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BOARD of FOREIGN MISSIONS of the REFORMED CHURCH In AMERICA

THE ARCHIVES B E A R D S L E E L IB R A R Y WESTERN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY

R EFO R M ED C H U R C H H EAD Q U A R TER S

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BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS MEMBERS OF THE BOARD 1952- 55 Rev. Paul E. Ammerman, 7233 Wicker, Hammond, Indiana Mrs. William Babinsky, 419 W. Saddle River Road, Ridgewood, New Jersey Mrs. Irving H. Decker, 46 Crescent Place, Yonkers 4, New York Rev. William C. De Jong, Trinity Reformed Church, Pella, Iowa Mrs. M. Howard Gideon, 5671 North Westnedge, Kalamazoo, Michigan Rev. M. Gerard Gosselink, Jr., 25 Joy Boulevard, Baldwin, L. I., New York Rev. LeRoy J. Hess, 101 California Street, Ridgewood, New Jersey Rev. Harvey B. Hoffman, 291 Clinton Place, Hackensack, New Jersey Mrs. Clarence S. Howard, Wynantskill, New York Mr. Walter Jauck, 7505 113th Street, Forest Hills 75, New York Mr. Marcus Millspaugh, Walden, New York Rev. Peter J. Muyskens, Box 266, Coopersville, Michigan Rev. Gerard C. Pool, 2607 Palisade Avenue, Union City, New Jersey Mrs. Gordon Van Eenenaam, 1302 Ransom Street, Muskegon, Michigan 1953- 56 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, New York Rev. Bernard Brunsting, 9052 East 165th 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, New York Mrs. Emmett L. Paige, 309 Kenwood Avenue, Delmar, New York Mrs. Leonard A. Sibley, Sr., Claverack, New York Mr. Maurice A. Te Paske, Sioux Center, Iowa Mrs. M. Tjoelker, Route No. 1, Everson, Washington Mrs. Philip T. Wagner, 514 Wyndham Road, Teaneck, New Jersey 1954- 57 (to take office October 1st) Rev. Daniel Y. Brink, 220 Ballston Avenue, Scotia 2, N. Y. Mrs. Raymond Fairchild, R. D. 3, Putnam Road, Schenectady, N. Y. Rev. Warren J. Henseler, 76 West Main Street, Freehold, N. J. Rev. Orville J. Hine, 22 Maple Avenue, Warwick, N. Y. Rev. Richard P. Mallery, 82-50 Kew Gardens Rd., Kew Gardens 15, N. Y. Mrs. Calvin C. Meury, 7601 Palisade Avenue, North Bergen, N. J. Mrs. George C. Muyskens, 109 East Morris Street, Morrison, Illinois Rev. Chester A. Postma, 302 Bly Stre-"t, Waupun, Wisconsin Mrs. Stanley S. Slingerland, 1260 East 40th Street, Brooklyn, 10, N. Y. Rev. Frank Snuttjer, Little Rock, Iowa (continued at bottom of inside back cover)

1954 The Board of Foreign Missions respectfully presents to the General Synod of the Reformed Church in America its One Hundred and Twenty-Second Annual Report, the Ninety-Seventh of its Separate and Independent Action and the Eighth of the Reorganized Board, Continuing the former Womanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Board of Foreign Missions I

Foreword | h e one hundred twenty-second Annual Report of the Board of Foreign Missions constitutes the statement of its stewardship to the Reformed Church in America through General Synod. Each chapter of this report is intended to give an account of the events and progress which have made the year 1953 significant in the Kingdom of God.

The theme of General Synod for 1954, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ye Are My Witnesses, is one that has been very close to the foreign missions movement since the day that Our Lord gave His commission to the disciples. This report and the statements which the Board of Foreign Missions will present to the Church during 1954 will reflect this theme. The readers of this report will notice the emphasis on the work of the missions and churches abroad among youth. Because the youth in every mission field has generally responded more readily to the appeals of the Gospel than their elders, the Board has decided to feature in 1954 this important aspect of our mission program. The preparation of the Annual Report of the Board of Foreign Missions is more than the performance of an organizational routine. It contains valuable information about the witnessing of our missionaries, the victories in the preaching of the gospel and the development of the Christian churches abroad. The Board would suggest to the readers that this report may be used as 1. material for sermons on the world-wide aspects of the Kingdom of God, 2. material for Sunday school teaching, 3. a source book on mission studies by womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s organizations and young peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s groups, 4. a text book on a school of missions in a local church. H. G. Bovenkerk B. M. L uben E dwina P aige R uth R ansom L. J. Shafer

These three African girls give little thought as to what they will wear to school. Their dresses are made from figured feed bags.

1. Africa c l u e for this report is found in the meeting of the American I Mission in the South Sudan in early March of this year. The policies I of the Mission and the significant events of the year are reviewed at the annual mission meeting when most of the members are together several days for prayer and planning. This year the Mission met at Nasir, the station for the Nuers on the Sobat River, and outside of Malakal the largest Arab trading post in the whole mission area. Again this year the Mission was deeply conscious of the political changes in the Sudan and the place of the Christian witness among the Nilotics, the tribespeople living along the White Nile and branches in the South Sudan. In his report of the meeting the secretary of the Mission, Dr. J. Lowrie Anderson, referring especially to the first meeting of Parliament of thfi newly independent Sudan, writes as follows: “The political developments of this time were significant. The day we started our business meetings was the day scheduled for the opening of Parliament. A riot in which there was bloodshed, and in which the enmities between the two parties in the North were deepened, prevented the opening of Parliament. Naguib’s visit did not signalize the unity of the Nile as much as the disunity of the Sudan. Ten days later the Parlia ment did meet, without visitors and behind barbed-wire fences.” It will be remembered that in February of last year a pact was signed in Cairo by the representatives of Great Britain and Egypt giving the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan self-government. Within a period of three years from that date the Sudanese are to choose between independence or federation with Egypt. Whatever choice is made, with the withdrawal

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of the British, Muslim influence will prevail in the South Sudan since the more populous and advanced North Sudan is a stronghold of Islam. Dr. Anderson continues, “We know that a new day is ahead — a day where strong feelings are liable to break out in anarchy and violence. We have faith to believe that in this day the Christian missionary will be allowed to play a part. We are sure the Christian Church has the message that the Sudan needs, and that God is preparing her for the role she is to play.” For the new day in the Sudan the Mission has developing resources. A large'proportion of its personnel is young but possessing increasing experience and maturity. Of the Mission, Dr. Anderson comments that “we have a fine group of young missionaries and the American Church can be proud of those whom it has sent as its representatives in the Sudan.” It is interesting to note that of the thirteen Reformed Church career members over half are now in their second term of service, able to participate more fully in the life of the Mission and assume places of leadership. Another asset is the Mission’s sense of unity as it faces its task in an extremely strategic area of the world. This last mission meeting again emphasized the fact that the Mission is moving along as one body with the finest of personnel relationships. The primacy of the spiritual in all its activities is accented by the appointment of the second Tuesday of every month as a day of prayer for all stations. Not the least source of strength is in the realm of policy. The invest ment made in the study tours described last year is yielding unusually high dividends. With an assured sense of direction the Mission is now guided by policy rather than emergencies in making decisions. Pre determined goals make possible steps which would otherwise seem unwise and almost fatal. This is illustrated by the decision to withdraw all missionary per sonnel from two stations — Wanglel of the Nuers and Abwong of the Dinkas. Normally this would be considered a retreat, but since there is not enough missionary personnel to man every station adequately, the decision represents an advance in that it promotes two goals of the Mission. One is the emphasis placed on the indigenous church by transfer of increased responsibility to African leadership. The wisdom of withdrawal from Abwong, for instance, was seen shortly thereafter at a meeting of African leaders. “The men realized as they had not before that the Mission was a fragile, a foreign thing — that the permanent strong institution must be the Church. They rose to the challenge.” The other is the grouping of missionaries at certain points for purposes of strength to make possible better training of Africans and for mobility in advancing the work. Just as Nasir is to have a concentration

of doctors and nurses for medical training, and all teacher training is done at Obel, the Mission has decided to make Akobo the agricultural center. Soil conditions, the converging of three tribes and the “annual hunger” of the Anuaks urged this choice, but a contributing factor was the fact that here three agricultural missionaries could work together in experi mentation, leadership training and extension work. Malakal, the government center, is assuming increasing importance not only as a focal point to touch all the tribes but as the workshop of the Mission. Here the secretary resides and the treasurer’s office is located. A bookshop has been opened and a new press just set up —the minutes of annual meeting were done on this Multilith machine. Also, an elemen tary school for missionary children is being planned in Malakal. If tentative plans are approved, the training of evangelists and ordained pastors will be done in cooperation with the Church Missionary Society (Anglican) at the Bishop Gwynne Divinity School at Mundri. In anticipation of approval of these plans, the Rev. William Anderson, who has had one term on the field, is now taking special studies in preparation to be the representative of the American Mission on the staff. Mr. Lambert Ekster, the Reformed Church builder of the Mission, who has been spending most of his time at Pibor and Akobo in the construction program, is to proceed to Mundri late this year to erect residences for Mr. Anderson and those students who will be sent from our area. While these new policies are being put into effect on the field, here at home we have been perfecting cooperative procedures with the United Presbyterians. The happiest of relationships have obtained in working together thr ough the new Committee on Cooperation in the South Sudan. As had been agreed earlier with regard to capital investments, we are to assume one third of the work budget and the Presbyterians two thirds. This is approximately the ratio of Reformed and Presbyterian mission aries. As announced last year we are now assuming a part of the total program in the Upper Nile Province, rather than among the Anuaks only, and our missionaries are now stationed among the Nuers, Anuaks and Murle. No denominational distinctions are made in assignments to tribes or stations. During this year we have also been cooperating in the work of the Ethiopia Mission. While Dr. Donald McClure has been on furlough, the Rev. Harvey T. Hoekstra has been in Pokwo of Ethiopia caring for this station among the Anuaks. It is now recognized that the main efforts for this tribe must be from Pokwo. Since Mr. Hoekstra is the language expert for this tribe, the Board has accepted the invitation of the Presbyterian Board in making him available to the total approach to the Anuaks, though he will maintain membership in the South Sudan Mission and it is anticipated he will make Akobo his headquarters. It would seem providential that, for these days of political change

and developing policies in the Sudan, the Presbyterian Board should create the office of Foreign Secretary and honor it with the appointment of Dr. Glenn P. Reed. Formerly a missionary in the South Sudan and for many years the well known General Secretary of their Board, Dr. Reed and his family will proceed to Asmara in Ethiopia and from there will serve all United Presbyterian Missions. In this position he will continue to be of invaluable assistance as he interprets the situation in the Sudan and promotes those programs that will best advance the Kingdom among the Nilotic tribesmen.

The Sunday afternoon service on the veran dah of the Muscat Hospital attracts youth as well as the older folk.

2. Arabia A s in other years, we record the history of another twelve months LA in the life of a mission that lays no claim to any great success. Stretchf i i n g for over a thousand miles and bearing witness in the sheikdoms of Bahrain and Kuwait, the nation of Iraq and the sultanate of Oman, and now after these many decades, in Saudi Arabia too, this Mission is unable to give thanks for many known results. This part of the Near East remains one of the most difficult mission areas of the world. It is well to remember that Islam, not so much as a religion in the sense in which we think of a vital personal spiritual conviction and experi ence, but as a pervasive social system extending into politics and eco nomics, continues to be the major obstacle to an acceptance of Christian truth and particularly to an open commitment. The forces of social tradi tion, legal complication and secular preoccupation make difficult any conspicuous success. One dominant impression gained by the deputation as they visited all the stations of the Arabian Mission and of the United Mission in Iraq in the month of November, however, was the unfailing optimism of all the missionaries in Iraq and the Gulf. They are aware of the inner ten sions in the Muslim world and take courage as they watch developments. One, for instance, is the experience of the organized forces of reactionary and fanatical Islam as they attempt to grasp a dominant share of political control. In country after country they have signally failed and in some cases their organizations have been suppressed. Some promise of greater freedom in the future, too, is provided by evidences of liberal tendencies in regimes now in power. Failure to record conversions does not mean the Mission has failed

to labor well. In eight hospitals several tens of thousands received the ministry of medicine in the name and spirit of Christ. The Word was spoken in chapels, book shops, homes, schools, hospitals and wherever Christian met non-Christian. In four Christian schools and five Bible shops the truth was presented. Many Bibles and Christian books and tracts were placed in the hands — and hearts — of Muslims. All ages and all classes an various ways and places, have been confronted with the truths of the Gospel. Noteworthy in the efforts of the Mission in the course of the year were three out-of-the-ordinary projects in witnessing. One was the imaginative use of tape recordings during clinic hours in the Lansing Memorial Hospital in Amarah. Every morning after prayers, while the patients waited their turn to see the doctor, a hymn and Bible talk in good colloquial Arabic would come over the public address system. This device wisely used presents promising possibilities. Another was the residence of several months by a medical evangel istic team in the interior of Arabia. This is the second prolonged visit to Hofuf in Hassa province since the decision was made to take advantage of the possibility of making more than occasional tours in the interior. Headed by Dr. Harold Storm this group from Bahrain was well nigh overwhelmed by opportunities — and difficulties. The whole Mission rejoices in a dream come true, the privilege of again pioneering, this time in Saudi Arabia. The third was a tour undertaken by a group far to the south in Oman. At the invitation of the Imaam, the spiritual leader for a million Abadhi Muslims, Dr. Wells Thoms, with his evangelistic medical team went three days’ camel journey into the mountainous interior to perform surgery on the eye of the devout elderly man. The surgery was successful, the people flocked to the doctor for medical attention and all Bible portions and literature were sold. After three weeks the team, including Mrs. Thoms and their daughter Lois who are the only Western ladies known ever to enter this interior, came ont by donkey to be met at the foot of the mountains on Thanksgiving day evening by other members of Muscat station and the deputation in two jeep station wagons. Only limited personnel prevents more frequent such tours into the interior of Oman. While the unusual in medical evangelism is being mentioned, it is well to record the beginnings of the systematic training of nurses in the Mission. Informal training has been given in the past but the need of a regular school of nursing has been keenly felt. Trained nurses must be brought from India. This year in Amarah Miss Jeannette Veldman, after extensive experience in this kind of work in China, and with the help of staff, is giving regular courses to ten students. The most significant event of the year has been saved to the last. The time is February, 1954. The scene is Basrah. Here for the first time

in known history the evangelical Christians of Iraq and the Persian Gulf met together at a conference. The significance of the gathering lies in the fact that here, at last, is the beginning of the evangelical Christian Church in this part of the Near East. A Committee was organized to plan for another meeting and to explore the possibilities of organizing the Church of Iraq and the Persian Gulf as well as to plan a program of Christian witness and unity in this area. The pioneers of the early days of beginnings would have rejoiced to see this historic conference of both ancient and convert Christians met for fellowship and unity in our Lord. This conference was one of nationals and not a gathering dominated by missionaries. The Rev. Donald R. MacNeill was particularly helpful in initiating it, but from there on the missionaries were guests. The speaker was Dr. Farid Audeh, famous Lebanese minister of the Beirut Evangelical Church and radio preacher, and the expenses of the con足 ference were met largely from local resources. The fact that this is the first time such a gathering had ever been held, with delegates coming from places as widely separated as fifteen hundred miles, made the first session important. Also, the delegates were of both the convert and ancient Christian groups. Some of these ancient churches date back hundreds of years. Out of their bitter persecution experiences not only have they ceased to evangelize and usually lost all spiritual vitality, but they also generally regard with suspicion any con足 verts from Islam. This was the first time some had ever met with converts. The ones who did most to insure a feeling of unity were the young Christian people in Basrah who had planned for this conference for many weeks and were made responsible for the fellowship supper. Basrah station, with both a boys and a girls school, has always given the lead to the Mission in youth work, particularly among non-school girls. Club work among the non-Christian girls is one of the major activities of the station. Little, however, has been done for the young people of the local independent church. Less than a year before the conference this group of some thirty young people from the ancient evangelical church were unorganized and largely out of touch with the church. The younger missionaries succeeded in bringing them together and now 'they are an active enthusiastic group that has already served to revitalize the life of the entire congregation. One of the decisions of the conference was to establish youth camps in the north of Iraq, an idea quite new to this part of the world. The youth camp is one of the promising prospects for Christian work in Iraq in both the United Mission in Iraq and the Arabian Mission. The Rev. Richard Cochrane of Mosul, a member of the United Mission,

has experimented within the past two years with youth camps and is enthusiastic. They offer a means both to train Christian youth and to confront non-Christian young people with the Gospel. Just as it has been one of the finest things to happen in our Reformed Church in the past two decades, the youth conference may be the beginning of big things in Iraq.

burg is the second on her left. pel Church school in the Philippines gradÂ uate at an early age â&#x20AC;&#x201D; from kindergarten to first grade.

3. China-Philippines efore D avid A beel, the founder of the Amoy Mission in China, went K to Amoy, he worked with the Chinese in Java, Borneo and Siam. So L J it is with a sense of continuity that the Reformed Church undertook work in the Philippines in 1950. The Chinese in the Philippines are aliens, just as are the missionaries; both have to make adjustments. They are sometimes discriminated against and as a result the Chinese often become more preoccupied with their business and family affairs than is normal. Because they are foreigners they have established a fraternal relationship with the United Church of Christ in the Philippines (UCCP) which with a membership of one hundred thousand believers forms one of the largest Protestant communions in that country. As for the churches, the Chinese congregations are independent. Because there are no Classes or Synods, the missionaries miss the stability of an actively functioning organization like the South Fukien Synod. They would like to bring the congregations closer together. They would like to solve the problems of theological education, of public health and of education and they would like to do much, much more in the field of evangelism. There is much work to be done and the little group in the Philippines looks forward with faith, confident that God is leading them and fervent in their desires to be faithful to the task that has been committed to them. The Esthers and Miss Holkeboer are at work in Manila, the capital, where there are seven Chinese Protestant congregations representing five denominations. The missionaries work primarily with the Chinese United Evangelical Church (CUEC).

Mr. Esther has been working with two evangelistic teams in an extension program in northern Luzon and assists the evangelistic team of the Manila church at a chapel and preaching place they have estab lished in the city. He and his wife direct a young people’s group which has organized five neighborhood Sunday schools. All three teach in the Chianan (Canaan) Christian Primary and High School organized six years ago by the CUEC. All the teachers are Christians and they meet many of the same children in the classrooms that they meet on Sunday in the Sunday school. Two thirds of the Chinese pastors and preachers as well as a few seminary students attended a retreat held in May. Each one reported on his work, the opportunities presented to them and the problems constantly arising. Nearly a hundred young people attended the third annual Chinese Christian Youth Summer Conference held in Baguio. The Esthers, the Muilenburgs and Miss Walvoord participated in this memor able time of inspiration and fellowship. Both of these undertakings enlisted the hearty support of the CUEC leaders and manifested the evangelistic spirit of this church. A branch Chinese church has been founded in Lucena where Mr. and Mrs. Veenschoten are working. Mr. Veenschoten has a class in English Bible, a weekly meeting for Sunday school teachers and a class in preparation for church membership. There is a weekly prayer meeting and once a month a cottage prayer meeting is held in a home. When four church families were left homeless in a recent fire, members of Lucena and Manila churches gave generous sums of money for relief. Because the rented building of the Lucena church is in a good location, the evening meetings have been attracting Filipinos. Mr. Veenschoten has been cooperating with the Filipino pastor who has accepted the loan of the building for a weekly evangelistic meeting. In Legaspi, where Mr. and Mrs. Angus are stationed, the climate is admirable for the furtherance of the Gospel for there are 500 Chinese located there and 400 in nearby Tabaco. In Legaspi the Sunday service is held in the afternoon in a private home. Much work is being done among a group of men who were taken to Camp Murphy as Communist suspects after Christmas, 1952. Some of these men were converted while in camp and on their release began attending services. Mr. Chang, the Chinese pastor at Naga is much interested in helping these men; he and Mr. Angus have worked out an exchange by which he goes to Legaspi every other week and Mr. Angus takes the Sunday service in Naga. A more suitable meeting place is one of the great needs in both Tabaco and Legaspi. Naga has approximately 1,000 Chinese; the little church has about fifty members. Mr. Chang, the pastor, is an old friend of Mr. Angus as

he is a native of Sio-khe in China. Separated from his family in Commu nist China, he goes on trips with Mr. Angus to nearby towns, visits the Chinese in their homes and in their shops, distributes Christian literature and cooperates completely with all that Mr. Angus is trying to do. A conference for young people included fourteen from Naga, two from Tabaco and six from Legaspi. Some of the Filipino church leaders were invited to speak at the evening vesper services and were guests at some of the meals. This sort of coming together creates a more friendly attitude between the Chinese and Filipinos. In Cebu there is an organized church and a ready field for the missionary, although there is not the same cooperative spirit here that is found in some of the other spots. The de Velders, the Hills, Miss Broekema and Miss Walvoord work in Cebu. Mrs. Hill directs the choir, teaches the singing at the youth fellowship and plans the music. At Easter there is a united sunrise service of the Filipino and Chinese churches and in the autumn a concert. A committee of Chinese women planned a conference for their church women during the year. As a preparation, thirty women pledged themselves to pray in their homes at a specified time. The five-day con ference, with the theme “To Know Christ” was attended by sixty women. As a result of the conference plans were made for Bible study for new hearers, with small groups meeting in various homes. The church women meet monthly for the discussion of home and family problems. Thirty members of a young adult fellowship meet once a month at the home of Dr. and Mrs. Hill for discussions on Bible themes. Dr. Hill was called to be the first superintendent of the Chong Hwa Hospital in Cebu, a private institution. His first problem was to obtain a Christian staff of nurses, attendants and orderlies. In the necessary changing of floor space to accommodate nurses’ stations, utility rooms, doctor’s offices, laboratory and kitchen, Mrs. Hill and Miss Walvoord gave invaluable assistance. A morning chapel service is fairly well attended and Dr. Hill has planned for the distribution of Christian literature to patients and visitors. It is in the minds and prayers of those in charge that this hospital will give increasingly effective witness for Christ through the ministry of healing. Miss Walvoord is developing a program of public health nursing largely among Filipinos. The work includes service to mothers and babies, follow-up cases discharged from the hospital, health lectures and clinic work. Contacts have been made with more than 2,000 people and some of these have responded to the Christian stimulus. Mobile clinic work also affords a fine evangelistic opportunity. Miss Walvoord has lectured on hygiene to students of the Cebu Institute (UCCP) and the University of Southern Philippines.

Mr. de Velder has done considerable traveling to places of large Chinese populations. There is a response, but the work is retarded by a lack of Chinese workers. As a result of an exploratory trip through Mindanao made by Mr. de Velder, Miss Walvoord and Mr. Wesley Shao, the Davao Chinese Gospel Church invited the latter to be its pastor. With his wife and two small daughters he left Manila for Davao and was ordained a few months later. He comes from an outstanding family in Amoy, China, and it is a source of great rejoicing to his friends that after years of training he has finally begun his ministry. Mr. de Velder with Bishop Sobrepena made a trip to Formosa, a good-will tour of the Presbyterian churches there. Backed by the UCCP they were well received. Mr. de Velder found his Amoy dialect a ready help as it is the language of the Formosans. A few months later he spent two months there working among the hill folk at the request of the Canadian Presbyterian Mission. It is a challenging service to 150,000 people. On his return he visited Hongkong, speaking to the Amoy language congregations there and in Kowloon. He also spoke at the youth conference held in the New Territories some miles from Kowloon. Mr. and Mrs. Muilenburg are at Dumaguete, the site of Silliman University' with a student body of over 3,000, two hundred of whom are Chinese. This institution was established by the Presbyterians over fifty years ago. They are members of the staff, Mrs. Muilenburg in the School of Music and Mr. Muilenburg in the College of Theology. They welcome the students to their homes and create many opportunities for fellowship, recreation, music, games and discussions. For many this makes up for a lack of Christian atmosphere in the home. Members of the Consistory take charge of the preaching services in this small Chinese church which has never had a pastor. It has welcomed the Muilenburgs who find many ways to help. On his frequent trips outside Dumaguete and in other parts of the islands, Mr. Muilen足 burg finds many Chinese Christians who received their first Christian training from Reformed Church missionaries in China years ago. When a Chinese marries a Filipino woman, the Roman Catholic influence in the home is usually strong; the children often attend Catholic schools and are won to that faith. Many feel that it is socially and eco足 nomically sound to become affiliated with the religion of the land. The Chinese are well off; their standard of living is higher than that of most Filipinos. Because of their industry and keen business sense they have made a good living for themselves. There is great emphasis on materialism and although a few were touched by Christianity in China the great majority, perhaps 95%, are unchurched. It is in this climate and among these people that the Reformed Church missionaries are now at work.

Some manual labor and exercise is all a part of the youth program. Here some of the girls are harvesting rice.

