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1953 THE ARCHIVES BEARDSLEE LIBRARY W estern theological seminary BOARD of FOREIGN MISSIONS of the R E F O R M E D C H U R C H in A M E R I C A REFORMED CHURCH HEADQUARTERS • 156 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK

BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS MEMBERS OF THE BOARD 1951- 54 Mr. William J. Alford, 19 East 72nd Street, N e w York 21, N e w York Mrs. David Bogard, Livingston, N e w York Rev. Daniel Y. Brink, 220 Ballston Avenue, Scotia 2, N e w York Mr. John L. Carson, 53 Wiltshire Street, Bronxville, N e w York Mr. W. T. Hakken, 1023 Fountain Street, N.E., Grand Rapids, Michigan Rev. Warren J. Henseler, 76 West Main Street, Freehold, N e w Jersey Rev. Joshua M. Hogenboom, 172 West 26th Street, Holland, Michigan Mrs. Chester A. Moore, Kinderhook, N e w York Mrs. George Muyskens, Baldwin, Wisconsin Rev. Chester A. Postma, 302 Bly Street, Waupun, Wisconsin Mrs. Howard C. Schade, 37 Clinton Avenue, Nyack, N e w York Rev. Frank Snuttjer, Little Rock, Iowa Mr. Robert Stevens, 2465 Hudson Boulevard, Jersey City, N e w Jersey Mrs. Edward Tanis, 610 Broadway, Pella, Iowa 1952-

Rev. Paul E. Ammerman, 7233 Wicker, Hammond, Indiana Mrs. William Babinsky, 419 W. Saddle River Road, Ridgewood, N e w Jersey Mrs. Irving H. Decker, 46 Crescent Place, Yonkers 4, N e w York Rev. William C. De Jong, Hull, Iowa Mrs. M. Howard Gideon, Route No. 1, Kalamazoo, Michigan Rev. M. Gerard Gosselink, Jr., 25 Joy Boulevard, Baldwin, L. I., N e w York Rev. LeRoy J. Hess, 101 California Street, Ridgewood, N e w Jersey Rev. Harvey B. Hoffman, 291 Clinton Place, Hackensack, N e w Jersey Mrs. Clarence S. Howard, Wynantskill, N e w York Mr. Walter Jauck, 7505 113th Street, Forest Hills 75, N. Y. Mr. Marcus Millspaugh, Walden, N e w York Rev. Peter J. Muyskens, Hamilton, Michigan Rev. Gerard C. Pool, 2607 Palisade Avenue, Union City, N e w Jersey Mrs. Gordon Van Eenenaam, Route No. 1, Kalamazoo, Michigan 1953-

Rev. Harry L. Brower, 311 Park Street, Morrison, Illinois Mrs. Stanley J. Brown, Elm Grove, Wisconsin Rev. John E. Buteyn, 417 Alexander Street, Rochester 7, N e w York Rev. Bernard Brunsting, 9420 E. Walnut Street, Bellflower, California Rev. Theodore J. Jansma, 841 Burton Street, S.W., Grand Rapids, Michigan Rev. Harold Leestma, 1967 Jefferson, S.W., Grand Rapids 7, Michigan Mr. Norman MacLeod, 20166 Beach Road, Detroit 19, Michigan Rev. LeRoy Nattress, Northwestern College, Orange City, Iowa Mr. Howard B. Nichols, 33 Elm Place, Hastings-on-Hudson, N e w York Mrs. Emmett L. Paige, 309 Kenwood Avenue, Delmar, N e w York

1953 T h e Board of Foreign Missions respectfully presents to the General S y n o d of the R e f o r m e d Chu r c h in America its O n e H u n d r e d a nd T w e n t y first A n n u a l Report, the Ninety-sixth of its Separate and Independent -

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FRANCIS MARMADUKE POTTER, 1888— 1952

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Francis Marmaduke Potter, M.A., L.H.D., D.D., Executive Secretary of the Board of Foreign Missions and faithful servant of Christ, his Master, passed away at his home in Metuchen, New Jersey, on Sunday, August the 17th, 1952. The Board desires to put on record its profound sense of loss in his death — a loss common to the Board and to the entire Reformed Church. „

Dr. Potter began his service as a missionary to India in 1913, after graduating from Rutgers University in 1909 and from Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar in 1911. He went to the field from N e w Brunswick Theological Seminary, where he spent two years, to become Principal of Voorhees College, Vellore, South India. He returned to the United States in 1917 on account of his health. In 1918 he was appointed Asso ciate Secretary of the Board of Foreign Missions and later Treasurer. In 1935 he was made Executive Secretary. Dr. Potter made several visits to the fields and in 1947 was present in India at the Inauguration Ceremony of the united Church of South India. He represented the Board on many interdenominational organiza tions and in international missionary conferences where he rendered conspicuous service. At the Conference of the International Missionary Council at Whitby, Canada, he served as Chairman of the Section on the Relation of the Older and Younger Churches with notable distinc tion. He played an important role in the development of the Christian Medical College at Vellore, founded by the Reformed Church, and under his leadership it was brought to university status and into relation ship with forty Mission Boards and Agencies in Great Britain, Australia, United States and Canada. Dr. Potter possessed an exceptional mental equipment and a well furnished mind. He expressed himself succinctly and clearly. He was an effective advocate of the cause of missions and persuasive in counsel, of rare judgment, and progressive in leadership. In policy making his original and fruitful mind was wedded to a conservative outlook. His financial acumen was unusual and his leadership carried the Board through difficult crises, particularly the depression years of the 1930s. He had a warm and tender heart, a devout spirit, and a charming per sonality. He leaves behind him a bereaved family circle, unusually closely knit together and brought into even deeper fellowship through the months of his serious illness. The whole Reformed Church Mission ary family — a great number of whom he recruited during the years of his service — as well as a host of devoted friends among the people of India, will deeply mourn his loss. From the Minutes of the Board of Foreign Missions Meeting, October 16 and 17, 1952, a resolution.

Foreword i.iH E Board of Foreign Missions presents herewith its 121st Annual Report to the General Synod of the Reformed Church in America. Last year the report was presented in two sections to allow for the publica tion of O P E N GATES. This year we are returning to the practice of former years. The important events in each of the fields are touched upon briefly. This report, therefore, can be looked upon as supplement ary to O P E N G A TES which is still useful in any presentation of the total work of the Reformed Church overseas. This is the first annual report in many years that is presented without Dr. Potter. At the time the last report was written he was seriously ill and for several months had not been able to carry on his work, so that the year covered by this report has been entirely without his assist ance. It is appropriate that we begin the report with a memorial picture and the resolutions adopted by the Board of Foreign Missions. A memorial booklet was issued during the year. Copies are still available and we would be glad to send them on request as long as they last. There is also a memorial fund for a Christian hostel in connection with Voorhees College in India to which contributions are being made. This year has consequently been one of reorganization, the details of which are set forth in the chapter “Home Base.” The division of responsibilities as officers of the Board has been assigned to us by the Board and we look forward to years of cooperation in the great task of the Reformed Church abroad. Dr. Shafer is chairman of the staff and in charge of the work in Japan. Miss Ransom is in charge of the work in the Philippines and carries responsibilities for personnel, home base and work among women. Dr. Luben is in charge of India, Arabia and Africa. Mr. Bovenkerk takes the work of the treasurer, assisted by Miss Paige who is particularly charged with purchasing, and travel of missionaries, and Dr. Koeppe has the responsibilities of the acting field secretary. W e present this report with a full sense of profound gratitude to God for the way He has led us through these difficult months. W e deeply appreciate the sympathy and support of the churches and rejoice in the opportunity to serve in this important and exacting task. H. G. B ovenkerk B. M. L uben

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Philippines

A s one thinks of the work in the Philippine Islands he is reminded of the psalmist who wondered how he could sing the Lord’s song in a strange land. The missionaries who went from Amoy to assist the Chinese Christians in organizing their churches in the Philippines are helping the Chinese to realize that the Lord’s songs are understood even in a strange land. Cebu City, Lucena, Manila, Legaspi and Dumaguete are names which are becoming familiar to those interested in the fourteen mission aries who have gone to the Philippine Islands from the Amoy Mission. In 1950 the Rev. and Mrs. Joseph R. Esther and family went to Manila at the request of the Amoy speaking Christians. Since then twelve others have joined them. The hope of the missionaries and the Roard of Foreign Missions is that Chinese leadership will be developed through good schools, a strong church and the active participation in the Christian community in the Philippines. To describe the difficulties that these missionaries have encountered is impossible in this report, but we are encouraged and thrilled by the results of their endeavors and are thank ful for their loyalty and perseverance. . In the unsettled situation in which the Chinese people are involved, the value of these missionaries in understanding and encouragement cannot be overstated. Neither can we who are far away from the work realize the problems that confront the Chinese who are under suspicion because of the strong feelings which are bound to exist when war clouds and doubts hang over the entire Far East. As thousands of Chinese have never heard the Gospel there is need for definite evangelistic work among them. The need.for wisdom and patience is tremendous as the missionaries assist the Chinese leaders to become a part of the Christian community in which they find themselves. They must encourage and advise those who have lost their contacts with the church because of the circumstances of living in a new country. They must aid the young people who are to become the leaders of their people. To find the proper theological training for those who will be leaders of the Church either in the homeland or among those who are living in a new environment has taken much thought, study and prayer. Two days after Christmas the Philippine Government made a raid on the Chinese, arresting those

whom they suspected of being subversive. Those who were arrested were detained in Camp Murphy, near Manila. The arrested men were screened and those considered dangerous were housed in a separate building. The Rev. Joseph R. Esther and a Chinese clergyman were given permission by the government to conduct religious services for the others and have been holding three services a week. The other missionaries have also preached in the camp whenever they were in Manila. One of the Christian Fathers from Legaspi was among these men who were detained. He has been a leader in the personal Christian work done among the men in the camp. Many have signed pledges stating their desire to become Christians and to receive Christian instruc tion. Recently word has come that several of the Chinese have been released and are back in their homes, active again in their own churches. At the request of the directors of the Chinese hospital in Cebu City, Dr. and Mrs. Jack Hill have gone to take charge of that hospital. Dr. Hill has passed the required examinations to practice medicine in the Philip pines and the hospital will soon be opened. Christian nurses and aides for the hospital have been secured and the necessary equipment is finally at hand so that the work can begin to take shape. Miss Jeane Walvoord, whose headquarters are in Cebu City, has begun her public health work in the rural areas, using the hospital as her base. Miss Ruth Broekema will soon join her, doing evangelistic work especially with women and children. Those who knew of this Christian team in China rejoice that these women will be able to be together in Cebu as they conduct classes in good health and Christian education. Several of the ministers have been assigned to work in other islands where they will get acquainted with the Chinese and encourage them in their desire to organize churches such as they had in the homeland, thus aiding the Chinese Christians to reach the thousands of Chinese who have never heard of Christ. The Rev. and Mrs. John Muilenburg have recently been assigned to work with the Chinese students of Silliman University in Dumaguete and to carry on evangelistic work in the area nearby where there are many Chinese living with little or no opportunity for Christian fellowship. Christian schools are organized with many of the churches. Our educational missionaries are giving much needed aid in this connection. Their past experience and their knowledge of the Amoy language tie the church, the school and the home together. Yes, the Lord’s songs are being sung in a strange land. W e are grateful to God for preparing leaders from our Church for this oppor tunity for service. May every member of our Church be much in prayer for those who long to be back in their homeland and for those who may decide to stay in the Philippines. No one can foretell what great good may come from this enforced exile.

L o R D God Almighty, W h o art and ever wast and art still to come, we give Thee thanks for assuming that sovereignty which belongs to Thee and beginning Thy reign.â&#x20AC;? This is the theme text for the Centenary celebrations January 8â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 11, 1954. It speaks of thanksgiving by the Church for the sovereignty of God and His rule in the world today. By virtue of His omnipotence in the history of nations and His continuing activity in the Church, Godâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s people may walk in confidence and with poise. The present and the future are in His hands, and so we give thanks and plan for the years ahead. Only such a sturdy faith is adequate for Christian forces amid the uncertainties of the situation in India today. Politically the nation has sought the path of creative neutrality in world tensions, while the Kashmir question has continued to plague her relations with Pakistan. Internally floods and famine have aggravated the chronic food shortage and disrupted plans for economic rehabilitation. Being a multi-lingual country her troubles have been increased by agitations marked with violence designed to organize states along language lines. It is planned in October of this year to create the Telugu province of Andhra out of the northern part of Madras Presidency, thus politically dividing the Telugu and Tamil peoples and also our mission area. The continuing Communist threat is highlighted by the fact that from the Andhra area there are now forty-one Communist representatives and forty of the Congress party in the Madras legislature, with fifteen members of the Peasants and Workers Party pledged to the Congress platform. The presence of Christian missionaries has been under sharp scrutiny. For some months no visas were issued for new missionaries to enter the country, and the situation still remains quite uncertain though some have been permitted entrance. Long delays have been occasioned in the import of cars and supplies for missionary work. This situation, brought about by many factors, with the Communist threat always in the background, gives impetus for such planning as will put the Church in a position of strength in the days ahead. Two significant features characterize preparations for the Centenary. One is a careful analysis of the whole life and work of the Church in the Arcot area with the purpose of planning wisely for the beginning of the next century. Several committees composed of both nationals and missionaries have been surveying various aspects of Church and Mission efforts and relationships. As our area is integrated into the life of the Church of South India, for instance, should our funds and personnel continue to be sent only to the Arcot Mission area, or shall they be assigned to the Church anywhere within its larger boundaries? Should the Board have a Field Representative in India? Should a larger share

of available resources be invested in evangelism, or in consolidation of gains and training of leaders? The determining of policies in such important matters will make the Centenary significant for the future. The other feature is evangelism. This has always marked the Mission and those organizations in India associated with it. But a fresh effort and careful planning have distinguished these recent years. Results have been heartening. Large numbers continue to be baptized, especially in the villages. The door is still open in a marvellous way, challenging the utmost in witnessing and indoctrination. Few if any places in the world today offer greater opportunity for numerical growth in the Church. One phase of this evangelistic program is the raising of the Centen足 ary Fund, one half of which is to be used for evangelism and the other half for the training of leaders. The goal was originally Rs. 150,000, but the famine urged reduction to Rs. 100,000 ($21,000). So long and disastrous has been the drought, however, that after truly sacrificial efforts only about one-third has been raised, to which the Board has added $3,000. Already a portion of the evangelism share has been spent so there will be Centenary Christian villages to make more meaningful the celebrations. The continuing famine situation prolonged by the repeated failure of the monsoons has had serious effect on the Christian cause. Heavy rains fell in parts last December, as much in ten days as in the previous six years, and hopes soared. The fields were planted, and became green, but no latter rains came and the parched earth absorbed the water. Again the fields became brown and the people deeper in debt and despair than before. . Famine relief has been a major activity. The wonderful response of the Reformed Church has been a benediction to all, and life itself to many. In their extremity villagers have confessed our Lord, their eyes opened by the relief program to the true nature of the Christian faith. But in the Telugu area at least the situation is even worse than before and continuing opportunity will be offered us here in America to share our bread with the hungry and destitute. It will also mean increased appropriations unless the work in India is seriously crippled and re足 trenchment effected in the face of unusual opportunity. Just one example of initiative and imagination in evangelism is the approach made last December by the Rev. Joseph John to non-Christians of his rural parish. With ten teams some five hundred homes were visited and the meaning of Christmas told, and where needed food given. In the chapel a special Christmas evangelistic service was held for caste Hindus and nearly fifty came. This village of Deenabandupuram will be seen in a picture filmed in January by Alan Shilin Productions. It is to portray the meaning of the Christian Church for the various classes of folk in rural India, with a one-day dawn to dusk sequence. India is to be the country for special

study in 1954-55, and this film will be used interdenominationally throughout North America. That this film taken in our area should be used in the Centenary year is a matter of congratulation. _ Another picture depicting the history of the Arcot Mission and the Church of the Arcot area is being filmed by Ralph Korteling, primarily for use in India in an effort to give the Church, especially in the villages, a concept of its heritage. An anniversary historical booklet will provide a permanent record of our missionary efforts. Besides several folk who plan to visit India in January, the Reformed Church will be represented by an official delegation consisting of Miss Marion Van Horne of the Youth Department,, the president of the Board, and the secretary for India. It will be a source of real sorrow that the one so intimately conÂ nected with India by service in that country and long association as secretary for the field, and who had looked forward to this occasion with keen anticipation, will not be there. Dr. Potterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s death was mourned deeply by Indian friends and missionaries alike. Memorial meetings were held in many places, and in Vellore a hostel for Voorhees College stuÂ dents is to be built with funds raised in India and America to honor his memory and forward the cause to which he gave so much.

T h e rebuilding of destroyed churches has taken a central place in the work in Japan for the last several years. A committee, made up of Japanese leaders and one or two missionaries, presented its report last year. It is hard for anyone who did not see the terrific destruction of the war and the almost complete prostration of the Christian Church to realize what has indeed been accomplished in these years. Of the 500 churches destroyed, 200 have been entirely rebuilt and forty-three others have received funds for major repairs. Altogether, the American churches in the Interboard Committee have contributed well over $800,000 toward the project. The Japanese Christians have themselves, out of their post war prostration, contributed more than $225,000. All through the state ments written by Japanese Christians run expressions of joy and gratitude to God for His blessings and thanks to their Christian brethren abroad who have so generously helped them in this terrific task. With the disbanding of this Committee for the Reconstruction of Destroyed Churches, the postwar work in Japan enters upon a new period. The Christian pastors, for the most part, while still hopelessly underpaid, have recuperated substantially from the burdens of the war years. Literature for the use of Christians and for use in evangelistic work among non-Christians is being produced; programs for the youth are being developed in the churches and on a nationwide scale; the new'Organizations which relate our churches and our missionaries to the Church of Christ have now been functioning long enough to become established. The ravages and dislocations of the war years have to a greater or less degree been obviated and it is possible from now on to give greater effort to the development of programs directly pointed to the evangelization of the country. The Church has established a home mission board to carry on evangelistic outreach and it is proposed that the Church double its contributions for this purpose from Yen 2,500 000 in 1952 to Yen 5,500,000 in 1953. Problems have, of course, arisen with Japan’s independence. The early days of eager curiosity with regard to Christianity have more or less disappeared, but there is no lack of inquirers and no diminution in real opportunity in Christian work. Those who now come to the churches or who are reached by the Gospel are more earnest and more promising as stable members of the Christian Church. The increase in member ship in the last year is not less than that of the immediate postwar years. There is some reaction among the people to the policies adopted by the American Occupation and something of a return to a more nationalistic viewpoint which makes Christian work more difficult. But this was expected and should not prove a serious handicap to true Christian work. Communism is a constant threat, as it is anywhere in

the world, but it does not appear to be in any way in the ascendency in Japan. It is a source of great satisfaction to us that at the last Assembly of the United Church the matter of the creed of the new church was brought forward and a creedal statement was adopted by the Assembly for study in the churches for the next two years. At the same time, a covenant was presented which is to be used as each person joins the Church. Space does not permit quotation from these documents and it would not be appropriate, since they have not been formally approved, but no one can read them without deep emotion and a prayer of thanks giving for God’s guidance in the spiritual affairs of the Church in post war Japan. W e are happy with the developing situation in each of the Christian schools to which we are related. The new school buildings at Sturges Seminary at Shimonoseki are now in full use. Ferris Seminary in Yokohama has been without a principal now for a couple of years. W e are very happy to report that a permanent principal has been secured, the Rev. N. Yamanaga, a minister of the Church of Christ. The study of Christian purpose of our educational program in Japan is being continued with increasing interest at Meiji Cakuin under the leadership of Dr. Torn Matsumoto. The whole faculty and staff met in a retreat at the end of the summer to consider the question and a very careful and interesting statement of the Christian purpose of the school and the whole program of school work has been adopted. A committee of the faculty is carrying on the study and another retreat is to be held this year. At the same time, partly as the consequence of this study and along with it, the whole educational program of the institution from the junior high school through the university is under study. The junior high school is limiting the number of students entered each year so that more direct personal work is possible and each entering student, most of them from non-Christian homes, through the personal guidance of members of the faculty, has been related to some church or Sunday school. Most of the buildings on the Meiji Cakuin campus are antiquated and some are dangerous to use. Consequently, the Board of Trustees has developed a program of reconstruction which is now before our Board here. When it is recalled that in the schools in Japan to which we are related there are 6,495 students and fifteen missionaries working, it is important that we be constantly alert that they shall serve the purpose of evangelism. The International Christian University has now been recognized by the government and permission has been given to open actual university work. The first class has been selected and work begins in April of this year. It is interesting to analyze the results of the first entrance examina tion. Applicants for entrance to the college came from the upper tenth of the high school graduates. Many of them were presidents of high school councils and others active in the Y M C A and Y W C A and other

