The American Missionary, Volume 49, No. 4, April, 1895 by Various
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Salaries of Superintendent, Teachers
and Helpers $8,480.25 Rents of Mission Houses 3,013.85 Incidental Expenses 1,058.50 -------- -------- $12,552.60 $12,552.60 In addition to this, the work for Chinese mothers and children cost us $557.70, a little less than one-half of what we could have used with rigid economy and good results. The statistics of the work show twenty-one missions in which schools have been maintained, as follows: Fourteen during the entire year, except as recesses were taken at Chinese and American holidays; four with but one month's vacation; two during the four months that the fruit men have comparative leisure, and one--that at Watsonville--a new mission which commenced work four months before the fiscal year closed. The total number of months of labor was 431. The aggregate enrollment of Christian Chinese connected with our missions, so far as reported, is 596. The number concerning whom we may hope that they have been led to Christ during the past year is 60, making the total number of whom this hope has been cherished, and who have given "credible evidence of faith in Christ" from the first more than 1,100. How many of these will appear in the church of the first-born "clothed in white robes" it is not for human judgment to decide. Sometimes the human, the frail, we may almost say the |
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