The Portland daily press., 1895-10-12
CONGREGATI0NAIISDI.
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in some way emphasize upon this work.
The total Benevolent contributions for
1894 were ~. 100, Ill; the home expendi.
lures 81. OBS. 3o7. In too many cases We
arc snendtno more for home expenses
than is unsuitable at the sacrifice OF
henevolent work. Here is where the Law
man is largely at fault and here is his CD
portunity again to change proportions
The resort of the Congregational Sun
day School and Publishing Society was
presented by It's Secretary, the Rev. Geo.
M. Boynton. d. D., of Boston.
During the three years covered by this
renort. f463 now Sunday Schools have
been organized by the superintendent
and missionaries. The majority of these
have been in places destitute of other re-
ligious work or influence
THE exnerience and testimony of the
missionaries employed has been, uni
formly, that there is no Sunday School
work to be done which they are prevented
nominational society, rather than a Union
organization. On the other hand. they
constantly say, "The best Union work is
the denominational WORK,
The income of the society was:
For the three years to 1856 81, 500
For the three years to 1852 III, 500
For the three years TO lo5S, l7o, 800
For the three years to 1879, 219, 800
The beuuests, which were very small in
all the previous history of the society,
have amounted, in the last three years,
to nearly S43, 900, while the appropriations
from the Business Department have bsen
S11, 600. In the last seven years $25, 600
has thus been transferred from business
prO1itS to missionary Work.
Receipts from contributions reached
their highest point in 1898, being 500, 694,
and have fallen off a little over So, 600
each of the succeeding years, Sol, 547, to
$52, 2sS. AS long ago as 1886 the National
Council asked the churches to raise at
least 500. 900 year for this department of
their work.
DUNG the past three years CT depression
of business throughout the country, the
sales OF the Business Department., both in
Chicago and Boston, have maintained a
gratifying figure, the last year showing
an increase over that Of the year before,
and the average for the three years being
larger than of the previous three years.
The society has been increasing the
number of it's church helps and requisites,
so that now there is scarcely anything
needed by minister, church. clerk, or
treasurer, which cannot be supplied in
the latest and most improved form, with
it's own imprint
The work of the Congregational Sun
day School and Publication Society was
the subject of an address by Rev. William
e. Barton, D. D., pastor of the Shawmut
Church, Boston:
The publishing department, he said.
has its own separate treasury, and with
an account in separate bank, and con-
ducts it's business on self-supporting
basis. Not one dollar of contribution
from the churches goes into the publish
ing business. Every church ought dis
tinctly to understand that it's contribu
lions to this society are for it's missionary
work alone, and that the publishing
house maintains itself Even during this
last two years, when not a few publish
ing houses found their balance upon the
wrong sido of the ledger, our own house
not only paid expenses, but paid two
thousand dollars 8 year more than usual
into the missionary treasury.
| have had occasion for several years to
examine the new books of this and of
partial literary review. No one who
knows anything about Sunday school
books can fail to know that there has
been in recent years marked improve
1nent in books of this class. This has
been true of the publications of all, or
nearly ALL Sunday school publishing
houses. But no Society has been ahead
of ours in this improvement, nor is any
kindred society now issuing a better line
of books judged by any standard either OF
literary ability, of moral and religious
tone, or of mechanical execution. Con-
gregationalism should foster and encour-
ageanthe Sunday school, which usually is
safe under the care Of the local church.
But in hundreds of communities there is
II. n1,I tba SrJT,d ory sob MI cf
be organized and superintendent by So
ciety representing the churches. 10 or
ganize each year 500 such schools many
of them to grow into churches, and to
al d three times that number, many of
which without the aid of this society
could not exist, and thus to touch with
the finger of Christ the hearts of 100, 900
neglected children every twelve months,
this surely is no small work.
REPORT OF THE AMERICAN MIS-
SIONARY ASSOCIATION.
The American Missionary Association
made a statement of it's work through
it's Secretary, the Rev. A. +. Beard, d.
D. former pastor of the church in which
the Council is assembled.
esSince our last triennial'' said the re-
port "the work of our Chinese missions
has gone on successfully with an annual
expenditure OF nearly 9louUU. VI this
about $4,000 yearly has been contributed
by the Chinese themselves. The uum Der
of pupils has been about 1900. These are
in 81 different schools with an ave rage of
So teachers. The Christian Endeavor
movement has been introduced into these
missions during this period and ID now
an efficient factor. There are $500 Chi
nese women il San Francisco, very few
Of whom ever see anything of the outside
world. The number of those who have
been hopefully oo 9a0s in our schools
1 1914 sixty The whole number who have
given living evidence of a living faith
in Christ is more than HOO. The mission
which was established by the American
Board in China in 1888 is very prosper
Gus. The chapel and dispensary at Ci
Ming have been enlarged and a lot and
building have been purchased in the city
of Canton. During the current year a
Chinese mission has been established by
the Association at Salt Lake, Utah. The
pupils themselves have assumed part
of the support of the work.
Among the Indians the Santee
Normal Training School, one of