American Baptist Foreign Mission

1921

ONE - HUNDRED - SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT

Presented by the Board of Managers at the Annual Meeting held in Des Moines, Iowa, June 22-28, 1921

Foreign Mission Headquarters 276 Fifth Avenue New York / W t CONTENTS

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P R E F A C E ...... 5 B Y -L A W S ...... 7 O F F IC E R S A N D B O A R D O F M A N A G E R S ...... 9 GENERAL REPRESENTATIVES: STATE DIRECTORS ...... 10 GENERAL REVIEW OF THE YEAR ...... 11-80 I ntroduction ...... 13 International S it u a t io n a n d t h e M is s io n a r y E n t e r p r i s e ...... 13 Service of C ommissioner C h ar les A . B rooks ...... 15 T h e L ondon C o n f e r e n c e ...... 15 F r aternal V is it to E urope ...... 17 Relief W o rk i n E urope ...... 17 Service of D r. Jacob H e in r ic h s in A lsac e -L orraine ...... 19 V isit of R ev. R obert D ubar ry ...... 19 Special . W orkers i n E urope ...... 20 E uropean S tu d e n ts i n A m er ic a ...... 21 V isitors from E n g l a n d ...... - ...... 21 Progress A m o n g B a p t ist s in S c a n d in a v ia ...... 22 T h e C losed D oor to R u s s ia ...... 23 Y ear of U p h e a v a l i n I n d ia ...... 23 P olitical D evelopments ...... 23 D evelopments a t Ju d so n C ollege ...... 27 Problem of Il liter acy i n I n d ia ...... 28 T ransfer of R esponsibility to L ocal C h r is t ia n s ...... 29 Progress a t t h e T h ree N e w S t a t io n s ...... 30 B u r m a B a p t ist C o n v e n t io n ...... 32 Ev a n g el ism t h e F u n d a m e n t a l A i m ...... 32 Political D isturbances i n C h i n a ...... 34 C h in a F a m i n e ...... 35 ' Six t ie t h A n n iv e r s a r y of t h e S o u t h C h i n a M is s io n ...... 35 V isit of P rofessor H e n r y B. R o b in s to t h e F a r E a s t ' ...... 36 O r ie n ta l B a p t is t S t u d e n t s in A m e r ic a ...... 37 W orld S u n d a y S chool C o n v e n t io n i n T o k y o ...... 37 P rogress a t t h e M a b ie M e m o r ia l B o y s ’ S c h o o l ...... 37 A n I n d u s t r ia l C o m m is s io n i n A f r i c a ...... 38 Conference o n W ork in B elg ia n C ongo ...... 39 A dministrative R esponsibility for B elg ian C ongo ...... 39 Secretarial V is it a t io n of M is s io n F ields ...... 40 International M is s io n a r y C o m m it t e e ...... 41 In terc h u rch W orld M o v e m e n t ...... 41 Interdenominational R elationships ...... 43 M issio n a r y E d u catio n ...... 43 Cooperation w i t h S o u t h e r n B ap tists a n d C a n a d ia n B a p tists . . . 44 W o m a n ’s S ociety Ju bilee ...... 45 T he G en eral B oard of P r o m o t io n ...... 46 G eneral R epresentatives a n d S ta t e P rom otion D irectors ...... 47 Regional M is s io n a r y C o nferences ...... 48 M is s io n a r y E x p o sit io n ...... 48 Field S ervice of M issionaries a t H o m e o n F u r lo ug h ...... 49 3 L iter atu r e D e p a r t m e n t ...... 50 A n n u a l R eport ...... 50 M is s io n a r y M a g a z in e ...... 51 P reserving t h e H e a l t h of t h e M issionaries ...... 51 • N e w M issionaries ...... 5? S c a r city of S t a t io n M issionaries ...... 54 N eed a n d t h e S u p p ly of M edical M issionaries ...... 54 P l a n n i n g a F u t u r e H arvest of M is s io n a r y V o lu n teer s ...... 55 N eeds of B r it is h I n d ia ...... 55 « S u m m o n e d to H igh er S ervice ...... 56 • C ommissioning N e w M issionaries ...... 60 P e r so n al C o n ta c t w i t h t h e M is s io n F ields ...... 60 B oard of M a n a g e r s ...... 61 B oard M eetin g s a t B u f f a l o , B o sto n , a n d P ittsbu r g h ...... 62 C o m m it t e e on R e v ie w ...... 62 S ecretarial S t a f f ...... 63 H o m e s for M issionaries ...... 64 H o m e s for t h e C h il d r e n of M issionaries ...... 64 F ir st Y ear i n t h e N e w H eadquarters ...... 65 N e w W orld M o v e m e n t F in a n c ia l C a m p a ig n ...... 66 O peratin g B udget for t h e P a s t Y ear ...... 67 Y ear of A n x i e t y ...... 68 F i n a n c i a l O u t c o m e ...... 71 S pecial G if t A g r eem en ts w i t h L if e A n n u i t y R e t u r n s ...... 71 R eceipts from L egacies ...... 73 Jo h n D . R ockefeller F u n d ...... i ...... 73 R ise a n d F a ll of I nternational E x c h a n g e ...... 7' N eed for N e w E q u ip m e n t ...... 76 S u m m a r y of R e v e n u e A cco u n t ...... 76 R eceipts from t h e N e w W ort.d M o v e m e n t ...... 78 B udget E xpenditures for 1920-1921 a n d O u tlook for 1921-1922 .. 79 T h e S pir it u al E m p h a s is ...... 80 SUMMARY OF REPORTS FROM THE MISSIONS ...... 83- ■157 T h e B u r m a M i s s i o n ...... 83 T h e A s s a m M i s s i o n ...... 97 T h e B e n g a l -O r is s a M issio n ...... 103 T h e S o u t h I n d ia M is s io n ...... 108 • T h e C h i n a M is s io n ...... 124 T h e Ja p a n M is s io n ...... 143 T h e P h il ip p in e I sl a n d s M i s s i o n ...... 148 T h e B e l g ia n -C ongo M is s io n ...... 153 F I N A N C I A L ...... 159 C ertificate of A uditors ...... 159 R eport of t h e T reasurer ...... 160 B a l a n c e S h e e t ...... 162 G e n e r a l I n v e s t m e n t s ...... 170 C o m p a r a t iv e S t a t e m e n t of B udget a n d R eceipts ...... 188 R eceipts C o u n t in g o n N e w W orld M o v e m e n t ...... 190 MISCELLANEOUS ...... 191- -233 . Fields and Stations (with missionaries in each) ...... 193 S t a t ist ic a l T ables ...... 205 M in u t e s of O n e H undred a n d S e v e n t h A n n u a l M eeting 227 I N D E X ...... 235 PREFACE

N the early part of the 19th century the position of Baptists in I America was not one of great prominence. With little organiza­ tion, they were widely scattered and without facilities in those days for easy communication among themselves. The formation- of the English Baptist Missionary Society, which had taken place in 1792, and the early efforts of the pioneer missionaries in India had, how­ ever, 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 Massa­ chusetts Baptist Missionary Magazine. When in the early part of 1812 a company 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 thoroiighness during his voyage to India, and as a result accepted the Baptist view of baptism and wrote a letter which was received 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 chal­ lenge profoundly 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, returned 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 of 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 the Baptists in this country. In 1845 the Southern Baptists withdrew because of a difference of opinion growing out of the slavery question, and in 1846 the name of the Society was changed to The American Baptist Mis­ sionary Union. The name was again altered in 1910, becoming Ameri­ can Baptist Foreign Mission Society. The headquarters were estab­ lished 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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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 under the laws of the states of Pennsyl­ vania, Massachusetts and New York, for the purpose of diffusing the knowledge of the religion of Jesus Christ by means of missions throughout the world, has, pursu­ ant to the power bestowed on it by the several states of Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and New York, adopted the following by-laws:

A R T I C L E I

M e m b e r s h ip Section i. The membership of the Society shall be composed as follows: (a) Of 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 of service. (d) Of all accredited delegates to each annual meeting of the Northern Baptist Con­ vention. (e) Of the officers of the Society and the members of its Board of Managers. Sec. 2. No member shall be entitled to more than one vote.

ARTICLE II O f f i c e r s

S ec. i . The officers o f the Society shall be a President, a First Vice-president, a Second Vice-president, a Treasurer, a Receding 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 e c . 2. The President shall preside at all meetings of the Society; ii the case o f his absencc or inability to serve, his duties shall be perform ed b y 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 s erv e from the close 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 Board of Managers

S e c . 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 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 he 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 ec. 3. The Board of Managers shall have the management o f the affairs o f the Society; shall have the power to elect its own Chairman and Recording Secretary and appoint or elect one or more administrative Secretaries of the Society and such 7 8 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

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 of 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 of all members present and voting at the meeting when said vote is taken; it being understood, however, that in case of missionaries of the Society, an absolute majority of the Board shall be necessary for suspension and a two- thirds m ajority o f the whole B oard fo r dism issal; to fix the compensation of officers, agents and missionaries; to direct and instruct them concerning their respective duties; and 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 woi;k 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 Eligibility to Appointment All officers, all members of the Board of Managers and all missionaries must be members of Baptist churches. A R T I C L E V Annual and Other Meetings 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 of the Board of Managers.

ARTICLE VI Relations with Northern Baptist Convention

S e c . 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 e c . 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. ARTICLE VII

A m e n d m e n t s These by-laws may be amended by a two-thirds vote of 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. OFFICERS

PRESIDENT SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT \V. S. ABERNETHY, D. D., REV. W. E. HEfoRY, District of Columbia W ashington

FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT RECORDING SECRETARY FRANK R. SAGE, Iowa W ILLIAM B. LIPPHARD, New York

HOME SECRETARY FOREIGN SECRETARY JAMES H. FRANKLIN, D. D.

FOREIGN SECRETARY ASSOCIATE SECRETARY JO S E P H C. ROBBINS, D. D. WILLIAM B. LIPPHARD CANDIDATE SECRETARY T R E A S U R E R FOREIGN SECRETARY GEORGE B. HUNTINGTON P. H. J. LERRIGO, M. D

BOARD OF MANAGERS

Chairman, Prof. Frederick L. Anderson, D. D. Vice-Chairman, Mornay Williams. Recording Secretary, William B. Lipphard.

W. S. Abernethy, President of the Society, Washington, D. C.

CLASS I. TERM EXPIRES 1922 Daniel H. Clare, D. D., North Adams, Carl E. Milliken, LL. D., Augusta, Me. Mass. Prof. Henry B. Robins, Ph. D., Rochester, H. M. Fillebrown, Pawtucket, R. I. N. Y. Mrs. Harry Emerson Fosdick, New York, William T. Sheppard, Lowell, Mass. N. Y. F. E. Taylor, D. D., Indianapolis, Ind. Carter Helm Jones, D. D., Philadelphia, Pa. Rev. W. A. Waldo, Ph. D., Corvallis, Ore. CLASS II. TERM EXPIRES 1923 A. C. Baldw in, D. D., Philadelphia, Pa. Pres. Emory W. Hunt, D. D., LL. D.. W. E. Blodgett, Woburn, Mass. Lewisburg, Pa. Henry Bond, Brattleboro, Vt. O. R. Judd, Brooklyn, N. Y. G. A. Hagstrom, D. D., St. Paul, Minn. T. Otto, Syracuse, N. Y. G. E. Huggins, Montclair, N. J. Rev. C. J. Pope, Lincoln, Neb.

CLASS III. TERM EXPIRES 19 24 Prof. Frederick L. Anderson, D. D., Rev. Carey W. Chamberlin, Beverly, Mass. Newton Center, Mass. Howard A. Coffin, Detroit, Mich. Charles W. Bailey, Wollaston, Mass. Selden W. Cummings, D. I)., Boston, Mass. William H. Burger, Brooklyn, N. Y. Prof. K. S. Latourette, New Haven. Conn. Charles H. Button, Frankford, Pa. Mornav Williams, Englewood, N. J. * Resigned July 14, 1921. 19 101 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

PROMOTIONAL AGENT

The General Board of Promotion of the Northern Baptist Convention, J. Y. Aitchison, D. D., General Director, 276 Fifth Ave., New York City.

GENERAL REPRESENTATIVES

A. W. Rider, D. D., 313 West Third St., Los Angeles, Calif. A. M. Petty, D. D., 405 Tilford Bldg., Portland, Oregon. Frank Peterson, D. D., Room 700, 529 Second Ave., South, Minneapolis, Minn. James E. Norcross, D. D., 276 Fifth Ave., New York, N. Y.

STATE PROMOTION DIRECTORS

Arizona—Rev. H. Q. Morton, 216 Noll Bldg., Phoenix. California, North—C. W. Brinstad, D. D., 408 Humboldt Savings Bank Bldg., 783 Market St., San Francisco. California, South—Rev. F. G. Davies, 506 Columbia Bldg., Los Angeles. Colorado—W. F. Ripley, D. D., 714 Exchange Bldg., Denver. Connecticut—Rev. H. B. Sloat, 647 Main Street, Hartford. Delaware—Rev. W. G. Russell, 1701 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa. District of Columbia—Rev. F. P. Langhornc, 619 Quincy St., N. W., Washington. Idaho-—Rev. A. B. Minaker, 601 Empire Bldg., Boise. Illinois—Rev. A. E. Peterson, 1433 Stevens Bldg., 16 N. Wabash Ave., Chicago. Indiana—C. M'. Dinsmore, D. D., 729 Occidental Bldg., Indianapolis. Iowa—G. W. Cassidy, D. D., Valley National Bank Building, Des Moines. Kansas—J. T. Crawford, D. D., 918 Kansas Ave., Topeka. Maine—E. C. Whittemore, D. D., Waterville. Massachusetts—Rev. William Reid, 702 Ford Bldg., Boston. Michigan—Grant M. Hudson, 368 Capital Natl. Bank Bldg., Lansing. Minnesota—E. R. Pope, D. D., Room 700, 529 Second Ave., South. Minneapolis. Missouri—Rev. M. D. Eubank, M. D. (Acting), 1107 McGee St., Kansas City. Montana—Rev. G. Clifford Cress, Box 1932, Lewistown. Nebraska—Rev. Walter I. Fowle, Hcdde Bldg., Grand Island. Nevada—Rev. George L. Snyder, Box 230, Sparks. New Hampshire— D. S. Jenks, I). D., 922 Elm St., Manchester. New Jersey—Rev. J. E. Edwards, 158 Washington St., Newark. New York, LJpper—R. E. Farrier, D. D., 276 Fifth Ave., New York. New York City—C. H. Sears, D. D., 276 Fifth Ave., New York. North Dakota—Rev. Fred E. Stockton, 405 First National Bank Bldg., Grand Forks Ohio—Rev. Frank G. Cressey, Ph. D., Granville. Oregon—O. C. Wright, D. D., 405 Tilford Bldg., Portland. Pennsylvania—Rev. W. G. Russell, 1701 Chestnut St., Philadelphia. Rhode Island—Rev. B. T. Livingston, 304 Lauderdale Bldg., Providence. South Dakota—S. P. Shaw, D. D., 1520 South Summit Ave., Sioux Falls. Utah—Rev. A. B. Minaker, 314 Ness Bldg., Salt Lake City. Vermont—W. A. Davison, D. D., Burlington. Washington, East—A. H. Bailey, D. D., 539 Rookery Bldg., Spokane. Washington, West— George F. Holt, D. D., 433 Burke Bldg., Seattle. West Virginia—G. E. Bartlett, D. D., 213J4 Fourth St., Parkersburg. Wisconsin—Rev. A. LeGrand, 1717 Wells St., Milwaukee. Wyoming—Rev. J. F. Blodgett, 405 S. Park Ave., Casper. GENERAL REVIEW OF THE YEAR

1920-1921

GENERAL REVIEW OF THE YEAR 1920-1921

URING the past year the American Baptist Foreign Mis­ sion Society has been made unusually aware of the mag­ D nitude of its task, of the delicate relationship which its work bears to all phases of life in the non-Christian world, and of the numerous perplexing problems, the wise solution of which will assure missionary progress but whose unwise solution may easily occasion the gravest consequences. In presenting this 107th annual report of the Society, attention will be called in this general review of the year only to the outstanding events which have con­ tributed to the gratifying success of the year or which have con­ stituted serious difficulties in the task confronting the missionaries. In the later sections of the report detailed statements from the several missions will be presented, and an entire section will be devoted to reports from the Treasury Department.

The International Situation and the Missionary Enterprise More than two years have passed since the signing of the armis­ tice, yet the world is still far removed from that peace and tran­ quillity and from that return to normal conditions which every one had hoped would speedily follow the ending of the war. Merely to mention some of the major occurrences throughout the world, which directly or indirectly affected the work of the So­ ciety, will serve to indicate what a difficult year this has been for the missionaries and the churches and workers under their care and what perplexing problems have presented themselves to the Board of Managers. The political chaos and the economic dis­ tress in Europe, with their menace to the entire structure of civili­ zation, are familiar to every thoughtful reader of our secular press. Naturally these conditions have presented difficulties in our endeavor to reestablish fraternal relations, particularly with the religious forces of Eastern Europe, and have at the same tune brought tragic appeals for the relief of suffering humanity. In China the work of the Society has encountered civil war and 13 14 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

continuous political disturbances. More recently the disastrous famine, although not directly affecting regions where the Societv is engaged in work, has presented again the opportunity for demonstrating that the missionary enterprise is concerned for the physical existence as well as the spiritual welfare of the Chinese. Japan has gone through a financial crisis such as no mission­ ary of the Society is able to recall in previous years. In Africa an aggressive movement of Mohammedanism from the North and the slow and insidious menace of a materialistic civilization from the South have placed heavy burdens on the missionaries in their efforts to counteract both influences. India, with her three hundred millions of people, has been experiencing a national awakening such as no one dared to imagine before the war. Popular opposition to the existing government, student strikes, economic boycotts and other phases of the new spirit in India have placed many missionaries in deli­ cate and often embarrassing positions as they strove constantly to show that the missionary enterprise must always ally itself with the forces of law and order and yet must sympathize with the people in every legitimate and healthful aspiration. Problems of similar magnitude have been witnessed in America. The collapse of the Interchurch World Movement with the vanishing of its promises, and the disappointment over the temporarily unrealized financial objective of our own New World Movement have not served to strengthen the morale of the missionary force as they faced the tasks on their respective fields. The wide-spread indus­ trial depression, continuing as it does beyond the time pre­ dicted by most students of economics, has presented grave fi­ nancial problems to the Board in planning the expenditures for future years. In its international aspects, the missionary enterprise is also manifesting certain effects from the unsettled foreign policies of governments and their attitude on the broad questions of international relationships. All these and many other phases of the world situation, as it appeared at the close of the year, have most profoundly affected the work of the Society. Amid these evidences of world unrest, surrounded by these alter effects of the war, with confusion and turmoil on every side and with dark clouds of uncertainty, ominous with their threatening potentialities looming so large on the missionary GENERAL REVIEW OF THE YEAR 15 horizon, the Society is nevertheless going steadily forward, constantly mindful of its sublime purpose to diffuse the knowledge of the religion of Jesus Christ throughout the world.

Service of Commissioner Charles A. Brooks Attention was called in last year’s report to the service of Charles A. Brooks, D. D., Secretary for the foreign-speaking work of the American Baptist Home Mission Society, as the Society’s Commissioner to Europe. The Home Mission Society had generously released him for this important task. He had sailed in the summer of 1919 for a year’s residence on the Con­ tinent. After establishing his headquarters at Geneva, Switzer­ land, he made visits to France, Belgium, Czecho-Slovakia, Portugal, Roumania, Hungary, Spain, Germany, Poland, Lith­ uania, Latvia, Esthonia, Finland, and Sweden, returning to America in the fall of 1920. It is doubtful whether any other American Baptist ever made such an exhaustive study of con­ ditions among European Baptists. Everywhere he was given a hearty welcome, and was able to secure valuable information which has been made available in planning an enlargement of our cooperative relationships.

The London Conference The service of Commissioner Brooks found a happy culmina­ tion in the Baptist Conference held in London, July, 1920, under the auspices of the Executive Committee of the Baptist World Alliance. This conference was attended by representatives of the principal Baptist bodies in the United States and Canada, Great Britain and Ireland, and nearly all the European countries except Portugal, Bulgaria, and Russia. Canadian Baptists were repre­ sented by O. C. S. Wallace, D. D. The Foreign Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention sent as delegates J. H. Love, D. D., and Geo. W. Truett, D. D., with J. B. Gambrell, D. D., and E. Y. Mullins, D. D., as visitors. Emory W. Hunt, D. D., and Secretary James H. Franklin represented the Society as dele­ gates, while Mornay Williams and Arthur T. Fowler, D. D., were present as visitors. The full list of visitors and delegates and the recommendations of the Conference are published in its official report. Only the outstanding features may be mentioned here. 16 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

At this conference Baptists representing practically all the bel­ ligerent countries came together for the first time after the war, to renew their fellowship. At first the experience was not easy, but after five days of intimate relationships there was general thanksgiving over what had been accomplished. In the spirit of Christ men rose above their political differences, and misunderstandings yielded to brotherhood. From the standpoint of missionary work, the most important action taken in the conference was the distribution of responsi­ bility for lending assistance to Baptist bodies in various parts of Europe in the conduct of their work. This distribution of responsibility was approved as follows: P o r t u g a l . To Brazil. The Southern Baptist Convention is to be asked to consider this work favorably. S p a i n . T o the Southern Baptist Convention. F r a n c e , including B e l g iu m and French-speaking S witzer­ l a n d . To the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society ; the Breton work to the British Baptist Missionary Society. I t a l y . To be decided by conference between the Baptist Union of Italy, the Southern Baptist Convention, and the British Baptist Missionary Society. Jugo-S l a v i a . T o the Southern Baptist Convention. H u n g a r y , R o u m a n i a , the U k r a in e , and the portions of R us­ s ia eastward thereof. To the Southern Baptist Convention. B u l g a r ia and G e r m a n A u s t r ia . T o the German Baptist Union, and the German-speaking Baptists of America. C z e c h o -S l o v a k ia . Cooperative work by the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society, Great Britain, and such others as are willing. It was left an open question whether the Southern Bap­ tist Convention shall join in a theological seminary at Prague for Slav students. P o l a n d . T o the American Baptist Foreign M ission Society and the German-speaking Baptists in America. The importance of one Union is to be emphasized. F i n l a n d . T o Sweden and Great Britain. N o r w a y . T o the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society. L a t v ia , L i t h u a n i a , E s t h o n ia , and N o r t h e r n R u s s ia . T o Great Britain, Canada, and the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society, details to be elaborated. GENERAL REVIEW OF THE YEAR 17

D e n m a r k . T o the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society. H o l l a n d . T o Great Britain and Australia. It is hoped that the constituency will make generous response to the announcement of needs in Europe so that the Society’s program of cooperation may be adequately supported. One of the most significant actions of the Conference was the election of Rev. J. H. Rushbrooke, D. D., of London, as Baptist Commissioner for Europe. He is peculiarly fitted for this posi­ tion by reason of ability, fraternal spirit, and intimate knowl­ edge of conditions in European countries. He will give all of his time to the discharge of duties connected with his office. Thus far, he has devoted the larger part of his attention to the super­ vision of relief work. The Society has reason to rejoice at having the able assistance of Doctor Rushbrooke in the study of the many problems which must be faced.

A Fraternal Visit to Europe Following the London Conference Dr. Emory W. Hunt and Secretary James H. Franklin visited several Continental coun­ tries, conveying greetings of Northern Baptists, and conferring with Baptists with whom the Society has been in active coopera­ tion. In France, conferences were held with representatives of the Franco-Swiss and of the Franco-Belgian Baptist Associa­ tions. Brief visits were made to several cities in Germany where these representatives were most cordially received. Deep satisfaction was expressed at the renewal of relationships which had been so seriously interrupted by the war. It is hoped that political conditions will soon make it possible for German Baptists to send fraternal visitors to America. Ins Denmark, Norway, and Sweden Doctor Hunt and Secretary Franklin were accorded the same enthusiastic reception that has always greeted representatives of the Society. Elsewhere in this report will be found detailed reference to the progress of the work on these fields. Letters are still being received voicing: the appreciation of the brethren in Europe of this fraternal visit.

Relief Work in Europe At the London Conference Commissioner Brooks and Rev. J. H. Rushbrooke of London presented a report that not only 18 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

revealed the spiritual needs of vast sections of Europe which they had visited, but also called attention to the need for physical relief. Although general relief organizations were doing a noble work, Baptists had sometimes been overlooked, through no fault of the heads of such organizations, but because of religious prejudices on the part of local committees through whom the general relief organizations were often compelled to do their work. Baptists in America, England, and Scandinavia were therefore called upon not only to support general relief measures, but to make additional offerings to succor their spiritual kinsmen in Europe, and through them furnish relief to others, without regard to race or religion. It was estimated that through de­ nominational organizations as much as one million dollars would be required during the next three years. Most of this money had to be expected from the Baptists of America. The Society immediately requested the Board of Promotion to secure from Northern Baptists as much as one hundred and sixty-six thou­ sand dollars per annum for three years, for the purposes indi­ cated. Inasmuch as the Society could not release this sum from its budget so urgently required for its regular work, the Home Mission Society very generously agreed to reduce its own askings in the New World Movement for equipment to the extent of five hundred thousand dollars, so that the askings of the Foreign Mission Society could thereby be increased. The re­ sponse from the constituency to the appeal for European relief was generous, and enough money was contributed to enable the Treasurer to forward the full amount expected for the first year, which has been spent under the direction of local committees. There has been hearty cooperation in this relief work between the Foreign Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention and the Society. Much yet remains to be done, and the con­ tributions by our people must be continued for two years longer. Donations of clothing also will be urgently required, and the Woman’s Society has already indicated its readiness to cooperate in securing shipments of clothing to reach the suffering people before next winter. American Baptists should furnish at least one shipload of good clothing, shoes, soap, and other supplies. In Northern France and Southern Belgium Rev. Oliva Brou- illette is about to complete his second year of relief work. After GENERAL REVIEW OF THE YEAR 19 some difficulty and delay consent was secured for the construc­ tion of foyers or huts in six large centers which had been com­ pletely destroyed during the war. The first was erected at Lens, a city of nearly forty thousand people where not a house had been left anywhere amid the war ruins. Orphans and widows have been helped, and at Christmas five thousand children were given a “ Merry Christmas.” Text-books have been furnished for schools, and farming implements have been provided for peasants endeavoring to recultivate their land. Mr. Brouillette has had constant opportunities for preaching the gospel, and his work has been greatly blessed. Southern Baptists, having no work in France, have gladly cooperated with Northern Baptists in furnishing funds for this relief work in the devastated areas.

Service of Dr. Jacob Heinrichs in Alsace-Lorraine Soon after the war the Baptists in France requested the Board to send one of its most trusted German-speaking missionaries for service among the German-speaking Baptist churches of Alsace- Lorraine. The Board was fortunate in being able to secure the services of Rev. Jacob Heinrichs, D. D., Professor in the Northern Baptist Theological Seminary, who had spent many years as a missionary of the Society in South India. Doctor Heinrichs sailed early in June and continued in Alsace-Lorraine until the early autumn, mingling freely with the Baptist churches, including several groups of Anabaptists. His work was so appre­ ciated that the several congregations deeply regretted his being unable to reside permanently in their midst and give counsel during these days of readjustment. Besides rendering most val­ uable service in Alsace-Lorraine, Doctor Heinrichs was able twice to cross the Rhine and was the first representative of the Society to convey greetings from American Baptists to the Baptists of Germany.

Visit of Rev. Robert Dubarry A significant Baptist development in France, Belgium, and Western Switzerland, during the last year, was the organiza­ tion of a French-speaking Baptist Union, which is intended to unify the work on fields which hitherto have been divided into very distinct sections. The need for greatly enlarged 20 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

contributions on the part of the Society during these days oi reconstruction effort, and the numerous perplexing problems connected therewith, made it necessary for Rev. Robert Du- barry, Corresponding Secretary of the new French-speaking Baptist Union, to spend two months in America, for confer­ ences with representatives of the Board. Mr. Dubarrv reached America late in November, attended numerous de­ nominational gatherings, visited churches, and spent a month at the headquarters of the Society in New York City. His genial spirit and his attractive Christian personality won many friends for him wherever he journeyed, and his intimate acquaintance with conditions in France was of great value to the Board in planning its work. In conference with Secretary Dubarry and Secretary Charles A. Brooks, a program for lending assistance in France, Belgium, and Western Switzer­ land was formulated, which it is hoped will be heartily ap­ proved by the Baptists of those countries. Nearly all of the Baptist church buildings in Northern France were destroyed or seriously injured, and the congregations scattered. While the progress of Baptist work in France has been slow, it should be recognized that no group of “ dissenters ” has made greater progress, although some of them have had far larger financial assistance from beyond their own borders. During the next few years American Baptists must furnish a much larger measure of support to evangelical Christianity in the countries of Europe than has been true in the past.

Special Workers in Europe

The Society is indebted to the American Baptist Home Mission Society for sending to Europe, for special investigations, at its own expense, four of its most useful missionaries among foreign­ speaking peoples in America. Rev. V. Kralicek spent some months in Czecho-Slovakia in the summer and autumn of 1919, in encouraging the Baptist churches in the states of Bohemia, Moravia, and Slovakia, and in distributing relief funds. Similar service was rendered by Rev. K. W . Strzelec in Poland, by Rev. C. R. Igrisan in Roumania, and Rev. and Mrs. Stephen Orosz in Hungary. Because of unusual needs, Mr. Strzelec returned to Poland in the autumn of 1920 for a continuance of such special GENERAL REVIEW OF THE YEAR 21 service. He has been of special assistance to Commissioner Rush­ brooke in the distribution of relief.

European Students in America It is an interesting- fact that in most, if not all, European countries, where Baptists have made notable progress, some of their most useful leaders have received a part of their edu­ cation in lands where Baptists are strong- numerically and are well organized. In the judgment of the Board the great need of the Christian forces in all parts of the world is self-denying and well-trained leadership, rather than unlimited financial assistance. W ith this in view, the Board is following a policy of aiding several Baptist students from Continental countries now studying in denominational institutions in America, and is encouraging Baptist groups in Europe to send more of their future leaders abroad for such special preparation.

Visitors from England An event of international significance was the visit to America of three representatives of the Baptists of England. Rev. C. E. Wilson, Foreign Secretary of the Baptist Missionary Society of England, Mr. Thomas Penny, a member of the Board of that Society, and Rev. Charles Padfield, a Baptist member of the Congo Bololo Mission in Central Africa, reached New York in January. Immediately upon arriving in America, they were made the guests of the Foreign Missions Conference of North America, which was in session at Garden City, Long Island, where they had opportunity to meet representatives of nearly all of the foreign mission agencies of this country. They came to America for the special purpose of attending a conference on January 21 and 22 in New York City, at which representatives of most of the foreign mission agencies at work in Belgian Congo, Central Africa, joined in the discussion of numerous practical questions affecting the work of all the Societies. Mention of this confer­ ence is made elsewhere in this report. During their brief stay in America they visited Richmond, Virginia, for a conference with members of the Foreign Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, and also studied the work of Hampton Institute, Virginia, with a view to securing suggestions with reference to the 2 2 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY development of industrial training in Central Africa. A reception tendered these English visitors by the Board of Managers on January 25 proved to be a most delightful social and fraternal occasion. The memory of their visit will long abide, and the friendships which they made during their all too brief sojourn will serve to strengthen the feeling of amity that binds America and England, particularly in those enterprises related to the exten­ sion of the Kingdom.

Progress Among Baptists in Scandinavia The Society has reason to be grateful for the fraternal re­ lationships which it has enjoyed for many years with Baptists in various sections of Northern Europe. In Germany, Poland, the new Baltic States, and in Russia the great war seriously disturbed all missionary work, and the Board has not vet been able to adopt a plan of procedure in some of those areas where it is expected to continue assistance to Baptists. In the Scandinavian countries, which were not involved in the war, the work has progressed in an encouraging way, and is stronger today than ever before. The remarkable progress in Sweden, where the Society had the privilege of lending assistance almost from the very beginning of Baptist effort in that country, is too well known to require special comment. The Baptists of Denmark, while not strong in numbers, are a noble and progressive band. In their program for the imme­ diate future the chief feature is the development of their edu­ cational work, in which the Society will heartily cooperate. Baptist churches are now to be found in almost every section of Norway. About twelve organized congregations are within the Arctic circle. Almost under the shadow of the North Pole, the Norwegian Baptists are developing a mission for deep-sea fishermen, which challenges our admiration. They are also endeavoring to establish work in Central Africa, thus laying one hand on the North Cape and the other on the equator. In these efforts the Baptists of Norway continue to receive the support of the Society. Missionary enthusiasm may be said to be the outstanding characteristic of the peoples of the Scandinavian countries. The Baptists of Sweden, who a few years ago were the recipients of missionary funds, now GENERAL REVIEW OF T H E YEAR 23

have forty foreign missionaries of their own in service in China and in Africa. It is expected that at least two of the Baptist Conventions in Scandinavia will cooperate with the English Baptists and with the Society in assisting- the work of Baptists in Czecho-Slovakia.

The Closed Door to Russia The great land of Russia with its unknown and doubtless unknowable turmoil and suffering has been prominently featured in the secular newspapers. People naturally are much interested in knowing what plans may be under con­ sideration for the extension of work in Russia. Frankness compels the Board to state that it is still impossible to make any constructive plans for the renewal of missionary effort among the Russian people. Communications with Russia through the ordinary channels have only recently been restored,, and only one letter from that country has reached the Board during the last two years. That letter must have been taken out of the country by some visitor and mailed elsewhere. It is reported that a group of Russians, who left America several months ago for their native land, have not been permitted to cross the frontier and are now held in other parts of Europe. Any attempt at present on the part of the Board to outline a definite course in Russia would be of no value. Attention will be given to this great problem as soon as it is possible to secure- reliable information.

A Year of Upheaval in India It has been an epoch-making year in India. According to one Burman paper the next year will be even more eventful. Never before was India in such a condition of turmoil and upheaval. Even Burma, which has been quietly sleeping away the centuries, is today plastic and changing. The next fifty years will determine whether, as a nation and a people, this country is to be materialistic, a tendency to which the Burman, from his religion, natural inclination, and wealth of country is peculiarly prone, or whether it is to be Christian. The Board has received numerous reports from missionaries describing the various phases of “ non-cooperation,” “ government boy­ 24 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

cotts," and passive resistance strikes ” which are being urged by the extremist leaders in expression of their opposition to British rule in India. Their apparent object is to cripple the .government as much as possible without actually resorting to revolutionary warfare. The extremists urge officials to resign from government positions, students to leave govern­ ment-aided schools, lawyers to refuse to argue in government courts, and candidates nominated under the Reform Scheme to refuse to permit the use of their names. According to Sir Valentine Chirol this non-cooperation is not a new movement in India. The boycott of foreign goods and the agitation for national schools were prominent features in the Bengal up­ heaval in 1905, and they were carried to still more dangerous lengths in the Deccan. The movement connotes the funda­ mental conflict between two civilizations, historically, ethi­ cally, and socially remote and antagonistic, which underlay the Mutiny more than half a century ago and which in more recent times manifests itself in the growth of extreme forms of nationalism partly under cover of a Hindu religious and patriotic revival. In this turmoil the Christian forces have naturally allied themselves on the side of law and order. The All-Indian Christian Conference, meeting in Calcutta, December 30, passed this resolution:

While admitting that there are some causes for present discontent in this country, this conference of Indian Christians strongly condemns the policy of non-cooperation as proposed by the Calcutta Congress and is decidedly of the opinion that it is impracticable, unwise, unnecessary, and suicidal to the best interests of the country.

The Burma Baptist Convention, representing 122,000 Bap­ tists, at its meeting in Mandalay, October 30, passed this resolu­ tion which was forwarded to the Lieutenant Governor:

W h e r e a s the Government of India has graciously granted to the peoples of Burma increased privileges of self-government; and W h e r e a s these privileges are based on the democratic principles which our Lord and Master, Jesus Christ, taught: e. g., the brotherhood of m an, with its solution for the problems of war and racial antagonisms; the infinite worth of each individual, with its implication of equal opportunity for all ( regardless of sex, race, or wealth) in government, education, and GENERAL REVIEW OF THE YEAR 25 the earning of a livelihood; the duty of the strong to help the weak, with its demand for the alleviation of poverty, disease, and all other social evils; the obligation of absolute honesty which is basal for any sound social and political structure; and finally, the fundamental principle of self-sacrifice, which alone can produce unselfish and patriotic leaders, whom neither wealth nor popular favor can turn aside from the highest welfare of Burma: Resolved, That, First, we urge all the leaders of our people to spare no effort in spreading abroad knowledge of the Government Reform Scheme; an d Second, we urge all Baptists to assume their full responsibility as Chris­ tian citizens and so to aid Government in every possible way that the pro­ posed reforms may become a fact.

The Telugu Baptist Convention in South India, representing 300.000 adherents and 24,000 pupils in various schools, met at Bapatla, November 8, and passed a similar resolution in which it placed itself on record as ready individually and collectively to cooperate fully with the Government in every effort to further the growth and progress of India.

Political Developments Political developments frequently have far-reaching conse­ quences on missionary progress. Where a non-Christian peo­ ple are under the rule of a foreign power good government helps missionary activity, whereas any oppressive government makes the work of missionaries exceedingly difficult. A c­ cordingly, in reviewing the past achievements and the future missionary possibilities in India political conditions must always be taken into consideration. Notwithstanding the un­ rest and dissatisfaction, Great Britain has gone steadily for­ ward with her reform schemes, and several important events during the year have marked the progress of India along the road to self-government. The first of the new Indian Coun­ cils was held in Madras in January. On the 19th of February India’s first elected parliament and new Council of State and the Imperial legislative assembly were formally opened. Two new members of the Provincial Legislative Council are Mr. A. T. Palmer, Headmaster of the McLaurin High School at Coco- nada of the Canadian Mission, and Mr. G. Vandanam. Headmas­ ter of the Ongole High School. Of the four important appoint­ 26 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

ments going to Indians in the reorganized Madras Government, three have been given to non-Brahmans. Many important branches of administration have been transferred to the local government, and the ministers selected from among the members of the legislature, are responsible for local self-government, medi­ cal administration, public education, health and sanitation, public works, agriculture, fisheries (except in Assam), cooperative so­ cieties, development of industries, prevention of adulteration of foodstuffs, weights and measures, and museums. The creation of a High Commissioner for India marked another distinct step toward self-government. Hitherto, the Secretary of State in Council has conducted all the business transacted in the United Kingdom in relation to Indian government. The cost of the administration has been borne by Indian revenues. From the current financial year the salary of the Secretary of State and the cost of his establishment fall on the British Exchequer, while the agency work now to be performed by the High Commissioner will alone be charged to India. An event of similar importance was the appointment of Lord Sinha of Raipar, former under-secretary for India, to the Governorship in Council of the Indian province of Bihar and Orissa. Lord Sinha is the first Indian ever to receive ap­ pointment to a Governorship, and his arrival in Bihar was looked upon as the sign of the beginning of a new era. The official visit to India by the Duke of Connaught as the per­ sonal representative of the King has also tended to foster good-will and better feeling between India and England. Other significant political events included the appointment of Lord Reading as Viceroy of India, which was generally con­ ceded to have been a wise and fortunate choice. In India this appointment created favorable impressions. Even the ex­ tremists’ papers admitted that it was the best possible ap­ pointment under the present system of government. The at­ tempt by the British Government in thus setting the feet 01 India in the path of self-government, involving as it does, one- fifth of the human race, constitutes one of the greatest experi­ ments in democracy ever undertaken in the world's history. These political changes necessitated unusual tact and discre­ tion on the part of our missionaries in their relations with both GENERAL REVIEW OF THE YEAR 27

Indian and British government officials. The confidence and esteem in which they are held by the people of India has been maintained, and they are worthy of every commendation for their service during the trying year.

Developments at Judson College The University of Rangoon, of which Judson College is now a constituent part, was declared officially existent De­ cember 1, 1920. Three days later five hundred students declared a strike in protest against certain regulations govern­ ing the University and submitted an ultimatum of sixteen points in which they objected to the rules. The authorities replied that the Bill for the new' University was passed in August and was not put into operation until December. In the intervening four months ample opportunity had been given for filing protests. They pointed to the fact that the students had struck before they had tried the new rules to know whether or not they were unjust. Although the stu­ dents gave this as their reason, there is more or less disagree­ ment as to the real motive behind the strike agitation. Xot only were students involved but also parents, schoolmasters, Burmese leaders, and sympathizers of alien nationality. Ac­ cording to some reports the strike was interpreted as a part of the larger world unrest in which, owing to the disintegra­ tion of repressive forces, there is a general defiance of au­ thority, and as a phase of the general non-cooperative move­ ment being agitated in India by those extremists who are advocating the complete independence of India from the British Empire. The movement spread throughout the entire province and many of our mission schools were affected. The year has marked a definite advance in collegiate educa­ tion for girls. Miss Helen Hunt has been elected Dean for Women of Judson College and twenty-six young women have been in attendance. Two residences adjoining the campus have been purchased for dormitories for women, and the Col­ lege is looking forward to being able now to offer women stu­ dents more nearly what is offered in other countries. In athletics the College football team won a championship. In commenting on the final game, the Rangoon “ Gazette ” said : 2 8 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

Judson College team has had a splendid record for clean play through the season, and showed again and again that it Avas possible for Burmans and Karens to play football cleanfy. Not a single foul play was made. Athletics under such conditions are an important factor in the development of character. Religious life has been maintained at an unusually high level and a number of pupils from Buddhist families have openly acknowledged Jesus Christ.

The Problem of Illiteracy in India Universal elementary education is one of the gravest and most inspiring problems which confront India today. Mo­ mentous issues turn upon the way in which it is handled. India will be revolutionized for good or for evil by her ele­ mentary schools. Statistics show that only 2.7 per cent, of the population of all British India was receiving elementary instruction in the schools at the close of the year 1919. Where Christian communities have been established a genera­ tion or more, the standard of literacy has risen. In 700,000 villages of India, each of which has an average population of 360, there is an alarming shortage of primary schools. Of the 150,000 primary schools for boys and girls in all British India, including Burma, a large percentage are in the cities and popu­ lous towns. More than half a million villages are unsupplied with primary schools. In each village the average number of children of school age is under sixty. It is impossible to find teachers, and even if a little more than a living wage were paid them, the cost would be enormous. Of the 320,000,000 people living in India there are today only 21,000,000 who can read their own language and probably two million who can read English. It is estimated that the number of those who can read and write increases by about 300,000 a year. Con­ sidering the population as a whole, one man in ten and one woman in a hundred can read. But of the 3,876,203 Christians now in India, one man in four and one woman in ten is able to read and write. These facts present tremendous problem? to all mission boards at work in India. During the year an educational commission, consisting of Indian, British, and American representatives, visited India and in a comprehen­ GENERAL REVIEW OF THE YEAR 29 sive way studied this great problem. In its report the com­ mission recommends that village schools be organized as cen­ ters for activities to promote the spiritual, physical, and economic welfare of the community. It is suggested that each mission send selected persons to America to study the work at Hampton or Tuskegee and to take university courses in rural education and sociology. A new type of rural middle school is proposed, called Vocational Middle School, which shall train promising children who have completed the village primary schools. Through such proposals and other suggestions it is hoped the missionary agencies will in future years endeavor in a larger way to meet this appalling situation.

Transfer of Responsibility to Local Christians Missionaries of the Society in India have been among the foremost in transferring mission responsibility to local leader­ ship. Already the entire field of Kandukuru, South India, has been turned over to the Telugu Baptist Convention, which continues all the activities formerly conducted by missionaries. During the past year the Taluk Association, also of South India, which assumed charge of its village primary education ten years ago, took over from the missionaries entire responsi­ bility for the field work. In Madras, responsibility for the evangelistic work has been assumed by the Telugu Church. Rev. L. C. Smith, of the South India Mission, writes:

Perhaps the greatest event of the year was the work of organizing the Nellore Field Baptist Association. The purpose is the unifying of the evangelistic forces on the field, as represented in the churches, and prepar­ ing them for a more responsible part in the evangelizing of the whole field.

In Bengal-Orissa the evangelistic work is being conducted largely by Indian Christians, and the chairman of the com­ mittee, Rev. Natober Singh, is a prominent Indian Christian. Burma has not been behind in this advance movement, and Saya Ba Hlaing, a Burmese Christian and a Judson College graduate with educational experience, has been made superin­ tendent of Judson High School in Moulmein, a position formerly held by a missionary. Saya Chit Pyu, an educated Talain. has been given charge of evangelistic work for the Talain Mission 30 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

in Moulmein. In finances the local Christians are also making remarkable strides toward self-support. This is well illustrated in a letter from Dr. C. A. Nichols of the Karen Mission at Bas- sein, who writes:

I fully realize the Society’s present indebtedness, but I am one of those who are quite confident that the $100,000,000 is to be raised. The “ three lacs ” (300,000 rupees) which we set out to raise seemed as colossal to us as the “ hundred million ” did to our people at home, especially when cattle disease so nearly wholly swept away the chief source of income but many now again realize how God can use “ man’s extremity to develop His opportunities.” W e still require 140,000 rupees, and hope to complete it within the next six months.

One feature of the annual Convention at Burma this year makes it especially noteworthy. For many years it has been the custom for a missionary to be president of the Convention with several vice-presidents representing the different races of Burma. Many of these vice-presidents have presided over sessions of the Convention at various times, but this year for the first time one of these vice-presidents was made president, and, in Saya L. T. As Syoo, pastor of the Moulmein Burmese Church, the Convention had a most capable presiding officer.

Progress at the Three New Stations In the report of last year attention was called to the open­ ing of three new mission stations: at Kangpokpi, in Assam; at Jamshedpur, in Bengal-Orissa; and at Mong Lem, in China just across the Burma border. Substantial developments have already been seen in the work of these three new fields whose opening constituted one of the advances as a result of the New W orld Movement. During the year Dr. and Mrs. G. G. Crozier have been living at Kangpokpi and have cleared the jungle, mapped out the compound, erected temporary quarters, and constructed roads. The missionary staff has been reenforced by the return of Rev. and Mrs. William Pettigrew. Recently Mr. Pettigrew visited the western por­ tion of Manipur State now open to Baptists, this being the first visit ever made by any missionary in this section. The missionaries report 295 baptisms among the Tangkhuls, and 100 among the Kukis, the two principal tribes among whom GENERAL REVIEW OF THE YEAR 31 the missionaries at Kangpokpi are working, while 200 more are waiting to be baptized. Local evangelists are working among the Kabui Naga tribe, a people whose language has not yet been reduced to writing. Work has also been car­ ried on for lepers and with the aid of funds from the Mis­ sion to the Lepers two large houses have been erected and several patients have been under treatment. Three cases, pronounced cured, have been dismissed. Further develop­ ment at this station calls for the erection of hospitals, schools, and dormitories, and awaits the completion of the New W orld Movement. A survey of Jamshedpur has revealed a mission field full of ■unlimited possibilities as well as perplexing problems. The town which is owned and controlled by one large commercial enterprise, numbers among its cosmopolitan population some 270 English and 100 Americans, the remainder of its 60,000 inhabitants being made up largely of Indians and Anglo- Indians. Plans have been drafted and approved by the mis­ sion and the Board, calling for two church buildings, one for English and the other for the vernacular. Both will be erected as soon as funds are available. Evangelistic services have been held regularly, although handicapped by the lack of suitable quarters. Rev. Walter R. Greenwood, who was sent out by the Board during the year, has been designated to Jamshedpur to be associated with Rev. C. L. Conrad and to supervise the Indian work. After a series of difficulties the anticipated evangelistic op­ portunity at Mong Lem is opening up well. Rev. William M. Young arrived on the field early in 1920, and in his last letter he reported that on a recent tour 400 converts had been baptized and 300 more had been examined who are now ready lor baptism. He was obliged to devote considerable time in negotiating with the Chinese officials for permission to locate a permanent station on this new• field, where as a result of evangelistic efforts in previous years there are already several thousand Christians. He found it necessary also to intercede with the officials on behalf of the Christians who were being persecuted. The Chinese officials now seem cordial and friendly and have given assurance that there would be no 32 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY further persecution or imposing of fines on the Christians. The prospects for the future appear much brighter.

The Burma Baptist Convention A meeting of the Northern Baptist Convention is considered well attended when a registration of 2,000 delegates is re­ ported. In October at the thirty-fourth meeting of the Burma Baptist Convention the enrolment included 1,000 Burmans, 900 Karens, 200 Kachins, 60 Chinese, besides a number oi Anglo-Indians, Shans, Chins, and Talains. The delegation of 200 Kachins, bedecked in their striking red-and-black cos­ tumes, covered with silver buttons, beads, and buckles, with flaming red turbans, attracted much attention. The great Buddhist Citadel, Mandalay, was chosen as the place of meet­ ing. Five of those present attended this Convention when it met in Mandalay thirty years ago. At that time there were only eleven Kachin Christians and now there are over 1,600. Con­ cerning the Convention Rev. C. E. Chaney writes:

As I stood before the peacock throne resplendent in 1884 with the glories of the last Burman King, in the center of this great Buddhist Citadel, now dotted with Christian schools and institutions, and thought of how the Light was streaming into this stronghold from the four cor­ ners of Burma and all the places between, I thought what God hath wrought in the few years between the day when Judson stood trembling and alone before the mighty phalanx of Buddhism in this mighty city, and today when Buddhism stands trembling before the onrush of the encompassing hosts taking possession as surely as the Israelites took possession of Jericho centuries ag6. Our God is marching on!

At this Convention twenty-two delegates from the Lahu tribes in Kengtung, who had to make the journey of 300 miles each way on foot, were an inspiration to all. Twenty years ago no one in America knew of the existence of the Lahu tribe. Those twenty-two delegates represented a constituency ot nearly 12,000 Christians.

Evangelism the Fundamental Aim

At the annual meeting of the Burma Conference a special Committee on Policy in its report stated: GENERAL REVIEW OF THE YEAR 33

It is the opinion of this committee that evangelization is the keynote of all our work, and that all forms of work should be viewed in relation to this fundamental aim.

In accordance with this policy the Burma Mission has desig­ nated Rev. W. F. Thomas, D. D., as general evangelistic mis­ sionary for Burma. Doctor Thomas will enter upon this im­ portant task upon his return to the field, as he is now at home on furlough. Tw o entire weeks preceding the annual con­ ference at Mandalay were devoted to an evangelistic cam­ paign. The Assam Mission has also taken action favoring the designation of one of its members to give his entire time to general evangelistic work. Rev. O. L. Swanson -will as­ sume this duty as soon as the missionary staff is sufficiently large to permit his release. Rev. Wheeler Boggess returned to South India during the past year to become general evan­ gelistic missionary for the Telugu Mission. Notwithstanding the serious political and economic conditions, much has been accomplished in evangelistic efforts. At Maubin, for example, the number of baptisms in recent years has grown from 65, 75, and 140 to 197 last year, and it is expected that they will exceed 200 this year. Several evangelists have been working on this field. One of our missionaries writes:

Let us have our schools, our preaching services, our colporters, our evangelists and Bible-women, but let us also set apart several soul-stirring missionaries with a band of Burman, Karen, Chinese, Indian helpers and lay siege to the strongholds of Buddhism. The hour for boldly attacking the non-Christian systems of Burma has arrived.

It is significant that similar encouraging reports come from sections of India where famine conditions have prevailed. One of our missionaries reports:

Famine is with us again. It is never very far from some of our people at any time. A large portion of our Indian people are a little hungry always. Both people and cattle are suffering much, and many of the people are living on leaves and roots. To meet the need special famine grants have been made by the Board and numerous gifts have been received from friends in America and Burma. Notwithstanding these conditions, the evangelistic results have been most encouraging. A total 34 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

of 3,326 converts were baptized in South India last year. At Vinukonda 200 were received for baptism, this being the largest number in any one year for over twenty years. At Nalgonda, also in South India, 650 people were baptized, the largest number ever baptized in one year in the history of this field. An Indian evangelist has been set aside to devote his entire time to touring this field. Donakonda reports 72 groups of volunteers united for evangelistic effort. The Board is deeply concerned in perpetuating the evangel­ istic ideals of the denomination in its work abroad. Special messages have been sent to the fields calling attention to the fundamental importance of winning disciples to Christ, and urging that evangelism be emphasized in every phase of mis­ sionary activity. Although the latest statistical reports from the various fields have not yet been compiled, the annual re­ ports of individual missionaries furnish reason for expectation that the statistical summary, when completed, will show that in evangelism the year has been one of the best in the history of the Society. It is a matter for gratitude that missionaries who are en­ gaged in other than technically evangelistic effort, are finding time to give themselves also with enthusiasm to winning men and women to discipleship. A striking illustration of this is to be found at Shanghai Baptist College and Seminary, where year after year the fires of evangelistic fervor burn brightly. Let our people everywhere pray that during the present year the blessing of God may rest in special measure on the evan­ gelistic efforts of the missionaries.

Political Disturbances in China Political disturbances in China during the year, although not so violent as in other periods, have nevertheless been such as to cause continued embarrassment to the work of the Society at several stations. The unsettled conditions gave bandits greater boldness, and several missionaries have been held up while on tour and have been robbed of practically everything in their possession. It is difficult for us at home to appreciate what hardship is involved for a missionary in far-away W est China, when his supplies for the entire year GENERAL REVIEW OF THE YEAR 35 are stolen by bandits. Frequently the lives of missionaries have been in danger. Fortunately no representative of the So­ ciety suffered personal violence anywhere in China last year.

The China Famine The story of the disastrous Famine in China is too well known to require extended mention in this report. Possibly fifteen million people have faced the specter of starvation, and while multitudes have perished, large populations have been saved through the generosity of sympathetic friends in America and in other lands. All foreign mission agencies have called the attention of their constituencies to the appalling need, and have done everything possible for immediate relief measures. Al­ though the Society has no work in the affected districts, the Treasury Department has gladly forwarded nearly $100,000 in relief funds contributed by the constituency for that purpose. Seldom has America enjoyed such an opportunity for making a demonstration of practical Christianity and of showing that the foreign-mission enterprise is solicitous for the physical welfare of humanity as well as its spiritual progress.

The Sixtieth Anniversary of the South China Mission An event of unique historical significance was the celebra­ tion o'n October 21 and 22 of the sixtieth anniversary of the founding of the South China Mission. Delegates came from the other missions of the Society in China and from the mis­ sions of other denominations. The Board was represented by Prof. Henry B. Robins. Fellowship with these visitors both in the meetings and outside the gatherings contributed much to the enjoyment and significance of the occasion. The commemorative address was delivered by Dr. William Ash­ more, who has seen forty-two years of service in China, and whose honored father was the first appointee to Swatow, although not the first actually to begin work there. Possibly the climax of interest and enthusiasm was reached in the addresses of several Chinese who emphasized the task still before the mission and called attention to the founding of the mission as a foreign proposition and to the present task begun by the missionaries as one for the Chinese to complete. 36 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

The most spectacular feature of the celebration was the great parade of the schools in Swatow city. More than 1,200 students from the several mission stations were in line. That parade, in uniform and with the drums and trumpets, could be distinctly heard as well as seen as it wended the narrow streets of the city. Sixty years ago the missionary in South China was despised, and few but the despised and outcast ventured even to listen to his message. But the body of students who marched that day representing the future hope of China, is another modern miracle, an opportunity big with possibilities and a glorious ac­ complishment. To have changed the suspicion of a great people into confidence and to have transformed hatred into affection is an honor, the glory of which belongs to God, who guided in the founding of the mission sixty years ago.

Visit of Professor Henry B. Robins to the Far East The Society is fortunate in having on its Board of Managers several members who have in recent years visited the Orient. Professor Henry B. Robins, Ph. D., of Rochester Theological Seminary was granted leave of absence from the seminary on his Sabbatical year, and has been spending the year in an extended tour of the Far East. He has been in the Philip­ pines, W est China, and South China, and will include East China and Japan before he returns. Professor Robins has had some interesting experiences. He has visited many of our mis­ sion stations, and has addressed numerous gatherings of mis­ sionaries as well as of native Christians. In the Philippines he was able to visit every station and to make a comprehensive study of our entire work. In South China he participated as an official delegate of the Board in the celebration of the sixtieth anniversary of the mission. Professor Robins has encountered hindrances to travel in China, on account of political distur­ bances and civil war along his route, the plague of cholera, and the hardships of the long journey into the far interior. He is the first official Board representative to have visited the West China Mission. The reports concerning his observations and his recom­ mendations have proved the value of his visits to these fields and will be of great service to the Board in considering the missionary problems in that part of the non-Christian world. GENERAL REVIEW OF THE YEAR 37

Oriental Baptist Students in America Several years ago the Board encouraged the missions in the Orient to send to America for special study a few college grad­ uates who had given evidence of Christian character and of a desire to give themselves to the spiritual, moral and intellectual uplift of their people. The result thus far has been most encour­ aging. Several men from China and Japan have completed courses in American universities and Baptist theological semina­ ries and on their return to the Orient have engaged in Christian work. These students have given a good account of themselves, and most of them have associated themselves directly with the Baptist mission work. Twelve Oriental students are now study­ ing in America, with the assistance of the Society, and all of them may be expected to render useful service upon their return to the Orient. In several cases the education of these men has been made possible by gifts from interested American Baptists.

The World Sunday School Convention in Tokyo An event of unusual missionary significance was the meeting of the World Sunday School Convention in Tokyo in October. Unfortunately on the eve of the opening session, the large building which had been erected especially as a place for this important international meeting, was destroyed by fire. Never­ theless this apparent calamity appears to have been overruled to bring the Convention and its purposes still more distinctly to the attention of the entire Japanese public. It also served to arouse interest in many directions in doing everything possible to meet the situation, and despite the catastrophe, which at first seemed to threaten to defeat the plans which had been in the making for several years, the influence of the Convention on Japanese thought appears to have been very helpful. It served also to demonstrate anew the importance of aggressive and effective Sunday school work in the establishment of Christianity.

Progress at the Mabie Memorial School In recent years the denomination has shown a greater readi­ ness to undertake a larger measure of educational work with a view to training Christian leaders in various parts of the 38 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

Orient. One of the most encouraging developments has been the establishment of the Mabie Memorial School at Yokohama, Japan. A small academy had been maintained in Tokyo, but it never registered a large attendance. Several years ago the Japan Mission and the Japanese churches decided to discontinue the Tokyo academy where other institutions of similar grade were being conducted successfully, and in its place to establish a high school at Yokohama. Here was a population of more than 500,000 with no Christian school for boys. The Provincial government welcomed the interest of the Mission, and made it possible for a splendid site to be purchased at a special price. A stately concrete structure is now being completed. This will serve as the principal building of the academy, and other sec­ tions will be added as funds are secured. In all probability the student enrolment will reach five hundred in another year, as compared with the attendance of one hundred at the academy in Tokyo. The Japan Mission proposes further to develop this institution by the addition of a higher commercial college. While the Society may congratulate itself upon the material equipment which is now being supplied, there is still greater reason for encouragement over the able leadership of Principal Sakata, a Japanese Baptist, who is a graduate of the Imperial University, and who has already shown himself an administrator of very unusual ability. Principal Sakata is surrounding himself with a strong faculty, and is doing a great deal to commend the Mabie Memorial School to the Japanese public. Missionaries connected with the school are delighted at the prospects.

An Industrial Commission in Africa Two years ago the Board felt in need of expert advice con­ cerning the development of industrial education in its Belgian Congo Mission. The matter wras brought to the attention of the Foreign Missions Conference of North America, and most of the American Boards at work in tropical Africa were found ready to cooperate in sending out a special commission. The Phelps-Stokes Fund was approached, and its directors mani­ fested a deep interest in the proposed industrial survey of tropical Africa, and readily released for service, as the chair­ man of the commission, one of its leading representatives, GENERAL REVIEW OF THE YEAR 39

Dr. Thomas Jesse Jones, who has given many years to the study of education for negroes in America. The Commission sailed from America in August, 1920, and will probably return to America in December, 1921. Its itinerary includes Liberia, Nigeria, French Congo, Belgian Congo, Portuguese Congo, and other sections. Industrial training is now widely recognized as essential to commercial progress and to the proper develop­ ment of intellectual and moral leadership among primitive peoples. Special study will be made of opportunities for such training in Africa. On its tour in Belgian Congo the com­ mission will be accompanied by Dr. Catharine L. Mabie, a missionary of the W oman’s Society, who has rendered most significant service in the Congo Mission.

A Conference on Work in Belgian Congo On January 21-22 representatives of all societies at work in Congo, including Rev. C. E. Wilson, Secretary of the Baptist Missionary Society of England, and Rev. Charles Padfield, of the Congo Bololo Mission, but with the exception of the Swedish Mission, met in conference at the headquarters of the Society. The conference considered all phases of missionary activity in the Congo field and provided for a permanent committee to inaugurate and carry on joint tasks such as literature publication. Mr. Wilson was able to give accurate information from personal observation of the conditions now obtaining upon the field, having recently visited Africa with a commission from England. Extended consideration was given to the need of industrial education, particularly agricultural, as the basis of further industrial development.

Administrative Responsibility for Belgian Congo An important change was made in the foreign secretarial re­ sponsibility for the administration of the Belgian Congo Mission. At the December meeting of the Board, this responsibility was transferred from Secretary J. H. Franklin to Secretary P. H. J. Lerrigo. Several reasons, in the judgment of the Board, made this transfer seem advisable. The heavy responsibility involved in administering the work in the Far East, particularly in view of the numerous perplexing problems demanding attention, and the 40 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY unusual amount of work that has been required in connection with the reconstruction plans for Europe have placed enormous burdens on Secretary Franklin. Some measure of relief seemed im­ perative. It was also considered advisable to have the secretary in charge of recruiting of candidates and supervising the newly established medical service department, in more direct and per­ sonal contact with the actual work on the fields. For these reasons the responsibility for the Belgian Congo Mission was transferred to Secretary Lerrigo.

Secretarial Visitation of Mission Fields The Belgian Congo has never been visited by a secretarial repre­ sentative of the Board although a special commission was sent by the denomination on a tour through Central Africa in 1910. Repeated requests had come for a secretarial visit to this field, which is the most neglected of our missions. A commission of the English Baptist Mission visited Africa last year, and Secre­ tary Wilson, of the English Society, urged upon the Board the impOi Lance of a similar visit to our own field. In view of the investigations and report of the Industrial Educational Com­ mission the present seems a strategic time for such a visit. The mission conference will be held in November, and a general conference of representatives of all societies at work in the Congo will meet at Bolenge on the upper Congo adjacent to our own work. Under these circumstances the Board has authorized Secretary Lerrigo to visit the Congo field. Problems in British India make it necessary also to arrange for an imme­ diate visit to that field. Accordingly the Board has adopted a policy covering the visitation of mission fields during the next three years. The following vote appears on the records:

V o ted: That the tentative plan for secretarial visitation, providing for a visit by Secretary P. H. J. Lerrigo to Africa in the summer and autumn of 1921; a visit by Secretary J. C. Robbins to the British-India fields in the fall, winter, and spring of 1921-1922; and a visit by Secretary J. H. Franklin to the mission fields in the Far East, involving absence from America for the fiscal year 1922-1923, be approved.

Secretary Lerrigo sails for Africa in July immediately after the Convention, and Secretary Robbins sails for India in GENERAL REVIEW OF THE YEAR 41

August. The former expects to return in December, and the latter just prior to the Convention in 1922.

An International Missionary Committee The present world situation makes clear the necessity of some permanent international missionary committee. At a large international missionary conference held at Crans, Switzerland, in June, attended by representatives from America, Great Britain, France, Switzerland, Holland, Bel­ gium, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, China, India, Africa, and' Germany, it was unanimously recommended that such an organization be created. It will be the purpose of the com­ mittee to influence Christian public opinion in support of freedom of conscience and religion and of missionary liberty and to unite the Christian forces of the world in seeking justice in international and inter-racial relations, especially where politically weaker people are involved. The committee will be responsible for the publication of the “ International Review of Missions ” and such other periodicals as in their judgment may contribute to the study of missionary problems. The committee will also stimulate thinking and investigation on missionary questions and will enlist in the solution of these questions the best knowledge and experience to be found in all countries and will make the results available for all mission­ ary agencies. The Board was among the first to take action favoring the establishment of this committee and has approved the appointment of Secretary Franklin as its representative.

