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T H E M ISSIONARY M AGAZINE
OF THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH
IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
OFFICIALLY REPRESENTING
T H E N A T IO N A L CO UNC IL
VOLUME LXXXIX
1924
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IN D E X
VOL. L X X X IX ' 1924
(Pages 1-72, January; 73-144, February; 145-216, March; 217-288, April; 289-360,
May; 361-424, June; 425-488, July; 489-552, August;- 553-616, September; 617-680,
October; 681-744, November; 745-816, December.)
Bailey, R ev. A . Q.— U n ite d T h a n k O ffering in a
A irp lan e su b u rb an p a rish 116
E piscopal v isitatio n by th e a ir ro u te (H a iti) B arnw ell, R ev. M iddleton S.— A d d itio n to ou r
- Carson (illu s.) 633 staff (p o rtra it) 608
A la sk a : B a rr, C h ristine T om ar, sketch a nd p o rtra it 652,
Allakaket : 653
P ic tu re s 522 B asom , F lo ren ce A ., sketch a nd p o rtra it 342, 343
A n v ik : Beal, R ev. H a rry , sketch a nd p o rtra it 472, 473
G irls’ school d estroyed by fire 501 Bedell, H a rrie t M .— E v ery d ay life on the A rc tic •
P ro g re ss o f th e new b u ild in g 642 C ircle (illu s.) 774
P o rt Y ukon:
F ire destroys m ission house 636 B eer, R ev. A . H .— C h u rch ’s answ er to the chal
N ew Y o rk b ro ad castin g h e ard 194 lenge of C olum bus (p o rtra it) 569
L e tte r from D r. B u rk e 49 B e lla V is t a (S ee P an am a C anal Z o n e ):
K e tc h ik a n : B ible— D aily B ible readings 810
S alv atio n A rm y goès to ch u rch in St. J o h n ’s, B insted, R ev. N o rm a n S.— A ll Tokyo h o u s e d 'in
B u s h ' (illu s.) 320 b a rra c k s today (illu s.) 468
Nenana: B ishop an d th e dam, B la ske 515
M ak in g th e best of things, Clark 596 B ishop P a y n e D iv in ity School, P e te rsb u rg , V ir
O ffering to the Jap an ese E m ergency F u n d 128 ginia 268
Stephen’s Village: B la sk e , V e ry R ev. D. R . :
E v ery d ay life on th e A rctic C ircle, B ed ell B ishop and th e dam 515
(illu s.) 774 D aw n on th e snow -capped R ockies 387
Tanana : “ B lue p rin ts ” n o t “ sn apshots’’ a t T o ro n to , H obbs
E a s te r offering o f th e T a n a n a In d ia n s 540 (illu s.) 502
T ig a r a (P o in t H o p e) : B on to c (S ee P hilippines)
A laska to Ja p a n , g re e tin g (g ift) 373 B oone, M rs. H e n rie tta F ., D eath 43
G lorious jo b o f being a m issionary in th é B o re chains fo r C h rist in old Jap a n , H o ste r
A rctic, Thom as (illu s.) 403 (illu s.) 163 .
N ew s fro m B ishop Row e 724
Rev. F . W . G oodm an’s T ig a ra tra n sla tio n s 724 B ow den, A rtem isia.— St. P h ilip s’ school, S a n A n
General : tonio, tra in s T exas girls (illu s.) 167
B ishop Row e tra v e ls on th e B o x er 598 B oynton, F ra n c e s C.— W h o ’s w ho a t H o o k er
B ishop R ow e’s difficult trav els 800 School (illu s.) 717
C hristm as offerings from T a n a n a a n d A llak a B oys.^-S om e fu tu r e bishops a nd priests, G ardner
k e t 341 (illus.) 505
“ T h ree o’clock in th e m o rn in g ,” D rane B r a z il :
(illu s.) 689 D eath of V en. J o h n Gaw M eem , 3d. 757
A laskan C h urchm an calen d ar 127 Jap an ese in S o u th A m erica, K in so lvin g 561
A ll Tokyo housed in b arrack s today, B in ste d M issionary society organized 341
(illu s.) 468 B r id g e m a n , R ev. C harles T h o rle y :
A l l a k a k e t (S ee A laska) E x tra c ts from le tte rs fro m Jeru sa le m 668
A m bler, M arietta — K in d e rg a rte n s reach in g o u t, pt. O u r C h u rch sends a p e rm a n e n t chaplain to
1 7S8. J eru sa le m 135
A m erican B ible Society-—W ed d in g g ifts o f Bibles Y oung C hurch of th e W est goes to th e aid
to P rin c e R eg en t of Ja p a n a n d his b rid e of the oldest C hurch of th e E a st, B urgess
341 (illu s.) 238
A m erican C h u rch B u ild in g F u n d Comm ission— I n B rie f item s of in te re s t from the field 276, 341,
n eed o f fu n d s 661 407, 471, 538, 598, 660, 724, 800-
Y earbook 194 B rig h t spot in th e D a rk C o n tinent, O vers 785
A m ong th e m ill w o rk ers in a C hinese city, C otter B ro th erh o o d of St. A ndrew —.-A dvent corporate
698 com m union 51.
A n c o n (S ee P an am a C anal Z one) A lbany convention 660
A ndrew s, E d n a B.— “ Ih la F o rm o sa” , th e b eau tifu l B row n, A lice B arlow , M .D .— sketch a n d p o rtra it,
islan d (illu s.) 337 52, 53
A n k in g : B row n, F red e ric k C.— sketch a nd p o rtra it 588,
By house-boat to C hinatow n (C h in g teh ch en ) 589
C raighill (illu s.) 317 B ull, L eila, h e r d eath 276
D ay o f o p p o rtu n ity in C hingtehchen, Gregg 641 B ullitt, M arth a D .— F ir s t im pressions of the
E a tin g b itte rn e ss in th e h e a rt o f C hina, Gregg H o o k e r school (illu s.) 30
(illu s.) 41 B urgess, R ev. T hom as.— Y oung C hurch of the
P ic tu re o f b eg g ar wom an a n d S iste r E lea n o r W est goes to the aid of th e oldest C hurch
M ary 581 of th e E a s t (illu s.) 238
A n v ik (S ee A laska) B url, O live R ., sketch an d p o rtra it 652,_ 653
“ A re you th e re ? ” G reene 537 B urleson, B ishop.— S o u th D ak o ta’s calam ity (il
A r iz o n a : lus.) 511
L ig h ten o u r d ark n ess, we beseech T hee, O L o rd B urleson, M rs. Solom on S., D eath of 128
(H o sp ita l o f th e Good S h ep h erd , F o r t Defi B u s h , R ev. H o m e r E .:
ance) H a w kes (illu s.) 756 S alvation A rm y goes to c h u rc h in S t. J o h n ’s,
A rm en ian P a tria rc h o f Jeru salem , H is B eatitu d e K etchikan; (illu s.) 320
T’u rie n (p o rtra it) 238 S ketch and p o rtra it 524, 525
A rm en ian s in E a s t St. Louis 533 B usiness m an an d m issionary a t th irte e n , C harles
A s h e v il l e : B. C rusoe, J r ., 597
F ire visits th e “ H ap p y V alley ” 496 By house-boat to C hinatow n, Craighill (illus.) 317
A sh h u rst, S a ra h W ay n e.— Cuba h as its first instir
tu te fo r ch u rch school w o rk ers (illu s.) 269 c
A shley, V en. E d w ard .— S o u th D ak o ta h o n o rs D r. C aldwell, H a rry L ., sketch an d p o rtra it 588, 589
A shley 376
A tla nta: T h ree c alendars fo r 1925, 801
D o o rs th a t stan d open all th e year, H u n t 775 C a l if o r n ia :
T ru e sunshine fo r d a rk C hinatow n (S a n F r a n
B cisco) D aniels (illu s.) 534
B achelors o f C h ristia n ed u catio n m ake th e ir bow ■(See also S acram en to )
to th e ch u rch (illu s.) 635 Camaguey (See Cuba)
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C anaday, E lizab eth B.— “ I was sick a n d in p riso n C lark, E ola H .— M aking the b e st of thin g s in
a n d ye visited M e” (illu s.) 441 A laska 596
C andles o f th e L o rd (H e le n S. • P eab o d y ) 629 C lark, R ev. F ra n k lin J.-—K eeping up w ith the
C a p e M o u n t (S ee L ib eria) B ishop of K ansas (p o rtra it) 591
Capp, C lara S.44-Iiiternational c o n feren ce (W o C leaver, A m y F arw ell.— H ospital social service
m a n ’s A u x iliary , etc., T o ro n to ) 609 scientific a nd hum ane (illus.) 261
C arson , B ish o p : C lergy
B ishop C arson opens a do o r in H a iti (illu s.) P ro p o rtio n of n a tio n a list clergy w ith baptized
I 377 C h ristian s 539
Episcopal v isitatio n by th e a ir ro u te (illu s.) 633 Coe, Jo h n Leslie, sketch a nd p o rtra it .524, 525
Jam es T heo d o re H o lly 638 C olleg es (S ee Schools a nd C olleges)
C e n t e r for D e v o t io n an d C o n f e r e n c e (S ee R a C o l o m b ia :
cin e) M issionary ju risd ic tio n u n d e r th re e flags, S y k e s
C hallenge to the scholarship o f th e C hurch, Tsang (illu s.) 433
26 R oam er in a little know n land, Cowan (illu s.)
C h a n g s h a (S ee H a n k o w )' 703
C h ild ren b rig h ten la st days o f “ O ld frie n d ” 171 C olorado :
C hildren fo r a day, W elte (illu s.) 514 College stu d en ts c onference a t E v e rg ree n 538
C h ild re n ’s L e n te n offering fo r M issions, W ith ers Co n feren ces:
46 “ B lue p rin ts ” n o t “ sn apshots” a t T o ro n to ,
C h in a : H obbs (illu s.) 502
B eggar b o at 598 F ir s t jo in t c onference of th e bishops a nd the
C hallenge to th e scholarship o f th e C hurch, N a tio n a l C ouncil 720
T sang 26 G reat g a th e rin g of C h ristian In d ia n s in M in n e
C hinese tre a tm e n t o f w ounded so ld iers 725 sota, H ea g erty (illu s.) 626
C hung H u a S h en g K u n g H u i, fifth trie n n ia l H ig h lights of the N io h ara convocation (illus.)
synod of the C hurch, L itte ll (illu s.) 449 659.
F ra n k discussion o f C h in a’s p re se n t problem s, In te rn a tio n a l conference, Capp 609
S te v e n s 528 Ita lia n c onference 547
M ate rial (books) on C hina 548 M issionaries g a th e r fo r c onference 470,
P o w e r house o f th e C h u rch in C hina, R id g ely P ic tu re of ou td o o r class a t G eneva sum m er
(illu s.) 365 c onference 454
R o u n d th e w orld "with M iss L in d ley (illu s.) Som e fu tu re bishops a nd priests, G ardner (il-
398, 461, 493, 563 . lus.) 505
V ic tro la reco rd s w anted fo r School fo r A m eri U n iv e rs a l' C h ristian C onference on L ife and
can m issionaries, R u lin g 471 W o rk (S tockholm ) 540
(S ee also A n k in g ; H an k o w ; S h an g h ai) C onnell, M eta L ., sketch a nd p o rtra it 52, 53
C hina old and new , Ja m es (illu s.) 621 C onsecrated fo r the tra n sac tio n of G od’s great
C hinese ex p erim en t in C h ristian u n ity , S tu d le y business, Seagar (illu s.) 245
(illu s.) 576 Cook, Ju lia K a th erin e , sketch and p o rtr a it 652,
C hinese girls— bless ’em, P u m p h re y (illu s.) 798 653
Chinese language C otter, Id a T a y lo r.— A m ong the mill w orkers in
C hallenge to th e scholarship o f the C hurch, a C hinese city 698
T sang 26 C ouncil of the o u tline of C h ristia n ity 407
C h in g t e h c h e n (S ee A nking) C ow an, R ev. J. J.,— R oam er in a little know n
C hristian, education goes deep . . . in m odern land (illu s.) 703
Jap a n , H o ste r (illu s.) 299 C raighill, R ev. Lloyd R .—-By house-boat to C hina
C h ristia n p rim ary school, a necessity, R e ifsn id e r tow n (illu s.) 317
.311
C h ristm as card s sold by th e G irls’ F rien d ly So C reech. H elen L am bert, sketch and p o rtra it 524,
ciety 660 525
Chu, Rev. M o rto n Y. T .—-C ross th a t beckons from C rom w ell, R ev. C. B.— R ich in coal b u t poor in
th e dykes (illu s.) 265 churches (illu s.) 23
C hung, S a ra E n L eong.— L ive m ission in H o n o C ross th a t beckons fro m the dykes, C hu (illu s.)
lu lu (illu s.) 754 265
C hung H u a S h en g K u n g H u i, L itte ll (illu s.) 449 C rusoe, C harles E ., J r .— B usiness m an a nd m is
C hur, Y . L .— F o u r festiv al days a t C h an ts A ca sionary a t th irte e n (p o rtra it) 597
dem y (illu s.) 574 Cuba:
C hurch a n d h e r stu d en ts in Id a h o , M itch e ll (il- C hurch school i n . the Q ueen of th e A ntilles
l'us.) 369 (G u an tan am o ) D e Grange (illu s.) 789
C h u rch beehive in a lan d o f flowers, E v e re tt C uba has its first in s titu te fo r c h u rc h school
(illu s.) 768 w orkers, A s h h u r st (illu s.) 269 ' Y
C hurch League Club F ig u re s from C am aguey 341
In itia tio n fee re m itte d 127 G arlanded in flow ers th e H a v an a c ath ed ral is
C hurch M is s io n of H elp: co nsecrated, S te e l (illu s.) 257
“ A re you. th e re ? ” G reene 537 C um m ings, E m m a Louise, sketch a nd p o rtra it 52,
W h at is th e C h u rch M ission o f H elp ? Glenn 53 .
(illus.). 381
C h u rch M issio n ary Society 540
C hurch M issions H ouse D
M exican exhibit in w indow 661 D aniels, R oger.— T ru e sunshine fo r d a rk -C hina
C hurch P erio d ical Club tow n (illu s.) 534
E x ecu tiv e sec re ta ry explodes th e fallacy th a t D avidson, R ev. Jo h n F ran c is, sketch a n d . p o rtra it
you c a n ’t buy haopiness 706 652, 653
“ W an ted v e ry m uch— know ledge fo o d !” 114
C h u rch school and th e p arish qu o ta 121 D aw n of a new epoch in Jap a n , H o ste r (illu s.)
C h u rch school in th e O ueen o f th e A ntilles 77
(G u an tan am o ) D e G range (illu s.) 789 D aw n on th e snow -capped R ockies, B laske 387
C hurch S erv ice L eague, N a tio n al C om m ission on D ay o f o p p o rtu n ity in C hingtehchen, G regg 641
M eetin g 736 D eG range, F ran c e s E .— C hurch school in the
C h u rch ’s an sw er to th e challenge o f Colum bus, Q ueen of th e A ntilles (illu s.) 789 i
B e e r (illu s.) 569 Sketch an d p o rtra it 472, 473
C h u rch ’s o p p o rtu n ity , M c K im 292 D epa r tm en ts of Co u n c il :
C h u rch ’s ta s k in Jap a n ju s t begun, R e ifsn id e r Christian Social Service:
(illu s.) 153 C o nference th a t was a c onference T . F . O.
C it y M is s io n s : 64
“ I w as sick a n d in p riso n a n d ye visited M e,” , T ra in in g fo r social service 549
C anaday (illu s.) 441 A lso 136, 2Q5, 282, 353, 417, 480, • 607, 669,
W h at is a city m ission? N ew b e ry (illu s.) 123 738, 811
C laiborne, S allie A. C., sketch a n d p o rtra it 472, F ie ld :
473 A d d itio n to o u r staff, R ev. M. S. B arnw ell
C lark, C oral, sk etch a n d p o rtra it 652, 653 608
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.A ssociate sec re ta rie s 670 F lorida (S ee S o u th e rn F lo rid a )
C h u rch S erv ice L eague 62 “ F low ers of T h y h eart, O God, are th e y ,” W eb
H ow th e flying sq u ad ro n w orked in S outh s ter (illu s.) 571
D akota, W o o d ru ff 284 “ Foolishness! W h at should a girl do w ith e du
M eetin g o f th e N atio n al Com m ission on the catio n ,” W k itcom be (illu s.) 795
C h u rch S erv ice ’ L eague 736 Foreign-born.— Shall A m erica live? F ra n k lin 91
S p eak ers’ b u re a u 63, 138, 207, 285, 352, 419, Sick a nd f a r from hom e 96
483, 609, 671, 737, 809 F o r m o sa :
Also 138, 206, 418, 482,' 608, 671, 809 “ Ih la F o rm o sa,” th e b e au tifu l island, A n d re w s
Finance: * (illu s.) 337
353 F ort D e f ia n c e (S ee A rizona)
M issions: F ort Y u k o n (S ee A laska)
M eetings 60, 203, 415, 733 Four festival days a t C hants A cadem y, C hur
E d u catio n al division 61, 136, 204, 279, 349, (illu s.) 574
416, 479, 548, 605, 667, 734, 807 F ra n k discussion of C hina’s p re sen t problem s,
F o reig n -b o rn A m e ric a n s'd iv isio n 61, 135, 203, S te v e n s 528
• 281, 350, 417, 480, 547, 606, 668, 735, 808 F ra n k lin , Lew is B.— Jap a n f o r C h rist in a gen
Publicity: e ra tio n 155
137, 738 Shall A m erica live? (p o rtra it) 91
Religious Education: F rom cleanliness to godliness in P o rto Rico,
C h u rch school p io n eer in E a s te rn O regon, H o b b s 15
T a b er 351 F u llerto n , C aroline A .— N ew St. M a ry ’s H all the
C olored s tu d e n ts lau n ch th e ir ow n stu d en t re alization of m any hopes and p ra y e rs (il
council 283 lu s.) 333
D aily B ible re a d in g s 810 F u llerto n , Jam es T .— “ M acedonia” in W ashington
N . A. T . _A. (N a tio n a l A ccred ited T e a c h ers’ S ta te (illus.) 18
A sso ciatio n ) 481
N ew s tu d e n t in q u ire r 64 G
P la n s f o r a n a tio n a l stu d e n t m eetin g n e x t G ailor, B ishop.— E a s te r m essage to the C hurch
J u n e 810 220
A lso 205, 481, 607 L e n te n le tte r to the child ren of o u r C hurch
D o m in ic a n R e p u b l ic : (p o rtra it) 176
C hflrch’s a n sw e r to th e challenge o f C olum bus, G ard n er, R ev. W illiam E .— Some fu tu re bishops
B e e r (illu s.) 569 and priests (illu s.) 505
Good s ta r t (S a n P e d ro de M aco ris) M ason G arlanded in flow ers the H a v an a cath ed ral is
(illu s.) 445
W an ted , a c o rn e rsto n e, IVyllre (illu s.) 374 consecrated. S te e l (illtis.) 257
D onovan, R ev. H e rb e rt A lco rn , sketch and p o r G arrett , B ishop.— “ A n old frie n d ” to th e children
tr a it 52, 53 , of the C hurch 44
D oors th a t stan d ooen all th e y ear. H u n t 775 C hildren b rig h ten la st days of “ O ld frie n d ” 171
D ran e, V en. .F re d eric k B.— “ T h re e o’clock in the L ate p residing bishop (p o rtra it) 185
m o rn in g ” (illu s.) 689 G ates, M ary L.— T ra in in g school fo r leaders of
D u Bose M em orial T ra in in g School is- risin g from their, race (illus.) 771
its . ashesi, L e id t (illu s.) 439 G e o r g ia (S ee A tla n ta )
D uluth: Germ any:
G re a t g a th e rin g o f C h ristian In d ia n s, H ea q erty N ote re Suffering c h ildren 127
(illu s.) 626 Gill, F ran c is W ., sketch and p o rtra it 52, 53
D u n can , Louise J ., sketch a n d p o rtra it 342, 343 Gill, Rev. J. M. B..— “ M y F a th e r’s busin ess” 595
D w alu, R ev. Jam es.— U n d e r th e shadow o f a G irls’ school a t A nvik destroyed by fire 501
sacred m o u n tain in A frica (illu s.) 405 G lenn, M ary W illcox — W hat is th e C hurch M is
sion o f H elp (illus.) 381
E G lenton M em orial.— M em orial a nnex to St. A g
E a tin g b itte rn e ss in th e h e a rt o f C hina, Gregg nes’s H ospital, R aleigh, N . C., H u n te r
(illu s.) 41 (illu s.) 316
E m ery , J u lia C h ester.— R ecord of a g re a t life* G lorious job o f being a m issionary in the A rctic,
(p o rtra it) 340 Thom as (illu s.) 403
T a b le t un v eiled in h o n o r o f M iss E m ery (illu s.) G oldrick, W illiam B osley, sketch and p o rtra it 524,
193 525
G on ave (S ee H a iti)
E m h ard t, R ev. W illiam C.— M ission in E u ro p e
an d th e N e ar E a st 1-35 Good : S hepherd am ong Id a h o In d ia n s, In g h a m
Episcopal a n n iv e rsa ries o f 1924 103 (illu s.) 438
E piscopal v isitatio n by th e a ir route, Carson (il Good s ta r t in th e D om inican R epublic, M ason
lu s.) 633 (illu s.) 445
E va n g elism in th e C hurch by Rev. J. A. Schaad Goto, V iscount S.— Jap a n officially asks fo r a new
573 St. L u k e ’s 154
E v e re tt, F lo ren ce T„— C h u rch beehive in a land G owen, R ev. H e rb e rt H .— T oo muefi success is
o f flow ers (illu s.) 768 the problem of St. P e te r’s Japanese con
S ketch a n d p o rtra it 472, 473 gregation in S e a ttle (illu s.) 707
E v ery d ay life on th e A rctic C ircle, B ed ell (illu s.) G reat g a th e rin g of C h ristian In d ia n s in M in n e
774 sota, H e a g erty (illu s.) 626
E v ictin g ghosts in the Yochow m o u n tain p re fe c G reek P a tria rc h of Jeru sa le m , H is B eatitude
tu re , H o rn e r (illu s.) 113 D am ianos (p o rtra it) 238
G reene, K a th arin e .— “ A re you th e re ? ” em phati
F cally “ Y e s!” replies the C hurch M ission of
H elp 537
F a ith the^keynote as Tokyo revives, flo s te r (illu s.) G regg, Alice H ..— “ D ay o f o p p o rtu n ity in Ching-
tehchen 641
Fellow s. M ac C arlyle, M .D ., sketch and p o rtra it E a tin g b itte rn e ss in the h e a rt o f C hina (illus.)
