As in former years, every student has been obliged to take part in the domestic work, such as cleaning rooms and halls, watering plants, serving at table, while a number of those who could not pay their full tuition worked in the carpentry, bakery, and laundry. The total enrollment of the school for the year ending in October, 1907, was 23 boarding and 9 day scholars, and for the short year from January to May, 1908, 24 boarding pupils and 8 day scholars. One was graduated from the theological department in October, 1907, another in May of this year. The most helpful feature, if not for real religious life, yet for the moral discipline of the scholars, was the introduction and maintenance throughout the term of the Quiet Hour, a period of perfect calm throughout the college building in the morning.

A new, large recitation room and a small office room have been completed. This gives a much needed room for recitation and musical exercises. A number of trees have been set out around the college and mission residence, and more will be planted as the ground is leveled to give shade to the campus. The outfit, however, is still very meager. The chemical laboratory has hardly sufficient material to commence with.

Instituto Corona (Guadalajara).-The school year opened June 17, 1907, with the same teaching force as the preceding year, except that Miss Gleason was absent until October 1 for health reasons. There were 24 girls in the boarding department at the close of the year, more than at any time for a number of years. Some of them were from Roman Catholic families. There were no graduates this year. The religious life of the girls has not been all that might be desired for various reasons, one reason being that the older and more mature girls have not yet come to realize their responsibility in this respect, especially when there are so many small girls as at present.

The school still keeps the lowest story of the same house. We repeat the necessity for a building and the absolute need of new school furnishings. There is so much demand for teachers in Sinaloa and Sonora, that there is reason for regret we cannot educate all the available girls, who would do so much to help evangelize Mexico.

Colegio Chihuahuense (Chihuahua).—Miss Juanita Case has done efficient service as teacher of English, and as teacher in part of the seventh grade. Mrs. C. F. Green has had a more successful kindergarten than the previous year. She has matriculated over 60 and had an average of 50 in attendance. The good order in the kindergarten has been especially marked. It was decided that under the circumstances it was best not to have any boarding department, but to admit a very few who had been coming a number of years, paid a considerable part of the expenses, and were girls to be trusted. As there was no one to take charge of the normal department, none were admitted higher than the seventh grade. The numbers, however, have not diminished; 166 have been matriculated.

In the month of March, following Secretary Shaw's visit, special meetings were held under the lead of Pastor Ibánez. At an afternoon meeting especially for the school, 15 of the older girls expressed their desire to lead a Christian life.

The school is feeling sorely the need of more class room and of room in general. The present property is now small for a full-grown school.

El Progreso (Parral).—The Parral school has had an enrollment of 253 during the year, closing the 29th of May; 63 of these were in the kindergarten and 17 in the English department. Tuition has been required of all children not belonging to families of the congregation. Three girls who expect to go to the Chihuahua school next year were received into the church.

The most important event of the year has been the buying of the only property situated between the church and the school for the use of the school. The English department has moved over from the church into one of the rooms of this building, the second year pupils to another room. Both these rooms have good light and ventilation. There is good-sized play room for the children.

MISSION TO SPAIN

MADRID.-William H. Gulick, Ordained; Miss Anna F. Webb, Miss May Morrison, Miss Mary L. Page.

On furlough.-Miss Alice H. Bushee.

Associated with the mission, not under appointment.-Miss Isabel Cooper, Miss Ruth Winger, Miss Elizabeth S. Parker.

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One station; 16 outstations; I ordained missionary; 4 single women; total American missionaries, 5; 4 ordained native pastors and 3 unordained; 25 teachers; 2 other native helpers; total native helpers, 34. There are 8 organized churches, with 320 communicants, of whom 38 were added by confession of faith during the year. There are 16 places of regular meeting: average attendance, 515; adherents 1,540. Sunday schools have a membership of 1,035. The boarding school for girls has 60 boarding students and 21 day students, and 18 children in the kindergarten. There are also 13 common schools, with 492 boys and 264 girls enrolled; 2 night schools, with 49 pupils; total number under Christian instruction in the mission, 904. Native contributions for the support of the work, $696; for education, including income of the boarding school, $7,219.

