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VOL. IV. R1CHMO:
Sunday School F
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Many years ago the General Assembly of our
Southern Presbyterian Church, realizing the importance
of interesting the Sabbath schools in
Foreign Missions, designated the last Sabbath
in May to be observed as "Sunday School Foreign
Mission Day." It has been the custom to
have on this day exercises in the Sunday schools
with a program relating to Foreign Missions,
and to receive offerings for the cause.
A great work has been done during the years
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gone. Not only has interest in Foreign Missions
increased among the young people, but the offerings
coming to the treasury of the Executive
Committee from the Sunday schools have contributed
very largely to the promotion of the
work of our Foreign Mission
Among the 'historical achievements
made possible by the gifts
from the Sunday schools was the
building of the first "Lapsley"
in Richmond, Virginia, its shipment
in sections to the Congo
where it was reconstructed, and,
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Kir several years, was tne me- |HHn9V>l
dium of communication between
Leopoldville and our mission at
Luebo, eight or nine miles up the
(Jongo, Kassai and Lulua rivers. Kj
Even still more notable was
the May offering of the young
people of the Church amounting
to ahout $42,000, to build the
"New Lapsley," following the
wreck of the first steamer. At
the very time that the day is I jp
being observed this year in our H
Sunday schools, the "Lapsley,"
the best mission boat on the Con- " Congn
go or its tributaries, will be mak
ing its voyage up or down the great rivers to
convey missionaries to the stations of our Congo
Missions.
For many years our Girls' School at Hangchow,
China, carried on its work in inadequate
and unsanitary buildings. A statement of the
needs of this school was made to the Sunday
schools in connection with the observance of
Foreign Mission Day, and a call made for ten
or twelve thousand dollars to be used in erecting
a new building. To the joy of the missionaries
in China, and esDeciallv at Hantrchow. the
amount was promptly given.
Another school building was greatly needed
111 our Japan Mission. Our historical Girls'
School at Nagoya, having heard of the good
things done for the Hangchow Girls' School,
asked that the contributions of the Sabbath
schools might, for one year, be devoted to the
securing of a fund for the erection of a buildinR
which would be adequate to the needs of the
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school. Again there was a generous response
of about $10,000.
Still another call was made upon our Sunday
schools for a fund which should be devoted to
the erection of the Graybill Memorial School at
Montemorelos, Mexico. This, as in other calls,
was responded to with a generous offering.
Last year (1911) the need of funds to be used
in sending missionaries to the field, as they were
ready to go, was so pressing that a call was made
to which, though not so large as in former years,
the Sunday schools made liberal contributions.
This year the Sunday School Foreign Mission
Day, May 26, has perhaps the most urgent appeal
since the sinking of the "Lapsley." Never
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in the history of our missions has there been such
an opening in all our mission fields. In darkest
Africa, in the Latin countries, in the new, and
great republic of China; in Korea where such
marvelous miracles of grace have been wrought;
in Japan, the Island Empire,?from the great
cities, the fertile valleys and mountain fastnesses
?there are calls that can not be met "except
they be sent."
The average expense incurred in supplying
equipment and sending new missionaries to the
field. t.he navment of traveling PTnon?oo nf nr^a.
sionaries coming home on their furlough and
returning them to their field at expiration, is
$30,000 each year. The average travel expense
of a missionary to or from the field is $250, and
the average outfit expense is $150. In former
years the contributions of a few Sunday schools
have amounted to over $1,000. This amount
would send four missionaries to the field. One
hundred and fifty dollars would provide the
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traveling expenses of an outgoing missionary.
How many of our Sunday schools are there that
will this year undertake to raise a definite
amount?$1,000 to send four missionaries to the
field, or amounts that will spnd a small at- num.
ber? How many Sunday schools will pay the
outfit expenses of one or more missionaries?
The Committee hopes to receive from the Sunday
schools an offering of at least $10,000. Would
it be too large an expectation to look to the Sunday
schools for one-half of the amount needed
for travel and outfit expenses of missionaries for
the year 1912-13?$15,000? We have confidence
in a generous response to this 1912 call to the
young people of our Church, and that pastors,
Sunday school superintendents,
officers and teachers will cooperate
in making the coming Sun
v ^ day School Foreign Mission Day
mSSall that it should be in the great
cause for which it stands.
The Executive Committee of
Foreign Missions has provided
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.mail or express, prepaid, m sufficient
quantity, to all our Sunday
school superintendents, the
addresses having been kindly
furnished by the Sunday School
Department of the Committee of
Publication. This literature includes
an order of exercises, with
music, mite boxes, recitations,
announcement, illustrated poster
and other leaflets. Any superintendent
not receiving the literature
within a reasonable time
is requested to notify the Execuapan.
" tive Committee of Foreign Missions.
If additional information
that will assist in the observance of the Foreign
Mission Day is desired, write to Rev. H. F.
Williams, Executive Committee of Foreign Missions.
A request is made in advance that the collections
from the Sunday schools, when made, shall
be promptly forwarded to Mr. W. H. Raymond,
Treasurer Executive Committee of Foreign Missions,
154 Fifth Avenue North, Nashville, Tenn.
The money contributed by the Sabbath schools
will be urgently needed. All contributions will
be set apart as a special fund for use in sending
misionaries to the field.Never
have I seen thee ra nlenrlv oo wvian t
was breaking bread to the hungry; never have
I loved thee so dearly as when I soothed a
brother's pain. I sought the friendless children,
and I discovered Bethlehem. I visited
the humble homes, and I found Nazareth.?
George Matheson.