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April 13, 1910. TH1
HOME MISSION RECEIPTS.
Our books have just been balanced, and
we are glad to report to the Church that
we have had the best year In all our experience.
The total receipts for Home
Missions amount to $106,642.84, being
$16,031.56 in excess of last year, which is
the greatest gain our committee has ever
made in one year. This large increase is
due chiefly to the strenuous campaign
of Governor Glenn and the appeal of Mrs.
J. Calvin Stewart, for Durant Colleee. We
are greatly gratified at the result, because
we appropriated last year nearly
$100,000 for the work, and we are glad
that there has been such response as to
enable us to meet this large increased
appropriation for the year. We have
sent advance sheets of our Annual Report
to the Presbyteiran Chairmen, in order
that they may bring the facts before the
Presbyteries.
S. L. Morris, Homer McMillan,
Secretaries.
THE POPULATION OF NORTH
KIANGSU.
It has come to the knowledge of the
North Kiangsu Mission that there seems
to be some doubts in the minds of a part
of the Church at home as to the estimates
made by the Mission of the population
of this part of the territory in
which our Church labors. The Mission
at its last meeting appointed a committee
to take up the matter and report on
it. The committee reported the following
which was unanimously adopted by
the Mission. "The committee to esth
mate the population of North Kiangsu
and the number of people for the evangelization
of whom the North Kiangsu
Mission, may he considered aB responsible
and to write home concerning the
same, report that after consultation together
and with others the committee
thought that from twelve to fifteen millions
is a very conservative estimate of
the population of the part of Kiangsu
province north of the river, and that from
ten to twelve millions is a very conservative
estimate of the souls for the evanfroli7of
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considered responsible." We are aware
that of the twelve millions that the Executive
Committee put down for us in
China only eight million are assigned as
the part of the North Kiangsu Mission,
but these millions are here and no one
else is working among them and we can
not rest satisfied to leave out any of
them in the plans we are making. All
of us have fresh in our minds the famine
of a few years ago and how we were
compelled for lack of food enough to stand
aside and let many perish because there
was not enough to go round, and you
can imagine how our hearts bled and
bow we suffered on that account. Now
there confronts us another and a much
worse kind of famine and we are com
pelled for the lack of the spiritual food
and the men to distribute it to stand and
see these millions going down to destruction
in and unending famine of the soul,
and our hearts are longing to help them
and we are passing the call along to ev
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ery member of our beloved Church and
we beg of you, dear brethren, to come
to our help and send us the men and the
means to give the bread of life to these
perishing ones ere it be too late. You
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it is to us to stand thus helpless in the
midst of such conditions. These people
are crying to us in their great need and
never before was there such grand opportunity
to reach them. The crisis is on
now and things are rapidly changing in
China and the time will be not very distant
when it may be too late. So again
we earnestly implore you to come to our
help and by your interest and your gifts
of money and men and women make it
possible for us to do the work that is at
our doors. One man and one dollar now
will be worth several men and several
dollars a few years later. We want to
go in on the rising tide of interest and inquiry,
will you not come to the rescue
now. On behalf of the Mission.
W. F. Junkin, C. N. Caldwell,
T. B. Grafton, Committee.
TWO PRIZES OFFERED.
A friend deeply interested in the work
of Home Missions, and desiring ever increased
success to The Home Mission
Herald, has enabled the editors to offer
prizes for stories for the "Children's Cor
ner" of that magazine. These prizes are
small?just enough to incite to immediate
and serious effort.
A prize of $3 is offered for the best
story, and |2.50 for the next best, as decided
by a committee of two or three disinterested
persons. No one in the office
of The Herald, or connected with the Assembly's
Committee, will have anything
to do with the awards.
The rules governing the contest are:
1. The stories shall illustrate, or, rather,
conform to, some phase of the Home
Mission work, following these topics: Assembly's
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Home Missions; Mexicans in the United
States; Foreigners in the United States;
Mission Schools; The Indians; Mine.
Mill or Factory People (industrial conditions);
City Missions; The Great West
(our part of it, which is Texas and Oklahoma);
Foes We Fftce (whatever is opposed
to Christianity and the Progress
of the Church, intemperance. Sabbath
desecration, etc.); Woman's Work (what
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2. The stories are to contain from 600
to 1,000 words. These limits will be enforced.
3. Manuscript must be addressed to
"Contest," The Home Mission Herald,
Drawer H, Atlanta, Ga., and should reach
the office by May 15, 1910.
4. On the manuscript no name or address
shall appear. On a separate sheet
of paper, in the same envelope, the name
and address of the writer are to be plainly
written. Each article will then be so
numbered that the identity of the writer
will not be known to the judges.
5. Should there be a tie, preference
will be given to stories of children living
under some of the adverse conditions
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are improved or their lives
transformed through the influence of
missionary work, especially our own,
rather than to stories of work in Children's
Bands, etc., though such stories,
especially if true, are also desired.
6. All manuscript shall be sent in with
the distinct understanding that it becomes
the property of The Home Mission
Herald, to be used or not, as the editors
may decide.
7. No list will be published of those
competing, though announcement will be
made of the successful contestants.
Perhaps we should explain that, thoueh
called the "Children's Corner," stories
for this department of The Home Mission
Herald need not be written exclusively
for very young children, but may
be prepared with the aim to enlist the interest
and sympathy of "young people"
anywhere from eight to eighteen years of
age.
We might as well take our friends into
our confidence to the extent of confessing
that we hope in this way to get a
great many charming stories for our
young people's department, and also to
encourage the habit of sending to The
Herald interesting stories and facts. Our
only regret is that it will not be possible
to give a prize to each one who decides
to help the work by competing. We trust
that all our friends who are interested in
the work, and especially those who wield
a facile pen, and know by intuition or
contact the needs and wants of childhood
will engage in the contest.