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OFFICERS OF THE'COUNCIL.
PRESIDENT: ••• • ••
V ICE-PRESIDENT
SECRETARY
TREASURER
Rev. H. V. S. Peeke, D.D.
Rev. A. OItmans, D.D.
Rev. H. Kuyper.
Mr. J. C. BaUagh.
PUBLICATIONS COMMITTEE.
Prof. W. E. Hoffsommer.
Rev. H. W. Myers, D.D.
Rev. H. K. Miller.

SECRETARIES OF THE
MISSIONS.
REV .. J. G. DUNLOP, D.D. ... ••• .KANAZAWA.
Japan Mission Presbyterian Church in U.S.A.
REV. C. A. LoGAN ••• TOK..USHIMA.
Japan Mission Presbyterian Church in U.S.
REV. E. R. MILLER ... • •• TOKYO.
North Japan Mission Reformed Church in America.
REV. ALBERTUS PIETERS' ••• OlTA.
South Japan Mission Reformed Church in America.
REv. E. H. ZAUGG SENDAI.
Japan Mission Reformed Church in U.S.
MISS CLARA LOOMIS YOKOHAMA.
Women's Missionary Union.
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I. REPORT:
CO N TEN T S.
GIRLs' SCHOOlS
Hokusei J 0 Gakko
Seishu J 0 Gakko
Miyagi Jo Gakko
Joshi Gakuin
Kyoritsu Jo Gakko
F ems Seminary
Kinjo Jo Gakko ...
Hokuriku Jo Gakko ...
Wi Imina Jo Gakko
Sturges Seminary
Kojo Jo Gakuin ...
Industrial School, Kochi
'KINDERGARTENS
Shiba '"
Otaru ...
Shinagawa '"
Myojo
Miller
Margaret Ayers ...
Nishijin
Port Arthur
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CHILDREN'S SCHOOLS: PAGE.
Tsukiji Keimo 20
Shiba Keimo 21
Boys' SCHOOLS 21
Tohoku Gakuin... 21
Meiji Gakuin 23
Osaka Theological Training School... 25
Kobe Theological School... ... 26
Steele Academy... 27
BIBLE TRAINING SCHOOLS 29
Women"s Theo. School ofW. U. M. S. ... 29
Bible Training School, Tokyo ... 30
EVANGELISTIC WORK 32
Manchuria, Port Arthur, Chosen 32
Japan Proper 34
II. PROCEEDINGS 79
1. Opening and Meetings of Council 79
II. Reports of Officers and Standing Committees 80
111. Reports of Special Committees 96
IV. Miscellaneous Business 97
v. Committees u. 100
III. ROLL 102
IV. STATISTICS ... 108
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ealize that the better enforcement of the exercise rule has
been very beneficial.
The Y.W.C.A. has been a great factor in the Christian
work of the city. The special meetings for women and
girls have been wonderfuliy used and blessed. Nineteen
girls, fourteen at their own charges, attended the summer
conference.
This year marks the twenty-fifth year of l\fr. Hayasaka,
the Registrar of the school, who stands first among Japanese
in the number of years given to Christian educational work
in the German Reformed Mission.
The pressing need of the school is the immediate erection
of a science building at an estimated cost of $12,500.
Joshi Gakuin, Tokyo. Reported by Miss Milliken.
Japanese teachers... 20
Missionaries ... 5
Pupils Academic ... 166
Collegiate 44
Baptized Christians 79
Baptisms during the year II
During the year Miss Halsey returned from America,
and with her Miss Tanioka, after haviqg finished a four
years' course at Wilson College. Miss Tanioka teaches
in the science and translation departments.
The number of students this year shows a slight decrease
of about twenty··6ve in the Academic department, owing
perhaps partly to the rise in prices and partly to the
popularity of a large and finely equipped Roman Catholic
School opened in the near neighborhood.
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{OJ the business girls of Yokohama, in a little club which
brings together the younger graduates of the school three
times a year, and in devising ways to make the annual
school picnic a real help and uplift to both teachers and
girls.
One thing which has brought teachers and students
very c1pse together as one family in Christ is the communion
service to which the graduates are invited, held in
the chapel the last Sunday before the close of the Summer
term. The real desire is to be one in loyal and effective
service for the Master.
Hearty sympathy is felt with the plan to establish a Christian
College in Tokyo. Though it will be hard to lose
the older girls it is (elt that in the College they will find
far more to broaden and enrich their lives than it is
possible to give them in the smaller school and time and
money can be well used to strengthen the work of the
lower grades and so raise the standard of the school.
While each school will wish to retain it'> own individuality
and specialize along certain lines, they believe
in having greater uniformity in courses of· study and in
uniting schools where it can really be done to advantage.
They feel that the best work can only be done with a class
of (rom ten to twenty students where each one can receive
individual attention from the teacher.
Co-operation can be secured by encouraging attendance
at the Educational Association meetings, by uniting {or
lecture courses, by social meetings for the teachers of the
different schools and by arranging for each teacher to visit
other schools.

There is no improvement in buildings, equipment and
teaching force to report, except as told above. The buildings
have been thoroughly repaired and painted during the
year. It is hoped by another year to have a gymnasium
added to the plant.
The Mission has placed four of the graduates in evangelistic
work. The local branch of the Young Women's
Christian Association is doing much in direct personal
work among the pupils, and also supplying teachers for
outside Sunday Schools, of which there are at present six
in different parts of the city.
The attitude of the school towards the proposed Christian
College for women is sympathetic, but not over
sanguine in anticipation of its speedy realization. Now
that the project has been espoused (?) by the Woman's
Christian Educational Association of Japan, it is, unquestionably
in good hands. It has not at present, however,
sufficiently materialized to affect this school in any way.
