The Missionary Review of the World — July 1930

0Jj' THE NEW FORCES IN THlll WlllST

COMING EVENTS A WORD REGARDING TIBET July I-S-GOOD WILL PILGRIMAGE OF To THE EDITOR OF THE MISSIONARY AMERICAN CONGREGATIONALISTS TO THE INTERNATIONAL CONGREGATION- REVIEW: AL COUNCIL, Bournemouth, England. In his article on "A Contrast in July 5-August 17-LAMBETH CONFER- Conditions in China" in the SQptember ENCE OF ANGUCAN COMMUNION, number of the REVIEW, the author London. makes certain statements about Tibet and Dr. A. L. Shelton. Having spent July 8-18-M. E. M. CONFERENCE, Asilo- some time in the study of Tibetan mar, Calif. missions and six years as a member of the Tibetan Christian Mission in Ba- July 22-August I-M. E. M. CONFER- tang, which Dr. Shelton founded and ENCE, Seabeck, Wash. was a member of until his death, I presume to correct these statements. August 5-10-WORLD'S CHRISTIAN EN- DEAVOR CONVENTION, Berlin, Ger- Leaving Roman Catholic Missions many. out of the question, the first Protes- tant work for Tibet was begun on the August 11-22-WORLD CONFERENCE FOR Indian border in 1817. Dr. Shelton INTERNATIONAL PEACE THROUGH RE- never reached Lhasa and certainly LIGION, Basel, Switzerland. never treated the Dalai Lama. It might be that his trip to Chamboo is August 14-25–NATIONAL BAPTIST CON- meant. There he met the Galon Lama, VENTION, Chicago, Ill. but whether he treated him or not I do not know. He did not have an in- August 19-24 – GENERAL CONFERENCE, vitation to open a dispensary there SEVENTH DAY BAPTIST CHURCH, but only permission from Dalai Lama Salem, W. Va. to come to Lhasa if there were no for- eign treaties to the contrary. August 24-27 – EVANGELICAL BROTHER- HOOD, EVANGELICAL SYNOD OF N. A., While on his way to the coast with NATIONAL CONVENTION, Elmhurst, his wife and family, he was captured Ill. and held for ransom by Chinese ban- dits. Later, he returned to America, August 26-29 – CONTINUATION COMMIT- and after he had arrived back in Ba- TEE OF LAUSANNE CONFERENCE ON tang in December, 1921, he made a FAITH AND ORDER, Murren, Switzer- preliminary trip of only a few days land. to see more about his proposed trip into Tibet. It was when he was re- August 30-September 5-CONTINUATION turning from this trfp that he was COMMITTEE OF UNIVERSAL CHRIS- shot by Tibetan bandits within seven TIAN CONFERENCE ON LIFE AND WORK, Vevey, Switzerland. or eight miles of Hatang. 'He was September 14-17-EvANGELICAL BROTH- taken home to Batang, but . died that ERHOOD, EVANGELICAL SYNOD OF N. night.'·" A., NATIONAL CONVENTION, Cleve- land, Ohio. It is not quite proper to speak of China and its depel/,dencies being open September 16-17 – COMMITTEE OF REF- for many years.. Tibet is not open yet. ERENCE AND COUNSEL, FOREIGN MIS- SIONS CONFERENCE OF N. A., New In the National Geographical Mag- York, N. Y. azine for September, 1921, is an ar- ticle by Dr. Shehon, "Life Among the September 17-26 – BIENNIAL GENERAL People of Eastern Tibet," which will CONNCIL OF THE UNITED CHURCH OF check upon what I have said. Mrs. CANADA, London, Ontario. Shelton is still riving, her address be- ing Pamona, CaJifornia. September 29-0ctober 1 – INTERDENOM- INATIONAL MISSIONARY INSTITUTE, Sincerely yours, conducted by the Philadelphia Fed- eration of Churches and the Wom- R. A. PETERSON. en's Interdenominational Union of Philadelphia and Vicinity, Philadel- phia, Pa.

October 7-15-UNITED LUTHERAN CHURCH, Milwaukee, Wis.

October 9-GENERAL CONFERENCE, EVAN- GELICAL CHURCH, Milwaukee, Wis.

October 14-19–INTERNATIONAL CONVEN- TION, DISCIPLES OF CHRIST, Wash- ington, D. C.

October 19-23-WORLD CONVENTION, DIS- CIPLES OF CHRIST, Washington, D. C.

November 30-December 5-NoRTH AMER- ICAN HOME MISSIONS CONGRESS, Washington, D. C. OBITUARY nection with a survey being made of the MRS. PAUL W. HARRISON, a missionary Young Men's and Young Women's Chrisin Arabia of the Reformed Church in America, who with her husband and chil- tian Associations. He will also visit dren was on her way to America on furlough, died at sea May 5. missions in Portuguese Angola and the . * .. .. Belgian Congo.

MRS. MARY ANNESLEY CHAMBERLAIN, DR. E. GRAHAM WILSON, Treasurer of formerly a Presbyterian missionary to Brazil, died March 10, at the age of the Presbyterian Board of National Misninety. She was the widow of the Rev. George S. W. Chamberlain, and together sions, has been elected General Secretary they founded the San Paolo School, now Mackenzie College. to succeed Dr. John A. Marquis.

* .. * *' * * MR. GEORGE KELLEY, missionary of the DR. FRANK K. SANDERS, formerly Dean Shantymen's C h r i s t ian Association, whose work was in northern Ontario, of Yale Divinity School, will attend the died April 8. fiftieth anniversary of the founding of MISS JANET M*. JO*HN*STONE, a Presby- the American Board Mission in West terian missionary to Japan, died May 14 in Buffalo, N. Y., while on furlough. Africa. * .. * Miss Johnstone was stationed at Shimonoseki, Japan, where she taught in MR. E. FRANCIS HYDE has resigned as Sturges Seminary. She had been on the President of the Board of Managers of . .. .. foreign field since 1905. the American Bible Society because of MR. CHRISTOPHER THURBER, Director of the Athens Area of the Near East declining health. Mr. Hyde had served Relief, died May 31, from a paralytic stroke. The funeral was conducted in longer than any member of the present the Cathedral with honors of a retired . . .. general, all expenses were paid by the Board. Government. It was the most impressive tribute ever paid to a foreigner by the THE REV. HARRY SMITH LEIPER has Church and State. The Government was resigned the associate editorship of the represented by three cabinet ministers Congregationalist to become Secretary and the president by his secretary. The of the Commission on Relations with American Minister and his wife were Churches Abroad and the American Secpresent officially and as personal friends. tion of the Life and Work Movement, a The American colony and Athens no- new department of the Federal Council of Churches. . . . tables were present and an enormous * * .. attendance of children and adults whose lives he had touched. MR. JAMES W. HAWKES, for fifty years a missionary in Persia, has completed a PERSONALS translation in the Persian language of W. W. Rand's Dictionary of the Bible.

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MR. AND MRS. NOBLE C. KING, for many years active in religious work in Chicago, and who recently returned from a long tour of the mission fields in Asia, have offered to help at their own charges in the missionary work in the Philip- pines, and have been appointed affiliated missionaries of the Presbyterian Board .. . .. to work at Manila.

THE REV. CHARLES A. BROOKS, D.D., THE REV. HUGH T. KERR, D.D., LL.D., pastor of the Shadyside Presl:lyterian was elected Executive Secretary of the Church, of Pittsburgh, and president of the Presbyterian Board of Christian Board of Home Missions of the Baptist Education, was elected Moderator of the General Assembly at its meeting in Cin- Church to succeed the Rev. Dr. Charles cinnati, May 29.

L. White, who retired several months .. * * ago. THE REV. ALBERT W. BEAVEN, D.D., President of the Colgate-Rochester Di- *** vinity School, and a member of the Board of Managers of the American THE REV. G. E. E. LINDQUIST, mission- Baptist Home Mission Society, was elected president of the National Baptist ary-at-Iarge of the Society for Propa- Convention at its recent session.

gating the Gospel Among the Indians, *** oldest incorporated missionary organiza- DR. DAVID YUI, General Secretary Chi- nese Y. M. C. A., will be Chairman of tion in America, has been appointed by the next conference of the Institute of Pacific Relations, which will be held in President Hoover as a member of the China.

Board of Indian Commissioners. Mr.

Lindquist is the only member of this Board actively engaged in missionary work. .. .. * DR. GEORGE E. HAYNES, Executive Sec- retary of the Commission on Race Rela- tions of the Federal Council of Churches, sailed April 9 for South Africa in con- DELAVAN L. PIERSON, Editor ARTHUR J. BROWN, Editor jor 1930 JULY TABLE OF CONTENTS FRONTISPIECE-NEW FORCES I~ THE WEST INDIES Paye PRESIDENT ANGELL ON OliR COUNTRY'S PERIL AND FOICIER PRESIDEN'l' COOL- IDGE ON THE REMEDy ……………………………………………. . 485 WOMEN IN HOME MISSIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MRS. OaRIN R. JUDD 486 PROBLEMS OF: HOME MISSIONS ……………… . … E. GRAHAM WILSON 4!13 RELIGION OF THE CHRISTIAN CENTER ………… . . … CHARLES A. BROOKS 499 NEW STANDARDS FOR A NEW DAy ………•……………………. MURIEl, DAY 503 COOPERATING IN THE WEST INDIES …….•…………….. SA>IUEI, GUY LOIAN 509 OLD FORTS AND NEW FORCES IN 'rIlE WEST INDIES .•………. EDWARD A. ODELL 512 GETTING ACQUAINTED WITH OUR CARIBB~;AN NEIGIIBORH……………….. 516 SALVAGING LITTLE BLACK SOULS ..•…•••..•.•…•……………. I,n MCCRAE 518 WHAT IS CHANGING INDIA? …•.•••..•.•…•…………… DELAVAN L. PIERSON 521 AMERICAN LUTHERAN FOREIGN MISSIONS …………………… GEORGE DRACH 523 TOPICS OF THE TIMES………………………………………………… 525 MrSS,]ONARY INFORMATION A BUSINESS MAN'S LETTER ARTrcLES ON HOME MISSIONS CHAOS IN CHINA AND INDIA METHODS FOR WORKERS …………………….. EDITED BY lIbs. F. I. JOHNSO" 528 WOMAN'S HOME AND FOREIGN BULLETIN ……………………..••……••.. 535 WORLD WIDE OUTLOOK ………………………………………………….. 541 BOOKS WORTH READING ……………………………….•…..•..•…•….

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THE MISSIONARY Of tae President Angell, of Yale University, on Our Country's Peril "I would not paint a picture untrue to the facts, nor one oblivious to the noble and generous qualities widespread among our citizens, both rich and poor. But, in all respect, I do submit that there are abroad in our time tendencies in thought and action which, unchecked and uncorrected, are not less grave in the perils they foreshadow for our people than those which plunged the nation into civil war."-Memorial Day Address, May 30, 1930.

Former President Coolidge on the Remedy MR. STANLEY HIGH, 419 Fourth Avenue, New York City.

Dear Sir: Of course I appreciate the great importance of the celebration which is proposed for the 8th day of June. I have tried to point out a great many times and in a great many different ways the fundamental importance of religion in sustaining our present civilization and government. The whole fabric of society rests upon it. If The Christian Herald can do anything to awaken people to the importance of this principle it will serve a most useful purpose. I do not see any method of improving our social and economic relations except through the teachings of religion. In fact, it is my belief that we have gone as far as we can in progress and reform until we have a more general acceptance of the truths of religion. If these are permitted to slip away from us the progress and reform which we have already accomplished will vanish with them. It is for these reasons that I hope your efforts will meet with success.

With kindest regards, I am May 6,1930. Very truly yours, CALVIN COOLIDGE. 485

IN HOME

BY MRS. ORRIN R. JUDD President, Council of lVQ1ncn for Home Jfissions SOME years ago a painting was It is a vividly symoolic repre- on display in the show window sentation of the missionary enter- of the headquarters office of prise. All missionary history is the Western Union Telegraph Company on lower Broadway, New the story of heroic messengers who York, which called the attention have delivered the message of the of the passerby to the various Gospel of peace to those to whom methods by which through the cen- they were sent regardless of the turies men have communicated hazards to be overcome on the way. It is a story of high adventure, of with one an;)ther. The scene was an infinite variety of methods, of a lovely lafldscape in the fore- cooperation and partnership and ground of which a severe storm intricate organization which repwas raging. ,Driving winds lashed resents steady progress and great the trees and laid low great fields advance from the lone figure of of ripening grain. Torrents of pioneer days; but though there rain, sweeping toward the earth, are many methods the purpose is beat upon the form of a man at always one–to get the messa.ge work among the wires of a tele- through. In the making of this graph pole, and upon his compan- record home missionaries have had ion standing below holding a an important part, and many a receiver to his ear in order to catch glowing page has been contributed the first indication of restored con- by great-hearted women whose nection. In the golden sunlit back- lives have been devoted to making ground beyond the storm was seen, our country God's country and as against a luminous screen, a bringing Christ into every home. phantom procession: a runner straining every nerve, a chariot Home mission interest maniwith eager steeds leaping at the fested itself soon after the early master's command, a lone rider- colonies had become established. the pony express of a century ago The spiritual need of neighboring -and the friendly stage coach that Indian tribes and the religious dessucceeded it and was superseded titution of new settlements along by the mail train. The picture a constantly extending frontier needed only the radio and the air- aroused sympathy in many Chrisplane to bring it down to date. No tian homes. Prayer and concern less arresting was the paragraph resulted in the sending out of beneath it which read in sub- preachers and evangelists for servstance: "In all ages heroic men ice in the remote regions of Verhave defied hardships, dangers, mont and Pennsylvania. Home mission boards of the various comand obstacles of every kind in or- munions came into existence, and der that the message entrusted to the women of the churches gave them might be delivered to those them loyal support. Often the esfor whom it was intended and who tablishment of a school or of a were waiting to receive it." hospital was made possible by sub- 486

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stantial contributions from indi- years in advance to share the lot vidual women. The interest of the of Negro refugees during the Civil women stimulated the churches to War, receiving only from the Unit- increasing cooperation in the ex- ed States Government soldier's ra- tension of the home mission enter- tions and shelter, from the general prise. Board of her denomination a com- About the beginning of the sec- mission without salary, and from ond half of the nineteenth century, a Bible-school class back home five there arose a demand among wom- dollars a month. Her attitude was en for a greater political and eco- typical of those who were first on nomic independence. This spirit the field.

spread among the mISSIOnary The early method of these pio- women of the churches. The small neer women was absurdly simple and widely separated groups which and yet appallingly difficult. It had supported the general mission was merely to choose to live, to be boards were growing stronger and at home, with people who needed increasing in numbers year by to become acquainted v'ith the win- year. As reports came to them of someness of Jesus Christ. It was the abysmal misery caused by ig- as simple as that and as hard. It norance, intemperance and immor- required love, sympathy, vnder- ality, they took account with grave standing, such as is of the nature concern of the need of Indian of God in Christ. How effectively mothers and children, of the Ne- they carried their simple message groes in the cabins of the South, . of living is indicated in the testi- of the fifteen million Mexicans in mony given by an educated Chris- the neighboring republic, of the tian Indian, now a pastor, at a Alaskans at the North, and the missionary conference: "We knew multitudes of aliens flocking to that Americans believed that the America from all parts of the only good Indian is a dead Indian, world. They saw in the situation and we had the same feeling to- of these groups an opporunity for ward the Americans. Then came service which they believed could your women mIssIOnaries. They best be rendered by women work- came alone and lived among US ing through independent organi- unafraid and taught us the better zations administered by women. way, the way of friendship and The first Women's Home Mission goodwill that Christ commands."

Society was formed in Chicago in The quick response of the wom- 1877, and soon the era of woman's en of the churches to their nationnational home mission Ilervice was al leaders opened new paths which well under way. extended not only to Indians, but In some instances women mis- also to Negroes, Orientals, Span- sionaries had not waited for or- ish-speaking peoples in the South- ganized support or assistance, but west, and immigrants from a score had set out alone in a courageous of countries, and to the underpriv- venture of faith singing in their ileged homes of the older Ameri- hearts, "The Lord will provide." can stock.

They did not shrink from the lone- Education walked hand in hand ly task, the solitary road. They with evangelism. Schools manned gloried in it. Thus one of these by devoted Christian teachers pioneers had gone forth thirteen marked the advance of the wom-

an's home mission society. Pri- Christian nurse. Here and there mary schools they were at first, where the need is most appalling providing most elementary in- or where there would be unjust struction, but advancing the re- discrimination against "believers," quirements of the courses step by the Christian hospital stands as a step as the awakened capacities of beacon light of hope, not only students demanded, until today bringing blessing to the sick but they represent the full scope of ed- training young girls for service as ucational opportunity from kinder- nurses to their own people. Can garten to university. Sometimes one living in a country where there the mission school awakened the are scores of hospitals in a single public conscience to the obligation city have an adequate idea of the of the State to provide educational need in ~ country where there are THE WOMEN'S WARD AT THE PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL IN SAN JUAN. PORTO RICO. '.rHE HOSPITAL SERVES THE NEIGHBORING ISLANDS AS WELL AS DISTANT SANTO DOMINGO AND VENEZUELA privileges impartially, and so be- scores of cities without one hoscame the pathfinder for free pital? There are hundreds as poor schools open to all children. Some as the patient in one of these misof the finest educational institu- sion hospitals who recently put intions in the country are memorials to the doctor's hands a small paper to the Christian women who served bag containing two green bananas, as missionary teachers. two radishes and two carrots, say- ing: "Will this pay for my treat- Nor was the ministry to the sick ment?" To such as these has the as an evangelizing influence neg- missionary doctor been sent. lected. In clinics, day nurseries and poverty stricken homes the The unique contribution of womhealing hand of the Great Physi- en's home missions to the Chriscian is today laid upon thousands tian Church is the missionary otherwise uncared for and some- training school, of which the first times doomed to die save for the one was founded fifty years ago.

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Shortly after women's mission prayer, for cooperation in interboards had begun to function, they denominational conferences and became convinced that successful schools of missions, for the promissionary work required a certain duction of home mission study technique which could be acquired books and literature, for the cultionly by specialized training and vation of home mission interest study. The great number of such among students, and for closer feltraining schools now preparing lowship and conference. young people for various forms of Christian service bears testimony In February, 1916, a new chalto the wisdom which originated the idea. lenge was issued to the Christian The Spanish-American War Church. The Congress on Chrisbrought new opportunities for ex- tian Work in Latin America was pansion to all home mission agen- held in Panama. It brought tocies, at the same time putting gether leading men and women emphasis on cooperation. The from many boards to study the principle of interdenominational needs of South and Central Amercooperation in the missionary oc- ica. Great fields of opportunity cupation of Cuba and Porto Rico and responsibility were visioned in effected a better distribution of de- the populous countries of Central nominational responsibility than America, and from those days the had ever before been worked out. leaders returned to summon the In addition to assuming the care churches to an agressive forward of work in certain separate areas, movement. In mission stations the several denominations agreed and schools since opened in some to unite in plans for a hospital, a of the principal cities, women's training school, a theological sem- societies have already reaped the inary, and in the publication of a reward of a bountiful harvest in church paper. In all these plans redeemed and redeeming lives that women's boards were concerned. are telling for Christ in the Carib- bean area. Twenty years of women's home mission service had drawn the A missionary project of outleaders of the several boards into standing importance was undera close fellowship of mutual help- taken in Santo Domingo in 1921, fulness, when in the year 1897 the when five mission boards, of which observance of an interdenomina- two were women's organizations, tional day of prayer for Home united in the Board of Christian Missions was introduced by re- Missions in Santo Domingo to work gional committees both in the East as one for the evangelization of and Middle West. There was a the Island. Through this Board growing tendency to think and as a unit missionaries are sent to work together in this and several carry out a program which compreother projects. hends in addition to evangelistic work and the establishment of In 1908, nine women's boards churches, social service, an indusunited to form the Council of trial school, a hospital, and a Women for Home Missions, which nurses' training school. thenceforth became the agent for the annual national observance of In ministering to city populaan interdenominational day 0 f tions women have found an incom- parable field of service. Scores of Christian settlement houses known

as community or neighborhood the Council has had charge of the houses or Christian centers are production of home mission litera- distributed among the more im- ture. For years this business was portant industrial centers of our carried on independently. Since country. Sometimes they minister 1919, it has been conducted as a to a single group, such as the In- business partnership with the Mis- dian, the Negro, the Mexican, or the sionary Education Movement. A Chinese; more often a score of na- J oint Committee on Home Mission tionalities are within reach of their Literature is responsible for books friendly influence. In the staff and helps for adults, intermediates which conducts the activities of a and other younger groups and for Christian center women usually the helps which accompany the constitute the majority of the textbooks each year. The sales of workers, but men and women work the adult book for last year totaled together to make the center a nearly 50,000 copies.

Christian home for every family Through the years the observin the community. From this ance of the Day of Prayer has atgracious ministry among a church- tracted increasing interest. Womless people w~lO would have feared en's sympathies were enlarged in to enter an American church, have the precious fellowship of prayer sprung foreign language churches until thlil world need was seen as of many nationalities, independent, one. In response to a general wish self-governing, radiant centers of for a united day of prayer, the Christian influence. One of the Council in 1921 began cooperation most valuable assets of a Christian with the Federation of Woman's center is a group of members from Boards of Foreign Mission's in the est a b 1ish e d English-speaking preparation of a program to inchurches who serve as volunteers clude both Home and Foreign Misin making friendly contacts with sions. This continued until in 1927 the mothers in the homes, either the invitation was extended to teaching English or household arts women round the world, many of or simply carrying on friendly in- whom had for years observed such a day. Since then the first Friday tercourse in the spirit of the slo- in Lent has been annually observed gan: "For every American Chris- as a World Day of Prayer. In this tian a foreign-speaking friend." World Fellowship of Christian There is no other method like it for Women thirty-five countries had a Christian Americanization.

While the Council of Women for share last year.

Home Missions serves the twenty- Ten years ago the Council heard four constituent boards, in which "the cry of the children" through are included three from Canada, as an interpreter of the forlorn con- an opportunity for fellowship and dition of the two millions compos- conference, it may be charged with ing the migrant population who certain administrative powers and follow the crops, gathering fruits, act as the agent in cooperative or vegetables, nuts and working on united effort for several or all farms and in the canneries. A boards whenever it is agreed that Committee was formed of repre- a given object can be better ac- sentatives of the boards which complished collectively than indi- were ready to respond to the ap- vidually. Since its organization peal to establish a sort of summer

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Christian center, day nursery and were friends available to provide playground program wherever the very greatly needed Christian suitable places could be found and leaders to teach them. Up to the college girls placed in charge. The present it has been possible to apwork has grown beyond all expec- point directors to only eight of tations, growers and canners coop- these nonreservation s c h 0 0 I s. erating to such an extent as to United Protestantism thus has conmake the work in some places self- tact with only about 3,000 of these supporting. Fourteen boards now original Americans. The necessity cooperate through the Committee. .for taking a larger share should The income has increased from a burden the heart of every Chrissingle gift of $25 in 1921 to a tian woman in the land until the budget for 1930 which anticipates need is met.

receipts of nearly $15,000. To The Council of Women for Home name the states in which the work Missions cooperates with other nais being conducted shows how widely it is distributed and how great is the need. It is for chil- dren who would "like to go to school, but not to ten schools in a year" that these stations in Cali- fornia, Oregon, Washington, Ohio, Maryland, New Jersey, Delaware, mean a look into the life that God intended every child to enjoy.

In cooperation with the Home Missions Council, the Council of Women is seeking to provide an adequate program of religious edu- cation for Indian boys and girls in Government Indian Schools. For HANDWORK HOUR AT A MIGRANT years that field was practically un- CENTER touched, except for work under- tional organizations such as the taken at a few points by Presby- Home Missions Council, the Fed- terian and Baptist women's boards. eral Council of the Churches of About ten years ago the two Coun- Christ in America, the Federation cils appointed a Joint Committee of Woman's Boards of Foreign to study methods of procedure in Missions, and the recently organ- this task which it was believed ized National Council of Federated could best be accomplished by the Church Women. Sometimes alone, pooling of denominational inter- sometimes together with one or ests. Two years ago Miss Helen more of those named, questions are M. Brickman was appointed as Di- considered which were heretofore rector of this work to unify, deepen thought to be beyond the recog- and promote as rapidly as possible nized spheres of missionary ac- a religious education program. tivity and thinking. Such matters There are wonderful opportunities as race relations are made subjects fnr Christian instruction among not merely of study but of ex- the 30,000 boys a.nd girls in Gov- perience, of adventures in mutual ernment Indian schools, if there understanding and courtesy. It

cooperates with the National Com- cumbent upon certain groups withmittee on the Cause and Cure of in the Church but is recognized as War and with the National.Com- the task of the whole Church. Anmittee on Law Enforcement. other lesson learned is that all are rhrough the Women's Joint Con- members one of another. Indegressional Committee an intelli- pendence has to give way to intergent interest is maintained in dependence. legislation affecting the welfare of women and children and of disad- With experience has come envantaged peoples. larged vision of the magnitude and significance of the tasks of Home Cooperative thinking and plan- Missions. We know it requires ning, undreamed of when women's women of trained minds, broad boards came into being, has pro- sympathies, great vision. But that gressively advanced toward a gen- is not enough. Is the vision affecteral adoption of unified denomina- ing our lives, changing our contional programs, in some cases to consolidation of women's boards duct, our attitudes? The challenge with the general boards of a de- of today is not to do more so-called nomination and in still other in- great things but to do the apstances toward a union of one de- parently little things with the nomination with another. That great spirit of devotion that charthis occasions perplexity among acterized the early messengers. the leaders of women's groups is The challenge today is not to inevitable. One result established the organization but to the indiby the years of missionary advance vidual, to the woman in the local is that the missionary task is no church to do the daily humble servlonger considered optional or in- ice as unto Him. There is no escape from individual responsibility.

