses.
O f these four are most traceable.
LESSER CHANNELS
There is, first, a group o f what one might call Christian accessories,
pieces o f detailed technique by which the church does its business.
It is
a temptation to count them as “ secondary ” or even “ secular,” but it is a
mistake to do so.
Sunday school work in all form s, fo r example, is one o f the chief in­
direct methods o f “ preaching the gospel ” in Burma, and perhaps it may
prove to be the sine qua
non for all others, for it is said on what appears
to be sound psychological ground that we fail to win the Buddhist people
because we rarely touch their emotional bases.
M r./P a u l Hackett has set
himself the one goal this term o f preparing in the vernaculars lesson quar­
terlies built up by scientific experiment here in Burma.
Hitherto all those
in use have been, at the best, adaptations and, at the worst, translations o f
Indian or W estern lessons.
H e will begin with
an elementary series
fitted for those who have never before had any Christian teaching and in
this way will greatly help one o f the simplest but most necessary form s
o f Sunday schools in the mission.
LITERARY W OR K
The second o f the channels which the Christian stream is follow ing
in Burma is the literary one.
Besides D r. H . H . Tilbe, now retired at a
hill station fo r full-time work in Burmese, several other men are doing
part-time w ork and have reported progress. Dr. John M cGuire has been
engaged with a committee o f changing personnel fo r nineteen years, of
course in spare time only, in the revision o f the Judson N ew Testament.
This was finished during the year, as well as the third volume o f an “ Old
Testament H is to r y ”
and three leaflets on Christian giving.
In Karen
Rev. E . N . H arris has continued writing the notes on the International
Sunday School Lessons which are published in a paper with a circulation
o f 15,000.
The hill peoples to whom the mission has given in many cases
their first written language still need and receive a considerable share of
literary effort.
the Kachins
created.
D r. O. L. H anson is on full-time work o f this sort for
whose dictionary and
other
literature he has practically
“ Only thirty years ago, the first spelling-book and twenty-five
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hymns were placed in their hands,” writes Doctor Hanson.
“ There are
now few villages within the reach o f our central stations where some one
is not found who can read.
Sometime ago in the Northern Shan States
in a village where no missionary had ever visited, they brought out a copy
o f M atthew and M ark they had kept for years.
The other day at the
Bhamo court-house I found the Kachin soldiers on guard reading the
Kachin hym n-book ”
M r. Cope mentions the similar language salvaging that must be done for
the Chins.
They have been receiving their education thus far not through
their own language but through Burmese, the language o f the government
schools.
This year the government held a conference which brought to
a head official discussions o f many years and decided to change the educa­
tional medium to the Chin language in Romanized letters.
mean everything for mission work,” says M r. Cope.
" T his will
“ The missionaries
have done a lot o f literary work without aid or encouragement from
government, and now it looks as if these labors are to be rewarded.”
EDUCATIONAL W OR K
A m ong all the gospel methods in Burma, however, none looms bigger,
in externals at least, than education.
Here all the pent-up forces o f Chris­
tian enthusiasm seem to have found outlet.
T o this channel the message
thwarted by indifference or opposition seems spontaneously and repeatedly,
in different localities and under entirely different types o f missionaries, to
have turned.
Some are tempted at times to say that this has become for
our Burma Mission— and wrongly so— the main channel, that it has drawn
off and dried up the true main channel o f “ preaching the gospel.”
The
odd fact is, however, that a keen evangelistic missionar}'— American or
indigenous— no sooner gets a new field well sown than he opens a school.
T hat experience has been repeated again and again, and it is thus that the
great Baptist school system in Burma— one o f the greatest in any mission
field in the world— has grown up.
Burma to
Indeed it seems to be “ in the air ” o f
found schools, whether because o f the ancient tradition o f
monastic education or because of the uncommon difficulty o f other lines
of approach, it is not for us to try to analyze.
The fact remains that the
year’s reports show great attention given to the schools, vital growth in
them, and a deep confidence in them as religious forces.
It is perhaps generally agreed that as religious forces their primary func­
tion is to cultivate and train Christian young people.
Principal R. L.
H ow ard o f Judson College says this explicitly with reference to the col­
lege.
But the secondary function is recognized just as clearly and is
scarcely secondary in more than the order o f naming it.
M r. Sword, after
mentioning eleven baptisms, chieffy from his school, says, “ Again and
again we are reminded of the fact that our schools are our best agencies
for the evangelization o f these people.”
There is no need in the present
state o f knowledge about the Christian missionary enterprise to inform
home readers that the social and personal break which an average non-
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Christian person has to make in order to become a Christian is terrific.
In the case o f boys and girls brought up as affectionately as Burmese boys
and girls are brought up, it is o f course still worse.
It calls for a drastic
decisiveness that we on the field sometimes wonder if American young
people ever could equal.
It is no wonder that the schools do not show
more baptism s; it is a wonder that they show any.
A nd the result is this
great body, perhaps a very great body, o f “ marginal ” cases who pass year
in and year out through our classes— and even our homes— unconverted yet
profoundly and permanently changed.
We
cannot say how
God
will
deal or is dealing with them in his love, but we think some o f them are
better Christians than many who bear the name.
There are several deliberate policies or devices by which the schools are
undertaking to hold and win these impressionable non-Christian students.
Rev. H . E . Hinton has changed the chapel schedule to provide two periods
a week long enough for sermons and has given a full forty-five minutes
to Bible study on the other days.
Rev. L. W . Hattersley, though hesitat­
ing to hold evangelistic meetings in Cushing high school in view o f the
nationalistic spirit, has held them in the English high school with good
results.
Judson College has divided all students into advisory groups,
each faculty member undertaking to become the personal friend o f the
men in his group.
M ost schools appear to have a majority o f Christian
students, varying from two to one in Kemendine to sixty-nine per cent,
at the college.
Still another way in which the schools have been evan­
gelistic has been in their overflow.
A t M orton Lane the teachers support
a home missionary in Pegu, a foreign missionary in the Lahu field, and a
teacher (one o f their own graduates)
school.
in Saya M yat M in’ s Inlay Lake
T he Sagaing teachers conduct week-end campaigns with the aid
o f the automobile.
Such, then, is the high value set upon the schools in this mission.
is their condition?
W h a t their vitality and prospects?
W h at
In 1920-1921 it
looked for a few months as if nationalism had given them their death­
blow.
T he records o f 1922
partial, in some complete.
reiterate nothing but recovery, in some cases
In yet others
(especially the Karen schools
which the boycott did not affect) there were large positive gains.
but one, there was steady growth.
In all
The following indicates briefly the
condition o f the schools during the year 1922: A t the Burmese Seminary
“ the largest class we have ever h a d ” ; at the Toungoo Paku “ the primary
standards doubled ” ; at Tharrawaddy a leap o f ninety, chiefly in the lower
standards (these figures are very significant, for a democracy must build
upon its base and Burma like all India has not done so) ; at Moulmein
Karen an increase o f thirty-four per cent.; at Rangoon Norm al thirty-six
per cent.; at Zigon
(very hard hit by the boycott) thirty-five per cent.,
including thirty-five boys who boycotted, and at Thonze fifty per cent.
“ stronger than before the bo}'C.ott” ; at Henzada Karen “ more applications
for the elementary normal class than can be handled ” ; at T avoy and H e n ­
zada Burman “ quite recovered,” and at Kemendine girls’ school the same,
with a normal department far ahead o f its best previous figure; at Sagaing
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and “ spread all
over the compound,”
though this is primarily an evangelistic field; at Bassein Pw o an advance
o f fifty over last year’s figures, and at the English girls’ high school
“ climbing slowly.”
Education for girls has been growing rapidly in the last few years.
T he Baptist mission has always led Burma in this respect, but recent
government encouragement has led to still more emphasis being set upon
it.
T he newest girls’ school is probably the eight girls in a little house
with M iss Lawrence at Taunggyi, but it has a donation o f Rs. 3,000 which
will start it on better footing next year.
The women’s department at
Judson College, definitely organized a few years ago with M iss Helen
H unt as dean, is a fair gauge o f how education for girls is rising.
This
department now has forty-eight members or about twenty-five per cent,
o f the whole college, and thirty-four
of
them are boarders.
A
new
house is urgently needed even for the short interval before the college
moves to its new quarters.
The most interesting new departure in education is the agricultural
school, just getting on its feet at Pyinmana.
M r. Case reports that the
government has acquired the land and turned it over to him, so that he
is now running a 200-acre farm .
A
considerable
stock o f American
machinery and implements is set up and doing strikingly better work
than any in current use.
Sugar-cane, corn, and rice are special features.
The cane crusher has extracted so much more juice so much faster than
before that the Burmans have since got out several more from America
and are using them successfully.
The field o f corn, scientifically selected
and planted in rows with a drill instead of broadcasted, then cultivated,
with oxen instead o f by hoes, is the best to be seen in the vicinity.
Finally there is Judson College, one o f the only two colleges in Burma,
and since December 1, 1920, a constituent element with the government
college in the University o f Rangoon.
lee Fund
of
the W o m a n ’s Board
under M r. Gordon E . Gates.
By means o f a gift from the Jubi­
freshman biology
has been
started
T he science courses have been raised from
the Intermediate to the Bachelor standard.
Indispensable for these and
other advances have been the very generous maintenance grants which the
government has paid under the new University.
F or these grants and
for the agreement upon them, drawn up many years ago when the U n i­
versity was still on paper, Principal H ow ard pays a tribute o f profound
appreciation to D r. E. W . K elly “ for his statesmanlike handling o f that
difficult situation.”
Indeed, to Doctor K elly has been due in a very large
measure the fruition o f the long-considered plans that have placed Judson
College on the verge o f a challenging career.
The University dinner which
occurred at the Second Convocation (or Commencement) o f the U niver­
sity o f Rangoon will long be a memorable one.
H is honor, Sir Reginald
Craddock, Lieutenant-Governor o f Burma and First Chancellor o f the
University, as well as Sir M ark Hunter, the Director o f Public Instruc­
tion and P ro-Vice-Chancellor o f the University, were on the eve o f per­
manent retirement.
These two men more than any others had molded the
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University into the administrative form that it finally took in December,
1920.
O n the afternoon o f December 2, Sir Reginald had what must
have been to him the great happiness o f laying at the 400-acre University
site north o f the city the cornerstone o f “ the finest University building
east o f Suez.”
In these buildings, as hitherto in the teaching and adminis­
tration o f the University, Judson College is to have an honorable, enviable,
and, it is ardently hoped, a serviceable part.
The architect’ s drawings,
now being prepared for the new buildings, give some idea o f the beauty
and grandeur o f the new enterprise, in which Judson College must share
if she is adequately to take her place in the building o f the new Christian
democracy o f Burma.
THE CONTAGION OF CHARACTER
But o f all the methods o f communicating the spirit o f Christ, one often
wonders if there is any nearly so potent as the “ contagion o f character.”
Even evangelism is pretty often found to be just that at the core, and cer­
tainly the machinery o f the school system is an iron shell without it.
It
appears that some o f the finest achievements o f the year in this mission
are the results o f Christlike personality and this resumé could close no
more fittingly than by letting the most impressive o f them tell their own
tale.
Rev. C. L . Conrad o f Bassein says, in referring to the sailing o f Dr.
L. W . Cronkhite for final retirement in Am erica : “ A s long as I live I
shall never forget that face which turned backward toward the Pwo Karen
children standing on the w harf.
W ith all his desire to be with his family
in Am erica and to be relieved from the responsibility o f directing a great
mission, yet that last look which he gave his P w o children told me how
deeply he loved them and how great was the heart-pain o f separation.
“ I have done my best to be a friend to the children, but as yet I have
not been able to fill the place in their hearts made vacant by his retirement.
Especially is this true o f the girls in our school.
On more occasions than
one I have found some o f the little girls sitting on my front veranda or
on the steps weeping.
Upon questioning them I discovered that they were
sorrowing for their form er missionary.”
“ T H E OLD ORDER CH AN G ETH ”
In other than political senses this line must linger in our minds this
year, for to the Burma M ission this has been a year o f signal and regret­
table losses.
“ Princes in Israel,” whose names have been for years the
very symbols o f the mission itself, have gone from us.
T o Am erica for
permanent retirement have gone Rev. and M rs. B. P . Cross and D r. L. W .
Cronkhite.
In Am erica M rs. W . H . S. Hascall and D r. Melvin Jameson,
who gave many o f the best years o f their lives to Burma, and on the field
M rs. M ary M . Rose, D r. E . W . Kelly, and M r. F. D. Phinney have
answered the M aster’s call.
M rs. Rose was Burma’s senior missionary and
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last November celebrated her sixtieth anniversary as a missionary o f the
American
Baptist Foreign
M ission
Society.
Doctor
K elly was
taken
during the Annual Meetings and on the very eve o f preaching the Con­
ference sermon.
M r. Phinney dined with us at the American Community
Dinner on November 30, and at the University Dinner on December 2 ; on
December 15 he was no longer with us, called from a many-sided, still
vigorous life.
Both men went from the midst o f unusually broad, active,
and public services.
The Burma Mission o f the present is, to a larger
extent than can usually be said o f any two men, the enduring translation
o f their lives.
THE ASSAM MISSION
Compiled by Mrs. A. J. Tuttle
T
H E opening o f the year 1922 found our usually peaceful province of
A ssam profoundly stirred by the nationalistic movement which was
at its height throughout India.
Certain prominent Assamese, who hitherto
had adopted in varying degree the European style of dress and had seemed
to welcome and enjoy the com forts and pleasures o f W estern civilization,
appeared dressed in the style o f the common peasant, their garments being
made of a coarse, homespun cloth.
M otor-cars were abandoned, and our
friends either walked or rode bicycles.
Tea-garden coolies, agitated by
members o f the educated class, grew restless and in several cases riots o f
rather a serious nature broke out.
uneas}',
T h e Europeans in the province felt
for they knew not what a day might bring forth.
W ith
the
earnest prayer that this confusion might ultimately end in advancing the
Kingdom , our mission work was carried on and gratifjring progress was
made.
A
total o f 3,358 baptisms indicates that the missionaries and Indian
helpers have not been idle, and that the H o ly Spirit has been working
through them.
Evangelistic bands have been formed, and their earnest­
ness and enthusiasm have borne fruit.
EVANGELISTIC W O R K ON THE PLAINS
On the plains o f Assam , where heat and moisture combined cause the
inhabitants to think twice, and usually thrice, before exerting themselves
more than is actually necessary, a lassitude creeps into the religious life
and the missionary must make extra effort if they are to be stirred out of
their habitual w ay o f thinking and doing.
Once stirred they are valiant
defenders o f their faiths, for the religions o f these plains folk, Hinduism
and Mohammedanism, die hard, and not by might or power of man.
The
H o ly Spirit alone w orking in the hearts o f these people can break down
the barriers that for centuries have kept India from taking her rightful
place among the nations o f the world.
That extra effort is not lacking on the part of the missionary is amply
proved by watching
Rev.
O. L.
Swanson about his customary work.
W ith perspiration dripping from every pore, in his own inimitable manner
he preaches to crowds who gladly hear.
H e reports the largest ingather­
ing during the year in the history o f his station.
are beginning to come over to Christianity.
H igh caste Assam ese
M any of the churches that
Mr. Swanson has organized among the tea-garden coolies are recognized
by garden managers as being influences for good.
Occasionally an un­
friendly planter attributes troubles on his garden to the Christians, but
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M r. Swanson takes that planter in hand immediately and generally suc­
ceeds in proving to the satisfaction of all that his Christians are loyal,
peace-loving subjects. Reports show that this year’s session o f the Bible
Conference, held for the double purpose o f deepening the spiritual life
and training the Christian workers, was even more successful than previ­
ous ones.
Special classes for women were started for the first time.
Rev. W . R. Hutton is at N ow gong, and although he is still in his first
term he is putting a vigor into his work that is bringing about results.
A lthough small of stature M r. Hutton has tremendous energy, and he
does not waste an ounce.
H e A v rite s : “ I f I knew how to blow my horn
better or had more time to make a racket on it I might give you some
information
that
would
attract
attention.”
We
readity
forgive
Mr.
Hutton his lack o f qualifications for the band, for we know how well
he fills his place on the firing line. H e expects to give the neglected work
for Assamese the place it should have.
A t Gauhati, Rev. A . E .
Stephen has beenfor the past
two years build­
ing up the work on the South Bank o f the Kamrup district, which was
sadly neglected during his furlough because there was no missionary to
care for it.
H e has also had the oversight o f two other fields.
His
annual two weeks’ Bible class for pastors and teachers is a fine aid to the
evangelistic work in his district.
In July Rev. G. R. K am pfer returned from furlough and immediately
took over the work on the North Bank o f the Kamrup district and the
Mongoldai subdivision of Darrang.
It was a pleasure and relief to see
these tw o fields again, for the first time in several years, having the entire
service o f a missionary.
Mr. K am pfer spends the greater part of his time
in the district, and has calls from many villages for help.
H e tells us of
a recent experience which shows the triumph of Christianity.
H e was
summoned by wire to a remote village, where his evangelistic band was at
work.
On his arrival he
found the people in a furor.
For some time
they had been considering accepting Christianity, but were not united in
their desire to do so.
old
Finally half o f the village decided to give up their
religion and come over to the new.
move.
The
other half opposed the
W om en pulled hair and men used clubs, and the struggle was truly
a hard one.
The climax came during a long earnest prayer by one of the
evangelists.
W ith arms outstretched he prayed over the people, and after
that the3r quieted down and decided that the entire village would accept
Christianity.
M r. K am pfer feels deeply the need o f well-trained teachers
to put into villages such as this one, so that the people may be taught
what it really means to be born again into the kingdom o f God.
M r. Cecil G. Fielder finds his work for the students of Cotton College
as interesting and inspiring as ever, and longs to finish his required lan­
guage study so that he can give more time to this important work.
During
the year a rather remarkable circumstance occurred, when Hindus and
Mohammedans joined with the Christian students in a common dininghall.
Thus one o f the old Hindu barriers to Christianity is breaking down.
On the Goalpara field Rev. A . C. Bowers w7as busy during the year
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the
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established
at
Dhubri.
He
reports that
the prospect for the future o f the work in that district is
very bright.
It was with the deepest regret that conference decided
to
give up this
district as a residential one for a missionary.
of
Because
the financial condition at home which makes it impossible to staff our fields
properly and to supply funds fo r carrying on our work, it seems wise to
limit our efforts in the Goalpara district, where our w ork is not greatly
developed, in order that we can strengthen it in other parts o f Assam .
M r. Bowers’ transfer to Sibsagor meets a need on that great field, which
for several years has had only the supervision o f a non-resident missionary.
In the North Lakhimpur field two important facts stand out promi­
nently, one being the taking over o f the Daphla work by our A ll-A ssa m
Convention.
T his is in line with our policy o f having the Indian church
assume more responsibility.
T he other is the decision o f the Society
for the Propagation o f the Gospel to discontinue work in the field.
Rev.
John Firth emphasizes the importance o f personal contact with those
among whom we work.
H e tells o f one time when his spontaneous act
o f throwing his arm over the shoulder o f a coolie with whom he was
talking so won the man that he became a Christian.
It has been thought
by some that the custom o f hand-shaking should not be introduced among
these people as it is not their form o f salutation.
Touching the forehead
with the hand is the Eastern method in common use, we admit.
But one
not infrequently sees Indians when meeting embrace and even kiss each
other.
It is very evident that our Indian friends appreciate a friendly
handclasp, and at times long fo r it.
A t Sadiya the year’s work gives a fine promise for the future o f the
plains’ work supervised from that center.
Rev. John Selander writes as
fo llo w s : “ It has been just a year since we arrived in Sadiya.
Three
small churches have been organized, three chapels dedicated, two village
schools
started, and sixty-three converts baptized.
have been away from home much o f the time.
round o f the churches.
Since conference
I
In January I made the
In February, after the Sibsagor association, I
toured the entire district with M r. Sw'anson.
In M arch I visited new
places, baptized ten new converts, and started a preaching band.
This
was the most enjoyable experience I have ever had packed into one week.
It afforded a constant opportunity to witness among all classes and con­
ditions o f people.”
EVANGELISTIC W O R K IN THE HILLS
In the hill sections o f A ssam , we find sturdy mountaineers, warlike in
their tendencies and vigorous in their actions.
Because they must worship
something, they bow down to a stone, or a stick, or a nat, or a medical
missionary w ho has cured their bodies o f painful and seemingly fatal
diseases.
ing.
Here the response to the gospel message is exceedingly gratify­
In these sections our mission records make the largest showing, and
here we have placed our largest force o f missionaries.
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From Garo land comes the report of the largest number of baptisms in
years.
The Christians are taking a leading part in relieving the economic
situation which threatens famine to the population.
Rev. F
W . Harding
writes that the present government official at Tura is very favorably im­
pressed with the Christian community and appreciates the help that they
are giving at this time.
H e notes that very few Christians are in need
and that they are the ones that are helping others.
M an-eating tigers have
wrought havoc in certain sections, and it is to the Christians that the
government has entrusted the poison used in killing them.
are also proving very destructive.
W ild elephants
M r. H arding was in a village recently
where twenty-six houses had been knocked down by them.
T he Bible
school reports the greatest session yet, with an attendance o f thirty-eight.
Because of the lack o f missionary staff there have been only short annual
sessions o f two or three months.
are given for it.
T h e work is continuous, and credits
It is hoped that within a v e r y few years this department
may receive more adequate attention.
Rev. R. H . Ew ing and Rev. W .
A . Phillips have made rapid progress in language study and will soon be
able to take OAre r full time work.
On the K ohim a field, after twenty years o f seed sowing, the first-fruits
are coming from the tribe o f Rengman.
Forty-tw o were baptized last
year, and during this year ninety-eight were added to the number.
Rev.
J. E. Tanquist returned from furlough at the beginning o f the year and
has charge o f the evangelistic work on the field.
In Manipur state entire villages are wishing to come over to Chris­
tianity, and we are faced with the problems that come with a mass move­
ment.
Rev. W illiam Pettigrew has the work well in hand and has spent
a great part o f the year in the district.
In A o N aga land Dr. J. R. Bailey has carried all the evangelistic work
in addition to his medical work.
H e reports a total of 707 baptisms dur­
ing the year and the churches in a flourishing condition.
o f the A o N agas is contagious.
The enthusiasm
Across the border they are say in g: “ W h y
cannot we have some one come to help us?
become since the missionaries camc to them.”
See what the A o s have
Their villages are literally
cities set upon a hill, for they are built on the highest point available.
The spiritual condition o f the people seems to be above the ordinary level
loo.
In
a recent visit they quite won our hearts by the earnestness
with which they go about their worship.
H o w we do wish that you at
home who have helped bring about this transformation could see them
now.
Y ou r hearts would glow with joy.
EDUCATIONAL W ORK
Educationally, although we are making progress, we are very backward,
especially in our work for hoys.
One o f our greatest needs is that o f
trained Indian leaders, and this is felt as keenly in our educational work
as in anj' department.
W e have 208 schools o f all grades, chiefly primary,
with an approximate enrolment o f 5,438 pupils.
T o o much cannot be said
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about the importance o f developing the primary schools in our villages,
fo r they are the feeders o f our schools o f higher grade and should prepare
their pupils thoroughly.
In order that this may be done we must supply
these schools with well-trained teachers.
do this except in a very few instances.
Unfortunately we are unable to
W e look hopefully to the normal
department o f our Jorhat schools to furnish these teachers in the near
future.
W e cannot expect our village schools to prosper until w e can
meet this demand.
We
are dependent on the Jorhat schools with
the Bible, academic,
normal, and industrial departments for the training o f leaders for most
o f our fields.
Boys are enrolled from thirteen different tribes and castes.
T he number o f pupils has been greatly reduced during the year, the plan
being to have a select class o f boys w ho will respond most readily to the
training and w'ith w hom the missionaries and teachers can come into closer
personal contact.
In the academic department we have our only high school which is
recognized by Calcutta University, and, as is the custom o f such schools
in India, has pupils o f all grades from the primary up through the uni­
versity matriculation
class.
The
normal department is just
beginning,
and we consider it most important, for it gives the only normal w ork we
have for boys in our missions.
T his year fifteen students were enrolled.
T h e Bible department under Rev. S. A . D. Boggs reports an increased
attendance and an additional teaching staff.
The industrial department,
with M r. C. E. Blanc at its head, has perhaps made more visible progress
than any other department o f the school.
The shop buildings are com­
pleted and practically all o f the machinery installed.
Advance has been
made along agricultural lines, and plans are form ing for an extensive
development o f this industry.
The number of applicants for entrance is
far in excess o f the number that can be accommodated.
T he Impur training school, with an enrolment o f 190, has done good
work.
Four boys from this school are studying in the high school in
Shillong preparing to become teachers, and six boys in the Jorhat schools.
T h e Nagas contributed Rs. 600 toward the support o f the school at Impur.
In the K ohim a school Dr. S. W . Rivenburg reports a bad year due to
illness that kept pupils and teachers from work a large part o f the time.
H e w rites: “ A ll the same we can but thank God that they came through
the dark valleys and shadows that they so often entered.
I taught four
hours a day all the time, and M rs. Rivenburg three hours a day most of
the time.”
Government has given about one-third o f the running expenses
o f this school during its eighteen years, in addition to the books printed
on the Shillong press.
In recognition o f D octor Rivenburg’s services in
promoting educational and medical work, the government presented him
with the K aiser-i-H in d medal.
School work in Manipur state has progressed steadily from the time it
wras started when, M r. Pettigrew writes, “ The boys had to fight hard to
be allowed to come.
T he parents and the villagers were dead against it.
Stories to scare the boys floated about.”
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This necessitated a long
“ palaver ” with the chief, after which confidence was restored and the
“ school was opened the next day with all in attendance, and a good hearty
laugh all around.”
S o the hearty good will of the missionary, the friendly
urge, and the patience that suffereth long win out in the end.
now 759 pupils in our twenty-one schools in Manipur state.
There arc
Ten o f the
nineteen village schools are w holly supported by the association.
In Tura the classroom work o f the middle English school for boys is
directly
under the government.
Since
the government can secure
the
services o f practically none but Christians as teachers, we feel that this
is not a detriment to our work.
The mission maintains two large dormi­
tories for the boys, who also attend the station church and Sunday school
services.
In this w ay it is possible to influence the boys in their personal
lives without the burden o f classroom work.
A number o f boys from this
field are pursuing their studies in high school and college.
M EDICAL W O R K
In this department o f service we see the work ever going on, ever meet­
ing a great need in the lives of these people, and opening doors that other­
wise would be closed to the gospel.
Dr. G. G. Crozier at Kangpokpi, in addition to his heavy duties of
building and otherwise developing a large new compound, supervised the
native medical assistants and conducted a leper asylum.
A new roadside
dispensary and hospital are among the buildings to be erected on the
new compound.
A t K ohim a Doctor Rivenburg found only a fraction of time for this
work, but rejoices in the fact that four o f his form er schoolboys have
taken medical training at Dibrugarh or elsewhere and are in government
service.
Another is preparing himself to be a doctor.
A cross the hills at Impur Doctor Bailey tells of 4,650 out-patients and
136 in-patients w ho have received 8,702 treatments during the year.
M iss
Edna M . Stever had one girl in training to help in the dispensary, and a
class o f schoolgirls teaching them the fundamental principles o f sanitation
and hygiene.
Doctor Bailey reports an interesting case of a man w ho had
been so badly mauled by a bear that one could see the heart beating
through the wound in his side.
T h e wound had been neglected before
the patient was brought to Doctor Bailey, making treatment difficult and
results uncertain, but after careful treatment the man was entirely healed.
During D r. H . W .
K irby’s furlough the dispensaries at Jorhat and
Golaghat have been supervised by M r. H . O . W yatt.
The dispensary at
Jorhat, although small, has been pronounced by the civil surgeon as the
best in the entire province.
Land has been purchased for the medical
compound at Jorhat and upon this a hospital will be built.
A t Tura Dr. J. A . Ahlquist, although his time has been taken up with
building supervision, has carried on the usual medical work o f the station
and district.
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LITERARY W OR K
A t T u ra Dr. M . C. M ason and M iss Ella C. Bond have spent their time
largely on the translation o f the O ld Testament.
Doctor M ason is hoping
to complete the entire O ld Testament in Garo at an early date.
In addi­
tion to his translation w ork he keeps going the monthly periodical o f the
Gar os.
Lack o f efficient assistants is a great drawback to rapid progress,
but much is being accomplished.
D r. and M rs. W . E . W itter have spent the year in supervising transla­
tion work in Assam ese.
through the press.
T h ey have put a number o f books and booklets
T heir w ork is meeting a great need, for one o f our
great lacks is that o f literature.
In conclusion we wish to express our gratitude to our heavenly Father
who, notwithstanding financial shortages, understaffed fields, and political
unrest, has kept our faith clear and has led us on from strength to
strength.
The
increased number o f
converts
over
that o f
last year
indicates a w orking o f the Spirit that rebukes any tendency to discourage­
ment on our part.
W e cannot but feel that the year just closed has been
a good one, one o f our best.
THE BENGAL-ORISSA MISSION
Compiled by Rev. L. C. Kitchen
' T ’ H E year 1922 in Bengal-Orissa has been much more encouraging than
its predecessors.
point o f numbers.
T h e missionary staff has more than held its own in
D r. M ary Bacheler has returned to Sinclair Orpjhanage
in Balasore, bringing with her a new missionary o f the W o m a n ’s Board,
M iss Naom i Knapp,, for Midnapore.
M r. and M rs. V . G. Krause returned
to the industrial school in Balasore, while M r. and M rs. M . A . Raymond
came in September from Burma to take charge o f the industrial w ork at
Bhimpore.
During the year Rev. and M rs. J. H . Oxrieder and M iss Coe
returned to Am erica on furlough.
The departure o f M r. and M rs. O x ­
rieder necessitated the transfer o f Rev. and M rs. M . R. Hartley to the
now combined English and Indian w ork at Kharagpur, leaving the re­
sponsibility o f the evangelistic w ork o f the large Balasore field upon
Rev. H . I. Frost in addition to the boys’ high school and the mission sec­
retaryship.
The need o f new families for vacant stations is as urgent as
ever.
ACHIEVEMENTS DURING THE YEAR
Advance is reported all along the line.
T his is evidenced by baptisms,
by expansion o f educational and industrial institutions with greater assump­
tion o f responsibility on the part o f the Indian people and by an increasing
number o f prospective leaders from among the young people being trained
for service.
There have been discouragements, but there have also been results for
which we thank God and take courage.
Men and women, boys and girls,
from Christian, Hindu, and Santal homes have been won fo r our Lord.
Y ou n g lives have been inspired and life-decisions made.
W e look at our
leading Christians and, seeing them grow more zealous, more lovable, more
Christlike from year to year, we rejoice that our Christ can take such
raw material and turn out such finished products.
INDIAN LEADERSHIP
The Indian people have shouldered larger responsibilities and are ask­
ing for more representation at the conference.
voice in the direction o f mission affairs.
T hey are demanding a
They have also requested that a
young man be sent to Am erica for training in one o f our Baptist colleges
with a view to assuming a position o f leadership and responsibility in the
mission.
T he number o f young men and women being trained for service is
larger than ever before.
From the Santal field, Bhimpore has sent several
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young people to higher institutions, looking forw ard to the day when the
head master and head mistress, in fact all the masters and teachers in the
Santal boys’ and girls’ schools, shall be our own Christian Santals.
From
Balasore and M idnapore also several promising young men and women
have been sent to be trained for greater usefulness.
T h e mission conference this year gave a large place on the program to
devotional services.
R ev. G. S. W ilkin s o f the English Baptist M ission
delivered a series o f addresses which greatly stimulated the spiritual life
o f the M ission.
T he closing prayer session was an acknowledgment o f
the need o f God in every department o f mission activity.
T H E YEAR AT BALASORE
Miss Ethel M . Cronkite reports a happy year, spent chiefly in language
study.
T he
result was surely a happy one— a successful examination.
“ D uring the year,”
she writes, “ I had charge o f the Junior Sunday
school and Junior Christian Endeavor.
A Cradle Roll was started which
brought me into contact with nearly all the Christian families.
eight babies are enrolled, four o f them H indus.
T w enty-
A t the first recognition
service ten mothers, including one Hindu, brought their babies.”
It is a
trite saying that the citadel o f Hinduism is the Indian mother’s heart.
Surely the Cradle Roll is a most effective, if novel, route by which to take
that citadel.
T h e girls’ school under M iss Gladys E. Doe had a good year with
nearly 200 pupils in attendance.
T w o girls were sent up, for a scholarship
examination, one for middle, and one for upper primary.
Out o f twelve
ffirls in the senior class, two or three will likely be sent on to high school,
and several to teachers’ training-school.
One girl who graduated from
high school is going to college with the hope that, after taking the inter­
mediate arts’ examination in tw o years, she will return to teach in the Bala­
sore school.
Rev. H . I. Frost, in his report for the high school, sa y s: “ R. K . Shau,
the head master, our own product, has made good and his appointment
has been made permanent. T his young man is chairman o f the church
committee and, next to the pastor, leader o f the community, form ing a
link between the community and the school.
“ I have been teaching three weekly Bible classes, two for Hindu boys,
with whom I have discussed ‘ Character Building,’ ‘ V ocation,’ and ‘ The
H indu Bible and Social Teachings.’
T hey have responded sympathetically
to a searching critical study o f certain phases o f Hindu society and to
the frank declarations o f my belief that Jesus alone can meet the needs
thereof.
“ T h e influence o f the school may be known from the testimony o f a
graduate who has taught fo r about two years.
H e says, ‘ I know many
young men in government departments but the boys from our school are
different.
They fear God.
God in this school.’
I am unspeakably grateful that I have found
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“ A s a missionary pastor I have made it my aim to inspire and sug­
gest, rather than to do pastor’s work.
The sympathetic relationship and
various conferences with Pastor Probodh Babu have been a jo y to me and
much appreciated by him.
H e is a colleague o f proved worth and one
with whom I feel it a privilege to be associated.
“ From January to Easter fairly intensive evangelistic efforts were car­
ried on in the church.
Stress was laid on personal w ork and inquirers’
classes were maintained.
Over thirty were added to the church by baptism,
including boys from the high and industrial schools, and girls from Sin­
clair Orphanage.
O f this number, twelve were born in Hinduism.
A
mature adult man from Balasore was baptized who was influenced by an
Oriya book written by one of our preachers.
“ The Balasore church has this year paid a further instalment on its
debt to the mission by giving us the first Indian to be placed in charge of
a station and our first Indian district evangelist.
The year has demon­
strated that religious teaching in our schools is having 'an influence in
converting and leavening, that we are conserving the young life o f our
Christian community, and that Christian literature has power to turn the
unbelieving to the light.”
A year ago Rev. Natabar Singh and Rev. M . R. Hartley were appointed
at the Indian Yearly M eeting to hold special services with the churches
o f Balasore district.
A m on g the stations visited was Nilgiri where the
superintendent o f the native state is a Christian.
A
service was held in
his house, and a lantern lecture was given in the palace o f the native
prince, the rajah o f Nilgiri state.
M r. H artley says, “ Thus the Scrip­
ture was fulfilled which says, ‘ H e shall stand before kings.’ ”
During
March and April ten-day sessions were held in several places, including
Salgodia, Jellasore, and Santipore.
In Salgodia four young people were
baptized, and a number o f others expressed their intention to live for God.
A t Jellasore three were baptized, while a number responded to Natabar
Babu’s passionate appeals for the consecration o f their lives to God.
This
was the fruit o f M iss Emilie E. Barnes’ long and loving service in Jella­
sore.
A t Santipore a number of boys and girls professed conversion.
Our
brethren, Gunanidhi Mohapatra and Gang Dhar Rath, have a great oppor­
tunity there, and the Lord will surely bless their consecrated united efforts.
The work was a real jo y and convinced me that there are wonderful pos­
sibilities in this form o f activity.
M r. H artley adds a word o f tribute to the ministry of Natabar B a b u :
‘ H is flaming zeal was often a tonic to m y flagging zeal; the reality o f
spiritual things to him often made them more real to m e ; his concern for
the condition o f his fellowr countrymen often causes him to weep, and his
tears are not crocodile tears, but born of love.
I felt it my duty to sanc­
tify myself for his sake, for I looked upon him as the real evangelist and
myself as his helper.”
T h e expansion o f the industrial work at Balasore has gone steadily on
under the guidance o f M r. Eller, in spite o f man}7 interruptions by sick­
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Krause was hardly settled upon his return from
furlough
before new plans were in progress, and new machinery was being set up,.
PROGRESS AMONG T H E SANTALS
M iss Sarah B. Gowen writes upon her return to Bhimpore after fiveyears’ absence: “ T h e spirit o f ‘ India awakening ’ was almost immediately
felt in many ways.
T h e attitude, ‘ W e will help with th a t’ or ‘ W e will
do this,’ instead o f waiting till the thing is accomplished, is noticeably
more in evidence than in years past.
O ur Indian friends are coming to
stand beside us now in a finer sense than I have seen before.
A m o n g the
women o f the zenanas, I felt a quickening interest, signs o f ambition to
use their hands and heads to advantage, and a peculiar and beautiful
friendliness between Hindu pupils and Christian teachers.
“ Part o f the year was spent in Balasore and the last six months in Bhim­
pore.
It has been a pleasure to come into contact with a different type
o f work and people, and it seems to me that there are many advantages
in being a Santal where caste and creed are not the boundary-lines o f life.
School here exemplifies the simple life, and honesty is the policy, un­
doubtedly the-best.”
M iss Grace I. H ill and M rs. L . C. Kitchen passed their first-year language
examination with credit, being fifth and sixth respectively in a class of
twenty-five from various missions.
Upon
M iss Gowen’ s return to the
zenana work at Balasore in January, M iss H ill is to have charge o f the
girls’ school, and M rs. Kitchen will resume the oversight o f the girls’ indus­
trial w ork from which she was relieved in July by M iss Gowen.
T h e Bhimpore boys’ school has continued to grow and the attendance
is now well over 250.
In the progress toward a high school the third-
year class was added in January, and an application was forwarded to the
education department, asking for recognition.
It has not been an easy
task to accommodate fifteen classes in a five-room building, one room of
which has a straw roof forever needing repairs.
A temporary mud build­
ing was put up during the year and, with the suspension o f building, the
shed for storing unburnt bricks became available, these housing four classes
each.
It was still necessary to house some classes in the hostels.
In July, when the Director o f Public Instruction authorized a trainingschool for village teachers, the problem o f accommodation was solved only
by crowding out some boys and using a room in the Santal hostel.
Several
o f the most promising village teachers attempted to cover the one-year
course in six months.
One very encouraging development has been the efforts at evangelism,
as yet largely confined to the boys o f the upper classes who do their work
in English.
This has brought jo y to my heart many a time.
D r. H . R. M urphy records a year o f rapid change and surprises.
“ We
began the year in charge o f Bhimpore station— the medical work, the
high school, the industrial school, and the care o f property, which included
the making o f bricks, and the gathering o f materials for new buildings.
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“ O f the girls completing the course here, we sent four to Calcutta
for high-school training and one to Bible school.
One o f the four girls
has received a silver medal for the highest standing in the school and all
four received higher marks than any other girls.
W h en we remember that
a few years ago the Santals were without written language and that some
thought them incapable o f learning to read, we are honestly proud o f
what has been accomplished.
“ The medical work has been much neglected because we have had to
be away from the station much o f the time.
T h e dispensary has been
kept open and between 4,000 and 5,000 patients have been treated.
In
addition, the duties o f medical adviser for the mission require an annual
examination o f each member o f our staff and the general care o f the
health o f all missionaries.
M ore than a month o f our time has been given
to this work.
“ During the year I have visited and examined eighty-one schools, some
o f them more than once.
Few o f these schools are on a public r o a d ; the
rest are accessible only by jungle paths, either on foot or by bicycle.
My
housecart, better known as ‘ T he A r k ,’ travels on the roads and answers
as a base.
A fter breakfast in the cart we take bicycle and water-bottle
and strike into the jungles, visiting three or four schools during the day
and traveling on foot or bicycle twenty or thirty miles,
the cart in the evening.
returning to
O ur visit to a school brings together the whole
village as a rule, and after the school is examined we spend an hour
preaching to the assembled villagers.
On our return to .our base in the
evening, we invariably find a crowd waiting for us, some o f them with a
sincere desire to hear and learn about the Christian religion, others for
medicine, and many o f them out o f mere curiosity.
tunity for another hour or two o f preaching.
T his affords oppor­
U sually all attempts at send­
ing the crowd away are o f no avail and we simply have to put down the
curtains and turn out the light in order to retire.”
INDUSTRIAL W O R K AT BHIMPORE
The industrial work at. Bhimpore is an attempt to “ make brick without
straw.”
M r. Raymond has little more with which to begin than his own
enthusiasm and his empty hands and about 200 schoolboys to help..
Several
o f the boys have already had an introduction to mechanics, fo r which
some o f them showed a real aptitude and enthusiasm.
to handle tools and gained some knowledge o f
T hey have learned
automobile machinery.
Incidentally the mission Ford was given a new lease o f life and the electriclight plant began to ju stify its existence!
One o f the boys is being trained to be the chauffeur o f a car belonging
to a neighbor, the rajah o f Lalgarh.
The rajah asked the superintendent
o f the industrial work to furnish him with a Christian chauffeur as the
Hindu drivers would not stay long, and when they left always took as
souvenirs the most valuable accessories easily carried!
M r. Raymond, however, soon found it impracticable to carry on this
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w ork without a knowledge o f the language and, upon the departure o f
Rev. and M rs. H . C. L on g fo r furlough, he and M rs. Raymond are to
occupy the Midnapore bungalow and give themselves to language study.
O f necessity, the further development o f the Bhimpore industrial work
will be suspended until their return.
CONTAI RESPONSIVE TO T H E GOSPEL
Rev. J. A . H ow ard, w rites: “ The year at Contai has been marked by
excellent attendance at services.
A Bengali song-service, followed by one
in English, has been held on the veranda Sunday evenings.
A number of
times all the English officials have attended, as well as many Hindus and
M ohammedans.
lages.
Numbers o f inquirers have come from surrounding vil­
From one village over sixteen miles away, a delegation o f eighteen
young men came to hear more o f Jesus.
T hey listened for two hours
to the good news o f our w onderful Saviour.
There is a general spirit o f
receptiveness to the gospel.
“ Saturday evenings the church has been packed to see the stereopticon
pictures o f our L ord ’s life.
These services have materially increased the
attendance at Sunday worship.
A large number o f Hindu children have
received instruction in the gospel from
our preachers who teach them
in the village schools.
“ About tw o thousand patients were treated in the dispensary, each receiv­
ing a gospel message.
T h e people believe in the mission medicine, coming
as far as thirty-six miles to obtain it.
W e want them to believe ju st as
strongly in the Great Physician.
“ Christians in the four outstations suffered persecution, but where the
persecution has been severest there are the most inquirers.
saying that they will become Christians.
M any are
W e need an outpouring o f the
H o ly S pirit; then a great harvest is assured.
“ T h e churches have done better in the matter o f self-support than ever
before.
During the year, twenty-seven have followed Christ in baptism.
W ith your faithful prayers we can be mighty harvesters for him.”
Air. N . G. M ohapatra, the first Indian to be given complete charge o f
a mission station, in his first annual report reviews the year’s w ork at
Hatigarh.
It is interesting to note that in this village o f nearly 400,
seventy-two per cent, are Christians.
The proportion o f young people—
fifty young men and young women, 112 boys and girls— augurs well for
the future o f the community.
The church is independent and has a Sun­
day school and a boys’ and a girls’ Christian Endeavor.
There are two upper primary schools and two kindergartens with a
total o f eighty-seven pupils.
The evangelistic work is going on well, in
spite o f the loss by death o f two preachers.
In conclusion M r. M oh a­
patra sa y s : “ I am still doubtful if I shall be successful in my mission,
being conscious o f the fact that so many able missionaries failed in their
attempt to settle the Hatigarh affairs.
O f course, I came to Hatigarh with
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a heavy heart, but to m y constant prayer our dear heavenly Father blessed
me so much that I have been partially successful.
I still rely on his
power, and hope that the H atigarh affairs may be settled once for all in
the near future.”
E V A N G E L IS M
FEATURES
YEAR
AT
JELLASO RE
M iss E . E . Barnes w rites: " The year 1922 began with a week o f special
meetings with our good brother Natabar Singh in charge, and the work
was greatly blessed.
gelistic work.
M ost o f January and February was spent in evan­
The workers and I camped in six different places, and we
used the magic lantern a great deal and found it as usual a real help.
The pastor, Benjamin Das, especially enjoyed using it and. agreed that it
was one o f the best ways o f presenting the life o f Christ.
W e little thought
that it would be his last cold season in the work he loved.
It brought
great sadness to us all when he died in Santipore in June, for we feel
so much the need o f young men o f his spirit.
W e visited the villages and
markets with the Bible-women and sold Christian literature when we
could.
“ T h e Bible-women’s w ork continues regularly in and around Jellasore.
I would be glad if more o f the year could be spent in distant villages.
Our H indu neighbors in Jellasore are very friendly and come to us when
they are sick or in trouble.
There may be secret believers, but none have
openly confessed Christ.
“ W e visit regularly the Hindu girls’ school three miles away where
we teach sewing, Bible stories,
and, especially,
Sunday school lessons.
W e have about forty church-members, some o f them non-resident.
also have a Christian Endeavor Society which does some good work.
W re
At
Christmas time the members prepared without help and gave nicely a
drama o f the birth o f Christ and the death o f Herod.
The Indian people
love to act out stories.
“ Jellasore has been popular this year for gatherings.
First o f all, the
girls o f Sinclair Orphanage who had no place to spend their vacation came
in two parties and enjoyed the fruit, the river, and the big compound.
Then in September came our Balasore quarterly meeting and in October
the biggest gathering o f all— our first women’ s conference.
Nearly all our
stations were represented, and about 100 women attended.
Our house and
church were fully occupied day and night.
W e know that God’s Spirit
was with us as we prayed and considered the general theme, ' Advance
Steps fo r W om en .’
W e had two Indian women as speakers, M rs. Shome
o f Midnapore and M iss Nirm ola Nayak, the latter one o f our ow n Bala­
sore girls recently returned from O x fo rd , England, where she received a
degree.
W e are convinced that when our Indian Christian women get
enough
enthusiasm
added
to their education and
great
love
for
our
M aster and Lord, much more will be accomplished for his kingdom in
India.
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TH E YEAR AT MIDNAPORE
M iss Ruth Daniels, who during the year has had charge o f the middle
English girls’ school and six lower primary schools, reports: “ O u r girls’
school has about forty-five pupils, o f whom eight are Hindus.
T h e head
mistress resigned in June and, since then, the Secretary herself has sub­
stituted.
The second teacher, who has taken most o f the responsibility,
and others on the staff, have been must faithful.
spirit o f cooperation.
W e have a splendid
A school conveyance has brought pupils from dif­
ferent parts o f the town.
“ T w o natives chosen by the patrons were added to the school com m it­
tee, making fou r Indian members.
T hey have shown great interest and
are standing back o f the school in an encouraging and helpful waj'.
surely feel
a real
atmosphere o f
support and cooperation
I
among our
patrons.
“ O f the six lower primary schools, one is a village boys’ school, and
another a boys’ school on the edge o f town.
schools, doing good work.
T he other four are girls’
T h e inspectress on her last visit wrote a very
favorable criticism, declaring that the present grant is entirely too small.
A ll our teachers are Christian women o f deep sincerity in their consecra­
tion, and they regard their tasks not as secular posts but as opportunities
for serving their M aster.”
“ O ur tour in February,” reports Rev. H . C. Long, “ was the most satis­
factory o f our term.
There were in the party, besides the three o f us,
five preachers and three Bible-women.
T he automobile was a great h e lp ;
in fact, except for that M rs. L ong could not have gone, and in that
case the Bible-women could not have accompanied the party.
W e camped
in four towns and the preachers and I made side-trips w7ith the car.
total population o f the towns \risited is over 27,000.
regret that we cannot put a preacher in Ghatal.
norant o f
Christianity, but the presence
of
The
It is a matter o f great
T he people are very ig­
a Christian
Bengali
division officer and a girls’ school with a Christian teacher, as
A v e ll
sub­
as the
receptive attitude o f many o f the people, offer what I believe is an excep­
tional opportunity.
Shortage o f funds handicaps us.
“ D uring the remainder o f the year my chief work has been the Bible
school.
Four new students increased our number to twelve, half o f whom
were in the senior class, and upon them I spent the most time, principally
in giving them a thorough course in the life o f Paul.
They also studied
N ew Testament interpretation, pastoral theology and homiletics, and had
a course in the Reform ation and modern missions.
It was my hope that
in the last course the students would come to a better appreciation o f what
is being done to preach the gospel in the world, and o f the present extent
o f the kingdom o f our Lord.
These six students did good w ork and
received their graduation diplomas.
It was a jo y to teach them, and I
have great hopes for their future service in the M aster’ s kingdom.
“ There is a body o f earnest Christians in Midnapore, and this church
has raised a larger amount than any other for hom e, missions— R s. 108.
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The pastor’s salary was also increased.
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H e has taken a real interest
in his w ork and is giving faithful service.
“ I have talked personally o f divine things with many young men.
One
educated young H indu o f good family has professed a belief in Christ,
saying when persecuted by relatives, ‘ H e is my Saviour.
leave him.’
I will never
I am waiting for him to take the public step.
Pray fo r him
and for other seekers that they may glorify our Lord by a public profes­
sion o f his holy name.”
A YEAR OF PROGRESS AT JAMSHEDPUR
“ In spite o f the delays o f contractors,” writes Rev. Z . D . Browne, “ our
bungalow has been completed.
The friends o f our work have been very
kind and generous, friends won by the zeal, energy, and effort o f our
predecessor, Rev. C. L . Conrad.
M r. John Rawlings of Pittsburgh gave
the material and built himself, outside o f work hours, two artistic fire­
places which are needed in the winter months.
Our door-yard, once a
wilderness o f no man’s land, has begun to blossom as the rose.
Several
friends sent plants and shrubs, and three men gave all the trees, plants,
and flowers in their whole compounds, worth Rs. 300.
“ The Indian pastor’s house was completed in September.
I give to
U d oi Babu, who supervised the work, the credit for all its good points.
A t first, the coolies, masons and cartmen, in fact everybody, looked upon
U d oi Babu with caution.
H e had to pay money down to get them to do
any work or to secure materials.
T hat suspicion has been removed, and
now he is recognized and trusted as other contractors are.
“ M r. Lloyd Eller, the mission builder, is drawing plans for the church
building, and the bricks have been hauled to the site.
The original plan
was to build the first church building for Indians alone, but the Indian
people themselves asked that the first one be erected on the North Tow n
site near the missionary’s house.
So the plan is to build one church build­
ing for Indians and Europeans on the North T ow n property.”
JAMSHEDPUR INDIAN CHURCH.
“ Services have been held in Jamshedpur since 1918.
In April o f this
year, the committee appointed at the quarterly meeting visited Jamshedpur,
and the church was quietly organized with a charter-membership o f sixtythree.
D uring 1922 the church has given Rs. 225 toward the pastor’s
salary and Rs. 60 to home missions.
ward the pastor’s salary.
This year it plans to pay Rs. 360 to­
The highest paid member o f the church, a most
trustworthy man, has been made treasurer.
Four have been baptized from
Hinduism and three from Christian families.
One o f the latter is the
pastor’s son, who is now studying in Serampore college.
H e will most
probably enter the ministry and walk in his father’s footsteps.
“ One service is being held in the bungalow Sunday afternoons.
B e­
fore the church was organized two services for Oriyas and one for Telugus
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were being conducted.
inclined to unite.
M ISSIO N
SOCIETY
The Oriyas and Telugus were friendly but not
Shortly after the organization they came together for
a baptismal service.
They sang in Oriya and Telugu, read the Scriptures
in Telugu and Hindustani, gave the hand o f fellowship in Bengali, and
had a sermon in Hindustani.
service for all.
This was the beginning o f conducting one
N o w one can hear the Telugus humming the tune o f an
Oriya song and the Oriyas humming a Telugu tune.
T h e Telugus say
that they do not want a Telugu pastor but Am rite Babu, the present
pastor, who is a Bengali.
“ T o promote a spirit o f friendship and to strengthen confidence in the
church, a volunteer committee o f two Oriyas, two Telugus, and one B en­
gali visited all the Christian homes— unity in action.
went with this committee, sa id :
U doi Babu, who
‘ I am learning some very great lessons.
I have never seen anything like this before in m y life .’
They are united
by more than a form al organization; it is a spirit o f Christian brotherhood.
“ A t first the young men were conspicuous by their absence from church
services.
T h ey have now organized a Y . M . C. A . and have tw o Bible
classes a week.
T hey have revived their interest in the church and attend
more regularly.
Their effort to unite themselves in an organization is an
appeal for a hostel.
It would have gone a long way in helping to protect
some o f the young men who have gone into sin.
“ A m rite Babu, our Indian pastor, is entitled to great credit as a tireless
worker who has shown rare tact and Christian grace.
H e has faced
hardships and has bridged over the barrier o f languages, which is a real
achievement.
H e has the confidence and love o f the people.
“ Since June an English service has been held every Sunday evening.
T h e spirit is good, and the attendance is becoming more stable.
T he con­
gregation has elected an advisory committee o f five to help in the work
o f the church.
A
subscription book was started, and in the first month
fifteen families gave Rs. 202.
N ew families are coming every month.
T H E FUTURE
“ E very engineer I have met says, ‘ Jamshedpur is and will continue to
be the largest steel center in India.’
According to latest reports there
are 900 Americans, 450 Anglo-Indians, and 87,000 Indians in Jamshedpur,
and it continues to grow.
N o one can foretell what the future o f this
large industrial center will be.
“ I f need spells opportunity and obligation,
there is plenty o f both.
W h en the ceaseless hum o f the mill says, ‘ W o rk , work, w ork,’ the voice
o f the prophet must cry out, ‘ M en, men, men.’
M ost o f the foreigners
will frankly say that they are here to make all the money they can as
quickly as they can.
In this subtle determined struggle for money, there
m ust be a finger to point men to the skies lest their hearts become as hard­
ened as the materials amid which they work.
“ Though the task is hard, though results tarry, and rewards are small,
denial o f our obligation will never remove the need.
W e must minister
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to our Christians, the Telugus from South India, the Oriyas from Cut­
tack and Balasore, the Americans and the Englishmen from our hom e­
lands.
T hey must have a mask o f religious worship, or their souls will
be gassed in this atmosphere o f indifference and irresponsibility, o f pagan
conceptions o f morality and duty, o f
criticisms and compromise.
must go forward and conquer the enemy that is poisoning the air.”
We
THE SOUTH INDIA MISSION
Compiled by W . A. Stanton, D. D.
H P H E year 1922 opened in turmoil.
India was seething with sedition.
Everywhere extremist forces were openly arrayed against the govern­
ment. Non-cooperation was rapidly developing into violent revolution. In
spite o f this opposition, however, steady progress has been made under
the Reform s Act. W e are now in the third year of the reforms, and it is
not too much to say that real advance has been made. Both the provin­
cial councils and the imperial legislative assembly at Delhi have given
an excellent account o f themselves.
Provincial autonomy is rapidly de­
veloping.
Again, as in the previous year, we have to record the story o f “ de­
pleted forces struggling under crushing burdens.”
In the spring o f 1922
four missionary families and two single ladies went home on furlough,
reducing the working force for the year to thirty-two families and thirtytwo single ladies.
This reduction o f the force has made it necessary for
many o f our missionaries to carry heavy burdens, no less than six having
two or more fields under their charge. A t the close o f the year the situa­
tion seemed much relieved by the arrival o f strong reenforcements from
America.
N o less than six missionary families returned from furlough,
in a number of cases after long absence from India. Rev. and M rs. Frank
Manley were absent two and a half years, M r. and M rs. L . E. Martin five
years, and Rev. and M rs. E. O. Schugren nine years.
The benefit o f this large reenforcement, however, we will not reap, for
in the spring o f 1923 we will suffer very severe losses.
N o less than six
missionary families and two single ladies will be leaving for the home­
land. A s we look over the situation, then, we find that we are right back
where we started, that our losses have equalled our gains, and that our
working force is still woefully small.
T H E IN D IA N FO R C E
I f India is ever to be evangelized, it must be through the instrumentality
of her own sons and daughters.
