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Twenty-sixth Annual Report

OF THE

NORTH-WEST INDIA CONFERENCE

OF THE

Woman's Foreign Missionary Society

HELD AT

mUtfrat ]anuarp 121b 10 l1lb, 19l&.

AJ-MRR:

1918.

Table of Contents.

Officers and Committees

Conference Roll ..

Appointments

Official Minutes ...

Reports of Committees .. .

Supplementary Manual .. .

DISTRICT REPORTS:-

Aligarh

Allahabad

Cawnpore

Delhi ."

Hissar

Meerut

Muttra

Panjab

Rajputana

Roorkee

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President ... Vice-President Secretary _ Assistant Secretary Statistical Secretary 1'reasurer Official Cor't'espondent

Miss M. 1. P. McKnight. Mrs. F. B. Price. Miss L. G. Bobenhouse. Miss E. M. Forsyth. Mrs. C. B Stuntz. Miss A. E. Lawson.

Assistant Official Correspondent General Official Correspondent

Miss M. I. F. McKnight. Miss J. T. Kipp. Miss W. Gabrielgon.

Finance and Ref'erence Committee.

Mis~ Greene, Chair-m,an: Mrs. Wilson, Miss Livermore, Mrs. Keislar, Miss Bobenhouse. Alternates, Mrs. Butehel', l\fi~s Forsyth. Official COl're~pondent and Tl'easureJ', Ex.officio.

Committee of' Education and Examinations.

Miss Clancy, Clw .. irman: MisE; Greene, Regist'I'ar .. Mrs. W~iI80n, ~ii88 Livermore, Miss Forsyth, Miss Christensen~ Miss C. C. Nellon, Mrs. Briggs, Miss Bobenhousf' ~ Miss E. L. N elson, J\Ir~. Aldrich, M iS8 Ogilvie.

Field and Pl"'Operty Committee.

Miss Greene, Chairman; Miss Livermore, Mi'ls Schroeppel. Miss Bobenhouse. Official Correspondent and Treasurer, E.'V-o./ficio.

Evangelistic and District Work Committee.

Miss Livermore, Chairm(/n " Miss S. C. Holman, Mrs. Baker, Mn.. Robertson, Miss Christensen, Miss Hichmond, Miss McLeavy, Mrs. Keislal', M.iss C. T. Holman, )Ii..;s For~yth, Mrs. Wilson. }\fr·s. Butcher, Mrs. Aldrich, M iss Gabrielson.

Evane-elistic-teachers and Summer Schools. MI's. Clemes, Mrs. Emma Mool'e Scott, Mrs. Wilson.

Literature Oommittee.

Mrs. Buck, Miss 'Vheat, Mrs. Aldrich, Mrs. Bl'iggs, }\frs. Heal.

Auditin" Committee.

.. Miss Schl'oeppel, Miss Greene, Miss Bobenhouse, Miss C. T. HolmaI~, Miss M oaes, Miss Christensen, Miss Ball.

Secretary and Treasurer 0" the North-west India , Con"erence Auxiliaries.

Miss BI'agg.

Inter-Oonference Committee on Local Missionaries.

Miss A. E. Lawson. Temperance Com mlttee.

Mrs. RoberbloD, 1\1'r8. Cleme., Miss C. T. Holman, Mrs. Beal, Mi •• Shute. '

VI OFF[CERS A~D COMMrrTEES.

Proaram Oommittee. Chairman 'of til(' Evangelistic Committee: President 01' Secreta,'y of

the Board of Edu(:ation, Chairman of the Tempet·a.nce Committee, Mi~s Porter, Miss Gabrielson.

JubiJee Oommittee. :Miss Forsyt:l, J\fiss .J. 1. Kipp, Miss Green<', Miss C. T. Holmitil,

Miss Gabrielson.

Oommittee on Annual Con'ference Furniture. Ml'S. Ball. Miss E. L. Seison, Miss Schroeppel, Mr'l. Bakel'.

Oommittee on W. F. M. S. Furniture. ~liss Green!'. ~\Iis"i A. E. Lawsull, ~Ii.;;'; E. ~1. p(Jrt~l', Miss .1. I.

Kipp, :\'li14s Hidml'<is.·

Tilaunid. Sanitorium Committee. 'Miss J, T. Kipp, CltaU.mall: Ml'lS. Keislal • .:\r iss Porter, l\hs. (;(I'('Y.

)1 i~s BohenhnuNt', TllP Duet or' in-ehal·ge. .

Meerut Qirls' High School Oommittee. ~lis!,; C. C. Ndson, Miss Greene, .M isl':! Christensen, Mis"! Bohenhoww.

Committee on Schools. The Sup~I'inteJ1dpnt:~ of Boarding Schools, Training and l\ ormal

Sch()ols. Almora Sanitorium Committee.

North Inuia Cor.f(~('eIlCt': ~1.iss Lawrence, MiloJs \Varringt.lln, Miss "·I'ight. North· wc!'! T Ildia Confcl'encp : Miss Forsyth. \! i~s Farmer.

Committee on "Woman's Friend." Surth India COllfel'ence: Miss U. Blackstock, Mi~lS Harriet :--;illgh.

:\1 iss McCartllev, Mrs. Par·kel'. N()l'th-we~t "Indh Conference: Mi~s Buck, ;\It-s. Uugg, Mrs. Stuntz.

)1 iRS \Vheat, Mrs. Plomer. Isabella Thoburn OoUeae Board of" Oontrol.

lIiss A. F;. Lawson, ¥i!'s ~,;Knigbt.

Board of' Examiners f'or the Bareilty Traininc School.

Xorth India. C.,nfenmce: Miss M. Meauf'I, Mn;. JOl'dau, l\1i:-l~ Gantzer.

NOl'th'\\'f'st J ntlia Conf('l'ellce : Miss Clancy, MiA~ Chrhltensen.

Board of" Examiners ifor the Muttra Trainin.: School. M.rs. \\1ilsOll, Mis" C. C. Ne1son, Mrs. E. S .• Jonefil, Mi"lH BohenhoU8t' .

.AlfM".uates, Mrs. Core, Miss Livermore. Oentral Conf'erence Committee on Bible Study.

Chairman Secr,-etary... . Seerelaf"J/ Ba:·officio

Mrs. Wilson. Rev. B. T. Badley. Rev. A. A. Parker.

Ol3'FICElitS AND COliMI'i"rEES.

Jj~trma ConfeTtnce South India. Conff!rell("':", Bombay Conference lJengal C o'l~fe'renct:

Miss Stockwell. 1\'Iiss Wells. Miss Newton. Miss Swan. , :M'iss Lydia Pool.

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Central PrO'l~nCeH Con(ereuCl; Central Pro7.'incp..'1 Conference • 'forth-west Indio, Con tp'l'PW'" NOl'th-~(}e8t India Conference JI·orth India Conferenl'(' .1.Yo1't" India Co~fere'w't:

Re\'. H. C. Scholbcl'g . He,'. Mott Kcislar .

. " )Iis~ Isabel1\1cKnight. 1\'1 l'E. Stanley .T OIJPS

He,r. 31. T.Titll~. Buard of" Trustees.

Cr('{onport; Girls' HigH ScltU~I/. Bishop J. \\~ Rl)binson, Presidl'nt .. Re,·. O. '" 1; riggs; Pas to]'.

Ell;;li~h Church, Cawnpore, f{f>\'. J. "-. HobertRon, Rev. ~ Taylor, )fi~.., IJa\'is, Misl' .\, I~. La\\'sun~ MisR Clancy, .i\liss Hichmond .

.Illfllrll JIi::;~il)i/. l'rainiufJ Sclt(j(ll. Tbc Bishops uf lS()utllt~1'I1 A<;ia, District SUPeI'illtcl](leut of 1\f utt I'H

District. Principal, If};l:-oj/i(:io. North-west India. COllt't>I'('Il('(' : :Mi~" C. C. ~ el~lIl1. :\ll'~. \Yill"oll. i\ orih India. COnfel'Cllel' : ~li"s Den-is, Rev. B. :....: -lone):'. Bengal ConferellCc : .Mj~s Stah1. South India Conferelll'(': :\{i-:;s)l. Robinson. Bombay Conferenc(> : ~1 n; Hutchings. Centra.} Prodnces COllfel'CllCe : l\fr:-;. Holland. Burma Confel'ence : M.iss ~tock\vell.

Board of Orphanages. Dr. Buteilt'l', F. E. Alch'ich, F. M. \YilsOIL l\[i:-;~ HobeJlllOu~c,

Miss Murl'H \7. Miss Bnll. • . Deaconess Board.

Term expil'e~ 1919: Ml'S. \Vilson, F. )1. "'ilsOll, M.is:s Hiehal'tis. Tel'm expil"~s 1 D:W: G. ,Yo Bl'iggs, ~1 iss Rit·hlUond, Mise.; E, L.

Nelson. Term expire:-. 19~1: Mrs. Mnttlwws, .T. F Hoht:'rt:;ull. F C . .Aldlich.

Educational Board. C. B. Ntuntz, Pr('.sidp.'1d: ]\IIiss Clancy, St:(Ti.'lO)'l/:" (I. \\'. t'J.,·me:o;,

M. Keislal', B. Bak{'l', Miss Nchl'Ocppcl, Mfss Bragg, )fisl' Hohenholl!'f'

Advisory Board .

. U. W. Briggs, l\1. Keislar, R. Baker, Miss Lawsou, lIi~~ Livermore. MISS McKnight.

. Lancuace School Committee. P. M. Buck, G. W. Briggs, J. ,';1'. Hoberts()n, C. B. St.untz, ~isi'

A: E. Lawson, Mrs. "Tjlson, Miss tT. I. Kipp, Miss Green~., Mi~s LIvermore.

Historical and Literary Society. CllOirman ... . . . . . . ... .,. Miss Gabrielson. Secretary Miss Hichmonrl. Lectu'1'e'1' ... C, ,,~. Clemes.

Names. Ye~r of Joittitlr/ Mission. l. Mrs. P. M. Buck 1871 • J Mrs. C. H. Plomer ... 1886 ..... 3. Miss A. E. Lawson 188(j 4. Mrs. J. C. Butcher 188~ ?i. Mrs. G. F. :Matthews* HiS9 6. Mrs. Rockwell Clancv IS9:! 7. Mrs. J. T .. Robertson"' 189:; ~. Miss L. D. Greene ... 1894-9. Mrs. W. W. Ashe" 1894

10. 'Miss Laura G. Bobenhouse 189~ 11. Miss Mel va A. Livermore 189t{ 12. Mrs. Mary Eva Gregg \Vilsoll 1899 13. Miss Charlotte T. Holman 1900 14. Mrs. F. B. Price*' ... 1901 15. Miss M. I. F. McKnight 1902 16. Mrs. Mott Keisl~r, M.D. 1902 17. Mrs. F. C. Aldrich 190:! 18. Mrs. Bessie Beal ... 1903 19. Mrs. G. W. Briggs 1904 20. Mrs. Benson Baker 1905 2l. Miss E. Lavinia N elsoIl 19U{i 22. Miss C. C. Nelson ... 1906 23. lIiss Carlotta. E. Hoffman* 1906 24. Miss J .I11ia I. Kipp 1906 :25. Miss S. O. Holman 190& 26. Miss Estella M. Forsyth 1907 27. Mrs. A. L. Grey ... 1907 28. Miss Winnie Gabrieli!on 1909. 29. Miss·M.ary Richmond 1910 30. Miss Adelaide Clancy 1910 31. Miss Cora I. Kipp, M.D. ... 1910 ~2. Mrs. L. B. J ones* .,.

. 1911-33. Miss Harriett M. MilIs* 1911 34. Miss S. Edith Randall· 1911 35. .Miss Loal E. Huffman, M.D * 1911 36. Miss Ethel L. Whiting· 1911 ::J7 • Miss Clara A. Porter" 1912 38. Miss Ruth E. Cochran* 1912 39. Miss E. DeJgrace Boddy* 1912 4-0. lliS8 Margaret E. Dease- 1913 41. Miss Ella. M. McLea.vy 1913 42. Miss Lydia D. Ohristensen 1913 43. Miss Eunice Porter ... 191:1 44. Mil! Ma.rgaret E. Schroeppel 1913 1;:', Miss Alice Murray~.. t. 1915

CONFERENCE ROLL.

46. Miss Jessie A. Bragg 47. Miss Jennie Ball ... 48. Miss Edythe M. Britt* 49. Miss Vivian Shute ... 50. Miss Lemira Wheat 51. Mrs. C. B. Stuntz ... 52. Mrs. C. W. ClemeR 53. Mrs. E. M. Rugg 54. Miss Katie Ogilvie 55. Miss Mathilde R. MORes 56. Mrs. P. D. Van Y alen ~7. Miss Gertrude E. \{.ichal'ds ;J~. Miss Ida Farmer

* On furlough.

Missionaries who are retired or detained at home :--

1. MiRS Fannie J. Sparks ~ Mrs. Emma Moore Rcott ~. Miss Anne Gallimore 4:. Miss Emma SCOttI :M.D. 5. Mrs. Ella Clancy 6. Miss Annie S.,Winslow 7. Miss Hilma Aaronson 8. Mrs. T. S. Donohugh 9. Mrs. Viola Tomlinson

10. Miss Linnie Terrell 11. MiAS Mary H. Lee

1915 1915 1915 1915 1915 1916 1916 1916 1917 1917 1917 1917 1917

1870 1877 1889 1~97 1899 1901 1905 1906 1906 1908 1915

IX

x .!PPOI NTlIENTS.

WOMEN'S CONFERENCE 1918.

ALIGARH DIS~rRICT. District WOl'k--Mr·s. Aldrich. Evangelistic Work-Miss C. T. Holman. Girls' School-Miss S. C. Holman. Women's Industrial School-Miss Murray, Miss Ogilvie. Bareilly Theological Seminary, Women's Department-Mrs. Devadasoll. On leave to America-Mrs. L. B. Jones, MiRS Hoffman, Miss Cochran. On leave-Mrs. Matthews.

CA WNPORE-ALLAHABAD DIS'rRICT.

District Work-Mrs. Briggs. Allahabad Boys' School-Mrs. Briggs. Cawnpore Girls' High School-Mis!'; SchreoppeJ Supel'intend~nt, Mi!;~

L. Wheat, M.iss Moses. Cawnpore Hudson Memorial School-Miss Braggs. Evangelistic W ork·-Miss Itichmoud. On leave to Amel'ica-.Mrs. Calkins, Mrs. Tomlinson, l\hs. Price, Mis.

Whiting, Miss Porter, Mrs. Ashe,

DELHI DISTRICT. District Work-Mrs. Butcher. Evangelistic Work-Miss E. M. McLeavy, Deacones!;.

BISSAR DIS'l'RICT. Evangelistic Work-(to be supplied).

MEERUT DIS'l'RICT. District Work-Mrs. Baker. Evangelistic Work-Miss Livermore (P. O. Ghaziabad). Evangelistic Work-Miss Christensen (P. O. GhaziR.bad). Meerut Boys' School and Training School-Mrs. Clemes. 'Meerut Girls' High School-Miss C. C. Nelson, Principal, Miss E. L.

Nelson. On If'ave to America-Mrs. Donohugh, MiEls Dease, Miss Britt.

lfUTTRA DISTRICT. Medical and District Work-Mrs. Keislal'. Agra English and CitlY Work-M r8. Plomer. Bduuaban Hospital, Superintendent and Evangelistic Work-MiR~

Porter.

APPOINTMENTS Xl

Brindaban Hospital, Superintendent and Nurses' Training SchoolMiss F&.rmel'.

Muttra Blackstone Missionary Institute-Principal, Miss Clancy j Vice-Principal, Miss Ball.

Muttra Blackstone Missionary Institute Boal'ding School-Miss Shute.

Muttra Blackstone Mi8sionary Institute-Superintendent, Practical Training and Evangelistic \Vork-Miss McKnight.

On leave to Arnel'ica·-Miss Scott, M.D., Miss Terrell, Miss Randall, Miss Boddy.

PA~JAB DISTRICT.

District Work - Mrs. ". ilson. Lahore Girls' Boarding ~chool-Miss Greene, Principal. Lahore Girls' Boarding School-(to be supplied). Lahore Boys' Boarding Kchool- Mrs. Stuntz. Lahore Training School-Mrs. Stuntz.

RAJPUTANA DISTRICT.

District W ork-Mrs_ Grey (P. O. Phalel'a). Evangelistic Work- Miss Forsyth (P. O. Ajmer). Ajmer English Church and Boys' Schuol-Mrs. Rugg. Ajmer Girls' Boarding School-Miss Robenhouse, Miss Richards. Tilaunia Sanitarium-Miss Cora Kipp, M.D., Physician-in charge. ~rilaunia Sanitarium-Miss Julia Ripp, Superintendent. On leave to Americ;a-Ml':-'. Hcott., 2\liss Mills, Miss Huffman, ~1.1J.

ROORKEE DIBTRICT.

District \Vork-Mrs. Robel'tsin (P. O. lioorkee). Evangelistic Work-Miss Holman (P. O. Rool'kee). Evangelistic Work-Miss Gabrielson (P. O. ~Iuzaffal'nagar). Mussoorie English Church and Evangelistic Work-:\irs. Buck. Treasurer of North Indi!l. and North-west India Woman's Conference.

and Correspondent of the Language School-Miss A. E. Lawson: (P. O. Mus8oorie).

Muza1farnagar Evangelistic ·Work-Mrs. Van \raleu. Roorkee Girls' School-(to be supplied). On leave to Amel'ica-M:rs. Dennis Olaucy.

xu OFI'IOU.t MINt1TES.

OU\c.\a.l )t\\\u\es.

First Day.

MU'l'TRA, KI\.TURDAY, 12th January, lY18. OPENING.

The North-west India Woman's Conference of the Methodi:-;t Episcopal Church assembled in the drawing-room of the Deacones~ Home in Muttra, in its TWf'nty-sixth Annual Session. The devotional eXeI'cise8 were led by Mrs. Butcher.

R.oLL-CALL.

Thirty-six members were present at the opening sessioll.

ELECTION.

The Conference proceeded to organize, and the folluwing elediow· were made:-

President Vice-President Secretary Assistant Secretary

INTRODUCTIONS.

Miss McKnight. Mrs. F. B. Priet'o Miss Bobenhouse. Miss Forsyth.

Miss Farmer, Miss Richards, Mrs. Clemes, Miss Moses and Mrs. VanValen were greeted as the new metqpeIB of our Conference. 'M1':J. Butcher, Miss Richmond, Miss Gabrie'son and .M.i!;s Clancy were welcomed after their return from furlough. Ml'H. .Bella Johll was introduced and welcomed.

