Paul was a very choice young man, of more than ordinary intelligence, judgment and piety. He was converted under the labors of a Congregational missionary in his own country, and sanctified while clinging to a broken spar in the waters of the sea, and momentarily expecting death, following a shipwreck. Later, in his zeal to get from Arizona to Greenville College, he walked six hundred miles. When he would relate in broken English his varied experiences, large audiences would be moved to tears.

In July, 1895, the General Missionary Board decided to accept him as a missionary to Japan, agreeing to allow him fifteen dollars a month for one year after he should enter on the work. The Church had no work in Japan at the time; but, seeing his great zeal for starting Free Methodist work in his own country, the Board made the foregoing arrangement, and also authorized F. H. Ashcraft and Wilson T. Hogue to assist him in raising money to pay for his outfit and transportation. Something over $300 was very soon raised for these purposes, and so his going as a missionary to his own country was assured.

He did not leave for Japan, however, until December. After reaching his native country he began work on the Island of Awaji. He was instrumental while here in interesting the Rev. Teikichi Kawabe and the Rev. T. Sasao in his work, and they were finally received into the Free Methodist Church. Mr. Kakihara continued to labor on the Island of Awaji until the latter part of 1898, when he came back to America, and was present at the General Conference in Chicago in October of that year. He returned to Japan soon after the General Conference, and a little later was married to a Japanese woman from the Salvation Army. His continuance in tile work under the Missionary Board was of short duration, however, as he was induced to go into the coal business, thinking he could make some money with which to help the missionary work, which was very needy in Japan. He and the two other Japanese who went into the business with him, were not skilful financiers, and as a result they failed in business. In the latter part of 1899 Mr. Kakihara returned to America, under what seemed to be a favorable business opening, with a view to earning the money wherewith to pay off his indebtedness. All who have visited the Free Methodist work in Japan agree that, notwithstanding these unfortunate occurrences, he was instrumental while in the work of giving it the right kind of representation, and especially of bringing into it two men of genuine Apostolic mold-Teikichi Kawabe and T. Sasao.

Mr. Kawabe was accepted as a missionary, October 23, 1896, and when Mr. Kakihara left Japan was put in charge of the work, in which capacity he acted until the arrival in that country of the Rev. and Mrs. W. F. Matthewson, American missionaries sent out by the Free Methodist Missionary Board. Mr. Kawabe is a man of excellent repute among his own countrymen, and also with missionaries of other denominations among whom he has been styled "the St. Paul of Japan." He proved to be a man of integrity and devotion, a richly evangelical preacher, and in all respects loyal to Free Methodism. Mr. Sanso was likewise a true and godly man, who served for some time as a teacher, with excellent results, and who died in the faith in December, 1914.

In the fall of 1899 the Missionary Secretary, B. Winget, visited the mission work in India, by request of the Board, proceeding from there to Japan, stopping briefly in Chin a. He spent a number of weeks in Japan. While there he formed the acquaintance of Mr. Kawabe, who acted as his guide and interpreter. He was much pleased with the spirit and bearing of the hi-other, and upon his return gave the Board an account of the condition of the work in Japan, and of what, in Kawabe's judgment, would be expected by himself and the other workers in case the Board should renew appropriations for tile work there, which had been discontinued since Mr. Kakihara's departure to America. The Board then took action approving of sending out missionaries, and renewing appropriations therefor.

In October, 1902, the Rev. and Mrs. W. F. Matthewson were accepted for this field, and January 26, 1903, they sailed from Seattle for Japan. They remained in the work until the latter part of 1898, during which time Mr. Matthewson was Superintendent of the Japanese work. It is generally recognized that he took charge of the Japanese native workers successfully and without friction, which is more difficult than to do the same work in other foreign countries. Notwithstanding these conditions, Mr. Matthewson evidenced superior administrative ability by keeping the confidence and high esteem of his fellow missionaries and of the Japanese workers and people. Both he and his wife had the spirit of true missionaries, and their influence had much to do with giving character and permanency to the work in Japan. His burdens were excessive, however, and told on his some what frail constitution until it became necessary for him to leave the field and return home. He has recovered in part, but not sufficiently to make it wise for him to return. At present he and Mrs. Matthewson are conducting the ',Seattle Japanese Mission under the auspices of the Washington Conference.

