of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America

Composed of All Members of the Church

THE GENERAL CONVENTION

Whose membership includes all the Bishops of the Church, four clerical and four lay elected deputies from each diocese, and one clerical and one lay elected deputy from each missionary district, meets triennially, determines the general lines of the Church's missionary policy, and elects as its executive committee for missionary management the Board of Missions, composed of fifteen bishops, fifteen other clergymen and fifteen laymen. The Presiding Bishop of the Church is ex-officio President of the Board. The Convention also elects a General Secretary and a Treasurer.

THE BOARD OF MISSIONS

RIGHT REV. DANIEL S. TUTTLE, D.D., LL.D., President.
RIGHT REV. WM. CROSWELL DOANE, D.D., LL.D., D.C.L., Vice-President.

Right Rev. Ozi W. Whitaker, D.D., LL.D.
Right Rev. John Scarborough, D.D., LL.D.
Right Rev. George W. Peterkin, D.D., LL.D.
Right Rev. Cortlandt Whitehead, D.D.
Right Rev. Ethelbert Talbot, D.D., LL.D.
Right Rev. William A. Leonard, D.D.

Right Rev. William Lawrence, D.D., LL.D.

Rev. J. Houston Eccleston, D.D.

Rev. William R. Huntington, D.D., D.C.L., L.H.D,
Rev. William H. Vibbert, D.D.

Rev. Henry Anstice, D.D.

Rev. Reese F. Alsop, D.D.

Rev. James DeWolf Perry, D.D.

Rev. Ernest M. Stires, D.D., L.H.D.

Right Rev. William N. McVickar, D.D., LL.D,
Right Rev. Samuel C. Edsall, D.D.
Right Rev. Joseph M. Francis, D.D.
Right Rev. Charles P. Anderson, D.D.
Right Rev. Frederick Burgess, D.D.
Right Rev. Edwin S. Lines, D.D.
Right Rev. David H. Greer, D.D.

Rev. Randolph H. McKim, D.D., LL.D.
Rev. J. Lewis Parks, D.D.
Rev. Alexander Mann, D.D.
Rev. Theodore Sedgwick.
Rev. Leonard K. Storrs, D.D.
Rev. Charles H. Smith, D.D.
Rev. Herman Page, D.D.

Rev. Ernest de F. Miel.

Admiral Alfred T. Mahan.
Mr. William R. Butler.
Mr. George Gordon King.
Mr. Henry Lewis Morris.
Mr. George Wharton Pepper.
Mr. Robert C. Pruyn.

Mr. David B. Lyman.

Mr. Arthur Ryerson.

All the other Bishops of the Church and the Secretary and Treasurer of The Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society are members ex-officio of the Board of Missions with all the privileges of membership except the right to vote.

The Stated Meetings of the Board of Missions are held on the second Tuesday of each month save July and August, at two o'clock in the afternoon. In September, however, the meeting is on the third Tuesday.

REV. ARTHUR S. LLOYD, D.D., General Secretary.
REV. JOSHUA KIMBER, Associate Secretary.
MR. JOHN W. WOOD, Corresponding Secretary.

Educational Secretary.
MR. GEORGE C. THOMAS, Treasurer.
MR. E. WALTER ROBERTS, Assistant Treasurer.

Remittances should be sent to the TREASURER; all other communications to the GENERAL SECRETARY, Church Missions House, 281 Fourth Avenue, New York.

AUXILIARY COUNCILS

As provided by the Missionary Canon of the General Convention, the country is divided into eight departments. Each has power to elect a department secretary, subject to the approval of the Board of Missions, to select a representative with the right to sit in the Board, but without a vote, and to promote the holding of missionary meetings for the purpose of fostering missionary interest within the department.

AUXILIARIES TO THE BOARD OF MISSIONS

THE WOMAN'S AUXILIARY, MISS JULIA C. EMERY, Secretary, 281 Fourth Avenue, New York.
THE SUNDAY-SCHOOL AUXILIARY, REV. H. L. DUHRING, D.D., Special Agent, Old St. Paul's
Church, 225 So. 3d St., Philadelphia, Pa.
THE AMERICAN CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY, 281 Fourth Avenue, New York.

THE SPIRIT OF MISSIONS: $1.00 A YEAR.

ENTERED AT NEW YORK POST-OFFICE AS SECOND CLASS MATTER.

THE

AN ILLUSTRATED MONTHLY REVIEW

OF CHRISTIAN MISSIONS

May, 1909

CONTENTS

382

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FRONTISPIECE : MR. GEORGE C. THOMAS, LATE TREASURER OF THE BOARD OF MISSIONS

PAGE EDITORIAL: THE PROGRESS OF THE KINGDOM

365 WU89: THE PLANTING OF THE CROSS IN A DRAGON STRONGHOLD

369 THE SANOTUARY OF MISSIONS

376 BETWEEN THE PACIFIC AND TBE CASCADES

Bishop Scadding 377 HIROSAKI: A STATION OF THE CHURCH IN NORTHERN JAPAN The Rev. J. C. Ambler A CASE IN POINT

385 • THE WORST SUNDAY I EVER KNEW

Archdeacon Stuck 386 FROM THE BORDERS OF SzoHUAN

The Rev. D, T. Huntington 391 WAIRE FRIENDLY HELP COUNTS

Archdeacon Atwood 393 A WOMAN'S DAY IN JAPAN

395 THE UPLIFT OF CHINESE WOMANHOOD .

397 A CHURCE HOSPITAL AND ITS NEEDS

M. K. Sniffen 400 A GREAT CALL

M. P. Walker 407 WORKING AGAINST ODDS

Bishop Aves 409 A PICTURESQUE SERVICE IN CUBA

Archdeacon Steel 410 OKLAHOMA NOTES .

Bishop Brooke 411 NEWS AND NOTES

412

THE MEETING OP TER BOARD OF MISSIONS

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418

THE WOMAN', AUXILIARY

Sr. ANNE'S EMBROIDERY SCHOOL, NARA

A UNITED OFFERING MISSIONARY AT WORK IN THE DIOCESE OF DULUTH ACKNOWLEDGMENTS .

427

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Published by the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society.
President, RighT REVEREND DANIEL S. TUTTLE, D.D. Secretary, Rev. ARTHUR S. LLOYD, D.D.

Treasurer, GEORGE 0. THOMAS.
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