. Reports of the missionary and benevolent boards and committees to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America . heir appropriate commit-tees, placing its missionaries under their immediate the year 131 Sabbath-school workersMissionaries ^^^^ ^^^^ employed. Of this number 11 areDistrict and Synodical Superintendents; 10 are EducationalSuperintendents and 110 are Presbyterial missionaries. In ourimmigrant work 30 colporteurs have been engaged in canvassingdistricts where foreigners have settled, proclaiming the Gospelto them in the various
. Reports of the missionary and benevolent boards and committees to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America . heir appropriate commit-tees, placing its missionaries under their immediate the year 131 Sabbath-school workersMissionaries ^^^^ ^^^^ employed. Of this number 11 areDistrict and Synodical Superintendents; 10 are EducationalSuperintendents and 110 are Presbyterial missionaries. In ourimmigrant work 30 colporteurs have been engaged in canvassingdistricts where foreigners have settled, proclaiming the Gospelto them in the various languages of their native countries; anddistributing Bibles, Testaments and other evangelical all these labors we have cooperated closely with other denomi-national agencies. The total number of field workers in serviceduring the year was 161. Our missionaries have confined their worksabhatb-schooi largely to the fields which are destitute of Extension Work ,. • . ., cm i i vx- religious privileges. Such localities are un-reached by any other agency of our Church, and in many of 1 SEVENTY-SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD [May,. 1914.] OF PUBLICATION AND SABHATll-yUlH)01j WORK. 9 them churches could not be maintained. As a result of theselabors 788 new Salibath schools have been organized, and 268revived, a total of 1,056, into which 37,025 persons have beenbrought, 3,613 being ofliccrs and teaclicis, with 33,412 pupils.(See page 26.) The Board is rendering helpful service,^^bbatb Schools j^ig^^ -jj furnishing supplies of lesson helps, illustrated papers, class books, hymnals, libra-ries and other necessary equipment to the little Sabbath schoolswhich are being conducted in districts where they cannot at firstbe self-supporting. Sabbath schools under the care of the Homeand Foreign Mission Boards in Cuba, Porto Rico, Alaska, andin foreign lands, also, have received grants of the Boards publi-cations. The sum of $9, was expended last year for suchdonations.
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