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THE MISSIONARY MONTHLY
Vol. XXVIII APRIL 1924 No. 4
An Easter Greeting
“H E IS N O T H E R E , H E IS R IS E N ”— Luke 2 4 :6

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REPORT OF OUR AFRICAN MISSION CONFERENCE
By Superintendent G. D. Fleming
The West A frican Annual Conference of the United
Brethren Church met in session at Bonthe, Sherbro, on
the first day o f January, 1924, at 8:45 A. M. Devotion
was led by Rev. Lloyd Eby, the scripture lesson being the
13th chapter of 1st. Corinthians.
At 9:00 o’clock conference was called to order and Rev.
G. D. Fleming was chosen chairman, and the following
members were recorded as present: Mr. and Mrs. G. D.
Fleming, Mr. and Mrs. L. Eby, Miss Mabel Shultz, Miss
Ellen Rush, J. T. Harvey, T. Beckley, L. J. Davies, D.
T. Seeley, A. Brooks, S. W. Mosier, A. S. Yarn, A. Nelson,
H. A. Williams, Henry J. Becker, Lucy Caulker and
R. A. Morrison.
The forenoon was spent in hearing quarterly reports
from the different members, a few being left over until
the afternoon. Before adjournment at 11:00 the following
committees were appointed: Ways and Means, School,
Resolutions, Literary and Recommendations. Also one
to suggest possible ways of interesting the teachers’ and
workers’ wives, and how to get them to work in the church.
Afternoon
The devotions precedin g the session was conducted by
Rev. G. D. Fleming. At 2:00 o’clock the conference was
called to order, and the remaining quarterly reports were
heard and acted upon. The yearly reports followed and
were also acted upon.
A question was raised by the chairman as to whether
Gbamgbama should be retained as a sub-station, owing
to the low state of the finances. Different suggestions
were offered and a vote taken, with the result that it
remain as a sub-station.
Wednesday Morning, January 2
After devotions the business session was called to order
at 9:00 o’clock.
After the roll-call the report of the School Committee
was called for, and the committee presented the following
recommendations:
1. That from the Third Standard up the lecture
method of teaching be adopted.
2. That if possible, Danville have two more steady
teachers besides the two already engaged, and that one
of them be a tailor as well.
3. That an addition be built to the school-house at Danville
during this vacation.
4. That one more teacher be added to the staff at Bonthe.
5. That each teacher have a daily record book.
This report was considered item by item and adopted.
The report of the committee on Ways and Means was
next presented with the following recommendations:
1. That free house-rent and free passage be supplied
for our workers to annual conference.
2. That a missionary subscription be taken in the afternoon
by the Superintendent, and that each missionary
and worker be urged to pledge one-twentieth of their
salary, which is automatically to become due monthly,
and to be kept out of the salary and credited to the pledge.
3. That three copies of the conference minutes be
typewritten; one copy sent to headquarters at Huntington,
one kept at Danville and one at Bonthe. This report was
considered item by item and adopted.
A paper on “ Successful Methods in Church W ork” was
read by Rev. L. Eby. A fter a short discussion on the
paper the conference adjourned until the afternoon.
Afternoon
After devotions at 1:30 and the calling of the roll,
Henry Becker gave his financial report of the Danville
church, and requested that a definite rule be established
regarding the pledges.
The yearly reports were again taken up. A question
was raised regarding the feeding of the boys at Taninihu
and Mokelleh. It was decided that for each boy given:
four bushels of clean rice to be provided by the parents for
the year. This arrangement to be made between the mis- >
sionary in charge and the parents of the child in the presence
of the chief.
Some time was given for the consideration of mission
problems. Different suggestions were offered regarding ;
the care of “ W atch-care” members. Also a penalty, in.
the form of a fine, was made to apply to teachers who
failed to keep their yards clean.
Henry Becker read a paper on “ The New Birth,” which
was both interesting and profitable.
The report of the Committee on Recommendations was
called for and read. The committee recommended:
1. That the pledge required be so changed that the.;
people be allowed to bring provisions, on order, to fill their:
church obligations.
2. That each Station have two men instead of one.
3. That a better plan be adopted for equipping the boys
for industrial work.
4. That a house be built in Bonthe for the convenience
of the workers when attending meetings there.
5. That marriage between the young men and women
of the school be advised and encouraged.
This report was amended so as to strike out item two
(2) of the report, and it was adopted as amended.
A missionary subscription was then taken, all pledging
one-twentieth of their salaries, except two, as recommended
in the report of the Ways and Means committee.
Thursday Morning, January 3
After devotions and roll-call the yearly reports were
again taken up and finished, and the committee appointed
to “ suggest ways of interesting teachers’ and workers'
wives in church work” was called upon to report. The
committee reported as follows:
1. That the wives of the workers should call other
women to church.
2. That they should help their husbands in other religious
services.
3. That they should attend the church services regularly.
Although this report suggested no ways of inducing the
women to assume these duties, the report was adopted
by the conference.
A ballot was taken suggesting an appropriate watchword
for the year. The ballots were placed in the hands of
the School Committee, to choose the three most suitable
balloted for, these to be voted on during the afternoon
session.
The question of the place of holding the next quarterly
meeting was next considered. It was decided that it
should be held at Victoria, for the encouragement of the
workers there.
It was also decided that each worker should have a
circle of towns surrounding his own town, for which he
would be responsible as an itinerant.
The committee on Resolutions reported as follows:
1. That a standing vote of thanks be given to the
people of Bonthe for their kind hospitality.
2. That a vote of thanks be extended to our visiting
workers, and those from other churches who helped to
make our conference a success.
3. That we express our gratitude to our superintendent
for his efforts to push the work forward.
4. That a Teacher Training class be organized at Bonthe
and Danville. The vote on the Resolutions was deferred
until afternoon. z

Afternoon
The afternoon session was called to order at 2.00 o’clock.
Some time was given for the consideration of miscellaneous
business.
By motion it was decided that each worker should have
his wife on the field of labor as quickly as possible
after appointment.
The report of the committee on Resolutions was adopted.
A vote was taken on the three names suggested previously
for a watchword for the mission. The word
“ FORW ARD” was chosen, after which the conference
stood and sang one verse of “ Onward Christian Soldiers.”
The last item before the session finally adjourned was
the reading of the report of the Stationing Committee,
as follows:
BONTHE STATIO N : Rev. and Mrs G. D. Fleming,
Miss Mabel Shultz, Miss Ellen Rush, James T. Harvey,
Mrs Lucy Caulker, Marion George.
VICTORIA STATION : A. Nelson.
T A N IN IH U : S. W. Mosier.
GBAMGBAMA: To be supplied.
DANVILLE STATION : Rev. and Mrs. Lloyd Eby,
Dayton T. Seeley, Arthur S. Yarn, A Tailor teacher to
be supplied, J. T. Claye.
MOKELLEH STATION : R. A. Morrison.
PEG IBO U : H. A. Williams.
Henry J. Becker, Traveling Itinerant.
Conference cloosed by singing “ Blest Be the Tie that
Binds,” and prayer by Rev. Lloyd Eby.— R.A. Morrison,
Secretary.
A COUNTY FAIR IN AFRICA
Rev. Lloyd Eby
No, it wasn’t really a County Fair, because we have
no counties. It was an Agricultural Show for the southern
Province of Sierra Leone. The Government holds an
annual agricultural show in each of the three Provinces
to encourage the natives to farm more extensively, and
in a more modern manner.
Through the kindness of the Elder Dempster Agent, we
went and returned in a launch, and thus what would
otherwise have been a hard trip became a pleasure. We
were anxious to go, as we are attempting to do a little
more agricultural work at Danville. It proved a great
help to us in laying our plans for the future. We hope
to be among the exhibitors next year. The District Commissioner
looked after us handsomely, giving us a new
house in the D. C’s compound.
There were many things of interest, but I will only mention
a few :
An exhibit of 36 different kinds of rice attracted some
attention. We were interested in the cocoa, as we have
1000 trees growing at Danville and Victoria.
Some yams weighing around 300 pounds were a curiosity
to me. The natives couldn’t understand why these
did not get the prize instead of the smaller ones. The
reason is that they are really of no use, being too tough
to eat.
The woodwork and wickerwork and native clothes, were
interesting to look at, and there were many queer looking
objects carved out of wood, and a few were exceptional
good workmanship.
While perhaps not as beneficial, there were some interesting
things outside of the show. The natives themselves
were the most interesting study to me. There were 42
Paramount Chiefs present. What with their attire, they
afforded' a good study in colors. Red velvet and gold
braid was the “ predominant note,” as the fashion reviews
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put it. One old man had a large silver crown (I have
no reason to doubt its being silver) . One m adam chief
wore an old silk plug hat and heavy men’s boots.
The Mohammedan chiefs could be recognized by their
fez. Each chief had his retainers, including his drummers
and dancers. There was plenty of action and more noise.
I’ve not tired as' yet of watching them.
Speaking of their drumming, I would like to say this
good thing about them. There wasn’t the sound of a
drum on Sunday until after 6:00 P. M. Almost an example
for Christian America. Eh, what!
The queerest incident I have yet seen happened while
here. It shows that superstitions and fears are found
more or less under the newly adopted clothes of civilization
: While Lady Slater, the Governor’s wife, was handing
out the prizes, the 42 chiefs were sitting decorously
in a long row in front of the Governor’s p a v ilion ; their
retainers grouped behind them. With other visitors, the
crowd numbered thousands. All at once a sharp cry was
heard at the extreme left, and about twenty men were
seen running. In less time than it takes me to write it
a dull roar came from the whole crowd. The decorus
chiefs forgot their dignity and sprinted for the town
on the right. Their retainers did the high-jump over
the chief’s chairs, and in two minutes the crowd was in
a stampede for town. In two minutes more they were back,
and nobody hurt. Why all the fuss? It will remain one
of those unexplained mysteries. One ran because the
other ran. No. 1 runner has not been found yet. A fine
example of African fear plus superstition, minus reason,
and incidentally the greatest enemy of Christianity.