TIME OF SB8810NS.

By motion the time for session" was fixed from 11 a.llI. to :3 p.w.

ltEPOHT.

Mias Lh-ermore gave the explanation that the Pl'ogl'am COlUmittee had no report, as the work had been mel'ged iuto a joint program hy the two Conferences.

COJIIMITTKES.

By motion, the following Oommittees were appointed by the ChairCommittee on Nominations: Miss Richmond, Miss Cochran, Mr~. Briggs, Miss O. O. N elson, Mrs. Butcher. .

Oommittee on Resolutions: Miss Ohristensen, Miss Ga.brlelson, Miss S. O. Holman.

Committee on Memoir$: Mrs. Buck, Mrs. Bella John. Ml's. 01ancy.

OFFICIAL MINUTES. XllI

An.JOURNl\1 EN'!'.

The Conference wa!; adjoUl'lleU for tlH.' joint seS8lUlI of the two Conferences, to meet again at its close.

8ESSION.

Conference lllet in adjoul'ned sesHion at :! p.ll!.

MOTIONS.

The motion prevailed that the Conference approve vf the action taken by the ~'inanee Oommittee in July recommending that Miss Murray, Miss MeLeavy and Miss Ogilvie be made Local Missionaries.

The motion carrie'd that we pass on this recommendation to the Inter-Conference Committee on I.Jocal Missionaries.

The motion cal'ried, that in view of the fact that no Inter-Conference Committee exists at present, we give these ladies the courtesy of the Conference and consirler them melD bel'S of this body.

A 1l.10U RNMKN'r.

Conference was aujourned informally.

OPRNING.

The COnfel'eIlt'P Mrs. Clanc~"

MrNlT'fES.

Second Day. MONDAY~ l1,th ,Tmwori/. lVI,'.,'.

was opelwd hy devotional exercises led uy

The minutes of the preyi\m~, session were I'ead and coneeted. The motioll prevailed that on Tuesday, ] 5th January, the electioll

(.'f Oommittees hem:1.4e the ordel' of the day and take place Immediately after the opening exel·cises.

I NTRODUC'l'lON •

. Mrs. Hessie 13eul. Editor of the T~mpe1·a.JI(:e Reeo'l'd and Whit.(' HI.bbon, and Dr. F. 8. Price, Editor of the Indian r~ifneti ..... were introduced. .

GREETINGS.

A Jetter from Mrs. Hoskins which had arrived too late to be read at last year's Conference, was read by l\'Iiss McKnight.

MOTIONS.

By motion it was decided to send gl'eetings to Mrs. Warne and l~vet'y absent member of tne Conference.

XIV OFFICIAL MINUTES.

The motion prevailed that the matter of Auxiliary dues from Bibll.l-l'eadeI"s be referred to the Jubilee Committee and the Secretar\, and Treasurer of North-west India Conference Auxiliaries. .

REPORTS.

The report of the Official Correspondent was read by Mis~ McKnight and accepted. .

The report of the Cawnpol'e Girh/ High School was read by Mi~~ Hchroeppel and accepted.

The report of the Muttra 1'raining Sd1001 was l'ead by ':\llt.~ ~lcKnight and accepted.

The report of the Tilaunia Sanitorium was ~ead by the Secretary and ('e£erred to the Tilaunia Sanitorium Committee.

The report of the Boarding Schools and Bible Examinations wa~ gi \-en by Miss C. C. N elsUD and accepted.

_ The report of the EVRngelist"teachers' Fund was read by Ml':;. Clancy and accepted.

A D.] OURNMENT.

)Ii~s S. C. Holman led in prayer. after which the Confel'enee wafi adjourned.

Third. Day. TUESDAY, 15th January, DIlS.

OPESlSG.

1'he session was opened by a \pry helpful devotional sel'yice led hy Hev. E. Stanley Jones. He laid special stress on the import,ance of the filling of the Holy Spirit, giving examples from the Book of Acts.

MIND'l'ES.

The minutes of the previous session were read and corrected.

] XTRODUC'l'ION.

Bil';hop 'Varne was introduced and made his farewell talk to th() Conference before leaving for America.

H.EPOR'l'S.

~"fter the reading of the report of the NOlllin·ating Committee, the Oonference proceeded to the election of officerli and Standing Oommittees.

EJjEC'l'IONS.

The following oJiicel't! and Committet1s weJ'e elected :-(S8U page y),

MOTIONS,

'rhe motion pl'evailedtha.t the Secretary be insLruoted to'limit the expense of the printing, of OUl' AWlual Ruporb as much as possible.

OFFICIAL MINUTES. xv

By motion it waH decided that we pay -t. annas per copy for all eopies ordered for personal use.

AnJOURNMEN'.r.

The Conference was adjoUl~ned informa.Ily to ~ttend t.he Oonferp,nce on Evangf'liRm.

The following consented t,o send copies of the ('Aport. t(1 the Oonference Seeretaries of each Branch :-

J~(~1r llngland f]ran(~h .:rAU· rork I)ltiladell~hio CinCl~nnati N orth-1oe.<;te·}'n Des Jlfoi'fl,~s

Topeka Minneapolis Pacific Columbia Hi'!'"" .,

MISS SCHROEPPEL.

1\1188 FARMER.

::\IISS RWHARUS,

l\luis PORTER.

MISS BALI ...

~lJH:-; CHRISTENSEN.

1\1 ISS BRAGG.

MIss S. C. HOLMAN.

MISS 0. T. HOUIA~. MISS Gm:ExE.

Fourth Day.

OPENING. 'VEDNESDAY, it;t" .lam:uar.,!, 191X.

The session was opened by devotional ext'n:ises led by Miss C. T. Holman.

MINUTES.

The minutes of the previous meeting Wf'J"e read alJd approved.

MOTION.

By motion the Secretary wag illstrueted to han .. \ 500 copies ut the report printed.

REl'OHTS.

The report of the ,. 'Voman's I~riend " Commit-\()l' wus giyc'n hy Mrs. Huck and aecepted.

The repOl;t of the Literature Committee 'va:.. .'-!in·n ll}' Mrs. Buek and accepted.

~:{y motion the report (If th(' Temperance Commit h'(' read in joint !ieSSlOn was accepted.

The report of the ~'reasuror was given by Miss .:\. E. Lawson mId accepted .

. 'l'he report of the Conference Furniture ()ollllnit t(\(' was given by MISS Ball and accepted.

'fhe items from the ~'inance Committee l~col'ds not mentioned in the o.fficial Oorrespondent.'s report, but. of intf'J'Pst. to the Conference. were read by the Secretary.

xvi OFFICIAL MINUTES.

MOTION.

The motion prevailed that the printing of the "Woman)g Friend" in Roman be held in abeyance.

ADJOURNMENT.

The Oonference adjourned informally fol' the program on 'remperanee ~tnd Self-support.

Fifth Day.

OPENIXG.

The devotional exerciseR were conducted by :\11'8. Buck.

MINUTES.

The minutes of the previous meeting were read and appl'Oved. INTROI,>UCTION.

Bishop Burt was welcomed by the Conferenc·e.

REPORT.

The report of the Jubilee Committee was given by Miss Forsyth ~md accepted. • MOTIONS.

The motion prevailed that the ,Jubilee Committee remain as heiofr and that it be placed among the Standing Committees.

The motion carried that the local c(llUmitte(~ on Conferenc(' entertainment be allowed til call a committee to help with the elltertainment.

REPORTS.

The report of the officiu.1 visitor!:; from our Conference to the ~ or,t,1l India Conference was gi\1en by '.Mjk~ Forsyth Hnd Mrs. Wilso~ .. MISS

A. E. LawFion and Mrs. Wilson wel'e appointed by motion to VlSlt the N ort.h India Confet'ence next year.

The report of the Tilaunia Sanitorium Committee WlloR read by Miss Porter and accepted. .

By motion the Secre~ries were inf:lt.r1lcted to send a telegram of greeting to the MiSRe8 Kipp. RJ<;PORT:

The Committee on Boys' Rchools brought in the following reCOIII

mendation :-That if administrative and executive measures eun be arranged at

home that the co-education of girls and boys to t,he age of ten bf. adopted. The rp,oommendation was referred by motion to tllf' Committee on Educa.tion.

OFFICIAL l\llNUTElS. xvu

REPORTS.

The report of the Evangelistic Oommittee was read by Mrs. Baker. It was considered item by item and accepted as a whole.

The report of the Furniture Committee was given by Miss Greene and accepted.

The report of the Committee on Education and Examinations was read by Miss 0. C. Nelson and accepted.

MOTIONS.

By motion the Chair appointed the following Oommittee to arrange the time and place for the meeting of the Institute for the teaching of Beacon Method: Mrs. Briggs, Miss Livermore, l'lrs. Keislar.

By motion Miss Cochran, Miss A. E. Lawson, Mrs. Baker, Mrs. Robertson and Miss Forsyth were appointed to recommend the disposal of the Auxiliaries' dues.

REPORTS.

The report, of the Registrar Was read by Miss Greene and accepted. The report of the Field and Property Uommittee was read by Aliss

Greene and accepted.

MOTIONS.

The motion prevailed that the North India Conference be invited to send official visitors to OUI' Oonference.

The motion prevailed that the W. F. M. S. buy an equitable portion of t,he Delhi property.

By motion the disposal of the ~\.uxiliaries' dues was refen'ed to the Finance Oommittee.

ADJOURNMENT.

After prayer by Mrs. Keislal' the Oonference wal'l adjourned.

ADJOURNED SESSION.

Oonference met, in adjourned session at 3.30 p.m. and aftei' singing, the work of the Conference was continued.

REPORTS.

The report of the new Committee on Education and Examinations wa.s read by Miss Clancy and accepted,

The report of the Auditing Committee was given by :\fis-. S,·hl'neppc·1 and accepted.

MOTIONS.

By motion the following COll1luittee WitS appo' nt-I'd \ 0 C\lll~;" m~tter of Boys' School: Miss Greene, MI's. Butcher :\l l'i MISS A. E. Lawson, Miss Bobellhouse.

The motion prevailed that we as a Conference make a test of the plan of co-education in primary dasses.

XVlll OFFlCIAL MINUTES.

By motion the Conference instructed the Secretary to send a letter of appreciation and hearty co-operation to Miss Davis.

TRAINING INSTI'l'uTE.

By motion the following recommendation was adopteu : The ElCangelistic Committee recommends that the class fOL' the

teaching of the use of the BeacolJ Method to missionaries and Englishspeaking teachers be ·held in Muttra at the time of the Teachers Training IUititute.

RESOLUTIONS.

The report of the Committee on Resolutions wal:l l'ead and accepteu.

ADJOUBNllBNT.

The Conference wal:l adjourned to attend the final joint sessioll of ~he Conference and for the reading of appointments.

REPORTS nF COMMITTEES.

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Report of the Committee of Education and Examinations.

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The following actions W(,I'(, taken by the CommitteE'" for the Yf'al' 1918:-

1. That Mrs. Olemes he granted a First Year Certificate for the work done in the men's course.

2. That Mrs. CJerues and Miss C. T. Holman he allowed to take irregular examinations.

:L That the Bible-readers who did not pass in I Timothy in the thil'd year, and in Talima.t ke U Aul need not take these subje:.:ts, as they are not included in the new course.

4. '£hat the registrar be allowed to give Miss Richmond ('redit for dictation in the third year, the report having been lost.

5. That Mrs. 'Vilson and a committee which she may select prepare questions on the books of the Bible·readers' course.

The following resolutions with reference to t,he education of small boys WE,re passed:-

1. We approye of the plan that small boys be under the care and teaching of women.

2. Whereas it is the thought of the Committee that satisfactOl'V adjustments, financial and administrative, between the Board of Foreign Missions and the 'Yornen's ~"oreign Missionary Society, both at home and on the field, should be clearly understood before more definite aetioll be Utken at our Conference.

We therefore recolDrnend that a Committee of fiye be appointed to eonsidet' the question and report to the mid-year Fi nance Oommittee ;tad also the Committee on Educa.tion and Examinations, and later on to the Conference.

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REPORTS OF COMMl'I'TEES. XXI

Registrar's Report.

Examination Results of' Missionaries and Assistants.

FIRST YEAR.

Miss Moses passed in Dann~ Pat'ables and Miracles of Luke, and .John in Urdu.

Miss Val Del'emao passeJ ill John in Urdu, Platt's Grammar and JndinIl Pres" Header with Dictation.

Miss G. Lazal'l1~ pasMed in Platt's Grammar. SECOYD YEAR.

Miss L. \Vheat passed in Dhul'mtu]a, Hindi Dictation and Kempson I. Miss Ball passed in the entire year's work. Miss Moses pas~ed ill Kempson I. Miss Shute passed in the entire year's work. Miss 'V'ildegose and .Miss Simons passed in Kempson I. Mrs. Clemes passed in Dhal'mtuia. aud H iudi Dictation.

THUW YEAR. Miss Bragg passed in Mumuksh Brittant with Dictation, Mirat-ul

U rus with Dictation, Kempson II. a.nd Reading. Mi~s Richmond passed in Kempson II. and Reading. )'liss Dease passed in Kempson II. Miss Cochran passed in Mumuksh Brittant with Dictation. Miss Gabrielson passed iu Masill ka Xamuna.

FOURTH YEAR.

Miss C. '1'. Holman passed in Masihi Musafir. Miss Richmond pa8sed in Sat Mat Nirupan. Miss E. L. Xelson pas~ed i~ Essa.y, Sat Mat ~il'l1pan and Heading. Miss Hoffman passed in Essay.

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XXl1 REPORTS OF CUMMIT'l'EES.

Mission Training School, Muttra. 1917.

The 'l'l'aining School has a good enrolment of promising students. Amongst them are some most interesting Hindu and Mohammedan converts. Thf.'se) full of new faith and zeal, kindle the fire in othel' hearts. One 'of our convertsJ now a senior, is leader of the Pravel' Band. .

Every opportunity is used to give the girls practical work in zena.nas, non-Christian Sunday-schools and villages. A class in methods continues throughout the course. This year we are training the girls to teach the Course of Bible Study adopted for the Boarding Schools.

Our students come from many parts of Bindustan; even South India and Assam have sent contingents. Several missions are represented, and this seems to be a propitious time to pray and plan £01'

union with other denominations. Financial help has been promised from America for necessary impl'o\rements and enlargement of the plant. Union should mean more students, a stronger staff and a st,ill wider sphere of usefulness. A strong committee was appointed by the Board of Trustees to make tentath'e plans for union and improvements of the plant to be presented to the other denominations through the V. P. Council.

\Ve desire your co-operation in sending students who give promise of making evangelistic workers, and especially in presenting to English Schools and Churches the opportunities. the school affords in the preparation of assistant missionaries. May we alAO depend on youI' prayers for thi~ Rchool, which iR yours aF; well as ours.

M. I. F. McKNIGHT, Pri'YJ-Cipal.

Report of Evangelist-teaoher Fund. This year (1917), there have been 1~3 names on tbe roll, and tlw

maximum paid for each woman has been Rs. 3 per month. Rs. 669-1·4 haye been received from the Bank of Upper India,

thus completing the refund of the amount (Us. 1,338-3-4) which WRli

t.ied up in' the Bank wben it ~topped pM-yment on October 8th, 1914.

As there is no more money to come from the Bank, and there is no reason to expect a larger a.ppropriation from the two Branches interested, the Cincinnati and the Topeka, I cut the Summer School bills a litt1e in Older to save a balance, so that these bills may not have to be badly cut next. year.

There would not be so much of a balance but that Ca,wnpore, Muttra. and Rajputana presented 'no bills for Summer SchooJ~. Muttra and Ra.jputana have Rsked tIle privilege of being granted theIr money, should they haVf~ schools for their workers in the Rpring.

OHARLOTTE E. OLANCY, 1!retwu/rer.

Evangeli8t-tea~lte1'S' l'lUlld.--Statl'ment for 191'1.

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xxiy REPORTS OF COMMITTEES.

Treasurer's Report. The appropriations have been paid for the most part regularly,

though monthly paymAnts have bad to be substituted for the former quarterly ones, owing to the long time req~ired for the money to reach here. Some drafts have been almost three months on the way and two have been lost during the year.

Exchange has been good until the last three months, since when there has been a serious drop, owing to t.he world's shortage ill silver. This a.ffects building gra.nts and missionaries' salaries here and will make it difficult at home to make up the shOl-tage on current work.

Reports of W. F. M. S. Auxilia.ries . .. .'\.mount.s raised by Auxiliaries for the yeaI' ending December 31st

1918.

Ajt:ner Tilaunia Phalera. ... :":uratg&rh Aligarh District Allahabad Brindaban ~Iuttra Cawnpore

Rs. A. 1'. Hs. A. 1'. 17 4 0 Delhi ... 9 0 0

9 7 6 Ghaziabad 6 0 0 f, 3 6 Lahore 25 0 (I

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H,UTH E. COCHHA~, Secretary and Treasurer of the Nortl",-wesl India

Oonference A uxiliarics.

Report of Field Property Oommittee. ~ I) llew property has been purchased during the past yeal·. Owing

tft tligh prices of all materials the school buildings at Lahore have not been completed.

The question of pl'operty in Delhi came before the Committee, and in view of the fact that property is availa.ble in a ,·ery desirable lo(~ation we present the following resolutions :-

Resolved, that we request the Finance Committee to· estimate for the purchase of an equitable portion of the land. to he secared in Delhi.

Resolved, that we request the Finance Committee to ask the ladies at home to authorise Dr. and Mrto;. Clancy to receive gifts for the W. F. M. 8. property for Delhi.

LILY D. GREENE, Okolirm4't!.

REPORTS OF COMMIT'l'EES. xxv

Report of the Committee on "Woman's Priend." With the deep interest the ladies at horne have ever taken in our

paper, and the great need there is of awakening an intere13t in good reading among our Christian women and girls, as well as among the shut-in ones behind the purdah, it surely behoves us to do all we can to carry this paper to its highest efficiency., Your Commiteee suggests that as the majority of our school girls and Bible-readers read the Roman character more readily than the "el'nacular, a broader scope would be given the "Woman':;; Friend" if it were published in this character as well as in Urdu and Hindi. In the absence of Miss Kate Blair, Miss Caroline E. Buck ha,s recently been appointed editor.

MRS. P. M. BUCK, Chairman.

Literature Oommittee Report. Mrs. G. W. Briggs, with the consent of the publishel's, has adopted

the .Beacon method of reading to Hindi. The series of text· books will be ready for use in April. She has also pl'epared a plan book for teachers, which will appear in the JV1·tne.rs in serial form. It will later be published in pamphlet form.