Under World Neighbors extension plan, these boys belong to a club that is similar to the 4-H clubs in the United States. Their motto is "Ye are the light of the world".

h e g r e a t e v e n t of the year was the celebration of a century of wit| nessing in the Arcot area in South India. This centenary was first I marked by the anniversary meeting of the missionaries on May 31, 1953, the date of the organization of the Mission just a hundred years before. In January of 1954 the official celebration was held in Vellore and attended by over five thousand delegates from the towns and villages of the area as well as by honored guests and the deputation from America. The centenary was a time of rejoicing and thanksgiving as the rich mercies of the past were brought to mind. The assembled delegates represented 12,000 communicant members and a total Christian community of 36,500 in nearly 300 congregations. The numerous schools, from elementary to college level, have provided Christian training for thousands. Seventy-five young men of the area have been ordained since the Church was first established in 1853 with three members, hundreds of teacher-catechists trained and many Christian professional leaders raised up. Agricultural and industrial training has helped to relieve the desperate poverty of the millions in the area, while the ministry of healing in clinics and hospitals has brought merciful relief to the multitudes. Praise was offered that through all these institutions and types of ministry the Gospel has been proclaimed. The centenary was also an occasion for evaluation of methods of work and planning for the years ahead. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Those days were a significant halting place between two very different eras in missionary practice and policy,â&#x20AC;? wrote Dr. C. R. Wierenga. All phases of the life of the church were carefully scrutinized. It was recognized that we have come to a turning point in missions in India and

that the centenary was an opportune time to initiate or hasten those changes that will make the Church stronger in her inner life and in her outreach into the vast non-Christian community. Chief among the decisions reached had to do with the merging into the life of the Church of South India those many institutions with which we have been historically related. The churches and village schools and congregations had already, a year or more before, been integrated into the life of the Church. This decision climaxes the historical process whereby the Mission has been retiring in favor of the church and national leader ship. Our obligation for evangelism in South India is in no way lessened, but major responsibility for the government and maintenance of the Church and her institutions in the Arcot area has been transferred to the Church of South India. This Church came into being in 1947 and has a membership of one million. The transfer of responsibilities has been gradual and one of the achievements of the centenary has been the formal completion of this process. The renewed emphasis on Indian leadership and responsibility has found support in developments within India. In past months nationalistic feeling has been intensified in this new Asiatic democracy. The United States pact with Pakistan has aroused a reversion of feeling against Amer ica. Resurgent Hinduism, politically embodied largely in the Mahasabha party which seeks to displace the present secular state with a frankly Hindu state, attempts also to influence the present government in favor of the predominant religion of the land. The Communists, emboldened by their success in the Travancore-Cochin elections, capitalize on every oppor tunity to discredit Christian missions. The creation of Andhra state and the subsequent uncertainty of government grants to our schools in Telugu country raise questions as to the future of these institutions. The state ments in the Council of States in New Delhi questioning the right of missionaries to evangelize, with the frustrating delays in granting of visas for missionaries and entry permits for freight shipments, alert the church in India to the wisdom of depending less on resources from abroad. The failure to secure visas for the Rev. and Mrs. James Dunham and their subsequent assignment to the Arabian Mission has highlighted the situa tion for us, though the issue was not pressed at that time and this experi ence in no way precludes the possibility of reinforcing our missionary personnel in India. During the year two films were made. The first is the centenary film entitled “A Century with Christ in the Arcot Area.” This film, which had its premiere at the centenary celebrations and was produced by Ralph Korteling, is designed primarily for use in India. It is being shown in all the Christian villages of the area with a view to giving the Church his torical perspective and a sense of strength for the uncertain days ahead. Serving the same purpose is a history of the Mission and the Christian

movement written by Miss Charlotte Wyckoff and put out in English and Tamil with an abridged Telugu edition. The second film is entitled “Village of the Poor” and was made by Alan Shilin Productions for interdenominational use. The locale is Deenabandupuram in the Arcot area, the scene of the labors of the Rev. and Mrs. Joseph John. The film had its world premiere in New York this spring and has received high praise from the critics. One of the most promising developments in the way of evangelism has been the tract, newspaper and correspondence course oubeach as largely initiated and promoted by Dr. John Piet. Over 10,000,000 copies of the carefully planned tracts, written in something like serial form, one leading to the next, with studied methods of systematic distribution, have been distributed. These have also found wide acceptance by other groups thioughout India. Dr. Piet has 15,000 enrolled in the Bible correspondence course and is adding students at the rate of 1,000 a month. A special approach to youth in the villages has been made by Mr. J. J. De Valois through the extension service of the Agricultural Institute. Eight boys clubs, one girls club and fourteen youth clubs with a total member ship of 350 members in twenty villages have been organized. Leadership in a full program including all aspects of life is provided by village level Chiistian workers. The success of Youth Conferences for these and other groups at the new conference grounds on the Farm, with the club work, points to the development of a promising youth movement so greatly needed in the villages today. Symbolic of the rich spiritual blessings of the centenary year and of the celebrations has been the coming of rain to end the long and disastrous drought. For five successive years the monsoons failed, the longest famine of the century. The response of American Christians has written one of the glorious chapters in the history of famine relief. The cumulative effect of the famine will be evident for some time, but if rainfall now continues normal, famine relief will become progressively less necessary. One century is ended, the next has begun. The first was entered with the pioneer spirit, with high hopes and courage. In that same spirit we enter the second, facing at the same time one of the most perplexing of situations and one of the world’s most exciting evangelistic opportunities. With our Indian colleagues we again dedicate ourselves to the proclaiming of the Gospel in this great subcontinent of Asia.

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Christian students help build a Christian Center for coal miners; they also conduct a Daily Vacation Bible School for miner's children.

Work campers in Hokkaido, Japan, take time out of their busy schedule for Bible study. Our missionaries participate in the work camp programs in Japan.

5. Japan he year 1959 marks the 100th anniversary of the beginning of ChnsI tian work in Japan. The Christian Churches are planning a vigorous I program to commemorate the anniversary, including evangelistic campaigns leading up to the climax of the celebration in 1959. They are also writing a complete history of early missionary efforts and of the Christian Church in Japan. One cannot think of the hundred years of Christian work in Japan without recalling the strong Japanese Cluistian leaders who gave sub stance to the young and growing body of Christ which was brought into existence and left their impress upon the whole nation. In the pioneer days when the missionaries first came these leaders of later years were immature young men but it was this group of ambitious young samurai who gathered around the early missionaries that became the bone and sinew of the Church. There is a sense in which this postwar period in Japan is a pioneerperiod similar to that of the early days. This gives added significance to the fact that in every church service in Japan today the majority of those in attendance are young men and young women. It also highlights the fact that there are 110,000 young students in the Christian schools in the country. Our Board now has five young couples and seven single mis sionaries committed to teaching in schools attended by over 6,000 of these. These immediate decades are building for the century ahead in the Christian movement in Japan. The youth in the churches have their national organizations under competent leadership. In May of this year there was a youth week when the theme, “Christ, the Hope of the World,” was considered in all the

churches. Plans have been made for work camps this summer as in other years. There will be three international camps, three for high school boys and girls and two youth caravans. The caravans travel from one village church to another, in the missionary’s car or jeep, often sleeping on the church floor. The earnest young Christians who make them up show flannelgraphs to children, help youth groups improve their meetings, show Bible slides and sing at special meetings they arrange for grownups. During the coming year student evangelism will be especially emphasized and a commission has been appointed to devise better ways of helping post-college groups of young people through the churches. Since the war, our Board has had a scholarship fund which has been used to assist a number of Japanese to prepare in colleges and seminaries in the U. S. for leadership in the work in Japan. At the present time, for example, Mr. Shin-ichiro Kanai, a professor of Meiji Gakuin and a son of one of our pastors, is studying at Wisconsin University, specializing in labor economics. During the past year, Professor and Mrs. Y. Miyake who are in charge of the Music School at Ferris Seminary, Yokohama, training music teachers for the schools in Japan, were here studying church music in the United States after spending a year studying in the School of Sacred Music in Cologne, Germany. Mrs. Miyake is an accomplished artist and was the soloist in The Messiah at Hope College. She also gave concerts in Central College and in some of our churches. Professor Tatsuo Wakabayashi, who is in charge of the School of Social Work in Meiji Gakuin, one of the three schools of its kind in Japan, has been studying social work in the United States for the last six months. Next fall one of the promising young ministers of the Church, who has already had his seminary training, will take postgraduate work in Princeton Seminary. The varied character of the work being done by these students who have been studying in the U. S. illustrates the fact that our work in a nonChristian country such as Japan requires a well balanced program designed to develop Christian laymen in every department of life. The schools with which we are related are thus an important part of our evangelistic program. Our missionaries have found this year again many rewarding opportunities for witness there. One of them writes of a second year high school boy in Meiji Gakuin who has deeply felt the burden of his unsaved classmates and has determined to win them to Christ. With one of his cousins he has also organized a children’s meeting for the children of his neighborhood in the country, meeting three times a week in the garden of the local Shinto shrine. This is simply an illustra tion of what is happening many times in our schools among the students and through the students in their outreach in the community. It is important that the Christian schools should be well equipped for their work, not only that good work may be done, but as an example to the community that Christian institutions are worthy of respect. Ferris Seminary has a comparatively new building since the earthquake of 1923.

Sturges Seminary in Shimonoseki has a new building built in place of the old buildings destroyed in the war. The one school with which we are related that badly needs new equipment is Meiji Gakuin. Dr. Charles Leber of the Presbyterian Board recently visited Meiji Gakuin and he writes as follows: “I’ve not seen an institution in which we cooperate with a combination of greater history, stronger potential, and more deplorable equipment than Meiji Gakuin. It has helped produce some of the great Christian leaders in Japan. Deep missionary and Japanese Christian devo tion has gone into it over the years. The curriculum is of high quality and distinctively Christian. Many boys and girls and young men and women find a strong Christian faith in Meiji Gakuin. There is vision and statesmanship in the program but most of the buildings, equipment and staff residences are a wreck and a shame.” Practically nothing has been done to improve the equipment of the school for several decades. This has been referred to in the reports but a renovation and building plan is now under way. This year the library building is to be erected on a former naval burial ground contiguous to the school, which has recently been acquired. A vigorous campaign is being carried on in Japan among the alumni and friends of the school and the program for reconstruction is part of the special capital funds campaign which is seeking the support of this Synod. An educational institution such as this can be of value in the program of evangelism only as it is solidly related to the Church. Dr. Torn Matsumoto reports that in an actual survey of the junior high school it was found that 82% of the students were in church on Sunday morning. In order to understand this figure, we need to remember that the great majority of these students come from non-Christian homes and are not yet Christians. The Church of Christ continues to grow in numbers and in spiritual power. A very significant meeting of the Church was held last autumn. There were present 1,016 preachers, 1,028 lay members and eighty-one missionaries. It was the largest conference the Church of Christ in Japan has ever held. The addresses were centered on the theme of the Holy Spirit, using the texts Acts 1:8, Luke 12:49 and John 20:22. The discussions revealed the deep concern for the evangelization of Japan. A brief quota tion from the statement of the conference will illustrate this: “We are filled with deep regret and surprise in the sight of God as we realize the slow progress in evangelism in Japan. Even though we face special diffi culties caused by our peculiar social and religious tradition, we must ask, have we really confessed and preached Christ, our Saviour, and have we conducted ourselves in a manner worthy of our mission? We should first repent because our own lack of faith is the reason why our evangelism has not been as spiritual, vital or powerful as it should have been.” The Church is, year by year, becoming better established. Regulations with regard to the missionaries’ relation to the Church have been adopted so that missionaries have a definite standing in church assemblies. The

financial statement of the Church under date of November 1, 1953 shows that the church has raised 83% of its total budget, only 17% coming from abroad. When one takes into account the extreme devastation of the war and the poverty of Japan in these postwar years, this is truly a remarkable achievement. A broad program of production of Christian literature has been carried out for the last few years and in addition to translations of Christian books published abroad, indigenous literature for evangelism and Christian nurture is being produced on a significant scale. The building for the Chiistian Center in Fukuoka has recently been completed and the program of newspaper evangelism is in full swing. During one month last year, Yen 85,000 worth of religious books were sold through the book store. In association with the Center there has been a program of broadcast evangelism through the use of visual aids. Mr. William Sheets has been in charge of that program for the last three years, touring the whole of the southern island and portions of Honshu with “The King of Kings” and other Christian films. These have been viewed by thousands with deep attention, many of whom have become earnest inquirers. Mr. Sheets’ term expires this year and he is planning to return to the U. S. Other plans will need to be made for the carrying on of this work. The recent missionaiy recruits are rapidly getting into the work. The Rev. Glenn Bruggers, under the sponsorship of the pastors in Kagoshima, has developed a series of Bible classes in Kagoshima City and the various centers in the province in which, in the course of one week, he comes in touch with 200 different young people, ranging in age from high school to university students. The Rev. Russell Norden will spend his first year as an evangelistic missionary in the country in association with Mr. Moore, beginning this fall. The Rev. John Hesselink and the Rev. Paul Tanis are continuing their study of the language in Tokyo. Miss Suzanne Brink is reaching youth of all ages, from the kinder garten where she teaches English, to the University where she holds Bible classes. One of the features of the capital fund referred to above is the provi sion of residences and suitable evangelistic equipment for these new missionaries. So we are moving ahead in the great task of evangelism, using many channels of approach, especially in work with the youth of Japan. We feel that great things will be achieved for the Kingdom as these young folk come to maturity in faith and in influence. Our missionaries are steadily witnessing with eyes to the future, so that the Lord of the Harvest may through them work His great purposes in Japan.

Groups of vibrant young people represent the reservoir from which will rise up the future church leaders and missionaries.

6. Home Base he Board of F oreign M issions is made up of representatives of the I Church charged with the responsibility of administering the Churchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s I work abroad. The Board thus is related to the Church at home and to the missionaries and churches abroad. In order to discharge its function properly, it must be closely related to the Church here, it must interpret the situation accurately and honestly and must maintain suitable relationÂ ship with the missionaries abroad and with the other agencies on the field. This year we feel these functions have been adequately discharged. The members of the Board have participated fully in the decisions made. In order to do this, it has been necessary to hold three regular meetings fully attended by the membership of the Board. A number of important administrative decisions have been made. The pension plan which has been in operation for a number of years has been revised to bring it in line with the present situation and in cooperation with the Board of Pensions.* The missionaries who left the service without reaching the age of retirement have been put on a pension plan in suitable proportion to the number of years of service. The policy with regard to special gifts outside the Board budget has been worked out and the fields are now engaged in making the detailed application of this plan to their situation. It will mean that there will be special opportunity projects presented with the approval of the agencies on the>field and the Board for contribution on the part of those who wish to give some special gift to their missionaries or to some specific piece of work. The policy with regard to automobiles used on the field has also been worked out. It is felt by the Board that if automobiles are required

* O n th e b a s is of a n a c tu a ria l s c h ed u le c a llin g for a dow n p a y m e n t of $100,000.

in the service, they should be requested by the proper field agencies and presented to the Church through the regular budget. They should then become the property of the Board. There are a good many facets in this program which it is impossible to go into in a report of this kind but we are very happy that a definite policy has been adopted. One of the aspects of the Boardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s responsibility in its relation to the missionaries and the field agencies looks to maintaining proper morale in the work and intelligent information on which decisions can be made. This requires frequent visits to the field. This year there have been two such deputations â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the one in connection with the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Arcot Mission in which Dr. Luben, the Secretary for the field, the Rev. Harvey Hoffman, the President of the Board, and Miss Marion Van Horne of the Youth Department visited India and Arabia. Later in the year Miss Ruth Ransom, Secretary for the ChinaPhilippine work, visited the Philippines. This was particularly necessary in view of the policy decisions which needed to be made with regard to the work in the Philippines. The work was begun by missionaries who were unable to return to China with a view to useful service among Amoy-speaking Chinese pending the reopening of China to missionary work. The question has naturally arisen as to whether this field is to be regarded as a field on a par with the others and subject to continued support. It was important that there be a full discussion of the problem by the Secretary for the field before the question was decided by the Board. One of the lay members of the Board at the February meeting made a special point of the fact that these deputations are a necessity in the direction of the work and hoped that there might be a deputation next year in which the Treasurer of the Board could visit all the fields. This is under serious consideration. We are happy that it was possible to hold a conference of furloughed missionaries in the autumn when the secretaries could discuss with them their problems and arrange for deputation work. It has been felt for some time that there should be this kind of exchange of information and the conference was found most satisfactory. Missionaries returning from the field have naturally gotten somewhat out of touch with what has been happening with the Church at home and furthermore, a missionary of one field is not familiar with the problems of the other fields. It is thereÂ fore important that this kind of a conference should be held and it is planned to continue this as a regular part of the yearly program. Three new missionaries will sail during the coming year. Requests, of course, continue to come from the field for more recruits, some of them as replacements. Young people in the Church are continuing to volunteer for missionary service. At the February meeting of the Board action was taken that no more candidates be appointed for 1954 or 1955

until the financial situation of the Board is known at the end of each year. The Board recognizes the instruction of the last General Synod to appoint candidates as they come forward and hopes contributions from the churches will be sufficient to make this possible. The inflationary situation which is a world wide phenomenon- has made it necessary to re-study the salaries of missionaries. Some changes have been made in Africa, Japan and Arabia and the whole situation is under review. Fortunately, there are government studies of the cost of living in most of the centers in which we have work which can be used as a guide in making decisions. The Board is making a study of its work in education and promotion. Its committee in this area has been studying its relation to the classical agents and the whole matter of shares for the support of missionaries. It is also considering the question of suitable literature for use in the churches. The picture, “The Village of the Poor,” filmed for the Broad casting and Film Commission of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America, is based on our own Reformed work in Deenabandupuram. The Board has purchased ten copies of the film and is planning with the classical agents in each classis for a showing in every church during the coming year. A change has been made in the program of the Sewing Guild whereby the societies are to concentrate on money gifts to supply the needs of our missionaries and the various institutions. These gifts are to take the place of the usual large shipments of supplies abroad since many things can be bought on the field. A comparatively small quantity of hospital supplies was prepared by the few societies that prefer to sew and will be shipped out this spring. Special orders for the missionaries will, of course, be filled upon request. In this way the greater part of the overhead for the rental of the warehouse, labor charges, the cost of packing cases, duty and shipping costs, will be eliminated. This will mean that much more can be purchased locally for the needs of the work. The Department of Women’s Work of the Mission Boards is now two years old. Many important things have been accomplished. The first By-Laws for the Department are under discussion and in order to have closer relationships with the Mission Boards the ten standing committees have been reorganized and new chairmen appointed. There is an in creased membership in women’s societies in the churches and the response to the financial needs of the Board in 1953 showed a greater interest in the missionary enterprise of the Chinch and in the advance ment of God’s Kingdom. Increase in giving from women’s groups was from $99,548 in 1952 to $108,993.64 in 1953. During the year two missionaries who served in the Arabian Mission were called home. Mrs. Gerrit J. Pennings died April 8, 1954 in Orange City after a long illness. She served in the Arabian Mission from 1912

to 1951, for the first eight years as a single missionary. Dr. Louis P. Dame died in Rockford, Illinois on July 6, 1953. Dr. Dame gave distinguished service to the Arabian Mission from 1918 to 1936 when his service termiÂ nated. Their Christian friends here and in Arabia hold them in grateful memory. The Board requests the Synod to consider amendments to the Constitution to provide for the organizational meeting of the Board in October instead of in June as at the present time. It has been found that the appointment of committees and the election of officers so soon after the meeting of General Synod creates some difficulty and it has been felt that it would be preferable to delay the organization of the Board until October. This would make it necessary to make a change in the term of membership beginning in October rather than with the date of Synod. The Board has been very fortunate in those who have served in the office through the years. Since the last report was written, Miss Helen L. Brokaw, who served as faithful secretary successively to Dr. Potter and Dr. Shafer, has retired. She dedicated her active life to the service of foreign missions in the office of the Board, knew all the missionaries and their children, and is greatly missed in the Board rooms. The members of the Board have considered it a real privilege to share in this important work of the Reformed Church and pray for Godâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s continued blessing upon all the departments of the work.

Miss Ransom, in charge of missionary personnel for the Board congratulates Dr. and Mrs. Bernard L. Draper (under appointment to Arabia) and Rev. and Airs. Paul E. Hostetter (under appointment to Africa) who were accepted as missionaries at the October Board meeting.

1. Missionary Personnel H J| issionaries of the Board are listed below to give accurate informal l / l tion to General Synod. On May 1, 1954 there are 164 missionaries in 1*1 active service of the Board. Thirty-six men are ordained; 23 unor dained (10 of these are doctors); 57 are married women (3 of them are doctors and 6 of them are nurses) and 48 are unmarried women. Of the unmarried women 3 are doctors; 16 are nurses and 29 are teachers and specialists in Christian Education. There are 9 short term missionaries in Japan and Arabia. There are 32 emeritus missionaries on the roll of the Board. There are also 5 under appointment and 2 under re-appoint ment who are still in the United States. It is hoped that 5 of these will sail during the coming year. There are 4 on leave of absence. BETURNED TO THE FIELD: To the Philippines —Miss Ruth Broekema. To India — Miss Albertha Biegel; Rev. and Mrs. Cornie A. De Bruin; Miss Lillian Smies; Rev. and Mrs. Harold J. Vande Berg; Rev. and Mrs. Herbert E. Van Vranken; Miss Marjorie A. Van Vranken; Miss Doris A. Wells. To Japan —Mr. Theodore Flaherty; Miss Helen Zander. To Arabia —Dr. and Mrs. Maurice M. Heusinkveld. To U.M.I. —Rev. and Mrs. Bernard D. Hakken. To Africa —Rev. and Mrs. C. Lee Crandall; Miss Wilma Kats.

AT HOME ON FURLOUGH: From China —Miss Elizabeth G. Bruce; Dr. and Mrs. Richard Hofstra; Rev. and Mrs. Edwin W. Koeppe; Dr. and Mrs. Henry A. Poppen. From India —Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin De Vries. From Japan —Rev. and Mrs. John C. de Maagd. From Arabia —Rev. and Mrs. George Gosselink; Dr. and Mrs. Gerald Nykerk. From Africa —Miss Lillian Huisken. ON LEAVE OF ABSENCE: Dr. and Mrs. Theodore V. Oltman; Mrs. Alma M. Vander Meet; Miss Florence Walvoord. NEW MISSIONARIES: In Japan —Mrs. Theodore E. Flaherty; Rev. and Mrs. I. John Hesselink; Rev. and Mrs. Russell L. Norden; Miss Verlaine R. Siter; Rev. and Mrs. Paul H. Tanis. In Arabia —Rev. and Mrs. James W. Dunham. In Africa —Miss Amy I. Te Selle. APPOINTEES TO SAIL WITLIIN THE YEAR: To Arabia —Miss Lavina C. Hoogeveen. To Africa —Rev. and Mrs. Paul E. Hostetter. APPOINTEES ACCEPTED: To Arabia —Mr. and Mrs. Bernard L. Draper; Miss Lavina C. Hoogeveen. To Africa —Rev. and Mrs. Paul E. Hostetter. APPOINTMENTS REQUESTED BY THE MISSIONS: At the February meeting of the Board it was voted that no further candidates be appointed for 1954 or 1955 until the financial results are known at the end of each year and that in connection with this action it be pointed out that the Board recognizes the instruction of the last General Synod that it appoint candidates as they come forward but that this cannot be done unless there is a sufficient increase in contributions from the

churches. Last year the Board received from the field agencies requests for at least 44 new missionaries. This number of requests has not dimin ished but the Board has prepared the following list of replacements and priority appointments: For India —1 evangelistic family. For Japan —2 ( Beplacements —1 for short term). For Arabia —2 (Women teachers —replacements). 1 missionary —short term. For U.M.I. —1 evangelistic couple. For Africa —1 evangelistic family for translations.

8. Finances “The General Synod of the Reformed Church in America, joyfully accepting the command of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, to go into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature and acknowledging with gratitude what God has been pleased to accom plish through the centuries as the Church has followed this injunction, adopts this Constitution for its Board of Foreign Missions.” With this ringing preamble to the Constitution of the Board of Foreign Missions the General Synod in 1857 declared that the Church hailed its world-wide evangelistic responsibilities with gratitude and joy. During the decades the Church has maintained this world-wide perspective in its prayers and goals. These are the facts for 1953 The year 1953 again witnessed a support by the Church to foreign missions which exceeded previous levels. The Board rejoices with the Church in this evidence of spiritual performance. The Board, however, feels that the Church would wish to know that while its general benevolence giving in 1953 increased by 12%, the increase of its giving to foreign missions was 4.8%. Last year the Church increased its total benevolent giving by $308,815.82 of which the Board of Foreign Missions received $39,317.37. The Board of Foreign Missions failed to meet its mini mum budget by $13,170.09. What do these facts mean? Some ten missionary families continue to dwell in temporary, rented dwellings because the required houses could not be built. There have been further delays in the building program over seas; older buildings can not be repaired; needed evangelistic equip ment can not be obtained. New missionaries in 1954 and 1955 can be appointed only if the financial returns at the end of each fiscal year permit. In the meanwhile — Fifty percent of the Board’s roster of active missionaries have been appointed in the post-war period; they are now entering into the period of maximum usefulness. A frightening atomic era gives cumulative proof that true salvation is in none other than Jesus Christ, in His redeeming power for all men. The younger overseas churches with which we are associated have committed themselves to unprecedented evangelistic programs and seek our support.

FURTHER INFORMATION ON FINANCES Field Expenditures

Africa Mission___________________ ____ $ 39,709.15 Arabia Mission _______________________ 143,913.98 China - Philippine Mission_____________ 66,329.28 India Mission ------------------------------------- 150,677.79 Japan Mission________________________ 145,740.74 United Mission in I r a q ______ ...________ 12,000.00 $558,370.94 This is slightly in excess of what was sent abroad in the previous year. Expenditures for Adm inistration, Prom otion & Cooperation within D enom ination

Because of the fact that its missionaries are resident in many foreign countries, the office of the Board of Foreign Missions in addition to its usual administrative responsibilities provides for certain services for its missionaries. The administrative costs of the Board were $94,466.61 or 9.9% of the total income; this percentage of income devoted to adminis trative costs compares favorably with that of other Protestant foreign mission agencies. As a general rule, the larger denominations have lower administrative costs than the smaller denominations. This year a distinc tion has been made between the costs of promotion and cooperation within the denomination. The cost of the promotional effort of the Board was $15,495.12 consisting of 1.6% of income. The cost of cooperation within the denomination (Department of Women’s Work, Youth Depart ment, Children’s Department, etc.) was $26,852.03 or 2.8% of the income of the Board. All these figures compare favorably with the expenditures of last year. P er Capita Giving to the W ork o f the Board

There has been no sensational increase in the per capita giving of the membership of the church in the last three years. 1941 —$1.75 per member 1951 —$4.78 per member 1952 —$4.82 per member 1953 —$4.86 per member Comparison o f 1952 and 1953 Incom e from Particular Synods 1952

Particular Particular Particular Particular Particular

Synod of Albany_____ $ 49,260.21 Synod of Chicago____ 337,600.60 Synod of Iow a_______ 185,640.76 Synod of New Jersey_ 95,388.07 Synod of New Y ork__ 73,208.22 $741,097.86

1953

$ 52,635.65 367,610.91 193,557.15 100,008.12 80,717.19 $794,529.02

In crea se

7 % 8.8% 10.3% 5 % 10 % 7 %

I. F or the Regular W ork of the Board:

A. Income from Living Sources: Churches, S.S. & Y.P.S.. $615,205.34 Individuals ................. 11,890.83 Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Societies . . . . 108,993.64 ------------- $735,089.81 B. Income from Non-Living Sources: Interest on Funds Available for General Work of the Board......... Miscellaneous Income....................... Matured Conditional Gifts.................

