American Baptist Foreign Mission Society 1932

ONE-HUNDRED-EIGHTEENTH A N N U AL REPORT

Presented by the Board o f Managers at the Annual Meeting held in San Francisco, California, July 12-17,1932

Foreign Mission Headquarters 152 Madison Avenue New York Printed by THE JUDSON PRESS 1 701-1703 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, Pa. CONTENTS

PAGE O F F IC E R S ...... 5 GENERAL AGENT, STATE PROMOTION DIRECTORS 6 B Y -L A W S ...... 7-9 P R E F A C E ...... 11 GENERAL REVIEW OF THE Y E A R ...... 13-62 I ntroduction ...... 15 T h e W orld S it u a tio n ...... 15 H istory R epeats I tself ...... 18 T h e I n exorable P ressure of t h e W orld D epression ...... 19 T h e C onference on D is a r m a m e n t ...... 20 A M essage on t h e J a p a n -C h i n a C r i s i s ...... 22 W a r D evastation a t S h a n g h a i ...... 23 A G rave Cr isis for t h e U n iversity of S h a n g h a i ...... 23 F lood R elief in C h i n a ...... 25 I nterpreting t h e C h r is t ia n C risis i n C h i n a ...... 26 T h e K ingdom of God M ovem ent in J a p a n ...... 27 T h e V is it of K a g a w a to t h e U nited S t a t e s ...... 27 N ew B a p t is t H eadquarters in T o k y o ...... 28 T h e I n d ia a n d B u r m a R ound T able C onferences ...... 29 T h e N e w J udson C ollege C h a p e l ...... 30 C l e a n sin g t h e L eper ...... 30 T h e P r im a r y T a s k S til l P r im a r y ...... 31 T h e E vangelistic O utlook in I n d ia ...... 34 T h e B u r m a S tu den t G ospel T e a m T ours I ndia ...... 35 A N ew C h u r c h in So u t h C h i n a ...... 36 R o m a n C at h o l ic A ggressions in B elgian C ongo ...... 36 A n U n f a ir A d v a n t a g e ...... 38 A B ap t ist P residential T our ...... 39 P l a n s for t h e B a p t is t W orld A l l i a n c e ...... 40 T h e L a y m e n ’s F oreign M is sio n s I n q u i r y ...... 41 T h e L a y m e n ' s F oreign M issio n s I n q u ir y in B u r m a ...... 42 A P resbyterian T ribute to B a p t is t M is sio n s ...... 43 S w e d ish M issio n F ield in A s s a m ...... 44 T h e B oard of M anagers ...... 44 S ecretarial S ta f f ...... 46 L ibrary S ervice of M issionaries an d O fficers ...... 47 L iterature a n d P u b l i c i t y ...... 47 T h e B oard of M is sio n a r y Cooperation ...... 48 T h e M a in t e n a n c e M o v e m e n t ...... 49 D e pu tatio n S ervice of M issionaries -...... 49 T h e E nd of L ife’s Jo u r n e y ...... 50 4 CONTENTS

PAGE T h e H o m e M is sio n C e n t e n a r y ...... 56 25t h A n n iversary of t h e L a y m e n ’ s M is s io n a r y M o v e m e n t 57 T h e M edical S ervice D epa r tm e n t ...... 58 T h e S tu d en t V olunteer M ovem en t Q u a d r e n n ia l C o n v e n t io n . . 58 N ew M issionaries ...... 60 T h e C an d id ate D epa r tm e n t ...... 61 T r a in in g C onference for N e w M issionaries ...... 61 H om es for M issionaries ’ C hildren ...... 62 T h e C all of God T hrough t h e D e p r e s s io n ...... 62

SUMMARY OF REPORTS FROM THE MISSIONS ...... 64-147 T h e B u r m a M i s s i o n ...... 65 T h e A s s a m M issio n ...... 81 T h e S outh I n d ia M issio n ...... 93 T h e B engal-O r issa M issio n ...... 105 T h e E a st C h in a M i s s i o n ...... 108 T h e S ou th C h in a M is sio n ...... 116 T h e W est Ch i n a M issio n ...... 120 T h e J a p a n M issio n ...... 128 T h e P h il ip p in e I slands M issio n ...... 135 B elgian C ongo M issio n ...... 137 T h e N ew P l a n in E urope A fter T en Y ears ...... 143

FINANCIAL REVIEW OF THE YEAR ...... 149-156 S u m m a r y of R evenue a n d D e ficien cy of I nco m e A c c o u n t s 149 R eceipts for t h e Y e a r ...... 149 A ppropriations a n d E xpenditures ...... 151 S avings i n E x c h a n g e ...... 152 H o m e E xpenditures ...... 152 F oreign F ield A ppropriations ...... 152 S pecifics ...... 153 J udson F u n d ...... 153 L egacies a n d M atured A n n u it ie s ...... 153 P e r m a n e n t F u nds ...... 154 D esignated T em porary F u n d s ...... 155 B udget for 1932-1933 ...... 155

REPORT OF THE TREASURER ...... 157-232 R eport of t h e A uditors ...... 158 D eficien cy of In c o m e A ccount ...... 159 S u m m a r y of R evenue ...... 160 B a l a n c e S h eet ...... 162 A ppropriations ...... 164 E xpenditures ...... 184 I n v e st m e n ts ...... 202 J udson F u n d ...... 230

MISCELLANEOUS ...... 233-267 F ields a n d Sta t io n s w it h M issionaries in E a c h ...... 235 S t a t is t ic a l T ables ...... 248 M in u t e s of t h e 118t h A n n u a l M eeting ...... 269 I ndex ...... 275 OFFICERS

PRESIDENT SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT JO H N SN A P E , D. D. E. C. LA N E California Massachusetts FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT RECORDING SECRETARY W. C. COLEMAN WILLIAM B. LIPPHARD Kansas New York T R E A SU R E R GEORGE B. HUNTINGTON New York

HOME SECRETARY FOREIGN SECRETARY P. H. J. LERRIGO, M. D., D. D. JAMES H. FRANKLIN, D. D.. LL. D.

ASSOCIATE SECRETARY FOREIGN SECRETARY WILLIAM B. LIPPHARD JOSEPH C. ROBBINS, D. D. ASSOCIATE SECRETARY ASSOCIATE SECRETARY RAND O LPH L. HOW ARD, D. D. OLIVER H. SISSON ASSOCIATE SECRETARY ASSOCIATE TREASURER PAUL E. ALDEN FORREST SMITH FIELD SECRETARY ASSISTANT SECRETARY A. W. RIDER, D. D. HERBERT F. CAWTHORNE BUDGET SECRETARY GEO RGE B. HUNTINGTON

BOARD OF MANAGERS

Chairman, H e r b e r t J . W h i t e , D. D. Vice-Chairman, A. L . M i l l e k Recording Secretary, W i l l i a m B. L i t p h a r d

J o h n S n a p e , D. D., President of the Society, Los Angeles, Calif.

CLASS I. TERM EXPIRES 1933 F. L. Anderson, D.D., Newton Ctr., Mass. D. B. MacQueen, D. D., Rochester, N. Y. J. W. Brougher, D.D., L.L.D., Boston, Mass. A. L. Miller, Ph. D., Boston, Mass. Milo C. Burt, Ph. D., Stratford, Conn. Rev. E. B. Price, Fitchburg, Mass. A. W. Jefferson, D. D.t Lynn, Mass. Frederick S. Robinson, New York, N. Y. H. J. White, D. D., Philadelphia, Pa.

CLASS II. TERM EXPIRES 1934 C. S. Aldrich, Troy, N. Y. E. V. Pierce, D. D., Minneapolis, Minn. J. W. Bradbury, D. D., New York, N. Y. H. B. Robins, Ph. D., Rochester, N. Y. Bernard C. Clausen, D. D., Syracuse, N. Y. T. R. St. John, New York, N. Y. J. W. Glenn, Buffalo. N. Y. W. T. Sheppard, Lowell, Mass. M. J. Twomey, D. D., Philadelphia, Pa.

CLASS III. TERM EXPIRES 193S W. S. Abernethy, D. D., Washington, D. C. E. W. Hunt, D. D., LL. D., Lewisburg, Pa. A. C. Baldwin, D. D., Philadelphia, Pa. O. R. Judd, Brooklyn, N. Y. W. G. Everson, D. D., Denver, Colo. C. T. Lincoln, New Haven, Conn. G. A. Hagstrom, D. D., St. Paul, Minn. Rev. C. L., Seasholes, Dayton, Ohio H. W. Virgin, D. D., Chicago, 111. GENERAL AGENT

The Board o f Missionary Cooperation of the Northern Baptist Convention, 152 Madison Ave., New York City. W. H. Bowler, D. D.t Executive Secretary.

STATE PROMOTION DIRECTORS

Arizona—Rev. F. W. Starring, 808 Professional Building, Phoenix. California, N.— C. W. Brinstad, D. D., 228 McAllister St., Room 20 1, San Francisco. California, S.— Rev. Walter E. Woodbury, 501 Columbia Building, Los Angeles. Colorado— F. B. Palmer, D. D., 6 11 Colorado Building, Denver. Connecticut— Rev. H. B. Sloat, 455 Main St., Hartford. Delaware— Mr. Everett E. Borton, 818 Delaware Trust Building, Wilmington. District of Columbia— H. W. O. Millington, D. D., 715 Eighth St., N. W., Washington. Idaho— W. A. Shanks, D. D., 409 Carlson Building, Pocatello. Illinois—A. E. Peterson, D. D., 203 N. Wabash Ave., Chicago. Indiana— Rev. T. J. Parsons, 1729 N. Illinois St., Indianapolis. Iowa— Rev. Frank Anderson, 514 Hubbell Building, Des Moines. Kansas—J. T. Crawford, D. D., 918 Kansas Ave., Topeka. Maine—Rev. J. S. Pendleton, 3 11-3 13 Sayings Bank Building, Waterville. Massachusetts— Rev. Isaac Higginbotham, 508 Ford Building, Boston. Michigan— Rev. R. T. Andem, 472 Hollister Building, Lansing. Minnesota— Rev. E. H. Rasmussen, Room 708, National Building, 529 2nd Ave., So. Minneapolis. Missouri— M. D. Eubank, M. D. (Acting), 110 7 McGee St., Kansas City. Montana— (See Idaho). Nebraska—H. Q. Morton, D. D., 1222 Farnam St., Omaha. Nevada— Rev. Roy H. Barrett, P. O. Box 743, Reno. New Hampshire— D. S. Jenks, D. D., 922 Elm St., Manchester. New Jersey— C. E. Goodall, D. D., 158 Washington St., Newark. New York— Rev. F. N. Darling, 433 S. Salina St., Syracuse. Metropolitan Board of Missionary Cooperation— C. H. Sears, D. D., Rev. E. C. Kunkle, 152 Madison Ave., New York. North Dakota— F. E. Stockton, D. D., 62 Broadway, Fargo. Ohio— Rev. E. R. Fitch, Granville. Oregon— O. C. Wright, D. D.t 505 Odd Fellows Building, Portland. Pennsylvania— *Wm. G. Russell, D. D., 1701 Chestnut St., Philadelphia. Rhode Island— Rev. William Reid, 304 Lauderdale Building, Providence. South Dakota— Rev. John L. Barton, 408 Citizens’ National Bank Building, Sioux Falls. Utah— (See Idaho). Vermont— Rev. Paul Judson Morris, Burlington. Washington—J. F. Watson, D. D., 927 Joseph Vance Building, 3rd and Union Sts., Seattle. West Virginia— Rev. A. S. Kelley, 213*4 Fourth St., Parkersburg. Wisconsin—A. Le Grand, D. D., 1717 Wells St., Milwaukee. Wyoming— (See Colorado). * Deceased, June 29, 1932. BY-LAWS

As Adopted at Annual Meeting, 1910, and Subsequently Amended AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

P r e a m b l e This corporation, organized and existing tinder the laws of the states o f Pennsyl­ vania, Massachusetts and New York, for the purpose of diffusing the knowledge of the religion of Jesus Christ by means o f missions throughout the world, has, pursuant to the power bestowed on it by the several states of Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and New York, adopted the following by-laws:

ARTICLE I

M e m b e r s h i p

S e c t i o n i . The membership of the Society shall be composed as follows: (it) O f all persons who are now life members or honorary life members. (b) Of annual members appointed by Baptist churches. Any church may appoint one delegate, and one additional delegate for every 100 members, but no church shall be entitled to appoint more than ten delegates. (c) Of all missionaries of the Society during their terms o f service. (d) Of all accredited delegates to each annual meeting of the Northern BaptistCon­ vention. (e) Of 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.

ARTICLE II

O f f i c e r s

S e c t i o n i . The officers of 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, the 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 of 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.

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 ec. 5, Each officer elected at the annual meeting shall serve from the dose of the annual meeting at which he is elected, to.the close of the next annual meeting, and until his successor is elected. ARTICLE III

B o a r d o f M a n a g e r s

S e c t i o n i . The Board of Managers shall consist of the President of the Society and twenty-seven persons elected by ballot at an annual meeting. At the meeting at which these by-laws shall be adopted, one-third of the managers shall be elected for 7 8 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SECIETY 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. As many more shall be elected also, as shall be neces­ sary to fill any vacancies in unexpired terms. S ec. 2. The Board of Managers shall meet at the principal office of the Society to organize as soon as practicable after the annual meeting.

S e c . 3. The Board of Managers 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 lhore 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 Act 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 o f the Society; to establish such agencies and to appoint and remove such agents and missionaries as to it may seem proper by a three-fifths vote o f all members present and voting at the meeting when said vote is taken; it being understood, however, that in case of missionaries o f the Society, an absolute majority of the Board shall be necessary for suspension and a two- thirds majority of the whole Board for dismissal; to fix the compensation of officers, agents and missionaries; to direct and instruct them concerning their respective duties; to make all appropriations of 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 of the proceedings of the Society and of 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.

ARTICLE IV

E l i g i b i l i t y t o A p p o i n t m e n t All officers, all members of the Board o f Managers and all missionaries must be members of Baptist churches. ARTICLE V

A n n u a l a n d O t h e r M e e t i n g s The Society shall meet annually on the third Wednesday in May, unless for some special reason another time shall be fixed by the Board of Managers 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 o f the Board o f Managers.

ARTICLE VI

R e l a t i o n s w i t h N o r t h e r n C o n v e n t i o n

S e c t i o n i . With a view to unification in general denominational matters, the Northern Baptist Convention at each election may present nominations for officers and for the Board of Managers. S e c . 2. The persons elected each year as the Committee on Nominations of the Northern Baptist Convention, shall be for that year the Committee of this Society on Nominations for its officers and members of its Board of Managers to be then elected. S ec. 3. The Annual 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. fcV-LAW S 9

ARTICLE VII

B a l l o t s a n d V o t e s b y S t a t e s

S e c t io n i . On all ballots for officers and for members of the Board of Managers there shall be reserved a space after the name o f the nominee for each office, and after the names of the nominees for the Board of Managers, in which spaces may be inserted the name or names of any other person or persons to be voted for, as the case may be,

S b c. 3. (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 of the delegates voting; and upon the report of 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. (b) On a vote by States, each State shall be entitled to as many votes as it has State Conventions and an additional vote for every ten thousand members of Baptist churches within each State Convention in affiliation with the Northern Baptist Convention. If in any State there be no State Convention in affiliation with the Northern Baptist Convention, but there be in such twenty-five Baptist churches which contribute money for said Society, said State shall be entitled to one vote and an additional vote for every ten thousand members of such contributing churches. (c) The vote of each delegation from a State shall be determined by the majority of 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 of the number of votes to which each State shall be entitled, pre­ pared by the Statistical Secretary of the Convention and approved by the Executive Committee thereof, shall be authoritative for this Society.

ARTICLE VIII

A m e n d m e n t s These by-laws may be amended by a two-thirds vote o f the members present and voting at any annual meeting of 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 i n g P r o c e d u r e i n a V o t e b y S t a t e s 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 froln the territory of each StateConvention to meet in their designated places on the floor of 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 of the Society, that the delegates from the territory of 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 of the Society, but amotion to close the debate shall be in order at any time. When the vote by States has been reported, recorded, and announced, the motion tc concur, provided for in the by-laws, shall follow immediately without the intervention of any other business and without discussion.

PREFACE

TN the early part of the nineteenth century the position o f Baptists in America was1 not one of great prominence. With little organiza­ tion, they were widely scattered and without facilities for easy communica­ tion 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 of letters from Dr. William Carey, which appeared from time to time * in the Massachusetts Baptist Missionary Magasine. When early in 1812 a com­ pany of five young men was set apart for service in foreign lands, and sailed from our shores, a deep impression was made upon Baptists, although the volunteers were of another denomination. 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 of baptism and wrote a letter which was re­ ceived in Boston, January 19, 1813, in which he said: “ 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 of the young men, having experienced a like change in belief, turned to America to plead the cause of missions among the Baptists, the direct result of his efforts being the organization at Philadelphia, May 21, 1814, of “ The General Missionary Convention of the Baptist Denomination in the United States o f America for Foreign Missions,” popularly known as the Triennial Convention. The delegates assembled on May 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 Baptists in this coun­ try. In 1845 the Southern Baptists withdrew because o f a difference of 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 Mission Society. The headquarters were established at Boston, Mass., in 1826, and in 1920 were removed to New York. At the annual meeting in 1908, the Society became a cooperating society of the Northern Baptist Convention.

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GENERAL REVIEW OF THE YEAR 1931-1932

GENERAL REVIEW OF THE YEAR 1931-1932

HE American Baptist Foreign Mission Society in its corporate form is the organized expression of the mis­ sionary-mindedness of Northern Baptists. For one hun­ dred and eighteen years the Society has been discharging a mandate from the denomination. Through the service of its missionaries it has sought earnestly to bring to the non-Christian world a positive, vitalizing, recreative faith in Christ, to share with others the abundant life for which he came, and to estab­ lish everywhere the kingdom of God on earth. In presenting the One-hundred-eighteenth Annual Report, the Board of Man­ agers is again conscious of a trusteeship, of a solemn responsi­ bility to administer the affairs of this world-wide spiritual enter­ prise. It takes this occasion to express sincere appreciation of denominational confidence in its management, of service rendered so faithfully by its staff of missionaries, and of the generous and truly sacrificial support by its constituency in a year of unparal­ leled financial depression. Above all, the Board voices its grati­ tude to God for his unfailing presence and unerring guidance throughout the year.

The World Situation It is doubtful whether there has ever been a year in the history of the Society comparable to that which has just closed. War in the Far East, continued nationalistic agitation in India, Roman Catholic opposition in Africa, economic collapse in America— these summarize the major world developments which the Board has had to take into account as it directed the affairs of the Society. In other years, the missionary enterprise in the non- Christian world had only one outstanding problem, the reconcili­ ation of ever-expanding needs with never sufficient resources. Today every world issue—war and peace, nationalistic ambition, economic depression, religious liberty, to mention only a few— touches and conditions everywhere an enterprise that has as its

1 5 1 6 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY objective the acceptance of Christ, his way of life, and the estab­ lishment of his kingdom. The Far East has again been the scene of events that, devas­ tating and terrifying as they have been, might have had far more serious consequences. At the beginning of the year China was experiencing an ardently hoped for cessation of civil war and banditry, only to be stricken with a ruinous flood disaster that destroyed hundreds of villages, laid waste miles and miles of farm land, and drowned millions of men, women, and children. The ancient Psalmist’s metaphor here became a vivid reality. They were carried away as with a flood. Hardly had the land read­ justed itself to the effects of this disaster when the crisis with Japan violently shook the world out of its complacent belief that war had been abandoned as an instrument of national policy. For months the peace of the world was .threatened. Other nations with interests in the Far East observed with increasing anxiety Japan’s extension of power over Manchuria and her invasion of Shanghai. All the horrors of warfare, destruction of immense sections of a flourishing city, and appalling loss of non-combatant life reminded the world of the catastrophe of 1914. Another world war seemed imminent. TIow the work of the Society was affected here is reported elsewhere. The press of the world boldly commented on this crisis as evidence of failure on the part of the League of Nations to pre­ serve peace. Certain American papers congratulated America on not being a member of the League, although the American Gov­ ernment was represented when the relations between China and Japan were under review. Yet the League emerged out of the crisis with increased prestige. As this report goes to press, Japan is withdrawing all her military forces from Shanghai. In announcing this, the spokesman for the Japanese Government is reported to have said: “ The decision is due to the Japanese Gov­ ernment’s desire to conform to world opinion and to end the world-wide odium which has fallen upon us.” In that frank admission the world passed another milestone on the highway to international peace, and again paid tribute to the organized power of the peace idea. India likewise has lived through another year of unrest. During the early months attention was focused on the second Round

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Table Conference in London. Absent from the first Conference, held in the preceding- year, Mahatma Gandhi attended the second as a representative of the India National Congress. For months India waited in quiescent unrest, Britain planned with stately dignity, and the world looked on with sincere concern while this Conference sought with serious deliberation to solve the problem of India’s destiny and her future relations to the British Empire. The outcome of the Conference was not satisfactory to Mr. Gandhi’s followers. On his return to India he started another movement of non-violent, non-cooperation, and civil disobedience. Quiescent unrest came dangerously near to breaking out in open rebellion. To preserve order the British Government promptly arrested Mr. Gandhi and placed him in jail, together with all the principal leaders of his party and thousands of his followers. Throughout all this period of potential turmoil and of actual disorder, the work of the Society has gone steadily forward. South India reports one of the largest ingatherings into church- membership in the history of the Mission. It suggests that the missionary enterprise can make progress notwithstanding the diffi­ cult and delicate position in India in which missionaries from a foreign land so often find themselves today as they try sincerely to sympathize with the national aspirations of a people, and at the same time uphold the maintenance of law and order. That section of Africa known as Belgian Congo, where the Society is at work, has also experienced another year of unsettle­ ment. Here, as elsewhere, the effects of the world depression have been keenly felt. Closed copper mines and abandoned palm-oil plantations, in former years having given employment to thou­ sands of natives, now testify to the falling world demand for the products of Africa. Here also the aggressive activity of Jesuit missionaries has presented grave problems to Protestant mission­ aries and their Congo constituencies, which in coming years may require more powerful measures than dignified but apparently unheeded protests to the Belgian .Government. Religious liberty in Belgian Congo is neither fully established nor completely recognized. At home the hope cherished at the beginning of the year that forces of reconstruction and recovery were in the ascendency, arid that the year would witness a turning-point in the world 18 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

depression, proved to be illusory. Instead, the year as it unfolded brought a deepening of the depression, wide-spread financial dis­ tress, increased unemployment, reduced purchasing power, dire poverty, and the most drastic shrinkage in values that America has experienced in nearly a century. That the denomination in the face of this financial disaster should have responded so nobly and generously to the appeals of its missionary enterprise testifies silently yet eloquently that the cause of Christ is still a paramount interest in the hearts of Northern Baptists. Thousands of Baptist families have felt the blighting touch of this prolonged depression. Yet they have heroically cooperated to the best of their ability in the numerous relief and welfare efforts imperative at a time like this. Neither have they forgotten the missionaries of Jesus Christ who represent them in the far corners of the non-Christian world. For this evidence of affectionate concern the Board is profoundly grateful.

History Repeats Itself In the midst of such a world situation it is well to review history and recall that the world has experienced similar crises in other years. The following quotation will therefore be of interest. Because of its discriminating analysis of a world crisis comparable to that of today, it is incorporated in this report. It is a gloomy moment in history. Not for many years—not in the life­ time of most men who read this paper—has there been so much grave and deep apprehension; never has the future seemed so incalculable as at this time. In our own country there is universal commercial prostration and panic. Thousands of our poorest fellow citizens are turned out against the approaching winter without employment, and without the prospect of it. In France the political cauldron seethes and bubbles with uncertainty. Russia hangs, as usual, like a cloud, dark and silent, upon the horizon of Europe. All the energies, resources, and influences o f the British Empire are sorely tried, and are yet to be tried more sorely, in coping with the vast and deadly Indian insurrection, and with its disturbed relations in China. It is a solemn moment, and no man can feel an indifference (which, happily, no man pretends to feel) in the issue of events. Of our own troubles no man can see the end. They are fortunately, as yet, mainly commercial; and if we are only to lose money, and by painful poverty to be taught wisdom—the wisdom o f honor, of faith, of sympathy, and of charity—no man need seri­ ously to despair. And yet, the very haste to be rich, which is the occasion o f this wide-spread calamity, has also tended to destroy the moral forces with which we are to resist and subdue the calamity. GENERAL REVIEW OF THE YEAR 19

These are the things that make the profound interest of the moment, beside others whose roots are spreading underground, out of sight It is no time for idleness or trifling, for forgetfulness or selfishness. The com­ plexion of every country, and of the world, rests at last upon the character of individuals. If men are false and timid, affairs and the course of events are tainted by cowardice and falsehood. It is every man’s business, there­ fore, to keep his heart and his hands clean, to be brave, and hopeful, and very humble. Extravagance, vanity, the lust of luxury, are crimes in the men of today. At home we shall have direct appeals to our sympathy in the swarms of honest laborers for whom there is no work. Abroad, the appeal will be more indirect, in the extremity of a friend and ally. Let our conduct prove that the call comes to .men who have large hearts, however narrowed their homes may be; who have open hands, however empty their purses. In times of peril we have nothing to rely upon but manhood, strong in its faith in God. Whoever shows himself truly a God­ fearing man now, by helping wherever and however he can, will be as blessed and beloved as a great light in darkness.

This might have been written yesterday. It was actually written and published seventy-five years ago in Harpers Weekly, October 10, 1857. Certainly it is true today as it was then, that only God-fearing and God-believing men whose lives are centered in Christ can lead the world out of its present chaos of darkness into the radiant light of a new day.

The Inexorable Pressure of the World Depression The prolonged depression, now in its fourth year, has had a twofold effect upon the financial operations and the work of the Society. The world-wide extent of the depression has resulted in currency depreciation in the countries where the greatest part of the work of the Society is conducted. While prices of foodstuffs and other local products in these countries have fallen, the cost of imported goods, especially from America, has greatly increased because

This declining trend in receipts has compelled the Board of Managers to make drastic readjustments in the program of work and in expenditures on the foreign field as well as at home. Actual appropriations for the year 1931-1932 as revised were $50,000.00 less than the total appropriation for 1930-1931. Although it is very difficult to make reductions in expenditures on mission fields after the year has begun, the authorized budget was nevertheless underspent by approximately $30,000.00. Savings of more than $8,000.00 were effected in home expenditures through the holding of bimonthly instead of monthly meetings of the Board of Mana­ gers, through refunds of salary on the part of officers of the Society, failure to fill vacancies created in the office staff, and through similar measures of economy. Far more drastic methods had to be adopted in connection with appropriations for the year beginning May 1, 1932. These appropriations were reduced by $60,000.00 when the new budget was adopted in January and must now be reduced by at least $150,000.00 additional as a result of the actual outcome of the fiscal year. The Board has appointed a special committee to make a thorough study of a possible gen­ eral readjustment of the salaries of officers and missionaries. Meanwhile all of the officers are refunding approximately ten per cent, of their salaries. A general reduction in compensation of all employees at headquarters has been made and a general move­ ment initiated by the missionaries themselves for a refund equiva­ lent to a substantial reduction in salary has been encouraged by the Board. It will be necessary also to make readjustments in the missionary staff. Several missionaries on furlough who would normally return to their fields will be retained at home. A few are being released from the service of the Society. Other mis­ sionaries on the field are being asked to defer their furloughs. Serious reductions are being made in appropriations for the work of missionaries, institutions, and native agencies in all of the fields. Home expenditures will be still further reduced by approxi­ mately $10,000.00. Thus the world depression brings its relentless pressure to bear on the work of the Society.

The Conference on Disarmament The missionary enterprise is profoundly involved in the estab­ lishment of international relationships that are based on universal GENERAL REVIEW OF THE YEAR 21 justice, mutual confidence, and world-wide brotherhood. Among its high purposes is certainly that of following “ after the things that make for peace.” And disarmament is one of these. The Board has therefore viewed with serious concern the proceedings of the Disarmament Conference which convened at Geneva in February. In view of the huge, crushing financial burden of armament in this time of depression and in recognition of the serious menace of war, as events in Manchuria and Shanghai so ominously por­ tended, the Board joined with the Boards of other missionary societies in the United* States in submitting to the United States Government the following resolution, which was conveyed through the Foreign Missions Conference:

The Foreigm Missions Conference of North America makes this presen­ tation on behalf of the foreign mission boards of the United States. These boards have active working relations with the people in 96 foreign coun­ tries. Their more than 12,000 representatives are ever in the presence of havoc of past wars and the menace of fresh armed conflicts. Together with them, these boards are continually conscious of the denial which war makes of all the Christian principles which they seek to establish. They therefore respectfully petition the Government of the United States to proceed resolutely at the Disarmament Conference in Geneva in Feb­ ruary, 1932, in the direction of the material reduction of armaments as the only course consonant with adherence to the General Pact for the Renunciation of War which repudiates war as an instrument of national policy. They further pledge support to their government in undertaking leader­ ship in such courses of action as are designed effectively to put away the implements of war.

In adopting this resolution the Board is not unmindful of the fact that resolutions in themselves can accomplish comparatively little. Public opinion must express itself in this issue on disarma­ ment. In the creation of such public opinion missionary agencies can merely lead the way. It is thus clear that every Northern Baptist who is at all concerned over the reign of Christ in the lives of men everywhere and the establishment of his principles in international relations has here an inescapable responsibility. The peoples of the world can have disarmament and peace if they really desire it and if they determine with sufficient strength to have it. 22 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

A Message on the Japan-China Crisis During the climax of the crisis between Japan and China, while a large section of Shanghai lay smoldering in ruins and thou­ sands of Chinese had been killed or made homeless, the Foreign Missions Conference of North America issued a statement. It neither misjudged nor prejudged the case. Instead, its restrained and tempered comment, transcended the realm of political con­ troversy’ and helped the constituencies of all mission boards at work in the Far East to understand some of the deeper Christian issues involved. Significant sentences and paragraphs from this statement are incorporated in this report:

The international situation in the Far East is so tangled that we should be very slow to judge the merits of it. W e may well remind ourselves in all humility o f the past transgressions of Western nations in their relations with the Orient and with each other. War is utterly intolerable, and as Christians we must protest against the resort to it on every occasion possible. W e should do everything in our power not only to protest against warlike developments in the Far East, but to oppose the development o f warlike tendencies among our own people in North America; or any attempt to settle the present emergency by the use of force on the part of Western powers. W e can be perfectly assured that however great may be the political and social disturbances in the Orient, the Christian light burns brightly in many Oriental lives, and the darkness will never put it out. W e know, from personal acquaintance, many Christians in each country who have seen the Lord and are ready to suffer with and for him. They are worthy of affection, confidence and cooperation, and have much in their Christian experience which will enrich the life o f the West. Messages received reveal their deep distress, and they now need our sympathy and fresh assur­ ance of our support and the best encouragement that we can offer. This is the opportunity for Christians of North America to do much to maintain warm relationships with these Christian brethren across the seas. Personal letters to our friends, not discussing the political situation, but sharing our best Christian experiences, will serve to create bonds o f fellow­ ship which will hold us all together through all the stress and strain for common service for the future.

The crisis in the Far East has demonstrated that only in the kingdom of God can the nations find that unifying principle that •will unite them. It alone transcends all geographical and racial boundaries and includes all Christians everywhere in a world fel­ lowship of peace. GENERAL REVIEW OF THE YEAR 2 3

War Devastation at Shanghai The bombardment of the Chapei area of Shanghai and its inva­ sion by Japanese military forces brought all the horrors of war to multitudes of peaceful, non-combatant Chinese people. Presi­ dent Clarence A. Barbour, of Brown University, after a visit to the devastated region, declared that while he was in service in France during the World War he saw no areas in which the de­ struction was greater than that around Shanghai. Photographs confirmed this statement. Letters from missionaries at Shanghai told of great suffering among Chinese refugees. It was estimated that hundreds of thousands of Chinese civilians were made home­ less by the conflict. For several weeks missionaries joined other foreigners in ministering to the vast numbers of refugees for whom large refugee and relief camps had to be established. In the center of this devastated area stands the North Shanghai Baptist Church. It is the only building in its own immediate vicinity that was not practically wrecked. During the invasion it was occupied by Chinese soldiers, who protected themselves with sand-bag embankments in front of the building. Their machine- guns were mounted on church furniture carried out from the audi­ torium. An old building to the rear was destroyed, and the church itself, which had been completed only recently, was considerably damaged. The congregation included a larger number of highly educated men and women than could have been found in any other Baptist church in China. Its membership included the faculty of the University of Shanghai and many alumni. Practically all of the church-members living near the church were made homeless. Half of them lost all of their personal possessions. As soon as the fighting in that area ceased and a few members of the church could confer, it was arranged to continue to hold public services in the Missions Buildings in the International Settlement. A missionary wrote in high praise of the courage, faith, and determination of those Christians who suffered such heavy losses.

A Grave Crisis for the University of Shanghai Since the property of the University of Shanghai was beyond the zone of actual hostilities, it was not injured and there was no 24 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY loss of life on the campus. Yet the institution suffered very severely. Imagine a college campus of fifty acres, containing about fifteen large buildings and thirty smaller structures, almost completely surrounded by the Japanese army and navy. Back of the college in the Whangpoo River were Japanese naval vessels. Near the front gate Japanese machine-guns were stationed. On a third side of the campus lay the Japanese landing-field for at least fifty military aeroplanes. They often barely missed the chimneys of the college buildings as they rose with their heavy bombs for use on the Chinese forces. The tops of some of the trees on the campus were removed by the Japanese so that their planes might rise from the field with less danger to themselves. One of the bombs actually fell on the campus but did no injury. During the period of occupation no one, Chinese or foreigner, not even the President of the institution himself, could leave the University grounds or enter them without a pass from the Japa­ nese military forces. Under such conditions it was very fortunate that the Japanese occupation came during the midyear vacation, when very few students were on the campus. Otherwise there might have been some outburst which would have resulted in serious trouble. When the vacation ended and the problem of reopening arose, this great institution for Christian education in the Far East faced a grave crisis. The following paragraph is from a report by Prof. Gordon Poteat:

It was decided to reopen the University temporarily in rooms at the old Chinese Y. M. C. A. on Szechuan Road, beginning classes on April 7. W e have no laboratories there, no library, no adequate dormitory space, no campus, no playing fields, but it is imperative that something be done to try to hold the university together. Both faculty and students will be dis­ persed otherwise. Even now, instead o f 560 students in the college classes, there are in prospect only about 200 enrolments. This makeshift is only feasible for a few months. If the Japanese refuse to evacuate our section, what is going to happen to the University? The prospect is alarming, but it needs to be faced now both here and in America, where so much has been invested of heart, mind, and money to bring the institution to its recognized position in China. Men of faith set that institution down in a mud flat by the Whangpoo River. Men o f faith must stand by now lest their achievements be destroyed. No easy road lies ahead of us now. Though our buildings are intact, we, too, are victims of this tragic war. How quickly the labor of years can be smashed in a moment of rage! GENERAL REVIEW OF THE YEAR 2 5

Fortunately the fears so expressed proved to be unfounded. With the evacuation of Shanghai by the Japanese military forces the student body is expected to return to the’ campus, and the University to resume its full schedule. Because of the interruption in February and March the courses will probably be continued until late July. In spite of all the financial problems and other difficulties, President Liu, members of the faculty, and the Board of Directors have faced conditions with high courage. The large decline in receipts from tuition fees created serious budget prob­ lems. Both Chinese and American faculty members practised self- denial and bore one another’s burdens to such an extent that the institution seems to have suffered no permanent injury. Friends in America cannot fail to appreciate the heroic spirit in which this outstanding Baptist mission enterprise in China met a grave crisis. Flood Relief in China China did not suffer alone from military invasion. An appalling flood disaster, impossible for Americans to comprehend or visual­ ize, fell upon the country in the summer of 1931. With a rise of fifty feet in the Yangtse River, the great cities of Hankow, Wuchang, and Hanyang were submerged. Thousands of villages were obliterated. Ruin and death came to more than a million people. Central China was described by eye-witnesses as a vast tideless sea with all former hilltops transformed into little islands, each covered with swarms of marooned refugees. Thousands of drowned corpses floated down the main current of the river into an immense lake that formed between the cities of Hankow and Nanking, while half of Nanking itself was under water. To meet this unparalleled emergency the United States Government promptly cooperated with the Chinese Government and donated vast quan­ tities of food supplies, chiefly grain from the immense surplus for which there was no market in America. When appeals came from the China National Christian Council and from missions and missionaries of all denominations, the Foreign Missions. Confer­ ence of North America promptly appointed a committee to formu­ late plans for the raising of relief funds. Home Secretary P. H. J. Lerrigo served as chairman. It was recognized at once that other groups were interested in the needs of suffering China. The China Famine Relief Committee, established several years ago 26 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY under the chairmanship of Dr. David A. Brown, planned action. The Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America was likewise interested. To avoid separate appeals, duplication of effort, and confusion in the minds of prospective contributors, a coopera­ tive effort was projected under a joint committee known as Flood Relief in China, with Dr. David A. Brown as Chairman and Major James D. O. Lively as Executive Secretary. Although her own unemployment problem and the intense suffering resulting from it presented a paramount obligation to America, this serious need in China could not be disregarded. The joint committee began its work August 1, 1931, and the cooperative effort was terminated May 31, 1932. During the intervening period about a quarter of a million dollars was raised for the benefit of the flood sufferers in China. The American people thus again responded to an appeal for help in the same generous spirit in which they have so often in the past come to the relief of suffering people in various parts of the world.

Interpreting the Christian Crisis in China Occasionally comments are heard to the effect that mission boards generally ought to take their constituencies more into their confidence and discuss with them frankly and intimately the major problems involved in Christian missions during these times of stress and change. In recognition of this need the Board author­ ized the publication of a little volume entitled The Christian Crisis in China, by Secretary James H. Franklin. It was issued for special distribution and copies were available through the State offices for pastors and friends of missions who desire to know more concretely what the Society faces in China at the present time. The book is based largely on Doctor Franklin’s impres­ sions received during his long journey into the interior of China a year ago. A few of the chapter headings suggest the scope of treatment. They include among others: Problems of Christian Work ill China, Cooperation with Evangelical Christians, Chris­ tian Missions and Political Treaties, Mission Property in China, The Real Issue in Christian Missions, The State of-the Chinese Churches, Chinese Leadership Essential to Progress. Seldom in a single volume have Baptists been given so clear and comprehen­ sive a discussion of mission policy, problems, and objectives. GENERAL REVIEW OF THE YEAR 2 7

The Kingdom of God Movement in Japan The Kingdom of God Movement in Japan under the leadership of Toyohiko Kagawa has completed its second year. Probably no nation-wide spiritual movement of modern times has in a single year faced so many perplexing difficulties. The absence of Kagawa for several months occasioned by his visit to the United States removed for a time the key personality around which this move­ ment has grown. However, it had gathered such momentum that it went right on. The crisis between Japan and China brought to the front the irreconcilable conflict between the aims of the Japanese militarists and the brotherhood ideals of the Japanese Christians. On the other hand, the delicate position in which Kagawa found himself on his return to Japan, where he came under the fire of both the Communists and the Fascists, testifies to the strength of the Kingdom of God Movement, the power of Kagawa in molding Japanese opinion, and the fears of the extremists over the increasing influence of this nation-wide Chris­ tian movement. Throughout the second year four objectives have been constantly emphasized: (1) The holding of Training Con­ ferences for Christians to mobilize for the movement the laity of the church and to train them for active participation in the move­ ment. (2) Continuation of mass evangelistic meetings which were started last year. In the absence of Kagawa a large number of pastors, as well as laymen, all over the Empire have served as evangels in meetings for the public at large. (3) Projection of the movement into the neglected rural area by promoting and con­ ducting Peasant Gospel Schools. (4) Follow-up campaigns that have been held in the past with a view to conserving their results. In summarizing the achievements of this movement, Dr. William Axling, who has been so actively associated with Kagawa, wrote that “ in a very real sense the movement was creating not only a new solidarity within the Christian forces of the Japanese Empire but also a sense of solidarity between the churches of the West and the churches of Japan.”

The Visit'of Kagawa to the United States What Japan lost temporarily through the absence of Kagawa proved to be of great permanent gain to America. The visit to 28 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

the United States of this Japanese evangelist, world-renowned, yet simple, humble apostle of Jesus Christ, leader of the Kingdom of God Movement in Japan, made a notable contribution to the spiritual life of American Christians. To conserve his strength, for Kagawa is not a man of strong physique, only a limited series of public meetings was arranged through Dr. John R. Mott, but they were all crowded to capacity. Everywhere Kagawa went and spoke he made a profound impression. Typical of many occasions where he delivered addresses was the remarkable meeting at Inter­ national House in New York on August 2, 1931. It would be difficult to imagine within a single auditorium a more cosmopolitan crowd of people. It included Chinese, Japanese, Indians, Africans, Europeans of various lands, and a generous mixture of South Americans. Every continent with the possible exception of Aus­ tralia was represented in that audience. The mere fact that such an international company of people would come together on a warm midsummer evening in New York to listen to a Christian evan­ gelist is in itself a tribute to the man and his world influence. One unusual aspect of Kagawa’s presence in the United States deserves extended comment. For half a century America, a so-called Christian nation, has been sending missionaries to Japan, a non-Christian nation. In Kagawa there came a Japanese, origi­ nally a product of that missionary effort, to preach to Americans and to remind them eloquently that America needs that very Chris­ tianity which she has been sending to the Orient. In recent years American Christian leaders have expressed the opinion that the time would soon come when the Orient would send foreign mis­ sionaries to the United States. Although Kagawa is not a mis­ sionary to the United States and was here only on a visit, his stirring preaching and the testimony of his life suggested that this had actually come to pass.

New Baptist Headquarters in Tokyo The past year witnessed the completion of a new Baptist head­ quarters in Tokyo. Land at the rear of Tokyo Tabernacle was utilized and a modest office-building erected. The new Baptist mission office-building will be a real asset in the unification of all Japan work, mission and Japanese. In connection with the Taber­ nacle it will become a center for work, for meetings; committee GENERAL REVIEW OF THE YEAR 2 9 meetings, conferences and social gatherings. Simple equipment for the preparation of refreshments has been provided, so that Baptist folk from everywhere will have a rendezvous for mutual exchange of plans and ideas. Within easy access to the Belt Line of the Imperial Railways, the Sunday-school Headquarters, the National and the City Y. M. C. A .’s, it will be in constant use by groups from all parts and departments of Baptist activities in Japan.

The India and Burma Round Table Conferences The second India Round Table Conference, held in London and attended by Mahatma Gandhi with full representation of all parties in India, concluded its sessions in January. There was general agreement concerning an All-India Federation and autonomy for the Provinces. Parliament approved the general attitude of the Conference looking toward full Dominion status for India. Two problems as yet remain unsolved. The first grows out of the difficulty of reconciling India’s demand for immediate com­ plete Dominion status immediately with Britain’s insistence that during a transitional period certain safeguards shall be maintained, such as, control of the army, international finance, and foreign affairs. Britain pledges that such safeguards will be “ so framed and exercised as not to prejudice the advance of India through a new constitution to 'full responsibility for its own government.” The second problem emerges out of the same fundamental issue so long responsible for a divided, turbulent India— the religious, cultural, and political cleavage between Hindus and Mohamme­ dans. Until some satisfactory solution of these two problems is found, political agitation and unrest will probably continue. As already indicated on page 15 of this report, the results of the Conference were not acceptable to Mr. Gandhi, who, on his return to India, inaugurated another campaign of non-cooperation. His arrest and the imprisonment of more than twenty-five thousand of his followers is not interfering with the work of the three committees of British and Indian statesmen who are now formulat­ ing the details of a proposed constitution for a Federated India. The Simon Commission of 1929 and the first India Round Table Conference held in London two years ago recommended the com­ plete separation of Burma from India. A special Burma Round 30 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

Table Conference, to discuss the political future of that Province, was held November 27, 1931, to January 12, 1932. It is of gratify­ ing interest to American Baptists to know that two of the fourteen delegates to the Conference, Sidney Loo Nee and Sra Shwe Ba, are members of Karen Baptist churches. A plebiscite will be held in Burma early in the fall. If the people of Burma vote in favor of separation from India, Burma will be able to look forward to becoming eventually a self-governing Dominion in the British Com­ monwealth of Nations.

The New Judson College Chapel In July, 1931, the main buildings of Judson College on its new campus at Kokine Lakes near Rangoon were formally opened. A feature of the formal opening was the laying of the corner­ stone of the College Chapel by His Excellency Sir Charles Innes, Governor of Burma and Chancellor of Rangoon University. Not­ withstanding the severe economic depression which the Christians of all races in Burma, as elsewhere, have felt so keenly, church- members, Judson College alumni, and missionaries, under the inspiring leadership of Principal Wallace St. John, have given most sacrificially toward the building fund for the chapel. The total cost is estimated at $100,000, toward which Mr. John D. Rockefeller has contributed $35,000. Rapid progress is being made in its construction, and it is expected that the beautiful structure will be completed within the year.

Cleansing the Leper New discoveries in modern medicine have done much to carry out the command to “ cleanse the leper.” On several mission fields, medical missionaries of the Society have maintained leper colonies for the treatment of these unfortunate people. Last year, in addition to the leper work maintained at Moulmein, Burma, and at Kangpokpi, Assam, new colonies for lepers have been estab­ lished by Richard S. Buker, M. D., at Kengtung, Burma, and by H. W . Kirby, M. D., and J. A. Ahlquist, M. D., at Jorhat, Assam. The support of this healing ministry for these sufferers from what the world regards as its most loathsome disease is made possible by the generous cooperation of the British and the Amer­ ican Mission to Lepers. GENERAL REVIEW OF THE YEAR 31

The Primary Task Still Primary Deplorable as the disturbed conditions throughout the world have been, they have nevertheless served to accentuate the spiritual emphasis in the missionary task. The present year has wit­ nessed most gratifying advance in evangelism. The following extracts from reports of missionaries, one from each field as typical and representative of them all, and arranged in alphabetical order, reveal how this primary task of making Christ known to the world has been so successfully carried on during the past year.

Assam Our Ao Naga Annual Association was held November 5-8, 1931, at the village of Aliba. The attendance numbered 3,216, in spite of the prolonged monsoon. Many delegates traveled four days on foot to attend, for it is the high-tide social event and religious experience of the year. The enter­ taining village is near the well-traveled government path, and this path was one long procession of people walking in single file with baskets on their backs. They were eagerly hurrying along, anxious to arrive and meet their friends, get settled in their temporary abodes, and see the titanic meet­ ing-house. . . According to the new census report, the Ao Nagas number about 34,000, and approximately one.-fourth of this number belong to the Christian group. There are 56 Ao Naga villages with zi Baptist church in each, and 90 per cent, of these are self-supporting, a record attained on very few of our mission fields to date. Christian schools now total 50, with 1,259 pupils enrolled. There have been 467 accessions to the church through baptism this past year.—Roger R. Wickstrand, Impur.

Belgian Congo Six itineraries have been made throughout this field during the past year, one of which was 63 days in duration. W e have held 11 matondos, visited 31 churches and 400 villages, and baptized over 600 converts. At 70 years o f age it is impossible for me to go out to visit all of our outstations and churches. Our big task now is to hold and develop the work. The most encouraging part now is the growth o f our 12 church boarding-schools. From them will come the leaders of the work of tomorrow. The people are beginning to show a real eagerness to take the responsibility of these schools along with the village schools. It is the aim of the Congo Mission that indigenous Christianity shall be evolved, rooted, and vital in the lives of the people.— Thomas Moody, Sona Bata.

Bengal-Orissa Aside from four large cities on this field, most of the people live in small villages. As one travels along the main roads one sees so few of these villages that one is inclined to wonder if the census reports are true. H ow­ 3 2 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

ever, when traversing paths that lead off from these roads, or in going through the jungle or across the rice-fields, one finds that just out of sight of the main roads are any number of villages, composed of mud houses with thatched roofs. It is in these villages that the evangelistic missionary and the preachers and Bible-women work. Here the people are nearly always ready to listen to the hymns and gospel message. In several of such villages churches have been formed. During the past year two new churches have been organized and three more are waiting. Nearly every church reports baptisms.—Naomi H. Knapp, Bhimpore.

Burma Church work in this field is being greatly blessed. Last year through gospel-team work over 1,300 decision's were registered, and baptisms reached the highest point in 75 years. Our six ordained men cannot reach all the places calling for baptisms. Next month there will be three evangelistic teams working in this field. There will also be three jungle church teams. Five of our young people have gone to the Bible schools and seminary. At least ten more are contemplating this step. W e surely need leaders for our churches. Several of the smaller churches are now considering the advisa­ bility of combining in securing a circuit-rider minister. . . Home mission work across the mountains is opening up rapidly.— C. L. Klein, Shwegyin.

East China Our Christian mission schools easily vindicate all the effort and expense put into them if they develop a group of young people who will com­ mand leadership in the next thirty years. Our efforts need not be spectacular as long as they are effective and thoroughly Christian. W e can assure this spirit as long as we continue to secure for our schools the type of men and women that we now have as teachers. W e must continue to inspire and train young men and women for this important task. . . Eight boys were baptized this spring term in the Ningpo Middle School and many more are vitally interested. Our Bible classes and church services are well attended. There has been 100 per cent, faculty attendance at chapel, which means that our teachers are seriously interested in the job that is theirs, not alone of teaching, but of really living Christian lives and of leading others to him.—H. R. S. Benjamin, Ningpo.

Japan In the presence of distress at home and abroad the Christian church has preserved a steadying and constructive attitude. It has been foremost in the relief o f famine in the north of Japan. In the face of the stimulation of the military ideal through the repercussion on the national mind o f events in Manchuria and Shanghai the church has found opportunity to uphold with a new boldness the idea of peace. It has been driven by the financial urge to find new and greater resources of the spirit. The Kingdom of God Movement, in the second year of its history, has brought the forces of the Christian gospel aggressively into contact with hundreds of thousands of GENERAL REVIEW OF THE YEAR 3 3 men and women throughout the land. It has undertaken a strong program of training lay leaders; of redirecting the inner life through national evan­ gelistic campaigns; of bringing both material and spiritual relief to the hard-pressed rural communities through the promotion of peasant gospel schools; and of deepening the spiritual life among the Christian groups themselves, through an intelligent program of Christian education. In the total national life of Japan the leadership o f the Christian church was never more vigorous than during the past year.—D. C. Holtom, Tokyo.

Philippine Islands W e have been encouraged by a new earnestness on the part of many of our people. Especially is this true o f one group in our field. A number of families, members of one of our churches, moved to another barrio (village) where there were no Christians. About a year and a half later they sent for me to come over and see them. When I finally went, I found a group of 150 people, some ready for baptism, all ready to listen to the gospel, and this as a result of the activities of these Christian laymen. In Capiz we have likewise had excellent results in evangelism, but there is still room for better reports.—S. S. Feldmann, Capiz.

South China On January 16 we had the graduating exercises of the Ashmore Theo­ logical Seminary, for the first time in over ten years, so long had the Semi­ nary been closed. It was the sixth class in the history of the institution to graduate, five splendid young men. One of the most promising of the graduates is from the Ungkung field. He goes back there to serve a village church. W e are expecting great things from him. W e are more con­ vinced than ever that the religious education of the children and young people is the great need and problem facing mission work in China today. —K. G. Hobart, Swatow.

South India In November the people in one of the largest Madiga hamlets on this field with over 100 houses sent word that they wanted to become Christians. For more than 30 years we had preached the gospel in that village, but the hearts of the people were as hard as the stones of old Kurnool. W e sent them a preacher and finally went ourselves. W e spent two days among them, and had the great joy of baptizing 32 people. Further report comes that the whole palem is now ready for baptism. There seems to be a wide-spread awakening among the outcastes on this field. Many instances might be given of their eagerness and cooperation. In one village 20 miles from Kurnool nine converts had returned to their homes and had started a school, called a teacher from another village to show them what to do, and were rebuilding the ruined walls o f an old house for a church. When the missionaries arrived, they proudly reported 13 of their neighbors ready for baptism.— W. A. Stanton, Kurnool. 3 4 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

West China The largest Inquirers’ Class in the history of the Suifu church was held this year. More than 150 people came in from the district and overflowed the church compound into inns. W e baptized 32 of these, and 14 more came from Monroe Academy and the Boys’ School. There is an eagerness for the gospel everywhere. Groups of from 10 to 30 meet me with searching ques­ tions after each weekly preaching service. I wish you could have seen the intent faces of those Monroe Academy students in the testimony njeeting before their baptism. Two fine lads are coming to the Academy from the Government Normal School with the purpose of studying for the Christian ministry.— C. F. Wood, Suifu. O f course it must again be recognized that baptismal reports in themselves never accurately or adequately measure Christian prog­ ress. The kingdom of God does not expand in terms of arith­ metic nor can its growth be fully reflected in statistics. Neverthe­ less it is significant that in a year such as has just closed additions to Baptist church-membership in the ten mission fields of the Society should have reached 19,853, a record that has been ex­ ceeded only 7 times in the 118 years of the Society’s history.

The Evangelistic Outlook in India Three developments in evangelism, two in India and one in China, justify more extended comment. One is the evangelistic outlook in India. Missionaries in that field report among all classes and peoples an increase in interest in Christianity.' The South India Mission reports more baptisms than in any year, with two exceptions, in the history of the Mission. One of the excep­ tions is the great ingathering during the time of Dr. John E. Clough, more than fifty years ago. Field Secretary Frank Kurtz makes the following facts the basis of a stirring appeal for mis­ sionary reenforcements to meet India’s larger evangelistic outlook: (1) The number of aged missionaries at present on the field who must soon retire; (2) the highest record of caste baptisms in the history of the India Mission. They range from Brahmins to the criminal Yerukala. There is every reason to expect that within the next few years caste people will be coming in larger numbers; (3) the baptism of 50,000 new converts in the last ten years as compared with 30,000 in the previous decade. There has been no special reason for this increase except the faithful work of mis­ sionaries and the. more efficient functioning of Indian churches; GENERAL REVIEW OF THE YEAR 3 5

(4) the churches in India are showing more aggressiveness. The desire to assume responsibility for fields and institutions is a great advance, and the Indian Baptist Home Mission Society faces a promiseful future.

The Burma Student Gospel Team Tours India The second event was the India visit of the Burma Student Gospel Team. At the invitation of Dr. E. Stanley Jones and of Dr. J. Z. Hodge, Secretary of the India National Christian Council, the Burma Student Gospel Team spent four months in an evan­ gelistic tour of India. A team of eleven young men and women, with Rev. V. W. Dyer, of Rangoon, and Miss Gertrude Teele, of the Woman’s Bible Training School, Insein, left Rangoon, Novem­ ber 4, 1931. During the ensuing four months they visited Madras, went up and down the southeastern coast of India, spent Christmas at Cape Cormoran, at the very tip of India, toured northward to the Deccan, where President and Mrs. H. I. Marshall, of the Karen Theological Seminary at Insein, Burma, joined them, and thence through the Central Provinces to Calcutta, and finally back to Rangoon. The task, as Doctor Jones described it, was to establish in various centers vital groups for evangelistic work. The Gospel Team visited 27 cities and towns, and held meetings in 12 colleges, 21 high schools, 4 theological seminaries, one medical college, and several India branches of the Y. M. C. A. and the Y. W . C. A. Everywhere the Gospel Teams met a most cordial reception. Often the largest hall in the city proved too small to accommodate the crowds who came, and meetings had to be held in the open air. On one occasion people began to come at three o’clock for a six-o’clock service, and the crowd that finally gathered was estimated at 2,500. People seemed amazed to see both men and women, and of different races, united in such a happy group as the Gospel Team. The real Christian fellowship among Team members made a lasting impression. In more than twenty of the places visited active Gospel Teams or Prayer Groups were formed. Reports are already coming of the progress that some of these groups are making. In these days of uncertainty and unrest throughout India, the Student Gospel Teams are having a vital part in bringing to distressed people the assurance and the peace that are in Christ. 3 6 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

A New Church in South China , The third event of large evangelistic significance was the dedica­ tion of the new Memorial Baptist Church on the island of Kakchieh, in South China. With conditions as they have been in China in recent years the financing, construction, and dedication of a sub­ stantial new church edifice becomes of more than passing interest. On June 14, 1931, occurred an event that a few years earlier would have been inconceivable. More than two thousand Chinese gath­ ered to dedicate a new Baptist church. Four years previously newspapers in America were saying that mission work in China had ended and that the efforts of centuries had been wiped out. Now a spacious church edifice of hewn granite and concrete with a roof of green tile supported on tall pillars stands here as a memorial to the seventy years of Baptist foreign mission work in South China. Dr. C. E. Bousfield claims it is the finest church building in connection with any mission work in China. On dedication day 37 converts of all ages were baptized into the fellowship of the church. The building cost $25,000 gold, of which half was contributed by Chinese. The funds were raised at a time when high taxes and disturbed and menacing conditions made life so burdensome for the Chinese. Yet in their generous contributions they proved that in spite of the turmoil that sur­ rounded them they could and would do great things for their new Lord and Master. In closing his description of the three-day anni­ versary and dedication services, Rev. B. L. Baker wrote: “ When the crowds had dispersed and quiet and silence reigned in the wee hours of the next morning, the magnificent church stood majestically upon its eminence, rock-ribbed and mute and yet beau­ tifully eloquent of the truth that God in Christ has'come to China.” Baptists of South China deserve hearty congratulations on this significant achievement.

Roman Catholic Aggressions in Belgian Congo It is deeply to be regretted that what is no doubt an honest and sincere effort on the part of the Pope to enlarge Roman Catholic missionary activity should have the effect of hindering the spread of the gospel in Belgian Congo, owing to the intolerant and aggres­ sive attitude adopted toward evangelical missions. GENERAL REVIEW OF THE YEAR 3 7

New emphasis in recent years on the Roman Catholic missionary program throughout the world has resulted in a great increase of workers being sent especially to pagan fields. In little more than a year over five hundred new Roman Catholic missionaries were sent to augment the forces in Belgian Congo, which already outnumbered the evangelical missionaries. A new concordat has been signed between the Belgian Government and the Holy See. Rome now undertakes to carry on educational work in Congo. Belgium has agreed to recognize all orders with headquarters offices in Belgium as “ National Mission.” Heavy subsidies are granted so that a very large proportion of all Catholic service in Congo is at government expense. At a time when, because of the financial depression, ordinary government services as well as com­ mercial enterprises are curtailing their work, steamships are thus carrying large numbers of priests, nuns, and other Catholic workers to Belgian Congo. There could be no complaint regarding this increase of Catholic activities were it not accompanied by reiterated claims backed by many Congo administrative officers that Catholic missions have special rights. These claims are sustained by aggressive and 'Wgorous efforts to invade fields which evangelical missions have occupied for years, and are accompanied by persecution of Prot­ estant Christians, intimidation of native chiefs, kidnapping of young women, destruction of evangelical churches, whipping of teachers, and other outrages. During the past year the Africa Committee of the Foreign Missions Conference of North America has given prolonged con­ sideration to the present situation in Belgian Congo. Upon its recommendation, Dr. J. H. Oldham, Secretary of the International Missionary Council, has been asked to place the evangelical point of view before the government and to secure justice. The Congo Protestant Council under the leadership of Rev. Emory Ross and the joint Brussels Agency under Dr. Iienri Anet have made similar approaches. A diminution of aggressions in certain parts of Congo has resulted. Nevertheless a basic understanding must be reached with the Belgian Government. The rights of evan­ gelical missions guaranteed by the Treaty of Berlin and its sub­ sequent revisions must be recognized. Instructions must be given by the government to local administrators in every part of Congo 3 8 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

that evangelical work and workers be accorded just and equitable treatment.

An Unfair Advantage One factor of grave import in the present situation must be recognized by American evangelical Christians. Through these large government subsidies Roman Catholic missions can now provide institutions and personnel for training native leaders in a manner which cannot at present be paralleled by Protestant mis­ sions. It is frankly claimed that the government has committed the education of Congo natives to the Roman Church. No occasion is lost to impress upon the natives that their work is “ national ” as over against the “ foreign ” character’ of evangelical missions. Whether the past half-century’s work by evangelical missions in Belgian Congo is to be entirely lost or not would seem to depend on whether Congo men and women in sufficient numbers can be trained to become Christian leaders in educational, economic, political, and professional life. This, in turn, will depend on whether the government can be induced to extend equality of treatment to all religious bodies undertaking education regardless of church or creed. The government has expressed itself happy $p have missionaries carry on education for which so far it has made no systematized and adequate provision. About half of it is at present in evangelical hands. For the government to subsidize Catholic work under the pseudonym of “ National Missions,” while the heavy burden of supporting Protestant educational work is thrown on the shoulders of missions and native taxpayers without government recognition or aid, is an injustice. It may be suggested that evangelical missions should abandon education and devote themselves entirely to evangelization. Yet even a super­ ficial understanding of the Congo situation would manifest the impossibility of such a plan. Teaching and preaching go hand in hand. The little schoolhouse is the gathering-place for religious worship. The government curriculum itself provides that religion shall be interwoven with secular teaching. In hundreds of Congo mission schools the Bible is the principal text-book and the pro­ gram is built about the Christian message. To discontinue educa­ tion would open at once every Protestant village to Catholic leaders. Already their well-equipped and well-staffed training- GENERAL REVIEW OF THE YEAR 3 9 schools are preparing teachers to take advantage of such an oppor­ tunity in case it should arise.

A Baptist Presidential Tour During the fall and winter Dr. John MacNeill, President of the Baptist World Alliance, made a tour of mission fields that brought great cheer to missionaries and their Christian constituencies. He sailed from Vancouver August 29, 1931, and spent most of Sep­ tember in Japan. The following month and part of November was spent in China. A visit to Burma was concluded prior to Christmas. He spent six weeks in India, which was of special interest to him as the chief center of mission work under the auspices of the Canadian Baptist Foreign Mission Board, of which he is chairman. During his visit to Northern Baptist mission stations, Doctor MacNeill had splendid opportunity to observe mis­ sion work in actual operation. His impressions concerning mission schools in China in these days of government regulation are espe­ cially pertinent. The following extract is taken from a report by him in The Watchman-Examiner:

The value and necessity o f mission schools for the future stability of our work as well as the future of the Kingdom and of China are abundantly evi­ dent. Even .in the face of government regulation regarding schools (and in this there is difference of opinion both among missionaries and Chinese Chris­ tians) the opportunity of the Christian school is beyond all question. I saw the little children, the boys and girls, the young men and women, in these schools. I met many of the earnest Chinese Christian teachers. I listened to addresses o f welcome by various native principals, both men and women, spoken in perfect English, and inspired by the loftiest ideals and spirit of Christ. One thinks of it all with hope as one thinks of the future leadership that China so badly needs. Without this training of Christian leaders, one could not contemplate the future without despair. Out of them will come not only intellectual leadership but what China more sorely needs, the moral and spiritual power that will redeem her life. The University of Shanghai, tinder the inspiring presidency o f Dr. Herman C. E. Liu, with a combined faculty of Chinese and missionary professors, is an outstanding illustration of the spiritual leadership the Christian schools are furnishing and must continue to furnish if the Kingdom is to go on in China.

Everywhere Doctor MacNeill received a cordial welcome. His presidential tour brought abundant blessing to all Baptist com­ munities reached. The memory of his helpful visit and his cordial 40 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

fellowship will long abide as one of the outstanding and inspiring events in a troubled and distressful year.

Plans for the Baptist World Alliance The Board has been giving attention to plans for the fourth world Congress of the Baptist World Alliance, scheduled to be held in Berlin, Germany, August 4-10, 1933. Secretaries James H. Franklin and William B. Lipphard have been appointed on the transportation committee, while Doctor Franklin has also been appointed a member of the program committee. A special com­ mittee with Rev. Mark A. Sanborn, of Scranton, Pa., has been appointed by the Northern Baptist Convention to promote atten­ dance. Naturally the present financial situation has given rise to question whether this world gathering of Baptists would not have to be postponed. A definite answer to this question was given in February, when the Executive Committee met in London. No postponement is contemplated, and the dates originally suggested, August 4-10, 1933, remain unchanged. Decision on both points was reached on recommendation of the German Baptists, who have shown a courageous optimism in thus going ahead with their plans as hosts of the world fellowship of Baptists. All will join with them in the fervent hope that by next year better times will be in sight. A new program feature projected for Berlin should make this Congress of extraordinary interest. Five commissions have been appointed. Their personnel is representative of Baptists of all lands throughout the earth. These commissions are already at work. Under the leadership of their respective chairmen, as indi­ cated, they are making exhaustive studies of such outstanding world issues as: ( ! ) Nationalism, with President N. J. Nord­ strom, of the Baptist Seminary, Stockholm, Sweden, as chairman; (2) Racialism, with Rev. C. E. Wilson, B. A., Secretary of the Baptist Missionary Society, London, as chairman; (3) Temper­ ance, with Mrs. H. E. Goodman, President of the Woman’s American Baptist Foreign Mission Society, as chairman; (4) Moral standards, especially in connection with marriage and the family, with President John R. Sampey, of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Ky., as chairman; (5) The expression of the mind of Christ in the economic order, with Prof. GENERAL REVIEW OF THE YEAR 41

Rolvix Harlan, of the University of Richmond, Va., as chair­ man. Their reports, with ample time for full discussion, together with the usual important inspirational features, should make the Berlin Congress a gathering of historic significance to Baptists everywhere.

The Laymen’s Foreign Missions Inquiry The Laymen’s Foreign Missions Inquiry, announced in last year’s Annual Report, has continued its work. The three divisions of the Fact Finding Commission completed their work respectively in China, Japan, and India, and submitted their reports to the Executive Committee of the Inquiry. During the past year, in accordance with the original plan, a second group, known as'the Appraisal Commission, has been visiting all three divisions of the foreign field chosen for study. After a study of the data secured by the Fact Finding Commissions and personal observations, the Appraisal Commission, on behalf of the Lajmian’s Executive Committee, will attempt to evaluate the missionary movement. The personnel of the Appraisal Commission includes:

President Clarence A. Barbour, of Brown University. Mr. Edgar H. Betts, of Troy, N. Y. Mr. H. R. Bowler, secretary of the Commission. President Arlo A. Brown, of Drew University. Dean Charles P. Emerson, of the Medical College of University of Indiana. Professor W. Ernert Hocking, of Harvard University, and Mrs. Hocking. Dean Henry S. Houghton, of Iowa University. Professor Rufus H. Jones, of leaver ford College. Rev. William P. Merrill, pastor of the Brick Church in New York City. Dr. Orville A. Petty, adviser to the Commission in its study of India. Mr. Albert L. Scott, of New York City. Mr. and Mrs. Harper Sibley, of Rochester, N. Y. Dr. Henry C. Taylor, of Burlington, Vt. Miss Ruth F. Woodsmall, of Indianapolis, Ind. Dr. Frederick C. Woodward, of the University of Chicago.

It is of special interest to Baptists that the group includes such well-known and trusted Baptist leaders as Dr. Clarence A. Barbour, Mr. Albert L. Scott, Mr. Edgar H. Betts, and Mr. H. R. Bowler. Communications sent home by members of the Commission have included much favorable comment and have also indicated obser­ 42 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY vations of work which may produce helpful and constructive criti­ cism.. The work of the Appraisal Commission in China has been considerably hampered by the disturbed conditions of the country owing to the China-Japan crisis. The Commission expects, how­ ever, to complete its studies during the coming summer in time to report to the Laymen’s Executive Committee in the fall.

The Laymen’s Foreign Missions Inquiry in Burma From December 11 to 17, 1931, six members of the Laymen’s Foreign Missions Inquiry Commission, on a tour of the mission fields, visited Burma. Two Baptists, Dr. Clarence A. Barbour and Mr. Albert L. Scott, were in the party. How they studied the' work on this pioneer American Baptist mission field, the crowded days which their heavy schedule of appointments necessi­ tated, and the impression which they made on Burma missionaries and Burma Christians are reported by Rev. C. E. Chaney in The Rangoon News, from which the following extracts are taken:

Doctor Barbour was in Rangoon over Sunday, and was in much demand. He gave two notable addresses, one to the College in the morning, and one at Immanuel Church in the evening. He met a group of Karen pastors at Insein in the afternoon. Tuesday the Commission had a two-hour conference with selected Karen leaders in the morning, and with selected Burman leaders in the afternoon. Tuesday evening a half-dozen mission homes entertained the party in small groups, and at 8.30 the whole missionary staff of Rangoon met with the whole Commission for an open discussion of some vital mission problems. This conference lasted nearly two hours. Wednesday morning was spent in conference with a group of Baptist missionaries representing all phases of mission work. Wednesday after­ noon the Commissioners met a group of eight leading Buddhist elders in the Municipal Building for a discussion of Christian missions, and their contribution to the life, thought, and progress of Burma through evangel­ ism, education, medical and literary work. Mayor U. Thein Maung was among those present. There was some very frank expression of opinion given the Commissioners on these subjects. In the evening they had dinner with the Methodist Mission, followed by an open conference attended by both missionaries and indigenous Christians. Now the question in the minds of many is, “ What n ext?” The Fact Finding Commission came and did its work and passed on its results with­ out our knowing what they are. The Appraisal Commission has come and gone, and “ What will they report to the Boards, and how will they advise ? ” That remains to be seen. GENERAL REVIEW OF THE YEAR 4 3

O f this we are sure. Their presence with us was a blessing in the way of fellowship and inspiration. These individuals, in their persons, their sympathy with us and our problems, their wide experience and understand­ ing, commend themselves to us for their task. There are ways in which they can make a real and vital contribution to the welfare and progress of the task we are seeking to accomplish. However, perhaps the way in which they will make the largest possible contribution will be in their message to the laymen at home and in undergirding the confidence of large givers as well as the rank and file of givers in the type of work being done and the type and devotion of the men and women on the field giving their lives to this task. Because of the very nature o f the task they have undertaken, they should receive our continued cooperation through prayer, that they may be led to the wisest conclusions, and that no mistake may be made in their recom­ mendations.

A Presbyterian Tribute to Baptist Missions The Laymen’s Foreign Missions Inquiry included in its per- . sonneltDr. William P. Merrill, pastor of the Brick Presbyterian Church of New York City, and successor to such notable pastors as Dr. Henry van Dyke and Dr. Maltbie D. Babcock. During his world tour with the Commission he periodically sent letters to his church paper, The Brick Church Record. In one of these he described a visit to Assam. It is of special interest to Northern Baptists because of his fine tribute to the work of the Society. Doctor Merrill’s nephew, Rev. A. F. Merrill, and Mrs. Merrill are stationed at Tura. In this letter Doctor Merrill writes as follows:

Mrs. Merrill and I had three days in Tura, up in the Garo Hills, where my nephew and his wife are missionaries. That work among the Garos is romantic. A half-century ago the British Government was seriously considering sending in troops to exterminate the Garos as incorrigible thieves, murderers, and head-hunters. They were wise enough to let the American Baptist missionaries go in instead of the troops; and now head­ hunting is a thing of the past. W e saw several of the old knives, kept as curios, each with notches to record the number of heads it had brought in. There are over fourteen thousand baptized Christians. They build and sus­ tain their own churches, pay their own pastors and teachers, and help main­ tain higher schools. They are bold, free, eager, responsive. I had a delightful evening of frank talk with some twenty of them, pastors and teachers and church officers. W e came away deeply impressed with what Christ and his gospel can do for any people. 44 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

In closing this Presbyterian tribute to Baptist missions, Doctor Merrill says, significantly, “ And yet some people say that foreign missions are a failure. All I can answer is, ‘ Come and see! ’ ”

Swedish Mission Field in Assam Notwithstanding the difficult economic conditions of the past two years, Swedish Baptists in the United States have felt the spiritual urge to enlarge their foreign missionary effort rather than to diminish it. In April, 1931, Dr. G. Arvid Hagstrom, representing the Swedish Baptist General Conference of America, reported that the Swedish churches had been deeply stirred by the messages of Dr. O. L. Swanson, of Assam, and that they were especially concerned about unoccupied fields on the north bank of the Brahmaputra River. The Swedish churches proposed to contribute additional funds for sending one or more missionary families in case the Board of Managers of the Society would be willing to open work in this area. It was further proposed that a field in one of the missions of the Society be considered a mission of the Swedish Baptist General Conference; The Conference would accept financial responsibility for areas and workers, the field continuing, however, as an integral part of the mission in which it is located and its work being carried on in all respects similarly to that in the remainder of the mission. At the June meeting of the Board, the plan, after careful consideration by the Swedish Baptist General Conference, then in session, was approved, and a field on the north bank of the Brahmaputra River in Assam was assigned to the Swedish Conference. Through further confer­ ence and correspondence the plan was perfected. Already the Swedish churches have contributed $3,500 toward this new venture in foreign missions. Rev. and Mrs. Reuben W . Holm will sail in September, as the first missionaries to .be appointed under this new arrangement.

The Board of Managers To reduce expenses, the Board of Managers adopted a schedule of bimonthly instead of monthly meetings, as in former years. Six meetings were held during the year. This reduced schedule involved an enlarged agenda of business at each, especially in GENERAL REVIEW OF THE YEAR 4 5 view of the world financial depression, the effects of which were increasingly felt in the work of the Society throughout the year and compelled serious readjustments. The attendance continued its high record, the average being twenty-one for the six meetings; all of which were held at headquarters in New York, except that in connection with the annual meeting of the Society at Kansas City, Mo. At its organization meeting in July the Board reelected Rev. Herbert J. White and William B. Lipphard respectively as Chair­ man and Recording Secretary, and Alton L. Miller as Vice-chair- man. One change in membership occurred during the year. Mr. W. W- Frey, of Camden, N. J., elected at the annual meeting at Kansas City, subsequently found it impossible to serve, and the Board elected Rev. C. L. Seasholes, of Dayton, Ohio, to fill the vacancy. Eighteen missionaries on furlough attended Board meetings and gave informing reports of the work on their fields, as follows:

Rev. William Axling, o f Japan; Mr. E. H. Clayton, of East China; Rev. E. H. Cressy, of East China; Rev. H. Erickson, of Belgian Congo; Rev. Fred Ford, of Philippine Islands; Rev. H. I. Frost, of Bengal-Orissa; Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hill, of Belgian Congo; Rev. W . H. Leslie, M. D., of Belgian Congo; Rev. P. A. MacDiarmid, of Belgian Congo; Rev. C. A. Nichols, of Burma; Rev. S. H. Rickard, Jr., of Burma; Rev. L. B. Rogers, o f Burma; Rev. and Mrs. C. E. Smith, of Belgian Congo; Mr. H. F. Stuart, of Philippine Islands; Rev. O. L. Swanson, of Assam; Rev. Joseph Taylor, of West China.

