REJOICE, rejoice, ye nations, bid contention cease; Go, kneel with Bethlehem's shepherd swains Before the Prince of Peace! Ye kings of earthly splendor, His mightier sway confess; Whose glory is humility, Whose crown is righteousness! Ye sad and heavy laden, Who feel the proud world's scorn, Let hope light up your weary hearts, For Christ, the Lord, is born! All ye by sin enfettered, All ye by grief oppressed, O dry your eyes, and turn to Him, And He will give you rest. Rejoice, ye teeming cities, Your Prince has come to reign! Earth's desert waste adorn, THANKSGIVINGS "We thank Thee" For the better equipment of Boone College through the completion of Ingle Hall, and for the life it commemorates. Page 14. For the successful work of the Church at Tanana, with its assurance of the power of the Gospel to uplift and bless human life, and for the devoted service of the workers past and present. Page 43. For the blessings that come to us as we endeavor to share Christian privileges with others. Page 55. For the successful completion and opening of St. James's Hospital, Anking. Page 24. For the blessing brought to Japanese Christians by the Feast of All Saints'. Page 31. For the power of intercession to strengthen, comfort and inspire the mission staff.1 1 "Tell them how grateful I am for all their thoughts and prayers, and tell them how they have helped us. It is the one thing to give one strength and happy confidence, and it is the most cheering thing we have to say to each other out here when anyone gets disheartened, to remind them of those who are praying and caring for us at home; at least, I always find it so."-Letter from a Missionary. INTERCESSIONS "We beseech Thee" To bless the work of the Church in the Hawaiian Islands, and especially at Kohala, that those who have ceased to follow Thee may be won back, and that those who have never known Thee may find Thee through the teaching of the Church. Page 34. To open our eyes to the need and opportunity for making known the Christian Message in Japan. Page 33. To sustain Dr. Driggs and the people of Point Hope through the trying days of this winter. Page 54. To make Thy people more ready to support the work of Christian hospitals. Page 24. To bless the Sunday-school services to be held January 19th, and to turn the thoughts of many of the young people to the privilege of serving Thee. To send Thy rich blessing upon the Bishops of Eastern Oregon and Western Colorado, and upon all the people of the districts to which they go. Pages 11 and 12. To be present with the conference of the Laymen's Forward Movement of the Middle West in Indianapolis, February 2d to 4th, and to draw all the laymen of the Church to take their rightful place in the missionary campaign. Page 13. PRAYER V. The people that walked in darkness have seen a great Light; R. They that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the Light shined. EVER-BLESSED Saviour and Redeemer Jesus, the bright and Morning Star, Who alone canst give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death: shine with Thy bright radiance upon all those in whose hearts Thou hast not yet arisen; dispel the clouds of darkness with the brightness of Thy presence; let the shadows of earth flee away, and do Thou appear with healing in Thy wings. Enlighten our eyes that we sleep not in the death of sin, but arise and shine with the light of Thy divine love; O ever-blessed Saviour and Redeemer of the world. Amen. THE MEETING OF THE BOARD OF MISSIONS T DECEMBER 10TH, 1907 HE Board of Missions met at the Church Missions House on December 10th. The following members were present: The Bishops of Albany (vice-president, in the chair), New Jersey, West Virginia, Pittsburgh, Central Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Washington, Rhode Island, Indianapolis, Long Island, Newark and the Bishop-coadjutor of New York; the Rev. Drs. Eccleston, Huntington, Vibbert, Anstice, Alsop, Perry, Stires, Parks, Mann and Morgan; and Messrs. Low, Chauncey, Thomas, Goodwin, Butler, Morris and Pepper. The Bishops of Porto Rico, Utah and Southern Brazil, honorary members, were also present. The Treasurer reported a falling off of $3,860.24 in the offerings from parishes and individuals and the Woman's Auxiliary from September 1st to December 1st. As treasurer of the special committee on the Missionary Thank-offering he presented a statement of the total contributions of the various dioceses and missionary districts and sundry miscellaneous amounts, showing total gifts of $764,143.06. The secretary of the special committee on the Men's Thank-offering laid upon the table a full and final report of their proceedings from the date of their appointment to the present time, accompanied by explanatory exhibits showing the work carried on by them and the manner in which it was conducted. The Board, on motion of the chairman of the special committee, adopted the following resolution: That the whole matter of the disposition of the undesignated amounts of the Men's Thankoffering be referred to a committee to consist of the Advisory Committee and one member to be designated by each