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 DO YOU KNOW? 
 
 That the United Brethren Church is maintaining 49 day 
 schools and boarding schools in China, Africa, Japan and the 
 Philippines? 
 
 That 1,600 pupils are attending these schools? 
 
 That four schools of higher education for the training of 
 Christian workers are maintained by the United Brethren 
 Church in co-operation with other denominations — one in 
 Porto Rico, one in the Philippines, one in Japan and one in- 
 China? 
 
 That in the district for which the United Brethren Church 
 is responsible in these fields abroad there are in round num- 
 bers 800,000 children of school age, only 1,600 of whom have 
 school privileges? 
 
 That in Sierra Lecne alone there are 4,965 towns in our 
 district which have no schools? 
 
 That China is needing 1,000,030 school teachers for the 
 proposed schools that are to be opened as rapidly as these 
 are found? To mission schools is given the first opportunity 
 to supply these teachers. 
 
 That the imperative need in our mission fields is for 
 trained native leaders? By preparing them in mission schools 
 the Christian Church can determine the destiny of these 
 nations. 
 
 That the girls' boarding school at Moyamba, West Africa, 
 has been turning girls away for lack of room? A larger 
 building is urgently needed. 
 
 That the Young Woman's Bible Training School in the 
 Philippines is the Christian training center for 150,000 girls 
 and women, and that the temporary building in which the 
 school is housed has but eleven ordinary sized rooms, in which 
 they have been caring for 46 students? 
 
 That the United Brethren shares for buildings for the 
 Union Theological seminaries in Porto Rico, the Philippines 
 and China range from $5,000 to $8,000 each. $10,000 is still 
 needed for the Young Women's Bible Training School. These 
 are big opportunities for big Christians. 
 
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 Training for Service 
 in Mission Lands 
 
 CONTENTS 
 
 Open Doors for Mission Schools ^ 
 
 A Glimpse Into Our Mission Schools 9 
 
 Trained Leaders from Our Mission Schools 21 
 
 Answering^ the Summons 
 
 THE FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETY 
 United Brethren in Christ 
 
 404 Otterbein Press Building 
 Dayton, Ohio 
 
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 More Than One-half of the World has no Bible. 
 
open Doors for Mission Schools 
 
 More than one-half the human race can neither read nor write 
 a word of any language. What a sad comment on 800,000,000 
 human beings created in God's image and in whose lives are 
 bound up the responsibilities of eternity. 
 
 Africa. Of all the dark countries on the face of the earth 
 Africa presents the most appalling picture. We are staggered 
 at the size of the continent — more than three times as large as 
 Europe and once and a half as large as all North America. It is 
 as far around the coast of Africa as it is around the world. 
 
 More than 800 languages and dialects are spoken in Africa, 
 but none of them have ever been written down by the people them- 
 selves. There has been no attempt at education and most of 
 them never know till the missionary comes that such a thing as 
 writing has ever been invented. 
 
 Picture a typical African home. It is a small mud hut with 
 roof of thatch. Inside there are no tables or chairs. Low mud 
 sofas with mats spread upon them serve as beds. An open fire 
 of sticks smoulders in the middle of the earth floor, the smoke 
 ascending into the rafters, clinging about the festoons of cob- 
 webs and finding its way out slowly through the thatch. There 
 are no pictures on the walls. There are no books or papers. No 
 letters are ever written or received. From gray head to little 
 child not one would know a single letter of the alphabet if they 
 saw it. No sound of school bell or church bell is ever heard. 
 Counting all the schools in Sierra Leone, which have been estab- 
 lished by the missionaries, they are not sufficient to give even 
 one child in a hundred a chance for even a primary education. 
 
 The same illiterate conditions that prevail in family life are 
 also true of national life. There are no histories other than verbal 
 traditions and stories passed down from one generation to an- 
 other. There are no legal documents, no official records and no 
 written laws. The wisdom of the old men and customs popular 
 through long observance are accepted as the law code of the 
 people. They have no sacred book like other nations. 
 
 The Enc^lish government is at last awaking to the education- 
 al needs in Sierra Leone and has a plan now on foot for the in- 
 troduction of vernacular schools among the towns of the interior. 
 This is, in an educational way, the biggest challenge that has ever 
 
Let 
 
 This Boy 
 
 alone 
 
 and he 
 
 will 
 
 grow up 
 
 as 
 
 This Man 
 
 A Christian Worker 
 
 
come to our United Brethern mission in Africa. It is our privi- 
 lege to furnish these government schools with Christian teachers 
 if we will. Otherwise Mohammedan teachers will fill these 
 places. 
 
 The pagan African stands before us to-day bearing in body 
 and in soul the marks of the fetters he has worn through so many 
 ages of bondage, but a man — a man in need of God. 
 
 Porto Rico. For more than a hundred years an effort has 
 been made at school work in Porto Rico. There were public 
 schools aided and directed by the government and other private 
 schools founded by important educators There were also some 
 schools where education was given in secondary and professional 
 branches. Many of the present day lawyers in Porto Rico re- 
 ceived their professional training in these schools. However, 
 the system was woefully inadequate to meet the needs of the 
 masses and it was found after American occupation of the Island 
 that eighty- five per cent, of the people zvcre unable to read. Those 
 living in the country and especially those remote from towns and 
 cities were entirely deprived of educational advantages. Then 
 America began in earnest the educational work in Porto Rico. 
 How well they have succeeded may be seen by the last census 
 which indicates that the per cent, of illiteracy has been reduced to 
 sixty per cent, in tzventy years. One of the great benefits of the 
 American public school" in Porto Rico is the changed ideals they 
 are giving to the people. For generations it has been instilled 
 into them that labor is degrading. If a high class man learned a 
 trade he lost his rank in society. Now by the introduction of 
 manual training and agriculture into the public schools all the 
 boys are required to work and it is giving them new ideas of the 
 dignity of labor. The same change is being effected among the 
 girls by the teaching of domestic science in the public schools. 
 Thus the ideas of the people are becoming completely revolu- 
 tionized. 
 
 Philippine Islands. Admiral Dewey had an early morn- 
 ing fight in Manila Bay twenty years ago and as a result "Uncle 
 Sam" suddenly found himself the father of 8.000,000 Orientals. 
 "They are ours," as President McKinley said, "not to exploit, but 
 to develop, civilize, educate, train." When the Philippines passed 
 under American control the people were found to be about 
 ninety-five per cent, illiterate. I'lans were set on foot for their 
 education, thousands of teachers were sent and now about 3,000,- 
 
000 of the population have been reached by the influence of the 
 public school, most of them, of course, I)eing children of school 
 age. 
 
