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METHODISTS. 



Besides the domestic, South American, and 

 European missions, the missions to heathen lands 

 included 530 missionaries, 1,599 native preachers, 

 52,791 members, and 91.804 probationers. 



Woman's Societies. The Woman's Home 

 Missionary Society held its twentieth annual 

 meeting in the city of New York, Nov. 0. The re- 

 port of the treasurer showed that the receipts for 

 the year had been $234.240. it maintained edu- 

 cational and industrial enterprises in the South, 

 in missions among foreign populations, and in 

 Utah and Alaska, deaconesses training-schools 

 and rest-houses, and 2 city mission houses. Three 

 hundred and fifty deaconesses were at work. 



The thirty-second annual meeting of the Ex- 

 ecutive Committee of the Woman's Foreign Mis- 

 bionurv Society was held in Philadelphia, Pa., 

 Oct. 30 to Nov. 0. The total receipts for the year 

 had been $420,000, being an advance of $12,000 

 over the year. The society had pledged itself 

 three years before to raise $200,000 as a Twentieth 

 Century offering, to be applied to the erection of 

 buildings, the purchase of land, and endowments. 

 The sum of $220,200 had been raised on this 

 pledge, besides which the Folts Mission Institute, 

 at llerkimer, N. Y., had been presented to the 

 society, with an endowment making the whole 

 value of the gift $175.000, and the total amount 

 raised on Twentieth Century account $401,200. A 

 room in the sanitarium at Clifton Springs, N. Y., 

 had been presented to the society as a memorial 

 of the late Dr. Henry Foster. The society's 

 agents were laboring in Japan, Korea, China, Ma- 

 laysia. India. Burma, Bulgaria, Italy, South 

 America, Mexico, the Philippine Islands, and the 

 Loochoo Islands. Twenty-two missionaries had 

 been sent out during the year, 17 had come home 

 for rest, 25 had gone back to the field after rest, 

 and 21 new missionaries had been or were ac- 

 cepted. Two hundred and forty-three mission- 

 aries were now in service. 



II. Methodist Episcopal Church, South. 

 The Year-Book of this Church for 1901 gives sta- 

 tistics, of which the following is a summary: 

 Number of bishops, 11; of annual conferences, 48; 

 of traveling preachers, 0,227; of local preachers, 

 5,151 ; of members, 1,470,520; of Sunday-schools, 

 13,903, with 101,399 officers and teachers and 853,- 

 751 pupils; of Epworth Leagues, 3,399, with 120,- 

 230 members; of educational institutions, 77, 

 with 11,983 students, and buildings and endow- 

 ments valued at $7,522,583. Receipts for benevo- 



000. The publishing house returned its assets at 

 $947,686. Four connectional periodicals and 9 

 Sunday-school periodicals were published. 



The fifty-fifth annual meeting of the Board of 

 Missions was held in Nashville, Tenn., June 13-15. 

 The report showed an increase of $19,330 in the 

 collections of the year over those of the preced- 

 ing year, besides which $11,707 had been con- 

 tributed for famine relief in India. Several be- 

 quests had been received for special objects and 

 enterprises under the care of the board. It was 

 represented that an increasing interest in mis- 

 sionary work was manifested in the Church. 



The missions in China. Japan, Brazil, Mexico, 

 Korea, and Cuba returned for the year 1900-1901 

 139 missionaries, including wives, 257 native help- 

 ers, preachers, etc., 10,959 members, showing an 

 increase for the year of 850; 10,340. members of 

 Sunday-schools; 2.045 members of Epworth 

 Leagues; and 16 self-supporting churches, with 

 a total valuation of property of $497.308. 



The missions of the Woman's Foreign Mission- 



ary Society in the same countries, with the addi- 

 tion of the Indian Territory, returned 52 mission- 

 aries, 104 teachers and native helpers, 4,730 pupils 

 in schools, of whom 445 were Christians, 05 Bible 

 women, and $400,500 of property. The valuation 

 of property includes that of the Scarritt Bible and 

 Training School, Kansas City, Mo., $75,000. 



The annual meeting of the Woman's Home Mis- 

 sion Board was held in St. Louis, Mo., May 3. 

 Reports were presented showing that 112 parson- 

 ages had been helped by the board and the con- 

 ference societies during the year, at a cost of 

 nearly $12,000. Appropriations were made for 3 

 Cuban schools at Key West, West Tampa, and 

 Ybor City of $5,314, providing for a superintend- 

 ent and 12 missionaries and teachers; of $1,800 for 

 night-schools among the Chinese and Japanese at 5 

 cities on the Pacific coast; of $3,000 for rescue work 

 at Dallas, Texas; of $300 to open a night-school in 

 the mining region of the Holsten Conference; and 

 of " $2,000 and fees " to the Sue Bennett Memorial 

 School, Louisville, Ky. City mission work was 

 carried on in 12 cities. In this work the local 

 city mission boards are systematically aided by 

 the appropriation to each of one-tenth as much 

 money as it raised for local work during the pre- 

 ceding year. Steps were taken toward placing a 

 teacher of home mission work in the Scarritt Bible 

 and Training School, toward which $750 were con- 

 tingently appropriated. Toward $25,000 called for 

 for a Twentieth Century offering more than $21,- 

 000 had been paid in cash. The sum was divided 

 in appropriations among the different objects of 

 Cuban work, mountain w r ork, rescue work, and 

 Pacific work. 



The annual meeting of the Woman's Board of 

 Foreign Missions was held in Asheville, N. C., in 

 June. The contributions for the year had been 

 $82,719 for the regular work and $40,000 special 

 for the Twentieth Century fund. The regular 

 work of the board included 29 mission stations, 

 55 missionaries, 164 teachers and native helpers, 

 05 Bible women, 18 boarding-schools, and 02 day- 

 schools, with 4,736 pupils, 445 of whom were 

 Christians, 19 buildings owned by the board and 

 valued at $336,500, 2 hospitals, and 2 Bible col- 

 leges. The board further owns in the United 

 States the Scarritt Bible and Training School at 

 Kansas City, Mo. 



A general conference of missions was held in 

 New Orleans, La., April 24 to 30, and was at- 

 tended by about 2,000 delegates and visitors, who 

 represented every part of the Church. Each of 

 the several days of the conference was devoted to 

 the discussion of a designated group of topics. The 

 meetings were opened with an address on The 

 Purpose of the Conference, by the Rev. James 

 Atkins, D. D., after which the subject of the first 

 day's sessions, The Spiritual Basis of Missions, 

 was discussed in a number of addresses presenting 

 various aspects and relations of it. The second 

 day was given to Foreign Missions, when Bishop 

 E. R. Hendrix spoke on The Adequacy-.of Chris- 

 tianity to meet the World's Need; the Rev. Dr. 

 J. H. Pritchett, on Methodism and Modern Mis- 

 sions; the Rev. Dr. Brown, on The Aim and Scope 

 of Foreign Missions; the Rev. J. W. Tarboux, of 

 Brazil, on Evangelistic Work; the Rev. W. E. 

 Edwards, D. D., on the Missionary Leadership of 

 the Pastor; the Rev. Dr. J. F. Goucher, on Mis- 

 sions and Education; the Rev. Dr. Young J. 

 Allen, of China, on The Missionary Outlook in the 

 Far East; and the Rev. Dr. W. H. Park, on Medi- 

 cal Missions. The subject on the third day was 

 Home Missions. The addresses were on Present 

 Policy arid Administration, by the Rev. Dr. D. C. 

 Kelle'y; Problems of Self-Support and Adminis- 



