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TWENTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL REPORT

OF THE

CONFERENCE

OF THE

MISSIONARIES

OF THE

,

AMERICAN BA PTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOClETY IN JAPAN

HELD IN

ARIMA, JUNE "4-9, 1916

INCLUDING MINUTES AND REPORTS OF COMMITTEES

KOBE

THE FUKUIN PRINTING COMPANY, LIMITED

1916.

It has been suggested that some porlion of the Saturday following

the first Sunday of each month sho:lld b! observed by all our missionaries

as a season of speCial prayer far God's blessing 011 ollr Baptis! work and

workers, and it was further suggested thai we also remember the same objects

daily in the prayer offered at the 1Ioon-meal.

(Additional copies of this rep.')rt can be secured from the Literature

Department, American Baptist Foreign Mission Society, Ford Building,

Boston, Ma,s, U.S.A., or from ti. A.. Thomson, Conf. See'y., 36 Kitano-cbo,

Nichome, Kobe, Japan. (PJUCE FlltTEEN CENTS ou'rSlDE JAPAN AND TWEN'CY

S2N IN JAPAN).

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FOREWORD HEREIN YOU WILL FIND

THE RECORD OF THE YEAR'S \VORK OF

THE MIS~IONARIES OF THE AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN

MISSION SOCIETY IN ]Al' .. \N

Those able to read between the lines can see that personally and collectively we are alive to World Problems, and that we are trying to measure up to the moral and religious needs and opportu­nities presented by new \Vorld Conditions.

\Ve believe th.1t the Gospel is the IVlessage for the situation. To this end we lay stress on a better trained Japlnese leadership, and a better correlation of all the factors of our mission. Because it looks toward the better and more speedy evangdizaticn and Christianiza­tion of Japan we b~Iive in the emphasis of the -stated policy of the Home Board on intensive work; and to this end we are as rapidly as consistent with normal development adapting our plans for the administration of what in the providence of God has been commit­ted to us as a demomination in this Empire.

However formal the mere recital of plans and statistics may seem missionary life in Japan has in it the reality, the joy. and the enthusiasm that accompany consecrated service any where.

Pioneer days have for the most part passed away. OUf pro­blems are the far more complex ones of construction. co-operation with other forces. and adaptation of means and message to the re­ligious needs of the people. The Great God is at work in this great Empire. To co-labor with Him, both in plan and practice. calls for just such work as is reported in this Annual. We trust that a read­ing of the record will inspire many to pray and plan and give toward the furtherance of the Master's work in Japan.

Introduction. Reports by Station Yokohama

Station Report Evening School. Dormitory

CONTENTS.

Kanagawa Girls' School (Muy L. Colby Home) Tokyo.

Station Report Theological Seminary Duncan Academy Misaki-cho Tabernacle Girls' School (Sarah Curtis Home) . Waseda Dormitory Young Women's Dormitory Kindergarten Training School Kindergartens

Kobe Station Report Zenrin Kindergartens. Loo-Choo Kindergarten

Sendai Station Report Bible Woman's Work Girls' School (Ella O. Patrick Home)

Morioka Station Report Women's Work. Kindergarten.

Q.>aka Station Report \\'omen's Work. Bible Training School

" " Revised Constitution and By-Laws Mito

Station Report Fukuin Mll'U

Station Report

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24 25 26 2B 34 35 37 38 42 43 46

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55 56 59 61 61 62 63 65 66

Himeji. Station Report Girls'School (Hinomoto Jogakko). Ikuno Kindergarten

Kyoto. Station Report

Constitution and By-Laws of Conference Minutes of 28th Annual Session Reports of Committees, etc

Co-operating Committee Correspondence with Home Board. Correspon:ience with Mission Children Kirisuto-Kyoho BJard Federated Missions " Gleanings" Interdenominational Scripture Revision. Language Study Mission Church Property Committee Publication Committee Financial Statement Shadan. Educational Missions. Statistical Report Union Hymnal Baptist Hymns Co-operating Committee. Union Theological Seminary Woman's Christian Union College

Special Committees Resolutions Time and Place of next Session

Appendix: A. Publications B. Treasurer's Report C. Visitors D. Anniversaries E. Directory F. Officers and Committees G. General Index (19:>6-19(7)

H. Statistical Table

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REPORTS BY ST A liONS (ARRANGED IN THE ORDER IN WHICH THE STATIONS WERE

ESTABLISHED.)

Herein will be found reports in condensed form from the various stations of the mission for the past year. These reF0rts have to deal almost exclusively with the evangelistic and educational work conducted in the different stations, and while these two terms are frequently used, the line that separates them is an imaginary one~ Broadly speaking all evangelistic work is educational and all educational work is evangelistic. the ideal being to fulfil through these two lines of activity the command of our Lord, "Go ye therefore and make disciples, of all the nations ...... teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I commanded you." Both are distinctively mission work, the one completing and complementing the other, and giving strong, well­p.nchored and matured Christian character as the combined result of the two. They cover the whole field of activity involved in seed-sowing, watering, cultivating and gathering the ripened harvest into the granary of our Blessed Lord.

The wonderful evangelistic campaign ot the past two years bas given increased emphasis to the demands of th( se two departments of our work.

These reports are necessarily very much condensed, but if anybody desires farther information regarding the work in any station, a letter addressed to some member of that station will bring a prompt reply.

YOKOHAMA MISSIONARIES :-

Dr. and Mrs. }. L. DEARING, (Absellt). Mr. and Mrs. C. H. D. FISHER.

:Mr. and Mrs. R. H. FISHER.

KANAGAWA GIRLS' SCHOOL:

Miss C. A. CONVERSE.

Miss RUTH D. FRENCH.

Miss AUCE BIXBY, (Absent).

The first glimpse of the Orient a traveler from America generally receives is at Yokohama :l city. according to the Iatet census, of 428,000 people. It is the port of Tokyo, the capital, and it was here that the first Protestant church in Japan was organized. There are now seven churches in the City with about 4,000 members, on~ of which is a self. supporting. Baptist Church. As these churches are not strong enough to do a great amount of work outside of themselves there is still in the City and in the surrounding province a great field for evangelistic work. Among the rural papulation of over 800,000 we are almost the only ones doing evangelistic work and we have in the province eight out-stations besides Sunday Scbools in many others where work is being done. This work in the City and out is in ~Ir. C. H. D. Fisherls ~are, Dr. and Mrs. Dearing having the care of a boys' English Night School and a BuslDess Men's Hostel in the buildings formerly our Theological Seminary. In the School work they have had the help of several others both Japanese and Foreigners. .

Our flourishing Girls' School, now located at Kanagawa has .been in care of MISS

French who is looking forward as we all are to the return of MISS Converse from her vacation.

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REPORT FOR THE YOKOHAMA STATION.

1915 the terrible year -or "the war will also be Kawasaki Church. remembered by our church people at Kawasaki as

the year in which they at last saw the realization of the hope of years, a church building attractive and in good location to which they may invite their friends and to which people as yet not especially interested in Christianity may not hesi­tate to come. Quick and hard work alone made possible the saving for the work in Kawasaki one of the Tokyo buildings which forced from the rented lot on which it had stood was already lost to the Misson. Moved to Kawasaki, entirely remade and considerably enlarged, it makes for us the center for work so long greatly needed. Dedicated in September, its enlarged congregations and Sunday School with baptisms following give evidence of what we may expect in that growing center where no others are doing Christian work. Officials as well as employees of its new and large factories, and teachers in the nearby school are showing their interest and everything encourages us to make the most of our new opportunities.

New Church The organization into a church of the branch at at Kanagawa just at the beginning of the year proves

Kanagawa. also a great step in advance. It has inspired a great hope and a more earnest entering into the spiritual part of the work and they have begun giving with a will not only for ordinary expenses but toward a building which they feel must surely in time also be theirs. Though it has been possible for 1\1r. Goto to give to the work only part of his time. his efforts have been so well supplemented by IVliss French~s Bible Class for young men, by workers at the Girls' School, and by many in the church that baptisms have been frequent and a most hopeful spirit prevails.

During the year the pastor of the Yokohama Church YokOhama. has felt that for several months he must give half his

time to the work of the Japanese Home Mission Society. This of course seriously affected his work for the church but deacons and others have helped so that there have been several baptisms besides those that resulted from the steadily pushed work at our Evangelistic Chapel in another and more densely populated part of the City.

The work in our other places in Kanagawa Province has been carried on by the same workers as last year and there have been additions in each.

Besides the places where our Evangelists live they KaDagawa Ken. have been doing work for many miles in every

direction so as to make their influence felt as

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widely as possible, many times, because they wished to, doing much more than it seemed right to ask of them. In all this work they have been most earnestly seconded by the work of Bible Women and of Sunday School teachers under Miss Yamada's care who have gone regularly to ~ome places which it has been difficult for our Evangelists to reach. Of these workers Miss French writes, "The different branches of Women's work in Kanagawa Ken have followed the general plan of previous years with monthly meetings at Kanagawa, Kawasaki and Haramachida; neighborhood Sunday Schools, house to house calling and teaching and country trips to the distant work. The special growth and promise of the work this year is in the new work opened at Kozukue and Nakayama. At Miss Pratt's request, we gladly took up the work in these two places and two others and look forward to open­ing Women's meetings in connection with them." The membership of our Sunday Schools is about 16:>0. Work has gone forward also very hopefully in our Girls' School, in our Night School and in the Business I\fen's Dormitory but of these others \vill speak more at length, in their personal reports.

Besides the additions to the Yokohama Church, spoken of above, we have had in our Province within the year thirty-three baptisms, a larger number than in many years before.

l\lany incidents in the evangelistic work that can be Results. briefly reported are hardly to be expected: but a

bright Sunday School teacher started to the Academy to prepare for the ministry; a public school teacher redeemed from drink and made a strong witness for Christ among his fellow teachers; a wife who had almost ruined her husband's faith con­verted and made into a strong helper in the church; High School students seeking earnestly the way of Life; young business men so changed in habits that in a few weeks after conversion they are promoted in their business places; shrinking schoolgirls, as soon as they are permitted by their parents, coming forward gladly to make public profession of their faith in Christ; and young Christians showing exceptional growth in willingness for and ability in personal work for the Master; and faithful work of all our evan;{elists, these are some of the things that during the year have greatly rejoiced our hearts.

Co H. D. FISHER.

BLUFF EVENING SCHOOL.

This report on the Bluff Evening School of Yokohama covers the school year, April 19[5 to March 1916. It is my regret that Dr. Dearing did not write this paper before his dep:lfture for the

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States, for the school has had a good year and to him is due a good deal of credit. The average actual attegg~'l.~e has risen from 76 students of the previous year to an average per night of 84 students for this past year. In detail, the average nightly attendance for each month-in each month, but one, higher than the corresponding month of the previous year-has been: April, leo; May. 122; June, 100;

July (half month). 75 ; September, 94; October, 97; November 85 ; December, 60; January, 69; February, 65; l\1arch, 58. If one were to make a rough estimate. in the absence of available figures, the registration of the School would likely run about one third higher than the actual attendance. The banner attendance for the year was on May 6th with 122 students present, a' high water mark in the history of the School.

Receipts for the year have been 1,119.30 )'(11 ; expenditures, 1,337.87 yell; this leaves a deficit of 218.57 yen.

The nightly chapel exercises, with wholly voluntary Cbapel Exercises. attendance, maintained a strong interest throughout

the year and proved a very real opportunity for Christian work of a telling character. A staff of Christian teachers of real ability and character have stood royally by Dr. and 1\1rs. Dearing with the true missionary spirit (there is not much money in exhaustive evening teaching) and have more than maintained the high place and reputation of the School in the community. The SUppOl t of the faithful and loyal Higher class has been an important factor in the success attained.

As aims for the current school year, we have set for Aims. ourselves a more thorough and individualized system

of teaching based on class rolls of the students; these are working quite a change already which is fully appreciated by all and results are apparent. The School will be permeated, as much as lies within the power of an earnest Christian teaching staff, with the spirit and principles of Christ. A wide field of men is within our reach in this School which has in its enrollment apprentices and primary school lads, clerks and mature business men of ex· perience. It can mean much, if, in the Imperial Customs service, in the various banks and business houses and shops of our city where these men and boys are at work, we can infuse the principles of honesty and integrity of character which are at the heart of Chris­tianity. With the classrooms as a point of contact, the magnificent opportunity is here presented of getting hold of individual men and putting them within reach o( the Church.

ROYAL HAIGH FISHER.

BUSINESS MEN'S DORMITORY

BUSINESS MEN'S DORMITORY.

(AI Yu KWAN).

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Following the suggestions of the Executive Committee of Con­ference, this report of the Business Men's Dormitory of Yokohama has been made up to cover the months from June, 1915 to May, 1916. During this period Dr. Dearing has, of course, been the one in charge of the Dormitory with the exception of the last month; during l\1ay, the writer was more or less in touch with the institu­tion by long-distance, as he was still having to live in Tokyo. So that this report deals almost entirely with the facts and figures left by Dr. Dearing.

During the Conference year, thirty-two differe"nt men t~:":i~!r:~ have been making their home in the Dormitory for

longer or shorter stays, as follows: 7 for 12 months, (some of these seven have been in the Dormitory for a long time), I for II months, I for 8 months, I for half a year, 4 for 5 months, I for 4 months, 2 others for 3 months, 7 for 2 months and 8 for one month or less. From this set of figures it is easy to see at once the problem created by a shifting personnel and the consequent difficulty of doing lasting work such as is possible in a student hostel. Our problem is a wholly different one.

At the end of this year, we have with us a half dozen men who have been in the Dormitory for a year or more (in some cases scarcely more); 4 men not more than 5 months, and 2 only a month; eighteen in all or about the same number-though far from the same men-as a year ago. However, there are many encourag­ing features: two of the men who have been longest in the Dormi­tory and are therefore looked upon as the natural leaders of the group are strong, clean, aggressive Christian men, and the new blood of the last three months has brought us two other strong Christians. Further, the removals have included one of the sore spots of the institution-a Buddhist enthusiast that has been impervi­ous to several years' residence with us. l\1en in full accord with the hostile position which this man has occupied are now few and far between. While we have the conspicuous failure of our Dormitory life as a Christianizing force in . the person of this recent departure from our midst, one glimpse into the daily early morning voluntary prayer group would convince one that the Dormitory as a vital .force for Christ is no failure. Here 1\1r. Kaneko, the superintend­ing evangelist who makes his home in the institution, has with him a

group from morning to morning of 8 or 10 earnest, Moraing Prayer eager, openhearted, intelligent inquirers who are

Oroup. searching for the \\lay of Life. Results of far-

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reaching significance may confidently be expected from this group· The moral tone of the whole place is fa&~ .-ising to what a really ChI istian and Christianizing hostel should be. This home is being treated by all as a home and not as a boarding house. Men, touched by it, have gone out this year to various parts of the Empire, to India, the Philippines, California. there 10 exert in busi­ness a positive Christian influence.

Receipts for the year of 2,°7°.76 yen exceeded expenditures of 1,861.23 J'e1Z by a balance of 2ag.53 )Ien.

There is much work before us: there are at least Contemplated b d . h· d' Improvements. two sore spots to e operate upon 10 t e Imme late

future; some alterations in sanitary conditions to be made if we are to live up to really Christian standards of cleanliness; a great deal of work to be done in socializing and democ ratizing the life of these men from varying social groups, especially in the dioing room and reading room where most of the social contacts occur; the instituting of certain definite regulations which will tend to eliminate temptations which are sure to follow on too much freedom; strengthening of the morning prayer group and the establishment of monthly friendly meetings and, on alternate fortnights. lectures and addresses on various topics of public interest by prominent men. With all of these contemplated changes and improvements, be it noted, the young men of the Dormitory are in full accord; indeed the initiative for the proposed changes coming from their own number before we moved to the city.

By keeping open au r own home to these men as it al ways was kept open by our hospitable predecessors and by free mixing with them in their life in and out of the Dormitory, it is to be hoped that something of the eternal valuts which come alone from the Master of l\ien may be built into their lives. By means of a proposed Bible class we hope to tie up these men of position and promise with the Church.

ROYAL HAIGH FISHER.

REPORT OF MARY COLBY SCHOOL.

(SOSHIN Jo GAKKO, KANAGAWA.)

Let me begin the year's story by counting our blessings. The year has been full of them but so quietly and

BleSSings. naturally have-they come that we had not realized ~ow many until we began to count. The enrollment

IS 135 considerably larger than ever before and dormitories, class rooms, practice rooms, tennis court are being used to their utmost

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capacity. The Collegiate Department which we have been especial­ly watching for three or four years is fifteen in number with a Senior Class of six. And the spirit of study and love of Christian work is so good that we can only wish the number were still larger. The spiritual life of the entire school shows the blessing of God and the quiet steady working of his Spirit. Sixteen have joined the church during the year and eight or ten are waiting now for baptism. We feel the need just now of special meetings for decisions and are praying and working for a harvest time during this term.

D. i The loyal united work of our teachers is not the ;sappo DtmeDt 1 l' h k W' h I I aod Hopes. east cause lor t an s. It a ong pul, a strong

pull and a pull altogether we have been able to pass a good year even though sickness and absence had made heavy demands on various ones. It was a disappointment to us that IVlr5. Andrews had to drop her music work in February, and a yet greater one that Miss Bixby had to return in April. But we are hoping that l\Iiss Bixby will return to Japan after her recovery and that a substitute will be sent to take the work in the meantime. Finally we rejoice because our Principal, 1\1i5s Converse has had a good year of furlough and is planning to return in August. Needless to say, great is the joy at the thought of being able to welcome her soon.

In April we graduated 14 girls, eleven High School IO~e;:::!~g and 3 Collegiate. The latter three all entered respon-

sible position, one going to NIrs. Thomson's Zenrin Kindergarten and two entering our teaching force. During the year we have had several interesting events. In the Fall the Fourth Year, Fifth Year and Collegiate girls took a two days excursion to Nikko while the younger classes took a shorter trip to Yokosuka. The overnight excursion has proved so suc­cessful that we have made it a yearly custom, going alternately to Hakone and Nikko. At Christmas time our school with other Yokohama private schools was asked by the Boyeki Newspaper to assist in their December Charity work. They distribute food tickets and give medical assistance to the very, very poor Our girls were given lists of the poor and destitude in Kanagawa and were asked to call, distribute the tickets and then report. The Christian Association took charge of the work and found it a very good opportunity to get in touch with needy neighbors. Later they themselves sent bags of charcoal to these families. Just before the Christmas week the school gave a concert, using only student talent-During the winter term we had a large meeting for parents and relations of the girls and spent a full afternoon showing the work

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of the school in Athletics and in Class room work. One more service which meant a great deal to forlllt:tr .~udents and graduates was a memorial Service for members of the school who have died. As far as possible we obtained their photographs and brief histories. We gave thanks for their lives and had prayer for their families. The great encouragement all through the year has been the good attendance of invited guests at these various gatherings.

I have only a brief space left in which to mention Growtb of

Kindergarten. the Yanagi-cho Kindergarten. The teachers have been working there to bring the numbers up to

forty, but now we are wondering how to keep the number down to fifty. The school is proving a blessing to the neighborhood and opening the way for more work.

RUTH D. :FRE:-\CH.

TOKYO MISSIONARIES :­

Mr. and Mrs. WM. WYND.

Dr. and Mrs. C. K. HARRINGTON, (Absent). Mr. ]. C. BRAND, (Retired). Miss M. A. CLAGErT, (Absent).

UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY:­

Mr. and Mrs. C. B. TEXNY.

1\1r. and Mrs. D. C. HOLTON.

DUNCAr\ ACADEMY:--

1\1r. and 1\1rs. J. F. GRESSITT.

TOKYO CENTRAL TABliRNACLE:-­

Dr. and Mrs. WM. AXLIKG.

SARAH CURTIS GIRLS' SCHOOL:­

Miss 1\1. A. WHITMAN.

Miss 1\1. M. CARPENTER, (Absent). Miss THOMAHNE ALLEN.

WASEDA D:::>RMITORY:-

Dr. and 1\irs. H. B. BENNINGHOFF.

GIRLS' DORMIT9RY:-

l\1iss GERTRUDE RYDER.

KINDERGARTEN TRAINING SCHOOL:-

Miss HARRIET DITHRIDGE, (Absent). Miss AMY R. CROSBY.

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All Roads Lead To.~ay Tokyo is .to the Orient wha~ the city o.f }{ome w~s to the t T k empire, or what 10 more modern tImes the CIty of Pans was to o 0 yo. Europe.

It is the heart, (rom which flows the stream that arrests the process of decay and death, and puts new life and energy into every Oriental land. If in the past all roads led to Rome all roads in the Orient now lead to Tokyo, and along these highways there winds a continuous procession of travellers, scholars, lecturers, politicians, merchants, students, writers and a host whose business no man can tell. With its popUlation of over 2,000,000 and its large floating population from e\'ery district in Japan and from every country in Asia, Tokyo is a city great in size and mighty in influence.

In this centre of educational, institutional, literary and evangelistic work we have .t present seventeen missionaries with another six who this year are home on furlough. Those on the field are Mr. Tenny president of our union Seminary and entrusted with the very important work of raising up leaders for our churches; Mr. Holtom whO' is a co.worker with :\lr. Tenny in the Seminary; Dr. Harringt:>n who is giving much time

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and labour, and doing invaluable work, on an interdenominational committee which is making a revision of the New Testament; Mr. Brand who in the past was a grE:at power in evangelistic work, and who though now rdJe\fell ~T responsibility lives among the people doing as much as his strength enables him to do. l\Ir. Wynd is also engaged in evangelistic work.

REPORT OF TOKYO STATION.

When one attends a gathering of Missionaries in Tokyo he is impressed with the large number that are at work in the capital, but when he counts only those who are directly engaged in evangelistic work he is amazed to find their number so small.

And yet what a field Tokyo offers for the man who Ev!~'iu~t~: ~:Id. feels the call to preach. \Vhat is called the city of

Tokyo is really a series of cities, or great districts built in a wide circle around the spacious grounds of the palace.

None of these districts are evangelized as they should be, and at least two of them are a reproach to the church which has neglected them because of the difficulties connected with their evangelization.

The Baptist Tabernacle carries on its work in the central district, and here and there scattered around among the other dozen divisions of the city there are small Baptist churches and chapels, each contribu ting its quota to the evangelization of the city.

During the past year the Baptists have carried on work in nine centres, one having been carried on by the Southern M.ission, one by the Seminary, one supported by 1\1r. Parshley and six directly connected with the A.B.F.M.S.

The great neglected district of the city is Fukagawa A DNie'trilected with its population of over two hundred thousand,

s et. and here a small Baptist Chapel has stood almost

alone, one little beacon of light in the midst of a dense population living in dense darkness. Here an open door has surely been set before the denomination. A visitor from another city who lately accompanied the writer to a meeting in our Fukagawa chapel expressed surprise at two things first at the crowds who were eager to hear, and second at the smallness of the house where we carried on our work.

The pastor who works there is a man known all over Japan as a man of great force and power. So much does he feel the import­ance of staying on and evangelizing this neglected district that he refused a recent call to the central tabernaCle. This place is one of the many that calls to the denomination for equipment, and we trust that before the end of the Five Year Program its call will be heard, its earnest prayer answered, and a building erected that will enable us to plan our work on a bigger scale.

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The churches all made substantial progress during TsukJjl Cburch. the year. Tsukiji church was forced by its landlord

to remove from the pla~e where it had been for twenty years, and for a time there was great anxiety as to what was to be done, but fortunately another place was found. and we hope to be able to remain there till the new church which has been promised is put up.

N B i . Among many churches which have done well there

ew u IdlDg for· h' h~ 1 Immanuel Cburch. IS one w IC las surpassed the others-not perhaps in the number of new members which have been

added, but in enterprise and preparation for the future. The Immanuel church has torn down its old building which had become too small for its growing work, and is putting up a new church with accommodation for Kindergarten and larger Sunday School work. Of course a considerable amount of the sum required for these changes came from sources outside the church. but the members and their friends. in addition to their ordinary contributions for church expenses raised almost seven hundred l'e1l for the new building. This for a small church must have meant much self-sacrifice, and with such a spirit. a big field and a fine equipment we have great hopes for the fut!..:re of Immanuel.

In the matter of growth the little church at Shiba Churcb Activity k 1 I d . h b dd d in Sbiba. ta es t le ea Wit some twenty new mem e~s a e

during the year. No church was more active than Shiba in the three years Evangelistic campaign. Pastor, deacons and the majority of the members threw themselves into it whole heartedly with the result that all were blessed. and the church was blessed by large additions to its membership and to its evening congregation.

Embarrassing Y otsuya church. too made considerable progress need of equipment thanks to the effiCiency of pastor \iVatanabe, and the Yotsuya Cburch. earnest work of Miss Ryder among the women of

the district. Dr. Harrington who made this church his home in Tokyo and who was ever ready to lend a helping hand when it was needed, said of Yotsuya that it was his ideal of a church because it had a pastor who was on fire and always came before his people with a living message, and also because it had a cosmopolitan membership there being present on Sunday morning Japanese, Chinese. Koreans, Americans, Canadians, and occasionally Scotchmen. It is certainly a church that attract~, but alas there is no attraction in the place where it meets! It IS

so bad that the neighbouring photographer who is an intense patriot did not care to take a photograph of it to be sent to an

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American Magazine, and finally when he consented, being an artist as well as a photographer he so touched -up if:he picture that we al­most failed to recognise it. Dr. Franklin called the place a hencoop, and yet a living pastor, with a living message makes it, in very truth the House of God which possesses a real attraction for old and young. Japanese and the alien within the borders of Japan. Y otsuya needs equipment, has needed it for years, has had a long standing promise of it and when that promise is fulfilled Yotsuya Baptist Church will be a power-a mighty power in Yotsuya district. Evaugeiistic work The work of Professor Takahashi deserves special

of a Seminary notice. Notwithstanding the fact that his hands have Professor. been full with Seminary work he has found time to

carryon with vigour and earnestness his evangelistic wor~ in one of the needy districts and has been greatly blessed in his efforts. The attendance at his meetings has been good, four were recently baptized, and the members have been liberal in their contributions to the work.

X 0 report of the station would be complete which did not mention the prominent place taken by the Baptist pastors of Tokyo in the Evangelistic campaign.

Pastor Watanabe of Tokyo has been out on a two EvangeUstic months tour, and has had much blessing in his work. Campaign.

·Prominent among the interdenominational workers has been Imai San whose gifts have been widely recognised, and whose tracts are known and read from the one end of Japan to the other. .

At the call of the committee he has made extended tours in the country around Tokyo, and once he was called to go as far afield as the Loocho Islands where he made a splendid contribution to the work on Mr. Thomson's field. Mention should also be made of plans which have been made for enlarging the scope of the work carried on at the Waseda dormitory and making it also a centre for evangelistic work.

_Altogether the year has been a year of progress, and if the little churches scattered throughout the city could only be equipped as they ought to be there is every reason to believe that the work of the Baptists would enter on a new phase.

W. WY~D.

BOARD OF TRUSTEES 13

ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES­THE JAPAN BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL

SEMINARY 1915-16.

The .dominent note of this report should be that of gratitude to God for His manifest goodness continued throughout the year to all connected with the Seminary. None of the members of the faculty have had to be absent on account of sickness. and the general health of the students was much better than during the previous year. No untoward event of any kind occured to hinder the work of the institution. The reports of all the professors indi­cate that an unusual amount of thorough and effective work was done in each of the departments. The spirit of the dormitory has shown marked improvement and the work of most of the students was characterized by faithfulness in preparation and regular attend­ance upon the classes. The trustees bear glad testimony to the vigorous manner in which work was pressed in all the departments and to the faithful and efficient service of all the teachers.

Owing to furloughs, resignations and other causes Faculty ChaDges. only two of the teachers who began the preceding

year were on hand at the beginning of the present year. In particular we missed Dr. Chiba who from the first has been a leader among us. Fortunately he has been able to give us one week each month during the year, and his help has been of inestimable value. Prof. Holtom has brought to the department of Church History and History of Christian Doctrine a vigor and thoroughness that auger well for the future of work in that depart­ment. The Trustees feel that they made no mistake in selecting him for the P2sition. Mr. Sakata has given splendid help in the philoso­phical branches, and has taken a deep interest in the school and in the students. notwithstanding his primary interest in Duncan Academy. Work in Evangelism under Mr. Axling's direction has been carried on with a good measure of success at the Tabernacle, where the Seminary students maintain a weekly evangelistic service. Prof. Bouldin and Prof. Takahashi have continued their faithful service throughout the year. We regret that Bible Revision work has still occupied the attention of Dr. C. K. Harrington to the exclusion of all other work. but after his furlough on which he has just left, we hope to have his splendid help in the Old Testament Department once more.

Lack The obvious weakness in the faculty during ~the past of Japanese year was the lack of Japanese teachers, Prof. Taka-

Teachers. hashi being the only one devoting full time to the School. Under these circumstances it affords the Trustees great

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satisfaction to be able to announce the appointment of Dr. Ukichi Kawaguchi to a chair in the faculty. He...i~ J;o take up his work at the beginning of next term, and the Board has every reason to believe that his personal qualities and training will enable him to make a valuable contribution to the efficiency of the school.

Special lectures have been rather fewer than usual, Special Lectures. but they have been of a high order and have stimula-

ted interest in an unusual degree. The attendance also averaged unusually large, our own pastors and missionaries, teachers and students of other theological schools and others attend­ing many of the lectures. Our lecturers this year were Dr. Genchi Kato of the Tokyo Imperial University, who gave eight hours on the Fundamental Principles of Buddhism, and Pres. Judo Imai of the Central Theological College. who spoke on the Religions of the Roman Empire in the Time of St. Paul. Rev. E. H. Jones and Rev. K. Imai spoke on Country Evangelization.

During the year the Reading Room opposite the Reading Room. Library has been used more largely than hitherto.

In connection with various courses the professors have put upon the tables the books in the Library bearing directly upon the problems investigated. and have required much larger use of such materials than in the past. \Vhile for En~lish-reading pupils the problem is fairly easy as our Library is growing to be one of large value. the supply of Japanese books in some departments of study is still so limited as to constitute a problem in the Vernacular Course. Happily this disadvantage grows less every year.

.. President Tenny reports as follows: The applications Apphc~hon for for admission this past year were unusually numerous.

AdmlssioD. ••• •• But churches, pastors and mlSSlOnanes are exerclstng

greater care in giving recommendations. and this together with our higher standard of admission has made the number of students admitted rather small. \\·e report this year twenty students-four in the regular course, eight in the Preparatory department of the regular course. and eight in the vernacular course. Other men, now in the higher department of Duncan Academy, expect to enter the Seminary later on. after the disability of not having yet been members of Christian churches two full years is removed. The reports show that the work of our men in the college brought much credit upon our institution._

With the hope th1t the Home Boards wouid be able Plans for f .

BuUding. to grant funds for the construction 0 a dOrlmtory and two or three residences for teachers on the site

in Shinjiku. the trustees had plans prep:ued not only for these buildings but also for the full development of the site. These plans

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were sent to both Boards and the needs of the school restated with emphasis. Many copies of the plans ~ere circulated in the form of postcards in the hope of arousing interest. At the same time we are face to face with the fact that at last reports neither Board has yet provided the funds asked for at the last Annual Meeting, and we are still a homeless school. We should not rest, nor allow those whose messengers we are to rest till this reproach is taken from our Baptist cause in Japan.

G The inability of the school to provide a certain

overoment t f . . th f b 'ld' . Recognition. amoun 0 eqUIpment In e way 0 Ul lOgs IS not only a reproach to our Baptist cause in Japan, but

it is a positive hindrance to the growth of the school. Until the Seminary has a permanent home nothing more can be done in the way of securing the recognition of the Department of Education which carries with it the privilege of pcstponement of military service for the students. The trustees earnestly hope that this severe handicap may be removed before the close of another session.

