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it has beell su.ggested, tllat some portion of tlu Sall/rda)' follo'w­

mg" tile first Sunday of cach mOlltl" sflould be observed b), all our

missiollaries as a seaSOll of special prayer for God's blessing 011 our

Baptist work awl 'Workers, mut £t 'Was further suggested that we

also rC1Jlember tile same objects dailJ' ill tile pra)lcr offered at tile

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(Additional copies of this report can be secured from Rev" F" P. HAGGARD, American llapti~t Missionary Union, Ford Building, Boston, Mass. U.S.A. PRICE TIo::1\ CE?\"TS

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CONTENTS.

J ~TRODVC rim •...

EVAlIiGEI.ISTIC \VORK OF THE MISSIOK:-

Of the different Statior:s:­Yokohama

Tokyo Morioka

'Kobe ... Sendai Shimonoseki (including Chofu) Osaka

Otaru

Inland Sea (Gospel Ship, FII/mill llfa1"ll) ...

Himeji 'Kyoto

EnLTCATIO~AL \YORK OF THF. Mtss!O:-\ :­

Introduction

Theological Seminary, Yokohama ... Duncan Academy, Tokyo (Boys' S:chool) Sarah Curtis 'Horne, Tokyo (Girls' School) Mary L. Colby Home, Yokohamn, Ella O. Patrick Home, Sendai Hinomoto Jogakko, Himeji

Yokohama Day School ... Kobiki-cho Day School, Tokyo Kobe Station Kindergartens:-

Zenrin, Kobe ..• Aikwa, Lin Chin

Tokyo Station 'Kindergartens:­Tsukiji Votsuya __ _

Morioka Kindergarten \Yon,.an's Bible Training. School, Osaka :-

Proposed Rules, Organization, Course of Study, etc ... REPORTS OF STA!liDI:->C A:\O SPECIAl. COlmITTEES, ETC.:­

Publications

Bible "'oman's Work '"

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Sunday Schools 59 Language Examinations... 61 Vnion Hymnal 61 lJaptist Hymns 62 Statement of Shadan (Property Corporation) 63 Self-Support 63 Mission Property 65 Hoard of Editors 66 Address of Delegate from the Nenkwai (Japanese Annual Convention) 67 Co-operating Missions 68 Advanced \York 68 Statistician 72 Missionary Review, India 75 Interdenominational S. S. Helps 75 Interdenominational Bible Translation 75 Compilation uf Rules 75 Resolutions 77

SUMMARY OF PROClmfllNGS, Ar-.;:"UAL SESSIO:-;', JUNE 7TH TO 11TH, 1908 ... 78 AT'I'ENntx :-

A. Directory... 8 I 13. Financial Report of Treasurer 83 C. Financial Report of Publication Committee 83 D. Record of Anniversaries... 84 E. List of Publications 85 F. Constitution and By. Laws 86 G. Officers and Committees 87 H. Statistical Table Folder.

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CAPT. L. \Y. BICKEL, CHAII<\lA;;; .OF kEFF.kE~CE COlnIUTEE.

1908 .

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~JI<. J..:. :\. lH(J)fS()X, SE'~~"ErAkV 01· REFERENCE CoMMIT rEi'.

INTRODUCTION.

Our Annual Conference is usually held for about five days, in May, in the quiet mountain village of Arima near Kobe.

Its deeply devotional character makes it a time of spiritual uplift truly appreciated by all the members of our Baptist family who come here from comparative isolation. while its business sessions afford opportunity for a study of the whole field with its various needs. problems and encouragements. All business is transacted subject to the approval of the Home Board, but in most cases the initiative is taken by this Conference of missionaries on the field.

The Conference this year was nea'r1y a month later than usual but was attended by representatives of every station. It was marked by an c\rjdent growth in the consciousness of the one­ness of our work. and definite steps were taken towards the more complete co-ordination of various interests.

The object of this Report is to put in permanent form the record of this year's Conference and to give to those iHterested a resume of the work of the American Baptist Missionary Union in Japan for the year 19°7-8.

The Reports herein contained were accepted by Conference, but it is understood that Conference does not necessarily endorse the views stated in the Reports unless otherwise acted upon.

EV ANGELISTIC WORK. - ~----~ ,"'< -~ ----~----

:\lore than at any time since tI.e "Tnikio Dendo" of seven years ago, has :;pecial evangelistic work been emphasized throughout Japan this year. In our own "\li~sion three of our strongest men have given their time entirely to helping the pastors in evangelistic work. In some districts" sbuchu dendo" (concentrated effort), the bringing together of as large and strong a force as possible to work for a while in one place, bas been tried. There have been results in awakenings and conversions, but perhaps one of the best results has been the deepening of the conviction that no "method" or occasional effort can be a substitute for an evangelistic spirit shown in the daily life of the individual church member.

The reports which follow are necessarily brief but give a glimpse of the conditions of the various stations.

REPORTS FROM THE STATIONS.

(ARR:\?\GED I:-': THE ORDER IN WHICH THE STATJOi\S

WERE ESTABLISHED).

YOKOHAMA.

:\IISSJONARIES :--

Dr. and Mrs. A. A. BE:\:\ETT. Dr. and Mrs. ]. L. DEARIi\G.

Dr. and Mrs. C. K. HARRINGTON (Abscllt.) .:\1r. F. G. HARRINGTON (Mrs. Harrington, Absellt.) ~,1r. and Mrs. W B. PA RSH LEY. Miss C. A. CONYERSE (Absent.) Miss E. F. \VILCOX.

The evangelistic work in Yokohama for the past year has been very encouraging. But just here let me emphasize the fact that though this part of the report appears over my name I have had comparatively little to do with what it reports. Other missionaries, and workers associated with other missionaries, deserve the praise so far as it belongs to man. This is especially true in the case of l\Ir. M. Ito working with Dr. Dearing.

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The Yokohama church continues to thrive under Cburcb Work the pastoral care of Mr. r Uyeyama. There have

been baptisms every month, if not oftener, I think, and the total baptized probably exceeds that of anyone year in the past history of the church. Prayer-meetings as well as other services are well attended and well sustained. The church has rejoiced in being able to assume the entire support of their pastor.

A number of interesting cases might he cited from rece~tor~o:!erts among those who have been baptized during the

year. One .. is that of Mr. Goto who has studied some in our seminary and has long been assisting in the street­preaching and in the services at some of the preaching-places. He has come to accept our vie\\'s of doctrine. has been immersed, and since has been publicly set apart as one of our deacons. He was for many years connected with another denomination.

The work in Shinshu. ecclesiastically at present a The Shloshu f

field part 0 the Yokohama work, has been peculiarly en-couraging. OUf General Evangelists, Mr. Taniguchi

and Mr. Tatsuda, woke the community up, especially in Omachi. Many of the hundreds who professed at the time to have become inquirers bave 110t since given evidence of any deep work of grace. Still there were genuine conversions, and there are many others in whose heart!? the good seed took root and who are being watched and cared for with mingled hope and fear. Special efforts are 110W being made, through an increased working force and multiplied meetings, in the hope that the summer's campaign may mean much for our Lord's cause there. \Vord has just come from Mr. Takizawa that among recent converts are his mother, aged seventy-eight, an uncle, aged eighty-three. and an aunt, aged e~ghty­two. The mother has already been baptized.

The [native] Japanese Missionary Society does not The Native belong to the Yokohama field exclusively; but, as it

Home Missionary has its headqu'uters here and as its operati'ons Society (, mean so much to the future of our Baptist work,

I may be pardoned for alluding to it. It has set apart and sent forth its first missionary, 1\11'. Inosuke Ide, and is now raising among its own people about seventy 'yen per month. It deserves our most hearty endorsement. Mr. Mitamura is work­ing very hard to collect this money and still harder to have our Japanese brethren and sisters give the Society their sympathy and their prayers. All experiences in the home-land go to testify that however earnestly the members of any church may be striving to erect or repair their buildings, support their pastor, or make any

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other wise outlay, they suffer and the whole church suffers. if they do not, with a wider sympathy, also SUppOlt the cause of their own mission. Let us encourage them to do so .

Nemuro

. \fR. 1. InE A"D FAMILY AT :"AGOYA. MR. InE 15 TilE FIRST :lIlSS[O"ARY OF 'mE (NATIVE) BAPTIST

.\11SSIONARY SocUi:TY, A:"1l ]S E"iTIREI.Y SUPPORTED llY THEM.

During the past year we have secured an Evangelist for the Nemuro church in the person of ~Ir. Kido WilD .came to us from another denomination. Mr.

Kic10 seems to be a zealous man and well eql!-ipped for the field and we have hopes that his labors may be blest. Last year 1\1r. })arshley spent a few days on the field, baptizing four converts. Mr. Jones and Mr. Tatsuda were to have followed me, but on account of the latter's illness, Mr. Jones proceeded alone to the field and held meetings for several days. '''Ie are trusting that a new era has dawned for Nemuro.

,Yo B. PARSHI.EY.

Mr. Akagawa has continued in charge of the work 011

Mito this field during the year, though he is now about to change. The services in the Mito church have been

Vt:l"y poorly attended but a faithful band of absent members as well as the local members have contributed regularly to the work and have given it a strength that is out of proportion to the local at­tendance. By this means the church has carried on a preaching place in the lower tOW11, meeting all the expenses of the same, where several services per week have been held and where a Sunday School also is conducted. It has been a very excellent work. Mr. Akagawa has also visited Shimodate regularly where several believers reside and he has done considerable other evangelistic work in other towns. A Bible woman was sent to Mito early in the fall and she has seemed to do a very satisfactory work in visiting and con­ducting meetings among the women and in carrying on the Sunday Schools.

The work here is more encouraging than for some Taira years. 1\11'. Asahara has begun to get a good hold of

the community. A very desirable place for meetings ha~ been secured and the brethren are full of courage. So many of the Christians here are from outside the town that it is hard to get a footing in the town itself. And further the school teachers and officers are particularly opposed to Christianity and hence progress in the to\\'n is slow. Some beginning has at last been made here ho\\'e\'er and it is to be hoped that the interest of the town's people mar be secured. Meetings and Sunday School are especially large. A \'isit of the missionary in May was the occasion of a warm welcome. In few places is the work of the missionary more appreciated than here. The girls in the silk-weaving establishment of 011e of the members are especially accessable and a Bible woman could do good work 'here. The woman from Mito has gone there each month recently and also \'isits Oguri.

Yokohama This place was first opened for the special work of the Dendo Kwan Theological students. It has found many difficulties in

(Oospel Hall) the way of successful prosecution. A fine work has

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however developed in which the students have had a considerable sh ... 'lre the past year. Mr. Ito is a man remarkably well adapted for such work and has had a success which is very remarkable. Morning as well as evening services have been held on Sunday with large attendance and most of the year two Sunday Schools each Sunday. The week day meetings have been numerous and well attended. A large num­ber of inquirers have been gathered some of whom have been baptized into the Yokohama Church. The Chapel has had to suffer a gll\lt

deal of persecution during the year so much so that it would seem wise to organize a new church. Sunday morning services have called together 25 to 30 people almost all of whom would be in no Church were it not for the Chapel. This seems sufficient rea..<;on for con­tinuing the services. It is believed that with a separate organization more pleasant relations would soon exist and the work sc..:CIllS on the eve of great prosperity. Yokohama should be able with its 300,000 population to support two Baptist churches when the large number of workers both Missionary and Native is considered. The local Church is however influenced by a narrow spirit which would compel all the Baptists in the city to confine their work to this one organization. The native brethren may however be trusted to work out the problem that faces them.

J. L. DEARING.

TOKYO.

MISSIONARIES ;-

Mr. and Mrs. C. H. D. FISHER.

Mr. S. \tv. HAMBLEN (Mrs. Hamblen, Absent.) IVlr. and 1\Irs. ]. C. BRAND.

Prof. and Mrs. E. W. CLE~mNT. Mr. and Mrs. H. B. BENNINr;JIOFF.

1\lr. ]. F GRESSITT.

Miss A:-:NIE H. KIDDER.

Miss M. ANTOINETTE \V'HIT2\IA:\.

Miss EYA L. ROJ.MAK.

Miss 1\1. A,:\NA CLAGETT (Absent.) Miss EDNA E. K. LINSLEY.

Mrs. NI!':A TUXBURY (temporarily for language study.)

Building of the In the work in Tokyo during the past year we have Central had many reasons for thankfulness, for though far

Tabernacle less than what we could have wished has been ac­complished there have been especial blessings and not a few signs of better things still to follow. Noteworthy among our needs has been

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a building for the honoring, emphasizing and unifying of our evan­gelistic work and so it was with especial pleasure that early in the year we received a cable assuring us of the money needed for the erection of our Central Tabernacle. As fast as possible the plans for it, which had been talked of, before were pushed to completion, the contract was let, the work of building begun and is now progressing so well that we hope the dedication services can take place during the visit of Secretary Barbour this summer. The Japanese brethren have been very thankful for the help given and for the brighter prospects, and w~ have been much gratified by the cordial co-opera­tion of pastors and evangelists in planning for the work of the Tabernacle and by the desire of all to do what they can as evidenced by the gifts toward the furnishing of the Tabernacle made at the union service when Dr. Mabie was here. The close superintendence of the work of building that we found necessary as the work progressed has lessened the amount of the writer's evangelistic work during the year both in the city and in the country and I have only been able to reconcile myself to it by the desire to see that the best possible use was made of the building fund and by the great hope we all have of the work that will center there. All agree that the workshop is going to be a most excellent one, something that we have never before had in Tokyo, and it is interesting to see the earnest spirit of prayer that all have that it may be a place where we shall see great good done, and increasingly so as the years go by. Surely great wisdom will be needed and we ask of all much prayer in that respect.

Tokyo City During the year there has been good work done in EvangeUstic all the regular services of the churches and interest

Work too has been deepened by monthly union meetings of three or four evenings held in turn at the various churches. \N ork­ers have thus felt their hands strengthened and learned to work together and especial interest has been stimulated in the different neighborhoods.

Besides the work in the regular church services at our ten preaching places in the city, hundreds of meetings have been held with doors open to the streets for the reaching of those whose needs are even greater but who would not otherwise have heard the truth we long tv give them. Thousands come to Tokyo from all parts of the country and w bile they seek other things we are anxious that they shall also take home with them that which is the best. Of course few of such hearers stay to become members of our churches and so statistics give little evidence of the work done but sometim~ we hear of how far the influence has reached and the Great Statistician who knows all has seen our work and has heard our earnest prayers for great results. Mr. Brand says, cc the year has been an encourage-

ment and a blessing. Thousands have heard the Gospel at my preaching place and many have believed and are living better lives. During the year more than 300 have remained to inquiry meetings and many went away trusting Christ as their Savior und having signed cards promising with His help to be his faithful servants." Others of us, too, could bear witness to many such hearers and truly thank God for them. In two places meetings have been held almost every night in the week and Mr. Hamblen and Mr. Brand speak of large meetings on heathen festival and bazaar evenings when two or three times a month thousands throng the streets seeking pleasu re and sometimes at these meetings finding truth :-IS well. At all such public meetings much use has been made of tracts and many buy Gospels and some Testaments to take with them. Our pastors re­joice with us in such work feeling sure that the day is coming Whell the bearers of precious seed will without doubt come again with I c­joicing bringing their sheaves with them.

Entirely beyond our strength as the calls for work Country Work are here in Tokyo we still can not avoid doing much

work in the country around us. Indeed the one leads directly to the other for many hearing here ask us to come there and then gladly help us to reach their friends. Thus. in provinces nearby much work is done from Tokyo as a center. Even our ladies Miss Whitman and Miss Clagett who were not strong and were al­ready burdened with work, feeling that they could not resist the Macedonian calls, have gone out many times during the year and have been much blest in so doing. In one province they report regular services held by their helpers in three towns and meetings held, and calls made every month in ten or fifteen other villages. Sad we all are that too much work has so told upon Miss Cbg-ett that she has had to go home for treatment but we hope she may be spared to come back to us before long. Mr. l\1:errifield also after making an earnest fight for health has had to return home but he writes that his heart is still here and he has shown it also by his gifts. None will wonder that with such losses while the demands of the work far exceed our strength it has been a great pleasure to us to welcome Mr. anu Mrs. Benninghoff, Me Gressitt and Miss Linsley who have come to be our helpers in Tokyo and others who have come to prepare for the work elsewhere.

C. H. D. FISHER.

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MORIOKA.

MISSIONARIES :-

Mr. and Mrs. HENRY TOPPING. Mr. and Mrs. \VM. AXUNG (Absent.)

The record of the past year is one of continued Continued

Blessings blessings. Special progress has been evident since we moved into the renovated mission residence in

October. It is connected with the church building and adds rooms for Sunday School classes, prayer, enquiry, social, and other church meetings; besides being the home of the Y.\V.C.A. and the Kinder­garten.

Parlor Our parlor evangelistic meetings have been attended Evangelistic by many who would not enter a church and thus

Meetings our new horne gives added opportunities for direct evangelistic work, besides being helpful to all other lines of work. Even though without a pastor a large number have become followers of Christ, and have been added to the church.

The members are united and faithful; our prayer meet­pra~~tings ings show a marked increase in attendance and interest

and volunteers for Sunday school work have doubled our teaching force.

Four more approved young men have decided to YO~FoI~fr~ for study for the ministry and fOllr young women, school

teachers of some year's experience, have expressed a desire to become Bible-women.

IIE:\RY TUPl'ING.

K 0 B F.

MISSIONARIES :-

Mr. and Mrs. R. A. THOMSON.

\Ve have had one of the most successful years in the Successful history of this field. Progress has been made along

Year every line, numerically, financially and spiritually.

This field now simply covers the work in the city of Kobe, including the Church and one preaching place at Ono, the Kindergarten near the preaching place, the Church at Hyogo and the work at Iiu­Chiu. vVhen Mr. Yoshikawa was appointed to the work of General Evangelist, the Church called Mr. Shimose to become their preacher, but as he was not ordained then the Church asked me to take charge

l\IR, SIIlllfOSE. PASTOR KOllE DAIYl'/ST Cm;RCIJ,

AND \\'IFE.

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of the ordinances. Mr. Shina):.c has done well in keeping tIl{' Chun;h together and in building it up in c\'cry way and he is exceedingly p()pular among the yuung people. }\otwitlt­standing the continued rise in the cost of living alllong the ]apallCSt:. the Church has done splcndillly in the matter oi self-support. raising nearly se\'en hundred J't'll for its running expenses, This \\'~s up to the end of I90i.

The work at Hyogo Hyogo has been well Qttcndld

to under the can." of Mr. Shibata, who is a vcry strong evangelistic preacher. Tilt.: preach­ing place became altogether too small for the crowds who attended

thoughtfulness the meetings and through the

of the Executive Committee enough funds were pro-

A GRotH' OF HVOGO CURISTJAXS.

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vided so that the caplcity of the pres~nt place was exactly doubled, and it was made much lighter and neater in every way. The location is good, being on the main street. and the opportunities for aggressive work are excellent. A large number of new members have been gathered in during the year.

The preaching place at Ono has been cared for by 000 Mr. Nakajima, one of the graduates of the Theological

Seminary. He is an interesting speaker and holds a crowd very well indeed. This place might be called a "feeder" to the Church at Kobe as all the converts gained here are baptized into the Church. It is in a good locality very close to the Kindergarten, so that the teachers are able to help out in the large Sunday School which meets regularly.

Liu-Chiu is the far off dependency of the Kobe work, Uu-Chiu being nearly nine hundred miles away. Mrs. Thom-

son (who has a successful Kindergarten there now) and I made quite an extended trip in April being away about a month altogether. We held meetings- at Naha, Shud and at Itoma, a place about eight miles from Naha where we have opened regular work. Mr. Urazoe is carrying on the work at Itoma and Mr. Nishihara is now located at Shuri. Both of these men are native Liu-Chiua'ns and are acceptable speakers. The work at Naha is faithfully looked after by the pastor, Mr. Haraguchi and his very capable helpmeet. There is a large Sunday School here of over three hundred and seventy children under the special care of Mrs. Haraguchi and a fine corps of Liu·Chiuan assistants. Quite a number of baptisms took place during the year, but the Church does not grow financially. When the believers are asked to give towards the work, .they absent them­selves from the meetings for a time! In some respects the work is discouraging, but I am glad to say the pastor, like the missionary, is very optimistic.

To sum up we have had during the year seventy-two Baptisms baptisms in this field alone. Three hundred and

seventeen church members, six Sunday Schools with an enrolment of seven hundred and seventy·five children and a total contribution by the Churches for all pu rposes )'e1Z one thousand and twenty-seven and sixty-two sen! for all of which we truly thank God and take courage.

ROBERT AUSTL."i' THOMSON.

Marked Advance

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SEN.DAI.

MISSIOl\ARlES :-

Mr. and Mrs. W. B. BUUEN.

Miss ANNIE S. BllZZEU .. l\fjss AMV A. A COCK..

The Sendai ChuTch, to which belong the bulk of the believers on the Sendai field, made a marked advance during the year 1907. The departure of Mr. Oda~

1sume.. who had been granted a year's leave of absence by the girls' school, compelled the church to seek a new man for pastor. The regular expenses ofthe Church had beCullot much over $10 per month while $20 would be necessary if the Church was to receive the full time of a suitable pastor. Failure to rise to the occasion would mean serious loss while success would mean a long step forward. Happily the need was realized by many and the required funds were duJy pledged. The part the school girls, with small means. took was specially commendable. The Church has been in a very sound condition all the money side and the offerings for the Church building fund, the pooi- and evangelistic work. have actually shown a slight gain over the previous year. The Church was fortunate in securing as its pastor a spiritual man who has ability and experience as well as a first rate education. His earnest spirit. hard study and faithful pastoral work are causes for thanksgiving .

• Early in the year at our old preaching place a man &'r:~:tedd still under the influence of liquor came forward

at the dose of an earnest exhortation and COll­

fessed his sins. The next I heard was that he was asking for preaching services to be held in his house that the neighbors might be reached. In the fall three of these neighbors as well as he were baptized. Services have been maintained with varying interest in the neighborhood mentioned and a hold has been gained ,on a section of the city near our mission residence and far from the work orany others. The brother has been a joy to us. From my servant, himself a growing young Christian, I learned the following incident. The brothel· before mentioned sought to.sell wood toa cake--dea1er. TIle latter asked him to come down a trifle on the price but the indignant response was .. No, I am a Christian. My prices are not any higher than they ought to be." These words were believed and a large supply of wood was promptly purchased.

One Sunday a believer came to Sendai from its port, Shiogama, with a strange story. A man in prison had attempted to commit

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suicide. The poor fellow had been more sinned against than sinning, it would seem, cheated out of his little property and abandoned by all, he had become desperate. He failed, however, to take his life and somehow or other the experience produced in him a convic­tion of the existence of a personal God. When released from priSOll, he sought our brother and had responded very sympathetically to his teaching. The seeker's firm faith was a surprise to the student who came to work in the town during the seminary vacation. The latter was fearful that if the new brother should lose the health or the work for which he was so grateful to the Lord, his faith might show that it was not well grounded. The trial came in due season. The health failed, but the faith failed not. The man is well again and is leading a happy, humble Christian life.

Last fall we had to allow the return to the south of a man who has been the main stay of our country work. A few years ago this brother astonished his acquaintances by giving up a business position which yielded him the equivalent of $35 and undertaking evangelistic work at a salary of $10 per month. A man of sterling faith, strong will, humble spirit, deeply versed in the Scriptures he will be blessed wherever he may work. There has been added to our force a \Vaseda University graduate who was for the previous two years my teacher of Japanese. He is a very active, enterprising fellow and we pray that he may grow in tact, in steadiness and in spirituality so as to do a strong work and build up those to whom he ministers.