LANGUAGES USED IN HOME MISSIONARY WORK The polyglot character of home missionary work in America and the well-nigh bewildering range and variety of the problems that it presents are graphically indicated in the following list of languages in which home missionary work is conducted.

Syrian Hebrew ASIATIC Assyrian Total-8 Chinese Persian Korean Armenian Japanese Welsh English EUROPEAN Polish Slovenian Italian French Russian Total-21 German Greek Czech Lithuanian Spanish Portuguese Croatian Ukrainian Dutch Serbian Norwegian Yiddish Slovak Magyar NORTH AMERICAN Seneca PaPago Nez Perce Shoshone Cherokee Thlinget Apache Quiniaelt Arapahoe Choctaw Eskimo Mohave Cayuse Sioux Creek Hyda Navajo Umatilla Ojibway Seminole Makah Omaha Keresani Tsimpshean Paiute Spokane Ute Yaqin . Pima Hoopa Maricopa Mono Shevwits Tanoan Total-34 Grand Total of Languages Used ……………………………… 63

OF HOME

BY THE REV. E. GRAHAM WILSON"

H OME Missions is the Church He gave as they toiled, often under in action in America. Christ terrific stress and strain; and for did not establish the Church the many other blessings which He merely to provide centers for wor- has bestowed. This work is of God ship and religious training, im- -otherwise it would not have been portant as they are. His purpose possible to have carried the burden was that from the Church there and to have achieved the results.

should go out those influences that There is a .new frontier before should establish the Kingdom of the Church in America-a frontier God, which is nothing less than the which calls for the same devotion rule of Christ in the hearts of men. and consecration as was demanded And so the Church from the be- by the frontier of old. This new ginning has been a missionary frontier is the American city and Church, ever seeking to proclaim its suburbs. America started as a the Christian message to all men- rural nation; it has become an urbeginning "in Jerusalem, and in all ban nation. According to the cen- Judea, and in Samaria, and unto sus of 1920, over 52,000,000 people the uttermost part of the earth." lived in towns and villages with a I stand in the place of one of the population of 2,500 or over. There greatest statesmen and leaders our are 68 cities of over 100,000 popu- Church has ever had-John A. lation, and six metropolitan dis- Marquis-who after forty years of tricts with a population over service has had to lay down his 450,000. While there are still racial tools. His leadership during the groups and underprivileged people past six years, filled with the most to whom we must take the Gospel, difficult problems, was superb. He we must increase our efforts to was loved by all his associates and establish the Church in our cities by a host of ministers and workers and their suburbs. throughout the Church, who saw and felt in him the spirit of his A statesmanlike and heroic ef- Master and theirs. The work will fort is being made to win for go on, but it will go farther and it Christ this new frontier. Boards will be easier because of his labors. of Church Extension have been or- ganized and are functioning ag- We are grateful to God for many gressively in many of our large things–for the generous support cities. There is not time to speak of churches and individuals; for of the advances which many of the consecrated service of missionaries; for· His watchful care over them have made and of their plans for the future. Reference can be the staff as they traveled hither made to only one-Detroit-which and yon, and the strength which in many respects is similar to • Mr. Wilson has recently bee,! elected Gen. others. A careful survey of the eNraatlioSneaclreMtaisrsyionosf, tNheew PYroesrkb,ytiennasunccBesosairodn toof CI°ty madebyte h CounC'I1· f oMn aarcqcuoisunwt hoof was 0 ttohe rReseivg.nDlra.sJtohynearA. was ohbelalgltehd. Churches in 1927 and districts II Bl-olrardVfiolsronfoubradyeabrese.n Tthhies aTrrteicalseuriesr. adofapttehfd> W ere assl'gned to the coo"peratl'ng fArossmembhliys lIansatugmuoranlt address to The General denominations. .Funds were se- h.-Edito r.

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cured in a building campaign to the trails leading into the valleys undertake a seven-year program of on four sides of the mountain.

church building. Church plants These lights are lanterns or torches have either been newly built or re- carried by those who are to as- modeled. New churches have come semble for worship, and as the into existence and are growing hour for service arrives converge satisfactorily. In addition to these from a dozen trails. The visitor church enterprises, new mission asked the missionary why he put Sunday-schools-with attendance the chapel on the hill. "People will ranging from 150 to 300 each- go up to God's house," he said.

have been organized. What is be- Perhaps the Psalmist had this in ing done in Detroit, is being dupli- mind when he said, "We will lift cated in other cities, and ought to up our eyes unto the hills." The be done in all our large cities. The chapel is far from a public high- Ameri(,!a of the future will be a way and further still from a rail- country of cities, and if we are to road. Those who visit it must ford win our nation for Christ, we must a river seven times and climb strengthen the Church in the cities. mountains reaching to a height of Other outstanding accomplish- four thousand feet. The district is ments during the past year might typical of rural Porto Rico, rugged be noted. I would like to tell of the and picturesque. People are found progress of the work among the everywhere, and the native church Negroes, the Alaskans, the Porto is following them. The Gospel of Ricans, the Orientals, the Indians, Christ is still the power of God unto the Mormons, the Migrant Groups, salvation to communities and indi- the West Indians, the Jews, the viduals alike. Great victories have Spanish-speaking people of the been won. The cause of Christ has Southwest and other groups. The been advanced in our country. We story reads like a romance. When are grateful to God for what has several Mexican boys and girls in been accomplished. But let us not Southern California were talking forget to give credit to those to about Christmas, one little lad whom it belongs. The churches and looking at the rough boards of the individuals have given generously temporary room in which the re- of their means. A few of us have ligious services were held, ex- attempted to administer the work.

claimed: "I think the very best But the real work has been done present that Santa Claus could give by the workers. What a group they us would be a place where we are! Many are men and women could feel God." That is the great with social graces and large men- need of these idealistic people-an tal capacities-all of them con- opportunity to "feel God." secrated and loyal to their Lord- A visitor, recently returned from enduring hardships, making untold Porto Rico, has described the serv- sacrifices, and counting it a joy to ice in one of the new chapels in the have a share in making America district of Chamorro. It is an in- Christian. Their devotion is illus- spiring sight, reports the visitor, to trated in the experience of one of stand upon the mountain top be- our Sunday-school missionaries in side the little chapel and hear the New Mexico. In his rounds among bugle call to service. In a little his families, he found a man who while lights begin to appear along had been stricken with an acute

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illness. He did what he could for with emphasis uncommon in an him, but soon realized that he Indian, "Nothin' stop him! Nothin' would die unless a physician could stop him!" That is the story of be secured. But the nearest doctor the Coolidge Dam. was in Albuquerque-118 miles away. Undaunted, he started at We face a new year. The past nine o'clock in the evening and, six years have been a period of after driving over terrible roads, adjustment and experimentation. ruts, high centres, stumps and A fine morale and esprit de corps mud, finally reached the doctor's characterize the workers. The time home. When he had told his story, is ripe for a forward movement. the doctor agreed that he would There are certain opportunities go back with him to care for the which must be met. sick man. Taking a nurse with them, everything for operating and We should consider anew the food for several meals, they started place and the relative importance back at half past three in the of the various tasks in which we morning. Reaching the sick man, are engaged.New days bring new they found an operation was nec- conditions and new problems, and essary. The doctor sterilized his these in turn require new enterinstruments, cleared a room, prises and new methods. All of lengthened a library table with a Christendom is recognizing the imbox for an operating table, and portance and the strategy of proused a dining table for his instru- moting a practical program of ments. The operation was success- religious education, both for the ful, and the man made a complete purpose of meeting the present recovery. need of the rising generation, and for the purpose of building the There are few missionaries more Church of the future in a way that favorably known than Dirk Lay, will insure its onward march and who is devoting his life to the Pima final conquest. The Church has Indians in Arizona. He discovered been too adult-minded in the past. that their greatest economic need Our program of evangelism, our was water for irrigation. Proceed- forms of worship, and our pastoral ing to Washington, he interested service are largely suited to the certain members of Congress in his needs of the adult members of the problem, and after several years of community and the Church. We working and waiting, the Coolidge need to realize the significance of Dam was finally constructed, and His action when Jesus set a little this past winter dedicated by the child in the midst of His disciples, ex-President. Prayer was said on in answer to their question: "Who is the greatest in the Kingdom of that occasion by Dirk Lay, and Heaven?" The Church spends milproperly so, for he had prayed that lions annually in the development of its service to men and women, dam into existence. The Indian while hungering children wait who sat on the platform when the ex-President spoke, an elder in Dr. without. Yet there can be no Lay's church and President of the growth for the Church of the fu- Society of Indians there assembled, ture if these children are negin speaking of Dr. Lay's energy lected.

and persistence in securing this The latest statistics in the Anwater for his people's land, said, nual Report of the International

Council of Religious Education felt very badly about it. He tried (February, 1930), reveal a situa- to persuade his father to give it tion which must challenge the up, but he refused. One day Pete devotion and missionary spirit of took an axe and smashed his still. every follower of Christ. They His father drove him from the show that the population of the house, and Pete was for some time United States under twelve years a kind of homeless waif until a of age only, numbers 27,550,031. home was found for him with some The statistics of all religious de- good Christian people where he nominations-Protestant, Catholic' and Jewish-indicate a total en- could work for his board and go to rollment in church schools of only high-school. 13,848,759-just about one-half of the total. The number of American Last fall his friends raised some children, therefore, under twelve money, and with what Pete had years of age, untouched by any re- earned and saved during the sumligious organization, is 13,681,273. mer, it was enough to send him to one of our colleges and pay his "If," says this report, "notable expenses for the first semester. Pete was terribly homesick at first, statesme.1 and prophets and busi- but he has gotten over that now, ness men are right in their recent and is enthusiastic about the colstatements that the future of civil- lege, and is ambitious to make ization depends upon the develop- something of himself. At the close ment of a consciousness of spiritual of the first semester, he wrote to values and a willingness to live by his friends to tell them the outthem, and if educators are right in come. Four of his final grades for their conviction that attitudes and the semester were A and the fifth habits are formed in the early was B. He made the highest averyears, which give direction to char- age in the whole college. This is acter and to later life, then aggres- the kind of thing that makes Home sive effort must be put forth by all Missions worth while. evangelical denominations to enlarge their programs to include In the field of comity, much has been accomplished, but there rethese unchurched children." mains much more to be done. The norm of one church for every 1,000 Pete Fomenki was one of this rural population was adopted at group of boys unreached by any the National Church Comity Conreligious influence. Pete is a ference two years ago, and yet miner's boy who lost a leg from there are many communities in trying to hop a freight train, and this country with populations of 1,000 or less and two and three had to have a new wooden leg last struggling churches. Instead of summer, which some of his new- one strong church with adequate found friends in Ohio bought for leadership, there are two or three him. They feel that Pete sort of weak churches, exerting little inbelongs to them. A year ago he fluence, and the community is behobbled five miles along country ing paganized. Weare doing roads through winter weather, to everything in our power to discourattend some preaching services age this kind of a situation, and conducted by John Sharpe, the will continue to do so. But a board "Children's Bishop," and gave his heart to the Lord Jesus. Pete's can do very little. The final authorfather was a bootlegger and Pete

ity rests with the ecclesiastical through on my knees. Finally I bodies, and we hope that during came to realize that a divided Protthe coming year this matter will be estantism could not maintain itself carefully studied and definitely in this congested cosmopolitan dealt with by the local units which area. It became a religioUS convicmake the appropriations. tion with me that as Christians we must learn to work side by side in Some progress has been made a united program." in this matter during the past year. In Minnesota, a conference was Twelve years ago, the Board atheld at which each small church tempted to advance the minimum was carefully studied and a defi- salary for pastors of aided churchnite program worked out. Combi- es to $1,500 and manse. Under nations have been made which have present conditions this minimum, resulted in the saving of mission- as a policy, is too low. Leaving ary funds and increasing the ef- aside the Indian and Negro minisficiency of the local church. Prog- ters, 65 % of whom receive $1,000 ress has also been made along this or less, usually without a manse, line in Ohio, North Dakota and the distribution of salaries for 923 other synods, ministers under the Board is as An outstanding illustration of follows: 19% receive $1,200 or church union is the experience of Trinity Centre in San Francisco. less, about one half of these with- Palm Sunday morning last, a pro- out a manse; 22.6% more receive $1,500 or less, about one-third of cession led by the Municipal Band these without a manse; 31.4% marched from Trinity Centre to more receive $1,800 or less, about the Grace Methodist Episcopal two-thirds of these without a Church two blocks distant. There, manse; 27 % receive over $1,800, with a congregation of a thousand, nearly one-half of these without a was celebrated the union in one manse. commanding city project of four Protestant city churches, two Con- Other types of workers, particugregational, a Methodist and a larly teachers and community Presbyterian. Easter Sunday fol- workers, receive less than a realowing, 1,700 persons attended the sonable minimum. There are inemorning service of these federated qualities in the scale of salaries c h u r c h e s. Each of the four paid between sections of the counchurches maintains its identity try, and to a certain extent beand its denominational affiliations. tween units. There are also marked Property vests in the denomina- inequalities along racial lines. A tion providing it. The control of genuine advance in the scale of the general activities is vested in salaries should be initiated. It is a Board of Control-six members our first duty to see to it that our from each denominational group. missionaries are paid a living The pastor of the Methodist wage. If this is done, however, it will call for increased giving from Church said not long since: "Dur- the churches, or the discontinuance ing the past three years I have be- of some of the going work. come very humble. Several times I have realized that our church pro- The program of a Board of gram was near defeat, and on each Home Missions is a varied one. It occasion I fought the problem conducts schools, it operates hos- pitals and dispensaries, it seeks to 2

raise the economic life of the peo- whose life is fully given to his ple, it provides community centres Lord. And if we are to win Amer- and houses of neighborly service, it ica for Christ there must be a re- furnishes itinerant missionaries vival of prayer and consecration and supplies pastors of established on the part of both people and pas- churches. It does many things, but tors. Weare now celebrating the it does them all with one purpose- anniversary of Pentecost. Follow- to bring men and women, boys and ing that experience of 1900 years girls, under the dominion of Jesus ago, the disciples went out filled Christ. This is the motif that runs with the Holy Spirit to turn the through all the work. This is the world upside down for Christ. As final test of efficiency.' they went they were conscious of The Board has sought through the presence of the Paracleteevangelistic conferences and con- "the One by their side"-inspiring, ventions to inspire the Church at guiding and strengthening them in large to a program of soul-win- their divine task. Our great need ning. The results, while not what today is for the presence of this they should have been, are most same Paraclete in our lives, inspirgratifying.' Representatives of ing us to go out and win our blesschurches have gone back from the ed land for our Lord and Saviour. conventions to their churches and organized programs which, in some God is the greatest need of cases, have doubled the member- America-not gold-the God reship of their churches. But most vealed by His Son, Jesus Christ. of the churches that have made He alone can meet our deepest these advances are in the cities and needs. He alone can give us that moral and spiritual foundation towns. The churches in the vil- without which the material devellages and open country have been opment that has come to America l~st productive evangelistically, will be' our ruin. Let us put Him and plans should be formulated first in all our thinking and in all for reaching these churches from our planning-put Him upon the which in the past many of our Throne where He belongs. For leaders have come. it's- We have been considering some Not by the might of maddened men, of the accomplishments of the past year and some of the advances Not by the statesman's shrewdest scheme, And not by reason's clearest ken, We realize life's golden dream. which ought to be made. But I For kings will rise and fall in vain, have been conscious of the inability of the churches to do these Exploiting greed still take its gain, things in their own strength. "It is New knowledge bring increasing pain, Till He rules in the hearts of men.

not by might, nor by power, but Then forth, ambassadors of peace by the Spirit of God" that these To captive souls the wOl'ld around' things have been and will be done. Proclaim good tidings of release ' Wherever some victory. has been For men by selfish folly bound. For music, poesy and mirth won, there you will find a band of In righteousness and truth have birth, praying Christians, led by one And light and love will flood the earth When He rules in the hearts of men:

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BY THE REV. CHARLES A. BROOKS, D.D. ~ W HAT is it we have under- place in the life of the individual, taken to do in some thirty the home and the community; in Christian centers across the other words, the regeneration of country? Are we experimenting every life and all of life.

01' demonstrating? What are the The first spontaneous and raobjective and program? While we frankly avail ourselves of the best diant faith of the followers of technique of social science our un- Jesus crystallized into an ecclesidertaking is at heart religion. But astical institution. It is difficult what is the religion of the Chris- for any of us and well nigh impostian Center? sible for most of us to conceive that what we know as conventional re- Briefly the answer is: It is the ligion ever functioned in any other religion of Jesus and the early dis- way. We identify Christianity with ciples; the religion of Carey and ecclesiastical architecture, rituals, Judson, of Livingstone and Clough. forms, ceremonies, creeds, stated Stated negatively: It is not "an- appointments. In the springtime other gospel" but an endeavor to interpret intelligibly the Gospel of of Christianity the religion of Jesus. It is not the theory of religion but its practise. It is not the Jesus was a way of life. Every utterance of religious formulas but Christian horne was a Christian the release of the spiritual dynamic Center; every meal was a love of the Gospel. It is, frankly, not feast; the disciples practised for a conventional, institutionalized re- while a voluntary community of ligion but the free expression of property and the first recorded atthe living spirit of the living and tempt at organization was for the present Lord in any method or purpose of welfare and relief. through any medium He inspires. They had no constitution nor by- laws, no rules nor creed. Their life At a meeting of official represent- was the spontaneous overflow of a atives of general and local mis- great love, the exuberance of a new birth. It gave birth to a new social sionary organizations and the life. New social motives and enervarious Christian Centers the ob- gies were released and love and jective and purpose was stated in faith was the social dynamic. the following classic paragraph: Church history is the record of The purpose of the Christian the tendency, constantly repeated, Center is so to interpret the Gospel of the free life of the Spirit to beby teaching and service as to make come frozen into rigid forms and for Jesus Christ a commanding institutions, broken up only by *Dr Brooks has recently been ejected Execu- revolutions owfhitchhe raebleuansdeadntaglaI'ifne tlve Secretary of the Baptist Home Mission the forces SDorc. ieCtyh.arNleesw IY…orkW, hiinte,suwccheossiorentirtoedthseeyR-eerva.l Whl'ch l'S l'n Chrl'st and which can imnonctihtys aagnod. hHome ehamsishsaiodn vwalourakb,legoeixnpgenfernocme the pastorate to the Secretaryship of the Cleve- never be conventionalized nor conland Baptist Association and then In 1914 to fined in any institution. t~;;'sp"%.a~imt'l:': B'!pfi~V ::~:e F~~~f~;sro~~;r;. A community is a social fact. hFeollboewgainng hai. apbroe-syeenatrsd' uptiaesstoMraatye 1I,n19C3h0i.cago, The church is a factor in the life 499

of the community and inseparable In a famous New England city from it. It is rooted in and grows the old First Baptist Church buildout of the community. Its charac- ing with a remodeled spire is now ter is determined by the type of occupied by an Italian Catholic the community. This is a simple social fact even though we are church. It is the familiar story of strangely reluctant to acknowledge the removal of the membership, it. In our changing cities, typical the changed community necessitat- ing the changed location of the of our new and more shifting com- institution which was created by munity conditions in America, we the membership. Across the corare always being confronted by ner from the old First Church this fact. If' the community stood a splendid plant at' another changes the change affects the Protestant church likewise rechurch. If the community is pros- moved. Recently our denominaperous the church is prosperous. tional missionary societies united If the community is depressed the in purchasing the property, which church is depressed. For some un- is a combined Christian Center and accountable reason we persist in a a home for an Italian Baptist belief that the church as a divine church. institution is independent of the community, and like the sheet let The Christian Center is the modown from heaven in Peter's vi- bilization of the best social and sion, the church is conceived of as religious forces in an intensified suspended in the air. pro g ram of ministry to the changed and changing community We are familiar with this expe- life of American industrial and rience in the case of many of our foreign communities. notable churches where our most gifted preachers once reigned. If The religion of the Christian they were to return to those same Center is characterized by reality. pulpits today they would preach It confronts not a theory but a to empty pews. We bewail the de- condition and fearlessly faces the cline of religion and the most facts. It does not demand or wait heroic efforts are put forth to for favorable circumstances or a maintain the tradition of family ready made situation. It is not the church life in utterly changed com- hot-house variety of religion which munities. withers under a change in temper- ature. It is a brave venture of faith Nat only are we confronted with in the face of the circumstances bechanged conditions in old commu- fore which conventional and instinities but we are called upon to tutional religion has steadily given face the religious and social challenge of hundreds of new commu- way in similar American communities which have been created by nities. In selecting the site for a our modern industrial life and peo- Christian Center the one prerequipled by immigrants with utterly site is the center of need. different traditions from our own. The religion of the Christian What answer have we to make Center is Christian Patriotism. I to these perfectly familiar facts in do not refer to that blatant paour American life? The answer triotism which finds expression which we are making is the Chris- only in the beating of drums and tian Center. military pomp and insignia. Nor do I mean the conventional "100

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per cent Americanism" so called, a belief in the supreme worth of which is the negation of true human personality above all ma- American democracy. Democracy terial wealth; here is love and is not a political formula but a sympathy and understanding, and spirit of brotherhood. May I quote the assurance that the fulness of from the introduction of one of life which is the purpcse of a lov- my own books, "Through the Sec- ing Father is to come from the liv- ond Gate": The Outer Gateway to ing Spirit of Christ in the regen- America has swung wide and free .eration of every life and all of life.

and through it thirty million of It is our task to keep wide open human folks have passed in the that Second Gate and highly to re- last one hundred years. Eager, ex- solve that none shan miss the way.

pectant, from everywhere they The Christian Center is a Statue came with high hopes and bright of Liberty standing at this second dreams. To enter was heaven. To gate as a symbol of the true Amerbe turned back meant black de- ica. It has become in the experispair. ence of thousands a Plymouth But this gate is an Iron Gate. Rock, where new Americans have It admits these newcomerS to in- begun their real exploration and dustrial America, to her mills and discovery of America. The Chrismines, her grind and grime, to her tian Center is an outpost of Amersub-American slums and her ugly ican idealism and democracy. foreign colonies. Mutterings and Some of us have no sympathy rumblings of subterranean discon- with forced Americanization any tent and unrest portend danger more than compulsory baptism. and menace to America. Back The Christian Center is to make through this gate have turned mil- Americanism winsome and attraclions, disillusioned of their bright tive. Its method is not that of the dreams, bereft of their high hopes, "drive" or the "campaign" but with enthusiasm and health left rather that of education and trainbehind in what they had once ing relying on spiritual processes spoken of as the Promised Land. to achieve what must be a spiritual There is a Second Gate–an In- result if American ideals are to ner Gate. It is a Golden Gate mean anything at all. The workers which opens upon the America of in our Christian Centers are the our ideal and theirs. It is a land Reception Committee. They stand of happy childhood, of playgrounds in the receiving line to welcome to and schools and libraries and the inner and better America all churches; of friendly folk with the who really seek the Promised love of God in their hearts which Land.

is manifest by love for their fellow- The religion of the Christian men. Within this gate there is toil, Center is a religion of interpre- but it is toil with courage and hope tation. This is Bunyan's House of of a fair share of the reward of the Interpreter. The traditional honest toil. Here in this America background of these communities the newcomer is admitted to a is not the background of evangel- share in the making of America ical America. The old world en- and his gifts are not despised. And vironment has been transplanted the secret of this inner, this better to American soil, and yet the immi- America, is a living faith in God, grant does not bring all of his en-

vironment. The tragedy is he often prerequisites of this ministry is leaves the best of it behind, its the presence in residence, and com- sanctities and world-old traditions, plete identification with the com- which seem to him as strangely out munity for better or for worse, of· of place in this garish America as men and women who embody the his picturesque costume. But there ideals and incarnate the spirit of are old world superstitions and Jesus. The presence of the foreign prejudices and hatreds which are missionary and the establishment out of place here and these he is . of a Christian home are indispen- sure to bring-old world bitterness sable to the evangelization of any and hatred of conventional religion foreign field. Like Paul on ship- as he knows it at home, religion board, storm-tossed, these workers which was in alliance with political are identified with those that sail reaction and tyranny, intimately with them and bear the commu- allied and strongly buttressing so- nity's need upon their hearts.

cial injustice and inequality. And The religion of the Christian so we have often a combination of Center is the religion of the good religious and social ultra-radical- Samaritan. Love is vicarious. It ism, reenforced often by conditions finds ways of helping that are not as they present themselves here to conventional. Love asks no questhe aspiring and dauntless spirits tions as to precedents and convenwho make up the best of our im- tions. It suffers with all suffering migration. and loves on to the end.

It is our task in the Christian A few years ago in New York Center so to interpret the Gospel, City when in the bitter winter the not in sectarian terms, but with the water drainage pipes froze in the great ideas of our heritage in tenements of the Bowery, the prop- mind, as to bridge the chasm from erty of one of our Centers was the old world to the new. If we thrown open from early morning will be true to our heritage and until late at night as a refuge and dare to practise our principles shelter, with warm food for moth- fearlessly in our foreign colonies, er and little children. When the without compromise, we can win. coal shortage was at its worst the I do not mean in competition with supply of coal gave out. Any ad- other denominations but in com- ditional allowance was refused on petition with false ideas of what the ground that "churches" might religion and American democracy well be closed as useless. When really mean. one of our Christian workers ap- The religion of the Christian pealed for a reconsideration of the Center is the religion of the Incar- decision which meant cutting off nation. The incarnation of God in this ministry and told the story she Christ, though a unique and un- had not finished before the man in paralleled experience, yet repre- authority took up the telephone sents a divine method. "The Word and shouted instructions to send became flesh and dwelt among us," some coal at once. His reply to the I trust I shall not be understood remonstrance from the other end as cheapening those gracious of the work was "Yes, I know we words when I say they are the es- are giving no coal to churches, but sence of the religion of the Chris- this isn't a church-they only call tian Center. The indispensable it a church. It's a place where they

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take care of women and children 1" a wife and five children." The religion on which we are And finally, although we have relying is an everyday reIigion : not had time to tell it all, the rehomespun, plain, work-a-day re- ligion of which we are thinking is ligion, the religion of the Carpen- the religion of the gulf stream, ter who was no less divine in the which changes the climate of Labcarpenter shop than when he laid rador to that of Ireland and Engaside his tools for the great work land. The outpouring of the to which He was appointed. So streams of heavenly grace and love, natural and simple and practical flowing ever deep and full and was His faith that at any moment steadily from the heart of God, He might have resumed His tools alone can change the spiritual cliand been not one whit less "full mate of the communities of which of grace and truth." Dr. Glover we are thinking. The secret is just says that some forms of piety in- the open secret of the unwearied volve unusual conditions and a spe- ministry of redeeming love medicial diet. They seem incompatible ated through men and women who with daily life. "The type of holi- love folks because Jesus loved and ness which Jesus teaches can be who love Jesus because He loved achieved with an ordinary diet and folks.

