FOREIGN MISSIONS one period of three years, when they were transferred to Hangchow, her life has been devoted to the women and girls of the ancient capital of China. Here she developed an excellent boarding school for girls in which the influence of her beautiful character has moulded the lives of many who are now in their own homes, remembering one who lived for them and their country-women alone. Mrs. Leaman's life was not confined to her school. All who came near her felt the power of her refined consecration, her simplicity, her patience, her overflowing love and kindliness, and even when ill health and suffering limited 31 her tireless activities, her mere presence was felt as a blessing and good cheer. The many friends of Mrs. Dwight E. Potter will be grieved to learn of the death of her infant son at Tripoli, Syria, on Thanksgiving day. The little boy was consecrated by his father on his dying bed to the work of missions. He has indeed been a true missionary, winning the hearts of all who were privileged to come under the influence of his pure and happy life. The sympathies of the entire Church will go out to Mrs. Potter in her sore bereavement. BOOK REVIEWS "A Bluestocking in India,” by Winifred Heston, M.D., is a bright and readable_book which gives a vivid picture of life in India. Like "The Lady of the Decoration," it is a series of chatty letters to an intimate friend, letters which are unconventional and rich in human interest. We only regret that, like "The Lady of the Decoration," a love episode is pulled in as if the destined end of a single woman missionary was marriage. But this love story will doubtless make the book more attractive to some readers. (Fleming H. Revell Co., New York.) "Echoes from the Edinburgh Conference," by W. H. T. Gairdner. This is a short, graphic, crisp presentation of the World Missionary Conference at Edinburgh. The author was well qualified by previous missionary training and experience to accurately weigh the things of value in the Conference. The personnel of the Conference, the scope and trend of the papers presented, the pith and point of the discussions, and as far as it is possible to do so on paper, the spirit which dominated this great missionary gathering, are set forth in a most attractive manner in this little volume. It is a fitting introduction to the nine volumes which constitute the authorized report of the proceedings of what many thought was the greatest religious assembly since the day of Pentecost. LEAFLETS.* A Half Century of Evangelism in Japan. Korea-Twenty-five Years After. Bulletin No. 23, "The Rising Tide of Spiritual Life in To the Uttermost Part of the Earth. Sermon by Rev. The Yellow Slave Traffic, by Donaldina Cameron. Conference and Conquest. A 1810-Foreign Missions After a Century-1910. resume of some of the Notable Foreign Mission events of the century. Especially valuable to missionary pastors and leaders. "The Korean Pentecost," by an eye-witness. Report on a Second Visit to China, Japan and Korea, Dr. A. J. Brown. Report of Visit of Robert E. Speer to South America. The Educational Work of the Board of Foreign Missions. This attractive booklet sets forth the 1,775 educational institutions of the Board of Foreign Missions. The Seventy-third Annual Report of the Board of For price list of leaflets send for Catalogue, 156 Fifth Avenue, New York. with a fee of 25 cents to help cover expense of sending, will have sent to them samples of all new literature published by the Board. "All the World," a magazine issued quarterly in the interest of the Home Department of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A., will be sent to each Certified Contributor of not less than $5.20 a year to the work of the Board, not more than one copy to any one family. In order to obtain second-class postal privileges, it is required that the form of subscription used in enlisting Foreign Mission contributions include a statement to the effect that "a subscription of not less than ten cents a week or $5.20 annually to Foreign Missions entitles the subscriber to the magazine 'All the World.'" Addresses must be received a month in advance in order to insure the receipt of the next issue, and should be sent to The Home Department Secretary, Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church, 156 Fifth Avenue, New York City. NEW SUNDAY SCHOOL DEPARTMENT LEAFLETS. Missionary Atmosphere in the Sunday School. Feasible Missionary Education in the Sunday School in connection with Uniform or Graded Bible Les sons. Definite Program for a Year's Missionary Instruction in the Sunday School. Missionary Plans for the Adult Bible Class. State leniversity work Presbyterian Students in St. lunversities-9000 104.000 7.065.877 321.516 10.880 Ο EDUCATION HUYLER'S M. P. ACCOUNT N the evening of December 31, 1886, John S. Huyler came into the Hall on One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Street where the early work of the Calvary Church was conducted and at the watch-night service knelt with the little company of which his devoted mother was one, and joined in the closing prayers of consecration. I can see him now as he entered and as he knelt. The Spirit of God brought him there, but what was the occasion? To a few he had told it. He had left his office with the check for his part of the year's dividends in his pocket without knowing the amount. On his way to join comrades in festivity and frolic, under the light of a street lamp he looked at the check and was startled that the amount so far exceeded his expectations. Upon him came a sense of responsibility never before known. Two ways opened before him. We know the way he chose. Conscience, the sense of duty, gripped him, Gradually but surely there came into his heart a deep gratitude to God for his own redemption and for the ever enlarging resources with which he might help in the world's uplift. John Huyler for many years has kept what he called his M. P. account-"My Partner" Account. Into it have gone ample shares of the profits of a great business, and from it have been drawn the supplies with which he has blessed the world. He has done more than have faith in God-he has kept faith with God. A part of his charm and power has been his straightforwardness with his Master on the basis both of gratitude and of conscience. His rules of financial conduct touching the Kingdom would, if everywhere applied, in a single year provide the amplest resources for the equipment and the efficiency of every enterprise the world over in which the Christian Church is now engaged.-The Christian City for November. 33 H MAKING MONEY FOR GOD ON. ALPHEUS HARDY. the princely benefactor of countless good causes, who educated the great Japanese Christian, Dr. Joseph Hardy Neesima, once told this thrilling story of his experience: "I am not a college man, and it was the bitter disappointment of my life that I could not be. I wanted to go to college and become a minister; went to Phillips Academy to fit. My health broke down, and, in spite of my determined hope of being able to go on, at last the truth was forced on me that I could not. "To tell my disappointment is impossible. It seemed as if all my hope and purpose in life were defeated. 