Other visitors included Dr. Kenyon S. Butterfield, of the Inter­ national Missionary Council; Dr. T. J. Cross, of Atlantic City, N. J .; Secretary F. W. Padelford, of the Board of Education; Secretary C. H. Sears, of the New York City Baptist Mission Society; and Prof. S. J. Theodore, of Madras Christian College. These shared with the Board their observations and impressions based on visits to Japan and India. Membership of the Board continued representative both in resi­ dence and in vocation. Nine States in the territory of the North­ ern Baptist Convention are represented in its personnel, while vocationally thirteen members are pastors, four are educators, two are bankers, and four are engaged in commercial pursuits. 4 6 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

Secretarial Staff In the interest of economy, adjustments were also made in the secretarial staff. The return of Judson C. King, M. D., to his field of medical service in Belgian Congo necessitated the transfer of the Medical Service Department back to Home Secretary P. H. J. Lerrigo, M. D., who, as a former medical missionary of the Society in the Philippine Islands, had had charge of this work in other years. This additional responsibility and the return to India of Rev. A. M. Boggs, who during the past year has served at headquarters and has been conducting the Station Plan Depart­ ment, made reenforcements in the Home Department imperative. In view of the anticipated smaller number of new missionaries to be appointed in the coming year, it was felt that a reorganization of the Candidate Department could be made without impairing the results of previous years of student cultivation. Candidate Secre­ tary Paul E. Alden was therefore transferred to the Home Depart­ ment as Associate Secretary and the work of the Candidate De­ partment was assigned to the Foreign Department, where it had been conducted prior to its establishment as a separate department during the period of New World Movement expansion. The Board also appointed Rev. O. H. Sisson, of Wilkinsburg, Pa., for­ merly missionary of the Society in Burma, as Associate Secretary in the Home Department for special service, with particular respon­ sibility for the cultivation of interest in the Society’s work among the constituency and the seeking of special gifts in accordance with the rules of the Board and the policy of the Board of Mis­ sionary Cooperation. The year has been, at headquarters, one of unusual difficulty for all departments. Conditions in India and the Manchurian crisis in the Far East have occasioned great anxiety for the Foreign Department. The Home Department has cooper­ ated with the Board of Missionary Cooperation in presenting the needs of the Society to its constituency in what has been for them an unusually trying financial year. In the Treasury Department special study of budget adjustments and investigations into the financial effects on the Society’s work of previous periods of eco­ nomic depression have required substantial time and energy, over and beyond that customarily associated with the work of the department. All officers, in recognition of the grave financial situ­ GENERAL REVIEW OF THE YEAR 4 7 ation, have voluntarily returned to the Board substantial portions of their salaries as ^contributions to the foreign mission cause. This procedure is being continued during the new fiscal year.

Literary Service of Missionaries and Officers The year has not been without its contribution to missionary literature by missionaries and members of the secretarial staff. Rev. E. H. Cressy, of East China, has written a notable book, Yellow Rivers: Adventures in a Chinese Parish, based on his long experience in China. It has been published by Harper & Brothers. Rev. William Axling, of Japan, has written what will be regarded as a remarkable biography of Kagawa. It has also been published by Harper & Brothers. Associate Secretary William B. Lipphard has written a book, Out of the Storm in China, published by The Judson Press, which will be used for supplementary reading in mission-study classes and schools of missions during the coming year. As announced on page 33, Foreign Secretary James H. Franklin prepared in book form, The Christian Crisis in China, his impressions of China based on his long visit a year ago. The Society is honored in that Secretary Franklin has been unanimously chosen to write the major book for the year 1933-1934 under the title, Christ in the Modern World, which will be the interdenominational mission study topic for that year.

Literature and Publicity The pressure of economy was also operative in the field of liter­ ature and publicity. Reduced appropriations involved substantial curtailment in the production of missionary literature. Instead of sending a complete edition .of the Annual Report to pastors, as in other years, an abbreviated edition was distributed. Missionary subscriptions to denominational papers and interdenominational publications had to be discontinued. In the production of general literature, the Board cooperated with the Board of Missionary Cooperation as heretofore. The outstanding publication for the year was called Saddlebags, and was used in the January promo­ tional effort. It was so named because of its pioneer connotation in connection with the Home Mission Society Centenary. This unusual production ran into two editions exceeding 360,000 copies. 4 8 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

Even with that quantity, the demand for copies could not be satisfied. ’ * The denominational press has continued its loyal and helpful cooperation in giving publicity to the work of the Society. Special appreciation is due these papers. In a year when they, too, have felt the blighting touch of the depression through reduced income from subscriptions and advertising, and were therefore compelled to institute many economy measures, they have nevertheless con­ tinued to give generous space to the Society and its needs. The joint magazine, Missions, now for more than twenty-two years under the able editorship of Dr. Howard B. Grose, has maintained its high standard. Unfortunately, it also felt the effects of the world depression. Several thousand subscribers were compelled to discontinue their subscriptions. In these hard times many peo­ ple have found that even a dollar cannot be found. To reduce the deficit which this loss of revenue entailed, the July issue of this magazine will be omitted this year.

The Board of Missionary Cooperation During the past year the work of the Board of Missionary Cooperation, under the leadership of Dr. W. H. Bowler, was car­ ried on under greater handicaps than during any previous year of the cooperative movement. Owing to the continued and intensified financial depression, individual churches everywhere were com­ pelled to revise drastically their budgets both for local expenses and for missions. Salaries of many pastors were cut and church staffs were reduced by the elimination of associate pastors, church secre­ taries, and other workers. Under these circumstances it was par­ ticularly difficult to maintain the standard of missionary giving. Nevertheless, through the efforts of the Stewardship an

Missionary Cooperation, and much effective deputation service resulted. Field Secretary A. W . Rider gave a large part of his time to special work under the Board of Missionary Cooperation.

The Maintenance Movement < Anticipating that financial returns for the year would almost in­ evitably be considerably less than those of the previous year, a special effort, known as “ The Maintenance Movement,” was in­ augurated. Its objective was by stimulating larger receipts to avoid a deficit. In this effort members of Baptist churches who were em­ ployed or had incomes from other sources were asked to become “ substitute givers.” In addition to maintaining their own regular contributions, they were asked to serve as substitutes for those whose incomes had been entirely cut off. An extra gift was sug­ gested equivalent to at least one day’s income. A large number of Baptists made both generous and sacrificial gifts in connection with it. Communications were received from many of the missionaries on the foreign fields asking the privilege of joining in this effort. In some cases the gift amounted to ten per cent, of a year’s salary. In other cases a month's salary was donated. It is impossible to tabulate the total result of the Maintenance Movement, but there is no question but that the deficiency at the close of the year would have been far more serious had it not been for this special effort.

Deputation Service of Missionaries When on furlough, missionaries are always glad to have oppor­ tunity of visiting churches and telling the story of what has been accomplished in the fields wrhere they have been living and laboring. Deputation service is a reciprocal rfecessity. It is indispensable to people in America in order to acquaint them with conditions in other lands; and the devotion and sacrifice manifest in so many of the churches which are visited stimulates new courage and faith in thie missionaries. The following missionaries have been engaged in deputation service for either long or short period during the past year:

Dr. and Mrs. Wm. Axling, o f Japan; Rev. and Mrs. A. M. Boggs, of Assam; Rev. and Mrs. H. D. Brown, of Belgian Congo; Mrs. L. A. Brown, of Belgian Congo; Mr. E. H. Clayton, of East China; Rev. Henry Erickson, of Belgian Congo; Mr. Edwin T. Fletcher, of Burma; Mr. 50 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

Fred. B. Ford, of Philippine Islands; Rev. H. I. Frost, of Bengal-Orissa; Miss Ruth L. Harris, of Philippine Islands; Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hill, of Belgian Congo; Rev. and Mrs. Lester O. Hooks, of Belgian Congo; Rev. H. Huizinga, of East China; Dr. and Mrs. H. W. Leslie, o f Belgian Congo; Rev. and Mrs. J. Lee Lewis, of Burma; Rev. H. C. Long, of Bengal-Orissa; Dr. and M rs/C . R. Manley, o f South India; Rev. S. E. Moon, o f Belgian Congo; Rev. and Mrs. A. I. Nasmith, of East China; Rev. E. B. Roach, of Burma; Dr. C. A. Nichols, of Burma; Rev. C. E. Smith, of Belgian Congo; Mr. D. O. Smith, of Burma; Rev. and Mrs. H. F. Stuart, o f Philippine Islands; Dr. and Mrs. G. W . Tuttle, of Belgian Congo.

Through ill health, or family cares, or attendance at educa­ tional institutions, some missionaries find it difficult to serve in this way. Nevertheless, up to the limit of their ability, all are eager to help in this great service in this country, even though by so doing some may at times have to be away for long periods from children who have themselves been absent from the parental home on the mission field for six or seven years.

The End of Life’s Journey Eleven missionaries reached the end of life’s journey during the past year. One was a young missionary cut off at the begin­ ning of a career that promised large results. Others were veterans of long service in remote and isolated fields. Still others had returned from their fields some years ago, and since then had been engaged in other ministry or had lived in well-earned retirement and release from active duty. The records of all of them add honor to the denomination and testify to the steady advance of the kingdom of God on earth.

Mrs. Julia P. Burkholder Mrs. Julia P. Burkholder, missionary in Bengal-Orissa for fifty years, died at her home in Iron Mountain, Mich., on December 10, 1931. Mrs. Burkholder was the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Jeremiah Phillips, one of the founders of the Bengal-Orissa Mission, opened by Free I^iptists. She was born in Jellasore, Bengal-Orissa, June 5, 1845, and came to America to attend Hillsdale College. At the age of nineteen she was appointed a mis­ sionary and sailed for the field. Her most signal work began with the development of zenana work among the women and girls. In 1877, follow­ ing her marriage to Dr. T. W. Burkholder, they were designated to Bhim- pore for work among the Santals. This work, started by Doctor Phillips, was enlarged and continued by Doctor and Mrs. Burkholder. Mrs. Burkholder had charge of five schools for girls in the neighborhood of their station and GENERAL REVIEW OF THE YEAR 51

extensive work was done in the 34 villages that were within a radius of three miles. In 1911, when the change in the Free Baptist administration took place, Mrs. Burkholder and others were transferred to the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society. After the death of Doctor Burkholder, in 1903, she stayed in the United States for several years, but returned to India in 1911, and was designated to Midnapore. Here she continued to render effective and valuable service for many years.

Mrs. H. P. Cochrane On February 16, 1932, after a very short illness, Mrs. Julia Stickney Cochrane, wife o f Dr. Henry P. Cochrane, died at her home in Washington, D. C. Mrs. Cochrane had giren thirty years to foreign mission service in Burma. She was born in Washington, D. C., on July 16, 1866. She was graduated from the Washington Normal School, from Northfield Seminary, 1893, and from Mount Holyoke, 1897. She was appointed under the Woman’s Society in April, 1899, and designated to Henzada. There her work was largely educational and carried on in the Middle School and in the Girls’ High School. In December, 1917, she was married to Rev. Henry P. Cochrane, missionary of the General Society at Pyapon. In 1922 they were transferred to the English and Burmese work in Maymyo, and there Mrs. Cochrane took charge of the Girls’ School and of work in the English Sunday school. Owing to ill health, Doctor and Mrs. Cochrane returned to the homeland, arriving in November, 1928. They retired from active foreign service the following year, but continued to serve in the homeland.

Mrs. G eorge J. Geis Mrs. Katie Floesch Geis, wife of Rev. G. J. Geis, of Myitkyina, Burma, died April 28, 1932. Mrs. Geis was born in New York City, December 16, 1865. She was graduated from the Training School, Chicago, 111., and went with Mr. Geis to Burma in 1892. Arriving in Bhamo in November of that year, they began at once their stud}r of the language. A year later they were designated to Myitkyina to work among the Kachins, then a wild hill- tribe. They did real pioneer work under peculiarly difficult conditions, and many converts were won by their devoted and faithful service. In 1918, following their furlough, they were designated to the Philippine Islands to take charge of the evangelistic work in Capiz area. In 1923 they were again sent to Burma, and continued with the work at Myitkyina. Mrs. Geis had thus completed forty years of service as a missionary of the Society.

David C. Gilmore After forty years of active foreign service Rev. David C. Gilmore, D. D., died on May 24, 1931, in New York City. Doctor Gilmore was born in Rochester, N. Y., on August 29, 1866, the son of Rev. J. H. Gilmore, who was the author of one of our best loved hymns, “ He Leadeth Me." Appointed to missionary service in July, 1890, he sailed to Burma, and 5 2 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY was designated to Rangoon. There he served as teacher, preacher, adminis­ trator, and editor. When the Normal Department of Rangoon Baptist College (Judson College) was organized, he taught the first classes. Later, when the College was affiliated with the University of Calcutta, he occupied the Chair of Pali. He established and edited the first Sgaw Karen Sunday- school paper, published the first song-book in the Sgaw Karen language, and prepared the first Sgaw Karen grammar. He did much work along evan­ gelistic and educational lines. Doctor Gilmore served as Vice-president and later as President of Judson College. So conspicuous and far-reach- ing were his services along educational linei in India that the British Gov­ ernment'awarded him the Kaisar-i-Hind gold medal for “ distinguished public service in India.” In 1929, after an extended furlough, Doctor Gil­ more returned to the field for literary work, but ill health two years later compelled his return to America.

Thomas Hill Mrs. Thomas Hill Early in 1932 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hill, veteran missionaries from the Congo, were stricken with pneumonia. Mrs. Hill died on February 8 and Mr. Hill on March 5. They had given nearly forty years of service on the foreign field, and had returned to the homeland to retire. Mr. Hill was born in North Ormesby, Yorkshire, England, on November 28, 1861. He was graduated from the Gordon Training School, Boston, and was appointed to missionary service in February, 1892, with designation to Matadi, Belgian Congo. Mrs. Hill, as Clara Gosline, was born in New Brunswick, Canada, on Ju’y 10, 1866. In March, 1896, when Mr. Hi'l was on his first furlough, thej' were married in West Newton, Mass. Mrs. Hill was also a graduate of the Gordon Training School. As evangelistic missionaries Mr. and Mrs. Hill rendered faithful pioneer scrvice in several of our Congo stations. In 1923 they were designated to Moanza, an important outpost of Vanga. They were two of the ablest and most devoted Congo missionaries, and they put an indelible stamp of fine Christian character upon hundreds of people.

Mrs. Albert Loughridge Mrs. Elizabeth G. Loughridge, widow of Dr. Albert Loughridge, died on December 10, 1931, in Salem, Ore. Mrs. Loughridge was born at Browns­ ville, Pa., on October 23, 1846. She was graduated from the Iowa State University in 1871, and received her Master’s degree from the same Univer­ sity. Dr. and Mrs. Loughridge sailed for India in 1875. After three years spent in school work and language study, they were sent to a section where the gospel had never before been preached, and at Hanumakonda they established a new mission station. They were the only missionaries among over three millions of people, and faced the many difficult problems of such pioneer work. In 1881 Mrs. Loughridge’s failing health compelled her to return to America. In 1901 they again sailed for India, to take up the work they loved. Four years later, however, the return of Mrs. GENERAL REVIEW OF THE YEAR 53

Loughridge’s ill health made it seem advisable for them to give up thoughts of foreign service. After some years in teaching in Des Moines and McMinnville, they made their home in Salem, Ore.

Raymond Maplesden Rev. Raymond Maplesden, a retired missionary of the General Society to India, died at his home in New York City, December 18, 1931. Mr. Maples­ den was born at Maidstone, England, and was educated at London College. Influenced by the evangelistic services held by Dwight L. Moody, he decided to become a Baptist minister. He studied under Rev. C. H. Spurgeon, was ordained in London, and in 1879 went to Madras, South India, as pastor of the church there. In October, 1881, he became a missionary under appoint­ ment of the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society, and remained in India for the next fifteen years in that capacity, stationed in Ongole, Secun­ derabad, and Narasaravupet. Resigning from foreign service in 1895, Mr. Maplesden became the pastor of the First Baptist Church at Middletown, Conn. For twenty-six years he served as field secretary of the Suffield School, Suffield, Conn., and was prominent in evangelistic work.

Samuel A. Perrine Rev. Samuel A. Perrine died at his home in East Orange, N. J., on March 4, 1932. He was born in Greensburg, Ind., February 19, 1859, and was a graduate of Shurtleff College, Chicago University, and the Chicago Univer­ sity Divinity School. He was appointed to missionary service in Assam in March, 1892, and designated to Molung. Mr. and Mrs. Perrine served with the Society until their resignation in October, 1906. In July, 1906, he accepted the call to the Port Norris Baptist Church, N. J. In 1909 he became the pastor of the Fifth Church of Newark, N. J. For the past ten 3rears he had been in business in New York and Boston.

Paul A. Sornberger On June 23, 1931, occurred the death of Paul A. Sornberger, one o f the younger missionaries of the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society, in the Philippine Islands. Mr. Sornberger was born September 7, 1896, in Palmjrra, Mo. He was graduated from Ottawa University in 1926 and from the Divinity School of the University of Chicago in. 1929. His great desire was to work among college young people and lead them to a fuller Chris­ tian life. With this in mind, he specialized in Religious Education while at the University of Chicago, and received from that institution his master’s degree. He was appointed to serve at Central Philippine College, Iloilo, Philippine Islands, and with Mrs. Sornberger sailed for the field in Sep­ tember, 1929. Great opportunities opened to him, but his term of service was brief, less than two years. Yet in that short period he had shown capacity for strong Christian leadership. With his death a career of high usefulness came to an untimely end. 5 4 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

William E. Witter William E. Witter, M. D., D. D., a retired missionary to Assam, died in Rochester, New York, on November 5, 1931. Doctor Witter was born in Lagrange, N. Y., December 9, 1854. He heard the call to missionary service in student days, and in 1883 he was appointed to Burma and assigned to work among the Assamese and Khols in Sibsagar, Assam. Later he became the first missionary to the Lhotha Nagas in the Naga Hills, and while there did considerable translation work. When he came home on furlough he studied at the Chicago Homeopathic Medical College, and obtained his M. D. degree. It was impossible for him to return to Assam at that time, and so he served as District Secretary of the Foreign Society in the Middle West and in New England from 1891-1911. In 1912, in answer to a call from Gauhati, Assam, Doctor and Mrs. Witter went out to work among the students of the great government institution, Cotton College. In 1921 Doctor Witter was free to devote himself to the much-needed translation work. His outstanding achievement was the reducing of the Lhotha Naga language to writing and the preparation of a grammar and vocabulary in that language. Many of his other works, over twenty books and pamphlets, were in Lhotha Naga and the rest were largely translations from Bengali and English into the Assamese. His capacity for friendship was extraor­ dinary. Every life he touched felt the stimulating influence of this large- hearted, virile, yet winsome Christian personality.

In the death of five denominational leaders the Society has lost five friends who through their direct and indirect connection with the Society’s work contributed to its progress. Like the mission­ aries across the seas, they, too, served nobly and well.

William E. Blodgett William E. Blodgett, a member of the Board of Managers of the Foreign Society for four years (1919-1923), died at his home in Woburn, Mass., on May 26, 1931. He was born at Watertown, Mass., in 1864, and was associated with the firm of the Guastavino Company, builders of churches and theaters. In 1926 he made a business trip around the world. During this tour he visited and studied many of our mission stations, and made a report to the Board, giving his impressions of the work. He was an active and faithful New England Baptist layman, loyally interested in denomina­ tional progress.

Daniel G. Stevens The denomination lost a faithful and devoted servant in the death, on May 11, 1931, of Rev. Daniel G. Stevens, Ph. D. He was born Sep­ tember 17, 1869, in Baltimore, Md. O f unusual scholastic ability, he re­ ceived the degrees of A. B. and Ph. D. from Johns Hopkins University, and B. D. and Th. M. from Crozer Theological Seminary. In 1896 he was ordained to the Baptist ministry, and served as pastor of the First Church GENERAL REVIEW OF THE YEAR 55 of Xenia, Ohio, then at Bryn Mawr, Pa., and later at Bordentown, N. J. From May, 1913, until his death he had been Book Editor of The American Baptist Publication Society, in which position he rendered a large and impor­ tant ministry. He was a loyal friend of the Foreign Mission Society. All of its publications, including the Annual Reports of the Society, which were published by the Publication Society passed through his editorial hands.

Frederick E. Taylor One o f the historic American pastorates came to a close with the death of Rev. Frederick E. Taylor, D. D., for twenty-six years pastor of the First Baptist Church of Indianapolis, Ind., who died at his home in that city on April 28, 1932. During all these years he was a recognized leader among the Baptist forces of Indiana, serving on the Boards of the Indiana Baptist State Convention and of Franklin College. He was a member of many committees of the various missionary agencies of the denomination, always responding cheerfully to every call for help in whatever capacity he served. In 1922-1923 he was honored with the presidency of the Northern Baptist Contention. He was president of the Foreign Mission Society from 1928 to 1930, and a member of its Board of Managers from 1913 to 1928. A unique service, the abiding influence of which is still evident, was the evangelistic preaching tour which he and Dr. Carter Helm Jones made as emissaries of the Society in 1922 in Czechoslovakia. His unquestiofied loyalty to Christ and his strong, stedfastly evangelical emphasis was con­ stantly evidenced in all his denominational service. A wise counselor and a distinguished pastor has gone to his reward.

Everett T. Tomlinson Rev. Everett T. Tomlinson, D. D., preacher, educator, author, and denom­ inational leader, died on October 30, 1931, after a short illness.He began his public career as a teacher and as principal of the High School at Auburn, N. Y. Later, as head master of the preparatory department of Rutgers College, he came to be known as a friend and counselor to the students there. He held but one pastorate, that with the Central Baptist Church of Elizabeth, N. J. For twenty-three years he gave himself to the work of this church, and through it to the ever-widening ministry in the kingdom of God. As an author, especially of books for boys, at least one hundred volumes have his name and the impress of his splendid char­ acter. His helpful and illuminating books have enriched the minds and morals o f countless boys and young men. His unusual executive ability found opportunity for extraordinary service in the development o f the Ministers and Missionaries Benefit Board of the Northern Baptist Conven­ tion, which he served with unsparing devotion as secretary from its estab­ lishment in 1911 until his death.

Charles H. Watson Charles. H. Watson, D. D., well-known librarian of the New England Baptist Library in Boston, died on August 14, 1931. For twenty-eight years 5 6 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

Doctor Watson was pastor o f the Arlington Baptist Church. When he retired from pastoral work he was made librarian, a position which he retained and filled with real efficiency for more than fifteen years. His Boston letters to The Baptist were incisive commentaries on events, with careful estimates, shrewd forecasts, and unusual phrasings. His departure is a loss to New England Baptists because of his splendid service, his sterling character, and the cheery friendliness of his gracious personality.

The Home Mission Centenary The past year has brought another missionary centenary to Northern Baptists. With memories still vivid of the Foreign Mission Judson Centennial, eighteen years ago, and of the cen­ tennial of The American Baptist Publication Society, eight years ago, the Board of Managers has congratulated heartily The American Baptist Home Mission Society on the completion of one hundred years of home missionary service in North America. In recognition of this significant achievement, the following reso­ lution was adopted:

To The American Baptist Home Mission Society:

Greetings: The Board o f Managers of the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society rejoices heartily with The American Baptist Home Mission Society on the occasion of its centennial anniversary, and cordially congratulates the Society’ -on its noble achievement of one hundred years of distinguished service in extending the Kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ throughout the continent of North America. The Board takes justifiable pride in the historic fact that on April 27, 1832, representatives o f the Foreign Mission Society came from Boston to New York to participate in the Society’s organization. Mindful also of the fact that the two Societies had a common origin in the missionary awakening of American Baptists more than a century ago, and recognizing that through the heroic service of missionary pioneers like Luther Rice, John Mason Peck, and others, foundations were laid for the vast missionary enterprise that American Baptists maintain today at home and abroad, the Board joins in giving thanks to God for these one hundred years of worthy missionary progress. The fraternal relationships that have marked the passing years in the service o f the two Societies have resulted in an increasingly fruitful cooperation that has been of reciprocal blessing and of enduring benefit. Furthermore, through the development of a missionary minded and missionary supporting constituency among American Baptists The American Baptist Home Mission Society has made a notable con­ tribution to the extension of the Kingdom of Christ in lands across the seas. GENERAL REVIEW OF THE YEAR 5 7

In thus expressing its felicitations, the Board also unites in the prayer that He who has so gloriously led the Society through its first century of service may continue to vouchsafe His blessing upon the Socicty, on its work, and on its missionaries as they nobly endeavor to fulfill the challeng­ ing motto of the Society, “ North America for Christ.”

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 ie t y , On behalf o f the Board of Managers,

Bernard C. Clausen, President of the Society. H e r b e r t J. W h i t e , Chairman of the Board. W illiam B. Lipphard, Recording Secretary.

The Home Mission Centennial was appropriately observed throughout the year. A Centenary Program Committee was ap­ pointed on which the Foreign Missionary Society was represented by Home Secretary P. H. J. Lerrigo. Centenary celebrations were held at places of historic interest and in various cities associated with the careers of early mission pioneers in America. Most spectacular was the transcontinental trek of a covered wagon, replica of the vehicles which in pioneer days transported thou­ sands of pioneers westward, ever extending the political as well as the Christian frontier of the United States until it reached the shores of the Pacific Ocean. Everywhere on its memorable jour­ ney the covered wagon elicited enthusiastic response, and it renewed and stimulated interest in home missions. The actual one-hundredth birthday of the Society, April 27, 1932, was cele­ brated by a unique service at the Home Mission headquarters in New .York. It is anticipated that as soon as the plans can be perfected an effort will be made to secure a special centenary fund of $1,500,000 for home missionary enterprises. In this effort The American Baptist Home Mission Society will have the hearty sympathy and cooperation of all othfr denominational organi­ zations.

25th Anniversary of the Laymen’s Missionary Movement On November 15, 1906, an organization of men in the interest of the missionary enterprise was created that has had far-reaching, stimulating and beneficent effects on the entire Christian move­ ment in the non-Christian world. This organization, which came to be known as the Laymen’s Missionary Movement, celebrated its 5 8 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY twenty-fifth anniversary on November 15, 1931. Simultaneous interdenominational men’s gatherings were held in all the largest cities of the country and in many smaller centers. The work of organizing this special celebration was conducted by Mr. F. J. Michel, of Chicago, Secretary of the Laymen’s Missionary Move­ ment. In addition to these interdenominational gatherings a great many Baptist churches celebrated the anniversary by a special meeting at the regular morning or evening service. The National Council of Baptist Men, under the leadership of Chairman W . C. Coleman and Secretaries W. G. Boyle and L. T. Randolph, cooperated heartily in carrying out this plan. Considerable empha­ sis was thus given to the part of men in carrying on the world missionary enterprise.

The Medical Service Department Four years ago Judson C. King, M. D., who for fourteen years had carried on medical mission work in Belgian Congo, returned to this country completely broken in health. He was suffering from pernicious anaemia and it was not anticipated that he would recover. Fortunately, new developments in medical science in recent years made it possible to bring him prompt and full relief. During the intervening four years’ period he has regained complete health. When Doctor King’s health was sufficiently reestablished to enable him to undertake, while in America, definite and systematic duties, he was asked by the Board of Managers to care for the details of the work of the Medical Service Department. For sev­ eral years past he has had charge of the health examinations for missionaries of the Society and has directed the work of obtaining for them the necessary remedial medical and surgical measures for their reestablishment in health. Now that Doctor King’s own health has been completely* restored, the Board, as announced on page 44, has authorized his return to Belgian Congo. The details of the work of the Medical Service Department will now be resumed by Secretary P. H. J. Lerrigo.

The Student Volunteer Movement Quadrennial Convention At Buffalo, N. Y., the Student Volunteer Movement held its eleventh quadrennial convention from December 30, 1931, to Jan­ uary 3, 1932. Under the general theme, “ The Living Christ in the GENERAL REVIEW OF THE YEAR 5 9

World of Today,” a varied program moved constructively toward the conviction that the solution of the world’s problems lies in the living Christ and in devoted following of him. With that frank­ ness characteristic of modern youth, the problems and failures of today were frankly and critically faced both in the world at large and in the missionary enterprise. In the same spirit, accomplish­ ments of the past, needs of the present, and opportunities of the future were considered. Platform meetings occupied only the evenings, and a part of the mornings. In the latter half of each morning the Convention divided into 28 round-table groups, where, under capable discussion leaders, the delegates discussed such topics as “ The Case for Missions Today,” “ The Relation of the Religion of Jesus to One’s Philosophy of Life and One’s Life Choices,” “ Present-Day Motives and Methods in Foreign Missions,” and “ How Can the Gospel of Christ Best Be Related to the Life of an Indigenous People ? ” The afternoons were devoted to two unusu­ ally effective dramatic presentations : a pageant, “ Release,” and a play, “ Ba Thane,” depicting missionary life in Burma. Among the speakers were Dr. John R. Mott, Dr. Robert E. Speer, Dr. T. Z. Koo, of China, Prof. D. D. T. Jabavu, of South Africa, Right Rev. Wm. P. Remington, Bishop of Eastern Oregon, Dr. Walter H. Judd, missionary to China, and Dr. Paul W. Harrison, missionary to Arabia. On the afternoon of December 31 about one hundred Northern Baptist students held a denominational meeting at the Prospect Avenue Baptist Church, with a supper served by the ladies of the church. Candidate Secretary Paul E. Alden presided and brief addresses were given by Candidate Secretary Helen L. Tufts and Miss E. E. Vickland of Assam, representing the Woman’s Society, and by Foreign Secretary J. C. Robbins and missionaries H. I. Frost, of Bengal-Orissa, E. H. Clayton, of East China, Fred B. Ford, of the Philippine Islands, and William Axling, of Japan. Because of the general financial conditions the Convention was smaller than a number of the preceding Student Volunteer quad- rennials. The total registration was 2,260, of whom 1,727 were students representing 402 institutions. Nevertheless, in its effective presentation of the missionary task and its high spiritual tone, many agreed that it was one of the most significant of the eleven quadrennial conventions held since 1891 by the Student Volunteer 60 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

Movement. A fresher and deeper interest in missions is already evident on a number of college campuses as a result of this Con­ vention.

New Missionaries The following new missionaries were commissioned during the past year -and sailed to the fields indicated : Assam : Rev. and Mrs. John William Cook. Burma: Rev. and Mrs. William Henry Cummings, Rev. and Mrs. M. Vincent Young. Congo: Mrs. Ulric A. Lanoue. South China: Rev. Bruno H. Luebeck. Philippine Islands: Rev. and Mrs. Donald F. Perron. Rev. and Mrs. Henry Oswell Wyatt, who served as missionaries in Assam from 1920 to 1925 and have been serving the Baptist Church at Oaklyn, N. J., for the past five years, were reappointed and sailed for Burma. The following were also appointed and are expected to sail in the fall of 1932 : Assam: Rev. and Mrs. R. Fred Chambers, Rev. and Mrs. Reuben W. Holm. East China: Mr. and Mrs. Burl A. Slocum. Philippine Islands: Rev. Ernest L. Ackley. The influence of upbringing in Christian family relationships is often revealed in the examination of new missionaries. Prac­ tically all of the new appointees in their statements to the Foreign Board commented on the Christian homes from which they had come. In the case of one candidate last year the family back­ ground was'exceptional. He is the son of a Baptist minister who had spent forty-eight years in the pastorate. He is, likewise, the grandson of a Baptist minister, has two uncles now in the ministry, while a younger brother is a student for the ministry. More than ever is it necessary to give serious attention to the physical qualification of candidates. Out of the forty-one candi­ dates who have taken physical examinations, after their prepara­ tion for field service, thirteen, or thirty-two per cent., have been disqualified because of physical defects. This percentage is far too large and is always cause for disappointment and readjustment. Prospective candidates are now being encouraged to obtain thor­ GENERAL REVIEW o f t h e y e a r 61 ough physical examinations at their own expense at as early a date as possible. Through such procedure disappointment and failures to qualify may be decreased and any existing physical defects may be corrected.

The Candidate Department During the past year the Candidate Secretary visited 33 col­ leges, universities, and theological seminaries. The gradual increase in the interest of students in missions, noted in the last two years, has been evident in many of these institutions. New appointees were secured and sent to the fields for all of the posi­ tions for which funds were available in the fiscal year. For open­ ings to be filled in the summer and fall of 1932 candidates are already under appointment or in prospect, with the exception of the very important need for a new president at Judson College. Because of the reduced income of the Society, the number of new missionaries will be considerably smaller in 1932 than for some years. It was financially impossible to appoint several well-quali­ fied candidates. The wide-spread unemployment conditions have had a reflex effect in leading many devoted Christian young people who found doors closed to them in the homeland to make inquiries concerning service abroad. A number of these were apparently well fitted for missionary tasks had it been possible to provide the funds to send them to the fields.

Training Conference for New Missionaries The fourth interdenominational training conference for newly appointed missionaries met on the campus of the Kennedy School of Missions, at Hartford, Conn., June 11-17, 1931. The total of 111 new missionaries included new appointees of the Society, the Woman’s Society, the Boards of Foreign Missions of the Presby­ terian Church in the U. S. A., of the Reformed Church in America, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, The American Board of Com­ missioners for Foreign Missions, and the Department of Missions of the Protestant Episcopal Church. Before proceeding to Hart­ ford for this conference, the new missionaries of the two Baptist Boards devoted a day to conference with officers of the Society at Kansas City following the sessions of the Northern Baptist Con­ vention. At the close of the Hartford Conference, three more 62 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

days were spent at the headquarters in New York. In June, 1932, new missionaries of the two Societies will join in a similar interde­ nominational conference at Hartford, Conn., which will be fol­ lowed by several days at headquarters.

Homes for Missionaries’ Children The higher standard of work done in the schools for American children on a number of the mission fields has gradually reduced the number of children in the Homes for Missionaries’ Children maintained by the Society at Newton Center, Mass., and at Gran­ ville, Ohio. During the past year twenty-two children were accom­ modated in these homes, whereas there were forty-two in 1925, thus representing a reduction of more than 50 per cent, in seven years. At Newton Center ten children, representing seven mis­ sionary families, were under the efficient care of Dr. and Mrs. Fred P. Haggard. At Granville, Miss Maud Brook continued her devoted service with twelve children, representing nine families.

The Call of God Through the Depression A perusal of this report and further reflections on the prevailing world depression should now in conclusion suggest that never was there a time in human history when the world needed the recreating and redeeming gospel of Christ more than now. Economic recov­ ery is not enough; political stability is not sufficient; disarmament and peace are essential, but still more is needed. The world and its people need to be saved. Christ alone can save them. Physical hunger is paralleled by spiritual hunger everywhere. Native con­ stituencies are awakened as witnessed by the Kingdom of God Movement in Japan, the Five-Year Evangelistic Movement in China, the Burma for Christ Movement, and others. Not fewer but more missionaries is the plea which comes from the churches abroad; not less but larger support is the call from every field. This is a day of glorious privilege. It is the privilege of all who can give to give more in order to replace the gifts of those who must give less. Through the world depression God is calling his people back to the sacrificial life. The things of eternal value can be saved despite the depression. Through saving the world the church will find renewed life. SUMMARY OF REPORTS FROM THE MISSIONS

THE BURMA MISSION

Reported by Mrs. H. W . Smith H E year 1931 will go down in the history of the Burma Mission as the year of Commissions. Late in 1930 some members of the Lindsay Commission on Higher Christian Education visited Burma. They turned their investigating eye on Judson College, the pride of Burma Bap­ tists. What they discovered is no longer a secret, since their report was published some months ago. February, 1931, brought the first contingent of the Laymen’s Enquiry Commission, the so-called fact-finding com­ mittee consisting of experts in medical, educational, social, and ecclesiastical lines. The Appraisal Committee arrived in November and carried out apparently much the same program as the former and covering much the same ground, though less extensively owing to greater restriction of time. Burma was fortunate, also, to be on the itinerary of the President of the Baptist World Alliance, Dr. John MacNeill, who with Mrs. MacNeill spent a few days in our midst. His presence was a benediction and his preaching an inspiration to all who heard him. Politically, Burma is by no means settled and peaceful. The Separation issue has called out unexpected and incomprehensible opposition from cer­ tain quarters and protest meetings are carried on. The rebellion seems to be receiving less notice, as most of the leaders and instigators have been brought to justice. Villagers once more feel reasonably safe and are able to market their paddy (unhusked rice) instead of seeing it burned down by rebels. Could the story of the year be told no doubt many a thrilling tale of heroism and bravery and special deliverance would come to light from the experience of these villages. The year under review has seen the inauguration of the Burma for Christ Movement by the Christian Council, all the denominations cooperat­ ing. W e are well aware that no Kagawa has yet appeared in Burma, but we also know that if God’s conditions are fulfilled, he can surely give us a revival and the ingathering for which we look.

SPECIAL INSTITUTIONS

Judson College At the annual Convocation of Rangoon University in July, 1931, the main buildings of Judson College were formally opened, and the founda­ tion stone of the chapel was laid by His Excellency Sir Charles Innes, Governor of Burma and Chancellor of the University. Owing to the rebellion, with its wanton destruction of property and crops, and the world-wide depression affecting especially the price of Burma’s staple crops of paddy and rubber, the strain and burden of raising the required funds have been terrific. The Christians of Burma have given sacrificially, alumni 6 5 6 6 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY have pledged heartily, and missionaries have done their part nobly, but none of these have large sums at their disposal. The drop in the value of the English pound brought a ray of hope, for if the conditional amount pledged from America could be claimed at the favorable rate prevailing in January and February the burden at this end would be considerably lightened. At this writing, however, it looks as if the pound sterling were recovering faster than the pledges could be raised. We have faith that the sum will be forthcoming, but it is a tremendous undertaking. In the meantime the building is going forward, and Dr. Wallace St. John hopes to see the completion and dedication of the beautiful Gothic chapel by the next Con­ vocation. College passes were .good, on the whole, Judson having a higher showing than University College. Thirty-eight successful candidates completed Inter­ mediate Arts, and thirty-one gained bachelor degrees.

Pyinmana Agricultural School For years our Burma Mission has had an agricultural school, where pigs and hens of a higher breed have set a fine example to their jungle kindred; where improved seeds, methods, and implements have enhanced the farmer’s yield; where gardening has provided a better and more varied diet; and where other numerous aids to better conditions in village life have been demonstrated from year to year. Since the Jerusalem Conference has put such stress on rural reconstruction, the Pyinmana school has won wide recognition and is doing a big piece of work with its semiannual institutes for all classes and workers in Burma. The school’s enthusiastic head, Missionary B. C. Case, refused to be beaten when Government in its drastic program of cuts in its educational budget threatened to cut off the school completely. In the face of this discouraging outlook he went about undismayed, certain that somehow this piece of work, permeated with a strong evangelistic note, would be kept going. Later Government found that the modest sum mentioned could be given in view of the service rendered to the Province by this institution, and the school is running as u.ual with an ever-increasing attendance. Hospitals The September issue of the Burma Baptist Bulletin was devoted entirely to the ministry of healing as carried on in our various mission hosiptals, all but one of which are situated in Shan-land. At Namkham, the new Harper Memorial Hospital has lately been completed. Here the indefatigable “ Waste-Basket Surgeon,” Dr. G. S. Seagrave, is working veritable miracles in surgery. He is also constantly active as an evangelist and does not need an interpreter to make the Good News understood by his Shans. Increased attendance at church and interest in the services has necessitated an enlarge­ ment of the auditorium. How he finds time to write books is a mystery, but he has gotten out a Nurses’ Handbook, in Burmese, well illustrated and quite complete. He has his own training school for nurses with a rcore or so of girls, both Shans and Kachins. THE BURMA MISSION 6 7

Tautlggyi is also a medical center, with Dr. A. H. Henderson in charge. His work is done with very simple equipment in modest little dispensaries in villages throughout his field. He goes the rounds regularly once a week, and cases are brought in for treatment and medicines are prescribed. In most centers a nurse is in charge to take care of emergencies and to give the simple home remedies which would stock any American home, but which are quite unknown here except as they are introduced by a Western medical agent. Mrs. Henderson makes the rounds with him, visits the homes, and engages the women in friendly talk which she skilfully guides to spiritual things, and shows them a higher way than the eight-fold path of Buddhism along which they grope so helplessly. Mongnai has been manned by Dr. Ah Pon, our beloved China-Bur- mese physician, during Dr. H. C. Gibbens’ furlough. It is now to be cared for by Doctor Henderson in addition to his own work while Dr. Ah Pon moves on to Kengtung, just vacated by Dr. R. S. Buker going on furlough. This station ministers to 200,000 people, and is handicapped on all sides. Unintentionally but inevitably Dr. R. S. Buker, of Kengtung, found him­ self with a leper c o lo ^ on his hands because he had compassion on the first pitiful case that came to his notice. There was no provision in his limited budget for local work, but what is a follower o f the Christ, who cleansed the lepers and bade his disciples do the same, to do? They appealed to him in their hopeless misery. So it has come about that a colony of over seventy are attached to the Kengtung medical work, affording a receptive field for evangelistic effort.

Seminaries and Bible Schools Nine miles out of Rangoon are located the Burman, Karen, and English Theological Seminaries and the Burman Women’s Bible School. Dr. J. C. Richardson is in charge of the first of these, ably assisted by Burman teachers, all class work being in Burmese. An interesting feature of this Seminary is that students of all races except Sgaw Karens study here, with the Burmans usually in the minority. Out of ten graduates there may be as many as three Burmans, while the rest are representatives of other races. The Karen Seminary, with its hundred students, rejoices in a new Smith Memorial Hall, giving much-needed dormitory space. Under the leadership of Dr. H. I. Marshall and his Karen assistants much more than the class- work teaching is carried on. The students may come without much aim or purpose to get a free education, but ere long something in the atmosphere of the place grips them, gets into their systems, and they become dissatisfied and ashamed, and after some struggle they become true evangelists eager to win souls by witness and personal work. Week-ends are devoted to cam­ paigns in villages where the newly kindled flame may spread and “ one glowing spirit sets another on fire.” When the English Seminary opened four years ago its student body consisted of three young college men who had made a real surrender of their lives. Later on a special student came for a year, and it looked as though this might be the end as well as the beginning 68 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

of the venture. In January, 1931, these three young men won their degrees of B. Th. from the Northern Baptist Theological Seminary, Chicago, with which the school at Insein is affiliated. One of them joined the faculty of the Karen Seminary, another is Rev. V. W. Dyer’s invaluable assistant in gospel team evangelism, and the third has been associated with Rev. G. E. Blackwell in the Toungoo Karen Field. The Seminary did not close its doors when the first three were graduated; in fact, when opening time came Dean Wiatt was put to it to find room for the eager young men and women, one of them a full-fledged B. A., several others with some college training, who registered either for the full course or for special work to fit them for Christian service among their own people. For years the missionaries have been praying and pleading for men of higher education for the ministry; now comes the answer in this influx of students.

Mission Press Our publishing plant in Rangoon under the superintendency of Mr. H. W. Smith has managed to keep its head above water in spite of the depression currents that have swept around it with insistent pull. Religious publica­ tions are always printed at a loss, and the commercial work must somehow manage to meet the overhead and finance the former. In the present day competition is keen in every line of the printing and stationery business, so it is no small achievement for the press to keep afloat and continue to issue a stream of religious literature, Gospel portions., and tracts to aid in evangelizing Burma. To the ten languages already used in its publications, this year has seen the printing of -the New Testament in two new languages, Haka Chin and Lahu. Hymn-books and devotional works are being printed in several other languages, and good progress is being made on Dr. John McGuire’s revision of the Judson Bible. A concordance of the New Testa­ ment in Burmese is under way. Recognizing the great need of wholesome literature in Burmese, the Methodist Episcopal Board in spite of being understaffed loaned Rev. B. M. Jones, one of its best workers, to the Christian Literature Society for half-time. Seeing an opportunity for furthering this work still more the Press has now undertaken the other half of his support, thus enabling him to be entirely free from other obligations and to give full time to literary labors. The Press is also responsible for colportage work with the cooperation of station missionaries.

REPORTS FROM BURMAN MISSION FIELDS Mission work for Burmans, the dominant race of the land, is carried on in twenty different stations. Not all of these are manned by missionaries; some are looked after from neighboring fields, and one is carried on by the Burma Baptist Convention. Since the direct approach with the gospel message was difficult and met with indifference among the placid, easy-going Buddhists, the Mission gained an entrance into some communities by the opening o f schools, hoping with daily Bible instruction and contacts with Christian personalities to win the young people to discipleship. This costly THE BURMA MISSION 6 9 method has been only a partial success, and with the rising tide of nation­ alism pressure is being exerted on Government to restrict Bible teaching in all aided schools. Already an adjustment committee is at work to find ways and means o f carrying on where changes are called for in program and policy. Bassein Bassein, in the Irrawaddy delta, is one o f the stations where school work has been tried extensively among the Burman population. There are four large Anglo-Vernacular schools in the district with all-Christian staffs exerting their quiet influence which cannot be measured or tabulated. Mr. S. V. Hollingworth gives the following notes: “ The Myaungmya Girls’ School furnishes a noteworthy example of the true Christian spirit of coopera­ tion between the Christians of the various races. While the school is conducted by our Burman Mission and has a Burman head mistress, most of the teachers are Karen, and the enrolled pupils include Burmans, J*wo and Sgaw Karens, Chinese, Anglo-Indians, and Indians. A thriving Sunday school, averaging over 125 in attendance, is conducted by the teachers with not even the local pastor’s help. Here again racial prejudice is overcome by the spirit of Christ, for the Karen teachers outnumber the Burmans in this Burman Sunday school. On several Sundays without special effort it has outnumbered the Burman Sunday school of Bassein, where there are two day-schools with a combined enrolment 40 per cent, larger than the school in Myaungmya.” Henzada Henzada Burman field has had the same missionary for forty-four years. Dr. and Mrs. J. E. Cummings are retiring this spring. In many ways he has found his last year the hardest. “ The year 1931 was one of troubles, trials, and some triumphs,” he says. The trouble refers to the condition of the field due to the rebellion and the condition of lawlessness it brought in its wake, with every sort of violent crime all too frequently committed by desperate men. Trials have been due to reduction of income both from Government and fees which occasioned difficult problems in school finances. Exhaustion and fever assailed both missionary and native pastor, yet despite these troubles Doctor Cummings says: “ We have baptized thirty-two con­ verts, of whom twenty-two came from the school. Our high school had the best year in its history, passing twelve candidates, eleven of whom were eligible to enter college. W e have completed and paid for a new big dormitory accommodating about ninety boarders. Our Henzada church has temporarily called a Karen pastor, who has entered into work and who preaches in Burmese very acceptably. W e face the new year thankful that the excessive troubles and trials of 1931 are over and hopeful that 1932 will be a year of abundant blessing from the Lord.” The evangelistic work is in charge of Rev. G. D. Josif, of the Rangoon Burman field, whose many-sided activities would fill a book. In addition to being superintendent of a good-sized day-school in Rangoon, and in charge of two large fields as evangelistic missionary, he is secretary of the Burma 70 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

Christian Council and serves on a number of conference committees as well. At this writing it appears that he will also have to take over charge of Cushing High School in Rangoon, due to lack of workers—a job which should have the full time of a missionary family. Regarding colportage work, Mr. Josif says: “ For the most part we have made use of seminary students in this work, whose vacation lasts from February to the end of May. For the past year up to date we have sold about 5,000 copies of Gospels and other Bible portions, about 2,400 other small books on Christian subjects, and have distributed between 12,000 and 15,000 free tracts and leaflets. This is due to the faithful work of the head master and teachers.”

Pegu A little over fifty miles north of Rangoon is the station of Pegu, where Rev. M. C. Parish has labored for over twenty-five years. Mr. Parish says: “ Pegu district is an ellipse with Pegu and Nyaunglebin as their foci, the former with a population before the earthquake of over twenty thousand people, the latter with over seven thousand, mostly Burman Buddhists. The whole district, except the mountains on the west, is one big paddy field dotted with hundreds of villages. When I came to Pegu in 1907 there was one old Burman preacher here, one church with about thirty members, and four baptisms reported the year before. It has been hard work to get a start in the villages, but contacts have been made and here and there Burmans have responded to the gospel. The Pegu church has become self- supporting and small bands of Christians have been gathered in nine or ten different places, some Chins, some Taungthus, and some Burmans all more or less loosely organized into churches. The pastor of the church is one of the few who have the ability to plan ahead and lead.”

Toungoo The work in Toungoo, since Rev. L. B. Rogers went home two years ago, has been in the charge of Miss Mildred Mosier, who has found plenty to do in school and town, and yet she manages to make short trips out into her field from time to time. Her report tells of baptisms in Toungoo and in Pyu during M arch: “ Only those engaged in Burman work can appreciate the deep rejoicing over these additions. Each one represents long steady effort and prayer. Plans are now being made for evangelistic work during the hot season, with the help of Saya Ko Maung Galay and others from Bible schools and seminaries who have proved such a blessing at other vacation seasons.” Mandalay Mandalay, with Kelly High School in the charge of Rev. H. E. Hinton, and the Girls’ High School under Misses Alice Thayer and Eva M. Cum­ mings, has been flourishing. Kelly reports an increase in the number of Christian students and a good spirit in the school. Assembly is held three times a week for all students and a distinctly Christian chapel service once a week for Christian students. Only two Hindu boys asked to be excused THE BURMA MISSION 71 from Bible study. The evangelistic work has taken on new life with the coming of Rev. Charles Halliday, an Anglo-Burman, trained in our Semi­ nary. Besides the Burmese work there are Chinese and Indian Christians to be shepherded, with endless opportunities for extension among them. The Mandalay missionary also has several outstations. At Sagaing, about ten miles away, across the Irrawaddy the Sutherland Memorial Chapel is being erected. The school was under Mrs. Hinton’s supervision until the arrival of Miss Frieda Peter, the first of the year. Shwebo and Katha are on the railway line on the Sagaing side and Mogok up the river in the ruby mines district. Here an interesting work is going on among the Lisus, Kachins, Karens, and Burmans. A Lisu evangelist is paid by the Kachin young people and is doing good work.

Maymyo From Maymyo, where Rev. Ernest Grigg is stationed, comes this report: “ My wife and I are grateful to all who contributed to our support finan­ cially and prayerfully during 1931. Fifty confessed Christ in baptism. This number included the following races: Burmans, Karens, Shans, Anglo- Indians, Kachins, Lisus, Assamese, Tamils, Telugus, and one Gurkha from Nepal. A united communion service of our Burmese, Indian, and English- speaking congregations was held in October, in which 179 members par­ ticipated. Eleven days were spent among the hills of Hsipaw State with the Lisu Christians. Their love of music and natural gifts in singing were strikingly illustrated at Pangphai village, where sixty-four believers were baptized three years ago.” Meiktila Another Burman mission station in the dry belt, yet beautifully located on the edge of a lake, is in the charge of Rev. H. E. Dudley. He has been cheered by signs of life in school, station, and villages, and reports a number of baptisms of elderly people in influential positions. The Thazi School has shown a remarkable development o f responsibility.

Myingyan Mvingyan is cared for by the Burman Baptist Convention with Sava U Po Min as its missionary. Here new methods of approach are being tried in an effort to take away from Christianity in Burma the reproach of denation­ alizing its adherents. Prome Prome has had no general worker since Dr. and Mrs. E. B. Roach left for America last spring. Rev. J. T. Latta has had general oversight of Prome from his station at Thonze. One colporter has done very effective work on the Prome station platform, selling several hundred Gospel portions each month. T avoy Rev. and Mrs. M. L. Streeter in Tavoy rejoice over the completion of their much-needed new school building and in the spiritual revival among 72 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY their workers and teachers. They have seen the growth o f a spirit of unity and cooperation, which means so much in the furtherance o f Christian work. The gospel team methods have been demonstrated in this field and all are enthusiastic in the results.

Thonze At Thonze Rev. J. T. Latta has had his hands more than full with a refugee settlement at his door. As touring was impossible, he has put in his time getting a new mission residence erected and incidentally afford­ ing many of the destitute around him a chance of earning" their daily rice by sifting gravel and sand and carrying building materials. The refugees have been very receptive to the gospel message, and he has had almost monthly baptisms from adults who would probably not otherwise have been reached. He is looking forward to operating a Rural Reconstruction Unit as soon as conditions permit taking advance steps.

THE CHIN MISSIONS

Haka and Tiddim There are several Chin stations in widely separated districts. The Northern Chins are in the so-called Chin Hills tracts, where at Haka and Tiddim Rev. J. Herbert Cope and Rev. and Mrs. C. U. Strait have been holding the fort. Mr. Cope is an indefatigable worker at Tiddim. In addition to supervising twenty or more Government schools, he finds time for a full measure of evangelistic work and has just translated and seen through the press the New Testament in one of the Chin dialects with which he is familiar. Mr. and Mrs. Strait are completing their first term of service at Haka. Mr. Strait has emphasized the training of preachers and has had a Bible school for several years. He has also completed the translation of some three hundred hymns into the Haka dialect. These will be printed before he leaves for America this spring. This is a critical time for Chin work. Thayetmyo Thayetmyo is doing well under the care of the Condicts. Rev. E. C. Con- dict reports general growth in the school, with a large percentage of Christian students. The staff has been greatly strengthened with the coming of a Chin B. A. and the number of baptisms has shown a gratifying increase. Sandoway From the west coast o f Burma, Rev. F. R. Bruce has sent the following: “ Miss Nellie E. Lucas’ coming to the station school_has given me the time needed for field work. This year we had our first pastors’ class in Chin. Copies of the notes used have been distributed over the field which gives a start in Chin literature in addition to song leaflets prepared in Thayetmyo. There has been some advance in self-support. One new preacher is sup­ THE BURMA MISSION 7 3 ported entirely by funds from the field. Some churches have promised help toward the support of their pastor for next year. One of our most promis­ ing features this year has been the vision some o f the young people have caught of what they can do. A gospel team trained by Samo Kha, a teacher who is an able leader of young people, did a fine piece of work in one of our remote sections.” Miss Lucas adds this for the station school: “ The attendance shows but a slight decrease from that of the previous year and only eighteen of the ninety-two requested exemption from Bible study. Half of these were so eager to take it that parents granted consent in June and some parents even expressed a wish for their children to study the Bible. There have been twenty baptisms from among our pupils this year. Our Christian Endeavor has gained in interest based on the group plan.” W e are sorry to have to report that Mr. and Mrs. Bruce are obliged to leave this promis­ ing work this spring for health reasons, leaving no one in sight to carry on.

KACHIN MISSION REPORTS One of the most challenging situations in all Burma is the opportunity among the Kachins, a sturdy hill tribe to the north and northeast. Three stations have been in operation, Bhamo for something like fifty-five years, and two others, Myitkyina and Namkham, for a much shorter time. The seed-sowing that has been done through all these years is now bearing fruit and all three fields are white unto the harvest, calling urgently for reapers. Such open doors, such golden opportunities for turning a nation to Christ have never before been presented.

Bhamo The educational work of the Bhamo District is under the supervision of Rev. L. W . Spring. He does all the evangelistic work which he can do in Burmese, which is his acquired tongue. The station school has Shans, Burmans, Chinese, and Kachins, and some Anglo-Indian students, and is the only Anglo-Vernacular school in town. Something over twenty-five dis­ trict schools belong to this field.

Myitkyina Rev. L. A. Dudrow in Myitkyina has a field too vast to cover and to keep the station work with all its organized school and industrial activities going at the same time. Villages, hill-tracts, and whole districts are calling for teachers and preachers to lead them. The people are eager to learn and it is heart-breaking to have to tell them to wait. And in the midst of his traveling season the missionary and his wife were both laid low with fever, and unable to get anywhere, though plans had long been made to tour among a hitherto unreached sub-tribe where the door is now wide open. In order to meet the situation to some extent Rev. G. J. Geis came back for another term instead of retiring in America, for the purpose of opening 74 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY a Bible school where Kachiñ young men can be taught and trained as workers for the harvest field. Mr. Geis does not aspire to give them a full theological education, but he wants to inspire them with the evangelistic fervor so that they will feel constrained to preach the word of salvation. Mr. Geis says: “ I thought when we had dedicated the new addition to the chapel and school building in Myitkyina in 1929 I was all through with building, but when the Kachin Convention in 1930 voted that we open a Bible school, and that I return for this work, it meant more building. I am happy to say that we have money in hand for the present need. Kachin carpenters in Myitkyina and Bhamo are ready and willing to do all the construction work.” But with the home-going o f the Woodburys, who have had charge of the Bhamo field, it looks as though the urgency of caring for that work might seriously interfere with the plans for the carrying on of the Bible school for this year.

Namkham Rev. G. A. Sword at Namkham has an encouraging word. “ In many respects the past year has been the best in the history of the Namkham Kachin Mission. The record number of baptisms for the year is 315. The net increase of Christian families was 145. Our church-membership is close to two thousand. With the eighteen schools and 714 pupils under our charge we feel that we are also building for the future. Month by month we have also edited and published the Kachin News. W e are now printing one thousand copies of this paper. To hundreds of Kachins this is the only newspaper they ever read, and of course we try to make it as religious as possible. During the rainy months we conducted a training class for evangelists. For five months these men have received intense training. These five evangelists are now busy working in different districts. During the month of October we called all our Christian workers for a two weeks’ Bible ;:tudy and conference. A large number of elders also came, so that we had about eighty in attendance. We had a good Conference and the Lord blessed our efforts. During the year two new chapels have been erected by the Kachins, and they are supporting a home missionary in another district.”

REPORTS FROM THE KAREN MISSION

While there are many subdivisions among the Karens, our work is chiefly with the Pwos and Sgaws. The Pwo Karens offer a promising field, and we should heed their urgent request for more missionaries while it is possible to win them. It is a joy to report the return of the Conrads to Bassein. Maubin is a Pwo station from which Rev. C. E. Chaney was taken to be Field Secretary two years ago. Miss Minnie B. Pound, though far from robust, is doing a man’s work in a man’s place and has long pleaded for a family to be sent to her assistance. Miss Nona Finney has been caring for the school, but her furlough is due and she must leave this spring. THE BURMA MISSION 7 5

Bassein Bassein, the largest Sgaw Karen field, is stepping out on its own, excepting the Girls’ School, to which Miss Clara Tingley has just returned. Dr. C. A. Nichols went home in the spring of 1931 after fifty-two years in that field, and this spring Rev. and Mrs. E. E. Sovvards followed. Thra San Ba, who is a graduate of Newton, is in charge of the general work. He is backed by many other well-educated Karen leaders.

Henzada In one Sgaw field, at least, the Karens have undertaken an Herculean building task. In Henzada, an important center, the need for a school building has been of long standing and is now being met, despite depression and general poverty, and when finished the Karens will have a plant that is not only a thing of beauty but one which is complete in every detail, and will be adequate for the needs for years to come. The missionaries here are Rev. and Mrs. A. C. Phelps, who supplied the following notes: “ Henzada District suffered a great deal from the rebellion and especially our Christian Karens because of their well-known loyalty to Government. Many were killed and others lost all they had, but we have many instances of the Lord’s protecting care and answered prayers. The evangelistic work has never stopped during all this time of trouble, and many villages have received the gospel message and baptisms have followed. During the last three months over sixty have been baptized, nearly all from non- Christian villages. Since the rains have ceased, we have been able to get out in the car and have visited many villages. We expect to dedicate our new building at our March Association meeting, and hope at that time to complete the pledges due for the work.”

Moulmein Rev. A. J. Weeks, of Moulmein, writes: “ There are 288,000 Karens in Moulmein District; 5,408 are members of forty-three churches and of twenty-four home-mission villages. Then there are six groups of villages where itinerant preachers make their rounds. Our people are scattered over 1,200 square miles from Ye to Papun and from Siam to Pegu. Thra Joseph and I visited sixty-three villages. Thra Ba Tun, of Bassein, is twenty miles north of Belin in a rich valley among ten thousand Karens. He is just starting a winning battle. At the Association the motto was ‘ The Holy Spirit for Moulmein.’ It was the best association of my life. Spiritual meetings, personal work, baptisms, and the receiving of our two new churches were the notable items. Next came a trip to Kwee Lay, twenty miles from anywhere, to ordain the pastor of that church of seventeen members. In that valley are seventy-two villages. In June we dedicated the new Karen School building. It is roomy and pleasant, built on good lines and sturdy. W e are proud of having it free of debt and a balance in the bank for the proposed chapel. W e spent Rs. 62,000 in all, this in a period of depression. The pastors’ class was fine, sixty were on the roll, twenty- four stayed throughout.” 76 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

Nyaunglebin Next we turn to Nyaunglebin, where Miss Freda Peter and Miss Hattie Petheram have been stationed to look after the field and school work. But with other stations empty, Miss Peter was transferred to Sagaing to take charge of the girls’ school there.

Shwegyin Shwegyin, near Nyaunglebin, is where Rev. and Mrs. C. L. Klein are stationed. Their people have been making special effort to carry the Good News to the outlying villages among the hills and in the plains, through gospel teams organized in the school. And not only has the gospel been carried to new fields, but in some of the villages where old churches were near to dying the fire has been rekindled and the pastors shaken out of the old ruts in which they have moved for years, old quarrels have been settled and back-sliders reclaimed.

Tharrawaddy In Tharrawaddy, Thra San Baw has been the general missionary for several years and does excellent work. Miss Gertrude Anderson is still there as superintendent of the large mixed high school. She has been living alone in the big rambling mission house through disturbed and troubled times without fear or worry. Government has depended largely on Thra San Baw for help during the recent rebellion, and he, with the loyal Karens, has done valiant service in protecting not only their own people, but in bringing quiet to the district. The rebels have set a price on his head, and his house has been a regular arsenal, as well as headquarters for the Karen Irregulars during these times. The mission has been of untold service and comfort to hundreds driven out of their villages and has gained new friends and adherents in all parts of the field in spite of the impossibility of extended travel.

Toungoo In Toungoo the Bwe Karens are undertaking the managing of their own school when Miss Grace A. Maine goes on furlough. Thra James Tapa, a Judson graduate, is to be at the helm. With money so scarce there is hard rowing ahead for all schools. The Paku Karen Mission is full-staffed, with the Rev. and Mrs. G. E. Blackwell for general work, and Miss Effie L. Adams for the school. They report progress in evangelistic work with new interest everywhere. The pity is that, the missionary should be tied down with literary work with the large field calling for advance. The District is a hard one to travel, as hills are steep and sparsely settled. Thra Peter Hla is proving himself a great blessing and help on the evangelistic force. Loikaw Loikaw is without a resident missionary, but receives attention from Rev. C. H. Heptonstall. He writes : “ Loikaw has had a good year. The move- THE BURMA MISSION 7 7 ment that began last year among the Bwe Karens toward a desire for Christian teachers has continued and we expect still more villages to call for teachers at the next Association. There is a similar movement among the Brecs. More will be asking for baptism just before the Association meets, but already the ordained pastors have reported over eighty. Schools have continued to date, though it is likely that Government aid will be cut off at any time. The economic situation is most distressing with the prices of both the staple articles, lac and cattle, so low as to be practically unsalable. In some quarters famine is threatened. We have two strong young men coming out of the seminary this year, one of whom feels called to become a traveling evangelist, if we can find money to meet the expense. The spirit manifest among the village pastors and teachers assembling in Loikaw for their semiannual meeting was inspiring. Almost to a man they came together and seemed alive to the work before them. Causes for encourage­ ment are greater, and discouragements fewer.

OUR WORK IN CHINA There is no field in all Burma that has been so fruitful of results as that among the Lahus and Was far up along and across the borders. Rev. William M. Young retires this year from a life of active service. He has the satisfaction of seeing his two stalwart sons engaged in the work he loves, intent on devoting their own lives to it. Were all missionaries able to pass on their love of the work to their children the problem of getting suitable recruits and willing workers would soon be solved. Mr. Young left this report as he sailed for America: “ In the year 1931 more extensive touring was done on the Bana field than in any previous year. I made the longest tour I have ever made, over five months steady going. I visited some two hundred Christian villages accompanied by ordained preachers. Five Associations were held during the year with upward of fourteen thou­ sand total attendance. As much more time than usual was given to pastoral oversight and the building up of churches, we could do less in evangelizing new areas. The present situation in China makes it very difficult for educa­ tional work, nevertheless there was a marked advance in the central school on Bana. The work o f Bible teaching was pressed to the utmost. There was an increase in the number of village schools throughout the entire field, and 1,700 were baptized during the year. There is general rejoicing that Rev. M. Vincent Young has arrived to take oversight of the Mong Mong field and the Wa work. As far as local conditions are concerned, the outlook is good for a general advance over the entire field, with pros­ pects for a huge advance on the Bana field.”

MON W O R K Moulmein Returning to civilization, we have one more tribe to report. The Mons of Moulmein District were formerly known as theTalaings and once the masters 78 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

of all of Lower Burma. They are as hard to win as the Burmans. Rev. R. Halliday has sent us the following: “ W e sometimes wonder what all our effort is worth and whether indeed we make enough effort in trying to win people for Christ. Lately, however, we have been much encouraged, for within the past two months we are able to record thirty-five baptisms in our Mon group of churches. At one church nine were baptized about two months ago. A month later eight were baptized at a place where regular monthly meetings are held but where there is no regular organized church, and just recently a call came from our most distant Mon church, away in the Tavoy District, for an evangelist to come, and for an ordained man to baptize. At the town church here in Moulmein three girls were baptized recently, chiefly, if not altogether, as a result of evangelistic work done in the Ellen Mitchell Memorial Hospital. W e held our Association at the more distant one this year, where only an annual visit is usually paid. In this way we keep in touch with the whole work.

Moulmein Leper Home Moulmein Leper Home is not a part of the Mon Mission, nor is it even an American Baptist Mission institution. But the religious work done there is distinctly Baptist. A very fine Mon couple are in charge of the place and the religious work is not neglected. Regular services are held both Sundays and week-days, and the inmates who take a prominent part in these are all members of Baptist churches. Members of. the various Moulmein churches encourage us with their presence and help out in the services. Just recently the superintendent had the privilege of baptizing fifteen of them on confession of their faith in Christ. A fine new church building was dedicated at the beginning of this year.

ENGLISH WORK

Rangoon A school for Anglo-Indian boys is located in Rangoon, but since a change was made in the rules o f the Education Department, admitting all races on an equal standing, many pure Burmans and Indians have come in to get a good grounding in English. This school has also seen many changes and has shifted quarters during the year, now occupying the old Judson College site. Dr. Frank E. Eden, of Immanuel Church, is building up the religious life of the school. He teaches Bible in the high department four days a week and has some live organizations started. One of particular value and promise is the Life Service League. The lads in this fellowship are undertaking the support of a preacher in the Leper Home in Moulmein, thus putting into practise the ideals of service to which they have voluntarily committed themselves. The Sunday-night congregation at Immanuel con­ tinues to fill the church. Two prominent guest preachers of the past year were Dr. John MacNeill and Dr. Clarence Barbour. Both were greeted by a full house and an appreciative audience. THE BURMA MISSION 79

LITERARY WORK It has already been mentioned that Dr. John McGuire is working on the revision of the Judson Bible. He is grateful for the continued good health of his assistant as well as his own. One-half of the Old Testament has already been printed. The manuscript had proceeded as far as the middle of Jeremiah at the end of 1931. Another two years, if health remains good and no other interruptions occur, and he hopes to see the completion of the task. Dr. H. H. Tilbe, who has also been engaged in literary work, reports the completion of two more volumes of commentaries. There are now six volumes available for Bible students. A copy of each volume has been put -gratis into the hands of each full-time evangelistic worker in every field. Six very helpful devotional expositions in English have also been published by Doctor Tilbe during the past year. An unex­ pected break in health put a sudden stop to Doctor Tilbe’s labors and he has returned to America after forty-two years in Burma. Another literary worker whose labors were cut short is Rev. E. N. Harris, who turned homeward last June, stopping in Brussels for severalmonths for medical treatment. At the close o f the year 1931 Rev. A. C. Hanna returned to Burma for literary work. Depletion of Staff Burma has sustained very heavy losses in 1931. Early in the year the whole mission was shocked and saddened by the sudden death of Rev. A. E. Seagrave, of the Karen work in Rangoon. His going left an unclosed gap in the already thinned ranks of the Karen Mission and his loss is still keenly felt. Only a few months later Dr. David C. Gilmore went to his reward. He also was a Karen missionary, though his greatest service was rendered as a teacher in Judson College. A third able worker was called home in August when Miss Alta Ragon answered the summons. She, too, was a Karen worker, and returned for another term of service in May, 1930. The list of those retiring because of age and broken health is appalling, and there are so few new recruits to fill these vacancies. We counted forty adults leaving the field between January and April of this year. If the work is not to lag, if the open doors are to be entered, and the unprecedented opportunities seized ere they pass we must have more recruits of the right kind for Burma. The need is very urgent.

SPECIAL FORMS OF WORK

Gospel Teams Those who have followed this report will have seen frequent references to gospel team work in the various fields. The development of this is due to Rev. V. W. Dyer, our General Evangelist. He has found groups very effective in soul-winning efforts, and many station missionaries have found that this method is very well adapted to their local fields. Instead of calling an evangelist, as churches do at home, a gospel team composed 80 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY of seminary and college students with some good leaders is called for a week-end campaign. They go with their program of songs and games, personal testimony and demonstration of fellowship in Christ, and joy in the Christian life that usually proves irresistible and contagious. Twice in 1931 have our Burma gospel teams gone to foreign shores. Siam, after one visit in 1930, wanted another in 1931, and a group of young people with Mr. Dyer and two other missionaries gave their hot-season vacation to it. In September a call came from India. Dr. E. Stanley Jones having seen the group at work in October, 1930, felt that they had a real contribution to make to the proposed forward movement in India. It was the aim on this trip to organize similar groups in various centers so that they might go out and do the work our teams do in Burma. At places where the local students, teachers, and missionaries caught the spirit and understood the genius of this method, they met with success. The secret is not in the organization, but in the spirit, and that cannot be imitated or copied. It must be caught. Daily Vacation Bible Schools Another special form of work is that of the daily vacation Bible schools. This we owe to the persistent efforts of Rev. E. M. Harrison and Miss Mary Phillips, both of whom are now in the United States. The move­ ment, well started, has an organizer working full time to keep it going, Sayama Ma Hanna, the talented daughter of Saya Ah Syoo. Each year shows an increase in the number of schools held and number of fields that have introduced the work. Karens, Burmans, Shans, Taungthus, and Kachins are all equally enthusiastic. In trying to live up to its motto, ‘‘ Jesus in the heart of every child and every parent,” the movement is helping in the “ Burma for Christ Movement.” In getting the children first, it often prepares the way to win the parents.

Conclusion And so another year has passed into history. Its story can be briefly told, but its results cannot be put down in statistics. That record is kept where we cannot see it as yet. Through all the difficulties, which have certainly been unusual, God’s grace has been sufficient for those who knew how to avail themselves of it. Many a seeming hindrance was turned into an opportunity for new service and blessing. In some places, as indicated, our task is but beginning. The Burmans still offer a strong challenge and the Shans are touched only slightly. If we are to claim “ Burma for Christ ” we cannot dally with half-hearted measures and ineffectual methods. W e must gird ourselves for a long steady campaign which will cost much in self-sacrifice and devotion. But if we have faith we can say with Judson, " The prospects for Burma are as bright as the promises of God.” THE ASSAM MISSION

Reported by Mrs. R. B. Longwell and Miss Ethel A. Masales HILE political India has been passing through a period of unrest, the province of Assam has been relatively undisturbed except for the Wstress of economic conditions which has affected all communities. The mission has cause for gratitude to the heavenly Father for the manifes­ tation of the presence of the Holy Spirit among the churches and for the substantial additions to the Christian communities. The following is a digest of the reports presented to the Assam Confer­ ence at Jorhat the first week in December, 1931.

LOWER ASSAM VALLEY

Kamrup, North Bank Goalpara In this district there are three-fourths of a million souls for whom Northern Baptists are responsible. The North Bank Christian Community lies largely in North Goalpara and includes Kacharis and Garos. Though long without a missionary, under the leadership of Uman Marak these people are now beginning to accomplish things for their Master. The church-membership has increased more than one-third during the past year and now numbers 743, including 126 Garos. In spite of having dif­ ficulty in selling rice and jute, they have raised almost Rs. 1,000 for the work o f their Association. The people are eager for schools, but the absence of teachers with sufficient education to teach the three “ R ’s ” has made the establishment of schools impossible. At the request of the people, one primary school with a hostel for boys has been established by Marak in connection with his work as supervising pastor. Out of the Association budget of Rs. 1,100, they are paying the expenses of three boys in the Gauhati station school. One of these boys will be ready for service in the spring. It is hoped that boys may be prepared from year to year for village work, and in this way the needs for village pundits partially met. The people have definitely planned to enlarge the school plant quite independently of mission support. Thus, by the transformation of a village into a Christian compound, the people are being influenced for Christ by seeing as well as hearing.

Kamrup, South Bank The work of this section is reported by the two associations, the Assamese and the Garo, The Assamese Association includes both the North and the South Banks. The number of churches is the same as last 3rear, although the number of centers or communities and also that of Christians has increased. The Christian community includes mostly Garos and Uriyas. *One gratifying change was the migration of from ten to twelve houses 81 8 2 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

from one of the older villages near Boko to a site near the Shillong Road. Though mostly Garos, they have always used the Assamese language and are quite at- home in this new site. Their first concerns have been Chris­ tian services and a school for their children. One of the brightest features o f the year’s work is the voluntary work of Kegendra Goibari in the large Borpeta subdivision. He carries on his work by house visitation as he peddles his wares among the people of the villages. At a sacrifice o f both time and money he has managed to make a trip to Gauhati for a supply o f Gospels to sell to the people. A new feature o f the work has been the employment of a colporter by the British and Foreign Bible Society in a strong Hindu section. This man is of good caste, a recent convert to Christianity, and with his wife, in spite of isolation from a Christian community and persecution from his Hindu neighbors, has remained faithful. Through the gift of the late M iss.L. M. Tuttle, a preaching house has been erected on the mission compound. This new building not only has a room for the sale and distribution of literature, a reading-room, and a private room for inquirers, but also has an unbroken wall for outdoor lantern slides, all of which will be of great help in the town work. Most of the additions reported for the year have been in Sonapur, where the Association evangelist lives. The converts include Garos, Uriyas, and ex-tea-garden coolies. Not a few Mikirs have been approached by the evangelist, but thus far have shown very little interest. The Sunday school of the station church shows an increase in interest and attendance, the average being sixty to seventy-five, not including the women and girls from Satri Bari who have their own Sunday school. The Station Middle English School, in spite of handicaps such as shortage o f teachers, incomplete equipment, and meager funds, has done fair work this year. If it were not for these handicaps the school could reach out and take in more boys of promise and thus fill the need for leaders in the villages.