As to uniform courses of study and union of schools,
there is nothing doing in this quarter, so far as known.
This is a' matter that naturally awaits the compilation of the
proposed College's curricula. Until then the schools will
probably go on as they are.
Co-operation is being had with other schools to the
extent of sharing some Japanese members of the staff.
The chief difficulty to be met is the competition on the
part of certain subsidized private schools, though a fair
complement of pupils is obtained. The entering class
numbered fifty-five.
An encouraging item is the granting of It recognition"
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y the Mombusho without any seeking on the part of the
school. That is, they were told by the local Commissioner
of Education that upon application by the school the
graduates during the years 1900-1915 inclusive, would be
'permitted to go up for examination for English ·teachers'
license. Of course the application was made in order to
remove the ban from the graduates in case any of them
wished to go up for examination. The application was
granted but as yet none have been heard of as going up
to take the examinations. No conditions whatever were
attached to this privilege.
Kinjo Jo Gakko, Nagqya. Reported by
Miss Thompson.
With the exception of the chapel and three class rooms
above it, a whole new plant is being erected. The etiquette
and dormitory buildings are nearly completed and will be
followed by the main school building and a home for the
foreign teachers. The whole plant is expected to be
finished. by (:hristmas. The equipment will be greatly
enlarged when the buildings are completed. The teaching
force is being strengthened. Last winter the services
of a Higher Normal School graduate were secured and
that teach,er is proving herself a treasure. The new head
teacher is at present completing his course for an M.A.
degree at the Kyoto Imperial University. He is an
earnest Christian and great help is expected from him on
his return in September. A sewing teacher with . government
license has just been secured and thus the faculty
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would seem complete in every respect. Government
recognition is expected to be asked for this fall ..
The teachers and girls work in three Sunday Schools
and have charge of the music in two of these. Hearty
favor is felt toward the Christian University or College,
for only then can other schools get the right kind of
Christian teachers and then the high school Christian girls
will be able to finish their education under Christian influences.
The present difficulty is to get the right kind of Christian
teachers. It is almost impossible to find Christian teachers
with government license and they are necessary in order
to receive and keep government recognition.
The entering class was the largest for years in spite of
the fact that the dormitory and part of the class rooms
were being torn down, and so many were not expected.
This shows that opposition to private and Christian schools
is being broken clown in this district.
Hokuriku Jo Gakko, Kanazawa. Reported by
Miss Johnstone.
No improvements have been made in school buildings
this year.
A Christian College is heartily longed for in order to
provide the Christian teachers needed. The course here
has been made to correspond in general to government
schools so there would be no difficulty in lining up with
the 'uniform courses of study which the College would
necessitate. Where a union of schools is possible hearty
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agreement is felt. . Co-operation in schools is heartily'
longed for. An interchange of helpfulness in case of
difficulty would much strengthen the work. Could a
record of Christian teachers be kept so that it could be
known at once upon need, if such a teacher could be
available? The gr-eat difficulty felt is the' lackef available
Christian teachers. Teachers holding diplomas are always
registered but that does not help out in looking for the
special qqalification desired, namely Christianity.
, Government recognition was granted this year and has
meant no lessening of Christian work or Bible teaching in
the school. It has given a better standing with the public
and an increase of pupils.
Wilmina Jo,Gakko, Osaka. Reported by
Miss Morgan.
Total enrollment for the year 194
Baptisms during the year ..• 3 I
Graduates, Academy... 13
Sewing ... 8
Baptized Christians in school 39
Christians professed or expecting 55
All the Academy .graduates this year were Christians
and all in the church but one. Also the sewing graduates
professed belief in Christianity but said their families dis.;.
approved.
A skeptical attitude is' felt toward the establishing of
a Christian College for Women as it does not seem that

Sturges Seminary, Nagasaki. Reported by
'Miss. Couch.
At the close of 1912 it -was decided to unite with the
Presbyterians in a union school at Sbimonoseki. Since it
is expected that the work here will close -in the -spring of
1914. work is being done under somewhat unusual conditions.
The teaching force is the same as at the close of last
year. ,Of the Japanese teachers all' but two are members
of the church, and the remaining two _are 'regular attendants.
The enrollment of pupils is, of course, smaller
than last year but a larger- number stayed in the school
than was expected. This term will probably close \vith 52
in', attendance. During the term four girls have' united
with the church. One ever-present difficulty is the, apposition
to Christianity in the homes of many day pupils.
One encouragement in a real spirit of trying to overcome'
faults by some of the pupils, and another, the attachment
sbown: by-many of the, graduates displayed by writing or
coming to their former teachers for advice.
Kojo Jo Gakuin, Yamaguchi. Reported by
Miss Bigelow.
_ The union of this school and the Sturges Seminary has
been approved by, the, boards, concerned. additionaUand
has been bought and grading has been begun. Plans have,
been made for five buidings; a recitation hall, a domestic
science hall, a gymnasium, a dormitory, and the ladies'
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-One present difficulty is lack of space for the 53 pupils
enrolled and many others trying to enter.
KINDERGARTENS.
Shiba Kindergarten. Reported by Mrs. J. K. McCauley.
Enrolled
Boys ...
Girls ...
Homes represented
Chrl$tian homes •••
Graduated in March
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79
76
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57'
Average.attendance 130
A new kindergarten building was completed in September
1912 and is very satisfactory in every way.
The Tsukiji Kindergarden was begun in March with 16
enrolled.
Otaru Kindergarten. Reported by Miss Rose.
An annual overflow is reported and the skillful kindergartner
with the Tokyo diploma does not believe in even
trying to keep the children quiet except in lesson hours
but she keeps them interested.
Shinagawa Kindergarten. Reported by Miss West.