August H. and Anna Millican Youngren embarked with Mr. and Mrs. Matthewson, at Seattle, January 26, 1903, for the Japan field. They had been married shortly before this, and so began their newly wedded life on the foreign field. Both proved to be very acceptable missionaries. Mr. Youngren had quite remarkable success in acquiring the native language, and after Mr. Matthewson's return to America, in 1908, he was appointed by the Missionary Board as Superintendent of the missionary work in Japan. He continued to hold this relation until they were granted a furlough in the summer of 1911, on account of the impaired condition of Mrs. Youngren's health. They returned to the field in the spring of 1913, and are still engaged in the work. They have been noble and successful missionaries.

Two more valuable accessions to the missionary band in Japan were made when the Board sent out Sherman E. and Rose Loomis Cooper. Besides being deeply religious they were educationally well prepared for the work, both having had several years of college work. They were accepted at the annual meeting of the Board in October, 1905, and sailed from Seattle for Kobe, Japan, on the first of the following February. They at once entered heartily into the work, in which they have ever been successful. It was their privilege, according to the rules of the Board, to have a furlough in 1913. In the interest of the work, however, they decided to remain another year, unless Mrs. Cooper should be summoned home on account of her mother's condition, the mother being aged and in such physical condition as to occasion much concern to the family. Because of intelligence that her mother's condition had become serious, Mrs. Cooper and their three children started for the home land November 15, 1913. Since their arrival the mother has passed away. Mr. Cooper did not return with his family, but remained at his post of duty, and expected to return home early in the summer of 1915. After Mr. Matthewson's home-going in 1908, Mr. Cooper was made Treasurer of the mission, which position he held for years. In 1911 he was elected Superintendent of the missions in Japan, which position he continued to hold until the fall of 1914, when, in view of his probable return home, August H. Youngren succeeded him.

The next addition to the missionary force in Japan was Miss Minnie K. Hessler, who was sent out in October, 1907, and who also proved to be a loyal daughter of the Church, and a faithful and zealous missionary. Her work has been that of teaching young women in the Training School at Osaka, and also to some extent of laboring as Evangelist. She returned home on a furlough in July, 1913, in company with the Missionary Secretary and his wife, and returned to the field in the latter part of 1914.

The missionary force in Japan was augmented in 1908 by the sending out of the Rev. and Mrs. W. L. Meikle, and by the reception on trial of the Rev. and Mrs. Matthias Klein, who had previously gone to Japan to labor under a certain Holiness movement which had sent out missionaries to Tokyo.

Mr. and Mrs. Meikle made diligent workers in the missionary field. He successfully grappled with the language, and was skilful in acquiring its use. He has taught in a Training School much of the time since he went to Japan, and has also done evangelistic work, and that with good results. Mrs. Meikle has done what she could to assist in the work, considering that her health has been poor and her domestic cares have been many.

Mr. and Mrs. Klein were disappointed on their arrival in Japan in regard to an expected opening for their labors in Tokyo, and so went from there to Choshi, Shimosa, where they labored as independent Faith Missionaries, Mr. Klein being chiefly employed as teacher in one of the Middle Schools of the Government, for a year or more. In 1908 they offered themselves to the Free Methodist Missionary Board, were accepted on trial, and later were received as members in full of the Free Methodist missionary force. They labored zealously and acceptably under the direction of the General Missionary Board for several years. Their labors were chiefly at Sumoto and on the Island of Awaji. After his acceptance by the Missionary Board, Mr. Klein connected himself with the Illinois Conference of the Free Methodist Church, of which he is still a member. They lost one of their children while in Japan, and grief over this loss, together with the bad effect of the climate, rendered it impossible for Mrs. Klein to live there, and so they returned to America in the fall of 1912.

The next missionary sent to Japan was Miss Ruth Mylander, of North Platte, Nebraska. She was well qualified for missionary work, having, besides a liberal education, a thorough Christian experience. When it was determined that she should go to the foreign field her father showed his interest in the work of missions by providing the means to send his daughter to Japan and to support her while there. She went in November, 1909. Since her arrival on the field she has been associated with Miss Hessler in the Young Ladies' Training School at Osaka. Her labors have been acceptable.

