Salt Lake Telegram | 1925-08-29 | Page 13 | Women Doing Mission Work Leading Men

W MEN DOING MISSION WORK lEADING MEN EN f Missionary Mission ry Efforts f of f Two Decades Are Bringing Results Women omen are outstripping the men In the field of ot missionary effort according to figures prepared by bythe the department of missions of the 4 church burch for tor or the first quarter quarter r ter of the present century which wll wUl be rounded out when the fortYl forty- forty eighth g triennial I general convention t l kt of the he church r assembles ls r f In Ne New Orleans Or Orleans Or- Or leans Jeans October 7 next This Thill conven- conven Incidentally will wUl mark the 2 anniversary of the foundation of the American church S i f At the opening of the Twentieth century the roster of the missions department showed that 69 men and 40 0 women were engaged In he foreign for- for eign field exclusive of the native Corkers enlisted In tn the tle respective localities Twenty-five Twenty years later the American women who are servIng serving ing jg in Alaska Africa China Japan andy andt the p Philippines p e and the other out out- g gp of the h church u h number number num num- ber 3 who are engaged as nurses Bleachers social service workers 7 i physicians and evangelists as compared com corn pared paned with 17 m men n in the same Iame field 1 again exclusive of the native work- work JI i ers era IJ K Reports for the current year f L cate that 1162 persons were baptized Episcopal mis- mis 11 In foreign lands by It A. A as compared with 1364 in M 1900 and there are communicant cant cants of ot the church in foreign counties coun- coun 5 tries ties le now w as compared 0 with H 90 76 In 1900 T There r are pupils V In In the church boarding and day schools h In foreign g lands this year such a against I t pupils in schools in 1900 and there are are aref f 04 Sunday a school pupils s In the h i Sunday u schools c of the church U this y year yar ar as compared with pui pu- pu i. i i pUs in schools twenty-five twenty years organization Episcopal ago The had bad ninety churches and chapels In InI I fr the mission field in n 1300 whereas V tf today It has of ot hospitals It had f nine In 1900 and now has fourteen in In which 2174 patients were treat- treat t. t X ed ett in 1900 and nd during the ki current year ear The contributions forthe for i the churchs church's work from S I ants tants In foreign lands was 17 j ft n In n 1900 and last year while the appropriations for work In tOe gi foreign mission field were t in ln 1900 and last year 1 The extent to which t the e church O has as been beon supported by Its o is indicated indi- indi A cants cant this quarter century ted Cl in the following Wing fl figures rt's In 1900 loon th amount given by the church T 1 at home for all purposes was waR 16 as compared with in 1923 the last year ear for which figures are a while for the general Jeneral work of ot the church church main maln- maln of f missions I and purposes E El r f c her than p parochial a and diocesan diocesan- l' l there was contributed in 1900 y and nd during the current year 1