types of organizations in their high schools. Forty per cent are Christians. When it is remembered that one-half of one per cent of the population of Japan is Christian, this is truly a remarkable result and gives great promise for the Christian character of the university. It was the students themselves in the Preliminary Language Institute, which has been carried on for this last year, who organized Sunday school and church services and carried on evangelistic work in their neighboring villages. The construction of the Protestant Evangelistic Center in Fukuoka is in process as this report is being written. From it will be carried on the newspaper evangelism program which was originated by Dr. Albertus Pieters when he was a missionary in Japan. In the Center, there will be a Christian bookstore, offices for the Newspaper Evangelism Program, a loan library, a pastors’ library, a very nicely finished small prayer room, and a chapel for evangelistic meetings and for the use of special meetings of the churches in the city, the Ministerial Associa tion and the Missionary Association. There will also be rooms for the use of the Christian women’s organizations and the Committee of the Church of Christ in Kyushu. This building will become a center for Protestant work in the whole of the southern island. While our own Reformed Church has'taken the initative under the leadership of the Rev. B. C. Moore in developing the program, the other churches related to the Church of Christ in Japan and also the United Lutheran Church are sharing in the program. The widespread preaching of the Gospel through the audio-visual program, which is being carried on by Mr. Sheets in Kyushu, is showing remarkable results. The picture, The King of Kings, has been shown and the Gospel was preached in hundreds of centers to thousands of people in Kyushu. One of the most encouraging aspects of our program in Japan is the reenforcement of the missionary staff. Last year the Rev. and Mrs. Glenn Bruggers went out to Japan after having had a year of language study here, and this coming year they will be located in Kagoshima at the extreme end of the southern island of Japan. A new home is being built for them there. The Rev. Gordon C. Van Wyk, who started his missionary work in Fukien Christian University at Foochow, China, has arrived in Japan to take up. his work in Meiji Cakuin. In addition to these recruits, Miss Suzanne Brink who has completed her language study, has taken up evangelistic work in Kumamoto in Kyushu. Also, Mr. and Mrs. Russell Norden, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Tanis, and Mr. and Mrs. John Hesselink will proceed to the field this year. Mr. Norden has one more year of language study. The Tanis and Hesse link families will begin their language study, one family in Tokyo and the other in Kyoto. Thus, when these new recruits will have completed their language study, we will have, in addition to Miss Brink, five missionary families in evangelistic work in Japan. It is a source of great rejoicing that these promising young people have come forward to take up the work in the new day in Japan.

T H E focal point of this report is the annual meeting of the Mission in November. Every three years a full meeting is held, at which all members are required to be present. Due to distances and expenses involved the other two meetings are attended by delegates only of the various stations. The meeting this last year in Bahrain was unique not only in that forty-one members, all on the field save one, and twenty missionary children, were present, but that the Mission was in session for two weeks, a large portion of this extended period being devoted to a very careful consideration of a policy report. In the face of a rapidly changing situa tion in Iraq and the Gulf which presented new problems and oppor tunities, a special committee had been active a whole, year framing proposals for.a long range program in an attempt to utilize to the fullest advantage all available resources and to integrate and direct the total work of the Mission. Among the many factors calling for an overall review of the efforts of the Mission, two were paramount. The first was the success of the Mission, a term to which we are not accustomed when thinking of our efforts in Arabia. Overwhelming odds notwithstanding, a developing sense of maturity and strength is increasingly characteristic of the think ing of the Mission. From a mission statement of three years ago we quote these significant lines: The Arabian Mission is now celebrating its Sixtieth Anniversary. With all our hearts we thank God for what has been accomplished in the three score years that are past. . . . There can be no better way ... to celebrate than to bring home to the churches the fact that our foundations have been well and truly laid and that from now on we must begin to build on those foundations. Magnificent opportunities face us today. It v/as natural that at the next full meeting this anniversary declara tion of a new era should be followed by policy making for the antici pated period of building on foundations well laid. Also, this was imperative in view of the second paramount consideration, that of .the many changes taking place at an ever accelerating pace in the mission area. Oil, travel, impinging cultures, Palestine, Point Four programs, Communism — all have contributed to hitherto unimagined changes, material and spiritual. The completion of the Iraqi pipeline, with the Tigris and Euphrates the “third river” of the land, and the discovery of oil in the Neutral Zone between the fabulously rich sands of Kuwait, and of Saudi Arabia to the south, point up the changing scene in this Moslem area formerly so poor but now enjoying a modern Croesus touch. Not until the Christian witness had been given for half a century and the foundations firmly laid did God allow the discovery of Arabia’s

transforming wealth to become known and exploited. Believing His timetable is written for the Church, and living in the midst of it all, the Mission is keenly aware of the necessity of alertness and hard think ing in matching the hour with wisdom and courage. Contributing to the sense of maturity was the solemn and moving memorial meeting for the secretary for Arabia and the members of the Mission who had been called to higher service since their last gathering - Dr. Potter, Mrs. Thoms, Miss Scardefield, Dr. Mylrea, Dr. Zwemer. Dr. and Mrs. Dirk Dykstra had come home to retire. One by one the veterans are leaving, and a new generation is in training or already carrying the heavy responsibilities. Even more significant were the steps taken toward the formation of the Church of Christ in Arabia. Prior to any formal organization it was felt there should be developed a greater sense of unity, of a wider fellowship between the believers in the widely scattered small congre gations. That the Mission is thinking in these terms and seeking to bring about this sense of oneness through a Gulf conference and other means' as preparatory measures is truly heartening. Not only must geographical separation be overcome, but racial and sectarian as well in local situations. Oil has brought many peoples to Bahrain and Kuwait. In the former station a Good Friday service was held this year for the first time. Both English and Arabic were used and to the great joy of all our Chapel was filled with Christians of various racial and historical origins. To booming Kuwait have come many m e m bers of the ancient Eastern churches. The sectarian situation is one of the most baffling problems of the Near East. The pastoral missionary is ministering to these believers and seeking to bring about a sense of oneness in quite exclusive sects, both for greater fellowship and that the Moslems may believe. The changing situation required difficult decisions in strategy. One related to the men’s hospital in Kuwait. This hospital is soon to lose the buildings used for the inpatient department, as they are to be demolished because of the extensive town-planning scheme. With royalties from oil the Sheikh has erected a beautiful government hospital, expertly equipped and staffed, giving free medical service. The Mission faced the problem of whether or not to rebuild. While it is recognized that the Mission is no longer dependent for its existence on the goodwill engendered by the medical work as in pioneer days, the evangelistic opportunity offered by the mission hos pitals in Kuwait is unique and should not be surrendered. Since they are self-supporting save for missionary personnel and hence make no call on a strained budget, the Mission decided in favor of construction with funds on the field and of filing the new building the Mylrea Memorial Hospital. . The most exciting decision was to authorize a new station. One of the high spots of the meeting was the resolution to establish a permanent

station in the province of Hassa, thus fulfilling the dreams of sixty years “to occupy the interior of Arabia.” This station is to have parity with all other stations in its personnel requirements. Immediately a long term tour to the town of Hofuf was undertaken and a medical evangelistic team for several months has ministered halfway between the Aramco oil camp, near the eastern coast across from Bahrain, and Riadh the capital. While the permanency of the station is currently a matter of faith, the decision is an historic one. Strictly speaking, all our missions are faith missions, and a maximum of faith has been required in Arabia. Certainly this characteristic has been evident in the decision to set up a new center of witnessing, the sixth station of the Mission. In January of 1952 the mission formally surrendered a hard won foothold on the mainland in the sheikhdom of Qatar, also across from Bahrain, not because we were unwelcome as when the pioneers were driven back to their boats, but only for lack of personnel. In November the call to advance was again sounded. Paul had heeded the call from Macedonia — Paul Harrison who had retired after forty years of valiant service — to return and make possible this reforming of forces. As the reports of all the stations of both the Arabian and the United Mission of Iraq are read, one is amazed at the extensive work being done in Iraq and the Persian Gulf area, and the rich mercies that have attended the all too few missionaries entrusted with this work. Through healing, teaching, preaching and counselling, many thousands have heard the Gospel, and hundreds of students have daily encountered the truth on campuses and in classrooms. Not many have openly confessed our Lord, but many have come to love Him. In expectant faith we con tinue to witness, believing that as the desert has suddenly yielded her secret riches to man, we shall be surprised by the goodness of God in the riches of His grace revealed in many redeemed lives.

O n Lincoln’s birthday, February 12 of this year, there was signed in Cairo a pact by the representatives of Great Britain and Egypt giving immediate self-government to the Sudan. Within three years the Sudan ese are to choose between independence, federation with Egypt, or possibly some working relationship with Great Britain. This is a momentous decision. That it was made without bloodshed is a matter of gratitude. At the same time it must be recognized that the processes of history were accelerated beyond all expectations, and that whatever may be the ultimate status of the Sudan, the Christian movement there will be profoundly affected. The chief factor is the coming dominant influence of Islam. Upon his return this spring from a visit to the Sudan, Dr. Glenn P. Reed, secretary of the United Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, pointed out with all the emphasis at his command the strategic place occupied by the American Mission in the South Sudan. W e are situated on the line in Africa where Arab-Moslem culture dnd religion, now resurgent, impinges upon a pagan culture in the midst of which a Christian Church has only begun to come into being. Under God it is our portion to form a bulwark against the determined advance of Islam through the Nilotic tribes and into contiguous areas of the continent to the south which today present so fertile a soil for another religious and political way of life. While big issues are at stake, larger than we can possibly realize at this distance, Dr. Reed was encouraging as he spoke of our missionary force which now numbers over fifty for the five tribes. It is a highly gifted and consecrated mission of the two communions, integrated into one witnessing unit, open to the Spirit’s leading and though keenly aware of the magnitude and extreme difficulty of the assignment, unafraid of the future. In spite of possible adverse political developments, we may confidently look for great days in the Sudan. The Lord has been preparing for these critical days and several important actions have been taken. As announced last year, the rapidly developing situation in the Sudan called for a review of our part in the total program. Rather than limiting ourselves to the Anuaks, we are now committed to the whole work of the American Mission among all tribes. Our missionaries are subject to assignment anywhere within the area of the Mission, and we now assume our proper share in the total budget. The Rev. and Mrs. J. Robert Swart have now, for instance, been assigned to the Murle, and Mr. and Mrs. LaVerne Sikkema will live among the Shulla. Here at home the Joint Committee on Anuak Work has been dis solved and the CCSS (Committee on Cooperation in the South Sudan) has been organized for joint administration of the work of the three

Boards (Board of Foreign Missions of the United Presbyterian Church, W o m e n ’s General Missionary Society of the United Presbyterian Church, and our Board of Foreign Missions) in the South Sudan. This means our task is larger and therefore our vision as a Reformed Church must be larger, too. Here at home we must learn to think of the whole work of the American Mission and pray not only for the Anuaks, but for the Shulla, Dinka, Nuer and Murle tribes as well. In facing the new day in the Sudan, two rather unique tours were undertaken. While home on furlough, Mr. Swart spent a month in Mexico in missionary situations which in many ways are similar to those in the Sudan. In Africa four members of the Mission, including Mr. Hoekstra, spent two months in the Belgian Congo, Ruanda-Urundi and Uganda. This study team, traveling by car, visited nine mission areas representing problems and situations much like those we are facing. The purpose of these tours was to gather such information as would enable the American Mission to employ its resources most effectively in winning the tribespeople of its area to Christ, and in establishing the African Church among them. The two excellent reports that came out of these studies were made the basis of the re-evaluation of the work and policies of the Mission at the annual meeting this February. Their full impact is not at once evident, but several of their recommendations have been adopted and a more confident sense of direction given the Mission. Malakal on the White Nile, the government center of the South Sudan and the meeting place for the tribes, is now recognized as a focal point in the evangelization of the Sudan. Likewise Obel, our teacher training center some fifteen miles up river and serving all the tribes, is to be given a larger place in the program. The raising up of African leadership will be given primary attention, and plans are being formu lated for cooperation with other missions in the Sudan in the preparation of Nilotic pastors. Steps are also being taken to organize an indepen dent African Church. In answer to many prayers the government has given permission to begin work among the Murle, the tribe of some fifty thousand people up the Pibor River beyond Akobo, the fifth and last tribe for which the American Mission carries responsibility. Dr. Roode and Mr. Swart, with their families, are now at the new mission station- site near Pibor Post, initiating this pioneer work. The work, begun September 27, 1952, had an auspicious beginning. Wrote Dr. Roode: “W e were received by the Murle chiefs in an incident unparalleled in the history of the Murle tribe, for shortly after we arrived they presented us with a bull, saying they were happy we had come to bring them medicine and the words of the way of life. Never before had the Murles welcomed a white man into their midst.” One indication of the Arab-Moslem influence is the increased use of Arabic in the South Sudan. This is the official language, having re placed English some time ago, and is to be used in the schools as soon

as may be possible. The Mission sent three families to the school for Arabic study opened last August in Omdurman, neighboring Khartoum m the North Sudan, among them being Mr. and Mrs. LaVerne Sikkema Upon her return from furlough this summer Miss Wilma Kats will become a student here for a one-year course. The developing political situation has rather radically changed the original plans for the evangelization of the Anuaks. When work was begun among them, and until within a year or so, the Sudan-Ethiopian border offered no difficulty to travel between those Anuaks in the Sudan and the much larger number on the Ethiopian side. With the new politi cal consciousness on both sides of the border, however, such travel is increasingly difficult. Tentative plans call for the new and promising Pokwo station, founded by Don McClure on the Ethiopian side a little more than a year ago, to become a part of the Ethiopian Mission of the United Presbyterian Church. Those missionaries working among the Anuaks in Ethiopia would then become members of the Ethiopian Mis sion and perhaps be associate members of the American Mission in the Sudan. Mr. and Mrs. Hoekstra have been assigned to Pokwo this year on a temporary basis while Dr. and Mrs. McClure are home on furlough. The Mission rejoices in the ten new members that have arrived in the past year, including Mr. and Mrs. LaVerne Sikkema, and Mr and Mrs. Lambert Ekster, of our church. Besides Mr. Ekster another builder was sent by the United Presbyterians, such appointments providing des perately needed help in the building program. One of the new members -anordamed man skilled m printing to man the new printing press in No mention has been made of the ongoing work of the Mission in the past year. As one reads the many reports - pastoral, educational, medical and others — praise is offered for the grace and strength that have been given to both African and missionary in the widespread wit nessing that has been done. Many have heard for the first time, many have been baptized. The blessing of the Lord has been on the Mission. During the past year, we have seen our first missionary grave in the Sudan. Here, too, we praise God for the victory given the Arnolds m the loss of their son, Christopher, and for the testimony they gave to Nilotics and missionaries alike. W e also thank Him for the daughter that has come into the home to cheer them. ,! hjs report is closed with words from Dr. J. Lowrie Anderson of Malakal Secretary of the American Mission: “The years ahead will be different; they will best the work of the past and mould the work of the uture. But the needs of men will be the same; our commission to preach rvf r? a men lias not changed, and the promise of the Living Christ the Creative Chiist, is that He will be with us always even to the end of the age. Let us place our hands more firmly in His, and walk with confidence through the years that lie ahead, counting on Him to give us wisdom and love to meet the changed circumstances and to bring triumph to His name.

IN[lNETEEN fifty-three will go down in the records of the Board of Foreign Missions as a time of readjustment and reorganization. The death of the senior secretary and treasurer of the Board, Dr. F. M. Potter, was such a loss to the staff and Board that several months of reorganiza足 tion were necessary. The work has gone on and all are grateful for the strength given those who carried special responsibility during those difficult days. W e also give thanks to God that a complete staff is again at work carrying on the responsibilities for the overseas work of the Reformed Church in America. Dr. L. J. Shafer, who had gone to Japan for a special task, was called home and has done much to carry out the plans made by the Board. Dr. B. M. Luben, who was the Field Secretary, became the secretary in charge of the three fields, India, Arabia and Africa. The other new member of the staff has taken his position more recently. The Rev. Henry G. Bovenkerk, who has been the Secretary of the Interboard Committee for Christian Work in Japan, came to the office on April first to serve as the treasurer of the Board. He comes to us with a real knowledge of the Reformed Church, having graduated from Hope College and Western Theological Seminary. He was also a missionary to Japan under the Presbyterian Board. Miss Ransom and Miss Paige continue the responsibilities assigned them dur足 ing the reorganization of the Board. Rev. Edwin W. Koeppe has become the Acting Field Secretary. He has final responsibility for the assignment of shares in missionary personnel to the various churches and has charge of the speakers in the two western Synods. It was unavoidable during this critical period of adjustment that administrative expenses were higher. This next year it is expected that these will be reduced. The loyal support and confidence as well as the prayers from all parts of the Church has meant much to those who were involved in these many changes. The financial results of the year will be found in another place in this report. The young people of the Church are interested in service. Ten new missionaries will sail this fall for their fields. Each mission has requested more recruits, some of these will be replacements and others should be sent to carry on new work that is developing, especially in Africa and Arabia. The problem that the Board faced at its last full meeting was how to balance needs for personnel with the capital needs that arise in the growing program of the various fields and also the decrease in the value of the dollar. The Board of Foreign Missions will not retreat unless the gifts of the Church give evidence that a retreat is necessary. The union of the women of the Domestic and Foreign Boards has been completed. Little by little the women from the two groups are realizing that some common problems arise in both Boards and that

there are other phases that must be considered separately because of the difference in needs and administration. It is most encouraging to know that the giving of the women’s groups has increased consistently during this time of unification. W e look forward to a closer cooperation during the years ahead. In February 1953 the Board met in the First Reformed Church of Schenectady, N. Y. for a study conference as well as to carry on its necessary business. Several policies were studied and from this meeting it is hoped that new policies will be developed that will be of gr6at help to the Church, both at home arid overseas. Space does not permit a discussion of each of the policies considered, but the following ques tions were recommended for further study. The effectiveness in evangelism and Christian outreach of our edu cational institutions was discussed. A careful study of these institutions will be made in order to answer this important question with facts. As the work of our missions becomes an integral part of the Church on the field, the location of the missionary personnel outside of the areas where our missionaries have worked must be studied. The Board feels that scholarships for study or observation in the United States should be granted to persons from our mission areas only after a careful evaluation of resources for study on the fields, and a care ful selection of mature workers by the field agencies. However, official delegates will be welcome from time to time when they come for the purpose of fellowship and mutual acquaintance. The Board is also interested in having persons from the fields who are competent in English invited to come for preaching missions in the Church. It is hoped that such visits may be arranged when it appears that such would be profitable. The Arabian Mission recommends the policy of maintaining small, compact hospitals alongside government institutions as an expression of Christian mercy and as centers of evangelism. The Board approved this recommendation and therefore* concurred with the decision to recon struct the men’s hospital in Kuwait. Questions have been raised with the Mission concerning the personnel needs to meet these opportunities, not only in our organized stations but in the new work that has been initiated in the interior. It was felt that a more mobile program for medical missions should also be studied. The question of urging the government to separate the Economic and Technical Assistance Program from the Mutual Defense Security Program, making it an independent agency, was brought up for dis cussion. The staff is to confer with other mission boards to determine some concerted action. Our assistance in the training of men selected by the government to carry out the Point Four Program should be continued. Consideration was given to special gifts to missionaries, equipment for their fields, ownership of automobiles, travel and outfit allowances

and basic equipment for missionary homes on the field. The newly elected treasurer was requested to study these matters with a view to definite policy decisions in each case. Our church was highly honored when Mrs. Howard Schade was chosen to' be a member of the conference held during the past summer in Willingen, Germany by the International Missionary Council. In response to the challenge of this world conference that called The Church to a renewed sense of Mission and Unity, it was voted that this theme be kept before the Board and that the Board share it with the church. The Church has been blessed by the visits of guests from the Church in Japan and India. Miss Yoshi Suzuki, a teacher in Baiko, has completed two years’ work in Biblical Seminary, N e w York City. She will receive her A. B. degree in May and will return to Japan to con tinue her teaching in the girls’ school. Mr. Shin-inchiro Kanai, of Meiji Cakuin, who is studying at the University of Wisconsin, will continue his work there during the coming year. Miss Aley Mathews, a nurse from the Scudder Memorial Hospital in Ranipet, spent eleven months in observation and study in Boston and Chicago. She also visited many of our churches in both the East and the West. Mr. I. J. Rajamanickam, a teacher in Voorhees College, has been studying in Ohio State Uni versity at Columbus, Ohio. Although he came on a Fulbright scholarship he has been closely connected with some of our Reformed Churches, for he is especially interested in “his mother church.” The exchange of leaders from the churches with which our missionaries have been related convince us that we are all members of the Church Universal. Besides Dr. Potter, two others connected with the Board have been called Home. Mrs. May De Free Thoms became a member of the Arabian Mission in 1906. For seven years she served with her husband, Dr. Sharon J. Thoms, in Muscat. In 1918, after five years in America following the death of her husband, she returned to the Arabian Mission and in 1925 was transferred to the United Mission in Mesopotamia. Here she organized and established the American School for Girls in Baghdad and was its principal until she retired in 1944. She was beloved by the entire City of Baghdad and the lot of women in Iraq was greatly lifted by her unselfish service. W e rejoice in her life of creative ability and record our deep sense of loss in her death on July 12, 1952. Our sympathy also goes to Mr. and Mrs. Paul Arnold in the loss of their infant son, Chris, on May 31, 1952. Because of their deep Christian faith, Mr. and Mrs. Arnold were true witnesses to the Anuak people for their Lord. In closing this report we again give thanks for the loyal support of the Church and repeat a part of an action taken by the members of the Board of Foreign Missions when they said: “God has blessed our Board very wonderfully in the carrying forward of our work. As we look backward with gratitude we also look forward with confidence.”

