. World survey by the Interchurch World Movement of North America : revised preliminary statement and budget ... ospitals have been de-veloped in Porto Rico and are doing valu-able work. Combination orphanages and in- dustrial and agricultural training schools haveproved very useful. Puerto Rico Evangelico, the semi-weeklyunited Protestant paper, has the largest circu-lation of any periodical on the Island. WHAT IS NEEDED THE following is an outline oi the programof advance: buildings for new evangelicalseminary, in which six communions cooperate;increased equipment for union printing plant;bo
. World survey by the Interchurch World Movement of North America : revised preliminary statement and budget ... ospitals have been de-veloped in Porto Rico and are doing valu-able work. Combination orphanages and in- dustrial and agricultural training schools haveproved very useful. Puerto Rico Evangelico, the semi-weeklyunited Protestant paper, has the largest circu-lation of any periodical on the Island. WHAT IS NEEDED THE following is an outline oi the programof advance: buildings for new evangelicalseminary, in which six communions cooperate;increased equipment for union printing plant;bookstores in San Juan and other cities; cam-paign of education by social reform committee;lectureships and evangelistic campaigns forreaching all classes of people with the gospel; aconference center or Northfield for develop-ing more spiritual and efficient leadership; ex-tensive enlargement of Polytechnic Institute tomake this one of the outstanding educationalinstitutions of the West Indies; development ofBlanche Kellogg Institute as a training schoolfor Bible women, Sunday school teachers andhome HOME MISSIONS: West Indies 141 Jamaica JAMAICA, the chief center of British interests in the West Indies, has an areaof 4,207 square miles and a population of 851,383. It is thus slightly smallerin both area and population than the state of Connecticut. Pure-bloodedwhites comprise less than 2 per cent, of the population. Four evils are gripping the people of Jamaica and an appeal for liberation from themis an appeal to the Christian church to give to them the glorious liberty of the gospelof Jesus Christ. These evils are: Illiteracy. Less than one-half the people can read and write andconsiderably less than one-half the children of school age are in school. Superstition. This always goes hand in hand with ignorance. In Jamaica there aremany superstitious beliefs and practises brought from Africa. Vice. More than 60 per cent, of the children are born out of wedlock. Jamaican
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