Graduated in March ... 16
The two present teachers are both excellent teachers and
are both' Christians of an earnest evangelistic type. The head
teacher has made the infant department of the Sunday
SChool so attractive that practically the whole kindergarten
attends, but better· than this, she and her assistant have
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filled every day with the spirit of Christian love so that in
the most natural way the children are learning of the
Heavenly Father in song and talk and prayer. The present
attendance isoforty;..five.
Fukui Biko Kindergarten. Reported by Mr. Detweiler.
Enrolled at beginning of fall term 43, with two teachers.
Spring term, 6 I, with three teachers.
During the winter one mothers' meeting was held as
a.. sort of social affair for all to become acquainted. During
the spring some repairing was done and the building
throughly renovated. Mothers' meetings are now held
twice a month where first a religious service is held and
then Mrs. Detweiler teaches the ladies sewing.
Mrs. S. P. Fulton has two kindergartens, in or near 0
Kobe.
Miss Leavitt reports a church kindergarten with the
pastor as superintendent. The town office makes a little
yearly contribution to it. One teacher employed by the
.mission for Sunday School work gives most of her time to
the kindergarhm. EnroHment I 30 pupils. The rooms
built for the kindergarten solve the problem for separate
rooms for Sunday School classes.
Myojo Kindergarten, Yanlaguchi. Reported by
Miss Bigelow.
So many applied for admission in April that a second
assistant was engaged. All the kindergartners are grad uates
of the Kojo Jo Gakuin. The children attend Sunday
School very regularly and .the graduates attend spasmodically.

as possibly replacing non-Christian with Christian teachers
and from the beginning of the September term all the
teachers in the institution will be professing Christians. In
making this change in the staff it has been necessary to
_make.parting gifts to most of those who were displaced.
,In a number of cases also. in order to secure the men
,desired, it ·has been necessary to pay higher salaries than
had previously been paid; and this in turn has made it
necessary to increase the salaries of most of the Christian
teachers retained. Their salaries were not what they were
entitled to ; and, under the circumstances it was impossible
to discriminate against them. It will therefore be necessary
to have the regular grants from the Boards correspondingly
increased. It is the common judgment that the present
staff is the best the institution has ever had; and some of
the new teachers are proving themselves to be real additions
to the institution from the distinctively Christian point
of view.
Osaka Theological Training School. l

as have also the pastors, have work in nearby villages.
Ten persons' have' been led to public confession of their
faith. There has been no discord among believers and all
have felt that a new era is opening for the work in Gita
Prefecture, and have labored with quickened zeal. The
greatest need excepting a spiritual revival, is suitable property.
Better buildings have been rented but renting is
expensive and the tenure insecure.
The striking feature of Mr. Pieters' work has been
evangelizing by means of newspaper ad vertising. He has
bought advertising space and daily printed brief articles on
religious questions, passages of Scripture, and an offer to
send Christian literature to those who send addresses. All
inquiries were followed up and where possible calls were
made upon the inquirers by the evangelists nearest. More
than nine hundred applications were received and literature
sent· in reply. Some of the results have been that (I)
The message has been carried to the most remote and
widely scattered places. (2) The message has been made
accessible to multitudes who had no access to it before,
(the newspapers have gone into banks, public offices, barber
shops and other places where men congregate). (3)
Public interest has been excited. (4) The Gospel in the
Newspaper has gone where it could have gone in no other
way. (5) Many have through these articles been brought
into personal contact with the missionary and the local
evangelists. (6) The newspapers have been led to adopt
a friendly attitude. (7) The newspaper work has led to
new openings for the regular workers. (8) The workers
of other missions have also been benefited by this special
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crowds to the public meetings. and often as many as. a
thousand have attended these meetings. The auto has
been a means of tract distributing. Large quantities are
taken on each trip and handed out at public meetings and
to the one by one met upon the road.
Mrs. Worley has held regular women's meetings of
various kinds during the year, and with the Bible woman
she has given special instruction to a number of women
in their homes and this has resulted in the baptism of
several women.
Mrs. Worley, Sr., has held women's meetings, childrens'
meetings and does some work with student classes.
Miss Sherman reports a student Bible class and a women's
Bible class planned somewhat after Dr. White's method.
Mr. McIlwaine of Kochi reports that the work at Asahimura
in the west and of Kochi City was initiated and
still continues on the self-support plan except for chapel
rent which is paid by the mission. The Christians conduct
the Sabbath School entirely. The attendance has been
from forty to eighty and they also conduct the prayermeetings.
There are less than 25 members and some of
these are members of the Kochi Industrial School and are
no help financially. This group of Christians in addition
to paying their current expenses now pay three yen a
month toward a Japanese unlicensed preacher. They
also conduct a Sunday School in the missionary's house with
an attendance of about a hundred. These Christians make
Sabbath observance a part of their Christian life. Aki
church (Dendo-kyokwai) which has been self-sup-
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suppo'iting, and was organized as a Church in March, and
Rev. Mitsuru Tomida was· installed as pastor. Contributions
in other fields have increased, and one young man in
a lonely country town offered one-third of his earnings in
the insurance business to the Lord.
Evangelists have been earnest in their work, and three new
chapels nave heen opened. Two young men have offered
themselves for the ministry; one of them, a teacher of English
in a middle school, declining a flattering offer in order
to give his service entirely to the work of the Gospel.
In addition to the usual methods of country work, more
Bible Colporteurs have been used during the past year.
They visited over 60,000 homes and sold 6600 portions of
Scripture, talked with a great number of people, and have
kept in touch with inquirers, resulting in the opening of
new counties to the preaching of the Gospel.
The number of students in the Sunday School for some
unknown reason has decreased., It is a subject that needs
to be studied, but it seems that the better a Sunday School
is organized the more exclusive it becomes and the fewer
the number of students.
