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Foreign Missions Conference of North America FOREIGN MISSIONS CONFERENCE OF NORTH AMERICA TWENTY-THIRD CONFERENCE 1 9 1 6 CONTENTS Officers and Committees ...................................... 3 Foreword by the Secretary 5 Boards and Societies Represented . •. > .' 9 Personnel . 10 Directory of Boards . 15 Statistics................................ 31 Finance C om m ittee...................... 48 Constitution 49 Program . 53 Resolutions . 56 Credentials ............. 62 Medical Missions . 63 Treasury T o p ic s .......................... 120 Board of Missionary Preparation . .139 Christian Literature . 159 Reference and Counsel . 168 Charter—Incorporation of Conference 191 Panama Congress of Christian Work . 194 Unoccupied Areas . 212 Home Base . 251 American Bible Society’s Centenary . 296 Anglo-American Communities . 299 Missionary Magazine 310 Missions and the War 313 Inter-College Board . 326 Need of Missionary Reinforcements ..... 331 Necrology .... 336 Index to Reports—1893-1916 . 339 ROM the beginning, Mr. Grant has been the Secretary F of the Conference of the Foreign Mission Boards of North America and the compiler and editor of its Annual Reports. For many years Mr. Grant bore the whole or a large part of the financial responsibility for getting out this invaluable book. To him more than to any living man belongs the credit of the organization and successful perpetu­ ation of this highly valued and widely appreciated annual as­ sembly of representatives of the Missionary Societies. Mr. Grant’s name is widely known and honored throughout the mission fields, and if, perchance, there are any who do not know him personally, we here give them an opportunity to look upon his face. It is needless to add that while Mr. Grant has supervised the preparation of this report for the press, he is not respon­ sible for this portion inserted by .the Editorial Committee of the Committee of Reference and Counsel. J a m e s L. B a r t o n , Chairman. F o r e ig n M issions C o n f e r e n c e OF N o r t h A m e r ic a B e i n g t h e R e p o r t o f t h e T w e n t y -T h ir d C o n ­ f e r e n c e o f F o r e ig n M is s io n s B o a r d s in t h e U n i t e d S t a t e s a n d C a n a d a AT GARDEN CITY, NEW YORK J a n u a r y 11-14, 1916 Single Copies Twenty Cents, Postpaid FOREIGN MISSIONS CONFERENCE 25 MADISON AVENUE N E W Y O R K CONTENTS Officers and Committees .......................................................................... 3 Foreword by the Secretary .................................................................... 5 Boards and Societies Represented ..................................................... 9 Personnel ..................................................................................................... 10 Directory of Boards ................................................................................ 15 Statistics ...................................................................................................... 31 Constitution ................................................................................................ 49 Programme .................................................................................................. 53 Resolutions ........................................................................................... 56 Credentials’ Committee Report ............................................................ 62 Finance Committee Report .................................................................... 48 Medical Missions ...................................................................................... 63 Board of Missionary Preparation ........................................................ 139 Christian Literature in Foreign Lands ............................................. 159 Treasury Topics ........................................................................................ 120 Constitutional Changes ............................................................................ 56 Committee o f Reference and Counsel ................................................. 168 Charter—Incorporation of Conference ....................... 191 Panama Congress ..................................................................................... 194 Unoccupied Areas .................................................................................... 212 Home Base Committee Report ............................................................ 251 American Bible Society’s Centenary ................................................. 296 Anglo-American Communities Abroad ............................................... 299 Magazine Committee Report ................................................................ 310 Missions and the War ............................................................................ 