The last missionaries sent to this field were Mr. and Mrs. Roy Millican, of Seattle, Washington. They sailed in November, 1911. They landed in Kobe, but went from there to Osaka, where they remained for some time studying the native language. At present their field of labor is in Akashi, having succeeded Mr. Cooper when he went elsewhere.

Japan has been a fruitful field for Free Methodist missionary work, as will appear by reference to the statistical tables at the end of this chapter. The figures, of course, do not give anything like a complete idea of the fruits of the work done in Japan by the Free Methodist Church; but, so far as they go, they at least present a favorable showing.

After seven years of labor, mostly in the interior of the country, she was granted a furlough, and arrived in America in April, 1903. She originally went out under the auspices of the China Inland Mission because of the Free Methodist Church having no work in China, and not seeing its way clear to open work there at that time. As early as 1899, however, the General Missionary Board of the Free Methodist Church instructed its Missionary Secretary to correspond with Miss Leffingwell regarding the advisability and probable cost of establishing a mission station in China, and to report at the annual meeting of 1900. About that time the attention of certain prominent ministers and others in the Church was turned toward China.

The next action of the Board was June 17, 1903, when it ordered the Secretary to establish a mission in China as soon as convenient, and to send out eight missionaries for this purpose. It was also further voted that Miss Clara A. Leffingwell be authorized to travel throughout the Church under the direction of the Missionary Secretary and hold meetings for the purpose of raising money for the proposed mission in China, the same to be turned over to the general Treasurer. She spent about eighteen months in such labors with excellent results. The parties accepted by the Board to go to China with Miss Leffingwell were the Rev. and Mrs. N. S. Honn, Mr. George H. Scofield, and Misses Florence H. Myers, Edith Graves, and Lily M. Peterson.

These parties did not go out together. On Thanksgiving Day, 1904, George H. Scofield and C. Floyd Appleton, the former from New England, and the latter from Canada, left Seattle for Shanghai, China. After a very stormy voyage they reached their destination, December 31, 1904. Arrangements had previously been made by Miss Leffingwell with the China Inland Mission to render these young men needed assistance in getting started in the native language, as also in getting acquainted with the customs of the people. They were under the care and supervision of these noble missionaries for the first seven months of their sojourn in China, and were shown many favors and kindnesses for which not only they, but the entire Free Methodist Church acknowledge themselves greatly indebted.

On the 7th of April, 1905, Miss Leffingwell, accompanied by Misses Myers and Graves, left Seattle for Shanghai, arriving at their destination, May 7. A week later they started for the interior. Their route was via the Yangtse River about four hundred miles to Hankow, thence by rail four hundred miles to Cheng Chow, Honan, at which place they arrived, May 27th.

October 18, 1904, the General Missionary Board had appointed Miss Leffingwell as Superintendent of the China Free Methodist Mission, giving her at the same time power of attorney for that country. It was soon decided to locate the mission at Cheng Chow. For this purpose a compound was rented and occupied by the three women, near the north gate of the city. The buildings of the compound were said to be about two hundred years old. It was in the heat of summer, and the inn where the ladies had to live while their compound was being made suitable for living purposes was a very insanitary one. There was much to be done in the way of overseeing the native workmen whom the ladies had employed, besides the work of preaching to the natives, and Misses Myers and Graves, new-comers to the country, being unable to be of much assistance, this burden fell wholly upon Miss Leffingwell. As a result of all these unfavorable conditions she was finally seized with that scourge of Asiatic countries, dysentery, on the fourth of July, and despite all that medical aid and the tender ministrations of her sister missionaries could do, she died on Sunday, the 16th of July. It was an unaccountable providence that took one on whom the Missionary Board and little band of missionaries in China relied so largely for guidance in founding a permanent mission in that country just at the beginning of the enterprise. But disappointing as the event was she had lived to see the Church become actively engaged in the work of founding a mission in her beloved China; and, though her death was an early one, it was in consonance with her oft-expressed wish that she might die and be buried among the people of that country to whose redemption her life was consecrated.