342, 343 41
F e rram lo , Bishop.^—F ro m cleanliness to godliness G ross, A. A.— M arooned in the m o untains (illus.)
iii P o rto R ico, H obbs (p o rtra it) 15 173
F ield is rip e b u t how to co v er it, P u ree 628 G u a n t a n a m o (S ee C uba)
Finance:
A dvance o r r e tre a t 685 H
W h ere it goes (b u d g e t) 92 H a ddon, E unice, sketch and p o rtra it 524, 525
F ire v isits th e “ H ap p y V alley ” 496 H aines, R ev. Elw ood L indsay.— L and of “ L adies
F ir s t im pressions o f Ja p a n as th e w ife o f a* la st” ' (illu s.) 557
B ishop, M c K im 695 “ Tw o good feet a nd the urge to go” (illu s.) 165
F ir s t im pressions o f th e H o o k e r School, B u llitt H a it i :
(illu s.) 30 Bishop C arson opens a door in H a iti (G onave)
Carson (illu s.) 377
B ishop C arson to v isit by a irp la n e 599
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Episcopal v isitatio n by the a ir ro u te, Carson L e tte r from T . W . L am b ert concerning St.
(illu s.) 633 L uke’s 312
Jam es T h eo d o re H olly 639 St. L u k e’s H ospital w ins la u re ls (illu s.) 7
W ellesley b irth d ay g ift and w hat cante of it, St. L u k e’s In te rn a tio n a l H ospital, H o ste r (u-
R o yce (illu s.) 793 1us.) 227
H a n c h u a n (S ee H an k o w ) W hy S t. L u k e’s H ospital should be rebuilt,
H ankow : ,
T e u sler (illu s.) 235
A m ong th e m ill w orkers in a C hinese city, H o s pit a l s ( G e n e ra l):
H o sp ital social service scientific a nd hum ane,
C o tter 698 Cleaver (illus.) 261
B oone U n iv e rsity 773 P a ris h a n d th e C hurch hospital, H y d e 205
C hina old an d new , Jam es (illu s.) 621 H o ster, W illiam .— B ore chains fo r C h rist in old-
C ross th a t beckons from th e dykes (H a n c h u a n ) Ja p a n (illu s.) 163
Chu (illu s.) 265 C h ristian education goes deep into th e fo u n d a
E v ictin g ghosts in th e Yochow M o u n tain s p re tions of life in m odern Ja p a n (illu s.) 299
fe c tu re , H o rn e r (illu s.) 113 D aw n of a new epoch in J a p a n (illu s.) 77
H o u se o f th e M ercifu l S a v io u r (W u ch an g ) F a ith the keynote as Tokyo revives (illu s.) 157
S te d m a n (illu s.) 761 , . . St. L u k e ’s in te rn a tio n a l hospital (illu s.) 227
L ig h t of th e w orld shines in a C hinese city H o u se of B ishops.— M eeting 723
(C h an g sh a) H o rn e r (illu s.) 526 H ouse of the M ercifu l S aviour, S te d m a n (illu s.)
L ittle facto ry , W uch an g 725
P ic tu re of ch ild re n in th e Chuirch G eneral 761
H ow o u r C hurch cam e to M arco (illu s.) 467
H ospital, W u chang, C hristm as, 1923 584 H u b and, F lorence Belle, sketch a nd p o rtra it 588,
P ic tu res o f B ishop Suffragan-elect G ilm an, and 589 H „ ,
In g le H a ll 710 , TT. H u n t, F lo ren ce J .— D oors th a t stan d open all the
S h rin e in c o u rty a rd o i C h u rch G eneral H o s y e a r 775
p ital, W u ch an g (illu s.) 407 H u n te r, S a ra h L .—-M emorial a n n ex to St. A gnes s
W h en one tra v e ls in C hina, H itc h in g s 465 H ospital (illu s.) 316
H appy am ong th e O glala Sioux, J o y n e r (illu s.) H yde, R ev. T hom as A .— P a ris h a nd the C hurch
93 ' hospital 205
H a rris , B lanche M-, sketch an d p o rtra it 52, 53
H artzell, R ev. P a u l, sketch and p o rtra it 524, 525 I
H avana (S ee C uba)
H aw kes, M a rjo rie D.-—L ig h ten o u r d ark n ess, we “ I was sick a nd in p rison a n d ye v isited M e,”
beseech T h ee, O L o rd (illu s.) 756 j Canaday (illu s.) 441
H ays, F lo ren c e C.— L ib ra ry w ork a t St. J o h n ’s I daho: .
U n iv e rsity , Sh an g h ai 541 . C h urch a nd h e r stu d en ts (M oscow ), M itch e ll
H e ag e rty , R ev. W . B.— G re a t g a th e rin g o f C h ris (illu s.) 369
tia n In d ia n s in M in n eso ta (illu s.) 626 Good S h ep h erd am ong Id a h o In d ia n s, In g h a m
Ile b re w -C h ristia n P u b licatio n Society: (illu s.) 438 . j
T h e M essiah acco rd in g to th e O ld and N ew “ Ih la F o rm o sa ,” the b e a u tifu l island, A n d re w s
T e sta m en ts 276 (illu s.) 337
H ey wood, C. G e rtru d e .— H o m eless; e x tra c ts fro m I l l in o is (S ee Springfield)
th e d iary (illu s.) 764 In d ia n R ig h ts A ssociation—-M onthly to be pub
O rdeal by fire in strick en Tokyo (illu s.) 87 lished 341
H ig h lig h ts o f th e N io b ra ra convocation 659 I n d ia n a : . .
H itch in g s, E d n a B .-^ W h e n one tra v e ls in C hina C lou d b u rst dam ages _ St. A n d re w ’s M ission
465 H ouse a t V alparaiso 599
H obbs, R ev. G. W arfield.— “ B lue p rin ts ” n o t I n d ia n s :
“ sn ap sh o ts” a t T o ro n to (illu s.) 502 A la s k a : ■ _ |
F rom clean lin ess to godliness in P o rto R ico “ T h re e o ’clock in the m o rn in g ,” D rane (il
15 ■ lus.) 689
H olly, B ishop.— Jam es- T h eo d o re H o lly (p o rtra it) A riz o n a :
638 L ig h ten o u r darkness, we beseech T h ee, O
H om e o f God on th e m o u n tain , W h ittle (illu s.) L o rd (H o sp ita l of th e Good S hepherd, F o r t
429 D efiance, A riz o n a ), H a w ke s (illu s.) 756
H om eless, H eyw o o d (illu s.) 764 D u lu th :
H onolulu: , G reat g a th e rin g of .C hristian In d ia n s in M in
A ll h o n o r to St. P a u l’s C h u rch , M akapala 193 nesota, H ea g erty (illu s.) 626
D eath of M rs. Celia S earle 128 Id a h o :
H o n o lu lu ’s offering to th e Jap a n e se em ergency Good S hepherd am ong Id a h o In d ia n s (F o r t
re lie f fu n d 51 H a ll) In g h a m (illu s.) 438
L ive m ission (M o iliili) C hung (illu s.) 754 N e w M e x ic o :
R o u n d th e w orld w ith M iss L in d ley (illu s.) 19, Sixty-five m iles from anyw here, P arm elee
97, 191 (illu s.) 313
H o rn e r, Rev! C larence H .— E v ictin g g h o sts in the S o u th D a k o t a :
Y ochow m o u n ta in p re fe c tu re (illu s.) 113 H appy am ong the O glala Sioux, J o y n e r (il
L ig h t o f th e w orld shines in a C hinese city lus.) 93
(illu s.). 526 . . . H ig h lights of th e N io b ra ra convocation (il
H o sp ital social service scientific a n d hum ane. lu s.) 659
C leaver (illu s.) 261 S o u th D ak o ta’s calam ity, B u rleso n (illus.)
H o s p it a l s (D om estic) : 511
■Arizona: T o rn ad o d evastates the In d ia n field of S outh
L ig h ten o u r d ark n ess, we beseech T hee, G D akota 444
O L o rd (F o r t D efiance, A riz o n a ) H a w ke s IT ta h :
(illu s.) 756 R ed Cap, R ed Dog, R ed M oon, R ed Pipe,
N e w M e x ic o : M o u lto n (illu s.) 11
M aro o n ed in th e m o u n ta in s (F o rt S ta n to n ) G e n e ra l-:
Gross (illu s.) 173 N ew hospitals opened by the D e p artm e n t of
N ew Y o rk : the I n te rio r 660
“ I w as sick an d in p riso n an d ye visited M e,” P re sid e n t Coolidge signs certificates acknow l
Canaday (illu s.) 441 edging services in late w ar 644
. N o rth C a ro lin a : ‘ In g h am , R ev. J. C.— G ood S h ep h erd am ong Id a h o
M em orial A n n ex to St. A gnes’s H ospital, In d ia n s (illu s.) 438
R aleigh, N . C. H u n te r (illu s.) 316 I n s t it u t e s : •
H o s p it a l s (F o re ig n ): C uba has its first in s titu te fo r C hurch school
C h in a : w o rk ers, A s h h u r st (illu s.) 269
C hina old a n d new , Ja m es (C h u rc h G eneral
H ospital, W u ch an g ) (illu s.) 621- J
Japan:
Jap a n officially asks fo r a new St. L u k e ’s, Jam es, M ary L ., M .D .— C hina old a n d new (il
G oto 155 lu s.) 621
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J apan: G ift fro m St. J o h n ’s School, Cape M ount, fo r
B ore chains fo r C h rist in old Jap a n , H o ster Jap an ese R elief F u n d 407
(illu s.) 163 ‘ L an d of “ L adies la st,” H a in e s (illu s.) 557
C h ristia n ity ’s o p p o rtu n ity 50 L aying th e co rn e rsto n e of the R am sau r M e
C h u rc h ’s task in J a p a n ju s t begun, R e ifsn id e r m orial H ospital a t Cape M ount 194
(illu s.) 153 L e tte r re a rriv a l of M iss S eam an a nd others
■F ir s t im pressions o f J a p a n as th e w ife of a 49
bishop, M c K im 695 M arria g e of R ev. E. L. H a in es a nd M iss M .
“ Ih la F o rm o sa,” th e b e au tifu l island, A n d re w s C. G ordon 539
(illu s.) 337 N ew handbook 485
Ja p a n f o r C h rist in a g en eratio n , F ra n k lin 155 . P re s id e n t K ing visits St. J o h n ’s School, Cape
N ativ e bishops fo r th e Jap an ese C h u rch ; con M o u n t 341
sec ra tio n s in Tokyo a n d O saka 5 St. T im o th y ’s H ospital, Cape M o u n t 51
P rim a ry schools im perative, M c K im 152 “ Tw o good feet a nd th e urge to go,” H aines
R o u n d th e w orld w ith M iss L in d ley (illu s.) 654, (illus.) 165
699 U n d e r the shadow of a sacred m ountain, D w alu
(S ee also K y o to ; N o rth T o k y o ; T o h o k u ; T o (illu s.) 405
kyo.) W an ted , godparents 595
Ja p a n com m ittee an n o u n ces plans 221 W h at the life- of M arg a re tta R idgely has m eant
Ja p a n fo r C h rist in a g en eratio n , F ra n klin 155 to one m ission (C ape M o u n t) (illu s.) 786
Ja p a n officially asks fo r a new St. L u k e ’s, Goto L ig h t of th e w orld shines in a C hinese City,
154 H o rn e r (illu s.) 526
Ja p a n R eco n stru ctio n F u n d C om m ittee— S tatem en t L ig h t b o u r n , A lice C .:
469 Sketch a nd p o rtra it 342, 343
Ja p a n reco n stru ctio n plans 293 W h ere dream s com es tru e (illu s.) 791
Jap an ese E m erg en cy R elief F u n d : Lincoln, C. S. F .— R eflections of a m edico in
H o w th e $500,000 Ja p a n fu n d was sp en t 225 C hina (illu s.) 21
Jap a n e se in A m erica: L in d l e y , G race:
Too m uch success is th e problem o f St. P e te r’s R ound th e w orld w ith M iss L indley (illus.)
Jap a n e se co n g reg atio n in S eattle, Gowen I - I I I H ono lu lu 19, 97, 191
(illu s.) 707
Jap an ese in S o u th A m erica, K in so lvin g 561 IV -V I P h ilippines 241, 329, 398
Jea n n e tte , S iste r, sketch a n d p o rtra it 472, 473 V I-IX C hina 398, 461, 493, 563
J eru sa lem : X -X I J a p a n 654, 699„
O u r C h u rch sends a p e rm a n e n t chaplain (R ev. U nco n q u erab le jo y in "U. T . G. service 803
C h arles T . B rid g em an ) 135 • L ite ra tu re of M issions 129, 204
Y oung C hurch of th e W est goes to the aid of- Littell, R ev. S. H a rrin g to n — C hung H u a Sheng
th e oldest C h u rch o f the E a st, B m a e s s K u n g H u i, fifth trie n n ia l synod of the
(illu s.) 238 C hurch in C hina (p o rtra it) 449
Jo y n e r, R ev. N evill.— H ap p y am ong th e Oglala Live M ission in H ono lu lu , C hung (illu s.) 754
S ioux (illu s.) 93 L iving C hurch a n n u a l 50
Logan, R ev. M erce r P .— U n d a u n te d a t D uB ose
by havoc of fire (illu s.) 115
K a n sa s: L ouise A nne, S iste r— S ketch a nd p o rtra it 472, 473
K eeping up w ith th e Bishop of K ansas, Clark L ovett, M ary J a n e — S ketch and, p o rtra it 524, 525
(illu s.) 590 L oving God w ith all *your m ind, N o rm a n 593
P ic tu re o f C hu rch stu d en ts from H a sk ell In s ti
tu te , L aw rence 648 M
(S ee also S alin a) “ M acedonia” in W ash in g to n S ta te , F u llerto n
K eefe, F lo ren ce, sketch and p o rtra it 588, 589 (illu s.) 18
K eep in g up w ith th e B ishop o f K ansas, Clark M ac ln n e s, B ishop— N ew p oints o f view in old
(illu s.) 590 J eru sa le m (p o rtra it) 384
K ellam , L ucile C., sketch a n d p o rtra it 588, 589 M cK enzie, M ary W ood— W h at the life of M a r
K e t c h ik a n (S ee A laska)
g a re tta R idgely has m eant to o u r M ission
K in d e rg a rte n s reach in g out, A m b le r pt. 1 758 in L ib eria (illu s.) 786
K insolving, B ishop.— Jap an ese in S o u th A m erica M c K i m , B ishop:
561 C h u rc h ’s o p p o rtu n ity (p o rtra it) 292
K irk , M ario n M itchell, sketch a n d p o rtra it 52, 53 P rim a ry schools im perative in Jap a n 152
K ojim a, Itto .— B o re chains fo r C h rist in old T h an k s 5
Jap a n , H o ste r (p o rtra it) 163 M cK im , E lizabeth B aird— F ir s t im pressions of
K orea :
Ja p a n as the w ife of a bishop 695
P re sb y te ria n C h u rch ’s reco rd 661 M cK im , N ellie— A ll the w ay from Tokyo to T a y
K yoto :
lor H all 673
C hildren fo r a day (S t. A gnes’s School K in M cK instry, R ev. A . R .— Sketch a nd p o rtra it 207
d e rg a rte n ), W elte (illu s.) 514 M aking the b est o i things in A laska, Clark 596
K in d e rg a rte n s reach in g out, A m b le r pt. 1,. 758 M a n il a (S ee P hilippines)
W h ere baby is king, P aine (illu s.) 187 M any a m ickle m akes a m uckle 45
M aps :
L P anam a C anal Zone a nd p a rts a d ja ce n t 436
L am ont, T hom as ~W.-— L e tte r co n cern in g St. M arco (S ee S o u th e rn F lo rid a )
L u k e's H ospital, Tokyo 312 M arooned in th e m ountains, Gross (illus.) 173
La M othe, Bishop, p o rtra it 97 M ason, C ath erin e — Good s ta r t in the D om inican
L and o f “ L adies la st.” H a in e s (illu s.) 557 R epublic (illu s.) 445
L atham , D o rothy, sketch and p o rtra it 342, 343 M ayaguez (S ee P o rto R ico)
Leaflets, 69. 141, 211, 356, 611, 675, 813 M ead, Bessie— S to ry of A pple Seed Jan e (illus.)
Leidt, W illiam E .— D u Bose M em orial T rain in g 749
School is risin g from its ashes (illu s.) 439 M eade, R ichard H ., M .D .— Sketch and p o rtra it
Problem o f ad u lt ed ucation 479 588, 589
W h at a re you going to re a d th is sum m er? 508 M eem, V en. Jo h n Gaw 757
L e n te n le tte r to th e ch ild ren o f o u r C hurch, M e e t e e t s e (S ee W yom ing)
G ailor 176 M elvin, A rth u r G ordon, sketch a nd p o rtra it 652,
L e n t e n O f f e r in g : 653
C h ild ren ’s L e n te n offering, W ith ers 46 M em orial to the late P resid in g B ishop 259
M an y a m ickle m akes a m uckle 45 M e x ic o : -
O u r L e n te n pro g ram fo r C hurch schools, W ith A ccount of H oo k er School w ith A m erican
ers 120 H osp ital 661
“ L e t us rise up an d b u ild ,” 148, 221 F ir s t im pressions of the H o o k er School, B u llitt
L e tte r B ox 49, 541 (illu s.) 30
(In d e x e d also u n d e r F ield s) N ote concerning St, A n d re w ’s School, G uadala
L ib e r ia : ja ra 194
B rig h t spot in th e D a rk C o n tin en t (M . S. W h o ’s w h o , a t H o o k e r School, B o y n to n (illus.)
R id g e ly ), O vers 785 717
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M eyer, R ev. O scar, J r . — R u ra l o p p o rtu n ities o f the N o r t h C a r o l in a :
W o m an ’s A u x ilia ry 67 “ F lo w ers of T h y h e art, O God, a re they,
M in n e s o t a : W e b ster (illu s.) 571
M r. R o u illard o rd ain ed deacon 195 G lenton m em orial a d d ition to St. A gnes’s H os
(S ee also D u lu th ) pital, R aleigh, N . C. 50
M ission S tu d y Classes— M issio n ary ed ucation, has M em orial A nnex to St. A gnes’s H ospital,
it a place in th e life o f to d ay ? S tu r g is and R aleigh, H u n te r (illus.) 316
L e id t 117 T ra in in g school fo r leaders of th e ir race (S t.
M issionaries g a th e r fo r co n feren ce 470 A u g u stin e ’s School, R aleig h ), Gates (illus.)
M issio n ary bishop’s experience in a “ d ry ” creek, 107, 771
R o b e rts 536 _ . . (S ee also A sheville)
M issio n ary ed ucation, has it a place in th e life of N orth T o k y o : .
to d ay ? S tu r g is and L e id t 117 D r. R eifsn id er co nsecrated suffragan bishop
M issio n ary ju risd ic tio n u n d e r th re e flags, S y k e s (illu s.) 170
(illu s.) 433 (S ee also T okyo)
M is s o u r i :
A rm en ian s in E a st St. L ouis 533
M itchell, R ev. H . H .— C h u rch a n d h e r stu d en ts in
o
Id a h o (illu s.) 369 “ O ld F rie n d ” to the C hildren of the C hurch,
M ite boxes 128 G arrett *44
M o i l i i l i (S ee H o n o lu lu ) O l y m p ia :
M oreland, B ishop-^T w enty-five y ears in N o rth e rn Jap an ese M ission in S eattle 368
C alifo rn ia (illu s.) 99 “ M acedonia” in W ash in g to n S tate, F ullerton
M otoda , ,Bishop: (illu s.) 18
D aw n of a new epoch in Jap a n , H o ste r (illu s.) P ic tu re of S unday School of St. P e te r’s
77 . , . Jap an ese congregation, S eattle 716
M y appeal to A m erica (p o rtra it) 297 Tw o m uch success is th e problem of St. P e te r’s
M oulton, B ishop— R ed Cap, R ed Dog, R ed M oon, Jap an ese congregation in S eattle, Gowen
R ed P ip e (illu s.) 11- (illu s.) 707 '
M und elein , A n n B., sketch an d p o rtra it 342, 343 O p p o rtu n ities and needs in the m ission field 126,
M urphy, R ev. D ubose— P o r tra it 64 277
M y appeal to A m erica, M otoda 297 O rdeal by' fire in stric k e n Tokyo, H eyw ood
M y F a th er’s business by R ev. J. M . B. Gill 595 (illu s.) 87
O sa k a : •
N D aw n of a new epoch in Ja p a n (consecration of
N aide, B ishop— D aw n o f a new epoch in Jap a n B ishop N aide)' H o ster (illu s.) 77
H o ster (illu s.) 77 St. B arn ab a s’s H ospital 50
N a n k in g (S ee S h a n g h a i) O u r L e n te n program fo r C hurch schools, W ith ers
N ash, R ev. H . O.-—S k e tc h a n d p o rtra it 472, 473 120
N ation-w ide C am paign—-How th e F ly in g S q u ad ro n O vers, B ishop— B rig h t spot in the D a rk C onti
W o rk e d in S o u th D akota, W o o d ru ff 284 n e n t 785
N atio n al C en ter fo r D evotion a n d C onference
(S ee R acine) P
N a t io n a l C o u n c il : P a in e , M a rg a re t R .-il W h ere baby is kin g in
A dvance o r R e tre a t: S ta te m e n t 685 K yoto (illu s.) 187
D eficit H a s N o t B een In c re a se d 688 P a l e s t in e : •
F ir s t J o in t C o n feren ce o f th e B ishops and the N ew points of view in old Jerusalem , M a c ln n e s
N a tio n al C ouncil 720
“ L et U s R ise U p a n d B u ild ” 148 384
P anama C anal Z o n e :
M eetings 59, 201, 413, 731- C h rist C hurch, C olon 471
R adical R etre n ch m e n t o r W ise E conom y . . M issionary ju risd ic tio n u n d e r th re e flags, S y k e s
B udget fo r 1925 687 (illus.) 433
(S ee also D e p artm e n ts)
N ational S tu d e n t C ouncil— P la n s fo r a N atio n al St. L u k e ’s C athedral, A ncon, W h e a t (illu s.)