NEW STANDARDS FOR A NEW DAY BY MURIEL DAY Seoretary oj Education and Pers011nelJ Woman}8 Home MtBs10nary Somety, Methodi8t Ept8cOfJa~ Ohurch, Oincinnati. Ohio A FREQUENT question in re- The fields, too, vary so that in lation to home missionary the definition of the term one must personnel or candidate work consider the denomination and is whether there are more appli- even the board· within it. For cants than positions. The answer instance, one home .missionary so- must be "yes" and "no." One can- ciety includes Mexico and. Central not group all positions or all appli- America, another excludes these cants. They must be considered in but includes all :work under the terms of vocations. For instance, American flag' except the Philip~ in some teaching positions, as in pines. Withhi a denomination also, English, there are usually more the term varies. One board may candidates than openings; on the emphasize woman's work,. another other hand, there is always a may stress religious education and greater demand than supply for settlement work.

teachers of home economics. In our consideration of the work Strictly speaking, the work of of the home missionary, we shall the home missionary is not one vo- discuss primarily that of the cation; it includes many vocations. woman worker in relation to the There are the vocations of teacher, standards that should be sought to- of nurse, of matron, of club leader, day. As we think of standards, 'We of director of religious education, often picture only those standards of superintendent, and so on we should seek in the missionary; through a longer list.. there are also standards which the

worker has a right to expect in the pioneers in their day were well board. We must consider both trained in every way. Yet we find phases. That new standards are on the whole that educational being set for the home missionary standards have risen, and among is accepted constantly. The world the reasons are the following: has been moving rapidly. As a girl said to the young man who was 1. The fields of knowledge are driving her in his new high- wider. Sociology, psychology and powered car: "This· is a pretty other departments have developed country, wasn't it?" What then, in comparatively recent years. are these standards, (old and new) which we desire in the home mis- 2. The educational standard of sionary? the country is higher. In 1880, the average daily attendance of General Standa.rds pupils in the public schools was 40,% of the population of those 5 There are first, the general basic to 17 years; in 1910, 1)0%; in standards which always have 1920, 59% and in 1928, 66%. needed to be maintained. Included (U. S. Bureau of Education.) in these are good health, ability to cooperate, spiritual purpose and 3. This has meant an increasing training. We must emphasize each demand on the part of students to of these as strongly as in the past. attend accredited institutions. I recall an occasion when I asked for suggestions as to the qualifica- 4. Some educational institutions tions needed in a home missionary, under missionary boards are gradand many needed spiritual graces ually dropping grade work, and in were mentioned. I finally said that some cases the high school departwe could find one with all these ment, and becoming Junior and qualities, and she might be in a Senior Colleges. sanitarium. They had failed to mention good health. 5. The states where home mis- sionary work has been carried on As to the ability to cooperate, it are rapidly raising their educaseems that nowhere is it more tional standards. One state, for essential than in the life in an in- instance, has a program extending stitution or in Christian service. until 1932, in which each year Someone has phrased it, "We need there is an increasing number of less ego and more We-go." In a hours required as college preparalist of qualifications given by one tion for teachers, more specializahome missionary board, I find tion and more hours in education. "love of the Word, belief in prayer, a missionary spirit, poise, tact, 6. In fields where directors of health, initiative and ability to co- religious education are needed, the operate." standard is becoming higher than when in earlier days this vocation Educational Standa.rds was combined with other types of We are finding perhaps in the work. educational standards one of the One board lists under "educamost noticeable changes. We do not minimize those of the past, tional requirements" the followfor we know that many of the ex- ing: "College training if possible; ecutives and teachers who were normal training for grade teach- ers; special training for kinder- gartners, doctors and nurses; in- tensive Bible study; methods of work; experience."

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Attitudes in a New Day the new educational method-the "learning by doing" process. There are, however, newer attitudes which are essential in the These three-the rise of racial modern home missionary as well as consciousness, the attitude of educational training. Again we young people, and the emphasis know that the really effective mis- upon "purposeful activity"-have sionary of the past had these at- made a new attitude necessary in titudes, but they are so much more truly effective missionary service. clearly defined as to be worthy of It is the attitude of fellowship. We special emphasis. have heard the word "sharing" given as the word characteristic of We have said, "New Standards the Jerusalem Conference. This is for a New Day." What character- equally necessary here at home. izes this new day? Perhaps we MANUAL TRAINING AT THE MITCHELL HOME could sum it up in the word "de- Especially is this true in work mocracy." This has led to a desire among Negroes, for here the confor self-expression on the part of trast between the present and national groups all over the world; older conditions is more evident, it is shown in the demand for the and we have both the racial and same self-expression on the part of youth problem. racial and national groups in the United States. At the same time Another newer attitude, espethere has been also a desire on the ciaIty desired in settlement work part of young people to take initi- though needed in all missionary ative, to have a measure of respon- fields, is the attitude of studying sibility, and to share in decisions the underlying causes with a view affecting student or church life. to removing the need for home The third characteristic of today missionary work, or at least to necessitating a new attitude is changing the emphasis if neces- sary. When Dr. Herbert Gray

was here from England, we heard ual growth throughout the years him tell of an insane asylum there rather than a sole emphasis upon where the test given before one evangelistic effort; or when the was permitted to leave was this: young person is led definitely to the inmate was shown a large tank become a Christian, it shall have of water and the faucet with the reality for the teen-age boy or girl running water, given a dipper, and and not given in phrases of antold to empty the tank. If he be- other generation. We have known gan to dip and dip, he was re- of the combination of special emturned to the asylum, but if he first phasis on the spiritual phase of turned off the faucet, he was al- life (although we hold that the lowed to leave! So we need to spiritual must permeate other work with every agency that will phases) and the intellectual underhelp to remove the causes under- standing of the meaning of the lying crime, ignorance, unwise use Christian life to be used most ef- fectively in a missionary school t h r 0 ugh "Religious Emphasis Week." The director of religious education in the school had learned in advance from the students the religious and personal problems confronting them. The special speaker thus brought her messages more intelligently and helpfully. Opportunity was also afforded for personal conferences each day, and intelligence accompanied the de- cisions made.

A HOME ECONOMICS CLASS Purpose of leisure, disease, poverty, and One emphasis that can hardly be those other conditions that Home classed under a new standard but Missions seeks to change. For this which needs to be stressed today is reason those fields of sociology, psychology and allied subjects the purpose to enter home missionshould be carefully studied in prep- ary work-not necessarily a life aration for home missionary serv- work, on the part of a young womice. Methods of work would per- an, but certainly not as a stophaps change to combat the ever gap or as a stepping stone to present foes of the Christian Way larger salary or other opportunity. of Life, as racial antipathy, ma- Rather do we seek those who see terialism or economic injustices. in home missionary service an op- portunity to share in building a Emphasis on Religious Education Christian nation and in molding the character of under-privileged The newer emphasis in spiritual groups of young people. In this day fields on religious education means when an understanding of racial a new standard also from this groups is necessary, we seek those viewpoint-the attitude of spirit- who see also an opportunity to bring about greater interracial fel- lowship for the sake of peace with-

in and peace throughout the world. should be adjusted so as to allow We seek those who see that they for those extra curricular activmay reach out to the entire world, ities so necessary, and for the through building a Christian na- opportunity for fellowship with tion here. During the riot in Sher- faculty and students. Certainly man, Texas, we found on the front the standard set by the educational page of aNew York State news- associations of 750 pupil hours a paper, a paragraph called "London week should not be exceeded for Paper 'Phones Moody About the high school teacher. In nurs- Riots." The correspondent of the ing, or church work, similar COn- London Daily Mail, 5,000 miles sideration of hours of work should away called Governor Moody at be given, and in the children's Austin, Texas, at five in the morn- homes or other institutions of like ing by 'phone to ask if this was a character, adequate provision for common occurrence in Texas! days or hours off should be made, and by some states is required, A spiritual purpose, then, in- through the employment of a subterpreted in personal, national and stitute or supply worker. Yet, as world terms is necessary in the Frank Lowe points out in "Relistandards desired in the modern gious Vocations," the "work never home missionary. stops with the whistle." Furthermore, in this new day of It is a matter of encouragement interdenominational cooperation, those are needed who are willing to note the way in which missionto work with other institutions ary boards are constantly replacand in the city with other churches ing old buildings by new, thus -to coordinate work and allocate making adequate provision for the responsibility. living conditions of the worker. We recall one restful home in the Standards of the Boards southwest, modeled after the idea of a "teacherage," where the We have been considering the teachers reside instead of in the standards which a missionary dormitory with the boys. board may ask for in a home missionary. Let us consider the other The question of food in places side of the lens. What maya home where the workers live in an inmissionary rightfully desire as stitution with the students is often standards in the board? In voca- a puzzling one, but it is agreed tional guidance studies, one is that this is a condition which the urged to consider the effect of a worker should find satisfactory. vocation from six viewpointsphysical, physiological, economic, While, physiologically, we cansocial, psychological and ethical. not control the climate, and while What standards in missionary a board has many requests to boards should a candidate have a send one where it is "colder," or right to expect from these angles? "higher," or "warmer," or "drier," we can do our best, as boards Physically, if the board expects doubtless do, to meet these regood health in the candidate, quests and to make every adjustshould it not provide those living ment possible for the worker who conditions that will maintain it in is satisfactory in other respects. the missionary? In teaching, the hours and number of studies The third angle is the economic. Opinions vary as to an adequate

salary in home missionary work. workers in all types of home mis- Quoting from Frank Lowe again, sionary institutions. in writing of the "limitations in religious vocations," he says, "one Closely related to the social is never works primarily for money," the question of psychological enbut again it is encouraging that in vironment. The effect of worker many phases of missionary service upon worker, of cooperation on the a rise in salaries is seen. A con- part of the Board, of placing the sideration of the finances and the young worker with one of experiproportionate expenditures of a ence and more settled ways-all board would require a separate these should be the subject of real discussion, but in considering the psychological study. As the Board need of salary for the worker and wishes a worker to enter the work the equipment, one is reminded of with the attitude of sharing with this statement, made in an educa- others, of no condescension, so the· tional discussion, "A million dollar worker may expect a similar attiteacher in a thousand dollar school tude of cooperation from other is worth more than a thousand dol- workers and from the board. lar teacher in a million dollar school." The crucial question may The sixth angle-the ethicalwell be: "What range of salaries need not be discussed here, for will bring to home missionary surely the candidate may here find service that group of workers best an opportunity for service equal trained and most devoted?" Not to any. a salary, to be sure, that is as high as the highest elsewhere, .but Someone may ask, "Why stress neither, on the other hand, as low these standards, which should be as has sometimes been paid. sought in a position, as new?" In a sense they are not, but in this The question of the social oppor- new day it is wise for employing missionary agencies to turn the tunities which may rightfully be searchlight upon their own stand- ards. This is necessary because of considered as sufficient is a hard the turnover in home missionary work, which is often larger than one for mission boards to answer. it should be; it is necessary today While isolation of various kinds is because other agencies are clamorusually characteristic of home mis- ing for the finest type of person, and especially is it necessary in sionary fields, both city and rural, the case of women, where new and and among various groups, yet varied channels are opening up constantly. In many of these there this has, in a measure, been com- is an element of service which propensated by the very earnest ef- vides for the one with the service motive an opportunity for the kind forts of those in charge of the of work she desires. staff. One institution with which To offer, then, the highest standwe are familiar, has a Big Sister ards of a vocation to the one seekplan among the sixteen workers on ing a place of Christian service is the teaching staff, which has de- the high privilege of missionary boards, which must seek also the veloped fellowship. The use of highest standards in the mission- ary in this new day. leisure time-so pressing a question among all groups in our country today-is a question that needs vital consideration and study not only for young people but for

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BY SAMUEL GUY INMAN Secretwrll of the OommUtee on Oooperation in Latin America M ISSIONARY work in the planters, but they continued their West Indies is not new. work in the true spirit of Moravian The first white man to land missionaries until it spread to all on these Islands had it definitely in the English – speaking i s 1and s.

mind. "What I value in this enter- Other European and American prise of the Indies is not reason, Protestant churches gradually fol- mathematics or world maps; I lowed the Moravians in work would accomplish the vision of among the English and French Isaiah," exclaimed Columbus. On islands. his third voyage he wrote: "I have It was not until the Spanish- caused a high cross to be fixed upon American War in 1898 that misevery headland, and have pro- sion boards in the United States claimed to every nation that I have seriously undertook mlsslOnary discovered the lofty estate of your work in these Spanish-speaking Highnesses and of your court in islands. Since the American flag Spain. I also tell them all I can began to float over Porto Rico and respecting our holy faith and of the American army occupied Cuba the belief in the Holy Mother for some time after the war, it was Church, which has its members in the home missionary societies of all the world." Padre de las Casas the United States that undertook showed the same zeal. He was the the work there. It was natural for first person to be consecrated to the these societies later to extend their priesthood in the New World. He work to Santo Domingo and Haiti.

accepted a repartimiento of In- In 1919, a cooperative movement dians in Santo Domingo, and later was begun in Santo Domingo which in Cuba. As he watched the sys- has attracted considerable attentern, however, he became convinced tion in the missionary w 0 rid.

that the Dominican friars, already When it became evident that sevbeginning to protest its cruelties, eral mission boards were planning were right, and until his death Las to open work in Santo Domingo, Casas carried on a terrific struggle they decided that a united front of against the overwhelming forces, Protestantism should be presented.

not only economic but ecclesias- The Secretary of the Committee on tical, which were determined to Cooperation in Latin America was exploit the Indian. asked to visit the field, study the The Moravians sent the first situation and report a plan for oc- Protestant missionary to the West cupation to all the mission boards Indies in 1732. They were so pro- doing work in the West Indies.

foundly stirred by the stories of This survey was made and four abuses of the slaves in St. Thomas boards immediately voted to form that they walked from their homes a joint board for Christian work in 600 miles to Copenhagen to take Santo Domingo and to enter the the boat to their field. Like Las field unitedly. A fifth board joined Casas, they were detested by the the enterprise a little later. These 509

boards subscribed to the budget time to interdenominational work.

which is expended by the united Congregations are generally known Committee. Workers are chosen as "La Iglesia Evangelica de ….. "

not because of their denominational (the Evangelical Church of ….. ), affiliation but because of their suit- denominational names being little ability for the work. This not only used.

appealed to people at home who The first large development of were anxious to go a step further this Evangelical Union was the in the development of Christian Union Press, paper and book store. unity, but it met an immediate re- Six small denominational papers sponse among the C h r i s t ian were gradually merged into one churches of Porto Rico. They were fine weekly which speaks for Evanso impressed with the needs of gelical Christianity in Porto Rico Santo Domingo and the opportuni- with a united voice through Puerto ties of this united approach that Rico Evangelico. This magazine they not only surrendered three of has the largest circulation of any their leading ministers to go to on the Island. It has been espe- Santo Domingo but also contrib- cially powerful in advocating so- .

uted some ,$3,000 to purchase a cial reforms during recent years. lease and equipment for a hospital, There is a strong feeling among which the board later opened in Porto Ricans for absolute unity of Santo Domingo City. The boards the Church, and within the last few entering this united program were months an important movement the general and women's home for a united Evangelical Church of boards of the Methodist Episcopal Porto Rico has been endorsed by Church, the Board of National several churches.

Missions, Presbyterian Church, U. The development of the influence S. A., and the Foreign Society of of the United States in the Carib- bean, and Haiti in particular, is the United Brethren. such that this is becoming more Porto Rico presents one of the and more a home missions' terri- tory. Government officials were best organized cooperative move- eager for the American mission ments in any mission field. When boards to undertake work in Haiti. the Island was awarded to the Considerable evangelistic work has United States by the terms of the been done. The Episcopalians peace treaty with Spain at the have a strong work in one section close of the Spanish-American and a good deal of Baptist fruitage War, representatives of the home remains from the labors of English mission boards decided to enter the Baptist missionaries who arrived Island with a clear division of ter- about 1842 but withdrew about ritorial responsibility. From that 1900. The work has been carried day· until now, the zoning system forward however and has grown has been adhered to by the follow- to be practically self-supporting. ing denominations: Met hod i s t The American Baptist Home Mis- Episcopal, Presbyterian U. S. A., sion Society has been of all pos- Congregational, Baptist (North- sible assistance to these Baptist ern), United Brethren, Disciples churches. Except for primary of Christ, Christian Church. These bodies have formed the Evangelical Union of Porto Rico, with an Executive Secretary allocated by schools in connection with each of one of the missions giving all his the missions, there is practically

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no educational work. Such work outlined at the Havana Congress.

is greatly needed for secondary Medical and educational services education in general and especially are continuously being pushed in for the training of pastors. The all these fields.

Baptist Home Board entered this The first building erected ex- field with a missionary in 1925. clusively for the headquarters of Since then, their interest and sup- cooperative work among Evan- port have been continuous. gelicals in Latin America was The Hispanic – American Evan- erected in Ponce, Porto Rico, in gelical Congress, held at Havana 1927, for the office of The Evan- in June of 1929, outlined a large gelical Union and the union print- strategic program for religious ing plant. The Polytechnic Insti- education, literature and the de- tute of San German, with an velopment of an international fed- interdenominational Boa r d of eration of Evangelical Churches. Trustees, has a large place in the Some of the details of the religious education of this whole region, education program called for are with students coming from some a complete series of graded lessons dozen near-by countries. The Car- for Sunday-schools, written espe- negie Corporation has recently cially for Latin America, a manual given $250,000 to this enterprise for new converts, training courses and a notable institution is rising.

for teachers, textbook on worship, The Union Church at San Juan for etc. The literature program is English-speaking people has its very extensive and looks to the es- own building and is doing splendid tablishment of a publishers' and work.

booksellers' association, prizes for A number of important union special manuscripts, books and enterprises in this territory are at pamphlets on the social teachings present struggling for support for of Jesus, as well as all types of ma- responsibilities which have come terial for women's work in the to them with ever-increasing op- churches. portunities for service. Among In August of this year, the Presi- these is the Union Evangelical dent, Vice-President and Secretary Seminary at Rio Piedras, Porto of the Committee appointed at Rico. This school has a fine record Havana to develop the Federation of achievement and deserves the of Evangelical Churches are to support of friends in the United meet in Porto Rico. In connection States in carrying out its plans for with their conference, Dr. Vicente an adequate building program.

Mendoza, of Mexico, and Dr. Luis In Cuba, union work finds its Alonso, of Cuba, will lead in an center in the book store and press evangelistic campaign, beginning known as H eraldo Cristiano. Plans in the Interdenominational Confer- are on foot to develop a Union Theence at Blanche Kellogg Institute, ological Seminary and enlarge the followed by meetings in churches, union paper already published. theatres and public halls which are This periodical, under the direction expected to stir all Porto Rico. of Dr. Jose Marcial Dorado, has These are only a few, of course, made a remarkable record, now of the projects in the future pro- having 6,000 paid subscribers and gram of the Evangelical Churches is self-supporting.

of the West Indies, as they were The effort to erect a building for

the Union Church for English- old, rented, inadequate and even speaking people in Havana is an- unsanitary quarters. The land for other movement that deserves the a good site and more than half of help of Americans. An excellent the funds needed h-ave been secured site has been secured and funds for and a campaign is now being cara representative building are being ried on to raise the balance. It sought. Many thousands of Amer- was necessary to proceed with the icans visit this beautiful city at all building despite the fact that all seasons of the year. An impres- the funds needed were not in hand, sive, interdenominational church, as no building could be rented. properly housed, can serve in countless ways to bring English- Thus the churches have a trespeaking Evangelical Christians mendous program ahead of them into fellowship and common serv- in these West Indian Islands so ice. The value of their uniting in near our shores. The greatest opsuch strategic centers as Havana portunities lie in a still larger is easily understood. unifying of the Christian forces. It is to be hoped that those who be- There is also urgent need for an lieve in Christian unity will aid adequate hospital plant in Santo the cooperative institutions al- Domingo for the medical work be- ready formed to secure better gun by the Board for Christian equipment and will encourage the Work in Santo Domingo in 1920. unity of churches such as that now This work has grown, though since developing in Porto Rico and Santo its initiation it has been housed in Domingo.

OLD FORTS AND NEW FORCES IN THE WEST INDIES BY THE REV. EDWARD A. ODELL Director oj Department of lVest Indi,es~ of the Presbyterian BOUJrd oj National Missions., New York T HE Spaniards built forts in boIs. It is worthwhile to note the West Indies. The require- that these forts were not built by ments of the civilization of the natives of the lands they were the sixteenth and seventeenth cen- designed to protect. Foreigners turies included this means of de- built them and at a great sacrifice. fense against pirates and the too It doubtless never would have ocambitious roaming natives of other curred to the Caribe and Nahacs to nations. The familiar projecting build a fort, even if their resources walls of "EI Morro" furnish a had been sufficient. Some foreign. great romantic appeal in our day nation, having discovered the land to tourists who annually dip into and possessed its wealth, felt consouthern seas for a few warm strained to protect it against some days in winter, but the glory of other foreign nation. This day has the forts has passed. However also passed. The best international useful they may have been when thought and procedure at least the contemporaries of Columbus maintains the right of the natives and Ponce de Leon built them, of the land to possess it. they are now only relics and sym-

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It is natural that the romance place to intense patriotism and in- and beauty of the Spanish lan- dependent spirit.

guage and all Spanish customs International relations wit h should be held dear to every son South America, Europe and North of Spain throughout the West In- America have changed the entire dies, and the nationals of these outlook and point of view. It is Islands, who for four hundred with the new forces that the evan- years knew no other flag, conserve gelical Church is dealing, and it in their innermost hearts an af- must be recorded that some of the fection for the traditions that sur- spirit which prompted the con- rounded the life of their ancestors. struction of these old forts has Whatever changes may have come found its way into the application in the last few decades among the of the new forces. Consider, for Islands of the Caribbean, and example, the foreign ownership of whatever forces may be directed lands, not as in the days of roam- to bring about a new satisfactory ing navies and pirates, but in the solution to physical and spiritual new day of foreign banks and cor- problems, they must all be consid- porations. These institutions are ered in the light of the past. But equipped for splendid service, but romance and tradition do not feed when guided by selfishness and hungry mouths, do not heal the race prejudice they not only sick and prepare a people to cope threaten the right of the native with the requirements of a civili- sons to a just recompense for toil zation that has entirely outgrown but create international ill-will El Morro, narrow streets, crowded that leads to even more unfor- patios and undredged harbors. tunate results. This too, it must New forces are at work. The old be admitted, is at times a new mountain trails over which the force that the Church must take "peon" trudged at the head of pack into account. The Church does not trains, bringing coffee to the sea- assume responsibilities for treaties shore to be carried on the back of and trade relations, but where a slaves to lighters that in turn bore palpable injustice is committed, the cargo to freighters waiting out the work of peace and reconciliaat sea, have given place to beauti- tion becomes much more, difficult ful macadam roads over which for the representatives of the modern trucks pass. Great docks Prince of Peace, both native and have been constructed, and two foreign. ferries arrive daily in Havana carrying trains that bear the marks Governor Roosevelt sees as his of every railroad in the north, most immediate and greatest refrom the Atlantic to the Pacific sponsibility in Porto Rico the solucoast. Splendidly organized school tion of the economic, not the systems and universities, modeling political problems. "Unemploytheir courses of study after Euro- ment, either total or partial, is pean and American colleges, are present everywhere. Men and preparing not only for the teaching women can find nothing to do and therefore can earn nothing. We cannot offset unemployment, as is profession but for every other pro- often the case in America, by an fession. A sense of dependability increase in public work, for the upon a foreign power has given Government has not the money.