The Meerut and the Cawnpol'e Girls' High Schools have introduced the Beacon method of reading.

Miss Livermore has writtell a l.Jife of Christ, which may be had in Roman Urdu_

A Syllabus for Scripture in Roman Urdu has been published. The W. C. T. U. has compiled a Temperance Recitation Book which

will mee1. a long-felt Heed ill the pJ'epamtion of candidates for the medal contests. A Tempel'ancp Dialogue has also been printed in Roman Urdu. The pl'ogl'allune for Temperance Sunday, prepared by Mrs. Price, was very widely used.

There is still an urgent Heed for tt-anslation and for articles and stories for the Kaukab·i-Hi'lld and the Indian Children's Friend. It is hoped that many of our workers who bave ability may contribute to them during this yoal'. A translation of the jelf and Sex Series would pl'Ove U, great blessing to our India.n young people.

MRS. P. M. BUCK:, Oha·irman.

Temperanoe Work within the Bounds of the Northwest India Conferenoe.

We praise God for the International Sunday School Union, which provides a quarterly temperance lesson for all the papils in ~ur BoardlDg Schools. Also Temperance Sunday (in November), which affords teaching and all effort to secure pledges. We would urge everyone to make more of Temperance Sunday.

When we think of Miss Mat'Y Campbell's great work at Patha.nkot We mllst remember it had a small beginning; that of teaching the temperance lesson to her non-Obristian o]ass every Sunday, thus winning them one lty. une to sign the temperance pledge. We praise

XXVI REPORTS OF COMMITTEES.

God that. the Methodist Episcopal Church is the largest tempera.nce orgB:llisation in the world. At the sume time we are guilty toward our Indu~n Church if we do not giye the systematic teaching necessary tl) save I t from alcohoHcs and narcotics. It behoves us to see that our Christians are clean by refraining from all intoxicants and nal·cotics.

All our Boarding Schools keep up the practice of temperanc(' instruction. Special meetings have been held, chart talks and iIlust~ated lectures have been given through the year, and many have SIgned the pledge.

In some places the Epworth League has remembered this important teaching periodica.lly. Temperance Literature has been distributed ill some placet!. We rejoice that the use of pan is on the wane, which wt"

believe is the result of the strong sentiment against it in our Boarding Schools. Let us redouble our diligence until the evil is eradicated from our Church.

The Woman~s Christian l'emperance Union has been a great help and impetus to our Mission; while at some District Conferences, District W. C. T. Unions have been organised and instructions have bL'Cn organised and instructive programmes provided.

While praising God for all this, we feel sure much mOl'C E;hould be done. We therefore recommend that the Board of Education take the matter up, putting temperance instruction in the school time-table, so that' our boys and girls may learn the evils of tobacco, especially cigarettes, as well as of alcohol.

We believe that greater effort should be made to educate all uur constituency as to the avowed attitude of our Church toward intoxicants, namely, total abstinence from all intoxicants and prohibition of traffic in the same. In this land, where some churches do not take this stan4, it is most necessary to keep this before us. We urge our members in cities and villages to inform themselves 'concerning local e~eise regulations and to UBe their infiuence, through orgnnised effort wherever pl·acticable,·to induce officials to enforce existing restricti\'(' measures, and to enact more drastic laws, keeping ill view the ultimate prohibition of the traffic.

'fo THfo; MILITARY AUTHORITIES OF Tn,.~ USITBJ> !'UQ\ .:-oct;:;. We, your petitioners, members of the Nort,h India and North·west, India

Conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church Mission, and representing u ~tituency of at least one and a half lakhs of people, dCHire to lay before you the following :-

Whereas, the great victories for prohibition of the li1luor traffio iu scveml of the allied countries gives rise to the expeotatiCJll that a deoided. advance be made on the linel:! of restriction or prohibitioll of t.ho liquor trattio, espeoiallyas pertains to all military areas ;

And further, believinJ tbat &H the ~le of India Ut; a. whole are teDlper~te people, that all such restnctive or prohibitive measul'cs would win added prestlg~ to our beloved Government. And further, desiring tha.t the yo~ m~ho?' uffe~ it. life for the Empire be protected from all dauger of detenoratlon In

health, effioi8DCJ1 and morals. . We, lour liumble petitioners, do beg and pray that all alouholio beverages be

ba.niehed from the areas of the military camps of the pro\'incea. (Signed) L. D. CBRISTEN8JI;~.

S. O. HOl.l1A!'i.

REPORTS OF COllMI'ITEES. XXVll

We petition the department of Temperance Prohibition, and Public Morals of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United Stat-es of America til help thifi cau~e in India by appointing a man (preferably one who knows T ndia) to give hiFo; time to temperance work here.

J. T. ROBERTSON, Chairman of Joint Committn.

Statistioal and Fina.noia.l Statement for the Mary Wilson Sanatorium for the year 1917.

Total number of patients for the yeat· 1 i 4 Daily a'Terag{~ 91 Total nnmber dHYS treat.ment gi\'en 33,457

.Forty different inst.itutions from thirteen different Missions have sent patientR during thp yenr. Geogl'aphically, these were distributed from P<'shawar on the north to Poona on the south and Assam Oil the east. About fifty different eiti('s between thest' three outermost point.s Hont patients.

Of the] i 4- patients, 7H \\"1'1'(' frotH Olll' own Mission, ~s fl'om thp l~ nit.C'd Free Chul't'h, :3:) from tht> CllllI"I~h 1fissiunary Society, 6 fl'om Ow Amcl'iPHn Prpsbvtt'l'ian, (j from the l~ nioll Mission, 4- from tilt' WCHI('van 2 frotH 'the Canadian Church, tLlld one each frllm tJw followin.~: Fl'iend~, Baptist, ... \p()~tolic Faith, Sorth India School fol' the Blind. Church of :-\('otla.Jld, and t he ~()eiety for th(3 Pl'opagation of t.he GoslJPI. B{~sides theH' wpre IK priyate l'atit·nts.

Pi'fl((nC(~8. -- The a \'erage cost per patient pel' month for tJw past year was rup~s nine. This dops not include Ilwdicin(3s nOl' missio!lary salaries, nol' money spent on building. This means that ou t' ~Iis~.ion put about B.s. 6,500 into the institution rill' CUl'l'ent expenses, he~it1es charging their own patients the same fees that others paid.

The Sanatorium was opened eleven years ago this past summer, and the f(~(' wns decided at that time. The principle on which the fee was hUSl'U was t hat it should covel' what it cost us extra to take in other patients. I do not need to tell you tha.t prices have changed in the 1a.l;t eleven years. \\' (' still welcome all, bu t. from the first of this year \\'e feel that we must raise the fee to rupees eight per month for all other' missions except MetJlOdist Episcopnl. 'fhis no:tion was tak£,11 by till' Pinant'e (lommit.tt'P of OUl' Mi~sion ut their last session .

• J l'Ll.A 1. KJPp, Ghwinnan 0/ (he Snna.t.o;itwi Comm.iUee.

Report of Committee W. F. M. S. Furniture. La.&t veal' the Committee 1yrnnted R small sum for furnit.ure fO!

Mitis Britt. Thirty rupees of that amount is still in hand, as the bookca~e Rhe wanted WaIJ not pul·chased. Permission waR given to

xxviii REPORTa OF COMMITTEES.

~8S O .. 0. Nelson to use this money for a bookcase, which is to be the property{)f the W. F. M. S. Home at Meerut.

During the year a request wa.~ received from Miss Gabrielson for one hundred rupees for furniture. The Committee advised delay in the purchase of such furniture as she may need.

The list of suggested furniture is kept by the chait-roen of t.his committee.

Resolutions.

Be it resolved,-

L. D. GREENE,

Chairnum.

1. That we express our sincere regret at the a.bsence of our beloved Mrs. Warne, and put on record our hearty appreciation of the help and inspiration her presence has aftorded us at pl'eviou~ sef!lsions, bidding her Godspeed on the journey to the homeland. an.d praying that she may return to us as speedily as Providence may permit.

2. That we shall greatly miss the wise and brotherly leadership of Bishop Warne, praying for his success in the campaign at home and assuring him of a wide welcome lwme to India.

3. That we express our thanks to Bishop Burt for his stimulating and uplifting messJl.ges and presence in our midst.

4. That we rejoice in the leadel"ship of Bishop Robinson as a brother beloved, in his thorough and sympathetic knowledge of all our problems and personal interests.

5. That we express to the ~v. E. S. Jones our appreciation of his helpful and inspiring message and to the Rev. Moss and Mr. Robson for their inspiration in song and music.

6. That our prayers and interests follow the Misses Boddy,Oochran and Hoffman, and M 1'8. Clancy and Mrs. Plice aud Mrs. Asbe as they proceed to the homeland for a season of rest and recuperation, trusting that they way return to our midst with l'enewed vigor.

'1. That we continue to praise God for the safe return of our missionaries and also for His protection in brin~ing our new missiona.ries safely to UB.

8 .. That we regret that Mrs. Matthews, Mrs. Aldrich, Mrs. Rugg, Mrs. Grey, Mrs. Stuntz, Misses Kipp and McLeavy were unab1e to be with U8.

9. That we extend to ,our host anc;l hostess8s our sincere gratitude for their thoughtful kindness and generosity in our entertainment and also lor the courtesies of the staff and ladies of the Training and Boarding Schools.

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IJ' D. OHRISTENSEN. CommiliM. W. N. GABRIELSON.

R. C. HOT.MAN.

REPORTS OP CO~nIlTTE>Es. XXIX

Memoir of Mrs. Hoskins.

As David said at the death of Abner, "Know ye not there is a prince and a great man fallen in Isreal this day," so we feel in the translation of our beloved sister Hoskins, that she was no ordinary woman. We shall miss the letters that she so faithfully wrote, to be read at our Conference sessions eyer since she was obliged to leave India, and in this comes out the warm, tender feeling we cherish for her.

Charlotte Roundey was born in 1837, of }i'rench descent, of the family of the Marquis of Lafeyette. Of her religious life in a letter to her son, she wrote, "The God who has been my God and my loving Father ever since I had consciousness, has kept me close to Him all these years. I never knew a time when I did not realise that I was His child." She became tIle wife of the Rev. Robert Hoskins in 1867. and for thirty-six years . she stood by his side, quiet and selfpossessed, as a tl'ue missionary, while making a delightful hlJme for her husband and children.

She was a fine student of language and did a great deal of lit.erary work. Her husband wrote, "Her pen is very active. I suppoe!e there is no woman in this part of the world who can prepare so mtroh material equally good in so short a time." Besides all the books she has written, she has translated twenty-four of the hymns ill our Hymnal, which are a.mong the richest legacies she has left for the Church. Dr. and Mrs. Hoskins were the pioneers in the Mass Movement among the sweepers. In Budaon, in 1874, when there had been fonr hundred people baptised from that cln.ss they wrote, "We have more inquirers than we can posRibly care for." In 18;5 she gathered some of the girls from that district amI opened the Siglal' Girls' Boarding School. IA.ter in Shajahanpur she also opened the Bidwell Girls' Boarding School. .Many of the girls and women she taught have become strong Christian workers.

~he was also fOl' a while the National President of the tV. C. 'r. u. At the organisation of the North-west India Conference, they were stationed· ill Cawnpore and so became chartered members of our Conference, and dUl'ing the eleven years she was in and out among us, those who knew her can never forget her gracious mannel', her forceful leadership, her keen sympathy, a.nd her deep deyotion. Truly she was ODe of the "elect ladies." Her husband die~ in September, 1903. She held his work on the District until Annual Confel'ence, and then l'cluctantlyturnerl her fnee to the home·land, where her children called hm·. Though she left us, she was never far away. She lh'ed &nd worked fol' India until February 8th, 1917, when she was not, for God took her. So the wraath we would twine for her to-day would be of the laurel and the palm, with the sweetest blossoms we could bring. Bel' works do follow her,.and we know that many of Il1diat s SOns a.nd daughters will find her in the Homeland above, because she won them JQr Christ. .

xxx SUPPLEMENTARY MANUAL.

Language Examina.tion Schedule.

FIRST YEAR. t.-Oumming'", Urdu by the Direct Method. ~.-Parables and Miracles in Luke. 3.-St. John in the Vernacula.r. First and Third Panjll,.b Readers,

with t dictation. . 4.-Platt's Hindustani Grammar, omitting pages fi 1 to 113 and

pages 203 to 222. ... ... . .. ;). -Required Reading-Huntees Short History of the..Indian People

(Thacker, Spink & 00., Calcutta). Examiners to be appointed by the Language School.

SECOND .YEAR (NEW COURSE).

I.-DbaI'm Tula, with t Dictation. 2.-Platt's and.Greaves' Hindi Grammar. 3.-*Kempson'8 Syntax and Idioms, Parts I and II . •. -Required Reading-Krishna or Christ. By J. P. Jones.

Examiners to be appointed by the Language School.

SECOND YEAR' (OLD COURSE).

l..-.:..Dharm Tuia, with t Dictation (July ." Miss E. L. Nelson. 2-*English Translation, First Reader.

McMillan's Revised (Jnly) .. , Mrs. Briggs. 3.-Mirat-ul-Urus to close of letter to Asgari

from ber father, with t Dictation (November) ..• ... .., ... ... Miss Bobenhouse.

4-*Kempson's Synt-!Lx and Idioms, Part I, (November) ... ... ... Miss Forsyth.

5.-Bequired Reading-Krishna or Christ!~ J3y J. P. Jones.

THIRD YEAR.

All examina.tions of this yeaI' to be ,,:ritten in Roman-Urdu. 1. -Vumuksh Brittant with t Dictation

(July) ... .... :.. . .. 2.-Mirat-ul-Urus, Part II, DiCtation (July) ·3.-Maaih-ka-Namune. (November) ... . ..

· .. Miss OhristenBen. · .. Miss BobenboUle. · .. Mrs. Wilson.

· .. Miss Grsene . Optional with Persian Grammar, with

exercises, ommitting pages 99 to 176 •. -*Kemp8on's Syntax and Idioms, Part IT

(November)... ... ... ... . .. Miss C. C. Nelson. 5.-Required Reading-Rob80n's Hinduism in itA relation to Ohris·

tiauity (Rs. 4/4. Thackel', Spink'&; OompanYt Oalcutta).

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FOURTH YEAR.

All examinations of this year to be written ill Romall- C rdu. 1. -Masihi Musafir.. Persian U rdu, both parts

(July) ... Optional with Gulistan, two books (July)

:l.-Sat Mat Nirupa.n, ill three parts (Novem-ber) ... ... ... .., ...

3.-*Kempson's Syntax and Idioms, Part III (November)

~.-Essay in Roman-Urdu (J uly). See Rules

. .. Mrs. Wilson.

. .. Miss Greene.

. .. Mrs. Aldrich.

... Miss Livermore.

and Regulations . .. Miss Livermore. 5.-Required Reading-India, its administration and progress-Sir

John Strachey-Recommended to be read, Selrs Islam; Forman'::; Arya Sarnaj.

POST GRADUATE COURSE FOR 1917.

I.-Persian Grammar, omitting pages 96 to 176 Optional, with Arabic Grammar.

. .. ]\1:iss Greene.

Rule s and Regulations for Examinations. 1. It shall be the duty of the Commjttee of Education and

Examinations to prepare Courses of Study for the Missjonaries and Bible-readers, and of Bible Study in the Boarding Schools. Also to armnge for the examinations of the same.

~. The ~xaminations fo), mi!Ssionaries shall be held the last week in .J uly and the last week ill 1\ ovembel', ill 10cations convenient t(\ the candidates, under the personal supervision of some member of the Board or another whom the Board may designate.

3. 'rhe llames of all candidates shall be sent to the Chairman not later than June 15th and October 15th. The required number of que8t.ioll papers shall be sent to the Chairman of the Board nut later than July lat and November 1st.

4. *W ['itten Translatiolls of English H.ea.ders and Kempson's Exercises are to be sent to the Examiner at the time of the examination.

5. Missionaries ill the Panjab are allowed to take Panjabi instead of Hindi.

6. The 1.:Iuttra. Training Schoo] staff will give the students of the English Department the language examinations.

7 The prescribed reading is required to be t'omplcted and reported to the Registrar before Certificatefi are issued.

8. This essay is to be wf'itten without the help of a taacher. The essay on a subject ~elected by the candidate should consist of nut less than 1,500 nor more than 2,000 words.

9. A candidate who hal failed ill any part of one year'!:! exa.mi· nation ahall not be allowed to present herself for the next until. she has

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passed in the previous subjects, except by special permission of the Examining Committee.

10. t Dictation-(a) To be a separate paper consisting of sixty words to be

given, and one mistake (only) in each ten words to be allowed for passing. ,

(b). The Dictation shan be selected from the first forty pages of a book ... - .

11. Au Oral Examination of li'trst Year filissionary candidates in Heading and· Conversation shall he conduct-eclat Conference.

Rules Relating to Summer Schools. 1. That one-half of the trayelling expenses for families be paid. 2. That charpais be allowed. ;t That fuel, light and ghurras be Dot allowed. L That a chaukidar be allowed if necessary. 5. That itemized bills be furnished to the Supel'intendent of the

Summer School Fund.

SAIBAL RIDARON KI KHW ANDAGI. PAHLA SAL.

1. **Dha.rm TuM. aur Hindi Imla. ;!. Muqaddas Kit8.b ka Ahwal I aUI'll aur Roman lmIa. 3. Mera ('".:thne ka ghar.

Hisab Jama'. Jinhog. ne tisra darja .Boarding !sku1 ke lmtibau mell pas kiya uai"

till ko bisab ki 'iwaz mcQ. Zanil'i 'fa/lim (saw81-o-jawab dono~) aur char bhaja.n hifz kama boga.

DUBRA BAL. 1. Khatt-i·' Amm Ya'qub I, II Patl'&8; I, ] I, III Ylihaun'; Yahudah :

Hindi ya Roman mell. ~. Parhezgari ki CatechisJlI aUf Hindi Imla. 3. Hasulo~ ke A'IWU, Hind.! ya Roman mell, aul' Homa.n lmla. (. Ratan M81a. 5, JIisab ~afriq.

'rIBRA SAL.

1. **Mumukah Brittant aur Im18 .. 2. * Khatt-l K urinthio[l, Galatio~ HisiolJ, Fillipio[l, KulUl:~8ion

r Thissalunikio9, FilemottJ aut' Roman Imla Ga18.tiolJ mett. 3. Masihi Amanatdari (Duncan).