The Government is to be commended for its many e fforts
toward the betterment of these people. Most of the
officials are working hard to help the natives. W e have
a fine example of Britain’s successful colonial policy in
Sierra Leone. Governor Slater is a good man. He is
doing his best to better his country, and realizes the importance
of and encourages missionary effort.
We are attempting to make our land more productive,
and by example, show these people how to make a better
living. Their present system of clearing a new patch
of ground every year cannot last much longer. There
are so many people that the land is not left long enough
idle to regain its fertility. They must therefore learn
how to fertilize and keep improving the same piece of
ground.
Our great hindrance at Danville in the development
of agriculture, even as other things, is the lack of funds.
It seems the Lord’s work is always held back for this
reason. However, we are grateful for the sacrifice many
are making to enable us to carry on a little work for
Him in needy Africa.
AN UNOCCUPIED FIELD
From Northern Congo up through British Sudan to the
east of the continental divide which marks the boundary
of British and French Sudan, another 1,000 miles; to
the northwest in the direction of Lake Chad, considerably
more than 1,000 miles; west northwest toward Nigeria,
more than 1,500 miles, and west into the Cameroons, more
than 1,000 miles— along all these lines there is no Protestant
mission or missionaries! Who can view the vastness
of this territory with no Gospel light and realize
the many tribes whose languages must be reduced to writing
before the people can get the Gospel message, without
a conscious call to pray “ the Lord of the harvest” to send
forth laborers? If we do not pray, “ how dwelleth the love
of God in u s!”
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THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE PARENT BOARD
OF MISSIONS
The 70th, annual session of the Parent Board of Missions—
officially called “ The Domestic, Frontier and F oreign
Missionary Society of the United Brethren in Christ
church,” has been officially announced by its President,
Bishop F. L. Hoskins, to meet in the United Brethren
church at Carson City, Michigan, on Thursday, May 8, at
7:30 P. M. for the opening session.
The committee on program have chosen Rev. E. M.
Wheeler, of Climax, Michigan, a member of the Board,
to give the opening address at the above time. A number
also have consented to give papers and addresses on subjects
of live interest of a missionary character, which will
be discussed in relation to our church mission work.
All are welcome to attend the sessions.
A WORD TO OUR PASTORS AND PEOPLE
Pastors and brethren: This is the closing month (April)
of the fiscal year, when the Parent Board Treasurer prepares
his annual report of receipts and disbursements to
missions, home and foreign, to present to the Mission
Board at its annual session. He is therefore anxious to
have all items of missionary finance forwarded to him to
be credited to the fields and conferences before the close
of the month. We are hoping that a good showing may be
made in selfdenial and special contributions for our
African mission work. Up-to-date these have been coming
in slowly, and in many cases in very small amounts.
We hope, however, that a special effort on the part of the
pastors and brethren may materially increase the receipts
before the month closes. Brethren, and partners in the
work, do your best in this worthy missionary service.
The Missionary Secretaries have received good and interesting
letters from our African mission superintendent
and workers lately, some of which appear in this issue
of the Missionary Monthly. They have been generally well
in health, and were at the date of their last letters.
Our readers will note the interesting conference program
that was carried out at Bonthe not long ago, which
shows the commendable interest and activity in the work,
as well as the wide range of live subjects presented and
discussed. Such evidence of zeal and devotion to the work
will be appreciated by the readers of the Missionary
Monthly.
Mrs E. Sullivan, an active member of Bloom Avenue
Sunday school, Toronto, Ontario, writes to our general
treasurer, S. A. Stemen, as follows: “ Dear Sir: You will be
pleased to know that last September the Bloom Avenue
Sunday school started to take up a weekly missionary
offering. A t a meeting of the teachers and officers on
January 15th. it was unanimously agreed to send twenty
dollars to our denominational missionary fund, which is
the first fruits. We are happy to have a share in this
work, and pray that God may bless the efforts put forth for
the extension of His Kingdom.” Well done Bloom A ve.! Ed.
Rev. E. S. Gray, pastor of Toronto mission, sends us a
poster announcing a “ Special Evangelistic Campaign” at
Bloom Avenue United Brethren Church, March 17 to 28,
with Rev. E. Pitman as evangelist. May these special
efforts have the divine favor and blessing.
William Bailey, of Dundark, Ontario, a faithful brother
living at the northern end of Ontario conference, and deprived
of the fellowship of his brethren of the church,
does not forget to remit his annual money order for $25.00
for missions. To repeat this for years shows unusual
fidelity to the church and cause. He is a farmer who does
not forget the interest of the Kingdom of Christ.
We appreciate the kind letters received from many of
our Missionary Monthly readers when renewing their subscriptions.
These words of commendation of the paper
help to relieve the everyday grind of office work and wonderfully
help to lighten office care.
LOVE IN ACTION
A Mohammedan gentleman was being shown round the
wards of a mission hospital, the doctor explaining the
X-ray and electrical apparatus. As they passed through
a surgical ward the visitor said: “ All these things' are very
wonderful, but I see the most wonderful of all.”
What was it? An English woman, a nurse, was dressing

an ulcerated leg. A Mohammedan would not have
touched the diseased leg with a pole.
“ A religion that can do things like that” said the visitor,
“ must have more in it than we Mohammedans have
given it credit for.”
A medical mission is love in action.
THE SENSE OF THE UNITY OF LIFE
We see today that life is w"hole. We cannot save a part
and leave the rest alone. This is true of a man, a nation,
a world. Water-tight compartments are a delusion. We
sink or swim together. All must be safe, or all is in
danger. The whole of life must be right, or all is wrong.
The Christian gospel is built on this conviction of the
solidarity of human life. It appeals to the whole man
and to the whole world. It is universal or nothing. Christianity
was the first great world movement in history in
which men and women of various races worshipped and
worked together, without distinction and as a matter of
course. Wherever the church has gone on its mission it
has carried this sense of the wholeness of life, a faith
that walks through barriers of prejudice, as if they were
not there. Foreign Missions is the biggest and bravest
demonstration of the working truth of this conviction
of the unity of life which is so powerful in the heart
and mind of our time.
THE POWER OF A SOCIAL IDEAL
The world of today believes in the power that comes
through winning the loyalty of a mass of people to a
single social ideal. Men are not helplessly held by hereditary,
or forever fixed by fate. Inculcate a great idea until
it becomes a dominant conviction in a nation, a race, a
mass of men, and literally “ anything becomes possible
within a single generation.” Germany has demonstrated
this in lurid and tragic fashion. Benjamin Kidd brilliantly
proves it in “ The Science of Power.”
The Foreign Mission enterprise of the Church is built
on this conviction. It has been educational from the
start and all the way, even when it did not mean to be so.
“ The evangelization of the world in a generation” is a
daring aim, but not a foolish one. Let one generation pour
adequate resources into the evangelistic and educational
work of missions, and, as masses of men everywhere
catch the inspiration of Christian truth and the motive
of loyalty to Jesus Christ, we shall see the Kingdom of
God come with power. This new sense of the power of a
social ideal ought to give new force to the appeal of Foreign
Missions which saw and followed this truth long before
the world as a wh61e grasped its significance.— “M.
A .”
THE INSTINCT OF HUMAN SERVICE
The desire to serve is one of the strongest impulses in
modern life. Those who have no faith believe in being
helpful. Those who have faith in God see more clearly
than it has ever been seen before, that that faith must be
justified by service of man. Social service is a keynote
of modern religion.
But it has long been a keynote of Foreign Missions.
The Church began its work in foreign lands as an enterprise
purely evangelistic in character. It must always
remain primarily an evangelistic effort. But from the
outset and all along the Foreign Missionary enterprise has
been among the best examples on earth of real social service.
Every mission compound is a social settlement.
Every missionary finds himself constrained by Christian
love to all varieties of service. Our missions are centers
of progress in education, medical care, treatment of un­
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fortunates, agriculture, forestry, famine relief and prevention,
and all else that lifts human life to a higher
level. William Carey, founder of modern Missions, engaged
in the manufacture of indigo, made the best type
and paper in India, published a newspaper, laid out an
experimental garden and founded the “ Agricultural and
Horticultural Society in India.” He began the movement
for care of lepers, abolition of widow burning and infanticide,
and the abatement of other social evils.
There is no greater or better humanitarian work in the
world, no finer social service, than the regular working
of Christian missions' in all lands. Done in the name of
Christ, it is the more effective. The Church should glory
in this fact and see the growth and extension of the
social influence of its missions evidence that they are becoming
more truly representatives of the spirit of the
Master and more effective in advancing the real Kingdom
of God on earth.— “M. A.”
GOOD TIDINGS
There were 43,265 more pupils in the public schools
of the Philippines in 1923 than in the preceding year.
Japan claims a high literacy rate for her people.
It is said that ninety per cent of them are able to read.
The Council of the League of Nations has voiced its
purpose to wage war on the international opium traffic.
Korean Christians give liberally to the Lord. Their
average contribution is said to be $3.70 per year while
their average income is only about $36.
The sale of Bibles for Christmas gifts is reported to
have increased, while there is a decrease in the whisky
flasks, cigarette holders, and similar articles sold.
The European Student Relief, by means of the Student
Friendship Fund, will this year provide assistance to
students of nineteen nations suffering the aftermath of
war.
An investigation by the Department of Labor shows
that more churches than amusement places were built
in 1922 in communities of 25,000 or more.
Mayor Arthur E. Nelson of St. Paul, Minnesota, advises
other mayors “ If you have a chief of police who is not
enforcing the laws to the limit, get another.” Mayor
Nelson recently forced the retirement of the head of
St. Paul Police because the chief was not in sympathy
with the prohibition law7.
More than one-half of the 750 freshmen at the University
of North Carolina are working their way through
college. The boys who earn their way during their college
course almost invariably make good in after life.
Milton S. Hershey, the multi-millionaire chocolate manufacturer,
who has just dedicated sixty million dollars to
the maintenance of an industrial school for boys, declares
that he found wealth only after he had changed his aim
from material riches to service.