The Interchurch World Movement In interdenominational relationships the outstanding event dur­ ing the year was the collapse of the Interchurch World Movement. Its total expenses had amounted to nine million dollars, of which over seven million was borrowed at the banks upon the guaranties of the cooperating denominations. It was generally expected that the central treasury of the Movement would receive subscrip­ tions in such large amounts that each participating denomination would be able, from its share of such receipts, to pay its full pro­ portion of the expenses and still retain a considerable sum to apply °n its own program. These expectations were utterly disap- 42 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

pointed in the actual result of the financial campaign. The Board of Promotion had guaranteed to the Movement a sum not to exceed $2,500,000 for the Northern Baptist share of the expenses and the denomination, therefore, in common with all other under­ writing agencies, was placed under the necessity of paying the entire amount of its guaranty. It was hoped that this payment could be distributed over several years, but in settling the financial affairs of the Movement it soon became clear that the entire amount would be called for this year. Through the special desig­ nation on the part of a donor of a very large gift and through the payment in advance of subscriptions to the New World Move­ ment, covering a period of several years, which could legiti­ mately be applied toward the payment of these underwritings, a total of about $1,000,000 was immediately made available. In order to secure the funds needed to pay the balance, the Board of Promotion, with the consent of the national Societies and Boards, withheld undesignated receipts for the months of November and December, involving a total of $535,827.96 from the national organizations, $68,150.00 from the State Conventions, $23,280 from the City Mission Societies, and in addition executed a note for $700,000 with one of the large banks in New York. The receipts for the Society which have been temporarily so withheld amounted to $112,677.81. These funds made it possible for the Board of Promotion to pay off the entire obligation, which at the time of settlement involved a total of $2,543,766.67, the excess over the original $2,500,000 representing accrued interest. At Denver the Northern Baptist Convention authorized cooper­ ation with the Interchurch World Movement, contingent upon certain conditions. At the meeting of the Convention in Buffalo this action was reversed, for the Convention voted to discontinue its relations, the section of the resolution authorizing such dis­ continuance being as follows:

That we declare our grateful belief that the Movement has ac­ complished some very desirable and far-reaching results under great difficulties and handicaps, but that our experience convinces us that our cooperative relationships cannot be adequately or satisfactorily expressed in this Movement as now constituted, and that therefore our relations with the Interchurch W orld Movement should be discon­ tinued as of June 30, 1920. GENERAL REVIEW OF THE YEAR 43

It will obviously be impossible to enumerate here all the reasons which accounted for this action. It was felt that certain changes in the organization of the Movement were necessary. Certain tendencies in the work of the Movement and some of its objec­ tives, whether expressed or implied, seemed to be such as to make cooperation on the part of Baptists difficult if not practically impossible. The failure of the financial campaign among the so-called friendly citizens and the necessity of paying the de­ nominational underwritings suggested that further obligations ought not to be incurred and that accordingly withdrawal was the only logical course of procedure. Doubtless personal con­ siderations also influenced the judgment and decision of many delegates in attendance at the Convention.

Interdenominational Relationships Although voting to withdraw from the Interchurch World Movement, the Northern Baptist Convention nevertheless regis­ tered its conviction concerning interdenominational cooperation and declared its readiness to continue such cooperative efforts with other evangelical denominations. The task of winning the world to Jesus Christ is too large to be undertaken by one Society alone. The Board has therefore continued its cooperative rela­ tionships with other boards and organizations which have proved to be so valuable and which have not involved the sacrifice of fundamental principles. The Foreign Missions Conference, the Missionary Education Movement, the Student Volunteer Move­ ment, the International Missionary Union, and the Federal Council of Churches with its various commissions are some of the interdenominational agencies in whose work the Society has been vitally interested during the year, and with which members of the Board and the secretaries have been associated. Such cooper­ ative relationships through fellowship and association in a great world task are a source of strength and inspiration. They result in administrative efficiency and in a united missionary impact upon the spiritual consciousness of the world.

Missionary Education Shortly after its organization the Interchurch W orld Move­ ment assumed responsibility for those educational activities 44 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY which had heretofore been carried on by the Missionary Edu­ cation Movement. W ith the collapse of the former Move­ ment, the work of missionary education was again undertaken by this interdenominational educational agency. This resump­ tion of activity presented an opportunity for certain changes in the organization of the Movement, which had long seemed advisable. The Movement is now controlled directly by the various mission boards, who finance it by appropriations from their treasuries, and who are represented on its Board of Managers. The Society is represented by Professor Henry B. Robins of Rochester Theological Seminary and Associate Secretary William B. Lipphard. In our own denomination missionary education was transferred to the Board of Educa­ tion in 1919, and its Department of Missionary Education, under the direction of Secretary William A. Hill, has been promoting mission study classes, church schools of missions, missionary institutes, and other educational activities in addi­ tion to the usual Sunday school programs which during the past year were based on the study-book “ The Bible and Mis­ sions." The text-book was written by Mrs. W. A. Mont­ gomery, President of the Woman’s Society.

Cooperation with Southern Baptists and Canadian Baptists The Society continues the usual cooperative relationship with the Foreign Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. The two organizations jointly maintain the Shanghai Baptist College and Theological Seminary. This well-known institution of higher education is thus entirely controlled by Baptists. A Board of Trustees represents both organizations in the actual management of the institution. The China Baptist Publication Society at Canton, South China, is another missionary agency in whose work Northern and Southern Baptists cooperate. During the past year ne­ gotiations were completed whereby cooperation with the Canadian Baptists in the work of theological training in the South India Mission has also become an accomplished fact. Rev. and Mrs. J. P. McLaurin and Mr. Bhanumurthi, an Indian teacher, have come from the Canadian Baptist Mission and have joined the staff of our theological seminary at Rama- GENERAL REVIEW OF THE YEAR 45 patnam. A new course of training is being offered the wives of the seminary students. The course includes such subjects as care of the home and family, training of children, sewing, and making of garments for themselves and families, instruc­ tion in physiology and first-aid, hygiene, and sanitation. Seminary registration showed fifty-six students in attendance and a class of eighteen men and five women was graduated. These graduates are now serving the churches of South India. The Woman’s Society Jubilee As this report is being written the Woman’s Society is begin­ ning the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of its organized missionary activity among the women and children of the non- Christian world. Fifty years ago nine workers were supported by American Baptist women in four fields with twelve stations, while the year 1921 finds the Woman’s Society with two hundred and fifty missionaries in its service on ten fields and one hundred and twelve stations. It is an anniversary worthy of a great cele­ bration, and in recognition of this unique event in our denomina­ tional missionary history the Board of Managers of the Society passed the following resolution of congratulations:

The Board of Managers of the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society extends to the Woman’s American Baptist Foreign Mission So­ ciety its hearty greetings as the Society joins in the celebration of the Golden Jubilee of its organized effort among the women and children of the non-Christian world. The Board records its heartfelt gratitude at the completion of a half-century of nobly successful foreign mission activity on the part of the Woman’s Society. In the fifty years that have passed multitudes of women and children have heard the story of the Christ and have found in him the Way, the Truth, and the Life. The Board also expresses grateful appreciation of the cordial relationships which for fifty years have been maintained between the two organizations and of the practical and effective cooperation which, without interrup­ tion, has characterized the half-century of service in the great foreign mission fields of the world. The denomination is to be congratulated that the Woman’s Society, through its high ideals, its spirited enthusiasm, and undaunted faith, has done so much to keep the missionary fires burning in the homes, the churches, and the schools of our people in America. At its very beginning and throughout its history the Society has been signally blessed in its strong and devoted leadership. It is not strange that its leadership at the present hour should be so widely recognized and appreciated by 46 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

foreign mission administrators of other denominations in various parts of the world. The Woman’s Society is assured of the prayerful hope of the Board that the second and succeeding half-centuries will be similarly crowned with the abundant blessings of Almighty God.

The Woman’s Society is celebrating this anniversary through a series of meetings throughout the ten districts at which several invited guests from the Christian womanhood of the Orient will be introduced. The final celebration is to be held at Des Moines on the days immediately preceding the sessions of the Northern Baptist Convention, the last day of the Jubilee meetings being the first day of the Convention.

The General Board of Promotion The Society has now completed two years of activity with the Board of Promotion as its promotional agent. Through its advertising and literature, and at its numerous conferences and conventions, it has endeavored faithfully and adequately to present the work of the Society. Missionaries have been given unusual opportunities to describe the needs on their respective fields. Monthly remittances to the Trea­ sury Department have been prompt and as large as the collec­ tions from the state promotion offices made possible. The response of the denomination to the appeal issued by the Board of Promotion on behalf of relief work in Europe ex­ ceeded the anticipations and enabled the Society to forward $166,000 to Europe for this purpose. Missionaries at home on furlough have found a deeper missionary interest in the churches than ever before. Secretaries of the various socie­ ties declared that the spirit at the state conventions last autumn and at missionary conferences during the winter months was the best they have ever known. The Board of Managers has in every way possible cooperated with the Board of Promotion in its difficult task. During the year Professor Frederick L. Anderson, D. D., O. R. Judd, Frederick E. Taylor, D. D., and Treasurer George B. Huntington have represented the Society on the Board of Promotion, and As­ sociate Secretary William B. Lipphard has served as its Re­ cording Secretary. In the interests of cooperation the Society GENERAL REVIEW OF THE YEAR 47 removed its headquarters from Boston to New York, leasing space for its own offices and those of the Board of Promotion. It released its Home Secretary, J. Y. Aitchison, D. D., in order that he might serve as General Director. It transferred its various promotional activities including the production of literature, the deputation work of missionaries, and the Station Plan of Special Gifts. During these two years of experience with this new promo­ tional plan, certain difficulties have naturally emerged, and several changes have been suggested. In the opinion of some, the Board of Promotion might well limit itself to activities which are more closely related to the accomplishment of its task. A larger degree of cooperation in the actual initiation, as well as in the carrying forward of plans initiated, would be desirable and might be secured. In the promotion of a com­ mon denominational program, the Society has at times seemed in danger of losing those vital personal contacts, established as a result of years of cultivation, with interested friends who have loyally supported its work. A special committee ap­ pointed by the Board of Promotion itself is considering these problems and doubtless will recommend whatever changes may seem necessary in order that the task for which the Board was created may be fulfilled most satisfactorily.

General Representatives and State Promotion Directors The four general representatives and the thirty-four state promotion directors of the Board of Promotion, whose names are published elsewhere, and who are also the duly appointed agents of the Society, have had a most difficult and trying year. These men more than any others in general denominational service have been in personal relationships with the constituency during this year of economic readjustment. They have accordingly not only experienced the unusual difficulty of collecting during a year of industrial depression the payment of New World Movement pledges made during a period of national prosperity, but have also personally witnessed the heroism of our people in their deter­ mination to finance the missionary program of the denomina­ tion. The year has made heavy demands upon these state representatives, and their service is worthy of commendation. 48 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

Regional Missionary Conferences A significant event in the promotional activities of the year was the series of regional missionary conferences. The entire country felt the stimulus and inspiration of these meetings, more than one hundred and fifty conferences having been held in the territory of the Northern Baptist Convention. The Board placed several of its own members, more than twenty-five missionaries at home on furlough, and the entire secretarial staff at the dis­ posal of the Board of Promotion for service at these conferences. Emphasis was placed on the needs of our mission fields on the presentation of special forms of missionary work for support by individuals or churches, and on the need of a deeper spiri­ tual life in our churches. This series of conferences in all prob­ ability was the most comprehensive simultaneous presentation of the missionary activity of the denomination which our constitu­ ency have ever witnessed. It was a difficult task to arrange the itineraries and the programs for one hundred and fifty con­ ferences, and the Board of Promotion deserves congratulations for its successful achievement.

The Missionary Exposition One of the outstanding features in connection with the North­ ern Baptist Convention at Buffalo, N. Y., was the extensive mis­ sionary exposition. Two entire floors of the Exposition Hall were devoted to this purpose. Through photographs, diagrams, charts, curios, and a handsome series of paintings, the entire mis­ sionary enterprise as conducted by Northern Baptists was given a pictorial presentation. A conservative estimate of attendance indicates that more than three thousand Baptist delegates from all sections of the country received new impressions as to the magni­ tude of the task and the needs in the work of the Society. A large measure of credit for the conception of this exposition, for the assembling of the material, and for its general arrangement, belongs to Rev. A. A. Forshee of the General Board of Promotion, who formerly was a missionary of the Society in the Philippine Islands. Approximately twenty missionaries who attended the Convention rendered most valuable service in explaining to the visitors the sections of the exposition which described the work

f GENERAL REVIEW OF THE YEAR 49 on their respective fields. In recognition of this valuable service, and particularly since it involved absence from some of the most important sessions of the Convention, the Board passed a special vote of appreciation. After the Convention the exposition was divided into several sections and exhibited at summer confer­ ences and State Conventions. The material is now being reas­ sembled for display at Des Moines.

Field Service of Missionaries at Home on Furlough It is impossible to overestimate the value of the deputation work of missionaries at home on furlough. Nothing is so effective in awakening and maintaining interest as the story of a mission­ ary’s activity told by himself: During the past year missionaries at home on furlough have rendered exceptional service through their visits among the home constituency. Large numbers of churches, associations, and conventions have heard their inspir­ ing presentations, and many'; of the missionaries have partici­ pated in the conferences arranged by the Board of Promotion. While a furlough is intended to furnish a period of rest and' recuperation, preparatory to the return of the missionary to His field, the missionaries are always ready to devote time to this important w,ork. The Board therefore records its grateful appre­ ciation of the service rendered by the following who have engaged in deputation work during the year:

Rev. A. G. Adams; Rev. E. N. Armstrong; William Axling, D. D.; Rev. A. L, Bain; C. Heman Barlow, M. D.; Rev. S. A. D. Boggs; Dr. C. E. Bousfield; Rev. A. C. Bowers; Rev. C. L. Bromley; Rev... Zo D. Browne; Rev. R. T . Capen; 'Rev] B. C. Case; Rev. E. C. Condict; Rev. R. N. Crawford; R. P. Currier; Rev. J. P. Davies; Rev. William Dring; Rev. H. E. Dudley; Rev. M. D. Eubank, M. D.-; W. L. Ferguson, D. D .; Rev. John Firth; Rev. J. H. Giffin; J. F. Gressitt; P. R. Hackett; Ola Hanson, Litt. D.; Victor Hanson; Rev. C. H. Heptonstall; Rev. E. S. Hildreth; Thomas Hill; Rev. J.^ A. Howard; Rev. G. A. Huntley, M. D.; Rev. J. F. Ingram; Rev. F. H. Knollin; D.’ H. Kulp, II; J. V. Latimer, D. D .; Rev. J. T. Latta; C. D. Leach, M. D.; Rev. W . H. Leslie, M. D.; Rev. G. W . Lewis; Franklin P. Lynch, M. D .; Rev. P. A. McDiarmid;-C. F. MacKenzie, M. D.; Rev. F. P. Manley; L. E. Martin; Rev. H. R. Murphy, M. D .; Rev. A- I. Nasmith; H. W . Newman, M. D.; Rev. W . C. Owen; Rev.. B. J. Rockwood; Rev. F. W . Stait; W . A. Stanton, D. D.; Rev. J. E. Tan- Quist; Rev. W . R. Taylor; C. B. Tenny, D. D .; C. E. Tompkins, M . D .; 50 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

Henry Topping; Rev. A. F. Ufford; Rev. F. C. Wilcox; Rev. T. V. Witter; Rev. L. F. Wood. As reported last year, the responsibility for this work was transferred to the Board of Promotion, and the missionaries have heartily cooperated with the new arrangement.

The Literature Department The Literature Department of the Board of Promotion has assumed responsibility for many of the duties formerly under­ taken by the Literature Department of the Society. During the past year the latter has therefore cooperated with the former in the production and circulation of literature describing the work of the Society. More than a dozen new foreign mission pam­ phlets have been issued, while in others of a more general character the foreign mission task of the denomination has been featured. Several pamphlets are in process of revision, and in this task missionaries are rendering valuable assistance. A new issue of the “ Guide Book ” was published. This maintains its growing popularity as a reference and study-book. The new publication, “ The Messenger,” inaugurated a year ago for circu­ lation exclusively among the missionaries, has been continued. An increasing amount of effective and attractive literature is being published on the mission fields for circulation at home and such pamphlets and reports have been widely distributed.

The Annual Report The policy, begun during the war, of distributing at the annual meeting of the Society a preliminary edition of the Annual Report to be followed by the complete edition issued during the summer months is being continued. Pressure of work at the close of the fiscal year and the unavoidable delay in receiving reports from the missions and from individual missionaries make it impossible to issue a complete report in time for presentation at the annual meeting. After the 1920 report was published a communication was sent to the pastors of the denomination offering to send each pastor who requested it a complimentary copy of the report. More than three thousand requests were received from pastors, and the filling of the orders presented a difficult task to the Literature Department. This large number of requests indicates GENERAL REVIEW OF THE YEAR 51 an encouraging increase in interest in the work of the Society on the part of our constituency. A further step in denominational comity is noted in the publication of the current report in that it is being published by the American Baptist Publication Society at Philadelphia.

The Missionary Magazine The continuous improvement in the missionary magazine in literary quality, missionary content, and attractive appearance, has been the subject of increasingly favorable comment. For eleven years MISSIONS has been issued under the editorial direction of Dr. Howard B. Grose, who has succeeded in main­ taining so high a standard that the magazine is today recognized as one of the foremost missionary periodicals in America. Foreign missions have been well represented during the year, and credit is due the editor for the many features which have made the magazine so interesting. MISSIONS is now published by the Board of Promotion and a business manager has been added to the staff. A corps of contributing editors has also been appointed, Associate Secretary Lipphard representing the Society in this capacity. Unfortunately the magazine has never been entirely self-supporting because the low subscription price of fifty cents did not provide sufficient revenue to cover the cost of production. Before the war the annual deficit was approximately $7,000, but during the current year, in view of the higher costs of paper, printing, and other factors in production, the deficit will be approximately $25,000. The Board of Promotion decided that the only way in which to reduce the deficit in future years was to increase the subscription rates to one dollar, and the new rate went into effect in November. Naturally a decrease in the number of subscribers was anticipated, but it is gratifying to note that the large majority of subscribers have found the magazine so essential as to renew their subscriptions at the higher rate.

Preserving the Health of the Missionaries Considerable progress has been made in developing the plan for the care of the health of the missionaries. A Medical Service Department has been established under the direction of Secre­ tary Lerrigo, who was formerly a medical missionary in the 52 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

Philippine Islands. Effort has been made to have every mis­ sionary returning for furlough receive adequate physical exam­ ination and when necessary appropriate treatment. Several have entered the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, where they have had the benefit of a thorough examination. This hospital is closely associated with Harvard Medical School and presents the advantage of consultation with and examination by the experts in the department of Tropical Medicine. Some have gone through the regular examinations at the Mayo Clinic in Roches­ ter, Minn. Few institutions are better equipped to give thorough general examination and expert diagnosis. When operative treat­ ment has been necessary missionaries have received the most expert and considerate attention. The Sanitariums at Clifton Springs and Battle Creek have cared also for a considerable number of special cases. Since the removal of the headquarters of the Society to New York several missionaries have entered the New York Post-Graduate Hospital under the advice of Dr, T. J. Harris, the New York examining physician for the Society, and have received both medical and surgical attention by the eminent specialists connected with the hospital. Institutions in other parts of the country have been used as occasion required. A more systematic attention has been given to the care of the teeth and eyes: Arrangements have also been made for closer attention to the health of the missionaries while upon the field. In carrying out the new plan each mission will elect a field medical supervisor. Each missionary will receive a complete physical examination at least once a year and will be advised and assisted in the arrangements necessary for treatment when such are recommended by the examining physician.

New Missionaries

The announcement that reenforcements are on the way to the depleted fields always brings encouragement to the missions. During the year 1920-1921 the following fifty new missionaries sailed for their respective fields:

Burma. Miss Lucy P. Bonney, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon E. Gates, Rev. and Mrs. Herbert E. Hinton, Mr. and Mrs. Sidney V . Hollingworth, Mr. Chester L. Klein, Mr. and Mrs. Homer C. Nycum, Mr. and Mrs. Gustav A. Sword. GENERAL REVIEW OF THE YEAR 53

Assam. Rev. and Mrs. Walter K. Allen, Mr. and Mrs. Cecil G. Fielder, Mr. and Mrs. Henry O. Wyatt. South India. Mr. Fred G. Christenson, Rev. and Mrs. A. T. Fishman, Rev. and Mrs. Benjamin M. Johnson. Bengal-Orissa. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Eller, Mr. Walter R. Greenwood, Rev. and Mrs. L. C. Kitchen. China. Mr. and Mrs. W . W . Cossum, Dr. and Mrs. H. W . Decker, Miss Ethel L. Lacey, Rev. and Mrs. Louis H. Randle, Miss Helen E. Ritner, Rev. and Mrs. Chester F. Wood, Dr. and Mrs. W. W. Zwick, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. H. Lavers. Japan. J. Howard Covell, Rev. and Mrs. F. M. Derwacter, M r ." J. Spencer Kennard, Jr., Rev. and Mrs. James F. Laughton. Belgian Congo. Mr. Arthur N. Reitnouer. Philippine Islands. Miss Edna Neher. The following new missionaries have received their appoint­ ment and are expected to sail in the fall of 1921 or later:

Rev. George E. Blackwell, Winfred H. Beuermann, Miss Gladys M. Champion, Paul F. Cressey, Lionel G. Crocker, Rev. and Mrs. William G. Evans, Henry Erickson, S. Wayne Gard, Ralph E. Henderson, Miss Edith V . Goetsch, Dr. and Mrs. E. R. Huckleberry, Miss Mabel F. Ivins, Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Journey, Mr. and Mrs. W m . A. Phillips, Paul F. Russell, Dr. and Mrs. G. S. Seagrave, Erville E. Sowards, Herman G. Spencer, Mr. and Mrs. Victor H. Sword, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse R. Wilson, Dr. and Mrs. Arthur G. Boggs, Stewart S. Clark, Dr. Howard N. Cooper, Rev. and Mrs. J. W . Decker, Dryden L. Phelps. About twenty others are expected to appear before the Board for appointment at its first meeting in the new fiscal year. The following new missionaries of the Woman’s Board have also received their appointment by the Society during the year:

Miss Effie L. Adams, Miss Gertrude R. Anderson, Miss Lettie G. Archer. Miss Harriet Barrington, Miss Evelyn Bickel, Miss Katherine E. Bohn, Miss Marion H. Boss, Miss A. Verna Blakely, Miss Bessie M. Brewer, Miss Genevra Brunner, Miss Anna R. Clark, Miss Florence M. Crane, Miss Ethel M. Cronkite, Miss Waneta Deer, Miss Myrtle R. Denison, Miss Gladys A. Dorrie, Miss Dorothy Dowell, Miss Sara B. Downer, Miss Lelia B. Droz, Miss Susan Ferguson, Miss Marjorie Fleming, Miss Ella M. Gifford, Miss Alice C. Glazier, Miss Mayme Goldenburg, Miss Ruth H. Hall, Miss Anne R. Harris, Miss F. Faith Hatch, Miss Grace I. Hill, Miss Louise F. Jenkins, Miss Ethel M. Jones, Miss Lena Keans, Miss R. Grace Lewison, Miss Hazel R. Malliet, Miss Millie M. Marvin, Miss Edda Mason, Miss Mary Mathew, Miss Malinda K. Miller, Miss Charma M. Moore,' Miss Esther Nelson, Miss Ethel E. Nichols, Miss Lucy C. 54 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

Palmer, Miss Ruth Paul, Miss Irene Pennington, Miss Frieda Peter, Miss Vida Post, Miss Sadie Robbins, Miss Lucy Russell, Miss Emilie Schultz, Miss Carrie A. Shurtleff, Miss Edna Smith, Miss Edith B. Stansbury, Miss Dorothea H. Taggart, Miss Margaret Winn, Miss Bessie Yeamans. Scarcity of Station Missionaries The need for evangelistic and station missionaries is very great, and the prospects for meeting the need are less encouraging than in other directions. Although men are volunteering in larger numbers than ever before, there appears to be a marked tendency to elect branches of service which a superficial judgment con­ siders more practical than the regular work of the ministry. The trend is in the direction of specialization and students in ever-increasing numbers are choosing courses in agriculture, engi­ neering, education, medicine, and dentistry. The Society is thus offered a splendid bod}’ of men from which to recruit the mis­ sionaries of these classes needed in the days to come, but in the meantime the scarcity of well-equipped men for general work is keenly felt. In some cases it is possible to place the situation before prospective candidates sufficiently for them to change their courses. Where the real missionary motive is present they show a willingness to do this. If there is marked ability in other directions this policy wrould be inadvisable, and the can­ didate is appointed for the work for which he is best qualified. The Need and the Supply of Medical Missionaries A serious shortage of medical missionaries was noted last year, and special prayer was requested that Christian physicians would be forthcoming. Grateful acknowledgment should be made of the response which God is already giving to this prayer. Four physicians have recently received appointment, and eight others are approaching the termination of their preparation. The Can­ didate Department is in correspondence with sixty or more who are preparing for medical missionary service abroad. The prepa­ ration for such service is long and arduous, requiring usually ten years after the completion of high school. Even the men now under appointment will be unable to sail until the completion of their hospital internship. Commencing with the present year, an increasing number of medical men will be available, and there is hope that the more urgent medical needs abroad will be met GENERAL REVIEW OF THE YEAR 55 within the next few years. The need for physicians still is des­ perate on some fields, and it will be encouraging to know that help is on the way.

Planning a Future Harvest of Missionary Volunteers The foreign mission field is not alone in experiencing a scarcity of workers. Mission fields in America as well as the ministry at home suffer the same lack of men. The Society therefore notes with interest the work of the Board of Education in laying before the youth of the denomination their obligation to consider the claims of Christian service. Dr. George R. Baker and Dr. Allyn K. Foster have been called to such service with the schools and colleges as will enable their influence to count emphatically in this direction. It must be recognized that the foreign mission­ ary equally with the minister at home is the product of a long succession of spiritual impressions and Christian experiences, and the ripening effect of at least ten years of careful cultivation of both heart and brain is needful to equip him for the grave responsibilities of his chosen work. It is of the utmost impor­ tance that his decision to enter Christian service be made early.. The fruitage of such careful cultivation as is being carried on by. the Board of Education will be increasingly apparent in the coming years. Of similar value is the work of the Life Work Department of the Board of Promotion under the direction of Dr. R. M. West. This has for its specific task the leading of young people to the consideration of Christian service as a life-work and the awakening among the churches in this respect so that pastors and Christian leaders shall become increas­ ingly alert to lead their choice young people into such sacrifice. The department has been working in close cooperation with the Candidate Department of the Society, and Secretary Lerrigo is representing the Society on the Life Service Committee of the Board of Promotion.

The Needs of British India Although there is a serious lack of adequate equipment and although funds are urgently required, nevertheless the out­ standing need on the British India field today is for trained men and women who, with true missionary spirit, are ready AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY to dedicate their lives to service on the foreign field. Burma has sent a request for twenty-four additional missionaries to fill posi­ tions which will be vacant next year. To meet this need only four missionaries will be returning from furlough. Missionaries in adjacent stations, already overburdened with their own work, must assume added responsibilities or else the vacant stations must be closed. The Burma Mission also needs at least nine new doctors and American trained nurses sufficient to supply six hospitals. In Bengal-Orissa, stations at Chand- bali and Bhadrack are today vacant for lack of missionaries. In Assam the important need is for men qualified for general missionary work at Tura, one of Our most important stations, located at the Government seat for the Garo Hills district. Other stations in Assam have also sent appeals for reenforce­ ments. In South India one missionary has had responsibility at one time for as many as seven stations because of the depleted stalf. Twenty-three families and twenty-five additional women missionaries are needed on this field. The present short­ age of missionaries has left individual missionaries with large areas and great populations. To the churches at home these needy places on the foreign field present a grave responsibility.

Summoned to Higher Service When the missionary reaches the end of his earthly career his departure occasions more than ordinary sorrow. The mis­ sionaries on the field lose a valuable colleague, the people among whom he ministered sorely miss their friend and counselor, and the constituency at home are reminded of the great task which must be assigned to the new volunteers to take the place of those who have departed. During the year eight missionaries and two missionary leaders at home were summoned to higher service.

Rev. J. C. Brand, who was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, September 6, 1848, was appointed a missionary to Japan on January 20, 1890, after he had resided for some time in different parts of ■America. He and his wife sailed almost immediately after appointment, and took up their work at Tokyo. Eight years later they were transferred to Mito, and in 1903 to Kofu. Having reached Japan at a somewhat ad vanced ■ age, Mr. Brand‘ never attempted: to: use-ithie Japanese language very largely in His preaching, and for about, twentj-fiye .years hi? work was done prin­ GENERAL REVIEW OF THE YEAR 57 cipally through an interpreter. This was a most unusual procedure, and “ the wonder is that, in spite of such a handicap, he did so good a work in winning many Japanese, who looked to him with reverence and affec­ tion as their spiritual father.” He has been described as “ one of the old-fashioned evangelists.” “ He preached most earnestly what he most earnestly believed.” “ He was a loyal friend to a friend; and, above all, he was loyal to his great Companion, his Elder Brother, his Master, the Lord Jesus Christ.” Mr. Brand had not been in active service for sev­ eral years prior to his death on February 23, 1921, at Tokyo, Japan, but he endeavored to use his personal influence as widely as possible up to the very last in winning men to Christian discipleship. The death of Louisa Bradbury Bunker, widow of Rev. William Alonzo Bunker, D. D., at Newton Center, Massachusetts, October 21, 1920, brings to notice another of those heroic lives which, apart from public notice, enlisted itself for Christ and humanity. Mrs. Bunker was born in Boston, June 27, 1844, educated at the Boston Normal School, and on December 5, 1865, a bride, sailed for Burma, reaching her station at Toungoo July 4 the following year. Failing health and the care of five growing children compelled her to remain in this country upon returning home in June, 1888, iat the end of her second term and after twenty years of devoted service among the Karens of Burma. On March 1, 1921, following a surgical operation at Los Angeles, Cali­ fornia, Rev. Louis Agassiz Gould, who served as a missionary of the Society at Ningpo, China, from 1888 to 1892, passed away. Although Mr. Gould spent only a short time in China before he was compelled, on account of health conditions in the family, to return to America, he maintained a very deep personal interest in the cause of foreign missions, and did a great deal wherever he lived to develop the interest of others. His missionary enthusiasm was unbounded, and for the nearly thirty years spent in this country after his service in China the passion of his life was to promote the cause of Christ on the foreign field. Nettie Estelle Holmes died at Redlands, California, July 18, 1920. Her work at the mission compound was with the children, many of them home­ less, who needed especially her love and care. Those associated with her will miss her gentle, quiet, sympathetic help. Yet she leaves behind a record of an unselfish life, that taught many lessons. “ I know,” said one who knew her well, “ we are all better today because we knew her and loved her.”

Mary W olfe Lewis, wife of Rev. George Wright Lewis, sailed with her husband for South China in October, 1905. They were located for their first term .of service at Kityang. After a furlough, which ended in the autumn of 1912, they were designated to the work at Ungkung, where they served most usefully until they were compelled in the winter of 1919, .on account of the failing health of Mrs. Lewis, to return to America for medical treatment. The story of Mrs. Lewis’ missionary experiences 58 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

reveals heroism. Far removed from medical aid, she and her husband and the several children resided at Ungkung. If a doctor were needed the family must depend on the unreliable Chinese launch which ran to Swatow three times a week. Mrs. Lewis passed away on October 24, 1920, at Redlands, California. A missionary friend has written of her: “ Without complaining, she lived on, superintending a girls’ boarding- school, directing the work and journeys of Bible-women, training the Chinese Christians in singing, beside teaching her own children in pri­ mary and grammar-school work and music, and caring for them, clothing them, and doctoring them. In her only free time, the evening, she sewed for them, or worked according to the season on birthday or Christmas presents for more kiddies than her own— worked speedily, cleverly, in­ dustriously, when her eyes were heavy and her hands tired, stopping only for a jolly lunch of fruit with her husband or with an infrequent guest. Did she go to the hills in the hot months? Never, while I knew her. Troubled with severe hay-fever, she stayed on in the heat, dreading travel in a country where one must literally carry bed and food for the family and where one meets all kinds of disease. Her husband, always most devoted, had to leave her lonely for weeks at a time, so difficult of access were some parts of his field. W e could ill spare this life. It was a glorious sacrifice. May we live worthy of it! ”

The Society, during all of its history, has been blessed in the devoted service rendered by able laymen. Grateful tribute is paid to the memory of Charles W . Perkins, who for twenty years was in close official connection with the Board of Managers. Mr. Perkins was born in Boston, Massa­ chusetts, August 24, 1844, and died in Boston, November 14, 1920. He was connected with the Massachusetts National Bank in Boston for thirty- five years, and was a member of the First Baptist Church. From 1888 to 1903 he was a member of the Executive Committee of the American Baptist Missionary Union. From 1903 u> 1910 he served as its Treasurer. During the last year of his administration the name was changed t" American Baptist Foreign Mission Society.

Rev. Elnathan Gooding Phillips, D. D., whose death occurred at Canan­ daigua, New York, April 16, was born of Christian parents in East Bloomfield, Ontario County, New York, December 6, 1845, and in early childhood gave himself to Christ. During a critical illness in childhood when the physicians had given up hope of recovery, his parents solemnly vowed that if his life was spared it should be consecrated to any work to which the Master might call him. In later years, when the conviction came that he must give his life to preaching the gospel, his parents, m keeping with their pledge, were ready to help him all they could to pre­ pare for this work. He was educated at Colgate and Madison U n iv e r­ sities, and on June 18, 1874, following his graduation from Hamilton Theological Seminary, was married to Miss Ella V. Howes, of Madison, Illinois. It was a double wedding, a sister of Miss Howes being united GENERAL REVIEW OF THE YEAR 59 at the same time to Rev. M. C. Mason. The two young couples sailed together on September 19, 1874, for Assam where they took up work for the Garos. In 1877 they were stationed at Tura, where the remainder of Doctor Phillips’ service on the field was spent. Doctor Phillips was given the degree of Doctor of Divinity at Colgate University in 1906, and in 1913 the Government of India conferred upon him the Delhi Durbar Medal in appreciation of his work.

The death of Henry Kirke Porter on April 10, 1921, meant the home- going of an octogenarian in the gloaming of a day replete with success, crowned with honors, and ripe in spiritual growth. In symmetry of char­ acter, breadth of culture, reach of vision, and fidelity to duty he illustrated the noblest annals of our laymen. In his vocation he achieved signal suc­ cess, amassing a fortune which he administered as a faithful steward of the Master. In his avocations he entered with devotion many fields, en­ riching them alike with his unique talents and generous gifts. The Board notes with gratitude that our brother has made the Society a residuary legatee in the amount of $30,000. From 1901 to 1904 he served as president of the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society.

Rev. G. N. Thomssen was appointed a missionary of the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society November 14, 1881, and with Mrs. Thomssen, sailed January' 28 of the following year for South India, having been designated to Ongole to work among the Telugus. After two years at this station, he was sent to Vinukonda, part of the time also having charge of Narsaravupet. In 1886 on account of health he returned to America. Four years later he resumed his service, carrying on the evangelistic work at Kurnool. In 1895 failing health again necessitated his leaving India. Upon his return in 1899 he took charge of the station at Bapatla, where he continued until his final return to America in 1915. Mr. Thomssen achieved notable success in improving agricultural methods and industry, in recognition of which the British Government awarded him the Kaiser-i-Hind medal. Mr. Thomssen was born in 1856 in Schles­ wig-Holstein, then under Danish rule and came to America in 1861. He was educated at the University of Rochester and Rochester Theological Seminary. He died at Cincinnati, Ohio, April 19, 1921.

Mrs. Emma I. Upcraft died at Shanghai, China, December 11, 1920. She had started for America, her homeland, hoping to reach loved ones before the end came. But the long journey down to the coast, in her weakened condition, proved too much for her, and she died after reach­ ing Shanghai. After forty two years of Christian service in China, Mrs. I'pcraft leaves for someone else to continue a remarkable work among the women and girls of China. Faithfully and efficiently she worked at Ningpo in the East China Mission. In Yachow she was successful in organizing a Sunday School in one of the temples of the city. In Yunnanfu she gathered a group of women about her, and in Chengtu, she 60 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY organized a girl's school, in addition to her splendid work among the women. W ho will take her place?

Commissioning New Missionaries A new procedure is to be adopted by the Board with respect to the appointment of candidates for missionary service. Effec­ tive with the beginning of the fiscal year, May 1, 1921, all new missionaries, before sailing to the field, will be commissioned at some public service, preferably in the church of which they are members, or in the church which undertakes to meet their sup­ port. An interesting commission service is being prepared and the plan provides for participation in the program by several pastors, the candidate, and a representative of the Board, who commissions the missionary. Each new appointee will be pre­ sented with a commission certifying to his formal appointment as a missionary of the Society.

Personal Contact with the Mission Fields Correspondence formerly conducted by the Station Plan De­ partment has now become part of the work of the Department of Special Gifts of the General Board of Promotion. The plan provides a way for those who desire to know just how their money is used, to become identified with certain stations, by having their gifts applied to various phases of work and receiving occasionally news-letters from the missionaries at the stations. It has been a year of readjustment. With the inception of the New World Movement many who previously contributed regu­ larly to certain stations or for the support of special missionaries and had become so interested in the work of the kingdom, have now made their subscriptions to the fund as a whole. Young people’s societies, Sunday schools, or organized classes whose members have already made individual subscriptions to the New World Movement, have also been glad to make additional gifts to definite stations and have found this arrangement helpful in increasing the interest of the members. Such gifts may be counted as part of the contribution of the church to the Hundred Million Dollar Fund. The support of a number of new missiona­ ries who went to the field last year was assumed by definite churches. Others already on the field or returning to their GENERAL REVIEW OF THE YEAR 61 fields from furlough are now being assigned to churches pledging their support.

The Board of Managers Several changes were made in the membership of the Board of Managers. At the annual meeting of the Society at Buffalo, N. Y., in June 1920, G. Arvid Hagstrom, D. D., President of the Bethel Academy and Theological Seminary of the Swedish Baptist General Conference of America, G. Ellsworth Huggins, of Montclair, N. J., and Rev. C. J. Pope, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Lincoln, Neb., were elected as new members for a term of three years, expiring in 1923. Two vacancies occurred during the year. At the meeting in September, Pro­ fessor Paul Monroe, Ph. D., of Columbia University, owing to enormous pressure of other duties, found it necessary to present his resignation. To fill this vacancy the Board elected T. Otto, of Syracuse, N. Y. At the meeting in November, Rev. James H. Spencer, D. D., presented his resignation, because of his having accepted a position in missionary work in the State of Montana, which would make it exceedingly difficult for him to attend regu­ larly the meetings of the Board. For the vacancy thus created, the Board elected Rev. Maurice A. Levy, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Pittsfield, Mass. In addition to these elections, Governor Carl E. Milliken, of Maine, was elected President of the Society for the current year. E. J. Fellman, of Milwaukee, Wis., was elected First Vice-president, and Carl D. Case, D. D., pastor of the First Baptist Church of Oak Park, 111., was elected Second Vice-president. At the organization meeting of the Board of Managers held July 6, 1920, Dr. Frederick L. Anderson was reelected Chairman, Dr. Carter Helm Jones was elected Vice- chairman, and William B. Lipphard was reelected Recording Secretary for the current year. The problems confronting the Society in its work during this year of world readjustment re­ quired much time and thought on the part of members of the Board. They have been faithful in the discharge of the responsi­ bilities committed to them by the denomination, notwithstanding that their service has involved frequent absences from home and a consequent interruption of their own duties. Grateful appreci­ ation is therefore recorded of the courtesy of the churches, insti­ 62 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY tutions, and business organizations which the Board members represent in making it possible for them to give the necessary time involved in membership on the Board.

Board Meetings at Buffalo, Boston, and Pittsburgh Three meetings of the Board during the year were held in other cities. The meeting in June was held in Buffalo in connection with the Northern Baptist Convention. The November meeting was held in Boston, Massachusetts. In returning to the city where its headquarters had been established for so many years, the Board received a hearty welcome. It served to demonstrate that the removal of headquarters to New York has not weakened the ties of affection that bind the Society to the hearts of its New England constituency. Previous to 1919 it had been the policy of the Board to hold its February meeting in important Baptist centers in the interests of missionary publicity. So successful had been these meetings in enabling pastors and laymen to become more familiar with the work of the Board, its policies, its problems, and the situation on the fields, that the Board decided to resume this policy during the current year. Upon invitation of the First Baptist Church, whose gracious hospitality was greatly appreciated, the Board held the February meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Mem­ bers of the Board, missionaries, and officers occupied the pulpits of Greater Pittsburgh on the Sunday preceding the Board meet­ ings, and large numbers of pastors and laymen attended the regular sessions.

The Committee on Review In view of the approaching industrial depression throughout the nation and the financial situation which confronted the Society, the Board early in the year appointed a special Committee on Re­ view consisting of seven members of the Board. They were assigned the duty of reviewing the financial situation and of making a study of the budget for the current year and the pre­ liminary budget for the fiscal year 1921-1922 in relation to foreign expenditures as well as in relation to home expenditures, includ­ ing the personnel and its efficiency. The committee had several meetings and early in January held a two-day conference with GENERAL REVIEW OF THE YEAR 63 missionaries at home on furlough representing each mission of the Society. At this conference every item in the budget, includ­ ing appropriations on the fieftt as. well as at home, was carefully reviewed, and considerable attention was also given to the pro­ posed budget for the new year in order to ascertain whether expenditures could be reduced without endangering the success of our enterprise. Every possible economy has been ordered by the committee short of such as would really cripple the work. The Board is confident that the constituency are unwilling that the Society should make any large reduction in a budget which in this era of high costs scarcely allows the work to be maintained on its present status. The Board believes also that the denomination is so deeply interested in the work which the Society is accom­ plishing that when the facts are known, the necessary funds will be forthcoming. No curtailment of work already undertaken should be permitted, and plans for advance should be carried forward.

Secretarial Staff The Board takes great pleasure in reporting a distinguished honor conferred upon one of the secretaries of the Society. At the meeting of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America held in Boston, December 1-6, 1920, Foreign Secretary Tames H. Franklin received at the hands of General Robert Georges Nivelle the decoration of Chevalier of the Legion of Honor from the Government of France. This honor was doubt­ less bestowed upon him because of his service in France and the relief work which is being done by the Society under his direc­ tion in the devastated areas. It has been a difficult year for the administrative officers. The ever-increasing complexity of the missionary task and the prob­ lems at home and abroad, administrative and financial, have received most careful and conscientious consideration. In addi­ tion to attending to their primary responsibilities, the secretaries have been called upon to devote an unusual amount of time to field service in cooperation with the promotional activities of the General Board of Promotion. No changes in the staff have taken place, although the office of Home Secretary has not yet been filled. Treasurer George B. Huntington has continued to 64 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

represent the Society on the Board of Promotion, on its Admin­ istrative Committee, and has devoted considerable time in estab­ lishing the new headquarters in NeW'York City. Associate Secre­ tary William B. Lipphard has served the Board of Promotion and its Administrative Committee as Recording Secretary.

Homes for Missionaries Missionaries coming home on furlough, without furniture and household necessities, are frequently placed in embarrassing posi­ tions, owing to the difficulty of securing satisfactory and ade­ quate accommodations for temporary occupancy. This problem has been especially acute in recent years owing to the housing situation and the scarcity of apartments for rent. Fortunately the Board is able to place eight completely furnished apartments or houses at the disposal of missionaries during their temporary residence in America. Three cottages are located at Granville, Ohio, and another is in Roxbury, Massachusetts. A two-family house stands beside the Baptist Church in Newton Center, Massa­ chusetts, and the famous Judson House at Malden, Massachusetts, also furnishes accommodations for two families. A nominal rental is charged, which provides a modest revenue for meeting expenses of maintenance and repairs. These homes have all been occupied, and the applications from missionaries who could not be accommodated suggest that several additional homes would supply an urgent need.

Homes for the Children of Missionaries Climatic environment, moral conditions, and limited educational opportunities in the Orient make it inadvisable for children in the early years of adolescence to dwell with their parents on the field. Three homes are therefore maintained in order that children of missionaries may receive the necessary care and attention in America during this period of separation which involves one of the costly sacrifices of a missionary career. Two homes, one at Granville, Ohio, and the other at Morgan Park, Illinois, are under the direction of the Society, while the third home, at Newton Center, Massachusetts, is the property of the Woman’s Society but is maintained jointly by the two Societies. The Society is fortunate in having in charge of these homes three women of GENERAL REVIEW OF THE YEAR 65 exemplary character, charming personality, and spiritual influ­ ence. Under the efficient management of Miss Charlotte F. Clark, the Fannie Doane Home at Granville has accommodated fifteen children, representing nine missionary families. Eight families have been represented by seventeen children at the Bacon Home at Morgan Park, under the capable direction of Miss Maud Brook. At Newton Center, Mrs. M. R. West has exercised her usual motherly oversight for the comfort of fifteen children from eight missionary families. A local board of managers has the oversight of each home and grateful appreciation is herewith recorded o f the painstaking care and attention which the members on these boards have devoted to their important responsibilities.

The First Year in the New Headquarters A full statement was made in the report of last year regarding" the purpose of the Society to remove its headquarters from Boston to New York. It had been established for nearly one hundred years in the former city, and the reasons for this rather momen­ tous change were fully set forth. On June 1, 1920, the offices on the eighth floor of the Ford Building, which had been occupied since 1904, were vacated, and on the following day the new offices in the Holland Building at 276 Fifth Avenue, New York, were opened. The actual work of transfer was accomplished with surprisingly little difficulty, but considerable time elapsed before the manifold activities of the Society were brought to the normal degree of efficient operation. Among the problems to be solved, one of the most serious was the building up of a new staff of assistants in the several departments. Fortunately a considerable number of those who had served the Society faithfully in Boston were able to remove to New York for a longer or shorter period, wnie remaining permanently. The new quarters have proved to be exceedingly satisfactory, and many of the advantages from the change of location have been realized. Especially advantageous Have been the connections established with steamship companies and shipping agencies through whom the passage arrangements °f the missionaries and the shipment of their goods are made. The chief reason for the removal of headquarters was the neces- Sjty of cooperation with the Board of Promotion. With the offices both organizations as well as of other denominational agencies 66 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY in the same building, a degree of cooperation not otherwise pos­ sible has been attained.

New World Movement Financial Campaign The Report of 1920 discussed only briefly the New World Movement Campaign because the fiscal year of the Society closed in the midst of the week, April 25 to May 2, 1920, dur­ ing which was held the intensive financial campaign to secure gifts and pledges of $100,000,000 for the missionary and edu­ cational work of the denomination. All are familiar with the reports made by the General Board of Promotion to the Con­ vention at Buffalo and subsequently through the denomina­ tional press. The Society shared the natural feeling of dis­ appointment when it became evident that only a little more than fifty per cent, of the $100,000,000 had been subscribed, including estimated receipts of $4,000,000 from legacies, matured annuities, and income on invested funds. The result, however, was recognized by the Convention as a notable achievement. There was at the same time a strong conviction that neither the ability nor the disposition of the denomina­ tion was adequately represented by the subscriptions reported, and the delegates voiced in no uncertain manner their deter­ mination that the effort should be continued until the entire program was realized. Accordingly the Board of Promotion, under the leadership of Dr. J. Y. Aitchison and with the co­ operation of the organizations participating in the New World Movement, has sought during the year to reach churches that had failed to cooperate or had not made the record of which they were capable. In these efforts, and particularly in the regional conferences mentioned elsewhere the Society has cooperated most heartily. The results have not been so great as were hoped for, largely because during this first year, fol­ lowing the making of subscriptions on a scale far beyond any past records and under an entirely new method, considerable attention necessarily had to be given to adjusting and perfect­ ing the ways and means for securing prompt and effective collections on subscriptions already made. Furthermore, business depression throughout the country during the year also accounts for the comparatively small increase in the total GENERAL REVIEW OF THE YEAR 67 subscription to the New W orld Movement fund since the report presented at Buffalo. With the gradual improvement in business conditions and with freedom to devote more time and energy to the task of securing new pledges and gifts, it is to be expected that the next year will show a much larger advance toward the goal. The total amount now reported as subscribed is approximately $52,000,000, including the receipts from legacies, matured annuities, and income on invested funds. The immediate and inevitable result of fifty per cent, of subscriptions to the New World Movement was a readjust­ ment in the plan and program of expenditure on the part of the participating organizations. The Committee on Readjust­ ment appointed at Buffalo, assuming that one-fourth of the approximately $50,000,000 subscribed would be paid in during the first of the four years covered by the pledges, undertook an allotment of this amount, or $12,500,000. It was determined first of all to make provision for the regular operating budgets of the national Societies and Boards, amounting to $4,580,314; the State Conventions, $1,344,600; the city mission societies, $481,443; and other similar organizations, $75,625, represent­ ing a total of $6,481,982, while a certain definite percentage, amounting to $2,715,582, was assigned to the educational in­ stitutions on their budgets for endowment and equipment. The sum of $1,900,000 was allowed for the expenses of the General Board of Promotion for the current year and the year preceding, and $1,000,000 was set aside to apply on the under­ writing to the Interchurch W orld Movement. The balance of $402,436 was reserved as an adjustment fund, and this was almost entirely allotted at the November meeting of the Board of Promotion. Receipts applying on these budgets, including funds going directly to the participating organizations, have amounted to approximately $10,500,000, or about 84 per cent, of the expenditure. In view of all the difficulties experienced, and particularly in the face of the business depression, this result is exceedingly gratifying.

The Operating Budget for the Past Year The regular operating budget of the Society as approved and included in the Report of the Committee on Adjustment 68 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

at Buffalo was $1,761,287, to which was added later the sum of $166,666 for special relief work in Europe, making a total approved expenditure for the year of $1,927,953 apart from specifics. In the financial section of this report will be found a detailed comparative statement showing the foreign field appropriations and home expenditures as presented for ap­ proval at the Convention and as actually reported at the clos­ ing of the books on April 30, 1921. The original estimates were prepared in the autumn and winter of 1919, while the appropriations were authorized in June, 1920. The final ex­ penditures reported therefore reflect many necessary changes which could not be foreseen so long in advance. Although the budget allowed by the Convention was con­ siderably larger than that of the year before, it was only with the greatest difficulty that the Board was able to provide for the maintenance of already established work. Increased liv­ ing costs extending over the entire world made an increase in missionary salaries imperative and absorbed a substantial advance provided in the appropriations made to the mission­ aries for support of local churches and evangelistic workers, maintenance of schools, and other numerous phases of work on the field. So large a sum had to be allowed for anticipated extra costs on account of unfavorable exchange, estimated at $212,000, that only by greatly reducing certain items in the budget, such as appropriations for new buildings and for work in Europe, and by using at the very beginning of the year more than two-thirds of the fund reserved for contingencies, could the total appropriations be kept within the figure ap­ proved at Buffalo. Fortunately the marked change for the better in the exchange situation, described more fully on an­ other page, has made it possible to restore to the work itself all but about $40,000 of the amount appropriated for exchange.

A Year of Anxiety During no year in the recent history of the Society has there been greater anxiety concerning the financial situation as it has been reported from month to month at the regular meetings of the Board. The unprecedentedly heavy debt carried over from the preceding year, the relatively light receipts during the summer and GENERAL REVIEW OF THE YEAR 69

early autumn months, the very large and burdensome loans that had to be carried at the banks compelled members of the Board and officers alike to give far more than ordinary thought to the more strictly financial aspects of the work. The Chairman of the Board was asked to prepare a statement setting forth the finan­ cial condition and problems of the Society, and after approval by the Board at the February meeting it was published as an ad­ dress to the churches. The statement is incorporated here as giv­ ing a clear and honest picture of the situation which the Society has found during the year.

With the advice and approval of the officers of the General Board of Promotion, the Board of Managers of the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society makes to its constituency the following brief statement of its actual financial condition: The financial requirements of our Society for the current fiscal year amount to $2,735,976, made up as follows: balance not provided for in the year 1919-1920, $808,023; approved operating budget for the current year, $1,761,287; special addition for European relief, $166,666. The total receipts applying on these requirements for the first eight months to December 31, 1920, have been $853,316. The balance yet to be provided is $1,882,660. The receipt of its full allotment as based on the payment of all pledges to the New World Movement which are due this year will enable the Society to provide for the work of the current year and to make a substantial reduction in its deficit. A shrinkage of any consid­ erable percentage from the full allotment may mean an increase in the Society’s indebtedness. These facts call for certain explanations. The large sums called for by the approved budgets of the Society for last year and this year are not due to new work or to expansion of old work, but to the increased cost of carrying on missionary work. The high cost of everything throughout the whole world has made it necessary to increase the salaries of missionaries and native workers in all fields, in order to keep them from real privation. Building enterprises to which we are in honor committed have proved far more expensive than we or the missionaries or anyone else could have anticipated. The loss in put­ ting our appropriations into the local currency, especially in India and China because of unfavorable exchange, has been heavy, though very recently there has been some improvement in this condition. Any con­ siderable reduction in the amount of the approved budget for last year or this year would have meant disastrous retrenchment in the work already under way. The large and burdensome deficit of $808,023 reported at Buffalo was incurred on a budget approved by the Convention, and was due to two principal causes: First, the changing of the date for closing the fiscal year from March 31 to April 30, which meant the addition of an 70 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

extra month’s appropriations to the expenditures of the year, and the extraordinary loss on account of unfavorable exchange were responsible for nearly one-half of the deficit. Second, the intensive efforts usually made in the last two months of the year by our Society in common with the other cooperating Societies and Boards of the Convention to secure the funds needed to meet the year’s requirements were omitted. It was the judgment of nearly all concerned that emphasis upon the customary intensive efforts in the interest of the current budgets might affect un­ favorably the New World Movement Campaign to secure subscriptions to the $100,000,000 Fund during the week of April 25 to May 2. It was also the earnest hope that the immediate cash payments in connection with the New World Movement pledges would more than make up any deficits. The amount so realized in cash payments before the closing of the books on May 12, however, was not sufficient to meet the full requirements, and our Society was forced to report and to carry over into the new year a deficit of $808,023. Receipts of the Society from the New World Movement Fund for the first eight months of this year are very much larger than ever before for the same period: namely, $687,461 as compared with $371,553 last year and $327,167 the year before. For this generous and encouraging re­ sponse of the churches the Board of Managers expresses its grateful appreciation. It should be noted, however, that the total receipts of the Society to date as previously stated, including income not applying on the $100,000,000 Fund, represent only 44 per cent, of the current year’s budget apart from the deficit, and but 31 per cent, of the total require­ ments of the year including the deficit. W e need to receive in the four months that remain more than the sum we have received in the past eight months in order to provide for the current year’s budget, and avoid adding to our deficit. W e need to receive more than twice as much as we have already received if we are to provide for the current year’s work and the deficit. A serious feature of this situation is the fact that the Society is compelled to borrow very large sums of money to meet its expenditures and has already paid more than $25,000 in interest on these borrowed funds. The Board has appointed a Committee of Review which is making painstaking investigation to ascertain whether expenditures at home and abroad can be cut down without endangering the success of our enter­ prise. W e are planning every possible economy short of such as would really cripple our work. W e are confident that Northern Baptists are unwilling that the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society should make any large reduction in the budget, which in this new era of high costs scarcely allows the Society to maintain its present status in the foreign field. W e believe also that the denomination is so deeply interested in the work which this Society and all of the other missionary agencies are accomplishing in their respective fields of activity, that when the facts are known the neces­ sary funds will be forthcoming. W e earnestly appeal to all the friends GENERAL REVIEW OF THE YEAR 71 of our work to make prompt and full payment of their pledges to the New World Movement, to aid in securing new and larger pledges and large cash contributions apart from the pledges, in order to prevent the necessity for any retrenchment on the foreign field during this critical period through which we are passing. Such a payment of pledges and securing of new ones would rescue not only the Foreign Society, but all our sister missionary organizations, most of whom are struggling with a somewhat similar financial burden. We wish to share alike with them on the established proportional basis.

The Financial Outcome As the year drew to its close two significant facts became evi­ dent: First, the churches throughout the territory of the Conven­ tion had sent in their contributions earlier, more regularly, and in larger amount than ever before, and a remarkably good per­ centage of the amount due on pledges had been paid in; second, only a great volume of gifts during the last four or five weeks of the year would prevent a serious shortage and in some cases the substantial increase of debts for the participating organiza­ tions. This much desired increase in receipts was in large mea­ sure realized. The receipts of the General Board of Promotion from March 20 to May 5, when the books finally closed, were nearly if not quite double those of any preceding month of the year. A total of approximately $10,500,000 out of an expected and required $12,500,000 for the year is reported, or about 85 per cent, on the basis of subscriptions reported at Buffalo as received* by the Board of Promotion or directly by the participating organ­ izations. The Society has reported to be included in this total all income received during the year which could properly be ap­ plied on the New World Movement Fund, and it has shared pro rata in the total amount received, with all other organizations excepting the State Conventions and City Mission Societies which because of peculiar conditions were allowed 100 per cent, of their allotments, the former for the entire year, the latter for one-half the year.

Special Gift Agreements With Life Annuity Returns As the result of an aggressive and consistent policy of ad­ vertising continued over several years, the Society, in common with other national organizations, has been accustomed to report 72 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

large sums annually received in gifts on the Annuity Plan. The amount so received in 1919-1920 was $266,388, and that reported in 1918-1919 was $217,001.20. During the year just closed, however, the total receipts in new gifts of this character was only $83,364.89. The number of agreements written during the year was 73 as compared with 139 the year before and 128 in 1918-1919. The explanation of the falling off in gifts on the Annuity Plan, which is shared by all our national societies and boards, is undoubtedly to be found in the fact that very little advertising has been done during the year. It was agreed by all that effort should be concentrated upon the New World Movement campaign and the endeavor to secure $100,000,000 in unconditional gifts. Consequently but slight attempt has been made to keep before the minds of our constituency the opportunity that is offered of making a genuine contribution to our missionary societies and boards and at the same time securing in return a fixed annual income without which in many cases the donor might not be able to make the gift. It is a significant fact that o f the 73 agreements written during the past year 43 were issued to donors who already held the Society’s annuity agreements. This clearly demonstrates the satisfaction with which this method of making a gift to missionary work is regarded by those who have once tried the experience. Steps are now being taken in cooperation with the other na­ tional organizations to organize a more aggressive presentation •of this method of contribution to our constituency throughout the •Convention territory. A slightly modified form of agreement has 'been adopted by all of the organizations in which the name Special Gift Agreement with Life Annuity Return ” has been substituted for the old term “ Annuity Bond.” The change has been favored because the new title emphasizes the “ gift ” or beneficent character of the transaction and avoids comparison with the annuities issued by life-insurance companies on a purely commercial basis. It is confidently expected that with a renewal of a judicious advertising policy our societies and boards will again be receiving large sums in gifts of this type. One other aspect of the matter deserves mention. During: the year just closed 24 annuity agreements have matured, owing to the death of the annuitants, with the result that a total of GENERAL REVIEW OF THE YEAR 73

S29,606.97 has been made available for the work of the Society. Of this amount $20,000 has been applied to the budget income, $8,422.32 has been added to the reserve for equalizing the income from Matured Annuities, and $1,184.65 has been applied in accor­ dance with the provision of the original agreements to specified objects. In accordance with the principles adopted by the Gen­ eral Board of Promotion, the income received from annuity agreements maturing during the five-year period of the New World Movement are counted on the $100,000,000 Fund. New gifts on the Annuity Plan are not so counted because they do not become available for actual use until the agreements mature. A statement of the Annuity Account is in the Financial Section.

Receipts From Legacies During the early months of the fiscal year it seemed that re­ ceipts from legacies would fall considerably below the average, and it seemed likely that the Reserve for Equalizing the Income from Legacies would be somewhat depleted in order to provide the full amount of $115,000 which the Board had voted to trans­ fer from that reserve to apply on the budget of the current year. During the last month of the year, however, a large payment was made on account of an estate that has been for some time in the process of settlement, so that the total amount of legacies actually paid in and credited to the legacy reserve was $155,284.25. When the Reserve for Equalizing the Income from Legacies was established, it was decided to maintain this fund at a maximum of S250.000. It has been possible, therefore, in view of the larger receipts this year to transfer to the current year’s expenditure a total of $146,297.97, or $31,297.97 more than the budget expectancy. In addition to this income, all of which was undesignated, there have been a few legacies amounting in all to $10,747.25 designated tor special purposes, partly for the establishment of permanent hinds, the income of which is to be used for various phases of the work of the Society. A complete statement of the Legacy Account will be found in the Financial Section of the Report.

The John D. Rockefeller Fund Reference was made in the report of last year to the very generous gifts made by Mr. John D. Rockefeller. During the 74 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

fiscal year which closed April 30, 1920, Mr. Rockefeller gave to the Society securities valued at practically $3,000,000. In June a further contribution valued at $1,000,000 was received, and in December, 1920, and January, 1921, two additional gifts of sub­ stantially $500,000 each were received from the same source. Mr. Rockefeller’s total gifts to the Society, therefore, in the last two years amount to $5,000,000. By the direction of the donor these gifts, which are all in the form of securities, have been added to the permanent trust funds of the Society, and the Board has given to this fund the name of “ The John D. Rockefeller Fund.” The income of this fund will amount to upward of $300,000 annually, and is to be applied at the discretion of the Board without limitation except that it shall be used for the corporate purposes of1 the Society. These gifts coming from a single source are without precedent in the history of the Society, and the Board, in expression of its deep appreciation, adopted the following resolution at its meeting on February 8, 9, 1921:

The Board of Managers of the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society herewith formally places on record its profound appreciation of the continued interest and the generous participation of Mr. John D. Rockefeller in the work of the Society. Two recent gifts have brought his contributions, within little more than a year, to a sum approximately Five Million Dollars ($5,000,000) all of which has been added to the permanent funds of the Society. For many years previously he had made large annual donations toward the general purposes of the Society, and these recent additions to the permanent funds of the Society now assure the continuance for future years of receipts heretofore represented by Mr. Rockefeller’s annual contributions. With grateful acknowledg­ ment of these benefactions the Board tenders to Mr. Rockefeller its sin­ cere desire and confidence that to him there may be vouchsafed that abundant measure of joy and increasing satisfaction which accrues from large cooperation in the great projects of the kingdom.

The gifts above described represent the culmination of an interest in the work of the Society manifested by Mr. Rockefeller over a long period of time. For more than a quarter of a century he has made an annual gift to the Society of large proportions. Usually this was given without limitation to the genera! work of the Society. For a number of years he made a special con­ tribution to enable the Society to meet urgent property needs on the several mission fields. In some years the total of these GENERAL REVIEW OF THE YEAR 75 gifts amounted to $200,000. In making these gifts to the per­ manent funds of the Society Mr. Rockefeller has capitalized this life-long interest and his annual contributions and has assured this very substantial income to the Society for all time.

The Rise and Fall of International Exchange For the last three or four years the cost of carrying on mis­ sionary work has been greatly increased because of the high price of silver and the consequent unfavorable exchange in the silver-using countries of China and India. The peak of such conditions was reached in the winter and early spring of 1920 when the Mexican dollar, commonly used in China and normally worth fifty cents in United States currency, reached the high point of $1.15, while the rupee, the unit of currency in India, normally valued at thirty-three cents, was quoted at forty-five cents and more. Up to that time exchange had cost the foreign mission societies hundreds of thousands of dollars. The situation was becoming so serious that it seemed more than probable that actual readjustment of work would be necessary if the cost of the Mexican dollar and the rupee became stabilized at those high figures. With the summer of 1920, however, there came a change, at first gradual, then more rapid, until in October ex­ change rates were back to practically normal figures. The move­ ment continued until in British India the rupee, instead of being worth forty-five cents or thirty-three cents, has been quoted at less than twenty-five cents. In China the reversal of conditions has not been so extreme, but for some time the Mexican dollar has cost in the neighborhood of fifty cents or less. During the last few weeks there have been such frequent fluctuations that it is impossible to make any dependable forecast as to the future. This change has given most welcome relief to the Society in common with all other foreign mission societies conducting work in India and China. The greater part of the large appropriations included in the budget for the current year to provide for the expected loss on account of exchange has been cancelled, and it is hoped that the provision in the new budget can be reduced to a still smaller amount, thus increasing substantially the funds the disposal of the missionaries for their work. There is one 76 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY disturbing feature in this generally favorable situation. As the value of silver falls, its purchasing power also diminishes. This means an increase in the cost of food, clothing, and other supplies required by the missionaries. During the abnormal conditions occasioned by the war the cost of living advanced simultaneously with the price of silver, thereby necessitating a material increase in missionaries’ salaries. Now that the purchasing value of the silver currency is diminished the missionary again suffers, and it may be necessary to meet this situation by a further addition to the salary schedule.

Need for New Equipment On many fields the need for buildings is distressing. Two missionary families are frequently compelled to live in a single bungalow while families with children are sometimes compelled to occupy unsanitary native dwellings. This ought not so to be. Young people who give their lives to missionary service are entitled to proper homes in which to rest and rear their children. Many missionaries now approaching the time when they will be called veterans have never had the proper opportunity to do their work because money was not forthcoming for the erection of houses of worship, school buildings, hospitals, dispensaries, and other buildings. While there has been a generous advance in contributions in recent years, the rapid rise in the cost of living has compelled the Board to use the increase in its resources very largely in meeting the living expenses of the missionaries and the native workers, the higher rates of financial exchange, and the greatly advanced rates for ocean travel.

Summary of the Revenue Account

The Summary of the Revenue Account differs in form from that of previous years, first, in that the deficit of the preced­ ing year is shown as the first item on the “ Outgo ” side and enters into the total expenditures, and second, the account is so analyzed as to show first the receipts and expenditures applying on the New World Movement and below the addi­ tional receipts and expenditures which are outside the New World Movement, but which enter into the Revenue Account of the Society for the year. In a supplemental schedule will GENERAL REVIEW OF THE YEAR 77 be shown a complete statement of the New World Movement account as related to the Society. The deficit reported on May 1, 1920, as $808,023.23 was later reduced to $798,023.23 by cancelling an unused appropriation. Total expenditures for the year 1920-1921 applying on the New World Movement were $1,934,251.23, making the total to be provided for $2,732,274.46. Receipts applying on the New World Movement were $1,718,189.11, of which $14,430.97 were designated to apply on the previous year’s deficit. The result is an accumulated deficit in the New World Movement ac­ count of $1,014,085.35, of which $783,592.26 is on account of the year 1919-1920, and $230,493.09 is on account of the year 1920-1921. The Society has received other income, outside the New World Movement, a considerable part of which, be­ ing unrestricted as to use, was applied to certain definite objects in the regular budget expenditures. There were also certain savings and cancellations on account of appropriations antedating the New W orld Movement period. Taking these supplemental items into account the grand total of the deficit and expenditures for the year is $2,832,522.25, and the grand total of income is $2,143,062.55. The net result is an actual deficit as of April 30, 1921, of $689,459.51, or a reduction of approximately $120,000 on the deficit reported May 1, 1920. This result is profoundly gratifying, particularly in a year in which on the one hand conditions on the mission fields and at home compelled the largest expenditures for actual mainte­ nance of the work that the Society has been forced to meet in any twelve months of its history, and on the other, the business depression prevailing throughout the country could not but seri­ ously affect the giving ability of multitudes of churches and people. • A closer examination of the financial statement reveals some interesting and significant facts. Income from invested funds, matured annuities, and legacies, applying on the New W orld Movement, is $265,554.42, and with the addition of the income on the John D. Rockefeller Fund of $261,238.50, which by the direction of the donor does not count on the New World Movement, amounts to a total of $526,792.92. Receipts from donations applying on the New W orld Movement are 78 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

$1,344,553.66 for the regular budget and $93,650.06 for spe­ cifics, or a total of $1,438,203.72. Adding to this amount the donations not applying on the New World Movement, or $144,572.91, the result is a total income from living donors of $1,582,776.63. The grand total of income for all purposes, as already stated, is $2,143,062.55. These figures are noteworthy in several respects. They represent the largest amount of contributions from living donors, the largest receipts for the regular budget, and the largest total income for current work that the Society has ever received in any single year. In this last respect even the splendid record of 1919-1920, when the total receipts were $2,130,620.04, including more than $600,000 of Victory Campaign gifts, has been exceeded by nearly $13,000.00.

