The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1910-06-23
HOME BASE
OF MISSIONS

Edinburg Scotland June 23.-The
TeyoTt OF the Commission ON the
Home Base of Missions" presented
to the Worlds Missionary Confer
ence today by the chairman. the Rev.
James L. Barton dealt with the or
Ga7ization methods, policies and re-
suits Of the operations of missionary
societies upon their home side 1t, col
.ated an immense amc:lnt of mater
ial gathered to snow how to secure
an adequate CONSTITUENCIES. the proper
training of missionaries financial sup
port and an increase in interest. Dr.
Barton Is foreign secretary of the A
nerican Board of Commissioners for
Foreign Missions. The commission al
SO includes the Rev a DoOdruft Hal
sci, secretary of the Home Depart
nent of ne Board of Foreign Miss
ions of the PRESBYTERIAN Church. Mrs.
Helen B. Montgomery, secretary Of
he Women's Baptist Missionary So
cietv. ana Joan w. Wood. correspond
ing secretary of the Domestic and
f'Creie1 Missions Society of the Prot
sf2nt-Episcopal Church in the Unit
ed states of America.
Under the head of promotion of
hissinnarv Intelligence" the report
ASKS for more enthusiastic missionary
work in the pulpits at home. "The
leaders of -nissionary enterprise" it
continues. ARE unanimous in their
Judgment as to the imperative iIE-
Dlrtance of interesting the tayhood
and eirlhJod of the churches in the
work of foreign missions. One of tae
mn aegin fsaat of
ionarv advance is the rapid develop
ment of the work in the Sunday school
fold during the last FIVE wears" 4
concensus of opinion gathered by the
Commission as to the best means of
interesting and erlisting the services
Of children gives first place to ccH-
sccrtive courses of missionary instruc-
tiCn of study apart from Sunday
school lessons. Otlc~ methods adv:s-
ed are: cb ldren's working parties or
similar outlets for active help. defir-
te missionary lessons i'm SundaT
school and missionary add csses to
the children.
During the last fl seal year, the re-
port saws 3.533.5tO copies of pam
phIets and leaflets relating to miss
ianarv work have been issued. The
cost of distribution for five years WIS
S2C9.951. and for the last year $52.
a1S. or about a cent and a half per
Icaiiet The money th;ls spent is about
one and oue-siyteentn per cent of th"
total receipts of mission hoards.
The Commission finds that very IL
tIe is being offered in the line of spc-
cific COURSES on missions in the cur
ricula OF the academic institutions OF
k-ncrica outside the denominationai
SCHOOLS Increasing effort. however. Is
being made to treat the subject more
or less exhaustivelv in connection
with the departments of Comparative
Religion. Pedagogy, ,Anthropology,
HISTOLOGY. Sociology, Sacred Litera-
ture, Political Science Ethics. His
tory of Religion, Philosophy and O-i-
entail Religion.
The supreme value of the work of
the Young Mems Christian Association
and the Young WoTan's Christian AS
soriation II the conduct of mission
study classes is highly emphasized.
"In America" says the report, an
exhaustive investigation was made
among one hundred and tive nty-eight
Theological training institutions. The
ionuiries related 70 Mission Study
Courses in the Curriculum Mission
Lecture Courses Cost of Missionary
instruction Voluntary Mission Stu
dv.' Missionary Literature Replies
were received from one hundred and
fifteen institutions.