35,169.79 565.68 4,500.00 $775,325.28

II. F or Special O bjects Outside Budget: A. Income from Living Sources: Churches, S.S. & Y.P.S.. $ 42,338.33 Individuals ................. 19,982.08 Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Societies . . . . 28,991.71 R.C.A. World Service Fund ....................... 26,568.13 ------------- $117,880.25 B. Income from Non-Living Sources: Legacies .......................................... Interest and Appreciation on Funds not Available for General Work of the Board ....................................

31,840.66 21,121.10 170,842.01

Total Receipts.....................................................

$946,167.29

1953 Total Income from Living Sources: For the Regular Work of the Board .................................... $735,089.81 For Special Objects Outside the Budget .................................. 117,880.25 852,970.06 1952 Total Income from Living Sources. . .

813,652.69

Gain in Contributions from Living Sources

39,317.37

Gain in Total Receipts from All Sources. . .

28,977.02

TABULAR STATEMENT OF RECEIPTS THRU CHURCHES AND ORGANIZATIONS DECEMBER 31, 1953

CHURCHES

C h u rc h e s a n d M e n ’s S ocieties

Y oung P e o p le ’s S o cie tie s

S u n d ay S ch o o ls

D e p t, o f W o m e n ’s W o rk

S p ecial

T o ta l

210 95 70 66 10 110 10 5 265

3,847 951 470 503 10 605 121 47 1,461 101 243 140 44 15 20 8 182 8,772

C L A S S IS O F A L B A N Y 100 54 50 25

637 50 75 00

00 81 00 00

2,900 726 350 224

00 18 00 00

360 96 12 920 40 40 110 34

00 90 01 00 00 15 15 00

129 50 40 00 30 00

5,813 39

429 31

374 31 470 00

374 30 58 00

188 75 5 00

135 10 30 146 21 133 10 10

00 00 00 75 00 64 00 00

00 75 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

40 00 20 00 15' 00 20 00

8 00 13 00

50 74 00 75 00 00 90 01 25 10 79 15 00 00 00 00 53 72

177 53 1,575 27

5 00 941 75

145 00 66 25

20 00

913 61 594 25

30 95

152 285 357 758

95 00 65 37

807 648 2,712 210 1,303 2,386 1,921 237 459 1,040 1,151 350 354 16,644

16 50 50 78 09 50 72 00 00 46 68 00 19 41

271 528 1,075 275 215 50 463 180 27 3,086

58 27 00 00 00 00 50 38 50 23

C L A S S IS O F B E R G E N C h e rry H ill, N o . H a c k e n s a c k . .. C h u rc h o n th e H ill, C lin to n , A v e n u e , B ergenfield. .. E n g lew o o d , H . A ve.

H a rrin g to n P a rk , C o m m u n ity .

N e ig h b o rh o o d , R id g efield P a rk

120 100 160 80

00 00 00 00

744 472 1,800 150 1,070 1,800 1,380 100 140 454 870 350

16 30 00 78 00 00 18 00 00 38 18 00

10,636 29

50 00 12 00 25 00

140 50 82 112 175

00 00 81 00 74

19 00 3 20 37 50

80 00 192 12 86 50

1,438 47

59 70

2 13S 137 450

00 00 65 00

48 00 173 00 610 00 10 00 56 00 273 00 194 00 6 2 :0 0 120 00 158 45 130 00 354 19 3,124 54

48 00 184 37 15 00 125 00 94 201 171 75 119 235 65

28 50 80 00 00 51 00

1,385 41

C L A S S IS O F SOU TH BERG EN

F a ith V a n V o rs t (J e rs e y C ity )..

T o ta l.........................................

58 27 00 00 00 00 50 78

30 00 100 00

1,881 13

255 00

241 208 660 120 120 50 398 82

60 00 40 00 25 00

195 330 95 55

00 00 00 00

25 00 85 00

40 25 27 767

00 00 50 50

25 00 47 60 182 60

CHURCHES

C h u rc h e s a n d M e n ’s S ocieties

S u n d ay S ch o o ls

Y oung P e o p le ’s S ocieties

D ep t, o f W o m e n ’s W o rk

33 00

150 00

740 00 890 00

S pecial

T o ta l

C L A S S IS O F C E N T R A L C A L IF O R N IA M o d e s to , P a ra d is e C o m m u n ity S a c ra m e n to , C h u rc h o f C h r i s t .

32 02 855 93 25 00 86

55 34 65 00 38 00

165 00 U n io n M e e tin g s............................. 1,077 95

33 00

1,318 55 1,400 00 3,850 00

360 00

48 00

158 34

87 1,103 25 38

36 93 00 86

740 00 2,160 15

C L A S S IS O F S O U T H E R N C A L IF O R N IA 724 10 274 00

B ellflow er, M a y fa ir 100 00 40 00 1,740 00 L o s A n g ele s, P a rk H ill C o lleg ia te ......................... N o rw a lk M a n o r C o m m u n ity ....

27 05 525 00 250 00

150 00 150 00

5 00

16 09 10 00 9,276 69

120 00 150 00

97 00 00 00

12 50 25 00

69 54 1,924 51

90 SO

15 51 200 5 136

00 00 00 00 41

10 00 150 16 1,835 67

2,558 65 2.030 00 4,055 00 310 78

300 85 44 100 875 175

S a n ta A n a , P a rk V iew U n io n M e e tin g s .............................

108 00 205 00

10 00

1,389 84

2,040 85 87 173 1,354 705

02 50 51 00

160 16 14.517 21

C L A S S IS O F C A S C A D E S B o ttre l C o m m u n ity ...................... C a lg a ry M is s i o n ............................ C o c h ra n e C o m m u n ity ................ E d m o n to n ........................................ H o p e, L e th b rid g e .........................

15 39 11 136 80 30 3,006 200 161 311 1,404 700

88 00 00 30 00 05 06 00 68 14 15 00

18 00

3 21 800 00

6,095 26

984 26

125 47

700 00

350 00 500 00 350 00

135 58

66 28 96 77

65 70 74 17 35 65

U n io n M e e tin g s .............................

350 60 35 39 141

00 50 00 31 80

61 11 687 72

2 00 00 9 65 70 15 4 6 4 02

38 39 11 136 80 33 4,249 260 467 479 1,725 709 131 8,356

88 00 00 30 00 26 02 50 96 25 65 65 26 73

366 1,335 538 7,886 2.417 4,313 1,429 2,448 3,866 9,807 30 5,540 408 18 2,375 42,780

20 56 58 00 35 25 00 33 00 96 00 00 20 49 60 52

C L A S S IS O F C H IC A G O

6,375 2,175 2,700 1,250 1,520 2,722 6,364

00 00 25 00 00 80 75

C h ic a g o , T r in ity ............................ R iv e rd a le , I v a n h o e ...................... S tic k n ey , F a ith C o m m u n ity ....

4,450 00 395 00 18 49

T o t a l..........................................

28,671 29

1,500 144 700 459 511 30 1,000

00 00 00 79 26 00 00

5,545 05

96 35 8 00

25 53 501 90 95

00 00 00 00 on

16 20 110 56 1,010 00 56 00 35 00

50 00

82 58 135 00 30 00

25 00 3 20

50 on 10 00

15 00

700 00 1,018 13

1,230 10 2,301 68

445 50 5,244 37

498 41 2,901 95

CHURCHES

C h u rc h e s a n d M e n ’s S ocieties

Y oung P e o p le ’s S ocieties

S u n d ay S ch o o ls

D e p t, o f W o m e n ’s W o rk

S p ecial

120 25 10 100 349 65 85 160 337 40 40 175

18 15 47 231 210 121 25 52 95 17 103 39

T o ta l

C L A S S IS O F D A K O T A 372 264 81 1,246 784 1.445 106 1,047 851 142 110 163 M o n ro e , S a n d h a m M e m o r i a l... U n io n M e e tin g s ............................. T o t a l.................... .....................

34 43 80 37 43 11 65 25 86 54 29 53

68 00 116 78 40 00 25 20 213 05 193 83 91 16 100 00

8 05 12 50 156 9 8 36 6 25

40 76 00 80 68 00

11 20

00 00 00 00 37 00 80 00 50 00 00 00

129 35

16 66

325 00 50 00 35 40

100 00

7,027 00

948 02

290 39

41 74 800 00 140 00

60 00 184 00

48 00

256 91

38 14 14 45

00 00 80 80 00 23 00 00 00 00 00 80

72 00 149 17 1,728 84

37 00 1,141 98

518 384 139 1,734 1,470 1,639 294 1,291 1,522 199 447 480 100 470 222 35 186 11,136

39 93 60 57 34 34 25 13 41 54 12 69 00 35 00 40 17 23

56 1,233 454 123 180 320 119 20 192 736 716 229 884 408 228 1,445 773 191 164 8,478

74 00 00 09 75 05 45 00 53 50 50 73 01 76 16 36 80 71 15 29

C L A S S IS O F G E R M A N IA

37 34 D e m p s te r........................................... 167 350 436 150 773 299 97 997 424 98 U n io n M e e tin g s ............................. T o t a l..........................................

53 00 50 00 81 55 65 40 00 88

5,033 97

175 64 6 24

00 73 95 21

240 85 45 165

00 00 75 00

15 00

50 00

15 00

50 00 65 00

8 00 5 00

187 96 22 35

49 80 5 00

777 79

183 14

25 00 110 00 250 00 164 15 1,249 90

15 85 45 40 15 25 40 20 25 321 40 15 95 55 130 150 50 65

00 00 00 00 75 00 00 00 00 50 00 00 25 00 51 00 00 48

1,233 49

C h u rc h e s a n d M e n â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s S o cie tie s

S unday S ch o o ls

Y oung P e o p le â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s S ocieties

D e p t, o f W o m e n â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s W o rk

S p ecial

T o ta l

C L A S S IS O F R A P ID S

g r a n d

A d a ..................................................... A lle n d a le .......................................... B yron C e n te r ................................... C a s n o v ia ............................................ C o rin th ............................................. D u n n v ille ......................................... E v e r g la d e ......................................... G ra n d R a p id s, T h i r d .................. G ra n d R a p id s, F o u r t h ................ G ra n d R a p id s, F i f t h ................... G ra n d R a p id s, S e v e n t h .............. G ra n d R a p id s, E i g h t h ................ G ra n d R ap id s, N in th ................. G ra n d R a p id s, A b e rd e e n ........... G ra n d R a p id s, B e th a n y ............... G ra n d R ap id s, B e t h e l................. G ra n d R a p id s, B ev e rly ................ G ra n d R a p id s, C a lv a ry ................ G ra n d R a p id s, C e n t r a l ............... G ra n d R a p id s, F a irv ie w .............. G ra n d R a p id s, F a i t h .................... G ra n d R a p id s, G a rfield P a rk ... G ra n d R a p id s, G r a c e .................. G ra n d R a p id s, H o m e A c r e s .... G ra n d R a p id s, H o p e .................... G ra n d R a p id s, I m m a n u e l......... G ra n d R a p id s, K n a p p A v en u e . G ra n d R a p id s, O a k d a le P a r k ... G ra n d R a p id s, R ic h m o n d ......... G ra n d R a p id s, T rin ity ................. G ra n d v ille , F i r s t ............................ G ra n d v ille , O liv e t......................... G r a n t ......................... S ta n d a le ..................... S t. C a th e rin e , F irs t U n io n M e e tin g s ...... T o t a l..................

350 00 440 11 494 38

950 00 12 16

40 138 115 10 80

00 75 00 00 00

180 215 400 160 16S 90 25 261 218 75 363 140 60 50 435 120 145 221 250 20 65 75 122 580 25 20 10

50 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 87 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 85 00 41 00 00 00

127 00 75 00 67 20 527 55

16 76 1,300 700 2.929 1.930 4,377 40 350 3,201 1,740 1,080 1,965 2,800 1,558 245 2,385 1,600 1,400 2,480 2,836 94 2,103 2,040 760 2,-180

00 00 45 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 42 00 35 00 07 00 00 00 81 75 35 00 00 00

196 41 70 00 18 15 43,332 01

200 00 300 00

23 00

955 31 15 00 1,600 00 350 00 1,400 00 150 00

5 00

300 00

20 00 4 80

100 1,152 700 175

00 61 00 00

350 113 35 50 186 1,032 700 21

00 00 00 00 18 13 00 75

11,170 98

31 00

36 00 8 00

154 96

1,886 45 6,762 83

35 00 6 75 90 00 206 70 26 59 625 9 102 410 593

00 00 00 30 92 00 12

315 151 110 135

00 35 36 73

37 03 164 61 34 00 210 00 85 00

700 00 4,903 62

517 653 1,626 10 619 16 200 1,838 921 4,374 2,105 6,348 480 401 4 ,926 2,733 1.164 2,752 3,354 2,211 395 4,287 2,602 1,830 2,836 3,436 264 2,367 2,165 1,102 4,038 818 238 80 18 2,586

00 86 58 00 71 76 00 50 75 76 00 70 00 00 00 00 30 21 80 47 00 68 35 36 73 81 78 96 85 18 54 00 16 00 15 45

66,324 40

C L A S S IS O F G R E E N E A t h e n s ...................... C a t s k i l l ..................... C o x sa c k ie , F ir s t.... C o x sack ie, S eco n d K is k a to m ................. L e e d s ......................... U n io n M e e tin g s .... T o t a l.................

119 425 137 109 32 5

25 00 80 18 81 02

15 00 20 00

829 06

35 00

6 40

75 00 2 00 35 10 100 222

00 00 78 78

90 1,116 556 385 385 105 94 93 220 360 125 455 220 4,2 0 4

00 82 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 82

44 146 20 6

00 25 00 50

10 00 11 75 238 50

163 652 159 115 82 45 112 1,331

25 65 80 68 81 02 53 74

1,941 1,356 7,020 4,489 4,210 2,6 9 2 3,778 170 2,228 2,278 1,768 8,617 1,786

74 65 78 30 50 86 50 40 00 58 90 13 00

C L A S S IS O F H O L L A N D B e e c h w o o d ......... E b e n e z e r ............. H o lla n d , F irs t ... H o lla n d , T h ird . H o lla n d , F o u rth H o lla n d , S ix th H o lla n d , B e t h e l. C a lv a ry ............... C e n tra l P a r k ...... H o lla n d , H o p e ... M a p le w o o d ........ H o lla n d , T rin ity U n io n M eetin g s T o t a l.............

800 00

983 239 5,555 3,396 2,257 2,080 3,171

11 83 65 34 90 00 50

1,600 1,700 1,195 7,246 500

00 00 00 29 00

136 48 350 00 699 73

29,925 62

4,891 21

700 105 1,400 350 350

00 00 00 00 00

19 00

38 00

5 00 166 00 228 00

68 63 190 602 167 157 125 77 408 82 93 216 900 3,089

13 96 60 86 00 40 00 10 90 11 00 69

42,339 34

C L A S S IS O F H U D S O N C la v e ra c k ..................................... G a lla tin ........................................ G e rm a n to w n ............................... G r e e n p o r t ................................... H u d so n , F i r s t ............................ L in lith g o , L iv in g sto n , N . Y .. L iv in g sto n M e m o ria l, L in lith g o , N . Y ..................... M e lle n v ille ................................... P h ilm o n t..................................... W e st C o p a k e .............................. U n io n M e e tin g s ........................ T o t a l.....................................

315 10 131 50 1,845 175

00 00 83 00 53 20

72 63 231 40

93 19 55 00

30 00 28 00 45 46 53 00

3 20

50 23 140 150 190 85

00 00 00 00 00 65

17 15 128 29

31 00 35 49

395 33 317 260 2,163 346

00 00 14 46 88 54

86 63 365 40 233

87 19 77 00 00

8 94

5 00

"69 22

"65 00 78 00

155 00

2,935 23

234 62

3 20

786 65

345 15

00 63 30 00 00 00 52 68 00 00 00 00 34 89 36

188 55 999 02 350 00

9 20 36 52 15 00

4,3 0 4 85

C L A S S IS O F I L L IA N A D a n f o r th ....................................... A m e ric a n , D e M o t t e ................ D e M o tte , F ir s t........................... R iv e rsid e, H a m m o n d .............. W o o d m a r, H a m m o n d ............ H o m e w o o d .................................. In d ia n a p o lis, C h ris tia n P a rk L a fa y e tte ...................................... L a n sin g , F i r s t ............................. L a n sin g , G r a c e .......................... P h o e n ix , B e th e l......................... R o ss ............................................. S o u th H o lla n d ............................ W i c h e r t ........................................ U n io n M e e tin g s ......................... T o t a l......................................

715 846 1,137 85

80 343 52 1,500

120 190 120

8,251 2,407 518

16,387 72

86 850 1,050 350 350 2,029 655

01 00 00 00 00 62 41

6,908 61

25 10 22 14

00 00 40 40

25 00 65 61 223 13

45 234 130 370

00 40 00 00

67 65 166 76 24 100 855 153 1,353

12 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 86

3,639 38

136 37 48 55 50 315 47 123 240 50 5 80 77

96 00 63 00 00 00 22 00 00 00 00 25 75

1,265 81

957 2,253 1,669 503 75 130 750 260 2,661 1,500 614 575 11,241 3,359 1,872

75 53 30 63

00 00

64 91 40 40

00 00 21 66 22

28,424 65

C L A S S IS O F IL L IN O IS B ailey v ille...................... E lim ................................. F a irv ie w ......................... F o r r e s to n ....................... F u lto n , F ir s t................. F u lto n , S e c o n d ............ F u lto n , T rin ity ............. M o rris o n , E b e n e z e r .. M o rris o n , E m m a n u e l N e w to n , Z io n ............... N o r m a n d a le .................. O reg o n , E b e n e z e r....... P e k in , S e c o n d ............... P e o ria , F ir s t................. R a r i t a n .......................... S ilv er C r e e k .................. S p rin g V a lle y ................ S terlin g , B e t h e l........... U n io n M e e tin g s ..........

400 280 80 870 2,600 1,250 1,072 3,373 413 717 56 727 252 118 323 1,145 692 137 55

00 00 00 00 00 00 40 61 84 68 00 46 21 35 25 00 85 63 55

250 175 60 232 32 429 46 700 336 149

00 00 00 48 07 05 00 00 83 60

6 00 16 00 2 4 00 20 00 41 40

367 50 15 00 75 00 74 91 8 11

5 00

100 175 412 142 121 245 80 835 280 377

00 00 00 50 00 43 00 00 00 00

35 5 10 103 225 50 30 654

00 00 34 00 00 00 00 55

26 20 96 02 43 39 213 25 65 880 30 30

34 00 00 00 00 65

50 50 75 25 49

00 00 00 00 07

30 00

776 726 601 1,260 2,966 1,973 1,283 5,788 1,060 1,316 56 1,129 307 193 501 1,475 866 175 740

20 02 39 98 41 48 40 61 67 33 00 96 21 69 25 00 83 74 10

C h u rc h e s a n d M e n ’s S o c ie tie s

C L A S S IS O F N O R T H L O N G IS L A N D A sto ria , F ir s t................................ A s to ria , S e c o n d ............................ C o lleg e P o in t................................ C o lo n ia l, B a y sid e ........................ D o u g la s to n , C o m m u n ity .......... F a r R o c k a w a y .............................. F lu s h in g .......................................... F lu s h in g , C h u rc h o n th e H ill.. G le n d a le ......................................... G r e e n p o in t..................................... H ic k s v ille ....................................... J a m a ic a , F ir s t............................... J a m a ic a , S t. P a u l’s ..................... K ew G a rd e n s , F ir s t.................... L e v itto w n , C o m m u n ity .............. L o c u st V a lle y ................................ L o n g Isla n d C ity , F i r s t ............. N ew H y d e P a r k ............................ N e w to w n , F ir s t............................. N o r th H e m p s te a d ........................ O y ster B a y ...................................... Q u een s V ill a g e ............................. Q u e e n s b o ro H ill........................... S o u th B u s h w ic k ........................... S te in w a y ........................................... S u n n y s id e ....................................... T rin ity , B ro o k ly n ......................... W e st S a y v ille ................................ W illisto n P a r k ............................... W in fie ld ............................................ U n io n M e e tin g s ............................. T o t a l........................................ .

00 99 00 00 00 00 00 83 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 09 15 00 00

16,523 06

28 17

1,940 700 1,025 243 209 222

39 00 00 86 50 50

12 30

25 00 9 60

20 75

2 00 6 00

350 04 704 31

902 359 551 172 267 55 27 46 227 115 90 50 169

13 00 00 00 01 35 00 00 50 00 00 00 00

6,963 77

37 4 308 3,411

00 00 50 24

340 00 850 00 350 00

2 00

46 90

25 00 47 842 40 476 154 50 458 700

86 47 00 04 00 00 27 00

117 05 126 03

17 50

437 33 181 73

ibb 66

2,793 64

862 14

30 00 17 22 1,262 69

50 00

100 00 56 00 00 00 00 26

50 35 180 35

4 80

364 250 125 1,900 480 141

00 00 00 00 00 72

13,243 96

50 72 00 00 00 00

00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

340 35 12 95 45 00 610 00 2,668 44

35 53

58 75 100 20

10 00 10 00 10 00 343 51 165 75

10 00 40 00

15 00 10 00

77 15 00 69 51

00 00 13 81 95 00 00 50 41

30 00 57 1,077 50 682 317 1,141 860 745 62

86 82 00 07 72 84 75 00 50

662 56

15 00 163 71 5,204 27

13 25 135 50 200 38 239 75 50

15 86 160 35 5 135 172 75

43 57 1,533 314 235 165 2,391 947 170

00 00 00 00 00 00 30 00 00

8 00 1 60

00 00 00 00

75 00

20 00 553 53

43 30

8 00

4,446 3,922 2,701 2,532 3,776 672 131 1,084 3,137 1,199 540 1,018 2,463 54 316 4 918 29,613

103 36 705 58

50 00 150 00

120 00

200 00

52 153 211 55 35 10

135 00

200 00

1,137 75 163 75 800 00

75 850 45 44 18 60 34 100

386 02 12 99 287 54

00 00 00 00 00 96 00 00

00 22 69 80 00 56 26 00 00

88 00

120 00

15 00 1,125 97 631 50 922 00 60 54

39 25 303 55

5 00 10 00 75 00

12 50

122 2,016 700 45 88 225

49 80 41 54

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C L A S S IS O F L A K E E R I E C h a th a m , F ir s t................................ C le v ela n d , B ro o k ly n V illag e C o m m u n ity .................................. C le v e la n d ,C a lv a ry ......................... C le v e la n d , R iv e r s id e .................... D e tro it, G ra c e , D e a r b o r n .......... D e tro it, F a ith C o m m u n ity ......... D e tro it, F ir s t.................................... D e tro it, H o p e ................................. D e tro it, N a rd in P a r k .................... In k s te r, T rin ity ............................... V illag e C h u rc h , W illo w V illa g e ............................ U n io n M e e tin g s .............................. T o ta l...........................................’

275 10 240 8 1,540 2,550 1,125 2,041 2,450 350 60 680 2,000 700 350 618 1,250 40 234

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C L A S S IS O F K A L A M A Z O O A lle g an , F i r s t ................................. B a ttle C re e k , T rin ity ..................... D e c a tu r.............................................. H o p k in s C o m m u n ity ..................... K a la m a z o o , F i r s t .......................... K a la m a z o o , S e c o n d ....................... K a la m a z o o , T h i r d ........................ K a la m a z o o , F o u r th ....................... K a la m a z o o , B e th a n y ..................... K a la m a z o o , B e th e l........................ K a la m a z o o , F a it h .......................... K a la m a z o o , H o p e .......................... K a la m a z o o , N o rth P a r k .............. K a la m a z o o , T rin ity ....................... K a la m a z o o , T w in L a k e s .............. M a r t i n ................................................ P o rta g e , F i r s t .................................. S o u th H av en , H o p e ....................... T h re e O a k s ....................................... T e x a s C o rn e rs M is s io n ................ U n io n M e e tin g s .............................. T o t a l...........................................

S unday S ch o o ls

16 00 30 40

108 27 110 160 70 95 65 55 50 100 31 76 15 60 155 2,339

75 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 50 00 00 71 26

5 00 65 11 94 85 30

00 75 36 00 00

52 84 140 25 30 15 15

00 00 00 00 00

400 30 51 50 1,784

00 00 25 10 26

400 150 15 1,325 643 302 1,152 117 230 1,350 291

26 00 00 97 25 36 88 54 00 59 75

1,110 00 390 105 429 365 156 2,451 525 272 221 17,951

00 00 00 00 00 50 00 97 81 41

C L A S S IS O F S O U T H L O N G IS L A N D B ro o k ly n , F ir s t............................... C a m b r ia H e ig h ts, C o m m u n ity .. C a n a r s ie ............................................. F la tb u s h , F ir s t................................ F la tb u s h , S e c o n d ........................... F la tla n d s ........................................... F o re s t P a r k ...................................... G r a c e .................................................. G ra v e s e n d ......................................... H e m p s te a d ....................................... M e r r illo n ........................................... N e w B ro o k ly n ................................. N ew L o ts ........................................... N o r th B ald w in , C o m m u n ity .... N ew U tr e c h t.................................... S o u th B ro o k ly n .............................. T w e lfth S tre e t................................. W o o d la w n ........................................ U n io n M e e tin g s .............................. T o ta l...........................................

577 21 25 00

75 00 88 27

111 00 26 00 00 20

2 51

900 00 51 45

26 19 218 75

836 15 80 3

1,228 50

10 00 202 00 12 50

50 00 160 00 169 25

20 00 50 00

00 15 52 44

22 50 25 00 25 00

120 00 39 30 164 53

1,136 19 439

20 00 25 30 528 256

21 111 00 2,067 27 25 00 282 00 65 70 20 00 652 113 27

.. ..