Receipts from the New World Movement So favorable a showing would not have been possible had not the Board been able to apply to the regular budget of the year the income of the John D. Rockefeller Fund which does not count on the New W orld Movement, and also make cer­ tain substantial savings on the budget expenditures approved by the Convention. The situation as respects the New World Movement Fund is somewhat less favorable, though not by any means discouraging. The Convention at Buffalo ap­ proved an allotment to the Society from the anticipated re­ ceipts of the year 1920-1921 of $1,761,287 for the regular operating budget, to which was added later $166,666 for spe­ cial relief in Europe, making a total of $1,927,953. The actual receipts credited to the New W orld Movement apart from specifics are $1,610,108.08, leaving a shortage of $317,844.92, to which may be added the balance of the deficit for 191*9-1920, $783,592.26, making a total still to be provided from New W orld Movement funds on account of approved expenditures of the two years of $1,101,437.18. Encouragement is to be derived, however, from a comparison of the income from New World Movement funds available during 1920-1921 for the regular work with the corresponding receipts for 1919-1920, which were only $1,051,413.01, the increase being over $550,000. GENERAL REVIEW OF THE YEAR 79

Budget Expenditures for 1920-1921 and Outlook for 1921-1922 The total regular budget expenditures authorized for the year were $1,927,953. The actual expenditures as shown by the Report were $1,840,601.17. This saving of $87,351.83 was made possible only because of the improvement in the ex­ change situation described elsewhere, which permitted the cancellation of $170,000 of the amount appropriated for ex­ change losses. Many other items, however, show an unavoid­ able increase over the preliminary estimates, as may be seen by reference to one of the supplemental schedules in the Treasurer’s report. But for this saving in exchange, much embarrassment would have been experienced, since the cus­ tomary Reserve for Contingencies was altogether insufficient. Another supplemental schedule compares the regular budget expenditures of the year with those of 1919-1920. The ex­ penditures in the two years for new appointees indicate real progress in meeting the desperate need for reenforcement on the mission fields. The expenditure for building has not been as large as in 1919-1920, due to the fact that the amount subscribed on the New W orld Movement Fund did not permit provision for the equipment budgets of the missionary socie­ ties. A few projects to which the Board was already com­ mitted had to be cared for from regular funds. Specific gifts for buildings which were unusually large in 1919-1920 amounted to less than $100,000 in 1920-1921. At the time of writing this Report the prospects for the new year are more or less in doubt. The Finance Committee has tentatively approved a budget equal to that of last year, in­ creased by the amount of the income from the John D. Rocke­ feller Fund. It is the conviction of the Board that final plans for the year must include provision for a substantial reduction of the deficit now outstanding. The one really satisfactory solution of the problem will be such an increase in pledges and gifts to the New World Movement Fund as will make it possible to allot to the Society, without injustice to the other participating organizations, a substantially larger amount of receipts during the year closing April 30, 1922. Only so can there be hope of cancelling past obligations and providing for the immediate and urgent needs on the mission fields. 80 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

The Spiritual Emphasis The resources of this great enterprise continue, as they have always been, personal and spiritual. Nothing but life can propa­ gate itself. Life, dominated by the spirit of Christ, is the greatest asset for the advancement of the Kingdom of God. Although our available material resources are not quite what we had hoped for. and although the anticipations of a year ago have not been fully realized, nevertheless the Society faces the future in the calm confidence that all present trials will work out to the ultimate victory for God alnd his Kingdom throughout the world. Never were the voices of thoughtful men, statesmen, philosophers, and warriors alike, so insistent in their declarations that spiritual re­ newal is essential to the well-being of humanity; that the spiritual forces are the determinative forces in the world. Men who know the religions and the philosophies of mankind proclaim that the only real hope is the teaching of Christ sanctified by his cross on Calvary. The foreign-mission program represents the boldest plan yet conceived for making Christ and his cross real in the hearts of individual men and in all human relationships. What­ ever may be the events of the days or years that lie immediately ahead, ultimate victory of Christ and his kingdom is sure. A cause which rests so truly in the heart of God cannot fail. SUMMARY OF REPORTS FROM THE MISSIONS

THE BURMA MISSION Compiled by Rev. E. N. Harris [Editorial Note. In view of the excellent and comprehensive report of the Burma Mission published separately in Burma at the Rangoon Mis­ sion Press and available for distribution in America, this section of the annual report of the Society presenting the work in Burma is sub­ stantially more brief than in previous annual reports.]

"D U R M A is a territory small in size but enormously rich in natural resources. Those resources, although barely scratched on the sur­ face, have caused the crowding in of people on all sides, from up and down the coast of Asia all the way between Kamchatka and the Persian Gulf, from distant Armenia, and from the islands of the sea. Burma may well be called the Key to the Orient. Few who have not made a study of Oriental conditions realize how vast and extensive is the con­ tact of Burma with the races of the East. O f the total population, eight millions only are Burmese, about four millions belong to the other in­ digenous races, while almost an even million are immigrants from other lands, including 840,000 from India and 125,000 from China. These outside people come, not to stay, but to skim off some of the richness of the land and then return to their own homes where they can live in comparative luxury, the envy of all their neighbors. Some of our most fruitful labors, as a mission, are among these immigrant races. With not even yet a single whole-time missionary designated to the Chinese of the province and only sporadic efforts being put forth here and there, hundreds are nevertheless being won for Christ With one missionary only for the natives of India very promising results have been achieved. Nothing has yet been attempted for the Japanese who are coming in increasing numbers, but the indi­ cations are that the work among all these different races will be of growing importance, possibly overshadowing in time even that among the indigenous peoples. Never in its history has Burma so greatly needed the gospel as now. This is the one force that can quiet the trouble waves, that can give a right mind to distraught peoples, that can bring peace and good-will among men. Everything possible is being done in handing over the work with its responsibilities to local Christians, and they are valiantly taking up these responsibilities themselves, without asking financial aid from us. More and more they are realizing their part in the great work and doing it. The splendid achievements of our Karen missions along the line of self- support are well known, but now the Burman Christians, who have 83 84 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY hitherto been more backward in some regards, are presenting some of the finest instances of consecration of means and talent.

THE ANNUAL CONFERENCE AND CONVENTION

Previous to the meetings of the Annual Conference and Convention of Mandalay in October, a “ campaign of friendliness ” was inaugurated, under the auspices of the evangelistic committee. The city was divided into four sections, and a company of six missionaries and over sixty workers from the Christian communities conducted street meetings throughout the town. Two choirs and a band were among the attrac­ tions. The men all took hold with enthusiasm, and practically the whole city was covered in seven days. On the whole they found the people friendly and ready to listen. Very little open hostility was met with, though it had been rather looked for in this staunch Buddhist stronghold where one man in every fourteen is a hpongyi or Buddhist monk. The presence at the meetings of most of our missionaries from such outposts as Haka, Kengtung, Namkham, Bhamo, and Sandoway kept before us the sobering truth that in these frontier regions the surface only has been scratched. Pleas for more men and money for these outlying fields and a greater interest in them will surely not go unan­ swered. Concrete arguments for Christian work among the border hill- folk were evident in the more than two hundred Christian Kachins, Lisus, and Lahus who came for the convention and flocked the mission com­ pound, alert in their evident interest in both the meetings and the sights of the big town. The Burma Baptist Missionary Convention immediately followed the Conference. Its representative character, its admirable native presiding officer, the stirring reports from its workers in outlying regions, and its effect upon Mandalay are all worthy of mention. Perhaps the out­ standing feature was its expression of purpose loyally to uphold and cooperate with the Government of Burma. In these days, when the air is full of talk of non-cooperation, when there is so little praise and so much of unjust criticism of government, that the representatives of our great Baptist body in Burma should pass such strong resolutions of loyalty gives the Convention a unique place among the gatherings of the year in Burma.

THE MISSION PRESS

The Mission Press, the source of our Christian literature, is one of the best-known institutions in Burma. I t serves the whole mission in many ways by its practical helpfulness, and furnishes a very large portion of the school supplies of the country. It is the best printing establishment in the East, and its influence extends far beyond the confines of Burma. Throughout the past year, Messers. F. D. Phinney, J. L. Snyder, and S. E. Miner, and Miss O. Hastings have c o n t i n u e d THE BURMA MISSION 85 as the missionary staff of the Press. Mr. Snyder, however, left on furlough early in 1921, and Mr. S. V Hollingsworth, a new recruit, has come out to fill the place thus made vacant. “ While our general work has grown by a tenth,” writes Mr. Phinney, “ our list of titles in our record of publications has increased by nearly or quite one-quarter over, the previous year. Such a growth we believe fully justifies our existence as a Mission Press. The record of publica­ tions show' ninety-nine titles of new works, large and small, taken in hand or completed. Twenty-nine titles in Burmese represent 265,000 tracts, of which 150,000 are for free distribution, 7,000 being the gift of the Press to our evangelistic work. The book title which means the most to our Burman workers is the new small-type New Testament, with the resulting Gospel portions in a very handy size. The long-desired Burmese Hymn and Tune Book is at last in hand, to be issued just as soon as possible. In educational works in Burmese all are reprint editions with the exception of the small English into Burmese Dictionary, which will be issued very early in the new year.”

EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS In Burma our “ schools of the prophets ” number four, the Burman Theological Seminary, the Karen Theological Seminary, the Burman Women’s Bible School, and the Karen Women’s Bible School. The first three are located at Insein, and the last is in Rangoon. Since its opening in 1897 the Karen Women’s Bible School has enrolled 680 pupils, 312 of whom have graduated. For the past year 84 pupils were enrolled, 44 in the entering class, and 16 in the graduating class.’’ The Burman Seminary, whose object is the training of a native min­ istry, is under the care of Dr. John McGuire, assisted by Dr. J. C. Richardson. Burmans and other non-Karen students who are able to use Burmese are received, as are also Karen students who have become Bur- manized and those for whom a study of the Bible in Burmese will be more useful than in their own tongue. The course of study, mainly Biblical, but including also theology, homiletics, church history, and public speaking, is for four years. Lectures on various subjects are given by outside speakers. The number of students last year was forty- four. In the entering class this year there are three Chins, two Kachins, one Talaing, one Karen, one Chinese, and one Burman. The local con­ stituency gives liberally to the Seminary, and it is expected that the expense of the new dormitory will be met on the field. Twenty-nine students were graduted from the Karen Seminary which celebrated its seventy-fifth anniversary. Thirty-one are in the new entering class, and the whole enrolment is 143. The dedication of the new Alumni hall and Anglo-Vernacular building took place on Dr. D. A. W. Smith’s eightieth birthday. On this occasion those assembled were delighted to hear once more the voice of the honored President Emeritus. The year has been a good one, and, owing to increased contributions 8 6 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

from the churches, there is a prospect of closing without debt. Steps are being taken for a closer union between the seminaries and Judson College, whereby it is hoped that a number of men of college grade may be induced to enter the Christian ministry. The graduates of this Seminary are already scattered far and wide among the hill-tribes of Burma. They are the chief mainstay of our work for the Lahus at Kengtung and for the Kachins at Myitkyina and Bhamo. More and more they are coming to the front as able assistants of the missionary in station work, and are qualifying themselves to under­ take that hardest of all Christian service, the evangelization of the Burmese Buddhists.

JUDSON COLLEGE Judson College has rightly been termed “ the worthy pinnacle of the whole American Baptist Mission educational system in Burma.” To it and its affiliated schools we must turn largely for the high-grade teachers in our schools and for other educated mission workers. The enrolment in the college for the past year has been nearly a hundred and forty, or about ten in excess of the previous year. The examination results compare well with those gained by other colleges affiliated with Calcutta University, and this in a year when it is reported that the marking was unusually severe. Last year’s senior class consisted of thirteen members, of whom nine were Christians. Eight of these are now teaching in the schools of our mission. The new Burma University Bill went into effect December 1, 1920. By this, Judson College becomes one of the two constituent col­ leges of the new Burma University. An outstanding feature of 1920 was the opening of a Physics Department, thus making possible the in­ auguration of the science course. Athletics have been carried on in a vigorous and systematic fashion. The Women’s Dormitory, under the care of Miss Helen Hunt, has had a prosperous year. Nineteen Judson College girls lived at Pegu House, and seven other girls attended the college as day-pupils. Regular religious services and the activities of the college church have continued much as formerly. One unusual feature was the number of pupils from Buddhist families who came to a saving knowlege of Christ. It has also been a banner year in' contributions for all religious and philanthropic purposes. O f the aggregate of nearly three thousand rupees, six hundred went to the alumnae evangelistic worker in the Shan States. The Brotherhood had a fairly successful year and engaged in varied lines of work. Its members have assisted in street preaching, in furnishing music, carrying invitations, and speaking in the meetings. They have been diligent in conducting flourishing Sunday schools in the outskirts of the city, and have been active in hospital visitation and in the distribution of Scripture portions and religious tracts in different languages. Through a Big Brother Movement, each Big Brother has THE BURMA MISSION 87 a group of younger fellows entrusted to him for advice, brotherly help, and watch-care.

RANGOON BAPTIST SCHOOLS At the beginning of 1920, Rev. L. W. Hattersley returned from fur­ lough and took charge of the Rangoon Baptist schools, which include Cushing High School, the European High School, the Anglo-Vernacular and Vernacular Normal Schools, and the Vernacular Practising School. He has given much time to administration, while attending to the neces­ sary work of supervision and teaching. The segregation of the schools from the college has proved of such benefit to all the institutions in­ volved that it is now proposed to place the Normal School under a principalship of its own. In the Anglo-Vernacular High School the en­ rolment for the year exceeds 1,150, an icrease of about two hundred stu­ dents over the previous year. “ We are especially proud of the fact,” writes Mr. Hattersley, “ that of the thirty-nine who passed the High School Final Examination from our school, thirty-one entered college, and of the other eight, several entered the medical or the school of engineering, showing that we inspire practically all of our boys to con­ tinue their education after leaving us.” Our educational work for girls centers in the three high schools: Morton Lane in Moulmein, Kemmendine in Rangoon, and the Girls’ School in Mandalay.

THE AGRICULTURAL SCHOOL The Burma missionaries welcome most heartily the work of the Agri­ cultural School at Pyinmana and the trade school at Moulmein. The- agricultural work at Pyinmana presents great opportunities not only for the native cultivator, who will be taught how to get the maximumi out of his daily labor, but also for the mission work in general. We are here to serve these people, to help them to a new life. The agricultural! work among them will be one of the channels through which we can lift them to a higher sphere not only economically, which is important, but intellectually, socially, and, above all, spiritually. The aim of the Agri­ cultural School is not so much to educate the few high-school or college graduates who could gb to the Government College of Agriculture for their training, but to open its doors wide to the sons of the humble village dwellers, the small and poor cultivators. The rains during the year have been very light in Pyinmana; as a result the sugar-cane crop was only fair and the rice crop poor. The soil around Pyinmana is excellent for sugar-cane, and the cultivators are more and more turning their attention to the planting of this crop, which does not require so much water as does rice. Two months ago the first tractor came to Pyinmana, one of the first two in Burma. Since then several more have arrived. This readiness of the Burmese people to use modern machinery ought to talp in any endeavor to teach new ways of farming. 8 8 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

THE MOULMEIN TRADES SCHOOL During the past year, Rev. A. C. Darrow has been giving a maximum of time and strength to the trade-school building operations. Many months had to be consumed in plans, conferences, bargainings for land sites, and collection of material. Considerable has been accomplished. One building has been completed, the roof is being put on the second building, the walls of the east dormitory are up to the second story, the foundations of the drill hall are nearly ready, and foundation trenches are almost finished for the main building. Water has been connected, two wells are nearing completion, a large area of land has been cleared of heavy jungle, several thousand feet of roads have been made, about a million cubic yards of earth have been moved, and a large quantity of stone and road metal has been quarried. Mr. Darrow found it necessary to make his own bricks, so a brick-yard is being opened. Temporary houses have been built to shelter two or three hundred workmen, and sheds have been put up to cover all building operations. The aim of the school is the building of character and the systematic training of pupils in the theory and practise of the trades, so that they may become skilled journeymen or rise to positions of industrial leader­ ship. The internal management of the school is wholly in the hands of missionaries, while the general management, such as the finances, open­ ing of new departments, improvements and enlargements, has been as­ signed to a committee of twelve, seven of whom are appointed by our Society. The government assumes responsibility for all the recurring charges of the school, and in addition will contribute three hundred rupees per month toward the salary of the principal, who will always be a missionary of our Society.

THE ALL BURMA BAPTIST ORPHANAGE Mrs. A. C. Darrow, who took charge of the orphanage on the departure of Miss Agnes Whitehead for America, reports a present enrolment of fifty-eight children. The work done by them in the various schools has been very satisfactory. These children constitute a large, busy, happy family. Several work outside and thus earn enough to pay in part for their clothing. A fine spirit of unselfishness is found among them. They lead a normal, healthy life.

THE MOULMEIN LEPER ASYLUM Quietly and inconspicuously the work of the Baptist Leper Asylum has gone on through the past year. Financed from local funds and appropriations from the Mission to the Lepers, it has had no occasion to appeal to the Society fo r material aid, but it constantly needs inspiration from the confidence and loyalty of its friends. There have been times when the income did not equal the outgo and times when all efforts brought only small returns of either material' or immaterial benefits, but THE BURMA MISSION 89 those in charge face the new year with renewed courage. The number of inmates now totals fifty-eight, the largest in the history of the in­ stitution. MEDICAL WORK Although all missionaries on tour and in charge of boarding-schools have to lance boils, distribute quinine, and treat minor ailments, our trained physicians number only four, three of whom are in Shan stations. There is urgent need for an extension of our medical work; for good hospitals at Kengtung, Haka, and Loikaw are waiting to do their part in evangelism and social service, once they are placed in charge of competent medical practitioners. Dr. H. C. Gibbens returned to Mongnai during the year. Dr. A. H. Henderson has educational, evangelistic, and administrative, as well as medical work under his care at Taunggyi. Dr. Robert Harper at Namk- ham is carrying an almost impossible load in Shan and Kachin general work in addition to his medical duties.

FOR EUROPEANS AND ANGLO-INDIANS In beginning a survey of evangelistic work it is fitting that we give consideration to that branch known as English or European. Conducted in the English language, this work, largely among the Anglo-Indian com­ munities, functions through English churches in those places, and two schools, one for girls at Moulmein and one for boys at Rangoon. The Anglo-Indian, formerly styled Eurasian, is of mixed European and Asiatic blood. Race prejudice has unfortunately caused misjudgments, and the slander that the “ Eurasian ” embodies the weak elements of both strains has been given far too wide currency. No finer people can be found anywhere than many members of this long-despised community. A l­ though the mission has done relatively little work among them, the Baptist constituency now includes a number of these people of whom we have just reason to be proud. With their familiarity with conditions in the East, the Anglo-Indians seem destined, in the providence of God, to perform a very important function in the future evangelization of this country. Stations reporting European work are Rangoon, Maymyo, Moulmein, and Tavoy. Rev. L. W . Hattersley reports for the European High School an enrolment of one hundred and forty-six, of which number twenty-eight are in the High Department, and also says that it has been difficult to secure men teachers, there being only two on the present staff. There seems tb be a new spirit in the school this year. Probably the evangelistic campaign of last year is still being felt. Rev. V. W . Dyer has taught a weekly Bible class, including all the boys of the High Department. Immanuel Church in Rangoon reports a year of progress and en­ couragement, with a total gain "in Anglo-Indian membership of twenty- five. The Sunday school has doubled in attendance; a C. E. Society has been revived, the attendance averaging nearly thirty. The church 90 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

has raised about seven hundred rupees more this year than last, and the monthly contributions toward the pastor’s salary were increased. Over two hundred rupees have been given for religious literature. The choir presented the pastor with an excellent gharry and pony which have been a great help in the work. Community Hall has been used every week— often every night— and has been a great blessing to the social life of the community. Mr. and Mrs. Dyer have gripped the hearts of their people and are proving a blessing to the church and Anglo-Indian community. Two forward-looking plans at Immanuel are an associate pastor or church visitor, to be chosen from the Anglo-Indian community and the support of their own missionary, that is, a Karen to work in the Chin Hills or the Shan States, where the need is great and the workers are few. Other work for Europeans and Anglo-Indians is being successfully carried on by Mr. Baldwin at Maymyo, Mr. Grigg and Miss Good at Moulmein.

AMONG THE BURMANS Evangelistic work for the Burmans shows encouragement and progress. Aside from the numerous services on Sunday and through the week, the missionaries at Tavoy consider it a privilege to be of help to those who come to depend upon them. Forty-six different villages have been reached, many free leaflets have been distributed, and fourteen different persons have shown positive interest in the message of the Master. Rangoon is begin­ ning to see some of the results of the effort which has been put forth. Two new Bible-women have been added to the staff and already are proving to be valuable workers. There have been ten baptisms. “ The year has been one of great difficulty, many trials, and prolonged financial strain,” writes a Henzada missionary. “ It becomes increas­ ingly clear that the prime qualifications for a missionary are faith and hope, patience and perseverance. I have had to put the burden of evangelistic work more and more on the Burman evangelists. Our Henzada church has bought a lot on the main road to the railway station, erected a preacher’s house at a cost of two thousand rupees which they have contributed, and are supporting a Burman preacher there.” Just before the Mandalay Convention, the missionaries at Bassein bap­ tized nearly thirty Burmans in a hill village. They had given up their nat-worship bowls and convinced the Christian Sgaw Karens in a near-by village that they were sincere. Not long ago, in another jungle village, there were fourteen baptized, four of them being Burmans. In the last year, over fifty have been baptized in this village, and many more are considering Christianity. The outstanding feature of the year at Prome has been the readiness of the people to hear the message. A t Toungoo last year, the number of baptisms was thirty-eight, the largest number ever recorded in one year. There are 250,000 people who must be reached through the work that the Burmese missionary oversees. There have been about eighty baptisms in Pyinmana, mostly from among THE BURMA MISSION 91 the Burmans. “ It will be a great day,” writes Mr. Josif, “ when we have enough men on our mission fields so that one can devote his entire time to preaching and touring while another looks after the school.” A definite work at Meiktila is being carried on for the troops of the 70th Burman Rifles. Services are held in the barracks every Sunday, and opportunities for recreation have been provided when the men are off duty. The commandant of the battalion seems very appreciative of the missionary’s work. In a recent conversation he said, “ I realize the power and influence of the American Baptist Mission in this country.”

AMONG THE KARENS Our Karen stations are scattered from Tavoy on the south to Loikaw on the north, and from Bassein on the west to Moulmein on the east. The field connected with them covers vast stretches of territory in which varied means of locomotion must be used. In the Delta, these fields are comparatively compact, the Christian villages are reasonably near together and are accessible by railroad, motor-boat, or cart at most seasons of the year. The missionary can travel much among his people, see them often, and still have a fair opportunity for work among the heathen. In the Hill Tracts, on the other hand, such as the Shwegyin, Papun, Loikaw, and two Toungoo fields, the true home of the Karen people, conditions are vastly different. The territories covered are vast in extent, without roads and largely devoid of accessible waterways. The people live for the most part in scattered mountain villages, and to reach them and give them the help and strength they need, the missionary must travel for days on foot or pony back, over tortuous mountain trails, and with his best effort cannot possibly get around his entire field during a single year’s traveling season. He sees the majority of his people only at infrequent intervals and must depend for his actual contact largely on the yearly associational meeting and the annual pastor’s class. Our Karen mission today is the most outstanding in Burma and among the largest and most advanced in the world. The work has moved on in the last several decades steadily, noiselessly, gaining in self-support, hence silent in its appeals. It has gone on for years with scant reenforcements and, as a result, this very mission, with all the splendid records of the past, its truly marvelous achievements of the present, and the prospects of still greater growth in the future, is in danger of suffering wreck. The situation is critical. With twelve Karen stations, six are either altogether unmanned, or in charge of those who have reached the retiring age, or those whose furloughs are shortly due, with no one in view to fill the gaps. What we greatly fear is that the very success which has attended the Karen mission in the past will prove its ultimate undoing, that it will be thought by some that the mission is so prosperous that it can safely be left to itself under purely Karen leadership. Nothing could be farther from the truth. It would be disastrous were we at this juncture to make this mistake. Even in the most advanced fields the 92 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

Karen Christians themselves, notwithstanding their splendid spirit of in­ dependence and self-support, feel that they still need the missionary. In Henzada and Maubin there will be furlough gaps soon to be filled. In Moulmein and in the Bassein Sgaw and Pwo fields the mis­ sionaries are past or nearing the retiring age, while Shwegyin is without a full-time missionary. Moreover, in the vast geographical stretch of territory included under the Shwegyin field, two additional missionaries are needed, one to be stationed at Nyaunglebin and the other at Papun, in order to cover the field and provide for the growing opportunities. Evangelistic missionaries are urgently needed for Papun, Loikaw, and Toungoo, and an educational missionary at Tharrawaddy. In Bassein Pwo and Sgaw fields the veterans soon to retire are engaging in extensive building operations, and will leave their successors a sub­ stantial legacy of permanent equipment, but it is hard for them to carry on with all the burdens of the work, writh no relief yet in sight, when they know that before those who come to their fields can accomplish much mission work they must serve at least a year or two of apprentice­ ship in learning the language and customs and needs.

AMONG THE SHANS Reports have come from three stations in the Shan field. Although Taunggyi is in the Southern Shan States, the work in the town itself is varied, both in the number of races reached and in the variety of service rendered. This is evident from Dr. A. H. Henderson’s report, for he writes: “ The evangelistic work has been done this year better than ever before. Besides the regular church services, it includes weekly addresses in the school; bazaar meetings in Taunggyi every five days, visits to other bazaars, regular visits to the outlying churches when the Lord’s Supper is administered, and, in the dry season, extensive touring in the evangelized parts. As direct results of this work and the work of the preachers settled at the jungle churches, we have baptized ten so far this year, among these being a Mohammedan family.” Kentung is counted as a Shan mission, although much of the actual work at present carried on there is among the Lahus. O f the evangelistic work Rev. J. H. Telford writes: “ The preachers, mostly Karens, are located as pastors in the Christian villages. From these villages as centers they make regular visits to neighboring Lahu villages. During the year there have been eighty-one baptisms. Kengtung is still without a doctor. When is he coming? Many a time during the past year the sick have come to our hospital for help. With our insufficient knowledge we have not been able to aid the serious cases very much. Mrs. Telford helps in the dispensary, which is open twice daily, and in a year we dis­ pense medicine to many hundreds of cases. W e feel most heartily that it would be of immense value and an unspeakable blessing to our mis­ sion to have a doctor, and surely one will soon be sent. The Lahu School has been run for years at a heavy expense at Kengtung town on THE BURMA MISSION 93 the plains, where these hill boys and girls are neither well nor in an environment which prepares them for the problems of their later life. A large tract of land on their native hills is now available, and it is proposed to move the school up there and enlarge it along agricultural and industrial lines, with practical training and eventual self-support as ultimate goals. Such a transfer would not only be good for the Lahus, but would leave the field in Kengtung itself free for the de­ velopment of the Shan work, which has been overshadowed by the more prosperous Lahu work, but is itself well worthy of earnest endeavor.”

AMONG THE CHINESE In last year’s report mention was made of the work for the Chinese in Burma and the need of a missionary to be set apart especially for the purpose of carrying it on. Rev. Ernest Grigg was appointed for the purpose, but in addition he has had to take charge of the English work in Moulmein, and has even had the oversight of a Burmese school in Thaton. Nevertheless in the interests of the Chinese he has been able to visit Bassein, Henzada, Pegu, Rangoon, Toungoo, Pyinmana, and Mandalay. The Chinese Baptist constituency in Burma comprises about four hundred members, of whom more than seventy were received this year. Mr. Grigg reports: “ No more promising work is to be found in Burma. The Chinese are open-minded, energetic, resourceful, wide-awake to the advantages of the Christian religion, and are freed from the handicaps which surround them in China.” “ Our Chinese congregation at Mandalay,” writes Mr. Tribolet, “ is steadily growing. W e baptized altogether sixty-four during the year. The work is supported by the Chinese themselves with the help of some local contributions. In September two influential Chinese merchants were baptized. Our need is land on which to build a combined pastor’s house and church and school building to be used for both day- and night-schools and as a social center. The Cantonese community has a flourishing little school where one of our Swatow Academy boys teaches English and where I am permitted to do some supervision. The outlook for Chinese work at Mandalay is quite promising.” From various other stations missionaries report hopeful work and encouraging results among the Chinese people.

AM6NG THE INDIANS Rev. W . H. Duff, our missionary to the Indians, whose parish stretches from Myitkyina to Mergui gives a resume of the year, as follows: “ W e believe that the promise of the future for the Indians of Burma is bright indeed. Within the year, more than 24 pupils have been added to our schools and 138 have been taken into our Indian churches. Most of our baptisms have been in Rangoon, but there have been some in Moulmein, Taunggyi, Myaungyma, Bassein, Tavoy, and Mergui. In our 94 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

Anglo-Vernacular School at Moulmein we have 300 pupils this year, and in our Anglo-Vernacular School in Rangoon, 326. W e have 37 in our 7th Standard in the latter school, and are asking the Educational De­ partment to grant us permission to begin our high school work next year. More than fifty have been added to our four Vernacular schools.” “ Much interest has been aroused in Meiktila,” writes Rev. A. C. Hanna. “ Baptized Christians have been hunted up, and there are others who profess conversion and are asking to be baptized. Espe­ cially worthy of remark is the fact that a number of Baptists were found among the men of the 80th Carnatics stationed there, and per­ mission was freely given by their commandant for them to come to services on our compound, though the place is really out of bounds, as a rule. W e hope this Indian work can be well developed and firmly estab­ lished in the future.” Of the general opportunity in far-off Myitkyina, Rev. N. E. Woodbury says that there are many kinds of Indians in the bazaar, and he has sold Scriptures to them in Urudu, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, Nepali, Kanarese, Bengali, and Punjabi. Work among the Indian population is conducted by Rev. M. C. Streeter at Tavoy, Rev. S. E. Baldwin at Maymyo, Rev. 0 . H. Sisson at Bassein, and in a somewhat smaller degree by missionaries at Pegu, Toungoo, and Nyaunglebin. There is great need for more mis­ sionaries for the Indians in Burma. The pathetic feature of the situation is that many coolies coming to this land have been humble Baptist village Christians in their own, but, like sheep without a shepherd, know not where to turn for spiritual help over here and often fall away. More­ over, among the non-Christian caste people a much more open-minded spirit is found than among the same people in their own land. The hand of caste and custom does not grip them as strongly and they are more ready, not only to listen to the gospel and assent to its precepts, but to come out openly for Christ.

AMONG THE CHINS To many an “ outsider ” in Burma the name “ Chin ” brings but two connotations, “ Rebellions ” and “ Labor Corps,” but to missionaries it means a noble and self-sacrificing work for Christ among a very needy and much neglected people. Mrs. A. E. Carson left for America during the year. Her farewell journey down from the hills was touching in the gifts from a poor but grateful people among whom she had labored so faith­ fully for over twenty years, but triumphal because of the change in the hearts and lives of these folk within that period of time. Rev. J. H. Cope, her fellow-worker in this field, gives a graphic resume of these years and their fruits: “ Mrs. Carson came to Haka twenty-one years ago. She has passed through two rebellions and has suffered no end of dis­ tressing and trying experiences, the hardest of all being the loss of Mr. Carson, who was the first missionary to the Chins. Twenty-one years ago, there were not only no Christians but the very name was THE BURMA MISSION 95

practically unknown; now there are over 700 baptized believers. There are six mission schools. Two compounds with comfortable residences, a fine school, and a well-equipped hospital, are the work of Mr. Carson and his successors. Over twenty workers, Chin and Karen, are carrying on among several tribes the work of preaching and teaching. There are hymn-books in four dialects, parts of Scripture in four, and a monthly paper in one. The two final tasks which have occupied Mrs. Carson’s time for years now have just been completed, the dictionary and a translation of the historical books of the New Testament. These works are invaluable. Probably the most precious farewell remembrances were the twenty-three baptisms the last Sunday in Haka. A majority of these were the result of the preaching of the first convert in Haka, baptized by Mr. Carson in 1906.” In an account of the year’s work Mr. Cope tells of poor crops, hard times, illness, and decreased population in the Chin Hills, but many things are encouraging. Mr. Cope is now left alone to carry on the work for these needy hill tribes. Do the Chin Hills need more missionaries? If we are compelled to measure mission work only in the terms of so-called “ strategic fields,” if our commission reads, “ Go ye . . . and preach to the nations that are going to make history in the next twenty years,” perhaps they do not; but if the old commission stands as it stood when our Master delivered it and when Judson came to the almost unknown land of Burma, then we face a situation the only adequate answer to which must be, “ Here am I, Lord, send me.”

AMONG THE KACHINS Reports have been received from our three Kachin stations of Namkham, Bhamo, and Myitkyina. From Namkham, Dr. Robert Harper, the Shan medical missionary, upon whom the extra burden of the Kachin work has rested the past year, writes: “ The Kachin mission sadly needs a Kachin missionary to visit and encourage the small Christian communities in heathen villages and those who are almost persuaded to take their stand for Christ. The home Kachin school has maintained its numbers and efficiency.” He intimates that the village schools are rather limited in their numbers because the children must be fed and the price of rice is high, but an effort has been made to meet the difficulty by securing Kachin contributions. He continues: “ I have done my best to keep up the interest by keeping in touch with each teacher and by sending out two very influential helpers from time to time to visit the schools and the Christians.” Rev. H. W . Smith reports for Bhamo: “ The year has been spent as much as possible in language study and in getting ac­ quainted with the field. The fact that the people had no written language until recently and that as yet less than one in a thousand can read, makes the need for trained workers, not only for advance work but to conserve the work already done, of first importance. The one Karen evangelist, three Kachin preachers, and sixteen school-teachers cannot begin to 96 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY cover the field adequately where we have Christians. To meet the press­ ing need for more teachers and preachers we have eleven students in the Normal School and three in the Seminary. W e are able to report 122 baptisms during the year, but can these results be conserved? To minister to the villages where these new converts are we should have three or four preachers now.” The report for the schools is encouraging. The sixteen schools outside of Bhamo do not cost the mission on the average five rupees a month. Half are entirely self-supporting and all will be next year. Two of our women school managers were honored by the government and given silver watches during the past year. These two have been maintaining schools of fifty or sixty children and feeding them with insufficient government grants for the past two years, under increasing costs for food. Three other smaller schools have been labor­ ing under similar conditions. Mr. Woodbury’s report from Myitkyina tells of various tours among the villages containing Christians and some en­ couragement in finding heathen Kachins very friendly to the gospel message. “ During my travels I met on the road an officer of the Public Work Department. He told me how a Christian Kachin up near the boundary of British-administered territory was letting his light shine, although surrounded on all sides by heathen. A few days later a military officer spoke to me of this same man, and said he had been entertained by the singing of Christian hymns in Kachin while stopping at his bungalow. Not long after, the executive engineer asked me to write to this Kachin and encourage him to stay by his post. He said that the man wanted to come down where he would be nearer other Christians. I have since had word from the man himself that he has persuaded others to give up their nats and wants to build up a Christian village. He also sent along a substantial contribution to the work of the mission.” The story of needs on this field repeats that of the other fields. Two Karen evangelists, assisted by two preachers and a woman, the widow of a former pastor, are attempting to carry on the entire work for this vast territory of over 11,000 square miles. THE ASSAM MISSION Compiled By Mrs. G. G. Crozier T TN DERM AN NED as the Assam Mission always has been, the deple- tion of workers last year was unprecedented. Burdens carried by some missionaries could never have been borne but for the power of God who guides and sustains us through all the days. W e rejoice in the 2,125 baptisms reported for the year. Native workers have come forward to help as never before. In spite of manifest grief over the impossibility of entering many open doors of vast opportunities for missionary service, the missionaries nevertheless report a note of victory and hope. It seemed a strange Providence that sent Rev. and Mrs. A. J. Dahlby back to America because of health while they were studying Assamese, and before they had been definitely assigned to any station. Those who knew them felt that they were exceptionally fitted for service here. Dr. W . E. Witter tells of the wonderful meetings they conducted for students at Gauhati which will never be forgotten. W e trust their health may be restored. Several missionaries find their possibilities for work greatly enhanced by the gift from home friends of an automobile. Others are waiting with longing for their turn to come. The Executive Secretary, Rev. A. J. Tuttle, with the help of a Finance Committee, has efficiently done the work of the former Executive Committee besides being Secretary and Treasurer of the Mission, and was unanimously reelected at the Con­ ference. PROGRESS IN EVANGELISM The number of church-members in the Garo Hills now exceeds 7,000. This great mission needs an evangelistic missionary to tour those rugged hills and give his whole time to guiding and encouraging the Christian communities. The present staff of missionaries found it impossible to do any touring last year. That there are some noble workers in those hills is evidenced by 522 baptisms. A Bible course conducted at Tura for several weeks in the summer proved a blessing to these leaders. Although the Middle English School for Boys is now in the hands of Government, the boys have lived in the mission dormitories, and Rev. F. W . Harding did fine work in looking after the spiritual and physical welfare of these lads. Through the indefatigable labors of Dr. M. C. Mason, assisted by Miss Ella C. Bond, more and more of the Old Testament is getting in the hands of the people who receive it with delight. He also edits the Achikm Ripeng (Garo Friend), a little monthly paper, which brings inspiration to Chris­ tian Garos all over Assam. The Impur Mission to the Ao Nagas is developing most hopefully. There were 759 baptisms last year, and there are now 3,838 members in 46 churches. Last year they contributed 8,000 rupees for the Lord’s work. The great need is for more trained men to lead these unlettered but 97 98 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY virile people. Often a boy is called out of school to be the village teacher and preacher. The quarterly Bible class for all teachers, preachers, and deacons is proving an ever-increasing blessing. In one sense it can now be said that this tribe has been evangelized, for the gospel has been preached in every village and the people have a large part of the New Testament, a hymn-book, a dictionary, and some school-books. It is therefore proposed that Rev. R. B. Longwell shall be set aside to work for the Lhota Nagas. There are already 149 Lhota Christians in two churches, and 25 of their boys are in the Impur school. A new station easily accessible from Golaghat will probably be opened among them. The seed-sowing begun by Rev. William Pettigrew in Manipur twenty- five years ago now seems about to yield an abundant harvest. A revival began in May among the Tangkhul Nagas led by two young men, one the head master of the school at Ukhrul and the other the pastor of the Ukhrul church and evangelist-at-large. There were 295 baptisms last year, and 200 more reported on the waiting list. Several large villages are said to have given up their feast to the dead. That feast had been the greatest hindrance to their becoming Christians. Mr. and Mrs. Pettigrew labored for their first convert among them seven years like Judson of Burma. To see another white face they had to travel over mountains and across raging torrents down to the capital, Imphal, forty-six miles away, and even then they were still one hundred and thirty-four miles from the railway. Now a new compound has been granted at Kangpokpi on the fine motor road twenty-eight miles out of Imphal. Here the missionaries will live and supervise the older work for Tangkhul Nagas and newer work for Kuki clans. The wandering Kukis are very susceptible to the gospel. One hundred of them were baptized last year, and as more teach­ ers and evangelists can be trained and the Gospels translated into their language a great ingathering is expected. Eight Mikir churches are now organized with a membership of 500 in eight villages almost entirely Christian. Six evangelists are at work. Rev. J. M. Carvell, who spent five months touring, feels that the greatest evangelistic influence among the Mikirs is the Mikir Christian village. This is a fine testimony for the power of Christ to transform. The Mikirs are supposed to have been once the ruling tribe of Assam. Their hills are jungly but easily approached, and contain a population of about 100,000. The four Gospels and a hymn-book, besides several religious booklets and a few school-books, have been put into their language. This field needs a well-equipped mission station. In the great rich Brahmaputra Valley, teeming with peoples, the out­ look was never more hopeful if only there were missionaries to man all our mission stations. W ith his Ford, Rev. O. L. Swanson has supervised five great unmanned fields. His report brings joy and inspiration to all the missionaries. They would like to set this man aside for an evangelist for the whole province if it were possible. The Bible school which he conducts annually for a month has been of untold value in training the men who now so loyally help him. One new missionary', Rev. W . R. Hut­ THE ASSAM MISSION 99 ton, stationed at Nowgong, helped in the teaching. He has now taken over the Nowgong field from Mr. Swanson, and with fine spirit has begun his work in this old but neglected field. When Mr. and Mrs. Swanson visited Sibsagor they were warned by the Government officer to be exceedingly careful, for there was unrest and apparent trouble brewing in the town. So Mr. Swanson called together his helpers and warned them over and over to use great care and to say nothing to stir up any ill feelings. Early next morning after prayer they all started out for a big evangelistic effort in the bazaar. In the procession were three flags. As he displayed the Union Jack Mr. Swanson gave a patriotic speech reminding them of the blessings of British rule in India. He told them too what the Stars and Stripes means in the land from which he had come. Then he dis­ played a great white flag with a red cross representing the kingdom of Christ. The great throng gathered for a Hindu festival was exceedingly well behaved, and that night Mr. Swanson’s helpers were filled with joy over the amount of Christian literature sold. In that region a lot of happy Christians were marching in a procession with banners, musical instru­ ments, and singing. Government officers hurried to the scene in consterna­ tion, but when they discovered that they were Christians they were pleased and said, " Go ahead, do it all you want to.” Several high caste men in the Golaghat field have accepted Christ, and find that they as well as the low caste tea-garden coolies need a Saviour. Oh, that more American young men and women filled with the love of Christ would come to help Mr. Swanson and reach out to the great unevangelized areas on both sides of the Brahmaputra. W ho will hear the call of these millions dying without Christ? No evangelistic effort in the province is more important than the work of Dr. and Mrs. W . E. Witter for students in Gauhati. Doctor Witter had the great joy of baptizing one Mohammedan student “ who from that day was disinherited of considerable property by his father,” and has also had “ the privilege of counting it all joy to suffer persecution even to the suggestion of murder.” The addresses of Dr. George Cross, of Roch­ ester Theological Seminary, were greatly appreciated by both professors and students who expressed the desire for frequent visits of such men. The list of students who have come to visit the Witters numbers 1,138, and many of these have been coming for several years, first having come as high-school boys and now bringing their college friends to ask pertinent questions about the Christ and his religion. At the Conference in Novem­ ber the visiting missionaries were comfortably accommodated in the fine new hostel erected by Rev. C. E. Blanc. It was opened by Mr. C. S. Fielder upon his arrival to take over the work of Doctor Witter.

EDUCATIONAL WORK A vital part of the missionary work for hill-peoples must be educa­ tional. It is Christianity that awakens a desire for education. “ Evan­ gelists blaze trails and carry the torch into absolutely dark places; schools 100 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

follow; then a Christian community usually results.” From these village schools the brighter boys and girls go to the station school and there are trained to be leaders. Even the teachers of these station schools have had to be trained up through the years. For this purpose some bright boys are sent away to high schools. Now a few hill-boys are actually away in college. As hill-boys suffer from heat and malaria in Jorhat, a Christian high school is needed in the Hills. Kohima seems to be the most central and suitable place. Here Dr. and Mrs. S. W . Rivenburg already have a good school of 120 with eight classes. At Impur also it is still necessary for the missionaries to teach in the station school, which averages in at­ tendance from 150 to 170 boys and girls. The small coeducational school at the new Kangpokpi station meets in a grass hut, but what it lacks in equipment it makes up in the personnel of the teachers, both earnest Christian men. The boys are supporting themselves by working four hours daily on the new compound. The boys’ school at the old mission station Ukhrul, with its enrolment of 100, has for many years been almost entirely financed by the Manipur State, though the boys all have to work two hours a day on the compound. The State as yet gives no other help to mission schools. The sixteen village schools are proving a fine evan­ gelizing agency, and Mr. Carvell says that among the Mikirs also his eighteen village teachers do almost as much preaching as his evangelists. The same could without doubt be said of the village teachers in every field in Assam. The Assam Government gives a grant-in-aid for most of the hill fields, and now some of the tribes are willing and able to help support their own teachers. The number of these mission schools is only limited by the number of young men sufficiently educated and consecrated to teach them and funds to pay their salaries. In the plains there are more Government primary schools than in the hills, but the missionaries so far as possible try to supply their Christian communities with Christian schools. The Jorhat Christian schools rejoice in the return of Rev. S. A. D. Boggs and the coming of new missionaries trained in modern educational methods. Mr. Goldsmith, son of one of the oldest Christians in Assam, having the degree M. D. from the Calcutta University, is the prin­ cipal. His marrige last year to one of the best-trained teachers at Now­ gong, while a loss to Nowgong, has enriched Jorhat, for she has become principal of the Government Girls’ School there. As Mr. Blanc has been added to the staff and is to direct the industrial work, probably the erec­ tion of new buildings can be pushed and the needed sanitary arrangements perfected. THE MINISTRY OF HEALING Assam is richer now in medical missionaries than she has ever been before. Doctor Rivenburg at Kohima spends much time in the school­ room, though he dispenses medicine and visits the sick in their homes. Dr. G. G. Crozier is coolie and carpenter boss for the construction of the new compound at Kangpokpi, and at present largely limits his medical work to giving suggestions to his two Garo compounders and visits to the critically THE ASSAM MISSION 101

ill. He was called away three times by Government officers in consulta­ tion. Dr. J. M. Bailey, because of the departure of Rev. and Mrs. W . F. Dowd to America, owing to Mr. Dowd’s serious breakdown, has to be field missionary as well as doctor for the Ao Nagas. Dr. J. Ahlquist has spent much time in language stud3r and care of missionaries at Tura and other stations, and now is superintending the erection of a large plant for the new Girls’ School at Tura. Dr. H. W . Kirby has been hampered by his transfer from Golaghat to Jorhat where as yet he has no equipment, being obliged to inclose a place under his bungalow for his dispensary. Yet these five men and their helpers ministered to at least 25,000 people last year. Doctor Kirby supervises the work of an efficient helper at Golaghat, where, during the past year, buildings consisting of a house for the assistant, a dispensary, and a small hospital have been erected. There and at Kangpokpi lepers are being treated according to the latest method and cures are reported. At Golaghat the dread kala-azar in its worst forms is being cured by intravenous injections. Doctor Bailey and Doctor Rivenburg are with some success combating the recent invasion of tuber­ culosis into their fields. Doctor Kirby under most trying conditions heroically faced a serious epidemic of dysentery among the boys at Jorhat, saving all but two out of 28 cases. Doctor Bailey, besides a growing dis­ pensary work and care of sick schoolboys, had more than 100 in-patients and won the gratitude of the Government official in his serious illness. He now rejoices in the coming of Miss E. M. Stever to help him, and she sees an alluring field of work even though there is no big hospital at Impur. Doctor Ahlquist is enthusiastic over the continued good service of Anondi in a branch dispensary, and during the year permitted him to take a course in a Calcutta medical school which secured for him a certifi­ cate recognized by Government for the practise of medicine. The little Tura hospital ministers to the needs of large numbers all over the hills and surrounding plains by medicines sold to the villagers or sent by parcel post. A similar service is also rendered by other medical missions, and no one knows how many are helped by this form of service. But the time has come for well-equipped hospitals in important centers of Assam. Plans are laid for one for women and children in Gauhati and for general hospitals at Jorhat and at Kangpokpi. The Maharaja of Manipur granted the new site for the mission with the understanding that a medical mis­ sionary would be sent to minister to the hill-tribes. The bracing climate of Kangpokpi offers a delightful home for a sanitarium for the whole State of Manipur. Money ought to be available at once to prepare native helpers in advance for these new hospitals.

FOR THE WOMEN AND CHILDREN The enlarged work now done for women and girls means the strength­ ening of the very foundations as well as beautifying the superstructure of the Assam Mission. Once few Garos could be persuaded to send their daughters to school. Last year at Tura many girls were turned away for 102 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY lack of room after crowding forty into a dormitory built for twenty girls. Miss L. M. Holbrook is proud of the work accomplished by her sixty girls in their new Middle English School, and when their new plant is done Garo girls will come into their awn. After many years of waiting, praying, and hoping for a lady missionary at Impur, Miss E. M. Stevenson has joyfully answered the call of the Ao Naga girls. Twenty-one of the choicest girls in the villages are already housed in one new dormitory. Now the shy Tangkhul Naga girls and the attractive Kuki girls of the hills of Manipur are appealing to the women of America for like help. The splendid big girls’ schools in the plains at Nowgong, Gauhati, and Golaghat have in their dormitories and cottages girls from various hill-tribes as well as from the plains’ peoples. Motherless babies and homeless little girls furnish the practical opportunities for teaching the older girls how to give wise love and care to little ones. A Government officer’s wife at Now­ gong, on a festive occasion for the school, wrote that she “ never saw 200 girls of any color or description behave so well anywhere.” Twenty-six little girls were brought in from five miles away by a village teacher to visit this great school. They were dressed in their best puja clothes and jewelry and caste marks, and they had the time of their lives seeing the sights of the mission compound. Miss E. E. Crisenberry in her splen­ did normal training department is multiplying herself many times, for girls of her training are now teaching little children and older girls at Now­ gong, Gauhati, Golaghat, Tura, and other places. These girls’ schools have the approval of the Government, and they are attracting the attention of high-caste men who wish their daughters to get the benefit. At Now­ gong a hostel especially for Hindu girls has been built by the Government. A t Gauhati so many high-caste children wanted to attend the Satri Bari school that their school bus could not bring them nor could the schoolhouse accommodate them all, and Misses A. M. Geisenhener and M. A. Nichols have had to open a branch school for fifty little children. At Golaghat the leading men came to interview Miss E. E. Vickland and wished to send their daughters to her school, even though they knew they would learn there about the Christian religion. The joys and triumphs of the year have been shadowed at times by difficulties, such as insufficient number of trained teachers, and by unusual epidemics of sickness that have laid heavy burdens on the brave women in charge of these schools. Miss Vickland broke under the strain but rallied and continued her work through the year. Miss F. H. Doe after a long illness has been mar­ velously restored. The women of Assam thank the women of America for their gifts of love, and rejoice in the promise of hospital and Bible school. Just as the love of Christ in the hearts of American women leads them to sacrificial giving for their sisters in darkness, so his love prompted the Garo women to make last year the largest offering yet given to send evangelists to their heathen neighbors. This love sends the Ao N^ga women out in evangel­ istic bands to heathen villages, and prompts Christian women all over Assam to meet together in little companies for prayer and praise. THE BENGAL-ORISSA MISSION Compiled by Rev. P. J. Clark T JE N G A L -0R IS S A has not escaped the general unrest which has swept ^ India during the past year. The name of Gandhi is frequently heard together with the agitation for non-cooperation in all government matters. In one point we should be glad to join hands with Mr. Gandhi, for, as was recently stated in a missionary paper: “ In including the liquor traffic among the items of ‘ non-cooperation,’ Mr. Gandhi has done a shrewd thing. Non-cooperation in the manufacture, sale, and use of alcoholic beverages is for India’s unconditional good. Without respect of race, class, or creed, residents of India can whole-heartedly support any effort on the part of India’s leaders to get rid of the liquor traffic.” Evidence is not wanting that this attitude toward the liquor traffic is not limited to the non-cooperators. Already a proposal for prohibition has been placed before the new Legislative Council of Bihar and Orissa; and those who desire India’s truest good are expressing the hope that her Councilors and Councils will not subordinate moral and social welfare to matters of material and financial gain. The subject of education is also in their hands, and we are thankful that there is a sincere desire for improve­ ment in the matter of elementary education. During the past year there has been only a slight respite from the regime of high prices that prevailed during the war, and with the beginning of 1921 the unsettled conditions of exchange and the consequent absence of imports are sending priccs sky-high. The wonder is how the majority of India’s people manage.

THE WORK OF THE SOCIETY IN BENGAL-ORISSA The Society maintains ten stations in Bengal-Orissa Mission where evangelistic efforts, together with educational, industrial, and medical work are carried on. A review of the field and its activities during the year reveals a very severe shortage of missionaries. “ Were it not for the conviction,” writes one of our missionaries, “ that we are in the place that God intended us to occupy and that it is the greatness of a need that unmistakably constitutes a divine call to mission service, doubtless many long ago would have given up the work as hopeless.” During the year a committee was appointed to prepare a proposal for a forward movement on the part of the Bengal-Orissa churches, and its proposals were accepted by the mission and adopted by the yearly meet­ ing. The survey of the twenty-three churches in our field showed a great need of better organization and a quickening of the spiritual life and general activities of the church. The aim of the forward movement is to build up the spiritual life of the churches. The committee which reported to the Conference stated that “ If as a conference we mean business, we must set apart one of our number, at whatever the cost, to head this 10 3 104 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

movement.” The conference appointed two missionaries, one at each end of the field to cooperate with the India committees appointed by the yearly meeting. Missionaries of Bengal-Orissa have contributed Rs. 7,420 toward the Hundred Million Dollar Fund of the New World Movement of Northern Baptists. EVANGELISTIC EFFORTS The evangelistic efforts of the mission are now controlled by an evan­ gelistic board, made up of local workers, the missionaries acting merely in an advisory capacity. It is perhaps too early to form an opinion of the probable success of this undertaking. Some missionaries look upon it most favorably and speak in gratifying terms of what is being accom­ plished in their area, while others are less enthusiastic. As Rev. M. R. Hartley writes: “ Our problem is largely one of intelligent consecrated leadership. There is an abundance of raw material and much not entirely raw which can be moulded for the glory of God if only there are found enough of those who are willing to take up their cross and follow him.” Another missionary writes: “ Until we as a mission set apart both men and women missionaries, who shall be absolutely free to give themselves to evangelistic effort; until we show our Indian brethren that we our­ selves really consider that this is the first and foremost reason for our presence in India, we cannot expect that they will be other than lethargic, dilatory, and perfunctory in this work which needs holy energy and con­ secrated zeal.” WORK AMONG THE ENGLISH POPULATION The work at Kharagpur under Rev. C. P. Collett has been carried on under the usual difficult conditions that prevail in an Indian railway center, but notwithstanding a very large number of removals of some of the most faithful adherents he reports a gratifying increase at all church sendees, and closes with this optimistic note, “ The spiritual life and in­ terest of the church has quickened, and the coming year seems to promise better things.” The church has met its current expenses, expended Rs. 490 in various benevolences, and paid Rs. 1,200 to the mission toward the pastor’s support. Rev. C. L. Conrad has been in charge of the work at Jamshedpur, which numbers among its cosmopolitan population colonies of two hundred and seventy English and one hundred Americans. Plans have been prepared and approved by the mission and the Board of Man­ agers for the erection of a church building for the English population. During the past year appropriations were made for the erection of a new residence for the missionary at Kharagpur, and also for the Indian pastor’s residence, and it is expected that funds will be'available soon for the erection of a church for the Indian people. Evangelistic services have been held regularly throughout the year although handicapped by the lack of suitable quarters. Rev. Walter Greenwood, who was sent out by the Board during the year, has been designated to Jamshedpur to be asso­ ciated with Mr. Conrad and to supervise the Indian work, Both at THE BENGAL-ORISSA MISSION 105

Kharagpur and Jamshedpur one of the brightest hopes is that touching on the work among the children. This is an important feature in our mission work where helpful influences in child training are so rare.

EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS Only seventy-seven persons out of every thousand in Bengal can read and write, while in Orissa the percentage is slightly less, only sixty-four out of every thousand being considered as literate. The reports for all India indicate a steady progress along educational lines. The total num­ ber of pupils and all kinds of educational students in 1891 was only 3.7 millions. In 1901 it had reached to 4.4, and in 1911, 6.3 millions. Of the total population of school-going age, 17.7 per cent, were in school in 1912 as compared with 14.8 per cent, in 1907. Between 1891 and 1911 the number of students in secondary schools and art colleges doubled and the number of primary schools increased sixty-seven per cent. The influence of Christianity on education is strikingly illustrated by the figures of the provinces of Bihar and Orissa, where the proportion of Indian Christians who are literate is sixty-seven per thousand as com­ pared with five per thousand among their animistic neighbors. It must be remembered, however, that many of the Indian Christians had already passed the school age at the time of their conversion. The proportion who are able to read and write must be much higher amongst those who have been brought up as Christians. The girls’ school at Balasore has recently been raised to the Middle English Standard and is mainly composed of Christian pupils, though nearly twenty Hindu girls, daughters of leaders and officials, are brought into daily contact with Christian ideals. The total enrolment is one hun­ dred and sixty. Miss Amy Coe writes, “ W e are doing much for our Christian children, and the number of graduates from our school who are in teacher-training, Bible, or high schools, is steadily increasing.” Be­ sides this Middle English school, Miss Coe has charge of the Hindu and village girls’ schools. She speaks most encouragingly of the readiness of the Christian women and girl members of the Christian Endeavor So­ cieties to carry the gospel to the women in the villages. The work of the Balasore Boys’ High School has gone on steadily, although the epidemics of sickness, that have been so prevalent in the town of late years, made the work much more difficult. The Bhimpore boys’ school reports steady progress throughout the year. The Santals, an in­ dustrious and ambitious people, are taking readily to education, and our missionaries are greatly encouraged with the success of the work being done among these people. Mr. Oxrieder writes: “ From a school with some eighty students, three years ago, we have now nearly two hundred, and if we had the room we might have had at least one-third as many more. The Deputy Inspector reports, ‘ I find this school one of the best in the Midnapore District.’ ” Mr. Oxrieder has been largely successful in his endeavor to provide competent and Christian teachers 106 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

for these schools so that the balance of the educational influence is de­ cidedly Christian. The Bhimpore girls’ school likewise presents a most encouraging report. It has over eighty pupils, and although a Middle Vernacular school, English has been taught from the third grade up. In fact, the Santal girls are but little behind their brothers in their race for education. Mrs. H. C. Long has done excellent service in superintending the Middle English Girls’ School at Midnapore. The work of the zenana class teachers has also been in charge of Mrs. Long, who is greatly in need of relief, and it is hoped that the Woman’s Society will be able to send out one of its missionaries for this important post. The girls’ school at Santipur has been changed from Afiddle Vernacular to Upper Primary, and the girls of this school who show promise are being given scholar­ ships to enable them to continue their studies at the Balasore Middle English Girls’ School. In like manner, the Santipur boys’ school has been made an Upper Primary school.

INDUSTRIAL TRAINING One of the primary aims of the missionary enterprise along with the teaching and preaching of Jesus Christ and the evangelization of the inhabitants is the development of a higher and nobler individual and community life. This can best be brought about by showing the inhab­ itants of the country how to provide better for both their economic and spiritual needs. One of the purposes of our mission work is to enable these untrained and uneducated people to take their proper place as citizens of the world and to enable them to develop higher ideals and better conceptions of their home and community life. For this reason the work of our industrial schools and agricultural missions has come to play an important part in missionary programs throughout the world. In Bengal-Orissa our most pretentious industrial work is that of the Balasore school. In spite of hindrances caused by sickness among the pupils and workers, considerable progress has been made during the past year. The shop has been equipped with up-to-date machinery, making it one of the largest and best-equipped modem institutions to be found in Bihar and Orissa. Mr. V. G. Krause who, as superintendent of the school, has been instrumental in bringing about the present high standards, left during the year for furlough in America, and during his absence the work is being conducted by Mr. Lloyd Eller, who was sent out by the Board last year. After reviewing the work of several missions on his way to the field, Mr. Eller writes concerning the Balasore Industrial School: “ This school is a remarkable example of American efficiency. The best of machinery is being used to its maximum capacity. Fifteen- year-old native boys are seen in the shop handling machinery with mechanics’ ability. The monthly output of furniture averages about Rs. 1,000 to Rs. 1,500, and this could easily be doubled by installing two more machines. To me a good Christian must be ambitious, in­ THE BENGAL-ORISSA MISSION 107

dustrious, and progressive so that his spirituality is in an enviable posi­ tion before the eyes of his people. If our Christians are converted into industrial leaders the big percentage of inhabitants who comprise the working class will follow in their steps. I wish that our American factories could possess the spiritual atmosphere that this school pos­ sesses.” At Bhimpore we have a Tuskegee Institute on a small scale, and here the industrial work means more than the workshop. The mis­ sionary in charge has to plan the work for one hundred and forty boys and eighty girls, five days out of the week. They work two hours every afternoon. The program includes brickmaking, carpentry, roadmaking, ropemaking, and numerous other industries. At Santipur the industrial work, while less conspicuous, is nevertheless being faithfully encouraged. Industrial work is not limited to men and boys alone, for lace and handkerchief making and other useful occupations are taught to the women and girls. In this connection, Dr. Mary W . Bacheler writes: “ W e are hoping that the widows’ home ma3r develop into an industrial home, but we must have a special missionary for this work if we hope to accom­ plish anj-thing. Miss Glad3rs E. Doe at Balasore and Miss Elsie Barnard at Midnapore have charge of classes in lacemaking in addition to their language studies and other duties which have developed upon them owing to the absence of more experienced workers. These occupations are of great assistance to many women whose family income otherwise would be insufficient to meet their needs. Many of the girls are able, from the proceeds of their industrial work, to purchase their own clothing and schoolbooks. MEDICAL WORK Medical mission work does not,lay claim to a large part of our pro­ gram. Notwithstanding this fact, however, over five thousand cases were treated at Bhimpore and over four thousand at Contai in addition to the work of Dr. Mary W . Bacheler at Balasore and other missionaries ?.t their respective stations. In this land where the elements of hygiene are neglected and medical practise carried on by rule-of-thumb methods, where the patient is often prepared to change his doctor and his medicine with every succeeding day, there is ample room and much need for even the simplest medical assistance that we can render. In conclusion we would express our gratitude to God because he has made us fellow workers with him, and gratitude for all the blessings which, in spite of unworthiness, he has showered down on us during the past year. THE SOUTH INDIA MISSION Compiled by Rev. J. S. Woodburne, Ph. D. TMTANY indications remind us that this country is not the land of fifty years ago. Indeed, “ The New India” is not even the India of a decade ago. The march of events is so rapid that we may discern even a. difference between the India of 1919 and that of 1920.

THE POLITICAL SITUATION Nationalization is the movement beside which all others take an inferior place in India today. Gandhi has become the accepted leader of the Extremist Party, and is hailed throughout Hindustan by the honorific “ Mahatma.” His theory is that passive resistance will create such an overwhelming public sentiment that the government will be unable to resist it. On the whole the Madras Presidency and the Deccan in which our work lies have not given any whole-hearted support to the movement. Much interest is centered in the reforms of The Government of India Bill. These give to the people of India a more vital share in the gov­ erning of their own land than they have ever enjoyed before. The bill guarantees full responsible government as rapidly as the people show their capability to undertake it. By the new constitution seventy per cent, of the members of Provincial Legislative Councils are elected by the various electorates.

THE ECONOMIC SITUATION The economic situation continues to be very difficult. In many parts of India the rains were good, but in those parts of our field reporting famine conditions a year ago the rains failed again, so that the distress has increased rather than diminished. On the other hand, in the southern part of the field considerable loss was incurred by the immoderate quantity of rainfall. Ten station reports refer to existing famine conditions, which appear to be most distressing in the Deccan and the Kurnool District. The suffering in some parts of the Deccan is intense because it has been more continuous. Jangaon has experienced the third successive year of famine, while Hanumakonda, Sooriapet, and Nalgonda also tell of a repetition of the hardships of last year. There has been little relief in the epidemic of high prices raging for the past three or four years. The fluctuations of exchange cause some variations in the price of im­ ported goods, but domestic goods keep steadily high. Quite frequently one hears of families who have been reduced to one meal per day. Economic conditions such as these exert their influence on m issionary work in a multitude of ways. Famine funds have been used to alleviate distress in various wavs, sometimes supplementing the inadequate salaries 108 THE SOUTH INDIA MISSION 109 of mission workers, and sometimes giving employment to starving people. Another marked effect of the high prices is the greatly increased cost of maintenance in the case of all boarding institutions. Strikes among vari­ ous labor groups have frequently delayed the securing of necessary sup­ plies for building, industrial work, and touring. The scarcity of both water and fodder has created difficulties for the touring missionary. Moreover, the conditions unavoidably bear upon the minds of the people, affecting their general attitude toward the missionary and his message. It is very difficult for people suffering from gnawing hunger to concen­ trate their minds on their spiritual needs. A t the same time some are always ready to make a show of piety, if they think there is a possibility of material gain. In contrast it should be said that times of adversity drive men and women in South India as elsewhere to seek for more-than- human help. The additions to our churches in 1919, a year of famine conditions in many fields, were 3,525 as against 1,709 the previous year. This year again, another year of economic distress, has brought an en­ couraging harvest, over 3,300 having been added to the churches.