Wayne B. Wheeler, counsel for the Anti-Saloon League,
is author for the statement that four years of national
prohibition have saved 873,000 lives and have added
$1,000,000,000 to savings accounts.
The student council of Pennsylvania State College has
unanimously adopted a resolution of protest against violations
of the prohibition law, and advocates total abstinence
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A similar sentiment prevails in the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology and in other prominent colleges.—
The Christian Statesman.
ENJOYING A DAY’ S OUTING IN AFRICA
Ellen Rush
Hurrah for the picnic! All aboard missionaries, teachers,
girls', workmen and boatmen.
W e were off at 6: 45 A. M. for the sea- bar for an all-
day’s outing. A more promising day for an outing could
not have been found. Hardly a cloud in the sky. No
finer morning could have been chosen. There were two
boats loaded to their fullest capacity.
We arrived at a little village at the south-east part of
Sherbro Island about 10:30 A. M., after a beautiful trip,
even if we did get stuck on three or four sand-bars. We
found a most beautiful location for a picnic at this village,
and we all went ashore. Later the chief of the town
came and informed us that the people wished that we
should not molest the grove by building a fire there. This
was one of their sacred groves, and their place of worship.
The fire might offend some (heathen) god, so the girls
and men cooked their palm-oil “ chop” outside the grove,
and enjoyed their meal immensely, while we (the white
workers), having a little oil-lamp-stove with us, made our
tea and ate in the grove.
About three o’clock we went along the shore where
the water was ankle deep, around the south side of the
island where we could view the great Atlantic again.
Being afraid to have the girls go out into the water
without having hold of a rope, because the undertow was
so great, Mr. Fleming held one end of the rope and Mr.
Davis (a native teacher) the other. We counted the
waves, and noted that every seventh wave was a very
high one. I took two pictures of the girls in bathing,
but neither is very clear, the kodak moved when a big
wave nearly took me off my feet. We enjoyed ourselves
too, picking up shells along the shore on the way to and
from the village.
At about 6:00 P. M. we left the spot where we had enjoyed
so pleasant a day, and started on our home trip
for Bonthe. When we were about half an hour out on the
river we noticed that a very large cloud had arisen above
the horizon, and soon covered the beautiful moon. Then
arose a nice breeze, which became stronger and stronger
until it became a tornado. The men lowered the sail
just in time to save the boat from “ turning turtle” (upside
down). Rev. Fleming called to the men to pull ashore
(we were keeping close to shore from the time we saw
the cloud arise). We landed safely. But where was the
other boat? Were they safe? Silent prayers were sent
heavenward for their safety.
After the storm had subsided we pulled out from shore.
We were listening and watching for some signal from the
other boat. Fortunately we had taken a lantern with us.
We signalled with it, hoping that it might be seen by
the second boat, and soon were answered by a flash of
light, and knew that all were safe. We were anxious to
know where they spent the time during the tornado, and
learned that they had fortunately run onto a sand bank,
which was nearly as safe as being ashore. The parents
of the day pupils were very anxious for awhile. After
the tornado they sent out a boat in search, and found us
a short way out from Bonthe.
We arrived at the mission about 11:30 P. M. It was a
long' day, and all were tired. Everybody reported a good
time, notwithstanding the tornado, and all expressed a
desire to go again some fine day. This was Miss Shultz’s
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and my first experience on the river in a tornado, and
can’t say that I really enjoyed that feature of it.
NATIONAL CENSORSHIP LEAGUE
A national campaign to make censorship of motion pictures
more effective, by its application to film productions
before they have been nationally advertised, and booked
to be shown all over the country, will be inaugurated by
the National Censorship League, recently incorporated
with headquarters in Chicago.
Prominent men and women, as well as civic, social,
and religious organizations all over the United States
will be enlisted in the movement, which is said to be
preparing to resort to the most stringent methods yet
undertaken. Prominent clergymen, and representatives
of Chicago organizations are reported to have already
volunteered their support. The organization is non-sectarian.
The National Board of Review, which is said to be
largely dominated by film producers and distributors,
will be asked to permit the League to “ sit in” on all previews
of film inspection by that body, and to recognize
suggestions for the elimination of objectionable scenes,
titles and sequences. Prosecution, under local laws prohibiting
the exhibition and distribution of immoral pictures
and literature will be directed against any exhibitor who
is believed to be in violation of these laws, either in the
exhibition of films, or the type of advertising used to
exploit the same, it is declared by the organizers.
Says Films Cause Of Crime Wave
“ We believe that the indiscriminate use of fire-arms,
hold-ups, the kidnapping and seduction o f young girls,
the violation of homes, domestic discord, race and class
hatred, and a general breaking down of the morals of
the coming generation, are a direct result of the epidemic
of “ two gun man,” “ crook” “ flapper,” “jazz,” “ divorce,"
“ dope,” “ sheik’, “ vamp,” and other films of the kind that
have been shown.” says Wycliffe A. Hill, Campaign Manager
for the League.
Commenting on the movement, the Reverend Frederick
C. Grant, Pastor of the Trinity Episcopal Church of
Chicago, says: ‘There is no doubt in my mind that a considerable
amount of crime and social anarchy at the present
time can be traced directly to the motion pictures.
It is not to be expected that an industry whose sole motive
is commercial gain, is going to maintain very high
standards for the protection of the community, and especially
for our younger people, boys and girls. Something
must be done to exercise control of their subjects,
presentation and publicity.”
TRANSFORMING A MILL COMMUNITY
By Margaret Louise Muir
Forty years ago there was not a Sunday-school or church
in High Falls, N. C. On Sunday morning smoke might be
seen rising from a dozen distilleries in the neighborhood
and there the men and boys congregated to pa:ss their
“ day or rest” in drinking and all the evil practices which
accompany this form of recreation. Cut off of Moore
County by a bend in Deep River, this “ peak” furnished
more criminal cases than all the rest of the county.
Then Mr. Newton Woody bought the site and began the
erection of cotton and flour mills. As soon as a little
room was ready he organized a Sunday-school and invited
everybody in the neighborhood to attend. Men came to
ask for work in the mills. I f sober, he employed them.
If drinking he refused to give them employment until
they shown a desire to lead sober lives, in the meantime

giving them all the personal help he could. Two churches
were organized, the Friends and the Methodists. They
are still working in perfect fellowship.
Employees were encouraged to leave leaky cabins and
move into little homes of their own, their wages being
adjusted so that they could make small payments until
the happy day arrived when they could claim a clear title
and have the deed for their very own. More than twenty
families are today occupying homes which were secured
in this way. One young woman aided her husband in
paying for their cottage by doing laundry work at the
“ big house” . Two old colored men, born slaves and now
nearing the century mark, are still well, and happy in the
service of the Woody family.
The wilderness and solitary place has been made glad
by Christian example and the Gospel.
Newton W oody’s influence is still felt in Moore County
which has become a great in d u stria l section of North
Carolina. A member of his fam ily wrote the American
Bible Society concerning the observances of Bible Sunday
in that section:
“ I am a ‘ Shut-in’ mostly, but I had officials of the
. churches in this and other sections who took the posters
to different localities to post in the churches and to present
the subject of the undelivered Bibles. The superintendents
of Sunday-schools or teachers in a dozen or more
schools presented the little folders to classes' as book-marks
if the pupils would remember as they saw the appealing
folder to pray that the Bible might be set free to go on
its errands of mercy. I sent many letters to friends to
awaken interest in faraway places. One mission worker,
a stranger, informed me the folder she received cost her
$10.00— that she sent the money for distribution of Bibles
in Korea. My work has been only seed sowing. I enclose
my check for $5.00 for this privilege. I will follow up
the work as I can.”
HOW MORMONS TRAIN CHILDREN
The school of week-day religious instruction has been
appropriated by the Mormons, according to the Presbyterian
Magazine. In many communities where there are
no “ Gentiles” to oppose, there is constant and unhindered
teaching of their faith within the public school building.
Elsewhere they have had academies or church schools.
But with the coming of the high school they have abolished
the academies. They depend on the public funds to
educate their children, but a few feet away they build a
“ seminary.” They have about sixty of these two-room
buildings. Leading from the high school to the seminary
is a cinder path and when school is dismissed announcement
is made of the religious school to follow. Often it
is so made that pupils who do not go are marked. (Schoolmates
do not hesitate to dub them “ heathen” ). Teachers
well-versed in the Mormon doctrine give their time for
instruction in these seminaries. Thus the constant teaching
of children begun at four years of age is carried
through the high school period. No wonder that their
growing youth, though intelligent, are confirmed in their
faith.— Missionary Review of the World.
A DECAYING CHURCH
Some one tells a story of an artist who was once asked
to paint a picture of a decaying church. To the astonishment
of many, instead of putting on the canvas an old,
tottering ruin, the artist painted a stately edifice of modern
grandeur. Through the open portals could be seen the
richly carved pulpit, the magnificent organ, and the beautiful
stained glass windows.
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Within the grand entrance was an offering plate of
elaborate design for the offering of fashionable worshipers.
But— and here the artist’s conception of a decaying church
was made known— right above the offering plate, suspended
from a nail in the wall there hung a square box,
bearing the legend,
“ FOR FOREIGN MISSIONS,”
but right over the slot through which contributions ought
■—to have gone, he had painted a huge cobweb!— Advent
Christian Missions.
AN OPEN LETTER TO JUDGES
By Junius Channing Quincy
With your permission I want to reason with you concerning
your method of dealing with the violator of the
prohibition laws.
Suppose a counterfeiter were brought before the court
and proved to be guilty. Would it be any service to the
country in restraining the crime of counterfeiting if
the court were to fine the criminal ten thousand dollars
and permit him to pay the fine with good money obtained
from victims in exchange for his counterfeit money—
setting him free to go and make more counterfeit money?
You will answer “ Certainly, not,” and you will snort
at the absurdity of the illustration.