of the mis sionary committees, for consider- This resolution constituted a representative committee of eleven members. A resolution was adopted expressing approval to the Bishop of Asheville of his purpose of soliciting funds for the carrying on of the special work in his district for a sum not to exceed $9,000 to keep the work going. The Bishop of Washington and the Rev. Dr. McKim were appointed to attend a proposed meeting of the secretaries and representatives of the various missionary societies with the Board of Indian Commissioners on February 25th and 27th. Another committee was appointed to attend, with the secretaries, a meeting of the officers and representatives of the several Boards of Home Missions in the City of New York on December 13th, and the Bishop of Pittsburgh, the Rev. Dr. Perry and Mr. Butler were requested, as members of the Board, to attend the conference of the Young People's Missionary Movement at Pittsburgh in March next. In accordance with the request from the House of Bishops the Board provided for the travelling expenses of the new missionary bishops and their families to their respective fields. The following resolution was adopted: "Resolved: That, pending the report of the Joint Commission appointed by the late General Convention to consider and report upon the whole subject of missionary work among the Jews, this Board commends to the dioceses, and especially those dioceses which contain large Hebrew populations, the present and urgent duty of doing what can be done to win from our Jewish fellow-citizens a fair hearing for the Gospel of the Messiah. A number of the bishops having do The Meeting of the Board of Missions mestic work under their jurisdiction communicated with the Board, and action was taken where required. The appropriation by the Board of Missions for the salary of the Missionary Bishop of South Dakota is now $2,500; his district having undertaken some time ago to pay the difference. Under the Woman's Auxiliary United Offering, in accordance with the request of the Bishop of North Carolina, Miss Effie Waldo was appointed missionary teacher at Roanoke Rapids. In accordance with the request of the Bishop of Oklahoma, Miss Harriet M. Bedell was appointed a missionary worker in his district; and at the request of the Bishop of Arkansas, Miss Eugenia Burr was appointed teacher in St. James's Mission School, Little Rock. The Bishop of Porto Rico announced that, by a recent gift, the salaries of six assistant nurses in St. Mark's Memorial Hospital, Ponce, have been provided for about two years. Mrs. Droste's salary had already been provided until next February. Resolutions were adopted expressing the Board's cordial appreciation of the valuable services rendered to the Bishop of the Philippines by Chaplains Henry Swift and A. A. Pruden, U. S. A. Letters have been received from Archdeacon Bryan in the Canal Zone. He reports that at Culebra he found many Church families and about fifty communicants. Thinks that there will be several large and important towns after the Canal is finished. At Culebra, Empire and Bas Obispo there are at present about 9,000 inhabitants, of whom the larger proportion are adherents of this Church. His present schedule of services for Sunday includes these towns and Ancon. Besides this, he has to visit the missions among the West Indians. Letters were submitted from the several foreign bishops and a number of their missionaries. Information was at hand that Archdeacon Thomson was convalescing from a serious illness and was hoping to take a vacation before the 59 winter came on, tarrying in Honolulu for a time. In connection with this a resolution was adopted assuring the archdeacon that, after his long service to the Church and in the China Mission (very nearly half a century), he must feel quite at liberty to determine the place of his residence; trusting that he would come home for his vacation and return to China at his pleasure. The Board, being informed that the question of the delimitation of the dioceses and missionary districts in China, English and American, is to be finally determined at the Lambeth Conference, which question has been under consideration for many years both by the archbishop and the English missionary societies and by our House of Bishops and society, by resolution requested the Bishop of Shanghai to attend the conference as our representative. The Bishop of Tokyo wrote of the necessity for the rehabilitation of Christ Church, Kanda, and of the desirability of adding a college department to St. Margaret's School, Tokyo-there being no Christian college for women in the empire. These additions mean, of course, money and a large amount of it. The Board expressed itself as in hearty sympathy with the wishes of the bishop, but could not find it expedient at this time to take any final action. Bishop Aves was heard from at Monterey, Mexico, at the close of last month. He is absorbed with the work that he finds awaiting him. The Bishop of Cuba was expecting some large classes for confirmation. His new training-school for the ministry will have nine men in it, among