. Reports of the missionary and benevolent boards and committees to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America. ties, our missionarieshave found many destitute localities where their services wereneeded. As the result of these labors 740 new Sabbath schoolshave been organized and 210 revived, making a total of 950, intowhich 32,512 persons were gathered, 3,225 being officers andteachers and 29,287 pupils. (See page 24.) Besides the schools brought into being di-otber rectly through the labors of the missionaries, Sabbath Schools _. f. . , , . , , . Organize
. Reports of the missionary and benevolent boards and committees to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America. ties, our missionarieshave found many destitute localities where their services wereneeded. As the result of these labors 740 new Sabbath schoolshave been organized and 210 revived, making a total of 950, intowhich 32,512 persons were gathered, 3,225 being officers andteachers and 29,287 pupils. (See page 24.) Besides the schools brought into being di-otber rectly through the labors of the missionaries, Sabbath Schools _. f. . , , . , , . Organized 54 other mission schools were organized by in- terested persons in localities unreached by thefield force, and furnished with supplies, free of charge, for thefirst year. Requests for aid in the matter of supplies^Med**1 Scbools are constantly being received from missionSabbath schools on the frontier in rural neigh-borhoods, from negro schools in the South and from missions 1913.] OF PUBLICATION AND SABBATH-SCHOOL WORK. ^ ^^ <*; §s fC<l /*\ V> ^ ^ \voy--^ Cm. ^ ^ 0O•??< V) ©O C8CO o •a »-« cu S. 10 SEVENTY-FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD [May. among foreigners in our cities, besides a number of mission sta-tions in foreign lands. The Board has responded to more thantwo thousand applications of this kind at an expense of $7, helps, illustrated papers, hymnals, libraries and othernecessary equipment have been included in these grants. The latest reports received from the fieldSabbath-schooi h 2 49g mission Sabbath schools under the Development . care of our missionaries, with a membership of109,133. In accordance with their instructions, the missionariestransfer the care of the schools which develop into churches tothe settled pastors who are placed in charge. In many cases,however, churches may never develop and the people look to theSabbath-school missionary for pastoral care. Visitation is a most important feature ofHouse to House our ge^ w
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