El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-01-22
AMERICANS INCREASE MISSION
GIFTS 81 ,625,300 IN THE YEAR
Church Unity Advanced at Preparatory Conference at
Garden City; Canada Joins With U. S. in Mission
Work; international Y. NJ. G. A. Convention to Be
Held in Cleveland; Raise Half of Million Fund

@HE American people, through their
churches and their foreign mis-
sionary societies, gave last year,
a war year. S1.625,3 more than dur
ing 1914 Their total gifts last year
reached S17.145,5OO. or including Cana
da, siS,793. 900. These sums are the
largest by far in the history Of Amer
lean foreign mission giving, and they
are larger than are given by all OF
the rest Of the world together Be
cause Of the war, foreign mission ug-
ures for Europe for the years 1913
and 1915 are lacking. The total for
all the world is not, however much
above S30.O00.O0O showing that the
United States and Canada give con-
siderably more than half Of the entire
sum
No foreign society in Canada has
an income Of 100000. and the great
foreign societies Of the United states,
as shown by figures for last year ana
just now made public, are:
Presbyterian, North o.. 2,252-t00
Methodist. North 1,5se,lOO
Baptist, North -------- 1,56s,z9e
E6;p p .,,i '------- I' IS1 5SS
Christians in the foreign fields Of
these societies also give large sums
toward their own support THESE
Christians now number 2,644,OOu nav
ing doubled in numbers IN the past ten
years. When their gifts are added
the big American societies show fig
urss as follows:
Presbyterian -.----... z'9ls,599
Baptist ..-.. ---- z4sl,e0v
Methodist $500 A456,l0O
Episcopal ...-. 1.6Iz,zO9
Congregational ...- -.- l,46Sso0O
Besides these record breaking fig
ures some home mission societies sent
S594.20O TO foreign fields in Mexico,
Central America and Cuba The Amer
lean Board. ugregauonal, and the
Presbyterian North sent more tnan
$1,000, 900 TO Syrian and Armenian SUI
ferers because Of the war Two Socie-
ties. the Baptist and the Episcopal,
paid off big debts. the last named re
curing the raising Of 100000 IN ad-
dition to the sums reported in the reg
ular way. Women's boards had also
their greatest year in 1915, spending
under their own administrator or
turning over to the official boards
larger sums than in any previous year
Because OF the war the Standard Oh
company has figured in foreign mis-
sion affairs. When IL was Impossible
70 transmit money ito the near fields
IN Turkey and IN Egypt, owing 10 war
conditions. il was found impossible
also 10 transmit money from those
countries So the foreign missionary
societies paid their money INTO Inc ne
Standards treasury in New YORK The
oil company cabled 10 COnstantinOple
to agents there 10 pay 10 missionary
and Bible society treasurers there And
DOLn missions ana OH lEuspettI IN spALt
OF war. Most of the relief funds con-
tributed by Americans 20 Armenians
and Syrians, and NOT 4 little sent by
and Gslicians here to their
friends in Southern Europe were trans
mitted in the same fashion.
An unusual feature OF foreign mis-
sions in 1915, as in 1914. was in Eu-
rope now at war, who We're helped by
funds from the United
States Some OF these " ere Roman
Catholics, and some Protestants.