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FAST VESTIBULE TRAINS.
With Dining Cars and Pullman Sleepers
Between
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Richmond,
and
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Direct connections to and from all points
West. Two Fast Trains between
Richmond and Norfolk.
JOHN D. POTTS, W. O. WARTHEN,
Gen. Pas. Agent. Dist. Pas. Agent
Richmond, Va.
A RARE10PP0RTUNITY
One month in Cuba. Visiting principal
cities, from Havana to Santiago de Cuba.
Party will consist of one hundred young
women and their ten chaperones.
Accompanied by six or more ministers and
laymen. All Evangelical Churches represented.
Party leaves Richmond, Va., by rail for
Havana?returning from Cuba by steamship
to New York.
Everything first class by sea and land.
Special train, Pullmans, Buffett, and on
steamer?first cabin.
Only six weeks' absence from business.
Still vacancies. Party leaves when complete.
Total cost.?One hundred and sixty-two
dollars.
For particulars, address,
MISS JANET HAY HOUSTON,
206 S. Fourth Street. Richmond, Vs.
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REPORT ON FOREIGN MISSIONS.
(Published by Request of Synod of
Georgia.)
Your Committee on Foreign Missions
respectfully reports: By the blessing of
our God and to His praise, every department
of this great work has made cheering
progress during the past year and
the outlook was never so bright and
promising as it is at this time. Our
missionaries in every part of the field
were never more hopeful nor more successful
nor more afire with the enthusiasm
of the faith that sees God in his
providence fulfilling His promises. Report
from all our stations in the seven
countries in which we are prosecuting
this great work make mention of such a
manifest change in attitude on the part
of the people toward our missionaries
and their work as gives promise of unprecedented
harvest in the near future.
The spirit of the Welsh revival passed
through India into Korea where during
the past year more than a thousand
members were added to our churches and
tne number of candidates under special
instruction was multiplied several fold.
One missionary during the first six
months of this year examined 1,400 applicants,
of whom 273 were baptized and 600
were enrolled as catechumens.
Good progress was made in Africa in
the face of peculiar difficulties and the
prosecution of our missionaries Morrison
and Sheppard has turned out to the furtherance
of the gospel in that dark continent.
Our missionaries in Brazil, while
pressing their evangelistic work to the
full measure of their resources, have
revolutionized the educational system of
that great and growing republic and are
doing their utmost to provide a native
ministry to meet the needs and opportunities
of this difficult and exceedingly important
field.
The Theological Seminary and Cam
pinas ana me industrial School at Lavras
and the training classes under Mr.
Henderlite, in Northern Brazil, are doing
splendid work. With new buildings costing
|20,000 and a new dormitory costing
half that amount the Lavras school
will do better work than ever before
and especially in supplying students for
the seminary. The liberality of the native
churches in supporting their own work
continues to excite admiration and to Justify
yet more generous appropriations for
this Held.
The improvements recently made in
the girls' school at Matamoras and the
establishment of a boys' school for training
a native ministry for the Mexican
people place this mission In far better
condition than it has been in hertofore
and give promise of results in the future
that will gladden the hearts of all who
love our Lord and look for his coming.
In Cuba our chapels and halls of worship
are crowded to their full capacity
and the progress of the work is limited
i>ui/ uy lue lewneHs or our laDorers.
Here, as in Brazil and*Mexico, especial
responsibility is imposed and great encouragement
is given by the (act that
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the people have lost confidence in the
priests of Rome and are turning to our
missionaries for instruction or to infidelity.
The arranging of a satisfactory basis
of cooperation between the Mission and
the native church in Japan, and the subsidence
of an anti-foreign spirit which at
one time gave some anxiety and the
willingness of the masses of the people
to hear the Gospel from our missionaries
and the recent establishment of a theological
training school in Kobe, which is
doing excellent work and is full of promise,
constitute a message that should give
great force to the appeal of our missionaries
for a large increase in their number
and the better equipment of our
work in that exceedingly important field.
The many thousands of students pursuing
their studies in the universities of
Japan, and the dominance of Japan, in
all the political and commercial and educational
affairs of the Far East seem to
warrant the very large claim that Japan
leads the Orient. There 13 enough truth
in this claim, at the least, to justify and
demand our most earnest endeavors to
so press our work in that Island Empire
as to secure the enthronement of Jesus
Christ our Lord in the hearts of the people
and in all centers of influence as
speedily as possible.
China, the greatest mission field in
the world, is now passing through so
great changes in attitude toward Western
learning as constitutes a crisis of
opportunity and responsibility, the like
of which has never been seen before in
the history of this vast empire. The native
Church has never before so commanded
the respect of the nation as now,
nor been so possessed of the evangelistic
spirit, nor been more successful in winning
to Christ multitudes of those for
whom He shed His precious blood. Mr.
wrier writes: "As It appears to us, there
has never been a time when the prospects
here were so encouraging. At our
recent communion ninety applicants
were examined, of whom twenty-two
were baptized. At our morning service
our church seating capacity of 350 is
crowded and as many more are gathered
in the yard to an overflow service."
To meet only the most urgent of the
calls enforced by these opportunities
there will be needed during this present
year at least $600,000. The amount received
last year by our Executive Committee
was $412,156.63, and this was a
gain over the previous year of $88,277.99.
The amount received from the Synod of
Georgia last year was $31,278, about $1.53
per member. This was a gain over the previous
year of thitrty-eight cents per
member. This is far short of the four
dollar per member called for by the
missionary platform of our Church. The
' offerings by Presbyterians per member
were from Atlanta, $2.04; from Macon,
$1.76; from Augusta, $1.50; from Savan
nan, ji.03; rrom Cherokee, ninety-two
cents; from Athens, eighty-eight cents.
Of the thirtyelght churches in our Assembly
that gave last year four dollars
or more per member, seven are in this