105 00 65 00

212 20

25 00 45 00

20 00

25 52 553 598 185 39 209 45

52 64

00 30 53

3,344

272 45

12 50

2,674 46

337 20

6,640 73

507 34 745 1,646 779 161 1,340 575 153 272 650 72 451 382 655

07 08 75 44 00 00 80 00 75 38 85 65 02 37 00

262 00

15 00

170 00

124 36 7 50

50 00

245 225 180 38 250 55 47 30 249 130 150 50

1,078 71 1,980 2,876 1,285 275 1,690 817 335 748 1,614 302 688 786 906 977

C L A S S IS O F M IN N E S O T A C h a n d le r................... C o lto n ........................ E d g e r to n ................... H o lla n d a le ............... L e o ta , B e t h e l......... M o n te v id e o , H o p e. R o s e la n d ................... S ilv e r C re e k ............. S io u x F a lls ............... S la y to n ....................... S te e n .......................... V alley S p rin g s ........ V o l g a ........................ W o o d s to c k ............... W o rth in g to n ............ U n io n M e e tin g s .... T o ta l.................

8,427 16

10 00

20 00 940 325 205 76 100 144 64 400 662

00 00 30 00 00 42 88 00 57

20 00 75 00

27 20

100 00 67 35 260 43 151 50

93 94

3,779 45

281 14

00 00 00 40 00 00 76 00 25 00 00 00

659 74 46 00 43 69 46 25

03 19 17 00

19 91

100 00 500 00

477 15

2,430 41

1,518 05

43 58 75 18 30 40 80 45 58 55 87 65 28 74 50 15

16,436 21

C L A S S IS O F M ONM OUTH A sb u ry P a r k ................ C o ltâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s N e c k .................. F r e e h o ld , S e c o n d ....... K e y p o rt......................... L o n g B ra n c h ............... M id d le to w n ................. O ld B rick , M a rlb o ro . R e d B a n k ...................... U n io n M e e tin g s .........

172 50 900 120 63

10 25 38 5 23

94 53 00 00 30

50 71 58 00

35 00

00 00 50 00 00

15 00 4 0 00 43 90

53 90 57 36 138 50 46 00 25 00 112 50

236 132 1,077 125 132 25 65 133 156

84 89 00 00 30 00 71 00 40

C L A S S IS O F M ONTGOM ERY A m s te rd a m , F ir s t.............. A m s te rd a m . T rin ity ......... C a n a jo h a rie ........................ C ra n e sv ille ........................... C u rry to w n ............................ E p h r a ta h .............................. F lo r id a ................................... F o n d a .................................... F o r t P la in ............................. F u lto n v ille ............................ G l e n ....................................... H a g a m a n , C a lv a ry ............ H e rk im e r .............................. J o h n s to w n ............................ M o h a w k ....................... . O w a sc o ................................. O w a sc o O u t l e t .................. S t. J o h n sv ille , S t. J o h n â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s S p r a k e r s .............................. S to n e A r a b i a ...................... S y racu se, F ir s t.................... S y racu se, S e c o n d .............. T h o u s a n d Is la n d ............... U tic a , C h ris t....................... W e st L e y d e n ....................... U n io n M e e tin g s ................. T o t a l.............................

620 609 50 37

50 00 95 00 50 00

16 13 00 69

110 80 842 45

41 15 90 65 105 15 25

25 43

200 00 146 35 83 44 407 36

200 00

55 45 220 25 65 00 40 00

140 00 380 00 585 20 10 97 85

00 00 00 00 00 00 00

170 00 26 00

26 65 16 83 00

140 00 12 50 54 65

41 50 120 00 6 75 52 61 135 49 56 75 36 36 40 86 71 20 57 16

50 00 50 00 50 00 00 42 00 00 55 00

10 36 25 20 5

00 00 00 00 00

83 62 4,626 28

1,363 02

94 43

996 33

105 835 665 50 131 15 226 1,042 354 217 183 499 456 245 506 71 20 812 62 10 107 261 37 74 5 83

05 16 88 00 30 00 23 95 00 85 44 31 25 00 42 00 00 81 65 16 83 00 50 65 00 62

7,0 8 0 06

C L A S S IS O F M U S K E G O N 700 00 83 42 43 56 4,168 47

2 00

113 120 2,018 4.471 1,910 664 1,050 479 135

16 00 99 81 00 00 00 50 00

18 00 181 02 700 00

200 00 1,413 91 1,550 00 470 00

475 525 200 50

00 00 00 00

27 72 12 50

820 80 950 909 1,945 51 50 24

00 00 00 75 00 14 00 80

550 40 480 425

00 00 44 00

30 00 00 10

651 95

41 16 288 854 243

80 80 60 70 00

75 26 72 135

30 91

90 40 89 00

41 80 48 00

1,050 00 475 07 55 24

2,000 00

295 50 10 554

19 20 18 13 9 92

31 5 347 164 149 75 55 114 201 120 214 295

80 60 10 40 20 44 60 00 95 40 65 40

58 00 162 16 113 45 5 25 90 69 51 11 31 3

00 50 50 20 00 00

10 00 7 0 0 00

30 33 56 52

2 00

172 96 212 70 2,515 01 6,099 2,288 664 2,141

1,002

5 60 673 33

995 164 53 5,374

135 87 205 2,294 2,879

2,012 595 73 934 921 1,199 1,674

2,686 82 53 30

1,373

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A tw o o d , C e n tra l P a r k ................ B a r n a rd ............................................. C o n k li n ............................................ C o o p e rs v ille .................................... D r a y t o n ............................................ F a lm o u th ......................................... F e rry M e m o ria l............................. F re m o n t, F i r s t .............................. G r a n d H a v e n , F ir s t..................... G r a n d H a v e n , S e c o n d ................ G r a n d H a v e n ,H o p e ..................... L a k e to n , B e th e l............................. L u c a s, R e h o b o th .......................... M o d d e r s v ille ................................. M o o rla n d , R a v e n n a ..................... M u sk e g o n , F a i t h ......................... M u sk e g o n , F ir s t............................ M u sk e g o n , F i f t h .......................... M u sk e g o n , C e n tr a l...................... M u sk e g o n , E a st L a w n ................ M u sk e g o n , F e llo w s h ip .............. M u sk e g o n , F o re s t H o m e .......... M u sk e g o n , U n ity ......................... M u sk e g o n H e ig h ts, C o v e n a n t. N e w E r a ......................................... S p rin g L a k e ................................... F a ith , T ra v e rs e C ity .................... E a s t F r u itp o rt, M ic h ................... T r in ity .............................................. S h e ttle r R o a d C h a p e l................ U n io n M e e tin g s ............................

C L A S S IS O F N E W A R K B e lle v ille ........................... B lo o m field, B ro o k d ale. E a s t O ra n g e , F i r s t ........ Irv in g to n , F ir s t............... Irv in g to n , S e c o n d .......... L in d e n ................................ M a p le w o o d , C e n tr a l.... M o n tc la ir H e ig h ts ......... N e w a rk , C h ris t............... N e w a rk , F i r s t ................. N e w a rk , F irs t G e rm a n . N e w a rk , N o r t h ............... N e w a rk , T rin ity .............. N u tle y , F r a n k lin ............. P la in fie ld , M a rc o n n ie r P lain field , N e th e rw o o d . P lain field , T rin ity .......... U n io n M e e tin g s .............. T o t a l............................

160 00 431 38 400 00

55 00

8 00

25 75 55 40 40 115 28

60 00 807 56 170 00 188 00

221 00

170 00 20 00 345 00 248 34 67 525

39 15 44 00

00 00 00 00 00 00 00

6 00

30 00 117 71

215 500 450 172 70 1,074 240 420 28 600

00 38 00 45 00 56 00 71 00 00

210 00

845 00

87 00

1,277 00

60 10 10 40

333 72 232 703 45 6,464

39 15 44 00 39 47

483 30 289 1,061 173 35 1,842 748 32 1,097 1,874

00 00 36 20 62 00 60 74 35 30 46

162 298 24 195 333 90 89 48 8,909

09 42 01 22 65 00 96 46 44

8,684 1,223 3.392 940 376 1,417 54 62 36 60 213 616 65 356 88 69 614 40 232 34 25 120 18,721

13 00 00 00 63 00 20 00 00 53 72 98 00 17 00 58 34 00 00 25 00 67 20

25 00 28 00 5 00

5 00

00 00 45 00

220 00

10 00

150 00

61 25 37 15

138 00 45 39 1,752 39

3,566 92

431 00

200 5 113 800 40 25/ 1,360 530

00 00 96 00 00 00 00 62

200 00

68 00

50 00 49 62

55 00 2 5 0 00 47 00

52 88

325 00 105 00

475 00 1,413 46

125 00

00 00 00 00

709 16

20 00 10 00

C L A S S IS O F N E W B R U N S W IC K B o u n d B ro o k ...................... E a s t M ills to n e .................... G rig g s to w n ........................... H ig h la n d P a r k ................... H ills b o r o u g h ...................... M a g y a r, M a n v ille .............. M e tu c h e n .............................. M id d le b u s h ......................... N o r th B ru n s w ic k .............. N e w B ru n sw ick , F i r s t ..... N ew B ru n sw ick , Second.. N ew B ru n sw ick , S u y d am S tr e e t................ N e w B ru n sw ick , M a g y a r R o ck y H ill............................ S t. P a u lâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, P e rth A m boy.. Six M ile R u n ....................... H u n g a ria n ,S o u th R iver.. S p o ts w o o d ............................. U n io n M e e tin g s .................. T o ta l...............................

62 208 24 54 135 60 51

10 00

297 50 345 00

09 42 01 59 20 00 96

5,559 31

47 20

50 00

16 00

37 00 157 60 32 199 100

60 24 35 80 00

85 00 65 00

15 00 25 00

95 00 168 45

45 63 30 00

38 00 43 46 2,017 41

5 00 808 02

20 00

477 50

15 00 25 00 50 40

10 00

C L A S S IS O F N E W Y O R K T h e M a rb le C o lle g ia te .......... T h e M id d le C o lle g ia te .......... T h e W e st E n d C o lleg ia te.. F o r t W a sh in g to n C o lleg ia te. B eth an y M e m o ria l.................. B rig h to n H e ig h ts ...................... C h a r l e s to n ................................. C h u rc h o f th e C o m fo rte r...... C h u rc h o f th e M a s te r............. E lm e n d o rf C h a p e l.................... F o r d h a m M a n o r ....................... H u g u e n o t P a r k ................ ........ J a p a n e s e C h u rc h o f C h rist. .. M a r in e r â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s H a r b o r ..................... M e lro s e ......................................... M o tt H a v e n ................................ P rin c e B ay ................................... E a s t 6 8 th S tre e t......................... S ta te n Is la n d ......... ..................... U n io n o f H ig h B rid g e ............. W illia m sb rid g e R o a d .............. U n io n M e e tin g s ........................ T o t a l................ .....................

1,600 800 3,000 670 241 902 49 56

00 00 00 00 63 00 20 00

156 331 50 117

53 72 30 00 56

54 225 40 150

58 00 00 00

12 00

88 00

50 00 8,594 52

50 00

12 00 9 60 107 86 10 00 50 00

20 00 289 86

35 60

6,928 400 25 225 125 295 5 5 12 5 25 35

13 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

90 23 317 45

00 00 00 00

10 00 220 00

1 00

34 00

55 32 241 5 96

5 00 2 0 00

319 34

10 00

57 34 10 70 8,326

00 25 00 67 05

00 00 08 00 75

5 00 ................. 15 00 .................. 1,475 17

CHURCHES

C h u rc h e s a n d M e n ’s S o cie tie s

S unday S ch o o ls

Y oung P e o p le ’s S o cie tie s

D e p t, o f W o m e n ’s W o rk

S p ecial

T o ta l

C L A S S IS O F O R A N G E 13 16

7 00

24 39 6 20 31 22 1,323 26 83 20 20 153 229 40 196 89

95 88 52 70 00 09 54 00 64 60

7 00 3 00 81 25 100 00 12 50

69 60 51 06

4 80

52 54 W a llk ill

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

U n io n M eetin g s..............................

720 00 700 00 328 700 153 4 4,851

13 00 50 00 36

120 800 125 50 2,010 194 360

00 00 00 00 00 09 00

36 34 206 34

2 25

350 00 2 25 538 61

7 05

55 640 12 72 10 55 150 80 25 84 5 54 93 1,540

00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 50 00 50 94 69

25 83 165 35 552 35 135 13 17 60

00 50 00 00 88 00 00 00 00 00

105 150 100 1,476

00 00 00 38

10 40 10 00 49 00 18 93 27 50 25 85 20 90

00 00 00 50

50 00 86 26 722 27

20 31 9 31 117 1,630 29 96 20 30 218 988 52 343 127 107 895 865 45 853 705 260 184 7,659

16 39 20 22 59 29 13 02 70 40 09 14 00 43 10 54 00 00 00 13 00 25 20 98

155 893 297 105 3 ,020 339 590 13 22 1,275

00 50 60 00 36 09 00 00 00 77

1,536 1,445 100 9,7 9 2

00 36 00 68

1,861 145 20 2,249 1,658 520 356 788 458 844 327 1,661 203 401 764 579 32 162 2,548 179 455 471 1,571 10 1,173 1,154 108 20,708

94 00 00 20 90 83 42 00 98 97 40 81 08 60 45 20 00 88 95 03 00 00 08 00 83 06 46 07

C L A S S IS O F P A L IS A D E S 10 00 1 60 100 00

8 00

60 00

915 77

100 00

1,200 00 1,256 86

80 00

7,031 72

350 00

1,346 00 60 00

235 94 40 00

1,350 1,500 377 36 700 250 505 185 1,400 127 203 570 440

00 00 98 42 00 00 97 15 00 72 00 00 20

413 45 65 186

75 1,780 128 240 360 1,026

31 00 86 00 00 08

32 57 400 00

10 6 20 349 110 35

00 00 00 48 00 00

5 00 200 00

F ir s t, W e st H o b o k e n , 33 50

U n io n M e e tin g s.............................. 43 10

151 00 5 00 891 48

C L A S S IS O F P A R A M U S A c q u a c k a n o n k , P a s sa ic ,

U p p e r R id g e w o o d C o m m u n ity .

T o t a l..........................................

38 00 06 00

225 00 30 00 6 40

88 98 150 00 25 00 32 21 87 00

3 20

100 00

940 50 500 00

10 00 116 83 150 81

15 00

14,103 19

2,178 78

24 60

275 92 42 59 65 105 119 105 15 25 55 153 124 32 45 166 17 110 91 40

27 50 79 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 80 70 00 00 00

61 117 108 2 ,2 8 0

50 00 46 02

55 15 20) 210 15 35 75 23 15 70 37 221 18 56 41 15

00 00 00 55 00 00 00 00 00 00 25 81 15 60 45 00

10 198 32 5 20 505

00 95 47 00 00 00

40 00 386 25 2,121 48

C h u rch e s a n d M e n ’s S ocieties

S u n d ay S ch o o ls

Y oung P e o p le ’s S o cie tie s

D e p t, o f W o m e n ’s W o rk

8 00

25 00 20’ 00 85 00 155 00 45 00 40 00

S p ecial

T o ta l

56 46 153 108 5 32

205 386 507 1,863 100 987 45 382 265 640 234 90 924 3,893 1,660 162 3,233 285 803 480 881 363 986

C L A S S IS O F P A S S A IC B o o n to n ............................................. C lifto n , A llw o o d C o m m u n ity ... C lifto n , A th e n ia ............................. C lifto n , F ir s t.................................... C lifto n , H o p e ................................... C lifto n , L a k ev iew H e ig h ts ......... F a irfie ld ............................................. L in c o ln P a r k .................................... L ittle F a lls, F ir s t............................ L ittle F a lls, S e c o n d ....................... L o d i, F ir s t........................................ M o n tv ille ........................................... M o u n ta in L a k e s, C o m m u n ity ... P a s sa ic , B e th e l................................ P a te rs o n , C e n tr a l.......................... P a te rs o n , F ir s t................................ P a te rs o n , S ix th ............................... P a te rs o n , P e o p le ’s P a r k .............. P a te rs o n , R iv e rsid e ....................... P a te rs o n , U n io n ............................. W o rten dyice, F irs t, H o i i a n d ... U n io n M e e tin g s .............................. T o ta l..........................................

100 320 268 1,600 40 750 45 125 110 450 220

00 00 51 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

596 2,8001 1,180 62 2,100 '250 709 75 466 100 50

40 00 00 94 00 00 69 00 84 00 00

24 00

10 00 157 07

65 00 45 00 90 50

150 00 110 00 100 00

35 00

12,419 38

95 800 50 75

09 00 00 00

100 60 25 118 5 50 50 40 56 255

30 18 350 00 350 00 140 73 2,442 07

8 00

501 02 750 00 15 00

66 00 72 58 10 00

00 00 00 75 00 00 00 00 50 00

1,365 75

00 00 82 79 00 00

42 00 14 55 233 193 370

00 75 50 50 00

1,015 00 44 5 25 66 681

28 00 00 19 00

3,146 83

00 00 33 79 00 07 00 00 00 50 00 75 99 50 00 94 75 18 97 00 84 42 00

19,382 03

C L A S S IS O F P E L L A C e n tra l, O s k a lo o s a ................. L e ig h to n , E b e n e z e r................ E d d y v ille ..................................... K n o x v ille ..................................... D e s M o in es, M e re d ith D riv e ......................................... O tle y ............................................. P e lla , F ir s t................................. P e lla , S e c o n d ............................. P e lla , T h ir d ............................... P e lla , T rin ity ............................. P r a ir ie C ity ................................ S u lly .............................................. U n io n M e e tin g s ....................... T o ta l....................................

4,373 2,094 128 129

79 96 07 63

281 779 3,400 3,625 5,720 272 375 1,079 1,169

87 86 00 00 00 26 91 44 65

23,430 44

51 30 57 35 33 65

265 857 56 35

51 81 25 00

10 124 787 504 1,101

00 00 00 44 50

241 97 1,467 67 711 05

59 00

299 78 248 25 665 72

225 56 107 41 536 25

6,124 73

526 08

4,955 26

3,432 21

121 78

3 20

5 0 00 5 17 8 00

52 43

5 172 1,410 110 1,350 75 798 850 87

00 35 00 00 00 00 37 00 99

41 100 48 129

00 00 00 50

5,257 3,832 242 164

62 70 97 63

296 1,117 5,938 5,755 9,012 347 1,699 2 ,344 2,459

87 21 97 11 05 26 62 10 61

38,468 72

C L A S S IS O F P H IL A D E L P H IA A d d is v ille ............................... B la w e n b u rg .......................... C lo v e r H ill............................. F e a s te rv ille ............................ H a r lin g e n ............................... N e s h a n ic ................................ N o r th a n d S o u th a m p to n , C h u rc h v ille ....................... P h ila d e lp h ia , F ir s t.............. P h ila d e lp h ia , F o u r th ......... P h ila d e lp h ia , F if th ............. P h ila d e lp h ia ,T a lm a g e ...... S ta n to n .................................... T h re e B rid g e s ....................... U n io n M e e tin g s ................... T o ta l...............................

758 283 50 910 293

55 54 00 95 18

1,502 76 218 00 120 00

11 57

8 43

25 00

25 00 25 00

63 00

207 04

265 00

673 55

800 63

15 00 25 00

10 00

3 00 200 00 36 67 94 00

6 50

4,467 65

1,172 52

9 0 00 4 3 7 31 16 20

945 48

5 35 35 16 25

00 00 00 00 00

913 41

985 288 78 910 328 113

96 71 00 95 18 00

2,648 218 940 63 235 59 209 437

35 00 63 00 00 17 00 31

7,515 26

CHURCHES

C h u rc h e s a n d M e n ’s S o cie tie s

S unday S ch o o ls

Y oung P e o p le ’s S o cie tie s

D e p t, o f W o m e n ’s W o rk

S p ecial

T o ta l

C L A S S IS O F P L E A S A N T P R A IR IE 324 55

U n io n M e e tin g s .............................

1,029 20 701 1,100 147 175 84

01 00 16 00 57 00 25

130 770 5,836 839 280 65 56 430 405 59 12,452

00 48 00 00 00 26 00 00 00 00 28

146 130 67 32

68 48 04 28

260 2 1,000 24 81

00 00 00 34 78

86 20

21 32

115 00

40 00 25 00

77 23 98 80 52 40

25 00 5 0 00

50 00 39 46

24 64

25 00

15 8 6 25

47 200 18 13

00 00 00 40

70 00 28 86 806 35

00 00 61 00

100 57

110 00 50 00 125 00 50 00

11 25 26 110 74

23 00 00 13 00

50 00

200 00

2 5 00 166 25 916 25

50 80 19 100 55

00 36 00 00 00

665 72

587 25 1,106 20 836 1,227 173 469 197 50 305 860 5,844 1,092 555 163 88 530 555 254 14,941

07 00 24 00 19 40 57 77 71 00 00 48 00 61 00 62 40 00 00 11 17

146 214 92 32 63 339 102 1,161 131 88 18 2,389

68 47 04 28 00 00 00 34 84 78 50 93

125 308 25 149 50 20 45 77 1,281 2,1 2 0 409 125 183 500

69 98 00 37 00 00 00 00 65 00 81 25 64 00

C L A S S IS O F P O U G H K E E P S IE

F ish k ill

50 00 25 00 33 00

30 4 70 30 57 7 18 292

U n io n M e e tin g s .............................. 1,744 60

33 00

00 00 00 00 50 00 50 00

33 99

75 30 131 50

00 00 34 00

320 33

C L A S S IS O F R A R IT A N

H ig h B rid g e

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

52 248 15 90 50

60 58 00 32 00

73 09 25 00 10 00

35 40 33 53

25 52 20 00

R a r ita n , S eco n d , S o m e r v ille ....

45 1,200 905 279 62 62

00 00 56 82 07 24

45 00 32 00 286 19 14 20

85 70 28 00

35 00

3,011 19

516 44

35 00

368 82 270 44 1,001 63

135 93

4 00

U n io n M e e tin g s ..............................

35 486 80 19 75 500 1,251

00 59 00 90 00 00 49

46 406 30 29 26

65 00 29 00 40

607 27

5,421 39

C L A S S IS O F R E N S S E L A E R

464 00 135 75 146 40

3 84 72 05

4 80

337 50 19 33 65 00

135 00 42 87 75 105 37 10 10 10 10

00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

99 00 54 61 55 00 31 91 50 00 10 00 6 00

U n io n M e e tin g s.............................. T o t a l...........................................

2.808 87

207 98

12 64

36 05 557 05

306 52

742 325 1,098 87 542 272 310 10 357 29 75 6 36 3,893

75 05 63 00 84 66 25 00 50 33 00 00 05 06

CHURCHES

C h u rc h e s an d M e n ’s S o cie tie s

S u n d ay S ch o o ls

Y oung P e o p le ’s S o cie tie s

D e p t, o f W o m e n ’s W o rk

15 00

400 00 140 00 85 00

S p ecial

T o ta l

C L A S S IS O F R O C H E S T E R 2,300 730 950 50 287 587

70 00 00 00 18 94

88 233 1,016 159 1,109 599 1,570 33 136 7 215

21 52 51 21 46 20 00 88 34 20 00

13 20 3 20 55 00 310 79

16 00

123 43 84 80 19 00

15 00

197 961 20 34 232 87

00 00 00 54 00 61

5 76

U n io n M e e tin g s .............................. 10;074 35

2,141 57

51 76

146 643 50 20 71 234 35 50 50 64 25 68 25 35 114 2,257

65 55 00 00 25 25 00 00 00 39 00 00 00 00 12 21

296 07 5 0 95 85 00 145 53 25 32 25 30 20 122 49 124

87 33 00 35 00 00 00 25 17 50

20 00 21 55 135 11 1,236 15

3,011 934 1,123 50 634 1,611 75 140 453 1,380 233 1,281 895 2,719 78 258 291 337 249 15,761

77 15 20 00 70 61 00 56 20 56 21 71 37 89 88 88 51 61 23 04

275 500 519 108 20 136 132 363 375 335 230 2,998

00 00 98 91 00 86 57 62 59 59 00 12

423 57 63 907 719 177 827 607 479 1,840 1,607 517 294 273 305 1,619 121 10,842

77 00 70 73 05 75 03 86 47 00 12 07 72 99 90 76 00 92

120 156 32 910 194 281 15 15 93 90 47 1,955

26 87 00 45 00 00 50 00 71 00 20 99

C L A S S IS O F S A R A T O G A 65 00

210 500 250 51

00 00 94 66

98 119 269 167 199

86 52 53 17 73

26 51 79 92

20 00

1,867 41

153 68

20 00

50 00 47 25 18 00 42 13 25 160 308

58 00 00 00 58

80 20 27 111 95 87 280 123 43 315 310 177 70 20 50 165 116 2,091

00 00 50 00 00 75 86 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 11

32 12 15 116 85 31

00 50 00 35 00 00

219 10 20 20 13 5 115 110 70 648

04 00 00 00 05 00 50 86 00 45

9 5 5 143

85 00 00 52

5 104 25 22 345 210 140

00 82 00 50 00 00 07

C L A S S IS O F SCHENECTA DY

Sdictkec-tticlyy !W[t. FMciisiint.........

333 32 31 653 491 85 342 449 411 1,180 1,087 200 170 184 755 1,310

92 00 20 21 05 00 80 18 41 00 12 00 00 00 90 00

7,216 79

133 00 88 55 10 68

10 00 2 56

54 72

286 95

12 56

69 99 144 76 5 00 1,235 51

C L A S S IS O F S C H O H A R IE 65 110 10 779 68 240 10

T o t a l............................................

76 06 00 10 00 00 00

14 31

64 16 40 00

10 00

1,387 08

24 31

15 00 41 20 348 05

22 20 7 15 41 10 5 15 19 35 6 196

50 00 00 00 00 00 50 00 55 00 00 55

S u n d ay S ch o o ls

C L A S S IS O F E A S T S IO U X A l t o n ................................... A r c h e r ................................ H o s p e r s .............................. M a tl o c k ............................. M elvin ............................... N e w k irk ............................ O ra n g e C ity , A m e ric a n O ra n g e C ity , F i r s t ......... O ra n g e C ity , T r in ity ...... P r im g h a r............................ S a n b o rn ............................. S h eld o n , B e t h e l.............. S h e ld o n , F i r s t ................. S ibley, F i r s t ...................... S p en ce r, H o p e ................ U n io n M e e tin g s ............... T o t a l ..........................