The North Japan Baptist Association had in Sendai North Japan I J I d' Th d d h . Association ast u y a very goo sessIOn. e stan ar as

risen and the number of workers is growing. We have a clearly defined territory for which we Baptists are l'esponsible and we are trying to reach the people. In the Sendai section the work has been very much broken up because there have been no trained men who could be settled with any hope of permanence, and each change of workers means losing hold of a large part of those, few or more, who had shown interest. There is reason to hope that the 'work may soon be put on a more hopeful basis by the location of permanent workers. The missionaries had a very satisfactory session with the Japanese Consultation Committee at the time of the annual associational meeting and their advice has been asked as occasion arose during the year. Without the hearty co-operation of all, foreign and Japanese, a full measure of success cannot be attained.

W. B. BlJLLEN.

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SHIMONOSEKI (Including Chofu.)

MISSIONARIES :-

]\IIr. and Mrs. G. W. HILL.

Mr. E. H. JOXES (Mrs. Jones, Abst·Il!.) Miss bGA PETTERSON. Miss LAVIXIA MEAD (Absnll.)

The beginning of the year found us with two good Ceuters of work centers of work in the city, but with only one

evangelist to help in the work. This condition has continued, and the single helper was unable to preach for three months, on account of sickness. Besides the regular Sunday morn­ing service and the prayer meeting we have regularly held three evangelistic services a week. Considerable help has been received from outside our Church and statioll, although some of the members have been ready to give efficient help in the evangelistic meetings.

General Evangelists Yoshikawa and Taniguchi have Special meetings both held series of meetings with us when large

numbers heard the Word and many enquirers were enrolled. \Ve are hoping to have a goodly number of these prepared for baptism before the summer. \Ve also joined in union meetings with the two other churches here, and several of the delegates to the l\Tcllk-dJai (Japanese Convention) remained over to help us in special meetings. More people have heard the Gospel this year, in the city, than ever before and much interest has been manifested. The Pastor has had some difficulty in maintaining his position in the Church, much to the hindrance of gathering the full results of our evangelistic efforts, but otherwise the outlook is very hopeful. The Church has not made advance in stability and spiritual power that I hoped but the general situation is full of promise for a growing work at this station.

Besides the regular evangelistic meetings I have held Bible shady some classes, as usual, for Bible study. This has been

the means of attracting and holding some of our best material for Church membership. In looking forward to a separa­tion from this field I am grateful for the years of service here, and though the results, measured by what is apparent now, seem small, the contrast with conditions that prevailed when I came is most striking, and gives ground for hope that a few more years will see a strong, working Church developed here.

G. W. Hll.L.

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\Ve have at Ch5fu one organized Church, with a Cbofu Church building. Several times during the year

special meetings have been held for unbelievers lasting from three to ten days at a time. The work has been very much interfered with by the serious illness and ultimate death of the wife of the resident evangelist, Mr. Wakamatsu. Mrs. Wakamatsu was a very efficient worker, a good wife. and loving mother. We all deeply sympathize with Mr. Wakamatsu rtnd his four children in their great loss. Both at Chofu and at Hagi General Evangelists. Yoshikawa and Taniguchi have held profitable series of Evangelistic services.

Near Ch5fu, on the railway at Ozuki, Asa, and t.: zuki, Ass, 0 d . 1 b 1 I f I f Onoda no a, meetIngs lave een le d requent y, rom

November. \\'e hired preaching places at each of these places, and at two of them Miss Petterson and her helpers held a weekly Bible school for children on the same day as our meeting. This helps our preaching meeting, for the children tell about the meeting in their homes. Though we have had no baptisms yet at these places there arc inquirers at each place. \iVhen I came to the field last fall 1 arranged to stay part of the month at the Ch6fu end

of the field, and part at the Hagi end. The two places Oda are about a day's journey apart. Half way to Hagi

there is a town called Oda. I was told that not ten years ago the people were so anti-Christian that they would not put up a missionary in their hotels. A Catholic missionary had to apply to the police, one time he was storm-stayed there, for assistance to get under a roof over night. The representative of the government, being much more enlightened, gave the hotel keepers such a scolding that there has been no difficulty since in getting simple accommoda­tion. But to get a place fOl~ preaching was a different thing. However the Lord opened the way. The principle hotel keeper. whose llame by the way is significant, (it is Onomi, or " great drinker ") and he is a saki: maker (brewer) had his eldest son return from Manchuria recently. The son had seen the good work done for the soldiers during the war by the Y.l\f.C.A. He also knew of the work done by the missionaries for the wounded soldiers. His heart was affected, and lle said he would give us any help we needed. Our way was opened to preach to the people. \Ve hold a meeting there twice a month, stopping on the way to or from Hagi.

At Hagi, the native town of Prince Ito, and six or Hagi seven of the other great men of Japan, we have a

Church building. Hagi is much opposed to our religion. As an illustration, we have been long trying to get another place to rent in the town for a second preaching center. We lately

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succeeded in getting a pretty convenient room, made all the an-angements, and told the people that the first meeting would be held in a few days. But next day word came from the owners that a protest had come in from the neighbors and that in consequcl1l'C they could not let us have the room.

But Hagi is better than it was ten years ago. At that Teo years ago time a mob gathered, and putting a rope around the

principle post of our building they were preparing to pull it down when the man who occupied the other end of the house, under the same roof. protested, and for his sake, as he was one of the unbelievers they desisted.

Now they only persecute any of their number who joins us. Two or three of our young men have been threatened with expulsion from home if they continue to attend Church. They have weakened to the extent of ceasing attendance at the meetings. I fear they mar not have the Holy Spirit with them in their compromizing position. and may fall away from the faith.

We have Evangelist Ozaki living at Hagi. His faithful work has been blessed so that a little group of faithful ones continue to carryon the fight. One of them a young man, a graduate of the middle school. has decided that the Lord has called him to the work of the ministry. He will go to the Theological Seminary this fall with the cordial approval of M 1". Ozaki, myself, and his fellow believers. Brother Ozaki in his last visit to Senzaka \\'as assailed by

a militant Buddhist. The man came just as he was Persecution standing up to preach. " What are you coming here

to teach I Vaso ' for?" was his first question. "Don't you know that this place is a Buddhist stronghold?" Then followt:d physical arguments hard to answer by a man of Brother Ozaki size and opinions. The man struck our evangelist on his right cheek a sounding blow, and not waiting for him to turn the other side, even if he had desired to do so, gave him another on the left side. Then taking him by the U kimono" in front, he threw our brother violently to the ground outside the building. The audience did not attempt to stop the outrage. By this time the young man above mentioned, as going into the ministry, who was with Bro. Ozaki, came with a policeman and the exponent of physical Buduhism was marched off. This incident shows the spirit of the mass of the people of this region. They are ten or fifteen years behind other parts of Japan in their attitude toward Christianity.

We can say that the outlook here is most hopeful. Outlook Hopeful Many are earnestly inquiring and a little persecution

does not do any harm to the faith of our Christians. E. H. J0:,\E.<;.

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OSAKA.

MISSIONARIES :-

Mr. and Mrs. WM. WYND. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Scon. Miss GRACE ANNE HUGHES.

Miss MARY DANIELSON.

When the year opened the conditions were favourable ConditiOlls amid and the prospects for a fruitful year were bright.

wblch tbe Gospel Great religious O'atherings were being held in the big is proclaimed b • •

centres of Japan, newspapers were glvmg full reports of these meetings, and thousands were reading and talking about Christianity. Then there came a change and the minds of the masses became engrossed with other things. Troubles in America and Canada, business depression at home, frequent failures in the city and a feeling of uncertainty as to what might happen next, all these things tended to keep the people in a condition of excitement and to retard the progress of Christian work.

And yet, with general conditions unfavourable in Osaka, sub­stantial progress has been made. Better equipment has made the work easier and more effective. \Vith increased appropriations we have been able to enlarge and improve our chapels, and as a con­sequence the work has widened, and the number hearing the gospel has greatly increased.

To reach the people various methods have been Metbods used adopted among them being English classes in the to reacb tbe evening for clerks and students in the higher schools, people

magic lantern lectures to attract the people in the im-mediate neighbourhood of the chapels, protracted meetings con­ducted by some of our leading men. English and Japanese Bible classes in the home of the missionaries, preaching to the crowds who assemble three times a month at the street fairs, and always the regular bright evangelistic services in the two Churches. It would be difficult to estimate the number who in these various ways have heard the message of salvation, we know of a large number whose hearts have been touched, and of these thirty have been converted and received into Church fellowship.

And with tht:: growth of numbers in our Churches Growth of tbe there has been a marked increase in the contributions two cburcbes f h Ch' . d h f h' k o t e flstians towar s t e support 0 t elr wor .

New members have given liberally, and in some cases old members have doubled their monthly contributions.

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There has been a real growth in church life with the feding among the members that this work is their work and the n:~pol\­sibility for carrying it on, their responsibility, so that we arc en­couraged to hope that the day is not far distant when the churches in the city shall become self-supporting.

In the west district we are thankful to report that after New Cburcb in I . f' . 1 b d

West Osaka a ong time 0 waItmg our prayers lave een answere , and thanks to the friends at home, land in a splendid

location has been secured and a church home is in sight. After getting the land some little diplomacy and patience was required before we could get the former tenants removed, but now all things are ready and we hope to begin on the building immediately after Conference. This is a fitting time to express our ~ratitudc for what has been done in \Vest Osaka, and also for expressing our earnest hope to have the same thing done as soon as possible in the East district where we still carryon the work at a great disadvalltage for lack of a hall to hold the people who are ready to hear.

The women's work on the station has been well or-. ganised, and in spite of the special difficulties connected

Women s work with the work among women, has been very en-couraging.

The Bible \\Tomen's horne in West Osaka was finished during the year, and opened with a series of meetings for the people in the neighbourhood which they evidently enjoyed, for they turned out in large numbers, and afterwards as a mark of appreciation they joined together and presented to the home a set of garden seats. As there is no church in that neighbourhood, the Bible \Vomen's home ~opens up a new and promising centre for work. \Vomen's meetings have been held regularly in five places throughout the city, and the Chris­tian women have done more than their share in raising money for Church work, and especially for the building funds of the churches.

Perhaps the most encouraging feature of the station Sunday schools work has been the work of the Sunday Sch(lol where

the number of scholars has continued to increase until now we have over eight hundred pupils receiving regular instruction. At the great Sunday School rany when the large Y.M.C.A. hall was packed with children one of our Baptist boys took the place of honour, and received quite an ovation for the way in which he told the story of Samuel, and the practical lesson he brought out of the story for Japanese boys.

The Sunday School teachers naturally felt gratified that their efforts were producing such results, and the Church members are hrowing themselves heartily into Sunday School work believing that

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many of these little ones can be won for Christ now, and that in others the seed sown will bring forth fruit after many days.

During the year two new out stations have been NewOut·stations opened, one at Tempozan a place near the Osaka

harbour, and a place towards which the population seems rapidly gravitating; the other is at Kizu a town about six miles from Nara. In connection with these places there are already

flourishing Sunday Schools, and adult inquirers so Tbe Treat Fund that the outlook is hopeful. In closing we feel con­

E~::;~~~t strained to record our appreciation of the work done by the general evangelist for whose services we are

indebted to Mr. Treat. His coming to the station has been a blessing to the Christians,

to the inquirers, and his effective preaching has contributed not a little to the success of the years work.

"'!VI. \YYND.

OTARU

MISSIONARIES :-

1\1r. and Mrs. F VV. STEADMAN. Mr. and Mrs. T. E. SCHUMAKER (Absent.)

The Hokkaido field has experienced many changes ~:~::r~d during the past year, and unfortunately they can not

all be considered as contributing to the building up of our churches in this place. The first change that we note is that of the departure for America on a well earned furlough of Mr. and NIl'S. Schumaker. Their furlough was due, but the good work that they were doing could ill-afford to do without them.

Soon after their departure the building used as the home of the Sapporo Church was burned, and immediately after this the Pastor, Mr. Ishikawa, was obliged to move to a warmer place on account of the ill-health of his wife,-who has since passed away. The loss of such a good man from this new and promising work, together with the burning of the Church home and the inevitable change of loca­tion, has given this infant Church a set back from which it will take sometime to fully recover. From the middle of June to t)1e early part .of October Bro. Jones had oversight of the Hokkaido field. And with the help Qf the Otaru Evangelist Mr. Kawamura. and 1\11'. Tatsuda one of our General Evangelists, accomplished much in the way of special evangelistic meetings both in Otaru and in Sapporo. The Churches were encouraged, some converts were gathered in, and many listened to the plan of Salvation. On the 25th of October we

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arrived in Otaru. From the first we were impressed. not only with the roughness of a new country and a northern climate. but with the need and opportunity for mission work.

Our first task was to find out what we actually had Otaru, Sapporo in hand. To our surprise we found that in the

Otaru Church there were but five attending members: while in Sapporo the number only reached eight. This too in spite of the fact that there had been fifteen baptized during the year. Nearly all had moved away to other parts but we trust are not lost to our Baptist work in Japan even though they are lost to the Churches of Otaru and Sapporo. Besides these Christians we found quite a number who might be called" seekers" -some of whom we hope to see baptized soon.

There being but one Evangelist on the field we have alternated with him in preaching in Otaru and Sapporo. and in this way the regular meetings have been maintained.

Of late we have secured the help of two Seminary Special Effort d r: S d h h t' K 'b during Summer stu ents-one Jor apporo an t e ot er lor art uto.

They can be with us only for the summer as they each have one more year before ,.graduating from the II Advanced Course" of our Theological Seminary. We have also secured a Bible-woman who is just now taking up a very needy work among the women and children. .

During the past two months the attendance at all our meetings has greatly increased-due partly to returning warm weather and partly to special effort in the way of special meetings.

As yet we have been able to do but little in the way of out-post work. We have visited and held special meetings in Kaributo, where we now have several" seekers." And now that Mr. Ono is there for the Summer, we are in hopes that a weekly meeting may be established.

In Otaru we now have five different meetings each week besides two Sunday Schools.

In Sapporo we have three regular meetings and one Sunday School. Mr. Yamamoto helps us here for the summer.

As yet our buildings are small, numbers are small, and efforts feeble; but our opportunities are great and hopes high.

F. W. S'l'£ADMA.,...

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THE INLAND SEA.

THE MISSION SHIP "FUKL'IN MARU."

MI~SIONARIES :-

Capt. and Mrs. L. V'll BICKEL

The Fukuill Beating to Maru has Windward

been "beat-ing to windward" this year. There has been too much leeway at times, strong currents have opposeu us, heavy squalls have struck us, we must confess to a lack of care in our steer­ing, and still, tacking and tacking, persistentl y , steadily, we have been " beating to windward :" so I through God's mercy we are able to report a distinct advance in our work for the island people.

Some people play to a purpose while others work to none. A Bible­woman played with some children. First there were five, then ten, twenty, thirty. Now there is a full fledged

MR. FVJI!,\F.MA, ONE OF THE EVA.NGELISTS I~ THE INI.AND S:EA \\'ORK.

Kindergarten with a daily attendance of 50 pupils and others waiting, for lack of room. A special course of training given to this woman by Mrs. Thomson, has laid us under renewed obligation to our ever willing Kobe friends. Having been tested for 10 months it seems destined to endure. Hitherto without an appropriation and living on u engine oil," etc. Shall we apply for money to run it or stop it, is a question.

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Last year we reported him as having been a II fighting A Fighting Man man." He is that still, only the purpose of his fight-

ing and his weapons have changed. \Ve refer to our boatswain. Converted heart, soul and body even we at last could not deny the change. VVe were lowering a boat together. He spoke of the meeting Ile had held the night before, wc spoke of ours. 1/ Bo'sn, if you keep on like that we shall have to build you a Mission Ship," said we in jest, "Yes a little one like that," said he, also in jest, pointing to a little native craft. That night we did some think­ing. Long had we been puzzled as to the right way to deal with colportage work in the islands. \Vas not this the way? \Ve planned, friends helped financially and the result is a little vessel called the rukuill .filaI'll No.2. The boatswain is in chargc of her, fighting a good fight of faith in colportage work and preaching to the people from among whom he came.

\Vhat is a privilege to one may be none to another. Scptcl11~)er 15th was to us a day of great privilege in that the first commullIon service in connection with the Inland Sea \Nork was held. Under the kindly shelter of the beautiful mountains lifting their heads high in praise to God who made them as a token of his abiding presence, we gathered on the deck of the little white ship with ~ratcful hearts. There was no need, no desire, for eloquent words fro 11 I the tongue of man to bring home to the twenty-two souls who partook of com­munion that day the import of this gathering as an evidence of God's mercy in breaking the silence of centuries in these dark islands. Each in his or her own way had been in the conflict and silently thanked God for the victory.

Hitherto as a temporary measure convert') have been registered as members of the Himeji church. During the coming year we hope to form a separate church organization.

A roll-call at the year end may be well especially if thost.: con­cerned report before they are called. Thus we were grakful to find that during the Christmas season we either met or received letters from twenty-two of the twenty· three converts of the rllkuill ~faY1t. Moreover of this number five are engaged as definite Christian workers in various places while two others are studying with the purpose of giving their lives to Mission work.

An increase in Sunday Schools may mean little to those who work in large cities. To us here the opening of even one new one means on the one hand that a Bible-woman or evangelist shall be willing to journey by boat in all weathers say ten miles fifty-two times a year. On the other hand it means that untold difficulties have been overcome, prejudices removed and one more island community, composed of people, proud of and in their independence and isola-

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tion, has come to consent, and gladly, to the teaching of a new and hitherto hated religion to their children. Two new schools in important islands have been established during the year while the attendance at others has increased.

Six weeks in dock under demand of a government official, heavy repairs and a heavy bill at the end of it all seemed a hopeless hindrance. We decided to make a bold bid and took the vessel for repairs to one of the most conservative places in the Inland Sea ex­pecting just what took place. What took place was an uproar. The

people of the district blamed the Dock Company for Hindrances letting" that Jesus ship" in after they had for eight

years, solidly as one man, refused to give us room or hear us. The dock people faithful to Japanese custom using the well-worn phrase shikataganai (it can't be helped) went on with the work. Meanwhile we lay low. We held no meetings, oh no, not there. We just "played possum." But the crew after days of hard work without any request from us held meetings eighteen ill number. That, together with the Christian conduct of the crew and what they saw of the lives of the foreigners down to little Evelyn who would be friends with all, whether they chose or 110t, won the district so completely over that by special request we held a large and crowded meeting to wind up with and had ~ome two hundred people out on the beach to bid us farewell as we sailed away. That is the entering wedge in a new district. We hope to drive it home later on.

But we must pay our debts, debts of gratitude. First to the native workers for their faithfulness, then to the Mission at large for sympathy and help, to our faithful friends and co-workers at Himeji Mr. and Mrs. Briggs who have rendered unknown to others and

often to ourselves a thousand services, to a faithful Debts Paid partner in life who has borne for Christ's sake what

many women would shun and last but by no means least to a faithful crew, once Satan's own tool, now a definite asset in Mission work, to all of these we give thanks with a full heart. Having thus parcelled out the work to those to whom we are in­debted there remains for us but a very small portion. Thus it should be and we hereby humbly acknowledge the truth. We can only pray that God may make us more faithful to the trust committed to our care so that when at length in life's voyage we stand away on the last II home stretch" it may be with the consciousness that through God's mercy your little white ship has been a messenger of salvation, joy and peace to many an island home.

L. 'v. BICKEJ ..

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HIMEJI.

MISSIONARIES :-

Mr. and Mrs. F. C. BRIGGS. Miss K. A. DODGE (Abse1lt.) Miss F- M. RUMSEY.

There have been several changes in our working force C:e~:~:~lin this year. After a long brave struggle, Miss Dodge

was compelled by ill-health to give up the work and go home for rest in July. The care of the School thus came again to Mrs. Briggs. Miss Rumsey arrived in October and has been doing faithful work in language study and the teaching of English. Mr. Moria the student-evangelist who worked a year in the Toyooka field, returned to the Seminary in the fall for his final year. \\'e were fortunate in secu'ring Mr. Akimoto for the Toyooka work. He is a devout and capable Christian of considerable experience and we look for large blessings to come through him.

Kamada San, one of the first converts from the Inland Sea work, after some study in the Seminary, has begun work in Fuku­moto and neighboring towns. While not yet a strong preacher, his genuine Christian character and faithful personal work will we be­lieve have a deep influence.

It has been a year of some perceptible results in PeRrcePtibie Himeii. The church attendance so increased that esults ;I

talk of enlarging the building has commenced. The little prayer-meeting of a few years ago with half a dozen present has grown to an interesting service with an attendance of thirty to fifty. The church has organized for work, dividing the whole membership into bands for special service.

The Girls' School has been blessed with a work of grace of marked depth and quietness. Its first manifestation was at an ordinary school prayer meeting: one girl after another, without any urging from olltside, confessed her conviction of sin and longing for pardon and cleansing. The whole school felt the presence of the Spirit, and for weeks. in the early morning or late at night, from corners in the buildillgs, or secluded spots in the play-ground, where groups of girls had met to pray for, or with, some schoolmate whom they were seeking to lead to Christ, came the murmur of voices pleading with God. The Holy Spirit's presence was also manifested in awakened consciences, repentence, confession, restitution and renewed consecration on the part of luke-warm Christians. It was indeed a sea~on of refreshing from on high; we were all drawn near to God, and it is our daily prayer that the deep love and spirit of

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tender concern for others may never be lost be those who have come to know its blessedness.

. It has been a year with surprises and rebukes to lack-Sur:~:::e:nd ing faith in the outstation work. For instance, in

Kumihama where we have occasionally held large meetings without being able to get a definite hold for Christ on any one perSOll, one morning after a meeting with over five hundred in attendance, we were about to leave, again feding that the truth had not pierced to the heart of any-but we would just call to pay our respects to the school Principal who was at home ill. Truly trifles are links in God's plan. Remembering to be polite led to the crown­ing blessing of this trip. He was waiting to see us-was eagerly waiting to know just how to walk this path which led to rightness with God in man's very heart life. He had tried worshipping the ·sun, his ancestor's spirits and the Emperor and they had failed in the trial. Ho\\' could he guide the four hundred young lives unless he himself knew the truth of life. And like one who athirst finds the refreshing crystal spring, he received the water of life and to-day is following the light as Christ reveals it to him. Coming to some specially helpful verse in the Bible he writes it large and hangs it in the teacher's room for the benefit of all, and is openly urging his friends to accept Chri~t.

Again, take two to\\'ns where work had formerly been attempted and given up-in Tatsuno because of Buddhist opposition and in the mining town of Ikuno because of simple deadness to things spiritual. This year when we went to Ikuno fearing l1n place could be secured for meetings, the Chief of Police offered us his home, the school Principal offered the large assembly room, and a wealthy citizen offered a small theatre, all free of charge.

In the "all Buddhist" Tatsuno we now have every Friday, a "Sunday-school" with over a hundred average attendance at 4 p.m., a Bible study class of twenty-five students at 6.30 p.m., and a large public meeting in an old" Fencing and VVrestling" school at 8 p.m. Several have_already become Christians and among the in­quirers is one of the Buddhist priest,.

"Oive us bread ..

In the Himeji field outside the city of Himeji, nineteen towns are looking to us for the Bread of Life and the five workers needed to minister to them regularl yare

ready, but with present appropriation we can employ three only. The doors are not simply open, definite invitations corne by

letter or messenger to hold meetings in places where no Christian work is being done. We have been unable to refuse some of the calls and are now regularly using much beyond our appropriation from the Union, sure that the Master who sends will enable. This

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is not a call for specifics, it is mentioned simply to sho\\" the im­possibility of obeying God's call and ,'ctrcIIC/IiI/g.

F. C. BRICCS.

KYO T O.

MISSIONARIES :-

Kyoto as a Station

IVIr. and Mrs. CHARLE::' B. TEl\~L

During the past year Kyoto has been formally de­signated a station of the Union. Its strategic im­portance grows upon us more and more. As a

great centre of population, of commerce especially in the manu­facture of fine art goods, of education with its 10,000 students of higher grade, and of religion with its 1,000 imposing Shinto and Buddhist temples, it is a place we cannot afford to neglect.

