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For more information, please contact [email protected]. uiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiilliitimiiiimmiiimmiimiiiiiimiiitiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiuimiiiiimiiliiiHmuimiimiiiiMik I „ I | Ninety-second Annual Report | I Board of I [ Foreign Missions | i Reformed Church in America I 1924 THE ARCHIVE! EAROStEE ■ THEOtOetCM. Reformed Church Building 25 East Twenty-Second Street, New York BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS MEMBERS OF THE BOARD 1922- 1925 R ev. J. FREDERICK BERG, P h .D. R ev. T. M. M A R TIN R ev. EDWARD DAWSON, D.D. R ev. J. G. M EENGS R ev. W BANCROFT HILL, D.D. R ev. E. F. ROMIG R ev. M. T. M acL E O D , D.D. M r. F. R. CH A M BERS M r. H. A. KINPORTS 1923- 1926 R ev. J. W BEARDSLEE, P h .D. R ev. T. PORTER DRUMM, D.D. R ev. E. J. BLEKKINK, D.D. R ev. T. H. MACKENZIE, D.D. R ev. J. H . BRINCKERHOFF P res. E, D. D IM N EN T , L itt.D. Rev. W. H. S. DEMAREST, LL.D. M r. CORNELIUS DOSKER M r. HERMAN VANDERWART 1924-1927 R ev. HENRY E. COBB, D.D. R ev. A. V EN N EM A , D.D. R ev. JOHN ENGELSMAN M r. A. P. COBB R ev. J. A. JO N E S, D.D. M r. W. E. FOSTER R ev. H. J. VELDMAN, D.D. Mu. A. H ARRY M OORE M r. E. E. OLCOTT OFFICERS OF THE BOARD P resident—R ev. HENRY E. COBB, D.D. V ice-P resident—R ev. W. BANCROFT HILL, D.D. R ecording S ecretary—R ev. EDWARD DAWSON, D.D. Corresponding S ecretary—R ev. W. I. C H A M BERLA IN , P h .D. A ssociate S ecretary and T reasurer—Mu. F. M. PO T T E R D istrict S ecretary—R ev. W. J. VAN KERSEN, Holland, Mich. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE R ev T. H. MACKENZIE, Chairman R ev. J. FREDERICK BERG M r. A. P. COBB R ev. EDWARD DAWSON M r. W. E. FOSTER R ev. W. H. S. D EM A R EST M r. H. A. KINPORTS R ev. EDGAR F. ROMIG M r. A. H ARRY M OORE M r. HERMAN VANDERWART ARABIAN MISSION TRUSTEES R ev. HENRY E. COBB, D.D., President R ev. EDWARD DAWSON, D.D. R ev. EDGAR F. ROMIG R ev. W BANCROFT HILL, D.D. M r. F. R. CHA M BERS R ev. T. H. MACKENZIE, D.D. M r. E. E. O LCO TT MEDICAL ADVISERS CONDICT W. CUTLER, M.D., 135 West 76th Street, New York CHARLES N. DOWD, M.D., 138 West 58th Street, New York LILLIAN K. P. FARRAR, M.D., 611 West 110th Street, New York C. OTTO STUMPF, M.D., Queens, Long Island, N. Y. F C. WARNSHUIS M.D., D.Sc., Grand Rapids, Mich. R'. H. NICHOLS, M.D., Holland, Mich. JHiss 3Jmutii' iii. Ihuupi'r Commissioned to Japan. 1905, and served m tliat field lor eighteen years. Killed in the earthquake disaster. September 1. 1923 while in active service as Principal ot Ferris Seminary. Ninety-second Annual Report of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Reformed Church in America The Sixty-seventh Year of Separate Action Organized, 1832 Independent, 1857 Incorporated, 1860 MISSIONS Amoy, China, 1842 Arcot India, 1853 Japan, 1859 Arabia, 1894 Presented to the General Synod at Asbury Park, N. J. June, 1924 ANNUAL REPORT, 1924 The Board of Foreign Missions respectfully presents to General Synod its Ninety-second Annual Report and the Sixty-seventh of its separate and independent action. It is both natural and appropriate, as also customary, in these annual reviews of the foreign missionary work of our Church to record at the beginning our tributes of respect and affection for those of the members of the Board and of the Missions who have been called to higher service in the course of the year. M r. J o h n B in g h a m . Member of the Board 1900-1924. At the time of his death, January 25, 1924, Mr. Bingham was senior in service among the members of the Board, having been elected by General Synod in June, 1900. The following Minute was adopted by the Board and entered upon its records: The members of the Board of Foreign Missions draw’ upon long memories and deep affections in recording their sense of personal sorrow and loss in the death on January 25, 1924, of their long time colleague and very dear friend, John Bingham. His was that fine old type of Scotch Elder, not only loyal to his individual church, but very active in it; and not only so, but also loyal and active in the service of the denomination of which his church was a part. Mr. Bingham could always be depended upon in Classical and Synodical appointments. But in this circle w'e think of him most affectionately and most gratefully because of his helpful and cheering association, and of his large and many services in connection with the Foreign Missionary Enterprise of our Church. He became a member of the Board by appointment of General Synod in 1900 and was its senior member at the time of his death. Although much absorbed in his business, which for many years he had maintained successfully in New York, and in his many other important re­ lationships he never looked upon his responsibility as a member of this Board as a nominal relationship, but was always ready to give to that membership an active and useful reality. He made the acquaintance of our missionaries when at home on their fur­ loughs and learned their circumstances and their needs and min­ istered to them. The Officers of the Board were constantly sur­ prised at the extent and intimacy of his knowdedge and at his many useful gifts to the missionaries in the form of articles whose value was real and personal and thus particularly welcome. Mis­ sionaries in each one of our four fields will rise up and call him blessed because of his many words of encouragement and his many deeds of kindness. We in the circle of the Board and of its Executive Committee learned to place much dependence upon the counsel of our senior member, and we were particularly helped bv his prayers when he presented our missionaries and our problems in his earnest petitions before the throne of grace. "Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth; yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors; and their works do follow7 them.” M iss J e n n ie M. K uyper Member of the Japan Mission, 1905-1923. Miss Kuyper entered upon service as a Missionary of the Reformed Church and a member of the Japan Mission in 1905. After her first term of service she was detained in America much against her wishes for several years by reason of serious illness. When she was finally permitted by her physicians, she joyfully returned to Japan, becoming Principal of Ferris Seminary in 1922. She was a woman of sterling character, high purpose and strong faith, one who gave every power and every talent into the Master’s hands for use anywhere in His Vineyard, and she was faithful unto death. Her devotion to duty made her a victim of the Earthquake and fire at Y okoham a in Septem ber, 1923, and in her death the R eform ed C hurch has lost one of its most able and consecrated missionaries. Quiet and reserved, yet ever most sympathetic and genial; patient, thorough and inspiring in her scholastic work, seeking con­ stantly a closer walk with God for herself, and a surrender to the claims of Christ for her pupils, she exerted a strong influence upon the whole school throughout the years when she was a teacher in Ferris Seminary, an influence which continued in similar ways when she was an evangelist at Kagoshima. And, when, distrusting her own ability, but obeying what she felt to be the call of God, she became Principal of Ferris Seminary, though permitted to serve but one brief year, her far-reaching plans for its educational work, and her constant emphasis of its Christian life, bore fruit to a noticeable degree, and promised to bear much more, a promise which she was not to see realized. Her life in many ways was a triumph of faith in God, revealed increasingly as the years went by, and shown most clearly in the supreme test of its closing hour. Deeply as we feel her loss, she herself has bid us say, “It is God's will.” And from the heart we pray that, since the chariot of fire has parted her from us, a double portion of her spirit may fall upon those who have labored with her, and upon all who knew and loved her.