. President Ten1lY closes his rep::nt as follows: It is a: SemlDary I h 1 h S' S d Sunday School p easure to report tat, t uoug our emmary un ay

. School, we have been able to render a real service to the people of our immediate neighbourhood. How real the contact has been is seen in the fact that the neighbo,ring temple has recently opened a rival Buddhist Sunday School on somewhat similar lines, using in place of our Sambika (hymns), Sambika sung to Christian tunes! Every student in the school has had practical training in Sunday School \\'ork, either at the Seminary, or in connection with the work of some local church.

Upon recommendation of the Faculty. the Trustees Graduating authorized the granting of diplomas to the three men

Class. who this year completed the Vernacular Course; N.

Ishimaru, 1\1. Makino and S. lVluraki. E. ?\. \VALNE, Chairman,

Board of Trustees.

DUNCAN ACADEl\1Y

The trustees of the Academy have met four times Improvements. during the year to transact the usual business devolv-

ing upon them and to consider various ways and means of improving the school. The most noticeable improvement has been the attractive iron gate which l\fr. Holtom had erected during the summer vacation. The grounds have been enlarged and beautified by' the removal of the Japanese house that has stood for years in front of the main building. The comfort and serviceable-

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ness of the premises have been increased by various repairs and alterations to the buildings. _ ~ .•. ,

In July the trustees met with Dr. Franklin to Tbe Graut Needed. discuss the question as to the advisability of moving

the scbool to Yokohama. The discussion centered around the question of expense. I t was thought that it would take as much money to develop the school where it is as to move to Yokohama and build new buildings. After a lengthy discussion the trustees decided to ask the Board for a grant 70,000 ynz for the development and equipment of the Academy. It was the consensus of opinion that if this sum could be secured at once and in a single grant it would be better to move the school to Yokohama; if this sum could not be secured now but could be granted in instalments from time to time, it would be better to remain where we are and develop the school to its limits, on the present grounds.

At a meeting of the trustees held in January to Request Renewed. consider what needs of the Academy should be laid

before the Board in connection with the plans of the Five Year Program. it was decided to renew the request for 70,000

yen for the development and equipment of Duncan Academy, and to ask for the sum of 100,000 yen as our probable share in the development of the proposed Union Christian College during the next five years.

At the March meeting of the trustees Prof. Sasaki's Teachers BDd •• A' D f hAd Oraduates resignation as cttng ean ute ca emy was

. accepted; certain plans for the employment of more full-time teachers to assist in the discipline of the school were adopted; and diplomas were granted to the twenty-one graduates from the Middle Department.

The following extracts from the annual report of the Principal, Mr. Gressitt, will testify as to the present prosperous condition of the school :-

,. The past year has been an encouraging one in the work of the Academy in April, 1915, the largest entering class (numbering 3 I) in the history of the school was enrolled. The total enrollment was thus brought up to 1 15 in the Middle Department. which is almost a maximum for efficient work in the existing building.

II The chief event of the year was the celebration of the twen­tieth anniversary of the founding of the Academy. Early in the autumn, preparations for the s;elebration were begun. On October 16 the exercises were held on the school grounds, which were decorated with flags and bunting. The weather was ideal, and there was a large attendance. Professor Ernest Wilson Clement, the

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founder, and Professor K. Iidzuka, the first science teacher, were the speakers of the day.

"The Academy owes much to Professor .Holtom's The Faculty. work and influence cluring the year of his acting

principalship. The spiritual condition of the school was good, and many evidences of his careful management were to be seen. In July the Academy was called upon to give up one of its most faithful and able teachers. Professor Takai, teacher of history and ethics, accepted the invitation to become professor of history in the Union Christian College at Seoul, Korea. He thus became in effect a foreign missionary, and we are trusting that his example may inspire many of the rising young Christians of Japan to similar acts of service. Professor Takai's history work has been given to Professor Kobayashi, a Christian teacher of first rate qualifications and experience. Our teaching force has been strength­ened by the appointment of Professor Sakata, an alumnus of the Academy, who completed the Imperial University arts course last June. He assumed charge of the instruction in Bible and ethics in the Middle Department, and of psychology and logic in the Union Higher Department. Mr. Yuza, the head of the dormitory, resign­ed in November in order to give his whole time to his university work. Mr. Nakai, student in the Theological Seminary, has under­taken the supervision of the dormitory. The Academy now has a faculty of fifteen, besides the principal. Four members of the faculty teach part time, and one wholly, in the Union Higher Department. Of the Middle Department teachers, only three,­Professors Sasaki, Tatsuno, and Taguchi,-may be called full time teachers.

* * * * * * " The Higher Department instruction has been carried

De~!~:~~nt. on in conjunction with l\1eiji Gakuin. (Presbyterian.) This union work lacks an efficient organization, and

teachers and students will be heartily glad when a real organization can be effected. We are gratified to report that l\1r. Royal H. Fisher, who was appointed by our Board especially for union educational work, expects to begin teaching in April. He will teach the second and third year Bible courses and a course in Eng­lish Literature. After the first term, Mr. Gre;;sitt expects to dis­continue teaching in the Higher Department, and give his full time to the Middle Department.

* * * * * * CI The attitude of the students toward the school has

The Students. been one of loyalty. The graduates of 19 15 showed their affection by the gift of a valuable Bible for the

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Chapel. At the time of t)le anniversary exercises a few members of the same class made a present of seven "fe1Z to the school. The large entering first year class is an indication of the growing reputa­tion of the Academy in the community. There can be no doubt that there would be a much greater increase in enrollment if the 'School were provided with adequate buildings and equipment.

II The spiritual condition of the students has been on the whole somewhat lethargic. The chapel exercises. however, have been helpful. Twice a week English hymns have been sung. The students like this feature and they sing creditably. The Academy Sunday School has been maintained, the enrollment having increas­ed to about seventy. The older students and several alumni are doing the work of teaching ......... The closing months of the year, however, brought the promise of a change for the better ......... The Young Men's Christian Association has begun weekly prayer meet­ings again. and a monthly meeting for practice in public speaking on religious and moral topics. The Gakuyu-kwai (Students' Society) has been reorganized and brought under closer supervision by faculty members. The health of the students has been satisfactory, especially of the students residing in the dormitory.

Property. H Under Mr. Holtom's direction the improvements to the science rooms were completed. The new equip­ment greatly facilitates the instruction in the science

subjects. A temporary ufe1ztaisoba (gymnasium) has been provided in the former clerk's residence at a cost of 123.00 )!cn. The dean's residence has been taken down, and the grounds in front of the school building are in process of improvement. The school building and the dormitory require many repairs in the course of every year. We have at last succeeded in getting the tower repaired so that the roof no longer leaks.

C. H. Ross, Sec. Board of Trustees.

THE TOKYO MISAKI TABERNACLE.

First of all both Mrs. Axling and I want to record our profound gratitude to God and to all who helped to make the beautiful new Tabernacle possible. Planned as it was on the basis of the experi­ence gained in the old building it is adapted to the work to a re­markable degree. To work in it is an ever-increasing joy. We are also sincerely grateful to 'all who, during our furlough, helped to keep the different departments intact during the building operations. The following report covers only the four months that have passed since the dedication.

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MISAKI TABERNACLE

Co-operation The relation between the Tabernacle and the Central With Tbe Central Church which has its church home in the Tabernacle

Churcb. is most intimate. Pastor Nakajima and many mem-bers of this church are throwing themselves whole-souled into all the work centered in the Tabernacle. There is a committee of confer­ence where all the work is planned. This is drawing us together and making us a unit in the work.

The church is fast recovering from the reaction caused by the fire. Sunday morning services are especially well attended. It is facing its financial responsibilities with a determination to bear its share of the burden.

Of the Women's Society and the Sunday School of the Central Church Mrs. Axling writes: "The Women's Society of the Central Church has been active during the year. There have been meetings for prayer and conference. By industrious work at home they have made a large number of articles for sale in America. The proceeds were used to purchase a fine organ for the auditorium and a beauti­ful banner for the Sunday School. They also furnished about two­thirds of the 1000 boxes of cakes used during dedication week. Last month a cooking class was begun in connection with the \Vomen·s Society which we hope will serve as a nucleus for a domestic science department next year. The Sunday School is in a fairly good condition, having about 100 children enrolled, but needs a Sunday SchQol expert to develope it and makes its work efficient!

A SU1lday Evening Religious Culture Club has already Evangelism. enrolled a membership of about forty, with an average

attendance of twenty-five. It is held just before the evening service and is merged into that service. The Week Nigllt Evangelistic 1I1eelings are fairly well attended. Here we reach those who are really interested in Christianity. Also those who get inter­ested through our other lines of work come here for further instruction. The Bible Classes which were scattered by the fire are also in the process of reconstruction. Again and again there are revelations of a real heart-hunger among the people that come into the different meetings. At three recent week-night meetings thirty men who having been attending more or less regularly signed cards signifying their purpose to line up for Christ.

The educational features have had the most marked E::~~!~::~I growth during these four months. The Nigllt School

has jumped from a small nucleus when we entered the new building to an attendance of one hundred and twenty-five during the past month. It is a constant encouragement to see with what interest this group of young men enter into the chapel period which is held every evening. In this night school we are reaching many

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men of proIllise and future leaders. Many of the men whom we have had in the night school in the past-are .. to-day holding influen­tial positions in the educational, political and commercial world.

The Saturday Eve1zing Lectures constitute our Tabernacle forum. Vital and timely subjects are here discussed from the Christian point of view. These lectures are not. for entertainment. They are for instruction along physical and moral and spiritual lines. The atten­dance is good.

Of the work for Women and Children Mrs. Axling writes: " Considering the difficulties of work in the temporary quarters the women"s and children's department was in good condition when we returned in December, and a vote of thanks is due to Miss Carpen­ter, Miss Ryder, IV[rs. Tenny and others who labored so faithfully to keep things running and preserve the nucleus with which to begin in the new building.

In the Kindergarten there were about forty children through the winter. The last of March we graduated a class of fourteen and just to show the neighborhood that we were ready for more we put out several thousand handbills. We now have seventy-five on the roll. l\1:iss Sato our faithful head teacher, since the opening of the Kindergarten four years ago, has left us and as Mrs. Watanabe will make her future home in California. Miss Kawakatsu, a graduate of the Training School. has come to take her place and is doing well. Our Mothers meet with us once a month and we are striving to inspire in them higher ideals in child culture and home life and also to lead them to Him whom to know is life eternal.

The Girl's E1zglislz School has also jumped from a small handful during the Winter to an enrollment of thirty-five with the spring term. The attendance is regular and all seem happy and satisfied. A daily chapel service brings these girls face to face with the Gospel. We are trying to draw the girls one by one into the Bible Classes. A number of them are already earnest Christians so the spirit of the school is good. Five Chinese young women are among the most earnest students.

The Bible Classes for Young Women conducted in English and Japanese have not built up yet in proportion with the other classes, The Japanese Bible class was discontinued during our furlough for want of a suitable place to meet. Miss Whitman kindly took charge of the English Class but by marriage and removal its mem­bers greatly decreased during the year. We are endeavoring to build up these classes."

Inability to secure qualified workers has hampered us Social Service. in the development of the work of this department.

We have however made a beginning. An Evem'ng

MISAKI TABERNACLE KINDERGARTEN O~ THE ROOF.

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School for Apprentices has been opened. Here this negiected class is given an opportunity for mental and heart culture. Not only so but the grinding monotony of their lives is broken into and some color and richness is brought into their hungry lives. It is an un: speakable joy to see with what enthusiasm these lads, though weary after a long day's work, enter into this work. The young men of the Central Church and of Dr. Benninghoff's dormitory have volun­teered their services as teachers.

At the request of the secretary of the Misaki Printers' Guild Welfare Meetings for H10rking Men have also been started. These meetings have been very well attended and promise to develope into an important feature of our social service program. The Free Legal Advice Bu.reau has also been opened. Here again two young la w­yers who are members of the Central Church have volunteered their services. The Children's Play Ground will be opened this month. Through this work we will strive to take the children of our neigh­borhood off the street and through periods of play and hand-craft and Christian instruction give the right bend to their plastic lives. The plans for a Visiting lVurse, the Clzzldren's Clinic, Welfare Work for T¥orking Girls are held in abeyance until we know what funds are going to be at our disposal and until suitable workers are secured.

. We have consumma ted arrangements with the J apan-Co.~:;:tJve ese Anti· Tuberculosis Society by which the Taber-

. nade is made a center for the work of preventing and blotting out this national curse. The meetings of a recent campaign were attended by 1200 people. We are also planning co-operative relationships with the Japanese Temperance Society and the Purity League. This will link us up with specialists in our fight against the social and the d rink evil.

One hesitates to give figures for they may mean little Tbe R. e

f81cb of Our or much. Though we are still in the reinstating and

D uence. . . h' I d d '1 d reorgamzmg stage t ere IS a rea y a al y atten ance of between 200 and 250 different people in the different schools, class­es, and meetings held under our auspices. During a recent period of eight days of special efforts along certain lines more than 2500

people were brought under the influence of Tabernacle activities. The Reading Room has a daily attendance of about 40 .

During the last four months I have had the privilege Efforts Far of giving 30 sermons and addresses entirely outside of

Afield. the Tabernacle work. These have mostly been given before schools, Christian workers' conferences, and in connection with the National Evangelistic Campaign. These ever increasing demands are a great drain on my strength and time and yet some of them offer rare opportunities for a far-reaching service.

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We praise God for the blessings of these initial months. The future we face with courage and large h0f>8 -believing that God has large blessings in store for the Tabernacle and its work.

WILLIAM AXLING.

SARAH CURTIS HOME.

Perhaps one of the most notable events of the year, ~rs~i~TI:~. and one hailed with joy was the coming to us in Sep­

tember of Miss Allen who brought cheer and new life. vVe hope much for her labors among us for Japan.

The daily work has continued with little change, the routine varies little from year to year.

. Five were graduated in l\1:arch, three of them mem­~::::t~:16m bers of the church. Two remain with us preparing

, . for the Department of Education examinations in the winter. They are also studying music and continuing their English.

We have made some additions to the library. have E'l~~~:Ut. purchased a set of maps and some calisthenic and

other apparatus. Necessity of The school has increased slightly in numbers. but I (jovem!D~nt believe that in Tokyo there cannot be much growth Recogmtion. without the proper equipment that shall make Govern-

ment recognition possible. We have lost pupils because of this lack.

We would express our gratitude to God for the Health. general good health of the school. When our doc-

tor meets us he says, U Gobusata itashimasllita .. (apo­logy for not-calling).

Attendance at Attendance at morning chapel and Bible class has not chapel and Bible been obligatory for day pupils, but it has come to

class. pass that nearly all the pupils are in their places at the hour for opening.

Baptism. Two have been baptized and two are waiting for baptism.

Teachers Two of the teachers, sub-Christians are showing inter-studying Bible. est in Bible study. One of them is from time to time

attending church and seeking the Light. Not long ago she was not only indifferent. but opposed to Christianity. She came of her own accord and asked to be taught the Bible.

Three Sunday Schools have teachers from our school. Sunday Schools. One of these schools is for neighborhood children and

two are at the Immanuel Church.

Snn.-GA DAI SCHOOL, TOKYO. SEWIXG CL.\SS.

SURUGA DAI SCHOOL, TOKYO. COOKING CLASS.

SARAH CURTIS HOME

In January my helper who for nineteen years had Marriage of b

Helper. een connected with the school as pupil or assistant, was married and left us. She is greatly missed but

we rejoice that she has become the wife of an earnest Christian pas­tor and evangelist, and that they are workers together in their present field of labor.

We began last fall to celebrate the birthdays of the Birthdays. girls in the dormitory. The favorite hymn of the

birthday guest is sung, prayer offered for her and then a little time is spent in games and very simple cakes are served. The girls greatly enjoy these occasions.

Before the Coronation in November tiny flags were Coronation

Flags. issued by the Women's Exchange of Yokohama. Some of the teachers, girls and former pupils seizing

this opportunity worked most zealously selling flags. They realized from their sales 199,74 yen of which 134. 14 )Ietz was for the school and 65.60 yen for the church. When it is understood that one flag brought a profit of but 8/10 of a sen and that there were outgoes for postage and car-fares one may get some idea of the number of flags sold.

Through the King's Daughters Society aid has been 8enevolence. given to the sick, to the Rescue House, to the Lepers'

Christmas, Gifts have also been made toward the Immanuel church building and the new Starlight Kindergarten building.

We want to see among our girls more devotion to the R~~~~~~!~r Master, a steadfast righteousness, a real revival and

we earnestly ask that you will help together in prayer. Three Bible women have been under my care. Two

8iblew~~:en's spend much time in calling on Christians, inquirers and on anyone who is willing to receive them. Each

teaches in Sunday School in Shiba and Fukagawa and one in her own home. Both have helped in \\Tomen's meetings and both have seen some fruit of their labors in women led to Christ. Distances in Tokyo are great so that time is consumed in getting from one place to another. About seven hundred calls were made during the year.

The third woman is engaged very largely in factory Factory Work. work. She visits the hospitals in two factories twice

each week. She find many of the girls very ignorant, unable to read and with no idea of God and little of any religion. They are however, glad of her visits and are always waiting to wel­come her. She teaches them to sing hymns gives them the Gospel, and tries to help them learn to read. She has looked up relatives

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for one and brought about a reconciliation between one girl and her family. Some of the girls are coming to under!ttand something of the Truth. One or two of the nurses seem coming into the Light. By perseverance she has gotten entrance into a third factory a branch of one of the others. Here she is not confined to the hospital but can meet the girls in the social hall. She had two meetings with the girls, from seventy to one hundred gathering to sing and to listen to the Gospel talk. Miss Allen has assisted in both of these meetings by playing the organ. The Bible woman seems interested in the work and suitable to do it, and we hope that some light may, through her, be given to these needy girls.

MARIE ANTOINETTE WHITMAN.

YU-AI GAKUSHA.

Our Friendship Hostel at Waseda University continues its good work among the eight thousand students of that increasingly pro­minent institution. During the year just closing every room has been taken, and already new applicants have been accepted for the rooms made vacant by the out-going men.

The seven years' experience and the various rules for the self­government of the dormitory have crystallized into custom so that administrative problems have been reduced to a minimum. The majority of the students are Christians, so that it has been possible to maintain the atmosphere of a Christian home. From the coming autumn we expect to have a Japanese Christian worker associated with the dormitory, who shall devote most of his time to work among the students of the Waseda Middle School and the Business College. This work will be under the general direction of the dormitory com­mittee of which the missionary is chairman.

At the request of the Waseda Christian leaders we are hoping to make some changes and improvements in our plant that will enable us to reach a large number of young men outside the dormitory. Social life among the students is very meagre, and many resort to questionable places to spend their leisure hours. Are-arrangement of some of our rooms and a little expense for equipment will help us to reach many young men who are seeking wholesome places of amusement and helpful associations.

Seven of our young men graduate this year. All of them have been with us for more than two years, and some of them for four. The standing of these men in their classes and their deportment among the other students have secured for the dormitory the warm­,est words of commendation we have ever heard. The Dean of the University told Dr. Dearing in the writer's presence that it was an

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accepted opinion among the professors that a student of Yu-ai Gaknsha could be especially commended both for his work and for his influence.

During the year I have given two hours a week to teaching Hebrew Literature to the students of the Literary Department, and at the request of the University the course will be repeated next year. The authorities have stated that they are willing to accept endowments for chairs or lectureships on specific Christian subjects, in addition to the work already being done. The deans of the Waseda Middle School, the·Waseda Business College, and the Waseda Preparatory School are Christian men, not to mention some others among the professors who do not hold official positions. The attitude of the University toward Christianity could not be more cordial, although of course she must as a university remain unaffiliat­ed with any and all faiths.

In addition to the teaching in the University I have taught four Bible classes and led -a religious meeting in the dormitory each week, and am giving a little time to the Middle School in the teaching of English in order to get in touch with their eight-hundred boys.

The opportunities are n1al1Y, and the work is fascinating. I am fully conscious of our limitations in the face of such unsought invita­tions to teach the religion of Jesus, but we rejoice that we are counted worthy of such honor. Our reward is in the lives of the young men and in a more appreciative attitude toward the IVlaster and his Mes­slge whose servants we are.

H. B. BENNINGHOFF.

YOUNG WOMEN'S DORMITORY.

The report for last year was one of un-mixed joy and advance. In this respect the present report must differ.

As regards the property, an extra strong board fence Property. with stone foundation has been built along the front of

the compound. The gate posts have been built up and cemented. The garden has been beautified by sod and plants and the appearance of the place greatly changed.

We tried the experiment of taking part of the girls to Karuizawa. Karuizawa for the month of August last summer.

The experiment proved an unqualified success as far as the Karuizawa side of the matter was concerned. Not only did the girls receive physical strength and invigoration but two of the Chinese girls became Christians during our stay in Karuizawa.

We have had our first experience with a runaway • Ex:!~~;ces. girl-a Korean-whom we tried to help after she had

been ruined. We have also had our first experience

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in asking girls to leave beca use they were unfit to remain and influ­ence other girls. The year has been one-- ~() -try the faith, patience and nerves of a giant, and its problems have been carried only through the strength of God.

For some unknown reason girls did not enter in num-Numbers. bers sufficient to make up for those who left so our

numbers at one time were small, but since April the girls have corne in and we have almost reached our highest average again. Vie have thirteen girls. Two of these have been with us over two years. Three have been with us considerably over one year.

We have had considerable sickness during the year. Sickness. The matron has nursed the entire family through

grippe-colds. Two of our girls had to enter the Aka­saka Hospital for a short time and a third had to go to the home of her security because of severe sickness.

During the year there have been three baptisms. A Converts. word should be said about the two Chinese girls who

became Christians at Karuizawa and were baptized later into the Yotsuya Church. They are from a high family and were fine girls, we thought even before they became Christians. The older one had thought long and earnestly about Christianity, the younger one, though at one time in a mission school in China, had long been heedless concerning Christianity until she was deeply impressed by a story told by Dr. Sane at a dormitory prayer service. At Karuizawa they both attended every service during the week of evangelistic meetings and were greatly helped. Each independently gave herself to her Lord and such a transformation as came to their lives is beautiful to witness. The younger one has already lead one -of her Chinese classmates to Christ.

We have girls of all sorts and conditions. Some we can help because they want help. Others have hearts as hard as stone. Your dormitory and its superintendent and matron need and crave the earnest prayers of the mission.

GERTRUDE E. RYD2R.

TOKYO KINDERGARTEN TRAINING SCHOOL ADVISORY COMMITTEE.

The Committee bas held two meetings, Miss Dithridge being present each time. Certain recommendations in regard to the Tsukiji Kindergarten and to the securing of teachers for the Training School were presented to the Reference Committee. Some correspondence concerning the future of the School has been carried on and all of

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the Committee have visited the School at some time during the year. Our work has naturally been purely advisory so no great results can be recorded. Miss Dithridge's report accompanies this.

ELIZABETH P. TENNY, Sec.

TOKYO I{INDERGARTEN TRAINING SCHOOL.

The year from April, 1915 to March, 1916 was a good one for the Tokyo Kindergarten Training School. By God's blessing, the school is growing in size and seems to be making a good reputation for itself throughout the country. .

A class of 15 students entered in the year 1915 ; and Students: with 7 Seniors makes 22 whom we have taught

during the year, but the largest number at anyone time in the school has been 18. Of the 15 new ones of last year, 6 dropped out for various reason. This spring the new class numbers 13 and the whole school has reached the highest number yet. namely 22 students.

Our students come from all the islands of Japan except For­mosa. Very few are self-supporting; this School supports 8; the others are supported by individual missionaries of Mission Boards. Japanese parents as a rule, will not support their girls in school after they have finished High School. Most of our students are graduates of High School.

The dormitory is full; it was comfortably full last year Dormitory: and it is crowded this year. Miss Ishihara looks after

the housekeeping very ably and the girls take turns making out the menus so that they have no chance to complain about the food; it has come to be a joke that whoever comes to our dormitory, grows fat! Ishihara San keeps a supervision of the ac­counts, so that the amount never averages more than 5 yell per month for one person and often it is less, so we can say that the dormitory is self-supporting except for the board of the supported students. As for discipline, we use the self-governing system and have little or no trouble.

We have made practically no change in the curri­Curriculum: culum this year except to give more time to l\1ethods

of Christian Work and Sunday School Methods. We were glad to be able to welcome lVIiss Crosby into active

participation in the teaching work of the Training School last Fall. This gives Ishihara San and myself more time to visit the kinder­gartens and supervise more carefully all the practical work.

We regret to have to report that the weakest point in our school is the class in Drawing and Instrumental Music. For these important

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subjects we have to use Japanese teachers and they are far from satisfactory. We hope, some day, to ha"e"'ctb1e foreign teachers in these subjects.

We are very fortunate, indeed, in being able to secure Miss Sweitzer, of the Evangelical Association, for our vocal music, but she can give only one hour a week. If we had a trained music teacher who could give all her time to our school, we could do wonders with the music which is so poor in the kindergartens ot Japan.

In March, 1915, we graduated a class of 4, of whom Graduates: we hear good reports. One of them has been called

to her Heavenly Home during the year. This year, 1916, seven graduated, three of whom we are using in our own kindergartens. Of the others, two are teaching in Tokyo in the kindergartens of the missionaries who supported them while they were in school. One has gone to !ida machi, Shinshu, and is teach­ing in a Lutheran kindergarten; another is in the Zenrin kinder­garten in Kobe.

In March, 1916, our graduates met and formed an Alumnae Association. In a meeting which lasted all one afternoon, they elected their own officers and hereafter will arrange for their own meetings.

HARRIETT DITHRIDGE.

PRACTICE KINDERGARTENS OF TOKYO KINDER­GARTEN TRAINING SCHOOL.

TSUKlJIMA KINDERGARTEN.

In November, 1915, the Tsukiji Kindergarten was united with the Tsukijima Kindergarten, as it was impossible to rent a house for the former in Tsukiji. About ten of the Tsukiji Kindergarten went over the ferry to the new place; the rest scattered to other Kinder­gartens. Now that ten has been reduced to two.

From the time we rented the foreign house for the Growth. Tsukijima Kindergarten the member of children has

been steadily increasing. Now we have one hundred -in attendance every day; sixty in the morning, and forty in the afternoon. If we had a place big enough to accomodate the hun­dred in tb~ morning, we could have another 5.0 in the afternoon . . Tsukijima is a chain of three islands of made land; and our Kinder­.garten is the only one of any 'kind .on the islands.

About 60 of the Kindergarten children come to Sunday School. Sunday School; and as many more older boys and

girls. We could scarcely take in any more. The

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Sunday School is divided into eight classes, including a class for nurses.

It is hard for the mothers to get out to the Mothers' Mothers'

Meetings: Meetings, but we usually have an attendance of about 20. The teachers are very successful in their visiting,

and are teaching about Christ.

FUKAGAWA KINDERGARTEN.

This Kindergarten has doubled in numbers in the past year. We now have 60 children coming every day; and more applications which we have to refuse because the place is so small. Recently we enlarged it a little by adding half of the kitchen to the circle room; otherwise we could not take as many children. This kinder­garten certainly deserves a building and I am sure we could get 100

children if we had accomodations for them. There is only one other-a Government kindergarten in the neighborhood and the tuition is too high so they have very few children.

Recently we did some advertising for the Sunday Sunday School. School, with the result that we doubled the attend-

ance. Now there are over 100 child ren coming. in that very tiny Japanese house. It isn't necessary to offer them any prizes or rewards for coming; we have more than we can handle. The Sunday School is divided into six classes and the teachers work very faithfully.

The Fukagawa mothers are very busy but they love Mothers' f

J\leetiogs: to attend Mothers' l\1eetings i they can possibly get out. We usually have about 15 present and twice

lately-over 20. The teacher there is very earnest in her visiting and as she now lives in the kindergarten building, she is enabled to come into closer touch with the mothers. She even calls sometimes in the evening when the mothers have time to listen to her talks about Christ. She also can get some of the mothers to go to church with her.

IMMANUEL CHURCH KINDERGARTEN.

This kindergarten has grown like the others; the present attend­ance is 50 and would be more if there was more room. The Immanuel Church is putting up a new building and during the time of building, the quarters for the kindergarten are rather crowd­ed, making the discipline difficult. However it is good to know that one kindergarten at least, is to have a building which is being built with the kindergarten in mind. I am sure that this kinder­garten is to be a mighty help to this church. Would that we had a kindergarten in every church!

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-The general Sunday School belongs to the church and Sunday Scbool. it is not necessary to speak~ ofir here. Suffice it to

say that recently a kindergarten Sunday School was started which is for the kindergarten children only. It is held at a different time on Sunday morning from the regular church Sunday School, as there is not room to have them both meeting at the same time.

We have not been able to hold the Mothers' Meetings Motbers'

Meelings: with perfect regularity but we have had about seven during this past year. About 15 mothers attend

each meeting and the interest was very marked. Many of these mothers believe the gospel story but are afraid to confess their faith. They are afraid of suffering persecution. Pra y for them.

KOISHIKAWA SHOEI KINDERGARTEN.

\Ve still continue to have two classes of children in this kinder­garten ; some paying thirty sell, and others one yen tuition. This year we have stopped dividing them into classes according to the tuition they pay and divide them according to ability, as in other kindergartens . Thus the two grades of society (we have about an equal number of children from each) are thoroughly mixed and we have yet to hear the first objection on the part of mothers. Our experiment in democracy seems to be working in the kindergarten. We have about 40 children in this kindergarten.

The Hara Machi Sunday School is not as large as we would like to see it. Only 60 children come and it is hard for them to come regularly. There may be many reasons for this,-the Sunday School is in the afternoon and on pleasant days, the children go off with parents to different places. Again there are several Sun­day Schools in this neighborhood; however the children who do come regularly are progressing rapidly in their knowledge of the Bible.

Only about 12 mothers come to these meetings and Motbers' Meetings. the reason is that the mothers from the poorer homes

will not come because they are ashamed of their dress. Thus, while we can get the children from different grades of society to play together, we cannot get the mothers to come to­gether. In visiting, the same difficulty arises; the poorer mothers are too busy and their homes too small to admit of much opportu­nity for evangelistic work. In the other better homes, much is being done; one mother is ready for baptism and many others are being taught.

HARRIETT DITHRIDGE.

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STARLIGHT KI\"DERGARTE:\, TOKYO. E:-":TR..'.:\CE.

STARLIGHT KINDERGARTEN, TOKYO. GRADUATING CLASS, 1916.

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STARLIGHT KINDERGARTEN.

The Starlight Kindergarten has had a year filled with anxieties and varied experiences.

After strenuous efforts to keep our building and work Perplexities. in the old locality, we were compelled to give way to

the government and vacated the premises early in November.

No building adequate for the work could be found Indecision. but through the kindness of the father of one of our

boys we were enabled to rent a small double house in which we managed to crowd our children, by dividing them into two companies. This was not ideal but was the best we could do while endeavoring to decide what had best be done-abandon the work that had been the result of four years of persistent effort, or build a suitable plant. It was difficult to decide for we knew that we ought not to look to the Board for financial aid, as they already had other I(indergarten problems on their hands; but the parents were so anxious to have the work continued that they vied with one another in their efforts to at least find us a piece of ground.

At last through the kindness of another parent-a Ground Rented. Buddhist priest-we were enabled to rent our present

ground which belongs to a Buddhist temple. Our building was begun the middle of November, completed the twenty­second of January and dedicated the fourth of February. It isn't as ideal as we would like to have had it, as our ground space was

limited, but we have one hundred and thirteen tsubo ~ew Building. (6 ft. x 6 ft.) of land, fifty-four of which is occupied

by the ground floor of the building, while the space over three class rooms and the kitchen provides the living rooms for .my teachers. It is bright and clean and makes a good place in which we can conserve our work.