Our o\\'n work more and more seems to be preemi­Student Work nently work for students. The ycar has brought us

a good number of students from the old schools and we have gained entrance into some new schools. Our weekly program of Bible classes at present is :-

Sunday morning, Normal School (Ichibu) men. Tuesday evening, University and High School men. Thursday afternoon, Girls' High School teachers. Friday afternoon, Kormal School (Kibu) men. Saturday evening, various Schools.

A good number of men are sincere students of Christian truth and some are hopeful enquirers. About half our additions last year were from the school population. Our experience is that, while students are slow to enroll themselves as members of Christian Churches owing to the promulgation of false ideas on this subject, there is a genuine desire to study the teaching of Christ such as we have never known before: further that while all grades of students offer a fine field for work the lower grades are most promising, or at least that University men form a class by themselves in this re­spect. For an Imperial University student to become a humble, public follower of Christ, is truly for the camel to go through the needle's eye. Yet a few of these men are being reached; our most interesting enquirer is a senior in the law college. Important as the student work is, however, if we continue to be the only family in the station, it will be well I think for us to devote a larger part of our time to work that will contribute more directly towards the upbuilding of the local Church.

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The Kyoto Church is fortunate in having for itS pastor such a man as Mr. Hara Michinosuke. He is a man of genuine piety, of much prayer, a simple,

earnest, effective preacher, especially in evangelistic meetings. Part of the year we have been a little anxious about his health but he seems to be well and strong again. Our Bible woman too is a little treasure, Miss Iikawa Tami. a graduate of the Mary L. Colby Home. She is visiting regularly in a large number of homes and doing a valuable Bible school work. OUf schools now number three and they have grown encouragingly in every respect. Two of pastor Hara's daughters, one of our Kobe boys now a senior in the college department of the Doshisha, and two or three other members are very helpful in this department. During the summer vacation we are having Mr. Yamada with us. He is a promising young student and preacher and is taking hold of the work earnest­ly. The seminary has helped him a great deal during the one year he has been there. Good reports also come to us of the work of our young man, Mr. Takagaki now studying in the Rochester Theological Seminary.

Regular Gospel meetings are held Sunday and EvMaogtielistic Wednesday evenings each week. In addition to this ee ngs

we plan to have about one series of meetings each month with speakers from other Churches or from other cities. The average attendance at these meetings has been less than it was last year I think. and the number enrolling themselves as inquirers smaller. But there are probably as many inquirers who are genuinely interested. So many names were given in lightly that we came to feel little confidence in them as a gauge of success.

Both 1\'1rs. Tenny and I have carried on the study of language Study the language as we have had time and strength. Mrs.

Tenny has taken an examination on six months work in Lange, and Ion Hototogisu and Fukuo Hyakkwa. I am doing a very little speaking in public, but for the most part do not go beyond trying to take some part in the weekly prayer meeting. My Bible class work is almost entirely in English; so much of my work in fact is English that it greatly hinders in the study of the language. Mrs. Tenny'S Bible class work is of course in English.

Mrs. Tenny and I both plan to do considerable CaIUog calling in the houses of members and upon inquirers.

I regret to say that other work has crowded this out to a great extent. Another year we hope to do more of this im­portant work. OUf Japanese co-workers are very faithful in this respect.

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Word came last August that monev was available. Looking for h k f J

Land t an s to a riend in America, for the purchase of land for a mission residence. \Ve have been COll­

stantly on the watch and have run here and there and had innumerable consultations with go-betweens but nothing has materialized yet. Just within the last few days we have made a really hopeful find. We hope the long search is nearly over. The student dormitory work recommended last year might become a great help in the work if it could only be inaugurated.

During the year we ha ve made some small first Country Work beginnings in the way of reaching out into the

country districts. The opportunities are so vast we hardly know how or where to begin.

CHARLES B. TE~SY.

THE EDUCATIONAL WORK OF THE MISSION.

INTRODUCTION.

No class of people in Japan are more open to Christian influ­ences than the student class. Some of the best Christian work in this country has been done among them, and nothing is more common to-day than to hear leading Christian men alluding to the religious influences which were brought to bear upon them when they were in school.

Possibly in the past Baptists have not been sufficiently keen to observe the unique situation existing here and have insisted too exclusively upon the service of direct preaching of the Gospel as the way that the church is to be built up. Without reflecting in the least upon the value of this method of Christian service, there is no question but that far more than in most lands the work of the teacher has been the strength of the church. The Christian leaders among the missionaries who have been regarded as especially and preeminently successful in the past have been almost without excep­tion teachers. It is a hopeful sign that in Baptist work there has been great advance in recent years and far more readiness has been shown to accept the situation. As the fuller reports will show, the Mission now is laying especial stress upon reaching students both men and women. In the Seminary there has been a distinct advance the past year in the opening in a complete manner the

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Advanced course, or rather in making this the regular course of the Seminary and making the former regular course the special course. This resulted in the entering this year of two very fine men in the regular course and the promise of large classes in the future. Much interest has been aroused in the school from various sources during the year and we seem on the road to much larger classes and higher grade work in the future. A strong demand has arisen for an enlargement of the Academy. This school which has passed through a period of some depression seems now entering upon a prosperous era. Many more applications for entrance are received than can be accommodated. The system of the school of small classes is approved by such eminent educators as Dr. Nitobe and the contrast with the crowded class rooms of the Government schools is such as to make a favorable impression upon many. The school should however provide increased accommodation for a larger number of students and thus enlarge its influence accordingly.

In Girls' school work the striking feature is lack of teaching force. Over worked single lady Missionaries are too common in the mission. More workers are needed and the opportunities to work among the very promising class of girls who are ready and eager to attend the l\iission schools should appeal to those who wish to do God's service.

The New Bible vVoman's school soon to be opened in Osaka will be the realization of a long needed addition to our equipment and should provide much needed helpers.

The Kindergarten work has had a year of prosperity. Enlarge­ment and more complete and adequate outfit to meet the growing needs is the call one meets on every hand. The movement started some years since to provide a students home or Dormitory for Girls studying in the higher institutions in Tokyo, has made progress during the year and nears completion. It is a move in the right direction. The opportunity opened by these dormitories is great, and should prove a powerful ally to the educational work already established. A similar work for boys should be instituted and it would seem that very providential leadings are opening the way for one or two of our new missionaries to enter into very promising service in this connection. It may be that Baptists may now make up for a part that they have lost in the past by vigorously prosecut­ing the new openings for influence in christian work which seem to be corning to them in connection with the great universities of Tokyo. The outlook is full of hope. The lack is, as so often in the past, men and women to occupy the new openings. If we win the students of Japan for Christ the nation is won.

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THEOLOGICAL SE1\IINARY, YOKOHAMA.

The 23rd year of the Seminary closed successfully The 23rd Year with the Commencement exercises on April 29th,

1908. Two men were graduated, both of whom have been located in the Tohoku (north Japan.)

The past year has seen the largest number of students in the school of any year in its history.

Advance Courses

With the opening of the Honkwa (advanced) course, two excellent students were entered, whose good work has done much to justify the opening of the

course. Eight men entered the Bekkwa (lower) class, of whol11 two were unable to do the work and one fell back into the unclassified at the midyear examinations, while the other left the school.

The introduction of special English classes for the Bekkwa men who already possess some knowledge of English has been welcomed and good work has been done.

A stricter grade of examinations has been instituted, ExaS~~~~ons which it is hoped will have a salutary effect upon the

scholarship and raise the standard of the institution. The Northern part of Japan seems to furnish the larger propor­

tion of students at present. Because of the absence of Dr. Harrington, the department of

Old Testament has been dropped for the year. In addition to the regular teachers, Messrs. Dearing,

Outside Help Bennett, Parshley and Takahashi, 1\lr. Gressitt has in Teaching come from Tokyo for four hours per week and

rendered very acceptable aid in the Honkwa course in Psychology I and also taken a Bekkwa class in English. Mr. Hoshino has con­tinued his work as in former years with much acceptance; 1\lrs. Bennett has as usual rendered faithful service in t11<.: musical training of the students; Mrs. Dearing has taken a class in Greek and another in moral Philosophy; Mr. Yamamoto, of the third year class has also given one hour a week to a class in English with great profit. By this outside help together with various combinations of classes we have been able to get through the year.

With two courses of study the work is greatly il1-Mor~~ed~~hers creased, and a larger teaching force is needed. If

one more Foreign teacher and one or two Japanese teachers who could give at least a portion of their time to the school could be added from the coming fall, it would not be any too much to suitably meet the need. The continued success of the Advanced course which has been so cordially received, depends upon the sup­port that is given it and the grade of work offered through it.

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The Library has been greatly increased during the The library year. A large donation of books from the library

of the late Dr. Burr of Newton Centre, Mass., was gratefully received. In order to make the English books of help to a larger circle of English reading pastors and missionaries an English catalogue of recent additions has been printed and circulated with the hope that many will take the books, especially during the summer. The Library now has 2,400 English and 1,400 Japanese books. At present it is strictly theological and religious. While there are large additions needed in this same line yet it could be made much more valuable if it were possible to include works. on general litera­ture and especially such literary and scientific books as are now appearing in large numbers in Japanese, which the students of the Bekkwa department should read as far as possible and thus make up for the defects in their limited education.

The lectures during the year have been most profit­Lecture Courses able. Dr. Nakajima, of the Imperial University, gave a

course on Psychology during the special session; Mr. Tamura, of the Sukiya-b3shi church, Tokyo, gave during the faU and winter lectures on Sunday school work and methods; our Seminary is the first Seminary in Japan to introduce such a course of lectures for the benefit of its students. Dr. Watanabe, of the Imperial University Hospital, gave a course of lectures on Hygiene. A large number of valuable single lectures have also been -given by various Japanese and foreigners. Altogether thirty-six lectures have been given.

A new feature has been the installing of a fine St:!~p~~on stereopticon with electric light and the giving of

illustrated lectures from time to time on different parts of the world. This has proved a very entertaining and profita­ble addition to the general knowledge of the students and has enlarged their knowledge of mission fields especially. The lantern is the generous gift of Mr. Geo. F. D. Paine of Boston, and Mr. Henry W. ~eabody of Salem, M.ass., who have thus kindly supplied an important part of the equipment of the school.

The Special Session was the largest and most suc­Tb;e::,:~ia1 cessful yet held. The Domitory was crowded and some

had to be housed in other buildings while the class rooms and Chapel were at times, uncomfortably fulL This course should be made of use to more of the graduates and pas~ors who are in actual need of the stimulus and inspiration that it would afford. Possibly the next session may be divided and made in two parts of two weeks each, one part being intended for the graduates, and tIle other part for those of less attainments.

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A profound sorrow came to the school last bll in the A Sad accident first death that has ever occured during the school

session. Tanaka Junzo of the second year Bekkwa. was thrown against a stone wall by a runaway horse and survived the accident but a few days. He was a member of the Shiba Church, Tokyo, an earnest and faithful man. Ht! was on his wa.r to do personal evangelistic work when the accident occured. His death made a deep impression upon the students who were 1110st faithful in their efforts to care for him in his suffering.

It should be noted that we have had four men from outside of the mission in the school the past year, one other has been sdf supporting. and two others supported by individual missionaries. Work has been carried on in various places as in former years.

The matter of applying to the government for re­(jovernment Recognition? cognition as a Semmon Gakko (special school) hJ.s

been under consideration during the year anu is 110W under advisement. Some students have probably been lost to the school through the lack of such government recognition and its concomitant exemption from military conscription but it is yet a question whether the restrictions which such recognition would involve would not make the change a too costly one to the school.

\Ve are greatly in need of a new building which Building needs should provide a chapel and fire proof library

building. The present recitation hall is too limited in class room accommodations and the library accommodations are very inadequate. It is hoped that some steps can be early taken to provide for this need.

Applications next fall already received give promise of a good entering class.

As the new duties which I am likely soon to assume Dr. Dearing's make it probable that this may be my last report to

farewell words as h' C fi . h . f P'd f President of t IS on erence 111 t e capaCIty 0 reSl cnt a au r Seminary Seminary, I may be permitted to say a few words in

that connection. And first I wish to express my deep sense of appreciation of the unvarying kindness and patience shown me during the 14 years that I have endeavored to fill this office. No one can be more conscious than I of the many mistakes that I have made, or of my unfitness for the office in many ways. The burden has been so heavy at times, and the difficulties so great, that I have often been sorely tempted to lay them down. Your kindness and support, next to the divine aid, have been the reason for my continuing to attempt the service. I love the Seminary with a deep love and it is one of the trying experiences of my

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life to lay down its duties and to retire from direct labor in its behalf. I can only do so under the conviction that the unknown and untried path, which I am called to enter, contains duties for me which I cannot avoid, and with the firm belief that there are those who can take up the semi­nary work who will be able to render better service than mine could possi­bly be. I bespeak for my successor the same support in sympathy and prayer that you have given me. And as I turn to a new work which, I may say frankly, does not present the attractions to me personally that I have found in the work I am leaving, may I be. sustained by the thought that I shall still find a place in your prayers and may I still be permitted to feel, when mis-

J. L. DEARING, D.D., PRES. OF SEMINARY, 1894-1908,

xow GENERAL MISSIONARY FOR JAPAN, CHINA AI'm

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takes are made, as they have often been in the past, that you will credit me at least with pure motives and the desire to do my best.

Brethren, I would counsel you to love the Seminary and sup­port it splendidly. It deserves the best you can do for it and the best men you can secure for it. I was never so sure of the great place that it has to fill in our denominational life as I am to-day_ You can do no better or more lasting work for Japan than by making this school at any cost the very best possible. I see a great field of usefulness before us here and may we be bold to enter in and make the Yokohama Baptist Theological Seminary the strength and inspiration to the native ministry which it seems very possible for it to become in the immediate future.

J. L. DEARING.

In Homiletics I have had but a single class, composed Homiletics of third and fourth year men. The work has been

divided into lectures by the teacher, sermon-plans by the students, and criticisms of printed sermons in Japanese by both teacher and students. For the most part the students have been faithful in their attendance and in the work assigned them. It is the teacher's conviction that progress has ~een made.

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In Exegesis there have been five clil~scs besides the Exegesis extra ones composed of students coming for thl:

Special Session. These five have been, (I) a class in Hebrews, composed of one student in the graduating class, 1''1'1 ... Iwagami, (2) a class in Romans and I Corinthians, cOl1sbting of third and fourth year men, (3) a class in the four Gospels, com­posed of first and second year men, (4) a class in Thessalonians and James, including special students of different years, and (5) a class in Introduction to the Kew Testament, consisting of First Year regular course men and, the latter part of the time, ]\11". Iwagami of the graduating class. The class in Romans followed largely the teacher's published Analysis of Romans, supplemented with exposi­tion and application. The class in the four Gospels used advance sheets of the teacher's translation of Stevens and Burton's Harmony. The class in Introduction was largely, but not wholly, a class in Biblical Geography. As the regular students understand more or less English, an American text-book-The Land of Israel, by Robert Laird Stewart, D.D.-was used during the second term.

The writer is thankful to be able to report that his health has been such that he has been able to study much more, and more vigorously, than in recent years, and has thoroughly enjoyed his work with the students. He is glad, too, to bear testimony to interest, on the part of most of the students, evinced not only during class hours but also by the large number of pertinent and thoughtful questions that have been continuously asked after the recitations had closed. Truly the year has been one of God's blessing.

Ar.flERT ARNOLD BENNETT.

There is little to call for especial mention in my de­Department of partment in a brief report. Two men of the Senior Tbeology

class completed their course doing very faithful work. Mr. Yamamoto of the third year Honkwa has done excellently, using Hovey's Theology as the basis for study. Kot only in his class recitations but in his thorough investigation and wide reading on special subjects assigned him he has made satisfactory progress and given ground for great hope in the possibilities which the Hon­kwa course opens up.

The first and second year men have met together. It is not usual to give to the students of the first year theology. This year it has been done on account of the department of Old Testa­ment being closed. The results have justified us in thinking that the established order is the best.

We often meet the idea that the only way to study Theology is

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by not studying, but by simply listening to lectures. Usually the men of the higher classes come to realize the truth that the work cannot be mastered without hard study, but in the earlier years of the course it requires patient effort to establish a correct vie\,- in regard to how such a subject is to be truly mastered.

J. L. DEARI!,;G.

During the past winter a more than usually trouble­Church History some attack of influenza took me from my classes for

just four weeks. As this occurred during the Special Session, my lectures in that course were cut in half.

In History the first and second year men have taken the first year's work together.

In the History of Doctrine, I was able to complete the most important topics only.

In Homiletics the second year's course was completed Homiletics and more than usual done on the first year's course,

so that in the year to come I may be able to give more time than usual to the application of the principles 'we have been discussing.

F or the winter session I undertook the resume of an extended work and, for this purpose, chose Harnack's "Expansion of Chris­tianity in the First Three Centuries."

I have had this year a new topic, both for myself and Logic the Seminary,-Logic. This course was in English and

intended for the men who entered the Honkwa course. \Ve had two students and I am very much encouraged by the ex­periment.

\Y. B. PARSHLEY.

In the beginning of the fall term I gave lectures on the New Testament Interbiblical Period and then we studied the Life of

Christ using Dr. Rhees' "The Life of Jesus of Nazareth" as our text-book.

In Greek I have taught the preparatory class using "Introduc­tory N. T. Greek Methods."

Christian Evidences

In Christian Evidences as a text-book we used Dr. Mullen's" \Vhy is Christianity True." We studied to page 321.

In Church Polity I have given lectures based on Dr .. Dargan's " Ecclesiology."

English

In English we have studied "Vital Issues" by Dr. Hunt and "Thoughts for Daily Living" by Dr. Babcock.

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Reading of English Books. The object of this course was to help those who had little or no knowledge of English. \\"c used some articles in H The Dictionary of Christ and the Gospels" and also some from Dr. Bissel's "Biblical Antiquities."

In all my classes the students attended well and did good work.

DUNCAN ACADEMY.

The School year beginning April S, 1907 was, in general, one of encourage­ment. With a good number of new students, we almost reached the limit of 60 set for the Cltutokwa (Academic Course). And for a little over one term, we had a first year class of five in the KZjtUl.:'"dJa (Higher Course). But the lat­ter, in the Fall, gradually dwindled dov,:n, for various unavoidable causes, to only one student so that we had to give up the class and send the one young man remaining to the Theological Seminary. It is a problem what to do with the Higher Course; but this and several other questions of policy are passed over here to be discussed in connection with PROF. E. W. CLE:-'!E:\T.

our general educational policy. We lost three teachers, one in vocal music and tv.:o in science.

\iVe especially miss 1\1r. Endo, who had been with us several years and been deeply interested, not merely in his own department, but in the whole school. He has gone to a fine position in the Sapporo Agricultural College. * We have two graduates from the Imperial University for the department of science. They are Mr. Kawamura and Mr. Hisa, both Rigakuslti (B. S. or M. S.). The new music teacher is Mr. Togi, a Christian. And during the whole of the year we enjoyed the privilege of the services of Mr. Odatsume, who had faithfully served our Girls' School in Sendai for several years and was taking a year off for special study in Tokyo. He was very helpful, not only in the class-room, but also in the dormitory where he acted a<; monitor. We should have been glad to 'keep him with us longer; but he was under a promise to return to Sendai to his former work.

* He has been since honored with the degree of Rigaklt lIak.1se (Doctor of Science).

Early in the Fall, we had the great pleasure of extending a welcome, a most hearty one, to Prof. H. B. Benninghoff and family. Both by study and by experience, Prof. Benninghoff is unusually well qualified for educational work and work for students. Although he is living a long distance from the Academy, and has been chiefly devoting his time to the study of the language, he has also been teaching English classes, including a Sunday Bible Class, in the Academy.

Permission for It was also in the Fall that we received permission to increase of increase the number of students allowed in our

students Academic Course from 60 to 100. This average of 20 in each class is about a maximum for excellent work.

The Academy also passed through sorrow during the year. The first sad event was the death, on November 30th, of Mr. Yamada who graduated from our Higher Course in March, 1907, and was a translator on the Scoul Press for a few months. Failing health compelled him to return to Japan; and, after a short stay in his home near Nemuro, Hokkaido, he came to Tokyo and also tried the sea-shore at Kamakura. But, as he did not gain health there, he entered St. Luke's Hospital, Tokyo, where, in spite of the excellent care for about a month, he was carried away by consumption. Mr. Yamada was a thorough and painstaking student, a good teacher and a promising young man whom we expected to be a great help in our work. He was an earnest Christian and died in peace. The last word which I heard him utter, just a little while before his death, was it anshill" (peace).

The next case was the death of another of the alumni. 1\1r. Kaku Okada was one of the six young men who entered the Academy on the very first day of its opening, September, loth, 1895. He was a member of the first year class, was a thorough and faithful student through his course and graduated with three others in March, 1900. Taro l\'[iyagawa died of consumption soon after graduation; so that only two are now left of that class. These are Mr. Josuke Tatsuno, now a teacher of English in the Academy, and Mr. Ishimaru, a student of the Law School of the Imperial University, Tokyo. All of these young men have also been earnest and active Christians. Mr. Okada, after graduation, contfnued to take a deep interest in his alma mate1', especially in the Alumni Association.

During the year there was an average of about Dormitory twenty students in the dormitory, where conditions

greatly improved under the skilful management of 1Ur. Odatsume. The general condition of the School also improved.

Four of the students were baptized during the School year; and

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several of them, especially in the three 10\\'cr classes, composed largely of non-Christian boys, are zealous attendants upon a voluntary Bible Class and inquirers' class cOlldllCkd by Rev. H. Watanabe, pastor of the Yotsuya Church. And, in this connection, we may add that Mr. Watanabe, in the summer, severed his relations with the School, in order that he might concentrate his efiorts upon evangelistic work. He is working especially for the salvation of our students. E. \Y. Cu,m:NT.

SARAH CURTIS HOME, TOKYO.

There has been a steady, quiet growth in the school. \Ve are grateful for the coming of Miss Linsley, for Mrs.

Clement's continued assistance, and for Mr. Odatsume's help during his short stay in Tokyo.

According to the new Government regulations, we cl rop our first year of preparatory work, this, and our second, next year.

We graduate five from the Japanese, aud four from the English course.

The usual, and sometimes, the unusual vicissitudes of school life have been ours,-ups and downs; pains and pleasures; joys and sorrows; hearts full of keenest pain and, again, filled with Christ--­given peace; and the last has been more than the first; so we thank God and take courage. ANM H. K WJ)ER.

MARY L. COLBY HOME, YOKOHAMA.

A closer acquaintance with Girls' School the teachers and pupils of

the Mary L. Colby Home has made me realize even more than here­tofore the great opportunities we have for evangelistic work in and through our girls' schools. The work of the year has been full of joy and blessing.

Miss \Vilcox and I have found our time very fully occupied. She has charge of the Day-school, directs the work of the Bible women and is a great help in the school, although she has to give all the time she can to study of the language. Miss Converse and Miss Ya­mada have been in the C nited States and Mr. Ueyama was asked to give his whole

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time to the Church from last August. His brother took his place for a month and before leaving was baptized.

The teachers have all worked together in perfect harmony, with one heart amI purpose, loyal to the school and to the Lord.

During the year 106 pupils have been enrolled. There will be fewer this year as the government has added two years to its compulsory course, and consequently we have omitted our fir5t preparatory class.

The religious interest among the pupils has been Conversions deep. beginning with the younger child ren and

spreading through the school. More than twenty have expressed their desire to be Christians and seven pupils and one teacher have been baptized since last June. Others will probably be baptized this month. A special cause for thanks­giving is that so many day scholars are seeking Christ.

The Sunday School has a membership of 20 I en­T~ee ~c~~9~f rolled. Beside the regular pupils in the school there

are t\l'W classes for other children brought in from outside, one numbering 6 I and the other 34.

