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 ““Where May I Best Invest My 
 Life’’ is a question constantly arising 
 in the minds of our young men and 
 women. The Presbyterian Board of 
 Foreign Missions here presents some 
 very unusual opportunities for Life 
 Investment. We need immediately 
 
 a number of candidates for perma- 
 nent foreign service. 
 
 One of the most urgent calls is for 
 two 
 
 FRENCH SPEAKING MISSIONARIES 
 
 for our West Africa Mission in Cam- 
 eroun. The French are now in pos- 
 session of this territory and it is ex- 
 ceedingly necessary that we have 
 one or two men on the ground at 
 once who can converse and corre- 
 spond with the government officials. 
 Our work will be greatly hampered 
 unless we fill this place speedily. An’ 
 ordained single man for life service 
 would best fit the need, but we are 
 willing to consider married men and 
 also unordained men who might be 
 able to go out for only three years, 
 
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acting as interpreters and entering 
 sympathetically into the great Evan- 
 gelistic, Educational and Industrial 
 work of the Mission. 
 
 In a most wonderful manner 
 
 _. AGRICULTURAL WoRK 
 
 a as a part of the great Foreign Mis- 
 
 sionary Enterprise, is opening up in 
 India. Mr. Sam Higginbottom, with 
 his demonstration farm at Allaha- 
 bad, North India, has interested the 
 Maharajahs of nearby Provinces: 
 they have visited the farm and begin 
 to realize something of the unusual 
 practical help which scientific agri- 
 culture can bring to millions of their 
 people now living constantly on the 
 verge of starvation because of ignor- 
 ance in these matters. Mr. Higgin- 
 bottom writes: 
 
 “The men needed must first of all and 
 before all else, be ambassadors of 
 Christ; they must clearly understand 
 that agriculture will not save India, : 
 no matter how good it is, but Jesus 
 is the only hope and the greatest 
 need of India, and agriculture like 
 education, evangelistic effort, or 
 Christian literature, is but the point 
 from which to approach the main 
 problem. It needs more than earthly 
 wisdom to choose the right men, and 
 if this work is of God, he has fore- 
 
 seen all along what was necessary 
 
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and just what is needed and so | be- 
 lieve when you make an appeal, the 
 very best men will come forward. 
 Of course, because the man is spir- 
 itually strong and thorough, the truth 
 will have set him free and his purely 
 technical training will be of the very 
 best. We need (1) one man strong 
 in desert problems and _ irrigation. 
 (2) One man strong in dairying, 
 cattle feeding, breeding. (3) One 
 man for agricultural chemistry.”’ 
 
 EWING CHRISTIAN COLLEGE 
 where this work is being carried on 
 
 is at Allahabad, the capital of the 
 Northern Provinces and an educa- 
 tional and religious center. 
 
 “The Agricultural Department has re- 
 ceived new impetus from the visit of 
 Professor Higginbottom to America, 
 where he raised $30,000 for the De- 
 partment. The purpose of the school 
 is to turn out men who can earn their 
 own living on the land by farming. 
 Each student is given a plot of five 
 acres on which he is expected to 
 learn to use improved tools and to 
 carry on the whole work of farming. 
 Besides the farming work, a dairy is 
 maintained which more than pays 
 expenses. Members of the agricul- 
 tural staff have visited during the 
 year the native states of Gwalior and 
 Jodhpur. In November, 1915, Sir 
 James Meston, the Lieutenant-Gover- 
 nor of the United Provinces, unveiled 
 a tablet on the opening of the Eliza- 
 beth McCormick Hostel of the Agri- 
 
 cultural Department.” 
 
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Besides these three, we need an 
 agriculturist for similar work at Moga 
 Training School in the Punjab 60 
 miles from Lahore. Here our work 
 is emphatically among the poor, 
 many of the people being compelled 
 to live upon the greens picked from 
 the fields and roadsides. This pov- 
 erty is caused largely by the indus- 
 trial system and because of the ig- 
 norance of the people regarding the 
 possibilities of the soil, conservation, 
 etc. The Moga Training School is 
 preparing teachers for village Chris- 
 tians and the work department is an 
 important phase. Here is empha- 
 sized the dignity of labor and we 
 wish to push Agricultural education 
 in this field. Work of this kind 
 begun at Moga will no doubt widely 
 influence the surrounding districts 
 ‘and bring great blessing to these 
 needy thousands. 
 
 We cannot have a self-supporting 
 Church on the Mission Field until 
 the members are able to support 
 themselves. An unusual opportunity 
 is offered the men who are able to 
 undertake this work. 
 
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“VIGNI NI SNIHSAYHL JO AVA AAN CNV GIO AHL 
 
 
 
PERSIA 
 
 is also calling for a trained agri- 
 culturist with some knowledge of 
 fruit growing to fill a similar position 
 in that needy land. Here war has 
 devastated parts of the country and 
 scattered the people. As they return 
 to their desolate homes and take up 
 again the struggle for life, they need 
 help. Their Agricultural methods 
 are primitive and inadequate and 
 this most practical form of mission- 
 ary service will be welcomed and 
 open many doors to the Gospel mes- 
 sage. 
 
 This man is wanted at Urumiah in 
 our West Persia Mission where fruit 
 growing (grapes, figs, etc.,) is an 
 important activity. 
 
 Where are the men who are com- 
 petent and free to enter now upon 
 this most practical phase of Christian 
 Missions — ““The Gospel of the 
 Plough” ? 
 
 This Board constantly has calls 
 for qualified 
 
 ORDAINED MISSIONARIES. 
 The ordained missionary lives a 
 broad life; the work calls for all that 
 
 is in a man: every item of knowledge 
 he possesses and all ability to do 
 
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things will be brought into requisi- 
 tion, from preaching sermons to con- 
 structing buildings. He may be 
 Acting Pastor of a _ native City 
 Church or at a Missionary center. 
 In the outlying districts there will be 
 villages having Chapels, or groups of 
 Christians meeting in the homes, 
 these are the nuclei of Churches to 
 be. The missionary will go out to 
 these little groups of Christians to 
 give counsel, encouragement and 
 comfort and to superintend and 
 foster these beginnings of the Church 
 on the Mission Field. He may also 
 itinerate, going into the ‘regions 
 beyond”’ doing the work of an Evan- 
 gelist and seeking new centers for 
 future stations. If he has aptitude 
 for teaching, the Mission may assign 
 him to educational work. He must 
 be ready ‘“‘to bind up the broken- 
 hearted”’ or to furnish “first aid to 
 the injured,’ ’—all things to all men 
 to win some. 
 
 We Need Just Now—-A Number of 
 Ordained Men for 
 
 LATIN AMERICA 
 
 one in Central Brazil, two in Chile 
 and two for Colombia. 
 
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VISUGd ‘NIVINQDOW SYNdIa AHL NI ONILVYANILI 
 
 
 
In Guatemala we need one especi- 
 ally to push forward evangelistic 
 work, 
 
 For India, one ordained man is 
 needed in the Punjab; and _ for 
 Japan, one, and Persia, two. 
 
 MEXICO. 
 
 In spite of the civil war at present 
 going on in Mexico, Mission work 
 progresses rapidly. The Girl’s School 
 at San Angel, near Mexico City, is 
 running at its full capacity, and the 
 Boys’ School at Coyoacan has a 
 goodly number present despite the 
 fact that many of the pupils who 
 were in the school at the outbreak 
 of the recent hostilities are now oc- 
 cupying positions of importance in 
 connection with the Carranza Gov- 
 ernment. 
 
 There are needed in Mexico at the 
 present time three ordained men and 
 two teachers. Many of the large 
 congregations such as at Saltillo and 
 at San Luis Potasi and at numerous 
 congregations in Yucatan, are with- 
 out any pastoral supervision. The 
 few missionaries at work in Mexico 
 are over-taxed. Reports which come 
 to us from the missionaries on the 
 field indicate a readiness on the part 
 
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of the people to hear the Gospel and 
 a desire for schools and for the 
 American Missionaries. In a few 
 weeks all the male members of the 
 Mexican Mission will be at their posts 
 of duty, but it will not be possible 
 for them to respond to the many 
 calls which will be made upon them 
 for their services. The fields are 
 white unto the harvest. New schools 
 must be opened and the churches, 
 which for so many months have been 
 pastorless, need supervision. In all 
 parts of Mexico our missionaries are 
 gladly welcomed, our Church 
 services are uninterrupted and the 
 schools are being opened as fast as 
 teachers are being secured. 
 
 The call for Mexico is imperative 
 and is immediate. 
 
 There are urgent calls also for a 
 number of men and women for our 
 
 EDUCATIONAL WORK 
 
 Ewing Christian College at Alla- 
 habad, North India, is greatly in need 
 of a strong man to fill the chair of 
 Chemistry. Because of our lack of 
 housing facilities there just now, we 
 must have an unmarried man. The 
 College would hope later to furnish 
 accommodations so that this mission- 
 ary, if it seemed desirable, might 
 
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settle permanently and have a resi- 
 dence of his own. Even a short term 
 man would be considered for this 
 position in the hope that permanent 
 arrangements might be made later. 
 This Chair calls for a man who has 
 had some experience in teaching and 
 who has taken an A.M. or Ph.D. in 
 Chemistry. The work is of College 
 grade and presents an attractive op- 
 portunity for a qualified Christian 
 teacher to influence four or five hun- 
 dred choice Hindu and Moham- 
 medan students who are going out as 
 leaders among the 316,000,000 of 
 India. 
 
 Bangkok Christian College is the 
 only evangelical Christian School 
 for high grade instruction to young 
 men in South Siam. 
 
 It is located in the capital city and 
 is therefore in immediate competi- 
 tion and comparison with all the 
 higher institutions of learning of 
 the government and other § sys- 
 tems; consequently it occupies 
 a place of special importance 
 demanding special equipment. Bang- 
 kok is a city of 800,000. The 
 ‘College’ is really an institution of 
 academy or high school grade and 
 from this one can form a _ good 
 
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idea of the teaching work to be 
 done. It is holding its own and 
 growing slowly, having developed 
 naturally and to be further de- 
 veloped, no doubt, so that finally 
 it will be of real college grade. It 
 now provides, we believe, the best 
 education in quality which can be 
 obtained in Bangkok. It is one of 
 the doors of access to classes of 
 people in Bangkok to whom we 
 could not otherwise bring the Gospel. 
 Excellent teachers have been thus 
 prepared for our Mission Schools 
 throughout Siam. 
 
 Since the Siamese are greatly in 
 need of the industrial element in 
 education, Bangkok College is en- 
 deavoring in a quiet way to meet 
 this need, furnishing also in this, a 
 method of student self help. 
 
 Here is an unusual opportunity 
 for the investment of life in a 
 Christian enterprise which bids fair 
 to influence vitally the entire future 
 of Siam. 
 
 We are looking for an Educator 
 to take the Principalship of this im- 
 portant institution; one who has had 
 experience in this country as High 
 School Principal or as Superintend- 
 ent—or as a part of his graduate 
 work. 
 
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In Persia we need no less than 
 four or five 
 
 WOMEN MISSIONARIES 
 
 at once:—one for the Girls’ School 
 at Tabriz, West Persia and two for 
 Evangelistic work in the same sta- 
 tion. We need a single woman 
 most urgently in Teheran, East 
 Persia, and one at Hamadan in the 
 same mission. 
 
 The Girls’ School at Tabriz enrols 
 about 200 pupils. The department 
 for Moslem girls is making most 
 encouraging progress. The interest 
 in religious matters among all pupils 
 was marked this last year and there 
 were several candidates for Church 
 membership. 
 
 The Evangelistic work promises 
 great returns. Persia's heart is 
 open to the American Missionary as 
 never before. 
 
 Those people impoverished, dis- 
 couraged and heart broken by war's 
 devastation know who were their 
 best friends in time of need. One 
 of the great Compensations of the 
 War will be wide open doors in Per- 
 sia for the Gospel Message. 
 
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 MAN CURED OF BLINDNESS LEADING FRIENDS 
 TO HOSPITAL, CHANGTEH. 
 
CHINA 
 
 is calling for a woman educator 
 needed in Our North China Mission 
 at Poating-fu. 
 
 WESTERN INDIA 
 
 needs a well-equipped teacher for 
 the Kolhapur Girls School which 
 besides Kindergarten, Primary and 
 Middle Departments, has a High 
 School Department recognized by 
 the Government. Plans are in pro- 
 gress for the affiliation of the School 
 with the University of Bombay. 
 There are 200 pupils, including chil- 
 dren of some of the high officials. 
 Here is a rare opportunity to put the 
 impress of a Christian Education 
 upon the future home life of India. 
 
 North Siam (Laos) sends an urg- 
 ent call for a Woman Missionary at 
 Chiengmai, and Nan; and South 
 Siam has a most important need to 
 
 be filled at | 
 
 The Harriet House School for 
 Girls at Bangkok, the Capital, where 
 the enrollment is only limited by the 
 size of the School buildings, and 
 where well equipped Christian Siam- 
 
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 A CHINESE NURSE 
 
ese teachers are being furnished 
 every year for the girls’ schools in 
 different parts of the country. 
 
 CHOSEN (Korea) 
 
 needs a woman at Chong-Ju; Guate- 
 mala needs one, and Venezuela two, 
 one a teacher for Caracas, the other 
 an evangelist for the same station. 
 
 Every Year We Have Calls For 
 SHORT TERM MEN. 
 
