Church at Work
August 4, 1906
Summary
Methodist Protestants merge interests with the Congressional church and send many missionaries to Asia.
Transcription
Methodist Protestants.
Reported to Be Arranging to Merge Their Interests with Other Churches.
One of the denominations which is arranging to merge its interests with the Congregational churches and the United Brethren, under a new name, is the Methodist Protestant, says the Interior. The agencies of the missionary activities of the Methodist Protestant church have received and disbursed $500,000 for missionary work, about $400,000 of this amount in the foreign field. With about $100,000 has helped to establish and maintain 73 churches, with property worth $500,000 and 6,000 members, paying pastors’ salaries amounting to $25,000 and contributing to all purposes over $80,000 annually. Japan is at present it's only foreign field, but arrangements are being made to send four missionaries to China very soon. The board has sent 26 missionaries to Japan and the Woman’s society perhaps half as many, and the entire force in Japan at present must number nearly 50, including pastors, evangelists, teachers and Bible women. The revival spirit pervades the churches. The mission workers are said to be greatly encouraged and the only real discouragement is the lack of me and means to improve opportunities. The Methodist Protestants in common with other Methodists in Japan, it is said, are very desirous of a union of all the Methodism's there upon a basis adopted unanimously there and submitted for consideration by the mission authorities if the home churches. Two meetings of the joint commissioners appointed by the Methodist churches in the US and Canada have been held recently; but disagreement on the policy has thus far prevented the adoption of the basis of union.
Reported to Be Arranging to Merge Their Interests with Other Churches.
One of the denominations which is arranging to merge its interests with the Congregational churches and the United Brethren, under a new name, is the Methodist Protestant, says the Interior. The agencies of the missionary activities of the Methodist Protestant church have received and disbursed $500,000 for missionary work, about $400,000 of this amount in the foreign field. With about $100,000 has helped to establish and maintain 73 churches, with property worth $500,000 and 6,000 members, paying pastors’ salaries amounting to $25,000 and contributing to all purposes over $80,000 annually. Japan is at present it's only foreign field, but arrangements are being made to send four missionaries to China very soon. The board has sent 26 missionaries to Japan and the Woman’s society perhaps half as many, and the entire force in Japan at present must number nearly 50, including pastors, evangelists, teachers and Bible women. The revival spirit pervades the churches. The mission workers are said to be greatly encouraged and the only real discouragement is the lack of me and means to improve opportunities. The Methodist Protestants in common with other Methodists in Japan, it is said, are very desirous of a union of all the Methodism's there upon a basis adopted unanimously there and submitted for consideration by the mission authorities if the home churches. Two meetings of the joint commissioners appointed by the Methodist churches in the US and Canada have been held recently; but disagreement on the policy has thus far prevented the adoption of the basis of union.
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Emma Roberts
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“Church at Work,” Black Virginia: The Richmond Planet, 1894-1909, accessed May 12, 2025, https://blackvirginia.richmond.edu/items/show/683.