They are the essential factor.
T he mis­
sionary, however long he may be in the country, is still a foreigner. H e
cannot escape being a “ white man ” and belonging to an alien race. The
Indian worker, on the other hand, is one o f the people.
Born in an Indian
home, he speaks their language, he thinks their thoughts, he lives their
life. Christianity, when preached by him, and especially when exemplified
in his life, ceases to be foreign.
The Telugu Mission from its inception has laid great emphasis on the
development o f a force of indigenous workers. Our statistics for the past
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year show that we have today in the Telugu Mission 385 preachers and
evangelists, 1,162 teachers in our schools, 181 Bible-women, and 158 other
workers, making a total force o f 1,886 Indian workers. W e thank God for
this noble band and rejoice that we have nearly 2,000 men and women
whose lives are devoted to the establishment o f the kingdom o f God in
India.
EVANGELISM THE PRIMAL W ORK
In these days o f manifold activities, it is well that we remember that
the primal work of missions is evangelism. W e have many forms of
work, such as educational, medical, and industrial, but the aim o f all is
the introduction and the application o f the gospel o f Christ.
This is the
spirit which actuates our missionaries in all their work whatever the
form may be, and this is the purpose which runs like a golden thread
through all their endeavor.
W hen we think o f the great ingathering in the Telugu Mission and
realize that we have a Christian community' of 200,000, it is easy for us
to think that our task is about done. But there are still 600,000 unreached
outcastes within the bounds o f the mission.
accessible to the gospel.
These people are open and
The barriers have been broken down, and great
numbers o f them have become followers o f Christ. In the New India in
which we now find ourselves, other forces are at work seeking to win
them. It is for us to seize the present opportunity, to enter the wide-open
door and to claim these people for God.
THE YEAR’S HARVEST
Baptisms in the Telugu Mission for the past year numbered 3,185, a
somewhat larger ingathering than during the previous year.
Kanigiri
heads the list with 536, the largest number o f baptisms in Rev. G. H .
Brock’s thirty-one years o f service on that field.
Bapatla reports 422
baptisms, Kurnool comes next with 348, the largest number, with one ex­
ception, ever baptized on this field in a single year.
baptisms.
Nellore has had 180
Rev. L. C. Smith reports: “ There is not a village in which our
workers are not welcome.
The hearts o f the people are open and pros­
pects for the future are very inviting.”
Some of the fields, comparatively unfruitful in the past, have had a
bountiful harvest. Rev. S. W . Stenger reports 112 baptisms on the Nandyal field, the largest number in years. A still more remarkable develop­
ment has taken place on the Kavali field in regard to which M rs. Edwin
Bullard reports as fo llo w s: “ From the year 18% , when M r. Bullard took
charge o f the Kavali field, until the present time, the work has been one
of seed-sowing, but now, as will be seen from the list o f baptisms which
I give for the term, the harvest seems to be ripening fast.” In the six
years from 1915-1920 her list shows an average o f twenty-three baptisms
per annum, which rose in 1921 to 109 and last year to 135.
Miss Dorcas
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W hitaker reports 150 baptisms for the Sattenapalle field and many more
asking for baptism.
TH E GOSPEL IN THE VILLAGES
One o f the most delightful experiences o f the missionary’ s life is that
o f taking the gospel to the people in the villages.
The reports o f our
missionaries ring with the joy o f this great experience. Rev. T . V . W it ­
ter reports one hundred and ten days touring on the Podili field and ninety
days on the Ongole field.
Rev. W . S. Davis o f A llur reports: “ The whole
field has been covered several limes.
Faithful work has been done and
the seed o f truth has been planted by preacher and teacher and Biblewoman. The prospect for a spiritual ingathering was never brighter.”
Rev. G. H . Brock gives this testimony: “ Every day that it was possible
was spent on tour. This always has seemed to me most important. T ou r­
ing is the most delightful part o f the missionary work as, in many ways,
it is the most strenuous.”
\Ve missionaries in Kurnool spent practically
the whole o f March and April on tour.
Both the eastern and western
portions o f the field were covered and nearly every Christian village visited.
Wherever we went we had a wonderful reception by our Christians.
It
was delightful to be among them once more and to see their jo y and
stedfast faith. The Sudras seemed more ready and eager to hear the
gospel message than ever before. Great crowds gathered in every place
and listened to the message with deep and absorbing interest. On this tour
we visited 35 villages, held 56 meetings, traveled 250 miles, baptized 106
converts, and preached to great crowds o f people. In October and N ovem ­
ber after the rains we spent nearly every week-end in the villages, holding
meetings and baptizing converts.
W INNING THE CASTE MAN
The great ingathering in the Telugu Mission, which began in 1876 when
2,222 Telugus were baptized in a single day in the Gundlacamma River,
was a movement among the outcastes. H ere and there a caste man has
been won, but broadly speaking the movement has been confined to the
outcastes.
N ext above the outcaste M alas and Madigas in the Hindu social
scale are the Sudras who constitute the middle classes in India and form
the backbone o f Hindu society. For fifty years the work o f seed-sowing
and preparation has been going on among them, and they have become
permeated with the gospel message.
They have been profoundly influenced
also by the great movement to Christianity among the outcastes who are
the servants in their houses and the laborers in their fields. Christianity,
as ever in its history, is working from the bottom upward.
H aving won
the outcaste and having laid deep the foundations o f the kingdom o f God
in the hearts o f the poor, the despised, and the friendless, it is now be­
ginning to lay hold of the middle classes in India. It is the conviction o f
the most experienced missionary workers in India that the day is not far
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distant when we will see an even greater mass movement among the Sudras
than we have witnessed among the outcastes.
W hen that day' comes it
will be like the inrushing o f the ocean tides, and the kingdom o f God will
come with power. Our missionaries are beginning to see by faith the dawn
o f that day, and their reports breathe the spirit o f a great longing and
an ardent hope.
From the Nellore field Rev. F. P. Manley reports: “ In moving about
the field we are impressed with the approachableness o f the caste people.
Everywhere are signs that caste barriers are crumbling.
God speed the
day when the door o f the church will not be barred by that invisible but
bitterly stubborn and immovable obstacle.”
The difficulties which the
caste people have to face in becoming Christians are thus described by Rev.
T . V . W itte r: “ W e are glad these converts from the outcastes have come,
but our hearts are heavy that none from the caste people have come this
past year.
Never have we had more attentive and earnest hearing on the
part o f the Sudras. I believe that the faces o f many o f them are turning
wistfully to H im , that the longing o f their hearts is, ‘ W e would see
Jesus.’
M any were the heart-to-heart talks I enjoyed with individuals,
some seeking the light and others with their spiritual consciousness appar­
ently unawakened.
Many seem so near the kingdom, and yet they draw
back in fear at the final step o f baptism which will cut them off irrevocably
from caste and Hinduism, in many instances from their friends and
families, and involve them in persecutions.
Pray that the Lord himself
may strengthen their hearts to confess him boldly before men.”
EVANGELISTIC CAMPAIGN
This is the sixth year o f the observance o f the evangelistic campaign in
the Telugu Mission.
It has now become a recognized part o f our work
and a powerful factor in stimulating our Christians to evangelistic en­
deavor and in training them for service. The campaign is generally ob­
served during the month o f M ay, which is in the midst o f the hot season
when most o f the missionaries are at the hills. The significance o f this
is that the campaign is entirely in the hands o f the Telugu Christians. It
has become an indigenous enterprise. So far as reported the campaign
was observed on eighteen different fields. Rev. Wheeler Boggess reports:
“ In no place have the preaching bands met with opposition. In some
places they were received with marked cordiality.
Occasionally, when a
band was about to pass by a village without preaching, the inhabitants
have said, ‘ Come and teach us also.’ Sometimes after the meetings were
closed and personal work was being done, individuals, especially women,
have asked, ‘ H ow must we pray to J e su s?’ Evidently hunger for the
things o f God is being begotten by these campaigns. The simple testimony
o f lay Christians has never failed to create a deep impression on Hindu
and Mohammedan hearers. The Telugus are urged to make these cam­
paigns their own voluntary service to evangelize their own land.”
The summary o f work done is as follow s: Villages visited, 1,129; mis­
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sion workers engaged, 4 00 ; leaders o f bands, 2 2 9 ; volunteers, 1,533; prayer
groups, 4 3 1 ; meetings held, 1,712; hearers, 63,253; number asking fo r bap­
tism, 1,004; number receiving baptism, 345.
It is interesting to note that
Kandukur leads all fields in the number o f baptisms, having eighty-seven.
I f we can secure the yearly observance o f this campaign on every one
o f the twenty fields o f this mission, instead o f on eighteen as in the past
year, we will have started a movement o f tremendous power in the evan­
gelization o f the Telugu people.
T his is the second year o f M r. Boggess’ service as general evangelist
o f the mission.
H e has had a busy year, full o f abundant labors.
236 days touring in many parts o f the Telugu country.
H e spent
The follow ing
extract from his report will convey some idea o f the important service
he is rendering to the m ission: “ Non-Christians o f almost every caste
have eagerly listened to public preaching and private conversation.
tians have been revived.
Chris­
M any Hindus have expressed a deep desire to get
rid o f sin and gain fellowship with God.
Some o f these have confessed
that they believe Jesus to be the only divine Saviour.
followed out their desire I do not know.
H o w many have
A m on g the most inspiring
experiences o f the past year were those in connection with a Convention
o f the Godavari Delta Telugu Christians who- met in M arch at Narsapur.
F or fou r days nearly 2,000 people gathered in the great pandal erected at
their own
expense.
M ore
difficult to find anywhere.
attentive and
responsive hearers would
be
T hey had gladly contributed about Rs. 700
when the missionaries told them it was more than enough.
expenses had been paid there was a balance o f Rs. 200.
A ft e r all
A ll o f the people
who attended paid their own expenses.”
THE GOSPEL AMONG HINDU W OM EN AND CHILDREN
One o f our greatest tasks in India— perhaps the greatest— is to win
the home for Christ.
H ere is the sacred shrine o f Hinduism, the inner­
most sanctuary, set apart by solemn rite and immemorial custom to the
w ife and mother, secluded from
contact with the outside world, and
jealously guarded by the relentless hand o f caste and the stern sanctions
o f religion.
One avenue o f approach to these Hindu women is through the child.
In M adras, Ongole, Kurnool, and other large centers, we have schools
for Hindu girls, taught by Christian teachers and supervised by women
missionaries.
Thus through the child we get entrance to the home.
In
Kurnool, in the heart o f the town, is one o f these Hindu girls’ schools.
The head mistress and all the teachers are our own Christian women.
The girls are taught to sing our beautiful Telugu hymns and to pray to
Jesus.
T his school is a door o f hope and opportunity to the bright and
attractive little Hindu girls who throng its doors, and it gives us access
to many homes which would otherwise be closed.
Th e other form o f approach is the direct evangelistic w ork through the
Bible-women and the women missionaries.
O f this phase o f the work
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M rs. W . E. Boggs says: “ W e carry on house-to-house visitation in N a rsaravupet town.
A m on g the large number o f caste people to w hom we
have spoken many are evidently longing to become followers o f Jesus
Christ, but they are bound by fetters o f iron.”
M iss Julia E. Bent re­
ports the w ork in Madras as fo llo w s : “ The Bible-women and zenana
teachers, a little band o f noble women, have done their w ork faithfully
and well during the year.
O ften I try to imagine what it must mean to
a non-Christian woman whose life is largely bounded by her fam ily and
the walls o f her house, to have a Christian sister, with her story o f love
and hope in Christ, visit her regularly.
It is hard for us whose lives have
always been surrounded by Christian influences to imagine what a blessing
these Christian women are as they carry the message o f
quietly from
home to home.”
salvation so
W ritin g o f the work in Ongole M iss
Sarah K elly sa y s : “ The two zenana teachers are doing good faithful work.
N ew homes are being opened to us.
Caste barriers are breaking down.
W hile they are on tour in the villages and even in the town our women
are asked to take food and are given water to drink out o f their own
vessels.
Formerly food was served to them outside and water poured into
their hands.
Now
caste women would
they are invited inside thehouse and served as
serve their own people.The caste women
the
are begin­
ning to see a difference between themselves and our Christian women, a
difference in dress, speech, and bearing, and so respect them.”
O f the work in Nellore M iss Genevra Brunner writes as fo llo w s: “ There
are many encouraging results o f the year’s work.
versions
among
the non-caste
people,
expressed themselves ready for baptism.
and
There have been con­
several
caste
women
have
A m on g these is one beautiful
Sudra widow who has been a secret believer for years but has ju st re­
cently had the courage to confess her belief openly.
She says she wants
soon to be baptized and enter the Bible school to learn more about the
word o f God which
she loves.”
T H E CHURCHES AND
S E L F -S U P P O R T
The establishment o f churches, modeled after the N ew Testament type,
is perhaps the most important work which the missionary has to do.
The
station churches, man}' o f which are situated at important centers, such
as M adras, Nellore, Ongole, Kurnool, Bezwada, Hanumakonda, Secun­
derabad, and all o f which are located at the mission “ headquarters ”
where they minister to large and important congregations, occupy a com­
manding place in the mission.
M any o f them have as pastors our finest
young men who are taking a position o f vigorous leadership among their
people.
One o f the strongest and most aggressive o f our churches is the
M adras Telugu Baptist church which is under the pastoral care o f Rev.
D . A rogyam , a graduate o f M adras Christian College and a most de­
voted Christian young man.
A
notable feature is that the evangelistic
staff in the city, though supported by the mission, works under the direc­
tion o f the church.
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But the station church, with its crowds of boarding-school boys and girls,
its large force o i workers and its imposing building, erected either at mis­
sion expense or as the gift o f some kind friend in Am erica, is not the
typical Telugu church.
organization.
It savors far too much o f the W e st and W estern
I f you would see the typical Telugu church, you must go
out to Somaradevapalle or Regadaguduru, to the little village church with
its thatched ro of and mud walls and its humble village folk.
There you
have, in that little group o f pastor and people and village elders, some­
thing indigenous and capable o f indefinite expansion— an organization at
once simple and yet powerful both for the training o f the people and the
evangelization o f the land.
T he reports in regard to these village churches
are, on the whole, most encouraging.
Progress is being made.
Rev. W . S.
D avis says there are eight churches on the A llur field o f which two were
organized this year.
These churches are in the midst o f 120,000 people o f
w hom only 915 have professed the name o f Christ.
“ The darkness o f
midnight reigns all about them and they are as lamps set on a lamp-stand.”
On the N algonda field there are seven churches o f which Rev. Cornelius
Unruh reports as follow s : “ In the churches we have had marked p,rogress.
W e noticed all the year that they were grow ing in spiritual power.
the pastors and preachers have worked hard.”
A ll
O n the Kurnool field there
are twelve churches, and the missionary there sa y s: “ O ur village churches
have had a year o f steady growth and progress.
One church which had
been without a pastor fo r some years called a new man, and since his
coming the church has taken on new life.
very
large
accessions,
each
receiving
T w o o f our churches have had
over
seventy
new
members
by
baptism.”
Considerable advance is being made on all our fields toward self-support.
Though only thirty-two out o f 195 churches are reported as self-support­
ing, that figure does not represent the real situation, fo r on the Bapatla
and M arkapur fields the village work is said to be entirely self-support­
ing.
Unfortunately
number o f
local
churches have not been
self-supporting churches appears small.
established,
so
the
Furthermore even
where complete self-support has not been reached, the steady advance in
Christian giving is very marked.
Church contributions at Hanumakonda
continue to increase, and the home mission society has very nearly met the
expenses o f its preacher and has assumed his full support with the new
year.
T h e Sooriapett church has continued to pay the full salary o f the
pastor and three other workers.
Christians on the Nandyal field have
doubled their contributions.
T h e w ork on the Nalgonda field is rapidly being put on a self-supporting
basis, for five out o f seven churches are self-supporting, and only a very
small amount o f aid is being given to the other two.
beginning to carry their own burdens.
ment and somewhat more.
The churches are
Every church has paid its allot­
T h e churches raised this year Rs. 1,802.
On the K urnool field a wonderful year o f Christian giving has been
experienced, surpassing all records.
One church gave over Rs. 600, another
nearly .R s. 400, two gave over Rs. 200 each, and four gave over R s. 100
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T he contributions o f these Christians for church and benevolent
purposes amounted to Rs. 2,402-8-0, and for the support o f schools Rs.
1,374, the total being Rs. 3,776-8-0.
T h is is by far the largest contribu­
tion from the Christians on this field in the history o f the mission.
The
field w ork in K urnool, Bapatla, and Markapur is now on a self-supporting
basis, and there has been a great increase in the contributions o f our
Christians on nearly all fields.
INDIGENOUS EFFORT
The Kandukur field, handed over by the mission to the H om e Mission
Society o f the Telugu Baptist Convention in 1919, has been administered
now for four years entirely as an indigenous enterprise.
A t first it was
managed by a subcommittee, but it was soon found necessary to have a
man who could devote his whole time and attention to the development o f
the work.
Accordingly in 1921 the Telugu Baptist Convention appointed
Air. P . Abraham, Secretary o f the Committee, to this responsible position.
In M ay, 1922, he took charge o f the work, moving to Kandukur with his
fam ily and in October, at the meeting o f the convention at Ongole, he
was ordained to the gospel ministry to which he had long before received
so clear and manifest a call.
W ith his appointment to Kandukur, M r. Abraham has given himself with
great devotion and enthusiasm to the prosecution o f the work, and im ­
portant developments have taken place there during the year.
In his
annual report he says regarding educational w o r k : “ One o f the best ways
to bring self-support in the village churches is by educating the people.
That is the only way to make them have self-respect, and self-respect is
sure to bring self-support, in fact no church is too poor to have selfsupport, but it is the will to have it which is required.
the children and the young men.
O ur hope lies in
A n y mission that prepares leaders from
its own field can hope to put the people on their feet, and such fields pros­
per, even though the Foreign M ission Society withdraws its help entirely.
A n y amount o f money spent on the training o f the people is not wasted.
Those stations which have had boarding-schools have accomplished much
in educating the people in Christian ideals.
lacking in this respect in the past.
Kandukur has been miserably
The H om e M ission Society has started
a small boarding-school with six boys, and we hope to increase the num­
ber many fold.
The children are regularly instructed in Bible knowledge
and taught to pray.
The progress made in nine months is astonishing.
They have learned all the stories in the Gospel o f M atthew and they are
now studying those in Genesis. E very one o f them can pray, and sing not
less than twenty Telugu hymns.
in street preaching.
B y their singing they help the preachers
There are also four boys in the Ongole high school
who are expected to work in this their own field after they finish their
course.”
“ T h e Sudras earnestly hear the gospel,” writes M r. Abraham, “ and co­
operate with us on our tours, so that one is inclined to think that the
Spirit o f God is spreading from the M alas and Madigas to the Sudras.
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A n d the time is not far distant when we shall have a mass movement
among the Sudras.
will be solved.
W h en the Sudra comes the problem o f self-support
Our evangelistic campaign, conducted in M ay and June,
was very successful.
W e had ninety-seven baptisms in six weeks and
contributions amounted to about Rs. 70.
T he total number o f baptisms
fo r the year was 112.”
OUR SCHOOL OF TH E PROPHETS
Though the question o f the transfer o f the Union Baptist Theological
Seminary to Bezwada is held in abeyance on account o f financial difficul­
ties, it is gratifying to say that the tw o missions are now w orking in co­
operation in theological education, and the union is an accomplished fact.
O f the faculty, the Am erican Baptist M ission provides tw o of the mission­
ary teachers and three o f the Indian staff, while the Canadian Baptist
M ission provides one missionary and two Indian teachers.
Thus the co­
operation o f the two missions has made it possible fo r us to have, for
the first time in many years, a faculty o f adequate strength.
T h is alone
is sufficient to have justified the union.
In July there was an entering class o f twenty men and twelve women.
T he total enrolment was ninety-five, fifty-six men and thirty-nine women,
compared with eighty-two the previous year.
The
students
from
the
American Baptist M ission numbered thirty-two men and twenty-one w o­
m en ; from the Canadian M ission tw enty-four men and eighteen women.
T o meet the demands o f the new day in India we need a large number of
higher-grade men as pastors o f our churches and leaders o f our people.
It is to this school we look to furnish such leaders.
A s to the spiritual life in the Seminary, Rev. W . E. B oggs w rites: “ The
Seminary stands fo r the necessity o f a deep spiritual life in every one who
takes upon him self the w ork o f the gospel ministn'.
W e believe that only
a regenerate, God-appointed ministry can be used o f God for the redemp­
tion o f India.
Class w ork and routine duties sometimes cool the ardor
o f student and teacher, and we hail with jo y any opportunity to ‘ come
apart fo r a w h ile ’ and give special attention to the nurturing o f that life
which the Spirit has begotten in us.
H ence we invited M r. Boggess to
spare us a few days from his appointed task.
H e conducted a series o f
meetings extending over eight days, and the response was gratifying.”
MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE
W e are fortunate in having, as the representative o f our mission on the
faculty o f M adras Christian College, Rev. A . S. W oodburne, Ph. D ., who
is now in the second year o f his service in that capacity.
W ithin the short
time that he has been connected with the institution he has taken his place
as one o f the outstanding men on the faculty, and has been the recipient
o f many honors.
H is report is a testimony both to the pow erful Christian
influence o f such schools and “ the deep-rooted hold o f Christianity on the
heart o f India.”
H e s a y s : “ The M adras Christian College has had a good
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W e have been quite free from any disturbance due to the abnormal
political conditions in the country and in that respect have been the object
o f envy o f other colleges.
The results o f our students at the public
examinations were very gratifying, fifty per cent, o f the candidates for
the B. A .
examination being successful in both parts.
In
the B. A .
honors examination one hundred per cent, o f our philosophy candidates
were successful.
“ For many years
the American
Baptist M ission has been the only
American organization contributing to the college.
But we are glad to
report that the American A rcot M ission has come in to share our work,
and the .news has reached us o f the decision o f the M ethodist Episcopal
Church to join with us in the near future.
news.
T his is indeed heartening
The Madras Christian College is without doubt taking the lead in
educational standards and development in South India, and, if missionary
education is to hold its prestige, it must be through generous cooperation.
“ It is customary for each missionary professor to teach one o f the
college groups in Scripture.
T his year I have instructed four groups of
the Senior B. A . class in the life and teachings o f Jesus.
It has been
a great delight to experience the splendid response to the teaching, es­
pecially on the part o f Hindu and Mohammedan students.
I wish it were
possible for some o f our people in Am erica to read some o f the essays
which I received^ in response to a request for a short personal apprecia­
tion o f the personality o f Jesus.
I have become increasingly convinced
that Christianity has a much firmer and more deep-rooted hold on the
heart o f India than most people realize.
A n d I am sure that many gradu­
ates and students o f the M adras Christian College, though they be enumer­
ated in the census as Hindus or Mohammedans, are making a much greater
effort to be true follow ers o f Jesus Christ than many o f us who are
nominally Christian.”
BOARDING-SCHOOLS AND VILLAGE EDUCATION
The station boarding-school is one o f the most important factors in
mission work.
W e might almost say that it is the heart o f the mission
enterprise, for without it we could have no workers and no educated
Christian community.
Only a very small proportion o f our boys and girls
ever receive any higher education.
Practically all our mission workers—
the pastors o f our churches, the teachers o f our schools, our evangelists,
and our Bible-women— are products o f our boarding-schools.
W ithou t
these schools our work would soon come to a standstill and rapidly fade
away.
Occupying this vital relation to our work, they demand our best
educational effort and our highest spiritual endeavor.
Our statistics for
the past year show that we have twenty-five boarding-schools in our mis­
sion with an enrolment o f 2,634 pupils.
A ll the schools report a prosperous year with large attendance and con­
siderable increase in income from fees.
W rhat becomes o f the graduates
may be seen from the report o f Rev. J. A . Curtis o f Donakonda.
H e sa y s:
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‘‘ Thirteen finished the eighth standard in A pril— four girls, seven boys,
and two men— all Christians.
improve themselves.
T he men were workers who wanted to
Five o f the boys went to villages and opened schools.
In our opinion this return to villages shows our school fulfilling its pur­
pose.
Three boys went to the Ongole high school.
the normal training-school,
and the other three
One girl went to
to the
Nellore girls’
high school.”
T o understand the problem o f village education we must get the back­
ground o f an illiterate Christian community o f 200,000 people gathered
from the depressed classes during the past eighty-five years, practically
none o f whom are able to read or write.
Rev. T . V . W itter describes the
situation on the Podili field as fo llo w s : “ T h e illiteracy o f our large Chris­
tian community is lamentable.
In many villages the number o f literate
Christians may be counted on the fingers o f one hand.
Illiteracy makes
them the victims o f the unscrupulous village officials and greedy m er­
chants, and also militates against their growth in Christian experience and
character.”
T his description is typical o f every field in the mission.
problem, then, is to produce a literate Christian community.
The
T hat means
there must be a school in every village in which there are Christians.
W h a t is the situation in the mission in this respect?
Christian villages are without schools?
H o w many o f our
M r. W'itter says that in more than
half o f the ninety-two villages on the Podili field where there are Chris­
tians, there are no resident Christian workers and no schools.
O n the
Donakonda field M r. Curtis states there are Christians in 130 villages but
only fifty-six schools.
T hat is to say, there are seventy-four villages on
that field without school advantages.
Though Rev. G. H . Brock has 200
village schools on his field, he still has fifty villages or more unprovided
for.
W e m ay safely say that in many o f the large fields o f this mission
where there are thousands o f Christians, from twenty-five to fifty per
cent, o f them are without any educational advantages whatsoever.
But there is a ray o f hope in the otherwise desperate outlook.
Christian community is awakening.
There
education, a desire fo r something better and higher.
field come reports o f this.
The
is a growing demand for
From all over the
Rev. F. W . Stait say s: “ There are calls for
resident teachers from every side.”
The people in Kurnool on becoming
Christians ask for a school and a teacher.
T his is the first fruitage o f the
new life— the hunger o f the heart for light and knowledge.
From M adira
Rev. Frank K urtz reports: “ The outstanding feature o f the year’s work
has been the greatly increased interest in education.
various causes.
T his seems due to
T h e nationalist movement has profoundly affected the
Christian community, even to the remote villages.
Schools are better
attended and better tau ght; schoolhouses are kept in better repair, and new
ones are built.”
H ere then is our opportunity.
F or years it has been the inertia o f the
Christian community, their indifference to all our appeals and their con­
tentment with the ignorance in which they have always lived, that baffled
us and made it impossible to do anything for them.
But a great change
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The people are awakening.
They are no longer satisfied with
the old life o f ignorance and poverty.
They want to rise, and they want
their children to rise.
This is a situation full o f hope and fraught with
great possibilities.
T H E MINISTRY OF HEALING
Medical work in the mission is steadily growing in volume and efficiency.
Donakonda is rejoicing in the opening o f a dispensary which is already
doing a large work and exerting a beneficent influence.
joicing in the completion o f its great hospital plant.
Ongole is re­
D r. J. W . Stenger
describes this undertaking as follow s : “ The year 1922 has seen the com­
pletion o f the twenty-five buildings which form the Clough Memorial
Hospital, though there are still some minor tasks to be finished.
you
W hen
consider that all this work has been done by hand without any
modern machinery or appliances and without skilled mechanics, and that
the buildings are all o f stone with stone floors, the six years it has taken
seem a short period for the transformation o f the waste land covered
with dense cactus growth into this beautiful compound with its fine sub­
stantial buildings.
The task o f elevating two steel tanks, each o f 2,000
gallons capacity and weighing 3,000 pounds, to a stone tower thirty feet
high, without any modern appliances, has been ‘ some j o b ’ !
W e hope
soon to have tlje pump and water lines installed, so that we can have
running water in the buildings.”
T h e year has been a busy one in the
hospital, as is indicated by the follow ing figures : M aternity cases, 50 ; in­
patients, 5 05 ; out-patients, 5,907; total treatments, 17,350.”
During the past year the Vellore M edical College for W om en completed
the first four years o f its history and presented its first class o f fourteen
Indian women graduates, not having a single failure in its list.
Dr. Eliza­
beth Findlay, our representative on the faculty, reports the activities o f
the year as follow s : “ The enrolment in the Union Missionary Medical
College for the year 1922-1923 has been seventy-five.
O f these there are
thirty-six Tam ils, twenty-nine M alayalams, seven Telugus, and three K a narese.
Eight o f the students are Hindus.
Considerable advance has
been made this year in the organization o f student activities and the stimu­
lation o f a wholesome college spirit.
O f our fourteen graduates tw o stood
well up among the first fifty students o f the M adras Presidency, one o f
them obtaining the gold medal in obstetrics.
in mission hospitals this year.
Eleven have been serving
W e are glad to report that the College
Council has been strengthened by the' coming in o f the Canadian Baptist
and W esleyan M issions.”
DISAPPOINTING NEW S FROM HOME
W h en the news was received from the H om e Board last M arch, that
from M ay, 1922, appropriations would be reduced twenty per cent., con­
sternation reigned throughout the mission.
W ork in g as we do on the
closest margin and with barely enough to meet the needs o f a constantly
expanding work, a reduction o f twenty per cent, in appropriations seemed
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little short of a calamity.
M ISSION SOCIETY
H owever, it was an accomplished fact.
The
great Baptist denomination o f Am erica had not met its obligations.
Re­
ceipts had fallen off tremendously, and the only course open was to reduce
expenditure.
M issionary advice was not sought.
W e were simply to take
the medicine and— smile.
The most constructive action taken on any field is that reported from
Kanigiri by Rev. G. H . Brock.
W e give it in full.
our boarding-schools a hard blow.
“ The financial cut hit
In the July quarterly meeting a full
statement was made to the assembled representatives from the villages.
They were informed that no pupils could be received into the boarding
department.
A s there w ere-girls ready to go to Nellore and to Ongole
and about fifty boys and girls hoping to enter the boarding-school, the
information that there was no money available came as a shock to all.
T he people appointed a special committee to see what could be done.
This
committee, after a full day o f deliberation, recommended that the Chris­
tians o f Kanigiri support thirty children in the boarding department and
raise Rs. 1,000 toward maintenance.
Then follow ed nearly two days of
the most spirited discussions ever seen in our gathering.
The follow ing
resolutions were finally adopted:
1.
T hat a society shall be organized under the name o f the Kanigiri
Educational Society, for the improvement o f the education o f the Chris­
tian community o f the Taluk.
2. T hat children shall be supported in
the boarding-schools by this society.
3. T h at contributions shall be raised
by the Christians o f Kanigiri T aluk for the support o f these children.
4. That all children who seek admission into the boarding-school shall
have to have completed the third standard course in the village school.
5. T hat there shall be an entrance fee o f Rs. 1-8-0 for each pupil and a
boarding fee o f Rs. 1 per month.
with two suits o f clothes.
7.
6. T hat every child shall supply himself
T hat fifteen students
present in the boarding department
and maintained
shall beadmitted at
for thisyear under
the rules o f the society.
During the five months that this scheme has been in operation, M r.
Brock states that Rs. 252-8-0
have been paid into the fund, o f which
Rs. 225 have been paid to themissionary fo r the support o f
dren in the boarding-school.
fifteen chil­
H e characterized this action as “ the most
advanced step toward independence so far undertaken by the Christians
o f Kanigiri ” and adds, “ A t the December quarterly meeting the people
were more enthusiastic over this Educational Society than they were in
July.”
TH E HARVEST
“ Say not ye, There are yet four months and then cometh the
harvest.
Behold, I say unto you, L ift up, your eyes, and look upon
the fields, that they are white already unto harvest.”
“ The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few.
P ray
ye, therefore, the Lord o f the harvest, that he send forth laborers
into his harvest.”
THE EAST CHINA MISSION
Compiled by Mr. E. J. Anderson
A T the time o f compiling this report the Chinese have just finished
celebrating their N ew Year.
The East China M ission has passed
through several deep shadows during the year so that the present feeling
o f happiness and good will as we look toward the future has come through
tribulations.
W e hope that fo r you who read this report the sunny side
will seem all the brighter because it is such a great contrast to the
shadows.
POLITICAL DISCOURAGEMENT
N o one who has not spent the last five or six years in China can ade­
quately realize the discouragement that comes to us as we look at the
political situation.
A t the beginning o f each one o f the five or six years
we have all hoped that during that year surely China would be setting her
house in order and unification would come.
year we were
sure,
A t the beginning o f the last
almost positive, that great day had arrived, but
here have been civil war, bloodshed, the destruction o f villages and cities
by bandits, the capture o f missionaries and foreigners, and all o f the petty
bickerings that have been present in the development o f affairs o f the
new republic.
D o you wonder that we become discouraged?
A dded to
these difficulties has been the continued control o f the government at
Peking by self-seeking politicians who
have not hesitated to use any
means to keep honest and efficient men from having a share in the govern­
ment.
Y es, the political situation looks gloomy, but “ hope springs eternal,”
and we are hoping that the new year will see a large number o f these
problems solved.
W e believe we can see a larger proportion o f trained,
good men entering positions o f importance.
A n d so, while our hopes
in the past have not been realized, we do not face the future with hope­
lessness, for we believe that China is on her way to take her place with
nations who have fairly honest and efficient governments.
W ith governors
here and there showing evidence o f real love o f country, with a Christian
general taking his place in the councils o f military officials, with a growing
tendency to attempt to secure honest and educated officials for cabinet
positions, there are reasons to believe that a better day is dawning.
FAM INE AT OUR DOORS
Famines
have
become
almost
commonplace
in China,
but
Chekiang
province, in which all but one o f the stations o f the East China Mission
are located, has been in the past comparatively free from famine.
The
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past year, however, has brought home to us real famine conditions and has
shown us the impoverished condition o f the people at our doors.
L . C. H ylbert o f Ningpo has seen much o f this suffering.
Rev.
“ T he floods o f
last spring,” he writes, “ were terrible, and in addition several severe
typhoons wrought great destruction.
T he road leading to our church at
Siao W o n g M iao is elevated above the surrounding country, yet in the
trees along the road, higher than one’ s head, bits o f straw are lodged
marking the height o f the water.
T h e rice fields are in an appalling con­
dition, the farmers getting only one-third o f a normal harvest.
O f five
hundred homes in M o Tsung, form erly considered a comparatively wealthy
town in a fertile valley, three hundred homes were destroyed, hundreds
o f people were drowned and hundreds o f others are homeless and living
under the crudest kind o f straw sheds.
In Chusan, where the Baptists
are responsible for the missionary work, literally hundreds o f people are
homeless and starving.
A
most thorough-going survey has shown that
there are at least 300,000 destitute persons in Chekiang province.
are many cases o f actual need among our church-members.”
story o f
disaster and destruction
comes
from
Rev. A .
Shaohsing and from Rev. A . I. Nasm ith o f H uchow .
There
T h e same
F . U ffo rd
of
M iss Stella Relyea
writes from Kinhwa that thieving and robbery abound everywhere in the
country, some o f it in desperation because o f lack o f food.
Som e o f our missionaries in addition to their already heavy schedules
have been called upon to serve on the famine relief committees and have
discovered Chinese officials ready to rob the starving people in order to
fill their own coffers.
It is true there is some light even in this gloom,
for it has shown the difference between Christians and non-Christians in
the administration o f famine relief funds and has brought opportunities
to missionaries as well as Christian pastors to assist in the w ork o f
relieving the needy and thus has opened another door o f approach.
DEPLETION OF T H E STAFF
For the last few years not many new workers have come to the East
China M ission, and the serious illness o f a large number o f our staff has
made the burden especially, heavy to bear during the past year.
D r. and
M rs. C. F. M acK enzie were forced to return to America in September
due to health reasons and the great strain under which they had been
working during the last tw o or three years.
T heir going was a distinct
loss that we must feel for a long time to come.
The ill-health o f M r.
Hylbert which necessitates the return o f Air. and M rs. Hylbert to Am erica
this coming June, the continued illness o f M rs. F. J. W h ite which has
made
Mabee,
necessary her return, and that o f M rs. R . D. Stafford, M rs. F. C.
M iss
Emilie
Schultz,
shadow over all the rest o f us.
and
M iss
Evelyn
Speiden
have
cast
a
It is only because o f the courage, faith,
and indomitable spirit o f those most immediately concerned that they are
able to say, “ W e must carry on.”
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FINANCIAL DEPRESSION
T h e financial depression is also a famine, a famine almost as much
beyond control as that caused by the typhoon and storms in East China.
Our hearts have gone out in sympathy and prayer to those at home who
have been working day and night to raise the necessary funds, and this
giving o f our sympathy and prayer has made us realize that our own
burdens are being borne by those at home as well as by us.
It would be
a false optimism, however, that would not recognize how disastrous this
financial depression has been in its effect on some o f our work.
M any o f the day-schools in our mission have had to be closed, the
grade o f others has been lowered, and because o f this reduction in elemen­
tary school w ork as well as the lack o f financial resources, all supervision
o f these schools has had to be given up.
from
America a few years
ago
M r. Loh Z-ying, who returned
especially prepared
for
this kind o f
w ork and was giving splendid service, had to be transferred to other
work.
Thus the advance secured through three or four years o f strenuous
effort had to be given up.
L on g cherished plans have had to be forgotten
or carried out with the greatest difficulty.
I suppose no one at home can
imagine what visions the N ew W o rld M ovem ent put into the minds and
hearts o f those engaged in school work, what pictures it gave to our
school principals o f good buildings, o f adequate equipment, and o f en­
larged capacity to care for the many boys and girls who were anxious
to avail themselves o f the opportunities.
T o have these hopes disappointed
and in addition to see progress already made cancelled— this has had a
discouraging effect upon those o f us who are in school work.
W ith
regard to evangelistic work, Rev. A . F . U fford o f
Shaohsing
writes, “ In order to meet this retrenchment in funds it has been necessary’
to substitute cheaper chapels in some places fo r better ones.”
It has
also, been necessary to remove support fo r day-schools which have long
been held in connection with the chapels and which have been important
points o f contact for the preachers.
But o f all the evangelistic work, the
community centers in Hangchow and Ningpo, being most recently begun,
have suffered most seriously from the cut in appropriations.
During the
year or two o f their existence these centers had been extending their in­
fluence in the most remarkable way, meeting definite needs in their re­
spective communities and proving to be real means o f evangelization.
Rev.
C. L . Brom ley o f Ningpo and Rev. J. V . Latimer o f H angchow are still
carrying on valiantly in spite o f greatly reduced resources.
In the medical w ork the retrenchment is certainly felt.
The maternity
department planned for and urgently needed in the Shaohsing hospital
cannot materialize.
F or the lack o f two or three hundred dollars the
hospital there also has to go without an isolation ward.
The hospital at
Ningpo is on the eve o f an astounding development in Chinese support,
but it involves support by the H om e Boards as well.
T he hospital at
Kinhwa, in order to do its work effectively, needs additional appropriations,
and they are not forthcoming and cannot be.
T he hospital at Yangtzepoo,
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because o f the fact that it has been self-supp.orting in the past but needs
funds if it is to expand, must face the possibility not only o f standing
still but possibly losing its present gains.
The union hospital at H uchow
is in very serious need o f additional funds, and yet we see no possibility
o f their forthcoming.
M r. Nasm ith sums up the financial situation in all missionary work
when he writes from H u ch ow : “ T h e financial situation at home is ever
before us as a dread specter always saying ‘ N o ’ to every cherished hope
o f advance, and ever there is the talk o f m oving the family, o f closing
the boys’ school, saving needed dollars, crippling us as a station.
We
would like to be sensible and Christian about it all, but in spite o f our
efforts it affects us, our spirit, and the verve o f our work.”
I t is in truth a dark burden, and only those who are on the field and
have actually been through these experiences can rightly appreciate how
it has brought us at times to despair and also to a recognition o f our
dependence on God fo r the securing o f real results in our work.
ENCOURAGING PROGRESS
In spite o f the discouraging gloom, the year 1922 will always be remem­
bered as an epoch-making year in the history o f mission w ork in East
China.
T h e events described below have not only been lamps, they have
been whole suns in themselves, and it is because we have had these
experiences that we in East China have a deep abiding jo y and faith in
the progress o f the kingdom o f God.
1. The National Christian Conference.
The National Christian C onfer­
ence, held in Shanghai last Ma\r, was the most remarkable event in the
history o f Christian work in China.
O ver 1,000 delegates, half o f whom
were Chinese, met to consider the w ork o f the church o f Christ in China,
and out o f their deliberations came a spirit o f consecration and unanimityon what is the great message o f the gospel, that we believe will affect the
entire history o f Christian missions in China.
T he visits o f Secretary
J. H . Franklin and Rev. and M rs. Carey W . Chamberlin to East China,
which were made in connection with this National Christian Conference,
were also o f great inspiration to us.
T o be able to show these representa­
tives o f the Board our w ork and present the needs to their very eyes was
an opportunity that all o f us appreciated.
T he inspiration that they them­
selves brought to us was, o f course, a bright spot in the gloom which the
knowledge o f decreased financial resources engendered.
2. G row th
in Chinese Leadership.
W h ile
Doctor
Franklin and
M r.
Chamberlin were with us definite provision was made for turning over
to native leadership the w ork o f our entire Kinhwa station.
None o f us
who had the privilege o f being present at the meeting where this decision
was made will soon forget the deep emotions that were stirred as we took
this epoch-making step in the history o f our mission w ork in East China.
It is hard to realize that now for the first time the responsibility fo r the
work o f an entire station, including medical, educational, and evangelistic
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work, is being carried by leaders o f the native Christian church.
It was
with deep gratitude to God and earnest prayers for success that the new
step was taken.
T he experiment, if such it may be called, is still in the
early stages, but the reports o f the w ork there and o f the progress being '
made lead us to the belief that it will succeed and thus be a big step in
the direction in which all o f our mission work must go— that o f being done
by the indigenous church.
Th e increased efficiency of our pastors and the addition to their ranks
o f men trained in our seminary also give us real hope for the future.
T he setting aside o f Air. T . C. Bau to be secretary o f the native association
promises considerable advance not only in self-direction but also in selfsupport.
The coming to the college o f Dr. L oh Ling-su with a Ph. D . in
education, a product o f the college returning to his A lm a M ater, is another
event which promises greater leadership in our educational work.
M r.
S. C. L o ’s work in Kinhwa has also given us great hope for the future
possibilities o f w ork done for the Chinese by the Chinese.
A t the Huchow Baptist A cadem y one o f our graduates is giving splendid
service as vice-principal.
The Shaohsing girls’ school has had a very
good year under the leadership o f M iss N yi, a graduate of Ginling College.
M r. T . K . V an has just gone to Am erica for further study after having
ably filled the position o f acting principal in Ningpo during M r. F. C.
W ilc o x ’s furlough.
M r. T . C. W u , a graduate o f Rochester Theological
Seminary and one o f our own Shanghai Baptist College graduates, is doing
splendid work, under the most up-hill conditions, in our Baptist church in
Shanghai.
A n d so the list might go on indefinitely, showing how the
Chinese, trained in our own schools, are stepping into places o f leadership.
Before many years we should be able to see the effects o f this native
leadership.
3.
T he G rowth o f Christian Influence.
fluence o f
Testimonies o f the growing in­
Christian w ork among the Chinese come from all quarters.
M r. Latimer, referring to the straw vote solicited by the W eek ly R eview
o f the F ar East on the twelve greatest living Chinese, sa y s: “ It is
inter­
esting to note that o f the twelve receiving the highest votes seven are
Christians.
In the second group o f twelve, four are Christians.
Being a
straw vote this proves nothing, but it does show that the reading public
is not afraid to
Christians.
express itself
concerning men even though
they are
D r. Sun Y a t Sen leads them all, but is followed very closely
by Gen. Feng Yu-hsiang, the Christian general about whom so much has
been written.”
M r. U fford, in writing about famine relief work, says,
“ It is a testimony to the sterling qualities o f the Chinese Christians that
the magistrates who are in close touch with all classes and conditions o f
people insist on having Christians go out to assist in the distribution o f
flood relief.”
In referring to the combined graduating exercises o f boys’
schools in Shaohsing, Rev. David Gustafson mentions that the district
magistrate, the leading official o f a district with over 1,000,000 population,
was present to make an address and give each graduate an extra gift.
H e is entering his own boy in the Baptist higher primary school this fall.
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4. Com m unity Centers as Beacon Lights.
M ISSIO N SOCIETY
In Hangchow the new com­
munity center has been open seven days in the week.
A total number o f
51,356 people have made use o f the center during the year.
$2,400, o f which $1,400 was raised in H angchow.
The budget is
A m o n g the activities
the follow ing list may be significant: A n English night-school, a readingroom, a library, a game room, a boys’ club, a literary society, lectures
in science, religious talks to the night-school, the weekly prayer-meeting
of
the church, evangelistic preaching, socials and entertainments,
meetings, and committee meetings.
staff
A ll or m ost o f these and, in some
cases, more activities are pursued in Ningpo and at our Yangtzepoo social
center.
In Ningpo the social center has forty-three students in its day-
school, twenty regular students in the free night-school, thirty-four in
the English night-school, and a daily attendance o f from forty to fifty
regular readers in the reading-room.
Last spring the campaign to raise
$100 from Chinese friends for a kindergarten was so successful that in
September the kindergarten was opened with an enrolment o f thirty-three.
T h e daily vacation Bible school had an enrolment o f eighty.
D uring the
early fall M r. Bromley reports a Bible study campaign in union with the
Presbyterians and the Y . W . C. A . which enrolled 528 young men in classes
to cover a twelve-weeks’ course o f study.
Yangtzepoo, the oldest o f our
community centers, has so commended itself to the community that it is
almost self-supporting, and plans are under way to provide a plant adequate
for its growing needs.
H uchow has no regular social center but has in­
augurated a very successful piece o f social service— “ a bathroom warmed
with an oil-heater where the old-fashioned Saturday bath o f New England
fam e can in a small way become a transplanted institution.”
M r. Nasmith
sa y s : “ It is a great satisfaction to see the women and children at church
Sunday morning with clean faces.
Cleanliness being next to godliness,
we are hoping that this may become a settled habit.”
5. T he Annual C onference.
T h e annual conference was held this year
in October in Hangchow at the nationally famous W e s t Lake.
environment was m ost beautiful.
ference they had ever attended.
The natural
M any said that it was the best con­
Mingled with the reports o f closed schools
and retrenchments was a note o f consecration and faith, and the whole
spirit o f the conference was one o f determination to make more strenu­
ous efforts than ever to extend the kingdom o f God in China.
Those
who have spent many years o f service in China say that there has never
before been a conference which has brought to us such unity and enthu­
siastic devotion to the task, and it has been one o f the features o f our
w ork that has enabled us to adopt the watchword “ Be o f good cheer,
for I have overcome the w orld.”
PROGRESS IN EDUCATION
N o one could watch the graduating classes from our mission schools
without being deeply thrilled with the promise held out to China and to
Christ’s kingdom in the lives o f these graduates, for most o f them are
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Last June the union girls’ high school o f H angchow graduated
a record class as to size— twenty-four— small compared with classes in
America, but fo r China it is very large.
“ T w o o f them have gone to
college,” M iss Ellen J. Peterson writes, “ two to the Bible teachers’ train­
ing-school, and twenty are teaching.”
M iss Relyea writes from Kinhwa :
“ W e graduated twenty last June— ten from the higher and ten from the
lower classes.
These girls are all looking forw ard to higher education
and spheres o f usefulness.
w ork o f our whole district.
W e have a unique place in the educational
O ur school is regarded as the best in this
district and we have the confidence and regard o f all our educational
leaders.”
HANGCHOW
M iss Peterson writes from H a n g ch o w : “ A t the union girls’ school the
raising o f about $4,000 for an outdoor gymnasium is an outstanding event.
T h e girls in school raised about $500, and Governor Lu o f
Province gave $3,500.
Chekiang
Another event is the appropriation o f the last
third o f the money needed for a dormitory, the share o f one o f the
cooperating missions, so that we can begin building.”
•
A t W ayland Academ y the enlarged plant has been filled to overflowing.
Rev. E . H . Cressy has had heavy responsibilities as secretary o f the East
China Educational Association
W ayland.
in addition to his w ork as principal of
T he enlargement o f the plant has been due to the use o f $8,500
gold which had been designated to W ayland some time ago and which was
used to buy additional land and remodel some o f the older buildings.
with the consequent increase in enrolment makes
W ayland
This
about the
largest school in the mission outside Shanghai Baptist College.
A
local
campaign succeeded in securing funds amounting to $5,000 for an out­
door gymnasium.
HUCHOW
T he boys’ academy has had the largest enrolment in its history with the
third year o f high school added for the first time.
W ith the return o f
one o f its own graduates, M r. Shi, as vice-principal, a great deal o f the
burden o f administration has been taken from M r. Clayton’s shoulders.
A t the time o f reductions in appropriations, the teachers, students, and
friends o f the school rallied to its support, giving gifts o f money and
service that meant real sacrifice.
The girls’ school has launched a campaign to open a junior high school
that will meet a very definite need.
Inasmuch as no additional funds are
available from home, it has been necessary to secure local support, and
M iss Edna Shoemaker is hoping to have a much better school with no
additional outlays.
The woman’s school finds itself constantly increasing its field o f useful­
ness.
W om en are coming from all parts o f the province to attend.
Due
to a g ift from M rs. M . G. Shirk who recently visited the field, an addi­
tional dormitory is being erected which will provide for the much needed
expansion.
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SHAOHSING
W ritin g about the boys’ school M r. Gustafson says: “ L ast year I re­
ported the rapid growth in enrolment fo r Y u ih Dzae.
T h e total atten­
dance fo r the first term o f 1921-1922 was 108, and for the follow ing term
145.
F or the first term o f 1922-1923 we can report 159 pupils in attendance.
This last figure could easily have been much larger, fo r we turned away
twenty applicants to our middle school department alone, something quite
new for us.”
M iss Leila B. D roz reports concerning the girls’ school: “ M iss N yi
and I have so arranged the schedule o f classes that we are both free on
W ednesday afternoons to visit the homes o f our schoolgirls.
W e have
been very cordially and kindly received by the mothers, and I am sure that
we have made contacts that will bring results in larger enrolment.
In
order to train the girls and teach them poise and dignity, we have made
each class responsible for entertaining and serving their mothers at an
afternoon tea.”
From the industrial school M iss M arie A . Dow ling reports: “ M o st of
our 109 workers live in their own homes, coming once a month fo r new
w ork which is returned the follow ing month.
services quite faithfully.
Nearly all attend church
T h e Christians attend every Sunday and non-
Christians rarely less than twice a month.
In addition each woman has
individual attention from the Bible-woman and o f ten •special teaching on
work-distribution days.”
M iss D roz says o f the woman’s sch o o l: “ W h en the twenty-five per cent,
cut came to our mission, it was thought best to omit the appropriation for
the wom an’s school, but M rs. Goddard was determined to continue for at
least six months even without help, from mission funds.
T he teachers
arose to the emergency and offered their services to help carry on the
work, and they have taken on additional hours without extra pay.”
K IN H W A
T he boys’ middle school in K inhw a has the largest enrolment o f its
history— nearly eighty-five.
W ith the help o f M r. S. C. L o who returned
from Am erica a year ago and that o f M r. Dai, the principal, it has made
rapid advance in efficiency o f instruction as well as in enrolment.
Miss
Relyea writes regarding the girls’ sch o o l: “ O ur school has been privileged
to fill quite a large place in our E ast China mission.
Every one o f our
Christian hospitals has one or more o f our girls in training, and the union
nurses’ training-school claims four.
Several o f our girls are finishing the
high-school w ork in the union girls’ high school in Hangchow.
W e have
had 100 pupils in the school this term— fifty in the higher classes and the
same number in the lower classes.”
NINGPO
W ith the return o f M r. W ilc o x to the boys’ school and the maturing
o f plans for union, the Ningpo boys’ academy is entering on a new stage
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T he presence o f M r. and M rs. Benjamin and M r. and
M rs. W ilc o x gives a standing to the school that invites the enrolment
o f students from all over the province, and Ningpo A cadem y is continu­
ing to have the experience o f turning away from its doors boys by the
score.
In cooperation with the Presbyterians, Ningpo Baptist Academy
will take care o f the junior middle-school students, while the Presbyterian
plant will be used for the senior middle-school students.
Teachers will
be interchanged between the two schools which are on opposite banks o f
the river.
T he Ningpo union girls’ school has become a reality, and the second
term o f this school year is starting in the new building erected beside our
Baptist girls’ school.
M iss Dora Zimmerman has been elected principal of
the union high school, and M iss V iola H ill is caring for the administrative
work o f the higher primary department as well as the woman’s school
during M iss M ary
Cressey’s absence.
M iss
F. Jane Lawrence writes,
“ Although many unlooked-for happenings have dissipated some o f our
energies this past term, still I believe our girls have come through these
experiences chastened and more ready for unselfish service.”
TINGHAI
M r. Hjdbert writes concerning the development at T in g h a i: “ Y o u have
heard about Tinghai where the Chinese gentry have done so splendidly in
establishing our academy.
M any have had a share in this work.
The
school was opened at the beginning o f the spring term, 1922, in the new
buildings on the new campus.
F or this plant W e st Virginia Baptists con­
tributed about $30,000, the Chinese gentry contributed $42,000 for buildings
and established an endowment fund o f about $200,000.
are completed.
the
Five large buildings
The school has twenty-two teachers and 528 students in
day-school and about
100 in the night-school,
thus becoming the
largest school in the East China mission lower than college grade.”
SHANGHAI BAPTIST COLLEGE
Coeducation at this well-known institution is reported by M iss Leontine
J. D a h l: “ In the spring o f 1922 seven young women were temporarily
housed in the old science department classrooms on the third floor o f Y ates
H a ll.
D uring the summer it was thought possible to provide fairly ade­
quate accommodations for as many as twenty young women.
Applications
came in until it was found imperative to take twenty-five, and the actual
enrolment was finally twenty-seven.”
China fo r w om en !
M rs. Mabee w rites: “ A new day in
The boys welcome the girls here most heartily, and
while there is no social life o f the kind possible in America, we believe
that a genuine, mutual respect which grow s by working together will
lay’ the basis for friendship between the sexes in the years to come.”
President W'hite reports: “ The faculty now numbers about fifty while
the student body is 565— 300 o f them in the high school and 265 in the
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Tw enty-tw o o f the latter are girls, and about twenty are students
fo r the ministry, the largest number in any Christian college in China or
perhaps in any Baptist mission college in the w orld.”
In one room in the
new science building the w ork o f the Shanghai industrial research labora­
tory is carried on.
H ere with modern equipment two Chinese students are
doing intensely interesting w ork on China’s industries— textiles, coal, oil,
and minerals.
The college now boasts o f the best educational department
o f any mission college in China.
W e are proud to have received this word
o f commendation from several o f the members o f the Educational C om ­
mission.
The return from Am erica o f M r. L oh Ling-su, Ph. D ., already
referred to, has greatly strengthened the staff o f the department.
The
new
new
science building has been
completed
during the year.
The
academy building, the g ift o f the Southern Board, is nearing comple­
tion.
T h e new woman’ s building is half-w ay completed and will be one
o f the finest on the campus.
The money for the wom an’s kindergarten
normal building is in hand, and construction will begin very soon.
Shanghai Baptist College this year furnished sixty o f the 300 young
men and young women students who constituted the Shanghai community
chorus.
T his group gave a Christmas concert in the town hall before an
audience o f several thousand people, and the college is proud to have been
able to furnish so large a proportion o f the members o f the chorus and
the leader.
T h e concert was a splendid tribute to the w ork o f mission
schools in stimulating love for and ability to sing Christmas songs.
EVANGELISTIC W O R K
M ore thrilling than any graduation day is decision day, the day when
young men and women in our schools make definite decisions fo r Jesus
Christ.
T h e follow ing extracts from missionary reports reveal the jo y
and the hope in the evangelistic achievements o f the year.
M iss P eterson :
“ Last April M iss M argaret K in g o f Yangchow came and held meetings
for three days with good results.
M any o f the Christian girls were helped,
and thirty-seven girls and one teacher made definite decisions to follow
Christ.”
D octor L atim er: “ O n Christmas night I had the privilege o f
baptizing sixteen young m e n ; then the last day o f the year I baptized
twenty-nine.
During these last tw o weeks more than 100 applied to our
two churches fo r baptism.”
M r. N a sm ith : “ In one o f our country churches
the pastor has a list o f seventy homes registered as Christian.
