New Britain herald., 1921-06-24

ed. learn to read and write each year. Among the 3,S76,00 Christians in India one man in four and one wom- an in ten can read and write. II would be impossible to find teachers, | Is declared. to meet needs. for 5OO,. 900 villages have not even a primary school. and yet each village averages 60 children of school age. An inter- national commission with Americah representatives. is studying the solu- ton of this problem. Collegiate edu cation for girls is being extended in Judson college, the Baptist college of Burma.
 In parallel line with government policy. mission responsibility is being transferred by Baptists. wherever conditions are right. to local leader ship, the report states. adding that pioneering experiences have been met in three new mission fields opened during the year. Rev. William Pet tfgrew, the first missionary in the dis. trict. has found tribes with unwritten languages in Manipur State, Burma. At Jamshepur. the big steel center in Bengal. work is being undertaken for Americans as we'll as for Indians. Al Mong Lem. just over the Chinese border from Burma. much time has been taken in checking persecution of Christians.
 In China political conditions have led to banditry. and several mission aries have been robbed. Fortunately none have been injured. For famine relief the society has sent s1O0. 900. although the afflicted regions are far from itJ stations In South China the year marked he completion of so years of work, and great celebrations were held by the Chinese. A large number of Orienta l students are studying in American schools and Baptist seminaries preparing for mis sionary work in their homelands.
 The report continues stating that features of the year in Japan were the World Sunday School convention in Tokyo and the enlargement of tho Mabie Memorial School in Yokohama, which is one of the leading schools in Japan.
 An interdenominational commission IS in Africa studying needs along in dustrial lines. pr. Catherine l.. Ma. bic, Baptist medical missionary. i, with this commission in the Belgian Congo. The year. says the report has been marked by international con. ferences looking to closer co-opera ton of all bodies working in the Dark Continent. Rev. P. II. J. Ter. rigo, NJ. D.. secretary for Africa. will De sent by the society at once to sur. vey conditions in Baptist fields.
 Rev. Dr. Joseph c. Robbins, sec. reary for India and Burma is to he sent to those lands to study the prob. iems due to the new government sysem.
 Rev. Dr. James Franklin. secretar, for China and Japan. has been named 10 represont Northern Baptists in tn, formation of an international mis s-onary committee to unite Christian forces of tho world in seeking justic, in international and inter-raciaI re | lations, especially where poIiticaIl, weaker peoples are involved" Following tho survey by Dr. Charle! X. Brooks. commissioner of the Bap ..st World Alliance. throughou Europe. q conference of the Baptis World Alliance executive committe, | daring tho last year placed responsi ' bllity for aid 10 Baptists of France Belgium .French-speaki king Switzer | land, Poland. Czecho- -Slovakia, Nor way. Latvia. Iithuania. Esthonia Northern Russia and Denmark upor l Northern Baptists. Physical relic has been carried on in Northern France. Southern Belgium. Poland czecho-Slovakia by pastors of these
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