It is already filled with children each day. We planned to take in a hundred; we could profitably use a plant twice the size but are thankful for as large a one as we have.

We have been granted "government recognition" ~:C':::i~::t and are hoping to have the building registered free

. from taxes. The official who came to examine our plant had only words of praise for it and the work as he saw it.

Deep interest is shown by all the parents. We have Ki.ndeidrgatrteD no better friends than the priest and his family. The

DC en s. k h' old grandfather say he has never nown anyt mg so good for children as our Kindergarten and Sunday School. The mother or grandmother comes every day bringing the little three

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years old boy who so loves to share in the games and play with his elder brother. No children are more regufar in attendance at the Sunday School than these same boys, yet that the family fully under­stand our attitude towards Buddhism may be seen from a recent event. The mother came bringing a large vase of beautiful flowers for the kindergarten and said to the head teacher, H The people bring many flowers to the temple these days so thought I would bring these for the kindergarten. You need not hesitate to receive them for they have never been offered. I brought them right from the house."

A mother brought her daughter one day asking our help with her child as she had become so self-willed that they could do nothing with her. Her father is a lawyer-their house is large and she ruled everybody in it. Though far from perfect even now after long and patient effort, she will occasionally give up her own will to please her teacher.

Another child for rude remarks and disobedience was absolute­ly the limit-so much so that I feared for her influence on the other children; but here the change has been marvelous-even I am sur­prised at it, and I thought I was past such surprises. Her mother says it is wonderful how different she is in the home.

We could go on indefinitely citing such instances, but these are sufficient to show you that the seed is bearing fruit.

Ninty-six children were enrolled during the past year. Enrollment • h'l firaduates. Twenty-sIX c I dren were graduated in March making

eighty-five that this kindergarten has graduated dur­ing the past three years; fifty-four were present at the Alumni meet­ing held in the afternoon of graduation day. Some came quite a distance, thus showing their love for the kindergarten and its teachers.

Our Sunday School attendance has varied somewhat. Sunday Schools. Our old building was always full and this one is already

more than full, for we have only a hundred and fifty chairs and an average attendance of two hundred and thirty. We compromise by turning the kindergarten children out in the yard to play during the first session, and thus have really two schools. The average attendance of the latter being seventy-six. We are unfortunate in having only four teachers, so we are all kept busy from nine till twelve.

There are about sixty boys and girls in the highest class, some of whom have been with us during the five years and a half that we have had work in this district.

I might say that our Sunday School is very proud of having won the banner this year. It was awarded because of our unusual-

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ly large numbers and the general development which had been made possible by our new building.

Mothers' Meetings.

Except for such unavoidable interruptions as were made necessary by our rnovings, the Mothers' l\1eet­ings have been held as usual and have been well at­

tended. At the last one forty-six mothers were present, though the meeting came the day after the great compulsory house cleaning day.

M. ::-'1. CARPENTER.

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Mr. and Mrs. R. AUSTIN THOMSON.

K(.b! continues to grow in importance year by ye~r. It i,; estimated that the populaton increases about twenty thousand each year. The city callnot extend back bec:iUse of the hills rising about three thousand feet. lIor in front because of the bay, but it extends on both sides and thousands of houses are erecled each yeaT. Rents are high in the city and mnny are moving out to the ~uburbs becau<;e of the convenience of the trolleys in both directions. The new harLor works progre~s slowly, because of lack of funds. The present war is felt in the withclra\\al of all the German lines of steamers and trade is very dull. There are about fifteen hut:dred Europeans in Kobe, divided up roughly as follows: -English 650, Americans, 250, Germans 100, and the rest are made up of French, ltalians, Portuguese, Spanish. There are about 1,500 Chinese in the city engaged in business and they are a very thrifty class of people. The population is estimated at 513,cOO in Dec. 1915. It is the largest shipping port in Japan. There is a flourishing Union Church here for the foreigners and a large English Episcopal church. The Denominations at work here are as follows: COD­gregational, Baptist, Methodist, Preshyterian, Episcopal, S.P.G. English, Canadian ~Iethodist and one or two other smaller bodies. '1 here are about twenty churches in all with an approximate total membership of sev.:n thousand. There i5 much unoc­cupied territory in the city yet to be worked.

Lack of funds Everything has been running very smoothly 011 thi~ prevents field during the past year. We have had 110 funds extension. for any extension of· the work, although repeatedly

asked for each year for the past five years. There are many un­touched districts in this large city with over half a million of a population, but unless the means are provided for rents and other expenses it is difficult to make any extension, even on a small scale. The total Christian membership in all the churches in Kobe is estimated at about 7,00), and that is an exceedingly small percent­age of the whole population. The truth of the matter is that nearly all of the churches have such a hard time making ends meet that they have very little with which to push the active evangelization of the city except in a very small way. It is t.he idea of some to press financial independence upon the churches in this way, but I find that they all require some aid in carrying on any extensive evange­listic effort and I am strongly in favor of making it possible for ou.r churches to do this kind of work which they are eager to do If they had the means. I would place a small amount of money at their disposal for such work, provided it is understood distinctly that fhe funds be used only for extension work. These Christian men and women are quite willing and able to carryon such worl~.

KOBl!. The church here continues to grow numen­Churcb Orowtb. cally and financially and the spiritual life o~ .the

church members seems to be in a healthy conditIOn.

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Seventeen baptisms took place during the past year and the total contributions for church and benevolent enterprises amounted to somewhat over a thousand yen. Mitamura San continues to do efficient and faithful work 'aided in a large measure by the able services of Mrs. Okuyama, who has been Biblewoman in the church work for the past eighteen or twenty years. She is a woman of very strong. character which mellows as the years go by.

S H YOGO. I am glad to be able to report that the

OOD to be 1 h' . d 1 r' hf 1 .. . Independent. wor <: ere IS growmg un er t le faIt u m1111stratlOns of Pastor Akagawa. It is a continual source of joy

and satisfaction to be associated with a man of his rarely sweet dis­position and fine character. He is keenly interested in the real development of the church under his care and this last year he felt that the church was not growing as rapidly along financial lines as both he and I desired and offered his resignation, so that if we desired we might place a stronger man in his place, but neither the church members or I felt that we would benefit by any change and he was constrained to withdraw his resignation which he did, much to our joy and pleasure. Every year this church reduces the amount of financial help it receives from the mission and I am sure that within the next five years this church will become independent of all mission help. A full statement of the work of the church, inc! uding accounts is circulated every month among the church members and its business affr.lirs are carefully looked after by the officers of the church.

Large district ONO. Up to the past year this was the onry preach­left for Bap!ists ing place we had in Kobe outside. of the church

to Evaogellze. work; it has been under the care of Air. :Nakajima. One could wish that there were more signs of a larger develop­ment of this work. He Ins some sixteen Christians connected with the preaching place, but it is in a very poor district of small stores which are all open on Sundays. This district has been left entirely to our mission to evangelize by the other denominations, possibly because of its poverty, but there are over 40,000 people living in the neighbourhood of our preaching place. Thi::i year another house has been rented for weekly preaching services which are carried on by Mr. Mitarnura. This is the district where !VIrs. Thomson has her Kindergarten work, which is exercising a wide influence for good.

The members of the two Baptist churches in Kobe together with those at the preaching place united this last winter in giving the missionary a banquet and reception in celebration of the thirty­second anniversary of his arrival in Japan. At the same time they presented him with a solid silver hot water kettle, a very handsome

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piece of Japanese work. He was very much surprised although he has had many evidences of their warm re{!a1-lJ:·· He enjoys the very ~nique experience of having seen every member of these churches come into connection with the work during his missionary life. The relationship is very close and delightful in every way.

It is now just about twenty-five years since we open-liu-Cbiu ed Christian work amonCJ' the Islands, through the Opening. h

practical interest of Mrs. Alexander Allan of Glasgow, who passing through Japan at that time generously provided the means for the opening of the work and carrying it on for a number of years. I ... 1.ter her son continued his mother's warm interest in this work after she had passed away and it was he who provided the entire means for the opening of the Inland S::'a work, otherwise it would possibly never have been opened. This is the biggest thing we have in our work in Japan to-day and it is well to remem­ber the peculiar Providence of God under which it was opened. If \re had not opened the Liu Chiu work at the time we did in com­pliance with 1\1r5. Allan's request, in all probability we would not have had the Inland Sea work nor the presence and help of Captain Bickel in our midst!

The work in the Lilt·Chiu Islands has been successful beyond our expectations. These people had no religion, not even Bud­dhism, only superstition of all kinds had sway over the minds of the people and for years it was uphill work to lead even a few into the light, so that during the first ten years the workers were much dis­couraged, but later success seemed to crown the efforts put forth and hundreds were baptized. All did not remain true to their profession of faith in Christ but strong foundations have been laid and we have to-day many more members in our churches there than we can accommodate in the little Japanese houses at present used as places of worship.

Last year we were much discouraged at the prospect of ever securing any adequate equipment for this needy work, but our hearts have been lightened since then by the warm expressions of sympathy and generous gifts tOWArds the funds needed for land and buildings. I will not mention names here, but sufficient to say that enough funds have been provided already for us to go ahead with our plans and on our last trip to the Islands in May we purchased an exceed­ingly fine !:iite of land in the heal t of Naha over 500 tsubo, enough for church, parsonage and kindergarten. The total cost including, legal expenses, registration fees, filling in and stone walls, which latter are a necessity there, come to about 7.000 )'cn. The architect is now at work on the:: plans for the three buildings and we hope that by next spring at the latest we will be ready to dedicate these buildings

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and our heart's desire for this work will be accomplished!! No one knows how much we have longed and prayed for this happy fulfilment of our hopes and desires. This island work is a lo~g way off from the mainland of Japan and it has always been a difficult task to interest people, who have never seen it, in its needs even many members in the mission, but I am glad to say that all who have had the privilege and opportunity of visiting the work have always expressed their warm interest in it. Our special thanks are due to Mr. Wynd who wrote sHch an excellent report of his im­pressions last year.

The workers Jre supremely happy in the prosPects t>f a new church building, a new parsonage, which \Vas much needed and a fine kindergarten building for the building of which the Ladies' Board h:lVe made generous provision. I will not say here how happy we are!ll \Ve are exceedingly grateful to our friends who ha vc made this pos'iible.

R. A. THOMSO:".

:REPORT OF TIlE KOBE ZENRI:'-J KI::\DERGARTENS.

The school year beginning April, 19 (5 and closing Difficulties. l\iarch,] 916 was a difficult one for working out the

ideals of our Zenrin Kindergarten system. During the previous yerlr we lost t\\'o teachers of almost equal experience and ability and were able to secure in their place only one trained graduate of 1915 from Glory Training School, Kobe. \Ve had a capacity list and an average attendance of 86. During the fall term Miss Doi married and went to Formosa, Miss Sano came to live· in the Kindergarten home and even then we had but three teachers for the regular school and Mrs. Aoki for the evangelistic work and the management of the free Kindergarten with one out­side assistant. But in March we graduated 42 pupils from the Zenrin and the mothers thought it the finest affdir we ever had.

The winter was pretty hard for the poor people and

K• dFree t nearl v all the boys in t he grad uating class of the In ergar eo. J •

Free Kindergarten were taken out that they might help towards the family support. The parents would'nt bestir them­selves to get the girls registered except in very few cases so there were only twelve out of a class of twenty-two who received .1I101jo (certificates) at graduation. Hut if the year's work is measured by the finished production and not by the amount of raw material it is

possible that it will yet stand well up toward the top .. Toopsdy" d for our "Topsy" graduated. She was a veritable

ra uate '. {' Child of the Drams for her father was on the torce

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that cleaned them and her mother had ca.r"ieg,.her as a babe upon her back while she raked up the garbage. As soon as she was able to walk the drain-side was her play ground. When she was about three she used to wander into the schf)ol room; her appearance was very peculiar, her black eyes and s\"Tarthy face was framed in a fringe of black hair that grew straight forward from the crown of the head; it seemed 11ever to ha\'e known a comb and was only clipped when it hindered her sight. Her appearance combined with her mischievous and most original antics and grimaces gave her the name which seemed to fit her so well. But during the last year when the child's heart h:ld been won and her mind had been suddenly opened to comprehend wInt'the kindergarten teaching stood for, she improved so rapidly that it seemed little less thCln a miracle even to her teachers. When she was led to take note of her personal appearance she found that her windblown locks would yield to comb and brush and we found that the little face when it came into view had strong. attractive features. Her grateful father on the night when she led her class in all the graduating exercises with the dignity of a born leader, got down on his knees in old Japanese fashion to express his gratitude to the teachers who had brought about such a transformation.

l\lany of the pupils of our free kindergarten are from 000 Shelter. the Shilliteimilt (ne\vly raised to the rank of common

people) dj~trict of Ono which extends from the op­posite side of the Zent"in block right on to the bay. The head man of this village, himself one of this class, having tried for many months to persuade us that it was our duty to open a creche for the babies of the many women who have to go out to work from five a.m. to five and seven p.m. finally decided to take our oft given advice to open one himself as he is the one wealthy man of the neighbor­hood. He has built a very satisfactory .. shelter" rather than a creche- it takes in the little toddlers too young to come to kinder­garten - as well as the babies .. and is to be supported by a society of Buddhists, who though by a diffc:rent name have a similar motto, " Keighborhood Improvement," to that of the Zenrin Kindergarten. Needless to say we are good friends to the new shelter.

GAZELLE R. THOMSON.

VISIT TO LOO-CHOO.

Last month on our arrival we had the pleasant sur-Surprises. prise of being able to step from the Keifo Mar2/. on

to a fine wharf that would do credit to ports that are much nearer at hand than Naha, capital of Okinawa.

LIU-CHIU, NAHA SUNDAY SCHOOL.

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The Hatoba opens upon a spacious public square. Many fine buildings have been put up in the past three years.

No longer will the traveller feel that he is landing in Improvements. a pri~neval country-untouched by modern civiliza-

tion-it has arrived. But you are glad for the sake of the people. The dreadful mixtures of sweet potato and clay that in former days were exposed for sale for those who were too poor to afford even the luxury of the exceedingly poor quality of sweet potatoes which are the staple food of the islands, have disappeared. The people are much more vigorous; The Japanese regime has certainly made the town dwellers more sanitary. The streets have drains and the rubbish is removed-so the city is much more clean­ly in appearance. Tram CrUS that run on time, through the main streets of Naha and up to the gates of Shuri, the old Capital, are well patronized. The rickety old ricldshas, however, still pull you over the stony roads, but if ill an unwary moment you accept the

invitation of a party of workers to go over to Itoman The Basha Still I kId hI' h on the Roads. to see t le. wor t lere an t ey lurry you 1I1to t e one-

horse-spnngless baS/la-because it will save time­then look out for your bones-for the old horse is driven on a gallop except when the road is up hill; when you get out it takes you sometime to come to yourself. But, beg your pardon, we left you standing on the Hatoba-if you \Yalk towards the Square you will

find a pretty group of Kindergarten lad!'i and lassies Kindergarten drawn up in fine form read)' to salute and cry

Greeting. " Banzai" to their long expected missionaries from

the mainland (we were debyed three days on the way by a severe storm ).

You do feel happy to see so many familiar faces among Familiar Fac~·s. the Christian frit:nds who have gathered at the meeting

house to greet you. All day they keep coming in from the villages near and far for the news travels quickly that the /(ezj'o Man/, has arrived)n port. r"

The second morning we start for the Kmdergarten 111

K. Pdresentt time for the morning circle. It is a pleasant yard 10 ergar en. 1 d . 1 h' h 11 1 we enter-enc ose Wit 1 Ig stone wa 5-t lere are

some fine old trees for shade-and flowering shrubs of brilliant tints give a thoroughly tropical appearanc~ to the place-pretty flower beds add the true killdergal ten aspect. The parents of the children have furnished excellent swings and contributed to make the play­ground an attractive place. But the house is dark with its over­hanging eaves-and very old and dingy in the interior, with the exception of the circle room which has a good veranda on two sides-and there the children were gathered, not to the full capacity

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as usual for an epidemic of measles was -keeping quite a number at home.

Any kindergarten teacher on the mainland would have Attractive

Cbildren. been happy to have had those. clean, bright and attractive little people in her school. They saw a

foreign lady, many of them for the first time, but did they cry and scream "Ii, ii" (no, no)? not they! with pleasant smiles they greeted her! When she sat down as one of the circle they made her feel quite welcome. Then they sang hymns and recited the 23rd Psalm and other portions of Scripture so clearly and sweetly that she wanted to take them home with .her. \Vhen it was games they played with enthusiasm and yet with an excellent idea of time and unison. It was in the classroom work that you felt sorry for

them-they were capable of so much better things than Praise for tbe ld b b - h b h' . ffi' Teacbers. cou e roug t to P1SS Y t elr lIlSU Clent mate-

rials and the lack of specialized training in their teachers, two young women from the Islands, only one of whom had a teacher's certificate; but all praise to them for so faithfully. with the help of that marvelous Mrs. Haraguchi, keeping up such a happy, sweet-spirited kindergarten. handicapped as they are by antiquated tables and chairs and a poor supply of working materials. They do have a good organ which greatly helps.

The next day we had a mothers' meeting and Oh Tbe Mothers. what a joy it was to tell them that the land was to be

bought right off for a new building! They gave me such a warm welcome! About a third of the company were Japanese and the rest were Riukiuan mothers of good class-there was great cordiality between them. After the formal program for meeting had been carried out in Japanese, one of the native teach­ers gave a short resume in the vernacular. Then the meeting became a social and how we all talked about the past, the present and the future of the little kindergarten. The Japanese mothers would stop and rehearse what was being saio to the Island mothers and they in turn would tell me their thoughts through the same interpreters. It was all a great Thanksgiving.

They had some large plans for the future. They P~~::e::~~~w wanted a full· fledged Kobe Zenrin, with a free

. Kindergarten for the street children attached! But were finally persuaded that a smaller school with good teachers and a much improved equipment, would be better, th~n later on when the Okinawa people could afford it they might open the free Kindergarten. The mothers were sensible of the great generosity of their Baptists sisters at home who had made possIble the new land and building wliich would give permanence to the work in

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Naha, and at this meeting appointed and instructed one of their number to write a letter of thanks to the givers through the Woman's Board, Boston.

Sunday morning we visited the Sunday School, which Sunday School. filled the old Kogisho to its capacity. It was a very

creditable school with well graded classes-teachers aU in their places-a pleasant hum of subdued enthusiasm among the lessons; remember the rooms were thrown into one, only the girls were in the Haraguchi's partially closed small dining room, and all were sitting on the mats. The singing was excellent.

These Sunday School lads are from the Public Schools and during the week whenever we met on the street were most cordial in their greetings.

GAZELLE R. THmlS0~.

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s (; ~ D A-L .•.. MISSIONARIES :-

1\11'. and Mrs. C. H. Ross.

GIRLS' SCHooL:-

lVIiss ANNIE S. BUZZELL.

:Miss MARY D. JESSE.

Sendni city char:ges little frem year to year but it nevfr ceases to be an important center. Tokyo is the center of {very thing in Japan, but there are several smaller cities scattered about that are impoltant "feer.ers" for the great capital. Sendai is one of these important" feeders." I eing the metropolis of the north, she draws the youn~ men and women from the surrounding couLtry districts, edccatcs them, and then " feeds" them into the capital.

~endai has been indeed a "feeder" for our denc.minat:on whose center is natura!lv Tokyo. She has contributed far more than htr sha're (If men fr,r our ministry. Host':; of men and women have gone from her to er.rich our churches in other pariS of Japan. \Ye have an important work to do in Sendai and we should never all"w our working fcrce to grow fewer. Like all the staticlns in Jaran, Sel1dai needs newer nnd better material equipment so that the Baptist denomination can contribute its lull share tu­wards the Cbristianization of the north.

:\lr. and Mrs. Ross live in Sendai and :'IIr. l{o~s has charge (f the large country field with its eight workers and sixteen places for regular meetings. i\liss Buzzell coutinues in charge of the Gir},,' ~chcol and does an extensive Christian wor), in the church and community. ?\Iiss Jesse teaches in the school and superintencs the e\'an­gelistic work for women on the whole field.

During the year all of the WOI k on the Sendai field has been moving forward. There have been indications of the presence and power of God in the work. The year has been marked by a general strengthening of foundations and a better organization of the work, rather than by a large increase in membership-though there have been seventy-five baptisms since last conference. It has been our chief concern to draw out the laymen and multiply .their usefulness. In practically all of the out-stations we have succeeded in rallying the laymen to the support of the work and in several places we have had the satisfaction of seeing strong men received into the church. All of the churches but one have undertaken added financial responsibility.

The Sendai church has had a good year. There has Seodai. been a goodly number of baptisms and some advance

filJancially. The church has been well filled at the Sunday morning services; the Sunday night services and the prayer meetings have been very poorly attended; the large, \,"'ell organized, Sunday School.has done good work considering its cramped quarters. Dr. Chiba's presence in the city and help in the church have caused Baptist self-respect to rise quite perceptibly. The church has recently remodeled the parsonage at an e:xpense of over one hundred yell,

SENDA!. :MR. AND MRS. Ross WITH GROUP OF WORKERS.

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The Sendai church falls far short of meeting its responsibility in the religious life of the city. It is weak and inefficient in many ways. It needs, first of all, some consecrated men of good reputa­tion to serve as deacons: men who will attend the church services, assist in the ordinances, and take a deep interest in the spiritual welfare of the church. It needs, secondly, a more mature pastor, endowed with exceptional qualities of leadership: a man of ex­perience who can organize all of the departments of a city church and make it an effective moral and religious force in the city. It needs, thirdly, a new, well equipped church building. The present shack is not at all suitable for the home of the B3ptist church of a city the size and importance of Sendai.

Preaching Place.

The most gratifying thing in connection with the evangelistic work in Sendai has been the develop­ment of the preaching place. It has come to be a

busy place and is a real factor in the Christian work of the city. The fifty or more people who form the constituency are devoted to it and eager to see it grow. It has developed a con­sciousness distinctly its own, and at the same time it has been loyal to the church. Recently the people voluntarily raised several yell to assist the church in making some necessary repairs. Last fall a Sunday evening praise service was started which has proved very popular. The attendance has averaged more than thirty, most of whom are adults. During the year five men have been baptized into the church.

Mr. Nagao, the Sendai evangelist, has continued his weekly visits to the three outposts. The meetings at Takagi have been well attended and the work is encouraging; two having been baptized during the year. We have not yet succeeded in arousing much interest in Rifu, but there are signs that encourage us. The work at Iwakiri has recently been turned over to the Shiogama church.

The last year has been the greatest year in the Sbiogama. history of the town of Shiogama. The work on the

new harbor and the proposed new railroad have caused the population to increase about two thousand and have made the town a busy place. The past year has also been the best year in the life of our work there. The church has made substantial growth in every way. Pastor Takahashi has been building slowly but surely and has the foundation well laid. There have been thirteen baptized since last June. The finances are in good condition and the church is paying ten yen a month on the pastor's salary. The church .is a well organized, working church. It accepts its responsibilities as a church and meets it:; obligations bravely. It sent three delegates to th~ recent conrerence in Tokyo

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and will entertain the dish ict confe!rcll.C.e .. Iolext year. The great need is a building. It is positively a shame for LIS to allow a promising church like tbis to use such a disreputable building for its home.

There has been little to encourage us in Sanurna and Sanuma·T(Jme. Tome this year. It is a prosperous farming diE.trict

but so far Christianity has failed to get a very strong hold on the people. The Presbyterians have removed their pastor from Tome, and the Disciples their worker from" Sanuma, so we now have the only resident worker in the two towns. Sal1uma reports three baptisms for the year and quite an increase in attendance at the meetings. Regular work at Tome was disconti­nued last November owing to the inadaptability of our evangelist.

The little crossroads church at 1{iushi is slowly regain­Kiusbi·Yanaizu. ing its consciousness. The pastor, by taking an active

pal t in the community affdirs, has gained the respect and confidence of the people, thus preparing the way for a better \\'ork in tbe future. There has been a temporary falling-off ill the Sunday School attendance due tf) the opposition of some of the district school teachers.

At Yanaizu our promising work for women has been interrupt­ed by the decision of the leader of the group to ellter the O~ak(l Bible School. l\Iiss Jesse and her helper have rendered valuable service here by thdr frequent visits. It is interesting to observe that while certain school officials and teachers have opposed our work on this field, yet we have made our chief advdncc am .. >ng the school teachers.

Shizugawa has had its .. ups" and "downs to during Shizugaw8. the year. Early in the year we had twelve resident

Christians, most of whom were real active and we were greatly encouraged. During the spring the six most earnest ones moved away. In spite of these losses the work is promising. There is a large number of .. approvers" and in due time we look for another .. up." Four young men have been baptized during the year.

The weekly visits to the! three neighboring villages have been continued as usual. At Odtate and at the neighboring gold mine the meetings have been unusually well attended and a large number of people are deeply interested in Christianity. The year has been a time of seed sowing rather than a time of harvest.

The chief event of the year at ~isennuma has been Kiseoouma. the erection of the new building. We have a

splendid location and a comfortable parsonage which serves as a temporary meeting place as well as for a hoine fOI' the

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pastor. Though meetings were suspended for nearly a year after the fire, the pastor stuck to his post and held the flock together. The town has been rebuilt and is now a better town than before the fire. Our church and its pastor are popular throughout the town and the future is bright. The meeting room (I2 by 18) is always full and the need for a church building is already calling loudly. The pastor was compelled to move out into the country after the fire. During his residence there he started a Sunday School which has pr05pered and is now a permanent work, so the fire was not without its good results.

Usugiou·

Semmaya.

Mr. Kato has continued to be used by the Master in the work on this large field. He really seems to have been called of God, but the way has been far

from smooth. Persecution has continued and his Sunday School work has been at a standstill; his neighbors have circulated evil reports concerning his character; some of the Christians have been hypnotized by the opponents of Christianity and used as "tools" to \York against him; Buddhist pIiests have attempted to draw his followers away from him; but he has stood firm through it all and held his flock together.

The promising work at Fujisawa has been temporarily checked by the activity of the enemy. The work at Semmaya has prospered in a wonderful way. During the year nine men of the town have been baptized and an equal number are enrolled as "enquirers." These men are from twenty-eight to sixty years of age and all heads of families whose business and interest are in the town. If these men can be properly grounded in the Christian faith they will make excellent foundation stones for a future church. The leader in thi~ movement is a porcelain dealer. He is a man P1st fifty and has been frail all his life. l\-Tore than a year ago he became very sick. After consulting many doctors and taldng their medicine and visiting all the temples and sooth sayers in the district, he lay down to die. Space does not permit the telling of the story as to how he was commanded in a vision one night to pray to the Christian's God; how he did so; how he was miraculously cured; and how his constant testifying before hjs friends and neighbors have won one after another of them to God and stirred up the whole country. It is no wonder that the priests of other religions are becoming alarmed for God is surely moving in Semmaya.

C. H. Ross.

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-~ ..... BIBLE WOl\1AN'S WORK.

During the past year I have employed five Bible women including my helper; three of whom have lived in Sendai, one in Taira on the Mito field, and one in Kisennuma on the Sendai field. This report although written from Sendai includes also our work at Taira, Yumoto and Onahama on the Mito field.

II 'E It has been hard to get the woman's work at Kisen-\" omao s vao- d - - I fi U 'I I gelistic Work, numa starte agam slOce t le reo nt1 recent y

there has been no room obtainable for meetings, and no safe place for a woman to stop over night. so I have not been then!. The Bible woman has taken advantage of this break in the work. to go to l\forioka and take some practical training in Kindergarten and Sunday School work, She returns to Kisennuma next week.

Little has been accomplished at Yumoto, Tome or Sanuma. The people are not interested. At all the other places we have had good crowds and good meetings, especially at Taira. Onahama, Shizugawa and Yanaizu. At Shiogama recently six women were baptized and this has given new enthusiasm to our work there. At most of these places we have groups of inquirers. Miss Buzzell speaks twice a month to the women of the Sendai church. The meetings, I think, are well attended and helpful.

At Taira, Kisennuma. Shizugawa and Yanaizu the Society of ., Society of Light" for older girls has been doing

light. good work but at Sanuma we have had to discontinue

it. I shall speak only of our Sunday School work

SUO~!r~~hl)OI in towns and villages wlll.!re there is no church and 110 evangelist. as the church schools and the

Sendai city Schools are included in other reports. There is no phase of our work which seems more promising or more worth while than our Sunday School work. If we can win the children of a few generations our mission in Japan will have been accomplish­ed, Recently we have been trying to grade some of these country schools. and the result has been most gratifying.

At Takagi we had only girls in our school. all the boys having left. After Christmas a class for older boys was organized and now we have about 60 in attendance. Here too we have a class for older girls with '~bout 50 enrolled. A number of these seem to be real eh ristians.

At I wakiri after organizing separate classes for the older ones. the attendance increased from 26 to 120 or more. At Rifu about

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the same thing is true. The order and teaching too are of course better.

At both Iwaldri and Rifu we have recently begun woman's meetings. It is interesting to note that at both places former Sunday School girls now grown up, wishing to know more of the Christ, have gotten together and invited us to teach them every week.

We have been invited to hold a weekly meeting in a sewing school at I wakiri and began several weeks ago with about 30 girls at the meeting, a number of them being former Sunday School pupils.

)IARY D. Jl',SSE.

GIRLS' SCHOOL.

For the past few years our reports have been very General

Condition. much in the same strain, "growing and crowded," but always hoping. This year it is the same; but,

though we have sometimes been at the place where' "hope oft de­ferred maketh the heart sick," it seems now that our hopes are soon to be realized. We are trying to teach ninety-nine girls in eight classes in buildings provided for a maximum of sixty, and with accommodations for only four classes. Inconvenience, noise and con­fusion cannot be avoided, and are most ~earing upon all. teachers and students alike, but all are wonderfully patient, and meet these things with a cheerful spirit, saying at everything that comes or doesn't come, " wizen we get the new buildings"; and all are filled with joy and gratitude now-that 'the fulfilment of our hopes is so near.

Graduates of In spite of all the drawbacks, the School hlS had a 1916. year of good work. In March we sent out a class

of eleven girls from th~ regular cou rse, and olle from the post-graduate course,-all of them Christians. S:::>me of'these have entered higher schools. and some have returned to their hom-=s, while one remains as a worker with Miss Jesse. and one is taking our post-graduate course. D The first class of our Domestic Science department. ome~~~rSc!enc: added List year, has done good work, and we are

'" se. much pleased with the development of the six girls in that class. This year another class of seven fine girls entered th3.t department. These classes nuy seem small in numbers, but it must be remembered that we have 110 class-rooms for them, and but little equipment. so we dare not advertise and give much of an invitation for girls to enter until we can show that we are doing something

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towards the buildings. We have teache!~ .\te have all the girls that we can possibly accommodate. \Ve have much joy and satisfaction, and hope and faith in the future of our Schuol,-but we must have a place in which to work.