‘ I do not count individuals but hom es.’
showing
how
the present
H e says,
O n the chapel wall is a diagram
membership has
individual, the true line o f apostolic succession.
spread
from
individual
to
It is no insignificant thing
that in all these homes the people have taken down or publicly burned the
idols in avowal o f their turning to the true God.”
M r. N asm ith also tells
o f the baptism o f five men in a stream that had its source in a mountain
famed for its lofty temple and well-trained priests.
M iss R e ly e a : “ Eleven
o f the girls in the Chung M ei school decided for Christ.”
M iss H ill:
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meeting, and ten women voluntarily offered to give their hearts and lives
to Christ.”
M r. G u stafson : “ Eight boys graduating last June all came
from non-Christian homes, but all were Christians and members o f the
Baptist church by the time o f graduation, the last one being baptized last
spring.”
M iss D r o z : “ Tw enty-one o f our girls were baptized last fall,
and several others will be ready soon.”
Doctor G oddard: “ During the
year, two have been baptized who first became interested in Christianity
while in the hospital.”
M r. M a b e e : “ The religious life and w ork at
Shanghai Baptist College have given us cause for great thankfulness.
In
addition to regular religious services, we had, as usual, evangelistic meet­
ings each o f the two semesters.
Some fifty students were baptized.”
CHINESE ASSUMING RESPONSIBILITY
It is most encouraging to us that the Chinese are themselves getting
under the load and helping to lift.
testify.
from
A s evidence the follow ing events will
T he swimming-pool at Shanghai Baptist College was constructed
funds raised by the students themselves under the leadership o f
Doctor Chen.
Doctor Latimer writes that his night-school Bible class
has just considered opening a free school for the poor in their neighbor­
hood.
go
“ It is fine,” he says, “ to watch these men o f wealth and position
down night after
people.”
night to
teach the less
fortunate o f
their
own
In H uch ow district a native preacher who had intended to re­
sign is still continuing to help, receiving no salary from the mission and
accepting onfy the contributions from the church-members.
the kfhdergarten at the community center was
contributions from the Chinese.
In Ningpo
made possible through
M r. U fford writes that the Shaohsing
city church raised $45 for Christmas purposes, out o f which $32 went to
flood sufferers and $10 to home mission w ork in Yunan, only three dollars
being spent on the local celebration.
H e also reports an increase o f six­
teen per cent, in local contributions over the previous year, and that from
church-members many o f whom were affected by the flood.
T he funds
for the Tinghai boys’ school were raised for the most part from the
Chinese.
In
Shanghai our Baptist church was
forced
to give up its
rented quarters during the year and move into a much more expensive
building involving the raising o f a special fund o f $2,600 in order to
secure and refit the new quarters.
This church with less than one hundred
members on its own initiative and responsibility has succeeded in carrying
this staggering burden without special assistance.
W h en will this church
with its splendid, educated membership and its enthusiastic, devoted leader,
Pastor T . C. W u , receive the help for the new plant it so urgently needs?
MEDICAL W O R K
Throughout the mission medical missionaries are becoming impressed
with the need for doing their w ork in the most modern, efficient fashion.
This is with no thought o f making the message less evangelistic, but
because it gives a greater opportunity for the gospel message to reach a
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A t H uchow the hospital building, made possible by co­
operation between the Northern Baptists, the Southern Methodists, and
the China Medical Board, is in process o f construction, and D octor Leach,
who is our representative there, is looking forw ard to great advance in
medical w ork as a result o f the added equipment and capacity which this
new plant will make possible.
F rom Shaohsing D octor Goddard reports: “ T h e one outstanding feature
in the w ork o f the hospital for the year covered by this report is the
building o f a third story and attic on the original main building.
T his
has added about 7,000 square feet to the original capacity o f the hospital.
It is a pleasure to report that at last the X -r a y is in w orking order.
M ore significant o f the growth o f the institution was the graduation last
June o f our first class o f nurses.
It marks the consummation o f what
we have been striving toward for years.
just now is securing an adequate staff.
T he greatest problem before us
Last fall several candidates were
available, but on account o f the financial stringency the board felt unable
to send even one.”
A t Kinhwa the hospital has been entirely in charge o f Doctor Shen and
Doctor Liang who have worked in the past with such efficiency in coopera­
tion with D octor M acK enzie.
M iss H . N . Smith o f Ningpo was trans­
ferred to Kinhwa this fall to help in the work o f the wom an’s department,
and M iss Lillian N . van H o o k has been serving as secretary and treasurer
for all departments o f w ork there.
The whole mission is watching with
the greatest interest tfie w ork that these splendidly trained Chinese are
doing in this hospital and in the religious work in Kinhwa.
^
T he Ningpo hospital is facing the most startling development o f any o f
our hospitals from the point o f view o f securing Chinese support.
There
are excellent prospects o f securing anywhere from fifty to one hundred
thousand dollars from interested Chinese who see in the hospital work a
remarkable manifestation o f unselfish service to their country.
I f these
plans mature it will mark a new day fo r medical w ork in East China.
D octor Thom as and D octor Grant have been w orking under tremendous
pressure to carry on the ordinary w ork o f the hospital as well as meet and
cultivate these contacts with the Chinese gentry.
D r . J. W . Decker, since his return from the language school last M ay,
has
found the w ork o f
the Yangtzepoo
hospital
making greater and
greater demands and gaining a remarkable support from the community.
A ll the funds fo r maintaining the hospital and paying the staff have been
secured from industries located in this community.
T h e problem o f giv­
ing aedquate service and providing fo r the various needs which are con­
stantly arising, seems to involve the securing o f cooperation with the large
St. Luke’s hospital established by the Episcopal Mission.
AT TH E UN IVER SITY OF NANKING
Th e University' o f Nanking in which we are cooperating in the depart­
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petus in its agriculture work in the g ift o f a large sum o f money from
the international
famine
relief committee.
T his
sum will be used to
develop agricultural training in intermediate schools as well as colleges in
this part o f China.
T h e language school has found itself very badly cramped for room,
and plans are under w ay for the construction o f new dormitories.
D r.
J. W . Decker, who is in his second year o f language study in Nanking,
speaks thus o f his work in teaching a Bible class composed o f students
from various schools: “ I find the Chinese students an earnest group, very
seriously interested in anything W estern which may benefit them spiritually
or otherwise.
They are not hurrying head over heels to become Chris­
tians, but they want to learn about Christ.
Instead o f the ten or more new missionaries that we usually have study­
ing in Nanking, Doctor and M rs. Decker, M iss W ebster, and M iss Schultz
o f the W o m a n ’s Board are the only Baptist missionaries there at the present
time.
This is due to the financial stringency at home which has made the
sending o f more missionaries impossible.
CONCLUSION
In this brief journey through the lights and shadows o f our mission work
in East China, no doubt the lights have been more prominent than the
shadows, and this is as it should be, o f course.
T he East China M ission
is located in the most progressive part o f China.
T he mission believes that it can face the future with confidence.
God
has blessed us bountifully with young men and women who are coming
through our educational institutions and going out into the fields for ser­
vice.
W e have come through gloom and heavy shadows but we believe
that the foundation w ork that has been laid for the coming o f
these
splendid young men and women to take up the task assures the continuance
o f the work.
W ith the spirit o f the unconquered Christ and his promises,
we know that the way leads onward.
THE SOUTH CHINA MISSION
Compiled by A. F. Groesbeck, D. D.
T V T J R IT IN G a report for the South China M ission for the year 1922 is
on the whole a delightsome task.
G od’s truth is marching on.
In spite o f cuts and typhoons,
T h e first National Christian Convention was
held in Shanghai, and to this not only the mission but the Chinese churches
sent delegates and are represented
on the National
which carries on until the next conference meets.
Christian
Council
T h e three missions o f
the Society held their first national conference and the organization will
in all probability become permanent.
Our schools also sent their delegates
to the Conference o f the W o r ld ’s Christian Student Federation at Peking.
Thus at a glance we see not only how the Christian forces in China as a
whole are meeting the challenge o f the hour but also how the Christian
forces o f the South China M ission are uniting in the task o f building the
republic into the kingdom o f heaven.
TH E POLITICAL SITUATION
Politics in China remain a jum ble o f conflicting interests.
F or some
time it looked as though the questions at issue would be fought out along
the line o f “ North and South,” but follow ing the breaking up o f the
N orth into two parties, the South also took sides in the matter, which
divided it into two hostile camps.
Sun Y a t Sen’s undefeated troops have
made their w ay into Fokien and are fighting fo r a foothold there to
begin operations fo r the retaking o f Canton.
China today has more sol­
diers under arms than any other country in the world and she is not
attacked or even threatened by a foreign foe.
Bribery and squeeze were
never so universal and never so brazen as today.
For this great army
and for this “ squeeze pidgen,” the people, in the last analysis, must pay
the bills.
The man wrho knows only the political phase o f China is certain to be
pessimistic about her future.
T he man who knows the people, whether he
be minister, missionary, trader, or consul is not ready to give up hope o f
her redemption still.
W h ile we o f this latter class are aware o f this
political death from above, w e are cognizant o f the new life beginning to
manifest itself.
A s life is stronger than death, so we are not worried
about the ultimate issue.
From hundreds o f missionary schools and also
from government institutions, there are pouring out into the Chinese nation
thousands o f
ideals.
young lives impregnated with high moral and Christian
T hey are in most cases y^oung men, and they are finding it difficult
to gain footing, and when footing is once gained, they are finding their
strength insufficient to stand out against the forces opposed to them.
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kaleidoscopic changes in the Peking government show this but notwith­
standing the difficulties mentioned, when Shantung negotiations are to be
put through or Chang T so-lin is to be driven back from the gates o f the
city, when a premiership or other difficult position is to be filled, Chris­
tian men must be called up,on, or the cause fails.
A newspaper published
in Shanghai recently took a straw vote to ascertain w ho might be con­
sidered the twelve leading men in China.
Forty names received votes,
and out o f these, twelve were avowedly Christian.
T his is the more
striking when it is remembered that the paper is a non-Christian periodical.
M oral force is still the greatest power in China, and he who makes his
appeal to that force will find himself on the winning side in the end.
THE STUDENT CLASS
Students are favorable to Christianity and we have our greatest oppor­
tunity for evangelism with them, but we must remember that few o f
them are interested in our W estern interpretation o f
teaching.
In
our
Inter-M ission
Christ’s life and
Conference, a returned
Chinese
from
A m erica sa id : “ W e want Christ but we want to interpret him in our own
way.
W e Chinese are not interested in church creeds and statements o f
Christianity.
These do not appeal to us at all.
that we want.”
It is Christ untrammelled
Several students in the audience were asked if that state­
ment represented the feeling o f the educated Chinese generally.
all replied in the affirmative.
They
I think m yself that young China will find
even the most ancient statements o f Christian truth o f value, but if they
can really get hold o f Christ himself, their interpretation o f him will be
adapted to the Chinese type o f mind and may even add to our appreciation
o f our L ord ’s unique universality.
pretation o f
But whether we like the Chinese inter­
Christ’s teaching or not, it is every day becoming more
apparent that they are going to make it, and make it without let or hin­
drance from Mission Societies.
In passing, I may say that I think this freedom o f young China from
all dogmatic trammel, with its insistence on the right, and the authority
for them o f their own interpretation o f Christ, is the ground o f much of
the present criticism that missions in China are unorthodox.
In many
cases it is rather that the Chinese, in an age o f revolution, are attempting
to give expression to opinions o f their own, than that the missionaries are
responsible for statements which do not altogether harmonize with the
traditional molds o f thought and expression.
It is impossible to introduce
real Christianity into the hearts o f a conservative people living under an
imperialistic form o f government and not have a revolution.
N o doubt
much o f value in a political and religious way has been lost through the
change.
T he Republic is still mainly an ideal far above men’s attainment,
while they flounder in a mass o f political mud, but here and there men
are getting their feet on solid ground.
It is not to be wondered at that
young China does not know exactly where to take her stand religiously.
O f course they make unwarranted statements, o f course some minds are a
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congeries o f vagaries, but some are getting hold o f the truth.
W ith true
faith in Christ, the new China can w ork out her own salvation, though
we m ay sometimes wish it were with more fear and trembling.
E V A N G E L IS T IC
R ESU LTS
T o speak more specifically o f our mission, the year shows a rather
small number o f baptisms.
But it must be recognized that just now we
are in the midst o f a time o f seed-sowing.
people been so ready to listen to our message.
has practically ceased.
Never have the thoughtful
Opposition to Christianity
W e are no longer shunned as once we were by
those who consider themselves o f some account in this world.
Students
in our schools are being permitted as never before to unite with the
church.
Although
the church still makes its appeal to the poor and
unfortunate, to the man who has failed when the odds were against him,
yet the old order changes and the church is now making the stronger
appeal to men o f better caliber, to the men who have won out.
It is the
ideal o f Christ— that he came not to be served but to serve and give his
life— that is taking hold o f men’ s minds today and God be thanked for it.
M en by the hundreds are coming to see that if the political life o f China
is to be saved in these days o f transition from the old order to the new,
China must look to the teachings o f Jesus and to the power o f his endless
life.
There has never been a greater hour in the history o f missions than
the church faces in China today.
I f the missionary movement can be
wisely directed the next few years, we may reasonably expect that the
sentiment o f the people will become predominantly Christian.
soon to say what course organized Christianity will take.
It is too
The deeper and
more vital thing is that it is coming in power upon the people o f the land.
In view o f what has been said concerning the students, it is o f interest
to note that a very large proportion o f those uniting with our churches
are found to come from
our schools, and a large percentage o f these
students seeking baptism are from our academies.
cant.
These facts are signifi­
It was only last spring that the students at Peking launched their
anti-Christian movement.
A t the outset it bade fair to sweep over the
land but time proved that there existed no such anti-Christian sentiment
as the leaders were counting upon.
Even non-Christian men came to the
defense o f mission w ork in China and o f the truth as Jesus taught it.
T h e sudden collapse o f the whole movement revealed beyond a doubt that
the students as a class are not opposed to Christianity.
A t the same time,
the fact that large numbers from higher institutions o f learning are coming
into the church, shows that students, when they come to think fo r them­
selves, are favorably disposed toward Christianity.
Although ultimately the churches will develop much more rapidly with
what may be called “ school evangelism,” the immediate result will be a
smaller number seeking admission to the churches.
T his will be especially
true o f our mission because we lack the leaders for the masses.
College
students and returned students from America ought to be able to take up
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the w ork that missionaries must lay down to such a large extent, under
the pressure o f the educational and evangelistic opportunities presented
by our schools.
I f these men who are trained in our schools will get
under the burden o f the evangelization o f their own people, they can do
it infinitely better and more successfully than we can.
EFFECTS OF REDUCED APPROPRIATIONS
I am sure it will be expected that something be said about the effects
o f cuts in appropriations.
T he cut began only last year, so the ultimate
good or evil is not to be measured very accurately at this stage.
M is­
sionary genius may be said to consist in knowing what to leave undone.'
B efore every wide-awake mission or missionary there stands a myriad
o f things that ought to be done, most o f which, from the very nature o f
the case, are impossible.
It may be regarded a wise dispensation o f P rovi­
dence that compels careful consideration o f what can be left out o f a
mission’s policy or a man’s program.
In this respect the good effects
o f the cut are already patent to the observing eye.
T he cut has perceptibly increased our love for one another and has
led us to wise self-effacement, which are distinct gains.
I am not making
any revelation o f missionary failure in love and sacrifice.
In face o f the
multitude o f things that ought to be done, when the stream o f appropria­
tions flows on steadily and is constantly deepening and widening, every
man naturally wants all he can get fo r the needs which are pressing on
his own immediate field.
But when the cut comes, we learn to bear one
another’s burdens and so fulfil the royal law o f Christ.
W e learn to deny'
ourselves in order that the highest interest o f the whole may be conserved.
T he cut helps to stir up the Christians in the grace o f liberality, but the
advantage here can be greatly exaggerated.
The wise and large-minded
are already giving well toward their lim it; the ignorant cannot see that
they should give any more though the heavens fall and are likely to set
the whole thing down as a ruse to get more money out o f them, and so
they set their minds stedfastly to oppose any such scheme.
The great
advantage is that the cut puts a brake on missionary liberality and stirs
up the Chinese leaders to seek funds inside and outside the church.
But
the fact remains that w ork for women who are not mothers o f boys and
work fo r girls does not yet in this land command large support from the
people generally.
A cut here means a cut to the quick.
It is easy to say
that the cut ought to increase Chinese support, but there is not much
sentiment in favor o f w ork for women, except on the part o f men who are
already suffering a cut in appropriations for general work.
Naturally,
to these men, the thing o f first importance is the support o f the church
as such.
It is m y opinion then that both directly and indirectly our w ork for
women is to suffer most, and this in turn will sooner or later prove to be
sapping the strength o f the church.
T h e man who becomes a Christian
is likely to find that his chief enemies, next to those in his own heart, are
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own household,
especially the women
folk.
T his
is
all
natural enough when one sees things as the Chinese themselves look at
them.
T he chief end o f woman is to produce sons fo r her lord and
master.
H e r life religiously and every other w ay is bound up in this.
I f the man becomes a Christian and has no particular desire
for
a son
to worship him after he is dead, the true end o f life is gone so far as the
w ife is concerned.
W h en the husband becomes a Christian, it takes the
very heart out o f existence for the heathen w ife.
N o t only does the
w om an feel this herself but every woman o f her acquaintance supports
the sentiment.
T his is but one glimpse into the woman’s w orld in China,
a w orld fo r which teachers and preachers are shut out but which is open
to the Bible-women.
In view o f these facts, how can a church prosper without women mem­
bers and how shall they become Christian without Bible-women to meet
their special difficulties, and how shall these Bible-women go, unless there
are funds to send them ?
R eferring again to the transitional state in
Chinese life where we find ourselves at present, this w ork fo r women
becomes doubly important and failure here is doubly disastrous.
T h e South China M ission has always held that the missionary is the
factor o f first importance in the establishment o f the kingdom o f God.
H e must have some equipment, to be sure, or there is a loss o f life and
energy.
well.
H e must have straw for his brick, if he is to build grandly and
But equipment and piles o f brick and mortar are as body without
soul, unless G od’s man be there.
Keeping men in A m erica to avoid a cut
on the field or a deeper cut there may sometimes be wise, but where,
as in South China, the force is already below the demands o f reasonable
efficiency, the move is o f doubtful expediency.
considering
the
effects
on
the
w ork,
for
T his is true when we are
it is
leaving men
without
experience in important positions where experience is the first qualifica­
tion and is breaking them.
It is leaving older men in isolated stations
without the fellowship and helpfulness so essential to doing well one’s
task and so is crippling them.
It is compelling others to stay beyond
their reasonable furlough time and is endangering their future useful­
ness fo r all time.
fields.
Even without a cut we are not planning to enter new
W e have learned to curb our ambitions to preach where Christ
has not been named, and to content ourselves with building on foundations
already laid.
It is the depletion o f our ranks by keeping men at home
and' the added number o f tasks that consequently fall to the burden of
our lot that make the cut so serious for our mission.
TYP H O O N AND TID AL W A V E
N o report to our constituency for the year 1922 would be complete with­
out giving consideration to the disastrous typhoon o f A u gu st 2.
are not uncommon in South China.
Typhoons
One or more is expected every year,
but never has one o f such violence been experienced in the history o f the
mission, and neither in the memory o f man, nor in the traditions handed
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down from preceding generations has ever one o f these typhoons been
accompanied by a so-called tidal wave.
T h e strong wind from the north fell about midnight, and most people
whose houses were left standing went to sleep, supposing that the storm
was over.
Then suddenly the wind came from the south, a terrific blast
at the rate o f one hundred miles an hour, accompanied by a downpour o f
ra in !
F or fifty miles along the coast the sea came up, in a great wave,
overwhelming the land, carrying on its crest junks, launches, and even
ocean-going steam ers!
driven wave.
N othing could withstand the force o f that w ind-
Great stretches o f sand-dunes were leveled, villages o f straw
and mud went down leaving scarcely a trace o f where they once stood.
In some places even the concrete buildings went down like houses o f
cards, leaving only their broken walls to bear silent testimony to the aw ful­
ness o f that night’s catastrophe.
In some o f these villages every living
thing perished, even the ducks and geese.
Y e t in other destroyed villages, the number who escaped is remarkable.
R o o f timbers, doors, tables, benches, beds, cupboards, trees, and even
baskets helped men to escape.
Strange as
it may seem, hundreds o f
women and children escaped in this w ay but o f these the storm took terri­
ble toll.
A village o f over five hundred has left thirty men, three women
and not a single child.
A nother village o f over three hundred is reported
to have not a single woman or child left and only a very few men.
A trip
taken through a part o f the devastated area two days after the storm has
left an impression o f horror that can never be effaced!
Terrible as was
the sight o f trees, dykes, villages, and boats torn to pieces and scattered
about as though demons had been turned loose on them, this was nothing
compared with the sight o f that ghastly human wreckage floating on the
sea or cast up and covering the shore.
T h e first reports sent out were probably accepted by the rest o f the
world as exaggerations, but more thorough investigations are proving that
we had entirely underestimated the havoc wrought.
place the loss o f life at almost 50,000.
have been entirely destroyed.
up into the hundreds.
Official reports now
N o t less than a score o f villages
The miles o f dykes protecting fields mount
Thousands o f acres o f
rice-lands and gardens
were ruined, and thousands o f people are requiring shelter, food, cloth­
ing, and help in the reclaiming o f their fields.
In all its history the mission has met with no such calamity as this.
Three years ago the earthquake wrought great damage to property, but
with one exception there was little loss o f life.
T his typhoon destroyed
ten out-station chapels and a score more are damaged to a greater or less
extent.
Four o f our preachers lost a part or all o f their families.
pastor and his family were crushed by falling walls.
of
the
churches
suffered
heavy
losses
One
M any o f the members
in business,
crops,
boats,
and
dwellings.
T h e actual cost o f replacing the mission property will be over $50,000.
A
few o f the buildings, such as the chapel at Chaoyang and “ M iddle-
march ” at Kakchieh, are almost an entire loss.
Some o f the stones and
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timbers and broken walls can be used in smaller buildings but at very
little saving.
way.
M uch o f the w ork o f reconstruction is completed or under
T h e prompt action o f the Board has helped us to hold things to­
gether and retain the confidence o f the people as well as to put shelters
over our heads.
There ought to be a read}- response to the appeal for
aid in rebuilding.
RELIEF W O R K
W ea lth y Chinese the world over, especially those o f H ongkong, Siam,
Dutch Indies, Annam , and the Straights’ Settlement, have responded liber­
ally to the call for relief.
One Chinese organization had administered over
$300,000 and has not yet finished its work.
T h e Chinese have given in
the neighborhood o f a million dollars and are still giving.
M uch o f this
money has been spent in rebuilding dykes, in the distribution o f food,
clothing, and bedding, and in the erection o f temporary shelters.
T he mission has released two o f its members, M iss M elvina Sollm an and
M r. B. L . Baker, to give their services to relief work, and they now repre­
sent the Red Cross on the International R elief Committee o f
Swatow
which has to administer $100,000 sent by the International Famine Relief
Committee o f Peking.
A t the first meeting o f the committee at Swatow,
it was voted to send word to the magistrates o f villages in the devastated
area that money was on hand for relief and that requests should be sent to
the committee.
A t a subsequent meeting when the requests for relief were
brought in, they amounted to over three million d ollars!
O f these, only
a request from the Red Cross for $17,000 and another request fo r $10,000
had been thoroughly investigated, so these were the only grants made at
the time and other claims are yet to be investigated.
M r. Baker has given most o f his time to investigating requests and to
superintending the building o f dykes.
In one district where 810 o f the
homes were down the people were asked which was more important, the
rebuilding o f their homes or the repairing o f the dykes.
T hey first said
the two were equally important but after some consideration asked that
the dykes be built first.
A t this place the Red Cross gave $20,000 for
repairing dykes, while other organizations
gave other kinds
of
relief.
T he Prince o f Siam gave $4,000 in rice which was used instead o f money
in payment for w ork on the dykes.
M iss
Sollm an’s w ork
has been
chiefly that o f
distributing clothing.
O ver $10,000 has been spent fo r cloth which has been made into garments,
one dollar’s worth o f cloth making two garments, a coat, and a pair o f
trousers.
A t first the garments were made up before given out because
the need was so great, but later the cloth was cut and then given out to
the people who made the garments themselves.
T h e requests fo r clothing
come from the head men in the village and then all claims are investi­
gated before any garments are given out.
w ork is the cooperation o f the officials.
O ne striking thing in this
In one village the head man
went with M iss Sollman from home to home to investigate requests.
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Red Cross provided the covering for them.
stitutes the bedding for one person.
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A single thick com forter con­
The magistrate who is doing this is
himself a sufferer for only one-half a room o f his home is left and five
o f his fam ily were lost.
H e has not stopped to rebuild for himself but has
given all his time and strength to the relief o f others.
H is honesty in
administration is unquestioned.
In one place a village elder was caught
making an unwarranted request.
T h e official made him come to the com­
mittee and apologize, as a warning to others.
Other members o f the mission are doing some relief work, as time will
permit.
Medicines, hundreds o f dollars’ worth, have been given out to
the people in the devastated areas.
In one village one o f our missionaries,
with funds received from the Red Cross and from the county magistrate,
undertook the reconstruction o f enough houses to shelter the people who
were left.
It was not such a large task, for out o f 245 inhabitants in the
village only ninety-five were left.
One family, living in a poorly con­
structed house, left the village early in the evening at the time o f the
storm and so was saved.
One fam ily was entirely destroyed, and o f the
remaining twenty-eight families not one escaped unbroken.
were helped to build twenty-eight rooms
room for school.
T he people
for residence and one public
This saved the village intact.
The people have plenty
o f rice land and are industrious, but without help the village would have
scattered and many fields would have been abandoned.
A ll o f this relief w ork touches the people from coolie to magistrate.
N o opportunity is lost to tell them that the w ork is done without dis­
crimination as to whether they are Christian or non-Christian, but where
the need is greatest.
In one village where our chapel is down flat, the
Red Cross has spent large sums but not one cent has gone into the chapel.
This has made its impression on the people and we are certain that when
we do rebuild the Chinese, out of their gratitude and appreciation, will
give liberally.
There is yet much to be done in the way o f relief.
N o w that the winter
is on, thousands o f people have insufficient clothing and bedding and no
shelter.
M any old people have only one suit o f clothing which means that
they are protected from the cold with but a single thickness o f cotton
cloth, and at the same time are without shelter.
In this climate people do
not freeze to death, but they die from cold and exposure just the same.
M any people will have to be helped in the rebuilding o f their homes or
the country will suffer permanently from the abandonment o f food -p roducing lands.
It is too soon even to predict what will be the final effect on our work.
Certainly the people are getting a view o f Christianity in operation that
they never had before.
M en o f all classes have come to know us as they
never could have known us had not this disaster come and drawn us to­
gether.
It is a great lesson in sacrificial service to our churches who have
all too often failed in manifesting the Christ spirit to the world.
tainly there are great possibilities before us as a mission.
us not to fail him at this hour.
Cer­
M ay God help
T H E W E S T C H IN A M ISSIO N
Compiled by E. B. Cross
GENERAL SITUATION
III I G H T I N G and rumors o f contending armies have been the usual news
in W e s t China especially during the past few months.
W ith the end
o f winter armies come forth from their winter quarters.
been under fire several times.
turbance
for
of
the
normal
life
Chengtu has
There have been some perils and much dis­
for
our
missionaries.
Rival
contenders
control o f provinces marshal their several forces to combat each
other.
T he vagabond who would
rather fight than work, the desper­
ate characters as well as political supporters o f
the rivals,
are ready
with the return o f milder weather to take the field and fight fo r their
war-lord.
work.
Fear stalks the land.
Y e t our missionaries go about their
There is little menace to the city-dwellers.
are, however, not without excitement.
opening a new school at T
.
Travels in the country
One missionary w rites: “ W e were
I must go.
W h en I asked the district
official for permission to go on this trip, he advised against it.
all preparations.
I had made
So I went to the chief military official in town, and
he immediately despatched ten men to accompany me.
The district official,
not to be outdone, despatched ten more who caught up with me on the
road.
S
So I made my rounds with twenty soldiers.
W h en I came into
, a large village, they told me an evening meeting could not be
held because o f the robber raids.
But when the soldiers came in a little
later (later than I because I was on horseback) the people put out the
notices and a large crowd cam e."
NEED FOR TRAINED LEADERSHIP
A great nation o f four hundred millions is passing through a m ost sig­
nificant period o f its history.
Gradually the new government, the new'
education, the new thought, and the new industry are permeating and
breaking up, displacing, removing, and transform ing the old order.
Here
and there reaction and even resistance may prevail for a time, but the
process cannot be stopped.
The Christian church believes that the Chris­
tian message brings the vital secret, which if given its rightful place in
the life and thought o f the people is able to lead them triumphant through
this period o f renaissance.
H o w shall we bring the power o f this mes­
sage to bear upon the great changing period so as to make fo r
progress?
gent Christian leaders.
H e r schools have failed her.
has been slow to aid her.
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real
In every department o f her life China needs leaders, intelli­
The Christian world
T h e possibility that the Christian spirit may
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become the controlling spirit o f the new day is a goal worthy o f the
greatest effort and the costliest sacrifice.
a
wonderful
opportunity
Evangelism is the key.
and
a
Christian education, then, has
correspondingly
heavy
responsibility.
T h e gospel spoken by Chinese evangelists who
know the Christian message, who have had deep religious experience,
and who can speak effectively to their countrymen will make this great
people a stronghold o f the Christian church in centuries to come.
But
evangelism will fail if there are no schools capable o f producing men to
do this very thing.
EDUCATIONAL W O R K
Our W e s t China Baptist M ission during the past year carried on one
kindergarten, tw enty-four lower primary schools, eight higher primary
schools, and one middle school.
W e have cooperated with other missions
in a middle school, in the union normal schools, one for men and another
for women, and in the Union University with its schools o f Religion,
Science, A rts, Education, and Medicine.
A
total o f 1,740 individuals o f
various ages and stages o f training have been under our influence.
W ho
can measure the Christian resources and possibilities o f these lives for
the future?
Chengtu is the center o f our union effort.
Evangelistic w ork attends
the usual routine o f university campus and hall.
Daily one hundred and
fifteen boys o f the union middle school gather for chapel.
Eight other
groups meet in different places on the campus each day under the leader­
ship o f other missions.
Once each month the whole student body meets
for a combined service in the University Administration Building.
There
is an active Student Volunteer Band and students take an active part in
various other form s o f Christian service.
The prospects at M unroe Academy, our other middle school, were not
o f the brightest as the year opened.
to leave for furlough.
M r. and M rs. M oncrieff were about
T he Chinese teacher upon whom the w ork de­
pended largely, was inclined to leave the work.
Through the power o f
her influence M rs. A nn a Salquist, who stepped into the breach, has been
able to hold the teachers to their places and to bring an excellent spirit
into the school.
T he enrolment has been increased, and a closer rela­
tionship has been developed with the lower schools o f the station.
A
special evangelistic campaign was carried through with the assistance o f
Doctor Chen, M r. Op.enshaw, and M r. Fay.
recently returned from
three years o f
The last named had but
study in America.
M any were
aroused to inquire the w ay o f salvation, and ten boys were baptized from
the schools during the year.
MEDICAL W O R K
A t Chengtu our mission has neither hospital nor dispensary; but we
cooperate with the other missions
o f the U nion University.
in the w ork o f the medical
Unfortunately D r. W .
school
R. M orse was compelled
to go to Peking for medical diagnosis and treatment himself.
T his re­
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quired an absence o f three months, and he will be obliged to return home
on furlough in the fall o f 1923.
Little by little there is developing in this
school o f medicine a body o f Chinese doctors who will go out to practise
their profession thoroughly trained in modern science.
Doctor
M orse
w rites: “ T he premedical and preclinical years can be best taught at the
U niversity where Science and A rts faculties are and where the religious
influence is strong.
It is absolutely necessary that our doctors be o f the
strongest character.
H ence the spiritual influence o f the University life is
necessary especially in the first four years o f their course o f seven years.”
There is a great need fo r more equipment at the medical school and for
the enlargement o f the faculty.
The
hospitals
Hundreds o f
are doing all
that their
accommodations
operations have been performed.
will
Vaccination
permit.
campaigns
have been carried on, health tracts have been distributed, and the dispensa­
ries have ministered to thousands.
In all cases there is cooperation be­
tween the evangelistic staff and the medical workers at the several stations.
M any o f
the patients become attendants at the mission churches, and
some follow up their interest as far as to join classes for inquirers, where
they can learn the W a y .
EVANGELISTIC W O R K
During the past year there has been an increasing emphasis placed upon
evangelism
throughout the W e s t
China Mission.
appear always in the statistics o f the churches.
T he results will not
Lives will have been
influenced which may never come forth into the open profession o f faith.
Nevertheless there have been encouraging reports from the churches o f
additions to the membership, and o f deepened moral and spiritual life.
T h e membership o f the Chengtu Baptist Church, the youngest church
in our mission, has grow n in one year from one hundred and eleven to
one hundred and fifty-five.
T his is a gain o f forty per cent.
T he aver­
age attendance at the Sunday schools has been tw o hundred and sixty.
One hundred and thirty inquirers have been enrolled in special Bible study
classes.
There has also been a vacation Bible school during the summer
season.
A valuable and efficient w ork has been done by M r. Phelps am ong the
students at the University.
M o st notable o f al| is the ordination o f
D onald Fay and his installation as pastor o f the Chengtu church.
the first ordained minister from am ong the Chinese.
H e is
Some o f the other
missions have as many as twenty ordained ministers developed from their
constituencies.
D onald Fay has spent three years at Rochester Theological
Seminary and comes back to Szchuan with a training second to none and
with a spirit for service and splendid Christian personality which will do
much to stimulate consecration to the ministry on the part o f the young
men now studying in our schools and at the University.
M r. Openshaw has not only served as secretary o f the mission during
the absence o f D r. Joseph Taylor, but has continued with earnest and
effective zeal the w ork o f general secretary for evangelism fo r Szchuan
THE
province.
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H e has traveled far and wide over the province sowing the
good seed o f the gospel.
In the fall, for example, revival meetings were
held at Suifu by M r. Openshaw.
and D r. Ch’en W a y Pin.
H e was assisted by M r. Donald Fay
A s a result one hundred and sixty men ex­
pressed a desire to study the Christian religion beside about eighty students
in the Suifu boys’ school and about thirty girls in the girls’ school who
signed cards o f decision.
Ninety outsiders have since been gathered into
inquirers’ classes, and some o f the students have shown themselves ready
fo r baptism and church-membership.
O ver two hundred and fifty men
and boys have been engaged in special inquirers’ Bible classes in Suifu.
These classes have met weekly and are quite distinct from the regular
Sunday school.
T h e largest church in the W e s t China M ission is the one at Yachow .
A total membership o f five hundred and eighty-six is reported here this
year.
T h e additions have been thirty-seven by baptism and twelve by
letter.
T he outstanding need in the evangelistic w ork is well-trained Chinese
leaders.
W e have made a good beginning, but it is only a beginning.
T h e first business o f the mission is felt to be the discovery and training
o f Chinese o f character and ability for the Christian ministry.
THE JAPAN MISSION
Compiled by Rev. J. A. Foote
A S we look back over the year 1922, we are moved with mixed feelings.
T h e year was entered upon when the results o f the W ashington Confer­
ence were being presented to the Japanese nation. W h a t the reception would
be was still uncertain.
Those who were in touch with the national life in
the country districts knew that the feverish and concerted preparations
for some eventual war had not lost their goal, and one wondered whether
the wide armament movement reaching every hamlet could be checked.
As
so many o f the missionaries in Japan are from Am erica, their at­
tempts at evangelism were viewed with suspicion as being propaganda to
emasculate the war spirit o f Japanese youth.
T h e year had not far advanced when the leader o f the Japanese dele­
gation at W ashington was in the chair o f the prime minister and the
nation committed whole-heartedly to the disarmament policies agreed upon
at the conference.
T h e fires on the burning altars o f the war-spirit had
sunken to embers ere long and we have seen the nation, o f course with
exceptions, curbing the extreme militarists.
During the year a program
o f peace has been carried out in arsenals and ship-building yards, naval
and army budgets have been cut, something entirely new in Japan, and the
expeditionary force in Siberia has been completely withdrawn, Saghalien
only being held for a settlement o f the Nikolaievsk massacre.
On Decem ­
ber 10 the Kiauchau and Tsingtau army and civil offices were turned over
to the Chinese.
T hus the close o f the year saw the fulfilment o f a reversal
o f policy.
W e note with jo y that the spirit o f the nation has become extremely
cordial toward the United States and all things American, despite the m o­
notonously intermittent attempts o f certain State legislatures in the United
States to
enact discriminatory laws
against
Orientals.
A
sane,
open,
friendly attitude toward things American is seen and felt in capital and
hamlet.
It is evidenced in the wholesale adoption o f things American,
in modern building architecture, in men's, women's, and children’s dress, in
foods, in freer social intercourse between classes and the sexes, in a care­
ful study by experts in educational and commercial and social w ork o f
American institutions.
I f the present tendency for a delightful rapproche­
ment with A m erica is checked, it will be not by the Japanese leaders and
people but by the Americans themselves.
A ll
this friendliness
aids
our evangelistic program.
Our
American
Christian missions are all democratic and their program is one o f the
greatest friendship.
T he friendly attitude o f the leaders o f the nation
toward Americans is reflected in the people themselves, and they seek
out our American homes and chapels and schools, and thus the message
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o f the Christ gains entrance to hearts and lives which are in need o f his
saving gospel.
The Christian pulpit in Japan, manned by Japanese pastors
alone, is increasingly influential in things civic and national as well as
personal.
W e view with great satisfaction the opportunity now open for
the reception o f the Christian message.
Turning to the year as it concerned our Japanese Mission, we note
several outstanding facts.
THE JOINT COMMITTEE
T h e presiding officer has been Pastor Ueyama o f our oldest Baptist
church in Japan, the Yokoham a Church.
pastors.
H e is also one o f our oldest
A s an executive, he has kept the sessions of the committee in a
high spiritual atmosphere; in the consideration o f the various problems
he has shown great Christian tact and understanding; he has facilitated
the transaction o f business; in fact, he has won all to the belief that no
one, Japanese or missionary, has been a better presiding officer o f this
important committee.
churches.
The committee has won a larger support from the
So much is this so that they ask that the work o f the women
missionaries
be represented
on
the committee
by Japanese
ladies and
women missionaries.
PLEASANT VISITATIONS FROM AMERICA
W e were pleased to have Secretary J. H . Franklin sit with us in our
Reference Committee sessions in M ay.
T he presence o f this Secretary
o f the Qoard always lifts our eyes to the large interests o f the kingdom,
and we see our corner o f the world field through his eyes as taking the
important place every field should take in the march forw ard o f the Ban­
ner of the Cross.
W e were sorry not to have Rev. Carey W . Chamberlin
at any o f our committee or conference sessions.
W e enjoyed his brotherly
and interested fellowship and his study of our individual problems.
We
trust that these same hrethren may come again soon.
PROGRESS IN BUILDING
Probably in our men’s work this has been a banner year in church build­
ing equipment.
The fine church building at Shiogama, together with a
commodious parsonage, reached completion for dedication early in the
summer.
A valued worker and his faithful w ork on a hard field have
now a real equipment for labor.
this field with pronounced
success.
Pastor and church are entering into
Immediately upon
dedication, this
church welcomed thirty-six by baptism out of ninety-eight who made a
public confession o f Christ.
T he Reference and Joint Committees view
with great satisfaction the w ork equipped and carried on in Shiogama.
T he long-sought Yotsuya church building in T ok yo stands next a busy
thoroughfare, a jo y to the eye within and without.
The Boards have
w onderfully rewarded this faithful church with this complete, substantial,
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Activities o f service much dreamed o f have been
begun with amazing success.
This church likewise has had large additions
to membership with the completion o f its new building.
B efore another
year it is expected that this equipped church, together with the new one
at Shiogama, will become financially self-supporting.
In M oriok a the w aited-for enlargement o f equipment became possible
in the fall o f the year.
U ntil the cold set in, the church building was
widened out with Sunday school rooms.
A parsonage is being built, and
the kindergarten building plans are complete and ready fo r execution.
real
missionary
house
is
also
soon to
be erected.
And
all
on
A
one
com pound!
Although not a church building, yet housing a church, Scott H a ll at
W ased a University reached completion and dedication in 1922.
this is our finest mission building to date.
Perhaps
In setting, in form , in arrange­
ment, in materials, and in execution it is an outstanding building.
It is
situated so close to W ased a that it is physically a part o f the University.
A lready it is serving a portion o f the student community day and night
and leading on that fertile student mind and heart to things pure and holy.
T h e H o vey M em orial D orm itory was completed in the fall and entered
in Novem ber.
It is o f the same style o f architecture and on the same
compound with Scott H all.
It is a model in arrangement fo r Japanese
school dormitories.
In T on o, M iss Annie S. B uzzell after many years o f fruitful labor, has
begun a new w ork and has been seeing her plans for this country town
materialize in w ood and tile and mortar.
H e r new building will house
herself and workers, as well as a kindergarten.
W'e are grateful to the
W o m a n ’s Board for this equipment for M iss Buzzell.
In Juso, Osaka, the Jubilee Building for Japan, given by the Northwest
District, has reached completion and now awaits a budget to open its three
stories o f commodious rooms fo r work fo r women and children, boys and
girls, youth and men.
T his building too will be a church meeting-place
for a season at least, if not fo r longer.
By those who have come to see the
building since its completion, it is praised for its arrangement and execu­
tion and its harmony with the other three buildings o f the Bible W o m e n ’s
Training School.
It is to be appropriately named “ T he M ead Christian
Center ” in honor o f one who has given more than thirty years o f her life
to the womanhood and childhood o f Japan.
“ M ido Kirisutokvo Shakwaikan.” )
(In Japanese it is called
This building has attracted the atten­
tion o f the Osaka city and prefectural authorities who stress social uplift
work, as being a real contribution to their work.
That it is a Christian
institution recommends it to these authorities, fo r they realize that the
motivation o f social work is Christian fundamentally.
A YEAR OF BETTER MANNED STATIONS
N o t in ten years have the stations o f the mission been so nearly manned
as they were in 1922!
In the spring o f the year Rev. and M rs. E . T .
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Thom pson moved into the house built for the Gressitts in K yoto.
They
have found a delightful city to live in, a field equipped to their hand and
ripe for w ork which they are extremely well prepared to do.
They are
very happy in their new w ork and associations.
In the fall Rev. and M rs. F. M . Derwacter moved to H im eji.
the field o f the sainted F . C. Briggs and M rs. Briggs.
T his is
H o w good it seems
to have such worthy successors to those beloved laborers actually on the
field and at w ork and content.
T his is a real Baptist field which has
yielded richly in form er years and will continue, with these two fine w ork­
ers, to yield again and again.
W e have seen Captain and M rs. Laughton aboard the Fukuin Maru,
sailing in and out among the islands and across the blue seas on their
mission o f blessing, so worthily follow ing the Bickels.
T he good ship is
fully commissioned with sailors, even to a skipper-missionary.
H o w fine
to have a man who walks his own bridge and directs his own fields o f
labor.
W e look with full hope and confidence upon the beginnings of
these young and brave missionaries as they start a new volume in the
annals o f a w ork which has taken so much o f consecrated missionary
labor.
W e were happy to welcome back Rev. and M rs. F. W . Steadman in
the fall, together with M r. and M rs. R. H . Fisher, M iss Evalyn Camp,
and M iss A m y A . A cock.
N ew recruits in M iss A nn M . K ludt and M iss
W in ifred M . A cock rejoiced our missionary band o f Baptists.
But we
have had our jo y salted with sorrow in seeing the Rev. and M rs. G. E.
H aynes leave so suddenly for urgent medical care in Am erica.
W e hope
that the time will not be long when they will be returning with those on
furlough w hom we miss.
God has been good to us in keeping us an
unbroken missionary family.
T h e year saw us safely through without
serious illness or death.
A YEAR OF DISAPPOINTMENTS
T h e inevitable slump in all things which followed the great w ar must
needs come to us too in some form .
ing budgets, as you well know.
two m ajor operations.
child.
A
It was in the form o f reduced w ork­
Twice we had to cut down.
It was like
missionary’s working budget is his
favorite
T o deny his budgeted work any promise is like denying a Japanese
baby its pacifier.
exploding.
There is bound to be an outcry.
Something comes near
Y e t as a mission we have weathered along.
came on the women workers.
T he heaviest cut
These faithful women workers have borne
the heavy burden o f a twenty-five per cent, cut with great fortitude.
From
them has come very little or no protest, just the heavy sigh and the setting
o f the lips, showing the determination to w ork through somehow without
giving up any o f their beloved w ork or workers.
A nd they are doing it.
Y ou will never know what personal sacrifices are being made by these
fellow women missionaries o f ours.
T h e church budgets have not been
cut in the men's work, since there have been two churches coming to
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financial self-support and others which have reduced the amount o f their
grant from home funds.
Probably the hardest fact we have to face as a committee is having
young and prepared and enthusiastic missionaries and no budgets fo r them
to do the w ork demanded o f them by their fields.
be opened for lack o f
funds.
N o new chapels can
The churches are yearly grow ing and
needing less the help o f the missionary', yet he is not allowed fo r lack of
funds to begin new w ork which will develop into chapels and churches.
T he missionary is essentially a pioneer.
H e is here to blaze the trail, not
to nurse established churches which have been nursed too long fo r their
own good.
W ith impatience he awaits the time when the word shall come,
“ Go, found churches in Christ’s name and for his sake.”
H o w long must
we wait for our hands to be freed to the labor we love most o f all— the
establishment o f new churches?
W ith the increase in strength o f our
established churches and the enlargement o f our educational program and
equipment and the increase o f our better-prepared ministers, we hope for
a widening o f the borders o f the kingdom wherein our Baptist responsi­
bility is concerned.
W e view with great satisfaction the enlargement o f our educational
work and its fine equipment.
W e have been disappointed that we could
not go on with the building at the Mabie Memorial Middle School.
Our
plans call fo r an enlargement o f the school, and we beg that we may fulfil
them with buildings as well as teachers and scholars.
We
are hoping
against hope for all the buildings our plans call for, even fo r the higher
department, and fo r the missionary residences and teachers’ homes which
will adequately fulfil our obligations.
A YEAR OF FINAL THINGS
T he closing year o f the Baptist Forward M ovem ent is the crown o f
our year’s endeavors.
Japan Annual for 1922.
A
full rep,ort by D octor A x lin g appears in the
Leavin g the article to your careful study, I will
speak o f the A ll-B aptist Conference held at A rim a in M ay.
A total o f
292 delegates, o f whom 198 were Japanese, came up to this conference to
report and to pray and to plan.
It was a “ mountaintop experience.”
Som e who came to scoff went awray convinced and enthusiastic that our
Baptist denomination in Japan has arrived.
were lay wo men and laymen.
O f the 198 delegates,
T his alone speaks much.
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T h e words used
in Japanese to name this movement were happily chosen, for they mean
developm ent fr o m within out.
be really that.
Through G od’s grace it has transpired to
A s we met together under the newly trained leadership o f
our younger Japanese pastors and teachers and laymen, we knew that we
were on the borders o f Canaan.
T he eyes o f the old veterans who have
labored these decades and whose hearts have groaned with prayers for
this day were filled with tears o f jo y .
o f thanksgiving.
T heir lips quavered with prayers
The long trek was nearly over.
W ith M oses, they were
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A n d the Lord showed him all the land o f Gilead, unto D an.”
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T hey also
smiled upon the young Joshua and Caleb who were taking courage for the
conquests before us.
During one o f the sessions o f conference because
o f this feeling o f jo y over the new day’s dawning, over the nearness o f
the kingdom, the delegates stopped all business to sin g :
“ M ine eyes have seen the glory o f the coming o f the Lord,
H e is trampling out the vintage where the grapes o f wrath are stored,
H e has loosed the fateful lightning o f his terrible sw ift sword,
H is truth is marching on.”
A n d the chorus was most lustily sung.
W ith this word o f jo y and hope­
fulness over a year’s w ork in his harvest field, a year so full and so prom is­
ing despite its disappointments, we beg to thank you for your prayers and
sympathy and loyal, Christlike brotherliness in making it what it was.
M ay God richly bless you in your helpful labors, which are as much a
part o f the onward march as are ours.
THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS MISSION
Compiled by Frederick W . Meyer, M. D.
n P H E average person has a fantastic idea o f the Philippines, with pictures
o f head-hunting savages, dog-eating Igorotes, amuck-running M oros,
tropical savagery surrounding a small cultured Spanish nucleus, and on
top, o f this, a thin veneer o f a two-decade Am erican education and com­
mercialism.
W e do have mighty interesting groups o f people here in the
non-Christian tribes o f the mountains o f the north, the M oham medans o f
the south, and the so-called Christians in the center.
But these last two
decades have displaced savagery, have wrought wonders, and accomplished
m ore than in four centuries o f previous Philippine history.
Am erica has
brought about a change, it has given the Islands a great educational sys­
tem, the beginnings o f a stable self-government, and above all, has brought
Christ and the evangelistic cause.
Superstition, fanaticism, and ignorance
must and shall cease.
In our territory o f a few provinces in the Visayan or central group of
islands, we have various types, from the kinky-headed hill people pulveriz­
ing monkey skulls fo r measles’ medication, to the cultured, courteous,
Spanish-educated high-class Filipino, the keen Chinese business m e n ; then
there are the mestizos o f
all,
and
our students, the products
of
our
schools, who are finding their places as leaders in the affairs o f the nation.
W e have many types and manifold opportunities fo r the promulgation o f
Christ’s principles.
T h e threefold ministry o f our L ord depicts the various departments o f
our work.
" A n d Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues,
and preaching the gospel o f the kingdom, and healing all manner o f sick­
ness and all manner o f disease am ong the people.”
THE M INISTRY OF TEACHING
O ur schools are efficient instruments to spread the cause o f evangelism.
T he public school system, o f course, can only stress secular education, with
carefully prepared lesson plans and industrial w ork required o f all pupils.
But our private schools have the opportunity, as standardized
schools
recognized by the government, o f giving greater value to secular educa­
tion by presenting the message o f Christ daily through the open Bible.
Th e Capiz home school has ninety-six scholars, o f whom twenty-one are
members o f the Capiz church.
year.
Thirteen conversions occurred during the
T his is an excellent percentage for a primary and intermediate school
up to the seventh grade.
Parental permission for baptism is first secured.
There is Bible study one period every dav for every child.
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building has a much needed concrete piazza for dormitory purposes.
You
ought to hear the fervent singing and the recitation o f Bible verses.
The
children really outdo their American cousins across the seas.
Barrio or
village schools in three isolated parts o f Capiz province fill a need which
* the government cannot supply. > Iloilo province has more private schools
and some high schools o f second-year attainment which have the good­
will o f
their communities, are recognized officially and strengthen the
evangelical cause greatly.
Their Christian Endeavor societies are assert­
ing themselves in uplifting movements.
schools have enrolled 1,200 pupils.
The six Occidental N egros private
T he texts o f the public-school system
are in use, and graded Bible w ork is also taught.
larger this year.
Bible sales have been
T he demand for the paper in the vernacular is greater.
A workers’ training-school is planned this year again to give local workers
information, needed inspiration, and encouragement.
* T h e Jaro Industrial School has put more emphasis on the
work, adding the first and second grades.
e le m e n t a r y
T h e tuition pays the salaries
o f the teachers and gives to more students a chance to w ork fo r their
board.
T his plan attracts the neighborhood, and parents show interest in
monthly programs in which the Bible is not a closed book.
enrolment o f 350 students, 150 are in the high school.
been baptized this year.
cause.
O f the total
O f these fifty have
God uses our schools to spread his evangelical
T he teacher must needs be the coworker o f the preacher.
T he
Bible-training course instituted this year has twenty students in Sunday
school
methods
and personal work.
Eleven
Sunday schools near the
industrial school are conducted with an average attendance o f 350.
W ith
the new school year in June, 1923, the Jaro Industrial School will be
known as the Central Philippine College and will include Junior College ^
w ork with courses in liberal arts, education, and theology.
A n attempt
is being made to raise money on the field fo r some o f the new buildings
and, in spite o f the money crisis, the people are giving all they can.
We
must, however, still depend largely upon the people in Am erica fo r the
next five years.
The student work appeals strongly to us.
W e must develop Christian
leaders through our different activities in the student centers.
tory
students
Bacolod
exert a leavening influence in the
dormitories
for boys and girls have a total o f
students, principally from the Bacolod high school.
church attendance help in form ing right habits.
presidents o f high-school classes this year.
O ur dormi­
student bodies.
The
about eighty
Bible instruction and
T w o o f the boys were
T h e girls’ dormitory ought
to be enlarged to accommodate the numerous applicants.
M iss Ereno o f
the high-school faculty is a most valuable addition to the dormitory life
with her strong Christian character.
Tw enty-tw o o f the thirty-five girls
have confessed their faith in the Lord, and most o f them are now churchmembers.
T he Capiz dormitory has only eleven young men, due to Jesuit opposi­
tion and parental fear, but our boys have found their Saviour.
They, as
well as Iheir Bacolod brethren, bring the salvation message to the prisoners
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in the jails.
BAPTIST FOREIGN
M ISSIO N SOCIETY
Capiz is one o f the m ost fanatical provinces o f the Islands
but our cause is slowly and surely overcoming the intolerance.
A t L a Paz in Iloilo, the bungalows o f the W o m a n ’s Board right beside
the high school offer accommodations for the training-school for Biblewomen, the kindergarten school, and the high-school girls in the dormitory.
T h e training-school girls are conducting nine o f the Sunday schools round
about and are helping in two more.
schools are bright.
The prospects for better organized
Som e o f the girls are striving for the International
Sunday School Teachers’ Training Course diploma.
Three kindergartens
are taught by disciples o f the kindergarten training course at Jaro, R enfroville, and Iloilo.
A t Jaro there are thirty-four children enrolled in the
kindergarten and forty-nine in the first grade, a fine beginning in bringing
the message o f Christ to the young people in this country where the oppo­
sition boasts it has the children in the form ative period.
One o f the
bungalows is used as a community house and fo r religious purposes.
the center for the student work.
It is
T h e boys in the Dunw oody Dormitory,
nearly thirty in number, are reached by the community house activities.
In the last two months, twenty-three boys and girls were baptized there.
T he outlook is most hopeful.
W ith a high school registering an atten­
dance o f 1,500, and one o f the few great normal schools o f the Islands
already being projected ju st across the road, with nearly one hundred
acres for a campus and an estimated registration o f 2,000 or more in the
near future, the need for immediate preparedness is apparent.
The annual students’ conference fo r boys at Baguio under Y . M . C. A .
guidance and the one for girls at San Fernando, L a Union, during the
Christmas holidays were a power for good.
were eager to be represented.
O ur schools and societies
Their delegates report the Christ as the
dominant theme o f the Convention.
The open Bible is the pathway toward
the understanding o f his message.
O ur Christian Endeavor Convention at Jaro during the Thanksgiving
week-end aroused our hopes to the highest pitch.
o f hundreds o f earnest Christian youth
thundering opposition?
fail,
H o w can such a group
even in the face
o f the
Evangelism was the keynote o f the convention.
Quite a number joined the side o f Christ and were baptized into churchmembership.
TH E M INISTRY OF PREACHING
Evangelism is the keynote o f all the work.
in hand with the preacher.
leadership, the message o f Christ is spreading.
nities in islands unreached!
A ll departments w ork hand
In spite o f a serious lack o f trained native
But those glorious opportu­
T he Capiz district is extending itself and
has established several churches on Tablas under the direction o f Rev.
T om as Conejar.
W e rejoice that even distant M indoro has one small
group o f firm Baptist believers.
A ll classes in these Islands, including
Romblon, are in sympathy with the preacher and his task.
A lieutenant
o f the constabulary is pushing Sunday school and young people’s activi­
ties in Tablas.
F or Capiz 113 baptisms during the year make quite a
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record.
Special evangelistic meetings were fruitful.
ren are keen for the spread o f evangelism.
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T he Filipino breth­
Four ordained and some lay
preachers are an inadequate force to uphold the Capiz front.
the young men for the ministry?
W h ere are
A ll are rushing into other professions.
Pray for a great increase in Filipino pastors.
Ten o f the Capiz workers
attended the Jaro Institute for further instruction and inspiration.
