DOMESTIC and FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETY
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THE DOM ESTIC and FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETY OF THE, I^OTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN T h 3 I u NITE,D SIlnES OF AME,RICA Annual Report of the Hoard of Managers Annual Reports on Domestic and Foreign Missions With Reports o f Bishops Published at the Church Missions House Fourth Avenue and Twenty-second Street, New YorK, 1902 NEC, REPORT OF THE BOARD OF MANAGERS TO THE ELEVENTH MEETING OF THE MISSIONARY COUNCIL With Accompanying Documents. T h e Board of Managers hereby respectfully submits to the Missionary Coun cil its annual report for the fiscal year which ended August 31st, 1902. Contained in this volume will be found the report on Domestic Missions and the report on Foreign Missions; the annual reports of the Bishops of the several Missionary Districts; together with the report on Trust Funds and the reports of the Recog- nized Auxiliaries. These, taken together, must serve to give the Council a compre hensive view of the progress, prospects and present condition of the work of the Society. The year now closed has been a notable one in several respects: The work has enlarged by reason of the action of the late General Convention in erecting the new Missionary Districts of Salina, comprising the western part of the Diocese of Kansas, Porto Rico (including Yieques), Honolulu and The Philippines, and also the division of the territory of the former Missionary District of Shang hai and the Lower Yang-tse Valley into two Missionary Districts— the Missionary District of Shanghai, comprising the Province of Kiangsu, and the Missionary District of Hankow, comprising the Provinces of Ngan-hwei and Hupeh and the portions of Kiang-si and Hunan adjacent to the Yang-tse river, as also by the natural and in some parts of the field the rapid increase of the work. This is notably the case with regard to the educational department in the Empires of China and Japan. So rapidly has the number of students been increased at St. John’s College, and so numerous were the applications for admission, that it was determined that a new building must be erected; the Chinese themselves, many of whom were in receipt of what would be regarded here as very small incomes, having contributed for the purpose some $5,000 United States Gold. The Board was so impressed by this necessity that in the spring it constituted a committee of seven laymen to prepare and issue an appeal for the money required (in addi tion to the sums already given by the Chinese) for the erection of this additional building and of a double dwelling-house for the missionaries, to replace two old , houses which would have to be removed in carrying out the plan. At the close of September, of the $25,000 required, $12,000 had been received. It is hoped that- the whole amount may be made up speedily, as the authorities in China are very anxious to proceed with the project. In no part of the field has the evangel istic work fallen off, while in some parts it has largely increased, as for instance, in the Diocese of Arkansas, where the bishop has made an arrangement with the Board to appropriate $4,500 per annum for the direct missionary work with the 2 REPORT OF THE BOARD OF MANAGERS. understanding that he will raise by his own efforts and expend an equal amount in the enlargement of that work and in the erection of chapels and rectories. And, looking to the future, at the last meeting of the Board a most urgent appeal was received, signed by the bishop and all the missionaries in Shanghai, for the speedy appointment of eight clergymen, two physicians and six women, of whom one is to be a physician. The Board received this appeal with great satisfaction, expressed its hearty approval of the plans for extension, and asked the Church to make the gift of life and money necessary to comply with this wise and reasonable request. It, moreover, determined to enlist the interest and co-operation of the Church Students’ Missionary Association in bringing this call for men and women to the attention of Church pupils in institutions of learning, so that those who are qualified for foreign service might promptly volunteer. In the same line also is the appeal of Dr. Teusler, made with the heartiest endorsement of the Bishop of Tokyo, for $12,000 for the enlargement of St. Luke’s Hospital in that city, where is oj)ened up a remarkable opportunity for the evan gelization of those who are seeking restoration to physical health. Three eminent doctors are consulting physicians and surgeons of the hospital, and