When Miss Leffingwell located the mission at Cheng Chow, Mr. Appleton and Mr. Scofield were located west of there. After her death they went to Cheng Chow and assisted in making necessary preparation for the establishment of the station and in carrying on the mission.

In the spring of 1906 mission property was purchased near the center of Cheng Chow, and evangelistic work was commenced as soon as the workers were able to make themselves understood by the natives. In addition to the Sabbath service, morning and evening prayers were conducted on the compound by one or more of the missionaries, for the benefit of the teachers, servants, and other helpers. Three men were baptized in a pond outside the city during the summer-the first-fruits of Free Methodist missionary work in China. At this point a school has been conducted by a native teacher who has received much praise for the thorough training of the boys, not only in secular knowledge, but in Biblical history as well.

During the same summer several Chinese gentlemen regularly attended the Sunday services of the Cheng Chow mission, purchased Bibles and Hymn Books, showed an active interest in the work, and finally invited the missionaries to open a mission in their city, about fifteen miles Northwest of Cheng Chow. They did so later in the season, when a compound was purchased in the city of Jungtse Hsien, and Mr. Scofield was put in charge of the work there. It has since developed into one of the best mission stations of the Free Methodist Church in China. Boys' and Girls' schools have been opened there, believers have been baptized, and a Church has been organized in spite of many adversaries and hindrances of divers kinds.

In 1906 Mr. Scofield was married to Miss Myers, who went out to China in company with Miss Leffingwell. Because of the emergency created on the field by Miss Leffingwell's death the Board waived its rule and consented that they should he married sooner than would otherwise have been allowable. Following their marriage they took the station at Jungtse Hsien and labored zealously and effectively in the work. The first Free Methodist class in China was organized there. While laboring there Mr. Scofield and his little son had typhoid fever, and, because of his own impaired health following the fever, as also because of his wife's health being poor, they were granted a furlough, and returned home with their two children, leaving China, November 22, 1910. Their trip to the home land and the change of climate did much to build up the health of both, so that in September, 1911, they returned to the foreign field, where they have since been doing effective service.

The Rev. and Mrs. N. S. Honn, of California, were originally selected to go out with Miss Leffingwell. Their going, however, was necessarily delayed until September 6, 1905. Mr. Honn had for a considerable time labored among the Chinese on the Pacific Coast, and to some extent had learned the Chinese language, before going to China; and his familiarity with the Chinese people and their language and customs gave something of a preparation in advance for the work in which he was to engage. They had six children when they were sent to China, and one was born on the field. They labored nearly seven years on the field, and then returned to the home land, where they are still considered as missionaries, but without salary.

After Miss Leffingwell's death the Missionary Board appointed C. Floyd Appleton to take her place as Superintendent of the mission work in China, a position which he continued to fill until his return home on furlough in May, 1910. He was a diligent worker, and traveled much in the early part of his work in China in order to secure such information as would be of use to him in further developing the missionary work. He was usually accompanied in these journeys by Mr. Scofield.

Miss Laura Millican, of Seattle, was sent to reinforce the missionaries in China in February, 1906. She was well qualified for the work, having, in addition to a good religious experience, the advantages of a college education. From the time of her arrival in China she gave herself unreservedly to the cause, and soon developed into a useful missionary. By special dispensation of the Board she was married to Mr. Appleton in June, 1907. After their marriage she was made the Treasurer of the mission, which position she continued to hold until their return to America. The station where they labored at this time was Kai Feng Fu.

In 1910 Mr. Appleton had a severe attack of typhoid fever, the serious effects of which lingered, threatening to become more serious, and so it was thought best that they should return home. The furlough resulted in the decided improvement of his health, and on September 26, 1911, they again set sail from Seattle for China. They returned to Kai Feng Fu, province of Honan, and he was again elected Superintendent of the work in China.