Kamrup— Garo Association This has been a difficult year for the Garo Christians due to the floods and insects which destroyed their crops. These people who have had rice to eat but once or twice a week and subsist on roots and greens from the jungle in the meantime have faced their problems bravely. Though dis­ tressing economic conditions also affected the attendance at the Association, the largest number reported was 933 out o f a church-membership of 2,383, which is an increase of 120 over the previous year. A practical feature o f the work done by the Association evangelist is the recognition o f one weakness of the Garos and the plan for remedying it. They have been unwilling to pay their pastors so that they might give their full time to the work. Schools in this district, which include two Middle English, eighteen Government-aided, and seventeen unaided or private schools main­ tained by churches and the women’s offerings, are nearly all the result of direct evangelistic work. Dr. A. J. Tuttle, who has had charge of all the Lower Assam Valley excepting Nowgong, writes in his report: “ The THE ASSAM MISSION 8 3 discouraging part of our work is that the fields under our care have been suffering from the lack o f attention due to our having to spread our energies too thinly.” Mongoldai The great event of the year was the transfer of the Middle English School from Burigaon to Harihinga. Under the leadership of Romanus, the supervising pastor, six hundred men met at Harihinga and erected a total of nine buildings, school buildings, hostels for boys, and houses for the masters. A fence was also built around the entire compound. By means of pledges taken at the dedication of the new plant, a teacher was provided for a primary school which non-Christian children from neighboring vil­ lages attend. The school cultivation will be the means of supporting some of the boys. Besides this, the people continue their support of three primary schools and the churches throughout the Association entirely support four Association evangelists. The Association was well attended, and was notable for the stirring reports of the evangelistic work of the year. Animists, Hindus, and Mohammedans had listened eagerly in some places, while in other places the evangelists were urged to leave the villages. Still others asked for New Testaments, Gospels, and tracts. Some work has been done among the people o f Eastern Kamrup. The Kachari women have been very active in spreading the gospel, not only in their own homes but through actual preaching among non-Christians. The evangelistic work bears fruit, for 220 baptisms have been reported this year. Rev. and Mrs. A. C. Davis, who have come out this year, are now study­ ing the language in preparation for work among these five thousand Christians and nearly one-fourth of a million non-Christians among whom they live. Student Work, Gauhati Rev. R. B. Longwell writes: “ College opened this year on the first of July, and within a few days the last available seat in the mission hostel was occupied. The number of applicants was far in excess of available accommodations. We are trying to make a good deal of our religious ser­ vices for students. The Bible class in connection with the local Sunday school is full of interest and the students help to make the hour lively with their questions. The prayer-meetings five nights in the week consist of hymn singing, Scripture reading, short addresses, and prayer. W e have vesper services every Sabbath evening, alternating between the chapel, where we meet on the second and fourth Sundays, and the hostel auditorium, where meetings are held on the first and third Sundays. Meetings in the chapel are open to the general public and the attendance has been encouraging. W e also have an occasional symposium in the hostel auditorium. Subjects are announced previously and the students have taken part very freely and reveal the thinking which is likely to be current among students in an Indian college. The Christian students with few exceptions have borne splendid testimonies, and two Hindus have given talks which might have come from the lips of Christians. 84 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

* Nowgong Rev. J. M. Forbes, in the midst o f his second-year language study, has assumed responsibility o f the.Nowgong field. In his report he writes: “ I have learned that a missionary is advocate extraordinary. Whenever Chris­ tians wish to approach the Government or if they wish to have mischievous elephants driven from their cultivation, I must write or interview the Bor Sahib; if they wish to clear the forest land for ‘ jumming’ I am to write an application to the Forest Officer; if they have land disputes or have had land stolen by unscrupulous Babus, I am to write a note to introduce a petition for redress; when villagers are cheated in their pay for Gov­ ernment work by the local Babus, I am to petition in their behalf; when coolies run away from the tea-garden, I am to intercede with the garden Sahib not to punish them. When one man steals another’s wife, I am to wave the magic wand and restore marital bliss for good, or, if not, to blot out the Government registration so that the aggrieved party may seek a new slave or a new wife to cook his rice. I remember my Lord’s instruc­ tions, ‘ I am among j^ou as one who serveth ’ and I have been very happy in trying to do the odd jobs which have come my way.” A Bible class for local schoolboys was carried on for some time. Rev. S. A. D. Boggs of Jorhat Bible school helped in conducting the Bible class in the district. .Besides this, all the churches of the district were visited one or more times during the year. No new village has turned to Christ, although the evangelists have entered and preached in many. The Asso­ ciation and churches are giving three-fourths of the support of two primary schools. The crowded condition of the hostels connected with the station school limits the number of boys from the villages that can be taken in. Over six hundred Christians are reported for the district. The old church building is soon to be replaced by the new building, which is now under construction. Mr. Forbes in closing his report writes: “ I firmly believe that of the four hundred thousand living within forty miles of Nowgong Town, there are thousands of hearts bound by sin and superstition that are hungry to be freed. Just now there are needed preachers, pastors, and teachers with the victorious life written with large letters on their char­ acters so that all may know they have been with Jesus.”

UPPER ASSAM VALLEY

Golaghat and Jorhat In the absence of Dr. O. L. Swanson the work of these two districts has been taken care of by Rev. V. H. Sword. There are twenty-seven churches in these fields. The report of the Golaghat District mentions several causes for discouragement, such as the loss by death of R. Marak, an outstanding leader in all Christian activities; unfaithfulness of a trusted preacher; and distressing economic conditions in one section. Added to this is the fact that Doctor Swanson was unable to return this year. In the face of trial some o f the people have turned back to Hinduism, but many have stood THE ASSAM MISSION 8 5

the test. Though the missionary visited places requiring special and personal attention, the responsibility of visiting the churches was carried by Tanuram and Ramkhe. Because of the extent of the work, contact with the churches has been made chiefly through delegations. Four Bible classes were held during the year, two of which were more of the nature of conferences than classes. The attendance, though smaller than in previous years, was more representative; 203 were registered. Several Associations met during the year and the Annual Conference was held in Jorhat. The practical outcome of the Associations was the entire support, including the salary and living-quarters, of a school promoter besides that of ten preachers and partial support of four teachers. The number of baptisms during the year (314) is the largest reported for one year and is the result of special evangelistic effort of one Assamese and two Munda Christian bands. Two-thirds of the preachers have been supported by the Association, three churches organized, and seven church buildings dedicated. Christians number over three thousand. There are sixty-one churches and seventeen places of worship or branches. The station church continues its regular services. The women raised over Rs. 200 last year and supported one girl in school. Two Bible women have been preaching throughout the year in town and near-by villages. Bazaar preaching has been carried on. There are sixteen village schools with an average attendance of twenty-nine. The attendance at the station school has decreased from various causes, and averages fifty-three for the year, with thirty-two in the boarding-school, one-half being Mikirs. There have been nine baptisms among the schoolboys.

Sibsagar The work here has been encouraging. One tea-planter has given the Christians on his garden a special village and has provided them with a church building. In a village where a few weeks ago there were no Christians fourteen Uriyas have been baptized and are now building a church, and others are ready to accept Christ. About the same time nine Telegus were baptized and more are ready. Six new church buildings have been erected and several more are under construction, all independent of help from the mission. Five new churches have been established, and each group is building its own house of worship. Christians number about three thousand. Eight Bible classes from three days to four weeks each were held. Effort has been made to raise the standard of the village schools. A school promoter has done much in the task of establishing a unity of standard») O f the nine village ^chools, one is supported by a tea-garden and one by a local board. The station school is largely in the hands of the head master. Jorhat The Jorhat Station School reports an enrolment of 185— 150 high school; 10 normal; 25 model primary. In the high school there are 90 Christians, 50 Hindus, 8 Mohammedans, 2 animists. In the normal, all are Christians. 86 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

In the primary, 13 are Christians, 12 non-Christians. There are 87 in the hostel. There are thirty different races represented. The inspector of schools recognizes that there are difficulties arising from having so many backward races and the prospects of again gaining Government recognition is favorable. The general spirit among the boys has been splendid. Total income obtained from fees has been Rs. 3377-9-0. The Christian day-pupils pay no fees. The non-Christian pupils pay according to Government rules. Two Teachers’ Institutes have been held during the year and certificates issued for the work completed. The standard of the Normal School is being raised and the inspector of schools is favorably impressed with the work of this department. The Jorhat Church in entertaining the Association exemplified one phase of Christian life, that is, joy in Christian service. For a membership of not more than fifty composed largely of teachers and schoolboys, the time necessary for preparation represented a great amount of labor and sacrifice and was in itself a great achievement. The church reports no additions or visible advance. There have been groups of interested non-Christian educated men in regular attendance. ,

Jorhat Bible School The past year in the Bible school at Jorhat has been in many respects much the same as other years. The student body, due to the decreased budget, was smaller than last year and varied from twenty-six to twenty- three. Eight languages were represented. One Lhota Naga was graduated. Mr. Boggs writes: “ From 80 to 90 per cent, are out every Sunday preaching, conducting Sunday schools in near-by village churches or some form o f Christian work. The students are kept busy and have shown a spirit of cooperation during the entire year.”

Medical Report In the absence o f the medical workers in Jorhat during the past year, Rev. U. S. G. Sension, a new missionary engaged in language study, with the aid of a trained native staff, has carried on a commendable work. He reports a leper colony of eleven and three others receiving treatments. Over two thousand injections were given throughout the year. Three lepers were baptized, making a total of five lepers in the membership of Borbhetta Church. The number of out-patients in Jorhat was 2,605, in the Golaghat branch 1,299, a total of 3,904. In-patients numbered twenty-four. Mail orders of medicines were supplied to Indians, missionaries, and the Impur dispensary. ^ * Sadiya Sadiya, farthest inland station in Assam, is 934 miles from Calcutta by rail, the last seven miles to be negotiated across a fickle river. In the rainy season this river is a raging torrent cutting its banks and changing its course; in the dry season it is a wide expanse of sand. A little distance away, where the mighty Dibong breaks out from the Himalayas, is water­ THE ASSAM MISSION 8 7 power going to waste, power that would run all the tea-garden factories, sawmills, mines, and refineries in Assam. W e cross and recross this river a hundred times or more each year, not so much concerned for these resources but rather for the stream of human life going to waste unless is be redeemed by the gospel of Christ. The number of churches in the Dibru-Sadiya field is sixteen, doubled in the last eight years. Three evangelists are supported by the Association and five by the mission; ninety-two baptisms have been reported for the year; and these in twelve different churches. A new church has been formed in Pengri Garh, a new tea-garden. The manager has given every encouragement to the Christians. An eight-day Bible class was held in Panikhowa, the strongest Mundari village in this district. Valuable help and practical messages were given by Mr. Supplee; twenty-one were bap­ tized. Sadiya station school has had an enrolment of sixty-four, forty-five of whom are hill boys and twenty-nine from the plains. The hill boys include Padram Abors, Galongs, Minyong, Nagas, Garo, Nepali.

North Lakhimpur-Darrang The attendance at the Annual Association was 400. This was larger than any previous year and included Garos, Mikirs, Uriyas, Kacharis, Mundaris, Uraons. They report 254 baptisms, 92 in Darrang and 162 in North Lakhimpur. Two new churches with 47 baptized are mainly the result of work done by Koin, a lay evangelist from Nowgong District. The three Association evangelists and five mission workers are to be commended for their faithfulness. Of one group of Sauras who were baptized two years ago, all except one have remained faithful and are earnestly following Christ. . In North Lakhimpur, there are eight school teachers and one school inspector. In Darrang there are only three schools and four teachers. Twelve churches were visited during the year. “ W e rejoice greatly in the coming of Rev. and Mrs. J. W. Cook to the North Lakhimpur field,” writes Mr. Selander. “ Forty churches and many smaller groups of Chris­ tians are looking forward to the coming of this new missionary.”

AMONG THE HILLS

Tura The largest number of baptisms for one year was reported for the Goal- para South Bank and Garo Hills as 1,398. Of this number 312 are from village schools. Christians number 14,177. In the last ten years the Garos have contributed an average of 31 per cent, of the baptisms of the Assam Mission; and last year, 36 per cent. There are 333 churches and branch churches; an increase of fifty-two new Christian communities. There are 371 churches and school buildings. The Garos support all their own pastors, raise all funds for buildings and maintaining church buildings, share one-third of the cost of mission village schools, support eighty or more 8 8 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

private schools, pay the salary of an inspector of schools, maintain a fund known as the Garo Hills Christian Charitable Fund, support over a dozen evangelists working among Garos, maintain two schools among Garos in the Khasi Hills, support one evangelist working among the Kacharis in Goalpara South Bank, and maintain six Middle English schools without Government or mission aid. There are eighty-four village schools under mission control. Eleven o f these are maintained by the Garo Association and are under the mission only in the way of advice and supervision. The enrolment in the mission schools is 1,925 boys and girls. The attendance is 84 per cent. The Bible school had an enrolment of twenty-five students. Two of these completed the two months’ course. Rev. A. F. Merrill gave assistance along the line of Sun­ day-school work and Dr. E. S. Downs a course on health. The discussion groups with pastors and Christian workers was continued as in former years. This year questions arose especially pertaining to deacons and their office, evangelists, and handling of church funds. The Garo monthly paper continues. Manuscripts on Baptist principles and Baptist history have been prepared for publication. The idea of a village circulating library started this last year, and it is hoped this will be developed and mean much to the life of scattered Christian communities. Some other things worthy of note are: With the increase of Christian communities a sense of civic righteous­ ness is evident; the Garos are showing a great amount of interest also in church music, usury, cooperation, and independence of churches; the Roman Catholics are encroaching more and more in this territory. The population of the Garo Hills is given as 190,910. The Garos in Goalpara South Bank Section number 30,000. Besides these, there are also a large number of Hindus and Mohammedans in the adjoining sections. The mission is reaching only two-fifths of this total population of 525,000 people. Mr. Harding suggests two plans to reach the remaining peoples: one is to open a new station of Goalpara South Bank and the other is to establish churches to carry on the work by indigenous effort. The latter plan might be worked from the Garo church in its evangelistic efforts toward other tribes. They have already made beginnings in that they were the first group of Christians in Assam to send missionaries to the Daphlas and to push out toward the Khasi Hills. They are now working among the Rabhas. Rev. A. F. Merrill reports an increase of residents in the hostels. Efforts have been made to know the boys better personally, physically, morally, and religiously. Doctor Downs has done much valuable and helpful work in connection with the supervision of the health of the hostel boys. Medical work has increased in Tura. Although the hospital was closed two months, there have been about 100 more in-patients this year. Number of our patients was 7,044, an increase of 1,500 over last year. A number of operations and also considerable dental work have been done. In connection with his work, Dr. E. S. Downs made a tour of one month and also taught classes in Treatment o f Diseases and First Aid in the Bible school. THE ASSAM MISSION 8 9

There is no doubt that by means of this work much is done toward the spread o f Christ's kingdom in this land.

Mikir Hills The work of the Mikir Hills is divided into two main sections, Tika side and Sibsagar side, and includes not only the Mikir Hills proper but also near-by sections of Nowgong and Sibsagar Districts occupied by Mikirs. Two Bible classes were held, one in Tika division and one in Sibsagar. On the Tika side there are nineteen groups of Christians, most of which would have to be called baby churches. There were thirty-five in attendance at the Bibig class. Total number o f Christians is 600, an increase'of 50 per cent, in the last six years. Most of the churches have a Sunday school. There are seven mission schools and three Government schools. Two of the latter are in Christian villages, and one has a Avoman teacher. In the Sibsagar area the churches, being widely separated, lack a sense of unity. Though a fair percentage o f baptisms is reported, there is no increase in the total number of Christians because of deaths, exclusions, and rever­ sions. The economic situation has helped to reduce the consumption of opium to one-third or one-half of what it was a few years ago. There are six schools. The total number of Mikir Christians is 863, an increase of 36 per cent, in six years. The increase is due to the Tika side, where the baptisms have been 399. The number of schools has also increased in the Hills. Literary work includes both Scripture translations and school- books. The New Testament has been completed. A new song-book is in process of preparation. Due to the backwardness of the people, the work in this section is still in the pioneer stage, but much constructive work has been done. The beginnings of progress may be seen.

NAGA HILLS AND MANIPUR

Kohima—Angami Nagas The past year has been one of the most encouraging years in the Kohima field. There have been 100 baptisms, mostly from the Angamis but includ­ ing Rengmas and Kukis, and one .village has been won over to the gospel. There has not been a gain in numbers only, but also a better spirit prevails among the Christians. The institution of a new scheme for evangelistic work, that of requiring more intensive touring and definite reports, has added much to the success of the work. This is due to the tithing which is becoming more and more prevalent. In the line of literature, a book entitled Why Christianity Is the Best and Only Way o f Salvation has been written by an Angami as a testimony to his fellow tribesmen. Besides this, work on religious- and school-books is being done. In the Kohima Subdivision, with a population of about one hundred thousand, there are two Middle English schools, one an Assamese school in town and the other our mission school. In the mission school, many 9 0 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY tribes are represented in the enrolment of two -hundred. The hostels are filled to overflowing and most of the boys are self-supporting. An intensive Bible course is given as a means of making the boys strong for the gospel. There have been instances of strong churches started through boys who have become Christians while in the Kohima school. There were fifteen, bap­ tisms, eleven from non-Christian homes. Twenty-five acres of land have been secured for a new school site and $6,000 from the Judson Fund for the new school building. When the money is available for a bungalow and other necessary buildings the Naga Hills will have the school they have been longing for for many years.

Sema Nagas » The churches in this section o f the hills number fifty-five, thirty-five on the Mokokchung side and thirteen on the Kohima side, six in other parts, and one in the independent territory. There are 3,600 baptized Christians and 315 waiting to be baptized. To instruct these there are two evangelists and sixteen village teachers. The future supply of workers will be from the twenty boys in the Impur school and thirty boys at present in the Kohima school. For development of schools, a primer has been prepared and the Angami arithmetic has been translated. The new song-book is a great help to the Christians. The Bible class was held with an attendance of 300 at some of the sessions. Touring will be done as extensively as possible this cold season. While in the station, Rev. B. I. Anderson helped out in the work there. This included supervision of the Sema hostel and also the Sema church in the bazaar. This church has a membership of sixty- two. An intensive course in the elements of teaching, church polity, and preaching was given to the Sema workers at a Bible class held for them in Kohima. O f the Sema Christians, Mr. Anderson writes: “All are still babes in Christ, but as such they are doing well and a closer intimacy with them would certainly enrich the spiritual life of our Assam Christians.”

Lhota Nagas Next to the Semas, the Lhotas are the most neglected tribe or Christian community so far as actual undivided missionary attention is concerned. A hopeful change for the better in this year’s report is a sign o f greater activity among them which is hoped will grow into a real spiritual move­ ment. This is seen in connection with the Wohka school. The workers have been persuaded to, take the first step toward helping themselves. Each worker has sacrificed a month’s salary, and the money for a new hostel has been raised. A new teacher, a Jorhat trained boy, has been pro­ cured. From eight to ten boys are now reading at their own expense, an unknown thing formerly. The school has an enrolment of forty. Regular quarterly Bible classes with the workers and copies of former translations have added much to an increased appreciation o f the W ord o f God among the workers. The outstanding experience this year was a tour made among the churches. This was preceded by a Bible class held in Wokha, at which Mr. Sension THE ASSAM MISSION 91 assisted. Most of the villages were visited, among which many had never before been visited by a missionary. Much of the tour was made on foot, following the native paths. In these two weeks 120 miles were covered, twenty-five villages visited, and thirty meetings held. It was an unfor­ gettable experience, not only because of the steep hills and trying condition of the paths, but because of the inspiration received from seeing the work at so close a range. Mr. Anderson writes: “ In the village of Loksa, I stood under the very same tree where Doctor Witter had stood and preached the everlasting story of Christ and I felt that it was holy ground.” In this village we have a struggling young church. New work has been started in several other villages. Church-membership in this section totals 934. There are twenty-five churches, the largest having a membership of 172, the smallest, five. Two hundred baptisms were reported this year. Contributions have been Rs. 1,373, which is Rs. 234 more than mission help. There are four village schools partly self-supporting. There is only one evangelist working among them. Impur—Ao Nagas Rev. R. R. Wickstrand reports a good year for the Impur School with an enrolment of 281, of which 234 are in the hostels. The school buildings now number three; hostels, five. Effort is being made to secure Government permission to compete in the Middle English examination. The spiritual life of the students is ministered to by chapel services, midweek prayer- meetings, and Sunday services. Gospel teams visit the near-by villages and try to encourage them in faith by singing, testimony, and preaching. The Christian students have an organization of their own for the purpose of inspiration, education, and mutual fellowship. In view of the great need of instruction among the Christians, such subjects as church polity, Baptist principles, and Sunday-school methods have been taught in the regular quarterly Bible classes. The following have been instituted: a uniform set of rules regarding engagement and marriages; a system of registration o f marriages and deaths; the duties of deacons defined. All pastors have been invested with authority to baptize and administer the Lord’s Supper. Individual communion sets are gradually coming to general use. A man has been engaged to devote his whole time to young people’s work. In the Trans-Dikho country among Santums there is a church of over 100 members and a thriving day-school. There is one worker, supported by the A o Nagas, among them; also a part-time worker.

Manipur Over a thousand Christians from fifty-nine villages attended the second Convention of the three Associations. A standing committee of workers and elders o f each area met daily to consider such problems as: (1) The suggestion from Durbar to use the Bengali character instead of the Roman character; (2) The adoption of the state curricula of state schools in the future. The former was rejected. The latter was agreed to with the 92 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

proviso that Bible and religious instruction should be given. The annual Bible class was attended by over 100 workers from outside Kangpokpi as well as students from the Kangpokpi schools and also a few from the high school in Imphal and workers on the mission compound. The superintending pastors report progress among their churches. In the northeast area, six new villages have come out for Christ. In one village of a hundred houses, the majority have become Christians and the remainder, led by the village chief, are determined to cause trouble and distress among those who have become Christians. Though the chief insists that the con­ verts remove to a distant place, they remain firm and have built a place of worship in the Christian community. New converts in the village number four hundred. A gratifying increase in and among the Tangkhul Christians is looked for in the near future. Rev. William Pettigrew of Kangpokpi in his report writes: “ Our daily prayer is that the way be opened speedily for the training o f teachers and pastors to shepherd these new and old converts.” The missionaries were happy to be favored with a visit from Home Secretary P. H. J. Lerrigo and Miss Minnie Sandberg, who looked into the work and its needs and problems. The noted visit of the year was that of the Viceroy o f India, Lord and Lady Irwin, who commended the Maharaja in allowing medical and educational missionaries in the state. Definite effort has been made to bring the mission school in line with the state schools. Attendance at the Ukhrul and Kangpokpi schools has increased, but it will take the village schools some little time to adjust themselves to the new curriculum. It will be an advantage to the hill boys in competing with the schools in the valley. By arrangement o f the President of the Durbar, from now on the pupils of the mission school learning Manipuri will be given all books free. The President of the Durbar has also kindly handed over the school buildings at Ukhrul to the mission. Though these buildings are in need of repair, the main school building itself will be of great use. There are five boys now in the Jorhat High School and three are about to matriculate. One boy in Cotton College is the first representative from the Tangkhul Nagas. The notable feature of the literary work is the printing and publishing of the New Testament in Manipuri. This will be a great help to the Manipuri Christians. A new hymn-book has also been prepared. The medical work among the lepers as well as the mission dispensary has been in charge of an experienced compounder and his assistant. Treatments numbered 7,286; minor operations, eighty-four. The number of lepers has been reduced, owing to the discharge of thirteen “ symptom free ” cases by the civil surgeon o f the state. One more cottage for lepers was erected this year making four in all. These accommodate about fifty lepers. A large number are still living in grass huts. At present there are seventy-six lepers, of whom fifty-three are Christian. THE SOUTH INDIA MISSION

Reported by Rev. Frank Kurtz N D IA is now as never before a part of the world, not so much perhaps because Indians are more interested in the rest of the world but I because the West has become much more interested in India. The agitation fgr Home Rule has attracted world-wide attention, and never before have American papers carried so much Indian news as now. We missionaries are glad for this enhanced publicity, for we believe the more people know about India the more they will recognize their brotherly relations. This year missionaries have traveled by aeroplane from London to Delhi. Our people are making progress in many directions and thus establishing international relations.

THE NEW CENSUS The census figures of February, 1931, are now beginning to appear. We are sorry that they are not yet available for the mission fields, but next year’s report will give them. The population of India is now 350,000,000. The people who live in our Telugu language area number more than 25.000.000, or a fifth of the total population of the United States. The Christian community has increased to 6,000,000, an increase of thirty-two per cent, in ten years. The Hyderabad State in 1921 reported only 62,656 Christians, but the 1931 census shows a remarkable increase to 151,382. This is partly due to more correct enumeration, but even so the percentage of increase is very large. One can readily see how large a place our Baptist mission holds. Our mission has maintained almost the same rate of increase. In 1922 we reported 76,936 church-members; 1932 shows 103.000. The numerical increase by no means shows what has taken place. The Christian community has to be viewed from many angles to get a right estimate of what is taking place.

MISSION STAFF AND STATIONS The Conference welcomed one new missionary, Miss Elsie Larson, who comes designated to the Nellore Hospital. Those returning from furlough were Rev. and Mrs. S. D. Bawden, who take up again the work at Kavali. Mr. Bawden, on leaving for furlough, took away with him honors from the British Government, the Kaisar-i-Hind gold medal. Now he returns from America with a D. D. from one university and an LL. D. from another. In addition to Kavali, they have been given charge of Udayagiri, made necessary by the approaching retirement of Rev. F. W. Stait. Rev. F. P. Manley, Mrs. Manley, and their five children have returned after several years at home. Mr. Manley is taking over the work of the Rama- 93 94 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY patnam Theological Seminary, as Rev. W. E. Boggs, D. D., is leaving on furlough. Mr. Manley has recently completed a year’s post-graduate study at Newton Theological Institution with the degree of S. T. M. Miss Sigrid Johnson has returned to her work in the hospital at Ongole after post-graduate work at Ann Arbor. Miss Melissa Morrow takes up her work again on the Narsaravupet field. Miss Frances M. Tencate returned early in the year and resumed her work in the Girls’ Training School in Nellore. The staff at work on the field has been larger than at any time since 1926, numbering ninety-six. Never before have we had so few on furlough. Health for the most part has been very good, and. both those at home and those on the field, altogether numbering some two hundred, have been spared to the work. Rev. and Mrs. J. P. Klahsen, having com­ pleted their first-year language examination, are located at Madira. Rev. and Mrs. F. Kurtz were transferred to Secunderabad. Rev. and Mrs. E. Erickson were transferred from Udayagiri to Sattenapalle. Miss H. L. Stoudenmire began her work at Hanumakonda for the women, but for the present she has to give a large part of her time to the school. Miss F. E. Rowland began her work at Narsaravupet, but has since been transferred to Vinukonda. Prof. and Mrs. W. D. Varney have taken up their work in the Training School at Bapatla. Even with so large a number o f people on the field, four families had to try to spread themselves over two fields each. This condition must continue until the mission receives some new additions to our forces. Under the new ruling of the Board, sixty-five years of age has been fixed as the retiring age. Eight of your missionaries are on that list. There are several others to appear in 1932. Several new families should be on the field right now preparing to take the place of those leaving. Rev. I. Hankins, after completing three years of devoted service beyond the retiring age, has returned to America. Rev. and Mrs. C. R. Marsh left in April preparatory to retirement. They had expected to stay on a few years longer, but the doctor advised their leaving earlier on account of Mrs. Marsh’s health.

VILLAGE EVANGELISM India is a country of villages. Something like ninety per cent, of the people live in villages. Our mission area includes two of the four largest cities in India, Madras and Secunderabad-Hyderabad. Madras city has missionaries out o f all proportion to ‘ other parts of our area, though our Board has only two families there. Fully 90 per cent, of our church- members live in the villages. The visit of Dr. K. S. Butterfield and especially the Mass Movement Commission has called new attention to the fact that the mass movement is wholly among the villages. The other commissions, too, have asked especially to be shown the villages. This is a great advance. A good many of our missionaries live for several months each year away from the mission compound in the villages among the people. Our THE SOUTH INDIA MISSION 9 5 mission carries on work in more than 3,000 villages, in 2,500 of which there are Christian converts. We report some 700 church buildings, many of which are also used for school purposes. Not more than thirty-five of these are located in towns of ten thousand people, the rest are in the villages. The Indian people themselves are erecting their own churches. Rev. G. H. Brock reports that six new buildings were erected on the Kanigiri field and the mission contributed only Rs. 6 to each. Dr. W. A. Stanton says that on the Kurnool field several fine, substantial buildings have been erected all with local money. For centuries India has had an international reputation for diamonds and caste. The most of the diamonds have long since gone to Europe, but caste still remains, although it is undoubtedly changing. Educated and traveled people, though still good Hindus, are much less scrupulous about its obser­ vance. An eight-day wonder is that in a number of places the outcaste classes are demanding the right to enter Hindu temples which have always been reserved for the caste people.

CHURCHES Rev. Cornelius Unruh describes the churches on the Nalgonda field, a development equaled by few in our mission: “ W e now have sixteen churches and all have their regular pastors except one. Fifteen churches have supported their pastors and paid their salaries regularly. W e find a real deepening of the spiritual life everywhere. The churches have advanced in giving. Each church has had its usual harvest festival, and we are glad to see how the Christians have learned to give even of the little they have. The rainy season crops failed this year again, and many a Christian left his village and went to town or to a place where better crops were; but in many instances the Christians would make their pledges for the harvest festivals to the pastor before leaving the place, as they wished to have a share in the work. Specifics have been hard hit by the world depression. Rev. E. Bixler Davis writes interestingly of how they managed the situation in A llur: “ Church subsidies were reduced over half, and school helps came down a fourth. This last cut was averted temporarily by unexpected local help. Pastoral resignations and church retrenchments should normally follow, but only two of the entire staff mentioned transfers, and the churches actually doubled their last year’s record giving. Two churches considered themselves rich enough and interested enough to give the missionary two hundred rupees as emergency help, aside from their regular benevolences. And all this in a time of financial depression.” Rev. J. P. Klahsen writes from Madira: “ Once I had the unique privilege to be present at a baptismal service in Bezwada when sixty-four were baptized. Steady progress is reported by nearly all workers in the field. Churches in general are beginning to realize more and more the responsibility which is resting with them and earnest attempts are being made by the workers themselves to solve the problem of self-support.” Rev. 96 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

Frank Kurtz reports the evolution of a church on the Madira field: “ Several of the village schoolhouses were put in good repair and other new ones begun. The village Utkur is a good example of Christian progress. The teacher, now pastor, has been the only worker for these twenty years since the first converts came. The school and meeting-place at first was in his shack at the far side of the hamlet. As the congregation increased a thatched house was erected, and as the years came and went the congre­ gation increased in size and more educated young people were developed in this hamlet than from any other on the field. Now they have obtained a still better site and are completing a good building of lime, stone, and brick. A few converts have been baptized from the Vaddras and Yerukalas in this section and this is now the largest congregation with the exception of Bezwada.” Independent Churches Our two outstanding independent churches are those at Bezwada and Warangal. No member in either of these churches has any mission salary. The churches have been self-supporting for some years and both report a remarkable year. Bezwada has organized a second church three miles from the first church building. They have put up a thatched building on the land granted them by the Government for their houses. They have five acres of land and are building their houses in proper fashion. The new church started with one hundred members. As many of them have to work in the tanneries, the Sunday morning service is being held just at sunrise, as the men must be at work at seven o’clock. Afterward they have Sunday school and women’s meeting. In November a second pastor was ordained. More than eighty new converts were baptized during the year, besides a number coming in by letter. Baptists are continually moving into the city, which is rapidly developing. The new census shows a population of 65,000. It will soon be the largest city in our mission, between Secunderabad and Madras. The Warangal church, in the Deccan, is completing two substantial tiled buildings in the outlying hamlets, and maintain their own school. One of the deacons is in charge of the porters at the railways station, and of the ninety porters thirty are Christians.

BAPTISMS The results of the good work done throughout the field are evident in the largest number of baptisms for many years. The number of converts from the higher castes has been much larger than ever before in the history of the mission. Dr. G. H. Brock writes from Kanigiri: “ Of particular note was the baptism of one group of caste men. In July an elderly Mohammedan who had traveled extensively in Burma and who had heard the story of Christ there came confessing his faith and was baptized. On the first Sunday in December at the organization of the Timmareddipalli church sixty-nine were, baptized from the seven hamlets. The following Sunday in Peddagol- lapalli eighty-two were added, and a week later, in Kangiri, twenty-three of THE SOUTH INDIA MISSION 9 7 the people in the station school were received and baptized, thus making a total of 318 for the Kanigiri field for the year 1931. Perhaps it may interest the readers o f this report to learn of the different classes repre­ sented. Of the total, 274 were from the Christian community, and of these thirty-three were from the village schools, and twenty-three from the station boarding-schools. From the depressed classes fourteen were from the Madigas and fourteen from the Malas. From the caste community there was one Vysha and from Sudras came eight Reddies, two Gollas, and one Naidu, one Barber and one Togata, and two Mohammedans.” Rev. Charles Rutherford in his report says: “ December 23, 1931, was a red letter day in Jangaon. The station church received into its member­ ship by baptism two girls and one boy from the school and Miss Janika, B. A., a teacher in the Government Training School for Women at Hanu- makonda. Largely through the influence of Miss Gulban, our Deccan B. A. L. T., Janikamma decided to ‘ put on Christ.’ She is a Tamil girl of Mudeliar caste and a graduate of Queen Mary’s College, Madras. Such young women of education and experience are sorely needed as leaders of India’s womanhood.” There have been baptisms of caste people on the Gurzalla field for a number of years, but they have never before come in what is quite like a mass movement. Rev. E. O. Schugren writes as follow s: “ W e have received during the year through baptism 302 men and 198 women into our fellowship. What seems significant is that 420 of the candidates were caste people. The total membership on our field is now 2,431 men and 1,832 women, about one-fourth of whom are caste people. That they will become a real asset for the development of the cause of Christ they are giving ample proof. W e have several chapels on our field which have been built by them.” Rev. E. Bixler Davis writes joyfully of events in Kavali: “ Kavali town churches report eighteen baptisms and are developing a fine spiritual expec­ tancy. One big cause is the personal testimony given in public by several Europeans and Indians who have had unique religious experiences. The deepest impression, perhaps, was made by the conversion of a Brahmin couple living in Kavali. The Hindus were stirred that one of their most respected members should break away from the faith of their fathers. And the Christians were stirred into fresh zeal at the prospects of winning more souls.”

EDUCATION Our educational efforts have been made as usual. The reports this year say very little about the villages, although they are the foundation of all our educational system. More Christian pupils are entering Govern­ ment schools and there are more Christian teachers, also. Prof. L. E. Martin in his report calls attention to this situation. “ The small propor­ tion o f literate people in our churches, after all these years of effort, is most lamentable. And yet, strange as it may appear, the number of young 98 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY men and women who are prepared to teach is rapidly increasing. Three men and three women finished their training this year, but only one of the six was able to find a school.” This, however, is not true of newer sections of the mission. Many places are calling for teachers, and they are not to be obtained. In general, the village schools are making improvements and the station schools are raising the grades, as there is still need especially in the Deccan for teachers of the lower grades and the Training Schools now admit only higher grade classes. Mrs. W . C. Owen has maintained this year a small training school in Gadwal to prepare village teachers for that needy field. High Schools The high schools continue their work, that at Ongole reporting a reduction in the number of students and Nellore reporting an increase. In general, our Christian people are spending more every year on the education of their children. There is a steady increase in the amount o f fees collected. This development has been especially noticeable at Kanigiri, where the people not only pay fees but have actually erected a building and maintain a hostel for 150 children at their own expense. Podili has followed suit, and some thousands of rupees are expended annually for education. This is a wonderful advance. Theological Seminary The Theological Seminary at Ramapatnam has had a very good year. They are not only rejoicing over a large number of new students after some years of reduced attendance, but they are happy that so many of the men are so much better qualified. The staff also has been strengthened. Reports indicate that there will be a large entering class for the new year, so much so that the money in hand may not be able to meet the need. Rev. W . E. Boggs, D. D., after many years of devoted service has now closed his work and Rev. F. P. Manley has become President of the Seminary.

Thé Normal Training Schools The Bapatla school had a good year, with the usual number of students. The new Judson Fund dormitory was opened just after Conference. This institution has sent out into the villages more workers than any other school in the mission. The new dormitory furnishes accommodation for one hun­ dred students and is a great contrast to the palm-leaf shacks which formerly occcupied the same site. It is eminently fitting that this building, erected with money raised in the Judson Fund, should stand on the very road over which Doctor Judson traveled on his famous journey from Masulipatnam to Madras many years before our mission was ever thought of. Rev. B. M. Johnson deserves credit for getting this fine building so speedily erected.

Preston Institute The "Preston Institute was opened in Secunderabad with sixteen students and now follows the Nizam’s Government curriculum. The Inspector visited the school and recommended it for recognition. All the students have passed THE SOUTH INDIA MISSION 9 9 the third form. Although the Government plan is only for one year, students for the present are kept for two years in order that they might have ample time for more Bible training.

Training Schools The Rural Community Training School was opened at Cumbum this year with twenty-five students. The new building is nearing completion and the work is going forward. The two training schools for girls at Nellore and Ongole are carrying on as usual. Just at the close of the year drastic orders came from the British Government educational author­ ities on account of retrenchment for lack of funds. Everything possible is being done to enable the students in training to continue their course, but we cannot prophesy for the future.

Union Institutions W e have the usual number of students in the Christian College, Madras. The first Baptist boy in the Presidency to obtain his M. A. degree finished his course this year. At present our mission has no representative on the staff. The Andhra Christian College is not yet in actual operation, but it has the unqualified approval of the Lindsay Commission, which went carefully into the whole situation. They have recommended that there should be only one Christian College for the largest Christian community in India, which centers around Bezwada and now numbers more than 600,000. Some thirty Baptist students, of whom six are girls, are already in the college at Guntur and six more in the Noble College. These colleges are to be merged in the Union College. The Kokaikanal School for Missionaries’ Children continues its good work, having now over a hundred children in residence. One new building has been erected. The number of Baptist teachers continues. The mission has been particularly happy this year to have two of the former mission children as teachers, Miss Bertha Boggs and Miss Eleanor Curtis. Thirteen of our mission children are now attending. A number of other children are in various schools on the Nigiri Hills.

BUILDING WORK A very necessary part of mission work is the erection of buildings. Several fine buildings were completed this year. Podili dispensary was finished and is already in use. Work here is done in connection with the Mission Hospital at Ongole. The Bapatla dormitory, referred to above, accommodates one hundred students. At last the June D. Boggess Memo­ rial Church at Kandukur is a reality. It was dedicated early in the year, and the congregations already prove how badly it was needed. This is on the home mission field, and Rev. P. Abraham and his helpers deserve credit for carrying through this project. Other small buildings have been finished in a number of villages. Miss Grace Bullard writes with great 100 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

appreciation of the much-needed Judson cottage, Kavali: “ Our housing problem has been more or less solved. The girls now have two neat, com­ fortable cottages, which thejr appreciate very much after their life in an old thatched shed. W e do thank the friends that made the Judson Fund cottages a reality. Our industrial work, too, has been housed. This shed was built in instalments and with various funds, some mission money, some Government grant, and lastly from the Lord Fund for Industrial Work. Already the rooms are full to capacity with aluminum and weaving workers.” Rev. A. T. Fishman writes of Rural Community Training School, Cum- bum, in a strain much appreciated by many older missionaries: “ In the mission compound some changes have been effected. The new building for the training school and model school with the seven classrooms, office, and library-study hall is almost ready for the roof, and that in spite of the fact that we have no building for men, no trained staff for the work, no experience ourselves in building, and in spite of the fact that we dig our limestone, burn our own lime, make our own bricks, and wait for two weeks to a month for every order of nails, sand-paper, or paint to reach us. Constructing a good building in rural India is no simple matter.”

INDUSTRIAL WORK AND SETTLEMENTS

A great deal more is being done in later years in the way of gardening and teaching o f cottage industries to our school pupils. Education with the hands is found a good addition to the purely literary education given in the olden days. Rev. J. A. Penner, of Mahbubnagar, tells how his schoolboys are useful: “ In agriculture the children have done very well indeed. The little patches of tillable land we have yielded, besides various vegetables, twenty-six bags of fine jonnalu (gr-ain), a great help for the boarding department. In the industrial department we employ the bigger boys only, as we have not as yet started light enough work to engage the little tots. They make and repair garden tools, etc., in the blacksmith shop, and in the carpentry department they have been engaged in making their own school benches over into new and more up-to-date ones. The boys are very eager and have done remarkably well with the little time at their disposal, for all of them are attending school full time, and it is only after school and on Saturdays that they have leisure left for this work.” Miss Grace Bullard, of Kavali, writes of discouragements but also of compensations. “ W e have been compelled to reduce the staff of the school. W e are about eight or nine less in number than we were last year. No need to add that our income has also begun a backward march, and we are troubled. It has meant added effort to devise ways and means to make ends meet. It was a satisfaction to receive just before Christmas a money order for Rs. 5 / from some former pupils of the criminal tribes who are now released and living away up in Central India. The order said, ‘ To help give a Christmas treat for orphans and others in the school.’ Other former THE SOUTH INDIA MISSION 101

students have sent small sums to show their appreciation of what has been done'for them. We rejoice over this sign of their love.” At Gurzalla Rev. E. O. Schugren is doing a big thing in agricultural settlement work. He writes: “ These settlements as they exist today command roughly four thousand two hundred acres of land, but we are supervising the activities of our District Council, as we have assumed the responsibility for the agricultural development of six thousand five hundred acres in all. One could hardly expect that a job like organizing and manag­ ing agricultural settlements, establishing cooperative societies, collecting government taxes, and acting as treasurer for this age-long irresponsible people, often void of initiative, lacking proper sense o f moral and legal responsibilities, would be free from anxieties. The settlements have exacted more time than I felt I coulddedicate to this work, but I do not regret that I am deep in it. In this my ministry I have felt that I have been within the will of God, for the Bible clearly teaches that he is moved with compassion for the needy. Thus my social ministry has been helpful, not only in that it has given them a brighter prospect for this life, but it has given them better prospects for establishing indigenous work and for carrying on interests of the kingdom of God. At the present time we have 100 resident families in one of the settlements, sixty in another, and seventy in the third settlement.”

LITERATURE Our mission cooperates wnth other missions in supporting a missionary who gives his whole time to producing books and tracts. This year the story of the Bible, illustrated with beautiful pictures, was issued. It is interesting to know that the printing charges of this new book were furnished by a Baptist Sunday school in Grand Rapids, Mich. After many years of effort and thought, the story of the Ongole Mission and Dr. J. E. Clough is now printed in Telugu. It is a large volume of three hundred pages with illustrations, and is the only book of its kind. The Telugu Baptist, our vernacular organ, had a good year, and for the first time paid all its bills. The Baptist Missionary Review has finished thirty-seven years with a larger volume and increased circulation. It now represents more widely than ever before the various Baptist societies at work in India.

MEDICAL WORK

The alleviation of suffering and the healing of the body is a very prominent work in this mission. From the reports, one can clearly see that it is being done in the name of Christ. Dr. Ernest Hoisted in his report from Ongole says: “ Experience during the past year as bearer of the ‘ portion ’ to those for whom nothing had formerly been prepared has more firmly established our belief that every member of our staff should be taking an active part in bringing men and women to Christ. W e feel sure that those who support our work by prayer 102 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY and donation join us in our conviction that the mission hospital should be a means to an end, . . bringing men and women into touch with Christ.”

Leper Work While our mission maintains no work for lepers, our churches contribute to the asylum at Bapatla, which was opened by one of our missionaries, but later transferred to the Salvation Army. The other asylum, just outside our mission area, is located at Dichipalli in the Deccan. It is the only one for the whole of Nizam’s Dominions with its fifteen million people. The doctors are doing a marvelous work and actually are securing many cures. One day the lady doctor in charge was suffering very much from the heat in the hottest part of the year. On that very day a group of lepers came smiling to her and she did not quite understand why they seemed so happy. They explained that they were again enjoying prickly heat, that bane of the white people. It was really a joy to them, for it was a sign that their dead flesh was living again. Dr. Anna Degenring in her report shows the need and how they are trying to meet it in Vellore: “ Our five roadside dispensaries have been so well appreciated by the people that at times it has been difficult to supply enough doctors for the need. At one of them during the hot season the numbers went to 900 a day, two-thirds of whom were lepers. These unfortunate people have at last begun to realize that they can be benefited by medical aid and are now coming in large crowds.” COMMISSIONS The year has been a year o f Commission visitation. Miss Minnie Sand­ berg, Secretary of the Woman’s Board, and Dr. P. H. J. Lerrigo and Mrs. Lerrigo, of the General Society, made a somewhat hurried visit through the mission. Rev. H. Huizinga, Ph. D., who served two terms in our mission years ago and who is now professor of English in the University of Shanghai, paid us a visit of a month and renewed acquaintances with friends and many of his former students. It is good to get the reaction of such a man: “ Considering the lowly origin of the Christian community, its present state of advance is truly remarkable. Many Christian men and women are leaders in towns and villages where they reside. Both men and women teachers, recognized Christians, have in their schools pupils of all classes of society, but often a majority from the highest castes. Thus Brahmans who a couple of decades ago would not go to school with (untouchable) Christians are now quite willing to send their children to schools taught by these same Christians grown up—and no longer untouch­ able. The first women college graduates from the region covered by our mission are from the Christian community. In fact, all over India Chris­ tian women are far ahead of all other communities in the matter of education.” On January first came the Lindsay Commission on Higher Education with a Convention in Guntur. This Commission has heartily endorsed the proposed Andhra Union Christian College for Bezwada. The next was the THE SOUTH INDIA MISSION 1 0 3

American Laymen’s Commission, which visited a number of our stations in British territory. Another was the Mass Movement Commission, which also visited a few of our stations. This Commission also held a Con­ vention at Guntur. The year ended with the visit o f Rev. John MacNeill, D. D., President of the Baptist World Alliance, and Mrs. MacNeill. The second Laymen’s Commission put in its appearance at our Conference in Nellore and is now visiting the stations of the mission. Our annual Conference this year made a record in having no less than sixteen visitors. Those on the Commissions are all men o f experience, and impressed us with their ability to understand things. Their work cannot but result in great blessing to all the workers at home and abroad. Another kind of Commission came from Burma and toured part of our mission in November and December. This was the Evangelistic Band, consisting o f Rev. V. W . Dyer, Miss Gertrude E. Teele, and a band of students and graduates from Judson College. The men and women included Karens, Burmans, Chinese, and Indians. They conducted very splendid meetings chiefly for students in Madras, Nellore, Ongole, Guntur, and Narsaravupet. This was an exhibition of Christianity with an indigen­ ous setting.

SPECIAL MEETINGS

Large meetings of various kinds are held each year on most of the fields. One o f the best Conventions with delegates from all over the missions was held at Vinukonda. On Sunday the meeting was the largest ever held there. Dr. E. Stanley Jones held big meetings in Secunderabad. Secunderabad also had a big Sunday-school rally of all the schools in the city. The Associations, of which there are five, usually have large crowds. The best attended is the Northern Association. This Association covers the richest section of our mission area. This year the meetings were held in Bezwada, where the church-members entertained about three hundred delegates for three days. Several of the larger fields now have Associations for their own. Large meetings are held for study in Lyrical Evangelism; much more is made of music and singing in the evangelistic meetings than formerly. In very many ways the year 1931 has been one of the very best years in the history of the mission. Other missions close by us have had to dismiss many workers and close stations and sell property on account of the hard times both here and at home. There has been a forward movement on the part of the Indian churches in assuming increased responsibility for the work, as evidenced in the organization of the Field Associations. The very proposition now made definitely by the Telugu Convention to take over the management of the Ongole High School is a new venture. A very noticeable thing this year is the way a large number of educated young men have given themselves to the work of the ministry. Previously we had thought that the educated 104 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY young men thought only of high salaries and Government positions. Our mission so far has only one M. A., and he is a whole-hearted evangelist. Our mission field has been unusually free from epidemics this year. For the first time in many years there was no plague in Secunderabad, for which we were very thankful. Hyderabad city has been so renovated and so improved that the dreaded disease no longer finds a lodging-place. During the early months of the year our church-membership passed the one hundred thousand mark. In spite of low prices and hard times and increased taxation and in spite of anticipated reductions in appropriations, our churches are enthusiastic and on many fields have actually increased their contributions and enlarged their work. In anticipation of the coming South India Centennial in 1935, the Telugu Convention have already appointed a Committee to plan a suitable cele­ bration and new undertakings, which will be a fitting close of a hundred years’ work in this great field. THE BENGAL-ORISSA MISSION

By Miss Naomi H. Knapp ENGAL-ORISSA, so called because work is carried on in the two separate provinces of Bengal and Orissa, has been called the most B difficult mission field in India. Here the people are intrenched in Hinduism, and results are obtained only through individual working with individual. In this section there has never been a mass movement toward Christianity as there has been in many parts of India. In Bengal there is work in Midnapore District. Here Northern Baptists are responsible for nearly 2,700,000 people, work being carried on from Midnapore, Khargpur, and Bhimpore. In Orissa our work in Balasore District covers an area of 2,500 miles with a population of 1,250,000. Six missionary families and four single ladies are responsible for the evangelization of this great population, while in Bengal there are seven families and five single missionaries. The work in Bengal-Orissa was opened in 1836 when, through the efforts of Rev. Amos Sutton, an English Baptist, and his wife, an American, the Free Baptists were induced to send out as their first workers Rev. Jeremiah Phillips and Mr. Eli Noyes. The first station opened was at Sambalpur, but it was soon removed to Balasore. The work was carried on by the Free Baptists until the union of the Northern Baptists and the Free Baptists in 1911. At that time it was turned over to the Northern Baptist Convention. Other places were opened, -until now there are mis­ sionaries working among people of three races, the Bengalis, the Oriyas, and the Santals. Baptists also minister to Telugus and to the Hindustani­ speaking people in the industrial centers of Khargpur and Jamshedpur. Here, too, there are services for European and Anglo-Indian people. Aside from the centers of Balasore, Midnapore, Khargpur, and Jam­ shedpur, most of the people live in small villages. As one travels along the main roads he sees so few of these villages that he is inclined to wonder how there can be as many people as are named in census reports. However, traversing the paths that lead off from these roads, going through the jungle or across the rice fields, he finds that just out of sight of the road are any number of villages. These villages are composed of mud houses, some large and built around an open courtyard, but most of them just one- or two- roomed houses thatched with straw. In the village there may be one home whose owner is rich enough to have achieved the height of having a tin roof on his house. It is in these villages that the evangelistic missionary and the preachers and Bible-women work. Here the people are nearly always ready to listen to the hymns and gospel message. In sevferal of such villages churches have been formed. During the past year two new churches have been organized and three more places are waiting to be organized. One group has just recently completed a church building, made of mud, as are their houses, but all of the expense contributed by the members themselves. 1 0 5 106 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

Balasore In Balasore the Boys’ High School is rejoicing in having one of their teachers, R. K. Sahu, who recently returned from a year- of study in America, as head master. The Technical School has lengthened its courses and done much to improve its curriculum. During the year the entrance requirements have been raised. Encouraging reports came from the Girls’ High School. This year the matriculation class has been opened, while in the Middle School seven out of eight passed the government examina­ tion. Zenana work carried on by eleven teachers is bearing fruit in lives enriched by the gospel stories carried to many women who are kept in their own homes. The industrial work among the women helps girls and women to care for themselves. Bible-women go out daily to the villages.

Bhimpore Bhimpore reports progress in the work there. The Boys’ High School had an average enrolment of 160. Five candidates were sent for matricula­ tion examination, four of whom passed. All the teachers except the Sanskrit pundit are Christians. Several have taken special training. The Girls’ Middle School has an increased enrolment. Several of the older girls are given opportunity to use something of what they are learning in the school as they go to the near-by villages to conduct Sunday schools. The Bible-women have been very faithful in their work. Several baptisms from non-Christian families have been reported. The seventy-five village schools, financed mostly by Government but supervised by the mission, open many doors of opportunity. Many of them are in villages where there are no Christians. As the preachers and Bible-women go to these villages they are finding the people anxious to learn more of the Christ and his teachings. The sad part is that they can be visited so seldom. Boys, who in the past have attended the mission school but have not openely pro­ fessed Christ, are asking for more knowledge o f him. More Christian leaders are needed if we are to enter the many open doors.

Contai Although Contai station is closed evangelistic work is carried on in that area. Encouraging reports come from the village of Amda, where a large number have been baptized. One young Christian man returning from work in the jute mills of Calcutta let his light shine until now the light has so spread that the whole village is Christian.

Hatigarh and Salgodia At Hatigarh and at Salgodia there are schools for both boys and girls. In Hatigarh there is work among zenana women. The leper clinic there has been able to discharge several patients as cured. The evangelistic wcrk is encouraging, a new church having been organized during the year in the Salgodia District. THE BENGAL-ORISSA MISSION 1 0 7

Jamshedpur In Jamshedpur the work falls into three divisions; namely, the European work in Beldoh, the work in G-Town, and the supervision of the two Indian churches. Both Indian churches have had new pastors during the year. Since people from sections of India gather here for work, the Indian church represents several different races. Because of this, Hindustani is usually used for most of the service where songs are sung in various languages.

Khargpur Khargpur reports that although there has been much shifting of work due to furloughs and language study the work has gone on very well. Attendance at the Sunday schools and services has been very encouraging. One interesting feature has been the gathering of young men Sunday evening after the service for an hour of singing and Bible. The Telugu church has a pastor from the Canadian Baptist Telugu Mission. The teacher of the Telugu school has also been a leader in the work among these people. Midnapore In Midnapore the Girls’ High. School sent their girls for matriculation examination for the first time as an affiliated high school of the Calcutta University. Two out of three passed in the second division. The boys in the college are reached through the Y. M. C. A. The Bible school trains boys for Christian work. Here the boys from all three language areas are trained. For their practical work they go to their own district during the cold season touring. A dispensary is conducted. This does much to relieve suffering and here many contacts are made which help in the work in the villages. People came from many miles away because they know that “ here we get good medicine.” During the year the Christ of the Indian road has found his way into many hearts, but there are many more longing for the peace which he alone can give. Pray with us that workers may be provided so that these, too, may be shown the way. THE EAST CHINA MISSION

Compiled by Miss Doris M. Amidon T the time of going to press no official report from the East China Mission had been received. In order to complete the records of the A year on all fields of the Society, extracts have been taken from station reports by individual missionaries. They are incorporated here­ with so as to present a review of conditions during the year. In view of the world-wide interest in the military developments in Manchuria and around Shanghai, this compilation gives especial emphasis to the Shanghai disaster. Hangchow In the churches the past two years have been marked by a growth which has been healthy and steady, if not rapid. Self-confidence, so badly impaired in 1927, has continued to return. The sense of proprietorship has grown, though the economic situation has been most unfavorable for any proportionate increase in self-support. The Five Year Movement, two years of which have passed, has elicited interest and cooperation, though there have not been the enthusiasm and success which seem to have marked the similar movement in Japan. In national Christian circles much progress has been made along the lines of promoting literature, improved religious education, and a more active Christianization of the home, and in time the local churches will respond with yet more progress along these lines, as improved facilities and materials are made available and put into use. The spiritual yearning, the desire for deeper fellowship with God and with each other, have deepened in the past two years. General unrest and uneasiness is wide-spread and no phase of Chinese life is free from it. As the national situation has gone from bad to worse and world depression has widened and intensified a certain pessimism and hopelessness in external matters, the thoughts of many have turned to inner, more lasting things, though as everywhere others have reacted toward skepticism and despair. The need of the hour continues to be spiritual, the vital apprehension of Eternal Reality. As often happens in periods of depression, in recent months our section of China has witnessed a very definite wave of religious fervor, sometimes fanaticism, which has largely had its source in a few small missions centering in and around Shanghai. It seems to me that this movement is an indication of a great spiritual need which we ought to bend every effort to meet and supply in a positive and constructive way. The evangelistic opportunity has certainly improved in the last two years. In the Chekiang-Shanghai Convention there has been steady growth of a sense o f proprietorship and responsibility for the work and an earnest pride in its development. New precedents have been established and ways jof handling things evolved which promise good for the future. There is every reason to be gratified at the way the admittedly youthful leadership 108 THE EAST CHINA MISSION 10 9 has been functioning and learning. Organization has been simplified and first things put to the fore. One of the high spots in 1930-1931 was the extended visit which we enjoyed from Dr. James Franklin and his family. His report was a masterly survey of what he found. In October, 1931, we were transferred from Ningpo to Hangchow. We went to Ningpo from the Nanking Language School in 1923, and the years since have been spent there. The move to Hangchow will entail some loss in the matter of opportunity for country work, and other oppor­ tunities will doubtless compensate.—J. IV. Decker.

Kinhwa The past year has been one of unusual trial in our local church, yet the leaders have profited by the trying experiences and have come out stronger because of them. W e ourselves have never before been so called on to share our very selves with our church people since coming to Kinwha. W e share in their sorrows, their perplexities, their joys, and in their ostracism. Our home is open to them at all times. The four country churches have been carrying on as usual during the past year. W e have some good, faithful workers among them. Until recently there has been only one evangelist for three of the country churches, and a volunteer worker for-the fourth station. Now there is a full-time man in one of these churches, who, with his wife, is doing a real spiritual work. In the medical department we have been very busy. W e have seen the completion of the woman’s nurses’ dormitory, for which the General Board and the Woman’s Board each contributed so generously. Having a proper home for the nurses will greatly help in the morale of the hospital. For some years there has been no member on the hospital staff from either Board. The hospital reaffirmed its request for a missionary nurse. The Tsoh Sing School for Boys has had the largest enrolment in its history; buildings have been enlarged and rearranged to accommodate the increase. The principal is an earnest Christian who has greatly improved the physical and spiritual conditions at the school. - Before Christmas a number of the boys expressed a desire to become Christians and a retreat for them was held in one o f the country churches.—Mrs. John P. Davies.

Ningpo As one reviews the happenings of the past few months, the developments of the past four years seem to have had such a setback that we ofttimes wonder if the work will ever recover the ground lost. The internal political turmoil and the seeming bankruptcy of the Nanking government, together with lack of any definite authority or real assumption of authority on the part o f the men who are recognized as the only ones capable of leading this country, make for a dark picture indeed. Then added to that is the encroachment of Japan, and the famine and flood conditions. One is made to marvel at the patience with which the situation is accepted by the 110 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

people and cause to wonder whether it is patience or a fatalistic attitude. One is compelled to give admiration for the way in which a people who are not too well trained in self-control have held themselves in hand and obeyed the leadership of Nanking. It is to be acknowledged that students have shown lack of restraint and in their immaturity they have felt the responsibility for creating sentiment, but such sentiment having expended itself, they face about and demand that the leader they have assisted in disposing of must return to Nanking. The Ningpo Middle School has had a good year. Eight boys were baptized and many others are interested and desirous o f more informa­ tion. Our Bible classes are well attended, and church and chapel attendance has been twenty per cent, higher this year. A hundred per cent, faculty attendance at chapel is the record. This means that our teachers are seri­ ously interested in the job that is theirs, not of teaching and subject-matter alone, but of living Christian lives. The result is evident in the school atmosphere. Our Christian mission schools will easily vindicate all the effort and expense that have been put into them if they assist in the educating o f a part of this developing group of young people who will command the leadership in the next thirty years. Our efforts need not be spectacular so long as they are effective and thoroughly Christian. We can assure this spirit as long as we pan continue to secure the type o f men and women for our schools as teachers that we now have.—H. R. S. Benjamin.

Here in Ningpo we have had a quiet time. The disasters that visited some parts of China touched very lightly here, and this remains probably one of the most peaceful and prosperous sections of China. W e have been fortunate in being off the main lines of troop movement, and with peace and good crops there has not been the banditry that has harassed some areas. The removal of the Deckers to Hangchow was regretted by everyone, but we have tried to arrange things so that the work would continue without serious setback. We are fortunate in having a very good group o f pastors who have rallied to carry on the work. W e are very happy to greet the Stannards and to have Dr. Harold Thomas back again. W e have been seeking to develop Sunday-school work at West Gate. With the help of Mr. James Wang, my associate, and several students, we have a large group of students from the day school attending. In addition, we have a school at the social center. This is now run by a Christian Chinese who conducts a day school and seeks to carry on some other activities without any direct support from the Convention. W e are working also with students in several other small schools for street children. There are about 600 in the various schools at the present time. W e are profoundly thankful for the progress o f this past year and the growth manifest in so many of our workers. It is a privilege to share with these men and women who are seeking to make Christ real in their com­ munities and in their lives these days.—P. J. McLean, Jr. THE EAST CHINA MISSION 111

Shanghai Last year seems to have been one of those unusual years that come every year in China. First we had the annual rebellion in Shansi as well as the one in Canton. Then in the summer came the terribly severe flood followed by the usual famine, in which forty or fifty million people were involved. Then China was set upon by Japan when she was thus helpless. This destroyed overnight the patient work of many friends of peace in both nations. As usual, the students constitute a large share of the intelligent people of China. They cast about for ways of helping the nation. Being young and inexperienced, their methods have often been foolish. Practically all middle school students and most college students went on a strike in protest of the division between Canton and Nanking and to try to induce the government to declare war on Japan. Ours is one of the few colleges that has continued to function. This has been made possible only by the close cooperation between students and teachers, and has thus shown the real strength of a Christian institution.—F. J. White.

University of Shanghai At the annual meeting of the Board of Directors of Shanghai College, held on April 24, 1931, it was decided to change the English name to the “ University of Shanghai.” This institution has been recognized as deserv­ ing university status through registration three years ago, and it is con­ sidered one of the Class A institutions of higher learning in China. In addi­ tion to the college of arts and science, the University of Shanghai is conducting a school of commerce, a school of education, post-graduate'work, preparatory schools, and a social center. This does not include the affiliated Theological Seminary, which is not registered with the Ministry of Educa­ tion. In April, 1931, there were 1,800 students enrolled in all divisions of the institution. That there are to be no radical changes in the policy of the University is emphasized by President H, C. E. L iu : “ W e are going to continue our old policy as a private Christian institution of higher learning. Our ambition is to make it a better and greater Christian institution. W e shall maintain high academic standards and continue to make scholarship necessary and attractive. The work of character-building and religious education on a voluntary basis will be emphasized more than ever before. Good citizen­ ship training will be a special feature. W e want our students to be both good nationalists and good internationalists.”

During the past year war conditions in the Far East have focussed the attention of the whole world on Shanghai. Baptists have been especially concerned for the welfare of the University of Shanghai and the future of the work in China. Excerpts from special correspondence follow:

With the attack on Greater Shanghai tens of thousands of refugees from there are rushing into the International Settlement and we have a most seri­ 112 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY ous problem to take care of them. W e have organized a Christian war relief committee which is undertaking to provide food and shelter for these homeless refugees who have wandered into* our midst. . . It is a terrible sight to see them coming in as they have for the past eight days. First they came in by automobiles and trucks, then in rickshaws, then in carts, later still in wheelbarrows, and now thousands o f people have been carry­ ing their bedding and clothing in bundles on their backs. . . The day before yesterday I went down to the University of Shanghai. Doctor Liu, all of our missionaries, and a part of our Chinese faculty are still there. As it happens, it is vacationtime and very few students are on the campus. —L. C. Hylbert, February 4, 1932.

Shortly after the opening of the fall session last year the Japanese trouble in Manchuria broke out. The whole country was electrified and terrified by the unwarranted, unprovoked invasion, and feeling ran very high among the people. The students were especially excited and the Student Union o f Shanghai went on strike, but our students showed excellent' spirit and our College was one of the two which did not strike, but which completed the work of the semester without serious interruption. W e were not so fortunate with the middle school. . . Our spring term was scheduled to open on February 1, but on January 28 the undeclared war in Shanghai was started by the Japanese. At no time was the fighting nearer than six miles distant from the campus, but one stray shell fell on the campus. It caused no damage. The Japanese military headquarters and aeroplane base were made adjoining our campus, and the Japanese controlled the road to Shanghai, requiring passes of all who used the road. Many left the campus, but at no time was it deserted. . . Conditions in Shanghai were terrible, and there were large sections o f the city which were laid in utter devasta­ tion. Thousands of people lost everything they possessed and went to the refugee camps for assistance. The suffering and horror are indescrib­ able. . . The tense war situation in Shanghai made it necessary for us to postpone the opening of the school, and the presence of the Japanese military and air forces next to our campus made it seem unwise for us to attempt to open classes on the campus, or to bring any considerable number of students to the campus until the situation cleared.—H. C. E. Liu, April 18, 1932.

In the midst of the trying situation at Shanghai, President H. C. E. Liu wrote: “As a Christian I am facing the future courageously. Christians should not be discouraged. God is always with us. W e should work harder than ever before for international peace and justice.” On April 7 classes of the University were resumed in the down-town district, using the classrooms o f the Shanghai Y. M. C. A. and of the Downtown School of Commerce. There were 290 students enrolled in the college group and 220 in the Middle School. A letter from Doctor Liu, under date of May 28, brings the following encouraging news: “ W e are very glad to report that the Japanese troops THE EAST CHINA MISSION 113

who were staying next to us have been withdrawn, and we shall move our college students back to the campus on June 1 and resume our normal activities on June 2. Everything is quiet and peaceful in {his region. Our students are doing excellent work in spite of the handicap, and we do not expect trouble. Probably we shall consider moving the Middle School students later.”

As Associate Professor of Sociology in the University of Shanghai, H. D. Lamson reports: “ The political excitement attendant upon the Manchurian situation of 1931 in the fall semester interrupted my teaching work for only seven teaching days, although most colleges and universities were out on strike for many weeks and were unable to do much serious work during the whole period of October, November, and December. We have pointed out the futility of war, the necessity for patience, the value of world brotherhood, the need of internal reforms in China’s social and political systems as well as the rejuvenation o f morality and religion. During the fall Prof. J. L. Buck of the University of Nanking, who was making a survey of the needs of farms and farmers in the flooded districts in East China, asked me if some of my students could assist in gathering data from some of the flood refugee families concentrated in Shanghai. Thus have some of our students met face to face with the problems of famine relief and the social effects of floods in China.” Again he states: “ The cooperative effect of the American teachers in the classroom, in the fellowship groups, in private conversations, has been an influence in the eight direction. Our students have not been less patriotic but they have been more sane.” From the Office of the President of the University, Miss Annie E. Root writes: “ While the work of the past year has been carried on under tremendous difficulties we are not discouraged, but press on, and hope that conditions will change soon so that more may be done that will be of lasting worth. I have tried to do my work faithfully in Doctor Liu’s office, as his secretary, and have studied Chinese most assiduously, with the result that I am now ready to take the final examination covering the first year’s work.” Shaohing As adviser to the country churches I have visited every church but one, and some of them several times. The Shaohing field is partly in a great plain sixty miles long by twenty wide, and partly in a mountainous district. Travel on the plain has been free from the bandit menace throughout the year. Not so in the mountain villages. Since the emergence of the Man­ churian affair the government police forces have been drawn away and the. policing of the country districts left in the hands of militia raised locally. In some cases these local groups have been effective and in other instances not so effective. On my visit to Tsong Ko Bu in October I was told that seven out of every ten of the bandits in the hills twenty-five miles to the south were bandits by night and peaceful farmers by day. The village authorities in the town of San Ka had forbidden the sale of electric 114 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY torches since they had become such an effective instrument in the hands of the bandits. The bandits are well organized and their object is to secure money by blackmail, kidnapping, and ransom. Despite the handicaps of banditry and the unsettled political situation, the church in Tsong Ko Bu has made remarkable progress under the leadership of Rev. P. C. Tsoh. There are now four branch chapels connected with this church and the membership is just what the total membership of the entire Shaohing field was twenty j'cars ago. In addition to my duties as adviser and treasurer for the Yuih Dzae Academy and as treasurer of the Christian Hospital and member of the evangelistic committee of the Goddard Memorial Church, I have also been evangelistic adviser for the Shekiang-Shanghai Convention. This has brought me into close contact with Dr. T. C. Bau and other leaders. One of the methods used to deepen the spiritual life of the Christian leaders has been that of holding retreats. Such a retreat was held in our home last February and another is planned for January in Hangchow.—A. F. Ufford.

For a time we wondered whether it would be at all possible to have graduation exercises at Yuih Dzae Academy due to student trouble. For the sake of those finishing their junior high school course it was decided to go on as usual. The Board of Education of the Convention thought o f closing the Academy for a time, but finally decided to carry on. The young man who is the principal is a graduate of the University of Shanghai and is doing well. This fall the enrolment taxed to the uttermost the capacity of our building. Under the leadership of Pastor Tsiang and with the loyal cooperation of the church-members and responsible leaders in the various Christian institutions, the attendance at our church services has shown a slow but steady increase. The Sunday morning congregation ranges from 250 to 350 and as many more on special occasions. On Christmas night there were over 1,100 in attendance, the largest number ever in the church. This indicates not only the healthy condition of the church itself but also shows the larger place it is winning in the more receptive population of our great city of Shaohing.—A. I. Nasmith.

Shaohing Christian Hospital In the brief space of two years there were no less than three complete changes of the medical staff and during the greater part of this period Dr. F. W . Goddard was absent on furlough. W e were most fortunate in securing the services of a young woman doctor, the daughter of our honored and loved Pastor Dzin, who died a few years ago. Dr. Chen Mae Dzin had received her training in Ginling College and the Peking Union Medical College, and thus has added to fine personal qualities the best training to be had in China. The fact that she is a native of this city, and that she*is in hearty sympathy with the Christian aims of the institution have added greatly to the service which she has been able to render. Doctor Chen is THE EAST CHINA MISSION 115 in charge of the department of internal medicine, and in addition carries much of the work in gynecology and obstetrics. Since February last the department of general surgery has been under the care of Dr. F. E. Chan, who came to us after a long service in a similar hospital conducted by the Presbyterian Mission in Kashing. In these two we have found ideal members for our staff, and trust they may long remain with us. W e are glad also to be able to report that Miss Katherine Muehl has completed the first year of her language study in Peiping, and since September has been with us in Shaohing. The nursing department reports the most harmonious year known for a long time. Miss Annie Wu, superintendent, came to us in 1930, and has shown marked ability in her professional work, and by her strong Christian character has been a powerful leaven for good in the training schools. Miss Wu and Miss Charlotte Larner and four graduate nurses are rendering faithful and efficient service. In spite of serious ill health, Miss Larner, as superintendent of the hospital during the absence of Doctor Goddard, carried on and maintained the organization intact, rendering a large service to the community.—F. W. Goddard, M. D. THE SOUTH CHINA MISSION

Compiled by Miss Doris M. Amidon T the time of going to press no official report from the South China Mission had been received. In order to complete the record of the A year on all the fields of the Society, extracts have been taken from five station reports from individual missionaries. These are incorporated here­ with so as to present a review of conditions during the year.

EXTRACTS FROM STATION REPORTS

Chaoyang After my return from Shanghai last February my time was given to the study of the Chaoyang dialect and to giving what help I could in the hospital. When it was no longer necessary for me to put my whole time into language study I had the privilege of doing rather more in the medical line. No one can come to Chaoyang without being impressed by the greatness of the field and the friendliness of the people. My colleague, Dr. C. J. Wu, who has been here for six years, has the good-will and respect of all. His hard and efficient service has given the hospital a reputation which is a big asset all through this region. He is also a pillar in the church and is superintendent of the Sunday school, and always a ready help in an evangelistic meeting.— C. E. Bousficld, M. D.

Meihsien (Kaying) Meihsien, formerly known as Kaying, is the scene of activity of national and mission interest. Rev. J. Harry Giffin writes: “ There are many refugees from southern Kiangsi in the city of Meihsien. . . Soldiers in great numbers have been passing through here for two weeks on their way up-country. They prevent the communists coming into Kwangtung territory and try to drive them out of the territory they hold in these two provinces. Here in Meihsien it is quiet and work is going on in quite the usual way. Recently we were happy to entertain Mr. and Mrs. B. L. Baker and Miss Ericson. Their visit was profitable to us. Mr. Baker came in his official capacity as secretary, and goes away knowing more about our work than formerly, we sincerely believe.”

Sun W u Hsien During a lull in the interminable warfare of the Reds we tried to pick up some o f the broken threads and began to restore the battered condition of the work in the Sun W u region. It was only a start in a small way with two workers employed in an itinerant capacity, being able to visit only two or three chapels where bandits were not in possession. W e had hoped 116 THE SOUTH CHINA MISSION 117 that the Nanking drive against the Kiangsi Reds would have been successful and that we might ere long enlarge our efforts and fully occupy the field again. Japan started her campaign in Manchuria; Nanking withdrew her soldiers from Kiangsi; the Reds reoccupied their wider territory; our two workers had to flee with their belongings, and Kaying and many places between were flooded with refugees. From October to the present time even refugees have been unable to return to Sun Wu, and there is no immediate prospect of conditions improving. Meanwhile the workers are awaiting some opportunity to enter the field.—G. E. Whitman.

Word was received from the Sun Wu field in April that the mission property, which has been occupied by government troops, had been burned to the ground by the Reds. This has not been verified as yet, for the Sun Wu territory is a place to keep away from just now.—/. Harry Giffin.

Swatow The big event of the year was the dedication of the splendid new church building here on the compound on Sunday, June 14, the crowning feature of the observance of the seventieth anniversary of the founding of the South China Mission. This memorial building is an abiding joy in its architectural beauty and in the splendid home it provides for church, Asso- ciational, and Convention services. It is a big asset for all the interests to which it is related, and promises to be a great blessing in the life of the Ling Tong churches. It never fails to receive expressions of enthusiastic admiration and approval from visitors who see it. It is significant as an expression of the finest traditions of Chinese architecture adapted to Chris­ tian use and as the largest undertaking of its kind ever attempted by the Ling Tong churches and Christians, and that at a time when conditions in China seemed to be altogether discouraging. One happy event that has taken place in the new chapel was the ordina­ tion of Pastor Ling Tsu-liu, on January 29, under the auspices of the Sua Kak Association. Mr. Ling has served as Associational Secretary for the past year, and his ordination was a recognition o f the confidence inspired by his many years of ministry to the churches as an unordained evangelist.— G. H. Waters.

Ashmore Theological Seminary Last year the continuance of the Seminary seemed far from definitely assured. W e carried on throughout the year and graduated a class of five at the close of the winter.term, the first class to be graduated since the Seminary reopened in 1928. In June the Ling Tong Convention registered its conviction that the maintenance of the seminary is of vital importance to the churches of its area, and that conviction seems to be confirmed by the fact that last week we opened a new year with nine entering students, the largest number to be received since the reopening four years ago.—G. H. Waters. 118 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

This year my time has been divided between teaching in the Seminary and giving missionary oversight and help to the Ungkung field. I have taught three classes each semester and an extra the second semester. One of the extra curriculum activities in which I have participated has been the week­ end deputations to country churches. This deputation work is valuable to the students, for it gives them practical experience and contact with the churches, and it conserves their own spiritual life and zeal by affording them oppor­ tunity for concrete expression and activity in service. The heavy schedule of these students prevents them from giving as much time to this and other work as all would wish.—Kenneth G. Hobart.