'I can not be God's minister,' was the sentence that kept rolling through my mind. "When the fact at last became certain to me one morning-alone in my room-my distress was so great that I threw myself flat on the floor. The voiceless cry of my soul was, 'O God, I cannot be Thy minister!' Then there came to me as I lay, a vision, a new hope, a perception that I could serve God in business with the same devotion as in preaching, and that to make money for God might be my sacred calling. The vision of this service and its nature as a sacred ministry was so clear and joyous that I rose to my feet, and with new hope in my heart exclaimed aloud, 'O God, I can be Thy minister! I will go back to Boston. I will make money for God, and that shall be my ministry.' "From that time I have felt myself as much anointed and ordained to make money for God as if I had been permitted to carry out my own plan and been ordained to preach the Gospel. I am God's man, and the ministry to which God called me is to make and administer money for Him, and I consider myself responsible to discharge this ministry and to give account of it to Him." PUBLICATION AND SABBATH-SCHOOL WORK T ALEXANDER HENRY, D.D., Secretary. The Work and Vision of the Sunday HIS Board regards the children of the Church as its special responsibility, That this may be accomplished, the Sunday School Board is presenting to the Church the best and most modern methods of Sunday-school work; the best courses of study based upon accepted pedagogical ideas, and the inspiration toward a more aggressive and intelligent prosecution of missions. The aim is not to exploit the Sunday-school as a supporter of benevolent objects, but to make it the great training school of the Church, believing that the various benevolent causes will be more liberally aided as our Sunday-school pupils are trained to understand them. This Board stimulates the organization of Adult Bible Classes and Home Departments, realizing that one of the surest ways of holding the children in the Sunday-school is to have the parents and other adults interested in a direct and vital way in the study of God's Word. The Adult Bible Class Movement in our Church has over 100,000 persons enrolled. Our Home Departments have 110,000 members. This is a hopeful sign. The vision of our Sunday School Board extends beyond the children within the Church to the millions of children in our land who are not reached by any denomination. The Board employs a corps of 125 Sunday-school Missionaries who visit the scattered settlements and villages where these children are found, and organize Sunday-schools for them. More than one million persons have been gathered into such schools. The Sunday-school Missionaries are also doing effective work in holding Conferences and Sunday-school Institutes, especially among the smaller schools in the country districts, thus raising the standard of their work, and giving them the opportunities which heretofore have been open only to the schools in the older and more thickly settled parts. Our Board is a strong factor in solving the immigrant problem. We are publishing four weekly periodicals in four different languages, with a combined circulation of 7,500 copies. Bible Picture Cards are published with appropriate comments in six different languages, to the number of 12,500 per week. Besides the regular visits of these religious periodicals to the homes of the foreigners, we have twentytwo colporteurs who are constantly visiting foreign settlements in different parts of our country, distributing Bibles and other religious literature in their native tongues. This is one of the most effective methods of evangelizing the foreigner. Closely allied to Sunday-school educational work is the movement in behalf of Presbyterian Young People's Societies. For three years an efficient Young People's Department has been supported by our Board, which has been exceedingly helpful to the Church at large. Its work is largely inspirational. The Department has recently been enlarged by the appointment of an Assistant Superintendent. The extensive publishing business of the Board is self-supporting, and pays twothirds of its annual profits to the Sunday-school Department for the support of its work. With this fund all administrative expenses are met, a considerable surplus remaining to be applied toward the extension of our work for Sunday-schools. THE ADVANCE MOVEMENT OF THE SABBATH E SCHOOL BOARD VERYONE who is alive to the spirit of the age realizes the strategic position which the Sunday-school occupies in the advancement of the Kingdom of God. Those who are zealous for reform in political, social and religious life are directing their best thought and effort toward the proper training of the boys and girls of today, knowing that by implanting within them the great principles of social and civic righteousness and honesty during the plastic age, they will adhere to them in manhood and womanhood. The Meeting Place of a Mission Sunday School in the Wisconsin Woods. A Training School. The modern minister appreciates the situation; and it is difficult to find one who neglects his Sunday-school or the training of his young people for Christian service. Indeed, the minister of today has become the leader and director of the Sunday-school forces. Those who administer the missionary and benevolent enterprises of the Church have seen the vision, and as a result, splendid courses of study have been prepared for children and young people of all ages, so that when they come to mature years, and the support of such enterprises falls upon them, they will give because they have an intelligent understanding of the missionary idea, the need, and the motive which should inspire all missionary giving. All eyes are looking toward the Sunday-school as the institution which, more than any other, will solve some of the greatest problems that confront us as a people. Specializing for Sunday-schools. In this connection it is worthy of special notice that our Presbyterian Church has a Board, well organized and thoroughly equipped to promote the interests of Sunday-schools. This is the age of specialization, in the religious world as well as in commercial spheres. The Board of Publication and Sabbath School Work is specializing for the Sunday-school. Coincident with the awakening of the past few years which has brought the Sunday-school to the front as the leading educational, evangelizing and missionary force, the Board of Publication and Sabbath School Work has been making rapid strides for the betterment of this work. It has held before the Church a vision of the greatness of the task which she has to perform in the religious training of her youth, and the opportunities for service in a field that is "white unto the harvest." |