The Bulgaria mission of the Methodist Episcopal Church . domwas adopted as a text-book for mission study. Of necessity, the work of the Mission Study Class in Bulgaria Avas less com-Mission Study prehensive than the full possibilities contemplated by the Young Peoples Department of the Missionary So-ciety. These Bulgarian Epworthians have not the libraries for side-reading, so suggestively arranged by the Department. Only a minor-ity of them can do anything with English. But they have what helpsmaterially in the final outcome of any undertaking—good organiza-tion, purpose and persistence. In a
The Bulgaria mission of the Methodist Episcopal Church . domwas adopted as a text-book for mission study. Of necessity, the work of the Mission Study Class in Bulgaria Avas less com-Mission Study prehensive than the full possibilities contemplated by the Young Peoples Department of the Missionary So-ciety. These Bulgarian Epworthians have not the libraries for side-reading, so suggestively arranged by the Department. Only a minor-ity of them can do anything with English. But they have what helpsmaterially in the final outcome of any undertaking—good organiza-tion, purpose and persistence. In addition, for several years the I^eaguehas maintained a flourishing weekly Bible Study Class, using the reg- 31 ular League text-books. The same chapter, through private work andindividual giving, made an ottering of $50 for the Twentieth CenturyFund. The auxiliaries of the Wo-mans Foreign Missionary Soci-ety in Bidgaria have a Confer-ence organization. Followingan arrangement of some yearsstanding, funds raised on the Womans ForeignMissionary Society. W-^^ ^p^ Miss M. V. Raicheva, Secretary Bulgaria Conference Womans Foreign Missionary Society field are ex-pended in localBible this rea-son, they have not figured in thereports published athome. Sincethe beginning of the Conferenceorganization, a total of over f 500has been raised by these nativeauxiliaries, and the annual a-mount has steadily the beginning, these con-tributions for native Bible workhave averaged over one-thirdof the Womans Foreign Mis-sionary Societys annual appro-priation for the work, and for several years past the annual contribu-tion has been more than one-half the amount appropriated for Biblework by the Womans Foreign Missionary Society. All of this moneyis used in native Bible work. One auxiliary has made an annual giftof $20 to the Conference organization, regarding that merely as its dues, and whatever it can raise over and above that sum it givesas special w^ork. During 1904-5
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