until September 28th, in order that delayed offerings and gifts might be credited to last year's apportionment, it was impossible to make a detailed statement. He was, however, able to say that the income from all sources would be sufficient to meet the appropriations for the last year and cut down by about $15,000 the deficit of $48,500 with which the year began. Therefore the Church would enter upon a new missionary year with the finances in more satisfactory condition than when the year began. Last year forty-seven dioceses and missionary districts gave the full amount of their respective apportionments as compared with eighteen dioceses and missionary districts seven years ago when the apportionment plan was adopted by the General Convention. About seven hundred congregations from whom no offerings were received during the fiscal year 1907-08 sent offerings for the year just closed. This accounts in a large measure for the greatly improved financial showing. Many were led to do this because of their desire to show their appreciation of the work and example of Mr. Thomas. The Board in expressing its gratitude for this achievement recorded "its deep appreciation of the fine spirit of cooperation manifested by the bishops and parochial clergy, without whose help the present result would have been impossible," and adopted a resolution requesting the parish clergy “to express to their congregations the Board's cordial thanks for the loyal co-operation which has changed a situation full of danger and anxiety into one full of confidence and courage." The Board also expressed its appreciation of the services rendered by members of the Commission of Seven in helping to avert what in all probability threatened to be a disastrous situation. The Assistant Treasurer announced that the offerings from the Sundayschools for the Lenten Offering for the past fiscal year amounted to $147,252.91 from over 3,900 schools as compared with $137,170.58 from 3,800 schools for the preceding year. The General Seeretary was instructed to convey to the young people of the Church the thanks and appreciation of the Board for their continued and generous help. In view of the hearty endorsement of its progressive policy given by the Church, the Board decided to act at once upon the urgent appeal made by the Committee on Domestic Missions and the Committee on Work among the Negroes. An additional $25,000 was appropriated for Church extension in the United States among white people and $29,500 for Church extension among Negroes. The Board was informed that Mr. George C. Thomas desired to give $100,000 as a fund in memory of Mr. Thomas, to be held in trust and the income only to be used for purposes at the discretion of the Board. The vice-president was requested to convey to Mrs. Thomas the hearty thanks of the Board for her gift and its assurance that her wishes would be complied with. The Assistant Treasurer reported to the Board that its late Treasurer had created three trusts to be held by the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society-one of $100,000, the income to be used for the purposes of the Society; one of $50,000, to be used to increase the efficiency of the work done by the Society; and one of $15,000, to be used to further in any way that the Board might think best the Lenten Offerings of the Sunday-schools. The Assistant Treasurer was also able to give particulars concerning the large bequest of Miss Mary Rhinelander King. Under her will the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, in addition to being residuary legatee, will receive a valuable piece of property in New York City, to be held in trust and the net income therefrom to be used for the general work. Miss King also created two funds-one of $20,000 and one of $10,000, to be held by the Board and the income to be applied to Colored missions. Eventually the Society will receive Miss King's country estate on Long Island. with liberty to dispose of it and use the proceeds for its corporate purposes. The Assistant Treasurer pointed out that in spite of these generous gifts it would be inaccurate to assume that the invested funds of the Society make steadily increasing offerings from living donors unnecessary. The income available for general purposes from all trust funds is now about $100,000, while the appropriations for the present fiscal year are more than $1,100,000. Upon the recommendation of its special committee the Board decided to reenact the table of apportionments to the dioceses as for the last fiscal year with the exception of a slight change to correct an obvious error in the apportionment to the Diocese of California. The total apportionment for the present fiscal year will be as last, approximately $658,000. The offerings from congregations and individuals on account of the apportionment for the year 1908-09 fell short of this amount by about $120,000. In order that the Church may share in the help expected from the conferences and conventions to be held during the winter under the auspices of the Laymen's Missionary Movement in seventy-five of the principal cities of the United States, the Board requested thirty laymen to form a nucleus of a committee of one hundred laymen, representing dioceses in different parts of the country, to take steps to insure the attendance of Churchmen at these gatherings and to organize them for