are desirous of sending their private patients there. One of these has for years occupied a most prominent position in the medical department of the University of Japan, and each of the others has a large foreign practice. Besides those mentioned, the Missionary District of Cuba was erected at the same General Convention, but, as the work in that island had been previously delegated by the Board of Managers to the American Church Missionary Society, this is left to be spoken of more particularly in the report of that Auxiliary. For all the new missionary districts mentioned bishops have been elected, except for Cuba, and these bishops-elect have been consecrated and have entered upon duty, with the exception of the Rev. Dr. William Cabell Brown for Porto Rico, who, having declined, the present bishop was elected in his place, and Salina, which district the Rev. Nathaniel Seymour Thomas declined to accept. It is to be remarked that, by the action of the General Convention, the con stitution of Honolulu as a Missionary District of this Church was to take effect upon the first day of April. Under commission from the Presiding Bishop the Bishop of California sailed on March 20th to represent him in the islands in taking over jurisdiction. His report, by the desire of the Presiding Bishop, is published as an appendix to the Domestic Report. Upon its receipt an appropria tion was made by the Board, to take effect immediately, covering the cost of the work as he found it from April 1st to the close of the fiscal year. The Right Rev. Dr. Henry B. Restarick sailed for his field August 2d. CHANGES IN MEMBERSHIP. The ex-oj(icio membership of the Board of Managers has been increased during the year by the consecration of the following bishops: On December 4th the Rev. Dr. Cameron Mann as Bishop of North Dakota; on the 19th of the same REPORT OF THE BOARD OF MANAGERS. 3 month the Rev. Dr. Charles H. Brent as Bishop of The Philippines; on «January 8th the Rev. Dr. Frederic W. Iveator as Bishop of Olympia; on the 15th of that month the Rev. Dr. Frederick Burgess as Bishop of Long Island; on February 24th the Rev. Dr. James A. Ingle as Bishop of Hankow; on April ¿2d the Rev. Dr. Alexander H. Yinton as Bishojj of Western Massachusetts; on .May 1st the Rev. Dr. Charles S. Olmsted as Bishop of Colorado, and on the same day the Rev. Dr. Alexander Mackay-Smith as Bishop-Coadjutor of Pennsylvania; on June 2-ith the Rev. Dr. James II. A'an Buren as Bishop of Porto Rico ; on July 2d the Rev. Dr. Henry B. Restarick as Bishop of Honolulu and on October 2d the Row Dr. Charles T. Olmsted as Bishop-Coadjutor of Central New York. It is the sad duty of the Board to record the deaths of the following ex-o/Jicio members: The Right Rev. Dr. Henry B. Whipple on September lGth; The Right Rev. Dr. Alexander Burgess on October 8th; the Right Rev. Dr. John F. Spalding on March 9th; the Right Rev. Dr. Francis McN. Whittle on June 18th, and the Right Rev. Dr. Robert W. Barnwell on July 24th. Of the members of the Board of Managers elected by the' last General Con vention the Yery Rev. Dr. Eugene A. Hoffman died June ICtli, and Mr. John I. Thompson died October 16th in San Francisco, while in attendance upon the sessions of the Convention. At the November meeting of the Board Mr. Leslie Pell-Clarke was elected to fill the vacancy caused by Mr. Thompson’s death. The Right Rev. Dr. W.W. Niles resigned his membership at the May meeting, and in the following month the Right Rev. Dr. Frederick Burgess was elected to succeed him. The vacancy caused by the death of Dean Hoifman had not been filled at the date of this report. The Rev. Robert B. Kimber, Local Secretary, resigned his connection with the Board under date of May 1st, to accept the office of Superintendent of the New York Protestant Episcopal City Mission Society. MATTERS OF REFERENCE. At its first meeting, in November, the Board was informed concerning several references that had been made to it by the House of Bishops and by the Board of Missions. The most important reference from the Board of Missions was the matter of the Apportionment among the dioceses of the amount needed for the support of General Missions. This is discussed beyond under a separate caption. The suggestion from the House of Bishops that another general missionary should be employed for the Swedish work, to be assigned to duty in the Western field, was not new to the Board which had been approached upon the subject at an earlier day. The matter was, however, renewedly brought under consideration when it was proposed to appoint such an officer, but in the state of the Board’s finances at the time the motion did not prevail.