It is felt that the Conference with Dr. Mott made "a good
survey of the field, and that the great need is an increase
bothef foreign and Japanese workers in order to well
occupy the field.
The great difficulty is to produce a high type of
thoroughly converted, Sabbath-observing, fruthful churchmembers..
But the great encouragement is that there are
some Spirit-filled, prayerful evangelists and other Christians,
and it is believed that to them shall be given the victory.
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school including eight teachers and the pn"neipal is also
studying the .Bible and one of these has become a Christian
since the opening of the class in the fall. Nineteen more
school teachers are studying Christianity.
Miss Curd with the help of one of last year.' 5 graduates
of Joshi Gakuin has been holding children's meetings in
six different places each week, teaching on an average of
five hundred children weekly. Many of these· children
have stayed to the after meetings and have prayed. At a
town near by four small boys wishing to buy Testaments
at a time when the missionary had none with her insisted
on giving the money for the books in advance fearing that
it might be spent before the next visit of the teacher.. When
the principal of a primary school in one town visited a
meeting that was being held with ISO children in attendance
he talked to the boys on the outskirts of the crowd and
told them to remove their hats, he" himself standing outside
holding his hat in his hand during the whole meeting.
There is also a weekly meeting in a silk factory; and a
weekly woman's meeting at a silk factory and a cotton
factory.
40000 tracts have been given out including the children"s
tracts.
In the Yamaguchi field the number of baptisms for the
year has been 54.
The church at Wakamatsu has just completed a church
and parsonage including land at a cost ··of about 3300 Yelz.
It has not been dedicated yet as they are waiting to clear
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Evangelist Fukuda has carried on Bible Classes, Sunday
Schools, and other meeting regularly.
Mrs. Hail's Bible woman, graduate of the Wilmina
School, has rendered valuable services in Sunday Schools
and Bible classes. There is a Y. M. C. A. in the hospital
with a membership of 33,/our of whom are women. Mrs.
Hail and her helper have had their hands full with looking
after various Sunday Schools and house to house visiting of
the women in the various city and country points. The
houses visited this year seem to have welcomed the visitors
with more than the usual cordiality and there has been a
growing interest and more effective organization for active
service. Mrs. Hail is convinced that one of the big elements
in the country work is that suitable Bible women be
found for the development of the work. Women's work
needs a thorough-going inductive study of the whole
situation.
Dr. G. W. Fulton tells us that fuller occupation of the
field is slow because of scarcity of workers and lack of
funds. The Christians are doing well in the matter of
giving and value the privilege of being selfsupporting. One
body of believers reached the stage of Dendo-kyokwai
last year and another this year. This meant increased
giving and a nearer approach to self-support. The workers
are active and energetic, seeming to realize their responsibility
and are growing in the art of soul-winning. 1f any
criticism is to be offered, it is to the effect that the independent
churches, and the Christians connected with the DendOkyokwai
as well, are not as alert as they might be to the
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evangelistic opportunity around them. They seem to feel
themselves incompetent to do Sttnday School teaching.
and the importance of wide seed-sowing does not appeal to
them as being a part of their responsibility.
There are more applicants to the Theological Training
School than in previous years at this time, whatever bearing
that may have upon the question of candidates for the
ministry ..
The endeavour is to push rural evangelization around
Osaka. One man is wholly engaged in that work and a
couple of students are devoting a part of their time to it
this summer, in the territory east of the city. The methods
which have proved most successful are visiting to begin with,
without a fixed chapel or services, and the use of literature
among that class of the population capable of being influenced
thereby. Occasional meetings should be thrown
in, gathering together those who show an awakening
interest, for further instruction and ,better mutual acquaintance.
Local cottage meetings for Bible study are of first
importance, and should be aimed at in each separate
hamlet.
In grading the Sunday School the' teachers usually
follow the order of the public schools, but as teachers are
scarce, the different grades have to be lumped together
more or less. A normal class for the students in the training
school was conducted for a part of the year. The International
lessons were studied and a part of each hour was
given to the study of Sunday School problems and methods.
The Heinz party made a strong impression in
Osaka, as did the National Sunday.school Conventicn in
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April. The churches seem to be awakening a little to the
importance of Sunday School work.
Rev. Van Horn reports forces at least average in efficiency
but greatly lacking in sufficiency. In Osaka a first
class pastor who can build up a strong central church
and hold prestige among other denominations, of strong
faith and evangelistic desire is much needed.
As to self-support; some seem earnestly to desire it and
give enough to help self-support quite a little if properly
applied, but often a church of thirty or forty· members will
contribute more to one Christmas tree than to a whole year's
salary for the pastor, or more is given to a pastor called in
for an occasion than for the salary of the regula.r pastor for
several months.
The rural work is being pushed as fast as forces and
supplies allow and there are many real encouragements on
every hand.
Dr. Murray has the oversight of seventeen men scattered
all down the east coast of the Kii peninsula, several of them
so far beyond the reach of railroads that it takes a week or
more to visit them. There are no self-supporting churches.
'In the two largest churches, Tsu and Yamada, there are
ordained men, but the churches are still weak. A discouraging
feature is that, while there are accessions in all the
kOgisho, they hardly equal the losses from removals and
other causes, and in a large part of the field the work is
not any stronger, if as strong, as it was ten or twenty years
ago. Seven new workers, two or three during the present
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class for older girls and one also for older boys, and Mrs.
Detweiler has taught an English Bible class to girls of High
School age. This class has been well attended and the members
usually stay for morning service. In other points lack
of teachers has lessened the success. Mr. Detweiler has
had two English Bible classes at Takefu and also at Fukui.
At the kindergarten mothers' meetings twice a month Mrs.