S tu d e n t M eeting N e x t J u n e 810 397
N ativ e B ishops fo r th e Jap a n e se C h u rch 5 W h ere dream s come tru e (H o u se of th e H oly
N egroes : _ , Child, B ella V is ta ), L ig h tb o u rn (illu s.) 791
C olored stu d en ts lau n ch th e ir owri stu d en t P a ris h quota. C hurch school and th e 121
council 283 P arm elee, L a u ra M .—-Sixty-five miles fro m any
C om m encem ents a t St. P a u l’s, L aw renceville w here (illu s.) 313
and St. A u g u stin e ’s, R aleigh 539 Peabody, H e len S,-r-Candles. o f the L o rd (p o r
D o o rs th a t stan d open all the y ear, H u n t 775 tr a it) 629
T ra in in g school fo r lead ers o f th e ir race (S t. Phelps, R ead-A dm iral— C onviction c o ncerning the
A u g u stin e ’s, R aleig h ), Gates (illu s.) 771 C hinese 195
N e n a n a (S ee A laska) P h il ip p in e s :
N evad a : , A rriv a l of D r. Clapp and th re e Ig o ro ts a t the
Field is rip e b u t how to cover it, P u ree 628 B ontoc H osp ital 800
N e w M e x ic o : C hinese e xperim ent in C h ristia n union (M a n ila ),
M aro o n ed in th e M o u n tain s (F o rt S ta n to n ), S tu d le y (illu s.) 577
Gross (illu s.) 173 “ Foolishness! W h a t should a girl do w ith e du
Sixty-five m iles from an y w h ere, Parm elee catio n ” (B o n to c ), W hitcom be (illu s.) 795
(illu s.) 313 . P ic tu re of K in d e rg a rte n a t St. L u k e’s M ission,
N ew p o in ts o f view in old Jeru sa le m , M a c ln n e s M anila 780
384 R ou nd the w orld w ith M iss L indley (illus.)
N ew St. M a ry ’s H all th e realizatio n o f m any 241, 329. 398
hopes a n d p ray ers, F u llerto n (illu s.) 333 T o u rist m issionary guide 128
N e w Y ork B ib l e S o c ie t y 276, 341 T y phoon dam ages S agada 724
L arg e type edition of th e G ospels published fo r U rg e n t need 17
h ospital p a tie n ts 660 P ic tu re s from Grace. H ouse on the M ountain,
N ew Y o rk : W illiam son (illu s.) 751
“I was sick a n d in p riso n a n d ye visited
M e,” Canaday (illu s .)’ 441 P o llard , R o b ert T .— Sketch and p o rtra it, 342, 343
O ffering fo r Jap a n fro m C onfirm ation Class, P orto R i c o :
W e lfa re Isla n d 471 C h u rch beehive in a land of flow ers, E v e re tt
N ew bery, A lfred — W h a t is a C ity M ission? (illu s.) 768
(illu s.) -123 F ro m cleanliness to godliness. H obbs 15
N ew bold, D eaconess E . G.— R etire m en t from M iss L ov ett re p o rts progress 538
fo reig n field 539 P o tt, R ev. F. L. H aw ks— R e a d ju stm e n t m eans
N ews and N o te s 50, 127, 194 (In d e x e d also grow th in St. J o h n ’s U n iv e rsity , Shanghai
u n d e r Fields, etc.) (illu s.) 371
N orm an . H e n d erso n D aingerfield—R o v in g God P o w er house of the C hurch in C hina R id g ely
x w ith all y o u r m ind 593 (illu s.) 365
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P ra y er: I n New Y ork C ity 475
C arry in g ou t the pledge o f p ra y e r fo r C h ristian I n sum m er schools 476
u n ity , T o m kin s 673 L e n te n offering 132, 274
Day of p ra y e r fo r m issions 51 M iss L indley hom e 665
P ra y e r Book Y ear, C h a rt of th e,' 773 M iss L in d ley ’s to u r 476
P ra y e rs (S ee S a n c tu a ry o f M issions) M ission study course 132
P riesth o o d — A ssistance to those w ishing to take N ew p residing bishop 197
or'ders 128_ O u r new re a d ers 411
P rim a ry schools im p erativ e in Jap a n , M c K im 152 O u r sum m er schools 545
P rin ce T okugaw a visits St. L u k e’s 296 P a t on th e back (D e p a rtm e n t of P u blicity)
P r is o n s : 56 v
“ I was sick and in p riso n an d ye visited M e”' Sixty-five m iles from anyw here 347
(N ew Y o rk ), Ganaday (illu s.) 441 Som e M ethodist figures 602
P rize essay co n test 195 Some ru ra l figures (M a ry la n d ), by R ev. J.
P rocter,. W illiam C ooper—-Statem ent (p o rtra it) A. M itchell 133
223 -S p i r i t o f M i s s i o n s : M arch issue late 133
P ro g ram fo r Jap a n adopted by C ouncil (illu s.) Sum m er conferences 346
149 T o o u r m any new re a d ers re S p irit of M is
P rogress oy the K in g d o m : . sions 198
A laska: T o the c h ildren 197
Jo y in A lask a 411 Too few blue p rin ts (a t conferences) 544
L a te A d m iral S to ck to n (in stig a to r of C h u rc h ’s U nco n q u erab le jo y in U . T‘. O. service,
first w ork in A laska) 602 L in d ley 803
O n m ission tra ils 729 W a r a nd m issions 602
W elcom e B. C. E. 665
W o rk w hich gives re su lts (In d ia n board in g W elcom e, happy m o rn in g 273
schools) 729 W hile you re st 545
B razil: W ith M iss L indley 409
C ause fo r re jo ic in g 345 W o rd from M iss' L indley 55
China: W rite to B ishop G a rre tt 56
C hallenge to sch o lars 56 P um phrey, R hea CL—C hinese girls— bless ’em
C hina old and n e w 664 (illu s.) 798
C h in a this m o n th 409 P u ree , R ev. W . M.-—F ield is ripe b u t how to
D odson H all, St. M a ry ’s, Sh an g h ai 347 " cover it (W h ite P in e C ounty, N evada) 628
L a te st fro m C hina 663
W om an in C hina 477 ,
Cuba:
B rav o , C uba 275 R a c in e :
To< C uba a n d th e C anal Zone 199 A ll the w ay from T okyo to T a y lo r H all, M c
Dominican Republic: K im 673
P io n e e r w ork 476 C en ter fo r devotion a nd c onference 276
India: N a tio n a l c en ter fo r devotion a n d conference 660
M iss L in d ley ’s to u r 544 S um m ary of the first six m o n th s’ w ork 812
Indians: R a l e ig h (S ee N orth. C arolina)
O u r In d ia n w ork 664 R am saur M em orial H ospital 140
Japan: R avenel, M arie J ., sketch a nd p o rtra it 652, 653
C andles “ to b u rn ” 133 R eading— W h at a re you going to read this sum
J a p a n fu n d 410, 476 m er? L e id t 508
L e t us rise up an d b u ild 273 R ea d ju stm e n t m eans grow th in St. J o h n ’s U n i
“ L e t u s rise up a n d b u ild ,” W ood 345 versity , S hanghai, P o tt (illus.) 371
N ippon Sei Ko K w ai, etc, 131 R ec onstruction of St. P a u l’s U n iv e rsity (illus.’)
R ise up an d b u ild 197 637
Tokyo in b a rra c k s 477 R eco n stru ctio n schedule fo r Ja p a n 295
W ill to help them selves 55 R e c r u it s :
W o rd fro m M rs. M cK im 729
Liberia: • B ush, Rev. H o m e r E . 524, 525
B ard o f L ib eria (R ev. E. L. H a in es) 601 H uband, F lo ren ce B elle 588, 589
New I ork: K eefe, F lo ren c e 588, 589
Poly g lo t N ew Y ork 603 Sands, T h e re sa B. 472, 473
Panama Canal Zone: - A lik in g -:
B ravo, C anal Z one 409 C onnell, M eta L. 52, 53
T o C uba an d th e C anal Z one 199 C um m ings, Em m a Louise 52, 53
Pennsylvania: Fellow s, M acC arlyle, M .D ., 342, 343
B anzai, P en n sy 603 M eade, R ich ard H ., J r ., M .D ., 588, 589
Porto R ico: Schaad, Jo h n D. 5?4, 525
T ireless m issionary 55 Cuba:
South Dakota: B eal, R ev. H a rry 472, 473
S o u th D akota strick en 475 D eG range, F ran c e s E. 472, 473-
T o rn ad o causes havoc 543 Hankow :
Tennessee: B a rr, C hristine T o m ar 652, 653
D uB ose School u n d a u n te d 477 B row n, A lice B arlow , M .D . 52, 53
General: B row n, F re d e ric k C. 588, 589
A b ro ad w ith M iss L indley 275 Coe, Jo h n Leslie 524, 525
A fte r h alf a c en tu ry (B ishop H o lly ’s conse M elvin, A rth u r G ordon 652, 653,
c ra tio n ) 665 M undelein, A nn B. 342, 343
A las fo r b o astin g (S p irit of M issions second R avenel, M arie J. 652, 653
o ldest) 275 U nderw ood, R ic h ard S. 588, 589
B ravo D uB ose School 133 Honolulu:
C reech, H e len L am b ert 524, 525
C h ristian stew ard sh ip 601 H addon, E u n ice 524, 525
C h u rch M ission o f H elp 411 K yoto:
C o n cern in g the debt 727 W elte, J a n e M cC a rte r 524, 525
C onference of bishops and N a tio n al C ouncil
728 Liberia: •
F o rw a rd m arch th ro u g h 1924, H obbs 57 D onovan, Rev. H e rb e rt A lco rn 52, 53
F ro m the S aru m p rim er 601 K irk , M arion M itchell 52, 53
G ettin g th e idea 410 M exico:
G iving to th e C hurch 803 N ash, R ev. H . O. 472, 473
Good F rid a y offering 275 Panama Canal Zone:
H ave fallen on sleep (d eath s of six bishops) L igh tb o u rn , A lice 342, 343
199 Philippines:
Heroifc days still h ere 664 H a rtz ell, R ev. P a u l 524, 525
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G. W A R F I E L D H O B B S
Spirit of litasuntB KATHLEEN KOBE
E d ito r A s s is t a n t E d ito r
I * CONTENTS *
F r o n tis p ie c e : D ig n it a r ie s W ho A tte n d e d th e J a p a n C o n s e c r a t io n s .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
D a w n o f a N e w E p o c h in J a p a n ........................................................ ...............W illia m H o s ie r 77
C o n s e c r a tio n o f th e B is h o p o f T o k y o ................................. ... .. • ?.............. • .
C o n s e c r a tio n -o f th e B is h o p o f O s a k a ............................^ r : . . . . . . . . . " i . . . . ........... ..
M e a n in g o f th e N e w E p o c h in J a p a n ........................... ..• ................................. ...................... •
O rd ea l b y F ir e in S tr ic k e n T o k y o ...................................................... C. G e r tr u d e H e y w o o d 87
S h a ll A m e r ic a L iv e ? ........................... ^ ............................................................L e w is B . F r a n k lin 91
H a p p y A m o n g th e O g la la S io u x ................................................................... R e v . N e v ill J o y n e r 93
R o u n d th e W o r ld W ith M iss L in d le y : I I . H o n o lu lu (C o n t in u e d )......................... 97
T w e n ty -fiv e Y e a r s in N o r th e r n C a lifo r n ia ........................... ...................... B is h o p M o re la n d 99
P ic t o r ia l S e c tio n : S h o w in g S o m e o f O ur F ie ld s a n d O ur W o r k . . . . ................................ 105
E v ic t in g G h o s ts in C h in a ............................................................ ...................... R e v . C. H . H o r n e r 113
“ W a n te d V e r y M u ch — K n o w le d g e F o o d ! ” .................................. C h u rch P e r io d ic a l C lu b 114
U n d a u n te d a t D u B o s e b y H a v o c o f F i r e . . .................... R e v . M ercer P . L o g a n , D .D . 115
T h e U n ite d T h a n k O ffer in g in a S u b u r b a n P a r is h ......... ...............R e v . A . Q . B a ile y 116
M iss io n a r y E d u c a t io n .....................W illia m C. S t u r g is , P h .D ., a n d W illia m E . L e id t 117
O ur L e n te n P r o g r a m fo r C h u rch S c h o o ls ......................... ................. .F r a n c e s H . W ith e r s 130
W h a t I s a C ity M is s io n ? ......................................................................*.................. A lfr e d N e w b e r y 133
O ppoi’t u n itie s a n d N e e d s in th e M iss io n F i e l d . . .......................................................................... 1*6
N e w s a n d N o t e s . . . . . . . . . . . .............................................................................. ................... .. 137
T h e L ite r a tu r e o f M is s io n s ............................................................................................................. .. 139
E D IT O R IA L
T h e S a n c t u a r y o f M is s io n s .................. . . . . .............................................................................................. 180
T h e P r o g r e s s o f th e K in g d o m .......................................... ....................................................................... 181
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D e p a r tm e n ts:
M iss io n s a n d C h u rch E x te n s io n :
F o r e ig n -B o r n A m e r ic a n s D iv is io n .................................. 135
E d u c a tio n a l D iv is io n ........................................... ......... 136
C h r is tia n S o c ia l S e r v ic e ................................................................. 136
P u b lic ity ......... i ..................... ................................................................ 137
F ie ld ......................................................................................................... 138
T h e W o m a n ’s A u x i l i a r y . ........................................................................ 139
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ANGLICAN, CANADIAN, AMERICAN AND JAPANESE DIGNITARIES WHO ATTENDED THE CONSECRATIONS
From left to right they are the Rev. Canon Gould (Canadian), Bishop Lea of South Japan (Anglicm), Bishop Heaslett of South Tokyo
(Anglican), Bishop Motoda of Tokyo, Bishop McKim, Bishop Scott of Shantung, North China (Anglican), Bishop Naide oj Osaka,
Bishop Hamilton of Nagoya (Canadian), Bishop Gailor and Dr. Wood
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D aw n of A N e w Epoch in Japan
The Consecration of Bishop Motoda at Tokyo
I
T
The Consecration of Bishop Naide at Osaka
S im p le D i g n i t y W h e n D r . M o to d a
is C o n secra ted
Articles and pictures in this issue dealing with Japan are from Mr.
William Hoster,. representing the Publicity Department, who was sent to
report the consecrations of Bishops- Motoda and Naide and to secure com
plete information and photographs covering the losses o f the Japanese
Church in the earthquake disaster for use in the proposed campaign for a
fund for reconstruction.
A M E R IC A N P A R T Y S A IL S F O R H O M E
A c a b le g r a m r e c e iv e d a t th e C h u rch M iss io n s H ousie, T u e s d a y , J a n u a r y 22,
a n n o u n c e d t h a t B is h o p G a ilo r a n d fa m ily , B ish o p M cK im , D r . W o o d a n d th e
R e v . J. J . C h a p m a n s a ile d t h a t d a y fo r A m erica , o n b o a r d th e s te a m s h ip
P r e s id e n t W ils o n .
N the little Church of St. Timothy, It would have been fitting for him to
Io’clock
in Hongo Ward, Tokyo, at eleven
a. m. Friday, December 7, 1923,
have been formally installed in the
highest honors the Church bestows
the Rev. Joseph S. Motoda, Ph.D., amid the same surroundings.
D.D., was consecrated the first native
Bishop of the diocese of Tokyo. E arthquake In terven es: The earth
Though distinguished leaders of the quake of September 1 intervened. De
Church came thousands of miles from cember 7 found a heap of charred ruins
across the seas to participate in the in Tsukiji, where the Cathedral, St.
event, the occasion was marked by a Paul’s, St. Luke’s, St. Margaret’s, had
simple dignity in perfect keeping with stood, and the greater part of Tokyo
the extraordinary setting in which it leveled to the ground. Of all the
was laid. When, on May 17 last, the houses of worship of. the Church in
first synod of the new Tokyo Diocese the city prior to the earthquake, but
elected Dr. Motoda Bishop, the meeting one remained—St. Timothy’s, Hongo,
was held in Trinity Cathedral, in the presided over by Mr. Welbourn, and
Tsukiji district; and it was planned here it was that the consecration serv
that the consecration should be held ice was held.
there, in the heart of the section where Nestled away in what, to the for
fifty years of effort had wrought such eigner at least, is a secluded part of
results as were typified in Dr. Motoda’s old Tokyo, St. Timothy’s is a delightful
elevation to the episcopate. He began little gable-roofed edifice of the “coun
his career as a servant of Christ there, try church” style, with a seating ca
ns a youth in St. Paul’s Middle School. pacity of about 500, standing on a
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corner where three streets, or by-ways, through the ancient alley to the main
converge. One would say that, save entrance, to the rousing old hymn of
for the construction of this church and Onward, Christian Soldiers, rendered in
the influence which it has exerted upon the language of Japan.
the people of the neighborhood, nothing Rev. Mr. Spackman, of our English
has changed there in two hundred mission, acted as Master of Cere
years. Ox carts drive along, the soft- monies and led the way, followed by
footed jinricksha man trots past with the crucifer, as the first notes of the
his charge, the patter of wooden shoes hymn floated out through the open win
on the hard earth occasionally breaks dows, and this unusual procession
the silence and awakens echoes of cen moved amid a drizzle of rain toward
turies in the narrow, unpaved alleyways. the main entrance of the Church.
Notables in Procession: Picture, then, One of the first familiar figures in
the interest and amazement of the deni the procession was Dr. John W. Wood,
zens of this remote corner of the earth Executive Secretary of the Department
when on December 7 the President of of Missions, and not less familiar were
the National Council of the Episcopal the two beloved Churchmen who
Church in the United States, the Pre marched in the honored positions at the
siding Bishop of the Church in Japan, head of the line—Bishop Gailor, Presi
a group of Bishops of the Church of dent of the National Council, and the
England, a representative of the Church venerable Bishop McKim.
of Canada, a Russian Bishop and a Order of Procession: The order of
Bishop of the Greek Church, all garbed the procession was as follows: Master
in their official vestments, marched in of Ceremonies, Standing Committee of
stately procession through a muddy the Tokyo Diocese, First Cross, Choir,
alley behind two score American and Diocesan Catechists, Other Catechists,
Japanese clergymen of the Christian Diocesan Clergy, Visiting Clergy, Sec
Church, to induct into the Episcopate ond Cross, Rev. J. Y. Naide, attending
a native-born Japanese. priests, Bishop-elect Motoda, Chaplain,
A crowd -which taxed beyond all Rev. Dr. Sweet, Visiting Bishops,
measure the capacity of the church was Chaplain, Rev. Mr. Kojima, Bishop
in attendance long before ten o’clock, Gailor, Chaplain, Rev. Mr. Tagawa,
the hour fixed for. the beginning of the Bishop McKim.
service. When the Consecration party had
Outside, a picturesque crowd of
Japanese men, women and children been seated within the chancel the
stared open-eyed at the arriving regular Consecration Service was pro
Churchmen, whose motor cars stood in ceeded with, in this instance, however,
marked contrast with the jinrickshas being conducted entirely in the Jap
which threaded their way through the anese language.
jam. Bishop McKim, as Presiding Bishop
of the Church in Japan; presided at the
Robed in a Tent: Fifty yards down service. The co-consecrators were Rt.
the narrow lane, to the rear of St. Tim Rev. S. H. Heaslett, D.D., Bishop of
othy’s, a tent had been erected in an South Tokyo, and Rt. Rev. Arthur Lea,
open space, and here the participating D.D., Bishop of Kyu Shu. The Pre
clergy robed for the ceremony. Grass senters were Bishop Heaslett and Rt.
mats were flung in the mud along the Rev. H. J. Hamilton, D.D., Bishop of
route of the procession, and promptly Mid-Japan. The attending presbyters
at ten o’clock, with Miss Nelly McKim, were Rev. T. Minagawa and Rev. S.
daughter of Bishop McKim, at the little Yamada. Bishop-elect Naide read the
organ in the church, the procession Litany, and Bishop Gailor preached in
started from the tent and wound its way English, the sermon being translated
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ST. TIMOTHY’S CHURCH, TOKYO, WHERE BISHOP MOTODA WAS CONSECRATED
B is k op o f O sa k a C o n secra ted m H is t o r ic R o k e s
HIRTY-ODD years ago, when the congregation which filled every corner
T late Rt. Rev. Channing Moore Wil of the church, the robe which Bishop
liams, D.D., first Bishop of Japan, reWilliams had prophetically laid aside
signed his episcopate, he laid aside a for him, was taken out and placed upon
robe and o.ther insignia of the episcopal his shoulders.
office, which he directed should be pre “The mantle of Elijah has fallen
served for the use of “the first Japanese upon our brother Naide’s shoulders,”
Bishop of Osaka”. said Bishop McKim, as the consecration
At eleven o’clock on the morning of service came to an end.
December 11, 1923, in Christ Church, Thus the second native Bishop of the
in the city of Osaka, the Rt. Rev. Yasu- Church in Japan was inducted into
taro Naide was consecrated the first office, four days after Bishop Motoda,
Japanese Bishop of Osaka, and before a the first to attain this honor, had been
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consecrated in St. Timothy’s Church, heard from their lips words of praise
T okyo. and encouragement for the work which
If Bishop Naide’s consecration lacked we are doing. Surely the hand of God
the high historic importance which at is stretched forth toward Japan.”
tached to that first ceremony three hun It was an occasion, in other respects
dred miles away in the capital of the also, for Bishop McKim to rejoice. Just
Japanese Empire, the striking feature twenty-nine years ago, the Bishop, then
of his inheritance of the robe be already old in the missionary service,
queathed by Bishop Williams, and other but holding his first convocation as a
significant events attaching to this cere Bishop in Japan, ordained among four
mony in Osaka, made it an event not native candidates for the ministry the
able in the annals of the Church. man upon whom the mantle of Bishop
Dinner Follows Ceremony: Not the Williams had just fallen. It is in
least important of these was the dinner teresting in this connection also to
note that Bishop Motoda, a few years
in the Osaka Hotel, which followed prior to Dr." Naide’s entrance into the.
immediately after the ceremony in diaconate, as a catechist received Dr.
