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Title: Annual reports of the boards to the General Assembly
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Home Missions. Annual report of the Board of Home Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions. Annual report of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Education. Annual report of the Board of Education of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Publication and Sabbath-School Work. Annual report of the Board of Publication and Sabbath-School Work of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of the Church Erection Fund. Annual report of the Board of the Church Erection Fund of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Presbyterian Board of Relief for Disabled Ministers and the Widows and Orphans of Deceased Ministers. Annual report to the General Assembly Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Missions for Freedmen. Annual report of the Presbyterian Board of Missions for Freedmen of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Aid for Colleges and Academies. Annual report Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Aid for Colleges and Academies. Annual report of the Board of Aid for Colleges and Academies of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Special Committee on Systematic Beneficence. Report of the Assembly's Special Committee on Systematic Beneficence Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Permanent Committee on Temperance. Annual report of the General Assembly's Permanent Committee on Temperance for the year ending ..
Subjects: Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A
Publisher: (S.l. : Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.)
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year of 50. It attemi)ted,for a while, to be self supporting, but owing to removals and deaths ofimportant members it has been obliged to again seek assistance fromthe mission. It is sorely in need of a house of worship, and is makingstrenuous efforts to secure the necessary amount to build. Thepeople can no longer invite their friends to hear the Gospel, becausethere is not even standing room for the church members. They arenot able, with their utmost effort, to accommodate themselves and stillleave room for others to hear the truth. The church at Hiroshima is making good progress. During theyear, while many of its members have removed, it has made a netgain of about 20, bringing the membership up to 100. Hiroshima is abigoted place. When our missionaries first went there to live, theywere met with rude remarks and insults of various kinds from the chil-dren in the streets. But this has been lived down, and they are noweverywhere treated with politeness. This result has been attained
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128 WEST JAPAN—EDUCATIONAL. largely by three Sabbath-schools carried on among the young childrenby Mrs. Bryan and Miss Cuthbert. These schools have encounteredall kinds of obstacles, from opposition Sunday-schools conducted byBuddhist priests to violence, in order to prevent the children enteringthe building where the school was held, but all without the desiredeffect. The following note from Miss Cuthberts report will illustratethis fact: Some time ago an old man who lives next door to theSunday-school building became very strongly mpressed with the ideathat if all the children of the neighborhood came so regularly to myChristian school they would all become Christians, and so undertookto prevent their coming. Failing in several instances, he finally paidmoney to two boys to get them to come to school and disturb theorder by whistling. I detected them in this and suppressed them.But the old man was not yet willing to give in, and the next Sabbathundertook to keepjthe children out b

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