And yet that is exactly in kind what many of you do
with the violator of the prohibition laws. You fine him
and then set him free to sell more counterfeit whisky
to get more good money to pay the fine.
And it is just such timid if not venal proceeding on
the part of some of our courts which help along the criminal
combine between the bootlegger and the local official
who protects him.
The original offending is not in the court. But the
court has the authority to check by severe punishment
all offending which reaches the court; and to make salutary
example which will send fear into all the rings of
evil doers:.
As one who has observed the court for many years I
avow this to be a fa ct:— One resolute judge can terrorize
crime within his jurisdiction. He can subdue it to a
minimum within his bailiwick. Once it shall be known
that the offender receives the limit of the law as a sentence
from the judge, the criminals will flee from the range
of his authority as rats flee a place where other rats have
succumbed to rat poison.
All this is known to you judges. Are you willing to
risk the peace of your community, the proper interest of
taxpayers, the safety of your fellow citizens and even of
your own family, by making light sentences— fine or very
trivial imprisonment— upon the violators of the prohibition
laws?
They are just as guilty as counterfeiters. And they
should receive the same kind of severe sentence up to
the limit of the law.
Pile on the fines to the confiscatory point with the ignorant
bootlegger who is in the business for gain. Put
him away behind prison bars long enough to break up
his business. And send the pretended respectable member
of society, who violates the law, to jail for the full
limit permitted under the statute-— so that the disgrace
will brand him before all his community as an ordinary
criminal.
It is true that the responsibility for the saturnalia
does not begin with you; but it ends' with you.
You can stop much of it, if you will.— The Christian
Statesman.

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THE NEED OF RECOVERY OF THE SPIRITUAL
The value of spiritual motives is realized not only in
the Church, but by educators, statesmen and leaders on
every line. Somehow we must recover emphasis on the
spiritual, on ideals, lost so largely in our dazzling material
progress.
The President of the Republic of China, in a recent address,
expressed the judgment that western civilization,
being essentially materialistic, could not offer to his country
a true remedy for its ills, or right guidance in its
progress. W e believe that western civilization is not
essentially materialistic; that its vigor is rooted in spiritual
faiths and ideals. How can we better disprove such
charges and commend our civilization as worthy and noble
than by sending men and women of the best type to teach
and exemplify the faith by which we live? That means
that our American Foreign Missionary enterprise is one
of the most patriotic, far-sighted and effective ways of
serving the cause of the world’s advancement and civilization.—
“ M. A .”
“ MISSIONARY AMMUNITION”
TH E TRUE M ISSIO N ARY CONSCIOUSNESS
Professor William Adam Brown
New York City
You cannot have a social Christianity in China and an
individualistic Christianity at home— not permanently,
that is. You cannot say Japan ought to treat China unselfishly,
care for the welfare o f the young girls in its
cotton factories, and make place for the teaching of religion
in its schools and yet allow America to make national
selfishness the controlling principle of its foreign policy,
treat disputes between capital and labor as private quarrels
between individual groups, and divorce the teaching
of the churches on Sunday from the practice of their
members on the other six days of the week.
This missionary consciousness, then, that we wish to
develop is something much bigger than a belief in foreign
missions. It is the belief that Christian principles ought
to be consistently applied in all human relations beginning
with those which lie nearest ourselves. The man who believes
this and acts accordingly has the missionary consciousness.—
International Review of Missions._
THE PRIMARY MOTIVE IN MISSIONS
By the late Dr. George Robson
Edinburgh
One of the mysteries of the ancient world was the source
of the river Nile. That mighty river, with its periodic
overflow fertilizing the rainless land of Egypt, was
worshipped with wonder, all the greater that no one could
tell the secret of its rise and fall. Down even into the
literature of the last century you find references to the
mystery of its birth. But now that mystery has been
unveiled. The p rim a ry sources of that wonderful river
have been found in those giant mountains on the line of
the equator, whose snow-clad summits pierce the heavens',
untrodden by human foot, and for the most part hidden
in haze from human sight. To find the primary motive
in missions, we must in like manner trace them back to
their primary source. The deep in the awful need of the
world has called to the deep in the infinite heart of God;
and there, unveiled to our view by His Word, we find the
primary source of the whole missionary enterprise, its
primary motive from beginning to end, “ God so loved the
world, that He gave His only-begotten Son, that whosoever
believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting
life.” The love of God— there is the well-head
of missions.
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Corresponding S e c r e t a r y .......................... Mrs. F. A . Loew
Huntington, Indiana
General T r e a s u r e r ................................... M rs. Effie Kanage
Ashley, Indiana, R. F. D.
AN EASTER SONG
“ A song of sunshine through the rain,
Of spring across the snow,
A balm to heal the hurts of pain,
A peace surpassing woe.
Lift up your heads ye sorrowing ones,
And be ye glad of heart,
For Calvary and Easter Day,
Earth’s saddest day and gladdest day,
Were just one day apart.
No hint or whisper stirred the air,
To tell what joy should be,
The sad disciples grieving there,
Nor help nor hope could see.
Yet all the while the glad near sun,
Made ready its swift dart,
And Calvary and Easter Day,
Earth’s darkest day and brightest day,
Were just one day apart.”
Easter Day comes at the Season of the year when its
full meaning is brought to our minds by the changing life
about us. All nature has just awakened, as it were, from
the sleep of death. Leaf and grass, flower and fern are
coming forth with new life, beautiful and impressive.
They are cymbolical of the resurrection of our Savior,
who arose from the dead. “ He hath abolished death.”
He lives, and we too shall live after death and in proportion
as we go toward those things that are of service
for Him, shall we know the fullness of life that He is
able to give.
At Easter time the dominant note is— be glad and rejoice!
The changing of the dull, gray days to days of
warmth and sunshine, the blossoming flowers and budding
trees, all these are incentives to gladness, and on Easter
morning when we speak of Christ, who is risen, we feel
that in our hearts there is rejoicing. Yet we must not
forget the saddest day, which lay just beyond this gladdest
day. That day, so full of suffering,— such suffering as
we cannot realize. The betrayal, coming from one of the
chosen disciples, the denial by another, must have caused
heart-breaking sorrow, even though it was given to
Christ to know these things would be. For awhile, He
stood alone. God, the Father seemed to have forsaken
Him. The agony of the cross, which caused indescribable
physical suffering weighed heavily upon Him, yet the
grave did not defeat Him. He arose and revealed Himself
to His friends, and we are apt to think of the joy of
these hours too much to the exclusion of the sad hours
preceding them. Perhaps that is His wish, yet if we
remember His suffering and remember also that in the
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world today, are millions of people who are suffering for
the need of Him who suffered for the needs of the world
and so allow our deepened sympathy to go out to those
who need His Gospel of Love, may we not help to make
the saddest day and the gladdest day for many, more than
one day apart?
BOOK REVIEW
The first volume in the Modern Series of Missionary
Biographies, h e n r y M ARTIN'— Confessor Of The Faith, by
Constance E. Padwick, published by the Student Christian
Movement of Great Britain and Ireland and the
United Society for Missionary Study, “ meets a distinctive
need, and the extremely high standard set by the first
volume assures a hearty welcome for those who come.”
These biographies, which are being prepared by a group
of distinguished writers, aim at giving to the world of
to-day a fresh interpretation and a richer understanding
of the life and works of great missionaries. In a fascinating
way Miss Padwick has interpreted to the men and
women of this generation a life which is one of the treasurers
of our spiritual heritage— Martyn, the scholar, the
lover, the adventurer for God. Price$1.50.
Missionary societies and leaders, as well as teachers
and parents will be glad to know that the great Missionary
book for the young, t h e s t o r y o f JOHN g . p a t o n (Re-
vised Edition) is again available. The wonderful story
of thirty years’ experience among cannibals grip the
imagination, and reveals in an unforgettable way some of
the worst conditions missionaries have had to meet and
the power of the Gospel to work an almost miraculous
change.
The author of this book, Dr. James Paton, the brilliant
brother of the famous missionary, wrote the original
“ Story of John G. Paton,” with unusual affection and
devotion to each other these brothers shared in the noble
and self-sacrificing work of extending the Kingdom of
God among the savage tribes of the New Hebrides. The
great missionary received the news of his brother’s death
in Glasgow, as he lay ill in Australia, only a month before
his own departure.
The revision of the book was done by A. K. Langridge,
beloved friend of John G. Paton and Hon. Organizing
Secretary of the John G. Paton Mission. The changes do
not in the least dim the lustre of a volume that has become
a missionary classic, and there has been added a
deeply interesting account of Dr. Paton’s later years and
death. Price $1.50.
i n c h i n a n o w China’s Need And The Christian Contribution,
a readable, comprehensive, and authoritative
handbook, suitable both for general reading and class
use, was written in China, where the author, J. C. Keyte,
M. A. is minister of the Peking Union Church. It was
prepared expressly for the United Council for Missionary
Education in Great Britain, for use in adult classes on
China and Missions. The contents a re: Part I— China’s

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Need; The Old-World Outlook; The New Frame Work.
Part II— The Christian Contribution; The Work of the
Evangelist; The Work of the Teacher; The Work of the
Healer; The Home of All Good Men.
Mr. Keyte, sometime Davis Chinese Scholar in the University
of Oxford, was released by the Peking Union
Church to write this valuable book. The information in
the book was secured from many and carefully selected
sources, and every attempt has been made to present an
accurate and vivid picture of present day China, and
what is being done for the nation by Christian Agencies.
Price $1.50.
As an elementary text-book on China for boys and girls
and little children, the book c h i n a a n d h e r p e o p l e s would
be hard to surpass. The author knows her China, and
has compressed into the eight chapters of her book, a
remarkable comprehensive as well as a fascinating story
of that far off land whose people, numbering four hundred
million, live in a territory of four million square miles,
The chapter titles are: The Flowery Kingdom; The Story
and whose written history covers four thousand years,
of a Great Race; Town L ife; Country L ife; Home Life,
Part I; Home Life, Part II; The Religion of China; The
New China.