ORA U'fDA SAL. 1. t**Sat Mat Nirupa.n aur Im}a. 2. l**~a.slh k8. Namtina, Ro~n y& Urdu met' aUT ImIa. 3. Humiou kti Khatt, aUl' Roman "{mU.

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1. 2. 3. 4.

5.

1. 2. 3. 4:. 5. 6.

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Dihati Ticharon ki Khw,andagi. PAHLA SAL.

Pahli Kitab Hindi,·Urdu va Roman. Gint! Sau tak. • Zarurl Ta'lim. Hifz kal'ne ke liye, Khudawand ki ])u'a, Da>; Hukm, Rastilo~ kli

'Aqida, aur do bhajan, yane, "Yibll lfasih mero pran bac~i'ya.'1 aut' "Man bhajo Masih ko chit se."

Harfan I,a likhna, Hindi, Urdu ya Roman.

Dr;';RA SAL.

Dusri KiMh Hindi, Urdu va Roman. GinU-Sau tak likhna. . Marqus'ki Injil, ,Pable pa~lCll Lab. Imla-ek juz ke laf:lo~ ka, "Mudge Sahib ki Catechism." Hifz karne ke liye-Tin bhajan-ytlUe, "Kyri~ man bhlila hai,"

"Yisu Paiyall lagalit1.'· "Maitt to Yishri' ko man me~ mana rn.khihri~, " Nan', i-sani ke Ii ye Rasli]o~l k:i 'Aqida aur Das Hukm.

TrSRA SAL.

1. Mati ki Injil aur Imla 2: Bisab J'ama' aur tafriq pachas tak. 3. Hifz karne ke liye-Zaruri Ta'lim (saw:il-o·jawab dono!.l) aur chat·

bbajan "Suraj nikla hua s&wer:i," "Chet karo sab papi logo," "Jai Prabhti Yishti, J ai Adhinija," "Masiha hi qudrat ab apni dikha de."

CUAUTHA SA L.

1. Luqa aur Yuhanna ki Injil aur 1mb. 2. Hisab--Jama' aur tafriq--Sau ta.k. 3. B8.lakon ka sudrao. 4. Hifz ka-rnoke liye--.:. 7 bhajan, yane .. Yistl ki musiba.t jis dam,1'

"Raja Yiau' aya," "Ram meri sahae." *In Khatto~ mel} R(' tin char hi ek sa.! ke imtihan ke liye manztir

ho sakte hain. **Imla i;' kitaoon ke pable chalis sl:l.fbo~ mel} se howe. Sat Mat Nirtipan ka ek hisS8 bi ek Ral ke imtihan ke liyf' manzur

ho sakta hai. r b Mas£h ka N amuna ke pahle nau ba b hi ek sa.l ke imtihan ke liye I

manzur bo sakt8. hai, Agar am' bbajan kisi District ke liye chune gaye, to we in ki iW&2

meg. manzul' ho sakte hail.\. N.B.-l. Panjab men Hindi ki 'iwaz mell- Panjabi ya Urdu Ii ja sakta hai.

2. Pan jab mell- Parhezgarl ki Catechism Roman men Ii ja. sakta hai. 3. Dihatt aur~tou ko ijazat d£ jae ki we. zubani imtihan dewe, leki~

mumtahJn ke umhne kuchh likhna chkhIaw6n. 4. Jinhonne tiara darja Boarding IsklU ke imtihan men pas kiya hai, un

ko Imla l{oman aur Hindi mel) ya Roman Bur Urdu meD Ukhna bogA. AUfOg ko Im!a ek hi zuban men likhm1 hoga, yane Urdu ya Roman yA Hindi.

5. Pas hone Ite number 50 haiu. 6. Muttr& Training Isklilld hui Tulaba Baibal·rldaro", ke oharon sal hi

~hw6ndagf ,ko ~atm kar chuldn baiu.

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Schedule of-Examinations 'for Bible.readers, by Dietl iots, for 1918 •

J\IIS8 BOBENHOUSR:.

.•. \ " OHRISTENSEN. .,. ; l\1Rs. WILSON.

" WILSON.

.A.ligarh, Alla.kaba,d Cawnpore ... Delhi Husar Meerut Muura. Panjah Rajputalw Roorkee

}\{ISSE8 FORSYTH AND E. L. NELSON.

Mas. WILSON AND MISS OGILVIE.

~IISS GREENE.

" BOBENHOUSE.

MISSES C. O. NELSON ANDCURi8l.t'EN8EN.

Orphanages and Boa.rding Schools.

1. Sc!lJe of sala.riet;-

Middle Failed Middle Pused Middle P8.s8ed and Normal Gradua.tes Middle Passed and 11 uttra Training Graduates Olass VII .. . Olass VIII .. . Class IX .. . Class X Failed ClasR X Passed

Rs. 7 ~

13 13 11 13 H, 16 25

:t The increase of teachers' salaries ~h8.l1 depend upon efficiency. 's. A joint meeting of the School Commit.tefl of the two-Conferences

shall be held every year at the Teachers· Conferences. 4. (Central Conference, 1908). WherpAS, on account of . the

exacting requirements of the Government Educational Examinations, tlere is a tendency on the pa.rt of some schoob not to give the study of the Bcriptures the importantpIa.ce it demands in the curriculum, therefore - .•

Resolved, that the Boards of Education of the different OonferenCes be iDStJ,'uctedto see that n systematic course of study be followed inea.cb school, which shall be uniform for the Oonferenoe as far as p088ible, and that an eXf,lomination be beld by the Boards, the results to be tabulated and printed in the Annual Conferencc<MihutefJ, sbowing-

1. 1'1umLer of pupils presented. :t ., "paS8ed.· 3. ThE' grade.

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Bible Study f'or Boardi ng Schools.

Class A. The Begillnel's Series, First year.

Class B. The Beginners Series, Second year.

xxxv

Class I. The Primary SCI'jes, Fit'st year and first thirty Jessons of -the Second yeaI',

Class II. The Primal'Y Series, Kecond year, lessons thirty-one to -fifty-two~ and rrhird year.

Class III. The J ullior S'}l'ies, first twenty-six leqsons of the Seeond year,

Class IV. 'I.'he .Junior Series, Second year, lessuns twenty-seven to fifty-two and Third year.

Class V. The J lInior Serias, .Fuurth year, l\'liss C. C. Nelson, ~'liss E. L. Nelson.

Class VI. The Junior Intermediate :-;eries. First year, thirty-nine .1essons (omitting -10 to 52), and Second year. Miss A, Clancy.

Class VI I. The Intermediate Series, Third year and one-half of the Fourth year. Miss McKnight.

Class VIII. The Intermediate Series, second half of the Fourth veal' and senior j.'irRt year. Mi~8 Bobenhouse. .

Class IX. The Pauline Epistle. ~hs_ F. M. \Vilson. Class X. Training the Teacher. India Sunday School Course.

N.B.-Claf:lsel'l A, B, I, II, III to ),l' exa.mineu orally by the Principal: Class IV _ to be oral and written and questions to bl~ Ret by Conference ~~xanllller

·C!a.SIeS abo,re IV to be written examinations. ,P&SRing grade shall be fifty per oent. The examination of Cln.ss X will take plooe lit. ChrilOtmll.s time.

Muttra Training School. 1. Airn--To,'-furnish an opportunity for preparation for Clu'istian

service to girls of our Boarding Rehools Rlad Orphanage~ and village ·wom~n ; and to inorease the efficiency of Bible-readers and Teachers.

2. Conditions of Admission--(a) Age-Candidates must not be less than sixteen years of age. (b) Healt.h.-Candida1;es must. have good health, and in case of

-doubt a doctor's certificate win be required. (0) On.aracter.-A Christ.iall eharacwl' aml a desire eo help otherg

must have been manifested. (d) Educational.-For the l'eO'ular EngliRh Course the applicant

must have passod the Se\'enth Standard, 01' hHse had sufficient previous preparation to enable ber to pursue the studies sa.tis£actol'ily.

For .the regular Vernacular Course the candidate must have passed the Fifth Standard or have had sufficient previous prepal-ation to enable her to pursue the studies satisfactorily'

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3. Arrangements shall be made for a shorter COUl'SA for thosewomen who cannot take the full course of studies, and such }Vornen may be admitted on terms agreed upon with the Supel'intendent of theTraining School.

i. Anyone sending women who are already in mission employ, may be allowed to use the salary of those women, or such part of it as may be necessary, for their expenses while in the school.

5. The salaries of those holding diplomas from the Muttl's, Training School shall be-

(a) For the English Deparhilent B.s. 10 more than the regular scale.

(b) See scale of salaries.

Rules Relating to the W. F. M. S. Sanatorium, Almora.

1. W. }'. M. S. ladies who do nut go to the Sanatorium will be charged two rupees annual dues.

2. Those who go to the Sanatorium for less tha·n ten days shall be charged Da,k Bunglow rates, or one rupee a day.

3. Those who go for a longe,' time shall be charged Rs. 7. 4. MissioDaties of the General Board may be admitted when

convenient to the ladies there, at the sllDle rates as are charJ:Sed our own missionaries.

5. Representatives of other Missions who come for more than teu days sball be charged Rs. 15 .

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DISTRICT REPORTS.

ALIOARH DISTRICT.

Aligarh.

Louisa Soules Girls' School.

Mi'8ionaries.-Carlotta E. Hoffma.n, Ruth E. Oochran,

This has been the best of the last five years in thil!! schoo1. The enrolment has been the largest in its history as a boarding school, and there has been a deep interest taken by both pupils and teachers. The personnel of the school has changed several times as we have been shifted from one District to another, but now that we have our own District there will be less changes, and it is easier for us to get acquainted with the varents of the girls who are boarders. During the year three girls have been married and three have gone to the other Home.

In February a gracious revival came upon us and it has made a great change in the lives of the girls, Many of them had the special blessing of consecration to personal work, and all were helped. From that time our testimony meetings have been very helpful and inspiring. We praise Him for the l'eal victories won in the hearts of the girls.

All of our staff are doing good work and the scholarship of the school is improving. Seven of our teachers were former students here. v..~ e were again successful in the Government Middle Exa.minations, as all passed. The ~ystemat,ic play-time adds to the interest in the school. Our Kindergarten is still growing, as the enrolment is thirtyseven,

This past year has b~en very different from the preceding four yei:l.rs in that we have had so milch sickness. This was because both measles and chicken-pox came among' us, and when an epidemic gets stilorted in a lat'ge school-of little girls, where there al'e ninety under thirteen years of age, it means plenty of work and o.uxiety. Thirtyfour bad measles nnd fifty have alren,dy had chicken-pox, andt,he end is not yet.

! ALlGARH DISTRIOT.

There have been many calls for money, and our girls have responded liberally. Sometimes the tithes have not been sufficient and so they have earned or denied themselves. All except the wee ones are tithing.

The" expectation was to open a Junior Normal School here in July, but the sanction from the home ladies was delayed because of the war, and when it did como in August it was too late for this year. The plans are maturing and by the coming July we will be ready to open. The school will supply a great need in this Conference, and requests to take girls from other Conferences have already come in.

Not alone for the material support but for the spiritual support of our patrons, we are grateful.

Woman's Industrial School.

SuptrinundsntB.-Alice M. Murray, K. Ogilvie.

The time for reports has come, but it seems impossible to write of all that has been done here during the yearthe varied duties, the perplexing problems, the cares and .trials of even a single day. Although sometimes the burden of some particular day has seemed more than could be borne, yet His presence has been very real and He has given grace and helped us to overcome.

Mrs. Matthews was with us about three months, at the beginning of the year, and helped us as only she can help. To say we miss her, hardly expresses it. Her advice and experience are invaluable.

I have been very grateful for Miss Ogilvie, who joined us early in March. She has been a very great help, and just fits in everywhere and anywhere. We cannot do without her now.

Of the two hundred and one inmates we now have, we aim to keep every single one busy, and teach them to be industrious as far as that is possible, and that is no small task. The big industrial work here, with its six or seven departments, requires much thought and. oversight, and a big stock of patience and love to start with, with a lot of re'plenishing every little while. We need your prayers, friends, for we a.re upheld' by prayer we firmly believeour own and others.

Miss Ogilvie and I have had special night meetings, when quite a number received a blessing and were spiritually uplifted. We thank God for this. . Some· monthaago a

ALIGARH DISTRICT.

pra.yer band was begun in the Boarding, started by the girls themselves; just a few at :first, but gradually the numberE have increased. We are so happy, for it proves that the girls have a longing after righteousness, and realize the value of communion with the Father.

And what more shall I say? Time would fail me to tell of what has been done, and what might be done, and

. what we hope to do, God helping us, in the future. Eight gn-Is have been married this year. Forty-seven

ha.ve been received during the year, including babies; little girls, older girls, widows and ill-treated or deserted wives.

District Work. AfiMioncwll.-Mrs. Aldrich.

This has been a year full of opportunity and blessing The "Aligarh District" is just eleven months old. These eleven months have had their problems in grasping the situation and getting the work in hand. God's blessing has been with us, and the efforts of the year have been fruitful. I have visited all the Circuit Centres-some a number of times-and have also itinerated in the villages. It has been a great joy to meet the faithful workers and to work with them in their distant fields of labour. We a·re greatly encouraged as we go from place to place to see real advancement and an earnest determination to work on until Christ shall reign in India's heart. Surely these humble messen~ers of Christ know what it is to endure hardship for His sake. Many of them live miles distant from railways, hospitals, doctors and churches. They have known the sorrows of death in their homes, with no human friend to comfort. They have lived on meagre salaries and some with only the bare necessities of life, but they have worked on undaunted and have led many souls to Christ. We feel it a sacred privilege to be permitted to work with these consecrated Indian workers, towards the goal of bringing India to Christ. Our lndian Christians in the villages throughout the District, more than 16,000 in number, are being taught and are taking a keener interest in learning '1nore about Christ and Christianity. They a,re growing steadily. Many are still U babes in Christ." Weare working and pray~g that all may grow to be stalwart Christians and a credit to the name they bear.

Our Summer School a.nd District Conference were

ALIGARH DISTRICT.

times of real blessing. We w~re bappy to have our Bishop Warne and Dr. and Mrs. Fisher of New York with us one eAemoon and evening. Bishop J. E. and Mrs. Robinson were with us a number of times and greatly helped with their inspiring messages. Bishop Robinson baptized forty babies, children of the workers gathered in from all parts of the District-a promising you ng band for the future 1 Dr. and Mrs. West, Dr. Clancy, Dr. and Mrs. But.cher, Dr. and 'Mrs. Price, Mr. Keislar; Mr. Baker, Mr. DevadasoD, and others, each came with an especially helpful messa~e. Mrs. Bishop Robinson, Mrs. Butcher, Mrs. West, Mrs. Pnce and each of the lady missionaries of the District addressed the Women's Conference. Dr. Jacob gave a lecture on "First Aid in the Home," which was listened to with rapt attention and followed by many questions from the fathers and mothers, anxious to know how better to care for the sick ones, when living so far from medical aid in the distan t villa~es.

A District V\r omen's Christian Temperance Union and a District Women's Missionary Society were organized.

A number of interesting papers were written and read by the Bible-readers on suqiects closely relatjn~ to the work of the Christian women in India, such as the" Christian Home," " Th~ Sunday-school," cc How we may better work for Ohrist," etc., etc. These were followed by liYely diseussions.

Each of us-Missiona,ry, Assistant, Teacher, Bible-reader, Evangelist-teacher, and even the Matrons of the Schoo)spve her report. Each report was ljstened to with keen mterest. Surely we an have much in common. Each has her own difficulties to overcome; each he~ own successes, but 88 we listen to each report we are reminded and deepJ, impressed with the fact thlit there is a wonderful " tie" which binds us together in the great common cause, and we would not, cannot falter with Christ as our Leader and India our field of labour.

Many of the Bible-readers remarked as they came to say their farewells before returning to their homes and t.o another year's work: " I have received ~t blessing and am going to do better work for Christ this year than before." Our hearts go with them to the villages.

We have had 1,418 baptisms in the District this year. Perhaps fully- half this number-are women and girls.

ALI0ARR nTRTRICT. 5

Evangelistic Work. Evangelist.-Mis8 S. C. Holman.

During the past year tbf' District Evangelisti has itinerated in all of the eight Circuits of the District and has visited each Circuit centre and the home of every worker. In some large villages intensive work has been done among the Chamars (leather-workers). Wherever possible we have established girls' sehools. Our method has been to take an experienced teachel'to the village and have her start the day-school and show the preacher's wife how to carry it on.

A t the close of one village Sunday-school ten men were asked to remain for further study. Each man was given a picture card illustrating a Bible story, and a teacher was appointed to teach the story. When each man had told tihc story he had learned, it was ~atlifying to see how well it was done. One man Jearned his so well that he went to a village and tauf?ht it to four others.

Upon examining the schonlA I was pleased to see what progress some had made. Vl e missed ha ving a nurse with. us this year to dispense medicines. The condition of the eyes of the women and children is pitiable and draws on my sympathy.

How I wish the home friends could see a village meeting. From one to four hundred people sit on an elevated p}l\ce, while the roofs of hom~es and branches of trees serve as galleries. We have many such audiences, and our regret is that sometimes only one meeting can be afforded them. One day when returning from heavy work in a certain Circuit, we were journeying thirty-two miles in an ox-curt and thirty-four' miles by motor car, After passing through a village two m en carne running after us with the request that we visit their village too, so eager are the people to hear. It was not possible to do so that day, but we talked with t.hem a little and then prossed on, for there were Reveral miles of bad roads ahead which must be crossed before dark. These two menJ one a. Christian and the other an inquirer, were glad for a short interview even, and returned, we trust, to i,mpart the help to others.

Our Summer ~chool and District Conference was a great success. Our BibJe-readers are cel'tainly at a disadvantage while taking their examination, for many have a babe ~n arms and f..Dother pulling ali their skirt.s. There has been much sickness among 'our WOOlen thIS year and

ALIGARH DISTRICT.

the work has seemingly been hindered, but God rules a.nd overrules and I am ~ure all will turn out for His glory.

City Work.

MiBBionGry.-MisfO S. C. Holman.

We have lost a good many Christians in Aligarh this year. Many of our YDung men were brave enough to respond to the call of the Government. We miss them but are glad they answered the call of duty. In some sections of the city there has been much sickness and many deaths.

