HOME MISSIONS JANUARY STUDY.-"Money and Home Missions." Whence the Money Comes. How it is Administered. Increasing the Supply. Leaflet Aids. A Patriotic Program for "the Sabbath nearest Washington's Birthday"-recommended by General Assembly as HOME MISSION DAY in the Sunday school. Title, "Christian Patriotism Our Country's Best Defense." Have you ordered supplies for your Sunday school? The photograph of "The Defenders," and the special letter from President Taft make the cover a "worth while" souvenir, and the program -which can be given in fifteen minutes-should develop loyalty to the cause of PRESBYTERIAN HOME MISSIONS. Every member of every Presbyterian Sabbath school should have a share in this one patriotic Sabbath school service. Send for samples or supplies of programs and envelopes to Miss M. Josephine Petrie, 156 Fifth Ave., New York City. Home Mission Topics for 1912 17 February-The Indians.-Evangelization and Nurture by Christian Ministry; Education and Development by State and Church; Place and Destiny in the Nation's Life. March-Immigrant Communities.-The Ministry of the Church; Methods of Approach; Forms of Service. April-Christian Citizenship.-Cooperation in Reform Movements; The Church and the Community; The Kingdom of Heaven on Earth. May-Cuba and Porto Rico.-Educational Needs in Cuba; Multiplying Churches in Porto Rico; Medical Needs of Tropics. June-Alaska.-The Native; The Miner; A Permanent Civilization. July-Lumber and Mining Camp Regions.-Coal's Cost in Lives; Family Life; The Evangelism Needed. August-Degenerate Sects.-Mormonism; Paganized Forms in Southwest; Holy Rollers and Others in Older East. September-The Country Community.-Rural Decay Affects Rural Churches; The Church the Test of Prosperity; The Community Conserves Man's Whole Life. October-The City.-The Growth of the City; The Dominance of the City; The Influence of the City. THE BOARD OF HOME MISSIONS OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN THE U. 8. A. Comparative Statement of Receipts for CURRENT WORK for the Months of November, 1910-11 Comparative Statement of Receipts for CURRENT WORK for the 8 Months ending November 30, 1910-11 FOREIGN MISSIONS The Pictured Story of Our Work HE Board of Foreign Missions in the pictorial pages which T follow, has tried to give the readers of THE ASSEMBLY HERALD a glimpse, a bird's-eye view, as it were, of its manifold work on the foreign field. It has been impossible to go into detail, but a few of the phases of work it has attempted to show are represented in these pictures. Page I and Page II the educational work of the Board from the Kindergarten of Japan-No. 5 on page 2-up to the Forman Christian College of India, No. 1 on page 1. The kindergarten, the primary school-No. 5, page and No. 5, page 2-the teacher at work with his class, No. 2, page 1, and the industrial work of our schools in different countries-page 2, four pictures. Page III gives a glimpse of the medical work in its varied forms -from the primitive mode of treating a surgical case in AfricaNo. 1, to the ward in the David Gregg Hospital in Canton, China, No. 4-The Christian teaching given in the hospitals is pictured in No. 5, while the humanitarian work of the medical missionary is brought out in bold relief by the third picture of this page where we have the doctors ready for their work among those stricken by the plague. Page IV. treats of the evangelistic side of the work. Preaching at a country fair in Korea, the missionary ready for a trip in Syria, -The Presbytery tent in China where candidates for admission to the church may be examined as to their fitness. From Laos land the missionary camp: and as a result of the evangelistic effort a group of Christian Endeavorers. Page V deals also with the evangelistic side-see cuts No. 1 and 2. but also gives a hint of another phase of the busy missionary's life. The work of translation and the press by means of which the Gospel is sent far and wide. We have chosen the view of the large Mission Press at Shanghai with its native typesetters engaged in setting up the English type, and a view of the office of this same press where the missionary must needs spend hours of each day in keeping accounts and attending to the more secular side of the work which leads, however, to the same blessed end-that of reaching the perishing multitudes with the Word of God. The output of this single press for the year reported on at the last Assembly, was 68,705,370 pages of which 34,269,450 were Scriptures, hymn books, catechisms and tracts. |