313 Inter-College Board .................................................................................. 326 Missionary Reinforcements ..................................................................... 331 N ecrolog y ...................................................................................................... 336 Index to Reports 1893-1916 ................................................................. 339 OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES Officers to serve until close of the Twenty-fourth Conference, 1917. Bishop W alter R. L a m b u t h , D.D Chairman. Rev. James I. G o o d , D.D..........................First Vice-Chairman. J. Campbell W hite, LL.D.....................Second Vice-Chairman. W . H e n r y G r a n t ...................................................) c . • George Heber Jones, D.D.......................f Secretaries. A l f r e d E. M a r l i n g .................................... Treasurer. The Committees are elected to serve until the close of the Confer­ ence in the year indicated. The Secretary is ex-officio a member of all committees. com m ittee of reference and counsel James L. Barton, Chairman. Charles R. Watson, Secretary. George Heber Jones, Assistant Secretary. Term expiring in igiy Mrs. Anna R. Atwater. William I. Chamberlain. Allen R. Bartholomew. Ed. F. Cook. James L. Barton. Stephen J. Corey. A. J. Brown. James Endicott. James H. Franklin. Term expiring in igi8 A. Gandier. A. W. Halsey. John F. Goucher. George Johnson. Canon S. Gould. Bishop A. S. Lloyd. F. P. Haggard. J. F. Love. John R. Mott. Term expiring in lgig Bishop W. F. Oldham. Egbert W. Smith. C. H. Patton. Charles R. Watson. George Wharton Pepper. L. B. Wolf. Paul de Schweinitz. Mrs. Henry W. Peabody. James Wood. com m ittee of seven to define function and authority of the conference Charles R. Watson, Convener. Stanley White. James L. Barton. James Endicott. Frank Mason Xorth. John W . W ood. Miss Mabel Head. ANGLO-A MERICAN COM MUNITIES Robert E. Speer (1917), A. E. Marling (1917). S. H. Chester (1918), J. E. Leycraft (1918). R. P. Mackay (1919), Stephen Baker (1919). MAGAZINE COMMITTEE George Heber Jones. Stanley White. Harlan P. Beach. Hugh Burleson. Mrs. H. B. Montgomery. 3 Officers and Committees MEMBERS OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE WORLD’S SUNDAY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION APPOINTED BY THIS CONFERENCE George H. Trull. E. W. Miller. E. H. Rawlings. W . B. Anderson. Allen E. Armstrong. J. C. Robbins. A. R. Gray. Enoch F. Bell. S. Earl Taylor. W. E. Lampe. T. B. Ray. S. S. Hough. BOARD OF M ISSIO NARY PREPARATION W. D. Mackenzie, Chairman; A. S. Lloyd, R. P. Mackay, W. F. Old­ ham, Helen B. Calder, Ernest D. Burton, W. L. Robbins, Henry C. King, G. A. Johnston Ross, Una Saunders, W . O. Carver, E. D. Soper— (1917). Robert E. Speer, James Endicott, Charles R. Watson, President Mary E. Wooley, John H. Strong, Wilbert W. White, C. T. Paul, James E. Russell, T. H. P. Sailer, John R. Mott, George Drach, H. W. Robins— (1918). James L. Barton, Harlan P. Beach, David Bovaird, O. E. Brown, E. W. Capen, W . I. Chamberlain, Treasurer; F. P. Haggard, W . L. Lingle, T. R. O’Meara, J. Ross Stevenson, F. P. Turner, Sec­ retary; Addie Grace Wardle— (1919). Director of the Board, Rev. Frank K. Sanders, Ph.D. 4 FOREWORD BY THE SECRETARY Foreign Missions have opened up to the world a thousand sweet influences, binding the most distant parts and racially dissimiliar peoples in a holy fellowship and communion. Every trade route carries its messengers and messages, its high thoughts and ideals. The opening of new stations and out- stations, each with its Christian home and worship, has been likened to thé lighting of lamps or candles, representing the coming of the true light of Christ’s word into places hitherto spiritually dark. They are also likened to the building up o f altars whose fires glow with the living sacrifices of devoted hearts, drawing people in by the strength of love. Perhaps the happiest and most universal conception of For­ eign Missions is that it is a field— “ The field is the world ; the good seed are the children of the kingdom.” The light-bearers represent the new life in its constancy, the altar fires in its in­ tensity, while the field and the seed represent the power of transformation, of growth, self-activity and reproduction. It is the vision of a world within a world developing a new Para- dise. But after all society is composed of humans. Horace Bush- nell speaks of it as “ The property right we get in souls.” For­ eign Missions is a big school wherein are all grades from the kindergarten to the university, with all their multiform needs. It calls for our best in every grade, our most refined person­ alities, for more trained workers in each school and hospital. This work cannot be done by conducting chapel
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