Arizona republican., 1900-08-07

| credited to Japan. Another society has i a graded scale, paying in China to a single man. per annum, the first five years, S650; the next ten years $700, and the next ten years $500 After twenty i five years of service he gets $9OO. Mar ri5d couples begin with $95O, and are in
 creased to $1,OOO, SLIGO and s1,2OO. A third society has a fixed rate of s1,000 for married couples.
 One society having a large number of missionaries divid5s the receip.s pro rata. The leading soci: ties allow $100 q year for each child. Houses are provided for the missionaries. One missionary organization also provides what it calls an outfit" at an expense of from $4OO to $500. This consists of furniture and clothing. Another soci- ety provides furniture and the house only. The houses would be considered plain in this country, but in China they are substantial when compared with the houses of the natives. The hous 5 of the foreigners are placed in walled enclosures called compounds, because of the unsanitary conditions prevailing.
 The travelling expenses of the mis- sionariez are paid by the society send ing them out. Th5y have a vacation of a year at intervals, determined by the nature of the climate where they are stationed. In South Africa the service is from tnr5e to five years. It is dan gerous to stay beyond five years. In China they remain from seven to ten years. As the missionaries who remain in harness until their usefulness is 1xrI I,, ls,-Y INI It-f little. if anything from their income. provision is made for their support when they are placed upon the super annuated list, if they have no relatives or friends to take care of them.
 Care in taken in the selection from the candidates of those to go to the mission field. They are examined as to their physical condition and their in tellectual and religious qualifications. A large per centage of those accepted are graduates from colleges, and many. have taken postgraduate courses. There was time when the demand for mis- sionaries exceeded the supply of candi- dates, but within the last three or four years, owing to the ''student volun- teer" movement, the number of those desiring to serve as missionaries has exceeded the demands of the boards. The candidates selected are usually un- der thirty years of age, as languages are best learned before that age, and effort is made to obtain persons who learn languages with particular facili- ty. The sociJlties are not seeking mar ried couples for missionaries as much as formerly. as there are few places where European companions cannot be found The first year or two after the candidates arrival upon the field is usually spent in acquiring a knowledge of the language of the country to which he is accredited. In China it requires from a year to a year and a half t7 ob- tain a working knowledge of the lang uage. Preaching is one of the chief functions of the missionary, and he must seek out methods of attracting people to listen to him. He must speak in the street squares and at the fairs if he can g5t an audience in no other way. One of the first moves is the establish
 ment of a school for bible instruction. The contributions for foreign misiona- rv. purposes. according to the statistics prepared for the Ecunenical council, the past year were as follows: United States, $5. 4C3,O4S; England, $6,S43,031. The worlds total was 17,161, ,O92.-New York Tribune.