Rev.
Diestro, a form er Y . M . C. A . man, is a tower o f strength to the cause
in encouraging the churches.
not ceased.
T he emphasis on financial self-support has
A bout 800 pesos were raised by the natives for their work.
T he Capiz Sunday school has had a wider vision in contributing toward
union work in these Islands and for Near East and Russian relief.
The
Capiz choir helps the church service with the latest American music in
the vernacular.
well attended.
The Sunday schools throughout the province are very
The
Capiz hospital neighborhood Sunday school draws
large numbers o f children from strict Roman families.
Capiz is happy
to,have had such a successful year as that o f 1922.
“ Iloilo rejoices in a greater number o f baptisms, in increased Sunday
school and Christian Endeavor attendance.
The message spreads from
the first-class cities o f the plains way up into the hills where the animists
and nature-worshipers still live an isolated life.
T h e Jaro Church people
put up an attractive building in a very conspicuous place upon the city
plaza.
T hat struggling church without a pastor collected money, little
by little, here and there, as the building progressed.
A n obliging pho­
tographer contributed a large quantity o f used plates for windows.
This
is a splendid example of the zeal o f the Filipinos in putting up a structure
o f their own accord, each one doing his bit.
A s the workmen put some
finishing touches to the structure, the Christian Endeavor Conventionites,
hundreds strong, dedicated the building unto the cause.
Occidental N egros had 149 baptisms and reports a quickening spiritual
life, due to the fruitful work o f the Filipino brethren mainly.
chapels have been erected from local aid.
for room has made an extension to the chapel.
fined to any one part o f the world.
necessarily
slow— but
one
church
Three
Another congregation crowded
Provincialism is not con­
Progress toward a wider vision is
contributed
to
the Armenian
relief.
Some gifts apart from the local work have been sent directly to the mis­
sionary in charge. . For purposes o f solidarity and fellowship, since the
field is so long, two district meetings or kasapulanans were held, one in
the north and the other in the south.
Similar meetings are planned for
the coming year, located with relative accessibility to all.
among the young people has been quickened.
Societies have increased to eleven.
by Christian influences and go
The church life
T he six Christian Endeavor
Those who have been deeply touched
out as public-school
workers are very
helpful in such organizations.
THE MINISTRY OF HEALING
^ The Iloilo Union Mission Hospital has had a prosperous year.
A brief
resumé of statistics from January 1 to Novem ber 30 shows the number
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o f in-patients to be 1,219, and the out-patjents 3,806, with a total number
o f persons treated as 5,025.
26,953.
T h e total number o f treatments amounts to
T h e receipts for the year through N ovem ber are 69,223.49 pesos—
or half that amount in United States currency.
In short, patients have been
plenty, operations frequent, and financial returns sufficient to maintain the
w ork and leave a fair margin.
Governor-General Leonard W o o d
has
visited the hospital thrice within a comparatively short period and has
spoken kindly o f the work.
Flourishing dispensaries are maintained at
'.S a n ta Barbara, Pototan, and La Paz.
T he latter is a students’ dispensary,
and it has made a place fo r itself during the few years it has been in
operation.
D aily clinics are held on week-days, and a large percentage of
the high-school students are treated.
T his dispensary is an integral part
o f the student w ork at L a Paz.
^ Emanuel Hospital at Capiz had 404 in-patients with 5,146 days o f treat­
ment.
In the out-patient department 913 different people were given 3,794
days o f treatment under supervision.
Thus the actual number o f treat­
ments would run a great deal higher than the total 8,940 days o f treat­
ment.
Due to financial stringency, the doctor had to close his Pontevedra
dispensary, and thus the number o f out-patients is greatly decreased.
But
there is cause for rejoicing as the collection in fees amounted to 8,590
pesos, all hospital expenses were paid, and the debt reduced from 2,189
to only 630 pesos.
Furthermore, the new nurses’ home is under construc­
tion and ought to be ready by June.
Capiz people have contributed toward
it 160 pesos at a benefit concert and 225 pesos on a tag day.
Governor-
General W o o d with a staff o f military, medical, and educational officials
expressed kind words about the work.
The daily prayer-meetings with
Bible explanations in English and in the vernacular attract the patients.
Some read the entire N ew Testam ent during their hospital stay.
nurses are one hundred per cent. Baptist personal workers.
T he nine
They also
assist at the neighborhood Sunday school meeting at the hospital.
Thus
the hospital serves as a direct pathway toward the Gospel Light.
T h e members o f the Philippine M ission and the Filipino brethren desire
your prayers for the further success o f the cause o f Christ, that the
coming year o f 1923 may stand out as a banner year.
THE BELGIAN CONGO MISSION
Compiled by Rev. P. A. MacDiarmid
T S it a dark and dismal picture you are expecting from the D ark Continent?
W e refuse to give it!
I f we were a commercial company that
saw the number o f its agents dwindling year by year the stockholders might
think seriously o f closing up the business.
I f we were an army in ordinary
w arfare and saw that reenforcements did not equalize losses we could not
be blamed for predicting defeat.
But though pitifully small in numbers the
missionary force in Congo has God on its side and so claims victory.
is at w ork in C o n g o !
God
L et us enthusiastically assist him and not hinder.
-In last year’s report D r. Catherine L . M abie pictured very clearly the
beginning o f the Prophet M ovement in Congo.
A t heart it was a spiritual
and religious m ovem ent; more than that, it was quite largely Christian in
the teachings o f the chief prophet, Kibangu.
B y the onlooker it was apt
to be judged by certain extravagances— that only faith was needed fo r the
healing o f all manner o f diseases and even to raise the dead, that Christ’s
coming was so imminent that it was
u n n ecessa ry
to plant gardens, that at
his coming no longer would the white man dominate the black but that the
order would be reversed in a land where the blacks believe themselves
to be the rightful owners.
M any o f the extravagant and unchristian utter­
ances were made by minor prophets who brought the whole movement
under the ban o f the State.
O ur missionaries took a wise attitude in regard to the movement.
They
urged the native Christians to investigate for themselves to see if. the
wide-spread reports o f healing were true.
“ Dear friends, do not believe
every spirit, but put the spirits to the test to see whether they are from
G od”
(W e y m o u th ).
The
result was
that the great majority o f
our
Christian people did not desert our churches, and remained in friendly
relations with the white missionaries.
On the Banza Manteke and Sona
Bata fields a wide-spread revival took place which has continued fo r more
than a year and a half.
That there is nothing ephemeral about it is evi­
denced by the fact that it has. continued for such a long time, and also
because the interest has been more wide-spread and the number o f baptisms
greater this year than last.
CHANGES IN TH E MISSIONARY STAFF
T he health o f M iss Frances A . Cole made it imperative for her to leave
C ongo along with D r. and M rs. J. C. K ing in the spring.
A serious illness
contracted by M iss Helen R. Y o s t on her way home from Conference ne­
cessitated her leaving the field a few months before the close o f her term.
The others who went on furlough this vear were D r. Catherine Mabie,
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Rev. and M rs. S. E . M oon, Rev. and M rs. J. E . Geil, Rev. and M rs. W .
E . Rodgers, and Rev. and M rs. W . H . Nugent.
Those returning to the
field were M iss Edna Oden and Rev. and M rs. P. A . M acD iarm id.
Our
new mission treasurer, M r. B. L. K orling, arrived at Matadi in A ugust.
Four new missionary appointees went to Belgium in September to study
French and to get in touch with Belgian life and customs.
on to the Congo in the spring.
T hey will come
M r. and M rs. Charles E . Smith are the first
couple appointed by our Society for agricultural work in Congo, a phase
o f missionary education very much neglected in a land where nearly all
the people make their living by agriculture and yet where the methods are
m ost crude and primitive.
M iss H ilda Lund, a graduate nurse, and M iss
Etelka M . Schaffer, an experienced teacher, are designated to Sona Bata.
A m on g those at home, D r. A . Sims spent a considerable time in a sani­
tarium in England, but latest word indicates an improvement in health.
A fte r
a baffling search by
doctors fo r
over tw o years it was finally
proved in the M ayo Hospital that the long-continued illness o f M rs. L . F.
W ood
was due to sleeping-sickness.
M r.
and M rs.
W ood
crossed to
England where M rs. W o o d was given treatments in the hospital o f the
London School fo r Tropical Medicine.
T h e new German remedy, 205,
was used, and while it is too soon to predict whether there can be com ­
plete restoration o f health after the disease has been at work
for so
long a period, 3'et there has been already a measurable gain, and their
many friends hope there will be a continuous recuperation o f physical
strength.
T he death o f Rev. A . L . Bain has meant a distinct loss to the mission.
H e was unswerving in his devotion to his Lord and tireless in m aking him
known to others.
H e had labored at Banza Manteke and Sona Bata but
probably did his best w ork at Mukim vika during the last term o f service.
There he and M rs. Bain built up, out o f materials that most temple build­
ers would have rejected as worthless, a compact church nucleus and a good
school work.
F A C IN G T H E
FUTURE
D o c to / Lerrigo writes that the prospects for recruits for the Congo
look brighter than in form er years.
T hat sounds good to us.
o f writing we have only twenty-two missionaries upon the field.
n o resident missionaries at M ukim vika and Leopoldville.
A t the time
There are
N o one o f our
Society is on the staff this year at Kimpese while Tshumbiri is soon to
be left to native Avorkers.
A s we think o f these, o f the advanced work
we have hoped fo r years to do, and o f the hundreds coming into the
church on some o f our fields, you will not blame us if occasionally we
seek E lijah’s juniper tree, claiming utter inability to meet the needs.
But
the mission field is no place for the pessimist whether he be the natural
born variety, the d3'speptic sort, or some hybrid k in d !
O ur task is the
Great Commission, and it is too big to fritter time over anything else.
Surely we ought to count on every Baptist church in the Northern Bap­
tist Convention to be with us in this task.
T H E BELG IAN CONGO M ISSION
On
some
of
our fields
Roman Catholic priests.
we have
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had unscrupulous opposition
from
Methods that would not be tolerated in a civil­
ized land are common here.
T o o often government officials have to obey
the wishes o f these priests if they want advancement in the colonial ser­
vice.
W ith the return o f Gevernor-General Lippens, who is regarded to
be a lover o f justice and fair dealing, we are hoping that some o f these
abuses will be remedied.
Rev. H enry Anet, who fo r a number o f years has been one o f the fore­
most leaders o f Protestantism in Belgium, is now acting as Brussels’ repre­
sentative o f our own Society as well as o f several other American Societies
working in Belgian Congo.
H is acquaintance with public men in Belgium,
his knowledge o f Belgian law and customs and that o f the Congo where
he has made two extensive journeys, place him in a position to serve ably
Protestant Mission interests.
H e and his talented wife are giving con­
siderable time to the new missionaries who are studying French in Brussels.
M UKIM VIKA
T his lonely station near the sea has a message for us.
Though -without
a resident missionary since the departure o f M r. and M rs. Bain the little
group o f Christians there has proved faithful.
T hey have been cheered
by three visits from Rev. Henry Erickson who, though located at Matadi
one hundred miles away, yet managed to make these visits.
Once the trip
was made alone, once in company with M r. K orling, and the last time at
Christmas with Rev. Joseph Clark and M r. M acD iarm id who went to
inspect the mission property.
M r. Erickson had the pleasure o f baptizing
ten persons on his second trip, and on Christmas daj^ an elderly woman
who had spent many years in heathenism symbolized the L ord ’s death and
resurrection.
M ATADI
M atadi is one o f those stations that does not flare into the limelight
much.
The mission treasurer has his daily round o f duties and there
are the dispensary, the school, and religious work, under the difficult con­
ditions usually found in a railroad and port town.
W h en Rev. Joseph
Clark came to M atadi to take the mission treasurership until a man could
be sent out fo r that particular work, he thought it was only a matter of
a very few months, but he and M rs. Clark have been detained there all
year.
It is no small sacrifice for this couple, after spending so many
years at an inland station, to leave their home and work to fill an urgent
need for the mission.
In A ugust they were glad to welcome M r. B. L.
K orling who comes from an extensive banking and business experience
to the w ork o f mission treasurer.
BANZA M ANTEKE
Banza Manteke, with a membership, o f over 4,000, is one o f our strong
fields.
Its first great revival, after Rev. H enry Richards had taught the
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people for some years with little apparent success, stirred Baptists in
A m erica to a new interest in Congo.
A gain we have this field passing
through a period o f revival, receiving by baptism in eighteen months over
two thousand people and restoring many to church-membership.
It is strong not only numerically but also in the support o f its evan­
gelistic, educational, and medical work.
Dr. Judson C. K ing believed that
the natives could well afford to pay fo r medicines and that they w ould be
stronger in character if they d id ; so he worked on that principle until
he demonstrated that it could be done.
Rev. J. E . Geil ju st as firmly
believed that the natives could and should pay fo r their own preachers,
teachers, and school supplies.
Taking the Lukunga district which had been
largely ( i f not totally) self-supporting, as an example, he gradually secured
similar results in the Palabala and Banza Manteke districts.
M rs.
Geil went
on
furlough
in
September
they
left
W h en he and
behind
them
a
splendid piece o f constructive w ork along the lines mentioned.
M r. and M rs. T hom as H ill left Sona Bata in June to assume the re­
sponsibilities at Banza M anteke.
They did a great deal o f itinerating dur­
ing the dry season and later found that seventy-four children in the board­
ing-school and thirteen young men in the preparatory school, besides other
station and district work, kept them very busy.
They report 662 baptisms
fo r the year and offerings o f over 20,000 francs.
T h e dispensary, with
M iss Crane in charge, has ministered to many sick people from all sec­
tions o f the district.
KIMPESE
There is no report at hand from our Union Training Institution.
Rev.
and M rs. S. E . M oon and D octor Mabie o f our Society, and Rev. W . D .
Reynolds o f the English Baptist Mission Society, left for furlough in the
spring.
W e are hoping to see them all back for the opening o f school in
the fall o f 1923 that the new plans fo r self-support and extensive training
which they began may be further developed.
In the meantime M r. F. E.
E xell o f the English Baptist M ission Society, with the aid o f native help­
ers, is carrying on the school at Kimpese.
SONA BATA
T his has been the banner year in the Sona Bata district in baptisms,
offerings, general interest in religious services, and in the schools.
The
revival that was so much in evidence when Secretary P . H . J. Lerrigo
visited the station was manifest throughout the year.
W ak em an assisted with the school and station work.
M r. and M rs. A , V .
M r. and M rs. Hill
gave efficient service until they had to go to Banza M anteke to take up
the w ork there.
M r. and M rs. M acDiarmid returned in July to partake
in the joy s and problems o f the great ingathering.
Upon Rev. and M rs. Thom as M oody fell the chief burden o f this great
work, and there is reason for thankfulness that they have been able to
stand the strain o f two successive years o f indefatigable efforts to cope with
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the revival.
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M r. M ood y writes o f their long itinerary during the dry season
as fo llo w s : “ M rs. M ood y and I left fo r a trip out to the K w ango River.
W e spent forty-one days on this journey, tramped about 500 miles, and
spoke in about 100 villages.
W e found that the revival has spread to the
Bayakas, Bamfunikas, and the Bawumbus.
T h e people simply came in
crowds and follow ed us fo r miles.
“ T he trip closed with a great service at Songololo, a village o f fifty
houses.
T h e people came in from near-by churches in crowds o f from
100 to 400 until 1,500 were present.
M arching in four abreast, carrying
firewood, food, water-bottles, and babies, they sang Tonda kua N zam bi
Tata ( ‘ Thanks be to God the F a th er’ ) .
A fte r a prayer service beginning
at 5.30 Sunday morning they went to the stream where 537 were buried
with Christ in baptism.
Last year there were sixteen baptismal services
when 1,500 were baptized; this year there were twenty-six such services and
3,000 baptisms in Sona Bata district.”
M rs. M acD iarm id took charge o f the boarding-school at the opening
o f the fall term.
There was an attempt to limit the number to one
hundred, but so many bright boys and girls pressed for entrance that
after a careful weeding out o f applicants 150 were left and the missiona­
ries did not have the heart to turn any o f them away.
T h e w ork at Leopoldville prospers as well as could be expected without
a resident missionary.
W e have a good property, but the buildings are
falling into a sad state o f disrepair.
VANGA
Reports
from
V anga
are encouraging.
The
church-membership has
grown, the outposts (not counting those in the Moanza district) have in­
creased from forty to seventy, and at the station a large school and medical
w ork are carried on.
D r. W . H . Leslie writes while on a long itinerating journey, “ T he out­
standing features o f the year are hard work and the utter inadequacy o f
our present staff for the tremendous w ork there is to be done.”
Then a
happier vein appears: “ A s I come to turn my face homeward I realize
that the dream o f seventeen years has come to be a reality, that now we
have a really delightful home to live in.”
It must be a great pleasure to
Richards Leslie that he could be largely instrumental in making this dream
come true fo r his parents.
T h e standard o f entrance to the station boarding-school is gradually
being raised.
U sually in a new field education is appraised at a low value
and it is difficult to secure sufficient students o f any sort.
T h e time has
come when at V anga they can demand that only those who have learned
to read and write in their village schools and who show some inclination
to lead a better life be taken into the station school.
There are over two
hundred in the school this term.
In regard to sleeping-sickness Doctor Leslie w rites: “ Sleeping-sickness
is still the scourge o f the region but our constant fight with it, combined
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with that o f the government for the past two years, is showing results
and we are hoping that it will soon be brought under control, if not eradi­
cated.
T h e A gen t Sanitaire who is working in this immediate neighbor­
hood at present says that he finds a much lower percentage o f infected
cases now in the villages than two years ago.”
Ground has been broken
fo r the new hospital and we hope to have it to report as another dream
realized next year.
R ev. and M rs. W . H . N ugent who have had a strenuous first term of
it, especially during the absence o f D octor and M rs. Leslie, spent two
months or more in the M panza district before leaving for furlough.
They
were able to encourage M oam bu, the native teacher, who has stuck so
faithfully at his post in spite o f much overbearing opposition from the
Jesuits.
H e and the V an ga staff continue to say, “ H o w long, how long,
till we put resident missionaries there? ”
TSHUMBIRI
In
the Tshumbiri field the Prophet M ovem ent, because o f antiwhite
feeling, reacted rather badly upon mission work.
rested in the immediate village.
T hirty men were ar­
Three died in prison, and later all except
two o f the others were returned to their homes.
T h e people were afraid,
stopped attending mission services, and some Bateke villages pulled up
stakes
to
move
farther
afield.
These
discouraging
circumstances
are
probably only temporary, for gradually the natives will realize that the
years spent in faithful service by the Billingtons, the Glenesks, the M etz­
gers, the W o o d s, and others have been given solely that the love o f Christ
might be made manifest to them.
Rev. and M rs. P. C. M etzger feel dis­
couraged too as they think o f leaving for furlough with no one to take
their place in shepherding the people.
NTONDO
There have been a good many changes in the N tondo staff during the
year.
A t the beginning o f the year M rs. Clark left to join M r. Clark in
the work at M atadi.
furlough.
In A u gust M r. and M rs. Rodgers and child left for
M iss Edna Oden returned to the field in July.
Rev. and M rs.
A . V . M arsh and M iss Hagquist have had a busy year o f it.
There were some very real problems that tended to retard the work,
such as a big fight about fishing rights in
people were involved.
the teacher-evangelists.
A ls o there was the
which a number o f the church
demand for bigger salaries by
There have also been cheering signs that the Spirit
o f God has been working in the hearts o f the people.
M r. M arsh reports: “ W e cannot boast o f any revival such as you have
had in the Low er Congo, but the Spirit o f
same.
D u rin g the past year we
into the baptismal waters.
God has been working ju st the
have had the jo y o f leading 167 natives
Neither can we boast o f our w ork being self-
supporting, but our yearly contributions have totaled 4,700 francs, being
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an average o f 6.50 francs per member, the largest offering I believe we
ever received.
A m on g the trying and yet interesting things o f the year
was a strike o f our teacher-evangelists who refused to return to their
work after the semiannual gathering.
the low wage scale.
The reason for their attitude was
W e refused to grant their request for more money,
and after two days’ parley they returned again to their posts.
T his year
the same wage scale exists, but there was no trouble at all with the evan­
gelists.
The spirit among them was excellent, and they did as much as
they could to help us, knowing so much w ork was being undertaken by
so few missionaries.”
In the medical department M iss Anna M . H agquist has had her hands
full.
O n one o f her visits to Ikoko she examined at least five hundred
people for sleeping-sickness and treated others for A’-arious diseases.
SY N O P S E S O F R E P O R TS F R O M E U R O P E
Compiled by E . B. Cross
NORW AY.
T h e year 1922 began with very serious financial depres­
sion in N orw ay, due to the failure o f the fisheries.
There was a re­
action in the contributions for maintenance o f the work, so that only a
few o f the churches were able to meet the goals o f their five-year pro­
gram.
Y e t the faith o f the brethren has continued stedfast.
Baptists
in the United States will be particularly interested in the work am ong the
deep-sea fishermen near the N orth Cape in connection with the chapel,
toward the erection o f which we contributed in equal measure with the
N orw egian brethren.
T he w ork has been blessed o f God.
A t the semi­
nary in Christiania fifteen students for the ministry are pursuing their
studies.
Principal Oie writes that many have been won to Christ through
the preaching which these students have done during the course o f their
work at the school.
Baptists in N orw ay are looking forw ard to the meet­
ing o f the Baptist W o rld Alliance at Stockholm in Sweden, and expect
to be well represented by delegates.
They hope for inspiration and a
great impetus to prosecute their work in the face o f the difficulties pre­
sented by the opposition o f the established church which appears to have
little regard for the ideas o f Baptist folk.
SW EDEN.
The churches in Sweden faced an agitation o f Pentecostal
brethren during the year which has affected the membership.
T he travel­
ing evangelists o f this movement preach in opposition to religious organi­
zation o f any sort such as churches, associations, and the like, and advocate
speaking in .tongues and similar primitive views.
In Bethel Seminary, how ­
ever, the coming pastors o f the churches have supplemented their studies
with preaching.
D uring the six weeks o f the Christmas vacation in par­
ticular these young men were richly blessed in their spiritual service.
Tw enty-tw o applicants were admitted to the seminary in the fall at the
opening o f
the school year.
T his is the largest number o f
ever registered in any entering class o f the school.
students
T he death o f D r. K . O.
Broady brought sadness, not only to the seminary o f which he had been
president fo r forty years and a teacher fo r sixteen additional years, but
also to all the fellowship o f Baptist churches in Sweden and elsewhere.
H e was translated at the ripe old age o f ninety years after a life o f
splendid achievement in the w ork o f the Lord.
H is presence would have
graced the assembling o f his kinsmen in the faith at Stockholm when the
Baptist W o r ld Alliance meets.
Even though God willed to call him home
before that time the Congress will be mindful o f the wonderful influence
and accomplishment o f this man o f God.
E S T H O N IA .
Reports from Esthonia indicate more than a thousand
baptisms into the churches during 1922.
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“ Such a thing has not happened
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before in our history,” writes Rev. A . Podin.
The expression o f fe l­
lowship in the sufferings o f the people manifested by the relief shipments
from the brethren in the United States together with the visit o f Rev.
W . S. Abernethy and M r. W . T . Sheppard, have contributed to set the
Baptist fo lk up in their proper place in the esteem o f the republic.
One
great achievement o f the year has been the proclamation o f religious free­
dom, whereby the Baptist brethren rejoice in the privilege o f proclaiming
the gospel according to the dictates o f their own consciences without hin­
drance from political authorities.
Another event o f greatest significance
fo r the future o f the churches is the opening o f the new seminary at
Kegel.
T h e w ork in this school begins with an enrolment o f sixteen, and
the form al ceremonies o f the opening of the school were celebrated with
enthusiastic rejoicing in which visitors
from
the neighboring republic
o f Latvia participated.
L A T V IA .
T he churches in Latvia have been affected by the Pentecostal
movement which has drawn away some from the fellowship.
N otw ith­
standing this the reports for the year are quite as encouraging as those
from the neighboring republic o f Esthonia.
ship o f the churches number 1,124.
The baptisms into the fellow ­
A n inspiration and encouragement
came to the churches in Latvia as well as Esthonia through the relief ship­
ments from the United States and the visit o f Rev. W . S. Abernethy and
M r. W . T . Sheppard.
Plans for the establishment o f a seminary fo r the
training o f men for the Baptist ministry were maturing through the years
and came to a fruition in the last month.
The occasion o f the form al
opening o f the seminary in December witnessed an assembly o f over five
thousand people, and friendly greetings were offered by a representative
o f the Lutheran Church and State officials.
student body o f fifteen.
The seminary opens with a
Under the direction o f Rev. J. A . Frey the stan­
dards o f scholarship are assured, and the Latvian government has given
official recognition to the school.
DENM ARK.
A noticeable spiritual awakening among the churches is
reported from Denmark.
One church o f 653 members has had an increase
o f 100 through conversions in a blessed outpouring o f the Spirit.
The
brethren who through past years have labored in faith to lay the founda­
tions o f the denominational life upon the knowledge o f the truth as it is
revealed in the W o rd , are now rejoicing in the answer to their prayers.
W hereas “ we did not feel sure o f the ultimate success o f Baptist principles
in Denmark,” writes Rev. P
Olsen, “ . . . the last four or five years have
brought about a remarkable change.
conversions are frequent.”
Opportunities for w ork multiply and
W e quote from another page o f the same letter
a passage which evidences still other indications o f encouragement fo r the
w o r k : “ About a month ago a very interesting meeting was held in Ringsted, the center o f a rural district where is found one o f our strongest
country churches.
It began as a skirmish in the local papers; then the
editor proposed a meeting o f the two parties, which was held in a hall
owned by the State Church.
T h e editor, by consent o f the assembly, which
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numbered about 400 people, acted as moderator.
Ph. D ., set forth the pedobaptist view.
Pastor G. F. Scharling,
H e is a fine Christian gentleman,
and he candidly admitted that pedobaptism is not found in the N e w T e s­
tament.
A ft e r him
Pastor M . Jorgensen
stated the Baptist position.
ing lasted four hours.
A
from
Copenhagen very ably
lively discussion follow ed, and the meet­
O f course, neither party convinced the other; but
the meeting was remarkable as the first occasion where Baptists and be­
lievers o f the State Church came together to consider frankly, but in a
brotherly way, the things in which they agreed as well as those in which
they disagreed.”
The
Baptist seminary in
class in the fall o f 1922.
Gistrup graduated
its first
Four young men composed the class, three o f
w hom entered the ministry at home while the fourth is making further
preparations with a view to service on the mission field in A frica.
C Z E C H O S L O V A K IA .
T h e pages o f the denominational papers have
recorded the story o f the evangelistic mission o f Frederick E . Taylor,
D . D ., and Carter H elm Jones, D . D ., to Czechoslovakia during the summer
o f 1922.
T his story cannot be repeated within the brief compass o f this
report.
T h e impulse o f their visit, however, remains to bless and stimulate
the brethren.
A steady work o f evangelism continues amid the churches.
From thirty-two centers throughout the land as far as funds will permit
the workers are scattering the seed o f the gospel.
Y ou n g people’s socie­
ties are organizing, Sunday schools and choral societies in connection with
the churches are attracting those who may thus be led to know the Saviour.
T he press is a mighty supporter o f evangelistic activity.
T w o periodicals
are published by the Baptist brethren which send out from 3,500 to 4,000
copies monthly.
Tracts and religious booklets also bear the gospel message
to those who are seeking fo r food for their souls, and the hungerers and
thirsters after righteousness are many in this land.
Rushbrooke
writes,
“ I
record
my
sense
of
the
Commissioner J. H .
remarkable
religious
awakening and the almost incalculable possibilities o f this country, and
especially the need o f Baptist service and testimony.”
POLAND.
T h e Society is concerned especially with the w ork among
the Slavic people in Poland.
their fellow Slavs.
situation.
Slavic workers must be found to organize
T h e trained leaders are all too few to cope with the
T h e congregations with few exceptions have no proper place
o f worship, nor the means with which to secure church buildings.
A train­
ing-school fo r workers was conducted for four months during the summer
with the purpose o f giving such pastors and helpers as might find it
possible to attend at least a little instruction in the Bible.
W h en the
necessary teachers can be found a permanent institution may be estab­
lished.
M uch o f the evangelizing w ork is being done through the agency
o f the publishing house known as “ Compass,” located at Lodz.
Printed
matter is published in the Polish, German, and Russian languages.
A
large edition o f a Russian hym n-book, and the Bible in Russian have been
issued.
M uch literature is also published in the Polish language.
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There is but one organized Baptist church in Lithuania.
T he w ork o f distributing Bibles is being promoted, and it is hoped that
gospel literature may be produced in the Lithuanian language, for there is
practically no such material available.
The workers report thirty-four
baptisms during the year, which is a commendable accession to a total
membership numbering but 142.
REPORT OF THE TREASURER
For the Fiscal Year Ended April 30, 1923
ATLANTA
B A L T IM O R E
N EW YORK
P H IL A D E L P H IA
B O STON
PI TT SB UR GH
BUFFALO
C H IC A G O
P ORTLAND
H A S K I N S 8c S E L L S
C IN C I N N A T I
CLEVELAN D
DALLAS
DENVER
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NEW
S A I N T L O U IS
S A L T L A K E C IT Y
SA N F R A N C I S C O
SE A TT LE
TU LSA
C E R T IF IE D P U B L I C A C C O U N T A N T S
K A N S A S C IT Y
LO S ANGELES
M IN N E A P O L I S
NEW ARK
P R O V ID E N C E
W EST 39th ST R E E T
N E W YORK
W ATERTOW K
H AVANA
LONDON
P A R IS
SHANGHAI
ORLEANS
C ER TIFIC A TE
We
have audited
the books and accounts o f
the American
Baptist
Foreign M ission Society for the year ended April 30, 1923, and
W e hereby
c ertify
that, in our opinion, the accompanying General
Balance Sheet at A pril 30, 1923, and Summary o f Income and Appropria­
tions, and Deficit Account, for the year ended that date, are correct, and
that the books o f the Society are in agreement therewith.
(S i g n e d ) H a s k i k s & S e l l s .
N e w Y o r k , J u n e 11, 1923.
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SCH ED U LE I
DEFICIT ACCOUNT
April 30, 1923
Accumulated Deficit M ay 1 , 1922 .........................................
A dd: Net adjustment of our share of the Interchurch
Obligations in accordance with the action of the
Board o f M anagers, Ju n e 13-20, 19 2 2 ....................
$ 9 14 ,2 6 2 .5 0
14 2 ,2 19 .6 3
$ 1 ,0 5 6 ,4 8 2 .13
L ess: Amount distributed by the General Board of
Promotion as o f A pril 30 , 19 22, and set up as a
Reserve fo r Contingent Repayment to the Gen­
eral Board o f Prom otion. (See page 167 o f the
Annual Report for 19 2 1-19 2 2 )................................... $10 6 ,8 6 5.0 4
Adjustments with the General Board of Promo­
4 9 .1 1
tion on account o f 1921-1922 accounts...................
Net adjustments o f Previous Budgets ...............
2 ,7 4 9 .7 2
109,66 3.8 7
Adjusted Deficit as of M ay 1 , 1922 .......................................
$9 4 6 ,8 18 .2 6
Less: Surplus Current Budget ..................................................
*2 8 5 ,2 7 8 .16
Accumulated Deficit A pril 30, 19 2 3 ...........................................
$ 6 6 1,5 4 0 .10
’ The approved budget fo r 1922-1923 included a reserve of $150,000 fo r the reduction
of the Deficit. For further details see Financial Review of the Year, page 84.
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SOCIETY
S C H E D U L E II
SUMMARY OF REVENUE
Current Budget
For the Fiscal Year Ended April 30, 1923
Regular Budget:
IN C O M E
Sources Outside Donations:
Income from Investments o f Permanent and
.T em porary Funds ..............................................
Income from Specified Investments of Perm a­
nent Funds ............................
Income from Specified Investments o f Tem ­
porary Funds .........................................................
Income from General Funds ...................................
$5 2 ,3 0 5.8 4
5 3,8 7 5 .6 0
258 .0 1
9,984.30
$116 ,-4 2 3.7 5
.2,907.54
-----------------58 ,8 6 0 .37
L ess: Special Charges against Incom e..................
A nn uity Agreem ents M a t u r e d ..
Legacies ..........................................................................
Miscellaneous— Rent of Mission Properties . . .
T otal Sources Outside Donations ........................
$ 113 ,5 16 .2 1
13 5 ,8 3 8 .8 6
1,4 0 3 .5 6
$30 9 ,6 19 .0 0
R egular D onations:
Contributions Received D ir e c t ..................................- $ 6 1,10 3 .2 8
Contributions Received through General Board
of Promotion ...................................................... 1,0 1 8 ,2 4 0 .1 8
Total Regular Donations .........................................
Total Income Regular B u d g e t ..
1,0 7 9 ,3 4 3 .4 6
$ 1,3 8 8 ,9 6 2 .4 6
Supplemental Budget: (Not on One Hundred Million
Dollar Fund)
Income John D . Rockefeller Fund ...............................
Regular Donations ...............................................................
Government Refund of Mission Appropriations . . . .
$3 15 ,9 0 8 .0 0
2 0 ,9 8 1.4 8
20,6 59.77
357, 549-25
Total Supplemental Budget ..............................................
Total Income Regular and Supplemental Budgets
...
$ 1 ,7 4 6 , 5 1 1 .7 1
Specific Budget— Contra:
Specifics on One H undred M illion Dollar Fun d:
Contributions Received D ir e c t ..............................
Contributions Received through General Board
o f Promotion ......................................................
Released from Tem porary Funds ..........................
$2 2 0 ,4 9 5 .6 1
Total Specifics on One Hundred Million Dollar
Fund ........................................................................
$ 3 2 4 ,S 03-36
74,789.64
2 9 ,2 1 8 .1 1
Specifics not on One Hundred M illion D ollar Fund:
Contributions Received D ir e c t
$32,8 4 8.9 6
Contributions
Received
through
General Board of Promotion . .
758.96
Total Specifics not on One Hundred
Million Dollar Fund ..................
33,6 0 7 .9 2
Total Specific Budget .........................................................
3 5 8 ,1 1 1 .2 8
Total Income R egu lar, Supplemental and Specific
Budgets ............................................................................
$ 2 ,10 4 ,6 2 2 .9 9
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SUMMARY OF REVENUE
Current Budget
For the Fiscal Year Ended April 30, 1923
Regular Budget:
B U D G E T A P P R O P R IA T IO N S
Foreign Field Appropriations:
Field Salaries of M issio n a rie s................................... $4 18 ,6 3 3.6 5
Salaries of M issionaries on Furlough .................... 16 1,14 8 .8 9
Passages of M issionaries to and from theField . .
8 8 ,0 8 5 .14
W ork o f M issionaries and N ative Agencies . . . .
3 0 7 ,1 7 3 .10
Care o f Property ...........................................................
5 3 ,5 2 7 .6 1
New Appointees .............................................................
4 ,2 3 3 .3 3
13 ,7 5 0 .0 0
Education of Oriental Students ............................
Foreign M issions Conference ...................................
6,260.50
M ission s” and Literature sent to M issionaries
1,9 9 8 .5 4
Visitation o f Mission Fields .....................................
4,684.84
$ 1, 059, 495.60
Total Foreign Field Appropriations ......................
Home Expenditures:
Foreign Department Administration ...................... $ 4 9 ,8 17 .0 0
Home Department Adm inistration ............................
4 1,6 3 7 .5 3
T reasu ry Department Adm inistration .......................
5 3,2 4 7 .5 4
Interest ..............................................................................
Retired Officers and W orkers ...............................
Secretary and T reasurer Genl. C onf. Free Bap­
tists ............................................................................
$ 14 4 ,7 0 2 .0 7
19 ,29 8 .20
1,8 0 0 .0 0
200.00
.......................................
166,000.27
Total Appropriations Regular Budget ....................
$1,2 2 5 ,4 9 5 .8 7
Total Home Expenditures
Supplemental Budget:
L an d , Buildings, and Equipment ................................... $ 7 1,6 8 3 .9 1
W ork and W orkers in Europe ...........................................
75,000.00
Retired M issionaries and Widows ......................................
36,889.00
New Appointees .........................................................................
28 ,454.20
Homes fo r M issionaries and M issionaries’ C hild ren ..
2 3 ,7 10 .5 7
Total Supplemental Budget
.............................................
Total Regular and Supplemental B u d g e t s ....................
235, 737.68
$ 1 ,4 6 1 ,2 3 3 - 5 5
Specific Budget— Contra:
L an d , Buildings, and Equipment ................................. $242,489.83
R elief W ork ............................................................................
8 4 ,2 7 8 .14
General W ork ........................................................................
3 i , 343-31
Total Specific Budget ..........................................................
3 5 8 ,1 1 1 .2 8
Total R egular, Supplemental and Specific Budget
Appropriations ...............................................................
Balance transferred to Deficit Account ......................
$ 1,8 19 ,3 4 4 .8 3
2 8 5 ,2 7 8 .16
Grand Total
$ 2 ,10 4 ,6 2 2 .9 9
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GENERAL BALANCE SHEET
April 30, 1923
ASSETS
Perm anent, Tem porary and A nnuity Fund A ssets:
Permanent and Temporary Funds:
Invested— Schedule V I I I A ............................................ $6 ,8 0 9 ,9 7 0 .33
Cash— Uninvested .....................
56,665.90
Total Permanent and Tem porary Funds ....................
A nnuity Fu n d s:
Invested— Schedule V I I I B .....................
Investments covering Special T ru st A greem ents
Cash— Uninvested .............
$6 ,8 6 6 ,6 36 .2 3
$ 1,4 6 0 ,6 6 5 .2 3
139,940.37
9 1,9 3 0 .7 6
Total Annuity Funds .........................................................
1,6 9 2 ,5 3 6 .3 6
T otal Perm anent, Tem porary and A nnuity Fund
Assets ..............................................................................
Investments General Funds (Less R eserve o f $ 8 ,3 5 4 .14 )
$ 8 ,5 5 9 ,17 2 .5 9
14 2 ,5 3 4 .4 8
Cash:
On hand ...................................................................................
On deposit in Banks ..........................................................
In Transit ..............................................................................
$800.00
2 2 2 ,1 3 9 .1 9
34 6 ,9 5 1.4 3
Total Cash ..............................................................................
Note Receivable (due September 1 , 1924) ....................
569,890.62
1,4 5 0 .0 0
Accounts Receivable:
Woman’ s American
Budget 1919-20
Budget 1920-21
B udget 1921-22
Budget 1922-23
Baptist Foreign Mission Society:
......................................$ 12 2 ,7 2 8 .14
..................................... 14 9 ,10 2 .6 9
..................................... 17 2 ,2 9 3 .7 2
..................................... 58,009.87
^
„ .
M issionaries General Society ....................
M issionaries W oman’s Society ...............
Other .................................................................
Total Accounts Receivable .......................................
Advances:
B y M ission T reasurers on M issionaries’ and Field
Accounts
...........................................................
Homes fo r Missionaries and M issionaries’ Children.
M issionaries fo r Traveling Expenses:
General Society ...........................................................
W oman’s Society .........
Miscellaneous .........................................................................
On Account o f Prospective F u n d s .................................
Total A dvances ......................................................................
Accumulated Deficit Schedule I I I .......................................
$ 5 0 2 ,13 4 .4 2
16 ,3 0 3 .7 2
3 ,1 5 6 .1 9
1,9 9 6 .7 1
5 2 3,5 9 1-0 4
$ 1 8 4 ,1 3 5 .7 7
2 ,9 2 3 .15
13 ,6 14 .9 6
3 ,4 7 1.9 7
1,7 7 0 .6 2
1 6 7 .12
206,083.59
6 6 1,5 4 0 .10
$10 ,6 6 4 ,2 6 2 .4 2
This Balance Sheet does not include physical property o f the Society used in field
work or furniture and fixtures o f the home office.
The .W oman’s American Baptist. Foreign Mission Society paid $ 1 5 2 ,1 3 4 .4 2
Ju n e i , 19 2 3, applying on the above Accounts Receivable.
on
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GENERAL BALANCE SHEET
April 30, 1923
L IA B IL IT IE S
Reserves fo r Perm anent, Tem porary and Annuity Funds:
Permanent and Temporary Funds:
Funds— Schedule V I ........................................................ $6 ,7 10 ,6 4 8 .0 7
Gain and Loss on Investm ent of Securities ( n e t ) ..
15 5 ,9 8 8 .16
Total Reserves fo r Permanent and Tem porary Funds
$6 ,8 6 6 ,6 36 .23
Reserves fo r Annuity Funds:
General A nnuity Agreements ....................................... $ 1 ,5 3 1 ,8 1 8 . 5 2
Gain and Loss on Investm ent o f Securities ( n e t ) ..
19 ,35 9 .8 6
Special T ru st Agreements ................................................
139 ,9 4 0 .37
1 ,4 1 7 . 6 1
Annuities awaiting A nnuitant’s Disposition .............
Total Reserves fo r Annuity Funds ............................
Total Reserves fo r
A nnuity Funds
1,6 9 2 ,5 3 6 ,3 6
Perm anent, Tem porary and
......................................................
M iscellaneous Reserves:
Equalization of Income from Legacies— Schedule
V II D
.....................................................................
Equalization o f Income from Annuities— Schedule
V I I C ..............................................................................
Future Expenditures on Account of Non-productive
Estates ............................................................................
Purchase and Construction of Mission P ro p erty
Contributions fo r SpecialPurposes or Future U s e ..
$ 8 ,5 5 9 ,17 2 .5 9
$250,000.00
50,000.00
S 3 -04
47,0 7 3.0 7
25,52 9 .8 5
Total Reserves ..........................................................................
Notes Payable ..................................................................................
Accounts Payable:
M issionaries— General Society .........................................
Missionaries— Woman’s Society .......................................
Miscellaneous ...........................................................................
372,6 55.9 6
600,000.00
$ 11,7 5 0 .8 5
2 ,6 9 1.5 9
6 ,12 8 .7 5
Total Accounts Payable ......................................................
M ission T reasurers’ Deposit L ia b ilit ie s ...................................
Foreign Field Appropriation Balances against which
cnarges have not yet been reported:
Current Budget:
General Society ........................................ $ 1,0 8 3 ,8 14 .0 5
Woman’s Society .....................................
4 7 9 ,7 0 1.9 2
Previous Budgets:
General Society .........................................
Woman’s Society .....................................
2 0 ,5 7 1 .1 9
10 2 ,9 9 3 .5 1
------------------------- $ 1 , s 6 3 , 5 i 5 - 9 7
$419 ,0 76 .86
9 8 ,6 55.2 7
---------------------
517, 732.13
Total ......................................................................................... $ 2 ,0 8 1,2 4 8 .10
L e ss: Net Advances to Mission Treasurers to apply on
the above Balances ...............................................................
1,0 9 2 ,3 7 8 .9 3
Home T reasurer’s Sight D rafts Outstanding ....................
9 8 8 ,8 6 g.17
20,000.00
$ 1 0 , 6 6 4 , 2 6 2 .4 2
196
A M E R IC A N
BAPTIST FOREIGN M ISSION SOCIETY
S C H E D U L E IV
SUMMARY OF FOREIGN FIELD APPROPRIATIONS
The
The
The
The
Burm a Mission ......................................................
Assam Mission .....................
Telugu M is s io n ......................................................
Bengal-Orissa Mission .......................................
The China M issions:
South China Mission ...............................................
East China Mission .................................................
West China Mission ...............................................
The Japan M is s io n ........................................................
The Congo Mission ......................................................
The Philippine Islands M is s io n ................................
A . B . F . M. S .
$3 33,30 6 .6 7
14 3 ,7 8 5 .3 1
188 ,36 0 .45
65,056.86
W. A . B . F . M. S.
$ 1 1 8 ,2 3 3 .3 1
50,676.64
91,4 0 6 .4 5
19,009.03
114 ,5 3 6 .9 0
2 0 4,144.6 8
12 3,8 9 8 .7 5
12 9 ,7 8 7 .15
6 6 ,6 5 9 .11
4 7 ,2 3 1.0 9
4 0 ,0 16 .7 3
79,874.09
26,586.22
92,945.80
16,29 6 .8 7
2 3 ,2 13 .3 7
Total Appropriations for the Missions . . . . $1,4 0 5 ,6 6 6 .9 7
W ork in Europe ............................................................
Special R elief W ork in E u r o p e ................................
Retired Missionaries and Widows .........................
Education of Oriental Students ..............................
Homes for Missionaries and M issionaries’ Children
Foreign Missions Conference ..................................
“ M issions,” e tc ., sent to Missionaries .............
Visitation of Foreign Fields .....................................
Miscellaneous Specifics ...............................................
$5 5 8 ,2 5 8 .5 1
76,076.00
84,028.59
36,889.00
13 ,7 5 0 .0 0
2 3 ,7 10 .5 7
6,260.50
1,9 9 8 .5 4
4,684.84
279.55
22 ,70 0 .75
.................
5 ,9 25.00
.................
.................
.................
.................
..................
..................
„ .
Cancellations in Previous Budgets ........................
$586,884.26
1,7 6 2 .5 0
Total Foreign Field A p p ro p riatio n s................ * $ 1,6 5 3 ,3 4 4 .5 6
$ 5 8 5 ,12 1.7 6
* In agreement with Schedule I I as follows:
Total Foreign Field Appropriations ...............................................
$1,0 5 9 ,4 9 5 .6 0
Total Supplemental Budget ...........................................................................
2 35 ,7 3 7.6 8
Total Specific Budget ......................................................................................
3 5 8 ,1 1 1 .2 8
$ i , 653, 344.56
F O R E IG N F IE L D A P P R O P R IA T IO N S
TH E BURMA MISSION
Bassein
Bhamo
Haka ...........
Henzada . . .
Insein .........
K alaw .........
Kengtung . .
Loikaw
M andalay . .
Maubin . . . .
Maymyo . . .
M eiktila . . .
M ong Lem
Mongnai . . .
Moulmein . .
M yingyan .
M yitkyina .
Namkham .
Nyaunglebin
Pegu ...........
Pyinmana ..
Prome . . . .
Pyapon . . . .
Rangoon . .
Sagaing . . .
A . B . F . M. S.
$ 12 ,8 9 3 .9 1
3 ,5 1 3 .3 2
2 ,6 72.20
5,76 9 .38
13 ,5 6 4 .7 6
2 ,15 0 .0 0
3,5 2 3 .0 0
2 ,13 8 .6 6
1 ,6 3 8 .3 3
3 , 598.68
916.65
3 ,0 7 3 .1 2
5 , 544-02
i , 752.33
18,945-42
2 ,2 4 3.31:
1,6 2 0 .0 0
10 ,5 4 0 .8 1
¿ 75-00
18,744.8 8
2 ,49 5.48
1,4 5 0 .0 0
94,279.03
10,8 98 .36
$224,640.65
W. A . B . F . M. S.
$7 ,4 20 .0 3
$ i ,600.00
i ,600.00
16 ,2 2 8 .7 2
1,2 0 0 .0 0
5 , 955-00
800.00
19 ,0 28 .8 3
...........
1,6 0 ¿ .6 7
800.00
i ,865.30
800.00
12 ,8 2 7.9 9
$ 71, 734-54
REPORT OF T H E TREASURER
Sandoway .......................................................................
Taunggyi .........................................................................
T avoy .......................................................................................
Tharrawaddy ................................................................
Thayetmyo ....................................................................
Thonze .....................................................................................
Toungoo ..........
Gross Appropriations .................................................
Income T ax ..........................................................................
Administrative Expense .............................................
Total Appropriations for Burma ...................
THE
ASSAM
Total Appropriations for Assam ...................
SOUTH
742.50
2,002.9 4
.¿,455.00
13 ,8 0 5 .8 1
60,592.00
2,6 32 .6 8
$322,206.67
W. A . B . F . M. S.
$3,4 0 2 .7 6
1,600.00
...
1 ,8 66.66
.................
1,0 6 6 .3 1
7 , 329- ï 5
30,356.00
...
877.89
$ 1 1 8 ,2 3 3 .3 1
M IS S IO N
Gauhati .............................................................................
Golaghat ...........................................................................
Impur ...............................................................................
Jorhat ...............................................................................
Kan^pokpi .......................................................................
Kohima . . . . ..................................................................
North Lakhimpur ........................................................
Nowgong .........................................................................
Sadiya .............................................................................
Sibsagor-Dibrugarh ......................................................
Tika ...................................................................................
T ura .................
Gross Appropriations .................................................
Income T ax ...................................................................
Administrative Expense .............................................
THE
A . B . t . M. S.
$5 .0 9 9 .17
2,5 5 0 .0 0
7,68 5.9 2
197
A. B . F . M. S.
$10 ,9 0 8 .37
7,692.06
8 ,3 17 .7 4
4 7 ,6 6 4 .15
8 ,776.9 2
4 ,8 5 9 .9 1
1,7 5 0 .0 0
5,860.87
1,5 9 3 .1 0
3 ,7 3 1.10
1,600.00
5,7 2 2 .4 2
3 4 > 3 ii-3 3
997-34
.................
$ 14 3 ,7 8 5 .3 1
H A. B . F . M. S.
$ 10 ,0 9 1.6 7
5,36 6.97
2 ,7 3 1-0 0
6,000.00
3,845.00
16 ,2 9 3 .5 0
406.50
$50,676.64
IN D IA M IS S IO N
AHur .................................................................................
Atmakur ...........................................................................
Bapatla .............................................................................
Bezwada ...........................................................................
Cumbum ...........................................................................
D o n ak o n d a.......................................................................
Gadval .............................................................................
Gurzalla ...........................................................................
Hanumakonda ................................................................
Jangaon ...........................................................................
K an igiri ...........................................................................
K avali .............................................................................
Kurnool ...........................................................................
M adira .............................................................................
Madras .............................................................................
Mahbubnager ................................................................
Nalgonda ........................................
Nandyal ...........................................................................
Narsaravupet ................................................................
Nellore .............................................................................
Ongole .............................................................................
Podili ...............................................................................
Ramapatnam ..................................................................
Sattenapalle ..................................................................
Secunderabad ................................................................
Sooriapett .......................................................................
Udayagiri .......................................................................
Vinukonda ........................................
Kodaikanal Schoolfo r M issionaries’ Children ..
Malabar Christian College ...........................................
Madras Christian College ............................................
Gross Appropriations .................................................
Income T ax ..................................................................
Administrative Expense .............................................
Total Appropriations fo r South India .........
A . B . F . M. S.
$3,468.00
1,8 5 0 .0 0
875.00
100.00
6 ,2 2 7 .34
2,340.00
300.00
4,000.00
7,250.00
4,6 50.56
2 ,1 1 5 .0 0
6,445.98
7 ,9 25.56
2 ,17 5 .0 0
13 ,7 7 2 .7 0
2,280.00
877.50
3,050.00
1,7 5 0 .0 0
14 ,4 0 5 .8 3
17 ,6 8 2 .7 4
7.937-00
5 .3 2 3 .9 1
.................
1,8 3 7 .7 1
875.00
2,387.8 8
9 ,6 2 2.8 1
450.00
66.67
1,6 6 6 .6 7
53. 348-33
1,3 0 3 • 26
.................
$18 8,360.45
IV. A . B . F . M . S.
$ 1. 779-51
1, 254-55
400.00
3,426.28
1.38 0 .0 0
4 ,3 18 .1 0
3,8 2 4 .5 7
18 ,6 7 2 .6 8
1 1 ,800.00
66.' 66
800.00
1 .700.00
600.00
4 ,12 7 .8 5
36 ,4 8 3.7 5
772.50
$9 1,4 0 6 .4 5
198
A M E R IC A N B A PTIST FOREIGN M ISSION ' SOCIETY
THE BENGAL-ORISSA MISSION
Balasore ...........................................................................
Bhimpore .........................................................................
Contai ................................................................................
Jam shedpur .....................................................................
Jellasore ...........................................................................
Kharagpur .......................................................................
Midnapore .......................................................................
Gross Appropriations .................................................
Income T a x ...................................................................
Adm inistrative Expense .............................................
Total Appropriations fo r Bengal-Orissa —
A . B . F . M . S.
$ 17 ,7 0 0 .9 6
8,432.66
1,7 2 5 .0 0
1 ,3 9 2 .19
..................
11,8 4 4 .5 3
742.50
22,840.67
378-35
W. A .B . F . M . S.
$ 9 . i 95.o 7
800.00
5 , 134-21
3 , 742.50
..................
137.25
$65,056.86
$19 ,0 0 9 .0 3
TH E CHINA MISSIONS
South China
Changning .......................................................................
Chaochowfu ...................................................................
Chaoyang .........................................................................
Hopo ..................................................................................
K aying .............................................................................
K ityang ............................................................................
Sunwuhsien .....................................................................
Swatow .............................................................................
Ungkung .........................................................................
Canton Christian College ...........................................
Gross Appropriations ..................................................
Adm inistrative Expense .............................................
Total Appropriations fo r South China . . . .
A . B . F . M . S.
.................
$3 ,6 0 3.0 3
6,328 .97
9,8 45.24
7,879.46
12 ,4 8 0 .2 2
6 ,7 9 6 .15
44,830.25
5 ,15 4 .5 8
625.00
16,994.00
.................
$ 114 ,5 3 6 .9 0
IV. A . B . F . M. S.
$150 .0 0
800.00
300.00
i , 640.06
3 , 555-6o
7,966.62
18 ,0 4 5 .20
7 .28 4.75
274-50
$4 0 ,0 16 .7 3
East China
Hangchow .......................................................................
Huchow ...........................................................................
K inhwa .............................................................................
Nanking ...........................................................................
Ningpo .............................................................................
Shanghai .........................................................................
Shaohsing
.................................................................
Gross Appropriations .................................................
A ll China A p p rop riation s...........................................
Adm inistrative Expense .............................................
Total Appropriations for East China ...........
A . B . F . M. S.
$ 11,4 6 8 .5 0
6 ,15 6 .17
3 ,8 13 -45
9 ,0 2 6 .19
15 ,18 9 .6 5
12 2 ,0 0 5 .15
10 ,4 10 .3 7
2 3 ,2 15 .2 0
2,860.00
.................
$2 0 4,144.6 8
W. A .B . F . M. S.
$4,000.00
19 ,4 19 .0 8
4,26 2.9 2
2,48 8 .29
29 . 725-80
7,600.00
12 ,0 16 .5 0
3 6 1.5 0
$ 7 9 , 8 7 4 . 09
West China
Chengtu ...........................................................................
Ningyuenfu .....................................................................
K iatingfu .........................................................................
Su ifu ................................................................................
Yachow fu .......................................................................
W est China Union U niversity ...................................
General Mission Expense ...........................................
Gross Appropriations ..................................................
Adm inistrative Expense .............................................
Total Appropriations fo r West C h in a
* Deduction
A. B . F . M. S.
$4 6 ,2 18 .9 5
*2 7,24 7.9 5
5.356 .4 0
7 1,9 6 1.6 3
19,943.06
6,666.66
1,0 0 0 .0 0
.................
.................
$ 12 3,8 9 8 .7 5
IV. A . B . F . M . S.
$ 11,8 9 3 .0 0
7 , 327-47
2,400.00
4 , 758.75
2O7.OO
$2 6 , 5 8 6 .2 2
REPORT OF T H E TREASURER
199
THE JAPAN MISSION
A. B . F. M. S.
H im eji .............................................................................
Inland Sea .....................................................................
Kobe ..................................................................................
Kyoto ...............................................................................
Morioka ...........................................................................
Osaka ...............................................................................
Sendai .............................................................................
Tokyo ................................................................................
Tona ..................................................................................
Yokohoma .......................................................................
Gross Appropriations .................................................
Income T a x ...................................................................
Administrative Expense .............................................
Total Appropriations fo r Japan ......................
12 ,7 9 9 .2 6
64,473.00
'1,0 0 3 ;6 0
W. A . B . F . M. S.
$9 .7 2 5 .8 3
..................
9 71.00
.................3,0 0 0 .38
3,9 53.6 o
8 ,975.00
12,2 8 4 .4 9
1,0 5 4 .0 0
4,656.00
47, 379-75
.................
$ 12 9 ,7 8 7 .15
$92,945.80
$1,8 4 .4 .15
1,5 8 7 .5 0
4 . 795-35
3 ,0 3 8 .4 1
4 . 919-75
2 ,18 6 .0 0
3 3 ,1 4 0 .1 3
945-75
THE CONGO MISSION
Banza Manteke ............................................................