Kawaguchi. Here in the commercial Naide as a catechumen. And one other
capital of the Empire, five hundred peo interesting fact may be noted as illus
ple, of whom not more than twenty trating the progress upward of the
were of foreign birth, assembled at the Church in the land of the Rising Sun.
noon hour to pay tribute to the new At Tokyo, four days previously, when
Japanese Bishop. And of these attend
ing four hundred and eighty citizens of Bishop Gailor preached the sermon at
Japan, nine-tenths of them active Chris the consecration of Bishop Motoda, Dr.
tians and supporters of the Church, one, S. Kojima, headmaster of St. Paul’s
Hon. H. Nakagawa, was the Governor School, acted as his interpreter; at
of the Prefecture of Osaka; another, Osaka, when the sermon was again
Mayor Saki, was the Chief Executive preached by Bishop Gailor, Dr. T.
of the city in which Bishop Naide’s Takamatsu acted in the same capacity.
headquarters will be established ; and a Both of these native Churchmen were
third was Mr. Motoyama, the editor classmates through St. Paul’s Middle
and owner of Osaka’s great newspaper, School as well as the University.
The Mainichi. All three of these dis Scene of Consecration: Dr. Naide be
tinguished guests made felicitous ad came a Bishop in the church of which,
dresses during the course of the notable he was long the rector, •and which is
dinner. now presided over by Rev. B. S. Ike-
Altogether it was a day which will
be memorable in the history of Chris zawa. It is interesting to note that
tian missions in Japan. this little church, located here in far-
off Japan, has a listed membership of
Bishop McKim’s Comment: Bishop 782 native Christians, of whom 240 are
McKim has been in Japan forty-four regular communicants, and that it con
years. His face was aglow when the tributes annually to the support of the
dinner finally came to an end. What establishment the sum of 8,979 yen.
the occasion meant to Churchmen and The day was Tuesday, December
the Church may be summed up in his 11th, the hour ten o’clock, the place
brief but earnest comment: "Forty the interior of Kawaguchi, filled to
years ago,” he said, "to invite a Jap overflowing with Japanese Christians,
anese official to a Christian gathering of for the most part attired in native cos
any kind, would have been to invite tume, who came by motor car and jin
scorn if not insult. Today we have not ricksha, appropriately left their foot
only had three distinguished officials of wear in the vestibule of the edifice, and
the Empire sit down with us, but have donning soft-soled sandals crowded
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BISHOP GAILOR IN THE PROCESSION AT BISHOP NAIDE’S CONSECRATION
into the body of the church until pews Order of Procession: The long line of
and aisles, save the center, the open clergy, who were moving forward in
spaces in the rear and the overhanging another history-making event — the
gallery, were completely filled and a commissioning of another leader in the
throng stood outside in the vestibule; army of Christ—a Japanese Bishop for
and there, later, joined with those in the rapidly mobilizing force of Japanese
side in the singing and the prayers. Christians—moved as follows: The
Ten o’clock, and to the music of crossbearer, clergy of the new Osaka
Holy, Holy, Holy, the procession, pre Diocese, visting clergy, among whom
ceded by a crossbearer, emerged from were representatives of the Church in
the robing room in the rear, and pro America, the Church of England, the
ceeded slowly along a mat-strewn path Church in Canada, the Church in China,
way to the side entrance, from which the Osaka diocesan committee, a chap
the voices of the congregation were lain, Bishop-elect Naide, the consecrat
already issuing. In the street, as the ing bishops, a chaplain and Bishop Mc-
procession wound its way along, coolies Kim, presiding Bishop of the Church
paused and gazed with wide-opened in Japan.
eyes at the white-robed prelates. Inside the church, the deacons and
Across the way, where a building was clergy formed a double line on either
in process of erection, the laborers side of the main aisle, through which
paused in their tasks and gazed down the consecration party passed forward
upon the scene. Moving picture ma to the chancel.
chines whirred and cameras clicked. One felt the high privilege of being
This would not be important detail in present on such an occasion. In lusty
America; but it is in Japan, the sup voices the congregation were singing in
posedly benighted and un-Christian Japanese the Holy, Holy, Holya led bv
land, that these things are occurring. a full-voiced native choir in the little
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Dawn of a New Epoch in Japan
gallery above; A brilliant shaft of sun tion, the party proceeded in motor cars
shine flooded the sanctuary. to the-Osaka Hotel, where the great
As the service proceeded, the impres banquet hall was thronged with 500
siveness of the whole scene deepened people to welcome them.
and fixed itself upon those who beheld “It is the happiest day of my life,”
it. One hesitates to speak of things so said Bishop Naide, as he took his seat
sacred, but there is a forceful illustra at the guest table where were gathered
tion of what the Church and Chris Bishop McKim, Dr. John W. Wood and
tianity mean to these millions of kind Bishop Gailor; Bishop Heaslett, of
and gentle folk here, in the sight of a South Tokyo, and Bishop Lea, of Kyu-
mother kneeling in prayer, while the Shu, who acted as co-consecrators;
infant, folded in the wrappings at the Bishop Hamilton, of Mid-Japan;
back of her kimona, gently coos and Bishop Scott, of Shantung; Canon
prattles. There is an unwonted music Sydney Gould, representing the Church
in the Japanese version of Bring Forth of Canada; the Governor of the Pre
the Royal Diadem, Glorious Things of fecture of Osaka, and the mayor of
Thee Are Spoken and The Church’s the city, among others.
One Foundation, which were now These Made Addresses: Addresses
rendered in the native tongue as the were made by the new Bishop, Dr.
consecration proceeded. And one who Naide, by Bishop Motoda, Bishop Lee,
has seen hundreds of kimona-clad men Bishop Hamilton, Bishop Scott, Dr.
and women, youthful and aged, reciting Wood, Governor* Nakagawa and Mayor
in a strange tongue what cannot be mis Saki. In his address, Governor Naka
taken for anything but the Apostle’s gawa said in .part:'
Creed, can never doubt the worth of “At this critical time, in which Japan
the effort which is being expended off is facing the great work of reconstruc
here in work for the Master. v, '• tion, we are more than glad ho see two
Consecration Personnel: The Conse Japanese 'Bishops consecrated, for they
cration personnel was the same as that will surely contribute 'much in helping
which officiated at the elevation of to create a new Japan.”
Bishop Motoda, with the exception that He asked the foreign guests to tell
on the latter occasion the then Bishop- their countrymen how grateful Japan
elect Naide read the Litany. Bishop feels for their sympathy and assistance
Motoda read the consent of the bishops. in the recent disaster.
Incidentally, the formality of the pres Mayor Saki, who followed the Gov
entation of these and other formal cer ernor, said:
tificates had to be dispensed with at the industrial glad
“I am to say that Osaka, the
center of Japan, has been
consecration of Bishop Motoda, since
all the documents were consumed in greatly helped by the religious activi
the great fire. At Bishop Naide’s con- ties of the Episcopalians. It has been
. secration, too, the robing of the new my pleasure to see that the religions
Bishop was done within the sanctuary, and industries have advanced side by
while at the consecration of Bishop side in Osaka.”
Motoda this act was performed in the Congratulations Offered: Bishop Lea
robing room outside. voiced a message of congratulation to
It was an impressive moment when Bishop Naide in behalf of the Arch
the robe which had been bequeathed bishop of Canterbury; Dr. Wood ten
by Bishop Williams was placed over the dered to the new Bishop the congratu
shoulders of Dr. Naide, and Bishop lations and best wishes of the laity of
McKim, as Presiding Bishop, placed the Church in America ; Canon Gould
the episcopal ring on his finger. spoke for the Church in Canada and
Immediately following the consecra Bishop Scott for the Church in China.
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ON THE STEAMER PIER AT YOKOHAMA
From left to right: Miss Gailor, Mrs. Gailor, Miss McKim, Bishop Gailor, Mr. Hosier
M e a n in g o f tk e N e w E poch m Japan
Tke N e w Biskops, Biskops Gailor and M cKim and D r. W ood Make Pram
tke Deep Significance of tke Founding of a Japanese Episcopate
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D.C.L., Executive Secretary of the De Statement of Bishop Naide: I feel
partment of Missions of the American that the immediate effect of the conse
Church. cration of two Japanese Bishops of the
Church will be to impress upon the Jap
Statement of Bishop Motoda: The anese people that the Nippon Sei Ko
consecration of the two Japanese kwai is not a foreign organization under
Bishops of the Episcopal Church means, foreign direction, if it ever was, but
first, the realization of the object for has become, at all events, a Japanese
which the Nippon Sei Kokwai was National Church, independent of for
organized thirty-six years ago, when the eign control or supervision. It will im
constitution then adopted provided the press our people at large that it is a
organization upon which the future Church of and for the Japanese people,
self-governing a n d self-supporting something in which they may have a
Church should be built. We have not just national pride, which is laboring
yet fully realized this ambition, but at for, and has great potentialities for the
least these consecrations mark distinct common good of the Japanese people;
progress along the road toward its and, therefore, I feel that this step will
realization. undoubtedly put upon the Japanese a
Second, what has just taken place great responsibility for the advance
marks the closer unification of the va ment of the Church and will conse
rious missionary societies and organiza quently result in its steady extension.
tions which are operating in the field. Statement of Bishop McKim: In the
In Osaka, the C. M. S.( of England and consecration of Bishop Motoda and
the American Church! were working Bishop Naide we have accomplished,
more or less independently, at least in in part at least, what we came here for
the view of the outside world. In originally, namely, to form an inde
Tokyo, three organizations, the C. M. pendent National Church which would
S., the S. P. G. and the American Mis be self-supporting and self-governing.
sionary Society, were working as in It has its own constitution and canons
Osaka, although actually they were and now it has two bishops who may
affiliated. Now, all are made one under be trusted in every way to carry on the
one directing head. work which has been entrusted into
Third, the consecration of two Jap their hands. Indeed, the Church of
anese Bishops has brought about the Japan is already functioning, since in
nationalization of the Sei Kokwai in addition to the two Bishops who have
Japan. Formerly the Sei Kokwai was now been consecrated, it has long had
represented by foreigners, English and its own missionary society which is sup
Americans. They will continue to be porting two missionaries in Formosa.
active in its counsels; but in the new We may confidently expect that the
conditions it will be native bishops who Church of Japan will now go forward
will stand before the people. They can to the attainment of rich results.
go into the life of the nation more
closely, with more sympathy, and, I am »Statement of Bishop Gailor: It is a
almost tempted to say, more efficiently, marvelous thing that, though our Lord
because we speak the language, we was born of Jewish parentage, yet in all
know the customs of the people and are the attributes of nature and life no marc
familiar with their psychology. We can say that he is more a Jew than he
know their defects as well as their is a Greek, a Roman or a Barbarian.
strong points, and consequently we shall He is all men’s Man. In Him Cau
be able more effectively to move among casian, as well as Japanese, African
them for the accomplishment of the and Hindoo, find their ideal. All these
objects which Christians the world alike find in Him the pattern of their
over have in view. manhood. Christianity coming down
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through history shows its likeness to a velop their own Church as we have
river which takes its color from the every reason to believe they will, they
banks which it has washed. The Greek will grow twice as fast under their own
interpretation of the Christian religion leadership as they have before. To
differed from that of the Roman, have their own native leaders will give
though it had the same fundamentals in them that confidence which is necessary
both; and so the faith has expressed to break off the prejudice which has
itself in divers ways through the racial existed against Christianity under for
characteristics of each people upon eign leadership. This is the goal to
which it has left its impress. So, like ward which we have always worked.
wise, each one of those races has con
tributed something to our fuller under Statement of Dr. Wood: The conse
standing of the richness and depth of cration of two Japanese as Bishops of
the Christian religion. the Nippon Sei Kokwai is an event of
So far we have the highest impor
never had a definite tance. It should not
illustration of the in be thought of as an
terpretation and ap i s o l a t e d occasion,
plication of Christian however im p o rta n t
ity which would be and interesting, but
given by the Oriental as the final step in an
mind. It is wonder orderly process fore
ful to think, there seen and planned for
fore, of the possibili from the very begin-
ties of a new view, n i n g o f Christian
and the development work in Japan. The
of larger truths which coming of the first
m a y be expressed modern missionaries,
through the Japanese Channing Moore Wil
people. liams and John Lig-
I consider that the gins, both clergymen
consecration of these o f t h e Protestant
two Japanese Bishops Episcopal Church in
is the first step toward CHRIST CHURCH, OSAKA, the United States, in
the development of an Where Bishop Naide was consecrated 1859, was the first
indigenous Japanese step. Then came in
Church which will gradually elim order the baptism of those who
inate foreign influences and foreign in the early days braved persecution
missionaries, and develop on its own and even death for the faith, the
lines, with its own special con organization of the first congrega
stitution, to a complete understand tion, the organization of the National
ing of what Christianity means; and so Church, the ordination of the first
far as I can see it is all just a part of clergymen and now the consecration of
God’s plan. It isn’t that we are going the first bishops. This latest event
to convert the whole Japanese people marks an epoch in the history of the
within any limited period; but that we Church in Japan. With tried and
are establishing here a living force, a trusted men like Bishops Motoda and
vital, functioning institution which, be Naide as leaders there is every reason
cause it isn’t foreign and is Japanese, to believe that the wonderful possibili
is going to permeate with its influence ties of the future will be realized.
the whole country. May God bless the Nippon Sei Ko
Y \ The Japanese are going ahead now, kwai. May all its people face bravely
/ with the help of the Lord. If they de the inspiring tasks before them!
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Dr. W ood Arrives in Tokyo With His Twenty Trunks and Is Greeted on the Dock by
Bishop McKim and Dr. Teusler
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v y r a e a i Dy i; ir e m Q tricK en lO K y o
By C. Gertrude Heywood
Principal of'St. Margaret’s School, Tokyo
HE merciless summer sun of Tokyo carrying thirty pounds on their backs.
T was beating down upon streets
thick with dust, strewn with the debris
We were told that there was water al
ready in the burned districts, so we dis
of burned buildings, blocked by carded our heavy bottles and plodded
wrecked and burned street cars, over on two miles to our first objective, the
hung with tangled wires and obnoxious American Embassy.
with the accumulated refuse of the four The night before, when we anchored
days elapsed since the beginning of the off Tokyo, within sight of the shores
terrible disaster. The blue water of of Tsukiji, we had learned finally that
Shinagawa Bay danced in the shining our part of Tsukiji, the mission build
sun, but we knew what it held. We ings, including St. Margaret’s, the
had seen the dead fish thrown up from dormitory, my home, all, had been
the tortured sea and the dead human wiped out with the rest of lower Tokyo.
bodies washed out from the city canals, Now, on this hot morning of Septem
as we were towed in navy lighters from ber 6, we were setting out to find news
the little Bingo Maru, on which a thou of friends and co-workers. Were they
sand people had crowded when it sailed alive ? Had they been injured ? Where
from Kobe September 3, to bring food, were they? The first thing was to find
water and friends to the stricken cities. a place to deposit our burdens, and a
The journey of twenty-four hours had place to go before nightfall, as the re
taken three days—three days of fear ports were that there was great danger
and hope; and uncertainty and of final after dark and martial law required all
conviction of the immensity and fear to be off the streets by six.
fulness of the disaster. One night was We reached the Embassy grounds,
spent in Yokosuka harbor, waiting for only to find that three or four gaunt,
daylight to go on to Yokohama because naked, brick chimneys were all that was
the coast was only marked' by lightless left. We learned there, however, that
lighthouses, some hanging perilously on the Embassy was already at work at
the edge of fearful landslides, others the Imperial Hotel, which was intact.
tipped drunkenly on one side; and by So with a weary shift of those heavy
wireless poles, literally wireless and pounds to our backs we stumbled on
outlining fantastic figures on the sky, another mile or so to thè Imperial.
as they had been bent and twisted by There we could learn nothing of the
the earth’s convulsions into pitiful im- people connected with St. Margaret’s,
potency. so leaving our packs and satchels, we
We scrambled ashore on planks along started on once more, this time to
with the rest of the anxious thousand. Tsukiji itself, in the hope that some
Every one was laden. We each had a message would have been left on the
pack on our backs, a satchel in one ruins to tell us of our friends.
hand and a basket heavy with bottles It was hard to recognize the streets,
carried between us. The satchels were so well known before. Only the broad
filled with food, the bottles with water, ones were passable and these only in
for the message had reached Kobe that the middle. And on every • side
no one should enter starving, water stretched great wastes of ruin, bricks
less Tokyo without three weeks’ supply and mortar, mud-plaster and twisted
of food and drink. We tried to stag iron, in the midst of which every fifty
ger on our way but found our burden feet or so stood scarred and battered
quite impossible for women unused to iron safes. Were they still guarding
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the only means of living of many home At last we climbed over into the
less families or were they false guar place where St. Margaret’s had been
dians, filled only with black and burned arid my home for fifteen years. Being
bits of money, bank books, bonds and wooden buildings nothing was left but
other perishable wealth? the low brick foundations and heaps
The lower part of Tokyo is a net of mud-plaster and tiles. A few old
work of canals over which there were friends were scattered among the
a variety of bridges, iron, stone and ruins; a battered cook-stove, a phono
wood. The first two we came to were graph motor, a brass inkwell. We
all right. Even the railings were left made our way quickly to the ruins of
and over these hung a line of the the front gate and there, with a_ relief
morbidly curious, watching the muddy that made us faint, we found the hoped-
depths, blocked with half-burned boats, for wooden board on which was
logs, and parts of scrawled in both Eng
wrecked b u i 1dings lish a n d Japanese,
among which they ex “All are safe.”
pected to see, and If we had been the
saw, bodies of people, proper sort of ladies,
roasted alive in the at least one should
boats they had taken have fainted and the
refuge in, or drowned other wept for joy.
in the very water But we were too oc
which saved them cupied with what to
f r o m roasting. We do next. We made
chose the middle of o u t t h e addresses
the road but even given on the board
then eyes and nose and found that Mr.
told the story of what Kobayashi had taken
we tried to avoid. The refuge in a place
last bridge before ar nearer to Tsukiji than
riving at our own any of the others—
locality w a s gone, not more than four
burned clear away, miies away. We had
a n d we h a d to not walked m o r e
r e t r a c e our steps ALL THAT IS LEFT OF ST. MAR than five already so
and seek another pas GARET’S SCHOOL! we munched some
sage to our goal. chocolate and raisins
At last we arrived at the entrance that we had brought along like
between the Cathedral and Bishop Mc- true explorers and with lighter hearts,
Kim’s house, also the entrance to St. if not lighter feet, started to carry out
Margaret’s dormitory and my house. our second purpose, to get into touch
We started to go in and climb over the with St. Margaret’s people.
debris of fallen church and house to To make a long story short, we spent
St. Margaret’s compound, when we saw six days in Tokyo. We slept the first
three dreadful, tortured forms lying in night in a proper room, in the upstairs
the corner of the Bishop’s garden. Our of Mr. Sakai’s house. The family and
courage failed even to pass them, much ten or fifteen people who had taken
less to examine them, and we went to refuge there slept downstairs near the
the entrance a few yards away, where doorways or out in the garden. We
living refugees had already put up a were too tired to be conscious of any
shelter of old tin and were living within thing that night, but all the nights after
hail of those who had taken refuge that we spent—notice I do not say
there from the flames too soon. slept—on the floor just inside the open
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THE RUINS OF THE FRONT GATE OF ST. MARGARET’S SCHOOL
The star indidates the wooden board with the hoped-for words "A ll are safe”
front door of the mission house in ernoon of the second until the noon of
Aoyama. Eight or ten Japanese ref the third before she finally reached a
ugees slept on the floor of the chapel little house in the suburbs which she
with two means of exit possible. Four had rented for her mother. They, like
or five earthquakes, bad ones too, oc all others in Tokyo, had slept outdoors
curred every night, and how the poor since the earthquake and had walked
people who had been through the terri miles seeking relatives and friends. In
ble ones had any nerves left to endure body and soul they must have been
these was a wonder to me. drained of every bit of vitality. Eyes
After several days, on each of which were weary, cheeks were hollow, faces
we walked miles across vast Tokyo and were burned, feet were blistered and
its suburbs, the people most responsible sore. Two of them had lost every per
for St. Margaret’s were gathered one sonal possession they had. All three
afternoon to consider her future. There had seen the ruin of the work to which
Were only four of u s : Mr. Kobayashi, they had given themselves for twenty
Japanese headmaster; Miss Kurokawa, years and more. Body-weary, soul-
head of the dormitory and faithful sick, what was their response? “St.
teacher and counselor for many years; Margaret's shall live. Give us only
Mr. Momma, teacher for many years, enough to live and even though we are
and myself. The first question before the only ones we will carry on!” And
the house was, “Shall St. Margaret’s they are carrying on and St. Margaret’s
be continued?” Each one of those is carrying on.
three Japanese was worn and weary in Most fortunately one of the teachers
body and soul. They had been through who was not burned out had in his
terrible days. Mr. Kobayashi and Mr. home a complete list of the girls in the
Momma had escaped from Tsukiji be school. By placards and by newspaper
fore the fire made escape impossible. advertising, after newspapers again
Miss Kurokawa had barely lived started, students were notified of the
through the night of September first in location of the school and by Novem
the muddy foundations of St. Luke’s ber first all but sixty-three of the 585
new hospital, and had wandered'1 girls had been heard from. Four girls
through desolated Tokyo from the aft are known to have been killed, two
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were crushed by falling houses and two saw no more after their panic flight.
were burned. Ten are known to have The regular date for opening in the
lost members of their own household, autumn is September 11. This year
that is parents or brothers or sisters. school opened on October 16, not quite
The homes of 370 out of 585 girls were five weeks late. It is being carried on
destroyed by earthquake and fire, nine in six classrooms, the only furniture of
teachers lost homes and possessions. which is six-foot benches and tables of
Owing to the generosity of a friend unvarnished wood and the simplest
in America it has been possible to offer construction, four dormitory rooms,
help to many of our girls. In many U. S. army tents for gymnastic work
cases their parents have lost their own and various other purposes, such as
business or their positions in firms that washroom, coatroom, etc. We have
have been destroyed. Many will re seventeen teachers, instead of thirty-
cover quickly and be financially on six, and 350 girls, instead of 585. Our
their feet in a few months, others may equipment is almost as simple as that
take longer. About one hundred girls of Mark Hopkins on his log. We have
are having their tuition for this term no school records, we have no text
paid out of this special fund. Eight books, no maps, no specimens, no ap
are paying only part of their expenses paratus. That we have been able to
in the dormitory, and nine are being open at all has been made possible and
entirely supported. even easy by the unselfishness and self-
Each case was considered by itself sacrifice of two of the best Christians
and pitiful indeed are the accounts of I have ever known. Mr. and Mrs.
their sufferings. K----- was in her Ryoichi Ishii have given over to us the
home with her father and mother. The use of the greater part and the newer
house next theirs crashed down upon ' and better part of their school plant
them at the first quake and her mother and urged us to use it as long as we
was knocked senseless. Her father, wish.
who had been ill for several days with Through Mr. and Mrs. Ishii’s great
heart trouble, shocked at the sight of generosity St. Margaret’s was able to
her mother’s fall, fell over instantly offer dormitory accommodation to the
and died. The mother revived quickly students, the most essential thing be
and was only slightly injured, but while cause of the loss of their homes and
they were mourning over the body of the deplorable conditions of traffic.
the father the cry came of fire and The anguish and the suffering that
they were obliged to flee for their lives, these people have gone through is be
leaving their dead to be consumed. yond description and beyond imagina
One family of eight, father, mother tion. It is the privilege of those con
and children, of whom one girl was a nected with St. Margaret’s to do a little
recent graduate of St. Margaret’s and to relieve their sufferings and to carry
one a student in the first year, fled to on in the reconstruction of one of the
this same horrible place. They became many schools destroyed. There is a
separated and the two girls in the little chapel at Mr. Ishii’s school, and
morning found themselves alive, but every morning at half-past nine—
after hours of searching through those school hours are from ten to two—it is
countless dead, distorted bodies they crowded to the door. There are only
were forced to seek refuge without seats for about fifty, but fully one hun
knowledge of parents or brothers. dred and fifty come to pray and to
Some days later in a. hospital they listen. St. Margaret’s, institution and
found two brothers living, but severely individuals, has gone through fire. God
burned. The body of their father was grant that all may be purified and sanc
identified by the authorities, but of tified to greater holiness and nobler
their mother and other brothers they service.