The Missionary Society has made a study of famous Mi;~~~~~Y missionaries and has taken special interest in the Japa­

nese Baptist Missionary Society and its work in Nagoya. As heretofore our teachers and pupils in the upper classes

carryon eleven Sunday Schools. IV1 rs. Bennett has continued her assistance in the

Music music department and we see good results. One of our teachers has played the organ at the Dendo­

kwan (Evangelistic Hall) during the year, and others at the Church. On June 26, 1907 land was purchased on a beautiful

Si~ul~:rn:Sew bluff in Kanagawa and we hope to have there larger buildings and improved facilities for our School. Yen

1 1,000 was voted for the purchase of the land and when all bills were paid yen 6.30 was left as a nucleus for the building fund.

\Vhen the new plant becomes an accomplished fact, with a higher course of study, we shall need, it seems to me, three lady missionaries to carryon the work, including this school, the day­school, the Bible woman's work and the Sunday School work.

HELfu"\ A. PARSHLEY, Acting Principal.

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ELLA O. PATRICK HOME, SEN DAl.

The year has passed, with the usual experiences. of joys, blessings and anx­ieties, and we feel that not in vain has another year been added to the history of the School.

It is a great joy to watch the girls gr()w in Christian character from year to year, and we have the same, and yet a new satisfaction this month, as we graduate another class of eight consecrated, Chris­tian girls.

Our new class is much Must have (lovern" ment recognition smaller than usual, which

makes us feel more strong­ly what we have already felt for some time, that we must secure government recognition if we hope to continue the

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School with other than supported girl:;, or those of inferior ability, so this is the great question which is before us at this time. \Ve are glad indeed to have Mr. Odatsume back at his post again, after the year's absence, and especially just when this problem confronts us.

During the year three of our teachers, and three of Conversions h {' the students ave conlcssed Christ by baptism.

\Vith the entrance of the class which graduates this month, our alumnae number sixty-two, two of whom have been called to heaven during the year. The Association has established a maga­zine to keep their hearts together, and also started a fund, with which to show their love and loyalty to the School by adding something to its buildings or equipment. \Nith but very few excep­tions, we have every reason to be grateful for the record of the girls who have gone out from us, and we believe that the Lord still has a work for our little School in this part of Japan.

Al'\:\lE ~. BUZZELl" Principal.

HINOMOTO JOGAKKO, HL\IEJI.

The hope and anticipation with which we began the Disappointment work of the last year with Miss Dodge as Principal

was soon changed to disappointment as we realized that on account of her health she must go home and leave the work for which she had already shown such ability and fitness. It seemed

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a strange Providence and yet was so evidently our Father's will that we could only bow in submission and take up the work again until relief should come. The last of October we welcomed Miss Rumsey to the School home and she has been doing excellent work with the language as well as teaching English several hours a week in the School. The Angel of Death has again visited our School and a loved teacher and a pupil have been called to the better land.

In February we rejoiced in the special manifestation of Blessing the Spirit's presence in our midst. Twelve of the

girls definitely confessed their faith in Christ before their school-mates. We were especially grateful for the influence of one of our graduating class who had been quietly working with individuals for a long time. In March a graduate of the class of 1899 was with us for ten days holding special meetings for the girls. She has been greatly used of God in many places and we were thankful to have her in the School home again and to hear our Father's message from her lips. Ten of the girls have confessed their faith in baptism during the year; others are truly converted we

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believe, but are hindered from taking this step by their families. In March we graduated a class of seven, three of whom remain for a year of post-graduate work. The opening of the nl.!w term in April brought us a large number of day scholars as well as some new boarders. The Sunday Schools have been well attended and the work in them encouraging, although two were closed in the fall because of opposition from people in the neighborhood, but one new one has been opened with a large number of children.

The Bible-woman's work has 110t received the supervision it should have had because of pressure of work in the School, but in Toyooka where one of the women has been working all the year and in Himeji also the message of God's love was given in many homes. We rejoice in the open doors on every side and long to more fully use the opportunities given us.

After many months of prayer and diligent effort on our part, a matron and another new teacher were secured. \Ve thank God for this another proof of his care for this School.

YOKOHAMA DAY SCHOOL.

\Ve are glad to report progress in the Yokohama Day School. In April, 1908, a bright young graduate of the Mary L. Colby Home took the place of the former under-teacher, and already her fresh enthusiasm and ability have greatly improvcd the tonc of the School.

The enrollment is only slightly increased from last year, number­ing 75 in all, 37 boys and 38 girls. The tuitions have amounted to )'ell 135-40.

Mr. Uyeno, our head teacher, with the help of two Seminary students has conducted religious meetings on Sunday evenings at the school. The total attendance at the 45 meetings held has been 2 15 persons, of whom I~ were men. As a result, three have become earnest enquirers. The other results of these meetings and of the daily ·Bible teaching and weekly Sunday School cannot be stated here but are written in Heaven.

EIJITH F. \\"Il£ox.

KOBIKI-CHO DAY SCHOOL, TOKYO.

This school-in my care since October, 1907, when Miss Clagett started 011 her homeward journey-has had, during the year, forty-eight pupils-twenty-four girls and twenty-four boys. One of the teachers is the wife of a student in the Baptist Theological

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Seminary, and the other a young woman who is a member of the Kyobashi Memorial Baptist Church. This teacher's parents are members of the same Church, and with their daughter live in the dwelling part of the school house. Both teachers are most devoted and faithful, and it is a great pleasure to see them in the midst of their work. The school is opened every morning with singing and prayer, and the Bible is taught every day.

Tuition received during the year (from October I, 1906 to September 30, 1907) amounted to 77 yen and 5 sell.

There is a mother's meeting once a month, and the mothers who come to it always seem interested. A special effort is being made to reach these women, many of whom are of the poorer class and so employed that it is not easy for them to attend the meetings. I have called on some of them, and my Bible-woman has been to nearly every house from which the children of this school come. speaking to the fathers. mothers, and grand-parents she found at home, and giving away tracts and New Testament portions.

The Sunday School is attended by the larger day-pupils and also by children from other schools. Picture rolls and lesson papers -the" International S. S. Scholars' Companion "-are used, and the lessons are reviewed on week days, as well as Sundays. The amount of Bible knowledge shown by many of the children is, indeed, a wonder to me every time I hear the lessons reviewed. Surely there will some day be a blessed harvest from the seed sown in these young minds. Already all believe-by the expression on their faces when answering the question. "How many gods are there? "-that there is but olle God, and they declare, most em­phatically, that gii~o (idols), and NiPPo1l-llo-kami (Japanese gods) are nothing.

One convert-a girl from the school-was baptized last year (19°7). and is now a pupil in the Sarah Curtis Home.

CLARA ~\. SA:\DS BRA.''''D.

KOBE STATION KINDERGARTENS.

ZENRIN, KOBE.

A long walk that brings us to the top of a hill often calls for a pause while we look back along the road we have been travelling.

When the Zenrin Kindergarten was opened in the Opening Fukuai district, more than thirteen years ago, we were

in the midst of a very ignorant, superstitious, even vicious class of people. There were many prejudices to overcome

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among our neighbors and some real opposition from tIll': Buddhist priests who had hitherto regarded tbat district as wholly their own. \Vhen we came and offered to take care of the babies \\"hile the mothers were at work and to tLach the little toddlers tu amuse themse1 vcs, the mothers said, .. \ "hat evil intentions ha \'c these strangers towards our little ones? "And because dreadful things are sometimes done in heathen lands under the guise of rdigion, rumors soon got about that we were going to take the childn.:n's eyes out to make some kind of medicine or else we wcrc about to cast an evil spell over the wee ones.

Our .. waiting list" at that time was on a different stand­ing than it is at present--\ve were doing the waiting while the parents were making up their minds whetber they could trust us or not.

Meanwhile there were some families having children of proper school age who were unable to attend because of the insufficient accommodations in that part of the town; they suggested that we open a class for these neglected ones and a class of twelve was quickly organized. As the members were chiefly girls it afterwards became the nucleus of our night school for girls.

From this class two girls were sent to the lIimc:ji (jradt~a~~~::turn Girls' School, one of whom finished her course and

came back this last year to teach in the Zenrin where she had made her first beginning.

Last January closed the tenth year of our lease of the ground on \vhich our present Kindergarten building stands, we thought it a good time to look up our graduates and have a reunion. Unfor­tunately an epidemic of small-pox interfered with our gathering. but we found more than 200 \\"ho held Zenrin certificates and what was still more pleasing a good percentage of them were in the higher schools. The Methodist academy-girls' high school-commercial school and higher grammar schools of Kobe all had one or more representatives.

Of course we cannot take credit for all the U im­Improvement provement" that has taken place in our neighbor-

hood during the past ten years for the rapid growth of our city has caused the idle and vicious to "move on" and left an industrious laboring class in their place, but in the homes and personal appearance of the parents who have longest been the patrons of the school we certainly see most marked improvement.

lVIany notable conversions have taken place through Conversions the agency direct and indirect of the Bible women

and teachers connected with the school and through the influence of the little ones themselves. In some cases whole

families have been converted and are now subsantial members of Kobe Baptist Church.

When it was found that we could not rene,,,, the lease of our present location there was great anxiety lest we should be obliged to move out of the neighborhood. Then we realized how widespread was the appreciation of the blessed influences going out from the Zenrin Kindergarten. A movement has been started among some influential business men to secure a new site, larger and better adapted to our work, within two blocks of the present one, as they say we must not leave our district.

AIKWA KIXDERGARTEN, Lm CHIU.

It was a rare pleasure to go down to the Liu Chiu islands in April to visit the new kindergarten opened there last fall. You may be sure I started out the first thing the morning after we arrived to see the U flower-loving" kindergarten. We found it situated in the midst of a large garden belonging to the Shuri Normal School. The house itself was a little gem, lending itc;elf most beautifully to kindergarten work in that warm climate, with its wide verandas extending around three sides and well protected from the sun by projecting roofs. The children did some fine marching to 0 Nabe San's spirited music, she kept them well up to time in games and songs. She is devoted to the new organ and has a real talent for music. We could only afford furniture for twenty pupils this year and the school numbered twenty-three; several parents were visiting that morning and expressed themselves as being very thankful to have such an excellent kindergarten.

Later on when we found the exigencies of the work called for a removal of the kindergarten from Shuri, the old capital, to Naha, the new capital and the most important city in Okinawa Ken, it was with sincere regret that we left its pretty home, but a good place was awaiting it in Naha quite near the meeting house and the demand for it was even greater than in the little city on the hill. The Christians have asked that it may be called the Naha Zenrin (neighborhood improvement) Kindergarten, as that is the work they want it to do. to help the mothers improve their homes and teach them how to care for their little ones. Just think how good it would have been to have had two kindergartens in Liu Chiu! but

, that not being possible at present we must make the one do the best and the most for the little ones possible.

Mrs. Mori is a very capable organizer and kindergartner and is willing to stay a little longer than the year agreed upon because of her love for the work among those dear little children who are so

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very, very much in need of the help that the kindergarten can bring to them both in the school room and in their homes.

G,\ZEU.I·; R. TUo\hO:";.

TOKYO STATIO~ KI~DEJ{GARTE~S.

TSUKIJI.

The Tsukiji Kindergarten has had a good Y(;lr as far Scbool Work as numbers is concerned, with little sickness and only

one change in the teaching force. After the Spring term Miss Mori left to open a kindergarten in the Liu Chiu Islands, so her place was taken by ::\Iiss Miura, a pupil of the Training School. Mrs. Nakajima is still the head teacher and has been ever faithful and cheery though burdened by long and serious illness in her husband's family. Miss Nishimura who has been with us some three years has completed the course in the Training School and received a diploma. Our most important change was the return of Mrs. Hamblen to the United States in July, after five ycars of work as director. She is very much missed by us all and the prayers of our weekly teacher's meeting always ask for a blessing on the teacher in America. The mission asked me to take charge which] have been endeavoring to do since October first. The Kindergarten work proper is done by the teachers under instruction recei"cd from Miss Rolman in a weekly program meeting, while Mrs. Fisher has laid special stress on the evangelistic work consisting of two Sunday Schools, daily visiting ill the homes and a monthly mother's meeting. The morning Sunday School is for the children of the kindergarten at the regular hour and is conducted by two of the teachers, Mrs. Sunday Scbools Nakajima not being able to attend as she is a pastor's

and wife and needed at her own church. About three-Mother's Meetings fourths of the children come, the official holiday and other causes preventing a full attendance. The afternoon session is for children of the neighborhood and is conducted by our Bible woman, Mrs. Yamada, who does most of the calling at the homes. She is very tactful and sympathetic and has many warm friends among the mothers. She has induced several to attend church and there are some seven really learning the Christian life. The parents are mostly of the middle class, four being doctors, one a teacher and a number small shop keepers. I have been surprised on seeing the character of some of the houses that the parents are willing to send their children to the bare room in the missionary's crowded yard, but I have concluded that their words are true, that our teachers have

a loving, tender spirit not found in non-Christian schools and deserve their reputation for reforming disobedient boys.

The mothers' meetings have been in our home and through them we have made many friends and have reason to know that we are doing good. We have been able to secure excellent speakers for them from outside and the Bible lesson is always listened to attentively. We had thought our attendance of from twelve to twenty a small one for our constituency, but 011 comparing with other mothers' meetings in Tokyo find we have a good average. Japanese mothers cannot leave home readily and where there is also a shop to keep it becomes impossible.

Our two Christmas entertainments and our graduating exercises in March gave us a fine opportunity to tell the Gospel story to our many guests.

Our cordial thanks are due to Mr. Hamblen for his helpfulness especially in supervising the changes in the building and to 1\:1r. and Mrs. Benninghoff for the use of their yard given at great incon­venience to themsel yes.

MRS. C. H. D. FISHFR.

YOTSl'\":\ KINDERGARTEN AND KINDERGARTEN

TRAINING SCHOOL.

I KI:'\nERGARTE~, 67 PUPILS. TRAINING SCHOOL 16 PUPILS.

In the kindergarten time has passed rapidly. Here The Kindergarten there have been 67 happy little people in attendance.

The work, so far as the regular routine is concerned, is very like that of other years, but the good influence of the Kindergarten is growing and widening.

Mothers come bringing their children and confidently place them under our care. The poor building and inadequate equipment cause some to pass us by. Such ones read our sign, look at the building and take their children to more attractive places. How­ever, after the little people are once in the kindergarten parents are loath to make a change. Some who have moved out of the neighborhood and gone to a distance still send their children to us. During the winter term one little girl came something lik~ four miles.

Another child, Eiko San, the daughter of a prominent physician whose home is at a distance, has lived with us here all the year. This wee girlie is five years old. Her older sister has just graduated from the training school and is beginning the work of assistant teacher. She is a Christian, the only one in her family, but little Ei San is :urely becoming one also. S~e always comes in to family

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worship. Has learned the Lord's prayer and several hymns which she loves to sing. She has already begun to pray and sometimes takes her turn at family worship. Eiko San is a dear child. but not a rare exception. There are many others in the Kindergarten who are learning to love Jesus.

During the past year there have been sixteen pupils in Thes!~~:,ing the training department. Some of these came to

study for three months only, others for six and the remainder for a longer time. Here theory and practice arc combined and all have been very busy. The more advanced pupils in the training course are the teachers in the kindergarten.

In addition to the prescribed studies considerable attention is paid to music. For this we have been especially indebted to l\'1rs. Clement, who has given instruction in organ throughout the year.

In April a class of four was graduated. This class according to number is the ninth but the first under the new regime. Soon after my return to Japan the head kindergartner and I visited the Educa­tional Department (of government) told our new plans for a Kindergarten Training School and asked if government certificates could be granted our students. We were given to understand that such license would depend on literary qualifications and training-were instructed to let the department know when a class was ready for graduation. We did so. This time telling what had been done and invited examination of the work and methods. The result proved satisfactory, and very soon after the individual applications were made, the government certificates with their great red seals arrived. These like the diplomas of the training school had been fairly earned and the recipients were happy girls.

Among those under our care the past year several have gone to help in other kindergartens; two went to Liu Chiu on Mr. Thomson's field to begin work for the Httle people of that island.

The Sunday Schools have done well throughout the Sunday Schools year; we often hear of the good influence some scholar

has exerted in the home or neighborhood. One of the special features in our schools this year, has been

the larger attendance of boys. Girls generally like to come, but there is special reason for encouragement when the boys do. There have been some real changes of heart among the children and we have great hopes of a good work with them.

Mothers' meetings, two a month, have been held Work among regularly. The attendance and interest are good. At the parents

one of our last gatherings over thirty were present, among these are interested enquirers and some who have decidt;d to give their hearts to Christ.

The work of the year as a whole has been encouraging. There have been many blessings to record, answered prayers and help in time of need. The greatest blessing materially, and that for which we are especially thankful, is the purchase of a good lot for the Kindergarten Training School and missionaries' home here in Yotsuya. We are so glad the land is bought. Our prayer now is that the money for the buildings so long and so greatly needed may soon be given.

ERA L. ROUIAN.

MORIOKA KINDERGARTEN.

Although the Morioka Kindergarten was started as a Reasons for union enterprise without the formal adoption implied

opening anotber . .' " f· h b 'd h r. h Kindergarten In an applopnatlon 10m t e oal , yet t e lact t at the foreign principal and the Japanese head teacher

are Baptist and that it is carried on in our mission residence and has proved very helpful to our work suggests the propriety of reporting it here.

The time was ripe for opening a kindergarten in Morioka for this prefecture was the only one in Japan without one.

Tokyo educational journals had recently cited this lack, as evidence of the failure of the educational department of this district to care for its children. As Morioka prides itself on its fine schools this criticism was causing the officials no little chagrin, but for lack of funds they felt that nothing could be done at present. However, for the reputation of the prefecture, and also to meet the requests of many intelligent parents they desired to open a kindergarten as soon as possible.

While Morioka officials were thus waiting, the mothers most interested had started a very modest kindergarten which met three afternoons a week in a borrowed class-room of the leading high school for girls. When tris already established kindergarten was obliged to suspend for lack of a meeting place, and we were urged to accept it, with good will and furniture thrown in, it seemed too good an opportunity to be lost, especially as another mission offered to assist to the extent of the salary of the head teacher. Further evidence of the public demand for this work appears in the fact that although we decided to limit the attendance to thirty, the number of applications for admission compelled us to start with fo!ty children.

Xmas Exercises

Th!! ,first term's closing exercises included a Christmas tree and the presentation of Jesus as the children's Savior and pattern by means of story, songs, and

prayers. As the children went through,the program the delighted

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interest of the parents and visitors was apparent. The guests in~ eluded the Governor and his wife, (though they had no children in the Kindergarten) the leading physicians and editors, the 1\1a)'01"'5 wife and the wife of our Member of Parliament, since made Governor of Tokyo Fu. The latter lady espoused our cause with zeal and has secured donations from various people that have exceeded so far, the receipts from tuitions. The leading daily paper has published frequent articles on the value of kindergarten work in general and on the work of this one in particular, so it has transpired that by adopting this Kindergarten and giving it a home in our new house, we suddenly became a center of public interest and our entire work has received new impetus. ~. Forty new children were admitted at the beginning of (jr8:~::I~~8~~ tbe the third term which, deducting the twenty who

graduated in March, leaves our present attendance at sixty. There are four salaried teachers and two student helpers.

At a mother's meeting in .:\lay, the mothers were Motber's Meeting asked what part of the work they could remember

best from the home talk of the children. This test was without warning and to our surprise they could recall and repeat the Christmas songs and story better than the more recen~ nature study exercises. vVe are very grateful for this evidence that not a few of the parents are learning of Christ through the children and that the Kindergarten is not failing to serve its purpose as a positive CS;:istian agency.

GE"E\'lEVE F. TOI'I'I,,(;,

PROPOSED CONSTITUTION, RULES AND COURSE OF STUDY OF THE WOMAN'S BAPTIST BIBLE

TRAINING SCHOOL OF JAPAN.

As RECOMMENDED BY THE CONFERENCE, JUNE, 1908.

ARTICLE I.-NAME.

This School shall be known as the Woman's Baptist Bible Training School of Japan.

ARTICLE H.-PURPOSE.

The pu rpose of this School shall be to furnish suitable training for' Christian Japanese women who feel called to do direct evaI1-gel~tic work among womell and children.

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ARTICLE IlL-ADMINISTRATION.

(a). This School shall be under the direction of a Board of Managers, consisting of five members elected by the Executive Committee of the American Baptist Missionary Union on nomination by the Mission body, two men and three women, and the two foreign teachers in the School shall be ex officio members of the Board.

(b). The Board of l\1anagers shall exercise general supervision over the School, and shall meet at least once a year at the School to consider all questions pertaining to its development and efficiency.

(c). The Board shall make an annual report to the Conference regarding the condition of the School and make suggestions or plans for its improvement.

(d). The Principal of the School shall be elected by the Conference for a term of three years and shall be chosen for her special fitness for the work irrespective of the Board to which she may belong.

(e). The Principal shall have general charge of the School, including the theoretical training and all the work carried on by the students. The Associate shall, subject to the Principal's direction, give practical oversight to all the religious work carried on by the students as well as assist in class-room teaching.

ARTICLE IV.-RULES FOR ADMISSION.

(r). All applicants must be those who have been faithful church members of at least two years' standing.

(2). Applicants must be between the ages of twenty and thirty and equal in educational attainments to graduates of the Koto-Sho-Gakko (Grammar School.)

(3). Applicants must be accompanied by a letter of recom­mendation from the church signed by the Clerk and one from the missionary in charge. All applications must be sent in at least one month before the opening of the school year.

(4). Applicants must send a certificate of health from a reliable physician. Also a personal history sketch including a statement of educational advantages and Christian experience must accompany the above.

(5). Each pupil must present a letter from her guarantor who must be the head of a family and as such be responsible before the Japanese law.

(Exceptional cases to the above rules will be considered on their merits).

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ARTICLE V.-COURSE OF SH'llY.

RE(iULAR COURSE.

FIRST YEAR:

Bible Studies ..................... 0 hours per week. Tokuhon............... ... ... ...... 3 Vocal and Instrumental ~lusic. 3 Church History... ... ... ... ... ... :2

Geography.................. .......... ... ..~ " " Methods of work, two afternoons per week.

SECOND YEAR:

Bible Studies..... ................ 9 hours per week. Theology... ...... ............... :2

Church History.................. 2

Tol{usho ....... ' ........ , .... ". r., Vocal and Instrumental .:\Iusic. :2

Life of Christ, Harmonv of Gospels ......... '" '" ... : .... .

lVIethods of S. S. teaching ..... . Methods of keeping records

and accounts................... 1

Visiting three afternoons per week.

THIRD YEAR:

Bible Studies.................. ... 10 hours per week. Evidences of Christianity ...... 2

Preparation of talks .. . ... . . . ... 2

Church History.................. 2

Vocal and Instrumental Music. :2

Theology ... '" ............... '" Tokusho .......................... .

Auxiliary Studies.-Organ, Romaji, Science of Hygiene, Soci­ology, Home-keeping, Etiquette, Sewing and Cooking.

The Auxiliary Studies and the Bible School Lecture Course will also be open to the students of the Special Course.

BIBLE SCHoaL I.ECTt:RE COURSE.

There will also be a Bible School Lecture Course on current religious topics, to be given by the best talent available. This Course will be announced later.

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GENERAL RULES.

(I). All students will teach in Sunday Schools under super­vision and be given certain evangelistic work to do during the years of their course.

(2). During summer vacations they will be sent to special places for evangelistic work.

(3). Students will keep a weekly record of work done and report once a week to the Associate.

(4). There will be a regular prayer-meeting to pray for the work and all students will be expected to attend.

(SPECIMEN OF ENTERING PLEDGE.)

On entering your School, I hereby promise to abide by all the Rules governing the School and promise to be a faithful student.

Nanle ................................ ' .. .

Address .. , ........ , ., .. " '" ........... .

RULES FOR SCHOLARSHIP.