 American missionaries followed quickly the entrance of our 
 flag into the Philippines where they found an open-hearted and 
 receptive people. The Bible, which was a closed Book twenty- 
 five years ago, has now been translated into ten different lan- 
 guages and over a million copies have been sold in the Islands. 
 
 Our own work in the Philippines has proved one of the most 
 paying missionary ventures of the United Brethren Church. 
 Forty-one churches have been organized during the short time we 
 have been working there. It has not been necessary for our 
 Church to do as much educational work as in other fields because 
 of the splendid schools operated by the Government. However, 
 the missionaries find it urgently necessary to provide for the 
 training of large numbers of young men and women who are 
 pressing into the ranks of Christian service. By co-operation with 
 the Union Theological Seminary in Manila men are being trained 
 as pastors of our churches, and in the Young Women's Bible 
 Training School at San Fernando girls are being trained for mis- 
 sionary and deaconess work. Both these schools are in immediate 
 need of buildings. 
 
 Bishop W. F. Oldham says. "The crux of our missionary 
 activities in Asia is in the Philippine Islands." 
 
 Japan is the "Land of Achievement." It is about fifty 
 years since the Japanese began to adopt western civilization and 
 in that time they have become almost as modern as their teachers. 
 Her success in her educational enterprise has astounded the world. 
 She now has a school system which enrolls ninety per cent, of 
 the children of school age. Great missionaries, such as Verbeck 
 and others, have had much to do with the launching of the new 
 educational system and Christian ideas have had a wide influence 
 but Christianity has not been widely enough propagated to keep 
 the moral and spiritual development of the people abreast with 
 the intellectual. All religious teaching has been excluded from 
 the State schools and the result is that the students are being 
 swept away into agnosticism and the grossest immorality. Gov- 
 ernment leaders are becoming alarmed over the situation and 
 have confessed that their old religions are unable to stem the tide 
 and they have called frequent conference? with Christian leaders 
 relative to the matter. 
 
The vital need in Japan to-day is Christ iaii schools. Christian 
 leaders must be trained — great and competent leaders, who can 
 grip the situation with a strong hand and bring to society the re- 
 ligious and ethical power it lacks. The United Brethren Church 
 is contributing a mite in this necessary program for Christian 
 education by her co-operation with the great Doshisha Universitv 
 at Kyoto. 
 
 The sad side of the whole situation in Japan is that out of 
 a population of 55,000,000 there are only about 150.000 native 
 Protestant Christians. 26,000,000 have never yet had an adequate 
 chance to accept Christ. The hopeful side is that there is a re- 
 ceptive spirit toward Christianity and many new inquirers are 
 constantly being enrolled. In the last three years 1,200.000 copies 
 of the P>ible were sold in Japan and the demand for admission to 
 Christian schools and colleges is greater than can be granted. What 
 is done for Christ in Japan ought to be done quickly, for men who 
 know are telling us that the days of largest opportunity arc 
 sz^'iftly passin(j. 
 
 China, the giant, comprises one-fourth the population of the 
 globe. Dr. W. A. F*. ^Martin, whose experience in educational 
 work in China is surpassed by none, says, "In point of illiteracy 
 there is no doubt that China stands at the top of the list showing 
 a larger proportion of non-readers than any other country not 
 wholly barbarous. Thus the people holding education in the 
 highest honor are themselves the most illiterate. One chief 
 reason for this is that in order to learn to read the old Chinese 
 books it was necessary to learn 4.000 different characters. More- 
 over the written and spoken languages were entirely distinct so 
 the task was greatly complicated. 
 
 In recent years missionaries have produced a simpler liter- 
 ature by reducing the spoken language to written form. I>ut only 
 a mere beginning has yet been made among China's millions. It 
 is estimated that ninety-fiic per cent, of the people are still unable 
 to read and ivritc and oidy two out of a hundred of tlie ehildren 
 arc no-iV in school. The poverty of the people is so great that 
 the unceasing struggle for daily bread consumes almost every bit 
 of their energy. 
 
 American teachers are unanimous in their testimonv that the 
 capacity of the Chinese student for learning is unsurpassed by 
 those of any nation. His ability to memorize with accuracy is 
 marvellous. A missionary tells his experience with two Chinese 
 
Ijoys who had been .stud}-ing for a short time with a native pastor. 
 He tried them on the gospel of John and found them both able 
 to repeat from memory the entire book with a rapidity and ac- 
 curacy that almost made his head whirl. Many of the boys and 
 girls in our day and boarding schools have memorized from one 
 to four gospels. 
 
 Nothing would ever have been done for the education of 
 Chinese girls had not Christian missionaries acted on the con- 
 viction that China would never be changed till something was 
 done for her women. Many Christian girls' schools and colleges 
 have recently come into prominence which a few years ago would 
 have been considered impossible but even now the opportunities 
 for higher education for women are much limited. If the United 
 States had as many girls in college in proportion to her popula- 
 tion as has China there would be but seven girls in college in our 
 whole country. It has been said that, "Women ignorant made 
 China Ikiddhist, will not women educated make China Christian?" 
 
 A missionary of much experience says, "I sometimes think 
 an indigenous church is more likely to grow up around a mission 
 school than around a mission church." It is estimated that eighty 
 per cent, of the Christians in China are brought into the church 
 by native Christians themselves, not by preachers or missionaries. 
 "One loving heart sets another on fire." But the greatest obstaele 
 to the groivth of the church in China is illiteracy, especially is 
 this the case with women and others who enter the church too 
 late in life to learn to read. Such members are entirely depend- 
 ent, humanly speaking, on the preacher and teacher for their 
 spiritual food, and the under-fed soul is necessarily the weak soul. 
 Our missionary, Mr. Davis, says that many of these men and 
 women, gray with age, are so hungry to read the Word for 
 themselves that they sometimes come and request that a night 
 school be opened for their instruction. This was done in one 
 of our churches in Siu Lam and how delighted they were, after a 
 course of six months, to begin to read the Word of God for them- 
 selves. 
 
 The transitional movement now on m China is like that of 
 the great Renaissance in Europe during the fifteenth century. The 
 people have caught a new intellectual vision and mission schools 
 easily hold the lead in educational work. Mr. John F. Goucher 
 writing in the World Outlook, says^ "A milliofi public schools 
 are now needed in China rly 65,000,000 children are luaitiiuj 
 
for schools. This land wants the best of education from the 
 primary school to the university. Mission schools now have 
 100,000 pupils and there is a chance to train ten times their num- 
 ber to become teachers alone." This opportunity now offered 
 to the Church of supplying Christian teachers and leaders for 
 the new educational movement can not be overestimated. Here 
 is a chance for the church through its mission schools to in- 
 fluence and mould the lives of the future leaders in China and 
 to permeate the whole thought of the people with the ideals of 
 Christ. Our opportunity is limited only by our vision and our 
 consecration. 
 
 In this land of new and glorious opportunity the United' 
 Brethren Church is directly responsil:)le for a great section includ- 
 ing part of Canton, all of Siu Lam and stretching far to the 
 southward. These yellow-faced children of ours stand hefort 
 us like so many great human question marks. Whence shall come 
 the morality, religion and education of to-morrow so deeply 
 needed? The United Brethren Church must help them find the 
 only sufficient answer. 
 
 A Glimpse into Our Mission Schools 
 
 "God is working through a thousand channels to bring this 
 world to himself, .\otwithstanding the unparalleled struggle of 
 the hour we believe that modern education is being increasingly 
 used to make dominant the spirit of Him who said, T am among 
 you as he that serveth', for the spirit of true service is the spirit 
 of Christ." 
 
 The one object for which our mission schools exist is that of 
 training young lives and fitting them to serve God and their fel- 
 low men. 
 
 Reaching Out a Helping Hand to Africa. From the 
 early days of our work in this land the children have been gath- 
 ered into schools and carefully instructed, not merely in the usual 
 branches of the public schools of America but also in cleanliness, 
 purity, honesty, industry and in love toward God and men. Great 
 emphasis has ever been placed upon the educational phase of 
 work in- this field. Every one of our thirty-two mission stations 
 has its day school. Boarding schools for boys are maintained at 
 Freetown, Shenge, Taiama. Ronietta, Rotifimk, Jiama ; anrl one 
 for girls at Moyamba. 
 
FROM KINDERGARTENS 
 
 THESE ARE OUR HOPE AND 
 
TO TRAINING SCHOOL 
 
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 CROWN OF REJOICING 
 
The Rufus Clark and Wife Training School for boys, located 
 at Shenge, sixty miles south of Freetown, was opened in 188(\, 
 when the late Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Clark, of Denver. Colorado, 
 donated $5,000 for this purpose. The institution, which also in- 
 cludes a manual training department, is elementary in its work 
 but sends its graduates to the Albert Academy for the completion 
 of their course. The same policy is carried out with the boys' 
 boarding schools at other stations. 
 
 The importance of the work done in the Girls' Boarding school 
 at Moyamba in preparing girls for life as wives and mothers is 
 becoming increasingly appreciated. There is a growing conviction 
 among our missionaries that the key to Africa's future is a 
 trained Christian womanhood. Added to the recpiired work in 
 the schoolroom girls are given specialized training in laundry 
 work, plain and fancy sewing, raffia work, cooking and general 
 housekeeping. 
 
 During Self-Denial Week of last year Miss Odle who is in 
 charge of the school, wrote, "We are having public prayer meet- 
 ings at 5 : 30 every morning this week. We never had such meet- 
 ings. The house was nearly full this morning. It means some- 
 thing to get this household up at 5 o'clock and go to church, 
 then wash, iron, do all the morning work and get the whole bunch 
 off to school. We have the finest lot of girls we have ever had. 
 It is great to be the mother of them all." 
 
 The over-crowded quarters of Moyamba school are a constant 
 handicap to the work. The missionary in charge writes, "We 
 must have new accommodations for our fifty girls. We could 
 have a hundred girls if we only had a place to put them." Girls 
 have to be constantly turned away and it is not an easy thing to 
 say "no" when it means turning the key on every bright hope they 
 have cherished both for this life and that which is to come. The 
 need at Moyamba is imperative. 
 
 Industrial work along many lines has a definite place in all 
 our schools. Small farms and gardens adjoining many of our 
 mission stations are used for practical teaching in agriculture 
 and at the same time help to provide food for the pupils. 
 
 A large majority of all our school children are Christians. 
 Very few pass the third or fourth grade before being baptized and 
 becoming full communicant members of our churches. The 
 present and future of Africa depends in a large measure on the 
 maintenance of good mission schools. 
 
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Many of the pupils in our schools begin definite Christian 
 service at an early age by assisting in various ways with the work 
 of the local churches and the evangelizing of near-by towns. The 
 idea that they are the means through whom their people shall be, 
 led to Christ is early instilled into their hearts and minds. 
 
 Albert Academy, located in Freetown, stands at the head of 
 our African schools and holds an important relation to our 
 whole system of educational training. It is not a professional 
 school. Its whole aim is the development of intelligent Christian 
 character, to give young men the basis of a good education and 
 create in them a passion for service among their own people. 
 Special attention is given to Bible study. 
 
 Manual training has proved a great factor in the development 
 of the Academy students. This industrial feature is unique in 
 West Africa. A system of self-help has been recently introduced 
 whereby young men without funds may support themselves in 
 school by working certain hours each day in the Industrial De- 
 partment. This develops in them a spirit of self reliance and 
 ability to "do things". The boys in this Self-Help Department 
 are among the best in the school. At the close of last year 
 many of them won prizes for scholarship and general efficiency. 
 
 In the work shop cabinet making is taught and the quality 
 of the wood work products is so much appreciated in Freetown 
 and other places that it is impossible to supply the demand. 
 
 A Printing Department is also maintained and the work is 
 done by students. "The Sierra Leone Outlook", the monthly 
 paper of the mission, is published in this department. It is the 
 only Christian paper issued in Sierra Leone. A large line of other 
 literature both in the English and native languages is published 
 here. Without solicitation far more commercial printing is of- 
 fered to the school than those in charge dare accept with their 
 present staff and equipment. 
 
 An Itinerant's League is maintained in the Academy whereby 
 the gospel is given in various languages to the people in Free- 
 town every Sunday. 
 
 A veteran missionary from South Africa, on a recent visit to 
 the Academy, said enthusiastically, 'T have been looking for a 
 school like this all my life." 
 
 In 1908 the first trained workers were sent out as graduates 
 from the Academy and since that time the mission staff has been 
 annually recruited with able native leaders from that institution. 
 
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 New Buildings and Graduates, Elizabeth Kumler Miller Seminary 
 
There have been decided gains in the efficiency of native workers 
 and the Church is taking a more aggressive part in the propaga- 
 tion of the gospeh 
 
 Our mission work in the protectorate is divided into nine 
 Quarterly Conference Districts and the churches comprising each 
 district support a scholarship in Albert Academy, each choosing 
 the student from their own section who shall receive this bene- 
 fit ; thus nine additional boys are given a higher education by the 
 gifts of their friends in the interior. 
 
 Helping to Meet China's Need. America did a great 
 and generous thing when she turned back to China the Boxer 
 indemnity to be used for the education of Chinese students in 
 America. She did a greater thing for China wdien she sent Chris- 
 tian missionaries to help give a rebirth to the old Chinese system of 
 education. Let us contrast the old and the new schools of China. 
 x\fter the old fashion we must picture a stuffy little schoolroom 
 located in unsanitary quarters, within this a score or more of 
 boys perched on high stools with their legs dangling and all 
 shouting their lessons in shrill voices the live long day. After the 
 new fashion picture an airy, well lighted room in sanitary cjuar- 
 ters. The pupils, girls as well as boys, neatly washed, dressed 
 and combed, are seated on comfortable I'.enches studying quietly 
 and reciting their lessons to a kind faced teacher. 
 
 Our Church now has in China eight lower primary schools and 
 three higher primary schools with an aggregate of twenty-eight 
 teachers. Our mission also maintains a Grammar School for 
 boys. A recent gift of $10,000 from a friend in America will 
 help to make possible the much needed building and equipment 
 for this school. The need for a school of higher training is most 
 imperative in our mission field in China. 
 
 The chief aim in our United Brethren schools as well as in all 
 mission schools is to build up an educated church and a stiong 
 native leadership. It is impossible to develop a strong church 
 out of an illiterate membership. For this reason our mission plans 
 to give at least an elementary education to all the children of our 
 church members and to as many others as possible, in their com- 
 munities. 
 
 As in Africa so in China most of the children attending our 
 schools become Christians. The Bible is taught as a regular sub- 
 ject, students commit whole chapters and books to memory, and 
 special attention is given to preparing pupils for general evangel- 
 istic and personal work. 
 
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 Students in Albert Academy Passin; 
 
 From the primary and grammar schools our pupils must be 
 sent to schools conducted by other Christian denominations as we 
 have no institutions of higher learning of our own. Many of our 
 native pastors are receiving their training in the Union Theolog- 
 ical Seminary with which we are co-operating. 
 
 The Elizabeth Kumler Miller Seminarv for girls at Siu Lam 
 is our best organized and equipped school' in China. There is a 
 student body of seventy-eight including the kindergarten and a 
 staff of eleven native teachers most of whom are graduates 
 of this school. Miller Seminary aims to do first-class work in 
 ?.\\ the grades. About twenty of the students are earning their 
 wa}^ either in whole or in part. 
 
 Miller Seminary has from the first been one of our best 
 evangelizing agencies among women. Not only are pupils being 
 
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 won to Christ, but through them the parents and many of the 
 neighbors are reached. The missionaries and teachers are often 
 unable to enter all the homes opened to them bv the students The 
 girls contribute much to the work of the local church in that 
 great city by their music, teaching Sunday-school classes leadin<r 
 young people s meetings and visitation in homes. They also enjoy 
 doing evangelistic work in the surrounding villages. 
 
 A prominent Chinese educator said at the dedication of Mil- 
 ler Seminary buildings, "The United Brethren people have given 
 one of the most costly gifts to China and Sui Lam. This Aliller 
 Seminary will bless thousands of homes and prepare better mothers 
 for China." A young man said, "My sisters were old women be- 
 fore they went to Miller Seminary but now they are girls who see 
 visions and possibilities for their lives." 
 
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Putting Christ Into the Schools of Japan. The very 
 good system of government schools in Japan makes the providing 
 for general education unnecessary on the part of Mission Boards. 
 Chief attention therefore is being given by these Boards to the 
 establishing of schools for specific Christian training. Our own 
 mission is co-operating with the Doshisha L^niversity at Kyoto 
 and has at present one missionary and one native professor on 
 the staff of the Theological Department oi the school. 
 
 The Doshisha is said to be cue of the best agencies for 
 Christian training in all Asia. It was founded in 1875, by a 
 Christian Japanese, Dr. J. Neeshima, and is the pioneer educa- 
 tional institution in Japan based upon Christian principles. Since 
 attaining the title of University, five years ago, the student 
 body has almost doubled, now numbering 1,858, of which 708 
 are in the university departments. More than a hundred students 
 have been refused admission this year because of lack of accom- 
 modation. There is a staff of 155 teachers and lecturers, and has 
 a library of nearly 43,0C0 books. (!iirls as well as boys are ad- 
 mitted to the Doshisha and are doing most creditable work. 
 
 Evangelism has always had a leading place in the work of 
 this university. Its founder was a man who sought first the 
 Kingdom of God, and the spirit of his life has been fostered. 
 Students often take responsible parts in evangelistic campaigns 
 and a goodly number of them are in training for the ministry. 
 
 Missionaries have found a large and fruitful field in kinder- 
 garten work in Japan. These Christian schools take in the tiny 
 tots at a time when their hearts are easily inclined to love and 
 worship the true God. The winning of the love of these little 
 ones proves to be a wonderful entering wedge into the homes 
 from which they come. Our mission is conducting Christian 
 Kindergartens in the cities of Tokyo, Otsu and Zeze. 
 
 Training Christian Leaders in the Philippines. Uncle 
 Sam's splendid public school system in the Philippine Islands re- 
 lieves Mission Boards of that responsibiHty and enables them to 
 concentrate on training leaders for specific Christian work. 
 
 In this field as in japan, Protestant churches are co-operating 
 in the training of Christian workers. This co-operative work 
 gives Protestantism a united force and also gives to each mis- 
 sion a training school at a great saving in cost and maintenance. 
 Four missions, the Methodist Episcopal, Presbyterian, United 
 Brethren and Christian are now co-operating in the Union Theo- 
 
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logical Seminary in Manila while the Baptist, Congregational and 
 Christian and Missionary Alliance missions are sending students 
 for training and the two former expect soon to have represent- 
 atives on the faculty. The young men who go out from this 
 Seminary represent the finest spirit of fraternity and comity and 
 are the right kind of leaders to bring the future church of the 
 Philippines into unity and efficiency. 
 
 In the student body of the Seminary are represented all the 
 leading dialects or language groups of the Philippines. The custom 
 is for the students to be in the Seminary a term and then work a 
 year in the pastorate so as to give opportunity for the largest 
 number possible to be in training and at the same time keep the 
 fields supplied with workers. They receive in addition to the 
 regular Theological course, training in music and Sunday-school 
 management. 
 
 Another fruitful phase of educational work is that of main- 
 taining dormitories for young men and women away from home 
 attending government schools. This gives missionaries an op- 
 portunity to influence young students in the formative period of 
 life and to lead them to Christ and into Christian service. Our 
 mission maintains two such dormitories, one in Manila and the 
 other in San Fernando. The former is known as the Otterbein 
 dormitory. It provides a home for Ilocano students and employed 
 men and accommodates about thirty-five. It is in charge of one 
 of our reliable Theological students. This domiitory has a live 
 Young Men's League whose weekly meetings for the discussion 
 of student topics are attended by many outsiders. The dormitory 
 at San Fernando is in charge of our Son Fernando pastor and 
 his wife and does similar work to that done in Manila. It is lo- 
 cated in the high school center of our provincial field and its 
 aim is to provide a clean Christian home for many teachers and 
 high-school students. Near at hand is the Publishing House where 
 the Arford Reading Rooms are open to all students and attract 
 large numbers. 
 
 The Young Women's l^>ible Training School and Dormitory 
 at San Fernando enrolled forty-six girls in 1918, all of whom are 
 preparing for definite Christian work as teachers, deaconesses 
 and missionaries. A four year's course of study is offered in ad- 
 dition to much practical work in evangelism. In a recent com- 
 munication Miss Weber says, "Our dormitory will not hold all 
 who want to come in, stretch it as we may. We have forty-six 
 
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young people and a missionary living in a building of eleven 
 ordinary sized rooms, and a waiting list that can't be 'squoze' in 
 any place at present. One of the hardest things for me to do is 
 to turn a girl away, especially after she arrives with bag and 
 baggage and expects to study ^he Bible." A new building will 
 be erected as soon as sufficient funds have been received. 
 
 Co-Operative Training in Porto Rico. The Christian train- 
 ing work carried on by our misiion in this Island is so closely 
 associated with that of other Protestant societies that it is almost 
 impossible to write of it singly and alone. This union work is so 
 harmonious, so satisfactory and so successful that the entire 
 Protestant church in Porto Rico is practically one. 
 
 Through a system of "Preparation for Service in Service," 
 reading courses, institutes, etc.. our missionaries have done 
 good work in preparing Porto Rican ministers. Eight of the de- 
 nominations working in the Island, our own church included, 
 are now uniting in plans for an interdenominational Theological 
 Seminary. 
 
 Our mission is co-operating with the Polytechnic Institute at 
 San German. Several of our most promising men are graduates 
 of that institution all of whom are looking forward to the minis- 
 try. Two of these are continuing their studies at the Theological 
 Seminary at Mayaguez. The Polytechnic Institute is doing more 
 than any other school to break down the old idea that labor is 
 degrading. All students, both boys and girls of all classes, are 
 required to do several hours work every day in the different 
 trades and their ideals are being completely changed. 
 
 A Christian Seminary for young women has recently been 
 opened in Porto Rico to which our mission is sending a limited 
 number of girls. 
 
 In addition to the conduct of schools of all grades our mis- 
 sionaries are supplementing the training of workers by Bible con- 
 ference. Teachers Institutes, Reading Courses, etc.. according to 
 the particular need in each field. 
 
 Our missionaries are facing baffling problems in their ef- 
 forts to prepare the native church for efficient service in these 
 various fields. They do not shrink. These staggering difficulties 
 seem to hold peculiar attractions for great souls for they make 
 life seem tremendouslv worth while. 
 
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Trained Leaders from Our Mission Schools 
 
 "Have you cier seen the light break over the cliff tops of 
 some high mountain peak? Have you ever luatched the sun kiss 
 a landscape into beauty? Have you ever seen the earth dance 
 with gladness as the sun bathed it with radiance and warmth? Oh, 
 it's a great sight; but there is no sight like seeing the light from 
 Calvary kiss a human face as it fills the heart zcifh assurance of 
 Divine forgiieness." — Gipsy Smith. 
 
 They "must increase but I must decrease" must ever be the 
 attitude of the missionary toward the rising native leaders in the 
 land of his labors. They are the hope and promise of the final 
 triumph of the gospel. A goodly number of such leaders have 
 been trained in our mission schools who are now able to stand 
 shoulder to shoulder with the missionaries in facing the responsi- 
 bilities of the New Day. Space will permit of the roll call of but 
 a few. 
 
 At the head of our West African list we shall place the name 
 of Rev. Alfred T. Sumner. Mr. Sumner is a Sherbro by birth. 
 He received his elementary training in our Rufus Clark and Wife 
 school at Shenge, where his keen intellect was awakened and a 
 thirst for further knowdedge developed. In face of baffling odds 
 he finally made his way to America and entered Lebanon Valley 
 College at Annville, Pennsylvania. After completing his college 
 course he returned to Africa and married his Sherbro sweetheart 
 who had been waiting for him all these years and furthered her 
 education under his own tutorship. During the years that have 
 since passed Mr. Sumner .has labored unceasingly for the spread 
 of the gospel among his own countrymen. Part of the time he 
 has served as pastor of our largest native churches. He is now 
 the assistant principal of Albert Academy. 
 
 Mr. Sumner has the distinction of being the author of "A 
 Hand-book of the Mende Language," which was published by the 
 government of Sierra Leone in 1917. This book is the first of its 
 kind ever produced by a native of Sierra Leone. It has received 
 most favorable press comment and is highly commended by the 
 Sierra Leone governor and by the general public. 
 
 Mr. Sumner is a man much sought after for government serv- 
 ice and has offers of salary double that which he is now receiving. 
 Just at this time they would like to use him as one of the leaders 
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schools to be opened in the Protectorate. He is one of the best 
 native language teachers in his section and in addition to his 
 heavy work in the Ac:)demy gives private lessons to Enghsh 
 government officials, amcn<: them the governor's aid-de-camp 
 and private secretary, the Director of Education and the principal 
 and teachers of the Government School for chief's sons. 
 
 Rev. Stephen B. Caulker is another leader trained in the Rufus 
 Clark and Wife School. After completing his education he served 
 for some years both as pastor and teacher at stations in the Pro- 
 tectorate and then was brought to Freetown as a teacher in Albert 
 /■cademy. He is now pastor at Bonthe, our largest African 
 rhurch, formerly served by Rev. R. Cookson Taylor. This church 
 is wholly self-supporting. Over two hundred of its members 
 are giving by the system of weekly offerings and in sums ranging 
 from two cents to $2.50 per week. One fourth of all their offer- 
 ings are sacredly set aside for the extension of mission work and 
 none of the money can be touched for any other object till this 
 fourth has been taken out. For the first quarter of the year 
 1918, their missionary offerings alone averaged over $50 a month. 
 In this Bonthe church there is a membershij) committee that meets 
 regularly to study the spiritual condition of the members and to 
 examine every person applying for membership to ascertain if 
 they are eligible. Mrs. Sumner, mother of Rev. A. T. Sumner, is 
 a member of this church and teacher of a large Bible class 'of 
 women. 
 
 Rev. Thomas Hallowell began his education at the Rotifunk 
 school.. He was converted from .Mohammedanism in his early 
 manhood and after be had a family. It was no easy task for him 
 to secure an education under these conditions but his love for 
 Jesus and a consuming desire to preach his gospel prompted him 
 to do the unusual, and after working all day he studied nights to 
 qualify for it and is now an ordained pastor. His life service has 
 been one of almost unbroken success largely due, no doubt, to the 
 rnceasing prayers of Mrs. Thomas Hallowell in America for 
 wliose deceased husband this African worker was named and who 
 supported him with her sacrificial gifts for a long period of 
 years. 
 
 For thirteen years Mr. tiallowell was pastor at Ronietta where 
 he built a church and gathered a good' membership, also built 
 a mission house, planted fruit trees, etc. In addition to his 
 pastoral duties he has conducted a boarding school for boys which 
 
has contributed a number of fine students for the Academy and 
 good leaders for mission work. 
 
 Mr. Hallowell now has charge of the mission at Yonni Banna 
 and is building up a work similar to that at his former station. He 
 is erecting" a church, parsonage, schoolhouse, teacher's house, and 
 boys' home. The chief at Yonni Banna, who was a Mohammedan, 
 has become a Christian and has set all his sub-chiefs and their 
 men to the task of helping Mr. Hallowell to build up the mission. 
 This pastor holds prayer meetings zcith his people every morning 
 from four to five-thirty o'clock. 
 
 Rev. J. Alfred Smart is another glorious product of our 
 schools. He is now a very successful pastor at Rotifunk, where 
 some kind of religious meetings are held almost every day of the 
 year in the Martyr's Memorial Church. His church is entirely 
 self-supporting and gives a hundred dollars or more each ye.ir 
 to missions. In his zeal to help other children secure training for 
 Christian service like that which has transformed his own life, 
 Mr. Smart, like many of our other African workers, is taking 
 child after child into his home, providing them with food, shelter 
 and clothing at his own expense and giving them the privilege of a 
 Christian education. 
 
 James Metzger, the son of a native government official, is 
 a graduate of Albert Academy as are all his brothers. Immedi- 
 ately after his graduation he was employed as a teacher on the 
 Academy staff where he has served acceptably for nine years. 
 He has repeatedly been offered positions carrying more salary 
 than he now receives but refuses to leave the school that has done 
 so much for him. His brother was the first Sierra Leonian to 
 enter the University of London. 
 
 And what shall we say of the splendid girls at Moyamba ? To 
 this place many of our ministers come to find their wives, and 
 indeed it is these well-trained Christian wives that help to make 
 possible the success of so many of the native men. They are 
 able to go into the mission schools and teach side by side with 
 their husbands and also assist in the religious services. Here is 
 one example of many: Pruda, from Moyamba, married Mr. 
 Henry Golly and together they are most efficiently continuing the 
 work at Ronietta so well established by Mr. Hallowell. They 
 have big prayer meetings and a flourishing Junior work. The 
 Sunshine Committee of the Juniors is providing . the support 
 of three boys in school. Extensive itinerating is done by these 
 
workers. Mrs. Golly is a Temne hence familiar with the lan- 
 guage of the people among whom they work, but Mr. Golly, being 
 of another tribe does not speak the Temne so his wife has become 
 his language teacher and a very strict tutor she is, too. 
 
 Rev. Takejiro Ishiguro is a sample of what Christian train- 
 ing means to a Japanese man. Mr. Ishiguro himself testifies that 
 the first thing that led him to give up the Buddhist religion was 
 education. He attended the Doshisha School in Kyoto and later 
 snent two years in Bonebrake Theological Seminary, of Dayton, 
 Ohio. When ready to return to Japan he said, "Now I am 
 through with my preparation in school and ready to go out to 
 war for Jesus Christ in Japan. All my preparation is but am- 
 munition. I have set my aim to win thousands of Japanese to 
 Jesus Christ, and secure one hundred native preachers before I 
 die. What I need now is the fire from God — the Holy Spirit 
 That is my desire. Will you pray that God may give me the Holy 
 Spirit and fire?" Since there is nothing so sweet in all this world 
 to me as Jesus Christ, I want all my friends to know him. If I 
 had ten lives, yes, if I had one hundred lives I would gladly give 
 them all in service for my precious Lord Jesus Christ." 
 
 Mr. Ishiguro did not live to serve long. He has now gone to 
 higher service. He never realized his great wish, to lead a 
 hundred young men into the ministry but many have made this 
 important decision under his influence and many more led to 
 know Jesus Christ as their personal Savior. He was alwavs 
 A good Samaritan to those in need. He often kept students in 
 his home for days or months at a time, always having one and 
 sometimes two or three. The majority of these boys were mea- 
 gerly supported and he aided them bv eivins: them board in whole 
 or in part. Some of them he loved like his own children. He 
 did not have a large salary and it was impossible for him to do 
 this work for young men without ere^t personal sacrifice. He 
 often said to his wife. "Until I die I wish to live like a student," 
 that is a plain simple life without any luxuries. 
 
 For a number of years Mr. Ishiguro was pastor of our Church 
 m Kyoto and was a leader in interdenominational movements 
 not only in his city but in the whole Empire as well. 
 
 Rev. C. Yasuda is a eraduate of the Doshisha University and 
 while there won a scholarship which entitled him to two years of 
 special training in America. It was just wdien he had finished his 
 Theological work in America that news came of the death of his 
 
beloved friend Mr. Ishignro and a little later he learned that he 
 himself had been appointed to fill the place made vacant by Mr. 
 Ishiguro's death. He was ordained by Bishop Mathews in the 
 First United Brethren Church, Dayton, Ohio, then hastened to his 
 waiting parish in Kyoto, Japan, where he is now engaged in 
 loyal service for the King. 
 
 Rev. Kiyoshi Yabe is among our best trained and most suc- 
 cessful Christian workers in Japan. He received his education 
 in America and is a graduate of Otterbein College. Through 
 his heroic faith a new Japanese province is being opened to the 
 gospel, opposition is being overcome and large numbers of stu- 
 dents in government schools are being turned toward Christ. 
 
 Regarding the graduates from the Theological Department of 
 the Doshisha, Rev. B. F. Shively, our representative on the 
 teaching staff, writes, "Last year we graduated a class of fifteen 
 fine fellows every one of whom took all the work I gave in re- 
 ligious education. ( )ne of them now has charge of a large work 
 among Japanese in Hawaii. One has gone to Manchuria to take 
 charge of some Japanese work there. One of them is director of 
 religious education in a church in Osaka which is one of the 
 leading churches in the whole country. Another is directing the 
 religious education work of a district under the American Board. 
 Three of them are in responsible positions in Tokyo churches, 
 and others are in equally important places. Only yesterday a 
 missionary said to me, 'That man you sent to us from the Doshisha 
 is a winner.' So it is our aim at the Doshisha to prepare and send 
 out into the active work of evangelism, men wdth a vital message 
 for the times, and with sufficient practical training to take hold 
 and man their fields for the best progress of the Kingdom." 
 
 Caspar Camacho is one of the most faithful pastors in our 
 Philippine mission. Some years ago when he first presented him- 
 self before our missionaries as a candidate for the gospel ministry, 
 he looked like such an unpromising specimen that they had little 
 hopes for him. Undiscouraged by his tremendous handicaps he 
 entered the Union Theological Seminary at Manila and by sheer 
 pluck and the grace of (jod made his way through. The spiritual 
 life and training of the Seminary brought out the latent possi- 
 bilities in this awkward young man and he completed his course 
 successfully and was ordained. He is now the efficient pastor 
 at Agoo. He has won scores of his fellow countrymen to Christ 
 
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and no one now doubts that he was indeed called of God to preach 
 his everlasting gospel. 
 
 John Abellera was a young man of fine qualities from the 
 first. He had a good position with the Educational Bureau of 
 the United States Government of the Philippines, but after tast- 
 ing the joys of saving grace his heart grew eager to make them 
 known to others, accordingly he gave up his work and entered 
 the Theological Seminary for special training. Here he re- 
 ceived a better understanding of the Word and his spiritual life 
 was greatly deepened. He is our ablest evangelistic preacher in 
 the Philippines. For the past two years he has been editor of the 
 "Naimbag a Damag" which is published in the Ilocano language 
 and is the only Christian paper in the Islands. 
 
 John Leones was the son of a rich Filipino man. He had a 
 good position with the Government in tlie Internal Revenue de- 
 partment. He became a Christian and under the influence of 
 the Bible Institutes, which are conducted annually, was called of 
 God to work among the neglected people of the mountains. On 
 learning his purpose his father kicked him out of doors and dis- 
 inherited him- but none of these things moved him. He entered 
 the Seminary and was making good progress when his health 
 suddenly failed and it seemed impossible for him to complete 
 his work ; but he finally rallied and graduated with first honors 
 at the close of the year. The native people considered his healing 
 a miracle of God. This young man has been mightily used in 
 soul winning. Almost the entire mountain town wdiere he works 
 has become Christian and many in the near-by towns. His Sun- 
 day school is the best of all in our Philippine mission. 
 
 The same kind of work that is being done for young men in 
 the Seminary at Manila is being done for young women in the 
 Bible Training School at San Fernando. While receiving their 
 training these girls often make long itinerating journeys among 
 the wild tribes of the mountains, walking vfor miles over hard 
 roads and sometimes drenched with rain, but never too weary 
 to hold meetings in the towns they visit. After graduation many 
 of them take up regular missionary work. The spirit of these 
 consecrated girls is shown in the words of Agapita Obaldo, one 
 of the graduates, who gave herself to work among the Igorotes. 
 On returning to her chosen field some one asked. "Are you going 
 again over the high mountains? Isn't there enough to do at 
 home and on the plains'"' "^he replied, "My heart bounds for- 
 
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ward with joy for it is a marvelous gospel I have to bear. Xever 
 has it stirred me as now. No higher honor has ever been granted 
 to mankind than to be a co-worker with Christ in bringing the 
 world back to God. And also to those Igorrote homes. Our 
 father loves them, and his love constraineth us. Could we be sat- 
 isfied to tarry at home and on the plains knowing of their hun- 
 ger and thirst after truth, the way and the life — even Christ? 
 The joy of ministry and fellowship among the beloved of our 
 relatives and friends could not quiet the unceasing call and plead- 
 ings in our ears. I go forth again because I love Him who called 
 us. I know God is my keeper." 
 
 Some years ago there came into the home of one of our China 
 missionaries a little Chinese girl in whose life was wrapped up 
 wonderful possibilities. Helen Chan received her early training 
 in our day schools in Canton and later graduated from Miller 
 Seminary. For some years she has been a very efficient teacher 
 in the Seminary and her life is a constant benediction to the girls. 
 She often says, "What would I have been had not Christ found 
 me and given me a chance for my life?" The happiest moments 
 of her life are those when she sees her girls standing before the 
 altar taking their vows of church membership. The principal of 
 a Girls' Normal School recentlv wrote. "Your Helen Chan is 
 worth her weight in gold. If there ever comes a time when 
 you don't need her I'll pay her a good salary and be delighted 
 to get her." 
 
 Dr. Hoh and Ko Pat IMui are two of China's beloved physicians. 
 They both were educated in Miller Seminary. The former was 
 a dignified and serious girl from the first. Her one ambition 
 was to become a physician and relieve the suffering of her people. 
 Her parents had no sympathy with her ideas and tried again and 
 again to induce her to quit school and marry, but she steadfastly 
 resisted. After graduation from the Seminary she took a course 
 in a medical school. She is now a busy little doctor with a big 
 practice and heartily in love with her work. Ko Pat Mui went 
 immediately after her graduation to her brother who is a doctor 
 in a big city fifty miles from Siu Lam. For six years she has 
 been his nurse and general assistant and he says he cannot even 
 spare her to be married. 
 
 "Brother Woo" of Kau Chau Kei was once an ardent worship- 
 per of idols, a gambler and opium smoker. One day he and his 
 friend heard a gospel sermon from a young Chinese evangelist — 
 
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the man who is now our pastor at Siu Lam — and from that day 
 forth they have hoth been Christians. "Brother Woo" went back 
 to his village and began telling his friends that he had found the 
 Christ. Soon several people were converted and baptized and a 
 church was organized. Under the training of the missionaries 
 "Brother Woo" has made wonderful development. His church 
 has been self-supporting from the first and is growing in num- 
 bers till the building in which they worship will not hold the 
 crowds. They are planning to open work in a neighboring village. 
 Five of his young men are studying for the ministry. 
 
 Time would fail us to tell of the nearly two hundred native 
 leaders in our foreign fields who through faith are subduing king- 
 doms, working righteousness, obtaining promises, out of weak- 
 ness are made strong and are valiant in the fight for God These 
 "are our hope and joy and crown of rejoicing." 
 
 Answering the Summons 
 
 We have given but a brief summary of the schools in our 
 fields afar. These schools have not been able to meet the 
 opportunities in their communities, much less the insistent calls 
 from whole districts adjacent hitherto untouched. 
 
 The awakening which has resulted from the war is being 
 felt in these backward nations even more than in our own, and 
 there is the urgent need of trained Christian leaders who shall 
 be able to meet the challenge of the new day. The Govern- 
 ment in Sierra Leone is asking our mission to supply teachers 
 for the vernacular schools which they are planning to establish 
 all over the Protectorate. China is seeking for a million 
 teachers for her proposed schools. Two-thirds of the members 
 of China's first Constitutional Congress were graduates of mis- 
 sion schools. The efficiency of these leaders has given Christian 
 education a mighty influence in these nations. The church will 
 never again have an opportunity like that which is hers right 
 now — that of furnishing from Christian', schools the leaders 
 who shall give direction and in a large measure shape the des- 
 tiny of vast countries. 
 
 Mission schools must be multiplied by the hundreds and 
 those in existence must be greatly enlarged and better 
 equipped. Our missionaries have for years been pleading to 
 be permitted to answer the ever-increasing calls for the open- 
 so 
 
ing of new schools. Nearly all our present schools are turn- 
 ing pupils away because of lack of room. 
 
 A SACRIFICIAL ADVANCE. 
 
 As we face the new era coming over the world, the United 
 Brethren Church must undertake in dead earnest the evangeliza- 
 tion of her share of the suffering world. Our foreign fields 
 will not continue plastic and open for the next twenty-five 
 years. If they are to set in a Christian mold we must act now, 
 and act vigorously, for "The night cometh when no man can 
 work." 
 
 Through the observance of the Five Great Sundays and the 
 Week of Prayer and Self-Denial a year ago, hundreds of 
 churches and Sunday schools entered into a new era of spiritual 
 Jife, and fervent praying, and the gifts received compleiely 
 wiped out the indebtedness cf the society and sustained ths 
 workers the past year. 
 
 Ihe cost of exchange and transportation in our foreign 
 fields are higher now than a year ago. To conduct our foreign 
 zi'ork zcithoiit rclrcncliuient tJirough the months ahead until 
 April \, 1920, ivill require $55,000 in addition to the money 
 that zvill come through the established channels of the church. 
 
 Let me suggest three ways to secure it : 
 
 First by individuals, churches and Sunday schools supporting 
 their own missionary or district as many are now doing. 
 
 Albert Academy, our Training Center in West Africa. 
 
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Second by observing Full Settlement period for the budget 
 March 2-16. Churches and Sunday schools wishing to again ob- 
 serve a Self-Denial week, may have that privilege and the offering 
 thus secured may be applied on the support of their missionary 
 for another year if their benevolence budget has been provided 
 in full, otherwise the ofifering should be applied on making full 
 and overflowing the benevolence budget of the local church, a 
 good part of which goes to meet the needs of our foreign vvork. 
 
 Tn the third place, the committee which is now inaugurating 
 the united movement for our denomination b^s spveex], that 
 instead of makiuc/ mauv special appeals to the Sundav schools 
 nnd churches th-^t tbe^'e be inst arte vitcd special nphcal. wh^^n 
 it is eirnestlv hor«ed that everv Sundav school nnd church will 
 share in ? sacrificial wav in meetin"^ the extraordinarv needs 
 upon all the Societies. A portion of this united offering "'ill 
 p-o to relieve the urgent situation of our foreign work. The 
 f^hurrh napers will give notice when this united special will 
 be lifted. 
 
 PRM'F.R A\'TT.L BRING TTTF VICTORY. 
 
 In the work of the Kin<ydom, oravine comes before navincr. 
 The call of greatest importance is for a crusade of praver. 
 One of our missionaries in Africa, drooped into a dark hut 
 where he found an old man dvine. After talking to him of 
 God's love, the old man said, "I don't know how to pray, won't 
 vou pray for me, and just hea God for me?" This crv cominp' 
 up from the voune and old. the sick and dyin?? of millions of 
 earth should brine the church at home to her knees until every 
 one of us recoenizes that Jesus is T>ord of our life and -^11 our 
 possessions and that we are His stewards — stewards o^ inter- 
 cession, stewards of possessions, stewards of o'lr <^wn live'^ to 
 be devoted to spreading the news of the ^'orld's Sav'or. The 
 United Movement in our denomination is being IpinT^bed bv a 
 period of intercession, wbich beo'ins Febniarv 23. 1919, and 
 continues until the entire church has entered into the promised 
 blessings of God. 
 
 Surely, "He must have a callous soul who can nass throusrh 
 times like these, and not hear a voice wbo^e call a iii'in ni'is* 
 
 answer or else lose his soul I'be Kino-dom of God o. 
 
 earth needs you. The cause of Christ is hard bese* ""d rip-ht- 
 eousness is havinsf a heavy battle in the earth — thev need yon" 
 and thev need us in no ser\'irp so urgent'. ^ ds that of intercession. 
 
Stir Me, Lord! 
 
 'OTIR me, oh! stir me, Lord, I care not how, 
 
 But stir my heart in passion for the world! 
 Stir me to give, to go — but most to pray: 
 Stir, till the blood red banner be unfurled 
 O'er lands that still in deepest darkness lie, 
 O'er deserts where no cross is lifted high. 
 
 Stir me, oh! stir me. Lord. Thy heart was stirred 
 
 By love's intensest fire, till Thou didst give 
 
 Thine only Son, Thy best beloved One, 
 
 Even to the dreadful Cross, that I might live ; 
 
 Stir me to give myself so back to Thee, 
 
 That Thou canst give Thyself again through me." 
 
Courtesy of Everyland. 
 
 Young China Solving Problems. 
 
 Our Problem 
 
 How Can the United Brethren 
 Church meet her Responsi- 
 bility for the 800,000 Children 
 Living in her Districts Abroad, 
 Who have no School Priv- 
 ileges? 
 
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