The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-10-05

Western Turkey-Miss Marie A. Hoff-
man.
Eastern Turkey-Mrs, Charles r. Ash
down, Kew. and Mrs. r. S. Stapleton,
Rev. Charles D. Usher. M. D., Miss
Theresa L. Huntington, Miss Laura Ellis
worth. Miss Ruth M. Bushnell.
North China-Miss Frances b. Patter-
son
Shansi-Mrs. Elizabeth Graham At
water.
Mioronesia-Miss Jane d. Baldwin,
Miss Elizabeth Baldwin.
Central Turkey-Rev. John X. Merrill.
The committee would hereby express
it's great sympathy with all the move
menSs of today which tend to increase
the practice of Christian comfy In for
eign missions, and consequently Chris
tian economy in administration OF the
great trust involved in our work. In rec
ognition of the great demands upon the
churches of today to speedily seek the
evangelization of the world, we should as
Board be, in the future as in the past,
heartily committed to the laws OF econo-
my and comfy in nilsson work.
Never has there been such call LOT
missionary literature in the form OF
sketches, maps, leaflets and the Ike, ana
these have been prepared or revised TO
meet the demand. collectlon OF sug-
gestions and incidents relating to our
work issued in the form OF an Extra OF
the Missionary Herald, has been called
for by tens of thousands, and the same
may be said of an Envelope Series" of
messages form missionaries at the front.
All this is most hopeful, and the seed
thus sown must bear fruit.
The Board has published within the
year an illustrated volume entitled I'm
Lands Affair" made up chiefly OF articles
in the young peoples department of the
Missionry Herald. The volume is sure to
be widely read by young and old, and IS
an admirable book for Sunday school IL
braries.
During the year just closed there have
been sent out from the rooms % different
shipments to is ports, aggregating LOCO
packages, valued at $53, 490, the charges
upon which for freight and insurance
amounted to %. S4S 81. or these ship.
ments three have been sent to Liverpool
| (from whence they were to be re.shipped
goods, to their destination), to San Sc
bastien (Spain), to Salonica, u to Con :.
stantinople. 8 to Smyrna, to Mers1n.. 9
to Alexandria, to Benguella West AT.
rica), to Port Natal, to Beria Cast
Afrioa), to Bombay, to Tuticorin
(Madura), to Colombo (Ceylonl, to
Fooohow, O Shanghai, to Tinstin
(Japan), and 8 to Micronesia.
The Rev. A. N. Hitchcock, Phi. D.,
District Secretary, presents the following
report from the Interior DISTRICT, the
district including fourteen States and
Territories west of Ohio, and the South
ern Mississippi States:
WORK.
With the close of the present year the
District Secretary completes ten years OF
service under the American Board.
The work among Christian Endeavor
societies has been more fully systema-
tized. We have assigned to these organi-
cations separate missionaries for the differ
emit States in this district; and to each
contributing society we have sent half
tone portrait of their chosen representative
| in the foreign field, with at least two let
| tiers prepared expressly for the societies
The work of the Woman's Board has
been prosecuted with unsurpassed vigor
and success 1t has been gratifying to
observe with whit harmony of spirit their
specific work and that Of this office have
been conducted.
RETURNS.
/. There has been a gain In donations
from the Interior District. exclusive Of
| the States lately added, of 6,6279a. This
increase, though not large, appears along
every line Of work, but is greatest
through the Woman's Board.
2. The increase in the number of con-
triputing churches is more marked.
While the whole number of churches, not
counting the added States, has increased
| by only is, the number contributing to
the Board shows gain Of 118, and the
number taking public collections has in
CREASED by r.
| 8. The total from Christian Endeavor
societies in this district exceeds 80, 500, a
decided advance on any preceding year.