Any person who seems especially fitted for Christian work, but who through force of circumstances is unable to pay all her expenses in the School, may, if deemed worthy after a three month's trial and on making a contract with the School, be admitted on a Scholarship, whereby she receive board and tuition free during the School course.

ART. I.-Scholarship pupils shall receive board and tuition free for which they shall serve in Christian work at actual living expenses for a term of two years. .If they leave the work during the course of study or the two years· contract, the amount of board already expended must be refunded.

ART. 2.-Half Scholarship pupils shall receive half of board and tuition free for which they shall serve one year after graduation. If leaving before the end of the course shall be subject to the above l'ule.

ART. 3.-They shall on entering pay three month's board in advance for three month's trial term, but the amount paid shall be refunded on being accepted on the Scholarship Fund.

ART. 4.-The contract for scholarship must be between the school and the guarantor.

ART. 5.-Any student may, on account of idleness or mis­conduct, be suspended from the School for a time or expelled.

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ART. 6.-Should any student be expelled or herself wish to withdraw, all expenses incurred on her account while in school must be refunded, if 110t by the student herself, then by her guarantor.

ART. 7.-1n case any scholarship pupil should fail to complete the course in three years, she cannot be allowed to continue in the School unless there are some reasonable circumstances which would justify her remaining one more year.

GUARANTOR'S PLEDGE,

I the undersigned. do hereby agree to be responsible accord-ing to the rules and regulations of the School for ............ and take upon myself all the obligations incurred by l~er entering the School.

NatTIe ......... '" '" '" ......... '" ..... .

Address ...... '" ...................... ,.

SPECI.\.L COURSE.

(I). The Students. \Vomen over thirty years of age who with to take the Special Course may do so on paying their own board and tuition fees.

(2). Any Christian woman interested may come and listen to the recitations of the Special Course.

(3). Educational. Candidates for the Special Course are required to show ability to read the Bible fluently. Other quali­fications same as regular students.

COURSE OF STL'IlY.

FIRST YEAR: Bible Studies ..................... 10 hours per week. Christian Evidence ......... """ 5 ,. Reading and Writing 5 ,.

SECOND YEAR : Bible Studies ................... .. Bible Characters ................. . Christian Evidences ........... . Reading and Writing .......... ..

10 hours per week. 2 2

2 "

" "

Examinations will take place at various periods. usually on the completion of a subject. Marks necessary for passing in the regular course will be 75% and in the special course 65%. The

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term will be nine months, from October 1st to June 30th, of each year. Students will be required to enter at the beginning of the fall term and graduations will take place in June.

DIPLOMAS AND CERTIFICATES.

All students who complete and pass the examinations in the regular and special courses will receive diplomas and certificates respectively.

REPORTS OF ST ANDINO AND SPECIAL COMMITTEES, ETC.

IJUBLICATIONS.

The main work of the Committee this year has been the publica­tion of 1v1r. Harrington's translation of Broadus' Commentary on Matthew. This is not quite through the press but will be in a short time. It promises to be a very valuable addition to the preacher's library. Among Bible helps it should take a high place:

The binding and sale of the American Commentary in English has continued during the year. Though they sold slowly at first. yet as their value becomes known, the sale is increasing. There is the promise of a considerable sale in other Missions as well as in our own. The tract by Dr. Bennett, "The God who Loves Fishermen" has been issued in a new edition and steps are now being taken to hand the tract over to the Tract Society with the hope of a wider circulation.

We were very fortunate in escaping any loss in the burning of the Fukuin Printing CO.'s buildings, as we had a considerable quantity of unbound sheets in their godowns. Effort has been put forth this year to secure a wider circulation of our publications through advertising.

Your Committee would recommend the opening of Sale Rooms or Book stores in Kobe and Yokohama, the system to be extended to other towns if found successful. These stores not to be confined to Baptist books exclusively but, while they are made prominent. other religions books may also be on sale. There is not a single religious book store in the city of Yokohama. The experience of the past year has been that we can not get our books

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TIn HJlII E '1'1: .. \1:\1,\(; S('lIl1o!. \\'II!. HE "1'·,", 111'1:1 1'\ F\ll '" 1'111'\.'

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handled in a sympathetic or interested way by other stores. Such a work we believe could be carried on with but little loss and would not only increase the circulation of Baptist books but would help toward the spread of Christian literature in a way which would be very helpful and advantageous to all Christian work.

BIBLE WOMAN'S \\'ORK.

14 TRAINED WO:MEN AND 23 HELPERS •

. Miss Petterson reports two women who have given Sbimonosekl most of their time to calling, twenty homes being

visited regularly. Some work was done in four out­stations. Eight women have given their hearts to God this spring and are being taught with a view to baptism. They are women from very good homes and became interested through attending women's meetings.

Mrs. Briggs reports three women giving part time to Hlmeji calling and also help to the younger school girls in

their work for children in the cottages so that a large number of homes and many women are influenced by these faithful workers.

Mrs. Thomson says that Mrs. Okayama, the Church Kobe Bible woman, has visited regularly the members and

inquirers making a good average of 60 calls per month. She has a weekly class for inquirers and holds cottage meetings in different neighborhoods for the women.

Three have given part of their time, Mrs. Aoki in the Kinder­garten district, Mrs. Watanabe in Hiogo and Mrs. Haraguchi in Liu Chiu. The faithful work of these has resulted in conversions, good church attendance and Sunday School advancement.

More than 250 calls have been made by these three women. Miss Hughes of the West Church reports one trained

Osaka Bible woman, two S. S. workers and the matron of the new Bible \Vomen's Home. About 60 women and

350 children have had instruction as last year. Thirty or more homes have been regulady visited and about 20 women have had over ten consecutive Bible lessons. About half of these have con­fessed conversion but only four have been baptised.

The woman's society of the church has held two meetings a month during the year, the active members leading by turns. One new society was organized at our new chapel at Tempozan in a

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suburb near the harbor. It was started with four active members who are encouraged to take their turns at leading with the help of the Bible woman or missionary.

Some meetings have been held also at the outstations of Ikeda and Sakai. There has been more real Bible teaching in our work than ever before but for various reasons the converts have not been allowed to unite with the church.

Miss Danielson on the Eastside has had two helpers most of the year. One gave part of her time to calling. Fifty homes near the church have been visited and tracts and booklets distributed, more than ten homes have been visited over ten times.

Four have confessed conversion but none of these have joined the church. Three are held back by parents opposed to Christianity. Two school-teachers are afraid to take a public stand. Three have been baptised during the year 1907. Four times the temple bazaar has been visited and over 2,000 tracts given away.

Miss Danielson writes, H Mrs. Ami, formerly my Bible woman, known as Miss Kobayashi, called in the homes about 2 months before she became too ill to go about. After the death of her little daughter the dread con­sumption developed and she went to the heavenly home about six months later. She was a faithful witness for Christ in her husband's home and left ample proof that she died a triumphant death. She was a graduate of our Himeji Girls' School, and was one of the most earnest workers in the military hospitals during the war and has been known to sit up nearly all night trying to lead some of her school friends to Christ."

She leaves a Christian husband and parents-in-law who mourn her loss and are seeking to know the Savior she loved."

Mrs. Tenny writes that Kyoto Miss Iikawa has visited

31 homes. About 19 of these have been visit~d for teaching more than ten times. There are 23 Christians and 14 enquirers among the

MRS. AlU\J.

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women. Meetings are held twice a month. There ha VI:! been five conversions.

Miss Wilcox reports 30 homes visited and 85 women Yokohama have had more than ten lessons each during the year.

Of the women taught 55 were believers, 30 were in­quirers and 17 were converted on the field. About 200 meetings have been held for women only.

1\1rs. Dearing reports that the work of the Bible woman at l\1ito has greatly encouraged the believers and through the monthly woman's meeting and children's Bible School new homes are opcning up.

Seven workers are reported who do the general work Tokyo of calling in the homes and teaching children's Bible

Schools. Statistics are not at hand for all. Mrs. Yamada made 121 calls in forty homes ncar the Tsukiji Kinder­garten and ten other homes near the Tsukiji Church. The worker with 1\1rs. Brand reports 120 homes visited, 214 persons taught, many meetings conducted and tracts distributed.

Here Mrs. Top­Morioka ping reports that

Sato 0 Tatsu San who has been in'the work for 25 years is an incalculable help to the Church both as to her Christian walk and in her direct evangelistic work. There is one younger helper. About 80 homes are being visited at present, the Mori­oka women are fortunately coming to the missionaries' home so freely that not many homes are visited ten times. \Ve think 40 are converted, 28 have been baptised within a year, 165 meetings have been held for women only.

Four school teachers have expressed a desire to become Bible women. These are not mere gradU3.tes but women of several years experience in teaching. They are already of much help in our Church

MRS. SATO, Bmu; 'VOMAX AT MOI{IOKA.

work but would doubtless be greatly benefited by special training.

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A GRotH' UF \Vmm:-. IN CO:\:\ECl'IO:"I WITH THE \VORK IN MORIOKA.

Miss Buzzel says there are three workers there called Seodal Bible-women, besides the trained matron, Mrs. Uchida,

who is everything. One hundred homes have been visited. Half of them as many

as ten times. Of the women thus taught more than half were not Christians. There .bas been a weekly woman's meeting at the Church and some cottage meetings where several are taught it one time.

Here we have 110 report covering 1907. but 2 women Otaru united with the Church and three are seekers. Since

Mr. and .Mrs. Steadman were transferred to the North, a helper has been sent and a woman's society organized.

In order that we may hereafter be more systematic in gathering reports from the stations, the ladies present at Conference agreed to answer the following questions in their reports each year and to give the same to their native helpers at once and to request them to keep their reports accordingly.

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LIST OF QUESTIONS TO liE A NSWEREn.

{How m,any trained women?

I. How many younger helpers? 2.-How many different homes visited? 3.-How many women taught tell or more Bible lessons during

the year? 4.-0f these how many were Christians and how many inquirers? 5.-How many meetings held for women only? 6'-How many for children? (Including Sunday Schools.) 7.-How many calls made in all by the workers mentioned? 8.--How mallY women converted? (Including those baptised.) 9.-How many women baptised?

IO.--Please give some incident or story of a conversion in a few words.

GRACE Ar-;!':F HUGm:c..

seNDA Y SCHOOLS.

The Sunday School is as ever a most hopeful part of To 4.000 Children

Every Sunday our work, and the reports this year are very CIl-

cOUl·aging. \Ve cannot estimate the influences for good which are set in motion in our schools. Reports from the different fields show an average attendance every Sunday of about four thousand children beside more than four hundred gathered in children's meetings to whom the story of God's love is taught in the words of the Master himself, in picture and in song. These songs and scripture passages will surely be remembered and nlust bear fruit, if not now, in years to come.

The International lessons are generally followed in the Church Sunday Schools, and in children's meetings and other Sunday Schools the Life of Christ and Old Testament stories form the basis of the lesson. Teachers' meetings are also held in connection with a number of the schools in which the lesson talk is given before the other teachers, and criticized by them. ..

Some incidents from the work will encourage us all. Incidents Two instances have come to our ears this year of

little children who have led father and mother to the preaching-place and eventually to Christ. In one case two little girls who had been taught by their grandmother that the foxes would catch them if they went out after dark, became very timid and could not be persuaded to venture out. After they had been attending Sunday School for a while, their father asked them one

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evening to go on an errand for him. He was surprised at their ready acquiesence to his request, and noticed that they went into the next room to talk for a few minutes, then with cheerful faces they came out ready to hear his commission. When they returned he inquired how it was that they were not afraid. They said that they had been taught in Sunday School that the loving Heavenly Father was everywhere and would care for his little children even in the dark. so before going out they had asked him to protect them from the foxes, and firmly believed that they would be kept. The father was so impressed that he began to study this teaching and soon he and his wife and the old grandmother became earnest Christians and are now though in a different place exerting a strong Christian influence on those around them. One little girl says, ee The day school teachers are not good-we must let people know the Gospel-I will stand on the street and tell them." A girl who was in one of the Yokohama Sunday Schools for only three months was so deeply impressed with the message she heard that now on her sick bed she finds comfort and peace in Christ. In Liu Chiu the boys far out-number the girls and some of those now teaching are graduates of the Sunday School; one is hoping to enter the Seminary this fall. Special praise is due to Mrs. Haraguchi who has trained these young men. It is fitting to speak of the way our little folks in the mission are helping the work. Little Herbert Hill finding that there were very few boys in the Sunday School, resolved to get some to follow him to the School and now they have between twenty and thirty boys.

If The Mission Ship" rejoices in two new Sunday In tb~e!SI8nd Schools, making seven in all. These two Schools

are notable chiefly because of the difficulties attendant upon working them. Six miles in a small boat in a place of fierce tides then three miles across lonely hills and back again often at night, that is the effort needed to hold one session. .M.ultiply this by flfty, in all kinds of weather conditions, and you have an idea of what is done by the Bible woman, who is also head teacher of the Filkuill Marl/. Kindergarten, in orde.r that these children may be t~ught the love of God.

Those who sail among the islands are encouraged by the fact that during the year two young men, former pupils of the Bible class connected with the Seto Da Sunday School, were baptised. One has since gone to Osaka and in the East Church is proving a helpful member. It is a significant thing that in Seto Da where there was only six years ago a deadly opposition to all our efforts stirred up by the Buddhist priests, there are now in the Sunday School 1\vo sons of one of the priests:acting as monitors. Sunday School

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work has the prospect of having an unexpected impetus givcn tu it in t he islands.

The little colportage vessel recently built is in charge of a re­markable man. Among other efforts he holds Sunday School sessions on any day of the week, sometimes five. six or ten da\'s at a time in the villages which he visits. The most attentive ~lder children he registers, and following the methods of the mother ship, sends them tracts and scripture cards by mail. He already has a large list.

LANGUAGE EXAMINATIONS.

Your Committee is proud to report a laudable and even insati­able desire on the part of all missionaries. old or new. to take these examinations. Some have finished the course, and in all cases the average of marks made has been exceedingly high, but, as all returns are not yet in. the final results cannot now be announced.

F. G. HARRL'\iC:TUX,

Chairman.

SUPPLEMENTAL REPORT OF LANGUAGE EXAMINATION

COMMITTEE.

Since wntmg the above report it has been learned that :HI'. and Mrs. Bullen have completed their prescribed examinations and that Miss Acock has passed all her examinations except the final Conversation Examination.

For the Committee.

U:\ION HYMNAL.

F. W. STEAD?>!."-X.

"-. D. PAI{SHLI!Y.

The sales of the book have been very large amounting in total to something over 200,000, I believe. During the past year the Committee has prepared a new book for Sunday School and other services which we expect to put on the market in time for Christ­mas. This second book has been financed from the profits of the old book so that all income hereafter will be net.

The account of funds held by ':\1r. Fujimoto and myself is as follows:

Brought over from last year ............... 29. I I

Reed. this year ........................... -.. 157.23

Interests 1.28

Total .............................. 187.62 Voted to Mr. Fujimoto as an oni ... ...... 15.00

Cash on hand ........................... 172.62

\V. H. PAHSHLEY.

BAPTIST HYMI\S.

Your Committee on Baptist Hymns would respectfully report that they have collected during the year about sixty hymns and other religious poems. Many of these have been published in Kyoho. Some have appeared only in the pmgrams of the gatherings for which they were written. Some have never yet been printed. Among the authors are Taniguchi (Hisa), Arase (Tsuruyoshi), Ikeda (Seido), Uchida (Hisanaga), Ono (Hyoe), Matsushima (Masao) called also Yamawaki (Misao), Urazoe (Chocho), Wata­nabe (Hajime), Saku (Haruo), Tsuchikata (Koo). \Vada (Masahiko), Fujimoto (Denkichi), Yoshikawa (Shoho), Kuribara (Seizo), and Sato (Kiyoshi). A number of the poems are anonymous. \Vith the exception of the first named in the above list, all the writers are men. Mr. Yoshikawa (Shoho) is the aged father of our honored evangelist Rev. Yoshikawa (Hisashi). Mrs. Taniguchi is an old lady, member of the Kyobashi Church, Tokyo. The writers are fmm all parts of the country fmm the north of the mainland to the far south-west in Liu Chiu.

Your Committee believes that a little encouragement 011 the part of missionaries could secure the writing of many hymns of genuine worth. \Vhile it might also lead to the creation of many others of a different stamp, yet the law of the survival of the fittest is a sufficient guarantee of safety. More than that, the writers of hymns of even little merit, fmm the very fact of having written themselves, notice more carefully hymns written by others, and enter more intelligently into all our service of song. All members of Conference are again requested to report to the Committee all hymns in the vernacular that may be fro111 time to time written by our own people.

ALBERT ARNOLD BENNETT,

Chairman.

STATEMENT OF THE SHADA:t\.

Shadan affairs have gone on during the year withuu t friction. One of the lots no longer needed <It Chofu was sold and four

pieces of property have been purchased. the Girls' School sill' at Kanagawa and lots for the \Vornen Student's Home and for thl' Yotsuya Kindergarten in Tokyo and the \Vest Church property ;It Osaka.

Two houses on the Kindergarten site owned by others have not yet been removed but steps are now being taken which we hope will soon be successful in removing them. Miss Hughes' house in Osaka has been completed and registered and two other buildings are now being built but are not reported here as they have not yet been registered.

C. II. 1>. FISHER, Secretary.

SELF-SUPPORT.

True Self-Support is not. only financial self-dependence, but also. and more important, the power of a self-sustaining and self­propagating church life.

It is not the object to get rid of the expense of the support of our young Japanese churches, so much as to promote the develop­ment of a mature church life.

The object is that these churches may become independent, distributing centers of Christian light and influence, rather than to be absorbers only of light.

Having this object in view it is not \vbe to force financial independence upon any church before there is ability to nourish its own spiritual life, and, on its own initiative, to join in the work of the christianization of the community in which it is situated.

We think the forced independence of some Japanes(;! churches at the present time, not being based in an earnest desire for the salvation of men, is anything but profitable, and should not be imitated.

The condit:on of self-support among us is generally speaking as follows:

There are but three, or perhaps four, self-supporting Baptist churches in Japan-viz. Sendai, Yokohama and Kobe-with perhaps the Yanagi Machi Church of Tokyo.

The amount raised by the churches related to our A. B. 1\1. U. work was yen 6,347.20 or 2.70 per member 1906 and )'CJl 6,817.36 or 261 per member 1907.

The churches related to the Southern Baptist Mission raised yell 747.01 in 1906 or 2.56 per member, yen 76g.67 in 1907 or 2.27 per member.

This gives a smaller average per member for our whole Baptist work in 1907 than in 1906-viz. yen 2.60 per member. This smaller average may be attributed by some to less willingness to give. But this condition probably has been caused rather by the wonderful rise in the cost of living, and the high taxes now called for by the government.

There are some encouraging cases of advancement toward Self-Support that you ought to know. Dr. Dearing reports that the Mito Christians though few and SCrtttered make regular contributions to the pastor's salary, and pay by themselves the rent of a preaching-place, raising some six )'Clt per month for these pur­poses.

The Christians meeting at the down town preaching-place in Yokohama give regularly to its work though they are also called upon to give to the church expenses. These Christians raise some six to ten ycn a month without urging from the missionary. He only lays the cause before them, and they readily and generously contribute.

Dr. Bennett reports Yokohama Church pastor as now getting his whole support from the Church. Last year he had to teach in the Girls' School for part of his salary.

Also four preaching meetings are kept running weekly, in private houses, without any expense to the mission. Mr. Wynd reports the members of East Church, Osaka as raising last year only about five yell per month, but now have got up to seventeen per month, and they also give quite an amount for special objects. Mr. Thomson reports the Kobe Church as having increased the pastor's salary by ten J'Cfl per month. This was in addition to raising 400 yell for Church repairs.

The Biogo Church is now raising eighteen J'ell per month for running expenses, and has agreed to pay five ycn towards pastor's salary. The Japanese Home Mission Society as reported by Dr. Bennett raises some 70 yen per month to support Mr. Ide and work in Nagoya.

Your Committee thinks that the situation in regard to Self­Support is on the whole encouraging notwithstanding the smaller average of contributions for the past year. There is clearly a stronger consciousness of Church and individual responsibility on the part of the Japanese Christians. The expenses of Church and preaching-place work is largely borne by the Christians. This having greatly increased in amount during the past year will

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interfere with the speedy attainment of full independence in regard to the pastor's salary.

Your Committee regard the work of promoting Self-Support of enough importance to make it wise to have a committee from onr Conference to unite with a similar one from the Japanese Baptist Convention to work among the churches for this object.

To carry out this purpose your Committt:e asked the Confe­rence to request the Japanese Convention to appoint such a Cotlpcra­ting Committee and that body has acceded to the I cq uest appointing' }VIr. Yoshikawa, the general evangelist, giving him power to add two other Japanese making their committee to -number three.

\Ve think that the Joint Committee should--( I) gather statistics relating to self-support i.c. the number of wage earning, and self­governing members in our various churches with the purpose of ascert;)ining the probable power of self-support, etc.,--(2) should make, and distribute suitable literature inculcating liberal or propor­tional giving-(3) should make plans for encouraging giving, col­lection envelopes, methods of collection, ctc.,-(4) and should make annual reports to ollr Conference and the Convention of Baptist Churches of progress in and methods for the promoting of Self­Support.

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.:\IISSION PROPERTY

Your Property Committee would respectfully report that their work during the year has been confined to three localities-Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka.

In Osaka, they have approved of the lot for the church in the western part of the city, and of the general plans for the church building. Despite the generous appropriation made by the Mission­a!y Union it was found that after the lot and buildings thereon had been purchased the money left was not sufficient to make such alterations as had been intended or, indeed, to put the building that was to be used for worship in proper shape. Deeming it \Viser to spend more money now for something permanent than to spend what was in hand for a temporary make-shift, a request was passed by the Reference Committee and Conference to use the rent on the other buildings in the rear of the lot to make up the defici­ency. To this request consent has just come from the Executive Committee at Boston.

In Kyoto, Mr. Scott was appointed as a sub-committee to inspect, in company with Mr. Tenny, some building lots with a view

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to selecting a suitable site for the missionary residence there. Dif­ferent places were examined but neither was purchased.

In Tokyo, the contract has finally been made for the Home for female students. The members of your Committee residing in Tokyo and Yokohama have had numberless consultations, and drawn up many different plans. That \vhich has finally been agreed upon by the Committee is smaller and in many ways less pretentions than was at first hoped for, but your Committee have determined that no oversight on their part shall allow an excess of expenditure above the amount appropriated.

ALBERT ARXOUl BEXXET.

BOARD OF EDITORS.

All the members of Conference have doubtless examined the Annual Report and so are familiar with it. Accordingly no extended report of their work is called for. However a few words of ex­planation may be in order.

In accordance with the vote of Conference last year, 700 copies of the Report were published. All the members of Conference, in­cluding those on furlough, were supplied with copies, also the officials at the Rooms. in Boston and Chicago and the District Secretaries. In addition, acting upon instructions of the Conference, copies were sent to the leading Baptist papers in the Northern States and to the libraries of the Baptist Colleges and Theological Seminaries. Very few replies came acknowledging the receipt of these, bllt those that did come indicated that the Report was appreciated and had done real service for our cause in Japan. The President of one of our Colleges saw it in the Library of his College and sent a personal letter expressing his appreciation and thanks.

Copies of the Report were kept on sale at the Rooms in Boston, but the number sold was not as great as the previous year, owing doubtless to the fact that for some reason it was not advertized as in the year before. However 1\1r. Haggard urges that we continue to keep them on sale at the Rooms and promises to have them well advertized in the future.

The pictures in the Annual Report are not as good as we hoped they might be and as we think they ought to be. There is an opportunity for considerable improvement and we hope the future Board will do much better. However a comparison with like publications of other mission bodies in Japan, of the missionaries of our Board on other fields and of the other publications of our own mission in Japan, shows that our pictures are ahead of many and not much behind any. .