 Our High Schools and Colleges 
 on the foreign field have places an- 
 nually for ten or fifteen young Amer- 
 ican College Graduates to teach in 
 English on a two or three year con- 
 tract. These must be unmarried men. 
 These are positions of rare oppor- 
 tunity for service, travel and ex- 
 perience. Many of these men, after 
 further preparation, return to the 
 field as regular missionaries. 
 
 MeEbDICcCAL WORK 
 
 is going forward in a most hopeful 
 way. 
 
 CHOSEN (KoreEA) 
 
 needs a doctor at Pyeng Yang and 
 Taiku. 
 
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SYRIA 
 
 calls for a doctor at Tripoli. 
 
 THE PHILIPPINE MISSION 
 
 should have one immediately at 
 
 Albay. 
 WESTERN INDIA 
 
 is seeking for a man who can teach 
 bacteriology and is especially trained 
 in laboratory work for the Miraj 
 Hospital, one of the best equipped, 
 most efficient hospitals of any Mis- 
 sion. 
 
 The great non-Christian world 
 presents a dire need to-day for 
 
 THE CHRISTIAN TRAINED NURSE. 
 
 The dispensaries, hospitals, and 
 medical schools are all there, but 
 where are the nurses?—needed to 
 give those suffering millions the 
 benefits of Western Medical Science; 
 needed, perhaps more than this, to 
 train native nurses and send them 
 out, devoted, Christian women to 
 carry, in this peculiarly effective 
 form, the Gospel message. The 
 greatest possible achievement in 
 Christian service is the multiple 
 transmission of high spiritual ideals. 
 
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Foreign Missionary nursing presents 
 a remarkable opportunity. The work 
 of the Foreign Missionary Nurse is 
 quite different from that of the nurse 
 in the homeland. She is a teacher 
 and trainer; she is an evangelist; she 
 has the opportunity of impressing 
 upon the lives of the native nurses 
 whom she is training and of the 
 thousands of patients whom she and 
 they treat, her highest spiritual 
 ideals. This calls for every resource 
 even the college girl may possess. 
 All of her experience and education, 
 in whatever line, will come into play 
 here. 
 
 Although there may always be 
 room at home in every calling, there 
 often seems in these cities of the 
 United States a congestion of doc- 
 tors and of nurses. ‘There, in that 
 needy non-Christian world, is a 
 wonderfully open field, an oppor- 
 tunity for you to do a great work of 
 your own, not just to follow some 
 one else. Think of China with only 
 140 missionary nurses to 400,000,- 
 000; and Persia with 5 missionary 
 nurses to 10,000,000 and _ similar 
 
 conditions in other lands. 
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The missionary nurse needs every- 
 thing in the way of training that is 
 required here at home, and infinitely 
 more. 
 
 Think what it will mean to be at 
 the head of a Training School for 
 Nurses with Chinese, Korean, and 
 Indian women just awakening to the 
 joy of service. And then, most of 
 all, here is given a wonderful oppor- 
 tunity to bring the Christian message 
 into the hearts and lives of needy 
 thousands, in one of its most effec- 
 tive forms. ‘There is no pulpit so 
 influential as a Hospital Ward, and 
 no pew so receptive as a Hospital 
 
 Bed.” 
 
 We need immediately no less than 
 eight nurses: four or five for China; 
 one for Andong—Chosen (Korea) ; 
 one for Iloilo, Philippine Islands; 
 two for the Miraj Hospital, Western 
 India; and one for the Hospital at 
 Teheran, East Persia. 
 
 It will require real heroism and the 
 true missionary motive. We cannot 
 offer large financial inducements— 
 only a comfortable living. But for 
 earnest young women, looking for a 
 life investment, here are offered 
 wonderful returns. 
 
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Those needy millions, without 
 Scientific Medicine, or the great 
 blessings which the trained nurse 
 alone can take to them, are holding 
 out beseeching hands to the young 
 women of America. 
 
 Nearly all of the needs mentioned 
 in this leaflet are immediate and 
 urgent and we shall welcome im- 
 mediate correspondence regarding 
 them. 3 
 
 The calls from the field increase 
 each year. We shall be constantly 
 in need of the best equipped, most 
 devoted young men and women of 
 the Church to meet the various and 
 regular demands made upon us by 
 the needy millions of the unevan- 
 gelized world. 
 
 Can you find anywhere a better 
 investment of your life ? 
 
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The Board of Foreign Missions of the 
 Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. 
 156 FIFTH AVE., NEW YORK 
 
 Form 2500 | October, 1916