The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-12
MAGNITUDE OF THE
WORK FOR MISSIONS
SHOWN BY FIGURES
Nearly a Million Dollars Are
Spent By Women Work
ers During 1912
CHILDREN WILL BE
FEATURE TOMORROW
Miss Sang Yong Tsung Will Talk to
} Children About the Daily Life
of the Little Ones
in China

made before that body
Hundreds of thousands of dollars are
spent each year In efforts to uplift those
MED and similar amount has gone to-
ward converting the pagan inhabitants of
foreign countries to accept the doctrine
of Christianity.
In the foreign field the three branches
of work are educational, medical and
evangelistic. and the same lines are fol-
lowed in America by trained salaried
workers.
Schools and colleges have been estab-
lished in China, Mexico, Brazil and Cuba,
while there is not large city in the
south in which a representative of the
Woman's Missionary council is not work
ing
AT the Mary Black hospital in Soochow,
China, 5000 patients were treated in 1872
Similar work is being done In other fields
The total amount expended in the five
foreign fields of the council in 1912 was
S2S4, 74039 The current expenses of oper-
alton in the home department of the coun-
ell for the same period was 1922. 1856 49,
making a total of 1907 IA expended in
uplift work during 1912.
. Seventy-one schools are operated in the
five foreign fields by the council. They
are distributed as follows; China &c.
Korea a. Mexico H. Brazil 8 and Cuba 2.
In China there are Al missionaries with
POST students in the schools. The value
of the property owned by the council is
estimated at $S43, 800 Work in China be
gan in 1878.
Work in Corea
Work began in Corea in 1895, and there
are at present 10 missionaries working
there with sS1 pupils in the schools. The
property value is estimated at $4,000
There are 2S missionaries working in
Mexico with 1866 pupils, and property
owned which is valued at 100000. The
officers of the council are especially proud
of the work in Mexico. There are schools
in nine different states, and the Saltillo
Normal school at Saltillo, of which Miss
Leila Roberts is principal, is regarded in
Mexico as one lof the best institutions of
learning In the country. Miss Roberts is
in Birmingham in attendance on the coun-
ell.
There are 2s missionaries in Brazil with
l225 pupils. The field was entered in 1881
In Cuba there are. four missionaries with
1872 pupils The value of the property
owned in the island is SS7,5oo.
Expenditure in Foreign Fields
The detailed expenditures in the foreign
fields for 1912 were as follows: Brazil
$4e.27 S2; China. s51,0ls 81; Cuba, s1o,502 so
Indian work, $3.50; Corea. S90Soo.12: Mex
leo, 80. AZ s..
A summary OF the work in the foreign
fields shows that 120 missionaries are
working in five foreign fields There are
616 pupils in the Il schools of the council
the expenses of which were $2S4740.39.
The foreign missionary work is but half
of the activities of the council There are
los trained salaried workers in the field In
the United States. Seventy-five of these
are deaconesses. q city missionaries and
10 doing special duty. There are 81 mis-
sion boards in as many cities, and it is
stated that there is a deaconess or city
missionary at work in every large city in
the south.
The detailed expenditures of the coun-
Gil for the home missions in 1912 We're .
Educational institutions, SOC, 1856 .99; city
missions. s5s.677. As. local work, s337.S75 .20
supplies which are sent to needy preach
ers and orphanages, s43,S22.N.
institutions in United States
In addition to the colleges maintained
in foreign fields the council supports
large number of industrial schools.
normal schools. mountain schools. set
tlement houses, rescue homes. sailors
rests and institutions of like nature
in the United States.
Among the largest and most impor-
tant colleges maintained in the Unit cd
States by the council are the Scarrett
Bible and Training school at Kansas
4. f..t.
at London, KY, and the other at Bre-
ward. S. c.. at the Hargrove institute.
In these institutions every branch of
learning is offered to the student The
Sue Bennett school at London has 424
students enrolled and 16 instructors.
while the Brevard institute has 1856
students.
one of the largest institutions of its
kind in the south is the Vashti Indus
trial school for homeless and neglected
girls at Thomasville, Ga. There are
1922 enrolled there at present. The Vir-
Einia X. Johnson Home for unfortunate
girls at Dallas, Tex, is another school
or which the officers of the council are
especial proud A handsome new
building has recently been erected. The
founder of the home is In Birmingham
attending the council.
Probably the largest college main
tanned by the council Is the Ruth Har-
grove institute at Key West Fla, with
an enrolment of 75s students with IL
instructors.
A chain of institutes and homes
stretch along the Atlantic coast and
tremendous amount of work Is being
done by workers of the Woman's Mis-
sionary council For instance the read
ing room of the Sailors Rest at Cuff
port was visited by 10,920 sailors dur
ing 1912. A home for the assistance
of immigrants at Galveston is main
tanned, an Italian mission at New Or
leans, settlement workers at Biloxi and
various other social service institutions
are operated directly from the Woman's $
Missionary council
In the field. class of u will be conse-
Grated by Bishop W. r. Lambuth next
Tuesday night and will be assigned posfs
vice are Miss Aletha Graham, Miss Mar
gle Webster. Miss Edith Birmingham, Miss
Bertha Attaway, Miss Leila Bliles, Miss
Miss Bessie Hardie, Miss Eva Hardi.s.
Miss Mary Baxter, Miss Laura Mitchell
and Miss Ethel McCaughan.
A class of deaconesses will also be con-
secrated Monday night by Bishop ]. H.
Mccoy. This class is composed of Miss
Matte Anderson. Alpine. Tex. Miss Lola
f. Brown, Selma. Cal; Miss Hazel Coop
er. Linden: Miss Lucy r. Epps. New
berry, S. C.. Miss Mary Fausnaugh, Bir-
mingham; Miss Sarah Hearon, Denver:
Miss Mary Meriwether, Trenton, KY;
Miss Laura Bell Proctor. DeKalb, Tex.