For the last few years, due to the change to the calendar fiscal year, it has been impossible to make accurate comparisons of the receipts of a given year with that preceding. From next year, normal comparison should be possi ble. For example, for the year for which we are reporting, receipts did not begin until the 15th of January, since the books were held open to allow for delay in remittances from churches unaccustomed to the change in the fiscal year. Consequently, the comparison of the grand total of income for the year under report with the preceding year shows an increase of only $14,048.02. At the same time, while the gifts from living donors reveal a substantial increase of $27,722.25, this increase is not a completely accurate reflection of the total increase, since $162,511.69 was received from January 1st to January 15th, some of which under normal circumstances would have been credited to this year’s receipts. It has frequently been pointed out on this page that there is an important distinction between the Receipts under I and II. While the contributions received on II are significant and were used for worth while objects, it still remains true that so far as the planning of the Board is concerned, it is only the contributions under I which can be taken into consideration. Total contri butions from living givers for objects outside the budget under II show a considerable increase over last year and this always gives us some disquiet, unless there is a corresponding increase in gifts under I, since only these gifts can be applied to the estimates from the missions of the amount needed to carry on all departments of the work. It is the contributions under I which primarily meet our obligations to the missionaries which the Church has sent out and the ongoing work to which they are related. It is clear, therefore, that the most significant feature of the financial report is the total under I, namely $719,249.62, which this year shows a decrease of $2,373.44 over the preceding year. The Board was able to meet, however, all maintenance charges of the year and also some of the very important capital projects which have been given urgent priority only by using the balance carried forward last year, largely created, as we have already indicated, by the fact that the books were held open until January 15th of the year under report. A study of the receipts for the regular work of the Board (I of this report) for the last eleven years shows a steady increase in the support of the Church. There were two years only which showed a decrease and the average increase for these years was 8%. The total has gone un from $270,228.44 in 1941 to $719,249.62 for 1952. Allowing for the decrease in the value of the dollar, this is still a substantial net increase. This is reflected in the total number of missionaries on the roll of the Board which has likewise increased from 147 to 191 during the same period. Per capita giving has also increased. The figure for this year is $4.82 as against $4.78 for last year. This figure is based not on I alone, but on the grand total from all living givers. Comparing the figure for 1952 with that for 1941, we find an increase from $1.75 to $4.82. The totals expended for the regular budgets for field work were as «oTiS: 7 ^moy; ^ 12iPPin^ ’ $T91>952.08; Arcot, $149,546.91; Japan, $106, 580.21; Arabm, $155,332.79; United Mission in Mesopotamia, $12 000.00' Africa, $36,325.13. This total is an increase of $8,112.14 over the correspond ing figures for 1951. The cost of Administration was $87,028.96 and of Promotion, $44,156.74, being 9.5% and 4.5% respectively.

RECEIPTS F O R T H E Y E A R END I N G D E C E M B E R 31, 1952 I. F

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A. Income from Living Sources: Churches, S.S. & Y.P.S... $564,391.01 Individuals ________ 15,101.18 W o m e n ’s Societies __ 99,593.07 --------B. Income from Non-Living Scmrces: Interest on Funds Available’for General Work of the Board____ Miscellaneous Income ___________ Matured Conditional Gifts _______ II.

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$679,085.26

31,733.88 757.98 7,672.50 ---------

$719,249.62

A. Income from Living Sources: Churches, S.S. & Y.P.S— $ 55,486.05 Individuals ________ 25,261.25 W o m e n ’s Societies __ 27,300.77 R.C.A. World Service Fund ___________ 26,519.36 ----------- $134,567.43 B. Income from Non-Living Sources: Legacies __________________ Interest and Appreciation on Funds not Available for General Work of the Board ___________________

” 42,233.84 21,139.38 ---------

Total Receipts ______________________________________

197,940.65 $917,190.27

1952 Total Income from Living Sources: For the Regular Work of the Board _______________ ___ $679,085.26 For Special Objects Outside the Budget __________________

134,567.43 ---------

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813,652.69

1951 Total Income from Living Sources .................

785,930.44

Gain in Contributions from Living-Sources ...............

27,722.25

Gain in Total Receipts from All Sources _________________

14,048.02

This is a page of what appears to be cold figures, but behind it lies the consecration of hundreds and thousands of those who are dedicated to the service of Christ in the Reformed Church. Wh e n we think of the loyalty and support of these faithful servants of His, these figures take on a deep spiritual meaning.

]VtlSSION ARIES of the Board are listed below to give accurate infor mation to General Synod. On May 1, 1953 there are 157 missionaries in active service of the Board. Thirty-two are ordained; 25 unordained (10 of these are doctors); 52 are married women (4 of them are doctors and 5 are nurses) and 48 are unmarried women. Of the unmarried women 2 are doctors; 14 are nurses and 32 are teachers and specialists in Christian Education. In Japan and Arabia there are 6 short term mis sionaries. There are 32 emeritus missionaries on the roll of the Board. There are also 10 under appointment who are still in the United States. It is expected that all of these will sail during the summer and fall months. R E T U R N E D T O T H E FIELD: To China— None. To the Philippines— Rev. and Mrs. H. M. Veenschoten; Rev. and Mrs. William R. Angus; Miss Jeane W. Walvoord; Rev. and Mrs. John P. Muilenburg; Dr. and Mrs. Jack W. Hill. To India— Miss Mina Jongewaard; Rev. Blaise Levai, Jr.; Rev. and Mrs. Eugene L. Ten Brink. To Japan— Miss C. Janet Oilman; Mr. Ronald Korver. • To Arabia— Dr. and Mrs. Paul W. Harrison; Miss Rachel Jackson; Miss Cornelia Dalenberg; Dr. and Mrs. Lewis R. Scudder. To Africa— Rev. and Mrs. J. Robert Swart. AT H O M E O N FURLOUGH: From China— Miss Edna K. Beekman; Miss Ruth Broekema; Rev. and Mrs. Henry A. Poppen; Rev. and Mrs. Edwin W. Koeppe; Dr. and Mrs. Richard Hofstra; Dr. and Mrs. Theodore V. Oilman; Mrs. Alma M. Vander Meer. From India — Miss Albertha Biegel; Rev. and Mrs. Harold J. Vande Berg; Rev. and Mrs. Herbert E. Van Vranken; Miss Marjorie Van Vranken; Miss Doris A. Wells. From Japan — Miss Helen Zander; Miss Florence Walvoord; Mr. Theodore E. Flaherty. From Arabia — Dr. and Mrs. Gerald H. Nykerk; Dr. and Mrs. Maurice Heusinkveld. From U M I — Rev. and Mrs. Bernard D. Hakken. From Africa— Mr. and Mrs. C. Lee Crandall; Miss Wilma Kats.

N E W MISSIONARIES: In India— Mr. and Mrs. Edwin R. Cooper; Mrs. Blaise Levai, M.D.; Miss Wilma Maassen; Miss Helen Ten Brink, R. N.; Miss Gladys Kooy; Miss Lillian Smies, R. N. In Japan — Mrs. Ronald Korver (Nee Ruby Barth); Mr. William Estell; Miss Carol Van Zoeren; Rev. and Mrs. Gordon J. Van Wyk; Rev. and Mrs. Glenn Bruggers. In Arabia— Miss Marianne Walvoord, R. N.; Miss Madeline Holmes; Mr. Robert Block; Miss Margaret Schuppe, R. N.; Miss Jean nette Veldman, R. N.; Miss Anne De Young, R. N. In Africa— Mr. and Mrs. Lambert B. Ekster; Mr. and Mrs. La Verne Sikkema. APPOINTEES T O SAIL W I T H I N T H E YEAR: To India— Mr. and Mrs. James Dunham. To Japan— Mr. and Mrs. I. John Hesselink; Rev. and Mrs. Russell L. Norden; Mr. and Mrs. Paul H. Tanis; Miss Verlaine Siter; Miss Mary Watt. APPOINTEES A CCEPTED: To Japan— Miss Verlaine Siter; Miss Mary Watt. A P P O I N T M E N T S R E Q U E S T E D BY T H E MISSIONS: At the February meeting of the Board it was voted that an immedi ate study be made of the emergent personnel needs for all missions. The general principle was adopted that personnel needs be written into the budget each year and that after May no new requests be granted for the following year. Therefore, it is not possible to give at this date the re quests that will be approved by the Board for 1954. However, the following number of missionaries have been requested from the various fields: For India— 10 missionaries; 2 short term missionaries. For Japan— 2 missionaries; short term replacements as they come due. For Arabia— 19 missionaries; 2 short term missionaries (one a nurse and one a man teacher). For Africa— 9 missionaries.

TABULAR STATEMENT OF RECEIPTS T H R U CHURCHES AND ORGANIZATIONS DECEMBER 31, 1952

CHURCHES

Churches and Men's Societies

Sunday Schools

Young People’s Societies

Dept, of W o m e n ’s . Work

Special

Total

CLASSIS O F A L B A N Y Albany, First.............. Albany, Third............. Albany, Sixth............. Albany, Bethany.......... Berne, Second............. Bethlehem, First.......... Clarksville................ Coeymans................ Delmar.................. Jerusalem................

3,100 00 406 58 350 00 204 35 20 00 428 00 92 69 19 18 780 07 40 00

N e w Baltimore............ N e w Salem............... Onesquethaw.............. Unionville................ Westerlo................. Union Meetings...........

91 70 38 00

100 00

180 00

40 00

3,935 00 550 36 480 00 718 00

128 92

35 nn 40 00

222 24

1.255 15 106 10

20 00 25 00 10 80 5,595 57

323 92

450 83 382 50

450 83

62 70

73 SO 8,179 28

-Tyyj-Vj—

CLASSIS O F B E R G E N Bogart Memorial.......... Cherry Hill, No. Hackensack. Church on the Hill ' Cresskill, N. J........... Clinton Avenue, Bergenfield.. Closter............. Dumont, Schraalenburg..... Engeiwood.H.Ave.Community Hackensack, First....... Hackensack, Second..... Hackensack, Third....... Harrington Park, Community Hasbrouck Heights, First. . Oradell.......... English Neighborhood..... Neighborhood, Ridgefield Park Rochelle Park........ Teaneck Community....... Westwood........... Union Meetings........

85 40 360 80 941 447 1,800 231 742 1,800 1,609 155 220 630 1,176 225

23 00 00 00 93 06 00 11 50 00 69 00 00 00 25 00

11,377 10

981 66 44ft 75

66 25 50 00

135 00

95 41

340 00 20 00

180 00

605 00

68 25

62 35 100 00 108 08

50 00 248 00

43 nn 208 89

160 00 110 00

75 nn 90 00 146 20

308 88

96 00

40 00

273 51 75 00

55 nn

280 00 588 61

1,077 34 620 06 897 2,356 2,041 222

85 89 95 00

1,168 1,507 230 404

51 45 00 88

206 470 1,260 301 205

98 22 00 00 00

1.435 18

CLASSIS O F SOUTH BERGEN Bayonne, First............ Fifth St., Bayonne......... Bergen............. Faith VanVorst (Jersey Citv) Greenville.......... Second. Hudson City...... Lafayette............... St. John’s........... Union Meetings........ Total.............

202 250 820 120 120

48 22 00 00 00

4 50

inn nn

110 00 330 00 95 00

86 00

40 00

463 86 31 13

70 65

651 10

2,007 69

17 76 269 41

17 76 3,280 13

303 03

700 00

CHURCHES

CLASSIS O F CALIFORNIA Artesia, First........... Artesia, Second......... Bellflower. Bethel....... Bellflower, Mayfair C o m m El Monte, Trinity....... Los Angeles, Hope...... Los Angeles. Park Hill Collegiate............ .. Modesto, Paradise Community Norwalk Manor Community. Oakland. Sobrante Superior C o mmunity............ Paramount, E m m a n u e l .... Longview, Phoenix, Arizona. Redlands. Bethany........ Ripon, Calvary............ Sacramento, Church of Christ. San Francisco, Miraloma C ommunity......... Santa Ana, Park View Memorial Sonoma, Grace.. Union Meetings. Total. CLASSIS O F C A S C A D E S Bellingham Mission....... Bottrell Community....... Lynden................. Monarch................ Montana, First........... Nooksack Valley.......... O ak Harbor.............. Y a k i m a ................. Union Meetings.......... Total........... ...: CLASSIS O F C H I C A G O Worth, Alsip............. Berwyn, First............ Chicago, Bethel........... Chicago, Bethany......... Chicago. E m m a n u e l ....... First Englewood.......... Chicago, G a n o ............ Chicago, Hope........... Mt. Greenwood. First..... Chicago. Roseland, First. . . . Chicago, Trinity.......... Cicero, West Side. Riverdale, Ivanhoe........ Stickney, Faith Community. Union Meetings.......... Total. CLASSIS O F D A K O T A American, Orange City.... Aurora, Stickney.......... Charles M i x .............. Dover, Wimbledon........ Springfield, Emma n u e l ..... Grace, Corsica............ Grand View, Armour...... Hamlin, Castlewood...... Harrison................ Hope. Westfield.......... Lake View............... Litchville................ North Marion............ Okaton, Murado.......... Monroe. Sandham Memorial. Strassburg............... Union Meetings.......... Total................

Churches and M e n ’s Societies

1,062 50 1,819 28 1,225 00

Sunday Schools

Young People’s Societies

360 00

375 00 251 00

100 00

219 24 150

100 00 220 00

100

1,540 00

Dept, of W o m e n ’s Work

Special

200 558 106 18 121

100

31 05 30 72 277 07

37 22

10 00 350 00 355 00

350 00 175 00

325 92

384 32

100 00

10 00 270 00

49 09 113 50

56 40

31 25 00

21 11

44 22

111 22 112 281 1,739 26 12 3,749

46 73 78 47 60 49

13 26 700 00 5,490 2,250 1,500 1,150

00 00 00 00

1,200 00 1,642 00 6,337 50

15 00 596 22 2,188 14

1.717 48

800 23 80 115

1,700 00 398 38 144 93 61 49 1,156 33 917 00 372 76 171 47 951 50 584 11 141 27 58 82 247 01 86 40 385 00 1,003 22 8,379 69

1,410 530 159 1,279 5

24 00 09 17 00

11 00

1,725 60

245 00 596 22 13,506 73

00 20 04 48

280 00 50 00

67 19

102 45 132 07

37 34 30 87 237 75

4 80 1,023 52

167 40 731 92

373 15

350 00 500 00 700 00

28 36 135 30

5 25 50 97

00 00 00 50

90 40 197 125 60

00 00 48 00 00

12 50

68 00 115 10 1.051 28 4,744 57

3,689 11,142

695 00 160 00

75 00 700 00 876 16

29 10 309 68 95 77 32 92 63 53

53 71 32 20

25 8 16 57 112 50

00 00 00 60 50 00

89 50

11 20

'86 25

15 00 36 00

852 06

70 28 44 42 84 53 60 47 80 08

2,212 10 00

500 00

5,181 70

21 3 2.587 184 229 530 2,109 26 184 5.878

368 1,442 ' 885 6.282 3,272 3,150 1,420

189 60

1,022 02 1,400 00 150 00 700 00 871 70

354 00 550 00 23,286 76

118 50 76 72 325 29

II 00

10 00 2,100 00

36 53 24 00 53 62

44 22

230 00

21 70 3 28 1,440 25

1.998 2,728 1,550 268 441 1.709

10 00

895 67 5 00

7,875 51

Total

8 00

10 00 100 00

785 00 1,557 98

1.070 15 9,225 72

200 00 120 00

157 63 62 60 55 00

5 00 10 00 225 00 161 54 60 00 135 00 90 00 486 20 40 00 30 00 135 00

135 178

10 30 448 310 92 00 27 20

2.675 00 372 00 100 00

3,105 15 40.128 32

2,092 610 204 71 1,851 1,360 459 427 1,694 1.493 234 180 509

366 30

64 00 102 08 1,863 82

45 31 40 00 1,592 90

531 140 1,105 13,054

63 08 93 49

68 70 16

20 81 63 47 82 91 40 56 00 30 77

Churches and M e n â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Societies

Sunday Schools

Young People's Societies

Dept, of W o m e n â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Work

Special

Total

CLASSIS O F G E R M A N I A Antelope Valley.......... Bethany.................. Bethel. Davis............ Bethel, Ellsworth......... Chancellor............... Delaware................ Dempster.... ........... Ebenezer................ E d e n........ ........... First. Clay County........ Hope. George............ Hope. Montevideo........ Immanuel............... Lennox II............... Logan................... Monroe................. Salem................... Trinity.................. Zion.................... Union Meetings.......... Total...............