them a Cuban and a Spaniard from the United States. The Cathedral School has eighty-six enrolled and in attendance, and he is expecting half as many more students. Of the present number thirtytwo are American and fifty-four are Cuban and Spanish children. The opportunities for the extension of his work. are many. The Standing Committees were duly elected for the coming year, upon the nomination of the presiding officer. The Standing Committee on Audit reported that they had caused the books and accounts of the Treasurer to be examined to the first instant and had certified the same to be correct. By resolution the Board requested the Vice-President (the Bishop of Albany) to convey to the Bishop of Pennsylvania, on behalf of the members, an expression of their sympathy with him in his illness and their hopes and prayers for his speedy recovery. the Rev. Leopold Kroll, of Hoosick Falls, N. Y., as missionary at Lahaina was approved. The Philippines MRS. J. A. STAUNTON, JR., who sailed from Vancouver on July 9th, after spending a few weeks in Japan, arrived at her husband's station at Sagada on September 28th. AT the meeting on December 10th the Board approved Bishop Brent's appointment of Miss Lizzie Whitcombe, of Chicago, as kindergartner, and confirmed the appointment of Miss Mabel Foster Smith, of New York, who proceeded to the field ANNOUNCEMENTS with Miss Hicks in October and arrived CONCERNING THE MISSIONARIES Alaska ON All Saints' Day, in Trinity Church, Seattle, Wash., Bishop Rowe ordained to the priesthood the Rev. H. P. Corser, of Wrangell, Alaska. THE REV. EDWARD PEARSONS NEWTON, who sailed from Seattle on November 26th, reports his arrival at Valdez on December 4th, where he was met by Bishop Rowe. MR. JOHN ARCHIBALD ST. CLAIR, who went to Nome under appointment by the Board in December, 1906, retired from the work on November 1st. AT the request of the Bishop, Miss Ella Lee Wood, of Wrangell, was appointed by the Board, at its meeting on December 10th, as teacher to the natives and assistant in the work under the Rev. Mr. Corser, her stipend to be paid from the Woman's Auxiliary United Offering. AT the same meeting the Board accepted the resignation of Miss Emily II. Bance, of Valdez, from July next. Honolulu THE Bishop of Honolulu and Mrs. Restarick, returning from the General Convention, left Boston December 15th and sailed from San Francisco by the steamer Siberia on the 24th. AT the meeting of the Board on December 10th the bishop's appointment of at Manila on November 10th. The expenses under these appointments are to be paid from the Woman's Auxiliary United Offering. AT the same meeting the Board accepted the resignation of Mr. J. H. T. Mackenzie, of Bontoc, from October 5th. THE resignation of Miss Elizabeth Chambers, who was appointed in Manila, was also accepted by the Board, as she was only able to serve in the University Hospital for two months. Africa BISHOP FERGUSON, who sailed from New York on November 16th, arrived at Liverpool on the 22d. He sailed from that city on December 7th, expecting to arrive at Monrovia on the 19th. INFORMATION has been received that Mrs. Nathan Matthews, who sailed from Liverpool on October 3d, reached Cape Mount on the 24th of that month. Shanghai Ar the request of Bishop Graves, the Board, on December 10th, approved the appointment of the Rev. Robert E. Browning, of Washington, D. C., as a missionary in the Shanghai District, with the usual outfit, salary and travelling expenses of an unmarried man. Hankow BISHOP ROOTS and family, returning to Hankow, left Hartford on December 10th, and, after visiting his father's Missionary Speakers from San Siberia on of the Rev. adelphia, as of Hankow on Decemade accordman expect sco by the y 30th. GERALD, goder especial op, his ex for by the Episcopal -idge, left and sailed e steamer who sailed -er 9th, reanghai on zeed to her two. whose apst month, 17th and by the fter Gen-k on NoSan Frann Decem whose relished in wife and December an Fran the 31st. hose apt Februurg, Va., om San Corea on 61 Gordonsville, Va., on November 27th and sailed from San Francisco by the steamer Korea on December 10th for Kobe. They were accompanied by Miss Mary Scott, who, at the request of Bishop Partridge, is going out to teach as a lady employed in the field. F MISSIONARY SPEAKERS OR the convenience of those arranging missionary meetings, the following list of clergy and other missionary workers available as speakers is published. When no address is given, requests for the services of these speakers should be addressed to the Corresponding Secretary, 281 Fourth Avenue, New York. Department Secretaries Department 1. The Rev. J. DeW. Perry, Jr., 213 Wooster Street, New Haven, Conn. Departments 4 and 7. The Rev. R. W. Patton, care of the Rev. C. B. Wilmer, D.D., 412 Courtland Street, Atlanta, Ga. Department 6. The Rev. R. W. Clark, D.D., 720 Jefferson Street, Detroit, Mich. Department 8. The Rev. L. C. Sanford, 1215 Sacramento Street, San Francisco, Cal. Mountaineer Work: The Rev. F. W. Neve: During January and February. HAN and Address direct at 281 Fourth Avenue, agh, left New York. |