Swatow Christian Institute During the past year the Christian Institute has had its share o f light and shadow. In June the Chinese superintendent, Mr. William Chen, resigned and went to America for a year o f study. Pending the adoption by the Board of an agreement by which the work of the Institute is to be transferred to the Ling Tong Convention, Mrs. Jacob Speicher was asked to assume charge o f the work. For several months we had no Chinese super­ intendent, which handicapped the work considerably. Rev. S. K. Lo, former Executive Secretary of the Ling Tong Convention, accepted the position and began work the latter part of September. The work of the Institute is divided into nine departments: religious, lecture, exhibit, educational, medical, woman’s work, young people’s work, religious education, book and Christian literature. Each department has a director who is responsible for the work of his department. During the past year some progress was made in the educational department with an increased enrolment in our three day-schools. This increase in attendance was partly due to our separating the primary grade from the kindergarten. A night school was opened in October. The medical work was carried on through the year as usual, and the nurse has been kept busy day and night ofttimes. Each department has shown real advance. The religious work of the Institute has been carried on mostly through the two Swatow churches, the pastors of which are the directors of the religious depart­ ment. All the members of the Institute staff are active in church and Sunday school work.—Mrs. Jacob Speicher.

Ungkung A large part of the Ungkung field has been so overrun with bandits as to make travel unsafe; distances, too, are so great that one coming for only a week-end could not reach the northern half o f the field at all. Through the self-sacrificing efforts of Miss Fannie Northcott, who has lived alone at Ungkung all the year, the hospital has been put on a good running basis, its debts paid, and its service to the community enlarged. Most of the year it has had an average of from 15 to 20 in-patients, and an out­ patient clinic ranging from 50 to 100 people per day. A chaplain has been employed the entire year and one or two Bible-women have been on the staff. THE SOUTH CHINA MISSION 1 1 9

'Since December 1, 1930, when I took over supervision of the Ungkung field, there have been 38 baptisms. There are other candidates awaiting baptism at distant chapels which I have so far been unable to visit. The large part of this group are the products o f Christian homes and of faithful personal work. It has been decided to discontinue the boys’ grammar school for the present, and in its place to conduct during 1932 a free school for illiterates, using the Thousand Character Text-Books, as a piece of community social service. It is confidently expected that such a school will produce real evangelistic results.—Kenneth G, Hobart. \

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Reported by H. J. Openshaw, D. D. NE of the outstanding events of the year 1931 was the visit, early in the year, o f Mr. Guy W . Sarvis, of the Laymen’s Fact Finding O Inquiry. The results o f these investigations and findings are awaited with interest. Another major event, of vital importance to the whole Chris­ tian Movement in Szechuan, occurred in December. General Secretary Dr. Cheng Gin Yih, together with Mr. Sen, Miss Kwan, and Miss Stallings, Secretaries of the National Christian Council, conducted a series of con­ ferences in five centers in the interest of the Five Year Movement. They stressed evangelism, stewardship, the Christian home, illiteracy, and the rural problem. Delegates from all the churches, representing all denom­ inations at work in the Province, were inspired and impressed by the Christian bearing and strong personality of Doctor Cheng and his asso­ ciates, and by the clear presentation of the Christian message. Resolutions and findings aiming to make the messages concrete and to get them before the churches were adopted, and a special edition of Christian Hope will be printed and widely scattered. Definite convictions were registered and the desire of the delegates was voiced in the slogan of the Movement, “ Lord, revive thy work, beginning with me.” A very incomplete review of the Christian Movement in Szechuan during the past three or four years would seem to indicate some of the following trends: (1) The church has been passing through a period of testing and persecution, and normal growth has been retarded. (2) Many inside and outside the church have very inadequate conceptions of what the Church of Christ really is. (3) Precipitate devolution, in some cases, involved the Chinese leaders in too many complex problems, for some of which they were not ready. (4) The temporary withdrawal of foreign missionary leadership and initiative slowed up the momentum of evan­ gelism. (5) There has been no adequate forward-looking program, and growth toward self-support has been slow. The causes of these trends may be partially explained by the lack o f a stable form of government, unjust taxation, increased cost of living, organized and, at times, violent opposi­ tion to foreigners and the whole Christian movement. In some respects the Baptist cause in West China has been comparatively free from some of the disabilities of the other churches. This is in part due to the fact that our work is fairly compact, centering in four central stations, and also to the fact that the foreign staff has not been materially reduced and we have had hitherto splendid financial support from the Home Board. Dr. J. H. Franklin’s visit in 1930 was likewise of vital importance to our work and his continued personal interest in our Chinese workers and problems has been a contributory steadying factor. 120 THE WEST CHINA MISSION 121

Politically, the Province has remained undisturbed by warring military factions. Notwithstanding excessive summer rains, nothing like flood con­ ditions prevailed and the rice crop was fully up to normal years. However, someone played with the market and sent the price of rice sky-high, causing semifamine conditions for a short time during the summer. All classes have been affected by the Japanese aggression in Manchuria, but the work has gone steadily forward and our higher institutions of learning weathered the storm nicely. In the matter of communications, advance is recorded, air-mail service having been inaugurated between Shanghai and Chungking. W e have had letters from the coast in eight days. Bus lines, running out of Chengtu, connect with a number of important cities and run with a fair degree of regularity. The connection between Chengtu and Chungking will soon be perfected. In looking over the statistical reports, I note that the total church-mem- bership is 2,292, with 224 additions by baptism for the year. The year educationally has been quite up to standard, with record enrolments from the kindergarten to the university. Our two hospitals have continued their ministry of healing, with a record of 37,500 patients treated during 1931.

PASTORAL EVANGELISM

Yachow This has been a year of activities. The regular meetings of the church have been well attended. W e have had interesting and well-attended mid­ week prayer-meetings. For some months, each Monday night meetings for prayer were held in the homes of different members. The club for boys of primary school age has continued with interest unabated each Thursday night. Our genial pastor, Mr. Lan, leads this with the enthusiastic help of teachers and older students. During the year a similar club has been organized at the Girls’ School. A program of Bible stories, singing, riddles, contests, and sleight of hand has been provided. During the year our Bible Training School plant has been completed. The style is Chinese. It is adequate, beautiful, and inexpensive. It was made possible through the gifts of Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Conway, of Cali­ fornia, our partners these many years in the Yachow enterprises. Sixteen students have been enrolled during the past term, including two women and two blind boys. The blind boys came from the school for the blind, which Dr. H. J. Openshaw has been promoting so successfully in Chengtu. With a small metal frame, a little hand punch, and paper from discarded maga­ zines, these blind boys can take fairly rapid dictation. Our Bible school students have made noticeable improvement during the year. W e do not seek a large enrolment. Twenty students of the right type are as many as we care to handle. A year from this coming June we «hope to graduate our first class. Students go out from the school for practical work each week. On alternate weeks we visit market-towns nearer by, distributing tracts and holding services in old temples or in the courts of inns. There 122 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY are tracts for farmers, for students, for merchants, and others. W e have complied with government regulations, and have registered our schools. All religious instruction is prohibited within the schools. W e are free, of course, to teach ethics and character-building. Local authorities have not objected to the teaching of the “ Social Principles of Jesus.” Our principals are all Christian and active in church work. Forty of our schoolboys are church-members. W e aim to lead these boys into real fellowship with Christ. There is close cooperation between the church and schools. Our Bible Training School is in close proximity to the high school; on the same hilltop, in fact. The athletic field brings all students together. The reading-room at the Bible School is open to all students. This year our pastor organized a “ Young- Men’s Christian Club,” for high-school, elementary-school and Bible-school boys. It has a membership of sixty, and meets at the Bible School each Monday night. The winter Bible study class for inquirers was well attended. Men and women came from different parts of our district, some coming three days’ journey. Three Lolos came four days from beyond the Pass. Seven­ teen days were given to regular class work, with separate classes for men and women. About thirty men and women were in from the district for these classes. Toward the end of the Bible-class period the annual meetings of the church began. This was a delegated body, and it was one of the best we have had. One day was set apart for the dedication of the chapel at the Bible Training School. The meetings reached their climax on Sunday, December 20, when twenty-nine men and women confessed Christ through baptism. W e have received forty-three new members during the year. Twenty-nine were men, and fourteen were women. O f these new members, fourteen came from our schools. Three of our out- stations have undertaken needed improvements in their chapels. When financial aid is given, it is given on condition that a definite proportion be raised locally. This encourages self-support and self-respect. Our Chinese coworkers have shown splendid cooperation. They are assuming much more responsibility. It is not time, however, for missionaries to expect them to take all the initiative.—F. N. Smith.

Kiating There were sixty-five additions to the church during the year, all by baptism. Most of these were from Christian families and were brought in by personal evangelistic endeavor. Two were received from important clans into which we had not been able to gain an entrance before. Pray God that we may be able to follow up this initial success and win the whole of these two groups for Christ. Our school workers have given loyal and zealous support to the work o f the church in all its phases. Attendance at our midweek services has averaged well over fifty and about one-third of these have been from the school. They have also organized a Christian Endeavor in the school, which meets every week for Bible study and mutual exhortation. They have THE WEST CHINA MISSION 123 started a loan fund for poor members of the church and also collected clothes to distribute to the poor. Our Sunday school has new life and is using new methods with good success. Offerings have about trebled, and now some of the larger pupils plan to start a second Sunday school on Sunday afternoons for children living in the neighborhood of the church. This is entirely upon their own initiative. Work is progressing on the new church plant. The first unit has been completed. It is a building that is to be used for a general lecture hall, Sunday-school work and street chapel meeting’s. W e face the new year with confidence, for the people in our district are showing a new interest in and a new respect for the cause which we represent, and we believe that the coming of 1933 will see us advanced well beyond the place which we are now occupying.—J. C. Jensen.

Suifu This year I have had a position of responsibility over a large city church and wide country parish. The principal of Munroe Academy had resigned to take work at the Union Middle School, Chengtu, and the principal o f the city Boys’ School had to go into the hospital for tuberculosis. A daily morning prayer-meeting for leaders and a personal, pace-setting program tried to swing them back to old loyalties. Week-day Bible classes at church and a weekly talk at school assembly at each of the schools has brought results. A class for teachers, doctors, nurses, and professional men is held at the church in connection with Sunday school under Dr. C. E. Tompkins’ leadership. Without his cooperation and leadership I could not have held out the year. Two closed outstation chapels have been opened and three reading-rooms, seven hygiene clubs, two new Christian outstation schools, and personal evangelism was fostered by an institute for forty leaders which we held in October. Toward the end of the year we held what was perhaps the largest inquirers’ class in the history of the Suifu church. One hundred sixty people came in from the district and overflowed the church compound into inns. W e baptized thirty-two o f these. Fourteen more came from Munroe Academy and the Boys’ School and two from the city. This makes 102 people baptized here this year. There is an eagerness for the gospel everywhere.—C. F. Wood.

Chengtu The year began and closed with emphasis where it belongs, on evangelism. January opened with a vigorous evangelistic campaign at our Street Chapel on one of the busiest streets in the city and continued during the month. The chapel was crowded nightly and perhaps 5,000 men heard the gospel, while 30,000 pieces of Christian literature were distributed. Three night- meetings have been continued there right through the year. December closed with a house-to-house, shop-to-shop, tract-distributing campaign, when some 35,000 tracts and calendars were scattered throughout the sec­ tion of the city for which Baptists have assumed responsibility. Many 124 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

splendid contacts have been made through all this seed-sowing, and we have no doubt but that we “ shall reap if we faint not.” The church has continued work along regular lines, with something going for the several classes every night in the week save Saturday. Mr. Y. C. Hsu has served the church as pastor most efficiently during the year. Rev. D. L. Phelps writes interestingly of his connection with the church and Pastor Hsu: “ I have enjoyed membership of the church Executive Committee. These Chinese Christian men and women under the calm and almost mystical leadership of their pastor are moving on to new heights of social service on the one hand, and of reverent worship and religious life on the other. Once a month we meet together for tea, and discuss problems of church and Sunday-school management. Plans are being worked out with Pastor Hsu for a chancel of beauty and dignity in the church. The order of worship is being transformed. All that has to do with the place and order of worship is receiving special thought. At the annual meeting of the church this year pastor, deacons, and officers were all duly elected. The two matters of special significance were, the vote asking for the ordination of Messrs. Fu Gin Beh and Hsu Yu Chuen, and that assuming definite responsibility for raising $2,000 locally toward the new church building project.—H. J. Openshaw.

EDUCATIONAL WORK

Chengtu Upon Dr. Joseph Taylor’s departure on furlough from Chengtu in the early spring o f 1930 I became principal of the Ming Teh Baptist College, which is housed in the Van Deman Memorial Hall. This college is one of the colleges cooperating in the West China Union University. During the year in athletic equipment there have been constructed a clay tennis- court, a cement tennis-court, a clay basketball-court, a double brick handball- court, and an indoor tennis practise-court. Within the enclosing wall behind the College, where lay heaps of rubbish, there has been made a Chinese Oriental garden, with high arbor with hanging orchids and ferns, pergola with climbing roses, lawns, and flowering Chinese and foreign trees, and a lotus pool following the design of the famous Precious Light Temple Pool. Stone walks, foreign and Chinese flowers have added their beauty to this spot. Last fall we put in forty chrysanthemums of different varieties. Much time and thought has been given to the morning chapel services, twice a week, in the College. W e have improved the singing by the use of T. Z. Koo’s excellent hymn-book, which incorporates new hymns, new translations of old hymns, and the use o f stately ancient Chinese melodies. The order of worship has been carefully worked out, centering organ music, hymns, Scripture, and address about a central theme. Four beautiful Chinese carved lanterns lined with yellow and red silk have been hung in the chapel. Chinese scrolls depicting the life of Christ painted in the Chinese manner by a well-known artist, and large photographs of sacred THE WEST CHINA MISSION 125 places, in Chinese carved lattice-design frames, have added beauty and sig­ nificance to this collegiate place of worship. In spring, summer, and fall boxes of mountain lilies and ferns fill the windows. The latter open upon the college garden where springtime opens a myriad of roses, which the Chinese call “ The Seven Leagued Fragrance.” Thus we are endeavoring to worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness. In proportion to our numbers, the Baptist students in university and provincial track meets have made the most distinguished records of any educational unit, either mission or government, in the Province. Several of our Baptist athletes won three and four places each in university and provincial meets. It is interesting to note that practically all of these finest athletes come from the Christian group in the college; and also that the athletes tend to rank highest in scholarship, and in extra-curricular social, religious, and intellectual activities, sucji as oratorical contests, the Student Christian Movement, departmental clubs, plays, and the like. Gen­ erally speaking, I believe the highest grade men we have are those nurtured for years by the Christian church. But it does take years to pro­ duce the quality of Chinese Christian manhood and womanhood sufficiently strong in moral and intellectual fiber to withstand the impact of old Chinese society. Yet here is an interesting thing: the better Christians we make out of these young people the more truly Chinese they are. That is to say, Christian insight and character redeem and prenerve the best in Chinese culture. This is the answer to one of the most fundamental but erroneous criticisms leveled at modern missions by those who do not know what is actually happening. The number of students in the Baptist college averages between twenty- five and fifty, o f whom about 60 per cent, are Christians. About one-third are married. The annual number of graduates is steadily mounting. The College has been established fifteen years. W e have graduated twenty-one men. Our students come chiefly from our four West China stations: Suifu, Kiating, Yachow, and Chengtu, but there is an increasing number from other places.—-Dryden L. Phelps.

One of the most appreciated opportunities of this term of service of West China Union University probably was the giving of a course for freshmen, an orientation course it is called. It touches on many things. I attempt to open out to the new students the opportunities of the Univer­ sity, and then tie up seemingly diverse elements into a unified whole and arrive at a philosophy of life that is workable. The fact that I could weave into the story facts and their relations from the several sciences, tell them about their own history and the interpretation thereof—illustrated from data gleaned from the museum here, and then fit in the present revolution in an entirely new way to them—well it kept the students, some 60 of them, on their toes. I was able to put into this course more real religion and help for the students than I could have put across in sermons from the Sunday evening pulpit. I close this term of service with a certain quiet satisfaction that we have been able to " abide.” W e have made 126 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY no tremendous strides forward, or strange new adventures forth on unknqwn paths, but each of the three terms of service out here has a distinct flavor of its own. This has been the best of the three.—Daniel S. Dye.

The higher and lower primary school is housed in some rather poor build­ ings in the rear of the church compound. There has been an average enrolment in the city school for the two terms of 110, a healthy increase. Mr. Han Wen Bin, the principal, is a Christian and works in cordially with the church activities. Compelled changes in the teaching staff during the year somewhat weakened the efficiency, but, on the whole, a creditable show­ ing was recorded, and the new year opens with 130 in attendance. Mr. Han has all kinds of student activities, and a definite attempt twice a year is made to make friendly contacts with the parents.—H. J. Openshaw.

Kiating Under the new Principal, Mr. Fu Shao Beh, the city primary schools have had a very sucessful year, with a total enrolment of 219. The out- station schools have had a normal year. The religious influence in the Hungya School has continued to be strong, and six out of the eight pupils in the fourth grade are members of the church. There are three other church-members in the school. I think it is safe to say that the finest Christian boys in our Kiating higher primary school are from Hungya. At Kiating a Boys’ Club and Christian Endeavor Society were organized. —L. A. Lovegren. Suifu Munroe Academy, under the new principal, Mr. Huang, has done good work this year. The average enrolment for the two terms has been fifty- four. Personal following of individuals increased the attendance in the fall term, the entering class numbering thirty-nine. The city primary schools suffered somewhat from the illness of Mr. Liu, the principal, but reported an enrolment of 182, with fees received something like $572. Both schools have good Christian Endeavor Societies, and Munroe has students’ prayer-groups.— C. F. Wood. Yachow The educational work in the Yachow District is well organized and articulated. The city and outstation primary schools feed the junior middle school, located on a beautiful hillside outside the East Gate o f the city. The enrolment for the year in the primary schools has been 172; middle school, 69. Rev. F. N. Smith has reported for the Bible Training School under “ Pastoral Evangelism.”

MEDICAL WORK

Suifu In the patient department Doctor Chuang and I have had to think out 25,000 prescriptions or dressings, while the bedside attention to the 374 THE WEST CHINA MISSION 12 7 in-patients, if we count at two rounds per day, would add another 17.000 to the total. Our first foreign patient in the new hospital was a missionary from the neighboring Province of Yunnan, who traveled twelve days to reach Suifu, his nearest point with adequate hospital facilities. We count it a privilege to serve sister missions, and frequently serve the China Inland Mission workers of this city. It has been a source of great satis­ faction to have the foreign pastor and Chinese evangelist make biweekly visits to the wards, and we still pray for a full-time hospital evangelist. — C. E. Tompkins, M. D. Yachow Naturally the Yachow Hospital is able to serve only a minute fraction of the people in this field. Through the daily dispensary we have reached 12.000 this year. In the hospital wards we have treated 311 in-patients. The school children from our mission schools have a special clinic hour every other day. Without a healthy body the student cannot make progress. Over 2,000 tiny tots were vaccinated against smallpox last spring in Yachow and the near-by villages. Members of the staff have given several lectures on various phases of hygiene and public health. Due to the Manchurian debacle, the Girls’ School organized a Red Cross Unit and Miss Shurtlef? has given them lectures and demonstrations in first aid. Mr. Whang, the blind hospital evangelist, has done faithful work in the dispensaries and the hospital wards. This year we had the pleasure of seeing two of our former patients join the church through baptism. The Yachow Hospital was built without eaves and the drains ran above and in the walls. With the aging o f the building, even monthly repairs would not keep out the heavy rains, so that something drastic had to be done. New eaves were added all around the hospital, thus correcting the drainage, insuring greater protection to the building, and greatly adding to the appearance. All the outside woodwork received a fresh coat of green and white paint. Against the gray background of the brick wall, the effect was striking. The hospital has always had a chapel for worship, but it was also used for other purposes. It was larger than needed, so the room was divided and the inner part reserved for worship. The walls were decorated in a dull cream color, the seats and woodwork in black. On the small platform stands a pulpit with a golden cross standing out in relief. On the front wall and in the center is a well-known Bible verse in large Chinese letters of gold: “ God is a Spirit; and the3r that worship him must worship in Spirit and Truth.” Through a generous donation of well-bound New Testa­ ments, we can supply every pew with a copy. W e have tried to create a place wherein the atmosphere will lend itself to worship. The patients must be impressed as the blind evangelist, Mr. Whang, sits at the organ playing our well-known hymns, and later to hear him read the Scriptures as he feels the raised Braille. W e have tried to make the hospital chapel a place where God can be worshiped in spirit and in truth.—R. L . Crook, M. D. THE JAPAN MISSION

Reported by D. C. Holtom, Ph. D. T is reported that late in 1930 a certain Japanese soothsayer prophesied that the year 1931 would be a troubled one for his nation. With the I world stage set as it was, it hardly required an occultist to satisfy interested spectators that the play was going to be somber. And the sequence of actual events revealed that there were dark influences in the stars that even the seer did not foresee.

THE FINANCIAL DEPRESSION The financial depression, which began to be severe in Japan in 1929 and which developed in acuteness throughout 1930, continued its devastation oi the national life during 1931. Explanations of the reasons for the Japanese depression vary with the experts. That Japanese economic affairs have been affected for the worse by the universal stagnation, and in particular that of America, seems patent. It also seems certain that Japanese insistence on maintaining an embargo on gold in the years following the immediate post-war inflation had an especially unfortunate, effect in postponing the stabilizing of the internal economic order. When, finally, in January, 1930, the gold embargo was removed and an attempt made to get down to realities in national finance, the outflow of gold was like that of a dammed up stream that has suddenly burst its barriers. Business depression, far from being relieved by the measure, became even more aggravated. The situation culminated in December, 1931, in the overthrow of the Minseito government, which had been responsible for the removal of the ban. The first step taken by the successful Seiyukai Party was to clap on the old gold embargo. Viscount Inouye, the statesman primarily responsible for the financial policy of the defeated government—a policy which, with all its rigors, had the approval of all sound financiers throughout the world—paid for his economic sanity with his life. He fell before an assassin’s bullet in February, 1932. Certain of the great Japanese business houses are reported, without contradiction, to have reaped fortunes in speculation on the yen at the time of the change o f government in December, 1931. Meanwhile, the rank and file of the nation, are paying for this “ statesmanship ” in steadily rising prices.

RURAL UNREST

The financial depression has borne particularly hard on the rural classes, the vast majority o f whom have been in an economic state which is little better than medieval serfdom for the past decade and more. The 1931 rice crop was sold on the open market at considerably less than the cost of production. Farmers, finding that the more they labor the more they are 128 THE JAPAN MISSION 12 9

impoverished, are pessimistic to the verge of despair and restless to the verge of revolt. It is a well-known fact that one large family of industrial princes maintains an office which is busy from morning till night taking- over the mortgages of farmers who have been driven to the wall. An increase in the market price of rice and other food commodities subsequent to the reapplication of the gold embargo in December, 1931, brought no relief to the impoverished rural classes. Whatever financial benefits accrued were gathered in by the middlemen, into whose waiting hands the rice crop had gone practically as soon as it was off the straw.

FAMINE IN THE NORTH On top of this came the famine in the northern part of Japan proper— Hokkaido and part of Tohoku (the northern part of the island of Hondo). In certain districts of this, the colder section of Japan, where rice culture is at best carried on with difficulty, the crop failure was total; from other places only a half-crop or less has been reported. The bitter cold of the northern winter brought with it intense suffering. It is difficult at the present writing to secure accurate statistics from official sources. The necessity, in the minds of the authorities, of preserving a proper balance in the national psychology between support of the Manchurian and Shanghai campaigns and consciousness of internal distress must be kept in mind at this point. The most reliable information has come through by way of Christian agencies. The Christian forces of the north are well organized and have rendered heroic service, both in bringing the famine situation to the attention of their countrymen and in rendering direct relief. A vivid picture of conditions in one of the famine villages, and this not one of the worst, is given in a recent letter to members o f the Mission, written by Miss Thomasine Allen, of Morioka. Extracts follow : “ Yesterday six of us, an interdenominational group, left on a five o’clock train to distribute food and clothing to some of the needy in two villages of this prefecture. It was bitter cold, and as the train climbed higher and higher it became colder and the snow deeper. We divided into two parties, and three of us went a longer distance to a more remote village. W e tramped through the snow and biting wind to the dilapidated-looking school building, where we were most cordially received. . . The principal told us that his village had never had to ask for help before, that he was late in asking because he could not realize that conditions were as bad as they proved to be. Sixty-one of his pupils were in desperate need of food, and an additional 137 in need of clothes. These little children came to school each day after a breakfast of hot water into which had been thrown some bird-seed and leaves of daikon (the giant radish) cut fine. They could bring no lunch. They went home to a supper of the same soup. . When school was out, the principal kept the most needy ones and said that before we gave out the clothes and the food he wanted to talk to them. He said: ‘ We have never had to receive .help before, but this year has been unusual in the failure of the rice crop. Up to now we have not 130 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

received anything, and these ladies representing Christianity are the very first to relieve our need. You must not think that you can receive things all the time, nor depend on others. This winter you cannot help it, but as soon as spring comes you must work hard in order to help yourselves and others. And every morning you should thank God for his kindness to you.’ “ This was in substance his talk. As we stood looking down into their little, pitiful, sallow but earnest and attentive faces, knowing that they were, oh, so hungry, the tears streamed down our faces. Then he lined them up, called out their names and told us what to give, for he had looked up the needs o f each home. The little things came up so solemnly in their very ragged kimonos and, with many bows, received their bundles of food and clothes. As I stood giving out the food, my feet, even encased in layers of wool, were so cold I could scarcely bear it until I saw several of the children bare-footed—ten degrees below zero—and others in very ragged tabi, and then I was heartily ashamed of myself for even thinking o f my own feet.”

JAPANESE INTERESTS ON THE ASIATIC CONTINENT Beginning with the middle of September, 1931, Japanese military activities in Manchuria and Shanghai continued to dominate the attention of the nation and to stimulate no small degree of watchfulness through the entire world. The situation is explicable only from the standpoint of Japanese vested interests in Asia. From the side of Japan, world opinion must bear in mind the steady and immediate irritation of the uninterrupted turmoil which the Chinese civil war has created on the direct flank of the Japanese nation for the past decade. It is necessary also to keep in mind the urgency whicli Japanese leaders have felt for the past twenty-five years of consolidating in Manchuria the potential advantages which Japanese arms won in the war against Russia in 1904-1905, but which were tem­ porarily alienated through the activities of other powers. Japanese states­ men who declare that the preservation and extension of their economic hold on Manchuria is a life-and-death issue for their nation are only speaking the all-too-apparent truth. It becomes necessary for World opinion to face in a realistic way the problem of the economic adjustment of a proud, high- strung, ambitious people, rich in the resources of the spirit, widely alert to the foremost intellectual currents of modern life, crowded onto a vol­ canic archipelago which is sadly deficient in all those mineral resources which are so essential to the material basis of a modern so-called civilized state. It is indeed a life-and-death struggle for the Japanese people. In Manchuria are coal and iron in abundance and great fields for industrial and agricultural expansion. These remarks are made concrete when we remember that in 1927 ninety-one per cent, of all the iron ore produced in China and Manchuria combined came from properties either controlled by Japan outright or jointly with Chinese interests. Most o f this iron was fed directly into expanding Japanese industry. One who has seen pictures of the great Fusan colliery as it has been developed under the direction of the South THE JAPAN MISSION 131

Manchuria Railway, which is merely the functioning end of the Japanese Government on the continent, or, better still, one who has looked with his own eyes on these, the largest open-cut coal mines in all the world, begins to get a glimpse of the real nature of Japanese interests in Manchuria. Experts say that the Fusan mines alone will be able to supply for many years to come the shortage in the coal yield o f Japan proper. When, in addition, we make recognition of the economic imperative created by the protection and expansion of shipping interests, of manufacturing interests—in 1930 'Japanese investments in cotton mills alone, on the continent, were reported at about Y250,000,000—of agricultural interests, of wharf rights, of steel mills, of hotels, of railroads, of an outlet for a population that is increasing at the rate of around eight hundred thousand per year— when we make ade­ quate recognition of such facts as these, we begin to glimpse what Japanese statesmen and economists mean when they declare that Japanese interests in Manchuria are first and foremost economic, and that to protect and extend these interests is a matter of life and death for their own nation. Already Japan has invested in this exploitation of Manchuria something over two billion yen. WTiat kind of political and military domination is to be found necessary to the maintenance of these palpable e'conomic interests remains to be seen. In the long run it will undoubtedly be a form of state organization well adjusted to the preservation of the special form o f Japanese national life.

THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH In the presence of all this distress at home and abroad, the Christian church has preserved a steadying and constructive attitude. It has been foremost in the relief of famine in the north; it has found opportunity in the face of the stimulation o f the military ideal through the repercussion on the national mind of events in Manchuria and Shanghai to uphold with a new boldness the idea of peace; it has been driven by the financial urge to find new and greater resources of the spirit. The leadership of the Christian church in the total national life of Japan was never more vigorous than during the year 1931. The Kingdom of God Movement, in the second year of its history, has brought the forces of the Christian gospel aggressively into contact with hundreds of thousands of men and women throughout the land. It has undertaken a strong program of training lay leaders; of redirecting the inner life through national evangelistic campains; of bringing both material and spiritual relief to the hard-pressed rural communities through the promotion of peasant gospel schools; and of deepening the spiritual life among the Christian groups themselves through an intelligent program of Christian education. One of our missionaries who has been closely related to the Movement from the beginning has pointed to the increase of solidarity among the Christian forces of the Empire, a broadened vision on the part of Japanese leadership, and a deepened interest in the Japanese church on the part of Christians abroad as notable by-products of the Kingdom of God Movement. 132 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

During the first half of 1931 the investigation committee of the Laymen’s Foreign Mission Appraisal Commission was at work in Japan. In view of the fact that the report of this committee has not been published up to the time of the writing of this report, it is impossible to speak definitely of the exact bearing of the investigation on our mission work itself. It is certain, however, that the personnel of the Fact Finding group commended itself strongly to the missionaries and to the Japanese leaders as well. It was something of a satisfaction to see a group of experts at work who knew how to measure sociological and religious phenomena by direct" methods, without an excessive resort to the traditional findings of conferences or the even more precarious device of “ leaning on ” more or less arbi­ trarily selected individuals.

THE JAPAN BAPTIST CHURCH One of the noteworthy events in the history of the Japan Baptist church in 1931 was the dedication of a new house of worship by the First Baptist Church of Sendai. This auspicious event took place on Easter Sunday, and was also^made to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the church itself and the twentieth anniversary of the pastorate of Rev. Mitsuhide Yamada. It has been largely through the patient, sacrificial, and determined work of Mr. Yamada that the Sendai church has achieved this new edifice. It is an up-to-date, modern structure, fully equipped for comprehensive religious activities, costing some Y30,000. The building campaign was started eight years ago with a contribution of eight sen, and has been steadily carried on in spite of many discouragements and difficulties by the unwavering determination and faith of the pastor and believers alike. The entire record of the Sendai church under Mr. Yamada’s able leadership is an inspiring example of what Japanese Christians may do for themselves, in entire independence of mission organization.

MERGER OF CONVENTION AND MISSION A second matter of importance in the development of the Japan Baptist church during the past year was the furthering of plans for the more complete merging of the mission organization with that of the Japan Baptist Convention. A revision of the mission-church relationship has been under study for the past two years and important actions in this direction have been taken by both the Mission Conference and the national Convention. A new organization has been drafted which proposes that the missionary representatives of the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society shall be accorded the privilege of delegates to the annual meeting of the Eastern Japan Baptist Convention, perhaps without vote. A central admin­ istrative committee is to be set up consisting of twelve members, nine Japanese and three missionaries. It is expected that the Woman’s Society and also the women of the Japan Baptist church will share in representation on this central Executive Committee. The powers at present exercised by THE JAPAN MISSION 1 3 3 the Joint Committee are to be transferred to this new Executive Committee. It is hoped that the new organization will be ready to function some time during 1932.

MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS A number of miscellaneous matters deserve recognition. Mr. Tota Fujii, who for the past twelve years has served as associate director of Misaki Tabernacle, was given full responsibility for the oversight of this important institution. This step was taken in consonance with the approved policy o f the Mission to promote Japanese leadership to the utmost. The policy which the Woman’s Society and its representatives on the field have been consistently pursuing for the past several years of placing the girls’ high schools and higher departments under Japanese direction was completely realized during the year by the election of Mr. Kembi Yamamoto to the position of principal of the Himeji Girls’ School. On November 3 a splendid new church building and a parsonage were dedicated in the city of Mito. Those who have seen these two new struc­ tures speak highly both of their artistic appearance and their adaptability to the purposes for which they are intended. In addition to a very artis­ tically arranged auditorium, the church building is equipped with eight rooms adapted to religious education. A respectable portion of the funds for these buildings was supplied by the believers on the field. The financial depression throughout the world has necessarily induced conservatism in our building program. A number of small chapels through­ out the country have been remodeled and supplied with improved equipment. In the latter part of the year 1930 Rev. and Mrs. M. D. Farnum took up residence at Shigei, on one of the islands of the Inland Sea. The con­ secration of this devoted pair in taking this step has instilled new enthu­ siasm in the hearts of the believers throughout all of our island groups. To accommodate Mr. and Mrs. Farnum and their family, a new mission residence was built this year at Shigei. The personnel of the Mission was strengthened by the return of Mr. and Mrs. Willard Topping to Japan. They have taken up residence at Himeji and have entered vigorously into the extension of our work in the important Joban field. Both Japanese Christians and members of the Mission have been greatly encouraged by the fact that Rev. and Mrs. F. W . Steadman have been able to return to Japan and take up residence on the Morioka field after an absence of five years on sick leave. In educational affairs Kanto Gakuin (Mabie Memorial School for Boys) has experienced a year of discernible if not conspicuous progress. The reputation of the middle school is evidenced in the fact that the number of applicants for admission at the beginning of the new school year, in April, 1931, was larger than that of any other middle school in the entire prefecture, whether under Government or private auspices. During the past year certain important changes in the middle-school curriculum were either put 134 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY into active operation or approved to go into effect with the opening of the new school year, in April, 1932. Under the regulations of the national Department of Education as they stood prior to 1931, it was necessary, in our middle-school course, to emphasize preparation for advanced study in the higher schools and colleges of the approved educational system. After careful investigation which recognizes the necessity of making the middle- school courses over so as to prepare graduates for entering directly into active participation in trades and professions, the Department of Education has authorized radical changes in the middle-school curriculum. Courses in commerce, horticulture, and manual training (the latter including car­ pentry, machine work, etc.) have been authorized at Kanto Gakuin to go into complete effect beginning April, 1932. To accomplish this it has been necessary to make certain minor additions to our equipment in buildings and materials. In spite of the financial depression, the College Department has made an increase in the size o f the student body. Kanto Gakuin College is the only school of its grade in all Japan in which military training is not carried on. This desirable object has not been accomplished through any special dispensation from the Department of Education, but is due to the fact that the school has never yet requested this Department to supply a military expert for the training of the young men. Steady improvement is noted in the quality of students making application for admission to the Theological School. University graduates of high grade have, recently applied for admission. This may be interpreted, on the one hand, as a wider recognition of the worth of our Theological School and, on the other hand, as an indication of the deepening influence of Christian ideals in the general life of the nation. THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS MISSION

Reported by Rev. S. S. Feldmann HE sudden passing of Mr. Paul Sornberger, one of the youngest members of our missionary staff, and the going home on sick leave of Tthe Ford family left us with our missionary forces severely depleted. These experiences, however sad, could not halt the progress of the work. Rather, they served as a bugle call urging us to greater effort and a new determination to keep our faces to the front. Our hearts have been cheered within the last few months with the coming of reinforcements. Rev. and Mrs. D. F. Perron, for the General Board evangelistic work, and Miss Olive Bushner, for the Woman’s Board work, are already giving new courage and enthusiasm. The future looks brighter than for some time. Three new buildings at Central Philippine College, and the new plant for the Iloilo Mission Hospital, all reported as under construction a year ago, have been dedicated and are now in full use. Never has the mission felt so rich in material equipment. Though our needs are far from met in this new equipment, we do feel greatly encouraged by the fact that our highly important educational work at Central can be carried on in something more than bamboo shacks, and that the hospital work in Iloilo can be carried on without fear of the old building collapsing and claiming more victims than it could save. In Capiz the equipment in the hospital has been greatly improved with the addition of a fine X-ray outfit and a physio-therapeutic outfit of ultra-violet and infra-red lights, all the gifts of generous friends of Dr. F. W. Mej'er and his work in the States. Conditions at Central Philippine College are most encouraging. Though Silliman, our sister school of the Presbyterian mission, lost 217 students, as compared with last year, or 23 per cent., and all other schools around us, government schools included, suffered similar losses, the enrolment at Central this year was only seven students, or 2y2 per cent., below last year. Within the total enrolment of the school there are gains in the number of young women enrolled, in the number of theological students, and in the number of college students, which this year for the first time has attained the one-hundred mark. The religious life at the school is most gratifying, the atmosphere of the whole campus being unusually wholesome, with a beautiful spirit of loyalty and service being evident in every department. Distinct contributions to the work have been made by the dormitories and the work at Student Center. In all these places there has been definite progress over that of last year, and a deepened sense of responsibility on the part of the Christian students has had a very healthy influence on their associates who had not as yet acknowledged Jesus a'fe Lord of their lives. Many of these have, through association with their Christian friends, been brought into the larger life o f Christ Jesus, and it has been a real joy to 135 136 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

see many of these young people take upon themselves the Cross o f the Master and follow him. In the churches a new emphasis in evangelism is showing splendid results. Not only is this evidenced by a larger number of baptisms, but there are discernible unmistakable signs of a new earnestness among the church-members themselves, indicating a more intensive desire to share their joys and peace of living which they have found in Christ Jesus with their friends and neighbors. Our laymen are continuing their work and assuming ever larger responsibility for the work. More and more we are beginning to feel that the time is coming nearer when the work can be largely turned over to them. W e are exceedingly encouraged by the fact that their activity in assuming larger responsibility for the work is a natural process developing a leadership from within rather than the impos­ ing o f a plan upon them from without. W e face the new year with courage. There are dark clouds upon the horizon, but we have learned from past experience that if we will but trust God and do our share, they will show their silver lining. Already the first rays of the sun are beginning to shine through, and we refuse to be discouraged. W e have heard the words of the Lord when he said to Moses, “ Speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward.” By the grace of God we will carry out the command. BELGIAN CONGO MISSION

Reported by Mrs. P. A. MacDiarxnid HEN material gods fail, then God the Spirit has an opportunity. Many of the Congo people had been misled by seeing the majority Wof the white people in this country madly in search of wealth. Congo was late in feeling the financial crisis, but this past year it came with a crash. Only the very large companies that have many lines of trade and the very small ones that have practically no overhead expenses have been able thus far to weather the gale, and the end is not yet. The material gods of our Western civilization do not stand the test of time any better than the clay and wooden ones formerly so widely seen in Congo. Now is the time for the missionaries to present the God who cares much less for factories and automobiles than he does for the transforming of lives, remaking them after the pattern of his Son, our Saviour. It is also a testing-time for the Christians. Money is scarce, so how are they to support their pastors and teachers on diminirhing offerings ? At Sona Bata a 20 per cent, cut had to be made in the pay of teachers and preachers and at Kikongo a 30 per cent. cut. The missionaries placed before them the resources available, giving as an alternative to the cut that the pay might remain the same as previously if a number of teachers were dropped from the roll. The latter proposal they all opposed, as the demands called for more teachers rather than fewer. When one considers that their pay has been a mere pittance, while others, outside of mission work, receive from fifteen to twenty-five times as much, one is more con­ vinced than ever that he is not dealing with “ rice Christians.” Last year’s report had this statement: “ W e have done a good deal at Kimpese and some of the other stations in educating preachers and evan­ gelists, but we are not wholly prepared to meet new situations that soon will confront us in medical service and education.” The truth of this statement has become very evident to us in 1931. In connection with this let us quote from Dr. Catharine L. Mabie’s report in 1921. “ July 5, 1920, Belgium approved and signed the revised Berlin Act guaranteeing liberty of con­ science and freedom of worship within the colony, also her protection and encouragement to all religious enterprises and institutions of whatever nation or creed.” The year 1931 makes us believe that we are far from realizing the intent of that solemn compact of 1920. An extremely narrow nationalism com­ bined with a dominance in the Belgian and Colonial governments of the clerical party has led the Roman Catholics in Congo to usurp powers that are likely to thwart the spirit of the Berlin Treaty, and even imperil the letter of the contract. The Roman church seems anxious to appropriate the results of. the heroic efforts of fifty years of service by Protestant missionaries for the aggrandizement o f what they consider the true church. 1 3 7 138 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

Are we to permit all this foundation-laying in religious liberty and of direct access of the individual to his God to go by the board, or are we to contend that we have a perfect right, under treaty agreements, to continue to build into the fabric of the individual and social life of the Congolese the principles Jesus lived and taught? As friends of the Congo people we are constrained to claim for them the benefits that have come to ourselves through the sufferings o f our forefathers. Every restraint placed upon our educational or medical work cripples also our evangelistic service. All are means to the building up of the body of Christ. Not only have we been thinking about these matters, but we have taken definite steps toward the coordination and correlation of our educational work. On December 19 representatives of all the English and Amer­ ican Baptist stations on the Lower Congo, along with Rev. Emory Ross, Secretary of the Congo Protestant Council, met at Kimpese, where for five days were discussed questions of Christian education in Congo. Certain conclusions were unanimously arrived at which, if carried into effect, will mark a real advance. The recommendations made at this time are of interest to all who seek the progress of Christian work in Congo, but we shall be content here in repeating the introduction. 1. The primary question confronting us is how best to use the resources of money and staff at our disposal to achieve the largest permanent results in the upbuilding of a strong, stable Christian community. This may involve considerable reorganization in our missions. 2. It is recognized that the Protestant Christian community in present circumstances cannot expect to receive education from the government-con­ ducted, Roman-Catholic-operated schools. The Protestant community must be willing and able to provide an educational system of its own which should conform to government standards. 3. The most effective course for the missions o f Congo to pursue in regard to Roman Catholic educational monopoly is to make the Protestant of such fundamental importance that it cannot be ignored. To this end every means o f strengthening and coordinating our work is to be welcomed. It is sincerely hoped that 1932 will mark for our medical work, especially in regard to the training of natives for this service, a similar step in outlining a clearly defined policy. W e further hope for something still harder—that we shall try at all our stations to bring our activities into conformity with these programs. The Revision Committee, composed of representatives from the Swedish Mission, the Christian and Missionary Alliance, and the American Baptists, have completed the work of revising the Kikongo Bible. Mrs. Hilda Bain has been our representative on the Committee during the year. This revised edition of the Bible in Kikongo will be printed by the British and Foreign Bible Society. Plans are well advanced for a joint Kikongo hymnal, with the American and English Baptists and the Swedish Mission uniting in its compilation. More union effort is required if we are to build up a church and school literature worthy of the name. BELGIAN CONGO MISSION 1 3 9

Congo does not have many Baptist visitors. This year Dr. T. J. Cross, of Atlantic City, found his way across Africa, visiting several of our mission stations. This visit was greatly appreciated by all who came in contact with this man of God who loves men no matter what their color may be. Congo’s appeal for resources in consecrated human lives is more claimant than ever. How can we hope to shift the responsibility on to the shoulders« of our Congo Christians until we fit them for the responsibility by suitable training? W e are not asking for specialists who can see their own branch of work only, but we are asking for well-trained men and women capable of seeing the whole task and ready to do team-work in developing our Congo Christians in healthy growth. W e have placed before the Board an urgent request for three families for evangelistic-educational work.

Banza Manteke The new site has an air of progressiveness about it. New brick houses for the native helpers and the large amount of land under cultivation have greatly enhanced the appearance o f the place. Many were the misgivings we had of this becoming a healthful mission station after a night spent there with a committee of investigation. The day had given much of promise and the night under the stars would have been equally propitious had it not been for the army of mosquitoes that buzzed and tested every inch of mosquito-net to find an aperture big enough to get through. Today, with the clearing of the land, very few mosquitoes are to be found. The boarding-school provides a training, in classroom, in the gardens, and in the keeping of the dormitories, that places it as an example for our newer stations. Owing to the lack of buildings at the new station the evangelistic and medical work is still centered at the old station. With 6,000 Christians in a field whose total population is about 30,000, we have a better example of intensive mission work than that found on any of our other Congo fields. And yet there remains very much to be done, especially among the women and girls, as seen in an extract from a letter by Airs. Howard Freas: “ One-third or more of the babies die before they are one year old. Many of the women asked questions and were so eager to know how to help themselves. ' But how can we remember what you tell us ? ’ they sometimes asked, so new to them are the simplest rules of health. Their faces will haunt me and I cannot be content until we find some means of helping the souls as well as the bodies of these mothers of Congo.”

Kimpese How to make the Kongo Evangelical Training Institution serve the best interests of the two missions involved has always been the first thought of the faculty and Board o f Management. In addition to the thorough course always given at Kimpese in the training of pastors it was felt that emphasis must be placed also on normal training in teaching if we 140 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY are to cultivate a developing Christian community. This past year has marked an increased attention to this need which seems to augur well for the future. During the dry season vacation a brief summer school was held for what might be called the underprivileged village teachers. As a result of this experiment the faculty were convinced that not much could be done with the majority of the teachers in such a brief space of time; that probably Tt could be done as well or better at their own mission stations; but that there was a real need for a one or two years’ course for men who might not be able to keep step with those taking the full course at Kimpese. There should also be “ refresher ” courses given at Kimpese for Kimpese graduates.

Sona Bata Again a considerable change in personnel took place at Sona Bata, for five of the missionaries went on furlough and twro others were welcomed to the staff. Rev. and Airs. Thomas Moody spent much of the dry season in itinerating and in assisting the local churches with their matondo (thanks­ giving services). Over six hundred were baptized at these gatherings. The church boarding-schools continue to grow in number and in interest. The village school has often been small, poorly equipped, and poorly attended; the teacher, too, has frequently been poorly trained and received such meager pay that there was little incentive to do good work. These church boarding-schools, demanding the better-trained teachers and giving better pay, are attracting the brighter boys and girls from the neighboring villages. They are either self-supporting or helped in part by the local church. The medical service, despite certain limitations placed upon it by the state, continues to bring its message of healing and of the Great Physician to hundreds of people who would not enter the church doors. Since the departure o f the doctor in February, the nurse has carried a heavy burden of work in the hospital, in the district assigned to Sona Bata Hospital for sleeping-sickness work, and in the visitation of other sections where our Christian people greatly needed such help. Timoteo Mfienge, who has been in the service of the mission nearly thirty years, and the other trained helpers have been indispensable as assistants. Dr. H. M. Freas has made periodic visits to Sona Bata, performing a considerable number of opera­ tions. Leopoldville The centers have been more affected by the commercial and financial crisis than our other stations. A large number of our church-members and inquirers have left Leopoldville for their villages during 1931 because of lack of employment. The year closes with hopeful signs, however. A good interest continues in school and church services. The old Sims church is more dilapidated than ever, but there are prospects now of a speedy repairing of the old landmark, so that it may serve for years to come, and there are also prospects that 1932 will mark a beginning with buildings BELGIAN CONGO MISSION 141

for school and church services in the native center. A new missionary family to look after this important work is among the urgent requests for recruits. Tshumbiri This may be the last time Tshumbiri will appear in our list of stations, for early in 1931 the station was transferred to the English Baptists, who, from Bolobo, placed an evangelistic couple and a nurse there. Rev. and Mrs. P. C. Metzger went to Tondo and Dr. Francis Harper, a self-supporting doctor, interested particularly in sleeping-sickness work, went to assist at Kikongo. W e believe that the faithful seed-sowing of our missionaries at Tshumbiri will bear fruitage in the years to come.

Tondo Besides its usual branches of work connected with church, school, and medical service, Tondo has made a beginning on two lines that some of our other stations have found to be of great benefit. A boarding-school has been begun, where the brighter boys picked from the village schools may receive more advanced training than they could hope for in the village school. A beginning is also being made in a longer and more thorough course for the village teachers. The evangelistic, educational, and medical ministry at Tondo have been a blessing to thousands in the past, but they need to be reinforced by more thorough training for native leadership. One of the missionaries at that station writes that the two great needs are for the training of teachers and for a literature. All our other stations are using the Kikongo literature. As Tondo is so far removed from the Kikongo speaking area, it would seem as if the books printed by one of our neighboring missions should be used, or else Lingala, the Lingua Franca, wTith its steadily growing body of literature, should be adopted. Rev. P. C. Metzger closes his report with these words, “ Everywhere one turns the wonderful Christian personality of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Clark is perceived. How they have ingrained themselves into the lives of the people! How the people loved them! Everywhere one feels it. Truly this is a reward for the hardships and sacrifices of those early years. Worthy are they of the greatest rewards.” Vanga Some of the developments of the year at Vanga are of special interest. The first graduates from those sent to Kimpese returned to help in church and school work among their own people. The missionaries felt that this was a time when they could decentralize the church with beneficial results, so four communion or church centers were organized with native leaders to shepherd the people. This step is almost sure, under strong na'tive leader­ ship, to result in a healthy indigenous church growth and in a betterment of community life. Paul did much of his work by inspiring others to become missionary-minded. 142 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

Moanza Moanza is no longer so isolated as formerly now that the automobile road is completed from Vanga to Moanza. “Adam ” (the native name for the Vanga truck, the first in this region belonging to the mission) may think he has been thrust out of the garden of Eden as he sticks in the sand or tries to climb nearly impossible hills, but the present is a portent of accessibility for Moanza station that we did not even dream of a few years ago. The year marked the closing of missionary service on the field of Rev. and Mrs. Thomas Hill, who have been active missionaries in Congo for many years, Mr. Hill just lacking one year of completing forty in the Congo service. They were at Tumba, Lukunga, Banza Manteke, Matadi, Mukimvika before going to Moanza, but the spreading of the gospel message in the new field of Moanza probably will remain the peak point of interest to them. Their lives have been a blessing to many and we are glad that they received decorations from the Belgian Government for long and faithful service to the Congo peoples. A new site more suitable than the present for the development of the station to meet the needs of a large and populous field is in view, and we trust before another year passes there may be begun the first permanent buildings for the station. Kikongo The tribes chiefly touched by the gospel have been the Bayaka and the Bambala. The Bayakas were the first to be won to Christ, but lack of missionary visitation and of sufficiently trained and zealous leaders made many of them drop back into heathen customs. They are far removed from the mission station, and how can one family do the station work and the itinerating necessary to hold a new and rapidly growing work? To ask the question is to answer it. And yet in spite of the difficulties, there are hopeful signs. Let us take a few extracts from a letter from Mrs. B. W. Armstrong: “ Being the only missionaries in an enormous district certainly keeps one busy twenty-four hours a day. W e have just come back from a month with the Bayaka tribe. Four days at home to inspect the work done in our absence, to repack, and replenish food-boxes and my husband started off again for another month among the Bambala people. . . Itinerating is hard work, but it bears rich fruit. Part of this fruit was seen in the restoration of Lusunsi, a former zealous Bayaka deacon who, at a time o f sickness, resorted to the old fetish worship. He was not happy and said he had not had a moment’s rest since he called the witch-doctor. ‘ No, I have once known what real joy was, and I could never find it now apart from God.’ ” There are many Lusunsis in the villages waiting for a helpful word. THE NEW PLAN IN EUROPE AFTER TEN YEARS

Reported by W . O. Lewis T the London Conference in 1920, representatives of American, Cana­ dian, and British Baptists met Baptist leaders from the Continent to A study postwar conditions and make plans for the future. It was felt that the Baptists of the world should do something to relieve the distress that followed the War. A relief plan was worked out. This had scarcely begun to operate when the great famine in Russia came. The relief sup­ plies which were sent not only relieved physical distress, but put heart into our people. They felt that Baptist sympathy and love were real. Now the famine is aver and the relief program has been finished. But another decision taken at the London Conference still holds. Then it was agreed to ask the older and stronger Baptist bodies to help their weaker brethren on the Continent in their efforts to evangelize their people. It was agreed to ask the Northern Baptists of our country, Canadian Baptists, and British Baptists to render what assistance they could in northern Europe and to ask the Southern Baptists to aid in southern Europe. This plan has been in operation a little over ten years. It may be worth while to look back over the decade to see what the outstanding results have been on the fields in which we are interested.

France and Belgium Our Society will have aided the work in France one hundred years in 1932. After the Napoleonic wars Baptist churches sprang up in northern France in part as the result of the efforts of Baptist soldiers in the English army of occupation. When it was felt that the Baptist movement in France should have aid from the outside, it was decided to turn to America instead of England on account of the bitter feeling between France and England which existed for a while after Napoleon’s time. Soon after our work in France began there was considerable persecution. Baptists had no legal rights. Then about the time persecution from the outside let up, a certain lack of harmony began to manifest itself among the Baptists themselves. In 1895 there was a serious division which has never been entirely healed. The World W ar destroyed or damaged several o f our churches in northern France. Leaders were killed and church-members were scattered. It was a part of the new plan after the war to unite all the Baptists in one organization. This effort has not been entirely successful. It was furthermore decided to aid the churches whose chapels had been destroyed to reconstruct their buildings, and also to lead the churches as rapidly as possible to self-support. The churches at Lens and Chauny, that suffered most from the war, now have better chapels than they had before. And in spite of the difficulties connected with reconstruction in the war areas, nearly all our churches are now self-supporting and plans are on foot by which the stronger churches will aid the weaker ones. During 143 144 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

1931 a revival spirit has prevailed and more have been baptized than usual. Here and there there have been some Pentecostalist manifestations which seem to be subsiding. The three small churches in Belgium cooperate with the French churches. Germany At the beginning of our work in Germany, our Society rendered con­ siderable financial assistance. But shortly before the outbreak of the World War we felt the German churches were able to stand alone. The war, however, so weakened them that it was difficult for them to carry on their work. The Seminary in Hamburg was closed during the war and its endowment swept away. W e decided to give a little temporary aid to a few pastors and decided to aid once more the school in Hamburg. On account of our aid, the school was enabled to open in better condition and was enabled to continue its policy of receiving a few students from outside of Germany. The year 1931 was almost as bad for the Seminary as the period imme­ diately following the war. The school closed at Christmas, with the understanding that it would have to remain closed for some months on account of shortage of funds. But thanks to a special effort o f German Baptist women, the school was enabled to open again sooner than was expected. Some feel in view t>f the financial distress that the Seminary should be closed for a period of years. But in spite of the prevailing distress, a determined effort is being made to keep it open.

The Scandinavian Countries As in the case of Germany, we aided the work in Sweden when it was young and weak. But some time before the war this aid had ceased. After the war, however, for special reasons, a little aid was extended once more to the Seminary in Stockholm. W e are now no longer contributing to this school. In Norway, it was felt after the wrar, that on account of the sparseness of the population and the great difficulty, on this account, of developing self-supporting churches that aid should be extended to a few churches a little longer. And our help enabled the Norwegian churches to develop a special work for deep-sea fishermen near the North Cape. And, as else­ where, we have felt a special interest in the training of preachers. Our school in Oslo has been a great help in our work. Since it was founded, in 1910, it has trained seventy-five men, most of whom have gone into the work in Norway. A spirit of revival prevailed in Norway during 1931. The great advance in Denmark since the war was the completion of the new folk high school at Tollose near Copenhagen.

The Baltic States Before the World War, we had never as a Society aided Baptist work in these countries. They were then in Russia. Baptist work had existed for over fifty years in Latvia and for a somewhat shorter period in Estonia. THE NEW PLAN IN EUROPE AFTER TEN YEARS 145

There was no organized work among the Lithuanians, though there were a few German-speaking churches in what is now Lithuania. At the London Conference it was decided to help the Baptists in these countries. Here the main task was to help educate preachers and to make small grants to general evangelists and for a limited time to a few pastors. As we cooperate with British Baptists in these countries, we have had to take account of the fact that England went off the gold standard in 1931. Each one of the Baltic States is struggling to maintain the gold standard. As the British continue to send the same number of pounds, and as the pounds bring less, either we must give more or the work must be reduced. In Estonia, one of the first things that was done after the war was to open a school for preachers under the leadership of Rev. Adam Podin. The outstanding advance in Estonia in ten years was the purchase o f a new seminary building in Reval (Tallinn), which was opened for use in the autumn of 1931. About that time Brother Podin was decorated by the Estonian Government for his exceptional services among the lepers and prisoners of his country. This is the first time such an honor has come to a Baptist. A revival spirit has prevailed during the last year in Estonia. In Latvia we opened a seminary as soon as possible after the war, under the leadership of Dr. J. A. Frey in Riga. For some time after the war our churches in Latvia were troubled by Pentecostalism, and an unfortunate division in our Lettish union has taken place. The young men from our Seminary have done good work. The Seminary is still in rented quarters. A piece of ground has been bought, on which it is hoped to erect a building in Riga which will serve as school, church, and headquarters; but on account of the present crisis it has been impossible to begin building. W e started with next to nothing in Lithuania after the war. Until recently our only worker in the country among the Lithuanians was Rev. T. Gerikas, who had suffered so much as a war prisoner that his health was not robust. Because of the fact that the Lithuanian language is so much like the Lettish language, we have sent two young men from Lithuania to Riga, who will soon return to preach in their own country. There is no arrangement in Lithuania for registering births, deaths, and marriages apart from recognized religious organizations. During 1931 our people were given the right to do this, which has removed one hindrance to the progress of our work. Poland Some time before the war, German Baptists had planted German-speaking churches in western Poland and in Russian Poland. Work among the Slavs had hardly begun. There was no Polish Baptist church in Poland at the close o f the wrar. There were a few churches using the Russian and Czech languages. Here and there, there were Slav members in the German­ speaking churches. It is estimated that at the end o f the war there were about one thousand Slav Baptists in Poland besides about seven thousand German-speaking Baptists. Now there are nearfy five thousand Slav Baptists in an organization which cooperates with our Socicty. There are besides other Slav Christians who are very near to Baptists in belief and 146 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

practise. The first Polish Baptist church of Warsaw is just ten years old. The Baptists of Poland have a publication society which prints newspapers, tracts, and literature in the various languages of the country. They also have an orphan’s home, a seminary, and a hospital which was purchased through the aid of our Woman’s Society. Our people still suffer because as yet we have no legal standing in Galicia. The Slav Baptist Union has sixty-six churches and during 1931 baptized 624 new members. The economic depression has affected the country districts in Poland very adversely. Czechoslovakia When the war was over, we had a number of small struggling churches in Czechoslovakia heavily burdened with debt. They had borrowed money before the war to build chapels, but on account of the hard times which prevailed after the war, they were unable to make their payments and were in great danger of losing their property. It was arranged at the London Conference that British and Northern Baptists should cooperate in aiding our brethren in Czechoslovakia. One of the first things our Society did was to put at the disposal of the Czechoslovak Baptist Union a building fund of $10,000, which has enabled our people to keep several chapels which would otherwise have been lost. A school for the training of preachers was started in Prague, with Dr. H. Prochazka as president. Young men from this school have given a good account of themselves. Progress in Czechoslovakia has been slow during the last ten years, but there has been progress. Russia At the London Conference it was agreed that American Baptists, North and South, as well as British Baptists would help in Russia. Soon after the close of the civil war that raged in Russia after the World War was over, we were able to get into direct contact with our brethren in Russia. One of the first tasks we set ourselves was to make an effort to bring about a union o f Baptists with Evangelical Christians, who are practically Baptists in all but name. Here and there in the provinces Baptist churches and Evangelical Christian churches united. But the two general bodies never merged. In cooperation with the All-Russian Baptist Union we arranged to support several general evangelists. A theological school was opened in Moscow with about seventy students. A good start was made on the printing of a fine new Russian Bible. W e were making progress and the Government knew it. Then the tide turned, and the heavy hand of Soviet persecution was laid upon Jews and Baptists as it had been upon the Orthodox Church. Early in 1929 the school was closed. Preachers were thrown into prison and sent into exile. Many places of worship were closed. It is difficult to get reliable news from the interior of Russia now, but all that filters out seems to indicate that there is no improve­ ment. Some o f our best leaders have died. W e can still do something for the Russians outside of Russia. And we can cultivate the territory formerly in Russia now accessible to us. If we do this well, perhaps God will give us more. And we can pray. FINANCIAL REVIEW OF THE YEAR

FINANCIAL REVIEW OF THE YEAR

N April 30, 1932, the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society closed the second complete fiscal year within the period of the great eco­ O nomic depression which has brought disaster and suffering to every country of the world. The intensifying financial confusion and the deepen­ ing economic distress throughout the nation has been reflected in the con­ tributions of the churches toward all phases of the denominational program. Each of the organizations participating in the program has felt the effects of the decrease in donation- receipts. For the first time since 1927, the Society reports a deficit in the operating budget of the year. As a result of the conservative policy described in the report of last year, the accumulated deficit had been steadily reduced during four successive years until, after applying certain belated receipts creditable to the year 1930-1931, the deficiency of income account as of April 30, 1931, showed a small surplus. Following the operations of the year just closed, the Board of Managers is compelled to report a net accumulated deficiency of $37,274.35. The Board believes that in the light o f general financial and economic conditions this is a distinctly favorable outcome for which the Society and the denomination have reason to be grateful.

Summary of Revenue and Deficiency of Income Accounts The total receipts for the year 1931-1932 were $1,522,012.66. The total appropriations and expenditures were $1,611,611.56. The deficit for the year was $89,596.90, which is strictly a deficit in the regular operating budget. Included in the receipts and expenditures were $166,814.22 in specifics which were not applicable to the regular budget and do not affect the deficit reported. The accumulated deficiency of income brought forward on May 1, 1931, was $2,040.53. On crediting to the account a delayed dis­ tribution of 1930-1931 receipts, this deficiency was converted into a surplus of $2,983.48. Net adjustments on account of previous budgets increased this surplus to $52,324.55. After entering the deficit of $89,598.90 for the year 1931-1932, the net deficiency of income as of April 30, 1932, is $37,274.35. The detailed Deficiency of Income Account and the Summary of Revenue, Current Budget, will be found in the Treasurer’s Report.

Receipts for the Year The total receipts for the regular budget for the year amount to $1,355,- 198.44 as compared with $1,512,170.03 in 1930-1931. These receipts are in two principal divisions—income from sources outside donations, and donations from churches and individuals. The income from sources outside donations amounted to $668,539.59. While this represents a decrease of $35,807.93 from the total of $704,347.52 received in 1930-1931, it is only $4,460.41 less than the budget estimate, $673,000. The principal item in these receipts 149 150 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY is the income on investments of permanent and temporary funds. The total o f such income for 1931-1932 was $444,023.31 as compared with a budget estimate o f $450,000 and actual income in 1930-1931 of $477,338.02. There has been an actual loss of income on a limited number of securities which, with one exception, were given to the Society in connection with the estab­ lishment of certain large permanent funds. These losses were to a large extent anticipated, and allowance was made for them in the budget estimates. In the case of one of the funds designated for the support of certain mission­ aries, surplus income accumulated in earlier years was used to supplement the reduced income for the year just closed so far as necessary to provide for the support of the missionaries assigned to the fund. The total amount transferred from the Reserve for Matured Annuity Agreements was $65,000 as compared with $41,424.71 in 1930-1931. This total included a special transfer of $30,000 in addition to the normal amount of $35,000. The special as well as the normal transfer was included in the budget estimate, and was made possible by the unusually large amount of undesignated proceeds of annuity agreements matured during 1930-1931. Receipts through transfer from the Reserve for Equalization of Income from Legacies were $110,000. This amount, which represented the full budget estimate, was $10,000 less than the preceding year because of the depletion of the reserve on account of the relatively small total of unrestricted legacies actually received. Gifts released from Designated Temporary Funds representing Judson Fund contributions designated for the support o f certain mission­ aries amounted to $21,332.86*. a slight increase over the budget estimate. A considerably larger sum was released in 1930-1931 because of the neces­ sity for providing passage and outfit appropriations for several newly appointed missionaries. Income from other sources was $28,183.42, a total slightly in excess of the budget estimate, but nearly $4,000 less than in 1930-1931. The two main items in this total are the contribution o f $10,059.96 made by the Ministers and Missionaries Benefit Board toward the support o f the retired missionaries of the Society and a payment of $12,876.22 by the Woman’s American Baptist Foreign Mission Society toward the cost of administrative agencies on the foreign field. The total donation receipts for the year from churches and individuals were $686,658.85, or 85 per cent, of the total of $807,822.51 reported in 1930-1931. Extended reference was made in the report o f last year to the downward trend in donation receipts o f the Society, but this decrease of 15 per cent, in the year just closed is considerably larger than in any previous year since 1924-1925. The advance made under the impetus o f the cooperative movement and the unified budget has now entirely disappeared. The receipts have shrunk to amounts that were reported as long ago as 1912- 1913, when the total donations to the Society were $736,885.56. Contribu­ tions designated for the work o f the Society, including $30,749.55 sent directly to the Treasury, were $174,191.73 as compared with $205,823.89 in 1930-1931, and the Society’s share of undesignated receipts was $512,467.12 as compared with $601,998.62 in the preceding year. FINANCIAL REVIEW OF THE YEAR 151

It is specially worthy of note that the contributions of churches and indi­ viduals, which had maintained a fairly constant ratio of about 90 per cent, to those o f the preceding year during the first eleven months of 1931-1932, suffered a radical decrease in the final month of April. Donations to the unified budget at March 31 amounted to $2,858,518.02 as compared with $3,151,432.75 in 1930-1931, a shrinkage of $292,914.73, or 9.29 per cent. Receipts during the month of April amounted to $1,076,950.89 in 1930-1931, and to approximately $841,482 in 1931-1932, a shrinkage of $235,439.89, or 21.96 per cent. Receipts for the entire year were about 87 per cent, of those of 1930-1931. Receipts o f the Society suffered a similar experience. A decrease below the preceding year of $67,710.47 reported on March 31 became $121,163.66 at April 30. A partial explanation of this sudden and violent fall in receipts may be found in the fact that the months of March and April witnessed a decided change for the worse in the economic depression and especially in the public feeling about it. This would naturally lead to a greater decrease in giving during this period. Inasmuch as practically one-quarter of the entire contributions of the year are received in the latter half o f March and in April the effects of the decrease in giving during this period were much more noticeable than during the early months of the fiscal year. The total donation receipts of the Society amounted to 68.49 per cent, of its approved share of the unified budget or $115,325.15 less than the 80 per cent, expectancy of $801,984 on which the spending budget of author­ ized appropriations was based. It is evident that this deficit in donation receipts is chiefly responsible for the deficit of the year, which would have been much larger but for certain offsetting factors mentioned in the follow­ ing section of this report.

Appropriations and Expenditures As stated in the report o f last year, the Board in January adopted a budget based on 85 per cent, of the approved donation expectancy. This seemed to be a sufficiently conservative policy, since the budget for 1930-1931 was based on 90 per cent, of the donation expectancy. Actual receipts for that year, however, fell to a little better than 80 per cent, and only an excess in non-donation income saved the Society from a deficit. At the Conven­ tion in June the spending budget for all organizations was limited to 80 per cent., and the Board was under the necessity o f reducing the budget already adopted by the sum of $50,124. Fortunately, it was possible to make this adjustment without reducing the appropriations for missionary salaries or for the work o f missionaries and native agencies. The revised spending budget amounted to $1,474,984 as compared with $1,522,232 in 1930-1931. The total of actual appropriations and expenditures as reported at April 30, 1932, was $1,444,797J4. The budget was accordingly underspent by the sum of $30,186.66. This result would not have been possible, however, but for the fact that savings on account of favorable exchange were much larger than was anticipated at the beginning o f the year. 152 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

Savings in Exchange The budget carried an estimated credit of $10,000 on account of exchange. The savings actually available at April 30 amounted to $48,000. When the budget was prepared, exchange was normal in all o f the mission fields except China, where the Mexican dollar could be purchased for from twenty to twenty-five cents gold. Appropriations for mission work in China, which were made in Mexican dollars, were converted into U. S. currency for purposes of budget statement at the rate of $3 Mex. to $1 U. S. instead o f at the normal rate of two to one. This procedure had resulted in a saving of approximately $29,566 in the budget appropriations. When the budget was revised in June, an additional saving of $10,000 was entered as a deduction from the total appropriations. In late September Britain abandoned the gold standard, with the result that the British pound depreciated in the terms of the dollar, and the rupee, which is the unit of currency in India and which is stabilized at a fixed ratio to the pound, fell from a normal value of thirty-six cents to twenty-eight cents and even to twenty-six cents. At the end of December Japanese exchange also fell, until the yen was worth only thirty-four or even thirty-two cents instead of fifty cents at normal exchange. These ratios, with slight modifications, con­ tinued throughout the year. Because of the large amount of funds appro­ priated for mission work in the four India missions and in Japan on the basis o f normal exchange, the decrease in the value of the local currency in these fields has resulted in large and wholly unexpected gains. But for these conditions, which have meant embarrassment and distress to the peoples of the countries concerned and especially to the missionaries in those countries, it would have been impossible, notwithstanding the earnest efforts' of the Board, to keep expenditures within the authorized budget and the deficit at the close of the year would in all probability have been 50 per cent, larger. In striking contrast to these conditions, it may be recalled that in the years 1917 to 1921 the Society was compelled to make extra appro priations of nearty $500,000 to meet losses due to unfavorable exchange in China and India.

Home Expenditures The budget authorization for home expenditures was $175,279. The amount actually expended was $167,172.77, a saving of $8,106.23. Careful planning in the administrative departments accounted for $6,106.23 o f this saving. The remainder was in the items of interest and in appropriations for retired officers, which were cancelled on account of death.

Foreign Field Appropriations Actual foreign field appropriations at April 30 before applying the ravings on account of exchange were $1,325,624.57 as compared with $1,341,- 839.48 in 1930-1931. After crediting exchange savings of $48,000 for 1931- 1932 and $25,000 for 1930-1931, the net totals are $1,277,624.57 and $1,316, 839.48 respectively. The authorized budget appropriations for 1930-1931 FINANCIAL REVIEW OF THE YEAR 153

were $1,277,604.84. The increase o f $48,019.72, as reported at April 30, was met except for about $10,000 by the unforeseen increase in gains in exchange. As there were savings of over $8,000 in home expenditures, it was necessary to draw on the Reserve for Contingencies only to the extent of $1,913.49. As compared with 1930-1931, foreign field appropriations show a decrease of $16,214.91 before crediting gains in exchange. After credit­ ing exchange in each year, the decrease in 1931-1932 amounts to $39,214.91.

Specifics Specific contributions designated for objects outside the regular budget amounted to only $27,201.43 as compared with $58,868.89 in 1930-1931. In addition to these new contributions, the sum of $139,612.79 was transferred from Designated Temporary Funds, making a total of $166,814.22 in the specific budget against a total of $332,647.12 in the preceding year. Trans­ fers from Designated Temporary Funds represented chiefly Judson Fund gifts and income on the Emilie S. Coles Memorial Fund. These specifics were expended as follows: Land, Buildings, and Equipment, $128,103.97; General Work, $38,361; Miscellaneous, $349.25.

Judson Fund Active promotion cf the Judson Fund ceased two years ago and no new pledges are being received. Payments on pledges, however, have continued through the year to the amount of $33,857.06. The total actually paid in to April 30, 1932, is $930,677.71 or 87.02 per cent, of the total pledged; namely, $1,068,745.49. As stated in the report of last year a considerable number of the unpaid pledges were made for the support of missionaries over a period of years, and will undoubtedly be paid in large part at least as they become due.

Legacies and Matured Annuities Actual receipts on account of legacies and matured annuities were con­ siderably less during 1931-1932 than during the preceding year. The total amount of legacies received was only $70,777.77 as compared with $182,511.78 in 1930-1931. O f the total received, $19,439.01 was designated for perma­ nent funds and other specific purposes so that only $51,338.76 was available for regular budget purposes. The amount actually applied to the regular budget was $110,000. The Reserve for Equalization of Income from Legacies, which amounted to $193,054.65 at May 1, 1931, was reduced to $130,603.73 at April 30, 1932. The Reserve for Matured Annuities was $80,000 at the beginning of the year or $30,000 in excess of the maximum figure fixed by the Board of Managers for this Reserve. This excess was applied to budget income as a special transfer in addition to the normal expectancy of $35,000. The actual amount released by maturing annuity and special trust agreements during the year was $52,039.84, of which $27,024.68 was designated for permanent funds. After crediting interest and deduct­ ing Special charges, the reserve at April 30, 1932, is reduced to $37,792.42. 154 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

Full details of these Reserves will be found in Schedule V III on pages 199, 200 of this report. New annuity agreements to the number of 60 and amounting to $66,067.44 were issued during the year. Fourteen of these agreements were issued to persons who already held annuity agreements of the Society. The record is considerably below that o f the preceding year, both as to number and as to amount. Many letters have been received from annuitants during the year, indicating their great satisfaction in the regularity and promptness with which the annuity checks are received. The Board also has taken satisfaction in being able to assure the annuitants as to the high degree of security which the annuity agreements of the Society afford. The Board on receiving a gift on the annuity plan immediately invests the entire principal and keeps the same invested until the maturity o f the agree­ ment, subject only to such reductions as necessarily result from the excess of the annuity payments over the actual income earned. Moreover, the Board has been extremely conservative in its investments of annuity funds, and is able to report that during the past two years of economic and financial depression, except for two or three farm mortgages of small amounts given to the Society, there has been no loss of income on any of the bonds and mortgages in which $1,591,664.13 o f the total reserve for annuity agree­ ments amounting to $1,603,829.45 is invested. The market value o f these securities, even at the extremely low point on April 30, 1932, was 84.82 per cent, o f their book value or cost.