THE RELIGIOUS SITUATION It is more difficult to delineate the currents of religious life and thought. Both political and economic conditions are exerting their in­ fluence on religion. There is increasing activity in the historical study of the religious literature of the country. Many publishing houses are being established all over India to turn out translations of the older literature in English and in the vernaculars, and to give publicity to the tenets of the more modern movements. All of this is making it more feasible for the missionary to understand the religious thought of the people to whom he seeks to minister. Much of this literature attempts to present apologetics for the Indian religions in view of the increasing emphasis on ethics. This is explicable only by the influence of Christian culture and the preaching of the gospel.

THE MISSIONARY FORCE The year 1920 has to record the old story of depleted forces, although there was some relief as the year drew to a close. Rev. T. Wathne continued at Kurnool and Gadval and during the first half of the year had the management of the Coles Memorial High School. Dr. J. A. Curtis assumed the burdens at Donakonda, Podili, and Kanigiri until Rev. T. V. Witter returned in December and relieved him of Podili. Rev. G. H. Brock relieved him of Kanigiri. Rev. L. C. Smith has had charge of the Nellore field and of the Coles-Ackerman High School. He also tried to introduce the industrial work in connection with the school, and has served as secretary of the Reference Committee. Rev. Rutherford has continued to have the oversight of Hanumakonda and Madira, while Rev. Davis has had Atmakur as well as Allur. Rev. 110 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

Dussman has had another year of the Vinukonda-Gurzalla combination. Since Doctor and Mrs. Stait went on furlough, Rev. S. D. Bawden has had to look after Udayagiri in addition to his own industrial work among the Erukalas. Rev. F. C. Marquiss has stood at the helm alone in Madras with work enough for three men. In spite of these overwhelming burdens, a spirit of optimism and buoyant faith has prevailed. The abounding satisfaction in service with our Master for India enables us to master disappointment, and endure what would seem otherwise un­ endurable. Twenty-five missionary families and twenty-three women have been on the field throughout the year. Four families and three single women went home for furlough while three families, one man, and three single women returned. Two missionary families are proceeding on furlough in 1921. Mr. Wathne is transferred to Cumbum during the absence of Rev. John Newcomb, and the care of the Kumool field falls to Rev. B. J. Rockwood who returned in December. Mr. Bawden's work at Kavali is in charge of Rev. A. T. Fishman. In July Rev. and Mrs. W . J. Longley were transferred to the seminary at Ramapatnam. The coming of the writer in June made it possible for Kumool to have a missionary principal for the first time since Mr. Rockwood’s departure in 1918. Mr. Marquiss has undertaken the work of the treasury in addi­ tion to other business matters and has had to help in the Day Memorial and other student activities. At the end of the year there were 29 men and 28 wives who may be expected to remain throughout the new year, a little improvement in the situation. Yet this is still 23 families behind the requirements of the mission as outlined in last year’s survey of needs. O f single women there were 25 on the field who, it is expected, will remain throughout 1921, barely half of the 49 which the survey estimated as necessary to do the work effectively.

THE INDIAN CHURCH In these days of growing national idealism, no subject is of greater significance to the Christianizing of India than the state of the Indian Church. If India is to be Christianized, it must be accomplished by In­ dians. Everything possible must be done to build up a strong indige­ nous Christian community from which will be irradiated the redemptive power and spirit of Christianity. The movement toward nationalism has already resulted in a greatly increased consciousness of respon­ sibility and a growing desire on the part of the Indian churches to man­ age their own affairs without so much dependence on the missionary. If India is to be Christianized by Indians, ,the primary task of the mis­ sionary is the training of Indians for that task. The evangelistic work therefore becomes increasingly the direct responsibility of the Indian workers. One of the best experiments in self-government is seen in the conduct of the Kandukur field by the Home Mission Society of the Telugu Convention. The Christians are feeling the responsibility of the THE SOUTH INDIA MISSION 111 work and at least twenty are doing voluntary service, witnessing for Christ, teaching Sunday schools, and helping in various other ways. Many of these workers come to the monthly meetings at their own expense. The non-Christian people of Kandukur have also cooperated. If it is not due to faith in the religion of Jesus Christ, it is at least due to patriotism. They feel glad that their Christian friends are having self-government, although it is of the religious form. Progress in self-government should go along with progress in self­ maintenance and self-propagation. This spirit is growing in strength throughout the mission. On the Allur field the Singupetta church has raised a fund and has begun collecting materials for a new chapel. In Cumbum the church leaders have banded themselves together for the purposes of better discipline and a more spiritual church. Donakonda reports seventy-two groups of volunteers united for evangelistic effort. Jangaon and Nalgonda tell of many volunteers who took part in special evangelistic efforts. Kavali reports 2,000 rupees subscribed as a beginning toward the raising of funds for a new house of worship. The Day Memorial Church in Madras raised the funds for a brick building in Waddapalem, a very poor district of the city, for school and evangelistic purposes, and is undertaking its entire maintenance. The Mahbubnagar Church has appointed an educational committee, which is undertaking the responsibility for the educational work of the entire field. In Podili there has been , for years a committee to advise the missionary regarding evangelism and education, but beginning with December the missionary assumed the advisory function while the committee shouldered the final responsibility. The Layman’s movement in the Secunderabad field continues to be a strong working force. The new reforms are helping to induce a consciousness of citizenship among our Indian Christians. The franchise has been extended to those who pay a certain amount of taxes to the government. Rev. J. M. Baker reports that on the Ongole field the census roll indicates a Christian population of 25,000 who own between fifteen and twenty thousand acres out of an area of 1,000 square miles. Among these he discovered about two hundred men entitled to vote. If the proportion of voters to Christian population in Ongole holds throughout the mission, there should be between 600 and 700 voters among our Telugu Baptists. It is an added responsibility to the missionary that these men be so trained that they may exercise their rights for the uplift of India and the good name of the Christian community. The Christians are also developing a com­ munity consciousness through the cooperative movement. The govern­ ment is encouraging the people to establish cooperative stores, societies, and banks. Thus our Christian people are learning lessons in thrift and economy and business experience. At Donakonda three cooperative credit societies are maintained, and the workers have gained familiarity with the principles and rules of cooperative credit. At Mahbubnagar the newly organized society has enabled the Christians to get awa3r from the ruinous rates of interest charged by the bazaar money-lenders. At Podili 112 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

the movement is being advanced very greatly by the assistance of the Christian Central Bank in Madras, of which our Swiss Baptist brother, Mr. J. E. Froelich, is the Honorary Secretary.

THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION Theological education has made larger progress during 1920 than for many years. In July the union in theological education with the Canadian Baptist Mission became effective. The project had been discussed for many years, and many will agree with Dr. David Downie that this was the most significant event of 1920 for the mission historian to record. In this activity the two missions can unite with economy and mutual profit, and at the same time perform a better service for the Telugu Christian leadership. Rev. and Mrs. J. B. McLaurin and Mr. Bhanu- murthi have been with us during the latter part of the year, bringing life and strength and encouragement with them. Seven men with their wives and five others from the Canadian Mission have been in attendance as students. The appointment of Mr. and Mrs. Longley to the staff of the institution has already been mentioned. With the coming of Mrs. McLaurin and Mrs. Longley the seminary is able to provide a greatly enriched course for women students. The men have had practical ex­ perience in evangelistic preaching, and the Home Mission secretary, Mr. Abraham, speaks with appreciation of a tour which they made on the Kandukur field. The student body has numbered 56, and in April 18 men and 5 women were graduated and sent to various mission fields for active service.

HIGHER EDUCATION

The mission is not able to report any large number of students taking college courses. Miss Sarber, our representative on the faculty of the Women’s Christian College, reports another very successful year. The mission will be represented on the staff of the Madras Christian College for the first time with the beginning of the next college year, the writer having been designated to the Philosophy Department of the institution. The mission has contributed to the college for several years, and ought to receive more from its investment with its own representative in the institution. With a student hostel of our own, and our own representa­ tive on the faculty, the next desideratum is to have a group of worthy young Indians from our mission taking the college course. Dr. M. Kinnaman, our representative on the faculty of the Women’s Medical College, Vellore, resigned at the end of the 1919-1920 school year. W e were fortunate, however, in securing representation in the persons of the Doctors Findlay. Miss J. Findlay has already served one term in India in the Canadian Mission as principal of the Timpany Memo­ rial School, and when she went on furlough she and her sister, Miss E. Findlay, studied medicine. They came out to India in August and THE SOUTH INDIA MISSION 113 went to work in Vellore. Doctor J. Findlay is to go to the Canadian Mission in March to take charge of the Vuyvuru (Kistna) hospital during the furlough of Dr. G. Hulet, after which we hope she may return to Vellore. Two graduates of Nellore Girls’ High School entered the school in 1920, and we are sure others will enter from year to year.

THE HIGH SCHOOLS Encouraging reports come from the four high schools of the mission. The Conference which met at Ongole in 1919 voted that these schools be kept “ to such proportions as to allow making them thoroughly Chris­ tian both in staff and spirit; and that as a general principle, aside from the mission’s primary obligation to the Christian community, the less favored of the population being in greater need of the benefits of education than the more favored classes, students be enrolled in limited numbers in the following order: Christians, Panchamas, Mohammedans, Sudras, higher castes, and Brahmans.” A beginning has been made in regard to making the policy effective during the year under review. Principal F. E. Rowland, of Ongole, reports an increase in the number of Christians and the addition of three Christians to the teaching staff! The number of Christian boys in the boarding department has increased from seventy to eighty. At Nellore a reduction from 732 in 1919 to 550 in 1920 in the number of students in the Coles-Ackerman Memorial School is reported. Two Christian graduates have been added to the staff. In the Coles Memorial School at Kurnool ten out of the seven­ teen members on the staff are Christians. There has been also an increase in the number of Christian students, 102 out of 392 being Christians. Boy Scout craft has been introduced into three high schools. With its emphasis on the dignity of labor and on the highest type of moral life this activity is playing a vital part in the unfolding of character. In athletics the high-school boys have all done well during the year. For the fifth successive year the Coles-Memorial boys of Kurnool have captured the championship of the district, winning the Pentland Shield, President’s Cup, and the Hockey Cup. The Girls’ High School at Nellore reports a year of progress. O f last year’s gradu­ ates, one entered The Women’s Christian College in Madras and two the Union Women’s Medical College at Vellore. The school at Kavali under Miss Bullard’s management, with an attendance of over 300, is doing fine missionary work among the children of the Erukala criminal settlement. The government has made school attendance compulsory for all children between the ages of six and fifteen, and those of school age in Kavali are all kept in the boarding depart­ ment. Separation from parents will make possible the rearing of these children so that they will not be acquainted with the temptations to which their parents have so frequently fallen a prey. The government con­ tributes about 1,200 rupees per month for the maintenance of this valuable work. 114 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

TRAINING SCHOOLS The two normal training-schools at Nellore and Ongole are growing in usefulness and efficiency. In the former training in kindergarten work and instruction in “ First Aid ” have been enlarged and improved and an elementary course in History of Education added. In the latter, a Normal Course for Christian Workers, which includes instruction in the Bible, Principles of Teaching, First Principles of Christianity, Practical Missionary Lessons, and a Hygiene course from the teacher’s standpoint, has been introduced. Before the diploma is granted the students must also have a practical knowledge of sewing, cooking, and of aids to children’s work. The faculty for this course includes, besides the regular teachers, the pastor and his wife, Mrs. Stenger, and Miss Johnson. The Preston Institute, which it is hoped will become the training- school for the Deccan stations, has made a beginning. Mr. Rutherford is having his troubles trying to secure a site on which to erect the necessary building; first, because of the red tape of officialdom, and secondly, because a new railway line has been surveyed which cuts through the sites originally selected. The Institute with its fourteen students has been compelled to resort to the verandas of the missionary's bungalow as a temporary measure. The Bapatla Training School has had to get along without a head master for another year. This speaks for the additional burden on the shoulders of the missionary, and has put touring out of the question. There should be one missionary for each task, the school and the field. Each class has had its full quota of forty students. Mr. Curtis feels that the classes are too full to allow the students to get the greatest benefit from their training and hopes for a smaller entering class this next year. This would give each student more opportunities for prac­ tical work. The Bible continues to have an important place in the curriculum of the school. In the Bible classes sometimes the Hindu stu­ dents show a greater interest and make better recitations than the Christian students; occasionally they have reproved the Christian students for not showing a greater interest in the teachings of their own religion.

BOARDING-SCHOOLS The boarding-schools of the mission are of various types and are main­ tained in connection with the Seminary, the high schools, and the train- ing-schools, as well as some secondary and elementary schools. These boarding homes are among the most valuable assets of our mission. Here the students are separated from much of the pernicious atmosphere of village life for periods sufficiently long to instil in them habits of decency, cleanliness, sanitation, and regularity from which they will not wish to part. The boarding-school is a real attempt to teach those who come, some fof the social implications of Christianity, as well as to nourish the personal devotion of the individuals within the group. The continu­ THE SOUTH INDIA MISSION 115

ous mounting of prices has given the managers of all boarding-schools cause for anxiety, in several cases the unavoidable result being a de­ crease in the number of children to be admitted.

ELEMENTARY EDUCATION Elementary education is practically coterminous with village schools, and is recognized as the crux of the educational problem in India. Reports of village-school activity in our mission are somewhat dis­ heartening, owing to the unprecedented distress caused by the prevailing economic conditions. From more than one field comes the report of schools decreasing in numbers because the famine conditions have com­ pelled parents to take their children out of school and put them into the service of Hindu farmers. This is particularly true of the schools in the Deccan, and in the more northerly fields of the Madras Presidency. In other places, such as Gadval, there seems to be an utter lack of in­ terest on the part of the people which makes the maintenance of schools a continual anxiety. It is not a little difficult to inspire enthusiasm for the educational possibilities of their children in illiterate folks who scarcely know what it means from one end of the year to the other to have a square meal. Even in better parts of the field, such as Kavali, the problem of child labor tells disastrously against the success of the vil­ lage school. All of us eagerly anticipate the day when the government will meet India’s tremendous educational problem with an adequate and efficient public-school system. In the judgment of some missionaries the faster we, as a mission, can withdraw from the active management of village schools, and either hand them over to the government or to the Indian Christians as citizens to manage themselves, the better it will be for all concerned. Others feel that the present system has not been sufficiently freed from corruption and caste prejudice in subordinate educational officials, so that it would be doing our Christians an injustice to hand them over to the tender mercies of the existing system. In the Markapur field fifty-nine village schools are not under the management of the missionary and'receive no mission grant or aid. They are fairly ef­ ficient, and maintain a high standard as compared with other neigh­ boring fields.

INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION Industrial work as a mission enterprise is one of the most vital elements in this country where the age-long social system has instilled into certain groups the idea that labor is undignified, and that the accident of birth should settle the question of vocation. These factors together with a powerful sense of mutual distrust have prevented India from keeping pace with the rest of the world in industrial expansion, and at the same time tended to perpetuate the existing extremes, the riches 116 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY of the rich and the poverty of the poor. Some castes and tribes have discovered that it is comparatively easier to make a livelihood by crim­ inal habits than by honest industry. The very existence of these peoples demands industrial education. In the resolution adopted by the Conference at Ongole in regard to the future educational policy of the mission a second item was to the effect that courses of study in our boys’ high schools should be so shaped as to impart to all students, without distinction, vocational as well as literary instruction, irrespective of the question of grants-in-aid for the support of these schools. In accordance with this policy industrial departments have been opened in Ongole and Nellore. A similar department is to be opened in connection with the school in Kurnool. Mr. Smith reports that at Nellore work in the fields have been in progress for one full year. Splendid crops of chillies, small grains, rice, and honey sorghum from America have been raised, and the seeds of a sturdy character have begun to take root in the students. In the Preston Institute at Hanu- makonda the students spent two vacation months in the making of bricks for new buildings to be erected. Carpentry has also been an industry, and much Indian furniture has been repaired. Doctor Curtis tells of the digging of a pond for agricultural purposes by the boys of the Donakonda station school. Mr. Penner reports work in carpentry and blacksmithing which he has linked with the work of the station school in Jangaon. Miss Failing has begun some experimental work in gardening in con­ nection with the girls’ schools in Ongole, and hopes to initiate some far- reaching enterprises in the future. In the Secunderabad boarding-school gardening and sewing were carried on, but dry weather prevented success­ ful gardening here and at the Coles Memorial High School in Kurnool. The outstanding industrial work of the mission is at Kavali, conducted in association with the government for the criminal tribe, the Erukalas. This is under the management of Mr. Bawden, with Miss Bullard in charge of the incomplete secondary school. Mr. Fishman has charge during Mr. Bawden’s absence on furlough. The aim of the government in supporting this enterprise is the conversion of moral delinquents into Christian characters. Industrial education is at once a means and a part of the process employed in attaining the aims in view. In the set­ tlements, the education of children between six and fifteen is compulsory, and the majority of them are compelled to live apart from their parents in the boarding home. Miss Bullard very pertinently remarks that “ one has to work the brain at a pretty good rate to think up ways and means of keeping 350 boys and girls busy. Gardening, weaving, aluminum work, various coolie works have all claimed some time and attention.” The Erukala settlement was opened at Kavali in 1912 by Mr. Bullard with about 100 people. At the end of 1920 Mr. Bawden reports that in three settlements (Kavali, Bitragunta, and Allur) there was a total of 1,980 on the rolls, though 353 were in jail or had absconded. It is very true, as Air. Bawden says, that “ bald statistics do not. show the daily task of keeping five hundred adult criminals busy so that they may forget to be THE SOUTH INDIA MISSION 117 thieves.” Yet much progress has been made. One hundred and fifty have been baptized from the settlement since it was opened in 1912, “ but the leaven is throughout the settlement and larger fruits are bound to come.” The Allur and Bitragunta settlements are composed of families whose reformation seems sufficiently certain to warrant their being trusted without the close supervision exercised at Kavali. In Allur there were 154 and in Bitragunta 420 at the end of the year, and the manager gives the fine testimony that they have had very few disappointments as a result of misplaced confidence. The land in these settlements “ is as­ signed to the individuals and is their land, and it is hoped in due course of time to be able to cancel their registration under the Criminal Tribes Act, and set them free from the restrictions of settlement life, and thus establish them on the land as independent cultivators and taxpayers, in­ stead of parasites on the body politic.”

THE CLOUGH MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, ONGOLE Dr. J. W . Stenger returned from furlough in January and threw him­ self whole-heartedly into the double work of builder and physician. Concerning the former, he reports: “ The year 1920 has seen marked progress in the building of The Clough Memorial Hospital. Twelve buildings that were not yet begun at the first of the year are now well along, three of them being practically completed. The Colgate Ward was first occupied by our veteran missionaries, Dr. and Mrs. David Downie, in December. All of those who have tried building even one bungalow in India know that it takes a large amount of one’s time, energy, and patience. W e have been building a two-story addition to this small bungalow in which we have been camping this year, and besides have had from twelve to fifteen other buildings, large and small, going up at the same time. The beautiful Tripp Maternity Block, the Assistant Surgeon’s Quarters, and the Men’s Isolation Ward should be ready for use by the first of February. W e are now putting on the roof of the Main Building, which is to contain the offices, medical wards, Mill’s Chil­ dren’s Ward, and the Edmand’s Private Rooms for Women. The roof­ ing of the Dunwoody Operation Block is also in progress, and the Surgical Wards and Nurses’ Quarters will soon be ready for roofing. Work is progressing nicely on all the other buildings also. The high prices of teak and many other building materials has made it very dif­ ficult for us to build within the original estimates made in 1914. W e have consequently had to build without letting contracts, and constant personal supervision of all the work has been necessary. This has taken most of the time of Mr. Baker, except when he has been on tour, practically all of my time during the year, and a considerable part of Miss Johnson’s and Doctor Manley’s time also. Between us we have kept both the building work and medical work going all the year without closing up during the vacation time.” In spite of the necessity of spend­ ing so much time in superintending building operations, our Ongole 118 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY medical missionaries were able to accomplish an astonishingly large amount of medical work, 5,550 patients having received 16,588 treatments. Of this number 232 were in-patient’s who have had to be accommodated in the dispensary and rest-houses while awaiting the completion of the other buildings.

THE NELLORE HOSPITAL It would not be inappropriate to describe the work of the Nellore hospital in the same language as was used by Mrs. Timpany in the report for 1919, viz., as a year of “ trials and triumphs.” Neither Doctor Degenring nor Doctor Benjamin were in good health at the beginning of the year, and after returning from the hills Doctor Degenring had to proceed home for furlough. Miss Myra Smith left in February so that there was no Superintendent of Nurses until Miss Wagner came from Ramapatnam in July. At the beginning of the year there were no medical assistants. “ But,” says Doctor Benjamin, “ in Alarch we were cheered by the return to us of Miss Y. Nandamma, L. M. P., and in July Miss T. H. Kanthamma, who had just finished her medical course in Ludhiana. These two Indian Christian young ladies have been of great assistance in the work. A steady stream of patients has passed through the hospital. In all departments more have been cared for than ever before. The wards have been crowded nearly the whole 3rear, and during the busjr months, had we twice the number of beds, I doubt not all would have been occupied.” The statistics are evidence of the large volume of work accomplished and show that 6,868 patients, of whom 1,304 were in-patients, received 28,306 treatments. The doctors performed 215 operations, and 199 maternity cases recen-ed attention. The gift of a set of sterilizers from the women of eastern Pennsylvania made a great addition to the equipment, enabling the doctors to do their work with greater ease and efficiency.

VICTORIA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, HANUMAKONDA The year 1920 has been one of many trials and difficulties for Doctor Timpany in the Hanumakonda hospital. Insufficient water supply and sickness and death among the staff have seriously affected the work. In July Mr. G. Sayanna, a young man trained by Doctor Timpany and in charge'of the branch dispensary at Jangaon, died, and the dispensary there had to be closed. About the same time Mr. K. Lazarus, Doctor Timpany’s head compounder, died. On the other hand, they have been encouraged by the return in June of Miss Minnie Rungiah who had completed the subassistant surgeon’s course at Ludhiana, and who has largely taken over the out-patient and dispensary work among the women. Three of the four nurses were married during the year, and the superin­ tendent, Mrs. Marrett, was away for a long period on account of illness. On that account the wards were opened for only about half the year. THE SOUTH INDIA MISSION 119

Nevertheless during the time the wards were open they were so popular that the number of in-patients was only 27 less than the previous year.

THE ETTA WATERBURY HOSPITAL Mr. Bawden has been in charge of the Udayagiri field since Dr. and Mrs. F. W . Stait left for America at the beginning of the year. In reporting for the medical work, he has the following to say: “ In spite of the fact that the hospital misses the genial presence and skill of Doctor Stait, the work has gone steadily on caring for those who come in need. Mrs. Frances Bai, so well trained by Doctor Stait, has conducted it with surprising success. The records are fifty miles away, hence I cannot now quote from them, but I am glad to characterize the little Indian woman, who has kept the hospital so spick and span, as a clean, careful, conscientious, courteous Christian gentlewoman. It is such as she who give us hope for the day when we can multiply their numbers.”

MAHBUDNAGAR HOSPITAL Air. Longley reports for the Mahbubnagar Hospital for Women and Children: “ The land for the new hospital has been procured and local officials are pressing the missionaries to begin the buildings at once. The need is as great as ever, and the closing of the work temporarily, owing to lack of workers, was a necessity much regretted.”

NALGONDA HOSPITAL At Nalgonda Miss Neufeld has continued to have the care of the hospital. She writes that this year they had an epidemic of measles among the school children. Miss Neufeld very pertinently remarks that “ it seems as if here in India every year some epidemic must come.” She says that the greatest enemy to human health which they have had to combat has been the famine, which is raging in that field for the fourth year. “ So many people come and complain about this and that,” says Miss Neufeld, “ and especially they come with their children, and finalty we find nothing else to be the matter except that they are entirely underfed, and if we want to save them from their sickness we have to feed them up and after a while they go home all right.” She reports 130 in-patients and 19,800 treatments during the year. Rev. C. Unruh is trying to secure a piece of land on which to erect a hospital. Then the next great need is for a fully qualified doctor.

OTHER MEDICAL ACTIVITIES Mr. and Mrs. Hubert report another year of strenuous labor, char­ acterized by the usual joys and sorrows of medical missionary effort. They have found encouragement in the change in attitude of the caste people toward Christianity; in many instances through the medium of 120 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

medical work. During the year 371 in-patients were attended to, and 18,066 treatments given. It is no wonder that Mrs. Hubert feels so keenly the need for a resident physician. Mr. Newcomb reports another successful year for the Cumbum dis­ pensary. Mr. Robert had over 2,600 treatments, including one very serious case of Grounds from an explosion of fireworks which he cured and got a fee of a hundred rupees for the mission. The Ramapatnam Dispensary work is reported by Miss Wagner and Mrs. Longley, each for half of the year. After Miss Wagner’s transfer to Nellore in July, Doctor Kanthamma visited Ramapatnam once a week to attend the serious cases and conduct the midwifery classes with the fourth-year women. An epidemic of influenza called for special assis­ tance, Doctors Manley and Stenger both helping. The coming of Miss Rorer gives encouragement at the beginning of the work for 1921. Doctor Levering was kept busy with an epidemic of influenza in Secun­ derabad, to which all of the missionaries, Mr. Levering, Doctor Levering, and Miss French were victims. Many of the cases developed into pneu­ monia, including some of the boarding-school girls. Major Baker, in charge of the King Edward Memorial Hospital in the city, was very “kind in treating the missionaries and caring for the pneumonia cases that developed among the boarding girls.

NURSES’ TRAINING SCHOOL Since July Miss Wagner has been in charge of the Nurses’ Training School in Nellore, which reports thirteen nurses and one graduate nurse.

THE MINISTRY OF PREACHING The missionary is an evangelist. If he had no gospel he would cease to be a missionary. At the same time the work has so developed that there are various channels such as the school, the rescue home, the industrial workshop, and the hospital through which the evangelistic work is prosecuted. Notwithstanding these agencies the ministry of preaching will always be necessary. The content of the Christian message is so new, so utterly different in many respects from the many religious messages which are familiar to the people, that it is necessary to tell the story and repeat it, and keep on telling and repeating it, till peradventure some may understand its significance and believe. W e labor in India under the peculiar advantage of dealing with people who are traditionally religious and are always ready to listen to a man with a religious message. It is a reason for devout thanksgiving that we find so little opposition to the preaching of our great message of salvation in this land of hoary systems and religious self-satisfaction. Many of our missionaries rejoice in the reception given by the people of all castes to them and their message. Mr. Penner finds the people on the Jangaon field “ eager to listen to the word of salvation.” Crowds of THE SOUTH INDIA MISSION 121 caste people, men and women, gathered together every night to listen to the preaching when the missionary and his associates were on tout. In the Kandukur field our brethren are finding much encouragement in the attitude of the Sudras who condescend to enter the non-caste quarter and remain for hours listening to the preaching of the gospel. Mr. Unruh enjoyed the most fruitful year in the history of the Nalgonda field. He says that “ the gospel was well received among all classes.” Medical missionaries find that there is often great eagerness among their patients. They are interested, as Doctor Manley shows, to find out the motive for such love as moves our physicians and nurses to treat them so graciously and often gratuitously. And their questionings give the missionary his opportunity to present the gospel. Mrs. Hubert tells of the patients of the women’s ward in Sooriapet hospital making a special request that she permit the Bible-woman to spend more time in their midst to tell them more about God. Doctor Benjamin also tells of the eagerness with which the patients in the Nellore Hospital for Women and Children attend to the messages of the Bible-women. Some splendid work was accomplished by our touring missionaries during the year. Mr. Davis was enabled to cover the entire Allur field two or three times. Doctor Curtis and his Ford were able to do for Donakonda, Kanigiri, and Podili what in the olden days of bullock- carts would have been impossible. Mr. Wathne toured extensively on the Kurnool and Gadval fields, visiting all the important Christian centers, some of them on several occasions. Mr. Silliman spent one hundred and twenty-nine days on tour, visiting and holding services in every one of the one hundred and sixty villages of the Narasaravupet field where there are Christians living. Mr. Smith, in spite of his many other tasks, has covered the Nellore field and visited all the established centers. Mr. Dussman reports one hundred and thirty days given to touring. Others have given a good deal of time and energy to this work but have not reported in statistical form.

THE MINISTRY OF THE AUTOMOBILE All those who have been supplied with motor-cars are enthusiastic about this great addition to their equipment. They are able to accom­ plish much more, doubling or trebling their usefulness, and doing what under the old conditions would have been out of the question. At the same time the missionary does not suffer from the utter fatigue of the slower methods of travel. His service to the people is greatly enhanced, and his own health preserved. It would be hard to secure a better mis­ sionary investment in the way of equipment.

SUNDAY SCHOOLS The Sunday-school work continues to be one of the most important evangelizing agencies in the Mission. The great advance in religious 122 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

education within the past few years is being appreciated. Already some of the more practical results of this progress, such as the introduction of training-classes, cradle roll departments, and graded lessons, are being used successfully. The time is approaching when the Mission must have a Director of Religious Education. Concerning the work of the year, Hanumakonda makes the following encouraging report: “ The efforts of Mr. Rutherford and his staff in Sunday-school work were rewarded when the delegates to the Telugu Convention came home joyfully, and with proper pride, bearing the Sunday-school shield which is awarded by the India Sunday School Union to the best Sunday school in our mission. At the time of the Sunday-school rally, twenty members of the Sunday school were bap­ tized. Our Sunday school offerings were the highest per capita of any schools reported in the shield contest.” The Evangelistic Forward Movement inaugurated three years ago has had another year of encouraging effort. The Committee now represents the Missionary Conference and the Telugu Baptist Convention. These campaigns are having a wholesome influence on the Christian community by increasing the number participating in evangelistic activity, and by improving the standard of spiritual life, as well as being great occasions for bringing the gospel to the non-Christians. Although the statistics received were incomplete, the committee reports 11 fields with 161 volun­ teer groups and 1,077 volunteers engaged in the campaign, as well as 316 prayer groups. These evangelists conducted 1,781 meetings in 724 different villages, having 84,224 hearers. In September Rev. Wheeler Boggess returned from America, and, at the request of both the Conference and the Convention, undertook the work of general evangelist for the whole field. He was able to be present at the Telugu Baptist Convention which met at Bapatla in October. He requested the convention “ to appoint and support a Telugu Christian who could be his partner in evangelistic effort.” At the end of the year Rev. D. Arogiam, B. A., of Madras volunteered for this work and is to join Mr. Boggess in the 1921 campaign. Between the October Convention and December Conference Mr. Boggess visited 22 mission stations, holding conferences with workers, with a view to planning the fourth campaign in such a way as to make it as effective as possible in ministering vitally to actual needs. The utility of this increasing evangelistic effort is seen in its bearing upon the life of the Christian community and its impression on the non- Christian community. The deeper and the more abiding that consciousness becomes, the more effectual will be the redemptive ministry of the Chris­ tian church to Indian life, both individual and social. The impression made by the evangelistic campaign on the non-Christian community is shown in that during the past two years, over 6,800 people have been baptized on profession of their faith in Jesus. Hundreds more might be baptized and admitted into church fellowship if there were pastors to shepherd them. Nevertheless it is fruitless to attempt to measure THE SOUTH INDIA MISSION 123

religious progress in terms of statistics. The higher spiritual values are incapable of mathematical tabulation, and the influence of Christianity is to be seen not only in the conversions of individuals, but also in the transformation of social customs and the elevation of moral ideals. W e who are within the Christian church are heartened by large accessions to our numbers. But let us never permit our statistical tables to be the measure of our faith. CONCLUSION India is a land seething with new life and energy. There is increasing dissatisfaction with the time-worn social stratification, and a growing demand for a democracy of privilege. There is a progressive appreciation of social-relief agencies, such as the rescue home, the hospital and dis­ pensary, the criminal settlement, and the industrial school. There is a more and more persistent demand for a unity of the people, nothing short of national, and before which all differences ought to subside. Whence has come the leaven that is pervading the body politic, disturbing it with such restless ideals? Human brotherhood is not a Hindu postu­ late. It is rank heresy to orthodox Hinduism. Divine fatherhood is not an Islamic doctrine. The Koran does not once use the epithet “ father ” in referring to God. Buddha was more human, and his moral teaching more social; but Buddhism in conquering was conquered, and has failed as a social dynamic to save India from herself. The culture that India is demanding today owes its spirit and power to Christianity. The political and social ideals that are winning their way could only be born in a Christian environment. Shall we not find food for our faith in the triumph of Christian social ideals? So we continue each doing his daily task in the hope that some day the prophetic words of Iveshub Chunder Sen may find fulfilment, “ It is Christ who rules India, and not the British Government.” THE EAST CHINA MISSION

Compiled by J. T. Proctor, D. D.

' T THE political atmosphere in China during the entire year has been very depressing. Seemingly very little, if any, progress has been made along any line. A show of opposition to the central government is kept up in Canton and in the extreme southwest, but on the whole the people are apathetic and indifferent. The organization of the consortium has attracted much attention, but it must be confessed that the repre­ sentatives of the consortium group have met with indifference if not with opposition in China. Even the few activities of the student body in 1919 have been replaced by inactivity if not indifference. Economically, the year has also been unsatisfactory. Violent fluctuations in exchange have practically stopped all but the most necessary imports and exports. It is reasonable to suppose that in other parts, as well as in East China, the political and economic situation has been reflected, in mission activities. While it cannot be said that any outstanding progress has been made in the work of the East China mission or of the Chinese Association connected with the mission during the year, it is equally untrue that we have been marking time. Some progress has been made in every station and in every line of mission activity. The esprit de corps of the Chinese staff, as well as of the missionary staff, is above the average. The whole staff seems confident and hopeful, but as a matter of fact we are not able to register as much progress as has been registered in other years. Perhaps special attention should be called to progress along three lines. For several years plans have been developing for the provision of more adequate supervision of our schools. W e are spending $148,849 for schools below college grade and including salaries of missionaries, field appropriation, and fees collected on the field. If the work of the colleges and our share in the university is included, the total is $270,000.77. W e find that by an overhead expense of less than two per cent, of this total we can employ a full-time director of schools and a full-time asso­ ciate director. In the expenditure of this insignificantly small percentage we have every reason to believe that in the course of a few years we can add anywhere from fifteen to thirty per cent, to the actual results from our educational expenditures. During the year 1920 Mr. E. J. Anderson has made a beginning in assuming his responsibilities as director of schools. W e have also been fortunate in securing the services of Mr. Z. Y . Loh as associate director of schools. Mr. Loh graduated from Shanghai college seven years ago. After teaching in the mission one or 124 THE EAST CHINA MISSION 125 two years, he spent nearly three years in the University of Chicago specializing in education. The mission is to be congratulated on securing the services of such a well-trained returned student in a service that should render very large results in the near future. During the year a beginning has been made in coeducation in the Shanghai college. It is impossible to predict how rapid the progress will be along this line, but from the interest already created it is reasonable to suppose that in a very few years there may, easily result a large development in the education of Chinese women. Considerable progress has been made in student activities, especially during the summer vacations along social service lines. This movement seems to be general in all missions and even in many government schools. Daily vacation Bible schools were conducted in all of our main stations and in a number of outstations. In this way a surprising number of students, both boys and girls, have been given experience in practical service in connection with the churches. These vacation Bible schools are bringing various results. The actual service to the boys and girls concerned is considerable, the revelation to the members of the churches of the kinds of Christian activities possible is very important. The students, themselves, are getting a training and an experience which will count wrhen decisions are being made for their life-work, while the Chinese pastors of the churches are getting both a new experience in organization and a new vision of the possibilities of service which is invaluable. NINGPO

Two new families were added to the foreign staff in Ningpo, while one family and one single woman left on furlough. The relatively full staff for the entire year is reflected in the progress which has been reported. One new church has been organized, one minister ordained, and 92 baptisms are reported. These are the outstanding facts of a year of considerable progress in evangelistic work. The Ningpo district execu­ tive committee is doing splendid team-work, and the Chinese staff has never been in better spirits or prepared for more consecrated service. Both boarding-schools in Ningpo have had a record attendance in spite of the fact that the principals of both schools have been away on furlough. A number of baptisms are reported among the students of both schools, and the social ^ervice rendered by the students is most gratifying. Dr. J. S. Grant is rejoicing in the acquisition of Doctor Ting, a recent graduate from the Tsi-nan union medical school. He is also a graduate of the Ningpo boys’ academy, and the staff is to be congratulated upon his return for service after such splendid training. Real progress is reported in the hospital both in the number of patients and in the income from fees. 126 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

SHAOHSING A new church building has been erected in Shaohsing. When it is considered that in over twenty years only four such church buildings have been erected in the mission, the significance of this item of news will be- recognized. The building is the most adequately adapted to modern church activities of any within the mission. The city church has an enterprising Sunday school, and now there are facilities for starting community activities. A well conducted reading-room is already main­ tained, and a beginning is being made in night-schools and in other special service for the community. Two new churches have been organ­ ized in this field. These are the outgrowth of activities begun some years ago from Hangchow as a center when Mr. Bakeman was in charge of the evangelistic work there. Considerable progress has been made in developing the woman’s in­ dustrial school. This school is offering work to women, both Christian and non-Christian. Dolls are being made both for the Shanghai and the American market. The price received for these dolls covers all of the overhead expenses, the expenses for materials, and allows of such wages to the women as proves attractive. Merely a beginning has been made, but considerable interest has been aroused both in Shanghai and in the other stations. Dr. C. H. Barlow left on furlough in the summer, but the services of Doctor Sweet were secured so that the hospital work has not suffered. A small building to be used as a kitchen, laundry, and a dormitory for the hospital has been completed. In many respects the hospital has had the best year in its history. KINHWA During the former part of the j7ear the foreign staff in Kinhwa was greatly depleted. With the return of Miss Stella Relyea and of Dr. and Mrs. C. F. MacKenzie in the early fall, the work is receiving more ade­ quate supervision. The mission has been disappointed in its failure to secure a second missionary family for this neglected station, but efforts are still being made which will doubtless prove successful in the near future. The district executive committee in Kinhwa has made considerable progress in directing the evangelistic work. This activity in the city and in the outstations has not been in better condition for more than ten years. There is still room for great improvement, but such progress as is made is largely due to the energy and planning of the district executive committee composed largely of Chinese. A new evangelist has been located in the important outstation in Lanchi. Miss Relyea reports the girls’ school as in good condition. One of her teachers is absent taking further training in the coeducational department of the Shanghai college. With the return of this teacher it is hoped that substantial progress can be made in increasing both the quality and the length of the course of the girls’ school. THE EAST CHINA MISSION 127

The hospital in Kinhwa has had perhaps the best year in its history. Doctor Chen has been the moving spirit in the district executive com­ mittee referred to above and is a leading member of the executive committee of the provincial association. These other activities have not detracted from his efficiency in the hospital work. He is ably supported by Doctor Liung who has completed his internship and is throwing himself into the work of the hospital.

HUCHOW The foreign staff in Huchow has been somewhat depleted owing to the transfer of Rev. and Mrs. J. V. Latimer. Miss Mary I. Jones has been detained in America owing to her health. Dr. and Mrs. C. D. Leach left in the middle of the year on furlough. The evangelistic work in Huchow seems almost at a standstill. The work in the city church has been most disappointing and the outstation work, while a little more encouraging, hardly measures up to the standard reached a few years ago. This is the only station, with the exception of Kinhwa, where college and seminary graduates have not been used. It is evident that the evangelistic staff must be strengthened by the introduction of some better-trained men. Plans are under way for the improvement of the staff. Both schools in Huchow have had an unusually good year. Mr. E. H. Clayton was able to give his full time to the boys’ boarding-school and the results have been most encouraging. The attendance has almost doubled, and the prospects are good for the addition of three years to the course, making a full middle school. Some progress is also being made in securing a better-trained Chinese staff. The work in the women’s school has been kept up in spite of the absence of Miss Jones. Real progress is being made in attracting the right kind of pupils and in demonstrating the adaptability of the course of study to the need of this class of pupils. This woman’s school is attracting the attention of a large number of people, both Chinese and foreign, without the mis­ sion as well as within. The outstanding feature of the Huchow work is the number and quality of girls’ day-schools. Miss Eva S. Shoemaker, in addition to her boarding-school, is giving enough time to the supervision of these day- schools to secure noteworthy results. Progress is being made in the training of young Chinese women as supervisors of these schools. With such a foundation, it is easy to predict that the boarding-school in a few years will be able to do a far better quality of work than has been possible in the past. During the former part of the year 1920 the union hospital has had three foreign doctors and one foreign nurse. A splendid report is made of the work for the full year. Progress is being made in getting ready for the erection of a hospital building on the new land which is being donated by the local gentry. 128 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

HANGCHOW The foreign staff has been depleted because of furloughs. Mr. and Mrs. Latimer returned during the fall as well as Miss Ellen J. Peterson, leaving only Miss Helen M. Rawlings absent on furlough. Very satisfactory progress has been made in the work of the Wayland Academy church. The pastor has been ordained and a carefully worked out budget for five years has been approved by the church. This church, while self-supporting as to the actual minimum running expenses of the church, is asking the mission to continue to make grants which will be used for various forms of community service using the church plant as a center. Perhaps no church in the mission is making more real progress in community service. Forms of activities are being tried out and experience is being gained which are attracting the attention of the evangelistic workers in all our stations. The second church in Hangchow has also become self-supporting. The activities and progress being made in these two churches amply justify the plans of the mission to concen­ trate on a city-wide program in Hangchow. For years plans have been made to designate a foreign evangelistic worker to give all of his time to the work in one city. With the return of Mr. and Mrs. Latimer these plans are being put into operation. It is significant that such substantial progress is being made in the two organized churches in the city where this intensive city work is to be undertaken. In no place in the mission have the daily vacation Bible schools been more thoroughly tried out or produced more satisfactory results than in Hangchow. Mr. Bau, who was ordained during the year, is generally recognized as one of the leading Christian pastors in the whole city if not in the whole of the province. Mr. Latimer is to be congratulated on having such a capable and promising coworker. Wayland Academy has seemingly quite recovered from the results of the strike in 1919. A splendid Chinese staff has been assembled and is now being organized for careful work. The motto of the school is “ Quality, not quantity.” The school is suffering very seriously from the lack of new buildings which have been promised for several years, but without waiting for the new buildings, very substantial progress is being made. SHANGHAI A year ago it was reported that a returned student from Rochester seminary had been secured to undertake the work in the Shanghai church. This church has been completely reorganized, and is now known as the North Shanghai Baptist Church. Vigorous work has been done since the first of June by the new pastor and the reorganized church com­ mittees. A very successful special campaign for funds was conducted during the year which has enabled the church to meet its expenses with the minimum amount of aid from the mission. A very interesting experi­ ment was made in securing a student from Ginling college for woman’s THE EAST CHINA MISSION 129 work during the summer months. The results of the experiment were most satisfactory, and it is probable that further efforts will be made lo make use of these college girls during summer vacations in the future. Substantial progress has been made in Shanghai Baptist College. An experiment is being made in coeducation. A new dormitory has been completed and is now in use. The student body has reached the 400 enrolment limit, and 42 have been baptized during the year. The foreign staff of the college has been greatly depleted owing to furloughs. In September several members of the foreign staff suffered severely from cholera. Mrs. Westbrook passed away, and at the end of the year it has been found that Mr. and Mrs. Webster will have to return to America to recuperate as a result of the cholera. Real progress is being made in building up a first-class American school. The Baptists have contributed their full share in developing this institution both financially and in the service of its representatives on the local board of managers. At present the principal of the school is Mr. W . W . Bartlett, who has seen service under our board in Rangoon, Burma. The business manager of the school and the home manager are Mr. and Mrs. Beaman, who have been connected with the China missions for about thirty years.

NANKING Northern Baptists are primarily interested in the language school and in the departments of agriculture and forestry in the University of Nan­ king. Both of these departments report a record year. The department of agriculture is attracting attention far and wide. Considerable local support has been secured from business and government sources. Gin- ling College is still waiting for its new plant, but while waiting is making substantial progress. Having no preparatory department, one of the chief problems of the college is to secure pupils with uniform and ade­ quate preparation. It has been found necessary to admit pupils only on examination. With the use of this plan it is believed that far more satisfactory results can be obtained in the near future. THE SOUTH CHINA MISSION Compiled by Rev. A. F. Groesbeck, D. D. TV U R IN G the year 1920 the South China Mission celebrated its sixtieth anniversary and the province enjoyed another revolution.

THE POLITICAL SITUATION

The political situation in the province is a part of the larger movement in the whole country toward State rights. Under the old regime the provinces were governed by viceroys more or less independent of the central government. The establishment of the Republic brought a reac­ tion from this extreme position and placed new emphasis on China as a whole. Things done at Peking are now matters of interest even to far­ away Kwangtung. This last revolution has put in power better men than we had before, and there are already indications that progressive measures are going to be put into operation. The new government, al­ though in desperate straits for funds, at one stroke abolished licensed gambling, which was perhaps its largest single source of income. The present governor^is a man “ without vices.” He made the city of his military quarters in fofaen a “ model city” with wide streets and other improvements, reserving a spot in the center of it for a Y . M. C. A. Before becoming interested in politics he was a typical Chinese scholar with a modern bent of mind. H e is not antiforeign, although he refuses to knuckle down to the representatives of foreign countries just because they have power. He is not actively opposed to Christianity, although he has published his reasons for not accepting it himself. He has especially interested himself in education, and if he can maintain his position we are certain to see great advance along educational lines. He is gathering about him progressive men, many of whom are either Christians or favorably disposed toward Christianity. The present attitude of government is then entirely favorable toward Christianity, and the gentry and educated classes are becoming more friendly every day, very largely through the influence of our schools. Evidence of this is not hard to find. The patronage of our schools by sons of the rich and influential, the standing of our teachers and graduates in their respective communities, and the high respect in which the missionary is held are indubitable testimony.

POLITICAL TURMOIL AND THE GOSPEL

The political turmoil is conducive to thought in China. When all goes well, life is one weary round of drudgery for the poor; for the man of ordinary means, life is an unremitting effort to get on; and for the rich, 130 THE SOUTH CHINA MISSION 131

life has few cares and a great sense of peace. Then comes trouble. The poor man sees his case may be even worse than he had ever imagined. The man of moderately well-to-do circumstances sees the hopes of years vanish in a moment. The rich man trembles with fear, knowing that his wealth is an irresistible attraction both to thieves and officials. So the people get shaken up and are awakened to new thought, new methods, etc. This all tends ultimately to the furtherance of the gospel, for in the midst of all these perplexities, Christianity comes with its message of certainty, of undaunted faith and abounding hope. When immemorial customs and time-honored laws are disregarded, when property and even life itself are defenseless, is it any wonder that men’s minds are attracted by the eternal verities of the gospel?

THE SIXTIETH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION

The sixtieth anniversary celebration, of which mention is made in the General Review of the year, will mark an epoch in the life and develop­ ment of the church. Her vision has been enlarged to a remarkable degree and there has come a new appreciation of Christian teaching concerning service and responsibility. A new spirit of evangelism has become evident, an evangelism that does not have for its sole purpose the winning of individual men to faith in Christ, but an evangelism that refuses to be satisfied until the nation is saved. This new idea of Christianity is one of the striking things in the testimony of students who have become Chris­ tians and of men who are thinking on the subject. It is attractive to the Chinese mind and is in its very self of transforming power. Christianity is thus bringing to the thinking Christian man the ideal of what must actually be brought about through human endeavor and divine power.

THE SWATOW INSTITUTIONAL CHURCH

About fifty years ago when Swatow began to grow a piece of land was secured on the sea-front and a chapel erected. As the years have gone by a large amount of the mud flat in front has been filled in and business houses erected, until this chapel that once stood on the very edge of the city now lies at its heart. Swatow differs from many Chinese cities in that it is entirely a product of modern Chinese trade. The families of business men usually live inland in cities, towns, and villages. The men are at Swatow for business purposes alone. It is a man’s town. It has no ancient history, no temples of renown, or other things to attract the tourists, but its business attracts Chinese young men by the tens of thou­ sands. Three years ago the earthquake destroyed a large number of build­ ings in Swatow and later a fire destroyed the buildings on three sides of the chapel, more than two hundred shops being burned to the ground. When rebuilding was begun the streets were broadened and the new buildings were higher and better constructed. Our little chapel was en­ 132 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY tirely inadequate. If the church was really to minister to the city of Swatow and its peculiar population a new building must be erected in which various sorts of Christian service might be undertaken. With no funds, but impelled by a great need and attracted by a great desire to present to the people a well-rounded Christianity, the mission determined to erect this new edifice. Some funds have been borrowed, a few specifics have been received, funds from the sale of other property have been temporarily used, and the building has gone up, a four-story, concrete, fire-proof structure. The lower floor is given up to a kindergarten and to shops, the rent of which will provide an income toward meeting the expense of the work. The audience-room is on the second floor, the third and fourth floors being used for schools and lecture-rooms. This is said to be the finest building of its kind in China, and perhaps in all the Far East. It is attracting attention all over the country, and being right in the center of Swatow where thousands of visitors pass every day it can­ not but make a deep impression and give an entirely different idea of what Christianity really is. This building stands out not only as an achievement in itself, but also as a new confession of faith and evidence of a new appreciation of the gospel of Christ in all its fulness. The work conducted in this building is wide and varied; the kinder­ garten, boys’ school, girls' schools, night-schools for clerks, evangelistic services every night, lectures on sanitation and various subjects of inter­ est, athletics, business courses, dispensary, reading-room, lantern shows, are planned or are already in operation. The effort to get the business men back of this proposition is meeting with success. The Chinese will put their money into this if they can be made to see that it will benefit them and their friends. This achievement at Swatow, while largely con­ summated through the efforts of Rev. J. Speicher, is something in which the whole mission rejoices. The funds to pay off the debt constitute one of the chief needs of the mission.

EDUCATIONAL WORK Without any doubt the past year in educational work has been the best in the history of the mission. The number of students has been the largest in every department, except in the Theological Seminary, and there the lack of increase has been more than balanced by the better quality of students. Our schools are accomplishing the thing for which they were established, namely, the winning of the sympathy, interest, and affection of the more influential classes. The first-fruits of this movement are already being gathered. Scores of boys in our schools who come from non-Christian families are accepting Christ and uniting with the church, not only without opposition from their parents, but with their full and hearty approval. This is the first step in securing leadership for our churches. Men rising from the lower ranks are tremendously handi­ capped; young men coming from families of standing are more than potential leaders at the start. In fact, they will be leaders in or out of THE SOUTH CHINA MISSION 133 the church, and it rests with us to say which it shall be. These facts are evident to the mission and the illustrations many and striking.

STATION REPORTS Changning is the central station farthest from the port of Swatow.. It lies almost in the center of one of the largest unoccupied regions in China, Southern Kiangsi. The isolation and the needy condition of the people led Dr. C. E. Bousfield to begin the practise of medicine. His skill and kindness were eminently successful in winning the people. Dr. and Mrs. Bousfield have just returned from their furlough. During the year, under the leadership of Rev. E. S. Burket, there have been fifty-eight baptisms, bringing the total membership up to 406. The problem before the medical missionary is to reach the large number of suffering in such a widely scattered population. The educationalist, in addition to the conduct of the school, must find employment for its graduates. The population is almost entirely dependent upon farming, business and manufacturing affording few opportunities for graduates of our schools, and unfortunately many of the graduates, because of sentiment, would not be inclined toward business life. Here vocational training of some sort is more than a mere demand, it is a necessity. The outstanding needs are a hospital, a school building, and residences. Another department of work that should be developed is that for women and girls, without which it is impossible to raise the standard of the people or to develop the best life of the church. Kaying is our principal station amongst the Hakkas, and its work cen­ ters round the girls’ school and the boys’ academy. Only a few years ago the work for girls was begun with a very few pupils; today there are almost a hundred girls in the school, nine of whom are doing high-school work. This is especially notable because of all places Kaying is the one where the burdens of life rest most heavily upon the women. They are the farmers and pack animals; the men give themselves to study and business. Yet this work for women and girls has been so successful and has so far won the sympathy of the people that one of the pressing demands is a community house where various forms of work might be conducted. The Academy is one of the glories of our mission and has a unique history. We have now an academy of 153 boys which has sent its graduates to Changsha, Tsinanfu, and Shanghai, and after graduation from Shanghai College even to America, yet it has never had a cent for equipment, and most of the funds for its conduct have been taken from our reserve fund or provided by the missionaries themselves. As Mr. Whitman writes: “ Educationally we are enthusiastic. God has prospered us, and we are ready to reach out and shake hands with smiling success. W ho cares a^out such little things as deficits? W e are dealing with young human life in its plastic impressionable stage, in the interest of the kingdom of God, and find it immensely worth while.” For seven years work was done at Kaying before the first convert was baptized. The people were Proud and self-sufficient, and despised everything foreign, especially for­ 134 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

eign religion. All doors to hearts and lives and homes were absolutely closed, but with the establishment of our schools the golden key was discovered, and now upon every hand doors for the entrance of the gospe! are wide open. It is especially gratifying that so many of the graduates from the Academy, although they came from non-Christian homes, have gone out as Christian men. Had we not undertaken educational work we would still as a mission be despised and not recognized as worthy of consideration by the people at large. A gift has been made for the erec­ tion of the first building for the academy proper. Sixty-six members have united with the church during the year, a large number of whom came from the 743 students now under instruction in the schools of that station. Hopo is a Hakka station near the border of the Tie-chiu-speaking peo­ ples. The town lies on one of the great highways, and during the past year has suffered greatly from the troops passing to and fro through the place, for troops always commandeer food, and men to cany ammunition and trappings. Both boys’ and girls’ schools have a far-reaching influ­ ence. For years the people of the town and vicinity have had a standing offer before our Society of several thousands of dollars for the opening of medical work. Last year the Society accepted the offer, and Dr. H. W. Newman was sent to Hopo to arrange for the inauguration of the plans which it is hoped will eventuate in the small hospital largely supported by the people themselves. Doctor and Mrs. Zwick have also gone to Hopo, and are studying the language with a view later to having charge of our medical work there. This movement has brought new courage and life to the church and new evidence of appreciation from the people. During the year there were 32 baptisms; 562 pupils are now under instruction. Kityang has been one of the points that the parties have contended fo r during the revolutions and counter-revolutions as controlling the way to Swatow from the landward side. Kityang has had its full share of the anxiety and sorrows of this civil strife. Some striking conversions have occurred during the year, especially at Puning city, where missionaries were once stoned and the leading clan boasted that no converts were ever to be permitted. The moving spirit in this antiforeign feeling was General Pang of a former generation. A sister-in-law of the general himself was baptized last year, creating wide-spread interest and making a deep im­ pression on the hundreds of spectators. A fact of great interest in regard to this station is that by a recent vote of our mission Kityang has been chosen as the place for the location of our central medical plant. For a number of years the Woman’s Board has conducted work for women and children, and recently the General Board has employed a Chinese physician to assist in the men’s ward. But the demand for medical w o r k for men has been growing as the value of the foreign physician’s medicines and skill in surgery have become more appreciated. During the s ix tie t h anniversary celebration at Kityang the city fathers came out en masse and presented a petition for a general medical institution and promised that they would back the movement with funds. The conference recom­ mended that Doctor Newman be designated to Kityang to in a u g u r a t e THE SOUTH CHINA MISSION 135

this general medical work. This will mean much for Kityang and we believe for the whole mission. A neighboring town, inspired by what Hopo and Kityang are doing, is also taking subscriptions and asking that a dispensary or small hospital be opened in their town which would naturally be connected with the Kityang central plant. During the year there have been 74 additions to the church by baptism. There are 1,134 pupils under instruction on this field. Chaochowfu also has grievously suffered from the war of the rival military factions in this part of China. The city has passed under the control of at least three different parties during the year. Each time con­ siderable bloodshed and looting marked the capture of the city, although the major part of both these was prevented in each case by the good offices of the missionaries. The people have been very grateful for this kindness and have striven to express their appreciation in various ways. One cannot but recall conditions in Chaochowfu a few years ago. The people, while not exactly hostile, were so difficult to reach and impress, that after more than twenty years of service we had fewer that 20 members in the church, and these members for the most part belonged to the poor and unfortunate. The life of the people as such was in no sense reached. Now' in the very heart of the city we have a school enrolling 300 boys and girls, and audiences which more than fill the chapel on Sundays. While only eight have been baptized during the past year, the school has certainly opened the way for the building up of a church of Christ that is really serving the community in Christ’s spirit. A few excellent men of character and ability have been baptized. Ungkung has perhaps suffered most from the devastation of war. The Southerners, while not in possession of the city, were encamped there and had their fortifications on one side, while the Northerners were within rifle-shot on the other side. When either side advanced or retreated the city suffered. Since the beginning of 1920 the Ungkung field has been left without any foreign missionary in residence. What supervision the place has had has been given from Chaoyang, sixty miles away. It is a matter of great rejoicing that the dispensary' in charge of Doctor Tang, a Chinese physician, has rendered such efficient service to the sick of the people and the wounded of the armies. He has won for himself and for the mission a most enviable name for kindness and skill. The boys’ boarding-school had continued to grow and develop in spite of the narrow and unsuitable quarters. A new building will be ready for occupancy in March. The government has already given recognition to this school. The work of the Bible-women has been carried on with varying success. Our girls’ boarding-school is temporarily closed, pending the vacating of the old compound by the boys’ school. Two new churches were received into the Association at its last meeting. With surprising wisdom and tact the churches have undertaken to raise in addition to funds for a general evangelist, the support of a general pastor or assistant to the mis­ sionary. They are certainly showing unexpected ability to attend to their own affairs. Nevertheless, the station should not be suffered to go without 136 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY a resident missionary any longer than is absolutely necessary. He is needed to keep, the morale of the preachers and teachers up to the point of effective service. He is needed to give balance and stability in the conduct of work undertaken. His presence adds an influence and dignity to the mission which in the eyes of the non-Christian population are things most desirable. There have been 715 pupils under instruction and 112 baptisms during the year. Chaoyang has been little disturbed by actual fighting, but her sorrows have come from the armies quartered on her territory. The country, as the year is drawing to a close, is in an awful state of lawlessness. Men and children are being seized on every hand, the rich are robbed of their property, and villages looted. In spite of all this the work has prospered as never before. A number of additional schools have been opened, and we expect to open at least six more schools and outstations. Medical work conducted by Doctor Chang, a Chinese physician, has been most commendable. He is winning for himself a great reputation for his work with hookworm patients and surgical cases. There being no other phy­ sician in the city at all trained in surgery, he gets the severe emergency cases. W e have no hospital or dispensary building. One corner of the chapel is partitioned off for in-patients, but most of the time the chapel contains from four to twenty patients. On Sunday those who are able remove their beds until the services are over. On the Sunday imme­ diately following Christmas there were three patients lying in the chapel too ill to be moved. A dispensary building is one of the first needs of Chaoyang. The boarding-school for boys must be enlarged in order to give some normal training and the first-year’s work of an academy course. School work for girls and women must be undertaken in the very near future, and in addition to this, institutional church work of some sort must be started inside the walls of the city if we are really to make an impression on this great population. There were 1,019 pupils under instruction on this field during the year. One hundred and forty-five have joined the church, a number of whom were boys in our school coming from non-Christian families. Kakchieh is a great educational center for the entire mission. Here is undertaken the work of higher education consisting of high-school work for girls, an academy and junior college work for boys, the seminary training for men, and the school for training Bible-women and teachers for the primary girls’ school. The station also conducts primary work for beys and girls, and has its kindergarten and kindergarten training- school. The major part of the work done at this place is for the whole field and not for any single station. About 700 students are in actual residence upon the compound. The class of work in all of these schools is being brought to a higher standard. The academy is acknowledged to be one of the three or four best academies in Kwaagtung province. A junior college course of one year has been introduced, and graduates from the academy are going to Shanghai College and Nanking University in ever-increasing numbers. The girls’ school already has its high-school de­ THE SOUTH CHINA MISSION 137 partment, and is anxiously awaiting the time when the new dormitory and administration building shall be ready for occupancy. The women’s school is the best of its kind in the Far East. With the exception of the semi­ nary and the woman's school, the equipment for these institutions is en­ tirely inadequate. The new dormitory building for the academy is over­ crowded, and there should be a new administration building that would release for dormitory purposes the one now in use. A kindergarten train­ ing-school, whose graduates are so much in demand, is without any building. The girl’s school quarters are entirely inadequate if the high school is to be developed according to the demands. A normal training department has been organized in the academy, but the grammar school as a practise school is poorly housed almost a half mile away. A grammar-school building is one of the crying needs of this station.

THE PAST AND THE FUTURE In thus reviewing the work of the past year in our South China Mission two or three facts stand out prominently. The larger part of the field has been very much disturbed by war and its attending circumstances, but in spite of these things the growth of our churches has increased unin­ terruptedly. The reports from every field emphasize the fact that never before have we been able to secure such a large place in the esteem and confidence of the people. Almost every station also rejoices in a general advance along educational lines; and in many places education has proved to be the method of work that has been the most productive not only in winning the approval of the non-Christian people, but in actually bringing men to confession of Christ. Places that had practically been closed to the gospel and utterly unproductive when the old methods of work were used, have yielded promptly to our educational efforts. Again, almost every one of our stations is inadequately equipped to meet the extraordi­ nary opportunity that is before us today, yet there runs through the reports from every field the ring of confidence in the success of our undertakings; though we do lack equipment and man-power there is no note of dis­ couragement. Things are coming our way as we never imagined possible a few years ago. A sentiment universally voiced in the reports is that never before have non-Christian men of influence and wealth been so kindly disposed toward the Mission and its work. Some large contribu­ tions have been given to education, and even larger gifts are now being promised in support of our medical work. For real growth and develop­ ment, for increase of power on the part of the church and influence on men outside the church, for number of pupils, for real evangelistic zeal, for larger vision of what the church really is and of its responsibilities, for opportunities and real accomplishment, there has never been a year in the history of our Mission like the year 1920. It has been a great year— our greatest year, but the year 1921 is to be far better. For all these things we thank God and take courage. What opportunities for large and use­ ful lives of service lie before young men and women of America would they but come to the kingdom for such a time as this in South China. THE WEST CHINA MISSION Compiled by Rev. Joseph Taylor, D. D. /"^ H IN A has passed another mile-stone and is farther along a road that ^ leads— where? It is always difficult, and at times disconcerting, to make any prognostication concerning the affairs or the future of this land. A country that is slowly drifting into economical, political, and moral bankruptcy is at least attractive because of its very condition. The mis­ sionary is part of the crisis, yea, has helped to precipitate that crisis. It is, therefore, to be expected that missionaries are keenly interested in the present trend of events.

SOCIAL CONDITIONS The famine brought 20,000,000 people face to face with starvation, but the cynical indifference of the government was shown in its failure to put sufficient rolling stock at the service of those who were fighting the famine to enable them to transport food and clothing to the distressed areas. Cholera raged in Chengtu all summer long and people dropped dead in the streets; but this did not prevent the contending parties in the province of Szechuan from plunging the people into a state of war in the fall. There seems to be an utter lack of thought on the part of the authorities for the welfare of the common folk. Added to all this turmoil and suffer­ ing is the new attitude of the students. They want to rid their country of militarism and make mistakes in their method of accomplishing the task. Only last winter the students in Chengtu went out on strike just a week or two before the close of the term, and then scattered to the four corners of the province to spread their propaganda.' So far as the affairs of the Mission are concerned we are able to report progress, even amid conditions that are dire enough practically to stop mission work. W e closed the year under the shadow caused by the death of Mrs. Upcraft. For forty-two years she had lived and worked for the women of China. Wherever she went she took hope and cheer to the women; they learned to love her and to trust her. At the memorial ser­ vice in the church at Chengtu all bore witness to her sterling good quali­ ties of heart and mind. Her going reminds us that the ranks of those pioneers who entered West China in the late eighties and early nineties of the last century are growing wofully thin. They were men and women of heroic mold, or they would never have ventured into this far western section of the country. Their building remains to this day.

THE COMING OF REENFORCEMENTS While we were mourning the loss of this veteran a party of ten new workers was on its way up the Yangtze to cast their lot in with us and 138 THE WEST CHINA MISSION 139

make this province a part of the kingdom of our God. Their arrival at Chengtu and their entrance into the Missionary Training School at the university put new courage into tired workers. The Mission has been so long understaffed, and those remaining have been so burdened, that we seriously considered the question of inviting another Mission to take over the work on the Ningyuen field. That matter was referred to the Board of Managers, and meanwhile the Conference Secretary was in correspon­ dence with the Australian Christian Mission, asking if they could come in and help. They have responded by sending two families to Yunnanfu for the study of the language, preparatory to coming to Hweilichow, an out- station in the Ningyuen district. If that Mission can take over the whole of the Ningyuen territory it will enable our Mission to concentrate our efforts on a smaller section of the province with the hope of carrying out our intensive policy looking toward the training of Chinese Christian leaders. This is the way out for our Mission and it is beginning to produce results. CHINESE LEADERSHIP Any one who could understand the discussions of the Szechuan Baptist Convention, held in Chengtu in January, would agree with the above statement, for the leaders were right there. It is true that they were not numerous, but they were right on the floor of the Convention with minds alert and hearts aglow as they entered into the problems confronting our churches. It simply made one’s heart beat faster when the wife of the principal of our Suifu Senior Primary Boys’ School stepped up to the desk and led the discussion of the topic, “ How Shall W e Choose Our Lead­ ers ? ” Think of it. A woman facing an audience with quiet poise, clear diction, and ordered thought. This thing had never happened be­ fore, and the wonder of it grew when six women followed her in the discussion. It’s time we had a woman’s college in West China. It was very significant that both the Szechuan Baptist Convention and the West China Mission Conference laid stress on the need of young American women to give their time to work among the women in our districts.