After arriving in China with Misses Leffingwell and Myers, Miss Edith Graves passed through experiences of severe trial. Miss Leffingwell's death was, of course, a great shock to her, as to the other missionaries. Then while helping to establish the mission her health became impaired so that for some time she was unable to pursue her studies successfully. Finally, because of broken health it became necessary for her to leave the field, which she did, returning to America near the end of 1907 or the beginning of 1908. It seemed improbable that she would again be able to take her place on the field, and so in 1910 her relation to the Board was discontinued.

Miss Lily M. Peterson, of Seattle, was appointed to go to China with Miss Leffingwell, in 1905, but her actual going was delayed for a year. Then she went in company with Miss Laura Millican and Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Cooper, the latter two of whom were bound for Japan. She was just the kind of young woman to make a splendid missionary, had her physical constitution been equal to the demands. She labored willingly and joyfully, and was always full of courage. She acquired the native language with ease, and soon became a favorite with the Chinese, who called her "Pehi-ueh-tean" (White precious lily). Her period of missionary service was brief, however, for in about two years signs of tuberculosis developed, and it became necessary for her to return home She failed rapidly, and at length peacefully fell asleep in Jesus, June 4, 1908.

On October 26, 1907, Mr. and Mrs. Frank R. Millican, of Seattle, Washington, accompanied by Miss Lucy A. Tittemore, of St. Armand Center, Quebec, and Miss Edith F. Jones, of Jamestown, New York, set sail for China under appointment of the Missionary Board. After their arrival on the field Mr. and Mrs. Millican showed excellent adaptability to their appointed work, readily learning the language, and taking up the other duties of foreign missionary work courageously. When C. Floyd Appleton was granted a furlough for the improvement of his health, Mr. Millican was appointed Superintendent of the mission in Mr. Appleton's stead.

Misses Tittemore and Jones made excellent missionaries. The former has enjoyed good health, and has uncomplainingly given her time and strength to the duties of a missionary. Miss Jones has the advantage of being a nurse as well as a missionary, and her skill in this direction has been of much use to the mission in cases where a nurse's services were required. She is also a fine scholar, a graduate of Syracuse University, and being familiar with office work, did excellent service as Treasurer of the mission during the time Mr. Appleton was absent on his furlough. She came home on a furlough in July, 1912, and returned to the field, full of faith and courage, in the spring of 1914.

George D. Schlosser spent some time at Greenville College, and while a student in that institution was accepted by the Board and sent to Africa in 1906. From the first, however, he felt that China was destined to be his field of labor. Accordingly in 1908, by consent and appointment of the Board, he transferred from Africa to China. In both fields he proved himself a successful missionary. Because of the imperative need of more help at the Orphanage in Tsing Kiang Pu he went to the latter place to assist in the Orphanage work. He was still at that point in the fall of 1914.

Two promising missionaries were sent out in October, 1908. They were the Misses Mattie J. Peterson, of Seattle, Washington, and Mary Ogren, of Jamestown, New York. Both were graduates of Greenville College, and both were noble and consecrated young women. They made the journey together. Miss Peterson was a sister of Miss Lily Peterson, referred to in the former part of this chapter. Unlike her sister, Miss Mattie's health has been good, and she has been able to give her undivided time and attention to the missionary work. She has always proved herself a faithful laborer, and very agreeable companion to the other missionaries as well.

On January 13, 1911, Miss Ogren was married to Mr. George D. Schlosser, at the Mission Station in Cheng Chow, Honan. She subsequently entered into the orphanage work in which her husband had been engaged with characteristic enthusiasm.

Mr. and Mrs. Fred J. Fletcher went to China at the time of the famine in 1907. They did not go as Free Methodist missionaries. Mr. Appleton formed their acquaintance when, as Superintendent of the Free Methodist mission in China, he went to the famine district. Later he wrote the Missionary Secretary concerning a proposition made by the Christian Herald Famine Committee in regard to different missions accepting the responsibility of caring for orphans rescued by funds sent out by that paper. The proposition included the acceptance by the Free Methodist Board of Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher and giving them charge of the Orphanage under the Superintendent of the mission. The action taken by the Directors was favorable, and Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher were received and appointed to the work. It was for the purpose of helping them in this work that Mr. Schlosser went to Tsing Kiang Pu.