Permanent Funds A net increase of $29,356.87 for the year is reported in the permanent funds of the Society. Several existing funds were increased by small amounts during the year, and the following new funds have been estab­ lished :

F u n d s U nrestricted a s to I n c o m e a n d U nrestricted a s to I n v e s t m e n t Julia E. Barker Fund ...... $1,115.12 E. P. and Clara C. Doyen F u n d ...... 6,328.45 Calvin J. Turley Memorial Fund ...... 569.02

F u n d s R e s t r ic t e d a s to I n c o m e a n d U nrestricted a s to I n v e s t m e n t The Loughridge Fund ...... $15,277.70 John Weed F u n d ...... 2,500.00 Kate L. Woodworth Fund ...... 1,000.00

The Finance Committee of the Board through its Subcommittee on Invest­ ments has been making a very careful study of the securities in which the permanent funds of the Society are invested. All authorities with whom they have consulted regard the Society’s list o f investments as of unusually high grade. They are gratified to be able to report that the actual fharket FINANCIAL REVIEW OF THE YEAR 155 value of the investments of permanent funds on April 30, 1932, was 87.17 per cent, of the book or cost value for the restricted investments and 87.18 per cent, for the unrestricted investments. The rate of income earned on the unrestricted investments was 4.85 per cent., or a loss o f only .15 per cent, as compared with the rate of income in 1930-1931. Notwithstanding this favorable showing, the Investment Committee is holding monthly meetings for the review of the list of securities held by the Society.

Designated Temporary Funds The Society holds in a classification known as “ Designated Temporary Funds ” a large number of funds, the principal of which is designated for some special purpose but is being held until the proper time arrives for its release and use for the prescribed object. The total amount of such funds at April 30, 1932, was $445,229.89, a reduction of $49,347.46 from the amount reported a year ago. The funds are classified as follows: For Land, Buildings, and Equipment and Maintenance of Mission Property, $261,651.04; for Mission Work, $27,006.61; for Support of Missionaries, $39,952.11; for Other Objects, $116,294.51; Net Profits from Sales of Investments, $325.62. The funds are kept invested until released, and the income is either added to the fund or included in the regular budget income according to the nature of the fund.

Budget for 1932-1933 The Board authorizes in January a budget of appropriations for the year beginning May 1. This early action is necessary in order that the mission fields may receive notice of the appropriations in time to make proper distribution before the new year actually begins. In January, 1932, it was found necessary to reduce the estimate of income from sources out­ side donations from $673,000, the amount estimated for 1931-1932, to $613,000. An amount equal to 80 per cent, of the total approved donation expectancy, or $801,984, was included as estimated receipts from donations. This was nearly $6,000 less than was actually received in 1930-1931. Although the donation receipts for 1931-1932 up to January 1 had been from 10 per cent, to 12 per cent, below the preceding year, it was believed that by special efforts this loss could be regained and that the receipts for 1932-1933 could be maintained at approximately the 1930-1931 total. The authorized budget, therefore, was fixed at $1,414,984. This amount meant a reduction of $60,000 below the budget of the preceding year, and made it impossible to provide adequately for the work abroad. The actual outcome of the year, with a decrease in donation receipts to $686,658.85, makes necessary a thoroughgoing revision of the entire budget, with a further reduction of not less than $150,000. The Board is now engaged in this distressing and exceedingly difficult task.

REPORT OF THE TREASURER For the Fiscal Year Ended April 30, 1932 HASKINS & SELLS CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS 22 EAST 40™ STREET NEW YORK

CERTIFICATE

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 :

W e have audited your accounts kept in the home office in New York for the year ended April 30, 1932, and in our opinion the accompanying balance sheet at April 30, 1932, and the summary of income and budget appropria­ tions and the deficiency of income account for the year ended that date, are correct.

N e w Y o r k , J u n e 4, 1932.

(Signed) H a s k i n s & S e l l s . REPORT OF THE TREASURER 15 9

SCHEDULE I

DEFICIENCY OF INCOME ACCOUNT For Year Ended April 30, 1932 Deficiency of Income, May x, 1931 ...... $2,04.0.53 Charges against Previous Years’ Income ...... 484.45 ------$2,524.98

Credits: Contributions applying on Previous Years’ Budgets...... $5,508.46 Net Adjustments of Previous Budgets, Schedule IV A 49,341.07 ------54,849.53

Adjusted Excess of Income, May x, 1931 ...... $52,324-55 Less: Deficiency of Income Current Budget, Schedule I I .. 89,598.90

Deficiency of Income, April 30, 1932 ...... $37,274-35 1 6 0 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

SCHEDULE II

SUMMARY OF REVENUE

CURRENT BUDGET • For the Fiscal Year Ended April 30, 1932

Regularr. i tj Budget: j . INCOME Sources Outside Donations: Income from Unrestricted Investments ...... $64,652.55 Income from Restricted Investments ...... 385,375.79 Income from Designated Temporary F u n ds...... 18,872.97 $468,901.31 Less: Income designated to be credited or paid to churches ...... $489.29 Income designated to be paid to beneficiaries .... 1 ,579.81 Income designated for Specific Purposes and held awaiting expenditure ...... 13,015.20 Income designated tobe credited to the Fund .... 9,662.84 Special Charges ...... 130.86 24,878.00

$444,023.31 Annuity Agreements Matured, Schedule V III ...... 35.000.00 Special Transfer from Matured Annuity Reserve ...... 30.000.00 Legacies, Schedule V III ...... 110 ,000.00 Gifts Released from Designated Temporary Funds .... 2 1 ,332.86 Ministers and Missionaries Benefit Board ...... 10,059.96 W. A. B. F. M. S. toward Field Administrative Expense 12 ,876.22 Rent of Mission Properties, Net ...... 3,537-17 Interest ...... 1 ,710.07

Total Sources Outside Donations ...... $668,539.59 Regular Donations: Contributions Received Direct ...... $30,749.55 Contributions Received through Board of Missionary Cooperation ...... 655,909.30

Total Regular Donations ...... 686,658.85

Total Income Regular Budget ...... $1,355,198.44 Specific Budget— Contra: Contributions Received Direct ...... $23,213.58 Contributions Received through Board of Missionary Cooperation ...... 3,987.85 ■Transfers from Designated Temporary Funds ...... 139,612.79

Total Income Specific Budget ...... 166,814.22

Total Income Regular and Specific Budgets ...... $1 ,522,012.66 Deficiency of Income Current Budget—transferred to Deficiency of Income A ccou n t...... 89,598.90

Grand Total $1,611,611.56 REPORT OF THE TREASURER 161

SCHEDULE II

SUMMARY OF REVENUE

CURRENT BUDGET For the Fiscal Year Ended April 30, 1932

BUDGET APPROPRIATIONS Regular Budget: Foreign Field Appropriations: Field Salaries of Missionaries...... $468,226.31 Salaries of Missionaries on Furlough ...... 160,307.48 Passage of Missionaries to and from the Field .... 1 1 1 ,549.17 Work of Missionaries and Native Agencies...... ' 334.605.43 Care of Property ...... 5 1,605.24 Work and Workers in Europe ...... 50,500.00 Retired Missionaries and Widows ...... 80,352.37 New Appointees ...... 34.892.g6 Education of Oriental Students ...... 4,301.62 Land, Buildings, and Equipment ...... 3,520.15 Homes for Missionaries and Missionaries’ Children .. 18.2g7.70 Foreign Missions Conference ...... 4.535-oo “ Missions ” and Literature Sent Missionaries ...... 1 ,395.52 Baptist World A lliance...... 1 ,535.62

$1 ,325,624.57 Less: Estimated Exchange C redit...... 48,000.00

Total Foreign Field Appropriations $1 ,277,624.57

Home Expenditures— Schedule V : Foreign Department Administration . $51,193-45 Home Department Administration . . . 50,878.34 Treasury Department Administration 64,232.70

$166,304.49 Retired Officers and Pension Premiums 771.41 Interest ...... 96.87

Total Home Expenditures ...... 167,172.77

Total Appropriations Regular Budget $1,444,797-34

Specific Budget— Contra: Land, Buildings, and Equipment ...... $128,103.97 General W o r k ...... 38,361.00 Miscellaneous ...... 349-25

Total Appropriations Specific Budget 166,814.22

Grand Total ...... $1,6 11,611.56 162 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

SCHEDULE III

BALANCE SHEET April 30, 1932

ASSETS Permanent Fund Assets: Unrestricted Investments, Schedule IX $ 1 ,352,174-68 Cash Uninvested ...... 3.705-48 $1,355,880.16 Restricted Investments, Schedule I X ...... $6,300,640.22 Cash Uninvested ...... 41.143-54 Accrued Interest Purchased on New Investments 938.90 6,342.722.66 Total Permanent Fund Assets . $7,698,602.82 Annuity Fund Assets: Investments, Schedule X ...... ^1 ,608,470.68 Cash Uninvested ...... 5.775-58 Accrued Interest on Real Estate 1 ,604.12 Total Annuity Fund Assets ...... 1,615,850.38 Total Permanent and Annuity Fund Assets $9,314,453-20 Plant Assets— Properties in The United States of America 84.834.52 Special Trust Fund Assets— Investments ...... 127.254-47 Designated Temporary Funds Assets: Investments, Schedule X I ...... $426,128.49 Cash Uninvested ...... 19,101.40 Total Designated Temporary Funds Assets ...... 445,229.89 Current Assets: Cash: On Hand ...... $800.00 On D eposit...... 124,130.70 In Transit— Final Distribution of Board of Missionary Cooperation Receipts ...... 10 1,666.71 $226,597.41 Securities Received as Gifts and held awaiting disposition 309.00 Accounts Receivable: Missionaries ...... $18,176.73 Miscellaneous...... 632.82 18,809.55 Total Current Assets 245.715-96 Advances: By Mission Treasurers on Missionaries’ Field Accounts: Mission Work ...... $18,805.83 Personal ...... 17,285.97 $36,091.80 To Homes for Missionaries and Missionaries’ Children 4,200.00 To Missionaries— For Traveling Expenses ...... 1 1 ,288.63 To Representatives of the Society to be Accounted for 14,759.06 Total Advances 66,339-49 Legacy and Annuity Reserve Assets: Investments— Less Reserve $1 ,903.95, Schedule X III $163,013.85 Cash Uninvested ...... 5.131.81 Advances on Account of Prospective F u n ds...... 250.49 Total Legacy and Annuity Reserve A ssets...... 168,396.15 Deficiency of In com e...... 37,274-35 Total ...... $10,489.498-03

N o t e . This balance sheet does not include physical property of the Society used on the Mission Fields or office furniture and fixtures at headquarters. REPORT OF THE TREASURER 163

SCHEDULE III

BALANCE SHEET April 30, 1932

LIABILITIES AND FUNDS Permanent Funds: Unrestricted as to Income: Unrestricted as to Investment, Schedule VI ...... $616,793.10 Restricted as to Investment, Schedule VI ...... 5.577.592.56 Additions— Net Profit from Sales of Investments .... 21,916-55 $6,216,302.21 Restricted as to Income: Unrestricted as to Investment, Schedule VI ...... $717,170.51 Restricted as to Investment, Schedule VI ...... 765.124.80 Additions— Net Profit from Sales of Investments .... 5-30 1,482,300.61 Total Permanent Funds ...... $7,698,602.82

Annuity Funds: General Annuity Agreements ...... 51,603,829.45 Additions— Net Profit from Sales of Investments ...... 11,170.45 Annuity Payments awaiting Annuitants’ Disposition .... 850.48 Total Annuity Funds ...... 1,615,850.38 Total Permanent and Annuity Funds ...... $9,314,453-20 Plant Funds—Properties in The United States of America 84,834.52 Special Trust Funds— Special Trust Agreements...... 127,254-47

Designated Temporary Funds, Schedule V II: For Land, Buildings, Equipment, and Maintenance of Mission Property ...... $261,651.04 For Mission Work ...... 27,006.61 For Support of Missionaries ...... 39,952.n For Other Objects ...... 116,620.13 Total Designated Temporary F un ds...... 445,229.89

Current Liabilities: Accounts Payable: Missionaries ...... $5,025.85 Miscellaneous ...... 177.07 $5,202.92 Deposits ,with< Mission Treasurers—Personal Funds of Missionaries ...... 42,944.75 Total Current Liabilities ...... 48,147.67 Foreign Field Appropriation Balances Against which charges have not yet been reported— Schedule X IV : Current Budget ...... $352,244.77 Previous Budgets ...... 50,785.70 $403,030.47 Add: Deposits with Mission Treasurers— Mission Work Appropriations ...... 115 ,192.60 $518,223.16 Less: Net Advances to Mission Treasurers applying on above balances ...... 217,041.03 301,182.13 Allocated from Unrestricted Legacy and Annuity Receipts: Reserve for Equalization of Income: From Legacies ...... $130,603.73 From Matured Annuities ...... 37.792.42 168,396.15 Total $10,489,498.03 SCHEDULE IV

SUMMARY OF FOREIGN FIELD APPROPRIATIONS

Income Gross Home Field Care MISSIONS Passages 1 N(nv Ap. on Appro­ of Buildings Specifics Totals Salaries Salaries pointées Funds priations Property MRCN ATS FRIN ISO S E Y IET C SO MISSION FOREIGN BAPTIST AMERICAN Burma ______<______$47,074.47 $132,388.70 $34,434.63! $15,05:!.!!) $5,205.42 $52,250.73 $18,868.00 $25,980.95 $12,083.47 $343,339.56 Assam _ .. ------•------9,551.46 43,466.80 7,141.00: 8,353.41 38.87 33,111.98 7,192.28 4,291.97 5,198.70 118,346.46 South India ------12,059.66 75,780.76 14,084.80j ______7,505.52 46,732.73 5,588.73 17,034.77 4,502.07 183,889.04 Bengal-Orissa...... 9,726.03 27,424.79 10,834.00 ! ______584.47 23,614.91 4,017.82 2,839.15 841.82 79,882.99 1,654.54 1,654.54 China: South China ------1,051.73 31,203.00 ______1,581.70 101.80 13,901.66 625.67 5.650.00 4,506.63 58,622.25 East China „ ___ - ______18,423.11 38,499.30 10,341.50 ! 2,4;5r>.42 435.43 36,763.50 2,946.67 1.550.00 4,031.00 115,425.93 West China ------___ - 8,150.93 33,074.93 11,954.701 ______84.03 17,080.00 1,085.92 3.450.00 1,072.23 75,952.74 1,852.17 1,852.17 China Flood R elief...... 1 149.25 149.25 J a p a n ------10,445.52 42,232.38 4,514.89. 650.00 50.21 66,120.50 7,465.05 2,863.84 89.57 134,431.96 Congo Beige ______26,269.96 28,056.33 12,386.26 3,393.34 11.255.00 2,550.00 10,714.99 5,053.62 99,679.50 Philippine Islands ...... 12,821.31 10,099.32 5,857.39 j 3,043.90 16.567.00 960.00 33,300.00 2,447.00 91,095.92 4,133.31 1 4,133.31 Totals ______$160,307.48 $468,226.31 $111,549.17 $31,510.96 $14,005.81 $320,904.72 $51,300.14 $107,675.67 $39,975.36 $1,308,455.62 10,455.67 10,455.67 80,352.37 4.301.62 Work in Europe: Regular Budget Appropriations ______50,500.00 10,000.00 911.00 10*911.00 .382.00 1,316.67 1,698.67 Homes far Missionaries and Missionaries’ 18,297.70 “ Missions ” and Literature sent to Mis- 1,395.52 4,535.00 1.535.62 $160,807.48 $4G8,226.31 $111,549.17 $34,892.90 $14,005.81 $320,904.72 $51,300.14 $128,131.34 $42,203.03 $1,492,438.79 Less: Estimated Exchange C redit______48,000.00 Total Foreign Field Appropriations____ +$1,444,438.79

t In agreement with Schedule II as follows: Total Foreign Field Appropriations, Regular B udget ...... $1,277,624.57 .Total Specific Budget ______166,814.22 FOREIGN FIELD APPROPRIATIONS

Income Gross Care THE BURMA MISSION Home Field Passages New Ap­ on Appro­ of Buildings Specifics Station Salaries Salaries pointees Funds priations Property Totals

Bassein: $581.82 $787.64 E. T. Fletcher ______$2,675.00 S. V. Hollingworth . ______1.00 $2,750.83 C. A. Nichols ______. . . ____ 2,000.00 $500.00 E. E. Sowards ______574.79 1,423.99 $1,103.00 $7,871.08 C. L. Conrad ______902.:« 1,275.53 1,772.00 $18,279.61

Bhamo: 018.19 548.36 TREASURER THE OF REPORT L. W. Spring ______2.835.00 12.00 N. E. Woodbury . ______350.88 2,296.88 2,813.00 9,480.31 Haka: 999.99 156.36 J. H. C op e______20.90 2,543.33 0. U. Strait ...... 2,511.24 40.00 6,277.88 Henzada: 303.63 619.04 J. E. Cummings ______357.97 3,211.58 1,050.00 50.00 A. C. Phelps___ ...... ______1.775.00 $8,823.53 16,251.35 Ilsipaw ______. . . . ___ 43.63 43.03 Insein: 127.27 700.30 H. I. Marshall ______11.20 2,790.00 1,005.8!) 715.00 D. C. Gilmore______2,858.93 J. C. Richardson ______65.60 3,099.34 625.00 363.67 050.00 A. C. Hanna ______2,449.90 1,013.89 2.084.00 V. W. Dyer ______47.50 2,573.02 1.891.00 1,655.00 24,726.57 Kalaw: 872.72 H. H. T ilb e...... 511.11 1,459.10 1.050.00 545.45 1,944.68 390.50 1.875.00 36.36 8,684.92 Kengtung: 1,890.91 290.91 3,155.00 1,560.42 313.75 1,959.99 1,772.00 305.56 436.36 ! 1,684.76 606.60 95.28 14,071.60 181.82 277.10 458.92 Loilem: 2,054.54 376.73 2,310.87 2.55 400.00 5,144.69 FOREIGN FIELD APPROPRIATIONS (Continued)

Income THE BURMA MISSION Home Field Passages New Ap. Gross Care ON (Continued) Salaries Salaries on Appro­ of Buildings pointees Specifics Station Funds priations Property Totals Loimwe $2,421.82 $242.54 $2,664.36 Mandalay: 181.82 H. E. Hinton $2,846.11 385.46 K 3,413.39 M Maubin ...... WM 181.82 89.09 270.91 n Maymyo: ► 872.72 272.73 E. Grigg ...... 1.960.00 öS J. F. McGuire ...... 1.960.00 *Ì*30~9Ì *5*,19*6*36 w Meiktila: > 618.18 H. E. D udley...... $276.80 2,543.33 294.55 $100.00 3,832.86 Mong Mong and Bana: 193.82 Raymond Buker___ 285.62 1,698.96 $1,563.00 W. M. Y ou n g ______$149.63 168.00 240.00 1,120.01 525.00 ”3,094*54 Harold M. Young ... 2,175.00 ______1,803.23 3 Vincent Young ____ w 235.55 $3,133.31 M 303~63 17,349.30 l-H Moulmein: <7> 1,418.19 P. R. H ackett...... 10.67 2,860.41 1,165.45 A. J. Weeks ______312.49 2,547.21 1,250.00 R. Halliday ______1,665.00 W. G. Evans ...... _. 616.67 544.44 **798*63 281.19 J. H. Whitt ...... 39.67 13,510.02 Myitkyina: 854.55 348.00 G. J. G els ______1,369.56 812.50 1,250.00 Leroy A. Dudrow __ 2,495.00 1,000.00 *8,129*61 Namkham: G. S. Seagrave . . 2,597.92 690.91 G. A. Sword ____ 2,325.00 32.00 260.00 9,201.84 Pegu: 1SI.S2 352.72 M. C. Parish 250.01 1,553.14 1,250.00 3,587.69 Frome: * .-:! ::s:? 55 E. B. Roach 2,000.00 1 1 2,564.36 Pyapon ______1S|,S2 09. 250 91

THE BURMA MISSION (Continued) Pyinmana: fri;.-)! S.Ì70.90 B, C. Case ______$8.73 $2,014.16 J. M. Sm ith______^______398.12 2,936.01 "‘ "$2,356*55 .------W. Cummings ______80.00 _____ $12,60810 Rangoon (Judson College): 290 9(1 1 ,-in W. St. John ______2,175.00 fl.l'lt.S! SOS.(if) 1,(190.91 *10,007.79 $1,607.35 G. S. Jury ______395.00 2,587.71 1,563.00 G. E. G ates ...... 2,485.00 S. H. Rickard ...... 1,942.75 1,422.44 2,190.00 Dwight O. Sm ith . 2,628.65 J. Russell Andrus _____ 2.085.00 Wm. B. Campbell _____ 1.815.00 P. J. Braisted ______2,385.94 60.00 F. G. Dickason ______2,085.00 Clarence Hendershot ___ 2,750.(17 51,046*12 1 Rangoon (Mission Press): 1,181.82 H. W. Sm ith . 1,532.50 1 ,120.00 446.60 O. A. H astings . 350.66 313.00 5,352.29 Rangoon (Miss. Sec’y and Miss. Treas.): 230.30 C. E. Chaney ______1,283.15 091.27 1.250.00 17.16 W. E. W ia tt...... 194.45 1,760.43 1.050.00 1 OiO T? Miss L. P. Bonney ...... 1,070.00 8,102.15 Rangoon (General): J 3,578.18 1,208.73 C. R. Chartrand 194.45 1,038.55 1,050.00 G. D. Josif ____ 3,218.12 H. J. V inton...... 895.00 1 A. E. Seagrave 1,495.00 1 218.18! 100.00 Frank E. Eden .. 59 36 13,708.57 Sagaing ------181.82 54.54 236.30 Sandoway: 915.45 254.55 F. R. Bruce „ 136.12 2,309.92 1,366.00 130.00 5,202.04 Shwegyin: 290.91 78.18 C. L. Klein .. 2,815.00 3,184.09 Taunggyi: 830.36 381.82 C. H. Heptonstall___ 1.960.00 A. H. Henderson ____ 1.625.00 109.10, 71.65 Mrs. Agnes Raymond 1 .010.00 1 E. M. Harrison ...... 600.00 i Beulah N. A llen_____ 148.94 2,303.75 ! Beatrice Pond ______1 0*60.55 9,706.62 FOREIGN FIELD APPROPRIATIONS (Continued)

THE BURMA MISSION Income Gross Care Home Field Passages New Ap­ O n (Continued) Salaries Salaries on Appro­ of Buildings Specifics Station 00 pointees Funds priations Property Totals Tavoy: M. L. Streeter______$970.90 $673.48 $3,141.43 $90.67 2,454.36 ------______" "$7,832"82 Tharrawaddy ...... 89.46 89.46 Thayetmyo: 654.55 54.54 E. C. C ondict____ . 3.52 3,078.13 $625.00 $300.00 4,715.74 Thonze: 269.10 418.91 J. T. Latta; ______4.80 8,252.73 110.90 4,050.44 Tiddim ______. 266.55 54.54 321.09 Toungoo: 763.64 794.54 L. B. Rogers ______8,907.08 J. L. Lewis ...... 3,191.40 45~86 ::::::::::: ..... G. E. Blackwell______II.I.I 2,272.60 ------::::::::::: "’ Yd,974’ 60 Zigon ______90.91 90.91 Reserve F u n d ...... 1,770.19 Income Tax ______4,731.03 1.770.19 4,731.03 Mission Treasurer ___ _ 1,818.18 718.85 718.36 Prolonged Furlough: A. C. D arrow ______8,827.95 3,827.96 New Appointees: H. 0. W y a tt______$2,816.53 2,816.68 400.00 400.00 Mrs. Jennie B. Johnson_____ 75.00 76.00 Burman Joint Committee: 5,578.19 6.678.19 U. Shwe H m a n ...... 7,760.00 Iftl RO 7,944.62 Karen Joint Committee_____ 3,641.88

Totals ...... $47,074.47 $132,388.70 $34,434.03 $15,053.19 $5,205.42 $52,250.73 $18,868.00 $25,980.95 $12,083.47 $343,389.66

THE ASSAM MISSION Furkating (Tika, Lumdlng): $1,135.04 $336.3« W. R. H utton...... __ ...... $620.00 $2,267.52 $2,160.00 $7.3’- $0,520.89 Gauhati: 1,857.4c 1,081.11 Marion Burnham ______1.040.00 1.960.00 100.6: ...... 12.0C A. J. Tuttle ...... 2,036.70 Lucille Tuttle ______1.040.00 W. Danielson ______1 ,011.66 $3,316.98 13,456.53 Golaghat: 1,180.3( 535.2i 2,259.79 75.84 1 ,200.00 187.0 2,616.34 8,054.61 Impur: 1 ,221.01 327.2* 2,470.79 4,019.15 Jorhat: 9,408.7. 1,380.0( 250.01 1,955.62 675.00 1,992.76 1,545.00 3,106.00 I $2,600.0( 9.0( _ _ H. W. K irby...... 3,379.73 1 448.3S 40.01): ..... 2,905.67 $34.80 31.0£ 37.50 833.64 30,632.89 Kangpokpi: 2,486.5. 412.7; 2,028.75 300.0( .... W. R. Werelius ...... —...... 4,202.79 3.0( 9,433.80 Kohima: 2,579.2? 429.4( 3.400.78 _ ____ 75.0( .... 2,878.73 234.0( 9,597.25 667.64 38.18 . . .. 705.82 North Lakhimpur: 801.82, 200.0C 3,875.2i 4,877.10 Nowgong: 845.0S 281.4C 1,945.00 750.8(1 3,822.41 Sadiya: 1,166.1£ 394.9C 2,241.41 fio.nr Rn Sibsagor: 918.54 454.5E V. H. Sword 2,570.43 531.00 4,474.52 1 CN -O' FOREIGN FIELD APPROPRIATIONS (Continued)

Income Gross Care THE ASSAM MISSION Home Pield Passages New Ap­ on Appro­ of Buildings Specifics Station (Continued) Salaries Salaries pointees Funds priations Property Totals MRCN ATS FRIN ISO SCEY EOT F H TREAS R E R SU A E R T THE OF REPORT SOCIETY MISSION FOREIGN BAPTIST AMERICAN Tura: $2,861.82 $1,220.36 F. W. Harding ______$2,185.00 $4.07 $94.00 E. Sheldon D ow ns______2,378.75 A. P. Merrill...... 2,315.00 $11,059.00 Income Tax ...... 1,609.47 1,609.47 New Appointees: Rubin Holm ______15.00 A. C. C onrad______15.00 30.00 Mission Treasurer ______$192.73 10.00 202.73 3,272.73 3,272.73 Literature, G a ro______101.82 101.82 Literature, Assamese ______43.63 43.63 Scholarship Fund ______745.45 745.45 Reserve Fund ______1,818.16 1,818.16

Totals ______$9,551.45 $43,466.80 $7,141.00 $8,353.41 $38.87 $33,111.98 $7,192.28 $4,291.97 $5,198.70 $118,346.46

THE SOUTH INDIA MISSION Allur: $1,269.45 $114.55 E. B. D avis______$1,835.00 $3,219.00 Atmakur: 368.00 87.28 1,954.16 $12.50 $120.00 2,541.94 Bapatla: 2,022.18 127.27 370.00 2.275.00 $2,390.00 7.184.45 Cumbum: 75Ö.27 196.37 1.515.00 129.80 $7,120.58 623.24 10,344.26 Donakonda: 1,149.09 136.36 1.960.00 30.00 3.275.45

THE SOUTH INDIA MISSION (Continued) Gadval: $702.91 $118.18 $1,625.00 $2,446.09 Gurzalla: 335.27 52.73 2.515.00 $182.80 3,085.80 Hanmnakonda: 1,788.00 350.91 $2,520.84647.50 $2,275.00 25.00 1,876.25 9,483.50 Jangaon: 1,028.36 109.09 3,161.67 4,299.12 Eaniglrl: 1,218.91 156.36 G H Brock 1.625.00 $8.91 82.00 3,091.18 Kavali: 724.36 163.63 1,602.73609.37 1,300.00 400.00 54.50 4,854.59 Kurnool: 3,005.46 109.09 1.960.00 793.71 $765.80 334.00 3,391.66 215.81 3,731.06 700.00 15,006.59 Madira: 677.46 72.73 F Kn rt7 1.625.00 2,375.19 Madras: 1,733.10 754.55 2,215.43 14.33 4,717.41 Mahbubnagar: 1,473.82 181.82 3.325.00 4,980.64 Markapur: 903.27 145.45 296.87 1.750.01 1,300.00 4,395.60 Nalgonda: 1,585.82 127.27 3,000.00 4,713.09 Nandyal: 710.91 127.27 1 ,120.00 1,958.18 Narsaravupet: 650.55 85.09 2,390.11 1.625.00 15.28 25.00 4,791.03 Nellore: 3,844.00 109.09 2,273.25 1,552.50 3,315.00 460.13 1.625.00 310.00 L C Smith 1.835.00 400.00 1,149.33 750.00 17,623.30 FOREIGN FIELD APPROPRIATIONS (Continued)

Income Gross Care THE SOUTH INDIA MISSION Home Field Passages New Ap* on Appro­ of Buildings Specifics Station (Continued) Salaries Salaries , pointees Funds priations Property Totals

Ongole: TREASURER THE OF REPORT $5,174.18 $716.36 SOCIETY MISSION FOREIGN BAPTIST AMERICAN J. M. B aker______$166.66 T. W athne______339.38 $2,224.99 $2,275.00 $639.57 $550.00 2.155.00 1,584.60 6.60 9.83 2,686.66 50.00 L. E. Rowland______2.790.00 2,449.81 $23,818.64 Podili: 1,048.73 200.00 T. V. W itter______3,163.34 $1 ,100.00 73.86 5,585.93 Ramapatnam: 1,477.45 410.91 W. E. Boggs ______. 388.89 1,578.88 1 ,100.00 1,397.83 30.00 J. P. Klahsen ______2.110.00 W. Drew Y arney______1,770.00 10,263.96 Sattenapalle: 540.36 123.64 Edwin Erickson ______2,003.75 2,667.75 Secunderabad: 2,260.73 327.27 C. R. Marsh ______2,181.10 4,769.10 Sooriapett: 1,634.18 205.46 A. J. H ubert______1.960.00 30.00 3,829.64 Udayagiri: 1,058.91 210.91 P. W. S ta it______1 .120.00 85.50 2,475.32 Yinukonda: 325.09 69.09 ' Phillip S. C urtis...... — 1,901.25 72.61 2,428.04 2,070.43 2,070.43 Kodaikanal School lor Missionaries’ Children 1,562.91 1,562.91 Madras Christian College______1,818.18 1,818.18 Pulpit Supply, Vepery Church ______872.72 872.72 ReDairs. Vencrv Church 3,168.00 3.168.00 Mission Treasurer . _ _ 3,600.00 3.600.00 Reserve Fund ______.. . . . ______572.01 572.01

$12,659.66 $75,780.76 $14,084.80 $7,505.52 $46,732.73 $5,588.73 $17,034.77 $4,502.07 $183,889.04

THE BENGAL-ORISSA MISSION Balasore: 4,742.18 $943.64 H. I. Frost - $2,926.70 $3,575.00 $25.46 $84.51 L. Eller ___ 2,563.33 30.00 J. G. Gilson 31Í26 1,878.35 1,842.00 493.93 $337.00 552.31 $21,374.58 Bhimpore : 5,242.54 L. C. Kitchen 2,568.54 A. A. Berg .. . 2,718.69 11,162.50 Ohandbali: 218.19 W. S. Dunn 2,182.45 25.00 2,571.09 Contai 123.64 61.09 184.73 Jamshedpur: 218.18 148.36 L. F. Marsh 54.92 432.15 Khargpur: 183.27 J. H. Oxrieder . . . 2,295.26 C. C. Eoadarmel 2,414.99 E. C. Brush_____ T,712.17 1,499.26 2,492.00 11,190.40 Midnapore: 1,894.91 1,000.00 J. A. H ow ard___ 3,166.73 33.23 100.00 H. C. Long _____ 2,425.72 835.40 2,925.00 65.08 George B. Harris 1,625.00 14,071.07 Salgodia: 261.82 21.82 G. A g e r ...... 5.00 1,178.64 Santipore: 879.26 W. C. Osgood 2,314.98 3,434.24 Woodstock School at Mussorie 550.00 550.00 Income T a x ______1,101.70 1,101.70 Mission Treasurer ...... 30.77 2,468.92 50.00 2,549.69 Home Mission B oa rd ______7,511.27 641.46 8,152.73 Christian Literature, Bengali .. 181.82 181.82 Christian Literature, O riya ---- 181.82 181.82 Language Study ______263.28 263.28 Field Administration Expense . 581.82 581.82 Reserve Fund ______720.73 720.73

$27,424.79 $10,S34.00 $584.47 $23,614.91 $4,017.82 $2,839.15 $841.82 $79,882.99 Totals $9,726.03 Cs) FOREIGN FIELD APPROPRIATIONS (Continued)

Income Gross Care INDIA—GENERAL Home Field Passages New Ap­ on Appro­ of Buildings Specifics Station Salaries Salaries pointees Funds priations Property Totals

...... $700.00 254.54 MRCN ATS FRIN ISO SCEY EOT F THE OF REPORT 700.00 $1,654.54 SOCIETY MISSION FOREIGN BAPTIST AMERICAN

$1,654.54 $1,654.54

THE SOUTH CHINA MISSION Bangkok, Siam: $1,750.00 $4,400.00 $3,973.23 $10,123.23 Chaochowiu: $710.00 $66.67 2,625.00 $101.86 105.00 3,608.53 ------833.33 833.33 Hopo: 1,163.33 49.00 $300.00 3,298.33 ------4,810.66 1,053.33 1,053.33 Kaying: 1,650.00 16.67 J. H. Giffln ______3,055.49 G E Whitman _____ 1 ,000.00 *---- 5,722.16 Kityang: 1,450.00 66.67 E H. Geldt ___ —...... — 2,519.51 ------100.00 4,136.18 Sunwuhsien: 751.66 33.33 2.750.00 3.342.00 125.00 7,001.99 Swatow: 453.33 193.33 364.58 1.750.00 60.00 2.670.00 ------325.97 2.435.00 750.00 268.40 K Gr. Hobart 2,643,09 ------1 ,000.00 ::::::: — 12,913.70

Ungkung: ! 838.33 75.00 Mrs. G. W. Lewis______425.76 ------1,339.09

THE SOUTH CHINA MISSION (Continued) $500.00 $500.00 Electric Light Plant, Kakchieh $1,600.00 1,600.00 Mission Treasurer — ...... — 346.67 346.67 Reserve Fund ------New Appointees: 1,581.70 Bruno Luebeck ------401.67 401.67 Field and Hospital Evangelism ...... 466.67 466.67 College and Academy L o a n ------450.00 450.00 Preachers’ Institute and Summer Conference 166.67 166.67 Student Loan ------1,566.67 1,566.67 Theological Seminary and F un d ......

*101.86 $13,901.66 $625.67 $5,650.00 $4,506.63 $58,622.25 Totals $1,051.73 $31,203.00

THE EAST CHINA MISSION Hangchow: P. R. Bakeman __ $3,437.52 $100.00 E. H. Clayton — 3,165.24 $591.48 $2,750.00 $11,102.56 Miss L. B. Edgar 1,058.32 Kinhwa: 2,250.00 J. P. Davies 2,250.00 _____ Nanking: $1,500.00 Nanking University ...... —-i.... 2,000.00 4,10Ö”ÖÖ Nanking University, in lieu o f Salaries —

Nlngpo: 2,976.58 H. R. S. Benjamin 550.00 $1,050.00 H. Thomas ------2,068.00 1,333.75: P. J. M cLean------2,315.93!... 350.00 J. W. Decker ...... 2,636.98'— R. E. Stannard ---- 2,593.86| — 625.00 16,500.10 Hwa Mei Hospital . Shanghai (College): V. H anson------3,315.22 _. H. Huizinga ------2,083.30 391.66 1, 100.00 Miss A. E. R o o t ------1,016.00: — H. D. L am son------2,024.S9- A. T. Bawden — ...... 608.87,.. 2,635.51 400.00,- vj F. J. White ______$254.64 Lr\ H. C. E. L iu ...... 77.50! $2,085.42:. S. S. Beath ------Gordon Poteat ------3,170.00!------13,333.33 33,795.69 University of Shanghai FOREIGN FIELD APPROPRIATIONS (Continued)

Income Gross Care v i THE EAST CHINA MISSION Home Field Passages New Ap­ on Appro­ of Buildings Specifics Station o\ (Continued) Salaries Salaries pointees Funds priations Property Totals

Shanghai (General) : L. O. Hylbert...... $1,699.01 $1,218.75 $1 ,100.00 E. H. Cressy______2,378.03 $31.00 Shanghai American S chool______1,666.67 $8,093.46 Shanghai (Mission Secretary and Treasurer): Miss Dora Fensom ______150.00 833.33 550.00 D. Zimmerman ______$117.13 Missionary House Rents, Care of Mis­ sion Treasurer______1,649.00 W. R. T a y lor______125.00300.00 3,724.46 Shaohsing: F. W. G oddard...... 1,865.16 1,187.50 1 ,100.00 50.93 $2,035.00 A. I. Nasmith...... 1,040.00 2.424.00 2,714.00 A. F. Ufford ...... 2.125.00 12.73 6.00 14,660.32 Mission Treasurer______70.00 70.00 Mrs. W. S. Sweet ...... 120.00 120.00 New Appointee, B. A. Slocum ...... $350.00 350.00 Chekiang Shanghai Convention______$500.00 500.00 Reserve ______$362.76 362.75 Gross Appropriations * ______18,929.92 966.67 19,896.59

Totals ______...... __ __•_ $18,423.11 $38,499.30 $10,341.50 $2,435.42 $435.43 $36,763.50 $2,946.67 $1,550.00 $4,031.00 $115,425.93

* Gross—Unable to distribute because of lack of information from the field.

THE WEST CHINA MISSION

Chengtu: $1,686.67 $426.33 H. J. Openshaw $137.60 $2,000.00 $50.93 $24.31 Joseph Taylor .. 1,729.93 665.97 $1,650.00 D. S. Dye ...... 166.67 1,604.16 1.650.00 Wm. R. Morse .. 1,598.59 1,289.25 1.650.00 J. E. Moncrieff . 640.63 2,157.28 3.796.00 D. L. Phelps___ 2,277.50 O. G. Yichert ... 1.650.00 16.39 0 q O O $1,250.00 25.00 J. Lenox ...... 1.650.00 31.90 0 9 $29.925. if

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THE WEST CHINA MISSION (Continued) $1,546.67 $130.67 Kiating: 11.25 J. C. Jensen ------$2,911.56 $30.00 $7,392.23 L. A. Lovegren------2,762.08 3,136.00 273.00 Suifu: $1,500.00 C. E.i Tompkins ...... 1,750.00 6.42 D. C. Graham ...... $3,627.50 W. R. T a y lo r------.. '3,276’ 63 $645.67 "25.ÖÖ 16,879.46 C. F. Wood ...... - ...... 2,581.94 57.30 2,796.67 244.67 Tachow: 750.00 2,679.81 700.00 F. N. Sm ith ------$33.10 201.50 R. L. C ro o k ...... 250.01 1,443.75 1,650.00 12,731.95 M. O. Brininstool ______1,875.00 107.44 200.00 200.00 Bradshaw Bungalow, Mount Omei 500.00 500.00 School for Missionaries’ Children 6,000.00 10.00 6 ,010.00 West China Union University------■ Ä 500.00 Land Purchase F u n d — ...... "■"33‘ 33 33.33 Szechuen Christian Council ...... 83.33 83.33 Administration ______200.00 200.00 Student A id ------200.0C 200.00 Medical W o rk ______933.33 933.33 Convention Committees------364.0C 364.00 Reserve Fund ------

$84.03 $17,080.00 $1,085.92 $3,450.00 $1,072.23 $75,952.74 Totals $8,150.93 $33,074.63 $11,954.70

ALL CHINA $1,000.00 National Christian Council ------666.67 China Baptist Publication Society ------123.00 China Union Universities—Adm inistration — 62.50 $1,852.17 China Baptist Council—E x e c u t i v e Committee

$1,852.17 $1,852.17 Totals V| $149.25 $149.25 VI China Flood Relief FOREIGN FIELD APPROPRIATIONS (Continued)

Income Gross Care THE JAPAN MISSION Home Field Passages New Ap­ on Appro­ oi Buildings Specifics Station Salaries Salaries pointees Funds priations Property Totals òo Himejl ______$1,660.00 $1,660.00 Inland Sea: 3,766.00 W. T opping...... $848.90 $1,546.87 R $1,214.00 E R SU A E R T THE OF REPORT $650.00 $230.05 SOCIETY MISSION FOREIGN BAPTIST AMERICAN M. D. Farnum ______3,482.25 150.00 $1,233.84 13,121.91 Kobe: 450.00 100.00 R. A. Thomson ______107.60 657 60 Liu Chiu ...... - 2.015.00 2,015.00 200.00 200.00 Mito: 2.954.00 50.00 J. S. Kennard______2,428.32 828.00 6,260 32 Morioka: 3,508.00 50.00 F. W. Steadman______2,671.44 6,229.44 Osaka: 3,692.00 100.00 J. A. F o o te ______4,641.78 380.00 $39.57 8,853.35 Sendai ______720.00 60.00 780.00 Tokyo: 8,463.00 350.00 Wm. Axling ______1,077.64 1,382.66 1,040.00 432.00 H. B. Benninghoff______2,331.00 Miss F. Nystrom ______1 ,101.20 Wm. Wynd ______1,636.11 989.41 1,740.89 225.00 Miss E. R. T h arp ______471.30 820.15 520.00 2,787.46 870.00 26,297.82 Yokohama: 31,397.50 300.00 R. H. Fisher______3,777.41 J. H. Co ve il______3,338.78 1 C. B. Tenny ______6,411.57 D. C. H oltom ...... 4,831.40 3,700.28 $50.21 720.00 54,527.15 1,234.37 1,234.37 1 ,000.00 1 ,000.00 3,000.00 3,000.00 30.00 6.050.00 1,445.00 1.445.00 1,250.00 1.250.00 2,850.00 2.850.00

$ 10,445.02 $ 42, 232.38 $ 4,514.89 $ 050.00 $ 50.21 $06, 120..^ $ 7,405.05 $ 2,803.84 $S!>.57i $134,431.96 1

THE CONGO MISSION Banza Manteke, Palabala, and Lukunga: $1,250.00 $350.00 J. E. G eil------$1,815.00 $1,750.00 $1,081.00 M. S. Engwall ______2,354.12 40.00 1,300.00 H. M. Freas ------$11,344.58 F. G. Lcasure...... $575.36 ’’ "’ 829.10 KIkongo: 785.00 150.00 B. W. Armstrong 1.585.00 10.00 1.775.00 150.00 P. C. Metzger----- 9,013.50 C. E. Sm ith_____ 2,808.50 $1,100.00 Kimpese: 1,275.00 100.00 2,910.12 72.50 750.00 12.75 S. E. Moon ------”6,550!§7 G. W. Carpenter 900.00 530.00 Leopoldville: 400.00 200.00 1,359.99 22.50 1,500.00 H. Erickson ------50.00 Linda Erickson ...... 900.00 P. A. MacDiarmid ...... ‘l,26l'Ì7 1,163.13 2,624.99 900.00 Mrs. Hilda B a in ------— 3,378.48 Erection of School Building 17,280.63 Chapel at Leopoldville------1,092.39 Moanza: 685.00 50.00 1,885.13 58.33 1,041.48 - T. Hill ------84.50 T. E. Bubeck . . . 1,300.00 ~ 166^60 1,191.06 105.30 H. A. Sodergren 40.00 9,459.70 W. E. Rodgers 2,851.64 Tondo: ■950.00 300.00 2,705.85 . 1,575.00 H. D. Brown . . . 85.00 7,lÌ2]24 G. W. Westcott 561.12 935.27 1,700.00 350.00 Sona Bata: 50.00 J. C. K in g ______3,297.10 2,854.73 1,575.00 Glen W. Tuttle ... 200.00 T. M o o d y ------1,400.00 Lester O. Hooks .. 1,994.47 83.05 "i.soäöö 1,360.81 E. Atkins ...... 17,365.16 Purchase of Land 1,000.00

Tshumbiri : 1,610.28 B. B. Hathaway 1,616.28 250.00 50.00 Vanga: 450.00 1,525.00 15.00 A. C. Osterholm 15.00 W. H. Leslie___ 2,102.76 170.72 2,944.57( 910.80 383.08 L. A. B row n___ 32.00 10,467.68 E. G. Hall _____ 1,618.75;. FOREIGN FIELD APPROPRIATIONS (Continued)

Income Gross Care THE CONGO MISSION Home Field Passages New Ap­ on Appro­ of Buildings Specifics Station (Continued) Salaries Salaries pointees Funds priations Property Totals

Brussels Agency ______$150.00 $150.00 International Institute of African Language and Culture______50.00 50.00 International Committee on Christian Lit­ erature for Africa ______165.00 165.00 Mission Treasurer ______2,760.00 $800.00 $1,485.02 $25.00 5,070.02 New Appointee, U. A. Lanoue______$3,393.34 3,893.34 Secretary of Congo Protestant Council____ 35.00 35.00 Reserve F u n d ______.600.00 600.00

Totals ______$26,269.96 $28,056.33 $12,386.26 $3,393.34 $11,255.00 $2,550.00 $10,714.99 $5,053.62 $99,679.50

THE PHILIPPINE MISSION Bacolod: Fred B. Ford ______$3,141.39 $116.25 W. B. Charles ______1,254.28 $4,511.92 Capiz: $1,465.50 $300.00 F. W. M eyer...... 610.55 2,315.55 $1,950.00 $1,800.00 S. S. Feldmann ______2,139.60 10,581.20 / Iloilo and Jaro: 0,832.00 A. E. Bigelow______2,378.33 Miss B. Houger ______l.'OOO.OO F. H. R ose______2.185.00 H. F. Stuart______2,862.50 225.00 1,957.39 1,500.00 Miss Ruth Harris ...... 862.50 208.34 585.00 Mrs. P. Sornberger______1,951.90 D. L. Johnson ______1,915.97 281.25 1,365.00 420.00 25,000.00 P. C. G rigg...... 1 .200.00 5,000.00 $25.01 57,755.18 R om blon ______591.00 591.00

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THE PHILIPPINE MISSION (Continued) $1,516.00 San Jose, Antique: $2,174.12 H. W. Munger...... — ...... $240.00 $6,028.22 E. P. B ounds...... - ...... $2,098.10 4,070.00 $2,422.00 6.492.00 Mission Treasurer ------3,043.90 New Appointee, Donald P erron------$3,043.90 Literature and Religious Education Com­ 50.00 50.00 mittee oi Conference ------262.50 262.50 Vacation Student Work ...... - 500.00 500.00 Reserve ...... 1,280.00 1.280.00 * Undesignated ------O 8 $3,043.90 $10,567.00 $960.00 $33,300.00 $2,447.00 $91,095.92 Totals $12,821.31 $16,099.32 $5,857.39

M WORK IN EUROPE w ,340.00 $7,340.00 *■4 Administration in Europe----- ,100.00 8,100.00 Work in Trance and Belgium ,000.00 1,000.00 § Work in Germany — ...... 900.00 900.00 > Work in Denmark ...... C/3 ,200.00 6 ,200.00 d Work In Norway ...... ,000.00 $600.00 3.600.00 w Work in Estonia ------,060.00 4.060.00 w Work In Latvia ------,910.00 200.00 2.110.00 w Work in Lithuania ------,500.00 $10,000.00 60.00 22,590.00 Work in Poland ------,000.00 4,000.00 Work In Czechoslovakia ...... 500.00 500.00 American Church in Paris 400.00 400.00 Missions and Literature------590.00 590.00 Reserve 21.00 21.00 Work In Russia

$50,500.00 $10,000.00 $911.00 $01,411.00 Totals

00 SCHEDULE IV A

SUMMARY OF ADDITIONS AND CANCELLATIONS IN PREVIOUS BUDGETS For the Fiscal Year Ended April 30, 1932

Total Field Salaries Home Salaries Passages Mission Work Care of Y Property IET C SO MISSION FOREIGN BAPTIST AMERICAN

Tear Add Cancel Add Cancel Add Cancel Add Cancel Add Cancel Add Cancel 1920-21 ______$1,079.47 1922-23 95.41 1923-24 _____ . $250.00 1,236.97 , 1925-26 41.17 1,281.33 $41.17 1926-27 ___ __ . 306.91 1,203.73 $306.91 $470.00 1927 28 285.67 1928-29 107.02 2.33 107.02 $2.33 1929-30 - 466.00 3,822.28 $26.18 $0.07 $430.00 257.43 159.40 $37.50 1930-31 ...... 17,150.13 58,655.11 $5,136.67 5,295.06 1,610.30 5,343.28 5,991.50 15,780.752,385.44 6,318.20 $168.52 680.50

Total ...... $18,321.23 $67,662.30 $5,136.67 $5,321.24 $1,616.97 $5,773.28 $6,397.12 $15,783.08 $2,851.75 $6,788.20 $168.52 $718.00

SCHEDULE IV A (Continued)

Land, Retired Foreign Exchange Buildings, and Oriental Missionaries Work in Europe Miscellaneous Equipment Students and Widows Items

Tear Add Cancel Add Cancel | Add Cancel Add Cancel Add Cancel Add Cancel 1920-21 $1,079.47 1922-23 $95.41 1923-24 $250.00 1,186.97 $50.00 1925-26 ____ - -- — 1,281.33 1926-27 333.73 400.00 285.671927 28 285.671927 1928-29 ______1...... j 1929L-30 $42.50 939.08 1 . $2,389.52 1930-31 47.10 18,359.42 1,591.35 2,519.94 $219.25 $102.01 2,000.00 $2,255.95

Total ______$89.60 $20,013.31 $1,841.35 $6,467.71 $50.00 $219.25 $102.01 $4,389.52 $2,255.95 REPORT OF THE TREASURER 18 3

SCHEDULE IV A (Continued)

RECAPITULATION Cancella- Additions tions Field Salaries ...... $5, 136.67 $5,321.24 Home Salaries ...... 1 ,616.97 5>773-28 Passages ...... 6,397.12 15 ,783.08 Mission W o r k ...... 2,851.75 6,788.20 Care of Property ...... 168.52 718.00 Exchange ...... 89.60 20,013.31 Land, Buildings, andEquipment ...... 1 ,841.35 6,467.71 Oriental Students ...... 50.00 Retired Missionaries and Widows ...... 219.25 102.01 Work in Europe ...... 4.389-S2 Miscellaneous ...... 2,255.95

$18,321.23 $67,662.30

Net Cancellations as shown on Schedule I $49,341.07 184 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MlSSlÖN SOCIETY

SCHEDULE V

DETAILS OF HOME EXPENDITURES For the Fiscal Year Ended April 30, 1932

(1)' Foreign Department Administration Cablegrams...... $340.53 Miscellaneous Expense ...... 144-54 Postage ...... 359-05 Salaries of Foreign Secretaries...... 1 1 ,916.74 Salary of Associate Secretary...... •...... 4,658-33 Salaries of Office Staff ...... 7,588.00 Stationery and Supplies ...... 23-55 Telegrams ...... 51-08 Travel of Missionaries to meet the Board ...... 709-53 Travel of Officers and Others ...... 674.28 Proportion of General Expense ...... 14,453.85 $40,919.48 Candidate Department Administration: Appointees’ Conference ...... $1 ,712.44 Medical Examination of New Appointees .... 289.70 Miscellaneous Expense ...... 47-98 Office Equipment ...... 3.25 Postage ...... 87.94 Salary of Candidate Secretary...... 5,005.00 Salaries of Office S ta ff...... 1 ,590.00 Stationery and Supplies ...... n .47 Telegrams ...... 21.62 Travel of Candidates ...... 587.10 Travel o f Officers ...... 917-47 ------— 10,273.97 $5i.i93-45 (2) Home Department Administration Cablegrams ...... $1.89 Miscellaneous Expense ...... 17-98 Office Equipment ...... 30.40 Other Library Expenditures ...... 104.38 Postage ...... 1...... 1 ,181.63 Salary of Home Secretary ...... 6,850.00 Salaries of Associate and Assistant Secretaries ...... 3,954.02 Salaries of Office Staff ...... t ...... 5,582.00 Stationery and Supplies ...... 84.40 Telegrams ...... 45-54 Travel of Officers and Others ...... ,...* ...... 239.49 Proportion of General Expense ...... 14 ,453.84 $32,545-57 Promotion of Interest and Beneficence: Deputation Work of Missionaries ...... $353-83 Deputation Work of Officers ...... 820.17 Field Secretary’s Salary and Expenses ...... 5,985.09 Literature Department: Annual Report ...... $2,272.41 General Literature and Printing 2,144.69 Postage and Express ...... 52.12 Prints and Electros ...... 72.90 $4,542.12 Less Credit Sales ...... 11.72 ------4.530-40 Missionary Exhibits ...... 12.00 Office Equipment ...... 33.00 Publicity ...... 2,369.95 Salaries of Office Sta ff...... 4,228.33 18,332.77 $50.878.34 REPORT OF THE TREASURER 185

(3) Treasury Department Administration Cablegrams ...... $216.68 Certified Public Accountant ...... 1 ,250.00 Collection and Exchange ...... 3.50 Custodianship Service ...... 2,793.77 Legal Expense ...... 598.90 Miscellaneous Expense ...... 197-55 Moody’s Investors Service ...... 628.50 Office Equipment ...... 55.20 Over and Short Account ...... 35 Postage ...... 1 ,176.67 Safe Deposit Box ...... 50.00 Salary of Treasurer ...... 5,500.00 Salary of Associate Treasurer ...... 5,010.00 Salaries of Office Staff ...... 20,670.45 Stationery and Supplies ...... 407.59 Telegrams ...... 58.42 Travel of Officers and Others ...... 149.25 Treasury Liability Bonds ...... 360.00 Proportion of General Expense ...... 14 ,453.85 $53,580.68 Less Discounts ...... 62.86 ^ $53,517.82 Shipping Department: Miscellaneous Expense ...... $47.48 Packing Supplies-...... 32.80* Salaries of Office Staff ...... 10,700.20 ------10,714.88 $64,232.70

(4) Miscellaneous General Expense Interest ...... $96.87 Retired Officers and Pension Premiums ...... 771-41 868.28 Home Expenditures, Schedule II $167,172.77

(5) Details of General Expense Annual Meeting ...... $5,187.21 Board of Managers’ Expense ...... 3,755-48 Electric Light ...... 317-85 Insurance ...... 311.32 Miscellaneous Expense ...... 359-41 Office Cleaning ...... 1 ,714.57 Postage ...... 72.16* Rent ...... i 3,934-83 Research and Statistics: Postage ...... $29.68 Salary of Assistant Secretary ...... 3,800.00 Salaries of Office Staff ...... 3,140.00 Stationery, Supplies, and Office Equipment .. 67.36 ------7,037-04 Salaries and W a g e s ...... 7,783.80 Special Conference Expense ...... 102.38 Stationery and Supplies ...... 1 ,448.31 Telegrams ...... 82 Telephone ...... 1 ,480.68 $43,361.54 Apportioned as follows: To Foreign Department Administration ...... $14 ,453.85 To Home Department Administration ...... 14,453.84 To Treasury Department Administration ...... 14,453.85 $43,361.54 * Deduction. MRCN ATS FRIN ISO S CIETY SO MISSION FOREIGN BAPTIST AMERICAN

SCHEDULE VI

Summary of Permanent Funds and Income Earned

Income Income Balance Balance Unrestricted Restricted May 1, 1931 Increase Decrease April 30, 1932 as to as to Investment Investment

Class I—Unrestricted as to Income, Unrestricted as to $607,024.73 $9,768.37 $616,793.10 $30,130.37 Class II—Unrestricted as to Income, Restricted as to 5,580,786.08 $3,193.52 5,577,592.56 $279,519.75 Class III—Restricted as to Income, Unrestricted as to 694,388.49 22,782.02 717,170.51 34,522.18 Class IV—Restricted as to Income, Restricted as to 765,124.80 765,124.80 105,856.04 i $7,647,324.10 $32,550.39 $3,193.52 $7,676,680.97 $64,652.55 $385,375.79 REPORT OF THE TREASURER 18 7

SCHEDULE VI

CLASS I Permanent Funds—Unrestricted as to Income Unrestricted as to Investment

Balance Balancc Income May i, 1931 Increase April 30,1932 Earned Ambler, Abigail T...... $3,500.00 $3.500.00 $171.50 Ambler, J. V., Memorial ...... 13,000.00 13 ,000.00 63702 Angle, Derrick Lane ...... 3,370.43 3.370.43 165-15 Argabright, S. V ...... 100.00 100.00 4.90 Arnold, George N : ...... 1 ,949.18 1 ,949.18 95.51 “As Unto Him ” ...... 5,000.00 5,000.00 245.00 Axtell, Hannah E ...... 124.44 124.44 6.10 Bailie, David ...... 1 ,000.00 1 ,000.00 49.00 Ballew, William B...... 192.14 192.14 9.41 Bamford, Chloe Lizzie ...... 50.00 50.00 Banister, John E ...... 1 ,390.98 1 ,390.98 68.16 Barker, Julia E ...... $1 , 115 .12 1 ,115 .12 10.93 Barney, Benjamin, Memorial . . 5,000.00 5,000.00 245-00 Bates, Lora E ...... 4.443-77 4.443-77 217-75 Bennett, Montgomery...... 3,383-33 3,383.33 165.79 Bostwick, J. A ...... 20,300.00 20,300.00 994.72 Bradford, Shadrack S ...... 1 ,000.00 1 ,000.00 49.00 Brow, Arnold, Rhoda, and Ab- bie J ...... 532.50 532.50 26.09 Bryant, William ...... 453-71 453-71 22.23 Burchard, Hannah M ...... 3,874-38 3,874-38 189-85 Burke, J. W...... 100.00 100.00 4.90 Butler, Charles T...... 1 ,000.00 1 ,000.00 49.00 Butler, Elizabeth N ...... 1 ,000.00 1 ,000.00 49.00 Carr Fund ...... 1 ,000.00 1 ,000.00 49.00 Case, Rhutson ...... 2,445.04 2,445.04 119.81 Chandler, Elizabeth B ...... 1 ,555-85 1 .555.85 76.24 Clarke, Ellen ...... 1 ,023.93 1 ,023.93 50.17 Colby, E. S ...... 476.32 476.32 23.34 Cook, Chapman M...... 324.00 324-00 15.88 Cortiss, Celinda ...... 393-73 393-73 19.29 Cox, Effie W...... 154-00 154.00 7-55 Crozer, Robert H. -T...... 50,000.00 50,000.00 2,450-05 Crozer, Sallie L ...... 3,000.00 3,000.00 147.00 Currier, Emily E ...... 125.00 125.00 6.13 David, Sarah H. and Joseph XJ. 3.733*83 3,733-8 3 182.96 Davis, Isaac ...... '. 5,000.00 5,000.00 245.00 Davis, James M...... 3,412-50 3,412.50 167.21 Dayton, A. Alphonse ...... 450.00 450.00 22.05 Dizer, Marshall C...... 1 ,000.00 1 ,000.00 49.00 Doyen, E. P. and Clara C...... 6,328.45 6,328.45 292.26 Drown, Mary Newell ...... 8,537-82 8,537.82 418.36 Droz, A d a lin e ...... 900.00 900.00 44-10 Dunbar, Robert ...... 500.00 500.00 24.50 Eastburn, Martha, Memorial . . 67.08 67.08 3-29 Eaton, Fidelia D...... 9,117.96 9,117.96 446.79 Eldredge, Lyman ...... 100.00 100.00 4.90 Estes, Carrie A ...... 25.00 25.00 1.23 Evans, Levi P ...... 500.00 500.00 24.50 Farwell, Clara M...... 214.28 214.28 10.50 Fengar, M ary E ...... 16,184.50 16,184.50 793-05 Flagg, Mary ...... 6,339-90 6,339-90 310.66 Flint, Harriet M...... 5,000.00 5,000.00 245.00 Free Baptist Permanent Fund.. 32,783.51 32,783*51 1 ,606.43 French, Joseph E ...... 8,101.69 8,101.69 396.99 Fry, Mrs. L. R ...... 2,085.89 2,085.89 102.21 Gale, Gertrude Hakes ...... 5,000.00 5,000.00 245.00 Gale, Susan H ...... i,42^.89 1 ,426.89 69.92 Gay, Addie D...... 285.00 285.00 139 7 General Endowment ...... 25.00 25.00 1.23 Gibbs, Norman and M a r y ...... 6,699.76 6,699.76 328.30 Glover, Henry R ...... 5,000.00 5,000.00 245.00 Ham, William ...... 89-55 89.55 4-39 Harmon, Eugene E ...... 985.00 985.00 48.27 188 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

Balance Balance Income May J, 1931 Increase April 30,1932 Earifed Hewitt, Harriett Barker ...... $7,413.24 ...... $7,413.24 $363.25 Hoyt, Joseph B...... 24,523.00 ...... 24,523.00 1 ,201.65 Ilsley, Austin T., Memorial . . . 300.00 ...... 300.00 14.70 Ingersoll, Edith M...... 432.47 ...... 432-47 21.19 ett, Meivina, Endowment .... 445-32 ...... 445-32 21.82 ohn, Lizzie T...... 500.00 ...... 500.00 24.50 400.00 19.60 S 50,000.00 2,450.00 ohnson, Susannah ...... ' 400.00 ...... 35.824.51 1.755.44 ones, John J...... 50,000.00 ...... 29.00 1.42 Letcham, George W., Foreign 2,449-31 120.02 Memorial Fund No. 2 ...... 35,824.51 ...... 475-00 23-28 Latourette, E. S...... 29.00 ...... 1 , 194.72 58,54 Leavens, Julia E., Memorial .. 2,449.31 ...... Lees, W. B...... 475.00 ...... , 1 ,000.00 49.00 Leonard Memorial ...... 1 ,194.72 ...... 228.35 11.19 Lester, Sarah Edson, Foreign 2,000.00 98.00 Mission ...... 1 ,000.00 ...... 5,000.00 245.00 Lewis, Mary J...... 228.35 ...... 100.00 4.90 Lindsey, Mary E...... 2,000.00 ...... 1 ,000.00 49.00 Little, George W ...... 5,000.00 ...... 500.00 24.50 Logan, John ...... 100.00 ...... Lougee, Clara A ...... 1 ,000.00 ...... 760.00 37.24 Mann, Marcia J...... 500.00 ...... 7,216.50 353.6i Marsh, Edward W., and Susan 1.932.33 94-69 Adelaide Thompson Marsh .. 760.00 ...... 69,448.98 3,403.05 Mendenhall, Nannie ...... 7,216.50 ...... 150.00 7-35 Mendenhall, Thomas G...... 1 .932.33 ...... 815.81 39-98 Merrick, Austin ...... 69,448.98 ...... 200.00 9.80 Mills, Thomas L...... 150.00 ...... 500.00 24.50 McKoon, Mamre Ann ...... 815.81 ...... II.42 .56 Nelson, Olof ...... 200.00 ...... 12 ,000.17 588.03 Norcross, Stephen W ...... 500.00 ...... 1.455.63 71.33 Nowland, Lucy A ...... 11.42 ...... 1 ,000.00 49.00 Owen, William B...... 12,000.17 ...... - 358.70 17.58 Parker, Eveline B...... 1 .455-63 ...... 4.373.02 214.28 Parks, Louisa M...... 1 ,000.00 ...... 1 ,000.00 49.00 Pease, William A ...... 358.70 ...... '. Perkins Memorial ...... 4,373.02 ...... 920.49 45.10 Phillips, Margaret D...... 1 ,000.00 ...... Pierce, Eliza L., and William 360.00 17.64 Ralph Lardner ...... 920.49 ...... 5,000.00 245.00 Pierce, Dr. Levi and Mrs. 1 ,000.00 49.00 Sabra K...... 360.00 ...... 307.97 15.09 Pillsbury, George A...... 5,000.00 ...... 10,000.00 490.00 Porter, Benjamin ...... 1 ,000.00 ...... 90.50 4-43 Porter, N. Charlotte ...... 307.97 ...... 1 ,000.00 49.00 Pruett Memorial ...... 10,000.00 ...... 1 1 ,816.41 579.01 uincy, R obert...... 90.50 ...... 203.84 8.89 enfrew, Jefferson ...... 1 ,000.00 ...... 100.00 4.90 Rice, The William ...... 1 1 ,816.41 ...... 3.555-04 152.67 gRobinson, C. L., Endowment.. 168.84 $35.00 230.90 11.3 1 Robinson, Tane E...... 100.00 ...... 5,242.68 256.90 Robinson, Louise Van der Veer 1 ,884.76 1 ,670.28 6,000.00 294.00 Rockwell, Rufus ...... 230.90 ...... 50.00 •43 Ruth, Mordecai T...... 5,242.68 ...... 1 ,000.00 49.00 Sanderson, Deacon Daniel .... 6,000.00 ...... 250.00 12.25 Sargent, Lizzie S...... 50.00 500.00 24.50 Sheldon Fund ...... 1 ,000.00 ...... 50.00 2.45 Sheldon, Chauncey ...... 250.00 ...... 2 ,000.00 98.00 Skofield, Sarah A ...... 500.00 ...... 430.90 2 1.11 Smith, Susan E...... 50.00 ...... 100.00 4.89 Spencer, Charles D...... 2,000.00 ...... 10,511.07 515.05 Stark, Laura Hooker ...... 430.90 ...... 9,000.00 441.01 Stuart, Elvira A ...... 99-50 .50 10,000.00 490.01 Sunderland, James ...... 10,511.07 ...... 3,500.00 171.50 -Swaim, Mary Augusta Noble .. 9,000.00 ...... 2,000.00 98.00 Sweet, John D...... 10,000.00 ...... 2 ,500.00 122.50 Thomas Fund ...... 3,500.00 ...... 1 ,167.99 57.23 Thresher, Henry C...... 2,000.00 ...... Towne, Mary J...... 2,500.00 928.00 45-47 Tripp, Susan ...... 1 ,167.99 ...... 1 ,831.81 89.76 Trowbridge, Edward N. and Mary P., Memorial ...... 928.00 ...... 569.02 21.16 Tubbs, Ella Embery ...... 1 ,831.81 ...... 747-25 36.62 Turley, Calvin Judson, Memo­ rial ...... 569.02 Varney, Addison P ...... 747-25 ...... REPORT OF THE TREASURER 1 8 9

Balance Baiance Income May 1 , 1931 Increase April 30,1932 Earned Van Husen, C...... $2,000.00 $2,000.00 $98.00 Waring. Tames ...... 5.000.00 5,000.00 245-00 Watson, Maria ...... 737-39 737-39 36.13 Wentworth, Oliver M...... 1 .000.00 1 ,000.00 49.00 Whittemore, George H...... 674.81 674.81 33-07 Wiggin, Mercy A ...... 3,800.00 3,800,00 186.20 Williams, Catharine ...... 500.00 500.00 2450 Wisler, Harry E...... 420.00 420.0p 20.58 Women’s Fund of the Adams Village Baptist Church...... 25.00 25.00 '1 .23 Wood, Mary Anna ...... 2.000.00 2 ,000.00 98.00 Woolverton, George A...... 5.000.00 5,000.00 245.00 Wormsley, Thomas ...... 5.000.00 5,000.00 245.00 Young, The Alwilda ...... 36309 36309 17.79 Total ...... $607,024.73 $9,768.37 $616,793-ïo $30,130.37

CLASS II

Permanent Funds— Unrestricted as to Income Restricted as to Investment Balance Balance Income May I, 1931 Increase April 30,1932 Earned Hawkes, A. G. $500.00 $500.00 $22.75 Leonard, Frank J. 4,995.00 4,995.00 I94.6I Liu Chiu Island .. 5,000.00 5,000.00 200.00 Manning, Rebecca 19,678-37 19 ,678.37 789.53 Merrick, Austin . 8,333-33 8,333-33 333.33 Reiff, William E. 17,577-68 17,577.68 907.91 5,Si3,953-89 *$18,867.50 ti5,673-98 5,510,760.37 276,480.50 Rolf, Andrew G. and Joseph Rolf Memorial 10,747.81 10,747.81 591.12 Total $5,580,786.08 *$3,i93.52 $5,577,592.56 $279,519.75

* Deduct—Loss on Bonds Sold, t Addition— Gain on Bonds Sold.