Lena E. Johnson is a talented writer on missionary
topics for young people. Because of her knowledge of
foreign mission fields and her faculty for interesting
children, she was especially requested by The United Council
for Missionary Education in Great Britain to write
“ China and Her People.” It is an important contribution
to the really effective material for the use of teachers,
and will be a welcome help whenever boys and girls are
studying China and Missions. Price $1.50.
Address orders to 302 U. B. Mission Room, Huntington,
Indiana.
EDITORIAL NOTES
A t the annual meeting of the Board of Managers to be
held at the Otterbein Church, near Rockford, Ohio, May
13-15, we expect to have a feast of good things. Rev. W.
C. South, pastor o f the Alma Street Church, Kitchener,
Ontario, so well and favorably known among us, will be
present and deliver the annual sermon. We have also
been fortunate to secure the service of Mr. V. A. Schrei-
ber, Superintendent of the Toledo District of the Anti
Saloon League, who gave us such a splendid address last
year. This year we will have with us for the first time
in Board session, one of our missionaries home from
A frica on furlough, who will address us during the session.
We anticipate still other additions to our program that
we trust will be of pleasure and profit to all who are
privileged to listen.
Miss Blanche Randall, organizer of the Wisconsin
Branch, reports a Local Society of seven members, organized
March 1st at Byrd’s Creek appointment. The
officers are: President* Mrs Winnie Randall; Vice Pres.
Mrs Delia Young; Secretary, Mrs Sadie Trovel; Treasurer,
Mrs. Ollie Elliot; Literature Secretary, Mrs Louis Grang
e r; Thank offering Secretary, Mrs Wm. Whitesel. The
address of all of the officers is Blue River, Wisconsin.
Sister I. H. Wilson of Dayton, Washington, reports a
good meeting held in their church by Evangelist M. Alice
Durham and her party. At that time an offering of $55.00
was given for Hope Cottage.
The General Treasurer, Mrs. Effie Kanage, Ashley,
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Indiana, will close her books for the year A pril 25th.
Remember to have all money intended for this year’s
report to reach her on or before that date.
Mrs F. B. Hanna writes: The Van Orin Local of the
Rock River Branch, held its March meeting at the home,of
Mrs Ida Harding. Though the roads were very bad forty-
five people were present. The ladies quilted a quilt, while
the men tied a comforter for Hope Cottage. A short devotional
service was held in the afternoon, Miss Allie
Heiman leading. The officers elected for the coming year
are: Mrs Gennie Beatty President,: LaMdille, I ll. Mrs
Dollie Hamilton First Vice President, Van Orin, I ll. Mrs
Eva Carey Treas. Ohio, I ll. The Delegates elected to the
Branch Meeting were Miss Allie Heiman; and Mrs. Myrna
Anderson and Mrs. Ida Harding. We have an active
membership of thirty-four.
We have mailed from the Mission office Secretary and
Treasurer’s blanks, both quarterly and annual for each
Local society of the W. M. A. in the church,, .so far as
they were known to us. If any Locals have failed to receive
your annual supply of blanks, just drop a card
to 302 U. B. Mission office and ask for them.
In recent letters from A frica we are asked to send with
outgoing missionaries the following supplies: 2 doz. can
covers (for mason cans) ; 3 doz. can rubbers; 6 sofa pillow
tops and silk to work each. Lace edgings (3 yards in
each piece) bias bindings (white, blue and. white check,
pink and white check, lavender ,plain) ; Indian head (for
dresser scarfs) ; pillow tubing (40 inch) ; Coats thread
(nos. 50 and 60); Packers tar soap; note books( without
lin es); diamond dyes (all colors); bone crochet hooks;
unbleached muslin; toweling; ginghams; romper cloth
or any goods suitable for school dresses; Christmas and
Easter programs; crepe paper (red, green, white, yellow,
pink and blu e); alarm clock; black pepper; spices; vanilla
and other flavors in tubes; waxed paper; steel crochet
hooks no. 12; ricrac (in all colors) rope silk (in brilliant
colors); embroidery floss (in all colors). Goods received
at 302 U. B. Mission office, Huntington, Ind. will be sent
with first out going missionaries.
BRANCH ANNOUNCEMENTS
The Wisconsin Branch of the W. M. A. will meet in
annual session at the Mill Creek appointment, Excelsior
Mission, Wisconsin, April 26 and 2'7th. The session
will begin in the morning of the 26th.
Lela Randall, Pres.
The California Branch of the W. M. A. will meet in
annual session at Pixley California, beginning on Tuesday
evening Apr. 15th and closing on the 17th. We hope
to see each Local represented by a full number of
delegates.
Mrs L. D. Thornburgh, Pres.
The thirty-second annual session of the North Michigan
Branch of the W. M. A. will be held at Ringle U. B.
Church, located four and one-half miles north of Ashley,
Mich., on May 6 to 8, 1924. Ashley is on the Ann Arbor
and Grand Trunk (Owosso and Muskegon div.) R. R ’s.
Trains there will be met on Tues. If expecting to come
later than Tues. and wish to be met at train, please notify
the local Pres., Mrs. Lydia Heibeck, North Star,
Mich.
Mrs. Leon Cook, Cor. Sec.

IN LOVING REMEMBRANCE
Emiline Amstutz
Whereas,— It has pleased our Heavenly Father to call
from our Maple Grove Local, Sister Emiline Amstutz, who
was interested in all the work of the Church and never
let an opportunity pass to testify for her Master, therefore,
be it resolved:
First. That, we know our loss is her gain for Jesus
said He has gone to prepare a place for us that where
He is, we may be also.
Second. That we who remain and were her co-workers
strive to emulate her beautiful Christian character and to
promote the cause for which she so earnestly labored.
Third. That a copy of these resolutions be sent to brother
Amstutz and published in the Missionary Monthly
and recorded on the minutes of our Local.
Jennie Bangs.
Stella Leins.
Committee.
SUGGESTED PROGRAMS FOR MAY
For W. M. A . Locals
Study and Program Topic: Religious Resources And
Problems (Chapter IV of the book “ Creative Forces in
Japan” ).
Opening Song And Prayer.
Devotional Topic— Come, follow, abide, go—-the Chris-
tians“ blue print” and most fittingly accompanies this
chapter on Japan.
Suggestions— In this chapter which takes up the religions
of Japan a very effective program can be arranged
by having four women to represent the four religions of
Japan— Shintoism, Confucianism, Buddhism and Christianity.
Note Japan’s dilemma in not knowing which way
to turn for spiritual aid and the danger in turning to
that which presents only the strongest appeal-—for instance
Shintoism as shown only by the recent erection of a new
shrine in Tokyo at a cost of $10,000,000 which the poor
people could ill afford to give. Compare this amount with
the amount raised by our own church for its whole foreign
mission program. What is our responsibility in
presenting the Christian Religion to Japan. (For valuable
helps write 302 U. B. Mission Room, Huntington,
Indiana, and secure the pamphlet “ How to use the book
Creative Forces in Japan” price 15 cents.)
Reports from Branch Meeting.
Offering.
Miscellaneous Business.
Closing Prayer.
Young Peoples Mission Band
Devotion— Led by the W. M. A. Local President.
Business— Including, Reports from the Branch meeting
Some plan for contributing to the Mite Box Fund.
Study— “ The Woman and the Leaven in Japan.” Chapter
II-—The Japanese Family System (Continued).
Special Music.
Benediction.
The Harvesters
Instrumental Music.
Song “ I Love to Tell the Story.”
Prayer, followed by praying the Lord’s Prayer.
Business.
Mite Box Opening.
Music.
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Missionary Stories.
“ Jiro, A Japanese Boy.”
“ Bible Scenes and Japanese Customs.”
Any review of “ The Honorable Japanese Fan.”
chap. 2. Hand W ork or Note Book Work.
Our Benediction— Psalm 19: 14.
Note: The stories are found in “ Boys and Girls of
Sunrise Land.” Invitations, in the shape of a flag, and
decorated with an American or a Japanese Flag may be
used for this meeting.
WHAT WILL IT MATTER
What will it matter, dearest,
When the day of life is done,
And the sheaves we’ve toiled to gather
Shall be counted, one by one,
Whether we work in the sunshine,
Or whether the storm-cloud rose,
If only we have the bundles—
For the Master hath need of those.
What will it matter, dearest,
When the pearly gates are passed,
And our feet, all torn and bleeding,
Find shelter and rest at last,
Whether the path was thorny,
Or whether the way was plain,
If our own poor wayward children
Shall join in our glad refrain?
What will it matter, dearest,
At rest at the Master’s feet,
Chanting our hallelujahs
In rapture and joy complete;
If China can join the chorus,
And A frica— latest born—
Shall rise up to call us blessed
On the Resurrection morn?
— Selected.
ALE XA N D ER, C AESA R , AND I, BUILT GREAT
KINGDOMS BY FORCE. TH E Y ALL H AVE CRUM­
BLED, THE KINGDOM OF CHRIST ONLY HAS BEEN
ESTABLISHED IN RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND IT EN­
DURES.— NAPOLEON.
By Rev. W. H. Davis
Evanescent and insecure are all things established by
man.
In righteousness is the only sure building.
In vain the world has tried expediencies.
In vain the church has tried worldly ways.
In vain we strive to please when we ought to reprove.
In vain we build costly churches and lavishly expensive
colleges, if the object is to please and attract the world.
In vain we preach eloquent sermons, if the object is
other than to edify the church and save sinners.
Nothing will endure in man’s work but truth, Divine
truth inwrought in the heart, embodied in our lives, and
carried out in world-thought and actions.
Fruitless all merely worldly endeavors. Foundation
building is passed; “ Other foundation can no man lay.”
Our lesson— Take heed how and what we build. “ Wood,
hay, stubble, has too often gone into the structure. Long
opening church services, with much singing, especially if
not intelligible to the average listener, with many announcements,
with preliminary remarks and apologies, may
be but “ hay.” Long prayers even, in which about everything
is wordily prayed for, may be only “wood.” Anything
that detracts from the Gospel message is simply
“ stubble.”