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Riding through the hills, I have this period even in the presence of stopped at farm after farm where great natural resources, a popula- lean, underfed women and sickly tion can suffer hunger. Located men repeated again and again the high on the old forts now are huge same story-little food and no op- revolving lights sending their wel- portunity to get more." coming beams far out to sea. This There is great unrest through- is a fine use for forts. The nations out the Spanish West Indies, more that fought around EI Morro and noticeable now than at any time Cabanas now find a cordial welsince the Spanish-American War. come in the spacious harbors of Political ills both real and imagin- San Juan and Havana.

ary have harassed the people as Among the new forces of pres- well as statesmen and politicians. ent-day civilization is the evangeli- The populace places the blame for cal Church. Let the experience of unemployment at the door of the a friend far back in the hills of Government and has faith that· a Porto Rico tell the story, for in new administration will waive his story lies the romance of the some magic wand over the land past, the perplexities of the pres- and miraculo'!Jsly bring into being ent and the hope of the future. I a day of abundance. Politicians in found him standing on the site turn place the blame at the door where his home had stood before of foreign powers and tariff sched- the hurricane of October, 1928, had ules. Possibly they are all, in a swept across the Island. About him measure, correct, but there are were the ruins of buildings that new forces at work that could, if represented the accumulated toil properly directed and financed, not and savings of more than fifty only obviate much suffering but years. His children had been born lay the foundations for prosperity, in this house, had been married and in all of these Islands a new here, and his grandchildren had generation of men and women is loved to play in the great halls of bringing to the solution of these this old Spanish home. It was all great problems an intelligent lead- gone-not a building was standing.

ership. For a half mile down the mountain- President Machado has taken side the splintered boards were definite steps to diversify the crops scattered. Standing beside the site in Ctlba so that a high sugar tariff and looking out across the hills, in the United States might not nothing but ruin remained. The work so much damage. He has also coffee crop just ready for harvest inaugurated a campaign for the was destroyed. The coffee trees, use of Cuban products on the Is- requiring almost a decade to pro- land, and to this end has construct- duce, were uprooted. Don Fran- ed a model village near the city of cisco had never known another Havana in which all of the ma- home, but there was no road lead- terials used are found in Cuba. ing from his plantation to the More rice has been raised in Cuba outer world. His farm had been during the last two years than at hidden away in the hills for gene- any previous time in its history. rations. The Government had pro- However, it must be borne in mind vided no schools for his children, that many years ·are required for the Church no instruction or even a crop readjustment, and during a place of worship, and now in the

hour of distress and tragedy the with their families, and under a impotence of all the tradition to thatched roof on the hillside for which he had clung was revealed. nearly two hours the missionaries explained the significance of the I had visited him only a few Gospel message. .At night we remonths before the hurricane, and turned to the town and it seemed he had invited all his neighbors to like the entire populace gathered a service where the claims of the for a service. At the close of the Gospel had been made. Now, in his sermon I asked if there was not distress he was recalling the mes- someone who would like to accept sage of hope which Dr. Angel Christ as his Lord and Master, Archilla, the mission superintend- whereupon the whole congregation ent, had delivered with such power rose. at that time. He needed friends, counsel, financial help. This experience could be repeat- A little more than a year later A CHAPEL IN THE HILLS I saw him again. He had rebuilt his home, and the old plantation ed over and again, not only in the was beginning to produce a new great cities but in the towns and harvest, not of coffee (it will take throughout the rural districts of many years to do that) , but of other these Islands that, four centuries fruits. The financial aid he had ago, were discovered by those who received was not great and he was built the forts. No one should dehopeful that in a few more years sire, much less attempt, to dishe could return that. There is a credit the old traditions so full of new light in his face, and on the beauty and romance. These must little hill just above his own re- be· guarded and their :esthetic constructed house stands a chapel. values conserved. The great need, During the week it is used as a however, at this hour in the West day school for his grandchildren Indies is the sincere and disinterand the children of neighbors fOl" ested friendship of those who are miles around. Sunday morning the able to help make the new forces Sunday-school meets. At night the effective. The task to be done has farmers gather, winding their way grave economic aspects, but after over the old mountain trails for all, in the fullest and highest sense, miles around and, if the mission- it is spiritual. ary can be there, they have a message. If not, a member of the congregation is able to read God's Word. These farmers, who have waited all their lives for a road, are now planning to build one themselves.

We recently visited, in a little town near the center of Cuba, a mission where services are held once a month. A committee from the country met us with horses and asked that we go into the interior and hold services. At noon more than a hundred farmers gathered

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BEAN NEIGHBORS T HE Caribbean world is at our classes and general reading. The very doors, and yet it is prob- following brief reviews will indi- able that most citizens of the cate the scope and purpose of these United States, so far as they are books.

informed about conditions in any Trailing the Conquistadores. By Dr. lands beyond our own, have a Samuel Guy Inman. Cloth, $1.00; broader acquaintance with Europe paper, 60 cents. and the Orient than they do with these Islands whose peoples are Dr. Samuel Guy Inman, who is well our close neighbors. There has known for his writings upon Latin long been need for a new literature interpreting to North American American affairs, has just published readers the cultural and spiritual another volume upon the Caribbean movements in Caribbean life, past area, entitled "Trailing the Conquisand present. For the most part, tadores." It is not primarily a politinewspapers, magazines, and books cal discussion. Rather it attempts to in handling Caribbean affairs have set forth the life and the attitudes of told of political, diplomatic, mili- the Latin and Negro peoples of Cuba, tary, and commercial develop- Haiti and Santo Domingo. Dr. Inman ments. We have not heard very points out that these peoples have sufmuch about those deeper things of fered grave injury from the conquisthe spirit that give sympathetic tadores old and new. He likewise insight and understanding of other points out that "the Christian forces peoples and that prepare us for have not built a single school of colconstructive efforts with them in lege grade in all the West Indies, nor bringing about better conditions. a single outstanding agricultural or Even within the churches we have trades school, though in all this area faced in no adequate manner the the people's happiness so largely dereligious situation in the Islands. pends on progressive farming and on As a people we know comparative- work with their hands." ly little of their missions and churches and evangelical leaders. Altogether the book is perhaps the In an effort to bring home to best one that has come from Dr. In- American Christians, the conditions, needs, and opportunities in man's pen. It is written in an attrac- tive style, contains a good deal of new historical material, and will do much toward giving the reader a better un- derstanding of our neighbors in the south. RAYMOND L. BUELLc the Islands, the Council of Women Our Caribbean Neighbors. A course for for Home Missions and the Missionary Education Movement have leaders of adult groups studying the J'ust published a series of new Caribbean Islands. By George W. books, study courses, and teachers' aHriynmAasns,ocSieactiroenta. ry,PaAmmpehrliecta,n2M5 icsseinotns-. accessories for all grades. These onThTirsaicUonugrse is based primarily ubpymaterials are being introduced in the Conquistadores Samuel Guy Inman, but is so arranged the summer conferences and will that classes equipped to consult a widlater be widely used in the er range of reference materials will churches for home mission study find help in doing so.

516 Between the Americas. By Jay S. Stowell. The opening of the Pan American 175 pp. Cloth, $1.00; paper, 60 cents. Airways route in 1928 makes closer This is a Home Mission book for acquaintance with the Islands inevi- young people. It contains abundant table. In order to base this acquaint- descriptive material of the four fields ance securely on understanding, Miss in the West Indies occupied by Ameri- Hulbert devotes one chapter to an can Boards-Porto Rico, Cuba, Santo airplane view and three to a history Domingo and Haiti. The style is of the Islands from the earliest times.

journalistic and the contents are made Columbus' discovery made the Islands up of the experiences and observations a Spanish colony valued chiefly for of a missionary-minded traveler those "West Indian treasures" which through these countries. The author founded Spanish fortunes-gold, cot- has grasped the main problem of Por- ton, sugar cane and tobacco.

to Rico, which is one of over-popula- The next five chapters present fas- tion and unemployment. With the cinating, true stories of the differing invasion of American capital and the life of each island or country by it- development of agriculture on a large self,-Cuba, Haiti, the Dominican Re- scale, there is the steady disappear- public, Porto Rico, and the Virgin ance of small land owners and the con- Islands. The closing chapter deals version of the peasautry into landless not with the treasures of the field day laborers.· He has also recognized valued by the Spanish, nor with the that, unless careful thought is given treasures of the mind inherited from to this problem, the same fate will African and Spanish forebears, but overtake the other Islands. It is a with those treasures of the spirit now reading rather than a study book. being developed in the Islands by the Much useful information is provided many men and women of goodwill who in palatable form. C. S. DETWEILER. are rediscovering them in the name of Christ. MARY JENNESS.

A course for leaders of young people's Leader's Manual for "West Indian Treas- groups studying the Caribbean Islands. ures." Prepared by the author of the By Garfield Evans, missionary in book, Winifred E. Hulbert. Pamphlet, Cuba. Pamphlet, 50 cents. 50 cents.

This course is based primarily up- This is a course on the Caribbean on Between the Americas and contains Islands for junior high school groups suggestions for worship, discussion, of approximately twelve to fifteen years of age. It aims to cultivate a investigation and activity.

West Indian Treasures. By Winifred deeper understanding of our Chris- Hulbert. Illustrated by Margaret tian heritage and to develop experi- Ayer. Cloth, $1.00; paper, 75 cents. ence in sharing it helpfully with our neighbors in the' West Indies. When a daughter of the manse with international experiences and sympa- Porto Rican NeLghbors. By Charles W. thies looks freshly at the Caribbean St. John. $1. Islands from the viewpoint of the Jerusalem Conference, a new kind of Sugar Is Sweet. By Dorothy McConnell missionary book is bound to result. and Margaret Forsyth. Cloth, $1.00; paper, 75 cents.

Miss Hulbert, author of "Cease Fir- Children of Sea and Sun. By Mabel G. ing," spent a summer in the Carib- Wagner. Cloth, $1.00'; paper, 75 cents.

bean, read deeply in the history of the These three books are not only val- Islands before and after the trip, and uable contributions to the available has now written "West Indian Treas- literature on the Caribbean area, but ures." While it has been planned for are also important additions to the readers of twelve to fifteen years of growing body of material designed to age, it is a safe prediction that many lead elementary school children into a of their elders will enjoy it, too. richer experience of world friendship.

Porto Rican Neighbors is a reading area. Specific helps are given for the book for boys and girls about nine to procedure of each session. This is twelve years of age. After a descrip- well adapted for a quarter's use in a tive and historical chapter on Porto week-day school and when so used the Rico, the book continues as a collec- games and folk tales will prove helption of interesting stories. It ought ful. to find a place in a church school circulating library for juniors. It is also Children of Sea and Sun is a course suitable as a gift for any boy or girl. of study for the primary age. The The two other books are among the stories have been collected from varinewest course books for children in ous sources and are of difficult levels the well known series of Friendship in value. The leaders' helps are un- Texts. These texts have to do with usually good, being modern in method, different countries or social or racial varied in suggestion, with ample opgroups. They are uniformly bound portunity for creative work. and attractive in makeup. In addition to these books, an at- Sugar 18 Sweet is for juniors. It tractive picture map of the Caribbean includes ten stories unusually charming in style and delicate in touch, as Islands (50 cents) has been prepared. for example "The Singing Potter." It is accompanied by line sketches Stories of this kind can scarcely be which can be cut out, colored, and pigeonholed as for anyone age. They appeal to all of us. Through them one pasted on the map. For posters and becomes conscious of the economic problems and the problems of racial class notebooks there is a new number attitudes so critical in the Caribbean in the Picture Sheet Series, with a useful collection of pictures from the various Caribbean Islands. Price, 25 cents. JOHN L. LoBINGIER.

SALVAGING LITTLE BLACK SOULS BY LEE McCRAE, Pasadena, California I F "OUR sole value is what we et them, first for himself, then for are worth to others" then an his people. He was already a de- obscure, illiterate Negro farm- vout Christian and, because of his er on a worn-out plantation has anxiety to read "de good book" for been one of Alabama's chief assets. himself some of the students began Yet when, a few years ago, the to teach him in desultory fashion. people of that very State read in a two-line item of their papers that While he was laboring at his Sam Daly, of Tuscaloosa, was dead janitorship and laboring even they hurriedly glanced on, hunting more strenuously to learn to read real news. Who was Sam Daly and write and figure, Sam was also anyway? saving money, enough, by and by, to buy the hack line plying between Twenty years before he was the town and the university. This fiunky-janitor-general factotum proved so successful that some covto the boys at the State University. eted town lots were soon his; then, But with eyes and ears wide open when a great longing for the counhe was drinking in the inspiration try surged over him, he sold them that became the governing power to advantage and bought 500 acres of his life. Seeking how education of neglected land fourteen miles and religion uplift a race and an individual, the Negro began to cov- from Tuscaloosa. Right here, according to Dun

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and Bradstreet, Sam Daly's history -no, "just come ter lib wid SueUa ought to have ended. He was forty an' me," Sam would say.

years old and well fixed for the And out of the three hundred rest of his life. only ten per cent "went bad."

But Sam's vision included oth- In other words, this patient, ers-his own people, particularly God-loving, boy-loving Negro and little Negroes who, like himself, his wife saved two hundred and had been denied much. One day seventy vice-steeped lads and he came across an advertisement turned them into useful, self-de- in a Birmingham paper in which pendent citizens. Where has this a prominent judge of the juvenile ten years' work a duplicate? What court asked for country homes for was Sam Daly worth to the State negro boys convicted before his of Alabama? to the nation? Would bar. There was no local law for we could follow those 270 and fig- probation at that time, no "big- ure a bit of the compound interest brother officers," not even a reform accruing to his estate!

school for colored youth; but the How was it done? By love and heart and the will of this wise patience, nature's own teaching, judge were, strong enough to be a and the Word of God. Kindliness law unto himself, and he was bold- from Sam and his wife first starly advertising-"Who will take my tled the boy; there were three little criminals out of jail, out of square meals a day served on a the swirl of evil in Buzzard's Roost table (both unknown before), and and Scratch Ankle Row to the si- there was a bed made for him. lence and purity of God's out- Almost invariably it was the first doors?" glimpse of home and love that had "I, boss!" cried Sam Daly, hold- come into his life. Around the taing out his big black hands. ble every morning he heard a verse So behold a farm wagon rattling of Scripture from each boy and through the dusky woods bearing was taught one to say with them a smiling colored man and five in his turn. Then there was work little wide-eyed negroes who were to do in the open fields where na- seeing "real woods" for the first ture came to him with her own time in their lives. healing and uplift. In the silence Chapters and chapters of this of the old wood lot many a boy story must forever be unwritten. "came to himself."

None of the boys could write, "Sam Two hours a day, summer and never oould spell nothin'," and winter, must be spent in an old log there were no onlookers. Besides, schoolhouse where a well trained there was too much to do raising negro man sent out by the Presby- cotton and sufficient food for this terian Board at a meager salary suddenly increased family. Ye,t did, and still does, his best to teach trip after trip the shackledy wag- these chronic truants from the on made through the woods to meet Birmingham schools. It has not the train bringing more miserable been much that they have gotten little derelicts from the crime in "readin', writin' and 'rithme- waves of the city slums. In less tic," but it has been their fault, not than ten years over 300 colored the teacher's. For the Negro edu- boys had been sent to this farm to cation of heart and hands beats "work out" their court sentences education of brains. It has been

industry, purity of environment, where they were sawed on shares, and the beautiful spirits of the half and half. This precious timthree grown people on this planta- ber was painstakingly put up by tion that have worked the charm. the youngsters into a barnlike structure, until it gave out–there "But how has he fed and clothed were no more logs or money to be and housed this big family?" asks had, and the unroofed shed stood the business man. all through the winter in mute ap- peal. Every inch of it meant toil By strenuous daily toil. One -toil as yet unrewarded, so far as check of forty dollars and the sal- the writer knows. ary of the teacher have comprised the donations from the Board. Not "Sam," said the Birmingham a cent of public funds went from judge to him one day, "you are Birmingham or the State, although going to lose all you've got taking he supported their charges. A few care of those little negroes." individuals, touched by Sam's struggles, gave small sums now "De Good Lawd gwine take care and then, and once a bill was put ob me s'long as I does His wuk," before the State Legislature for answered Sam with his radiant an appropriation, in return for smile. which Daly offered to turn over 175 acres of his land. But an in- "But you've got a mortgage on flammatory speech by one man, the place now," argued the prudent angered because of a Negro crime lawyer. in his community, caused the bill to be lost by five votes. The short- "It ain' fo'closed yet." He was sighted statesmen (?) could not still smiling. see that Sam was working to prevent just such heinous crimes. At last, driven by his necessities, he journeyed to Atlanta to lay his So finally, it came about one dark needs before churchmen of that day tnat Sam had to mm·tgage his city; but before he could make his farm to borrow $1,800. (Do you plea a sudden illness came and Sam know any white people that have was dead. His last conscious words mortgaged their all for charity's were: "Take care–good care ob sake?) And that money went into mah little niggahs!" food and clothes, not buildings and furnishings. Eleven years have passed. The writer is 2,000 miles away from When the "sleeping house" be- Alabama. Does anyone save the came too crowded for comfort, the Great Rewarder know what has boys went to the woods, cut down become of the Sam Daly Farmtrees, sawed them into mill lengths, home for black boys? Or of any and rolled the cuts to the mill other life that has counted for so much?

A BEAUTIFUL SUGGESTION FROM AFRICA In a little village nestling in the jungle of West Africa, a little group of Christians covenanted together that each would select a retired spot in the forest to which he would go daily for solitary communion with God. If any member of the little band appeared to be growing cold in his Christian life, one of the others would gently inquire, "Is the grass growing on your path, brother?"

IS CHANGING INDIA?

BY DELAVAN L. PIERSON Travel Letter No. 5 "WHAT is the greatest force and Christian students refused to that is working a change play together, eat together or even in India today?" During study together.

our ten weeks' visit in Indian cities "What do you think of Christ," and villages this was the question I continued.

we asked on many occasions-of "He is my Saviour," responded college presidents and students, of a Christian fervently.

fellow travelers on railway trains, "He was a perfect man," said a of Indian pastors and business Hindu.

men, of doctors and lawyers, of "He is my ideal," said another women in various ranks of society, Hindu.

of Moslems and Hindus, of Chris- A Moslem poet and well-known tians and those of no religion. lecturer of North India, said to Naturally the answers were many, me: "All religion is the same. We but none denied that India is all worship God and we all honor changing and will change more radically.

A few years ago, we read much about "The Unchanging East,"

and there were many who held that caste and customs, tradition and religion were fixed in India and could not be overcome. On the grass of a college campus, I sat talking with a group of students- corning leaders in India. About half of them were Hindus, and some had caste marks on their foreheads. The other half were Moslems and Christians. "What MIt. AND MRS. PHlRflON TRAVELING IN do you think of caste?" I asked. "It INDIA is disappearing/, they replied. "Is Christ. As St. Paul said, we should it found in the College?" "No, not all be of the same mind." A prom- now," was the reply. "Do all stu- inent Moslem editor remark.ed in dents eat together?" "Yes, with my hearing, in an address to Mos- very few exceptions." "What has Iem students: "The Koran teaches brought about the change?" "Many that all prophets are on the same things," was the reply-"educa- level; none is above the others.

tion, athletics, modern transporta- Mohammed, Christ, Buddha and tion and travel, modern industry, Confucius are equal." A Brahman the influence of Mahatma Ghandi, physician, an official of a recent but most of all the teachings of National Indian Congress, said: Christ." "All religion is the same. We all A few years ago, and even today worship God. Caste is fast disap- in some colleges, Hindu, Moslem pearing. Weare all brothers."

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Such sentiments would have On the other hand, more than been considered rank heresy by one questioned the wisdom of em- Hindus and Moslems a few years ploying such a large proportion of ago, and would have led to the ac- non-Christian teachers. "Schools cusation that he who uttered them and colleges that employ them on was a Christian. Now, the danger the staff," said one Indian Chris- is that the dividing line between tian of high standing, "cannot ex- Christianity and Hinduism, and pect very definite results in con- between Christianity and Islam, versions. A deprecatory shrug of will be made indistinct if not ob- the shoulder, by a popular Hindu literated in the minds of adherents professor, will often effectively off- of all three religions. Hinduism set the influence of the testimony would be willing to add Christ to of a Christian teacher."

its list of gods, if only He did not A cultured Indian Christian, claim supremacy. two of whose great grandparents "The great danger today," said were converted under Alexander a Christian professor in a govern- Duff, said: "One reason why we ment college, whom I met casually have such meagre results from in a railway train, "The great Christian education is that greater danger today is that of emphasiz- emphasis is put on intellectual ing the common ground of the standing and morality than on the great religions as more important necessity of receiving Christ as the than the differences. The unique source of wisdom and purity and features of Christianity are its es- power."

sential characteristics. The points Missionary education is exerting of divergence must be emphasized a very wide influence in raising rather than the points of agree- moral standards, breaking down ment." prejudice and creating sympathy India is changing-slowly but with Christ and His teachings. The surely. When we look for outward vast majority of missionary edu- conversions to Christ on the part cationalists are, we are convinced, of Moslems and educated or caste consecrated and earnest men and Hindus, they are few, far too few, women who are prayerfully seek- but the attitude of Indians toward ing to advance the Kingdom of Christ has changed immeasurably. God. But many of them feel the One of the forces that is work- handicap of trying to maintain ing this change is Christian edu- government standards and subsi- cation. We visited fifty mission dies, of making reports and pre- schools and colleges, from the paring for examinations, of finan- Punjab to Tinnevelly and from cial pressure and the influence of Bombay to Calcutta, and in most non-Christian faculty members.

of them we talked with principals, They find it difficult to avoid trying teachers and students. In all of to "serve two masters"-the Gov- them we found that the Bible is ernment and the Lord.

taught, generally daily, devotional One Christian member of a mis- services are held, and Christ is up- sion college faculty remarked that lifted. The results in open conver- the reason why conversions have sions are, as a rule, disappointing. fallen off among the students is A few teachers openly acknowl- that formerly the president knew edged fear lest such conversions every student and made it a point might break up the work. to present Christ and to urge His

AMERICAN LUTHERAN FOREIGN MISSIONS

claims personally on each student whole purpose of this work is to for decision, but that the present present Christ and His Gospel to president is so busy with lectures, the pupils so that they will be administration and finances that saved through Him." Can this be such personal work is lacking, if truly said of every mission school not impossible. The ministry of and college? By example and by Christ suffers through the serving teaching the missionary educationof statistical and financial tables. alists are seeking to win India for Christ.' May their whole program The Christian principals and be still more definitely directed to teachers in these schools and col- this one end by greater emphasis leges need our sympathy and our on personal evangelism. With the prayers. The irreligious and skep- increase of secular education, the tical attitude of the West is invad- need for missionary educational ing the East, and the Christian work is decreasing-unless the latforces are seeking to stem the tide. ter is the means of leading stu- dents to follow Christ wholly and There is a difference in the place to prepare them for definite Christhat personal evangelism has in tian service. the work of different institutions. An Indian, Christian lawyer in CONTINUED IN THE AUGUST Poona, who has established his own school, said to me: "The NUMBER.

AMERICAN LUTHERAN FOREIGN MISSIONS* BY THE REV. GEORGE DRACH, D.D., Secretary T HE Lutheran Church in over three millions of church mem- America continues to share bers, if they really were eager and actively in the modern mis- zealous for the speedy fulfillment sionary movement. Its total annu- of Christ's great commission, al expenditure for Foreign Mis- should do much better. It is gratisions is now nearly two millions. fying to observe that during the In more than twenty foreign fields past ten years there has been a it has 670 missionaries and 6,000 decided increase of foreign misnational Christian workers. The sionary interest and effort in practotal number of baptized Chris- tically all synods and, if this tians in these fields is 226,940, the increase continues unabated, the pupils in the mission schools num- American Lutheran Church soon ber 67,260, and the number of will have a more worthy ranking treatments of patients in mission in foreign mission work. If Amerhospitals and dispensaries is 235,- ican Lutherans, instead of being 522. The value of mission prop- organically divided into 18 parts, erty is nearly $4,000,000. were actually and actively united in one great nation-wide Church, These statistics are impressive, our standing as a foreign missionand yet, when one considers the ary force would be near the top strength of the Lutheran Church where we belong. in America, one must confess that Fortunately, in the lands in • Extracts from a paper read at the Twelfth which our foreign fields are lo- Annual Convention of the Lutheran Foreign cated, we cannot and do not per- Missions Conference of America, March 5, 1930, In MlnneapoU••

petuate our ancestral differences a negligible number from Europe. but work for national Lutheran Churches, as for instance in China, Furthermore there has come Japan and India, where such na- from the Jerusalem meeting an astional Lutheran Churches already sertion that the chief foe of Chrisexist. None of us wants and all of tian missions is modern secularus see the absurdity of organiza- ism. Now secularism is nothing tions of Chinese-speaking people new either in its essential materiinto, let us say, a Slovak Lutheran alism or in its antagonism to Church, or of Telugu-speaking peo- Christianity. It always has had a ple in India into a Finnish Luther- baneful effect upon the promotion an Church. For that matter why of the foreign mission cause at should we perpetuate here in home and upon the progress of the America a language distinction as Gospel in foreign fields. But the a name for a Church? Why not designation of secularism as the let the reflex influence from our principal foe of Christian missions foreign fields produce among us tends to confuse the issue. The here in America a national Lu- chief foe still is non-Christianity theran church organization? We and the primary purpose of our can make and, I believe, we are missionary work still is the conmaking through our Lutheran For- version of unbelievers to faith in eign Missions Conference a real Jesus Christ and to service in His contribution toward the unifica- kingdom of grace and truth. Too tion of American Lutheranism. often have distinctly foreign mis- sionary movements suffered loss In closing, permit me to refer and even shipwreck by diverting briefly to the effect of the Jerusa- attention from their primary purlem meeting of the International pose to some subsidiary objective. Missionary Council upon our Lutheran boards and societies. The Laymen's Missionary Move- Undoubtedly the reports of that ment began as a distinctly foreign meeting constitute a remarkable missionary movement and then presentation of the united experi- was diverted into other channels of ence, thought and vision of mission effort until it lost itself in the mulworkers in all the principal fields tiplicity of its ramifications. The and phases of the vast and complex Student Volunteer Movement beenterprise of world-wide Christian gan as a distinctly foreign missionmISSIOns. Especially to be com- ary movement for recruiting mended is the Message of the J e- young men and women for service rusalem meeting with its clear note in the spread of the Gospel and of evangelical doctrine and its em- then was diverted into lines of disphasis on the missionary purpose cussion and interest related to of Christianity. But you could world-peace, race relations and hardly expect the Jerusalem meet- other international problems. If ing to make a deep and widespread this continues its future is uncerimpression on our American Lu- tain. A similar danger threatens theran Church in view of our lim- the entire foreign .mISSIOnary ited representation at that meet- movement at present by diverting ing. Only one Lutheran from its energies from the positive pur- America attended the meeting, and pose of making Christian converts to the negative activity of combat- ing secularism.