Kimpese ...........................................................................
Lukunga .........................................................................
M atadi .............................................................................
Mukimvika .....................................................................
Ntondo .............................................................................
Sona Bata .......................................................................
Tshumbiri .........................................................
Vanga ...............................................................................
Emergency Fund ............................................
General Mission Expense ............................’ ............
Adm inistrative Expense .............................................
Gross Appropriations .................................................
Total Appropriations for Congo ...................
A . B . F . M . S.
$ 14 ,7 2 9 .7 1
4,474.88
3 ,2 5 0 .18
5 ,0 6 6 .33
3 ,3 4 3 .19
10 ,7 5 8 .14
9,886.59
4 ,6 17 .1 6
8 ,482.93
700.00
1,3 5 0 .0 0
W. A . B . F . M. S.
$ 1,19 9 .4 7
1,6 5 0 .0 0
.................
..................
..................
2,8 65.99
5,466.66
1,1 7 5 .0 0
i , 000.00
..................
.................
87.75
2 ,8 5 2 .0 0
$ 6 6 ,6 5 9 .11
$16 ,2 9 6 .8 7
THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS MISSION
Bacolod
....................................................................
Capiz ...............................................................................
Iloilo -----------; .............................................................
Administrative Expense .............................................
Reserve Fund ................................................................
TotalAppropriations fo r Philippine Islands.
A. B . F . M. S.
$9,804.98
6,9 52 .8 3
2 9 ,723.28
750.00
$ 4 7 ,2 3 1.0 9
W. A . B . F . M, S.
$ 1,2 8 7 .5 0
5)362.50
i 6 , 374.37
189.00
....
$ 2 3 ,2 13 .3 7
W O R K IN EUROPE
Denmark .........................................................................
Norway ...........................................................................
Germany .........................................................................
Sweden .....................
France .............................................................................
Czechoslovakia ..............................................................
Estlionia ....................'. ....................................................
Latvia ......................................................................... ....
Poland .............................................................................
Representative in Europe .........................................
Commissioner in Europe ..........................-................
Visitors from Europe
“ M issions,” and Denominational Papers ...........
Reserve ..................................
Total W ork in Europe
A . B . F . M. S .
$8,400.00
7,600.00
2 ,0 7 5 .0 0
2 ,10 0 .0 0
15 ,7 4 0 .0 0
10,620.00
2,680.00
3,340.00
11,0 2 9 .0 0
5,500.00
3,000.00
1,0 0 0 .0 0
500.00
2,492.00
$76,076.00
IV. A . B . F . M. S.
..................
•
..................
..................
.................
..................
$3,605.00
.................
..................
19, 095-75
..................
.................
..................
.................
.................
$22,70 0 .75
200
A M E R IC A N BAPTIST FOREIGN M ISSIO N
SOCIETY
SCHEDULE V
DETAILS OF HOME EXPENDITURES
F o r the Fiscal Y e a r ended A p ril 30, 1923
(1)
Foreign Department Administration
Cablegrams .................................................................................................
Medical Exam ination o f Missionaries .............................................
Miscellaneous Expense .........................................................................
Office Equipment ....................................................................................
Postage .......................................................................................................
Salaries o f Foreign Secretaries ........................................................
Salaries of Assistants and Office S t a f f ...........................................
Stationery and Supplies .......................................................................
Telegram s ...................................................................................................
T ravel of Missionaries to meet theBoard .......................................
T ravel o f Officers and Others ............................................................
Proportion o f General E x p e n s e ..........................................................
$493.07
916.07
3 I 2 .8 7
4I 5 -4I
12 2 .4 1
10 ,9 0 6 .34
16 ,28 9 .59
5 1.0 9
157-85
979-35
1,3 8 4 .8 2
13,5 4 0 .8 6
Candidate and Medical Department Administration
Medical Exam ination o f New Appointees . . . .
Postage .......................................................................
Salary o f Assistant and Office Staff .............
Telegrams ...................................................................
T ravel o f Candidates ...........................................
T ravel o f Officers ....................................................
$10 6 .5 0
8.20
1,9 8 0.00
1 1 .9 7
1 ,1 2 3 .9 6
1,0 16 .6 4
-----------------
(2)
4,247.27
---------------
$4 9 ,8 17 .0 0
Home Department Administration
Cablegrams .........................................................................
Miscellaneous Expense ..................................................
New England Baptist Library ..................................
Office Equipment ............................................................
Other Lib rary E x p e n s e ..................................................
Postage ................................................................................
Salary of Home Secretary ...........................................
Sa la ry o f Associate S e c r e t a r y .....................................
Miscellaneous ...................................................................
Salaries o f Office Staff ..................................................
Stationery and Supplies ...............................................
Telegrams ...........................................................................
T ravel of Officers and Others .....................................
Proportion o f General Expense ................................
$22.70
25.98
250.00
259.63
1.0 0
195-55
5,4 30 .50
2 ,9 6 1.10
38.90
10 ,2 0 7 .16
1 1 9. 47
117 .4 2
1,8 3 6 .4 3
13,5 4 0 .8 6
--------------- $35,006.70
Promotion of Interest and Beneficence
Deputation W ork of Missionaries ............................
Deputation W ork o f Officers .....................................
Literature Department ..................................................
M issionary Exhibits ......................................................
Publicity ..............................................................................
$444.53
1,7 2 8 .4 0
2,50 0 .4 6
375.57
1 ,5 8 1 .8 7
6 ,630.83
-------------
4 1,6 3 7 .5 3
REPORT OF T H E TREASURER
(3)
201
Treasury Department Administration
Cablegrams ...............................................................................................
Certified Public Accountant ..............................................................
Collection and Exchange .....................................................................
Legal Expense ........................................................................................
Miscellaneous Expense .........................................................................
Office Equipment ....................................................................................
Over and Short Account .....................................................................
Postage .......................................................................................................
S afe Deposit B ox ....................................................................................
Salary of T r e a s u r e r ................................................................................
Salary of Assistant and Office Staff .............................................
Stationery and Supplies .......................................................................
Telegrams ...................................................................................................
Travel of Officers and Others ............................................................
T reasury Liability Bonds .....................................................................
Shipping Department, Salaries and Expenses ............................
Proportion of General Expense ........................................................
Less Discount ..................................................................................
$ 4 1 7 .1 2
800.00
31 -95
65.05
104.45
417-57
1.5 8
447 • 00
56.00
5,000.00
2 3 ,13 9 .8 1
576.65
110 .8 2
349-03
175-56
8 ,15 8 .3 5
1 3 , 54° -87
$ 5 3 ,3 9 1.8 1
144-27
$ 53 , 247-54
(4) Miscellaneous General Expense
Interest ....................................................................................................... $19 ,2 9 8 .20
Retired Officers and W orkers ............................................................
1,8 00.00
Expenses Secretary and T reasurer, General Conference of
Free Baptists ..................................................................................
200.00
2 1,2 9 8 .2 0
$16 6 ,0 0 0 .27
Total Adm inistrative Expense ............................
(5) Details of General Expense
Alterations and Repairs .......................................................................
Annual Meeting .....................................................................
Board of M anagers’ T ravel .................................................................
Electric Light ..........................................................................................
General Office E q u ip m en t.....................................................................
Insurance ...................................................................................................
Legal Expense ..........................................................................................
Miscellaneous Expense .........................................................................
Office Cleaning ........................................................................................
Postage .......................................................................................................
Rent .............................................................................................................
Salaries o f Office Staff .........................................................................
Special Conference Expense ...............................................................
Stationery and Supplies .......................................................................
Telegrams ...................................................................................................
Telephone ...................................................................................................
$ 1,0 3 4 .2 0
2 ,5 0 3.5 9
3.838.8 9
4 8 1.34
472- 7°
1 16 .0 1
1,0 6 3 .16
669.85
904.02
1,6 9 2 .7 8
19 ,14 4 .8 1
6 ,18 4 .16
16 6 .7 1
1,6 28 .9 8
3-87
7 17 .5 2
Apportioned as follows:
To Foreign Department Administration ................................ $13 ,5 4 0 .8 6
To Home Department Administration ..................................... 13,5 4 0 .8 6
To T reasury Department Administration ..............................
13,5 4 0 .8 7
$40,6 22.59
$40,6 22.59
(6) Details of Literature Department
Advertising ..............................................................................................
Annual Report ........................................................................................
Cuts and Electrotypes ...........................................................................
General Literature and P r in t in g ........................................................
Postage and Express .............................................................................
$16 .8 0
2 ,1 6 2 .1 2
1 1 .5 0
37 0 .16
54.00
Less Credit Sales ....................................................................................
$2 ,6 14 .5 8
114 .12
$2,50 0 .4 6
G eorge B. H u n t in g t o n , Treasurer.
202
A M E R IC A N B A PTIST FOREIGN M ISSIO N SOCIETY
SCHEDULE V I
SUMMARY OF RESERVES FOR PERMANENT AND
TEMPORARY FUNDS
Balance
M ay I,
1922
Permanent Funds in Gen­
eral Investments ...........
$ 993, 950.89
Temporary Funds in Gen­
8 4,636.27
eral Investments ...........
Permanent Funds with Spe­
cified Investments ......... 5 ,5 12 ,7 6 2 .0 1
Temporary Funds with Spe­
96,000.00
cified Investments .........
Special Permanent a n d
60,687.69
Temporary Funds .........
$6 ,74 8,036.86
Balance
A pril 30,
1923
Increase
Decrease
$38,59 4 .27
$ 1 5 ,3 2 5 .1 0 $ 1,0 17 ,2 2 0 .0 6
3 4 ,3 3 1 .0 1
27,696.96
810.00
7 8 ,002.22
5 . 5 1 3 . 572.0 1
53. 443-38
12 5 ,7 6 3 .3 8
23,680.00
22,032.4 8
4 . 546.39
78, i 73-78
$14 2 ,5 7 7 .0 9
$179 ,9 6 5.8 8
Total carried into Sched­
ule I I I ..............................
$6 ,7 10 ,6 4 8 .0 7
CLASS I
Permanent Funds in General Investments
Abbott, E . L ., Endowment Fund ......................................................
A frican Medical Fund .........................................................................
A llen, Ju lia I., Memorial Fund ..........................................................
Ambler, A . T ...............................................................................................
Ambler, J . V ., Memorial Fund ..........................................................
Ambler, J . V ., Scholarship Fund ......................................................
Angus Scholarship Fund .......................................................................
Argabright, S. V .........................................................................................
Arnold, George N ......................................................................................
" A s Unto Him ” Fund .......................................................................
Attleton, Salome Loomis .....................................................................
A xtell, Hannah E .......................................................................................
Bailie, David ............................................................................................
Baker, Bessie Louise, Memorial Fund .............................................
Bam ford, Chloe Lizzie ...........................................................................
Bam ford, Cornelia Elizabeth Rand ....................................................
Bam ford, Dr. W illiam ...........................................................................
B arney, B . B ., Memorial Fund ..........................................................
Bellew, W illiam B ......................................................................................
Bennett, Montgomery .............................................................................
B ixby, E . M ......................................................
.'.............
Blake, H enry H ...........................
Bond, _Theo. P .............................................................................................
Bostwick, J . A .............................................................................................
B radford, S. S ...............................................
Brow , Arnold, Rhoda, and Abbie J .....................................................
Brown, Jennie ...........................................................................................
B ryan t Fund ..............................................................................................
Bucknell, M. C...........................................................................................
Bucknell, W illiam, Bible Fund ..........................................................
Burchard, Hannah M ................................................................................
Burke, J . W .........................
Balance
A p ril 30,1923
Income
Earned
$ 13, 779-97
3,627.58
1,200.00
3,500.00
13,000.00
300.00
500.00
100.00
1,949.18
5,000.00
4,287.50
124.44
1,000.00
950.00
50.00
200.00
250.00
5,000.00
19 2.14
3,383.33
1,000.00
41,341.20
224.96
20,300.00
1,000.00
532.50
400.00
453-71
1,000.00
2,414.73
3,874.38
100.00
$658.50
173-35
57-34
167.25
621.23
14-34
23.89
4.78
93-15
238.94
204.89
5.95
47-79
45-40
2.39
9.56
n -95
238.94
9.18
161.68
47-79
1,975-58
10.75
970.08
47-79
25.45
19 .11
21.68
47-79
H5-39
185.15
4.78
203
REPORT OF T H E TREASURER
Burm an Theological Seminary Fund ...............................................
Butler, Charles T .......................................................................................
Butler, Elizabeth N ....................................................................................
B yerly, A . J ................................................................................................
Campbell, Catherine J ..............................................................................
Carlton, Adora N „ Memorial Fund ....................................................
Carpenter, C. H .........................................................................................
Carpenter Scholarship Fund ..............................................................
Carr Fund ...................................................................................................
Chandler, Elizabeth B ..............................................................................
Cheney, Jo e l ............................................................................................
1 Clough Memorial Endowment Fund ................: ..........................
Clough Memorial Endowment Fund,Edmands W ard ..................
Clough Memorial Endowment Fund,M ills Ward ..........................
Clough Memorial Endowment Fund,Wm. B . Webb ....................
Colby, E . S ...................................................................................................
Colby, M. L .................................................................................................
Cook, Chapman M ......................................................................................
Cortiss, Celinda ............
Cox, Effie W ................................................................................................
Crozer, Robert H ........................................................................................
Crozer, Sallie L ..........................................................................................
C urrier, Em ily E ........................................................................................
Cushing, Josiah N.,Memorial Fund ..................................................
Daniels, Susan A . L .................................................................................
David, Sarah H. and Joseph W ..............................................................
Davis, Isaac ...............................................................................................
Davis, Jam es M ..........................................................................................
Dean, William ..........................................................................................
Dizer, Marshall C......................................................................................
2-Drown, M ary N ......................................................................................
*Droz, Adaline ............................................................................................
Dunbar, Robert ........................................................................................
Dunham, Sabra G......................................................................................
Eaches, Josiah P ........................................................................................
Eastburn, Martha, Memorial Fund ...................................................
Eaton, Fidelia D ........................................................................................
Eldredge, Lyman ......................................................................................
Eldredge, Truman
...............................................................................
Estes, Carrie A ............................................................................................
Evans, Levi P ..............................................................................................
Farrington, Anna H .................................................................................
Faye, M ary Daniel
...............................................................................
Fengar, M ary E ................................
Fessendon, Emma Smith, Memorial Fund .......................................
Fisk, Theron ............................................................................................
Flagg, M ary ..............................................................................................
Flint, H arriet N .........................................................................................
Floyd, Emmet H ., Scholarship Fund .............................................
Free Baptist Permanent Fund ............................................................
French Mission Fund ...........................................................................
F ry, Mrs. L . R ............................................................................................
Gale, Susan H ............................................................................................
Gates, Ruth L ..............................................................................................
Glover, H enry R ........................................................................................
Goodrich Scholarship Fund ................................................................
Ham, William ..........................................................................................
Harmon, Eugene E ...................................................................................
Hawkes, A . G.............................................................................................
Hewitt, Harriet Barker .........................................................................
Horton, Ruth E ., Memorial Fund ...................................................
Hoyt, Joseph B ..........................................................................................
Huizinga, Albert T ., Memorial Scholarship Endowment Fund
Insein Seminary Fund ...............................................................
Jam es, William ........................................................................................
Jenkins, Horace, Eastern China Mission Theological School
Fund ....................................................................................................
John, Miss Frank ....................................................................................
Johnson, Susannah ................................................................................
Jones, B . E ...................................................................................................
Jones, John J ...............................................................................................
Judson Scholarship Fund .....................................................................
Karen Seminary Endowment Fund
.............................................
K elly Scholarship Fund .........................................................................
*Ketcham, Geo. W., Foreign MemorialFund, No. 2 ...................
Balance
A p ril 30,1923
$2,000.00
1,000.00
1,000.00
500.00
i 75-o°
700.00
15.001.41
7,600.22
1,000.00
1 , 555-85
7,307-96
16,465.09
5,000.00
3,000.00
250.00
476.32
1,000.00
324.00
393-73
Income
Earned
$ 95-57
47-79
47-79
23.89
°-36
33-45
716.87
3&3-I9
47.79
74.35
349-23
784.09
238.93
143-36
u -95
22.76
47-79
I5-48
18.81
7.36
2,389.36
143-36
5.97
240.13
9.56
178.43
238.94
163.07
154-00
50,000.00
3,000.00
125.00
5,025.00
200.00
3, 733-83
5,000.00
3,412.50
x,000.00
1,000.00
3,119 .7 0
900.00
500.00
2,762.50
1,000.00
67.08
18,235.92
100.00
1,000.00
25.00
500.00
800.09
8 1.17
16,184.50
870.00
1,872.70
6,339.90
5,000.00
500.00
32,783.51
5,029.20
2,085.89
1,426.89
160.00
5,000.00
100.00
89.55
985.00
500.00
6,427.83
250.00
24,523.00
310.35
4,191.50
800.00
23.89
307.17
n .9 5
1,17 1.8 8
14-83
200.30
38.23
4,000.00
500.00
400.00
500.00
50,000.00
538.75
2,000.00
300.00
15,240.51
19 1.15
23.89
19 .11
23.89
2,389.36
25.75
95-57
14.34
628.13
47-79
47-79
137-38
43.01
23.89
132.01
47-79
3.20
871.44
4.78
47-79
1.19
23.89
38.23
3.88
773-41
41-57
89.49
302.96
238.93
23.89
1,566.63
240.33
99.68
68.19
7.65
238.94
4-78
4-28
47-07
204
A M E R IC A N BAPTIST FOREIGN M ISSION SOCIETY
Kimball, Edmund ......................................................................................
Kurtz, Jacob ............................................................................................
*Kurtz, M ary, Memorial Fund ..........................................................
Latourette, E . S ..........................................................................................
Leavens, Ju lia H ., Memorial Fund .................................................
Legacy “ Y ” Fund ...............................................................................
Lees, W. B ...................................................................................................
Leonard Memorial Fund .......................................................................
Leonard, Frank J ......................................................................................
Lester, Sarah Edson, Foreign Mission Fund ................................
Lewis, M ary J ..............................................................................................
Lindsay, M ary E .......................................... ............................................
Lindsley, Rachel K ....................................................................................
Little, George W ........................................................................................
Logan, John ...............................................................................................
Lo u g ee,' Clara A .........................................................................................
Mah Hnin E ................................................................................................
Mendenhall, Nannie ................................................................................
Mendenhall, Thomas G.............................................................................
M errick, Austin ........................................................................................
M errill, S. Emma ....................................................................................
Mills, Thomas L .........................................................................................
Missionaries’ Home Fund .....................................................................
Moulton, Greenleaf, Memorial Fund ...............................................
Munger, Isador G., Literature Fund
....................................
McKoon, Mamre Ann ...........................................................................
Nason, Jam es ............................................................................................
Native Preachers Fund .........................................................................
Nelson, Olof ...............................................................................................
Newell, M ary A . M ...................................................................................
Norcross, Stephen W ................................................................................
Nowland, Lu cy A ........................................................................................
Ongole College Endowment Fund ......................................................
Owen, W illiam B ........................................................................................
3 Paige, Charles C ......................................................................................
Parker, Eveline B ......................................................................................
Parks, Louisa M ..........................................................................................
Pease, W illiam A .......................................................................................
Permanent Fund ......................................................................................
Pevear, H enry A ........................................................................................
Pillsbury, George A ..................................................................................
Plumber Fund ..........................................................................................
Porter, Benjamin ....................................................................................
Price, J . D., Scholarship Fund ..........................................................
*Pruett Memorial Fund .......................................................................
Putnam, B ., Memorial Fund ..............................................................
Quincy Robert ..........................................................................................
Ramapatnam Seminary Fund ..............................................................
Rangoon Baptist College Endowment Fund ...................................
Rangoon College Fund .........................................................................
Reed, C. Howard, Memorial Fund ...................................................
Renfrew , Jefferson ..................................................................................
Roberts, Elizabeth ....................................................................................
Robinson, Jan e E .........................
Rockwell, R ufus ......................................................................................
Rogers, Alexander W ........................................................................
4 R olf Memorial, Andrew G. and Josephine ................................
Rowland, Prusia ......................................................................................
Ruth, Mordecai T ......................................................................................
Sargent, Edward P ., Memorial Fund ...............................................
Sawtelle, Elizabeth S ................................................................................
*Schaefer, Sarah E ........................! .........................................................
Shady Dell Fund ....................................................................................
Sheldon Fund ...........................
Sheldon, Chauncey ...................
Sherman, George J ....................................................................................
Skofield, Sarah A ......................................................................................
Smith, Samuel F ....................................................................................
ispencer, Charles D ....................................................................................
Stuart, Elvira A ........................................................................................
Sunderland, Jam es ..................................................................................
Swaim, M ary Augusta Noble ............................................................
Sweet, John D .............................................................................................
Tage, Jam es M ............................................................................................
1 nomas Fund .......................
Balance
A p ril 30, 1923
$21,000.00
2,000.00
300.00
29.00
2,449.31
1,610.30
475-oo
1,194.72
4,995.00
1,000.00
228.35
1 , 997-55
986.01
5,000.00
100.00
1,000.00
1,780.29
7,216.50
1,932.33
69,448.98
522.17
150.00
10.00
500.00
1,000.00
8 15.81
7,096.11
2,369.38
200.00
35,423.41
500.00
11.4 2
48,104.00
12,000.17
400.00
1,455-63
i,ooo,<5o
358.70
89,318.95
12,500.00
5,000.00
100.00
1,000.00
538-75
10,000.00
2,450.00
90.50
26,266.59
1,2 19 .15
1,000.00
400.00
1,000.00
4,000.00
100.00
230.90
6,000.00
10,747.81
263.95
5,242.68
6,406.07
200.00
500.00
10,850.00
1,000.00
250.00
1,000.00
500.00
7,514.32
2,000.00
99.50
5,000.00
9,000.00
10,000.00
790-35
3,500.00
Income
Earned
$1,003.53
95-57
12.29
1.38
117.0 5
76-95
22.70
57.09
238.70
47-79
10.91
95-46
47-12
238.94
4.78
47-79
85.07
344-85
92.34
3,318.76
24.95
7.17
.48
23.89
47.79
38.99
339-10
113 .2 2
9.56
1,692.78
-'3.89.
.54
2,298.75
573-45
15.69
69.56
47-79
I7-M
4,268.29
597-34
238.94
4.78
47-79
25.75
225.39
117.08
4.32
1,255.20
58.26
47-79
19 .11
47-79
19 1.15
4.78
11.0 3
286.72
286.73
12.61
250.53
306.13
9.56
14-27
518.49
47-79
n -95
47-79
23.89
359.09
95-57
4.75
238.94
430.08
477.87
37-77
167.25
REPORT OF T H E TREASURER
205
Balance
A p ril so, 1923
Thompson. Rachel, Memorial Fund ...................................................
$1,000.00
Toungoo K aren Normal School Fund .............................................
3,30 6 .11
Towne, M ary J ...................................................
2,500.00
Tripp, Susan ............................................................................................
1,167.99
True, E ..........................................................................................................
380.00
T ull Memorial Fund .............................................................................
250.00
Vaney, Addison P ......................................................................................
747-25
Van Husen, C ............................................................................................
2,000.00
Wade Scholarship Fund .......................................................................
1,626 .15
*W aring, Jam es ......................................................................................
5,000.00
W arne, Joseph A ...................................................................................
17,662.13
Watson, M aria ..........................................................................................
737-39
Wells, Susan E ..........................................................................................
2,000.00
Wetherby, Zillah U ...................................................................................
2,500.00
1,000.00
White, Mrs. Ellen M ...............................................................................
Whiting, Martha .............................
1,167.50
Whittemore, George H .............................................................................
674.81
Wiggin, M ercy A ......................................................................................
3,800.00
W illiams, Catharine ...............................................................................
500.00
Woman’ s Fund of the Adams Village Baptist Church ...............
25.00
5,000.00
Woolverton, George A .............................................................................
Wormsley, Thomas .................................................................................
5,000.00
Chandler, Helen M ar ................................................................................................
Karen School Book Fund ....................................................................
$1,017,220.06
Incomc
Earned
$ 47-79
157-99
1 19-47
55-8 i
18.16
n . 95
35.71
95-57
77-71
176.75
844.02
35-24
95-57
119.47
47.79
55-79
32.25
181.59
23.89
1.19
238.94
2-?8.94
476.57
$48,415.31
* New Funds donated during the year.
$400.00 during the year.
$2,293.20 during the year.
$100.00 during the year.
$4,760.56 during the year.
Helen M ar Chandler Fund ($5,325.10) and Karen School Book Fund ($10,000.00)
transferred to Special Permanent Funds in General Investments.
1 Increased
2 Increased
3 Increased
4 Increased
....
206
A M E R IC A N B A PTIST FOREIGN M ISSIO N SOCIETY
CLASS II
Temporary Funds in General Investments
Balance
M ay I ,
1922
B arn es, M rs. A rthur J .
Goodnow, Emma A . , Estate
Bengal Fam ine Fund . . .
China Famine Fund ........
John Doe Missionary Fund
Japan Famine Fund .............
Jorhat Hospital F u n d ...........
J . D . Lord Fund .................
Newell, M ary A ......................
Phillyss Memorial Church. .
T e 1 u g u Industrial School
Fund .....................................
$324.00
6 , 657-94
397.84
Increase
$332.90
Decrease
Income
Earned
$324.00
$1,3 3 2 .9 0
2 9 ,2 1 8 .1 1
3,78 0.0 0
3 4 ,0 9 3 .10
2 0 ,5 6 7 .2 3
Balance
A pril 30,
1923
5 , 657-94
397-84
4,874.99
16 ,7 8 7 .2 3
$ 15-4«
3 16 .5 9
19 .0 1
25,000.00
13, 077-72
4 ,7 5 1.6 8
250.00
, 525.95
982.36
705
36 3.30
622.89
132 .6 0
10 .6 7
6 , 733-28
32 1.7 6
1, 636.27 $27,696.96 $ 34, 331-01 $7 8 ,002.22
$ 4 , 317-66
147-54
12, 945-75
2 , 769-59
25,000.00
131-97
I ,982.09
250.00
6 , 733-28
147.54
CLASS III
Permanent Funds With Specified Investments
Balance
May I ,
1922
Coles, Em ily L . , Me
morial Fund . . . .
Coles and Ackerman Me
morial Fund .........
Abraham Coles Memoria
Fund ...........
Colver, Charles K . , Me
morial Student A i
and Book Fund . . .
Dunham, Sabra G . .
Liu Chiu Island Fund
Memorial Baptist Church
of Christ, New Y ork
M errick, Austin ...........
R eiff, W illiam E ...........
Rockefeller, John D . .
Rogers, A lexander W .
T reat, M . C ....................
Ward Trust Fund . . . .
W arne, Joseph A . . . .
Increase Decrease
Balance
A pril
3 0 , 1923
Income
Earned
$010.00
$20,000.00
20,000.00
$800.00
1,0 0 0 .0 0
I ,000.00
50.00
1.5 0 0 .0 0
2.000.00
5.000.00
1 .500.00
2,000.00
5.000.00
82.50
100.00
200.00
r . 00
I .0 0
8 , 333-33
17, 577-68
1 .00
17 ,5 7 7 .6 8
8 ,33 3.33
333-33
855.46
5,000,000.00
4.000.00
448,300.00
4.000.00
1 .050.00
$ 5 ,5 12 ,7 6 2 .0 1
, 0 0 0 , 0 0 0 .0 0
4.000.00
448,300.00
4.000.00
1.0 5 0 .0 0
3 15 ,9 0 8 .0 0
250.00
4 7 ,2 10 .8 1
160.00
52-SO
$ 5 ,5 13 ,5 7 2 - 0 1 $366,003.60
REPORT OF T H E TREASURER
207
CLASS IV
Temporary Funds With Specified Investments
Balance
M ay I ,
19 22
Increase
Decrease
OO
OO
OO
OO
OO
«9*
$4,000.00
2,000.00
T reat, M rs. Sarah H . , Science
Building Fund ................................
Doe, John , West China Fund . . . .
Balance
April 30,
1923
90,000.00
$17,6 8 0 .0 0
35,76 3-38 $12 5 .7 6 3 -3 8
17,68 0.00
$96,000.00
$ 53. 443.38 $12 5 .7 6 3 -3 8
$23,680.00
Incomes not shown on this classification as in some cases the donor has specified
the object for which this income is to be used.
CLASS V
Special Permanent and Temporary Funds
Balance
May I ,
1922
AKhntt Arminda P
. .........
.......................
"Rjciinn Nathan
PhatiHlpi* Hrlpn M ar . ............................
Pnrti5
.
....
..
Dussman A da .......................... ..
"Prty T)ani<*1
. .
....
....
Fountain, Josephine A . , Memorial . . .
K srcn School Book Fund . . . . . . . . .
Kimball Ella F .........................................
Srrm tiire Fund
..................
"NTirkprson Tnhn H ..................................
Townsend Annie .......................................
Olsen M r . and M rs. Swan ...................
Stevenson, Cora A .......................................
W isler H arry E . , Memorial .................
Miscellaneous Missionaries’ Funds . . . .
$ 1,4 0 7 .0 0
3 4 ,16 7 .2 3
200.00
500.00
200.00
I ,000.00
80.00
100.00
1 ,200.00
907.29
200.00
420.00
2 0 ,3 0 6 .17
Decrease
Increase
1
1
$ 5. 325.10
5,000.00
10,000.00
1,7 0 7 .3 8
$60,687.69 $22 ,0 32 .4 8
$ 4 , 546.39
Balance
A pril 30,
1923
$1,4 0 7 .0 0
3 4 ,16 7 .2 3
5 .3 2 5 .1 0
200.00
5.000.00
500.00
200.00
10,000.00
1 .000.00
80.00
100.00
I ,200.00
907.29
200.00
420.00
17 ,4 6 7 .16
$ 4 . 546.39 $ 7 8 ,17 3 .7 8
208
A M E R IC A N BAPTIST FOREIGN M ISSIO N SOCIETY
S C H E D U L E V II
A
Rates of Income Earned
I . General Investments of Permanent and Temporary Funds:
Average Investment for the year .......................................
Income Earned during the year .........................................
Rate of Income Earned ........................................................
I I . General Investments of Annuity Funds:
A verage Investment for the year .......................................
Income Earned during the y e a r ...........................................
Rate o f Income Earned ........................................................
$ 1 ,1 0 0 ,0 8 1 .7 2
5 2 ,7 32 .9 7
4 - 79%
$1 ,573 1,2
3 ,5 8 1 . 1 2
9 8 .6 5
4-6s%
B
Reserve, General Annuity Agreements
Annuity R eserve, M ay i , 1923 .............................................
New Agreements written to A pril 30, 1 9 2 3 ..........................
Agreements M atured to A pril 30, 1923 ...................................
Adjustments Chargeable against Reserve ...............................
$ 1 ,5 4 8 ,4 1 1.0 6
9 8 ,8 61.00
$74 ,28 3.0 7
4 ,1 1 2 .6 4
$ 1,6 4 7 ,2 7 2 .0 6
78 , 395-71
Annuity Payments ................................................................
$10 8 ,35 6 .4 8
A nnuity Investment Income ......................................................
7 1,2 9 8 .6 5
$ 1,5 6 8 ,8 7 6 .3 5
3 7 ,0 5 7 .8 3
Balance Reserve, A pril 30, 1923 .............................................
$ 1 ,5 3 1 ,8 1 8 . 5 2
c
Matured Annuity Reserve
R eserve for Equalization of Matured Annuities, M ay 1 ,
1922 ............................................................
Annuity Agreements M atured to A pril 30, 1 9 2 3 ................
A dd : Miscellaneous Credits to Annuity Reserve ................
.
A
,
■
,
,
L e ss: M atured Agreements designated for Permanent
Funds .........................................................................................
$7 4 ,2 8 3.0 7
1,0 8 0 .0 0
$ 37 , 870.18
$75.36 3-07
4 ,3 7 2 .8 8
7 0 ,9 9 0 .19
Transferred to Budget Income .
$10 8 ,8 6 0 .3 7
58 ,8 60.37
Balance R eserve, A pril 30, 1923
$50,000.00
D
Legacy Equalization Reserve
Reserve fo r Equalization of Income from Legacies, May
1, 1922 ...............................................................................
Legacies Received to A pril 30, 1923 .........................................
Transferred to Budget Income .................................................. $135 ,8 3 8 .8 6
T ransferred to Permanent Funds .............................................
60 1.0 5
$250,000.00
136,439.91
$38 6 ,4 39 .9 1
136, 439-91
balance R eserve, A pril 30, 1923
$250,000.00
REPORT OF T H E TREASURER
209
S C H E D U L E V III
A
Railroad Bonds . .
Traction Bonds ..
Electric, Gas and
W ater Bonds ..
Telephone a n d
Telegraph Bonds
District,
Govern­
ment, Municipal,
and State Bonds
U n i t e d S ta te s
Liberty Bonds .
Sundry Bonds . . .
Notes Secured by
R eal E s ta te ,
Mortgages, and
T rust Deeds . .
Miscellaneous . . . .
I n c o m e Accrued
on New Invest­
ments Purchased
280,000.00
6 4 ,16 5 .5 6
75,660.00
Total
$20,000.00 $ r , 6 19 ,0 18 .2 8
65,257 .6 8
$339 ,20 8 .28 $ 1,2 5 9 ,8 10 .0 0
65,257.6 8
12 2 ,2 0 2 .2 1
General Invest­
ment of Special
Permanent and
Temporary
Funds
Specified Investment of
Temporary
Funds
Specified In ­
vestment of
Permanent
Funds
General Investment of P er­
manent and
Temporary
Funds
'
|
GENERAL SUMMARY OF PERMANENT AND TEMPORARY
FUNDS
4 I 2 ,2 0 2 .2 1
10,000.00
139, 825.56
I 2 3 ,4 6 l.64
12 1,9 6 1.6 4
1.5 0 0 .0 0
134 ,8 2 8 .38
30 ,1x 8 .6 5
8.800.00
999, 950.00
$4 ,10 0 .0 0
33,000.00
X,000.00
19 0 ,6 3 1.3 0
29 , 352-33
500.00
2 , 933, 56o.oo
42,878!68
I ,500.00
17 ,7 16 .0 0
8,878.92
l8 0 ,72 8 .3 8
I ,0 3 1,0 6 8 .6 5
243,888.90
2 , 980, 628.33
5OO.OO
13, 333-33
13, 333-33
57-37
$1,0 9 8 ,2 2 6 .0 3 $ 5 , 6 i 5 , 492-oi $2 3 ,3 16 .0 0 $72,878.92
Total carried into
S c h e d u le TTT . .
$6 ,8 0 9 ,9 70 .33
1
SUMMARY OF GENERAL INVESTMENTS OF PERMANENT
AND TEMPORARY FUNDS
Railroad Bonds ........................................................................................ $339,208.28
Traction Bonds .......................................................................................
65,257.68
Electric, Gas, and W ater Bonds ........................................................ 122,202.21
64,165.56
Telephone and Telegraph Bonds ......................................................
District, Government, Municipal, and State Bonds .................. 121,961.64
United States Liberty Bonds ............................................................
134,828.38
Sundry Bonds ..........................................................................................
30,118.65
--------------Notes secured by Real Estate, Mortgages, and Trust D eed s..
Stocks .........................................................................................................
Miscellaneous
.................................................
$877,742.40
190,631.30
29,352.33
500.00
$ 1 ,0 9 8 , 2 2 6 .0 3
210
A M E R IC A N B A PTIST FOREIGN M ISSIO N SOCIETY
GENERAL INVESTMENTS OF PERMANENT AND
TEMPORARY FUNDS
Railroad Bonds
P a r Value
$3,000 Atchison, Topeka and Santa F e R . R .,
E . Okla. D iv., ist M tg...........................
10,000 Baltimore & Ohio R . R ., ist M tg............
2,000 Bangor & Aroostook R . R . Co., ist Mtg.
Washburn E x t .............................................
10,000 B ig Sandy Railroad, ist M tg.....................
10,000 Boston & Albany R . R . Co., Improve­
ment Bd. of 19 13 ...................................
10,000 Boston & Maine Railroad ..........................
5,000 Canada Southern Railway Co., Cons.
Gold, Series A .........................................
10,000 Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad
Co., 111. Div. M tg......................................
3,000 Chicago & Eastern Illinois R . R . Co.,
ist Cons........................................................
10,000 Chicago, Indiana & Southern R . R .,
Gold Bd. of 1906 ...................................
5,000 Chicago Junction Railways & Union
Stock Yards, 40 y r. Mtg. & Coll.
Trust Ref. Gold .......................................
5,000 Chicago Junction Railways & Union
Stock Yard s, Mtg. & Coll. T ru st R ef.
5,000 Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Ry. Co.,
Series o f 1 9 0 9 ...........................................
10,000 Chicago & Western Indiana R. R ., Cons.
50 yr. Gold ...............................................
3,000 Cincinnati, Indianapolis & Western R .
R . Co., ist 50 yr. Gold ..........................
10,000 Cleveland Terminal & V alley R . R . Co.,
ist .................................................................
10,000 Erie Railroad, Prior Lien G o l d ...............
5,000 Housatonic Railroad, Cons. Gold ...........
10,000 Illinois Central R. R. Co., St. Louis Div.
& Terminal, ist Mtg. Gold B on d .........
10,000 Kansas City & Pacific R . R . Co., ist Gold
5,000 Kansas City Term inal Railw ay Co., ist
Mtg. Gold .................................................
25,000 Lake Shore and Michigan Southern R ail­
way, Gold .........................................
5,000 Lehigh & New Y ork Railroad Co., ist
Gold ............................................................
12,000 Louisville & Jefferson Bridge Co., Gold.
11,000 Louisville & Nashville R . R. Co., Atlanta,
Knoxville, & Cincinnati D iv., Gold . .
10,000 Minneapolis, Sault Ste. M arie & Atlantic
Rwy. Co., ist M tg....................................
5,000 Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste.
M arie Rwy. Co., ist Cons. M tg...........
5,000 Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste.
M arie Rw y. Co., 50 yr. Gold . . . . . . . .
20,000 Missouri Pacific R . R. Co., Gen. Mtg.
Gold ..............................................................
10,000 New Y ork Central & Hudson R iver R .
R . Co., Lake Shore Coll..........................
10,000 New Y ork Central & Hudson R iver R.
R . 30 yr. Gold Debenture ....................
10,000 New Y o rk , New Haven & H artford R.
R. Deb...........................................................
9,000 Northern Pacific R y. Co., Gen. Lien Ry.
& Land Grant ...........................................
5,000 Northern Pacific R w y., Refunding & Im ­
provement, Series B ..............................
10,000 Oregon-Washington R . R . & Navigation
Co., ist & R ef. Mtg., Series A ...........
15,000 Pennsylvania Co., Gold Loan of 1906 . .
15,000 Pennsylvania R . R . Co., Gen. Mtg. Gold,
Series A ......................................................
5,000 St. Louis Merchants Bridge Terminal
Rw y. Co., ist M tg....................................
Rate
Maturity
Book Value
4’ s
4’s
Mar.
Ju ly
1, 1928
I, 1948
$2,974.14
10,128.62
5’s
4’s
Aug.
Ju n e
I ,19 3 9
I, 1944
1,987.22
9,846.30
5’s
4’s
Ju ly
Sept.
I,
I, 1938
1926
10,091.53
10,000.00
I,
1962
5,027.09
5’s
Oct.
4’s
Ju ly
I, 1949
9,746.71
6’ s
Oct.
I, 1934
2,922.65
4’ s
Jan .
I, 1956
9, 7i i -56
4’s
A pril
I,
1940
4,489.75
4’s
A pril
I,
1940
4,484*55
4’s
Ju ly
I, 1934
4,644.49
4’s
Ju ly
I, Ï 952
9,217.54
S's
Nov.
I, 1965
3,000.00
4’S
I, I 99S
I , 1996
I, 1937
9, 956.55
S’s
Nov.
Jan .
Nov.
10,000.00
5,043-98
3 ^ ’s
4 ’s
Ju ly
Aug.
I, 1951
I , 1990
8,067.51
5, 347-20
4’s
4’s
Jan .
I,
i960
4, 497- n
4’s
Sept.
I,
1928
25,0 10 .14
4’s
4’ s
Sept.
Mar.
I, 1945
I, 1945
4,985.38
11,942.37
10,457.64
4’s
M ay
I, 1955
4’s
Jan .
I,
1926
9,901.08
4’s
Jan .
I, 1938
4,836.15
5’s
Ju ly
I,
1938
4,960.15
4’s
Mar.
I, 1975
10,884.04
3^ ’ s
Feb.
I,
1998
7,680.51
4’s
May
I, 1934
10,047-47
9,887.99
4’s
Ju ly
I, 1955
3’s
Jan .
I,
2047
5,874-30
6’ s
Ju ly
I,
2047
4,848.32
4’ s
4’s
Jan .
A pril
I , 1961
I, 19 31
8,831.98
14,966.08
4^ ’ s
Ju n e
I, 1965
14, 155-44
5’s
Oct.
I, 1930
4, 978.77
REPORT OF T H E TREASURER
P ar Value
10.000
5.000
4.000
1 0 .0 00
1 0 ,0 0 0
Rate
St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Rwy.
Co., Consolidated Mtg. Gold ...............
Terminal Railroad Assoc, of St. Louis,
ist M tg..........................................................
Toledo & Ohio Central Rw y. Co., ist
M tg..................................................................
Washington Terminal Co., ist G o l d ----W est Shore R . R . Co., Guar, ist Mtg. . .
211
M aturity
Book Value
$9,829.09
4 ^ ’s
Ju ly
i, 1933
4 ^ ’s
Oct.
i, 1939
5,034.71
S’s
3 % ’s
4’s
Ju ly
Feb.
Jan .
i, I93S
I, 1945
I, 2361
3 ,000.00
9,396.29
6,515.88
$339 ,208.28
T ra ction B o n d s
P ar Value
Rate
$5.ooo Chicago Railways Co., ist 20 yr. Gold .. S’s
Danville, Champaign & Decatur Railway
5 ,0 0 0
& Light-Co., Cons. & Ref. Coll. Trust,
Gold .............................................................. 5’s
Danville, Champaign & Decatur Railway
5,000
& Light Co., Cons. & R ef. Coll. Trust 5’s
10 ,0 00
Galveston-Houston Electric R w y., ist
Mtg., 45 yr. Gold ................................... S’s
5,000
Georgia Railw ay & Power Co., ist &
R ef. Mtg., S. F ., Gold ........................ 5’s
5,00 0
Kansas City, Clay County & St. Joseph
Ry. Co., ist Mtg., 30 yr. Gold ......... S's
5,ooo Middlesex & Boston St. Railway Co.,
ist & R e f...................................................... 4 ^ ’s
500 Pennsylvania & Ohio R ailw av Co............ 5’s
1 0 ,0 0 0
Portland Ore. Railway Light & Power
Co., ist R e f................................................ 5’s
19,000 Washington Railway & Electric Co.,
Gold Cons..................................................... 4’s
M aturity
1 , 1927
Feb.
Book Value
$4 ,981.15
M ar.
i, 1938
4 ,670.03
Mar.
i, 1938
4 ,749.26
Oct.
i, 1954
9,756.28
A pril
i, 1954
4,715-76
Sept.
i, 1941
4,732.84
Jan .
Mar.
i, 1932
15 , 1921
4,970.01
i . 00
Feb.
i , 1942
9,746.14
Dec.
i, 1951
16 ,935.21
$ 65,257.68
Electric, Gas, and Water Bonds
P a r Value
$5,000
5.000
5.000
5.000
5.000
10.000
5.000
5.000
6,500
5.000
21.000
5.000
5.000
2.000
25.000
1.000
2.000
10.000
Rate
Adirondack Electric Power Corp., ist
M tg........................................................................
Adirondack Power & Light Co...................
Cincinnati Gas & Electric Co., ist & Ref.
_ M tg., 40 S. F. Gold Bond, Series A
Citizens Gas Co. o f Indianapolis, ist &
R ef. Gold .........................................................
Connecticut Power Co., ist & Cons. Mtg.
Consolidated
Gas,
Electric
Light
&
Power Co., Gen. Mtg. 30 yr. Gold . . .
Consumers Power Co., ist Lien & Ref.
25 yr. Gold ....................................................
Fort W orth Power & Light Co., ist Mtg.
Hutchinson W ater Light & Power Co. . .
Indianapolis Gas Co., ist Cons. M tg. . .
Niagara, Lockport & Ontario Power Co.,
R ef. M tg. S. F. Gold, Series A . . . .
Northern Texas Electric Co..........................
Seattle Electric Co.............................................
Seattk Electric Co., Cons. & R ef. M tg..
Seattle Electric Co., ist Gold ....................
Standard Gas Light Co., of N. Y . C.,
ist Gold ...........................................................
Topeka Edison Co., ist Gold .....................
United Electric Co. o f N . J., ist Mtg.
Gold ........................................... : ................ .
Maturity
Book Value
Jan.
Mar.
i, 1962
i, 1950
5’s
April
i, 1956
4 ,980.57
5’s
5’s
Ju ly
April
i, 1942
i, 1963
4 ,790.6s
4 ,815.40
14 , 1935
9,565.20
5’s
6’s
$4 ,700.95
5 ,072.23
4J4’s
Feb.
5’s
5’s
4’s
5’s
Jan .
Aug.
Jan .
April
i,
i,
i,
i,
1936
1931
1928
1952
4 ,765.04
4 ,897-07
4 ,926.29
4 ,858.96
6’s
5’s
5s
Feb.
Jan .
Mar.
Aug.
Feb.
i,
i,
i,
i,
i,
1958
1940
1939
1929
1930
19 ,684.80
4 ,868.47
4 ,971-36
1 ,965-53
25 ,536.28
5’s
5s
M ay
Sept.
i, 1930
i, 1930
1 ,000.00
1 ,972.21
4’s
June
i, 1949
S’s
5 s
8,831.20
$ 122 ,202.21
212
A M E R IC A N BAPTIST FOREIGN M ISSION SOCIETY
Telephone and Telegraph Bonds
P a r Value
Rate
$15,000 B ell Telephone Co. o f Canada, ist M tg. 5’s
5.000 Cumberland Telephone & Telegraph Co.,
5.000
5.000
5.000
5.000
5.000
5.000
5.000
5.000
5.000
ist & Gen...........................................................
Cumberland Telephone & Telegraph Co.,
ist & Gen...........................................................
Michigan State Telephone Co., ist Mtg.
N ew England Telephone & Telegraph
Co., ist M tg. 30 yr. Gold, Series A . .
N ew York Telephone Co., ist & Gen.
M tg. ..................................................................
New York Telephone Co., ist & Gen.
M tg.........................................................................
New York Telephone Co., ist & Gen.
M tg........................................................................
Southern Bell Telephone Co., ist M tg. .
W estern U nion Telegraph Co., Funding
& R. E. M tg., 50 yr. G o l d ......................
W estern U nion Telegraph Co., Funding
& R. E. M tg., 50 yr. Gold ...................
M aturity
April I, 1925
Book Value
$ 14 ,994-18
5’s
Jan .
I, 1937
5,027-54
5’s
5s
Jan .
Feb.
I, 1937
I, 1924
4,996-47
5,000.00
5’s
June
I, 1952
4,898.02
4 ^ ’s
Nov.
I, 1939
4,982.83
4 ^ ’s
Nov.
I, 1939
4,940.71
4 5^2’s
5’s
Nov.
Jan .
I, 1939
I, 1941
4,905.09
4,956.52
4 J/ i ’s
M ay
I, 1950
4,712.31
4 ^ ’s
May
I, 1950
4,751.89
$64,165.56
1, and State Bonds
P a r Value
Rate
M aturity
Book Value
$5,000 City of Albany W ater Bond .............
I, 1929
$5,013.40
4 % ’s Nov.
10.000 Dominion o f Canada ............................
A pril
9,928.81
5’s
I, 19 31
5.000 City o f Dallas, Public School Improve
ment .......................................................
4^2’ s M ay
I, 1950
5 ,112 .14
5.000 City of Dallas Public School Improve
ment ......................................................
5,112.09
4 ^ ’s M ay
I, 1949
10.000 City o f K noxville Third Creek Sewer
19 12 ......................................................
10,000.00
4^ ’s June 15 , 1942
10.000 City of Los Angeles, Harbor Improve
ment ......................................................
4 j4 ’ s May
10,142.07
I, 1951
5.000 Province of Manitoba, Dominion of
6’s
Aug.
Canada ......................................................
I, 1928
4,821.86
5.000 City of Memphis, Special Levee Bond.
Ju ly
5,366.36
5’s
I, 1954
1 0 .0 0 0
City o f Memphis, Special^ Levee B on d .
Ju
ly
I
,
1
9
5
4
10
,7 4 3 - 0 9
s’s
,,
6.000 Miami Conservancy D is t r ic t ....................
Dec.
6,000.00
SŸ2 s
I, 19 34
10.000 City of Minneapolis, Street Improve
ment Bond .........................................
10 ,19 1.19
4 & ’s Ju ly
I, 1932
5.000 City of Nashville, Gen. Improvemen
Mar.
I, 1927
Series of 19 14 ........... .......................
5,076.26
5
’s
5.000 Province of New Brunswick, Trans. Deb 4 /2 S Dec.
4,946.67
I , 1925
10.000 Omaha W ater W orks of the City o
10,166.73
Omaha ......................................................
4V2 ’s Dec. 15 , 1941
5.000 City o f Spokane, W ater Bond ...............
5,029.49
Dec.
I, 1926
5’s
10.000 City o f Toronto, Province of Ontario .
4 ^ ’ s Ju ly
I, 1925
9,894.33
5.000 Toronto Harbour Commissioners, 4th
Series, Gold ............................................. 4 ^ ’s Sept.
4, 4 i 7. i 5
I, 1953
$12 1,9 6 1.6 4
United States Liberty Bonds
P a r Value
Rate
$500 United States o f America, ist Lib. Loan 3 ^ ’s
4,500 United States of America, ist Lib. Loan 4ï4’s
1,000 United States of America, ist Lib. Loan,
4 J 4 ’s
Reg.
2,250 United States of America, 2nd Lib. Loan 4 & ’s
States
of
America,
2nd
Lib.
Loan,
United
1,15 0
Reg.
4 IA ’s
53,550 United States of America, 3rd Lib. Loan 4 iA ’ s
2,200 United States of America, 3rd Lib. Loan,
4
Reg.
M aturity
B ook Value
Ju n e 15, 1932-47
$500.00
Ju n e 15 , 1932-47 4,500.00
June
Nov.
15, 1932-47
15 , 1927-42
1,000.00
2,250.00
Nov. 15, 1927-42 1,150.00
Sept. 15 , 1928
53,550.oo
Sept. 15 , 1928
2,200.00
REPORT OF T H E TREASURER
213
P ar Value
Name
Rate
M aturity
Book Value
i , 800 United States of America, 4th Lib. Loan,
Reg .....................................................................
4 % ’ s Oct. 15, 1933-38 $1,800.00
11,100.00
11,10 0
United States T reasury Bonds ................ 4?4’s Oct. 15, 1952
565 U . S. W ar Savings Stamps, Series of
I 919 .......................................................................
Jan . 1, 1924
523-19
$134,828.38
Sundry Bonds
P ar Value
$1,000 Computing Tabulating Recording Co.,
30 yr. S. F . Gen........................................
4.000 Federal W harf & Storage Co., 1st Gold.
5.000 Illinois Steel Co., Debenture ..................
10.000 Illinois Steel Co., Debenture ................
2.000 International Silver Co...............................
3.000 Iowa L^jan and Trust Co., Series 126
Deb..................................................................
10.000 Sw ift & Co., 1st Mtg. Sinking Fund
Gold ...... .......................................................
Rate
M aturity
Book Value
6’s
5’s
^ A ’s
4 T/2’s
6’s
Ju ly
Feb.
A pril
A pril
Dec.
1, 1941
1, 19 12
1, 1940
1 , 1940
1,19 4 8
$832.00
1.00
4,774.66
9,426.60
2,158.92
5’ s
A pril
1, 1924-29
3,000.00
5's
July
i , i 944
9, 92 5-47
$30,118 .6 5
Mortgages
In various States ............................................................................................................. $190,631.30
Stocks
Shares
Book Value
15 Boston & Maine Railroad, ist Preferred A .................................................. $1,548-°°
60 Cincinnati, Indianapolis & W estern Railroad Co., Common ....................
1,990.00
60 Cincinnati, Indianapolis & Western Railroad Co., Preferred ....................
3,000.00
...................................................
800.00
1 City Real Estate Trustees, Chicago
22
Continental Gas and Electric Co., P referred .................................................
1,911.07
14 First National Bank of Boston ...........................................................................
1,400.00
14 F irst National Bank of Boston ...........................................................................
4,014.00
100.00
2
New York, New Haven & Hartford R. R. Co.................................................
17 Pennsylvania Railroad ...........................................................................................
901.76
36 Standard Reliance Assets, Limited, Common ...................................................
1,800.00
70 Upper Coos R . R. Co., N. H ..................................................................................
10,500.00
150 W illiam-Davis-Brooks & Hinchman Sons,Detroit, Mich., Freferred . ..
1,387.50
$29,352-33
M iscellan eous
Shelburne Falls Savings Bank, M ass.............................................................................
$500.00
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIED INVESTMENTS OF
PERMANENT FUNDS
Railroad Bonds ................................................................................
Electric, Gas, and W ater Bonds ..................................................
Telephone and Telegraph Bonds ...............................................
Municipal Bonds .............................................................................
United States Liberty Bonds ........................................................
Sundry Bonds ..................................................................................
$1,259,810.00
280,000.00
75,660.00
1,500.00
8,800.00
999,950.00
---------------------$2,625,720.00
Notes Secured by Real Estate, Mortgages, and Trust Deeds
42,878.68
Stocks ...................................................................................................
2,933,560.00
Real Estate ........................................................................................
1 3 ,333.33
$5,6i S,492.oi
214
A M E R IC A N B A PTIST FOREIGN M ISSIO N
SOCIETY
SPECIFIED INVESTMENTS OF PERMANENT FUNDS
Railroad Bonds
P a r Value
Name
$150,000 Atlantic Coast Line R. R ., Louisville &
Nashville Cofl..............................................
1.000 Baltim ore & Ohio Railroad Co., R ef. &
Gen. Mtg., Series A ..............................
150.000 Chesapeake & Ohio Rw y. Co., 20 yr.
Conv................................................................
150.000 Chicago, Indianapolis & St. Louis Short
Line Rw y. Co.............................................
150.000 Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Rwy. Co.,
25 y r...............................................................
150.000 Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Rwy.
Co., Gen. Mtg., Series C ......................
10.000 Kansas City, F ort Scott & Memphis
Rwy. Co., R ef. M tg., Gold .................
150.000 Kansas City Southern Rw y. Co., R ef.
& Imp. Mtg. Bond ..............................
150.000 Louisville & Nashville R . R . Co., U n i­
fied, 50 yr. Bonds ...................................
135.000 New Y ork Central R . R ., 20 yr. Conv.
Gold Debenture .......................................
150.000 New Y ork, New H aven & H artford R.
R ., Debenture ...........................................
33.000 N orfolk & W estern Rw y. Co., Conv.
10 y r ...............................................................
4.000 N orfolk & W estern R. R . D iv., Lien &
Gen. Gold ..................................................
2,200 Pere Marquette R . R . Co., ist ( 1,200
Mtg. Gold ................................ ( 1,000
2.000 Philadelphia Co., Cons. Mtg. & Coll. Tr.
50 yr. Gold ................................................
150.000 Southern Pacific R . R . Co., ist R ef.
M tg..................................................................
2.000 Terre Haute & Indianapolis R. R ., Cons.
ist Gold ......................................................
1.000 Toledo & Ohio Central R y. Co., is t Gold
150.000 Wisconsin Central Rwy. Co., ist Gen.
M tg..................................................................
M aturity
Rate
Book Value
4’ s
Oct.
I. 1952
S’ s
Dec.
I. 1995
810.00
4^2 ’s
Feb.
I, 1930
112,875.00
4’s
April
I, 1953
99,750.00
4’s
Ju ly
I, 1934
105,000.00
114,562.50
$108,000.00
4^ ’ s
May
I ,,I 98g
4’s
Oct.
I, 1936
10,000.00
5’ s
A pril
I, I 9SO
115,500.00
I,
4’ s
Ju ly
1940
123,750.00
6’s
M ay
I, 1935
121,500.00
4’s
Ju ly
I, 1955
84,000.00
6’s
Sept.
