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OFFICERS OF THE'COUNCIL.<br />
PRESIDENT: ••• • ••<br />
V ICE-PRESIDENT<br />
SECRETARY<br />
TREASURER<br />
Rev. H. V. S. Peeke, D.D.<br />
Rev. A. OItmans, D.D.<br />
Rev. H. Kuyper.<br />
Mr. J. C. BaUagh.<br />
PUBLICATIONS COMMITTEE.<br />
Prof. W. E. Hoffsommer.<br />
Rev. H. W. Myers, D.D.<br />
Rev. H. K. Miller.
SECRETARIES OF THE<br />
MISSIONS.<br />
REV .. J. G. DUNLOP, D.D. ... ••• .KANAZAWA.<br />
Japan Mission Presbyterian Church in U.S.A.<br />
REV. C. A. LoGAN ••• TOK..USHIMA.<br />
Japan Mission Presbyterian Church in U.S.<br />
REV. E. R. MILLER ... • •• TOKYO.<br />
North Japan Mission Reformed Church in America.<br />
REV. ALBERTUS PIETERS' ••• OlTA.<br />
South Japan Mission Reformed Church in America.<br />
REv. E. H. ZAUGG SENDAI.<br />
Japan Mission Reformed Church in U.S.<br />
MISS CLARA LOOMIS YOKOHAMA.<br />
Women's Missionary Union.<br />
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I. REPORT:<br />
CO N TEN T S.<br />
GIRLs' SCHOOlS<br />
Hokusei J 0 Gakko<br />
Seishu J 0 Gakko<br />
Miyagi Jo Gakko<br />
Joshi Gakuin<br />
Kyoritsu Jo Gakko<br />
F ems Seminary<br />
Kinjo Jo Gakko ...<br />
Hokuriku Jo Gakko ...<br />
Wi Imina Jo Gakko<br />
Sturges Seminary<br />
Kojo Jo Gakuin ...<br />
Industrial School, Kochi<br />
'KINDERGARTENS<br />
Shiba '"<br />
Otaru ...<br />
Shinagawa '"<br />
Myojo<br />
Miller<br />
Margaret Ayers ...<br />
Nishijin<br />
Port Arthur<br />
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CHILDREN'S SCHOOLS: PAGE.<br />
Tsukiji Keimo 20<br />
Shiba Keimo 21<br />
Boys' SCHOOLS 21<br />
Tohoku Gakuin... 21<br />
Meiji Gakuin 23<br />
Osaka Theological Training School... 25<br />
Kobe Theological School... ... 26<br />
Steele Academy... 27<br />
BIBLE TRAINING SCHOOLS 29<br />
Women"s Theo. School ofW. U. M. S. ... 29<br />
Bible Training School, Tokyo ... 30<br />
EVANGELISTIC WORK 32<br />
Manchuria, Port Arthur, Chosen 32<br />
Japan Proper 34<br />
<strong>II</strong>. PROCEEDINGS 79<br />
1. Opening and Meetings of Council 79<br />
<strong>II</strong>. Reports of Officers and Standing Committees 80<br />
111. Reports of Special Committees 96<br />
IV. Miscellaneous Business 97<br />
v. Committees u. 100<br />
<strong>II</strong>I. ROLL 102<br />
IV. STATISTICS ... 108<br />
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ealize that the better enforcement of the exercise rule has<br />
been very beneficial.<br />
The Y.W.C.A. has been a great factor in the Christian<br />
work of the city. The special meetings for women and<br />
girls have been wonderfuliy used and blessed. Nineteen<br />
girls, fourteen at their own charges, attended the summer<br />
conference.<br />
This year marks the twenty-fifth year of l\fr. Hayasaka,<br />
the Registrar of the school, who stands first among Japanese<br />
in the number of years given to Christian educational work<br />
in the German Reformed Mission.<br />
The pressing need of the school is the immediate erection<br />
of a science building at an estimated cost of $12,500.<br />
Joshi Gakuin, Tokyo. Reported by Miss Milliken.<br />
Japanese teachers... 20<br />
Missionaries ... 5<br />
Pupils Academic ... 166<br />
Collegiate 44<br />
Baptized Christians 79<br />
Baptisms during the year <strong>II</strong><br />
During the year Miss Halsey returned from America,<br />
and with her Miss Tanioka, after haviqg finished a four<br />
years' course at Wilson College. Miss Tanioka teaches<br />
in the science and translation departments.<br />
The number of students this year shows a slight decrease<br />
of about twenty··6ve in the Academic department, owing<br />
perhaps partly to the rise in prices and partly to the<br />
popularity of a large and finely equipped Roman Catholic<br />
School opened in the near neighborhood.<br />
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{OJ the business girls of Yokohama, in a little club which<br />
brings together the younger graduates of the school three<br />
times a year, and in devising ways to make the annual<br />
school picnic a real help and uplift to both teachers and<br />
girls.<br />
One thing which has brought teachers and students<br />
very c1pse together as one family in Christ is the communion<br />
service to which the graduates are invited, held in<br />
the chapel the last Sunday before the close of the Summer<br />
term. The real desire is to be one in loyal and effective<br />
service for the Master.<br />
Hearty sympathy is felt with the plan to establish a Christian<br />
College in Tokyo. Though it will be hard to lose<br />
the older girls it is (elt that in the College they will find<br />
far more to broaden and enrich their lives than it is<br />
possible to give them in the smaller school and time and<br />
money can be well used to strengthen the work of the<br />
lower grades and so raise the standard of the school.<br />
While each school will wish to retain it'> own individuality<br />
and specialize along certain lines, they believe<br />
in having greater uniformity in courses of· study and in<br />
uniting schools where it can really be done to advantage.<br />
They feel that the best work can only be done with a class<br />
of (rom ten to twenty students where each one can receive<br />
individual attention from the teacher.<br />
Co-operation can be secured by encouraging attendance<br />
at the Educational Association meetings, by uniting {or<br />
lecture courses, by social meetings for the teachers of the<br />
different schools and by arranging for each teacher to visit<br />
other schools.
There is no improvement in buildings, equipment and<br />
teaching force to report, except as told above. The buildings<br />
have been thoroughly repaired and painted during the<br />
year. It is hoped by another year to have a gymnasium<br />
added to the plant.<br />
The Mission has placed four of the graduates in evangelistic<br />
work. The local branch of the Young Women's<br />
Christian Association is doing much in direct personal<br />
work among the pupils, and also supplying teachers for<br />
outside Sunday Schools, of which there are at present six<br />
in different parts of the city.<br />
The attitude of the school towards the proposed Christian<br />
College for women is sympathetic, but not over<br />
sanguine in anticipation of its speedy realization. Now<br />
that the project has been espoused (?) by the Woman's<br />
Christian Educational Association of Japan, it is, unquestionably<br />
in good hands. It has not at present, however,<br />
sufficiently materialized to affect this school in any way.<br />
As to uniform courses of study and union of schools,<br />
there is nothing doing in this quarter, so far as known.<br />
This is a' matter that naturally awaits the compilation of the<br />
proposed College's curricula. Until then the schools will<br />
probably go on as they are.<br />
Co-operation is being had with other schools to the<br />
extent of sharing some Japanese members of the staff.<br />
The chief difficulty to be met is the competition on the<br />
part of certain subsidized private schools, though a fair<br />
complement of pupils is obtained. The entering class<br />
numbered fifty-five.<br />
An encouraging item is the granting of It recognition"<br />
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y the Mombusho without any seeking on the part of the<br />
school. That is, they were told by the local Commissioner<br />
of Education that upon application by the school the<br />
graduates during the years 1900-1915 inclusive, would be<br />
'permitted to go up for examination for English ·teachers'<br />
license. Of course the application was made in order to<br />
remove the ban from the graduates in case any of them<br />
wished to go up for examination. The application was<br />
granted but as yet none have been heard of as going up<br />
to take the examinations. No conditions whatever were<br />
attached to this privilege.<br />
Kinjo Jo Gakko, Nagqya. Reported by<br />
Miss Thompson.<br />
With the exception of the chapel and three class rooms<br />
above it, a whole new plant is being erected. The etiquette<br />
and dormitory buildings are nearly completed and will be<br />
followed by the main school building and a home for the<br />
foreign teachers. The whole plant is expected to be<br />
finished. by (:hristmas. The equipment will be greatly<br />
enlarged when the buildings are completed. The teaching<br />
force is being strengthened. Last winter the services<br />
of a Higher Normal School graduate were secured and<br />
that teach,er is proving herself a treasure. The new head<br />
teacher is at present completing his course for an M.A.<br />
degree at the Kyoto Imperial <strong>University</strong>. He is an<br />
earnest Christian and great help is expected from him on<br />
his return in September. A sewing teacher with . government<br />
license has just been secured and thus the faculty<br />
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would seem complete in every respect. Government<br />
recognition is expected to be asked for this fall ..<br />
The teachers and girls work in three Sunday Schools<br />
and have charge of the music in two of these. Hearty<br />
favor is felt toward the Christian <strong>University</strong> or College,<br />
for only then can other schools get the right kind of<br />
Christian teachers and then the high school Christian girls<br />
will be able to finish their education under Christian influences.<br />
The present difficulty is to get the right kind of Christian<br />
teachers. It is almost impossible to find Christian teachers<br />
with government license and they are necessary in order<br />
to receive and keep government recognition.<br />
The entering class was the largest for years in spite of<br />
the fact that the dormitory and part of the class rooms<br />
were being torn down, and so many were not expected.<br />
This shows that opposition to private and Christian schools<br />
is being broken clown in this district.<br />
Hokuriku Jo Gakko, Kanazawa. Reported by<br />
Miss Johnstone.<br />
No improvements have been made in school buildings<br />
this year.<br />
A Christian College is heartily longed for in order to<br />
provide the Christian teachers needed. The course here<br />
has been made to correspond in general to government<br />
schools so there would be no difficulty in lining up with<br />
the 'uniform courses of study which the College would<br />
necessitate. Where a union of schools is possible hearty<br />
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agreement is felt. . Co-operation in schools is heartily'<br />
longed for. An interchange of helpfulness in case of<br />
difficulty would much strengthen the work. Could a<br />
record of Christian teachers be kept so that it could be<br />
known at once upon need, if such a teacher could be<br />
available? The gr-eat difficulty felt is the' lackef available<br />
Christian teachers. Teachers holding diplomas are always<br />
registered but that does not help out in looking for the<br />
special qqalification desired, namely Christianity.<br />
, Government recognition was granted this year and has<br />
meant no lessening of Christian work or Bible teaching in<br />
the school. It has given a better standing with the public<br />
and an increase of pupils.<br />
Wilmina Jo,Gakko, Osaka. Reported by<br />
Miss Morgan.<br />
Total enrollment for the year 194<br />
Baptisms during the year ..• 3 I<br />
Graduates, Academy... 13<br />
Sewing ... 8<br />
Baptized Christians in school 39<br />
Christians professed or expecting 55<br />
All the Academy .graduates this year were Christians<br />
and all in the church but one. Also the sewing graduates<br />
professed belief in Christianity but said their families dis.;.<br />
approved.<br />
A skeptical attitude is' felt toward the establishing of<br />
a Christian College for Women as it does not seem that
Sturges Seminary, Nagasaki. Reported by<br />
'Miss. Couch.<br />
At the close of 1912 it -was decided to unite with the<br />
Presbyterians in a union school at Sbimonoseki. Since it<br />
is expected that the work here will close -in the -spring of<br />
1914. work is being done under somewhat unusual conditions.<br />
The teaching force is the same as at the close of last<br />
year. ,Of the Japanese teachers all' but two are members<br />
of the church, and the remaining two _are 'regular attendants.<br />
The enrollment of pupils is, of course, smaller<br />
than last year but a larger- number stayed in the school<br />
than was expected. This term will probably close \vith 52<br />
in', attendance. During the term four girls have' united<br />
with the church. One ever-present difficulty is the, apposition<br />
to Christianity in the homes of many day pupils.<br />
One encouragement in a real spirit of trying to overcome'<br />
faults by some of the pupils, and another, the attachment<br />
sbown: by-many of the, graduates displayed by writing or<br />
coming to their former teachers for advice.<br />
Kojo Jo Gakuin, Yamaguchi. Reported by<br />
Miss Bigelow.<br />
_ The union of this school and the Sturges Seminary has<br />
been approved by, the, boards, concerned. additionaUand<br />
has been bought and grading has been begun. Plans have,<br />
been made for five buidings; a recitation hall, a domestic<br />
science hall, a gymnasium, a dormitory, and the ladies'<br />
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-One present difficulty is lack of space for the 53 pupils<br />
enrolled and many others trying to enter.<br />
KINDERGARTENS.<br />
Shiba Kindergarten. Reported by Mrs. J. K. McCauley.<br />
Enrolled<br />
Boys ...<br />
Girls ...<br />
Homes represented<br />
Chrl$tian homes •••<br />
Graduated in March<br />
1.55<br />
79<br />
76<br />
J5°<br />
7<br />
57'<br />
Average.attendance 130<br />
A new kindergarten building was completed in September<br />
1912 and is very satisfactory in every way.<br />
The Tsukiji Kindergarden was begun in March with 16<br />
enrolled.<br />
Otaru Kindergarten. Reported by Miss Rose.<br />
An annual overflow is reported and the skillful kindergartner<br />
with the Tokyo diploma does not believe in even<br />
trying to keep the children quiet except in lesson hours<br />
but she keeps them interested.<br />
Shinagawa Kindergarten. Reported by Miss West.<br />
Graduated in March ... 16<br />
The two present teachers are both excellent teachers and<br />
are both' Christians of an earnest evangelistic type. The head<br />
teacher has made the infant department of the Sunday<br />
SChool so attractive that practically the whole kindergarten<br />
attends, but better· than this, she and her assistant have<br />
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filled every day with the spirit of Christian love so that in<br />
the most natural way the children are learning of the<br />
Heavenly Father in song and talk and prayer. The present<br />
attendance isoforty;..five.<br />
Fukui Biko Kindergarten. Reported by Mr. Detweiler.<br />
Enrolled at beginning of fall term 43, with two teachers.<br />
Spring term, 6 I, with three teachers.<br />
During the winter one mothers' meeting was held as<br />
a.. sort of social affair for all to become acquainted. During<br />
the spring some repairing was done and the building<br />
throughly renovated. Mothers' meetings are now held<br />
twice a month where first a religious service is held and<br />
then Mrs. Detweiler teaches the ladies sewing.<br />
Mrs. S. P. Fulton has two kindergartens, in or near 0<br />
Kobe.<br />
Miss Leavitt reports a church kindergarten with the<br />
pastor as superintendent. The town office makes a little<br />
yearly contribution to it. One teacher employed by the<br />
.mission for Sunday School work gives most of her time to<br />
the kindergarhm. EnroHment I 30 pupils. The rooms<br />
built for the kindergarten solve the problem for separate<br />
rooms for Sunday School classes.<br />
Myojo Kindergarten, Yanlaguchi. Reported by<br />
Miss Bigelow.<br />
So many applied for admission in April that a second<br />
assistant was engaged. All the kindergartners are grad uates<br />
of the Kojo Jo Gakuin. The children attend Sunday<br />
School very regularly and .the graduates attend spasmodically.
as possibly replacing non-Christian with Christian teachers<br />
and from the beginning of the September term all the<br />
teachers in the institution will be professing Christians. In<br />
making this change in the staff it has been necessary to<br />
_make.parting gifts to most of those who were displaced.<br />
,In a number of cases also. in order to secure the men<br />
,desired, it ·has been necessary to pay higher salaries than<br />
had previously been paid; and this in turn has made it<br />
necessary to increase the salaries of most of the Christian<br />
teachers retained. Their salaries were not what they were<br />
entitled to ; and, under the circumstances it was impossible<br />
to discriminate against them. It will therefore be necessary<br />
to have the regular grants from the Boards correspondingly<br />
increased. It is the common judgment that the present<br />
staff is the best the institution has ever had; and some of<br />
the new teachers are proving themselves to be real additions<br />
to the institution from the distinctively Christian point<br />
of view.<br />
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as have also the pastors, have work in nearby villages.<br />
Ten persons' have' been led to public confession of their<br />
faith. There has been no discord among believers and all<br />
have felt that a new era is opening for the work in Gita<br />
Prefecture, and have labored with quickened zeal. The<br />
greatest need excepting a spiritual revival, is suitable property.<br />
Better buildings have been rented but renting is<br />
expensive and the tenure insecure.<br />
The striking feature of Mr. Pieters' work has been<br />
evangelizing by means of newspaper ad vertising. He has<br />
bought advertising space and daily printed brief articles on<br />
religious questions, passages of Scripture, and an offer to<br />
send Christian literature to those who send addresses. All<br />
inquiries were followed up and where possible calls were<br />
made upon the inquirers by the evangelists nearest. More<br />
than nine hundred applications were received and literature<br />
sent· in reply. Some of the results have been that (I)<br />
The message has been carried to the most remote and<br />
widely scattered places. (2) The message has been made<br />
accessible to multitudes who had no access to it before,<br />
(the newspapers have gone into banks, public offices, barber<br />
shops and other places where men congregate). (3)<br />
Public interest has been excited. (4) The Gospel in the<br />
Newspaper has gone where it could have gone in no other<br />
way. (5) Many have through these articles been brought<br />
into personal contact with the missionary and the local<br />
evangelists. (6) The newspapers have been led to adopt<br />
a friendly attitude. (7) The newspaper work has led to<br />
new openings for the regular workers. (8) The workers<br />
of other missions have also been benefited by this special<br />
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crowds to the public meetings. and often as many as. a<br />
thousand have attended these meetings. The auto has<br />
been a means of tract distributing. Large quantities are<br />
taken on each trip and handed out at public meetings and<br />
to the one by one met upon the road.<br />
Mrs. Worley has held regular women's meetings of<br />
various kinds during the year, and with the Bible woman<br />
she has given special instruction to a number of women<br />
in their homes and this has resulted in the baptism of<br />
several women.<br />
Mrs. Worley, Sr., has held women's meetings, childrens'<br />
meetings and does some work with student classes.<br />
Miss Sherman reports a student Bible class and a women's<br />
Bible class planned somewhat after Dr. White's method.<br />
Mr. McIlwaine of Kochi reports that the work at Asahimura<br />
in the west and of Kochi City was initiated and<br />
still continues on the self-support plan except for chapel<br />
rent which is paid by the mission. The Christians conduct<br />
the Sabbath School entirely. The attendance has been<br />
from forty to eighty and they also conduct the prayermeetings.<br />
There are less than 25 members and some of<br />
these are members of the Kochi Industrial School and are<br />
no help financially. This group of Christians in addition<br />
to paying their current expenses now pay three yen a<br />
month toward a Japanese unlicensed preacher. They<br />
also conduct a Sunday School in the missionary's house with<br />
an attendance of about a hundred. These Christians make<br />
Sabbath observance a part of their Christian life. Aki<br />
church (Dendo-kyokwai) which has been self-sup-<br />
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suppo'iting, and was organized as a Church in March, and<br />
Rev. Mitsuru Tomida was· installed as pastor. Contributions<br />
in other fields have increased, and one young man in<br />
a lonely country town offered one-third of his earnings in<br />
the insurance business to the Lord.<br />
Evangelists have been earnest in their work, and three new<br />
chapels nave heen opened. Two young men have offered<br />
themselves for the ministry; one of them, a teacher of English<br />
in a middle school, declining a flattering offer in order<br />
to give his service entirely to the work of the Gospel.<br />
In addition to the usual methods of country work, more<br />
Bible Colporteurs have been used during the past year.<br />
They visited over 60,000 homes and sold 6600 portions of<br />
Scripture, talked with a great number of people, and have<br />
kept in touch with inquirers, resulting in the opening of<br />
new counties to the preaching of the Gospel.<br />
The number of students in the Sunday School for some<br />
unknown reason has decreased., It is a subject that needs<br />
to be studied, but it seems that the better a Sunday School<br />
is organized the more exclusive it becomes and the fewer<br />
the number of students.<br />
It is felt that the Conference with Dr. Mott made "a good<br />
survey of the field, and that the great need is an increase<br />
bothef foreign and Japanese workers in order to well<br />
occupy the field.<br />
The great difficulty is to produce a high type of<br />
thoroughly converted, Sabbath-observing, fruthful churchmembers..<br />
But the great encouragement is that there are<br />
some Spirit-filled, prayerful evangelists and other Christians,<br />
and it is believed that to them shall be given the victory.<br />
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school including eight teachers and the pn"neipal is also<br />
studying the .Bible and one of these has become a Christian<br />
since the opening of the class in the fall. Nineteen more<br />
school teachers are studying Christianity.<br />
Miss Curd with the help of one of last year.' 5 graduates<br />
of Joshi Gakuin has been holding children's meetings in<br />
six different places each week, teaching on an average of<br />
five hundred children weekly. Many of these· children<br />
have stayed to the after meetings and have prayed. At a<br />
town near by four small boys wishing to buy Testaments<br />
at a time when the missionary had none with her insisted<br />
on giving the money for the books in advance fearing that<br />
it might be spent before the next visit of the teacher.. When<br />
the principal of a primary school in one town visited a<br />
meeting that was being held with ISO children in attendance<br />
he talked to the boys on the outskirts of the crowd and<br />
told them to remove their hats, he" himself standing outside<br />
holding his hat in his hand during the whole meeting.<br />
There is also a weekly meeting in a silk factory; and a<br />
weekly woman's meeting at a silk factory and a cotton<br />
factory.<br />
40000 tracts have been given out including the children"s<br />
tracts.<br />
In the Yamaguchi field the number of baptisms for the<br />
year has been 54.<br />
The church at Wakamatsu has just completed a church<br />
and parsonage including land at a cost ··of about 3300 Yelz.<br />
It has not been dedicated yet as they are waiting to clear<br />
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Evangelist Fukuda has carried on Bible Classes, Sunday<br />
Schools, and other meeting regularly.<br />
Mrs. Hail's Bible woman, graduate of the Wilmina<br />
School, has rendered valuable services in Sunday Schools<br />
and Bible classes. There is a Y. M. C. A. in the hospital<br />
with a membership of 33,/our of whom are women. Mrs.<br />
Hail and her helper have had their hands full with looking<br />
after various Sunday Schools and house to house visiting of<br />
the women in the various city and country points. The<br />
houses visited this year seem to have welcomed the visitors<br />
with more than the usual cordiality and there has been a<br />
growing interest and more effective organization for active<br />
service. Mrs. Hail is convinced that one of the big elements<br />
in the country work is that suitable Bible women be<br />
found for the development of the work. Women's work<br />
needs a thorough-going inductive study of the whole<br />
situation.<br />
Dr. G. W. Fulton tells us that fuller occupation of the<br />
field is slow because of scarcity of workers and lack of<br />
funds. The Christians are doing well in the matter of<br />
giving and value the privilege of being selfsupporting. One<br />
body of believers reached the stage of Dendo-kyokwai<br />
last year and another this year. This meant increased<br />
giving and a nearer approach to self-support. The workers<br />
are active and energetic, seeming to realize their responsibility<br />
and are growing in the art of soul-winning. 1f any<br />
criticism is to be offered, it is to the effect that the independent<br />
churches, and the Christians connected with the DendOkyokwai<br />
as well, are not as alert as they might be to the<br />
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evangelistic opportunity around them. They seem to feel<br />
themselves incompetent to do Sttnday School teaching.<br />
and the importance of wide seed-sowing does not appeal to<br />
them as being a part of their responsibility.<br />
There are more applicants to the Theological Training<br />
School than in previous years at this time, whatever bearing<br />
that may have upon the question of candidates for the<br />
ministry ..<br />
The endeavour is to push rural evangelization around<br />
Osaka. One man is wholly engaged in that work and a<br />
couple of students are devoting a part of their time to it<br />
this summer, in the territory east of the city. The methods<br />
which have proved most successful are visiting to begin with,<br />
without a fixed chapel or services, and the use of literature<br />
among that class of the population capable of being influenced<br />
thereby. Occasional meetings should be thrown<br />
in, gathering together those who show an awakening<br />
interest, for further instruction and ,better mutual acquaintance.<br />
Local cottage meetings for Bible study are of first<br />
importance, and should be aimed at in each separate<br />
hamlet.<br />
In grading the Sunday School the' teachers usually<br />
follow the order of the public schools, but as teachers are<br />
scarce, the different grades have to be lumped together<br />
more or less. A normal class for the students in the training<br />
school was conducted for a part of the year. The International<br />
lessons were studied and a part of each hour was<br />
given to the study of Sunday School problems and methods.<br />
The Heinz party made a strong impression in<br />
Osaka, as did the National Sunday.school Conventicn in<br />
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April. The churches seem to be awakening a little to the<br />
importance of Sunday School work.<br />
Rev. Van Horn reports forces at least average in efficiency<br />
but greatly lacking in sufficiency. In Osaka a first<br />
class pastor who can build up a strong central church<br />
and hold prestige among other denominations, of strong<br />
faith and evangelistic desire is much needed.<br />
As to self-support; some seem earnestly to desire it and<br />
give enough to help self-support quite a little if properly<br />
applied, but often a church of thirty or forty· members will<br />
contribute more to one Christmas tree than to a whole year's<br />
salary for the pastor, or more is given to a pastor called in<br />
for an occasion than for the salary of the regula.r pastor for<br />
several months.<br />
The rural work is being pushed as fast as forces and<br />
supplies allow and there are many real encouragements on<br />
every hand.<br />
Dr. Murray has the oversight of seventeen men scattered<br />
all down the east coast of the Kii peninsula, several of them<br />
so far beyond the reach of railroads that it takes a week or<br />
more to visit them. There are no self-supporting churches.<br />
'In the two largest churches, Tsu and Yamada, there are<br />
ordained men, but the churches are still weak. A discouraging<br />
feature is that, while there are accessions in all the<br />
kOgisho, they hardly equal the losses from removals and<br />
other causes, and in a large part of the field the work is<br />
not any stronger, if as strong, as it was ten or twenty years<br />
ago. Seven new workers, two or three during the present<br />
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class for older girls and one also for older boys, and Mrs.<br />
Detweiler has taught an English Bible class to girls of High<br />
School age. This class has been well attended and the members<br />
usually stay for morning service. In other points lack<br />
of teachers has lessened the success. Mr. Detweiler has<br />
had two English Bible classes at Takefu and also at Fukui.<br />
At the kindergarten mothers' meetings twice a month Mrs.<br />
Detweiler has taught sewing after the religious services.<br />
Rev. Wm. C. Buchanan reports from Nagoya that the<br />
field Owari no Kuni and all of Gifu Ken is not nearly<br />
supplied with mission forces and hence there has been no<br />
possibility of readjustment of forces. Some little advance<br />
has been made at one or two points in self-support. The<br />
Japanese forces are greatly lacking in number, but average<br />
up quite well in efficiency. There in one candidate for the<br />
ministry and he is pursuing his studies in Kobe Theological<br />
School, and another yol1ng man who has been doing<br />
efficient work as an evangelist for several years is to re-enter<br />
the seminary this fall.<br />
The Sunday Schools are for the most part in a more<br />
hopeful condition than for some years past, but there are<br />
still no training classes for Sunday School teachers, nor are<br />
the schools graded. The visit of the Heinz party was the<br />
occasion for a very successful general meeting of all the<br />
denominations, on which occasion several members of the<br />
party delivered' helpful addresses on the several phases of<br />
this branch of the work.<br />
The present difficulties may be summoned up in two<br />
sentences: I) A population of over 2,000,000 as yet un-
touched by anybody and with a}most no force to tackle the<br />
job. for everyone has more than he can do in attempting to<br />
reach the other 1,000,000 in this general district. 2)<br />
Organized and aggressive opposition of the Buddhists. In<br />
countless numbers of preaching places aU through the city<br />
they have preaching services and hold Sunday Schools.<br />
Among the encouragements there are mentioned: I) A<br />
higher quality and a more evangelistic tone to the preaching<br />
than in former years. 2) A breaking down of prejudice<br />
and, consequently, a greater readiness to give the<br />
Gospel a fair hearing. 3) A number of instances on the<br />
part of candidates for baptism being greatly impressed with<br />
the enormity of their sins and with the greatness of God's<br />
love in forgiving them and saving them from their undone<br />
condition.<br />
Mr. Buchanan has had to dispense with the services of<br />
architects and undertake the job of rebuilding the Nagoya<br />
school plant for the Kinjo J 0 Gakko and the home for the<br />
two ladies there.<br />
Rev. C. K. Cumming also speaks of the inadequacy both<br />
in foreign and in Japanese force. Owing to lack of<br />
Japanese helpers it has not been possible to do what was<br />
desired in the way of rural evangelization. The outlook<br />
for the future is better, as there has been secured an active<br />
and earnest young man who will begin special country<br />
work in July in the city and neighborhood of Namagori.<br />
Mr. Cumming has taught in the Chu Gakko three hours<br />
a week and has met a class of. the Chu Gakko teachers<br />
weekly for English and Bible study and since the early
part of the year has had a night school four nights per<br />
week. The young men in the night school listen well to<br />
the Bible lesson which is given every night.<br />
Special meetings were held in May with Mr. Logan of<br />
Tokushima helping. The attendance was not very large,<br />
but those who came listened well and thoughtfully, and<br />
from time to time additions have been made on profession<br />
of faith.<br />
Rev. H. K. Miller reports from Tokyo in regard to the<br />
several churches under his observation there:<br />
Kanda: The attendance at church services has been<br />
less than half the resident membership, but was pretty<br />
even. In a financial way the members have done well.<br />
Koishikawa: This church is favorably located in a residence<br />
quarter of the city and will probably grow more<br />
rapidly than Kanda. Since the arrival of the new pastor<br />
in August of last year the attendance has increased and the<br />
congregation seems to have something of a new start.<br />
In Saitama Ken at Urawa, Omiya and Hasuda the charge<br />
was picking up considerably, but the pastor's leaving was a<br />
great loss. Under the new pastor the work seems to be<br />
doing pretty well, with considerable improvement at Hasuda.<br />
At I watsuki with the coming of a new pastor has come<br />
a marked change for the better. At Koshigaya matters<br />
seems as usual, the attendance at the church service being<br />
fair and the Sunday School small but made up of regular<br />
attendants. Both places might do better in the matter of<br />
contributions.<br />
Oshi and Konosu are two badly run-down places which
supporting churches in Tokyo, 9 partially self-supporting<br />
and several smaller preaching places.<br />
Co· operation Committees. Reported by<br />
Dr. Imbrie.<br />
The evangelistic work of the Co-operation Committees has<br />
been carried on regularly and harmoniously. The evangelists<br />
in direct charge have performed their duties faithfully;<br />
and special evangelistic services have -been held in a<br />
number of places. The following particulars however seem<br />
to be the only ones that require special notice.<br />
_ The Dendo Kyoku requested the committee tG release<br />
Mr. Iyo, who has been stationed in Formosa, in order to<br />
open work in the Luchuan Islands. Mr. Iyo is a native of<br />
Luchu, where he has influential family connections.. He is<br />
by far the best evangelist available for the purpose in<br />
mind; and the committee felt that it could not but accede<br />
to the request of the Dendo Kyoku.<br />
Messrs. Ishiwara, Hoshino, and Tagawa spent three days<br />
at Kisarazu; and this was followed by a subsequent visit<br />
by ¥r. Ishiwara and l\1r. Hoshino for special work among<br />
the members of the congregation. Well attended meetings<br />
both public and congregational were held; the congregation<br />
was. strengthened and a number were baptized. The<br />
visitors were entertained and the greater part of the expenses<br />
met by the congregation.<br />
There are in Oyama twq Christian families. The head<br />
of one is the railroad station master and a Methodist; the<br />
other is widow, once a pupil at Joshi Gakuin. At their<br />
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equest, Mr. Kobayashi, the evangelist at Tochigi. now<br />
visits Oyama regularly, the Christians renting a room for<br />
the meetings.<br />
Two of the oldest congregations in Tokyo are Meisei<br />
and Asakusa. Meisei has been under the care of the<br />
Co-operation Committee; but Asakusa has hitherto maintained<br />
itself as an independent church. It is however very<br />
weak and recently applied to the Committee for aid. The<br />
Committee replied that it was willing to enter into an<br />
arrangement under whicb Meisei and Asakusa should unite<br />
to the extent of having a single pastor; but that it could<br />
not aid the two congregations separately. This condition<br />
was acceded to by Meisei. but" declined by Asakusa, which<br />
withdrew its request for aid. Meisei also increased its<br />
contribution five Yen a month; and Mr. Nakagawa, who<br />
has been stationed at Mukden for several years, has been<br />
invited to take charge of Meisei. With the assistance of<br />
two students from Meiji Gakuin Theological Department,<br />
Meisei has during the past two years steadily improved.<br />
The congregation at Togane has raised 500 Yen towards<br />
the purchase of a lot and expects to raise 1.000 more ... The<br />
congregation at Kujukuri has a good lot and chapel"and<br />
has recently raised 300 Yen towards the erection of a<br />
manse.<br />
The statistics of the Co-operation Committees will be<br />
collected and reported at the end of the year.<br />
Dr. Thompson of Tokyo n;ports work in two mission<br />
stations, Kamejima and Uyeno and in the public park at<br />
Uyeno on fair Sundays. Both these stations are wayside<br />
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stations favourably situated on well frequented streets.<br />
Mr. Fujiwara with his family lives in Kamejima station and<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Ishikawa live in Uyeno station. Mr. Shinowara<br />
lives with his son and these three men by helping each<br />
other and exchanging manage to maintain some kind of<br />
service at the two missions, preaching, Bible reading, prayermeetings,<br />
or magic lantern scenes from the life of Christ,<br />
every night in the week except Sunday. The attendance<br />
is various according to weather and the character of the<br />
meeting. Quite a Jarge number of men, women and children<br />
thus hear the Gospel story in the course of the year.<br />
In the open park on Sunday afternoon when the weather is<br />
favorable a larger company may be gathered, usually<br />
from one to two hundred each day. After preaching by<br />
the several evangelists, tracts are distributed and the people<br />
are invited to corne to the missions or attend neighbouring<br />
churches for further instruction.<br />
On June fourteenth many friends both Japanese and<br />
foreign assembled in Meiji Gakuin chapel to celebrate the<br />
'fiftieth anniversary of Dr, Thompson's arrival in Japan.<br />
Congratulatory addresses were made by Dr. Greene,<br />
Messrs. Hoshino, Kumano and Oshikawa. Dr. Greene<br />
presented greetings from the missionaries in Japan. Mr.<br />
Hoshino spoke for the ministers, and Mr. Kumano for the<br />
elders of the Nihon Kirisuto Kyokwai; Mr. Oshikawa as<br />
an old friend of the old days. Many congratulatory messages<br />
were received full of appreciation of Dr. Thompson<br />
and the service he has so long and so willingly rendered.<br />
The principal address was made' by Dr. Ballagh, for fifty<br />
years Dr. Thompson's close friend, fellow-laborer and<br />
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and twice a month there is a.,general meeting there. A<br />
most successful Christmas meeting attended by several<br />
hundred persons was also held there.<br />
Dr. Ballagh reports for the Izu field that the regular<br />
services have been quite prosperous during the year. Two<br />
Bible women are engaged in the Gotemba station, one<br />
having been added during the year. Three Sunday Schools<br />
.. here have an attendance of -. 150. Of considerable interest<br />
is the summer work for tourists who are on their way to<br />
visit Mount Fuji. Two theological students from Meiji<br />
Gakuin and two additional Bible women assisted during<br />
the summer. Thirty-one preaching services were held and<br />
at times as many as fifty persons were present. Sunday<br />
School was held and six thousand tracts were distributed.<br />
Since the tourists came frpm various parts of Japan, this<br />
summer work has furnished a good opportunity for wide<br />
dissemination of the Good News.<br />
At Mishima a new church was dedicated in January,<br />
five persons were baptized during' the year and three others<br />
are now desiring baptism.<br />
In the Shinshiu 'field Mx:s. Wyckoff has begun work<br />
assisted by two Bible women. Three new Sunday Schools<br />
pave been opened, besides the three already existing in<br />
Matsumoto. The average attendance has been 160. One<br />
of these schools at the village of Asama has been attended<br />
by 479 children, an average of 60 per Sunday, and none<br />
of them had ever heard the Gospel before. Weekly meetings<br />
have been held for parents of these children. Women's
quarterly magazine, as well as doing many other kinds of<br />
work. Under the· auspices of the association Dr. Faust<br />
wrote a series of articles for the H Kahoku Shimpo " (a Sendai<br />
daily paper), a tract on the same subject, and delivered<br />
numerous lectures in various cities. Everywhere he spoke<br />
large audiences greeted him.<br />
Dr. J. P. Moore also of Sendai writes that the active<br />
District Committee on the Distribution of Forces in connection<br />
with the Japanese Committee of Federated Churches<br />
has thoroughly gone over the subject of adjustment. of<br />
forces and the needs of the field as it concerns foreign and<br />
Japanese workers and there is only one opinion, viz :--=-that<br />
the present force is insufficient; that a number of additional<br />
missionaries are needed at certain strategic points; and that<br />
the Japanese workers need to be increased very materially.<br />
As to the efficiency of the present force (Japanese),<br />
there was also only one opinion, viz.-that while there are<br />
some most excellent 'men, the majority fall below a proper<br />
(high) standard of efficiency. This is true not only of the<br />
Reformed mission, but also of other missions working in<br />
that district. There has been a dearth of theological<br />
students in the mission. Last year only one was sent out,<br />
but he seemed equal to several men in personality and<br />
force of character J the son of an evangelist. Next year a<br />
class of six will be sent out, the largest for some time.<br />
In the rural evangelization the District Committee has<br />
marked out on a colored map the unoccupied territories<br />
and has assigned them to the missions whose work is<br />
Dearest to, or who have already made a beginning in, the<br />
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unoccupied territory. And it is the recommendation that<br />
the missionary· in· charge with Japanese workers visit the<br />
villages and hamlets at least twice a year preaching, distributing<br />
religious literature and so forth. A great difficulty<br />
is felt in the want of efficient leadership, among the<br />
Japanese. As an encouragement the increased attendance<br />
at Sunday Schools, increased contributions in most of the<br />
churches, and more interest in the subject of religion and<br />
greater willingness to hear among the people at large.<br />
In Fukushima Ken, with Dr. C. Noss as missionary-incharge,<br />
the extent of the mission's evangelistic operations<br />
has 'been considerably enlarged. The young men's associations<br />
so numerous in rural communities appear to be<br />
quite accessible to the right kind of Christian worker.<br />
Rev. H. H. Cook, of the Yamagata-Akita Field, reports<br />
that, while but little progress has been made in his district<br />
during the past year, the general attitude of the people towards<br />
Christianity, especially in Yamagata Ken, has greatly<br />
improved. "In their monthly contributions almost all<br />
places have made some progress. Several congregations,<br />
feeling the need of -chapels, have started subscriptions for<br />
this purpose."<br />
Regarding the (German) Reformed mission's evangelistic<br />
work as a whole, the follo\\cing points may be noted: I.<br />
More missionaries are needed; 2. A comparative study<br />
of statistics for the past fifteen years indicates that the<br />
weakness of the poorest oUl-stations is generally traceable<br />
to the error made in the early days of baptizing people<br />
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make contributions yearly. With this, they hope to be<br />
self-supporting within two or three years. There is no<br />
sign of a town within twenty miles of the church and it is a<br />
genuine country church composed of farmers.<br />
In Sapporo a street chapel has been erected to be used<br />
in work for soldiers. This furnishes a place for the soldiers<br />
to spend their long Sundays during the winter and the books<br />
and magazines are drawing them so that they may be<br />
preached to and associated with. A fine young man from the<br />
Meiji Gakuin has been secured to take charge of the work<br />
in connection with the missionary, and Sunday School,<br />
midweek prayer-meeting and Sunday night pr.eaching<br />
are making an impression on the district.<br />
At last there seems to be an opening among the workers<br />
in the steel plant at Muroran. A meeting was held when<br />
about thirty attended, twenty-five of whom are young<br />
Christians. These men have arranged to open a preaching<br />
place and are to have magazines and pediodicals and newspapers<br />
and hope to make the place a center of an uplifting<br />
movement. It has been hard work to find a road of approach<br />
to these busy but lonely men.<br />
The year has certainly been one of intensified thought<br />
and desire for deeper spirituality in the work and for the<br />
workers. The growth in Sunday School attendance and<br />
desire for better methods must impress one in every field.<br />
The feeling of the importance of the work for children<br />
seems strong in every section. The need for more workers<br />
and the better training and preparation of those workers<br />
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comes in a cry from almost .every direction. The vast<br />
field yet to be occupied and the better training of individual<br />
Christians as well as workers show something of the vastness<br />
of what must yet be done. Union and conservation,<br />
friendly working together, shoulder to shoulder and with<br />
an eye on the common goal, calm, energetic and undiscouraged<br />
effort to make the most of the present opportunities<br />
seems to be the tendency of the year. The harvest<br />
time is nearer than ever before and the great need impresses<br />
us with the greater necessity for our invididual effort. May<br />
the advice of the great missionary Paul sink deeply into<br />
each heart: It Study to show thyself approved unto God,<br />
a workman that needed not to be ashamed, rightly dividing<br />
the word of truth."
Mrs. M. B. Norris of the Women's Board of Foreign<br />
Missions of the Reformed Church in America, New<br />
York City, Miss Sarah Bussing, New York City, Miss<br />
Mary E. Schneder, Sendai, Miss A. Margaret Schneder,<br />
Sendai.<br />
Business meetings were held on the evening of July 31st<br />
on the mornings and afternoon of Aug. 1st, Aug. 2nd and<br />
Aug. 4th, a half hour devotional service was held each<br />
morning, the leaders being as follows: Rev. T. M. McNair,<br />
Rev. H. K. Miller and Rev. A. P. Hassell. Each meeting<br />
was begun and closed with prayer.<br />
On Sunday at 4: 00 P.M. the sacrament of the Lord's<br />
Supper was administered at the Auditorium, many from<br />
other churches being present. The president and Rev. J. B.<br />
Hail, D.D., and conducted the service, the elements being<br />
distributed by Mr. J. C. Ballagh and Prof. P. L. Gerhard.<br />
A reception was held in the grove in the rear of the<br />
Auditorium on Saturday from 3 : 30 to 6 : 00 P.M.<br />
11.-Reports of Officers and Standing Committes.<br />
I.-THE CoMM<strong>II</strong>TEE ON ARRANGEMENTS AND PROGRAM<br />
presented the following printed program as their report,<br />
.which was adopted.<br />
THURSDAY.<br />
8 : 00 p.M.-Sermon by the President, Rev. Wm. C.<br />
Buchanan, Organization and Business.<br />
FRIDAY.<br />
8: 30-9: 00 A.M!, Devotional Exercises.<br />
9: 00-6: 30 A.M., Business.
4.-The report of the Presbyterian and Reformed Church<br />
Building Association was read and adopted and is as<br />
follows: .<br />
Tenth Annual Report of the Presbyterian and Reformed<br />
Church Building. Association from Aug. I, 1912 to July<br />
31 , 1913.<br />
The number of shares remains about 100. Only four<br />
assessments having been made so far since last report, the<br />
yield from the shares subscribed for is so far only yen 964.0I,<br />
though with a fifth assessment due and to be called for<br />
forthwith, the amount will be in the vicinity of yen 1,100.00.<br />
Besides grants included in Treasurer's financial report, a<br />
grant of yen 400.00 for the Fusan church was agreed -to a<br />
year ago, and would have been paid last May except for<br />
the fact that the erection of said church has not been begun<br />
yet, and until such building is fairly under way the Association's<br />
rules do not allow the money to be actually paid<br />
over. It is hoped however that this beginning will be<br />
made this fall, particularly as all such grants lapse unless<br />
this condition also is fulfilled within six months -from<br />
the time the amount has been on hand (i.e. by next<br />
Nov.)<br />
A further grant has just been made to Wakamatsu<br />
Church in Kyushu. As the building has been actually<br />
erected, it is to be paid over without unnecessary delay.<br />
Thus these two grants when paid will more than claim the<br />
balance of yen 552,69 in the treasury now, and slightly more<br />
even than what will be on hand when the 5th assessment to<br />
lJe called for yet is paid in. When these· two grants are<br />
paid, the amounts paid since last report will total yen 1,800,
a proportionate part (only yen 10.30 per share yearly) in<br />
this work which, so worthy in itself and so economical considering<br />
results attained, has also become such a lasting and<br />
signal memorial of our beloved and sainted brother Price<br />
gone to his rest and reward 6 years ago. In some way<br />
we should try to extend this work sufficiently to encourage<br />
all our missionary membership to take at least one share<br />
per member. The appeal for aid, as seen, is likely to grow<br />
with the growth of the church, for "the poor you have<br />
always with you." But in.a very true sense one cannot<br />
always respond so lovingly, so clearly, so powerfully and<br />
effectually to a request to aid Christ and His Bride the<br />
Church as by supporting this fund.<br />
We would also ask the various co-operating Missions<br />
and especially their executive and other officials to take up<br />
this matter for consideration so that all and especially the<br />
new members of the Missions may have this important<br />
work laid upon their heart with all the earnestness and<br />
cordiality which it deserves.<br />
For unless there is continued and emphatic agitation for<br />
even a worthy cause like this, it is apt to be smothered by<br />
more local and much less deserving and less beneficial or<br />
really paying projects. Moreover we would do much<br />
toward cultivating the feeling of real and all-embracing<br />
fellowship in our church, that great and real object of our<br />
work, the building of that central temple and church of<br />
our Lord Jesus Christ.<br />
5.-The Report of the Publications Committee was read<br />
and adopted ,and is as follows :<br />
During the past. Council year the following publications<br />
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have been issued by members of the Council, or more or<br />
less under their auspices :<br />
H. Brokaw: "Fukuin Geppo" (Gospel Monthly News),<br />
4,500 copies.<br />
F- S. -Curtis: "Postal and Telegraph Christian News,"<br />
1,500 copies per month.<br />
J.G.Dunlop: "Yako" (Light in Darkness), J,Ioocopies<br />
semi-monthly. He also co-operated with Mr. Pieters in<br />
reporting the trials of the· Koreans accused of conspiracy<br />
to assassinate Gov. Gen. Terauchi.<br />
G. W. Fulton: Associated in the editing of <strong>II</strong> The Christian<br />
Movement in Japan," 1913 issue; also co-operated<br />
with Dr. D. B. Schneder in the preparation of" Handbook<br />
of the Church of Christ in Japan."<br />
A. D. Hail: U I am the Light of the World," a tract.<br />
';Vm. Imbrie: " The Christian Faith," a tract in English<br />
and Japanese.<br />
H. H. Munroe: Material for the International Sunday<br />
School leaflets.<br />
D. A. Murray: Japanese edition of his It Christian Faith<br />
and the New Psychology."<br />
G. W. Van Hom: 10,000 postal card maps showing the<br />
location of the churches and chapels of the Nihon Kirisuto<br />
Ky6kwai in Osaka with referenee to the street car lines.<br />
Miss A. B. West: 4,550 copies of a beautiful Scripture<br />
calendar issued annually.<br />
E. R. Miller: uYorokobi no Otozure" (Glad Tidings)<br />
and " Chiisaki Otozure" (Tidings for the Little Ones.)<br />
H. V. S. Peeke: <strong>II</strong> Suggestions for the Study of the<br />
Chinese Characters" and CI How to Pray in Japanese."<br />
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about thirty evangelists were in attendance. The program<br />
consisted of the following studies and addresses:<br />
Bible Study-The Acts of the<br />
Apostles •.....•....... . ••. ... Hev. C. A. Logan.<br />
Bible Study-Philippians...... Rev. R. E. McAlpine.<br />
Religious Value of the Old<br />
Testament •...•.... u •••••••<br />
Relation of Religion and<br />
Efuics ........................ .<br />
Problem of Modern Thought<br />
and Faith .................... .<br />
Pastoral Theology ........... .<br />
Paul's View of the Atonement.<br />
Condition of the Shikoku<br />
Field .' ...................... .<br />
Condition of the Aichi-Mika wa<br />
Field ....................... .<br />
Rev. Mizoguchi.<br />
Rev. Watanabe.<br />
Rev. Zenjiro Yatsu.<br />
Rev. Naito Kaichi.<br />
Rev. S. P. Fulton, D.D.<br />
Rev. H. C. Ostrom.<br />
Rev. Wm. C. Buchanan.<br />
The Communion of the Lord's Supper was celebrated<br />
on Sunday afternoon. A deep spirit of devotion was<br />
manifest throughout the meetings, and all the men felt that<br />
they had been in fue presence of, and in communion with,<br />
the Lord. The general opinion is that this is the most<br />
satisfactory session that we have ever had.<br />
The Meiji 'Gakuin Conference was held this year from<br />
June 12th to the 19th. The attendance was unusually<br />
large, owing chiefly to the successful efforts of the Presbyterian<br />
Mission to have all their districts represented.<br />
The male workers of the (Dutch) Reformed Mission were<br />
all present except one, who at the last moment was pre-<br />
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women supported by missionaries, and not under the immediate<br />
direction of a woman missionary ?<br />
5.-The qualifications and training requisite for Bible<br />
women.<br />
6.-How may the Kindergarten be made most helpful<br />
to the Church and to the homes of the people?<br />
7.-How can the principle of Christian giving best be<br />
inculcated?<br />
8.-Personal work and the foreign missionary.<br />
9.-Personal work. The views of Howard A. Johnston<br />
and Henry Clay Trambull. To what extent are they<br />
applicable to Japan?<br />
lo.-The type of Japanese Christian woman worker<br />
needed for rural or suburban work. How is she to be<br />
obtained?<br />
I I.-Establishment of a course of training, correspondence<br />
or otherwise, for laymen who wish to increase their<br />
efficiency in Christian service.<br />
This report was referred to the Committee on other<br />
conferences.<br />
I V.- Miscellaneous Business.<br />
The .following resolution was unanimously adopted:<br />
Resolved that the Council expresses its appreciation of<br />
the faithful services of the retiring Secretary' which he has<br />
rendered for so many years.<br />
The following resolutions were adopted by a rising vote.<br />
Resolved that Council most heartily congratulate its<br />
venerable member Dr. David Thompson on the fiftieth<br />
anniversary of his arrival as missionary in Japan.<br />
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H. Places Aided by the Dendo Kyoku (Mission<br />
Board) and Names of Evangelists in charge.<br />
I.-JAPAN PROPER.<br />
1. Niigata-Rev. S. Shirai. 4. Kagoshima-Rev. J. Kamio.<br />
2. Maizuru-Rev. Y. Hayakawa. 5. Shizuoka-Rev. K. Ko.<br />
3. Tokushima-Rev. M. TomitAl.<br />
n.-FORMOSA (Taiwan).<br />
6. Keelung-<br />
<strong>II</strong>I.-OHOSEN (Korea).<br />
7. Fusan-Rev. S. Akimoto. 10. Taikyu-<br />
8. Bal'an- 11. Jinsen-Rev. T. Kanai.<br />
9. Shinkai-<br />
12. Moppo-Rev. Takeuchi.<br />
IV.-MANOHURIA.<br />
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13. Bujon (Fushun)-Rev. Ka.wa· 14. Tetsurei-Rev. Nakayama.<br />
kami 15. Furanten-Rev. Shimamura.<br />
V.-OHINA.<br />
16. Pekin-D. Maruyama.<br />
I. Directors, &cc. of Dendo Kyoku:<br />
uemura :Masahisa.<br />
Ibuka Kajinosuke.<br />
Tokyo Mod Kanji.<br />
{ Sasakura Yakichi.<br />
Hoshino Kota<br />
Nauiwa {Kikkawa Itsunosuke.<br />
Tada Shiroshi.<br />
Kanji (Superintendent)-K. Kiyama.<br />
Secretary-So Hisanaga.<br />
Treasul'er-K. 'l'okusawa.<br />
Chinzei Minada Atsusone.<br />
Miyagi Basao Kumetaro.<br />
Hokkaido Hikaru Kotaro.<br />
SaDYO Wada Masayuki,<br />
Formosa Kawai Kamesuke.