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Missionary Information ly and monthly religious newspapers and magazines as a means of dissemi- Readers of the Symposium on the nating missionary information. But causes and remedies of decline in mis- here the startling fact confronts one sionary contributions, in the April that these periodicals have comparanumber of THE REVIEW, and the edi- tively small circulations, so small intorial on the subject in the May num- deed that, according to a report to the ber, will doubtless recall the emphasis meeting of The Editorial Council of that many writers placed upon the the Religious Press in VVashington, vital necessity of more adequately ac- April 29-30, "less than one in twenty quainting the churches with informa- is self-sustaining." VVe gladly pay tion on Home and Foreign Missions. our tribute to the generosity of their Prominent among the causes assigned editors in publishing material sent to for the decline were the fact that the them by the missionary boards, and general adoption of an inclusive budg- we gladly pay our tribute, too, to the et for all benevolences has resulted in high quality of the denominational far fewer missionary sermons and ad- missionary magazines. VVe see nearly dresses in the churches. As many all of them every month, and we are churches do not observe the VVeek of invariably impressed by their interest Prayer for missions and have dropped and value. VVhy do not more Christhe monthly missionary concert, tians subscribe for them? Christian people do not have the information and inspiration that they Place of the "Missionary Review"

formerly had. Representatives of VVe venture to believe that THE MIs- boards complain that pulpits are not SIONARY REVIEW meets a need that open to them as they were a dozen cannot be met by denominational peri- years ago. Secretaries and mission- odicals, which, from the nature of the aries who have a reputation for effec- case, must specialize on their own dis- tive public speaking are still welcomed tinctive work and needs. "A denomi- to many pulpits, but it is physically national paper must be a denomi- impossible for them to reach nine- national paper," reads one of the tenths of the churches. It is safe to findings of The Editorial Council of say that thousands of congregations the Religious Press referred to above.

never hear a missionary address from THE MISSIONARY REVIEW, however, one year's end to another, so that they deals with the home and foreign mis- do not know what missionary work sionary work of all denominations. It their denomination is doing or what enables the readers in a given denomi- its special needs are. This situation ation to know about the work of other manifestly calls for a special effort denominations. It gives a world out- to persuade churches to combine the look. It promotes interdenominational inclusive budget with supplementary knowledge and interdenominational offerings for Home and Foreign Mis- interest and fellowship. This is par- sions, presented either by pastors or ticularly important in this period invited speakers. when the movement for closer coop- Cooperation of Religious Pre.. eration of the people of God is mak- ing such notable advances. The editor Meantime the situation brings into for this year can say without personal new prominence the value of the week- embarrassment, for to Mr. Pierson 525

the absent editor belongs the credit, have formed the habit of giving only when they are seen personally by strong that THE MISSIONARY REVIEW OF THE solicitors. Our churches have failed to do this as effectively as other organiza- WORLD is an indispensable supplement tions.

to the denominational periodical in the Third: As a nation, we have become too much of a pleasure seeking people, broad view that it gives of the whole and have mortgaged future income to satisfy present desires by means of the work of the churches at home and prevailing installment system of buying. During the last five years we have spent abroad. The subscription price is about six years income, and many fam- ilies now find forced econonries necessary kept at so Iowa figure, $2.50, that it to meet outstanding obligations. Church and missionary giving is often the first is not surprising that the income from to suffer in this necessary retrenchment.

this source does not cover the cost of ·As to remedies, I think the best pos- sible program is the larger emphasis publication. Several of the mission- being placed upon the separated portion which shall first be set aside as one's ary boards, home and foreign, deem Christian obligation. Acceptance of. this principle must be placed at the very the service rendered by THE REVIEW heart of the Christian life and perform- ance. to the common cause so important that In the second place, a better underthey gladly make annual contributions standing of the strategy of Christ's pro- gram as a whole, whereby the necessity toward its budget, but these have to for an increased ratio of. contributions c8;n be made for >yorld uses as compared be supplemented by the special gifts WIth local expendltures. I believe much progress is being made along this line of interested individuals. Since THE of more equitable standards of mission- arY giving as compared with local giv- REVIEW cannot make a denomination- ing, which is more selfish in nature.

al appeal and does not have the bene- Sincerely, fit of special agents in the churches, W. C. COLEMAN.

may we not again urge our readers to Articles On Home Missions cooperate by interesting pastors, mis- sionary societies, teachers and person- al friends in it. THE REVIEW has no other effective means of enlarging its circulation and influence except through the interest and cooperation of its readers. Will you not help to this end? A. J. B.

A Business Man's Letter When the present editor assumed charge of THE REVIEW for the year of The appended letter from the Presi- Mr. Delavan L. Pierson's absence in dent of The Coleman Lamp and Stove Asia, he gladly recognized that THE Company of Wichita, Kansas, an ac- REVIEW represents Home as well as tive member of the Baptist Church, Foreign Missions. We venture to bearrived too late for the Symposium on lieve that readers have been impressed "Why Have Missionary Contributions by the fine articles on various phases Declined," in the April number of of Home Missions that have appeared THE REVIEW. It is so excellent that in former issues, and we are glad to we now gladly publish it.-EDITOR. can attention to the special number of such articles in this issue. DEAR DR. BROWN: We have, however, experienced far Some three months ago you addressed more difficulty in securing home misto me a questionnaire concerning the sionary material than foreign. Over decline in missionary giving during the nine-tenths of the unsolidted articles last seven or eight years. It seems to that come to our office relate to Forme that the three outstanding causes of eign Missions. We have more on hand this decline are as follows: now than we can use for months to come. We do not have to solicit arti- First: Lack of direct appeal for spe- cles, except when there is a special cilic work that the giver can visualize. subject or country that is not covered Many men say to me, "I want to give by any of the articles on hand. But a my money where I have some personal contact; otherwise I get no kick out of surprising number of the men and it."

Second: There are so many intensive campaigns using pressure methods for the raising of money that most givers

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women to whom we write beg to be countries shifts so rapidly that it is excused for one reason or another, impossible to forecast what the sit- usually of course pressure of other uation will be in either when these duties. pages are read. We can only say that We shall be grateful if secretaries the British Government appears to be of boards of Home Missions members perplexed between its obligation to of women's missionary societies, home maintain law and order, and its de- missionaries, and others who are es- sire to deal as patiently and tactfully pecially interested in Home Missions as possible with Gandhi and his sup- will take the hint. As THE REVIEW is porters. There has never been an ad- the only interdenominational mission- ministration more desirous of dealing ary periodical in America, it is the fairly with India, and it may be channel through which an author in trusted to do the best it can in circum- one denomination can reach a broadly stances of extraordinary difficulty and representative constituency. The edi- delicacy.

tor gladly gives personal attention to As for China, readers of history every manuscript. Of course we can- who recall the many centuries in not obligate ourselves to publish every which Europe was literally torn to one that is sent. We must reserve the pieces by turbulent feudal lords, who editorial privilege of determining remember the One Hundred Years whether a given manuscript is suit- War on the Continent, the War of the able for THE REVIEW, or, if it is, Roses in EngJand, the period that whether it duplicates other articles on elapsed before the thirteen American the same subject. If an article cannot colonies settled down under the Conbe used it will be promptly returned stitution, and the aftermath of the with a letter of explanation. A. J. B. revolutions in France and Russia, and Chaos in China and India the World War, will not be surprised that a nation of over 400,000,000 non- Political and military conditions in Christian people, only recently emerged from the stagnation of many these two great mission fields are centuries, is taking the time that more rather than less ominous at this white and alleged Christian nations writing. Friends of the many thou- took to develop orderly and stable govsands of missionaries and supporters ernment. We repeat the opinion that of their work have been watching de- we expressed in the February number velopments with mingled hope and of THE REVIEW that the Chinese are anxiety; but anxiety is deepening. a strong people who will in time work out their problem, and that the period In China, war between the Northern of unrest is not the time for the and Nationalist forces threatens to reopen on a large scale. In India, the Christian Church to stand aloof, but that it should labor with renewed zeal British police arrested Gandhi, May and devotion to communicate to China 5, and turbulence prevails in many the principles of the Gospel of Christ parts of that distracted country. which form the most enduring basis for the character of men and nations. It would be useless for a monthly magazine to discuss detailed events. Cable dispatches to the daily newspa- pers do that. The kaleidoscope in both A. J. B.

I have been selected by you to execute and enforce the laws of the country. I propose to do so to the exte,nt of my own abilities, but the measure of success that the government shall attain will depend upon the moral support which you, as citizens, extend. The duty of citizens to support the laws of the land is co-equal with the duty of their government to enforce the laws which exist. No greater national service can be given by men and women of good will-who, I know, are not unmindful of the responsibilities of citizenship-than that they should, by their example assist in stamping out crime ·and outlawry by refusing participation in and condemning all transactions with illegal liquor.-PreBident Hoover. EDITED BY MRS. F. I. JOHNSON, 150 Fifth Avenue, New York President of the Federation of Woman's Boards of Foreign Missions At the request of the Hymn So- The older boys and girls may enjoy ciety, a national organization of hymn writing games, especially on rainy writers and composers, Mr. William days. Try a "What do you know W. Reid has submitted to the MIS- game." There are several ways of SIONARY REVIEW for publication the doing this, as follows: accompanying missionary hymn ;lnd tune which have been awarded prizes 1. Leader prepares slips of paper of $100 each in contests conducted by beforehand with typed or written senthe Society. tences containing a blank space for a left out word. Each sentence should The hymn was written by Dr. be about something very recently Henry Hallam Tweedy, professor in studied. It may be a review of a Yale Divinity School, and the tune by story or a page from the Quiz Book, Rhye Thomas, a composer in London, or a recent program as: England. More than a thousand manuscripts were submitted in the A young and gayly dressed boy once contests for the hymn and 1,300 per- went to help his father sell …… , in sons from all parts of the world sub- a bazaar. mitted original tunes. While he was selling a fine piece, a Some new hymns are greatly . . . . .. came into the shop. needed. As leaders of mission study classes 01' of any other mission groups, The boy ran all through the bazaar we should avail ourselves of the usable to find the …… , and give him help. music material which has been appearing in the Methods Department. This boy later became a world fa- Practically all of it is brand new and mous missionary called ………. . also contains the desired spiritual content. Or, We have …… industrial homes in India.

They care for Christian …… and poor women.

SUMMER SUGGESTIONS FOR The women learn to make …… , LIGHT BRIGADE MEETINGS to help them earn their living.

But May Easily Be Adapted to Junior Or, Meetings of Other Groups In the Philippine Islands there are still some people known as …… . With the first signs of summer heat, They live in …… villages. lassitude and langor become evident. The houses are set upon …….. . We cannot expect the long-drawn-out attention or application the boys and If the "What do you know game" girls have given during .the winter is discussed before being tried, boys months. Meetings, should be held out and girls may be allowed to suggest of doors from now on if possible. subjects to be used. Some may wish When indoors, instruction should be to make out and bring copies of sengiven as much as possible through tences to be filled out. The older boys play. Games, pantomines, dramatiza- and girls may be asked to do this. tions and handwork now play their part. Another "What do you know game" may be played without writing.

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Eternal God, Whose Power Upholds SARAH 8. 6. 8. 6. D.

HENRY HALLAM TWEEDY, 19"9 RHYS THOMAS, 1929 ~ pili ?~ IJIH-q [Ph'! ;JI~} 1. E – ter – nal God, whose power up . holds Both flower and flam – ing star, .J. ~ To whom there is nor there, No time, no near nor far, J J I -J- .0_.

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r; I¥'()f~ Ir,.-J Pf1~ ff ~L:p No a lien race, no for – eign shore, No child unsought, un known, -J. d To make all lands Thine own! A- MEN. ~_J UJ– .~ ~ Wordl Copyright, 1919, and Music Copyril'ht, 1930, b,. the Hymn Society. International Copyright secured..

I 0 God of love, whose spirit wakes 4 0 God of beauty,oft revealed In every human breast, In dreams of human art, Whom love, and love alone can know, In speech that flows to melody, In whom all hearts find rest, In holiness of heart, Help us to spread Thy gracious reign Teach us to ban all ugliness Till greed and hate shall cease, That blinds our eyes to Thee, And kindness dwell in human hearts, Till all shall know the loveliness And all the earth find peace! Of lives made fair and free.

3 0 God of truth, whom science seeks o God of righteousness and grace, And reverent souls adore, Seen in the Christ. Thy Son, Whose life and death reveal Thy face, Who lightest every earnest mind Of every clime and shore, By whom Thy will was done, Inspire Thy heralds of good news Dispel the gloom of error's night, Of ignorance and fear, To live Thy life divine, Till Christ is formed in all mankind Until true wisdom from above Shall make life's pathway clearl Ar:d every land is Thine I 4

The leader says "What do you know If the big boys are clever with cardabout" and writes India, Africa, The board or wood and can construct a Philippines, Rizzal, or something else large window frame, or if an old winon the blackboard. Anyone who cares dow frame is available, "the near look to tell something stands up. Or leader and the far look game" can be played. may point to someone after saying, Someone stands for a moment in the "What do you know about." The per- frame and says "I am an African," son pointed to must at once name some or, "I am a Hindu." suhject, or person, which is then discussed by all. All on the other side telI what they can see. "He is black. He worships A guessing game sometimes proves idols." The frame is then turned interesting. Leader or someone of around to give the near look. Leader group may describe some country, explains the faithfulness and courtesy of the Japanese, the wisdom and mission field, mission station or hero loyalty of the Chinese or the kindness and all guess who it is. and simple heartedness of the African. This game demands preparation and The game, "I'm thinking of," is insight. If the older boys desire caralso good, as, "I'm thinking of a land penter work for the summer, try havmade up of islands. The people are ing them make pencil boxes for missmall and brown. They raise rice and tea." The others guess the name of sion schools. the place a~d talk of our work there.

A. India is one of our .tudies for the COlIling year, the following dentonstration is being suggested for uoe in a public progr&lIl. It has been given before large audienee. and has been eifeetive.

The two songs found on pages 955 and 956 of the DeceD1ber, '1929, "Review" will :8.t this speelal progr&lIl nicely.

THE LAND OF THE tween bed and table, a door leads out- doors. Low fire smokes in the fire- OUTSTRETCHED HAND place. Blue, bitter smoke from the dung cakes fills the room. A dim A small mud-plastered room with lantern with smoked chimney burns mud floor. In left corner, back, a on the corner of the table. On the rough rope bed on which is a faded, wall above the mantie, dimly seen, much worn cotton quilt. A small blue is a Sunday-school chart picture of cotton rug forms the only mattress. Above the bed is one small window Jesus blessing the little children. with wooden shutter tightly barred Time: About ten at night. for the night. In right corner, back, a rough wooden table on which are Padre Ram Lall is sitting on edge an Urdu Bible, a much worn Urdu of bed with baby in his arms. Baby Hymnal (both carefulIy covered with is about three months old, wizened newspaper covers), an ink pot, a few and fretful. It is wrapped in an old bamboo pens, a small account book, shawl and wears a grotesque woolen and a bundle of gay blue and orange hood of red material, several sizes too tracts. large. In the window sill and on the nar- Piyari kneels at fire warming some row shelf above the fireplace at right are brass cooking vessels, and clay milk in a brass lota. water jars. On left, towards front, a door leads into a bedroom. Between RAM LALL: door and bed a rough wooden box, with hasp and miller lock, in which There! There! the family food supply is kept. Be- Hush thee, Moonface, art thou a rajah then To order us about? Enough! Enough! Weep not! (to Piyari) Not warm enough? In truth, I think It is a little tyrant we have found-

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A tyrant and a thief. See how he RAM LALL: waves Where? Here? (takes paper from In wrath pink fists clasped like two pocket) ah, this I quite forgot. lotus buds, It is a leaf the Sahib threw away. And you he robs of sleep. I fear for His servant filched it from the trash. you PIYARI: A leaf? The fever hath so eaten up your Meanst thou a page from this great strength, Were not Yamima now of age to help Sahib's book? RAM LALL: This extra mite—(to babe) Hush! The same. 'Tis written in the Sahib's PIYARI: hush! Corning, tongue.

The servant carried it to Chhote Lall. He could but read one word and that My sweet, there drink. Go slow, I say. the name (Takes babe and sits on bed with her feet drawn up under her. Babe We love – our Motherland – Poor empties bottle and sleeps.) Chhote Lall Nay, say no more, my husband, well I Is like a child who knows a single know word The babyfold is meant for such as he, But that the best. But God hath made a better babyfold PIYARI: Hast thou deciphered it? For him upon my breast. The' mother- RAM LALL: heart Knows naught of mine and thine. Nay, when I found the babe all other thoughts Since first I saw Rivers of tears washed from my weep- Him in your arms at noon and heard ing heart.

you tell Hold thou the lantern. I will read it How piteously he cried upon the road; now. And since I felt him nestle in my arms, I have thanked God for giving me this (Piyari holds lantern. Both bend over the paper. Padre Sahib interprets day . as he reads.) Another son …. I will not let him go. They are—unspeak-unspeakably dir- RAM LALL: ty-beggars-India is the—Iand So be it as you wish. Small is our of the—out–Dutstretched hand home -begging always-lazy-poor But large enough for love. He is our -vicious-cruel to women and son. children-no homelife— (Stirs fire and throws on another cake) (Crumples paper angrily and throws Saw you the Sahib? it on fire.) PIYARI: Nay, I only heard To bed and sleep-The dawn will soon The clatter when he rode through the be here.

bazaar. (Piyari takes last look at babe—hesi- What does he here? tates-and goes out through door to bedroom.) RAM LALL: He write a book. Yaqub, The tanner's son, talked with his RAM LALL: (Settles quilt more closely groom last night. about the babe and seats himself on He is a learned man. These three the box which he has dragged to the months past . foot of the bed.) He has been touring through our Hin- Dirty? 'Tis true. Our village stank dustan; today From Bengal to Kashmir he rides. With rotting filth; and beggars Today swarmed like flies. Among our hills he feasts his eyes, so Old blind Nihal knelt in the road and said whined The groom; and in a book for all the For pice, knocking his forehead in the world dust To read he writes the glories of our Before the Sahib's horse. The centi- pede Motherland. He is our guest tonight. PIYARI: When goes he hence? That loosens not its grip till it is seared RAM LALL: When this same night. hath opened With a red coal clings not more stub- bornly into dawn. Than old Nihal.· Ah, well, he felt the (Takes baby from Piyari's lap and coal; tucks it tenderly in bed.) When our new son awakes, he will be The stranger's whip bit in his flesh gone. and rolled Get thee to bed. 'Tis late. Him from the road. (Goes to stir fire again. Stands gaz- PIYARI: What hast thou there? ing in flames.)

Beggars and mes and dirt! Thy tiny hands shall hold the pink be- 'Twas all he saw; tonight he writes gonias his book; By their roots and feel the sunshine Tomorrow goes his way. throb their pulse. (glancing at babe) I'll take my rest. RAM LALL: Ah, Christ, the little one (Wraps old shawl about him and sits Is old tonight, and I, filled full of down. Quiet for a time until babe years, stirs and moans. Ram Lall starts up with a guilty look as though Am weary as a babe. afraid.) (Wrapping shawl around him again, Moonface, thy hands are cold. There he sits on box, with head on foot of tuck them down. bed and sleeps exhausted.) Hush, hush, I'll warm them in my PIYARI enters. (Looks at babe in alarm. palms. Touches Ram Lall's bowed head.) Thy little feet how cold! I'll warm My son! My son! again PIYARI: The milk thy mother left. (Warms milk at fire while babe whim- Husband, awake! awake!

pers softly. Takes babe up and sits RAM LALL: (Starting in fright and with it by fire.) cowering behind uplifted hands) Drink, little one, Have mercy, Lord. And thou shalt soon grow warm and ( Confused.) sleep again. Ah, you, Mother of Moonface, is it (As babe quiets he cuddles it and you? PIYARI: sings.) Safe as a b.ee in a jasmine flower, The little one has gone!

Sleep little Moonface, sleep! RAM LALL: In Jesus' arms Drowsily swaying for hour on hour, He lies. Weep not for him. The tender Sleep little Moonface, sleep! hand (Gazes uneasily at babe.) Blue are thy lips and cold thy body, Of death has brushed away the scars of grief; too, Like doors ajar upon an empty room So seamed with hunger was the little Thy eyelids hang. Canst thou no face, longer hold The full rouud moon had shrunk to Thy little fingers curled about my half its size; thumb? All day my heart within me wept to (Frightened.) RAM LALL: see I'll call thy mother then-(hesitates) Nay. she will weep. How the hot sun had shriveled the So softly hast thou crept into her loose skin heart, Upon his bones. So small and parched She ….I. … In this raw air of night he was, The fever phantom stalks, and she is And there in that cruel blaze not e'en frail. a sprig It is not long till morn. (Sits again and cuddles babe.) Of nettle cast a bit of grateful shade.

Ah, Christ I fear Grieve not; the babe is safe; The Evil One is here. (Gazing at pic- But I, I, Wife, ture.) Am stricken dumb with fear. On me Beloved Jesus! the Lord, Take Thy little one. He was Thy gift; Hath poured His anger out. See you I give him back. See here, I consecrate Him first. (Pours water into bowl and no mark touches it to baby's brow.) Upon my brow? It burns between my Moonface, I thee baptize, eyes.

The Father, Son, and Holy· Ghost re- It was the Christ who came. Our ceive humble room Thy little soul, in Jesus' name. Amen. (Sits again weeping and kissing babe. Blazed with His .••. Babe dies. He tucks it back warmly PIYARI: in bed.) Husband, thou didst dream. It was .sleep on, Moonface, the night is well- My hand upon your brow. nigh past. Tomorrow we will make for thee a bed RAM LALL: No! No! Beneath the hillside where the maiden It was in very truth the Lord. I dared Not lift my eyes to gaze a second time hair Will weave its cosy blanket over thee. Upon His countenance. Like the blue star Above Himalaya shone the radiance Upon His brow; His face was like the glow Of fading day upon Chaukamba's crest Before the sun sinks to its rest behind The barren western hills.

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Alas! Alas! That this frail body RAM LALL: should Thy words are true and fall Like blessed balm upon my troubled Have bound my spirit with the chains soul. of sleep.

One little hour more could I have This I have done and yet how small it watched, seems!

I had not failed the trust He laid on I know not why my heart within me faints. me. The flesh was weak; I am undone, un- Truly I love Him and await the day When He shall come in glory for His done! PIYARI: (Awed by his excitement.) Yet whoewnnI' saw His sudden presence And if it were the Lord, why dost thou fear? . gleam, Is all thy preaching vain? Dost thou Fear struck me down; I did not hear His voice indeed, Proclaim to other men a God of Love Nor understand the light upon His brow. Yet shrink faint-hearted when He speaks to thee? What thinkst thou it meant? What fearest thou? RAM LALL: I have betrayed my trust; PIYARI: Open thy Book; Had I not slept perchance the babe How readest thou? "Whoso receiveth one had yet Such little one of mine"- Smiled with the dawn. I am akin to RAM LALL: (Reverently and joyfully) those Three faithless friends who could not "Receiveth me."

watch one hour. PIYARI: PIYARI: Oft in disguise, I do believe our Lord Thou art beside thyself. The weari- Walks in our midst, had we the eyes ness and grief to see; Have filched the jewel of thy peace Upon the lepers even in our streets, away. Sometimes I catch the semblance of His grace. (Half scornfully.) And always in the little children's PIYARI: eyes, Where now has fled the balm thy Gos- pel gives? His Presence smiles behind a thin dis- guise. But three days since I saw thee stand RAM LALL: Here in this room with Rachel while Why deemest thou the vision came to she wept me? To see the children round the Saviour's PIYARI: knee. He did but stoop to take thy offering Thy gentle words rained dews of com- And leave a blessing in its empty place. fort on His promise cannot fail. When thou Her burning heart and quenched its didst give Thy heart's best love to this His little fiery grief.

Poor blinded one, canst thou for others pray And for thyself no consolation find? one, "The least of these" it was to Him, and What says thy Book? (Hands him the Bible.) He RAM LALL: (Without opening Book.) Came in thy dreams to bless thee.

"Unprofitable servant." RAM LALL: God be thanked, PIYARI: "Faithful and good" it reads and truly For such a wife whose lightest word brings peace. so. Didst thou not tramp at noon the dusty I do believe, forgive my unbelief. (Goes over to stand before picture in way adoration. Sudden clatter heard To save the little one whom wicked outside. Piyari goes to door.) hands PIYARI: Had cast aside to die? Didst thou not The Sahib rides at sunrise from the town. bring Begging for pice, the sons of Blind Him sheltered on thy breast and over Nihal Run after him. him Thy folded turban lay to shield him from RAM LALL: (Before picture.) The scorching rays that seared thy Suffer the little ones to come! naked head? Didst thou not hear my pleading; PIYARI: Though it is early beggars are abroad grant my prayer Seeking for food. To keep the babe?

RAM LALL: the MISSIONARY REVIEW OF THE When saw we Thee an hungered; WORLD.

Gave Thee food? If it is not too much to ask I should like to have your suggestion as to a PIYARI: demonstration that will effectively present the value of mission study. Oh, shame! The Sahib lays As mission study chairman of Baptist women in Missouri I am quite anxious His whip across their naked backs. to use this plan at our annual state meeting in June, and have not been RAM LALL: Naked able to find a demonstration that fits my needs and desires. And clothed Thee? Any suggestions as to names of PIYARI: such demonstrations and places where they may be secured will be greatly "Vicious-cruel-poor-" in truth; appreciated. I am They are but little children that he Sincerely, strikes! MRS. GEORGE MCWILLIAMS. Just little children, scarcely more than NEW YEAR'S DREAMS babes! "Say that we dream! Our dreams have PADRE SAHIB: woven Unto the least of these, as unto Thee. Truths that outface the burnin~ sun; (He turns to stand by Piyari in center The lightnings that we dreamed have of room, facing the little window.) cloven 'Tis true, Piyari: thou hast spoken Time, space, and linked all lands in truth; one! Poor though it was and grudgingly be- Dreams! But their swift celestial stowed, fingers Our Lord accepts our humble sacrifice. Have knit the world with threads of The fragile little hands stretched out steel, to us Till no remotest island lingers Were filled with tokens of our father's Outside the world's great Common- love. . weal.