I,
1929
33,000.00
4’Si
5 s1
4sJ
Ju ly
Ju ly
I,
1944
I, 1956
4.000.00
1.000.00
5’s
Nov.
I. 1951
4’s
Jan .
I, 1955
116,062.50
5’s
Ss
Ju ly
Ju ly
I, 1925
I, 1935
2.000.00
1.000.00
4’s
Ju ly
I,
2,000.00
1949
105,000.00
$1,259,810.00
ter Bonds
$10,000
500,000
New Burnswick Light, Heat, and Power
Co., Mtg. Gold .........................................
New York & Westchester Lighting Co.,
4’s
Dec.
4’ s
Ju ly
15 , 1939
$10,000.00
2004
270,000.00
I,
$280,000.00
Telephone and Telegraph Bonds
$97,000
N ew Y o rk Telephone Company, ist and
Gen’l M tg....................................................
aVz’ s
Nov.
I,
1939
$75,660.00
May
I,
1954
$1,500.00
Municipal Bonds
$1,500
Road Bond of Road District No. 6, of
Milam County, Texas ............................
5 yh ’s
United States Liberty Bonds
$2,200
100
1,10 0
5,400
United States of America, F irst Liberty
Loan, Converted .................................... 4 î4 ’ s
United States of America, F irst Liberty
Loan, Second Conv.
.......................... 4 ^ ’s
United States of America, Second Lib ­
erty L o a n ................. .................................. 4 ï4 ’s
United States of America, Third Liberty
Loan ........................................................... 4 /4 ’s
Ju n e 15 , 1932-47
$2,200.00
Ju n e 15 , 1932-47
100.00
Nov. 15 ,19 2 7 -4 2
1,100.00
Sept. 15, 1928
5,400.00
$8 , 800 .00
REPORT OF T H E TREASURER
215
Sundry Bonds
$485,000
700
675,000
1,000
Bethlehem Steel Co., ist Lien & Ref.
5’s
M tg., Series A .......................
Iowa Loan and Trust Co., Series 128 . . 6’s
Jones & Laughlin Steel Co., ist, 30 yr. 5’s
United States Steel Corp., 10-60 yr.,
Sinking Fund, Gold .............................. 5’s
M ay
Tan.
M ay
1 ,1 9 4 2
1, 19 31
1, 1939
$363,750.00
700.00
634,500.00
A pril
1,^1963
1,000.00
$ 999, 95o.oo
Mortgages
In various States ................................................................................................................ $42,878.68
Stocks
Shares
10.000
250
20.000
3.000
21
978
1,467
9.000
Atlantic Refining Co., Cumulative Preferred, 7% ............................ $1,030,000.00
Illinois Pipe Line, Capital ........................................................................
42,500.00
Ohio Fuel Supply Company .....................................................................
410,000.00
Ohio Oil Company .............
212,250.00
Pennsylvania Railroad ................................................................................
1,050.00
Prairie Oil & Gas Co., Capital ...............................................................
154,850.00
P rairie Pipe Line Co., Capital ...............................................................
92,910.00
990,000.00
Standard Oil Co., of New Jersey, Preferred, 7% ............................
$ 2,933, 56o.oo
Real Estate
Rangoon Real Estate, Burm a .................................................................................
L iu Chiu Island House, West Japan .....................................................................
$ 8, 333-33
5,000.00
$ 13, 333-33
SPECIFIED INVESTMENTS OF TEMPORARY FUNDS
United States Liberty Bonds
ar Value
Name
Rate
$1,000 United States of America, Liberty Loan
of 19 17 ........................................................ 3 > i’s
1,000 United States of America, Second L ib ­
erty Loan of 19 17 , Conv...................... 4^4’ s
2,100 United States of America, Fourth Lib­
erty Loan .................................................... 454’s
M aturity
June
Book Value
15, 1932-47 $1,000.00
Nov.
15, 1927-42 1,000.00
Oct.
15, 1933-38 2,100.00
$4,100.00
Mortgages
In State of Kansas .....................................................................................................
$1,500.00
Shares
Stocks
2
680
Butterick Company .......................................................................
$36.00
Lone Star Gas Company, Capital ........................................... 17,680.00
--------------
17,716.00
$23,316.00
GENERAL INVESTMENTS OF SPECIAL PERMANENT AND
TEMPORARY FUNDS
Railroad Bonds
P a r Value
$20,000
Name
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe R ail­
road, Gen’ l Mtg., Gold ............................
Rate
4’s
M aturity
Oct.
1, 1995
Book Value
$20,000.00
216
A M E R IC A N
BAPTIST FOREIGN
M ISSIO N SOCIETY
Electric, Gas, and Water Bonds
$10,000
Blackstone Valley Gas & Electric Com­
pany, ist & Gen’l Mtg., Gold ............. s ’s
Jan .
i, 1939
$10,000.00
United States Liberty Bonds
$1,30 0
19,000
2,600
100
10,000
United States o f America, F irst Liberty
Loan, Converted ................................
United States of America, Second L ib ­
erty Loan, Converted ............................
United States of America, Third Lib­
erty Loan ...................................................
United States of America, Third Liberty
Loan, Registered ..._ .......................... ..
United States of America, Fourth L ib ­
erty Loan ..................................................
4 /4 ’ s Ju n e
15, 1932-47 $1,300.00
Nov.
15 , 1927—42 19,000.00
4 % ’s
Sept.
15 , 1928
2,600.00
4 /4 ’s
Sept.
15 , 1928
100.00
4 1A ’s
Oct.
iS, 1933-38 10,000.00
4/4 *s
$33,000.00
Sundry Bonds
$r,ooo
Iow a Loan and Trust Company, Series
126
S ’s
A pril
1, 1924-29 $1,000.00
Mortgages
In various States .............................................................................................................
$8,878.92
$72,878.92
REPORT OF T H E TREASURER
217
S C H E D U L E V III
B
SUMMARY OF GENERAL INVESTMENTS OF
AN NUITY FUNDS
Railroad Bonds ...................................................................................... $322,923.71
Traction Bonds ....................................................................................
73,049.18
Electric, Gas, and W ater Bonds .................................................... 135 ,7 2 2.14
Telephone and Telegraph Bonds ....................................................
90,597.38
District, Government, Municipal, and State Bonds ............... 217,977.29
United States Liberty Bonds ..........................................................
189,763.37
Sundry Bonds ......................................................................................
47,365-53
--------------- $1,077,398.60
Notes secured by Real Estate,Mortgages,and Trust Deeds.
243,451.00
Stocks .........................
24,429.10
Miscellaneous .........................................................................................
15,807.98
Real Estate ............................................................................................
98,986.93
591.62
Interest prepaid onnon-productive RealEstate ...........................
$1,460,665.23
GENERAL INVESTMENTS OF AN NUITY FUNDS
Railroad Bonds
P a r Value
Atchison, Topeka & Santa F e Railway
Transcontinental Short Lines ...........
13,000 Atchison, Topeka &■ Santa Fe Railroad,
Adjustment, 100 yr. Gold ...................
5,000 Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company,
R ef. & Gen. Mtg., Series A ...................
10,000 B ig Sandy Railroad, 1st Mtg. ..................
10,000 Boston & Maine Railroad ..........................
10,000 Canada Southern Railway Company,
Cons. 50 yr. Gold, Series A ...............
10,000 Central Indiana Railway, 1st M tg., Gold
1,500 Central Vermont R ailw ay Company, Ref.
Mtg., Gold .................................................
1,000 Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad
Company ...................................................
10,000 Chicago, Indiana & Southern Railroad,
Gold Bond of igo6 ................................
1,000 Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville R ail­
way, R ef. M tg.............................................
10,000 Chicago Junction Railways & Union
Stockyards Company ..............................
10,000 Chicago, Milwaukee & Saint Paul R ail­
way Company, Gen. Mtg., G o l d .........
1,000 Chicago, Milwaukee & Saint Paul R ail­
way Company, 25 yr. Gold of 19 0 9 ..
5,000 Chicago & Northwestern Railway Com­
pany, Gen. Mtg., Gold ..........................
1,000 Chicago Union Station Company, 1st
Mtg. Gold, Series A ..............................
5,000 Chicago Union Station Company, 1st
_Mtg. Gold. Series A ............................
5,000 Chicago Union Station Company, 1st
Mtg. Gold, Series A ............................
10,000 Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St.
Louis Railway, Gen..................................
12,000 Delaware R iver Railroad & Bridge Com­
pany, 1st Mtg. Gold ..............................
10,000 Erie Railroad, P rior Lien Gold ...............
5,000 Fitchburg Railroad Company .................
10,000 Housatonic Railroad, Cons. Gold ...........
$5,000
Rate
Maturity
Book Value
4’s
Ju ly
i, 1958
$4,630.44
4’s
Ju ly
i, 1995
13,000.00
S’ s
4’s
4’s
Dec.
June
Sept.
i, 1995
1, 1944
I, 1926
5,096.78
9,846.30
10,000.00
5’s
4’s
Oct.
May
1, 1962
i, 1953
10,423.72
9,848.46
5 ’s
May
i, 1930
1,500.00
3 ^ ’s
Ju ly
i , 1949
1,000.00
4’s
Jan .
i , 1956
9, 7H .77
5 ’s
Ju ly
i, 1947
981.01
5’ s
A pril
i , 1940
10,104.78
10 ,2 7 1.17
4 ^ ’s
M ay
i , 1989
4’s
Ju ly
i, 1934
869.50
4’s
Nov.
i , 1987
4,780.31
4 ^ ’s
Ju ly
i , 1963
916.18
4 ^ ’s
Ju ly
i, 1963
5,010.65
4 ^ ’s Ju ly
i, 1963
5,010.60
4’s
Ju n e
i , 1993
9,891.51
4’s
Aug.
Jan .
Jan .
Nov.
i,
i,
i,
i,
4’s
4 ^ ’s
S’s
1936
1996
1932
1937
10,623.52
10,000.00
5,077.25
10,087.96
218
A M E R IC A N B A PTIST FOREIGN M ISSIO N
P a r Value
15.000
10.000
5.000
8.000
10.000
1.000
10.000
10.000
20.000
10.000
5.000
7.000
1.000
13,500
15.000
10.000
5.000
1.000
500
10.000
5.000
4.000
1.000
Nam e
Rate
Kansas City Terminal R ailw ay Company,
ist Gold ......................................................
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern R ail­
w ay, Gold ..................................................
Lehigh Valley Railw ay Company, ist
Mtg. Gold .................................................
Louisville & Jefferson Bridge Company,
Gold ..............................................................
Minneapolis, Saint Paul & Sault Ste.
M arie, 50 yr. Gold ................................
New Y ork Central Railroad Company,
Series of 19 15 20 yr. Conv. Gold De­
benture ........................................................
New Y o rk Central & Hudson R iver
Railroad M ichigan Central, Gold . . .
New Y ork Connecting Railroad Com­
pany, ist M tg., Series A ............. ....
New Y ork, New H aven & H artford
Railroad Debenture .................................
N orfolk & W estern Railroad D iv., ist
Lien & General ......................................
Northern Pacific Railw ay Company, Gen.
Lien R ailw ay and Land G r a n t
Northern Pacific Railw ay Company, Gen.
Lien G o l d ............................................. ..
Northern
Pacific Railw ay, Gen. Lien
Railway and Land Grant ....................
Northern Pacific Railw ay
Company,
P rior Lien R ailw ay and Land Grant.
Northern
Pacific R ailw ay, Refunding
and Improvement, Series B .................
Pennsylvania Company, Gold Series of
1906 ..............................................................
Pennsylvania Railroad Company, Gen.
Mtg. Gold, Series A _ ..............................
Seaboard A ir Lin e R ailw ay Co., ist &
Cons. Mtg., Series A ..........................
Seaboard A ir Line Railw ay Co., 3 yr.
Extended Secured Gold Note ........... ..
Southern Railw ay Company, St. Louis
D iv., ist Gold .........................................
Term inal Railroad Association of St.
Louis, ist M tg.............................................
United New Jerse y Railroad & Canal
Company, Gen. M tg..................................
W isconsin Central R ailw ay Company,
ist Gen. M tg...............................................
SOCIETY
M aturity
B ook Value
4’ s
Jan .
i, i960
$14,165.61
4’s
M ay
i, 1931
9 .739-94
4^2 *s
Ju ly
i, 1940
4,392.84
4’ s
M ar.
i. 1945
7 ,543 -3 i
4’s
Ju ly
i, 1938
9,627.83
6’ s
May
i. 1935
932.48
8,580.82
3^2’s
Feb.
i, 1998
4 ^ ’s
Aug.
i, 1953
9 ,959-49
4’s
May
i, 1956
19 ,550.26
4’s
Ju ly
i, 1944
9,987.36
3’s
Jan .
i, 2047
3 ,259-94
3’s
Jan .
i, 2047
4 .754-87
3’s
Jan .
i, 2047
668.39
i ’s
Jan .
i, 1997
io , 5 i 7.55
6’s
Ju ly
1, 2047
14,545.00
4’s
A pril
i, 1931
9,977.20
4 j4 ’s
Ju n e
i, 1965
5,016.00
6’ s
Sept.
i , 1945
1,000.00
7’s
Sept.
15. 1923
500.00
4’ s
Ja n .
i, 1951
9,911.58
4//2,s
Oct.
i. 1939
5,026.07
4’s
Sept.
1, 1929
3,664.00
4’ s
Ju ly
1, 1949
921.26
$322,923.71
Traction Bonds
P a r Value
Rate
$4,000 Bleeker Street & Fulton F erry Railroad
Company, ist M tg..................................... 4’s
25.000 Boston Elevated R ailw ay Company, Gold 4’s
3.000 D anville, Champaign & Decatur Railway
& Light Company, Cons. & R ef. Coll.
T r. Gold ...................................................... 5’s
5.000 Interborough Rapid T ransit Company,
ist & R ef. M tg...............
5’s
5.000 Interborough Rapid T ransit Co., ist &
R ef. Mtg........................................................ 5’s
5.000 Interborough Rapid Transit Co., ist &
R ef. M tg....................................................... 5’s
10.000 Interborough Rapid T ransit Co., ist &
R ef. M tg....................................................... 5’s
1.000 Iow a Railw ay & Light Co., ist & R ef.
Gold ...............................................
5’ s
5.000 Springfield & Northeastern Traction Co.,
ist Mtg. Gold ........................................... 5 s
10.000 W est End Street R ailw ay, Debenture . 5’s
Maturity
Book Value
Jan .
May
i, 1950
i. 1935
Mar.
I, 1938
3,000.00
Jan .
i, 1966
4,932.58
Jan .
i, 1966
4 ,976.54
Jan .
i, 1966
4,895-46
Jan .
i, 1966
9 ,953 .o8
Sept.
r, 1932
1,000.00
Dec.
Mar.
I, 1936
i. 1944
5,042.62
10,464.66
$3,784.24
25,000.00
$ 7 3 ,0 4 9 .18
REPORT OF T H E TREASURER
219
Electric, Gas, and Water Bonds
P a r Value
$ S ,ooo
5.000
5.000
10.000
5.000
10.000
5.000
10.000
25.000
5.000
5.000
5.000
5.000
5.000
5.000
5.000
4.000
10.000
5.000
2.000
Rate
Blackstone Valley Gas & Electric Co.,
ist & Gen. M tg ..........................................
Citizens Gas Company of Indianapolis,
ist & R ef. S. F .............................................
Cleveland Electric Illum inating Co., ist
Cleveland Electric Illum inating Co., ist
Commonwealth Edison Co., ist Mtg. Gold
Consumers Power Co., ist Lien & R e f..
Detroit Edison Co., ist ..............................
Detroit Edison Co., ist ..............................
Federal Light & Traction Co., ist Lien
S. F ................................................................
Indiana Lighting Co., ist M'tg...................
Massachusetts Gas Companies .................
Massachusetts Gas Companies .................
Minneapolis General Electric Company.
Minneapolis General Electric Company.
Minneapolis General Electric Company.
Minneapolis General Electric Company.
Newark Gas Company, ist .......................
Southern Fower Company, ist Mtg. Gold
Union Electric Light & Power Company
Utah Power & Light Co., ist M tg............
Maturity
Book Value
s ’s
Jan .
1» 1939
$5,102-75
s ’s
July
s ’s
5’s
5’s
5’s
5’s
5 ’s
A pril
A pril
June
Jan .
Jan .
Jan .
I,
I ,
I,
I.
I ,
I.
5.000.00
5.069.37
10,063.40
5,045.87
10.000.00
5,051.77
10,069.87
5’ s
4’s
4% ’s
4^2’s
5 ’s
5’s
s ’s4
5’s
6’s
5’s
5’ s
5 ’s
Mar.
Aug.
Jan .
Jan .
Dec.
Dec.
Dec.
Dec.
April
Mar.
Sept.
Feb.
1942
1939
Ï 939
1943
1936
1933
I, 1933
I , 1942
I , 1958
I , 1929
I , 1929
I . 1934
I. 1934
I. 1934
I, 1934
I, 1944
I , 193 0
I , 1 93 2
I, 1944
25.000.00
4,271.29
4,926.06
4,922.74
5,091-32
5,038-52
5,026.85
5.000.00
4.000.00
10.000.00
5,0 55-9 6
1.986.37
$ 1 3 5 ,7 2 2 .1 4
Telephone and Telegraph Bonds
P a r Value
$1,000 American Telephone and Telegraph Co.,
5 yr. Notes ...............................................
26.000 American Telephone and Telegraph Co.,
Coll. Trust ...............................................
5.000 American Telephone and Telegraph Co.
4.000 American Telephone and Telegraph Co.
3.000 American Telephone and Telegraph Co.
3.000 American Telephone and Telegraph Co.
4.000 American Telephone and Telegraph Co.
10.000 New England Telephone and Telegraph
Co., Deb........................................................
5.000 New Y ork Telephone Co., ist &.• Gen.
M tg..................................................................
10.000 New York Telephone Co., ist and Gen.
Mtg. S. F .....................................................
5.000 Ohio State Telephone Co., Cons. & R ef.
Mtg. S. F ..................................................
10,000 Western Telephone and Telegraph Co.,
Coll. T r ..........................................................
5>ooo W estern Union Telegraph Co., Funding
6 R . E. 50 yr. M tg................................
Rate
Maturity
Book Value
6’s
Feb.
I, 1924
$1,000.00
4’s
4’s
s ’s
5’s
5’s
5 ’s
Ju ly
Ju ly
Dec.
Dec.
Dec.
Dec.
I,
I,
I,
I,
I,
I,
1929
1929
1946
1946
1946
1946
25,819.48
4,822.63
3 ,938.73
2,954.02
2,979.89
3,980.79
S’s
Oct.
I, 1932
10,025.20
4 y2’s; Nov.
I, 1939
4 ,973-94
4 % ’ si Nov.
I, 1939
10,091.95
S’s
Ju ly
I,
1944
4,756.60
5’ s
Jan .
I, 1932
10,148.24
4 ^ ’s
M ay
I, 1950
5,105.91
$90,597-38
Municipal Bonds
P a r Value
$4,000
2.000
25.000
5.000
5.000
10.000
10.000
4.000
10.000
1.000
1.000
3.000
3.000
Province of Alberta, Canada, Gold Deb.
Borough of Alden, State of Penna. . . .
Government of the Dominion of Canada
City of Chester, State o f Penna., Fund_ ing B d ............................................................
Sanitary District of Chicago ....................
City of Cleveland .........................................
City of Dayton Sewer Bond ...................
Decatur School District No. 61, State of
111., School Building Bond .................
City o f Detroit W ater Bond ...................
City o f Flint Sewer Bond ........................
City of Flin t Sew er Bond ........................
City of Flint Street Improvement Bond
City of Flin t Street Improvement Bond
Rate
6’s
4’s
s ’s
Maturity
Ju n e
I , 1928
May
I , 1933
A pril I, 1926
3 y2’s
5’s
4^2’ s
5 ’s
J u ly
Jan .
Dec.
Mar.
I,
I,
I,
I,
1929
1932
4’s
4Js
4 ^ ’s
4t4’s
4^2’s
4 % ’s
May
Mar.
April
April
A pril
A pril
I,
I,
I,
I,
I,
I,
1929
1944
1940
1939
1940
1939
1935
1936
Book Value
$3,842.86
1,928.56
24,928.23
4.640.00
4.900.00
10,165.92
10,594.61
3,704.80
9 ,939-20
1,020.83
1,019.91
3,062.39
3 ,059-67
220
A M E R IC A N
P a r Value
2,000
20,000
4.000
4.000
5,000
4,000
10,000
5.000
5.000
5.000
5.000
5.000
5,000
3,000
2,000
4,000
S.ooo
10,000
5,000
10,000
5.000
5.000
1,000
3.000
5,000
B A PTIST FOREIGN
M ISSIO N
Name
SOCIETY
Rate
City of Flint Street Improvement Bond
Government of United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, 20 yr. Gold
City of Je rse y City, Fire Gold Bonds ..
Province of Manitoba, Canada, 10 yr.
Gold Deb......................................................
State of M aryland, State Roads Loan of
„ 19 14 ............................................................
Commonwealth o f Massachusetts, D evel­
opment of the Port o f Boston Loan . .
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Charles
R iver Basin L o a n .....................................
City of Montreal ...........................................
City of Montreal ...........................................
City o f Montreal ...........................................
Province of N ova Scotia, Dominion of
Canada, Gold Deb.....................................
C ity of Omaha, F ire Engine House Bds.,
Series of 1 9 1 3 ...........................................
Province of Ontario, D e b e n tu re .............
Province o f Ontario,. Debenture .............
City of Philadelphia, Loan of 1 9 0 9 ___
City of Philadelphia, Loan of 1902 . . . .
Province of Quebec, Gold Debenture ..
Province of Quebec, Gold Debenture . .
Toronto Harbour Commissioners, 4th
Series ..........................................................
State of Utah, Capital Building Bond ..
City of W innipeg, Debenture .................
City of W orcester, W orcester W ater
Loan, Act of 19 14 , Serial No. 38 . . .
City of W orcester, Street Construction
Land Damages, Serial No. 35 ...........
City of W orcester Schoolhouses, Serial
No. 37 ........................................................
City of Worcester, Permanent Paving,
Serial No. 34 ...........................................
M aturity
Book Value
4 ^ ’s
A pril
I, 1938
$2,038.11
5^ ’s
4s
Feb.
Ju ly
r. 1937
I. 1925
20,144.91
3,869.80
6’s
Jan .
3. 19 31
3. 797.78
4’s
Feb.
I.
1929
4, 991-56
4’ s
Aug.
I. 1925
3, 973-32
3 ^ ’s
5’s
5’ s
5’s
Jan .
Nov.
Nov.
May
I , 1945
I. 1930
I. 1930
I. 1936
9,301.16
5,006.22
5,018.96
5,045-29
5’ s
Jan .
I,
1926
5,011.49
4 ^ ’s
5’s
5 ^ ’s
4’s
3 ^ ’s
5’s
5’s
Mar.
I. 1933
Dec.
I , 1926
Sept. 23, 1929
Ju ly
I. 1939
Ju ly
I, 1932
I , 1926
June
June
I , 1926
4,730.80
5,000.00
2,7 86.24
1,936.00
3,584-64
5,025.66
10,022.16
4 ^ ’s
Sept.
A pril
Aug.
4,655.68
10,237.92
4,992.61
4 I/ i ’s
5’s
I. 1953
I. 1935
I,
1926
4’s
Jan .
I. 1924
5,000.00
4’ s
Jan .
I . 1924
1,000.00
4’ s
Jan .
I, 1924
3,000.00
4’ s
Jan .
I , 1924
5,000.00
$217,977.29
United States Liberty Bonds
P a r Value
$1,400
100
3,750
S3.S50
2,000
25,300
850
102,100
1,650
Rate
of America, ist Lib. Loan of 19 17
o f America, ist Lib. Loan Conv.
o f America, ist Lib. Loan Conv.
o f America, 2nd Lib. Loan Conv.
of America, 2nd Lib. Loan Conv.,
R eg ..................................................................
U . S. o f America, 3d Lib. Loan ............
U . S. of America, 3d Lib. Loan, K eg..
U . S. of America, 4th Lib. Loan . . . .
U . S. of America, 4Ü1 Lib. Loan, Reg.
3 j4 ’s
4’s
4 î4 ’s
4 j4 ’s
U . S.
U . S.
U . S.
U . S.
U . S.
4 ¿4 ’ s
4 % ’s
4 ^ ’s
4 î4 ’s
4?4’s
M aturity
Book Value
June
June
June
Nov.
15 ,
15 ,
15,
15 ,
1932-47 $1,400.00
1932-47
100.00
i 932-47 3.750.00
1927-42 53,550.00
Nov.
15 , 1927-42
2,000.00
Sept. 15 , 1928
25,300.00
Sept. 15 , 1928
850.00
Oct. 15 , 1933-38 10 1,16 3 .3 7
Oct.
15, 1933-38 1,650.00
$189,763.37
Sundry Bonds
Rate
P a r Value
$1,000
4.000
30,000
1.000
4.000
1.000
1.000
300
5.000
Iowa Loan & Trust
Iowa Loan & Trust
Iowa Loan & Trust
Iowa Loan & Trust
Iowa Loan & Trust
Iowa Loan & Trust
Iowa Loan & Trust
Iowa Loan 8L Trust
Swift & Company,
Bd
Co. , Series 125,
Co. , Series 12 5,
Co. , Series 126,
Co.., Series 126,
Co. , Series 126,
Co. , Series 126,
Co. , Series 128,
Co. , Series 128,
ist Mtg. S. F.
Deb.
Deb.
Deb.
Deb.
Deb.
Deb.
Deb.
Deb.
Gold
.................................
M aturity
Book Value
5 ’s
5’s
5’s
5’s
5’s
5’s
6’s
6’ s
M ar.
Mar.
April
April
April
April
Jan.
Jan.
1923-28 $1,000.00
I, 1923-28 4,000.00
I, 1929
30,000.00
I, 1924—29 1.000.00
1 . 1924-29 4.000.00
1 . 1924-29 1.000.00
1.000.00
I , 1926
300.00
I. 1931
5’ s
Ju ly
I, 1944
I,
5.065.53
$47.365.53
221
REPORT OF T H E TREASURER
Mortgages
In various States
$ 243, 45i-oo
..........................................................
Stocks
Book Value
Shares
x
loo
21
S
Atchison, Topeka & Santa F é R y., Preferred ...........
Atchison, Topeka & Santa F é R y ., Preferred ...............
Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville Ry. Co., Preferred
Delaware W ater Co., Preferred Capital ........................
931/2 Lumber Exchange Company ..................................................
io
Ninth Avenue Railroad ......................................................
loo
Southern Railw ay Co., Preferred ......................................
$78.00
7,826.10
1,050.00
475.00
6.000.00
1.000.00
8.000.00
$24,429.10
Miscellaneous
P ar Value
Rate
$300 Fidelity Savings & Loan A ss’n, Time
Deposit ........................................................
200 Fidelity Savings & Loan A ss’n, Time
Deposit ........................................................
100 Fidelity Savings & Loan A ss’n, Time
Deposit ........................................................
100 Fidelity Savings & Loan A ss’n, Time
Deposit ........................................................
1.000 Fidelity Savings & Loan A ss’n, Cert.
of Stock ....................................................
2.000 Fidelity Savings & Loan A ss’ n, Cert.
of Stock .....................................................
5.000 F irst Mtg. R .
E . Notes of Indiana
D aily Times Co........................................
6.000 First Mtg. R .
E . Notes of Indiana
D aily Times Co.......................................
500 F irst Mtg. R .
E. Notes of Indiana
Daily Times Co.......................................
Pacific M utual L ife Ins. Co. of Cali­
fornia ..........................................................
M aturity
Book Value
6’s
Jan .
1, 1927
$300.00
7’s
Jan .
1, 1925
200.00
7’s
Ju ly
1, 1925
100.00
7’s
Ju ly
1, 1924
100.00
6’ s
Ja n .
1, 1929
1.000.00
2.000.00
6’ s
Jan .
1, 1929
5’s
Dec.
20, 1928
5.000.00
5’s
Dec.
20, 1928
6.000.00
5’s
Dec.
20, 1923
500.00
6’s
607.98
$15,807.98
Real Estate
In various States .................................................................
$98,986.93
SC H E D U LE IX
C O M P A R A T IV E S U M M A R Y O F IN C O M E
utdS :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
D on ation !0^
1921-1922
$10 8 ,2 6 6 .7 0
A7 - 2K 00
< \
o
«
'ZjfAi
D ° nati° n S ........................................
1,10 0 ,8 6 9 .7 6
$ 1,4 2 9 ,6 5 5 .0 1
104 >927.77
r
$ 1,5 4 0 ,0 4 1.4 8
3 7 1,6 9 7.6 9
Grand Total Income ..................
œ.
......
$ 1 ,9 1 1 ,7 3 9 .1 7
.........................................................................................................................................9 14 ,2 6 2 .50
$2 ,8 2 6 ,0 0 1.6 7
Deficit^Account f
324,S 03, 3t>
Q„
1,7 13 ,4 6 5 .8 2
* 10 6 ,9 14 .15
$1,8 2 0 ,3 7 9 .9 7
$3 15 ,9 0 8 .0 0
^
2 0 ,9 8 1.4 8
20,6 59.77
,
3 1,6 3 5 -7 7
1 ,9 7 2 ,1 5
3 9 1 ,1 5 7 .1 7
«
$ 2 ,2 1 1 ,5 3 7 .1 4
6 6 1,5 4 0 .10
$ 2 ,8 7 3,0 7 7 .2 4
Board of Proniotion and set up as a Reserve fo r Contingent Repayment to General Hoard of Promotion.
See
S O C IE T Y
Total Income not on $100,000,000 Fund . . .
Deficit
$22 0 ,4 9 5.6 1
74,789.64
2 9 ,2 1 8 .1 1
t s , -o
^cR-™
5e ,’ 458-70
Income J . D . Rockefeller Fund ......................................
$ 3 1 3 ,1 2 3 .5 0
Donations, not on $100,000,000 Fun d:
R egular .................................
TO
Other Sources .......................................
12 ,3 7 0 .5 5
Specifics not on $100,000,000 F u n d :...............................
Property Reserve ...................................
c ...
Other ............
.....................................
J 0, 553.51
............................................................................................. 3 9 ,6 5 0 .13
1,0 7 9 .3 4 3 .4 6
$!,3 8 8 ,9 6 2 .4 6
MISSION
SupplementalBudget:
^1? ’ 8?6 I7
45, « 56.37
_
FOREIGN
Total Income, Regular and Specific B u d g e t .................
Contributions applying on d e fic it....................... ..
0
$ 3° 9 , 6i 9 .oo
BAPTIST
Total Donations ....................................................
‘ .................
.............
...........................................
10*2-1021
“ ..6 „
o' ê i ’
58j86o.37
$3 *8 ,7 8 5 .2 5
Total Income Regular B u d g e t ...........................................
Specific Budget— Contra :
Board of Promotion'
Other Sources ............
to
K)
^
A M ERICAN
Income
Current Budget R egular:
Sources Outside D onations:
Investment o f Funds ..................................................
A n n u it ie s ............................................................................
Lecracies
SCHEDULE X
COMPARATIVE SUMMARY OF BUDGET APPROPRIATIONS
1Ç2I-1Ç22
Deficit Previous Year
689, 459-Si
Deficit Adjustments . .
78 ,18 9 .8 9
1922-1923
$ 9 14 ,2 6 2.5 0
( 1) 14 2 ,2 19 .6 3
*2 ,74 9 .7 2
$ 1. 053, 732.41
$ 4 18 ,6 3 3.6 5
16 1,14 8 .8 9
8 8 ,0 8 5 .14
3 0 7 ,1 7 3 .10
5 3 ,5 2 7 .6 1
Si
Total Foreign Field Appropriations ........................ $ 1 ,5 2 4 ,7 3 9 .12
4,233.33
13, 750.00
6 ,260.50
1, 998.54
4,684.84
$ 1, 059, 495-60
Home Expenditures:
Foreign Department Administration . . .
Home Department A d m in istratio n .......
T reasury Department Administration . .
$ 5 8 ,1 17 .0 5
40,065.45
5 9 ,3 4 1.0 3
$ 4 9 ,8 17 .0 0
41,637.53
53, 247-54
T x
$ 157, 523.53
Interest ............................................................
2 3 ,2 5 4 .7 3
Retired Officers and W orkers ...............
2,400.00
Secretary and T reasu rer, General Con­
ference Free Baptists ........................
330 .72
$14 4 ,7 0 2.0 7
19 ,29 8 .20
1,8 0 0 .0 0
Total Home Expenditures
18 3 ,5 0 8 .9 8
166,000.27
TREASURER
(3)
THE
ili
OF
$450,635.44
17 6 ,3 5 1-6 8
115 ,8 9 4 -5 8
307, 3 i 4-55
51,404-50
68,000.00
155, 435-79
3 0 ,0 7 4 .16
10 5 ,6 5 1.5 5
2 1,0 8 4 .8 2
2 8 ,1 12.6 6
7,600.00
2 , 179-39
5,000.00
REPORT
$767,649.40
Foreign Field Appropriations:
Field _ Salaries o f M issionaries .........................................
Salaries of M issionaries on Furlough ............................
Passages o f M issionaries to and from the F i e l d .........
W ork of M issionaries and Native A g e n c ie s ..................
Care o f Property .....................................................................
W ork and W orkers in E u r o p e ...........................................
Special R elief W ork in Europe .......................................
Retired Missionaries and Widows ................................
New Appointees .....................................................................
Education of Oriental S tu d e n ts .........................................
H omes for_ M issionaries and M issionaries’ C hildren..
Foreign Missions C o n feren c e.............................................
“ Missions ” and Literature sent to M issionaries . . . .
Visitation o f Mission Fields ...............................................
NJ
Ni
OJ
224
SCHEDULE X (Continued)
COMPARATIVE SUMMARY OF BUDGET APPROPRIATIONS
AM ERIC AN
1921-1922
Total Appropriations,
1922-1923
Regular Budget ................................ $ 1,7 0 8 ,2 4 8 .10
$ 1,2 2 5 ,4 9 5 .8 7
Specific Budget— Contra:
Specifics on $100,000,000 F u n d
.................; . . . .
324 ,50 3.36
Total Appropriations ............................................................ $ 1 ,8 1 3 ,1 8 0 .8 7
Supplemental Budget:
Specifics not on $100,000,000 Fund . . .
$46 ,203.6 4
$ i,S 4 9 ,9 9 9 .2 3
BAPTIST
10 4 ,9 32 .77
$33,6 0 7.9 2
J . D . Rockefeller Fu nd :
Homes_ for Missionaries
aries’ Children
2 3 ,7 10 ,5 7
Specific,
andSupplemental
2 4 5 ,17 1.4 0
MISSION
Regular,
7 1,6 8 3 .0 1
75,000.00
36 889 00
2 8 )4 54 ^ 0
and M ission­
Total Appropriations not on $100,000,000
Fund ........................................................
Total
FOREIGN
Buildings, including Land and Equip«r
16 3,4 6 7 .7 6
^ ° r k J I\ i - u,:ope : .......................
35 ,500 .00
Retired M issionaries and Widows ........
...............
New Appointees ; -----_..........................................................
269,345.60
Budget
Appropriations .........................................................................
$ 1,8 19 ,3 4 4 .8 3
$ 2 ,8 2 6 ,0 0 1.6 7
$ 2 ,8 7 3,0 7 7 .2 4
* Deduction.
( 1)
1922.
(2)
(3)
(4)
Net adjustment of our share of the Interchurch Obligations in
Expenditure met by special contributions.
Expenditure met by Supplemental Budget.
P art of Expenditures met by Supplemental Budget.
accordance
with
the
action of the Board o f M anagers, Tune 17-20.
S O C IE T Y
$ 2 ,0 5 8 ,3 5 2 .2 7
SC H ED U LE
X I
COMPARATIVE SUMMARY OF REVENUE STATEMENTS AND OTHER RECEIPTS FOR
1922-1923 W IT H 1921-1922
On New Wori.h
G
ig 2 i-i9 2 2
Donations, Regular
Donations,
M
J
19 22-19 23
pecific
19 21-19 22
19 22-19 23
N. W . M.
utside
B udget
19 21-19 22
$ 5 , 4 5 8 . 7 0 * $ 1 0 6 , 9 1 4 . 1 5{ $ 1 2 , 3 7 0 . 5 5
10 4 ,9 2 7.77
16 9 ,6 7 2 .8 9 !
1
4 7 ,3 2 5 .0 0
13 5 ,8 3 8 .8 6
19 8 ,2 6 6 .7 0 !
1
3 , 5 2 0 . 66|
1 1 1 . s 1 6 . 2 1 l .............................
29 5 ,2 8 5 .2 5 1
19 22 -19 23
$20 ,9 81.4 8
4 6 ,20 3 .6 4
3 3,6 0 7.9 2
3 13 ,12 3 .5 0
3 15 ,9 0 8 .0 0
F
P
or
E
ermanent
ndowment
1 9 2 1 - 1 9 22
19 22-19 23
$28 ,35 2.16
$38 ,59 4 .27
$28 ,35 2.16
$38,59 4 .27
............................
REPORT
Income from Investments ..1
A ll Other S o u r c e s ...................
udget
O
.................... ^ | $ i , 1 0 0 , 8 6 9 . 7 ô i $ i , 0 7 9 , 3 4 3 . 4 6
Annuity Agreements Matured
B
S
Specific ............... 1 ........................... ..........................
L e g a c ie s .......................................
o vf . m k n t
eneral
58,86 0.37
1,4 0 3.5 6 '
2 9 ,2 18 .11
20 ,6 59.77
OF
or
A
A
19 21-19 22
Donations, Regular ...............
F
n n u ity
greem ents
$ 6 5 ,3 5 0 .4 7
j
1922-1923
i
or
S pecia l T rust
A greements
19 21-19 22
Annuity
19 22-19 23
F
or
D
for
esig n a t e t i G i f t s
F u i •u r e U se
19 21-19 22
19 22-19 23
G
rand
19 21-19 22
T
otals
1922-1923
I
$9 8,8 6 1.00
$5 1,9 4 4 .0 0
Donations, Specific ...............
Legacies
$ 4 3 i , 4 i 7 - 5 i J$37 ï , 6 9 7 - 6 9 j $ 3 9 i , 1S 7 - I 7 j
$ 8 2 0 . 0 0 $ 1 3 0 , 2 3 9 . 2 8 ! $ 4 7 , 6 8 0 . 0 0 $ 1 , 4 0 0 , 5 8 4 . 9 2 $ 1 , 3 9 3 , 194 -36
1
3 2 8 ,8 9 3 .17
15 1,13 1.4 1
1
.....................................
16 9 ,6 7 2 .8 9
13 5 ,8 38 .8 6
Matured
4 7 ,3 2 5 .0 0
58,86 0.37
Income from Investments . .
4 2 1,3 9 0 .2 0
4 2 9 ,4 24 .21
A greem ents
All Other S o u r c e s ....................
T otals...................................
TR EASU R ER
F
j|$i, 38 8 ,9 6 2 .4 6 j $ 110 ,3 8 6 .4 7
THE
T otals ..............................................J|$ 1 , 4 2 9 , 6 5 5 . 0 1
5 1,2 8 1.4 4
$ 6 5 ,3 5 0 .4 7
$9 8 ,8 6 1.0 0
$5 1,9 4 4 .0 0
$8 20 .00 $ i 3 6 ,2 3 9 .2 8
$4 7 ,6 8 0 .0 0 $ 2 ,1 9 3 ,6 2 5 .0 8
to
to
C/l
$2 ,3 9 7 ,4 9 2 .4 1
.
deficit Account. Amount distributed by General Board of Promotion as o f A pril 30, 1922, and set up as a Reserve fo r Con­
tingent Repayment to General Board of Promotion. (See page 167 of the Annual Report for 19 2 1-19 2 2 .)
A M E R IC A N BAPTIST FOREIGN M ISSION SOCIETY
226
SCHEDULE X II
COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF APPROVED BUDGET FOR
1922-1923
W IT H ACTUAL INCOME FOR 1922-1923
Approved,
1922-1923
Income
A ctual
1922-1923
Current Budget:
Sources Outside Donations:
Income from Funds ...............
A nnuity Agreements M atured
Legacies .......................................
Other Sources ..........................
$90,000.00
20,000.00
115 ,0 0 0 .0 0
1,0 0 0 .0 0
Toial Outside Donations . . . .
Regular Donations:
Direct .........................................
)
Through General Board of
>
Promotion ........................
) $ 1,2 8 1,8 9 0 .0 0
Total R egular Donations . . . .
Total Regular Budget Receipts
Supplemental Budget (not on
$100,000,00 0 F u n d ):
Income John D . Rockefeller
Fund .............................................
Regular D o n a tio n s........................
Other Sources ..............................
$ 1 1 3 ,5 1 6 .2 1
58,860.37
135 ,8 38 .8 6
1,4 0 3 .5 6
$226,000.00
$ 6 1,10 3 .2 8
1 ,0 18 ,2 4 0 .18
1,2 8 1,8 9 0 .0 0
1,0 7 9 ,34 3 .4 6
$1,5 0 7 ,8 9 0 .0 0
$1,38 8 ,9 6 2 .4 6
$310 ,0 0 0 .0 0
Total Supplemental Budget ..
$315,9 0 8 .0 0
2 0 ,9 8 1.4 8
20,6 59.77
310 ,0 00.00
Total Income Regular and
Supplemental Budgets . . . .
Specific Budget— Contra:
\
357,549-25
$ 1,8 17 ,8 9 0 .0 0
Specifics on $100,000,000 Fund:
Contributions received Direct
Contributions received through
General Board o f Promotion
Other S o u r c e s ............................
I
I
/
Total Specifics on $100,0 00 ,000 Fund ................................
Specifics not on $100,000,000
Fund:
Contributions received Direct
Contributions received through
General Board of Promotion
I
\ $550,000.00
I
I
\
I
I
$ 1 , 7 4 6 ,5 1 1 .7 1
\
1
$220,49 5.61
74,789.64
2 9 ,2 1 8 .1 1
$32 4 ,5 0 3.36
32,848.96
758.96
Total Specifics not on $100,000,000 Fund ......................... I
Total Specific B u d g e t ...................
Total Income R egular, Supple­
mental and Specific Budgets
$309,6x9.00
$33,60 7.92
550,000.00
3 5 8 ,1 1 1 .2 8
$2 ,36 7 ,8 9 0 .0 0
$2 ,10 4 ,6 2 2 .9 9
REPORT OF T H E TREASURER
227
SCHEDULE X II
BUDGET APPROPRIATIONS
A pproved
1922-1923
Regular Budget:
Foreign Field Appropriations:
Field Salaries of M issionaries. $437,716.77
Salaries of Missionaries on Fu r
153,226.21
lough .........................................
Passages o f M issionaries to and
72,265.00
from the Field ......................
W ork of Missionaries and Native
Agencies ...................................
3 0 1,2 9 5 -5 5
Care of Property ...................
50,959.03
W ork in Europe ......................
75,000.00
40,014.00
Retired M issionaries and Widows
New Appointees ............................
30,870.29
13,750.00
Education o f Oriental Students.
Homes fo r M issionaries and Mis
sionaries’ Children .............
25,000.00
Foreign Missions Conference
5,000.00
“ Missions ” and Literature sent
2,000.00
to M issionaries ....................
Visitation of Mission Fields .
2,500.00
Total Foreign Field Appropria
tions .........................................
Home Expenditures:
Foreign Department Administra
tion ...........................................
Home Department Administration
T reasu ry Department Administra
tion ...........................................
Interest .........................................
Retired Officers and W orkers
Secretary and T reasu rer, Genera
Conference F ree Baptists .
Actual
1922-1923
$418,633.65
161,148.89
88,085.14
3 0 7 , 173 -10
53 , 527 - 6 i
* ...............
* ...............
t 4 , 233.33
Ï 3 . 750.00
* ...............
6,260.50
j ,998.54
4,684.84
$1,0 59 ,4 9 5-6 0
$ 1,2 0 9 ,5 9 6 .8 5
$4 9 ,8 17 .0 0
4 i , 637-53
$5 8 ,10 0 .0 0
40.000.00
59,300.00
5 3,24 7 .54
$157 ,4 0 0 .0 0
25.000.00
2,400.00
$ 14 4 ,7 0 2 .0 7
19 ,29 8 .20
1,8 0 0 .0 0
Total Home Expenditures . . .
Total Supplemental Budget ..
Total Regular and Supplemen
Budgets, Reserve Fund . . .
Specific Budget— Contra:
Land, Buildings, and Equipment )
R elief W ork ......................................*. f$55o,c
General W ork ................................... )
166,000.27
185,000.00
Total
Appropriations
Regular
Budget ........................
$ 1 , 394 , 596.85
Reserve Fund ........................
2 0 1 ,6 1 8 .1 5
Supplemental Budget:
Land, Buildings, and Equipment .
Work and W orkers in Europe . .
Retired Missionaries and Widows
New Appointees ................................
Homes fo r M issionaries and Mis
sionaries’ Children
.............
Other Objects ..............................
$2 2 1,6 7 5 .0 0
$ 1,2 2 5 ,4 9 5 .8 7
$ 7 1,6 8 3 .9 1
75.000.00
36,889.00
28,454.20
2 3 ,7 10 .5 7
2 2 1,6 7 5 .0 0
235 , 737-68
$1,8 17 ,8 9 0 .0 0
$ 1 ,4 6 1 ,2 3 3 .5 5
$242,489.83
8 4 ,2 7 8 .14
3 i , 343 . 3 i
550,000.00
3 5 8 ,1 1 1 .2 8
$2 ,367,8 9 0.00
$ 1,8 19 , 344-83
Grand Total .........................................
$2 ,367,8 9 0.00
* T ransferred temporarily to Supplemental Budget,
t P art of Expenditure met by Supplemental Budget.
$2 , 1 0 4 , 6 2 2 .9 9
Total R egular, Supplemental, and
Specific Budget Appropriations. .
Balance T ransferred to Deficit A c­
count ....................................................
285, 2 7 8 .16
M IS C E L L A N E O U S
FIELDS AND STATIONS
With the names of missionaries assigned to each
Reference signs used in the list:
* Representing the Woman’s American Baptist Foreign Mission Society.
Serving without full missionary appointment.
** Representing the Mennonite Brethren of South Russia,
t Supported by Swedish Baptist Conference.
The key to the pronunciation of the names of stations given in these tables is that used
in the latest edition of W ebster’s Unabridged Dictionary.
I. T H E B U R M A M ISSIO N
Begun 1814.
1.
RA N G O O N (Ran-goon) 18 13
(See footnote)
Judson College
R . L . Howard, M. A ., Principal
Mrs. R . L . Howard
G. S. Ju ry , M. A ., Vice-principal
Mrs. G. S. Ju ry
David Gilmore, D. D.
Mrs. David Gilmore
Wallace St. John, Ph. D.
Mrs. W allace St. John
R . P. Currier, M. A.
Mrs. R. P. C urrier
C. E. Van Horn, Ph. D.
Mrs. C. E. Van Horn
G. E . Gates, M. A .
M rs. G. E . Gates
* Miss Helen K . Hunt
* Miss Marian E . Shivers, M. A.
Rangoon Baptist Schools
Cushing H igh School
L . W. Hattersley, M. A ., Principal
Mrs. L . W. Hattersley
ITS. W. Gard
English Baptist H igh School
(In charge of L. W. H attersley)
Normal School
G. D. Tosif, Principal
M rs. G. D. Jo sif
Baptist Mission P ress
J . L . Snyder
M rs. J . L . Snyder
S. E . M iner
M rs. S. E. Miner
S. V . Hollingworth
Mrs. S. V. Hollingworth
R . J . Journey
M rs. R . J . Journey
Miss Olive A. Hastings
Work fo r Burmans
H . H. Tilbe, Ph. D. (at Kalaw)
M rs. H. H . Tilbe (at Kalaw)
* Miss Lillian Eastman (at Kemendine)
* Miss M argaret M. Sutherland (at
Kemendine)
* Miss M ary E . Phillips
* Miss Gertrude E. Teele
Work fo r Karens
A . E . Seagrave
Mrs. A . E . Seagrave
* Miss Rachel H. Seagrave
* Miss Violetta R . Peterson
* Miss A lta O. Ragon
Work fo r Peninsular India
W. H. Duff
Work among English-speaking Peoples
V . W. D yer
M rs. V . W. Dyer
F ield Secretary fo r Burm a
W. E. W iatt
M rs. W. E . Wiatt
M iss Lu cy P. Bonney
General Evangelist fo r Burm a
W. F . Thomas, D. D.
Mrs. W . F. Thomas
2.
IN S E IN (In-sane) 1889
Karen Theological Seminary
H. I. Marshall, President
Mrs. H. I. Marshall
B u r man Theological Sem inary
John McGuire, D. D., President
Mrs. John McGuire
Burm ese Woman’s B ib le School
* Miss H arriet Phinney
* Miss Ruth W. Ranney
3.
M O U L M E IN (Mall-mane') 1827
Work fo r Burmans
H. S. Philpott
Mrs. H. S. Philpott
N ote.— W ork was begun in Rangoon in 18 13 by Rev. Adoniram Judson, although
the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society _ (at_ first known as “ The General
Missionary Convention of the Baptist Denomination in the United States of America
for Foreign Missions ” ) was not organized until 1814.
232
A M E R IC A N BAPTIST FOREIGN
* Miss Mildred A . Mosier
* Miss F . Faith Hatch
Work fo r Karens
C. L . Klein
Mrs. C. L . Klein
* Miss Nellie E . Lucas
Work fo r Talains
!f R. Halliday
if Mrs. R . Halliday
* Miss Martha J . Gifford, M. D.
(Ellen Mitchell Hospital)
* Miss Emma L . Geis (language
study)
Work fo r Peoples from Peninsular India
E.
N. Armstrong
8.
9.
1853
P R O M E (Prome) 1854
10.
T H O N Z E (Thon'ze) 1855
Work fo r Burmans
J . T. Latta
M rs. J . T. Latta •
4-■
T A V O Y (T a-voy') 1828
Work fo r Burmans
M. L . Streeter
M rs. M. L . Streeter
Work fo r Karens
W. D. Sutton
M rs. W. D. Sutton
12 .
7.
TOUNGO O (Toung-oo) 1853
Work fo r Burmans
* Miss M ary W . Ranney
Work fo r Karens
E . N. H arris
M rs. E. N, H arris
A . V . B . Crumb
M rs. A . V. B . Crumb
A . J . Weeks
Mrs. A . J . Weeks
Miss H arriet N . Eastman
* Miss Effie L . Adams
* Miss Esther M. Nelson
(Shway-gyin')
Work fo r Burm ans
* Miss Ida W . Davis
11.
6.
H E N Z A D A (Hen-za-da) 1853
Work fo r Burmans
A . C. Hanna
M rs. A . C. Hanna
* Miss M ary D. Thomas
Work fo r Karens
A . C. Phelps
Mrs. A. C. Phelps
* Miss M arion A . Beebe
S H W E G Y IN
Work fo r Karens
* Miss Stella T, Ragon
* Miss Hattie V . Petheram
(at
Nyaunglebin)
* Miss Frieda Feter (at Nyaunglebin)
Work among English-speaking Peoples
W . G. Evans
Mrs. W. G. Evans
* Miss Annie L. Prince
* Miss Ethel M. Jones
5.
B A S S E I N (Bas'sene) 1852
Work fo r Burm ans
J . C. Richardson, Ph. D.
M rs. J . C. Richardson
* Miss Helen L . Tufts
Work fo r Karens
C. L . Conrad
M rs. C. L . Conrad
IT E . E. Sowards
* Miss Minnie B . Pound
* M iss Louise E . Tschirch
* Miss Clara B . Tingley
* Miss M argaret P. Stevens
M ISSIO N SOCIETY
ZIG O N (Zee-gon) 1876
Work fo r Burmans
(In charge of
Thonze)
J.
T.
Latta,
at
B H A M O (Ba-mo') 1877
Work fo r Kachins
H. W . Smith
M rs. H. W. Smith
Ola Hanson, Litt.
work)
M rs. Ola Hanson
D.
(Literary
Work fo r Burm ans and Shans
(In charge of H. W. Smith)
13.
M A U B IN (Ma-60-bin) 1879
Work fo r Karens
P. R . Hackett (temporarily)
Mrs. P. R. Hackett (temporarily)
* Miss Carrie E . Putnam
* Miss Carrie E . Hesseltine
14.
T H A T O N (Tha-ton) 1880
Work fo r Burm ans
(In charge of J . T . Latta,
Thonze)
at
15 .
M A N D A L A Y (Man-da-lay) includ­
ing M A Y M Y O (May-myo) 1886
Work fo r Burmans
Ernest Grigg
M rs. Ernest Grigg
* Miss Ju lia E. Parrott
* Mrs. Ida B . Elliott
* Miss Malinda K . M iller
M andalay High School
H . E . Hinton, Principal
Mrs. H. E. Hinton
Work among English-speaking Peoples
II. P. Cochrane (at Maymyo)
M rs. H. P. Cochrane (at Maymyo)
16.
T H A Y E T M Y O (Tha-yet-myo) 1887
Work fo r Chins
E . C. Condict
Mrs. E . C. Condict
17.
M Y IN G Y A N (M yin-gyan) 1887
Work fo r Burm ans
E . Tribolet
M rs. E . Tribolet
FIELDS A N D STATIONS
18.
P E G U (Pe-gu', g is hard) 1887
Work fo r Burm ans
M. C. Parish
Mrs. M. C. Parish
* Miss M ary L . Parish
19.
S A G A IN G
1888
(Sa-ging,
g is
hard)
Work fo r Burmans
S. R . M cCurdy
M rs. S. R. McCurdy
20.
SA N D O W A Y (San'do-way) 1888
THARRAW ADDY
di) 1889
(Thar-ra-wad'-
Work fo r Karens
* Miss Cecelia L . Johnson
* Miss Gertrude R . Anderson
22.
M E IK T IL A (Make'-ti-la) 1890
Work fo r Burm ans
H. E. Dudley
23.
M O N G N A I (Mong-ni') 1892
Work fo r Shafts
H. C. Gibbens, M. D.
Mrs. H. C. Gibbens
24.
N A M K H A M (Nam-kham') 1893
Work fo r Shans
G. S. Seagrave, M. D.
Mrs. G. S. Seagrave
Work fo r Kachins
G. A . Sword
Mrs. G. A . Sword
25.
M Y IT K Y IN A (Myit-che-na) 1894
Work fo r Kachins
N. E. Woodbury
Mrs. N. E. Woodbury
26.
H A K A (Ha-ka) 1899
Work fo r Chins
J . H. Cope
L O IK A W (Loi-ka') 1899
Work fo r Karens
G. E . Blackwell
Mrs. G. E. Blackwell
Mrs. Truman Johnson
28.
K E N G T U N G (Keng-toong') 1901
Work fo r Shan and H ill Tribes
A . H. Henderson, M. D.
M rs. A . H. Henderson
R. E . Henderson
29.
P Y IN M A N A (Pin-ma-na) 1905
Work fo r Burm ans
B . C. Case
Mrs. B . C. Case
27.
L . C. Whitaker
M rs. L . C. W hitaker
30.
T A U N G G Y I (Toung-je') 19 10
Work fo r Shans
C. H. Heptonstall
M rs. C. H. Heptonstall
* Mrs. H. W. M ix
* Miss Emilie G. Lawrence
* Miss Anna B. Grey, M. D.
School fo r Missionaries’ Children
Miss Mabel F. Ivins, Principal
Work fo r Chins and Burmans
L . W. Spring
Mrs. L. W. Spring
* Miss Helen E . Bissell
* Miss Ina B . F ry
* Miss Clara E. Barrows
2 1.
233
3 1.
P Y A P O N (Pya-pon') 1 9 11
Work fo r Burmans
(In charge of G. D. Jo sif, at Ran­
goon)
32.
M ONG JjE M 1919
Work fo r Shans
W . M. Young
A T H O M E ON FU R LO U G H
* Miss Kate W. Armstrong
W. B . Brown
Mrs. W . B . Brown
J . R. Case
C. E . Chaney
Mrs. C. E. Chaney
Mrs. J . H. Cope
R . N. Crawford
Mrs. R. N. Crawford
L . W. Cronkhite, D. D.