Detweiler has taught sewing after the religious services.
Rev. Wm. C. Buchanan reports from Nagoya that the
field Owari no Kuni and all of Gifu Ken is not nearly
supplied with mission forces and hence there has been no
possibility of readjustment of forces. Some little advance
has been made at one or two points in self-support. The
Japanese forces are greatly lacking in number, but average
up quite well in efficiency. There in one candidate for the
ministry and he is pursuing his studies in Kobe Theological
School, and another yol1ng man who has been doing
efficient work as an evangelist for several years is to re-enter
the seminary this fall.
The Sunday Schools are for the most part in a more
hopeful condition than for some years past, but there are
still no training classes for Sunday School teachers, nor are
the schools graded. The visit of the Heinz party was the
occasion for a very successful general meeting of all the
denominations, on which occasion several members of the
party delivered' helpful addresses on the several phases of
this branch of the work.
The present difficulties may be summoned up in two
sentences: I) A population of over 2,000,000 as yet un-

touched by anybody and with a}most no force to tackle the
job. for everyone has more than he can do in attempting to
reach the other 1,000,000 in this general district. 2)
Organized and aggressive opposition of the Buddhists. In
countless numbers of preaching places aU through the city
they have preaching services and hold Sunday Schools.
Among the encouragements there are mentioned: I) A
higher quality and a more evangelistic tone to the preaching
than in former years. 2) A breaking down of prejudice
and, consequently, a greater readiness to give the
Gospel a fair hearing. 3) A number of instances on the
part of candidates for baptism being greatly impressed with
the enormity of their sins and with the greatness of God's
love in forgiving them and saving them from their undone
condition.
Mr. Buchanan has had to dispense with the services of
architects and undertake the job of rebuilding the Nagoya
school plant for the Kinjo J 0 Gakko and the home for the
two ladies there.
Rev. C. K. Cumming also speaks of the inadequacy both
in foreign and in Japanese force. Owing to lack of
Japanese helpers it has not been possible to do what was
desired in the way of rural evangelization. The outlook
for the future is better, as there has been secured an active
and earnest young man who will begin special country
work in July in the city and neighborhood of Namagori.
Mr. Cumming has taught in the Chu Gakko three hours
a week and has met a class of. the Chu Gakko teachers
weekly for English and Bible study and since the early

part of the year has had a night school four nights per
week. The young men in the night school listen well to
the Bible lesson which is given every night.
Special meetings were held in May with Mr. Logan of
Tokushima helping. The attendance was not very large,
but those who came listened well and thoughtfully, and
from time to time additions have been made on profession
of faith.
Rev. H. K. Miller reports from Tokyo in regard to the
several churches under his observation there:
Kanda: The attendance at church services has been
less than half the resident membership, but was pretty
even. In a financial way the members have done well.
Koishikawa: This church is favorably located in a residence
quarter of the city and will probably grow more
rapidly than Kanda. Since the arrival of the new pastor
in August of last year the attendance has increased and the
congregation seems to have something of a new start.
In Saitama Ken at Urawa, Omiya and Hasuda the charge
was picking up considerably, but the pastor's leaving was a
great loss. Under the new pastor the work seems to be
doing pretty well, with considerable improvement at Hasuda.
At I watsuki with the coming of a new pastor has come
a marked change for the better. At Koshigaya matters
seems as usual, the attendance at the church service being
fair and the Sunday School small but made up of regular
attendants. Both places might do better in the matter of
contributions.
Oshi and Konosu are two badly run-down places which

supporting churches in Tokyo, 9 partially self-supporting
and several smaller preaching places.
Co· operation Committees. Reported by
Dr. Imbrie.
The evangelistic work of the Co-operation Committees has
been carried on regularly and harmoniously. The evangelists
in direct charge have performed their duties faithfully;
and special evangelistic services have -been held in a
number of places. The following particulars however seem
to be the only ones that require special notice.
_ The Dendo Kyoku requested the committee tG release
Mr. Iyo, who has been stationed in Formosa, in order to
open work in the Luchuan Islands. Mr. Iyo is a native of
Luchu, where he has influential family connections.. He is
by far the best evangelist available for the purpose in
mind; and the committee felt that it could not but accede
to the request of the Dendo Kyoku.
Messrs. Ishiwara, Hoshino, and Tagawa spent three days
at Kisarazu; and this was followed by a subsequent visit
by ¥r. Ishiwara and l\1r. Hoshino for special work among
the members of the congregation. Well attended meetings
both public and congregational were held; the congregation
was. strengthened and a number were baptized. The
visitors were entertained and the greater part of the expenses
met by the congregation.
There are in Oyama twq Christian families. The head
of one is the railroad station master and a Methodist; the
other is widow, once a pupil at Joshi Gakuin. At their
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equest, Mr. Kobayashi, the evangelist at Tochigi. now
visits Oyama regularly, the Christians renting a room for
the meetings.
Two of the oldest congregations in Tokyo are Meisei
and Asakusa. Meisei has been under the care of the
Co-operation Committee; but Asakusa has hitherto maintained
itself as an independent church. It is however very
weak and recently applied to the Committee for aid. The
Committee replied that it was willing to enter into an
arrangement under whicb Meisei and Asakusa should unite
to the extent of having a single pastor; but that it could
not aid the two congregations separately. This condition
was acceded to by Meisei. but" declined by Asakusa, which
withdrew its request for aid. Meisei also increased its
contribution five Yen a month; and Mr. Nakagawa, who
has been stationed at Mukden for several years, has been
invited to take charge of Meisei. With the assistance of
two students from Meiji Gakuin Theological Department,
Meisei has during the past two years steadily improved.