THE CARE OF THE CHURCHES Among the churches steady work has been pushed although there have been many interruptions. Mr. Graham had to be escort for both missiona­ ries and students during the troublous days of the fighting; and Mr. Openshaw writes concerning the condition of the people in the Yachow district: “ The condition of the people in the country districts was for the most part lamentable. Opium smoking and traffic was decidedly on the increase, and the people were suffering both from the misrule of the military officials on the one hand and the depredations of bold robber bands on the other.” Mr. Foster writes after half a year’s work on the Kiating field: “ The thing I feel should be done is a systematic cultivation of the members 140 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

we already have, rather than a big campaign for numbers.” The in­ quirers’ class at Hungya had an attendance of forty-seven, and of these thirty-three were baptized. The increase was due largely to an attempt to bring whole families into the church. In Yachow, despite jealousies and suspicion among the members, defi­ nite progress is being made. Mr. Jensen writes: “ I have been putting first emphasis upon the Sunday school. My plan is to get it organized and conducted along thoroughly modern lines and get it to doing effective work in its widest field. W e have the beginnings of a teacher’s training- class, and I think we are beginning to see some signs of enthusiasm among those who are most closely related to the Sunday school. W e hope soon to be using graded lessons.” A t Suifu the church is reaching out along social service lines, and Mr. Graham tells the following story: “ The Y . M. C. A. has raised two hundred dollars for famine relief in East China. W e have given various educa­ tional and religious lectures, the last one being an address by Prof. H. B. Robins, on the subject ‘ What Christianity Means to a Republic.’ We held two large public-health meetings, having each time an attendance of about 500. W e scattered thousands of public-health tracts of seventeen different varieties, and there is reason to believe that because of our propaganda the flies in Suifu were reduced to one-half or one-third their usual number. W e have purchased and disposed of 1,281 rats and 383,081 flies. W e distributed and sold many fly-swatters and several screen cup­ boards. Placards were put out concerning flies and cholera. There are about 630 members, old and young, in our Young Men’s Guild.” From these brief quotations it will be seen that the Baptist churches in West China are alive to the new opportunities before them.

HEALING THE SICK From an excellent report of our medical work, read before our Annual Conference, the following extracts are taken. The report was prepared by Dr. J. C. Humphreys. During the year which has just closed medical work has been car­ ried on in but three centers, and in two of these there has been more or less interruption. In Suifu we have an equipped plant which has housed as many as one hundred patients at one time and has been reported as treating tens of thousands of cases in one year. This plant has been closed during the entire year because of the absence of Dr. C. E. Tompkins on furlough. As we all know, property is gradually being acquired and materials gathered for the erection of a plant suitable for that important center and the amount of work to be done there. During the year three different physicians have been there for short ■ periods: Dr. E. Brethauer for a short time before her departure on furlough, Dr. Anna Rudd during the time she so generously covered the station, and Dr. Josephine Lawney during her stay of a few months. In Kiating we have no medical work; the members of our Mission and THE WEST CHINA MISSION 141

the students in our schools are cared for by Doctor Barter of the Cana­ dian Methodist Mission. W e should express our appreciation to that Mission and Doctor Barter for this important service so willingly ren­ dered. Yachow has an equipped plant, half of the building having been used as residence for the physician and family since its erection. During the past year this plant has seen but five months of dispensary work and two months of limited in-patient work. One cannot hear of the work in Chengtu without having feelings of encouragement; the amount of hospital work done, the care of the for­ eign workers and the students— the best possible service to the work as a whole, the large registration in the medical school, the graduation of a physician from our Mission to go to work, a man costing our Society far less than the estimated thousands per year for the foreign worker, and who can talk to the people with true understanding. Both in Yachow and Chengtu some of the best work done by our doctors has been the careful examination of the students in our schools. W e at least know now the state of health of our students, and it becomes our duty to bring effort to bear for the bettering of their health so that we shall not lose them when they finish their student life and are just entering on careers of usefulness both to the Mission and to their fellow countrymen. Our physicians need to have time given for this work of examination and prevention of disease. Statistics may not loom so large in future reports of medical work in West China, but better results will be secured by concentration on our own missionaries and students. Both the Mission and the Board have cause to rejoice that our first medical graduate, Doctor Yen, goes to help Doctor Tompkins in the work at the Suifu Men’s Hospital.

AMONG THE SCHOOLS In education the West China Baptist Mission certainly has made pro­ gress, although it made a late start. Mr. Openshaw in “ A Retrospect ” of the Mission says that in 1899 we reported two schools with twelve students. The statistician of our Mission reports for the year 1920: total number of schools, 37; total number of pupils in all grades, 2,225. These figures are but an index to the real progress made. In each of our cen­ tral stations we have a boys’ senior primary school, and in all but one the principals of these schools are Chinese trained in mission schools. W e have junior primary schools in a number of our stations, while at Chengtu we have a full course middle school, a union normal school for men, and a union normal school for women. In the University we have faculties of Arts, Science, Education, Religion, Medicine, and Dentistry. And the very hopeful thing about it all is that we have students in all these schools, including the University, in different stages of their course, who expect to go out and work in our churches, schools, and hospitals. During the last decade we have made more progress in the matter of 142 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

education than we did in the preceding twenty-two years of the history of the Mission. As has already been stated, one of our own students was among the first class to graduate in medicine in June, 1920. One of our graduates is now studying in Rochester Theological Seminary. One young man graduates in June, 1921, who hopes to go to Monro Academy to work with Mr. Moncrieff. Recently a graduate nurse returned from Wu­ chang where he had taken the full course and is now working in our Yachow Hospital. Other students are working in the churches, and we hope to be able to ordain some of them in the next few years. It is this small band of Chinese leaders that gives us good grounds for hope that the future of the Baptist churches in the province of Szechuan is assured. Some on whom we have relied have bitterly disappointed us and have fallen into evil ways and gross sins. But it is one sign of the moral vigor of the churches that when such are found out they are dismissed from membership.

THE NEEDS OF THE MISSION Our greatest need is, first, of young American women who will come out to West China and help in shepherding the Chinese women so that they shall become a force for righteousness and purity in the social life of their communities. W e cannot hope to move forward with safety so long as half of the family is unchristian. The women are reluctant to give up their belief in the multitude of gods and demigods whom their forebears have worshiped so long. They frequent the temples and take the chil­ dren with them; they have the children under their keeping in the homes; they have much to say as to the disposal of their daughters in marriage. It is not unusual for our girls to leave school only to become secondary wives or concubines. The crass ignorance of the mothers is ruining the lives of the daughters. W e want the young women of our churches to know this and then to come and help. The next greatest need is more candidates for the Christian ministry. W e are weakest at this point. Only three men came to Chengtu for the Bible Training School last term; two have left. Only two or three men are volunteers for the ministry. W e could establish four or five new churches this coming year if we were sure of men to put into them as pastors. W e need to concentrate on this part of our work in order to bring it up to a par with that of candidates for medicine and education. When we have done that we shall have secured an all-round development of the work of our Mission. THE JAPAN MISSION Compiled by Rev. William Wynd S T A T IO N S , like individuals, are subject to moods. During the past years Japan seems to have been in a bad mood. There was a reason for this. The years of plenty were found to have passed away, and lean years are not conducive to high spirits. The political horizon too was overcast. There was seething discontent in Korea, sporadic troubles on the frontiers between Korea and Manchuria, perplexity regarding a settled Siberian policy, and always in the background the Californian question to brood over and write about. This latter problem has been much to the front in the newspapers. In Japan the number of things lhat can be freely discussed by the press is strictljr limited. They may not, except within a very limited area, discuss Korean affairs, nor write about military expeditions into border lands, nor mention for a certain time the murder of a prominent Korean, but they can without fear of the censor let both tongue and pen take their own free course when they discuss Japanese grievances in California. Some say there is method in this madness of keeping the people worked up over the Californian situation. If America be discredited, democracy also will be discredited, and the day of democracy in the island empire be put off indefinitely. The Californian troubles have been the themes for much inflammatory writing, with the result that among a certain class America has lost for the moment some of her old-time popularity which she gained as the nation which opened Japan, introduced her to the world, and started her on the road to civilization and fame. * Nevertheless, through the religion of Jesus Christ there is a strong bond binding this land to America, and that bond grows stronger year by year as the churches increase in strength and in influence.

PROGRESS IN EDUCATION

This has been a j^ear of progress in every line of Christian activity. It has been noticeable in our educational work. A prominent American woman sent out by our Government to investigate educational conditions in the Orient said that she was convinced that so far as the education of women was concerned, Japan was just beginning its work, the next twenty years is to witness a great development in this line. Fortunately as a denomination we have been making plans for this new development. The Woman’s Society has three fine schools for girls. They have been growing steadily, and this year the growth has necessitated the hastening of our plans for more dormitory accommodation in Sendai, for a much larger site for the Himeji school, and for an enlargement of the school chapel in Kanagawa. 143 144 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

Our Mabie Memorial School for boys has now become a prominent feature in the Yokohama landscape. The principal overjoyed and en­ couraged by the pasi year’s work recently said, “ Our school is in a fair way to be not only the best but the very best in the empire.” And the people of Yokohama, from the way they support the school, seem to agree with the principal. They watch each building as it rises in perfect symmetry with the others, and when each new class is opened they see to it that it shall be opened with its full complement of students. The denomination has undertaken a big task in the education of boys in Yokohama, but it is already bringing in big interest, and it promises to do more for us and our work than we have done for it. Let the Baptists in America support their school and watch its career. In Waseda University, with its ten thousand students, the work done by the denomination has been fruitful beyond our expectation. Taking advantage of the opportunities freely given by the authorities, Dr. H. B. Benninghoff has so organized the Christian work that each year sees it permeating deeper into the life of the University. This year there have been two forward steps of marked importance. The coming of Air. P. W. Zieman in the early summer and his taking up a position as professor of English in the high school department has enabled us to get in touch with and influence a large body of students before they actually begin their university work. The second step has been the securing of a fine site of land adjoining the University, and commencing the work on the Scott Hall, which is to be the center of Baptist work among the students. Plans have also been made for the erection of a new dormitory. The present dormitory has been filled with a band of fine Christian men who have stood behind Doctor Benninghoff and helped him to spread the leaven of Christianity further and further into the University. The little hall in connection with the dormitory has developed into something that looks like a university church. Here the students have gathered in crowds every Sunday morning, and have had the gospel of Christ preached to them in a way that has appealed to them with fruitful results. The large new hall so generously given by Mrs. Scott, and the new dormitory given by the Newton Center Church, both to be erected close to the University, will certainly give us a better chance to cope with the opportunities for educational and evangelistic work which God has so wonderfully opened up for us at Waseda. These are our preparations for larger things at Waseda.

EVANGELISTIC ACTIVITY Turning from the educational to the evangelistic field we also find much to encourage us and stimulate us to prosecute our evangelistic work in a manner worthy of the denomination that has become what it is by the emphasis it has laid on evangelism. During the past year a new plan of work was inaugurated in Japan. The responsibility for bringing men into the kingdom which had hitherto been borne by the THE JAPAN MISSION 145 evangelists, pastors, and missionaries were thrown onto the rank and file of chqrch-members. For a time it looked as if this plan would fail. The Christians were discouraged when they saw no big plans made for special meetings in their churches and meeting-places. They missed the stir to which they had been accustomed, and wondered if this unusual quiet was not a sign of decay and death. But in the end they realized that they were the church and that the responsibility for its growth rested with them. They became interested as they had never been before. They spoke to their friends after the manner of the early Christians who went everywhere telling the good newsr and the result was that before the end of the year, instead of having a few Baptist workers paid by the mission, we had hundreds of workers who were telling out of the abundance of their hearts what great things God in Christ had done for them. One young man in connection with one of my churches, who began to do his bit for the Master in fear and trembling, found out that as he gave to others God gave more to him. After attending church in the morning with as many of his friends as he can induce to go, he now goes home to his village and gathers a hundred children and young people into his home, and gives to them the message he received in church. It has been a distinct gain to the Baptist churches to have Baptist laymen take up and carry on the work of the churches as they have done this year.

PROGRESS IN SELF-SUPPORT With more work done by the laymen it has been encouraging to note that there has been also a great advance in giving for the support of the churches. In its report one of the Osaka churches thanked the mission for all the years it had been cared for and supported, and announced the good news that this year it had reached its majority and would hence­ forth bear its own burdens and try to carry on the work that had hitherto been carried on by the mission. Another of the Osaka churches hopes to follow this good example and assume the support of its work next year. Two of the Tokyo churches and one in the Tohoku have also made such a financial advance that they are within sight of the time when they will cease to be a burden on their parents, the Baptist churches of America. But while there is reason to rejoice over the advance steps that have been taken by some of the churches along financial line?, there are also strong reasons for the mission pushing its evangelistic work as the thing of supreme importance. W e have now six self-supporting churches. W e ought to have six times six within the next fifteen years. All of the schools and every bit of the educational work we have started in Japan will continue to be a burden on the American churches until the day comes when the churches in this land will be strong enough to relieve us of our burdens by assuming the support of these institutions. That day is coming, and it will be hastened if we place our evangelistic work in the forefront and pusn it with our might. 146 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

This year we have a fine company of young men who realize that the call of the present and the hope of the future are in the evangelistic work. Some of them have finished their language course and are ready now to go out and man the fields that have been unmanned for ten years. And we want them to go with the consciousness that the denomination is enthusiastically behind them and that this important work shall not suffer through half-hearted support. I have not got statistics $rom the whole field showing the progress made in evangelistic work during the year, but the report of the Tokyo station alone shows that in this city there were fifty-six baptisms, that the church contributions amounted to the record figure of 5,857 yen, and that there are 1,280 children attending the various Sunday schools through­ out the city. The records from some of the country districts show prog­ ress in the country, so in looking back over the evangelistic work of the year we feel that the progress made is an indication that we have got past the stage when the changing moods of the nation have any marked adverse affect on the growth of the religion of Christ.

JAPANESE LEADERSHIP Christianity has now become indigenous to the country. Perhaps this is to a greater extent due to our policy of fostering Japanese leadership and wherever possible putting more responsibility on the Japanese. A Japanese leader has been at the head of the Mabie Memorial School from the first, and the position it occupies in the city of Yokohama is to a veiy large extent due to his Christian character and his innate ability to handle boys and every situation that has arisen since the school was opened. It would be difficult to indicate just how much progress in Japanese leadership has been made in any given year, and yet, looking over the past years of our work in Japan, one can see that progress has been made. Six Japanese are associated with six foreigners on the most important committee that we have. For two years a Japanese was chair­ man of the committee, and no man could have done the work better. On his resignation at the close of the second year another Japanese was elected by a unanimous vote, and to him the churches look for leadership. A Japanese today leads in the forward movement, and under his able leadership it is a forward movement not in name only but in reality. The churches throughout the empire look to their pastors rather than to the missionaries for leadership, and the progress they have made is an indica­ tion of the kind of leadership they are getting. Responsibility always brings out the best that there is in a true man, and added responsibility is year by year bringing out the best that there is in our Japanese workers.

THE NEEDS OF JAPAN Let me conclude with a brief statement of our needs. W e stand in need of equipment to enable these leaders to make the most of their lives. Thank God that some progress has been made during the year THE JAPAN MISSION 147 along this line! The Scott Hall at Waseda will double the efficiency of leaders like Ide, Morihir’a, and Doctor Benninghoff. The new Yotsuya church, which is also within sight, will enable Pastor Watanabe to do a man’s work. The gift of a church building for the Inland Sea will enable the new captain of the Fukuin Maru to see what Captain Bickel only dreamed of seeing. W e are glad for what has been done this year. For the coming year we need four buildings for church work. W e need one long overdue at Shiogama; we need another still longer overdue in Kyobashi. Mito, which has never had anything any better than a cowshed, must have a building; and last but not least there is a crying need for a building in Fukagawa the neglected district of Tokyo. It will take at least 150,000 yen to provide the land and put up these buildings, and in addition to that we need three missionary residences. It seems like presumption to mention these needs at this time of great financial depres­ sion in America, and yet we cannot refrain from bringing the needs of the Lord’s vineyards before the Lord’s people, and as we bring them, we pray that the Lord may open a way to supply all that is lacking. THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS MISSION Compiled by A. E. Bigelow

I. BACO LO D 1. Evangelistic Work H p H E most outstanding feature of the work this past year is the spirit of generosity. In Bacolod itself Sunday school collections are now- ten to twelve times what they were two or three years ago. It seems to be quite spontaneous, and is most encouraging. A call came from a church in Presbyterian territory that had been burned. Thirty dollars were soon raised, and the amount will likely be covered. At the Christian Endeavor Convention our Negro Christians gave most liberally. Up to the first of February 239 had been baptized on the field and 50 others were baptized at Silliman Institute, where they were going to school. Quite a few more are ready, and it is likely that others have not been reported, for word has not come from all.

2. The Boys’ Dormitory This work continues to hold its high place. The valedictorian of this year’s class is among the converts, as was the case the year before, and several other prominent members of the upper high-school classes. With great sorrow we have read of the impossibility of beginning work on a new building. 3. The Private Schools The great problem here is that of competent teachers. Often wc get good men but can hold them only for a time. These teachers prove excellent preachers and Sunday school men, and wherever there are schools there is a live Christian work. They often help to break down prejudice and give us a point of contact otherwise impossible to find.

4. The Girls’ Dormitory This has been one of the most prosperous years. Many repairs have been made and the capacity enlarged, and yet it is full. Miss Whelpton’s going home leaves it without a leader, and only the timely volunteer service of Miss Lagergren kept the work up. What the new year will bring no one knows yet, for it cannot go on without a resident A m erican, any more than can school work. The kindergarten work has been under the care of Miss Whelpton and Mrs. Valentine, and has, as in former years, made perceptible progress. W e have never been able to procure enough efficient kindergarten teachers to supply the demand. The dis­ pensary, in the absence of Miss Whelpton and Doctor Thomas, will 148 THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS MISSION 149 have to be dosed. It has played its usual part in helping where a city fails to provide the proper facilities during the past year, and could be made a much greater power with frequent visits of a doctor.

II. C A P IZ 1. Evangelistic Work The number of converts has not quite reached that of former years. Perhaps more ground work has been done. Three churches now support one preacher entirely, and some other churches have slightly increased their gifts. Two chapels have been built; five thousand portions of the Gospels have been distributed in seventeen of the twenty-six municipalities. Two hundred New Testaments and nearly half as many Old Testaments with many portions in English and Spanish have been sold. This was made possible through the volunteer services of the members, and the house-to-house visitation was most kindly received. But everywhere the great need is for trained workers.

2. The Boys’ Dormitory Here a fine Bible class under the leadership of Doctor Meyer has been under way the entire year. Members of this class have held ser­ vices in the jail with the consent and encouragement of the governor. Some have been baptized, and we hope for others. This class has been the basis of a large class in the church on Sunday.

3. Emmanuel Hospital Repairs, rearrangement, and general housecleaning occupied a large part of the opening of the year, due to the three years’ idleness of the plant. At the same time the language was attacked by the new doctor and his assistants, while the out-patient work was growing steadily. Then operative cases began. On July 1, 1920, the hospital was finally ready, and since then there have been 130 in-patients, 34 major operations, and 1,078 out-patients. Over 7,493 treatments have been given in all departments. Weekly clinics are held at one regular out-of-town place and irregular ones at various places. So it is felt that the work is fairly under way and that a good opening has been made for the coming year. Miss Cora Sydney and one Filipino nurse, a graduate of Iloilo hospital, has the nurses’ school under way also, and it will be recommended for credit with the Board of Education, with the stipulation that a new building for nurses be erected at once. Seven girls are in attendance and three of them have already professed faith in Jesus.

4. The Home School There have been about 80 children through the j^ear. Mrs. Geis and Mrs. 'vleyer have been a great help, and then the coming of Miss Stumpf 150 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY has made it possible for Miss Suman to carry the work and get under way some needed repairs. Chicken-pox and measles have had their run, also mumps, but there were no fatalities and Christmas was not hindered. One of the former teachers who married has been a great blessing to her native village. Nine have been baptized during the year and others are read}".

III. ILOILO 1. Evangelistic Work The outstanding features of the past year are: two new churches organized in hitherto unevangelized places; baptisms in places where there were no Christians; several requests for baptism in Pototan, the most important town in the district; large increase in sales of Bibles and portions; steady, even if slow, increase in self-support; liberal contribu­ tions, wherever presented, for the Red Cross, and sixty dollars for the Hundred Million Dollar Campaign at home.

2. Private Schools Ten small schools have been maintained throughout the year with an enrolment of about five hundred. Very many children thus are taught the truths of the Bible who would otherwise never hear them. The teach­ ing force offers a fine place to discover and develop leaders. Two non­ commissioned officers of the native constabulary will not reenlist but wish to study for the ministry.

3. The Mission Hospital Trying to hold the fort alone has been strenuous work, but some fine service has been rendered by a doctor of Iloilo, the provincial doctor, and Dr. S. G. Underhill, an old friend from the States. The first part of the 3*ear was strenuous also for the nursing staff. The arrival of two new nurses from America gives us new hope. All of the nurses have not followed Christ in baptism, but all have expressed a desire to do so. It is often hard for young people here to do this when it may mean being cast off. This has been the best year yet financially. The total number of out-patients was 1,894, and in-patients, 1,360, with about 500 operations of all kinds. The nurses’ training-school has been recom­ mended by the government inspectors. The district dispensary work at Passi, Duenas, Pototan, Santa Barbara, and La Paz, where is the students’ dispensary, has been carried on as usual with varying success. A new dispensary is being built at Pototan, and it is hoped that many may be reached from this large center.

4. The Dunwoody Dormitory This work continues to hold a large place. Not quite so many baptisms as last year have come from it, but it has been carried on under more THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS MISSION 151 adverse conditions. At the quarterly decision meetings many have made professions, but as usual many have been hindered by parental vetoes. The work is bound to grow in view o£ the nearing completion of the big normal school. Outside the high school there are no American teachers now, and so we need to bring every influence to bear upon these young men and women to secure the proper influence in their schoolrooms and on their school grounds.

5. The Girls’ Dormitory The purchase of the property known as Renfroville by the Woman’s Board made possible a definite work for girls, where now labor Misses Martien and Taggett. A goodly number of bright girls have already been in attendance during this term, and several of them definitely in­ fluenced, while all have been deeply interested. One of the buildings has been turned into a “ hut,” and services, twice on Sunday and ai least once a week, have been established. It is hoped to make this also a social center and thus reach many others. ,

6. The Woman’s Bible Training School This building has been crowded to the corners with pupils this term, as has also that of the kindergarten department. A large number of the girls who come for academic training have been converted, and the outlook is very promising. The teaching force has been greatly strength­ ened by the coming of Miss Dowell, which also made possible a needed furlough for Miss Johnson. Every capable kindergartner and Bible- woman can be placed immediately to good advantage. W e only wish that we had as many capable men workers.

7. The Jaro Industrial School The largest number of new boys came to us this year, and many have been baptized. Over two-thirds of the boys attend regularly and o£ their own accord all of the religious services. This will be our first graduating class from the full high-school course. The year has been quite successful in the class work, and a fine interest has been manifested in all of the Bible classes. Every boj^ in the senior class is a member of the school church, and we expect all but one or two to pass. Some needed repairs are being made, and the faculty is rejoicing over a new Ford. If w e can only get the teachers Ave have in mind, with some of the n e w things put up, we hope to have more time next year for special work w ith the boys. W e fully expect our senior class to net our work three leaders, and maybe more. Each year we are more and more con­ vinced that this will be our big contribution. Then we are trying to get our boj'S to become teachers for the government so that there may be proper influences exerted here. This we consider to be the second largest contribution of our work. . 152 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

8. General Conditions All over the islands the talk of independence, immediate independence, is strong. Many want it without any strings, but there is a large element that would like to see the United States stand sponsor for the islands for some considerable time, some of whom are among the most in­ fluential of the land. The high cost of living and all that went with it in America had a miniature replica out here, and just now we are beginning to feel the reflex. It doesn’t seem to affect the work much, not 3ret at least, but it certainly does affect the missionary’s pocketbook, with exchange at eleven per cent. The fine spirit of liberality that has been manifested in some quarters has in others taken the direction of a desire to carry on alone the only dialect paper printed by the Mission. So those in authority have turned over to a committee appointed at the C. E. Convention the paper called Ang Manugbantala, and two issues have been put out by the new regime. W e are hoping that this is the beginning of some better thing, both for the paper and its constituency. Fairly good crops have blessed all the field, and we have great cause to thank God, and particularly that we have been spared a plague of any kind, although two women in the employ of the Mission have been sent away with leprosy. THE BELGIAN CONGO MISSION Compiled by Catherine L. Mabie, M. D. U LY fifth, nineteen hundred and twenty, Belgium approved and signed J the revised Berlin Act guaranteeing liberty of conscience and freedom of worship within the colony, also her protection and encouragement to all religious enterprises and institutions of whatsoever nation or creed; freedom of trade with no differential treatment to signatory powers and to members of the League of Nations; also conservation of the native population. Colonial officials are attempting to meet and control the invasion of venereal and other devastating diseases through the compulsory use of medical passports for whites and blacks alike, along all main lines of travel. They have thus gathered in many cases of incipient sleeping- sickness for isolation and free treatment. They have sought to cooperate with missionary medical efforts in behalf of the native population by grants in money and medicines and by the training of native assistants in the use of the microscope for diagnostic purposes. Nevertheless medical and hospital supplies are still subject to the high customs duties and highest rate of charge on railway. Certainly those guaranteed for medical mis­ sionary institutions should be admitted duty free. Since the subsidence of the influenza and infantile paralysis epidemics a year ago no serious epidemic has appeared. Our mission doctors have, however, found their hospital accommodations much overtaxed. Since Miss Hagquist’s arrival Doctor Ostrom has been operating continuously, and Doctor King’s little new operating theater, despite the need of a nurse, has been in frequent use throughout the year. Doctor Ostrom wants a builder to build his hospital unit as soon as possible. Doctor Ostrom recently received a decoration from King Albert for his services to the colony during the influenza epidemic. Doctor King is impatiently awaiting the erection of his hospital plant. We have been disappointed that no missionary families for general evangelistic and educational work have come to us during the year, for the need for such is very great. In July we welcomed three new ap­ pointees of the Woman’s Society, Misses Hagquist, MacMillan, and Yost, and later in the year Mr. Arthur Reitnouer, the first of our greatly needed mission builders, arrived. Mr. Reitnouer is now building at Vanga. The mission has two entire stations to build, Vanga and Songo- lolo, and many other buildings at other stations. A t Kimpese the work of the institution still is carried on in very inadequate temporary iron sheds. The need for a family at Matadi is imperative. Not less than three of the six men requested for general missionary work by our last conference should be out this year. The condition of the mission is still very critical, not less so than a year ago, and reenforcements must be sent speedily, simply to hold the work already in hand. This takes no account of won- 153 154 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

derful opportunities for advance work soon to slip from our grasp through strong Jesuit occupation. The Congo News Letter has greatly increased in interest as well as in size under Mr. Geil’s enthusiastic editorship and is doing good publicity work for the mission. A small magazine in the native language has also been issued, and has filled a long-felt need. It might with real advantage be widened in scope and be made the organ for all lower river stations. A pamphlet of favorite hymns has been compiled and published by Airs. Frederickson. One of the real needs of the mission is a mission press, or participation in an intermission press with adequate equipment and staff to publish much-needed literature. After forty years we are a mis­ sion practically without literature in the vernacular except the Bible—an inexcusable state of affairs. Our neighbors have done a little better, but, put them all together, we have next to nothing in the way of text-books, commentaries, and general literature, without which no people can develop intellectually. While native contributions have been considerably increased, they have not kept pace with the depreciation in the value of the franc, now worth a third of its pre-war value, and preachers and teachers generally are not receiving sufficient pa}-. Most of them have continued at their work. All imported necessities, such as cloth, medicines, tools, school supplies, have been scarce and very expensive. Boarding-schools have found it difficult to clothe their pupils. The higher prices in native food products have stimulated agriculture. My impression is that agriculture is a more honorable occupation in the estimation of the male native than it has ever been. To our surprise and delight the new plan for self-help, largely through gardening, about to be inaugurated at Kimpese is meeting with no opposition on the part of prospective students, more of whom are apply­ ing than for several years. The outstanding event of the year in educa­ tion was the decision of the trustees of the Institution to put it on an absolutely self-supporting basis so far as student maintenance is con­ cerned, beginning next fall. The Phelps-Stokes Educational Commission, when here recently, expressed themselves as greatly interested in this new venture in West Coast educational methods. It was the only school which they^found where the whole family were in training. Application has been made during the year for a very large tract of land near Songololo with a view to establishing a large central station for the Palabala-Banza Manteke-Lukunga field, where extensive medical and educational work on a self-supporting basis can be carried on. W e are now awaiting reply from Brussels which we trust will be favorable. On the whole we feel that we have made real progress during 1920 toward the realization of our fifteen years’ mission policy.

MUKIMVIKA Rev. and Mrs. L. A . Bain labored faithfully on and alone all the year at this isolated station until November, when it suddenly became THE BELGIAN CONGO MISSION 155 necessary for them to seek medical assistance for Mrs. Bain in America. A slow but steady growth in church-membership, contributions, and self- government is reported, also real evidence of the power of the gospel in undermining age-long customs cruel, immoral, and debasing among the Asalongo. The new motor-launch has been used to great advantage and comfort in itineration. The boarding-school, also a station day-school with an enrolment of fifty pupils, has been in session all year. Mr. Bain was able to complete a part of the survey of the Mukimvika field as re­ quested by the conference. MATADI At Matadi Dr. A . Sims has continued his arduous labors as Mission Treasurer during another very trying year of fluctuating exchange rates and erratic unstable financial conditions. He has done his best at shep­ herding the native church committed to his care, to which have been added by baptism fifty-six during the year. He has carried on an exten­ sive medical practise both for Europeans and natives and entertained scores of guests passing in and out of the busy port. When at Matadi recently I found the doctor, despite his thirteen guests and great volume of business, conducting flourishing classes in French for his workmen during his afternoon and evening rest hours. His furlough is long over­ due, but we hear of no one coming to his relief. A union hostel conducted by all Protestant missionary societies using Matadi as a port is impera­ tively and immediately necessary. The three societies now having base stations there might with mutual advantage enter into union evangelistic and community work at this port city.

BANZA MANTEKE (INCLUDING PALABALA AND LUKUNGA) The entire burden of the evangelistic and educational work for the consolidated fields has been borne by Rev. and Mrs. L. E. Geil since Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hill left early in the spring. They have made three trips to Lukunga, once accompanied by Dr. and Mrs. J. C. King, once by Miss Helen Yost, and have visited Palabala, holding three day meetings in connection with each visit. Two similar but much larger meetings were held at Banza Manteke, at which visiting missionaries contributed much to the interest and enthusiasm of the meetings. It is of course quite impossible for so small a staff to care properly for these three districts. Mr. Geil reports a very substantial increase in contributions, Lukunga still leading. The church-membership is 2,545. The long-deferred board­ ing-school has been in session most of the year, almost half the boys coming from Lukunga. Miss Yost is now prepared to receive girls as boarding pupils. The Preparatory School was in session six months, three students from which are about to enter at Kimpese. Six families have been at Kimpese during the year. Given an adequate staff, Banza Manteke is in a gpod way to make up for some of the lost time in her educational work. 156 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

Doctor King reports a busy year in surgery, general practise, and the dissemination of hygienic and preventive measures for safeguarding the health of the people, also the training of native dispensers. One of the latter, with his wife, has been placed at Lukunga.

KIMPESE KONGO EVANGELICAL TRAINING INSTITUTION Interest in evangelistic effort has been greater than in any previous year. Many neighboring towns, labor encampments, and railway settle­ ments have been regularly visited by the,students. The general classroom and industrial work of the student body has been satisfactory. The readjustment of plan for student support as effected at the last trustees’ meeting proposes that all families raise their own food on garden plots allotted to them and earn their own clothing, books, and incidentals through work in carpentry-, brickmaking and laying, and other industrial work provided by the Institution. The faculty have been deeply gratified by the responsive attitude of all stations sending up students under the new plan, and are confident of a willing cooperation on the part of the students themselves. The larger use of graduates of the Institution as underinstructors and assistants is proposed. One such man has rendered effective service for some months. Rev. and Mrs. W . E. Reynolds, of the English Baptist Missionary Society, have signified their acceptance of appointment on the faculty and will soon be in residence. W e are earnestly hoping that Mr. Reitnouer or another of our hoped-for American builders will be able to come and build the Bentley Memorial Hall and other much-needed buildings. We also need an industrial building properly equipped for the instruction of students in manual crafts. SO N A B A T A Air. Frederickson reports a year of normal advance in all depart­ ments of the work. The contributions were the largest in the station’s history. Church-membership reached 1,492. O f the 141 baptized 17 were boys and girls from the station boarding-school in charge of Mrs. Moody. Mrs. Moody spent eleven weeks itinerating with Mr. Moody, during which time they visited 54 schools and 150 towns in which there were no schools. Mr. Moody reports 1,800 villages in Sona Bata territory not yet visited by a Protestant missionary. Two large associational meetings were attended where over 50 were baptized. Mr. Moody also made a dozen shorter trips, and has con­ ducted the Preparatory School for four months with an average at­ tendance of 17 young men, some of whom are about entering Kimpese. Three families from Sona Bata have been at Kimpese during the year. Mr. Frederickson has made monthly visits to Leopoldville to shepherd the church there, also to attend to business in connection with hostel, and urges that a family be designated to Leopoldville for missionary service. Thirty-two were baptized at this town. Mrs. Frederickson says this has THE BELGIAN CONGO MISSION 157

been the busiest year the station has ever known in medical work, and appeals for a doctor and nurse to care for this growing work. Her two Bible-women have continued doing good service in dispensary and hospital. Thirteen thousand two hundred and four treatments and 327 in-patients and receipts of 5,841 francs are reported. A government grant of 1,600 francs was received for treatment of patients having sleeping-sickness. The conference have placed before the Board requests for two single women, a missionary famity, and a doctor for this station. Grammar grades should be added to the boarding-school. The return of Mr. and Airs. MacDiarmid is eagerly awaited, for their services are much needed.

VANGA In July Dr. and Mrs. W . H. Leslie left on greatly needed furloughs, and Miss Grage came with them as far as Matadi to accompany Miss MacMillan to her new home at Vanga, where she has been busy at language study since early fall. Later in the year it proved necessary for Mr. and Mrs. Nugent to come down country for a rest and medical advice, leaving this station very meagerly staffed during the latter half of the year. Mr. Reitnouer arrived at Vanga in January of 1921 to com­ plete a partly built dwelling-house. Before leaving for home, Doctor Leslie visited Moanza and reported a rather remarkable work being developed under the Lukunga native teacher, who has so faithfully stood by the Moanza work. The doctor also indi­ cated an excellent site for a new station which the mission has been hoping the Hundred Million Dollar Campaign might make it possible to open. Jesuit activities have not slackened in the district and have been the source of much anxiety on the part of the missionaries and native Christians. An average of 225 children have been enrolled in the station boarding- school, forty of whom are girls. Miss Grage writes that the younger children have been clothed in American flour-sacks from European battle­ fields. Such sacks bearing the names of Oregon and California millers are the most common sort of loin-cloths all over Congo these days.

FINANCIAL SECTION

Report of the Treasurer for the Fiscal Year May 1, 1920, to April 30, 1921

CERTIFICATE

We have made an audit of the books and accounts of the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society for the year ended April 30, 1921, and

W e h e r e b y c e r t i f y that, in our opinion, the accompanying General Balance Sheet at April 30, 1921, and Summary of Income, Appropriations, and Deficit for the year ended that date are correct, and that the books of the Society are in agreement therewith. H a s k in s & S ells, Certified Public Accountants, New York, June 16, 1921. 30 Broad Street, New York. 160 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

SCH EDULE I SUMMARY OF REVENUE ACCOUNT For the Fiscal Year Ended April 30, 1921

INCOME Current Budget Sources outside Donations: Income from Investments of Permanent and Temporary Funds ...... $ 5°« 7 6 5 .° 7 Income from Specified Investments of Perm anent Fun ds ...... 38 ,6 47.6 6 Income from Specified Investments of T em porary Funds ...... 2 9 2 .2 1 Income from General Funds Investment. 9,602.98

$9 9 ,30 7.9 2 Less: Special Charges against Income... 3 7 6 -7 ° ------$98,931.22 A n n u ity A greem ents M atured ...... 20 ,0 0 0.0 0 Legacies ...... 14 6 ,2 9 7 .9 7 M iscellaneous ...... 325 -2 3 ------$ 2 6 5 ,S5 4 -42 Regular Donations: Contributions Received Direct ...... $5 2 ,9 8 8 .34 Contributions Received through General Board of Pro­ motion ...... 1 ,2 9 1 ,5 6 5 .3 2 ------1 . 3 4 4 , 553-66

Total Income—Regular Budget ...... $1,610,108.08 Specific Donations (Contra) Contributions R eceived D irect ...... $52,764.95 Contributions Received through General Board of Promotion 40,885.11 ------93,650.06

Total Income— R egu lar and Specific B u d get...... $ 1,7 0 3 ,7 5 8 .14 Contributions Applying on 1919-1920 Deficit...... 14,4 30 .97 $1,718,189.11 Combined Deficit 1919-1920 and 1920-1921 on Accepted Budgets in New W orld M ovem ent ...... 1,0 14 ,0 8 5 .3 5

$2,732,274.46 Income Permanent Funds not to be Applied on New World “ ----- '• M ovem ent ...... $ 2 4 3 ,5 5 1.0 0 Income Permanent Funds not to be Applied on New World Movement, Released from Reserve Accounts 1919-1920. 17,687.50 Income Sale of Property (Credited on Victory Campaign). 8,351.74 Contributions Designated not to Apply on New World M ovem ent ...... i , 043.94 ------270 ,6 34 .18 Specific Contributions for Objects Outside New World M ovem ent— Contra ...... 154,239 .26 Accum ulated D eficit A p ril 30, 1 9 2 1 ...... 689,459.51

$1,114,332.95

R ec ap itu latio n of Incom e applying on N ew W orld M ovem ent...... $ 1 ,7 1 8 ,1 8 9 .1 1 Incomc not applying on New World Movement...... 424,873.44 T otal Incom e ...... $ 2 ,14 3 ,0 6 2 .5 5 A ccum ulated D eficit A p ril 30, 19 2 1 ...... 689,459.51 $^,832,522.06

N ote. For summary of the Woman’s American Baptist Foreign Mission Society Account, see top of page 164. REPORT OF THE TREASURER 161

SCHEDULE I SUMMARY OF REVENUE ACCOUNT For the Fiscal Year Ended April 30, 1921

BUDGET APPROPRIATIONS AND DEFICITS Deficit M ay i , 1920 ...... $808,023.23 Less: Cancellations in 1919-1920 Budget ...... 10 ,0 00 .0 0 ------$798,023.23

B udget A ppropriations M a y i , 1920, to A p r il 30, 1921 Foreign Field Appropriations: Field Salaries of Missionaries ...... $3 8 1,6 4 9 .0 7 Salaries of Missionaries on Furlough ...... 17 2 ,4 7 1.9 7 Passages of Missionaries to and from Field ...... 7 4 ,18 4 .6 4 Work of Missionaries and Native Agencies ...... 309,944.19 Care o f Property— Rent', R ep airs, etc...... 4 1,9 7 7 .3 0 W ork and W orkers in E u r o p e ...... 100 ,00 0.0 0 Special R elief W ork in E u r o p e ...... 166,666.00 Retired Missionaries and Widows ...... 3 5 , 4 5 9 .2 9 N ew Appointees ...... 10 8 ,0 12 .5 5 Education of Oriental Students ...... _...... 9 ,4 5 1 .1 8 Homes for Missionaries and Missionaries’ Children... 27,209.36 N ew B u ild in gs, A dditions o f L an d , etc...... 16 4 ,9 3 8 .2 4 Foreign Missions Conference ...... 2 ,4 15 .2 4 Missions and Literature sent to Missionaries...... 2 ,3 7 3 .3 1 Visitation to Mission Fields ...... 7,00 0 .0 0 Exchange ...... 4 1,6 0 0 .0 0

$1,645,352.24 Specifics— Contra ...... 9 3,6 50 .0 6

Home Expenditures: Foreign Department Administration...... $62,600.51 Home Department Administration ...... 3 8 ,5 4 9 .12 Treasury Department Administration .... 56,347.68

$ 1 5 7 , 4 9 7 .3 1 Interest ...... 2 4 ,15 1 .6 2 Transfer of Headquarters ...... 11,0 0 0 .0 0 Retired Officers and W orkers ...... 2,600 .00 ------19 5,2 4 8 .9 3 Total Current Budget Outgo ...... 1,9 3 4 ,2 5 1 .2 3

Combined Outgo and D e fic it ...... $2 ,7 32 ,2 7 4 .4 /)

Total Deficit Brought Down ...... $ 1,0 14 ,0 8 5 .3 5 Less: Cancellations in Budgets P rior to 19 19 -19 2 0 ...... 5 3 ,9 9 1.6 6 ------$960,093.69 specifics— Contra ...... 9 3,6 50 .0 6

$i,H4,332.95

Revenue Account Outgo and Deficit on Accepted Budgets of New World Movement. .$2,732,274.46 Outgo Objects Outside New World Movement Budgets...... 154,239.26

Total Outgo and D eficits ...... $ 2 ,8 8 6 ,5 13 .7 2 L ess: Cancellation in Budgets P rio r to W orld M ovem ent...... 5 3,9 9 1-6 6 162 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

SCHEDULE II

GENERAL BALANCE SHEET, APRIL 30, 1921

ASSETS Investments of Permanent and Temporary Funds: General Investments of Permanent and Temporary Fun ds ...... $1,020,870.50 Specified Investm ents o f Perm anent F u n d s...... 5,6 18 ,18 2.0 1 Specified Investments of Temporary Funds ...... 125,636.00 Investments of Special Funds ...... 59,478.92 Accrued Interest Purchased ...... 210.50 Cash— U ninvested ...... 14,165.03

Total Investments of Permanent and Temporary Funds ...... $6,838,542.96

Investments of Annuity Funds: General Investm ents o f A nnuity Funds ...... $1,58 1,20 9 .38 Special Investm ents— T ru st Agreem ents ...... 9 5 .647-37 Accrued Interest Purchased ...... 517-49 Deferred Charge— Equalization of Loss in Respect of N on-Productive R eal Estate ...... 366.62 Cash— U ninvested ...... 40,219.24

Total Investments of Annuity Funds ...... 1,717,960.10

Investments of General Funds (Less Reserve of $1,071.92) *3 3 >5OI-94 Note Receivable, Due September 1, 1924 ...... 1,450.00 Sundry Advances: On Account o f Prospective F u n d s...... 13,7 14 .2 5 On Account of Future Appropriations ...... 6,622.23 For Traveling Expenses of Missionaries ...... 45,245.66 To Homes for Missionaries and Missionaries’ Children 3.773-22

T otal Su n d ry A dvances ...... 60,355.36 Minion Treasurers’ Balances (net)...... 3,822,698.23 Accounts Receivable: The General Board of Promotion of the Northern Baptist Convention: Donations in Transit, ...... $287,206.02 Donations W ithheld, etc...... 18 3,5 51.59 M issionaries ...... 37.789-35 Woman’s American Baptist Foreign Mission Society: 1919-19 20 Budget ...... 122,728.14 1920-1921 Budget ...... 298,437.78 Other ...... 4 3 .254-31

T otal Accounts R e c e iv a b le ...... 972.967.19

Cash— G eneral ...... 222,038.33 U nadjusted D ebit B alances ...... 421.44 H om e T reasu rer’s Sigh t D rafts (see contra) ...... 404,000.00 Deficit, P e r E xh ib it “ B ” ...... 689,459-5*

Total $14,872,395-0^' REPORT OF THE TREASURER 163

SCHEDULE II

GENERAL BALANCE SHEET, APRIL 30, 1921

LIABILITIES Permanent and Temporary Funds: Permanent Funds in General Investments...... $965,598.73 Temporary Funds in General Investments...... 36,488.08 Permanent Funds in Specified Investments ...... 5,512,762.0 1 Temporary Funds in Specified Investments ...... 126,000.00 Special Permanent Funds ...... 40,381.52 Special Temporary Funds ...... 19,992.23 Reserve—Gain and Loss on General Investments (net) 31,900.39 Reserve— Gain and Loss on Specified Investments of Perm anent Funds (net) ...... 105,420.00

Total Permanent and Temporary Funds ...... $6,838,542.96

Annuity Funds: General Annuity Agreements ...... $1,59 9,176.04 Special T ru st Agreem ents ...... 9 5 ,647-37 Reserve—Gain and Loss on Annuity Investments (net) 18,045.61 A nnuity Paym ents U ncalled F o r ...... 5,091.08

T otal A n n uity Funds ...... 1,717,9 6 0 .10

Gifts and Other Funds Held for Special Purposes or for Future U se ...... I9,393-o8 Unexpended Appropriations ...... 4,849,351-85 Notes Payable ...... 600,000.00

Accounts Payable: M issionaries ...... * ...... $20,474.23 Specific G ifts fo r R elief S o c i e t i e s ...... 7 8 ,733-15 Burma Mission Treasurer’s Deposit Liability ...... 34,658.82 Other ...... -...... 484.50 Total Accounts Payable ...... 134,350-70

Reserves: Equalization of Income from Legacies ...... $250,000.00 Equalization of Income from Matured Annuities ..... 37,870.18 Future Expenditures on Account of Non-Productive Estates ...... 2,679.48 Future Expenditures for Missions’ Real Estate...... 10,604.67

Total Reserves ...... 30 1 >154*33

Unadjusted Credit Balances ...... 7,642.04 Home T reasu rer’s Sight D rafts (see contra) ...... 404,000.00 Total ...... $ 14 ,8 7 2 ,3 9 5 .0 6 164 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

WOMAN’S AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

Incom e ...... $694,005.83

Budget Appropriation: Field Salaries of Missionaries ...... $138,235.00 Salaries of Missionaries on Furlough ...... 28,909.10 Passages ...... 23,200.00 W ork and N ative A gencies ...... 232,259.58 Adm inistrative Expense ...... 2,088.69 Exchange a ...... 15,000.00 N ew M issionaries ...... 71,268.08 Retired M issionaries ...... 5,000.00 B u ildings ...... 181,018.20 Grant to Missionaries ...... 1,040.00 698,018.65 L e ss: Cancellations in Previous Budgets ...... 4,012.82 ------$694,005.83

SCHEDULE III Foreign Field Appropriations THE BURMA MISSION General Woman's Society Society Bassein ...... $10 ,507.73 $ 13,374-99 Bham o ...... 3,437-5° 700.00 H aka ...... 3,650-65 H enzada ...... 5,914.30 2 ,933-33 H sipaw ...... 650.00 Insein ...... 23,626.99 1,600.00 K engtung ...... 1,705.00 Loikaw ...... 1,000.00 M andalay ...... 8,367.46 12,569.74 Maubin ...... 1,609.50 1,616.67 M aym yo ...... 1,955.00 800.00 M e ik tila ...... 7,474.58 1,854.16 M ong Lem ...... 5,050.00 • M ongnai ...... 1,600.00 Moulmein ...... 20,040.33 20,261.49 M yingjran ...... 3 ,247-35 M yitkyina ...... 1,885.00 Namkham ...... 9,906.41 166.67 N yaunglebin ...... 10.00 5,196.4" Pegu ...... 1,400.00 3,30o.o(' Pyinm ana ...... 5,869.00 500.00 Prom e ...... 725.00 800.00 Pyapon ...... 1,450.00 Rangoon ...... 87,384.68 50,316.67 Sagaing ...... 4,807.47 1,700.00 Sandcw ay ...... 1,687.50 2,412.90 Taunggyi ...... 5,750.00 860.00 T avoy ...... 5,732.87 1,250.00 Tharraw addy ...... 1,350.00 6,904-16 Thayetmyo ...... 3,878.42 Thonze ...... 2,841.92 1,104.85 Toungoo ...... 15, 175-53 4,99I-94 Zigon ...... 500.00 Undesignated ...... 500.00 ...... Gross Appropriations ...... 62,483.32 3 9>57°-00 A dditional for Income T ax ...... 2,133.0 0 Adm inistrative Expense ...... 843.15 Total Appropriations for Burma...... $314,896.51 $176, REPORT OF THE TREASURER 165

THE ASSAM MISSION Genera! Society Woman’s Socicty Gauhati ...... $21,930.88 $14,278.14 Golaghat ...... 9,808.02 4,012.06 Im p u r ...... 6,451.64 7,945 .68 Jorhat ...... •...... 15,678.81 Kangpokpi ...... 18,605.31 709.00 Kohima ...... 4,242.50 North Lakhim pur ...... 2,130.60 Nowgong ...... 4,741.68 20,475.33 Sadiya ...... 1,500.00 353 .99 Sibsagor-Dibrugarh ...... 4,693.27 358.67 Tika ...... •...... 1,850.00 Tura ...... 11,50 6.22 8,238.83 Gross Appropriations ...... 34,063.34 Income T a x ...... 759-87 Em ergency Fund ...... 891.67 Adm inistrative E xpense ...... 550.61

Total A ppropriations fo r Assam ...... $137 ,9 6 2 .14 $ 5 7 .8 i 3-98

SOUTH INDIA MISSION General Socicty Woman's Society A llur ...... $1,902.50 Atm akur ...... 2,258.77 Bapatla ...... 2,558.80 Cumbtun ...... 1,790.00 Donakonda ...... 1,989.50 Gadval ...... 2,142.50 Hanumakonda ...... 3.757-50 T an gaon ...... i , 7 5 5 -°o K anigiri ...... 6^056.22 K avali ...... 6,550.93 800.00 Kurnool ...... 6,662.70 M adira ...... 5,187.50 Madras ...... 7,649.55 1.600.00 M ahbubnagar ...... 2,752.50 2.250.00 M arkapur ...... 1,960.00 Nalgonda ...... 1,755.00 800.00 Nandyal ...... 2 ,3 7 1.17 N a rsa ra v u p e t...... 1,718 .26 7,662.48 Nellore ...... 14,086.47 11,9 5 4 .16 Ongole ...... 20,819.99 6,9 66.67 Podili ...... 6,007.33 800.00 Ramapatnam ...... 5,624.80 2.150.00 Sattenapalle ...... 3,997.50 800.00 Secunderabad ...... 1,851.00 3.050.00 Sooriapett ...... 1,750.00 U dayagiri ...... 4,804.56 Vinukonda ...... 3 . 793-49 4,5083^ Gross A p p ro p riatio n s...... 54,391.67 46,930.67 Undesignated ...... 600.00 Income T a x ...... 1,10 1.5 2

Total Appropriations fo r South In dia ...... $179,646.73 $90,272.30

THE BENGAL-ORISSA MISSION General Socicty Woman’s Socicty Balasore ...... $10,293.67 $ 8 ,8 11.14 Bhimpore ...... 7,146.66 ...... Chanabali ...... 300.00 ...... , . . Contai ...... 5,013.66 ...... Jam shedpur ...... 3 .919-59 ...... Jellasore ...... '• -• 800.00 K haragpur ...... 8,943.03 ...... Midnapore ...... i.935-oo 4,550.00 Santipore ...... 1,687.50 ...... Undesignated ...... 3,100.00 ...... Gross Appropriations ...... 23.18 9.33 5,282.00 Adm inistrative E xpense ...... 16.89 Income T a x ...... 402.05 ------. Total Appropriations for Bengal-Orissa ...... $65,930.49 $19,460.03 166 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

THE CHINA MISSIONS

Woman's South China Society Canton (C hristian College) ...... $2,405.00 Chaochowfu ...... 6 ,14 1.5 0 $2,632.50 Chaoyanghsien ...... 3 ,6 0 1.14 H opo ...... 5,146.67 2,562.50 K a y in g ...... 9,199.00 5,447-50 K i t y a n g ...... 4,687.35 4.005.00 Sunwuhsien ...... 10,937.49 2.110.00 Sw atow ...... 21,646.09 26,872.00 U ngkung ...... 9.583-35 662.50 Gross Appropriations ...... '...... 16,840.00 E xchan ge ...... 12,700.00

Total Appropriations for South China ...... $102,887.59 $44,292.00

Woman’s East China Socicty H uchow ...... $5.55i-58 $3,800.00 H angchow ...... 8,913.79 5.150.00 H anyan g ...... 600.00 K in hw a ...... 9 ,5 4 8-93 4.300.00 N anking ...... 3,828.56 10,412.50 Ningpo ...... 13,708.47 11,800.00 Shanghai ...... 10 5 ,10 2 .6 1 2,643-25 Shaohsing ...... 19 ,475 -7 8 5.025.77 U ndesignated ...... 4,529.25 Gross Appropriations ...... 21,790.00 I5,io7-5o E x c h a n g e ...... 19,200.00 A ll China A p p ro p ria tio n s...... 3,700.00 Total Appropriations for East China ...... $215,948.97 $58,239.02

Woman’s West China socieTj Society Chengtu ...... $19 ,020 .41 $14,764.00 K ia tin g fu ...... 6,887.76 497-50 N in gyu an fu ...... 950.00 487.50 S u ifu ...... 15,550.84 8,065.00 Y ach ow fu ...... '...... 11,98 8.52 2 ,357-50 Em ergency F u n d ...... 500.00 Adm inistrative E x p e n s e ...... 153-00 Undesignated ...... 15,386.67 350-00 A dditional fo r E xchan ge...... 9,700.00 General M ission Expense ...... 1,630.00 T otal Appropriations fo r W est C h in a...... $ 8 1,114 .2 0 $27,174.50

T H E JAPAN MISSION G eneral Woman’s Society Society H im eji ...... $3,280.00 $4,482^7 Inland S ea ...... 11,496.66 12,603.5° Kobe ...... 4,617.00 4,907.00 K y o t o ...... 300.00 Mito ...... 4,366.67 M orioka ...... 3,242.16 2,155-00 O saka ...... 12,030.70 10,171-00 Send ai ...... 2,195.00 50,691.50 T ok yo ...... 38 ,0 11.9 3 39,855-78 Yokoham a ...... 12 7 ,3 7 1.19 24,923-50 A d m inistrative E x p e n s e ...... 627-04 Incom e T a x ...... 770.00 Gross Appropriations ...... 62,355.00 Total Appropriations for Japan ...... $269,736.31 $150,716.39 REPORT OF THE TREASURER ,167

THE CONGO MISSION G eneral W om an's So ciety Society Banza Manteke ...... $8,210.16 $3,150.00 Kimpese ...... ’ ...... 4,129.08 875.00 Lukunga ...... '...... 3,283.00 450.00 Matadi ...... 3,0 34 .4 2 M ukimvika ...... •...... 6,329.45 350.00 Ntondo-Ikoko ...... 9,394.87 3.210.00 Palabala ...... 550.00 250.00 Sona B ata ...... 7,109.80 1.865.00 Tshumbiri-Bwemba ...... 5,318 .8 1 400.00 Vanga ...... - ...... 6,386.82 2.150.00 Adm inistrative E xpense ...... 51.00 Undesignated ...... 4,475.00

Total Appropriations fo r Congo ...... $58 ,221.4 1 $12 ,7 5 1.0 0

THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS MISSION G eneral W om an’s Society Society Bacolod ...... $7,964.28 $ 2 ,3 5 0.00 Capiz ...... 7,583.00 9,277.07 Iloilo, Ja ro ...... 21,370.09 25,903-96 Reserve Fund ...... •...... 1,250.00 Undesignated ...... 1 . . . . 5,12 6 .2 1

Total Appropriations for the Philippine Islands $38,167.37 $45,172.24

SUMMARY OF APPROPRIATIONS General W oman s Society Society The Burm a M ission ...... $314,896.51 $176,127.10 The Assam M ission ...... 137,9 62.14 57,813.08 South India M ission ...... 179,646.73 90,272.30 Bengal-O rissa M ission ...... f'S,930.49 19,460.03 The China Missions: South China M ission ...... 102,887.59 44.292.00 East China Mission ...... 215,948.97 58,239.02 West China M ission ...... 8 1,114 .2 0 27,174.50 The Japan Mission ...... 269,736.31 150,716.30 The Congo Mission ...... 58 ,221.41 12.751.0 0 The Philippine Islands Mission ...... 38,167.37 4 5 ,17 2.24 Total Foreign Field Appropriations ...... 81,464,5x1.72 $682,018.65

Special Relief Work in Europe ...... 166,666.00 W ork in Europe ...... 100,400.00 1,0 0 0 .0 0 Education of Oriental Students ...... 9 ,4 5i-i8 Home for Missionaries and Missionaries’ Children.. 27,209.36 Foreign M issions Conference ...... 2,415.24 Missions, etc., senl to Missionaries ...... 2,373.31 Secretaries V isit ...... 7,000.00 Undesignated New Appointees ...... 2,000.00 Specific G ifts fo r China R e l i e f ...... 109,638.18 “ “ fo r A rm enian and_ S yrian R e lie f...... 7-2.33 “ “ fo r N ear E ast R elief ...... i 9-2 4 “ “ for Miscellaneous Objects ...... 835.00 Total ...... $1,8 9 3,241.56 Home Administration Expense ...... 195,248.93 Total Budget A ppropriations ...... $2,088,490.49 698,018.65 Less Cancellation in Previous Budgets...... 4,012.8; $694,005.8;) 168 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

SCHEDULE IV

DETAILS OF HOME EXPENDITURES For the Fiscal Year Ended April 30, 1921

(1) Foreign Department Administration

Cablegrams ...... $633-5° Medical Examinations ...... 501.15 Miscellaneous ...... 306.93 Postage ...... * 1 3 1 - 1 8 Salaries of Foreign Secretaries ...... 10 ,7 0 8 .2 4 Salaries of Assistants and Office Start ...... 15 ,6 3 7.74 Stationery and Supplies ...... 4 7 0 .11 Telegram s ...... 230 -9 1 Travel of Missionaries to meet Board ...... 1 ,7 0 7 .1 8 T rav e l o f Officers and Others ...... 1,4 8 2 .3 2 Proportion of General Expenses ...... 15 .9 0 0 .3 3

$ 4 7 ,7 0 9 .5 9 Candidate and Medical Department Administration: Appointees’ Conference ...... $600.00 Medical Examinations of New Appointees. 2 7 1.7 8 Office Equipment ...... 173-50 Salary Candidate Secretary ...... 5,333-32 Salaries of Assistants and Office Staff...... 3 ,7 3 3 .0 0 Stationery and Supplies ...... 298.82 Telegram s ...... 75-04 Travel of Candidates ...... 2 ,6 7 0 .13 Travel o f Officers ...... 1.735-33 14 ,8 9 0 .9 2 ------$62,600.51 (2) Home Department Administration M iscellaneous ...... $ 6 5 .16 New England Baptist Library ...... 250.00 Other L ib rary Expenses ...... 14 1.2 8 P o sta g e ...... 22 7 .0 7 Proportion o f G eneral Expenses ...... 15 ,9 0 0 .3 4 Salary Associate Secretary ...... 4 ,0 36 .6 2 Salaries o f Office Staff ...... 7,472 -75 Stationery and Supplies ...... 12 8 .39 Telegram s ...... 8 1.3 8 Travel o f Officers and Others ...... 59 8 .55 ------$28,921.54 (3) Promotion of Interest and Beneficence

Deputation W ork o f M issionaries ...... $ 1,9 7 6 .9 2 Deputation Work of Officers ...... 973-86 Literature Department ...... 5 ,3 8 2 .8 9 M iscellaneous ...... 10 8 .4 4 M issionary Exhibits ...... 4 16 .9 6 Publicity ...... 7 6 8 .5 1 ------9 ,6 2 7 .5 8 ------$ 3 8 , 5 4 9 -»* REPORT OF THE TREASURER 169

(4) Treasury Department Administration Cablegrams ...... $ 5* 9 .5 3 Certified Public Accountant ...... 1 ,7 7 2 .7 1 Collection and E x c h a n g e ...... 84.02 Legal Expense ...... 1.2 5 Miscellaneous ...... 15 2 .4 9 Office Equipment ...... 86.24 Over and Short Account ...... 5.00 Postage ...... 363*42 Proportion o f General Expense ...... 15 ,9 0 0 .3 4 Safe Deposit B o x ...... 80.00 Salary o f T reasu rer ...... 4 ,9 9 9.92 Salary o f A ssistant and Office S t a f f ...... 2 2 ,13 2 .4 5 Stationery and Supplies ...... 1 ,3 7 4 *47 Telegrams ...... 208.74 Travel of Officers and Others ...... 2 8 5 .6 9 , Treasury Liability Bonds ...... 13 7 .5 0 Shipping Department, Salaries and Expenses.. 8,233.91 ------$56 ,34 7-6 8

(5) Miscellaneous General Expense Interest ...... $ 2 4 ,1 5 1 .6 2 Retired Officers and Workers ...... 2,6 0 0 .0 0 Transfer of Headquarters to New York ...... 11,0 0 0 .0 0 ------3 7 ,7 5 1.6 2 Total Home Administration Expenses ...... $195,248.93

(6) Details of General Expenses Alteration and R epairs ...... $8.00 Annual M eeting ...... 5 ,5 8 3 .0 4 Board of Managers Travel ...... 4 ,3 2 9 .5 3 Electric Light ...... 304.09 Foreign M issions Conference ...... 500.00 Insurance ...... 76.72 Legal Expense ...... 1 ,0 16 .3 6 Miscellaneous ...... 493.60 Office Cleaning ...... 1,10 6 .8 7 Postage ...... 1,2 2 2 .9 8 Post Office B o x ...... 18 .0 0 Rent ...... 2 1,4 6 3 .0 7 Salaries and W ages ...... 8 ,0 72.40 Special Conference E x p e n s e s ...... 5 7 2 .15 Stationery and Supplies ...... 1,8 2 0 .8 4 Telegrams ...... 33*85 Telephone ...... 1,0 7 9 .5 1 ------$47,701.01 Apportioned as follows: To Foreign Department Administration ...... $ 15 ,9 0 0 .3 3 To Home Department Adm inistration ...... 15 ,9 0 0 .3 4 To T reasu ry Department Adm inistration ...... 15 ,9 0 0 .3 4 ------$47,701.01

(7) Literature Department Administration Annual Report ...... $ 2 , 7 5 7 *37 Cuts and Electrotypes ...... 2 56 .50 Debit Sales ...... 1 3 ° *3° General Literatu re and P rin tin g ...... 2 ,0 7 7 .2 6 Photographs ...... 3 1* 7 3 Postage and Exp ress ...... 460.86 Stereopticon Supplies ...... 150 .0 0 $5 ,8 6 4 .0 3 Less Credit Sales ...... 4 8 1 .1 3 ------$5,38 2.89 170 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

SCHEDULE V Detail of Invested Funds CLASS I Permanent Funds in General Investments Balance Income April 30, 1921 Earned A bbott, E . L . , E n d o w m e n t...... $ 1 3 , 7 7 9 -9 7 $708.66 A frica n M edical ...... 3 ,6 2 7 .5 8 186.56 A lle n , Ju lia I . , M em orial ...... 1,2 0 0 .0 0 6 1.7 1 Ambler, A. T ...... 3 ,5 0 0 .0 0 180.00 A m bler, J . V . , M emorial ...... 13,0 0 0 .0 0 668.57 A m bler, J . V . , Scholarship ...... 300.00 15.43 A n gu s Scholarship ...... 500.00 23.71 A rgab righ t, S . V ...... 100 .00 5 .14 A rn o ld , George N ...... 1,9 4 9 .18 100.24. “ A s Unto H im ” Fun d ...... 5,00 0 .0 0 257.14 A x tell, Hannah E ...... 124.44 6.40 B a ilie , D avid ...... 1,0 0 0 .0 0 5I -43 Baker, Bessie Louise, Memorial...... 950.00 48.86 B am fo rd , Chloe Lizzie ...... 50.00 2.57 B am fo rd , Cornelia Elizabeth Rand ...... 200.00 10.29« Bamford, Dr. William ...... 250.00 12.87 B a rn e y, B . B . , M em orial ...... 5,000 .0 0 2 57 .14 B ellew , W illiam B ...... 1 9 2 .1 4 9.88 B en n ett, M ontgomery ...... 3 ,3 8 3 .3 3 174.00 * B ix b y , E . M ...... 1,0 0 0 .0 0 7.32 B la k e , H en ry H ...... 4 1,3 4 1 .2 0 2 ,12 6 .3 6 B o n d , T h eo. P ...... 224.96 11.5 7 B ostw ick, J . A ...... 2 0 ,30 0 .0 0 1,044.00 B rad fo rd , S . S ...... 1,0 0 0 .0 0 51-43 B ro w , A rn o ld , R hoda, and Abbie J ...... 5 32 .5 0 27.39 B ro w n , Jen n ie ...... 400.00 20.57 B rya n t Fu n d ...... 4.53.71 23.33 Bu ck nell, M . C . • ...... 1,0 0 0 .0 0 5 1.4 3 Bucknell, William, Bible ...... 2 ,4 14 .7 3 12 4 .19 B u rch ard , Hannah M ...... 3 ,8 7 4 .3 8 199-25 B u rk e , J . W ...... 100.00 5 .14 Burm an Theological Sem inary ...... 2,0 0 0 .0 0 102.86 B u tle r, Charles T ...... 1,0 0 0 .0 0 51-43 B u tle r, Elizabeth N ...... 1,0 0 0 .0 0 51.43 B y e rly , A . J ...... 500.00 25.71 Cam pbell, Catherine J ...... 17 5 .0 0 q.oo C arlton, A dora N . , M em orial ...... 700.00 36.00 Carpenter, C . H ...... 1 5 ,0 0 1.4 1 7 7 i-5 ° C arpenter, Scholarship ...... 7 ,6 0 0 .22 3go.8" C handler, Elizabeth B ...... 1,5 5 5 -8 5 80.02 C handler, H elen M ar ...... 5 ,3 2 5 .1 0 273.86 C heney, Jo e l ...... 7»3°7-9 6 375-8.} Clough M em orial E n d o w m e n t...... 16 ,0 6 5 .0 9 826.21 Clough Memorial Endowment, Edmands W ard ...... 5,000.00 257.14 Clough M em orial Endow m ent, M ills W a r d ...... 3 ,0 0 0 .0 0 i5 4 -29 *Clough M em orial Endow m ent, W illiam B . W ebb...... 250.00 9.02 C olby, E . S ...... 4 7 6 .32 24.50 C olby, M . L ...... 1,0 0 0 .0 0 51.43 Cook, Chapman M ...... 324 .0 0 16.66 C ortiss, Celinda ...... 39 3-73 20.25 C o x, Effie W ...... 15 4 .0 0 7.92 Crozer, Robert H ...... 50,000.00 2 ,5 7 1.4 3 Crozer, Sallie L ...... 3,000.00 154.29 C u rrier, E m ily E ...... 12 5 .0 0 6.43 Cushing, Josiah N ., Memorial ...... 5 ,0 2 5 .0 0 258-43 D an iels, Susan A . L ...... 200.00 10.29 D a vis, I s a a c ...... 5,00 0 .0 0 257.14 D avis, Jam es M ...... 3 ,4 12 .5 0 175-5° Dean, William ...... 1,0 0 0 .0 0 51.4 3 D izer, M arshal C ...... 1,0 0 0 .0 0 51-43 D row n,' M ary N ...... 800.00 4 1.14 D roz, A daline ...... 900.00 46.29 D unbar, Robert ...... 500.00 2 5 .71 Dunham , Sabra G ...... 2 ,7 6 2 .5 0 142.07 E aches, Josiah P ...... 1,0 0 0 .0 0 5 1 -43 REPORT OF THE TREASURER 171