Miss Bushee is still obliged to remain in this country, but Miss Page has been able to return to her field of labor. Miss Helen Winger has resigned from the mission. Miss Ruth Winger, her sister, during the year gave most efficient help in the English classes.

To the friends and supporters of the American Board's work in Spain it should be a cause for congratulation that their mission during this year has taken an honorable part in the beneficent work of liberalizing and evangelizing the public sentiment of the country. It has done this especially in the departments of preaching, teaching, and by the press.

Preaching, one of the distinctive features of the Protestant churches, has been carried on at Santander, Bilbao, San Sebastian, Logroño, Pradejón, Tauste, and Zaragoza. In May the Assembly of Protestant pastors met at Madrid. The great problem in the evangelistic work is how to reach the adults. The chief reason for so many empty seats in the chapels, and the

smallness of the congregations, is not the fear of persecution; it is indifference to all things religious.

The number of those in Spain who may be said to have lost the religious sense is very great. Not a small number of this very people, however, wish to have their children fairly well educated. They hear that in the Protestant schools the children learn in a reasonably short time what they are supposed to be taught in all the schools, but which, for some reason, they do not learn in them. They know, too, that the discipline in our schools is firm, though kindly. The result is flourishing schools all along the line. It is always explained to these parents that instruction in the Bible is daily and obligatory, and that attendance on the Sunday school will be expected. The children take home the Bibles, cards, papers, etc., that they study at school, and many are the cases where not only the parents, but the neighbors as well, have become interested in this literature, and have waited impatiently for the successive leaves that the children bring home.

It must be remembered that were it not for the schools in which the children are studying, most of the people would be and would remain beyond the reach of the evangelical worker, and in the completest ignorance of the gospel.

The opinion is therefore held by the pastors and missionaries throughout Spain that though it is true that but a small percentage of these children come into the evangelical churches, their presence in our schools has had a large part in changing public sentiment throughout the land regarding Protestantism. These schools, at some stations, have secured an official recognition of the evangelical element in the community by the authorities. that never has been accorded to the congregations or churches as such. For instance, at Santander the large schools are now yearly invited to take part with the other schools in the state in the notably public festivities on Arbor Day; and at Bilbao the Protestant pastor, as director of the evangelical schools of the city, is frequently invited to take part in public functions with groups of his pupils to which the other schools are invited.

Under the auspices of the mission, during the last decade, there has developed the monthly magazine called Esfuerzo Cristiano. This is the organ of the Christian Endeavor movement in Spain. From a little manuscript sheet, written and multiplied by hand by the students of the boarding school for girls at San Sebastian, it has become a sixteen-page quarto magazine, with a monthly circulation of some 700 copies. In the evangelical work in Spain it fills a field quite its own, and has won for itself many warm friends in all the denominations.

The Normal and Preparatory School for Spanish Girls (Madrid).— Last year's record of its work is in no respect behind that of any preceding year. The two houses on Fortuny Street have been filled to their utmost limit for the past two years, so that the boarding department is perforce limited. An increase in that direction is for the present impossible. Indeed, the crowded condition has compelled the school to cut down its membership. The enrolled number of boarding pupils was 48. The number of day pupils,

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on the contrary, has increased; 15 have been enrolled. In addition to these must be added the kindergarten and primary school, now in its third year. In the first year 7 pupils were enrolled, 12 in the second year, and now 17, so that, all told, the number of pupils in the school this year has been 80. In all the different departments we have been glad to note the more liberal feeling on the part of pupils and friends of the pupils toward the school and the missionaries. The number of girls from Roman Catholic families is steadily on the increase, and in nearly every instance, before the year is over, the girls either show a desire to become one with the missionaries, or have experienced an uplift in their own spiritual life. While a number will never become Protestants in name, they will help to purify and spiritualize their own Roman Catholic Church. Their influence among their family and friends will be to liberalize and tend to break down the blighting prejudice of the Spanish women towards any evangelical thought and life. During the year 8 of the students have affiliated themselves with one of the Protestant churches in Madrid.