1,147 135 1,465 24 158 1,519 1,760 3,083 1,685 255 100 425 1,845

24 85 60 00 63 57 04 32 70 13 00 00 00

151 04 54 51 13,810 63

543 98 133 82 886 44

280 00 554 70 122 62 448 16

3 20 46 00 48 00 108 00 100 00

6 02 22 00

955 00 211 02 4,135 74

50 00 80 00 463 22

77 50 340 60 25 231 150 821 190 50

00 00 00 35 00 23 00 00

173 204 63 10 804 3,208

96 00 69 00 16 89

8 00

90 8 82 61 34 733 608 665 176 14 90 1,121 170 30

00 75 50 75 00 00 20 00 46 50 00 05 50 00

898 25 4,783 96

1,861 278 2,820 145 217 2,531 2,906 5,224 2.174 325 646 1,742 3.174 354 241 1,756 26,402

92 42 54 75 63 92 24 25 78 65 16 01 50 71 04 92 44

3,345 2,957 484 124 2,218 3,941 935 506 143 2,108 2,035 1,613 3,393 3,330 9,365 4,616 4 1 ,120

60 15 03 76 86 57 15 53 72 25 42 39 82 27 95 36 83

266 4 15 259 303 227 21 2,281

02 50 00 93 00 50 28 69

C L A S S IS O F W E S T S IO U X B o y den ................................. C a rm e l, R o ck V a lle y ....... D o o n ..................................... F a irv ie w ............................... H u ll. A m e r i c a n ................ H u ll. F i r s t ........................... In w o o d .................................. I r e t o n .................................... L e ster, B e t h e l.................... M a u r ic e ............................... M id d le b u rg , F re e G ra c e R o ck R a p i d s ...................... R o c k V a lle y ........................ S io ux C e n te r, C e n t r a l .... S io ux C e n te r, F i r s t ......... U n io n M e e tin g s ................ T o t a l......... ...................

2,200 00

200 525 135 41 1,350

00 00 26 72 00

125 200 40 196 655 345 875

96 00 00 49 36 08 00

97 60 75 00

1,799 08 247 67 73 04 540 86 3.087 57 804 19 153 81 73 72 1,167 94 1,132 56 1,033 92 1,643 53 2,793.77 7,498 45 2,734 23 26,984 34

300 00

175 00

4,989 87

710 53

227 41

13 61

121 58

11 69

8 00

44 00

108 49 38 115

40 40 13 00

448 00 160 00 52 10 230 00 445 00 5 30 492 113 88 705 288 1,147 1,837 6,042

00 00 50 20 00 29 15 50 53 27

20 2 15 118 15 25' 10 82 150

00 50 00 26 00 00 00 50 00

75 40 5 248 10 10

00 00 00 00 00 00

400 398 49 10 90 365 5 147

00 07 00 00 00 00 00 72

142 84 108 55 248 245 44 2,393

92 90 26 00 35 00 60 82

C L A S S IS O F U L S T E R

200 00 129 5 2,011 1,518

76 28 64 86

395 65 170 12

58 00 58 27

685 00

10i 00

28 82

8 00 255 37 20 78

6,026 27

20 00 ia oo

3 66 5 00 20 69

209 74

2 00 8 40

88 00 72 74

6 00

187 55 200 00

47 00

10 00

258 50

5' 00

10 35

10 00 12 00

30 00

10 00

25 00 32 95 954 21

6 00

4 95 250 00 1,183 49

1,868 86 575 278 5 1,191 15 296 39 30

65 39 00 50 00 82

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276 82

5 00

8 22

289 25 20 16 29 282 8,373

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B lo o m in g d a le .................... B lue M o u n ta in .................. C lo v e ..................................... F l a t b u s h .............................. G a r d in e r ............................... H u rle y .................................... K a t s b a a n ............................. K in g s to n , F a ir S t r e e t ..... K in g s to n , F ir s t.................. K in g sto n , C h u rc h o f th e C o m fo rte r ....................... M a r b le to w n ....................... M a rb le to w n , N o r t h ........ N ew P a l t z ........................... P l a t te k i ll............................. P o rt E w e n .......................... R o c h e ste r............................. R o s e n d a le .......................... R o s e n d a le P la in s .............. S a in t R e m y ......................... S a u g e r tie s ........................... S h a n d a k e n ......................... S h o k a n ............................... U ls te r P a r k ....................... W o o d s to c k ........................ U n io n M e e tin g s ............... T o t a l.............................

03 78 69 00 95 95 71

CHURCHES

C h u rc h e s a n d M e n ’s S o cie tie s

S u n d ay S ch o o ls

Y oung P e o p le ’s S ocieties

D e p t, o f W o m e n ’s W o rk

S p ecial

T o ta l

8,810 343 74 191 412 1,526 184 295 374 855 1,127 295 127

C L A S S IS O F W ESTCHESTER 3,700 210 15 171 249 1,050 125 155 700 563 150 93

P a rk H i l l ...

60 00 75 60 54 00 125 00 00 43 00 48 00 00

75 00 65 97

00 00 50 00 00 25 00 00 50 00 00 75 00 50 00 50

2,775 25 46 15 40 134 9 69 33 30 133 68

16 00

2,260 43 12 5 123 326 50 26 113 125 255 76 34 7 50 3,507

53 72 00 74 08

40 00 41 00

30 20 90 173 200

00 00 40 00 00

107 64 25 255 175

2,612 92

89 00

80 117 643 1,353

00 11 28 79

98 00

316 155 57 505 87 8 10 200 400 208 222 475 316

17 00 98 00 50 00 00 00 00 50 00 00 10

20 92 38 31 9

150 85 93 315 137

00 00 50 00 15

16 00 75 00 71 20 175 00

U n io n M e e tin g s............................. 7,309 40

462 17

1,208 37

209 85

00 00 47 00 00 00 84 00 87 00 65 48

3,380 31

60 97 72 60 54 25 84 00 00 00 13 23 00 1' 50 50 00 14,675 38

C L A S S IS O F W EST C EN TR A L

F ir th

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

56 550 2,916 30 1,199 807

71 00 15 00 19 41

718 1,091 350 161 81

8 00

U n io n M e e tin g s .............................. 6,767 83

79 81 00 00 03

33 00 55 00 715 63

1,556 84 172 1,736 4,423 380 1,481 1,060 643 11,539

01 81 11 53 90 00 93 60 28 17

4 ,766 3,411 2,051 4 ,184 676 31 156 1,507 3.493 3,539 3,815 2 ,512 2,889 250 570 2,862 1,606 4,664 1,630 51 2,655 47,327

02 98 91 23 42 56 80 20 00 35 84 33 10 35 66 68 76 30 25 38 55 67

C L A S S IS O F W IS C O N S IN

O ih h sv ille

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

U n io n M e e tin g s .............................. T o t a l..........................................

2,576 2,409 1,377 3,511 377 16 85 407 2,853 3.238 2,509 1,744 1,860 173 213 2,111 1,312 4,127 951 26 350 32,232

82 14 65 03 20 56 90 78 00 40 34 00 00 10 66 71 50 25 12 00 00 16

702 62 750 00 452 55

32 30 90 82

00 00 00 00

5 10 200' 26 244

00 00 00 20 50

139 72 52 50 608 11 800 100 150 33 75 462 127

00 00 00 00 00 22 76

522 38 4,975 86

50 50 00 00 60

123 37 1,132 67

1,933 28 5,675 18

1,138 67 73 86 72 7 3 281 40 66 40 193 465 44 111 111 35 191 10 25 248 3,311

41 84 73 20 00 00 40 31 00 25 00 33 00 25 50 25 00 05 00 38 90 80

C L A S S IS O F Z E E L A N D B e a v e r d a m ................................. B e n t h e im .................................... D u n n in g v ille .............................. F o r e s t G ro v e, H u d s o n v ille ........................... H a m ilto n , F i r s t ........................ H a r l e m ......................................... H u d s o n v ille ............................... J a m e s t o w n ................................. N o rth B le n d o n ......................... N o rth H o l l a n d ......................... O t t a w a ....................................... O v e r is e l....................................... S o u th B le n d o n , H u d so n v ille V rie s la n d ................................... Z e elan d , F irs t .......................... Z e elan d , S e c o n d ...................... U n io n M e e t in g ........................ T o t a l ....................................

1,200 00 640 16 125 17 1,214 2,447 1,165 1,074 1,829 150 1,510 362 3,080 175 2,254 6,235 2,793

385 40

30 00 110 00 20 00

209 60

00 41 02 68 52 00 38 64 66 39 17 00 70

2,020 24

50 00 00 00 00 00

76 62 77 80

26,257 90

10.588 72

974 99

2,100 00

445 00 191 17

700 00 376 98 184 00

64 40 75 00

887 225 1,300 850 1,000 350

265 513 107 220 203 25 145 280 624 121 130 520 257 316 3,889

00 57 50 00 00 00 00 00 62 75 00 00 77 08 29

30 00 15 00 50 00 125 00 450 56 222 50 5 00 5179 270 10 58 85 403 75 70 50 1,753 05

1,645 40 810 16 404 77 3.944 5.377 1.972 2,186 2,514 180 2.542 919 5,352 1,283 3,384 7,508 3.121 316 43.463

24 15 52 62 02 00 88 43 00 79 17 75 97 08 95

FINA NCIAL STA TEM ENT CHURCHES

C h u rc h e s a n d M e n ’s S ocieties

P A R T IC U L A R S Y N O D , O F ALBANY

S c h o h a r i e ........................................

39 06 28 87 35 41 79 08 23

429 35 94 207 2,141 153 286 24 3,373

31 00 43 98 57 68 95 31 23

29 01 62 72 83 06 64 09 16 90 32

5,545 11,170 4,891 6,908 2,951 6,963 862 5,308 4,975 10,588 60,166

05 98 21 61 55 77 14 18 86 72 08

1,018 154 228 223 112 46 180 87 1,132 974 4,159

1.077 9.276 6,095 7,027 5,033 8.427 23,430 12,452 13,810 26,984 6,767 120,383

95 69 26 00 97 16 44 28 63 34 83 55

1,924 984 948 777 3,779 6,124 806 4.135 4,989 2,612 27,084

86 51 26 02 79 45 73 35 74 87 92 50

33 90 125 290 183 281 526 100 463 710 89 2,893

10,636 1,881 1,415 3.566 5.559 7.031 14,103 12,419 4,467 3,011 64,092

29 13 48 92 31 72 19 38 65 19 26

1,438 255 35 431 477 350 2,178 2,442 1.172 516 9,296

47 00 00 00 50 00 78 07 52 44 78

2,935 13,243 3,344 8,594 4,851 1.744 6.026 7,309 48,049

23 96 12 52 36 60 27 40 46

234 553 272 289 538 33 209 462 2,593

62 53 45 86 61 00 74 17 98

34,623 237,030 120,383 64.092 48.049 504,178

23 32 55 26 46 82

3,373 60,166 27,084 9,296 2,593 102,514

23 08 50 78 98 57

5,813 829 4,626 2,808 10,074 1,867 7,216 1,387 34,623

P A R T IC U L A R S Y N O D O F C H IC A G O 28,671 43.332 29,925 16,387 14,565 16.523 2,793 27,041 32,232. 26,257 Z e e la n d ............................................. 237,030 P A R T IC U L A R S Y N O D O F IO W A

P e lla

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

P A R T IC U L A R S Y N O D O F N E W JE R S E Y

P A R T IC U L A R S Y N O D OF N EW YORK

T H E P A R T IC U L A R SYN O DS

T o t a l ........................................

■Young P e o p le 's S o cie tie s

S u n d ay S ch o o ls

T o ta l

27 78 02 05 21 58 11 05 07

941 238 996 306 1,236 648 1,235 196 5,799

75 50 33 52 15 45 51 55 76

8,772 1,331 7,080 3,893 15,761 2,998 10,842 1,955 52,635

72 74 06 06 04 12 92 99 65

13 96 00 13 40 90 35 47 67 99 00

2,301 6,762 4.204 3,639 3,880 3,411 705 4,898 5,675 3,889 39,369

68 83 82 38 82 24 58 37 18 29 39

5,244 4,903 3.089 1,265 1,688 2,668 662 2,298 3,311 1,753 26,886

37 62 69 81 67 44 56 11 80 05 12

42,780 66,324 42,339 28,424 23,199 29.613 5,204 38,933 47,327 43,463 367,610

52 40 34 65 27 41 27 43 67 95 91

00 50 47 39 14 14 08 57 22 53 00 04

890 1,835 687 1,728 1,249 2.430 4,955 916 3,208 6,042 1,353

00 67 72 84 90 41 26 25 89 27 79 2 5 ,2 9 9 00

158 1,389 464 1.141 1,233 1,518 3,432 665 4,783 2,393 715 17,897

34 84 02 98 49 05 21 72 96 82 63 06

2,160 14,517 8,356 11,136 8,478 16.436 38,468 14,941 26,402 41,120 11,539 193,557

15 21 73 23 29 21 72 17 44 83 17 15

3,124 767 200 1,752 2,017 1,476 2 ,2 8 0 1,365 945 1,251 15,194

54 50 40 39 41 38 02 75 48 49 86

1,385 182 433 709 808 891 2,121 3,146 913 607 11,198

41 60 26 16 02 48 48 83 41 27 92

16,644 3,086 2,084 6,464 8,909 9,792 20.708 19,382 7,515 5,421 100,008

41 23 14 47 44 68 07 03 26 39 12

786 2,339 2,674 8,326 1,540 292 954 3,507 20,407

65 26 46 05 69 00 21 50 32

345 1,784 337 1,475 722 320 1,183 3,380 9,548

15 26 20 17 27 33 49 31 18

4,304 17,951 6.640 18,721 7,659 2,389 8,373 14,675 80,717

85 41 73 20 98 93 71 38 19

8,723 39,369 25,299 15,194 20,407 108,993

07 39 00 86 32 64

5,799 26,886 17,897 11,198 9,548 71,330

76 12 06 92 18 04

52,635 367,610 193.557 100,008 80,717 794,529

65 91 15 12 19 02

64 76 00 56

116 36

59 70 ............. 5 47 43 24 8 16 35 238

00 20 10 60 00 20 00 80

3 30 12 35 7

20 40 50 60 05

............ 16 00 104 75

116 4,159 2,893 238 104 7,511

S p ecial

1,575 222 1,363 557 2,257 308 2,091 348 8,723

13 00 6 40 12 51 20 12

D e p t, o f W o m e n ’s W o rk

36 00 04 80 75 95

R E C E IP T S O F T H E BO A R D SIN C E 1857, IN P E R IO D S O F F IV E Y E A R S , W IT H T O T A L S A N D A V ERAG ES Y ears

R ec eip ts

T o ta l for F iv e Y ears

A v erag e for F iv e Y ears

In c re a se

D ecrea se

T o ta l, 1 8 5 8 -1 8 6 2 ... $134,055 49 $26,811 10 $2,495 63 T o ta l. 1 8 6 3 -1 8 6 7 ... *278,501 40 55,700 28 $28,889 18 T o ta l. 1 8 6 8 -1 8 7 2 ... 328,525 01 65,705 00 10,004 72 T o ta l. 1 8 7 3 -1 8 7 7 ... 316,046 95 63,209 97 T o ta l. 1 8 7 9 -1 8 8 2 ... 341,884 10 63,376 82 5,167 45 T o ta l, 1 8 8 3 -1 8 8 7 ... 403,544 12 80,708 88 12,332 06 1 8 8 8 ............................ tI0 9 ,9 4 6 11 1 8 8 9 ............................ 93,142 24 1 8 9 0............................ 117,090 14 1 8 9 1 ............................ 116,265 45 1 8 9 2 ............................ 112,163 59 548,607 53 109,721 50 29,012 62 1 8 9 3 ............................ 136,688 10 1 8 9 4 ............................ 106,571 48 1 8 9 5 ............................ J i l l , 288 00 1 8 9 6 ............................ 154,139 42 1 8 9 7............................. 111,111 89 619,798 89 123,959 77 14,238 27 1 8 9 8 ............................ 124,301 18 1 8 9 9 ............................ 126,838 36 1900............................ 147,213 78 1 9 0 1 ............................ 173,204 12 1 9 0 2............................ 167,911 73 739,469 17 147,893 89 23,934 12 1 9 0 3 ............................ 158,894 94 1 9 0 4 ............................ 142,474 79 1 9 0 5 ............................ 150,239 94 1 9 0 6 ............................ 174.464 74 1 9 0 7 ............................ 179,232 60 805,307 01 161,061 40 13,167 51 1 9 0 8 ............................ 197,468 26 1 9 0 9 ............................ 205,372 64 1 9 1 0............................ 207.404 59 1 9 1 1 ............................ 282,231 86 1 9 1 2 ............................ 284.269 36 1,176,746 71 235,349 34 74,287 94 1 9 1 3............................ 255,838 47 1 9 1 4 ............................ 321,942 58 1 9 1 5............................. 300.752 52 1 9 1 6 ............................ 309,419 86 1 9 1 7............................. 302,453 02 1,490,406 45 298,081 29 62,731 95 1 9 1 8 ............................ 325,292 08 1 9 1 9............................ 345,462 82 1 9 2 0............................ 478,614 66 1 9 2 1 ............................. 593,942 88 1 9 2 2............................ 445.182 90 2,188,495 34 437,699 07 139,617 78 1923-............................. 562,450 49 1 9 2 4 ............................. 544,808 39 1 9 2 5............................ 532,146 69 1 9 2 6 ............................ 553,364 00 1 9 2 7............................. 510,977 32 2,703,746 89 540,749 38 103,050 31 1 9 2 8 ............................ 507,584 64 1 9 2 9 ............................ 606,572 00 1 9 3 0 ............................ 518,626 45 1 9 3 1............................ 575,735 90 1 9 3 2............................ 475,118 51 2,683,637 50 536,727 50 4,021 88 1 9 3 3 ............................ 309,835 41 1 9 3 4 ............................ 296,064 90 1 9 3 5............................. 316,832 72 1 9 3 6............................ 277,148 83 1 9 3 7............................ 319,670 87 1.519,552 73 303,910 54 232,816 96 1 9 3 8 ............................ 338,485 51 1 9 3 9............................ 306,176 78 1 9 4 0 ............................ 323,422 50 1 9 4 1............................ 329,097 74 1 9 4 2............................ 378,141 61 1,675,324 14 335,064 82 31,1 5 4 2 * 1 9 4 3 ............................ 341,266 56 1944............................ 395,399 74 1945............................ 434,853 87 1946............................ 519,903 57 1947............................. 665,863 44 2,357,287 18 471,457 43 136,392 61 1948............................ 864,021 20 1 9 4 9 ............................ 774,652 94 1 9 5 0............................ 821,482 95 1950 (8 m o s .) .......... 597,119 04 1 9 5 1 ............................ 903.142 25 3,960,418 38 792,083 68 320,626 25 1 9 5 2 ............................ 917,190 27 946,167 29 1 9 5 3 ............................ *In a d d itio n $56,500 w ere given b y M r. W a rre n A c k e rm a n to rem o v e th e d e b t re s tin g on th e B oard. JP'rom 1895, rece ip ts of th e A ra b ia n M ission a re in c lu d ed , f i n a d d itio n $45,335.06 w ere g iven for th e E n d o w m e n t of th e T h e o lo g ic al S e m in a ry in th e A rc o t M ission, th ro u g h th e efforts of R ev. J a c o b C h a m b e rla in , D .D .

19 5 3 Abbring, Mrs. Thomas P . . . Adelphia Soc., W estern Theo. S e m in a r y ................. “A Friend” ............................. “A Friend” ............................... “A Friend” ................................ “A Friend” ............................... “A Friend” ............................... “A Friend” ............................... “A Friend” ............................... “A Friend” ............................... “A Friend” ............................... “A Friend” ............................... “A Friend” ............................... “A Friend” ............................... “A Friend” ............................... “A Friend” ............................... “A Friend” ............................... “A Friend” ............................... “A Friend” ............................... “A Friend” ............................... “A Friend” ............................... “A Grand Rapids Friend” . . American Leprosy Missions, Inc............................................ American Youth Foundation Angell, Miss Jessie B .............. Anonymous ............................. Anonymous ............................. Anonymous ............................. Arita, Mr. F ....................... Assyrian, Arabic & English Congregation at K uwait. Baby Roll R e c e ip t s .............. Baker, Mrs. Gerard A ............. Baker, Mrs. P h i ll i p .............. Baldwin, Mrs. George E. . . . Beardslee, Mrs. John W . 3rd Beckerink, Mr. & Mrs. Earl N ...................................... Beekman, Miss Edna K. . . . Bender, Mr. & Mrs. A. W „ Jr., ........................ Berg, Mrs. J. Frederic . . . . Bethany Presbyterian Sunday School .................................. Beukema, Miss Harriet . . . . Beukema, Miss Anna J......... Biegel, Miss A lb e r th a ......... Boersma, Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Boomstra, Mr. & Mrs. D . . . Bos, Mr. B. C .......................... Brink, Miss Suzanne H. . . Broekema, Miss R u t h ......... Brokaw, Miss H elen L .......... Bruggers, Rev. John H .........

6.50 33.00

10.00 20.75 1,500.00 500.00

200.00 10.00 10.75 40.00 200.03

20.00 25.00 25.00

20.00 30.67 2.16 2.50 50.00 46.75

20.00 80.00 586.00 50.00

1, 000.00 1.00 18.50 .70 18.00

100.00 2,336.97 5.00 2.25 50.00

20.00 120.00 5.00

20.00 5.00 38.00 1.60

10.00 43.45 145.00 4.00

100.00 5.00

20.00 25.00 3.00

Bruins, Mrs. Henry M ........... Brunt, Mrs. G. A .................... Burggraaff, Dr. W infield . . Burt, Miss D o r o th y .............. Business W om en’s Council of N e w Y o r k ........................ Chicago Missionary C o m m itte e .......................... Children’s Choir, through A. B i e g e l ............................. Church Bible Conf., Cedar Lake, W isconsin . Cobb, Mrs. H enry E ............. Coburn, Miss C la r a .............. Cooper, Mrs. John .............. Cornelissen, Mr. W illiam . . Corwin, Miss Margaret T. . . Covert, Mrs. E va C . ............ Curtis, Mrs. Edw ard E ly . . . Curtis, Mr. Ronald E liot . . . Dalm an, Mr. L. C .................... D am e, Mrs. Louis P............... D avis, Miss Ethelyn E. . . . D e Jong, Mr. & Mrs. H arry. D e Jong, Miss Mary Sue. . . D e Jong, Rev. W illiam C .. . de M aagd, Rev. John C .. . . Dem arest, Miss V ivien . . . . Demarest, Dr. W . H. S. . . D e Mott, Mr. John J ............. D e Free, Rev. Henry P., D .D .......................................... D e Romille, Mrs. Edna R .. . D e W olfe, Rev. & Mrs. Martin A ................................ D e W olfe, Mrs. M. & Sisters D e Young, Mr. Adrian . . . . D e Young, Rev. Benjamin. . D e Young, The M isses......... Dim nent, Dr. Edw ard D . . D inger, Mrs. B e r t h a ............ Doris Duke Foundation . . . Drury, Miss C h a r lo tte ......... Dunham , Mrs. J o y c e ............ E by, Mrs. R u t h ...................... Eckert, Mr. & Mrs. C ........... Elzinga, Mrs. Clarence . . . . Engels, Miss Grace H ........... Fairbanks, Mrs. P a u l .......... Federated S. S. Putney, V e r m o n t................................ Felpel, Mrs. Margaret . . . . Felton, Miss Martha H. . . First Presby. Church School, Pensacola, Florida ..........

15.00 10.00 10.00 5.00 25.00 300.00 50.00 200.00 350.00 53.00 20.00 140.00 10.00 60.00 25.00 10.00 10.00 808.00 10.00 100.00 25.00 10.00 10.00 12.00 10.00 5.00 20.00 10.00 15.00 25.00 10.00 10.00 250.00 200.00 11.00 850.00 3,000.00 20.00 50.00 10.00 50.00 10.00 15.00 2.00 2.50 200.00 3.00

17.50

First Baptist Church, H ow ell, M ic h ig a n .............. Flaherty, Mr. T. E 10.00 Flikkema, Rev. B. M. . Flikkema, Mr. & Mrs.D avid Folensbee, Chaplain R. W . . Fuchigam i, Mr. & Mrs. K. Gallien, Mrs. E d w a r d .......... Gardner, Mrs. Benjamin . . . Gaston, Mr. & Mrs. John. . . Gaston, Rev. W illiam E. . . . G em m ell, Mrs. 1 50.00 Gibson, Miss H enrietta . . . . Gideon, Mrs. M. H oward. Green, Miss Katharine R .. . G ustaevel, Miss Louise Hainuzuka Church of Christ, Japan .................................... Hakken, Mr. W illiam T. . . . Hart, Dr. Louisa H ................ H ayenga, Miss C o b a ............ Heersma, Dr. H. Sidney . . H egem an, Mrs. D . V. B . . . . H enseler, Mrs. Warren . . . . H esselink, Mr. J o h n ............ H odge, Mrs. H a t t ie ............... Hoejke, Mrs. Annie Hail Hoffman, Rev. & Mrs. J. E. Hofstra, Dr. R ic h a r d ............ H ollebrands, Rev. & Mrs. j. J........................................... H ollem an, Dr. & Mrs. C. H. H ondelink, Miss Margaret E. H ope College, Kappa D e lta . H opper, Miss Isabel J........... Horsham Friends First D ay School ........................ Hospers, Mr. & Mrs. Jackson S ............................... Hotaling, Mr. Clifford . . . H udsonville H igh School Senior Class ...................... Inter-Faith Community C l u b ....................................... Jackson, Miss R a c h e l ......... Jackson, Miss R u t h .............. James, Mrs. M. Steph en . . . Jongewaard, Miss M aria. . . Juist, Mrs. A n n a ...................... Kamphoff, Mr. & Mrs. Ralph Kiel, Dr. & Mrs. L ee H . . . . Klerk, Dr. W illiam J............. K oeppe, Rev. & Mrs. E. W . Kruse, Miss Alva ................. Kurosawa, Mr. & Mrs........... Laman, Rev. D avid A ........... Larsen, Mr. & Mrs. H. C . . . . Le Masters, Mr. Vernon Lenington, Rev. George C . . .

