AT HOME AND ABROAD A LOOK O VER THE F IE L D
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[□jillllllllinnHIIlIHlIlllllHItllllHIIItlHnillllllllWnWIllllllllillllllilfllllllllltlllllllllWIlllMIIIHIIimwmniHlllinilHlllllllllli...............................I...... [|||||||rg j] 'T 'H E R E are about 7000 unmarried * women missionaries now at work in the foreign field. The Protestant Episcopal Church is engaged in raising $500,000 for a hospital in Tokyo, Japan, to be called .St. Lukes. O f this amount churchmen have subscribed $125,000; and outsiders, $180,000; leaving $195,000 yet to be secured.
Four American physicians have died o f typhus fever in Northwestern Turkey . within one month. “The Loving-all Dispensary” is the name over the gate o f the Mission dispensary in Okayama, Japan. As one result o f Christian missions in China, the yellow peril is becoming Chris tianity’s golden opportunity—missions. The Sunday Schools o f the Christian denomination gave to Home and Foreign Missions last year $178,746, an average of $22.49 per school. The native churches (in foreign mis sion fields) last year are said to have given approximately $1 for every $4 con tributed in America. Mrs. Francis E. Clark (w ife o f “ Chris tian Endeavor Clark” ) has an interesting article on “ The King"s Highway in Hawaii,” in the March number o f “Life and Light for Woman.” The children o f the Protestant Episco pal Church are trained to give their sav ings during the Lenten season as an offer ing for foreign Missions on Easter Sun day o f each year. The givers include the children o f all the nations to which 'the Protestant Episcopal church ministers at home and abroad. In 1878, the first year in which this plan was adopted, these offers amounted t o ' $7,000; in 1915 the offers amounted to $186,233.41. The dis trict o f North Dakota, itself a mission dis trict, giving $1.20 per capita leads all the re,st, while “ The old mother Diocese o f Pennsylvania” comes second with 79 cents per-capita. •
Over 4000 refugees (including children between 5 and 14 years o f age) from Armenia, are being cared for at Port Said, Egypt. Tents, hospital, bakery, baths and workshops have been provided, and the whole movement is being carefully handled by the government and the.American and the Armenian Red Cross committees. The' Presbyterian Church, North, has ten mission stations in the Philippines, in the fields assigned to it by the Evangelical Union. Over 2,000,000 people live in its territory, Its work is evangelistic, educa tional and medical, and within fourteen years it has received 14,000 members into its 100 mission churches. It has more than 300 preaching stations and thirty regularly ordained local evangelists.— Missions. W . E. Johnson o f Elat, West Africa, says: “I was five years among these peo ple before baptizing a single convert, and then only five were received. . A year before returning home on my last furlough, I baptized on one Sunday morning 201 per sons. The audience that morning was over 5000. Three months later the audience had gone up to 7000, and after I returned home the missionary, in charge wrote me that his audience had gone up to 8100. The Presbyterian church which received last year the greatest number o f persons on confession o f faith, was not in America but out in the forests o f Africa. The church at Elat baptized and received into our membership 1060 persons.”
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