Evening star., 1925-11-16
M. f. WORK ABROAD
! WELL SUPPORTED
S3, l93,403 Given to Foreign
o. Mission Service in
x-
H. Last Year.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
DELAWARE, Ohio, November 16.
The board of foreign missions of
tho Methodist Episcopal Church re-
ceived total of S3,193 ,4o3 for its edu-
Cdtional, eVangelistic and medical
service in more than 40 countries of
the world during the year ended Oc-
Toner 81, 1925, IL report made TO the
annual meeting of the board in seS-
SION here today disclosed.
While actual receipts were greater
'han for the previous year by $4,000.
Inc amount of money that can be
appropriated TO the mission fields
inns year under church laws is ap-
rroNimately $50 900 less than Il year
ago because $92 900 of this years re-
c9ptS We're given for the express
purpose of relieving heavy financial
loss of the previous y months.
In addition to the total receipts to
be distributed this year, s271 ,S66 has
been paid on the outstanding debt of
the board.
Last Years Expenditures.
Expenditure of funds on foreign
m.sSion fields last year included:
thina, S673. .0o0;. Japan Korea ana
AIanchuria, S26S zoe; Malaysia, the
Philippines, Borneu, Java and Su-
matra, S139. 900; India, $126.000;
Africa central and Southernl, SlS6,-
900; Mexico and South America,
$4,000; 16 countries In Europe and
North Africa, 1881 900.
4 pilgrimage to the grave of James
w. Bashford, former president Ohio
Wesleyan University and for many
Years bishop of the Methodist EpiS-
Copal Church in China, will be made
today by some 800 mission workers
and visitors attending the meeting.
An address at the grave will be de-
1vered by Prof. Rollin II. Walker Of
Ohio Wesleyan University, former
pupil Of Bishop Bashford. An ad-
dress by Bishop William Q. Shepard,
Portland, Greg, and DR. Thomas J.
Jones of Phelps Stokes Foundation of
New York featured the morning
session.
Says Harmony Aided.
Dr.. p. w. kuo. president OF the
National Southeastern University,
Nanking, and James NJ. Yard. former
editor of China Christian Advocate,
Shanghai. will discuss the Christian
movement in China at tonight's
meeting.
Foreign missionary work such as
that carried on by the Methodist
ISI4oIpprit NiluTCIt 10 iIldhlIIS q ulSIlnCL
contribution TO the welfare of the
world, DIR. Jones declared.
1T is hoping the peace and harmony
OF nations and aiding better mutual
understanding of the races of man
kind" he said.
DR.. Jones was chairman of two COM
missions of educators and scientists
who recently made extensive studies
of educational problems and condi-
tions in Africa, and rendered reports
which have resulted in enlarged plans
for the missionary undertakings on
that continent.
Africa, Asia and Europe are at
our doors,' he continued. They can
undermine our peace by their disease
and their quarrels or they can help
to make us a greater nation by their
wealth of resources and their friend
ship"
American influence, through the
churches, in the Portuguese posses
sions is far more intimate and ef-
fective than that of the League Of
Nations can possibly be- he declared.
The United States is the most wicked
nation in the world, has one-third of
the worlds wealth, of which the
Methodists have a large share, but
Methodist communicates gave only
70 cents per member for foreign mis-
sions last year, DR.. j. NJ. Yard, Shang.
nai, China, declared yesterday in an
address,