(A sudden ray of sunshine, as the sun rises above the horizon, floods the room with light.) Light breaks, and we have much to do today; Let us not waste the precious morning hours. (He takes a crude pick from the corner and goes outdoors. Piyari moves over to bed and stands look- ing at the baby.) CURTAIN.

A HELPFUL TOOL "Dreams are they? But ye cannot stay them, Have you read Commander Evangeline Booth's article, Japan Turns Or thrust the dawn back for one hour! Toward aNew Day? If not, you may Truth, Love, and Justice, if ye slay them, secure it by sending five cents to Christian Herald, 419 Fourth Ave., Return with more than earthly power: New York, N. Y., and asking that you Strive, if ye will to seal the fountains be sent the April 19, 1930 issue. You cannot afford to miss the thrill of it. That send the Spring through leaf and spray: A REQUEST Drive back the sun from the Eastern The following is one of many such mountains, letters coming to the desk of this department. These requests give a de- Then – bid this mightier movement gree of guidance to the editor. In stay. every case all possible help is given from this office. "It is the Dawn! The Dawn! The na- tions MRS. F. 1. JOHNSON, New York, N. Y. From East to West have heard a cry- Dear Mrs. Johnson: I am an interested reader of your Through all earth's blood-red genera- tions, department, Methods for Workers, in By hate and slaughter, climbed thus high, Here. on this height, still to aspire, Only one path remains untrod, One path of Love and Peace climbs higher,- Make straight that highway for our God."

-Alfred Noyes, The Wine-Press.

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FLORENCE G. TYLER and FLORENCE E. QUINLAN, Editors Executive Secretaries of the Federation of Woman's Boards of Foreign Missions and Council of Women for Home Missions EVA CLARK WAID MEMORIAL tions and to this she gave herself FUND FOR WORLD PEACE wholeheartedly. Because of her en- thusiasm on the subject the Council of Women for Home Missions is set- ting up the Eva Clark Waid Memorial Fund for World Peace. It is planned to raise, among her friends and ad- mirers, a fund of at least $10,000, the interest on which will be used to fur- ther the work of international rela- tions. At present this will be largely through the National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War.

Mrs. Waid's many friends will be glad of the opportunity to express in this Memorial their appreciation of her life and devotion to the causes of righteousness. It is planned to com- plete the Memorial by December 31, 1930.

Those interested should send clear- ly designated contributions, large or small, to the Council of Women for Home Missions, 105 East 22d Street, New York, N. Y. -C. S. W.

ALICE M. KYLE EVA CLARK W AID In thinking of Alice Kyle-now JANUARY 10. 1869-JUNE 11. 1929 among the "saints who from their labors rest"-memory goes back over fifty years to a slender young girl in Mrs. Dan Everett Waid, a charter Portland, Maine. She had recently member of the Council of Women for become a Christian, and her ardent Home Missions, continued in active sensitive nature made her relation to membership until her death, a year Christ, as it was to her human ago in June. Her logical mind, quick friends, most real and vital. She loved insight into cause and effect, her good to speak of Him as Master, and later judgment, linked with unusual re- when the call to service came, she source in the matter of working heard it as from the beloved Master through problems presented, made her of her life. a valuable member of the many com- Those who knew her in later years, mittees on which she served, while her as the able, well-poised and ready tact and keen sense of humor won speaker for missions would perhaps many friends for herself and the cause wonder that in the early days of Chris- she presented. tian Endeavor she wrote to a former In no work of the Council was she pastor in deep anxiety over the pos- more interested than in the great sible pledging herself to speak in movement for peace among the na- public-even a few words. But the 535

fact that she did so, and became will- That heavenly touch kept her spirit ing to do what was hard for her may strong even with the body failing, and explain the secret of her years of use- now fullness of life and joy are hers, fulness. She sometimes, when asked and we rejoice that her new service to speak before clerical gatherings, has begun for the Master she loved. laughingly recalled her early fears. ~M. H. G. Miss Kyle began her work with the Woman's Board of Missions of the THE WILL TO COOPERATE-PLUS Congregational Church in 1892, coming from Portland, where she had been By SUE WEDDELL teaching. She had become deeply interested in missions, and had thought Secretary of the Joint Committee on of the foreign field as a place for her Leadership Training work. Instead of that she acted as Field Secretary for years, traveling It is a day not only of international through the country and making many and interdenominational but of interfriends for herself as well as for organizational activity as well. Comissions. Later she was made Edito- operation is the word of the hour. It rial Secretary, serving until 1924 as has been wisely stated that organiza- Editor of Life and Light. tions as well as persons need more than the wiU to cooperate, they need to set She was the first Chairman of the up the mechanics for cooperation. Committee on Christian Literature With the very best will in the world for Women and Children in Mission toward each other it is possible for Fields and gave years of enthusiastic organizations of similar purpose to stand in each other's way and thus service to that work. She became a check progress in the very work they Secretary Emeritus of the American are organized to support. But when Board in 1924, but continued her work we link to a cooperative spirit, actual as treasurer of the Committee on lines of cooperative endeavor we find Christian Literature to the time of ourselves moving forward steadily and her death. Through many of these constructively. years she bore the burden of impaired eyesight. Such a step toward cooperative en- deavor in the field of missionary edu- One cannot think of Alice Kyle cation was taken this year by the without recognizing her wonderful ca- Council of Women for Home Missions, pacity for friendship. Faithful and the Federation of Woman's Boards of loyal to Christ and to her earthly Foreign Missions and the Missionary friends, she rejoiced in their joys and Education Movement and representasorrowed in their griefs. Her pen tives of the International Council of was always ready for loving words at Religious Education. It is known as the Joint Committee on Leadership anniversaries or birthdays, even in the Training. If one were to search stress of her busy life. Her own through the correspondence and repoems often bore these greetings. She ports of these organizations for months back it would be easy to pick loved her work, and one of the hard out such phrases as 'acutely feeling trials of her life was to lay it down. the need of leadership development in the local church," and "on all sides The severe experience of her long the church is calling for more leaders." illness was most keenly felt but courageously met. For one whose years Why set up conferences and schools had been given to public speaking it of missions if there are few trained was a peculiar trial to be limited as teachers for them? Why write study she was. On her 1914 Christmas card books if leaders are not forthcoming the closing words are these: to put them before our churches? Such questions, striking deep into the Or if amid the joyous throng, very heart of the programs of each Thou walkest lonely, missing much organization, were ever-present at That used to fill thy life with song, I crave for thee the heavenly touch To keep thy spirit strong.

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executive meetings. Various commit- and an assembler of experience in this tees had from time to time been ap- line, standing ready at all times to be pointed to study the subject; plans of service in setting up training into meet the need had been discussed stitutes. and tried out in the separate headquarters. The time was ripe for A very careful analysis of leadertaking a forward step; so when, at ship needs throughout the country has the Annual Meetings held in January, led the committee to recommend that 1930, at Atlantic City, it was proposed all Training Institutes include classes to work jointly on this great problem, or discussion groups for three types the project was entered into with of need. eagerness. 1. For inspiration or missionary "To explore the whole field of lead- conviction, presenting the importance ership training in the missionary en- of missionary training, a survey of terprise and to initiate the best plans the literature available, and ways in and methods for training leaders for which the missionary attitude can be the missionary cause," is the ex- developed in summer camps, Vacation pressed purpose of the committee. Bible Schools, and various summer Three representatives, each, from the conferences. Council, Federation and Movement, the Chairman of the Joint Committee 2. For background in/ormation on on Conferences and Schools of Mis- subjects with which otherwise expesions of these three bodies, and rep- rienced leaders are unfamiliar. Textresentatives of the International book courses would be amplified by Council is the basis of committee survey address, and question and anmembership. At the first meeting of swer periods led by persons well postthis joint group held on March fourth, ed on the various mission fields. Mrs. Orrin R. Judd was chosen Chairman. 3. For specific methods in teaching missions to adults, young people and The committee has set itself as children, very practical sessions inmain tasks for the present: 1, holding cluding actual laboratory work in of training institutes for leaders in preparation for teaching the textbooks conferences and schools of missions to all ages. and teachers of mission study books in places already conscious of this "To inspire, to inform, to prepare, need; 2, surveying the entire country to empower" was the slogan of the to discover points where such insti- Indianapolis Institute. These are key tutes might be held in the future and words of leadership training. May the 3, seeking to stimulate interest and record of Indianapolis and Englewood, discover needs for this type of train- added to the valuable experiences of ing in many sections of the country. past years serve to unlock doors all over our land and to point the way to Two institutes have already been larger effort and increased enthusiasm held with results that justify them; in this important part of our misthe first at Indianapolis, Indiana, May sionary enterprise. 5-6; and the other at Englewood, New Jersey, May 8-10. The Indianapolis The Indianapolis Institute Institute had been partly set up by a state group and the Committee helped By JOY F. TAYLOR in suggesting program and leadership. The Englewood Institute was entirely It is amazing and gratifying to note in the hands of the Joint Committee. the eagerness with which workers in religious and missionary education It is hoped that the committee will yearn to see their two programs so be looked upon not so much as an separated until now, become one with organizer and promoter of individual no sacrifice of values in either proinstitutes, but as a counselling group gram. Another evidence of this was manifest in a coaching institute held in Indianapolis, Indiana, on May 5th and 6th, in which the missionary edu-

cation department of the United ciples missionary education depart- Christian Missionary Society (Dis- ment taught the course, "How to ciples of Christ) had a significant Teach Missions to Children"; Floyd part. Carr (Baptist), "How to Teach Mis- sions to Intermediates"; Roy E. Burt At the annual meeting of the In- (Methodist), "to Seniors"; Mrs. Hulternational Council of Religious Edu- dah Mossberg Phipps, "to Young Peocation held in Chicago, last February, ple." Dr. T. H. P. Sailer, honorary a discussion of the needs of the lead- secretary of the Missionary Education ers of the two groups to know each Movement, Mrs. Dan B. Brummit repother's program, aims and curricula, resenting the Council of Women for gave birth to the suggestion that Home Missions and Miss Edith there be held Institutes of Missionary Eberle (Disciples) in a total of six- Education to coach summer conference teen hours of class work presented teachers and leaders, and teachers in "How to Teach Missions to Adults." the local churches responsible for see- Dr. Walter Getty, Leadership Training that the proper elements of a ing Secretary of the Missionary Edu- Christian curriculum are balanced in cation Movement taught, "How to Put the curricula projected. There are al- Missions into the Whole Program of ready four excellent summer confer- the Local Church." ences of ten days in lengths held under the auspices of the Missionary Edu- There were 110 registrants reprecation Move'ment which represents senting sixteen Indiana cities besides twenty-seven home and foreign mis- sixteen persons who came from five sion boards of thirteen communions. states outside of Indiana. Ohio had rep- There are also the score or more of resentatives from Columbus, Dayton, conferences and schools of missions Cincinnati and Logan. Eleven denomaffiliated with the Federation of Wom- inations were represented. It is hoped an's Boards of Foreign Missions and that in the Institute to be held in 1931 Council of Women for Home Missions there will be as large a per cent of which are conducted by local commit- pastors present from all communions tees of women. But due to the rapid- as the Baptists had-nineteen out of ly increasing program of denomina- forty delegates. All agreed that the tional summer conferences, it was felt minister was the key to the situation that there was a place for coaching in the effort to "marry" religious and institutes for the administrators and missionary education. teachers of the denominational conferences. The Englewood Institute The Baptists and the Disciples took By FLORENCE G. TYLER the responsibility for trying to initiate a Mid-Central Institute for those Forty-two mission study leaders communions whose constituencies are gathered at the First Presbyterian strong in the states within easy reach Church of Englewood, New Jersey, of Indianapolis. They called together May 8, 9 and 10th, for information state representatives of six commun- and training for summer conferences ions and of the Missionary Social and fall institutes. The delegates were Union (interdenominational group of entertained Harvard plan, in the women's missionary societies), the homes of Englewood, and given mod- Church Federation of Indianapolis, erate priced luncheons and dinners at the Indiana Council of Religious Edu- the church, thus reducing the cost of cation, and the Y. W. C. A. A local attendance to the minimum and putcommittee was formed and the result ting but slight strain on the commuwas a successful Institute, plans for nity. annual recurrence of which were voted at the last session. The training was brief but inten- sive. The morning consisted of two Miss Grace McGavran of the Dis- two-hour periods as did also the after- noon, while the two evenings were

given to authorities on India and The with Latin American countries to tell Caribbean Area. Dr. Oscar Buck of present conditions and problems in spoke on India with one hour of Haiti and Porto Rico; Professor Irquestions, and Dr. Samuel Guy Inman ving Fisher, nationally known for his on the Caribbean Area, also answer- understanding of one of the most vital ing a wide array of questions. Under issues affecting our country today, this plan eight hours were given to who will discuss the prohibition queseach of the five study books taught, tion; Miss Florence E. Quinlan, Execand eight hours to methods for juniors utive Secretary of the Council of and the same to methods for inter- Women for Home Missions. who will mediates. It was possible for each call attention to certain present-day attendant to take two classes, in ad- emphases of home missions; Miss dition to the benefit received from Katherine Gardner, Secretary of the the evening question hours. Church Women's Committee on Race Relations who will tell of the progress Among the teachers were Miss being made in the direction of better Elizabeth Harris of the Missionary understanding between Negroes and Education Movement; Dr. T. H. P. their white neighbors. Sailer, Presbyterian; Miss Ina Burton of the Baptist Board, Dr. D. J. The home mission theme for the Fleming of Union Theological Semi- year is "The Caribbean Area." No nary; Miss Margaret Marston of the more important problems face our Episcopal Board; Dr. George W. Hin- country today than those that are inman of the American Missionary As- volved in its relations with the West sociation (Congregational); and Mr. Indies, Central America and Mexico. Walter Getty of the Missionary Edu- Mrs. Dan B. Brummit will conduct cation Movement. the regular morning class, using as the study basis the textbook, Trailing This conference, put on under the the Conquistadores by Dr. Samuel Guy leadership of the Missionary Educa- Inman. The Story Hour will again be tion Movement, Council of Women for led by Mrs. Herbert E. Munsey. In Home Missions and Federation of addition there will be a methods class Woman's Boards of Foreign Missions, and in the afternoon open forum hours was pronounced a success by all at- giving opportunity for free discussion tending and it is hoped that this effort and conference. will be duplicated in many sections of the country. Missionaries will be heard in mes- sages from various stations in home MISSIONS AT CHAUTAUQUA mission fields. A local committee chosen from women residents on the Home Missions Inatitute grounds and representative of all de- nominations will be constantly on the Augnst 10-15 lookout to secure for the Institute the best talent available during the week. The twentieth annual Home Mis- At the literature booth, there will be sions Institute conducted by the Coun- an interesting display of posters and cil of Women for Home Missions in pUblications issued on home missions cooperation with the Chautauqua In- by the several denominational boards. stitution at Lake Chautauqua, New For further details and printed an- York, will be held August 10-15. nouncement, write to Mrs. Orrin R. Judd, Council of Women for Home The program provides many attrac- Missions, 105 East 22d Street, New tive features. The opening address of York, N. Y. the Institute will be made in the Amphitheater on Sunday afternoon by The Institute presents an admirable Dr. Cleland B. McAfee, moderator opportunity for the training of leadduring the year 1929-1930 of the Gen- ers for the local church. making vaeral Assembly of the Presbyterian cation days truly worthwhile. Play, Church, U. S. A. Other speakers include Dr. C. S. Detweiler who will draw upon his intimate acquaintance

rest, study, fellowship, inspiration church, should hear Mrs. Lippard.

combine in a well-balanced program. General, study book and personal A week in the summer may count for methods will be taught by Mrs. F. I.

little or it may be of priceless value, Johnson who has had this work in the effecting the enlistment of an indi- Chautauqua Institute for four suc- vidual in definite Christian service, or cessive years. Mrs. Georgia McAdams the revitalization of an entire church Clifford, President of the American for the accomplishment of its divinely- Association of Story Tellers, is to ordained mission. give a course in story telling, covering Every church should be concerned a series of new stories, as well as to avail itself of the abundant facili- technique. This course is free to those ties offered by conferences such as the attending the Institute; a rare op- Institute for training those of its portunity. membership who shall make possible an increasingly effective program of Addresses will be given by Dr. missionary education. The women's Kumetaro Sasao, Dean of Meiji Gaorganization in the church is pecu- kuin University, Toyko, Japan. Dr. liarly adapted to cultivate that concern Sasao will probably participate in the until leadership training is recognized Monday forum which is to deal with as an integral part of the life and the question of Japanese women in work of every local church. the realms of culture, industry and re- ligion as related to the "new Japan."

The Home Missions Institute at Dr. J. W. R. Netram, Canadian Mis- Chautauqua, therefore, invites both sion, Indore, C. I., and author of that for itself and for all similar schools unusual book just off the press Will of missions the largest possible sup- India Become Christian? is to give one port of the women of the churches. address, and to help in the India forum. Mr. Netram is India's own Foreign Missions Institute Stanley Jones.

August 17-23 Surely those who attend the Insti- The Chautauqua Institute of For- tute will find the work of the coming eign Missions which is to be held at year easier and more productive.

Chautauqua, New York, August 17-23, LEADERSHIP THROUGH SERVICE has one of the strongest programs in I would like to see the missionary soits history. Last year there was an cieties of America and England send to enrolment of approximately fourteen India a type of mind that is capable of hundred. being modified on the field. In Moffatt's Those wishing local information translation of the Epistles, St. Paul may secure it from Miss Laura Shot- writes to his converts: "Don't be called well, Chautauqua, New York. For fathers. Don't be called teachers – I program information write to Mrs. know, and you don't. Don't be called leaders – I lead, and you follow- but F. I. Johnson, Federation of Woman's set out to be called servants. That is the only attitude I can trust you with. The Boards of Foreign Missions, 419 other attitudes work out in a non-Chris- Fourth Avenue, New York, N. Y. tian way." If you train up young people The study book A Cloud of Wit- to be leaders and half a dozen come tonesses will be taught by Mrs. W. T. gether, you get a series of clashes. It is Elmore who has had missionary ex- only through service that we gain leaderperience in India. Mrs. C. K. Lippard, ship. You cannot train people to be leaders. You can only train people to Department of Junior Work of the be servants. Leadership is a by-product· United Lutheran Church in America, and renunciation is the path by which is to have charge of all junior work. true leadership can be reached. If men As an authority on junior methods come out to India self-renounced, ready to lose themselves so as to find them- she probably has no superior. Work- gelves. they will become leaders. The day of the master in the East is gone ers in other departments, as well as the day of the servant is just dawning: in the missionary department of their -E. Stanley Jones.

AMERICA drink to win popularity, 96.2 per

replied no. Belief that the Eighteenth New Atlanta University Amendment has benefited the United States was expressed by 70 per cent. ONE of the most significant move- Parents are rated at 60.8 per cent as ments in the field of higher edu- the chief influence in shaping the cation for the Negro is the affiliation views of youth on temperance and Proof three colleges, located in the same hibition." The data were obtained section of Atlanta, Georgia, and the from widely separated cities and towns establishment of a university for post- in the country. graduate work. The three are Atlanta University, founded by the American Congregationalists Approve Mission- Missionary Association, Morehouse and Spelman Colleges, the last two ary Program for South under Baptist direction. It bas been felt that Atlanta had too many Negro MISSIONARY work among Negroes colleges, and thereby failed to secure of the South, culminating in the gifts from educational foundations. It proposed establishment of Dillard Uniwas decided to discontinue undergrad- versity in New Orleans, will continue uate work at Atlanta University and as an important part of the American make the school a real university for Missionary Association program, it postgraduate study. was indicated at the annual sessions of the Congregational Home Boards Growth of Small Cities at Plymouth Institute, Brooklyn.' The delegates represented 5,000 Congrega- T HE decade of the twenties was a tional churches in the United States period of substantial growth to the mid-sized city. Associated Press com- The next convention will be held at pilations, covering about 800 cities al- Seattle in conjunction with the first ready announced by census supervis- meeting of the General Council of Conors, showed marked increases in cities gregational and Christian Churches in of 25,000 to 50,000 in most cases. July, 1931. This meeting will merge the two churches formally, with a Especially noticeable was the rise membership of more than 1,000,000. of the suburbs of the great metropolitan centers. This trend continued on Religious Training and Crime down into cities of lesser populations.

High Schools and Prohibition JUDGE LEWIS L. FAWCETT, Jus- tice of New York State Supreme A FTER a year's investigation, the ft Presbyterian Board of Christian Court, states that his experience of 23 Education asserts that high school stu- years on the bench, during which time dents endorse the dry law and observe only three of the more than 4,000 boys it. "An overwhelming majority of the convicted of crime before him were stUdents, 78.7 per cent," the report members of a Sunday-school, has satisstates, "claim they do not drink any fied him that the Sunday-school is the intoxicants. None admit frequent only effective means of stemming drinking; 21.3 occasional drinking; crime among youth. He further states 19.2 per cent state that their parents that in 1,902 cases of suspended sendrink. Asked if it is necessary to tence, where a minister, priest or rabbi had ta,ken an interest at his request, 541

only 62 boys were brought back for should be stimulated by placing a more violation of parol. pronounced emphasis on the enrich- ment of spiritual life. The U. S. Marshal at Centralia, Wash., has similar ideas. Three boys The so-called unified church budget, of 14 to 16 years, convicted of robbery, which would group all the finances of were sentenced to spend 30 days in the local church, including current excustody of the marshal. Four hours a penses and missionary support, in a day they must write out passages from single fund, called forth much discusthe Scriptures which the marshal se- sion and led to a decision to make this lects, and four hours daily they spend a major subject for discussion at the in memorizing the U. S. Constitution. conference next year.

Visitation Evangelism April 11, the promotional represent- atives met in joint session with the THE result of the campaign of visi- Religious Publicity Council, a new or- tation evangelism, carried on by the ganization. There was a general feel- Chicago Church Federation, is about ing that the constructive values of 15,000 new members won to Chicago publicity had not been sufficiently recchurches. At a jubilee service, held at ognized by the churches or given adethe Auditorium Theater, 3,000 Chris- quate support. tian men and women, representing 179 congregations' of seventeen different Lutheran Student Association denominations, who had taken an active part in the visitation program, THE Lutheran Student Association came together to express their grati- of America, established in 1922 for tude for the privilege of such an un- the purpose of bringing together for usual service. worship, study and service Lutheran college and university students, has The bulletin of the Chicago Church taken as its objectives for this year, Federation says that the campaign (1) the strengthening of local groups shows that it is possible for the Prot- on campuses, (2) the strengthening estant churches of Chicago to work to- of religious life of Lutheran students gether when a common workable pro- through study of the Augsburg Congram is presented. "We somehow feel fession, (3) the continuing :of the that if 179 churches, banded together support of the Indian scholarship of in eighteen communities, could by $120, and, (4) the continuing of the united effort gather in 15,000 souls, support of the Lutheran Theological after having made a preliminary sur- Seminary at Leningrad, Russia. The vey of 500,000, there is no limit to Association is divided into 6 regional what a thousand Protestant churches groups which hold annual conventions. in Chicago would be able to do." Each region sends two delegates to constitute the Lutheran Student Coun- Plans for Missionary Support cil of America, which is a representa- tive body meeting twice a year. The REPRESENTATIVES of the pro- official organ of the Association is the motional departments of fifteen American Lutheran Stwient, issued denominations met in Philadelphia, four times a year and featuring edi- April 10, under the auspices of the torials, stories and news items about Federal Council of Churches to con- the activities of Lutheran students. sider plans for developing stronger support for missionary and benevolent China Institute in ADlerica programs. The keynote was sounded by the Rev. C. C. Merrill, Secretary A N INSTITUTE was founded in of the Congregational Commission on 1"1. May, 1926, by the China Foun- Missions, who deplored the tendency to think of church work in terms of dation for the Promotion of Education salesmanship, and urged that giving and Culture. The Institute has prov- en its usefulness in various ways, par-

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ticularly as a center for the dissemi- is still rare in the East. She should nation of information concerning not adopt blindly all that her Western China, and for the promotion of closer sister is taking without any regard relationships between China and as to whether they fit her, and suit America. Its services have been ap- the place she lives in." preciated by both Chinese and Americans. In January, 1930, the Institute Youth in Turkey was incorporated as an independent organization, with a Board of Trus- NEW headquarters for the Turkish tees and Board of Advisors, consisting Hearth Society were opened in of representative Chinese and Ameri- Angora last April. The building, dedcans.-Chinese Christian Student. icated to Turkish youth, was the out- growth of a fund established about On the Honor Roll four years ago by the late "Golden Rule" Nash of Cincinnati. Dedication THE Federal Council's Commission of the building was one of the features on Race Relations records that 43 of Child Welfare Week, another feastates were free from lynching in 1929. ture being the opening of a children's In 1921, the Commission began an playground. Half the money for this annual "Honor Roll" for states with enterprise was raised in the United a clean record in this respect. Ac- States by a group known as the Amercording to the 1929 records of Dr. ican Friends of Turkey. Monroe N. Work of Tuskegee Institute, there were ten lynchings during This is the second year that Child that year; and twenty-seven instances Welfare Week has been observed in in which officers of the law prevented Turkey. The program was directed lynchings. by the Child Protection Society. or Himayei Etfal, which annually ex- WESTERN ASIA pends about $125,000 in clinics, in- fants' clothing, milk distribution, Freedom for Women mother's care, provision of baths for children and sending. them to schools FRESHMEN of the American Junior and orphanages. Himayei Etfal is the College for Women, Beirut, Syria, only large self-supporting philanthroprectmtly handed in some themes ex- ic movement in Turkey. pressing their ideas on "The Freedom of Women." They are quoted to illus- Cooperation in the Balkans trate how these girls think; AN INTER-MISSION Conference "When we say 'freedom of women,' held in Sofia last March shows we immediately think that the East that progress has been made in muis in great need of it. It is true; but tual understanding between Western had these religions which playa great Protestantism and the Eastern Orthpart in debasing the position of wom- odox Church. The following resoluen sprung up in the West, the same tion was unanimously adopted: thing would have been true for the 'Vest." "We appreciate heartily the re- sponse with which representatives of "The world is looking for women, the great Eastern Orthodox churches not for copies of men! She already have met sympathetic approaches on has enough of that. May she be able our part; and we gladly recognize the to find them!" historic service rendered by these churches in preserving the Christian "From the East the oriental woman doctrines and organizations during peeped at her sister in the Wes.t, and centuries of hostility, persecution and she wished to follow at her heels. But oppression; before such an attempt could be undertaken, she must study and see what "We recommend that the individuals things have helped the Western wom- here present. and so far as feasible an to become what she is today. She should ask for higher education which

the agencies represented, seek addi- "Miss G. Constant Lounsbery and tional means of coming to fuller mu- her coworkers are to be congratulated tual understanding with members of upon the success of their efforts to the Orthodox churches; and particu- organize an association for the purlarly aim to discover definite Christian pose of working in the interest of the and social tasks which may be use- cause of Buddhism in Frante." In fully undertaken jointly by Orthodox addition to the dissemination of Budand Evangelicals; dha's teachings the Society aims at bringing about, through the medium "In the conviction that cooperation of the Buddhist religion, a better unmust be partly learned by the prac- derstanding between the peoples of tice of cooperating, we recommend the West and the East. that part of the next Inter-Mission Conference be devoted to reports on Colombo has decided to send three such experiments undertaken during priests to London, which is said to the year."-Congregationalist. have 500 Buddhists. A wealthy Cey- lonese is meeting the expense.-Bap- Healing Ministry in Arabia tist Missionary Review.