CLASS III

Permanent Funds—Restricted as to Income Unrestricted as to Investment Balance Balance Income May 1 , 1931 Increase April 30, 1932 Earned Abbott, Arminda P...... $1 ,407.00 $1,407.00 $68.94 Abbott, E. L., Endowment .... 14,138.39 14,138.39 692.79 African Medical Fund ...... 3,627.58 3,627.58 177.75 Allen, Julia I., Memorial ...... 1 ,200.00 1 .200.00 58.80 Allen, Walter K., Memorial .. 683.37 683.37 33-49 Ambler, J. V., Scholarship .... 300.00 300.00 14.70 Angus Scholarship ...... 500.00 500.00 24.50 Anthony, Kate J...... 10,000.00 10,000.00 490.00 Attleton, Salome Loomis ...... 4,287.50 4,287.50 210.09 Baker, Bessie Louise, Memorial 950.00 950.00 46.55 Bamford, Cornelia Elizabeth Rand ...... 200.00 2 0 0 .0 0 9.80 Bamford, Dr. William ...... 250.00 250.00 12.25 Berkely, Harris, Restricted Per­ manent ...... 1 ,000.00 1 , 0 0 0 .0 0 49.00 Bjshop, Nathan ...... 34,167.23 34, 167.23 1 ,674.23 Bixby, E. M...... 1 ,000.00 1, 0 0 0 .0 0 49.00 Bixby, Lydia M. Campbell .... 1 ,217.55 1,217.55 59.66 Blaisdell Memorial Baptist Church of Waterboro, Maine 2,500.00 2.500.00 122.50 Blake, Henry H...... 4 1,341.20 4 1,341.20 2,025.75 190 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

Balance Balance Income May i, 1931 Increase April 30,1932 Earned. Bond, Theo. P ...... $224.96 $224.96 $11.02 Bradford, Pearl S ...... 4,884.50 4,884.50 239.34 Bradford, Pearl S ...... 976.90 976.90 47-88 Bradford, Pearl S...... 976.90 976.90 47-87 Briggs, Elizabeth M. Falls ___ 5,491.75 5,49i-75 269.10 Brown, Jennie ...... 400.00 400.00 19.60 Brown, Jennie M...... 500.00 500.00 24.50 Bucknell, M. C...... 1 ,000.00 1 ,000.00 49.00 Bucknell, William, Bible Fund for the Ongole M issio n ...... 2,414-73 2,414.73 1 x8.32 Burman Theological Seminary.. 2 ,000.00 2,000.00 98.00 Byerly, A. J ...... 500.00 500.00 24-50 Calder, A. kussell...... 2,924.05 2,924.05 143-28 Campbell, Catherine J ...... 175-00 175.00 8-57 Carlton, Adora N., Memorial .. 700.00 700.00 34-30 Carpenter, C. H ...... 15 ,001.41 15 ,001.41 735-o8 Carpenter Scholarship ...... 7,600.22 7,600.22 372.42 Chandler, Helen Mar ...... 5,325*10 5,325.10 260.93 Cheney, Joel ...... 7.307.96 7,307.96 358.10 Clough Memorial Endowment . . 17,661.78 17,661.78 865.45 Riverside Baptist Sunday School, Toledo, Ohio ...... 250.00 250.00 12.25 Dr. W. W. Dawley ...... 250.00 250.00 12.25 Edmands Ward ...... 5,000,00 5,000.00 245.00 Greenwich Light Baptist Church ...... 250.00 250.00 12.25 Mills Ward ...... 3,000.00 3,000.00 147.00 Lucinda M. Swett ...... 1 ,000.00 1,000.00 49.00 Wm. B. Webb ...... 250.00 250.00 12.25 Clough Memorial Hospital in Memory of Julia A. Robinson and L. Florence Robinson .. 500.00 500.00 24.50 Colby, M. L ...... 1 ,000.00 1 ,000.00 49.00 Coles, Abraham, Memorial .... 1 ,100.00 1 ,100.00 53-90 Cross, Dr. and Mrs. Thos. J., Memorial ...... $1 ,000.00 1 ,000.00 25-64 Curtis, Delia ...... 200.00 200.00 9.80 Cushing, Josiah N., M em orial.. 5,025-00 5,025.00 246.23 Daniels, Susan A. L ...... 200.00 200.00 9.80 Dean, William ...... 1 ,000.00 1 ,000.00 49.00 Deat’s Memorial Children’s Home ...... 16,675.00 16,675.00 817.09 de Guiscard, Lucy Kerkham, Be­ nevolent Fund for Hospital Work ...... 1,800.00 1 ,800.00 88.20 Doane Missionary Cottage .... 8,800.00 8,800.00 431.21 Dunham, Sabra G...... 4,812.15 4,812.15 235.80 Dussman, Ada ...... 5,000.00 5,000.00 245.00 Eaches, Josiah P ...... 1 ,000.00 1,000.00 49.00 Eaton, Fidelia D...... 9,117.96 9,117.96 440.79 Eldredge, Truman ...... 1 ,000.00 1 ,000.00 49.00 Farington, Anna H ...... 2,453-07 2,453.07 120.20 Farley, Robert G...... 1 ,699.40 1,699.40 83.27 Faye, M ary Daniel ...... 8 1.17 8 1.17 3.98 Fessendon, Emma Smith, Me­ morial ...... 870.00 870.00 42.63 Fisk, Theron ...... 1 ,872.70 1,872.70 91.76 Fletcher, Ephraim and Jael, Me­ morial ...... 525-00 525.00 25-73 Floyd, Emmet H., Scholarship. 500.00 500.00 24.50 Fountain, Josephine A., Memo­ rial ...... 200.00 200.00 9.80 Fox, Daniel ...... 500.00 500.00 24.50 French Mission ...... 5,029.20 5,029.20 246.43 French, Dr. Winslow B ...... 8,487-33 ...... *. 8,487-33 415.89 Gates, I^uth L ...... l 60.00 160.00 7.84 Goodrich Scholarship ...... 100.00 100.00 4.90 Grieb, Jane G...... 704.23 704.23 34-51 Hall, Mrs. Alton L ...... 2 ,000.00 2 ,000.00 98.00 Harris, Judson Wade, Memorial 3,000.00 3,000.00 147.00 Hastings, Louise, Memorial Hospital ...... 6,000.00 6,000.00 294.00 Hastings, Wilson H ., Memorial 1 ,000.00 1 ,000.00 49.00 Hipp, Jr., John, Memorial .... 2,300.00 2,300.00 112.70 Hopkinson, Abbie S., Trust .. 25,000.00 25,000.00 1 ,225.02 REPORT OF THE TREASURER 191

Balance Balance I ncome May i, 1931 Increase April 30,1932 Earned Horton, Ruth E., Memorial . .. $250.00 $250.00 $12.25 Huizinga, Albert T., Memorial Scholarship Endowment .... 310.35 310.35 15-21 Insein Seminary Fund ...... 4.191-50 4,191.50 205.39 James, William ...... 800.00 800.00 39.20 Jenkins, Horace, Eastern China Mission Theological School .. 4.000.00 4,000.00 196.00 Jones, B. E ...... 500.00 500.00 24.50 Judson Scholarship ...... 538.75 538.75 26.40 Karen School Book ...... 10.000.00 10,000.00 490.00 Karen Seminary Endowment .. 2.000.00 2,000.00 98.00 Kelly Scholarship ...... 300.00 300.00 14.70 Killam, The Burton James, Memorial ...... 1 .000.00 1 ,000.00 49.00 Kimball, E dm un d...... 2 1 .000.00 2 1,000.00 1 ,029.01 Kurtz, Jacob ...... 2.000.00 2,000.00 98.00 Kurtz, Mary, Memorial ...... 300.00 300.00 14.70 Lamprey, Sarah A ...... 2,047.48 2,047.48 100.33 Lamprey, Sarah A ...... 367.66 367.66 18.02 Leeds, George T., Shan Scholar­ ship ...... 50.00 50.00 2.45 Le Fevre, George and Anna Herre, Memorial ...... 1 ,247.32 1 ,247.32 61.12 Legacy “ Y ” ...... 1 ,610.30 $600.00 2,210.30 80.28 Lindsley, Rachel K ...... 986.01 986.01 48.32 Loughridge, The ...... 15,277-70 15 ,277.70 293.29 McNaught Scripture ...... 80.00 80.00 3.92 Mah Hnin E ...... 1 ,780.29 1,780.29 87.24 Malcom,' Granville ...... 10.981.94 ...... 10,981.94 538.12 Merrill, S. Emma ...... 522.17 522.17 25.59 Miller, Amanda ...... 775-00 775.00 37.98 Missionaries’ Home ...... 10.00 10.00 .49 Moulton, Greenleaf, Memorial. 500.00 500.00 24.50 Munger, Isador G., Literature. 1 .000.00 1 ,000.00 49.00 Munn, Charlotte E ...... 747-18 747-iS 36.61 Nason, James ...... 7.096.11 7,096.11 347.71 Native Preachers ...... 2,369-38 2,369.38 116.10 Newell, Mary A. M...... 35,423.41 ...... 35,423.41 1 ,735.77 Nickerson, John H ...... 100.00 100.00 4.90 Olsen, Mr, and Mrs. Swan .... 907.29 ...... 907.2Q 44-46 Ongole College Endowment .... 48.104.00 48,104.00 2,357-13 Orphan Work on the Ongole Field Endowment ...... 2.500.00 1 ,000.00 3,500.00 151.36 Paige, Charles C...... 500.00 500.00 24.50 Parmenter, Addie J ...... 432.50 432.50 21.19 Permanent Fund ...... 89.318.95 89,318.95 4,376.69 Plumber Fund ...... 100.00 100.00 4.90 Price, J. D., Scholarship ...... 538.75 538.75 26.40 Putnam, B., Memorial ...... 2.450.00 2,450.00 120.05 Ouimby, Alida ...... 1,404.32 1 ,404.32 40-23 Ramapatnam Seminary ...... 26,266.59 ...... 2 6,266.59 1 ,287.08 Rangoon Baptist College En­ dowment ...... 1 .21».15 1 ,219.15 59-74 Rangoon College ...... 1 .000.00 1 ,000.00 49.00 Reea, C. Howard, Memorial .. 4.00.00 400.00 19.60 Roberts, Elizabeth ...... 4.000.00 4,000.00 196.00 Rogers, Alexander W ...... 4.000.00 4,000.00 196.00 Ross, William E., Trust ...... 700.00 700.00 34-30 Rowland, Prusia ...... 263.95 263.95 12.93 Sargent, Edward P., Memorial. 6,406.07 6,406.07 313.90 Sawtelle, Elizabeth S ...... 200.00 200.00 9.80 Schaefer, Sarah E ...... 500.00 500.00 24.50 Shady Dell ...... 10.850.00 10,850.00 531.66 Sherman, George J ...... 1 .000.00 1 ,000.00 49.00 Smith, Samuel F ...... 7,514-32 7,514.32 368.21 Stevenson, Cora A ...... 200.00 200.00 9.80 Stubbert, John R., Scholarship. 1 .000.00 1 ,000.00 49.00 Swart, John A ...... 4.6 11.15 4,6 11.15 225.95 Tage, James M...... 790.35 790.35 38.73 Thompson, Rachel, Memorial .. 1 .000.00 1 ,000.00 49.00 Toungoo Karen Normal School. 3.306.11 3,306.11 162.00 Townsend, Annie ...... 1 .200.00 1 ,200.00 58.80 True, E ...... 380.00 380.00 18.62 Tull Memorial ...... 250.00 250.00 12.25 Van Eps, A. Y ...... 4,810.82 4,810.82 235.73 192 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

Balance Balance Income May i, 1931 Increase April 30,1932 Earned Wade Scholarship ...... $1 ,626.15 $1 ,626.15 $79.69 W&rne, Joseph A...... 17,662.13 17,662.13 865.46 Warner, Ellen J...... 1 ,277.99 1 ,277.99 62.62 Watrous, Prudence ...... 500.00 500.00 24.50 Weed, John ...... $2,500.00 2,500.00 68.47 Wells, Susan E. .. .■...... 2,000.00 2,000.00 98.00 West, Rev. E. W ...... 252.58 ' 252.58 12.38 Wetherby, Zillah U...... ' 2,500.00 2,500.00 122.50 White, Mrs. Ellen M...... 1 ,000.00 1 ,000.00 49.00 Whiting, Martha ...... _...... 1 ,167.50 1,167.50 57-22 Wilson, Robert, and Family . . . 250.00 250.00 12.25 Woodworth, Mrs. Kate L...... 1,000.00 1 ,000.00 38.80 Total ...... $694,388.49 $22,782.02 $717,170.51 $34,522.18

CLASS IV

Permanent Funds— Restricted as to Income Restricted as to Investment Balance Balance Income May I, 1931 Increase April 30,1932 Earned Coles and Ackerman Memorial. $20,000.00 $800.00 Coles, Emily S., Dormitory ... 810.00 50.00 Coles, Emily S., Memorial . . . 17 1 ,164.13 9,333.85 Colver, Charles K., Memorial Student Aid and Book ...... 1,500.00 82.50 Pierce, Caroline, Memorial ... 1 1 2 ,300.67 ...... 112 ,300.67 5.336.52 Rogers, Alexander W...... 6,000.00 390.00 Treat, The M. C...... 448,300.00 89,642.56 Ward Trust Fund ...... 4,000.00 160.00 Warne, Joseph A...... 1 ,050.00 60.61 $765,124.80 SCHEDULE VII

DESIGNATED TEMPORARY FUNDS

Income Balance Balance Earned to May 1, 1931 Increase Decrease April 30,1932 April 30,1932 EOT F H TREASURER THE OF REPORT 1 . FOR LAND, BUILDINGS, EQUIPMENT, AND MAINTENANCE MISSION PROPERTY $2,050.00 $61.50 $2,111.50 $61.50 2,055.00 46.01 $1,597.00 504.01 46.01 4,048.97 121.44 4,170.41 121.44 52,527.04 19,615.77 72,142.81 1,840.77 5,101.91 9,528.59 6,780.19 7,850.31 154.31 Doane, Fannie, Addition ------___ ------4,400.00 4,400.00 Equipment Memorial Church Building, Kakchieh, Sw atow ______1,004.85 79.59 1,084.44 Inland Sea Church Edifice ...... __...... — ------1,160.50 34.80 ~Î,Î95~3Ô ...... 34!80 Japan Reconstruction: Undesignated . . . ------24,238.94 2,019.05 4,736.04 21,521.96 ...... Mabie Memorial Educational Loan, Special Account------15,105.32 291.01 15,396.33 Judson College: 5a3.11 583 11 1,591.35 1,591.35 Judson Fund: American Baptist Foreign Mission Society: Undesigna'ted ______— ...... — 2,900.53 500.00 3,406.53 *89.64 Burma: Building lor Bukers, Mong M on g------1,255.72 1,255.72 *37.r»5 487.23 ...... 75~ÔÔ ...... 562*23 4,727.27 272.73 5,000.00 «147.06 378.20 378.20 2.00 2.00 Judson College: 50.00 50.00 40.000.00 15,000.00 25,000.00 *975.00 In Memory of Mrs. Julia Wheeler______101.00 ___ _ _ 101.00 ______SCHEDULE VII S DESIGNATED TEMPORARY FUNDS

Income > Balance Balance Earned to g May 1,1931 Increase Decrease April 80,1932 April 30,1032 M M o > Assam: a Jorhat Hospital Equipment ______$5,922.91 $2,600.00 $3,322.91 *$119.10 Merrill Memorial Church, N ow gong...... w $750.86 760.86 > New High School at Kohima______6,000.00 6,000.00 *180.00 hj Water System for Leper Colony at Eangpokpi____ 300.00 300.00 H South India: Teachers’ Training School, Cum bum ...... 1,007.55 112.60 1,120.05 2,000.00 1 ,000.00 1 ,000.00 *17.50 Belgian Congo: Christian Center at Matadi ______160.00 160.00 *4.80 Church and Christian Community Center at Leopoldville___II._ 145.02 145.02 Motor Boat for Congo ______. . __ 2,550.00 2.560.00 *76.50 Electric Plant for Banza Manteke______2,000.00 2,000.00 1,500.00 2.600.00 *76.25 New Hospital Buildings at Banza Manteke______783.74 783.74 *23.49 Upkeep of Motor Boat at T on d o...... 600.00 600.00 *18.00 Philippine Island^: Alterations on Mission Bungalow at H ollo______50.00 50.00 *1.50 Central Philippine C ollege...... _...... 100.00 m o o New Buildings at Mission Hospital at Iloilo ...... 125.00 2,355.00 2,480.00 Woodlawn Cottage, Central Philippine College...... 417.38 417.38 *12.51 Capiz Hospital ...... T.ooäöö 1 ,000.00 Europe: European Theological Seminary, E stonia______1,073.85 7,407.81 8,481.66 Klnkanda Chapel Fund ...... 117.90 117.90 Ladies of the First Baptist Church of Colorado Springs, Colorado, Motor Boat Fund ______1,450.12 43.50 1,493.62 48.50 Leopoldville Chapel Fund______164.40 164.40 4.00 Lesher, C. B., Sterilizer in Kityang H ospital_____ 500.00 . 515.00 600.00 515.00 15.00 Lesher, C. B„ Specifics for Hospital, House, and Sterilizer...... 1,863.22 55.89 1,919.11 55.89

Matadi Land Sale ______$798.38 Medical Equipment, Account of H. M. F reas______166.92 $171.90 Osterholm, Dr. A. 0. E., Vanga Hospital and Medical U nit------96.19 96.19 Phillips Memorial Church ------—...... - ...... 2,901.78 84.51 84.51 2,901.78 84.51 Preston Institute ...... 15,813.17 474.39 16,287.56 474.39 Preston Land Account In Miscellaneous Ledger, Balances of L. C— 2,366.55 404.00 1,962.55 27.69 Property Loan Fund ______~~9,236"82 48,564.21 48,830.05 8,970.98 Property Title Account ______669.56 669.56 Purchase of Motor Boat at Tondo — ...... —...... — 1,079.47 1,079.47 Purchase of Land for Kltyang H ospital______— 1,007.50 1,007.50 Purchase of Land for West China University and Erection of Resi­ dence and D orm itory ______223.25 223.25 4.32 Quinton, Amelia S., House for Normal School, Rangoon, Burm a----- 323.68 323.68 Reserve for Mission Property ______39,658.45 Ï4',Ô74'37 27,268.80 ‘26',464'Ö2 Rue de Lille Property ...... - ...... 30,000.00 30,000.00 Rutherford, Gertrude Preston, Memorial School in South In d ia ------1,098.18 32.94 1,131.12 82.94 Sale of Bhimpore Bungalow______6,709.90 864.73 4,845.17 93.40 Sale of Boats, C o n g o ...... 911.66 911.66 Screening Mission Residences in Philippines, Cost o f ------... 1,463.31 102.00 ” Î,36Ï"3Î Suifu Hospital Equipment A ccount ...... - ...... 80.15 69.85 10.30 .15 Temporary Fund, Telugu Industrial School ...... 8,281.06 71.05 7.708.82 643.29 71.05 Wakeman, A. V. ______92.39 92.39 Weston Memorial Dormitory Fund o f the Central Philippine College. 364.38 .25 373~55

Total $267,456.77 $156,193.93 $161,999.66 $261,651.04 $4,950.55

2. FOR MISSION WORK Baker, J. M., Ongole Village School F u n d ______$3,267.22 $98.01 $3,365.23 $98.01 Barnes, Mrs. Arthur J . ______398.45 11.94 . 410.39 11.94 Bible Account, Income Nathan B ishop------446.60 1,744.39 $446.60 1,744.39 4.35 Chandler, Helen Mar, Income A ccount______281.69 275.54 271.19 286.04 4.35 Dyer, V. W., for Purchase of Chevrolet______427.64 12.81 440.35 12.81 Gift to George J. Geis for New Work among Kachins 2,060.00 2,060.00 60.00 Hutton, Mrs., Legacy for Mikir Boys in Jorh a t_____ 498.71 24.57 31.94 491.34 24.57 Judson: Fund: Burma: Mong Mong ...... 1,663.23 50.00 1,713.23 Mong Mong, Native Worker ____ — 90.00 90.00 Evangelistic Literature ______800.00 800.00 *24.00 VO un SCHEDULE VII 53 On DESIGNATED TEMPORARY FUNDS MEIA ATS FRIN ISO SCEY EOT F H TREASURER E R U S A E R T THE OF REPORT SOCIETY MISSION FOREIGN BAPTIST ERICAN AM Income Balance Balance Earned to May 1 , 1931 Increase Decrease April 80, 1932 April 30,1932

Congo: Missionary Work at Vanga ...... $50.00 $50.00 Printing and Distribution of Bibles in Russia_____ 25.00 $25.00 •$0.75 Karen School Book Fund Incom e___ 1,158.96 $536.48 King, Dr. J. C., Specifics______150.72 Lord, J. D. ______150.72 .72 9,274.82 589.70 282.79 Mission Work Refunds ______G 713 27 Shanghai College Reserve ______5,000.00 5,000.00 Telford, J. H., for purchase of Radio O u tfit...... 149.63 149 63 Treat Fund in Japan Mission Treasurer’s H ands______184.79 184 79 Work in France, Rue de Lille Property 2,504.63 2,058.77 445.86 Work in Russia______4,170.75 3,870.75 300.00

Total ...... ipOo ( ,7y 1

3. FOR SUPPORT OF MISSIONARIES j French, Dr. Winslow B., Income A ccount_____ $442.04 §400.00 • $42.04 $9.80 Judson Fund: South India: New Missionary to South India, Edwin Erickson Account $1,274.10 460.00 2,003.75 t269.65 *5.95 Bengal: Station Worker, George B. H arris...... 13,386.80 1,633.30 +5,020.19 * J130.15 West China: New Missionary to West China, M. 0. Brininstool ...... 1,264.31 750.00 1,905.73 Medical Missionary to West China, J. L en ox______741 67 3,323.93 Medical Missionary to Ningpo, R. E. Stannard __ +3,266.50 989.60 * t125.89

Japan: t$625.58 $180.00 $3,657.40 t$4,103.04 *t$53.37 Congo: New Missionary at Mnanza, TT. Sndergren 191.11 2,600.00 1,358.33 1,432.78 *5.73 Salary, Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Armstrong______2,439.00 616.00 1,585.00 1,470.00 *52.52 335.00 100.00 235.00 *7.05 225.00 225.00 6,160. ¡¿9 2,726.37 3,439.92 *130.19 15,000.00 15,000.00 *450.00 250.00 250.00 Support of North Shore Church Missionaries ______244.51 2,434.19 +2,189.68 * i35.16 9,750.00 250.00 10,000.00 *300.00 923.34 25.39 916.67 32.06 25.39 426.00 1,876.33 3,535.28 U,232.95 15.11 15.11 .11 15.11 15.11 .11 Treat, M. C., Missionary Fund, Balance of Incom e______28,949.84 1,335.88 7,286.48 22,999.24 851.43 810.00 810.00

Total . ______$60,901.20 $13,689.39 $34,638.48 $89,952.11 $1,518.40

4. OTHER OBJECTS Allen, Ida M ...... - ...... $4,178.40 $167.12 $178.40 $4,167.12 $167.12 9,561.15 282.67 1,650.67 8,193.15 282.67 3,567.24 107.01 3,674.25 107.01 49.80 7.00 42.80 1.42 51,613.38 1,578.43 8,641.63 47,550.18 1,563.84 489.29 14.67 503.96 14.67 5,097.79 8,060.86 10,000.00 3,758.65 1,885.61 504.71 2,390.32 2,000.00 80.00 80.00 2,000.00 T180.00 217.97 217.97 2,049.21 61.47 2,110.68 61.47 2,483.84 2,483.84 50.00 50.00 Judson Fund: 5,176.11 2,942.67 344.57 7,774.21 *155.37 19,707.14 6,162.77 16,000.00 9,869.91 Kimball, Ella F ...... 1,012.50 51.50 1,064.00 51.50 3,007.99 322.28 . 3,330.27 90.21 SCHEDULE VII £ ‘ oo DESIGNATED TEMPORARY FUNDS MEIA BPIT OEG MSIN ETY T IE C O S MISSION FOREIGN BAPTIST ERICAN AM Income Balance Balance Earned to May 1,1931 Increase Decrease April 30,1932 April 30,1932

Ortegas, Mr. R______$292.14 $8.76 $300.90 $8.76 Peaver, Henry A . ______12,500.00 636.25 $636.25 12,500.00 1636.25 Whitney, Alfred B. and Theo. E . ______2,064.11 2,064.11 Wisler, Charles F. ______5,000.00 254.50 254.50 5,000.00 1254.50

Total ______. $132,839.76 $23,999.58 $40,544.83 $116,294.51 $3,531.34

Additions to Designated Temporary Funds (net profits from Sales o f Investments) ______$1,459.12 $1,133.50 * $325.62

Grand Total ______$494,577.35 $205,761.56 $255,109.02 $445,229.89 $10,638.08

* Income credited under “ Other Objects ” to “ Judson Fund Income earned on Projects held awaiting Release.” t Deductions. X Charge due to Overdraft. II Income earned credited to “ Regular Donations.” REPORT OF THE TREASURER 1 9 9

SCHEDULE VIII

A

Rates of Income Earned I. Investments of Permanent Funds, Unrestricted as to Investment: Average Investment for the Y e a r ...... $i,33i.254-5° Income Earned during the Year ...... 64,652.55 Rate of Income Earned ...... 4-85% II. General Investments of Annuity Funds: Average Investments for the Year ...... $1,624,077.48 Income Earned during the Year ...... 78,082.22 Rate of Income E arned...... 4.80%

B

Reserve for General Annuity Agreements Annuity Reserve May 1 , 1931 ...... $1 ,653,064.69 New Agreements written to April 30, 1932 ...... 66,067.44 Adjustments credited to Reserve ...... 1.70

$1,719,133.83 Agreements Matured to April 30, 1932 ...... $50,205.12 Adjustments chargeable against Reserve ...... 2,466.23 52,671.35

$1 ,666,462.48 Annuity Payments ...... $140,715.25 Annuity Investment In com e...... 78,082.22 62,633.03

Balance Reserve April 30, 1932 ...... $1 ,603,829.45

c Matured Annuity Reserve Reserve for the Equalization of Matured Annuities, May 1 , 1931 ...... $80,000.00 Annuity Agreements Matured to April 30, 1 9 3 2 ...... $50,205.12 Special Trust Agreements Matured to April 30, 1 9 3 2 ...... 1,834.72 ------52,039-84 Income on Invested Rfeserve ...... 3,086.42

$135,126.26 Less Special Charges against Reserve ...... 5.309-16

$129,8 17-1 ° Special Transfer to Budget In com e...... $30,000.00 Transferred to Budget Income ...... 35,000.00 Agreements Designated for Permanent Funds ...... 27,024.68 92,024.68

Balance Reserve April 30, 1932 $37,792-42 200 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

D

Legacy Equalization Reserve Reserve for the Equalization of Income from Legacies, May i, 1931 ...... $ 1 9 3 ,0 5 4 -6 5 Legacies Received to April 30, 1 9 3 2 ...... $70,777-77 Income on Invested Reserve ...... 8,217.41 ------78,995-18

$272,049.83 Less Special Charges against Reserve 12,007.09

$260,042.74 Transferred to Budget Income ...... $110 ,000.00 Legacies designated for Permanent Funds 1,454-32 Legacies designated for Specific Purposes 17 ,984-69 ------129,439.01

Balance Reserve April 30, 1932 ...... $130,603.73

E

Legacy and Annuity Reserve Assets Investments, less Reserve $1 ,903.95 ...... $163,013.85 Advance on Account of Prospective Funds ...... 250.49 Uninvested Cash ...... 5,131.8 1

$168,396.15

Balance Reserve for Equalization of Income from Matured Annuities, April 30, 1932 ...... $37,792.42 Balance of Reserve for Equalization of Income from Legacies, April 30, 1932 ...... 130,603.73

$168,396.15 SCHEDULE IX

GENERAL SUMMARY OF INVESTMENTS OF PERMANENT FUNDS

Investments of Permanent Funds Investments of Permanent Funds Unrestricted as to Investment Restricted as to Investment

Total Total Book Value Market Value Book Value Market Value Book Value Market Value EOT F H TREASURER E R U S A E R T THE OF REPORT

Railroad Bonds ______. $317,833.99 $231,948.13 $2,001,159.96 $1,320,915.00 $2,318,993.95 $1,552,863.13 Traction Bonds ...... 19,324.17 16,643.75 19,324.17 10,643.75 Electric, Gas, and Water B onds______496,631.54 456,345.05 1,084,801.77 1,146,995.51 1,581,433.31 1,603,340.56 Telephone and Telegraph B on d s______134,753.00 128,912.50 298,730.33 288,597.50 < 433,483.33 417,510.00 District, Government, Municipal, and State Bonds ...... 69,418.65 57,026.25 71,760.94 85,475.00 141,179.59 142,501.25 United States Liberty B onds______5,100.00 5,179.94 5,100.00 5,179.94 Industrial B on d s...... 101,727.44 76,322.50 1,446,873.69 1,468,717.50 1,548,601.13 1,545,040.00 Sundry Bonds ______894.00 670.50 3,500.00 3,500.00 4,394.00 4,170.50 Notes Secured by Real Estate, Mortgage, and Trust Deeds...... 206,931.05 206,931.05 645,288.79 645,288.79 852,219.84 852,219.84 Stocks ______4,660.84 4,004.00 729,490.75 547,742.38 734,151.59 551,746.38 Real Estate . ... ______13,333.33 13,333.33 13,333.33 13,333.33 Miscellaneous ...... 600.66 600.66 600.66 600.66

Totals ...... $1,352,174.68 $1,178,803.73 $6,300,640.22 $5,526,345.61 $7,652,814.90 86,705,149,34 202 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

SCHEDULE IX

INVESTMENTS OF PERMANENT FUNDS—UNRESTRICTED AS TO INVESTMENT

Description in a ry Book Value Market Value Railroad Bonds ...... $317 ,833.99 $231,948-13 Traction Bonds ...... 19,324-17 1 6 ,643.75 Electric, Gas, and W ater Bonds ...... 496,631.54 456,345-05 Telephone and Telegraph Bonds ...... 134,753-00 1 2 8 ,9 1 2 .5 0 District, Government, Municipal, and State Bonds ...... 69,418.65 5 7 ,0 2 6 .2 5 Industrial Bonds ...... 1 0 1 ,7 2 7 .4 4 7 6 ,3 2 2 .5 0 Sundry Bonds ...... 894-00 670.50

$1 ,140,582.79 $967,868.68 Notes Secured by Real Estate, Mortgages, and Trust Deeds 206,931.05 206,931.05 Stocks ...... 4,660.84 • 4 ,0 0 4 .0 0 $1 ,352,174.68 $1 , 178,803.73 Railroad Bonds Book Market Par Value Description Rate Maturity V ahi e Value $15,000 Baltimore & Ohio R. R., ist Mtg...... 4 ’ s July i, 1948 $13,90500 $10,875.00 2,000 Bangor & Aroostook R. R. Co., ist Mtg. Washburn Ext...... 5’s Aug. i, 1939 1 ,988.02 1 .420.00 10,000 Big Sandy R. R., ist Mtg...... 4’s June i , 1944 9,853.62 8.400.00 10,000 Boston & Albany R. R. Co., Improve­ ment of 19 13 ...... 5’s July i, 1938 10,038.81 9,200.00 15,000 The Canada Southern Rwy. Co., Cons. Gold Series “ A ” ...... 5’s Oct. i, 1962 15 ,648.67 1 1 ,550.00 10,000 Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R. R. Co., 111. Div. Mtg...... 4’s July i, 1949 9,756.45 8 ,0 3 7 .5 0 3,000 Chicago & Eastern Illinois R. R. Co., ist Cons...... 6’s Oct. i, 1934 2,929.68 1,507-50 10,000 Chicago, Indiana & Southern R. R., Gold of 1906 . . . r...... 4’s Jan. i, 1956 9,720.57 7 ,0 0 0 .0 0 10,000 Chicago & Western Indiana R. R., Cons. 50 Yr. Gold ...... 4’s July i, 1952 9,244-52 7,050.00 3,000 The Cincinnati, Indianapolis & Western R. R., ist 50 Yr. G o ld ...... 5’s Nov. i, 1965 3,000.00 1 ,800.00 10,000 Cleveland Terminal & Valley R. R. Co., ist Gold ...... 4’s Nov. i, 1995 9,957-15 7,000.00 10,000 Erie R. R., Prior Lien Gold ...... 4 ’ s Jan. 1 , 1996 10,000.00 6,612.50 10,000 Florida East Coast Rwy. Co., ist & Ref. Gold Series “ A ” ...... 5’s Sept. i, 1974 9,800.00 400.00 5,000 Housatonic R. R., Cons. G o ld ...... 5’s Nov. i, 1937 5,016.36 4,400.00 10,000 Illinois Central R. R. Co., St. Louis Div. & Terminal ist Mtg. Gold ...... 3 Vi ’s July i, 1951 8,136.52 6,000.00 5,000 Kansas City Terminal Rwy. Co., ist Mtg. G o ld ...... 4’s Jan. 1 , i 960 4,511.08 4,200.00 5,000 Lehigh & New York R. R. Co., ist Gold 4’s Sept. i. 1945 4,986.04 4,150.00 12,000 Louisville & Jefferson Bridge Co., Gold 4 s Mar. i, 1945 1 1 ,945.11 8,865.00 5,000 Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Rwy. Co., 50 Yr. Gold ...... 5’s July i, 1938 4,962.80 1 ,100.00 5,000 Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Rwy. Co., 50 Yr. Gold ist Cons. Mtg. 4’s Jan. i, 1938 4,847.85 2,100.00 5,000 Missouri-Kansas-Texas R. R. Co., Prior Lien _M'tg. Series “ A ” ...... 5’s Jan. i, 1962 2 ,673.60 2,650.00 5,000 Missouri-Kansas-Texas R. R. Co., Prior Lien Mtg. Series “ B ” ...... 4’s Jan. i, 1962 2,673.60 2,750.00 20,000 Missouri Pacific R. R. Co., Gen. Mtg. Gold ...... 4’s Mar. i, 1975 1 1 ,062.79 3,000.00 10,000 New York Central & Hudson River R. R. Co., Lake Shore Coll...... 3 ^2’s Feb. i, 1998 7.711-85 6,525.00 10,000 New York, New Haven & Hartford R. R., Deb...... 4’s July i, 1955 9,891.49 5,300.00 5,500 Northern Pacific Rwy. Co., Prior Lien Rwy. & Land Grant Gold ...... 4’s Jan. i, 1997 4,688.75 4,379-38 REPORT OF THE TREASURER 2 0 3

Book Market Par Value Description Rate Maturity Value Value $7,000 Northern Pacific Rwy. Co., Ref. & Impt. Sériés “ B ” ...... 6’s July 1, 2047 $7,007.24 $4,795-00 14.000 Northern Pacific Rwy. Co., Gen. Lien Rwy. & Land G rant...... 3’s Jan. I , 2047 9 ,1 7 3 - 8 4 8,015.00 10.000 Oregon-Washington R. R. & Navigation Co., ist & Ref. Mtg. Sériés “ A ” ...... 4’s Jan. 1, 1961 8,863-55 7,300.00 15.000 Pennsylvania R. R. Co., Gen. Mtg. Gold Sériés “A” ...... 4^ ’s June I, 196s 14, 175-55 10,950.00 10.000 St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Rwy. Co., Cons. Mte. Gold ...... 454’s Ju ly I , 1 9 3 3 9,846.18 9,412.50 5.000 Southern Rwy. Co., Development & Gen. Mtg. Gold Sériés “ A ” ...... 4 ’s Apr. I, 1956 4,385.00 1,300.00 ■5,000 Terminal R. R. Assoc. of St. Louis, ist Mtg ...... 4 î 4 ’ s Oct. I, 1939 5 ,0 1 6 .2 8 4,625.00 1.000 Texas & Pacific Rwy. Co., Gen. & Ref. Mtg. Gold Series “ B ” ...... 5’s Apr. I, 1977 992.50 420.00 4.000 Toledo & Ohio Central Rwy. Co., ist Mtg. 50 Yr. G o ld ...... S’s . Ju ly I , I 9 3 S 3,000.00 3,400.00 15.000 Toledo Term. R. R. Co., ist Mtg...... 4^2 S Nov. I, 1957 15,000.00 10.950.00 20.000 Union Term, Dallas, i s t ...... s’s,, Apr. I , 1 9 4 2 20,640.92 18.100.00 10.000 Washington Terminal Co., ist Gold .... ZV?, s Feb. I , 1 9 4 5 9 ,4 2 5 -0 3 7,737-50 1.000 West Shore R. R. Co., Guar, ist Mtg. 4 s Jan. I, 2361 821.25 671.25 10.000 West Shore R. R. Co., Guar, ist Mtg. Registered ...... 4’s Jan. I , 2361 6,523.82 6,500.00 5.000 Wisconsin Central Rwy. Co., ist Gen. Mtg. G o ld ...... 4’s Ju ly I , 1 9 4 9 4,012.50 1,500.00

$317,833.99 $231,948.13 Bonds $4,250 Certificate of Deposit Chicago Rwys. Co., ist 20 Yr. Gold ...... 5 ’ s Feb. I , 1927 $4,237.92 $1,700.00 15,000 Virginia Rwy. & Power Co., ist & Ref. 5’s Ju ly ï , 1 9 3 4 15,086.25 14,943-75

$19,324.17 $16,643-7; d Water Bonds

$10,000 Appalachian Power Co., ist Mtg. S. F. 5 's June I , 1941 $9,875.00 $9,725.00 10.000 Blackstone Valley Gas & Electric Co., ist & Gen. Mtg...... 5 ’ s Jan. 1» 1 9 3 9 10,000.00 10,012.50 10.000 Brooklyn Edison Co., Inc. Gen. Mtg. Gold Series “ A ” ...... 5’s Jan. I , 1949 10,000.00 10,375-00 10.000 Carolina Power & Light Co., ist & Ref. 5’s Apr. I, 1956 10,142.60 7,800.00 25.000 Central Maine Power Co., ist & Gen. S’s Ju ly I , 1 9 5 5 24,875.00 21,875.00 20.000 Central Vermont Public Service, ist & Ref...... 5’s Oct. ï , 1959 19,400.00 16,000.00 5.000 Citizens Gas Co. of Indianapolis, ist & 5’s Ju ly I , 1942 4,801.67 4,600.00 15.000 S ’ s Apr. I, 1936 15,009.36 14,550.00 5.000 The Connecticut Power Co., ist & Cons. Mtg...... S’s Apr. I, 1963 4,820.13 5,075-00 10.000 Consolidated Gas, Electric Light & Power Co., Gen. M'tg. 30 Yr. Gold ...... 4 ^ ’ s Feb. 14, 1935 9,60336 10,000.00 10.000 Consumers Power Co., ist Lien & Unify­ ing Mtg...... 4^2’s Nov. 1, 1958 9,770.00 9,487-50 5.000 Consumers Power Co., ist Lien & Ref. S’s Jan. I, 1936 4,784.63 5,081.25 10.000 Dallas Power & Light Co., Series “ C ” ist ...... 5’s July I , 1 9 5 2 9,800.00 9,200.00 10.000 Detroit Edison Co., Gen. & Ref. M'tg. 5’s June I , 1 9 5 5 9.950.00 10,050.00 10,000 Great Western Power Co., ist S. F ...... 5’s Ju ly ï, 1946 9.925.00 9,700.00 5.000 Indianapolis Gas Co., ist Cons. Mtg. Gold ...... 5’s Apr. I , 1 9 5 2 4,864.00 4,250.00 Jersey Central Power & Light Co., ist 4 /4 ’ s June I , 1961 24,875-00 20,187.50 15.000 4 ^ ’s M ay I , 1978 14,025.00 11,700.00 10.000 Minnesota Power & Light Co., ist & Ref. Gold ...... S’s June I , 1 9 5 5 9,700.00 8,300.00 25,000 Mississippi River Power Co., ist Mtg. S’s Jan. I , 1 9 5 1 24,850.00 ^3,375-00 204 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

Book Market Par Value Description Rate Maturity Value Value $35,000 Niagara, Lockport & Ontario Power Co., ist Mtg. & Ref. Series “ A ” Gold .... 5’s Apr. 1 » 1955 $35,990.34 $33,075-00 40.000 Northern Indiana Public Service Co., ist & Ref. Gold Series “ D ” ...... 5’s Sept. I, 1969 37,500.00 30,400.00 15.000 Penn-Ohio Power & Light Co., Series “ A ” ist & Ref...... 5 ^ ’s I. 1954 14 ,850.00 13 .950.00 15.000 Philadelphia Electric Co...... s S& I, 1967 15 .027-57 14.850.00 223 Philadelphia Suburban Counties Gas & Elee. Co...... 4 ^ ’s May I. 1957 221.63 213.80 10.000 Public Service Electric & Gas Co., ist & Ref...... 4 ^ ’s Feb. I, 1970 9,525.00 9,725.00 25.000 Public Service Electric & Gas Co., ist & Ref. Mtg...... 4j i ’s Dec. I, 1967 24,175.00 24,437.50 25.000 Public Service Co. of Northern Illinois, ist Lien & Ref. Mtg...... 4 ^ ’s Apr. I, 1981 24,312.50 19,687.50 5.000 Seattle Electric Co...... 5 s Mar. I, 1939 4,972.60 3,400.00 52.000 Southern California Edison, Ref. Mtg. . 5’s June I. 1954 50,700.00 50,960.00 10.000 United Electric Co. of N. J., ist Mtg. Gold ...... 4’s June I , 1949 8,876.15 9,200.00 25.000 Yadkin River Power Co., ist Mtg. Gold 30 Yr...... 5’s »Apr. I , 1941 25,700.00 23,062.50 4.000 The West Penn Electric Co., Gold Deb. 5’s Apr. I, 2030 3,710.00 2,040.00 $496,631.54 $456,345-05 elegraph Bonds $31,000 American Telephone & Telegraph Co. .. 5’s Feb. I, 1965 $30,782.50 $30,612.50 15.000 Bell Telephone Co. of Canada, ist Mtg. Gold Series “ A ” ...... 5’s Mar. I, 1955 14,775-00 13 ,200.00 15.000 Bell Telephone Co. of Canada, ist Series “B” ...... 5’s June I, 1957 15 ,279-30 13 ,200.00 10.000 Cumberland Telephone & Telegraph Co., 25 Yr. ist & Gen...... 5’s Jan. I, 1937 10,005.19 10,175.00 5.000 New England Telephone & Telegraph Co., ist Mtg. 30 Yr. Gold Series “ A ” 5’s June I, 1952 4,908.54 5,175-00 10.000 New England Telephone & Telegraph Co. 4 ^ ’s May I, 1961 9,860.00 9,750.00 15.000 New York Telephone Co., ist & Gen. Mtg. Gold S. F...... 4 ^ ’s Nov. I , 1 9 3 9 14.839.34 15,000.00 5.000 Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co., 30 Yr. ist Mtg...... 5’s Jan. I, 1941 4,959.o8 5,100.00 20.000 Southwestern Bell Telephone Co., ist & Ref. Mtg. Gold Series “ A ” ...... 5’s Feb. I, 1954 19,860.00 20,600.00 10.000 Western Union Telegraph Co., Funding 4Î4’ s May I, 1950 9.484.05 6,100.00 $134.753-00 $128,912.50 I Bonds $23,000 5H’s Aug. I, 1955 $23,057-00 $15 ,640.00 1 0 ,0 0 0 City of Knoxville, Third Creek Sewer, 1912 ...... 4H ’s June 15, 1943 10,000.00 8,200.00 15.000 5 s/, July I, 1954 15,835.11 13.29375 6,000 SŸ2 s Dec. I, 1934 6,000.00 5,992.50 10.000 Omaha Water Works of the City of Omaha ...... 4 ^ ’s Dec. 15 . 1941 10,089.96 10, 100.00 The Toronto Harbour Commissioners, 4 ^ ’s Sept. I, 1953 4,436.58 3,800.00 $69,418.65 $57,026.25 Industrial Bonds $25,000 American Rolling Mill Co., S. F. Gold Deb...... 5’s Jan. I , 1948 $24,812.50 $9,250.00 10,000 Chicago Junction Rwys. & Union Stock yards Co., Ref. Mtg. & Coll. Tr. . . . 4’s Apr. I , 1940 9,038.41 7,900.00 1,000 Computing, Tabulating, Recording Co 30 Yr. S. F. Gold ...... 6’s July I , 1941 841-34 1,047-50 15.000 Illinois Steel Co., Deb. Gold ...... 4 ^ ’s Apr. I , 1940 14,251.17 X4,775-oo 25.000 Standard Oil Co. of New York, 25 Yr Deb...... 4% ’s Dec. 15, 1951 23,937-50 22,750.00 9,000 Swift & Company, ist Mtg. S. F. Gold 5’s July 1. 1944 8,904.02 9,000.00 20,000 Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., ist Mtg S. F. Gold Series “ A ” ...... 5’s Jan. I . 1978 19,942.50 11,600.00

$101,727.44 $76,322.50 REPORT OF THE TREASURER 2 0 5

Sundry Bonds Market Par Value Description Rate Maturity Value Value $1,500 Trustees Certificate of Deposit for Iowa Loan & Trust Co., Series 126 Deb. .. 5’s Apr. 1 , 1924-29 $894-00 $670.50

Mortgages Guaranteed Mortgages ...... $200,635.70 $200,635.70 Farm Mortgages ...... 6,295.35 6,295-35 $206,931.05 $206,931.05 Stocks $500 City Real Estate Trustees, Chicago ...... $300.00 Shares 154 First National Bank of Boston ...... 4,360.84 $4,004.00

$4,660.84 $4,004.00

SCHEDULE IX

INVESTMENTS OF PERMANENT FUNDS—RESTRICTED AS TO INVESTMENT

Description Book Value Market Value Railroad Bonds ...... $2,001,159.96 $1 ,320,915.00 Electric, Gas, and W ater Bonds ...... 1,084,801.77 1 ,146,995.51 Telephone and Telegraph Bonds ...... 298,730.33 288,597-50 Municipal Bonds ...... 7 1,760.94 85,475.00 United States Liberty Bonds ...... 5,100.00 5,179-94 Industrial Bonds ...... 1 ,446,873.69 3,468,717.50 Sundry Bonds ...... 3,500.00 3,500.00

$4,9 1 1 ,926.69 $4,319,380.45 Notes Secured by Real Estate, Mortgages, and Trust D e e d s ...... 645,288.79 645,288.79 Stocks ...... 729,490.75 547,742-38 Real E s ta te ...... 13,333-33 13,333-33 Miscellaneous ...... 600.66 600.66

$6,300,640.22 $5,526,345.61

Railroad Bonds Book Market Par Value Description Rate Maturity Value Value $50,000 Allegheny Corp., 20 Yr. Coll. Tr...... 5’s June I, 1949 $50,042.11 $7,000.00 3,000 Atchison, Topeka, & Santa Fé Rwy. Co., Gen. Mtg. 100 Yr...... 4’s Oct. I, 1995 2,677.50 2,557-50 18,000 The Atlantic & Charlotte Air Line Rwy. Co., 1st Mtg. 30 Yr. G o ld ...... 5’s July I, 1944 i 8,947-75 13,747-50 150,000 Atlantic Coast Line R. R., Louisville & Nashville Coll...... 4’s Oct. I, 1952 108,000.00 82.500.00 1,000 Baltimore & Ohio R. R. Co., Ref. & Gen. Mtg. Series “ A " ...... 5’s Dec. I. 1995 810.00 410.00 10,000 Baltimore & Ohio R. R., 1 st Mtg. Gold . 4’s July I, 1948 10,088.20 7,250.00 25,000 Canadian National Rwy. Co., 40 Yr. Guar. G o ld ...... 5’s July I, 1969 24,875.00 2 1 .250.00 206 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

Book Market Par Value Description Rate Maturity Value V alue $50,000 Central Pacific Rwy. Co., 35 Yr. Guar. Gold ...... 5’s Aug. , i 960 $52,035.55 $3 1 ,500.00 49,000 Chesapeake Corp., 20 Yr. Conv. Coll. Tr. 5’s May 1 , 1947 48,167.50 22,540.00 150,000 Chesapeake & Ohio Rwy. Co., Ref. & Imp. Series “ B ” ...... 4 ^ ’s Jan. , 1995 140,625.00 1 1 1 ,000.00 150,000 Chicago, Indianapolis & St. Louis Short Line Rwy. Co., ist Mtg. 50 Yr...... 4’s Apr. , 1953 99,75o.oo 126,000.00 30,000 Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific R. R. Co., 50 Yr. Gold Series “A” .. 5’s Feb. , 1975 2 1,000.00 7,6so.oo 150,000 Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Rwy. Co., Gen. Mtg. Series “ C ” ...... 4 ^ ’s May , 1989 1 14,562.50 102,937.50 120,000 Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific R. R. Co., Conv. Adj. Mtg. Gold Series “ A” ...... S’s Jan. , 2000 84,000.00 6,600.00 50,000 Chicago Union Station, Guar. Gold .... 5’s Dec. , 1944 49,500.00 48,000.00 50,000 Chicago & Western Indiana R. R., Cons. 50 Yr. Gold ...... 4’s July , I9S2 45,975-00 35,25o.oo 46,000 Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Rwy. Co., Ref. & Imp. Mtg. Series “ D ” ...... 5’s July 1963 45,310.00 25,760.00 50,000 Florida East Coast Rwy. Co., ist & Ref. Mtg. Gold Series “ A ” ...... 5’s Sept. 1974 49,875.00 2,000.00 10,000 Kansas City, Fort Scott & Memphis Rwy. Co., Ref. Mtg. G o ld ...... 4’s Oct. 1936 10,000.00 4,487.50 150,000 Kansas City Southern Rwy. Co., Ref. & Imp. Mtg...... 5’s Apr. . 1950 115 ,500.00 72,375-00 150,000 Louisville & Nashville R. R. Co., Unified 50 Yr...... 4’s July 1940 123,750.00 124,500.00 11,000 Louisville & Nashville R. R. Co., Atlanta, Knoxville & Cincinnati Div. Gold . . . 4’s May 1 95 5 10,474-59 8,910.00 50,000 Missouri Pacific R. R. Co., 20 Yr. Conv. Gold Series “ A ” ...... 5 ^ ’s May ’ 1949 50,736-85 6,562.50 100,000 Missouri Pacific R. R. Co., ist & Ref. Mtg. Series “ F ” G o ld ...... 5’s Mar. 1977 99,250.00 29,2150.00 10,000 New Orleans, Texas & Mexico Rwy. Co., ist Mtg. Gold Series “ A ” ...... SJA’s Apr. 1954 9,900.00 2,487.50 10,000 New York Central & Hudson River R. R., 30 Yr. Gold Deb...... 4’s May 1934 10,006.16 7,800.00 1 50,000 New York, New Haven & Hartford R. R., Deb...... 4’s Tuly 195 5 84,000.00 79,500.00 4,000 Norfolk & Western R. R., Div. Lien & Gen. Gold ...... 4’s July ' 1944 4,000.00 3,680.00 50,000 Oregon-Washington R. R. & Navigation Co., ist & Ref. Mtg. Gold Series “ A ” 4’s Jan. 1961 44,500.00 36,500.00 50,000 Penn, Ohio & Detroit R. R. Co., ist & Ref. Mtg. Gold Series “ A ” ...... 4 lA ’s Apr. 1977 47.375.00 34.250.00 1,200 Pere Marquette R. R. Co., ist Mtg. Gold Series “ A ” ...... 5’s July 1956 500.00 600.00 1,000 Pere Marquette R. R. Co., ist Mtg. Gold Series “ B ” ...... 4’s July 1956 S00.00 420.00 150,000 Southern Pacific R. R. Co., ist & Ref. Mtg...... 4’S Jan. 1955 116 ,062.50 106,500.00 50,000 Southern Pacific Co., 40 Yr. Gold ...... aYì ’s May 1969 47,250.00 22,500.00 50,000 Southern Rwy. Co., Development & Gen. Mtg. Gold Series “ A ” ...... 4’s Apr. 1956 43,562.50 13 ,000.00 62,000 Texas & Pacific Rwy. Co., Gen. & Ref. Mtg. Gold Series “ B ” ...... 5’s Apr. 1977 6i,5Si.2S 26,040.00 1,000 Toledo & Ohio Central Rwy. Co., ist Gold ...... 5’s July , 1935 1 ,000.00 850.00 50,000 Virginian Rwy. Co., ist Mtg. 50 Yr. Gold Series “ A ” ...... 5’s May , 1962 50,000.00 4 1.750.00 150,000 Wisconsin Central Rwy. Co., ist Gen. Mtg...... 4’s July , 1949 105,000.00 45,000.00 $2,001,159.96 $1 ,320,915.°° REPORT OF THE TREASURER 2 0 7

Electric, Gas, and Water Bonds Book Market Par Value Description Rate Maturity Value V alue $50.000 Alabama Power Co.. ist & Ref. Mtg. Gold ...... 4}4’s Dec. 1 , 1967 $48,125.00 $39,250.00 15.000 Appalachian Electric Power Co., ist Mtg. S. F...... S’s June 1, 1941 i4.9SS.oo 13.312.50 50.000 Associated Gas & Electric Co., Conv. Gold Deb. _...... 4i^’s Jan. 15 , 1949 45.7So.oo 10,812.50 10.000 Brooklyn Edison Co., Inc...... 5’s Jan. 1 , 1949 10,266.66 10,37500 40.000 Brooklyn Edison Co., Inc., Gen. Mtg. Temp. Gold Series “ E ” ...... 5’s Jan. 1 , 1952 38,700.00 40,800.00 25.000 Carolina Power & Light Co., ist & Ref. Mtg. Gold ...... 5’s Apr. 1 , 1956 24,812.50 19,500.00 25.000 Central Maine P o w e r...... * ...... 5’s July 1,19 5 5 24,625.00 2 1,875.00 5.000 Central Vermont Public Service, ist & Ref...... _...... 5’s Oct. 1 , 1959 4,850.00 4,000.00 15.000 Citizens Gas Co. of Indianapolis, ist & Ref. Mtg. S. F. Gold ...... 5’s July1,19 4 2 15.153.76 13,800.00 50.000 Commonwealth Edison, Series “F”.... 4’s Mar. 1,19 8 1 47,250.00 40,250.00 30.000 Consolidated Gas, Electric Light & Power Co. of Baltimore...... 4’s June 1 , 1981 28,650.00 27,300.00 35.000 Consumers Power Co., ist Lien & Ref. 25 Yr. G o ld ...... 5’s Jan. 1 , 1936 35,000.00 35.568.75 10.000 Detroit Edison Co., Gen. & Ref. Mtg. Series “ A ” ...... 5’s Oct. 1 , 1949 10,000.00 10,162.50 25.000 The Detroit Edison Co., Gen. & Ref. Mtg. Gold Series “ B ” ...... s’s June 1 , 195s 25.374.00 25,125.00 25.000 The Milwaukee Electric Rwy. & Light Ref. & ist Mtg. Series “ B ” ...... s’s June 1 , 1961 24.7s0.00 i9.7SO.oo 4.000 Newark Gas Co., ist Gold ...... 6’s Apr. 1 , 1944 4,000.00 4,200.00 10.000 New Brunswick Light, Heat & Power Co., Gold ...... 4’s Dec. is, 1939 10,000.00 9,000.00 500,000 New York & Westchester Lighting Co., Gen. Mtg. 100 Yr...... 4’s July 1,2004 270,000.00 430,000.00 50.000 New York Edison Co., ist Lien and Ref. Mtg. Gold Series “ C ” Temp...... 5’s Oct. 1 , 1951 48,375-00 5 1,000.00 10.000 Niagara, Lockport & Ontario Power Co., ist Mtg. & Ref. Series “ A ” ...... s’s Apr. 1 , 1955 10,061.25 9,412.50 50.000 Northern States Power Co., Ref. Mtg. Gold ...... _...... 4 /^’s Apr. 1 , 1961 48,625.00 42,687.50 10.000 Penn Ohio Power & Light Corp., ist Mtg. Ref. Series “ A ” ...... sj^ ’s July 1 , 1954 10,153-13 9,300.00 50.000 Pennsylvania Power & Light Co., ist. & Ref...... 45^’s Apr. i, 1981 48,125.00 42,375-00 50.000 Pennsylvania Water & Power Co., Gold Series “ B ” ...... 4 ^ 's Mar. 1,1968 46,375-00 45,500.00 19.777 Philadelphia Suburban Counties Gas & Elec. Co.,_ ist & Ref...... 45^’s May 1 , 1957 19,678.37 18,911.76 25.000 Public Service Elec. & Gas Co., ist & Ref. Mtg...... 4 /^’s Dec. 1 , 1967 24,206.25 24,437-50 50.000 Shawinigan Water & Power Co., ist Mtg. & Coll. Tr. S. F. Gold Series “ A ” ...... 4H ’s Oct. 1 , 1967 48,000.00 32,750.00 30.000 Southern California Edison Co., Ref. Mtg. Gold ...... 5’s July 1 , 19s 1 29.997-50 29,400.00 18.000 Southern California Edison, Ref. Mtg. . 5 s June 1 , 1954 i 7,550.oo 17,640.00 50.000 Western Electric Co., Inc., Deb. 20 Yr. Gold ...... 5’s Apr. 1 , 1944 51,393-35 48,500.00 $1 ,084,801.77 $1 ,146, ^ 5.51 Telephone and Telegraph Bonds $4S.ooo Bell Telephone Co. of Canada, ist Mtg. Gold Series “ B ” ...... s’s June 1 , 1957 $45,083.34 $39,600.00 97.000 New York Telephone Co., ist & Gen. Mtg...... 4VS’s Nov. 1 , 1939 75,660.00 97,000.00 10.000 Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co., ist Mtg. Coll. Tr...... S’s Jan. 2, 1937 10,085.01 10,225.00 59.000 Southern Bell Telephone Co...... s’s Jan. 1 , 1941 59,512.00 60,180.00 13.000 The Western Union Telegraph Co., Gold s’s Mar. 1 , i 960 12,967.50 5,622.50 40.000 Southwestern Bell Telephone Co., ist Mtg. Ref. Series “ A ” ...... s’s Feb. 1,19 5 4 40,846.73 4 1,200.00 57.000 Western Union Telegraph Co., Funding & R. E. Mtg. so Yr...... 4 &S May 1 , 1950 54,575.7s . 34.770.oo $298,730.33 $288,597-50 208 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

Municipal Bonds Book Market Par Value Description Rate Maturity Value Value $5,000 City of Dallas, Public School Improve­ ment Gold ...... 4 ^ ’s May I, 1949 $5,078.49 $5,025.00 5,000 City of Dallas, Public School Improve­ ment Gold ...... ^ A ’s May I, 1950 5,079.71 9.512.50 10,000 City of Los Angeles, Harbor Improve­ ment ...... 4*A’s May I, 1951 10,102.74 9.187.50 10,000 City of Minneapolis, Street Improvement 4& ’s July I, 1932 10,000.00 10,000.00 50,000 Corporate Stock of the City of New York ...... 4’s May I, 1959 40,000.00 50,250.00 1,000 Road^ Bond of Road District No. 6 of Milan County, Texas ...... 5 ^ ’s May I. 1954 1 ,500.00 1,500.00 $7 1,760.94 $85,475-00 v United States Liberty Bonds $500 U. S. of America, ist Liberty Loan of I9I7 ...... ; ...... 3/4’s June 15 , 1932-47 $500.00 $505.00 3,500 U. S. of America, ist Liberty Loan .. 4S4 ’s June 15 , 1935,-47 3,500.00 3,563.44 1,000 U. S._ of America, ist Liberty Loan Registered ...... 454’s June 15 , 1932-47 1 ,000.00 1,010.00 100 U. S. of America, ist Liberty Loan 2nd converted ...... 4 /4 ’s June 15, 1932-47 100.00 101.50

$5,100.00 $5, 179.94 Industrial Bonds $445,000 Bethlehem Steel Co., ist Lien & Ref. Mtg. Series ...... 5’s May I, 1942 $333,750.00 $356,000.00 50.000 Cudahy Packing^ Co., ist Mtg. Gold . . . 5’s Dec. I, 1946 50,520.00 49,312.50 587.000 Jones & Laughlin Steel Co., ist 30 Yr. 5’s May I, 1939 5 5 1,780.00 573,058.75 50.000 Lackawanna Steel Co., Conv. ist Cons. Mtg. Gold Series “ A ” ...... 5’s Mar. I, 195° 5 1,664.75 40,000.00 407.000 Standard Oil Co. (N. J.), 20 Yr. Gold Deb...... 5’s Dec. 15 , 1946 408,392.86 412,596.25 50.000 The Texas Corp., Conv. S. F. Deb 5’s Oct. I, 1944 50,766.08 37,750.00 $1 ,446,873.69 $1 ,468,717.50 Sundry Bonds First Baptist Church of Pottstown, Pa... 4’s $3,500.00 $3,5°o.oc

Mortgages Guaranteed Mortgages ...... $645,288.79 $645,288.79

Shares S t ° c k s 200 American Power and Light Co., $5 Pfd. No par v a lu e ..... $16,340.00 $6,300.00 28,153 Columbia Gas & Electric Corp., Common ...... 123,583.28 218,185.75 4,025 Columbia Gas & Electric Corp., Cum. 6% Pfd. Series “ A ” .. 126,642.13 213,325.0° 5,630 Columbia Oil & Gasoline Corp., Common Temp. Voting Trust „Cert ...... 1.00 4,222.50 200 Electric Bond & Share Co., $6 Pfd. Not Conv...... 2 1,125.00 8,000.00 200 Long Island Lighting Co., Cum. Pfd. Series “ B ” Not Conv. 20,750.00 13,000.00 330 Norfolk & Western Rwy. Co., Common ...... 33,000.00 28.050.00 6,000 Ohio Oil Co., Common ...... ; ...... 2 12 ,250.00 34.500.00 2 1 Pennsylvania R. R., Capital'...... 949-34 244-13 3,912 Consolidated Oil Corp., Common ...... 154,850.00 17 .115.00 200 United Light & Power Co., Cum. Conv. ist Pfd. $6 Class “ A ” 20,000.00 4,800.00

$729,490.75 $547.742.38 Real Estate Liu Chiu Island House, West Japan ...... $5,000.00 $5,000.00 Rangoon Real Estate, Burma ...... 8,333.33 8,333-33

$13,333-33 $ 13,333-33 Miscellaneous Shelburne Falls Savings Bank, Shelburne Falls, Mass...... $500.00 $500.00 North Rjver Savings B a n k ...... 100.66 100.66 $600.66 $600.66 REPORT OF THE TREASURER 2 0 9

SCHEDULE X

SUMMARY OF INVESTMENTS OF ANNUITY FUNDS

Description Book Value Market Value Railroad Bonds ...... $403,839.18 $275,510.63 Traction Bonds ...... 29,770.79 14,500.00 Electric, Gas, and Water Bonds ...... 4 1 1 ,559.18 354,336.25 Telephone and Telegraph Bonds ...... 1 1 1 ,998.94 1 1 1 ,171.25 Municipal Bonds ...... 184,791.29 150,893.75 United States Liberty Bonds ...... 83,397.94 " 85,718.80 Industrial Bonds ...... 39,287.81 32,712.50 Sundry Bonds ...... 14,039.00 10,529.25

$1,278,684.13 $1.035.372.43 Mortgages ...... 308,480.00 308,480.00 Stocks ...... 1 ,000.00 ...... Miscellaneous ...... 1 ,119.69 1 ,551.00 Real Estate ...... 19,185.86 19,185.86 Notes ...... • i.00 1.00

$1 ,608,470.68 $1 ,364,590.29

INVESTMENTS OF ANNUITY FUNDS

Railroad Bonds Book Market Par Value Description Rate Maturity V ahie V alue $20,000 Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe R. R., Gen. Mtg. G o ld ...... 4’s Oct. i. 1995 $20,000.00 $17,050.00 5,000 Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Rwy., Transcontinental Short Lines—Regis­ tered ...... 4’s Tulv I, 1958 4,641.00 4,000.00 13,000 Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe R. K., Adj. 100 Yr. Gold ...... 4’s Tuly i, 1995 13 ,000.00 1 1 ,050.00 5,000 The Baltimore & Ohio R. R. Co., Ref. & Gen. Mtg. Series “ A ” ...... 5’s Dec. i, 1995 5,087.04 2,050.00 10,000 Big Sandy R. R., 1st Mtg...... 4 s June i, 1944 9,853.62 8,500.00 25,000 Canadian National Rwy. Co., 30 Yr. . . . 4 ^ ’s Sept. 15, 1954 24,406.25 19,593-75 10,000 The Canada Southern Rwy. Co., Cons. 50 Yr. Gold Series “ A ” ...... 5’s Oct. i, 1962 10,342.06 7,700.00 1,000 Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R. R. Co., 111. Div. Mtg...... 3 ^ ’s Tulv i, 1949 1 ,000.00 803.75 10,000 Chicago, Indiana & Southern R. R., Gold Bond of 1906 ...... 4’s Jan. i, 1956 9,720.77 7,000.00 10,000 Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Rwy. Co., Gen. Mtg. Gold ...... AVi’s May i, 1989 10,241.20 6,862.50 5.000 Chicago & Northwestern Rwy. Co., Gen. Mtg. Gold Registered ...... 4’s Nov. 1 , 1987 4,783.74 2,737.50 11,000 Chicago Union Station Co., 1st Mtg. Series “ A ” ...... 4^ ’s Tulv i, 1968 10,971.51 10, 161.25 10,000 Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Rwy. Gen...... 4’s June 1993 9,893.06 7,150.00 12,000 Delaware River R. R. & Bridge Co., 1 st Mtg. Gold ...... 4’s Aug. i, 1936 10,729.40 10,800.00 10,000 Erie R. R., Prior Lien Gold ...... 4 s Jan. i, 1996 10,000.00 6,612.50 15,000 Great Northern Rwy. Co., Gen. Series “ E ” ...... Tulv i, 1977 15 ,134-70 8,400.00 10,000 Housatonic R. R., Cons. Gold ...... 5’s Nov. I, 1937 10,032.66 8,800.00 15,000 Kansas City Terminal Rwy. Co., 1 st Gold ...... 4’s Jan. i, i960 14 ,188.79 12 ,600.00 5,000 The Lehigh Valley Rwy. Co., 1 st Mtg. Gold Registered ...... 4 ^ !s July • i, 1940 4,428.55 3,137.50 210 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

Book Market Par Value Description Rate Maturity Value Value $8,000 Louisville & Jefferson Bridge Co., Gold 4’s Mar. I. 1945 $7,565-06 $5*910.00 10,000 Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie, 50 Yr. Gold ...... 4’s July I, 1938 9,653.24 4,200.00 i S . o o o New Orleans, Texas & Mexico Rwy. Co. 5î4’s Apr. I, 1954 15,580.44 3,731.25 10,000 New York Central & Hudson River R. R., Michigan Central G o ld ...... 3xA’s Feb. I , 1998 8,600.00 6,400.00 10,000 The New York Connecting R. R. Co., 1st Mtg. Gold Series “ A ’’ ...... 4*4’s Aug. I. 1953 9,960.84 7>55o.oo 20,000 New York, New Haven & Hartford R. R. Deb...... 4’s May I, 1956 19.563.92 9,000.00 10,000 Norfolk & Western R. R., Div. 1st Lien & Gen. Gold ...... 4’s July I , 1944 9.987-95 9,200.00 1,000 Northern Pacific Rwy. Gen. Lien Rwy. & Land Grant ...... 3’s Jan. I , 2047 671.08 572.50 7,000 Northern Pacific Rwy. Co., Gold Gen. Lien Registered ...... 3’s Jan. I , 2047 4,773.11 3.902.50 i3,5«o Northern Pacific Rwy. Co., Prior Lien Rwy. & Land G ran t...... 4*s Jan. I, 1997 10,558.40 10,749.38 15,000 Northern Pacific Rwy., Ref. & Imp. Series “ B ” ...... 6’s July 1 , 2047 ■ 14,580.00 10,275.00 S .o o o The Pennsylvania R. R. Co., Gen. Mtg. Gold Series “ A” ...... aYz’s June I, 1965 5,013.16 3,650.00 21,000 Pennsylvania R. R., Deb. 40 Yr...... 4 ^ ’s Apr. I , 1970 19.792.50 1 1 ,655-00 15,000 Rio Grande Western Rwy., 1 st Cons. Mtg. 50 Yr. Gold ...... 4’s Apr. I , 1949 13 .331.25 6,450.00 25,000 Southern Pacific Co., Central Pacific Stock Coll...... 4’s Aug. I , 1949 22,362.50 1 1 ,750.00 20,000 Southern R-vtfy. Co., Development & Gen. Mtg. Gold Series “ A ” ...... ••••;...... 4 ’ S Apr. I, 1956 17 ,540.00 5,200.00 10,000 Southern Rwy. Co., St. Louis Div. 1 st Gold ...... 4’s Jan. I , 1 9 5 1 9,914.85 5,400.00 5Ï000 Terminal R. R. Assoc, of St. Louis, 1 st Mtg...... • AŸ2’s Oct. I, 1939 5,012.24 4,606.25 1,000 Wisconsin Central Rwy. Co., 1 st Gen. Mtg...... 4’s July I , 1949 924.29 300.00 $403.839.18 $275,510.63 Traction Bonds $25,000 Interborough Rapid Transit Co., ist & Ref. Gold ...... 5’s Jan. I , 1966 $24,757.66 $12,000.00 5,000 Springfield & Northeastern Traction Co., ist Mtg. Gold ...... 5’s Dec. 1, 1936 5,o i3. i 3 2,500.00

$29,770.79 $14,500.00 Electric, Gas, and Water Bonds $25,000 Alabama Power Co., 1st Ref. Gold .... 4 %'s Dec. 1, 1967 $23,625.00 $19,625.00 5,000 Blackstone Valley Gas & Elec. Co., ist & Gen. Mtg. Gold ...... 5’s Jan. I , 1939 5,043.58 5,006.25 10,000 Brooklyn Union Gas Co., ist Cons. Mtg. 50 _Yr. G o ld ...... 5’s May I , 1945 10,246.64 IO.487.5O 15,000 Carolina Power and Light Co., ist & Ref. Mtg. Gold ...... 5’s Apr. I, 1956 15,206.22 I 1,700.00 25,000 Cedar Rapids Mfg. & Power Co., 40 Yr. ist Mtg. S. F. Gold ...... 5’s Jan. I , 1953 26,187.50 21,875.00 15,000 Cleveland Electric Illuminating Co., ist Gold ...... 5’s Apr. I , 1939 15,056.38 15,375-00 10,000 Commonwealth Edison Co., ist Gold Series “ C ” ..._...... ’s Apr. I, 1956 9,300.00 9,100.00 40,000 Commonwealth Edison Co., ist Mtg. Gold Series “ B ” ...... 5’s June 1, 1954 40,204.18 38,650.00 10,000 Consumers Power Co., ist Lien & Ref. 25 Yr. G o ld ...... 5’s Jan. I , 1936 10,000.00 10,162.50 10,000 'Cumberland Co. Power & Light Co...... 4 'A s June I , 1956 9,700.00 8 ,350.oo 15,000 Detroit Edison Co., ist 30 Yr. G o ld ----- 5’s Jan. I , 1933 15,000.00 15,206.25 25,000 Duquesne Light Co., ist Series “A” .... 4 /4 S Apr. I , 1967 24,062.50 24,375-00 25,000 Federal Light & Traction Co., 30 Yr. ist Lien S. F. G o ld ...... 5’s Mar. I , 1942 25,000.00 16,781.25 25,000 Illinois Power & Light Corp., ist & Ref. Mtg. Series “ B ” ...... _...... 5 ^ ’s Dec. I , 1954 24,437-50 16,250.00 35,000 Indiana Power Co., ist Lien & Gen. Mtg. Series “ A ” ...... 7rA ’s Nov. I , 1941 39,200.00 33,250.00 10,000 Long Island Lighting Co., ist Ref. Mtg. Series “ B ” G o ld ...... 5’s Sept. I , 1955 10,082.28 9,350.00 REPORT OF THE TREASURER 211

Book Market Par Value Description Rate Maturity Value Vaine $25,000 Milwaukee Electric Rwy. & Light, ist & Ref. Mtg. Gold Series “ B ” .... 5’s June 1, 1961 $25,000.00 $19,750-00 15,000 Minneapolis General Electric Co., 30 Yr. Gold ...... 5’s Dec. I, 1934 15,008.49 15.075.00 5,000 Minneapolis General Electric Co., 30 Yr. Gold, Principal only Registered...... 5’s Dec. I, >934 5,011.86 5.025.00 10,000 Pennsylvania Water & Power Co., ist Ref. Mtg. Gold Series “ B ” ...... 4 /4 ’s Mar. I , 1968 9,700.00 10.025.00 25,000 Public Service Co., of Northern Illinois, ist Lien ...... 45^ ’s Apr. I, 1981 24,312.50 19,687.50 5,000 Union Electric Light & Power Co., Principal only Registered ...... 5’s Sept. I , 1 9 3 2 5,000.00 5.025.00 2.000 Utah Power & Light Co., 30 Yr. ist Mtg...... 5’s Feb. I , 1944 1,987.05 1,455-00 25,000 The West Penn Electric Co., Gold Deb. 5’s Apr. I, 2030 23,187-50 12.750.00

$411,559-18 $354,336.25 Telephone and Telegraph Bonds $14,000 American Telephone & Telegraph Co 30 Y r. Coll. Trust G o ld ...... 5’s Dec. I , 1946 $13,859-77 $14,315.00 25.000 American Telephone & Telegraph Co 35 Y r. S. F. Gold Deb...... 5’s Jan. I , i960 24,932.50 24,718-75 30.000 American Telephone & Telegraph Co. . 5’s Feb. 1965 29,825.00 29.625.00 10.000 Illinois Bell Telephone Co., ist & Rei Mtg. Gold Series “ A ” ...... 5 ’s June I , 1956 9,539-39 10,412.50 10.000 New England Telephone & Telegraph Co., Deb...... 5’s Oct. I , 1932 10,000.00 10.050.00 10.000 New York Telephone Co., ist & Gen Mtg. Gold S. F ...... 4 /4 ’s Nov. I , 1 9 3 9 10,043.12 10, 0 0 0 .0 0 5.000 New York Telephone Co., ist & Gen Mtg. Registered ...... 4 }4 ’s Nov. I , 1939 4,975-56 5.000.00 4.000 The Ohio State Telephone Co., Cons. Ref. Mtg. S. F. Gold ...... 5 ’s Ju ly I , 1 9 4 4 3,748.19 4.000.00 5.000 Western Union Telegraph Co., 50 Y r Mtg. Funding & R. E ...... 4 ^ ’s May I , 1950 5,075.4 i 3,050.00

$111,998.94 $111,171.25 Municipal Bonds $20,000 Commonwealth of Australia, External Loan of 1927 30 Yr. Gold ...... 5’s Sept. I, 1957 $19,550.00 $7,800.00 10,000 City of Cleveland ...... 4zA’s Dec. I, 1935 10,038.03 9 .537.50 10,000 City of Dayton, Sewer ...... 5’s Mar. 1 , 1936 10,136.28 9.650.00 10,000 City of Detroit^ W a te r ...... 4’s Mar. I, 1944 9,942.24 6.000.00 2,000 City of Flint, Street Improvement .... 4 ^ ’s Apr. I , 1938 2,014.16 1.900.00 3,000 City of Flint, Street Improvement .... 4 ^ ’s Apr. 1 , 1939 3,025 34 2.827.50 1,000 City of Flint, Sewer ...... tX's Apr. I , 1939 1 ,008.44 942-50 3,000 City of Flint, Street Improvement .... 4xA's Apr. I , 1940 3,029.22 2.805.00 1,000 City of Flint, Sewer ...... 4}4’s Apr. I , 1940 1 ,009.76 935-00 10,000 Commonwealth of Mass., Charles River Basin Loan ...... 3 ^ ’s Jan. I , 1945 9,334-43 9.700.00 5,000 City of M ontreal...... 5’s May I , 1936 5,013.91 4.275.00 5,000 City of Omaha, Fire Engine House Series of 1913 ...... 4 ^ ’s Mar. I , 1 9 3 3 4,760.70 5,006.25 2 0 ,0 0 0 Kingdom of N orw ay...... 6’s Aug. I , 1 9 4 4 20,529.67 14.400.00 2 0 ,0 0 0 Government of United Kingdom of Great Britain & Ireland, 2 0 Yr. Gold .... SX’s Feb. I , 1 9 3 7 20,044.61 20.075.00 2 5 ,0 0 0 Province of Ontario, Deb...... 4 ^ ’s Jan. 15 , 1954 2 4 ,5 3 i .25 19.625.00 1 5 ,0 0 0 Province of Ontario, Deb...... '...... 5’s Apr. I , 1 9 5 2 15 ,631.60 12.825.00 ?l,ooo City of Philadelphia, Loan of 1902 Regis­ tered ...... 3J^’s July I , 1 9 3 2 3,630.80 3.960.00 2 ,0 0 0 City of Philadelphia, Loan of 1909 Regis­ Julytered ...... 4 ’ s Julytered I , 1 9 3 9 1 ,940.00 1.855.00 5 ,0 0 0 The Sanitary District of Chicago, Municipal ...... 5’s Jan. I , 1932 4,912.50 3.000.00 5 ,0 0 0 The Toronto Harbour Commissioners, Gold 4th S eries...... 4 ^ ’s Sept. I , 1 9 5 3 4,667.15 3.825.00 1 0 ,0 0 0 State of Utah Capital B uilding...... 4 ^ ’s Apr. I , 1 9 3 5 1 0 ,0 4 1 .2 0 9.950.00 $184,791.29 $150,893-75 212 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

United States Liberty Bonds Book M a rk et Par Value Description Rate Maturity Value V a lue $3)450 U. S. of America, Fourth Liberty Loan Registered ...... 4J4’s Oct. is, 1933-38 S3,450.00 $3,543.8o 80.000 U. S. of America, Fourth Liberty Loan 4^ ’s Oct. 15, 1933-38 79,947.94 82,175.00

$83,397.94 $85,718.80 Industrial Bonds $25,000 American Smelting & Refining Co., ist Mtg. 30 Yr. Gold Series “ A ” ...... s’s Apr. 1 , 1947 $25,216.65 $20,812.50 10.000 Chicago Junction Rwys. & Union Stock­ yards Co...... 5’s Apr. 1 , 1940 10,049.09 7.900.00 4,000 Swift & Co., ist Mtg. S. F. G o ld 5’s July 1 , 1944 4,022.07 4,000.00

$39,287.81 $32,712.50 Sundry Bonds $3,000 Trustees Certificate of Deposit for Iowa Loan & Trust Co., Series 125 Deb. .. 5’s Mar. 1 , 1923-28 $1 ,990.00 $1 ,492.50 18.000 Trustees Certificate of Deposit for Iowa Loan & Trust Co., Series 126 Deb. .. 5’s Apr. 1 , 1924-29 10,727.00 8,045.25 2,090 Trustees Certificate of Deposit for Iowa Loan & Trust Co., Series 128 Deb. .. 6’s Jan. 1 , 1931 1 ,322.00 991.50

$14,039.00 $10,529.25 Mortgages Guaranteed Mortgages, New York State ...... $298,980.00 $298,980.00 Farm Mortgages ...... 9,500.00 9.500.00

$308,480.00 $308,480.00 Shares Stocks 10 Eighth & Ninth Avenues Rwy Co...... $1 ,000.00

Miscellaneous Pacific Mutual Life Ins. Co. of California, Policy No. 253352 on life of an individual...... $1 ,119.69 $ i,S 5 i.o o

Real Estate In Various States ...... $19,185.86 $19,185.86

Notes Kessler, Albert H...... Dec. 1 , 1929-31 $1.00 $1.00 REPORT OF THE TREASURER 2 1 3

SCHEDULE XI

INVESTMENTS OF DESIGNATED TEMPORARY FUNDS

Electric, Gas, and Water Bonds Book Market Par Value Description Rate Maturity Value Value $5,000 Citizens Gas Co. of Indianapolis, ist & Ref. S. F. Gold ...... 5’s Ju ly I , 1942 $5,000.00 $4,600.00 co,ooo Consolidated Gas Co. of N. Y., 20 Yr Gold Deb...... 4 ^ ’s June I , 1 9 5 1 50,375.00 47,000.00 25.000 Jersey Central Power & L igh t...... 4 ^ ’s June I , 1961 24,875.00 20,187.50 15.000 Pacific Gas & Electric Co., ist & Rel Series “ E ” Gold ...... 4 ^ ’s June I . 1 9 5 7 14,850.00 13.743-75 35.000 Pacific Gas & Electric Co., ist & Ref Series “ F ” ...... 4yi’s June I , i960 34,212.50 32,025.00 15.000 Philadelphia Suburban Counties Gas & Electric Co., ist & Ref...... 454’s May I . 1 9 5 7 15,005.00 14,381.25 50.000 Union Electric Light & Power Co., Gen Mtg. Series “ B ” ...... S’s Aug. I , 1967 49,975-00 49,500.00 25.000 Washington Water Power Co., ist & Gen...... 5’s Jan. I , i960 24.575-00 23,500.00 6,000 Yadkin River Power Co., ist Mtg. 30 Yr. 5’s5’s Apr. I , 1941 6,150.00 .5,500.00

$225,017-50 $210,437.50 Telephone and Telegraph Bonds $5,000 Bell Telephone Co. of Canada, 1 st Mtg. Gold Series “ B ” ...... 5’s June 1 , 1957 $5,103-75 $4,400.00

Municipal Bonds $20,000 City of Toronto, Cons. Deb...... 4/4 ’s Apr. 1 , 1952 $19,631.00 $15,000.00

United States Liberty Bonds $1,000 U . S. of America, Liberty Loan o f 1917 3 i4 ’s June 15 , 1932-47 $1 ,000.00 $I,O IO .Q O 2,650 U . S. of America, 1st Liberty Loan Con­ vertible ...... 3 /4 ’s June 15, 1932-47 2,650.00 2,676.50 9,400 U . S. of America, 1 st Liberty Loan Con­ verted ...... 4^4's June 15, 1932-47 9,400.00 9,570.38 1,000 U . S. of America, 1 st Liberty Loan Con­ verted, Registered ...... 4 %'s June 15, 1932-47 1 ,000.00 I , O l 8 .I 3 103,050 U . S. of America, 4th Liberty Loan Con­ verted ...... 4$4’s Oct. 15, 1933-38 100,367.25 105,851.67 11,100 U. S. Treasury Bonds ...... 4i4 ’s Oct. 15, 1952 1 1 ,100.00 11,776.40

$125,517.25 $I3I,903-08 Sundry Bonds $385 Trustees Certificate of Deposit for Iowa Loan & Trust Co., Series 128 ...... 6’s Jan. I , 1931 $244.00 $183.00 500 Trustees Certificate of Deposit for Iowa Loan & Trust Co., Series 126 ...... 5’s Apr. I , 1924-29 298.00 223.50

$542.00 $406.50 Mortgages Guaranteed Mortgages $12,000.00 $12,000.00 City ...... ,...... 5,900.00 5,900.00

$17,900.00 $17,900.00 214 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

Stocks Shares Book Value Market Value I Chase National Bank $158.00 $29-75 3 Irving Trust Co., Capital 195.00 ♦8.38 285 Rue de Lille Corporation 30,000.00 30,000.00

$30,353-00 $30,078.13 Real Estate Mitchell, James A. $2,063.99 $2,063.99

$426,128.49 $412,189.20

SCHEDULE XII

SECURITIES RECEIVED AS GIFTS AND HELD AWAITING DISPOSITION

Miscellaneous Book Description Value Bankers Life Company, Policy No. 661931 on life of an individual *$1.00 Mutual Life Insurance Policy No. 3461120 on life of an individual .... *1.00

$2.00 Mortgages In Various States ...... *$301.00

Real Estate Lewis E. Chase and Annie S. Chase ...... *$1.00 Preston Real Estate ...... *1.00

$2.00

Shares S t o c k s 2 Eastern Cuba Plantation Co...... *$1.00 200 Orange County Bond & Mortgage Corp., Common . *i.oo 200 Orange County Bond & Mortgage Corp., P referred . * 1.00

$3.00 Notes $400 Miss Kate Nicholas ...... *$1.00

$309.00

* Set up at nominal value only. REPORT OF THE TREASURER 2 1 5

SCHEDULE XIII

INVESTMENTS OF LEGACY AND ANNUITY RESERVE

A—S ecurities R eceived from E states

Railroad Bonds Book Market Par Value Description Rate Maturity Value Value $13,000 Texas & Pacific Rwy. Co. 1 st Mtg. . — s’s June 1,2000 $10,400.00 $10,790.00

Municipal Bonds $2,500 Township of Tinicum, Pa., Registered . s’s Nov. 1 , 1932 $1,875.00 $2,500.00

Sundry Bonds $2,600 The Middletown Trust Co., Deb. Trustees for the Bondholders of the Middlesex Banking Co...... '$2.00

United States Liberty Bonds hoo U. S. of America, Liberty Loan of 1917 3 ^ ’s June 15 , 1932-47 $100.00 $101.00 50 U. S. of America, Fourth Liberty Loan 4 ^ ’s Oct. 15 , 1933-38 50.00 5I-36 $150.00 $152.36 Mortgages In Various States $9,630.17 $9,630.17

Notes 4 Promissory Notes executed by M. S. McBirney for $500 each ...... 6’s Mar. 25, 1930- 3 1- 32-33 *$4.00 Suydam, Phoebe A. Oct. 1 , 1931- 32- 33-34 2,633.7s $2,633-75 $2,637-75 $2,633.75 Real Estate Carlson, John, Property, Minneapolis, Minn...... *$1.00 Cuyler^Farm, Cuyler, Cortland County, * 1.00 Eliza O. Harvey Property, Cook County, 111...... * 1.00 Oil Lands, Kern County, Calif...... *1.00 Raftery, Michael A., Property, Indian­ apolis, Ind...... 761.88 $761.88 Smedley, Irene, Property, Jackson County, S. D...... *3.00 Waterbury, Nathaniel H., Property, Saratoga Springs, N. Y...... *1.00 C. B. Griffith Estate, Property, Calif. .. * 1.00

$770.88 $761.88 Set up at nominal value only. 216 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

Stocks Book Market Shares Description Rate Maturity Value Value 10 American Real Estate Co., Pfd...... *$i.oo ...... 60 American State Savings Bank, Capital . .. * 1.00 ...... 2 Brockton Heel Company, Inc. Pfd...... ’ j.o o - ...... 7 Massachusetts Electric Co., Pfd...... ’ 1.00 ...... 50 Southern California Edison Co., Ltd. Pfd. Series “ C ” ...... sH ’s *1.00 $975.00 S Steel Realty Development Corp., Pfd...... * 1.00 ......