In this particular field the Fletchers have labored assiduously and successfully. They were the special agents in the starting of the Orphanage work there, and since then have probably given more time and had more to do with ministering to the needs of this class of helpless children than any other Free Methodist missionaries in China. In August, 1912, on account of Mrs. Fletcher's broken health, it became necessary for them to return to America. Their relations to the Board were discontinued, but their names are on the "honor roll" of returned missionaries.

In February, 1911, with consent of the Executive Committee, Bishop Seliew again visited Japan, on his own initiative and at his own expense, the Board, however, agreeing, should he see his way open to visit the work in China while on his trip, to pay his expenses incident to this extension of his journey. He visited both countries, and the visits were productive of much benefit to the cause.

In accordance with the previous action of the Board of Directors in having received her and appointed her to China, but leaving the precise date of her going with the Missionary Secretary, Miss Maud Winifred Edwards was sent to China with Mr. and Mrs. Scofield, on their return to the field in October, 1911. She was from Niagara Falls, New York, a graduate of the A. M. Chesbrough Seminary, a clearly converted and a truly spiritual young woman, giving promise of making an excellent missionary. She was stationed at Jungtseh Hsien, Honan.

Accompanying Miss Jones, on her return trip in the spring of 1914, Miss Grace M. Stewart, originally of Missaukee County, Michigan, and a graduate nurse of St. Luke's Hospital, Spokane, Washington, was also sent to China by the General Missionary Board. A missionary trained nurse was greatly needed for this field, and when Miss Stewart offered herself, it seemed clearly providential. The time has not been long enough since her arrival for her very fully to prove herself, but much is hoped for from her.

In August, 1912, the Free Methodist Missionary Board sent its first medical missionary to China-Dr. A. L. Grinnell. He was accompanied by his wife and little daughter. Dr. Grinnell originally came from Wisconsin, and his wife from Nebraska. They both studied in Willamette University and the Pacific Bible School, and he is a graduate of Hahnemann Medical College, San Francisco. They commended themselves to the Board as thoroughly saved and consecrated people, whose chief ambition was to do all the good possible in the world. They are settled at Kai Feng Fu, Honan. By request of the China Inland Mission physicians, who are in charge of a hospital at Kai Feng Fu, Honan, and with consent of the Board, Dr. Grinnell has given a portion of his time to professional work in the hospital, which has been much appreciated.

By authorization of the General Missionary Board the Missionary Secretary again visited the Japan and China work in January, 1913, and returned to this country the following July. His wife and also Miss Letitia Chandler, the latter a newly appointed missionary, accompanied him. All the various interests in these countries were much benefited by this visit, and on some important questions a better understanding between the missionaries and the Board was reached thereby.

Later, however, he entertained some peculiar notions about Church organization such as led him, in 1898, to request that he and his wife be discontinued from their relations to the Missionary Board, inasmuch as they did not feel free to be nominally connected with any Board or any Church. They still held to the main principles of Free Methodism, however, and were much in love with the Free Methodist people.

In 1893 they corresponded with Miss Esther D. Clark, of Mentor, Ohio, whom they had favorably known before they went to the foreign field, calling for her to go to their aid. She responded to their call. By approval of the Missionary Board she left New York for the Dominican Republic, August 1, 1893. Her labor was principally that of teaching in a mission school and doing personal and evangelistic work among the native population. The work was almost wholly among Roman Catholics, who were not readily responsive to their appeals, and yet Mrs. Mills and Miss Clark witnessed some encouraging fruit from these labors.

The Missionary Board allowed Miss Clark $50.00 toward her out-bound fare. She returned home October 12, 1899, on a furlough made necessary by poor health. She was well enough so that she returned to the field again in 1904. This time the Board paid her fare both ways. In 1907 she wrote the Missionary Secretary, and requested that he and his wife visit the field if possible. With approval of the Board they did so in the summer of 1907. An eight days' Convention was previously arranged for, the first of its kind ever appointed in the interior, and Mr. Winget had charge. He preached (through an interpreter) at the Convention, and in various other places, at one of which he baptized sixteen persons. In 1910 it again became necessary for Miss Clark to return home because of ill health. From the time she went out in 1904 the Board had granted her small annual allowances. She again returned to the field in 1915.