The teachers in our day-schools often complain that just as soon as we 'get our girls reading nicely, they are married, and go to their mother-in-law's house, but this is not all loss. Here is an instance for our encouragement. In a village where no missionary had been before, I asked the pastor-teacher if any of the women before me could read. His reply was, "How can they when no one has taught them 1" The mother-in-law or the house gave a sign to the women and they sang two Hindustani hymns. A little woman then crept quietly to my side and I felt' a gentle touch on my sleeve pulling me down to her. I fonnd she wished to repeat for me the Ten Commandments and the twenty-third Psalm. Upon inquiring as to whether anyone had been there to teach her she replied, u No, Miss Sahiba, I learned all this many yea1'8 ago when I was a little girl. A missionary came to our neighbourhood and taught us:'

Last year we mentioned the Chamar8 In Aligarh blocking our path and demal}ding us to give them a meeting before they would let us pass. We are glad to say there are fort,r of this caste who are Christians and forty more to be baptized. Only yesterday one of these Christian men came to me and Mid his wife and mother-in-law were persecuting him. We went to his house and settled the disturbance by having a meeting. There are over a thousand women and children receiving definite teaching. Another Kindergarten has just been started with twenty in attendance, and there are forty bright children in the one started last year.

.ltLA.HABAD DISTRIct. '1

ALLAHABAD DISTRICT.

Misllionarg.-Mrs. 'G. W. Briggs.

Our District has had a great blessing this winter through a visit from M~ M. A. Livermore. She was with us about a week, at Summer School time, when all of the workers were gathered in Allahabad. She brough t with her two of the Meerut District singers, Indian men who are telling the story of the life of Jesus and the way of salvation in song. Filled with the spirit themselves, they sing these purely Indian Gospel messages with power, and our people 1earned them and were blessed with a new desire for souls. Besides this, Miss. Liverreore gave a series of valuable lessons in telling Bible stories. A lesson was given, and then a band went to a near-by village to put into practical use the methods they had been learning. Just before Miss Livermore began her class Rev. A. A. Parker gave a number of talks to teachers on story-telling. Mr Briggs had a Bible-study Class every morni ng, and I a Normal Training Class on dayschool methods. We all felt that they were days of spiritual blessing and of gaining better equipment for work. The workers spoke again and again of the blessing that they had received and of a new vision of power. And now these songs o~ power are being sung all over the District. In the VI] lagers' own dialect they ten the story of Jesus, and they eall him to lay down his heavy load of sin and accept the true Saviour. I am sure that as never before the workers of this District have had a compelling vision 01 the need for

. preparation before they go out to work, and, as never before, the desire burns in their hearts to know how to do it with t~e eff~ctiveness that their splendid teacher, Miss. Livermore, dId thIS a.utumn. Above everything else, our Blble-rooders need such help and tra.ining as this. And they Iieed it cODstantlYI until they have le~rned how. Ours in Allahabad have had just enough to 'be stirred with a great desire to do it right, and now they ~re a.way by themselves. What theymust have is a missionary who is free to work with them; she must be a tra.ined teacher, and she must be an evangelist. If we cannot have such a. missionary, ~hen we must have a Training School where the work~rs may receive such ideaJs and such instruction from the so-called Institution Missionaries.

8 ALr.AiU.13AD DiStRtCt.

City Work. Miss F. M. Smith, Honorary Worker.

Miss Smith was for a number of years a missionary in the London Missionary Society, but several years ago resigned because of serious illness. At that time it was not thought that she would ever be able to do any further work. .Hut she has made a wonderful recovery, and is now doing from four to five hours a day for us. All that we do is to provide her with a gari (conveyance). In her report she writes: "The pupils reading in zenanas in November, 1916, numbered six.. Now there are nineteen. Two who commenced to read last. November are now readin~ the Third Book. There are thirteen houlSes or special" spots" which I visit for Bible instruction

J only, and sometimes have good-sized congregations. There , are signs of a spiritual hunger." Miss Smith visits all the p~es'in .allahabad City and its environs where we have a Bible-reader, a.nd is a very great help in actual work and in supervision.

Two special lines of work faU to be reported. In response to an appeal from the Red Cross our American community became responsible for a certain amount of needle-worK and materials. Our Indian Christian community, in this connection, has made ten pajama suits, and our Anglo-Indian community has made ten suits and donated nine. That was for November, and we are to dO'a like amount of sewing each month until spriD~.

The other line of work is under the W. C. T. U. Some of US felt that Motheril Work in India was very much needed. Accordingly, the English Bra.nch of the W. C. T. U. has mapped out a winter program, coverin~ a course on the physical, socia]~ mental, and spiritual welfare of the child, and plans to reach the Indian Christian mothers of Allahabad (and any non-Christian mothers who can be ,interested) through three centers. Educated Indian Christian ladies have agreed to attend the meeting held in Engli\Jh, take full notes, and give the substance thereot' to Indian lIIothers the 1011owing week, at their meetings. 'l'he first mc~tlng of the season was' hel~ this month, and Lady

", Knox addl'cd$ed the mothers. Those of us who have made a study of child development in its various aspects were impressed by the thorough preparedness which Lady KDO~'8 paper showed. She.knew her subject, and gave the mothers Just what they needed as, an introduction to the course . . This 1.'uesday the first Indian Mot,hers' Meeting will be held.

'CAWNPORE DJSTRICT.

CA WNPORE DISTRICT.

Cawnpore. The Girls' High School.

.ilfissionaries.-Mi88 M. E. Schroeppel, Miss L. Wheat, Misil M. R. Moses.

It was with great fear and trembling that, s·t the beginning of this year, we tQok up the work laid down by those two most efficient workers, Miss Whiting and Miss Porter. . ;But God has proB~red the work and blessed us with a staff -of zealous teachers and an unusually large number of -loyal patrons and friends.

At our Annual Conference, Miss Wheat was appointed 'to have charge of the Kindergarten, and the growth and improvement in that department has been marked. Miss Moses, coming to us direct from America, has supplied fresh zeal and enthusiasm, as well as given many new ideM for' the work as a whole. We have welcomed three other new teachers durin~ the year. The five Normal-trained teaehers ,have added greatly to the efficiency of the staff. ..

We began school with an unusually lBorge enrolment, and in spite of many transfers and much sickness, the attenda.nce

. has been good throughout the- yeat. Our _ total enrolment has been 191, of whom 66 were boarders, and 125 were day-scholars. The average has been about 140.

We had prepared nine candidates for the -Cambridge examinations this year. Keen disappointment was felt when word was received from the Inspector of Schools that :there would be no examinations held throughout the United Provinces in 1917, owing to the non-receipt of the papers from ~gland. The Government is trying to arrange a special examination for the senior classes, to be held in ApriL

Our music pupils have done better than usual this year. Of the seven candidates in the practical examination, two passed with honoul'S, and all the rest were above seventy. It was with the deepest regret that we received the resignation of Miss Kennett-Clarke. Four years ago she began with eight pupils.- The numbers have increased steadily, until this year she has had twenty-nine pupils. Every year -her examination results have, been splendi~. Miss Clarke leaves us to take ul> industrial 'Wodi: .~ .. ~ ,Scottish Mission in Kalimpong; wIth this one exceptiop, all

: "f)ur teachers are .retqrningto uefor the new 3ear.. I :J.~f

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.Juat before school closed for the summer holidays, the girls of the senior class gave a class-p1ay. The funds from this entertainment were given to the school for maps, globes and other apparatus. Our school exhibit, h~ld early in December, was very good. With medal contests, patriotic' conceits, etc., we have tried to do' our share in.~he general educational work of the city. The teachers' and other members of the staff have done careful, painstaking worr, and the loyal co~peration of the pupils has made the year a very bappyand harmonious one.

There has been very marked sp~ual development among . the • girls during the past year. This began with Bev .

. A. A. Parker's visit last January and has grown· all year. The few who had the privilege of attending the Dasehm meetings were greatly bleBBed, and many more were helped and strengtheped during the week that Rev. and Mrs. Taylor ~ent with us. As we look back over the past months, the diaappointments and failures seem not so large when we see

,'how the girls have grown. . Financially, we have had a very hard time this year, but

thanks to our kind friends in CaW'npore and elsewhere who have 80 nobly come forward to help us out of our difficulties, we have come out better than we thought we should. .

More than ever before, we feel the need of work among .he Anglo-Indian people,. and we ask the continued prayers of friends in Indin. and at home for all those engaged in this work.

Hudson Memorhll Girls' School .

• .....".-J .. A. Bragg.

A t the beginning of the year we regretted to have Miss Wheat leave U8. She has been missed by all.

Several times during the year the visiting doctor has eommented on tbe seneml good health of our girls. Four prla, however, one In Tilaunia and three in their homes, died of tubercu1osis. .

The present actual enrolment is one hundred thirty six, of which number, twenty seven are interesting little kinde~gartoers. All of our five candidates passed the Apr!) Government examination in the second division. Apin thiS fear a medal and scholarship will be given us by the . 0a1t'J1.POl'8 Municipality.

8iD.ce January Miss Kasaey bas served well as head aiRreu. A -goo(i ·spirio -offellowahipamoDg the teached

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has been a pleasure. For four months we were without a matron, but now Mrs. Philemon, who has come from Sitapur, promises to be a good experienced helper.

Some of the girls were very definitely" blessed during the few days of meetings conducted by Rev. E. Stanley Jones. A deeper tone has been evident in our own ho~e prayermeetings, too. Several girls are interested in the League of Intercession. It seem a direct answer to their prayers that a new little girl is still with us. She ran away from her Hindu home and sought shelter one night with U8. Her Hindu parents by force took her home again, but have brought her back and given her to us. Weare all so happy about it.

So the year closes with no great evident accomplishment, but blessings, blessings all along the way. And there is that great joy of assurance that the future will reveal many mare blessings of the year than those we can enumerate. For all we give Him thanks.

District Work. MiB8icmtU'fl. -Mrs. W. W. Ashe.

During the year there has been a good deal of sickness in the District, and plague has been in nearly every Circuit, so much so, that it has greatly. hindered the work. In one or two instances the workers were obliged to move out of their homes and live in the jungle.

Shamma Mall and Ruth Lal, two ot our old and tried Bible-readers, have died this year, and two died last year, which leaves us short in our working force. Ruth Lars death was unexpected and sad. She leaves four children, and-one is only a tiny baby.

Our revival campa.ign began soon after our Annual, Conference~ and very .special effort was made to reach as many as possible in the District. . In order to do this, an evangelistIc band from Ca.wnpore was sent out to help the workers. By the use of musical instruments, song and moving pictures, we were enabled to draw large crowdsJ a.nd I must say I have never seen people more interested and willing to listen to. the Gospel message. Although we have· not yet a mass movement in the .cawnpore District, I feel sure tha.t in the near future "we shall reap if we faint not." As a result of our special effort two hundred and seventy .. nine persons have received Christian baptism. ~ot a large nwnbel".. but well worth the ,extra. effort and tune spent,

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, Our District Conference and Summer School was held In Qctober, with the usual good attendance. The Rev. Stanley Jones was with UB three days, and his services were wonderfully helpful. The Rev. Benson Baker and Dr. Butcher also helped in the meetings. The District Conference occupied fOur days and was full of interest. Fifty women were present a.nd . their reports were good. Miss Bobenhouse examinetl them in their studies and four received certificates.

City Work. N~.-Mi8S li. Richmond.

After our little morning prayer-meeting, in which we read God's word and talk tmd pray about our work. we go Ollt,· either to non-Chl;stian homes, or to visit our own Christian people who are needing help, or to the day-schools.

We have tried not to do less work among the nonChristians, but to do more among the weaker Christians, and in a number of homes where a part of the family were Christians and a part not, we have made special effort to win the whole family, and God has blessed the efforts. One woman, who, as a little girl, had received only six months' teaching in a Ohristian school, has continued to worship in secret all these ,years, and now her husband and three children have'been baptized and the children are in school.

The three day-schools tha:t are properly housed are doing good work. In two of them It has been necessary to place a second teacher, because there were more children than ODC

teacher could manage. Sir Alexander McRoberts has just given us five hundred rupees for the McRobert Ganj School. The other schools are worlrin~ under great difficulty, as i.t is not easy to keep the children s attention when they have no better place to meet than under a tree.

We have attended four big melas~and always found eager listeners, and each time sOld out all the Gospel portions we had· with us. The few weeks spent in the District showed glreat J?088ibilities for work. The people everywhere seemed 80 anxIOUS to be taught. We believe that if we had the workers to maD this district properly we could very soon have a mass movement started here.

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DELH·) DISTRICT.

~"i88iOfWh'lI.-Mr8. Rockwell Olancy.

My last report of the work in Delhi District! We are to go to America in January, 191t;, on furlough, and Dr. and Mrs. Butcher are here to take over the work.

It has been a good year, and we are sorry to leave this interesting and fruitful field. The doors of opportunity are open, and had we more good workers, large numbers . could. be baptized. ..

GOd has answered prayer, and enabled us to secure a valuable site of 9! acr~s in Delhi, adjoining the historical Ridge, and 6! acres in Sonepat, a town about 27 miles west of Delhi by train. We expect to get 3! more acres . in Sonepat, where we hope to have the District Training School and the Boarding School, for our village Christian boys and girls. When our buildings in Delhi and Sonepat are erected, and missionaries provided for the various departments of wQrk, Delhi District will be second to none in the Gonference.

It ~as been a. busy y~a.r, with the usual round of ~uarterly Conferences, Chaudhari meetings and melas and' . the Summer School.

Miss McLeavy was out in camp in the District from November till almost the end of May. She visited every Circuit in the District, and with a few exceptions every village in which Christians li ve. It was a great work. '

Many interesting incident9 could be told :-1.. There were the Ohristian l1felas or Conventions

held a.ll over the District during the revival month.

·2. There were Chaudharies who signed a paper with· their thumbs (as they could not write); to use·' their influence in getting their people to.·put, away idolatry. . ._-

3. There was a pig that was not eaten because it had -been offered to the Devi (goddess).

4 A shl'ine was broken when the Christians realized that they could not have Christ and the Devi both ia their mohulla.

5. An old woman rubbed off the heathen marks from. the walls of her house because a Christian should' trust 'in God for protection, and not in the Devi.

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During the year, 68 heathen shrj~es were broken down by the people, and each time a shrine· is broken it means another step of progress in the Christian life. 1,870 :persons have been baptised. During our four years in Delhi there have been about 6,964 baptisms. .

But this is only the fringe of the masses to be reached. There is no limit to the possibilities in the District, and in all our experience we have never seen the people, Hindus and Mohammedans, as well as the low castes, so eager to hear the message of salvation. 1.'he other day some Hindus said to us, cc Let us hear some more from the Word of God. We have never heard anything like this."

lIay those who rea.d t~is continue to _pray that the multitudes may be gathered into the fold of Christ.

• .DtcIc:otwB.-EUa M. KcLeavy.

I am not going to wI'ite a report, as I have not the time to do so. I will j8st write a few impreSBiolls of present conditions.

Besides being out in the_ villages, we have evening meetings at my tent, which continue as late as eleventhirty_ This morning we started out about nine-thirty and retumed at seven in the ~vening. Upon alighting from the ox-cart I was meet by a. group of women and girls and men. who said, " We have left our food and come early so as to have a long time to hear about Jesus."

In former years we tried to attract people by singing, but now it is hard to get away from them even to take time to have meals. Praise God for this.

In one village I spent three hours, and as 1 arose to go on to the next village, the women took hold of my skirt and said, fC Oh don't go yet, tell us more about Visa' Masih (381l18), whose name our Devtas (Evil Spirits) dread and flee .. Crom.H Several shrines were broken down yesterday and to-day, and one woman broke off the sacred bea.ds from her eon's neek,.and said, "Cume the Devta, -I am going to serve Yisu' Masih from now on." ,

When the women of India take this stand it will not be very long before India will be full of churches, built on the gro~~ where now stand their sacre~. temp'les. C( Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit, salth Jehovah of hoetM." Please pray much for the work and work&rS, that '~ey may all be endued with power from on high.

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HISSAR DISTRICT.

JliaiOtUlll"lI.-'ReV. James Lyon.

We have much pleasure in presenting the following brief report of this new District. The year has been full of blessed labours for the Master in the midst of many trials from the sickness of the workers and from floods.· The floods were unprecedented and brought down nearly one-half of the city and one-third of the Mission House and a block of houses for Summer School work, yet God has enabled us in the midst of all to keep going forward.

Baptisms. The number of baptisms this year has been much fewer,

for the reason that we did not have workers to take care of the new converts and instruct the seekers. The number is IJ627,·with the usual proportion of women and girls as shown in statistical tableij. Six months ago the· following notice was sent to all our workers: "Because we are not able to take care of our new con verts through lack of workers, water baptism is suspended. Seek to build up and to get your converts filled with the Holy. Spirit." That was rather hard to do with ten thousand seekers knocking at your doors for baptism, but the results have been good, and better work has been done.

The following shows. how a. woman got her drunken husband and family saved:- .

A couple of months ago one ~f our Hindustani ministers was on tour and arrived at the town of Narnod. He was met by the wife of one of the village leaders, or Chaudharies, who poured out a. sad tale about her drunken husband and ile2gEld the minister t.o come to her house and talk with him and the family, as he was ruining himself and family by drink. The minister listened patientJy to her tale of sorrow and went with her and found the husband with seven children 88. if prepared to hear the Gospel He preached Jesus to the man and his family and told of His mighty power to save from all sins and evil habits and from hell The drunkard was convicted and also converted. He gave up the drink and smashed the bottles containing it in the presence of all, after which he and his family were all publicly baptized.

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Day-schools. In the work of consolidating we hav~ opened a number

of day-schools and also Sunday-schools. The schools are Primary and often are taught in one of the housesoritl a -shed or under a tree and with many interruptions, ,nev.ertheless progress is being made.

Singing and Praying.

We have laid special emphasis on teaching our converts and workers to sing, to read the' Word and to pray, and real progress has been made a]ong these lines. For instance, a class of village women stood up in the District Conference and Summer School and read the Bible and sang our hymns.

We are grateful for and greatly appreciate all the help rendered by our holders-up at home, grateful for their helpful sympathetic attitude and for our Bible-readers' and Evangelist-teachers' salaries, ~nd especially grateful for all their prayers. God is doing great things. Pray on and fur greater results will fonow.

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MEERUT DISTRICT.

Meerut.

Howa.rd Plested Memorial Girls' School.

Mi88ionarieB.-M1ss Caroline C. Nelson, Miss Margaret E. Dease, Miss Edythe M. Britt.

We were very sorry that, on account of her health, Miss Britt had to leave for America early in October. Miss Potenger, our assistant for several years, was given a half year's furlough in July.

Of our former students, three have been married to workers, six are taking a ~ ormal School course, four, B.

nurse's training, and four are attending the Bible Training School at M uttra.

