The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-03-31

few such from time to time, and in pro- viding the entire salaries of few men who are at work in regions where their work is supervisory and where such contributions for self-support as are made go to local pastors.
 Domestic mission work is carried on in fifteen languages; it touches practi caIly every state and territory of the United States and the non-contiguous regions of Porto Rica and Alaska. An appropriation for work among Korean emigrants in Hawaii was first made during the present quadrennium, as were also the special appropriations for city mission work in about thirty of the leading cities of the country.
 The Porto Rica mission, now having total membership of twelve hundred, was started less than two months be- fore the close of the last quadrennium. The Pacific Japanese mission has cele- brated the twenty-fifth anniversary of it's founding and has been organized into mission conference. The Gulf mission conference has been made an annual conference, mission work among the Chinese on the Pacific coast has been reorganized, and the Alaskan mis- sion has been reconstructed.
 Income of the Society.
 The contributions to the missionary society from conference collections alone during 19O0-OS amounted to $5,- 015,55S22; during the previous quadren- nium, $4,449. .5SO.O6, making an increase of toto Of hn society during the same period was s5. .793, ,527.13 (from all sources, including special gifts, etc.); during the previous quadrennium it was $5,150, ,499.5S, an in crease of $633, ,0276O.
 The Women's Societies.
 The contributions of the Woman's Foreign Missionary society from 1S96-99 were St.22S, ,5S9; from 1900-03 these amounted to $1,S14,O56, an increase of $5S5,4 ,467. The auxiliaries increased in number during the four years from 6,375 to S.264 and the total membership from 156,759 to. 217,O9S, an increase of 1889 auxiliaries and 60,SS4 members. The contributions of the Woman's Home Missionary society last quadrennium were $7S9, ,475, and during the quadren- nium just closing $1,210,319, an increase of $47O,S3S. There were 2,61S organiza- tions in 1899, in 1903 there were S,470; and during the four years the member ship increased from 6S,468 to 116,25S, an increase of S52 organizations and 47,7S5 members.
 | Grand Total of Missionary Gifts.
 The Methodist Episcopal church dur ling 1S96-99 gave to home and foreign missions through the missionary society and it's two auxiliary women's societies the sum of $7,122, ,56S; during 190O-O3 it gave $S,S17, 1896, an increase of $1,695, ,3SS, or 2S per cent.
 The Missionary Awakening. The quadrennium has witnessed a |most notable missionary awakening throughout the church. The emergency of three years ago was the occasion of the creation of the Open Door Emergen- cy commission, which, indeed, was none other than the missionary society at work in a specialized way to meet this emergency. The Cleveland convention in 1902 and it's train of successors in more restricted fields have provided mo- table public presentations of the cause of missions. while the demand for infor- nation which these conventions pro- voked has been met by a more varied and better adapted literature than was before available Prayer for missions has increased in intensity and definite ness, and the growing purposefud de- termination on the part of both pastors and people adequately to support the worldwide enterprise of the church has been most inspiring.