Visiting by pastor may be good, or degenerate into
“ wood, hay and stubble.”
Why not take a short cut to what we want and need
before our audience sleeps.

12
A minister said, after the preliminaries of a thanksgiving
service were gone thru with. “ The brethren have
kindly left me five minutes for my discourse. Then he
took a little of that time for explanations.
Unless we have Gospel truth that shows men the wrong
way and the right way, unless we can erect a Gospel
ladder that will help men to emerge from darkness into
the joy of Christian liberty, our sermons may as well not
be preached.
Wheaton, Illinois..
THE MISSIONARY MONTHLY
RALLY ALL
Federal Prohibition Commissioner Roy A. Haynes has
issued “ Eight Commandments” for the guidance of citizens
who desire to help in the enforcement of the law.
The seventh of these is a general call; but it is fair
to use it also as a special call to all the membership of
The National Reform Association, and to millions not
yet brought into practical knowledge of the work which
this Association is doing: “ Affiliate with those societies
and organizations that have for their purpose the inculcating
of the spirit of respect for law in both young
and old.”
The Speakers Bureau of The National Reform Association
is conducting a campaign in behalf of law observance.
If millions and tens of millions of law-abiding-
earnest citizens in this country, who desire to uphold the
laws, will cooperate in this work of The National Reform
Association; before another year shall have rolled around,
the massed power of Christian citizenship will be with the
Government— and an end of the nefarious trade will be
in sight.— The Christian Statesman.
THE SUCCESSFUL MAGAZINE AGENT
Place: The sitting room of one of the members.
Characters, Six neighbors five of whom are chatting together
as they are engaged in fancy work, embroidery,
tatting etc.
A preliminary conversation on any topic of local interest.
The coming bazaar, the last lecture course number, a recent
wedding or the latest style of dresses.
(U sing names of the participants adds color and interest.)
Mrs. A . “ Oh, say to change the subject, has Mrs. C.
seen any of you about subscriptions' for the Missionary
Magazine? You know that contest closes today.”
Mrs B. “ Has she not been to see you yet Mrs. A ? ”
Mrs. A. “ No, and she needn’t bother.”
Mrs. F. “ That looks like her now coming right in
here. Talk about the angels___ ”
(Greetings)
Mrs C. (The Magazine agent, comes in with a bright
face and cheery voice).
“ Well of all things. I certainly think this is rare luck.
I’ve been tramping all day today and thought I had a
few more places to go in this neighborhood and here I ’ve
found just the folks I want to see. Of course you know
what I ’m after. This Magazine contest closes today and
I am anxious to get every woman in my division enrolled
as a subscriber.
It is hardly necessary for me to explain. I suppose you
know that The Missionary Monthly is the only Missionary
paper of our church. The Missionary Boards have been
publishing it for twenty-seven years and it is a splendid
paper. (Displays a copy). It deals with all phases of
our missionary work at home and abroad. It keeps pace
with all great missionary movements, publishes articles
on the United Mission Study courses home and foreign.
It carries a directory of our Missionary Boards, the names
and addresses of all workers supported by us. In short
it is one of the best magazines of its kind, east or west
and is absolutely indispensable to every fam ily of the
United Brethren Church.”
Mrs. A. “ You certainly have your speech down pat.”
Mrs. C. “ Well, I’m right here to take subscriptions.
You take the Magazine Mrs. D ?”
Mrs. D. “ Oh yes, I ’ve taken it for years. I couldn’t
keep house without it.”
Mrs. C. “ How about the rest of you? Mrs. E. do
you take it?”
Mrs. E. “ I used to take it but I just let it drop.”
Mrs. C. “ And you Mrs. B.?”
Mrs. B. “ No I never took it and I really think I cannot
subscribe now.”
Mrs. C. “ Are you a subscriber Mrs. A ? ”
Mrs. A. “ No and I hardly expect to be.”
Mrs. C. “ You are a subscriber Mrs. F..”
Mrs. F. “ Yes but I am sorry to say I hardly ever look
at it.”
Mrs. C. “ How can you let it go unread? I just love
to read the missionaries letters. Some of the writers are
dear college friends and some I know only through the
Magazine.
Mrs. F. “ I don’t know any missionaries.”
Mrs. C. “ You can get to know them.”
Mrs. F. “ How pray tell.”
Mrs. C. “ Just the way you got acquainted with President
Coolidge, Mr. Edison, Henry Ford and Jane Adams.
If you would read about the missionaries you would find
them very interesting personalities. And, Oh how your
heart would be stirred by their experiences.”
Mrs. F. “ I must confess I was surprised last year at the
Board Meetings. Everybody seemed to know Mr. and
Mrs. Woodard and I had never even heard o f them. I
certainly enjoyed their addresses and I was just thrilled
with their recital of what was being accomplished in
A frica.”
Mrs. C. (Tapping her pencil nervously) “ I am ready
to enroll you now. Who will be the first?”
Mrs E. “ I should like to help you out Mrs. C. but I
see no use in paying for something one does not use.
By the time I get the housework done and the children’s
sewing and my tatting— you know I kind of specialize
on that— I never have time for reading. It isn’t that I’m
not interested; I simply cannot find the time. I ’ve a
dozen presents to finish yet for next Christmas and I
don’t see how I am ever going to get through.”
Mrs. D. “ Why don’t you read the Magazine Sabbath
afternoons. You surely could read it in a month. And
some of it would be good reading for the children.”
Mrs E. “ I suppose so. But sometimes we have company
and sometimes I am so sleepy and tired I lie in
bed all afternoon.”
Mrs. C. “ Do you not think we owe it to our children
to keep informed along all lines and do you not think
that Christian mothers should keep before their children
the great work of the Kingdom? I think as Mrs. D. has
said there are many things in the Magazine to interest
your children. What boy would not be interested in
A frica through the reading of Rev. Eby’s story of the
pet monkey; and how the man who was bitten by an alligator
was saved from death only by the medical skill
of one of our Mission boys, who had been trained by Dr.
Kopp; of the exciting experiences when perchance a leopard
ventures too near the Mission house; of the unique
way of catching the deer; and of how even ants in A frica
will drive the Missionaries from their homes.
Mrs. E. “ I ’ll think about it and let you know later.”

Mrs. C. “ I’m afraid ‘later’ will not do. W e finish our
canvass today. You think about it while I talk to these
other folks. Now Mrs. B. are you ready?”
Mrs. B. “ Now you know, dear, I ’d like to help you out
but I feel I just can’t spare the money now. You know
money is rather tight.”
Mrs. A. “ Yes and it keeps people busy to make ends
meet.”
Mrs. C. “ I know that is true but we spend the price
of the Magazine in. many trifling ways and fifty cents
spent in this way brings great riches and blessing into
hearts and homes.”
Mrs. B. “ I suppose that’s your way of looking at it
but I can’t spare the money now.”
Mrs. C. “ I have always heard that you were great
readers at your house. You take a good many magazines?”
Mrs. B. “ Indeed that’s our one extravagance. My
husband will have the best of reading material.”
Mrs. D. “ Better get The Missionary Monthly then.”
Mrs. C. “ What Magazines do you take Mrs. B .?”
Mrs. B. “ I do not know whether I can name them all.
We take (names several popular magazines). Then my
husband thinks he must have all sides of the political
questions and he takes the Enquirer, News Journal, etc.
Of course we take the (names local papers). For lighter
vein we take (names one). My husband has to have
several along the line of his work. He thinks a man cannot
keep up unless he has everything that is written on
his special line.” (Names appropriate magazines).
Mrs. C. “ That’s right too. That’s just the idea about
our special line. Do you take any woman’s magazine?”
Mrs. B. “ To be sure I take (name two or three).”
Mrs. B. “ Since t h e ______ has been reduced fifty cents,
I decided I must have it again. The other day when I
was in ______ ’s store, I found they were making a special
offer on the________ for one dollar a year instead of one
fifty. That was too good a bargain to miss so I subscribed
for that too.”
Mrs. C. “ Well I say you are readers. However I
would like to suggest that you do not have balanced rations.
You need just this little book to put you in touch
with the great spiritual needs of humanity.”
Mrs. B. “ Well I don’t see how I can. Perhaps I can
take it later but not now.”
Mrs. C. “ Say Sister— You are already spending more
than thirty dollars a year for periodicals. If I could suggest
an easy plan of payment would you invest fifty
cents more?”
Mrs. B. “ What’s your plan?”
Mrs. C. “ You know the plan of the “ Newly-weds,”
for furnishing a house? A dollar down and a dollar a week
the rest of their lives? Now if you will subscribe you
may pay one cent and then one cent a week for a year,
and I ’ll come and collect.”
Mrs B. “ Excuse me my dear, I know of no one whom
I love to have come to see me more than I do you but I
wouldn’t want to see you coming every week for one cent.”
Mrs. C. “ That’s all the Magazine costs.”
Mrs. B. “ I guess since I saved a dollar on those two
magazines I can invest in The Missionary Monthly. You
may put me down.”
Mrs. C. “ Now Mrs. E. have you decided? Every one
in my division has subscribed except you and Mrs. A.
Mrs. A. “ You needn’t begin on me. I made up my
mind when I heard this campaign announced that you
wouldn’t get me.”
Mrs. C. “ Just wait until I get Mrs. E ’s name. May
I take it?”
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Mrs. E. “ I suppose so. I want to help you along.
Mrs. C. “ No commission in this business Mrs. E. But
you are helping me nevertheless. And While helping me
you are doing yourself the greatest kindness you have
done for awhile. Just one more to get now.”
Mrs. A. “ I thought I told you my decision. I really
have not much interest in missionary work anyway.”
Mrs. D. “ If you would read the Magazine you would
soon have some interest.”
Mrs. A. “ There are so many great subjects to occupy
one’s mind. I have been thinking I would give most of
my time to temperance work.”
Mrs. C. “ Good. That’s one of our departments of
work. Here’s just what you want: A paper that publishes
articles on that line and lays special stress on that
subject in the February issue.