The congregation at Togane has raised 500 Yen towards
the purchase of a lot and expects to raise 1.000 more ... The
congregation at Kujukuri has a good lot and chapel"and
has recently raised 300 Yen towards the erection of a
manse.
The statistics of the Co-operation Committees will be
collected and reported at the end of the year.
Dr. Thompson of Tokyo n;ports work in two mission
stations, Kamejima and Uyeno and in the public park at
Uyeno on fair Sundays. Both these stations are wayside
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stations favourably situated on well frequented streets.
Mr. Fujiwara with his family lives in Kamejima station and
Mr. and Mrs. Ishikawa live in Uyeno station. Mr. Shinowara
lives with his son and these three men by helping each
other and exchanging manage to maintain some kind of
service at the two missions, preaching, Bible reading, prayermeetings,
or magic lantern scenes from the life of Christ,
every night in the week except Sunday. The attendance
is various according to weather and the character of the
meeting. Quite a Jarge number of men, women and children
thus hear the Gospel story in the course of the year.
In the open park on Sunday afternoon when the weather is
favorable a larger company may be gathered, usually
from one to two hundred each day. After preaching by
the several evangelists, tracts are distributed and the people
are invited to corne to the missions or attend neighbouring
churches for further instruction.
On June fourteenth many friends both Japanese and
foreign assembled in Meiji Gakuin chapel to celebrate the
'fiftieth anniversary of Dr, Thompson's arrival in Japan.
Congratulatory addresses were made by Dr. Greene,
Messrs. Hoshino, Kumano and Oshikawa. Dr. Greene
presented greetings from the missionaries in Japan. Mr.
Hoshino spoke for the ministers, and Mr. Kumano for the
elders of the Nihon Kirisuto Kyokwai; Mr. Oshikawa as
an old friend of the old days. Many congratulatory messages
were received full of appreciation of Dr. Thompson
and the service he has so long and so willingly rendered.
The principal address was made' by Dr. Ballagh, for fifty
years Dr. Thompson's close friend, fellow-laborer and
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and twice a month there is a.,general meeting there. A
most successful Christmas meeting attended by several
hundred persons was also held there.
Dr. Ballagh reports for the Izu field that the regular
services have been quite prosperous during the year. Two
Bible women are engaged in the Gotemba station, one
having been added during the year. Three Sunday Schools
.. here have an attendance of -. 150. Of considerable interest
is the summer work for tourists who are on their way to
visit Mount Fuji. Two theological students from Meiji
Gakuin and two additional Bible women assisted during
the summer. Thirty-one preaching services were held and
at times as many as fifty persons were present. Sunday
School was held and six thousand tracts were distributed.
Since the tourists came frpm various parts of Japan, this
summer work has furnished a good opportunity for wide
dissemination of the Good News.
At Mishima a new church was dedicated in January,
five persons were baptized during' the year and three others
are now desiring baptism.
In the Shinshiu 'field Mx:s. Wyckoff has begun work
assisted by two Bible women. Three new Sunday Schools
pave been opened, besides the three already existing in
Matsumoto. The average attendance has been 160. One
of these schools at the village of Asama has been attended
by 479 children, an average of 60 per Sunday, and none
of them had ever heard the Gospel before. Weekly meetings
have been held for parents of these children. Women's

quarterly magazine, as well as doing many other kinds of
work. Under the· auspices of the association Dr. Faust
wrote a series of articles for the H Kahoku Shimpo " (a Sendai
daily paper), a tract on the same subject, and delivered
numerous lectures in various cities. Everywhere he spoke
large audiences greeted him.
Dr. J. P. Moore also of Sendai writes that the active
District Committee on the Distribution of Forces in connection
with the Japanese Committee of Federated Churches
has thoroughly gone over the subject of adjustment. of
forces and the needs of the field as it concerns foreign and
Japanese workers and there is only one opinion, viz :--=-that
the present force is insufficient; that a number of additional
missionaries are needed at certain strategic points; and that
the Japanese workers need to be increased very materially.
As to the efficiency of the present force (Japanese),
there was also only one opinion, viz.-that while there are
some most excellent 'men, the majority fall below a proper
(high) standard of efficiency. This is true not only of the
Reformed mission, but also of other missions working in
that district. There has been a dearth of theological
students in the mission. Last year only one was sent out,
but he seemed equal to several men in personality and
force of character J the son of an evangelist. Next year a
class of six will be sent out, the largest for some time.
In the rural evangelization the District Committee has
marked out on a colored map the unoccupied territories
and has assigned them to the missions whose work is
Dearest to, or who have already made a beginning in, the
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unoccupied territory. And it is the recommendation that
the missionary· in· charge with Japanese workers visit the
villages and hamlets at least twice a year preaching, distributing
religious literature and so forth. A great difficulty
is felt in the want of efficient leadership, among the
Japanese. As an encouragement the increased attendance
at Sunday Schools, increased contributions in most of the
churches, and more interest in the subject of religion and
greater willingness to hear among the people at large.
In Fukushima Ken, with Dr. C. Noss as missionary-incharge,
the extent of the mission's evangelistic operations
has 'been considerably enlarged. The young men's associations
so numerous in rural communities appear to be
quite accessible to the right kind of Christian worker.
Rev. H. H. Cook, of the Yamagata-Akita Field, reports
that, while but little progress has been made in his district
during the past year, the general attitude of the people towards
Christianity, especially in Yamagata Ken, has greatly
improved. "In their monthly contributions almost all
places have made some progress. Several congregations,
feeling the need of -chapels, have started subscriptions for
this purpose."
Regarding the (German) Reformed mission's evangelistic
work as a whole, the follo\\cing points may be noted: I.