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S h a ll A m e r ic a L iv e ?
By Lewis B. Franklin
Vice-President and Treasurer of the National Council
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Shall America Live?
tion, perhaps, but her greater life as recreation instead of exploitation and
a servant to humanity. dictation.
As we look about us we find scant How can the Church and, particu
encouragement. We see most of these larly our branch of the Church, include
“foreigners” herding in our larger them in its fellowship? Most of these
cities in racial or rather national^groups people have a Christian heritage. As
because in the cities lie their chief op many of them have come here because
portunity for work and in the group they wanted to be free from an autoc
the chief opportunity for fellowship. r a tic government, so also many of them
Draw a line on your map from Min have severed their connection with an
neapolis south to St. Louis and east to autocratic church. Other millions are
Washington. In that northeast section of our sister Communions of the East.
of our country the greater proportion To all, we of the Episcopal Church
of the immigrants settle and most of have a special responsibility. They are
them remain. From fifty to eighty per first of all our brothers in Christ and
cent of the population of the large cities entitled to our fellowship. They have
of this nation is of foreign birth or a peculiar love of beauty in religion
parentage. New York City has 800,000 which we can provide to the unchurched.
Italians, 60,000 Slavic Russians, 150,- The Foreign-born Americans Divi
000 of the Polish race, 80,000 Hun sion of the Department of Missions is
garians and tens or hundreds of thou the acknowledged leader in this work.
sands each of twenty other races. We are not trying primarily to bring
They have not the same opportunity them into our Church, but to give them
for the development of the best that such help as they need. In each parish
is in them as was open to those earlier the problem is different and it is in the
settlers who, for the most part, were parish that the problems must be solved.
quickly distributed throughout the The National Council can but point the
country because of their desire for agri way, advise as to methods, suggest or
cultural work and our ability to use train leaders, supply literature and in
them in this way. Agriculture today general act as counselor and guide. Ac
cannot absorb a large part even of the tive fellowship and work is in progress
current immigration. in more than five hundred parishes and
The greatest fellowship in the world hundreds more are seeking information
is the Christian Church and, above all and studying methods.
else, our foreign-born friends need fel Here is an opportunity for direct
lowship. They need sympathy and un personal missionary work which at the
derstanding instead of suspicion and in same time will have an indelible impress
tolerance. They need education and on the future of America.
W kere It Goes
ACH dollar received for the 1923
E Budget of the National Council (un
less designated for a specified purpose) was
Interest on Borrowed Money , i .........
Repayment of Debt . ................
ri ct.
5 “
American Church Institute for Ne
spent as follows: groes . ....... • .... . L L . ......... . 3 “
Brotherhood of St. Andrew.............. 1 “
Domestic Missions ....... ..............., . . 37 cts. Girls’ Friendly, Church Periodical
Foreign Missions ........................... 35 Club, Army and Navy Commission,
Religious Education . . . . ....... 4 “ Seamen’s Church Inst, of America 2 “
Christian Social Service__ . . . . . . . . 1 “ Fractions to adjust.............................. 1 “
Publicity .......................... 3 “
Finance ................................................ 2 “
Field Department ..................... 2 “ T . ■ $1.00
it is, of course, evident that an exact com
Woman’s Auxiliary . ____. . . 1 “ putation would show a fractional result in
General Administration ........ 2 “ each case.
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H a p p y A m o n g th e O g la la S io u x
B y the Rev. Nevill Joynbr
For Fifteen Years Missionary at the Pine Ridge Agency, South Dakota
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Happy Among the Oglala Sioux
is also high, infant mortality being There are the Church’s regular serv
great and tuberculosis a tremendous ices on every Lord’s Day and on
reaper. With poor homes, poor cloth occasional week days. There is a
ing and insufficient food they fall easy branch of the Woman’s Auxiliary in
victims to disease. Physicians and every congregation and Thursday of
nurses are few and hard to obtain. each week is their meeting day. They
The work of the Church is the most gather in some Indian home, or in the
encouraging feature in the whole situ guild room where there is one. They
ation. No project undertaken among make very beautiful bead work, for
these people has met with so great a which the Sioux are famous as the
measure of success as the work of the Navajoes are famous for rugs. They
Church and I mean to include here the also make quilts and small garments
work of my brethren of other denomi with the pieces and remnants sent to us
nations. I account for this on two by my beloved friends from all parts of
grounds; first, the Indian, as is per the United States. (What should we
haps true of most primitive races, is have ever been able to accomplish in
naturally religious, and second, of al this wilderness with these thousands of
most equal importance, the fact that primitive people had it not been for the
the missionaries and their wives who unfailing devotion and generous and
have come among these people have re loyal support of our friends!) From
mained on the job. Too much empha sales of handiwork and free-will offer
sis cannot be laid on this latter state ings the people, especially the women,
ment. The Government would have raise their money for general missions.
met with greater success had it been They love the Church and her ways.
always possible to pursue the same pol They are good givers according to
icy. It is, however, a pleasure to say their means. They make good Church
that in the field of education people as we understand the
the Government has many term.
men and women of splendid To be sure there are hard
type who are doing efficient ships of travel over such
and conscientious work year great stretches of country.
after year with small reward There are blinding blizzards
and little recognition. and difficult trails, but the
To go a little more into warmth of the hospitality in
particulars, we have six na the Indian home and their
tive clergy, thirty congrega smiling faces as they gather
tions and 3,289 members. around the buggy to wel
The Rev. Amos Ross, a come their missionary priest
faithful native priest, now more than make up for what
growing old, has entire one misses in more favored
charge of - seven congrega localities. And there are
tions. Most of our congre difficulties to be met in the
gations have small churches, Church’s work. It is not
generally located in the always easy to keep our -
“camp” or community not young people up to the prop
far from the Government er standard of Christian liv
school. The Government ing, and sometimes men and
teacher and family have women of mature years are
their home adjoining the not willing to follow the
school. leading of their spiritual
There is in charge of each BHKBHHBhBHBBHh shepherd. They are human
congregation either a native THf NmTTOf*pqH0 and not unlike other races.
clergym an or catechist. t h e s e r v ic e s They need missionaries;
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THE REV. NEVILL "JOYNER AND HIS ASSISTANT MINISTERS
The' one at the left and the two at the right are deacons, the rest are Priests
yet while there are thoseboth of mixed For many years the little old church
blood and full blood who do not seem at the Indian Agency has been entirely
to realize the tremendous cost to which inadequate to the growing needs. On
the Church has put herself, and the occasions we have had the congrega
sacrifices joyfully made by her mis tion in sections, the Sunday-school pu
sionaries for the enlightenment of the pils alone filling the building. Includ
Indian, there are many whose hearts ing the church, residence, office, Cate
are grateful. And let me say, in pass chist house, barn, etc., there, are seven
ing, that some of the choicest souls it buildings in our Church plant at Pine
has been my privilege to know are part Ridge Agency. This is the headquarters
white and part Indian, whatever may of our work. Here the ministers and
be the opinion of some to the contrary catechists and other workers gather at
notwithstanding. stated times for instruction, consulta
As an evidence of what the Church tion and to attend to other Church
has meant to these people and of their business. The Brotherhood of St. An
appreciation of her efforts, I may drew and other organizations meet here
briefly state that there have been in the from time to time. We started the
past fifteen years—not including the movement for a new church several
seven congregations under Mr. R o s s - years ago. Now it is an assured fact
311 marriages, 1,094 Confirmations and that we are to have a new building with
1,229 Baptisms. During the first year a large basement. The cost will be ten
of the Nation-Wide Campaign they thousand dollars. It is wonderful to
gave nearly $1,500 for that fund. We contemplate. Naturally with so hand
have built four churches for which they some a building, answering not only the
have contributed largely. They have local needs but those of the entire Pine
given labor and money for repairs. We Ridge mission, we are calling the new
are building a church in the east end church our Cathedral. Towards the
of Pine Ridge and for this they have erection of the new Cathedral the peo
raised a thousand dollars after several ple have given one thousand dollars, in
years of earnest effort. At another reality a huge sum. But our needs
place we are building a guild hall and could not have been answered and our
more than half the expense is met by beautiful dream would never have
my people. It is rather a cheerful come true had it not been for the love
story, but the most cheerful news is yet and generosity of Church women of
to come. New York and Philadelphia, who have
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R o u n d th e W o r l d W i t h M is s L in d le y
II. Honolulu (Continued)
E m m a S q u are
Miss Grace Lindley, the Executive Secretary of the Woman’s Auxiliary, who
is making a trip round the world to visit the missions in the Orient, has promised
to share her, experiences with the readers of T he S pirit of M issions This is
the second instalment of her journal.
^ T F ever there were a saint she was people who have worshipped in the
X one,” said someone about Queen cathedral, including the people of
Emma. Queen Emma and her hus Honolulu and visitors to the Islands.
band, Kamehameha IV, were the king The Bishop’s House adjoining might
and queen who begged so earnestly that be called “The Hopse of Hospitality.”
the Church of England should come to People passing through Honolulu as
the Hawaiian Islands, and it is for her well as the people of his own diocese
that the Square is named. receive a warm welcome from the
The Square is a veritable Church Bishop and Mrs. LaMothe.
center. The cathedral is, of course, the Next to the Bishop’s House is St.
center, and it is a cathedral of which Andrew’s Priory School for Girls. It
the Church can be proud. It reminds surrounds on three sides a lovely
one of English cathedrals with its beau little court of its own, in the center
tiful tower (which can be plainly seen of which stands the coral cross which
by boats going in and coming out of was placed in the grounds of the
the harbor) and its cloisters connecting old Priory built by the English Sisters,
with the parish house. When the new building was erected the
The first bay and the choir are built cross was transferred to its present
of stone which came from England. site. One is immediately struck by the
When it became necessary to enlarge happy children -of all ages and many
the building it was found too expensive nationalities»who, under the guidance
to transport the stone of Sister Olivia Mary
from that country so, and her corps of
after seeking every splendid t e a c h e r s ,
where, stone nearly make this up-to-date
identical w a s found school a credit to the
on the I s l a n d s and Church.
most of the exterior B a c k of t h e
of the present build Bishop’s H o u s e i s
ing is built of this Iolani S c h o o l for
native stone. The ef Boys. Would t h a t
fect is very beautiful, one could be^ as en
but, like most cathe thusiastic a b o u t its
drals, it is not yet buildings a s a b o u t
complete. those of the Priory,
The inside is as in but a Church person
teresting as the out cannot be proud of
side. The pulpit and them. The principal
most of the windows building is the o 1d
are memorials. The house w h e r e Gen.
money for the ¡altar Armstrong of Hamp
>vas given entirely by BISHOP LAMOTHE ton fame lived. The
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“THE HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY”
Bishop’s House in Honolulu. The Bishop and Mrs. LaMothe are standing at the gate
House could never have been adapted church, Trinity, near the cathedral, for
for school use and it is badly out of the Japanese, and on the other corner
repair, while the wooden part, added the really very attractive Chinese
later, looks even worse. There are church, St. Peter’s, where the Rev. Mr.
eight good classrooms built on two Kong ministers to a congregation
sides of the yard. It is an interest which is good to see.
ing experience to stand outside those But, to come back to the building in
classrooms watching and listening as the center, the cathedral. The time to
boys of every nation recite in broken see it best, or, at its best, is at 9 :15 on
or good English. In spite of condi a week day, but if you want to see it
tions, future citizens aré being educated then you must be on time or a little
—-only, why can we not equip such ahead of time, and you will find a seat
a school as it ought to be equipped? at the back and then you will watch
And the good or the provoking thing the Priory girls with their pretty white
is that the land is there, owned by veils and the boys of the two schools
the Church, an almost perfect loca come in and fill it. You may hear the
tion on which a building equal to the service read by the Chinese priest,
Priory could be erected if the old Con Canon Kong, and you will hear those
gregational Church across the street young people sing, and if it should be
could be bought at once and the your good fortune to reach this mission
stone used for the new school building. land in Advent you will hear the
But even this is not the first need, for, Church’s hymn for that season with a
first of all, the indebtedness of $6,500, new thrill as those boys and girls, Ha-
which Bishop LaMothe was forced to waiians, Chinese, Japanese, Samoans,
incur in order that he might put up six Fanning Islanders, English and Ameri
of the classrooms, should be cleared off. cans, sing of the coming of the “long-
Near Iolani is a small wooden build expected Jesus” born to set His people
ing which is Trinity School for Japa free, the “dear desire of every nation,”
nese young men and boys, where they and you will thank God for what His
are taught English. Here again one Church is doing in the heart of Hono
longed for better equipment. lulu through the buildings and those
There are two more buildings in who serve in those buildings in Emma
Emma Square. The little wooden Square.
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T w e n t y - f i v e Y e a r s in
N o r t h e r n C a lifo r n ia
By the
Rt. Rev. Wm. Hall Moreland, D.D.
Bishop of Sacramento
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Twenty-five Years in Northern California
crushed under a load of debt, domestic ciful Saviour for Invalid Children, and
tragedy and disappointed hopes. His in a large city mission work with lodg
schools at Benicia were dead. His ing house, wood yard, industrial store
heroic spirit kept him at his post for and charitable features. Could these
twenty-three years. He was a noble excellent institutions have been sup
man, an educator and a missionary, yet ported worthily our Church would to
his sun set amid dark clouds. day be far stronger than it is in the
Opening a new and what I hoped leadership and affection of the com
would prove to be a brighter chapter in munity. The Community Chest,' since
the Church’s life, I selected as my resk formed, would have come to our aid.
dence Sacramento, the capital of the Workers and current funds were hard
state. There I began to lay foundations to find. Gradually the care of crippled
of a diocese, amid expensive conditions. children passed to Rotary Clubs and
My policy was to form a strong di Shriners, and the City Mission to the
ocesan center to unify S a l v a t i o n A rm y.
the weak and scat Some g o o d effects
te re d congregations, continue.but through
to create self-sup p erso n al volunteers.
porting parishes and Later, the d i o c e s e
to extend the Church’s built a concrete Com
influence i n t o t h e munity House among
mission field as stead- the foreign-born, and
ily as o u r m e a n s this is doing an ex-v
would allow. These cellent work. Subur
ends may be said to ban tracts of r e a l
be now accomplished estate were also ac
as this a r t i c l e will quired to take care of
hope to show. future growth.
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BISHOP MORELAND AND HIS CONSECRATORS, JANUARY 25, 1899
From left to right: Bishop Nichols of California, Bishop Leonard of Salt Lake City, Bishop Moreland,
Bishop Barker of Olympia, and Bishop Perrin of . British Colombia (Bishop Kendrick does not appear)
followed this up by personal calls from we assumed our own support, and the
house to house, office to office, through hoped-for prosperity has not arrived,,
out the entire field, resulting in the pay Meanwhile the diocese has grown trejnMBlE.
ment of forty thousand dollars towards mendously in self-reliance. It has p P
an Endowment Fund. Ten thousand I veloped an initiative beyond all expecta
raised by personal appeals in the East. tion. It has created a full diocesan ma
To this was added twenty thousand by chinery, faces its local problems and
the Board of Missions from trust funds the general program of the Church with
at their disposal. With this capital of courage and ability. The satisfaction of
seventy thousand dollars we became a our own self-respect has proved a rich
diocese in 1910. Since that time the reward which we would not give up for
fund has been somewhat depleted and ¡any amount of money.
interest rates have lessened so that the Nevertheless let me confess that the
diocese now carries in its budget an financial burden presses at times very
annual assessment to meet the de heavily. We have seen the missionary
ficiency of income required for the Bishops’ salaries advanced, secretaries
modest salary of the bishop, which is and office expenses provided and their
less than that of a missionary bishop. budgets underwritten on a generous
In the collection of the Endowment scale by the National Council. This is
Fund I had the loyal support of the eminently right. We, however, amid
clergy, the generous sympathy of the exactly similar missionary conditions,
laity and the personal assistance of because we are willing to assess our
Archdeacon John T. Shurtleff. ; selves for the Episcopate, must grow
without guarantees and be content with
A Question and the Answer: Was a fraction of the appropriation enjoyed
the effort to create a diocese pre by our own next-door neighbors. We
mature ? Should we have waited for receive gratefully a small annual gift
larger populations, stronger parishes, from the National Council for our In
richer people? I do not think so. Four dians, deaconesses and missionaries. If
teen years have passed since 1910 when we would put a new missionary in the
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“THE WOODS WERE GOD’S FIRST TEMPLES”
A t Lake Tahoe the woods are again used as God's temple. A t the Chapeil of the Transfiguration
the summer visitors gather to worship in this beautiful shrine
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Twenty-five Years in Northern California
Christ, and Indians know of a love eighteen clergy, today twenty-eight;
which seeks them out in their mountain there were eighteen hundred and ten
canyons and reveals the' heart of the communicants, today thirty-four hun
Divine Shepherd. To some extent the dred and twenty-eight; there were
Church touches all types of our di twenty-six churches, today forty-eight,
ocesan life. and thus in every particular the years
have brought splendid fruitage.
Some Statistics: Statistics cannot
tell the story which only God can Things We Have Learned: Among
read, yet it may help to justify the the things learned by the experience
Church for its long period of nursing of years are these:
care to the missionary district of 1. When a man undertakes a work
Northern Cali to which he be
fornia to note lieves God has
t h e following Some c a l l e d him
facts: there are given
There are in Episcopal Anniversaries h i m strength
this diocese but - of 1924 and capacity to
tw enty-seven F if t ie t h
be happy and
towns of eight- T h e R t . R ev . A lexander C. G arrett , D.D.,
helpful in the
e e n hundred LL.D., s e r v i c e of
population o r Bishop of Dallas and Presiding Bishop of Christ.
over, and in the Church 2. Courtesy
twenty-four of T w e n t y - f if t h and kindness
these are Epis T h e R t . R ev . L . L . K in so lv in g , w i l l advance
copal churches, Bishop of Brazil. Christ’s work
in s e v enteen T h e R t . R ev . W. H. M oreland , anywhere,
there are also Bishop of Sacramento. while conten
rectories, and T w e n t ie t h tion and bitter
sixteen h a v e T h e R t . R ev . L ogan H. R oots, ness can only
resident priests. Bishop of Hankow. impede it.
The number of T h e R t . R ev. H. D. A ves , 3. TheChurch
self - support Former Bishop of Mexico. is a divine,
ing parishes is T h e R t . R ev. A. W. K n ig h t , im p erish ab le
eleven. Towns Bishop Coadjutor of New Jersey; organism . It
having a pop Formerly Bishop of Cuba.
may be cut to
ulation of be the roots, scat
tween fifteen tered, alm ost
hundred and one thousand number ten, killed by the affliction of an evil priest
and in nine of these are Episcopal or a quarrelsome people, but given the
churches, rectories also in two, resident least watering of grace, it will spring
priests in three. up again into vigorous life.
In towns having less than one thou 4. The people in their hearts crave
sand population, we have eleven Epis Christ and the supernatural faith of
copal churches, four rectories, two resi the Gospel. They will respond and bear
dent priests. sacrifices if the faith in its beauty is
Can any diocese or district in the taught them and lived among them.
United States show a better record The more it is diluted, weakened, with
among a rural and scant population ? held, the more indifferent they become.
The budget of the diocese in 1898 The amazing thing is that the Episcopal
was $139,891, while in 1923 it had Church grows at all. Living among
grown to $750,847. Protestants, Roman Catholics and ag
Twenty-five years ago there were gressive sects of every shade, yet our
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Twenty-five Years in Northern California
people receive no systematic teaching him, and if capable of larger tasks
of their faith, and of all religious people should be permitted to develop his own
are most ignorant of their priceless character and capacity by attempting
heritage. them. Keeping fences, making bricks
without straw,-setting up the same pins
5. The rule forbidding the translation year after year after they are knocked
of diocesan bishops in the American down, are dwarfing exercises. The con
•Church i§ wasteful and cruel. A man solation is that of a soldier who is put
may complete the hard task assigned at his post to serve and die.
N ex t Month Brings A g am
The Lenten Offering Number,
easily among the most important of the year. We wish we might ring a
bell or blow a horn and catch the attention of rectors, superintendents,
parish representatives and all other interested persons to the need for
prompt orders for extra copies. Order blanks will be sent out as heretofore.
Meantime do not be alarmed at a little delay in date of arrival. Pub
lication will be deferred so that this issue may carry news of the action of
the National Council with respect to the fund for permanent reconstruction
in Tokio. The Council meets on the 20th and 21st of February. This
means a week’s delay. This, in turn, will mean that many cannot possibly
receive the magazine until after Ash Wednesday.
Special articles will cover a wide range of mission activities. Cuba will
tell of its first Church School Institute and what a success it was.
