Reports of the missionary and benevolent boards and committees to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America . efly characterized by an itin-erant evangelism. Each missionary has been .given a large territoryand has gone from camp to camp preaching to the men. The con-ditions within the lumber industry are such as to center it moreand more about mill towns. The Executive Council of the Boardhaving considered this whole matter adopted the following policywith reference to this work: 1. Problem to be approached through geographical areas. Denom- inational Hom
Reports of the missionary and benevolent boards and committees to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America . efly characterized by an itin-erant evangelism. Each missionary has been .given a large territoryand has gone from camp to camp preaching to the men. The con-ditions within the lumber industry are such as to center it moreand more about mill towns. The Executive Council of the Boardhaving considered this whole matter adopted the following policywith reference to this work: 1. Problem to be approached through geographical areas. Denom- inational Home Mission responsibility for specific areas to befixed through the Home Missions Council. 2. From the standpoint of Presbyterian administration, work in lumber camps to be carried out as follows: (a) Under the control of the Board, as in the case of the Synod of Minnesota. (b) Under the control of the Synod or Presbytery. 3. Within specified regions or areas, the work to be carried out as follows: (a) The base of operation to be established in the local church which lends itself to the situation. (b) Huts to be established in outlying THE YEAR IN REVIEW 37 (c) Itinerant missionaries to cover points not sufficiently per- manent for the hut. (d) Where in a given area there is a group of men work- ing under Presbyterian auspices, that these men berelated under some plan of Relations with the Y. M. C. A. to be established in connectionwith other denominations through the Home Missions Council. According to an interdenominational agi-eement arrived at throughthe Home Missions Council the Board of Home Missions is here-after to be responsible for Lumber Camp Work in the States ofMinnesota and Washington. Cuba Mission The interchurch merger, which has already been discussed, isthe outstanding achievement in the field of Cuban Missions the lastyear. The Presbyterian Church is ,now responsible for a territorystretching from Pinar del Rio eastward through the prov
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