Show o i I 0 MISSIONS AI HOW HOME AND D ROAD Presbyterians Report Gr Great at Progress in Both Evangelical Evan Evan- Evangelical Fields MORE MONEY CAME IN THAN EVER BEFORE Womans Woman's Board elects Re-elects Practically All Its Principal Prin cipal Officers Offic rs KANSAS SAS CITY May n 27 Foreign j. Foreign missionary work was as on and amt dismissed at rut tho the general 3 assembly o othe tho the Presbyterian church iu in the United States of or America to today n Great pro progress ress in in this field of evangelism was indicated indi cate by the report of or the foreign mission mis mis- sion Bion board Not only has bas the work pros pros- pored by b the great number of new communicants communicants com coin added to the rolls of the church but it was shown that the natives naties na na- tives ti in many man foreign n fields elds were contributing contributing con con- sums of or mone money lar largo large o enough h to make mako man many missionary station stations I self elf supporting The evangelistic spirit ilo do o. o eloped in the native natho churches the tho spirit of operation co-operation n the many denominations in iii the time foreign field and ami the tho unity of the Branches Ie cC o othe the terian church in foreign n missionary missionary mis lionar work ork were matters upon which tho the board laid special stress to show tho the happy happ state of this field held of ot effort The Thc board report reported tl that moro more money mane this for fol foreign was lS contributed d year vear nr missions l through h the board oard than durin during during dur dur- ing in any an previous year car nr In In its history tho the total amount i including n legacies lI being b boing bo- bo ing ins more macre than I Time Tho total expenses expenses ex ex- ex for tho the vear year amounted to 1 1 Tho The m min main in reason for forthe the thc deficit det- det cit was that whilo while the le legacy c account fell off during the th year p ar approximately was received Cd which hall had to bo be applied for special purposes in the foreign foreign for for- eign I n field by direction and insistence of ot its donors A shorter catechism that will b be b couched in in simpler language m e than the tho u shorter catechism now in use UlO by the tho church was recommended etl by the tho com m- m nn on bils hils and overtures A committee com com- of six ministers and three eJ elders eider E U ot of which this thc moderator shall b bo be the tho chairman will report on ems the time recommendation mr at the thc next general hs- hs as The womans woman's board of oC home m missions mis mis' missions J- J will elect re-elect the thc principal officers today They nr are President Mrs Mn 11 Darwin It n. James corresponding secre- secre I tar bury tary Mrs tr Ella Boot Bedim assistant tant 8 secretary secretary secre secre- Cf tary tar Mrs M. M J. J T leEwe e secretary for young people Miss Josephine p Pc- Pc trip trie treasurer Miss ill Sarah F. F Lincoln editor of tho the Woman's Womans man Homo HOlDe Mission ti Monthly Mrs D Delos los Finks Pinks All these theo live in Xe New Ness York City or Brooklyn Mrs rs James Jam Jamis is the wife wiro of Darwin K R. James Tamps who is commissioner to the assembly as as- from Brooklyn She iua has been president for twenty seven years carsBe cars Be Besides these officers t two o vice dents from each have been nomi The Tho field Sf secretaries to horti ho he elected re-elected are arc Mrs Irs Flora Palmer Palmr Chi Chi- Cl igo O Miss iss l- l Edith Hughes hel Kansas Cit City Miss Julia Fraser San Francisco Tho The woman womans woman's a board of home mission mis work with what they time call th the the exceptional exceptional population that population that i is the thc in exceptional l circumstances such fluch as nl asIme the thc Mexicans the Mormons ons the tIme imn immigrant grant rant mine workers and the ignorant mountain population of the thc south Wo We are aro practically ally tho time only church yorkers workers who attempt to convert the thc I Mormon lormon children The Fhe Mormons opt op op- pose l our work and our mi missionaries illI iu ill iii t Utah have man ninny many hardships s1 said d Mrs I D. D E E. Waid Wahl who is here from from New York YorkI I City ity attending tho the meeting We send women into Mormon lormon communities to I live anti and the they attempt to teach trach tho the children our religion ion fhe They ar am are often but they are arc doing roo good work ss-ork II in n a showing the the thc Mormon chil children reu that is ron wrong Several Sc uninvited Mormon oron elders ciders 1 have been attending our I meetings here |