During the Evangelistic Campaign, and also during Passion week, special meetings were held for the boys and girls. Five girls have joined and church, and there are five in the probationers' class. Our" Volunteers" this year number forty-eight. The older volunteera are taking a three years' course in Teacher Training gi ven by the India Sunday School Union. 1'here are ele ven girls in the Personal Workers' Band.

There has been more sickness than usual, not only in our school, but throughout the city and District. Early on Thanksgiving morning we lost one of our sixth class girls, who ha.d been sick with enteric for over a month. She was a volunteer and a member of the probationers: class.

Girls' High School.

When school re-opened in July we had torty-four students enrolled. Twenty-four were enrolled for Class VII, this being the lu,rgesL freshman class, we have ever had. In the senior class we have seven. Five of last year'8 8t?d~nts are teaching this year in Middle Schools in our MlsSJon.

There have been a good many changes in the staff during the year. We have with us now Miss Pym, a student of.WoodstockCollege, who will stay with us for a part of thl.S winter until her college re-opens. She is taking Miss' BrItt's classes. and is &ll:lo helping with the chorus work, with

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which Miss Britt had been so successful. We also have Miss Nott, who received her training at the JJ·tl Bagh College. She helps in both the High and Middle Schools.

The giJ-ls have not had so Dlany interests outside their school work as usua.l this year. They help in the Sundayschool and the Epworth League, and the tenth class specially have done good work ill the latter. We haven't been able to get out to the Mohulla Sunday-schools very much, because of the sickness in the city. Recently we have been getting parcels of work fortnigh tly from the Red CroBS organization, and the girls have been working at this. They have also' made a good bit of fancy work for a sale, the proceeds of which are to go towards the Red Cross ~"und.

The schoo! is growing, and we a.re ~etting in a younger set of girls, tha.n we used to. So it is gratifying to find that the older girls. who have oeen in the minority this past year, are able to control the younger ones, and that the conduct on the whole has been good. There is a. helpful friendly spirit among the girls, and the older ones appreciate th('ir privileges, and look forward to being able some day to help -in Mission work.

District and Evangelistic Work. M~rie8.-Miss M. A. Livermore. Miss L. D. Christensen. Ml·tj.

:Benson Baker. '

The itinerary among the villages this year revealed the following. Our Christian people have-

1. A larger vision of things spiritual. 2. A -clearer vision of Christ as a personal Saviour. 3. A better understanding of what it means to be a

Christian. 4. A keenness and all eagerness to go on with the

Christian program set before them. 'l'hey are learning to get hold of God for themselves and

their needs. The women :jeem keener to attend the village serv ices.

They show an understanding of spiritual things that is truly encouraging. -.

We are making much of music in the Evangelistic work. It brin~ the people together promptly. It helps to keep order. It gives the Gospel in a form best liked by the people. It ~pares the mind of the. people fol' the Gospel address.

'It helps in the understanding of the same. We encourage congregational singing, when the words have becom~ familiar. In learning a hymn the soloist sings the lines of the verse, sometimes repeating one line three or four times,

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especially if it contains a choice Gospel truth. While he is singing the lines distinctly and clearly, so that the farthest person can hear and understand, the musical instruments are lliaying softly and in harmony. Then the whole choir coming in on the chorus makes it ring. This encourages the people and soon they are singing too.

In two or three days. Christians and non-Christians, as they work in the fields, are heard singing the songs we use, also the women and the children at their work and play. In our teaching among them it is not unusual for some one to say, "Yes, just as the hymn suys," and repeat the lines illustrating that particular truth.

rn a recent camp we were able to organize the hest local choir we have ever had. It was riot so large as Rev. Billy Sunday's, but it was quite as enthusiastic. The dholak i

jhanj,2 kirthal,8 and players were the best we have yet found. There is a good deal being said these days about the

Chaudhri's influence and his place in the Christian work of the village. But he is not the only factor in this forward Mass Movement. His wife, sister, and daughter have a share as well. For instance, we went to a village where there is a large communit.y ef inquirers from among the leather workers. When the workers reached _the moh'UUa, the Christian Chaudhri, who had come from a neighbouring village to help, called al] the people together. It soon became evident, however, that the women did not intend to come. They peeked around comers and then disappeared. In vain did we call them to come out. The meeting was well started when two young women came in from the fields. Presently e,-ery woman and child was sitting at our feet. What had happened? ,Just this, these two women were Christians from another village, visiting in their childhood homes. ·'Through their influence and invitation t,he women crowded to the meeting anrllistened attentively through the whole service, and then pu lled us down amongst themsel ves to ask questions and to receive definite teaching. Very proudly did they say, "Manbari," pointing to one of the Christian women, "knows the Ten Commandments" and II Ohamri," referring to the other, "can sing many Christian hymns.' It turned out that these two young women were from Christian congregations in another part of the District.

It is not uncommon to find that a village has been opened up to the Gospel by the coming of a young Ohristian

• 1 Drum. :I Cymbal. II Two pieces of wood ten inches by three inohes by one inoh, eat' with brAS8 pieces that ring when the two J?ieoes of wood. are olappod to,ether, to keep time to the muaio.

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woman or girl as a bride. The preacher-in-chaTge of the ,Ghaziabad Circuit came in the other day with an acc~unt of fifty baptisms in a village opened up in this way.

~i.tt.-Miss ~tensen.

This year's work has been the most doul-satisfying since amving in India. I t has brought a larger vision of the work and a closer touch with our preachers and Biblereaders, and with these a new realization uf the great possibilities of the work and a deeper admiration and love for the workers who are labouring for the uplift of the downtrodden masses and the advancement of Christ's kingdom.

Those who are especia11y interested in our village girls' schools will be gla.d to know they have incteased in number and are especially encouraging in the knowledge the girls ~re acquiring of Bible stories and ChristiilD hymns. Progress in actual reading and writing is much slower, because of the sentiment agaim;t girls learning to read and ~he dependence of the family on their earnings. After their marriage, however, they have a noticeable in~uence in the village in which they live.

In a specia1 way we have felt the blessing of God in our siege meetings, that is, meetings held for five or ten consecutive nights in one village. During the day we work in that village or snrroundirJg villages, preparing the people for the evening ser.vice and inviting them to come to hear the music and preaching.

With the aid of an orchestra of Indian instruments the music and singing is m&.de bright and attr,.ctive and the ~l,le join in hea.rtily .. They listen to the sermon with an mterest which shows the hunger of their souls for the truth. Their testimonies have been a blessing to my own heart.

The benefit has not been confined to the one village, for delegations have come from surrounding villages. to hear the message and sing the hymns. Nor has the work beep exclusively for Christians. We have been called to highcaste homes to tell the story and have had large -audiences of Hindus and Mohammedans in our evening services. Women from these better homes come to~, At one meeting seventy were present.

Ali over the district progress is manifest. New work is ~pening up, calls are coming for teaching and baptism, while the older congregatioDs are learning more of the things of God and have a d{'eper appreciation of spiritual things. God. has done great things for us,. whereof we are glad. ,

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MUTTRA DISTRICT.

Agra.

City Work. MiBBionCJf'itB.-Mrs. Plomel'.

We are thankfnl to God for the mercies of the past year and His gracious help in the work.

As I have visit.ed each worker, I have been pleased to see marked advancement. R.hoda opened work in new localities and was getting on nicely \\ hen she fell ill and was laid aside for three months. She is now beginning again and pushing the zenana work undel' her care.

Martha diVIdes her time between twenty zenanas and a girls' school she has just opened among the baniya (graindealer) class. 'J'he girls and women It'arn to read and write, and some take pleasure in reading the Scriptures .

. Each of the Evangelist-tt>achers has a school in a certain section of the city, \"ith a good average attendance. Th~e children commlt the Catechism, Scripture texts and Bible stories, and of course enjoy singing Christian hymns.

Harriet has a school among the Chamars (leather-workers) with an enrolment of twenty-five. These children were so eager for a schuol that they pressed us to come, saying they would ~ve us a room in which to meet. rl'he parents sometimes Slt near-by and list.en to the Bible stories being told and join in the hymns.

We still fiud we have to hold back, both in zenana and school work, because of lack of teachers. The demand for them is incre8.$ing and we are trying to meet it.

There are seven Sunday-~chools, \\ith sn average attendance ot 180 children, and we have just opened another with twenty girls enrolled. Apart from these, children, men and women gather around to listen and take part in the siDg~ so that, through these Sunday-schools we reach a~ least one hundled adults weekly. The children are learning to give. They bring shells, which we con vert into pennies, and sometimes an egg or a little grain. It is nice to have them learn the joy of giving. Most of the children who give are Christians. ~

We tha.nk Gud a.nd take courage, and with }'Nwwed .J;9ABecration~ stllrt in the work tor another year.

!! MU'l'TRA. DISTRICT.

Brindaban.

Medical Work.

PAg8ician in-duJrge :-

Superifltetldem oj BOBpital and Nurw.' *aining School :-E. Porter, R. N.

Gf:,ographically speaking, the importance of this needy center may somewhat be realized from the fact that this is the only Mission Hospital for women in a radius of twentyfive or thirty miles, and among a population of some seventy or eighty thousand women. . Denominationally speaking, we are the only one located here in this center of Hindu pi1grimage. Surely the day is coming when Jesus Christ shall be recognized as the Saviour' of men here in this Hindu holy city. f::>uch a place as this is naturally more difficult to evangelize because it is the very seat, the stronghold of Satan. But by means of the medical work we can go practically anywhere. We are in great need of re-inforcements. I go on furlough after one more year. We do so much need a doctor. Our work goes .on, but in many ways we are hampered by the need of a doctor.

There have been more in-patients admitted this year than ever before, but we are limited to medical work almost entirely. There is a great field here for surgery, and many splendid opportunities and a wide variety of cases. We do pray that some physician may hear of the great need and opportunity here, and respond. She will receive a hearty ~~~ .

Weare pleased to have· an increasing number of applications from a better class of candidates for the Nurses' Training School. In this line of service our Indian

. young women have the opportunity of doing a great service for the women of their country. In India we see disease and abnormal conditiollS in the extreme state. The women suffer much before subjecting themselves tc. treatment, and then because of superstition they often endure. most crude methods of treatment at the hands of indigenous dais (midwives) who know nothing of oleanliness. In March, a woman came to us having been in l&bor 1h:e or eix days. All the midwives ot the neighborhood had failed in delivery. She came to our hospital in a very bad condition, with temperature of 120°, pulse 140; and infection spreading at' a rapid rate. She was suffering badly from OIteomalacia, and

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nothing shorb of a Ceazarian section would save her life. How we did need a surgeon! I had invited Dr. Huffman to visit me to see the rath (big idol car) of the big annual m,ela. She arrived just in time to do the operation. The woman lived through the operation. We hardly dared to hope for more because of the extent of the ibfection. Dr. Huffman returned to her work, and, I watched our patient with great interest, seeing how recovery was possible. One by one all the abdominal stitches came out, and because of the great amount of pus there was no encouragement to put in more; so day by day I dressed the wound and bandaged snugly with adhesive plaster, and gradually the edges grew together. Four weeks from the day of operation she was well. She lives to tell the story of her wonderful and strange delivery. The women of the city were curious to see this patient. Some asked to be hidden and taken quietly into the ward to see her! How very interesting the work is: Opportunities are unlimited if one has sufficient time, strength, and equipment. \Ve are grateful to our friends in the homeland who labor so faithfully in the interests of uur work here.

Evangelistic Work. Jltlilioncaries.-Miss E. Porter, Miss Shute.

In spite of illness among our workers, the evangelistic work has made progress, has really leaped ahead. God has shown us the results of our work.

A school has been opened in one of the Christian sweeper 'inohaUas where both boys and girls are learning to read and write. Another school has been opened in one of the many Uhamar molt.allaB where for months the people have been begginB for a teacher. The Chamar children are not only eager m their daily lessons, but they come regularly to the mission compound to Sunday-school.

Through our school for high-caste Bengali girls, we feel that seed is being sown whIch wilt tell for God. These bright little girls have learned the Bible stories and Ohristian hymns. Many new homes hflxc been opened to us through this school. 'fhe mothers hu.Vt~ gladly opened their homes to the one who teaches their daughters.

Work is carried on by OUl' Bible-readers in Christian and non-Christian'lnohallas. We have a Jarge city work. Homes are open to our Bible-l'eaders because of the medical work. The in-patients and dispensary patients are given daily teaching.

In one Christian Sweeper 'rll.uhalla we had be~u grieved to be unable to break down the last remaining tluin (Hindu

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shrine). The woman who owned it claimed to be.a Christian, but sbeheJd out against us saying, cc My husband is dead, all are gone except one son. If he becomes ill, to whom shall I look for help?" We tried to point her to the living Christ. Finally after ~everal weeks she yielded. Our pastor and his ·wife broke the than. J nst the next week the woman fell ill with fever. Our p:istor's wife came to us quite ~xcited. We took medicine and cared for the woman through a long, serious illneEZs. As she was getting better the son became ill. Both were treated from the hospital, and both recovered. 'Ve feel that God was showing His power to this woman.

How we need more workers to tell of the living Christ t~ those who live in this wicked city, and to show His salvation to the thousands of pilgrims who come here eat'nestly seeking forgiveness of sins.

To all who have made our success possible this year we gi ve a hearty U Thank you."

Muttra.

Blackstone Missionary Institute.

Training School. Ni8Bi0n4ria.-Mi88e8 McKnight, Boddy and· Ball.

The Training SehoolEvangelistic Band had. had a good day. High caste and Jow caste had listened with real interest and wanted to hear more, N ow the sun had gone down and we were hurrying to the Jumna, where a big flat boat was waiting to take us across the river. Something stirring under a bush attracted our attention, a.nd looking again we saw a Hindu I. holy" woman. The peculiarities Qf her dress, and her uncov:ered, tangled mass of hair pronounced her decidedly "holy" fr.om tbQir viewpe'int! A. few boards beneath her served as 8. place of rest, and R. broken umbrella was her only shelter. Nearby was a well, beside her 1\ smaJJ mud shrine, n. bell to waken the goddess, and earthen lamps lighted for evening worship. Of course we stopped for a talk, sitting beside her on the sand. Quef.ltioDmg brought out an interestjn~ story. For shteen years this juteJljgent woma.n has lived in the jungle, suffering heut and cold,'hunger and thin.t, loneliness and darkness, that she may win for iher-self the favor of the gods. We a.ll had something to say'to

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her, and then a leader of our band told her own story.. She had been a Hindu, and knew what it was to tum away from empty words and lifeless gods with the heart-hunger unsa.tisfied. Now peace has come to her through knowing the true God, and joy, too, as her heart and hands are filled with wOl'k for others. It is dark now across the river, the blaze of temple lights is dying down after the nightly worship of the J umna. Regretfully we leave the woman alone in the dark, with only the wind in the trees and the splash of the river to break the silence.

Two hours later, back in the school compound, supper over, the girls are telling the prayer-band the experiences of the day. As they talk they are sewing " kurtas " and quaint little hoods for our poor village children. Presently, sewing laid aside, they bow their heads in earnest petition for village groups and individua1s that their lives have touched in the day. What a contrast to the woman we had talked to 1 These girls are wideawake, preparing for their half-yearly exams in the Bible methods of work and kindred practical subjects. When they leave here some will teach, some care for the sick, some will do zenana visiting. others, in homes of their own, will show what a Christian home, a real home, may be. All have had a. vision of the Christ-life of service for others.

Our students come from many parts of Hindustaneven Sout.b IDdia and Assam have sent contingents. Several Missions are represented, and this seems to be an opportune time to pray and plan for union with other denominations. Union should mean more students, a stronger staff, and a still wider sphere of usefulness. Will you make it a special matter of ptuyer that we may have guidance in all the plans that are made at this time for the future of the school? .

Girls' Boarding School. MiBftonClt"1/.-Miss L. D. Boddy.

Our school has bad a good .year on. the whole. Our health record has not been as good as it was last '1ear, 'because webave had more malaria, but we are keeping It under control, and now as the cold season approaches are havin~ fewer cases.

The high prices of all sorts of supplies-grain. vegtables .' an~ clothing-has kept us wondering how we are ,gomg to keep things going, but ~e have much· to~ , ~baukful :for thus far· th8.~ we are keepmg even.

.. ML"TTRA DISTRICT.

Our orphans, all ex('ept the ones in the fifth and Sixth :ela!1t-es, were sent to the girls' school in AligArh. We miss lit.tJ~ Naomi and Kitty IlDd all the dthers, 'but we ha-ve had several new ones come in, so our Dumbe:r:s are not decreased.

'. Our staff is armo~t the same as it was last yea.r, and aU the teach~rs are doing faithful work. With one exreption all the t~achers are our own old girls. W'e have a great many children in our kindergarten again this year, and thpy tuke a great interest in the songs and games 8.!ld in the Bible Ie&!ons. : We hrlve inst»lIed a new sanitary plant, which is al,nost ready for use. 1'0 meet the urgellt demands from Government, the money for this was pTovicit·d by a special emergency grant from home. We have nl~o put in a nUluber of ventilutil.g shafts in our uld line of dormitories and mtl.de otber imprO\·emt>nt.s ill the ho~tel.

Our J,r-ayer-bund is .Iilrgely att.endpd, and the girls are gro~\ing s1Jirifually: We crave for them even a greater improverueut in spiritual things.

Evargt'listic and Medical Work.

JI~.-}dr.:l. Edna Keialar.

We are gratified that t.here has ~en m~rked progress .in both tbe dny-schools and SundaY·fOchools. Lflst year there were :~6 girls' Fchuols on the District., and thi~ yllar ,bele are 49, 8.11 increttse of Ja. Thete were 143 Sundayschools, with 4,975 sc·h •. lars. while this year there a.re !X8 Sunday-schools, with 6,58H 8C"hulars. an increase of approximately 31 pt'f cent in the number of Sundd.y*schoo)sl and a2 per cent. in the number in u.ttendance.

We are' mHking a special f-«ort to ~eaeh and teach the children. Several new Stlndn.y.~chooI8 have been opened in Mnttra itself~ while the d.iy-schools hnvc been much better urganizcd. In Aiarch, Rev. A. A. Pal ker, Secretary of Religions Ednertion, held nn instirute for our {)reachers and Bible-readers: This included methods fur both day school and Sunday-school work. This institute was so practical ,,,hat our workers went bflck .to their villages to carry out t1;te 81lggel"tioDs Ilnd instruction rec~ivcd.