The newest missionary to Santo Domingo finds it fascinating and will
make you think so too.
From the Seamen’s Church Institute comes a web-footed yarn of jack
tars marooned on a mountain.
And then there is a bit of literature from Liberia that fairly makes
you yearn for the snake-like trails through the jungle.
Du Bose^ School will tell of courageous plans for rising from the ashes.
There will be the story of West Point Cadets and Alaskan Indians who
with their heads together found ways to honor the late Archdeacon Stuck.
Of course there will be another instalment of Miss Lindley’s stories
as she proceeds on her journey around the world.
And so on, page by page, unfolding the progress of the Kingdom as
this is achieved under the banner of the Church at home and abroad.
Pictures will abound!
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®[)e S p irit of jUfesitong PICTORIAL SECTION
Pictures Which Show the Fields in Which We Work and the Work We Do
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BISHOP GAILOR PREACHING AT T H ^ CONSECRATION OF BISHOP NAIDE IN CHRIST CHURCH, OSAKA
As President of the National Council Bishop Gailor was instructed to participate in the consecrations of Bishops Motoda and N'aide.
English, Canadian, Russian and. Japanese, as well as American Church dignitaries participated in both memorable ceremonies. In the
, course of his visit Bishop Gailor has' studied mission problems ¡which confront the Church in Japan and China,
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TH E JUNIOR SEWING CLASS AT ST. AUGUSTINE’S SCHOOL, RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA
Industrial training stressed, in all of the Church’s educational activities among the Negroes of the South in this case means some skillful
milliners and dressmakers, setting a good example in various communities where ultimately these girls will make their homes. St.
Augustine’s fulfills a splendid mission to children, youth, adults of the race through mental, moral and industrial training
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TH IS IS A TYPICAL LINE OF EARTHQUAKE VICTIMS AT A MUNICIPAL MILK STATION IN TOKYO CONDUCTED BY ST. LUKE’S HOSPITAL
It was a splendid tribute to the place which the hospital has won in the hearts of the Japanese people that the great city of Tokyo in the chaotic interval following earthquake and
fire turned to the staff of the American Church hospital for so important a service as this. This station at Ueno Park was one of thirty-one erected and financed by the city but
operated by St. Luke’s. Steady streams of stricken people received milk supplies day and night in this way
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GIRL SCOUTS OF ST. MARY’S MISSION, HONOLULU, ARE PROUD OF TH EIR RECORD
In addition to fulfilling all of the other obligations imposed upon the girl scout they adopted, little Cho Cho, the baby shown in the
photograph, and they claim, with considerable reason, that there is notI a better “mothered” youngster on earth. In^ this troop| are
Japanese, Chinese and, Hazvaiian girls. Incidentally they are loyal little Churchzvomen. Miss. Margaret Van Deerlin is captain.
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OGLALA SIOUX MOTHERS BRING TH E CHILDREN W HEN TH E WOMAN’S AUXILIARY MEETS
These are Churchwomen of the Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota. The lads are grandsons of Sioux warriors who fought Custer.
Read of Archdeacon Joyner’s fifteen years of work among these people in this number. This Church has earnestly proclaimed the good
news of the Gospel to the first Americans for more than a century and has achieved some important results
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GUARDING THE LAKE YOCHOW BURSTS ITS BONDS
Yochow Pagoda is supposed to control the wind Tearing down the ancient wall to allow
and water of Dung-ting Lake Yochow to grow
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E v ic tin g G h o sts in th e
Y o c h o w M o u n ta in
P r e fe c tu r e
Together W ith the Story of a
Ramhle Through the Home
of the Fairies in China
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“Wanted Very Much— Knowledge Foodl”
ture plays a part in the story of central landlord is a merciless creature and an
China that is all out of proportion to ordinary mortal would have been
its size. So for a long time the Rev. thankful that we drove out his ghosts.
Walworth Tyng "and others have But not he, and regardless of our pleas
wanted to begin work in this city. But the rent was raised.
to begin Christian work in a Chinese The catechist in Yochow is a very
city means a little more than the will able man and one day he came to
to do. Last year the vestry of Trinity Changsha with the news that we could
Church, Changsha, pledged themselves buy a piece of property for the equiva
to give the rent for a place that would lent of four years’ rent of the erst
serve as a chapel, school and residence. while haunted house. The vestry was
“It is about time,” they said, “that we easily persuaded and now we are inde
begin to do for our own what the pendent of the landlord’s tyranny and
American Church has so long done for the Yochow mission has its own
us and begin our own parochial mis church, school and residence.
sions.” So a house in the heart of Yo- And now may we say with St. Luke,
chow that would serve our. purposes “And so were the churches established
was found and because it was haunted in the faith”, and add a wish that this
the rent was low. But ghosts and mis new grandchild church of Yochow may
sion work are sworn enemies and the continue in that faith and ever be
ghost moved out and the landlord known as the church that is as strong
moved up the rent. Now a Chinese as the fortresses around it.
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DU BOSE SCHOOL ON THE MORNING OF JANUARY 10TH
U n d au n ted at D u B o s e b y H a v o c o f F i re
Buildings Gone But “ School W i l l Open on Schedule Tim e,’’
Declares Dean Logan
By the Rev. Mercer P. Logan, D.D,
Dean of DuBose School, Monteagle, Tennessee
N the night of January 9th, the
O DuBose Memorial Church Train
ing School, Monteagle, Tenn., was
hour, the whole main building had be
come a flattened, glowing mass. A
group had gathered around the much
burned to the ground. The fire was beloved chapel, determined to save it.
discovered at about 8:30 on the second Another group of men worked furi
floor of the west end of the building. ously putting out little patches of burn
The pipe lines were frozen and no ing grass near the bam. The outlying
water was available to fight the flames. machine shop and storehouse caught
Madly the little family of students left fire, and were destroyed. A half mile
at the school during the vacation period to the north the woods began to blaze.
tore through halls and up stairways to The cattle, horses and mules had been
the burning region. Armed with fire turned out and had fled terrified to
extinguishers, they worked hard and the woods. Next the water tank, a
fast. A terrific windstorm made the wooden structure, emptied because of
saving of anything impossible. The the freeze, went up like a giant torch.
flames cracked and leaped, while the A little after midnight the wind rose
men brought out a beloved book or two, even higher, and then the topmost
or a valuable map. One of the women branches of the trees began to bum.
clung to the bell, and it seemed as if the The air was filled with brands from
bell could not be rung loud enough or the burning. Everything was lost, the
fast enough to arouse the people of the building, the library, furniture, bedding,
neighboring village. crockery, kitchen utensils—only ashes
At last, help' came. While the men remained.
were engaged in saving from the build The spirit of DuBose could not be
ing anything that they might lay hand consumed by fire. At about 2:30 a,
upon, the' heavy roof and chimney of small group gathered for a moment
the west end crashed down. In an and reverently prayed, thanking God
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The United Thank Offering in a Suburban Parish
that there had been no loss of life, and munion was celebrated and all returned
asking Him that a greater DuBose thanks for blessings received.
might rise out of the fiery ruins. The school will open on schedule
On the morning after the fire the time, March 20th, in temporary quar
homeless students met in the chapel, ters.
where, amidst the few things rescued, The DuBose School is God’s work,
piled here and there, the Holy Com and He will care for His own.
T h e U n it e d T h a n k O ffe r in g in a
S u b u rb an P a r ish
By the Rev. A. Q. Bailey
HEN the call came for the early presentation of the offering would be
W collection of the Women’s United
Thank Offering of the triennium be
held the following Sunday at 7 :30 a.m.
with the choir in attendance and a brief
fore the General Convention of 1922, address. Those who would come to
there was a feeling among the active the service were instructed to place
members of the Women’s Auxiliary of their offering in a blank envelope with
a certain suburban parish in New Jer their name upon it but without the
sey that the offering was too much con amount.
fined to the active membership, and As a result of this systematic work
that women in general were being de seventy-two women attended the ser
prived of the opportunity and the privi vice on a Sunday in August when con
lege and the joy of this offering by rea gregations are supposed to be at a low
son of lack of knowledge. The rector ebb, and the offering amounted to $100,
was therefore asked to request the the contributors numbering one hun
women of the congregation present at dred and seven.
the night service on a Sunday in July When the next semi-annual collec
to remain after the service so that they tion was to be taken the same plans
might be addressed on the subject. were made and carried out, at which
At that meeting one of the members time over eighty women attended the
of the Auxiliary presented the subject service, the sum of $123 was offered
of the United Thank Offering fully and and one hundred and fifty-five women
urged that steps be taken to acquaint had a part in the offering. This service
the women of the parish generally with was on Palm Sunday.
it so that they would have the oppor Again, in September, with some ad
tunity to share in the offering of 1922. ditions to the parish list, the complete
Those who were willing to take part canvass was made with the result that
in a canvass of the parish were asked on Sunday, Sept. 23, 1923, in spite of-
to meet at the rectory on the following very inclement weather, between fifty
evening. Eighteen women responded and sixty women attended the service,
and were given sections of the parish the offering amounted to $100 and one
list and boxes and instruction and hundred and two women have to date
literature and the canvass was made a part in this semi-annual presentation.
during that week, for distribution. There is a great deal of enthusiasm
During the week before the 25th of in regard to this offering in the parish
August the same women again made a as a result of this campaign, and it is
canvass of their lists to announce that the intention to continue this method
a Corporate Communion of the women permanently. The parish reported 243
of the parish for the collection and communicants last year.
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M is s io n a r y E d u ca tio n — H a s I t a P la c e m th e
L ife o f T o d a y ?
,
By William C. Sturgis Ph.D. and William E. Leidt
Secretaries, Educational Division, Department of Missions and Church Extension
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Missionary Education— Has It a Place in the Life of Today?
creation and spread of missionary in laid low by earthquake and fire. As
terest. Without knowledge of a subject our sympathy and help go out to the
there can be little enthusiasm or inter stricken peoples of Tokio and its sur
est for it. So study will bring interest rounding countryside, our attention is
and enthusiasm for the Church’s Mis naturally drawn to Japan itself, the key
sion. The same may be said of prayer. to and the potential leader of the Ori
It is impossible to pray without some ent. In this situation the Department
definite knowledge of that for which of Missions supplies the proper guid
we pray. Thus the study of the ance through Mr. Galen M. Fisher’s
Church’s Mission may teach us how Creative Forces in Japan, a most illu
to pray. And finally, through knowl minating review of present conditions
edge, interest and prayer, there will in that dominating country. This book,
come a realization of the meaning of, which has the unique claim of having
and a desire for, a life of service for been selected as the season’s text-book
others for the sake of the Lord Christ. by all religious Communions in this
In that way will the army of Christ be country and Great Britain, is supple
recruited so that His Church may go mented by a wealth of other material.
forward and bring nearer the day when For collateral reading there are several
Christian public opinion will influence inexpensive books, foremost among
national and international life, and them being Dr. Charles F. Sweet’s New
when the Kingdom of God will be at Life in the Oldest Empire., the Hand
hand. book oil the Mission of the Episcopal
Fruits of Study Classes.. These, then, Church in Japan, which is the only brief
very briefly, are the principal fruits of yet complete history and account of our
the mission study class. Can these re work in Japan extant, Bishop Tucker’s
sults be obtained in no other way? Dr. Missionary Problems and Policies, and
T. H. P. Sailer, of Teachers’ College, in the Rev. Y. Sugiura’s They That Sat
New York, says, “No better agency Darkness.
(for arousing interest in the Church’s These Will Help Classes. Helps for
Mission) has been devised than the the study are provided in a pamphlet
mission study class. . . . Its ad of Suggestions to Leaders by Miss
vantages are: First, its small size, which Laura F. Boyer ; in maps—both wall
not only permits but requires expres and outline; and in suggested lists of
sion from each member; second, its supplementary reading. Fuller details
series of weekly meetings, which se may be had from the Educational Sec
cure the cumulative effect of impres retary or from Bulletin 38—Study
sions ; third, its specific subject matter Courses for Adults for 1923-4—which
introduced through specially prepared may be obtained from the Book Store,
text-books on some great country, field 281 Fourth avenue, New York. There
or problem; fourth, its demand for seri also may be secured the other pamphlets
ous study, and, fifth, its atmosphere of and books mentioned in this article.
active discussion, which is the life of Japan then is the special study for the
the study class.” year—these materials offer an oppor
Of these statements, let us consider tunity to help Japan through our pray
the third. What help does the Church ers to become a Christian nation; and
give to its people in “specially prepared to develop at home a knowledge and a
text-books on some great country, field sympathy for that leading nation of the
or problem” ? During the current year Orient which will be reflected in better
the study of Japan is being recom relationships, both personal and inter
mended and it is a peculiarly timely national, between the East and the
subject—Tokio, the heart of Japan as West. It seems then, that missionary
probably no other city is the heart of education is international and world
any other country, has recently been wide in its interest and outlook, and is
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thus worthy of the attention of every a school has been the direct and imme
member—man, woman or child—of the diate outcome of a study class, as wit
parish. That is the ideal to be striven ness the notable “New World School”
for. Can you help? in Porto Rico.
Among the women of the Church, Again, the number of women volun
mainly through the Woman’s Auxiliary, teering for work in the mission field
there has been widespread interest in is constantly in excess of the number
and use of the mission study class. To of men; and this, frequently for the
day there is hardly a branch of the most arduous and lonely posts. The
Woman’s Auxiliary which does not women outstrip the men in the spirit of
have its regular periods of study. And adventure. All these results are trace
what have been the results ? able to profound interest; and this, in
turn, is the inevitable outcome of mis
Our Women Better Informed. A sion study.
somewhat wide experience convinces
me that the women of the Church, to a A Task for the Men. The men of the
far greater degree than the men, are Church give less liberally and offer their
informed regarding international and services less freely, simply because they
national problems, and can discuss such are less well informed regarding the
problems intelligently. The Monroe Church and her work; and our problem
Doctrine, social and economic condi today is to persuade the men of the
tions in the Orient, the progress of the Church to become intelligent regarding
Church in the United States, the bear the Church’s Mission and to organize
ing of the Negro question on our na themselves for the study of world con
tional life, the problems of immigration ditions which, after all, concern them
—-these are some of the topics upon as much, at least, as they concern
which great numbers of Churchwomen women.
are well informed. They have received To organize and conduct a discussion
their information through careful group of men is not an impossible task.
study, year by year, of the various It has been done frequently. There is
books issued by the Department of Mis abundant material to serve as a help.
sions. For modern missions are not the In this, as in every enterprise, it is
mere preaching of the Gospel to the the first step only that costs. Let a
heathen, but involve questions of pro layman decide to take it by writing to
found significance in every human re me for two small leaflets—How to Lead
lationship. a Discussion Group and It Can Be
Furthermore, the study of the Done. Then let him send for the text
Church’s Mission throughout the world book for the course—Japan, this year.
has given to women a fine conception Also for the Suggestions to Leaders.
of loyalty to the Church as expressed Then let him get together a small group
in the idea of stewardship. A great of men in his parish who will agree
Cause demands financial support, and to give one evening a week for six
the women give far more intelligently weeks. That’s all there is to it; but
than do the men. The United Thank if this suggestion were widely adopted
Offering, given every three years, sup by the men of the Church it would not
ports great numbers of women in the be long before they became as really
field. This offering has steadily grown intelligent in world affairs as are the
from $2,000 in 1889 to $681,000 in women.
1922. It is the outcome of thought and
study. The Auxiliary has also initiated A SUBSCRIBER h a s s e n t t o t h is
certain great projects such as the Ram- o ffic e a c o m p le t e file o f T h e S p i r i t
saur Memorial School in Liberia, and o f M i s s i o n s f o r 1908 a n d 1909, a ls o
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O u r L en ten P ro g ra m fo r C h u rch S ch o o ls
Posters, Boxes for the Offering and k11Call to Service A ll Figure m
Effort for Advancing tlie W o rk at Home and Abroad
By Frances H. Withers
Secretary for the Church School Service League, Department of Religious Education
HE Lenten Posters, inspiration aids racial colors gathered about him show
T in the Lenten Offering Campaign,
will soon be on their way to every par
ing that in our Lord’s sight there is no
race nor creed, and that we must follow
ish and mission in the Church. This the Great Commission—“Go ye into all
year there are eight. The first one is to the world.”
be shown on Quinquagesima, the last On the reverse side of each poster is
on Easter. the story of the mission field which the
We begin our pictures in the home picture portrays. This may be read by
field, for the first poster portrays work the superintendent or, better still, be
among Mountaineers. Two boys áre used as the basis for a story told by
shown “working their way through him. Only one picture should be shown
school”. One feels that here is made each Sunday. After showing, it should
a strong appeal to help boys who help be placed upon the wall. In the Janu
themselves. The next picture is a sol ary number of T h e S p i r i t o f M i s s i o n s
emn “little Indian boy dressed in his are suggestions for using the posters
Sunday clothes”, a snap shot of him at in various ways.
the Niobrara Convocation. A friend of If these pictures carry the message as
many boys in the Church comes next— we hope they will, there should be such
the boy who went with Archdeacon an outpouring of love on the part of the
Stuck on his ascent of Denali. boys and girls as will show itself in a
Which is better training “head-hunt great Easter Offering.
ing or base-ball ?”, asks another. When In round numbers 500,000 boxes will
one realizes what the Church has done be broadcasted this year. Last year the
in the Philippines the question is an children of the Church gave a total of
swered. $398,000. A goal of $500,000 has been
A jolly Porto Rican boy smiles his set for this year. Convinced by the
thanks for the education that he now posters that the need is great in many a
expects. The story tells how he will field at home and abroad, we feel sure
get the education. Not so long ago it that the whole vast army of more than
would have been impossible to obtain a 500,000 Church School children will set
picture of girls in China playing blind out loyally to make a new and splendid
man’s buff. The Church has made a record.
great change in the lives of these girls. This year the Call to Service of the
And Japan! What of this appeal? Church School Service League will be
No longer a Church building in which linked more closely to the Lenten Offer
the boys and girls may attend the Sun ing. The Call is issued to the boys and
day School,—only a tent! But despite girls of the Church to help them in their
earthquake and fire these loyal little special service for Jesus Christ in the
Christians are never absent from a ses forty days of Lent.
sion. Can we look at this picture and The leaflets are graded for the Pri
not feel that we must deny ourselves so mary, Junior and Senior Departments.
that these children may be helped? For each week there is a central thought,
On Easter we have the picture of our a reading, a prayer and a suggestion for
Lord with the children of the five great something to do, The topic on which
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Our Lenten Program for Church Schools
these are based will be the missionary tributed on Quinquagesima when the
field presented on the Lenten Poster for Lenten Offering boxes are given out.
that week. Thus the Call to Service In order to get the best results from
will supplement the teaching of the their use there should be follow-up
Poster. work on the part of the superintendent
It is expected that every boy and girl and teachers.
will have a leaflet. While these are Please note: The leaflets will not
designed primarily for use in the home, be sent, like the posters, to every
in addition they may be used to great parish, but may be obtained from the
advantage in the worship period of the Department of Religious Education,
Sunday or weekday session, at meetings 281 Fourth Avenue, New York, by
of the Church School Service League asking for the amount needed. Pri
and at Young People’s Services. mary No. 4514, Junior No. 4515,
It is planned that the leaflets be dis Senior No. 4516,
OUR RESPONSIBILITY
* ♦
The offerings in the Lenten Boxes
are for the Missionary Work of
the Church under the direction
of the National Council.
Diocesan Program
ASSESSMENT
Bishop’s Fund * *
Diocesan Fund * *
Total
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Our Lenten Program for Church Schools
the Department of Religious Educa It is then hung in the Church School
tion?, the Department of Christian So room where it can be seen and dis
cial Service?”, “What is included in the cussed. The suggestion is made that
diocesan program?” for five or ten minutes at the Sunday or
The boys and girls learn that the weekday session, or at the meetings of
Bishop’s Fund helps to pay the Bishop’s the Church School Service League, the
salary, that the Diocesan Fund takes superintendent talk with the pupils
care of the running expenses of the dio about the Program of the Church. The
cese. They learn that the quota is given boys and girls also talk with their
voluntarily by the parish, that the as teachers and with one another of the
sessment is different from the quota. responsibility, financial and otherwise,
The discussion of these and other points that the school should assume for each
should develop an intelligent interest in item. When the time comes, they are
helping to forward the Program. prepared to vote intelligently.
The chart should be drawn on heavy On the day set for voting the ques
manila paper 48 x 36 inches. The one tion of what is its share is put before
shown here is planned for use in a the school. When, after discussion, this
diocese where the quota is so divided. is decided, the amount is placed in its
This division will be different in other proper column as the aim towards which
dioceses and districts but the principle the school will bend its energies.
remains the same, making the chart The school’s share for Missions and
adaptable for any diocese or district. Church Extension is the money given
The amount of the diocesan quota in the Lenten Offering boxes. The
and diocesan assessment may be ob other items are voted from the Sun
tained from the treasurer of the dio day offerings or the Service League or
cese, the amount of the parish quota from organizations connected with the
from the treasurer of the parish. The Church School.
two items should be placed upon the Thus the chart will visualize exactly
chart in their respective columns before what the school has given on the parish
the chart is shown. quota.
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M Vkat Is a C i t y M is s io n ?
By Alfred Newbery
VERY diocese has a form of ac side of the same city, there is an up-
E tivity known as “diocesan mis to-date parish house, with rooms for
sions”—the attempt to extend theextensive club work for adults and chil
Church in places where there are no dren, a laundry, printing office, an
self-supporting parishes. Every dio apartment for the vicar’s family, quar
cese likewise has institutions larger ters for the assistant and the parish
than any one parish could support and worker, and several rooms for the tem
meeting a need bigger than any one porary shelter of working girls.
parish, whether it O n th e other
be a hospital, or a side of the city is
home f o r t h e the Chapel of the
aged, or a recrea Messiah, w h i c h
tion c e n t e r for ministers to 3,000
children. negroes, drawing
Now what di from Harlem as
ocesan missions well as the imme
and the diocesan diate community.
institution are to It is a most active
the diocese the and gr owi ng
City Mission is to parish, w i t h its
the city. g r o w t h limited
F o r example, only by its accom
here is the City modations a n d
Mission of N ew equipment.
