The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-05-23
PRESBYTERIAN FOREIGN
 MISSION WORK SHOWS
 DEFICIENCY OF S65, 3O2

Atfznta. May 23EThe TSth annual report of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Afissiow presented to the general assembIy%this week showed total .Hppropriations and disbursements for the fiscal year ending March 13 1913, of s1. .s52.e4z- The 3otal credits were @. .sST. .342. showing a. deficit on the to- faI appropriations%off $65, ,S02
 It was eSttneteA at the beginning of the year that the receipts from Churches, Women's1 Societies. Sunday Schools and Young Peoples Societies would amount to $1,o0.O00. There was received from these sources 1, ,234, ,69S, showing a deficit of 65-S02. The 1n- .creased 7ppropriationS were. made nec- essaTy by the expansion of the work The total. amount received from the churches during the year, which is the Stable source Of income, was $706, ,251. This is s12e95 more than has ever been received from this source in the iEearEr of the churchs history. In 1903 the board received from the churches only s3z9 1s5, in 1918 S7O6, ,251, thus the Seceiptss from thia source alone have more than doubled in the ten years. ,ReceiKfs from Women,s Societies were S1uJ02. being an increase of $11, ,165 over the previous year.
 ssThe last General Assembly, reeOg -5iizsnE the unique and urgent situa tior. in China" says the report ''authorize6 a S-fs na Emergency PrOpazanda. with
 
 las an extra. and funds sufficient for f1his enlarged work. The campaign x.es begun 1ns the Ezu of 1912, and the 17nancia1 results at the close Of the seal year showed in cash aad pledges that some $500, 600 had been received.
 .-ro the above amounts should be added the receipts on the field from native sources. such as Educational, Medical and E9zaRgelistic Work, the :eum Of s5O1, ,192.
 r1P Board purchased and acquired during 5<ne past year amounted to nearly =s5ooO00, making the total net amount Of securities owned by the board at lfhe present time S. $50, 9o9.
 The board has sent out during the year to the foreign field S9 new mis- se5onaries. The total number of mis- .efonaries now engaged in the work Of the board the foreign fields is i1f57 To this must be added S15 ma tive preachers and 4,97O other native fhelpers- The .communicant member ship of the native church is 122.O0O. ITO this should be added 69,770 cate sr-ha1rnens or those who have confessed tr-hrtst and are under instruction pre- ,paratory to being received into full fcomrnIirion in the church
 .aThe board has under it's care 7s y1sospftaIs and 11s dispensaries. Pa t4ieuts treated, 456s65S-
 ssUnde< the care of the board in non- ,aChristian lands there are about 1,s0o leducatio11aI institutions. from the vil- Haze school in Africa and the kinder .earten in Japan to great institutions like the Shautung E University at Weih- aIen. China. or the Sil1iman Institute at Dunaguete, P. l., or the FOrnan g-hrfstian College at Lahore. India, one of the leading educational institutions 4n the Puntab. More than 100000 pu- 5iIs boarding and day, receive in struction in these various schools or Earning.
 ssThe revolution in Mexico and the s7izturbed condition in the Turkish Empire, and the changes growing ou! of the relations of Russia and Great Britain in Persia, have interfereo Somewhat with the work in these Hands The arrest, trial and convlc- stson of more than 100 Korean Chris s45an leaders, most Of whom were mem s75ers of Presbyterian churches, caused srso little anxiety to the board and 1n- 4erfered somewhat with mission ac- <1vftfes In Korea However, S9 Of the sa5 convicted Koreans have now been nruuitted, to the great joy of thou ands of Korean Christians. Notw1th- standing the anxiety and unrest caus- ed by these trials of the Korean Christians, there were added to the hoard 6,4os communicants, and at the 1rezent time there are 22,503 catechu- mems under instruction.
 s-T-t,e great political changes which took place in China during. the year cave a new impetus to mission work 1 .-The other fields where there has 1z.eu special advance are-Africa. where 1 06O were added to the mem f,srship of the church. the entire group Fg churches being self-supporting; the is5hfIfppine Islands, 1,200 additions. and ssn Laos. North Siam, where, follow fixz a severe epidemic Of malaria, the r1rx of the medical missionary was ro efficient and the superstfuons of sxhe people were so thoroughly driven <,qlt and the evangelistic fervor of the ,ChriStfans so pronounced that some