The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-02
MISSION WORK
OF M. E. CHURCH
REVIEW OF THE QUADRENNIAL
PERIOD ABOUT TO CLOSE.
1t Is Made by World Wide Missions
the Official Paper Of the Mission
airy Society - Work Shows Marked
Results 81

Results.
Having in view the quadrennial
conference Of the Methodist Episcopal
church in Los Angeles, May 4, World
Wide Missions, the official paper Of
the missionary society, will issue a
special missions number this month.
The quadrennial survey of the field is
interesting to all who keep in touch
with the missionary movement.
Some of the figures for the four
years in the summary are as follows:
The total membership In foreign
&c to Ras N ff0m iS2o 0
crease of II per cent. The regions
most fruitful in accessions to member
ship have been: Korea (from 1897
to $3.50; the Philippines from a
handful to 7,S42); northwest India
Gfrom s4,4e9 to 42,e72); Gujarat
s,44s to 1856. The number Of
Sunday school pupils has grown from
1927 to 2So,15s, an increase of 10
Following a resume of the deaths
and an account of conference re-
hitherto unoccupied territory: 81 ~
THE outposts of our foreign mis-
sions have been pushed into unoccu-
pied territory Borneo has been
entered, also Bolivia and Patagonia.
The line of preaching appointments
New cities and groups of villages
have been added to the scope of mis-
sionary supervision in China, while
in the Philippines, instead of one
province, Luzon, being entered, as
four years ago, our appointments are
ferences have rapidly extended the
geographical range of their work." e.
The estimated value of foreign mis-
siOnary property has increased from
s5,41O,9ss to s6,e55,o5s, or 20 pei
cent. Particularly significant have
been the additions Of equipment made
to medical work in China, and to in
dustrial work in India and Africa
There was collected for self-support ir
the foreign field during 190O-190;
$1,262,573, an increase of $341,893, OF
81 per cent. The society has ex.
! pended on domestic missions s1,947,.
499.72 in experimenting scanty sala.
ries CT over 1000 pastors, in specia
emergency relief and in other work.
Domestic mission work is carried or
in fifteen languages; 1t touches prac.
tically every. state and territory of the
United States and Porto Rico ant
Alaska. An appropriation for worl
was first made during the presen
quadrennium, as also the special ap
preparations for city mission work il
about thirty leading cities. The Porte
| Rican mission has a membership o
1900. The Pacific Japanese mission
has been organized into a mission con
ference. Mission work among tn
Chinese on the Pacific coast has beer
reorganized and the Alaskan mission
has been reconstructed. -'
Contributions to the missionary so
ciety from conference collections alon
during. the four years were $5,015,
55S.22, an increase of $566,02S.16
The total income III the same perio'
was $5,793,52713, an increase o
$633,O27.60. II =
The contributions Of the Woman
Foreign society were 81, 814,056, al
increase. of $585,467. The auxiliarie
increased in number from 6,375 t
1924, and the total membership from
156,75S to 217,O93. The contribution
of the Woman's Home society wer
$1,210,313, an increase of $470,S3s
The organizations Increased fror
ISIS to $40 and the membership i
four years from 68.46S to 1925.
From 1S96-1999 the Methods
church gave to home and foreign mis-
sions s7.122,563 and from 1891 90
$S,S17,S96, an increase of % per cen
A paragraph on the missionar
4 awakening closes the review. It say
j among other things: The quadrer
4 MUM has witnessed a most notabl
3 awakening turnout the church."