$6.00 $975.00 Miscellaneous Sidney Clark Assets. To set up our % share of assets *$1.00 ......

B— I n v e st m e n ts P u rch ased for L egacy a n d A n n u it y R eserve

Par Value Railroad Bonds $20,000 Chicago & Erie R. R. Co., ist ...... 5’s May i, 1982 $22,325.00 $14,000.00

Electric, Gas, and Water Bonds $50,000 Nebraska Power Co...... 4 /^’s June i, 1981 $5 1,250.00 $46,187.50 25.000 Shawinigan Water & Power Co., ist Mtg. & Coll. Tr. S. F. Series “ B 4J/i’s May 1 , 1968 24.562.50 16,375-00 21.000 The West Penn Electric Co., Deb...... 5’s Apr. i, 2030 19.477.50 10,710.00

$95,290.00 $73,272.50 Mortgages Guaranteed Mortgages ...... $2 1 ,830.00 $2 1,830.00

$164,917.80 $136,545.66

* Set up in nominal value only. SCHEDULE XIV

FOREIGN FIELD APPROPRIATION BALANCES AGAINST WHICH CHARGES HAVE NOT YET BEEN REPORTED

1921-1922 1923-1924 1924-1925 1925-1926 1926-1927 1928-1929 1929-1930 1930-1931 1931-1932

1 Burma Mission ______...... I. $860.00 $140.21 $115,811.65 Assam Mission -- ______9.090.00 80,467.14 $100.67 465.48 1.800.00 48,965.32 Bengal-Orissa Mission ______$16.66 1,454.54 1,292.54 20.027.63 India General ______254.54 954.54 South China Mission______$1,049.20 44.50 831.22 23,234.05 East China Mission ______6,740.00 ,3,298.80 28,487.58 West China Mission .. . ______$5,745.23 48.57 $310.00 1,273.44 1,066.76 27,695.57 All C h in a ______1,166.67 Japan Mission ______" _ 2,562.20 6,011.08 89,702.55 Congo Mission ______$300.00 476.53 136.49 4ÔÔ.ÔÔ 1,050.00 28.499.64 Philippines Mission ______29.09 442.67 19,264.01 Oriental Students ______187.50 035.82 Retired Missionaries and W idows______2,673.86 Exchange ______*48,949.99 Work in Europe: Work in Czechoslovakia ______*82.10 1,375.95 Work In Denmark ______150.00 Work in Estonia ______i 1,935.00 872.73 Work in France ______1 1 : 607.15 1,973.29 Work in Germany ______: 1 60.00 , 250.00 Work in Latvia ______*119.73 750.56 Work in Lithuania __ .. ___ _ | 262.23 849.00 Work in Norway _ __ 1,650.00 Work In Poland _ _ 159.40 4,375.40 Work In Europe Reserve ______2,091.90 460.02 Administration in Europe______j _ __ *1,804.96 470.43 American Church In P aris______• !_ __ 1 150.00 Work in Europe “ Missions” and Litorn- i ture ______! 1R9 RQ IBS 7Q Relief Work ____ i *ROnn »1R9 73 Miscellaneous Specifics _ . *21.71 ' 1

Total ...... Ç.'ÎOO.OO $«,307.43. il,52r>.7n $215.24 $446.49 $16.66 $11,267.05 $28,707.10 $352,244.77 NJ I—‘ Grand Total ...... $403,030.47 vi i ; Deduction. 218 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

RECAPITULATION Previous Budgets: 1921-1922 ...... $300.00 1923-1924 ...... 8,307.43 1924-1925 ...... i,5Z5.73 1925-1926 ; ...... 215.24 1926-1927 ...... 446.49 1928-1929 ...... 16.66 1929-1930 ...... 1 1 ,267.05 1930-1931 ...... 28,707.10

Total Previous Budgets ...... $50,785.70 Total Current Budget ...... 352,244.77

Total in Agreement with Schedule III $403,030.47 REPORT OF THE TREASURER 2 1 9

SCHEDULE XV

BALANCE SHEET OF AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

AS PERTAINING TO THE FOREIGN FIELD APPROPRIA­ TION ACCOUNTS OF THE WOMAN’S AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY April 30, 1932

„ ASSETS Cash: On Deposit...... $26,044.10 In Transit ...... 38,053-77 $64,097.87 Accounts Receivable: Balance due on Authorized Appropriations for I93JI 93- ...... $35,000.00 Missionaries ...... 3,351.62 Miscellaneous ...... 1 ,941.10

Advances: To Mission Treasurers on Missionaries’ and Field Accounts: Mission Work ...... $3,266.74 Personal ...... 3,354-68 ------$6,621.42 To Missionaries for Traveling Expenses 2,726.70 9,348.12

Total Assets ...... $113 ,738.71

« LIABILITIES Accounts Payable: Missionaries ...... $2,121.96

Deposits with Mission Treasurers: Personal Funds of Missionaries ...... 19,490.28

Foreign Field Appropriation Balances against which charges have not yet been reported: Current Budget ...... $122,779.44 Previous Budgets ...... 23,794.25 ------$ 146,573-69 Add: Deposits with Mission Treasurers— Mission Work Appropriations ...... 38,057.83

$184,631.52 Less: Net Advances to Mission Treasurers applying on above balances ...... 92>5o5-°5 92,126.47

Total Liabilities ...... $1 1 3 ,738.71 SCHEDULE XVI

INCLUSIVE STATEMENT OF ALL RECEIPTS , BUDGET, PERM ANENT FUND, A N N U IT Y AND OTH ER FOR 1931-1932, COMPARED W IT H 1930-1931

For Permanent For Annuity Y T IE C O S MISSION FOREIGN BAPTIST ERICAN AM General „Specific Endowment Agreements

1930-1931 1931-1932 1930-1931 1931-1932 1930-1931 1931-1932 1930-Ì931 t 1931-1932

( $4,470.45 $5,508.46 1 807,822.51 686,658.85 Donations, Specific ______$332,647.12 $166,814.22 Legacies . . ______120,000.00 110,000.00 Annuity Agreements M atured____ 41,424.71 65,000.00 Income from Investments ______477,338.02 444,023.31 Other Receipts ______65,584.79 49,516.28 $50,393.78 $32,550.39 $106,496.07 $66,067.44

$1,516,640.48 $1,360,706.90 $332,647.12 $166,814.22 $50,393.78 $32,550.39 $106,496.07 $66,067.44

For Designated Funds For Future Use Grand Totals

1930-1931 1931-1932 1930-1931 1931-1932

Donations, Regular ______$812,292.96 $692,167.31 Donations, Specific ______332,647.12 166,814.22 Legacies ______120,000.00 110,000.00 Annuity Agreements Matured______41,424.71 65,000.00 Income from Investments -...... _ 477,338.02 444,023.31 Other Receipts ______$326,120.06 $167,285.97 548,595.30 315,420.08

Totals ______$:!2<;,120.(K> $107,285.97 $2,332,298.11 $1,793,424.02 SCHEDULE XVII

COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF INCOME 1930-1931 with 1931-1932

INCOME Regular Budget: EOT F H TREASURER E R U S A E R T THE OF REPORT Sources Outside Donations: 1930-1931 1931-1932 Income from Investments ...... $477,338.02 $444,023.31 Annuities ...... 4 1,424.71 65,000.00 Legacies ...... 120,000.00 110 ,000.00 Gifts Released from Designated Temporary Funds ...... 33,481.94 2 1,332.86 Miscellaneous ...... 32,102.85 28,183.42 Total Sources Outside Donations ...... $704,347.52 $6 Donations: Direct ...... $37,493.00 $30,749-55 Board of Missionary Cooperation ...... 770,329.51 655,909.30 Contributions applying on Deficiency of Incom e...... 4,470.45 5,508.46 812,292.96 692,167.31 Total Income Regular Budget ...... $ 1,516,640.48 $1 ,360,706.90 Specific Budget—Contra: Direct ...... $53,877.10 $23,213.58 Board of Missionary Cooperation ...... 4,991.79 3,987.85 Transfers from Designated Temporary Funds ...... 273,778.23 139,612.79 332,647.12 166,814.22 Grand Total Income ...... $1 ,849,287.60 $1 ,527,521.12 Accumulated Deficiency of Income ...... 2,040.53 37,274-35 $1 ,851,328.13 $1,564,795.47 SCHEDULE XV II (Continued) 222

COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF DEFICIENCY OF INCOME AND BUDGET APPROPRIATIONS

For 1930-1931 with 1931-1932

Deficiency of Income: R E R U S A E R T THE OF REPORT 1930-1931 1931-1932 SOCIETY MISSION FOREIGN BAPTIST ERICAN AM Deficiency of Income Previous Y e a rs...... $42,097.62 $2,040.53 Add: Income Adjustments Previous Years ...... 384.02 484.45 , ' $42,481.64 $2)5^4.98 Less: Net Adjustment of Previous Years’ Budgets ...... 33,120.88 49,341.07 Adjusted Deficiency of Income ...... $9,360.76 Adjusted Excess of Income ...... ’ ’ *$46,816.09 Budget Appropriations: Foreign Field Appropriations: Field Salaries of Missionaries ...... $471,757.45 $468,184.32 Salaries of Missionaries on Furlough ...... 146,656.41 160,349.47

T „ , . t $618,413.86 $628,533.79 Less: Reserve for Adjustment of Missionaries Salaries ...... 12,366.84

, . $606,047.02 Passages of Missionaries to and from the Field ...... 75,610.31 1 1 1 ,549.17 Work of Missionaries and Native Agencies ...... 355,303.07 3341605.43 Care of Property ...... 52.239 74 5 1,605^4 Work and Workers in Europe ...... 52,688.00 50,500.00 Retired Missionaries and Widows ...... 72,674.10 80,352.37 New Appointees ...... 54,149.16 34,892.96 Education of Oriental Students...... 4,377.17 4,301.62 Land, Buildings, and Equipment ...... 28,240.41 3,520.15 Homes for Missionaries and Missionaries’ Children ...... 27,211.02 18,297.70 Foreign Missions Conference ...... 4,552.00 4,535.oo ‘•‘Missions” and Literature sent to Missionaries ...... 1 ,747.48 1 ,395.52 Visitation of Mission Fields ...... 5,000.00 . International Missionary Council ...... 500.00 .. Baptist World Alliance ...... 1 ,500.00 1 ,535.62 Total Foreign Field Appropriations ...... $1 ,341,839.48 $1,325,624.57 Exchange ...... 25,000.00* 48,000.00* $1 ,316,839.48 $1 .277,624.57

Home Expenditures: Foreign Department Administration ...... $52,639.88 $ 5 119 3 4 5 Home Department Administration ...... 52,757.32 so’878 34 Treasury Department Administration ...... 66,291.24 64^232.70

D j -d - -n • $17 1,688.44 $166,304.49 Retired Officers and Pension Premiums ...... 4,113.4 1 771 41 Removal to New Headquarters ...... 16,278.92 Interest ...... T ... “ ' 96.87 Royal Ambassadors Camp ...... 400.00 Total Home Expenditures ...... $192,480.77 $167,172.77 Total Appropriations, Regular Budget ...... $1 ,509,320.25 $1,444,797.34 Specific Budget—Contra: Land, Buildings, and Equipment ...... $302,887.93 • $128,103.97 General Work ...... 28,897.69 38,361.00 Miscellaneous ...... 861.50 349.25 Total Specific Budget ...... 332,647.12 166,814.22 Total Regular and Specific Budget Appropriations ...... $1 ,841,967.37 $1 ,6 11,611.56 Grand Total ...... $1 ,8 51,328.13 $1 .564,795.47

* Deduction.

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224 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

SCHEDULE XVIII

COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF APPROVED BUDGET FOR 1931-1932 W IT H ACTU AL INCOM E FOR 1931-1932

Regular Budget. Final Schedule Actual Income Sources Outside Donations: 1931-1932 1931—1932 Income from Investments ...... $450,000.00 $444,023.31 Annuity Agreements Matured ...... 35,000.00 35,000.00 Annuity Agreements Matured— Special Transfer ...... 30,000.00 30,000.00 Legacies ...... 110 ,000.00 110 ,000.00 Gifts Released from Designated Tem­ porary Funds ...... 20,000.00 2 1,332.86 Other Sources ...... 28,000.00 28,183.42

Total Outside Donations ...... $673,000.00 $668,539.39

Regular Donations: Direct ...... ) $30,749.55 Through Board of Missionary Coop- >• $1 ,002,480.00 eration ...... ) 655,909.30

Total Regular Donations ...... 1 ,002,480.00 686,658.85

Total Income Regular Budget ...... $1 ,675,480.00 $1 ,355.198.44

Specific Budget— Contra: Contributions Received D ire ct...... $23,213.58 Contributions Received Through Board f of Missionary Cooperation ...... > $250,000.00 3>987.85 Transfers from Designated Temporary \ Funds ...... ) 139,612.79

Total Specific B udget...... 250,000.00 166,814.22

$1,522,012.66 Deficiency of Income Transferred to De­ ficiency A ccount ...... 8 9 , 598.90

Total Income Regular and Specific ------Budgets ...... $1,925,480.00 $1,6 11,611.56 REPORT OF THE TREASURER 2 2 5

SCHEDULE XVIII

BUDGET APPROPRIATIONS

i -n.. j ... Actual Budget Regular Budget. Final Schedule Appropriations Foreign Field Appropriations: 19.V-1 9.V ¡931- 193» Field Salaries of Missionaries ...... $4911883.35 $468,226.31 Salaries of Missionaries on Furlough.. 116 ,437.61 160,307.48 . , , $608,320.96 $628,533.79 Passage of Missionaries to and from the Field _...... 82,453.00 1 1 1 ,549.17 Work of Missionaries and Native Agencies ...... 33 1,016.30 334.605.43 Care of Property...... 50,453.23 5 1,605.24 Work and Workers in Europe...... 50,500.00 50,500.00 Retired Missionaries and W id ow s 75,637.70 80,352.37 New Appointees ...... 38,938.66 34,892.96 Education of Oriental Students 5,000.00 4,301.62 Land, Buildings, and Equipment 7,500.00 3.520.15 Homes for Missionaries and Mission­ aries’ Children ...... 20,000.00 18,297.70 Foreign Missions Conference ...... 3,785.00 4>53562 $1 ,277,604.85 $1 ,325,624.57 Less: Estimated Exchange Credit . . . . 10,000.00 48,000.00 Total Foreign Field Appropriations . . . $1,267,604.85 $1 ,277,624.57

Home Expenditures: Foreign Department Administration .. $5 1,923.00 $5 1,193.45 Home Department Administration . . . . 53,138.00 50.878.34 Treasury Department Administration . 67,418.00 * 64,232.70 $172,479.00 $166,304.49 Interest ...... 1 ,000.00 96.87 Retired Officers and Pension Premiums 1 ,800.00 771.41 Total Home Expenditures . 175,279.00 167,172.77 Total Foreign Field and Home Expen­ ditures ...... $1 ,442,883.85 $1,444,797-34 Reserve Fund ...... 32,100.15 Approved Spending B udget . $1,474,984.00 Reserved at the Request of the Finance Committee of N. B. C...... 200,496.00 Total Regular Budget ...... $1 ,675,480.00 $1 ,444,797.34

Specific Budget— Contra: Land, Buildings, and Equipment...... $219,000.00 $128,103.97 General W o r k ...... ■...... 30,000.00 38,361.00 Miscellaneous...... 1,000.00 349>25 Total Specific Budget ...... 250,000.00 166,814.22 Grand Total ...... $1 ,925,480.00 $1 ,6 11,611.56 K> SCHEDULE XIX 0\

STATEMENT OF INCOME AND BUDGET APPROPRIATIONS AS SUBMITTED ON APRIL 30, 1931 MEIA BPIT OEG MSIN OIT RPR O TE R E R U S A E R T THE OF REPORT SOCIETY MISSION FOREIGN BAPTIST ERICAN AM COMPARED WITH ADJUSTED STATEMENT TO APRIL 30, 1932

Regular Budget: INCOME Sources Outside Donations: As of April 30,19 31 Adjusted to April 30, 193* Income from Unrestricted Investments ...... $66,149.88 $66,149.88 Income from Restricted Investments ...... 4 1 1 ,979.62 4 1 1 ,979.62 Income from Designated Temporary Funds ...... t ...... 23,606.74 23,606.74

$501,736.24 $501,736.34 Less: Income designated to be credited or paid to churches...... $494.67 $494.67 Income designated to be paid to beneficiaries ...... 1 ,658.86 1 ,658.86 Income designated for Specific Purposes and held awaiting expenditure . . . . 12 ,447.03 12 ,447.03 Income designated to be credited to the Fund ...... 1 1 ,450.74 1 1 ,450.74

$26,051.30 $26,051.30 Less: Special Credits to Income ...... 1 ,653.08 1 ,653.08

24,398.22 24,398.22

$477.338.02 $477,338.02 Annuity Agreements Matured ...... 4 1,424.71 4 1,424.71 Legacies ...... 120,000.00 120,000.00 Ministers and Missionaries Benefit Board ...... 10,059.96 10,059.96 Rent of Mission Properties ...... 4,873.56 4,873.56 Interest ...... 4,293.11 4,293.11 Gifts Released from Designated Temporary Funds ...... 33,481.94 33,481.94 W. A. B. F. M. S. toward Field Administrative Expense ...... 12,876.22 12,876.22

Total Sources Outside Donations ...... $704,347.52 $704,347.52

Regular Donations: $39,831.54 Contributions Received Direct ...... $37,493-oo 773.499-43 Contributions Received through Board of Missionary Cooperation ...... 770,32951 $807,822.51 $813,330.97 Total Regular Donations ......

$ i ,5 i 2, i 7cyo3 $1,517,678.49 Total Income Regular Budget ......

Specific Budget— Contra: $53.877.10 Contributions Received Direct ...... $ , 53 877-10 . Contributions Received through Board of Missionary Cooperation ...... 4,991-79 4 991.79 273,778.23 Transfers from Designated Temporary Funds ...... 273.77 -23

332,647.12 332,647.12 Total Specific Budget ...... $1,850,325.61 Total Income Regular and Specific Budgets ...... $1 ,844,817.15

t-O SCHEDULE X IX (Continued)

STATEMENT OF INCOME AND BUDGET APPROPRIATIONS AS SUBMITTED ON APRIL 30, 1931

COMPARED WITH ADJUSTED R E R U S A E R T THE OF REPORT STATEMENT TO APRIL 30, 1932 SOCIETY MISSION FOREIGN BAPTIST ERICAN AM

„ , BUDGET APPROPRIATIONS Regular Budget: Foreign Field Appropriations: A As of April 3 0 ,19 31 Adjusted to April 30, 193s Field Salaries of Missionaries...... $471,757-45 $471,667.85 Salaries of Missionaries on F urlough...... 146,656.41 142,883.88

t t, x a i. , . $618,413.86 $6i4,55i.73 Less: Reserve for Adjustment of Missionaries’ Salaries...... 12,366.84 12 ,366.84

, $606,047.02 $602,184.89 Passages of Missionaries to and from the Field ...... 75,610.31 65,307.37 Work of Missionaries and Native Agencies ...... 355 30307 35 137 0 31

WorkS V * and F/ Workers Z nJ in Europe...... • 52 S2’239-74,688.00 50,688.00 Retired Missionaries and Widows ...... 72 674 10 , , u New Appointees ...... ^ - 3 4 Education of Oriental Students ...... 4,377.17 4 377 17 Land, Buildings, and Equipment ...... 28,240^1 27,3 11.8 2 Homes for Missionaries and Missionaries’ Children ...... 27,211.0 2 27*211 02 Foreign Missions Conference...... 4!s52!oo 4,’552^0 “ Missions ” and Literature Sent to Missionaries ...... 1,747.48 1 747 48 Visitation of Mission Fields ...... s’ooo!oo a .W o s International Missionary Council ...... 500.00 383 00 Baptist World Alliance ...... i,Soo!oo i,5oo!oo

T _ . , _ , ^ $1.341,839.48 $1 ,318,162.37 Less: Estimated Exchange Credit ...... 25,000.00 43,3 x2.32

Total Foreign Field Appropriations ...... $1 ,316,839.48 $1 ,274,850.05

Home Expenditures: Foreign Department Administration...... $52,639.88 , $52.639-88 Home Department Administration ...... 52,757-32 52,757-32 Treasury Department Administration ...... 66,291.24 66,291.24

$17 1,688.44 $17 1,688.44 Removal to New Headquarters ...... 16,278.92 16,278.92 Retired Officers and Pension Premiums ...... 4.H3.4* 4»*1 3.4* Royal Ambassadors Camp ...... 400.00 400.00

Total Home Expenditures ...... $192,480.77 $192,480.77

Total Appropriations Regular Budget ...... $1 ,509.320.25 $1 ,467,330.82

Specific Budget— Contra: Land, Buildings, and Equipment...... $302,887.93 $302,887.93 General W o rk ...... 28,897.69 28,897.69 Miscellaneous ...... 861.50 861.50

Total Specific B udget...... 332.647-12 332,647.12

Total Regular and Specific Budget Appropriations ...... $1 ,841,967.37 $1.799.977.94 Excess of Income ...... 2,849.78 5o>347-67

Grand Total ...... ; ...... $1,844,8 17.15 $1 ,850,325.61

bO t s j VO 230 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

SCHEDULE XX

STATEMENT OF JUDSON FUND AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY WOMAN'S AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

Covering Period for January 1, 1928, to April 30, 1932 Pledges: Amount Designated for W. A. B. F. M. S...... $2 3 1,209.34 Designated for A. B. F. M. S...... 613,088.04 Undesignated ...... 223,323.11 Undesignated not to be A llocated...... 1 ,125.00

$ i , o 6 8 ,7 4 S .4 9

Receipts: Designated for W. A. B. F. M. S...... $209,521.62 Designated for A. B. F. M. S...... 510,727.47 Undesignated ...... 210,053-62 Undesignated not to be Distributed or Allocated ...... 375.00

$930,677.71

Distribution: Designated Receipts W. A. B. F. M. S...... $209,521.62 Designated Receipts A. B. F. M. S...... 510,727.47 Undesignated Receipts W. A. B. F. M. S...... 18,930.50 Undesignated Receipts A. B. F. M. S...... 164,682.45

$903,862.04

Joint Expense Account: Joint Administrative Expense...... $27,562.74 Less Interest ...... 1 ,957*23

$25,605.51

Cash on H ^ n d ...... $1,210.16 Distribution o f Undesignated Receipts ...... 183,612.95

Undesignated Receipts as A b o v e...... $184,823.11 REPORT OF THE TREASURER 2 3 1

SCHEDULE XX

STATEMENT OF JUDSON FUND Designated Objects for

AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY Object: Assam: Pledges Payments Automobile for N ow gong...... $1,002.00 $1 ,002.00 Automobile for William Pettigrew, Kangpokpi...... 1 .000.00 1 .000.00 Evangelistic Missionary, U. S. G. Sension...... 10,245.91 10,245.91 Jorhat Hospital Equipment ...... 5,972.91 5,922.91 New High School at K ohim a...... 6.000.00 6.000.00 Nowgong Church, Merrill Memorial ...... 3.573.00 3.573.00 Water System for Leper Colony at Kangpokpi, c /o Doctor Crozier ...... 2.305.00 2.305.00 Burma: Church Building for Leper Colony, Moulmein c/o W. G. Evans ...... 3.000.00 3.000.00 Development of Mong Mong Field ...... 5.IÖS-50 5,135-50 Dispensary at Mong Mong ...... 5.000.00 5.000.00 Henzada Boys’ High School ...... 2.500.00 2.500.00 Judson College ...... 29 2,904.41 292,904.41 Judson College, Hale Memorial Building ...... 25,000.00 25,000.00 Karen Theological Seminary at Insein...... 5.3I3-23 4,938.23 Residence for Raymond Buker ...... 1 .301.00 1 .301.00 Namkham Hospital ...... 15,877-78 12,100.28 Roberts’ Memorial Anglo-Vernacular School, Bhamo .. 27.00 27.00 South India: Automobile for L. E. M artin...... 1 ,140.04 1 .140.04 Dormitory at Bapatla Normal Training S chool...... 2.00 2.00 Emergency Cyclone Repairs, Nellore and Other Stations 2,319.86 2,319.86 New Missionary, E. Erickson ...... 8,651.82 6,036.82 New Teacher Training School, Cumbum ...... 3,135-05 1 .120.05 Podili Hospital ...... 6.000.00 6.000.00 Ramapatnam Water Supply ...... 1,945-17 1,945-17 Bcngal-Orissa: Balasore Hostel ...... 1 ,300.00 1 ,300.00 Missionary Staff, Mr. and Mrs. G. B. H a rris...... 9,000.00 elgian Congo: Christian Center at Matadi ...... 160.00 160.00 Church and Christian Community Center at Leopoldville 145.02 145-02 Hospital at Banza Manteke ...... 11.733-74 783-74 Hospital at Sona Bata ...... 1,000.00 1 ,000.00 Hydro-electric Plant for Banza Manteke ...... 10,000.00 4,000.00 Mission Boat at Moanza ...... 1 ,000.00 1 ,000.00 Motor Boat at Tondo ...... 1 ,850.00 1 ,850.00 Missionary Staff, H. Sodergren, Moanza ...... 7,500.00 6,200.00 Salary of Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Armstrong...... 9,520.00 4,580.00 Upkeep of Motor Boat at Tondo ...... 600.00 600.00 Residence at Moanza ...... 2,500.00 2,500.00 Vanga Chapel ...... 3,664.00 3,664.00 Vanga ...... 50.00 50.00 232 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

Chtna : Pledges Payments Medical Missionary to Ningpo, East China, R. E. Stan- nard ...... $15 ,100.00 $3,850.00 New Missionary, West China, Merrill Brininstool . . . . 12 ,025.00 7,025.00 New Missionary, West China University, J. L en ox 13 ,000.00 8,000.00 Japan: Mabie Memorial School ...... 200.00 Missionary Staff, W. W. Parkinson ...... 19,621.67 4.635.00

Philippine Islands: Alterations on Mission Bungalow, Iloilo ...... 500.00 500.00 Capiz Hospital ...... 1 ,500.00 1 .500.00 New Buildings, Central Philippine College ...... 6,412.74 6,402.74 New Buildings, Central Philippine College Science Building, Joseph H. Roblee Hall ...... 12 ,500.00 12,500.00 “ Woodlawn Cottage,” a Missionary Residence at Cen­ tral Philippine College ...... 1 ,000.00 41738 New Buildings, Iloilo Hospital ...... 6,377.59 6,372-59 Salary of a New Missionary ...... 1 ,000.00 1 ,000.00

Europe: Printing and Distribution of Bibles in R ussia . . . . . 25.00 25.00 Theological Seminary in Estonia ...... 20,634.81 20,634.91

Other Designations: Medical Student Aid Fund ...... 235.00 235-00 New Missionary F u n d ...... 225.00 225.00 Retired Missionaries’ Pensions ...... 250.00 250.00 Support North Shore Church Missionaries...... 27,000.00 2 ,726.22

Undesignated: A. B. F. M. S...... 6,076.79 6,076.79

$613,088.04 $510,727.47 MISCELLANEOUS

FIELDS AND STATIONS With the Names of Missionaries Assigned to Each For the Fiscal Year Ending April 30, 1932

Reference signs used in the list: * Representing the Woman’s American Baptist Foreign Mission Society, t On furlough, 1932-1933. Serving without full missionary appointment. The key to the pronunciation of the names of stations given in these tables is that used in the latest edition of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary.

I. THE BURMA MISSION Begun 1814 1 . BASSEIN (Bas'-sene) 1852 5. INSEIN (In’-sane) 1889 Work for Burmans Burman Theological Seminary * Miss Frances E. Crooks T. C. Richardson, Ph. D., D. D. t E. T. Fletcher t Mrs. J. C. Richardson t Mrs. E. T. Fletcher t W. E. Wiatt, D. D. S. V. Hollingworth t Mrs. W. E. Wiatt Mrs. S. V. Hollingworth English Department and Special Evangel­ Work for Pwo Karens istic Work * Miss Rebecca J. Anderson t V. W. Dyer C. L. Conrad t Mrs. V. W. Dyer Mrs. C. L. Conrad Burmese Woman’s Bible School Work for Sgaw Karens * Miss Gertrude E. Teele Sgaw Karen High School Karen Theological Seminary t E. E. Sowards H. I. Marshall, D. D. t Mrs. E. E. Sowards Mrs. H. I. Marshall * Miss Clara B. Tingley 6. KENGTUNG (Keng-toong') 1901 2. BHAMO (Ba-mo) 1877 and PANG WAI Work for Kachins Work for Shans and Lahus G. J. Geis t R. B. Buker t N. E. Woodbury t Mrs. R. B. Buker f Mrs. N. E. Woodbury t R. S. Buker. M. D. t Mrs. R. S. Buker, R. N. Work for Burmans and Shans J. Lester Raney L. W. Spring t j . H. Telfurd t Mrs. L. W. Spring t Mrs. J. H. Telford Louise Hastings Memorial Hospital 3. HAKA (Ha-ka) 1899 t H. C. Gibbens, M. D. Work for Chins t Mrs. H. C. Gibbens J. H. Cope (at Tiddim) t Mrs. J. H. Cope (aK Tiddim) 7. LOIKAW (Loi-ka') 1899 t C. U. Strait t Mrs. C. U. Strait, R. N. Work for Karens (In charge of C. H. Heptonstall) at Taunggyi 4. HENZADA (Hen'-za-da) 1853 Work for Burmans 8. MANDALAY (Man'-da-lay) 1886 t J. E. Cummings, D. D. Work for Burmans t Mrs. J. E. Cummings * Miss Marian H. Reifsneider Boys' School Girls’ High School Girls’ School * Miss Eva M. Cummins * Miss Inez Crain * Miss Alice F. Thayer Work for Karens Kelly High School A. C. Phelps . H. E. Hinton Mrs. A. C. Phelps Mrs. H. E. Hinton 2 3 5 236 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

9. MAUBIN (Ma-60-bIn) 1879 Work Among English-speaking Peoples Work for Karens t W. G. Evans • t * Miss Nona G. Finney English Girls’ High School * Miss Nellie Lucas * Miss Helen M. Good * Miss Minnie B. Found * Miss Annie L. Prince * Miss Hazel F. Shank 10. MAYMYO (Mä'-myö) t * Miss Lucy F. Wiatt Work for Burmans . MYINGYAN (Myln-gyan') * Miss Julia G. Craft 15 1887 * Mrs. Ida B. Elliott Work for Burmans A. C. Hanna Mrs. A. C. Hanna 16. MYITKYINA (Myi'-che-na) 1894 John McGuire,-D. D. (translation Work for Kachins work) Mrs. John McGuire L. A. Dudrow * Miss Julia E. Parrott Mrs. L. A. Dudrow Work for English-speaking Peoples 17. NAMKHAM (Nam-kham) 1893 Ernest Grigg Work for Kachins Mrs. Ernest Grigg Gustaf A. Sword Mrs. Gustaf A. Sword 1 1 . MEIKTILA (Make'-te-la) 1890 Work for Shans Work for Burmans Hospital H. E. Dudley G. S. Seagrave, M. D. t Mrs. H. E. Dudley Mrs. G. S. Seagrave

12. MONG MONG (Mong Mong) and 18. PEGU (Pe-gu', g is hard) 1887 BAN A (Ba-i a) 1919 Work for Burmans and Shans Work Among Lahus and other Hill Tribes M. C. Parish H. M. Young Mrs. M. C. Parish Mrs. H. M. Young * Miss Mary Parish M. Vincent Young Mrs. M. Vincent Young 19. PROME (Prome) 1854 t W. M. Young Work for Burmans t E. B. Roach, D. D., Ph. D. 13 . MONGNAI (Möng-ni) 1892 t Mrs. E. B. Roach Work for Shams Girls’ High School Hospital * Miss Ida W. Davis

14. MOULMEIN (Mali-mané) 1827 20. PYAPON (Pya-pone) 19 11 Work for Burmans Work for Burmans * Miss Cecelia Johnson Judson High School for Boys P. R. Hackett, Principal 2 1. PYINMANA (Pin-ma-na) 1905 Mrs. P. R. Hackett Work for Burmans, including Pyinmana Agricultural School Morton Lane High and Normal School B. C. Case t * Miss Carrie E. Hesseltine Mrs. B. C. Case * Miss Mildred Mosier Wm, H. Cummings Mrs. Wm. H. Cummings Work for Karens t J. M. Smith * Miss Marion A. Beebe t Mrs. J. M. Smith t A. J. Weeks t Mrs. A. J. Weeks 22. RANGOON (Ran-goon) 1813 (See Note) Work for Mons (Talaings) Miss Lucy P. Bonney R. Halliday C. E. Chaney, D. D.t Mission Sec’y Mrs. R. Halliday Mrs. C. E. Chaney Ellen Mitchell Memorial Hospital Mission Press * Miss Irene Daleen, R. N. Miss Olive A. Hastings, Mission * M'ss Martha Gifford, M. D. Treasurer * Miss Anna B. Grey, M. D. Robert Journey, Asst. Supt. * Miss Selma Maxville R. N. t Mrs. Robert Journey * Miss Lillian Salsman, R. N. James B. Money, Asst. Supt. * Miss Grace Seagrave, M. D. Mrs. James B. Money R. t H. W. Smith, Supt. Work for Indians t Mrs. H.*W. Smith FIELDS AND STATIONS 2 3 7

Judson College 23. SAGAING (Sa-gln6, g is hard) James R. Andrus, A. M. 1888 Mrs. James R. Andrus Work for Burmans Paul J. Braisted, A. M. * Miss Bertha Davis Mrs. Paul J. Braisted * Miss Frieda Peter W. B. Campbell, A. M. Mrs. W. B. Campbell F. G. Dickason, A. M. 24. SANDOWAY (San-do-way) 1888 Mrs. F. G. Dickason IVork for Chins and Burmans G. E. Gates, A. M. t F. R. Bruce Mrs. G. E. Gates, A. M. t Mrs. F. R. Bruce Clarence Hendershot, A. B. * Miss Stella Ragon Mrs. Clarence H ndershot, R. N, * Miss Helen K. Hunt, A. M. 2S-(a) SHWEGYIN (Shwaj-jyin) 1853 t G. S. Jury, A. M. t Mrs. G. S. Jury, A. B. Work for Karens W. L. Keyser, A. B. C. L. Klein * Miss Pauline Meader, A. M. Mrs. C. L. Klein S. H. Rickard, Jr., A. B. Mrs. S. H. Rickard, Jr. .(b) NYAUNGLEBIN (Nong-la'-bin) Wallace St. John, Ph. D., President Work for Karens Mrs. Wallace St. John * Miss Marion E. Shivers, M. S. * Miss Hattie V. Petheram t D. O. Smith. A. B. t Mrs. D. O. Smith 26. TAUNGGYI (Toung-je) 1910 t G. Edward Wiatt, Ph. B. Work for Shans * Miss Eloise Whitwer * Miss Faith Hatch Cushing High School A. H. Henderson, M. D. Mrs. A. H. Henderson t C. R. Chartrand C. H. Heptonstall t Mrs. C. R. Chartrand Mrs. C. H. Heptonstall t * Miss Lizbeth Hughes English Baptist High School * Miss Agnes Whitehead Normal School School for Missionaries' Children Mrs. Beulah N. Allen Work for Burmans Mrs. Agnes E. Raymond G. D. Josif Mrs. G. D. Josif 27. TAVOY (Ta-voy') 1828 t * Miss Mary E. Phillips Work for Burmans Burmese Literary Work M. L. Streeter * Miss Harriet Phinney (at Kalaw) Mrs. M. L. Streeter * Miss Ruth W. Ranney (at Kalaw) Work for Karens t H. H. Tilbe, Ph. D. (at Kalaw) t Mrs. H. H. Tilbe (at Kalaw) W. D. Sutton Mrs. W. D. Sutton Kcmendine Girls’ High School . THARRAWADDY (Thar-ra-wad'- * Miss Laura Johnson 28 * Miss Mary I. Laughlin di) 1889 * Miss Beatrice Pond Work for Karens t * Miss Mary D. Thomas High School Work jor Indians * Miss Gertrude R. Anderson H. O. Wyatt Mrs. H. 0. Wyatt 29. THATON (Tha-ton) 1880 Work for Burmans Work for Karens 30. THAYETMYO (Tha-yet'-mo) 1887 Karen Literary Work Work for Chins t E. N. Harris (at Kalaw) t Mrs. E. N. Harris (at Kalaw) E. C. Condict Mrs. E. C. Condict Pegu Karen High School . THONZE (Thon-ze) * Miss Rachel H. Seagrave 3 1 1855 Work for Burmans Karen Women’s Bible School J. T. Latta * Miss Charity C. Carman Mrs. J. T. Latta * Miss Violetta R. Peterson 32. TOUNGOO (Toungoo) 1853 Work Among English-speaking Peoples Work for Burmans Frank E. Eden t L. B. Rogers Mrs. Frank E. Eden t Mrs. L. B. Rogers 238 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

Work for Bwe Karens Paku Karen High School t J. L. Lewis * Miss Eflie Adams t Mrs. J. L. Lewis t * Miss Grace A. Maine 33. ZIGON (Zee-gön) 1876 Work for Paku Karens Work for Burmans G. E. Blackwell (In charge of J. T. Latta, at Mrs. G. E. Blackwell, R. N. Thonze)

N o t e .—Work was begun in Rangoon in 1813 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.

II. THE ASSAM MISSION Begun 1836 34. FURKATING (formerly Tika) Jorhat Christian Schools Work for Mikirs t S. A. D. Boggs t Mrs. S. A. D. Boggs t W. R. Hutton E. E. Brock t Mrs. W. R. Hutton Mrs. E. E. Brock J. M. Forbes 35. GAUHATI (Gou-hat'-ti) 1843 Mrs. J. M. Forbes Miss Marion G. Burnham, Mission Treasurer and Mission Secretary Gale Memorial Bible School for Women * Miss E. Victoria Christenson Work for Assamese, Garos and Kacharis * Miss Grace Lewison A. C. Davis t * Miss Anna E. Long Mrs. A. C. Davis * Miss E. Marie Holmes Jorhat Hospital * Miss Ethel E. Nichols J. A. Ahlquist, M. D. * Miss Ruth Paul Mrs. J. A. Ahlquist A. J. Tuttle, D. D. * Miss Elna Forsell, R. N. Mrs. A. J. Tuttle t H. W. Kirby, M. D. Miss Lucile Tuttle t Mrs. H. W. Kirby Work for Students 40. KANGPOKPI (Kang-pok-pl) 1919 R. B. Longwell UKHRUL (Oo-krool) 1896 Mrs. R. B. Longwell Work for Nagas William Pettigrew Woman’s Jubilee Hospital Mrs. William Pettigrew * Miss Dorothy J. Kinney, M. D. W. R. Werelius, M. D. * Miss Millie M. Marvin, R. N. Mrs. W. R. Werelius * Miss Alice Randall, M. D. t * Miss Edna M. Stever, R. N. 4 1. KOHIMA (Ko-he'-ma) 1879 Work for Nagas 36. GOALPARA (Go-al-pa'-ra) 1867 B. I. Anderson Work for Rabhas and Garos Mrs. B. I. Anderson (In charge of A. J. Tuttle) G. W. Supplee Mrs. G. W. Supplee t J. E. Tanquist 37. GOLAGHAT (Go-la-ghat) 1898 t Mrs. J. E. Tanquist Work for Assamese and Mikirs 42. NORTH LAKHIMPUR (Lak'-im- * Miss Maza R. Evans poor) O. L. Swanson, D. D. 1895 Mrs. O. L. Swanson Work for Immigrant Peoples * Miss Marion J. Tait W. Cook rs. J. W. Cook . IMPUR (Im'-poor) 38 1893 43. NOWGONG (Nou-gong) 1841 (See Note b) Girls’ Training School Work for Nagas, including the Naga * Miss Edith E. Crisenberry Training School * Miss Elizabeth E. Hay R. R. Wickstrand * Miss Ethel A. Masales Mrs. R. R. Wickstrand t * Miss E. E. Vickland Work for Assamese 39. JORHAT (Jor-hat) 1903 U. S. Grant Sension Work for Assamese Mrs. U. S. Grant Sension FIELDS AND STATIONS 2 3 9

44. SADIYA (Sa-de-yS) 1906 46. TURA (T56'-ra) 1876 (See Note c) Work for Garos F. W. Harding Work for Abors and Miris Mrs. F. W. Harding ohn Selander * Miss Linnie M. Holbrook Irs. John Selander Alfred Merrill Mrs. Alfred Merrill 45. J SIBSAGAR (Sib-saw'-gor), * Miss Fern Rold eluding Dibrugarh, 1841 * Miss Charlotte Wright (See Note o) Hospital Work for Assamese * Miss A. Verna Blakely, R. N. V. H. Sword E. Sheldon Downs, M. D. Mrs. V. H. Sword Mrs. E. Sheldon Downs, R. N.

N ote a.—The first station opened in Assam was Sadiya ( 1836). This was given up in 1839, being reopened in 1906. The oldest station in Assam in continuous occupation is Sibsagar. N ote b.— Work was begun at Molung in 1876, and was transferred to Impur in 1893- N ote c.— Work was begun at Sadiya in 1836, but was given up. In 1906 Sadiya was reopened.

III. THE SOUTH INDIA MISSION Begun 1836 47. ALLUR (Ul-löör) 1873 Hospital E. Bixler Davis J. S. Carman, M. D. Mrs. E. Bixler Davis Mrs. J. S. Carman * Miss Sadie Robbins, R. N. 48. ATMAKUR 55. JANGAON (Jün-gàn') 1901 (In charge of E. Frykenberg, at C. Rutherford Madras) Mrs. C. Rutherford

49. BAPATLA (Ba-püt'-la) 1883 56. KANDUKURU (Kün'-dôô-kôô-rôô) 1893 General Work and Normal Training In­ (Has been transferred to Telugu stitution Baptist Convention) t B. M. Johnson ï Mrs. B. M. Johnson, R. N. 57. KANIGIRI (Kün-ï-gî-rï) 1892 W. Drew Varney G. H. Brock, D. D. Mrs. W. Drew Varney Mrs. G. H. Brock

50. CUMBUM (Küm-büm) 1882 58. KAVALI (Kâ'-vâ-lï) 1893 A. T. Fishman S. D. Bawden, D. D. Mrs. A. T. Fishman Mrs. S. D. Bawden Mrs. Edwin Bullard t * Miss E. Grace Bullard 5 1. DONAKONDA (Dö-na-kön'-da) - * Miss Susan Ferguson 1903 T. A. Curtis, D. D. 59. KURNOOL (Kür-nôôl') 1875 Mrs. J. A. Curtis W. A. Stanton, D. D. Mrs. W. A. Stanton 52. GADVAL (Güd-val') 1903 Coles Memorial High School W . C. Owen B. J. Rockwood Mrs. W. C. Owen Mrs. B. J. Rockwood

53. GURZALLA (Göör-zä'-la) 1895 60. MADIRA (Mü-dï-ra) 1905 E. O. Schugren J. P. Klahsen Mrs. E. O. Schugren Mrs. J. P. Klahsen 61. MADRAS (Mâ-dràs) 1878 54. HANUMAKONDA (Hün-ööW- * Miss Julia Bent kön-dä') 1879 E. Frykenberg t C. R. Manley, M. D. Mrs. E. Frykenberg t Mrs. C. R. Manley S. W. Stenger, Mission Treasurer * Miss Hallie L. Stoudenmire Mrs. S. W. Stenger 240 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

UNION COLLEGES Clough Memorial Hospital and Dispensary Madras Christian College A. G. Boggs, M. D. Mrs. A. G7 Boggs Woman's Union Christian College Ernest Hoisted, M. D. * Miss Eleanor Mason Mrs. Ernest Hoisted, R. N. t * Miss Olive M. Sarber * Miss Sigrid C. Johnson. R. N. * Miss S. Maude McDaniel, R. N. St. Christopher’s College High School 62. MAHBUBNAGAR (Mä-büb-nüg- L. E. Rowland ar) 1885 Mrs. L. E. Rowland J. A. Penner Normal Training School Mrs. J. A. Penner * Miss Helen L. Bailey 63. MARKAPUR (Mär-kü-pöör) 1895 t W. J. Longley 69. PODILI (Po-di-li) 1894 t Mrs. W. J. Longley T. V. Witter Mrs. T. V. Witter 64. NALGÖNDA (Nül-gön'-da) 1890 Cornelius Unruh 70. RAMAPATNAM (Ra'-ma-put’- Mrs. Cornelius Unruh num) 1869 Ramapatnam Baptist Theological Seminary 65. N A N D Y A L (Nün-d!-äl) 1904 W. E. Boggs, D. D. Fred G. Christenson Mrs. W. E. Boggs F. P. Manley, President 66. NARSARAVUPET (När-sä'-rä-vu- Mrs. F. P. Manley pet) 1883 Womans Dispensary and Montgomery t A. M. Boggs Training School for Women t Mrs. A. M. Boggs * Miss Lena Keans * Miss Ursula Dresser L. E. Martin * Miss Jennie Reilly, R. N. Mrs. L. E. Martin * Miss Melissa Morrow 7 1. SATTENAPALLE (Sat-te-na-pul'- le) 1894 67. NELLORE (Nel-lore') 1840 E. C. Erickson (See Note) Mrs. E. C. Erickson Wheeler Boggess Mrs. Wheeler Boggess 72. SECUNDERABAD (Se-kun'-der-a- Coles-Ackerman Memorial High School bad) 1873 L. C. Smith Frank Kurtz, D. D., Mission Sec’y Mrs. L. C. Smith Mrs. Frank Kurtz Elementary and Normal School Preston Institute * Miss Fannie J. Holman t * Miss Kate M. French * Miss Frances Tencate . SOORIAPETT (Sdo-ri-a-pet') Girls’ High School 73 1900 A. J. Hubert * Miss Olive Jones Mrs. A. J. Hubert (Medical Work) Gurley Memorial Woman’s Bible School * Miss Genevra Brunner 74. UDAYAGIRI (Oo-da-ya-gi-ri) 1885 * Miss Margarita Moran F. W. Stait Hospital * Miss Lena Benjamin, M. D. 75- VELLORE t * Miss Helen M. Benjamin, R. N. Woman’s Union Medical College t * Miss Lena English, M. D. * Miss Elsie M. Larson, R. N. * Miss Anna Degen ring, M. D. * Miss Annie Magilton, R. N. * Miss Carol Jameson, M. D. * Miss Elsie M. Morris, M. D. 76. VTNUKONDA (Vln-oo-kon'-da) 68. ONGOLE (On.gole') 1866 1883 * Mjss Amelia E. Dessa * Miss Dorcas Whitaker * Miss Sarah Kelly Philip S. Curtis, Jr. Thorlief Wathrie Mrs. Philip S. Curtis, Jr. Mrs, Thorlief. Wathne * Miss Florence Rowland

N ote.— The South India Mission was begun in 1836 at Vizagapatnam, whence the work was removed in 1837 to Madras. In 1840 it was transferred to Nellore. Madras was reopened in 1878. FIELDS AND STATIONS 241

IV. THE BENGAL-ORISSA MISSION Begun 1826 77. BALASORE (Bäl-a-söre) 1838 82. JAMSHEDPUR (Jam'-shed-pòùr) (See Note) 1919 Lloyd Eller L. F. Marsh Mrs. Lloyd Eller Mrs. L. F. Marsh t H. I. Frost, Principal Boys’ High School 83. KHARGPUR (Kar-ag-pöör) 1902 t Mrs. H. I. Frost E. C. Brush, Mission Treasurer f J. G. Gilson, Technical School Mrs. E. C. Brush t Mrs. J. G. Gilson C. C. Roadarmel * Miss Sarah B. Gowen Mrs. C. C. Roadarmel W. C. Osgood Mrs. W. C. Osgood 84. MIDNAPORE (Mid-nä-pöre') 1844 Girls’ High School (See Note a) * Miss Ethel Cronkite H George Ager (at'Salgodia) * Miss Gladys Garnett tl Mrs. George Ager (at Salgodia) * Miss Mary W. Bacheier, M. D. 78. BHADRAK (Bhüd'-rak) 1890 A. A. Berg W. S. Dunn, Mission Sec’y Mrs. A. A. Berg, R. N. Mrs. W. S. Dunn Geo. B. Harris Mrs. Geo. B. Harris 79. BHIMPORE (Beem-pöre') 1873 J. A. Howard * Miss Grace Hill Mrs. J. A. Howard L. C. Kitchen, Principal Santal t H. C. Long High School t Mrs. H. C. Long Mrs. L. C. Kitchen * Miss Naomi H. Knapp Girls' High School * Miss Ruth M. Daniels 80. CHANDBALI (Chünd'-bali) 1886 * Miss Ada P. Steams 81. CONTAI (Cön-ti) 1892 85. SANTIPORE (Sän-ti-pöre) 1865

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., 1 9 11. Note a.—Work was begun temporarily at Midnapore in 1844, permanently in 1863.

V. THE CHINA MISSION Begun 1836

EAST CHINA 86. HANGCHOW (Hang chou) 1 Tzcn Deh Girls' School t P. R. Bakeman t Mrs. P. R. Bakeman Union Hospital and Dispensary J. W. Decker, Th. D. Mrs. J. W. Decker 88. KINHWA (Kin-whä) 1883 t * Miss Ellen J. Peterson t Mrs. W. S. Sweet J. P. Davies Mrs. J. P. Davies Union Girls' School t * Miss Gertrude F. McCulloch Cheng Mei Girls’ School * Miss Stella Relyea Way land Academy t E. H. Clayton Pickford Memorial Hospital t Mrs. E. H. Clayton Miss Lea Blanche Edgar 89. NANKING (Nän-king) 19 11 87. HUCHOW (Höö-chou) 1888 University of Nanking School of Mother craft College of Agriculture and Forestry * Miss Mary I. Jones * Miss Orma Melton Ginling College 242 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY go. NINGPO (Ning-po) 1843 University of Shanghai Acadcmy H S. S. Beath H. R. S. Benjamin_ Mrs. S. S. Beath * Miss Ruth Bugbee Mrs. H. R. S. Benjamin Victor Hanson General Work Mrs. Victor Hanson t Henry Huizinga, Ph. D. P. J. McLean, Jr. t Mrs. Henry Huizinga Mrs. P. J. McLean, Jr. * Miss Elizabeth Knabe * Miss Dora Zimmerman H. D. Lamson Mrs. H. D. Lamson Hwa Mei Hospital Gordon Poteat * Miss Willie P. Harris, R. N. Mrs. Gordon Poteat t * Miss Esther E. Hokanson, R. N. Miss Annie Root R. E. Stannard, M. D. F. J. White, D. D. Mrs. R. E. Stannard t Mrs. F. J. White Harold Thomas, M. D. t Mrs. Harold Thomas Woman’s Union Medical College * Miss Myrtle Whited, R. N. * Miss Josephine Lawney, M. D. Sarah Batchelor Memorial School for * Miss Hazel Taylor, R. N. Girls Riverside Academy 92. SHAOHING (Zhou-sing) 1869 * Miss Florence Webster * Miss Viola C. Hill t A. I. Nasmith School for Christian Homemakers t Mrs. A. I. Nasmith * Miss Mary Cressey A. F. Ufford Mrs. A. F. Ufford gi. SHANGHAI (Shâng-hî) 1907 The Christian Hospital General Work F. W. Goddard, M. D. t E. H. Cressy, Sec’y China Chris­ Mrs. F. W. Goddard tian Education Association * Miss Charlotte Lamer, R. N. t Mrs. E. H. Cressy t Miss Dora Fensom _ * Miss Katherine Muehl, R. N. L. C. Hylbert, Mission Sec’y Mrs. L. C. Hylbert Industrial Work W. R. Taylor, Mission Treasurer * Miss Helen H. Clark Mrs. W. R. Taylor t * Miss Marie A. Dowling

SOUTH CHINA 93. CHAOCHOWFU (Chou-chou-foo) Josephine Bixby Memorial Hospital 1894 * Miss Katharine Bohn, R. N. B. L. Baker, Mission Secretary * Miss Marguerite Everham, M. D. Mrs. B. L. Baker, M. D. 97. MEIHSIEN (Kaying) 1890 94. CHAO YANG (Chow-yäng) 1905 Kaying Academy J. H. Giffin, D. D. A. F. Groesbeck (Oversight of Mrs. J. H. Giffin Bangkok-Siam) G. E. Whitman Mrs. A. F. Groesbeck Kwong Yit .Girls’ School Hospital * Miss Louise Campbell C. E. Bousfield, M. D. * Miss Anna Foster Mrs. C. E. Bousfield 98. SUNWUHSIEN (Sun-wöö-sien) 95- HOPO (Ho-po) 1907 1915 A. S. Adams 99. SWATOW (Swä-tou) 1860 t Mrs. A. S. Adams (See Note) Fannie Treat Doane Memorial School General Work Miss Beatrice Ericson 96. KITYANG (Kit-yäng) 1896 E. S. Burket Mrs. E. S. Burket E.' H. Giedt A. H. Page Mrs. E. H. Giedt t Mrs. A. H. Page Bruno H. Luebeck * Miss Edith G. Traver FIELDS AND STATIONS 2 4 3

Ashmore Theological Seminary Woman's Bible School K. G. Hobart t * Miss Elsie Kittlitz Mrs. K. G. Hobart * Miss Edna D. Smith G. H. Waters t * Miss Melvina Sollman Mrs. G. H. Waters * Mrs. Prudence Worley Swatow Academy Scott and Thresher Memorial Hospital R. T. Capen* * Miss Velva V. Brown. M. D. Mrs. R. T. Capen * Miss Dorothy Campbell, R. N. * Miss Mabelle Culley * Miss Evelyn M. Stephens, R. N. * Miss Abbie G. Sanderson * Miss Marion Stephens, M. D. Swatow Christian Institute . UNGKUNG (Ung-kung) * Miss Enid P. Johnson 100 1892 Mrs. Jacob Speicher * Miss Fannie Northcott, R. N.

N ote.— Work was begun in Macao in 1836. In 1842 this was transferred to Hong- kong and thence in i 860 to Swatow.

WEST CHINA 10 1. CHENGTU (Cheng-too) 1909 C. G. Vichert Mrs. C. G. Vichert General Work Chester F. Wood * Miss Beulah Bassett Mrs. Chester F. Wood * Miss Ada L. Nelson H. J. Openshaw, D. D., Mission Boarding and Day-school Secretary * Miss Lettie Archer t Mrs. H. J. Openshaw * Miss Astrid Peterson Union Normal School for Young Women Hospital * Miss Minnie Argetsinger C. E. Tompkins, M. D. Mrs. C. E. Tompkins West China Union University * Miss Frida Wall, R. N. * Miss Myrtle Denison, R. N. * Miss Sara B. Downer W. H. Doane Memorial Hospital D. S. Dye * Miss Emilie Bretthauer, M. D. Mrs. D. S. Dye * Miss L. Jennie Crawford, R. N. t J. E. Moncrieff * Miss Marion Criswell, M. D. t Mrs. J. E. Moncrieff t * Miss Frances Therolf, R. N. W. R. Morse, M. D. Monroe Academy Mrs. W. R. Morse D. L. Phelps Mrs. D. L. Phelps 1 0 4 . YACHOW (Ya-jo) 18 9 4 Joseph Taylor, D. D. M. O. Brininstool Mrs. Joseph Taylor Mrs. M. O. Brininstool, R. N. t * Miss Emma Brodbeck 102. KIATING (Ja-ding) 1894 * Mrs. Anna M. Salquist J. C. Jensen F. N. Smith Mrs. J. C. Jensen t Mrs. F. N. Smith L. A. Lovegren Briton Corlies Memorial Hospital Mrs. L. A. Lovegren R. L. Crook, M. D. . SUIFU (Swafoo) Mrs. R. L. Crook 103 1889 John E. Lenox, M. D. General Work Mrs. John E. Lenox t D. C. Graham t * Miss Esther Nelson, R. N. t Mrs. D. C. Graham * Miss Carrie Shurtleff, R. N.

VI. THE JAPAN MISSION Begun 1872 105. HIMEJI (Hi-ma'-ji) 1907 106. INLAND SEA 1899 Willard Topping * Miss Amy Acock Mrs. Willard Topping M. D. Farnum Mrs. M. D. Farnum Hinomoto Girls’ School * Miss Louise F. Jenkins 107. KOBE (Kó'-bé) 1881 t * Miss Vida Post t * Miss Edith Wilcox, Principal t * Miss Jessie M. G. Wilkinson 244 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

1 08. KYOTO (Kyo-to) ifi07 114 . TOKYO (To-kyd) 1874 General Work 109. MITO '(Me’-to) 1889 t * Miss M. M. Carpenter, Star Light Kindergarten n o. MORIOKA (Mo-rf-6-ka) 1887 J. F. Gressitt, Mission Treasurer Mrs. J. F. Gressitt * Miss Thomasine Allen S. Kennard, Jr., Ph. D. F. W. Steadman rs. J. S. Kennard, Jr. Miss Florence Nystrom Mrs. F. W. Steadman * Miss Gertrude E. Ryder, Young Woman’s Dormitory in. TONO (To'-no) Miss Elma R. Tharp, Mission Sec’y t William Wynd Pure Light Kindergarten t Mrs. William Wynd * Miss Annie S. Buzzell Misaki Tabernacle t William Axling, D. D. 1 12 . OSAKA (Oh-saka) 1892 t Mrs. William Axling W. W. Parkinson J. A. Foote, D. D. Mrs. W. W. Parkinson Mrs. J. A. Foote Tokyo Union College Bible Training School—Mead Christian Waseda University Social Center H. B. Benninghoff, D. D. t * Miss Amy R. Crosby Mrs. H. B. Benninghoff * Miss Margaret Cuddeback * Miss Ann M. Kludt 1 15 . YOKOHAMA (Yo-ko-ha'-ma) 1872 Mabie Memorial School 113 . SENDAI (Sen-dl) 1882 J. H. Co veil Mrs. J. H. Covell t C. H. Ross R. H. Fisher t Mrs. C. H. Ross Mrs. R. II. Fisher D. C. Holtom, Ph. D „ D. D. Ella O. Patrick Home School Mrs. D. C. Holtom t C. B. Tenny, D. D. * Miss Alice Bixby t Mrs. C. B. Tenny * Miss Freda J. Clause Mary L. Colby School, Kanagawa t * Miss Mary D. Jesse * Miss Winifred M. Acock * Miss Georgia M. Newbury * Miss Agnes Meline * Miss Helen L. Wilson t * Miss Ruth S. Ward

VII. THE CONGO MISSION Adopted 1884 116 . BANZA MANTEKE (Man-te'-ka) 119 . LEOPOLDVILLE (Reopened 1929) 1879 Henry Erickson * Miss Mary Bonar Miss Linda Erickson, Acting Mis­ M. S. Engwall sion Treasurer Mrs. M. S. Engwall P. A. MacDiarmid, Mission Sec’y J. E. Geil Mrs. P. A. MacDiarmid Mrs. J. E. Geil 120. MOANZA (Mo-an-za) Hospital * Miss Agnes H. Anderson, R. N. * Miss Esther Ehnbom, R. N. T. E. Bubeck H. M. Freas, M. D. Mrs. T. E. Bubeck Mrs. H. M. Freas H. A. Sodergren Mrs. H. A. Sodergren 117 . KIKONGO B. W. Armstrong 12 1. SONA BATA (So-na Ba-ta') 1890 Mrs. B. W. Armstrong * Miss Vendla Anderson C. E. Smith Ernest Atkins Mrs. C. E. Smith Mrs. Ernest Atkins, R. N. * Miss Ruth E. Dickey 118 . KIMPESE (Kim-pes-si) 1908 t Lester O. Hooks t Mrs. Lester O. Hooks Kongo Evangelical Training Institution Ulric A. Lanoue G.W. Carpenter Mrs. Ulric A. Lanoue * Miss Catharine L. Mabie, M. D. Thomas Moody, D. D. t S. E. Moon Mrs. Thomas Moody t Mrs. S. E. Moon t * Miss Etelka M. Schaffer FIELDS AND STATIONS 2 4 5

Hospital Tremont Hospital t J. C. King, M. D. t * Miss Anna M. Hagquist, R. N. t Mrs. J. C. King G. W. Westcott, M. D. * Miss Emily Sattsrberg, R. N. Mrs. G. W. Westcott, R, N. Glen W. Tuttle, M. D. Mrs. Glen W. Tuttle 123. VANGA (Van-ga*) 1913 * Miss Dorothea Witt, M. D. Mrs. Hilda J. Bain L. A. Brown t Mrs. L. A. Brown 12 2. TONDO 1894 ' Elmer G. Hall Henry D. Brown Mrs. Elmer G. Hall Mrs. Henry £>. Brown t * Miss Helen Raff * Miss Marguerite Eldredge Hospital P. C. Metzger t * Miss Alice Jorgenson, R. N. Mrs. P. C. Metzger t W. H. Leslie, M. D. t * Miss Edna Oden t Mrs. W. H. Leslie W. E. Rodgers A. C. E. Osterholm, M. D. Mrs. W. E. Rodgers Mrs. A. C. E. Osterholm

VIII. THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS MISSION Begun 1900 124. BACOLOD (Bä-kö'-löd) Negros Central Philippine College and General (Nä-gros) Island, 1901 Work * Miss May Coggins A. E. Bigelow, D. D., Mission t Fred B. Ford Treasurer f Mrs. Fred B. Ford Mrs. A. E. Bigelow Miss Ruth L. Harris 125. CAPIZ (Cäp'-es) Panay Island, Miss Bertha Houger D. F. Perron 1903 Mrs. D. F. Perron S. S. Feldmann, Mission Sec’y F. H. Rose Mrs. S. S. Feldmann Mrs. F. H. Rose t Mrs. P. Somberger Emmanuel Hospital t H. F. Stuart, President * Miss Jennie C. Adams, R. N. t Mrs. H. F. Stuart F. W. Meyer, M. D. t * Miss Leonette Warburton, Baptist Mrs. F. W. Meyer Student Center * Miss Flora G. Ernst, R. N. Union Hospital Home School Percy G. Grigg, M. D. t * Miss Irene Dolbey + D. L. Johnson, M. D. * Miss Areola Pettit f Mrs. D. L. Johnson, R. N. * Miss Hazel O. Mann, R. N. 126. ILOILO (E -lo -e -1 6 ) including * Miss Dorothy Stevens, R. N. JARO (Ha - ro) Panay (Pa - ni) Island, 1900 POTOTAN (Pö-tö-tän) Bible and Kindergarten Training School Kindergarten and School * Miss Frieda L. Appel * Miss Olive R. Buchner 12 7 . SAN JOSE (Sän-hö-sä') 1927 t * Miss Dorothy A. Dowell, Principal t H. W. Munger * Miss Signe Erickson t Mrs. H. W. Munger t * Miss Selma G. Lagergren, Young E. F. Rounds Women’s Dormitory Mrs. E. F. Rounds

IX. EUROPE The Society maintains cooperative relationships with autonomous Baptist organiza­ tions in eleven countries in Europe as follows: Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Russia, and Sweden, this ar­ rangement having been made in accordance with decisions of the General Baptist Conference in London in July, 1920. Special Representative in Europe: Rev. W. p . Lewis, 48 Rue de Lille, Paris, France. 2 4 6 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

RETIRED OR NOT IN ACTIVE SERVICE * Miss Kate W. Armstrong T. D. Holmes William Ashmore, D. D. Mrs. T. D. Holmes Mrs. William Ashmore Mrs. G. J. Huizinga * Miss Lucy L. Austin G. A. Huntley, M. D. Mrs. J. R. Bailey Mrs. G. A. Huntley J. M. Baker Mrs. Jennie B. Johnson Mrs. J. M. Baker E. H. Jones Mrs. C. B. Banks Mrs. E. H. Jones C. H. Barlow, M. D. Mrs. Geo. H. Kampfer Mrs. C. H. Barlow Mrs. Chas. S. Keen W. F. Beaman Mrs. E. W. Kelly, M. D. Mrs. A. A. Bennett Mrs. H. A. Kemp Mrs. L. W. Bickel A. L. Kennan Mrs. W. B. Boggs F. II. Levering, M. D. A. C. Bowers Mrs. F. H. Levering Mrs. A. C. Bowers Mrs. G. W. Lewis F. J. Bradshaw Eric Lund, D. D. Mrs. F. J. Bradshaw Mrs. Eric Lund * Mrs. F. C. Briggs Franklin P. Lynch, M. D. Zo D. Browne C. F. Mackenzie, M. D. Mrs. Zo D. Browne C. R. Marsh Mrs. Walter Bushell Mrs. C. R. Marsh Mrs. George Campbell M. C. Mason, D. D. * Miss Elizabeth Carr Mrs. M. C. Mason Mrs. J. M. Carvell Mrs. John McLaurin J. E. Case * Miss Lavinia Mead * Mile. Alice Chazot * Mrs. H. W. Mix Mrs. Arthur Christopher P. E. Moore * Miss Mary A. Clagett Mrs. P. E. Moore Mrs. Jos. Clark Mrs. L. H. Mosier Mrs. E. R. Clough H. R. Murphy, M. D. H. P. Cochrane Mrs. H. R. Murphy * Miss Clara Converse Mrs. J. Newcomb Mrs. F. D. Crawley C. A. Nichols, D. D. Mrs. L. W. Cronkhite Mrs. C. A. Nichols Mrs. B. P. Cross J. H. Oxrieder, D. D. * Miss Annie Crowl Mrs. J. H. Oxrieder Mrs. A. H. Curtis Mrs. John Packer A. C. Darrow, D. D. Mrs. W. B. ParsWey Mrs. A. C. Darrow Mrs. Joseph Paul W. S. Davis Mrs. J. T. Proctor Mrs. W. S. Davis * Miss Mary L. Riggs Mrs. J. L. Dearing * Miss Clara E. Righter Mrs. W. F. Dowd S. W. Rivenburgh, M. D. Mrs. David Downie Mrs. S. W. Rivenburgh William Dring Mrs. W. H. Roberts Mrs. William Dring H. E. Safford John Dussman Mrs. H. E. Safford F. H. Eveleth, D. D. Mrs. J. H. Scott W. L. Ferguson Mrs. A. E. Seagrave Mrs. W. L. Ferguson E. E. Silliman Mrs. J. G. Fetzer Mrs. E. E. Silliman John Firth Miss Anna H. Smith Mrs. C. H. D. Fisher A. E. Stephen Mrs. E. N. Fletcher Mrs. E. O. Stevens Mrs. J. M. Foster * Miss Margaret Suman Url M. Fox Mrs. F. P. Sutherland Mrs. Url M. Fox Mrs. W. F. Thomas Mrs. P. Frederickson * Miss Thora M. Thompson Mrs. C. B. Glenesk J. S. Timpany, M. D. * Mrs. J. R. Goddard Mrs. J. S. Timpany Z. F. Griffin R. A. Thomson, D. D. S. W. Hamblen Mrs. R. A. Thomson Mrs. S. W. Hamblen Henry Topping Mrs. Geo. H. Hamlen Mrs. Henry Topping Mrs. Ola Hanson Mrs. E. Tribolet Mrs. Robert Harper * Miss Louise Tschirch Mrs. C. K. Harrington Mrs. W. O. Valentine Mrs. C. H. Harvey * Miss Lillian V. Wagner Jacob Heinrichs Mrs. Robert Wellwood Mrs. Jacob Heinrichs * Miss Isabella Wilsoa G. W. Hill Mrs. W. E. Witter FIELDS AND STATIONS

DEATHS

Mrs. Julia P. Burkholder Mrs. Albert Loughridge Mrs. H. P. Cochrane R. Maplesden D. C. Gilmore *Miss Alta Ragon Thomas Hill Paul A. Sornberger Mrs. Thomas Hill W. E. Witter Mrs. Geo. J. Geis

RESIGNATIONS

Dana M. Albaugh B. B. Hathaway Mrs. Dana M. Albaugh Mrs. B. B. Hathaway W. B. Charles F. G. Leasure Mrs. W. B. Charles Mrs. F. G. Leasure Walfred Danielson Max Miles, M. D. Mrs. Walfred Danielson Mrs. Max Miles *Miss Susan Roberts

MARRIAGES

Miss Lola M. Anderson to Alfred C. Davis Miss J. Adelle Baldwin to Ulric A. Lanoue Miss Vera A. Gibbs to M. Vincent Young

MISSIONARIES UNDER APPOINTMENT

Ernest Ackley *Miss Goldie Nicholson *Miss Eva Gruen B. A. Slocum R. W. Holm Mrs. B. A. Slocum Mrs. R. W. Holm *Miss Pauline Ware THE BURMA MISSION (h). Table 1 THE BURMA MISSION (h). Table 2