The intellectual work of the school has been developed. All the different departments of courses are increasing. Especially is this noticeable in the conservatory and kindergarten courses. The number prepared to enter the first year normal and institute courses was the largest ever presented. An English mining company in the south of Spain engages our graduates as teachers, and by offering prizes for scholarships constantly stimulates their young people to aspire to the higher educational opportunities offered by our school. In the first three years of the Government Instituto courses, 18 have been enrolled. There have been 10 enrolled in the normal course, 7 regularly enrolled in the conservatory department, while the rest are in the preparatory. A number of books have been sent to increase the library. One Madrid patron of the school has donated a considerable amount of vocal and instrumental music. The scholarship fund has had also some welcome gifts, though the total amount is still sadly inadequate. Fifty-eight were graduated from the normal school department.

During the year Miss Ruth Winger, though not under appointment on the missionary staff, gave highly appreciated assistance in the various English classes and in other ways. In the kindergarten Miss Cooper has rendered very important service.

AUSTRIAN MISSION

PRAGUE.-Albert W. Clark, D.D., John S. Porter, Ordained; Mrs. Ruth E. Clark, Mrs. Lizzie L. Porter.

One station; 2 ordained missionaries and their wives; 24 churches; 1,843 full members; 120 added by confession of faith since last report; adherents, 5,585; average congregations, 2,661; 24 Sunday schools, with a membership of 652; 16 ordained Bohemian preachers; 9 evangelists; 2 Bible-readers; 3 Bible-women; 14 colporters.

Quite a portion of the report from this mission is devoted to a statement about Poland and the Polish people. The missionaries of the Board in

Austria have entered into this field for Christian work only by invitation, opportunities being unsought by them; but so many Bohemians, for various reasons, have removed to Poland that they have carried the evangelical message with them, and the truth has been welcomed by many of the Poles, who seem to be conscious of their sin and their need of a Saviour. During the past year, for the first time, has the field been visited by a missionary of the Board, Dr. Clark having spent a little time there, and he reports there are open doors on every side.

Our 2 preachers and 6 colporters are but a very feeble beginning, but we have demonstrated that good work can be done. The year has been largely one of seed sowing. Only 8 new souls have been received to membership in Poland. This is due in part to the political excitement that leads each man to talk far more about politics than religion. But better days are coming. There is much more quiet now in Lodz, and we look forward to better results in 1908-09.

The importance of this field is seen in the large number to be reached. There are 12,000,000 Poles in Russia, and 2,000,000 are to be found in America. Of this latter number, 423,000 are in Pennsylvania, 129,000 in Massachusetts, and 250,000 in the city of Chicago. These people are certainly worthy of our thought. Americans should not forget Copernicus and Kosciusko.

MORAVIA

There are 2 churches and 7 outstations of the Board in Moravia, including two just over the line in Bohemia. The American Board formerly expended quite a sum in Moravia, but now nothing except the traveling expenses of Mr. Porter. At Ostrau a layman from Vienna has prepared the way for a worker who should be sent to this city, where Poles, Germans, and many Bohemians live. At Lhota there is a little self-supporting church among the Moravian mountains. In Brünn, the city where Dr. and Mrs. Schauffler labored so faithfully, good work has been done by an elderly pastor, whose support has been furnished outside the Board.

In Moravia, in four important centers, meetings are held every Sunday. by devoted men who labor as colporters of the National Bible Society of Scotland. For the ever growing work in Moravia we need a man with full training and rich experience. Could not some special friend of Dr. and Mrs. Schauffler be found who would gladly support such an evangelist for that needy province so associated with the memory of the Schaufflers?

The report concerning the congregations in Vienna is, on the whole, encouraging; in one of the churches of the city the defection of the leader for a time hindered the progress, but under the labors of a new pastor ground has been recovered and the church is in a more prosperous condition. The expense of evangelical work in this city, like so much else in connection with this mission, is met outside the treasury of the American Board.

Mention is made of the little Bohemian church in St. Helena, in Southeastern Hungary, which has a membership of 42, where the preacher who