56 855 282 247 75 291 91 120

30 40 00 39 00 00 81 00

424 257 231 127 702 128 138 946 300 142

50 72 95 00 48 53 99 87. 00 37

5 00 280 00 30 00

60 00

100 00

262 50 71 58 77 11

12 50 2 63

35 09 399 82 123 20 76 74

44 00

5,621 86

1.124 04

59 13

231 1.462 364 1,710 400 3.576 1,850 4,680 120 350 3,100 1.700 580 1,573 4,100 1,150 315 1,440 1.700 1,019 1,378 3.200 10 1,016 1.300 766 2.200

55 76 1,000 00

58 60 80 00 26 00 173 15 110 125 125

30 00 06 00 00

142 59 1,270 55

20 20 20 35 20 40 20 15 54 25 15 20 15 20 26 60 25 10 5 465

61 39 1.215 40 00 332 00 00 267 39 00 210 00 00 311 00 00 00 131 81 140 00 00 00 235 46 00 537 10 00 637 72 00 347 16 00 224 11 00 890 78 00 198 62 00 . 275 05 65 1,576 34 00 573 20 229 It 00 00 147 59 8,541 23 65

CLASSIS O F G R A N D RAPIDS

A d a ..................... Byron Center............. Corinth.................. Grand Rapids. Third....... Grand Rapids. Fourth...... Grand Rapids. Fifth....... Grand Rapids. Seventh..... Grand Rapids. Eighth....... Grand Rapids. Ninth.... ... Grand Rapids. Aberdeen.... Grand Rapids. Bethany..... Grand Rapids. Bethel...... Grand Rapids. Beverly..... Grand Rapids. Calvary..... Grand Rapids. Central...... Grand Rapids, Fairview.... Grand Rapids, Faith....... Grand Rapids. Garfield. Park. Grand Rapids, Grace....... Grand Rapids. H o m e Acres... Grand Rapids. Hope ....... Grand Rapids. Immanuel... Grand Rapids. Knapp Avenue. Grand Rapids. Oakdale Park. . Grand Rapids, Richmond. . . . Grand Rapids, Trinity...... Grandville, First........... Grandville, Olivet.......... Grant.................... 209 St. Catherine, First Ontario, 44 Canada................ 7 Union Meetings........... Total................ 41,556

19 82 00 00 76 80 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 95 00 00 00 00 00 44 05 00 00 54 00 25 00 S0r 00 72 02

40 00 140 00

49 00 10 00 1,100 00 350 00 1.400 00

5 00

182 85 100 675 350 158

00' 00 00 , 00

700 110 180 199 308 900 700 11

00 00 00 00 61 00 00 00

8.529 22

15 00

44 00

74 00

225 160 300 160 250 20 40 169 130 75 265 97 45 23 435 90 120 213 300 10 55 127 80 508 75

50 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 10 50 00 00 00 00 00 06 00 00 00 01 00 55 00

1.671 06 5.824 78

9 30

326 95 2.701 57 878 20 2,324 50 610 76 4,296 70 2.046 65 6.289 00 490 00 390 00 4,786 50 2,255 00 655 00 2.084 44 4.422 30 1,524 00 438 00 3,288 72 2,216 02 1.317 44 2,291 11 4,225 12 162 83 1,270 04 1,826 01 1.269 86 4,402 13 775 00 229 80

810 00 6.342 41

44 00 2.488 78 62,326 43

98 514 340 50 419 26 259

75 20 00 00 90 65 00

112 50 425 00 62 54 224 80 329 00 738 61 20 700 25 32 18 200 115 749

72 02 00 00 12 83 50 00 00 58

CLASSIS O F G R E E N E Athens................. Catskill................ Coxsackie, First......... Coxsackie. Second....... Kiskatom............... Leeds.................. Union Meetings......... Total..............

93 487 14 94

36 50 40 90

29 87 720 03

12 7 29 10

50 50 61 00

59 61

2 00 85 00 39 5 78 209

15 00 50 65

44 160 23 15

05 00 00 00

8 00 250 05

139 745 44 139 49 13 108 1,239

41 00 90 51 15 00 37 34

Churches and Men's Societies

CHURCHES

Sunday Schools

Young People’s Societies

Dept, of W o m e n ’s Work

Special

Total

CLASSIS O F H O L L A N D

Forest Grove, Hudsonville....

Holland. Sixth

South Blendon, Hudsonville...

Union Meetings...........

650 615 1,315 8 514 600 2.154 1,039 3,988 3,327 2,206 2.080 3,892

00 20 97 09 24 00 61 82 29 80 57 00 36

1,030 1,000 6,170 925 1,802 1,948

00 00 78 00 33 00

1,170 100 4,225 121

81 00 88 04

3,622 2.509 500 47,518

25 00 00 04

280 10 147 130 2,110 08

00 00 85 00 99 18

473 800 619 187 225 2,662 1,575 700 225 76 2,100

92 00 31 15 00 31 00 00 00 50 00

6 50 40 00 350 00 12 80 12 50

15 00 115 809 615 1.748 390 65 700 40 1,050 700 350 328

73 69 28 68 00 78 00 00 00 00 00 00

16,557 35

45 00 75 00 6 40 50 00 120 42 15 00

24 77 773 39

30 130 55 20 1,085 381 453 118 526 278 230 155 42 55 195 460 235 285 75 60 55 115

00 00 00 00 00 00 04 75 00 35 00 00 25 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

635 95 153 425 156 520 7,024

9i 00 68 00 00 00 98

20 15 10 15

00 40 00 00

50 40 625 00 289 2.234 602 73 30

55 35 40 56 00

7 127 723 459 50 10 12 186 41 123 38

00 00 93 25 00 00 75 20 00 00 00

439 105 837 7,125

32 00 00 IK

1,173 92 1,567 10 2,040 28 230 24 1.824 24 4.043 71 4.820 45 1.858 57 5,041 34 5,917 00 5,138 97 2,308 56 3,979 61 55 00 1.232 00 1,702 73 7,939 40 2,329 53 3,751 01 2,414 40 133 53 2,222 01 181 00 6,155 21 969 04 503 68 4.814,57 2,770 00 1,881 77 78,998 87

CLASSIS O F H U D S O N

Linlithgo, Livingston, N. Y.... Livingston Memorial Linlithgo N. Y. ..

30 5 32 38 64 25

00 00 00 44 00 00

50 00 19 00 125 00

37 00 5 00 10 00

155 00 23 00

126 25 20 75 7 00

397 39 314 168 2,456 166

00 00 85 44 24 93

20 72 351 20 209 4,215

50 01 30 00 50 77

1,178 1,983 1,611 548 25 35 611 299 3.172 1,186 577 653 10,988 3,348 32 32 1,105 27,392

72 57 64 66 00 00 87 74 00 47 80 60 75 57 50 40 98 27

5 50

2 50

18 72

60 00

3,147 11

218 66

94 SO 529 00

535 55 703 30 1,098 64

453 92 1,014 21 350 00

5 72 272 20

50 01 58 00

' 115 00 321 00

C L A SSIS O F I L L I A N A

Indianapolis, Christian Park..

Union Meetings........... Total................

440 85 2,000 100 120 * 120 7,733 2,472 20 30 644 16,104

28 00 00 00 00 00 71 99 00 00 65 12

68 850 700 350 350 1,706 539

58 00 00 00 00 79 58

10 73 10 00

5 00 6 40 4 80 25 00

189 154 115 413

25 00 00 50

127 56 262 147 53 137 1,260 282 12

59 25 00 00 00 25 75 00 50

101 38 135 25 35 44 84 60 233 50 46 262 54

33 00 16 00 00 00 91 00 07 00 35 50 00

2 40 6,385 48

40 96 102 89

208 54 3,418 63

211 83 1,381 15

CHURCHES

Churches and Men's Societies

Sunday Schools

Young Peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Societies

Dept, of Women's Work

Special

4 6 12 8

211 117 238 54

43 515 70 36

Total

CLASSIS O F ILLINOIS Fairview............... Fulton, First.............. Fulton, Second............ Fulton, Trinity............ Morrison, Ebenezer........ Emmanuel, Morrison...... Newton, Zion.......... Peoria, First.............. Pekin, Second............. Raritan............ Spring Valley............. Sterling, Bethel............ Union Meetings.......... Total................

278 2,420 1,225 1,097 2,316 247 686 67 262 323 590 16 44 9,575

00 00 00 67 00 82 44 06 81 50 00 25 55 10

71 175 214 1,350 2,500 1,850 2,265 2.600 491 25 480 2,125 765 262 382 1,239 40 235

21 00 85 00 00 00 45 00 00 00 00 00 00 50 20 64 00 00

160 00 134 71 175 700 366 80

00 00 05 75

28 72 4 62

50 40 80 00

32 94

50 50 71 50

00 00 05 50

697 3,193 1,546 1,371

00 61 56 67

415 62

23 49

32 80

707 92

1,070 54

842 31 .15,219 12

1,239 24

6 40

50 00

1,675 85

108 00 179 04

689 76 2,718 59

63 92

5 00

25 95 18 50

9 11

175 19

6 40

294 00

125 00

3^655 40

130 00

â&#x20AC;&#x2122;754 50

100 00

CLASSIS O F K A L A M A Z O O Allegan, First............ Battle Creek, Trinity....... Decatur............. Kalamazoo, First... Kalamazoo, Second........ Kalamazoo, Third..... Kalamazoo, Fourth....... Kalamazoo, Bethany....... Kalamazoo. Bethel. . . Kalamazoo, Faith.. . Kalamazoo, Hope. . .. Kalamazoo. North Park... Kalamazoo, Trinity... Kalamazoo. Twin Lakes.... Martin..... Portage, First............. South Haven. Hooe __ Three Oaks........ Union Meetings.... Total................

17,071 85

1,900 730 950 229

00 00 00 30

187 no

65 00 158 922 350 100 350 437

46 50 00 00 04 60

6,256 82

68 50 6 00 7 50 67 .50

4 80 15 00

84 00 10 00 139 00

10 00 207 10

546 50 757 04 2,038 34

33 10

295 13 3,006 49

600 00 3,224 95

895 13 29,593 21

77 50

22 50

1,081 25

CLA SSIS O F L A K E E R I E Cleveland, Brooklyn Village Community............. Cleveland, Calvary......... Cleveland. Riverside........ Detroit, Grace, Dearborn... Detroit, Faith Community__ Detroit, First............. Detroit, Hope............. Detroit, Nardin Park....... Inkster, Trinity........... Union Meetings........... Total................

65 917 60 350 177 100 497 900 12

00 44 00 00 57 00 00 00 00

3,079 01

63 81

6 .50

2 50 376 67 122 20

25 00

562 68

25 00

182 50

367 57

205 61

949 81 *

7.50 on

100 65 5 115 626

00 00 00 29 79

25 00 551 91

' 42 00 115 29 4,845 39

CHURCHES

Churches and Men's Societies

Sunday Schools

Young People’s Societies

Dept, of Women's Work

Special

Total

CLASSIS O F N O R T H L O N G ISLAND

Flushing, Church on the Hill..

Winfield.................. Union Meetings...........

643 * 133 SO 81 1,450 700 145 240 76 20 1,330 1,125 200 465 96 400 404 148 800 150 4 280 600 50 1,980 200 198

79 00 00 87 00 00 00 00 25 00 41 13 00 00 09 00 21 86 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 68

11,972 29

20 00 8 00 14 00 100 00

4 80

50 00

13 25 135 150 100 36 237 40 125

00 00 00 00 00 50 50 00 00

67 06 25 00 00 00 00 00

50 00 200 00

13 220 175 40 170 47 55

50 00 00 00 00 50 00

100 31 76 15

00 00 50 00

20 00 731 06

00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

153 00 62 00 7 50 75 00

58 50 75 2

10 10 29 50 25 25 65 44

12 80

192 74 2,295 74

10 00 91 100 40 125 5

24 00 00 00 00

40 10 25 25

00 00 00 00

475 00 25 00 11 00 1,240 24

23 35 827 341 175 157 1,752 888 270 240 279 20 1,402 1,132 366 632 149 770 584 246 1,060 282 86 305 700 131 2,731 240 229 192 16.252

00 00 79 00 00 37 50 80 00 00 25 00 41 63 24 06 59 00 21 86 00 50 00 00 00 00 50 00 68 74 13

792 94 210 2,379 240 240 81 1,158 65 480 30 51 355 359 17 190 81 216 50 7,091

40 04 00 31 00 00 00 05 00 07 00 86 00 35 60 00 65 00 00 33

C L ASSIS O F S O U T H L O N G ISLAND Cambria Heights, Community.

North Baldwin Community...

124 52 200 730 60 180 76 900 65 62

70 04 00 30 00 00 00 00 00 82

667 25 10 1,274 180 60 5 160

48 05 131 25

38 36 320 00 105 00

70 00 00 01 00 00 00 00

3,281 87

179 30

100 78

302 00

50 00 63 50 10 00

179 00

35 75 17 20

25 00 50 00 2,941 71

Union Meetings...........

375 00

222 50 20 00 13 50

50 00

120 00 81 65 166 00

17 00

00 35 60 00

25 00 688 45

CLASSIS O F MINNESOTA

Union Meetings........... Total................

1,257 1,867 930 „ 1,337 1,026 335 356 695 91 7,997

00 03 00 24 14 73 08 28 88 16

350 00 145 00 140 86 425 00 52 57

1,415 43

50 00 16 00 40 00 100 00

8 00 139 11 353 11

25 10 350 220 180 ‘ 150 70

00 00 00 00 00 00 00

100 25 465 1,595

00 00 00 00

49 20 12 82 15 164 15 39

39 00 36 70 00 35 00 28

398 08

527 17 30 00 1,635 36 2,559 73 1,370 00 1,792 45 1,111 14 800 01 516 65 859 39 556 88 11.758 78

CHURCHES

CLASSIS O F MONMOUTH Asbury Park..... Colt's Neck ...... Freehold. Second... Key port......... Long Branch..... Middletown...... Old Brick, Marlboro Red Bank......... Union Meetings... Total CLASSIS O F MONTGOMERY Ansterdarn. First. . Ansterdam. Trinity Canajoharie...... Currytown....... Ephratah........ Florida.......... Fonda........... Fort Plain....... Fultonville....... Glen............ Hagaman, Calvary. Herkimer........ Johnstown....... M o h a w k ......... Owasco.......... Owasco Outlet........ St. Johnsville, St. John’s Sprakers............. Stone Arabia......... Syracuse, First....... Syracuse, Second...... Thousand Islands..... Utica, Christ......... West Leyden......... Union Meetings....... Total...........

Churches and Men's Societies

Sunday Schools

Young People’s Societies

127 75 68 12 475 00

120 00 109 78 24 84 67 47

992 96

335 637 249 23

28 69 62 48

00 00 50 00

1 15 16 40 160

00 00 00 26 76

100 00

40 00

95 00 50 00 34 50

200 00

5 90

70 07 153 78 358 64

20 00

200 00

10 00

76 11

60 00 240 00 50 47 60 60

1 25 37 25

162 34

108 44 707 14

17 295 13 17

Dept, of W o m e n ’s Work

3 84 ... ___ ... ... ... 4 80 ___ ....

25 00

30 00

8750 11500 100 00 7641 3500 5000 3500 2500 3000

Special

24 25 25 25 35 25 10 15 23 207

00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

152 118 537 170 144 50 92 31 63 1.360

75 12 50 00 78 84 47 00 26 72

45 35 98 13

00 00 86 54

642 767 398 111

62 69 48 52

10 00

30 00 95 75

229 78 917 89 325 90 171 48 228 78 504 75 274 80 125 31 393 00 35 00 52 50 488 42 38 60 17 60 10 00 155 00 50 00 73 75 5 00 175 98 6.203 85

20 00

25 00 20 00 20 00

25 40 123 35

00 31 00 00

25 00

10 00

110 00

57 95

15 00

10 00

140 00

10 00 15 00

20 00 53 75

20 00 5 00

3.718 31

CLAS SIS O F M U S K E G O N Allendale.......... Atwood, Central Park 875 00 Barnard........... 50 00 Conklin........... 53 59 Coopersville........ 3.364 57 Falmouth........ .. 26 08 Ferry Memorial..... 100 00 Fremont, First...... 1.875 43 Grand Haven, First... 4.632 35 Grand Haven, Second. 1,950 00 Grand Haven, Hope.. 268 40 Laketon, Bethel.... 926 00 Lucas. Rehoboth.... 477 47 Moddersville....... 50 00 Moorland. Ravenna.*....... Muskegon, Faith.......... Muskegon, First........... 699 14 Muskegon, Fifth........... 2.000 00 Muskegon, Central......... 1,119 00 Muskegon, East L a w n ...... 530 00 Muskegon, Fellowship...... 20 00 Muskegon, Forest H o m e .... 390 00 Muskegon. Unity.......... 80 00 Muskegon Heights. Covenant. 870 00 N e w Era................. 859 60 Spring Lake............... 1,740 00 Faith, Traverse City....... 15 30 East Fruitport, Mich....... Trinity................... Union Meetings........... 25 00 Total 22,996 93

339 35

70 00 78 64

105 98 1,303 14

100 00

10 00

79 50 253 84

50 00

15 00

3 0 45

83 00

100 00 11 20 221 00

777 94

54 31 145 492 173

40 00 69 17 175 00

'65 06

30 80 00 20 00

68 45 181 10 700 00

128 20

700 00 458 58

15 00

41 80 48 00

4 80

31 80

5 32

764 41

69 21 450 00 375 00 350 00 40 00 850 00 250 00 310 00

5,179 34

3 84 12 23 .... .... .... .... .... .... .... ....

277 39

261 133 165 70 55 50 217 115 216 260

20 80 20 44 60 00 40 00 81 40

..... 10 60 444 35 3,684 24

239 1,143 245 64 4.446 80

200

12 00 200 00

Total

43 167 219 124

03 66 54 35

20 00 12 41 25 87

10 00 39 07 40 50 47 40 25 00 10 27 1.075 00 3,002 66

2,369 5,893 2,303 268 1,682 984 62 105 243 1.581 2.740 1.758 620 128 465 1,157 1,024 1.366 2.357 15 25

50 84 45 79 51 38 25 73 72 32 40 80 05

00 81 03 84 57 55 44

01 87 40 07 91 80 30

20 87 1.544 35 35,140 56

Churches and Men's Societies

CHURCHES

Sunday Schools

Young People’s Societies

Dept, of Women's Work

Special

Total

CLASSIS O F N E W A R K 160 00 96 38 400 00 91 743 240 75

25 62 00 04

83 86

156 56 10 00

55 5 25 80 53 42 60 100

00 00 00 00 00 50 00 00

20 00

255 805 10 25 4 20

00 00 00 00 03 00

160 00

110 00 64 70 1,714 23

130 00

20 00 90 00 25 00 32 50 85 70

25 00 120 00 418 00

15 00

242 77

135 00

172 42 700 00 Union Meetings........... Total................

3,459 48

10 00 21 55

4 80

425 42

4 80

594 75

235 185 445 170 169 942 342 260 25 535 1.238 10 412 4 41 177 940 64 6,198

00 24 00 00 25 68 50 74 00 00 00 00 77 03 55 22 00 70 68

368 84 220 731 75 90 1,679 552 5 1,014 1,396

00 23 50 20 00 00 47 84 00 50 88

120 35 173 130 90 133 41 6.941

63 00 34 00 00 49 60 68

8.482 935 1.916 963 354 1,332 79 71 37 75 154 783 10 16 401 36 70 579 85 218 299 10 51 6 105 17,073

00 00 00 00 26 93 45 82 00 00 88 57 00 50 01 00 34 33 00 00 25 00 19 50 83 86

C L ASSIS O F N E W BRUNSWICK 200 50 51 320

Griggstown...............

Middlebush..............

00 00 00 00

too 34 50 150

00 23 00 00

1,259 71 452 26

50 58

475 00 788 28

100 00

68 00 5 00 11 20

25 00

67 250 38 65 325 50 5 297 345

50 00 00 00 00 00 00 50 00

47 00 37 00 25 00 94 76 142 00 238 60

N e w Brunswick, Suydam 35 63 Rocky Hill........

85 00 35 00

133 34 60 00 70 49 Union Meetings........... Total.................