Missionaries Native Workers Other Phy­ ----- Evan­ sicians Medicai 8BQ gelistic Teachers and Assis. CD CO a Workers Nurses tanti 53 '<3 WORK AITO STATIONS a o Ao a ■o a « 03 0) a s b 2 a 1 o tä 3 -o 1 I £ 1 o os o O til S *40) E n 3 « A o D JV ► 1 o ! s 3 c *n Æ s ! Ö *3 t a S ! a § s" a) 03 5 a © 2 « Men Women Teachers Men Women Men a 3 a OOO 26 *17 *1 *18 __! » u i ■ 3, Rangoon Baptist Schools (a) — l 1 (2) 9 37 16 (i): 53 4 Theological Seminaries 2 1! 35!. J 5 5 Bunn an Theological Sem. (b) 3 3 1 (4) 7 3 3 ::::::: ...... 2! 110 <> 6 Karen Theological Sem. (c)__ 1 1 2 (4) 4 7 4 " 11 i 7 V Burmans 415 3 224 — 8 8 Bassein______?? 1 (2) 5 2 9 1 10 53 318 270 594 13 480 .. n 9 Henzada ______1 1 1 (?,) » 5 8 1 23 29 66 323 106! 429 1 102 ..'10 10 Mandalay .. ______1 1 3 (4) 5 9 3 12 2R (6): 44 30!) 3 146 -.11 0 162 147 11 Maymyo ______2 3 (1 ) 7 4 3 l 10 18 SO 53 133 3 119 -. 12 12 Meiktila (inc. Thazi) ______1 . . . 1 2 4 1 12 8 25 __ 1 *303 *8 *584 .. 13 13 Moulmein ______l 1 2 .... (3) 4 *2 ..... *1 !___ 25 ------.... (5) ,‘U 104 3 110 __ 14 14 .... 70 Myingyan ...... 2 9! 19 (5); 169 149 318 7 261 _. in 15 P e g u ______1 1 1 3 0 3 4 *4 *11 24 270 200 470 6 264 . n; 1« Prome ______1 ... 1 1 .... (1 ) 3 2 0 2 3 1 ...... 14 *174 *100 *334 *6 *193 . 17 17 Pyapon ______1 (1 ) 1 *2 4 4 (1) 15 *375 *211 *586 *14 *751 . . IS 18 Pyirmiana ______2 l 3 (3) 6 *4 *1 *23 *10 *(3) *42 __ *840 *26 *1040 -- 1!» 19 Rangoon ______3 _ 3 8 (4Ì 14 *S *9 *5 1 221 (1) 45 46 ’ 40 86 2 81 ....20 20 Sagaing------__ _ 2 (2) 2 1 3 11 1 16 *210 *45 *255 *8 *io: ... 21 21 Tavoy ______1 _ 1 ?, *5 *1 *5 *14 "‘(2) *25 «5 *51 *50 *1 *48 *12 22 Thaton ______*1 *11 200 200 400 6 205 23 Thonze ______1 __ __ (1 ) 2 ? 4 4 4 12 “ (i) 26 97 205 3 139 24 25 10S Toungoo ______... 1 —- .... (1 ) 2 1 2 1 8 13 ...... 135 130 265 3 10-1 25 Zigon ______i: 3 6 5 15 (6192) (116) (6578) 20 Totals, Uunnans______(15) (4) (19) (23) . . . . (25) (61) (46): (60) (26) (138) (248) ------(1 )|—- '(2 4 ) (519) +Ü " ’ ’ to 117 tl j 22 27 Chinese ______(1 ) (1 ) . 1 +1 +3 28 +2 Cliins *8S0 *700 *1580 +30 +691 29 Haka ______... 2 .... a ) 4 *8!' *8 +3 ------19 891 15 344 30 Sandoway ______1 l i ) 3 5! 4 3 rj ~ 14 31 ’ *372 ” *270 *042 *0. *254 31 Thuyetmyo ______. _ 1 9 *2 *6 *8 *3 (3 1 1 3 ) (51) (1289) 32 Totals, Chins ._ . ___ _ (4) (4) (1 ) a ) (1) (9) (15) (18) (11 ) id (14) 33 ( English-speaking Peoples 50 35 85 2 165 34 Maymyo . ______1 9 1 1 1 84 180 204 1 165 35 Moulmein______4 (4) 5 11 (1) 11 162 135 297 1 148 3(1 36 Rangoon ______1 9 1 __ 5 9 (1) 15 37 Totals, English-speaking (296) (350) (646) (4) (478) __ |37 Peoples ______(S) (2) (4) (4) (9) (2) (1 ) (1 ) (5) (20) (29) 1290 642 1932 7 293 ....¡38 38 Indians ______1 9, 4 14 4 29 17 68 ¡3» 39 Kachins 40 1 o 1 r*» 1 * 1 cc 40 Bhamo ______1 3 ” ’ *578 ” *1448 * .3 ” "*207 ¡41 41 M yitkyina______1 9 *6 *1 *27 *2 *36 1933 17 724 ¡42 42 Namkliam ______1 9 4 20 20 5 49 1 (3381) (20) (931) ¡....¡43 43 Totals, Kachins ______(4) (3) (7) (10)(21) (47) (7) (85) 44 44 Karens !... .145 4491------2697 3010 5707 20 990 45 Bassein—Pwo ______1 1 (1 ) 3 22 30 6 9 7 (3) 74 +8500 +7500 +16000 tl69 +8210 .,46 46 Bassein—Sgaw______1 1 1 (2) 3 +54 +131 tl6 +167 +170 t538 7076 80 1943 .¡47 o 342 (38) 3112 3964 47 Henzada—Sgaw ______1 (2) 18 52 15 79 72 "(5) 236 *525 *554 *1079 *12 *684 .¡48 48 Loikaw ______. . ____ *3 *16 *1 *12 *1 *33 1122 2143 23 443 .149 49 Maubin—Pwo ______3 3 3 70 161 1021 .150 (1 ) 6 24 20 17 226 2498 2910 5408 +23 1637 50 Moulmein—Sgaw ______1 1 (1 ) 3 16 5?, 12 9 10 !51 Ò1 Rangoon—P w o ______--- __ _ _ 567 ” 0347 7334 X368Ï " m 3889 52 Rangoon—Sgaw ______1 1 (1 ) 3 47 140 14 186 197 _ 684 53 Shwegyin—Sgaw (inc. Nyaun- 339 (27) 2046 2260 4306 21 1224 glebin) ______1 1 __ (1 ) 3 12 67 8 24 18 _ 129 +1343 +1665 +3008 +10 +694 M Tavoy—Sgaw ______1 (1 ) 9 +8 +26 +4 +44 +66 +148 1414 1492 2906 30 1215 5ft Tharrawaddy—Sgaw _■_____ 1 1 4 g 113 (44) (1 ) 10 38 80 1683 1614 3297 19 961 56 Toungoo—Bwe . . ______1 1 (1) 3 12 49 *39 *23 *2255i ‘ 2528 *4783 *16: *1010 57 Toungoo—Paku ______1 1 3 (î) (1 ) *8 *43 *2 *11 *8 (2277) (109) [33441)¡(35953) (69394) (523) (22900) 58 Totals, Karens______(8) (1 ) (9) (1 1 ) a ) (13) (29) (216) (668) (85) (609) (600) 59 Shans and Lahus bO Bhamo ______1 _ 1 __ __ 2 . ___ . . , _ _ 61 Kengtung and Pang Wai (g). 2 3 4 __ (3) 0 ) 9 7 40 28 3 +1 t» 62 Mong Mong and.Bana ( e ) __ 2 1 2 __ 5 *17 *71 *15 *3 _ 63 Mongnai (inc. Lollem )____ - 6 4 1 9 «Î 1 9 1 64 Namkham______1 1 (1 ) 2 3 2 1 7 5 6 _ i 6b Taunggyi ______1 1 2 3 (1 ) (2) 7 *1 *6 *1 *13 *17 *2 «•?__: 66 Totals, Shans and Lahus— (6) (6)(10) (3) (5) (3) (25) (34) (123) (3) (72) (33) (1 ) (10) (4) (5J , 6VMons (Talaings) 68 Moulmein ______1 _ 1 6 (6) 8 3 4 1 6 2 8 1 . 69 School for Miss. Children ____ _ 2 (1 ) 2 __ 70 Missionaries on Furlough____ (19) (8) (29) 8 li) (13) (64) ------71 Totals for Burma M ission___ 50 23 67 58 (14) (73) 198 330 910 131 983 962 1 14 4 6 , 1 249 248 THE BURMA MISSION (h). Table 3 THE BURMA MISSION (h). Table 4

Educational Statistics Medical Statistics Native Contributions

Pupils Pupils Pupils a WORK AND STATIONS Ci<=) 00 § •2 fc* a o eo a vs S52 2 • > o A hD £ ■ 1 3 ’S « CD £u £ bC HI© ta !: X bo WS Z n DO 6 ■S'Sos a S '3 l l & *> — 5 a •n’° 53 i o ; « O o o o 1 2 l ! - 0*H HO |S ! O ftn1 qa BO W ! 5 Baptist Mission Press ______!____;____ $282 Judson College ~ ______i *201 *77 *278 *$10166 *$41636 2 $1748,. 1748 3 Rangoon Baptist Schools (a) 2i 431 273 (3)j 1074 25425! 16906 Theological Seminaries 4 Burman Theological Sem. (b) •2321l. *2821 5 ‘ 35 2040;. 2640 6 Karen Theological Sem. (c) .. I--J 186 537 j. Burmans 7 Bassein ______6383 384 _____ !_____ $726 1110 8 4 1 M0 4 (3) 1040' 8024' 511 1S Pyinmana ______*1! *38 *85 *1 *125 *6! *776 *6517 *8757 Rangoon ______<____ ;____ *1327------*1327 19 2 !______(1 ) 149 (2)i (2) 539 14488 9602 Sagaing ------______j____ 2402 36______— ; 41 77.20 1 56 2 ¡ 176 232 4144 *318 21 T a v o y i ______j ______* 2 9 X 6 i *136! *182------____ *1 *336 *3. *174 *510 *4715 *109 22 T h aton ______j ______j____ * 2 8 7 2 *1647 *109!______■...... I...... - i *1 *34 *2 *200 *234 308;______I----- 779 23 Thonze ______I ______j ______2 270 390 2241 2117 •1 (d)233| (d)67;----- 450 24 Toungoo ______;____ j____ 1 97 5 fli (2) 450 3333! 2532 258 25 Z ig on ______315' 3460 1633 200 _____ 1 315 (166) (16) (7571) (2970)¡ (53) (14009) 20 Totals, Burmans ______(9) (435) (1) (8 5 ) (28) (3460) (50) (4127) (88) i (24) (8595): (99485) (90466) (1) (7985) Chinese______+78 +78'27 +1 +i|------+291 +79 . 128 Chins *1047 29 Haka ______+3 +751...... 249 30 Sandoway ...... 2 49 13 15 (2) 339j 1093 2130 *207 31 Thayetmyo______*1 *97 *8 *205 *9 ‘ (3) *305! *1063 *1373 (1503):32 Totals, Chins ______(3) (146) (2 4 ) (573) (27); (5) (719)! (2156) (3503) English-speaking Peoples Maymyo ______Moulmein ______Till_ 3 .__ 173! 11103i 3513 Rangoon ______1; 248 1;_ 285, 15288 5115 Totals, English -sp ea k in g Peoples ______(248) (55) (Dl (51) (MM (1) !------(458) (26391)1 Indians ______550 153 l: 86 427 9 (1) 12161 87811 Kachins Bhamo ______*484 Myitkyina ______*22 *17 j *18 +(16) *805 *145 *1636 Namkham ______4827 494 120 17 18 (13) 714 233 (978) Totals, Kachins______(142) (34) (1377) (36); (29) (1519) (378)j (6463) Karens 1895 2094 Bassein—Pwo ______33 579 42 48 (47) 2491 4301 ! 3861 +22642 +42396 +18110 Bassein—Sgaw ______+61 +1091 +157 +5940 +166;+(162) +7128 +4856! 6139 13284 312S 9226 Henzada—Sgaw ______73 364 66 69: (66) 3600 40231 *1052; *184 Loikaw ______*67 *9 *231 *10 *(9) *298 *140 ! *1551 1084 406 Maubin—Pwo ______5 202 24 ! (17) 1021 3171! 6121 0439 1072 Moulmein—Sgaw ______77 124 *5! 4 ___ 402 8881; 8643 Rangoon—Pwo ______9009 Rangoon—Sgaw ______111 47P0 91! (90) ” 5487 88641 18889 Shwegyin—Sgaw (inc. Nyaun- 1404 3762 2133 glebin) ______1 9 7 499 35 115? 43 (43)1 1609 2222 9116 +6018 +12318 Tavoy—Sgaw ______tl +14 tl3 +348 +47! +22v t«l +(59) +2615 +1733 +18560 "2® 1473 140 Tharrawaddy—Sgaw ______1 14 1 9 0 4 (4) 405 6500 4151 1412 19 Toungoo—Bwe______1 106 3S 10 (10): 474 2377! 2759 *217 *1255 *831 Toungoo—Paku ______” * ì *52 ” *32 *27 *959 *2; *30____ *1260 *4757' *8019 (80226) (57812) ------(23280) Totals, Karens ______(13) (733) (429) (68) (4540) (479)| (2114?) (560) (507) (26850) (51825) (113538) Shans and Lahus Bhamo ______40 (16) 677 59; 3714 +10520 +10 +2010 +620 13______i +83 Kengtung and Pang Wai (g). 84 341 *280 *782!______'------!■ Mong Mong and Bana (e) __ *176 *301 *3« *31_____ *562 *1071. *2 *527 2614 3 12 6697 113 2431 461 304 ______Mongnai (inc. Loilem) _____ 103 2 ! 1Ï 255 140_____ 1373 ; 362 2000 3 754 7668 791 4323 1847 Namkham ______18 16 6 *1790! *1826 *218, *2738 _____ ■. Taunggyi ------*9 6 *744 *6125 *8724 *4 *8126 *54 *152 *5 *( ) (914) (11081)1(5034) (1517) (2738) (1456): (085) Totals, Shans and Lahus __ (18) (54) (4) (81) (531) (77) (91) Í22) (2600) (17052) (12) (766) (33011) Mons (Talaings) 442 11586 8482 329: 282 821 Moulmein ______41 173 2818 School for Miss. Children____ Missionaries on Furlough____ $13532 $98776 $73645 $1591 $28815 $202827 71 71 Totals for Burma Mission 201 Tl 28 2451 116 118 «77 SW51 830 (591) 43732 $308408 43814 251* 250 THE ASSAM MISSION (h). Table 1 THE ASSAM MISSION (h). Table 2 Missionaries Native Workers Other Phy- Evan­ Teachers alci ans Medie») g gelistic and Auk- Workers Nurses tantf £P s WORK AND STATIONS •d 3 a r as 1 1 l a « ’S 3 c « 'S 1» a 0 I s i Women Men Women Women Men Number oi Number Lines (including Widows) Single Women Single Men, Ordained Men, Unordained Men, WomenMarried £ Teachers h § a *

72 Abors and Mirls 73 Sadiya (I) ______1 1 (2) 2 ? 7 12 2 74 Assamese 75 Gauhati (inc. w o r k f o r Kacbaris) ______8 8 10 (4) (3) 16 9 59 10 31 8 4 76 fiolaghftt. (j) ...... 1 1 2 4 2 16 2 16 9 77 Jorbat ______2 2 1 (3) _____ 5 t 8 Jorhat Christian Schools— 3 — 3 3 ------(6) 9 79 1 1 9 2 21 13 80 Nowgong ...... 1 — 1 4 ----- (4) 6 3 1 6 12 ------.... — -!—. 81 Sadiya ...... - 82 Sibsagar ______Ì — ! 1 2 12 9 3 83 (10) rsvrm (20) '(7) 03) (44) (7) (118) (16) (96) (30) '(5) '(«)!*(!> Garos I84 85 35 41 86 87 9 1 3 4 (3) (3) 10 4 42 166 10 t) <, 88 (2) (i) (3) (4) (3) (3) (10) (4) (77) C207) (10) (2)' (!) 89 Kacharis AO 7 8 91 L ’hotas I 9? tl +9 ___¡....L 93 Mikirs 94 1 1 ? 4 12 8 95 Nagas 96 1 1 (1) 4 69 64 4 2 3 3 97 ? i ' (2) fi 9 45 39 08 Impur ______1 2 1 . 58 59 2 99 Totals, Nagas______(4) m (1) (4) (12) (10) (172) (162) (6) (2) (5)j (3) 100 Missionaries on Furlough___ (3) 8 (4) "(3) (2) (3).(11) ______101 Totals ior Assam M ission__ 18 & 24 (11) (22) 70 24 394 16 497 51 2 5 13j ! * THE SOUTH INDIA MISSION (h). Table THE SOUTH INDIA MISSION (h). Table 1 2 458 2| 60 40!___ 102 57 18 14 135 1117 21 102 Allur ...... 1 21 1 1 _____ j____ *4. *1391 *52 *191 *3| *103 Itti 103 Atmakur ______*7 2215 10-1 __ 126 72 194 ” l30 4i)55] 3819; 8474; 80 104 Bapatla ______"Ì 2 '(Ì) (2) 87 19 (l) 33881 2844 6232! *75| 2000 ior> 1 1 1 li—- 132 75 27 101 io<; 105 Cumbum ______(1) 82 35 49 147 (95) 3340 2600 5940, 56! 1684 (1) 1 i 3 112 56 107 106 Donakonda _ ___ (1) 29 45 19 211 (20) 1712' 1415 i 3127 23! 470 1 39 5 108 107 Gadval . ____ (2) 22 8 9 500 24301 1832; 4202; 15' 503 108 Gurzalla ______1 12 7 57 410 109 (3)| 35 2 17 129 '(50) 870j 410! 1280! 109 Hanumakonda _ _ "*2 2 2 (3) (1) 11 4 2 15 123 (3) 3 9 6 j 282! 678! 186 110 110 Jangaon ______1 (2) 13 3 34 111 112 111 Kandukuru (m) ______--- ” 318 '(56) ’ 4252i" 3193 7445. 1 2 1 ; "'2 5 3 0 (2) ’ 286 (8) 120 104 ' 113 112 Kanigiri _____ Ì "Ì47 “ 73 (40) 9 0 4 1 617: 1581; 25 1328 58 (4) 17 7 117 114 113 K ava li______1 3 (3) 25 IB 422 2900j 2101 500l! 81! 1895 (•i) 158 (14) 69 -23 (14) 115 114 Kurnool ______2 (1) 80 53 2032! 1728 3760; 46! 1275 73 (2) 29;; 50 210 (50) 115 Madira 1 (2) 81 21 116 253; 164 417! 17 1393 110 56 (2) 2 5 117 116 Madras (n) ______2 3 (2) 18 20 9! 22 *506 2 75 1 32 (1) i 2 118 117 Mahbubnagar . . ______6 1 1 2 30; 285 1390;" 1779 3169 4 211 118 Markapur ______1 36 4 51 (1) 5500; 36 446 1 11!) 121 17 521 375 (7) 3000! 2500 ( ) 119 Nalgonda ______1 11 27 (15) 1171 13 407 |120 31 18 5! 88 6951 476 120 N andyal______1 17 8 42; 436 40281 2761 6789 J75 J1879 121 121 Narsaravupet______1 2 2 35 15 63 1 Ü) 3 55 1720 122 "(2) (9)| 95 (3) 17 10; 105 (ID 10331 1841 122 Nellore ______2 11 '(6) (6); 23 30 211 ; 4830 - (::> ( ) 123 510 (15) 97 220 1205 (232) 8618! 6334' 14952; 2 123 Ongole _____ " 2 4 5 (5) (2) 252 143 (5)| 2293! 1753 40461 40; 1152 124 102 (1) 56 7 290 125 124 Podlli . . . . „ __ 1 43 34 (6) 302 203; 565! 230 125 Ramapatnam ______2 2 6 "i ” '42 “ ’ 24 126 ‘(Ì) (2), 126 Theological Seminary _____ — 2 — 2 ‘ (2) 4 4 1__ 5 1336 865; 22011 127 1 46 22 15 101 128 127 SattenapaUe ______2 29 8 1 7 20 (2) 115 86 201: 245 128 Secunderabad ______1 1 (1) 5 7 5!____ 21 2411 2117 4528; 652 129 (3 ) 92 1 16 34 (38) 129 S o o rla p e tt______1 '(J) 2 7 2 1 103 511 386 897 190 130 180 Udayagiri ______— --- 1 5 3! 1 31 1 7 131 I 132 181 Vellore ______--- 2 "(2Ì 2 3 11 188 (17) 2325 1669 3994 15 409 182 Vinukonda ______1 2 4 "'27 1 “III 14 (14)1 133 133 Missionaries on Furlough___ (4) (i) (5) (6) (4) (4) (16) 102 115;----- 184 134 Totals lor South India Mis­ (25) 1 743 970 6271 (641) 1101 29790 sion ______29 8 85 Sé (19) (30) 106 58 430 1080 61C 25 810 (91) 253 2 5 2 THE ASSAM MISSION (h). Table 3 THE ASSAM MISSION (h). Table 4 _------Educational Statistics Medical Statistics Native Contributions 1

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102 Allur __ 93 22 25! 681 $1035 $555 $245 $237 $1037 102 103 Atmakur ______*50 *50 103 104 Bapatla ______110 154 68 2346 2142 193 i 193 104 105 Oumbum ____ 66 25 218 67 2175 70 2418 $13 2521 1 2361 $114 $5 457 133 590 105 106 Donakonda (1) 18 1665 72 (13) 1824 124 2371 1 17 850 3 30G 37 566 606 70 1242 106 107 Gadval ...... I35I 69 11 17: 24 319 »4 (2) 437 31 447 350 I 797107 108 Gurzalla ____ 428 1“> 453 43 217 425 24 109 27 11 449:108 Hanumakonda 10 51' 203 19 360 600 85 1 X 573 4448 121 3034 1230310 40 33 383109 110 Jangaon ...... 11 23 i 11 106 12 129 223 198 27 m !nn 111 Kandukuru Cm) ______!lli 112 Kanigiri ___ ’27S1 149 (10) 3180 214 3475 239 1321 117 1677 113 15 ”l74" 133 ¡112 Kavali _____ 3471 18 513 19 860 265 8380 817 817!113 114 Kurnool ____ ; (5 9 )- 65 363 80 148 (145) 3562 387 4280 2595 436 93 am In-i 115 Madira _____ 50 (10) 974 64 323 410 287 55 116 42 752Í115 Madras (n) _ 1058 13 1343 597 1915 ! 905 198 1103;11G 117 285 12 [ Mahbubnagar ______1 60 9 130 149 399 ¡ 399117 118 Markapur ______730 39 865 83 1279 52 118 119 78 34 50 102 Nalgonda ______(1) 31! 3© 31 385 167 1 34 1600 561 58 1133 1117 2250 119 120 Nandyal ______‘ *72 19! 466 23 589 64 948 i 292 292 120 121 Narsaravupet ______151 42 1231 43 1382 699 B2R *144 *144 121 122 Nellore ______49 404 2 4 2 47 12 3SÖ IS 1170 6386 4590 1 3 2053 21947 420! ?029 2855 610 19 $1005 159 1793 122 123 Ongole ______(5) (3) 221 102 673 619 250 6862 291 (134) 8477 3356! 15129 1 1772 10885 1261Ì 7588 ! 4378 1996 2100 33 207 4336 !l23 124 Podili ...... 166 73 1646 78 (4) 1901 277! 2310 (0)1 122 ! 7 4 184 122 28 334 124 125 Ramapatnam ______tl fl98 f3150 1774 f3G0 181 181 !l25 126 Theological Seminary_____ 1 66 129 12912Í! 127 Sattenapalle ______32 978 104 363 19.7 128 17 Secunderabad ______16 22 11 171 25 . 64 41 105 ¡128 129 Sooriapett ______107 17 (7) 244 170 491 57G8 " 99 1404 811 525 228 753 129 130 Ddayagirl ______18 6 (4) 210 84 838 1 205 2807 40 505 40 175 6 181 ¡130 131 Vellore ______--- 131 132 Vinukonda 64 29 30____ 662 41 842 233 83 24 340 132 Missionaries on Furlough___ ---— 133 134 Totals for South India Mis­ ! sion ______813 858 158 2452 3226 1117 1320 (329) 35797 $14166 $53618 4 11 5343 53938 1944 $22382 $9778 $14155 $5762 $1044 $2817 $23778¡134 1 254 255 256 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY STATISTICS 257

THE BENGAL-OfclSSA MISSION (h). Table 1 THE BENGAL-ORISSA MISSION (h). Table 2 Missionaries Native Workers Church Statistics i Other Phy­ Evan­ sicians Medical gelistic Teachers and Assis- Pupils Í Workers Nurses tanti Church Members i ! a 1 WORK AND STATIONS .a $ o 1 u .fl B 1 O 0 Ê K ! * 3 is o £ OQ > 0 1 a 13 i 1 23 s i V : V I *o ”3 ! a la ! a8 £I ■i? 1 • § o Total Women Sunday Sunday Schools Male Sell-supporting and Chapels During Year Church Church Buildings Places Other of Worship Added by Baptis: ! Entirel; Churches < 1 Number of Number Line« 1 j j Colleges

College Trained College orkcrs W ËO i | Men | i i Theological and Sem. j Training Bible 8chools „Sunday „Sunday School ! Enrolment ■ <, ■ 135 Bengalis Female 1 136 Contai ______7 I 135 137 Khargpur (inc. English 73 j 54) 63 117 6 215 136 work) ______2 ! *1 *i__ 16 3' 2 1 138 Midnapore (inc. Salgodia)— 5i 13 8 15 14 *3 *4 *(2) *2 *1 _____ *222 *125 *347i *5' *291 ----- ...... 137 139 Totals, Bengalis ______(7) (17) a«); (19) (14) 9 2 83 104 187 7, 843 — -J! 138 140 Oriyas ‘"(5): 43 4 (1) (73) ;------(359) (292) (651) (18) (849) (1) (4) 139 141 Balasore ______(6) • io! 29 34|. (5) (62) (11) (3) (6) (4) | 140 142 Bhadrak ______n ty 141 82 5 O ¿O K-) 234 350 590 11 440 143 Chandbali (p) ______2 ;______(10) (l) j ...... 142 - ...... 144 Jamshedpur (inc. English: - 32; 37— --¿9 ’ 179 __ 143 work) ______I 1 ""ÏÔ 3 j 145 Santipore ...... !----- 7 j " 9 8 6 ; 1 ___ l 3 1 1 6 161i 129 290 6 125 144 146 Totals, O riyas ...... (3) (6): (3) (6) (15) (37) (42) j (1) — (1) 1 (1) (a)! (is) J 4 4 15 123Ì 104 227! 9 370 __ __ '__ i __ 14:") 147 Santals (A*7\ 146 ( I U 1 (127) /Q\ \_OO\sJ1 (626) rnîfiM am ; (U14) 148 Bhimpore ______V 2 4 104 7;______(15) (2) (8) 1 1147 149 Missionaries on Furlough___ (3>:— (6) 1 11J7 4 156 University of Nanking ( D ) l 46 5, 5 155; 157 Ginling College ______. .. . — '156 158 Ningpo ______1 4 6 14 34 159 Shanghai ______3 31 3 9 5 397' 840 9 709 1 ____ .-»1 — !15S 160 University of Shanghai — 3 6| 3 (22) ¡ 136 9 (l)i 1 1 ! 8 59 (17) 443 15 6 2 18 151 i 107! 258, 7 804 161 Shaohing ______2 3 5 11 5! 25 31 16 6 5 (7): 29 (2); 2 1 (12) 1 ’ i ni» 1 CS5)i 44 ______'_ '______■L.______i ------1 ------______J , J 1 MI 162 Missionaries on Furlough .. (4) (18) ___' Ti (7) I (6) (10)! 96 ; 4. 85j (5) 335j 336 i 671, 5 462 lj __ 1 1 163 Totals for East China — (12) (20) (24) (64) "(17)!'(82) (22)i (206) (ÏÏ6) (13) '(9) (ISj : 8 ___ 10 3 i»° 164 South China '(122) (479) "(29) (24) j (240) ‘ "(62) (1460)i (1173)j'(2633) "'(3 5 ) '(2844) "( 2) (7!)j "(ï) 163 165 Chaochowfu ______1 1 2 *9 *11 *7 "(35) i'" ( § ) 161 166 Chaoyang ______2 4 1 Î16 *12 Î3 t i — n *30 *9 *(5) i *9 *177 j *190 j *367' *9 *431 _____ :______165 167 Hopo ______1 1 2 9 15 3 : ____:______166 1 1 2 X2 ------Î567| Ï312| J879 }12 J967 168 Kityang ______2 1 5 *3 *20 *10 j * . *37 115 î (7) Î17 1 2 *29 *1 2 _ 35 , 9 31i (16) 368! 143| 51l! 5 237 "(D 3,______167 169 Meihsien (Kaying) ______2 1 2 5 1 5 35 8 (1 ) :______1_____ ins 12 *nji *71 *201 *(4) *20 *4451 *384 j *829 *3 *212 __ 170 Sunwuhsien ...... U¡ Î6 Î9 l i | " n li­ 158 ------! ______j ______i _____ 16!) (40) 56 5 (1 ) 1 15 (4) 175! 198 373 1 171 Swatow ______14 "24 *5 *18 *52 ni *4' *e -5 J40í¡ Î ! }604 V Î357 ------!1...... i------— 170 172 Ungkung ------1 Î23 17 %7 200 1 U ill Î6 Uj------*(22) *129 ’*(12) ___ *539; *738! *1277i *20 *1528 * 2 i *2l! *80:____ 171 173 Missionaries on Furlough — 2 (2) (4) *20 *20 -- ( ) Î29 121 î(10) Î21 Î440j +298 j 1738 Î16 Î1407 174 Totals for South China — (12) (1) (11) (19) (9) (43) (12) (94) (27)j (169) (75) (5 ) (7 ) I (11); (10) 175 West China (63) (410) (105) (40) (104) j (46) ! (20) ; (3115) (2463) (5578) ! (73) (5297) (2) (24) j (80)]---- 117-1 176 Chengtu ______1 1 5 á 1 10 ! ( 5 ) 177 West China Union Univ.— 2 5 (2) 12 5 1 i O 287 (2) 24 1 1 1 " *1ii¡ (7\ (Il ' 23-3 ■ 30 264:! 2 178 Kiating i ______1 2 4 11 3 (5 r; 1 ;___!____ ¡177 179 Suifu ______3 4 7 15 23 16 4 O 09¿¿ 1 J ù01 OJ Ì fu i 444! 195 639i 6 376 180 Yachow ______2 4 4 12 34 11 2 (43) ; 530: 199 729 9 375 181 Missionaries on Furlough_ (C) 61 1 15 3 102 (1) (4) (3) (9) (6) 58 1 14 4 43 (14) ! 565:! 181 746 1 276 1 14 21---- :li«l 182 Totals for West China__ (9) (16) (16) (48) (20) I (5) '(82) (40) '( 6) (3) ______:______!___;i8i (21) (170) (35) (H) (217) (78) i (1773)! (605) (2378) (18) (1314) (D 183 Totals for China Mission 33 16 47 (32) (55) 155 36 196 54 457 225 19 (4) i______(206) 1059 144 (43) 168 40 503 (160) 1 6348 4241 10589 123 9455 5 38 167| 2:183 1 1 258 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY STATISTICS 259 *

THE BENGAL-ORISSA MISSION (h). Table 3 THE BENGAL-ORISSA MISSION (h). Table 4 Educational Statistics Medical Statistics Native Contributions

Pupils Pupils Pupils «¡.2 WORK AND STATIONS i l 00 § 35 8 G5 S 5* «I 2 a p JE « i s s * !j i <0 o ■g !» 0,2A £j 4* •s o S" 8 ® w * I I k S acO 1 = 5 ^ a “ 3 1 s « 5 m c rs'o ! * “¡ 3 *■< ï l ¡ ® J Û 2 a I l s S3 © 1 ¿2 S 3 fe ° o o> Ov, 1 ’S*« og r?.X Ho ! 02 GQ ê s a » ills UiO f O ! » 135 B e n g a l i s 136 C o n t a i ____ 137 Khargpur (inc. _E n gTi's h 12 135 w o r t ) ______3 65. $2 $2f 136 138 Midnapore (inc.” Saigodia)I‘ 139 *1 *# *1 I *30! *$35 ‘ 1111 ...■ 137 Totals, Bengalis ... 20 29 1111 8 »i 10____ 443! 1504 1345 4500,...... $274j $200 175 $121 !______30 332 138 140 O r i y a s (20) (2) (12) (29) 141 B a l a s o r e (12) (473): (16)1___ (538)! (1539) (1348) (4500)!_____ (274) j (200) (1288) ( 1 2 1 ) ______(59) (1408) 139 142 B h a d r a k _ . 140 71 10 143 Chandbali (p) _ ...... 538 io! ( i ) 8S4| 5226 13357 r¡<; 13978 141 - 142 144 Jamshedpur (inc. E nglish w o r k ) ______"4 0 1 1 39 143 145 Santipore .11111111111111” '" (0 )3 2 0 ------146 Totals, Oriyas II” " : ‘JO 340 141 11 .( 223 147 S a n t a ls (118) 2 Hi ! 177! 17 132 729 _____ ! 994 8S9 104 !- ¡fir>5 145 (11) ( ) (71) (159) (2 0 ) i (74g) ; 148 B h i m p o r e (27) ! (1)I(1107)I (3241) (5358) (729)|------! (994) (889) (1007) (13304) (5Ü), (94) (14580) 140 149 Missionaries on Furlough ...... 35 143 147 190 821 3326 881 (78) 3694 705 14S 149 Totals for Bengal-Orissa Mis s i o n ______153 ¡ 378 131j (7 9 ) 5339 $5485 $11844 5229!. $1208 $1089 $2530 $13485 $189, $10205

THE CHINA MISSION (t). Table 3 THE CHINA MISSION (t). Table 4 151 East China 152 Hangchow ______153 Huchow ... 486 . ¡151 154 Kinhwa ...... (1) 1144 $457!. $73 $530 152 155 Nanking ______I 19 195 511 9010 3 9 9 !. 130 535 153 427 2649 *323 $11003 $7167 170!. 108 281 154 University of" Nankliig’III 157 Ginling College . Il 55 158 Ningpo ______..'1 5 0 159 Shanghai . II"”I 3 310 132 ___ : 157 (1) 1097 18927 1 l! 1214: 16409 994 $3220 $217 4755 15,S }°? 0 U niversitrôï Shanghai“.'! lj 12 51 97 161 Shaohing 1 416 (1) 1497 4031 2007, 202!...... i 2202 159 17 (3) 1032 80037 1475 ______1475 160 Î rq Missionaries on Furlough'” 2 100 50.. — .! 834 4765 ” ï ~ïj 790:' 12526 494 8501 0519 ______91,590 277 964.161 (382) ¡ I SouS'ciU <,rIΓ l06l,>‘ --- (149) (19) (55) (10) (1519) (356), '(Î) (781) :102 (1) (97) (21) (3KB1 (39) 165 Chaochowfu (6) (6542) (145474) ------(3 ) ' (3 )!(3 3 6 1 )! (39320) (1199) (42099) (31243) (4029). (4897) (308) (971) (10.K05):10.'Î 104 166 Chaoyang *1 *20 *9 *5» 167 Hopo ..t..” *10 *(7) *560 *1309 *1064 *1004:105 Î13 J43Í Î14 168 Kityang ____ ” ” î(6) 1443 +852 11 J li 1785; 12212 1280 11200 1042 1500 1150 1105 1755¡100 132 9 4K- 12 169 Meihsien (Kaying) I 561 805 1|— 681: 10788 80 1840 4 54 146! ; 007! 200 10731107 *18 ‘ lift- *18 f(1 5 ) 170 Sunwuhsien - - - 2 200, 03 *1105 *1621 *1 *1 *93 i *6543 *78 ! *2011 *618 12030 12030! 108 133 1 3K 772 2285 130 143 273 il 6i> 171 Swatow ______+“, +1 ------i. 135 13 172 üngkung ______— * 10 * li *229 *15G . 1(3 ) Î110 Î175 U ! Ü 1300 1934 1308 11430 1556 1243 113 1404 1660 Ü70 |3¡------} l }2 5 ¡. *116 *22 *1131 '(18) *1738 *7226 *1 *1 *520 *15000 *82 *5437 *3359 *3199 *90 *374 *3663,171 îl3, Mjssionaries on Furlough"!' 196 Î9 : n 1340 11124 i l 176 1302 128 1556 1173 1580 1200 130 1810 172 i ? t w j ° a , 'orso"thohi»“ - (5) (15)|(12) (514) ( ): 173 219 (13) (532) (84) (42331 ( 10 8 } 176 Chengtu (49) (5035) (15397) (1 3 ) (5 ) (2455) ‘ (35779) (856) (Ï24S6) (5802) (7892) '(4 5 3 ) (1580) (403) (10328) 174 175 }ll „.W est China Ûnïon'ünîv.' 56 1 178 Kiating (1) 455 572 77 10 87 170 177 179 Suitu :::i;:::::------34 37 - 180 Yachow ______” ” 1 ;__ 493 103 33 1 0 j ...... 56 178 1 3 729 918 753 (u)15026 1264 5420 3537 135 17 61 213 179 1 8 1 Missionarîes on Furlough” ' 876 655 311 11316 334! 2157 1344 86 100 186 180 182 Totals for West China .. (27) (7) (2) (3) 181 (7) (5) (179) (47)i '(3) (58) (281) (19*2) 183 (23) (41) (1) (2587) "(2345) (1) (1064) ” (26342) (1598)! (7577) (4881) '(331) (16) (17) ’(178) " ( 5 4 2 ) 182 Totals for China Mission . . . . 409 156 10 37 74 19 2212 6221 20 910 (56) 14764 $163216 $14 12 11 6880 101447 3653 i $62702 ¡ $41920 $12852 $5366 $1905 $1552 $21675¡183 260 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY STATISTICS 2 6 1

THE JAPAN MISSION—Table 1 THE JAPAN MISSION—Table 2 1 Missionaries Native Workers Church Statistics • Other Phy­ Pupils Evan­ sicians Medical e Church Members | f l e gelistic Teachers and « a 0 Assis- * n Workers Nurses taut« ■s s 0 ; 0 0 g o WORK AND STATIONS s * 3 1 | 0 s ö a o 60 5308 2 « Ä3 15 1 £ 0 « 1 11 s Enrolment

•9s Women Female Sunday Sunday Schools

Church Church Buildingc and Chapels PlaceB Other of Worship Added by Baptism During Year PCQ Churches Entirel; Churches a s Self-supporting 3 Workers OoUege Trained OoUege 1 (v) 1 Colleges of Number Line* 1 ! Sunday Sunday ! School j j J J

184 Himejl ______¿101 0 U) 2O 9it 28 (12) US 153 262 25 985 184 185 Inland Sea ______(10) 185 (2) 13 *4 l 4 12 85 80 165 9 633 __ ..... 186 Kobe ______19 3 (2) 5 3 36 251 420 671 8 797 ______186 187 Kyoto ______1 1 1 1 5 54 40 94 1 43 __ __ -_ _ __ 187 188 (1 ) 188 Mfto ______“ ’ "(7) 15 2 4 24 86 69 155 8 654 ______189 Morloka ______(4) 16 6 6 15 "( 1 1 ) 210 206 416 7 761 ____ -- - 18!) 100 Osaka ...... ( ) 24 7 (3) 6 2 25 (4) 235 192 427 16 1023 1 20 _ 190 191 8 191 Sendai ______(1) 39 5 (4) 5 18 (6) 248 453 701 7 792 __ 1 192 Tokyo ______(14) 81 6 (3) 5 2 46 (14) 312 365 677 10 893 ____ 192 193 193 Tono ______(1 ) 4 1 1 ______33 31 64 1 241 __ _ 194 Yokohama ______(29) 47 6 '" (3 ) 5 ___ 40 (20 j 351 449 800 15 1371 ...... -- -- 1 194 195 Mabie Memorial School” (46) 48 ------1 2C-- 1 195 196 ______------196 Missionaries on Furlough (6) (14) ------I“ .. “ ...... 197 Totals lor Japan Mission___ 15 22 (27) 52 (122) 328 43 (17) 41 249 ' (73) 1974 2458 4432 107 8193 2 20 20 3 197 32 24 99 144 I 1 14 i

THE CONGO MISSION—Table 1 THE CONGO MISSION—Table 2 s 1 1 198 Banza Manteke ______2797 4174 6971 2 586 1 22 8 .... 2 (2) (3) 8 1 0 _____ 191 218 5 (5) 3 172 524 (204) 100lXfif 7 174 8 161 534 1768 1 (2) 4 1 6 7 ; ------(167) 7__ (S) 6 200 Kimpese ______------; ------IIIIIII - . 1 ------...... 201 Kongo Evangelical Training t 1 g 1 290 1 48 45 Institution ______2 (3) 4 1 ! 1 202 2j 3 0 72 Leopoldville___ _ 2 4 8 ¿ 1 “ civ 2 29 104 33 137 3 203 (1) 1 4 1 548 344 Moanza _____ 2 5 235 1 6 215 226 (226) 352 196 1 ______zt>4O fiA (4) - I 5 226j____ •14 *2140 __ 3 (4) 17 *2' *300 vOO *32 *(21) *23 *265 627 *5000 *4190 *9190 205 Tondo ______. *2! (d)383 1 IOQ ft \ a 1 g (3) 11 113 1£,0 1 £* 100 278 789 1382 2171 290 206 Vanga ______4: 7 4 O 940 428 1368 1 284 2 —------581 1 O 260 188 1 1 207 (3) 11 257 44; 266 1 Missionaries on Furlough___ (2) (2) (5) (4) (14) 208 Totals for Congo Mission__ 22153 23 4006 2 70 48 17 16 (15) (23) 64 853 51, 1079 14 wÌSÌ 2037 50 (28) 46 1174 2406 (671)

THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS MISSION—Table 1 THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS MISSION—Table 2

209 Bacolod (inc. Oadiz) - (2) (6) 377 1656 1588 8244 2201 . 209 210 Caplz ______9 658 834 1492 825 . 210 7 23 105 211 Iloilo ______IIIIII“""' "(4 ) (S)35 125 861 1113 1974 1996 2 0 . . 211 10 4 ( ) 102 408 I 212 212 Central Philippine College.. (10) 12 12 1 51 (51) 75 27 213 San Jose ______2 28 46 (27) 678 878 1556 1179 .213 4 4 ____ .214 214 Missionaries on Furlough -III (3) (4) (14) 215 Totals for Philippine Islands Mission ______(264) 3928 126 20 .215 16 (8) (17) 37 18 26 (18) 151 115 (6) 83 75 704 262 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY STATISTICS 2 6 3

THE JAPAN MISSION—Table 3 THE JAPAN MISSION—Table 4 Educational Statistics Medical Statistics Native Contributions

Pupils Pupils Pupils

WORK AND STATIONS s o t * •Ö a . » 2 ÍÍ 0 £8 So «3 0*0 : -w SS i - g ® sS S ® i S * SS : CßÄ ! S If K Ui « 2 « 3 ri — W 11 sg ■oV a ua.S a i' *0 ■2P5 ; g ! GQ 5 ! I i l ~ 'S a ~ » Ö • «E Bg- S *< !§| >co ® 3 I \ h I 11 2 0*4 o s S£ ! o § aS a 1? 55 ¡191 Tokyo ______4 (2) 405 7795!_____ 1485:...... Tono ______15831 10 (4) 2503 14475.(r)3350 17044 $3204 $1610 4751 1C10 ____ 140 05011192 140 301'...... 1821 196 ...... 37SÌ193 Yokohama ______10______261____ 3522IHM Mabie Memorial School 5IIIII 502 3182 340...... 153 831 — -I 1 30992!. ¡195 Missionaries on Furlough 4 (1) 1204 h<«; 197 Totals for Japan Mission__ 153 S31 745 10 56 (15) 5945 17044 $3204 $1610 $1343; $246401197

THE CONGO MISSION—Table 3 THE CONGO MISSION—Table 4 1 ! 198jBanza Manteke i 7------199[Kikongo .... — — ------1 213 192 5280 195 (183) 5525!. lì 41 425 7300 $5083 $2305 $711, $758 . $10 $1479 198 i ______337 337 199 2001 K i m tipkp 20! 1701 3627 171___ 3647!. li. 2514 75 201 Kongo Evangelical Training ------1 200 Institution ______! 1172 423 201 202 Leopoldville ______2! 100 31...... 253!. 113! (d)2000 - 203 Moanza ______— i 64 1 69 2! 42 4i...... 175 :. 288 ______288.202 ::::: :::: :::::: 2-05 203 204iSona B a ta ______” 1” 1 165 221¡ 7647 2221 7812!. 178 2930,_____ 270 ‘ " ” 48 3 4 ______::::: ï 1 ¿ 7 *1504 188 16Ö2 205;Tondo . . . ___ 1 12 (d)304 (d)6100 306;_____ 6137 . 298 8059! 68 4340 257E 201 i 10 56G 479 ...... 479! 205 9

THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS MISSION—Table 3 THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS MISSION—Table 4 i 1 209 Bacolod (inc. Cadiz) ______Q $3394!______$ ! $3490[ !) 210 Capiz ______0 ¿¡JV 8! 256! $7444 102 20 1 ----- 30 ------1 1 102 3¡___ 216 5952 ------1 1653 1758 499 $14303 $10103 870!...... !_____ 1 134: 10041210 211 E o iio ______::: 1 44 84 33364 2248:...... -!_____ ! 397 , 2045(211 212 Central Philippine College_ 1 35 3, 99 4311 1 — 1558 2356 1371 35313 61 20 Ï 127 3 290 14325 197 $1479, I 108 1784(212 213 San Jose __ 321: 18,...... J ...... i 339 213 214 Missionaries on Furlough___ 4 74 4; (1 ) 74 213 ~ - j- - ______■______!...... j...... j...... 214 215 Totals for Philippine Islands Mission ______i ! 1 61 20 2 74 1 127 611 1 84 14 467 21 (1 ) 935 $32245 2 — 3211 4114 1870 $49676 $43527 $7030; $1497 1 $741j $9268^215 1 264 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY STATISTICS 2 6 5

SUMMARY OF STATISTICS—Table 1 SUMMARY OF STATISTICS—Table 2

Missionaries Native Workers Church Statistics Other Evan- Pupils gelistic Teachers Church Members Workers WOBK AND STATIONS ■ a I f ” 5 a ? I 3 - S I I - « o ; B I ! I-S ' n 2 Sg £ a » es u m 6 Ä s& w s» ! ! £ * OH fi® II o « S i i Is I «3 Sü li Pillilia a *>*-i 1 'OP * I * i * a ! £ i a II 1 a l Í_ o S o o ! <0 (v) 1 216 Totals ior Burma ______(14) (73) 330 910 131 9831 962 14 4 6 1457! 5138 (201) 113624 758: 34455 4 151 76 1 216 217 Totals for Assam ______(22) 24 394 16 497! 51 (89) 3341 201 5' 13 7 (757) 4910-1 558 21325 y 55 15 _ 217 218 Totals for South India _____ (30) (19) 1009 755| 289 4378 58 430 237 1080! 610 25, 9j % _ 99865, 1101 29700 4| 102 115 .._ 218 219 Totals for Bengal-Orissa ____ 2 (25) 2480 743 970 6271 (641) ( ) (11) 15 45 31 160j 63 iL.... 1223 2410 60 2399 1 4 ___ _ 219 220 Totals for China ______(32) ( ): 316 19 21 204 (4) 1193 (55) 36 196 54 457 225 35! IS 20 4241 1058!) 128 9455 5 88 167 2 220 221 Totals for Japaji ______(200) 1059 168 40 503 (160) <5348 (27) 32 23 24 144 4 4 ¡52 107 8193 2 20 20 3 221 222 Totals for Belgian Congo __ (122) 328 41 14 249 (73) 1974 2458 (15) (23) 7 853 51 1079 22153 23 4000 2 70 48 . _ 222 223 Totals for Philippine Islands _ 8 (3). 2037 46 1174 2406 (671) ______( ) (17) 23 37 18 11 " " ’ 3928 4440 8o 08 126 0009 2 21 20 1 223 (18) 151 83 75 704 (264) 224 Totals for Non-Christian Lands, 1931 ______71 234 237 (258) (101) 525 562 2095 78 310851 2856 116232 23 461 401 7 224 (502) 10721 3312 2784 19853 (2771) 225 Do. for 1930 ------79 242 231 (95) (254) 525 718 4083 2199 68 140 73 313724 2800 118452 22 484 380 0 225 226 Do. for 1929 ______72(234 228 i (83) (:í37) 10947 3212 2688Í 20785 (3069) (237) 480 2612 676 4105 2120 61: 110 80 270408 2035 115446 21 510 347 8 220 227 Do. ior 1928 ______89(233 223 ! (76) (227) 517; 2599 (311) 1029G 29591 2629i 17158 (2952) ______861 3402 66 128 7S ___ 289255 2787 124165 21 480 335 8 227 Do. for 1927 ______821236 229 (79) (155) 539!____ (w)2976 3895 2043 (RI) 975(1 2952 2398¡ 18612 (2725) (x)52 215 170 2746! 2170! 19415 (2270) 2908 142971 23 402 40» 8 228 Do. lor 1926 ______77 274 2351 (68) 471!____ (W)2486 4078 2171 1 20« 203 (59) 989C 2825 147215 31 425 550 0 229 (50) 9015 2738■ 2046! 20482 (3692) 269161'

SUMMARY OF STATISTICS—Table 3 SUMMARY OF STATISTICS—Table 4 ! Educational Statistics

Pupils Pupils Pupils 0O u a s S WORK AND STATIONS s o "Í3 & S5 9 ©3 ( fi sa •S i» s s ; ■O 12 •o «I P gM a n, » o §2 'S a ¿9 Sä P ASo a 8 bo 00 00 1 S 216 Totals for Burma ______201 2 59 2451 1162 5 116 113 9288 6771 30151 43814 $73645i $1591 $28815($202827 217 Totals for Assam ______1 1 20 119 52 15 ! 9091 830 (591) 43732 $233265 $308408 4 1655 __ 170 33 1881 373 427 6041 3 1042 25479 136781 1000: 8215 39857 218 Totals for South India _____ 2 6j 59 813 358 158 2452 30 3226 1117 28666 (237) 11407 3526 5762: 1044! 2817 23778 219 Totals for Bengal-Orissa ___ 1320 (329) 35797 14166 53618 4 5343 53938 153 31 6 226 5 378 114 4547 5229 13485; 55Í 189¡ 16265 220 Totals for China ______409 156 37 74 9300 131 (79) 5339 5485 11844 ____ 10 2212 622 4 839 20 910 128 6880 101447 5366! 1905! 1552; 21075 221 Totals for Japan ...... 153 66 831 745 10 1813 36 2297 188 (56) 14764 163216 14 12 13431 24640 222 56 3460 ____ 17044 Totals for Belgian Congo ... 3 35 7 3 108 5 568 1302 534« (15) 5945 72609 241! 6724 1315 ______4 2486 43201 946 223 Totals for Philippine Islands - 20 2 --- 74 127 61 1 84 14 467 (443) 54240 1497 741! 9268 21 (1 ) 935 *32245 2 3211 4114 Totals for Non-Christian Lands, 1931 ______827 320 20 78 293 6706 201 5724 207 16335 3761 137923 43913! 345034 4288 (1751) 172159 524512 383385 29 60 20617 294266 117277 5595 225 Do. for 1930 802 247 20 66 270 6773 3527 148 4500 191 16129 3915 136944 8115_____ I 343886 225 226 Do. for 192» 806 376 120956 4if7S (2067) 170122 604753 430943 30 23107 292240 20 75 233 7407 3003 140 4410 151 13870 3503 22949 313248 6755!_____ 372577 226 227 Do. for 1928 837 343 28 78 226 8784 4317 171 3484 143 13666 3209 100396 3920 (1671) 151993 638733 397369 36 106116! 14556’------; 384423 227 3fifi6 (1597) 132946 537867 389865 33 20761 372626 Do. for 1927 1102 289 8543 4140 122 3130 165 14508 3502 116794 116716!_____ j...... ¡ 370706 228 3903 (1326) 149377 546568 384725 36 24404 285227 Do. for 1926 992 200 ------6280 3010 131 5052 148 13410 8405 113329 j 229 —- •:si2| (1500) 143500 532589 269585 22874 301474 65456;...... 282980 i " 1 266 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

STATISTICS FOR EUROPE

The Society cooperates with the work of Baptists in the fol­ lowing countries: 1

COUNTRIES and and Training Bible Contributions for Churches Members Church Schools TheologicalStudents in and Bible Seminaries Training Schools Contributions for Ordained Ordained and Entirely Churches Self-supporting Total Places for Regular Meetings (Including Churches) Sunday Schools Sunday School Membership Theological Seminaries Self-support Benevolences Total Contributions | Total Total Organized Baptisms During Tear Unordained Unordained Preachers

Czechoslovakia — 27 27 7 170 2745 155 58 1178 1 7 (b)$7000 $7000 Denmark ______189 +31 U7 +153 +5777 ____ tio s +6700 tl f50 +41476 +$16415 +57891 Estonia 50 40 33 59 6115 435 &5 2881 1 14 15295 972 16267 Prance ______15 21 9 50 1200 136 28 650 1 4 9032 2597 11629 Germany ______290 266!+200 1351 64625 3082 753 34076 1 60 551289 42877 594166 17(> v n n 181 10658 581 163 6065 1 15 (a)70000 70000 W in 6 40 982. 43 12 474 *4792 1169 5961 Norway ______45 48 15 57 5632 428 51 4551 1 8 46340 9605 55945 Poland ______27 66 36 283 4929 624 78 1510 1 10 5081 1528 6609

Sweden - . .. 1169 685 —- 890 64288 3113 1353 61715 2 101 (a)641156 641156

Totals for Europe 1931 ...... 1921 1315 334 3234 166951 8597 2669119800 10 269 $1391461 $75163 $1466624 i

Do. for 1930 _____ 1882 1305 356 3542 163903 8018 2586 116957 9 240 $1684978 $86158 $1771136 Do. for 1929 ______1788 1248 371 2953 157478 704S 2412!110668 10 250 1680890 85048 1765938 Do. for 1928 _____ 1153 1250 314 2497 156976 4647 2501 115671 11 290 1591639 96056 1687695 Do. for 1927 _____ 1138 1.264 300 2493 157845 7679 2531 117087 11 260 1424026 236655 1660681 Do. for 1926 _____ 1776 1239 233 2606 153726 7763 2497:117697 10 208 1438236 223959 1662195

(a) Includes contributions for Benevolences. (b) Approximate figure also includes contributions for Benevolences. STATISTICS 2 6 7

REFERENCE SIGNS AND NOTES

General Note.— Figures in parenthesis are not included in t h e totals of the section ( e . g., entries under the heading “ Physicians and Nurses ” a r e not included in the total missionaries in Burma), as they are counted under other heads. All statistics are for the calendar year ending December 3 1 , 19 31. * Statistics for 1930—not including baptisms, t Statistics for 1929—not including baptisms, t Statistics for 1928— not including baptisms. (a) Statistics for Baptist Normal School, Baptist English High School, and Cushing High School. (b) No report received for Burmese Woman’s Bible School. The 1930 figure used for “ Native Contributions for Education ” includes this school. (c) Includes statistics for Karen Woman’s Bible School. (d) Approximate figure. (e) Across the border in Yunnan Province, China. (f) Baptisms for Mong Mong only. (g) 1931 statistics for Pang Wai only. (h) Exchange was figured at 3 to 1 in 1929; 2.75 to 1 in 1930; 3 to 1 in 19 31, for Burma, Assam, South India, and Bengal-Orissa. (i) Includes statistics for Assamese. (j) Medical statistics included under Jorhat. (k) Statistics included under work for Kacharis. (1) Sunday school pupils for Sema-Nagas and Lotha-Nagas not reported. .(m) Transferred to Telugu Baptist Convention. (n) Includes missionaries in Union Colleges in Madras. (o) Dispensary dedicated December 19, 19 3 1; opened for work December 22, 19 31. (p) Includes statistics for Bhadrak. (q) Does not include English church. (r) For reconstruction. (s) Nine churches have failed to report. (t) Exchange was figured at 2 to 1 in 1930, and 3 to 1 in 1931 in East China, South China, and West China. (u) Figures for Women and Children’s Hospital only. (v) Many stations have not been able to report an accurate division of church- members into male and female. In such cases the total membership only is given. (w) Figure includes men and women. ( x ) Figure includes physicians and nurses.

MINUTES OF THE ONE-HUNDRED-EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING

MINUTES O F T H E ONE-HUNDRED-EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING

San Francisco, Calif., July 16, 1932 The American Baptist Foreign Mission Society, in pursuance to a call issued by the Recording Secretary and published in the denominational press, convened in San Francisco, Calif., for its one-hundred-eighteenth annual meeting, the sessions being held as heretofore in connection with the meetings of the Northern Baptist Convention. The Society met in the Civic Auditorium on Saturday, July 16, 1932, at 9.45 a. m., and was called to order by President B. C. Clausen. On motion of Secretary William B. Lipphard, it was

Voted: That the minutes o f the one-hundred-seventeenth annual meeting of the Society, held June 3-8, 1931, in Kansas City, Mo., as printed in the Annual Report of the Society for 1931, be approved.

The Annual Report of the Society for 1932 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 advance, the report was accepted. Chairman R. G. Schell of the Nominating Committee of the Northern Baptist Convention, which was also the Nominating Committee of the Society, presented the following nominations:

President, Rev. John Snape, California. First Vice-president, W. C. Coleman, Kansas. Second. Vice-president, E. C. Lane, Massachusetts. Recording Secretary, W. B. Lipphard, New York. Treasurer, G. B. Huntington, New York. 2 7 1 272 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

B oard of M anagers

Term Expiring 1935 Rev. W . S. Abernethy, Washington, Rev. E. W. Hunt, Pennsylvania. D. C. O. R. Judd, New York. Rev. A. C. Baldwin, Pennsylvania. C. T. Lincoln, Connecticut. Rev. W. G. Everson, Colorado. Rev. C. L. Seasholes, Ohio. Pres. G. A. Hagstrom, Minnesota. Rev. H. W . Virgin, Illinois.

Term Expiring 1934 Rev. J. W. Bradbury, New York. Rev. B. C. Clausen, New York.

On motion of Rev. M. M. Bledsoe, of California, it was

Voted: That the report of the Committee on Nominations be adopted, and that the Recording Secretary be authorized to cast the ballot on behalf of the Society.

The Recording Secretary cast the ballot. On report of the Recording Secretary that he had cast the ballot, the Chairman declared that the persons nominated by the Conven­ tion Committee on Nominations, which was also the Nominating Committee of the Society, had been duly elected to their respective positions as officers of the Society and as members of the Board of Managers. The Society adjourned at 10.00 a. m.

W i l l i a m B. L ip p h a r d , Recording Secretary.

During the entire period of the Northern Baptist Convention, which convened in San Francisco, Calif., July 12-17 inclusive, there were several sessions at which missionaries of the Society were introduced and made addresses. Although these sessions were announced and conducted as sessions of the Northern Bap­ tist Convention, for purposes of recording all proceedings in which the work of the Society is made known to its constituency, records of these are incorporated in these minutes. On Thursday, July 14, at 9.30 a. m., a joint presentation of the work of the past year on behalf of the Society and of the Woman’s Society was made to a session of the Northern Baptist Convention, illustrated with an electrically illuminated map of the world show­ ing Baptist mission fields, and other spectacular features. Rev. ANNUAL MEETING 2 7 3

H. J. White, as Chairman of the Board, surveyed the situation on each field. Mrs. H. E. Goodman, as President of the Woman’s Society, reviewed the achievements of the past year. Mrs. Howard Wayne Smith, of the Woman's Society, outlifted the unfinished tasks. Rev. D._ B. MacOueen, of the Foreign Mission Board, summarized the financial situation. At 4.30 p. m. a foreign missions conference on “ Recent Devel­ opments in Our Foreign Fields ’’ was conducted in cooperation with the Woman’s Society under the leadership of Rev. B. C. Clausen. On Friday, July 15, and on Saturday, July 16, at 1.30 p. m., Missionary E. H. Cressy, of East China, conducted mission study classes, with China as the subject, this being the interdenomina­ tional study topic for the year. On Saturday, July 16, at 9.00 p. m., Missionary H. B. Benning- hoff, of Japan, addressed the Convention concerning Baptist prog­ ress in Japan and with special reference to the conciliatory efforts on the part of Japanese and Chinese Christians in which he had participated during the China-Japan crisis concerning Manchuria and Shanghai. On Sunday afternoon, July 17, eight missionaries, of whom four were home and .four were foreign missionaries, gave brief addresses. At this session Missionary E. H. Cressy, of East China, reviewed the work of the Society in China. Missionary J. H. Telford delivered an address on the work of the Society on the Burma field. Two missionaries of the Woman’s Society, Miss Grace Maine, of Burma, and Miss Dorothy Dowell, of Philippine Islands, also addressed the Convention. On Sunday evening all foreign missionaries attending the Con­ vention were guests of the Society and of the Woman’s Society at an informal supper at the William Taylor Hotel. Informal introductions were made following the supper and brief addresses were made by Chairman H. J. White, of the Board of Managers, and Mrs. H. E. Goodman, President of the Woman’s Society. On Sunday evening, at 8.00 p. m., the presentation service of outgoing missionaries was held jointly with the Woman’s Society. Secretary J. C. Robbins read the names of the following mis­ 274 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

sionaries who had been appointed since the last annual meeting of the Society:

Miss Florence L. Curtis, designated to East China. Mrs. Ulric A. Lanoue, designated to Belgian Congo. Rev. and Mrs. Burl A. Slocum, designated to East China.

He introduced the following newly appointed missionaries, who addressed the Convention briefly regarding their call to missionary service: Rev. Ernest L. Ackley, designated to Philippine Islands. Rev. and Mrs. R. Fred Chambers, designated to Assam. Rev. and Mrs. Reuben W. Holm, designated to Assam. Rev. and Mrs. Roger C. Cummings, designated to Burma.

Following the presentation of the outgoing missionaries, Rev. B. C. Clausen addressed the Convention and appealed on behalf of more adequate support not only of the new missionaries but of the entire missionary enterprise. A prayer of dedication was offered by Secretary C. S. Detweiler, of The American Baptist Home Mission Society. INDEX

INDEX

A PAGE PAGE Agricultural School, Pyinmana...... 66 Bruce, F. R...... 72 Ablquist, J. A ...... 30 Budget for 19 3 2 -19 3 3 ...... >55 Alden, Paul E...... 46 Appropriations ...... 151 Allen, Thomasine...... 129 Buker, R. S...... 30-67 Allur ...... 95 Burkholder, Mrs. Julia P., death of.. 50 Andhra Christian College ...... 99 Burma Baptist Convention ...... 68 Annuities ...... 153 Burma for Christ Movement...... 62 Appraisal Commission ...... 41 Burma Mission, The ...... 65-80 Appropriations ...... 151 Education in ...... 65, 67, 70 Foreign Field ...... 152 Evangelism in ...... 32 Armstrong, Mrs. B. W...... 142 Gospel Teams ...... 35 Ashmore Theological Seminary...... 117 Literary Work ...... 68 Assam Mission, The ...... 81-92 Medical Work in ...... 66 Education i n ...... 81, 85 Mission P re ss...... 68 Evangelism in ...... 31 Missionaries i n ...... 235 -238 Medical Report o f ...... 86 Statistics f o r ...... 248 Missionaries in ...... 238 Burman Theological Seminary...... 67 Statistics for ...... 252 By-Laws ...... 7 Swedish Mission Field ...... 44 Axling, William ...... 47 C B Candidate Department, The ...... 61 Case, B. C...... 66 Balance Sheet ...... 162, 163 Central Philippine C ollege...... 135 Baltic States ...... 144 Chaoyang ...... 116 Balasore ...... 106 Chekiang-Shanghai Convention...... xo8 Banza M anteke ...... 139 Chengtu ...... 123, 124 Bapatla ...... 98 China ...... 23-26 Baptist World Alliance ...... 39. 4°. 65 Flood Relief i n ...... 25 Bassein ...... 69, 75 Chins ...... 72 Bawden, S. D ...... 93 Christian Crisis in China, The ...... 26 Belgian Congo Mission, The .... 137-142 Cochrane, Mrs. H. P., death 0? .... 51 Education i n ...... 139 Commissions ...... 65, 102 Evangelism i n ...... 31 Conference on Disarmament...... 20 Roman Catholic Aggressions .. 36 ,137 Contai ...... 106 Statistics ...... 260 Cope, J. H...... 72 Belgium ...... 1 43 Cressy, E. H...... 41 Bengal-Orissa Mission, The .... 105-107 Crook, R. L...... 127 Evangelism i n ...... 31 Cumbum ...... 99. i°° Missionaries i n ...... 241 Cummings, J. E...... 69 Statistics f o r ...... 256 Czechoslovakia ...... 146 Benjamin, H. R. S...... 32, n o Bezwada ...... 96 D Bhimpore ...... 106 Blodgett, W. E., Death of ...... 54 Daily Vacation Bible S ch ool...... 80 Board of M anagers...... 5, 44 Darrang ...... 87 Board of Missionary Cooperation . . . 48 Davies, Mrs. J. P...... • • I09 Boggs, A. M...... 46 Davis, A. C...... 83 Boggs, S. A. D...... 84 Davis, E. Bixler ...... 95> 97 Boggs, W. E...... 94 Decker, J. W...... 109 Bousfield, C. E 36 Denmark ...... 144 Brock, G. H, ...... 96 Downs, E. S...... 88 2 7 7 278 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

PAGE PAGE Dudrow, L. A ...... 73 Heptonstall, C. H...... 76 Dye, Daniel S...... 126 Hill, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas, death of 52 Dyer, V. W...... 68, 79 Hinton, H. E...... 70 Hobart, K. G...... 33, 118 , 119 E Hollingworth, S. V ...... 69 East China Mission, The ...... 10 8-115 Hoisted, Ernest ...... 101 Education in ...... 1 1 1 Holtom, D. C...... 33, 128 Evangelism in ...... 32 Home Mission Society Centenary.. 47,56 Medical Work i n ...... 114 Homes for Missionaries’ Children . . . 62 Missionaries i n ...... 241 Hylbert, L. C...... 112 Statistics f o r ...... 256 Eden, F. E...... 78 I Estonia ...... 144, 145 Iloilo ...... 135 Evangelism Around the W o rld ...... 31 Impur ...... 91 Europe ...... 143-146 Income Account, Deficiency o f 159 Education i n ...... 145 Industrial Work ...... 100 Statistics f o r ...... 266 India, Round Table Conference 27 Exchange ...... 152 Interdenominational Training Confer­ Expenditures ...... 15 1, 152 ence ...... 61

F J Feldmann, S. S...... 33 Jamshedpur ...... 107 Financial Depression ...... 19, 62, 128 Jangaon ...... 97 Financial Review of the Year .. 147-155 Japan-China Crisis ...... 22 Fishman, A. T...... 100 Japan Mission, T h e ...... 128-134 Five Year Evangelistic Movement. 62, 108 Education in ...... 134 Forbes, J. M...... 84 Evangelism in ...... 32, 13 1 , 132 Franklin, James H...... 47 Christian Church i n ...... 131 France ...... 143 Famine in ...... 129 Funds: Financial depression i n ...... 128 Designated Temporary ...... 155 Merger of Convention and Mission 132 Permanent...... 154 Missionaries i n ...... 133,243 Rural Unrest ...... 128 G Statistics f o r ...... 260 Gadval ...... 98 Jensen, J. C...... 123 Garo Association ...... 68 Jones, E. Stanley...... 103 Gauhati ...... 83 Jorhat ...... 84, 85 Geis, G. } ...... 73 Bible School ...... 86 Mrs. G. J., death o f ...... 51 Josif, G. D...... 69 General Review of the Y e a r 15-62 Judson College ...... 65 Germany ...... 144 Chapel ...... 30 Giffin, J. H...... 117 Judson Fund ...... 153 Gilmore, David C., death of ...... 51 Goddard, F. W ...... 115 K Golaghat ...... 84 Kachins ...... 73 Gospel Teams ...... 79 Kagawa ...... 27 Grigg, Ernest ...... 71 Kakchieh ...... 36 Gurzalla ...... 97, 101 Kamrup ...... 81 Kanto Gakuin ...... 133 H Karens ...... 74 Haka ...... 72 Karen Theological Seminary ____. . . 67 Hangchow ...... 108 Kavali ...... 97,100 Hanna, A. C...... 79 Kaying (Meihsien) ...... 116 Harris, E. N...... 79 Kengtung...... 67 Hatigarh ...... 106 Khargpur ...... 107 Henderson, A. H...... 67 Kiating ...... 122, 126 Henzada ...... 69,75 Kikongo ...... 142 INDEX 2 7 9

PAGE PAGE Kimpese ...... 139 Midnapore ...... 105, 107 King, J. C...... 58 Mikir Hills ...... 89 Kingdom of God Movement, The 27, 131 Mission Press ...... ,... 68 Kinhwa ...... 109 Kirby, H. W ...... 30 Missionaries: Klahsen, J. P...... 95 Children, Homes for ...... 62 Klein, C. L...... 32, 76 Deputation Service o f ...... 49 Knapp, Naomi H...... 32, 105 Designation ...... 235 Kohima ...... 89 Deaths ...... 247 Kokaikanal School for Missionaries’ Marriages ...... 24 7 Children ...... 99 New ...... 60,61 Kongo Evangelical Training Institute 139 Resignations ...... 247 Retired or Not in Active Service .. 246 L Under Appointment ...... -'47 Lahus and Was ...... 77 M issions...... 48 Lamson, H. D...... 113 Moanza ...... 14 2 Latvia ...... 144 Mon ...... 77 Laymen’s Foreign Missions Inquiry Mongoldai ...... 83 4 1, 42, 120 Mongani ...... 67 Laymen’s Missionary Movement .... 57 Moody, Thomas ...... 31 Legacies ...... 153 Moulmein ...... 75. 77 Leopoldville ...... 140 Myingyan ...... 71 Leper Work ...... 30, 67, 78, 92, 102 Lerrigo, P. H. J...... 25, 46 N Lindsay Commission ...... 65 Nalgonda ...... 95 Lipphard, W. B...... 47 Nagas ...... 89 Literary Service of Missionaries and Namkham ...... 66, 74 Officers ...... 47 Nasmith, A. I ...... 114 Literary W o r k ...... 68, 79, 101 Ningpo ...... 109 Literature and Publicity ...... 47 North Lakhimpur . 87 Liu, Herman C. E...... 39, i n , 112 Norway ...... 144 Loikaw ...... 76 Nowgong ...... 84 Longwell, R. B...... 83 Nyaunglebin ...... • 76 Longwell, Mrs. R. B...... 81 Loughridge, Mrs. Albert, death of .. 52 O Lovegren, L. A ...... 126 Officers ...... 5 Ongole ...... 99, 101 M Openshaw ...... 12 1, 124, 126 MacNeill, John ...... 39, 65, 78 Madira ...... 95 P Madras Christian College...... 99 Parish, M. C...... 70 Mahbubnagar ...... 100 Pegu ...... \ ...... 70 Maintenance Movement ...... 49 Penner, J. A ...... 100 Manchuria ...... 1 13 , 130 Perrine, S. A., death o f ...... 53 Mandalay...... Pettigrew,70 William ...... 92 M anipur...... 91 Phelps, A. C...... 75 Manley, F. P...... 98 Phelps, D. L ...... 124, 125 Maplesden, Raymond, death o f 53 Philippine Islands Missions, The .... 135 Marsh, C. R...... 94 Education in ...... 135 Marshall, H. 1...... 35, 67 Evangelism in ...... 33 Martin, L. E...... 97 Medical Work in ...... 135 Maymyo ...... 71 Missionaries i n ...... 245 McGuire, John ...... 79 Statistics fo r ...... 260 McLean, P. J...... n o Poland ...... 145 Medical Service Department...... 58 Poteat, Gordon ...... 24 Meihsien (Kaying) ...... 116 Preston Institute ...... 98 Meiktila ...... 71 Prome ...... 71 Merrill, A. F...... 43, 88 Pyinmana Agricultural School 66 280 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

R PAGE PAGE Ramapatnam ...... 98 Swatow ...... 117 Rangoon ...... 78 Christian Institute...... 118 Receipts,...... 149 S w ed en ...... 144 Reval ...... 145 Swedish Mission F ie ld ...... 44 Richardson, J. C...... 67 Sword, G. A ...... 74 Root, Annie E...... 113 Sword, V. H ...... 84 Round Table Conferences ...... 29 Rural Community Training School .. 99 T Russia ...... 144, 146 T a v o y ...... 71 Rutherford, Charles ...... 97 Taunggyi ...... 67 Taylor, F. E., death of . . . '...... 55 S Tharrawaddy ...... 76 Saddlebags...... 47 Thayetmyo ...... 72 Sadiya ...... 86 Thonze ...... 72 Salgodia ...... 106 Tiddim ...... 79 Sandoway ...... 72 Tilbe, H. H ...... 79 Scandinavian Countries ...... 144 Tokyo ...... 28 Seagrave, G. S...... 66 Tomlinson, E. T., death o f ...... 55 Secretarial Staff ...... 46 Tompkins, C. E...... 127 Schugren ...... 97, 101 Tondo ...... 141 Sension, U. S. G...... 86 Tou ngoo...... 76 Shanghai ...... 2 3 ,1 1 1 Tshumbiri ...... 141 University of ...... 1 1 1 Tura ...... ■,...... 87 Shaohing ...... 113 Tuttle, A. J...... : ...... 82 Shwegyin ...... 76 Sibsagar ...... 85 U Sisson, O. H ...... 46 Ufiord, A. F ...... 114 Smith, Mrs. H. W ...... 65 Ungkung ...... 118 Smith, F. N...... 122 University of Shanghai ...... 23 Sona Bata ...... 140 Unruh, Cornelius...... 95 South China Mission, T h e 116 - 1 x9 Education i n ...... 177, 118 V Evangelism i n ...... 33 Vanga ...... 141 Medical Work in ...... 118 Missionaries i n ...... 242 W Statistics f o r ...... 256 Waters, G. H...... 117 South India Mission, T h e ...... 93-104 Watson, Charles H., death of ••• 55 Baptisms in ...... 96 Weeks, A . J ...... 75 Census ...... 93 West China Mission, The . . . 120-127 Commissions ...... 102 Education in ...... 124 Education in ...... 98 Evangelism in ...... 34, 121 Evangelism in ...... 33, 94^ Medical Work i n ...... 126 Industrial Work in ...... 100 Missionaries in ...... 243 Missionaries i n ...... 93, 239 Statistics for ...... 257 Statistics f o r ...... 252 West China Union University . . . 125 Sornberger, P. A., death o f ...... 53 White, F. J ...... h i Specifics ...... 153 Whitman, G. E ...... H7 Speicher, Mrs. Jacob...... 118 Wickstrand, R..-R...... • 3 1, 91 Stait, F. W ...... 93 Witter, W . E., death o f ...... 54 Stanton, W. A...... 33 Wood, Chester F ...... 34» 1-23 State Promotion Directors ...... 6 World Depression ...... 19 Statistical Tables ...... 248-267 World Situation...... 15 Stevens, Daniel G., death o f ...... 54 Student Volunteer Convention ...... 58 Y Suifu ...... 123, 126 Yachow ...... 121, 126, 127 Summary of Mission Reports .... 63-146 Young, M. V in ce n t...... 71 Sun Wu H sien ...... 116 Young, W. M ...... 77