Balance Incomc April 30,1921 Earned Eastburn, M artha, M em orial ...... 67.08 3.4 5 Eaton, Fidelia D ...... 1 5 , 3 3 9 -6 9 788.90 Eldredge, Lym an ...... 100.00 5 .14 Eldredge, Truman ...... 1,000.00 51.43 Estes, C arrie A ...... 2 5.0 0 1.2 0 *E van s, L evi P ...... 500.00 2 1.9 8 Faye, M ary D aniel ...... 8 1 . 1 7 4 .17 1 Fen gar, M ary E ...... 16 ,18 4 .5 0 8x4.76 Fessendon, Em m a Sm ith , M em orial ...... 870.00 4 4.74 Fisk, Theron ...... 1,8 7 2 .7 0 9 6 .31 Flagg, M ary ...... 6 ,33 9 .9 0 326.05 Flin t, H arriet N ...... 5,00 0 .0 0 2 5 7 .14 Floyd, Em m et H . S c h o la rsh ip ...... 500.00 2 5 .7 1 Free B aptist Perm anent ...... 3 2 ,7 8 3 .5 1 1,6 8 6 .0 1 French M ission ...... 5 ,0 2 9 .2 0 258.64 F ry , M rs. L . R ...... 2 ,0 8 5 .8 9 10 7 .2 7 Gale, Susan H ...... 1,426.89 73-38 Gates, R uth L ...... 160 .00 8 .2 3 Glover, Henry R...... 5,000.00 2 5 7 .14 Goodrich Scholarship ...... 100.00 5 .14 Ham, W illiam ...... 89 .55 4 .6 1 *H arm on, Eugene E ...... 985.00 4.29 H awkes, A . G ...... 500.00 2 5 .7 1 H ewitt, H arriet B ark er ...... 6 ,4 2 7 .8 3 330 .57 Horton, Ruth E . , M e m o ria l...... 250.00 12.8 6 Hoyt, Joseph B ...... 2 4 ,5 2 3 .0 0 1 ,2 6 1 . 1 8 Huizinga, Albert T., Memorial Scholarship Endowment.... 3io>35 15-96 Insein Sem inary ...... 4 ,1 9 1.5 0 2 15 .5 6 Jam es, W illiam ...... 800.00 41.14 Jenkins, Horace, Eastern China Mission Theological School. 4,000.00 205.71 John, M iss F ran k ...... 500.00 2 5 .7 1 Johnson, Susannah ...... 400.00 20 .5 7 Jon es, B . E ...... 500.00 2 5 .7 1 Jon es, Joh n J ...... 50,000.00 2 ,5 7 1.4 3 Judson Scholarship ...... 538.75 2 7 .7 1 Karen School Book ...... 7 ,0 3 5 .4 0 3 6 1.8 2 Karen Sem inary Endow m ent ...... 2,0 0 0 .0 0 10 2.8 6 K elly Scholarship ...... 300.00 15 .4 3 Kimball, Edmund ...... 2 1,0 0 0 .0 0 1,0 8 0 .00 2 K u rtz, Jacob ...... 1,8 0 4 .7 3 85.04 Latourette, E . S ...... 29.00 1.4 9 Legacy “ Y ” ...... 1 ,6 10 .3 0 82.82 Lees, W. B...... - 475.00 24.43 Leonard M em orial ...... 1 ,1 9 4 .7 2 6 1.4 4 Leonard, Fran k J ...... 4,9 9 5.0 0 256.89 Lester, Sarah E dson , Foreign M ission ...... 1,0 0 0 .0 0 5 1-4 3 Lew is, M ary J ...... 2 2 8 .35 n - 7 4 Lindsay, M ary E ...... 1 ,9 9 7 .5 5 10 2 .7 3 *Lind say, Rachel K ...... 986.01 2 1 . 1 1 Little, George W ...... 5,00 0 .0 0 2 5 7 .14 Logan, Joh n ...... 100.00 5 .14 Lougee, C lara A ...... 1,0 0 0 .0 0 5 1-4 3 Mah, H nin E ...... 1,7 8 0 .2 9 9 1.5 6 M endenhall, N annie ...... 7 ,2 16 .5 0 3 7 1 .1 3 Mendenhall, Thomas G ...... 1,932.33 99-3^ Merrick, Austin ...... 69,448.98 3,571.66 M errill, S . Em m a ...... 5 2 2 .17 26.85 M ills, Thom as L ...... 150 .0 0 7 .7 1 Missionaries’ Home ...... 10 .0 0 .5 1 Moulton, Greenleaf, Memorial ...... 500.00 2 5 .7 1 M unger, Isador G ., Literature ...... 1,0 0 0 .0 0 5 1.4 3 M cKoon, M amre A n n ...... 8 15 .8 1 4 1.9 6 Nason, Jam es ...... 7 ,0 9 6 .11 364-94 Native P re a c h e rs ...... 2 ,3 6 9 .3 8 1 2 1 .8 s Nelson, O lof ...... 200.00 10 .2 9 Newell, M ary M . A ...... 3 2 ,2 2 6 .9 1 1,4 9 7 .3 2 Norcross, Stephen W ...... 500.00 2 5 .7 1 Nowland, L u cy A ...... 1 1 .4 2 .59 Ongole College Endowm ent ...... 4 8 ,10 4 .0 0 2 ,4 7 3.9 2 Owen, W illiam B ...... 12 ,0 0 0 .17 6 17 .1 5 “ Paige, Charles C ...... 17 5 .0 0 6.85 Parker, Eveline B ...... 1,4 5 5 -6 3 74.86 Parks, Louisa M ...... 1,0 0 0 .0 0 5 1.4 3 Pease, W illiam A ...... 358.70 18 .4 5 Permanent Fund ...... 89,318.95 4,593-55 172 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

Balance Inconic April so, ipzi Earned P evear, H en ry A ...... 12 ,5 0 0 .0 0 642.86 Pillsbury, George A ...... 5,000.00 257 .14 P o rter, Benjam in ...... 1,0 0 0 .0 0 51.43 P rice , J . D . , Scholarship ...... 538 .75 27.71 Putnam , B . , M em orial ...... 2 ,4 50 .0 0 126.00 Q uincy, R obert ...... 9 0.50 4.65 Ram apatnam Sem inary ...... 26 ,26 6 .59 1,35 0 .8 5 Rangoon Baptist College Endowm ent ...... 1 ,2 1 9 .1 5 62.70 Rangoon College Fun d ...... 1,0 0 0 .0 0 51.4 3 R eed , C . H ow ard, M em orial ...... 400.00 20.57 R e n fre w , Jefferson ...... 1,0 0 0 .0 0 51.43 R oberts, Elizabeth ...... 4,000.00 205.71 Robinson, Jan e E ...... 100.00 5 .14 Rockw ell, R u fu s ...... 230 .9 0 11.8 7 R o gers, A lexander W ...... 6,000.00 308.57 R o lf, A n d rew G . , and Josephine R o lf M e m o ria l...... 5 ,9 8 7 .2 5 307.92 R ow land, P r u s i a ...... 26 3.9 5 13.57 R u th , M ordecai T ...... 5 ,2 4 2 .6 8 269.62 Sargen t, Edw ard P . , M e m o ria l...... 6 ,40 6.07 329.46 Saw telle, Elizabeth S ...... 200.00 10.29 Shady D ell ...... 10 ,8 5 0 .0 0 558.00 Sheldon Fund ...... 1,0 0 0 .0 0 51.4 3 Sheldon, Chauncey ...... 250 .00 12.86 Sherm an, George J ...... 1,0 0 0 .0 0 5 1.4 3 Skofield, Sarah A ...... 500.00 25.71 Sm ith, Sam uel F ...... 2,00 0 .0 0 102.86 Spencer, Charles D ...... 2,00 0.0 0 102.86 S tu art, E lv ira A ...... 99.50 5 .12 Sunderland, J a m e s ...... 5,00 0 .0 0 2 5 7 .14 Sw aim , M ary A ugusta Noble ...... 9 ,00 0.00 462.86 Sw eet, Joh n D ...... 10,000.00 514.29 T ag e , Jam es M ...... 7 9 0 -3 5 40.65 Thomas Fund ...... 3,5 0 0 .0 0 180.00 Thom pson. R achel, M e m o ria l...... 1,0 0 0 .0 0 5 1.4 3 Toungoo K aren Norm al School ...... 3 ,3 0 6 .1 1 170.03 T ow ne, M ary J ...... 2 ,50 0 .0 0 128.57 T rip p , Susan ...... 1,167.99 60.07 T u ll M em orial ...... 2 50.00 12.86 V an H u sen , C ...... 2,00 0 .0 0 102.86 * V arn ey , Addison P ...... 74 7.2 5 23.05 W ade Scholarship ...... 1 ,6 2 6 .15 83.63 W am e, Joseph A ...... 17 ,6 6 2 .13 908.33 W atson, M aria ...... 7 2 9 .19 3 7 -5° W ells, Susan E ...... 2,00 0 .0 0 102.86 Wetherby, Zillah U ...... 2,5 0 0 .0 0 128.57 W hite, M rs. Ellen M ...... 1,0 0 0 .0 0 51.4 3 W h iting, M artha ...... 1,1 6 7 .5 0 60.04 *W iggin s, M ercy A ...... 3,8 0 0.00 16.57 W illiam s, Catharine ...... 500.00 25.71 Woman’s Fund of the Adams Village Baptist Church...... 25.00 1.20 W oolverton, George A ...... 5,0 0 0 .0 0 2 5 7 .14 W orm sley, Thom as ...... 5,00 0 .0 0 2 5 7 .14 S965,598.73 $49,150.09

* New Funds donated received during the year. 1 Increased $373.63 during the year. -Increased $1,000.00 during the year. 3 Increased $75.00 during the year. REPORT OF THE TREASURER 173

CLASS II Temporary Funds in General Investments

Balance Increase Decrease Balance M ay i , during during A p ril 30, Incom e 1920 year year 19 21 Earned

Barnes, Mrs Arthur...... $324.0 0 $324.00 $16.66 Goodnow, Emma A. ... 8 .6 5 7 .9 4 $460.60 $ 1,4 6 0 .6 0 7 , 657-94 4 4 1.8 0 Bengal F a m in e ...... 397-84 397■84 20.46 China F a m in e ...... 20 5.58 20 5.58 9-93 Doe, Joh n , M issio n a ry .. 9 .8 36 .9 4 11,3 9 0 .5 4 2 1 ,2 2 7 .4 8 555.56 Japan Fam ine ...... 1 4 7 -5 4 147-54 7-59 Telugu Industrial School, 6 ,7 3 3 .2 8 6,733.28 346.28

$ 2 6 ,3 0 3 .12 $ 1 1 , 8 5 1 .1 4 $1,6 6 6 .18 $36 ,4 8 8 .0 8 $ 1,3 9 8 .2 8

CLASS III Permanent Funds with Specified Investments

Balance j Balance M ay i , Increase Decrease [ April 30, Income 1920 ! 19 21 Earned

Bixby, E. M ...... $ 1,0 0 0 .0 0 $1,0 00 .00 $25.0 0 Coles and Ackerm an M em o rial...... 20,000.00 $20,000.00 800.00 Coles, Abraham , M e­ morial ...... 1,0 0 0 .0 0 50.00 Colver, Charles K ., Mem’l Student Aid and Book ...... 1.5 0 0 .0 0 1.5 0 0 .0 0 82.50 Doe, John ...... 448,300.00 448 ,300.00 3 5 . 7 8 3 .4 9 Dunham, Sabra G . . . 2.00 0 .0 0 2.00 0 .0 0 100.00 Liu Chiu Isla n d ...... 5.00 0 .0 0 5.00 0 .0 0 200.0J5 Memorial Baptist Ch. of Christ, New York 1.0 0 1.0 0 Merrick, Austin . ... 8 ,3 3 3 83 8 , 3 3 3 -3 3 3 3 3 -3 3 Reiff, William E .... 17, 5 7 7 -6 8 1 7 , 5 7 7 -6 8 7 9 9 -3 4 Rockefeller, John D. ,900,000.00 $2,100,000.00 5,000,000.00 2 4 3 ,S 5 i.o o Rogers, A lexan der W . 4 .000.00 4.000.00 250.00 Ward T ru st ...... 4 .0 0 0.0 0 4.0 0 0.0 0 160.00 Warne, Joseph A ___ 1.0 5 0 .0 0 1.0 5 0 .0 0 63.00

$3,413,762.01 $2,100,000.00 $ 1,0 0 0 .0 0 $5,512,762.01 $282,198.66 i /4 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

CLASS IV Temporary Funds with Specified Investments

i Balance | Balance May i, Increase D ecrease A pril 30, 1920 j 1921

$4,0 00 .00 $4,000.00 63,455-49 $56, 544-51 120,000.00 2,0 0 0 .0 0 2,000.00 32 ,50 0 .0 0 $32 ,5 0 0 .0 0

$101,955-49 $56, 544-51 $32 ,5 0 0 .0 0 $126,000.00

Incomes not shown on this classification, as in some cases the donor has specified the object for which this income is to be used.

CLASS V Special Permanent and Temporary Funds

Balance Increase Decrease 1 Balance M ay 1 , during during 1 A pril 30, 1920 year year j 1921

$ 1,4 0 7 .0 0 $1,407.00 34,, 16 7 .2 3 34,^67.23 200.00 Fountain, Josephine A . , M em orial.. 2 0 0 .0 0 2 0 0 .0 0 I , 0 0 0 .0 0 I ,0 0 0 .0 0 80.00 80.00 100.00 1 0 0 .0 0 I , 2 0 0 .0 0 1 ,2 0 0 .0 0 500.00 500.00 $90 7.29 9 0 7 .2 9 200.00 200.00 420.00 420.00 Miscellaneous Missionaries’ Funds... 20 ,0 6 8 .8 3 8 11.0 5 $88 7.6 5 1 9 ,9 9 2 .2 3

j $59,343-06 $ 1 ,9 18 .3 4 $88 7.6 5 $ 6 0 , 373.75

SUMMARY OF CHANGES IN FUNDS

Balance Balance M ay 1 , Increase Decrease A pril 30, 1920 19 2 1

Permanent Funds in General In­ vestments ...... $950,564.93 $15,033.80 $965»598-73 Temporary Funds in General In­ vestments ...... 2 6 ,3 0 3 .12 1 1 , 8 5 1 . 1 4 $ i ,6 6 6 .18 36 ,488.0 8 Permanent Funds with Specified Investments ...... 3,413,762.01 2,100,000.00 1,0 0 0 .0 0 5,512,762-01 Temporary Funds with Specified Investments ...... 10 1,9 5 5 .4 9 5 6 ,5 4 4 .5 1 32,50 0 .00 126,000.00 Special Permanent and Temporary Funds ...... 5 9 ,34 3.0 6 1 ,9 18 .3 4 887.65 6 0 , 373-75

$4,551,928.61 $2,185,347.79 $3 6 ,0 5 3 .8 3 $6,701,222.57 REPORT OF THE TREASURER 175

SCH EDULE VI

A Rates of Income Earned

I. General Investments of Permanent and Temporary Funds: Average Investment for the year ...... $1,017,529.58 Incom e Earned during the year ...... 50 ,54 8 .37 R ate o f Income Earned ...... 4-97%

II. General Investments o f Annuity Funds: Average Investment for the y ea r ...... 1,626,765.90 Incom e Earned during the year ...... 7 2,0 2 5.4 8 Rate of Income Earned ...... \ ...... 4-43%

B Annuity Reserve Annuity R eserve, M ay i , 1920 ...... $ 1,6 3 5 ,0 16 .0 6 New Agreements written during the year...... 83,364.89 $1,718,380.95

Agreements matured during the year ...... $29,606.97 Adjustments chargeable against Reserve... 51,465.31 ------8 1,0 7 2 .2 8 $1,637,308.67 Annuity Paym ents ...... $ 1 1 0 ,1 5 8 . 1 1 Annuity Investm ent Incom e ...... 7 2 ,0 2 5 .4 8 ------3 8 ,13 2 .6 3 $1 ,599,17 6 .0 4 c Matured Annuity Reserve Reserve for the Equalization of Income from Matured Annuities, May 1, 1920 $29,447.-86 Annuity Agreements matured during the year ...... $29,6 0 6 .9 7 Annuity Agreements matured designated to establish Perm anent Funds ...... 1 ,18 4 .6 5 ------2 8 ,4 2 2 .3 2

$ 5 7 ,8 7 0 .18 Transferred to Budget Income...... 20,000.00 Reserve for the Equalization of Income from Matured Annuities, April 30, 1921 ...... $ 3 7 ,8 7 0 .18

D Legacy Equalization Reserve Reserve for Equalization of Income from Legacies, May 1, 1920 ...... $251,760.97 Legacies received during the year...... 155,284.25 $407,045.22 Transferred to Budget Income...... $146,297.97 Transferred to Permanent Funds...... 5)747*25 Transferred to Reserve for Expenditures on Non-productive Estates ...... 5,00 0 .0 0 ------15 7 ,0 4 5 .2 2 Reserve for Equalization of Income from Legacies, April 30, 1921 ...... $250,000.00 176 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

SCHEDULE VII GENERAL INVESTMENT OF PERMANENT AND TEMPORARY FUNDS

Railroad Bonds P a r Value B ook Value $3,000 Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe R. R., E. 4’s M arch , 1928 $2,961.24 10.000 4 s Ju ly , 1948 10,138.90 2 ,0 0 0 Bangor & Aroostook R. R. Co., ist Mtg. 5*S A u g. , 1939 1,985.62 10,000 4’s Ju n e , 1944 9,831.66 10,000 Boston & Albany R. R. Co., Improvement Bd. of 1913 ...... 5’s Ju ly , 1938 10,103.73 10,000 Boston & Maine R. R ...... 4 ’s Sept. , 1926 10,000.00 S.ooo Canada Southern Ry. Cov Cons. Ser. A. S’s Oct. > 196a 5,028.47 10,000 Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R. R. Co., 111. D iv. M tg...... 4’s Ju ly , 1949 9,727-23 Chteago & Eastern Illinois R. R. Co., ist 6’s Oct. , 1934 2,908.59 Chicago, Indiana & Southern R. R., Gold B d . o f 1906 ...... 4 ’s Ja n . , 1956 9,693.54 Chicago Junction Rwys. & Union Stock Yards Co., Mtg. & Coll. Tr. Ref...... 4’s A p ril , 1940 4,420.11 Chicago Junction Rwys. & Union Stock Yards Co., Mtg. & Coll. Tr. Ref...... 4 ’s A p ril , 1940 4 ,425-97 Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Ry. Co., Series o f 1909 ...... 4 ’s Ju ly , 1934 4 ,579-87 10.000 Chicago & Western Indiana R. R. Cons.. 4 s Ju ly , 1952 9,163.58 3.000 Cincinnati, Indianapolis & Western R. R. Co., ist ...... 5’s Nov. , 1965 3,000.00 10.000 Cleveland Terminal & Valley R. R. Co., 1 st ...... 4 ’s Nov. , 1995 9 ,955-35 10.000 E rie Railroad, P rio r L i e n ...... 4 ’s Ja n . , 1996 10,000.00 5.000 Housatonic R . R . Cons...... 5’s Nov. , 1937 5,050.26 10.000 Kansas City & Pacific R. R. Co., ist.... 4 ’s A ug. , 1990 5,208.32 5.000 Kansas City Terminal Ry. Co., ist Mtg.. 4’s Ja n . , i960 4,469.17 25.000 Lake Shore & Michigan Southern R y .... 4’s Sept. , 1928 25,014.18 5.000 Lehigh & New York R. R. Co., ist ...... 4 s Sept. , 1945 4,984.06 12.000 Louisville & Jefferson Bridge Co ...... 4 s M arch , I 9 4 S 11,936.89 11.00 0 Louisville & Nashville R. R. Co., Atlanta, K n o xville & Cincinnati D iv...... 4 ’s M ay , 1955 10,423.74 10.000 Minneapolis, Sault Ste. Marie & Atlantic Rwy. Co., ist Mtg...... 4’s Ja n . , 1926 9,802.20 Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie R y . Co., ist Cons. M tg...... 4 ’s Jan . , 1938 4,812.75 20.000 Missouri Pacific R. R. Co., Gen. Mtg. . . 4 ’s- M arch , 1975 10,526.54 10.000 New York Central & Hudson River R. R. Co., L ak e Shore Coll...... 3 ^ ’ s Feb. , 1998 7,617.83 10.000 New York Central & Hudson River R. R., Debenture ...... 4 ’s M ay , 1934 10,056.09 10.000 New York, New Haven & Hartford R.R., Debenture ...... 4’s Ju ly , 1955 9,880.99 9.000 Northern Pacific Ry. Co., Gen. Lien Ry. & Land G r a n t ...... 3 ’s Jan . , 2047 5,823.70 10.000 Oregon-Washington R. R. & Navigation Co., ist & Ref. Mtg., Series A ...... 4 ’s Ja n . , 1961 8,768.84 15.000 Pennsylvania Co., Series of 1906 ...... 4 s A p ril , 19 3 1 14 .956.40 10.000 Pennsylvania R. R. Co., Gen. Mtg. Ser. A 4V2 s Ju n e , 1965 9,765.2 2 8.000 Phila., Wilmington & Baltimore R. R., Stock T ru st Certificates ...... 4’s Ju ly , 19 2 1 7,800.00 5.000 St. Louis Merchants Bridge Terminal R w y. Co...... 5’s Oct. , 1930 4,972.71 5.000 Terminal Railroad Assoc, of St. Louis, is t M tg...... 4 /4 ’s Oct. , 1939 5,039-05 4.000 Toledo & Ohio Central Rwy. Co., ist Mtg. 5’s Ju ly , 1935 3,000.00 10.000 Washington Terminal Co., ist ...... 3 /^’s Feb. , 1945 9 , 338 .8i

$ 3 0 7 , 171 -61 REPORT OF TIIE TREASURER 177

Traction Bonds Par Value B ook Value $5,000 Chicago Railways Co., ist ...... 5’s Feb. 1, 1927 $4,968.61 5.000 Danville, Champaign & Decatur Rwy. & Light Co., Cons. & Ref. Coll. Trust... 5’s March 1, 1938 4 ,7 i 3-46 5.000 Danville, Champaign & Decatur Rwy. & Light Co., Cons. & Ref. Coll. Trust... 5’s M arch 1, 1938 4,622.83 10.000 Galveston-Houston Elec. Ry., ist M tg... 5 ’s Oct. 1, 1954 9,740.56 5.000 Georgia Railway & Power Co., ist & Ref. M tg., Sinking Fund ...... 5 ’s A p ril 1, 1954 4,696.82 5.000 Kansas City, Clay County & St. Joseph R y. Co., is t M tg...... 5 ’s Sept. 1941 4,703.16 5.000 Middlesex & Boston St. Rwy. Co., ist & R e f...... 4 ^ ’s Jan . 1, 1932 4,962.53 500 Pennsylvania & Ohio Rwy. Co...... 5 ’s M arch 15 , 19 21 I.OO 10.000 Portland, Ore., Railway Light & Power Co., ist R e f...... 5 ’s Feb. i. 1942 9 ,7 17-94 5.000 Tri-City Railway Co., Davenport, Iowa, ist ...... _...... _...... S ’s Sept. 1 , 1922 5,000.00 19.000 Washington Railway & Electric Co., Cons. 4’s Dec. 1, 1951 16,787.73 $69,914.64

Electric, Gas, and Water Bonds P ar Value Book Valttc $5,000 Adirondack Electric Power Corp., 1st Mtg 5 ’s Jan . 1962 $4,685-15 5.000 Cincinnati Gas & Electric_ Co., ist & ReJ Mtg. Sinking Fd., Series A ...... 5’s A p ril 1 > 1956 4 ,9 78-73 5.000 Citizens Gas Co. of Indianapolis, ist R e f...... 5 ’s Ju ly 1 , 1942 4,768.61 5.000 Connecticut Power Co., ist & Cons. Mtg, 5 s A p ril 1 1963 4,805.94 10.000 Consolidated Gas, Electric Light & Power Co., Gen. Mtg...... 4- Z ’s Feb. 14 1935 9,488.88 5.000 Consumers Tower Co., ist Lien & Ref. . S’s Ja n . 1 1936 4,725.86 5.000 Fort Worth Power Sr Light Co., ist Mtg 5 s A u g. 1 1931 4,871-33 6,500 Hutchison Water, Light & Power Co., 1st M tg...... 4’s Jan . 1 ■ 1928 4 , 139-43 5.000 Indianapolis Gas Co., ist Cons. Mtg... 5 ’s A p ril 1 1952 4,848.88 21.000 Niagara, Lockport & Ontario Power Co Ref. Mtg. Sinking Fund, Series A . . 6’s Feb. 1 1958 19,607.40 5.000 Northern Texas Electric Co., Coll. Tr. 5 ’s Ja n . 1 1940 4,852.03 5.000 Seattle Electric Co...... 5’s M arch 1 1939 4,968.88 2.000 Seattle Electric Co., Cons. & Ref. Mtg.. 5 s A u g. 1 1929 1,954-03 25.000 Seattle Electric Co., ist ...... 5 s Feb. 1 1930 25,715-04 2.000 Topeka Edison Co., ist ...... 5’s Sept. 1 1930 1,964.29 10.000 United Electric Co. of N. J. ist Mtg... 4 ’s Ju n e 1 1949 8,741.30 5.000 Western Electric Co., is t ...... 5’s Dec. 31 1922 5,008.09 5.000 W estern E lectric Co., ist M tg...... 5 s Dec. 31 1922 5,001.81 $125,125.68

Telephone and Telegraph Bonds Par Value Book Value $15,000 Bell Telephone Co. of Canada, ist Mtg... 5’s April 1925 $14,980.60 5.000 Cumberland Telephone & Telegraph Co., ist & Gen’l ...... 5’s Jan . 1, 1937 5.03I-76 5.000 Cumberland Telephone & Telegraph Co., is t & G en’l ...... 5’ s Jan . 1, 1937 4 .995-93 5.000 Michigan State Telephone Co., ist Mtg.. 5’s Feb. 1, 1924 4 .9 7 8 -9 S 5.000 New York Telephone Co., ist & Gen’l M tg...... 4 j4 ’s Nov. 1. 1939 4,893.23 5.000 New York Telephone Co., ist & Gen’l Mtg. Sinking Fund ...... 4^2’s Nov. 1, 1939 4 .933 -2 9 5.000 New York Telephone Co., ist & Gen’l Mtg. Sinking F u n d ...... 4 ^ ’s Nov. 1, 1939 4,980.6 9 5.000 Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph, ist M tg...... 5’s Jan . 1, 1941 4,951.40 5.000 Western Union Tel. Co., Funding & R. E . M tg...... 4 % ’s M ay 1, I9S0 4 .733-51 5.000 Western Union Telegraph Co., Funding & R . E . M tg...... 4^2’s M ay J, 1950 4,690.99

$ 5 9 , i 70-35 178 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

P a r V alue District, Government, Municipal, and State Bonds Book Value $5,000 C ity of Albany Water Bond ...... a Vz’s Nov. 1, 1929 $5,017.86 10,000 Dominion of Canada ...... 5’s April i» i93i 9,908.49 5,ooo City of Dallas, Public School Improve­ ment ...... 45^ ’s May 1, 1949 5,120.45 City of Dallas, Public School Improve­ ment ...... 4^2’s May 1, 1950 5,120.72 City o f Knoxville, Third Creek Sewer, 1912 ...... 4^4’s June 15, 1942 10,000.00 10 ,000 City of Los Angeles, Harbor Improve­ ment ...... 4^’s May 1,1951 10 ,15 2.21 •5,ooo Province of Manitoba, Dominion of Canada ...... 6’s A ug. i , 1928 4,750.62 5 .000 City of Memphis, Special Levee Bond... 5’s Ju ly i, 1954 5,389.98 10,000 City of Memphis, Special Levee Bond... 5’s Ju ly 1, 1954 10,791.03 6.000 Miami Conservancy District ...... 5 /^ ’s Dec. 1, 1934 6,000.00 10,000 City of Minneapolis, Street Improvement Bond ...... 4^4’s July 1,1932 10,233.67 5.000 City of Nashville, State of Tennessee, Gen’l Imp., Series of 1914...... 5's M arch 1,1927 5,127.0 2 2,960 Newbert P rotective District, Orange Co., C alif...... 6’s Jan . 1, 1922 2,960.00 5.000 Province of New Brunswick, Trans. Deb. 4 ^ ’s Dec. 1, 1925 4,893-33 10,000 Omaha Water Works of the City of Omaha ...... 4 /^ ’s Dec. 1 5, i 9 4 i 10,183.27 5.000 City of Spokane, Water Bond...... ------s’s . Dec. 1, 1926 5 ,0 4 9 . 1 s 10,000 City of Toronto, Province of_ Ontario... 4j4’s Ju ly 1, 1925 9,788.65 5.000 Toronto Harbour Commissioners, 4th Series ...... 4 /^ ’s Sept. 1, 1953 4,378-29

$124,866.74

P a r Value United States Liberty Bonds Book Value $500 U . S. of America, ist Lib. Loan ...... 3J4’s Ju n e 15, 1932 ■47 $500.00 4,900 U . S. of America, ist Lib. Loan ...... 4 /4 ’s Ju n e 15 , 1932- 47 4,900.00 1.000 U. S. of America, ist Lib. Loan, Reg.. 4 *A s Ju n e 15 , 1932- 47 1,000.00 10,250 U. S. of America, 2nd Lib. Loan ...... s Nov. 15 , 1927- 42 10,250.00 1.000 u. S. of America, 2nd Lib. Loan, Reg.. 4J4’s Nov. 15, 1927 42 1,000.00 33,850 u. S . o f A m erica, 3d L ib. L o a n ...... 4 lA s Sept. 15 , 1928 33,850.00 1.000 U . S. of America, 3d Lib. Loan, Reg... 4% s Sept. 15 , 1928 1,000.00 50,350 U . S. of America, 4th Lib. Loan ...... 4 y* s Oct. 15 , 193 3 - 38 47,8 36.23 24,000 U . S. of America, Victory Liberty Loan 424’s M ay 20, 1923 24,000.00 $124,336.23 P a r V alue Sundry Bonds Book Value $1,000 Computing-Tabulating Recording Co. Sin kin g Fund, Gen’l ...... 6’s Ju ly 1, 1941 $813.32 4.000 Fed eral W h arf & Storage Co., is t ...... 5’s Feb. 1, 19 12 1.00 5.000 Illinois Steel Co., Debenture...... 4 ^ ’s A p ril 1, 1940 4 ,746.50 10.000 Illinois Steel Co., Debenture...... 4 ^ ’s A p ril 1, 1940 9 ,354-94 2.000 International Silver Co...... 6 s Dec. 1, 1948 2,171.62 3.000 Iowa Loan & Trust Co., Series 126, De­ benture ...... 5’s April 1, 1924-29 3,000.00 1.000 Standard Gas Light Co. of New York C ity, is t ...... 5’s May r, 1930 1,000.00 10.000 Swift & Co., ist Mtg. Sinking Fund.... 5’s July 1, 1944 9 ,9 i 8.37

$31,005.75 Mortgages In various States $136,422.98

Shares Stocks B ook Value 15 Boston & Maine R. R., ist Preferred “ A ” ...... $1,548.00 60 C incinnati, Indianapolis & W estern R . R . Co., Com m on...... 1,990.00 60 Cincinnati, Indianapolis & Western R. R. Co., Pfd ...... 3,000.00 1 City Real Estate Trustees, Chicago ...... 800.00 22 Continental Gas & Electric Co., P fd ...... 1,9 11.07 14 First National Bank of Boston ...... 4,014.0° 14 F irst N ational B an k o f Boston ...... 1,400.00 12 International T ru st Co., Boston ...... 1,200.00 15 N ational Fuel Gas ...... 750.00 REPORT OF THE TREASURER 179

Shares Book Value 2 New York, New Haven & Hartford R. R. Co...... 100.00 Pennsylvania _ R . R ...... 901.76 76 Standard Reliance A ssets, Lim ited, Common ...... 1,800.00 75 U nited Traction & Electric Co...... 7 .575-00 70 U pper Coos Railroad Co., N . H ...... 10,500.00 15° Williams-Davis-Brooks & Hinchman Sons, Detroit, Mich., Pfd. 1,387.50 $38,877.33 Miscellaneous Shelburne F alls Savin gs B an k, M ass...... $500.00

Real Estate In various States $ 3,479-19

SUMMARY OF GENERAL INVESTMENT OF PERMANENT AND TEMPORARY FUNDS Railroad ...... $3 0 7 ,17 1.6 1 Tracti9n ...... 69,914.64 Electric, Gas, and W ater ...... : ...... 125,125.68 Telephone and Telegraph ...... 59,170.35 District, Government, Municipal, and State ...... 124,866.74 U. S. Lib erty Bonds ...... 124,336.23 Sundry ...... 3 i , ° ° 5-75 $841,591.00 Notes secured by real estate and trust deeds ...... 136,422.98 Stocks ...... 38,877.33 M iscellaneous ...... 500.00 Real Estate ...... 3 ,479 .19 $1,020,870.50 GENERAL INVESTMENTS OF ANNUITY FUNDS

Par Value Railroad Bonds Book Value O O O Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe R. R., Transcontinental Short Lines ...... 4’s Ju ly , 1858 $4,609.32 13,000 Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe R. R., Ad­ justment 100 Yr ...... 4’s Ju ly , 1995 13,000.00 5,000 Baltimore & Ohio R. R. Co., Ref. & Gen’l Mtg. Series A ...... 5’s Dec. , 1995 5,099.46 10,000 Big Sandy Railroad, ist Mtg...... 4 s Ju n e , 1944 9,831.66 10,000 Boston & M aine R . R ...... 4’s Sept. > 1926 10,000.00 10,000 Canada Southern Ry. Co., Cons. 50 Year Series A ...... S’s Oct. , 1962 10,4 45-44 10,000 Central Indiana Ry., ist Mtg...... 4 s M av , 1953 9,838.36 1,500 Central Vermont Railway Co., Ref. Mtg. 5 s M ay , 19 30 1,500.00 1,000 Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R. R. Co., 111. D iv., M tg...... 3 J/Z’s Ju ly , 1949 1,000.00 10,000 Chicago, Indiana & Southern R. R., Series o f 1906 ...... 4’s Jan . , 1956 9,693-7 7 1,000 Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville Rwy., R ef. M tg...... 5 ’s Ju ly , 1947 979-45 10,000 Chicago Junction Railways & Union Stockyards Co...... 5 ’s A p ril , 1940 10 ,117 .8 8 10,000 Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co., Gen. M tg...... 4 ^ ’s M ay , 1989 10,279.39 1,000 Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co., Series of 1909 ...... 4 ’ s Ju ly , 1934 8 45 .78 5,000 Chicago & Northwestern Rwy. Co., Gen. M tg...... 4 ’s Nov. , 1987 4, 773-45 5,000 Chicago Union Station Co., 1st Mtg. Series A ...... 4 ^ ’s Ju ly , 1963 5 ,0 11.17 5,000 Chicago Union Station Co., ist Mtg. Series A ...... 4 ^ ’s Ju ly , 1963 5 ,0 11.14 10,000 Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis R y ., Gen...... 4’s Ju n e , 1993 9,888.41 12,000 Delaware River R. R. & Bridge Co., ist 4’s A ug. , 1936 10 ,4 11.7 6 10,000 4’s Jan. , 1996 10,000.00 180 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

P a r V alue Book Value 5.000 Fitchburg Railroad Co...... 4^2 S Ja n . 1, 1932 5,096.55 10.000 Housatonic R. R., Cons...... 5 s Nov. 1, 1937 10,100.52 15.000 Kansas City Terminal Ry. Co., ist ...... 4 ’s Jan . 1, i960 14 ,119 .2 5 10.000 Lake Shore & Michigan Southern R y .. .. 4 ’s M ay 1, 19 31 9,674.94 5.000 Lehigh Valley Rwy. Co., is t M tg ...... 4 ^ ’s 1, 1940 4,321.42 8.000 Louisville & Jefferson Bridge Co...... 4 ’s B e t 1, 1945 7 ,4 9 9 -8 i 10.000 Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie. 4’s Ju ly 1, 1938 9,577.oi 1.000 New York Central R . R ., Series of 19 15 , C onv. Deb...... 6*s M ay 1, 1935 921.24 10.000 NewYork Central & Hudson River R. R., M ichigan C e n t r a l...... 3 J4 ’s Feb. 1, 1998 8,542.46 10.000 New York Connecting R. R. Co., Series A , is t M tg...... 4^2’s A ug. 1953 9 ,9 56.79 20.000 New York, New Haven & Hartford R.R., Debenture ...... 4 *S M ay 1, 1956 19,522.94 10.000 Norfolk & Western R. R. Div., ist Lien & G en’l ...... 4 ’s Ju ly 1, 1944 9,986.18 7.000 Northern Pacific Railway Co., Gen. Lien. 3 ’s Jan . 1, 2047 4,718.39 5.000 Northern Pacific Ry. Co., Gen. Lien Ry. and Land Grant ...... j . 3 ’s Jan . 1, 2047 3 ,231-34 13,500 Northern Pacific Railway Co., Prior Lien R y. and Land G r a n t ...... 4 ’s Jan . *, 1997 10,435.85 1.000 Northern Pacific Railway, Gen’l Lien Ry. and Land Grant ...... 3 ’s Jan . 1, 2047 663.01 5.000 Northern Pacific & Great Northern C. B. & Q. Coll. Join t. R . R ...... 4 ’s Ju ly 1, 1921 5,000.00 10.000 Northern Pacific & Great Northern C. B . & Q. Coll. Join t. R . R ...... 4’s Ju ly j, 1921 10,000.00 10.000 Pennsylvania Co., Series o f 19 0 6 ...... 4 ’s A pril 1, 19 31 9,970.70 5.000 Pennsylvania Railroad Co., Gen’l Mtg., Series A ...... 4 /^’s Ju n e 1, 1965 5,016.76 5.000 Philadelphia Co., Conv. Deb. of 19 12.... 5 s M ay 1, 1922 4,985.96 500 Seaboard Air Line Railway Co., Secured Note ...... 7 's Sept. 5 , 1923 500.00 1.000 Seaboard Air Line Railway Co., ist & Cons. Mtfj. Series A ...... 6’s Sept. 1, 1945 1,000.00 10.000 Southern Railway Co., St. Louis Div., ist 4’s Jan . 1, i 9 5 i 9,905.04 5.000 Terminal Railroad Assoc, of St. Louis, 1st M tg...... 4 /^’s Oct. 1, 1939 5,029.31 4.000 U nited N ew Jersey R. R. and Canal Co., G en’l M tg...... 4 ’ s Sept. 1, 1929 3,5 52-oo 1.000 Wisconsin Central Railway Co., ist Gen’l M tg ...... 4 ’s Ju ly 1, 1949 915-20

$ 3 2 6 ,5 79 -ii P a r Value Traction Bonds B ook Value $4,000 Bleeker St. & Fulton Ferry R. R Co., ist Mtg. Ext...... 4’s Tan. 1, 1950 $3,767.66 -’5,ooo Boston Elevated R ailw ay Co...... 4’s M ay 1, 1935 25,000.00 3,000 Danville, Champaign & Decatur Ry. & Light Co., Cons. & Ref. Coll. Tr ...... 5’ s M arch 1, 1938 3,000.00 5.000 Interborough Rapid Transit Co., ist & R e f. M tg...... 5’s Jan . 1, 1966 4 ,932.58 5.000 Interborough Rapid Transit Co., ist & R e f. M tg...... 5’ s Jan . 1, 1966 4,895.46 Interborough Rapid Transit Co., ist & R e f. Mtg...... 5’s Ja n . 1, 1966 9 ,9 5 3 .o8 5,000 Interborough Rapid Transit Co., ist & R ef. M tg...... 5’s Jan . 1 , 1966 4 ,976-54 1,000 Iowa Railway & Light Co., ist & R ef... 5 s Sept. 1, 1932 1,000.00 5>ooo Springfield & Northeastern Traction Co., ist M tg...... 5’ s Dec. 1, 1936 5,049.16 10,000 West End Street Railway, Deb...... 5 ’s March 1, 1944 10 ,511.0 8 $73,085-56 P a r V alue Electric, Gas, and Wal er Bonds B o o k Value $5,000 Blackstone Valley Gas & Electric Co., ist 5’s Jan . 1, 1939 $5,116 .4 5 5.000 Citizens Gas Co. of Indianapolis, ist & Ref. Sinking Fund ...... 5 ’s Ju ly 1, 1942 5,000.00 5.000 Cleveland Electric Illuminating Co., ist. 5’s A pril 1, 1939 5,078.61 10.000 Cleveland Electric Illuminating Co., ist. 5 ’s April 1, 1939 10,071.5® 5.000 5’s Ju n e 1, 1943 5,050.45 10.000 Consumers Power Co., ist Lien & Ref... 5’s Jan . 1, 1936 10,000.00 REPORT OF TH E TREASURER 1 8 1

P a r V alue B ook Value 5.000 Detroit Edison Co., is t ...... 5’s Jan. 1, 1933 5,063.27 10.000 Detroit Edison Co., is t ...... 5 ’s Jan. 1, 1933 10,086.05 25.000 Federal Light & Traction Co., ist Lien Sinking Fund ...... 5 ’s March 1, 1942 25.000.00 100 Franklin Water, Light & Power Co., ist M tg...... 5’s A pril 1922 100.00 5.000 Indiana Lighting Co., ist Mtg...... 4’s A ug. 1958 4,229.65 5.000 Massachusetts Gas Companies ...... 4^4’s Jan . 1929 4,892.22 5.000 Massachusetts Gas Companies ...... 4 Vi’s Jan . 1929 4,896.50 5.000 Minneapolis General Electric Co...... 5 s Dec. 1934 5,107.92 5.000 M inneapolis G eneral Electric Co...... 5’s Dec. 1934 5.°45.52 5.000 M inneapolis G eneral E lectric Co...... 5 ’s Dec. 1934 5.o3i.73 5.000 M inneapolis General Electric Co...... 5’s Dec. 1934 5.000.00 4.000 Newark Gas Co., is t ...... 6’s A pril 1944 4.000.00 10.000 Southern Power Co., ist Mtg...... 5 ’s March 1, 1930 10.000.00 5.000 Union Electric Light & Power Co...... 5’s Sept. 1, 1932 5,068.40 2.000 Utah Power & Light Co., ist Mtg...... 5’s Feb. 1, 1944 1,985.01 $135,823.36 Par Value Telephone and Telegraph Bonds B o o k Value $1,000 American Telephone & Telegraph Co., 5 Year Notes ...... 6’s Feb. 1, 1924 $ 9 9 3 - i 3 5.000 American Telephone & Telegraph Co.... 4’s July 1,1929 4,763.51 26.000 American Telephone & Telegraph Co., Coll. Trust ...... 4’s Ju ly 1, 1929 2 5 .7 59-30 14.000 American Telephone & Telegraph Co., Coll. T rust ...... 5’s Dec. 1, 1946 13.840.75 10.000 New England Telephone & Telegraph Co., Deb...... 5’s Oct. 1, 1932 10.030.76 10.000 New York Telephone Co., ist & Gen’l Mtg. Sinking Fund ...... 4 % ’s Nov. 1, 1939 10,10 3.45 5.000 New York Telephone Co., ist & Gen’l* M tg...... 4^2 ’s Nov. 1, 1939 4,970.70 5.000 Ohio State Telephone Co., Cons. & Ref. Mtg. Sinking Fund ...... 5’s Ju ly 1, 1944 4 .733 -4 2 10.000 Western Telephone & Telegraph Co., Coll. T rust ...... 5’s Jan . 1, 1932 10,18 5.28 5.000 Western Union Telegfiraph Co., Funding & R . E . M tg...... 4 JA ’s May 1, 1950 5 .II 3-75 $90,494.05 Par Value Municipal Bonds B ook Value $2,000 Borough of Alden, State of Penna...... 4’s M ay 1, 1933 $1,9 14 .2 8 4.000 Town of Arlington, Comm. of Mass. High School Loan of 1 9 1 4 ...... 4/^’ s N ov. 1, 1925 4.000.00 2.000 City of Beverly, Comm, of Mass. Water Loan A ct of 1 9 1 3 ...... 4’s A p ril 1, 1926 1.960.00 2.000 City of Beverly, Comm, of Mass. Water Loan A ct o f 1 9 1 3 ...... 4 ’s A p ril 1, 1927 i , 9 5 7 -io 2.000 City of Boston, Rapid Transit Loan East Boston Tunnel Ext...... 4’s Ju ly 1, *959 1.867.00 2.000 City of Boston, Rapid Transit Loan Dor­ chester Tunnel ...... 4’s Ju ly 1, 1959 1.867.00 1.000 City of Boston, Boston Tunnel & Subway Loan ...... 4’s Ju n e 1, 1948 944.14 5.000 City of Chester, State of Penna. Fund­ ing Bond ...... 3 J4 ’ s July 1, 1929 4.520.00 10.000 City of Cleveland ...... 4 I/i ’s Dec. 1, 193S 10,193-58 10.000 City of D ayton, Sew er Bond ...... 5’s March 1, 1936 10,693.71 10.000 City of Detroit, Water Bond ...... 4’s March 1, 1944 9 ,933-12 2.000 City of Flint, Street Improvement Bond. 4 ^ ’s April 1, 1938 2.043.41 3.000 City of Flint, Street Improvement Bond. 4 lA ’ s April 1, 1939 3.067.61 3.000 City of Flint, Street Improvement Bond. 4 zA’s April 1, 1940 3,070.17 25.000 Government of the Dominion of Canada. 5’s April 1, 1926 24.856.45 1.000 C ity o f Flin t, Sew er B o n d ...... 4 A ’S April 1, 1939 1,022.57 1.000 City of Flin t, Sew er B o n d ...... 4 5 4 ’s April 1, 1940 1.0 23.41 5.000 State of Maryland, State Roads Loan of 19 14 ...... 4’s Feb. 1, 1929 4,988.20 10.000 Commonwealth of Mass., Charles River Basin Loan ...... 3 ^ ’s Jan. 1, 1945 9.234.62 4.000 Commonwealth of Mass., Development of the Port of Boston Loan ...... 4’s Aug. 1, 1925 3,946.66 1.000 Town of Midwav, Comm, of Mass., Water Loati ...... 4’ 5 Nov. 1, 1921 1.000.00 1 8 2 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

P a r V alue Book Value 5.000 C ity of M ontreal ...... 5’s N ov. 1930 5,007.98 5.000 C ity o f M ontreal ...... 5’s N ov. 1930 5.024.38 5.000 C ity of M ontreal ...... 5’s M ay 1936 5.052.25 5.000 Province of Nova Scotia, Dominion of Canada, D eb...... 5’s I*111* 1926 5,022.97 5.000 P rovince of Ontario, Deb...... s ’s Dec. 1926 5.000.00 2.000 City of Paris, Municipal Exterior Loan o f 19 j 6 ...... 6's Oct. 19 21 2.000.00 2.000 City of Philadelphia, Loan of 1909 ...... 4’s Ju ly 1939 1.928.00 4.000 City of Philadelphia, Loan of 1902 -----. . 3 J/&'s Ju ly 1932 3.492.32 9,800 City of Philadelphia, Loan of 1898, Series N ...... 3 ’s D ec. 3 19 21 9.800.00 5.000 Province of Quebec, Debenture...... s ’s Ju n e 1926 5.042.74 10,000 Province of Quebec, Debenture...... s ’s Ju n e 1926 10,036.92 2.000 City of Salem, Comm, of Mass. Loan Act of 19 14 ...... 4 /4 ’s A u g. 1926 2.000.00 2.000 City of Salem, Comm, of Mass. Loan Act o f 19 14 ...... 4/^ ’s A ug. 2.000.00 City of Salem, Comm, of Mass. Loan Act o f 19 14 ...... 4 ^ ’s A u g. 1928 1.000.00 10.000 City of Toledo, Refunding _...... 4 M ’s M arch 1923 10,065.22 5.000 Toronto Harbour Commissioners, 4th Series ...... 4 /4 's Sept. 4.632.74 20.000 Government of United Kingdom of Great Britain & Ireland, 20 Y e a r ...... 5 }4 's Feb. 1937 20,167.19 10.000 State of Utah, Capitol Building Bond.... 4 y i’s A p ril 1935 10,28 1.18 5.000 City of Winnipeg Debenture...... 5 s A ug. 1926 4,987-69 1.000 City of Worcester, Serial City Loan No. 35, Street Construction Land Dam ages ...... 4’s Ja n . 1924 990.00 3.000 City of Worcester, Serial City Loan No. 37, Schoolhouses ...... 4’s Ja n . 1924 2.970.00 5.000 City of Worcester, Serial City Loan No. 34, Perm anent P a v i n g ...... 4’s Jan . 1924 4.950.00 3,500 City of Worcester, Serial Sewer Loan No. 31, Outfall Sew er ...... 4’s Jan . 1923 3.476.66 500 City of Worcester Serial Sewer Loan N o. 32, Construction of S e w e rs...... 4’s Jan . 1923 496.66 5,000 City of Worcester, Worcester Water Loan, Act of 1914, Serial No. 38 ...... 4’s Jan . 1924 4.950.00 500 City of Worcester, Worcester Water Loan, Act of 1914, Serial No. 27 ...... 4’s Ju ly 1926 489.28 4.5 0 0 City of Worcester, Water Scrip, Acts of 19 12 , Serial No. 28 ...... 4’s Ju ly 1926 4.403.66 1,000 City of Worcester, Water Scrip, Acts of 1912, Serial No. 41 ...... 4’s Jan . 1929 968.8s

$240,33975 Par Value United States Liberty Bonds B o o k Value $1,400 U. S. of America, ist Loan of 1917 ...... 3 ^ ’s une 15, 1932-47 $1,400.00 100 U, S. of America, ist Liberty Loan ...... 4 ’s une 15. 1932-47 100.00 3.750 u . S. of America, ist Liberty Loan ...... 454’s JJu n e 15 , 1932-47 3,75o.oo 51,950 u . S. of America, 2nd Liberty Loan.... 4 ^ ’s Nov. 15, 1927-42 51,950.00 2.000 U. S. of America, 2nd Liberty Loan, Registered ...... 4 & ’s Nov. 15, 1927-42 2,000.00 4 3 .7 5 0 U. , S. of America, 3rd Liberty Loan...... 4/4’s Sept. 15 , 1928 43,750.00 850 U., S. of America, 3rd Liberty Loan, Reg­ istered, ...... 4 f4 ’ s Sept. 15, 1928 850.00 99,000 U. . S. of America, 4th Liberty Loan...... 4 j4 ’s Oct. 1 5 , 1 93 3-38 9 7 ,945-47 1,650 U, ,_S. of America, 4rth Liberty Loan, Reg­ istered ...... 4 & ’s Oct. 15, 1933-38 1,650.00 14,900 U. . S. of America, Victory Liberty Loan. 4 ^ ’s M ay 20, 1923 14,900.00 1.000 U. S . W ar Savin gs S t a m p s ...... Jan . 1, 1923 851-32

$219,146.79 Par Value Sundry Bonds B ook Value $500 Berkshire Hills Paper Co., ist Mtg ...... 6’s March 1, 1933 $454.16 300 Iowa Loan & Trust Co., Debenture S eries 1 1 2 ...... 5’s Ju ly 1, 19 2 1 300.00 1.000 Iowa Loan & Trust Co., Debenture Series 125 ...... s ’s March 1, 1923-28 1,000.00 4.000 Iowa Loan & Trust Co., Debenture Series 12 5 ...... 5’s March 1, 1923-28 3,9 5 5 -°° REPORT OF THE TREASURER 183

Par Value Book Value 1,000 Iow a Loan & T ru st Co., Debenture Series 126 5 ’s A p ril 1, 1924-29 1,000 Iow a Loan & T ru st Co., Debenture Series 126 S’s A pril 1, 1924-29 30,000 Iowa _ Loan & Trust Co., Debenture Series 126 S’s A p ril 1,19 2 4 -2 9 4,000 Iowa Loan & Trust Co., Debenture Series 126 5’s A p ril 1, 1924-29 1,000 Io w a Loan & T ru st Co., Debenture Series 128 6’s Jan . 1, 1926 1,000.00 S,ooo Swift & Company, ist Mtg. Sinking Fund 5’s Ju ly 1, 1944 5 ,o 71-77 $47,780.93 Mortgages In various States ...... $280,610.00

Shares Stocks Market Value Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Ry., Pfd ...... $78.00 Atchison, Topeka & Santa F e R y ., P fd ...... 7,826.10 Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville Ry. Co., Pfd. 1,050.00 5 Converse Rubber Shoe Co., P f d ...... 500.00 5 , Delaware Water Co., Pfd. Capital ...... 4 7 5 -oo 93*A Lum ber Exchange Co...... 6.000.00 Ninth A venu e R ailroad ...... 1.000.00 Southern Railway Co...... 8.000.00 $24,929.10 Notes Receivable Miscellaneous Notes $2,6 44 .00 Miscellaneous Fidelity Savings & Loan Association, Certificate of Stock...... $1,000.00 Fidelity Savings & Loan Association, Certificate of Stock ...... 2.000.00 Fidelity Savings & Loan Association, Time Deposit, January 1, 1927.... 300.00 Fidelity Savings & Loan Association, Tim e Deposit, Ju ly 1, 19 2 5 ...... 100.00 Fidelity Savings & Loan Association, Time Deposit, January 1, 1925.... 200.00 Fidelity Savings & Loan Association, Tim e Deposit, Ju ly i , 19 2 4 ...... 100.00 First Mortgage Real Estate Notes of Indiana Daily Times Co., December 20, 1928 ...... 5.000.00 First Mortgage Real Estate Notes of Indiana Daily Times Co., December 20, 1928 ...... 500.00 First Mortgage Real Estate Notes of Indiana Daily Times Co., December 20, 1928 ...... 6.000.00 Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Co. of C a lifo r n ia ...... 406.85

$15,606.85 Real Estate In various States $124,169.88

SUMMARY OF GENERAL INVESTMENT OF ANNUITY „ J FU N D S Bonds: Railroad ...... $ 3 2 6 ,5 7 9 .11 Traction ...... 7 3,0 8 5.56 E lectric, G as, and W ater ...... 13 5 ,8 2 3 .3 6 Telephone and Telegraph ...... 9 0,494.05 District, Government, Municipal, and State ...... 24 0,339 ■ 75 United States Liberty Bonds ...... 219,146.79 Su n d ry ...... 4 7 ,7 8 0 .9 3 »T _ * , ------$ I , I 3 3 , 2 4 9 .5 5 JNotes secured by real estate, mortgages, and trust deeds 280,610.00 Stocks ...... 24,9 29.10 Notes Receivable ...... 2 ,6 44 .00 M iscellaneous ...... 15 ,6 0 6 .8 5 Real Estate ...... 124,169.88 ------$1,581,209-38 SCHEDULE VIII COMPARATIVE SUMMARY OF RECEIPTS 1919-1920 Thirteen Months 1920-1921 2 Current Budget, Regular: Sources Outside Donations: Annuity Agreements Matured ...... $20,000.00 $20, 000.00

Income from Investments of Permanent Y T IE C O S MISSION FOREIGN BAPTIST N A IC ER M A and. Tem porary F u n d s ...... 1 11 ,8 19 .0 0 98, 931.22 Legacies ...... 110 ,0 0 0 .0 0 146,297.97 Miscellaneous ...... 2 ,3 16 .2 9 $ 2 4 4 ,13 5 .2 9 325-23 $2 6 5 , 5 5 4 .4 2 Donations: ------D irect ...... 5 2 1,13 8 .0 4 Board of Promotion ...... 2 8 6 ,139 .6 8 $52,9 8 8 .34 ------807,277.72 1 ,291, 565.32 66 Total Income, Regular Budget ...... $1,051,413.01 $1,610,108.08 Specifics: Legacies ...... $ 10 1,0 0 0 .0 0 Donations: <- 52,76 4 .9 5 Board of Promotion ...... > 200,426.64 4 0 ,8 8 5 .11 9 3,650.06

Total Income, Regular and Specific Budget... $1,352,839.65 £ 1,7 0 3 ,7 5 8 14 Contributions applying 011 1919-1920 Deficit... Total Receipts applying on New World Move­ I + .4 3 0 97 ment ...... $ 1,3 5 2 ,8 3 9 -6 5 Receipts not applying 011 New World Move­ pi ,718,189 ment: Current Budget, Regular: Income from Investments of Permanent Funds ...... $ 16 ,8 12 .5 0 $ 2 4 3 ,5 5 1.0 0 Incomc from Investments of Permanent Funds, Released from Reserve Accounts 1919-1020 ...... 17 ,6 8 7 .5 0 V ictory Campaign ...... 16 ,8 4 3.8 7 8 ,3 5 1.7 4 T ransferred from Tem porary F u n d s...... 11,3 4 7 .3 8 Contributions designated not to apply 011 N ew W orld Movement ...... 4 5 ,0 0 3.7 5 1,0 4 3.9 4 $270,634.18 Current Budget Specifies: ------T ran sferred from Property R eserve ...... $ 3 7 ,7 10 .0 0 $ 19 ,0 6 2 .0 3 Victory Campaign ...... 148,648.10 Other Donations ...... 10 0 ,10 0 .3 3 28 6,4 58 .4 3 1 3 5 , 1 7 7 -2 3 15 4 ,2 3 9 .2 6 Victory Campaign R eceipts: ------Deficit 1918-1910 ...... 4 4 6 ,3 18 .2 1 Total Receipts not applying on New World —------Movement ...... 777,78 0 .39 4 2 4 , 8 7 3 . 4 4 liian il Total Reeiints ...... $ 2 ,13 0 ,6 2 0 .0 4 $2 , 14 3 , 062. 55 "Deficit ...... 8 08,023.23 689,4 5 9 • $2 . 938 , 6-1 j . - 7 SCHEDULE IX COMPARATIVE SUMMARY OF PAYMENTS 1919-1920 Thirteen Months 19M-I92I Deficit from Previous Year ...... $ 446, 318.21 $808, 023.23 Less Cancellations ...... 10,000.00 $798,023.23 Budget Outgo, Foreign Field Appropriations: Field. Salaries of Missionaries...... $322,664.19 381,649.07 Salaries of Missionaries on Furlough ...... 14 4 ,6 4 5 .7 4 172,471.97 Passages of Missionaries to and from Field. 7 5 .12 8 .8 5 7 4 ,18 4 .6 4 Work of Missionaries and Native Agencies.. 350 ,30 8 .76 3 0 9 ,9 4 4 .19 Care of P r o p e r t y ...... 35,8 28 .6 6 4 1,9 7 7 .2 0 100 000.00 Work and Workers in Europe...... 4 1, 524-39 , R E R U S A E R T THE OF REPORT Special Relief Work in Europe...... 110,753.61 166,666.00 Retired Missionaries and Widows...... 33,471-24 35,459.29 N ew Appointees ...... 7 5 ,2 3 1.2 0 10 8 ,0 12 .5 5 Education of Oriental Students...... 9 ,500.00 9 , 4 5 1 . 1 8 Homes for Missionaries and Missionaries’ Children ...... 21.9 9 5 .8 6 2 7 ,2 0 9 .3 6 New Buildings, Additions of Land, etc.... 2 25,39 4 .0 7 16 4 ,9 38 .2 4 Foreign Missions Conference...... 2 ,000.00 2 , 4 1 5 . 3 4 Missions and Literature sent to Missionaries. 7 18 .4 1 2 , 3 73-3 1 Visitation of Mission Fields...... 1 , 0 4 5 .9 3 7,00 0 .0 0 Exchange ...... 250 ,0 16 .0 0 4 1,6 0 0 .0 0 $1,700,226.91 M,645,352-24 Specific Donations— Contra ...... 30 1,4 4 6 .6 4 93,6 50 .0 6 Home Expenditures: Foreign Department Adm inistration...... $ 4 6 ,9 4 5 -S2 $62,600.51 Home Department Administration...... 89 ,6 30 .75 38,549.12 Treasury Department Administration...... 3 8 ,14 0 .0 2 56 ,34 7.6 8

$174,716.29 $ 1 5 7 , 4 9 7 .3 1 Interest ...... 13 ,7 7 8 .0 1 2 4 ,15 1 .6 2 Transfer of Headquarters...... 14,0 0 0 .00 11,0 0 0 .0 0 Retired Officers and W orkers...... 2,600.00 2,6 00 .00 Expenses Secretary and Treasurer, General Conference Free Baptists ...... 16 5 .3 6 195.248.93 2 0 5 , 2 5 9 .6 6 Total Outgo: Accepted Budgets in New World Movement ...... $2,206,933.21 f i . 9 3 4 ,2 5 1.2 3 Less Cancellations in Budgets prior to 1919- 1020 ...... 1,0 6 6 .5 8 5 3 ,9 9 1.6 6 $2,205,866.63 fi,880,259.57 00 Specific Contributions for Objects Outside New C71 W orld Movement ...... 286, 458.43 15 4 ,2 3 9 .2 6 2,492,325.06 2,034.498.83 $2,938,643.27 $2,832,522.06 PS

SCHEDULE X RCAN BPIT OEG MSIN ETY T IE C O S MISSION FOREIGN BAPTIST N A ERIC M A COMPARATIVE SUMMARIES OF REVENUE STATEMENTS AND OTHER RECEIPTS FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDED APRIL 30, 1921 WITH THE THIRTEEN MONTHS PERIOD ENDED APRIL 30, 1920

O n N e w W o rld M o v e m e n t B u d g et O u t s id e N. W. M. F or P e r m a n e n t B u d g et E n d o w m e n t General Specific

i ■ ! 1919 1920 1920-1921 . 1919-1920 1920-1921 1919-1920 1920-1921 1919-1920

Donations, Regular ...... $ 8 0 7 ,2 7 7 .7 $113 4 4 »5 5 3 -66|...... $ 1 4 ,4 3 0 .9 7 ’$463,162.08 $ 9 , 3 9 5 .6 8 $2,952,651.01 $2,115,033.80

Donations, Specific ...... ‘ $200,426.64 9 3,6 50 .0 6 2 4 8 ,7 4 8 .4 3 135, 177-23 L e g a c ie s ...... 110,000.00 146,297.97: 101,000.00 Annuity Agreements Matured, 20,000.00 2 0 ,0 0 0 .0 0 ;......