DR. PAUL W. HARRISON of Ara- Aid for French Seminary bia, reports that the second year of medical work in Muttrah has THE Paris Protestant Theological doubled in volume over the first year. On a two months' tour along the coast . Seminary has been a bulwark for almost as much medical work was done French Protestantism in training. as in all the rest of the year. Four leaders for French churches. A drive invitations were received to visit Has- made in America for funds for this sa, one to treat the son of King Ibn Seminary has completed its goal of Saoud and heir to the throne; another $50,000.· An effort is now being made to treat the Governor of Hassa. on behalf of the Protestant Foyer of Belleville, Paris. This projected Prot- In Kuweit, Bedouins, wounded in estant community center is located in desert battles, have almost swamped the heart of a very squalid industrial the hospital, and surprisingly little district, and has wonderful potentialifanaticism has been seen. ties for Christian service to -the French people, especially to the chil- EUROPE dren in that section of the city.

Poland's Protestants Poland and Baltic States I N POLAND'S population of 30,000,- POLAND with a population of some 000, there are about a million Prot- thirty million people, consisting of estants; and in the Polish army of Jews, Ukrainians, Germans, White 250,000 men, are 7,000 Protestants, Russians, Lithuanians, Czechs, as well mostly Lutherans. There is an allow- as Poles, is one of the greatest misance of 10 Protestant chaplains, but sionary problems in Europe today. due to lack of funds only five are in Evangelical work is called for in at actual service. These chaplains visit least six languages, to cope with the the garrisons and conduct services in variety of religious conceptions. In Polish and German. The Polish Gov- the Baltic states to the north, the reernment has printed 20,000 copies of ligious situation presents many proba devotional book comprising hymns, lems. Poverty is acute, and churches prayers and Scripture passages for are maintained with the greatest difthe use of Protestant soldiers. ficulty. In Latvia, Christian educa- tion is promoted by the Sunday-school In the Cause of Buddha Union, which is interdenominational in character. There are embraced in FRANCE has a Buddhist Society, the Union 153 Sunday-schools, repre- Les Amis de Bouddhism, on which senting some 8,000 young people and the British Buddhist makes the following comment:

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700 teachers. In Esthonia, the great- books, leaflets on health, sanitation. est need is for Christian literature for epidemics, etc., are in evidence in the young. The country is now being every Christian village. The Census flooded with blasphemous reading mat- Superintendent of the Mysore State. ter from Russia. Very few mission- a Hindu, says: aries, either from Britain or America, go to these states.-The Christian. The enlightening influence of Chris- tianity is patent in the higher standard INDIA of comfort of the converts and their sober, disciplined and busy lives. To take Forward Step in Missions education, for instance, we find that, among Indian Christians, no less than WHEN the International Mission- 11,523 persons, or 25 per cent, are· re- ary COuncil at Jerusalem adopted turned as literate, while for the total its report on "The Christian Message," population of the State the percentage the following paragraph seemed the- is only 6. oretical to many: -National Missionary Intelligencer. We urge that every possible step be taken to make real the fellowship of the Rural Problems Gospel. The churches of the West send missions and missions-of-help to the I NDIA has fewer trained agriculturchurches of Africa and Asia. We be- ists than any other civilized counlieve that the time has come when all try, and most of these are foreigners. would gain if ,the younger churches were The percentage of India's population invited to send missions-of-help to the engaged in agriculture is estimated at churches of Europe and America to min- from 70 to 90%. Most farmers have. ister of their treasure to the spiritual holdings of less than 2% acres. life of those to whom they come. The Jerusalem Conference gave im- Although the Je'rusalem gathering petus to the reappraisal of rural probis only two years in the past, the Brit- lems. Fourteen schools heretofore ish Conference of Missionary Socie- purely literary are now developing the ties, in accordance with the sugges- vocational side., All use the "project" tion of the Jerusalem report, has sent method. One stresses teacher-training an invitation to the National Chris- or training of leaders; another the tian Council of India to send a "mis- application of Christianity to the sosion-of-help" to Great Britain in the cial life of an Indian village, with crenear future, and the National Chris- ative activity as the atmosphere; tian Council of India has voted to ac- another self-support; and another cept the invitation. Bishop Azariah, homemaking which has the cottage President of the Council, speaks of it system, self-government and a garden. as "a call to Indian Christianity to ~impIicity and comparative lack of excrystallize its own experience" in or- pense are fundamental features. der that its representatives in the About twenty years ago, the Govern- West may have a clear message to ment established agricultural depots give. and cooperative credit societies. At present, there are government agri- Some Comparisons cultural colleges in all but three prov- inces. Credit is given stUdents who WHILE the proportion of pupils in utilize their vacation by working in the primary schools of India to the fields. – Woman's Missionary the general population is 2.5, it is 7.3 Friend. fot Christians; and nearly all Christian schools are in rural areas. While Pariahs alld Hindus Riot 226 per thousand of the Christian Santalis can read, only 3 per thousand SERIOUS rioting, unconnected with non-Christian Santalis come up to the independence campaign of the this standard. The number of literate Indian nationalists, broke out at Ma- Telugus is almost nil, but 15% of the sik, about 100 miles northeast of Bom- Christians can read. Bibles, hymn bay. The fight was between caste 5

Hindus and "untouchables" who are ISLANDS not allowed to enter the temples or participate in any Hindu religious Solomon Islander Enters Ministry ceremonies. The caste men took from the temples two chariots containing T HE first Solomon Islander, Belimages which were to be drawn in shazzar Gina, to train for the minprocession by 5,000 devotees. The istry was this year received by the "untouchables," who also have gath- Methodist Mission. Gina is well fitted ered in thousands, rushed to pull on for this office. His training at Wesley the ropes alongside the caste men. The College and his three years' residence latter resisted and a fight developed. in the Dominion have given him an Many stones were thrown and police excellent knowledge of English, thus finally charged with batons to disperse opening theological and other literathe mob. No one was killed but more ture. This is but the beginning of than a hundred suffered injuries. the establishment of a native ministry in these Islands.-The Open Door. About 50,000 pilgrims had gathered in Masik for a fair. Sonth Sea Youth N. M. S. in Telugu Villages A"YOUTH MOVEMENT" in the South Sea Islands, independent MISSIONARY T. M. THOMAS of mission origin, plans to raise $50,- writes in the National Missionary 000 for education. The movement is Intelligencer that forty-five men, wom- reported by Rev. George C. Lockwood en and children, drawn from the Mala of Jaluit, who says that the re~ark­ community, were baptized early in the able thing about the movement IS the year at Chinnakodipa, Parkal Taluk. belfef on the part of these youths that Among them were some leading men other peoples have something that they of the community. This field is a do not have, and a confidence that they, recent sphere of work undertaken by too, can have these things if they the National Missionary Society. make up their minds to have them. A Splendid missionary voork is being young chief, who seemed to be a leaddone by the good Bishop of Dornakal er, told Mr. Lockwood that they wished and the missionaries under him. Bish- to support the mission schools, and op Azariah reports that on a single that they had not consulted the misoccasion during December last he ad- sionaries because they did not want ministered the Sacrament of baptism the Japanese to get the idea that the to 220 souls, over half of whom were mission was back of this movement. drawn from the caste people. World's Oldest Parliament Where Is N awabgan,j 7 T HE Iceland Parliament, known as NAWABGANJ is a town of about the "Althing" began its existence 10000 souls, situated on the bord- in 930, due to the influence of early ers of the Tarabganj and Hariya Tah- Christian missionaries, who assisted sils. These two Tahsils contain 698,- the people in forming a stable goverJ?- 794 persons, living in about 3,140 ment and codifying their laws. It IS towns and villages. There are at pres- said to be the world's oldest parliaent two missionaries residing in these ment, and this year is celebrating its two Tahsils. It would take them over one thousandth anniversary. two years to visit each village once, if they visited two each a day. .~he "Mother" Hoppin whole district is living in superstlhon and idolatry, very few people c~n read MISS JESSIE R. HOPPIN, Amerand write, and being so near AJodhya, ican Board missionary in the the great religious center, the people Marshall Islands, first went to the are firm in their religion and their Caroline Islands in 1890. She is hearts are very hard. known throughout the South Sea Islands as "Mother." In his privately

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published volume, "Taking One's Ship North China Theological Seminary at Around the World," Mr. William K. Tenghsien, Shantung Province. Mr. Vanderbilt tells of his farewell to Miss R. C. Wells, Chairman of the China Hoppin: Council of Presbyterian Missions, re- cently attended a meeting of the com- "She looked tired. She had begun bined chapel of the North China Theher merciful service among these peo- ological Seminary and Mateer Memople in her early twenties; she is still rial Institute, and writes: carrying on at the age of seventy. She devoted herself to them, looked after "It was a pleasure to hear myoId their interests and ministered to their friend, the famous evangelist, speak sick, for which she is famed through- to the students. This remarkable out the Marshall Islands. When the Christian worker still has his old good Lord finally takes her these peo- earnestness and winning smile. It ple will mourn for their 'Mother' with was an inspiring sight to see this heavy hearts. We asked her on board chapel filled with students who are the yacht for dinner, but she refused planning to give their lives to some because a boy she was nursing had form of Christian work. There are reached the crisis in his illness. Na- eighty-five men and thirty-five young tives look to her for help and she is women in the regular seminary, and there, bless her heart." about sixty-five theological prepara- tory students in Mateer Memorial New Zealand A:8'airs Institute."

ARE CENT analysis of the reli- Religious Status Since 192'2 gious affiliation of native New Zealanders gives the following inter- DR. CHENG CHING YI, moderator esting figures: Anglican Maoris; 25,- of the Church of Christ in China, 200; Ratanaists, 11,567; Roman in the yearbook of the Christian move- Catholics, 8,524; Ringatu, 4,539; ment in China, points out that the Methodists, 4,043; Mormons, 3,454; anti-Christian outburst, which began Presbyterians, 638; other miscellane- in 1922, has resulted in at least four ous religious registrations, 1,406. New positive benefits to the Chinese church: Zealand has 60,000 Maoris. It has a 1. The spirit of self-complacency has distinctive contribution to make to the been reduced. 2. There has been a industrial life of the world, and pos- fresh stimulus to make new adjustsesses a standard of living and work- ments and formulate new policies, as ing conditions that are highly indicated, in the rapid growth of Ilmcommendable. A Child Welfare Asso- phasis im an indigenous church. 3. ciation and a Youth Movement in the Christians have been forced to think churches have a growing influence. for themselves and to reexamine their The Y. J'd. C. A. has inaugurated a own faith. 4. The time of testing has scheme for taking care of delinquent sifted out from the church those boys under a "Big Brother" organiza- whose membership in it did not rest tion, whereby young men of Christian upon any deep spiritual basis.-Chrischaracter "adopt" one or more boys, tian CentuTY. meeting them at least once a week. Chekiang Farmers Colonize CHINA FARMERS in the province of Che- Mr. Ding Still Active kiang, between the ages of 15 to 40, who wish to emigrate to Man- MANY will remember the Rev. Ding churia for colonization and cultivation Li Mei, evangelist of Shantung purposes will each be given a trac:t,-of Province, who has won so many for arable land about 7 mow in area at Christ. He is now devoting his time an annual -rental of four to eight doland strength largely to the task of lars, according to the location and training Christian leaders in the

fertility of the land. Cultivators and with about 4,000 students. These inmodern farming implements will be stitutions are organized under the supplied at a nominal rental. Those Council of Higher Education, which not in a position immediately to start is a part of the China Christian Eduhomesteads will be recommended by cational Association. This Council the Colonization Bureau for employ- for the last four and a half years has ment as farm hands by established been engaged in reorganizing Chrisfarmers for one year. After this they tian higher education so as to make it will be provided with facilities for more Chinese, more Christian and starting their own farms. more efficient. In January a definite program was adopted by the Council Latest statistics from the Immigra- to improve equipment and strengthen tion Bureau disclose the fact that as faculties. Only two of the colleges a result of the recent Sino-Soviet dis- will exceed 400 students. It was pute, the number of immigrants to agreed that there should be one faculty Manchuria from various provinces in member to every twelve students; North China has been reduced by al- sixty per cent of the faculties to be in most one million, as compared with the upper rank, i. e., professor_or assorecords for the corresponding period ciate professor, and sixty per cent of in previous years. A large number the total budget to be for instructional of refugees returned to their native salaries. This program does not behomes in the interior, those remaining come official until approved by the in the border districts constituting Boards of the institutions involved. scarcely half of the usual number of However, the findings of the Council settlers.-Chinese Affairs. have been based on exhaustive sta- tistical studies and it is expected that Christian Factory the recommendations will be adopted.

AVISITOR to Harbin, Manchuria, Experiment in Man Education saw a cloth factory in a low, long building where the workers operated AN EXPERIMENT conducted by the looms with their feet. In a win- the American Board Station at dowless loft the roof was so low that Paotingfu reports 20,000 illiterates the boy workers had to sit on the floor. enrolled in evening classes in five But near this factory is one famous years, over 5,000 of these graduating. as "The Christian Factory," Tung Chi. Church membership has been in- creased 50%. Acknowledged leader- It is a new and excellent building, ship of the Christian Church in the three stories high. Three-fourths of social reconstruction of the area has the outside wall space is in windows. thus been developed. Fresh air is plentiful, and the light is adequate. The workers make the finest The first step in the experiment was coats and dresses. Thousands of pairs to select a group of villages, interview of ladies' patent leather shoes are also a few key men and "sell" the idea of made and sold at twenty-five shillings teaching illiterates. Then followed a pair. On the top of the factory is organization of classes, selection of a well-equipped playroom and large teachers and the securing of a room. auditorium with raised seats and an Often a well-to-do villager will offer excellent theatre platform. The fac- a room or two in his home. Recruiting tory also owns fine athletic grounds the students and inducing faithful atin Harbin, has a complete Y. M. C. A. tendance was left in the hands of local organization, and a small hospital and school directors. a doctor trained in the West. The average cost to the church per Program for Higher Education student was about 25 cents, and the fir.st year's total cost was nearly $1,400. THE Protestant Christian Movement After the first year the value of the maintains some twenty institutions work was so proven that this item was of college or university grade in China,

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put into the regular annual budget. His serum, he announced. has been Inspiration and execution in the ex- used with "gratifying" results in the periment is largely due to Dr. James Bari Clinic. Some of his patients Yen and his colleagues in the National showed marked improvement, others Association of Mass Education. Their were definitely cured. "thousand character" system was used, which Dr. Yen calls "the maximum of Recently the Leonard Wood Hospital practical vocabulary, within a mini- was opened at Cebu, Philippine Ismum of time at a minimum cost." lands. Built of concrete and bamboo, it is a 26-building hospital, big enough GENERAL for 700 patients.-Time.

To Cultivate World Friendship The Mission Personnel A LIST of "Material Suggested for WHILE the number of new mis- Religious Programs Emphasiz- sionaries sailing in 1929 was a ing Peace and World Friendship" has 24% increase over that for 1928, and been prepared by a committee of the 48% over the number for 1927 – a Women's International League for trend in the right direction – this Peace and Freedom, Pennsylvania gain does not offset the yearly loss Branch, in response to widespread re- due to retirement, ill health or death. quests for help in making up exercises It is estimated that the mission boards for Sunday-schools. churches. clubs, of North America need to send out schools, etc., which would carry the approximately 1,000 new missionaries spirit of international goodwill. The annually to maintain the present staffs. list includes groups of Bible selections, hymns, prayers, worship services, Thirty per cent of the number sailplays and pageants, posters, books for ing in 1929 are men, 18% are married reference and general material easily women and 52% are single women. available at the source and price stated Sixteen per cent completed seminary for each item. Single copies of the training, 10% were physicians and leaflet may be obtained free of charge, surgeons, and 9% nurses. Nineteen or in quantity at two cents each, from per cent are going out from Bible or the Women's International League for Missionary Training Schools, some of Peace and Freedom, Pennsylvania these are also college or university Headquarters, 1924 Chestnut Street, graduates, and 46% have had college Philadelphia. or university training plus some ex- perience. Only 7% went to the field Leprosy Serulll Found1 under a short-term appointment. It is interesting to note that the average T EPROSY still grips between two age of these new missionaries is a .l..J and three million sufferers, most little over twenty-eight years – ac- tually four-tenths of a year older than of these are herded into colonies which the average of those sailing in 1928J dot the globe. There they are treated. revealing that the Boards, for the most often cured. Last month Bacteriologist part, are accepting those with more Hermann Dostal, of Vienna, an- training and experience. – Student nounced that he had isolated the lep- Volunteer Movement Bulletin. rosy bacillus and developed a serum. One problem which has always con- Baptists Have Semi-Jubilee fronted scientists attempting to isolate the bacillus has been a means of keep- THE Baptist World Alliance this ing it alive once it was removed from year completes its first quarter centhe human body. Dr. Dostal's success tury. Conventions, unions and mislay in developing a culture medium. sions in more than 65 countries are Another difficulty: animals not being now in affiliation with the Alliance. susceptible to leprosy, it is necessary It has strengthened the sense of Bapto experiment with humans. tist fellowship throughout the world. It was able even before the War to do

something for religious liberty in to the principles of humanity, and that Russia, and to assist in other Con- materialism as a fundamental means tinental lands. Since the War it has of power never has been a durable accomplished much more. The London base for great democracies. – Latin Conference of 1920, which initiated American Evangelist. relief work and missionary cooperation in Europe, marked a new era. Turning Over Control Rumania is a notable instance of its success in advocating the cause of TWO fields of the United Christian freedom of conscience. In South Missionary Society have adopted America the first Latin-American plans for self-support. Following Baptist Congress was held at Rio de Jamaica, which last year worked out Janeiro in June, 1930, when Dr. Rush- a plan for self-support within six brooke, General Secretary, was pres- years, Porto Rican churches will atent. In Europe, the President, Dr. tempt to reach this goal in ten years. John MacNeill, will, with the General It is understood that the current ex- Secretary, undertake during August, pense budget will be reduced each September and October an extended year ten per cent of the present year's tour, in order to participate in a num- budget, and that appropriations, inber of regional conferences. stead of being made to the pastor, will now be made to the churches. Churches LATIN AME:aICA will be able to make their own pro- grams, decide what their pastor's sal- Neglected Paraguay ary shall be, and after they have made provisions for the ten per cent reduc- T HE Inland South America Mission- tion, they will work out as large a ary Union has had work in Para- program as they can undertake. The guay for 25 years. It has six organ- territory includes about 300 square ized churches and a Bible School at miles on the north central side of the Villarica. Dr. J. Nairn Hay, born in Island, the population of which is Paraguay of missionary parents, has about 130,000, an average of 438 peobeen assigned to medical work in this ple to the square mile. There are 28 field. Because of Paraguayan birth, churches, with a combined memberhis name can be entered in the Na- ship of 1,379, and 16 well-trained national Medical Register without ex- tive pastors.-World Call. amination. Institnto Christao Paraguay has only 16 missionaries, of whom 7 are in Asuncion, the largest T HE South Brazil Mission of the city. About 600,000 of the people are Presbyterian Church organized the of Indian descent. Instituto Chris tao in 1915, and it has developed to such an extent that a re- Mexico Desires Peace construction program is under way to meet the needs of the present student T HE Rector of the University of body, which has grown from forty-two Mexico recently sent a message to to more than eighty-five boarding stuthe University of Guatemala, advo- dents. The school is organized on the cating the establishment of interna- self-help plan, but there is an increastional or Pan-American universities, ing number of students who pay more with instructors and students drawn and work less. The Institute's most from all countries. These universities important work has been the developshould study pacific means of solving ment of students for Christian leaderinternational problems; inquire into ship. Students are given opportunithe methods now used by the mighty ties to direct worship and teach Sunto exploit the humble; study a plan day-schools in near-by communities. of economic exchanges based on co- They take the initiative in Christian operation, and not on exploitation of Endeavor meetings, expressing themforeign markets; preach that exploitation of man by man is contrary

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selves in their own way.-Women and Campaign has taken root, and we trust Missions. that God will use this wonderful op- portunity to spread His Kingdom in "Indian America." this nation. It is encouraging to see almost all the churches united in this A SECTION of Central and South Campaign and our ambition to mobil- America has been called "the ize all the Christian forces now seems greatest stretch of unevangelized ter- practicable. We increasingly realize ritory in the world." It might fit- that God has his own plan to Christingly be called "Indian America." In tianize this country. I have visited 1924 the Commission on Indian Work the annual conferences of various dein Latin America was organized to nominations this spring, and was study and promote missionary work warmly received everywhere. In the being done by the denominational coming three years the Movement will boards among these neglected people. surely bring the churches to more The Commission is now making an ex- close cooperation and mutual undertensive survey of the evangelistic work standing." carried on by thirty-four mission boards and philanthropic agencies. Growth of Press Evangelism Dr. W. E. Browning says: "Although the work being done for Indians is NEWSPAPER evangelism was betragically inadequate, in one country gun in Oita by Dr. Albertus there are now fourteen stations where Pieters about fifteen years ago. Since three years ago there was but one." then over 100,000 people have applied for further information about Chris- The recent intellectual and spiritual tianity as a result of articles in daily awakening in Latin America has a papers. Limited finances alone have bearing upon the Indian. Says Dr. prevented this total from being much John Mackay: "South America is higher. The average number of approbably the only great region of the plications from a single newspaper world in which there is no deep-rooted article is about one hundred, though racial prejudice. It is today the it has been four times that number, world's largest crucible of race fusion, and the rate shows but little sign of from which no race is excluded. Since falling off. In recognition of this, the war, South America is developing several papers have established a rea new sense of humanity and of human ligious column as a regular feature. values, and feels that a destiny awaits Editors consider it good "copy." her. She is thus in a position to show Whereas in the past, the newspaper a new conception of brotherhood." evangelist has had to pay advertising rates, he is going to be able to fix JAPAN-KOREA terms for articles which the press de- mands. Kingdom of God MoveDlent Goes For- At present newspaper work is car- ward ried on in different centers, by de- nominational offices, united in an REV. AKIRA EBISAWA, General organization called the Japan Chris- Secretary of the National Chris- tian Press Agency, with headquarters tian Council of Japan, writes regard- in Tokyo. A step further has been ing further progress of the Kingdom an experiment tried in connection with of God Movement: mentholatum. The agency for its dis- tribution is in the hands of a Chris- "God is doing wonderful work tian firm, and an arrangement has among us these days. Sixty district been made with them by which every committees are already organized, and packet sold contains a short notice we have held meetings in forty places about Christianity, inviting the purduring three months. We shall further chaser to apply to the offices of the press forward to help organized local committees and are expecting the organization will practically cover all the country before summer. We feel the

Agency for further information. Al- evangelistic work, and one more as- ready some thousands of such applica- surance is given that missionaries are tions have been received. needed and most earnestly wanted in Japan for genuine labors of love and Seventy Years' Growth cooperation.-Christian Century.