York. Let us be O ne h a r d l y
gin with a church, knows where to
the C h u r c h of begin to fill th e
San Salvatore. It m a n y empty
celebrated its fif hearts and empty
tieth anniversary hands that make
last year, being up the city’s poor.
the first work of I n N ew Y o r k
our Church there are two set
among Italians in tlement h o u s e s
this country. In DISCOVERING A NEW WORLD u n d e r the City
the most congest Through theoldgateway at Ellis Island come young and
from all parts of the earth Mission.,
ed district of the St. Barnabas’s
United States—a tenement district with House renders without cost the fol
30,000 children—it has provided the lowing services: Furnishes a temporary
only playground. The parish house ad home for destitute women and chil
joining the church gives them a kinder dren; receives and cares for deserted
garten, gymnasium, sewing school, mothers with their babies discharged
cooking and other classes, and clubs for from maternity hospital and in need
the fathers and mothers as well. Great of a temporary home until they are
stress is laid on the religious education strong enough to take up life’s new
of the children, as they are the future burdens; furnishes advice and assist
life of the parish, and on them its wel ance for every case coming under its
fare depends. supervision—individual attention is an
At St. Cyprian’s Chapel, on the west outstanding policy of the home; gives
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FRESH AIR AND FOOD A’PLENTY
Children from stuffy tenement rooms and heated city streets find a glimpse of paradise in
this “Fresh-air” Home
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THE GIRLS’ VACATION HOUSE GIVES A PAGEANT
untold benefit. For the boys there is ments and words of wisdom; mentally,
a fresh-air camp that makes a special and ye gave me books to read and pic
effort to help the undernourished boy. tures to see.
There is a Fresh-air Home for little “I was in prison and ye came unto
children. These resources bring happi me in prisons and reformatories.
ness and health, a new vision and the “1 was a stranger and ye took me in,
basis of a new growth in character to and lodged me, and guided me, an alien
boys and girls who, whether they could to your land.
or could not get it otherwise, at any “I was naked and ye clothed me, in
rate are not getting the necessary mini my home, in your settlement houses,
mum of food and air and play. and your camps. *
Last year the City Mission Society in “I was poor and ye gave me days’of
New York gave vacations of from two rest where there was grass and an open
weeks to a month to eleven hundred sky.”
and ninety-two mothers, children, ba Every city has need of such work.
bies, boys and girls. In addition to the Every such work has need of prayer,
three institutions above mentioned of support, of interest, and of hands
there is Schermerhorn House taking to help. Will you offer yourself to
care of one hundred and thirty-five your city mission? Do not go as a
persons at a time. trained worker unless you are one. It
These are just the high lights of a may be you can help best when the
picture which is rich in detail. Out of budget is made which determines the
the mouths of thousands who dwell in financial strength of the city mission;
the city comes a Voice summing up the maybe you can help in making it
whole matter and saying: known; maybe you can help with gifts
“I was sick, physically, and ye vis of money or clothes or books; maybe
ited me in hospitals and homes; spirit you can help with your own two feet
ually, and ye gave me altars and sacra- and hands. But you can help!
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O P P O R T U N I T I E S A N D N E E D S I N T H E M IS S IO N FIELD
Under this head T h e S pirit of M ission s would bring together from time to
time those in the mission field who have needs of one kind or (mother and those at
home who seek the opportunity to be of service. Where no address ts £ orre~,
spondence should be sent to The Editor, T h e S pirit of M ission s , 281 Fourth
Avenue, N ew York, N. Y,
ishes which have a superfluity of such
A LTHOUGH not an official part of its
work, the Seamen’s Church Institute things would find a satisfaction in com
municating with thé Rev. Clinton B.
of America takes warm interest in the Cromwell, Carbondale, 111.
hospital • for tuberculous seamen main
tained by the government at Fort Stan
ton, New Mexico. One of Bishop How-
den’s clergy, the Rev. H. K. Stanley, is the
D OES some worthy parish want to
help a struggling little mission by the
chaplain of this institution which at pres gift of a processional cross? In writing
ent has 225 patients. In addition to his to ask this question, Mrs. M. W. Frank
work at the hospital Mr. Stanley has lin of Vicksburg, Michigan, says: “Please
charge of three missions. It would greatly do not think we are altogether beggars.
lighten the burden of his work at the hos We are anxious to give as well as to re
pital if he could have a typewriter. Will ceive and already are working on our mis
anyone who has such a machine in fairly sionary box.”
good condition which they would be will
ing to devote to this purpose, communi
cate with the Rev. W. T. Weston, Gen T HROUGH the kindness of readers of
this page we have been enabled to.
eral Secretary of the Seamen’s Church send Bishop Hulse of Cuba three English
Institute of America, at 25 South street, lectern Bibles. Some of his congrega
New York, who will be glad to give fur tions, however, only understand Spanish,
ther information about the work. and the Bishop would be glad to have
two or three lectern Bible in Spanish.
The Bishop’s address is Neptimo 54, Ha
T HERE has been such a generous re
sponse to appeals for hymnals that we vana, Cuba.
are emboldened to ask for more. The
Rev. J. Cyril Mars'den, of St. Paul’s Mis
sion, New Smyrna, Florida, is in need of T HE Rev. Juan McCarthy, Camaguey,
Cuba, is in need of furnishings of all
copies of the Hymnal, revised and en descriptions for the altar and chancel.
larged, 1892. Will any who have such Mr. McCarthy has several missions under
books to spare communicate direct with his charge. Further particulars will be
Mr. Marsden? gladly furnished by the Rev. A. R. Gray,
D.D., 281 Fourth Avenue, New York.
PRIEST in the Virgin Islands has
A been ordered by his physician to play \X T O U L D any reader of the Spirit of
VV Missions like to help the Science
golf in order that his health may be re Department of St. Faith’s School for Girls
stored, but his modest stipend does not at Yangchow, China, by the gift of a
permit of such items of personal expendi microscope? What Chinese girls do not
ture as golf clubs and balls. There must know about the simplest facts of science
be some golfer among the many roaming is appalling. The Department of Missions
the links that dot this broad land who
would like to be of this service to a will be glad to supply information.
brother Churchman in search of health.
Will such a one get in touch with the Rev.
Hubert M. Pigott, S t John’s Rectory, S T.Tenn.,
ANDREW ’S MISSION, Alcoa,
has made its own chancel furni
Christiansted, St. Croix, Virgin Islands? ture and communion linens, but it is
greatly in need of a chancel Prayer Book
and a Communion Service, etc. Dean
T HE general missionary
Illinois has a field that
in Southern
is 125 miles Walter C. Whitaker, St. John’s Church,
Knoxville, Tenn., will be glad to give par
across with a population of half a million.
He tries to spread himself over a dozen ticulars.
places where we have missions or small
groups of Church people who are anxious*
to form a mission. There are no wealthy
S EVÉRAL people
that they have
have sent us word
large Bibles which
parishes in the district. These little mis they would be glad to send to struggling
sions need almost everything in the way missions. We invite those in charge of
of altar supplies, choir vestments, hymnals such missions to write us if they need a
(a few with music), etc. Well-to-do- par lectern Bible.
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N e w s and N o te s,
T ’HE Rev. Charles Shriver Reif- with their parents. Our hearts go out
snider, L.H.D., President of St. to all children who are suffering and,
Paul’s University, Tokyo, Japan, will therefore, we commend the work of
be consecrated bishop-suffragan to the Federal Council of Churches in ap
Bishop McKim, of Tokyo, in All pealing for aid for the children of Ger
Saints’ Church, Pasadena, California, many. The Rev. Charles S. MacFar-
Tuesday, February 12th, at 10 a. m. land, General Secretary of the Council,
The consecrators will be Bishop Mc- 105 East Twenty-second street, New
Kim of Tokyo, Bishop Gailor, Presi York, will be glad to hear from any
dent of the National Council, and who agree with General Allen, the com
Bishop Johnson, of Los Angeles. The mander of the American Army of Oc
preacher will be Bishop Partridge, of cupation in Germany, • that “America
West Missouri, formerly of Kyoto. The never made war on children.”
presenters will be Bishop Leonard of n
Ohio and Bishop Stevens, coadjutor of 'T H E CHURCH LEAGUE CLUB,
Los Angeles. The Litany will be read at 150 East Fifty-seventh street,
by. Bishop Francis of Indianapolis, for New York, has this year renewed its
merly of our Japan mission. Attend offer to remit the initiation fee of $10
ing presbyters will be the Rev. Dr. L. to missionaries, deaconesses and the
E. Learned, rector of All Saints’ wives and daughters of the clergy.
Church, scene of the consecration, and Many Churchwomen took advantage of
the Rev. John H. Yamazaki, rector of this offer last year and found great
St. Mary’s Japanese Parish, Los An satisfaction in the privileges they en
geles. Certificate of election will be joyed in the club. The terms of mem
read by the Rev. William MacCormack, bership will be gladly furnished by
D.D., and the consent of Standing Com Mrs. Caleb R. Stetson, Murray Hill
mittees will be read by the Rev. George Hotel, Park avenue, New York.
Davidson, D.D. The master of cere ❖
monies and registrar will be the Rev.
C. Rankin Barnes. A LTHOUGH we printed a thousand
extra copies of the January num
A feature of very great interest is the ber of T h e S p i r i t o f M i s s i o n s the edi
participation in these ceremonies of tion is entirely exhausted. Bishop
Bishop McKim and Bishop Gailor, who Moulton’s article on Indian work in
will arrive from Japan just in time to Utah has caused widespread interest
reach Pasadena. These, with Dr. Wood, and many requests have been received
executive secretary of the Department for additional copies. We should be
of Missions, will go directly from Pasa grateful if any subscribers who do not
dena to New York to attend the meet desire to keep their magazines would
ing of the National Council of the mail them back to us.
Church, called for February 20th to ❖
consider the Japanese situation and to
determine a plan for raising a fund for TJ NFORTUNATELY the Alaskan
permanent rehabilitation. Churchman Calendar, through
some remissness on the part of Uncle
* Sam, reached us too late for notice in
C H IL D R E N are of no nationality. December issue. It makes its usual
^ We have it on good authority that attractive appearance and contains
they are citizens of the Kingdom of many pictures full of interest to the
Heaven. When we hear that children friends of the Alaska mission. Copies
are hungry, we do not withhold our may be ordered from Box 6, Haver-
help because we are not in sympathy ford, Pa. The price is fifty cents.
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News and Notes
HE SPIRIT OF MISSIONS ex ly r ANY American tourists now visit
tends heartfelt sympathy to Bishop the Philippine-Islands every year
Burleson of the missionary district of „ and few of them have any accurate
South Dakota, and all of the other knowledge of the work of the Episcopal
members of the family, on the occasion Church in the islands. The Rev. George
of the death of their mother, who was C. Bartter, who had served in the mis
the widow of the Rev. Solomon S. sion for nearly twenty years, has kindly
Burleson, a missionary priest for many written a tourist missionary guide to
years in Minnesota and Wisconsin. the Philippine Islands. It is brief but
Mrs. Burleson was the mother of five informative. Any friends planning a
sons', all of whom entered the sacred trip to the Philippines can obtain a
ministry of the Church, one of them typewritten copy from the Department
attaining the Episcopate itself. of Missions, 281 Fourth avenue, New
❖ York, for 25 cents. Later, if there is
sufficient demand the “Guide” will be
TUTR. E. WALTER ROBERTS, “the printed.
man who madè the mite box,” ❖
calls our attention to the fact that the
two cuts which formed such an at RACE CHURCH, Nyack, N. Y.,-
tractive heading for the article which ^ devotes its Christmas offering to
appeared last month about his connec a memorial scholarship fund to enable
tion with the Lenten Offering, depicted some worthy young man of the parish
an earlier type of box than those which to enter the priesthood. We are con
Mr. Roberts invented. The pyramid, tinually hearing of leaders in the
the keystone and the present rectangu church who would never have been
lar box were the products of his brain. able to take Orders had it not been for
Over sixteen million of these three such aid.; One notable instance is that
forms have been used in the last thirty- of a clergyman in the Mid-West, who
four years and the total saving to the would not have been able to secure an
missionary work of the Church has education had it not been for the kind
been in the neighborhood of a quarter ness of a wealthy man who became
of a million dollars. interested in him. This particular
* clergyman is no longer diving, but one
of his sons is dean of a cathedral and
T^WICE during the past month has the other a bishop. The good which
death invaded the House of Bishops such help does spreads in ever-widen
of the Church. ing circles.
The Rt. Rev. Edward A. Temple, ❖
D.D., Bishop of the Missionary Dis "DISHOP LaMothe has lost one of
trict of North Texas, died suddenly his valued workers. Mrs. Celia
on January 10th and was buried at Searle, who died on December 16th last,
Waco, Texas, the funeral service hav was the visitor of the Hawaiian con
ing been said by Bishops Garrett and gregation at the cathedral. Being part
Kinsolving. Hawaiian, she was ideally fitted for
The Rt. Rev. Edwin Gardner Weed, her work and, the Bishop says, was
D.D., Bishop of Florida, died at Jack one of the truest, most sympathetic and
sonville on January 19th and was buried helpful Christian women he had been
there. Bishop Weed was next in suc privileged to know.
cession to Bishop Garrett as Presiding
Bishop of the Church. He was conse ❖
LASKA has matched Brazil’s gift to
crated August 11, 1886. Bishop Weed’s
death confers right of succession to
A meet Japan’s need. The teachers
Bishop Garret upon the- Rt. Rev. Ethel- and Indian boys and girls at St. Mark’s
bert Talbot, D.D., Bishop of Bethle Mission, Nenana, have sent $31.50 to be
hem. added to the Emergency Fund.
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T H E L I T E R A T U R E O F M IS S IO N S
The R ev.. J. H.
M is s io n a r y H e r o e s o f A fr ic a . people and it cannot easily be erased. It is
Morrison, M. A. Map. New York: Doran, a situation that thoughtful Christians eager
1922. $1.50.
for the Christianization of China cannot fail
Whenever I pick up a book such as Mr. to consider.
Morrison has given us in his recent Mis Sounding the keynote that “Christianity is
sionary Heroes of Africa I am possessed beyond and above racial and national differ
with conflicting emotions: grateful to the ences, and is capable of becoming indigenous
man who with consummate skill, backed by. in every land; Christianity in China is there
the experience of extensive African travel, fore Chinese Christianity”, Dr. Cheng
has been able to compress within the limits' Ching Yi, the chairman of the National
of a few short pages the personality, the Christian Conference held in •Shanghai in
energy, the zeal of ten of the most romantic 1922, in the last chapter on The Chinese
characters of missionary enterprise; dissatis Church ably considers the relation of the
fied because time prevents a more detailed “Mission” to the “Church” and points out
study of them; and hungry because such some paths for the future.
brief treatment must, of necessity, minimize These two chapters" on Christianity close
or omit entirely much of the romance of a book the earlier part of which has
their lives. graphically portrayed the present-day ten
But if this volume cannot satisfy my dencies. A list of these other chapters will
craving for fulness, it does very definitely give some idea of the scope of the whole
several things. Here in plain, simple Eng book. They are: China Today, China’s
lish are retold the stories of ten great people Renaissance, The Literary Revolution in
of “The Way” ; here may young and old China, The Confucian God-Idea, and Present
alike gain inspiration from Robert Moffat Tendencies in Chinese Buddhism. To read
and his devoted, sturdy family, from David this book is in some small measure to catch
Livingstone and John Mackenzie, from the spirit, to glimpse the hopes and aspira
Stewart of Lovedale, Laws of Livingstonia, tions of the leaders in the Chinese renais
Mackay of Uganda, Grenfell of the Congo, sance movement and to feel the power that
Coillard of the Zambesi, and from the is slowly awakening in China and which will
extraordinary factory lassie, Mary Slessor shake off her chains of two thousand years
of Calabar. And all these lives are linked of custom and tradition and lead her to a
together and painted against the background place among the democratic nations of the
of an introductory chapter entitled The world.
Dark Continent Before the Dawn, a chapter
which in its richness and vividness is an out God with Us. By Eric J. Bodington, M . A.
standing feature of the book. New York: Longmans, Green & Co., 11.23.
75 cents.
By Dr.
C h in a T o d a y T h r o u g h C h in ese E y e s .
Archdeacon Bodington has given us in the
T. T. Lew, Professor Hu Shih, Professor
Y. Y. Tsu, and Dr. Cheng Ching Yi. 144 pp. short compass of fifty-six pages a simple
London: Student Christian Movement (1922), and clear presentation of the background
$1.25. and workings of our Faith that no one who
Within the small compass of 144 pages, desires a more perfect realization of the
four Chinese scholars consider the changes presence 'of God should fail to read.
that are going on in China today. And, Originally given as lectures to members of
realizing that the future of China, as of the the Girls’ Diocesan Association, London, in
whole world, will rest on social and religious September, 1921, the chapters take us
forces rather than upon political and eco logically from the revelation of God in the
nomic movements, there is little discussion Old Testament, through the Christ of the
of politics' in this book. Two of its most Gospels to the position of Christ now and
significant chapters are those devoted to The the place and importance in the world to
Impression of Christianity Made Upon the day and in our individual lives of the King
Chinese People Through Contact With the dom of God, the Church, the Sacraments,
Nations of the West, and The Chinese and Prayer. #
Church. In the former, we of the West These brief and concise studies in divine
are seen as others see us—our “political immanence, very readable and worthwhile in
aggression, economic oppression, educational themselves, are made doubly valuable and at
conservatism, and religious unreality”, still tractive through the supplementary reading
existing in some measure in China, have left lists and questions for study and discussion
a bad impression in the minds of the Chinese which are given in the appendices.
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ALMIGHTY GOD, whose desire is toward Thy holy Church
0 throughout all the world: We humbly pray Thee that Thou
wouldst be pleased to establish a national Church in every land whither
Thy Word has gone. Raise up a zealous arid faithful company of
ministers, that the people may hear in their own tongue the wonderful
works of God. Grant to all converts loyalty and obedience toward
Thee, steadfastness in the Faith and love one toward another; through
Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen.
❖
3ntme$sitott£i
E Thank Thee— HAT it may please Thee—
For the consummation of
a free Church in Japan, presided
T To bless to Thy purpose the
visit to Japan of leaders of this
over by bishops, our brethren of Thy Church and to grant to them
that nation, and blessed by the wisdom in council so that Thy
consecrated lives of thousands of people here may be led loyally
other fellow nationals, and we and gladly to give of their means
pray that it may increase in num to the end that the sadly-stricken
bers and in power for the spread people of the new Church of
of Thy Gospel through the in Japan may be relieved of all their
spiration of the Holy Spirit. distress.
For the fullness of years which To bless the efforts of every
Thou hast vouchsafed to many other Christian communion and
Chief Pastors of this Church and every secular agency, likewise,
especially for those who in this seeking to overcome in Japan the
year reach milestones in the prog havoc of earthquake and fire.
ress of their high service. To bless abundantly the execu
For Christian nurture, Christian tive secretary of the Woman’s
homes, and Christian parents Auxiliary, that her visit to the
which are the gifts of the Christ foreign mission places of . the
Child. And for Christian schools Church may inspire her, and
which at home and in non-Chris through her, the great organiza
tian lands are bringing Thy chil tion she represents with renewed
dren to knowledge of Thee. consecration to the spread of Thy
For the evidence of courage Kingdom.
and zeal with which the children To bless, e n c o u r a g e , a n d
of Thy Church prepare for their strengthen every mission worker
great annual service of sacrifice in every far place, or near at
and thanksgiving which they ren home, and every representative of
der the cause of Thy Church in Thy whole Church upon whatever
the world through the instru mission bent, that through the ef
mentality of the Lenten Offering forts of all of these Thy Kingdom
for Missions. soon may come.
❖
GOD, the strength of all those who put their trust in Thee: Send
0 Thy blessing upon Thy servants who work among the poor and
needy. Fill their hearts with a courage which never falters, a patience
which never wearies, and a love which never fails. Give them the
constant vision of Thy glorious kingdom, and perseverance to attain i t ;
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
♦♦♦
UR Father, Who art in heaven, Hallowed be Thy Name. Thy
O Kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth, As it is in heaven.
Givff us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses,
As we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into
temptation; But deliver us from evil: For Thine is the kingdom,
and the power, and the glory, for ever and ever. AMEN.-
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REA TEST interest will attach
G throughout the Church to the
detailed articles we present this
A Distinct
Organization
In explanation it may
be said that the two
new bishops are bish
month concerning the consecrations ops exclusively of the
of Bishop Motoda at Nippon Sei Ko Kwai. They are not
Nippon Sei Tokyo and Bishop Naide members of the House of Bishops
Ko Kwai at Osaka, events which of the American Church. The name
m a r k a new epoch of the Church is as distinctive as its
in -the history of our Commun organization is independent. Trans
ion in Japan. : The new bishops lated Sei Ko Kwai means Holy Cath
inaugurated a Japanese-born epis olic Church, the familiar phrase of
copate for the Sei Ko Kwai. For the Apostles’ Creed, with the word
the présent the interest of the Ameri Nippon (Japan) prefixed. The choice
can Church will continue to be served was made after long debate that had
by Bishop McKim and by Bishop its origin in the instinct of the Japa
Reifsnider, who, on February 12th, nese for individuality, together with
at Pasadena, California, will be con the fact that “Protestant Episcopal”
secrated suffragan of Tokyo. Their cannot be translated, a plight in which
contact with the Japanese Church will many Communions, including the
be advisory in the main, although they Roman, have found themselves in
will retain direct Episcopal super Japan. Sweet in New Life in the Old
vision in all matters affecting the in- est Empire tells us that “in some cir
stitutionab work of the mission and cles, both in China and Japan, it is
in the district of Tohoku and else related as a mild jest that the mean
where where need exists. ing which could be extracted from
Beyond doubt the time will come a literal translation is ‘Church of the
when a third bishop of Japanese birth Kicking Overseers’ or ‘Church of the
will realize the ultimate ambition of Contradictory Bishops.’ ” It would
our brethren of Nippon to achieve a seem clear enough then that the
sister Church in the Anglican Com daughter church was compelled to
munion entirely their own. The .prog find some other designation, and the
ress thus far made toward this end “Japan Holy Catholic Church” has
is a tribute to the consecrated zeal become the official and the accepted
of the men and women of our Mission designation.
throughout the past sixty-four years.
