FOREIGN CHRISTIAN MISSIONARY SOCIETY, pp. 119-169.
• "The Annual Report" by Archibald McLean, pp. 119-122.
• "Introduction of the Missionaries," p. 122.
• "Remarks of the Missionaries on Being Introduced." By R. Ray Eldred, Mrs. R. J. Dye,
  A. F. and Mrs. Hensey, R. S. Wilson, F. E. Meigs, Miss Edna P. Dale, H. P. Shaw,
  Mrs. C. S. Weaver, Miss Rose Armbruster, W. D. Cunningham, Miss Bertha
  Clawson, F. E. Hagin, Melvin Menges, J. H. Versey G. W. Brown, E. W. Pease,
  H. P. Williams, pp. 122-127.

  "The Fellowship of Missionaries" by W. T. Moore, pp. 127-128.

  "The More Abundant Life" by J. E. Davis, pp. 128-131.

  "Our Missions in the Orient" by John T. Brown, pp. 131-132.

  "Secular Contributions to the Evangelization of the World" by I. J. Cahill, pp. 132-135.

  "The Pioneers and Missions" by H. W. Elliott, pp. 136-138.

  "Foreign Mission in the Next Generation" by Charles T. Paul, pp. 138-141.

  "Missions a Partnership with Christ" by C. R. Hudson, pp. 141-142.

  "The Reflex Influence of Missions" by E. M. Waits, pp. 142-144.

  "The Awakening of the Orient" by W. C. Morro, pp. 144-146.

  "The Debt of the English-speaking People to Missions" by Ernest J. Sias, pp. 146-148.

  "The New World-consciousness" by J. L. Hill, pp. 148-150.

  "The Missionary Significance of Our Plea" by W. H. Book, pp. 150-153.

  "The Achievements of the Foreign Society" by G. L. Bush, pp. 153-157.

  "The Condition of Christianity in Japan" by K. Ishikawa, pp. 157-159.

  "The Challenge of the Opening Doors" by Alva W. Taylor, pp. 159-160.

  "The Pastor the Pivotal Man" by P. H. Welshimer, pp. 160-162.

  "Missions a Man's Job" by O. W. Lawrence, pp. 162-164.

  "The Missionary Consummation" by W. F. Rothenberger, pp. 164-166.

  "Remarks of Fraternal Delegates," pp. 166-169.

  "Dedication of the 'Oregon'," p. 169.

      The Convention met in three sessions: one in Carnegie Institute, two in Duquesne Garden. After the devotional services the Annual Report was read in all three places. The gist of it is as follows:

      Paul's ambition was to preach the gospel, not where Christ was already named, that he might not build upon another man's foundation. He could not be content while any territory remained unoccupied. The Foreign Christian Missionary Society has the same ambition. In thirty-four years its workers have reached all the great fields and the most remote and inaccessible part of the globe.

      The work at home is divided among seven societies: One carries on evangelism; one, church extension; one cares for the orphan and the aged poor; one ministers to disabled ministers and their families; one is devoted to Christian education; one, to the promotion of the Bible schools. The Foreign Society cares for all these interests and several besides, such as medical missions, industrial missions, translating and publishing the Scriptures and other works, the care and support of lepers. The Foreign Society is a pioneer and must do everything that needs to be done. Its agents are evangelists, teachers, physicians, authors, teachers of music, nurses, translators, printers, carpenters, blacksmiths, tailors, builders, farmers; navigators. Because so many things are done, it is impossible in this report to do more than touch on the salient points.

      In India the gospel has been preached in the chapels, in the bazaars, at melas, and in the towns and villages. Epidemics of cholera and smallpox have given the medical missionaries all the work they could do. Patients have come from near and from far. Schools were taught at the stations and outstations. Every, building and veranda was

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crowded and many were turned away. In the Lathrop Cooley Bible College twenty-three young men are studying for the ministry. The orphanage is a hive of busy workers. Many trades are taught and much good work done. Earnest efforts were put forth to reach the women--the most ignorant and degraded part of Indian society. The youth are gathered into Bible schools and into Endeavor societies. The press has been kept busy printing books and Bible-school helps and weekly papers. Something was done in the way of famine relief.