\Ve would recommend that the Report for the coming ycar be of the same size as that of the past year and that the same "number of copies be published, but that in the arrangement of the printed matter, etc. a large liberty be allowed the new Board.

J. : 1. SCOTT.

ADDRESS OF MR. TAKAI-IASIU. DELEGATE FRO:\I THE XEXK\VAI

(JAPANESE ANNl.'AL CO:,\YE:\TlO:\).

Dear brethren and sisters, By the invitation of >,-our Conference I am sent here as the

messenger of the Japan Baptist Convention, which was held at Fukuoka on lV1ay 27 and 28, 1908, to salute you and give you our love and sympathy. \Ve thank God for your labour and suffer­ing for the sake of our Redeemer and the salvation of our people. \Ve pray that God will use each one of you mightily for His work.

The work, indeed, is great. Rare opportunities are before us. The field is white unto harvest. God wants us to expect and undertake great things for Him and, for our people. \Vhen we think of these things, we feel exceedingly our weakness and insufficiency. \Ve feel also the great need of preachers who are sent forth by God, well trained. The growth of Christianity depends much upon the work of the preachers. One of the chief reasons why we are behind some other denominations in Japan must be the lack of able Japanese preachers. "VVe must pray that the Lord of the harvest will send forth his labourers into the field. In the meanwhile we must try to find out whom God will send and endeavor to give them the best possible education. We must also try to lead the preachers on the field to a higher standard, encouraging them not only to work diligently but to study strenuously. \Ve must emphasize the im­portance of hard study for every preacher, for the present tendency is to neglect this phase of the work.

We also need church buildings in many places. Of course the preachers are more important than the buildings, but the latter are often great helps to Christian work. We ougl1t to have more buildings.

We had a very good Convention this year. The number of the churches represented from Sendai down to Liu Chiu was twenty­six and that of the delegates was forty-eight. The spirit of the meeting was also very good. We rejoiced and thanked the Lord that He was blessing our churches. May the Lord give your Con­ference rich blessings and may it be a great me~ns of advancement of His Kingdom in Japan.

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COOPERATING CHRISTIAN MISSIONS.

Your Committee ha'i little to report to the Conference beyond calling attention to the report which doubtless all have read some time since in the Evangelist of the Annual rvleeting held in Tokyo. This Meeting was a profitable one. The Committee on Christian Literature indicated a line of activity in the direction of bringing new literature to the attention of a larger number and also of assistence in avoiding duplication in translation work which is likely to be of great advantage. Action was taken in preparation for the celebration in 1 g09 of the fiftieth anniversary of the beginning of Christian work in modern Japan and a Committee has been appointed to represent the- }Vlissionary body. Various other matters came before the meeting for action and several sub­committees were appointed. The value of the annual publication" The Christian Movement" was emphasized and steps were taken to have it issued earlier in the year. Your committee would here call attention to the great value of this publication as a means of acquainting friends with the condition of Christian work in Japan to-day. It is deserving of a far wider circulation and probably this publication is the best means of learning the actual condition of the work of all the denominations, as well as the social advance of the country, year by year. The work of the Standing Committee is yearly receiving wider endorsement among the missionaries in Japan.

It is of interest to note the recognition of Baptists in the work of the Committee. Prof. Clement has been elected as the Editor of the Christian Mov(:ment for the current year and Dr. Dearing has been placed upon the Committee of arrangement for the celebration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the opening of Japan to Modern Mission work to be held in 1909. \Vhile Mr. Hamblen, 1\1r. Harrington and other members of the Mission have been called to important work of various subcommittees.

J. L. DEARING.

COMMITTEE ON ADV AKCE \VORK.

The Committee on Advance Work find themselves in a Higb hopes rather awkward position. One year a£o our Con-

deferred ~ ference was encouraged by visitors from America to

anticipate a support for our mission which should correspond with its opportunities. \Ve were urged to ask large things. We did so, and went home with dreams of a new era for our mission. Alas! In spite of the Baptist chapter of the Laymen's Missionary Move­ment. the Executive Committee is at presc:;nt facing a heavy debt,

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almost doubled within the year, and feds compelled to make heroic reduction of expenditure. \Ve hope the tide will turn. \Vc know that OUT constituency is interested in Japan. At pre~t.:llt however, retrenchment is the order of the day. Han: then the commitlel~ 011

Advance \\'ork anything to report or suggest? \ \'L~ believe we have. Money paves the way for advance, but most vital steps in advance may call for little or no money.

Recent Committees on Advance \\'ork havc cmpha-Definite Policy . d d r d fi . I' rI~l" 1 f d needed size our nee lor a e mte po ICy. us IS t lC un a-

mental need about which we an..: called to employ ourselves. Our responsibility in the raising of money is small: our responsibility in organizing our mission for effective work is very large. Work has been carried on by our mission at disadvantage. It is our pressing duty, to improve the methods so that thc means put in our hands shall be employed to the greatest possible advan­tage. Even in the face of retrenchment advance in po/if')' is possible and this is a most vital sort of advance,

The endorsement given by our mission to the plan of Relation to otber . ld' h S h C . 1 k . missions Yle mg to t e out ern 011vent1011 t 1e wor r 111

Yamaguchi Province and Hiroshima, while simplify­ing our mission problem, puts us under a new obligation to con­sider the evangelistic claims of Central and Northern Japan. At present we must, use all our forces in strengthening the work already undertaken. VIle must, however, look ahead. Here we are called upon to consider the Mission of the Disciples. Vv"hatever may have been the differences of the past, however far apart we may even be now, one thing is clear, namely, we are drawing nearer together. The time is surely coming when we should unite. The Disciples of the U.S. are a vigorous body and are rapidly increasing: their Japan mission is unitedly desirous of closer relations with us. In view of these considerations, ought we not as a mission, to consider the question of conference with the Disciples' Mission, with a view to the wisest employment of the forces of the two missions ill Japan? Duplication of work should be avoided and division of territory appears feasible.

The action taken upon the request of the Southern Baptist Con­vention Mission for readjustment of territory calls for a committee to carry it through. Not only so, but is it not desirable to relate the missions as such, in some definite way? Is it not desirable to establish a channel which shall always be open for communication between the two missions? It may be well to add that the Disciple Mission has appointed a permanent committee for the express purpose of conferring with us, and that the Prudential Committee of the s.B.e. is available to meet the committee we suggest.

'vVe recommend that the Reference Committee be Recommellda-tion appointed to represent our mission in any needed con-

sultation with other mission bodies in Japan. Relation of The basal principal of all mission policy, would seem

mission to local to be the recognition of the fact, that the entire mission EvangeUstic has an interest in all the work carried on within its

work limits. Yet among us for many years this principal failed to be admitted, and extreme individualism has handicapped our work and prevented unity and proper growth.

Interest on the part of the mission at large in all lines of mission service implies for its proper and helpful expression, a relation, at least of advice. The rapid growth of sentiment in favor of such an advisory relation of mission representatives to all phases of our activity, is a most encouraging feature of our mission situation. The institution most vitally related to our work throughout the land is the Seminary. Consequently the Seminary first felt the force of the sentiment above indicated. Several years ago the principle was adopted that mission trustees should exercise authority over the Seminary, subject to the approval of the Board. Last year a similar sentiment rapidly developed in regard to the Academy, and ex­pressed itself in definite action.

The Bible-women's School was launched with the provision of an advisory board. Again Miss Rolman requested and received a committee to advise regarding her Kindergarten Work. In view of the rapid advance shown by Conference last year in the acceptance of tliis principle, may we not hope at this year's Conference that practical steps may be taken to apply it to the parts of our work not yet affected? The new missionary does not know how to get to work; there is need of some provision whereby the experience and aggregate wisdom of the mission should be made available for him.

The provision of some such committee appears to us as needful to the full d1ectiveness of the institution of the General Missionary, who can hardly be long or often in most of his fields, and he should not be compelled to depend wholly on individuals or the yearly sessions of Conference for his data.

Objection may be made to an increase of mission machinery. In reply let us suggest that the committee proposed would do away with the need for the committees on Self-Support, and Advance \¥ork, while probably performing their functions much more efficient! y.

. \Ve would recommend that a standing Evangelistic Reco~:.!enda. Committee be established, \\'hose duties shall be as

follows :-I. To become acquainted as far as possible with such matters

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as Self-Support, Evangelistic Literature, Dormitory \Vork, Shuchu Dendo and evangelistic methods generally. The committee shall hold themselves in readiness to answer inquiries on the part of individual missionaries.

2. To give recognition and recommendation to Japanese workers of proved character: to keep a record of such workers and to hold themsel \'es in readiness to give advice to missionaries desiring to consult them with regard to available workers, ;lIld to Japanese workers seeking a change of place. In giving advice the committee shall consider the needs of the work of the mission as a whole, thus bringing the need and the worker together.

This committee shall consist of three members. At the first election one shall be chosen for three ':ears, one for two ycars, and one for one year. Rut thereafter th~ elections shall be"' for three years each.

\Ve further recommend that the three (Japanese) Associations be requested to elect one member each, to form a committee to co­operate with the Evangelistic Committee of the mission, with regard to their specified duties.

To continue our survey we must look at the question Relation of the of relating the mission to that very important depart­mission to work for women and ment, service for women and children. Here indeed

children there is plenty of machinery, but it is not so systema-tized as to meet the need. For instance, the committees

on Sunday-Schools and Bible- \Vomen are merely editorial committees, whereas there is need for a committee to be thoroughly posted on S. S. literature and methods, and it would be well if some committee should make itself familiar with the work of our Bible-women, and help to locate such workers to the best advantage. Might not such functions be taken over by the Advisory Committee of the Bible Woman's Training School, and these t".'O committees be crossed off the list?

Turning to our girls' schools, it is to be observed that: the present is a critical time and further offers an opportunity to unify and correlate these schools. This matter should not be ignored. Again the opening 0[- dormitories for young women, calls for study and the development of some policy.

For a number of years we have maintained three kindergartens. Is the mission at large aware that the past year has seen three more opened by members of our mission? If others are to be opened, it is desirable that such action should be taken in accordance with the judgment of a well informed committee. Perhaps the committee requested by Miss Rolman might enlarge its scope.

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would be best met by several committees or by sub-committees of a general committee we do not attempt to say.

We recommend that a committee of three, at least two Reco~=enda. of whom shall be women, be chosen to consider the

whole question of the Conference committees dealing with woman's work, to report to Conference next year.

W. B. BULLEX.

ST ATISTICIAN.

The following is the summary of Baptist \vork in Japan for 19°7:-

Nemuro, having lost its status as a station just before The Missionary 1 b .. f h d H' .. d K Union t 1e egmmng 0 t e year, an ImeJl an yoto

having been raised to that status during the year, 12 is now the number of stations to be reported. One missionary resigning late in 1906, the number at the beginning of 1907 was 60. The arrival of reinforcements during the year carried this figure up to 66. Of this number 17, of whom six are the re-inforcements just referred to, were on the field less than six months. The Japanese associates in the work have increased by 10 and now number 190, of whom 80, 42 men and 38 women, are instructors in our schools, the remaining 110, of whom 30 are Bible women, being engaged in church and evangelistic work and in allied interests The number of ordained men is 14, the same as a year ag-o.

The Shibetsu Church has gone out of existence, but the Sapporo Church has been organized, thus keeping the total number of churches at 31, of which four, the same as last year, are seIf­supporting. Church buildings and chapels show an increase from 21 to 28, while the total places of regular meeting have run up from 104 to 118, besides which the Fukuill Maru. (Gospel Ship) occasion­ally visits 330 more. The baptisms for the year were 389; one in five of the present membership, and an increase of 92 over those of 1906. The church membership shows an increase of 26 I, some I I ~~, having risen to 2,608, the highest figure yet attained. The disparity between the number of baptisms and the increase in membership, viz., 128, is accounted for largely by revision of church roUs. The Sunday schools now number 127, an increase of nine. while their enrollment shows an increase of 1,559, some 24% ,now being 8,076. In 1906 the churches raised yetZ 6,347.20 ($3.173.60), a per capita rate of YCIl 2.70 ($1.35); in 1907, yelz 6,871.36 ($3,435.68), a per capita rate of yell 2.63 ($1.32). This is an increase of l'elZ 524.16 ($264.08), or sen ~o· ($.10) per member.

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Compared with 1906 the total contributions show an -increase of some 8%, and the per capita contributions a decrease of some 2;':; %. This is not the good showing of 1906, but it is still the high-water mark in contributions.

The educational institutions number 14 as against 16 a year ago, four night-schools having been closed, while a Kindergarten has been opened in connection with the Fulmiu J1aru work and also one in connection with the Liu Chiu work, in Naha. The Theological Seminary reports 28 students, an increase of 15 over

, last year, and the largest number yet in attendance. This is one in 93 of the total church membership. Duncan Academy shows an increase in enrollment from 67 to 72. The four girls' schools have suffered a loss of nine and now report an enrollment of 341. The Kindergartens, as noted above, have increased from three to five, and the children in attendance from 200 to 287. It should be noted that a union Kindergarten was begun in Morioka the latter part of the year, but from it no figures are at hand. The two day schools, Yokohama and Tokyo, have fallen off in pupils from 145 to 114. The Kindergarten Training School reports an attendance of 16, one less than a year ago. The total number under instruction has fallen from 870 to 858, of whom 290 are boys and young men and 568 are girls and young women. Compared with 1906 this is a decrease of 22 males and an increase of 10 females. In 1906 one boy and "27 girls, 28 in all, united with churches; in 1907 four boys and 19 girls, 23 in all. Tuitions increased by yell 593·34 ($296.67) from yen 3,6g4.35 ($1,847. 18) to yell 4,287.69 ($2,143.85), about 16?1o.

The number of stations has increased to six by the T~n~:::~::O raising of Sasebo to that status. Though 20 mission-

aries were listed at the end of 1906, two had just gone home for permanent residence, and so 1907 began with 18, which number has remained unchanged. The Japanese associates ill the work decreased by four to 13. 12 men and one woman. Two of the men are teachers in the Theological Seminary founded during the year, and the rest of the 13 are engaged in church and evangelistic \vork and allied interests. Of ordained men there are four, as a year ago. The churches still number seven, none of which are self-supporting. Of church buildings and chapels there are seven, one more than last year. The places of regular meeting are 13, as a year ago. There were 60 baptisms, one in about six of the present membership, an increase of 28 over those of 1906. The church membership increased by 39, about 13 %, and is now 339, the highest figure yet attained. Sunday schools total 13 as against 10 a year ago, and the pupils have increased by 254, some 80%, and now numbeJ

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579. In 1906 the churches raised )'Cll 767.01 ($383.51), a per capita rate of yell 2.56 ($1.28); in 1907, )'en 769.67 ($384.84). a per capita rate of )'CIl2.27 ($1.14). This is an increase of }'e1l 2.66 ($1.33), or yell .008 ($.004) per member. The total is the largest sum thus far raised.

In the new Theological Seminary there are seven students. The number of stations in the two Missions increased

Summary from 16 to 18. The missionary body shows an in-crease of three and now number 84, of whom 17 were

on the field less than six months. The staff of Japanese workers in- t

creased from 197 to 203, of whom 82,44 men and 38 women, are in educational work, while the remaining 121, of whom 30 are Bible women, are in church, evangelistic and allied work. The ordained men number 18, as last year. There are still 38 churches, and the self-supporting churches are still four in number. Church buildings and chapels show an increase from 26 to 34. The total places of regular meeting have run up' by 14 to I 3 I, while the Fukuhz Jl1artt occasionally visits 330 more. The total church membership shows an increase of 300, about 11 J/,3 %, a rate practically the same as in 1906, and is now 2,947, the highest figure yet reached. The baptisms were 449, one in about seven of the present membership, and 120 more than in 1906. Sunday schools have increased their number by 22 and are now 150, while their enrollment shows an increase of 1,813, now being 8,655. a growth of slightly more than 26%. In 1906 the churches raised ytll 7,114.21 ($3,557.10), a per capita rate of yell 2.70 ($ 1.35); in 1907, )'01 7,641.03 ($3,820.52), a per capita rate of yen 2.60 ($1.30). This was an increase of yen 526.82 ($263.41). or )'C1Z .18 (S.09) per member. The amount raised by the churches shows an increase of slightly more than 7% over that of 1906, and the per capita rate a decrease of a little more than 3%.

The organization of the Southern Convention Seminary makes the totals for educational work differ from the figures of the Mission­ary Union work as given above, in the following particulars only.­Theological Seminaries number two with an enrollment of 35. as against one \vith an enrollment of 13 in 1906, and the total number of educational institutions are 15 as against 16, with an enrollment of 865 as against 870 in 1906. \Vith gratitude to God for the progress shown in these figures your Statistician makes his report.

S. \Y. HAMBLEN.

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l\IISSIOXARY REYIE\\, OF IXDIA.

The Corresponding Editor of The Baptist Missionary Review has sought to have Japan represented in every issue by asking three of the Mission each month to send short news notes. He has met with poor success.

The subscription list has been corrected and subscriptions collected and forwarded. The copies coming to Japan this year arc but four in number. Several copies go to the home address of members of our Mission, now on furlough, but these cannot be morc than five at the outside. During the last t\\'o years the total subscriptions to The Review have increased by some 25 % but it is evident that Japan has not contributed to this increase.

The Corresponding Editor would be speak for his succcssor greater literary support that Japan may have her full representation in the columns of The Review.

S. 'v. IIA:'IBI.J:::;, Cor. Ed.

INTERDENOM1NATIONAL S. S. HELPS.

Owing to changes in method of work, your Committee has not been called upon to participate therein, and would beg leave to resign.

INTERDENOMINATIOKAL BIBLE Tl<ANSLATIOK.

1\.1eetings of this Committee have been held several times in Tokyo, and machinery set in motion to secure the Revision of the Old and New Testaments by a joint Committee of Foreigners and Japanese, four of each having been appointed. But the work has not yet been begun, and probably more than a year will yet elapse, before it can be commenced. I ask that some one be appointed in my place.

F. G. HARRI:'>CTOr\.

COMPILATION OF RULES.

Your Committee appointed at the Conference of 1906 made a partial report at our last Conference, and at their own request were continued. In January of the present year they made, and were

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granted, the request to defer printing pending further iristructions from our Conference.

Your Committee, while searching the l\1inutes of the Con­ference, and letters to the Conference received from the Secretaries at Boston, for the past ten years, has been impressed with the applicability to our own condition of the famous words Tennyson puts into the mouth of King Arthur :---" The old order changeth, yielding place to the new."

What seemed to be H Permanent Decisions" of a few years ago have ceased to be so, and what seem so now may prove to be otherwise before they can appear in print.

The matter collected may be classified as follows :-I. Relation of the Conference to the Home Board; including

general duties of Conference as such, and of its Reference Com­mittee.

II. Committees, &c; including Rules of Proceedure of Reference Committee, Property Committee, Relations between Reference Committee and Property Committee, the Shadan, Rules for Publication Committee [and about Publications], Rules in regard to Statistics and Annual Report, Constitution and By-Laws.

III. Individual missionaries; including location of returning missionaries and new appointees, definition of station and out-station, the missionary's furlough, his correspondence with the Home Secretary, language study, the rerenting of missionary residences, expenses to Confercnce, estimates.

IV. Cooperation with the Nenkwai; including a Committee on Self-Support and a Committee on [general] Cooperation.

V Japanese Workers; including Schedule of Salaries, pay­mcnts of pastors through churches, Union Mission Policy \'lith reference to Call of Pastors.

VI. Organization of new churches. The important problems connected with the work our Seminary

and Academy are not touched upon here. The reason for this mission is, of course, that the whole question is to receive reconsideration when Secretary Barbour comes and it is impossible to tell now what decisions of the past, if any, shall continue in force.

Your Committee would respectfully request that this Conference make some provision for the financial outlay that must be incurred in the printing, should they now authorize t.heir Committee to proceed according to the original plan.

.-\.l.IlERT ARXOJ.D BENNETT, Chairman.

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RESOLUT10:\:S.

Rcsol'l!ed.-That we extend a most hearty welcome to IH r. and Mrs. Benninghoff, Mr. Gressitt, Mrs. TuxbuIT and Misses Linsle\' and Rumsey who have joined our mission c'ircle during the pa~t year.

Rcsolvcd.-That we express to ~lr. and ~1rs. \\'ynd. }\lrs. Steadman, Mrs. Dearing, 1\lr. F. G. Harringtl)ll and ':\lisses Buzzell and Hughes, our wishes for a safe voyage home, a beneficial fur­lough and a return to the work here as soon as circul11stances will allow.

Rcsol'Zled.-That we express our pleasure at having 1\1 rs. Don­nelly, a member of the Board of the \Vomen's Baptist Home Mission Society, with us, and at hearing from her an interesting and instruc­tive address, in which she reviewed the progressive and enthusiastic work of the women in our churches at home.

ResohJcd.-That we express our gratification over the prospec­tive visit to the Far East of Rev. T. S. Barbour, D.D. Foreign Secretary of the A.B.M.U., and our earnest expectation that the conferences to be held with him will be fruitful of the best results to our work.

ResohJed.-That we express our sympathy with Mrs. Hamblen and Mrs. Thomson in the death of their fathers, with Miss Clagett in her illness and in the death of her mother, and with Miss Dodge. earnestly praying for their early recovery: and that we extend to Madame Clement and to Miss Rolman the assurance of our heart felt desire that God may give them the needed strength for their work: also that we express our sympathy with Prof. and Mrs. Clement in the return of their daughter to America for study.

Resolved.-That we express our deep joy in the splendid work for young women done by 1\1iss Helen Topping in Morioka, and our earnest hope that she be permitted to retu rn upon the completion of her college work in America.

Resolved.-That we place on record our appreciation of the high and faithful service rendered our Theological Seminary, by its retiring president, Rev. J. L. Dearing, D.D. and our earnest hope that God's richest blessing may rest upon him in the discharge of his new duties.

Resol'lIed.-That we express our conviction of the wisdom of the Executive Committee of the A.B.M.U. in their choice of our brother Dr. Dearing for this new office, believing that his natural endowments as well as his experience, are calculated to fit him for the work it involves, and we beg to assure him of our constant sympathy and prayers in his new work.

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Summary of the Proceedings of the Conference of the Missionaries of the American Baptist Missionary

Union, held in Arima, Japan.

JUNE 7TH-11TH, I908.

The Conference in accord with a \"Ote taken by circular letter authorizing. a change in the date of the session from May 3rd, met June 7th and continued in session until the evening of June lIth.

Sunday Services

The services on Sunday, June 7th were as foIlows:-g A.M. Special Prayer Service led by Mr. Parshley, Topic :-Psalms 127: I

.j Except the Lord build the house." I I A.M. Conference Sermon, Mr. Bullen. Topic: I I Tim. I: 15, "The Duty of Success."

3 P.M. Children's Meeting led Ly Mrs. Parshley. 4 I>.M. Praise Service on l{ound Top led by Mr. Briggs. Topic:" Praise." 7.30 P.M. Sermon by Mr. Benninghoff. Topic: John 10: 10., "Some Problems of

Life." Devotional Services were held at the beginning of each forenoon and afternoon meeting. The leaders and topics were as follows:­

Devotional Services Monday A.M. Mr. Steadman.. "For a larger Infilling with the Holy Spirit; " P.M. Mr. Tenny. "Wisdom in caring for Church

Members." Tuesday A.M. Mr. Gressitt, "For a larger Ingathering of Young Men;" P.M. Mrs. Parshley, "For the Graduates of our Girls' Schools." \\"ednesday A.M. Mr. Topping, "For the wisest Use of Christian Literature; " P.M. :Mrs. }"isher, "l'or Work for 'Women in their Homes. Thursday A.M. :\1r. Fisher," "Vor Japanese Pastors and Evangelists;" r.l\I. Mr. Jones, "Reclaiming of Backsliders."

