The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-12-17
MISSIONARY LABORS.
The American Board of Foreign
Missions Heard From.
ITS EIGHTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT.
Excerpts Showing the Years Receipts
From the Various States, with Mat
tiers Relating to the Work
in Distant Fields

BosTON, Dec. 13.-The American board
of foreign missions makes public its
eighty-seventh annual report.
The receipts from the New England
states amounted to total of 1885,, 4S4. Ia.
The receipts from other states and ter
ritories were as follows: New York,
S54, O36. O3; New Jersey, 81, 74O. SO; Penn
sylvania, So 325.22; Maryland, S697. SO;
Delaware, $40; Virginia, S5O.95; West
Virginia, $27S.14; District of CO.
lumbia, $3, ,338. 95; North Carolina,
$685. South Carolina, $40;
Georgia, S14S.41; Florida, $462. 10; Ala
bama, $44 So; Mississippi, $14.7O; Louis
lana, $55.O1; Tennessee, S246. 70; Ar
kansas, S12.50; Texas, $40 go; Indiana,
81, 35L64; Kentucky, $50. 33; Missouri,
So, $3.50; Ohio NS16, 336. 90; Illinois, $685.
915.41; Michigan, SIS, 735. 46; Wisconsin,
SO, 249.9S; Iowa, Sl3, 136. rs; Minnesota,
IS, 45S.13; Kansas, So, 194.64; Ne
braska, So, 5SO.31; California, S1O,-
S9S.76; Washington, 1895. S5; North
Dakota, $429.26; South Dakota,
81, o37.5S; Montana, $7S. 90; Idaho, $27. II;
Wyoming, $I22. 81; Utah, $74. 10; Arizo-
ma, $204.S 81; New Mexico, sos Okla
homa, $3.50.
The receipts from Canada were $4,-
595 SIS. The total receipts from all
sources were $642, 781.01.
The report deals at length with the
Turkish massacres, and says that while
many Christians were killed or fed,
the number of professed Christians
exceeds that previous to the outrages.
In India during the famine food
rose to abnormal prices. As large
number of the poor of India-nearly
one-third of all her people-live con-
stantly upon the verge of starva-
tion, when prices are normal, it
is easy to imagine the result of such
times as these. Grain riots occurred
in many places, starvation stared mil
lions in the face, and almost at once
became an awful reality.
This has been by far the most fruit
full year in the history of the south
China mission. In the Foo-Chow
(China) mission, within the last two
years there has been an expansion of
field and growth in churches, schools
and hospital work unparalleled in the
history of our missions in China
There are but five unordained mission
aries and in a field, which includes o.
900, 900 souls.
The North China mission, ocate d
near the political center of the empire,
giving access to more than 20, 900, 900
souls, ably manned and well estab-
hShed in seven wisely-chosen centers,
is one of the most important and prom
ising under the care of the board.
In the Shansi mission, northwestern
China, an opium refuge was opened
early in the year, which has attraclxed
large number of patients, and has
been nearly self-sustaining.
The problems which face the mis-
sionarles in Japan to-day are entirely
different from those of rs years ago.
The educated Japanese are carefully
studying the social and religious ques-
tions in which the scholars of the west
are interested, and always the Begin
nings of enlightenment are subjects of
doubt and questioning.
In Hawaii, one great draw back to
rapid progress is the backward condi-
tion of the Hawaiian churches. Too
large proportion of Hawaiian church
members are not only ignorant of the
fundamental requirements of personal
rectitude, but Indifferent to the obliga-
tion Of common honesty in the regular
payment of the promised salaries of
their pastors.