Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1906-03-29

tive fields are taken up by them.
The board is elected by the general
assembly. 1t elects it's own
officers. Besides the secretaries. there
are a president. 4 vice president and Il
Both clergy and laymen-
merchants. lawyers. etc.-are elected To
board and executive offices.
The treasurer. OF course. occupies \
very responsible position. His cabinet
consists Of I'VE business men. members
of the board. This finance committee
presents its report at each meeting or
the board. An exceedingly important
duty OF the ~treasurer's department Is
that of making all nome purchases for
the missionaries and shipping the goods
to the four quarters of the globe. The
average missionary sent out by the
Presbyterian church spends at least
20 per cent. of his annual salary for
nome products. The purchase OF mousse
keeping outfits for new missionaries
comes under the treasurer's direction.
The board meets once IA month. a
day or two prior to the meeting. mat
ters requiring Its are brought
before either the sectarial or the exec
uti.e council for consideration. The
tiyst council consists OF the secretaries
the second OF the secretaries and the
treasurer, since It's work involves the
appropriation OF funds. These unc
report direct to the board. which has
the ina word In all matters.
This form OF organization Is more or
less representative of that maintained
by each OF Americas thirty-four prin-
cipal foreign missionary societies. and
| of the average kindred European body.
Thousands of Missions n Converts.
These thirty-four societies maintain
1903 stations, SOP out-stations. 1879
male missionaries. 2.5S3 female mission
aries. ~, 9S2 native laborers and 5.256
churches, whose communicates number
523. 9S2, of whom 81. Tl5 We're added last
year. Under instruction In the various
Sunday. industrial and graded schools.
! seminaries. colleges and hospitals are
! 2T6. 344 persons. The total income In dol
lars last year was 81. 060. 101. and of this
amount the native contributions In dol
lars. and exclusive OF foods. goods. etc..
totaled the tidy sum OF ii. POS. 9o1. This
gives n fairly good idea Of what the
converted native thinks the new re-
ligion Is worth to him.
Protestant europe and Canada COM
bined contributed in 1905 just q rev
thousand dollars more than the sum
total OF our evangelical societies con
trtbutions. Four thousand. three hum
dred and sixty OF the 11.157 mission
aries sent out by all Protestant so
cieties are Americans: 9,315 OF the 90
GAL stations and stations are main
tanned by American money. while CON
siderably over a third of The 1.S25.SSo
nhllNS COItlIlutlISd u ~
American missions and churches.
Great Britain. however, has nearly hall
of the 9Ol, 112 under instruction in her
mission schools and colleges, and her
native laborers constitute nearly han
Of the total. $3.50.
to be formed in this country was the
American board OF commissioners for
foreign missions. representing the Con
gregational church This occurred In
September of 1910. and. therefore. In
less than five years 1t Will be incum-
bent on the various foreign missionary
societies to celebrate the centenary of
the works actual beginning.
The centenary of the meeting that
ultimately led to the formation OF the
American board occurs this year. II
was in 1906 that Samuel j. Mills en-
tered Williams college. His mother hac
consecrated him from his infancy tt
missionary work. Shortly after he be
gan his collegiate career. he held a mis-
sionary praye meeting of students un
der the shelter OF a haystack. where
the rain had driven them. This spo
has been called the birthplace o.
American missions" since the interes
there awakened caused several OF thu
. participants to organize in the colleg'
I two years later a mission to the heath
en-. hi existence of this organization
7 was kept secret. lest we should b,
thought rashly imprudent and SHOULD
, so injure the cause we wish to pro
mote" The same young men who con
' stituted the society formed the Amer
lean board in the open after anothei
> two years. This board was the frs
American evangelical society to sen,
out u missionary. the first mission be
1 ing established among the Maratha
5 Of western India, after many trials, II
1913.
D The receipts of the pioneer board lur
;nry tha f,ct ,o.r of TIC .xicta,rs x,nv
e just fcrty-eight cents less thar an evel
Z thousand dollars. Its income last yea
!. was $.52. 149. and ii a $40 American
I missionaries III the fe'u. The Meth
e odist board had the largest income las
p year-Sl. 400. 55S. vne Prcsbyterial
U boards income vas also over n mil
: lion. the exact figures being 81. 16l .9l$
a Seventy Millions for Mission Work.
. The Roman Catholic church main
"a tains no organization that can be com
pared to the Protestant missionary so
' ~cieties. But in considering foreign mis-
( sionary work the Society for the PROV
agation of the Faith must be X int
account. The American branch wa
founded in 1888. The society's aims hav
been set forth by the director genera
3. the Re Joseph Freri:
widely differing from the numerou
8 Protestant societies. the Society for tn
e Propagation OF the Faith takes no pai
in selecting missionaries nor In az
x pointing their field of work., nor /
d training them for 1t. and 1t does nc
1t concern itself with the interior admir-
d istration OF missions. The aim of OF
society therefore. IL to support mission
v aries who are chosen. trained and sci
forth on their missions by the usual d,
~ thorities OF the church."
II In other words the money that tt
society raises goes to the support
., missionaries sent out by such long @
tablished and aIEOus orders Az II
Jesuits. the Augustinians. the Franci
"a cans and the DOminicians
20 About $3.50. 900 Is raised yearly by ii
society in this country. Each of eleve
% evangelical societies raises a larg'
A. suin. OF course. this $l50. 600 does n
IN represent by any means the sum tot
~ OF money raised for foreign missie
10 work BY American Catholics. sin
n thousands of dollars are? contribute
ir directly for this purpose to the vario,
I'd orders that send out missionaries. tt
"A society throughout the world now rails
about a million and a half dollars a
nually. From its inception in Franc
in 1922. 1t has collected approximate
90 seventy million dollars for missiona,
advance. This gives an average a
m nual collection of about S843. 900. stretc
is ing over a period OF eighty-three veal
"a Each year brings a marked tncrea
~ In the moneys contributed. Indeed. 4
=. wonderful growth OF his and eva