The call of China and the Islands : report of the foreign deputation, 1911-1912, for every member of the United Brethren church . eadquarters at Ponce,is most excellent. It is probably the most com-pact mission field on the island. Besides Ponce,a city of 30,000 inhabitants, our mission territoryincludes the towns of Yauco, Juana Diaz, Pen-uelas, and Guayanilla. These constitute the fivedistricts under the superintendency of Rev. P. , including contiguous rural territory, inwhich are many chapels and other places whereour American and native workers hold services. Thirteen years ago, Re
The call of China and the Islands : report of the foreign deputation, 1911-1912, for every member of the United Brethren church . eadquarters at Ponce,is most excellent. It is probably the most com-pact mission field on the island. Besides Ponce,a city of 30,000 inhabitants, our mission territoryincludes the towns of Yauco, Juana Diaz, Pen-uelas, and Guayanilla. These constitute the fivedistricts under the superintendency of Rev. P. , including contiguous rural territory, inwhich are many chapels and other places whereour American and native workers hold services. Thirteen years ago, Rev. N. H. Huffman andhis wife were our only missionaries on the had no property, no buildings, no organiza-tions, no annual conference. Now we have nineAmerican missionaries, eighteen Porto Ricanpreachers and deaconesses, fifteen organizedchurches, thirty-two other preaching places, thir-teen chapels and church buildings, thirty Sundayschools with an enrollment of one thousand fivehundred and thirty-eight, and one thousand andsixty-six members in full communion, besidesabout five hundred who are candidates being 96. Public School, Juana Diaz.
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