More missionaries are needed; 2. A comparative study
of statistics for the past fifteen years indicates that the
weakness of the poorest oUl-stations is generally traceable
to the error made in the early days of baptizing people
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make contributions yearly. With this, they hope to be
self-supporting within two or three years. There is no
sign of a town within twenty miles of the church and it is a
genuine country church composed of farmers.
In Sapporo a street chapel has been erected to be used
in work for soldiers. This furnishes a place for the soldiers
to spend their long Sundays during the winter and the books
and magazines are drawing them so that they may be
preached to and associated with. A fine young man from the
Meiji Gakuin has been secured to take charge of the work
in connection with the missionary, and Sunday School,
midweek prayer-meeting and Sunday night pr.eaching
are making an impression on the district.
At last there seems to be an opening among the workers
in the steel plant at Muroran. A meeting was held when
about thirty attended, twenty-five of whom are young
Christians. These men have arranged to open a preaching
place and are to have magazines and pediodicals and newspapers
and hope to make the place a center of an uplifting
movement. It has been hard work to find a road of approach
to these busy but lonely men.
The year has certainly been one of intensified thought
and desire for deeper spirituality in the work and for the
workers. The growth in Sunday School attendance and
desire for better methods must impress one in every field.
The feeling of the importance of the work for children
seems strong in every section. The need for more workers
and the better training and preparation of those workers
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comes in a cry from almost .every direction. The vast
field yet to be occupied and the better training of individual
Christians as well as workers show something of the vastness
of what must yet be done. Union and conservation,
friendly working together, shoulder to shoulder and with
an eye on the common goal, calm, energetic and undiscouraged
effort to make the most of the present opportunities
seems to be the tendency of the year. The harvest
time is nearer than ever before and the great need impresses
us with the greater necessity for our invididual effort. May
the advice of the great missionary Paul sink deeply into
each heart: It Study to show thyself approved unto God,
a workman that needed not to be ashamed, rightly dividing
the word of truth."

Mrs. M. B. Norris of the Women's Board of Foreign
Missions of the Reformed Church in America, New
York City, Miss Sarah Bussing, New York City, Miss
Mary E. Schneder, Sendai, Miss A. Margaret Schneder,
Sendai.
Business meetings were held on the evening of July 31st
on the mornings and afternoon of Aug. 1st, Aug. 2nd and
Aug. 4th, a half hour devotional service was held each
morning, the leaders being as follows: Rev. T. M. McNair,
Rev. H. K. Miller and Rev. A. P. Hassell. Each meeting
was begun and closed with prayer.
On Sunday at 4: 00 P.M. the sacrament of the Lord's
Supper was administered at the Auditorium, many from
other churches being present. The president and Rev. J. B.
Hail, D.D., and conducted the service, the elements being
distributed by Mr. J. C. Ballagh and Prof. P. L. Gerhard.
A reception was held in the grove in the rear of the
Auditorium on Saturday from 3 : 30 to 6 : 00 P.M.
11.-Reports of Officers and Standing Committes.
I.-THE CoMMIITEE ON ARRANGEMENTS AND PROGRAM
presented the following printed program as their report,
.which was adopted.
THURSDAY.
8 : 00 p.M.-Sermon by the President, Rev. Wm. C.
Buchanan, Organization and Business.
FRIDAY.
8: 30-9: 00 A.M!, Devotional Exercises.
9: 00-6: 30 A.M., Business.

4.-The report of the Presbyterian and Reformed Church
Building Association was read and adopted and is as
follows: .
Tenth Annual Report of the Presbyterian and Reformed
Church Building. Association from Aug. I, 1912 to July
31 , 1913.
The number of shares remains about 100. Only four
assessments having been made so far since last report, the
yield from the shares subscribed for is so far only yen 964.0I,
though with a fifth assessment due and to be called for
forthwith, the amount will be in the vicinity of yen 1,100.00.
Besides grants included in Treasurer's financial report, a
grant of yen 400.00 for the Fusan church was agreed -to a
year ago, and would have been paid last May except for
the fact that the erection of said church has not been begun
yet, and until such building is fairly under way the Association's
rules do not allow the money to be actually paid
over. It is hoped however that this beginning will be
made this fall, particularly as all such grants lapse unless
this condition also is fulfilled within six months -from
the time the amount has been on hand (i.e. by next
Nov.)
A further grant has just been made to Wakamatsu
Church in Kyushu. As the building has been actually
erected, it is to be paid over without unnecessary delay.
Thus these two grants when paid will more than claim the
balance of yen 552,69 in the treasury now, and slightly more
even than what will be on hand when the 5th assessment to
lJe called for yet is paid in. When these· two grants are
paid, the amounts paid since last report will total yen 1,800,

a proportionate part (only yen 10.30 per share yearly) in
this work which, so worthy in itself and so economical considering
results attained, has also become such a lasting and
signal memorial of our beloved and sainted brother Price
gone to his rest and reward 6 years ago. In some way
we should try to extend this work sufficiently to encourage
all our missionary membership to take at least one share
per member. The appeal for aid, as seen, is likely to grow
with the growth of the church, for "the poor you have
always with you." But in.a very true sense one cannot
always respond so lovingly, so clearly, so powerfully and
effectually to a request to aid Christ and His Bride the
Church as by supporting this fund.
We would also ask the various co-operating Missions
and especially their executive and other officials to take up
this matter for consideration so that all and especially the
new members of the Missions may have this important
work laid upon their heart with all the earnestness and
cordiality which it deserves.
For unless there is continued and emphatic agitation for
even a worthy cause like this, it is apt to be smothered by
more local and much less deserving and less beneficial or
really paying projects. Moreover we would do much
toward cultivating the feeling of real and all-embracing
fellowship in our church, that great and real object of our
work, the building of that central temple and church of
our Lord Jesus Christ.