Organization of Conference

On Monday morning directly following the Devotional Service \he Conference was culled to order by President Dearing who in a few remarks recounted the blessings of the year. The Conference was then led in a prayer of thanksgiving by Dr. Bennett.

Capt. Bickel, Mr. Fisher and Mr. Bullen were chosen as the Committee on Nomi­nations. This Committee retired and soon brought in nomination for General Officers, and the persons thus nominated were elected by ballot, and assumed their duties. (See List of General Officers.) It was then ruled by the chair that all the General Officers, including ,the Executive Committee, shall go into office at once upon election and be responsible for the duties of their respective positions during the session of Conference.

Visitors

Committees

Visiting brethren were invited to seats with us and to a part in our deliberations. Mr. Takahashi, the delegate from the Japanese Nenkwai (Annual Convention) responded, bringing the fraternal greetings of the Nenkwai which had a few days before closed its annual session, held this year at Fukuoka. The President chose as Committee on Resolutions, Prof. Clement, Mr. Parshley, Mr. Gressitt, and as Committee on Time and Place of Next Session, Mr. Hamblen, Mr. Steadman, and Mr. Benninghoff. The former Committee reported later (See Resolutions); also the

latter reported recommending that the next session he in Arima, beginning Sunday, June 6th, 1909. The Reports were adopted.

Papers

A Devotional Paper was fead by Mr. \Vynd on .. Some 'Weak Points in Our Armor .and how to remedy them." Other Papers were read as follows: "J mprovements possible in our Educational "'ork, Dr. Dearing; Impro"e~ents possible in our Mission

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Methods" Mr. Hill; "Improvements possible ill our Evangelistic Work:' Capt. Bickel; " Improvements possible in our Bible 'Von18n's " ork," Miss Hughes; .. Imprm'cmcnts possible in some Kon-Essentials," Mr. Scott.

A letter from the Secretary of the Southern Raptist Cnnvention Traaafer of tbe Mission was presented asking that the Yamaguchi lield includhlg V_pdtl Field Hiroshima and Kure be trnnsfclred to that Mil;sioll and oJ:;o a

letter from Dr: Darbour relnting to the snme matter, and nner a protrncted discussion, it was voted: That we recommend the transfer to the s.n.c. Mission of our work in Yamaguchi Ken with the understanding thnt as soon as the arrangement has been conlirmed by the Boards, the S.B.C. Mission take over the property (If our Mission at a fair valuation and that they man the lield with at least as mony missionaries as we have there now.

The Heport of the Theological Seminary was rend and adopted. Th I I I Sc I Dr. Dearing iu presenting the Report closed with fitting remar}(s

eo 01 ca m aary regarding his connection with the Seminary and the work now be. fore him as General Missionary. (See Reporl.)

Daacaa AcadUly Girl's Owing to lack of time the Reports from Duncan Academy, the Scbools. Day &bools, Girls' Schools, the Day Schools, Kindergartens and the Stations

Kiadcrprteos aad not yet presented were not read before Conference, but it was voted Statloo. that they should nppear in the Annual Report. (See Reports.)

The Advisory Committee of the Froposed Training School pre. Bible Womaa's sented a plan for its organization, rules, course of study, etc. TraildDI[ School These were considered uriatim and after certain cbanges were

adopted. (See H.eport) Yoted: That while the Conference gives its general approval to the Rules,

Course of Study, etc. drawn up by the Advisory Committee, it deems it best to leave the Board of Managers and Principal free to make any changes which circumstances may show to be necessary.

Voted: That we recommend the arpointment of Miss Mead as l'rincipal for the first term of three years and that the School open tbis coming Octl.bcr at Minami HOTie, Osaka.

Recommeadatlons of Reference Committee

(2). That Mr. Yokohama.

Upon the recommendation of the Reference Committee approval was given to the following, and they were recommended to the Executive Committee: (1). That Mr. Parshley be appointed as President of the Theologi­cal Seminary at V okohama. Tenny be appointed to work in the Theological Seminary at

(3)' That Mr. and Mrs. Hill be designated to Kyoto to take the place of Mr. and Mrs. Tenny.

(4). Thnt Miss Petterson be designated to be associated with Mr. and Mrs. Hill in the work at Kyoto.

(5). That Mr. Jones be designated to the Mito and Taira field. (6). That Dr. C. K. Harrington be designated to his former work in the Seminary

at Yokohama. (7). That Mrs. Tuxbury be designated temporarily to Sendai during the furlough of

Miss Buzzell. (8). That the request of Mr. and Mrs. Scott be granted and they be allowed to send

either or both of their boys, Carey and Lewis, home. (9). That Mr. Hamblen be allowed to remain another year on the field before

taking his furlough. Medical certificate presented. (10). That Mrs. Steadman and children be allowed to return to th homeland this

coming autumn. (II). 1 hat the constitution and duties of the Property Committee be as follows:­This Committee shall consist of five membeJs who shall be cb~en, as far as pos­

sible, for their buiness ability, mechanical skill and experience. At the first election two shall be chosen for three years, two for two years and one for one year, but there-

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after the election shall be for three years each,. one person being chosen the first year, and two each of the t'vo following years, continuing the same order thereafter.

(J2). That the Board of Editors shall consist of the Secretary and three other members. These three shall hold office each for three years, but at the first election one shall be chosen for three years, Qne for two years and one for one year.

(13)' That in view of the changes on the Committees having charge of the General Evangelists Mr. Parshley be asked to take the place of Dr. Dearing on the Committee having in charge Mr. Tatsuda's work and Mr. Hill be asked to take the place of Mr. Tenny on the Committee in charge of Mr. Yoshikawa's work as soon as these respective vacancies occur.

The Secretary's report of business transacted since the last session Secretary ... aad of Conference was presented and adopted. The Treasurer's report

Trelsurer's R,eports also was presented, having been audited and found correct by the committee and was adopted. (See Report.)

Stltlstlclla The Statistician made report (See Report). Adopted. Voted: That the Statistician be instructed to procure the necessary blanks for the

collection of the statistics.

RePOl:~I~~::dlag These Committees reported (See Reports). Reports adopted.

Voted: That the recommendation of Conference made last year that a course of reading for young missionaries be prepared by the Committee on Language Examina­tions be reaffirmed.

The recommendations made by the Committee on Advance Work were voted and the necessary committees elected.

The Report of the Corresponding Editor of the Missionary Review, India was presented and adopted. (See Report.) However owing

Mlssloaary Review to the great distance from the place of publication and the con. sequent difficulty of keeping in touch with it and of doing out part

towards contributing to its columns, it was voted to discontinue our connection with the Review.

The Special Committee on Compilation of Rules reported (See Special Caa:mlttee Report). Report adopted and Committee continued with instructions

to defer publication for another year. Voted: That all matters of ad ittterim business with the excep· tion of those already provided for in the Constitution of the Con-

Ad laterlm Buslaess ference, shall be transacted through the Reference Committee in the usual manner. The Secretary, Capt. Bickel and Mr. Briggs were selected as a com·

Committee on Oemarca· miltee to indicate the demarcation of the territory between our tloa of Territory Mission and that of the Southern Baptist Convention Mission.

A committee consisting of Dr. Dearing, Capt. Bickel and Mr. Coafereace wltb Dr. rarshley was chosen to suggest arrangements for the Conference

Barbour with Dr. Barbour. This committee reported recommending that the Conference be held in Karuizawa beginning August 19th.

This report was adopted and the committee continued with instructions to arrange another date, if that date is impossible.

In accord with the request of Dr. Barbour, the following were chosen in addition to the Reference Committee tQ meet in the Con­

To meet Dr. Barbour ference with Dr. Barbour: Dr. Bennett, Mr. Briggs, Mr. Scott, Mr. Steadman, Miss Whitman, :Mrs. Briggs, Miss Danielson, Miss \Vilcox, and Miss Hughes.

Dr. Dearing, 1\lr. Parshley and Mr. Thomson were chosen as a committee of Arrange­ments for the Conference with Dr. Bartour.

The election of members of the Reference Committee to take Referencc Committee the places of Mr. Hamhlen, Mr. Steadman and Miss Buzzell re­

sulted in the choice l f Mr. Bul1e~, Mr. Topping and Miss Mead.

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A vote of tbanks wns tende~d the Committee on Arraugements for the care witb wbicb all the arrangement:; were made for this session of the Conference.

Adjourned with prayer.

C. B. TI-::\:\Y,

President.

APPENDIX A.

J. J I. SCOlT,

Secretary.

JAPAN BAPTIST MISSIONARIES.

DIRECTORY

Acock, Miss Amy A. (0), 19°5,,: 27 l\nkajimu·clJO, Sendai. Axling, Rev. Wm. and wife, 1901 ... ... Absmt :-Gothenburg, Nebr., U.S.A. Bennett, Rev. A. A., D.D. (n) and wife (a), 1879' 67-11 Bluff, Yokobama.

Benn;~~~off: .. Re~~ .. H:.~. ~~! a~~ ~~~e, ~~.9O~~:} Zosbigaya.cho, Koisbikawa, Tokyo.

Bickel, Capt. L. W. (a) and wife (a), 18gB 47 Sbimotera.machi, lIimeji. Bouldin, Rev. G. W. and wife (c), 1906... ... 224 Hirano-eho, Kugosbima. Brand, Rev. J. C. (0) and wife (n), 1890; 1875. 30 Tsukiji, Tokyo. Briggs, Rev. F. C. (n) and wife (n), 1902; 1895. 47 Shimotera-machi, Himeji. Bullen, Rev. W. B. (a) and wife (n), 1904 '" 27 Nakajima-eho, Semiai. Buzzell, Miss A. S., 1892 ... 27 Nakajima.cho, Sendai. Carpenter, Mrs. H. E. (b), (1862), 1886 ... Absmt:-9I Summer St., l\cwton Cel>

tre, Mass., U.S.A. Clagett, l\1~s M. A., 1887... c/o W.O. Jones,Leitchfield, Ky., U.S.A. Clarke, Rev. W. H. and wife (c), 1898; 1899... 135 Kyo·machi l\ichome, Kumamoto. Clement, Prof. E. "'. (0) and wife, 1894... 29 Sanaizaka, Ichigaya, Tokyo. Clement, Mrs. 1.. H. (b), I~ '" 29 Sanaizaka, Ichigaya, Tokyo. Converse, Miss C. A., 1889 34 Bluff, Yokohama. Danielson, Miss Mary (a), 1902 468 lkudama·cho, Higashi-ku, Osaka.

Dear!8~/{~~: J .. ~., ~~D .• ~~) ~~d ~~fe, .. ~88~.J 75 muff, yokohama.

Dodge, Miss K. A., 1903... _.. ... _.. ... Absent :-2236 Mt. Vernon St., Phila-delphia, I'a., U.S.A.

Dozier, Rev. C. K. and wife (c), 1906 9 Shimizu-cho t Sasebo. Fisher, Rev. C. H. D. (a) and wife (a), 1882::: 30·B Tsukiji, Tokyo. Gressitt, Mr. J. l'. (n), 1907 Waseda Dormilory, 276 Tsurumaki-

cho, Ushigome, Tokyo.

Ham~~:, S~.~ .. ~~) _~~nd .. ~if~:_ nb~~~tt), .. ~88:.~} 30 -A Tsukiji, Tokyo.

Harrington, Rev. C. K., D.D. and wife, 1886... Absent :-c/o Henry wvett, Kentville, N.S., Canada.

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Harrington, Rev. F. G. and wife, 1887 ...

Hill, Rev. G. W. (n) and wife, (1893), 1895 Hughes, Miss G. A. (a), 1900 ...

Jones, Rev. E. H. (n) (and wife, absent). 1884 ... Kidder, Miss A. H., 1875 ... Linsley, Miss E. E. K. (a), 19C7 Maynard, Rev. Nathan and wife (r), 1894 McCollum, Rev. J. W., D.D. and wife (c), 1889' Mead, Miss Lavinia, (1887). 1890 ... Medling, Rev. P. IJ. and wife (c), Ic)o7 ...

Parshley, Rev. W. B. (a) aud wife (a), 1890 ... Paulson, Miss G. C., 1899 ...

Petterson, Miss lnga (a), 1905 ... Rolman, Miss E. L., 1885 ... Rowe, Rev. J. II. and wife (c), 19C6 Rumsey, Miss F. M., 19°7 ... Schumaker, Rev. T. E. and wife, 1889

Absml: - Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Ushiroji Mura, Shimonoseki. No. Il Kami-dori 4-chome, Minami

Horie, Osaka. After Nov. 20, 1908, Los Angles California.

45 Minami-maehi, Mito. 10 I'ukuro-machi, Surugadai. Tokyo. 10 Fukuro.machi, Surugadai, Tokyo. Absmt :-Salem. Va., U.S.A. 16 Funa-machi, Fukuoka. Luverne, Minn., U.S.A. 29 Sakura· baba, Nagasaki. 34 Bluff, Yokohama. Absent :-766 Wells St., St. Paul,

Minn., U.S.A. Ushiroji Mura, Shimonoseki. 9 Naka-cho Sanehome,Yotsuya, Tokyo. 29 Sakura-baba, Nagasaki. 47 Shimotera-machi, Himeji. Absmt:-II50 N. Los Robles Ave.,

Pasadena, Cal., U.S.A. Scott, Re\,. J. H. (a) and wife (n), 1892 ... 19 Kawaguchi.machi, Osaka. Steadman, Rev. F. W. (n) and wife (a), 1901... 67 Inaho.machi, Otaru. Tenny, Rev. C. n. (n) and wife (n), 1900; 1905. 75 Bluff, Yokohama. Thomson, Hev. R. A. (a) and wife (a), (1884)} ]-'t N' h 1- be

1888; (1886) 1889 ... ... ... ... ... 39 \,1 ano IC orne, \.0 •

Topping, Re\,. Henry (n) and wife, 1895... 43 Uchimaru, Morioka. Tuxbury, Mrs. Nina (n), 1907... ...... 30 Tsukiji, Tokyo. 'Yalne, Rev. E. N. and wife (c), 1892 96 Daimyo-machi, Fukuoka. \Vhitman, Miss M. A., 1883 ... ... 10 Fukuro-machi, Surugadai, Tokyo. Wilcox, Miss E. F. (n), 1904 ... ...... 34 Bluff, Yokohama. \Yillinghnm, Rev. C. T. and wife (c), 1902 .Absmt :'7"15 S. Fifth St., Richmond,

Va., U.S.A. 'Wynd, Re\,. Wm. (n) and wife (n), 1891; 1894. I19 Tani-machi, Higashi-1m, Osaka.

(n) In attendance at Conference, Arima, IC)O( (b) Not supported by Mission :Funds. (c) Southern Baptist Convention, all others of the American Baptist Missionary Union. The time of beginning Baptist Mission 'York in Japan is shown by the date after each name. ]f the husband and wife did not come together, the date of her arrival follows that of her husband. If the missionary was in missionary service in some other country before coming to Japan, or at first under some other Board in Japan, the date of beginning such service is given in parenthesis, followed by the date of beginning Baptist work in Japan.

VISITORS.

Mrs. R. R. Donnelley ... ... '" Prof. T. Takahashi, Theo. Seminary Mr. R. F. Veatch, Y.M.C.A.

Chicago, Illinois. Yokohama. Osaka.

APPENDIX B.

JAP:\.:\ BAPTIsT CONFERE~CE };\ ACCOU;\"T WITH

J. H. SCOTT, TREASCRER.

Tn Printing Annual Report, 700 copies " Telegram ... n Postage, Express, etc. " l'!ates

Travel " Printing Conference Programs ., Balance carried to next ye:lr ...

By Balance from previous year .. . " Conference Dues as per list .. . " Sale of" Life of Dr. Browl!·' .. . n Sale of" Annual Reports" in America

Dr. lioll 118.11

.80 19.0 9 19.58 4·60 2·77

26'37

Cr.

J'"m 6,40 168,00

l.C'O

15.92

J. H. SCOTT, Treasurer. Audited and found corre~t Tunc 8, 1908.

C. II. D. FISHER,} \\'. B. BCLLEr-1, Auditing Committee. J.~. A. TWI1\fsu:\",

APPENDIX C.

FI~A:\CIAL REPORT OF PUBLICATW:--: C:O~I~llTTEE.

To Balance from last year

" Interest on deposits

" Cash from sales in Tokyo .. .

Kobe .. .

DElIlT.

CREDIT.

By paid for printing, bindillg, boxing, freight, advertising postage, etc.

S. S. Lesson Hel ps

Palance in hands of treasurer ...

Ym 684.77

5.00

221.14

96.1 3

I'm 594.00 86,5 1

326.63

Yen 1,500 has also been appropriated to this committee, but is still in hands of

Mission Treasurer. • C. H. D. FISHER, Treasurer.

APPENDIX D.

ANNIVERSARIES OF THE CONFERENCE OF THE MISSIONARIES OF THE A. B. M. UNION 11' JAPAN.

No. of Member· Native Con· Year. Places. President. Secretary. Preacher. Missionaries. Baptisms. ship. tributions in Y .. n.

J8go ...... Kobe ............ Mr. Thomson ......... Mr. Hamblen 158 905 926.04

1891 ...... Yokohama ...... Dr. Rhees ............... Mr. Hamblen ......... Dr. Rhees .................. 45 146 1,056

1891.. .... Yokohama ...... Mr. Fisher ............ Mr. Hamblen ......... Mr. Brand .................. 44 25 1 1,279

1893 ...... Kobe ............ Mr. Halsey ............ Mr. Hamblen ......... Mr. Scott .................. 46 2(3 1,394 77°·18

1~94 ..... yokohama ...... Mr. Bennett ............ Mr. Hamblen ......... Mr. Dearing ............... 45 236 1,5 18 1,141.64

189S ...... Tokyo ......... Mr. Dearing ............ Mr. Hamblen ........ Mr. Story .................. 43 184 1,61 5 1,373.10

1896 ...... Kobe ............ Dr. Rhees ............... Mr. Hamblen ......... Mr. Bennett ............... 56 162 1,739 1,433.58

1897 ...... Yokohamn ...... Mr. Hamblen ......... Mr. Thomson ......... Mr. Wynd .................. 55 176 1,888 2,236.84 00

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1898 ...... Tc-.kyo ..... : ... M~. Fisher ............ Mr. Thomson ......... Mr. Jones .................. 54 183 1,852 1,9°7,7 1

1899 ...... 0saka ............ Mr. Scott ............... Mr. Thomson ......... Dr. Rhees .................. 53 201 l,gOO 2,114.88

Ig<>O ...... Yokohama ...... Mr. I'arshley ......... Mr. Thomson ......... Mr. C. K. Harrington ... 52 176 1,885 2,818,48

Igol ...... Tokyo ......... Mr. Clement ............ Mr. Thomson ......... Mr. Topping ............... 56 204 2,011 3,540.38

Igo2 ...... Arima ............ Mr. Hill ............... Mr. Thomson ......... Mr. Clarke .................. 56 328 2,213 4,282,79

1903 ...... Arimn ............ Mr. Topping ......... Mr. Thomson ......... Mr. Hill ..................... 58 214 2,157 4,003.62

1904 ...... Arima ............ Mr. Jones ............... Mr. Scott ............... Mr. Axling .................. 58 210 2,15 1 4,054,54

1905 ...... Arima ............ Dr. Bennett ............ Mr. Scott ............... Mr. Briggs .................. 61 207 2,089 3,9 17.32

1906 ...... Arima ............ Mr. Schumaker ...... Mr. Scott ............... Mr. Steadman ............ 61 21 9 2,110 4,927,92

1907 ..... Arima ............ Dr. Dearing ............ Mr. Scott ............... Dr. Mabie .................. 61 297 2,347 6, :47.20

1908 ...... Arima ............ Mr. Tenny ............ Mr. Scott ............... Mr. Bullen .................. 66 389 2,608 6,871.36

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APPENDIX E.

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS OBTAINABLE THROUGH THE PUBLICATION COMMITTEE OF THE CONFERENCE

OF' MISSIONARIES OF THE A. B. M. UNION IN JAPAN

~o •. English Name.

1 ~ew Testament References and Maps

~ 'I p~~tions, Mt. l\;:~. Lk. In. AC~~'" .. ::.~ :.... .::

6 I Xew Testament References 1\\aps 5 type (I test eUll.)

7 IJ" "" " 8 Kana Testament ponions as desired ... 9 Hisl<?ry of the Bnptists. Vedder... . ..

10 Baptist Church Manual ... ... ... . .. II " " " ... ... ... ,., 12 , Hap~sm, Concise Comments on, Everts 13 Baptism .................... . 14 Christian Teaching and Life, Hovey .. . IS The Pastor, Harvey... ... ... ... ... ... 16 Holy Spirit, Three-fold Secret of, by McConkey 17 Outline of Systematic Theology. Dearing J8 Pnrt 1. 19" " "Part ll. " ... . .. 20" " .. Part Ill. " ..... . 21 Life and Times of our Lord (Harper's Inductive Studies) 22 A Guidt· to ~ome Christian Doctrines... .., 23 Bible Catechism, Broadus ... ... .. 24 Baptist Church Catechism, (large) Rhees .. 25 (small) 26 " Arthur .. , 27 " " Articles of Faith... ... .. 28 Resurrection Bod}', The, F. G. Harrington 119 I Life and Diaz ... .., ... ... 30 The God who loves Fishermen 31 Church Register

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APPENDIX F-

CONSTITUTION AND BY-LA\VS, AMENDED AT

ARafA, MAY 10TH, 1905.

CONSTITUTION.

ARTICLE I.-NAME AND OBJICCT.-This Conference shall be called the Con­ference of the Missionaries of the American Baptist Missionary Union in Japan. Its object shall be free discussion, mutual counsel and encouragement respectirg their \VOl k on the part of its members, and the transaction of business pertaining to their work.

ARTICLE II.-:-MEMBERSHII'.-The membership of this Conference shall be com­posed of all appointees to Japan of the American Baptist Missionary Union and of other Baptist workers in Japan who may be admitted on vote of the Conference.

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

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

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

The Statistician shall collect and tabulate the statistics of the mission for trans­mission to the Missionary Union Rooms in Boston and for presentation to the Con­ference at its Annual Sessions.

The Executive Committee shall arrange the order of business for the Annual Session and report it to the Conference for adoption at its first business meeting; shall fill any vacancy in the office of the Secretary, the Statistician, the Annual Preacher, or his Alternate; and shall make changes in the time and the place of the Annual Session and call Special Sessions in accordance with Article 1\- of tbis Constitution.

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

In case of a change in the time or the place of fce Annual Session or in case of a Special Session, notice of the time and the place of said Session must be sent to each member of the Conference twenty days previous to the date on which it is called.

ARTIClE V.-AMENDMENT . ...,-Tbis constitution may .be amended by a vote of two­thirds of the Regular Members of the Conference present, at any Annual Sessicn.

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BY-loA. \\'S.

ARTICLE I.-All meetings of Conference Sessions shall be opened with De\'otionnl Exercises, the leaders of which shall be appointed by the Executive Committee.

ARTICLE n.-Near the beginning of each Annual Session the President shall appoint a Committee on Nominations, a Conuuittee on Resolutions, and a Committee on the Time and the Place of the Annual Session; ench of which Committees shall consists of three members.

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

ARTICl.E IV.-Visiting brethren shall be invited to a seal in the Conference and to a participation in its deliberations.

ARTICI.E V.-No person shall be elected }>resident or appointed Prencber two years in succession.

ARTlCl.E Vl.-All Committees shall report in writing.

ARTICLE VII.-All Committees shall have power to fill vacancies in their numbers. Those appointed shall hold their positions until the next Annual Session or until their successors are chosen.

ARTICI.E VIII.-All business to be acted upon al any Annual Session shall be presented in writing to the Executive Committee at some time previous to the first business meeting of that Session. IJusiness not so pr~senteci may be admitted on vote of the Conference.

ARTICLE IX.- Each ~Jember of the Conference shall be requested to make an Annual Contribution of three )'ffl toward its incidental expenses.