Mrs. A. “ That does look interesting. But I think I
shall be studying on the, well you might call it the Feminist
movement in the United States. It is so interesting
to see what women are doing since they have been given
the ballot.
Mrs. C. “ Why confine yourself to America. The Feminist
movement is all over the world. Here’s some information
for you. (Displays a copy). Did you ever see
anything more wonderful than this? Look at this— A frican
girl in American dress, one of our own Mission girls
the mistress of a Christian home and many others likewise
that are now the leaders of their people in their
own respective communities;
Mrs. A. “ That’s extraordinary! Isn’t it? However
my own special interest is in social service in foreign
lands, and the great race problems here in this country.
I think it’s time we are studying about some of the heathen
at home, the incoming races on the Pacific coast for
example. Then another subject that interests me immensely
is Child Welfare. Really it is almost a hobby of mine.”
Mrs. C. “ Now I know you need my little book. This
year we are studying Japan. Our text-book “ Creative
Forces in Japan” dwells on social service as well as
spiritual culture. The California question will come in
for a share of our attention too, and the Missionary
Monthly advertises and publishes helps on this very line.
Really Mrs. A. I don’t see how you can get on without it.”
Mrs. A. “ If I hadn’t made up my mind beforehand,
I think I would really be convinced. But you know how
I am When I say I won’t do a thing I ___________
Mrs. C. “ Hold on! You remember the old saying:
‘Wise men change their minds but____”
Mrs. A. “ Now you hold on or you’ll be calling me
names. I never saw such persistence in my life. I declare
you would make a good book agent.”
Mrs. F. “ Or a life insurance agent.”
Mrs. B. “ Or a lawyer.”
Mrs. C. “ Thanks, thanks, for your kind words. All
I want is to bring all of you to share in the blessing of
missionary information. Will you make it unanimous
Mrs. A?
Mrs. A. “ Well I ’ve dodged you for a month, but I surrender,
wait until I get my money.”
Mrs. C. “ I certainly am grateful to you all. I hope
you will be as happy over this as I am. I am so glad to
have people just subscribe without being coaxed. I
wouldn’t feel right if I had talked anyone into it against
her will.”
Mrs. B. “ Well I am beginning to feel kind of cheer­
ful over this already.”
Mrs. C. “ Happy? Why I am so happy I could cry?”
Mrs. A. “ I ’m getting a bit happy too.”

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Mrs. D. “ Cry? Why not sing, if you are happy. This
is something to sing about.”
Mrs. C. “ That would be more like it. Yes I feel like
singing. Say— now that these folks have come into our
Magazine Family, let’s teach them our Magazine Loyalty
Song.”
(A ll join in singing)
(Tune America)
My book I love thee well
Thy praises I would tell
Both far and near.
I love thy stories dear,
Thy pictures bright and clear
Thy newsy papers’ cheer.
My Magazine.
Of women in distress
Who walk in sinfulness
From thee I hear.
I learn of sister dear
These lives of woe who cheer,
By services most rare,
M y Magazine.
Thou art to me a prize
To help me toward the skies
By night and day.
Thy messages sublime
Give help at every time
May thy life ne’er decline
My Magazine.
—^Adapted from article by Mrs. J. P. White in the
Woman’s Missionary Magazine.
LETTERS FROM AFRICA
Danville Mission.
Jan. 2, 1924.
Dear Ones A ll:
We came up here with the agent of the S. C. 0. A.
Firm at Bonthe. He and two other men. One man was
on his way home. He was going from here to Mokella
and from there to Moyamba and then to Freetown. There
were nine in the motor boat. They towed the Mission gig
boat and it was filled to capacity. About fifteen people
besides two or three trunks and boxes and suitcases. It
would have taken us about nine to twelve hour's to row
up here and we came up in six hours with thfe motor.
On Monday Rev. and Mrs. Fleming, Miss Shultz and
myself took a little trip. W e went over to the home of
one of our Mission girls. We had told Marion George
we were coming and she had everything in readiness for
us. She had the beds all fixed with bed tents and everything
very tidy. It was the first experience Miss Shultz
and I have had in staying all night in a Native mud house.
Marion had the men make us a nice bath house out of
green palm leaves and rough native boards for floor, with
matting on part of it and a matting door. The house was
very well built for a native home. Of course Mr. George
is a trader and that makes a difference.
education for one of this land.
He has a good
We left the Mission house about one o’clock and went
for a walk over to Bombitook, which took us about forty
five minutes. We stopped there for an hour and called
on Paramount Chief Margai. He wanted us to stay there
for the night, but we thought it best to go on to Mr.
George’s as we had planned. Then he insisted on us
staying there on Tuesday night, so we did. It is about a
three hours walk over to Momassa from Danville.
One Tuesday, Rev. Fleming .took us out for a ride in
a native canoe. It was about 7 o’clock in the morning
when we started and we went up to the Falls and it was
so cool and nice, we all enjoyed it very much. It is a
beautiful scene. We were a little nervous but the current
was not swift enough to be dangerous. Then he took us
across the river to a little town called Moselolo. There we
called on the mother of one of our Mission girls. We
stayed at Mr. George’s until about one o’clock, then started
back to Bombitook. A Paramount Chief overtook us, coming
home from the Agricultural Show at Sembehoon and we
had music and plenty of entertainment the rest of the way
to Bombitook. Rev. Fleming rode his bicycle and Mrs.
Fleming Miss Shultz and myself changed off in using
the hammocks. We only have two hammocks. One of the
Mission boys stayed with us all the time. He also carried
the suitcase. The four of us only took one suitcase. We
also took a box of lunch but there was no need to do so.
I will tell you what we had to eat. About twenty minutes
after we arrived we had tea, bananas and co co n u t.
For supper, we had fowl on rice and deer meat; tea,
bananas and coco n u t. For breakfast, we had french
toast (our own bread), fried eggs, coffee and bananas.
For dinner fowl on rice, rich deer meat, yams, bananas
and tea.
At Bombitook, we had fowl on rice and fried plantains.
(Plantains are like bananas growing but are not good to
eat unless they are fried. They are very good then.)
We came on from Chief Margai’s early the next morning.
I walked all the way and it took only forty minutes
and I did not hurry either. Mr. and Mrs. Eby knew we
were coming and waited breakfast for us. We were all
at the table at 8:30.
Chief Margai thinks our schools are about the only
schools. He has no children of his own at all but he is
supporting three nieces in our school at Bonthe.
We enjoyed the trip wonderfully as it was our first outing.
Rev. Fleming was greatly pleased to think we could
have such an outing. I was not at all tired out but Miss
Shultz did not stand the trip so Well and she has been
having a little fever ever since. She did not complain at
all Wednesday or Thursday, until Thursday evening. On
Friday, however, she insisted on getting up in the morning
but toward evening she had to go to bed and had a temperature
of 103. On Saturday morning she arose in the morning
and stayed up until 1 o’clock, when she went to bed
of her own accord. At that time she had a temperature
of 104. At three o’clock it was up to 105 and I was very
much worried. I was up with her until 12 o’clock Saturday
night before I could succeed in getting her temperature
lowered. Mrs. Eby and Mrs. Fleming take care
of her in the day time and I take care of her at night.
Rev Fleming and Rev. Eby are away for a week on an
itinerating trip.
Miss Shultz was announced to preach on Sunday morning
but on account of her illness she could not do so and
it fell to my lot to try. It was my first experience with
an interpreter. I thought perhaps there would not be
many people there and we could just have a short prayer
meeting and then go home but before the first song was
sung, the Church was packed. I think there were about
one hundred people there. Mrs. Fleming played the organ
and I had Mr. Yarn translate for me. It did not seem so
difficult to speak that way after I got started.
I like Danville very much, for at Danville it seems like
being on a farm.
I have told you about all that has happened on our trip
and must close now. Six months have passed since I
left the homeland and it will be seven by the time you get

this. I cannot realize that time goes so fast. Love and
best wishes to all.
Ellen S. Rush.
Minnie Mull Memorial Home.
Bonthe Sherbro, A frica, Sept. 28th, 1923.
My Dearest Mrs Woodard:
I was very glad to receive the hoop which you sent by
Miss Rush. Thanks very much for it. Do please if you
reply to my letter send the address of Miss Ruth Rhoads.
I hope she received the cloth which I sent by you. She
is not writing me again and I have lost her address. I
wrote you a letter last week but it was too late. We
was very glad to receive the new Missionaries. Miss
Beatrice Floode got marriage on the 30th of August. Her
new name is Mrs Caulker the teacher at U. B. C. School.
I was not here when she marriage. Since December when
I. spent my holiday in the Mission, my grandfather died.
I meat them keeping the buriery eight months. We have
a, grant time. They killed five cows, five sheep five goats.
The fowls I cannot count. I was very happy. I should
say that I spend my holidays very happily. I am in school
while writing this letter. Excuse me for bad hand writing.
My mother was sorry because you are gone. She
said that you can learn me plenty steaches. Give my best
compliments to Master and all your families. Keep well
my dear please ma. Marion George and her sister Rachel
George are here. She is four years of age. She is very
funny. She can read the Lord’s prayer and the A. B.
C’s and John 3:16. She can cry. When she heard the
sewing bell she said that the needle can pierce her hands.
Yours dearly,
Violet Rogers.
(Supported by Esther Ruth Rhodes Ssholarship)
M. M. Home, Bonthe, Sept. 28, 1923.
My dear Mrs. Woodard:
I am very glad to write you this letter just to tell you
I have no dress and petticoat and shinmie. Please try
send me all the goods. Try to send me doll baby. Martha
Alien is telling you howdo. Tell Mr. Woodard howdo.
I close loving letter,
Lucy Dakota.
Minnie Mull Memorial Home.
Bonthe Sherbro. Sept. 28, 1923.
My dearest mother in Christ:
I am very glad to inform you this few lines of mine.
Hopping and wishing you are quite well as I am now.