5.-The Report of the Publications Committee was read
and adopted ,and is as follows :
During the past. Council year the following publications
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have been issued by members of the Council, or more or
less under their auspices :
H. Brokaw: "Fukuin Geppo" (Gospel Monthly News),
4,500 copies.
F- S. -Curtis: "Postal and Telegraph Christian News,"
1,500 copies per month.
J.G.Dunlop: "Yako" (Light in Darkness), J,Ioocopies
semi-monthly. He also co-operated with Mr. Pieters in
reporting the trials of the· Koreans accused of conspiracy
to assassinate Gov. Gen. Terauchi.
G. W. Fulton: Associated in the editing of II The Christian
Movement in Japan," 1913 issue; also co-operated
with Dr. D. B. Schneder in the preparation of" Handbook
of the Church of Christ in Japan."
A. D. Hail: U I am the Light of the World," a tract.
';Vm. Imbrie: " The Christian Faith," a tract in English
and Japanese.
H. H. Munroe: Material for the International Sunday
School leaflets.
D. A. Murray: Japanese edition of his It Christian Faith
and the New Psychology."
G. W. Van Hom: 10,000 postal card maps showing the
location of the churches and chapels of the Nihon Kirisuto
Ky6kwai in Osaka with referenee to the street car lines.
Miss A. B. West: 4,550 copies of a beautiful Scripture
calendar issued annually.
E. R. Miller: uYorokobi no Otozure" (Glad Tidings)
and " Chiisaki Otozure" (Tidings for the Little Ones.)
H. V. S. Peeke: II Suggestions for the Study of the
Chinese Characters" and CI How to Pray in Japanese."
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about thirty evangelists were in attendance. The program
consisted of the following studies and addresses:
Bible Study-The Acts of the
Apostles •.....•....... . ••. ... Hev. C. A. Logan.
Bible Study-Philippians...... Rev. R. E. McAlpine.
Religious Value of the Old
Testament •...•.... u •••••••
Relation of Religion and
Efuics ........................ .
Problem of Modern Thought
and Faith .................... .
Pastoral Theology ........... .
Paul's View of the Atonement.
Condition of the Shikoku
Field .' ...................... .
Condition of the Aichi-Mika wa
Field ....................... .
Rev. Mizoguchi.
Rev. Watanabe.
Rev. Zenjiro Yatsu.
Rev. Naito Kaichi.
Rev. S. P. Fulton, D.D.
Rev. H. C. Ostrom.
Rev. Wm. C. Buchanan.
The Communion of the Lord's Supper was celebrated
on Sunday afternoon. A deep spirit of devotion was
manifest throughout the meetings, and all the men felt that
they had been in fue presence of, and in communion with,
the Lord. The general opinion is that this is the most
satisfactory session that we have ever had.
The Meiji 'Gakuin Conference was held this year from
June 12th to the 19th. The attendance was unusually
large, owing chiefly to the successful efforts of the Presbyterian
Mission to have all their districts represented.
The male workers of the (Dutch) Reformed Mission were
all present except one, who at the last moment was pre-
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women supported by missionaries, and not under the immediate
direction of a woman missionary ?
5.-The qualifications and training requisite for Bible
women.
6.-How may the Kindergarten be made most helpful
to the Church and to the homes of the people?
7.-How can the principle of Christian giving best be
inculcated?
8.-Personal work and the foreign missionary.
9.-Personal work. The views of Howard A. Johnston
and Henry Clay Trambull. To what extent are they
applicable to Japan?
lo.-The type of Japanese Christian woman worker
needed for rural or suburban work. How is she to be
obtained?
I I.-Establishment of a course of training, correspondence
or otherwise, for laymen who wish to increase their
efficiency in Christian service.
This report was referred to the Committee on other
conferences.
I V.- Miscellaneous Business.
The .following resolution was unanimously adopted:
Resolved that the Council expresses its appreciation of
the faithful services of the retiring Secretary' which he has
rendered for so many years.
The following resolutions were adopted by a rising vote.
Resolved that Council most heartily congratulate its
venerable member Dr. David Thompson on the fiftieth
anniversary of his arrival as missionary in Japan.
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H. Places Aided by the Dendo Kyoku (Mission
Board) and Names of Evangelists in charge.
I.-JAPAN PROPER.
1. Niigata-Rev. S. Shirai. 4. Kagoshima-Rev. J. Kamio.
2. Maizuru-Rev. Y. Hayakawa. 5. Shizuoka-Rev. K. Ko.
3. Tokushima-Rev. M. TomitAl.
n.-FORMOSA (Taiwan).
6. Keelung-
III.-OHOSEN (Korea).
7. Fusan-Rev. S. Akimoto. 10. Taikyu-
8. Bal'an- 11. Jinsen-Rev. T. Kanai.
9. Shinkai-
12. Moppo-Rev. Takeuchi.
IV.-MANOHURIA.
"
13. Bujon (Fushun)-Rev. Ka.wa· 14. Tetsurei-Rev. Nakayama.
kami 15. Furanten-Rev. Shimamura.
V.-OHINA.
16. Pekin-D. Maruyama.
I. Directors, &cc. of Dendo Kyoku:
uemura :Masahisa.
Ibuka Kajinosuke.
Tokyo Mod Kanji.
{ Sasakura Yakichi.
Hoshino Kota
Nauiwa {Kikkawa Itsunosuke.
Tada Shiroshi.
Kanji (Superintendent)-K. Kiyama.
Secretary-So Hisanaga.
Treasul'er-K. 'l'okusawa.
Chinzei Minada Atsusone.
Miyagi Basao Kumetaro.
Hokkaido Hikaru Kotaro.
SaDYO Wada Masayuki,
Formosa Kawai Kamesuke.