besides contributing largely to the erection and equipment of two of the main buildings. Its receipts have been about $200,000. It has a permanent fund of about $42,000.
The society has twenty-five State organizations, others in Canada and India, with between 8,000 and 9,000 members.
The Woman’s Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions of the Southwest was organized at St. Louis in April, 1877; origin- ally to create and foster a practical and intelligent interest in the spiritual condition of women and children in our own land and in heathen lands. Since the close of its fourteenth year its work has been for foreign missions only, being one of the seven woman's auxiliaries to the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian church in the United States of America. It has given to the cause of missions $249,618, and has had missionaries, as teachers or physicians, in India, China, Japan, Korea, Siam, Persia and South America. The record of their work has been of a nature sufficiently encouraging to warrant continued and larger support. The Board has 605 branches or auxiliary societies and 13,776 members.
The Woman'S Board of Home Missions of the Presbyterian Church was organized in December, 1878, to establish and main- tain Christian schools among those near home. It has eleven sta- tions in Alaska, eighteen among the Indians, twenty-seven among the Mexicans, thirty-one among the Mormons, forty among the mountaineers, six among the foreigners in this country, five among the Porto Ricans, making a total of 138, with 425 missionaries and teachers and 9,337 pupils.
The Board has secured to the Presbyterian church $750,000 worth of property and has expended about $3,500,000 since organization. Two magazines are published, the Home Mission Monthly, and Over Sea and Land for the young, the latter jointly with the For- eign Societies. It has about 5,000 auxiliary societies with about 100,000 members.
The Christian Woman’s Board of Missions was organized Oct. 22, 1874, to maintain preachers and teachers for religious in- struction; to encourage and cultivate a missionary spirit and ef- fort in the churches; to disseminate missionary intelligence and se- cure systematic contributions for such purposes; to establish and maintain schools for the education of both sexes.
Fields: The United States, Jamaica, India, Mexico and Porto Rico. Work: University Bible lectureships, Michigan, Virginia, Kansas, Calcutta, India; eighteen schools, four orphanage schools, two kindergartens, four orphanages with 500 children, one Chinese mission, one hospital, three dispensaries, one leper mission, thirty mission stations outside the United States; 135 missionaries, be- sides native teachers, evangelists, Bible women and other helpers; $900,000 raised during twenty-six years; income last year, $106,- 728. Its publications are Missionary Tidings, circulation 13,500; Junior Builders, same circulation; leaflets, calendars, manuals, song