One marked feature of the ycar's work was thebrealcing of many heatheu shrines, several of whieh had withetood

. the frayers and prc:aching of years. "·biJe holding a meetIng in a small mohall. one day 1\8 foumi a sbrifte,

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We pled with the people to put their faith in Jesus Ghr~t and to break down t,he shrine. A fakir (n Hindu ~eacher) wa8 sitting listening to the message. He had with hi~ a pair of big iron tongs, one of the insigniae of bis posirio~. One of the men was h~lf persuaded to break the shrine, but feared to do 8t). We asked the fakir to Joan his tongs for this good work. He handed them over to the man, who tremblingly began the work. A little ,voman sat at one side, with lear written on her face. She was no doubt wondering in her heart wh:lt awful cll.lamity would come upon them because he had so angered the god. Nothing did happen, however, and we left them after 8inging, "Satan has been overthrown, and Jesus has been victorious." I went one eve!ling to a nea~hy vil~A.ge. We were holding a mp.eting- among a crowd of people, when I noticed a small shrine in front of one of the homes. Upon my inquit·y as to whom it belonged, a widow was pointed out. I turned my attention to her, begging her to give up this shrine and to trust Jesns. My pleading was of no avail. ~'inally I took her aside and asked her to t~ll me the real rea~on why she could nut give it up. Her only child, a little boy of about 9, waR Btanding beside her. Placing her hand upon his head she sobbed, u If he should fall sic'k, what could I do?" Later she was persuaded and the shrine was broken. Almost immt>diatcly afterwards both she and her son feU ill with malaria. It was a test ot faith, but with nursing and medicine from Brilldaban hospital, and the prayers of the workc~, she held on and were both soon well aga,in. Their recovery without idol wOl"l)hip so impressed her th:lt she is determined never to worship an idol a.gain. She is now a happy Christian.

We have never had such a. good eVR.ngelistic C3.mpaign. During the cold sea.!'-lon there \fere two Cc1.ll1pS for work in the villages. Miss Ogilvie and Miss Barker, both graduates of the M.uttra rrraining School, had charge uf these camps. One of the slogans of the campaign WM,

" A Gospel tn every Ohristian home." These were sold to OUr Cbribitia.n people and were gladly received.

Mrs. Van Valeo, who with her husba.nd joined our \vork in July, has since that time had charge of the Biblewomen in Muttra.. She hns entered into the work enthusiastically, and has shown markad ability in evangelistio work.

1.'be excessiv~ rain this yeal' has caused much sickness. For weeks vil.la.ges htl ve bepn Boodad, and thousands of houses

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collapsed. There has been much sickness among our people. Violet Joseph, Ella Lal1, and Champi Hariya, among our workers, have died this year. The little dispensary at Muttra. has had 3,296 attendances. Mazhar Husain and Norse Adeline have done splendid work this year.

Zenana Work.

NiuiOnary.-Miss .MoKnight.

As I write, the" band-gari U (closed conveyance) stands at the door to take out our fair hrul band of workers for their daily rounds. Years ago a Colorado Epworth League gave UB the old white horse that is now literally" on his last legs." I wonder who is planning to give us another, and a harness too that will not require to be tied up with bits of string,88 we block a narrow thoroughfare in the crowded city.

Zenana work is largly seed-sowing, but the seeds are .springing up all about us-women who take down their idols from the niehes jn their walls and pray lio the true God, children who know the stories of Je .. us and are learning to love and obey Him. Underground work it is largely, so it does not show for much-but what about the results when ~e undermining of Hinduism i~ carried on faithfully in the homes of such a. stronghold as Muttra. We appreciate your prayers and yo Dr iDterest in this difficult work.

PANJ'AB DISTRICT. '29

PANJAB DISTRICT.

Lucia F. Harrison School, Lahore. MiWona.riu.-Lily Dexter Greene, E. Lavinia. Nelson.

'The fifth year of the existence of our school has gone and we are called upon to report.

As soon as the last session of Conference closed we hurried home to prepare for the Annual Government iOFlpection. The girls did very weLl in their examinations, but we discovered many weak points whieh we have tried to remedy during the present year .

. We have been able to secure three teachers who have been educated in the schools of the Panjab. As the course of study here is different from that of the United Provinces, we find the Panjab-trained teachers better able to do the work of the classes. Many of our girls are sma,ll this year, and we are especially glad to report that we have a Middlepassed trained teacher for them.

Our school building is not yet completed, owing to war prices of all building materials. Weare in great need of a second hostel, as the one we now have is more than full of girls.

After several months of special preparation, a class of eighteen girls was received into full membership in our church just before the summer holidays. Another large class is now receiving the same training. The girls have grown in every way this year.

Our former matron, Mrs. Pearl, who had to leave us to care for an invalid husband, has now returned to us, and is faithful a.nd helpful in caring for the physical well-being of the girls. We have also been able to secure help from Dr. Barnes in keeping them well. She has had a weekly inspection of the school for some months.

Weare grateful to all the dear children and other friends who have lielped establish this school, and are glad to tell them that one hundred and fifty~fi ve girls have entered the school as pupils since its doors were first opened to receive them. .

District and Evangelistic Work .

.M.~.-Mi18 Eva Gregg Wilson.

While we were sitting out in front of 'a canal but;lgalow one warm Bummer evening, after a hard day's work In the

Summer School, two little girls from the lowest caste came along with baskets, in )Vhich they· carry away the manure and filth on their heads. They marle a very courteous salaam and we said, " Who are you?" They replied, "We are Christians." Knowing that we have a Bib1e-woman in that place I said; .. Can you repeat the Ten Commandments for us?" They said, "Oh yes, and we know much more than that." Whereupon we told them to go and put their baskets down by the roadside and come 'and tell us what they knew. With be.",ming faces at the joy of having a little attention paid to them instead of some word of scorn to which, poor things, they ha~ been accustomed all theIr lh-es, they came, and in answer to our questions repel\ted t.he Ten Comma.ndments, the Lord's Pr~lyert the Ap\lstles' Creed and Bible-stories one after another until we did not have time to listen any longer. In the Panja.b District there are in round numbers 11,500 Chri'Stian women and girls, the m ijority of I'\vhcnn are from t,he caste above-mentioned, and many of them are just u.s bright and ('.apable as thtlse two. Among them we are pressing the work with all the energy that we have and in every way that we know how. Where such teaching is being given, the re-nlts are very gratifying, but our hearts ache and we plead for the villages in which we hAve no wOJkers living, and which cannot be reached by the Bible· women.

·We had the Summer School in two sections this year in diff~re:..1t parts of the District and did more intenslVe work. Practically every woman in the District was in attendance. Miss Lucy Barker, the Muttra zenana assistant, came nnd conducted the Kindergu.rten in both of these, thus profitably engaging the little ones while the parents were in meetings. In the Normal class hour for Bible story-telling, the women took turns with men and compared very favonrably indeed.

During the revival month we were very much pleased to know that as the Christians had meetings morning and evening, the people were 80 blessed that some of these timid, ignorant village women led in prayer and gave testimony in -the meetingb. We were personally able to visit and hold --meetings in nearly every Circuit in the District during·the revival month.

We greatly rejoice ~hat the campa.ign which we are waging against idolatry is being \'wtorious, -and we hope to have a church in the Panjab free from this curse.

There have been twelve women in the Training Sebool tbis . year. Bessie Massey has done good work witb thelll, and 'they have made oreditable progress. Twoo£ the~! '."_~~

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their husbands, have recently been loea ted in the vil1ages fur re~ular work. Mrs. Stuntz has helped in looking after the welfare of the women, specially in times of ~ieknesB, and haa belped in overseeing the flchool and in some of the (-xamining.

We have a W. F. M. S. Auxiliary bele in Lahore, with thirty-four membprs. It meets once a month, and the women have very interesting programs, which they plan and

t give tbeomselves. We missionaries help and occasionally take part on the program. The meetings are attf'ndcd by women whose family salaries range from $2.00 to $10.00 a month, and two or three exceptional ones who are getting slightly' more, but all give according to their ability, and the very poor AS gladly as the more furtunate ones. _

The Hoods and sickness have been almost unprecedented this year, cHollsing great hindrance to the work for three months. Not only have nearly all the worKers' families had fevrr. but the pel'ple amon~ whom they wdrk and many -villagps have been so surlounded with wnter that it has been imp(l~sible to reach them.

Ag:l.in we wish to extend our thanks to all who have prt1y~d thr us, to all who are supporting the reglllar work and fur the .Mass Movement money, which IS proving a great boon.

32, RAJPUTANA DISTRICT.

RAJPUTANA DISTRICT.

Ajmer.

Girls' Boarding School. '

Mi&riona"".-Laura G. Bobenhouse.

The past year has flown quickly, for it has been a. busy one, and filled mOfe or less with the unusual and unexpected. We had planned much. We had expected to do much evangelistic work in the city, giving opportunity for the training of OUf teachers and big girls in that line of work, and bringing the Gospel to those who sit in darkness there. Early in the f;eason an epidemic of small-pox appeared, making it unsafe for the girls to enter the unsanitary streets and homes. Qui(·kly following this dread epidemic came another much more to be feared-bubonic and pneumonic plague. We then hoped that with the coming of the hot season, the plague-germs would be destroyed by the heat, and we could then begin our evangelistic work. But then the unusual happened, and there was no heat. At the end of the year the conditions are no bettt;r, and we are still isolated. ,V~ are only able to intercede at the throne for the people shackled by sin and idolatry nnd dying from this terrible scourge. We are thankful that the plague has not com.e nigh our dweJling. On the whoJe the health of the girls has been good. As a result of the unusua.lly heavy rains, an epidemic of malaria entered the school,.and almost every girl was touched by it. Malaria. has been severe throughout all Rajputana.

Time after time during the past year we have opened our doors to little children who were deprived either of a mother's care or a father's support. We have had 26 such children to care for who hA.ve lost a fRreot during the past 16 months. These were all Ohru.tlaDs. One was a tiny motherless ba.be, a few hours old, w.ho, in spite of all the lovinl{ care we gave., lived only a few weeks.

The work in the school-rooms has been carried 011 by both teachers and girls with keen interest. In the· annual Government examination, four girls entered and three ~. Three of our girls are DOW studying in High Schools, one in the Kuttra Training School, and one is taking a nurse's tra.Wni

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course. . Three b:\ve -beC:!n married-two to preacherS' in oatt district, and one to a Chri~tiR.n farmer. -

We have rt:tjoiced to see the spirit of symp1.thy and helpfulness which has been ma.nife!'te i by our teachers an4 girls for the needy.- When the cull Clome for relief for t,be 8td.rving children of Belgium, they gave so libel"ally that it mu"t b8.\ e meant teal sa.crifice tl) 80.lIe of t lem. When the call cllme for subscrilJtions for the Red Cro"s work, they gdove with the same liberal spirit. Sume A.re tithers and giving is a joy tt) them. To relieve those suffering ff"om fevel' in the vilbges they made up at least one-and-:l.-half thousand cinchona powd~rs to be distributed by Miss Fursyth.

Evangelistic Work.

NiuilmfWg.-Estella M. Forsyth.

As we review the work of the p'\st year in Rajputana., we wonder why the work should hJ.ve been s) retLrded in eleven out of the fifreen Circuits. 'rhe pllglle ha.~ ra~ed almost incessantly fIr nine months and our workers have had to move with the villagers to the jungle, and by living out in thatched hute far from their iDf~ct~d houses have escaped the scourge.

1& wa~ on account of the plague in Ajmer that our Summer School and District Conleren('e wns Dot held in September as planned. This is the one time in the year for the gathering tO~t!ther of the preachers an I Bible-readers for spiritual reff'('shment and study, and we hope it will be possible to have the s~-lsion even y~t.

Although a pllrt of the District was closed for itiDeratin~, we rej3ioe at the opportunity C·.r two tr)llrS ill the northern end. It is-concerning this encouraging field we wish specialJy to write.

The M: \.S8 Movement has surely begun in R·tjptttana, _ and we are eager to have you know all about it. As we spenci a week at a time with the pl"e~eber and hii wife in thu.e interesting desert citie~J we are amaztld at the way HindU. and MO~tlmmeda.ns are looking tOWllord the Christ. _ .

A womnn of noble birth, a. Ra:jpllt, h"", had a rern'u1u,ble conversion. She bad gtne through the IDa.ny forlna of penan~e at the f'moll~ place of pilgrima.ge. 0 "Y". also· at

. B61\1l .... · Pushkar anlt LU m my other placei. but she r~"urnad wihbout aoy know-Ie jge of salvation. The first time two Ohri4tiaG Biblu-readctrs el1~ereJ her house an.d told hef

BkJPl7TANA DISTRICT.

QM.,.1t,htaent' ,ah~ rec<rgdized the 'poesibili1;y' (if I);& lJlet; finding what her soul desired. She was an eager irqbirer, fond .af~r several months received Christian baptism, ~d D~W with boldness' and joy an Dounces that she i& a follower of Jesus Ghrist. ' '. ' ~In ,one preacher·s house we noticed a gt'oup of high-~te ,.eepJe oom~ng lllorniog and evening to· the family prayers. The light on their faces as they sang hymn aft er hymn ,.nd" entered into the devotiona.l. ~ervice. made us feel quite 1S1l~ the old heart had been exchanged for the new. ~ : It: was in a .city where work hoo been opened but a few months p~viously that one Sunday six edqcated India.n gentl&blen calJed, two Mohammedans and four Hindus. They held high positions and were men of infiuence in the city. They aang hyruD8 with \IS most hea.ra;jly and we read together, each by turn, a chapter in one of the· Gospel~. There was no spirit of controversy but instead. an apparent de~ire to kno~ the troth. Upon leaving they 'said, " We should like to return this evening for another meeting." Several times ~hey have made a request for a Sunday evening service, and very soon such an amt.ngement will be made. , ,A t another time a stranger appeared on the verandah of 'apre~ber's bouse at the time of evening praye~ .. We -reCognIzed at once that he was a high-caste man and found 'he- knew .Hindi well. He listened attentively, and was' told ,w~, had a book in which this teacliing might be found. He eneerfully proooced sixteen cents and purchased a ~ne new Testa.meot in Hindi. H"e read aloud to us from the third ',chapter of Joho, and as he was reading between verses sixteen ,and twenty, light seemed to Bash upon him, tor he looked up at the preacher and said he nnderstood. A long con versation took place, and at the close the pretLChel' said," Come llnd 'see us any time and we will always be glad to explain, these .\hibgs to you.n It is a jOj' to place the Bible in the hands of eigar, edueated men and women, for we are conudent of an early ~est. . . '

~. 04e high-caste woman, educated and refined, told tiS when ;:.we~led upon her, tb~t she felt herselfi~1!risoned ~ehind ~~r IeJijna "aHs. She longs to become n Chnstlan. She 18 readmg the. New Testament in Hindi. The'leaven is working.

WhQ~ 'moballas are seeking admission to the Christian lout and'in one Circuit, from one caste alooe, three thousand 'IIOUt,s are appealing to us for instructiori, saying' they' ~11 b~1t with idolatry' absolutely and a.ccept, 01;11" SaV'ipur~ " " & •

, We marvel at the working of God's Spirit" in" Raj.put:a'fi,a. . .wI pv~ Him' all1ihe praise.· ' " " . .. (, \, ; f _ • .,41> _~, wi ••• , __ ",., ..... t.. .. ,. ~_.. ". _ ••• ~\.. .. ..... . J.V

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Mary Wi~OD Sanitorium. <)

P¥H~-Mi8B c.!. Kipp •

.superinttJu:UlIt. -Miss J. I. Kipp.

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The Sanitorium has been in charge of three doctors this> year. Dr. Huffman's furlough was due at Conference time in January, 1917, but as all efforts to obtain some one to ·tak~, her place had been fruitless, she eonsentit'd to delay her hom~' g~ing. Not until July WiiS she able to set her facehomewarii for a much.deserved rost.

During August and September the institution was v~ fortunate in having regular visits from Mrs. McLeish, M.B.~· Ch.E. of Ajmer. beside~ the regular work she inooulated between two and three hundred persons against plague. This number included the stronger patients, the workers and their families, and many of the surrounding village folk. Mrs. McLeish is of the Free Church of Scotland Mission. This Mission has been closely connected with us in the Sanitorium from its early history. Their Women's Hospital in Ajmer has given the surgical treatment for our tubercular bon~ and gland cases. The staff and eqnipme:lt here does not permit of such work. To have had Dr .. McLeish's help, too, this summer makes us additionally appreciative of this Society'S kind co-operation.

We are glad two missionaries could be here this year. It will be a fine thing for our patients when a missio~y nurse can be here too, to superintend the nursing.

Rajputana was visited with unusual rains this year. The long-continued damp weather was very trying for the patients. Malaria gives little trouble bere usua.lly, but this year because of the rains it has been very prevalent. Prophylactic medicines were usro, and so many of th~ patients escaped ha.ving malaria: but for those who have had' It, i<t has lessened their chances for recovery. We are thankful that plague, though it has been very near, haa not visited us.

Patients have come from Peshawar, from the Himalayaa. and from ASsam, as well as from the plains of North and Oentral India. Early in the spring, owin~ to many dismissals, the number of patients drapped to sixty-nIne, but by May 15th there' were ininety.ive,' and not uutil in December, -after

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farther dismi8l8.1ta_ did the number drop below that. Most of the time there were one hundred and ten. E, elY building haa had to acrommodate twice the number of patients ori~illally intended tor it.

The dedication. of the new c~urch by Bishop Warne in February was a time of rejoicing for all. i'he patients nnd staff of workers had rt'ason to be proud. for the building was a result largely of their own gifts and labors. The church hIlS stone walls and a thatched root This year the chUrch has gi wen B.s. 80 to war relief work. . Interesting .. cases come to the out-dispensary. Some

eome . with t.muMes of 80 long-standing t.hat one wonders what fina.lIy prompted them to cOllie. ltelief . given lDakes ~ese villngers Blore ready for Christian teaching.

W~ want to thank those in the homeland, and in India i90 •. wbo by their prayeJ1~ nnd gHts have sustained and furthered the work here.

ROORltEE DISTRICT.

ROORKEE DISTRICT.

Roorkes.

JI~.-Mr8 •. A. M. Robertson.

