Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-05-08
versions during the four years were
4s6,O5s. The aggregate collections
woman,s Foreign Missions.

4s6,o5s. The aggregate collections
were $93,312.
WOmanss Foreign Missions.
The report Of the Woman's Foreign
Missionary society stated that so won
derfully less and successful has been
this work, so wide the fields opened to
the workers, and so rich the harvest
of souls won for Christ that our insti-
tutions are full to overlooking and all
our resources are overtaxed."
| The work at home is represented by
the following statistics: Auxiliary So
cieties, 5000; members, 127,455; young
women's societies, COS; members H.
s67; children's bands, 669; members,
1898; total organizations, 6.375, with
a membership of 166,759. There are
eighty-six annual conference secreta-
ries, and 2Ss district secretaries. These
| figures, it was stated, show healthy
increase, as there has been an addition
of more than 500 auxiliaries and 10000
members in the last quadrennium.
| The total receipts were $1,2S8 ,595-
an increase of $144,797.
i The total amount raised and distrib-
uted in thirty years reached the sum
lof $5,049,19
The amounts appropriated to the va
rious fields in the past four years
were: India, $53o,oo5; Malaysia, $780,
1885, China, $275,03a; Japan, $s02,470;
Corea, $53,e2s; Mexico, $s6,376; Italy,
I$2s,425; Bulgaria, $14,975; South
America, $79,724; Germany, 5000; Swift
zerland, $1,000; Africa, $4,000; Norway,
500; total, $1,000, los.
woman,s Home Missions.
4 The report of the Woman's Home
Missionary society showed that the in
come had steadily increased since 1883
when it was $27,303 it being for the
last four years $SO4,4O3, of which
527,735 was cash, and $276,66 supplies.
The educational work being almost
Exclusively for girls and young chill
dren, the amount contributed by the
i pupils themselves cannot be expected
4 to be very large. The receipts from
this source during the four years were
$77,210.
i During the last quadrennium the
A deaconess work Of the society has pro-
i gressed rapidly. 1t has now thirty-one
institutions, including three national
training schools for missionaries and
Ideaconesses and three local schools for
the same kind of training. 1t also has
three rest homes, two hospitals and one
orphanage.
4, The property of the society is steadi-
ly increasing in value, conservative
valuation being $66s,s62. The requests
amounted to $34,022, the endowments
Ito $19,633, and the society has also re-
ceived. annuity funds amounting to
I$6,365.
/ Report of Trustees.
i The report of the trustees for the
Il four years showed receipts Of $12O,575
and disbursements of $11S,o66, the cash
on hand being S11,6O9.
a The accepted trusts and requests
now amount to $266,477, as against
l$126,260 four years ago.
Evangelical Union
4 The report of the national City Evan
gelization Union contained the follow
ling: 4&
:. The annual meetings. of the friends
and workers in city eyangelization have
afforded a guage of progress. Aims
have become each, year more definite;
methods OF work better understood;
). the needs of the cities more impressive
). land Imperative; and the alliance of the
| brotherhood of iaymen and ministers
!, more sympathetic and helpful. A stu
|, dy of the. themes discussed at these
several meetings will reveal constant
broadening in the range OF thought
and deepening consciousness on the
I part of all of the. tremendous import
of the problems with which men are
engaged in the cities of America. Dur
i ing the four years it has become very
! lr,,s -
:! l5Methodist Episcopal church concentra-
| ted its attention upon the needs of the
|, cities and the church may well be
grateful to the earnest men--a large
number of them laymen who have vol
unfairly devoted themselves to the
Z work of lifting to their true place
I lendeavor, these vast centers of popula-
J, 1.-the people of our nation dwell.
! While the quadrennium has shown
!, its chief advance in the large interest
cords also the organization of nun.
, beer of additional local societies. a,
a present there are forty-six such soci.
! cites in as many cities, more or less ac-
!, lively engaged in this coordinate eff
y
!, of the denomination. An average each
! jyear of from $1S0,00o to 100000 has
been raised thru these societies for
!. their work, total for the quadrenni.
+ UNI of1nearly $750,000.
4 EpWortl League.
8 The report of the Epworth League
: set forth that the past quadrsnnium
had been marked by an advance move
ment on practically every line OF its
work. March /, 1900, there were 10,
991 chapters, with membership OF
! over 1,350,Oo0. In the junior league
there were 1867 chapters and mem
bership of more than 100000. The to
tai membership is therefore 27,04s
: chapters and about 1,750,000 members
: There has been a rapid and steady in
J. crease in the membership in 1900, espe
! cially in the Junior League chapters.
: I'VE gratefully, record growing
spirit of fraternal good will and coop
Y Grafton between the Epworth Leagu,
\ and the Christian Endeavor and The
: young peoples societies of othe,
churches. They are coming to see thai
n q