The Rev. J. W. Winans, from Ontario, Canada, went to Honduras, Central America, under a conviction that he had a work to do there. He remained three months in Honduras, and made several trips to the interior, doing a little missionary work among the English-speaking people, and gaining a slight knowledge of the Spanish language. He soon returned to Canada, however, for lack of funds, and in 1902 he united with the West Ontario Conference on trial, where he continued to labor until in June, 1907, he was accepted by the Missionary Board, with a view to being sent to San Domingo as soon as the Missionary Secretary should think best. In October of that year he was informed that the Secretary was ready to send him, and shortly before the annual meeting of the Board he left for San Domingo. The Board allowed him $50.00 toward his outgoing expenses, but accepted no further financial obligations. They granted him, however, small allowances from time to time toward his living expenses. Since his arrival on the field he has been diligent in studying the language, and in doing such evangelistic work as one can do who has only partly mastered the native tongue. He returned to America in 1911, and labored for a time as a minister in Canada; but at the request of Mr. Mills, made a few months before his death, Mr. Winans returned to the Dominican Republic and assisted Mr. Mills for some months, after which he returned to the home land. He has again returned to the field and the Board makes him a small annual allowance.

In August, 1908, the Rev. and Mrs. Roy E. Nichols, of Portland, Oregon, were sent out to this field by the Missionary Secretary, previous action having been taken by the Board accepting them, and leaving it to the Secretary to send them out at such time as should seem expedient. They entered the work with courage and enthusiasm, but the tropical climate and the responsibility of the work, together with the study of the native language, proved too much for his health, and they were compelled to return in 1910.

Miss Nellie M. Whiffen, of Central New York, has been one of the Church's most effective laborers in the Dominican Republic. She was sent to the field in June, 1908. She had the advantages of a fine education; of being a trained nurse with several years' experience in the practice of her profession; and of some practical work as an Evangelist. She was associated with Miss Clark. When it became necessary for Miss Clark to return home, in the autumn of 1910, it did not seem advisable for Miss Whiffen to remain on the work alone, and so she considered it a favorable opportunity to return home and take a special course which would better prepare her for working among the Dominican women. While in the States she took such a course in New York City. Then she traveled throughout the various Conferences, extending her travels to the Pacific Coast, in the interests of the San Domingo work. Her addresses were always timely, able, and inspiring, and did much to awaken interest in her work through out the Church. She returned to the field in December, 1911, accompanied by her sister, Miss Eva Whiffen, and by the Rev. and Mrs. E. H. Stayt, as helpers. Her work since has been at San Francisco de Macoris, West Indies, where a society has been organized, and a good, substantial Church has been erected.

Miss Eva Whiffen has been doing effective work as teacher, and as superintendent of the Mission Sunday-school. She receives no salary from the Board, but derives some compensation for her services as teacher, from certain persons on the Island who desire their children to receive instruction in English and Music.

Rev. and Mrs. Stayt have proved to be efficient helpers in the work. He was the builder of the Church edifice at San Francisco de Macoris, which has the distinction of being the first Protestant Church in the interior of the Island. It was dedicated by the Missionary Secretary, February 21, 1915, on his visit to the Dominican Republic, made at the request of the Missionary Board.

Another missionary sent to this field was Miss Ethel Flora Newton, of Central New York. She went out in January, 1913, and began her work at San Francisco de Macoris, West Indies, where she has since been rendering acceptable service. The latest missionary sent to San Domingo was Miss Belle Avery, who went out with Miss Clark and the Missionary Secretary.

The building of the Church at San Francisco de Macoris, and the securing of the missionary property, together with the ingathering of so many to the Church, has given Protestantism in the interior of the Island, on the north side, the best representation and the most encouraging prospect it has ever had. San Francisco de Macoris is the central point of the work. There are now societies at San Francisco de Macoris, Santiago, Balmar, Barbaro, and a few members at Sanchez.

The subjoined tables, copied from the Combined Minutes of all the Annual Conferences and Annual Board Meetings of the Church, present the total statistics of the Church's missions in foreign countries for 1914: