History Of Methodist Reform, Volume I - Media Sabda Org

successful labors. The Board is regularly incorporated according to the laws of the state of Ohio, and
its location continued at Springfield, O. Its nine members, five of whom are designated as the
executive committee, are elected for a term of four years.
The receipts of the Board of Foreign Missions since 1888, the date of its organization, including
the amounts reported by the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society for the same period, are as
follows:—
B. F. M. W. F. M. S. Total.
1888-89 $10,091.89 $3,483.71 $13,575.60
1889-90 $14,711.82 $3,490.07 $18,201.89
1890-91 $13,322.73 $3,897.15 $17,219.88
1891-92 $13,902.50 $3,647.66 $17,550.16
1892-93 $13,922.21 $3,720.42 $17,642.63
1893-94 $14,588.85 $3,628.20 $18,217.05
Sufficient progress having been made to justify an increase of its working force, and favorable
openings for extending its work appearing, the Board, in the summer of 1882, engaged, for the term
of five years, Rev. F. C. Klein, as its first ordained missionary for the foreign field. He remained at
home, however, several months afterward, visiting various conferences and churches to solicit funds
to purchase suitable property and provide better facilities for the conduct of the mission in
Yokohama. In the meantime a commodious building and lot, costing about $10,000, was secured at
120 A. Bluff by Miss Brittain, which, having been promptly accepted by the Board, he was ordered
in July, 1883, to proceed to Japan. On arriving there on the 23d of the ensuing September, he found
the school already occupying the new quarters, with an enrollment of forty-seven students.
From this time the work was pressed with new vigor and blessed with increased success. More
boys were admitted to the school; the Sunday school at the "Bluff" commenced to improve; a
Sunday-school was organized outside of the "foreign concession," at which fourteen young men were
present; preaching services soon followed; a night-school was opened for young men; new quarters
were secured to accommodate the growing number of pupils in the Sunday and weekday schools;
and so the seeds faithfully sown gradually sprang up and grew, until, having sufficiently ripened, a
church — the First Methodist Protestant Church, Yokohama, Japan — was organized, July 11, 1886,
with twelve members. A revival a few months later resulted in increasing the membership to
forty-nine. Among other organizations, a Y. M. C. A. and a Temperance Society soon followed. In
April, 1886, a boarding and day collegiate school for boys was instituted by Mr. Klein at 120 A.
Bluff, which, in May, 1887, had an enrollment of 135 students.
The General Conference of 1884, having assigned the work for girls and women to the Woman's
Foreign Missionary Society, the girls in the "Bluff" school, composed hitherto of both sexes, were,