      The mission in Japan celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary. That was a joyous and profitable occasion. The missionaries did not confine their activity to the chapels, but went out into the towns and villages of their districts. Two churches have built houses of worship for themselves. A Home Missionary Society has been organized, and one of the Drake Bible College graduates has been employed to open a work in [119] Tokyo. Many classes in the English Bible were taught. The kindergartens have been crowded. In the Women's College forty have been enrolled. The attendance at Drake College was about the same as the year before. Already some have been graduated and are preaching the gospel.

      China has had a year of great blessing. Several churches have had gracious seasons of revival. The believers are growing in knowledge and in devotion. Four new outstations have been

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opened; four day-schools have been started; the Bible College has been inaugurated. The medical work has been much larger than ever before. The Union Christian College is pronouncedly Christian--80 per cent. of the students being believers. The press has sent out a great number of periodicals, reports, tracts and cards. The reading-rooms are filled with intelligent men who come to read the papers and magazines. The women are received in the mission homes and are taught of God.

      The mission in the Philippines has continued to prosper. Large numbers have been added to the saved. The gospel was preached at a great many points; Bible Institutes were held; classes were taught in English, in music, in the life of Christ, in outlines of the Gospels, Christian doctrine, apostolic history. The sick who went to the dispensary were treated; outside towns were visited by the medical missionaries and the suffering of the people relieved. Books and pamphlets and papers were printed in three languages. Churches have been organized and chapels have been built.

      The work on the Congo has been greatly blessed. Many, hearing, believed and were baptized. The missionaries and evangelists have covered a large field. Schools for boys and girls have been carried on. The orphans were gathered in and taught. Classes have been organized for the Christian women. The press has printed Gospels, text-books, hymn-books, and the Congo Christian. In addition, 15,000 feet of lumber were sawed, and 90,000 bricks were made. A new station was opened at Longa, a place seventy-five miles from Bolenge. The present membership of the Longa Church is 102. A tabernacle seating three hundred people has been built. Mud houses have been built for the missionaries and the workmen. Monieka is two hundred miles from Bolenge. At that point there are fifty Christians. The Monieka Church has sent out ten evangelists, or one member in five.

      In Cuba work has been carried on at Matanzas, Union and Cidra. In spite of unfavorable political conditions, progress has been made. The churches have grown in numbers and in knowledge. God has been honored by the lives and faith of the Cuban Christians. The Bible school in Matanzas is one of the best in Cuba.

      The Tibetan mission has moved from Ta Chien Lu to Batang. The missionaries are now five hundred miles nearer Tibet. They are cutting lumber, making brick and preparing to build homes, a chapel, a school, and a hospital. Meanwhile, they are preaching the gospel, healing the sick, and teaching the people. The death of Dr. Loftis has been the only sorrow and drawback in the year.

      Good work has been done in Denmark, Sweden, Norway and England. As a result, souls have been won and built up in their most holy faith. Owing to the prevailing financial depression, churches have lost members by emigration to the United States, to Canada and to Australia. But these are not lost to the kingdom, though lost to the local churches.

      A summary of the work is as follows: Stations, 47; outstations, 148; missionaries, 165; helpers, 634; churches, 128; membership, 11,053; Bible schools, 152; teachers and pupils, 9,657; under instruction in sixty-six day and boarding schools and colleges, 4,270; treatments in the twenty-nine hospitals and dispensaries, 131,770.

      Fourteen new missionaries were added to the force; five resigned and [120] one died. Never before did the society do so much to bring the claims of world-wide missions to the attention of the brotherhood. The Missionary Intelligencer was issued each month. Over five thousand missionary volumes were sold. Leaflets without number were published.

