Reports of the missionary and benevolent boards and committees to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (1914) (14773189945)

Faculty of the Curityba Girls School, 1914
Identifier: reportsofmission1914pres (find matches)
Title: Reports of the missionary and benevolent boards and committees to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Home Missions. Annual report of the Board of Home Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions. Annual report of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Education. Annual report of the Board of Education of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Publication and Sabbath-School Work. Annual report of the Board of Publication and Sabbath-School Work of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of the Church Erection Fund. Annual report of the Board of the Church Erection Fund of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Presbyterian Board of Relief for Disabled Ministers and the Widows and Orphans of Deceased Ministers. Annual report to the General Assembly Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Missions for Freedmen. Annual report of the Board of Missions for Freedmen of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Aid for Colleges and Academies. Annual report of the Board of Aid for Colleges and Academies of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Special Committee on Systematic Beneficence. Report of the General Assembly's Special Committee of the Presbyterian Church on Systematic Beneficence Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Permanent Committee on Temperance. Annual report of the General Assembly's Permanent Committee on Temperence for the year ending ..
Subjects: Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A
Publisher: Philadelphia : Presbyterian Board of Publication
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive



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who knows the atheistical, immoral anti-clerical,anti-religious character of many of the normal and public schoolteachers of Parana would have no difficulty in answering thatquestion. To make a brief summary: It has been my privilege during theyear to preach 156 times in eight different localities, to receive 21persons on profession of faith and to baptize 37 children. I traveledduring the year about 3,500 miles. EDUCATIONAL.—T/ie American School—During last year 462 pupils were enrolled: 242 girls, 220 boys. Inthe Secondary School under the care of Miss Dascomb there were 81pupils. In the Intermediate School there were 157 pupils occupyingfour rooms. In the Primary School 224 pupils in six rooms. Therewas also a normal class composed of young teachers. After MissDascombs accident, which occurred the second of April, she wasnot able to return to school until the middle of July. In the homeand in the school all our dear young Brazilians, Germans, and Am-ericans took extra burdens.
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SOUTHERN RUAZII^—CAMPINAS 407 One of tlie surprises of the year is tlie interest tliat the peopleare taking in education. Tlie American Scliool is a blessing to anytown. God uses Christian schools as a means of opening the wayfor the entrance of the Uospol. In July a Gymnasium was openednext door to our school. Our German teacher and our Frenchteacher have classes there and lielp to cultivate a spirit of good-will. FLORIANAPOLIS Mr. Landes writes: The work is growing and having a great influence in every placewhere we have been able to cultivate the seed sown. Tlie great ditfi-culty is the lack of laborers. Two men, even with the best of health,could not do the work that should be done and is calling to be donein this state. There should be a resident Mission at Lages, but with-out more help here in the capital and its out-stations, it will be im-possible to locate a man at that important station. On the 7th of August, 1912, Forianapolis laid the cornerstone ofits church building an