Mrs. L . W. Cronkhite
* Miss Frances E. Crooks
B . P. Cross
Mrs. B . P. Cross
J . E. Cummings, D. D.
Mrs. J . E . Cummings
A . C. Darrow
Mrs. A . C. Darrow
* Miss Bertha E. Davis
Mrs. H. E . Dudley
Mrs. W. H. Duff
* Miss Nona G. Finney
* Miss Helen M. Good
Robert Harper, M. D.
Mrs. Robert Harper
* Miss Lizbeth B. Hughes
* Miss Ethel L. Hunt
M rs. E . W. Kelly, M. D.
J . L . Lewis
Mrs. J . L . Lewis
* Miss Selma M. M axville
Mrs. L. H. Mosier
C. A . Nichols, D. D.
* Miss Grace L . Pennington
* Miss Irene Pennington
Mrs. F . D. Phinney
* Miss Hattie M. Price
E. B . Roach
Mrs. E . B . Roach
L. B . Rogers
M rs. L . B . Rogers
H. E. Safford, M. A.
Mrs. H. E. Safford
O. H. Sisson
Mrs. O. H. Sisson
Miss Anna H. Smith
J . H . Telford
M rs. J . H. Telford
* Miss F. Alice Thayer
C. H. Whitnah, M. A.
Mrs. C. H. Whitnah
234
A M E R IC A N BAPTIST FOREIGN
II. T H E A S S A M
M ISSIO N SOCIETY
M IS S IO N
Begun 1836.
33.
M rs. A . C. Bowers
K O H IM A (Ko-he'-ma) 1879
Work fo r Nagas
J . E. Tanquist
M rs. J . E . Tanquist
G. W . Supplee
M rs. G. W . Supplee
NO W GONG (Nou-gong) 1841
40.
S IB S A G O R (Sib-saw '-gor)
ing Dibrugarh) 1841
(See footnote a)
(includ­
Work fo r Assamese and Im m igrant Peoples
A . C. Bowers
34.
Work fo r Assamese and Imm igrant Peoples
W . R . Hutton
M rs. W. R . Hutton
* Miss Edith E . Crisenberry
* M iss Elizabeth E . Hay
* Miss Edna M. Stever
* Miss Marion J . Tait
* Miss M illie M. M arvin
35-
G A U H A T I (Gou-hat-ti) 1843
G O A L P A R A (Go-al-para) 1867
IM P U R (Im-poor') 1893
(See footnote b)
Work fo r Nagas, including the
Training School
J . R . Bailey, M. D.
M rs. J . R . B ailey
* M iss E. M ay Stevenson
* M iss Ethel A . Masales
4 1.
K A N G P O K P I 1896
Work fo r Nagas
W illiam Pettigrew
M rs. W illiam Pettigrew
T IK A (Te'-ka) 1896
Work fo r M ikirs and Imm igrant Peoples
(In charge of W . R . Hutton, at
Nowgong)
Work fo r Rabhas and Garos
37.
T U R A (Too'-ra) 1876
Work fo r Garos, including the
Training School
M . C. Mason, D. D.
M rs. M. C. Mason
F . W. Harding
M rs. F . W. Harding
W . A . Phillips
M rs. W. A . Phillips
R . H. Ew ing
Mrs. R . H. Ew ing
* Miss Ella C. Bond
* Miss Charlotte A . W right
* Miss A . Verna Blakely
N O R T H L A K H IM P U R (Lak-himpoor) 1895
Work fo r Imm igrant Peoples
John Firth
Mrs. John Firth
42.
Work for-A ssam ese and Garos
A . E. Stephen
Mrs. A . E . Stephen
A . J . Tuttle
M rs. A . J . Tuttle
C. G. Fielder
M rs. C. G. Fielder
G. R . Kam pfer
* Miss Isabella Wilson
* Miss A ugusta M. Geisenhener
* Miss E . M arie Holmes
* M iss Ethel E . Nichols
36.
39-
Garo
43. G O LA G H A T (Gd-la-ghat) 1893
Work fo r Assamese, Im m igrant Peoples
and M ikirs
O. L . Swanson, General Evangelist
fo r Assam
Mrs. O. L. Swanson
V . H. Sword, Mission Builder
Mrs. V. H. Sword
* Miss A nna E . Long
* Miss R. Grace Lewison
* Miss M ay A . Nichols
* Miss E . Ruth Paul
* M iss Emma V . Christenson (lan­
guage study.)
44.
JO R H A T (Jor-h at') 1903
Jo rhat Christian Schools. Work fo r Im ­
migrant P eoples and M ikirs
H. O. W yatt, Supt. Jorhat Christian
Schools
Mrs. H. O. W yatt
S. A . D. Boggs
C. E . Blanc
M rs. C. E. Blanc
W. K . Allen
M rs. W. K . Allen
M iss Ella D. Cheeseman
38.
Naga
45.
S A D IY A (Sa-de-ya) 1906
(See footnote c)
Work fo r A bors and M iris
John Selander
M rs. John Selander
N ote a.— The first station opened in Assam was Sadiya (1836 ). This was given
up in 1833, being reopened in 1906. The oldest station in Assam in continuous
occupation is Sibsagor.
N ote b.— W ork was begun at M olung in 1876, and was transferred to Im pur in 1893.
N ote c.— W ork was begun at Sadiya in 1836, but was given up.
was reopened.
In 1906 Sadiya
235
FIELDS A N D STATIONS
A T H O M E ON F U R L O U G H
Mrs. H. W. Kirby
R. B . Longwell
Mrs. R. B . Longwell
S. W. Rivenburg, M. D.
Mrs. S. W. Rivenburg
C. H. Tilden
Mrs. C. H . Tilden
* Miss E. Elizabeth Vickland
W. E. W itter, D. D.
Mrs. W. E . W itter
J . A . Ahlquist, M. D.
Mrs. J . A . Ahlquist
Mrs. S. A. D. Boggs
G. G. Crozier, M. D.
Mrs. G. G. Crozier
* Miss Florence H . Doe
* Miss Linnie M. Holbrook
Mrs. G. R. Kampfer
H. W . K irby, M. D.
III. T H E SO U T H IN D IA M ISSIO N
Begun 1836
46.
N E L L O R E (Nel-löre) 1840
(See footnote)
David Downie, D. D. (at Coonoor)
Mrs. David Downie (at Coonoor)
F . P. Manley
Mrs. F . P . Manley _
* Miss Lena A . Benjam in, M. D.
* Miss Annie S. Magihon
* Miss Lillian V . W agner
* Miss M argarita F . Moran
* Miss Gladys A . Dorrie
* Miss Genevra M. B runner
B oys’ H igh School
L . C. Smith
Mrs. L. C. Smith
F . G. Christenson
Elem entary
* Miss
* Miss
G irls’ High
* Miss
* Miss
47.
and Normal School
Frances M. Tencate
Ethel M. Ross
School
Ella J . Draper
Olive E . Jones
J . W . Stenger, M. D.
Mrs. J . W. Stenger
A. G. Boggs, M. D.
Mrs. A . G. Boggs
Miss Sarah K elly
Miss Amelia E. Dessa
Miss Jennie L . Reilly
Miss Ursula Dresser
Miss K ate W. Failing
High School
L. E. Rowland
Mrs. L . E. Rowland
RAM APATNAM
nüm) 1869
50.
(Sè-kun-dér-a
51.
K U R N O O L (Kür-nööl') 1876
W . A . Stanton, D. D.
Mrs. W. A. Stanton
High School
B. J . Rockwood
Mrs. B . J . Rockwood
52.
M A D R A S (M ä-dräs') 1878
*
*
*
*
*
53.
W. L. Ferguson, D. D.
Mrs. W. L . Ferguson
F. C. Marquiss
Mrs. F. C. Marquiss
A . S. Woodburne, Ph. D.
Mrs. A . S. Woodburne
Miss Ju lia E. Bent
Miss Eleanor D. Mason
Miss Susan C. Ferguson
Miss Helen L . Bailey
Miss Edith P. Ballard
H A N U M A K O N D A (H un-00-m akon'-da) 1879
J . S. Timpany, M. D.
Mrs. J . S. Timpany
C U M B U M (Kum-bum) 1882
John Newcomb, D. D.
Mrs. John Newcomb
(R ä ' - ma - püt'-
Union Baptist Theological Seminary
W. E . Boggs, Principal
SECU N D ERABAD
bäd) 1873
C. R . Marsh
Mrs. C. R. Marsh
* Miss Edith E. Hollis
54.
Wheeler Boggess, General Evangel­
ist for South India
Mrs. W heeler Boggess
A L L U R (Ul-löör) 1873
W . S. Davis
Mrs. W. S. Davis
O N G O LE (On-göle') 1866
(Field work, in charge of T. V.
W itter, at Podili)
*
*
*
*
*
48.
Mrs. W. E. Boggs
49.
55-
V IN U K O N D A
1883
(Vin - So -k 5n '-d a)
Ernest Hoisted, M. D.
Mrs. Ernest Hoisted
* Miss Margaret C. Wolcott
* Miss Sadie E. Robbins
N o t e .— The South India Mission was begun in 1836 at Vizagapatam, whence the
work was removed in 1837 to Madras.
In 1840 it was transferred to Nellore.
Madras was reopened in 1878.
236
56.
A M E R IC A N
N A R SA R A V U PET
vôô-pët') 1883
E.
M rs.
M rs.
* Miss
57.
BAPTIST FOREIGN M ISSIO N SOCIETY
(Nur - sä - rä'-
68.
(Bä-püt'-lä)
1883
General Work and Normal Training I n ­
stitution
L . E. Martin
Mrs. L . E . Martin
58.
U D A Y A G IR I ( O ö '- dä - ya - gï-ri)
1885
F. W. Stait
Mrs. F . W. Stait, M . D.
59.
M AHBUBNAGAR
ar) 1885
N A LG O N D A
(Nül-gön'-dä)
K A N IG IR I (Kün-ï-gï-rï) 1892
G. H. Brock
Mrs. G. H. Brock
62.
K A V A L I (Kâ-vâ-lï) 1893
S. D. Bawden
Mrs. S. D. Bawden
Mrs. Edwin Bullard (at
mund)
* Miss E. Grace Bullard
63.
KANDUKURU
röö) 1893
Ootaca-
(K ü n ' - döö - köö-
(Has been transferred to Telugu
Baptist Convention)
64.
ATM AKUR
.
1893
Davis, at
(At-m ä-köör)
(In charge of W .
A llur)
S O O R IA P E T T (Söö-ri-ä-pet') 1900
* Miss Melissa E . Morrow
* Miss Irene Smedley, M. D.
70.
JA N G A O N (Jün-gän) 1901
(In charge of C. R .
Secunderabad)
7 1.
D ONAKONDA
1903
S.
65.
P O D IL I (Po-dMi) 1894
T . V . W itter
Mrs. T. V. W itter
66.
S A T T E N A P A L L E (Sât'-të-nâ-pül'lë) 1894
* Miss Dorcas W hitaker
M arsh, at
(Dönä - kön' - dä)
A . Curtis
rs. J . A . Curtis
72.
G A D V A L (Güd-väl') 1903
W. C. Owen
Mrs. W. C. Owen
73.
N A N D Y A L (Nün-di-äl') 1904
S. W. Stenger
74.
M A D IR A (Mü-dl-ra) 1905
Frank Kurtz
Mrs. Frank Kurtz
1890
E. B . Davis
Mrs. E . B . Davis
* Miss Helene Bjornstad
61.
69.
G U R Z A L L A (Göör-zä'-lä) 1895
E . O. Schugren
Mrs. E. O. Schugren
(M a-bub-nug-
A . M. Boggs
Mrs. A . M. Boggs
* Miss M arian E . Farbar, M. D.
* Miss H arriet Barrington
60.
M A R K A P U R (Mär-kü-pöör) 1895
A . T . Fishman
M rs. A . T . Fishman
E. Silliman
E . E . Silliman
F . E . Boggs
Lena A . Keans
BAPATLA
67.
A T H O M E ON F U R L O U G H
J . M. Baker
Mrs. J . M. Baker
* Miss Lucy H. Booker
* Miss Florence E. Carman
A . H . Curtis
Mrs. A . H. Curtis
* Miss Anna M. Degenring, M. D.
John Dussman
* Miss Kate M. French
** A . J . Hubert
** Mrs. A. J . Hubert
B . M. Johnson
Mrs. B . M. Johnson
* Miss Sigrid C. Johnson
W. J . Longley
M rs. W . J. Longley
C. R . Manley, M. D.
Mrs. C. R. Manley
Miss Aganetha Neufeld
Johann Penner
Mrs. Johann Penner
Miss Susan A . Roberts
Charles Rutherford
Mrs. Charles Rutherford
* Miss Olive M. Sarber
Mrs. S. W. Stenger
** Cornelius U nruh
** M rs. Cornelius Unruh
T horlief Wathne
M rs. T horlief Wathne
***
**
**
*
FIELDS A N D STATION S
237
IV. THE BENGAL-ORISSA MISSION
Begun 1836
75.
*
*
*
*
76.
L . C. Kitchen
Mrs. L . C. Kitchen
Miss Grace I. Hill
B A L A S O R E (Bäl-a-söre') 1838
(See footnote)
V. G. Krause
Mrs. V . G. Krause
H. I. Frost
Mrs. H. I. Frost
Lloyd Eller
Mrs. Lloyd Eller
W. S. Dunn
Miss Sarah B . Gowen
Miss M ary W . Bacheier, M. D.
Miss Gladys E . Doe
Miss Ethel M. Cronkite
J E L L A S O R E (Jel-lä-söre) 1840
80.
C H A N D B A L I (Chünd'-bali) 1886
81.
B H A D R A K (Blm d'-rak) 1890
82.
83.
* Miss Emilie E. Barnes
77.
M ID N A P O R E (Mid-nä-pöre) J844
(See footnote a)
M. A . Raymond
Mrs. M. A . Raymond
* Miss M. Ruth Daniels
* Miss M. Elsie Barnard
* Miss Naomi H. Knapp (language
study)
78.
K H A R A G P U R (Kar-ag-pöör) 1902
M. R . Hartley
Mrs. M. R. Hartley
84.
JA M S H E D P U R 19 19
Z. D. Browne
M rs. Z. D. Browne
A T H O M E ON F U R L O U G H
* Miss Mabel E. Bond
* Miss Amy B . Coe
C. A . Collett
Mrs. C. A . Collett
* Mrs. Ida M. Holder
H. C. Long
Mrs. H. C. Long
J . H. Oxrieder
Mrs. J . H. Oxrieder
* Miss Amorette Porter
S A N T IP O R E (Sän-ti-pöre) 1865
ff G. A gar
ff Mrs. G. Ager
79.
C O N T A I (Cön-ti') 1892
J . A . Howard
Mrs. J. A . Howard
B H IM P O R E (Beem-pöre) 1873
H. R . Murphy, M. D.
Mrs. H . R. Murphy
N o t e . — The Bengal-Orissa Mission was begun in 1836 at Cuttack, in connection
with the English Baptist Mission. Sambalpur, the first station, was opened in 1837,
but on account of its unhealthfulness the work was transferred, in 1838, to
Balasore, and this became the first permanent station of the Free Baptist Mission.
A. B. F. M. S., 19 11 .
N o t e a .— W ork was begun temporarily at Midnapore in 1844, permanently in 1863.
V . T H E C H IN A M ISSIO N
Begun 1836
SOUTH
8s.
SW A T O W (Swa-tou) i860
(See footnote)
Ashm ore Theological Sem inary
W illiam Ashmore, D. D., President
M rs. William Ashmore
Sw atow Academy
R . T . Capen
Mrs. R. T . Capen
N. H. Carman
M rs. N. H . Carman, M. D.
ff P. F . Cressey
C H IN A
General Work
E. S. Hildreth
Mrs. E. S. Hildreth
K . G. Hobart
Mrs. K . G. Hobart
* Mrs. Prudence C. W orley
* Miss Melvina Sollman
* Miss Fannie Northcott
* Miss Clara C. Leach, M. D.
* Miss Mabelle R. Culley
* Miss M arguerite E . Everham, M. D.
* Miss Edith G. T raver
* Miss Abbie G. Sanderson
* Miss Em ily E . M iller
N o t e . — W ork
was begun at Macao in 1836.
Hongkong and thence in i860 to Swatow.
In
1842 this was transferred to
238
A M E R IC A N BAPTIST FOREIGN M ISSIO N SOCIETY
M iss Enid P . Johnson
M iss Margaret D . W in n
M iss M arjorie Flem ing
M iss Edna D e W . Smith (language
study)
* M iss Elsie M . Kittlitz (language
*
*
*
*
90.
9 1.
study)
86.
K A Y IN G
G.
E. W hitm an
M rs. G. E. W hitm an
J. H . Giffin
M rs. J. H . Giffin
* M iss Louise Campbell
* M iss Edda M . Mason
M iss Minnie Milne
87.
UNGKUNG
(Ung-kung)
CHAOCHOW FU
C A N TO N 19 13
China Publication Society
93-
S U N W U H S IE N form erly CH AN GN IN G (Chöng-ning) 19 15
D r. C. E. Bousfield
Mrs. C. E . Bousfield
A . S. Adams
1892
A T H O M E ON F U R L O U G H
M rs. A . S. Adams
* Miss Gladys R . Aston
S. S. Beath
M rs. S. S. Beath
E . S. Burket
Mrs. E . S. Burket
* Miss A nna E . Foster
A . F . Groesbeck, D. D.
Mrs. A . F . Groesbeck
A . H. Page
Mrs. A . H . Page
Jacob Speicher
Mrs. Jacob Speicher
G. H. Waters
Mrs. G. H. W aters
W . W. Zwick, M. D.
Mrs. W . W. Zwick
(Chou-chou-foo)
1894
B . L . Baker
M rs. B . L . Baker, M . D.
* M iss Marion H . Boss
89.
HOPO (Hö-pö) 1907
92.
G. W . Lewis
M rs. G. W . Lewis
88.
(Chow-yäng)
J . L . B jelke
M rs. J . L . Bjelke
* Miss Edith L . Dulin
1890
(K a-ying)
C H A O Y A N G H S IE N
i 9°5
Miss M ary E . Ogg
K IT Y A N G (Kit-yäng) 1896
C. B . Lesher, M. D.
M rs. C. B . Lesher, M. D.
E. H. Giedt
M rs. E . H . Giedt
* M iss Emma H. Simonsen
* Miss Katherine E . Bohn (language
study)
E A S T C H IN A
94.
N IN G P O
(N ing-po)
*
*
*
*
*
*
J. S. Grant, M . D .
C. L . Bromley
M rs. C. L. Bromley
L . C. Hylbert
M rs. L . C. Hylbert
F . C. W ilcox
M rs. F . C. W ilcox
H . R . S. Benjamin
M rs. H . R . S . Benjamin
Harold Thomas, M . D .
M rs. Harold Thomas
M iss Dora Zimmerman
M iss F . Jane Lawrence
M iss Harriet N . Smith
M iss Emma S. Irving
M iss V iola C. H ill
M iss Areola I. Pettit
*
*
*
*
F . W . Goddard, M . D .
M rs. F . W . Goddard
A . F. U fford
M rs. A . F. U fford
C. H . Barlow, M . D .
M rs. C. H . Barlow
David Gustafson
M rs. David Gustafson
M iss M arie A . Dowling
M iss Alm a L . Pittman
M iss Lelia B . Droz
M iss Charlotte M . Larner
95-
S H A O H S IN G
96.
1843
(Zhou-shing)
K IN H W A (Kin-wha) 1883
* Miss Stella Relyea
* Miss Lilian M. van Hook
* Miss Elizabeth D. Nash
97.
H U CH O W
(Hoo-chou) 1888
A . I. Nasmith
M rs. A . I. Nasmith
C. D. Leach, M. D.
M rs. C. D. Leach
* Miss M ary I. Jones
* Miss Edna G. Shoemaker
* Miss Ruth Mather
98.
1869
H AN G C H O W (H&ng-chou) 1889
J . V . Latim er, D. D.
Mrs. J . V . Latim er
M rs. W . S. Sweet
* Miss Helen M. Rawlings
* M iss Ellen J . Peterson
* Miss Gertrude F . McCulloch
* Miss Evelyn Speidon
* Miss Anna R. Clark
* Miss Anne Ruth H arris (language
study)
* Miss Florence A . W ebster (lan­
guage study)
W ayland Academy
E . H . Cressy
M rs. E . H . Cressy
FIELDS A N D STATIONS
E . H . Clayton
M rs. E. H. Clayton
99.
S H A N G H A I (Shang-hi) 1907
Shanghai Baptist College and Theological
Sem inary
F . J . White, D, D., President
H enry Huizinga, Ph. D.
M rs. H enry Huizinga
G. A . Huntley, M. D.
M rs. G. A . Huntley
P. R . Bakeman
Mrs. P. R . Bakeman
F . C. Mabee, A . M.
Airs. F. C. M'abee
D. H . Kulp, I I
Mrs. D. H. Kulp, II
Victor Hanson, A . M.
Mrs. V ictor Hanson
R . B . Kennard
Mrs. R . B . Kennard
H. W. Decker, M. D.
M rs. H. W . Decker
Miss Leontine J . Dahl
100.
N A N K IN G (Nan-king) 1 9 11
U niversity o f Nanking
t t C . S. Keen
M rs. C. S. Keen
Miss Bertha C. Smith
College of A griculture and Forestry
C. S. Gibbs, Ph. D.
Mrs. C. S. Gibbs
Language School
J . W . Decker, Th. D. (language
study)
Mrs. J . W. Decker (language
study)
* Miss Em ilie M. Schultz (language
study)
A T H O M E ON FU R L O U G H
* Miss H arriet H. Brittingham
* Miss M ary Cressey
M. D. Eubank, M. D.
Mrs. M. D. Eubank
* Miss M. Jean Gates
* Mrs. J . R. Goddard
* Miss Clarissa A . Hewey
* Miss Esther E. Hokanson
C. F. MacKenzie, M. D.
M rs. C. F . MacKenzie
J . T. Proctor, D. D.
M rs. J . T. Proctor
R. D. Stafford
M rs. R. D. Stafford
Mrs. F. J . White
General Work
E . J . Anderson (Supt. of Schools)
M rs. E . J . Anderson
ff C. H. Lavers (Mission Builder)
ff Mrs. C. H. Lavers
Miss Ethel L. Lacey
* Miss Josephine C. Lawney, M. D.
(Union Medical School)
Mission Treasury
Miss Helen E. Ritner
t t Died May 20, 1923.
W EST
1 01.
103.
C H IN A
Mrs. J . C. Jensen
L . A . Lovegren (Mission Builder)
Mrs. L . A . Lovegren
C. F . Wood
Mrs. C. F . Wood
R . L. Crook, M. D.
* Miss W inifred M. Roeder
* Miss L . Emma Brodbeck
* Miss Frances Therolf
S U IF U (Swa'-foo) 1889
General Work
C. E. Tompkins, M. D.
M rs. C. E . Tompkins
D . C. Graham
M rs. D. C. Graham
W . R . T aylor (Mission Builder)
M rs. W. R. Taylor
L . H . Randle
Mrs. L . H. Randle
* M rs. Anna M. Salquist
* M iss Carrie E . Slaght, M. D.
* Miss Em ilie Bretthauer, M. D.
* Miss M yrtle C. Denison
* M iss Mabel E . Bovell
* Miss Frida G. W all
M onroe Academy
W . W . Cossum
M rs. W. W. Cossum
102.
K IA T IN G (Ja-ding) 1894
F . J . Bradshaw
A . G. Adams
Mrs. A . G. Adams
Mrs. J . M. Wellwood
Y A C H O W (Ya-jo) 1894
F . N. Smith
Mrs. F. N. Smith
J . C. Jensen
239
104.
N IN G Y U A N (Ning-yuan) 1905
P. Davies
rs. J . P. D avies (at Shanghai,
East China)
105.
C H E N G T U (Cheng-too) 1909
¡Vest China Union University
W. R . Morse, M. D.
Mrs. W. R . Morse
C. L . Foster
M rs. C. L . Foster
J . C. Humphreys, M. D.
M rs. J . C. Humphreys
General Work
H. J . Openshaw
Mrs. H. J . Openshaw
* Miss Beulah E. Bassett
* Miss Minnie M. Argetsinger
* Miss Lettie G. Archer
* Miss Sara B . Downer
240
A M E R IC A N B A PTIST FOREIGN M ISSIO N
Language School
SOCIETY
A T H O M E ON FU R LO U Q H
M . F . Y ates, D. D. S. (language
study)
M rs. M. F . Yates (language study)
D. L . Phelps (language study)
M rs. D. L . Phelps (language study)
S. S. Clark (language study)
Mrs. S. S. Clark (language study)
* Miss Carrie A . Shurtleff (language
study)
* Miss M ary A . Matthew (language
study)
V I.
Mrs. F . J . Bradshaw, M. D.
* Miss Irene M. Chambers
* Miss L . Jen nie Crawford
D. S. Dye
Mrs. D. S. Dye
J . E . Moncrieff
Mrs. J . E. Moncrieff
Joseph T aylor, D. D.
Mrs. Joseph Taylor
T H E JAPAN M ISSIO N
Begun 1872
106.
YO KO H AM A
(Yo-ko-ha'-ma) 1872
*
*
*
*
Henry Topping
Mrs. H enry Topping
M abie M em orial B o ys’ School
F.
Gressitt
Irs. J . F . Gressitt
R. H. Fisher
Mrs. R . H . Fisher
M ary L . Colby School, Kanagawa
* Miss Minnie V . Sandberg
* Miss Evelyn B . Bickel
* M iss Agnes S. Meline
107.
T O K Y O (To-kyo) 1874
General Work
William W ynd
Mrs. W illiam Wynd
William A xling, D. D.
Mrs. W illiam A xlin g
J . R . Wilson
Mrs. J . R . W ilson
J . S. Kennard, J r .
J . H. Co veil
Mrs. J . H. Covell
* Miss M. M. Carpenter
M iss Elma R. Tharp
* Miss Am y R . Crosby
* Miss F . Louise Jenkins (language
study)
* Miss Gertrude E . R yder (language
study)
* Miss Lucy K . R ussell (language
study)
* Miss Georgia M. Newbury (lan­
guage study)
* Miss W inifred M. Acock (lan­
guage study)
. * Miss Ann M. K ludt (language
study)
Japan Theological Sem inary
C. B . Tenny, D. D.
Mrs. C. B . Tenny
D. C. Holtom
M rs. D. C. Holtom
108.
K O B E (Ko'-be) 1881
* Miss Jessie M. G. Wilkinson
109.
S E N D A I (Sen-di) 1882
C. H . Ross
M rs. C. H. Ross
* Miss M ary D. Jesse
no.
Miss
Miss
Miss
Miss
Thomasine Allen
Annabelle Pawley
Ruth C. Ward
Ruth E . Smith
M O R IO K A (Mö-rf-ö-ka) 1887
F . W . Steadman
Mrs. F. W. Steadman
* Miss Annie S. Buzzell (at Tono)
* Miss Ella M. Gifford
n i.
M IT O (Mè-to) 1889
1 12 .
O S A K A (O-sä-ka) 1892
J . H. Scott
M rs. J . H. Scott
J . A . Foote
M rs. J . A . Foote
* Miss Evalyn A . Camp
* Miss Lucy C. Palmer
1 13 .
IN L A N D S E A 1890
J . F . Laughton
Mrs. J . F. Laughton
114 .
H IM E JI (Hi-mä-jl) .1907
F . M. Derwacter
M rs. F . M. Derwacter
Miss A m y A . Acock
Miss Edith F . W ilcox
Miss A lice C. B ixby
Miss Vida Post
*
*
*
*
1 15 .
K Y O T O (Kyö-tö) igo7
E . T . Thompson
Mrs. E . T . Thompson
A T H O M E ON FU R L O U G H
* Miss Ruby L . Anderson
H . B . Benninghoff, D. D.
M rs. H . B . Benninghoff
* Miss M ary A . Clagett
* Miss Clara A . Converse
D. G. Haring
M rs. D. G. Haring
* Miss F . Marguerite Haven
G. E . Haynes
M rs. G. E . Haynes
* M iss Lavinia Mead
R. A . Thomson, D. D.
M rs. R , A , Thomson
241
FIELDS A N D STATIONS
V II. T H E CONGO M ISSIO N
Adopted 1884
116 .
B A N Z A M A N T E K E (Man-te'-ka)
1879
Thomas Hill
M rs. Thomas H ill
C. E. Smith
Mrs. C. E . Smith
* Miss Florence N . Crane
H enry Erickson
M A T A D I (Mä-tä-di) 1880
B. L . Korling
Mrs. B. L . Korling
118 .
M U K IM V IK A (Mu-kim-ve'-ka) In
Portuguese A frica, 1882
119 .
T S H U M B IR I (Chum-be-rl)
P. C. Metzger
M rs. P. C. Metzger
12 1.
123.
K IM P E S E (Kim-pe-sT) 1908
V A N G A (Van'-ga) 19 13
U N D E S IG N A T E D
t K . O. Andersson
f Mrs. K . O. Andersson
1890
SO N A B A T A (Sö-na Bä-ta) i8go
Thomas Moody
Mrs. Thomas Moody
P . A . McDiarmid
Mrs. P . A. McDiarmid
A . V . Wakeman
Mrs. A. V . Wakeman
* Miss Etelka M. Schaffer
* Miss Hilda T. Lund
NTONDO (Ntö-ndö) 1894
Joseph Clark
Mrs. Joseph Clark
V III.
122.
Congo Evangelical Training Institution
W. H. Leslie, M. D.
Mrs. W. H . Leslie
H. Richards Leslie (Mission
Builder)
n 7.
120.
A . V. Marsh
Mrs. A . V . Marsh
* Miss Edna Oden
A T H O M E ON FU R L O U G H
J . E . Geil
Mrs. J . E. Geil
* Miss Anna M. Hagquist
J . C. King, M. D.
M rs. J . C. K ing
* Miss Catharine L. Mabie, M. D.
S. E . Moon
Mrs. S. E. Moon
W. H. Nugent
Mrs. W . H. Nugent
H. Ostrom, M. D.
Mrs. H. Ostrom
W. E . Rodgers
Mrs. W. E. Rodgers
* Miss Helen R. Yost
T H E P H IL IP P IN E IS L A N D S M ISSIO N
Begun igoo
124.
IL O IL O (E- 16-e-lö) including JA R O
(Hä-ro) Panay (Pä-ni) Island
1900
Hospital Work
R . C. Thomas, M. D.
M rs. R. C. Thomas
* Miss Rose E . Nicolet
B ib le Training School
* Miss Ellen W. Martien
* Miss Hazel R. Malliet
* Miss Grace S. M ills
* Miss Carrie M. Mather
Central Philippine College and General
Work
H. W. Munger
F. H. Rose, Principal
Mrs. F . H. Rose
A . E . Bigelow
H. F. Stuart
Mrs. H. F . Stuart
E. W. Thornton
Mrs. E. W . Thornton
Miss A . B . Houger
* Miss Anna V . Johnson (at Fototan)
125.
BA C O LO D
(Bà-kó-lód)
(Nä'-gros) Island 1901
Negros
W. O. Valentine
M rs. W. O. Valentine
W. B . Charles
Mrs. W. B . Charles
* Miss Sarah Whelpton
126.
C A P IZ
1903
(Cap'-es)
Panay
F . W . M eyer, M. D.
Mrs. F. W. M eyer
* Miss Cora W. Sydney
* Miss Mabel Stumpf
* Miss Mayme M. Goldenburg
A T H O M E ON FU R L O U G H
* Miss Frieda L. Appel
* Miss A nna L . Dahlgren
* Miss Dorothy A . Dowell
G. J . Geis
Mrs. G. J . Geis
* Miss Selma M. Lagergren
Island
242
A M E R IC A N B A PTIST FOREIGN M ISSIO N SOCIETY
N O T IN A C T IV E SE R V IC E
M rs. A . L . Bain
Mrs. L . W . Bickel
* Mrs. F . C. Briggs
M rs. Ju lia P . Burkholder
W alter Bushell
Mrs. W alter Bushell
Mrs. A . E . Carson
* M iss Frances A . Cole
* M iss Lavina C. Coombs
* Miss M ary E . Danielson
W . F . Dowd
Mrs. W . F . Dowd
William Dring
Mrs. W illiam Dring
* Miss Bertha A . Fetzer
P. J . Gates
M rs. P . J . Gates
M rs. C. K . Harrington
Mrs. C. H. H arvey
J . Heinrichs
M rs. J . Heinrichs
J . F . Ingram
Mrs. J . F . Ingram
E. E. Jones
Mrs. E. E . Jones
E . H. Jones
Mrs. E . H. Jones
F . H. Knollin
Mrs. J . S. Adams
R . E . Adkins, M. D.
‘ M iss Lucy L . Austin
W. E. Bailey
M rs. W. E . Bailey
Mrs. C. B . Banks
W. F . Beaman
M rs. W . F . Beaman
M rs. A . A . Bennett
M rs. A . Billington
N . W . Brow n, M. D.
Mrs. N. W . Brown
W. B . Bullen
M rs. W . B . Bullen
G. Campbell
M rs. G. Campbell
J . E . Case
M rs. J . E . Case
M rs. A rthur Christopher
Elbert Chute
M rs. Elbert Chute
M rs. E . W . Clark
M rs. J . E . Clough
M rs. E . L . Coldren
M rs. F . D. Crawley
M rs. J . L . Dearing
W. T . Elmore, Ph. D.
M rs. W . T . Elmore
E.
H. Eveleth, D. D.
Mrs. J . G. Fetzer
M rs. C. H . D. Fisher
Mrs. E . N. Fletcher
J . M. Foster, D. D.
Mrs. J . M. Foster
P. Frederickson
Mrs. P . Frederickson
M rs. C. B . Glenesk
J . O. Gotaas
M rs. J . O. Gotaas
Z. F . Griffin
Mrs. Z. F . Griffin
A . K . Gurney
M rs. A . K . Gurney
H. W . Hale
S. W . Hamblen
M rs. S. W . Hamblen
G. H. Hamlen, D. D.
Mrs. G. H. Hamlen
S. W . Hartsock
Mrs. S. W . Hartsock
W . H . S. Hascall
G. W . Hill
Mrs. G. W. H ill
T . D. Holmes
Mrs. T. D. Holmes
G. J . Huizinga
Mrs. G. J . Huizinga
M rs. H . A . Kemp
A . L . Kennan, M D.
M rs. A . L . Kennan
M rs. C. A . Kirkpatrick
Mrs. M. B . Kirkpatrick
F . H. Levering
Mrs. F . H. Levering, M.D.
E ric Lund, D. D.
M rs. E ric Lund
Mrs. John M cLaurin
M rs. W. R . Manley
W. C. Mason
Mrs. W . C. Mason
Mrs. F . H . Knollin
F. P . Lynch, M. D.
A . K . Mather
M rs. A . K . Mather
L . B . Moss
Mrs. L . B . Moss
M iss Helen W . Munroe
Joseph Paul
Mrs. Joseph Paul
L . F. Wood
Mrs. L . F . Wood
P. P. W . Ziemann
Mrs. P. F . W . Ziemann
R E T IR E D
P . E . Moore
Mrs. P. E. Moore
M rs. P. H . Moore
Mrs. F . E . Morgan
W . B . Parshley, D . D.
Mrs. W. B . Parshley
M rs. S. B . Partridge
C. E . Petrick
M rs. E. G. Phillips
H enry Richards
Mrs. H enry Richards
* Miss M ary L . R . Riggs
* Miss Clara E . Righter
M rs. W. H. Roberts
B . E . Robison
M rs. B . E . Robison
J . F . Russell
Mrs. J . F . Russell
* Mrs. A nna K . Scott, M. D.
A . Sims, M. D.
F. K . Singiser
Mrs. F . K . Singiser
S. C. Sonnichsen
M rs. S. C. Sonnichsen
W . L . Soper
M rs. W . L . Soper
Mrs. E . O. Stevens
Mrs. F . P. Sutherland
* M iss Thora M. Thompson
* Miss Agnes Whitehead
L . E. W orley
Mrs. L . E . Worley
H. E . Wyman
Mrs. H. E . Wyman
DEATHS
M rs. W illiam Ashmore
A . L . Bain
Mrs. John Dussman
M elvin Jameson
E . W. K elly, Ph. D.
* Miss A nnie M. Lemon
Mrs. C. G. Lewis
F . D. Phinney
M rs. M ary M. Rose
M iss Sarah R . Slater
F . W iens
R E SIG N A T IO N S
S. E . Baldwin
Mrs. S. E . Baldwin
J . M. Carvell
M rs. J . M. Carvell
* Miss Elberta F. Chute
P. J . Clark
Mrs. P . J . Clark
* Miss M artha L . M ills
H. W. Newman, M. D.
M rs.
H.
M rs.
* M iss
H. W. Newman
C. Nycum
H. C. Nycum
F . Pearl Page
FIELDS A N D STATIONS
243
M A R R IA G E S
T. H . Covell, Japan, to * Miss Channa M. Moore, Japan.
E.
B . Roach, Burm a, to * Miss Augusta H. Peck, Burm a.
W heeler Boggess, South India, to * Miss Florence M. Rorer, South India.
G.
W. Lewis, South China, to Miss Joybell Hatcher.
B.
L . Korling. Belgian Congo, to Miss Florence Carter.
F IA N C E E S, A P P O IN T M E N T E F F E C T IV E U P O N
M A R R IA G E
Miss Erna M. Brueckmann, fiancee H. D. Sorg.
Miss E lva L . Caul, fiancee C. O. Olney.
Miss Rhoda C. Broholm, fiancee B . W. Armstrong.
M IS SIO N A R IE S U N D E R A P P O IN T M E N T
' Miss Jennie C. Adams
* Miss Velva V . Brown,
M. D.
W. H. Bueermann
Mrs. W. H. Bueermann
*M iss Helen H. Clark
* Miss May A . Coggins
H. N. Cooper, M. D.
G. B . Cressey
W alfred Danielson
M rs. W alfred Danielson
C. E . Olney
Miss Lea Blanche Edgar
R. C. Ostergren
M. S. Engwall
Mrs. R. C. Ostergren
M rs. M. S. Engwall
P. F . Russell, M. D.
J . W. Gainfort
Mrs. P. F Russell
M rs. J . W. Gainfort
* Miss Grace R. Seagrave
* Miss W. Pauline H arris
H. D. Sorg
L . H. R. Hass
* Miss Bessie M. Traber
L . T. H elfrich
W. C. Whitaker
* Miss Fannie J . Holman
Mrs. W . C. W hitaker
E . R . Huckleberry, M. D.
M rs. E. R. Huckleberry
Above list of Missionaries under Appointment does not _include those who have
received^ their appointment subsequent to M ay i, 1922. Their names will be included
in the list of missionaries in the A nnual Report for 1923.
STATISTICAL TABLES
The Burma Mission
N o t e . — Totals
include statistics of last year in the case of W ork fo r K aren s—
Toungoo ( B w e ); W ork fo r Shans— Taunggyi; Telugus and Tam ils, from which statis­
tical reports fo r 1922 have not been received.
The South India Mission
N o t e . — Totals
include statistics o f last year in the case of Nellore; M adras; Madras
(English Church); Hanumakonda; Bapatla; K an ig iri; K av ali; M arkapur; Gadval, from
which statistical reports fo r 1922 have not been received.
The Congo Mission
Totals include statistics of last year in the case of M atadi; Mukimvika;
Kimpese; Congo Evangelical Training Institution, from which statistical reports for
1922 have not been received.
N o te .—
The Philippine Islands Mission
N o t e . — Totals
include statistics o f last year in the case o f Iloilo; Central Philippine
College, from which statistical reports fo r 1922 have not been received.
THE BURMA MISSION—Table 1
M
is s io n a r ie s
N
Preachers
W
ork
and
THE BURMA MISSION—Table 2
W
a t iv e
Medical Other
Assis- ; Native
tants Worker.
Teachers
e
<u
oS
S t a t io n s
C hurch
orkers
¡Theological Seminaries
Karen Theological Seminary
Burm an Theological Semi­
nary ..................................
Judson College ........................
Rangoon Baptist Schools .. .
Baptist Mission P r e s s ...........
Burmans (a)
Rangoon ................................
Moulmein ............................
Tavoy (b) ............................
Bassein ..................................
Henzada ................................
Toungoo ................................
Prome ....................................
Thonze ..................................
Zigon . . . ' ..............................
Thaton (c) ..........................
Mandalay (d) .....................
M yingyan ............................
Pegu (f) ................................
Sagaing ................................
M'eiktila ..................................I
............................
Pyinmana
23
Pyapon ....................................I. ( 1 )1
■24
Totals, Burmans
25
I ( 1 4 ) I ( 1 ) ( 14 ) ( 17 )
26 Karens
27
Rangoon— Sgaw . . .
28
Rangoon— Pwo (g)
29
Moulmein— Sgaw . .
Tavoy— Sgaw .........
30
Bassein—Pwo .........
31
Bassein— Sgaw . . . .
32
Henzada— Sgaw . . .
33
Toungoo—Paku . . .
34
Toungoo— Bwe . . . .
35
36 Shwegyin— Sgaw (i)
Tharrawaddy— Sgaw
37
38
Maubin—Pwo .........
Loikaw ......................
39
40
Totals, Karens ..
(9) (3)
( n ) ( 20)
Kachins
41
Bhamo .....................
4 2 1
Myitkyina
43.1
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Theological |
Seminaries ;
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Pupils
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4.4 1
45
(3)
Totals, Kacliins
(3i ( 1 )
Bhamo ...................
( i)
48
Mongnai .................
Namkham ...............
49
50 Kengtung ...............
51 Taunggyi ...............
52 Mong Lem (j) . . .
Totals, Shans . .
53
(3)
5 4 Chins
Thayetmyo .............
55
56
Sandoway .............
Haka
57
581
Totals, Chins ...................| (3)
5 9 Talains
60
Moulmein ...................
6 1 Telugus and Tamils . . . .
62 Chinese (k) .....................
(1 )
63 English-speaking Peoples
641 Rangoon
Moulmein ............................
Mandalay ..............................
Totals, English-speaking
Peoples ..........................
Missionaries at H o m e ...........
69 Totals fo r Burma
59
196
509
(3)
23 1
31
(1)
2)
90
292
252
240
46
200
200
( 1)
125
75
312
(7)
( 2)
( 1)
(
51
17
16
17
25
5
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(
46)
(
,
36 )
(59)
46
28
26
21
82
41
42
t68
14
4
18
55
23
3
5
4
11
fi o
15
3
2
4
3
(43)
6
3
3
47
20
5
23
3
,
14
( 214) (5 4 4 )
(i5 9 )
(206)
112
107
55
1 30
60
84
J 3
15
6
125
178
4
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(
18)
3
4
7
(9)
(22)
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88
( 88)
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87
32
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14
34
35
17
(18 43 )
(905)
43
15
(57 6)
( 47o) (17 ) ( 1 )
(
2 ) (16)
(3)
17
10
5
(16)
(43)
13
25
47
97
39
64
157
12 14 1
651
1305
37II
218 1
168
4233
341
2238
2704
2673
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1945
3743
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1059
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1937
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( 9 27 )
18
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6418
876
1798
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1003
961
220
182
301
182
835
73
51
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364
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17
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124
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246
41
42
43
44
45
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47
48
49
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54
128
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• 56
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59
625
185
11
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276
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(5801)
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842
3605
2062
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220
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184
15266
370
399
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1995
85
80
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240
64
45
130
478
76
(5707)
157
85
80
191
654
34
15
17
253
37
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16
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27
200
( 1)
16
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,
5
(53)
(17)
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40
34
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( 87 )
( 32)
84
24
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150
81
87
6
(4)
1 102
142
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(34 )
( 64)
( 150)
( 81)
64
3551
4
(4)
33
34
77
138
6
5
35
(59 )
(
16
9
3
193
16
18
105
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334
1 55
135
3
(73)
136
404
183
261
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552
49
216
26
126
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425
597
115
100
(
4
110
25
51
4
5
(3)
34
24
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(2)
54
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5
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(
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50
30
41
17
4°3
16
(2
3
30
(486)
5
5
(78)
480
840
473
262
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315
( 1)
(O
( 1)
21 j .
452
188
157
127
20
60
(3)
18
2
(
5
1356
705
(9)
( 1)
(11)
(2)
202
6
29
(4)
(4)
1471 4« 4
43 81
7
47
(3)
3
27
36
N am kham
46 Shans
76
(3)
■••I
(
( 3)
2)
936
768
46
(3)
2805| 1109
(3)
(3)
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72
(
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640 )
■'65
140I.
(
67)
(4)
67
(484)1
68
Ì 83283! 7452! 695! 288371
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1 1 147
48I69
THE BURMA MISSION—Table 4
THE BURMA MISSION—Table 3
S
E d u c a t io n s
Pupils in
High
Schools
W
ork
and
S t a t io n s
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Pupils in
Secondary
Schools
1873
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S
ummary
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Theological Seminaries
K a r e n Theological
Seminary .............
Burm an Theological
Seminary .
44
4 Judson College
"«5
269
5 Rangoon Bap. Schools
(2)
328
349
(3)
1119
6 Baptist Mission P ress.
7 Burmans (a)
Rangoon ...................
2
52
20 4
10 4
214
23
5
Moulmein .............
390
I
12 0
16 7
120
69
4
1-39
T avoy (b) ...............
14 6
16 4
11
4
4
5
(1)
325
Bassein .....................
6
370
109
390
138
(8)
1007
15
Henzada ...................
418
14 4
167
5
185
IS
958
(4 )
13
Toungoo ...................
81
45
4 (3 )
126
*58
14
Prome ........................
SO
So
248
4 (I)
15
Thonze .....................
100
107
100
70
(I)
377
6
16
Zigon ..........................
170
2
381
5
17
Thaton (c) ...............
18
M andalay (d) . . . .
51
182
15 1
9
(>71
184
ig, M yingyan ...............
2
39
13
0)1
-59
20
Pegu (f) ................. .
2
59
2 1 Sagaing ......................
104
I
(O
69
22
Meiktila .................
249
2
280
23
Pyinmana .................
105
6
(2)
59
38/
24
Pyapon .....................
61
29
89
203
24
3
25
Totals, Burmans . ( 9)
(658) (28) (1983) ( 1357) (47)
(110 8 ) ( 8 5 ) (21) (7 2 8 4 )
(1275)
26 K arens
27
Rangoon— Sgaw . . .
21
107
63
(109)
1633
3944
1507
28 Rangoon— Pwo (g) .
80
29
Moulmein— Sgaw . .
65
601
441 Ce)7 7 51 (e)7oo
( 45) ( e ) i 6 o o
30
Tavoy— Sgaw ...........
II 9 I
511 40I
536
(40)
705
1411
31
Bassein— Bwo ..........
16
280
120]
948
842
3o|
2190
( 4S)
32
Bassein— Sgaw . . . .
(O l
5 11]
406] i 8o| (e)2ooo ( e )1000
181 (18 1) ( e ) 4 0 i 6
33
Henzada— Sgaw . . .
2601
90
781
850
2360
116 0
79 ( 79)
34
Toungoo— Paku . . .
680
1265
351
585
35 ( 34)
35
Toungoo— Bwe . . . .
+361 t ío
Î1298
t 25|
t668
Í26 t ( 25)
1 584
n3\
36
Shwegyin— Sgaw (i)
2i8|
90
469
1206
l
441
429
47 (47)
IO|
37
Tharrawaddy— Sgaw
50
126
4
1376
42 1
25
32 ( 3 1 )
517
38
Maubin— Pwo .........
182
1 12
3
229
28 ( 2 8 )
776
25
253
39
Loikaw ......................
8
31
163
128
16
15
330
40
Totals, K arens . . j ( 3 ) (554) (3 2s ) (32) (2017) (1094) (650)
(9302)
(8480) (686 ) (664) (2 1 8 5 2 )
41 Kachins
42
Bhamo .....................
62
(e )so
17
(e ) 35 °
(17)
43
M yitkyina ...............
3
13 1
31
3
44
Namkham ...............
7
125
73
7
45
Totals, Kachins .
(62)
(18) (27)
( 1)
(606)
(154) (28) (17 )! (84o)
46 Shans
47
Bhamo .......................
167
214
47
48
Mongnai ...................
37
16
13
95
29
3
49
Namkham .................
119
26
39
30
24
3
50
Kengtung .................
570
95
(e)ioo
(e
)
34
o
23
* 40
35
51
Taunggyi .................
33
92
’ 380
*28
*19
4
52
Mong Lem (j) ___
140
16 0
2p
53
Totals, Shans . . . . ( 1) I(168) ( 33) (6) (570) (185) (28)
(423)
(15
(159)
(35)
54 Chins
55
Thayetmyo ...............
io|
64!
( 3)1
'45
59
5
56
Sandoway .................
91
107
in
13 1
(6 )I
44°
13
57
TTalrs ..........................
60
10
6
16
150
(5)
236
,
7
58
Totals, Chins . . . .
( 5) (163) (iS *) (20)
(14)
(821)
(186)
(32 1)
(25)
59 Talains
60
Moulmein .................
61 Telugus and Tamils . .
*622
f(e)4Ö7 '( 6)155
62 Chinese (k) .................
63 English-speak. Peoples
64
Rangoon ...................
65
Moulmein .................
(I)
135
( 1)
56
66
M andalay .................
67
T o t a l s , Englishspeaking Peoples (1)
(10)
(32)
( 3)
(135)
( 34)
( 56)
(I)
68 Missionaries at Home.
16
M
Pupils in
Prim ary
Schools
Oo
Hw
69 Totals fo r Burm a.
N a t iv e C o n t r ib u t io n s
ta tistic s
5147
2852
777
12756
10351
871 (716)]
34521’
$4282
13950
$29 166
24596
9234
I1860
9846
$28
258
$43
66
1663
2701
72
$25
428
17
I3S2
1689
5x6
187
298
60
825
983
4800
6590
1875
4633
6852
1368
16 66
1323
1697
5936
2935
113 1
1279
2637
2251
9
116 1
3
( 93) (47357)
8020
3350
1455
118 3
2844
2636
1933
(60257)
(9 18 1)
(626)
326
(6699)
9254
13163
22736
3647
(h)40|(h)2250 ( h ) 2 I 2 4
14 17
31
1203
2255
1460
1273
13664
9189
18536
3686
1584
3245
3977
333
4
500
4239
2967
7190
t i 429
1544
4471
3264
750
21771
3512
9732
tiooo
5066
3013
2298
1990
15
(157) (37 8 11) (63086)
126
133
(3 0)
2182
2626
(259)1 (4808)
1386
33
( 36)
329
756
I7I4
2296
1666
*2065
749
587
559
226
250
288
76
17
306
28
21
66
475
183
200
255
124
400
235
657
75825
4834
6518
12344
t l 24I
t 76i
2669
5592
1651
1638
2328
761
525
145
(71322) ( 1 1 8 5 5 0 )
(41)
( 39)
37
35
h i
433
83
3067
4390
605
1080
885
307
1 14 1
763
272
255
335
244
558
680
,
647l
(16506)
83
40
58
(4011)
(6950)
( 948)
(398)
508
247
153
308
(708)
66
21
(1025)
726
983
600
(2309)
3426
3279
750
(1386)
77
421
160
2857
840
( 2754)
( 3468)
(581)
(4049)
348 $114080 $197205
$87441
$119775 $37098
$244314!
(1959)
36
15017
101 I
(13:36) (39829)
Í 37
485
( 947)
$289
(289)
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
24
103
8096
4741
4436
9 66
8120
1205
*5824
1555
709 48
863 49
50
1854 51
238 52
178
( 1 3 9 ) (12837) (18380) (3904) (3664) 5 3
390
680
( 7)
1324
( 4) ( 1 5 7 0 )
(2732) (3) (5)
2436
30
31
32
3500
433
1 11 9
**680
30
( 117 )
29
$262
125
33
34
35
*748
808
832
**240
352
46
214^
146
383
287
**440
1959
26
27
28
371
80
(815)
(1298)
(25)
25
44919
1686
7084
6094
160 6
296
100
(473)
517
23
24
36 4
177
*227
$96
686
3950
93439
627
14650
2 5 11
21373
T1081
13083
2007
10268
2329
5618
2468
5557
203
873
(26378) (216250)
364
291
80
( 735 )
Hm
1277
10 49
4 10
3 21
a"
3 3
so
470
438
6979
436
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
352
66
67
68
4
15176
38209 $ 1 1 8 3 0
$6455 69
THE ASSAM MISSION—Table 1
Assamese ( 1)
Garos
3
C7 ) Ci) ( 7)
(22)
( 7)
CO
(1)
#4
( 3) Ci)
(4)
(2)
(1) Cío)
3
58
IQ
(4)
C81)
41
(28)
( 6)
(0
29
25
23
( 4)
19
Cs)
81
(106)
6
co
6
C8)
C3)
62
[¡97)
46
(e )7
31
(84)
14
C2)
Ci)
C3)
CO
6
6
257
294
(8)
6
30
13
67
■
CO
( 3)
Cs)
46
0
(14)
C20)
15
(2)
44
( 77?
21
12
7
14
13
!
I0! 2
25
615
HO O O O O O
D'O 00M
4*
10 2
103
17
50
Union Baptist Theological
A llur
.........................................
111
1 12
113
114
115
j
*6
j.
3
11
( 1)
(1)
j
1
I
i
127
128
129
130
131
I32 Totals for South India . . .
*12
*11
*7
53
68
*1
6
31
*22 * 1 1
*12
40
3 (6)
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( 1)
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6
8
10
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8
CO ___
35
5
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t 5 t 24
15
8
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f 20
J
8
7
18
14
281 C180)
369
485
9
f CO
( 3)
418
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210
S
*(2)
26
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28
18
315
780
8
200
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99
58
320
13
744
164
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127
42
s
CO
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72
73
74
75
(8)
77
78
79
.1 ......
j
1
520
*600
(70) (3145)
83
«i
85
87
88
8n
90
10
(2)
(15)
( 9)
91
93
94
I6O
(19)
80
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86
j
4
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4500
70
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70
71
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(160)
97
4
98
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17
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10
986
714
39 1532 1298
15
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2
81
6
96
274 2
566
( 9)
2968
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406
1442
2887
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325
807
15
120
6
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, 1 100
. 1101
33
tS 3
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1650
113
700
112
250
1077
348
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425
96
1700
1849
2830
400
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731
2249
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114
140
US
75
3950
3412
300
103
104
105
106
107
108
109
1 10
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500
3503
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4917
3115
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800
1049
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915
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50
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256
4
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16
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7
203
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186
9
3
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14
12272
5188
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462
442
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2247
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2670
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2
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300
7106
325
143
tio
6
90
150
19
92
15
51
4
36
3
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6
13
i
Si I
112
14 6
1 16
250
*2398
117
118
119
120
121
+2503
130
591
122
180
*2050
123
124
125
126
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220
60
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129
130
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2200
2208
5r
E
-r
Number of Lii
Sunday Schoo
Bap
348
1008
Year
Added
During
by
1000
—
1 12
4 2°4
Io í
1918
599
(6494) C1438)
C5896)
357
fCO
3
*6
396
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(12)
6
33
15
( 13 )
1200
10
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30 2
i
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44
C3)
10 ...
,
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CO
1200
j
6
CO
30
14
C25)
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CO
CO
i
1
8
117
118
120
12 1 Podili
122
123
124
125
*2
4
3
14
*6
764
Pupils
in
= 2 a
0 ~ 'S
i
2381
32
1115
(10648) C1194) C 1 3 1) (4973)
316
1858
9 15
t a tistic s
T H E S O U T H IN D IA M ISSIO N — Table 2
*9
*41
187
6
6
1080
10 3 )
Ci 7)
T H E SO U T H IN D IA M ISSIO N — Table 1
fi)
(2)
(
(V )
8267
C88) C113)
7
18
C25)
Ph
0
S
d u catio n al
Pupils in
Theological
Seminaries
and Schools
CO
j
i
1
19
36
j
19
(26)
a
B
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12
l6
C25)
(188) C109) C103)
7
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13
29
C30)
C8)
C21)
C44)
1
174
C41) C 17 1) C218)
58
12
Total Places f<
Regular Meeti
Churches Enti
Self-supportin
43
14
C84)
I3
(18)
23
C42)
54
j
21
(8)
C19)
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(176)
128
C22)
!
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E
ta tistic s
1
bo
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d
19
108
14
!