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

ARTICLE XL-These By-Laws may be amended by a majority yote of the Regular Members of the Conference pre£ent at any Annual Session.

APPENDIX G.

OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES OF THE CONl·'ERENCE OF THE A. B. M. V. MISSIONARIES IN JAPAN.

President Vice· President Secretary Statistician Preacher Alternate

Executh'e Committee

JUlS"E, 1908.

GENERAL OFFICERS.

Mr. Tenny, Kyoto. Mr. Wynd, Osaka. Mr. Scott, O!:aka. Mr. Hamblen, Tokyo. Dr. Bennett, Yokohama. Dr. Harrington,·'ypkol1ama.

f Mr. Briggs, Himeji.

--. l Miss Rolman, Tokyo. Mr. Scott, Osaka.

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STANDING C01\lI\lIrrEES.

Publications :-Chairman, Mr. Fisher. Secretary, Mr. Thomson. Term expiring 1909 Capt. Bickel.

1910 Mr. Fisher, Mr. Brand. 1911 Mr. Thomson, Mr. Tenny.

Bible Woman's Work ... Sunday Schools ... ... L'lnguage Examinations

Baptist Hymns Union Hymnal

Evangelistic :-Term expiring 1909

1910

" 1911

Advance Work :\ rrangements

::'II usical Director

Board of Editors :­Ex-officio... ... Term expiring 1909

1910

1911

Co· operating Missions '" ... Interdenominational S. S. Helps ... Interdenominational Bible Transla-

tion ... J ourna1 istic Auditing... ... ... ... ... . .. \Vomen's V\Tork Investigation Com-

mittee

;"1ission Property:­Term expires 1909 ...

1910 ... 1911 ...

Miss Mead, Miss Wilcox. Miss Converse, Mrs. Briggs, Miss Danielson. Mr. Parshley, Miss Whitman, Dr. Harrington, ~Ir.

Steadman, Miss Rolman. Dr. Rennett, Mr. Parshley, Miss ',,"hitman. Mr. Parshley.

Mr. lIill. Mr. Briggs. Dr. Bennett.

Prof. Clement, Mr. Topping, Mr. Jones. Mr. and Mrs. Scott, Mr. and Mrs. Hill, ?\Ir. and

Mrs. Briggs. Mr. Briggs.

Mr. Scolt. Miss Hughes. l\1r. Briggs: Mr. Thomson.

Prof. Clement, Mr. 'I homson. Mr. Fisher.

Mr. F. G. Harrington. Dr. Dearing, Prof. Clement. Mr. Bullen, Mr. Brand, Mr. Topping.

Mrs. Fisher, Miss Mead, Mr. Bullen.

::-'Ir. Hamblen. Mr. Steadman, Miss Mead. Dr. Bennett, Mr. Thomson.

SHADAN (PROl'ERTY CORpORATION.)

Dr.P.eunelt, Chairman; Mr. Fisher, Secretary; Mr. Hill, Mr. Bullen, Mr. Scott.

REFERENCE COMMITTEE.

Chairman, Capt. Bickel. Secretary, Mr. Thomson. Term e>.-piring 1909

,. 1910

1911

Mr. Thomson, Mr. Wynd, Miss Rolman. Capt. Bickel, bh. J>aishley, Mrs. Scott. Mr. Topping, ~Ir: Bullen, Miss Mead.

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BOARD (>F MANAGERS, BIBLE WO:'lL\:\,S TRAINING sell()( H ..

Tenn expiring 1909 1910

1911

Mr. Hill. Mrs. Briggs, l\li~~ .\l'od,. Mr. Thomson, Mrs. J':ushlcy.

ADVISORY COMMITTEE, TOKH) KIl'DEl,(;AKIEl' TRAlt..;Il'G SCJlr j( )1.

\Jr. RamIllen, Mrs. Thomson, !llis~ Whitman.

SPECIAL COMMITTEES. G Dr. Bennett, Mr. Hamblen. Compilation of Rules, etc.... . .. Advisory Committee on Educa·

tion Mr. Hill, Mr. Wynd, l\-1r. Hamblen, Mr. Tenny. EX'f1f!icif1, Mr. Pa rsh ley , Ilrof. Clement.

The Conference will convene for its next Annual Session in Arima, June 6th, 1909.

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APPENDIX H.

J -,:r:. PH N B~PTIST JVr ISS ION S.

TADLE OF STATISTICS FOR YEAR ENDING DEC. 31ST, 190j.

MISSIONARIES. NATIVE WOHKERS. II CHlJHCH STATISTICS. I l.:DUCATIONAJ. STATISTICS. " -",""",,,"",--;--';--;--':-T--- 11_--;c,--;--.,.,.,.,.(a~),-:-N_Al_·l_\'_~:_cn::';ri'lI:1;i;l~l~'.· ... -~~-~~-~-~I-~~~~~-~~~i-'I-~I-~I'-~~.-.~·~I-~-.. ~-~~,,~-~~-~1=5.·~I-~~-~--~ri~IP-U-~-~-~~I~~~p-a-.~-TI--~~R~ro-~~in-g~I-~-·--i Ji~ ! §B I !~j CU· I -,,_ I·-,_·;·-r,-~_~ ilil'-~

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NAMF.s OF STATIONS (IN CAI'ITAI.S) wITn CmJRCHicS,

SCHOOlS, &c. OF EACH.

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AMERICAN BAPTIST MISSIONARY UNION. I I : I. I! I I I I I 1 I I 1 I I YOK.g~~~~a Ch~~~h···::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: !~~~ 1,35

8,R7

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l I I II I!, I 9!~:~ 130.26 I~::

Ishiknwa Church .................................... ............ ...... 1882 I 0 I Kamimizu Church ................................................... [886 ([) I ([l 1 I 8 10 I I' 19.~0 4.00 5 00

Kawasaki Church ...................................................... 1901 (I) I I I I' 1 [15 5 I 30 1 I I 47· 9 ,

~~~~~oC~~;~~h·(H~kk;i(l~)""::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ~~~~ (508,87°) [ I I 3 ;; ; ~ :g 4 ~~;;~ I I ! i 1 ~:~~ [[,.,1; 17.03 \

Theological Seminary ................................................ 1884 (4) (3) I r (I) 1 I (I) 'I 2 I ~5) 125 1 1 55 I 28 , 1 :28)) (-) I,.: I 1~ (28)1121 70,\0 \ 60 ~[ Mary Lh Colhy Home (Girls' School) ........................... 1886 (I) (2) I 4, (2) 8 4! [6 I (I) (5) (13)1 II 695 I 106 l' jj) "I 1 <) '. .-

n:!y School. .............................................................. 1---.:-------11--:-- ([) I I I i 2 ] 34 32 1(34)'1 (3 2:1

1 66 135·4° , SrA'lJO~ TOTAL........ ................................. I 1,3S8,!l70 51 3 -1-1-9- -5- -;---6i(4J-;f~-; 35 60) s 21 ~ S8 -m-;-~ I 28 -1---- I -106 -- I ---;--;- (28)Ts5)(;)(~~;} 3 200 (28) 12 1,105.70 ~~I~----~~-;84.Z4 I

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Immanuel Church (Esashi-machi, Koishiknwa) ............... [1:i95 I I I I 1 Kyobashi Memorial Church (Tsukiji) ........................... [904 I I 1 ' (I) I I ., 2 59 91 20 1 42 i I I : 1 I' l1) (2) 142 .30 5.00 Tochigi Church (Tochigi rrovincc) .............................. 1887 (828,455) I \ iI' I I ; I 21 [I 60 I : I I I 1 I

Sarah Curtis Home (Girls' School) ................... :.......... [1:i75 (2 I 2 i 7 (I) 9 I ' I I I 93 I (44)1 1 (4'1 I 93 I 582.90 i Day School (Kobiki.cho, Kyobnshi) ............... ............... 1883 (I) i I I 1 2 2 '1 36 ' I ; I , 24 24 (24) (24): I 48 1 77.05 I 1

~4·88 1,202.9il . 23·24 4·00 32.50 1.30 ! 49. 19 B. [2 100.76

z(,.]6 !)7.24

\_(l<~~I .. 9,~·66 1I,55G.I~

9.50

J4·00 1600

9.00

110,06

JIl).OO 2~5·o(,

541.00 177.2 5 ]56,3°

Duncan Academy (Boys' School) ................................. 1895 : (I) (I) (I; II (2; II (e)17 (2) 3 I 148 I 1 (bJ(l)(bX5)' I 72 : I I (30), (42 ): 'I 72 [3] 'I 4 8°4.00 , Tsukiji Kindergarten................................................... 1897 I (I) 1 , 'I 2 84 'I 1 I 48 25 I (48); (25., I 73 288.30 I II '

Yotsuya Kindergarten ................................................ 1897 I (I) Ii 1 I 2 4 6 I I 11 __ ... __ I! ________ 2 __ 124 ________ :, __ ' __ ' __ I',-I-I----I-l~ __ 1-..-L2)J,, __ ' 1_20 _45 1 __ -'--9)_(26)1_(4(75),,'_11 7161

___ '1 __ 3S546:~t I' \ I Yotsuya Kindergarten Trninin{:!. School.... .................. .. 190~ I I I (I) I (I) _ _ _ I I - 1 I 1

STATIOr; TOTAL .......................................... 1-----"-"-.--2-,9-5-0-,2-4-3-11--3-'--I --:;--5-1~ ~--8---;; (;)14 --:;--~~-T6~ -7-10J1 ') 1 20 5171 52 23 1,052 I [72 1 2 : 109 I 3 1 98 94 (3D), (53)(140),~[50)1 6 373 L4] I 5 2,192 9,9 -;-,4(16.ryj--. - .. ---;w;- - 2!!.5° 1_6li'~0 1 [_!'l.g_~:~ KOBE (Including the Liu Chiu Islands).............................. 1881 I 2,625,000 I I I I 1 I 1 I 1 ~ 1 I 'I Iii [2] .. -'1 ..'1'===------

Kobe Church (Including Hyogo) ................................. 1882 I 3 [i 6 I (I) I 3 206 4[ 4 395 Iq I' I' I 852.76 I 30.00 : 62.82 9~5.58 Naha Church (Liu Chiu Islands) ................................. 1906 (475,000) I [ I i 3 I 2 III 31 2 380 (I) I I 82.04 2.04 Zenrin Kindergarten (Kobe) ....................................... 1894, (I) 1 ! 3 I i 4 I I l' I 28 40 : (2S) (40)' I 68 280,90 Naha Kindergarten (Liu Chiu Islands} ........................... 1907 I I 2 I i 3 I i I I 5 15 I I (5) (15)' I ~ _ \ I - -.. -- ----- .--

STATION TOTAL.......................................... I 2,62S,000 1 I I 2 -I 1--; -----5---;-;-i~ -;-1(0-1 1-5 317 ---;-;-1----6 m --------1---------- ------21-;S;I-----<;t(55/-2- 88 [2] -- 280.90 934.80".-... --.,--'-;;:;;;;-1 62.82 1,02Z·62

SEN~~~;i .. Ch~;~h .. ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :~~~ 850,000 [2 4 2~ Ii 2! I~ I (I) 2! 3~ 28~oi 214! I: 212 216;~1 (1)1 I ((II)) I ii, IJ:I) I, 42I14i.·.·;3~2 60.65 10.02 13·35 49214SI':374J

Kiushu Church .............................. ........................... 1896 .

1~ ____ ~_r_~_e_O_~_\_:_~~~_~_··_~_·~_~~·~~··~~_·i_~_~_·_~_·~_·~_~~ii~·:~::~::~::~:.~·:~::~::~::~::~::~.:~::~::~:1_:_:~~_I~ ____ ~ __ ~I __ ~ ______ .~_~_3_~d I (~ 13]~ 1 ~ ~) (7) II~ 2 ~oo STATION TOTAL.......................................... 1 850,000 I 1 I 2 I 4 I 5 I 7 5 3 3 23 31 (I)! 5 8 1 370 39 lIS 2,241 i!" 1 : 63 (56) (7)1 [I ?3. [IJ 2 494.00 450·S1 6~.65 10.02 li.~s·1 .s34·5~

SHIMONOSEKI (Including Chofu) .................................... [886 1,000,000 2 ~I 21 I I 5 1 \ I 1 I I Shimonoscki Church .................. ........................... ..... 1886 I 2 3 I I 2 66 21 40 2 70 10754 10754

11 ___ C_h_ofi_u_C_h_u .... rc_h_C!...I_nc_lu .... d .... iD..,::g!...-H_ag!!,i.:..:.) . .:.; .. .:.; .. .:.; .. ~ .. .:.:. .. :.:. .. ~ ... :.:. .. :.:. .. ~ .. :.:: .. :.:: .. ::.: .. ..:.: .. ..:.: .. .:.: .. .:.: .. _i-=-1.:.:88:..::6-1-----11._ _ ___ 2 _____ 2 1_ 2 6.....1Z. 6 -I~~~-------- __ 1 ___ ._1 ________ 1 ____________ ~J~~_I ____________ 6.7'!..~.9ii STATION TOTAL............... ......... .................. 1,000,000 2 I 2 I 1 1 5 I 2 2 5 2 3 8 Il3 27 80 5 I 200 230.54. 6,75 237.21)

MO~~~rto~~··Ch~~~h::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :~~~ (7{~;8~55i I I] \1 2 I 1 41 I 1 I 2 7 I I 8 145 ~6 \ 22 9 300 I II 93.74 2,00 4.50 II~'24 llachinohe Church ................................................... _]_88_2'1_--,('-.6_1..::1,-,-,75,,-8-"')_11 __ .1 __ : __ 1 ___ .1__ I I I I] 3 IS 6 8 2 74 1 -- 30.00 60.30 90.30

STATION TOTAL.......................................... 1,329,653 I 1 I 2 -I-S---I------I-;---- 8 2 ----I-~~ 22 --1-;- II 374 .- i-- ---- -------------- -- - -------------- ------------- ~·---~----;~--;.s~1~~~4-

OSAKA ...... ............... ............. ........... ............ ...... ......... 1892 1,500,000 2 2 1 6 I' 'I I 1 I I I I I I 1 1 I' I'" , . East Church ................................. ......... ...... ............ 1891 !, 2 :. 4 I 4 47 16 18 55 7 400 . i 155.78 43.20 5.00 11.00 214.98 Naniwa Church (West).. ..................... ........................ 1903 I-----.II--II--'--I---i!-____ I I~ __ ...±. ...L [ _.....i... ~~ ~ _ 10 ~ _....Q2I' ___________ I~I'_I ______ ,_1___ __ __ ___ 240.25 ___ ......22.:..~ __ ~~t ____ 307,]2

STATION TOTAl. ............ .............................. I,SOO,OOO 2 1 2 2 1 6 I I 4, 6 II 2 • 8 1291 30 17 750 1 I I :W6.o3 1 98.20 17.07 I 11.00 1 52z ·30

MlTO ... ..................... ....... ...... ........ ......... ..................... IS99 2,143,134 \ I I I I I I I \ I" .. 1 I I ... .

~~::C~~~~:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ;~~; _____ I _1_1 _____ 1_ 2 ~ : __ I I~ ~i~ __ ~~ ; ~~ _____________________ ~________ __, __________ .J.::.___ H~.~ ______ I 3,60, ~ ..J~~ STATION TOTAL .......................................... 2,143,134 I II! I I 2 6 2 I I 4 69 8 2 86 I I 1 I ! I i 173·50 I I 3.60 I 6.44 IH}54

IN~~~k:i~~~~~·;, .. (G~~~i·Ship)':::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ~~~~ 1,500

,000 I I! I I 3 1 I I I 4 20 (eX23)i(t'XI2 ) 7 205 ~ (I) I ~ (4)1 I I I' ... ---1-.. ·-' I I r~_···=~~~I'-~--~=-·'~7 1 ___ K_·_in_d_c-'rg'--a_rt_cn---=-.~ .. :.: .. ~ .. :.: .. .:.: .. .:.: .. ~ .. ~ .. ~ .. :.:;.·~·:.: .. :.: .. .:.: .. .:.:··.:: .. ..:.: .. ~ .. :.:: .. :.:.·::.··::.··::. .. ~ .. .:.: .. ..:.: .. ..:.:··.:: .. :.::··:.:.·:.:..··I 1907 1 I 1 I 1 1 25 30 25 (30) I 55 ,. STATION TOTAl ................................... , ....... --=--=-'1--1-,5-00-,000--11--1-1---.['-1 --,--; -[ -3---:-1-;1-1- 5 ------,~~M- 7 205 ---------------------,- ----;-~i-3~----~(;jI--;-5s----1 ----1--------1------1-----~~~'U .... = .......... = .......... ~ .......... ~ .......... ~ .......... ~ .......... ~ ........ 11~1~~1~~000~1]11~1~1 I"III\~ ~ I : I I I I i II I III II ·····' .. 1 -.-

~~~~~~h~~:r~h::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ~:~ :_I ___ ~ __ I_ ..l ~ ..li-,- .l...J1~I...1 [;, ~ 2: _...l!2I __ '_ _~_i ___ . _1....Q21 __ ' _____ ._~_...J2);~ __ , ~~~~~_ ... _ ... -.. -_ 10.00. __ !~ STATIOr; TOTAL ........................... ............... 160,000 I. I I 2 1 I 1 1 2 4 2 f 6 29 15 I 21 17 J 240 1 I I I 1 I 1 1 1 I 0 100.~~1=._1.. .. . .... 10.00 110.38

HIMEJI ........................................................................ 1907 45,000 I I] ~ I I ~~~ I 3 I 3 2 (e)167 (e)27 92 2 125 I I' :!.' i 239.19 1 25.00 I 3.00 8.00 275.19 Himeji Church ..................... .............................. ...... 1884 I

Toyooka Church ...................................................... 1903 I I I 2 27 15 2 43 ]39.25 I J 2 80 11.75 163.80 11 ___ I_ii_m_e~fi_G_i_cl_~_S_c_h_o_~~s_.:.:; .. :.:; .. :.:; .. :.:; .. :.:; .. :.:; .. :.:; .. :.:;.:.:; .. :.:; .. :.:; ... :.:;.:.:; .. :.:; .. :.:; .. :.:; .. :.:; .. :.:; .. ~ .. ~ .. ~ .. ~ .. ~ .. ~ .. ~18~9~2+ _____ ~~~_.(1) (I) 4 43 I[ ~ 9 7n I I~ ___ !~_~_1~_,_4 21~101 ___________________ ~ __ ~

STATION TOTAl........................................... 45,000] 1~-I- 3 1 2 4 4::; --1-·-;s--2---~--;-;;---;;-------G~ ----------:--1----;;------- 1 (44) (35); I 79 . 4 2]4.10 378-44 25.00 15.80 19·75 438,99

KVOi~t~·Ch~·;~h···::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: --"---~~~~ 1: __

350,_000

11 __ Ii 1_ ~I,I __ 1:_

2 _1_1 1_1_1_1_1 1_1_2 _1 1_1_1_31~1~91_1..2..1 31~ _1~1_IElI_I._I_I_I_I_I_I~!_I_I_I_I __ 'I-I-~!-I_1 I_I-=-- 2~;'9D1'_'" (d):13'~o~I~00'00 1 . .48.!.4<2.

STATlON TOTAL ........... ;............... ............... I 350,000 1 I 1 I I 2 I 1 I I 1 1 I I 1 2 1 3 1 70 1 9 1 25 ~ ISO 1 1 I I 1 I 1 1 Iii 1 I I I 263.90 I 1I::;·50 i 4.00 100.00 481.40

(Missionaries absent from field six months or more) ............... 1---'I-----1I--'3l-~~ 7 17 i I~ ~I 1 \ ,I I 1 I I I I 1 / 1 1 \ A.~.M.U.TOTAL{1907 ................................................... 15,SIl,900 22 Z 123 -;;66~36--:;-. (7) 38"-;--;--;;--;-(4)-;8;-;81;,608 389 --~ 8,076 -I -;SW(5i-1 -----:;;-1-5---I'm---7 190 ~Ts8) ... (z08)1(232il\360~~ 858 (z8)~ 4,287.69 5,649.64------1558.721.;65.23 397·77 (r,6,871.3~1

IIj06 ................................................... 15,8ll,900 21 2 22 16 6[ 14 35 33 (10) 39 30 29 180 31 (4) 21 104 2,347 297 118 6,517 I 13 (I) (7) I 67 5 367 9 232 191 (4::;l:(199)(269JK359 16 870 (13 213 3,69435 4,833,55 ~_?66.44 ~ 436.00 1...?!347·2~ Gain or Loss (g) ................................................... 0 + I ° + 1 :t3 + 5 ---;;---;;-j~!~-:::-;-~,+ I 1+10 ~~10 +14' +;fu + 82 -I" 9 +1,5S9 ° ~--;:;-I~I~:;=--sl----o--- -10 -- ~ -42 +20 (+IS)'~\-37~~-=-;;- -12 k+1S) - 5 +593.34 + 1)16.09 - 59.00 1-107-72 1+ 13.02 I - 38.23 i + 524.161

S. B. C. TOTAL{I907 ..................................................... . 1906 .................................................... .. I

6,000,000 9 9 ~8 41

6 . 21 (2) 1 I I I 13 7 6 13 339 60 13 579 ~ 71~ I I I I~ (7) 1 1 1 I ' 7 (7)\ I 769.671 I I I I 769.67 6,000,000 10 10 I IO ~ 2 (3) I I 3 17 7 5 13 300 32 10 325 ~ 767,01 767.01

--:I--'---'---II---I-I--I'---l-I--~ 01-I---;;-h>-I--=-;-I-2'i-=-:;~-~~-I"39+28 --1'3 -1-2541"101 ---1-1---1---1 ---(-t7)'-1--/+;1+7(+7); I -t2.661 1 1----1 11' 2.66 Gain or Loss (g) ................................................. ..

GRAND TOTAI.{ II~67.................................................................................................................. 21,8ll,900 31 2 32 19 84 18 42 \ 44l (9) ~8 30 \31 203 38 (4) 34 13 1 2,947 449 150 8,655 2 ~5 [1]1 [5] 1 72 i I sl ~S7IJ I 7 ~19O 211 (65)!(2OS~232)!(360)1 15 865 I (35)1 2.~ 4,287.69 6,4[9'311 1558'72 \ 265.23 397·77 7,641.03 ,,- ____ ,1_2_1.;..,8_1-'1,~900 __ 1I...,.3_I r-=-.1.:...~~ 2!.£..JLIM .3.9 LL~ ~~ 26 ~.7 ~.647 _3.:.2... 128 6,842 _1_ [3 ~~ 1 ~1 __ 5 ___ ~ _~~~ (43)1([99)(2~)~~ 870

1 (I3)1~ 3,6943~ 5,600,56 _.59·~ 766.44 252.21 436.00_1>~ Gain or Loss (g) ................................................... • ° ° 0 +3 +3 0 o-j;9 -4)-1 :""11-1 +6 0 01'8 -tJ4+3ooH20 l' 22+1,81311-t I 1"22 OLr[_2 01"S. I 01 101 I 1-2 42+20(+22)(+9)k-37)(+I)-1 -51(1"22)1-5 +593'341+8[8.751-59.001-107-721+13.02 -38.23 -t526.82

Ca) These amounts are in ym, the value of whi.:h is approximately fifty cents. :l (v) Dunenn Aendemy College Department with five students. places, (which include tw.) chapels that are at the same time residences of evang~lisls), there a~ three ,hundred and thirty places that are visited occasionally. quite, all of which is included in this total. (g) Stations; A. n. M. U. 1" I. S. n. c. -tI."," Total 1'2..

(e) But few of Duncan Aendemy and Ella O. Patrick Home teachers give full time. (d) Including Profits on sales by Ladies' Aid Association. (e) Connected with the Inland Sca work, besides the twenty regular meeting About 40,000 different persons attend the m~ctings each year. The converts have their membership in the Himeji Church. ifl The Japan Baptist Missionary Society reports nn income of J'm 305.89 for 1907, nearly, if not