Evening star., 1925-10-26
SOCIETY EXPLAINS
MISSIONARY WORK
tooth Anniversary Meeting
Held With Other "Ex-
tension Boards"

The Congregational Home Mission
ary Society, founded in New York City
on May II, 1926, today is holding its
annual meeting at the Washington
Auditorium in celebration of its ap-
preaching hundredth anniversary.
The Missionary Society is meeting
with the Church Building and Sunday
School Extension societies, which con-
Stitute a group known as The
Church Extension Boards" This aft
ernoon's and evenings sessions of the
trio of societies will be shared with
the $500 delegates attending the
twenty-first biennial gathering of the
National Council of Congregational
Churches.
For almost 100 years. officers of
the Congregational Home Missionary
Society reminded the delegates today.
The congregational Home Missionary
Society has labored to make and keep
America Christian. 1t has received
over 700, 900 persons into membership
in missionary churches.
Has 1867 Workers.
To-day it has 1867 workers. 1t
is active not only on the frontier.
but among the Northern colored men
and women. foreignspeaking peoples
and in city and rural .Ields.'
DR.. T.. NJ. Halliday, general secre-
tary of the extension society. report
ed that 22O new mission Sunday
schools have been organized in two
years, 2,536 churches, Sunday schools
and preaching points visited; 1851
conventions. institutes and group CON
ferences shared in; nearly 1000 ser
mons, Sunday school addresses and
other messages delivered. with mile
age figures reaching over 100000.
The total received by the Extension
Board during the past two years
amounted to S164, ,42S.0S.
Income Doubled.
The income Of the society increased
from $50 ,20256 in 1918 to SS2, 1882
in 1924. The net gain in Sunday
school enrolment for the biennium Is
7,Sll. Independent mission schools
showed n net increase of 5,526, with
920 organiZa tions and a total mem
bership of 37.9o5. The net gain in
the missionary territory and consut-
uent States was 11,79j.
The Congregational Church Build
ing Society, 1t was reported. in each
of the two years Of the biennium just
passed has received from all sources
over half a million dollars. making a
total for the two years. 1928 and 1924,
of Sl,1ll,654, this being approximately
800 600 less than in the preceding
biennium.
OF this total sum $24.S31 went to
the parsonage loan fund from gifts
made for that specific purpose, while
S9S. .643, from legaCieS and special gifts,
went to increase the church loan fund,
and s. 7.450 was received as conditional
gifts ultimately to be added TO the
same fund. The grant fund was aug
mented by $40. from repayment or
former grants. and by $685. from the
sale of abandoned church property.
S37O,92O From Churches.
From the churches and affiliated So
cieties the contributions were S37o,92o.
the repaid installments on church
loans amounted to S256,64 and par
sonage loans to s9,04s. The income
from interest amounted to $94,607, and
the balance of the total receipts came
from miscellaneous sources.
Speakers at the annual meetings OF
the three societies making up the Con
gregational Church extension group
today included Rev. w. y. DeBeryy.
on Negro Work in the North; DR..
D. Witherspoon Dodge, on "Congrega-
tional Churches as Creators of the
Christ Consciousness in the Cities OF
the South: Mrs. Jennie +. Pratt, on
"The School at the Gateway; Austin
6. Phillips of Harvard University, on
"A Summer in the Cheyenne Valley
Miss Helen Wilcox, on Pioneering
With Mugala"; n. C. Wallin, on Pow
der River Country; Rev. r. X. Shoe
maker, on ella Monsters and Other
Monsters: Rev. Claton 5. Rice, on
The Mormon Situation; Rev. Frank
E. Henry. on THE Flaming Frontier
Mrs John ]. Pearsall. on Women in
Home Missions: DR.. j. Percival
Huget, president Of the church exten-
sion boards, on 'Triumphs of an I'm
perial Vision"