      Special attention was given to three things: The college in the Philippines, the college in Africa, and the S. S. "Oregon." Schools are needed to train evangelists and pastors and colporteurs and others. Fifty thousand dollars was raised for these two colleges--R. A. Long giving $10,000. The brethren in Oregon raised most of the money to pay for the steamer for the Congo and its affluents.

      One event of unusual significance was the employment of E. W. Allen as a third secretary. He will visit churches and conventions, hold institutes and conferences, solicit handsome gifts from men and women whom the Lord has prospered, look out for suitable workers, and keep the claims of the work before the public through the press. Another event calling for notice was the dedication of the G. L. Wharton Memorial Home, in Hiram, O. In this home the children of the missionaries will be cared for while they are receiving their education.

      The society needs two physicians--one for Tibet and one for Africa. A Belgian officer is ready to support the man that goes to Africa. The place left vacant by the death of Dr. Loftis should be filled without delay. A score of well-equipped evangelists are needed. The church should pray the Lord of the harvest to thrust forth laborers into his harvest. The society could use $100,000 to advantage in providing hospitals, chapels, schools and homes.

      Thus far the churches have thought chiefly of giving money. Those that give enough to support a missionary think they are doing very well, but there is one thing better than money, and that is life. The churches that send their own children to the field are the churches that have the deepest and most permanent interest in the work.

      Every church should be looking out for promising young people in its own membership, who should be trained for the service. No church should be content to give money only if it can make the greater gift. To raise up a great missionary is a greater achievement than to train a man for any political position whatsoever.

      Prices are rising in all parts of the world. This means that missionary agents must be paid more than formerly. Evangelists, teachers, nurses, colporteurs, Bible women, require more to live as comfortably as they did five or ten years ago. With the most rigid economy they can not live and meet their just obligations without as increase.

      The time has come when offerings should be made on a much larger scale

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than heretofore. Thirty years ago an offering of one hundred dollars was considered generous. Now an offering large enough to support a missionary, is considered liberal. Individual gifts of five or ten thousand dollars are sometimes made. The growth of the work demands a marked increase all along the line. Churches that have been supporting one missionary should support two or three. Individuals should support a whole station, or build a hospital or a chapel or a home.

      In view of the white harvest-fields and the lack of laborers, the one specific direction given by our Lord to his disciples was, "Therefore pray ye." The greatest evidence of answered prayer in the history of the church has been given in connection with aggressive efforts to evangelize the world. Doors long closed have been opened in answer to believing prayer, and hostile rulers have been overthrown. Men and women for the fields have been raised up and the funds required for their support have been secured in answer to prayer. A praying church is an omnipotent church. "Pray ye the Lord of the harvest."

      The receipts for the year amount to $350,681.21.This is an increase of [121] $76,360.82 over the previous year. The churches, as churches, gave $146,081.60. This is an increase of $17,733.79. The Sunday-schools, Christian Endeavor societies and individuals gave more than any year before. There was a falling off in bequests of $4,358.42. The Foreign Society has never received much in the way of bequests. It never received but one handsome bequest, and that was twenty years ago.

      It is interesting to know that so much money is being raised on the fields. One friend of the work in China, not a Christian, gave $1,100 for the medical work at Nanking. One Christian Chinese gave $1,600. The Viceroy of Nanking gave $250.

      More than fifty years ago Alexander Campbell said: "The church of Christ is in her nature, spirit and position necessarily and essentially a missionary institution. Until the whole world has heard the glad tidings of great joy, the missionary cause will be the paramount and transcending work, duty, privilege and honor of Christ's own church." These words should be repeated with new emphasis as we enter our second century. The times call for an uncommon service and for such an outpouring of gifts as the past has never witnessed. It is for us to do all in our power to give the gospel to all the nations, and thus hasten the coming of the King in his glory.

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