( 56)
135
Total Organizi
Churches
Total Native
W orkers
~
14
(e )i2
co
Abors and M iris
Missionaries at Home . . . .
Men
1
( 7)
25
(lO
Women
(4 9 )
36
(124)
6
5
Totals, Immig'nt Peoples (8) ( 1) (8)
Mikirs
Ci)
CO
Men
6
33
8
Bible Women an
Zenana Workers
88
S
rt O
T3
£
0
hurch
Church Members
tn
28
CO
2
Immigrant Peoples
(4)
Women
Men
Unordained
Ordained
II
4
Nagas
Teachers
Other
Native
Workers
'V
Total Missionari
Physicians,
! Men and Womei
Single Women
!1
Kacharis
Medical
A ssis­
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| W ives
and S t a t io n s
Men, Unordaint
ork
| Men, Ordained
W
C
orkers
Church Buildi:
and Chapels
Preachers
T3
THE ASSAM MISSION—Table 2
N a t iv e W
M is s io n a r ie s
452 1 77
19
39
99 23
1946
185
C45) J
576
949
1782
798
20745
169
193
THE ASSAM MISSION—Table 3
THE ASSAM MISSION—Table 4
E
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
Assamese ( 1)
Garos
83
I
(2)
18
(18 )
I
164
103
136
( 4) (403)
2
Girls
Boys
35
748
(2066)
346
36
(958) ( 1 1 7 )
6
90
6
41
693
26
19
( 45)
Immigrant Peoples
385
248
I
(71)
180
25
139
120
11
337
50
3
5
71
24
12 4
(2)
( i) ( 1 2 4 )
Totals, Immigrant Peoples . . . .
M ikirs
(70)
(248)
(705)
(246)
(18 )
30
160
(19 0)
(46)
6
70
14
( 38 )
5
13
96 Abors_ and M iris
I
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12
I
28
,
36
(421)
10
13
70
10
36
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26
564
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92
93
94
95
215
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(10)
(10)
(20)
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308
2681
220
30 3
628
193
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10 4
230
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756
300
717
244
67
358
437
133
433
83 8
118 1
300
1587
12 15
745
19 3
938
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266
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196
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( 10 0 0 0 )
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4744
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3607
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1075
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157
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333
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436
(436)
152
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515
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507
587
249
4378
1685
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7342
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I
200
59
106
107
108
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117
118
119
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$3417 $ 1 4 0 0 1
7
3
320
19 85 9
25376J
$4802
$3671
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T H E S O U T H IN D IA M ISSIO N — Table 4
298
225
9
3623
16 4
*198
2438
100
14 4
61
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Union Baptist Theological SemiA llur
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T H E SO U T H IN D IA M ISSIO N — Table 3
Z04
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
1
99 Totals fo r Assam ................................
02
10 3
$1475
$1171
(e)ioo
103
(103)
1 12
I
18 1
10 71
(8 94) ( 396 5) ( 1 ) ( 2 )
1268
103
755
(2126)
158
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3
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$1308
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353
46
13
306
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300
278
21 0
471
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(114 )
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n
79
I
85
Op
90
91
612
S t a t is t ic s
>1
67
Kacharis
T** P •
Primary Schools
Total Number of
Schools of all G r a
I
77
78 Nagas
80
<s
T3
Girls
O
j
t atio n s
0
mUi
du catio nal
Pupils in
Prim ary
Schools
Pupils in
Secondary
Schools
Boys
S
and
CO
Secondary School
(other than High
ork
Boys
W
High Schools
Number of Lines
Pupils in 1
High
j
Schools
Nalgonda ...............................................
41
55
*4
80
22
I
62
28
I
67
31
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11
41
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Î2 18
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*302
733
424
*386
*7
*146
980
*85
576
985
*801
30
*375
65
z5
41
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3
11
10
*147
t 25
t i 56
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125
126
15
5
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35
20
12 1
12 2
2
41
*2
65
*70
7
13
s6
337
90
60
t 392
*53
950
378
*1368
110
110
18
875
128
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II
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184
no
13 1
44
695
178
558
20
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231
9
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15 )
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25
42
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1658
5 51
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( 39)
41
37
11 ........
11
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20
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429
125
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21
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7
13
479
56
27
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10 8 2 8
266
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269
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17
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177
11
19 0
20
8
118
148
12 7
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3231
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307
408
1389
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216
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8
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66
32
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203
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265
1025
22
2 76o 8
251
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11
19 12
17
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56
16 6
10 7
80
12 9
601
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40 10 2
207
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117
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290
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132
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53
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40
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238
243
423
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323
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$ 8 9 1 6 $38359
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39
33
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214
408
10 3
104
105
106
107
108
109
1 10
111
112
113
114
US
lié
117
118
119
12 0
12 1
122
12 3
124
12 5
12 6
127
12 8
12 9
13 0
131
__
132 Totals fo r South India ......................
837
!
4
99
14
1052
714
968
15 7 5 9
8785
994
( 21 2)
1
$10 42 $12934
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292 9
$4595 j I 32
THE BENGAL-ORISSA MISSION—Table 1
N a t iv e
M is s io n a r ie s
C
Preachers
W ork
and
THE BENGAL-ORISSA MISSION—Table 2
W orkers
S t a t io n s
M e d ic a l
A s s is ta n ts
Teachers
E
°
c-*
T« ’SG i1
A*
j Other
j Nativ<
Workei
il
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IU
N
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rt
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O
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HN
O-C
HU
V bo
w
u
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C +2
fri U
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136
137
CM«
a?
U t/3
C
U rt
2o
138
139
140
141
142
143
144
145
146
147
148
(3)
(1 1 )
(3 )
4
(1 )
2
(4 )
(4)
(S)
( 1)
I
( 3 ) (10)
( 5)
iS
37
17
I
S|
6
( 5) (23)
4
3
3
7
(29) (24)
( 47)
2
( 3\ (
(6 )
( 5)
97
5
5
27
(134)
4
4
(10)
(11)
286
5
( 15)
1 77
178
179
180
181
Yacliow ..........................
Ningyuan (u) .............
Chengtu ..........................
West China Union Univ.
(inc. Lang. School)
Totals, West China. (10) ( 1 0 ) I(18) (16)
Missionaries at Home ..
61 17
1 82 1Totals fo r China
18
120
27 I
228
14
I IO
5
63
7
(477) (S 3)
517
35
43
244
3
25
16
133
134
lt)0
149
100
I 1 35
12I
( 2 0 ) f (451)
(i)[
(iz)
■JO
137
138
(6)
¡3 9
13
140
594
141
142
25
124
(804)
(63)
36
143
144
145
29 0
(920)
(19)
3
146
147
148
363
(2)
150 South China
15 1
Swatow ..........................
1 5 2 1 Ashmore Theo. S e m ...
153
K aying ............................
154
Ungkung ........................
155
Chaochowfu .................
156
K ityang . . . ...................
157
Chaoyanghsien .............
158
Hopo ..............................
159
Canton ............................
160
Sunwuhsien .................
161
Totals, South China. (12) ( 3) (13 ) (22)
162 East China
163
Ningpo ............................
164
Shaohsing ......................
165
Kinhwa ..........................
166
Huchow .........................
167
Hangchow .....................
2I
168
Shanghai ....................... .
169
Shanghai Rap. College!
and Theo. Sem .. . .
4l
170
Nanking ........................
17 1
U niversity of Nanking!
I
j
(inc. Lang. ScTiool)!
21 1
3
172
Totals. East China. . j (14 ) I (15 )! (27) I (30)
I
173 West China
Suifu
174
176
23
(9)
(4 )
T H E C H IN A M ISSIO N — Table 1
K ia ti n g
72
62
48
40
70
I
Totals for Bengal-Orissa.
1 751
46
156
(Si)
60rt
Ou
oH
(v)
39
( 1)
iti
v
5
9
(16) (16)
( 1)
( 1) (14)
14
3
5
Pupils
¡C ollegi
'J1 ¡xj
—e
ä
30
3
S t a t is t ic s
Pupils in
Theological
Seminaries
and Schools
Kg
>>>
— ho
..........................
Midnapore ...............
Jamshedpur ............
Totals, Bengalis ..
Oriyas
Balasore ...................
Bhadrak (q) .............
Chandbali (q) .........
Jellasore ...................
Santipore . . .............
Totals, Oriyas . . .
Santals
Bhimpore .................
Missionaries at Home
E d u c a t io n a l
gC/3
133 Bengalis
...............
Contai
134
Kharagpur (inc. English
135
w ork )
S ta tistic s
Church Members
a 0
3 gu
hurch
(3)
45
T H E C H IN A M ISSIO N — Table 2
38
12 3
*67
56
72
67
3
(50)
7
( 7) (92)
(225)
S3
23
*18
*20
(7 1) (26)
*3135
*8
*27
6
3
(10) ( u ) ^ 19
13
(t )*32 (t) 43
78
(3)
*(1)
(7)
8
(1)
41 (12 )
18
(6)
8
24
(467) ( i 3 S )
6!
121
(s) ipI (s)7
24
25
26
8!
40
24
8
7
(30)
(14 O
13
5
fs) 83
*607
q
42
37
17
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14
8
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5
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(8) (86 ) (10) (39)
(3)
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(169)
(129) (10)
16
(56) (24)| (8)!
4
( 447)
(42)
(23)
223
299
41
26 5
154
705
20
21
78K24)
231I
(20)
17
5
( 57 )
(27)
(1)
(10)
76
(2)' (9>!
10
( 128)
(4)
1042
18 1
—
(46)
(30)
30
40
28
*6
831
380
387
99
255
22
277
36
(2882)
(409)
(72)
48 6
400
586
80
*6
4
37
13
79
91
142
14
475
41
17
(1627)
264
10244
( i 3S )
I S3
156
157
158
159
j
..... 1 ____
( 3)
(24)
160
161
162
(78)
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(i)
(40)
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(1)
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163
164
165
166
167
168
7i 4 j
17 1
18
( e ) 55 °
(1)
(18)
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(17 1)
I 437 I
170
( 7) 17 2
17 6
1 77
178
260
242
169
175
590
(16 14 )
7
173
174
364
(26)
151
153
154
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(4254)
15 0
15 2
95
18
(27)
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452
28
III
541
(8503)
71
475
( e ) 45°
1250
1239
(14 4 )
424
18 7
46
(2)
14
( 6 ) ( 54 )
(3)
41
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29
31
40
419
25
(5735) (17 0)
4 18
78
*1000
352
123
321
i
"452
859
320
1293
1004
264
1
j
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401
170
64
123
254
376
28
36
294
135
534
(65)
50
4
565
185
7S 9
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6
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81
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179
18 0
181
191
7 18 2
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THE BENGAL-ORISSA MISSION—Table 4
THE BENGAL-ORISSA MISSION—Table 3
1«
|
Pupils in
Secondary
Schools
^
Pupils in
Prim ary
Schools
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and
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130
78
( 1 ) (130)
(3 )
(7 8 )
260
Totals for Bengal-O rissa. . . .
3481
(3 5 )
(9 5 )
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13
19 1
450
17
IO77
3
27
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63
3
9
6
58
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47
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(82)
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(25)
70
83
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769
36!
126
72
161
(1087) (3 5 5 2 )
129
22711
2374
377
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515
228
240
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58
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140
141
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143
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204
20
397
( 125)
(1475)
406
31
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13
( 112 )
(459)
$19 25
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123
14 5
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24
$x
$261
$2187
146
147
4060
$316
$239
4060
$316
$239
83138
$770
$990 15 1
T H E C H IN A M ISSIO N — Table 4
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20
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67
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0
392
5
143
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201
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59
30
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134 (t) 119
274
33
(1)
35
49
318
T H E C H IN A M ISSIO N — Table 3
150 South China
Swatow ..................................
15 1
152
Ashmore Theological Sem.
Kaying ..................................
153
Ungkung ..............................
154
155
Chaochowfu ..........................
Kityang ................................
156
Chaoyanghsien ...................
157
XT
Hopo ......................................
158
Canton ..................................
159
160
Sunwuhsien ..........................
161
Totals, South China . . .
162 East China
163
Ningpo ..................................
164
Shaohsing ............................
Kinhwa ..........................
165
166
Huchow ................................
167
Hangchow ............................
168
Shanghai ..............................
169
Shanghai Baptist College
and Theological Sem ..
170
Nanking ................................
17 1
University of Nanking
(inc. Language School)
172
Totals, East C h in a .........
173 West China
Suifu ....................................
174
K iating ..................................
175
176
Yachow ..................................
1 77
Ningyuan (u) .....................
Chengtu ................................
178
179 West China Union Univer.
(inc. Language School)
180
Totals, West China . . . .
181
$1
117
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140
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135 Kharagpur (inc. Eng. w’k)
Midnapore ............................
136
Jamshedpur ..........................
137
Totals, Bengalis .............
138
139 Oriyas
140
Balasore ..........................
14 1
Bhadrak (q) .................
142
Chandbali (q) .............
Jellasore
..........................
143
14 4
Santipore .......................
Totals, Oriyas ..........
145
1 4 6 Santals
Bhimpore .........................
147
Missionaries at Home . . . .
Sum m ary
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134 Contai
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N a t iv e
S t a t is t ic s
E d u c a t io n a l
Pupils in
H igh
Schools
60
22
7
(1343) (117 2 )
(78)
61
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147
66
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83
53
1199
802
469
265
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1 1 1 09
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584
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1 102
962
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32507
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624
370
30
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153
725 1 5 4
155
679 9
10084
2084
1799
1 167 1 5 7
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( 52154: (119564)
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294 160
( 4 111) 161
2 6 32
3564
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150
152
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353
3200
1224
143
242
37714
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935 1 5 6
1 58
15 9
162
1 1920
1238
10230
929 16 3
13189
600
9016
8416
4350 16 4
2479 16 5
4484
8158
7525
633
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167
1 132
16 8
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13081
13613
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3892 16 9
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370
275
145
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378
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166
199
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(4446)
( 52490)
(56936)
3
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8109
36860
224
200
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224 $103106
(6)
(404)
( 185)
(304)
(893)
$10 $116 7 5
$1393
$3571
$16639
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(4 )
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8052!
1702
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2083
2083
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( 52958)
116538I
229458
(46713) (21492) 1 7 2
173
7405
3893 17 4
1 28 0
175
160 1 7 6
177
72 1 7 8
( 8685)
179
(4125) 18 0
181
$614951 $29728 182
THE JAPAN MISSION—Table 1
ES
e
V
B
0
r.
Z
8 3 1Yokohama
Mabie Memorial Boys’ School.
1 84
185 Tokyo .................................................
Japan Baptist Theological Semi­
186
nary ......................................
187 Kobe ...................................................
188 Sendai ...............................................
189 Morioka .............................................
190 Mito ...................................................
191 Osaka .................................................
192 Inland Sea ......................................
193 H imeji ...............................................
194 Kyoto .................................................
195 Missionaries at H o m e ...................
i
1-,
C'Si
63
6
47
6 (o
228
319
547
46
18
7
7
504
387
891
183
15
. 1___
23
29
15
6
27
6
0
12
272
4í
373
353
440
726
61
220
13 1
170
90
112
130
173
30
64
18
a
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s
(2)
1
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6
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(?)
168
19S
10
7
26
(2)
47
34
17
196 Totals for Japan
76
.........
79
i
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0
(v)
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£
336
243
303
220
64
59
3
1-0 235
35
(9)
37
12
7
22 '
34
25
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in
Colleges
ID be
0-
£
p
H3
s
989
!
(1)
20
(2) ( i o
24
854
1394
856
488
I I4O
25OO
I I34
100
1 1
16
184
185
186
(1)
17
187
54 188
189
190
191
192
193
194
195
1
1
3
9
42
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'and S chools
t8
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S t a t is t ic s
Pupils in
Theological
Colleges
■2 S
Sn
.£
1
Sunday Schools
: p
E d u c a t io n a l
Church Members
Total Native
W orkers
€
S t a t is t ic s
Total Enrolled
Sunday School
Membership
g
o
S t a t io n s
C hurch
Other
Native
Workers
Added by Baptism
During Year
tants
Total Places for
Regular Meetings
Teachers
W orkers
Church Buildings
and Chapels
and
M e d ic a l
A s s is ­
Total Organized
Chu relies
Preachers
W ork
THE JAPAN MISSION—Table 2
N a t iv e
M is s io n a r ie s
3990
97
500
1
161
10676
20
41 ( 4) ( i o
79 196
T H E CONGO M ISSIO N — Table 1
1 97 Banza M'anteke ..............................
i
i
2
i
5
7
6
199
8
203
204
Congo
Evangelical
25
140
t3
t l2
ISO
66
3
2
Í32
4
fi
t3
T H E CONGO M ISSIO N — Table 2
ti
161
-
6
t6
Training
205 Vanga .................................................
47
(1)
cu)
76
i
207
208 Totals for Congo .........................
, 5 (4)
t 5S
14
i
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6
5
17
( 1)
7
2
3
(3)
15
(4)
43
86
2
5
45
484
50
6
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53
53
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t i 30
2336
T26S
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612
i
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452 24
5844 3000
892 1 68
13
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15
110 7
13000
1 18
88
88
ti
232
53
197
198
199
200
201
202
24
203
*
95
9
150 150 1759
13 Í 3
t 33 t 40 t 295
24
34 326
27 150 3508
I 12
19
58
200
12081 3862
76 14949
13 1
*
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9
204
205
206
207
5
12
5
627
39 (17)
378 518
67
10
208
T H E P H IL IP P IN E IS L A N D S M ISSIO N — Table 1
209 Iloilo ...................................................
210
Central Philippine College . . .
2
2
2
i
3
5
2
8
9
*6
*1
3
*(0
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*16
*1
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7
3
8
15
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T H E P H IL IP P IN E IS L A N D S M ISSION — Table 2
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213
« 4 Totals fo r Philippine Islands . . .
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33
15
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47
35
7
3
1
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311
181
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361
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170
113
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5
125
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3533
1
283
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1
6626
38
209
210
2 11
212
2 13
38
2 14
1
1
1
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1
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T H E JAPAN M ISSIO N — Table 3
i 8/
188
189
190
19 1
192
193
194
195
Yokohama ............................
Mabie Memorial B oys’ Schooi . .
Tokyo ...............................................
Japan Baptist Theological ‘ Semi­
nary ................................
Sendai
6
652
i
32
s
34
36
5 ”
188
175
12
3
i
100
30
120
3
2
56
43
2
2
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52
4
1
22
429
169
Mito ......................................
Osaka ..............................! ! . ! . " ! ! ! ! ! *
Inland Sea ..........................
Himeii ................................ ...................
Kyoto ............................ ..................... " ¿ 1 . . . . . . . I
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180
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Totals for J a p a n ..........................
429
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2683
2066
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2369
2087
405
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970
5196
155
41
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2133
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10 33
2150
421
10 73
492
$2144
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183
184
...................
tl
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Kimpese .................................................
Congo Evangelical Training in ­
stitution ........................
205
206 Undesignated Missionaries .............
207 Missionaries at Home ........................
10
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56
.........
33
26
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2164
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t 36 1*112I
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138
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105
2 12
213 Missionaries at Home .................
186
187
188
189
190
191
192
"1
195
$30022
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$192
5356
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282
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8 i 79j 556 (329)
21659
196
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765
265
I
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18250
$276
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t l 52
227
483
106
$276
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68
272
106
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197
198
199
202
2O3
538
204
190 205
206
207
$1944
$119 0 208
256 (e) 295o (e)i9500
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$2025
$2780
$755
1336
14530
92133
T H E P H IL IP P IN E ISL A N D S M ISSIO N — Table 4
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2
*164
89
*5
29
4
140
4
124
2
14 4
12 6
2
*1
7
56
408
86
* 7S
169
3
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31
385
13
618
23 (13)
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253^
34
5
14
686
i
$1476
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1175
2I9
23
1899
1
2 5 $7999 . . . . j
1
214 Totals fo r Philippine Islands . . .
193
194
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12 8
87
48
16
218
933
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t l 9S
104
906
282
4663
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Î I 544
1276
2768
T H E P H IL IP P IN E IS L A N D S M ISSIO N — Table 3
2O9 Iloilo ........................
210
Central Philippine C o lle g e ___
67
T H E CONGO M ISSIO N — Table 4
2412 153 (150)
t i 5 t3
T360 t 38 t ( 35'
(26)
454
885 I79 (118)
1780
56
I
208 Totals fo r C o n g o .................
3iS
-----
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220
(1)
---32
T H E CONGO M ISSIO N — Table 3
Banza M a n te k e ...................
Matadi ..........................
Tshumbiri
M
20
I
---- ---------------------- ----------
197
198
199
200
201
202
203
204
C o n tribu tio n s
•d V
Sc h oo ls Entirely
Sclf-supportim;
Total Number of
Schools of all Grac
Boys
Primary Schools
tfi
V«
a t iv e
8 !
:
j
1
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..........................
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28 9
N
du catio n al
Pupils in
Prim ary
Schools
Girls
t atio n s
«c n
Pupils in
Secondary
Schools
Boys
S
~
Secondary School
(other than High
and
Girls
ork
Boys
W
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Pupils in 1
High
Schools
| High Schools
I Number of Lines
1
183
18 4
185
186
T H E JAPAN M ISSIO N — Table 4
E
2
*$385
*$16
10
388
$810
$46
*$401
*1
*4 *1459
*4972
388
I
404
913
1863
S885
S856
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210
2 11
8940
4259
4295 212
213
18721
$38354
$ 377Si 214
S U M M A R Y OF ST A T IST IC S— Table 2
SU M M A R Y OF ST A T IST IC S— Table 1
E d u c a t io n a l S t a t is t ic s
S t a t io n s
Medical
Assis­
tants
j Teachers
Preache
W ork and
Pupils
in
Colleges
N a t iv e
M is s io n a r ie s
S
o
£ I.
H
2is|T o tals
2i6|Totals
2i7|T otals
zi8)Totals
219 Totais
220 Totais
221 Totais
222 Totais
fo r
fo r
fo r
for
for
fo r
for
fo r
Burma .................
Assam ...................
South India . . . .
Bengal-Orissa . . .
China ...................
Japan ...................
Congo ...................
Philippine Islands
223 Totals, Non-Christian Lands, 1922
2 2 4 Do. fo r 1 9 2 1 ....................................
Do. fo r 1920....................................
Do.1 for 19 19 ....................................
Do. for 19 18 ....................................
Do. fo r 1 9 1 7 ....................................
225
226
227
228
59
25
3«
9
44
17
14
7
213
217
224
220
212
211
20
4
6
5
34
4
5
3
72
29
42
13
75
20
17
8
81
70
67
53
27 6
27 3
274
256
246
251
Si
52
67 ( 7 )
2 3 ( 5)
41 (10)
(2 )
13
78 ( 24 )
31
7 (4)
15 (2 )
( 54)
( 51)
275
267
2 S9
->26
204
19 3
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( 55)
C55)
( 56 )
218
81
127
40
231
72
43
33
845
836
824
7S5
714
707
147
48 2 1 5
216
2 191
(4 ) ( U )
7 2I9
79 2 2 0
I
!
300
14
42
10
17
24
9
15
936!
294,
700
15 0 1
4 5 1!
76!
484
47
715
257!
315
39
151
21
45
II
1554
1638
1563
1670
1659
1622
431
434
426
440
443
450
!
768
46 i
25 !
3
452
177
48
44
227
37
22
79
6
50
35
7
16 84
149 9
16 40
1373
1337
1303
3218
2975
28 74
2661
2763
26 59
5
9
T9 ¡
2
8
39
11
3
12 5
125
117
127
80
82
342
354
364
365
369
395
5
23» Totals, Europe and Non-Christian
Lands, 1922 ................................
231 Do. for 1 9 2 1 ........................................
232 Do. for 1920........................................
2 3 3 Do. fo r 1 9 19 ........................................
2 3 4 Do. for 19 18 ........................................
2 3 5 Do. for 1 9 1 7 ........................................
213
217
22 4
220
212
2 11
81
70
67
53
51
52
i
276I 275 ( 54 )
273 I 26 7 ( 5 1 )
2 7 4 ' 259 ( 5 5 )
(55)
256!
2 4 6 ! 204 ( 5 5 )
2 5 1 ! 193 (.56)
845
836
824
755
714
707
431
434
426
440
443
45 0
3 833
4434
2220
4 3 'xi
4166
4129
3218
2975
287 4
26 61
276 3
1684
14 99
16 40
1373
1337
1303
2659
I
!
12 5
125
117
12 7
342
354
364
365
369
395
80
82
338 13 4
263 4 1
26
322
326
283
2 Si
3
4
4
4
4
76
70
62
70
6
223
22 4
22 5
226
22 7
22 8
229
__ __
229 Europe
221
30
3
4
4
4
4
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7:
76
70
6
62
338 1 3 4 2 3 0
26 3
41
3 2 2 26
326
283
261
1
231
232
233
234
235
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S U M M A R Y O F ST A T IST IC S— Table 4
S U M M A R Y OF ST A T IST IC S— Table 3
M e d ic a l
S um m ary
E d u c a t io n a l
Pupils in
High
Schools
Pupils in
Secondary
Schools
Pupils in
Primary
Schools
4-t
W ork
and
£
u ’S
CJ ß
215 Totals for Burma
216
217
218
219
220
221
222
Totals
Totals
Totals
Totals
Totals
Totals
Totals
fo r
fo r
fo r
for
for
for
fo r
..........................
Assam ..._ .....................
South India ...............
Bengal-Orissa .............
China ............................
Japan ............................
Congo _............................
Philippine Islands
Totals, Non-Christian Lands, 1921
224 Do. fo r 1 9 2 1 ........................................
225 Do. fo r 1920........................................
226 Do. fo r 19 19 ........................................
2 2 7 Do. fo r 19 18 ........................................
228 Do. for 1 9 1 7 ........................................
22 3
229 Europe
231 Do.
232 Do.
233 Do.
234 Do.
235 Do.
1873
124
837
130
1636
429
253
44
1031
5147 Ì 2852
507! 587
X052I
99
3481
215I
6191
1828
964
34!
334
144
714
152
499
469
138
126
I
777 12756 10351
4378 1685
240
968
118
243
15
546
14
19981
10324
5537 2930
2036I
4592 2681
4241 2629
4-’ I 4777 f 1731!
3212 2 544
38¡ 3373
9 85 1
371 3056 1 2 0 4 I 1291 8187 2954 2473
351 3426 1 1 1 8 I 114I 7797 3572 2515
41
4 8 1 6,
15759
Lauds, 1922 ................................
fo r 19 2 1 ........................................
for 1920 ........................................
for 19 19 ........................................
fo r 19 18 ........................................
fo r 1 9 1 7 ........................................
8785
769
3098
2374
7941
483
T2931
686
V
494
8179
618
57308 33979
52830 29037
48052 27540
46153 26599
45064 25294
44509 25531
.................................................
230 Totals, Europe and Non-Christian
^5
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871
262
994
120
305
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14530
588s
1998I
2036I
17 31I
985'
1204
1 118
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14 3 1 8399 4592Í
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1 19 1 8085 3212I
129Ì S187 2954J
114 ] 7797 3572!
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2544I
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4 6 1 53I 2ÖS99I 2743I (6201
45064! 25294I 2680 (850)
44509I 25531! 2702 1 (84-i
92133
18 7 2 1
190009 4 2 2 1 34
1 9 7 1 7 1 419460
13 7 1 9 9 364959
80361 320396
90082 3 3 1 S 91
1944
220
1190 221
38354 37751
222
139008 83629 223
12 0 113 85159 2 2 4
9 4 0 3 0 73509 225
104198 56080 226
93294 62153 2 2 7
46393 28054
22 8
229
8
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4 1 1 4816I
421 47771
38] .3373I
37 3056
35 3426
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(850)
(847)
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27
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(38!
(212)
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2898 (1025)
2845 (9-! 7 1
2764
2696
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1 5 1 7 6 3 8 2 0 9 $11830 $6455 216
4802 3671
19 859 253 76
1
20267
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3 6 3 3 5 125757
316
239 218
4060
29728
219
229458
61495
1 16538
32
(.V
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23 (13 '
2737
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1 16176
1639
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96537 168s
89838 1685
87464 1043
87547 1608
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32
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70197 1365844
541 16645
55116921
66 15505
62 9658
57 10453
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Norway .........
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Poland ............
Czechoslovakia
Esthonia .........
Latvia .............
Lithuania ___
30 1
(284)
400
89
42
680
32
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38
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2467
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2927
1772
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2927
1772
2606
176
REFERENCE SIGNS AND NOTES
Figures in parentheses are not included in the totals of the sections
(e. g., entries under the heading “ Physicians, Men and Women ” are not included in
total missionaries in Burma, 218) as they are counted under other heads. Missionaries
engaged in both general and school work are reported in parentheses in cases where
a separate entry is made for the school. Statistics of “ Missionaries ” are fo r the year
ending April 30, 1923, to correspond with the list given under “ Fields and Stations
other statistics are fo r the year ending December 3 1, 1922.
G e n e r a l N o t e .—
* Statistics fo r 19 2 1— not including baptisms.
.t Statistics for 1920—not including baptisms,
t Statistics fo r 1919— not including baptisms.
** Statistics for 19 18 — not including baptisms.
§ Statistics fo r 19 13 — not including baptisms.
(a) Small numbers of Burmese are included in the statistics for some K aren and
other churches.
(b) Include statistics for Telugu and Chinese work.
(c) Statistics are included under Moulmein.
(d) Include statistics for Chinese work and work at M'aymvo.
(e) Estimated.
(f) Include statistics fo r Chin work.
(g) Statistics, except those fo r the AVOman’s Bible School, are included under
Maubin.
(h) Figures for Moulmein, Anglo-Vernacular school only.
(1) Include statistics for Nyaunglebin.
(j) Across the border in Yunnan Province, China.
/i\ Statistics for Chinese work included under English Work, Rangoon.
UJ .Figures for this work are included in statistics fo r other races, Assamese con­
verts being few in number and connected with churches whose members are
largely from other peoples.
(m) Statistics are included under Work fo r Kacharis, Goalpara.
(n) Include statistics for Assamese and Other Peoples.
/ < Statistics included under Work fo r Abors and Miris,
(P) Transferred to Telugu Baptist Convention.
(q) Statistics are included under Balasore.
(r) Figures fo r six months.
(s) Include statistics of Union Hospital.
(t) Include statistics o f Union G irls’ School.
/ \ a? Process. ° f transfer to another Board.
Xv) M any stations have not been able to report anaccurate division
o f churchmembers into male and female. In such cases the totalonly isgiven.
$967166
MINUTES OF THE ONE HUNDRED AND
NINTH ANNUAL MEETING
MINUTES
OF T H E
ONE HUNDRED AND NINTH
ANNUAL MEETING
A t l a n t i c C ity , N e w
Jersey,
May 25, 26, 1923
The American Baptist Foreign Mission Society, in pursuance
to a call issued by the Recording Secretary and published in the
denominational press, convened in Atlantic City, New Jersey, for
its one-hundred-and-ninth annual meeting, the sessions being held
in connection with the meetings o f the Northern Baptist Con­
vention.
The Society met in the auditorium on the Steel Pier on Friday
morning, May 25, and was called to order by President W . S.
Abernethy.
Prayer was offered by Rev. Frederick E. Taylor.
On motion o f Secretary William B. Lipphard, it was
V o ted : That the minutes o f the one-hundred-and-eighth annual meeting
o f the Society, held June 14-21, 1922, in Indianapolis, Indiana, as printed in
the Annual Report of the Society for 1922, be approved.
The Annual Report of the Society was presented by Secretary
William B. Lipphard, in harmony with the provision of the By­
laws, and copies having been distributed to the delegates in atten­
dance, the report was accepted.
Secretary William B. Lipphard presented the following com­
munication prepared by the Board o f Managers for forwarding
to the Baptists in Sweden on the occasion o f their Seventy-fifth
Anniversary in July, 1923, which was adopted:
T o the Baptist Churches in S w ed en :
D e a r B r e t h r e n : The American Baptist Foreign Mission Society, in ses­
sion in its 109th annual meeting at Atlantic City, N . J., M ay 25, 1923, sends
Christian greeting to the Baptists of Sweden upon the completion o f seventyfive years of notable denominational history.
W e are glad to have been
permitted to have a share in your work, and we rejoice with you in the
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remarkable achievements of these years.
W e claim .a share in the memory
of Drake and Broady, and in the fellowship of the beloved brethren who
still abide with you.
You number today more than 60,000 members of your churches, while
more than 30,000 members of the constituency of the American Baptist
Foreign Mission Society have come to America during these years from
your shores.
Your brethren across the seas regard this as a most remark­
able evidence of divine favor.
W e are not unmindful o f the difficulties
under which you have labored, nor of the sacrificial service which you
have been called upon to render in the establishment o f our Baptist work
in Sweden.
The steadfast courage with which you have maintained your
principles in the presence o f those who have not understood nor appre­
ciated you, has been duly rewarded by the Lord of the harvest.
W e venture to express the earnest hope that the past may be a prophecy
o f even greater growth in the years to come.
W e beg you to remember
that always this Society is most vitally interested in your work.
You have
“ endured as seeing him who is invisible,” and your loyalty to truth is an
unfailing source of inspiration to us.
“ Peace be to the brethren, and love with faith, from God the Father
and the Lord Jesus Christ.”
On behalf of the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society,
W . S. A
bern eth y
, President,
F r e d e r i c k L. A n d e r s o n ,
Chairman o f the Board o f Managers,
W il l ia m
B. L
ip p h a r d
, Recording Secretary.
Rev. Frederick L. Anderson, Chairman o f the Board of Man­
agers, delivered an address on “ Annual Review of the W ork of
the Society.” Miss L. M. Holbrook, of Assam, and Rev. J. T.
Proctor, o f East China, addressed the Society regarding the work
on their respective fields.
The Society adjourned at 11.40 a. m., to reconvene at 2.00 p. m.
The Society reconvened at 2.00 p. m., in joint session with the
W oman’s American Baptist Foreign Mission Society. The meet­
ing was called to order by Mrs. W . A. Montgomery.
Prayer was offered by Vice-president Joshua Gravett.
The following missionaries were introduced by the secretaries
charg'ed with administrative responsibility for the work on their
respective fields, each o f whom addressed the Societies regarding
the achievements, opportunities, and needs on his or her respective
field:
A N N U A L M EETING
267
France, Rev. O. Brouillette.
Bengal-Orissa, Rev. J. H . Oxrieder.
Burma, Hattie M . Price.
South India, Rev. Charles Rutherford.
Japan, Ruby L. Anderson.
South China, Rev. G. H . W aters.
W est China, J. E. Moncrieff.
Belgian Congo, Catharine L . Mabie, M . D.
Philippine Islands, Rev. G. J. Geis.
Belgian Congo, Rev. J. E. Geil.
Burma, Rev. C. E. Chaney.
Assam, Rev. W . E. W itter.
The Society adjourned at 4.30 p. m., to reconvene at 7.45 p. m.
The Society reconvened at 7.45 p. m., in joint session with the
W om an’s American Baptist Foreign Mission Society. The meet­
ing was called to order by President W . S. Abernethy.
Prayer was offered by Rev. L. W . Cronkhite, o f Burma.
Rev. H. B. Benninghoff, of Japan, addressed the societies re­
garding “ Progress, Opportunities, and Needs in Japan.”
Rev. K. Imai, o f Japan, interpreted by Rev. H. Y. Shibata, ad­
dressed the societies regarding his experiences as an evangelist in
Japan, in the Hawaiian Islands, and recently on the Pacific Coast.
Musical selections were rendered by a quartet of students from
Shaw University.
The following Oriental students in America were introduced:
Shozo Hashimoto.
F. Y . Kanamori.
R. Sawano.
T. G. Ling.
K. Takenaka.
T . K . Van.
C. S. Miao.
Charles Ba Thein.
On behalf o f the Oriental students, C. S. Miao and Charles Ba
Thein addressed the Societies.
Rev. R. B. Longwell introduced the newly appointed mission­
aries, several o f whom addressed the Society briefly regarding his
or her call to missionary service:
Dana M . Albaugh.
Mabel Maria K night( fiancée of M r. Albaugh).
M r. and M rs. Bernard W . Armstrong.
George B. Cressey.
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M ISSION SOCIETY
M r. and M rs. W alfred Danielson.
Rev. and M rs. Martin S. Engwall.
M r. and M rs. Paul R. Gleason.
Rev. Leopold H . R . Hass.
L. T revor H elfrich.
Charles E . Olney.
Loraine Caul (fiancée o f M r. O ln ey).
Rev. and M rs. Ralph C. Ostergren.
Rev. and M rs. Herm an D . Sorg.
Miss Mabelle R. M cVeigh introduced the following newly ap­
pointed missionaries o f the W om an’s Society, several o f whom
addressed the Societies briefly regarding their call to missionary
service :
Miss Helen H . Clark.
Miss W . Pauline Harris.
Miss Fannie J. Holman.
Miss Marian H . Reifsneider.
A dedication prayer was offered by Rev. Carter Helm Jones and
by Mrs. Nathan R. W ood.
The Societies adjourned at 10.10 p. m., to reconvene at 11.45
a. m., on May 26.
S a tu rd a y
M o r n in g ,
M ay 26
The Society reconvened at 11.45 a. m.
The meeting was called to order by President W . S. Abernethy.
Rev. G. W . Cassidy, Chairman o f the Nominating Committee
o f the Northern Baptist Convention, which was also the Nominat­
ing Committee o f the Society, presented the following nomina­
tions :
A M E R I C A N B A P T I S T F O R E IG N M I S S I O N S O C I E T Y
O f f ic e r s
President, Fred T . Field, Massachusetts.
First Vice-president, Rev. Joshua Gravett, Colorado.
Second Vice-president, M rs. C. D. Eulette, Illinois.
Recording Secretary, W illiam B. Lipphard, New York.
Treasurer, George B. Huntington, New York.
A N N U A L MEETING
269
B oard of M a n a g e r s
Term Expiring 1926
Rev. W . S. Abernethy, District of Columbia.
Rev. A . C. Baldwin, Pennsylvania.
Henry Bond, Vermont.
President G. A . Hagstrom, Minnesota.
G. Ellsworth Huggins, New York.
President E. W . Hunt, Pennsylvania.
O. R. Judd, New York.
T . Otto, New York.
Rev. Carey J. Pope, Nebraska.
Term expiring 1924 to fill vacancy
Rev. Thomas H . Stacy, New Hampshire.
On motion of Secretary William B. Lipphard it was
V oted : That the tellers appointed by the Northern Baptist Convention be
appointed also as tellers of the Society.
The tellers distributed the ballots.
On motion of G. W . Cassiday it was
V oted : That the Secretary be authorized to cast a ballot for the persons
nominated on behalf of the Society.
The secretary cast the ballot.
Upon statement that the secretary had cast the ballot, the
chairman declared that the persons nominated had been duly
elected to their respective positions as officers o f the Society and
as members of the Board o f Managers.
Mr. Shozo Hashimoto, of Japan, presented the following com­
munication in Japanese, which was interpreted by E. B. Cross,
from the Baptists of Japan with regard to their forthcoming
anniversary:
To the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society:
A s we celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the opening of Baptist work
in our land, we Japanese Baptists wish to express our heartfelt gratitude
to our brothers and sisters in America.
W e recognize that we are what we are today through the grace of God
and as a result of the immense financial resources and the large number
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o f messengers of Christ which, accompanied by prayer, you have sent out
in our behalf.
W e face the future determined to requite your good will by an everincreasing, whole-hearted endeavor to extend Christ’s kingdom.
M ost earnestly do we pray that God’s richest blessing may abide upon you,
our brothers and sisters, and upon your activities in kingdom building.
In behalf o f the Japan Baptist Convention,
(Signed)
Y uguro C h i b a .
Tokyo, Japan, April 20, 1923.
Rev. Carter Helm Jones made a statement regarding the perse­
cution o f Baptists in Roumania, and called attention to the action
taken by the Southern Baptist Convention. On his recommenda­
tion it was
V oted : That the Board o f Managers be instructed to take such action
concerning the persecution of Baptists in Roumania and restrictions to re­
ligious liberty as may seem advisable
The Society adjourned at 12.20 p. m.
W illia m
B.
L ip p h a r d ,
Recording Secretary.
INDEX
A
PAGE
Abernethy, W. S ........................................ 33
Abraham, P ................................................. 135
Academ ies:
M unroe ................................................... 163
W ayland ................................................. 147
Agricultural Work .............................40, 107
All-Baptist Conference in Japan . . . . 170
Andru, H ., Death of ............................ 64
Anet, H enry ............................................. 179
Annuity Agreements ............................ 89
Ashmore, Mrs. William, Death of . . 64
Assam Mission, The ............................ 110
Axling, W illia m ....................................... 59
B
Bailey, J . R .............................................. 1 13
Bain, A. L., Death of .................... 64, 178
Baker, B. L ............................................... 160
Balasore ................................................... 118
Bank Borrowings .................................. 84
Banza Manteke ....................................... 179
Baptist World Alliance ........................ 22
Barnes, Miss E. E .................................... 123
Bau, T. C ................................................... 38
Belgian Congo, New Interests of the
Belgian Government in ............... 54
Belgian Congo Mission, The ........... 177
Increase in the Missionary S ta ff.. 55
Benander, C. E ......................................... 21
Bengal-Orissa Mission, The ............... 1 17
Bent, Miss Ju lia E .................................. 133
Bhimpore ............................................1 2 0 ,1 2 1
Board Meetings, Special ...................... 69
Board of M anagers ............................. 11,6 8
Boggess, Wheeler ...............................44, 131
Bowers, A. C............................................. 1 1 1
Broady, K . O., Death o f ...................... 184
Brock, G. H ..........................................13 0 ,14 0
Brouillette, 0 ............................................. 25
Browne, Z. D ........................................... 125
Brunner, Miss Genevra ...................... 133
Burger, W. H ., Death of ................... 65
Burma Reform Scheme of Govern­
ment ................................................... 97
Burm a Mission, The ............................ 9 7
Lines of Growth ................................ 99
Rise of the Non-Burmans, The . . 100
Buzzell, Miss Annie S .......................... 168
By-laws ......................................................
7
C
page
Called to H igher Service ...................
64
Candidate Department .......................60,61
Capiz ............................................ 17 2 ,17 4 ,17 6
Case, B. C..............................................40, 107
Caste Man, Winning the ................... 130
Central Philippine College ..............42, 173
Chamberlin, Carey W...........................48, 50
Chengtu ...................................................... 163
China:
Baptist Council, The ........................ 49
Disastrous Storms in ................... 5 1, 158
Famine in ............................................. 141
Inter-Mission Committee, The . . . 49
National Christian Conference . .48, 144
Political Situation in ................ 1 4 1 ,1 5 4
Christian Influence, The Growth of . 145
Church Building, Progress in ........... 167
Clark, Joseph ........................................... 179
Coeducation .................................42, 107, 149
Colleges:
Central Philippine
................... 42, 173
Judson ....................................... 38, 39, 107
Madras Christian .............................. 136
Shanghai ................................... 4 1,4 6 ,14 9
U niversity of Nanking ................... 153
Vellore Medical, for Women . . . . 13g
Waseda U niversity ............................ 168
W est China Union U niversity . . . 163
Community Centers as Beacon Lights 146
Contagion of Character, The ............. 108
Contai
................................................. 122
Cope, J . H ................................................. 105
Cressey, E . H ............................................ 147
Cronkite, Miss Ethel M ......................... 118
Cross, B. P. .'........................................... 58
Cross, E. B., Resignation o f ............. 70
Crozier, G. G ............................................ 115
Cummings, S. W ...................................... 33
D
Daniels, Miss Ruth ................................ 124
Davis, W. S ............................................. 130
Decker, J . W .........................................152, 153
Deficit, How Reduced .......................... 83
Denmark ................................................... 185
Deputation Service of Missionaries
and Members of the Board . . . .
7'
Doe, Miss Gladys E ................................ ’ 1 '
271
272
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PAGE
Donakonda .................................................
Dowling, Miss M arie A ...........................
Downie, David ..................................... 44,
Droz, Miss Leila B ....................................
Dussman, Mrs. A nna M. Linker,
Death o f ..............................................
Dyer, V . W ...................................................
137
148
58
148
65
102
E
East China Mission, The .................... 141
Eastman, Miss H arriett N ...................... 58
Educational W ork:
Factor in M issionary A ctivity, A.
38, 105, 156
In Assam ............................................. 1 13
In Burm a
..........................
In E a st China ............................... 146, 152
In the Philippine Islands ............... 172
In South India ............................. 136, 137
In W est C h in a ..................................... 163
Eller, Lloyd ............................................. 125
Erickson, H enry ..................................... 179
Esthonia .................................................... 184
Evangelism :
In Schools ................... 46, 106, 136, 163
Prim al Work, T h e .............................. 129
Record Y ea r in, A ............................... 43
Evangelistic Emphasis, T h e .................... 46
Evangelistic W ork:
In Assam ................................ 44, 110 , 112
In Burma ..........................................43, 103
In China ........................ 46, 150, 156, 164
In Japan .................................................. 45
In the Philippine Islands ................. 174
Preaching Tours in Europe .............. 32
In South India ......................44, 129, 13 1
Europe:
Baptist Progress in ............................. 20
Evangelistic Preaching Tours in . . 32
R elief W ork in ...........................24, 25, 28
Synopses of Reports from . . . . . . . 184
F
Fam ine:
In China ................................................. 14 1
In Russia ............................................25, 26
F a r East, T he:
Political Situation in ..........................
19
Special Commission to, A ...............
49
Fay, Donald ...................................
Fielder, C. G............................................. 1 1 1
F ifty Years o f M issionary Service . . 57
Financial and Budget Policy ................ 93
Financial Campaign, The ...................... 77
Financial Review o f the Y ea r ........... 81
Financing Work on the Field, Method
o f ........................................................... 91
PAGE
Foote, J . A ................................................ 53
France, Conditions i n ............................ 31
Franklin, J . H ................................. 22, 48, 50
Frederickson, P .........................
60
Freywald, K arl, Death of .................... 68
Frost, H. 1................................................. 116
Fukuin M aru, The ............................. 53, 169
Future
Denominational
Program,
Committee on ................................
78
G
Geil, J . E ................................................... 180
General Board o f Promotion, The . . 76
Field A ctivities....................................
77
General Representatives ...................... 12
105
Gieselbusch, Gustave, Death o f
68
Goalpara .......................................... . . . . i n
Goddard, F. W. ................................... 152
Government Grants-in-Aid .................
56
Governmental Recognition of Mis­
sionary Service .............................. 60
Gowen, Miss Sarah B. . . . » ............... 120
Gustafson, David .......................
148
H
Hackett, Paul .......................................... 104
Hagquist, Miss A nna M......................... 183
Hangchow .................................................. 147
Hanson, O. L ................................................. 104
Harding, F . W. ..................................... 112
Harper, Robert ..................................... bo, 98
H arris, E. N ............................................... 104
H artley, M. R ........................................... 119
H arvest, The Y ear's, in South India 129
H attersley, L. W ...................................... 106
H ealth of Missionaries ........................ 62
H ill, Thomas ; ......................................... 180
Hinton, H. E ............................................. 106
Holtom, D. C............................................. 59
Home Expenditures, Savings in . . . . 88
Homes fo r Missionaries and Mission­
aries’ Children ................................ 75
Hospitals:
Clough Memorial ................................ 139
Emanuel ................................................ 176
Huchow ................................................. 152
Iloilo Union Mission ........................ 175
Kinhwa ................................................. 152
Ningpo .................................................... 152
164Shaohsing ..................................
152
Yangtzepoo ........................................... 152
Hovey Memorial Dormitory ............... 168
Howard, J . A ............................................. 122
Howard, R . L .........................
105
H u c h o w .........................
14 7 ,15 2
Hutton, W. R.
hi
Hylbert, L . C ............................................. 149
IN DEX
I
PAGE
Iloilo .................................................... 17 4 ,17 5
Impur ......................................................... 114
Inclia, Political Conditions i n ............. 17
Indigenous Christianity, Developing
an .................................................... 34, I3S
Industrial Schools:
B h im p o re ............................................... 12 1
Jaro .................................................... 43, 173
Jorhat .................................................... 114
J
Jameson, Melvin, Death of ............... 65
Jamshedpur ............. ■......... ..................... 125
Japan:
National Christian Conference . . . . 48
Political S itu a tio n .............................. 166
Japan Mission, T h e ................................ 166
All-Baptist Conference ................... 170
Joint Committee, The ..................... 167
Jaro Industrial School ..................43, 173
Jellasore .................................................... 123
Joint Magazine, T h e .............................. 74
Jones, Carter Helm .............................. 32
Jorhat Christian Schools ..................... 114
Judson College .............................3 8 ,3 9 ,10 7
K
Kaisar-i-Hind Medal ............................
Kampfer, G. R ...........................................
Kamrup District ....................................
Kandukur ................................................
Kanigiri .....................................................
Kelly, E. W., Death of ........................
Kimpese ...................................................
King, Judson C .........................................
Kinhwa ........................................144, 148,
K lein, C. L .................................................
Kohima ......................................................
Ko Tha Byu Memorial
...............
Kurnool ................................................45,
60
in
m
135
140
65
180
180
152
102
114
102
134
L
Lahus, W ork Among .......................... 100
Latourette, K . S ....................................... 48
Latvia ........................................................ 185
Laughton, J . F . .................................53, 169
Legacies ...................................................
72
Lemon, Miss Annie M ., Death of . . 66
Leopoldville ............................................. 181
Leslie, W. H ............................................. 18 1
Lewis, Mrs. C. G., Death o f . . . . . . .
66
Lewis, W . 0 .......................................26, 27, 34
Lipphard, W . B ......................
22, 74
L iterary Contributions of Mission­
aries ................
59, 104, 116
Literature ................................................. 72
Lithuania ...........................
187
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Long, II. C............................................... 124
Longwell, R.B ., Special Service of 62
M
Madras Christian College ...................
Manley, F . P .............................................
Marsh, A . V ..............................................
Marshall, H. 1............................................
Mason, M. C.............................................
Matadi .......................................................
McCurdy, S. R ........................................
McGuire, J o h n .........................................
Medical Service Department .............
Medical W ork:
In Assam .............................................
In East China ....................................
In the Philippine Islands ..................
In South I n d i a ....................................
In West China . . . ' . ............................
M id n ap o re.................................................
Mission Accounts ..................................
Mission Treasurers ................................
M issionaries:
Deputation Service of .....................
Health of .............................................
Literary Contributions of. .59, 104,
New .......................................................
M issionary as an Agriculturalist, The
Missionary Service:
F ifty Years of ..................................
Governmental Recognition of . . . .
“ Missions ” .............................................
Mohapatra, N. G......................................
Moody, Thomas ....................................
Morioka .....................................................
Morse, W. R .............................................
Mukimvika ................................ .............
Munroe Academy ..................................
Murphy, H. R.
..............................
136
131
182
59
116
179
103
104
63
115
15 1
175
139
163
124
90
90
71
62
116
61
40
57
60
74
122
180
168
164
1 79
163
120
N
Nalgonda ..............................................44. 134
Nanking, U niversity o f ........................ 153
Nasmith, A . I.
.............................. 150
National Christian Conferences in
China and Japan . . . . .............48, 144
Native Leadership:
In the F ar East , ...................... 37» *44
In the Indian Missions, 35, 10 1, 117 , 128
Negros, Occidental .............................
*75
Nichols, C. A.
................
102
Ningpo ........................... :
^48» 152
Ningyuan Station, T ran sfer of ----- 52
North Lakhimpur .................................. 112
Norway ..................................................... 1 84
Nowgong .................
111
Ntondo ............
j 82
Nugent, W . H ..................................... • * • 181
274
A M E R IC A N BAPTIST FOREIGN M ISSION SOCIETY
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PAGE
Officers .......................
ii
Openshaw, H . J ......................................... 164
Oriental Students in A m e r ic a
42
Osaka .......................................................... 168
P
Parrott, Miss Ju lia ................................ 103
Persecution :
Evangelistic P r o g r e s s Notwith­
standing ............................................. 54
In Belgian Congo .............................. 179
Peters, Claus, Death o f ........................ 68
Philippine Islands Mission, The . . . . 172
Phinney, F . D., Death of ...................
66
Podili .......................................................... 138
Poland ........................................................ 186
Policy o f the Society, A Review of
the ............... . .................................... 56
Political Conditions:
In C h in a ....................................19, 14 1, 154
In India .............................................. 17, 97
In Japan ..........................................19, 166
Preaching the Gospel ............................ 103
Preface ......................................................
5
Property, Additions to ........................ 50
Prophet Movement in A f r i c a ............. 177
Publicity ..................................................
73
Pyinmana .............................................. 40, 107
R
Ramapatnam ............................................ 136
Receipts for the Y ea r Analyzed . . . . 86
Record Y ea r in Evangelism, A
43
Reduced Expenditures on the Foreign
Field .................................................. 87
Effect on W ork. .87, 139, 143, 157, 169
Effect on W ork fo r Women and
Children ................................. 15 7 ,16 9
Relief W ork:
In Europe ........................................... 24
Financial Support of .................... 28
In Russia ..................................... 2 5 ,2 6 ,2 7
In South China ................................... 160
Noteworthy Achievement in, A . . 25
Rivenburg, S. W ....................................... 114
Rose, M rs. M ary M., Death of . . . .
67
Rushbrooke, J . H ..................................... 29
V isit to A m e r ic a ................................. 30
Russia:
Developments in .............................. 23
Famine in ............................................25, 26
R elief W ork in .........................2 5 ,2 6 ,2 7
S
Sadiya ........................................................ 112
Salquist, Mrs. A nna ............................ 163
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San Ba ...................................................... 101
Santals, Progress among the ............. 120
Savings in Home E x p e n d itu re s
* 88
Scott Hall .....................
168
Secretarial Staff
............................
70
Selander, J o h n ......................................... 1 1 2
Self-support, Progress in:
In Assam ................................................ 36
In Bengal-Orissa .........................
37
In Burma ..........................................36, 102
In South India ...................... 36, 133, 140
In Other Fields ........................... .3 7 , 1 5 1
Shanghai Baptist College ......... 4 1,4 6 , 149
Shaohsing
................................... 14 8 ,15 2
Shiogama .................................................... 167
Slater, Miss Sarah R., Death of . . . 67
Sollman, Miss M elvina ........................ 160
Sona B a t a ......................................
180
South China Mission, The ................. 154
South India Mission, T h e ............... 128
So wards, E. E ...................................... 105
Special G i f t s ........................................
74
Spiritual Emphasis, The ........................ 79
State Promotion D irectors................
12
Station Plan, Developments in . . . . 73
Stenger, J . W ........................................ 139
Stephen, A. E ........................................ i n
Students Favorable to C hristian ity.. 155
Suifu .......................................................... 165
Swanson, O. L ...................................... n o
Sweden ...................................................... 184
Seventy-fifth A nniversary of Bap­
tists in ........................................... 21
T
T aylor, Frederick E ............................ 32
Theological Seminaries:
In Denmark ....................................... 186
In Esthonia ......................................... 185
In Latvia ............................................. 185
In Norway ........................................... 184
In Ramapatnam .................................. 136
In Sweden
..................................... 184
Tilbe, H. H.
..................................... 104
Tinghai ...................................................... 149
Tokyo ........................................................ 167
Tono
.................................................. 168
Trained Leadership, Need for ........... 162
Translation ......................................
ii6
Treasurer, Report of ............................ 189
Tshumbiri ................................................. 182
Tura ..................................................... 1 1 3 , 1 15
Typhoon and Tidal W ave . . . . . . . . . . 158
U
Unruh, Cornelius ............................... 4 4 ,13 4
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V
PAGE
Vanga ........................................................ 18 1
Vellore Medicai College, fo r Women. 139
Villages, The Gospel in the ............... 130
W
W aseda U niversity .............................. 168
W ayland Academy .............................. 147
West China Mission, The ................. 162
West China Union U niversity ......... 163
Wiens, Franz, Death of .....................
68
W itter, T . V ........................................1 3 1 , 1 3 8
W itter, W. E ............................................. 116
275
PAGE
Woman’s Society, Financial Relations
with ................................................... 85
Women and Children:
Gospel among the Hindu, The . . . 132
Affected by Reduced Expenditures
157, 169
Woodburne, A . S ..................................... 136
World Situation, T h e ............................ 15
Y
Yachow ...................................................... 165
Yangtzepoo ............................................... 152
Young, W. M.............................................. 100