Income from Investments...... 111,819.00 9 8 ,9 3 1.2 2 ,...... 16 ,8 12 .5 0 2 6 1,2 3 8 .5 0

All Other Sources ...... 2,316.29 3 2 5 .2 3 !...... 4 9 .o 5 7 .5 8 19 ,0 6 2 .0 3

T o tals...... $r ,0 5 1 ,4 1 3 .0 1 ? I,610,108.08 $301,426.64 $108,081.03 $ 7 7 7 »7 8 o .3 9 $424,873.44 $2,952,651.01 $2,115,033.80

‘ Includes $446,318.21 contributed through Victory Campaign to pay off deficit for year ended March 31, 1919. F or A nnuity F or S pecial T rust I F or D esignated Gifts for Grand T otals A greements A greements F uture U se EOT F H TREASURER E R U S A E R T THE OF REPORT

1919-1920 1920-1921 oz6 i-6 i(5i I 1920-1921 1919-1920 1920-1921

Donations, Regular ...... $266,388.70 $8 3,36 4 .8 9 $7,210.00 $20,934.60! $9,836,941 $119,068.40 $4,506,526.45 $3,706,782.00

D onations, S p e c ific ...... 486,88 5.07 24 7,8 89 .32 Legacies ...... 1210,630.19 ...... 421 ,630 . T9 14 6 ,2 9 7 .9 7

Annuity Agreements Matured. - 2 2 ,9 0 1.9 6 8,422.32| 42,901.96 2 8 ,4 2 2 .3 2 Income from Investm ents...... : 12 8 ,6 3 1.5 0 3 6 0 ,16 9 .7 2

A ll Other S o u r c e s ...... 13 ,6 6 3 .6 7 32 5 .2 3

T otals. $266,388.70 $83,364.89! $7,210.00 ),934.60; $243,369.09 $ 127,490.7 2 1$5,600,238. i $4,489,886.56

1 Reserve for the Equalization of Income from Legacies. 2 Reserve for the Equalization of Income from Matured Annuitu

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SCHEDULE XI COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF APPROVED BUDGET FOR 1920-1921 WITH THE ACTUAL RECEIPTS FOR 1920-1921

r A pp ro ved Actual income 1920-1921 1920-1921 Current Budget: Sources Outside Donations: Income from Investments.. $137,000.00 $98,931.22 Annuity Agreements Ma­ tured ...... 20 ,0 0 0.0 0 20,000.00 Legacies ...... 115 ,0 0 0 .0 0 14 6 ,2 9 7 .9 7 Miscellaneous ...... 2,000.00 3-5-23 ------$274,000.00 ------$265,554.4: Regular Donations ...... 1.653,953.00 Contributions Received Direct.. $52,988.34 Contributions Received through Greneral Board of Promotion.. 1,291,565.32 ------1 , 3 4 4 , 553-66 $1,610,108.08 Total Income Regular Budget.. $1,927,953.00 Specific Donations—Contra.----- 550,000.00 Contributions Received Direct. $52,764.95 Contributions Received through General Board of Promotion 40,885.11 ------93,650.06 Total Income, Regular and Spe------cific Budget ...... $1,703,758.14 Contributions Applying on 1919- $2,477,953.00 1920 D eficit ...... 14,430.97 Income Permanent Funds not to be applied on New World M ovem ent ...... $243,551.00 Income Permanent Funds not to be applied on New World Movement Released from Re­ serve Account, 1919-1920 ...... 17 ,6 8 7 .5 0 Income Sale of Property (Cred­ ited Victory Campaign)...... 8 , 3 5 1 .7 4 Contributions Designated not to apply on New World Move­ ment ...... 1,0 4 3 .9 4 ------270,634.18 Specific Contributions for Ob­ jects Outside of New World M ovem ent ...... 154,239-26 Grand Total Receipts...... $2,143,062.55 Accumulated Deficit April 30, 19 21 6 8 9 . 4 5 9 -51 $2,477,953.00 $2,832,522.06 REPORT OF THE TREASURER 1 8 9

A pproved Outgo A ctual I()2 0 -1 Q Z I 1920-1921

Deficit, M ay 1 , 19 2 0 ...... 508,023.23 Less Cancellations in 1919- 1920 Budget ...... 10 ,0 0 0 .0 0 $798,023.23 Vr Foreign Field Appropriations: 00 Field Salaries of Missionaries $386,178.79 649 .07 Salaries of Missionaries on furlough -----...... 141,352.19 17 2 , 471 ■97 Passages of Missionaries to and from .field ...... 6 2,550 .0 0 74, 184,.64 Work of Missionaries and Na­ tive Agencies ...... 305,561.66 309, 944 .19 Care of Property ...... 4 0 ,7 11.8 7 4 1, 977 .20 Work and Workers in Europe 100,000.00 IOO,,000,.00 Special Relief Work in Europe. 166,666.00 166, 666,.00 R etired Missionaries and W idows ...... 3 3 ,12 9 .0 0 3 5 , 459 .29 New A p p o in te es...... 9 8 ,6 19 .0 6 108, 0 12,• 55 Education of Oriental Students 18,000.00 9 , 4 5 i .18 Homes, for. Missionaries and Missionaries’ Children ...... 100,000.00 164 , 9 3 8 ..24 New Buildings, Additions of L an d , etc...... 12 ,0 0 0 .0 0 27, 209,.36 Foreign Missions Conference. 2,500.00 2, 415 .24 Missions and Literature sent to M issio n a rie s...... 1,0 0 0 .0 0 2, 3 7 3 .■31 Visitation of Mission Fields.. 7,000.00 7 , 000,,00 Exchange ...... 212,990.00 4 1, 600..00 $1,688,258.57 >1,645, 352 .24 Specific G ifts in A m erica...... 550,000.00 9 3 , 650,. 06 Home E xpen ditu res: Foreign Department Adminis­ tration ...... $5 7 ,9 0 3 .0 0 62, 600 ■5 i Home Department Administra­ 00

tion ...... 36 ,688.00 OJ 549 . 12 Treasury Department Admin­ istration ...... 5 0 ,18 3 .0 0 56, 3 4 7 .,68 Interest ...... 43,000.00 24, 15 1 . 62 Transfer of Headquarters.... 22,000.00 II, 000,.00 Retired Officers and Workers. 2,400.00 600.,00 Secretary and Treasurer Gen­ eral Conference, Free Bap­ 2 ' tists ...... 200.00 >1 , 9 3 4 , 2 5 1,■23 Reserve Fund ...... Less Cancellations in Budgets prior to 1919-1920 ...... 5 3 , 991 •.66

!l ,880, 2 5 9 .•57 Specifics fo r Objects Outside New World Movement Budget 1 5 4 , 2 3 9 ..26 2,034,498.83

$ 2 , 4 7 7 , 9 5 3 -0 ° $2,832,522.06 190 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

SCHEDULE XII

Statement of Receipts Counting on New World Movement

C u r r e n t B u d g e t —'R e g u l a r 1919-1920, 13 Months. 1920-1921 Sources Outside Donations: Annuity Agreements Matured $20,000.00 $20,000.00 Income from Investments.... 111,819.00 98,931.32 L e g a c ie s ...... 110,000.00 146,297.97 Miscellaneous ...... 2,316 .29 335-33

^ . $244,135.29 $265,554.02 D onations: D irect ...... 521,138 .0 4 52,988.24 Board of Promotion ...... 286,139.68 1,291,565.32

807,277.72 1, 3 4 4 ,553-56 Total Income Regular Budget 1,051,413.01 1,610,108.08 Specifics: ^ Legacies ...... 101,000.00 D onations ...... 52,764.95 Board of Promotion ‘ ‘ .'.’.'.', } 200,426.64 40,885.11 ------93,650.06 Total Income Regular and Specific Budget.... 1,352,839.65 1,703,758.14 Contributions Applying on 1919-1920 D e fic it.. 14,430.97 Total Receipts Applying on New World Move­ m ent ...... 1,352,839.65 1,7 18 ,18 9 .11

Statement of Amount Due from the World Movement on the Accepted Budgets of 1919-1920 and 1920-1921

Deficit for the 13 months ended April 30, 1920 ...... $808,023.23 Accepted B udget fo r 19 2 0 -19 2 1...... $1,927,953.00 Add Specifics on 1920-1921 Income—Counting on N. W. M. 93,650.06 2,021,603.06 $2,829,626.20 Less Income on New World Movement as above for 1920- 19 2 1 ...... 1,718,189.11

Due on Accepted Budgets in New World Movements...... $1,111,437.18 MISCELLANEOUS

FIELDS AND STATIONS With the names of missionaries assigned to each Reference signs used in the list: •Representing the Woman’s American Baptist Foreign Mission Society. Serving without full missionary appointment. ** Representing the Mennonite Brethren of South Russia, t Supported by Swedish Baptist Conference. The key to the pronounciation of the names of stations given in these tables is that used in the latest edition of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary. I. TH E BURM A MISSION Begun 1814. 1. RANGOON (Ran-goon) 1813 Work for Peninsular India (See footnote) W. H. Duff Mrs. W. H. Duff Judson College R. L. Howard, M. A., Principal Work Among English-Speaking Peoples Mrs. R. L. Howard V. W. Dyer G. S. Jury, M. A., Vice-Principal Mrs. V. W. Dyer Mrs. G. S. Jury Wallace St. John, Ph. D. Field Secretary for Burma Mrs. Wallace St. John W. E. Wiatt H. E. Safford, M. A. Mrs. W. E. Wiatt Mrs. H. E. Safford Miss Lucy P. Bonney R. P. Currier. A. B. Mrs. R. P. Currier C. H. Whitnah. M. A. 2. INSEIN (In-sane) 1889 Mrs. C. H. Whitnah G. E. Gates, B. A. Karen Theological Seminary Mrs. G. E. Gates D. A. W. Smith, D. D., President * Miss Helen K. Hunt Em eritus H. I. Marshall, President Rangoon Baptist Schools Mrs. H. I. Marshall L. W. Hattersley, A. B., Principal Miss Anna H. Smith Mrs. L. W. Hattersley G. D. Tosif, M. A., Principal Nor­ Burman Theological Seminary mal School Tohn McGuire, D. D., President Mrs. G. D. Josif Mrs. John McGuire J. C. Richardson, Ph. D. Baptist Mission Press Mrs. J. C. Richardson F. D. Phinney Mrs. F. D. Phinney Burmese Woman’s Bible School S. E. Miner * Miss Harriet Phinney Mrs. S. E. Miner * Miss Ruth W. Ranney S. V. Hollingworth Mrs. S. V. Hollingworth 3. MOULMEIN (Mall-mfine) 1827 Miss Olive A. Hastings Work for Bur mans Work for Burmans * Miss Lizbeth B. Hughes E. W. Kelly, Ph. D. * Miss Ethel L. Hunt H. H. Tilbe, Ph. D. (at Kalaw) * Miss F. Faith Hatch Mrs. H. H. Tilbe (at Kalaw) * Miss Lillian Eastman (at Kemen- Work for Karens dine^ C. L. Klein * Miss Margaret M. Sutherland (at Mrs. C. L. Klein JKemendine') * Miss Esther W. Lindberg * Miss Hattie M. Price (at Kemen- * Miss Nona G. Finney dine) * Miss Mary E. Phillips W ork for Talains (Tenasserim School of Industrial Work for Karens and Mechanical Trades) A. E. Seagrace A. C. Darrow Mrs. A. E. Seagrave Mrs. A. C. Darrow Mrs. Mary M. Rose H. C. Nycum

N ote.—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. 1 9 3 194 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

Mrs. II. C. Nycum 9. PROME (Prome) 1854 * Miss Selma M. Maxvillc * Miss Martha J. Gifford, M. D. Work for Burmans (Ellen Mitchell Hospital) E. B. Roach * Miss Bertha E. Davis Work for Peoples from Peninsula India (In charge of W. H. Duff, at 10. THONZE (Thon'-ze) 1855 R angoon) Work for Burmans Work Among English-speaking Peoples * Miss Augusta H. Peck Ernest Grigg Mrs. Ernest Grigg * Miss Helen M. Good ZIGON (Zee-gon) 1876 * Miss Ethel M. Jones Work for Burmans 4. T A V O Y (T a-voy') 1828 (In charge of E, B. Roach, at Prom e) Work for Burmans M. L. Streeter 12. BHAMO (Ba-md') 1877 Mrs. M. L. Streeter Work for Kachins Work for Karens H. W. Smith B. P. Cross Mrs. H. W. Smith Mrs. B. P. Cross Ola Hanson, Litt. D. (Literary W. D. Sutton work) Mrs. W. D. Sutton Mrs. Ola Hanson 5. BASSEIN (Bas'-sene) 1852 Work for Burmans and Shans H. S. Philpott Work for Burmans Mrs. H. S. Philpott O. H . Sisson Mrs. L. H. Mosier Mrs. O. H. Sisson * Miss Frances E. Crooks 13. MAUBIN (Ma-o5 -bin) 1879 Work for Karens Work for Karens C. A. Nichols. D. D. C. E. Chaney Mrs. C. A. Nichols Mrs. C. E. Chaney L. W. Cronkhite, D. D. * Miss Carrie E. Putnam * Miss Minnie B. Pound * Miss Carrie E. Hesseltine * Miss Grace L. Pennington * Miss Irene Pennington 14. THATON (Tha-ton) 1880 6. HENZADA (Hen-za-da) 1853 Work for Burmans Work for Burmans J. E. Cummings, D. D. 15. MANDALAY (Man'-da-lay) includ­ Mrs. J. E. Cummings ing MAYMYO (May-myo) 1886 * Miss Mary D. Thomas Work for Burmans Work for Karens H. P. Cochrane (at Maymyo) A. C. Phelps Mrs. H. P. Cochrane (at Maymyo) Mrs. A. C. Phelps * Miss Sarah R. Slater (at Maymyo) * Miss Marion A. Beebe * Mrs. Ida B. Elliott * Miss Alice F. Thayer 7. TOUNGOO (Toung-00) 1853 * Miss Emilie G. Lawrence

Work for Burmans Mandalay High School L. B. Rogers Rev. E. Tribolet Mrs. L. B. Rogers Mrs. E. Tribolet H. E. Hinton Work for Karens Mrs. H. E. Hinton E. N. Harris Mrs. E. N. Harris Work Among English-speaking Peoples A. V. B. Crumb S. E. Baldwin (at. Maymyo) Mrs. A. V. B. Crumb Mrs. S. E. Baldwin (at Maymyo) A. J. Weeks Mrs. A. J. Weeks Miss Harriet N. Eastman 1 6. THAYETMYO (Tha-yet'-myd) 1887 * Miss Nellie E. Lucas * Miss Effie L. Adams Work for China E. C. Condict 8. SHWEGYIN (Shway-jyin’) 1853 Mrs. E. C. Condict

Work for Karens * Miss Hattie V. Petheram (at 17. MYINGYAN (Myin-gyan) 1887 Nyaunglebin) * Miss Frieda Peter (at Nyaung- Work for Burmans lebin) 1T J. R. Case FIELDS AND STATIONS

18. PEGU (Pe-gu', g is hard) 1887 29. PYINMANA (Pm-md-na)

Work for Burmans Work for Burmans M. C. Parish Mrs. M. C. Parish * Miss Mary L. Parish 30. TAUNGGYI (Toung-je') 1910

19. SAGAING (Sa-ging, g is hard) 1888 Work for Shans A. H. Henderson, M. D. Work for Burmans Mrs. A. H. Henderson S. R. McCurdy * Mrs. H. W. Mix 20. SANDOWAY (San'-do-way) 1888 31. PYAPON (Pya-pone') 1911

W ork fo r Chins and Burmans Work for Burmans * Miss Helen E. Eissell * Miss Ina B. Fry 32. MONG LEM 1919 2 1. THARRAWADDY (Tliar-ra-wad'- di) 1889 Work for Shans W. M. Young Work for Karens Mrs. W. M. Young L ee L ew is rs. J. Lee Lewis A T H O M E * Mjss Cecelia L. Johnson E. N. Armstrong * Miss Gertrude R. Anderson * Miss Kate W. Armstrong Walter Bushell 22. M EIKTILA (Make'-ti-la) 1890 Mrs. Walter Bushell Mrs. A. E. Carson Work for Burmans B. C. Case H. E. Dudley Mrs. B. C. Case Mrs. H. E. Dudley Mrs. J. H. Cope * Miss Ida W. Davis * Miss Julia G. Craft R. N. Crawford 23. MONGNAI (Mong-ni') 1893 Mrs. R. N. Crawford Mrs. L. W. Cronkhite Work for Shans David Gilmore, D. D. H. C. Gibbens. M. D. Mrs. David Gilmore Mrs. H. C. Gibbens P. R. Hackett Mrs. P. R. Hackett 24. NAMKHAM (Natn-kham') 1893 A. C. Hanna Mrs. A. C. Hanna Work for Shans C. H. Heptonstall Robert Harper, M. D. Mrs. C. H. Heptonstall Mrs. Robert Harper F . Ingram rs. T. F. Ingram Work for Kachins Mrs. E. W. Kelly, M. D. G. A. Sword F. H. Knollin Mrs. G. A. Sword Mrs. F. H. Knollin T. T. Latta 25. M YITKYINA (Myit-che-na) 1894 Mrs. T. T. Latta Mrs. S. R. McCurdy Work for Kachins * Miss Mildred Mosier N. E. Woodbury * Miss Julia E. Parrott Mrs. N. E. Woodbury * Miss V. R. Peterson * Miss Annie L. Prince 26. HAKA (Ha-ka) 1899 * M iss A lta O. Ragon * Miss Stella T. Ragon Work for Chins * Miss Mary W. Ranney J . H . Cope * Miss Rachel H. Seagrave T. L. Snyder 27. LOIKAW (Loi-lca') 1899 Mrs. J. L. Snyder W. L. Spring Work for Karens Mrs. W. L. Spring Mrs. Truman Johnson W. F. Thomas, D. D. Mrs. W. F. Thomas ^8. KENGTUNG (Keng-toong') 1901 * Miss Clara B. Tingley * Miss Louise E. Tschirch W ork for Shan and Hill Tribes C. E. Van Horn T. H . T elfo rd Mrs. C. E. Van Horn Mrs. J. H. Telford * Miss Agnes Whitehead 1 9 6 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

II. THE ASSAM MISSION Begun 1836. 33. SIBSAGOR (Sib-saw'-gor) (includ­ Work for Nagas ing Dibrugarh) 1841. (See foot­ S. W. Rivenburg, M. D. note a) Mrs. S. W. Rivenburg

W ork fo r Assamese and Immigrant Peoples 40. NORTH LAKHIMPUR (Lak-im- poor') 1895

Work for Immigrant Peoples

34. NOWGONG (Nou-gong) 1841

W ork for Assamese and Immigrant Peoples W. R. Hutton 41. KANGPOKPI form erly at Mrs. W. R. Hutton UKHRUL (Oo-krool) 1896 * Mjss Florence H. Doe * Mjss Edith E. Crisenberry Work for Nagas * Miss Millie M. Marvin William Pettigrew Mrs. William Pettigrew 35. GAUHATI (Gou-hat-ti) 1843 G. G. Crozier, M'. D. Mrs. G. G. Crozier W ork fo r Assamese and Garos A. E. Stephen 42. TIKA (Te'-ka) 1896 Mrs. A. E. Stephen A. J. Tuttle Work for Mikirs and Immigrant Peoples Mrs. A. J. Tuttle W. E. Witter, D. D. Mrs. W. E. Witter C. G. Fielder Mrs. C. G. Fielder * Miss Augusta M. Geisenhener 43. GOLAGHAT (Gd-la-ghat') 1893 * Miss May A. Nichols * Miss Ethel E. Nichols Work for Assamese, Immigrant Peoples and Mikirs 36. GOALPARA (Go-al-para) 1867 O. L. Swanson M rs. O. L. Sw anson W ork fo r Rabhas and Garos J . . M. Carvell * Miss Anna E. Long * Miss Ethel A. Masales * Miss R. Grace Lewison

37. TURA (Too'-ra) 1876 44. JORHAT (Jor-hat') 1903

Work for Garos. including the Garo Jorhat Christian Schools— Work for Im­ Training School migrant Peoples and Mikirs M. C. Mason. D. D. S. A. D. Boggs Mrs. M. C. Mason C. H. Tilden F. W. Hardine Mrs. C. H. Tilden Mrs. F. W. Harding H. W. Kirby. M. D. T. A. Ahlquist, M. D. Mrs. H. W. Kirby Mrs. T. A. Ahlquist C. E. Blanc * Miss Ella C. Bond Mrs. C. E. Blanc * Miss Linnie M. Holbrook W. K. Allen * Miss Charlotte A. Wright Mrs. W. K. Allen * Miss A. Verna Blakely H. O. Wyatt Mrs. H. O. Wyatt 38. IMPUR (Im-poor') 1893 (See foot­ Miss Ella D. Cheeseman note b) 45. SADIYA (Sa-de-ya) 1906 (See foot­ Work for Nagas, including the Naga note c) Training School J. R. Bailey. M. D. W ork for Abors and Miris Mrs. J. R. Bailey * Miss E. May Stevenson * Miss Edna M. Stever

39. KOHIMA (Ko-he'-ma) 1879

N ote o.— T he 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 Sibsagor. N o te 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. FIELDS AND STATIONS 197

G. R. Kampfer A T H O M E Mrs. G. R. Kampfer Mrs. S. A. D. Boggs R. B. Longwell A. C. Bowers Mrs. R. B. Longwell Mrs. A. C. Bowers A. K. Mather Mrs. J. M. Carvell Mrs. A. K. Mather W. F. Dowd P. E. Moore Mrs. W. F. Dowd Mrs. P. E. Moore William Dring Joseph Paul Mrs. William Dring Mrs. Joseph Paul John Firth J. E. Tanquist Mrs. John Firth Mrs. J. E. Tanquist * Miss Elizabeth E. Hay * Miss E. Elizabeth Vickland * Miss E. Marie Holmes * Miss Isabella Wilson

III. THE SOUTH INDIA MISSION Begun 1836. 4 6. NELLORE (Nel-lore) 1840 (See 49. ALLUR (Ul-loor’) 1873 footnote) W. S. Davis Mrs. W. S. Davis General Work David Downie, D. D. (at Coonoor) 50. SECUNDERABAD (Se-kun'-der-a- Mrs. David Downie (at Coonoor) bad) 1873 * Miss Lena A. Benjamin, M. D. C. R. Marsh * Miss Lillian V. Wagner Mrs. C. R. Marsh * Miss Margarita F. Sloran * Miss Edith E. Hollis * Miss Ethel M. Ross * M iss L en a K eans *■ Miss Olive E. Jones * Miss Genevra Brunner 51. KURNOOL (Kur-nool') 1876 Boys' High School High School L. C. Smith B. J. Rockwood Mrs. L. C. Smith Mrs. B. J. Rockwood F. G. Christenson 52. MADRAS (Ma-dras') 1878 Girls’ High School * Miss Ella J. Draper F. C. Marquiss Mrs. F. C. Marquiss A. S. Woodbnrne. Ph. D. Mrs. A. S. Woodburne * Miss Julia E. Bent 47. ONGOLE (On-gole') 1866 * Miss Olive M. Sarber J. M. Baker J. W. Stenger, M. D. 53. HANUMAKONDA (Hun-06-ma- Mrs. T. W. Stenger kon'-da) 1879 C. R. Manley, M. D. J. S. Timpany, M. D. Mrs. C. R. Manley Mrs. J. S. Timpany * Miss Sarah Kelly Charles Rutherford * Miss Amelia E. Dessa Mrs. Charles Rutherford * Miss Jennie L. Reilly * Miss Ursula Dresser 54. CUMBUM (Kum-bum) 1882 * Miss Kate W. Failing Tliorlief Wathne Mrs. Thorlief Wathne High School L. E. Rowland 55. VINUKONDA (Vin-6o-kon'-da) Mrs. L. E. Rowland T883 John Dussman 48. RAMAPATNAM (Ra'-ma-put'-num) Mrs. John Dussman 1869 56. NARSARAVITPET (Nur-sa-ra'-voo- Theological Seminary and General Work pet') 1883 Wheeler Boegess, General Evan­ E. E. Silliman gelist for South India Mrs. E. E. Silliman W. J. Longley * Miss Elberta F. Chute Mrs. W. J. Longley * Miss Gladys A. Dorrie * Miss Florence M. Rorer * Miss Margaret Wolcott

N ote.—The South India Mission was begun in 1836 at Vizagapatam, whence the work was removed in 1837 to Madras. In 1840 it was transferred to Nellore. Madras was reopened in 1878. 198 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

57. BAPATLA (Ba-put'-la) 1883 69. SOORIAPETT (S6o-ri-a-pet') 1900 ** A. J. Hubert General Work and Normal Training In­ ** Mrs. A. J. Hubert stitution A. H. Curtis 70. JANGAON (Jun-gan) 1901 Mrs. A. H. Curtis ** Johann Penner ** Mrs. Johann Penner 58. UDAYAGIRI (Oo-da-ya-gl-ri) 1885 71. DONAKONDA (Dona-kon'-dii) 1903 59. MAHBUBNAGAR (Ma-bub-nug-ar) J . A . Curtis formerly PALMUR (Pal-modr) Airs. J. A. Curtis 1885 A. M. Boggs 72. GADVAL (Gud-val') 1903 Mrs. A. M. Boggs * Miss Marian E. Farbar, M. D.

60. NALGONDA (Nul-gon'-da) 1890 73. NANDYAL (Nun-di-al') 1904 ** Cornelius Unruh S. W. Stenger ** Mrs. Cornelius Unruh Mrs. S. W. Stenger *** Miss Aganetha Neufeld 74. MADIRA (Mu-dT-ra) 1905 61. KANIGIRI (Kun-i-gi-ri) 1892 Frank Kurtz G. H. Brock Mrs. Frank Kurtz Mrs. G. H. Brock A T H O M E 62. KAVALI (Ka-va-15) 1893 Mrs. J. M. Baker A. T. Fishman * Miss Edith P. Ballard Mrs. A. T. Fishman S. D. Bawden Mrs. Edwin Bullard (at Ootaca- Mrs. S. D. Bawden m und) Mrs. W. B. Boggs * Miss E. Grace Bullard W. E. Boggs Mrs. W. E. Boggs 63. KANDUKURU (Kun'-doo-koo-roo) * Miss Florence E. Carman 1893 * Miss Anna M. Degenring, M. D. W. L. Ferguson, D. D. .Mrs. W . L . Ferguson * Miss Kate M. French J. Heinrichs 64. ATMAKUR (At-ma-koor) 1893 Airs. J. Heinrichs * Miss Lucy H. Booker * Miss Sigrid C. Johnson * Miss Annie S. Magilton 65. PODILI (Po'-di-ll) 1894 F. P. Manley T. V. Witter Mrs. F. P. Manley Mrs. T. V. Witter L. E. Martin Mrs. L. E. Martin 66. SATTENAPALLE (Sat'-te-na-pul'- * Miss Melissa E. Morrow le) 1894 John Newcomb * Miss Dorcas Whitaker Mrs. John Newcomb W. C. Owen 67. MARKAPUR (Mar-ku-poor) 1895 Mrs. W. C. Owen B. M. Johnson * Miss Susan A. Roberts Mrs. B. M. Johnson F. W. Stait Mrs. F. W. Stait, M. D. 68. GURZALLA (Goor-za'-la) 1895 W. A. Stanton, D. D. Mrs. W. A. Stanton * Miss Frances M. Tencate * Miss Florence R. Weaver, M. D.

IV. THE BENGAL-ORISSA MISSION Begun 1836. 7 5 - BALASO RE (Bal-a-sdre') 1838 (See MIDNAPORE (Mid-na-pore') 1844 footnote) (See footnote a) M. R. Hartley H. R. Murphy, M. D. M rs. M. R . H artley Mrs. II. R. Murphy H. I. Frost H. C. Long M rs. H . I. Frost Mrs. H. C. Long Lloyd Eller 1T G. A g er Mrs. Lloyd Eller if Mrs. G. Ager * Miss Amy B. Coe * Miss Lavinia C. Coombs * Miss Gladys E. Doe * Miss M. Elsie Barnard * Miss Ethel M. Cronldte

76. TELLASORE (Jel-la-sdre) 1840 78. SANTIPORE (San-ti-pore) :86s * Miss Emilie E. Barnes P. J. Clark FIELDS AND STATIONS 1 9 9

79. B H IM P O R E (Beem -pore') 1873 84. JA M S H E D P U R 19 19 I. H. Oxrieder (at Midnapore) C. L. Conrad Mrs. J. H. Oxrieder (at Midnapore) W. R. Greenwood L. C. Kitchen (at Midnapore) Mrs. L. C. Kitchen (at Midnapore)

80. CHANDBALI (Chund'-bali) 1886 A T H O M E * Miss Mary \V. Bacheler, M. D. * Miss Mabel E. Bond Z. D. Browne 81. BHUDRAK (Bhud'-rak) 1890 Mrs. Z. D. Browne Mrs. Julia P. Burkholder Mrs. P. J. Clark C. P. Collett 82. CONTAI (Con-tl) 1892 Mrs. C. P. Collett J. A. Howard ~ Miss M. Ruth Daniels Mrs. J. A. Howard * Miss Sarah B. Gowen * Miss Ida M’. Holder 83. KHARAGPUR (Kar-ag-poor) 1902 V. G. Krause C. A. Collett Mrs. V. G. Krause Mrs. C. A. Collett ' Miss Amorette Porter

V. THE CHINA MISSION Begun 1836. SOUTH CHINA 85. SWATOW (Swa-tou) i860 (See UNGKUNG (Ung-kung) 1892 footnote b) Ashmore Theological Seminary G. H. Waters Mrs. G. H. Waters 88. C H A O C H O W F U (Chou-chou-foo) 1894 Sivatow Academy B. L. Baker R. T. Capen Mrs. B. L. Baker, M. D. Mrs. R. T. Capen E. S. Hildreth A. H. Page Mrs. E. S. Hildreth Mrs. A. H. Page * Miss Marion Boss N. H. Carman Mrs. N. H. Carman, M. D. 89. K I T Y A N G (K it-yan g) 1896 H. W. Newman, M. D. General Work Mrs. H. W. Newman Jacob Speicher E. H. Giedt * Mrs. Prudence C. Worley Mrs. E. H. Giedt * Miss Melvina Sollman * Miss Clara C. Leach, M. D. * Miss Abbie G. Sanderson * Miss Gwiadys R. Aston * Miss Marguerite E. Everham, M. D. * Miss Emma H. Simonsen ‘ Miss Margarethe Wellwood * Miss Emily E. Miller 90. C H A O Y A N G S H IE N (Chow-yang) * Miss Enid P. Johnson 1905 * Miss Ruth Sperry. A. F. Groesbeck, D. D. * Miss Margaret Winn Mrs. A. F. Groesbeck * Miss Marjorie Fleming M iss M ary K. Ogg 86. K A Y I N G (K a-yin g) 1890 01. HOPO (Ho-po) 1907 G. E. Whitman W. W. Zwick, M. D. S. S. Beath Mrs. W. W. Zwick Mrs. S. S. Beath * Miss Ruth H. Hall I. L. Bjelke Mrs. J. L. Bjelke 92. CANTON (Kan-ton) 1913 * Miss Louise Campbell China Publication Society * Miss Anna E. Foster

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., 1911. N o t e a.—Work was begun temporarily at Midnapore in 1844, permanently in 1863.

N o t e b.—Work was begun at Macao in 1836. In 1842 this was transferred to Hongkong and thence in i860 to Swatow. 2 0 0 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

93. SUNWUHSIEN formerly CHANG- J. M. Foster, D. D. NING (Chong-nmg) 1915 Airs. J. M. Foster Dr. C. E. Bousfield J. H. Giffin Mrs. C. E. Bousfield M rs. J . H. Giffin E. S. Burket C. B. Lesher, M. D. Mrs. E. S. Burket M rs. C. B. Lesher, M. D. G. W. Lewis A T H O M E * Miss Fannie Northcott A. S. Adams Mrs. Jacob Speicher Mrs. A. S. Adams * Miss Edith G. Traver William Ashmore, D. D. Mrs. G. E. Whitman Mrs. William Ashmore * Mfss' Luciele Withers * Miss Mabelle R. Culley

E A S T C H IN A

94. NINGPO (Ning-po) 1843 P. R. lJakeman J. S. Grant, M. D, Mrs. P. R. Bakcman C. L. Bromley F. C. Mabee, A. M. Mrs. C. L. Bromley Mrs. F. C. Mabee L. C. Hylbert R. B. Kennard H. R. S. Benjamin Mrs. R. B. Kennard Mrs. H. R. S. Benjamin H. W. Decker, M. D. Harold Thomas, M. D. Mrs. H. W. Decker Mrs. Harold Thomas Miss Leontine J. Dahl * Miss Mary Cressey * Miss F. Jane Lawrence General Work J. T. Proctor. D. D. 95. SHAOHSING (Zhou-shing) 1869 Mrs. J. T. Proctor F. W. Goddard, M. D. E. J. Anderson (Supt. of Schools) Mrs. F. W. Goddard Mrs. E. J. Anderson David Gustafson II C. H. Lavers (Mission Builder) Mrs. David Gustafson TT Mrs. C. H. Lavers * Miss Marie A. Dowling Miss Ethel L. Lacey * Miss Alma L. Pittman * Miss Josephine Lawney, M. D. * Miss M. Jean Gates * Miss Harriet Brittingham Mission Treasury * Miss Areola I. Pettit R. D. Stafford * Miss Lelia B. Droz Miss Helen E. Ritner 96. KINHWA (Kin-wlia) 1883 100. NANKING (Nan-king) 1911 C. F. MacKenzie, M. D. Mrs. C. F. MacKenzie University of Nanking * Miss Stella Relyea 97. HUCHOW (Hoo-chou) 1888 Language School A. I. Nasmith * Mrs. J. R. Goddard Mrs. A. I. Nasmith E. H. Clayton Giitling Gollege Mrs. E. H. Clayton * Miss Narola Rivenburg * Miss Esther E. Hokanson * Mjss Mary I. Jones A T H O M E * Mjss Bessie Williford C. H . B arlow . M . D. * Miss Evelyn Speidon Mrs. C. H. Barlow * Miss Ruth Mather I. B. Clark Mrs. I. B. Clark 98. HANGCHOW (Hang-ehou) 1889 J. P. Davies T. V. Latimer, D. D. -Mrs. J . P. D avies Mrs. J. V. Latimer M. D. Eubank, M. D. Mrs. W. S. Sweet Airs. M. D. Eubank * Miss Ellen J. Peterson Victor Hanson * Miss Gertrude F. McCulloch Mrs. Victor Hanson * Miss Anna R. Clark * Miss Clarissa A. Hewey * Miss Viola C. Hill Wayland Academy G. A. Huntley, M. D. E. H. Cressy Mrs. G. A. Huntley Mrs. E. H. Cressy Mrs. L. C. Hylbert * Miss Emma S. Irving 99. SHANGHAI (Shang-hi) 1907 F.. E . Jon es Mrs. E. E. Jones Shanghai Baptist College and Theological C. S. Keen Seminary Mrs. C. S. Keen F. J. White, D. D. D. H. Kulp. II Mrs. F. J. White Mrs. D. H. Kulp. II Henry Huizinga, Ph. D. C. D. Leach. M. D. Mrs. Henry Huizinga Mrs. C. D. Leach FIELDS AND STATIONS 201

L. B. Moss A. F. Ufiord Mrs. L. B. Moss Mrs. A. F. Ufford Miss Elizabeth Nash * Miss Lillian M. van Hook Miss Helen M. Rawlings F. C. Wilcox Miss Edna G. Shoemaker Mrs. F. C. Wilcox Miss Harriet N. Smith * Miss Dora Zimmerman Mrs. R. D. Stafford W E S T C H IN A 101. SUIFU (Swa-foo) 1889 West China Union University Joseph Taylor, D. D. General Work Mrs. Joseph Taylor C. E. Tompkins, M. D. D. S . D ye Mrs. C. E. Tompkins Mrs. D. S. Dye D. C. Graham W. R. Morse, M. D. Mrs. D. C. Graham Mrs. W. R. Morse * Mrs. Anna Salquist * Miss L. Jennie Crawford General Work * Miss Mabel E. Bovell H. J. Openshaw * Miss G, Frida Wall Mrs. H. J. Openshaw * Miss Beulah E. Bassett Monroe Academy * Miss Minnie M'. Argetsinger T. E. Moncrieff, M. A. * Miss Lettie G. Archer Mrs. J. E. Moncrieff Language School 102. KIATING (Ja-dmg) 1894 C. F. Wood (language study) C. L. Foster Mrs. C. F. Wood (language study) Mrs. C. L. Foster L. H. Randle (language study) Mrs. J. M. Well wood Mrs. L. H. Randle (language study) R. L. Crook, M. D. (language study) 103. YACHOW (Ya-jo) 1894 W. W. Cossum (language study) J. C. Humphreys, M. D. Mrs. W. W. Cossum (language Mrs. J. C. Humphreys study) F. N. Smith * Miss Myrtle C. Denison (language Mrs. F. N. Smith study) J. C. Jensen ' Miss Sara B. Downer (language Mrs. J. C. Jensen study) L. A. Lovegren Mrs. L. A. Lovegren A T H O M E * Miss Winifred M. Roeder A. G. Adams * Miss L. Emma Brodbeck Mrs. A. G. Adams * Miss Frances Therolf F. J. Bradshaw Mrs. F. J. Bradshaw, M . D. 104. NINGYUAN (Ning-yuan) 1905 * Miss Emilie Bretthauer, M. D. * Miss Irene M. Chambers H . F . Rudd Mrs. H. F. Rudd, M. D. 105. CHENGTU (Clieng-too) 1909 * Miss Carrie E. Slaght, M. D. W. R. Taylor Mrs. W. R. Tavlor

VI. THE JAPAN MISSION Begun 1872. 106. YOKOHAMA (Yo-ko-ha'-ma) 187- Mrs._ E. T. Thompson D. G. Haring G. E . H aynes Mrs. D. G. Haring Mrs. G. E. Haynes J. S. Kennard, Jr. (language study) Mabie Memorial Bovs’ School F. M. Derwacter (language study) 1TJ. H. Covell ' Mrs. F. M. Derwacter (language study) Mary L. Colby Home School, Kanagatua P. r. W. Ziemann (language study) * Miss Clara A. Converse * Miss M. M. Carpenter * Miss F. Marguerite Haven Miss Elma R. Tharp * Miss Minnie V. Sandberg * Miss Amy R. Crosby * Miss Agnes S. Meline ,.107. TOKYO (To-kyo) 1874 * Miss Louise F. Jenkins (language study) General Work ’ Miss Lucy C. Palmer (language William Wynd study) Mrs. William Wynd 1 Miss Ella M. Gifford (language TT. R. Benninghoff, D. D. study) E. T. Thompson 2 0 2 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

Japan Theological Seminary 114. HIM EJI (Hl-ma'-jl) 1907 C. B. Tenny, D. D. * Mrs. F. C. Briggs Mrs. C. B. Tenny * Miss Edith F. Wilcox D. C. Holtom * Miss Alice C. Bixby Mrs. D. C. Holtom * Miss Vida Post 108. KOBE (Kd'-be) 1881 115. KYOTO (Kyo-to) 1907 R. A. Thomson, D. D. Mrs. R. A. Thomson A T H O M E * Miss Jessie M. G. Wilkinson * Miss Amy A. Acock * Miss Thomasine Allen 109. SENDAI (Sen-dl) 1882 William Axling, D. D. C. H . R oss Mrs. William Axling Mrs. C. H. Ross Mrs. H. B. Benninghoff * Miss Mary D. Jesse Mrs. L. W. Bickel * Miss Ruby L. Anderson * Miss Evalyn A. Camp * Miss Ruth C. Ward * Miss Mary E. Danielson * Miss Ruth E. Smith * Miss Harriett L. Dithridge R. H. Fisher no. MORIOKA (Mo-ri-6-ka) including Mrs. R. H. Fisher OTARU (O-ta'-roo) 1887 * Miss Ruth D. French * Miss Annie S. Buzzell (at Tono) P. J. Gates Mrs. P. J. Gates in . MITO (Me'-to) 1889 J. F. Gressitt * Miss M. Anna Clagett Mrs. J. F. Gressitt Mrs. C. K. Harrington 112. OSAKA (O-sa-ka) 1892 E. H. Jones J. H. Scott Mrs. E. H. Jones Mrs. J. H. Scott * Miss Helen W. Munroe J. A. Foote * Miss Annabelle Pawley Mrs. J. A. Foote * Miss Gertrude E. Ryder * Miss Lavinia Mead F. W. Steadman ' Miss Charma M. Moore Mrs. F. W. Steadman Henry Topping 113. INLAND SEA 1899 Mrs. Henry Topping J. F. Laughton Mrs. J. F. Laughton

VII. THE CONGO MISSION Adopted 1884.

116. PALABALA (Pa-la-ba-la) 1878 123. NTONDO (Nto-ndo) fo rm erly IKOKO (E-ko'-ko) 1894 117. BANZA MANTEKE (Man-te'-ka) Jospeh Clark 1879 Mrs. Joseph Clark J. E. Geil W. E. Rodgers Mrs. J. E. Geil Mrs. W. E. Rodgers J. C. King, M. D. A. V. Marsh Mrs. J. C. King Mrs. A. V. Marsh * Miss Frances A. Cole * M iss A n n a H agquist * Miss Helen Yost 124. KIM PESE (Kim-pe-sl) 1908 xi8. MATADI (Ma-ta'-dl) 1880 A. Sims, M. D., D. P. H. Congo Evangelical Training Institution S. E. Moon 119. LUKUNGA (Lu-koong'-ga) 1882 Mrs. S. E. Moon A. N. Reitnouer (Mission Builder) Mrs. A. N. Reitnouer MUKIMVIKA (Mu-kim-ve'-ka) In * Miss Catharine L. Mabie, M. D. Portuguese Africa, 1882 125. VANGA (Van'-ga) 1913 W. H. Nugent TSHUM BIRI (Chum-be-rl) 1890 Mrs. W. H. Nugent P. C. Metzger * Miss Beulah MacMillan Mrs. P. C. Metzger

SONA BATA (So-na Ba-ta) 1890 IX DESIGNATED Thomas Moody t K. O. Andersson Mrs. Thomas Moody f Mrs. K. O. Andersson FIELDS AND STATIONS 2 0 3

A T H O M E P. A. McDiarmid A. L. Bain Mrs. P. A. McDiarmid Mrs. A. L. Bain W. H. Nugent P. Frederickson Mrs. W. H. Nugent Mrs. P. Frederickson * Miss Edna Oden Mrs. C. H. Harvey H. Ostrom, M. D. Thomas Hill Mrs. H. Ostrom Mrs. Thomas Hill Henry Richards W. H. Leslie, M. D. Mrs. Henry Richards Mrs. W. H. Leslie L. F. Wood Franklin P. Lynch, M. D. Mrs. L. F. Wood

VIII. THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS MISSION Begun 1900.

126. ILOILO (E-lo-e-lo) including JARO Mrs. W. B. Charles (Ha-ro) Panay (Pa-ni) Island, Miss Selma Lagergren 1900

Hospital Work CAPIZ (Cap'-es) Panay Island * Miss Anna L. Dahlgren 1903 * Miss Bessie M. Brewer G. J. Geis Mrs. G. J. Geis Bible Woman's Training School F. W. Meyer, M. D. * Miss Frieda L. Appel Mrs. F. W. Meyer * Miss Ellen W. Martien * Miss Margaret Suman * Miss Hazel R. M'alliet * Miss Cora W. Sydney * Miss Dorothy Dowell * Miss Mabel W. Stumpf * Miss Dorothea H. Taggart Jaro Industrial School and General Work A T H O M E A. E. Bigelow Miss A. B. Houger H. W. Munger * Miss Anna V. Johnson H. F. Stuart * Miss Rose E. Nicolet Mrs. H. F. Stuart R . C. Thom as, M. D. Mrs. R. C. Thomas 127. BACOLOD (Ba-ko'-lod) Negros W . O. V alentine (Na'-gros) Island 1901 M rs. W . O. V alentine W. B. Charles * Miss Sarah Whelpton

RETIRED LIST

Xote.—This list includes the names of a number of missionaries who are not permanently retired, but who have nevertheless been detained at home because of ill health or other reasons with no immediate prospect of returning to active service on the foreign field.

R. E. Adkins, M. D. Airs. Elbert Chute H. W. Hale Mrs. William Ashmore Airs. E. W. Clark G. H. Hamlen, D. D. * Miss Lucy L. Austin Mrs. J. E. Clough Airs. G. H. Hamlen Mrs. J. S. Adams Mrs. E. L. Coldren S. W. Hamblen W. E. Bailey Mrs. F. D. Crawley Mrs. S. W. Hamblen Mrs. W. E. Bailey W. T. Elmore, Ph. D. ‘ Aliss Stella S. Hartford Mrs. C. B. Banks Mrs. W. T. Elmore S. W. Hartsock W. F. Beaman F. H. Eveleth, D. D. Mrs. S. W. Hartsock Mrs. W. F. Beaman Mrs. J. L. Dearing W. H. S. Hascall Mrs. A. A. Bennett ‘ Miss Bertha A. Fetzer Airs. W. H. S. Hascall Mrs. A. Billington Mrs. J. G. Fetzer L. E. Hicks, Ph. D. N. W. Brown, M. D. Mrs. C. H. D. Fisher G. W. Hill Mrs. N. W. Brown Mrs. E. N. Fletcher Airs. G. W. Hill W. B. Bullen Mrs. C. B. Glenesk T. D. Holmes Mrs. W. B. Bullen Miss Clara V. Goodrich Airs. T. D. Holmes G. Campbell J. O. Gotaas G. J. Huizinga _ Mrs. G. Campbell M rs. J. O. Gotaas Airs. G. J. Huizinga J. E. Case Z. F. Griffin Airs. H. A. Kemp Mrs. J. E. Case Airs. Z. F. Griffin A. L. Kennan, M. D. Mrs. Arthur Christopher A. K. Gurney Airs. A. L. Kennan Elbert Chute Mrs. A. K. Gurney Airs. C. A. Kirkpatrick 2 0 4 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

Mrs. M. B. Kirkpatrick B. E. Robison Mrs. H. E. Wyman * Miss Annie M. Lemon Mrs. B. E. Robison F. H. Levering F. H. Rose D E A T H S M rs. F . H . L everin g, M . D. Mrs. F. H. Rose C. B ran d Eric Lund, D. D. J. F. Russell rs. Alonzo Bunker Mrs. Eric Lund Mrs. J. F. Russell L. A. Gould Mrs. C. G. Lewis * Mrs. Anna K. Scott, M. D. * Miss Nettie E. Holmes Mrs. John McLaurin * Miss E. Edna Scott Mrs. G. W. Lewis Mrs. W. R. Manley * Miss Martha Sheldon E. G. Phillips, D. D. W. C. Mason F. K. Singiser G. N. Thomssen Mrs. W. C. Mason Mrs. F. K. Singiser * Mrs. Emma I. Upcraft * Miss Minnie La V. Minnis S. C. Sonnichsen Mrs. P. H. Moore Mrs. S. C. Sonnichsen RESIGNATIONS Mrs. F. E. Morgan W. L. Soper A. H. Dahlby W. B. Parshley, D. D. Mrs. W. L. Soper Mrs. A. H. Dahlby Mrs. W. B. Parshley Mrs. E. O. Stevens C. L. Davenport Mrs. S. B. Partridge Mrs. F. P. Sutherland Mrs. C. L. Davenport, M. 1). C. E. Petrick * Miss E. J. Taylor * Miss Ella A. Hill Mrs. E. G. Phillips * Miss Thora M. Thompson * Miss Grace H. Patton * Miss Mary L. R. Riggs L. E. Worley J. F. Smith * Miss Clara E. Righter Mrs. L. E. Worley Mrs: J. F. Smith Mrs. W. H. Roberts H. E. Wyman

MARRIAGES

W. B. Charles, Philippines, to Miss Edna Neher C. L. Klein, Burma, to Miss Alice C. Glazier, South India A. N. Reitnouer, Congo, to Miss Minnie E. Grage, Congo

FIANCEES, APPOINTMENT EFFECTIVE UPON MARRIAGE

Miss Phyllis H. Additon, fiancee P. F. Russell Miss Myrtle L. Aldrich, fiancee C. S. Gibbs Miss Margaret C. Hallenbeck, fiancee D. L. Phelps Miss Anna E. Kuhner, fiancee Dr. H. N. Cooper

MISSIONARIES UNDER APPOINTMENT

G. C. Adams M. D. Mrs. T. S. Denham * Miss Florence M. Record Mrs. G. C. Adams 11 Miss R. Maud Ditmars * Miss Sadie Robbins ' Miss Vorha Balliman W . S. Dunn ’ Miss Lucy Russell * Miss Harriet Barrington * Miss Susan C. Ferguson P. F. Russell * Miss Evelyn Bickel * Miss Emma L. Geis * Miss Emilie Schultz G. E. Blackwell 1 f S . W . G ard G. S. Seagrave Mrs. G. E. Blackwell C. S. Gibbs Airs. G. S. Seagrave A. G. Boggs, M. D. * Miss Mayme Goldenburg * Miss Carrie A. Sliurtleff Mrs. A. G. Boggs * Miss Anne Ruth Harris * Miss Enda DeW. Smith * Miss Katherine E. Bohn 5T R. E. Henderson Ti E. E. Sowards * Miss Louise Brecht * Miss Grace I. Hill H. G. Spencer W. B. Brown Dr. E. R. Huckleberry * Miss Edyth B. Stansbury Mrs. W. B. Brown Mrs. E. R. Huckleberry * Miss Margaret Stevens W. H. Bueermann Miss Mabel F. Ivins G. W. Supplee Mrs. W. H. Bueermann R. J. Journey Mrs. G. W. Supplee S. S. Clark Mrs. R. J. Journey V. H. Sword Mrs. S. S. Clark * Mrs. Beulah Kenyon Mrs. V. H. Sword H. N. Cooper, M. D. * Miss Elsie Kittlitz * Miss Marion Tait * Miss Florence M. Crane ’ Miss Charlotte M. Lamer * Miss Gertrude Teele 51 P. C. Cressey H. Richard Leslie E. W. Thornton L. G. Crocker * M iss Edda M . M ason Mrs. E. W. Thornton Henry Erickson * Miss Eleanor D. Mason * Miss Helen L. Tufts W. G. Evans * Miss Mary A. Matthew A. V. Wakeman Mrs. W. G. Evans * Miss Malinda K. Miller Airs. A. V. Wakeman R. H. Ewing fT Miss Minnie Milne W. C. Whitaker E. B. Davis * Miss Esther M. Nelson J. R. Wilson Mrs. E. B. Davis * Miss Ruth E. Paul Mrs. J. R. Wilson J. W. Decker, Th. D. D. L. Phelps Dr. M. F. Yates 'Mrs. J . W . D ecker W . A. Phillips Mrs. M. F. Yates T. S. Denham Sfrs. W. A. Phillips * Miss Bessie M. Yeamans STATISTICAL TABLES

The Burma Mission

N o t e .— Totals include statistics of last year in the case of Karen Theological Semi­ nary; Burman Theological Seminar}’-; Work for Burmans— Rangoon. Thaton, Meiktila; Work for Karens—Toungoo (Paku), Loikaw; Work for Kachins—Myitkyina. Namkham; Work for Shans—Kengtung, Mong Lem; Work for Chins—Thayetmyo; Telugu and Tamils; Work for Chinese, from which statistical reports for 1920 hare not been received. The Assam Mission

N o t e .— Totals include statistics of last year in the case of Jorhat Christian Schools; Tura; Gauhati; Goalpara; Sibsagor; North Lakhimpur; Golaghat; Jorhat; Sadiya; Tika, from which statistical reports for 1920 have not been received.

The China Mission

N o t e .—Totals include statistics of last year in the case of Kiating; Ningyuan, from which statistical reports for 1920 have not been received.

, The Congo Mission

N o t e .— Totals include statistics of last year in the case of Ntondo, from which statistical reports for 1920 have not been received.

REFERENCE SIGNS AND NOTES

G e n e r a l N o t e .— Figures in parentheses are not included in the totals of the sections (e. g., entries under the heading “ Physicians, Men and Women ” are not included in total missionaries in Burma, 210), as they are counted under other heads. Missionaries engaged in both general and school work are reported in parentheses in cases where a separate entry is made for the school. Statistics of “ Missionaries ” are for the year ending July 1, 1921, to correspond with the list given under "Fields and Stations” ; other statistics are for the year ending December 31, 1920. * Statistics for 1919—not including baptisms, t Statistics for 1918—not including baptisms. $ Statistics for 1917—not including baptisms. ** Statistics for 1916— not including baptisms. ft Statistics for 1915—not including baptisms. § Statistics for 1913—not including baptisms. (a) Small numbers of Burmese are included in the statistics for some Karen and other churches. (b) Include statistics for Telugu and Chinese work. (c) Include statistics for Zigon. (d) Statistics are included under Prome. (e) Estimated. (f) Including statistics for Chin work. (g) Statistics are included under Maubin. (h) Figures for this work are included in statistics for other races, Assamese con­ verts being few in number and connected with churches whose members are largely from other peoples. (i) Statistics are included under Work for Kacharis, Goalpara. (j) Including statistics for Assamese and Other Peoples. (k) Statistics included under Work of Immigrant Peoples, Golaghat. (1) Including statistics of Bhudrak and Chandbali. (m) Statistics are included under Balasore. (n) Include statistics of Union Girls’ School. (o) Include statistics of Union Hospital. (p) Represents work for one and one-half months only. (q) Statistics include dormitories conducted for students in government and private schools. (r) Include statistics of dispensaries at Bacolod and outstations. (s) Many stations have not been able to report an accurate division of church- members into male and female. In such cases the total only is given. 205 2 0 6 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

THE BURMA MISSION—Table 1

M issionaries N a t iv e W o r k e r s

Medical Preachers Teachers A ssis­ m ativ tants Worke J

W o r k a n d S t a t io n s T3 4> .2 W o m en •du (Note 2) O C 8 Single Single Men, Men, Unordainec Wives Men Ordained Women Zenana Workers Bible Bible Women anc Men Total Total Missionariei 0 W'omen !§ j j Men, Ordained | | Physicians, [ Men and W omen Theological Seminaries Karen Theological Seminary 2 I I *4 Burman Theological Semi­ nary ...... *1 *2 Judson College ...... 3 4 7 IS 6 Rangoon Baptist Schools.... 2 43 17 1 Baptist Mission Press...... 3 , Burmans (a) Rangoon ...... *7 *3 *6 *5 *cJ M ou lm ein...... 18 30 Tavoy (b ) ...... j *■ j 12 H e n z ad a ...... 12 36 24 Toungoo ...... 6 6 Prome (c ) ...... z Thonze ...... - 8 Zigon (d ) ...... (1) (1) *T *1 *4 10 * 3 8 j 0 7 Sagaing ...... 2 Meiktila ...... *1 *3 Pyinmana ...... 6 j 6 _ ( i s ) (11) (20) (46) ( 32) (60) (15s) (156) (24) Karens “ Rangoon— Sgaw ...... 41 123 99 91 6 Rangoon—Pwo (f) ...... j 1 Moulmein— Pwo ...... 2 1 I5 26 40 2 6 18 j x 22 78 77 ____ j 2 87 I j A 60 2 6 t2 j 1*14 t « t 45 ts 68 2 2 16 1 \ 46 J 2 6 16 15 j j ti Totals, Karens ...... (II) (O ( i t ) (17) (40) (210) ( s is ) (617) (S9 S) (18) (1) (19), Kachins 1 8 ♦X *9 *1 I *0 *4 ( 3 ) (1) ( 4) (S'* ( n ) (41) ( n ) Shans 6 * 1 * ’ • * 2 1 ( i ) j (1) 2 2 tf68 ■ ■ ■ j t t 3 (1)

(s ) (1) (6) (2) ( 3) (14) (20) ( 76) (68) (21) (7) ( 7) (1) "(») Chins Id. $1 1 ’ 6 13 T 0 0 (1) (2) (s ) (12) (22) (27) (18) (?) ( i ) T alain s 6 1 1 * (1) to f 2e to English-speaking Peoples Rangoon ...... 1 I 2 Moulmein ...... X I 2 4 Totals, English-speaking Peoples...... (<0 ( 3) (2) (8) (1) (1) Missionaries at Home...... 12 18 14

2 29 69 Totals for Burma...... 62 62 (s) 2 1 0 291 724 988 83 s 5 6 9 14 72 STATISTICS FOR YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1920 207

THE BURMA MISSION—Table 2

C h u r c h S t a t is t i c s E d u c a t io n a l S t a t is t i c s

Pupils in Church Members .§ • Pupils Theological in >% s * 1 ! Seminaries Colleges 4> U •2•SIand Schools .2 to c 0 CJ C‘£ •o rt . !3 03 j tn to ** 0 « s ■s to M a S i m m 01 Ch aj bo t3 03 a zs rC 3 -C-C 0) iS bo ojs* e P u ** "c3 O •S.S be W TD 0 “ e s V 8 2 -a 2 S *c3 B H n

*T *145 *T 137 42 179 15 6 565 109 23 63

*8 *(8 ) *8 *8 *353 *300 *653 *683 394 39 633 (I) 6 166187 31 8 (1) 327 230 557 73 390 (s ) 17 328 539 53 19 843 ( 0 108 79 187 32 5 i 5S (1) 3 O) s 251 236 487 45 9 244

*6 *T ,*(x) *1 *23 *39 *1 *88 34 ( i ) 8 185 77 262 126 263 13 •4 0 0 6 205 19 224 19 7 I5S 13 I 14 18 1 *15 *2 *, *150 34 (4) 6 8 349 218 567 92 13 450 17 6 17 ’430) (56) (29) (70) (90) (5176) (625) (113) ( 5476) (70) 360 174 ( i 74) 176 176 5274 5829 93 35i 8

33 ( 33) 39 39 , 1540 3507 33 ( e ) 1855 I (18) (4) 32 (32) 34, (e)8os 60s 63 (63) 83 ( e )9o 2049 2004 4053 263 25 85^ 343 (143) 150 1 S3 14959 878 150 6003 Rr> (80) 3042 J55 85 2295 .5337 227 t8 3 t«+ T3800 t2I*83 (47) 86 86 1308 1451 2759 ISI 350 90 3802 l88 26 1360 32 (26) 40 50 1023 1976 37 791 33 ( 33) 33 (e ) 9oo (e )945 1845 197 27 750 +18 ti8 t-294 U 66 ts6o +8 , t 235 (871) (631) (821) (848) ( 55713) (2850) ( 514) (18919) (I) (18) (4) 23 (2) .23 3496 106 *287 *1 *88 1 t- *7 *250 (25) (2) (8) (38) c S i (106) ( n i (338) 28 8S 69 66 * Jo *48 *75 *123 10 140 ft82 t t(S 5) t f u s t t i 4| t f i i 544 f t 32 t t 3750 (2) 92 90 182 15 250 (202) (90) ( 57) (122) (161) (12036) (37) (44) (4358)

*'3 *13 t(s) U 7 t 300 $275 *575 t 9 t i6 i 45 (4) 13 IS 651 ■33 17 57i ,„34 10 10 800 ISO (39) (9) (35) (S 2) (2026) (183) (28) (852)

5 200 244 AAA 3i 140 tfi t io t |64 t 5 t 293

76 176 ....2 1 6 2 32 64 96 125 46 26 (2) (3) (3) ( 3) ( 3 4 4 ) (72) (4 ) (45i ) 1 i 2938 1097 ( 7 3 0 ) 80764 3 t 392 281 74 T 1 109 ' 23 208 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

THE BURMA MISSION—Table 3

E d u c a t io n a l S t a t is t i c s

Pupils in P upils in P upils in H igh Secondary P rim ary Schools Schools Schools i

W o rk a n d S t a t io n s ~ tc j i | £ 5

03 <0 'Hyi >> & ►. O 0 0 ■s Secondary Schools Primary Schools (other than High Sch’ls)

6 Schools of all Gra< M 3 n O W Total Number of | | High Schools Theological Seminaries Karen Theological Seminary * ! Burman Theological Semi­ 1 i nary ...... Tudson College ...... 1 Rangoon Baptist Schools.... 2 393 4 2 533 10 3 508 55 8 Baptist Mission Press...... Burmans (a) Rangoon ...... * 1 *231 * 13 *2 * 18 *21 "3 M ou lm ein ...... 2 474 287 I 32 100 *2 168 165 5 q8 .... *0 -^0 69 1 37 14 5 464 9 6 13 380 (6 28i j ? * 48 130 157 12 6 J 151 1 25 /'' Thaton ...... *76 *1 80 169 * 1 OS 61 47 93 g ( 1) 78 27 III 67 j 68 *2 *190 *30 *2 j 23 12 338 2 4 . (7) ( 7 4 o) (373) (33) (1805) (1200) (59) ( 18 15 ) (1440) (99) (28 26 K arens 27 414 245 106 1452 1459 107 (107 28 29 *•? 65 (e )7 3 5 (e )6 5 4 43 (<■> 30 26 1 1 19 322 324 (iS 76 1049 1 004 77 (7fi 31 j ■25 422 306 149 1905 1649 150 (l49 32, fsi 3 3 l , 8 3 115 6 926 84 34 t8 s +3 3 i +365 t?R 35 36 584 668 26 36 t 3 £246 *95 *4 3 *5 45 *347 * 146 37 T harraw addy— Sgaw ...... 1 25 7 1 92 67 40 590 350 42 (39 38 29 29 5 5 S 493 30 (-M 39 Ti t 23 *5 TI44 1*71 T13 40 (3) (8 6 l) (558) (14) ( 110 3 ) ( 5 7 5 ) (648) ( 9 3 6 8 ) (8 310 ) (666) (b.15 41 Kachins 42 61 2 1 IS (e )3 5 0 (e )5 9 16 43 *4 *1 33 *26 *4 *1 45 *62 *7 44 1 7 45 ( 1) (6 1) (2 l) (628,) (14 7) (27) 46 Shans 1 47 189 48 41 19 23 2 1 3 7 30 32 12 3 49 * 16 ' 15 50 t i *95 *35 *15 *I 7 S *1 25 j Q 2 3 51 54 45 52 (203) 53 ( 1) (9 ) (2) ( 5 ) (409) (i 18) (20) ( 3 3 8 ) Chins 54 * 8 + 10 +5 *7 * 9 7 *29 55 *1 13 U 56 76 120 1 1 18 1 130 6 160 15 6 57 (27) \ i 0 58 ( 3 ) (87) ( 12 5 ) (24) (4 3 8 ) ( 1 7 4 ) 59 Talains 60 61 *5 ( e ) t 4 67 ( e ) t i 55 62 63 English-speaking Peoples

THE BURMA MISSION—Table 4

FnrcATioNAL S tatistics Native Contributions M edical S ummary

o S o r- 03 c*S® !2 Wi* © <0 !n C V o .u wr- g < ort be. 10 rtj S’ bo S 3 C 3 r JS I- ~ fc .5 W ;| u s o W §;2 *■* QJ Q* ^73 a EPh E” -*-*ffl rtu '<0.2 p.tS 3 V 3 o g s s - § s 3 3 O u hU SO Ph^P h fe <3« SO HH

'M5!