150.00 20.00 50.00 25.00 5.00 1.00 100.00 1.00 10.00 10.00 125.00 3.00 3.00 15.00 75.00 250.00 275.00 30.00 6.00 10.00 200.00 10.00 55.00 15.00 5.00 50.00 150.00 50.00 10.00 100.00 10.00 250.00 231.29 5.00 525.00 525.00 1.00 2.00 10.00 10.00 15.00 250.00 15.00 67.00 12.00 10.00 150.00 10.00 20.00

Leonard, Dr. Martha F ......... Leuning, Mr. H. H ................ Lott, Mrs. Rena M ................ Mac Lean, Rev. H ugh B. M alcolm, Miss Dorothea . Marquis, Miss Sarah .......... Marsh, Mrs. H oward E. . . Marsh, Rev. & Mrs. Robert T ................................ M cConville, Mrs. Jane . . . . M cDonald, Miss Mary . . . . M enning, Seine J................... M etropolitan Youth Rally . . Meyer, Mr. L. R. ................. Millar, Miss N elle S ................ Mol, Mr. N eal J....................... M oody B ible Institute . . . Moore, Mrs. Chester .......... Morris, Mr. George S........... M ouw, Chaplain Gerritt E. Mt. Zion E. & R. Church Guild .................................... M uilenburg, Rev. John P . . . Mulder, Rev. James R ........... M iyahira, Mrs. Cho ............ N e w Brunswick Seminary, Society of Inquiry .......... Newmark, Mrs. Julius J. . . . N ew ton, Mrs. V ....................... Nichols, Mr. H oward B. . . . N ielson, Mr. D ........................ Nirssink, Mrs. Frank .......... Northfield School Church. . North Fourth Street Christian S c h o o l ............... Norton, Mr. W illiam J. . . . Olcott, Dr. & Mrs. Charles T ............................... O ilm an, Dr. T. V ................... Osterhaven, Rev. M. E ugene P aige, Mrs. E. L ................... Palmer, Mrs. Edna H ........... Parks, Mr. & Mrs. W alter J. Peale, Rev. & Mrs. Norman V i n c e n t .............. Pietenpol, Mrs. H. W ........... Plasier, Mr. Jacob ............... Plenge, Mrs. Charlotte M .. . Plum stead Presbyterian Church Organizations . . Prins, Mrs. T. W ................... Punt, Mrs. Arie, Sr................ Rajamanickam, Mr. I. J .. . . R. C. A. Headquarters Staff ....................................... Relyea, Miss Sarah D . L . . . . Rens, Mr. & Mrs. W illard. . Roetman, Mr. Z....................... Romaine, Mr. D em arest . . .

175.00 250.00 40.00 25.00 .75 100.00 2.00 50.00 2.00 50.00 1,000.00 190.73 5.00 5.00 100.00 50.00 10.00 2.00 4.00 10.00 15.00 10.00 22.80 225.00 5.00 300.00 25.00 2.20 500.00 70.00 28.00 10.00 100.00 15.00 4.35 5.00 25.00 100.00 25.00 5.00 50.00 50.00 80.00 3.00 250.00 18.00 62.00 500.00 1,300.00 50.00 10.00

Rose, Mr. & Mrs. John J .. . Roskens, Miss H e l e n ............ Salem Reformed Church, Verona, W isconsin .......... Sanson, Miss K ittie M ........... Schanck, Miss Sarah A. . . . Schell, Mr. & Mrs. Harold P. Schenck, Rev. & Mrs. Harold W .............................. Scholten, Rev. & Mrs. Benjamin ............................. Schoonhoven, Miss Jo Ann Schwager, Mr. & Mrs. A. W . Scudder A s s o c ia tio n ............ Scudder, Mrs. Henry J......... Sew ing Guild Sale, R. C. A. Headquarters ................... Shafer, Dr. & Mrs. L. J......... Short, Mr. & Mrs. Fred . . . Sibley, Rev. & Mrs. L. A . . . . Sikkema, Mr. & Mrs. L . . . . Smith, Mr. F. W ..................... Spillman, Dr. Ram sey . . . . Sprick, Mr. H arvey ............ Stauffer, Rev. M ilton T. . . . Stephen, M iss S h ir le y .......... Stockburger, Mr. W . E. . . . Stryker, Miss Florence . . . Taylor, Miss M in n ie ............ Terhune, Mr. & Mrs. H . R ........................................ T e W inkel, Miss Sarella . . . Tjoelker, Mrs. M i k e ............ Union Church School, Berea, K e n tu c k y ............... Vande Berg, Rev. Harold J . . Vander Hill, Rev. La Verne J.......................... Vander Meer, Mrs. Alma M. Vander M olen, Mr. & Mrs. Peter ............................... .. . Vander N oold, The Misses Katherine & Jean ette. . . . Vander Ploeg, Miss Jeanette ............................... Van D er Schie, Mr. D on . . . Vander W al, Mr. A. J...........

60.00 10.00 5.50 25.00 5.00 10.00 10.00 10.00 65.00 5.00 1,372.74 10.00 179.45 50.00 5.00 10.00 10.00 25.00 20.00 10.00 25.00 15.00 4.00 5.00 650.00 40.00 210.00 75.00 15.00 120.00 3.00 75.00 98.00 385.00 100.00 50.00 200.00

Van D e Vrede, M iss Edna C. Van Dyken, Mrs. Ralph . . . Van Ess, Mrs. J......................... Van Kersen, Mrs. W . J......... Van Singel, Mrs. D ................ Van Strien, Rev. D avid . . . . Verduin, Mrs. P. W .............. Vernoy, Mr. & Mrs. J. B . . . Vernoy, Mr. & Mrs. S. D . . . . Voskuil, Mrs. Mary W . S. . . W allace, Miss C hristina. . . . W alvoord, Miss M arianne. . W am shuis, Mrs. A. L ........... Warren, Air Force Base, Francis E ............................... W ayer, Rev. & Mrs. Jam es. . W eddell, Miss S u e .............. W eem hoff, Mr. & Mrs. J. W . W ellner, Mr. & Mrs. W illiam C .............................. W iebers, Mrs. T. P .............. W illiams, Miss E velyn . . . . W illiams, Miss Ruth C ......... W ilson, Mrs. Margaret . . W oestem eyer, Mrs. B. W .. . W om en’s Assem bly of General S y n o d ................... W om en’s O pen M eetings . W yckoff, Mr. D e W itte . . . Yamaguchi, Mrs....................... Yonkman, Dr. Frederick F. Youth Conferences: Camp H ope II ................. Capitol D istrict .............. Cascades ............................. Denton Lake I ................. Green Lake II ................. Iowa Falls .......................... Lake Canandaigua ......... Long Island City Churches ........................ L y n d en -N o o k sa c k ................. M innesota .......................... Pilgrim Park ...................... Pleasant P r a ir ie ................. South C a lifo r n ia ..............

10.00 25.25 10.00 10.00 25.00 5.00 96.00 20.00 20.00 25.00 .75 55.00 184.60 .50 125.00 10.00 100.00 440.00 8.00 10.00 10.00 10.00 5.00 200.91 464.49 35.00 12.00 100.00 91.12 145.13 117.83 145.00 181.15 294.25 66.66 4.88 25.00 160.00 41.83 3.12 37.05 $31,872.91

LEGACIES F r o m th e E s ta te o f Backenstos, Katie ................. $ 1,153.08 Boss, S i m o n ............................. 360.00 Braak, jacob .......................... 2,250.00 Clarke, Herbert Burns . . . 5,000.00 Cobb, Eliza P. ................... 15,780.37 Crispell, Marie D . S............... 100.00 Fowler, Rita ........................ 500.00 H alcott, E lizabeth C ............ 4,000.00

F r o m th e E s ta te o f 500.00 H eeren, Mary ........................ $ Hekhuis, Mrs. G. J................ 50.00 Kielman, Berentje .............. 540.54 Koopman, John ...................... 54.18 Olferdink, J e a n e t te ............... 2.49 Rutan, Stella ........................... 1,000.00 Sebring, Agnes B .................... 500.00 Skillman, Joseph C ................ 50.00 $31,840.66

Auditor's Statement April 1, 1954. The Board of Foreign Missions, R. C. A., 156 Fifth Avenue, New York 10, N. Y. Gentlemen: We have examined financial statements of The Board of Foreign Missions, R. C. A., for the year ended December 31, 1953. 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 con firmations of cash balances on deposit, counted petty cash on hand and examined documents relating to or obtained confirmation of all investments. We received letters of confirmation from the custodian bank as to securities in safekeeping and from servicing agents with respect to certain mortgage investments. We also obtained letters confirming certain investment documents held by others and examined other documents on hand in the Board’s office. We examined or tested the accounting records to the extent we deemed appro priate and made a general review of the accounting methods, but we did not make a detailed audit of the accounts. We 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, 1953, including deposits in various savings institutions, are listed on Schedule # 2 . The amounts shown on this Schedule for “current value” of certain investments at or near December 31, 1953 have been based on available published information 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, 1953, is presented on Exhibit “A”. This statement reflects some reclassification of expenditures as compared with prior years. It does not include receipts and disbursements of funds handled solely as accommo dations; such accommodation transactions are shown only on Exhibit “C”. A change was made in the accounting basis during 1952, as mentioned in our report for that year, as a result of which certain revenue accounts for that year (for example, “Income from Funds held by Board of Direction, R. C. A.” ) did not represent receipts for a full twelve months. For that reason, the revenue accounts for 1953 are not entirely comparable with those reported for 1952; the variances are, however, of relatively minor importance. In our opinion, the accompanying financial statements fairly present a summary of the Board's revenue and related charges and other changes in Fund balances for the year ended December 31, 1953 and its financial condition 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, SUFFERN & FERNALD Certified Public Accountants

StcrtemenF of Revenue, Charges Against Revenue and Other Changes in Fund Balances For (he Year ended December 31, 1953 REVENUE R ev en u e a llo c a te d to G e n e ra l F u n d : C o lle c tio n s

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

In co m e fro m in v ested F u n d s ( g e n e r a l) : S ecu rity F u n d ............................................................................ T ru s t a n d G e n e ra l F u n d s .................................................................... In co m e fro m F u n d s held by B o a rd o f D ire c tio n , R. C . A .: T ru s t F u n d s — B o ard o f F o re ig n M issio n s, R. C . A . d e sig n a te d as b en e ficia ry ........................................................ M . A . Q u ick M e m o ria l F u n d .......................................................

$735,089.81 $

2,582.84 21.846.80

24,429.64

302.45 10.437.70

10,740.15

M a tu re d c o n d itio n a l g ifts (a n n u itie s ) tra n s fe rre d to G e n e ra l F u n d M isc e lla n e o u s in c o m e ..............................................................................................

4,500.00 565.68

T o ta l o f a b o v e rev en u e a llo c a te d to G e n e ra l F u n d ....

$775,325.28

R ev e n u e a llo c a te d to o th e r F u n d s: In c o m e For For For

fro m in v ested F u n d s: specific m issio n w ork .............................................................. a n n u itie s o n c o n d itio n a l g ifts .................................................. m issio n s .............................................................................................

$ 13.305.29 2,868.71 1,440.16

In c o m e fro m in v e stm e n ts — P e n s on R eserve F u n d s ......................... L e g acie s fo r g e n e ra l p u rp o s e s .................................................................... $ 27.425.12 L e g acie s fo r sp e c ia l p u rp o s e s .................................................................... 4 ,4 1 5 . 5 4 D e sig n ated g ifts — E x h ib it “ C ” : G ifts a n d su n d ry c re d its ...................................................................... In c o m e fro m in v e stm e n ts ........................................................

$114,301.40 3,175.40

T o ta l o f a b o v e rev en u e

C H A R G E S A G A IN S T R E V E N U E

M issio n w o rk : A fric a M issio n ......................................................................................... A m o y , P h ilip p in e M issio n ................................................................. A ra b ia n M issio n ....................................................................................... A rc o t M ission ........................................................................................... J a p a n M issio n ........................................................................................... U n ite d M issio n in I r a q .................

$ 39,709.15 66,329.28 143,913.98 150,677.79 145,740.74 12,000.00

E x p e n se s re la tin g to m iss io n a rie s on fu rlo u g h .................................

$558,370.94 17,839.90

H o m e e x p e n d itu re s — S ch ed u le # 1 : A d m in 's tra tio n ......................................................................................... E d u c a tio n a n d p ro m o tio n .................................................................. C o o p e ra tio n w ith in th e D e n o m in a tio n ........................................

94,466.61 15,495.12 26,852.03

E X H IB IT “ A ”

3.910.39 31,840.66

117,476.80 $946,167.29

C h a rg e s a llo c a te d a g a in s t G e n e ra l F u n d rev en u e :

C h a rg e s a llo c a te d a g a in s t G e n e ra l F u n d rev en u e : S ew ing G u ild s h ip m e n ts ................................................................................ O v erseas tra v e l o f s e c re ta rie s .................................................................... C o n trib u tio n s to m issio n a ry a sso c ia tio n s .......................................... E x p e n d itu re s re o th e r F u n d s m e t fro m G e n e ra l F u n d : A n n u ity p ay m en ts in excess o f in c o m e rece iv ed fro m in v e stm e n ts o f C o n d itio n a l G ifts ................................

17,614.16

3,000.00 6,700.00 27,418.88 1,325.59

G e n e ra l F u n d a p p ro p ria tio n s : F o r 1953 co n tin g e n c ie s n o t p ro v id e d fo r in o rig in a l b u d g e t ............................ F o r fu tu re tra v el an d s c h o la rsh ip s ................... F o r M issio n b u ild in g s an d re h a b ilita tio n ...... F o r o th e r M issio n a c tiv itie s ................................. T ra n s fe r to D e sig n ated G ift .................................

$ 10,124.81 1.600.00 11,700.00 4,287.64 750.00

28,462.45

T o ta l o f a b o v e c h a rg e s a llo c a te d a g a in s t G e n e ra l F u n d rev en u e ......................................................

$779,931.52

C h a rg e s a llo c a te d a g a in s t rev en u e o f o th e r F u n d s: E x p e n d itu re s o f in c o m e fro m in v ested F u n d s h eld fo r specific w o rk : _ R em itted to m issio n s fro m T ru s t F u n d in c o m e .................... P a y m e n ts o f a n n u itie s on C o n d itio n a l G ifts ........................ D is b u rse m e n t o f g e n e ra l p u rp o se legacies .......................................... D is b u rse m e n t o f sp ecial p u rp o s e legacies ........................... D is b u rse m e n t o f D e sig n ated G ifts — E x h ib it “ C ” ........................

8,254.83 2,868.71 27,000.00 4,276.92 96,161.37

T o ta l o f a b o v e ch a rg e s

$918,493.35

E xcess o f ab o v e rev en u e o v er c h a rg e s a g a in s t rev en u e — Y e a r e n d e d D e c e m b e r 31, 1953 ......................................................

$ 27,673.94

O T H E R C H A N G E S IN F U N D B A L A N C E S In c re a se s: G e n e ra l p u rp o s e T ru s t F u n d s tra n s fe rre d : F ro m C o n d itio n a l G ifts ...................................................................... $ F ro m D e sig n ated G ifts ......................................................................... M issio n F u n d rece iv ed ............................................................................... N et p ro fit on sale s o f in v e stm en ts a n d re c o v e rie s re in v e stm en t tra n s a c tio n s o f p rio r y e a rs, a p p lied to u n a llo c a te d gains a n d losses re a liz e d on in v e stm en ts ............................................... D e c re a se s: P en sio n R eserve F u n d s tra n s fe rre d to th e M in is te rs F u n d , R . C . A ........................................................................................................... M :ssion F u n d s re m itte d .................................................................................. C o n d itio n a l G ifts tra n s fe rre d to G e n e ra l F u n d m a tu re d a n n u itie s ................................................................................... C o n d itio n a l G ift tra n s fe rre d to g en e ra l p u rp o s e T ru s t F u n d

2,000.00 200.00 900.00 5.947.32

9,047.32

$101,604.68 4,500.00 4.500.00 2,000.00

$112,604.68

N e t d e c re a se in F u n d s o th e r th a n fro m R ev en u e a n d ch a rg e s a g a in s t R evenue ......................................................................................

$103,557.36

T o ta l n e t d e c re a s e in F u n d s an d in v e sted re serv e ........................

$ 75,883.42

A L L O C A T IO N O F F O R E G O IN G C H A N G E S IN F U N D B A L A N C E S In c re a se R ev en u e a n d c h a rg e s a g a in s t re v e n u e : G e n e ra l F u n d ....................................................... T ru s t F u n d s — a c c u m u la te d in co m e C o n d itio n a l G ifts — a c c u m u la te d incom e M issio n F u n d s — a c c u m u la te d in c o m e ... P e n sio n R eserv e F u n d s ................................. L e g acie s fo r g en e ra l p u rp o s e s .................... L e g acie s fo r sp ecial p u rp o s e s ..................... D e sig n a te d G ifts ...................!............................ O th e r c h a n g e s: G e n e ra l p u rp o s e T ru s t F u n d s ............................... M issio n F u n d s ............................................................... P en sio n R eserv e F u n d s ............................................. C o n d itio n a l G ifts ........................................................ U n a llo c a te d g ain s an d losses realize d on in v e stm e n ts ...............................................................

N e t In c re a se (D e c re a s e )

D ec re a se

$775,325.28 13,305.29 2,868.71 1,440.16 3,910.39 27,425.12 4,415.54 117,476.80

$779,931.52 $ 8,254.83 2,868.71

$946,167.29

$918,493.35

900.00

5,947.32

1,440.16 3,910.39 425.12 138.62 21,315.43

27,000.00 4.276.92 96,161.37

2,200.00

$ $

4,500.00 101,604.68 6,500.00

(4 ,6 0 6 .2 4 )* 5,050.46

27,673.94

2,200.00 (3 ,6 0 0 .0 0 ) (101,6 0 4 .6 8 ) (6 ,5 0 0 .0 0 ) 5,947.32

$ (7 5 ,8 8 3 .4 2 ) * N e t d e c re a se c h a rg e d to G e n e ra l F u n d a c c o u n t. E X H IB IT “ A ”

THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS, R. C. A. Balance Sheet For the Year ended December 31, 1953 A SSETS C ash in b a n k s a n d on h a n d ............................................................................................................ In v e stm e n ts — S ch ed u le # 2 : B onds ( o th e r th a n real e s ta te m o rtg a g e b o n d s ) , c o rp o ra te sto c k s a n d F e d e ra l S avings a n d L o a n s h a re s — a t b o o k v alu e (v a lu e b ased on p u b lish e d in fo rm a tio n , a t o r n e a r D e c e m b e r 31, 1953 — $1,209,816.15) ...................................... $1,131,712.88 M o rtg a g e s, re a l e s ta te , etc. — a t b o o k v alu e ............................... 111,069.71 D ep o sits in sav in g s in s titu tio n s in N ew Y o rk , N . Y . .......... 23,775.94 A ccourU s re c e iv a b le a n d su n d ry a d v a n c e s : C o lle c tio n s by c h u rc h e s p rio r to D e c em b er 31, 1953 ............... A m o u n t on d e p o s it w ith in v e stm e n t c u s to d ia n ........................ P ay m e n ts fo r a c c o u n t o f m iss io n a rie s a n d o th e rs ................. P h ilip p in e su sp e n se a c c o u n t .............................................................. A c c o u n ts re c e iv a b le fo r fu n d s tra n s m itte d o r d is b u rs e d as a c c o m m o d a tio n s — E x h ib it “ C ” ........................................... S u n d ry a c c o u n ts re c e iv a b le ................................................................

145,246.18

1,266,558.53

71,520.48 44.062.55 25.344.70 5,800.00 2,120.44 1,563.31

150,411.48

S u sp e n se a c c o u n t a n d e m erg en cy fu n d s — A ra b ia n M issio n R e m itta n c e s to m issio n s a p p lic a b le to 1954 ................................ M isc e lla n e o u s d e fe rre d c h a rg e s a n d p re p a id ex p e n ses .........

6,828.66 60,447.69 6,010.06 $1,635,502.60

L IA B IL IT IE S A N D F U N D B A L A N C E S T a x e s w ith h e ld fro m s a la rie s ............................................................................... U n re m itte d fu n d s h a n d le d as a c c o m m o d a tio n s — E x h ib it “ C ” ...... B alan ces d u e m issio n s r ........................................................................................ B alan ces d u e m iss io n a rie s ................................................................................... In c o m e on in v e stm e n ts — d e fe rre d ................................................................ M iscellan eo u s a c c o u n ts p a y a b le ........................................................................ R eserv es fo r e stim a te d fu tu re re q u ire m e n ts: P e n sio n re fu n d s rece iv ed — a p p lic a tio n d e fe rre d ................... $ 2,875.33 In s u ra n c e co n tin g e n c ie s ......................................................................... 912.69 O th e r fu tu re p ro je c ts .............................................................................. 134,058.32 A ccum ula te d in c o m e

P rin c ip a l a n d fu n d e d rev e n u e

F u n d s: F u n d s h eld fo r sp e c ia l p u rp o s e s : T ru s t F u n d s — S ch ed u le # 3 . $25,246.68 $369,040.26 $ C o n d itio n a l G ifts (u n m a tu re d a n n u ity f u n d s ) — S ch ed u le # 3 73,050.00 M issio n fu n d s .............................. 5,400.77 35,936.93 D e sig n a te d G ifts — E x h ib it “ C ” 220,812.62 P e n sio n R eserv e F u n d ................ 11,279.15 S p ecial p u rp o s e le g a c ie s .............. 25,663.61 $30,647.45

$735,782.57

F u n d s a v a ila b le fo r v a rio u s p u rp o s e s w ith in re g u la r b u d g e t: T ru s t F u n d s — S ch ed u le # 3 ........................ $534,451.47 S ecu rity F u n d ........................................................ 71,622.69 G e n e ra l p u rp o s e le g acie s ............................... 70,473.79 T o ta l o f F u n d s ( o th e r th a n G e n e ra l F u n d ) ... G e n e ra l F u n d : B a lan ce, J a n u a ry 1, 1953 ...................... $ 11,311.65 D e d u c t — E xcess o f 1953 rev en u e c h a rg e s o v e r rev e n u e fo r 1953 .... 4,606.24

717.39 807.50 4,199.64 12,509.60 2,247.13 1,245.50

137,846.34

T o ta l

394,286.94 73,050.00 41.337.70 220,812:62 11,279.15 25,663.61 $

766,430.02

676,547.95 $1,442,977.97

6,705.41 $1,449,683.38

A d d — U n a llo c a te d n e t p ro fit re a liz e d fro m sale s o f in v e stm e n ts .........................................................................................

26,246.12

1,475,929.50 $1,635,502.60

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THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS, R. C. A. Statements of Home Expenditures (Administration, Education and Promotion, Cooperation within the Denomination) For the Year ended December 31, 1953 A d m in is tra tio n : . A c c o u n t b o o k s , s ta tio n e ry a n d su p p lie s ............................... A u d it o f B o a rd a c c o u n ts .............................................................. C irc u la rs a n d m isc ellan eo u s p rin tin g ..................................... Office fu rn itu re a n d re p a irs .......................................................... O fficers’ sa la rie s : L. J . S h a fe r — S e c re ta ry ..................................................... R u th R a n so m — S e c re ta ry ................................................... B a rn e rd M . L u b e n — S e c re ta ry ....................................... H . G . B o v e n k e rk — T re a s u re r .......................................... E d w in a P aig e — A ss o c ia te T re a s u re r ............................ Office a n d o th e r s a la rie s .............................................................. P a y m e n t to re tire m e n t fu n d fo r office w o rk e rs ................ P a y m e n ts fo r h o s p ita liz a tio n p la n ............................................ P e n s io n s ................................................................................................. P o sta g e , te le g ra m s a n d c a b le s ................................................... R e n t a n d c a re o f N ew Y o rk O ffice ......................................... S o cia l se c u rity ta x e s ....................................................................... T e le p h o n e ex p e n se ........................................................................... T ra v e l o f B o a rd m e m b e rs an d a n n u a l m e e tin g expense M is c e lla n e o u s ...................... ..............................................................

$ 1,539.73 1.500.00 675.80 1,198.23 7,500.02 6.999.96 6.999.96 5.249.97 4,999.92 31,495.17 2.669.97 309.97 2.218.00 2,795.54 6,831.27 793.26 1,900.50 7,747.73 1,041.61

T o ta l A d m in is tra tio n — E x h ib it “ A ” E d u c a tio n a n d P r o m o tio n : A n n u a l r e p o r t ......................................................................... A r a b ia C a llin g ( p u b lic a tio n ) ........................................ A u d io — v isu al e d u c a tio n ................................................ B o o k s p u rc h a s e d .................................................................... E x p e n se — F ie ld S e c re ta ry ............................................. P a m p h le ts a n d le aflets ......................................................... S u m m e r C o n fe re n c e s ........................................................... T ra v e l ex p e n se a m o n g c h u rc h e s a n d c o n fe re n c e s

$94,466,61

T o ta l E d u c a tio n a n d P ro m o tio n — E x h ib it “ A ” C o o p e ra tio n w ith in th e D e n o m in a tio n : A u d io — v isu al office ................................................................................. D e p a rtm e n t o f C h ild re n ’s W o rk ......................................................... D e p a rtm e n t o f W o m e n ’s W o rk ............................................................ D e p a rtm e n t o f Y o u n g P e o p le ’s W o rk .............................................. In fo rm a tio n a l m a te ria l .............................................................................. S taff C o n fe re n c e — S ta te d C le rk o f G e n e ra l S y n o d ..................

$15,495.12

T o ta l C o o p e ra tio n w ith in th e D e n o m in a tio n — E x h ib it “ A ” ......

$ 1,739.12 256.98 282.91 96.53 410.06 7,097.08 251.00 5,361.44

$ 1,845.40 2,765.60 8,390.44 8,469.92 95.55 5,285.12 $26,852.03

THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS, R. C. A. Statements of Investments For the Year ended December 31, 1953 B O N D S (O T H E R T H A N R E A L E S T A T E M O R T G A G E B O N D S ) C u rre n t v alu e (see n o te b e lo w )

B ook v alu e

U n ite d S ta te s G o v e rn m e n t b o n d s a n d o th e r o b lig a tio n s: T re a s u ry c e rtific a te s o f in d e b te d n e s s : 24M S eries A , 2 1 4 % , d u e F e b ru a ry 15, 1954 .............. SOM S eries D , 2V h % , d u e A u g u st 15, 1954 ..................

24,031.20 80,192.00

24,015.09 80,025.00

T re a s u ry b o n d — In v e s tm e n t S eries B, SOM, 2 3A % , d u e A p ril 1, 1980 ..............................................................