3,895 71

519 81

41 20

40 120 20 38 41 1.855

00 00 00 00 60 60

6.722 110 865 165 25 390 10 2

00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

10 00 10 00 25 00 629 36

CLASSIS O F N E W Y O R K The Marble Collegiate.....

Huguenot Park............

2,600 00 800 00 400 00 678 00 229 26 691 67 69 45 64 82 19 00 25 00 124 88 350 00

50 00

25 00 100 00 86 26

Union of High Bridge......

Union Meetings........... Total................

00 00 00 00

165 00 5 00

18 00 50 00

19 20

16 50 380 56 60 260 65 100 182

— 940 25 626 120

25 00 36 00 10 00 5 00 11 00

34 00 00 00 75

25 00 82 50

8 00

24(00 20 00 70 00 16 00

50 00 7,167 23

361 76

177 20

55 83 8.561 83

25 00

50 00 5 00 328 37 15 25 10 270

45 00 00 33

23 10 10 51 6

00 00 00 19 50

805 84

Sunday Schools CLASSIS O F O R A N G E Bloomingburg... Callicoon....... Claryville....... Deerpark....... Ellenville....... Grahamsville.... Kerhonkson..... Mamakating.... Minisink........ Montgomery.... Newburgh...... Newburgh, Italian N e w Hurley..... N e w Prospect... Shawangunk.... Walden......... Wallkill........ Walpack, Lower. Warwarsing... West E n d ..... Woodbourne.... Union Meetings. Total

40 16 12 931 1.181

00 45 80 95 02

5 78

7 00

13 92

22 21

81 25 50 00

25 00 275 00

12 50

8 23

90 00 711 18

50 00

20 00

186 24

ii'ii

52 00

139 83 820 00 700 00

40 06

10 00

103 22

11 00 33 00 173 54 92 30

11 00 10 00

20 00

4 00 90 00 250 00 4,805 35

55 145 89 27

00 00 00 00

18 30 11 140 425 15

26 00 60 00 80 71

70 00 25 00

50 00 81 20 1,423 13

191 46

1,108 52

66 16 12 1,060 1,506

70 45 80 41 02

10 00 11 00

123 95 33 313 823 31 309 40 246 1,105 1,205 42 4 160 325 81 7.528

00 54 48 00 91 00 49 00 80 71 00 00 00 20 46

105 896 355 70

00 50 80 00

2,916 220 570 23 17 1,455

65 41 00 00 00 39 78 96 00 49

CLASSIS O F P A L I S A D E S Central Ave., Jersey City... The Palisades, Coytesville.... Grove, North Bergen,

80 800 160 25

00 00 00 00

2 00 4 80

25 75 191 35

00 00 00 00

1.069 35 115 23

65 00 00 00

ioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;oo 347 00

1,400 00 54 91 360 00

100 00 100 00

995 39

175 00

115 00

690 00 1,239 96 ........ 5,805 26

60 00

90 00 125 00 85 00 1,995 65

.....

788 28

961 1,424 85 9,101

175 00 30 00

209 90 10 00

1,726 34 140 00

10 50

60 00

12 00

Trinity, West N e w York.... First, West Hoboken, Union City............. Woodcliff Community...... Union Meetings........... Total,

19 50

CLASSIS O F P A R A M U S Acquackanonk, Passaic First.. 1,088 00 Clarkstown......... Fairlawn Community.. Glen Rock Community 950 00 Hawthorne, First.... 1.500 00 490 01 Ho-ho-kus Community. North Paterson...... 975 39 Nyack, First........ 318 00 47 56 Paramus............ Pascack............ 460 08 Paterson, Covenant__ 334 86 Paterson. Second..... 1.500 00 Pequannock......... 103 59 Piermont........... 210 85 650 00 Pompton........... Pompton Plains...... 55 84 Ponds. R a m a p o ..... :........... 1,660 00 Ridgewood, First.......... 112 94 Saddle River.............. 240 00 Spring Valley.............. 292 00 Tappan.................. 880 27 Upper Ridgewood Community Wald wick, First........... 25 20 Wana q ue.......... 281 50 Warwick........... 100 00 West N e w Hempstead 1,091 74 Trinity Wortendyke. . 420 00 Wyckoff........... Union Meetings..... 13,787 83 Total

495 00

17 30

253.44

100 00 381 50 54 103

07' 00 57 20

154 125 29 25 21

00 00 70 00 57

246 75 43 37 80 120 198 130 40 25 65 152 124 41 45 162

10 00

425 13 50 40 50

00 00 00 77 00

38 00 27 50 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 50 00 48

110 00

20 00

35 00 5 00 170 00 121 78 60 00

20 00

10 00

43 00 00 25 00

1,587 45 1,680 00 597*85 1,355 25 450 00 331 56 793 08 504 56 1,670 25 150 16 315 85 822 00 199 84 41 50 45 00 2,734 91 135 94 405 00 385 22 1,175 27

7 36

25 20 428 86

55 00

10 00 239 16 52 00 10 00 10 00

10 00

105 25 30 00

20 00 20 00 487 10 5 49 245

22 00

15 00 47 58 45 01

25 00

2,015 91

28 20

140 5 37 65 62 2,209

00 00 00 00 54 67

120 00

25 251 10 1,902

00 71 00 06

1.201 806 72 19.943

32 72 54 67

Sunday Schools

CLASSIS O F P A S S A I C Boonton.................. 337 60 Clifton. Allwood Community.. 260 00 Clifton. Athenia........... 376 83 Clifton. First.............. 1,550 00 Clifton. Hope ............. 30 00 Clifton. Lakeview Heights.... 577 82 Fairfield.................. 25 00 Lincoln Park.............. 75 00 Little Falls, First.......... 110 00 Little Falls, Second........ 450 00 Lodi. First................ 210 00 Lodi, Second.............. 80 00 Montville................. Mountain Lakes Community. 250 00 Passaic, Bethel............ 2.800 00 Paterson. Central.......... 1,180 00 Paterson, First............ Paterson, Sixth............ 2,100 00 Paterson, Peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Park..... 250 00 Paterson, Riverside......... 655 99 Paterson, Union........... 75 00 Preakness................. 388 66 Wortendyke. First Holland... 100 00 Union Meetings........... Total................. 11,881 90

25 20 85 145 30 40

10 00 117 55 100 00

80 00 100 00

16 80

00 00 00 00 00 00

65 00 25 00 93 50 5 00 35 00

142 22 892 36

110 00 65 00 30 00 93 75

106 50

100 00 45*36 350 00 32 41 2.076 34

92 00 116 80

562 26 809 88

51 10 62 50

20 00 92 27 43 90 25 00

40 251 127 365

00 00 00 00

1,159 00

75 75 40 61 241 1.360

00 00 00 00 75 00

40 00 605 00 2,790 17

229 719 54 35

83 42 25 00

58 23 28 7

65 65 00 00

25 711 1,513 1,961

00 55 54 10

22 00

362 280 481 1,787 70 787 25 265 215 660

136 3.452 250 776 522 428 233 938 18.225

50 75

00 83 27

00 27 00 00 00 30 210 00 85 00 75 00 643 22 3,929 36 1.610 00 00 29 00 66 41 75

CLASSIS O F P E L L A

400 00

Des Moines. Meredith Drive..

2.169 129 104 82

10 74 91 20

Pella. Third..... :........

660 3.161 2,306 5.435

33 10 00 95

Sully..................... Union Meetings........... Total

925 59 1.079 58 17.188 39

10 00

30 37 115 1,400 267 2,385 438 850

20 45 00 00 26 00 53 00

6.895 58

10 00 25 95 53 160 ^ 9 24 55 546

00 00 50 00 84 00 93 87

164 565 291 825 326 258 674 4.154

50 00 35 15 31 75 63 19

88 70 409 11 4,926 30

40 00

39 00

100 00

1,301 84 3,784 55 221 99 146 91 122 40 37 45 989 83 5,932 65 4,431 65 10,767 20 1.608 57 2.147 04 2.219 25 33,711 33

CLASSIS O F PHILADELPHIA 841 85

90 30

50 700 155 18

21 *50

00 00 94 00

225 5 50 65

25*66

00 00 00 00

North and Southampton, 1,768 11 436 60 360 00

173 48

12 80

112 50

00 00 00 00

546 85

772 ii

Philadelphia, Fifth.........

Union Meetings........... Total

10 14 20 35

3 00 300 67 92 28 4,910

00 34 00 23 93

1.082 41

12 80

50 00 75 00 622 50

5 00 672 85

1,011

15 92 86 306 50 719 00 225 94 143 00

2,613 436 1,132 3 300 67 142 108 7,301

74 * 60 13

00 00 00 34 23 49

CHURCHES

Churches and Men's Societies

Sunday Schools

Young People’s Societies

Dept, of W o m e n ’s Work

Total

Special

CLASSIS O F P L E A S A N T PRAIRIE

Elim.....................

Union Meetings...........

275 50 1,029 400

45 00 00 00

221 392 80 284 200 500 770 172 800 4,250 1,475 600 400 105 25

18 50 25 93 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 00

400 00 19 00 12,449 33

10 00 50 00 250 00 47 36

100 00 50 00

25 00

50 9 460 175 274 100

115 00

107 18

00 00 29 00 29 00

8 00 4 80

125 •180 147 50 25

00 00 00 00 00

15 00 350 00 100 00

230 00

17 00 10 78 9 00 1,852 72

15 83 43 63

25 50 50 50 59 1,783 15

00 00 60 00 00

50 00 45 00

15 00 60 00 7 00

300 00 25 00

50 00

1,452 00

2,297 28

275 45 60 00 1,079 00 750 00 122 36 221 18 664 68 89 25 878 22 585 30 921 29 970 00 247 00 874 60 6,383 00 1,820 00 600 00 465 00 227 02 42 78 300 00 475 00 43 83 18,094 96

CLASSIS O F POUGHKEEPSIE

FichlMtl

52 139 80 10 32 15 346 100 700

14 12 80 00 16 00 00 00 00

5 00

25 00 25 00 9 33

1,608 64

25 00 35 00 25 00

9 33

5 00

00 00 00 00

335 00

25 00

75 00

25 35 31 201

360 00

77 179 105 10 32 40 371 100 1,060 177 31 2,183

14 12 80 00 16 00 00 00 00 75 00 97

CLASSIS O F R A R I T A N 107 09 255 03 35 00 83 45 40 00

69 25 11 37

99 00 82 05

5 00

15 00 32 50

24 12

9 43 14 46

30 00 Raritan, First, Somerville. . . . Raritan, Second, Somerville...

Union Meetings........... Total................

10 1,212 1,160 229 60 45

00 25 00 62 00 40

95 53 30 00 30 00

3,237 84

353 51

25 00 5 00 140 03 175 03

30 40 435 75 22 75 923 1,673

00 00 00 00 50 00 33 33

41 60 225 00 7 41 325 738

00 30 15 94

182 08 380 03 11 82 46 48 64 46 140 07 40 00 30 00 40 00 1,293 85 1,845 00 400 15 119 50 196 70 i,388 51 6,178 65

CHURCHES

Churches and M e n ’s Societies

Sunday Schools

Young People's Societies

Dept, of W o m e n ’s Work

Total

Special

CLASSIS O F R E N S S E L A E R 449 31 254 41 859 96

98 35 146 30

496 00 207 60 141 51

612 50

170 00

11 20

42 23

43 72 65 00 2.517 51 CLASSIS O F

899 38

11 20

77 30 50 120 60 10 20 10 10 43 600

00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 83 83

410 88 85 1 60 508 25

00 50 00 00 65 25 00

78 100 30 70 126 187 145 123 25 5 132 2.202

25 75 00 00 38 52 00 50 00 00 25 05

121 00 25 80 25 00 5 29 5 00

182 09

838 400 962 30 1.194 332 248 10 20 53 75 43 4,211

66 71 76 00 70 89 74 00 00 72 00 83 01

2,674 812 1,140 76 445 1,411 109 125 395 1.189 203 719 1,048 2,287 216 299 249 64 272 13,740

07 55 00 00 23 42 78 39 78 64 79 25 24 30 00 93 30 90 25 82

ROCHESTER 2,259 670 900 50 299 612 59

07 00 00 00 72 68 78

197 853 126 605 700 1.945 55 114 14 40

68 00 54 00 00 00 00 71 30 90

9,628 77

5 00 13 20 25 00 68 04 141 31 104 85 181 59 17 25 164 5 1 35 200

24 00

10 00

58 00 00 72 00

957 54

39 00

40 85 155 00 16 82 125 18 25 00 15 44 30 44 57 149 15 26 10 19 140 913

00 30 00 25 28 78 00 00 00 00 00 46

CLASSIS O F S A R A T O G A 55 00 62 50 10 00

230 00 52 98

52 26 4 00

80 250 146 125

16 00 61 00

20 00 56 03

10 00

884 75

128 29

14 00

40 45 37 22 20 125 417

00 00 50 00 00 00 00

70 20 27 120 70 70 105 40 40 295 125 170 70 20 50 165 178 1,635

00 00 50 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 42 92

55 00 10 00 20 00 22 89 66 29 35 00 209 18

340 00 62 50 125 24 20 00 66 89 125 16 317 50 290 93 180 00 125 00 1,653 22

CLASSIS O F SCHENECTADY 259 06

Schenectady, Mt. Pleasant. . .

Total................

34 635 491 130 515 151 225 1.800 1.259 800 160 250 ?.SQ 1,190

20 75 65 00 20 94 62 00 22 00 00 97 20 00

8.178 81

27 67 7 26

12 00 50 20

8 00 6 40

27 45

195 27

14 40

10 00 10 65 20 5 123 60 40 1,524 105 80

00 00 00 00 79 00 00 82 20 00

37 50 10 00 89 77 2.181 08

339 36 71 855 648 212 776 251 305 3.619 1,489 1,050 270 335 319 1,444 178 12,205

06 00 70 87 65 50 59 94 62 82 42 00 00 92 20 77 42 48

Churches and Men's Societies

Sunday Schools

Young People's Societies

Dept, of W o m e n ’s Work

Special

Total

CLA S SIS O F S C H O H A R I El Beaverdam........ Berne, First........ Howe's Cave, Second. Jay Gould Memorial.. Lawyersville........ Middleburgh....... North Blenheim.... Prattsville......... Schoharie.......... Sharon........... . Union Meetings..... Total..........

. . . . . .

89 13 14 11 783 ,58 132 00 200 00 10 00

16 22 5 00

42 38

10 00

1,302 72

48 40

. .

1.124 24 137 74

217 28 84 01

57 50 145 85 15 00

15 00 35 87 284 98

35 00

8o8

191 11

290 16 48 52 46 35 1,827

00 50 68 38 52 87 21

CLASSIS O F E A S T S I O U X Alton................ Archer............ ’*' Boyden............. Firth............... . ] Free Grace, Orange City. Holland, Nebraska..... Hospers.......... .... Ireton.............. ’' Hope, Lincoln......... Matlock.............. Melvin............... Newkirk............ ’ Orange City, First..... Pella................. Prairie View.......... Primghar............. Sanborn........... ’’[ Sheldon, First......... Sheldon. Bethel.. ...... Sibley................ Spencer.............. Worthington, American.. Union Meetings....... Total.............

377 876 4,481 904 90 66

66 31 71 70 10 98

103 1,239 2,854 753 675 109 141 1,762 434 509 52 912 601 19,653

75 88 75 52 62 67 06 07 07 75 98 94 03 30

718 614 854 322

73 90 63 50

100 50 50 260 1,063 142 70 71 321 655

00 00 00 00 00 15 78 28 37 00

436 44 16 00 139 68

36 34 40 00 105 34

122 5 425 15

50 00 00 00

113 00 42 80

287 50 300 00 80 00

59 90 55 00 oo 11 00 37 50

150 00 270 00 99 09

111 75 994 94 155 00

140 00 692 00 481 05

239 50 333 00 55 00

4 16

50 66

3 00

115 00

139 00

316 27

1,739 86 226 75 2,198 00 1,271 73 1,689 62 5.796 74 1.625 00 147 60 177 98 210 27 1,901 5,874 1,630 965 238 X^ 2,987

63 69 81 96 11 *T%J

42 00

6,187 75

145 14 1,162 87

100 00 1,227 41 4,351 40

833 78 561 31

100 00 5 00

275 43 72 33

’ 78 98 3,497 33

1,973 58 34,852 65

CLASSIS O F W E S T S I O U X Carmel.............. Denver, First......... Denver, Garden H o m e . . Denver, Montclair.... D o o n ............... Fairview............. Hull, American....... Hull, First........... Inw o o d.............. Lester............... Maurice............. Orange City, Trinity.... Rock Rapids......... Rock Valley.... ..... Sioux Center, First.... Sioux Center, Central... Sioux Falls........... Steen............... Valley Springs........ Union Meetings....... Total...............

1,347 88 1,575 62 28 12 171 66 517 2,994 614 96 1,065 1,739 596 1.400 7.833 3,725 377 661 64 2,370 27,245 27,245 #

85 26 53 05 27 32 21 48 99 00 36 00 00 70 01 97 62

79 54 1.325 1.200 102 35

00 00 89 00

117 200 700 3,410

19 00 00 56

16 00 10 00 25 00 13 41 113 00 195 00

477 41

225 00 405 00 15 00 160 74 250 1,285 228

47 00 00 08 00

832 13 4,731 75

3,529 46 2.419 01 87 50 252 64

70 28 670 83

9,306 38

972 37 204 75 20 85

55 73 1,292 10

2,139 26 ,091 13

....

203 50 125 462 207

86 00 00 00 84

1,585 2,221 934 2,588 13,186 4,160

^i 00 40 00 00 84

606 15 4,481 07

1,574 229 3,809 46,242

38 01 25 23

Churches and Men's Societies

Sunday Schools

Young People’s Societies

Dept, of W o m e n ’s Work

Special

Total

CLASSIS O F U L S T E R Btoomingdale........... Blue Mountain.......... Clove.................. Flatbush............... Gardiner............... Hurley................. Katsbaan............... Kingston. Fair Street..... Kingston. First.......... Kingston, Church of the Comforter............ Marbletown............. Marbletown. North...... N e w Paltz.............. Plattekill............... Port E w e n .............. Rochester............... Rosendale.............. Saint R e m y ............. Saugerties.............. Shandaken.............. Ulster Park............. Woodstock.............. Union Meetings......... Total..............

252 96 15 62 332 90 2 805 844

00 05 59 86 20 22 71

393 83 166 83 940 22 365 171

00 26 47 65

11 26

37 2 5 42

7 04

50 50 00 00

20 5 5 23

00 00 00 75

25 00

30 5 142 20

00 00 91 00

100 00 150 00 67 33 45 17

68 15 35 35

00 00 00 00

11 00

33 00 7 120 11 4

00 00 00 00

20 5 23 5 5 10 20 514

00 00 00 00 00 00 00 66

2.120 5 10 9 111 152 45

00 50 00 20 40 00 54

10 44 167 25

00 00 00 00

21 00

305 34 12 20

5 58

22 20

2 00

4,805 37

159 38

3,500 00 200 00

125 00 61 26

10 00 10 00 34 57 10 25 65 680

00 00 00 57

16 00

2,320 .45 12 5 120 320

00 00 50 00 00 00

5 36 21 36

51 66 150 230 138 30 59 3,547

00 50 00 00 00 00 93 93

291 249 157 564 87

85 60 84 70 50

17 186 375 97 155 475 262 40 130 155 75 340 107

50 00 00 50 00 00 35 00 50 00 00 00 90

321 7 25 134 312 145 7 1.048 1.014

72 50 00 84 59 86 20 13 71

562 227 42 1,095 33 380 192 ' 30 15 368 17 15 59 85 6,159

16 00 00 00 26 47 65 00 00 49 20 00 20 00 98

8,065 311 22 134 370 1,213 195 211 319 214 1,143 242 193 65 12,702

00 76 50 55 78 00 54 00 70 00 48 46 66 29 72

4,061 3.607 2,051 3,789 •432 74 156 1,426 2.527 3,213 3.292 1,578 3,090 517 547 2,491 1,314 3,862 1,553 80 4,286 43,956

80 24 71 44 05 27 31 64 22 30 11 52 78 66 03 75 99 90 60 20 91 43

CLASSIS O F WESTCHESTER Bronxville........... Cortlandtown........ Crescent Place..... ... Elmsford............ Greenville........... Hastings............. Hawthorne.......... Lincoln Park......... Mount Vernon....... Park Hill............ Tarry town, First...... Tarry town, Second.... Van Nest............ Union Meetings....... Total............

120 139 650 150 160 243

35 38 00 00 00 20

621 48 79 46 123 66 5,987 53

75 00

20 00 125 00 40 00 446 26

2,699 64

CLASSIS O F W I S C O N S I N Alto. Waupun............. Baldwin.................. Brandon, Bethel........... Cedar Grove.............. Clinton, Emma n u e l ........ Fond du Lac, Grace........ Forestville................ Friesland................. Gibbsville................ Greenleafton.............. Hingham................. Milwaukee. First......... . Oostburg. First........... Racine.................. Randolph................. Sheboygan, Hope.......... Sheboygan Falls........... Waupun, Firs'........... Waupun, Emman u e l ....... Wisconsin Rapids, Faith.... Union Meetings.......... Total...............

3,366 50 2.557 44 1.340 30 2,581 61 217 13 17 52 66 97 562 36 1.862 22 2.996 80 2,100 13 993 52 2.521 43 356 66 345 13 2,083 36 975 25 3,308 52 753 34 80 20 783 29 29,869 68

380 750 363 451 111

55 00 57 68 42

56 20 630 61 250 00 725 60 150 81 57

00 00 00 00 00

130 74 155 38 439 27

4,792 42

6 40 90 75 16 45

00 00 00 75

10 00 50 00 114 00 82 25 14 125 75

00 00 40 00 00

12 80 221 43 962 78

2,240 35 6,008 59

16 50 100 116

50 20 00 45

11 15 37 40 69 197 50 75 15

00 64 67 00 00 98 00 00 00

128 59 59 240

39 00 00 29

1,041 84 2,322 96

FINANCIAL STATEMENT

PARTICULAR SYN O D OF ALBANY Albany.... Greene..... Montgomery Rensselaer... Rochester__ Saratoga. . . . Schenectady. Schoharie__ Total. ..

5,595 720 3.718 2,517 9.628 884 8.178 1.302 32.546

57 03 31 57 77 75 81 72 47

323 59 339 899 957 128 195 48 2.951

92 61 35 38 54 29 27 40 76

PARTICULAR SYN O D OF CHICAGO Chicago..... 23.286 Grand Rapids. 41.556 Holland..... 47.518 Uliana...... 16.104 Illinois...... 9.575 Kalamazoo... 17.071 Lake Erie... 3.079 Muskegon.... 22.996 Wisconsin. ... 29,869 Total. . .. 211.057

76 02 04 12 10 85 01 93 68 51

5,181 8.529 16.557 6.385 1.675 6,256 562 5.179 4.792 55.120

70 22 35 48 85 82 68 34 42 86

876 74 773 102 179 33 25 277 962 3.303

7.875 3.749 8.379 5.621 7.997 17.188 12.449 19.653 27.245 110.160

51 49 69 86 16 39 33 30 62 35

1.717 1.023 852 1.124 1.415 6.895 1.852 6.187 9.306 30.374

48 52 06 04 43 58 72 75 38 96

366 59 353 546 43 1.162 477 3.009

PARTICULAR SYN O D OF N E W JERSEY Bergen...... South Bergen.. M o n m o u t h . ... Newark...... N e w Brunswick Palisades..... Paramus..... Passaic....... Philadelphia. .. Raritan...... Total.....

11.377 2.007 992 3.459 3.895 5.805 13.787 11.881 4,910 3.237 61.356

10 69 96 48 71 26 83 90 93 84 70

425 519 495 2.015 2.076 1.082 353 8.706

42 81 00 91 34 41 51 61

PARTICULAR SY N O D N E W YORK Hudson......... North Long Island South Long Island. N e w York...... Orange......... Poughkeepsie.... Ulster.......... Westchester..... Total.......

3.147 11.972 3.281 7.167 4.805 1.608 4.805 5.987 42.815

II 29 87 23 35 64 37 53 39

218 731 179 361 191 9 159 446 2.299

66 06 30 76 46 33 38 26 61

32.546 211.057 110.160 61.356 42.815 457.936

47 51 35 70 39 42

2.951 55.120 30.374 8.706 2.299 99,453

76 86 96 61 61 80

PARTICULAR SYN O D IOWA California.... Cascades..... Dakota....... Germania..... Minnesota.... Pella......... ■ Pleasant Prairie East Sioux.... West Sioux.... Total.....

T H E PARTICULAR SYNODS P. S. of Albany......... P. S. of Chicago........ P. S. of Iowa........... P. S. of N e w Jersey..... P. S. of N e w York...... Totals.............

35 80

1.397 209 1.303 600 2,202 417 1.635 284 8.051

97 65 14 83 05 00 92 98 54

426 250 764 182 913 209 2.181 191 5.517

16 00 39 89 04 10 00 39 78 75

1.557 5.824 7.024 3.418 2.718 3.006 626 3.684 6,008 33.871

98 78 98 63 59 49 79 24 59 07

30 13 11 87 63 87 41 32

2.188 731 1.863 1.270 1.595 4.154 1.452 4.351 4.731 22.338

78 64

11 20 39 00 14 00 14 40 193 04

02 05 41 09 46 18 08 11 40

8.179 1.239 6.203 4.211 13.740 1.653 12.205 1.827 49.260

28 34 85 01 82 22 48 21 21

9.225 6.342 7.125 1,381 1,070 3.224 551 3.002 2,322 34.247

72 40,128 41 62.326 11 78.998 15 27.392 54 15.219 95 29.593 91 4,845 66 35.140 96 43.956 41 337,600

32 43 87 27 12 21 39 56 43 60

14 92 82 55 00 19 00 40 75 77

1.725 373 1,592 465 398 4,926 2,297 3.497 4.481 19,757

60 13.506 15 5.878 90 13,054 65 8.541 08 11.758 30 33.711 28 18.094 33 34.852 07 46.242 36 185,640

73 08 77 23 78 33 96 65 23 76

2.814 700 160 1,714 1.855 1.995 2.209 1.360 622 1,673 15.106

49 00 76 23 60 65 67 00 50 33 23

1,198 269 207 594 629 788 1,902 2,790 672 738 9,791

38 41 00 75 36 28 06 17 85 94 20

16.856 3.280 1.360 6.198 6.941 9.101 19,943 18.225 7.301 6.178 95.388

35 13 72 68 68 49 67 21 49 65 07

529 2,295 2,941 8.561 1.423

00 74 71 83 13

321 00 1.240 24 688 45 805 84 1.108 52 360 00 514 66 2.699 64 7,738 35

4.215 16.252 7,091 17.073 7.528 2,183 6.159 12.702 •73,208

77 13 33 86 46 97 98 72 22

1.435 18 303 03

31 20 4 41 17 28 116 12 175 427

80 20 30 20 80 80 03 33

12 80 177*20 ’ 5 66

201 00

21 *36 216 36

680 57 3,547 93 20.180 91

193 3.303 3.009 427 216 7.149

04 75 32 33 36 80

8.051 33.871 22.338 15,106 20.180 99.548

54 07 77 23 91 49

5.517.40 49.260 21 34.247 41 337.600 60 19.757 36 185,640 76 9.791, 20 95.388 07 7.738 35 73.208 22 77,009 35 741,097 86

RECEIPTS OF T H E B O A R D SINCE 1857, IN PERIODS OF FIVE YEARS, W I T H TOTALS A N D AVERAGES Years Total, 1858-1862... Total. 1863-1867... Total, 1868-1872... Total. 1873-1877... Total. 1879-1882... Total. 1883-1887... 1888............ 1889............ 1890............ 1891............ 1892............ 1893............ 1894............ 1895............ 1896............ 1897............ 1898............ 1899............ 1900........... 1901-............ 1902............ 1903............ 1904............ 1905...... ..... 1906............ 1907............ 1908............ 1909............ 1910............ 1911............ 1912............ 1913............ 1914............ 1915............ 1916............ 1917............ 1918............ 1919............ 1920............ 1921............ 1922............ 1923............ 1924............ 1925............ 1926............ 1927............ 1928............ 1929............ 1930............ 1931............ 1932............ 1933............ 1934...... ..... 1935............ 1936............ 1937............ 1938............ 1939............ 1940............ 1941..... ...... 1942............ 1943............ 1944............ 1945. ........... 1946........... 1947........... 1948............ 1949............ 1950............

Receipts

Total for Five Years $134,055 *278,501 328.525 316.046 341,884 403,544

49 40 01 95 10 12

Average for Five Years $26,811 55,700 65,705 63,209 63.376 80,708

10 28 00 97 82 88

Increase

Decrease $2,495 63

$28,889 18 10,004 72

5,167 45 12,332 06 t!09.946 11 93,142 24 117,090 14 116,265 45 29,012 62 109,721 50 548,607 53 112.163 59 136,688 10 106,571 48 fll 1,288 00 154,139 42 14,238 27 123,959 77 111,111 89 619,798 89 124,301 18 126,838 36 147,213 78 173,204 12 23,934 12 147,893 89 167,911 73 739,469 17 158,894 94 142,474 79 150,239 94 174,464 74 13,167 51 161,061 40 805,307 01 179,232 60 197,468 26 205.372 64 207,404 59 282,231 86 74,287 94 235,349 34 1,176,746 71 284,269 36 255,838 47 321,942 58 300,752 52 309,419 86 298,081 29 62,731 95 1,490,406 45 302.453 02 325,292 08 345,462 82 478,614 66 593,942 88 437,699 07 139,617 78 445,182 90 2,188,495 34 562,450 49 544,808 39 532,146 69 553,364 00 540,749 38 103,050 31 510,977 32 2,703,746 89 507,584 64 606,572 00 518,626 45 575,735 90 536,727 50 4,021 88 475,118 51 2,683,637 50 309,835 41 296,064 90 316,832 72 277,148 83 303.910 54 232.816 96 1,519,552 73 319,670 87 338,485 51 306,176 78 323,422 50 329,097 74 335.064 82 31,154 28 1,675,324 14 378,141 61 341,266 56 395,399 74 434.853 87 519,903 57 471,457 43 136,392 61 665,863 44 2,357,287 18 864,021 20 774,652 94 821,482 95 597,119 04 792.083 68 320,626 25 903,142 25 3,960,418 38 1951.'..... .... 917,190 27 1952........... â&#x2122;ŚIn addition $56,500 were given by Mr. Warren Ackerman to remove the debt resting on the Board. {From 1895, receipts of the Arabian Mission are included, fin addition $45,335.06 were given for the Endowment of the Theological Seminary in the Arcot Mission, through the efforts of Rev. Jacob Chamberlain, D.D.

GIFTS

FROM

INDIVIDUALS

19 5 2 “A Friend” __________ $ 100.00 “A Friend” __________ 25.00 “A Friend” __________ 50.00 “A Friend” __________ 5,000.00 “A Friend” __________ 130.00 “A Friend—in Memoriam”.. 10.00 “A Friend—in Memory of her Parents” _______ 10.00 “A Friend of Missions” __ 250.00 “A Friend of Missions” __ 1.500.00 American Leprosy Missions, Inc___ __________ 297.50 Andersen, Miss Martha __ 20.00 Angell, Miss Jessie B.... 960.00 Arita, Mrs. F......... 18.00 Auringer, Mrs. A. L.... 50.00 Baby Roll Receipts ____ 2,462.03 Baker, Mrs. Philip _____ 5.00 Baldwin, Mrs. J. Frances_ 25.00 Beardslee, Rev. John, 3rd.... 5.00 Beckerink, Mr. & Mrs. E. N. 30.00 Benkema, Misses Wilma & Anna J.......... 10.00 Blauvelt, Miss May S.... 10.00 Blink, Mrs. S......... 5.00 Blount, Mrs. Clinton W .. 25.00 Boersma, Mr. & Mrs. Sam.. 200.00 Bosch, Mr. Frederick C. S., 5.00 Jr--- -----------Bownecroy, Mr. Jake ___ 10.00 Bratt, Miss Alice A..... 5.00 Broekema, Miss Ruth ___ 20.00 Brokaw, Miss Helen ___ 10.00 Burggraaff, Rev. Winfield, Th. D __ __________ 25.00 Burnier, Mr. Roger ____ 46.12 Business Women's Council of New York_______ 15.00 Busman, Mr. & Mrs. John.. 450.00 Calverley, Dr. Edwin E.. 44.10 Card, Miss Helen _____ 5.00 Carmen,: Mr. Andrew ___ 1.00 Christian Nurses’ Fellowship—Ann Arbor .. 7.00 Clark, Miss Maude ____ 5.00 Classmates of Dr. Galen Scudder ___ 2,704.50 Cobb, Mrs. Henry E.... 200.00 Coburn’s High School Class, Miss ________ 50.00 Cornelissen, Mr. William.. 140.00 Curtis, Mrs. Edward Ely_ 25.00 Curtis, Mr. Pierson ____ 50.00 Dalenberg, Miss Cornelia_ 5.00 Dame, Mrs. Louis P.... 10.00 Damsteegt, Mr. & Mrs. G. M. ___________ 55.00

De Jonge, Mrs. Willard _ $ 20.00 103.00 de Maagd, Miss Sarah___ Demarest, Mr. Percy ___ 500.00 den Ouden, Rev. John __ 50.00 100.00 Dethmers, Mr. Vernon L. De Vrede, Miss Edna C._ 10.00 De Vries, Mrs. Jessie___ 60.00 De Wolfe, Mrs. Martin__ 15.00 De Young, Mrs. A..... 5.00 Dilts, Mrs. F. B....... 5.00 Dimnent, Rev. Edward D., • Litt. D ----100.00 Dinger, Mrs. Bertha____ 2.50 Donker, Mr. & Mrs. Peter .. 100.00 6,000.00 Doris Duke Foundation__ Faught, Mrs. Amelia ___ 10.00 Flikkema, Rev. B. M .... 20.00 Flikkema, Mr. & Mrs. D . 30.00 Folensbee, Chaplain R. W. 50.00 Forbes, Chaplain R. G ... 5.19 Ford, Rev. Edwin S. — Through ---------490.00 Forell, Rev. F. G ...... 5.00 Fowler, Mrs. William ___ 8.00 “Friends of Arabia” ____ 100.00 Frostic, Mrs. F. W ..... 2.50 Gaston, Mrs. John _____ 50.00 Gies, Mrs. Howard S.... 5.00 Gifford, Miss Marie____ _ 5.00 Green, Miss Katharine R._ 125.00 Gustaevel, Miss Louise __ 2.00 Haenggi, Mr. & Mrs. Walter H .......... 1,200.00 Hakken, Mr. William T.. 50.00 Halstead, Miss Genevieve _ 35.00 Hammond, Mr. & Mrs. 25.00 A. W ...... Harper, Mrs. James ____ 5.00 Hartford Seminary Foundation ________ 20.00 Hawkins, Mrs. Ira _____ 4.00 Hegeman, Mrs. L. De M . 545.00 Hoffman, Rev. & Mrs. J. E. 50.00 Holland, Chaplain Paul E... 2.10 Hollebrands, Mr. & Mrs. J. J. ------------5.00 Holleman, Dr. & Mrs. C. H. 100.00 Holzinger, Mrs. Adelaide_ 10.00 2,025.00 Hope College Students __ Hopper, Mrs. Isabel ___ 10.00 Hotaling, Mr. Clifford __ 250.00 Houman, Mrs. Pauline & Katherine _______ 10.00 Houseman, Mr. Maurice _ 50.00 Howard, Mr. & Mrs. C... 5.00

Howard, Mrs. Leland L.. $ 20.00 Hudsonville High School Graduating Class ____ 125.87 Huisman, Mr. Fred ____ 10.00 Jackson, Miss Rachel___ 500.00 Jackson, Miss Ruth ____ 100.00 James, Mrs. M. Stephen _ 5.12 Johnson, Mr. Robert F... 50.00 Jurgenson, Dr. G. Earl __ 40.00 Kamp, Mrs. 'J- C...... 5.00 Kilgus, Miss Lillian ____ 25.00 Klahsen, Mrs. George ___ 2.50 Klerk, Dr. William J.... 250.00 Kooy, Mrs. P......... 10.00 Krahe, Mrs. Edith _____ 5.00 Lane, Mr. Howard S.... 15.00 Leuning, Mr. H. H ..... 100.00 Lott, Mrs. Reva M. ____ 36.00 Luben, Mr. Wayne W. __ 350.00 Luidens, Rev. Anthony __ 10.00 Macomber, Mr. & Mrs. L.„ 10:00 Madsen, Mrs. Pauline ___ 3.00 Marquis, Miss Sarah ___ 100.00 Mass Meeting Offering __ 331.60 McCleary, Miss Sara ___ 10.00 McKeith, Mr. David, Jr__ 10.00 Medina, Judge & Mrs. H _ 8.00 Meury, Mrs. Calvin ____ 5.00 Meury, Mr. & Mrs. E. W... 25.00 Moody Bible Institute ___ 9.25 Moore, Dr. Ruth Crouse__ 30.00 Moseley, Mr. Thomas ___ 25.00 Newton, Mrs. V___ ___ 100.00 Noordhoff, Miss Jeane___ 107.00 Norton, Mr. William J. __ 10.00 Oak Park Christian Reformed Church ___ 2.00 O ’Brien, Mrs. J. Richard _ 10.00 Olcott, Dr. & Mrs. Charles.. 100.00 Olcott, Dr. & Mrs. Mason_ 10.00 Open Meeting _______ 392.20 Orwig, Mrs. P. G..... 25.00 Ostendorf, Mrs. Carrie___ 12.50 Pennings, Rev. Marion __ 5.00 30.00 Perkins, Miss Agnes F... Plumsted Presbyterian Church __________ 55.00 Porter, Mr. & Mrs. Hughes 30.00 Potter, Rev. Francis E.__ 10.00 Potter, Rev. & Mrs. James H .......... 40.00 Punt, Mrs. Arie _______ 250.00 Reed, Mr. W. E....... 1,000.00 Reepmeyer, Mrs. William _ 5.00 Renzema, Mr. & Mrs. R. J... 50.00 Riggs, Mr. Arad_______ 50.00 Ron, Mrs. Marion Anderson 15.00 Roghair, Miss Harriet ___ 70.00 Romaine, Mr. Demarest _ 10.00

17.50 Romaine, Mr. Theodore _ Rose, Mr. & Mrs. John J_ 160.00 5.00 Sahler, Mrs. Almira E—__~ Sanson, Miss Kittie M .. . 25.00 Schalenkamp, Mr. & Mrs. 500.00 H. T............. 10.00 Scheidenhelm, Mrs. F. W... Schellenberg, Mr. Robert_ 175.75 5.00 Schoff, Mrs. Alyce Scudder Schoonhoven, Miss Jo Ann_ 30.00 Schrieber, Mrs. W. E .... 50.00 Schwager, Mr. & Mrs. A. W. 5.00 Sedgwick, Mr. C. G ..... 10.00 Sharer, Rev. & Mrs. L. J_ 25.00 Shaw, Miss Sarah R.... 25.00 45.00 Sheppard, Mrs. Edgar F_ 35.00 Spillman, Mr. Ramsay___ Spitler, Miss Edith ____ 3.00 Springsteen, Mr. Howard_ 324.45 Staff of R. C. A. Headquarters ______ 78.00 Stegeman, Mr. H. P.... 2,000.00 Stegeman, Rev. & Mrs. H. V. E__ ________ 50.00 Sterk, Mr. & Mrs. Peter_ 100.00 Stickney, Mr. & Mrs. A. J._ 25.00 Stroven, Miss Frances___ 15.00 Stryker, Miss Florence___ 5.00 Sturmson, Mrs. J. Ross __ 40.00 Sybesma, Miss Adeline __ 30.00 Taylor, Miss Minnie ___ 600.00 TePaske, Mr. Maurice ___ 50.00 TeWinkel, Miss Sarella __ 100.00 Tillman, Mrs. G. H .... 50.00 Titus, Dr. M. T_______ 5.00 Top, Mr. Willard D .... 15.00 Trinitarian Cong. Church, E. Northfield, Mass. __ 10.00 Tucker, Mrs. K. T. T... 5.00 Van Seek, Mr. Andrew__ 110.00 Vande Berg, Rev. Harold.... 20.00 Van den Berg, Mrs. John_ 3.00 Vander Meer, Mrs. Alma_ 10.00 Van der Ploeg,Rev.Herman 10.00 Van der Ploeg, Miss Jeanette _______ 100.00 Van Dyk, Rev. F. J.... 100.00 Van Engen, Rev. & Mrs. Garold ___________ 75.00 Van Etten, Miss Mary___ 6.00 Van Name, Mrs. Raymond D ___ ____________ 50.00 Van Nouhuys, Mrs. J. L._ 5.00 Van Putten, Mr. Gerrit __ 100.00 Van Strien, Mrs. John J.. 13.00 Van Totenhove, Mr. John .. 100.00 Van Wagoner, Mrs. Marion P..... ..... 7.00 Vande Zande, Mrs. Maurice 5.00

Verhage, Miss Nellie B .. $ 100.00 Vermeer, Mr. Jake G .... 250.00 Vemoy, Mr. & Mrs. S. B.. 40.00 Wamshuis, Rev. & Mrs. A. L ______ 115.55 Wamshuis Foundation, Margaret Chambers ___ 200.00 Watkins, Mrs. Elsie M ... 150.00 Wayer, Rev. & Mrs. James.. 100.00 Weaver, Mrs. James S.. . 1,000.00 Weber, Mrs. Jane ______ 100.00 Wesselink, Mr. H. H .... 10.00 Wieland, Miss Susanna E... 1.00

Williams, Miss Ruth C ... $ Williamson, Rev. & Mrs. John _____________ Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Assembly _____ Wyckoff, Miss Cornelia__ Wyckoff, Mrs. George ___ Wysner, Miss Glora ____ Youth Conferences Brewton, Alabama ____ Camp Foster II ______ Camp Geneva _______ Pilgrim Park ________ Rocky Mountain______

20.00 1.00 75.10 15.00 10.00 5.00 64.00 88.60 331.05 225.68 38.17

$40,362.43

L E G A C I E S From the Estate of

From the Estate of

John I. Boyce_______ $ 2,964.66 Lorena Cook ....... 250.00 Marie D. S. Crispell __ 100.75 George D. Hulst _____ 125.72 Eunice A. Lepeftak ___ 181.24 Cornelius Paauwe ____ 300.00 Elizabeth A.Quackenbush 10,189.92 31.73 John H. Raven ______

Jane A. Scardefield __ _ $ 127.11 Joseph H. Skillman ___ 100.00 Susan Van Der Veen _ 200.00 Sarah H. Van Nest ___ 25,000.00 Anne H. Wilson _____ 500.00 Jane Livingston Wilson.. 500.00 Samuel M. Zwemer ___ 1,662.71 $42,233.84

SUGGESTION

FOR

LEGACIES

Some of our work is made possible by the gifts of friends who have incorporated in their legacies a lifetime interest in missions. For any who would like to make suitable provisions in their wills the following form of bequest is suggested: I give and bequeath to B O A R D O F F O R E I G N MISSIONS O F T H E R E F O R M E D C H U R C H IN A M E R I C A ______ ______________________________________Dollars for the general uses and purposes for which said Board was incorporated.

Further information upon request

THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS, R. C. A. Auditors' Statement

April 7. 1953. The Board of Foreign Missions, R. C. A., 156 Fifth Avenue, N e w York 10. N. Y. Gentlemen: W e have examined financial statements of The Board of Foreign Missions. R. C. A., for the year ended December 31, 1952. These statements accompany this report and are marked Exhibits ••A.” " B ” and " C ” and Schedules #1, #2 and #3. In connection with our examination of the financial statements we obtained confirmations of cash balances on deposit, counted petty cash on hand and examined documents relating to or obtained confirmation of all investments. W e received letters of confirmation from the custodian bank as to securities in safekeeping and from servicing agents with respect to certain mortgage investments. W e also obtained letters confirming certain investment documents held by others and examined other documents on hand in the Board’s office. W e examined or tested the accounting records to the extent we deemed appropriate and made a general review of the accounting methods, but we did not make a detailed audit of the accounts. W e did not attempt to determine that all items of credits for revenue and charges for expenditures had been entered in all cases in the appropriate accounts, or that there had been compliance with all conditions and restrictions under which funds have been received. Investments of the Board at December 31, 1952, including deposits in various savings institu tions. are listed on Schedule #2. The amounts shown on this Schedule for "current value" of certain investments at or near December 31, 1952 have been based on available published informa tion except as noted on Schedule #2. These valuations are not intended to represent the actual amounts realizable upon sale of the securities. A statement of revenue, charges against revenue and other changes in Fund balances for the year ended December 31, 1952, is presented on Exhibit "A.” This statement does not include receipts and disbursements of funds handled solely as accommodations; such accommodation transactions are shown only on Exhibit " C ”. For the past two years, the Board has included in its record of transactions for the respective years certain amounts actually received and disbursed in the early part of the month of January of the succeeding year, on the basis that such amounts represented principally collections by the local churches or other items which were at the year-end in transit to the Board or expenses re lating to the respective years. Thus, the 1951 accounts included January 1952 receipts aggregating $214,122.54 (representing collections $151,439.71, legacies $44,735.42, designated gifts $11,214.48, and sundry items $6,732.73) and January 1952 expenditures aggregating $6,781.63. The 1952 accounts, accordingly, do not include such receipts and disbursements; they do include, however, revenues aggregating $118,105.99 which, we are informed, represent collections by the local churches in 1952 received by the Board in January 1953. The 1952 account for "Collections” is therefore reasonably comparable with the 1951 account, but certain other 1952 revenue accounts (for ex ample, "Income from Funds held by Board of Direction, R. C. A.") do not represent receipts for a full year. In our opinion, the accompanying financial statements, when considered in conjunction with the foregoing paragraph, fairly present a summary of the Board’s revenue and related charges and other changes in Fund balances for the year ended December 31, 1952 and its financial con dition as at that date, in accordance with accounting principles applied on a basis consistent, except as noted in the foregoing paragraph, with that of the preceding year. Respectfully yours, LOOMIS, S U F F E R N & F E R N A L D Certified Public Accountants

THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS^ R. C. A. Statement of Revenue, Charges Against Revenue and Other Changes in Fund Balances For the Year Ended December 31, 1952 REVENUE Revenue allocated to General Fund: Collections.................

$679,085.26

Income from invested Funds (general): Security F u n d ....................................... Trust and General Funds............................. Income from Funds held by Board of Direction, R. C. A.: Trust Funds— Board of Foreign Missions, R. A. C. designated as beneficiary................................... M. A. Quick Memorial Fund..........................

2,515.47 22,160.00

24,676.07

198.75 6,859.06

7,057.81 7,672.50 757.98

Matured conditional gifts (annuities) transferred to General Fund Miscellaneous income....................................

$719,249.62

Total of above revenue allocated to General Fund. . Revenue allocated to other Funds: Income from invested Funds: For specific mission work............................. For annuities on conditional gifts....................... For missions........................................

S 12,561.47 3,204.22 842.86

16,608.55

Income from investments— Pension Reserve Funds....................... Legacies for general purposes.............................. S 14,644.33 Legacies for special purposes.............................. 27,589.51

42,233.84

Designated gifts— Exhibit " C ”: ^ Gifts and sundry credits.............................. * Income from investments.............................

$134,567.43 2,292.54

C H A R G E S AGAINST R E V E N U E Charges allocated against General Fund revenue: Mission work: African Mission..................................... A m o y Mission................ Arabian Mission..................................... Arcot Mission....................................... Japan Mission....................................... United Mission in Mesopotamia........................

S 36,325.13 91,952.08 155,332.79 149,546.91 106,580.21 12,000,00 $551,737.12

H o m e expenditures— Schedule # 1 .......................... 131,185.70 Overseas travel of secretaries.............................. 825.37 Contributions to missionary associations.................... S 29,364.20 Expenditures re other Funds met from General Fund: Annuity payments in excess of income received from invest 890.90 ments of Conditional Gifts........................

$10,456.08 13,000.00 22,500.00 14,350.00

60,306.08

Total of above charges allocated against General Fund revenue............... ............

$774,309.37

E X H I B I T “A ”

136,859.97 $917,190.27

Total of above revenue

General Fund appropriations: For contingencies not provided for in original budget.............................. For remittances to colleges and schools in India. For Missionary residences.................. For future projects................ ’.......

2,238.29

Charges allocated against revenue of other Funds: Expenditures of income from invested Funds held for specific work: Remitted to missions from Trust Fund income........... Payments of annuities on Conditional Gifts.............. Disbursement of general purpose legacies.................... Disbursement of special purpose legacies.................... Disbursement of Designated Gifts— Exhibit “C " .............

$ 20,139.05 3,204.22 25.5S2.49 21,878.55 129,520.56

Total of above charges...................................

$974,634.24

Excess of above charges against revenue over revenue— Year ended December 31, 1952.............................

$ 57,443.97

O T H E R C H A N G E S IN F U N D

BALANCES

Increases: Special purpose Trust Fund received as legacy............... Principal receipt— general purpose Trust Fund ............... Mission Fund received as legacy........................... Other Principal receipts— Mission Funds.................... Profit on sales of investments allocated to special purpose Trust Funds....................... Net profits on sales of investments applied to unallocated gains and losses realized on investments......................

$ 25,000.00 100.00 127.11 5,719.95 3,841.70 19,642.42

$ 54,431.18

$ 13,760.00 25,127.11 7,672.50

46,559.61

Decreases: Mission Funds remitted............ ...................... Legacies transferred to Trust Funds or Missions Funds........ Conditional gifts transferred to General Fund— matured annuities

Net increase in Funds other than from Revenue and Charges against Revenue. .....................................

Total net decrease in Funds and invested reserve.

$ 49,572.40

7,871.57

A L L O C A T I O N O F F O R E G O I N G C H A N G E S IN F U N D B A L A N C E S

Increase

Decrease

Net Increase (Decrease)

$719,249.62 12,561.47 3,204.22 842.86 2,238.29 14.644.33 27,589.51 136,859.97

$774,309.37 20,139.05 3,204.22 — — 25,582.49 21,878.55 129,520.56

$(55,059.75)* (7,577.58) — ' 842.86 2,238.20 (10,938.16) 5,710.96 7,339.41

$917,190.27

$974,634.24

$(57,443.97)

Revenue and charges against revenue: General F u n d ..................... Trust Funds— accumulated income... Conditional Gifts— accumulated income Mission Funds— accumulated income... Pension Reserve Funds............. Legacies for general purposes........ Legacies for special purposes........ Designated Gifts..................

Other changes: Special purpose Trust Funds................. General purpose Trust F u n d ................. Mission Funds............................. Special purpose legacies transferred........... Conditional Gifts........................... Unallocated gains and losses realized on investments

$ 28,841.70 100.00 5,847.06 — —

19.642.42

— —

13,760.00 25,127.11 7,672.50 —

$ 28.841.70 100.00 (7,912.94) (25,127.11) (7,672.50) 19,642.42 $(49,572.40)

* Net decrease charged to General Fund account. EXHIBIT "A”

THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS, R. C. A. Balance Sheet December 31, 1951 ASSETS Cash in banks and on hand.............................................. Investments— Schedule #2: Bonds (other than real estate mortgage bonds), corporate stocks and Federal Savings and Loan shares— at book value (value based on published information, at or near December 31. 1952— $1,318,698.75).................. $1,233,301.10 Mortgages, real estate, etc.— at book value............... 126,499.84 Deposits in savings institutions in N e w York, N. Y ........ 23.185.50 Accounts receivable and sundry advances: Collections by churches prior to December 31, 1952........ Amount on deposit with investment custodian............ Payments for account of missionaries and others........... Philippine suspense account................... Accounts receivable for funds transmitted or disbursed as accommodations— Exhibit “C ” ..................... Advances for account of officer.......................... Sundry account receivable.............................

137,116.85

1,382,986.44

118,105.99 5,328.19 21,726.26 5.800.00 4,718.09 9,500.00 300.00

165,478.53

Suspense account and emergency funds— Arabian Mission.................... Miscellaneous deferred charges and prepaid expenses........................

4,828.66 5,480.84 $1,695,891.32

LIABILITIES A N D F U N D B A L A N C E S Taxes withheld from salaries.................... f .f.............. Unremitted funds handled as accommodations— Exhibit “C ” ....... Unremitted balance due A m o y Mission— unsettled accounts........ Balances due missionaries.............. ....................... Income on investments— deferred............................... Miscellaneous accounts payable............... ••................. Reserves for estimated future requirements: 2,136.10 Pension refunds received— application deferred............ $ 892.25 Insurance contingencies................ ,.............. 104,783.89 Other future projects..................................

Funds: Funds held for special purposes: Trust Funds— Schedule #3.... Conditional Gifts (unmatured annuity funds)— Schedule #3 Mission Funds............. Designated Gifts— Exhibit " C ” Pension Reserve Funds...... Special purpose legacies.....

Accumulated income

Principal and funded revenue

$20,196.22$369,040.26 3,960.61

$24,156.83

1,408.44 977.52

22,000.00 9,632.91 2,222.74 24.55

107,812.24

Total

$ 389,236.48

79,550.00 39,536.93 199.497.19 108.973.44 25,524.99

79,550.00 43.497.54 199,497.19 108,973.44 25,524.99

$822,122.81

$ 846,279.64

Funds available for various purposes within regular budget: Trust Funds— Schedule # 3 ............. $532,251.47 Security F u n d ........................ 71,622.69 General purpose legacies............... 70,048.67 Total of Funds (other than General Fund).... General Fund: $ 66,371.40 Balance, January 1, 1952........... Deduct— Excess of 1952 revenue charges over revenue for 1952.......... 55,059.75 Add— Unallocated net profit realized from sales of investments

673.922.83 $1,520,202.47

11,311.65 $1,531,514.12 20,298.80

1,551,812.92 $1,695,891.32

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THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS, R. C. A. Statement of Home Expenditures For the Year ended December 31, 1952 Account books, stationery and supplies................. Annual report................................... . •• Arabia Calling (publication)....................... . Audio-visual education.......................... . .. Audit of Board accounts............................. Bookkeeping, accounting supervision and systems work. . .. Books purchased.................................... Circulars and miscellaneous printing................... Department of Children's W o r k ....................... Department of W o m e n ’s Work— Joint Committee expenses. Expense— Field Secretary............................ Miscellaneous expense............................... Office furniture and repairs........................... Officers’ salaries: F. M. Potter, Treasurer and Secretary............. L. J. Shafer— Secretary.......................... Ruth Ransom— Secretary........................ Barnerd M. Luben— Field Secretary............... Edwina Paige— Associate Treasurer................ J. Muilenburg— Assistant Secretary................ Office and other salaries.............................. Pamphlets and leaflets....................... *....... Payment to retirement fund for office workers.......... . Payments to Mrs. F. M. Potter under special appropriation Pensions.......................................... Postage, telegrams and cables..................... .. .. Rent and care of N e w York Office..................... Social security taxes................................. Staff Conference— Stated Clerk of General Synod........ Summer Conference.-................................ Telephone expense................................. Travel expense among churches and conferences......... Travel of Board members and annual meeting expense.... Youth Department................................. Total— Exhibit " A ”

1,081.64 1,349.30 267.40 1,915.55 1.475.00 1.160.00 569.64 1,216.70 2,765.60 10,518.10 905.94 1,075.34 981.33 5,000.00 3.125.00 6,899.99 6,584.24 4.700.00 300.00 29,929.44 9,737.36 2,013.49 2.500.00 1,279.92 2,444.38 5.666.52 636.35 5,112.96 388.92 1.761.29 5.083.29 7.638.01 5.103.00

$131,185.70

THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS, R. C. A. Statement of Investments December 31, 1952 BONDS (OTHER T H A N

R E A L E S T A T E M O R T G A G E BONDS) Current value (see note below) United States Government bonds and other obligations: ------------Treasury certificates of indebtedness: 2 4 M Series A, 1 ^ % . due February 15, 1953........ S 24,006.70 S O M Series C, 2 % , due August 15, 1953............ 79,992.40 Treasury bond— Investment Series B. SOM, 2j^%, due April 1, 1980........................ Treasury bonds— other: 112M 2 \ 4 % , due June 15. 1962............ 5 3 M 2 H % . due December 15, 1972....... 1 M . 2 ^ % , due June 15. 1972............

Savings bonds— Series F : $42,500 due April 1954. 25 “ August 1955.. . 500 “ September 1955 25 “ November 1955 250 “ April 1956.... 500 " December 1956 25 " October 1957. . 25 “ November 1957 25 “ February 1958.

48.500.00(4) 108.864.00 50,424.20 951.40

40.162.50(0 22.50(0 450.00(0 22.50(0 221.75(0 437.00(0

Savings bonds— Series G. 2J£%: 1 5 M due July 1953................. August 1953.............. 5M October 1953.............. 3M December 1953............ 10M $11,500 March 1954............... 19M April 1954................ 33M July 1954................. $100 August 1954.............. ISM December 1954............ 15M February 1955............ 10M March 1956............... 5M April 1956................ 10M November 1956........... 7M June 1957................ January 1959............. 75M 25M March 1959...............

......... ......... ......... ......... ........ ......... ........ ......... ......... ........ ........ ......... ......... ......... ......... .........

Other bonds: 1 5 M Aluminum Co. of America— sinking fund deb., 2 ^ % . due 1961.....:...:............. $3,600 American Tel. & Tel. Co.— conv. deb., 2 % % , due 1961............................. 2 0 M Australia, Commonwealth of— external loan of 1925, 5%, due 1955.................... 2 0 M Canada, Dominion of, series L4— 4th Victory Loan, 3%, due 1957................... 5 M Central Illinois Public Service Co.— 1st mtge., A. 3 H % , due 1971.................... 2 0 M Chicago & Western Indiana R. R. Co.— 1st sinking fund, A. 45^%, due 1982......... 2 5 M D o w Chemical Co.— conv. sub-deb., 3 % , due 1982................................. 1 M Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Rwy. Co.— 1st mtge., A, 3 K % , due 1970....................... 10 M Illinois Bell Tel. Co.— 1st mtge., A., 25^%, due 1981............................. E X H I B I T ‘'B'’ Schedule #2

Book value S 24,015.09 80,025.00 51,178.50 113.406.44 54.249.39 990.27

21.20(0 21.20(0 20.88(0

31,450.00 18.50 370.00 18.50 185.00 370.00 18.50 18.50 18.50

14,790.00(0 4.930.00(1) 2,958.00(1) 9.860.00(1) 11.293.00(1) 18,658.00(1) 32,307.00(1) 97.90(0 14,685.00(0 14.640.00(0 9,700.00(0 4.850.00(1) 9,670.00(0 6,748.00(0 71,400.00(0 23,800.00(1)

15.000.00 5,000.00 3,000.00 10,000.00 11,500.00 19,000.00 33.000.00 100.00 15.000.00 15.000.00 10,000.00 5,000.00 10,000.00 7,000.00 75,000.00 25,000.00

$604,505.13

$614,932.19

$ 15.356.25

$ 15,000.00

4.149.00

3,998.32

20.200.00

21,513.75

19.700.00

18.530.00

5.075.00

5,056.25

21.175.00

20.420.00

27,187.50

25.375.00

1.030.00

1,016.50

9.300.00

10,112.50

Current value (see note below)

Book value

Other bonds:

5 M Koppers Co.— 1st mtge.. 3%. due 1964...... 1 6 M Michigan Consolidated Gas Co.— sinking fund deb., 3 H % , due 1967.................. 5 M Ohio Edison Co.— 1st mtge.. 2 % % , due 1975.. $800 Public Service Electric & Gas Co.— deb., 6%. due 1998....................... ..... 1 3 M Rochester Telephone Corp.— sinking fund deb., 4%. due 1963......................... 2 0 M Standard Oil of Indiana, conv. deb., $ % % • due 1982............................. 2 0 M Twin City Rapid Transit Co.— collateral trust, 4%. due 1964......................... 2 M Wilson & Co., Inc.— 1st mtge., 3%, due 1958..

