The history of Methodism [electronic resource] . wise provided for byAnnual Conferences; the selection and printing of books forthe Indian, German, Mexican, and other foreign missions;building of houses of worship, hospitals, schools, and resi-dences for missionaries ; defrayal of necessary expenses of itswork; aiding the establishment and support of schools fornative converts and preachers: and cooperation with otherMethodist bodies in their support. The determination of thefields to be occupied, the number of persons to be employedin each, and the estimate of the amount necessary for theirsu
The history of Methodism [electronic resource] . wise provided for byAnnual Conferences; the selection and printing of books forthe Indian, German, Mexican, and other foreign missions;building of houses of worship, hospitals, schools, and resi-dences for missionaries ; defrayal of necessary expenses of itswork; aiding the establishment and support of schools fornative converts and preachers: and cooperation with otherMethodist bodies in their support. The determination of thefields to be occupied, the number of persons to be employedin each, and the estimate of the amount necessary for theirsupport also devolve on the Board of Missions. It is required that the secretaries be ministers of the Gos-pel. Among other routine duties they prepare an annualreport and publish monthly statements of the conditions,needs, and prospects of the various missions. The treasureris required to hold the funds of the Board in safe deposit,such deposit to be made by him as treasurer, subject to hisdrafts as such and to those of his successors in Annual Conference Boards of Missions 1419 In eacli Annual Conference there is a Board of Missions,auxiliary to the general board, which appoints its own officers,regulates its own affairs, and has absolute control of the mis-sions it may, with the consent of the president of the Confer-ence, establish within its bounds. The Conference boardhas full control of the funds raised for its support. The general Board of Missions has a fixed policy relativeto its foreign work: the encouragement of self-support; assoon as possible a mission is induced to depend on its ownresources for support, emphasizing native agency; occupa-tion of strategic centers; emphasis laid on training schoolsrather than colleges in the initial stages of the work; medi-cal missions as a pioneer agency; occasional visitation of thefields by the secretaries in additional to episcopal supervision. The Board publishes the Review of Missions, a monthlymagazine, and The Worl
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