48,900.00 (•*)

51,178.50

T re a s u ry b o n d s — o th e r: 14M 2>/4%, d u e J u n e 15, 1962 ................................ 23M 2>/2%, d u e D e c em b er 15, 1972 ...................... 1M 2»/2% , d u e J u n e 15, 1 9 7 2 ................................ 20M 31 4 % , d u e J u n e 15, 1983 ..................................

13,759.20 22,116.80 961.60 21,040.00

14,135.50 23,311.89 990.27 20,000.00

S av in g s b o n d s — $42,500 d u e 25 “ 500 “ 25 “ 250 “ 500 “ 25 “ 25 “ 25 “

4 1 ,6 5 0 .0 0 (1) 2 3 .2 3 (1) 4 64.5011) 2 3 .2 3 (1) 2 2 8 .5011) 4 5 0 .0 0 11) 2 1 .8 5 (1) 2 1 .SSI1) 2 1 .5 3 (1)

31,450.00 18.50 370.00 18.50 185.00 370.00 18.50 18.50 18.50

11.40 8 .0 0 11) 18.848.0011) 3 2 ,538.00(1> 9 8 .6 0 (1) 14,790.00 (J) 1 4 ,7 3 0 .0 0 0 ) 9.760.00 (M 4 ,8 8 0 .0 0 (1) 9 .7 3 0 .0 0 (1) 6 ,7 9 0 .0 0 11) 7 1 ,8 5 0 .0 0 (1) 2 3 .9 5 0 .0 0 11)

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

S eries F : A p ril 1954 ......... A u g u st 1955 S e p te m b e r 1955. N o v e m b e r 1955 A p ril 1956 ......... D e c e m b e r 1956 O c to b e r 1957..... N o v e m b e r 1957 F e b ru a ry 1958

S av in g s b o n d s — S eries G , 2 1 4 % : $11,500 d u e M a rc h 1954 .......... 19M “ A p ril 1954 ............ 33M “ J u ly 1954 .............. $100 “ A u g u st 1954 15M “ D e c e m b e r 1954 15M “ F e b ru a ry 1955 .... 10M “ M a rc h 1956 ......... 5M “ A p ril 1956 ............. 10M “ N o v e m b e r 1956... 7M “ J u n e 1957............... 75M “ J a n u a r y 1959 ....... 25M “ M a rc h 1959 ..........

O th e r b o n d s : 15M $3,600 14M 5M 20M 25M 1M 10M 5M 16M

A lu m in u m C o . o f A m e ric a — s in k in g fund d e b ., 3 1/a % , d u e 1964 ....................................... A m e ric a n T e l. & T e l. C o . — c o n v . d eb ., 23/4%, d u e 1961.................................................... A u stra lia , C o m m o n w e a lth of— e x te rn a l lo a n o f 1925. 5 % , d u e 1955 .................................... C e n tra l Illin o is P u b lic S erv ic e C o . — 1st m tg e., A . 33/8%. d u e 1971 .............................. C h ic a g o & W e ste rn In d ia n a R. R. C o . — 1st s in k in g fu n d , A , 4 % % , d u e 1 9 8 2 .............. D o w C h e m ic a l C o . — co n v . su b -d eb ., 3 % , d u e 1982 .................................................................. E lgin, J o lie t & E a ste rn Rw y. C o . — 1st m tg e.. A , 3 14% , d u e 1970 ............................ Illin o is Bell T el. C o . — 1st m tg e.. A , 2 34% , d u e 1981 .................................................................. K o p p e rs C o . — 1st m tg e., 3 % , d u e 1964 .... M ic h ig a n C o n s o lid a te d G a s C o . — s in k in g fu n d d e b ., 3 % % , due 1967......

$ 473,278.09

$ 471,723.75

15,375.00

15,000.00

4,023.00

3,998.32

14,175.00

15,098.43

5,025.00

5,056.25

21,100.00

20.420.00

25,812.50

25.375.00

985.00

1,016.50

9,300.00 4,993.75

10,112.50 5,100.00

16,000.00

16,261.60

C u rre n t v alu e (see n o te b e lo w ) 5M $800 12M 25M 20M 20M 2M

O h io E d iso n C o . — 1st m tg e., 2 3 4 % , d u e 1975 ........................................................................... P u b lic S erv ic e E le c tric & G a s C o . — d e b ., 6 % , d u e 1998 ....................................................... R o c h e ste r T e le p h o n e C o rp . — s in k in g fun d d e b ., 4 % , d u e 1963 ............................................ S in c la ir O il C o rp o ra tio n — conv. d e b ., 31 4 % , . d u e 1983 .................................................................. S ta n d a rd O il o f In d ia n a — co n v . d e b ., 3 14% , d u e 1982 ................................................................ T w in C ity R a p id T ra n s it C o . — c o lla te ra l tru s t, 4 % , d u e 1964 ........................................ W ilso n & C o ., I n c . — 1st m tg e., 3 % , d u e 1958 ...........................................................................

B ook valu e

4.675.00

5,031.25

1.182.00

800.71

12.240.00

12,240.00

24,093.75

26,538.75

20.575.00

21,300.00

18,000.00

16,200.00

2 , 000.00

199,555.00

$ 201,549.31

C O R PO R A T E STOCKS 2 shs. A n g lo -L a u ta ro N itra te — class A ............. 5 “ A n g lo -L a u ta ro N itra te — class B ........... 150 “ A m e ric a n In v e s tm e n t C o . o f 111., 5.25% p fd ....................................................................... 375 “ A m e ric a n A u to m o b ile In s u ra n c e C o ..... 440 “ B eneficial L o a n C o r p ....................................... 100 “ C e n tra l V e rm o n t P u b lic S erv ic e C o rp . — 4.15% p f d ........................................................ 500 “ C h ic a g o G re a t W e ste rn R ailw ay C o . — 5% p f d ............................................................. 276.913 “ C re d ito rs H o ld in g C o ., Inc. — 6% p fd . 300 “ D ix ie C u p C o . — 5% c o n v . p f d .................. 200 “ E . I. d u P o n t de N e m o u rs & C o .............. 300 “ E l P a s o N a tu ra l G a s C o ........................... 500 “ E q u ita b le G a s C o m p a n y ............................... 300 “ G e n e ra l S h o e C o r p ............................................ 100 “ G e n e ra l T e le p h o n e C o . o f Illin o is — $5.50 p f d .......................................................... 300 “ In te rn a tio n a l N ic k e l C o . o f C a n a d a , L td . 175 “ In te rn a tio n a l N ic k e l C o . o f C a n a d a , L td ., 7% p f d .............................................................. 150 “ K e n n e c o tt C o p p e r C o r p ................................... 300 “ M a rin e M id la n d C o rp . — 4V4% conv . p f d ........................................................................ 200 “ M ay D e p a rtm e n t S to re s — $3.40 p f d ....... 50 “ M o n o n g a h e la P o w e r C o . — 4 .40% cum . p f d ........................................................................ 220 “ N a tio n a l C a sh R e g iste r C o ............................ 600 “ N o rw ic h P h a rm a c a l C o ................................... 50 “ O h io E d iso n C o . — 4 .40% p f d .................. 50 “ O k la h o m a N a tu ra l G a s C o . — serie s A , 434% p f d ........................................................ 200 “ P acific G a s & E le c tric C o . — 6 % , 1st p fd . 120 “ P eo p le s G as, L ig h t a n d C o k e C o ............ P h illip s P e tro le u m C o ..................................... 200 “ 3 “ P ru d e n c e -B o n d s C o r p . ..................................... 200 “ P u b lic S ervice C o . o f In d ia n a — 314% p f d ........................................................................ 500 “ R o y al D u tc h C o m p a n y . — N . Y . s h a re s 200 “ S c ra n to n E le c tric — 3.35% p f d .................. 200 “ S e a rs R o e b u c k & C o ........................................ 400 “ S o c o n y -V a c u u m O il C o ., I n c ..................... 100 “ T e n n e s se e G a s T ra n sm is sio n C o .— 5.10% p fd . .................................................................... 500 “ T ra n s c o n tin e n ta l G a s P ip e lin e ...................... 50 “ T ra v e le rs In s u ra n c e C o ................................... 300 “ U n io n C a rb id e & C a rb o n C o r p ................ 231 “ U n ite d S ta te s F id e lity & G u a ra n ty C o ..... 250 “ U n ite d S ta te s P ip e & F o u n d ry C o ........... 150 “ W h e e lin g a n d L a k e E rie R w y. C o ............

9.50) .3 1 1

62.50 15,000.00 15.600.00 15.874.00

15.225.00 17.625.00 16.830.00

8 , 000.00

9,275.48

13.500.00 — <3) 16.950.00 21.475.00 10.650.00 11.250.00 12.675.00

14,665.65 1.00 16.800.00 9,274.35 10,785.93 12,185.39 12.090.00

9.600.00 10.500.00

10,001.06 10,826.91

22,968.75 9.637.50

23,459.05 9.873.91

16.500.00 16.400.00

15.703.12 16.568.50

4,775.00 13.090.00 12.450.00 5.137.50

5.175.00 6,710.97 10.411.50 5.150.00

2.475.00 6.650.00 16,020.00 10.700.00 —

2.625.00 6.900.00 11,297.24 6.813.92 1.00

(3)

16.400.00 15,437.50 14.400.00 12.400.00 14.200.00

16.768.70 14.937.50 16.300.00 11,012.96 8,558.21

9.300.00 11.125.00 42,000.00 22.275.00 15.477.00 9.125.00 18.750.00

10.200.00

$ 501,983.06

11.562.50 15,030.86 9.505.01 8,612.78 10.063.12 17.756.70 $

423,439.82

F E D E R A L S A V IN G S A N D L O A N A S S O C IA T IO N IN V E S T M E N T S H A R E C E R T IF IC A T E S C u r r e n t v a lu e (see n o te b e lo w ) 2M 2M 3M 3M 5M 2M 2M 2M 2M 4M 2M 2M 2M 2M

F e d e ra l S av in g s & L o a n A ss ’n B a ltim o re , M d ..... $ “ “ “ “ “ P h ila d e lp h ia , P a... C h ic a g o , 111............ D o n g a n H ills, S. L, N . Y ....... D a n ie ls o n , C o n n . D a n ie ls o n P ittsb u rg h , P a ..... E a st End G re e n e C o u n ty , F irs t W a y n e sb u rg , P a . P h ila d e lp h ia , P a... F irs t P ittsb u rg h , P a ..... F o r t P itt H in sd a le , 111......... H in s d a le B altim o re, M d ..... L eeds B a ltim o re , M d . .. L ib e rty P h ila d e lp h ia , P a... Penn P h ila d e lp h ia , P a... $ P u b lic A u ro ra C ay u g a C h ic ag o C o lo n ia l

$ T o ta l b o n d s ( o th e r th a n re a l e s ta te m o rtg a g e b o n d s ) , c o rp o ra te sto ck s a n d F e d e ra l S av ings & L o a n A sso c ia tio n in v e stm e n t sh a re s — E x h ib it “ B ” ....................................................

B ook v alu e

2 , 000 . 0 0 ( 2 ) 2 , 000 . 00 ( 2 )

2 , 000.00 2 , 000.00

3.000.

00(2) 3,000.00

3.000. 5.000. 2 .000.

00(2) 3,000.00 00(2) 5,000.00 00 (2) 2 ,000.00

2 , 000 .00 (2) 2 , 000 . 00 (2) 2 ,000 .00 (2) 4.000.

2 ,000.00 2 , 000.00 2 ,000.00 0 0 (2) 4,000.00

2.000. 00(2) 2,000.00 2,000.00(2) 2,000.00 2,000.00(2) 2,000.00 2,000.0 0 (2) $ 2,000.00 35,000.00

$1,209,816.15

35,000.00

$1,131,712.88

NOTE: C u rre n t v a lu e sh o w n in th e fo re g o in g h a s b ee n b a s e d o n a v a ila b le r n e a r D e c e m b e r 31, 1953, ex c e p t th o s e p u b lish e d q u o ta tio n s a t re n c e s as fo llo w s: in d ic a te d by re fe------V a lu e b a s e d o n official p u b lish e d re d e m p tio n ta b le — a m o u n t as a t D e c e m b e r 31, 1953. V a lu e d a t c o st b ased o n in fo rm a tio n a s to g u a ra n te e o f in v e stm e n t by F e d e ra l S av in g s a n d L o a n In s u ra n c e C o r p o ra tio n . . C u rre n t v alu e n o t sh o w n in a sm u c h as p u b lish e d p ric e a t o r n e a r D e c e m b e r 31, 1953 n o t a v a ila b le . N o t m a rk e ta b le . E x c h a n g e a b le fo r m a rk e ta b le \ V 2 % fivey e a r T re a s u ry n o te s a n d v alu e is 1 ' th’ e re o n . M ORTGAGES C ro ssw a y H ig h w a y , G le n C ove. N . Y ................................................... 3332 F is h A v en u e, B ro n x , N . Y ............................................................... F r a n c o n ia A v en u e & 4 5 th A v en u e, F lu s h in g , N . Y ....................... 2066 M ap es A v e n u e , B ro n x , N . Y ................... ..................................... 448 N ew Je rs e y A v en u e, B ro o k ly n , N . Y ............................................ 27 S to n e r A v en u e, G r e a t N e c k , N . Y ................................................... 6116 T y n d a ll A v en u e, B ro n x , N . Y ....................................................... 79-85 W a lw o rth S tre e t, B ro o k ly n , N . Y ............................................ 529 T h ird S tre e t. B ro o k ly n , N . Y .......................................................... 1058 E a s t 14th S tre e t, B ro o k ly n , N . Y....................................... 342-44 W e st 30th S tre e t, N ew Y o rk , N . Y ....................................... 69-32 7 5 th S tre e t, M id d le V illag e, N . Y .............................................. 1413 78th S tre e t, B ro o k ly n , N . Y .......................................................... 357 W e st 117th S tre e t, N ew Y o rk , N . Y .......................................... 160 W e st 120th S tre e t, N ew Y o rk , N . Y ............................................ 38-31 21 8 th S tre e t, B ay sid e, N . Y .......................................................... O n e -th ird in te re s t in m o rtg a g e o w n ed jo in tly w ith th e B o a rd o f D o m e stic M issio n s: 4080 H ill A v e n u e , B ro n x , N . Y ..............................................

M a tu rity d a te s

B ook valu e

A p r. 1, 1956 M a tu re d J a n . 31, 1954 M a tu re d M a tu re d A p r. 30, 1954 J u ly 1, 1954 J u n e 1, 1956 J u ly 1, 1961 M a tu re d J a n . 31, 1962 M a tu re d M a tu re d O ct. 1, 1955 Jan. 1, 1958 In in s ta lm e n ts to 1955

$10,500.00 5,150.00 3,200.00 350.00 2,630.00 2,725.00 11,525.00 10,850.00 9,293.60 3,918.75 23,642.35 1.040.00 3,205.00 1,968.51 2,924.64

M a tu re d

650.47

399.99 $93,973.31

M O R T G A G E B O N D S A N D C E R T IF IC A T E S B o o k valu e N e w Y o rk T itle & M o rtg a g e C o . — ctf. # 3 5 1 6 , serie s Q .......... 2 M N ew Y o rk T o w e rs. Inc. — sta m p e d $800 p a id , 2 % , due F e b . 1, 1960, reg ., w ith s to c k a tta c h e d ...................................... N assa u -S u ffo lk B ond & M o rtg a g e G te . C o . — su n d ry ce rtifi ca tes, b o o k v a lu e o f w h ich h a s b ee n liq u id a te d .................

145.00 1,201.40 —

1,346.40

3,750.00 4,500.00 7,500.00

15,750.00

REAL ESTATE K o lle n p ro p e rty — H o lla n d , M ic h ig a n ................................................. 917 S o u th W e stn ed g e A v en u e, K a la m a z o o . M ic h i g a n ................ 1848 G o d fre y A v en u e, S. W ., G ra n d R a p id s, M ic h ig a n ..........

M IS C E L L A N E O U S

(In the absence o j a suitable basis fo r valuation these have been recorded in the books at no value) R e c o rd e d in p rio r y e a rs : M o rtg a g e p a rtic ip a tio n c e rtific a te o f Irv in g T ru s t C o ., fo r $153.52 — m o rtg a g e of M in s k e r R ealty C o ., o n p re m ises a t 240V2 East' H o u sto n S tre e t, N ew Y o rk , N . Y . $ T ru s te e ’s c e rtific a te o f th e F irs t S ta te B a n k , H o lla n d . M ic h ig a n fo r $2.96 a n d re c e iv e r’s c e rtific a te of P e o p le ’s S ta te B a n k , H o lla n d , M ic h ig a n fo r $42.60 O n e -th ird o f o n e-six th u n d iv id e d in te re s t in v a rio u s in v e stm e n ts in th e e s ta te o f G e o rg e D . H u ls t.................... O n e -q u a rte r in te re s t in $2,825 m o rtg a g e on p ro p e rty at 136-11 3 5 th A v en u e, F lu s h in g , N . Y ................................ O n e -h a lf in te re s t in $3,243.96 m o rtg a g e o n p ro p e rty of M a rie B uckley, E a s t sid e o f R o u te 304, C la rk sto w n , N . Y ......................................................................................................

— — — —

—

T o ta l m o rtg a g e s , re a l e s ta te , etc. ( a t b o o k v a l u e ) — E x h ib it “ B ” ...............

111,069.71

D E P O S IT S IN S A V IN G S - IN S T IT U T IO N S IN N E W Y O R K , N . Y . T h e B a n k f o r S a v in g s.................................................................................... $ E x c e ls io r S av in g s B a n k .................................................................................. U n io n S q u a re S av in g s B a n k ......................................................................

10,342.42 8,840.86 4,592.66

T o ta l d e p o s its in sav in g s in s titu tio n s — E x h ib it “ B ” .........................................................

23,775.94

T o ta l in v e stm e n ts — E x h ib it “ B ” ........................

$1,266,558.53

THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS, R. C. A. Statement of Fund Balances Trust Funds and Conditional Gifts For the Year ended December 31, 1953 A c c u m u la te d in c o m e

P rin c ip a l

T o ta l

T ru s t F u n d s : H e ld fo r sp ecial p u rp o s e s : D e s ig n a te d fo r u s e in C h in a : A m o y H o sp ita l F u n d .......................................... E lis a b e th H . B la u v elt M e m o ria l H o sp ita l F u n d ................................................................. C .H .U . B ed E n d o w m e n t F u n d — B lauvelt H o sp ita l ....................................... ................... M a ry B. D o o little F u n d .................................... G . J . K o o ik e r B ed E n d o w m e n t F u n d — A m o y H o s p ita l ............................................. N e th e rla n d s C o m m itte e F u n d ........................ M a rth a S c h a d d e le e F u n d — S io K h e H o s p ita l .................................................................... M a ry E . T a lm a g e F u n d .................................... J a s p e r W e ste rv e lt F u n d — N e e rb o s c h H o s p ita l .................................................................... J o h n H . O e rte r M e m o ria l F u n d ................. D e s ig n a te d fo r u se in In d ia : A rc o t In d u s tria l S ch o o l F u n d ...................... C h ild re n ’s H o m e, V e llo re ............. M a ry L o tt L yles H o sp ita l F u n d ................. S c u d d e r M e m o ria l H o sp ita l, R a n ip e tta i: G e n e ra l P u rp o se F u n d ............................. Is a a c B ro d h e a d F u n d ............................... E liz a M . G a rrig u e s F u n d ...................... A lid a V e n n e m a H eeven F u n d ............. E u p h e m ia M a s o n O lc o tt F u n d .......... D r. G e o rg e A . S a n d h a m F u n d ............. M a ry T a b e r S chell H o sp ita l F u n d ............ E liz a b e th R . V o o rh e e s C o lleg e F u n d ...... C . L . W e lls M e m o ria l F u n d ........................ D e s ig n a te d f o r u se in A ra b ia : F u n d fo r M e d ic a l M is sio n a ry W o rk in A ra b ia ............................................................. O liv e r J . H a y e s M e m o ria l F u n d — m e d i c a l m issio n a ry w o rk in A ra b ia .......... B a h ra in H o sp ita l F u n d s — A ra b ia : G e n e ra l P u rp o se F u n d ............................. A lfre d D e W . M a so n , J r. F u n d .......... F a n n y W . M a s o n M e m o ria l F u n d .... L e ^ is D . M a s o n F u n d ........................... L ew is D . M a s o n F u n d — s u rg ic a l su p plies ........................................................... V a n R e n sse la e r B u rr, J r . F u n d .......... L a n sin g M e m o ria l ( f o r m e r l y B a s ra h ) H o sp ita l F u n d ............................................... A n n a M . T . V a n S a n tv o o rd — A m a ra h L a n sin g H o sp ita l ........................................ C a n tin e G u e s t H o u se E n d o w m e n t F u n d A n n a F . B ac o n F u n d ........................................ M a rio n W e lls T h o m s H o s p ita l F u n d ...... H a n n a h M o re B ish o p F u n d ........................... M a rg a re t L . T u n n a rd F u n d .......................... M in is te ria l e d u c a tio n in I n d ia : W illiam R . G o rd o n F u n d ............................... C h ris tia n J a n s e n F u n d ...................................... J o s e p h S c u d d e r F u n d ........................................ G . B. W a lb rid g e F u n d ...................................... T o ta l T ru s t F u n d s h eld f o r sp ecial p u rp o s e s — E x h ib it “ B ” ...............

583.76

3,643.26

2,169.81

5,000.00

218.44 354.78

500.00 2,000.00

304.46 307.82

700.00 1,105.01

339.99 1,300.59

785.00 5,362.19

432.57 845.84

1,000.00 1,950.00

1,423.67 1,492.25 186.19

20,000.00 5,864.36 11,592.09

7,569.73 273.25 108.04 346.54 210.15 500.61 1,554.54 1,131.59 1,090.21

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

—

90,715.04

901.55

25,000.00

146.01 100.59 60.33 197.17

7,259.00 5,000.00 3,000.00 9,801.87

40.22 24.10

2,000.00 1,200.00

40.22

2,000.00

20.10 79.48 47.00 20.10 18.43 20.10

1,000.00 3,954.45 2,337.13 1,000.00 917.54 1,000.00

72.96 458.08 72.96 182.45

2,000.00 12,555.36 2,000.00 5,000.00

$25,246.68

$369,040.26

$394,286.94

A c c u m u la te d in c o m e P rin c ip a l A v a ila b le fo r v a rio u s p u rp o s e s w ith in re g u la r b u d g e t: $ 5,500.00 In c o m e Id a B ald w in F u n d ....................................... ............... 10,784.60 W illiam C . B a rk a lo w F u n d .................................... ta k e n in to 700.00 A b b ie J . B ell F u n d ...................................................... G e n e ra l 4,066.96 Funds C la ra D e F o rre s t B u rre ll F u n d ............................. 30,055.50 M a ry E . B u ssin g F u n d ............................................... 2.500.00 R ev. H e n ry E . C o b b E n d o w m e n t F u n d .......... 1, 000.00 M ary S to rre C o e F u n d ............................................... 600.00 J o s ia h E . a n d I d a C ra n e M e m o ria l F u n d ........ 6.500.00 E liz a b e th D ie h l M e m o ria l F u n d ........................... 6 , 000.00 T h e D a n ie l a n d A lid a D im n e n t F u n d ............... 2 , 000.00 A n n a E liz a D is b o ro u g h F u n d .................................. 3.000. M a r th a T . D o u g la s F u n d .......................................... 20.521.89 T h e L a u ra E . D u n n F u n d ........................................ 2,022.47 C h a rlo tte W . D u rv e e F u n d ...................................... 4,532.17 A n n a E . G a s to n F u n d ............................................... 8,047.64 C a th e rin e J a n e G e b h a rd F u n d ............................... 14,339.08 J a n e A n n G o p sil F u n d ............................................... 4.500.00 J o h n H e e m stra a n d F a m ily M issio n F u n d ...... 459.10 E m ily H e rm a n c e F u n d ............................................... 435.42 M a ry H o b a r t F u n d ...................................................... 100.00 J o h n H o ffm a n F u n d .................................................... 4.500.00 M r. a n d M rs. C o rn e liu s H o lle ste lle F u n d ........ 1.500.00 G a r r e t N . H o p p e r F u n d ............................................. 1. 0 0 0 . 00 A b e l H . H u iz e n g a F u n d ............................................. 500.00 In M e m o ria m F u n d ...................................................... 3.750.00 M r. a n d M rs. H e n ry J . K o lle n M e m o ria l F u n d 7.500.00 S u sa n Y . L a n sin g F u n d ............................................. 7.500.00 M rs. C e lia L a n tin g F u n d ........................................... 688.66 M a ry L o u ise L e o n a rd M e m o ria l F u n d ............. 50.000. J o h n S. L yles F u n d ...................................................... 15.000. M a d is o n A v en u e R e fo rm e d C h u rc h F u n d ........ 1, 000.00 C la rin e V . B. a n d L u c y A . M a ts o n F u n d ........ 600.00 H eye M e n n e n g a F u n d .................................................. 475.00 C h a rle s E . M o o re F u n d ............................................. 400.13 J a n e T . B. M o o re M e m o ria l F u n d .................... 3,479.57 A d a L o u ise M o rris F u n d ......................... ................. 4 .0 0 0 . J a n e H . M o rris o n M e m o ria l F u n d ...................... 2 . 000 . M a tild a M . N a s h F u n d ............................................. 9,379.86 J o h n N e e fu s F u n d ......................................................... 14.000. P . I. a n d M . V . K . N e e fu s F u n d ........................ 4,045.09 M a ry N e e fu s F u n d ............................................. ........; 29,661.97 N o rth R e fo rm e d C h u rc h , P a ssa ic , N . J ., F u n d 5.000. C h a rle s W . O sb o rn e F u n d ...................................... 5.000. 00 J o s e p h P e n fo ld F u n d .................................................. 14,550.00 P e rm a n e n t F u n d ............................................................. 403.77 M rs. E d w a rd H . P e te rs F u n d ................................. 1 . 0 0 0 . 00 C a th e rin e J a n e P ry e r E v a n g eltsic F u n d ............. 1,733.98 H e le n A . R o llin s F u n d ............................................... 4,293.92 M a rg a re t R o o s a F u n d ............................................. .. A n n a a n d M a rg a re t R o o s e n ra a d E v a n g eltsic 202.74 F u n d ........................................................................... 1, 000.00 J a n e A . S card efield F u n d ........................................... 194.25 A . J . S c h a e fe r F u n d ..................................................... 14.000. S em e lin k F a m ily M issio n F u n d ............................. 5.500.00 R ev. D r. C . D . F . S te in fu h re r M e m o ria l F u n d 5.827.37 K a th e rin e M . T a lm a g e F u n d .................................. 3,499.61 M a ry S. V a n A c k e r E n d o w m e n t F u n d ............. 20 . 000 . J o h n M a rtin V a n B u re n F u n d ............................... 20.180.90 M a ria H o es V a n B u ren F u n d ................................. 3.000. 00 A . C . V a n R a a lte M issio n F u n d .......................... 29,848.37 A n n a T o w n se n d V a n S a n tv o o rd F u n d ............... 26,238.79 A lid a V a n S c h a ic k F u n d ........................................... 600.00 L e n a M a y V is se r F u n d ............................................. 625.00 A . V . S .'W a ll a c e F u n d ............................................. 625.00 C o rn e lia M . W a lla c e F u n d ...................................... 493.40 O live G a te s W a lla c e E v a n g e listic F u n d ............ 1 . 0 0 0 . 00 M r. a n d M rs. W illia m W a lv o o rd F u n d ............. 5,000.00 A b b e y L . W e lls F u n d .................................................. 71,399.89 A n n ie E . W y c k o ff F u n d ............................................. 4.589.37 E liz a A . Z a b ris k ie F u n d ...........................................

T o ta l

00 00

00 00 00

T o ta l T ru s t F u n d s a v a ila b le fo r v a ri o u s p u r p o s e s w ith in r e g u l a r b u d g e t — E x h ib it “ B ” ....................

—

$534,451.47

T o ta l T ru s t F u n d s ......................................

$25,246.68

$903,491.73

$928,738.41

A c c u m u la te d in c o m e

P rin c ip a l

T o ta l

C D n d itio n al G ifts (u n m a tu re d a n n u ity f u n d s ) : M a d e la in e A p g a r .................................................................. A u x . F o r t P la in , N . Y .......................................................... N e ttie B a k e r ............................................................................. J . F . B ald w in ............................................................................. S ue V . B eyer ........................................... ................................. M . S. B la u v elt ......................................................................... M r. a n d M rs. R oel D e Y o u n g ........................................ R ev. a n d M rs. R ic h a rd D . D o u w s tra ........................ M rs. G . H . D u b b in k .......................... J o h n G e ra rd u s F ag g — in m e m o ry o f ........................ A n n a H a g e n s ....................................................... L izzie H a g e n s ........................................................................... L . D . H e g e m a n ............ C o rn e lia H o sp e rs ........ G ra c e P a le n ................................ J . T . P h illip s ............................................................................. A rie P u n t .................................................................................... M a ry S. S h a fe r ......... M in n ie T a y lo r ........................................................................... S. T e W in k e l .......................................................................... R . E . V a n B la rc o m .............................................................. C . W a lv o o rd ............................................................................ H . W a lv o o rd ..................................................... T o ta l C o n d itio n a l G ifts (u n m a tu re d a n n u ity fu n d s ) — E x h ib it “ B ” ....

500.00 500.00 100.00 1,000.00 600.00 500.00 1,700.00 1,000.00 250.00 10,000.00 100.00 100.00 500.00 500.00 1,000.00 1,000.00 5,000.00 2,000.00 40,000.00 4,000.00 200.00 2,000.00 500.00

$ 73,050.00

Directory* AFRICA MISSION General Address: via Malakal, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan

ACTIVE W ent Out

Arnold, Mr. Paul E., Akobo Post......................................................... Arnold, Mrs. Laurel D., Akobo Post................................................... Crandall, Rev. C. Lee, Jr., Akobo Post................................................ Crandall, Mrs. Katharine B., R.N., Akobo Post.................................. Ekster, Mr. Lambert B., Pibor Post.................................................... Ekster, Mrs. Catherine, Pibor Post...................................................... Hoekstra, Rev. Harvey T., Akobo Post................................................ Hoekstra, Mrs. Lavina II., Akobo Post................................................ Hostetter, Rev. Paul E., 156 Fifth Ave., New York 10, N. Y. (Under appointment.) Hostetter, Mrs. Winifred H., 156 Fifth Ave., New York 10, N. Y. (Under appointment.) Huisken, Miss Lillian, R.N., Akobo Post........................................ Kats, Miss Wilma J., Akobo Post....................................................... Sikkema, Mr. La Verne A., Akobo Post................................................ Sikkema, Mrs. Lorraine V., Akobo Post.............................................. Swart, Rev. J. Robert, Pibor Post......................................................... Swart, Mrs. Morrell W., Pibor Post..................................................... Te Selle, Miss Amy I., R.N., Nasir.....................................................

1951 1951 1949 1949 1953 1953 1948 1948

1949 1948 1952 1952 1948 1948 1953

ARABIAN MISSION G eneral Address: Am erican M ission

EMERITUS Barny, Mrs. Margaret R., 89-91 - 212th St., Queens Village, N Y .......... .......................................... ................. Dykstra, Rev. Dirk, D.D., R.R. 5, Holland, Mich................... Dykstra, Mrs. Minnie W., R.R. 5, Holland, Mich................... Harrison, Paul W., M.D., Penney Farms, Fla. 00 (1950-1952) Harrison, Mrs. Anna M., Penney Farms, Fla. *“’(1950-1952) Kellien, Miss Charlotte B., 156 Fifth Ave., New York 10, N. Y. Pennings, Rev. Gerrit J., D.D., Orange City, Iow a............... These addresses are as of Septem ber 15, 1954. ** S e rv ic e I n te rm itte d

1898-1939 1906-1953 1907-1953 1909-1954 1917-1954 1915-1954 1908-1952*

Van Peursem, Rev. Gerrit D., D.D., North Branch, N. J....... Van Peursem, Mrs. Josephine S., R.N., North Branch, N. J.

1910-1947 1910-1947

ACTIVE W ent Out

Allison, Mrs. Mary Bruins, M.D., Kuwait, Persian Gulf........... 1934 Block, Mr. Robert J., Basrah, Iraq (Short term )......................... 1952 Boersma, Miss Jeanette, R.N., Muscat, Persian Gulf....................... 1944 Bosch, Donald T., M.D., P.O. Box 1, Bahrain, Persian Gulf..................... 1951 Bosch, Mrs. H. Eloise B., P.O. Box 1, Bahrain, Persian Gulf 1951 Dalenberg, Miss Cornelia, R.N., P.O. Box 1, Bahrain, Persian Gulf 1921 De Jong, Rev. Garrett E., 156 Fifth Ave., New York 10, N. Y. 1926 De Jong, Mrs. Everdene K., 156 Fifth Ave., New York 10, N. Y. 1926 Dekker, Mr. Wilbur G., P.O. Box 1, Bahrain, Persian Gulf......... 1951 Dekker, Mrs. Anna Mae H., P.O. Box 1, Bahrain, Persian Gulf 1951 De Young, Miss Anne R., R.N., P.O. Box 1, Bahrain, Persian Gulf 1945 Draper, Bernard L., M.D., 156 Fifth Ave., New York 10, N. Y. (Under appointment) Draper, Mrs. Jacqueline B., R.N., 156 Fifth Ave., New York 10, N. Y. (Under appointment) Dunham, Rev. James W., P.O. Box 1, Bahrain, Persian Gulf 1953 Dunham, Mrs. Joyce De B., P.O. Box 1, Bahrain, Persian Gulf 1953 Gosselink, Rev. George, Basrah, Iraq **(1925-1928) 1922 Gosselink, Mrs. Christina S., Basrah, Iraq ...................................... 1929 Heusinkveld, Maurice M., M.D., Amarah, Iraq ............................ 1946 Heusinkveld, Mrs. Elinor C., R.N., Amarah, Iraq ................... 1946 Holler, Rev. G. Jacob, Jr., Basrah, Iraq * * (1949-1951)................. 1946 Holler, Mrs. Louise E., R.N., Basrah, Iraq ...................................... 1947 Holmes, Miss Madeline A., Kuwait, Persian Gulf (Short term) 1952 Hoogeveen, Miss Lavina C., P.O. Box 1, Bahrain, Persian Gulf . 1954 Jackson, Miss Rachel, Basrah, Iraq ............................................ 1921 Jackson, Miss Ruth, 156 Fifth Ave., New York 10, N. Y................ 1921 Kapenga, Rev. Jay R., Muscat, Persian Gulf.................................. 1944 Kapenga, Mrs. Marjory U., Muscat, Persian Gulf.......................... 1947 Luidens, Rev. Edwin M., Amarah, Iraq .......................................... 1944 Luidens, Mrs. Ruth S., Amarah, Iraq ............................................. 1944 MacNeill, Rev. Donald R., Kuwait, Persian G u l f ......................... 1951 MacNeill, Mrs. Evelyn M., Kuwait, Persian Gulf........................ 1951 Nykerk, Gerald H., M.D., 301 West 21st St., Holland, Mich........... 1941 Nykerk, Mrs. Rose W., 301 West 21st St., Holland, Mich............... 1941 Post, Miss Eunice M., P.O. Box 1, Bahrain, Persian Gulf ........... 1949 Schuppe, Miss Margaret, R.N., P.O. Box 1, Bahrain, Persian Gulf (Short term) ............................................................................ 1952

Scudder, Lewis R., M.D., Kuwait, Persian Gulf............................ Scudder, Mrs. Dorothy B., R.N., Kuwait, Persian Gulf........... Staal, Rev. Harvey, P.O. Box 1, Bahrain, Persian Gulf................. Staal, Mrs. Hilda V., P.O. Box 1, Bahrain, Persian Gulf................. Storm, W. Harold, M.D., P.O. Box 1, Bahrain, Persian Gulf......... Storm, Mrs. Ida P., R.N., P.O. Box 1, Bahrain, Persian G ulf......... Thoms, W. Wells, M.D., Muscat, Persian Gulf.............................. Thoms, Mrs. Ethel S., Muscat, Persian Gulf.................................. Van Ess, Mrs. Dorothy F., Basrah, Iraq .......................................... Veldman, Miss Jeannette, R.N., Amarah, Iraq .............................. Voss, Bernard J., M.D., P.O. Box 1, Bahrain, Persian Gulf......... Voss, Mrs. Mae J., P.O. Box 1, Bahrain, Persian Gulf..................... Voss, Miss Christine A., R.N., 156 Fifth Ave., New York 10, N. Y. Young, Miss Ruth G., 156 Fifth Ave., New York 10, N. Y............. Walvoord, Miss Marianne, R.N., P.O. Box 1, Bahrain, Persian Gulf

1937 1937 1949 1949 1927 1936 1931 1931 1909 1930 1951 1951 1949 1949 1952

U N I T E D M I S S I O N IN I R A Q Hakken, Rev. Bernard D., 1/2/231, Sinak, Baghdad, Iraq ........... Hakken, Mrs. Elda V., 1/2/231, Sinak, Baghdad, Iraq .................

1922 1922

C H IN A -P H IL IP P IN E S MISSION EMERITUS Beekman, Miss Edna K., 201 West Catharine St., Milford, Pa. 1914-1953 Boot, Rev. Harry P., D.D., 408 College Ave., Holland, Mich. 1903-1940 Boot, Mrs. Anna H., 408 College Ave., Holland, Mich......... 1908-1940 De Free, Rev. Henry P., D.D., 200 West 10th St., Holland, Mich.................................................................................. 1907-1948 De Free, Mrs. Kate E., 200 West 10th St, Holland Mich....... 1907-1948 Green, Miss Katharine R., 6 Antrim Ave., Suffern, N. Y....... 1907-1950 Nienhuis, Miss Jean, R.N., 8 East 14th St, Holland, Mich. 1920-1953 Otte, Mrs. Frances P., Warm Friend Hotel, Holland, Mich.. 1887-1910 Vander Linden, Miss Leona, 506 East Liberty St., Pella, Iowa 1909-1947 Voskuil, Mrs. Mary S., 419 West Saddle River Road, Ridge足 wood, N. J......................................................................... 1908-1944 ACTIVE W ent Out

Angus, Rev. William R., D.D., Legaspi City, P. 1.......................... 1925 Angus, Mrs. Joyce B., Legaspi City, P. 1.......................................... 1925 Broekema, Miss Ruth, Dayrit Compound, Mango Ave., Cebu City, Cebu, P. 1................................................................................... 1924 Bruce, Miss Elizabeth G., 156 Fifth Ave., New York 10, N. Y....... 1921

de Velder, Rev. Walter, Jones Ave., Cebu City, Cebu, P. 1........... de Velder, Mrs. Harriet B., R.N., Jones Ave., Cebu City, Cebu, P. I. Esther, Rev. Joseph R., 718 Georgia St., Manila, P. 1.................... Esther, Mrs. Marion B., 718 Georgia St., Manila, P. 1.................... Hill, Jack W., M.D., Corominas Compound, Mango Ave., Cebu City, Cebu, P. 1.......................................................................... Hill, Mrs. Joann V., Corominas Compound, Mango Ave., Cebu City, Cebu, P. 1.......................................................................... Hofstra, Richard, M.D., 156 Fifth Ave., New York 10, N. Y. 00 (1951-1954) ........................................................................ Hofstra, Mrs. Johanna J., 156 Fifth Ave., New York 10, N. Y. 06(1951-1954) ........................................................................ Holkeboer, Miss Tena, LL.D., 984 Benavides, Manila, P. 1........... Koeppe, Rev. Edwin W., D.D., 1848 Godfrey Ave., S.W., Grand Rapids, Mich............................................................................. Koeppe, Mrs. Elizabeth R., 1848 Godfrey Ave., S.W., Grand Rapids, Mich............................................................................. Muilenburg, Rev. John P., Silliman University, Dumaguete City, P -I............................................................. ................................. Muilenburg, Mrs. Virginia T., Silliman University, Dumaguete City, P. 1..................................................................................... fOItman, Theodore, M.D., Riley, Kans............................................. fOltman, Mrs. Helen M., Riley, Kans............................................... Poppen, Rev. Henry A., D.D., 917 South Westnedge St., Kalama足 zoo, Mich................................................................................... Poppen, Mrs. Dorothy T., 917 South Westnedge St, Kalamazoo, Mich........................................................................................... fVander Meer, Mrs. Alma M., R.N., Hygeia Hall, Wooster, Ohio. . Veenschoten, Rev. H. Michael, Lucena, Quezon Province, Luzon, P. 1.............................................................................................. Veenschoten, Mrs. Stella G., Lucena, Quezon Province, Luzon, P. 1.............................................................................................. Walvoord, Miss Jeane W., R.N., Dayrit Compound, Mango Ave., Cebu City, Cebu, P. I. 0 0 (1936-1948)....................................

1929 1938 1946 1946 1947 1947 1922 1922 1920 1919 1919 1946 1946 1929 1929 1918 1918 1923 1917 1917 1931

ARCOT MISSION General Address: South India EMERITUS Farrar, Rev. William R., 325 Vine St., Hammonton, N. J. . . t O n L eav e o f A bsence ** S e rv ic e I n te r m itte d

1897-1935

Hart, Miss Louisa H., M.D., Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada ............................................................................ Honegger, Mrs. Lavina D., Kodaikanal................................ Rottschaefer, Rev. Bernard, D.D., Katpadi, North Arcot D istric t............................................................................ Rottschaefer, Mrs. Bernice T., Katpadi, North Arcot District Scudder, Rev. Henry J., Kirkside, Roxbury, N. Y. **(1894-1897) (1914-1919) .......................................... Scudder, Mrs. Margaret B., Kirkside, Roxbury, N. Y. **(1914-1923)................................................................. Scudder, Miss Ida Sâ&#x20AC;&#x17E; M.D., Kodaikanal *â&#x20AC;&#x153; (1895-1899).... Scudder, Miss Julia C., Coonoor............................................ Te Winkel, Miss Sarella, 511 Daniel St., Orlando, Fla. **(1936-1938)................................................................. Van Doren, Miss Alice B., Kirkside, Roxbury, N. Y...............

1895-1939 1910-1951 1909-1954 1909-1954 1890-1934 1897-1934 1890-1944 1883-1929 1909-1947 1903-1951

ACTIVE W ent Out

Biegel, Miss Albertha J., R.N., Madanapalle, Chittoor District, A ndhra...................................................................................... Boomstra, Miss Dora, Ranipet, North Arcot District..................... Brumler, Miss Harriet, R.N., 156 Fifth Ave., New York 10, N. Y.. . Cooper, Mr. Edwin R., Katpadi, North Arcot District................... Cooper, Mrs. Elaine P., Katpadi, North Arcot District................... De Bruin, Rev. Cornie A., Mission Compound, Katpadi, North Arcot District .......................................................................... De Bruin, Mrs. Frances L., Mission Compound, Katpadi, North Arcot District .......................................................................... De Valois, Mr. John J., Katpadi, North Arcot D istrict................... De Valois, Mrs. Bernadine Siebers, M.D., Katpadi, North Arcot D istrict...................................................................................... De Vries, Mr. Benjamin, Arni, North Arcot D istrict..................... De Vries, Mrs. Mildred V., Arni, North Arcot District................. De Weerd, Miss Esther J., Vellore, North Arcot District............. Geegh, Miss Mary E., 411 Central Ave., Holland, Mich............... Gibbons, Miss Margaret R., M.D., 156 Fifth Ave., New York 10, N. Y............................................................................................ Jongewaard, Miss C. Willamina, Palmaner, Chittoor District, A ndhra...................................................................................... Kooy, Miss Gladys M., Palmaner, Chittoor District, Andhra....... Korteling, Rev. Ralph G., Punganur, Chittoor District, Andhra. . ** S e rv ic e I n te rm itte d

1946 1949 1923 1953 1953 1926 1926 1920 1936 1929 1929 1928 1924 1926 1925 1946 1925

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Korteling, Mrs. Anna Ruth W., M.D., Punganur, Chittoor District, A ndhra..................................................................................... 1925 Levai, Rev. Rlaise, Jr., Ph.D., 30 Arni Road, Vellore, North Arcot D istrict..................................................................................... 1946 Levai, Mrs. Marian K., M.D., 30 Arni Road, Vellore, North Arcot D istrict..................................................................................... 1953 Maassen, Miss Wilma C., Chittoor, Chittoor District, Andhra. . 1952 Marsilje, Miss Lois, M., R. N. Ranipet, North Arcot District....... 1939 Muyskens, Rev. John D., 9 Seminary Place, New Brunswick, N. J. 00(1919-1923) .......................^............................................... 1915 Muyskens, Mrs. Dora J., 9 Seminary Place, New Brunswick, N. J. 1923 Noordyk, Miss Wilhelmina, R.N., Ranipet, North Arcot District 1917 Piet, Rev. John H., Ph.D., Vellore, North Arcot District............... 1940 Piet, Mrs. Wilma V., Vellore, North Arcot District........................ 1940 Rottschaefer, Miss Margaret, M.D., Wandiwash, North Arcot D istrict........................................................................................ 1909 Rozendaal, Miss Lois E., 156 Fifth Ave., New York 10, N. Y. (Short term ) .............................................................................. 1949 Scudder, Galen Fâ&#x20AC;&#x17E; M.D., 156 Fifth Ave., New York 10, N. Y....... 1919 Scudder, Mrs. Maude S., 156 Fifth Ave., New York 10, N. Y......... 1919 ffSmies, Miss Lillian, R.N., Vellore, North Arcot District............... 1939 Ten Brink, Rev. Eugene L., Tindivanam, South Arcot District. . . 1946 Ten Brink, Mrs. Ruth L., Tindivanam, South Arcot District . 1946 Ten Brink, Miss Helen D., R.N., Katpadi, NorthArcot District 1952 Vande Berg, Rev. Harold J., Madanapalle, Chittoor District, A ndhra..................................................................................... 1946 Vande Berg, Mrs. B. Yvette L., Madanapalle, Chittoor District, A ndhra..................................................................................... 1946 Van Vranken, Rev. Herbert E., Ranipet, North Arcot District . . 1917 Van Vranken, Mrs. Nellie S., Ranipet, North Arcot District......... 1917 Van Vranken, Miss Marjorie A., Vellore............................................ 1948 Wells, Miss Doris A., Chittoor, Chittoor District, Andhra........... 1930 Wierenga, Rev. Cornelius, D.D., Vellore, North Arcot District 00( 1920-1923) .......................................................................... 1917 Wierenga, Mrs. Ella Kâ&#x20AC;&#x17E; Vellore, North Arcot District................... 1923 Wyckoff, Miss Charlotte C., 156 Fifth Ave.. New York 10, N. Y.. . 1915 Zwemer, Mrs. Sara W., Chittoor, Chittoor District, Andhra....... 1923 t t B ecam e m em b er of M issio n in 1952 ** S e rv ic e In te rm itte d

JAPAN MI SS ION General Address: Japan EMERITUS Darrow, Miss Flora, 609 Orizaba Avenue, San Francisco 12, Calif................................................................................... Hoekje, Mrs. Annie H., 635 Alden Road, Pilgrim Place, Claremont, Calif............................................................... Kuyper, Rev. Hubert, 816 - 14th Street, Boulder, Colo......... Kuyper, Mrs. May D., 816 - 14th Street, Boulder, Colo....... Noordhoff, Miss Jeane, SOSMEast Third Sheet, Orange City, Iowa ................................................................................ Peeke, Mrs. Vesta G., 3686 San Simeon Way, Riverside, Calif. Taylor, Miss Minnie, 1018 North Hobart Boulevard, Los Angeles, Calif............................................................

1922-1948 1912-1949 1911-1946 1912-1946 1911-1952 1893-1931 1918-1937

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Bogard, Miss F. Belle, c/o Rev. John C. deMaagd, 37 Bluff, Yokohama ................................................................................ 1936 Brink, Miss Suzanne H., 351 Oe Moto Machi, Kumamoto............. 1950 Bruggers, Rev. Glenn, 143 Kajiya, Machi, Kagoshima................... 1952 Bruggers, Mrs. Phyllis V., 143 Kajiya Machi, Kagoshima............... 1952 de Maagd, Rev. John C„ 37 Bluff, Yokohama ”0 (1934-1937)....... 1928 de Maagd, Mrs. Marian M., 37 Bluff, Yokohama c ° (1934-1937). . 1928 Estell, Mr. William H., Jr., Meiji Gakuin, Shiba, Minato-ku, Tokyo (Short term) .................................. 1952 Flaherty, Mr. Theodore E., Meiji Gakuin, Shiba, Minato-ku, T okyo........................................................................................ 1949 Flaherty, Mrs. Mary W., Meiji Gakuin, Shiba, Minato-ku, Tokyo 1953 Hesselink, Rev. I. John, Jr., 500 - 1 Chome, Shimo Ochiai, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo ................................................................. 1953 Hesselink, Mrs. Etta T., 500 - 1 Chome, Shimo Ochiai, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo ................................................................. 1953 Kleinjans, Mr. Everett, 761 -1 Chome, Kami-osaki, Shinagawa-ku, T okyo........................................................................................ 1948 Kleinjans, Mrs. Edith K., 761 - 1 Chome, Kami-osaki, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo ............................................................. 1948 Korver, Mr. Ronald G., Meiji Gakuin, Shiba, Minato-ku, Tokyo . . 1948 Korver, Mrs. Ruby B., Meiji Gakuin, Shiba,Minato-ku, Tokyo 1952 Moore, Rev. Boude C., 107 Ohori Machi, Fukuoka <M > (1941-1950 1924 Moore, Mrs. Anna McA., 107 Ohori Machi, Fukuoka 00 (1941-1950) ........................................................................ 1924 Norden, Rev. Russell L., 107 Ohori Machi, F ukuoka.................. 1953

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Norden, Mrs. Eleanore S., 107 Ohori Machi, Fukuoka................. Oilman, Miss C. Janet, 37 Bluff, Yokohama.................................. Poppen, Miss Marcella M., Baiko Jo Gakuin, Shimonoseki (Short term) ............................................................................ Siter, Miss Verlaine R., Baiko Jo Gakuin, Shimonoseki (Short term ) ............................................................................ Tanis, Rev, Paul H., Meiji Gakuin, Shiba, Minato-ku, Tokyo Tanis, Mrs. Marjorie G., Meiji Gakuin, Shiba, Minato-ku, Tokyo Van Wyk, Rev. Gordon J., 761 - 1 Chome, Kami-osaki, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo ............................................................. Van Wyk, Mrs. Bertha V., 761 - 1 Chome, Kami-osaki, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo ............................................................. Van Zoeren, Miss Carol J., 37 Bluff, Yokohama (Short t erm). . fWalvoord, Miss Florence, Cedar Grove,Wis................................. Zander, Miss Helen R., 37 Bluff,Yokohama.................................... t O n L eav e o f A bsence

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A SUGGESTION FOR LEGACIES Gifts bequeathed to the Board of Foreign Missions make possible much of the work on all fields. For any who wish to make provisions in their wills for this im足 portant work, the following form is suggested:

I give and bequeath to the Board of Foreign Mis足 sions, Reformed Church in America, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of New York, the sum of____________________ dollars to be applied to the uses and purposes of said Board.

Mrs. Edward H. Tanis, 610 Broadway, Pella, Iowa Dr. R. R. Van Heukelom, 25 East 12th Street, Holland, Michigan Dr. Harold E. Veldman, 2447 Oakwood, N.E., Grand Rapids, Michigan Mr. Samuel H. Woolley, c/o Bank of New York, 48 Wall Street, New York 15, N. Y. HONORARY MEMBER Rev. John W. Beardslee, Jr., 93 College Avenue, New Brunswick, New Jersey STAFF OFFICERS OF THE BOARD 156 Fifth Avenue Tel. Chelsea 2-3650 New York 10, N. Y. Executive Secretary___ Executive Secretary___ Executive Secretary___ Treasurer____________ Associate Treasurer___ Acting Field Secretary.

-------- Dr. Luman J. Shafer ---------- Miss Ruth Ransom ----- Dr. Bamerd M. Luben â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Rev. Henry G. Bovenkerk ---------- Miss Edwina Paige ----- Dr. Edwin W. Koeppe 1848 Godfrey Ave. S.W. Grand Rapids, Michigan Tel. Glendale 2-2391

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