Since our Jast report, twenty-eight student<; have been Baptisms. baptized, nineteen in our own chul ch, and nine in

churches of other denominations. Anniversary of In November of last year occurred the fortieth anniver­tbe baptism of sary of the baptism oi l\irs. Barna Uchida, our faithful

Mrs. Hama and dEcient Matron. As she has been a Christian rehIds. worker in the employ of our Japan Misson all these

forty years, our Sendai Baptist Church and the School united in an anniversary service, which gave us new joy and hope, as we realized something of what the Lord has done. during these forty years, for the women of Japan. How very different things are now, with the women coming to the front in so many ways,-and all the more need

Importance of of Christian work. Especially, during this period of .be influence of sudden transition from the old order to the new, do Cirls'Scbocls. we feel that our Christian Schools have a place. They

stand for Christian principles, for the building of Christian character, for tbe development of Christian womanhood; while, at the same time. they are real centers of evangelistic \VOl k. The girls carry the message to their 110mes and friends; teachers who come to LIS know­ing little or nothing of Christianity, become Christians; and our graduates go out to set-new influences at work, and form new centers

(j d t t of Chtistian activity. Seventeen of our graduates are

ra ua es a h" I . f 1 d' Work. preac ers wives, ten ot lers are wives a ea mg Christian workers, while of the twenty-eight others

who are married, more than half have Christian homes. Twenty­four are teachers or Bible workers. \\' hile sixteen are studying in big her schools. The rest are in their own homes. Of these, all \\'ho live in Sendai are regular in Church att~ndance, and efficient workers in the large and flourishing Church Sunday School; some of them, too, working in the one-room afternoon Sunday Schools.

which are carried on by volunteer student workers. Sunday Schools. These ten schools have had larger and more regular

attendance this year than last, and the ghJ!:j are happy and enthusiastic in that work, which they feel is their own distinctive. work, one part which they can have in thl? great work of evangelism.

Af'NIE S. Dl'ZZEl.L.

MORIOKA. MlSSlO~ REsmE~cE AND KI:-;IJERGARrE'i. RE.-\R VIEW OF HO:"lSE.

MORIOKA MISSIONARIES :-

Mr. and Mrs. HENRY TOPPING.

Mr. and Mrs. STEADMAN (Absent).

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Morioka is a conservative Buddhist town of over 40,000 population and is noted for its fine horses, beautiful parks, and schools. It is a clean city with wide streets and good buildings which give it a thrifty appearance. The Baptists were the first to begin werk here. Morioka is one place in Japan where Baptists need not be ashamed of their position.

Mr. and Mrs. Topping live in a large, rambling Japanese house, (see illustration) on a main street. It is also used by the Church, Sunday School and Kindergarten. It serves as a general mission workshop. Its doors are open day and night to an almost constant procession of caners.

From Morioka as a center work is carried on by 8 evangelists in 20 out-stations which are strictly Paptist responsibility. As we are the ouly Chr:stian workers in these out· stations, they constitute likewise a great Baptist opportunity.

Besides strengthening the work already in hand, the past year has been one of advance along the line of seedsowing. Personally, we have travelled more, preached more frequently, done more

.. personal work, and distributed more literature than in any previous year.

The six Japanese ministers with whom I have had the pleasure of working, have devoted themselves to the regular lines of work with energy and devotion. Together we have responded to invita­tions and made efforts to reach some small places where the Gospel is not being preached. In these places quite large audiences have been secured with but little effort on our part, and no expense apart from that of travel. The welcome accorded us has been pleasing and very encouraging. I am convinced that there are plenty of open doors for the Japanese minister who is qualified and prepared for the work. And my own unpreparedness or insufficiency has been borne in harder upon me during the part year than ever, before. We must know the people and their language better in order to make greater use of the many opportunities open to us to present the claims of our Lord and Savior.

The distribution of about eighty thousand leaflets, besides the use of many larger tracts, has required some effort. We have also sent out a small paper each month to teachers, railway men, and to others with whom we were in touch. As yet, little result has been seen from this work, but when we consider the personal touch oft repeated, and the message carried, we believe that much good must result.

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While our work is largely in the countr.y. towns, some class work has been attempted in Morioka. Two regular classes for students and one for teachers have been conducted in our home.

F. W. STEADMAN.

The going of Mr. and Mrs. Steadman on furlough, April 27th, leaves l\1:orioka handicapped for workers. Their coming from Hok­kaido three years ago was a great reinforcement and during their brief term they have made a strong impression upon all phases of the work. Moreover they have greatly endeared themselves to the workers. To this the many farewell receptions given them plainly testify. Our hearts rejoice with them in their prospect of reunion with their children and we know the year with them will pass all too quickly, however long their absence may seem to us.

Our Northeast Japan Baptist Association met in April, earlier than usual in order to honor Mr. and Mrs. Steadman with a farewell reception. Twenty-nine evangelists and Bible women, and fourteen laymen and missionaries made the long journey to Hachinohe, our station in the far northern part of the mainland, and enjoyed four days of delightful Christian fellowship together.

Dr. Y. Chiba of our Theological Seminary, and of our Selldai Girls' School, was chairman. He is a strong spiritual force among us and a fine presiding officer. Our guests from Tokyo, Messrs. Axling and Takahashi, each gave us four helpful addresses, Mr. Axling's addresses started our sessions on a high spiritual level, the effect of which continued through all the sessions of the Association. We deeply appreciated his presence and help. We owe him a debt of gratitude for his years of intense service on this field. They· are now bearing fruit for the Kingdom.

Our work in this town of 16,000 people has been Hacbinobe. greatly strength~ned by the coming of Dr. S. Sane as

pastor. Several years study in America and three years teaching in our Theological Seminary prepared him to devote his life wholly to pastoral work. In this. he is now meeting with much success. Mrs. Sone, a graduate of the Philadelphia Medical College, ministers to the sick and afflicted among her neighbors, and thus spreads the gospel of Him who "healed the sick and went about doing good." Pastor Sone is in much demand as a speaker before clubs and associations.- He preaches in several nearby towns, the largest of which is Gonohe, population 6,000.

Coming south, we find Mr. Ishibashi very busy in Sannobe. half a dozen towns with Sannohe as a center. In

spite of the sickness and death of his wife and many

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interruptions, he has had twelve baptisms during the year, bringing the. membership up to thirty. Dr. Sone and Mr. Ishibashi are the only Christian workers in a field of more than 100,000 people.

Here the church is fortunate in having such a pastor Morioka. as Mr. Ogawa. I-Ie is a growing man, easily first

among Morioka pastors. Our various line have been pressed as time and strength permitted. Each of the four mission­aries has taught Bible Classes, no form of work is more fruitful. The Saturday night English lectures have continued to be an attrac­tion. Many members of these classes attend church. Mrs. Steadman's cooking class has been one of the most effective agencies. In church, in preaching place, or in some hospital, a service is held every night of the week. Among recent volunteer workers is a graduate of the Tokyo Music School. A woman of wealth with nothing to do, she had found life dull, but since she began serving Christ with her music in these meetings she is very happy.

Having recovered from his long illness, Pastor Abe Haoamaki. has worked here with fresh vigour. Seven have been

baptized. Meetings of women conducted by l\,lrs. Steadman have helped greatly,-especially among the students of the Girls' High School. In this city of 10pOO and countyof 55,000

people, Mr. Abe is the only Christian worker. Hanamaki, being the starting point of the newly completed railway to the coast, is growing rapidly. Our work there is in a very hopeful condition.

Here the most recent and encouraging feature is the Iwayado. arrival of the pastor's bride in March. Through the

interest and generous assistance of Mr. and Mrs. Bullen she was trained in our Sendai Girls' School. This, supple­mented by three years intimate association with Miss Jesse, as her personal helper, developed her into a capable worker. She is a young woman of rare gifts and we expect Mr. Adachi's future success to spring in good measure from his "better half." He is the only Christian evangelist in this county of 50,000 people.

We are hopeful that the work here is soon to be Kurosawajiri. prosperous again. 1\lr. Adachi, and his wife are

working faithfully. But it is a Buddhist stronghold that these two young people are facing, alone, in this county of 66,000 population.

U What a fine church for such a remote town"! 1000. said Dr. Sasao, of Sendai, when he recently visited

Tono to hold a series of meetings. A surprising number of townspeople attended these meetings, even some leaders of the fast set whom our young pastor said he never expected to see in church. At first he suspected their motives, but .was finally

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convinced of their sincerity, and now haS'-a" l'tew faith that the gospel is for all sorts _ and conditions of men. He is the only Christian worker in a district of 30,000 people.

No more nerve racking journeys by jolting stage to Kamaisbi. reach this busy seaport. Except for one steep .mountain

pass, 4,000 ft. high, which must be climbed, one journeys by railway. Instead of two days, ten hours, from Morioka to this Pittsburgh of Japan. Mr. and Mrs. Arakawa find the doors wide open and have more calls than they can answer. In this district of 35,000 people we are the only workers. There have been eight baptisms this year in this rapidly growing city of J 7,000 people.

Pioneer work here, that spells hardship for the mission-Sakari. ary. No wagon roads, no riding, not even a saddle

horse to be had. Our four stations in this county are about 12 miles apart. On a pleasant day when the roads are good, a 12 mile walk over the mountains to your next station is rather jolly, but when it is through the rain and mud, or snow, or slush, one's impedimenta become a dead weight. Mr. Steadman did these Marathon stunts until May, and now it is up to me. Mr. Sawano, our faithful evangelist, is the only Christian worker in this county of 58,000 people.

HENRY TOPPING.

MORIOKA KINDERGARTEN.

Though often tempted from day to day to yield to the thought, II How little has been gained! How vast the unattained!", the backward look over the year and the years fills my heart with a great thanksgiving for all that God has done for us.

Dr. White once said to a group of teachers, "Study to make yourself dispensable." I certainly have had that relationship to the kindergarten for the last three years. During the larger P~lrt of my two years absence in America, Miss Jesse, with Mrs. Steadman's efficient co-operation, supervised the work with characteristic enthusiasm and success. Even now I notice in some of the reports and letters of home workers, she is referred to as still in charge. Would that it were true! I have long hoped to pass the kindergarten over to a missionary of our Women's Board in order that I might be free for the unlimited opportunities for work in the homes and schools of the city and also for country touring with my husband.

When the needs of the Sendai school took Miss Jesse away from Morioka, Mrs. Steadman was left with the whole burden until my return.

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And now after a brief season of working together in which I learned many sweet lessons from her loving, skillfully'ordered life of service, I am alone.

But fortunately I have for associates the same reliable Japanese teachers who have so long carried on the work. During my long weeks of illness and absence while convalescing, their daily reports were a continued consolation and inspiration to pray H with thanks­giving" for all the precious little growing souls in our garden.

And now the new term finds our enrollment again pressed a little beyond the limit of fifty. Again we are pleased that so many come from families of former graduates. One mother whose five children have all come to us, recently passed away happy in the thought of going to the same Heavenly Father that her children had learned to know and love. Another mother came recently to enroll the sixth child and promising the seventh next year. The father of this family is a man of influence in the city having served as Mayor and in other responsible offices.

We have many encouragements in connection with the special events during the year. The Thanksgiving season culminated in a larger contribution than ever for tlle orphanage.

In February I went with the teachers to Sendai where we held our first Conference for all kindergarten teachers of the Tohoku. The Training School in charge of Miss Correll of the Episcopal Mission entertained us graciously. Ishihara San came from Tokyo and greatly helped and inspired us.

All through the year we have given special attention to the group of nurses who come with the children. Hosoya San, our Bible Woman from the OSlka Training School, has taught them lovingly and faithfully and reports three ready for baptism. We pray that God may use them for his glory as he did the little maid in Naaman's household.

Early in the fall we realized that we must begin to agitate for a new building. In December we held a bazaar that netted us fifty yen, a nest egg for the building fund which I believe our friends will add to when we give them opportunity. One unsolicited con­tribution of five yen has already come from Judge Sato of the Hokkaido in memory of his little son who was one of our graduates.

The bazaar was a very pleasant affair socially. The ladies were glad of the opportunity to purchase various articles that had come from America in those precious" boxes," also foreign candies and other articles of local make. Out of doors was a whirling temp­est of snow but inside all was festive until just after the arrival of the governor's wife with a group of her friends, one of the stove pipes blew down and ill a few minutes the smoke was thicker than a

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London fog! As there was no man about, "'the emergency called on me to seize the burning sticks .of wood and carry them through the rooms and out of doors. Then doors and windows were opened to the winter gale until the smoke had somewhat subsided. I was impressed with the characteristic decorum with which everyone ex­cept myself remained unmoved and apparently oblivious. Instead of coughing and exclaiming and scrambling for wraps as American women would surely have done, they sweetly ignored the whole disturbing incident.

Perhaps the most inspiring occasion of the year was the meeting of the Alumni to welcome to their fellowship the twenty-nine new graduates. One hundred and fifty were present. The speech of wel­come was made by one of the old graduates, now in the third year of the Boys' High School. We were delighted with the spirit of all that he said and the freedom with which he spoke may be due in part to the fact that his father is one of the most able lawyers. in the city.

Alter the program all adjourned to the park for an Easter egg hunt.

GENEVIEVE F AVlLLE TOPPING.

MRS. J. H. SCOTT.

OSAKA MISSIONARIES :-

Mr. and Mrs. J. H. SCOTT. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. FOOTE. Miss LAVINIA MEAD (Absent). Miss MARY E. DANIELSON. Miss AMY A. AcocK.

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Much of the credit for the present prosperity and importance of Osaka mllst be ascribed to the personality of that great genius, Taiko Hideyoshi, who about the year 1580, attracted by the great advantage in the geograph4;al location of the city, decid­ed to make it his capital. Since that time Osaka has figured prominently in the political and commercial activity of all Japan, and in recent years its influence has also reached out to the whole Orient. The rapid increase in the population, which has been no less than 45,000 per annum for the past five years, indicates its present importance and its future prospecls. •

1 he newcomers are mostly young people who crowd into the city seeking em­ployment in the many factories and other places of service. Removed from the restraints of home, they are subject to many temptations, and numbers are swept into the awful whirlpool of iniquity. However these young people, having few friends or relatives in the city, appreciate in the midst of their loneliness any kindly effort on their behalf. Accordingly not only are they in desperate need of that help that comes from the Gospel of Christ, but also they are in a condition where they can be easily influenced, if reached in time.

There is then this one great stream of people pouring into Osaka from all parts of Japan, but there is also another stream going out from Osaka to all parts of Japan and also to aU parts of the Orient. Few cities in the whole world are as far­reaching in business activity.

Osaka has a people of intense activity and zeal; they" bring things to pass" ; and as they are reached with the Gospel, they can and will exert a very wide and far· reaching influence for good. Conservatism and prejudice are passing away and won~erful opportunities are opening on every hand. 'Ve are at this center of wonderful privilege, but with ao equipment all too meager. Must this day of privi­lege and opportunity pass without being improved?

Missionaries' Miss Mead left for the home land on furlough soon One goes on f~r· after the last Conference. She will receive a hearty ough and a new welcome when she returns next autumn. Miss Acoc~

one comes. has identified herself closely with the work of the station and has done very efficient service in the Training School.

Last DecemQer, for the first time during his residence in Osaka, Mr. Scott was absent from the city on Christmas Day. But the day found him at Ningpo, China, and when he returned a few days later he was not alone. The East China Mission has lost Miss Helen Elgie, but the Osaka Station and the Japan Mission now have as a member, Mrs. Helen Elgie Scott. The new home already opened at Chikko, Osaka, always has the II the latch-string out," and hopes to become more and more a center from which shall go forth much of Gospel cheer.

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In order that Mr. Foote mignthave his full time for RfCad)lIStmrkeDt Ianguae-e study, 1\lr. Scott had the oversight of the o tbe wo • ....

whole Osaka work until last autumn. But from October 1\1r. Foote has had in charge the work in East Osaka and also that in Nara and Kidzu. This change was very welcome to Mr. Scott as it makes possible more of the intensive work needed in the two churches and six chapels still in his ~are. And also it makes it possible for the important work in East Osaka and its outstations to be in the hands of one who can make definite plans for the future. rather than to be in care of one who knows that his responsibility is but a temporary one.

. The Osaka Station made a noteworthy record in the R~ord in matter of contributions for the work by the church UlviDg.

members, having reached a more than fifty per cent increase during the year, and now Osaka leads all the stations in the matter of giving per member.

Mission Policy.

Recently the desirability of having a definite policy for the future has been appreciated by the members of the station, and the following were agreed upon as

items for which effort should be made :-(I) That there be no dimi­nution in the number of missionaries on the field. This will involve the maintain.ing of at least two- families and the securing, at an early date as possible, of another mission residence. (2) That a kinder­garten be started at once at Ikeda, and also at such other churches and chapels as may be available as soon as possible. (3) That until the present churches become self-supporting, there be a policy of intensive effort rather than of extensive. (4) That we strive for the establishment of an institutional church in Osaka as soon as possible.

This is the oldest of the churches on the Osaka field, East Cburch. it is in a fine location and it has a house of worship

admirably fitted for its use. However it is greatly to be regretted that the church h1.s 110t made the record that could reasonably be expected of it. Mr. Ishikawa. who has been the pastor for about five years, has resigned and accepted the pastorate of the church at Moji, and the church is now looking for the right man. The church appreciates the necessity of a more systematic method of financing the church work, and it can reasonably be ex­pected that when a new pastor comes the amount paid by the church will be more than doubled" perhaps trebled. Plans are in mind w~ich include :-(I) An increase in the working and giving mem­bers and consequently an increase in the amount raised by the church. (.2) More pupils in the Sunday School. (3) At least one evangelistic campaign each month. (4) Bimonthly social and busi­ness meetings. (5) Training class for Sunday School workers.

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The meetings held during the evangelistic campaign EMvangtineustic: and those recently conducted by Dr. Chiba, were ee gs.

well attended and much interest shown. These meet-ings have shown the possibilities within our reach when proper effort is made.

Mr. Hara has done most efficient service on this Nara, Kidzu, field for about three years, and the results of his con­Kamo.

sec rated efforts are now appearing. The situation at Nara had become very discouraging; indeed the membership had dwindled to one. However in response to earnest and prayerful effort, from about the beginning of the year conditions greatly im­proved, and in the autumn the already 'hopeful situation was helped on by the coming of Mr. Foote into this work and by the end of the year new life was evident as seen in the increase in the membership and in the attendance at the preaching services and at the Sunday School. The Sunday School now has an efficient corps of young women teachers. Accordingly the work is going on enthusiastically and is full of promise.

The Kidzu field is freighted with possibilities. But Oppo~~~i~es at during the year fruit has not been garnered as we

would wish, owing to t~e fact that the little band was greatly discouraged by the weakness of one member. Mr. Hara, here as ill Nara and elsewhere, goes about his work most faithfully, is a friend of everybody and so exerts an influence for great good.

It is hoped that during the summer a student can be Summer Plans. secured to work with Mr. Hara on the field and in

the three villages to the east. The two together with such help as the missionary can give ought to secure am?le results in these villages.

The year has been a very prosperous one with this Naniwa Cburtb. church. It made an increase ill its contributions of

almost seventy per cent. But this is not the most encouraging feature in .the events of the year. The evangelistic band has made its influence felt for great good not only in the church itself but also in the neighboring churches and chapels, and in other ways the evangelistic spirit in the church has been very inspiring. There is harmony in the church and all are devoted to the pastor, Mr. Takeda, who has been more than eleven years. with the church and is now doing the best work of his plstorate. The church celebrated the eleventh anniversary of his coming to them with a most enthusiastic reception which showed "the strong hold that he has upon the hearts of the church members and others who know him well.

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The WOJk at this chape(~s··'been during the year Kujo. largely in care of the Naniwa Church and pastor

Takeda preaches there regularly. Mr. Sakaino, a most devoted layman, gives 'much of his time without, any money compensation to the work of this chapel. His zeal and devotion give great weight to his every effort, and his influence for good is felt not only in Osaka and vicinity but also throughout the whole of the Association in which Osaka is located. It was he who plan­ned an evangelistic campaign in which all the churches and chapels of the Association should work together, of which the results ha ve been most satisfactory.

This new church, organized less than a year ago, has Ikeda Church. already made a record that is quite remarkable. Its

increase in contributions during the year was over one hundred per cent. and in other ways it has set a most inspiring ex­ample of zeal and devotion. l.ast autumn after an illness of about a month, the beloved pastor, Mr. Takizawa, died. The very faith­ful attention that the church members paid to his needs during his sickness and the great sorrow shown after his death, indicated the devotion that was felt for him and for the church to which he gave his every power so unreservedly. The prospect before the church after his death was discouraging, but with a courage and determina· tion most commendable, plans were made at the very time of his funeral for a series of evangelistic meetings in his honor which were held with encouraging results. The Father was very kind to the church and in less than a month a new pastor was secured in the person of Mr. Matsuda Hara who had just returned from studying in America. He and his bride have taken hold of the work with much of zeal and enthusiasm, and the members are supportil1g him most loyally. He bas already been able to see the Sunday School double in membership, an enthusiastic young men's society organ­ized and much accomplished in other ways. The prospect is most promising for this church and also for the work at Kobama where Mr. and Mrs. Hara are making their influence felt for great good.

Sakai, Tempo Mr. Miyake has continued his quiet and unassuming Cho and Hamil" but effective work at these places, and as in the past

dera. he has been nobly supported by the efforts of his devoted wife. They have now completed over eleven years with the Sakai chapel, and have,seen the work prosper in their care. It is hoped that in the not distant future the members here can be organized into a church. Hamadera also has much of promise and Tempo Cho is in the city of Osaka near Mr. Scott's residence where Mr. Miyaki has a strong hold upon a goodly number who are being wisely led by him.

Juso.

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Excellent work for women and children has for some­time been done from the Training School at Juso. However it has been evident that in order to conserve

this work a chapel should be opened near the school. Last fall it was possible to secure as evangelist, Mr. Kimura, a member of the Naniwa Church and a student in the Kwansei Gakuin Theological Seminary I a Methodist institution in Kobe. He is a young man of marked zeal and devotion, and he is doing a very satisfactory work and the outlook is very hopeful.

This work so important on any field, is of special Work for Women· d f . 1 . h 0

and Cbildren. Importance an 0 specla promise on t e saka field. It is mainly in the care of Miss Danielson who with

her wonted vigor has pushed it not only in the city but also at the outstations, and the results have been encouraging. A large num­ber of Sunday Schools are held each week and eight women's meet­ings regularly held each month. Many of the meetings, both regular and special, have been of more than usual interest; at one meeting Madame Hiraoka gave a most interesting and inspiring address on the topic, "The Responsibility of Women in the Taisho Era." This lecture was heard by seventy women.

The Training School will be reported by itself The Training and so does not have a special part in this report.

School. • . h h' h I ~ However It IS proper t at testation report s ou d reler to the excellent work being done for women and children by the students under the direction ofl\1iss Acock. These students are going out to all OUT churches and chapels and are making their influence felt for great good. The graduating class went out with l\1~iss Danielson for a week of evangelistic work on the Kidzu and Kamo fields. The week was attended with most encouraging results.

The general color of our horizon is that of opening Our Vision. morn. \Ve can see the signs of the coming of the

Son of Glory on our field. The new day will come with His rising. Our faces are set towards that day with hope and expectation shining upon them. Our Lord will not fail us. Next year we hope to tell a still more wonderful story of work done in His Kingdom.

J. H. SCOTT.

BIBLE WOMEN'S TRAINING SCHOOL.

In spite of the fact that Miss l\1:ead went to America July 1st, and left the Bible School in the hands of one with no experience in such. a responsible place and one not half so capable as herself, by the grace of God, and the sympathy and help and prayers of the Mission, the school has been able to keep running through the year.

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---~ ...... It seemed almost an impossible task when I came to it,

~pecially when I knew that l\Iiss Mead was really gone, but ~he promise of "My strength is made perfect in weakness," has been fulfilled to me, and in everything I have had the faithful support of Nakaji San, who has been connected with the school from the first. Of her faithfulness and thoughtfulness, to say nothing of her e~ceptional ability, I cannot speak too highly. I am sure it is safe to say that we have no more capable. and no more consecrated young woman in connection with the work of our Mission than she.

All the teachers have done faithful work, and all are very loyal to the school, though, sad to say, the only Blptist teacher in the school, besides Nakaji San, and my helper (who does a little teaching in the first year class only) is Mr. Takeda, the pastor of the Naniwa Baptist Church of Osaka,. Mr. Hori, who has been a splendid teacher, had to leave Osaka the last of last term as he is a Methodist pastor and was transferred to another place, but in his place we were able to get Mr. Akazawa, who came to the church that Mr. Hori left. He was head teacher at the Methodist Bible Women's Training School in Kobe before moving to Osaka. He, too, is a very fine man and we are glad to have him connected with our school.

I have taught fourteen hours a week in Japanese, besides doing a little English teaching, outside of school hours, at the earnest request ·of some of the student,. There have been several difficult cases to deal with individually, but, though each one seemed to take every bit of strength I had, it has been a great joy to me to see how the Lord could use even me to help these girls to understand better what He would have them do and be.

During the school year twenty-one have been enrolled. Of this number, one, who was in the Senior class, was returned to her home in February because we felt that we could no(recornmend her for a Bible woman at present. Seven were graduated April 1St. One went to Himeji to be Miss Pawley's helper and do Bible Woman's work, one went to Tokyo to work with Miss Ryder, two are worl~ing with Miss Danielson, in and around Oliaka, one went back to the Islands for work there, one is now at her home sick,. and the young woman from Liuchiu has returned to her own land to use her time and strength for the women and children there, supported entirely by three former graduates of the Bible School who are still working with us.

One young woman in the next class was sent to tbe Kinder­garten Training School to take the course there before taking her last year at the Bible School, because of her youth, and because of her fitness, as we felt, for kindergarten work. There are now seven

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in the Third Year Class, four in the Second, and four in the First. In the new First Year Class is a graduate.of our Himeji School of ten years ago. She comes to us from Kyoto highly recommended by the Kyoto church. Her husband died a few weeks ago, and she has decided to give herself for this work, and comes to us entirely at her own expense. Another one in the present first year class comes from the T ohoku where she has been a primary school teacher for a number of years. AMy ALDEN ACOCK.

REPORT OF BOARD OF MANAGERS OF OSAKA BIBLE TRAINING SCHOOL.

The Board of Managers of the Osaka Bible Training School has held two meetings during the year. One at Osaka when its officers were chosen, business transacted pertaining to the school and its graduating class, and action taken regarding the" Estimates II for the coming year.

The other was held at Arima, at which time the Acting Principal read her yearly report.

The school has been visited officially by some number of the " Board" six times during the year.

We found the teachers doing very creditable work and were pleased with what we saw of the running of the school.

There seemed to be a spirit of mutual helpfulness and a desire to make the spiritual standard of the school even higher than it had been in the past. .

It has not been an easy year for the Acting Principal and she deserves only praise for the work she has done, and for the wisdom shown under some very trying circumstances.

As we consider the needs of the School it seems wise to your committee to submit the following resolutioHs for your consideration and approval.

1st. All candidates for admission to the School shall be asked to meet the Board of l\1anagers before being admitted as regular pupils. For the best interest of the School a Faculty Meeting

2nd. should be held once a month, also all teachers should hold regular examinations at least once each term in

order that the true standing of the pupils may be determined. That these recommendations be in-corporated into the By-Laws of the School. 3rd.

4th. That the complete By-Laws of the School shall be printed in English and in Japanese and freely circulat­ed among the missionaries and Japanese churches.

M. M. CARPENTER, Sec. of B. of M.

MITO--'·· MISSIONARIES: -

Mr. and Mrs. E. H. JONES.

The MHo field comprises two prefectures, Ib:luki and Fukushima. The former has 1,300,000 people and the latter 900,000. Our workers for Ibaraki province are one missionary family and sev<!n Japanese wvrkers. In Fukushima province we have one regular Japanese male worker and one Bible woman, the latter placed there by the girls' school in Sendai out of pity for our lameness. Mr. Jones feels that the greatest weakness in his field lies in having no special worker among the women.

A change of pastor in the Mito church has much Mito. interfered with our work there. The pastor's drop-

pi~g out of Christian work, and the installing of a new man lost for us a good number of adherents and some believers.

1\1:r. Shinozaki, the new pastor, is gradually gathering up the loose ends, and is making some progress. There are now some five or six hopeful inquirers. There are two great needs that must be met in the Mito work if we expect success. These are a suitable building and an increase of the working staff. The intensive policy has not arrived at Mito yet. This is the only chief station in our Japan mission that has no church building and no provision for women's work.

These two out stations with weekly calls from Evange­Oda and Ogata. list Minagawa have done better than our other out-

stations, even better than Mito or Taira. Women converts are conspicious by their absence, but of men there has been a good harvest. Ten have already been baptized and more are soon to follow. Evangelist Minagawa has a laudable talent in getting inquirers to pray. I have been surprised to hear ten or twelve young men engage in prayer in one meeting. Our brother has his own method too of singing and otherwise carrying on his meetings. It is a farming community and the meetings do not get under weigh till nine o'clock at night or after. First, there will be a sort of sing song chant which tells the story of Christ and our duty to believe and follow him. Then a similar one about the Sunday School and what is learned there, viz., that the pupils should not use sake or tobacco, should obey their parents, be faithful in their studies at school, and become followers of Jesus Christ.

After these chants have been sung and one or two hymns from the regular song book, scripture read and prayer offered, three of the converts are asked to give brief testimonies. On the particular day in question the converts who testified were the ones who had been baptized that day. They told their reasons for becoming Christians, their joy in believing. and their hopes for the conversion of the young

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men of the village. Then Brother Minagawa himself, finding an unusually large audience gave a spirited address, long enough itself, according to the feelings of the missionary, for the whole of one meeting. Then the missionary, now tired enough to say a hearty good night to all was called upon to give the address of the evening.

I thought I had every reason to be brief. I knew that most of these people had worked hard all day in the rice fields, had hurried home, scrubbed up, taken a hasty supper, and had already had teaching enough for an ordinary meeting. I, too, had had a hard day, and was not fully rested from the previous night's work. So my address was brief and to the point and it soon came to the final appeal. Judge my surprise then in seeing five or six young men hold up their hands signifying their desire to follow Christ. Suffice it to say I soon forgot my weariness in the interesting and all-absorbing work of teaching the new inquirers how to take the first steps in the new life.

This district too has had its innings lately. Mr. Fuji­Ota Mura. moto of our Kanagawa School-as successful an

evangelistic worker as he is a teacher-visited the district and the Young Men's Society turned out en bloc to hear him. As a result of Mr. Fujimoto's talk several young men have said that they wanted to become Christians, and a good number who were not ready yet to go so far took the total abstinence pledge. Mr. Iida the resident evangelist is much encouraged with the new impulse which seems to have been given the work. It is at this place where the several churches join in an interdenominational social meeting two or three times in the year.

The pastor at Taira, 1\1r. Sato, has been much encour-Taira. aged by the increased attendance at his meetings and

the appearance of some inquirers. This may be due to the meetings of the Three Year Evangelistic Campaign which had notable attendance when held there recently. It is said that our own worker, Mr. Imai, formerly a Buddhist priest, gave the most encouragement. The meetings I attended were filled with grown men, the meetings places overflowing. and a very earnest spirit manifested.

We have had our quarterly meetings as usual and Quarte, wrlY Mkeetings believe the workers were much benefited. One was

o orers. . h h S 1 . Th concerned WIth the C urc. uc 1 tOpICS as e Christian Church, what is it? How to organize a Church, What kind of people should become members, What are the ordinances of a Christian Church? How to build up the members of the Church. One of our quarterly meetings was concerned with the Sunday School. We had Mr. Coleman who is making a specialty

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of Sunday School work under appointmen£ of the Federated Missions of ]apanaddressed our workers on the up-to-date Sunday School Convention topics. Mr. Nohechi who publishes a paper for Sunday School children gave some very profitable addresses on the use of the Bible stories for interesting children. He gave some very interesting illustrations of how to do it.

E. H. JONES.

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MISSIOr-t SNIP" FUKUIN MARU"

It may be a H Long way to Tipperary," but it is a short distance indeed to the dire influences produced by the World War. Though we may not be touched by the superficial thought that .. Christianity has failed," yet that cost of fuel oil at 190 yf1Z per. one hundred cans as compared with 70 yf1l before the war hits us hard, and this is but a sample.

The hit of hits however has been the deten.tion of the Ship by the authorities as a direct War measure. Not the detention of the FukuilZ Maru as a Missz"on Ship but the detention of all vessels on the coast flying any and every foreign flag as a precautionary measure at a time when as one official said, .. The whole world is on fire and mad with war."

We are free again and so give thanks, but the delay in the direct prosecution of the work in the Islands has been a sore trial. But trials they tell us are good for us and though we cannot yet see clearly why this particular brand of trial was good, there is coming to us as we move about again rapidly, a dawning as to the place it may have had in God's plan-which we are sure is perfect.

Special time has been found to plan for and help to carry into being a stronger, clearer church life and expression of that life in me­thods of church organization and church work in the Islands. The results have been gratifying. Some one at the last Annual Church Rally said, ., You have here not a Church only but what is really an Association of Churches without the people themselves realizing that iOt is so." But even so, when a suggestion was made from Churches on the Mainland that we form a separate association for the Islands, we were surprised. Yet with humility we thank God that the developments are such and that the vitality is such, that this might indeed be done, we desire in this as in other things in the Island Work to make haste slowly. This gratifying condition more­over is less due to direct planning than to the fact that in the good Providence of God in these Islands, like Topsy-" it growed."

Again. time was found for an examination and study of con­ditions of Island life or rather for an assimilation of the impressions and facts received from contact with many thousands of Island homes and many tens of thousands of Island people and bringing these results to bear on the problems likely to confront the young Island Church in the near future. This has led especially to two dis­tinct developments which we believe will in time have wide-sprea~ influence. It should be remembered however that these new efforts are made not as a means of seeking an opportunity of entering into

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the lives of the people, but are the result o17t;ivi1tg already entered. Herein lies a strong difference. The developments are as follows:

I. The drift of young girls to the cities of the Mainland and­ruin! This has lain on our hearts for years. At last we have thrown prudence to the winds and attempted something for these girls. We have attempted it on what ?-on nothing! Now don't get nervous, friend, for fear we are going to ask you to support something that has not gone through the long mill of formal ap­proval ; we are not!

Strangely enough the l\-fission body has money for schools, for Bibles, for organs, sometimes for church buildings, also for men to produce wonderfully constructed sermons telling people not to go to perdition, but most of us have not a single cent to help save a hard pressed penniless girl from going there. We send the Salvation Army to look them up when it is usually too late and call it off!

Yes, we have started Industrial Work, not to catch people, we don't have to, but to save them from parents and relations after they are under our influence. But our great purpose after all is to nuke a public protest against existing social and industrial conditions and give an example of better things.

We have begun without a cent of capital or appropriation hop­ing to pull through and make the work self-supporting. B:lttenburg lace and drawn work directly undertaken with the girls under our immediate care, some in a dormitory, some in their parents' homes, is one feature_ This phase of the work deals with twenty-five girls and six elderly women each of whom represents "a case." Towel m3.king through five already existing small local plants gives employ­ment to, say, sixty girls under direct Christian influence. This is the other phase of Ind ustrial Work undertaken.

The struggle without capital or appropriation is a hard one, but we hope to win out.

2. Leakage is a serious thing, be it in a ship or in a church. In the Island church organization in spite of a membership distribut­ed in sixty-seven places there is no leakage. Every member is in touch with the church and the church with him or her.

This happy condition has resulted in a strong desire to conserve results aU round, results of the sixty-two Sunday Schools, of the General Evangelism, of the newspaper and Literature work, of the Industrial work and the long enquirers' list of several hundred names. To this end a Society has been formed along Christian Endeavor lines. It is called the Light Seeking Society and is affiliated with the National Christian Endeavor, the National Temperance Society t etc., etc.

The Christians will plan their efforts especially for young people

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through this Society. Scholars of long standing who are leaving the Sunday School to go out into life are recommended by the Ship's workers to this -Society as associate members. Special meet­ings are held by the Christians for these groups of young people and also for enquirers. This Society we hope to have represented eventually in all the sixty-two towns and viiiages in which we have regular work.

The older forms of work have been carried on during the year by the workers and the many working believers with earnestness and zeal, but with an ever present longing for renewed activities of the Ship itself. We give thanks for the faithfulness of these often isolated friends.

The negotiations resulting in the release of the Ship after one year and four months of ,detention, though demanding tact and patience, resulted in much that will we believe prove beneficial to the interests of Christian 'Vork in the Islands not only but to Chris­tian efforts everywhere. The interest aroused il; the Japanese Federation of Churches and among Japanese Christian leaders as to the question of our release, is one asset. The direct thought and consideration given by high officials to Christian activities for the uplift of the people in a large section of this land as represented by the Fukuin Ma1'1t is another and must lead to a better understanding of Christian motives.

So as we go on our way again and find a welcome above any welcome which even we have had, we pray God that He may make us faithful to the trust which is represented by the wide opportunity for service and deep responsibility laid upon us.

LUKE \Y. BICKEL.

HIM ~J I MISSIONARIES :-

Mr. and 1\1rs. F- C. BRIGGS.

GIRLS' SCHOOL:-

Miss E. F. WILCOX.

Miss ANNABELLE PAWLEY.

A oelightful ride of about 35 miles from Kobe, much of the way overlooking the sea, brings us to Himeji, a busy commercial center whose chief attraction is its old castle built in the sixteenth century but still in a state of exceptional preservation.

Himeji is a center of great interest in our Baptist work. Here is one of our Girls' Schools; here is the convenient headquarters of Capt. Bickel and family when away from the ship and here is the center of a large country work under the care of Mr. and Mrs. Briggs.

Miss Wilcox is Principal of the Girls' Scbool, and has had during the past year Miss Pawley as associate. Mr. and Mrs. Briggs are kept very busy in touring through the large country field and in work in the city, where evening classes have been a feat­ure of their work of great interest and promise.

The upward progress of the Hinomoto Girls' School, Oirls' School. that so definitely began from the time the new build­

ings and equipment were supplied, has continued and made this the best year yet in the school's history.

l\fiss Wilcox's work is marked by clear-cut thinking, prayerful planning, and persistent, insistent effort to bring about the realization of her ideals, and the good results are becoming more and more evident in the school.

It was a great loss to the school when Miss Hiscox left, but the coming of .Miss Pawley brought sunshine, and her ability in getting hold of the language, leads us to expect she will be very helpful in an unusually short time.

We have continued the emphasis on Sunday School Sunday Scbools. work, and can report a good year, notwithstanding

special activity and some opposition by the Buddhists, who have proposed to establish Sunday Schools all over the coun­try as a memorial of the Emperor's Coronation. In some places they exactly copy our methods, organ, songs, talks, cards, occasional stereopticon, etc. and then strictly forbid the children to attend the Christian Sunday Schools.

We have organized a City Y.M.C.A. with all English V.M.C.A. njght school, Bible-classes, etc. It is proving very

effective in getting hold of the young business men. The membership is about 150 and the average attendance between 50 and 60. Practically all the expenses are met by the membership and night school fees.

HIMEJI 6g

In the Evangelistic work we have had some experi~ EvangeUstlc WClrk. ences that seem like a revival of the old hatred of

Christianity, and on the other hand experiences that seem to indicate that the people are on the eve of turning to Chris­tianity in large numbers.

As an example of the first kind. In the village of Takeda where a fine group of young men have openly taken a strong stand as Christians, all the Buddhist and Shinto priests in the place have for once become united-united by the call "Drive out the Christian te~ching." They had not been aroused to any special opposition by our meetings, but when the most promising young business man of the village gave a ringing testimony for Christ in the annual meeting of the village school alumni, a meeting which everyone attends, they were stirred to activity, and have brought to bear all sorts of influences, direct and indirect, to get the young men to recant. Pray for them. In another district in Kanazaki gun the" prominent citizens" of five villages have united with the definite purpose of preve~ting Christianity's getting a hold in their district. This op­position also was aroused by the open Christian activity of two bright young sons of the district.

On the other hand we have had the most remarkable .special Meetings. series of special meetings that this district has ever

known. The outstanding new feature of the meetings, has been the readiness of the people to attend the meetings and their attentive hearing and approving attitude. In Himeji at our three nights union meetings, the largest theatre in the place was filled­over a thousand people every night. and the number giving their names as those desiring to be taught more fully the way of salva­tion through Christ. was over 300.

We are happy in frequently seeing the power of Transformed Christ revealed in changed lives. One example-A lives.

young school teacher came to the Himeji Hospital, a few months ago, broken and despairing. Father recently died -pro­perty lost-sick-turned out from his school because the authorities thought he had consumption-the young woman to whom he was engaged, and whom he loved ac; the Japanese rarely seem to love, sent into isolation to die the lingering death of a leper and Nagai San was ready to curse and die. and made all preparation for a sure death in case the doctor said he would recover. Then one of our young Christians and Pastor Akimoto went to him with the story of God's love as revealed by the Christ of Calvary and his eyes were opened to see that it was so great and perfect a love that it in some wise and tender way surely encompassed everything that now seemed so pitiless in his life, and the light and hope that flooded his heart is

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so great that he is truly transformed. whe'ithe gave his experience at our church the glow and freshness, the vivid reality of his new birth was such that it radiated from him, and even more than in his words, the power of the Spirit was manifest in his tone, his eye, his uncon=cious gestures. A butterfly can emerge from the prison body of a worin and not sense the wonder of it, but not so a human soul, and Nagai San is so realizing the marvel of a child of this world's sin and sorrow coming out into the light and love and hope of the child of God, that he is overflowing with joyous wonder.

He has gone back to his home village to tell what great things the living God has done for him, and is simply, trustingly, careless as to whether his life here be short or long-for he is in the perfect keeping of the God who so loved him that He gave His Son for his salvation, and will with that surely give all lesser blessings.

F. C. BRIGGS.

THE HIMEJI GIRLS' SCHOOL.

The story of the year 1915-16 is not a striking one, yet we note an increase in numbers and steady progress in things educational and religious.

In March we graduated ten fine girls, eight of whom Story of tbe year. are Christians. In spite of stricter entrance require-

ments this year than before, thirty-three new pupils entered the school in April, making our present number of pupils ninety-six. Fifty-six of these are in our dormitory where the Chris­tian influence is so strong that very few go out from it without having given themselves to Christ.

There have been no changes in our Japanese faculty Faculty. this year, but in July, Miss Hiscox's return to Ame-

rica left a big vacancy in our school and home. For a long time no one came to take her place but God is good and in December He sent Miss Pawley to comfort and help bear the bur­dens of the work.

The government recognition which, at the time of our Government I fid I .. '1 1 I Recognition ast report we were con ent y expectmg, IS stt l on y

. a hope of the future owing to a mistake made by our head-teacher in making his request; yet we are not discouraged and :believe that He who overrules human mistakes for His glory, will 'make even this disappointm~nt work .for good to our school.

The religious life of the school is earnest and hopeful. Religious Life. Our enquirers' class of more than thirty girls is very

encouraging. Already thirteen have confessed their ."faith by baptism during the year, not to mention those who have :become members of other denominations; a number of others are

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only waiting for the consent of parents to openly confess Christ. For long years we have had a Christian Endeavor Society among our dormitory girls but early this term a new Christian Endeavor Society was organized for the whole school. The prayer meetings of the new society have been marked by deep earnestness and power and all are trying to work together for Christ and the Church. Very earnestly did these young Christians endeavor to make the recent CI Kyodo dendo" (special evangelistic) meetings held in the largest theatre in Himeji and in our own school, a success. Their invitations brought in many and their chorus of 30 voices added not a little to the impressiveness of the meetings.

S The Sunday School work this year has been quite as

Sunday chool . ( 1 I Work. sattsJactory as ast year, e even Sunday Schools, and

for a time twelve, besides that at the church and an­other at the school house, have been carried on by our girls and teachers, while our graduates have helped Mrs. Briggs in four of her Sunday Schools. Almost without exception these schools continued to increase even after Christmas until several of them numbered more than a hundred. The Boys' Club organized last year has continued to prosper though as yet our hope that some from it would be added to the church has not been fulfilled.

Our beautiful school buildings are still the cause of White ants. deepest gratitude and it was with great consternation

that white ants were discovered in the foundations of two separate parts of the dormitory. The work of exterminating these pests and repairing the damage done by them, has been very great, but we believe it will be effectual and the buildings will be better and stronger because of all the brick and concrete we have had to put into them. EDITH F. WILCOX,

Principal.

IKUNO KINDERGARTEN, HIMEJI.

The kindergarten in Ikuno has finished its fourth year with an enrollment of thirty-one. Eight of these received their diplomas the last of March. and an entering class of fifteen crowded in for the new term. It is a satisfaction to the workers to hear the commendation of the primary school teachers on the good behaviour of their graduates.

And we believe that a spirit of love and trust in the Heavenly Father which is daily taught in story and song may bear rich fruit in years to come, and that the prej udice and superstition of the parents will gradually disappear. Cramped quarters and lack of a suitable play ground have been great drawbacks, but we hope that the latter may soon be secured. HARRIET W. BRIGGS.

KYOTO Rev. R. A. THOMSON, (Temporarily in Charge.)

Kyoto has much of peculiar interest and importance. Next to Tokyo and Osaka it has the largest population of any city in Japan; it is well known over the world for its fine arts and its fine porcelains, silks, etc.; it has a thousand and more Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines, some of them very costly and imposing. and many of them built hundreds of years ago; the Imperial palaces are of great interest. It is one of the strategic centers in Japan. Second only in importance to Tokyo because of its large student population, Universities, Higher and Middle Schools, Medical and Art Schools and with a population growing" by leaps and bounds ., it would seem hardly necessary to point out the need for our having a missionary family here. .

I am glad to be able to report good progress at this station, although conditions have not changed very much from those of last year. We are still witholJt a missionary family in this large city of over 450,000 people of which not a quarter have been touched with the Gospel! We have a fine church building for our work and a good foreign residence, the latter being rented to the missionary of another denomination! The church people do as well as could be expected, but there is not the slightest use in seeking to evade the fact that a strong work cannot be built up without the presence and help of a foreign missionary. This is and has been the unfailing experience of every mission in Japan to my knowledge. It is ours in Kyoto!!

We are fortunate in having with us here as an evangelistic worker, 1Vlr. Hara. His educational equipment is of the very highest order and while he has not studied in our Seminary t he is developing spiritually and otherwise into a fine worker. He has a beautiful spirit and the church members are very fond of him. The church is growing in numbers under his fostering care, but'it needs a resident missionary. With the many other burdens upon my shoulders it is simply impossible for me to give this work the super­vision it needs. I have had the help of Mr. Yoshikawa our general evangelist during the past years occasionally, otherwise the work would have suffered considerably. .

At the request of the late evangelist in Kyoto I have to correct a error which appeared in the report (or this station last year.

I had written that the church did not care to ordain him and he very soon left. He assures me that he did not leave the work in Kyoto Qecause the church did not ordain him and I am glad to make this correction here at his request. Personally I did all thaf I possibly could to have him ordained as pastor, but for some reason or other the church did not care to move in the direction I had indicated. I hJ. ve a very great regard for the brother in

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question and would not for a single moment seek to give a wrong impression as to his reasons for removing from Kyoto.

I sincerely trust that the very next missionary family that comes to Japan may be designated to Kyoto and until we have a family here who can influence and direct the various church interests and take a hand in the work for students in Kyoto no substantial progress can be manifested in our Baptist work in this great city of a thousand temples.

R. A. THD:\fSON.

MINUTES OF THE

TWENTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE

OF THE

MISSIONARIES OF THE AMERICAN BAPTIST

FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY IN JAPAN

AriIna, June 4-9. 1916.

TOGETHER WITH

REPORTS OF

COMMITTEES

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CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS AS AMENDED

CONSTITUTION

ARTICLE I.-NAME AND OBJECT.-This Conference shall be called the Conference of the Missionaries of the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society in Japan. Its object shall be free discussion, mutual counsel and encouragement respecting their work on the part of its members, and the trapsaction of business pertaining to their work.

ARTICLE lJ.-MEMBERSHIP.-The membership of this Conference shall be composed of all appointees to Japan of the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society and of other Baptist workers in Japan who may be admitted on vote of the Conference.

ARTICLE IlL-OFFICERS, THEIR ELECTION AND DUTIES.-The officers of this Conference shall be a President, Vice-President, a Secretary, Assistant Secretary, a Statistician and an Executive Committee of two besides the Secretary, who ex-officio shall be a member of the Committee. They shall be chosen by ballot at each Annual Session and their term of office shall be for one year or until their successors are appointed.

The President and the Vice-President shall perform the duties usually pertaining to their offices.

The Secretary shall keep a record of tbe formal meetings of tbe Conference; shall send a copy of such record to the Foreign Secretary of the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society; shall acquaint the member of the Conference with the contents of important letters from tbe above mentioned Foreign Secretary, and with other matters relating to Conference business; shall preserve on file all documents and papers relating to his office; shall perform tbe usual duties.of a Treasurer; and ex-officio shall be the Secretary of the Executive Committee.

The Statistician sball collect and tabulate the statistics of the Mission for transmis­sion to the Mission Rooms in Boston and for presentation to the Conference at its Annual Sessions.

The Executive Commitlee shall arrange the order of business for the Annual Session and report it to the Conference for adoption at its first business meeting; shall fill any vacancy to the office of the Secretary, the Statistician, the Annual Preacher, or his Alternate; and shall make changes in the time and the place of the Annual Session and call Special Sessions in accordance with Article IV_ of this Constitution.

ARTICLE IV.-SESSION.-This Conference shall hold an Annual Session for the furthering of the objects set forth in Article 1. of the Constitution. The Annual Session shall be held at such time and place as may be decided upon at the preceding Annual Session. The time and the place of the Annual Session as thus decided shall not be changed unless two-thirds of tbe Members of the Conference give their consent. Those consenting to a change in the time or the place of the Annual Sessions or to the calling of a Special Session must do so in writing and must, at the time of so doing, be in aclive service on the field.

In case of a change in the time or the place of the Annual Session or in ca£e of a Special Se~ion, notice of tbe time and the place of said Se5sion must be sent to each member of the Conference twenty days previous to the date on which it is called.

ARTICLE V.-AMENDMENT.-This Constitution may be amended by a vote of two­thirds of the Regular Members of the Conference pre£ent at any Annual Session.

CONSTITU'l'OIN AND BY-LAWS

BY-LAWS

ARTICLE I.-All meetings of Conference Session shall be opened with Devotional Exercises, the leaners of' which shall be appointed by the Executive Committee.

ARTICLE II.-~ear the beginning of each Annual Session the President shall appoint a Committee on Nominations, a Committee on Resolutions, a Committee on the Time and the Place of the next Annual Session, and a Press Committee; each of which Committees shall consist of three members.

ARTICLE IlL-At each Annual Session a Preacher and an Alternate Preacher shall be appointed for the next Annual Session.

ARTICLE IV.-Visiting brerhren shall be invited to a seat in the Conference and to a participation in its deliberations.

ARTICLE V.-No persons shall be elected President or appointed Preacher two years in succession.

ARTICLE VI.-All Committees shall report in writing. ARTICLE VII.-All Committees shall have power to fill vacancies in their numbers.

Those appointed shall hold their positions until the next Annual Session or until their succesors are chosen.

ARTICLE VIIL-All business to be acted upon at any Annual Session shall he presented in writing to the Executive Committee at some time pr:evious to the first business meeting of that Session. Business not so presented may be admitted on vote of the Conference.

ARTICLE IX.-Each member of the Conference shall be requested to make an Annual Contribution of three yen to ward its incidental expenses.

ARTICLE X.-In all ca~es of questions concerning parliamentary usage the ruling shall be according to Robert's Rules of Order.

ARTICLE XL-These By- Laws may be amended by a majority vote of the Regular Members of the Conference present at any Annual Session.

CONFERENCE GROUP, ARIMA, 1916.

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Minutes of the Twenty-eighth Annual Conference (lIf the Missionaries of the American Baptist Foreign Mission

Society in Japan ARIlVIA, JUNE 4TH-gTH, 1916

SUNDAY, JUNE 4TH.

The services of the day were as follows :-9 a.m. Devotional service )lr. Wynd, Tokyo.

Mr. Foote, Osaka. 1 I a.m. Annual sermon 7'30 p.m. Evening service :\lr. R. H. Fisher, Yokohama.

1IONDAY, JUNE 5TH.

Conference called to order by President Tenny at 9 a.m. Opened with prayer by Dr. Benninghoff and l\Iiss Acock. The Provisional Program was adopted subject to any necessary changes. The Committee on Nominations, Messrs. \Vynd. R. H. Fisher and Miss 'Vhit.man

reported the following names as officer.:; for the ensuing year, who were duly elect­ed:-

President ... Vice-Pres ...• Secretary ... Assist. Sec. Statistician Preacher .. . Alternate .. .

Mr. Scott. Osaka. l\Ir. Topping, Morioka. :\1i. Thomson, Kobe. Mr. Foote, Osaka. ::\Ir. Gressitt, Tokyo. Mr. Tenny, Tokyo. )lr. R. H. Fisher, Yokohama.

Executive Comm. ... Messrs. Benninghoff. Thomson, Gressitt. The Officers were duly installed. Prayer was offered by Mr. Axling. Voted:-That a cordial welcome be extended to all visiting friends and that they

be invited to participate in our deliberations. The report of the Secretary on ilttcrim business was read and accepted. The only item of business during the year took place in Nov. 1915. when ?\Ir.

Gressitt was elected Trustee of the Union Theological Seminary to succeed Mr. Holtom, Whose election to the Faculty of the same institution disqualified him from serving as Trustee.

The report of the Conference Treasurer was read (see page ) together with report of Auditor on the same which was also accepted.

Communication ;-A letter was read from Dr. Franklin and it was voted that a suitable reply be made and the letter be referred to the Reference Committee for con­sideration and action.

Letters were read from Dr. MacKenzie, Secretary of the Federated Missions, from Gilbert Bowles, Sec. Board of Directers of the Lauguage School, from Mr. Bullen, Mr. Phelps, also greetings from Mr. Hamblen, Mr. Sneyd and 1\Iiss Chase. .

Voted :-That the matter of increase of fees in the Language school b! referred to the Refer. Comm.

The Chair appointed the following Committees:­Resolutions: Mr. Gressitt, R. H. Fisher, Mrs. Tenny. Time and Place, Capt. Bickel, Mr. Foote and Mrs. Wynd.

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Press: Dr. Benninghoff, Mr. Axling and Mr. Holtom. Report of the Refer. Comm. on the Development of the Executive Comm. organi­

zation was read and taken up ad seriatum. Voted: To go into a Committee of the whole to consider Articles I and II of the

report. Mr. Topping was asked to preside and Mr. Ross to act as Secretary. The Committee of the whole reported as follows :-Recommended that the whole plan be referred back to the Refer. Comm. for re­

consideration. Miss Wilcox conducted the Devotional services at 10.30.

AFTERNOON SESSION. Session was resumed at 2 p.m. Prayer by Mr. C. H. D. Jiisher. Consideration of recommendations from the Refer. Comnl. was resumed. (See

actions). Mr. Tenny made a brief statement of the present educational situation in Tokyo

in connection with the work of the A.B.F.M.S. Voted!-That we authorize the sending of a cablegram to Dr. Franklin requesting

that Dr. Burton be asked to come to Japan, if possible in Sept., for at least two weeks for consultation on Educational work.

At 3.30 p.m. Mr. Gressitt conducted the Devotional services. At. 4 p.m. the regular program was resumed and Mr. Axling kindly took the

place of Mr. Holtom in introducing the subject for the afternoon, "The Five Year Program." Mrs. J. H. Scott upon request added some remarks in extension of what Mr. Axling said in connection with his talk on the Los Angeles' ConventiorL

Dr. Benninghoff followed with an address upon what the American Churches are doing; Mr. Wynd continued with a paper on "What can we do in Japan" and Mrs. Thomson concluded with a paper on the" "roman's Part in this great movement/'

Closed by prayer by Mr. Russell.

TUESDAY, JUNE 6TH.

Conference called to order at 9 a.m. Opened with prayer by Mr. Tenny. Minutes of the previous session were read and approved. Consideration of recommendations from the Refer. Comm. was resumed. The re­

port on Development of Executive Committee organization was read and then consider­ed ad seriatum.

The report as amended was adopted. (See report in Refer. Comm. actions). The following were elected by ballot as the new members on the Reference Com­

mittee for full term periods :-Mr. Benninghoff, Capt. Bickel, Miss Ryder; and to fill the unexpired term of two years in place of Mr. Steadman, Mr. Jones.

At 10.30 a.m. Dr. Benninghoff conducted the Devotional services. Paper by Mr. Axling, " The Sphere of Service of"the Cburch " Discussion opened

by Mr. Scott and followed by others. Voted :-That Mr. Axling's paper be translated and offered for publication in the

Kirisu!o Kyolzo. Adjourned with prayer by Mr. Gressitt.

TUESDAY AFTERNOON.

No session of Conference. Time taken up in Committee work, reading of letters from the Mission children and in the evening at 7.3° a Social hour in charge of the Social Ccmmitlee was devoted to an interesting, illustrated talk by Capt. Bickel on his work in the Inland Sea.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7TH.

Conference called to order at 9 a.m. Prayer offered by Mr. Foote. Minutes read and approved. The report of the Committee on Nomination was read by Mr. Wynd and approved.

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The r:port. from the Sokwai was read by 1\1r. Axling and approved. The re-commendations In the same were referred to the Reference Comm. for consideration.

Mr. Scott reported for the Comm. on Arrangements which was approved. The ;report on Baptist Hymns and union Hymnal was read and approved. The. report of the Board of Managers of the Bible- Woman's Training School was

read and adopted along with the recommendations which were ordered to be printed in the By-laws of the Institution.

The report of the Board of Editors for last year was read by Mr. Scott and ap­proved. For this -year it was ordered that all repor.s must be in the hands of the Editors within five days after adjournment of C::onference after which date it was under:::tood that the Editors be authorized to go ahead with the preparation of the report. NotwithstaFlding the increase in cost of paper it was ordered that same quality as last year be used and that illustrations be used as before.

The report from the Federated Missions was read by Capt. Bickel and approved. Mr. Axling read the report from the Solnvai which was adopted and the recom­

mendations on the" Five Year Program" were referred to our representatives on the Naigwai Committee for consideration.

Miss Crosby conducted the Devotional services at 10.30. At I I a.m. Dr. Walne, Field Secretary of the Christian Literature Society, was

introduced and read his paper on "Methods of Using Christian Literature in Evan­gelistic. '~Vork." The discussion was opened by Capt. Bickel and others took part.

Prayer by Mr. Russell.

AFTERNOON SESSION.

Session was resumed at 2 p.m. after prayer by Mr. Topping. The order of business was to take up the reports of Committees. Correspondence with Mission Children report was adopted a~ read yesterday

afternoon. The report from Editor and Publisher of Gleattings was adopted along with the

recommendation from the Reference Committee that we approve of a grant from the Emergency fund of IS0 J'eJZ, 75 yen of which was to come from the fund and that the \Vomen's Board be asked to make an appropriation of 75 yen towards the expense of this publication, the latter amount to be advanced from the Emergency fund until action could be taken by the Women's Board.

The report of the Committee on Language Study as prepared by Dr. Harrington was read and approved.

The report from Dr. Harrington on Scripture Revision was read and approved. The report of the Tokyo Kindergarten Training School was read and approved. The reports on Bapti<;t Hymns and Union Hymnal were read and approved. The report on the \Voman's Union Christian College was read by Miss French

and approved along with the action of the Refer. Comm. that we recommend the "rom en's Board to take four Units in the proposed College appropriating $2.800 per annum covering the same, thus giving our Society eight members on the Board of Trustees. Nominations for the latter to be left to the Woman's Committee.

The report on the Kirisuto K;loho was read by Mr. Axling and approved. Mr. Axling was nominated to succeed himself on the Board of Trustees of the same.

The report of the Trustees of the Union Theological Seminary was read by Dr. Walne, Chairman of the same and adopted. Voted to authorize the Shadan to deal with the Seminary property as requested in the report. Mr' Gressilt was elected to succeed himself as Trustee on the Board for the Seminary.

Report of the Trustees of Duncan Academy was read and adopted. Mr. Briggs and Mr. Tenny were elected to succeed themselves as Trustees of Duncan Academy and the Secretary was instructed· to cast the ballot for these two nominees.

The report from the Misaki Tabernacle was read and adopted. The reports from the Girls' schools were read as follows :-Sendai, Kanagawa,

Tokyo and Himeji which after correction in the first were approved.

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The reports from the Kindergartens, Morioka and Tokyo were read and approved. Adjourned with prayer by Capt. Bickel, to meet at 7.30 p.m. In the evening after supper the papers by Mr. Briggs and Mr. Topping were read

and after discussion it was voted to appoint ::l Committee consisting of Mr. Briggs, Mrs. Thomson and Mr. Foote to take up the matter of the organization of a Mission Church and to report on the same later.

THURSDA V, JUNE 8TH.

Conference met at 9 a.m. after prayer by Mr. C. H. D. FIsher the Minutes of pre· vious session were read and approved.

A letter was read from Prof. Clement after which the Rep:lrt of the Property Committee was read and adopted.

A report was read from the meeting of the women of the Conference and the following were nominated to act with the three ladies on the Ref.:rencc Committee 3!; a Committee on Woman's work, ~Irs. Axling for two years and Miss Crosby for one year.

The report of the sub-Committee on Woman's work in Tokyo and the covering letter to the Board on the same from the Executive Committee Were read and approved. No action could be taken as we were waiting for word from the Associate Secretary, ~Iiss Prescott, on some matters referred 10 the Board.

The Conference Secretary" was instructed to send out to Conference a mimeograph. ed copy of the report along with the covering letter for information.

At 10'3°; l\-kRusscll of our PhHippine Mission conducted the De\'otional service. At I I a.m. Mr. Coleman, Secretary for the Sunday School Union, in Japan, gave

an address on " lUore Effective Sunday School \Vork in Japan" which was followed by a helpful discussion. Motion made and carried that conference meet at 3: 30 to hear school and stations reports.

Adjourned with prayer by 1\1r. Coleman.

AFTERNOON SESSION.

Session was resumed at 3.30 p.m. with the singing of a hymn, and prayer by :'IIr. Foote.

Conference listened to Miss Dithridge's report on the Tokyo Kindergartens, read. by Miss Crosby; report approved.

Mr. Yoshikawa was received as a delegate from the Sokwai and he presented the greetings from the same to the Conference. On his request a Comm. was appointed to consider the two requests which he brought before the Conference. The Chair nominated Mr. \Vynd and Mr. Axling as this Committee to report later.

The report from the Kobe Zenrin Kindergarten was read by Mrs. Thomson along with the report from the Lin-Chiu Kindergarten both of which were adopted.

Mrs. Briggs read a report from the Ikuno Kindergarten, this was adopted. The report from the Waseda Dormitory was read and adopted. Mr. R. H. l"isher read the report from the Yokohama Business Men's Dormitory

and the English Night School both of which were adopted. The report from the Woman's Dormitory was read and adopted. Miss Acock read her report on the Osaka Bible Woman's Training School which

was adopted. The report of the Statistician was read and adopted. Thr report on the Sendai station was read and adopted. . The report of the sub.Comm. appointed to confer witb the delegate from the

Sokwai was read and it was voted to refer this matter to the Refer. Comm. for fur­ther action.

Session adjourned with prayer.

FRIDA V, JUNE 9TH.

Session called to order at 9 a.m. after which Dr. Benninghoff led in prayer Minutes of previous session read and approved.

The report of the Committee on Time and Place of next Conference wa'l read

by Capt. Bickel and on motion it was referred to the Executive Comm. of the Conference for later recommendation.

The report of the Press Committee was read and adopted. The report of the Reference Committee on \Voman's work in Tokyo was read and

it was voted that we approve of the recommendations regarding the Suruga Dai School. Voted :-To approve of the recommendations regardin;; the Rara Machi Kin:ler-

garten. -Voted :-To approve of the recommendations r~garding instructions to delegates

to Boston Conference, 1917. (See report Refer. Comm.) For other recllmmendations of the Refer. Comm. see repnrt on same. The repnrt of the Committee on Resolutions was read and adopted. (See report) Voted: -That we instruct the Executive Committee to prepare a statement of

our needs in connection with the Five Year Progra n for mission use. Voted :-That the Secretaries be instructed to prepue mimeograph copies of the

Statistical tables as prepared by the Statistician. Voted :-That the Secretary be instructed to write to the absent memb::rs of the

)Iission expressing our interes: in them. Voted :-That a statement be prepared of all our Station work for distribution

among travellen Referred to the Board of Editors. Voted :-That the thanks of the Conference be extended to the Officers of the

Conference and to the Committee on Arrangements for the splendid Conference which we have had at Arima this year.

Conference was then adjourned with prayer.

ROBI!RT A. THOMSON,

Secretary.

REPORTS OF STANDING AND SPECIAL COMMITTEES, ETC., ETC.

LETTER FROM DR. FRANKLIN May I I, 1916.

TO THE CONFERENCE OF MISSIONARIES OF THE

AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY IN JAPAN.

Dear Brothers and Sisters : As you meet in annual conference again it is my pleasure

to send hearty greetings on behalf of our Board of Managers. It is also my pleasure to send you my personal salutation which is warm and tender when I recall the days of fellowship with you ,at Arima just a year ago. \Ve hope that at your meeting in 1916 you will receive encouraging reports of devel~pments during the last year; that you will have seasons of refreshing from on High; that you will be able to plan wisely for the days to corne, and that you will go back to your tasks strengthened and inspired after the days of fellowship.

It is a matter for gratitude that our work in Japan and in most other countries has not been seriously affected by the upheavals in this tragic hour of the world's history. Indeed from our view point it would appear that the outlook for the Christian movement in Japan was never more encouraging than at present. Thoughtful men in the East as well as in Europe and America are seeing more clearly that our confusion in the world at large is due in no small measure to the fact that we had too much forgotten God. There seems to be a growing consciousness that conditions in the world can never be made permanently belter until man is better. While our first grief has been over the conflict itself, many of us have feared that the war might seriously hinder the progress of the Christian movement on mission fields. We have reason to be encouraged that so many thoughtful men appear to see rather clearly that the war proves in no sense the failure of Christianity but rather proves that the nations have not yet tried the principles of Christ.

You were advised by cable ten days ago that the Society closed its fiscal year without indebtedness, which announcement doubtless gave you relief. There is, however, a measure of disap·

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pointment when we study the figures for the year and discover that despite the resolution adopted at Los Angeles a year ago and despite the series of Laymen's Conventions and other activities, churches and individuals increased their gifts only slightly. We were saved from an embarrassing indebtedness only through the gifts of those who recently passed to their reward. The receipts from legacies last year exceeded the average income from that source by a very large amount, but it should be said that the largest single contributor to our work reduced his contribution last year by $25,000 and has given us to understand that we may expect similar reductions year by year. vVhile this adjustment is painful, the contributor realizes that it is unwise for the Society to receive so large a proportion of its income from one person whose contributions naturally cannot be expected to continue always. 'vVe remember however that God raises up men to take the place of those who are ripening with years and we are sure that means will be provided for the days to come. Nevertheless the situation calls for careful planning.

The work at the Rooms has been conducted during the last year under very trying circumstances. Near the beginning of the yeal' Dr. Emory W~ Hunt and Rev. A. C. Baldwin retired from service with the Society leaving an inadequate secretarial force. A few months later Dr. Fred P. Haggard presented his resignation. The strain under which Mr. Huntington had labored so long made it necessary for him to take a short rest. These changes rendered it impossible for us to give proper attention to business or to correspondence with the fields, and we fear that the missionaries may have been disposed at times to think that their letters were not receiving fair attention. Rev. J. C. Robbins has been elected Foreign Secretary (for the British India fields) and recently the Board took steps looking to the election of a new Home Secretary at the meetings in Minneapolis. Mr. Robbins begins his office work June I and we shall hope to have the new Home Secretary regularly installed before autumn. \Vith a normal office force we shall try to do better in correspondence with the fields, in the presentation of business, and in development of interest .at home.

The Board were much pleased at the forward steps taken by the Japan Conference last year in outlining a plan for field adminis­tration. 1 have already written at length to the members of your executive committee who will probably bring to your attention the thought of the Board regarding the development of your plan. It did 110t seem well to the Board to attell1pt to make hard and fast rules regarding field administration but rather to encourage the missions to use their best judgment in attaining the ideals set forth

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ill the policy of the Board. We believe you are wise in selecting Rev. Charles B. Tenny as chairnlan of your executive committee. He is already proving to the Board his fitness for the important post. His letters dealing with important questions give evidence of careful thinking on mission problems. We hope he will find it possible to give a considerable part of his time to a study of the field and to the discharge of such other duties as are impo.sed upon him by his office. We believe your plan will work satisfactorily both to you and the Board.

The Board are keenly alive to the need, of improvement in methods of field administration. With a view to a propel' study of this problem and many others, a conference is to be held April 30 to May 12~ 1917. A portion of the Annual Report of 1916 expresses our view:

"The emergence of many new problems in missionary work as well as the insistence of some older problems for fresh ccnsideration has led the Board to believe that the time is ripe for the holding of another conference with missionaries from all missions of the Society. similar to the very enjoyable and fruitful conference held in June, 1912, at Newton Center, Mass. Steps are being taken therefore to hold such a meeting in the spring of early summer of 1917. Each mission will have the opportunity of appointing as delegates to that conference those missionaries who can best represent it: The Woman's Society is expected to participate through representative missionaries and its executive officers or members of its Board of Managers. While the conclusions of the conference naturally will not have binding force upon the Board or upon any mission, the mutual interchange of ideas and the resultant consensus of judgment will be of immense value. The Board covet the opportunity of discussing with such a representative body of missionaries ~ome of the problems with which they have been compelled to deal during recent years.

It Prominent among the topics that suggest themselves as worthy of consideration at such a conference are the measure of responsibility for administration of the work which the Board may properly transfer to the mission bodies on the field, the organiza­tion and methods best suited in each mission to the wise and efficient discharge of that responsibility, the measures calculated to produce the strongest and best type of native leadership, the proper balance in expenditure of the limited available funds for direct support of missionaries, for buildings and other equipment an? for' maintenance of various native agencies and a proper adjustment between the Society and the Woman's' Society in' educational work. The missions will be given an opportunity to

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suggest subjects for consideration and the conference can be made exceedingly valuable both to the missions ancl to the Boards at home."

The Japan mission will be entitled to two delegates to the proposed conference, in addition to a representative of the Woman's­work whose attendance will be arranged by the \;\loman's Board. It is desired that you elect as one of your representatives some member of your mission who is already at home or whose furlough will begin next year. But the Board authorize the return to America of one man from each mission especially for attendance upon this conference. with the expectation that the one who is sent in advance of regular furlough time will be the one who in your judgment is best prepared either by reason of his study of conditions on the field or through his relation to the administrative work of the mission, to represent you, if that man's furlough is 110t already about due. Perhaps the man who is sent home especially to attend this conference can arrange to take a brief furlough in 1917, with the expectation of extending his term of service accordingly. You are expected to select men who will make the best contribution to the conference even jf a special journey must be made by one of them. We desire you to name two alternates either of whom may be asked by the Board to come instead of the first-named should it appear that the conference as elected will be composed almost entirely of men representing only' one or two phasesof the work. ~! e hope it will not be necessary to ask any of the alternates to serve, but we see no other plan that will make it sure that the conference will be representative in proper proportion of all departments of the work.

Our budget for the year I916-17 as approved by the Finance Committee of the Northern Baptist Convention provides for a slight advance in expenditures. This does not mean, however, that we shall be able to increase appropriations for the field or to meet any considerable number of property needs except as there may be specific gifts for the purpose. Indeed, the increased cost of foreign mission work in matters which we cannot easily control seems to be absorbing such addition to our income as is being realized year by year. Your own mission and two others' in the Far East have indicated clearly that no new workers are desired at the expense of the appropriations for the general work. Hence I am recommending that while the fields which receive new workers will suffer a reduction of 10% in their appropriations, the other fields be given the benefit of the financial saving eff~cted by not sending them additional missionaries. This will probably result in the Japan mission receiving about the same amount as was appropriated Last year.

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Since your conference is held in J",ne, it is impossible for us to give you in time for your consideration any definite idea of readjustments that may be made in the appropriations for next year. We cannot make our schedule of appropriations until after the Annual Meetings, hence it is impossible for us to send out notices to the field of action taken by the Board on such matters until late in June.

While we are not sending any new appointees of our own Society to Japan this year, one young man under appointment is expected to sail to your mission in 1917. I a.rn sure you will give hearty welcome this year to Miss Helen Munroe who sails with Miss Converse in August for service in your mission. l\tliss Munroe has for some years taken a very deep interest in foreign mission work and has been one of the most useful members of the Woman's Board.

We are gratified at your activity in trying to secure for service in their home-land certain Japanese who have been educated in America. I am sure the Board will wish you to have the largest liberty in the use of your funds in securing such men, and would wish you to place on them special responsibility as rapidly as they are ready for it. Inasmuch as I wrote sometime ago to your exe­cutive committee on this point I need r.ot discuss it at greater length more than to say that we hope you will give much attention at your meeting this year to the question of Japanese leadership. \Ve know there are some serious questions involved but the problem must be met and solved, especially in a country like Japan where the ability and determination of the people 'to develop under their own leadership is so apparent. From what the Chairman of -the executive committee has written us we know that some very careful thinking is being done on this question.

The abnormal conditions at our Rooms have interfered to some extent with our preparations for participation in what we are calling the Five Year Program, but we hope that within the next year we shall be able to take some long forward step5. In a movement of such magnitude it is impossible to secure great momentum im­mediately. You know already the several features of this program and we are sure that you stand ready to co-operate with the denomination at home in realizing the ideals as set forth.

We have been advised QY the Trustees of Duncan Academy that it is absolutely necessary for the Board to furnish money in the immediate future for the removal of the institution to some place outside of Yokohama if it is to be moved at all. The Board are of the opinion that a larger service might be rendered by the removal of the institution, but since they can give no definite assurance that

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funds will be available for removal to some other place or for the reconstruction of the plant in Tokyo within the next year they have felt compelled to take the following action:

VOTED: That the communication from the Trustees of Duncan Academy regarding the urgent necessity for an early decision con­cerning the permanent location and future development of the Academy is noted with deep interest.

"That the Board of Managers concur in the judgment ex­pressed by the Mission that the removal of the Academy to Yokohama would be in the interest of its larger usefulness, provided proper buildings and equipment could be furnished in the new location.

II That the Board are regretfully compelled to state that they are not able at the present time to give any definite assurance that funds will be available for a new plant either in Yokohama or in Tokyo within a year, though they have earnest hope that in connection with the Five Year Program funds for the develop­ment of this as well as other educational institutions on the mission field may become available.

"That, in view of all the circumstances, it is deemed expedient to leave to the Japan Mission the decision as to whether the question of a possible rernov.}l of the Academy to Yokohama should be still longer held open or a decision be now reached to retain the Academy permanently in Tokyo. JI

The Board have been encouraged at hearing of the desire of the Japan Reference Coplmittee to establish a church edifice fund for the assistance of weak congregations which are unable to erect houses of worship without assistance of some sort. On this nutter the following action has been taken:

,. VOTED: That the proposal of the Japan H.eference Com­mittee for the establishment of a church edifice fund for the assist­ance of Japanese churches in the securing of adequate places of worship, is noted with great interest and with hearty approval as representing a most desirable arrangement for assisting the Japan­ese churches while at the sallie time promoting self-support and independence among them.

" That the Board are prepared to give favorable consideration to definite steps for the creation of such a fund whenever funds are available which can properly be applied to such an object."

We are delighted at the reports which have reached us regard­ing the character of the ne\v Tabernacle Building in Tokyo. You will be interested in knowing that the indebtedness on the building which existed something more then a year ago was included in our statement to the denomination regarding deficits just before the

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meeting of the Northern Baptist Convention in Los Angeles. \Ve are glad to think that the provision was providential. We are not unaware of the need for other church buildings in Japan. We hope that interest in the Five Year Program may enable us to meet most of the urgent needs of this class. Please be patient with us a little while longer. We have hopes of better things in the futu reo Let us believe that there are great days ahead.

The news of the general evangelistic campaign in Japan gives courage. Nothing is more important than that we place ltl:rge emphasis· on evangelism.

With every assurance of our deep and abiding interest in the work you are doing, and wishing you God's richest blessing in all you attempt, I am,

On behalf of the Board of Managers, Very cordially yours,

J. F. FRANKLI",

Foreign Secretary.

MISSION CHILDREN CORRESPONDENCE COMMITTEE

Your committee this year instead of sending a circular letter at Christmas time wrote personal letters to the mission children early ill March, hoping in this way to secure repltes more up to date and more in numbers, as there would be less time in which to procrastinate. As a result in part we have 20 letters in reply as against eleven of last year, all showing a love for Japan and' an appreciation of our friendly interest.

We are all rejoicing with the reunited families of the Dearings and Steadmans in America, for six years is a long time to be separated from one's growing children. During this week we should specially have in mind the young people who are finishing their college courses: Mable Jones and Imogen Hamblen at Denison, Hal Dearing at Colgate and Ned Clement at Lehigh. Your com­mittee sent congratulations in advance as also to Rita Wynd who graduates from High School and Louise Hamblen from Doane Academy.

During the year wedding, bells have rung for Harriet Bennett now Mrs. French at Adams, Mass" fOl' Bessie Jones now Mrs. Burrows at I I Bluff, Yokohama, and for Stella Halsey whose' childhood was spent in Chofu. She is a Phi Beta Kappa of Leland St~nford Ulliv., and has taught biology in the High School at San Diego, Cal. where she is now living as 1\1rs. H. D. Allen.

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Philip Bickel and Willard Topping have returned to their fami· lies here, while Helen Topping finds herself held in California but writes. " Your letter was a joy to receive, and I want to send the most cordial kind of a message of the Conference from which I seem to be a " lzoto 1J2ltSUme." (prodigal daughter)

Our sympathy goes out to our old friend and fellow worker, Mr. Poate in his anxiety about his son, Fred, now with the British Royal Engineers at the front, and also in the loss -of his attractive youngest daughter, Edith, who was born in Tsukiji. Tokyo, and had spoken of coming here for Kindergarten work.

The first of our third generation of missionaries in Japan arrived this year in the person of Elizabeth W ray Fisher. The Reference Committee have not yet passed upon her case, but it is probable that she will be allowed to remain in her present station, Yokohama, and to pursue her first years of language study under private teachers an arrangement highly conducive to the happiness of the fond parents and grandparents.

Mrs. C. H. D. FISHER.

(KIRISUTO KYOHO) "CHRISTIAN NEWS" For some years the J aplnese Baptist Convention has been pub­

lishing a bi-monthI y Baptist paper. There has often been expressed a desire to see this publication put on a more effective basis and made a constructive force both in and outside of our Baptist ranks in the Empire.

Recent negotiations resulted in making this publication a co­operative enterprise between the Japanese Baptist Convention. the Japan Mission of the Southern Baptist Convention, and the Japan Mission of the American Baptist .Foreign Mission Society. Under the new arrangement it is published under the auspices of a joint committee made up of three representatives from the Japan Baptist Convention and one representative from each of the co-operating Missions.

Mr. S. Takagaki has been elected editor and Rev. E. N. \Valne, D.D. business manager. The publication has been changed from a bi-monthly to a weekly and the pages increased to twelve. It has been well received by the constituency and promises to meet a great need among our Baptist forces.

WILLIAM Ax LING.

GLEANINGS

"GLEANINGS" REPORT The Baptist Mission in Japan and some of its members who

were in the home-lands, as well, have made the little paper a veritable "News letter" between the friends at home and those of the field. "The birds of the air" in passing to and fro have affirmed from time to time that a growing interest was applfent in our Japan work because of the" personal touch" of the missionaries' own pens.

A large number of copies have gone to America during the past year sent by the missionaries on the field, for they are Gleaning's chief supporters. The editions printed have ranged from 800 to goo copies per issue; eighty of these go to the Baptist periodicals, seminaries, colleges and schools as well as to the Mission Societies of both Conventions.

Last June we haa a deficit of 58.68 )'en to carry forward and the issues of July and September had to be paid for-it would be something of an Irish bull to say-out of an empty treasury! The publisher is glad to be able to state that the Reference Committee authorized a grant of ] 00 )'tll at its September meeting last year and that with the subscriptions, largely from the Japan missionaries, have brought us out with a smaller deficit this year than was expected considering the sudden and continuous rise in the price of paper since last February owing to the war conditons. It takes some time to get money out from the U.S.A. even after dues are paid there; and some of our subscribers at home do not like the bother of paying such a small subscription every year, but rather send money for two or three years at a time. If all SUbscriptions were now in OLIr deficit could be reduced some twenty J'e?l.

Other missions 011 the field allow subsidies for their papers even when their subscription price is much greater than ours, it would seem therefore to be only justice to Gleanings to grant it a subsidy of at least 150 yen per year. Itldividual members of the mission are subscribing very generously and more ought not to be expected of them; but just at this critical time we need this means of mission pUblicity to aid the Five Year Program.

Since September the publisher has asked for the total cost of the illustrations to be borne by the individual and this has been no small item to the missionary who in addition to his liberal subscrip­tions must pay heavily for the privilege of putting in pictures that greatly add to the value of Gleanings. \Ve hope that the subsidy will enable us to red uce these charges.

When we " retrenched" by using a cheaper grade of paper as we did in the March number there was a general feeling that we had better stop if we could not keep up to grade with our neighbors.

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Therefore, the editor presented to the Reference Committee a request to consider the question of making a grant-in-aid of 150 yen for the coming year, to be available from July 1st, 1916, thus meeting the expense of the last two issues of the year'; this having been granted the little paper begins its new year free of debt.

GAZELLE R. THO~IS0N.

"GLEANINGS" (FINANCIAL STATEMENT)_

June 21, 1915. By Cash Donations ... ............ IZ·5° SeFt. 20, 1915. "

Per Miss Treas, Referenc<! Com. Grant. 100.00 June I, 1916.

" " Japan Sub5criptiions 150 •00

" " " " " Foreign

" 44.48

" " " " Refund from Illustrations 32 -38

" " " " 'Sale of Extra Copies 18.38

Deficit Carried Forward ... ... 44.84 June 7, 1915. To Deficit Hrcught Forward ... 58.68

" I, 1916. "

Postage on "Gleanings" (6 issues) 60.46

" " " Fukuin Printing Co., (6 issues) ... 283.44

June 1st, 1916, Kobe, Japan.

(Mrs) GAZELLE R. THOMS OX,

Editor and Publisher.

REPORT ON BIBLE REVISION Conference will be pleased to learn that the Revising Com­

mittee has made good progress during the past year, and is now drawing near the end of its labors. The work of preparing the preliminary drafts of the several books, which has, as ill previous years, been in the hands of our Kobe-Kyoto members, was finished in April. The examination and criticism of these drafts, which has been the special duty of the Tokyo Group, was completed May 23rd, thus enabling your member of the committee to complete with his colleagues this part of their work, for the whole New Testament. The task that remains to the Committee is the final discussion and decision of various matters in the books from Timothy forward. It is planned to hold a So/nvai,-a meeting of the whole Committee,-in June, in Tokyo, and another in July and August, at I(aruizawa, in the hope to complete this task before the end of the summer. Your representative had intended to postpone his furlough until the fall. in order to be present at these two meetings, but family matters of some urgency seemed to necessitate an earlier 'return llome.

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Some progress has also b~en made in getting the revised text of the earlier books ready for the printer. and some part is already in type. In the coming fall the work of putting the Revised Testament through the press will be pushed as rapidly as possible, but it may be too optimistic to promise that it will be in the hands of the public by the end of the year. At latest, however, it ought to be out early next year.

\Vhile your representative on the Committee, during almost exactly six full years, has often found his share in its labors some­what toilsome and wearing, he has on the whole much enjoyed both the work itself and his association· with his colleagues. It has been a privilege to be permitted thus, in continuous study, to take up each verse of the whole New Testament. He wishes to take this opportunity of thanking Conference for having released him for so many years,-years when the !\1ission has often been painfully short-handed,-from almost all other duties, and allowed him to devote himself almost entirely to this important work, to his part in which, even so, he has constantly felt himself very inadequate. \Ve trust that the revision, with all the imperfections which it will doubtless have, may yet prove, on the whole, accept­able and useful; and that God may be pleased, through it, to reveal Himself more clearly to the people of this land.

C. K. HARRINGTON.

REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON LANGUAGE EXAMINATIONS

Your Committee respectfully begs leave to report that during the past year it has continued to perform with its usual conspicuous efficiency such of its duties as it could not conscientiously evade.

To speak first of the Language School, in which, or in connection with which, most of our student missionaries are doing their work, we may say that the good name and fame which the school is winning seem to be well deserved. In our visits to its class-rooms,-visits, it must be confessed, like those of angels, few and far between,-we have been much pleased with the sensible, practical methods employed, and with the painstaking care of the teachers, as well as with the assiduity and hilarity of the students. When those of us whose Japanese birthdays date· back to the period of primeval chaos, before language schools or language .courses were born or thought of, compare the facil~ties and encour­agements which are now afforded for the acquirement of the language, and the happy circumstances amid which this

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·branch of learning may be pursued, with the condition of things in that dim past when they were feebly struggling in its coils, their noble lineaments are suffused with a deep and vivid green which puts to shame the verdant pastures of spring. The heating and .ventilation of the class-rooms is said to be not very satisfactory, and it is a question whether the number of hours of study a day, in or dut of class, is not rather beyond the safe limit of the average student, in the infancy of his life in Japan. On the whole, however, the School is worthy of our ungrudging support, and it is unfortunate that our chronic state of destitution in the matter of missionary workers, coupled with a zeal for God not according to knowledge, on the part of Conference, or of individuals, deprives most of our new missionaries of the privilege of availing themse1 ves of all that the School is prepared to do for them. Some members of your Committee had the pleasure of being present at the Annual Exhibi­tion given by the School in April. This annual exhibition takes the place, very happily, of a more formal public examination, and affords a very good idea of what the students in the several classes have accomplished during the year. As a hint of what the School is doing it may be mentioned that the First Section of the First Year,-those who had been but about four months in attendance,­delighted the audience with an adaptation of .the Balcony Scene in " Romeo and Juliet," of sllch a vivid and original nature that there was not a dry eye in the house.

Our Student Missionaries taking First Year work have b::en Miss Allen and Miss Pawley. The former has been in the school throughout the year, and has maintained the fair fame of our Mission by an excellent grade of work. l\1'iss Pawley studied in the School for one term, and was then transferred to Himeji. With the aid of a private teacher she has been following the Schoel course, so far as one can without the daily stimulus and aid of a trained corps of teachers and a sympathetic group of fellow-students. She is expecting to take her examination on the work of the past term within a short time.

Of Second Year students, Miss Bixby's regrettable illness, and return to America, to recuperate, left Mr. and Mrs. Royal Fisher

-the only ones to go on with the Course. Mr. Fisher, indeed, had already, on the strength of his general proficiency in the language, acquired in the days of early youth, received a diploma from the School covering the Second Year's work; but this seeming too much like a D.D., he has devoted a considerable part of his time during the past year to going privately over that part of the Course which trouble with his eyes prevented his taking before. He has -also made some progress in the work of the third year. Mrs.

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Fisher only remained in the school part of the year,. and has covered about one third of the work proper to that year.

Miss Jesse writes, in substance, that having been forbiddell by her medical adviser to do any studying during last spring and summer, it was not until fall that she again took up language work. She followed the Federated Missions Course until February, but finding that unsatisfactory, changed then to the Third Year Course of the Language School, and has recently taken the eXlminations on the work of the first term. She SlyS : "I find this course much easier but I think it is just what I need. It is useful, practical and thorough ......... I am hoping to finish the course this fall ......... The Report from the Language School was very encouraging to me ......... In the last six weeks speaking in Japanese has been -much easier. Phrases and sentences come to me, and I often wonder where I learned them. I think it due to the present course and method."

Of those whom we may call Third Year Students, some have been taking the Correspondence Course provided by the Language School for those who have accomplished two years' work, some have been following the Federated l\1issions Course, at least ill theory, and some have been plugging away at the Baptist Union Mission Course or the original Language Course prepared in the latter half of the Nineteenth Century. These all may be divided into two classes, to wit, the Progressive and the Stand-Patters. To which of these classes any particular individual belongs may be surmised from the following extracts from letters received by the Chairman in answer to his solicitous inquiries. In justice to the Stand-?atters, however, it must be remembered in what circum-stances they have been placed. ..

Mr. Ross, Miss Crosby, Miss Jesse, and Mr. Foote have, with the approval of the Language Committee, been taking the Language School Correspondence Course. Mr. Ross writes:

" I have been as busy as I could be all the year. My study has been largely that connected with my work. I have used a teacher two hours a day when in Sendai, and in addition to preparing sermons, attending to correspondence, and so forth, I have worked on the Third Year Course of the Langl;lage School. I have been working especially to acquire a preaching vocabulary."

Miss Crosby writes: ' It I have finished about half of the work for Third Year Course,

and am intending to take an examination on that this week Friday."

This was on April 26th. On May 8th another card was receiv· ed saying that as the examination papers had not been prepared, the

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examination had had to be deferred, and that· Miss Crosby would add a verbal report at Conference. Mr. Foote writes:

II I have been taking the third year correspondence course of the Nichiyo Gakko in Tokyo. Prof. Muller has sent me the books and directions for the work, also helped me to engage an approved teacher who has taken up the methods used at the school, with good results. I have been greatly helped by the method and course. However, being so busy with pressing changes needed on my field I have not progressed as rapidly as I had hoped. I had hoped to be far enough along to take the examinations for the whole third year the first of the summer in Karuizawa, but I shall have to study in Karuizawa and take the examinations at the close of the summer season instead. This is arranged for in the course.

" I have preached several times during the year, and am more fluent in conversation, as well as able to understand the average conversation and much of every sermon and address heard. I am at the stage where I can do all my work with the Japanese people in Japanese. This is a great joy to me and I foresee progress rapidly in another year, for my vocabulary is increasing very satisfactorily."

l\liss French, Miss Dithridge, and Miss Ryder are in the Union Baptist Course or in the Federated Missions Course. Miss French -writes:

" I am a little in doubt myself as to where I am in those deep waters. One thing I know,-I'm just where I was last year at this time, 3rd year, beginning of Second Term, I think. I am sorry I haven't done more, but language work this year seemed out of the question."

Miss Dithridge writes: "In the language course in reading and conversation I am

somewhere in the third year, and in writing in the second year. I have given up taking the examinations, because I found that preparing for them worried me, and unfitted me for my regular work. Since the beginning of this year, I have not studied on the regular course. I want to put more time on reading the text­books of this school and other things directly bearing 011 this work."

Miss Ryder writes: H I used to be somewhere in one of the language courses, but

I fear I am nowhere now.' I cannot report progress in the course, but I trust I use the language better than a year ago."

It will be remembered that in your Committee's Report to last Conference certain veiled allusions were made to divers brethren

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who in 'by-gone days had star.ted bravely out on the original :Baptist Mission Language Course, and who did run wen fOT a 'Season, but 'had never attained the goal, and that it was stated that the last fond hope that these gentlemen would ever resume and .complete the Course had been reluctantly buried in the cold and silent tomb, suitably inscribed. It is with the greater delight, therefore, that Conference will learn that one of these veterans has l'ecently passed his final examinations, and that Mr. C. H. Tenny bas been welcomed into the beatific company of language grad uates. As for the sole remaining member of the Old Guard, it is impossible to forsee what the future may bear in its bosom. At times he may be heard chanting beneath the melancholy moon:

H Tis the 1-a-a-a-s-t r-o-o-o-o-s-e of s-u-m-m-m-e-r-r-r Le-heft bloo.,hooming a1-0-o·o-n-e "

In bringing this interesting and impartial Report to a climax, the Chairman begs leave to say on his own behalf that having served on this Committee, exept for one year when on furlough, since the first Language Course was prepared, he is sincerely willing, for the remainder of his natural life, to surrender this position to others, with all and sundry, its honors, emoluments, prerogatives, and whatsoever else may appertain thereunto. Indeed it is his deeply cherished wish never again to sit on the lofty and painful seat of the Examining Board,-to quote the words of a well known Poet,-

H Forever and forever, As long as the River flows,

As long as the heart hath sorrows, As long as life hath woes; "

or as another poet, still struggling feebly in obscurity, has remarked, H As long as the sun's in heaven,

And as long as shines a star; So long as the hush of the twilight

And the song of a river are,"

Chi-yo ni, ya-cki-yo-ni,· Sendai ni itarutnade,. yo yo kagiri lzaku 7' world without end. Amen. Quot~ the Raven, Nevermore!

C.K. HARRINGTON,

Chairman.

. p. s. -TIle Committee would call attention to the Reading Course on JapaI,lese Hlstory, etc~ The books for this courle may be. borrowed through Mr. Wynd. Also, any member of Conference wishing a copy of the Selected Smtmces prepared by Mr. F'ujimoto for our Baptist Course, years ago, may receive one from Mr. Gressitt, who ·has brought a number to Conference. :

PROPERTY COMMITTEE

THE PROPERTY COMMfTTEE ANNUAL REPORT, 1915-16

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This· is naturally one of the most important Committees of the Conference and owing to the number of buildings constantly in course of erection and changes being made, a great deal of work falls to the lot of this Committee throughout the year and many very perplexing questions have to be considered and decided, many of them being of a technical character.

The Committee has held four meetings during "the year, the first being at AriOla, June 9th, 1915. New organization was effect­ed by the election of Mr. Thomson as' Chairman and Dr. Dearing as Secretary.

The following is a brief resume of the work of the Committee during the year as taken from the Minutes and further information can be had by referring to the records.

We have to report that the very eligible site of land Kiseoouma. found by Mr. Ross in the center of the town has

been purchased and a pastor's residence has been erected at the back of the lot. The house is now being used as a meeting place as well as a residence. The land was found to be mortgaged and it was thought best to have Judge Fugenji go to Kisennuma to examine the deeds and see to the registration of the land in the name of the Shadan, which was done. The total cost of the land and building was 2.600 yen plus Judge Fugenji's ex­·penses and fees. 147.08 J'en~

The removal of the old church building from Tsukiji, Kawasaki. Tokyo and the re-erection of the same at Kawasaki

has been carried out under the supervision of Mr. Fisher. With the various changes made in the building, the mis­sion has now at this place a very suitable place of worship at a minimum cost to the Society. The Reference Committee made a 'special grant to Mr. Fisher of 275 ye1Z to assist in completing the 'payment for the same, the balance being made up by Mr. Fishe!"" and from funds in his care.

As recommended by the Property Committee two years Mlto. ago but turned down by Mr. Jones, the Committee

this year have carried out -the instructions of the old Committee and made the changes in the mission reside,nee,. putting a second story an the house at a cost of 750 )'en. ThIS work was carried out under the supervision of Mr. Wynd. The house is now much more comfortable and we trust the change is enjoyed by l\1r. and Mrs. Jones.

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It was found that the servants' quarters on the mission Tsukiji, Tokyo. compound at Tsukiji were in a very dilapidated and

unsanitary condition necessitating their being taken down and the ground raised about a foot. The old timbers were so rotten that practically new quarters· had to be erected much to the improvement of the whole compound. The Committee are .under obligations to Mr. R. H. Fisher for his activity in this matter. The total cost was 6g0 yen and taken from the Emergency fund.

T~e Reference Committee having l'equested the Morioka. Property Committee to investigate the situation at

Morioka relative to a new Domestic Science build­ing and a new Kindergarten building in that place, a sub-Committee was appointed to visit Morioka and consult fully with the members of that station. A lengthy report covering the whole situation was prepared by this sub-Committee and recommendations made to the Reference Committee approving in general of the request from the station. The sub-Committee after careful investigation recommend­ed the taking down of the old Japanese house and the building of a new mission residence in its place. This was also approved by .Reference Committee.

The same sub-Committee was asked to visit Sendai Sendai. and confer with Mr. Ross regarding the much need-

ed changes arid additions to the 1Vlission residence en that station. A report was submitted by this Committee with approximate estimates as to what would be required to carry out the proposed changes and improvements. As this matter is some­what closely related to the re-adjustment of the whole mission COlT.­

pound at Sendai and the enlargement of the Girls' school, definite action has not been taken, but the Committee are ready to make a .recommendation as soon as it is known what funds will be available from the proceeds of the land sale to the W.A.B.F.M.S.

With reference to the plans for the enlargement of the Sendai Gir]s' school, the Committee have spent considerable time over this important project in the development of plans in consultation with

- Miss Buzzel~ and Mr. Ross. Approximate estimates have been secured and submitted to the Reference Committee for their action. We hope that the coming year may see, the plans in progress and the buildings in course of erection.

Waseda Considerable changes and improvements have been Dormitory. suggested by Dr. Benninghoff in the Dormitory tend­

ing to a better use of the same. Palt of these im­provements, especially in the matter of sanitation and a retaIning wall on one side have been carried out, funds to the extent of 260 J'en having been granted for this purpose by the Reference Com-

PROPERTY CO~DIITTEE lOt

mittee. Other changes and improvements involving something like 710 )'C1Z are now awaiting action by the Committee,

The need for more adequate heating of the Himeji Himeji. Mission residence was presented and the Committee

recommended the erection of a chimney provided the Refer. Committee grant a reasonable sum for the same.

Osaka Bible These buildings were completed just at the close of ~.oman's last year and Captain Bickel was appointed to audit

TralDlDg Scbool. the accounts for the same. These were examined and compared with the vouchers and found to be correct. A new era, we hope, has dawned upon this phase of our work in Japan in putting through building operations without a heavy deficit. Atten­tion is here called to the fact that the Himeji buildings were completed within the budget provided and in the same way the Osaka buildings were finished several hundred J'tn within the appropriation, which balance was used in adding necessary equip­ment to the plant in question.

This is the largest and most expensive building Misaki

Taberoacle. operation which has been carried out in our mission thus far and we are under a very deep debt of

gratitude to Mr. Tenny for the splendid manner in which this important undertaking has been carried to a successful issue. He was the "Executive" for this work and while he was not a mem­ber of the Property Committee this past year, he has completed the work in a manner eminently satisfactory to all concerned.

. " With the large number of huildings the mission has Pal~t~T'~i~~:slon to care for each year this matter of painting every

. three of four years is a very serious problem. As an illustratio}1 the estimate from a Japanese painter who does our work in Yokohama, for painting the Kanagawa buildings was over eighteen hundred )'C1Z. The question as to whether we cannot adopt some more economical method of preserving these buildings is now receiving the earnest consideration of the Committee. Also methods of heating the large school buildings is under considera~ tion.

The Property Committee was called upon to lose the ~'!:~~~te~ services of its Secretary, Dr. Dearing during the

past year, who has returned home on furlough. This necessitated a slight change in the organization of the Committee;, Mr. Holtom was elected to fill the unexpired term. Mr. Thomson l'esigning the Chairmanship and Captain Bickel being elected to fill this office l\fr. Thomson was asked to serve as Secretary.

102 STATEMENT OF SHADAN

This covers practically the major portion of the work of the Committee during the year.

R. A. THOMSO~, Secretary.

PUBLICATION COMMITTEE REPORT On behalf of this Committee there is very little to report.

During the year there was a call for another edition of Dr. Bennett's excellent tract . ., A Guide to some Christian Teachings " and a new edition was printed of 3,000 copies.

The Committee have still in hand the revision of the Catechism and we hope that it maybe finished this year.

\Ve stand in need of some denominational literature for the instruction of our church members and we would welcome sugges­tions along that line.

C. H. D. FISHER,

Chairman.

FINANCIAL STATEME.NT Cash in band June 8th, 1915 do. sales, Tokyo last year do. do. do. tbis year do. do. Kobe do.

Bank Interest... ... . ..

Casb paid printing a/c. ... ... do. do .. freight and packing, .. do. in hand carried fC'rward ...

Accounts were audited

by Mr. \YY:">fJ.

.•. ¥430.24 83.48 38.49 4.50

6.78

¥S63·49 ¥ <95.00

6.65 461.84

R. A. THOMSON,

Sec. and Treas.

STATEMENT OF SHADAN . The Annual meeting of the Baptist Dendo Shadan was held at

Anma, June 8th, 19I5 as fixed by the Constitution. All the riji were present. The report for the past year was read and approved.

Dr. Dearing was elected Chairman and R. A. Thomson, .Sec.­Treas.

FEDERATED MISIQNS 10 3

In Aug., 1915 land and buildings were acquired by the Shadan at Kisennuma. .

In Dec. 19 IS a building used as a chapel at Tsu kij i. Tokyo was taken down and moved to Kawasaki and re-erected at that place to­be used for the same purpose.

In July the two new buildings connected with the Bible~ Woman's- Training School at Osaka, the Recitation Hall and the foreign residence were registered as the property of the Shad an.

The Yokohama Shiyakusho donated to the Shadan a small strip of land at Kanagawa in connection with our Girls' school at that place •

.In Oct., 1915, the new buildings at Himeji, the Recitation Hall and the remodelled three-storied Dormitory at Shimotera 1\tlachi; were registered as the property of the Shadan.

In May, 1916 land was purchased at Naha, Okinawa Ken upon which it is proposed to erect a church building and kindergarten.

The above represents the business of the Shadan during the past year.

R. A. THOMSOK,

Sec.-Treas.

THE FEDERATED MISSIONS Your Mission has been represented during the last year by

Messrs. Dearing. Wynd, and Bickel. The chief activities of the body have been the following:

I. The energetic prosecution of. the work of the Christian Literature Society as represented by the giving of encouragement t-o Japanese Christian Authorship, the translation of works of vital interest to the life of the church and the wide distribution of its valuable literature to a large constituency not necessarily Christian. The sales have passed the ten thousand )'C1Z mark.

There are those who believe that the work undertaken by the Federated Missions through the Christian Literature Society repre­sents the most iillportant single Christian movement of recent years in Japan~

2. The continuance of the three years Evangelistic Campaign with results for which all give thanks humbly.

3. The adjustment of questions of Mission Comity and giving helpful advice to ML~sionaries as to questions of location and occupatic>n.

: 4. A careful study of field, conditions along educational, elee­mosynary, social and other lines and making the wide infonnation-

STATISTICAL REPORT -.../: ......

which is the result of those studies available to the Missionary body as a whole.

Special recognition has been accorded by the Federated Mis­sions to two of our denomination, to Dr. Dearing for his wide interdenominational services in connection with his duties as Secre­tary of tne Federated Missions and Editor of the U Christian Move­ment IJ and to Dr. Walne for his magnificent services in the distribu­tion of Literature.

We also rejoice that during this period two of our Japanese Baptists have been able to render marked service through the chan­nels provided by the Federation of Missions to the general cause; our esteemed Dr. Chiba through his life of Judson and Rev. K. Imai through his most valuable pamphlets on Buddhism and related subjects.

LUKE W. BICKEL.

STATISTICAL REPORT In the report of a recent meeting of a Scientific Association in a

leading university in the United States, I noted on the program a paper by a leading professor of " Statistics," and I read the abstract of this paper with much of interest and not a little of surprise. From it I learned that statistics were becoming more and more a science and that statistical tables which formerly were rarely read except by typesetters and proof readers, were becoming an important factor in the It business efficiency" of these days. Among the different ex­amples given mention was made of the Sante Fe Railroad which has forty departments each under the care of an expert statistician, and the locomotives, cars and employees must pass the scrutiny of statis­tical tables. For example, if a locomotive consumes more coal this year than last, or more than other locomotives of the same class, the matter is investigated. : Before I had finished reading this report, the question arose in my mind as to whether we ought not to make more real use of statistics in our mission work. Statistics show in which direction we are going and dt what rate, and give other information that can be obtained in no other way. 1f statistics show that one church or one station is doing better work than others, then we should make a careful search for the reason of the success made possible by this church or station. If statistical tables make it plain that other mis­sions are doing a larger work than we, in proportion to the equip­ment, membership, etc., then we are criminally negligent if we do not study carefully the reason why we are lacking.

UNION HYMNAL COMMITTEE lOS

I offer these thought, for your consideration, although I have not as yet any definite plan as to the way we should make use of the statistics which we may gather.

I give below some of the statistics of our work for 1915 as compared with the previous year, gathered from the large table which I have prepared :-

Organized Churches Baptism" .•. . .• Church Members ... Sunday Schools ... . .. Sunday School Pupils Contributions

31

391

4,007 201

12,874 ¥ 8,930 •16

34 390

4,278 206

1J,QI5 9,532 .50

+ 3 I

+ 27 1

+ 5 + 141 + 602.24

J. H. SCOTT,

Statistician.

UNION HYMNAL COMMITTEE The Baptist representatives on the Union Hymnal Committee

are 1\1r. Fujimoto elected by the Japanese Convention and Dr. Dear­ing elected by the IVlissionaries' Conference.

On the return to America of Dr. Dearing the undersigned was chosen to serve until the annual meeting. The Committee has had a fresh supply of hymnals in all styles-bound with the Baptist Sup­plement. Baptist are urged not to accept copies without the supple­ment.

The Committee has had a good supply of the supplement with -the revised Church Covenant printed. The cost was 33 75 )'elZ

deducted from the former total to our credit in the bank 94 1.9 I leaves 908.16 now held by the Committee, to be used when revision or other work on the Hymnal is necessary.

Complaints have reached the Committee that a smaller size, cheaper edition of the Hymnal, that appeared last year was not to be had with the Baptist supplement.

The explanation is that those books were a lot that had become shop worn, and the worn edges were cut off and they were offered at a reduced price.

There is a hope of getting out an edition with notes, much smaller than the present one. If this is done there will be plenty with the Baptist Supplement.

F. C. BRIGGS.

roo c0-0l?ERATING COMMITrEE

REPORT ON BAPTIST HYMNS As it would argue a lack of a sense of proportion and perspec­

tive to attempt to prep3.re a Report of such importance amid the hurry and, bustle incident to getting ready to hit the home trail, I have requested Miss Whitman to kindly . p~epare and present the Report.

C. K. HARRINGTON.

CO-OPERATING COMMITTEE A Five-Year Program for Japan has. been the matter of prime

importa~ce w~th which this committee has been busy during the year. As a result of its deliberations it drew up the following pro­gram for submission to the Japanese-Baptist Convention and our Con­ference.

(I) To endeavor to double the membership of our Baptist churches during the next five years.

(2) To endeavor to make one-fourth of OUI" present churches self-supporting during this period~ These churches to be designated by the Japan Baptist Convention.

(3) To endeavor to double, during this period, the amount of money at present raised by the Japanese churches.

(4) To request that du·ring this period four new missionary families be sent to Japan.

(5) To strive to carry out, during this period, the present plans for the Japan Theological Seminary and the Tokyo Gakuin.

(6) That a committee of five representatives from the Japan Bapti~t Convention and five representatives from the Confcrence of missionaries be appointed by these respective bodies to carry out this program.

Another matter which came up before the committee was the matter of co-operation between the Mission and the Evangelistic Bureau of the Japan Baptist Convention at Nagoya and on the Shinshu field. After considerable discussion it was voted to recom· mend to the two co-operating bodi,.!s that the co-operative work be continued. That for the coming year a budget of 2,044.0=> y~n' be adopted for the purpoSe of putting three workers into the following fields, Nagoya, Matsumofo' and Umachi. That of this amount the Japan Baptist Convention raise. 800.00 yell and the Mission furnish 1,244.00 Yt1l. This being on the condition however that the Evan­gelistic Bureau adopt a policy and plans for putting itself on an independent basis in ten years as far as the work on these fields is concerned.

WOMAN~S CHRISTIAN UNION COLLEGE ib7

This committee has also during the year taken upon itself to correspond with and keep in vitdl touch with our. Baptist young men who are studying in America. This correspondence _ has. brought out the fact that Dr. Kawaguchi and Mr. Takatani are both ready to return to Japan as soon as openings are provided for then.. Dr. Kawaguchi has been called to professorship in the Seminary. We are hoping that some suitable place can speedily be provided for Mr. Takatani also.

The committee also wish to recommend Mr. Idei of vVaseda University as one who should be sent to America for study ... On the condition however that when he returns to Japan he shall be connected with our Baptist work.

It was the unanimous opinion of an the members of the com­mittee present at the last meeting that this committee ought to take itself and its work more seriously and that more and more power should be vested in it and it should become the uniting and unifying medium between the two bodies which it represents.

\VILUAM AXLlNG.

WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN UNION COLLEGE The Promoting Committee for the \Voman's Christian Union

ColJege which has been at work for three years has al most finished its work and is preparing to hand over all responsibility to the.Board of Trustees. The College which has so long been a rumor and a dream is about to become a reality in the near future.

In 191 I as a result of the findings of the Edinburgh History of Conference, Dr. Goucher of the American Branch of Movement.

the Education Section of the Continuation Committee of the Edinburgh Conference, visited Japan, called together mission­aries interested in educational work and set on foot a movement to found a Christian College for women in Japan (" College" having the meaning applied to it jn the United States). For two years· a. general committee worked toward a plan -and then in 1913 a Promoting Committee was formed which drew up a tentative constitution for the CoUege and appealed to the different mission Boards through their misSions to co-operate in giving up their higher departments and to unite in founding one large efficient institution of the same grade as. the Girls' Hight'l" Normal and the Tl1omans.' [JlZivcrsity. In July, 19 I 5 the Constitution and a detailed report was duly submitted tQ all the missions having educational work in Japan, and nine missions approved, the boards ratifying their ac.tion.

108 WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN UNION COLLEGE .... ......t .. • '\~

As the next step toward Establishment each mission was asked to adopt their units and appoint trustees, receive the ratification of the· home board and report the same to the Promoting Committee. The Boards who have so done and made appropriations are: lVlethodist Episcopal 4 units. Canadian l\1ethodist 3 units. Dutch Reform I unit.

The Promoting Committee are anxiously awaiting action by the Baptist and Presbyterian missions. If these two missions ap­point their trustees and receive the approval of the home Boards the Board of Trustees can at once begin the selection of officers and instructors, raising of funds, buying of land, etc. all of which activities are impossible to the Promoting Committee. Reports from members of the Committee in America lead us to feel that there is widespread interest in this college and that necessary funds for buildings, etc. will not be hard to find.

The Promoting Committee request the Baptist mission Action Requested. to consider action regarding units and trustees, with

immediate report to the home Board of any such ac­tion taken. As time is a large factor, it also suggests that the Board be asked to cable their reply.

Just one more word in regard to the immediate and The Urgent Need. urgent need for this college. Japan is changing rap-

idly and in nothing so much as in woman's position and influence. Educated women are coming into prominence in civic and national life as influential leaders. The widespread influ­ence of women like Madame Hirooka or Mrs. Ibuka is amazing when we think of the Japan of a few decades past. We rejoice in the work of such women but we regret that they are so few. Gradu­ates of the Girls' Higher Normal and Woman~s University every year are stepping out into positions which no graduates of our pres­ent Christian Schools can command. It is true that women who are not College trained can do splendid work, but it is also true that there are many positions towday which call rather for College women. The few young women who have had the opportunity of college training in America, such as Miss Kawai, Miss Mitani, Miss Koike, Miss Okonogi, Miss Uemura, Miss Hoshino, are already overbur­dened. They are called upon from every side. Schools want them; the Christian Association wants them ; Conferences want them; Wo­man's meetings want them--=And there are only a handful to answer th~ numberless calls. There should be a Christian institution of rank and efficiency equal at least to the Woman's University, where Japanese Woman can find such education and training.

Aside from the large numbers of girls (over 300) to whom different missions are trying to give higher courses with very limited

WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN UNION COLLOGE 1°9

facilities, there are an increasing number of young women with time, leisure and a taste for study who linger about after leaving High School and who need to be led into a truly Christian intellectual life. The intellectual life for women in Japan is opening rapidly and it is most imperative to make opportunities for college study in a Chris­tian atmosphere. Japan needs a Christian college to train her young women and she needs it at once.

RUTH D. FRENCH.

BRIEF SUMl\1ARY OF IMPORTANT POINTS IN THE CONSTITUTION OF THE WOMAN'S UNION

CHRISTIAN COLLEGE.

A. The College shall always be a Christian institution: -i.e. Trustees, President, Dean, Heads of Departments shall be

members of Evangelical Christian Churches. (Christian in­struction shall be given daily).

B. The location shall be in Tokyo. C. The college shall be maintained by co-operating Christian bodies

such as l\1ission Boards, each to share in the financial respon­sibility and be represented on the Board of Trustees.

Article III (Paragraph in regard to co-operating bodies quoted in full)

2. "The co-operating Bodies shall share in the financial respon­sibility of the College and shall have proportionate re­presentation on the Board of TrusteEs, as follows :-

(a) "The funds for plant and equipment and the current expenses for which the co-operating bodies as such are responsible shall be divided into Financi­al units.

(b) "A co-operating body shall assume responsibility for at least one financial unit.

(c) U A co-operating mission body shall assume responsi­bility for as many financial units as the number of schools of Koto Jo Gakko (Girls' -High School) grade that it maintains.

(d) " A co-operating body shall be entitled to appoint two (2) members on the Board of Trustees for each financial unit for which it assumes responsibility, In case a co-operating body does not appoint its full quota of members on the Board of Trustees. it shall have two (2) votes for each financial unit for which it is responsible.

110 WOMAN'S CHRISTIAM UNIQ)l ..(}QLLEGE

3. "A co·operating body shall not withdraw its support as any pOttion thereof until a full school year at least har elapsed after notice of such withdrawal has been given in writing"

XOTE. The Financial Unit is Estimated at $700.00. It is hoped that money for initial expenses for land, buildings and heavy equipment may be secured through private girts without drawing directly on the funds of mission boards, so that the estimated .financial unit is based on current expenses only.

FIRST YEAR CURRENT EXPENSES.

Principal's salary Dean's ... ... .•• • •• Foreign teachers' salary ... Japanese teachers' " Departmental Supplies Rent ........ . Printing, Postage, etc. Contingent

S 1,500•00 1,000.00

800.00 2,400.(0

1,100.00 1,200.00

500•00 2,000.00

$IO,SOO.CO

Hoping that the co-operating mlSSlons will undertake at least fifteen units, the Promoting Committee as above stated have made $700.00 the unit. D. Departments of Study.

The Committee propose that the College courses begin with at least I. A Japanese Literary 2. An English Literary, others such as Science, Domestic Science and Fine Arts, Social Service, etc. to be added later.

E. Entrance Requirements. It is suggested that requirements for entrance be equal in

grade, in the Japanese subjects to those of the Girls' Higher Normal and in English Subjects to those of Boys' Koto Gakko (Higher School).

F. Administrative officers. The committee advise that the President and Dean should

both be women holding degrees from some standard college of America or England, one of these officers to be a Japanese and one a foreigner. In addition to these two officers it is propos­ed ,to ask some well known Japanese man whose name and in­fluence would be helpful to the college to act as Honorary President (l\ieiyo Kocho).

RESOLUTIONS III

RESOLUTIONS Resolved that we as a Conference have learned with deep

interest of the wide participation of our home churches in the Five Year Program, and that we assure our Society and constituency in America of our prayerful and aggressive support of the campaign at home and in Japan.

Resolved that we record our deep gratitude at the wholehearted manner in which our Japanese associates have entered into the spirit of the Five Year Program, and that we.pledge them our support and co-operation in realizing the aims of the program in Japan.

Resolved that we assure our Secretaries, Dr. James H. Fr-anklin and Rev. George B. Huntington, and Treasurer, Mr. Ernest S. Butler, of our deep concern for them during the recent trying and over-burdened period through which they have labored, and record our satisfaction at the prospect of their early relief.

Resolved that we express our pleasure in the recent news of the appointment as Foreign Secretary of Rev. Joseph C. Robbins, and as Home Secretary, of Rev. J. Y Aitchison, D.D., and that we pledge these men our heartiest support and co-operation.

Reso/z1ed that we record our pleasure at word of returning health to Miss Alice C. Bixby in :her Vermont home, and heartily wish for her con'lplete health and a speedy return to our mission family circle.

Resolved that we express to Miss Annabelle Pawley, IVliss Thomasine Allen, and Mrs. J. H. Scott, our great pleasure in receiv­ing them as fellow·workers in the Japan Mission.

Resolved tthat we have learned with pleasure of the appoint­ment of Misses Helen Monroe and Margaret Haven, and that we anticipate their accession to the Japan Mission this year.

Resolved that we express our deep sympathy with Mrs. F. W. Steadman and Dr. and Mrs. C. K. Harrington, who have each suffered during the year the loss of a beloved parent.

Resolved that we record our sympathy with Rev. J. C. 'Brand, who .recently lost the only remaining member of his family, his sister, 1\1rs. C. Young, of St. Catherine's, Canada.

Resolvedthat we express our sympathy with Rev. and Mrs. T. P. Poate, former members of our Mission, in the loss of their daugh­ter, Edith.

Resolved that we put ourselves on record as highly pleased to know of the anticipated coming of Dr. Ukichi Kawaguchi to a chair in the Japan Baptist Theological Seminary.

Resolved that we express our thanks to the trustees of the Arima Chapel for their work in rendering the chapel so comfortable and suitable for conference gatherings. J. F. GRESSITl'.

[[.2 APPENDIX-...., • __

APPENDIX A

PUBLICATIONS

OBTAINABLE THROUGH THE PUBLICATION COMMITTEE OF THE CONFERENCE OF MISSIONARiES OF

THE LB.F.M.S. IN JAPAN.

uf No. Eoglish Name. Printing. 1 .~ --~------------------------------------------j---------------I-=~~

:I

2

3 4 5 6 7 8 9

10 II 12

:17 18 19 20 21

New Testament Referenccs and Map!'

P';;tions. Mt. Lu. In, '.Acts ... ... ... ...'... ... . .. New Teootament References Maps 5 type (latest edn.) •..

., II ,. .. II

History ofthe Baptists, Vedder ... ... Baptist Church Manual .. , ... •.• . ..

&ptism, Q;ncisc eomme'~ts ~.~. E~e;t~ Baptism ....................... , Chiistian Teaching and Life. Hovey... ... . .. The Pastor. Harvey... •.. ... ••• ... ... ,', Holy Spirit Three-fold Secret of. by Mcf":onkey •.. Outline of Systematic Theology, Dearing ...

" lJ ,t Part I, Part 11,

" .. .. Part III, ........ Life and Times or our Lord (Harper's Inductive Studies) A Guide to some Christian Teachings... ... ... •.• • ..

Il% Bible Catechism Broadus... ... ••• n. . .. 23 Baptist Churcb Catechi5m. (large) Rhees ... 114 " II " (Small).. .., 2S ,. Arthur 26 .. .. Atlicles'ofFa;th ... ,.. ... 27 Resurrection Body, The, F. G. Harrington :a8 Life of Diaz ... ... ••• ... ... ... ... ... 29 The God who loves Fishermen 30 Church Register... ,.. . '. 31

32

33 34 35

36

Su~day Scb~ol ~iister :~: :::

" Su~nte~dent's Reco;d ::: 'l'eicher's Record... ... ...

An American Comm. <In English) 7 volumes on entire N ,T. Broadus' Commentary on Matthew, F. G. Harrington .. , Stevens' and BurtOD', Harmony of Gospels, Bennett ...

Leather. Gilt edge .. • Marble edge

Cloth, Board Paper, Paper Cloth Leather, Gilt edge Clotb, Board

P~Per

Cl~th. Board Paper

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B~;ld Cloth Back Paper

Without COvers Manila Papu

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Half I.eathee Cloth Paper

886 .10 886 .50 886 .10

886 .15 .01

1024 .45 .024 1.2" 376 .15 32 4 ,IS 32 4 .15 J2. .1; So '02

375 .50

92 6 .'5 176 .rs

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40

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577 .15 65 .03 77 .05 8S .05 39 .0)

45 .03 '411 ,02

30 .035 60 .025 8 .002

20 ,10

40 .15 20 .rs 60 12

~.. .10 24 ,10

2,00

-: 13.50

2,00

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.60

Scad orders to R. A. Thomson, Sec. and 'l'reas. of the Comm. 39, Kitano Cho, Nichome, Kobe,

or to W. Wynd, 30 Tsukijl, Tokyo. In orderin&" the numbers~ven in column "No." should be mentioned. All purchases of Scripturea, Except NO.3, are sent carrla&,e free. On other Publications can·i.'\ge must be paid by the purchaser. A diacout,t of 25 per cent. is allowed in Nos. I, 2.

Public:ations «her tban Scripture. are sold at list price. With the addition of Psalms to Nos. I, 2, 4, the cost is 101m extra to the above prices.

APPENDIX

APPENDIX B

TREASURER~ REPORT By Balance from last year " Conference dues n Contribution from A.B.F.M.S., Boston

To Fukuin Printing Co. for Annuals " Postage on Annuals •.• ... •.. ... ,. Travel and Incidentals in connection with Annual. .. " Binding Old Reports ... " Conference Programs '" ... .. . " Stationery and Postage for year .. .

Balance on hand ... ... ••• • ..

¥ 223.60

13·74 6~84

1.00

11.58

9·,6 19_18

285.70

C.H.Ross,

113

¥ 32 .90 141.00

111.80

----28~.70

June I, 1916. June 5, J916.

Treasurer.

Examined and compared with the vouchers and found correct.

APPENDIX C

R. A. THOMSON,

Auditor.

LIST OF VISITORS Rev. and Mrs. J. F. Russell, Mrs. and Miss Silliman, neve and Mrs. E. O. Mills, Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Brown, Mr. Strickland, Mr. Carey Scott, Rev. E. N. Waloe, D.D. Rev. H. Coleman,

Rev. H. Yosbikawa,

Philippine Mission. Telegu Mission, India. S.B.C. Fukuoka, Kiushiu, Y.M.C.A. Tokyo. Y.M.C.A. Teacher, Himeji. Y.M.e.A. Teacher, Maizuru. Field Secretary, Christian Literature Society, Field Secretary, Sunday School Union,

Tokyo. Delegate, Japanese Convention.

APPENDIX 0

ANNIVERSAHIES 'OF THE CONFERENCE OF THE MISSIONARIES OF THE A.B.F.M!S.IN JAPAN.

No. or Year Places President Sccretnry Preacher Missionaries

Member- Native con-Baptisms ship tributlons in Yev

1890 ...... Kobe ............ Mr. Thomson ......... Mr.lJamblen ......... -- ................. 4[ ISgI ...... Yokohama .. ~ ... DT. Rhees ... ......... " Hamblen ......... Dr. Rbees ............ 44 1892 ...... yokohama. ...... Mr. Fisher ............ " Ha.mblen ......... Mr. Brand ............ 44 18g3 ...... Kobe ............ " Halsey... ......... Hamblen........." Scott ............... 46 1894 ...... yokohama...... " Ben~ett............ " Hamblen......... " Dearing ............ 45 1895 ...... TokyO' ......... "Dearmg............ " Hamblen......... " Story ............ 43 1896 ...... Kobe ............ Dr. Rhees ... ......... " Hamblen......... " Bennett ............ 56 1897 ...... yokohama ...... :Mr,. l~amblen ......... " Thomson......... " Wynd ............... 55 18gB ...... Tokyo ......... " Fisher ... ......... " Thomson... ...... I' Jones ............... 54 1899 ...... Osaka............ " Scott ............ " Thomson ......... Dr. Rhees ............... 53 1900 ...... yokohama...... " Parshley ......... " Thomson ......... Mr. C. K. Harrington'52 1901 ...... Tokyo ......... I' Clement............ " ,Thomson ....... " I, Topping ............ 56 Iga2 ...... Arima............ " Hill ............... " Thomson......... " Clarke ............ 56 Iga3 .. · ... Arima............ " Topping ......... " Thomson......... " Hill ............... 58 Iga4··· .. · Arima............ " Jones............... " Scott ............ " Axling ............ 58 IgaS ...... Arima ............ Dr. B~nnett............ " Scott ............ " Briggs ............ 61 1906 ...... Arima ............ Mr. Schumaker ...... " Scott ............ " Steadman ......... 61 Iga7 ...... Arima ............ Dr. Dearing ......... " Scott ............ Dr. 1\'labie ............... 61 1908 ...... Arima ....... : .... Mr. Tenny...... ...... " Scott ............ Mr. Bullen ............ 66 1909 ...... Arima ........ :... " Axlin.g ............ " Scott ............ Dr. Ben~ett ............ 66 1910 ...... Arima............ " BenOlnghoff...... " Thomson......... " HarnngtOD ......... 62 1911 ...... Arima ............ " Briggs ............ "Hill ............ " Parshley ............ 61 1912 ...... Arima ............ Capt. BickeL.......... " Scott ............ Mr. Scott ............... 62 19[3 ...... Arima ............ Mr. Holtom ......... " l~oss............... " Ross ............... 60 19[4 ...... Arima............ " Steadman......... " Ross............... " Willingham ...... 53 1915 ...... Arima............ " Tenny ......... '" " Ross... ............ " Holtom ............ 57 1916 ...... Arima............ " Scolt... ............ " Thomson ......... " Foote ............... 54

158 9°S 626.04 146 1,056 25( 1,279 -21 3 1,394 770.[8 236 (,5[8 1,14164 184 1,6[5 ,1,373.10 > 162 1,739 1,433.58 ~

t:'I:J J76 .,888 2,236~:S4 ~ 183 1,852 1,90 7:7 [

~ 201 1,9°6 2.114~H8 r ••

176 1.885 2,818;48 -.: 204 2,011 3,540'3~ , 328 2,213 4,282,79 2[4 2,157 4,003·62 210 2,J~[ 4,°54·54 ~7 2,0 9 3.917,32 219 2,110 4.927,92 297 2,347 6,347.20 389 2,608 6,871.36 336 2,838 7,886.43 329 2,79 1 7,732'96 438 3,°75 7,59746 40 7 3,3°4 9,945.23 39[ 3,580 7,687,93 338 3,9;8 9,106.42 391 4,023 ~,930.26 39° 4,282 9,532.5°

APPENDIX

APPENDIX E

DIRECTORY

OF JAPAN BA~TIST MISSIONARIES, 1916

A.B.F.:'I1.S. AND S.B.C. ~nSSI()NS

Acock, Miss Amy A ,1905 ...

Al'en, Miss Thomasine, 1915

Axling, Rev. William, and 'Wife, 19Q1

,(" Imasato, Kamitsu Mura, Nishinari . .. t Gun, Osaka Yu. '

\ 10 Fukuro Machi, Surugadai ••• <. Kanda, Tokyo. , " ' ~ ... f 10 R~kuchom~, Flljimi: Cho, Koji-

<. machl, Tokyo.' '

Benninghoff Rev. H. B. and Wife (1901 ) 1907 f 9 1 Benten Cho, Ushigome KUt ,,. ,... ( Tokyo. '0 '

Bickel, Capt. L. W'J and Wife, 1898 ... ... 120 Goken Yashiki, Himeji. Bixby, Miss Alice, 1914... ... ...... ... PultneyVille, Vermont; U.S.A.

, 1334 Hyakupill Machi,. Okubo, Bouldin, Rev. G. W., and 'Wife, 1906 ••• • •• l Tokyo Fu. '

Brand, Rev. J. C., 1890 (retired) ... Pt6 WakamatsuMachi, Ushigomeku-... l Tokyo. ,. Briggs, Rev. F. C., and Wife, 1895 Buzzell, Miss M. M., 1892 ... ...

Carpenter, Miss M. M., 1895 ...

Chiles, Miss C. H. 1915 ...

Claggett, Miss 1\1. A. 1887

Clarke, Rev. W. H., and Wife, 1899 Converse, 1\1 iss C. A., 1889 ..• ...

Crosby, Miss A. R., 1913

•• , 120 Goken-Yashiki, Hiineji. ... 2 Nakajima Cho, Sendal.

f W.A.B.F.M.S. Ford Building, Bos­. .. l ton, Mass. U.S.A.

1334 Hyakunin Machi, Okubo,. ..~ <. Tokro Fu.

I W.A.B.F.l\I.S. Ford Building, Bos­... l ton, Mass. U.S.A. ... Kumamoto. .., 313 I Aoki Cho, Kanagawa.

I 101 Hara Machi, Koishikawa,. ... l Tokyo.

Danielson Miss Mary 1902 (II Shichome, Kamidori, Minami " ••• <. Horie, Nishi Ku, Osaka.

Dearing Rev J L D D 1889 and Wife 1891 (A.B.F.M S. Ford Building, Boston, , ..., .. , ,. ( Mass. U.S.A. ' I W.A.B.F'.l\LS. Ford Building,

... l Boston, Mass. U.S.A. Dozier, Rev. C. K., and Wife. 1906 ... ••• 47 Yohano Cho, Fukuoka. Fisher, Rev. C. H. D., and Wife, 1882... 58 Bluff, Yokohama. J<:isher, Mr. R. H., and Wife, 1914... 75 Bluff, Yokohama. J<oote, Rev. Jo A , 1912, and \Vife, 1911 Rokumalltai Cho, Tennoji, Osakaw French, Miss Ruth Do, 1910 .. 0 ••• ... Milford N. H., U.S.A. Gressitt Mr J F and W'fi 1 ( 29 Sanai ~Iachi. Ichigaya, Cshi.

, ..', 1 e, 907 ... ( gome Ku, Tokyo.

Dithridge, Miss H. L., 1810 ...

Hamblen, Rev. S. W., 1889, and Wife, ISgo (pro- 1 Granville 0 USA longed furlough) ... ... ... ... ... . .. ) 0' ., ., •

Harrington, Rev. C. K., D D and Witle Kentville, N. S. Canada. Hill R' : ., -0. • •. , eVe G. W., and WIfe (1893), (prolonged 1191 Marion Ave Pasadena Calif furlough) 1895 ......... ... • .. ) .".

Holtom,. Rev. D. C., and Wife, 1910 902 Sendagaya, Tokyo Fu. Jesse, MISS M. D., 19II ... ... ... 2 Nakajima 'Cho, ~endai. Jones, Rev. E. H., and Wife, 1884 462,Minami Machi, Mito.

t'

116 APPENDIX _'"06 • •••

:\Iead, Miss Lavinia, 1887

Medling, Rev. P. P., and Wife, 1907

Mills, Mr. E. 0., 1908, Wife, 19oo

... f Imasato Kamitsumura, Nishinari. gun, Osaka Fu.

79 Yamashita Cho, Kagosbima. _{ 126 Hermosa Ave., Long Beach,

••• Cal., U.S.A. Pawley, Mhs Annabelle, 1915 ... 47 Shimotera Machi, Himeji. Ray, Rev. J. F., and Wife, '904 .,. Walnut, Miss. U.S.A. Ross, C. H., and Wife, 1910... 2 Nakajima Cho, Sendai. Rowe, Rev. J. H., and Wife, 1906 .:. ... ... 29 Sakurababa, Nagasaki. Rumsey, Miss :1". M., 1907 (prolonged furlough}... 7 North St., Batavia, N. Y., U.S.A. Ryder, Miss G. E., IgaS 51 Tenma Cho, Yotsuya, Tokyo. - t' Gojodori, Nichome Cbikko, Nishi· Scott, Rev. J. II., I8gZ, and Wife, 1915 ... ku, Osaka. Steadman, Rev. :1<'. W., and Wife, 1901 ... Stoney Brook, Mass. U.S.A. . f 45 Hisakata Cho, KoisbikawB, !'enny, Rev. C. B., 19oo, and WIfe, 1914... "', Tokyo. Thomson, Rev. R. A., F.R.G.S., (I~) 1888,and} 39 Nicbome Kitano Cho Kobe

'Vife, 188sJ ... ... .. . ... ... ... ... ' ,. . . f 337 Winston St., Los Angeles, Ca1., loppmg, Mlss Helen, 1911 (prolonged furlongh). U.S.A. lopping. Rev. Henry, and Wife, 1895 ...... 43 Ucbimaru, Morioka.

f 173 W. Bartlett St., Brockton, luxbury, ~frs. Nina, 1907 (prolonged furlough) ••• t Mass. U.S.A.

Walne, Rev. E. N., D.D., and Wife, 1892 ... • .. {16~~.Kibara Yama, Omon, Tokyo

'Vbitman, Miss M. A., 18S3... 10 FukuroMachi, Kanda, Tokyo. Wilcox, Miss E. F., 19o1 ..• ... ...... 47 Shimotera Machi, Himeji. Willingham, Rev. C. T., 1902, and wife 18n 141 Koya Machi, Kokura. Wynd, Rev. William. 18g1, and Wife, 1894 30 Tsukiji, Tokyo.

MISSIONARY ROSTER A.B.F.M.S. MISSIONARIES ACTUALLY ON THE FIELD JUNE, 9TH, 1916•

Axling. Mr. and ~lrs. Evangelistic work Tokyo. Benningboff. Mr. and )Irs. Dormitory do. do. Bickelt Capt. and Mrs. Evangelistic do. Inland Sea. Briggs, :\Ir. and ~Irs. EvangelistiC do. Himeji. Fisher, Mr. and Mrs. C.H.D. Evangelistic do. Yokohama. Fisher, Mr. and )Irs. R. H. Educational do. do. Foote, Mr. and )Irs. Evangelistic do. Osaka. Gressitt, Mr. and Mrs. Educational do. Tokyo. Holtom Mr. and )Irs. Educational do. do. Jones, Mr. and Mrs. Evangelistic do. Mito. Ross, )Ir. and Mrs. Evangelistic do. Sendai. Scott, Mr. and Mrs. Evangelistic do. Osaka. Tenny, Mr. and Mrs. Educational do. Tokyo. Thomson, Mr. and Mrs. Evangelistic do. Kobe. Topping, Mr. and ~irs. Evangelistic do. Morioka.

-Wynd, Mr. and Mrs. EvangelistiC do. Tokyo. Brand, Mr., Retired on Fitld. Evangelistic do. do.

A.B.F.M.s. MISSIONARIES ON REGULAR FURLOUGH IN U.S.A., JU~E 1916•

Dearing, Dr. and Mrs. Hamblen, Mr. and )Irs. (Prolonged furlough) Hill,.Mr. and Mrs. (Prolonged furlough) Harrmgton, Dr. and ~hs. Steadman, Mr. and Mrr.

APPENDIX 117

W.A.B.F.:\I.S. LADIES- ACTUALLY ON THE FIELD, JUNE 9TH, 1916.

Acock, ~Iiss Allen, Miss Buzzell, Miss Carpenter, Miss Crosby, Miss

Danielson, Miss Dithridge. Miss French, Miss Jesse, Miss Pawley, Miss

Ryder, Miss 'W ilcox, Miss Whitman, ::\la5s.

W.A.B.F.M.S. LADIES OX REGULAR FURLOUGH, JUNE 1916.

Bixby, Miss Clagett, :Miss Converse, Miss Mead, Miss

Rumsey, Miss (Extended furlough) Topping, Miss (Extended furlough) Tuxbury, Mrs. (Extended furlough)

The other names on the Alphabetical List are those working ill connection with the Southem Baptist Convention, all of whom with the exception of Dr. Walne and Mr. Bouldin. arc located in Kyushu. the South-Western Island.

APPE.NDIX F

OFFICERS GENERAL OFFICERS OF THE CONFERENCE

President Vice-President ..• Secretary Treas ... Assist. Secretary Statistician .. . Preacher .. . Alternate ... ... ... Executive Committee

l\Ir. Scott, Osaka. Mr. Topping, Morioka. 2\lr. Thomson, Kobe. 1Ir. Foote, Osaka. Mr. Gressitt, Tokyo. 11r. Tenny, Tokyo. Mr. R. H. Fisher, Yokohama. Messrs. Benninghoff, Thomson and Gressitt

STANDING COMMITTEES

Committee on Arrangements Auditing Committee... . .• Baptist and Union Hymnal Board of Editors

Co-operating Comma wirh Sokwai ..•

Federated Missions Committee

Correspondence with Mission children

Permanent Committee

Language Study Committee

Property Committee .•.

Publication Committee ...

To be appointed by Executive Committee. Messrs. Thomson and C. H. D. Fisher. Messrs. Briggs, Tenny and Miss Whitman.

... Messrs. Thomson and }<~oote.

{

1917, Capt. Bickel, 1918, Messrs. Jones ... and Briggs.

1919, Messrs. Axling and Holtom. f 1917. Capt. Bickel, 1918, Mr. Wynd, 1919, 1 Mr. Briggs.

{Mrs. C. H. D. Fisher, Miss Acock, Mr.

l<~oote.

:\Jr. Axling.

{Mr. Holtom, Mr. Axling and Miss Daniel.

son.

f1917' Capt. BiCkel, nIr. Thomson, 1918,

,.. Mr. Wynd. 1919, l\Ir. Benninghoff, Miss Whitman.

(1917, Mr. C. H. D. }~isher, Mr. Thomson, , Sec. Treas. 't· 1918, Mr. Scott, 1919, Mr. Jones, Mr.

Briggs.

lIS

Shadan, (Property Corporation)

APPENDIX

{Messrs. Gressitt, Jones, Topping, Scott

and Thomson, Sec.

Woman's Committee ..• {

19[7, Miss French Miss Crosby. 19l8, Miss Wilcox, Mrs. Axling, 1919

Miss Ryder. On l\i'ristlfo .Kyoho Board of Editors ... On Mission Church ... ... ..• ... . ..

Mr. Axling. . Mr. Briggs, Mrs. Thomson and Mr. Foote.

REFERENCE COMMITTEE

Term expiring 1917 Messrs. Ross, Wynd and Miss I"rench. Messrs. Tenny, Jones and .Miss Wilcox Messrs. Bickel, Benninghoff and Miss Ryder.

do. do. 1918 do. do. 1919

1917 1918 1919 1916

1917 1918 1917 1918 1919

1917 1918 1919

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Mr. Tenny ... Mr. Wynd ... Capt. Bickel

Chairman. Secretary.

Ul\"f!ON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY TRUSTEES

Mr. Wynd. I Mr. Briggs. J A.B.F.~r.S. Mr. Gressitt. Mr. Dozier. } Dr. Walne. S.B.C. Mr. Rowe. Mr. Goto. } Mr. Yamamoto. Japanese Convention. Mr. Fujimoto.

DUNCAN ACADEMY TRUSTEES

... Messrs. Ross and Topping. 1\lr. H. Watanabe {J.C.} '0' Mr. Briggs and I\Ir. Tenny, I\Ir. J.C.

WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN UKIO:; COLLEGE TRUSTEES

Miss Jesse, Mr. Holtom. Miss Whitman, Dr. Chiba, Miss C. Yamada. Miss Converse, Dr. Benninghoff, Miss Takata.

APPENDIX 119

APPENDIX G

GENERAL INDEX, 1906-1916.

References unmarked, except by year and page, are to regular Annuals and Annual Reports, but references to Reports of Special Sessions with Dr. Barbour (1908) and Dr. Franklin (1912), are marked in addition (B) and (F) respectively. Other Special Sessions of any years are marked (5). Administrative Policy, I 908 (B) p. ; I gl 5, p. Advance Policy, 1907, p. ; Ig08, p. ; 1909, p. Age Limit, 1012 (F), p. . Appropriations, Bulk or Gross, 1908 (B), p. ; 1909, p. 1912

(F), p. Assistant Secretary,. 1012, p. ; IgI5, p. Auditing Accounts Auditor, etc., Ig08 (B), p. ; 1914, p. " Baptist Edition oj Bible," Price reduced, IgI 5, p. H Baptist Work in Japan," Paper by Dr. C. K. Harrington, IgIO,

p. Barbour Dr., Conference with, 1908, p. ; Ig08 (B), p. Bible Translatz'on, (Scriptural Revision), Interdenominational, Ig06,

p. ; Ig13, p. Building Association, Proposed, 1907, p. Children of the Mission, Correspondence with, J 9 I 4, p. Children of tlze Mission, Committee on made a Standing Com.,

Ig [5, p. Committees, Important, Membership possible after four years on

Field, 1910, p. Committees. Members must resign when leaving Japan, 1914, p.

" Certain Joint of Board and Conference, Ig08 (B), p. Comptilatioll, 0/ Rules, Ig06, p. ; 190 7, p. ; Ig08, p.

]909, p. Disciple Mission, Comity with, 1908, (B), p. ; 1908 (5), p.

]909, p. ; Iglo, p. Docket Committee, Duties of Ig15, p. Dormitor), Waseda, Work, etc., 1908 (5), p. ; Igl0, p. ; 191 3,

p. Dormitory, Waseda, Amount for land, etc., p.

" H' Equal Space in Annual, , p. Duncan Acaden!:)" Plan of Control, etc., p. p.

p. p. Duncan Academy, Location, etc., (F). p. p. Editors, Board of, 1908,-P' : ]gIS,p·

120 APPENDI~ ...... _ ..

Ed1lcatioll, Higher, for Women, 1912, p .. Emergency (Reserve) Fund, 1908 (B), p. ; 1912 (F), p. Eva11gelistic Committee, 19°9, p. ; 1913, p. E-recutivc Commitue, Approved, Organized 1916. Evangelists, 1 ranifer oj, 1908 (B), p. Famine Relief Work. J906, p. Federated Mission Council, 19 I J, p. ; 1915, p. 80.

tt " Jt Election of Representatives, 1915, p. Field Administration, Increase £1Z, 1915, p. 77, ; 1916, p. Foreign Children, Sclzoolfor. 1912 (F), p., ; 19 16, p. 90. Franklill, &., Conference with, 1912 (F), p.

" H • .Present at Conference, 1915. Furloughs, To be reported one year in advance, 1906, p. General Missionary, 1908, (B), p., ; 1908 (S), p. ; 1909, p, Girls' Schools, Union of 1907, p. Gleanings, Price increased, 1913, p. 80. J916, p. 81. Hokkaido, Withdrawal from, 1912, p. ,1912 (F), p. , Hymnal, Baptist, Supplement, 1915, p. " Inculentals," When to be itemized, 1906, p. Japanese, Promising, to be sent to America, J913, p. 1914, p.

75, 76, 86. Kindergarten Training School, Advisory Board, 1911, p.

" " " Head for, ]910, p. Language School, Union, 1912 (F), p.

" Course, Examinations, etc., 1906. p. 1914, p. Literature, Christian, Grant for 1910, p. Mabie Dr~, Present at Conference, 1907. Medical Bills A.B.RM.S. 1915, p. Medical Bills Woman's Society. 1915, p. 80 .. Memorial Services, Baby Bouldin, 1910, p. ; Mrs. Carpenter,

1910, p. ; Mrs. Willingham, 1910, p. ; Mrs. Rhees, 1910, p. ; Dr. MacCollum, 1910, p. ; Dr. Bennett, 1910. p. ; Mrs. Harris, 191 I, p. ; Mrs. Gurley, 1911. p. ; Mrs. Tenny, 1911, p. ; Miss Rolman, ]9[3, p.

; Mrs. Scott, 1913, p. ; Miss Kidder, 1914, p. Ministerial Aid to Academy Students, 1912, p. MilzorilJl Reports, 1907, p. Missiolt Policy, 1906, p. .; I908/·P. ; 191 I, p. ; 1912 (F), p.

1915, p. Mission Church, 1916, p. 82. Needs Gel1eral, 1908 (5), p. ; 1909, p. AOll-Baptist I-f1orkers, Employment of, 1913. p. Onomichi Proposed Opening, 19II,p. ; 1912, p. Otam, Proposed Girls' ,school, 1906j p.

APPENDIX

Outlook Committee, 191 I, p. ; 191 3, p. " Pooliug " one-half Conference Travel, 1913, p. Press Committee, How Appointed, 19[4. p. Property Committee, Constitution and Duties, 1908, p. Readiug, Coul'se 0/, 1907. p. ; 1908, p. ; 19[ I, p.

121

Reference Committee, Recommendations of, 1910, p. ; 191 I, p. ; 1912, p. 1.912 (F), p.

Reference Committee, Recommendations of, to be omitted from Annual, 1913, p.

Reference Committee, Membership, Eligibility to, 1912, p. 1914. p. 74·

Reference C0111mittee, Members, How elected, 19 13, p. " Rules of Procedure, 1907. p. " " Sessions to be open, 1912, p. " "Quarterly Meetings, 19 [0, p.

Reserlle (E11Jel'gellcy) Fund, 1908 (B). p. Salaries, of lVorkers, Schedule of, 1906, ; 190 9, p.

,. of T1'olllen Missionaries, 1913, p. Scripture Revisio1l, (Bible Translation), 1906, p. Self-Support, Paper by Dr. Bt!nnett, [909, p.

p. Shadan, Rules, 1908, p. Shins/zu, Field, Withdrawal from, 19 (2 (F), p. , Sakai, Communications from, Ig09, p.

" Co-operation with, 1906, p. ; 1907, p. Soldiers, Work for, 1906, P,

; 19 1 3, p. In ten years, (909,

; 1912 (F), p.

~ll1lda)1 School Association, National, Grant to, 1910, p. Taberllacle. Tokyo, 1907, p. ; 1908 (B), p. ; 1908 (S), p. Territor)l, Division of, 1910, p. 17teological Seminar)', Proposed Plan of Control, 1907, p.

(M), p • 17zeological Work, Proposed Articles of Co-operation, 1906, p.

19°9, p. Theological St'mil1a1-Y, Union, 1912 (F), p.

" Situation, Paper by Mr. Axling, 1912 (F), p. Traini11g School, \\'omen's Bible, Establishment, 1997, p,

" " " "Rules, etc., 1908 p. ; 19 10, p.

Trabting School, Revised Constitution and By-Laws, -19[5, p. " ,. Women's Bible, Locating \Vorkers, 1915, p.

T"anslation 0/ Broadus' Matlluw, 1906, p. Uni01t College, Woman's, approved appropriation. $2.800 per

annum recommended. 1916, p. 8 [

122

Unio1l Confcrcnce, Minutes and Reports, '1906, p. 1909, p. 1910, p. ; 1914. p.

Unio1l La1lgtec1ge School, 1912, (F), p. UllllJll Mission Policy, 1096, p. Ulzi'lJersity, Cllristian, Endorsement of, '9 I I, p. ; 19 I 2 (F), p. l¥omall's Committee, appointment of, 1916, p. 82. Yamagllchi Kt'11 Field, Transfer of, 1908, p. ; 1908 (B) p. Yokohama Night School, 19 II, p.

,./"­','.'.

ST ATIST·ICAL TABLE.

JAPAN B APT 1ST MIS S ION S. FOR THE YEAR ENDING DEC. 31ST, 1915.

I Pnachua

NATIVE WORK.ERS CHURCH STATISTICS. SCHOOL STATISnCS .-- ___ ._~D~O~R~M~l'l~'O~R~l~ES~ __ II· __ ~N~A:!;Trl..:.V~E.....:C~I)~N:..!T.::R.::IB:.!:U:...:.TTIO~N:.::S:...-__ \

:: Ocher. ' Pupils III Puplla ill Pupil. In I Pupila in lloardilla ~ :; 1 ~ g 1 .. "'0 is a ';g I T_c:hcra e

a Work en .! III 11 .. i 5 r ....,- -a.. -o~ TralDlne _II Hleh '8 :;;- Night io!: ~ K.inder. Pupil. in.. .. 8 i ~ It. I ~f lI.c5idents., E i: tot C .. g I

; . _ .. >_. I" U .5 _ .. -;-:> .., i 1~.§ Z! i! .. School. :r.!! Schools "ag Schoob 8 Ii larteD all Schools.x .xli'" ",...If. E:::: i _ ~ ~ I: ~';..;: -gi ~":> I

o I ;; ~ tij ~1 tJ! e .., ~ "r>lJS i"~'; ~ _~ '0 ~ m,l: -I~t: ~i h;i ua ~,; ~",' ", ~i =m'" !!.!!:: -0; -= I ~ ~ -: 1: ~ z.., 1 ~;~:5 _ii!': :i e! c1 =-~ li .!!i 5" u ~ en ~~ I t'~ ~-5 ~1i!~ .:: ~ ~~ c ~ E '~'O :5."2-;]~ ~ ~c! ~'E Ii

GENERAL MlSSlONARIES

NAME OF STATION .WITH CHURCHES AND SCHOOLS. ~ g. C 50 : .. ;. II _- .. ~j !; :'m 1"'''' g,;n - II! ci!=i!i:"" J; ., .. ,o;;lt( ~ ~1·.!I got! flo :{~i :; .1 ~ &&.§.!: '"' ... <l~.s oJ I It.:o m--:' £-t~~-~ io "'~-g: ; I ~~e :.._JI ::I!li ~~ ~~ - .!~ "II"'. .: 1l" .; J.li ~1,jj,c41 ~." ,g ;5 • fa 1 co I' "e"'s .!len :s.. ~11 .:i~" z~ l! ~ I:I~ !j.!!'O .... _.'o.~ ~ II. :.. ~ a·..... a III Ii; ~ :iI ~ i:; - -~ ;.:; I 11..... jk-'l I' .. ~ - :;:: 15 .. s!I 0 C 0

Il:roKciH.Atv.LAST~~iN===-=----bd-:-:~ __ ::.l--\-~-~~II~~~L.l~LJ-~L:..J--I~c5~-~--l-~~--=:""".\--+---+--lll-+- 0 Il:l..., i ~ : _;ld~...i1e_:-: -"'-"-_~r-<-,L ___ -'II ____ -+---+---t-----

YO~~:f~~::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 1$ 1,261358 • • 3 1 1 • II ,'i ~! ~ ~' ! 4~~ 2~ i 2~~ 1 I : I I I" ,II I ¥ ~~~:~ {1~36.36.·025~7 I wa burc ....................................... 1901 1 0 I I 24 3 1 56 'II' 133·27

Haramachida Cburch ........................... _ ..... 1912 I 1 I : I 1 2 2 28 I I ~ 4 52-55 52.55

Kamimizo Church ........... -........................... 1886 lIe:) 1 ~ 1 1 12 0 1 58 I' \ 17.8

9 17·89 Atsugi Church .......................................... 1906 I.: (II / I 1 1 15 3 I 40 8- 40 8:; Ishikawa Church ....................................... 1886 f 1 (:) I ~ 1 I 12 i ; 1: I i 1 I I • ;,! . Mary L. C'llby SchooL._ ............................. 1886 I i.'" (I) I I \ 60 ¥ I 73" 2~' i ' Yokobama Chapel .................................... 19O(i I 2 13 2 ! 17 II 720 I 14 I 110 1 36 1 69 3 1 , -. , I 1 YokobamaNigbtSchool ........................... 1909 i II 6 I ~ 1 1 I 156 __ ~2_71 __ li __ 'I ___ ,;,_-_I--1 :_271 . __ IJ398

511,_!....i2....<. '1 __ l

i, 2". _2,~85.21\ Yokohama Dormitory ................................. 1909 I ' -- .. - -- ,- ,,"

STATIONToTALS ................. I :~2 3 71~ 2 4 s""i3-;\-:-29" 7"-1 9'-Q-~.y~:I428---I-- 1114 1 no 1\271 1 11361 1 169141 431 ¥2,~11.IIi 11 251 1251 2.085.2II

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TOKYO STATION (inct Shinshu)....... .......... 2,050,000 3 2 3 8 I -'-' - , I . I' - \. - I -Central Church and Tabernacle ............... "', I I 2 r I 2 I 10 1 I I 208 0 I 74 I :150 30 I 40 3 220 ¥ "OO'J:

¥ 583.20 306.00 306.00 : 400.00 : 185.8S :

Yotsuya Church ........... :._ ......................... ; I! I 3 3 I 1 I III 9 1 40 Sbiba Church ........... , ..... , ................ " .. , ...... , I 1 2 If I 1 I 1 6 92 22 6 3~~ , ' I \ Kyobasbi Church ........... , .•.....•........ ,. ... ... ...' I I I 2 60 9 2 IOC ' ' i Immanuel ChurchS .................................... , I 3 4 1 I J 172 10 3 100 I 40 I 40 1I0.00

1!; 'I i '

Omachi Church ( binshu) ......................... _.! I 1 I 2 17 5 2 15C I \1

50.00 : I

25.80 1 30.00 12.75

583.20 306.00 331.80 430.00 11)8.63

50.00

Sarah Curtis School.. ................... _ .............. l 3 3 i 6; 13 ! I 50 1 50 8 257.10

11' Duncan Academy ................. _ .................. : I I 2 I 14 14 . 1 35 (I) (J) I lIS 1 lIS 2,429.00 I

Union TbeololZical Seminary........................ 2 2 4 2 100 I' 19 I 19' \ I Kindergarten Teachers Training School .... ,. 2 2 6 3 9 ' 1 18 I 18 33

0.OQ i i 1.0:> 1.00

Tsukiji Kindergarten ................................. I I 1 112 I 70 . 330.00 I 2.00 ' 2.00 Fukagawa Kindergarten •.. .•. .•. ......... ............ ~ 1 I ~. • J 60 ill 30 ~ ~~ 110.00 1 4-00 4-00 1

Koisbigawa Kindergarten ..........•..•....••••.... _ I I 7CJ I I 35 I 35 r75.OO

Seiko KindergarteD ............ __ ...................... i ~ I I I 1 200 I 1 96 1 96 f~3.4CJ ! Waseda Dormitory .. _ ....... __ ............ _.......... I I ' I I I 23 23 960.00 ~ Womaos' Do~::~N i~;~~·~ .. ·~~~~~~:::~~::::::: I _~ -;-8"2t ~ -I ~ 2; 7" -I -3 60 '(; - -3 ~~I---ss;;;T~ -I ;~ -I \-"''is - - -;;;S So-I ',~ 3o-l6~1-1-1- ~693 81~S4:50 : ~ :~ I;~ .- ::i::.::!-~:.=.::I::=¥=~I-,~8-3::I=.-==08=;'-;=·=· -=-=--:=-;.,7:5':55:",.\ =1,;,;,906~.~63~1

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Shuri Cbur:ch, ~uchiu ................................. 1908 1 I I I 2 1 2 159 i 5 3 301 : "II I I I 1 51

60' .551 I 24-00 . 24-00 Kobe Zennn Kindergarten ........................... 1891 +. h6 6 J' I 97 I I 101 ,I ¥ I I I Kobe Free Kindergarten .............................. 1901 I I 14(1 ,: : I 7

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STATIONToTALS .................. 1,000,000 I I 21~6-8---5--' 22 421-;-9-1,090~IIII.W1 ----j-I-I---I---3m--I-,-,--i I¥~ II I ¥1,544-71/ 1165431,710.141

SEND AI. STATION ................. -....... , .......... 18821 900,000 I 1 2 4 . --~I- '-~-I- - I I I I I - 1 I \' Sendai Church .......................................... 18801 I I I 1 1 I 368 26 II 750 \ ,¥ 415.00 15.00 430.00 Sbiogama Church ....................................... 12I!1 I I 1 I ! 4 69 4 1 I~CJ I : • !i\ 187.60 23·40 211.00 \ Tome Church .......................................... 1

6898' 1 I I I 3 8~ I 0 3 100 I' ~ . 30.85 ,1.00 31.85

Kisennuma Church .................................... I 2 I 3 1 6 64 12 4 171 1 I" i; 148.75 6.00 154·75 Kiusbi Church .......................................... 189 I 2 I 2 I I 6 44 8 3 135 I I 1 I 1 \ \ ,I(: • 48.47 5.9I 54-38 I Ella O. Patrick School .............................. I891 Ij- _ ~ ___ I...!,.""!,, ~ _1'_ ~ ___ -----------.:-- - - -1-_1 ___ ...2L -1-'1-' -1--1-~ _1 ~-~ ¥ 1,]63.30 '1'- - ------ i 1-------1-----

; STATION TOTALS .................. 900,000' 1 I 2 4 2 5 I 8 8 5' I 29 5 I 2 21 634' 50 22 I 1,326 I , 1 I 95 I I '! 38 I 95 18 ¥ 1,]63.30 ¥ 830.67 I 79-31 1 909·98 i MORI<?KA STATION ................. ~ .... : ......... :- -- Ij 2 4'\ 1- - - - --~~- j -~~ : I 1 ,- 1 I - \' -: -----.. ---.-.- ... I I I I MOrI<?ka Church •...•. ..................... ............ 1 5 2 8 1 3 16 307 30 13 858 ! I I ! ! ' ¥ 4

22.47 I 7

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493421,

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Hachinobe Church ....................................: 2 ' 2 J I 7 65 20 2 16z i I' ! ,I' 161.56 14-00 ! 175.56

Ne~uro C~urch.......................................... i II I I I I 44 II 1 u8 1 I I ('I I' 8449 12.0911081 i 107·39 Monoka KlDdergarten.................................: 4 4 I I 60 I ¥ 388·32 - - - -' I

_._ _ STATJONToTALS .... :: .. _.- ...... -~ __ \2 ~--4-1 8-4-;---;5-3-'--5~~~ I6~I,;38--- -----1----1 6;------ ¥ 358.3:2 1 I ' ! -¥~----u:09-9-5-.7-6-1--7-7-6-.3-7-

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HIME]I STATION ..................................... : ... 1907~50,ooo I I I I 2 II . - ~ - - t- J 52(J ~! ~ ~! ~ I Hime,i Church ............................... , .......... 1884 i 1 2 3 I 1 6 170 30 I 3~ II ¥ 297.70

66.94 Toyooka Church ............................. _ ......... 1894 I I Ii I I I I 5 -40 6 4 178 i 93·30 645 44.00 Himeji Girls SchooL .................... ,._ ... , ....... 189 /1 I .2.2 !j 4 6 10 13 997 I 1 104 48 104 17 ¥ 728.35 II 20.00 IkunoKinde~:;:~ .. ;~;;;~ .. :~~:_:::::::~::~~ 1 I 2 4

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KYOTO STATION ........................................... \ -I -- , i -1- -.... ~~ ~. - I ij- I ---II -; !. - --I .~ I I \' I ~O~~~Nu:~~~~ .. :{··i9i'{.::::-:~~:~:~~-:::~:::::: 1901 !T9 18 I7 sri 21 3~ 47 63 ;, 3""'3 ~ 3~ -"3 2; I~~: 3~ ~ -dIm -1-119 '2 40 -I 14 5 Us 359 2'" 42130 Is Slll --li16 20 Ii 1473 I 43 ¥ 12,464-72 3·: 48 1516311 4.409.02 Ii :8,~~t~~~: 3~:~ 9~~:~

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, ~okura ..... ......... ..................... ............... ~ 30.7~ • I 21 1 ': • ~ fg ~ :; r. . I' i I I F::::a ::::::::::::::::::::::.-:::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 190:1 S4P4 2 2 4!, 2 I 3 1 ~ 1 1 5 94 15 4 2:7 ' , ' ! Fukuoka Boys' Night SchooL. ...... ... .•. ... ... ... I 89 1 89 ¥ 450·50 , ~ukuoko Kind"ga"" .............................. ' • ... T' • 58 • I· 58 180.50

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