*$18 " $7 *$7 3125 $3000 $25 397 422 1566 29 35448 18 17 2 $239 239

’ 283, 1445 *689 120(11 7126 10035 1753 2219 3972 1044 1314 37 266 323 5661 2716 873 468 1341 8134 6686 588 1099 1738 901 275 113 5 i 231 335 1799 232 140 255 395 .'S'S 955 056 135 5 57 692

*367! 300 *6 50571 5090 320 566 206 1373] 2053 103 128 1781 1 1 3 1 1 1485 166 487 715 170! 1 0931 9001 641 63 127 "20741 "3 1 3 0 1 l2 7 4 ' - 3 9 ! *327 632j 3366! 1860I 678 2711 1003 1P7I 6! 89s 913! 364 94I 458 f;443> t (67)|(4332i) (38634)1 (5505) (2 9 3 ) (6544)! (12342) (1 )

3570! 6331! 55941 '1756 958 4 62211 27561

1530 18! 1607I 19421 1965 1689 1986 j 5^*40 683 1 5 ! 8 17! 268 | 2297 1 1 5 0 I 3709 2287 8! 148 4 1 12371 13826 5109I 2 315 21250 4282 33191 6074I 6801 291721 3403 39376 2472! 3 3 ! 1 5 3 3 1 I 0 I 5 1 7687 3121 1325 12133 $16 7 ! • T931!...... I 110341 tio74l +988 ti8 g 6 f6o3 t3487 13981 691 14291 1000! 1 2 4 1 761 1081 3083 •'233' ...... I 9651 ...... I 4991 8615 13606 " 3 1 1 3 9 1 39061 33901 1629 2430! 405 9 " 37' 30I 3 3 3 3 ' 3333 i 1401 579 1047I 3027 r243 t8 t6 q i I ts o i 1 1 1 o! ti>7 +498 ti202| t6oS| t 5554 t2 22 t$ 2 l6 ■i)7 >! (21 2) 1 (25966) (27478) 1(54883) 1(53171)!(29375) 1( 1 3 7 4 2 9 ) ( 3 ) (1202)1 (608)] (6554) ( 3 8 9 ) (2 16 ) 4011 •. j hi 15231 64 227 406 . . ' *67 *iooo| ~5 ° -Jo o ! *50! *200 ...... I *547,1 ...... -I...... ! .1. ! ('178)! (3070)1 (126) (215)1 (277)! (618) ( 0 I I 2281 . . i T 876 I I I27I 122 15 169I 306 104: 4l 202| IOI4! 118 133 4486 1692 1259 21'...... I 62 71 228 228 7999 969 1033 . }87l {983! 112082 ++I42I t t 66 tt2290 t t i 100 t t 8 3 3 71 22311 1485 I 251 ...... 1 352 603 3919 1397 1084

" 79)! (13) (4396)1 (5236)1 (2801)(1 5 7 )j (602) (3 5 6 o) ( 3 ) 1( 5 ) (3ii)|(9020)i(12485)|(5158)I(4209) ! I t 3 5 *1 t 38s 1 334 *82 | $62 t l 4 ...... 5t>7, 1 1 1 5231 8471 67 291 112 201...... | 466I 300 1 83 82-

281 I24I 355 *(!•>•>; 'i" 3 - 7 0 1 tj.40 ...... 1 1 240 §33 ...... 1. 1 1 1 1 1289 ...... 1 204 Kir; 4 J 4 3 4 °! 2405 992 ...... 1 733 ...... I. 171

"'5)l, (4)1 (4340)! ( 249 5)1 (30 14 ) ( 3 7 5 )

: 1 W25;I 356!356j?i2io92|$l03o6oj $67809 $54310! $38429! $160548 210 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

THE ASSAM MISSION—Table 1

M issionaries N ative W orkers

Medical Preachers Teachers Assist- ants

W ork and S tations

£ cd ••4-n c4>

Jorhat Christian Schools...... tt lG Assamese (h) Garos T u ra...... (i) Goalpara (i) ...... Gauhati ( j ) ...... 3 *3 $26 Totals, Garos...... (5) (2) ( 7) (O (2 1) (5) (15) ( i 3 3 ) (4) 00 K acharis G oalpara...... 43 U Nagas Im p u r...... (1) 47 42 Kohima ...... (1) S 7 Kangpokpi (formerly at Ukhrul) ... 4 8 21 Totals, Nagas...... (4 ) (4 ) (2) ( 3 ) (10 ) ( 3 ) (60) (70) ( 4 ) (1) (4) Immigrant Peoples Sibsagor (j ) ...... t i t36 +6 Nowgong ( j) ...... 1 7 2 North Lakhimpur...... 12 t i 7 +9 Golaghat (j ) ...... *38 4 Jorh at...... (1) Sadiya ( j ) ...... *4 Totals, Immigrant Peoples — (4) ( 3 ) ( 7) (1) (14) (S) (100) (21) (5) Mikirs T ika...... **4 Golaghat ( k ) ...... Totals, Mikirs...... (4 ) (8) Abors and Miris Sadiya _(k)...... Missionaries at home...... 26

99 Totals for A ssam . 26 (S) 80 182

THE SOUTH INDIA MISSION—Table 1 100 Telugus 101 Ramapatnam Theological Seminary 3 4 102 N ellore...... 50 27 103 O n g ole...... 207 128 104 Ramapatnam...... 7 4 io s A llu r ...... 11 3 106 Secunderabad...... 4 4 107 K u rn ool...... 39 34 108 M adras...... 25 109 English Church...... n o Hanumakonda...... (1) 1 1 1 Cumbum...... 112 Vinukonda...... 113 Narsaravupet...... 114 Bapatla...... i»5 U dayagiri...... 116 Mahbubnagar (formerly Palmur). (0 0 ) 1 1 7 N algonda...... 118 K an ig iri...... 119 Kavali...... 120 Kandukuru...... 12 1 Atmakur...... 122 P od ili...... 12 3 Sattenapalle...... 12 4 Markapur...... 12 5 Gurzalla ...... 126 Sooriapett...... 12 7 Tangaon...... 128 D onakonda...... 129 G adval...... 130 Nandyal...... 13 1 M adira...... 132 Missionaries at H o m e ...... ( 3)

Totals for South I n d ia ...... 37 (8) 117 44 351 7Si 474 183 STATISTICS FOR YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1920 211

THE ASSAM MISSION—Table 2

Church S tatistics E ducational S tatistics Pupils Pupils Church in Theo­ in M embers logical Col­ Sem i­ leges S3 ° naries

f t io

><19) *6663 103 * 3 2 0 1 23 4

*41 tis t ( 9 ) *3 6 t 39 $ 18 5 1 J - 5 (1) (172) ( 3 4 ) (28) ( i 4 7 ) (150 ) (8 514 ) (12 8 ) (3201) ( 1) ( 2 3 ) (4 )

ts U! t 7 1 7 $ 2 3 1

94 46 46 47 1490 2195 3685 789 3600 IS 8 10 128 86 2 14 8 290 18 600 32 6 926 , 395 *683 (X43t ( 5 5 )

"(O **6 **151 **6

( 12 ) ( 1) "(i) (6)(‘( 7 ) ' ( i s O 6)

478 19 8 ( 1 0 7 ) 1 303 376 1916 8 983s 23

THE SOUTH INDIA MISSION—Table 2

7 114 (2) 500 800 25 700 469 ( 3 ) 12 2 2 5 182 10 2 3020 18 315 285 600 5 300 28 '(O 7 2 1 51 10 430 26 79 45 12 4 27 7 2 2 1 94 ( 9 ) 1242 9 70 2 2 12 67 33 867 S3 325 18 8 513 12 500 27 32 59 4 53 38 ( i) 424 2 2 3 647 178 250 142 2620 2205 4825 60 13 0 0 44 (s) 2014 1 1 9 7 3211 220 600 67 337 6 1689 5065 505 600 75 ( i) 720 2 120 ii95 157 25 ( 1) 7 4 4 1 13 13 0 30 4 502 27 1 1 6 80 & SO 3 52 8 650 13 300 16 8 165 3488 1 7 1 7 5205 139 2 3 50 99 ( i) 7 538 360 65 2503 26 (4 ) 20 658 530 68 277 14 10 80 *55 52 4285 305 300 30 900 650 1550 70 *400 15 3 2 4 1 2 1S 0 5391 182 2000 19 1 1 9 0 599 17 8 9 7 240 69 1 4 16 1 1 8 4 2600 204 208 24 370 39 *98 66 297 9 '2 8 6 8 5847 58 875 17 I 95 150 3 4 S 20 45 17 3 18 2 S9 577 39 12 0 So (6) 1680 2 528 128 26 4 18

107 19 76 184 (40) 958 7S 328 32 26 212 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

THE ASSAM MISSION—Table 3

E ducational S tatistics

Pupils Pupils in Pupils in Second­ in High ary P rim ary Schools Schools Schools W ork and Stations

J Jorhat Christian Schools...... t t i tt34 11 (i) TT79 t t ( i ) t t ii ... Assamese (h) Garos T u r a ...... *146 *178.2 ‘ 697! *99j.. Goalpara ( i ) ...... Gauhati (j) ...... $26 *428 ti56 t26| . . Totals, G a ro s ...... (i) (146 ) (47) (12 3 ) (2210 ) (853) (125)!..:: K acharis G o a lp a ra ...... $2 $28 t 2 N agas I m p u r ...... 149 38 506 181 39 Kohim a ...... 1 1 2 1 Kangpokpi (formerly at Ukhrul) . 14 1 6 419 18 Totals, N aga s...... (4) (409) (43) (54) (92s) (23st (58) Immigrant Peoples Sibsagor (j ) ...... t 6 tiS6 t59 Nowgong ( j ) ...... 2 6 N orth L ak h im p u r...... t9 ti03 + 52 Golaghat (j ) ...... *13 *18 7 *142 Jo r h a t ...... Sadiya ( j ) ...... '5 *61 *24 ’(>' Totals, Immigrant Peoples (i) (20)! (35), (537), (283)! (36)' M ikirs T ik a ...... Golaghat (k) ...... Totals, MikiTS...... (8) (90) (8) Abors and Miris Sad iya ( k ) ...... Missionaries at home......

99 T otals fo r Assam , 634 3812 137m 230; (71

THE SOUTH INDIA MISSION—Table 3 100 Telugus 101 Ramapatnam Theological Seminary 102 N ello re...... 550 85 9 107 208 103 O n go le...... 326 128 193 3 9 7 6 2713 198 (9) 104 Ram apatnam ...... 225 H 5 (5) 105 A l lu r ...... 137 189 53 106 Secunderabad...... 69 25 10 107. K u rn o o l...... 389 565 410 (3-’) io8| M ad ras...... 76 305 386 109 . En glish C h urch ...... n o Hanumakonda...... 13 119 72 h i Cum bum ...... 1 13 884 390 9 i 1 12 V in u kon da...... 367 184 28 1 X3 N arsa ravu p et...... 1008 46s 49 114 B a p a tla ...... 748 403 37 (33' 1 1 5 U d a y a g iri...... 47 69 11 5 (1) 1 16 Mahbubnagar (formerly Palmur). 65 9 13 3 17 11 1 N alg o n d a ...... 60 100 30 (10) 118 K a n ig ir i...... 80 133 1502 786 134 119 K a v a li...... 2 18 156 25 392 175 26 120 K an d u k u ru ...... 15 200 *100 15 121 A tm akur...... 4 40 10 4 122 P o d ili...... 56 387 179 56 12 3 Sattenapalle...... *24 325 175 *24 (59) 124 M ark ap u r...... 66 59 1000 475 60 125 G urzalla ...... 9 164 1 12 9 126 So o riap ett...... 13 105 86 13 1 27 Ja n g a o n ...... 1 37 41 1 128 D on ak on da...... 42 642 295 42 (1) 129 G a d v a l...... 5 33 25 5 130 N an d yal...... 148 51 12 131 M ad ira...... 318 158 26 132 Missionaries at Home ......

( i 5°) 133I T otals fo r South I n d i a ...... 4 1265 110 7 671 13989 8 131 STATISTICS FOR YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1920 213

THE ASSAM MISSION—Table 4

Educational, Statistics \ Native Contributions M edical S ummary

•s. V

0 s <5 .r> O c E ‘E £ c ^ tc 0 c c O rr C V c r ~ GJ .2 » d > B •fi c ^ > 0 tM <4H 0 03^1) O 0 0 £ -* E =£ O 3 a Vh In C/) be u v ~ ' K - ~ u £ Xi w.s ~ V eg ‘S. O Schools B 1 ■*- v 5 ipport of Pastors >r >r Ch. Expenses jvernment jvernment Grants in I'ceipts Fees id id Other Workers s * CC.B P- u c 2 0 £ £ -

-135 +$287 t t $390

j6qo ’ 385 *1960 *$601 *$1044 *$174 *$1819 *1 *1 I '5035 "5954 *$1142 *$189

t 747 t 552 + I 2 T + 19 J692 (385)(2707) (HS3 ) ( l l 65) (193) (2511) ( 0 (2) ( n ) (5035) (5954) (1142) (189)

+a t 70 J 70

S57 566 330 167 1063 120 5172 9165 1388 1151 120 384 384 107 635 (e)200 , 833 is8 1 S8 114 , 3450 8833 (1612) (201) ( 1473) (330) (167) (1605) (1) (3) (234) (8622) (17998)(1108) (1655) (1243)

■i'215 +165 f 77 t i 9 l . 36 ...... (e) 16 296 Tl55 t 539 f 174 1838 *50 *467 *1 *SO * 12000 *15000 * 1667 *1467 t t i® T 1*390 tt8 7 t t io fi...... *3083 *186 *105 *74 *74 , *74 1840) (1263) (656) (935) (2854) (2) (30) (12000) (18083) (1853) (1541)

“ 90 ______**1200 **6000 **53

190) (l200> (6000) (53)

I '

5988 201 $672 $4570 $3594 $2151 $1295 $7040 7 295 26857 48035 S4703 $2973

THE SOUTH INDIA MISSION—Table 4

5« I...... $122 $ 122 .....I. 1...... !...... lo iS I...... $7235 $2791 $366 $17 383 1304 5564 40166 $6169 74031 6 2 4486 63951 894 1050 131 2075 1 I 232 5318 i6s88 1990 163 .1401 ...... 42 200 48 13 50 i n I 10 700 2202 5 M 7 395!...... 779. 245 130 130 ...... 1391 15 47 ...... 1...... 1...... 13&7I i8 2 1 1 1 1788 218 496 7 8 0 !...... 380 913 372 214 891 ...... I:::::.: ...... l691 ° S 691 -’05 57 160 17 7 184 1 2 160 8182 13811 4675 '415I 157 452 27 100 127 2606 2606 244 91 564! 8 407 117 87 204 1620 ! 251 149 14 10 33 ____1...... *3 155 6746 ____1...... 14-3 120 163 48 69 2925 4905 566 51 >24|...... 6 4 176 46 -421 20 78 277 277 130 14800 1419 335 2368|...... 86 2248 44 I "0 94i I 8 137 5020 198 114 312 I I 126 292s 4905 566 51 3oo|...... 25 50 292 33 325 5o ...... rt 5661 ...... 859 5001 2 3 155 695 :8 15f>61 100 53i 217 217 276!...... 152 48 40 88 ! ______i...... I;l'l 34 172 240 371 ...... 18086 1055 527 78 118 118 ...... 937 105 106 ...... ! ...... (...... 1...... 35 ...... 199 146 -O ...... 1...... 1...... 476| ...... : I 18 308 1 7- j 1

25fc5l 407 $16 38 $5023 $2784 $1040! $8847 8 2459 -8220 118764^ $17195 $3923 214 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

THE BENGAL-ORISSA MISSION—Table 1

M issionaries N a t iv e W o rkers

Preachers Teachers Medical m Assistants 03 •«4 .E a W ork an d S ta tio n s •8 c u .2 0 *55 C & 3 co = C > OJ 0 § Single W om en Men and Wom< Men, Ordained Ordained Bible Women anc W om en U nordained Physicians, Zenana W orkers Number of Line £ H % 1 1

134 Bengalis 135 j 136 Kharagpur (inc. English work) .. 137 ( 0 8 12 15 13 8 139 T otals, B e n g a lis ...... (6) ( 1 ) (5 ) (2 ) ( 1 ) (1 4 ) ( 5) (10 ) ( 1 4 ) (16 ) (1 3 ) 0 ) ..J O riyas 1 1 4 1 18 38 21 ' 1 1 143 *44 6 *45 . *3 8 146 ( 3) ( 0 (3)(4) ( x o ( 5) (29)(S 4) (30 ) (2 7) 147 Santals 14 8 86 6 14 9 ( 1 ) 14

15 0 Totals for Bengal...... 13 3 14 13 (?) 43 12 44 154 52 44 3

TH E CHINA M ISSION—Table 1

15 1 Chinese 15 2 (South) *53 Ashmore Theological Sem inary.... (2 ) 8 * 154 17 39 25 ' 155 7 6 36 15 6 26 * 157 ( 1 ) 5 6 4 15 8 (2 ) 34 19 6 *59 47 ( 1 ) 6 16 2 Sunwuhsien (formerly Changning) 10 (n 16 3 ( 1 2 ) ' u ) (1 4 ) ( i s j (4 8 ? '( 8 ) ( 845 (209) .( 5 9 ) (3 0 (13) 16 4 (E ast) 16 5 University of Nanking (inc. Lan- 166 16 7 Shanghai Baptist College and Theo- 6 13 27 4 Tfi8 « 46 7 16 9 6 (1) 17 11 170 ( 1 ) 13 6 9 1 7 1 1 7 2 8 8 ( n)25 0 0 2 5 1 (n )i4l(n) *73 W 174 (xo) ( 12 ) (1 9 ) (24) (6) (6 5) ( 1 2 ) (3 7 ) (14 7 ) (9 4) ( 7 ) (45) (25 175 (W est) 17 6 West China Union University (inc. 5 (s'! 17 7 ( 1 ) zo 6 2 7 8 1 3 1 7 S *6 * 1 6 179 (x ) **9 * * 1 6 **1 1 8 1 T 8 (4 t8? T otals, W est C h in a ...... (6) (9) a s ) ( 1 3 ) (4 ) (4 3 ) (2 7 ) (6 7) ( 1 3 ) (4) U) 183

62 j. 18 4 46 30 74 7* (2 7 ) 2 2 1 20 14 8 423 166 42 ___... -- STATISTICS FOR YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1920 215

THE BENGAL-ORISSA MISSION—Table 2

N a t i v e Church S tatistics E ducational S tatistics W orkers Pupils in Pupils in Other 03 Theo­ Church Members Colleges N ative rt ° logical Workers cjs Sem i­ naries aJja> c/2 bd and CO V ^ c Schools s s S " Cfl c o. cS Oja w_ , * 2 pc/) _ o : .2 h *3 2 , I o «J T3 ( s ) Hifl I• Hc*!! n)®

3 32 64 368 9 3 131 196 175 i 6 92 41 * 69 152 4 . 4 2 *2 7 39 6 , 35 (i) ( 6 0 (6) ( 3 ) (9 ) (451) (29) (2 5 ) (670) (1) (4 ) (4 )

103 5 (l) 4 7 225 263 4 55

35 40 148 289 , 37 4 87 (6) (15 2 ) (10 ) (8) (14 ) (6 71) (37? (X9 ) (784)

108 6 238 3

( 3) 1360 69 47 1749

THE CHINA MISSION—Table 2

| 2 1 6 2 110 28 (3) 24 3 1 697 588 1285 69 29 1800 5.... 73 ( 1) 7 ( 1) 8 464 73 8 850 548834 23 14 12 227 3 5 o 7 (O 84 ...... 798 5 4 i 1339 74 42 i J 18 %\ 25 37 274 895 145 27 1347 10 339 394 32 10 306 J 8 8 2 3 1 172 , 403 58 250 16) (6) (4 3 7 ) ( i 3 9 ) (20) [148) (208)(58 41) (570) (156 ) (7 5 1 5 ) (2) (2 1) ( 7 3 ) (7)

t s i

150 l6 166 45 462 22 146 6 1 15 13 ( 1) 27 572 379 951 92 35 1 64 5 188 97 285 19 443 15 ? 6 128 72 26s 10 ( 1) 408 145 553 40 14 775 4 6 (11)82 10 14 150 4 12 35 655 1 ( 1) 79 18 ) (9) (3 9 4 ) (39) (3) (37) ( 7 1) (2675) (246) (61) (3 7 1 7 ) (4) (22) (96) (2) (19 7 ) (3 )

i i 9 J t 2 3 1 65 6 # . 83 «314 *1 *7 *7 *234 * 1 17 3 5 1 *471 6 69 421 8 «*T 17 17 352 46 **28 **9 * * 9 **304 **?n **324 **r 86 29 1 15 (4) (1) (124 ? ( 5 ) (50) (50) (15 2 5 ) ( i n ) (20) ( 2 4 11) ( 0 ( 9)

38 j 6 955 183 (23) 235 329 10041 927 237 13643 6 43 169 2 1 6 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

THE BENGAL-ORISSA MISSION—Table 3

E ducational S tatistics

Pupils in Pupils in Pupils in H igh Secondary P rim ary Schools Schools Schools

W ork and S tations

2 ° S

134 Bengalis 135 C o n ta i...... - 3 136 Kharagpur (inc. English work) 18 9 137 M idnapore...... 233 175 138 Jamshedpur...... 139 Totals, Bengalis ...... (i) (2 1) (34)! (20) (2 7 4 ) ( l 9 4 ) (22) i 140 O riyas | 141 Balasore (1) ...... 3 93 42 j 12 109 444 i6i 142 Khudrak ( m ) ...... 143 Chandbali (in)...... 144 Tellasore...... 3 25 95 145 S a n t ip o r e ...... 178 58 146 T otals, O riya s...... ( 1) (152) ( 3 ) (9 3 ) (42) ( 2 7 ) (312) ( 5 9 7 ) (31)! i47]Santals 148; Bhim pore...... 177 76 1826 149 1 Missionaries at Home......

150,Totals for Bengal , 158 862

THE CHINA MISSION— Table 3

151 Chinese 152 (Sou th) 153 Ashmore Theological Seminary. 154 S w a to w ...... 170 265 654 (4: 155 K a y in g ...... 153 132 332 (n 156 U n g k u n g , 90 605 (4) 15 7 1 Chaochowfu , 94 341 h i 158 K ityan g 110 845 174 ’(6 ) 159 Chaoyang ...... 152 860 7 (in 160 Hopo ...... 115 367 16 1 C a n to n ...... 162 Sunwuhsien (formerly Changning) IOl 16 •63 Totals, South C h in a ...... (4) (32 3) (30) (18 ) (9 7 7 ) t*xS5 (164) (4185) (7 2 1) (188) ( 2 6 ) 164 (E a st) ; <3$ I University of Nanking (inc. Lan­ guage S c h o o l)...... 166 Ginling College...... 167 Shanghai Baptist College and Theo­ logical Seminary ...... 1 ■257 121 44 168 N in 2 1 66 116 348 223 169 Sh aoh sin g...... 1 1 36 32 9 105 166 170 K in h w a ...... 1 1 77 16 30 4 73 40 17 1 H uchow 1...... 65 44 , 13 159 216 l6 172 H an gch o w ...... : (n)2 67 (n)9 & (n)3 50 (n )104 (11)10 (11)209 (n)3 6 3 (n)i5 17 3 Sh an gh ai...... 174 T otals, E ast C h in a...... ; (7) (503) (129) (14 ) (307) (24 9 ) ( 5 5 ) ( 1 0 1 5 ) (1052) (82) 175 (W est) 176 West China Union University (inc. Language S c h o o l)...... S u if u ...... 1 26 638 230 178 K ia tin g ...... *250 *123 *(r) 179 Y a ch o w ...... *150 180 N ingyuan ...... **196 *112 18 1 C hengtu...... 182 Totals, West China ...... ( i) (26) ( 3 3 ) (1502^ (6 15) ( 3 5 ) '(ii 183 Missionaries at Home......

184 Totals for China., 852 1284 364 6702 2388 3°5 STATISTICS FOR YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1920 217

THE BENGAL-ORISSA MISSION—Table 4

■ational S tatistics M edical S ummary

1 £ C 03 Q

£ «5 £ 1 s < £ £ : S ' tc * 2r I 12 *2 11 1 ® E

THE CHINA MISSION—Table 4 i I I i ! .....I ...... I ...... 1 '493: 26I $10844 $139 6 $i2 b j $892! $2414 1 1 257 25106 32000 $1729 $433 743: 43 3 /2 9 165 35 60 260j 1 100 30s 10 3 715' 6 105s 9 48 87 1 0 3 5 ; 1 I 233 2882 9277 653 571 551 1 831 19 354 1129I 3756 1836 4^5 2261; 1 476 3144 12988 1420 2 5 0 10191 43 j 4784 1005 250 87 1342* 1 1 180 1220 9000 5 12 439 56 2 1027 240: 8! 215 25 -'9 10! 223 10 100 1851 — (p ) i (P)3 (0)529 (p )828 (P)3 5 (P)3 9 1645-') (I 57) | ( 2 6 2 4 9 ) ( 5 9 7 S (426) (1695) (8091)! (4) (7) ( 1 1 5 1 ) (32981) (64398) ( 4 3 5 9 ) ( 1 7 3 5 ) j

151

622 42 25107 400 30 430 1 287 3000 3287 4000 4000 871 29 5 4 io 13 12 n o 1422 2 1084 7300 8384 S i 73 6 93 7 374 10 1522 368 100 468 1 1 507 10 13 7 10644 9406 3 5 9 u 236 I 4 5 ? 228 30 -’ 5 8 2 , 614 7 110 , ,7 7 3 3 4187 2552 . 530 l6 . 2 47 8 7 12 88 800; (0) 1 (0)1 (<>) 1208 (0)7624 (0)8832 (0)9200 (o)§oo5 (n)R8n ■3 (n)&2 59 108 1 ...... 878 8 7 8 ' (3573) ( i n ) (4 3 2 3 3 ) ( 4 9 7 9 ) (408) (538/V ( 7 ) (7) ( 3 7 0 0 ) (35180) (38880) ( 3 4 9 6 6 ) (25084)

ig -> 894 821 150 75 391 7443 8443 606 *373 *189 * $ I 3 575 *220 *795 ,.475 0(5 *205 125 ** j 308 **52 ** 2 **54 **3000 **12000 ** 7 S r 48 32 (2152) ( 12 15 ) (6 1) (9 3 4 ) (75) (414) (14 2 3) ( 2 ) j (2) (3250) (19443) ( 8 4 4 3 ) (6 8 1) __ 1 1 1 1 I 1 12,7? 268 $70697 $61 $ 118 8 3 $501 j $2 517 $14 9 01 1 3 8101I 87604 I I I 721 j $39325 | $27500 ! 16 1 c

2 1 8 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

THE JAPAN MISSION—Table 1

M issionaries N a t iv e W o rk er s

Medical P re a c h e rs T e a c h e rs Assis­ tants CJ 3 W o r k an d S t a t io n s Cm O u V Men, Ordained Men, Unordainec W iv e s Single Women Men and W o m er M en O rd ain ed Physicians, Total Missionary Bible Women anc U n o rd a in c d £ W o m en Zenana Workers>< £ * 18 5 Ja p a n e s e 18 6 Japanese Baptist Theological Semi-

18 7 6 3 2 1 12 tRR 18 6 18 18 9 K o b e ...... 8 19 0 6 8 1 1 19 1 19 2 5 193 6 3 19 4 ...... 195 3 19 6 19 7 8 II 26 ......

i9 8 | T o ta ls f o r J a p a n ...... 18 5 20 34 77 24 23 52 6 6 28

T H E CONGO MISSION—Table 1

19 9 A frican s 200 (Lower Congo District) Congo Evang. Training Institution. . ! ( 1 ) j 0 14 203 Eanza Manteke...... 1 I 2 2 ( 1 ) 3 46 4 204 6 205 <7? 0 65 207 o' ( 1 ) .... ! 209 (Upper Congo District) 3 2 2 1 1 Ntondo (formerly at Ikoko) ...... 3 1 t i 3 12 7 |2 t i 73 7 3 38 1 ... 2 1 3 I 1 i , 2 1 4 8 ( 3 )

215 Totals for Congo ...... 16 5 19 7(6 ) 4 7 9 7 3 249 II 3 I3I

THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS MISSION—Table 1

} 216 Visayans _ j

•»t 8 [ 6 8 6 2 19 j j 6 8 1 ; 220 C a p iz ...... 1 3 2 3 ( 1 ) 4 8 1 2 2 1 1 ( 1 ) £

ij 2 2 2 1Totals for Philippine Islands...... j 6 2 6 15 (2 ) 13 18 23 3 * 7 j 29 1 .

/ STATISTICS FOR YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1920 219

THE JAPAN MISSION—Table 2

Native C hurch S tatistics E d u c a t io n a l S t a t i s t ic s W orker s >» CIS Pupils in Other CQ p m Pupils Church Members Theological Native c a R3 0 in Workers P Sem inaries Colleges bO i .S** and Schools TQJ3 £ be C O.S 05 O in tx ^ G •tiO 03 m s i s 0 >x H 12 & f* c Added Added by B at Church Church Build During Y e ar School Membersh Women Colleges Men Women Churches Churches Self-Supportir Ent and Chapels Regular Mee M en Total Organiz Total Places M ale Fem ale Total Native Total Enrolled St W orkers W omen (S) H rt 1

2 1 8 304 675 32 19 118 9 :::::::::: 4 6 53 6 ( i ) 3 8 333 297 630 69 18 1785 I 19 .... (2) 19 1 308 4 9 9 53 852 27 (I) 3 79 378 7 S7 42 18 1229 13 194 1 5 3 347 768 133 53 186 22 S47 (I) 8 130 18 947 16 16 1 128 289 32 2375 16 15 576 10 3 5 8 50

9 8 210 33 ( 6) 27 IOO 3809 283 1 5 2 10 3 1S 21 35

THE CONGO MISSION—Table 2

13 13 118 242 360 i j 18 61 60 60 1035 1789 20 ( 1) 28 210 186 396 7 , 4 49 15 64 1 96 | *66 T 1 T i 1 25 l*'(8) ! *24 5 200 68 268 76

6 55 ( 1) j.33 30 73 I 240 I 18 t 50 t i t 33 1*33 20 70 2 3 32 68 68 10 | j

6 393 37 (10 ) 198 246 5361 365 56 3050J 47

THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS MISSION—Table 2

56 2500 * 9 6 30 35 ( 1) 20 35 1000 1385 2385 J Z5 *3 42 4 9 20 4 9 1354 986 2340 287 20 17 16 '( 5 ) 1 1 17 478 621 1099 39 17 900

------1 .... 89 100 (6) 5 1 10 1 5 82 4 | 4 5 i 93 340oJ 3 9 6 2 2 0 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

TH E JAPAN MISSION— Table 3

E ducational S tatistics

Pupils in Pupils in Pupils in High Secondary P rim ary Schools Schools Schools cn W ork and S tations utn © u»i m o ifi u b o f 5 u

193 95 7 i 60 19 4 4 68 50 195 19 6 19 7 ! i j 19 8 1 T o ta ls fo r J a p a n ...... j 5 242 510 7 838 64 7 17 531 453 32 ! THE CONGO MISSION— Table 3

199 A fric a n s 200 (Lower Congo District)

14 2 1 4 14 (i) 20 3 14 54 95 i 56 (i> 204 436 (27) 20 5 ( 1 ) 14 10 6 38 (il 19 *66 *8 70 *67 20 7 18 20 22 (-’ ) 209 (Upper^ Congo D istric t) 1 20 360 38 (35) -IT *33 t9 00 tso o t 33 2 2 48 14 5 0

2 1 s 6 18 9 55 293 6260 3 i i 5 303 (67)

THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS MISSION—-Table 3

2 if) \ isay a n s 21 7 Taro Industrial S c h o o l...... i ( q ) 16 5 ( q) 1 1 5 ( « ) i 57 (q)47 1 1 257 258 18 *3 (11) 2 19 64 15 7 150 10 3 10 437 342 20 220 62 87 5 __ _

(11) 222 Totals for Philippine Islands...... j 5 26 13 3 1 2 17 0 25 756 687 46 1 - 2 9 STATISTICS FOR YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1920 221

THE JAPAN MISSION— Table 4

Educational S tatistics j N ative Contributions M edical S ummary

C cn in ■ u i- u ' a O u ' ! _ u O u 5 ° p - '3 £ ° ^ -u> - w c n 7-,'% 5 o V C ^ ts U o o •2 w U Or} o S £ SPh £*~ u s O 3 £ „ 3 ‘ 5 rt fcU OS feC/3 rt &hi—

f u ) 761 1 10 $ 9 112 $1315 $81 $229 $16 25 1 (iii 608 281 4485 2863 133 2 17 3213 160 ..I 625 2412 55 9 3 , 2560 1801 21 140 9 1 i °5 3 28 2441 1325 66|.... 409 876 24 27 927 772 46 25 843 1589 i5 253 1857, u 8 |-----1 180 4 70 361 506 f 1478 559 60 625 227 227

3-77 i 61 j$i7698j . . . . $12136 $388 $1184 $13708

THE CONGO MISSION—Table 4

26 437 1 0 $63 $63 $12 6 2058 20 207 207 414 12466 $377 $ 4 9 -’ 768 31 116 n6 232 249 I 22 22 15 3683 84 37 1309 17 376 376 327 739 525 135 7 6 9 7000 162 90 60 4 10000 148

.'5+4 51 97 195 7 5 oo 152 38 T1400 .... 1425 t425 ^ 1*148 *2780 118000 469 1700 69 ij 442 14000 14442 455 . 10 69 sis

$138 5 $1868 10 1332 29984 $2438 $1648

THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS MISSION—Table 4 |

$3000 *96! $333 $333 1 0 ) 6 1360 (1O2766 (r) 20743 (r)$i6595 (r) $27983 1 1 11 j 14 5698 10 11 $57 87 $4 17 7 2 15 1 1741 20 1473 80 1473 1553 1 1 130 1078 7493 2351 3079 1 ____ 1 ! f ! .... J27f)! 34j$io i7 i $1424 $7260 $417 $9101 8 1490 3844 28236 $18946 $31062 2 2 2 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

SUMMARY OF STATISTICS— Table 1

M issionaries Native W orkers

Medical Preachers Teachers Assis­ tants " ! i ' Work and S tations |

mV > c ! S i 0 Men, Ordained Men Men and W omen Single W omen M en Physicians, Ordained U nordained Women Bible Bible Women am £ Zenana W orkersS I 2 j j Men, U nordained j j j j Total Missionaries 223 Totals for Burma ...... 62 14 72 62 ( 5 ) 2 10 291 724 988 835 56 0 224 Totals fo r A ssa m ...... ' ...... 26 4 30 20 (3) 80 13 182 234 1 1 1 21 225 Totals for South India ...... 37 4 39 37 117 44 351 75i 474 8 226 183 21 Totals for Bengal...... 13 3 14 13 (2) 43 12 44 154 52 44 3 227 Totals for China...... 46 30 74 7 i (27) 221 20 148 423 166 42 62 41 228 Totals for Japan ...... 18 5 20 34 77 24 23 52 66 28 229 Totals for Congo...... 16 5 19 7 47 9 73 249 11 3 13 230 Totals for Philippine Islands. 6 2 6 15 (2) 29 13 18 23 25 7 1

231 Totals, Non-Christian Lands, 1920.. 224 67 2 7 4 2 59 (5 5 ) 824 426 1563 2874 1640 364 1 1 7 76 232 Do. fo r 1 9 1 9 ...... 220 53 256 226 (5 5 ) 755 440 1670 2661 1373 365 127 7< 233 Do. fo r 1 9 1 8 ...... 2 12 51 246 204 (55) 7 i 4 443 1659 2763 1337 369 80 62 2 3 4 2 11 52 251 193 (56) 707 4 50 1622 2659 1303 395 82 70 235 2 14 45 246 183 ( 5 0 688 438 1677 2556 1240 391 70 236 63 221 49 253 182 ( 5 5 ) 705 407 1696 23 62 IIII 374 78 6s 2 3 7 Europe ...... 657 338 Totals, Europe and Non-Christian Lands, 19 2 0 ...... 224 67 274 259 ( 5 5 ) 824 426 2220 2874 1640 364 1 1 7 76 239 Do. fo r 19 1 9 ...... 220 53 256 226 ( 5 5 ) 755 440 4360 2661 1373 365 127 79 240 Do. fo r 1 9 1 8 ...... 2 12 51 246 204 7 i 4 443 4166 2763 1337 369 80 6; 241 Do. fo r 1 9 1 7 ...... 2 1 1 52 251 193 (56) 707 450 4129 2659 1303 395 82 70 242 Do. fo r 1 9 1 6 ...... 2 14 45 246 183 ( 5 1 ) 688 438 4189 2556 1240 391 70 63 243 Do. fo r 19 i s ...... 221 49 253 182 ( 5 5 ) 705 407 4202 2362 m i 374 78 65

SUMMARY OF STATISTICS— Table 3

E d u c a t io n a l S t a t i s t ic s

Pupils in Pupils in P u pils in H igh Secondary P rim ary Schools Schools Schools

W o r k a n d S t a t io n s

3 ° (§1 0) - _ o ocfi |o .§ o

223 Totals for Burma ...... 2003 948 S» 3998 2066 785 13590 10533 862 (685) 224 Totals for Assam ...... 34 6 634 110 222 3812 I37i 230 (7) 225 Totals for South India ...... 1265 ' ’ 88 14 110 7 671 9 12 13989 8 13 1 936 (150) 226 Totals for Bengal...... 152 6 291 158 123 24 12 862 131 227 T otals fo r C h in a...... 852 159 32 1284 364 252 6702 2388 305 (i7 ) 22 8 Totals fo r Ja p a n ...... 242 5 io 7 838 647 17 5 3 i 453 32 (67) 229 Totals for Congo...... 6 189 55 293 6260 3115 303 230 Totals for Philippine Islands. 229 26 13 3 12 170 25 756 687 46 ( 11)

2 3 1 Totals, Non-Christian Lands, 1920. 4777 142 4241 2629 48052 27540 2845 (94 7) i73i 8653 (620) 232 Do. for 1919 ...... 3373 985 119 8085 3 2 12 2 54 4 46153 26599 2737 (8 5 0 ) 233 Do. for 1918 ...... 3056 1204 129 8187 2 95 4 2473 45064 25294 2674 (84 7 2 3 4 Do. for 1917 ...... 3426 1 1 1 8 3572 4 45 09 25531 2696 114 7797 2 5 15 (7/1 235 Do. for 1916 ...... 3704 996 1 17 3021 2419 44614 245 44 2602 7465 (709) 236 Do. for 1915 ...... 4006 908 108 7877 275 5 2234 40023 23679 2403

2 3 7 E u ro p e ...... 238 Totals, Europe and Non-Christian 2845 (947] Lands, 1920 ...... 47 77 1731 142 8653 4241 2629 48052 27540 (620) 2 3 9 Do. for 1919 ...... 3373 985 119 8085 3 2 12 2 54 4 4 6153 26599 2743 45064 25294 2680 (8 5 0) 240 Do. for 1918 ...... 3056 1204 129 8187 2 95 4 2473 (847 Do. for 1917 ...... 1 1 1 8 4 45 09 25531 2702 241 3426 114 7797 3572 2515 (771 242 Do. fo r 19 1 6 ...... 3704 996 117 3021 2419 44614 2 4544 2608 7 4 6 5 2409 (769) 243 Do. fo r 1 9 1 5 ...... 4006 908 108 7877 2755 2234 40023 23679 STATISTICS FOR YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1920 223

SUMMARY OF STATISTICS—Table 2

Native C h u r c h S t a t i s t ic s E d u c a t io n a l S t a t i s t ic s \Vorkers Pupils in Other Church Members Pupils co o Theological Native c ° Seminaries in Workers w Colleges 6 ° and Schools o.S r* m 531? to w Js o W S WiS « & ^ Tf) CO cq * 8 rt CU) « £ S O.S «c«s — to w — ^ rt ^ +■* © 2 5 H-C s s i 3 c £ 0^3 rr C o v i t 3 HU O cd HOS i I (s) < Q

29 4 2938 (730) 1074 1 199 80764 3919 729 3 1392 281 74 23 12 3 478 (10 7 ) 303 376 19168 1243 2 7 4 9835 23 4 107 30 1976 184 (40) 551 958 7 5328 3226 757 20471 217 157 7 321 2 1 13 29 1360 69 47 749 4 4 18 16 955 183 (Si 235 3 29 10041 927 237 13643 43 169 9 8 210 33 27 100 3 8 09 283 152 10 3 18 21 35 26 6 393 37 < s 198 246 5 3 6 i 365 56 3050 47 20 100 (6) 51 10 1 5824 451 93 3400 96

226 7 4 7360 1853 (9 2 5 ) 2 4 5 2 3338 201655 10483 2345 92858 636 559 322 26 192 72 6979 1834 fio 27) 243 7 3429 194373 10145 2396 10 17 17 553 466 326 210 73 6996 1 767 U 0 7 5 ) 2483 3360 188710 7098 2273 879 32 756 588 283 212 70 6872 17 4 5 ( 10 5 4 ) 2440 3583 186388 9 77 0 2375 89661 723 532 261 :7 I 67 6673 1732 (10 2 7) 2286 3364 183505 9977 2301 8 9 5 4 4 594 425 189 m 8 5 7 6378 1692 (904) 2296 3201 178441 110 4 3 2243 86851 710 3 5 4 179

657 932 256 89059 3741 14 18 80164

226 7 4 8017(2785 (9 2 5 ) 2452 359 4 290714 14224 3763 I 73022 636 559 3 2 2 | 26 192 72 9669 3059 ( 12 3 4 ) 2437 5203 341688 14733 4899 239 75 5 639 466 326 210 73 9503 2977 (12 8 7 ) 2483 5143 332696 7098 477 9 219489 834 588 283 212 7 9 9379 2957 (12 6 6 ; 2440 5366 3 3 0 37 4 12489 4881 2 2 12 18 801 532 261 171 6 7 9 i 8 S 2937 (1239 ) 2286 5147 326484 12355 4 8 11 221967 667 425 189 22 8 5 7 2895 ( 1 1 1 6 ) 2296 498 4 320759 13333 4 73 8 219825 3 54 179

SUMMARY OF STATISTICS—Table 4

Ed u catio n al S t a t i s t ic s N a t i v e C ontributions M e d ic a l S u m m a r y

C 03 U I- S,o j< W w o

g £ a<-4 ‘■sfe .2 a )^ CO 0) 3 c S'S? 5s 0 o fc g w.S S u o< oO ►-1 a —* s * U CU-T3 rt rt O 3 c 3 c r<= : p^C OS fctfl rt r-*U

33C25 35 s $121092 >103060 $67809 $54310 $38429 $160548 1828 10932 28983 £10651 $5851 59S8 291 672 4570 3594 2 15 1 1295 7040 295 26857 48035 4703 2973 25625 407 16382 31589 5023 2784 1040 8847 2459 28220 118 764 I 7 I 95 3923 3883 48 1423 6932 1098 344 1442 9730 10630 772 552 12177 268 70697 61 118 8 3 2 5 1 / 14901 16 8 10 1 87604 1 1 1 7 2 1 3 9325 27500 3277 61 17698 12 13 6 118 4 13708 9686 220 1385 483 1868 1332 29984 73091 2438 1648 2276 34 10171 1424 7260 4 17 9 10 1 1490 3844 28236 18946 31062 96537 1685 238135 14 6 212 104352 67877 45226 217455 15505 19 7 17 1 419460 94030 7 3509 89752 1685 203676 105489 97030 50109 3 4 8 68 182007 9658 137199 3 64959 104198 56080 87386 1043 240837 133038 91841 182293 167974 452108 10453 80361 320396 932 94 6 2153 S7469 1608 171211 138133 83125 5 2 13 2 31428 166685 9828 90082 331591 4 6393 28054 85552 1693 133141 129217 76123 68196 3 3 1 10 177429 7945 7 5446 288871 22469 29084 1385 145325 120428 78355 52560 3 01 37 16 10 52 5881 88552 276423 3 6 7 11 2 35 04 986987 986987

5371 1685 238135! 146212I10913391 67877! 45226' 1204442 32 66 15505 1 9 7 I 7 I 419460 94030 73509 1685 203676 105489 1245538 50109 70197 1365844 24 i 62 9658 137199 364 95 9 104198 56080 87464 1043 240837 133038 988011 192293 203303 1383607 26: 57 10453 80361 320396 9 32 94 6 2153 §7547 1608 1 7 1 2 1 1 13 8 13 3 979295 52 132 66757 1098184 26 9828 90082 3 3 I 5 9 I 46383 28054 251 16-93 133141 12 9 217 928010 68196 68439 1064645 7945 7 54 46 288871 22469 29084 1385 145325 120428 889701 5256c. 65466 1007727 88552 276423 3 6 7 11 2 3 5 04 2 2 4 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

THE EUROPEAN MISSIONS

N o t e . — On account of war conditions it is impossible to give recent statistics.

0 '1 0 £.5 5 0 V* : 0 H ! C o u n t r ie s i n » U 2 ! - E SS O ~ $ ! O w ’ u i * "3 JE; _ (J S hS a \ & £• — 0 rt t 1 j ii O 16 *2 g i S c o = 1 0 * 0 1 y/X j U x

Fran ce ...... is3: 67 760 $6431 G erm any ...... R u s s i a ...... N orw ay ...... 30 52 4 33 9 243 3603 98648 Sweden ...... 4 5 i 67 S 6 112 0 ?7i2 1344 64716 876420 876420 Denm ark ...... 30 33 4767 5210 Poland ...... J 4 . 20 3229 Czecho-Slovakia . 22 15 1500 750 Esthonia ...... 32 32 370 0 2000 Latvia ...... 54 70 8572 74 3125 5488 5488 Lithuania ......

Totals 657 932 256 89059 1418 80164 MINUTES OF THE ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTH ANNUAL MEETING

MINUTES

OF T H E ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTH ANNUAL MEETING

D e s M o i n e s , I o w a , June 22-28, 1921 The American Baptist Foreign Mission Society, in pursuance of the call previously published, was called to order by Vice- president E. J. Fellman in the Des Moines Coliseum at 2.15, Friday afternoon, June 22, 1921. Prayer was offered by Rev. S. W . Cummings, of Massa­ chusetts. On motion of Secretary William B. Lipphard, it was

Voted: That the minutes of the one hundred and sixth annual meeting of the Society held June 23-29, 1920, in Buffalo, New York, as printed in the Annual Report of the Society for 1920, be approved. The Annual Report of the Society was presented by Secretary William B. Lipphard, copies having been distributed to the dele­ gates in attendance. Rev. Frederick L. Anderson, Chairman of the Board of Man­ agers, delivered an address on “ The Past Year in the Work of the Society.” In the absence of Secretary James H. Franklin, who was detained in Virginia because of the critical illness of his father, Rev. Emory W. Hunt introduced the following distinguished visitors from their respective countries in Europe, each of whom addressed the Society regarding the progress, opportunities, and needs in the work of Baptists in Europe:

Rev. Robert Farelly, of France. Rev. C. G. Lundin, of Sweden. Rev. Henri Vincent, of France. (Interpreted by Rev. G. A. Hag- Rev. Peter Grarup, of Denmark. strom, of Minnesota.) Rev. J. A. Ohm, of Norway. Miss Martha Wenske, of Poland. Prof. Arnold Ohrn, of Norway. Madame Kolator, of Czecho-Slo- Rev. John A. Frey, of Latvia. vakia. 2 2 7 2 2 8 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

Rev. Jacob Heinrichs presented greetings from the Baptists of Alsace-Lorraine. Rev. Emory W- Hunt addressed the visitors on behalf of the Society. After prayer by Rev. Carl D. Case, of Illinois, the Society ad­ journed subject to call by the Chair.

S u n d a y E v e n i n g , June 26 The Society was called to order at 7.15 o’clock by Mrs. M. Grant Edmands, Vice-president of the Northern Baptist Conven­ tion. Prayer was offered by Rev. Carter Helm Jones, of Pennsyl­ vania. Associate Secretary William B. Lipphard delivered an ad­ dress illustrated with stereopticon slides, describing phases in the work of Baptists in Europe. Rev. Charles A. Brooks, of New York, who had served the Society as special Commissioner to Europe during the year 1919- 1920, addressed the Society regarding his observations and ex­ periences in Europe. Associate Secretary William B. Lipphard presented the fol­ lowing communications of greeting from Rev. K. O. Broady, of Sweden, and Rev. John Clifford, of England:

Honored and beloved Brethren: Only a few words. Great has been your work in Sweden, and, allow me to say it, great has been its results. W e thank God for it. W e thank you profoundly. The last day will bear witness in a way we now cannot express, that our God in heaven, through Christ, has indelibly put his seal on it. W e Baptists in Sweden have no other call, and seek no other, than the making of Christ great in the hearts of all the people here. His blood has bought us. His reign will crown us. Heaven waits to receive us all. The room there is great, and the glory eternal. Your aged brother in Christ,

Stockholm, Sweden, May 26, 1921. K. O . B roady.

Dear Brethren: Your friend and mine, Doctor Franklin, has asked me to send you a few words on the occasion of your meeting to consider the claims of Europe upon the whole Baptist world. It is not necessary for me to say much. You have the special advantage ANNUAL MEETING 2 2 9 of hearing my dear friend Doctor Rushbrooke, our commissioner for Europe, who is fresh from great and most successful service for the kingdom of God. H e will bring you face to face with the most recent facts, and in the presence of reality you will find inspiration as well as instruction. In addition you will also have the testimony of a per­ sonal and effective witness in Rev. Charles Brooks. But I may recall the obvious fact that this work of emancipating myriads of our fellows in Europe from the falsehoods and perils of a corrupt and magical religion, and introducing them to the freedom and joy of discipleship to the Lord Jesus, is especially given us by God. As Paul said to the Ephesians (2 : 10, according to Doctor Moffatt), “ God has made us what we are, creating us in Christ Jesus for the good deeds which are prepared beforehand by God as our sphere of action.” He has not only marked out our task, but he has trained and fitted us for it. All our past experience leads up to this supreme and sublime adventure. The heritage of truth which as Baptists has been handed on to us by our ancestors; the ideas and ideals, the discipline, the political and religious liberty which has been won for us; our mastery (no doubt partial, but still of value) of the difficult work of self-management of small social groups; the evangelizing passion we have cultivated; and the cooperative endeavors of the World Alliance in London last year; all this makes it clear that it is the purpose and plan of God that we should dedicate our concentrated energies as Baptists all over the world to the redemption and religious reconstruction of Europe. Moreover, this is undeniably the time for action. The hour has struck. God’s summons is ringing in the air. He calls us, saying, “ Go ye there­ fore and make disciples.” He has given us the truths Europe is calling for. The people are eager for liberty and self-government. W e teach the incalculable value of the individual soul. Like our fathers we insist on the rights of the common man, on his right to all the great freedoms-— freedom of conscience, freedom of thought, freedom of soul, freedom of speech, and freedom of political development. Christ died for each one. If one goes astray the Shepherd goes after it till he finds it. It is a basic idea with us that the church is democratic. Jesus himself is the one and only Master, all the members are brothers, and out of their personal experience of the redemption that is in Christ Jesus are qualified to wit­ ness to his gospel and preach it. Besides that, we have stood for a just and righteous economic and social order, and that is what Europe demands. Best of all we can tell the sin-burdened soul to believe on the Lamb of God who taketh away the sin of the world. W e have the good news that Christ saves from sin, saves from selfishness, and inspires to heroic adventures to save others. Thus our history, our possessions, and our experience call upon us to carry out the great work to which we have been led. Dear brethren of the Northern Convention, we in Britain rejoice with joy unspeakable in the ardor, the generosity and zeal with which you are 2 3 0 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY giving yourselves to this work. God himself is leading. God is working in us to do his will, and he confers upon us the glorious privilege of sharing with him in this effort to make his kingdom universal. With earnest prayers that God will bless your gatherings, I am j^ours in the bonds of the gospel. John C l i f f o r d .

Chairman Frederick L. Anderson introduced Rev. J. H. Rush­ brooke, of England, Baptist Commissioner for Europe, who addressed the Society regarding the work of relief, spiritual reconstruction, and reestablishment of fraternal relations which had been accomplished under his direction during the past year in Europe. After prayer by Rev. Frederick L. Anderson, the Society adjourned subject to call by the Chair.

M o n d a y M o r n i n g , June 2 7 The Society was called to order by Recording Secretary William B. Lipphard at eleven o’clock. In the absence of the Chairman and Vice-chairmen, Corwin S. Shank, of Washington, was appointed temporary chairman. The following report of the Committee on Nominations was presented by Rev. James McGee, of Connecticut:

AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

O f f i c e r s President, Rev. W . S. Abernethy, District of Columbia. First Vice-president, Frank R. Sage, Iowa. Second Vice-president, Rev. W . E. Henry, Washington. Recording Secretary, William B. Lipphard, New York. Treasurer, George B. Huntington, New York.

Board of Managers Term ending 1924 Rev. Frederick L. Anderson, Massachusetts. Charles W . Bailey, Massachusetts. William H. Burger, New York. Charles H. Button, Pennsylvania. Rev. Carey W . Chamberlin, Massachusetts. Howard A. Coffin, Michigan. Rev. Selden W . Cummings, Massachusetts. Prof. Kenneth S. Latourette, Connecticut. Mornay Williams, New Jersey. ANNUAL MEETING 2 3 1

On motion of Rev. James McGee, of Connecticut, it was

Voted: That the Recording Secretary be authorized to cast the ballot on behalf of the Society. On report that the Secretary had cast the ballot the presiding officer declared that the persons nominated had been duly elected. The Society adjourned subject to call by the Chair.

M o n d a y E vf.xt n o , June 27

The Society, in joint session with the Woman’s Society, was called to order by President Mrs. W\ A. Montgomery, at 7.30 o’clock. Prayer was offered by Rev. D. D. Proper, of Nebraska. Professor Henry B. Robins, of Rochester Theological Semi­ nary, delivered an address on “ Christianity in the Far East,” in which he described his impressions and observations during a recent tour of Japan, China, and the Philippines. Secretary Joseph C. Robbins delivered an address, illustrated with stereopticon slides, describing phases of foreign mission activities. Foreign Secretary Miss Nellie G. Prescott introduced the fol­ lowing newly appointed missionaries of the Woman’s American Baptist Foreign Mission Society:

Miss Katherine E. Bohn. Miss Malinda K. Miller Miss Mayme M. Goldenburg. Miss Esther M. Nelson Miss Edda M. Mason Miss Sadie Robbins

Miss Prescott also presented the names of the following newly appointed missionaries who were unable to be present:

Miss Harriett Barrington Miss Lucy K. Russell. Miss Evelyn B. Bickel. Miss Emilie M. Schultz Miss Florence N. Crane. Miss Carrie A. Shurtleff. Miss Waneta M. Deer. Miss Edna DeWitt Smith. Miss Susan C. Ferguson Miss Edythe B. Stansbury. Miss Emma L. Geis. Miss Margaret Parkhurst. Miss Anne R. Harris. Miss Marion J. Tait. Miss Grace I. Hill. Miss Gertrude E. Teele. Mrs. Beulah L. Kenyon. Miss Helen L. Tufts. Miss Charlotte M. Larner. Miss Bessie M. Yeamans. Miss Mary A. Matthew. 2 3 2 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

Candidate Secretary P. H. J. Lerrigo introduced the following newly appointed missionaries of the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society:

Miss Myrtle L. Aldrich. Rev. and Mrs. W . A. Phillips. Rev. and Mrs. G. E. Blackwell. E. E. Sowards. Paul F. Cressey. H. G. Spencer. Lionel G. Crocker. Mr. and Mrs. G. W . Supplee. Rev. and Mrs. E. B. Davis. Rev. and Mrs. V. H. Sword. William G. Dunn. Mr. and Mrs. E. W . Thornton. Henry Erickson. Rev. and Mrs. A. V. Wakeman. Rev. and Mrs. W . G. Evans. William C. Whitaker. Charles S. Gibbs. Rev. J. R. Wilson. Miss Margaret C. Hallenbeck. Dr. and Mrs. M. F. Yates. Miss Mabel F. Ivins. Mr. and Mrs. W . B. Brown. Robert J. Journey. Miss R. Maud Ditmars. H . Richards Leslie. Mr. D. L. Phelps. Miss Minnie Milne. Dr. and Mrs. A. G. Boggs.

He also presented the names of the following newly appointed missionaries who were unable to be present:

Raymond H. Ewing. Miss Myra S. Lloyd. Sanford W . Gard. Mrs. J. R. Wilson. R. E. Henderson. Dr. and Mrs. J. W . Decker. Mrs. R. J. Journey.

The following addressed the Societies on behalf of the newly appointed missionaries:

Rev. G. E. Blackwell. Rev. A. V. Wakeman. Rev. W . G. Evans. Rev. J. R. Wilson. G. W . Supplee. D. L. Phelps. E. W . Thornton. Dr. A. G. Boggs.

After a prayer of dedication by Professor Frederick L. Ander­ son, of Massachusetts, the Societies adjourned subject to call by the Chair.

T u e s d a y A f t e r n o o n , June 28 The Society, in joint session with the American Baptist Home Mission Society, was called to order by Professor Frederick L. Anderson, at three o’clock. AXXUAL MEETING 2 3 3

Foreign Secretary Joseph C. Robbins introduced Rev. A. C. Hanna, of Burma; Rev. R. B. Longwell, of Assam; President F. J. White, of East China; Rev. W . H. Leslie, M. D., of Belgian Congo; and Rev. R. C. Thomas, M. D., of the Philippine Islands, each of whom addressed the Society regarding the work on his respective field. The Society adjourned. W il l ia m B. L ip p h a r d , Recording Secretary.

INDEX

A PAGE PAGE Administrative Responsibility for Bel­ Brooks, Commissioner Charles A.. gian Congo ...... 39 Service o f ...... 15 A fric a : B y-Law s ...... 7 Administrative Responsibility for B elgian Congo ...... 39 An Industrial Commission in ...... 38 C Conference on Work in Belgian Canadian Baptists, Cooperation with. 44 Congo ...... 39 Capiz ...... 149 A gricu ltural School, T h e ...... 87 China: Alsace-Lorraine, Service of Dr. Jacob China Famine ...... 35 H einrichs ...... 19 Political Disturbances in China. ... 34 American Baptist Foreign Mission Robins, Prof. Henry B., Visit of, to Society ...... 7-10, 4 7 . 61 the F a r E a s t ...... 36 B oard of M anagers...... 9, 61 Sixtieth Anniversary of the South B y-Law s ...... 7 China M ission, The ...... 35 General Representatives ...... 10, 47 Chinese of Burm a ...... 93 Officers ...... 9 Chins ...... 9 4 Prom otional A gen t ...... 10 Christians, Transfer of Responsibility State Promotional Directors...... 10, 47 to Local ...... 29 Annual Report, T h e ...... So Churches in W est C h ina...... 139 Assam Mission, T h e ...... 97 Clough Memorial Hospital, Ongole.. 117 Educational W ork ...... 99 Commissioning New Missionaries.... 60 Evangelism, Progress in ...... 97 Committee on Review, The ...... 62 Ministry of Healing, The ...... 100 Conference and Convention, The An­ Women and Children, For the.... 101 nual B u r m a ...... 32, 84 Conference on Work in Belgian Congo ...... 39 B Congo Beige ...... 153 Bacolod ...... 148 Banza M anteke ...... 155 Banza Manteke ...... 155 Kimpese Kongo Evan. Train. Inst. 156 Bengal-O rissa M ission, T he ...... 103 M atadi ...... 155 Educational W o r k ...... 105 M ukim vika ...... 154 English Population ...... 104 Sona Bata ...... 156 Evangelistic W ork ...... 104 V anga ...... 157 Industrial W ork ...... 106 Contents, Table of ...... 3. 4 Medical Work ...... 107 Board of Managers ...... 9, 61 D Board Meetings at Buffalo, Boston, and P itts b u r g h ...... 62 Deaths ...... 56 Budget Expenditures for 1920-1921.. 79 Dubarry, Rev. Robert, Visit of...... 19 Burma Mission, The ...... 83 Burma Baptist Orphanage, The All 88 E Conference and Convention, The Annual ...... 32, 84 East China M ission, T h e ...... 124 Educational Institutions. .85, 86, 87, 88 Hangchow ...... 128 Medical Work ...... 89 Huchow ...... 127 M ission P r e s s ...... 84 K inhw a ...... 126 Moulmein Leper Asylum ...... 88 N anking ...... 129 B urm ans ...... 90 Ningpo ...... 125 2 3 5 2 3 6 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

PAGE G PAGE Shanghai ...... 128 General Board of Promotion, The... 46 Shaohsing ...... 126 General Representatives ...... , 10, 47 Economic Situation in South India.. 108 Educational Work in H A ssam ...... 99 Bengal-Orissa ...... 105 H angchow ...... 128 Burm a ...... 85-88 Health of the Missionaries, Preserv­ C h in a: ing the ...... 51 E ast ...... 124-129, passim Huchow ...... 127 South ...... 1 3 2 W est ...... 14 1 I Congo B eige ...... 15 3 - 15 7 , passim India ...... 23 Jap an ...... 143 A Year of Upheaval...... 23 Philippine Island s ...... 14 8 -15 0 , 15 1 Burma Baptist Convention...... 32, 84 South India ...... 112-116, 120 Christians, Transfer of Responsi­ English Population, Work Among the 104 bility to Local ...... 29 Equipm ent, Need fo r N ew ...... 76 Developments at Judson College.. 27 Etta Waterbury Hospital, The...... 119 Evangelism the Fundamental Aim. 32 Europe ...... 15 -2 2 New Stations, Progress at the Alsace-Lorraine, Service of Dr. Three ...... 30 Jacob Heinrichs ...... 19 Political D evelo p m en ts...... 25 Brooks, Commissioner Charles A., Problem of Illiteracy ...... 28 Service of ...... 15 Indians ...... 93 Dubarry, Rev. Robert, Visit of ----- 19 Indian Church, The ...... "...... 110 European Students in America.... 21 Industrial Commission in A frica.... 38 F ratern al V isit to E u r o p e ...... 17 Industrial Training in Bengal-Orissa. 106 London Conference, T he ...... 15 Interchurch World Movement...... 41 Relief Work in Europe ...... 17 Interdenominational Relationships... 43 Russia, The Closed Door...... 23 International Missionary Committee. 41 Scandinavia, Progress Among Bap­ International Situation ...... 13 tists in ...... 22 Iloilo ...... 150 V isitors from England ...... 21 Workers, Special, in Europe...... 20 Europeans and A n glo-In dian s...... 89 J European Students in America...... 2 1 Japan Mission ...... 143 Evangelism in Education ...... 143 A ssam ...... 97 Evangelism ...... 144 Bengal-Orissa ...... 104 Japanese Leadership ...... 146 B urm a ...... 89-96, passim N eeds o f ...... 147 C h in a: Self-support o f ...... 145 East ...... 125-128, passim Japanese Leadership ...... 146 South ...... 1 3 1 Joh n D . R ockefeller F u n d , T h e ...... 73 W est ...... 139 Jubilee, Woman’s Society...... 45 Congo Beige ...... 153, 156 Judson College, Developments a t...27, 86 Jap a n ...... 144 Philippine I s l a n d s ...... 148, 149, 150 K South In dia ...... 120 The Fundamental Aim ...... 32 Kachins ...... 95 Exchange, The Rise and Fall of In­ K arens ...... 91 ternational ...... 75 Kimpese Congo Evangelical Training Institution ...... 156 K inhw a ...... 126 F

Fields and Stations...... 193 L Financial Outcome, The ...... 71 Financial Section ...... 159 Literature Department, The ...... 5° Fraternal Visit to Europe...... 17 London Conference, T he ...... 15 INDEX 2 3 7

M • PAGE PAGE Mabie Memorial School, Progress at N eeds of the ...... 37 British India ...... 55 Mahbiidnagar Hospitals 119 Jap an ...... 147 M arriages ...... 204 W est C h in a ...... 142 M atadi 155 Nellore Hospital ...... 1 18 Medical Work in New Headquarters, The First Year A s s a m ...... 100 in the ...... 65 Bengal-O rissa ...... 107 N ew M issionaries ...... 52 B urm a ...... ■ 89 New Stations, Progress at the Three. 30 C h in a: New World Movement Financial E ast ...... 127 Campaign ...... 66, 78 South ...... 13 3 - 13 6 Receipts from th e ...... 78 W est ...... 140 Ningpo ...... 12 5 Congo B e i g e ...... 15 5 ~^57 Jap an ...... 149. is o O Philippine Islands ...... 149, 150 South India ...... 117 - 12 0 Officers ...... 9 M issionaries ...... 49-64 Operating Budget for the Past Year, Field Service at Home on Furlough The ...... 67 of ...... 49 Oriental Baptist Students in America 37 Homes fo r ...... 64 Outlook fo r 19 2 1-19 2 2 ...... 79 Homes fo r Children o f...... 64 Need and Supply of Medical...... 54 P N ew ...... 52 Past and Future of S. Ch. Miss...... 137 Preserving Health of the ...... 51 Personal Contact with the Mission Scarcity of Station ...... 54 Fields ...... 60 Missions, Summary of Reports from Philippine Islands Mission ...... 148 the ...... 8 3-15 8 Bacolod ...... 148 Assam ...... 97 Capiz ...... '...... 149 Bengal-O rissa ...... 103 Iloilo ...... 150 Burm a ...... 83 Political Situation in Congo B eige ...... 153 China ...... 34 E ast China ...... 124 In d ia ...... 25 Japan ...... 143 South China ...... 130 Philippine Islands ...... 148 South In dia ...... 108 South China ...... 130 Preface ...... 5 . 6 South In dia ...... 108 Problem of Illiteracy in India ...... 28 W est China ...... 138 Prom otional A gent ...... 10 Missionary Education 43 Missionary Exposition, The 48 Missionary Force in South India.... 109 R Missionary Magazine, The 51 Rangoon Baptist Schools ...... 87 Missionary Volunteers, Planning a Receipts from Legacies ...... 73 Futu re H arvest o f ...... 55 Reenforcements in West China...... 138 Ministry of Preaching 120 Regional Missionary Conferences.... 48 Ministry of the Automobile 121 Relief Work in Europe ...... 17 Moulmein Leper Asylum, The 88 Religious Situation in South India.. 109 Moulmein Trades School 88 Retired List ...... 203 Mukimvika 154 Revenue Account, Summary of ...... 76 Robins, Prof. Henry B., Visit of, to the Far E ast ...... 36 N Russia, The Closed D oor...... 23 Nalgonda Hospital ...... 119 S N anking ...... 129 Need and Supply of Medical Mis­ Scandinavia, Progress Among Bap­ sionaries ...... 54 tists in ...... 22 2 3 8 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY

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Scarcity of Station Missionaries...... 54 State Promotion Directors...... 10 ,4 7 Secretarial Staff ...... 63 Station Reports South China Mission 133 Secretarial Visitation of Mission Sum m oned to H igher S e rv ic e...... 56 Fields ...... 4 ° Sunday School Convention in Tokyo, Self-support in Japan M ission...... 145 The W orld ...... 37 Shanghai ...... 1 Swatow Institutional Church, The.. 131 Shans ...... 92 Shaohsing ...... 126 V Sixtieth Anniversary of the South China Mission, The ...... 3 5 , ^ V an ga ...... 157 Social Conditions in West China.... 138 Victoria Memorial Hospital, Hanuma­ Sona B ata ...... 156 konda ...... 118 South China Mission ...... 130 V isitors from E n glan d ...... 21 Educational W ork ...... 132 P ast and Future ...... 137 W Political Situation ...... 130 Sixtieth A n n iversary ...... 3 5 , 1 3 1 W est China ...... 13S Station Reports ...... 133 Churches ...... 139 Swatow Institutional Church...... 1 3 1 H ealing the S i c k ...... 140 South In d ia M ission, T h e...... 108 N eeds o f ...... 142 Clough Memorial Hospital, Ongole. 117 Reenforcements in ...... 138 Economic Situation in ...... 108 Schools ...... 141 Educational Institutions. ..112 -115 , 120 Social Conditions i n ...... 138 Etta Waterbury Hospital, The.... 119 Women and Children o f A ssa m ...... 101 Indian Church, T he ...... n o W ork: M ahbudnagar H o s p it a ls ...... 119 Among the Burmans ...... 90 M inistry o f the A utom obile...... 12 1 Among the Chinese ...... 93 Ministry of Preaching...... 120 Am ong the Chins ...... 94 Missionary Force in South India.. 109 Among the Europeans and Anglo- Nalgonda Hospital ...... 119 Indians ...... 89 N ellore H ospital ...... 1 18 Am ong the I n d ia n s ...... 93 Political Situation in ...... 108 Among the Kachins ...... 95 Religious Situation in ...... 109 Among the Karens ...... 91 V ictoria M em orial H osp ital...... 1 18 Among the Shans ...... 92 Sunday Schools ...... 12 1 Workers, Special, in Europe...... 20 Southern Baptists, Cooperation with. 44 Special Gift Agreements with Life Y Annuity Returns ...... 71 Spiritual Emphasis, The ...... 80 Y e a r o f A n xie ty, A ...... 68