Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-11-29
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President of the Ottawa University, Ii
the chair. Rev. ID. S. AIcEwan, of Law
renee, preached the annual sermon The
attendance was large and the exercises
interesting. The report OF the II. b T.
Society Board was as follows;
The year closing March 3lst 1885, was
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ciety one of great prosperity and blessing
The only department Of the work IN
which there is any reasOntor dlsappolnt-
ment is that of Bible publication. Oi
the $50 600 called for at the beginning OF
the year, 500. 780, or less than one-ha1,
was contributed. Notwithstanding this
showing, which may be accounted
for without much difficulty an
encouraging commencement was
maze in this newly formed
department. We cannot but feel, how
ever, that the Bible work demands and
viii receive much more from the denOm-
ination during the present year. Our
own State has contributed for this object
but $1l7.46. This is not an amount
worthy of our churches or Of the object
itself. This is a work that should be
very heavily on our hearts, and greater
efforts should be made to inform and IN
spire our people with reference to 1t.
The general missionary work OF the
society has been enlarged beyond past
years and now one hundred and eighty
three workers are employed. In Kansas
there has been no change. Rev. ID. o..
Banta has been sustained as cOIpOrter IN
Western Kansas where he has done
good work; Rev. VIM. SkOOgland divides
his time between the Swedes of this and
several other states, and Rev. J. 7. Ash
still labors as Sunday school missionary
for Kansas and the Indian Territory.
The following statistics of Brother Ash's
work are given for the convention year
ending September 3Oth.
Miles travelled, 13, 163; scriptures do
mated, 2,775; tracts distributed, pages,
AZ 200; sermons and addresses, $50;
prayer meetings attended, 12l; families
visited, 1872; Sunday schools organized,
40; Sunday schools aided, 66; institutes
held, 48; letters and postals sent, 1916;
circulars, 1910; collections in Kansas,
Sl,174 II. The society has donated to
various churches and individuals liberal
supplies of Bibles, books, tracts and Sun
day school requisites. Thirty ministers
have received grants of books for their
libraries. The total contributions made in
Kansas to this sOciety's work for the year
ending March 81 were 81, l86.48, of which
81 ,069 was for the missionary department
and the balance for Bible work. This Is
a small advance beyond last year, and
let US still go forward.
Our Sunday School work has been
much helped by the institute held by
Brother Ash in various parts of the State.
1t is highly desirable that these insti-
tutes be Increased in mum Der, and
that more hearty support be given
them. The importance of the Sunday
School seems also to justify the plan of
giving more attention to it in the annual
meetings of the association. In several
}. 1r1.l
organizing a Sunday School Convention
to meet in connection with the assOcia-
ton. We cordially recommend this
method as one worthy of general adOp-
ton. In looking over the past years
work We have great reasons for gratitude
to God for what has been achieved in
our own State and elsewhere through the
agency of this society.
Respectfully submitted, +. BICE,
Chairman of Board.
SECOND DAYS PROCEEDINGS.
Rev. A. S. Merrifeld read the follow
ing report of the Board of Home and
State Missions:
From September 1, 1884, ffty-one mis-
siOnaries we're under appointment, part
or all of the year, who supplied ninety
four churches and sixty-seven Outsta-
tions. They report 1 ,705 weeks of labor,
cy4HE SCI 44IC41Hy 15OOE pray OF meetings,
1878 religious visits, 32S baptisms, 446
received by letters, $50 Bibles and,.Testa-
ments distributed, 14churches organized,
II meeting houses commenced and 10
finished. Paid for building meeting
houses SIC, 463 .65, and for repairs S865.75.
The missionaries have raised upon
their fields-fOr home missions, $S40O2;
for foreign missions, 1914. IS; for Publica-
ton Society, $234.5O; for education, $7273;
for other objects, $647 40; and received as
salaries from their fields, So, 285.2S. Thus
there were raised for religious purposes
on our mission fields, $2l, 1851, and
there were added to these mission
churches TIA persons; making an in
crease over the accessiOns of the pre-
ViOus year, notwithstanding the number
Of missionaries was less than the pre-
ViOus year by Is. The average expense
of each of these accessiOns to our State
fund is $3.50, to the Home Mission State
fund, 1915; and an entire expense of
S2O87.
Thus the system of cooperation be-
tween the Home Mission Society and the
Convention has proved to be. not only
harmonious, but also economical in means
and fruitful in results. By further ex-
animation we find that our local mis-
sionaries have raised for religious pur-
poses Sc, 350.50 more than ali they re-
ceived for their services.
CONTRIBUTIONS.
The Treasurer's report viii show near
ly 81, 200 raised in the State for Home
Aissions the past year. Every associa-
ton has contributed to this fund, and in
some of the associations nearly every
church has done something. The
number of contributing churches in
the State during the year was $50,
a gain of thirty over last year. The
churches that have not given to this
fund are mostly weak, small, houseless,
and many of them pastorless. These
churches that have had a regular system
of contributions and have worked that
system, though many of these churches