in this connection, that all the Boards are calling
especial attention to the needs of this work among the foreign peoples
and urging large advance in plans for evangelization.

MISSION WORK OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN 1906 AMONG THE FOREIGN
POPULATION

----------------------+-----------------------+--------------------------
| No. of charges | Members and probationers
| receiving | in charge receiving
Nationality | missionary aid | missionary aid
----------------------+-----------------------+--------------------------
Welsh 4 185
Swedish 135 12,076
Norwegian and Danish 85 4,236
German 265 19,184
French 8 350
Chinese 11 298
Japanese 30 1,666
Bohemian and Hungarian 11 1,666
Italian 18 1,014
Portuguese 3 86
Finnish 9 93
Foreign Populations 3 ....
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582 39,557

Including the charges not now receiving missionary aid, the total number
of missions, or charges, among the foreign peoples was 971, not
including Spanish work, and the total membership, including
probationers, was 92,082 in 1906. The work is extended all over the
country.

The Woman's Home Missionary Society supports Immigrant Homes in New York
City, and in Boston, Mass., in which immigrants may find protection and
counsel as well as a safe lodging. In Philadelphia, Pa., work is also
done for incoming strangers, and lodgings provided in case of need.
Missionaries are stationed at each of these points. Much work is done
for foreigners by this Society through its three large city missions,
and its numerous Deaconess Homes.

MISSION WORK OF THE PRESBYTERIAN HOME MISSION BOARD IN 1906 AMONG THE
FOREIGN POPULATION

Nationality No. of Churches and Stations Member