Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-05-08

curely invested now amounts to $685.
511, making the total since November,
1888, $1,1s6,o73. The disbursements
for the:Siast quadrenniuin We're $780,
CPS. The receipts for the
quadrennium We're $32S,511, MAX
ing the total Since November,
Asa total since 1883 of $s27,12
From the boards inauguration to
the close of the last school year the
distribution of aid has been as fol-
lows: So
New England states, $132.a41; mid
die states, $2OS,754; western states,
$S9s,937; southern states, $136,7O9;
foreign countries, $25,9S6. The num-
Der of students aided was: New eng
land states, 1893; Smiddle states, 2,sl2;
western states, 6,37S; southern states,
s,S19; foreign countries 412; total,
1919.
During the. last quadrennium the
total number of students aided was
1858, OF whom 1898 We're formerly
aided, and 5000 first aided. OF the
total, $500 We're males and 1923 Ye-
males. The distribution by. states vas:
New England, $780,; middle, LII;
western, 3,404; southern, 1855; for
eign missions, ia. Their intended
calling was: Ministry, ,222;; mission
airy, 49s; ministry 3and missionary,
1913; teaching, 1,423; other callings,
1877.
For Church Extension,
The report OF the general committee
of church extension showed that ST.
22S,450 had been asked for, but only
$4s6,329 had been received by collec-
ton. -
The failure OF the conferences to
respond in raising their apportion-
ments for church extension, has been
most serious. The city church extern
sion movements have, it is believed, in
measure taken from our board some
thing of the support of former years
and yet the planting of churches for
our foreign populations sin the great
centers has fallen largely to our board,
and demands for large donations for
important churches in cities have come
again and again, so that the requests
for aid from the stronger conferences
have increased: rather than diminished,
while they have not raised their APP
| portionment. These statements are
not designed to either criticise or dis
courage city church extension move
ments. They are all imperatively need
ed, but we do, plead for such enlarg-
ed contributions for our cause that
we may meet the demands from the
centers of population with adequate
response. We believe the demand for
Ia definite sum TO be properly distrib-
suted in the conferences according to
the provisions of the discipline with
the preaching OF a sermon on this
I question in every congregation every
year, and with the distribution of m
ltstructive literature, and a public and
kseparate collection for our cause in
connection with the; sermon would
adequately provide for our needs. If
the church gan be made intelligently
to understand" that the AZ per cent
and more, devoted by the missionary
society to domestic missions can only
be utilized for permanent results
when accompanied by the work of
church extension, our cause would be
permitted to stand out before each in
| dividual church in its majestic person
| atty, presenting its claim, based upon
| its merit and services.
| We ask the general conference and
the Methodist Episcopal church it
represents to prayerfully consider the
fact that in the face of the painful
evidences of the lack of legitimate
and healthful increase in membership
in late years, the principal increase in
| the land, which has lessened our hui
initiation, has been in the sections OF
| the. country. where church extension
has done its principal work. I.
- A + fin ~
Hum, i've chad over, $4,000 of bonded
debt, and $124,O45 due the conferences,
or something over $174,0OO of obliga.
Ittions 10 meet with ST., 4s3 of cash in
1.-the general funds against which $9,3sa
4 of drafts We're outstanding. Sixty
seight thousand, eight hundred and fiji.
I teen dollars We're promised in dona:
stions. s.i 8@5N
During the quadrennium we have
paid off the bonded debt of over $50,
600, have reduced the amounts due tt
conferences nearly 100000, and cut
down the donations promised by $35,
600. and had, Novembers1, $2O,717 cash
in the general fund. We have thus re.
Educed our liabilitiessby over 100000
\ and increased. our cash balance over
i SO per cent.
We congratulate, the church anc
the general conference on the very
remarkable. improvement in our wort
4 that crowns the qnatlIennium, and the
greater promise for the future, an<
Fexpress the hope that the very great
4 ly increased need for churches on the
frontier and in the needier places O
,the entire country and in the widely
expanded field in our new possession.
will be met by greatly increased con
4 tribution to our causu
i Freedman,s Aid.
4 The report of the Freedmen's Ait
and Southern Education society, con
tanned the following:
/ The society has expended between
$5,OO0,0O0 and $6.0O0,OOO in the south
ern states; it has nearly 81, schools
half of them among the colored PEG
pie, half of them among the whites
4 1t has S2,155,200 invested in schoo
i property; more than 100000 young
men and women have attended TIL,
various schools. There are now nearl,
10000 pupils in the schools. Sever
thousand five hundred are among til,
colored people, 1880 are among tn,
l whites There are . GAO StndantS !,