The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-19
WILL SEND EIGHT
MISSIONARIES
House of Hope Congregation
Pledges the Expense of
This Undertaking.

Eight missionaries, who will carry
the teachings of Christianity into some
or the darkest corners of the earth, will
be entirely supported by the members
of the House of Hope Presbyterian
church The congregation decided to
take up the work, which will cost the
church something over $4,000 a year,
yesterday morning by unanimous vote.
The extension movement" as the
maintenance of missionaries by a sin
gle church is termed among the Pres
bYterlans, was preached to the congre-
cation some time ago by DIR. Boyle, the
pastor. The session of the church took
the matter up, and after investigation
recommended that the plan be adopted.
one or the largest morning congrega-
uons that has ever attended the church
was present yesterday when DIR. Boyle
placed the matter before them for
vote The House of Hope church is
the first in the Northwest to assume
the responsibility of supporting mis-
sionaries without aid from other
churches.
never set on the work being carried
on by the church" One of the mis-
s1onaries will enter a remote province
or China, another will be in India while
the others will give their efforts in
various sections of this continent. Be
sides the eight missionaries, the church
Will also maintain one student in a
Christian school at Armenia, another
in school in Brazil and a third at the
Indian school at Fort Sill, Alaska
Those Who Will Take Up the Work.
Rev. II. T. Locke viii be the church's
missionary in China. He will be locat-
ed in the province of Human, which was
closed to all Christians until 1900. Rev.
Henry Forman will represent the
church in the Etha district of India.
The district includes sixty-eight vii
lagos, in which he has established fifty
Christian schools. He has large corps
of native missionaries under his super
vision.
In this country Emanuel Sanchez will
work among the Mexican population in
Southern Colorado and Northern New
Mexico. His field includes a popuIa-
ton of $4,000 people, and he Is in
charge of twelve missionaries. George
w. Dunlap. a representative Of the
home mission department, will be sup
ported by the local churchmen as their
representative in the great San Luis
valley, with headquarters at Crestole,
Col. He is at present conducting five
schools in various parts of the dis
trict
Miss Mae ]. Ryan, graduate of Mac
d1SSecf cOlleSe, VIII De sent as mis-
sionary teacher among the poor noun
tain whites of Tennessee. She will
teach sixty pupils in one of the schools
there. Rev. o. E. Wallace will repre-
sent the church in the missionary Wol k
among the negroes of the South. He
is located at Beaufort, S. c., where he
conducts an industrial school ana acts
as pastor of two churches.
0. S. Ferris will be supported as Sab
bath school missionary in the northern
part of the state, above Brainerd. He
is a representative of the American
board and is non-sectarian in his work.
L. b. :Koenig will act as Sunday school
evangelist in the Red River presbytery,
which covers an area of 1900 square
miles and has but one self-supporting
church.
I John Willis Baer, secretary of the
home mission board of the Presbyte-
RAN schurch, spoke last evening at the
services before very large congrega-
ton. He made an earnest plea for
more personal work by the members
of the church.
Miss Petrie, secretary of the Young
peoples work of the home mission
board, addressed large mass meeting
of Christian Endeavorers in the lecture
room of House of Hope church.