I received the thread which you sent for me. I was very
Glad for it; How is our Master has he well? I hope he
is quite well. All of we girls was very sorry when you
were going. Bill is getting very fat. We are not to run
on the step, not to spit on the floor. W e are not allow to
go in the dormitory and stay there unless we get seek.
The time Minnie Mull Home was opening rain was coming
so much we thought so many people will not be here. But
still people came until we girls have no place to sit. I
unvale one dex.
I close yours truly one, Ellen O. Phillips.
(Supported by the Lucretia J. Hansen Scholarship).
M. M. M. Home. Bonthe, Sept. 28, 1923.
My dear Mrs. W oodard:
I am glad to write you this letter. Hope you are
well. Just to say that I am very glad to write you this
letter. I was very glad when Missus tell me to write you.
This is the second time that I am writing you. When I
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write, I give Mrs. Fleming to post it for me. I don’t
know if she send it or not, so try to reply me. I will
try to send something for you next time. If you see Miss
Swales, tell her that I will write her next time. Thank
for the hoop and the thread which you send for me. Do
Mrs. try to send me one baby. W e have one little girl
here by the name of Rachel George and two size girl.
There name is Etta Tucker and Ella Massevusie. Do
please find one friend for me in America. M. M. M..
stand for Minnie Mull Memorial School. I hope you are
enjoying yourself in America. We are now thirty seven
in the Mission. Tell your sisters, brothers, Aunt and
cousins howdo for me. Tell all of them to send me something
and your uncle dowdo. A ll the girls are busy writing
to you and some are writing to Miss Swales and others
are ironing upstairs. I hope you will be very glad to
receive a letter from me. Ashmah Brown is not in the
Mission again. We are now taking contest on Arithmetic.
Today is Friday and it is raining very hard. I was
very sorry when Miss Swales go to America, and I was
not there. We have two Missionaries, Miss Rush is keeping
school and Miss Shultz is learning us how to sew.
Yours loving daughter,
Lily Fox.
M. M. M. Home, Bonthe, Sept. 28, 1923.
My dearest Mother:
I am very glad to write you this letter. Hope it will
meet you in good condition of life. Just to say that you
must send me one doll baby for me. Tell master howdo
for me. There are thirty seven girls in the Mission. Hope
you are quite well as I am well now. I have no dress to
wear.
Yours, Anna Ruth Harwood.
HUNTINGTON COLLEGE AU XILIARY
The Huntington College Auxiliary met at the home of
the President of the society, Mrs. D. R. Ellabarger, on
March 18, last, when regular business was transacted and
new committees appointed.
We trust that the readers of our church papers are
not growing weary of hearing about the operations of
our College Auxiliary. We are very much interested
ourselves, and believe the Church in general is also interested
as far as they are acquainted with the needs and
the opportunity of lending a helping hand. It just takes
25 cents to become a member of the society, and if we
could enroll all of our church members at this small fee
we could do a great deal more toward the upkeep of our
college. As our people visit our Institution and become acquainted
with its real merits and needs they gladly
respond.
Since our last report we received a very nice comfort
from the W illing Worker’s Bible Class, o f King Street
Sunday school, Chambersburg, Pa., and dish and tea
towels and a comfort from Mrs Ella W olf, of Pomeroy,
Ohio. Also 25 cans of fruit and jellies from Van Buren,
Indiana.
For all of these valuable and substantial gifts to the
dormitory and dining hall the donors have the sincere
thanks of Huntington -College Auxiliary.
At our last meeting our treasurer reported 111 new
members added during the year, and the receipts for
1923 were $320.13. We heartily thank all who have cooperated
with us in the work, and earnestly solicit their
continued help.
Mrs. J. Howe, Committee.

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MEMBERS AND OFFICERS OF PARENT BOARD
OF MISSIONS.
President,— Bishop F. L. Hoskins, Myrtle, Idaho.
First Vice- Pres.— Bishop C. A. Mummart, Ubee, Indiana.
Second Vice-Pres.-—Bishop H. C. Mason, Ann Arbor, Mich.
Secretary-—J. Howe, Huntington, Indiana.
Treasurer-—S. A. Stemen, Ubee, Indiana.
J. E. Harwood, Huntington, Indiana.
S. H. Swartz, Kitchener, Ontario,
E. M. Wheeler, Woodland, Michigan.
W. H. Zeigler, Orient, Ohio.
C. E. Wolverton, Hillsdale, Michigan.
Thomas Weyer, Van Wert, Ohio.
Executive Committee.
Chairman— J. E. Harwood. Secretary— Thomas Weyer.
J. Howe W. H. Zeigler S. A. Stemen
THE MISSIONARY MONTHLY
MISSIONARY LEAFLETS AND HELPS.
Each Doz.
All That Was L e ft ........................-..........-........$-04 $.40
Ask Somebody E ls e ............................................. 02 .ll»
A Christmas R osa ry ........................................... 03 -30
Eleven Good Reasons for not attending
ary Meetings ................................................... 03 .30
Twelve Reasons for Attending Missionary
Meetings ................................................... 04 .40
Hannah Higgins Experience ...........................02 .20
Medical Missions ................................................. 02 .20
Melissa’s Successful Failure ...........................02 .20
Not Omitting the Fourth Stanza.....................02 .20
Prayer As a Missionary Method .....................02 .20
Thanksgiving Ann and the Deacon’s
Tenth ..................................................................02 .20
The Woman Who Gave Herself .......................02 .20
The Treasurer’s Palaver ...................................02 .20
Two Ways ............................................................. 02 .20
What One Talent Did ....................................... 03 .30
Young People and Children.
Miss M. M. Titus, Mrs. Ida Sellers, Mrs. F. A. Loew
A Mite Box With Wooden Legs .................... 02 .20
Giving from a Girl’s Viewpoint .................... 02 .20
First the Kingdom o f God ...............................03 .30
If They Only Knew ........................................... 02 .20
Suggestions for Children’s Work .................. 02 .20
The Life of A Mormon Girl .............................02 .20
The Deacon and His Daughter Nannie ........ 02 .20
The Doing Without Box ...................................02 .23
The Master Wants You .............................. .02 .20
What Miss Martin Gave ...................................02 .20
Young People and Missions .............................02 .20
Giving.
A Farmer’s Wife on T ith ing.............................03 .30
Her Tenth Box ................................................... 03 .30
Her Tithes ............................................................. 02 .20
How Much Owest Thou to My Lord ? ............ 02 .20
How Much Shall I Give This Year to Missions
................................................................... 01 .05
How the Tenth Saved a Man ...........................02 .20
Mrs. Morgan's Quarter .....................................02 .20
My Thanksgiving Box .......................................02 .20
Mrs. Hartwell’s Mite Box .................................03 .30
The Story of a Mite Box .................................02 .20
The Thankoffering o f Fairtown ................... 02 .20
The Willful Gifts and the Disconcerted
Deacons .... ............................................... . .02 .20
Mrs. Stanton’s Thank-Offerings ........................01 .20
Playing at Missions .................................................. 03 .30
Songs and Dialogues.
Behold The Fields are White ............................... 02 .20
Missionary Bells ......................................................... 03 .30
Not H alf Have Ever Been Told ........................ 05 .30
The M aster’s Service First ............................... . .03 .30
Tell Me His Name Again (so n g)...........................02 .20
W hat Shall I Answ er Jesus .................................01 .10
Who W ill Send or G o ................................................02 .20
A Mite Box Convention and Song ................... 05 .50
A Tale of Three Boxes ........................................... 02 .10
From Greenland’s Icy Mountains ..................... 05 .50
How Not to Do I t .......................................................02 .20
Missionary Colloquy ...............................................02 .20
No Room ......................................................................... 03 .20
Other Children Speak ....:...................................... 02 .20
The Voices of the W om en ................................. 10 .60
The Two Mites, Or Christian Giving
and W orldly Giving ............................................. 02 .10
The Mission Band at Averageville ..................... 03 .30
W aiting for the Doctor ........................................... 05 .50
Watchman W hat of the Night .............................02 .20
Temperance Leaflets
Law Enforcement; Total Abstinence; Anti Narcotics;
Health; Medical Temperance; Sabbath Observance and
Social Morality, are all kept in stock and those desired
will be sent free on application.
Law Enforcement
Save America ...................................................................................25c
Mission Study Books
The Kingdom and the Nations, cloth cover .......................75c
India On the March, paper cover ......................................... 50c
India On the March, cloth cover ........................................... 75c
Creative Forces in Japan (for W . M. A . Locals,) paper 50c
Creative Forces in Japan for W . M. A . Locals, cloth 75c
How to use book “ Creative Forces in Japan ............ ....... ..15c
Suggestions to leaders in study of Creative Forces in
Japan .........................................................................................15c
The W om an and the Leaven in Japan (Y . P. M. B.)
p a p e r ............. ................... . ............ .......................................... 50c
The W om an and the Leaven in Japan (Y . P. M. B.
cloth ...........................................................................................75c
How to U se book “ The W om an and the Leaven in
Japan ............ *......................................................................... 15c
The Honorable Japanese Fan (for Harvesters) paper....40c
The Honorable Japanese Fan (for Harvesters) cloth....65c
How to Use Book “ The Honorable Japanese Fan”........15c
Our Heroes or United Brethren Home Missionaries ...,75c
Missionary R ecitations
Missionary Gems, cloth cover .................... :............................ 65c
Dramatized Missionary Stories, cloth c o v e r ....................$1.00
Missionary Pageant
Voices From the Darkness, per set with song book ....$1.50
Orders For Supplies.
Any of the above named supplies, Blanks for Local
Secretaries and Treasurers, Constitutions with suggestions
for organizing, Mission Study books etc., should be sent
to Mrs. F. A . Loew, U . B. Mission Room 302, Huntington,
Indiana.
All mite-box reports and all orders for supplies for
the work among the Young People and the Juniors, should
ben sent to the GENERAL ORGANIZER and SUPERIN­
TENDENT o f above departments. Miss Effie Hodgeboom,
61 West St., Hillsdale, Michigan.