SEVENTEEN hundred churches, Hostility Gives Way 300 of them self-supporting, a combined membership of 172,000 is A MI S S ION A R Y in Syenchun the accomplishment of Protestant mis- writes: "Some of the difficulties sions in 70 years. But there are more which used to take the joy out of life non-Christians in Japan today than in Chosen have all but disappeared. when the first missionaries came. Chief among these is the former Then the population was 30,000,000, hostile attitude of the educational autoday it exceeds 60,000,000. Among thorities. The regulations are still the practically untouched groups are exceedingly difficult to comply with at to be classified 36,000,000 farmers, times and the red tape annoying, but 2,500,000 fisher folk, 400,000 seamen, the personal hostility of the officials 500,000 miners, of whom 83,000 are has been replaced by a most encouragwomen, 500,000 maid-servants and ing and friendly attitude. They seem waitresses and added millions in other really to want to help us and to see groups. our school succeed. I was astonished about two weeks ago to receive notice Japan is the most adult of all the of a subsidy from the Government, a eastern nations in the record of de- very small sum to be sure, but sigvelopment. More than 99% of her nificant in what it implies of recogyouth attend school. She wishes to nition. I was invited to accompany a stand high in the respect of other na- Japanese school inspector and one of tions. Although the number of pub- the Japanese teachers of the local govlicly professed Christians is compara- erment common school on a tour of tively small, Christianity is now inspection of the schools of the provdefinitely recognized as one of the incial capital at Wi-ju. At all of the religions of Japan, and holds an equal schools which we visited I was treated place with Shintoism and Buddhism. most courteously. Visitors, other than officials whose duty it is to inspect us, Prevent Mission "Cut" come to us frequently from the Jap- anese schools. Our new building gives T HE missionaries of the Methodist us more confidence in meeting them." Episcopal Church in annual session in Tokyo recently faced the unpleasant AFRICA task of adjusting their budget so as to suffer least from an approximate 19 New Church in French Guinea per cent cut in funds from America. Economize as they might in a budget T AST January the cornerstone – in which had already been greatly re- L this case, a brick – was laid at duced during the past few years, they saw no possibility of making ends" meet Kissidougou for the first native church without dropping work undertaken of French Guinea. Evangelistic work years ago, when suddenly the repre- in the area is only four years old. sentatives of the Japan Methodist This church is being built entirely by Church, who had been admitted with the native Christians and promises to some misgivings to mission adminis- be not only an inspiration to the imtrative councils, volunteered to return mediate vicinity but to other sections part of the annual mission grant to of French Guinea as well. The need their church for purposes of their own among such a people is always for a development and expansion. The mis- native leader, and such a leader was sion budget was balanced, no mission- developed during the past year, aries need drop native pastors or other Kelawa, whose life had been a wild

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one, brutal to those who were in his lems. "Each mission, to a great depower, and wicked in his influence gree," continues Dr. Butterfield in a everywhere. Victory came when he report issued by the Corporation, accepted Christ. Others have asked "does 'that which is right in its own for baptism. The women have organ- eyes,' and this is all but true of indiized their own prayer-meeting and vidual missionaries. Personal freedom have chosen their leader. and initiative must be maintained, but the enterprise is losing headway be- Allleriean Boa.rd Jubilee cause of the lack of coordinated ap- proach to the problem. I N BAILUNDO, May 16 to 25, a great celebration marked a half "It is particularly noticeable that century of work by the American there is an insufficient amount of com- Board in West Central Africa. From mon ground of activity between the America, a group of twenty repre- missionary forces and indigenous sented the interests of friends, with European churches. They should pull Dr. F. K. Sanders as special envoy of together for the one task of Christian the Board. Five goals, adopted five leadership in the highest measure of years ago in anticipation of this development of the country as a whole. Jubilee, have been practically fulfilled. Nor is there a sufficiently close under- standing between missionaries and the 1. A deepening of the spiritual life Government in regard to desirable acof the church, tivities on behalf of the natives. These elements of the situation are clearly 2. An ordained ministry-one pas- recognized by many missionaries who tor for each station to receive ordina- fondly hope that in the early future tion, thus laying the responsibility these larger issues of the missionary upon the native church itself. enterprise may be not only recognized, but acted upon." 3. The whole Bible translated. 4. The consecration of many young Links With Livingstone lives, both African and American. Several young African couples have MATTHEW WELLINGTON, one of gone out to different tribes to make a the faithful band who embalmed beginning, and it is hoped that from Livingstone's body and carried it to America there will be this year two the coast to lie at rest among the great or three new missionaries. missionary's own people, was found to 5. Consecrated gifts. The· gifts of be living in poverty in Mombasa, an the African Church have greatly in- old man of 85 years. Although apcreased. On the American side this peals from many quarters were made was to take the form of $100,000 as a to the government of Kenya Colony, Jubilee Fund of which about $75,000 they failed to secure a pension for the has been received in gifts and pledges. aged servant, who was formerly fore- man in the public works department Dr. Butterfield on South Africa of that colony. A general appeal was therefore issued in behalf of this loyal T HE time has arrived when the man, and his old age has been amply missionary forces in South Africa provided for. should be mobilized and united on all the larger issues. Only so can the Lazarus Raikane, a native of Africa, greatest usefulness of missionary work 104 years old, has been discovered livbe realized," says Dr. Kenyon L. ing in the Transvaal. When he was Butterfield, member of the Interna- fifteen years old, Livingstone engaged tional Missionary Council and Vice- him as a herd boy and later made him President of the American Board of his personal servant. As such he was Commissioners for Foreign Missions, with Livingstone when he discovered who was appointed early in 1929, by Victoria Falls, and he tells how the the Carnegie Corporation of New latter fell on his knees and prayed. York, as a visitor to South Africa to study sociological and rural life prob-

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The Saviours of Mankind. By William R. wide range of historical, biographical VanBuskirk. 527 pp. $3.00. Macmillan. New York. and religious subjects.

The title of this interesting book Pi~neers of Goodwill. By Harold B. Hunt- mg. 142 pp. Illustrated. $1 cloth. will attract some people and arouse the 75c paper. Friendship Press. . New York. 1929. misgiving of others who believe that there is only One to whom the term This attractive little book tells the Saviour should be applied. In justice stories of twelve men and women who to the author, however, who acceptably have lived remarkable lives of service ministers to a conservative Presby- for others in the United States. John terian Church in Marshall Missouri Eliot, Henry Muhlenberg, Junipera it should be said that his object is not Serra, Bishop Whipple, General Arm- to discuss the founders of Christianity strong, Lucy Laney, Sheldon Jackson, and the ethnic faiths as if they be- Hudson Stuck, Frank Higgins, Cora long~d in the same category, but to Stewart, Roswell Bates, Arthur Nash.

consIder the part that each of the his- The early history of New England and toric religions has played in the life of California, the pioneer days in the mankind, the contribution that it has Wes~, the southern mountains, the made to the development of humanity, openmg of Alaska, and the great cities and the degree to which it was in- with their slums and industrial prob- fluenced by the conditions amid which lems give the varied backgrounds. The it arose. TGhaeutacmhaap, tZeorsroaosnteLr,aoA-aTkzhe~ stories begin with interesting inci- Confucius, dents which win the attIenntitohin~ and the naton, Moses, Isaiah, Socrates, Saul of interest never flags. age of Tarsus, and Mohammed are admirably emphasis on material success, this done, showing careful study, a sym- book presents another ideal in fasci- pathetic recognition of these remark- nating stories of heroism, adventure able men, their mental and spiritual and self sacrifice with remarkable reaction to the evils of their time, the achievements that will make such lives measure of good in their teachings, seem worth while to young people. To and the failure of their systems to champion the Indians, to start a school effect any real salvation of society. for Negroes just out of slavery, to in- The chapter on Jesus contains some troduce reindeer into Alaska, to be a sentences, which, if taken by them- sky pilot to lumberjacks, to found selves, we deem unfortunate, but it is moonlight schools, to apply the Golden only fair to interpret them in the light Rule to business-are not such things of such statements as these: "To bring enough to kindle the desire to serve this life and immortality to light Jesus others in young hearts!

taught and suffered death on Calvary. MRS. S. G. WILSON.

Without him this door of hope would not have been opened to a fearful and Tiger! Tiger! The Life Story of John hungering world. . . . .. This is that 2B9.6 Gpopu.gh.$2.5B0y. HWomno.reMoWrr.owMo&rroCwo.. New York. way and truth and life which over- This is one of the most absorbing comes and savesthe world." The book reveals extensive reading, ripe scholar- life stories that we have ever read. ship, deep and yet clear thinking on a 554

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It is trite to say of an interesting French and Indian War. It was this book that, once begun, the reader can- Irishman who held the powerful Ironot lay it down until it is finished, but quois tribes in hand for the English it is literally true of this book. Mrs. when their alliance with the French Morrow has a genius for making her would have meant ruin for the colocharacters lifelike. The figure of the nies. In his extensive commercial, great temperance reformer stands viv- political and military operations, he idly before us in the pages of this vol- was singularly upright in an era when ume; his childhood, his home in graft and corruption were notoriously England, his voyage to America, his common. The Indians trusted him as varied experiences in trying to make they did no other man. There is somea living, his temptations and falls, his thing fascinating about the life of terrific struggles against an imperious this extraordinary man, who, in a appetite for drink, his final victory, stormy frontier period of struggles and the magnificent eloquence of his and tragedies, ruled like a great feuspeeches on thousands of platforms to dal lord over a vast and turbulent revast alldiences of spellbound hearers- gion, the most potent figure in the prethese and other facts and incidents of revolutionary history of our country. his life are protrayed with masterly Mr. Pound has told the story well. skill. Mrs. Morrow has rendered a His style is occasionally rather flipgreat service in her biographical story pant, a little beneath the dignity that of this rarely gifted man. Her narra- one expecets in the biography of a tive throbs with a human interest that great man; but he clothes his subject stirs one's soul. with human interest and his narrative is easy reading. lohnson of the Mohawks, by Arthur Ways of Sharing with Other Faiths. By Pound in Collaberation with Richard Daniel J. Fleming. 268 pp. $2.50. As- sociation Press. New York. 1929. E. Day, Litt.D.; 555 pp. $5.00. Mac- millan. New York. This book presents along modern educational lines a comprehensive This is a biographical and historical evaluation of the methods of missionwork of large value. It rescues from ary activity in its contacts with other near oblivion one of the most remarka- religions. It is a companion volume to ble men in early American history. the author's recently published book, A few biographies and magazine ar- "Attitudes Toward Other Faiths." ticles have been published. But few, Professor Fleming presents his subif any, have dealt adequately with his ject under three main divisions: ways achievements or set him in his proper differing in aggressiveness, in inducehistorical perspective. Without injus- ments, and in educational emphasis, tice to other writers, it is not too with a final summary from the viewmuch to say that Mr. Pound has now point of ethics. "Such a study," done this for the first time. rightly observes the author, "ought to clarify our positions, give us deeper He had exceptional facilities in the sympathy with other peoples' objeccooperation of Dr. Richard E. Day, tives, and possibly show us unexpected Editor in the State Historian's Office, ways of God's working." New York, who "for nearly twentyfive years worked steadily on the John- From a wide experience Professor son papers and is the acknowledged Fleming approaches the problems and authority on the life of William John- opportunities created by. the increasson." The volume shows that these ing contacts of Christian workers with sources were thoroughly used and the those of other faiths, and from a comstatements of fact are documented in prehensive study of actual situations a way that begets confidence in their builds up a technique for sharing our reliability. Christian faith in which the emphasis To Johnson more than to any other man belongs the credit for saving the northern colonies from France in the

is upon goodwill and respect for per- which he bases his belief in the virgin sOll3lity in the spirit of Him who said, "He that is not against us is for us." birth. Could anything be finer than While the boo k will challenge the following splendid passage on page thought and provoke discussion as to the validity of certain missionary 381: methods, and also as to the measure of zeal which a conviction as to the su- The story of the virgin birth is the premacy and sufficiency of Christian story of a stupendous. miracle, and revelation necessarily creates, the ob- against any such thing there is an enorject is constructive. Professor Flem- mous presumption drawn from the long ing makes his own position clear: "If experience of the race. As it is, howany Christian cannot see other faiths ever, that presumption can be overcome at their best and still believe that he when the tradition of the virgin birth is has something priceless to give, he is removed from its isolation and taken in not adequately equipped in experience connection with the whole glorious picto be a Christian missionary." The ture of the One who in this tradition is book should interest all Christian said to be virgin-born. It is a fact of workers and should be carefully history, which no serious historian can studied by those contemplating work deny, that in the first century of our era on the foreign field. there walked upon this earth One who was like none other among the children The Virgin Birth of Christ. By J. Gres- of men. Reduce the sources of informa- ham Machen. 415 pp. $5. Harpers. tion all you will, and still that mysteri- New York. 1930. ous figure remains, that figure who is Professor Machen is by temperament attested in the Epistles of Paul, that figure who walks before us in lifelike, a controversialist. Some good people self-evidencing fashion in the Gospels, regard him as the most valiant de- that figure upon whom the Christian fender of orthodoxy in this generation. Church was built. Many have been the Others deem him too belligerent in efforts to explain Him in terms of what advocating his views and too severe is common to mankind, to explain Him in denouncing fellow Christians who, as a product of forces elsewhere operaequally loyal to Christ, consider his tive in the world. Those explanations methods unwise. But however opin- may satisfy the man who treats the eviions may differ as to his general dence, in pedantic fashion, bit by bit; course, we are inclined to think that but they will never satisfy the man who his critics, as well as his supporters, can view the whole. View Jesus in the should welcome this volume and give light of God arid against the dark backit high rating. No equally able advo- ground of sin, view him as the satisfaccacy of the historic belief of the tion of man's deepest need, as the One church in the virgin birth of our Lord who alone can lead into aU glory and all has appeared since the late Professor truth, and you will come, despite all, to James Orr's classic work which was the stupendous conviction that the New published twenty-three years ago. It Testament is true, that God walked here shows thorough familiarity with the upon the earth, that the eternal Son, behistory and literature of the subject. cause He loved us, came into this world Its argument is closely reasoned and to die for our sins upon the cross. When lucidly expressed. The various the- you have arrived at that conviction, you ories and objections are stated and will turn with very different eyes to the helpfully analyzed. Not every evan- story of the virgin and her child. Wongelical believer will concur in some of ders will no longer repel you. Rather his statements, or regard some of his will you say: "So and so only did it bearguments as sound. But all must hoove this One, as distinguished from all recognize the ability and learning of others, to be born." the discussion, its wide range of thought, and the solid foundation on The Mormon Way. By Claton S. Rice. 87 pp. Paper. 55c. Pilgrim Press. Chi- cago.

This is a remarkably clear and able statement by the Superintendent of the Montana Congregational Confer- ence. Dr. Rice has thoroughly in- formed himself regarding the Mor- mon problem, has been in direct contact with it for many years, and is a dependable authority on the sub- ject.

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How Came Our Constitution f By Mary owned homes, of motor cars, radios, Clark Barnes. 98 pp. $1. Revell. washing machines, and the entire list New York. of home conveniences and comforts. He concludes that prohibition is an Americans are being exhorted to unqualified economic success, the honor and obey the Constitution but source of that new kind of prosperity one wonders how many have really and richer order of living that have read it or know its history. Out of distinguished America during the curiosity, we recently inquired for a past decade. copy at a public library and several book stores. None of them had it! BRIEF MENTION This little book surely meets a "felt need," for it gives the full text of the Space limits permit only brief men- Constitution and just the information tion of several small books whose inabout it that everyone ought to know. terest is out of proportion to their size. The Jesus Road and the Red Man. By G. E. E. Linquist. 155 pp. $1.50. Revell. HIS GOSPEL OF LIFE, LOVE AND LIGHT New York. 1929. is a deeply spiritual account of the Gospel and First Epistle of John by Mr. Linquist, a missionary of the the Rev. Dr. Norman B. Harrison, Society for Propagating the Gospel published by the Bible Institute Col- Among the Indians in North America portage Association of Chicago, 75c. and author -of "The Red Man in the WHOSOEVER SHALL RECEIVE . . . is an United States," has gathered into this illustrated English book by Mary Warvolume a series of Bible studies used burton Booth, from the press of Marin discussion groups while he was Di- shall, Morgan and Scott, Ltd. The rector of Religious Education in Has- author is a missionary of the Zenana kell (Indian) Institute. He uses a Bible and Medical Mission, and she vocabulary readily understood by writes in a charmingly attractive way youth of whatever color. He speaks about the children of India. of the Bible as "The Wayfarer's Guide-Book" and of Christ as the REUBEN ARCHER TORREY, by Robert "Great Pathfinder." Practical iIIus- Harkness, who was long associated trations are drawn from the experi- with Dr. Torrey as musical associate, ences of missionaries among the gives a fine account of the man who Indians. He shows how cruel fighters mightily stirred vast audiences in became transformed by the love of Europe and America by his remarka- Christ. At the end of each chapter bly able evangelistic appeals. The book he gives readers "Something to Think will be of special interest to Christian About" by employing questions to de- workers everywhere. It is published velop original thinking. Teen-age and at $1. by the Bible Institute Colporyoung peoples' groups will welcome tage Association, Chicago. his direct and forceful method of presenting Bible truths. COE HAYNE. PILGRIM'S PROGRESS IN PAGEANT, by Bernard C. Clausen and Florence L. Prohibition and Prosperity. By Samuel Purington (American Tract Society, Crowther. 81 pp. $1. The John Day New York, 60c), presents a series of Company. New York. seven effective pageants taken from Bunyan's immortal allegory. It is ad- Most discussions of prohibition deal mirably adapted to the use of churches with it as a moral issue. This small and young peoples societies. but effective book deals with it as an economic issue. The author undertook ON THE THRESHOLD OF THE CENthe study at the instance of the TURY is a historical ~ketch of the Ladies' Home Journal, whose editor Karen Mission by Harry T. and Emma highly commends his findings. He W. Marshall, which was prepared in casts up a balance sheet of prohibition connection with the recent centennial in terms of savings accounts and celebration of the splendid missionary work in Burma. This paper covered

booklet includes such good material authoritative book. The author had that it ought to be expanded into a made a careful study of the Sudan volume. and the fact that his account has the endorsement of the Church Missionary EAST AFRICA is an illustrated Society of the Church of England is pamphlet of 67 pages in the Africa guarantee of its character and value. and the East Series issued by the Church Missionary Society, London. INDIA ON THE MARCH, by Alden H. Like the other booklets of this series, Clark, ($1. M. E. M., New York) is it is exceedingly interesting. a new edition of a book originally pub- lished in 1922 by a secretary of the LEPROSY IN THE FAR EAST is a A. B. C. F. M., who was formerly a pamphlet monograph of 67 pages by missionary in India. When a book Dr. Robert G. Cochrane of the World published eight years ago has proved Dominion Press, London. It presents so acceptable that a new edition is a wide range of valuable facts from called for, the prospective purchaser one who was formerly a medical mis- may wisely conclude that it is one of sionary in China, who has made a permanent value that he ought to special study of leprosy, and is one of have. the first living authorities on the subject. FREEDOM, by Welthy Honsinger Fisher, (85c. Friendship Press, New THE CHRISTMAS TREE AND OTHER York), is a charmingly told illustrated NATURE POE¥S is an attractive pamph- story of "Young India" by an author let in which Elizabeth M. Bruen of whose former books have been widely Belvedere, New Jersey, has gathered read. It is just the kind of a book some of her poems which have been to put into the hands of young people published in various newspapers and and it will interest them both in India have elicited the appreciation of many and in missionary work. readers. BAHINABAI. This is a translation of MISSIONS OUR MISSION. By M. E. the autobiography of a Hindu woman Dodd, D.D. is a textbook for mission of 300 years ago, by the Rev. Justin study classes prepared by the pastor E. Abbott who has made a specialty of of the First Baptist Church and the the Maharashtra saints snd who turns President of Dodd College of Shreve- their writings into excellent English. port, La., and published by the Sun- The verses contain thoughts on reliday-school Board of the Southern Con- gion, philosophy, and the practical vention at Nashville (60c). It presents duties of life. The volume is published in a graphic way the missionary work in India, but obtainable from the of that great denomination and the translator, at Summit, New Jersey. reasons for giving it more adequate $1.25. support. SHEEP OF THE OUTER FOLD is a series BOOKS FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE of stories of neighborhood house work in a great city by Florence H. Towne, A delightfully interesting series of Superintendent of Erie Chapel Insti- missionary books for children is being tute, Chicago, and published by the issued by the Friendship Press, New Fleming H. Revell Co., New York York. Five of them are before us, ($1). This little book throbs with Little Kin Chan, by Berthre Harris human interest. Converse; The Story of Musa, by Mary Entwistler; Rafrel and Consuelo, A TOUR IN THE NEAR EAST is the by Florence Crannell Means and Hartitle of a well written and illustrated riet L. Fuller; Filipino Playmates, by little book of travel in Bible lands by Jean Moore Cavell; and Jewels the James Hunter. Marshall, Morgan & Giant Dropped, by Edith Eberle and Scott, London ($1.40). Grace McGavran. The first is $1.25, the others are $1 each. To these we THE CHANGING SUDAN, by W. Wilson Cash, (40c, paper C. M. S., London) is a small but an interesting and

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may add Trophies from the Mission- Between the Desert and the Sea. By I. ary Museum, by Clementina Butler, Lilias Trotter. Illustrated in colors. published at $1 by the Fleming H. Re- 63 pp. 68. London. 1929. vell Company, New York. These attractive little books present stories and Miss Trotter was an artist with incidents graphically told. We cannot brush and pen and used her art to imagine more charming books for par- picture scenes related to the field and ents to read to their children. One may work to which she devoted her life be confident of the keen interest of the as a Christian missionary in Algiers. children and the information regard- These ten brief sketches, with sixteen ing missionary work and Christians in pages of beautiful illustrations from other lands which they will receive. Miss Trotter's own paintings describe Algiers, the ancient pirate city and Two other attractive books for Jun- its modern inhabitants as seen by one iors are "The Golden Sparrow," by who has the Spirit of Christ. Then Irene Mason Harper (Friendship there pass in view scenes from vil- Press, $1), an interesting course on lages and mountains with glimpses of India for Junior boys and girls, writ- the people, their ideas, their homes, ten out of the experiences of a mis- their customs and religion. Much insionary in India where she assists her formation in charming style is given husband, the Rev. Arthur Edwin about Algiers, its people and history. Harper, in the famous school at Moga; and "Adventuring in Peace and Good- Pickering and Inglis, London, pubwill," by Annie Sills Brooks (Pilgrim lish the following seven books: Press, $1), a ten-day Junior vacation school course admirably adapted to Her Husband's Home. By E. Everett develop among children the spirit of Green, $1. appreciation for peoples in other countries. Neta Lyall. By Berry. 80 cents.

Everyland Children. By Lucy W. Pea- For Coronet or Crown. By Tettman. 60 body. The Central Committee on The cents. United Study of Foreign Missions. Cambridge, Mass. 1929. Herself and Her Boy. By Amy Le Feuvre. It would be difficult to imagine a $1.

more charming collection of "Just Like EJdwyth's Choice. By L. A. Barter Snow. You Stories" for little girls and boys $1. than this series of six illustrated booklets. They have been prepared by the Here are stories for young people well-known Mrs. Henry W. Peabody, who are facing life's tragedies· and for twenty-five years Chairman of the emerging victorious with Christ's help. Central Committee, and President of One feels throughout the pulse of the Federation of Women's Boards of human, normal living, with daily prob- Foreign Missions. Each story is short, lems that are always new and yet told in a simple graphic way, abound- poignant. There is romance, too, in ing in picturesque incidents, breath- clean, invigorating surroundings. ing a spirit of sympathetic understanding of child life, and adorned Tales of Modern Missionaries. By Jeanne with pictures delightful to the eye and M. Serrell. 155 pp. $1.50. Revell, suggestive to the mind. We are sure New York. 1929. that parents and teachers who read these stories to their children and The author "affectionately" dediteach them the short prayers which cates her book "to all boys and girls accompany them will not only entrance of teen age who desire to make their the little ones but find their own sym- lives count." Its five biographical pathies deeply moved. chapters describe Lewis Esselstyn, of Persia; Barbrooke Grubb, of South America; Albert L. Shelton, of Tibet; Ida Scudder, of India, and John Henry House of Salonica. The Rev. Philip Smead Bird, Pastor of the Church of the Covenant, Cleveland, writes the

Foreword in which he says that "these Syrian culture and civilization. The fascinating stories by Miss Serrell are book is beautifully illustrated, and is not homilies; they are stirring re- characterized by literary grace as well ports of astounding events. They are as charming description. not pious, long-faced ramblings; they are healthy, happy adventures …… ! The White House Gang. By Earle Looker. You can accomplish splendid things 12 mo. 244 pp. $3. Illustrated. Refor Him now and every day of your vell. New York. 1929. life, if you'll catch the spirit of high This is one of the jolliest books climbing in these five tales which sound so clearly the call to the sort of imaginable. It teams with accounts of livi1lg that really matters!" boyish pranks and rollicking fun in about the last place where one would The Magic Doll of Boumania. By Queen expect to find such hilarity-the White Marie. 319 pp. $3. F. A. Stokes Co., House in Washington. The numerous New York. people who stood in awe of President It would be difficult to mention a Roosevelt in his lifetime and who, since his death, have placed him on a more intriguing combination than pedestal of fame as one of the imsuch a title and such an author. The mortals, might regard this volume as book is dedicated to the boys and girls Iese-majeste, but inasmuch as his of America as "a token that I have widow is quoted as having written to not forgotten your welcome, your the author "of the pleasure which you friendship" during a visit to the have given me," we may chuckle un- United States. It is a charmingly in- abashed over these pages. Incidentally, teresting story, told in a vivid and the book throws a vivid sidelight upon picturesque manner, just the kind of the personality of a President who a book to delight young readers. Nor was a good deal of a boy himself as is the interest confined to the young well as a great President. A touch of for, as Queen Marie justly says, "ro- pathos is added by the thought that mance joins together all people who Quentin Roosevelt, who is the chief are young in heart, whatever their figure in the book, was killed in the ages,' wherever their homes." She World War. Several illustrations add pictures a little American girl who is to the attractiveness of the volume. "magiced" over the sea to Roumania, prances delightedly among the vil- A New Era in Missions. By Homer E. lages and over the countryside, has a Wark. 187 pp. $1.50. Revell. New wonderful adventure with the Queen York. 1929. herself in an old summer castle by the sea, and is then whisked back to Amer- This is a book that should be read ica. The book is beautifully illus- by every student of Foreign Missions trated and would make a delightful at home and every missionary on the gift for children. foreign field. It is a searching reex- amination of the validity of the mis- Under Syrian Stars. By Princess Rahme sionary idea in religion, its motives Haidar. 192 pp. $2. Revell, New and aims. Many readers will find in York. 1929. it welcome confirmation of their views. This is an altogether delightful Others, who have not kept pace with the changes in missionary thinking, book. The author, a graduate of a will be startled; and still others, who mission college in Beirut, is a Syrian concur in the author's general position, princess, able to trace her lineage will find some statements which they back to the Arab tribe of Beni-Ghassan challenge. All alike, however, will be which ruled in Damascus nearly two benefited by a perusal of this volume. thousand years ago. Her book is the Bishop Herbert Welsh, formerly Methproduct of personal knowledge, sym- odist Episcopal Bishop in Korea, pathetic understanding, and unusual writes the Foreword in which he facilities for interpreting the best in says that "Dr. Wark has lived and