aggressive work thereafter. The Board had before it many letters from bishops in the domestic field with regard to arrangements for the new fiscal year, and wherever necessary favorable action was taken. The letters received during the summer from the bishops abroad indicated that steady progress is being maintained. Bishop Graves reported that he had succeeded in purchasing about twelve acres of property adjoining the grounds of St. John's University, at a cost of $15,000, Upon this land it is proposed to erect a new preparatory building for St. John's, with teachers' residences and a school for the training of catechists. A special appeal was authorized to secure the money with which to provide for this purchase. Numerous requests for reinforcements were also before the Board. Clergy are urgently needed in Porto Rico, China and Japan; physicians in Japan and the Philippines; nurses in the Philippines, Porto Rico and China, while St. Paul's College, Tokyo, St. John's University, Shanghai, and Boone University, Wuchang, need laymen to take important. posts on their faculties. Women teachers are needed in St. Mary's, Shanghai, and St. Hilda's, Wuchang. The Board learned with great regret of the death of the Rev. E. R. Woodman, our senior missionary in Japan, on July 22d; of the death of Miss Mabel A. Protheroe, of the African Mission, August 11th, and that of Mrs. Schereschewsky, widow of the late Bishop Schereschewsky, on August 20th, at her home in Tokyo. on The Board also accepted with regret, because of illness, the resignations of the Rev. D. W. Bland, of Porto Rico, Miss Lillis Crummer, of Shanghai, and Miss Mary Humphrey, of the Philippines. The resignation of Dr. B. M. Platt, of the Philippines, who has entered the government service, was also accepted; and, at the request of the Bishops of Alaska and Hankow, the names of the Rev. John B. Driggs, M.D., and Miss Rebecca R. Halsey were removed from the list of missionaries. The election by the Council of the Seventh Missionary Department of the Rev. II. Percy Silver to be Department Secretary was approved. Miss Grace Lindley was appointed assistant to the Secretary of the Woman's Auxiliary, with duties at the Church Missions House. The Board having received from the recent Conference of Church Workers among the Colored People a renewal of its previous request for the appointment. of a field secretary, replied that it was not prepared at this time to reconsider the decision of last winter not to appoint such an officer. The committee on missionary meetings reminded the Board that during the past year there have been many evidences that the Church as a whole has realized its missionary privilege and obligation as never before and as a result has been led to attempt and to accomplish tasks that a few years ago would have seemed impossible. It therefore recommended and the Board adopted the following resolution: Resolved: That the bishops be requested to set apart in their respective dioceses and districts the Second Sunday in Advent, December 5th, 1909, as a day of thanksgiving for the goodness of Almighty God in leading the Church to a more adequate conception of her mission and in enabling her to undertake and achieve larger things for the glory of God and the welfare of His children. F MISSIONARY OR the convenience of those arranging missionary meetings, the following list of clergy and able 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. Cared for at present by secretaries at the Church Missions House. Department 2. Cared for at present by secretaries at the Church Missions House. Department 3. The Rev. Thomas J. Garland, Secretary, Church House, Philadelphia. Departments 4 and 7. The Rev. R. W. Hopkins, D.D., 703 Ashland Boulevard, Department 6. The Rev. C. C. Rollit, Department 8. The Rev. L. C. Sanford, 1215 Sacramento Street, San Francisco, Cal. Alaska Miss Isabel M. Emberley, of Fairbanks. Oklahoma Bishop Brooke, during November. China The Rev. F. L. Hawks Pott, D.D., of Shanghai. Mrs. Pott. The Rev. Alfred A. Gilman, of Changsha. The Rev. R. C. Wilson, of Zangzok. The Rev. John W. Nichols, of Shanghai, available in Department 8. Address: 1215 Sacramento Street, San Francisco, Cal. Dr. John MacWillie, of Wuchang. Japan The Rev. I. H. Correll, D.D., of Osaka. The Rev. Roger A. Walke, of St. Paul's College, Tokyo. The Rev. Isaac Dooman, of Waka yama. Deaconess Anna L. Ranson, of Sendai. The Rev. Hobart E. Studley, of Work Among Negroes in the South The Rev. S. H. Bishop, Secretary of the American Church Institute for Negroes, 500 West 122d Street, New York. Archdeacon Russell, of St. Paul's, Lawrenceville, Va., and the Rev. A. B. Hunter, of St. Augustine's, Raleigh. N. C., are always ready to take appointments, especially when a number of engagements in the same neighborhood can be grouped. CONCERNING THE MISSIONARIES Alaska THE Rev. John W. Chapman, who sailed from Seattle on July 26th, arrived at Anvik about August 20th. MISS BERTHA W. SABINE, deaconess, who sailed from Seattle on July 26th, arrived at her station, Circle City, on August 13th. MISS ELIZABETH M. DEANE, deaconess, sailed from Seattle by the steamer Jefferson on August 7th for Tanana. MISS LOUISA SMART, who sailed from Seattle by the steamer Jefferson on September 10th, arrived at Ketchikan on the 13th. MISS MARGARET C. GRAVES, who sailed from Seattle on July 26th, reached Fairbanks on