Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-05-23
ASSEMBLY Of
PRESbY1ERIANS
Report of Sabbath Schools.


LOUISVILLE, KY, May ga year
of earnest service filed with educa.
tional. missionary and business activ.
ity was reported by the Board of Pub
lication and Sabbath.school Work be-
fore the General Assembly of the
Presbyterian Church in the United
States of America today.
OF the department of Sabbath
school and missionary work, the re-
port says in part:
"The number of Sabbathschool
missionaries in the field, for longer
or shorter periods, was 1879, besides
rs colporteurs whose attention was
given entirely to the visitation of for.
eign settlements. Following the mis-
sionary policy of their respective
Presbyteries, our missionaries have
organized 651 new schools and re.
vived PAP, making total of S.3, into
which they have gathered 30,305 per-
sons of whom 3,066 were officers and
teachers and 27,239 we're pupils.
More than $500 mission schools not
yet self.supporting, have been aided
during the year. Reports received
from our missionaries show 2,455 Sab
bath schools under their care with
membership Of 1922. During the
year 26,291 volumes and $685. pag-
es of religious tracts have been distri.
buted; besides 1851 Bibles and Testat
ments. of which 3,677 were in foreign
languages. Reports from the field
show that SO new churches have
grown out of mission schools organ
lied by our missionaries during pre-
vious years. OF these churches 78|
are Presbyterian and 20 are of other
denominations. Our missionaries
have assisted in the erection of 81
Presbyterian chapels to house their
new organizations. The value of
these buildings is $126,S5O.
About $500 Sabbath schools used
our Children's Day supplies last year,
over 100000 copies of the program
and supplement having been distrib.
uted. OF the Rally Day program 3O3,.
900 were distributed among 1900 Sab.
bath schools. The total of offerings
from Sabbath-schools last year is |
$87,975. Contrary to our expectations
We are obliged to report a decrease of
$4,159.37 in the total contributions re.
ceived during the year. A gratifying
Increase is noted in the congregational
offerings. but decrease of $5,79060
in the Sabbath-school offerings on
Day and Rally Day more
hon offcaf fhic
to close the year with debt of 3d..
252.11."
OF the business of publication the
report states in part:
There have been published during
the year 4,352,314 copies of books and
tracts. and 66,248.215 copies of period.
icals which together with 5000 copies
of the Annual Report for the year
ending March 81, 1911. make an ag
gregate of 7O,60S,529 publications for
the year. The sales of books and
Sunday school and church supplies
for the year amount to $354.224. The
sales of Periodical lesson Helps and
Papers amount to $751;
D31.83, making aggregate sales for the
year or $9l Lob. The capital at the
of the year was $335,14
The net profits of the past year are
$30,234. OF this sum two-thirds, orl
s20.156 have been placed to the cred
it of the Sabbath-school and Mission
ary Fund. The remaining third has
been added to capital. In addition
to this. the sum of $4,000, which re-
presents the amount advanced by the
Business Department in 1895 toward
the purchase of the site upon which
the Witherspoon Building (Philadel-
phia) stands, has been returned dur
ing the past year to the Business De-
nartment out of available funds in the
hands of the trustees, and placed d.
rectly to the credit of capital. The
capital has. therefore, been increased
bv the addition of these two items to