C O RPORATE STOCKS 2 shs. Anglo-Lautaro Nitrate— class A. 5 Anglo-Lautaro Nitrate— class B ........ 150 American Investment Co. of 111., 5.25 % pfd. 300 American Automobile Insurance C o ..... 100 Central Vermont Public Service Corp.— 4.15% pfd........................ 500 Chicago Great Western Railway Co.— 5 % pfd.......................... 200 C. I. T. Financial Corp................ 100 Consolidated Natural Gas Co.......... 276.913 Creditors Holding Co., Inc.— 6 % pfd.... 200 E. I. duPont de Nemours & C o ......... 250 General Dynamics Corp.— $2.00 conv. pfd. 300 General Shoe Corp.................... 100 General Telephone Co. of Illinois— $5.50 pfd. 100 Idaho Power Co...................... 300 International Nickel Co. of Canada, Ltd.. . 175 International Nickel Co. of Canada, Ltd., 7 % pfd......... ,................ 300 Marine Midland Corp.— 4 J ^ % conv. pfd. 200 M a y Department Stores— $3.40 pfd..... 50 Monongahela Power Co.— 4.40% cum. pfd. 200 National Cash Register Co............. 600 Norwich Pharmacal C o ................ 50 Ohio Edison Co.— 4.40% pfd........... 50 Oklahoma Natural Gas Co.— series A, 4 ^ % p f d ........................ 200 Pacific Gas & Electric Co.— 6%, 1st pfd... 120 Peoples Gas, Light and Coke C o ........ 200 Phillips Petroleum C o ................. 3 Prudence-Bonds Corp................. 200 Public Service Co. of Indiana— 3 V 6 % pfd. 500 Royal Dutch Company— N. Y. shares. ... 200 Scranton Electric— 3.35% pfd.......... 200 Sears Roebuck & Co.................. 400 Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., Inc........... 100 Tennessee Gas Transmission Co.— 5.10% pfd.............................. 500 Transcontinental Gas Pipeline.......... 50 Travelers Insurance Co................ 300 Union Carbide & Carbon Corp......... 210 United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. .... 250 United States Pipe & Foundry C o ....... 150 Wheeling and Lake Erie Rwy. C o .......

2M 2M 3M 3M

Aurora Cayuga Chicago Colonial

5 M Danielson 2 M East End 2 M First

4,975.00 16,260.00 4,762.50

5,100.00 16,261.60 5,031.25

1.176.00

800.00

13.000.00

13.260.00

22.450.00

21.300.00

17.600.00

16.200.00

2.010.00

2,000.00

$205,406.25

$200,975.17

15.501 .62/ 15.600.00 15.600.00

62.50 15,000.00 12,600.00

8,200.00

9,275.48

16.625.00 15.000. 00 5.800.00 — (3) 19.325.00 11.375.00 13.237.50 9.300.00 4.650.00 13.912.50

9.274.35 9,019.58 12.090.00 10.001.06 4,273.13 10,826.91

23.275.00 16.800.00 17.050.00 4.700.00 11.325.00 12.300.00 5,287.50

23,459.05 15.703.12 16.568.50 5.175.00 6,710.97 10.411.50 5.150.00

2.525.00 6.650.00 16.200.00 12.650.00

2.625.00 6.900.00 11,297.24 6.856.77

16.650.00 13.437.50 15.700.00

16.768.70 14.937.50 16.300.00 11,012.96 8,558.21

—

14,665.65 9,661.60 4,475.99

1.00

(3)

12.000.

1.00

15.050.00 9.800.00 11.125.00 38.500.00 21.487.50 13.965.00 9,843.75 18.825.00

10.200.00

$473,787.37

$382,393.74

F E D E R A L SAVINGS A N D L O A N ASSOCIATION I N V E S T M E N T S H A R E CERTIFICATES $ 2,000.00(2) al Savings & Loan Ass’n, Baltimore, M d .... 2,000.00(2) .......... “ Philadelphia, Pa.... 3,000.00(2) “ “ “ “ Chicago, 111....... “ “ “ “ Dongan Hills, S. I.. 3,000.00(2) N. Y .......... 5,000.00(2) .......... “ Danielson, Conn— 2,000.00(2) “ “ “ “ Pittsburgh, Pa.... ............." Greene County, 2,000.00(2) . Waynesburg, Pa.. E X H I B I T "B" Schedule #2

11.562.50 15,030.86 9.505.01 8.612.78 10.063.12 17.756.70

2,000.00 2,000.00 3,000.00 3,000.00 5,000.00 2,000.00 2,000.00

F E D E R A L SAVINGS A N D L O A N ASSOCIATION I N V E S T M E N T S H A R E C E R T I F I C A T E S — Continued Current value (see note below) 2 M Liberty Federal Savings & Loan Ass’n. Baltimore. M d . . 2 M Penn '• ............. Philadelphia. Pa. 2 M Public " *' " “ “ Philadelphia. Pa.

2.000.00 (2) 2.000.00(2) 2.000.00 (2)

$ 35,000.00 Total bonds (other than real estate mortgage bonds), corporate stocks and Federal Savings Loan Association investment shares— Exhibit “B ” ........................ \ . $1,318,698.75

Book value

2,000.00 2.000.00 2,000.00

$ 35,000.00

$1,233,301.10

NOTE: Current value shown in the foregoing has been based on available published quotations at or near December 31, 1952, except those indicated by references as follows: (!) Value based on official published redemption table— amount as at December 31, 1952. (2) Valued at cost based on information as to guarantee of invest ment toy Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation. (3) Current value not shown inasmuch as published price at or near December 31, 1952 not available. (4) Not marketable. Exchangeable for marketable 1 M % five-year Treasury notes and value is based thereon.

MORTGAGES Crossway Highway. Glen Cove. L. I., N. Y .................. 3332 Fish Avenue, Bronx, N. Y ............................ Franconia A^venue & 45th Avenue. Flushing. L. I., N. Y ....... 2066 Mapes Avenue. Bronx, N. Y .......................... 448 N e w Jersey Avenue, Brooklyn. N. Y .................... 1895 Park Avenue, N e w York, N. Y ........................ 27 Stoner Avenue. Great Neck. L. I., N. Y .................. 6116 Tyndall Avenue, Bronx, N. Y ......................... 79-85 Walworth Street, Brooklyn, N. Y ..................... 529 Third Street. Brooklyn, N. Y .......................... 1058 East 14th Street, Brooklyn, N. Y ...................... 342 West 30th Street. N e w York. N. Y ..................... 69-32 75th Street, Middle Village. N. Y ..................... 1413 78th Street, Brooklyn. N. Y .......................... 27 West 93rd Street, N e w York, N. Y ...................... 357 West 117th Street. N e w York, N. Y ..................... 160 West 120th Street, N e w York. N. Y .................... 519-21 East 136th Street, Bronx, N. Y ...................... 38-31 218th Street, Bayside, L. I., N. Y ..................... One-third interest in mortgage owned jointly with the Board of Domestic Missions: 4080 Hill Avenue, Bronx, N. Y .....................

Maturity dates

Book value

Apr. 1, 1956 Matured Jan. 31, 1954 Matured Matured Apr. 1. 1953 Apr. 30, 1954 July 1. 1954 June 1, 1956 July 1, 1961 Matured Jan. 31. 1962 Matured Matured Mar. 1. 1954 Oct. 1, 1955 Jan. 1, 1958 Apr. 1, 1953 In instalments to 1955

$ 10,500.00 5.450.00 3.350.00 650.00 2.750.00 729.39 3.025.00 11.825.00 11.150.00 9,616.26 4,083.75 24,431.14 1.090.00 3.340.00 882.37 2,168.51 3.591.67 9.200.00 1,103.69

Matured

466.66 $109,403.44

MORTGAGE

B O N D S A N D CERTIFICATES Book value

N e w York Title & Mortgage Co.— ctf. #3516. series Q ......... 2 M N e w York Towers. Inc.— stamped $800 paid. 2 % , due Feb. 1. I960, reg.. with stock attached.......................... Nassau-Suffolk Bond & Mortgage Gte. Co.— sundry certificates, book value of which has been liquidated..................

145.00 1,201.40

$ 1,346.40

REAL ESTATE Kollen property— Holland. Michigan......................... 917 South Westnedge Avenue, Kalamazoo. Michigan........... 1848 Godfrey Avenue. S. W.. Grand Rapids, Michigan..........

$ 3,750.00 4,500.00 7,500.00 $15,750.00

MISCELLANEOUS {In the absence o f a suitable basis for valuation these h av e been recorded in the b ooks at n o value)

Recorded in prior years: Mortgage participation certificate of Irving Trust Co., for $153.52— mortgage of Minsker Realty Co., on premises at 240}^ East Houston Street. N e w York, N. Y .......... One-half interest in $2,000 note and mortgage on property at 24 Beach Street, Nutley. N. J....................... Trustee’s certificate of the First State Bank. Holland, Michigan for $2.96 and receiver’s certificate of People’s State Bank, Holland. Michigan for $42.60........................ One-third of one-sixth undivided interest in various investments in the estate of George D. Hulst..................... One-quarter.interest in $3,025 mortgage on property at 136-11 35th Avenue. Flushing, N. Y ........................ One-half interest in $3,443.96 mortgage on property of Marie Buckley. East side of Route 304, Clarkstown, N. Y .....

— — — — — —

—

Total mortgages, real estate, etc. (at book value)— Exhibit “ B". ..

126,499.84

D E P O S I T S IN S A V I N G S I N S T I T U T I O N S IN N E W Y O R K , N. Y. The Bank for Savings...................................... Excelsior Savings Bank .................................... Union Square Savings Bank ................................

$10,087.91 8,617.94 4,479.65

Total deposits in savings institutions— Exhibit “B ” .............

23,185.50

Total investments— Exhibit " B ” .............................

$1,382,986.44

THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS, R. C. A. Statement of Fund Balances Trust Funds and Conditional Gifts December 31, 1952 Accumulated income Trust Funds: Held for special purposes: Designated for use in China: A m o y Hospital F u n d .................. $ Elisabeth H. Blauvelt Memorial Hospital F u n d ............................ C. H. U. Bed Endowment Fund— Blauvelt Hospital......................... Mary B. Doolittle F u n d ................ G. J. Kooiker Bed Endowment Fund— A m o y Hospital.................... Netherlands Committee F u n d ........... Martha Schaddelee Fund— Sio-Khe Hospital Mary E. Talmage Fund ................ Jasper Westervelt Fund— Neerbosch Hos pital............................. John H. Oerter Memorial F u n d ......... Designated for use in India: Arcot Industrial School Fund ........... Children’s Home. Vellore............... Mary Lott Lyles Hospital F u n d ......... Scudder Memorial Hospital. Ranipettai: General Purpose F u n d ............. Isaac Brodhead Fund.............. Eliza M. Garrigues Fund........... Alida Vennema HeevenFund........ Euphemia Mason Olcott Fund....... Dr. George A. Sandham F u n d ....... Mary Taber Schell Hospital Fund ....... Elizabeth R. Voorhees College Fund..... C. L. Wells Memorial F u n d ............ Designated for use in Arabia: Fund for Medical Missionary Work in * „ Arabia........................... Oliver J. Hayes Memorial Fund— medical missionary work in Arabia.......... Bahrain Hospital Funds— Arabia: General Purpose F u n d ............. Alfred D e W. Mason, Jr. F u n d ...... Fanny W. Mason Memorial Fund .... Lewis D. Mason F u n d ............. Lewis D. Mason Fund— surgical sup plies......................... Van Rensselaer Burr. Jr. Fund ...... Lansing Memorial (formerly Basrah) Hos pital F u n d ................ Anna M. T. Van Santvoord— Amara Lan sing Hospital..................... Cantine Guest House Endowment Fund. .. Anna F. Bacon F u n d .................. 1 Marion Wells Thoms Hospital Fund ..... Hannah More Bishop F u n d ............. Margaret L. Tunnard F u n d ............. Ministerial education in India: William R. Gordon F u n d ............... Christian Jansen F u n d ................. Joseph Scudder Fund.................. G. B. Walbridge F u n d ................. Total Trust Funds held for special purposes— Exhibit " B ” .........

452.38 1,989.47

Principal

Total

3,643.26 5.000.

200.40 317.34

500.00 2.000.

279.24 267.98 311.71 1,107.24

700.00 1,105.01 785.00 5.362.19

396.54 775.53

1,000.00 1,950.00

702.41 1,280.76 —

20,000.00 5,864.36 11,592.09

6,734.25 224.76 73.57 304.75 172.93 311.18 1,499.90 544.86 537.87

47,732.42 1,344.60 955.65 1,161.55 1,032.15 5,280.69 42,704.49 16.269.87 15,316.54

38.37

90,715.04

—

25,000.00

130.30 89.81 53.74 175.94

7.259.00 5.000. 3.000. 9,801.87

00 00

35.83 21.59

2 .000.

35.83

2,000.00

17.91 70.92 41.97 17.91 16.44 17.91

1,000.00 3,954.45 2,337.13

1.200.00

1,000.00 917.54 1,000.00

2,000.00

85.13 563.45 85.13 212.97

12,555.36 2 ,000.00 5,000.00

$20,196.22

$369,040.26

$389,236.48

Accumulated income

Principal Total ..Trust Funds— Continued: Available for various purposes within regular budget: Ida Baldwin Fund......................... Income $ 5,500.00 taken into William C. Barkalow Fund ................. 10.784.60 Abbie J. Bell Fund.......................... General 700.00 Clara D e Forrest Burrell Fund................ Funds 4.066.96 Mary E. Bussing F u n d .................... 30.055.50 Rev. Henry E. Cobb Endowment Fund....... 2.500.00 Mary Storre Coe Fund..................... 1,000.00 Josiah E. and Ida Crane Memorial Fund....... 600.00 Elizabeth Diehl Memorial Fund............. 6.500.00 The Daniel Dimnent F u n d ................. 5.100.00 The Edward Dimnent F u n d ................ 700.00 Anna Eliza Disborough F u n d ............... 2.000.00 Martha T. Douglas F u n d .................. 3.000. 00 The Laura E. D u n n F u n d .................. 20.521.89 Charlotte W. Duryee Fund ................. 2.022.47 Anna E. Gaston F u n d ..................... 4,532.17 Catherine Jane Gebhard Fund.............. 8.047.64 Jane Ann Gopsil Fund..................... 14,339.08 John Heemstra and Family Mission Fund .... 4.500.00 Emily Hermance F u n d ..................... 459.10 Mary Hobart F u n d ....................... 435.42 John Hoffman F u n d ....................... 100.00 4.500.00 Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Hollestelle Fund ..... Garret N. Hopper Fund.................... 1.500.00 Abel H. Huizenga Fund.................... 1.000.00 In Memoriam F u n d ....................... 500.00 Mr. and Mrs. Henry J. Kollen Memorial Fund.. 3.750.00 Susan Y. Lansing F u n d .................... 7.500.00 Mrs. Celia Lanting Fund.................... 7.500.00 Mary Louise Leonard Memorial F u n d ........ 688.66 John S. Lyles Fund........................ 50.000. 00 15.000.00 Madison Avenue Reformed Church F u n d ..... Clarine V. B. and Lucy A. Matson Fund..... 1.000.00 Heye Mennenga F u n d ..................... 600.00 Charles E. Moore Fund.................... 475.00 Jane T. B. Moore Memorial Fund ........... 400.13 3,479.57 Ada Louise Morris F u n d ................... 4.000. 00 Jane H. Morrison Memorial Fund........... John Neefus Fund......... 1.............. 9,379.86 P. I. and M. V. K. Neefus F u n d ............ 14.000.00 Mary Neefus Fund........................ 4,045.09 29.661.97 North Reformed Church. Passaic. N. J., Fund.. 5.000. 00 Charles W . Osborne Fund .................. 5.000. 00 Josephine Penfold Fund.................... Permanent Fund.......................... 14,550.00 403.77 Mrs. Edward H. Peters Fund............... 1.000.00 Catherine Jane Pryer Evangelistic F u n d ...... l,733v98 Helen A. Rollins Fund..................... 4.293.92 Margaret Roosa F u n d ..................... Anna and Margaret Roosenraad Evangelistic 202.74 F u n d ................................ 1,000.00 Jane A. Scardefield F u n d ................... 194.25 A. J. Schaefer F u n d ....................... 14.000.00 Semelink Family Mission F u n d ............. 5.500.00 Rev. Dr. C. D. F. Steinfuhrer Memorial Fund.. 5.827.37 Katherine M. Talmage F u n d ............... 3.499.61 Mary S. Van Acker Endowment F u n d ....... 20.000. 00 John Martin Van Buren F u n d .............. 20.180.90 Maria Hoes Van Buren F u n d ............... 3.000.00 A. C. Van Raalte Mission Fund....'......... 29,848.37 Anna Townsend Van Santvoord F u n d ........ 26.238.79 Alida Van Schaick F u n d ................... 600.00 Lena M a y Visser F u n d .................... 625.00 A. V. S. Wallace Fund..................... 625.00 Cornelia M. Wallace F u n d ................. 493.40 Olive Gates Wallace Evangelistic F u n d ....... 1,000.00 Mr. and Mrs. William Walvoord Fund....... 5,000.00 Abbey L. Wells Fund ...................... 71.399.89 Annie E. Wyckoff F u n d .................... 4.589.37 Eliza A. Zabriskie Fund.................... Total Trust Funds available'' for various purposes within regular budget— Ex hibit ''B” ..... .................. s Total Trust Funds. ...................

—

$532,251.47

$20,196.22

$901,291.73

$921,487.95

Principal Conditional Gifts (unmatured annuity funds): Madelaine Apgar........................................ Aux. Fort Plain, N. Y .................. Nettie Baker............................................ J. F. Baldwin........................................... Sue V. Beyer............................................ M. S. Blauvelt.......................................... Mr. and Mrs. Roel D e Young............................. Rev. and Mrs. Richard D. Douwstra....................... C. B. Drury.....................................;...... Mrs. G. H. Dubbink..................................... John Gerardus Fagg— in memory of........................ Anna Hagens........................................... Lizzie Hagens........................................... L. D. H e g eman.......................................... Cornelia Hospers........................................ Rev. and Mrs. S. J. Menning.............................. M. M. Nash............................................ Grace Palen......... J. T. Phillips............................................ Arie Punt.............................................. S. D. L. Relyea......................................... Mary S. Shafer.......................................... Minnie Taylor.......................................... S. TeWinkel............................................ R. E. Van Blarcom....................................... C. WaHvoord............................................ H. Walvoord............................................ Total Conditional Gifts (unmatured annuity funds)— Exhibit “B ” .................................

Total

50C.00 500.00 100.00 1,000.00 600.00 500.00 1,700.00 1,000.00 3,000.00 250.00 10,000.00 100.00 100.00 500.00 500.00 1,000.00 2,000.00 1,000.00 1,000.00 5,000.00 500.00 2,000.00 40,000.00 4,000.00 200.00 2.000.00 500.00

$ 79,550.00