This is the goal the very pioneers set We are happy to
for themselves. There are Anglican The W est have secured ex-
suffragan bishops in India, named Sends On the planations of the
from among India’s people, and there Good News consecrations as af
is a suffragan bishop of Chinese birth fecting the life of the
in China, but nowhere in the whole Church in Japan from the two new
realm of missionary enterprise is bishops themselves, from Bishops Mc
there anything to match the progress Kim and Gailor, and from Dr. Wood.
made toward a national autonomous Amplification of their statements is
Church comparable with our own superfluous. The immediate need is
achievement in Japan sustained, prayerful, loving, brotherly
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The Progress of the Kingdom
interest in and sympathy for the whole the Church itself and all may be se
mission cause in Japan. cured at extremely modest prices
Very well may all of us, with full through the Book Store, 281 Fourth
hearts, thank God that we have been Avenue, New York City, N. Y.
permitted to be instruments in His Whether we are able to attend an
hands for passing westward to another organized mission study class or not
people the Good News that three cen there would seem to be no real reason
turies ago was passed westward to us why thousands of us could not secure,
through the consecrated missionary zeal “read, mark, learn and inwardly di
of that period. And just as that loyalty gest” this admirable presentation of
to Christ’s great command in a day the Church’s problem in Japan.
when America was “foreign parts”
established Apostolic vision of seven S we approach Lent attention is
teenth century Anglicanism, so we
prove our Apostolic contact and in
A centered upon the annual Offer
ing of our Church schools« This is
spiration by the zeal with which we important because of
have crossed the Pacific determined to The Lenten the very large sum it
reach with the Good News the utter Offering places at the disposal of
most parts of the world. the Church for its work
at home and abroad, but even more
OMETHING of the program for so for its educational value to the
S this year’s mission study is pre coming generation who thus catch the
sented in the pages of this issue. Onevision of the great Apostolic Mission
phase of the matter of the Church, first to be sent and
Mission p r o m p t s comment then gladly to go. In this issue we
Study Course here. It will be found 'give some suggestion of the new set
that an adequate com of posters to be sent to Church
pliance with the program of study in schools everywhere, visualizing some
volves possession of the following pub thing of the missionary responsibility.
lications : W e call attention to the boxes, more
Study Courses for Adults for 1923-24 than five hundred thousand of which
(Bulletin No. 38). are being broadcasted, and to The
Mission Problems and Policies in Call to Service by which the Depart
Tapan, by Bishop H. St. George Tucker. ment of Religious Education links the
Handbooks on Missions of the Epis- Lenten Offering with the cause of
opal Church—-No. 2, Japan. spiritual nurture.
They That Sat in Darkness, by the The real inspiration will come to
Rev. Yoshimichi Sugiura. every school, large or small, through
.New Life in the Oldest Empire, by out the Church, whether at home or
the Rev. C. F. Sweet (Macmillan). abroad, that faithfully and loyally
Creative Forces in Japan, by G. M. adopts the whole program. Distrib
Fisher. Suggestions for Study, on the uting the Lenten Offering boxes will,
same, by Laura F. Boyer. of course, serve a purpose. Using the
Here is a library of charm, absorb posters one after another throughout
ing interest and highest value to any the Lenten services will inform. And
one who would be an informed Church The Call to Service alone would in
man or Churchwoman, having knowl evitably widen the horizon of Chris
edge of the Church’s business and, tian experience. The value to the
therefore, power in furthering its pro individual,. to the school as a whole,
gram. We wonder how many indi and thus through parish and diocese
viduals, -men or women, in all the to the nation and the world, can only
Church, possess these seven publica be realized when all three of these
tions. Six of them are publications of agencies are combined.
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MONG many impressive articles in ber of subscribers. Will not each one
A the current .number of The Church
at Work we venture the opinion that
feel himself or herself a friendly agent
and speak a word to another or pass on
none will attract more this or any issue in the hope that so
Some Rural attention than figures valuable a mouthpiece for the Mission
Figures compiled in a religious of the Church have as wide an audience
census of a high-class as possible? With a little cooperation
rural community of the Eastern the present circulation could be trebled.
Shore of Maryland by the Rev.
James A. Mitchell, whose study of the ATURALLY we regret to record
practical job that confronts him is a
model for men anywhere in the Church
N the destruction of the DuBose
School by fire, but we join with the
who care to look all the elements of faculty, students and friends
their responsibility squarely in the face. Bravo of the school in their sincere
Here is a community settled since DuBose belief that it merely means
the very dawn of English colonization in School, the prompt erection of more
the Virginia-Maryland district, with adequate buildings to take the
the Church at work among them for place of those so recently destroyed.
three hundred years and with a liberal DuBose in its brief history has proved
sprinkling of other Communions, like beyond any doubt that in offering op
wise faithfully at work. Nevertheless, portunity for preparation to men with
only thirty-three percent of the people an unmistakable call to the sacred min
are affiliated with any Church, that is istry, yet for various reasons denied in
to say, that two-thirds of such a com earlier years opportunity for proper
munity are utterly indifferent to the preparation, it serves a real need.
appeal of organized religion, while one- Throughout the Church hearts will
third of the children receive no reli go out to that little group that gathered
gious education whatever. Certainly in the chapel the morning after the dis
the task of the Church is impelling. aster and with the celebration of the
Holy Eucharist consecrated themselves
H E March issue of T h e S p i r i t o f to the task of rehabilitation. We com
T M i s s i o n s will appear somewhat later mend them and their purpose to every
than usual because publication will bereader and to the whole Church.
deferred until after the
March meeting of the National OMETHING of an excuse for a
Issue Late Council set for February
20-21, when the question
S
smile actually invaded the more or
less tragic Tokyo district on the heels
of permanent Japan relief will be con of earthquake and fire.
sidered and a policy agreed upon. Ac Candles Bishop McKim made an
tion taken at this meeting will be of “to Burn” appeal for candles, it will
utmost importance to every Church be remembered. There
man and Churchwoman and T h e : seemed to be no other way to secure
S p i r i t o f M i s s i o n s is one of the im light. Here and there somebody may
portant agencies by which such infor have overlooked the call for cash, but
mation can be broadcasted. Needlessi the response to the appeal for candles
to say, every effort will be made to' was unanimous. They reached Tokyo
make the delay as brief as possible and in boxes, bags and barrels, until
to have the magazine available, if not wherever he looked the good Bishop
by Ash Wednesday, certainly soon saw mountains of them and fairly fran
enough to fulfill its usual important mis tically he cabled:
sion in connection with Lent and the; “Send no more candles.”
Lenten Offering. Special effort will be: “Candles to burn!” said a St. Luke’s
made this Lent to increase the num- nurse.
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®fje national Council
Is the Board of Directors of the
D O M E S T IC A N D F O R E IG N M I S S I O N A R Y S O C IE T Y
Which Is Composed of All the Members of the
Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America
Presiding Bishop, The Rt. Rev. Alexander C. Garrett, d . d .,
and is also the Executive Board which carries into execution the general lines of work prescribed by
THE GENERAL CONVENTION
Whose membership includes all the Bishops of the Church, four clerical and four lay deputies from each
diocese, and one clerical and one lay deputy from each missionary district. The General Convention
meets tnennially, the next session being in New Orleans in 1925.
OFFICERS AND MEMBERS
President, The Rt. Rev. Thomas F. Gailor, d . d . Secretary, The Rev. Franklin J. Clark
Vice-President and Treasurer, Lewis B. Franklin Assistant Treasurer, Charles A. Tompkins
ELECTED BY GENERAL CON V EN TIO N
The Rt. Rev. Thomas F. Gailor, d . d . Lewis B. Franklin
The Rt. Rev. Wm. C. Brown, d . d . Stephen Baker
The Rt. Rev. E. S. Lines, d . d . John Stewart Bryan
The Rt. Rev. T. I. Reese, d . d Burton Mansfield
The Rt. Rev. William T. Manning,d . d . Samuel Mather
The Rev. W. H. Milton, d . d . ' 1%
S
The' fi,M' Casady
Rev.- Thomas SoS.'v?
Philip piLr
S. Parker
ELECTED BY T H E PRO VINC ES
TJ- The Rt. Rev. J. DeW. Perry, d . d . V. The Rt. Rev. J. M. Francis, d . d.
Tii* WmM Batdwffl VI. James H. Pershing
The Rt. Rev. J. G. Murray, d . d V I I . The Rev. W. P. Witsell, d .d.
IV. The Rt. Rev. F. F. Reese, d . d . V III. The Rt. Rev. L. C. Sanford, d .d.
DEPARTMENTS
MISSIONS AND CHURCH EXTENSION
John W. Wood, d . c . l . , Executive Secretary and Acting Foreign Secretary
The Rev. A. B. Parson^Assistant Foreign Secretary The Rev. Carroll M. Davis, Domestic Secretary
The Rev. Arthur R. Gray, d . d . , Secretary for Latin America
The Rev. Edwin B. Rice, Registrar and Custodian of Archives
Wm _ _ H || Educational Division
William C. Sturgis, p h . d . , Educational Secretary Wm. E, Leidt, Assistant Educational Secretary
Foreign-Born Americans Division
The Rev. Thomas Burgess, Secretary The Rev. William C. Emhardt, ph .d., Field Director
RELIGIOUS EDUCATION
, The Rev. William E. Gardner, d . d . , Executive Secretary
The Rev. Lester Bradner, ph .d., Edward Sargent, m.a,,
Secretary for Teacher Training Secretary for Week-day Church Schools
The Rev. Paul Micou, m .a., Miss Frances H. Withers
Secretary for Colleges and Universities Secretary for Church School Service League
Miss Agnes M. Hall, Secretary for Women Students
CHRISTIAN SOCIAL SERVICE
The Rev. Charles N. Lathrop, Executive Secretary
Alfred Newbery, Assistant Secretary Miss Mildred P. Carpenter, Secretary for Church Institutions
PUBLICITY
The Rev. Robert F. Gibson, Executive Secretary
G. Warfield Hobbs, Editorial Secretary and Editor of T h e S p ir it of M issio n s
William Hoster. News Bureau Miss Gladys Wolcott Barnes, Church Publications
The Spirit of Missions
Mrs. Kathleen Hore, C. J. Fleischman, John W. Irwin,
Assistant Editor Business Manager Circulation and Advertising
FINANCE
Lewis B. Franklin, Executive Secretary «
Charles A. Tompkins, Assistant Treasurer James W. Henry, Second Assistant Treasurer
Frank A. Zubrod, Cashier
FIELD
The Rev. R. Bland Mitchell, Executive Secretary
The Rev. Robert W. Patton, d . d ., Campaign Director The Rev. J. A. Schaad, General Missioner
The Rev. Louis G. Wood, General Secretary Lawrence L. Gaillard, General Secretary
The Rev. Loaring Clark, d . d .. General Missioner The Rev. J. M. B. Gill, General Secretary
The Rev. A. R. McKinstry, Corresponding Secretary Miss Jean W. Underhill, Speakers’ Bureau
THE WOMAN'S AUXILIARY
Miss Grace Lindley, Executive Secretary
Mrs. George Biller, Miss Laura F. Boyer,
. . . Organizing Secretary “ Assistant Educational Secretary
Miss Emily, C. Tillotson, Mrs. G. B. K. Wade
Educational Secretary Supply Secretary'
Miss Ellen I. Flanders, Office Secretary
Address all communications to the Church Missions House, 281 Fourth Avenue New York N Y
Telephone number for all Departments, 3012 Gramercy ’ • " *
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m o te d th r o u g h t h e D e p a r tm e n ts o f M is s io n s a n d C h u r c h E x te n s io n , R e lig io u s E d u c a tio n , C h ris
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W illia m 0. S t u r g is , P h .D ., S e c r e ta r y
Anotlier Organization!
T is small cause for wonder that priest Claus to needy children. He says, “Let us
Ianother
and layman look aghast and say, “What!
organization?” There are too many
get a list of children about twelve to four
teen years old and bring them all together
things to belong to. There are too many and give them a Christmas tree and some
things we should be getting people to be presents.”
long to. They have a right to inquire anx That meets with general approval, until
iously, “Does Social Service mean another our group member speaks up and says, “I
organization ?” think that would be a very wrong thing
Yes. to do,.”
And no. “Why, I thought you were particularly
It means that there must be some little interested in this sort of thing,” says the
group who will get the vision of social serv prime mover, aggrieved.
ice and push and pull and stretch until that “I am,” answers the group member, “but
vision has permeated the parish. Here is I think you are doing harm in trying to do
an example. Somebody thinks it would be good. You are taking these children out of
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be in them. You are separating twelve-year- supposed to be hastening the coming: of the
old Johnnie from his parents and his little Kingdom of God.
sister and teaching him to look for his Write to the Church Missions House for
Christmas somewhere else than in his own Plain Points for Parish Practice in Social
home.” Service.
“Well, what do you think we ought to do Now if the creation of a small group to
instead?” says a listener. do that is organization, then we must admit
“I think you ought to take Christmas into the truth of the statement that social service
the home rather than pull somebody out of means another organization.
it to meet Christmas. I think you ought to . But when it comes to the expression of
meet the family and make yourself welcome social service, the organization already ex
and lend your aid in having a Christmas ists. There is not a group in the parish,
that will be by them and for them and in whatever name it carries, which cannot be
their house. Then you will be helping to led to see an obligation to the community
build up the home, the one social unit on that comes under the head of social service.
which we build our society. The other way In fact, many of them will be found to be
you are disregarding it and teaching children discharging that obligation. But it cannot
to disregard it.” be said of the Church as a whole that there
“There’s more to this than I thought,” is a widespread consciousness of social obli
speaks up somebody. gations. When that can be said to be true
“Why don’t we get up a talk on this sub this Church will be ready to hold out to a
ject?” says the group member. “I know a bewildered society a demonstration of work
man who has been in social work for years which seeks the good of others, of coopera
who could give us a lot to think about.” tion which makes that work efficient, and to
The upshot is that he gets the men’s club hold up the vision of a Christian order
to listen to a trained social worker and there which means Christian homes, Christian
follows a discussion which goes far toward business and Christian living.
developing the social conscience in that No, not another organization. Rather a
men’s club. leaven for all organizations. How badly
That requires, as we said before, a little that leaven is needed we may learn from
group of earnest, determined people who are the judge of the juvenile court, from the
not letting any opportunity go bv of getting national budget for war, from the failures
something in which will arouse the parish of child-labor laws, or from a walk down
to its duty as a body of Christians who are the street.
Publicity Department
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parish house. Repeated efforts have been plenty of it. . . .
made to increase the circulation of the Mes But whatever the cause, the fact remains
senger, which is full of information about that the majority of the people of the Dio
what is going on in the Diocese—and we cese know little of the affairs of their own
have now 1,500 subscribers among the 14,000 parish, slightly less of the affairs of the
families of the Diocese. A year ago “Our Diocese, and still less of the affairs of the
Diocese” was published, and orders for the National Church. And the cure is nothing
book have been received from thirty-six more nor less than a concerted effort on the
out of the 150 parishes and missions of part of all parish leaders to get the infor
the Diocese—about 500 copies sent out, some mation over to all the people. Study class
of which have never been paid for. work, lectures in Lent, special addresses—
If these are fair samples of the way in all these means have been used, and used
which efforts are made to disseminate in successfully. And it does seem as though
formation about the work of the Church it some effort ought to be made to spread pub
is little wonder that the parish chairman lished facts about the Diocese and the Gen
writes as he does. Who is to blame? We eral Church to such an extent that people
don’t know, although we have an idea it is will at least have some definite idea about
a double fault, both of the leaders and of what their money is used for. It is not be
those that ought to be led. The clergy and cause there is no material. There is plenty
the other leaders cannot get the information of it, some of it very good and full of in
to the people unless they respond, and the formation, but people must be told about it
laity will not respond unless some effort is and led to use it.
made to reach them. But it is not for lack Gospel Messenger, D iocese of C entral
of material containing information-^there is N ew Y ork .
Jftelfc department
T h e R e v . R . B la n d M itc h e ll, E x e c u t iv e S e c r e ta r y
Speaker*’ pureau
M iss J e a n W . U n d e r h ill, in C h a r g e
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Regional Conferences in Georgia and Colorado
URING the month of January two
D Regional Conferences of the Field De
partment were held—one in Atlanta, Georgia,
10. Conformity to a standard of religious
education, either diocesan or na
tional.
for the Fourth Province, and one in Man-
itou, Colorado, for the Sixth, Seventh and B. It is the sense of this. Conference
Eighth Provinces. Each Conference adopted that the Field Department does not need
a series of “Findings.” The following items at present to promote any additional meth
are taken from the recommendations of" the ods of organization, and that we should
Manitou Conference: devote our attention for a considerable
A. We recommend a standard of attain time to the working out throughout the
ment in parish objectives, such as follows: Church of the tested plans of organization
1. A program of evangelization — ten and technique which have been found
per cent net growth is suggested. efficient and fruitful, such as.
2. Group organization. 1. The group organization.
3. Parish Council or its equivalent with 2. Parish program conferences.
departments corresponding with those 3. Parish conferences on the Church’s
of the National Council—especially a Mission.
Field Department. 4. Group discussions.
4. Young Peoples’ Societies. 5. Training institutes for leaders.
5. Annual Every Member Canvass. .
6. The meeting of the budget q,uota and C. That the Field Department block off
60 per cent of communicants con the yearly program of the Church into the
tributing. following general divisions:
7. An organized effort to recruit for 1. The period from September to the
life work. end of December for special presenta
8. Representation at Summer Confer tion of the Church’s Program.
ences and official Diocesan assem 2. January: Advance study of mission
blages. ary work.
9. That parish pledge cards include the 3. February-March: Religious educa
national plan for securing subscrip tion work.
tions to the diocesan paper and the 4. A pril: Social service work.
Church at Work. 5. May: Parish program conference.
®Moman’sf Säuxütarj»
M iss G r a c e L in d le y , E x e c u t iv e S e c re ta ry
Officers' Conference
H E December Officers’ Conference was uary the Supply Department takes over the
T held on December twentieth. Holy Com
munion was celebrated in the chapel at ten
handling of the Joy Boxes. In the dioceses
they will continue to be handled by the
o’clock. Church School Service League directors un
At the meeting which followed immediately less within the diocese itself they wish to
representatives from Long Island, Newark, have all boxes handled by one department.
New York and Pittsburgh answered the roll Each diocese will handle them as they wish,
call. but at headquarters all the box work will
Miss Tillotson called the meeting to order, be under the Supply Department.
and spoke of Miss Lindley’s trip to the Miss Tillotson’ reported on the training
Orient. institutes both she and Miss Boyer have
Mrs. Biller made a report on some of been holding for the Field Department this
her recent meetings in the Fourth and Sixth Fall.
Provinces. Miss Adelaide Case, instructor in Teach
Mrs. Wade told of two new phases of the ers’ Collège, was introduced as the speaker
work in the Supply Department. First, that on Training for Service, and said that this
this year through that department the women is one of the most important matters before
of the Church have sent Christmas presents the Christian forces of this country just
to all of our women missionaries, 478 in now. She presented some reasons for the
number. Second, that about the first of Jan- insistence of the Church on training :
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The N ational Council
1. The fields of specialized work have coming year will be presented and the edu
multiplied enormously during the last twenty cational secretaries hope that many of the
or twenty-five years. officers and members of the Auxiliary, es
2. The workers themselves are demanding pecially those interested in the educational
training. work, will be present to help them by their
3. Other workers are being given this suggestions and advice and to take part in
specialized training. the discussion of plans for the coming year.
4. Other Christian organizations are con
sidering training and standards are being de S a memorial to their late president, Miss
veloped.
5. There is a growing demand in our
A Elizabeth Delafield, the members of the
Woman’s Auxiliary of the Diocese of New
Church for specialized workers, and the sup York plan to erect a church in Japan, to
ply is very small. take the. place of one destroyed by the earth
In considering the matter of Training, quake. This announcement was made_ in the
problems arise which Miss Case outlined recent meeting of the Auxiliary in the
thus : Cathedral of St. John the Divine, in New
1. What is the relation between training York City. We will publish further infor
and recruiting? mation as soon as the details ¡are determined
2. Who should decide what the training upon.
should be? ,
3. Are there any minimum essentials for H E building of the new Sarah Conway
all our workers?
4. How far shall the Church use non-
T Ramsaur Memorial Hospital, of which the
present St. Timothy’s Hospital will form the
Church institutions for training? nucleus, is going forward rapidly. The addi
5. What is the particular contribution of tion, which will cost in the neighborhood
our own Church institutions for training? of $5,000, will include a Nurses’ Home and
6. What are the possibilities for training a dispensary, among other requisites, ; and
on the job? will probably be ready for occupancy by the
7. How can we carry the cost of training? end of 1924.
8. In this training, what should be the
ratio of study, observation and practice ?_
9. How can we train our students spirit
ually and how relate this to definite tech
M iss Lmdley s Itinerary-
nical training? Leave Philippines (about) February 15th.
10. How can we establish a sentiment in Arrive Anking March 21st address: care
our Church for training? of American Church Mission, 43 Tung Ting
The women of the Church can render Road, Hankow, China.
great service to the cause of Christ by think Leave Hankow March 20th.
ing very seriously of the problems involved Arrive Anking March 21st; address : care
in these1questions. of St. James’ Hospital, Anking, China.
Leave Anking April 3rd.
Arrive Shanghai April 4 th ; address: care
The February Officers of Mr. P. M. Walker, 20 Minhhong Road,
Shanghai, China.
Conference Leave Shanghai April 25th.
H E February Officers’ Conference will Arrive Peking (about) April 25th-28th;
T be held on February the fourteenth at
the Church Missions House at ten-thirty in
address: Hotel de Pekin.
Leave Peking May 2nd.
the morning, being preceded by a celebration Arrive Japan May 2nd-5th.
of the Holy Communion in the chapel at ten Stay Kyoto May 5th-20th; address: care
o’clock. of Bishop’s Office, Karasumaru-dori, Shimo-
The subject will be Educational Plans for tachi-Uri, Kyoto, Japan.
the Year 1924. Stay Tokyo May 21st-June 15th; address:
As announced in the January number of care of Bishop McKim, Ilcebukuro, Tokyo,
T h e S p ir it of M is s io n s the date of this Japan.
Conference has been changed from the third
to the second Thursday of February to
avoid conflicting with the date of the Meet Church School teachers find the
ing of the National Council, which has been Spirit of Missions inspiring and
postponed a week so that Bishop Gailor and helpful.
Dr. Wood, who are returning from their If you will mail us the name and
visit to the Orient, can be present. address of a teacher who does not
1 It is not necessary to remind the officers read the Church’s missionary
and members of the Auxiliary of the great magazine, we will gladly send a
importance of the educational work- Much copy for examination.
of interest in regard to the plans for the
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