Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-01-03
Annual Report Of American Mission
ary Society's Work.
81 INDIA AND JAPAN
In Spain the Missions Were Stoned
by Students.
REPORT As2To FINANCES

BOSTON, January 3.-The nineteenth an
nual report of the American board of for
eign missions was made public today. The
donations received during the year aggre-
gated S317,913; legacies for current ex-
penses, 100000; legacies applied for debts.
$54,SS3; donations for school funds, $10.951;
donations for Micronesian navy, $1,974; do
nations for young missionaries fund, ST.
e64; donations for debt of September l..
1899. $1,2I3; donations for mission work for
women, $220,511.
The report says:
During the last decade the number Of
organized churches in the Marathi mission.
India, has increased from 33, with 2115
members, to AZ, with a membership of 1885.
The number of pupils has increased from
1882 to 5,732, an increase of 100 per cent
The number of native assistants was 277;
there are now 397.
There are fifteen eyangelists at work in
the Madura mission. All departments of
evangelizatfon unite in the 260 Sunday
schools, with Z ,46S pupils, scattered throug l.
out the entire field of the mission.
by the operation of new treaties, mis-
sionaries can reside in al parts of the ell
pire of Japan, and all classes of Japanese
are becoming more and more accessible.
The call for new Christian literature is
loud and persistent. The Doshisha is the
only school of high rank in Japan which
has Its Christian principles clearly set
forth in its constitution.
Tokyo u Missionary Center.
Tokyo is a great missionary center. The re
are not less than twentythree Protestant
missionary societies represented within les
limits. not to speak of the large work of
the Roman and Greek Catholics. 1t is es
timated that regular weekly worship is
maintained in not less than 125 churches
and chaDels This concentration of The
missionary work Is almost inevitable in a
country where the movement of the popu-
lation toward the capital Is so strong and
so constant as in Japan. There are two
congregational churches in Tokyo, both
entirely self-supporting and both contribut-
Ing literally to the home missionary work.
The number Of Japanese in the Hawai- an
Islands has increased to 6O01O, among
among whom there are but twelve evan
gelsts land one woman Bible reader. The
exceedingly rapid change of location of this
population Of the Hawaiian Islands, gov
erned by the demand forslabor, renders the
growth and development of churches among
them slow and uncertain.
Opposition in Spain.
Never before since the revolution that
initiated the new order of things in Spain
in the year 1859 has there been such open
and violent hatred expressed against not
only the Gospel, buta all lberalizing thought
anu dCllon. IN Hrdidud l1le Ilou, leu III
by students OF the schools and university.
two or three different times in the course
of one month attacked the Protestant
chapel in broad daylight, tearing down the
sign that was inside Of the public door
stoned the house, breaking windows and
making such a noise as to alarm the e-gh-
borhood. T..
Not until after repeated complaints did
the governor make any pretense Of check
ing the scandal. This is but an Illustration
of what has taken place in the province of
Cadiz, in Barcelona and other places These
movements are openly, condemned by the
liberal party in Spain.
with the exception of Johannesburg: the
work of the Zulu mission, South Africa
has not been within the area Of the wal
field and has not suffered nor been affect
ed by it. With the close OF the war the
mission feels that the. opportunities fol-
| work are sure to be greatly enlarged. The
Transvaal viii be open, and the seeds scat
tered at Johannesburg will yield wide and
generous harvest. The mission unites in
| the conviction that there should be band
| Of faithful and trained workers from the
! churches in Natal ready to enter these new
| opportunities, and that the number of for
| eigners devoted to this work should at ar
early day be materially increased"