August 17th. Honolulu MRS. ANNA E. SANDS, deaconess, and Miss Ida Buchly, retiring from work in the Hawaiian Islands, sailed from Honolulu on July 28th, and arrived at San Francisco on August 3d. Africa MRS. ELIZABETH M. MOORT and Miss Ruth Margaret Dodge arrived at Monrovia on August 2d, and on the 5th proceeded to the Girls' Training Institute at Clay-Ashland. Shanghai MRS. F. R. GRAVES, with her daughter Josephine, who has come to the United States to complete her education, left Shanghai by the steamer Lutzow on June 12th, and, coming by way of London, reached New York on August 24th. Hankow THE Bishop of Virginia, acting for the Bishop of Hankow, ordained to the diaconate Dr. Edmund Lee Woodward, in St. James's Church, Richmond, Va., on September 19th. The candidate was presented by the Rev. William Meade Clark, rector of the parish, and the sermon was preached by the Rev. Arthur M. Sherman, of Hankow. Tokyo DR. R. B. TEUSLER, with his wife and three children, returning on regular furlough, sailed from Yokohama by the Wakasa Maru on May 26th. Coming via the Suez Canal, he arrived at New York on August 21st and proceeded to Richmond, Va. Mexico THE REV. J. H. Swann, whose appointment was announced in the May number, reported his arrival at his station, San Luis Potosi, on July 20th. Cuba ON June 27th, Bishop Knight ordained to the diaconate Mr. Guy H. Frazer, who had served for some time as a lay-reader in the District of Cuba. Returning to the field Mr. Frazer left Savannah, Ga., on September 26th. MISS IDRESS C. WALLACE, who was appointed by the Board on June 8th, left her home at Keytesville, Mo., on September 2d, and sailed from New York by the steamer Seguranca on the 10th, direct to Guantanamo. MISS GERTRUDE M. JONES, who was appointed at the same meeting, left her home at Delanco, N. J., sailed from New York by the steamer Morro Castle on September 18th and arrived at Havana on the 22d. Haiti ON September 13th, Bishop Holly ordained to the diaconate Paul Ledan and David Macombe, who have been acting as lay-readers for the past year. He also advanced to the priesthood the Rev. Vilvaleix Coulanges and the Rev. George Emmanuel Benedict. He was assisted by the Rev. P. E. Jones, the Rev. Charles E. Benedict and the Rev. Alexis Fargeau. The sermon was preached by the Rev. Charles E. Benedict. Many high officials were present. To the Board of Missions AUXILIARY PAPERS NO. I: THE WOMAN'S AUXILIARY AND THE APPORTIONMENT PLAN OF THE BOARD OF MISSIONS W HEN The fol the Apportionment Church's approved method. Plan was devised, to enlist every member of the Church in systematic and conscientious giving for General Missions, the General Secretary of the Board turned to its Woman's Auxiliary, asking the co-operation of the members. in this enterprise. He made of them the definite request that each year the Auxiliary should give into the Board's treasury $100,000, which should apply on the appropriations made by the Board to the mission field. In the year preceding this request the Woman's Auxiliary had reported work done to the amount of $397,438.04, of which amount $191,772.48 was the value of its missionary boxes. Of the $205,665.50 given in money, $50,332.91 was for diocesan missions, and $44,521.38 for specials in the domestic and foreign mission fields, which could not be used to help in redeeming the pledges made. by the Board. But $41,107.17 given that year had been so given as to apply upon these appropriations. What, therefore, the Auxiliary was called upon to do was to increase this contribution by $58.892.83 in each successive year, thus bringing a full $100,000 yearly into the treasury. Following the method of the Board of Missions the plan was adopted of apportioning this $100,000 among the diocesan branches, and for a number of years each branch has been asked to give a certain amount toward the desired total. This suggested apportionment is made to the women, the Juniors and their Little Helpers of the Babies' Branch separately, that so even the youngest members of the Woman's Auxiliary are being trained in this the Women. Juniors, including the Total 1901-1902: $42,216.71 $4,243.82 $46,460.53 5,276.36 61.488.73 5,728.71 75.574.94 6,467.64 65.084.40 8,473.09 74.403.77 14,068.71 It has been the regret of the Auxiliary that it has not yet reported the entire $100,000 forwarded to the missionary treasury in any one year, but there are reasons why this has been difficult of accomplishment. The first of these is, of course, that all members of the Auxiliary have not yet learned, what many are happy in knowing, that this duty becomes a pleasure by exercise, and could be easily accomplished if everyone who prays and reads and studies and gives in the Auxiliary would make her conscientious gifts regularly for this object set by the Church before us all. But, apart from this, we must remember that a faithful member of the Woman's Auxiliary is a member of her parish also, and the parish has its apportionment to meet, and she has her share in that. Then, many members of the Auxiliary are teachers in Sunday-school, or mothers, sisters, aunts of Sunday-school children, and share in the Sunday-school Easter offering which applies upon the Board's apportionment. Many members also give a helping hand to Juniors and Little Helpers of the Babies' Branch, that their apportionment may be met. Consequently many women of the |