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VOL. IV. RICHMC
Sunday School I
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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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
fields.
Among the historical achieve- v " *
ments made possible by the gifts . &?>, . .
from the Sunday schools was the ,
building of the first "Lapsley" ;
in Richmond, Virginia, its ship- jgga
ment in sections to the Congo
where it was reconstructed, and,
several years, was the medium
of communication between - i
Leopoldville and our mission at
Luebo, eight or nine miles up the
Congo, Kassai and Lulua rivers. B
Even still more notable was B
the May offering of the young
people of the Church amounting
to about $42,000, to build the
"New Lapsley," following the ^B B
wreck of the first steamer. At fl
the very time that the day is H
being observed this year in our H
Sunday schools, the "Lapsley,"
the best mission boat on the Con- " Congr
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 especially at Hangehow, the
amount was promptly given.
Another school building was greatly needed
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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 building
which would be adequate to the needs of the
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school. Again there was a generous res pons
of about $10,000.
Still another call was made upon our Sunda;
schools for a fund which should be devoted t
the erection of the Graybill Memorial School a
Montemorelos, Mexico. This, as in other calls
was responded to with a generous offering.
Last year (1911) the need of funds to be use<
in sending missionaries to the field, as they wer
ready to go, was so pressing that a call was madi
to which, though not so large as in former years
the Sunday schools made liberal contributions.
This year the Sunday School Foreign Missioi
Day, May 26, has perhaps the most urgent ap
peal since the sinking of the "Lapsley." Neve
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in the history of our missions has there been sucl
an opening in all our mission fields. In darkes
Africa, in the Latin countries, in the new, anc
great republic of China; in Korea where sucl
marvelous miracles of grace have been wrought
in Japan, the Island Empire,?from the grea
cities, the fertile valleys and mountain fastnessei
?there are calls that can not be met "excep
they be sent."
The average expense incurred in supplying
equipment and sending new missionaries to th<
field, the payment of traveling expenses of mis
sionaries coming home on their furlough anc
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$30,000 each year. The average travel expens<
of a missionary to or from the field is $250, anc
the average outfit expense is $150. In formei
years the contributions of a few Sunday school;
have amounted to over $1,000. This amoun
would send four missionaries to the field. On<
hundred and fifty dollars would provide th<
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e traveling expenses of an outgoing missionary.
illow many of our Sunday schools are there that
Y will this year undertake to raise a definite
0 amount?$1,000 to send four missionaries to the
t field, or amounts that will send a smaller numi,
ber? How many Sunday schools will pay the
outfit expenses of one or more missionaries?
1 The Committee hopes to receive from the Sunday
e schools an offering of at least $10,000. Would
e it be too large an expectation to look to the Sun
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for travel and outfit expenses of missionaries for
i the year 1912-13?$15,000! We have confidence
in a generous response to this 1912 call to the
r young people of our Church, and that pastors,
Sunday school superintendents,
.. . . ~ officers and teachers will cooperate
in making the coming Sun,
... day School Foreign Mission Day
- a^ ^iat ^ should be in the great
Ib^."cause f?r which it stands.
The Executive Committee of
KB|^t Foreign Missions has provided
literature which is being sent by
.mail or express, prepaid, in suflicient
quantity, to all our SunU
day school superintendents, the
I I 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 ExecuJapan."
tive Committee of Foreign Missions.
If additional information
1 that will assist in the observance of the Foreign
t Mission Day is desired, write to Rev. H. F.
1 Williams, Executive Committee of Foreign Mis1
sions.
; A request is made in advance that the collect
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3 be promptly forwarded to Mr. W. H. Raymond,
t Treasurer Executive Committee of Foreign Missions,
154 Fifth Avenue North, Nashville, Tenn.
I The money contributed by the Sabbath schools
3 will be urgently needed. All contributions will
be set apart as a special fund for use in sending
1 misionaries to the field.j
3 Never have I seen thee so clearly as when I
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i was breaking bread to the hungry; never have
r I loved thee so dearly as when I soothed a
3 brother's pain. I sought the friendless chilt
dren, and I discovered Bethlehem. I visited
; the humble homes, and I "found Nazareth.?
j George Matheson.