The Roorkee District Summer School is just over, fol1owoo by the District Coufprpnce. As we send the people back we render thanks to God for answers to prayer, tor long bp.fore they came in was not prayer made that no epidenlic shou)q come into our midst, and that the attendance in classes should not be broken? With the exception of two cases the attendancps were regular but for a few houTs of fever or col9. Even the children were well. To Him be praise! Ther~ has been better work done during the year, and the attitune of all .wjth each other better- verily in answer to pray~r. Arrnr'lng on t,he 3rd, S!lllday the 4th was a l-e.~tful day of wurshifJ and prayer and the celebrat,lon of the Lord's Supper • . On MOllday we Of gamsed the clu~ses after joint devotional e:xercl~es. the wornell taking up their studies separate from the men. We had three periods till 11 o'clof.!k and then adjourned to allow the women to cook and attend to family tnatters. Again 'we ass(.lmbled ill joint NOl'mal teaching class. We took up Miss Gabrielson's Selected Bible Stories, which is an e).ccllent book for the work. We are sure every wOI-ker has gone b'lck to his and her work enlightened 88 to Iww and what to teach, such ns they ne\"er were before. At :i o'clock daily Dr. Buck g'Lve addresses on the parables. After the e\'ening meal a prayer and praise hour was arran~. for. After three weeks of class-work came the exunnnu.tolons.

We cannot discount the women's work because there \\'~re few certdjcat~s. Last year n.rreats of several yen.", were .brouRht up 1:1.1 d the year's courses complett'd. thus making a good show of 2!5 cf'rtificate~ This yrar tht>re Wt-re smallp.r ewaes, with all the subjects to be taken. I would specially con.m(·nd the lower grade village women ': Evanr.1istteachers." in whom M re. Emma Aloore Scott IS especially interested. Some gh'e us much encoun\g~ment. and we wish 'We had ,more such. The Spirit of God has peculiarly worked among· 'us, aud Gud blt8 given burning meSSAgt·s through MoUS ,OIlCS : who have, come to us, particularly by aQ

-ngelia~ from the PJWjab. . '.... i

•

ROORKEB DISTRICT;

, The spirit of God worked a definite work in the hearts of lOme, compelliu~ them to confess sin and put matters right. The evangelist IS a man of the Word and prayer and had personal interviews with severaL We -pray:Ood that these messages will bring forth much fruit in all our lives.

We would ask your prayers too for all our \Vorkers during the coming year. We send hearty thanks to all the ladies of the several branches which support the wQrk. and WQrkera.

Evangelistic Work.

iItiMou"..-Cb.arlotte Theru Holman.

This year brings us much reason for gratitude and encouragement.. The Indian self-support is increasingly gratifying. This year the Indian Christians contributed Rs. 2,271 to the work (If Roorkpe District.

. There have been 2,059 baptisms this year, so now we have a Christian community of 19,758. It would be difficult to .calculate the number of inquirers or those who might be l<."d to Christ if we had an adequate staff of teachera and ·~eJ'8.

We are thankful to report ~t improvement in the efticiency of our Bible-women. Our District Boarding Schools are turning out educated young 'women, many of whom become the wives of our preacbers alld teachers Glthe d&y .. acbools. Ther~ are 74 Bible-women in the di8trict. Some are Normal-trained teachers, otbers have takeD the Bible .. women's training in Muttra, a few are trained nurses aDd are able to minister to the sick women' in the village. where ~ther medical aid is not available. '

There are61 day-schools ill the district. Borne are called boys' and others girls' sehools,depending a good d_ ,00 whether the teacher is a manor a woman, but mOlt of them have both boys and girls. We have about 1,668 ·children of school age in this district, for whOle edU.tiOD there is no provision whatever •

. Du,ring the campinH, season 14 Bindu 8b~ea • .e ... --broa,n down. 10 one vlllage we found a buge .brlne lreslt1, fixed up ,in the courtyard of a Christian .family. 'I said tf the pastor, "This must be 'broken down to·day. jf it takes ui .all day to do it." We reasoned with the rople, ,ahowieg ~w esceed~)y sinful it is .to have idoWJOrOip slw ~iDg ~Cbrietia:p. Finally'-she shrine Wat ,dilmaatdell aDd we &aJlg, H Viatol')' to J 81UI, .Ba~ ..I.. bHAd_"" $'

As we were leaving the village we saw a man running after us and calling to- us to stop. He called out, "Yon have brokerr down our shrine; what shall we do no\v ? We know no other form of worship." But when the pastor promised .to arrange for more frequent VIsits, although the place was difficult of access, the man said, " We will never rebuild the than if the mUDshi will give us Christian teaching." Where one teacher has about 15 villages to cere for and some at a distance of eight or ten miles, it tl.kes some time to get around to them all, and especially as he has to go everyw here afoot.

One place the pastor handed me a list of 23 names, saying that all these were to be baptjze~ that day, but before I hp.d been in that place an hour I decided· that we would riot ba.ptize them until we could he sure of being able to give them adequa.te teaching. Thousands in India. are being refused baptism because there is dn.nger of them reverting to their old idolatrous practices when they do not get proper.: pastoral care. ..

One night as we were returning to our camp after a long day's work we lllet some Ohristiu.n men who greeted' us with, n We heard that you were in town and we went in to see you but found that you had gone out." Then they said, "Now 'you must come with us to our village." When we told them that it was impossible, on account of the late hour and the roads being almost impassable, they just took the horse by ~he bridle and insisted on turning us around to go with thero. We could not go tha.t night and have never been since. Although we did conduct 62 meetings on a tour of 16 days, we left; many villages with hands outstretched to us in vai~~ Who will give the bread of life to these hungry ones r I wonder if lihe Master is saying to the reader; "Give ye them to eat."

1'he women are more neglected than the meD. In one m()halla the women sa.id to me, U Our men are Christialis but no one has ever made us Christians." In one' village I ,wrote do\vn the names of 51 women and girls to be baptized. The men had been Christ;ians for some time, but the women are fa.r more superstitious than. the weD and are afraid 'to give up their idols until women go into their homes .and' * thern as the preacber canno~ do. OUI' present plan IS not·to baptize any men uiltil the women are rea.dy also .. So ~gabi we say, u Woman"s work to \Yoman is the key to the evatige1i~ ~tion of India's ,~iUions.:" , .. ':.

." \, ~ .... ..-,

llOOl\KEE DlftltIO'l'.

-Muzzaffarnagar Eva.ngelistic Work.

JI~.-WiDDie M. Gabrielson.

This has been It year of nneA.Siness, not entirely free from anxiety. Expecting to return from the home-land early in the year, s'liling was postponed by the bela.ted arrival of permit.~. When all was in readiness. the time W8..'i so for gone as to bring me to India. in the midst of .the summer . .&,rriving in M uzzlffarnagar, accordiug to appointment at the previous Conf~rence, continued residence here seemed uncertain owing' to a differenco of opinion as to relati ve needs. This uncertainty has greatly interfered with plans for effective work.

Coming to a new station which has never been a missil)nary's residence, R.nd being quite stra,n~e to local conditions, has necessitated much time being devoted t') the .imple act of getting acquaillted. not alone with the misiion workers. but cven more, the st'l.ti'jfi people, IN as to est'\blish a foot-hold for work. That the holding of this plootl is both timely and sGrategic, is keenly felt by all in Jlny wily acq1lllinted with it. and every week has more firmly estfibli:Jhed the necessity of a resident missiona.ry. The place is nut only important as being the center of the zilla, but is "lllrge educational as well as shipping center, aud fr.)m a missionary point of view we are the only Mission at w"rk, others having withdrawn from the field. Weare thert->fol'e under moral obligations to possess it. The opportunities are rare, and such as are not often met with.

The ziUa. abnunds iu the cbamR.r (tanner) caste, among whom the early }i;tSS Movt!ment spread, but through lack of workers and supervision. the work has lapsed in some places, bot in others is reviving with all its forlDor intensity. And not only is this work going on amODS{ the lowly clils~e8, but there are nnmbers of high-caste inquirers also. OO(rS leading hand is plainly evident, and we dare Dot disobey the summons.

As soon M it became known tbat a missionary had moved in, there were continuous calls from higb.caste 'andleRding men, \\'ho Oll,me to inquir~ nb8ut this new religiou. .. We have Dever beft)le had the Oppol'tuni ty to con verse -freely with a Christ;an missionary," was often heard, and they gladly accepted Gospel portions and Now TestAmeDti to read, and several have sought for further instruction. On tihe a.mUversarl of the d~lM·a.Gion of war, an iaviGation· was

R()flRKEf~ mSTRjCT.

accepted to give a patriotic address to the students of the Arya Samaj High School, with over 250 students, and their leading men of the station were also present, rather a unique exp~rience fo!' a Chril'tian missionary, and a women at that.

The hot and rainy seasons, followed by our District Conference for a month in Roorkee, has made extensive itinerating impossibfe thus far, except what could be d.one in near-by villages. Persecution has been bitter in many places, and considerable time has been given in seeking to give counsel and comfort to these suffering ones, and tQ bring about adjustments wherever possible. For about a month, all our city work here had to be suspended because. of the severeness of cholera, quite a number of deaths occurring in mohal1as adjoining our Mission.

This whole field is terribly under-manned both as to- men and women work.ers, and those we have, with a few ex~ptioD&, are of indifterent men tal training. The marvel is, that they have held things together at all. This Zilla contains about a million and a half inhabitants, the writer being the only missionary of any denomination resident in this area of about forty by sixty miles. We have only six circuit centers with an Indian preacher-in-charge, and a small number of pastor-teachers and Bible-readers under each, but "inade':' qllacy" is evident everywhere. And yet the field is open and calls come in from every side. People are hungry and waiting to be fed with the Bread of Life. If we fnil the~ they perish. '. ~ .

We are crying mightily to the Lord of the Haryest for wisdom to use to the best advantage the forces we have, and that in the very nenr future, provision may be made for mQr~ workers and at least some equipment. . .

42 MUssnORIE.

MUSSOORIE.

MU8soorie English Church and General Evangelistic Work.

Miaiom'1'.-Mre. Carrie M. Buck.

"Where is the flock that was given thee, thy beautiful fl()(~k ?" So the words come as we review the work of the year. Our 175 inches of rain, and sickness in the missionary's home, did hinder. In the English Church, when the rain did not prevent, the congregation kept. up, and the finances were better than usual. We enrulled sixty in the Sunday-school. Some marked cases of real soul-help were manifest. The Hinnustani school in the English Church compound, still supported by Mrs. Smallman, enrolled thirty children. A good pJ'oportion of these were Christians, children of servants. 1'his was their only chance of being taught reading or Christian truths. On Sunday they came together with cletl.ner faces, and when able cleaner apparel, and in their hands an offering Khuda.ke liye (for the Lord.)

During t,he cold season, when on the plains, it was joy to be among the people, to f~el the throb and thrill of the hungry multitude, who are turning ChristwRrd, who are learning of "the true bread that cometh down from heaven:'

Treasurer's Report.

c""'~ T'mrmrer.-Annie E. Lawson.

Ever since the war began. exchange has been surprisingly good. But the past four months there hn.s been a decided drop, because of the world's silver shortage, so the financiers tell us.

For the first time within a. quarter of a century, salaries ~a on a gold basis have hnd to be paid on less than the three rupee bash". There seems to be no prospect of any cbange for the bett.er at present, and the chances are that a .enous embarrassment of fundR will have to be faced for 8

long time to come. For the most part the money has reached us safely,

though two drafts have.apparently been lost, and the last two received hnve been c~er two months on the way. .

Our heartfelt thanks are duc to the faithful ones 10 the home .. land who are standing by us so het'Oically, in the midAt of multitudes of calls fur heJp in this great world st,ruggle•

MUSSOORIE. 48

The Mussoorie Branch of the Language School has had the best year we have haQ so far. The attendance was twelve, of whom nine were of the Methodist Episcopal Mission. The staff consisted of Rev. C. L. Bare, Rev. G. W. Briggs, M.A., Miss M. I. F. McKnight, Miss Lt. G. Bobenhollse, Munshi Bifazat Husain, and Rev. C. B. Stuntz. Miss Grace Boddy also did some valuable work in substituting for the others when they were away attending Finance Oommittee.

More extensive plans have been recommended for the ensuing year, and there will be classes for both first and second year students. The attendance promises to be much larger and the staff will also be increased.

'l'he Managing Committee of the two branches of the La.ndour-Mussoorie Language School ad vise that both ~chools follow practically the same courses 3;nd methods of study, with arrangement for joint lectures and mutual consultation.

Our great need is for accommodation of both students a.nd staff.

STATISTICS. ·

~ of the Work of t.h~ Woman's Foreign NiBtioM.f'1/ SockltJ 0/ ehe lor the 1Ie4r

NAMES OF STATIONS OR DISTRICrS.

.A:L.L.AHABAD D,STRICT.

Allahabad Circuit Banda Bharwari Chunar Karwi

't

Manukpur Shankargarh

Total

ALlGAllB DISTRICT. Aligarh Circuit Atranli " Dibai " Iglas ,. Jabangirabad " Kba.ir ,. Sikandra }tao .. Tappa! ,. Lomsa SoniCfi Girle'

School Woman~8 Industrial

,School

Total

0", WliPOBJi) J)rsT:B.IOT. Akbarpnr Oirc.-nit Auriya BilhAur Bithoor o..wnpore ltonch " )ladhoFh "

'Moth " Orai " :CilrJa' . High ~hool,

CawDpore... • •. Hudaon Memorial Girls'

"choo)

StrAiMARY. WO!ll'l,N IN

THJ:.: CHUBCH. EVANGELISTIO

WORK.

BIBLE INSTITUTES ORTBAINI~n

CUSSES.

.. 1 I i "I M Ii'" 12 8 :~ 91 fi ••••••••• :~j :~ :.! a 2 200 3.. ...•• .) -! 5 36 4 441 1 .••.•..•• n 1'/ I')') 6 10 142 86 lJ ........ . ~ :~ (j 7 a 1U 225 2 ....... ..

. 2 ~ ;~ 30 3 If)( :2 ....... .. ... ...... 8' 4 lil JJ 5 Hi ~ 2 ........... . 1i __

I __ · ________ 1---1--

1 1 25 ~ 255 105 :2U 212 840 21...... .•. . .. 1- --I- - - - - - --- - - -- ----.

I 1 ... n 135 747 !H 04 250 ;iOtJ 11 ... ...... 3 21 i49 Ha' 54 4U3 13tl 3 ... ..... 3 179 424 1O:~1 28 41~ ] O;i 3 ~ 40 -194- 2.5 29 :&34 2() 2 .• , .. -... .:I 99 189 Hi5 97 288 108 " .,. ......

• 4 214 a3ti 100 S9 550 30IJ " ... . ..... ~ 32ti ;JSti no 28 ;i:e2 75 2 ... . ..... 4 ;~5 liS HI 4t1 50 7( 4 ...

~ J :-$ .... ... ...... 1 2 4 ..... , ...... 1--1--1---' ---

4 1 2 4( 10493173 646 434 25991115 33 ......... ,. 1-1------ 1-- ---

5 8 1 J:i 00 17 121 224 5 •.• I.' ~ ••

7 J:~ ]06 )88 13 148 : 5 .• t ...... :i H 36 40 8 80 ] ... .. " ... ,

1 .. , U 5 62 1~ 12 51 100 4 ... ••• ...

10 Hl5 :i8 22 200 865 9 ... .. - .... 4 3 14 l~ 17 40 9fj 2 ••• ...... 5 4 .6 9 00 2011 S ... ... ... 4 6 48 20 J: 49 ISO :~ ... ... J"

5 12 (J6 )0( 100 14£ 4 ••• . ,. , .. 3 12 I ... ... ... . .. 1 ... !2 10... ... ... ... ... ... . ...•• t ........ .

-1-1- -----1----------1--1-fJ I 14 60 2'25 513 6fH 117 8591704 36 ........... '

I

MethodiRt Epitlcopal 0lmf'ch in tM North-we8t India Ormje-rence, ming Jtl'ne 80th, 1917.

47

-

--

SCHOOLS FOR 'fRAtNING BIBLE. WOMEN.

o z

:r

DA Y SCHOOLS.

I

SUNDAY SCIIOOIS.

a 1:21 11 :2 25

I 21 3 ~ 7~ I 1;) 5 4 70

2 il'! 5 ... 4 ';0

... ... ... ... I·.. ... ... I'" ... .... 6 180

... ... ••. ... ... ... ... ... ...... 6 72 -- -------- ------- --- --- ------'" ... ... ... 6 'i 19 24... .. . 27 493 -- -- -- _.- ---- -- -- --- ---- --

7 'i 86 65 15 284 3 3 22 9' 5. 106

5i ~2 4 4 2'1 17 ·4 49 4 4 2; 20 7 89 2 2 10 S 5 112 7 7 86 64 ~ 126

."'.' 54

1------- --.' ------ .-- --.• ------27 24 2ij8 183 50 872 --- ---- -- -- --- --~- ---- ----4 3 40) 25 8 110 1 1 Si 6 7 91 2 :2 ~?O: 17 5 132 0 2 23; IS 5 70

10 10 160, 120 12 400 2 2 10 8 S 90 2 :2 161 10 5 70 1 1 51 3 4 70 1 1 50 30 5 58

.. ---------- --------- --_._--1-

25 24 32S! ... 23'1 44 1026

&ari«iCIl oj the Worl of the Womfln's l"oreifl'; MU8Wtaary J!ocMt1/ ~f t),1'

for tM year

I I11S'J'''ICT. Bahadurgarh Urcuit Delhi . Delhi North Gohana GUI'~on Jhind Panipat Robtak Sonepat .,

Total

HISSAB DI8TBICT. Abohor ••• Eedhlada :&mala ... • .. Barwala Khedar Bhatinda ••. Dabwali Mandi Patahabad Hansi ••• Bissar ... &ma.Mandi Sangrur ••. 8iraa ... Tohana •••

Total

MDB.UT DI8TlUO'I'. &rant Circuit Bulandah&hr " Ghaziabad Bapur " Khurja " Manana " Meerut " '0'

. Meerut at, compound Sardhana Circuit ••. Sikandral:lad " ••• Siyea ,,' ... ~t W. T. Sohool .•. QUala' High Soboo1

TOW

WOMEN IN THB CHURCH.

Ev A.:NGELISrIC 'VORX.

BIBLE INSTITUTES OR TRAIN-

ING Or.ABBES.

~ ! cu til ! >. s::

~I i .E :i e ~G)

tl:J . il s:: en fj cP .B E ::s .~ ~ o ..:> ~ :;3 s::

~li 0 • 4t'l

~ $:I :! .0 .... ~ E i:i:i'b :; (5 e - "" 0 o == Z Z ZjriJ

...

~

.. Mu,hfJd,ilt l!Jpi8Copal (fImrch in tlu Ntwth·we8t India Oonfert'l),te ending June 90th, 1917. ' 49

SCHOOLS FOR. TRAINING DAY St'HOOLS • SUNDA.Y

~ cP ·c ell rn s::

'8 0

'i ..t2 <:l :i ~

0 ~ Z

.BIBLE· WOMEN.

"C ;

rn ] "" ~ 0

IX! 0 <t ':.I

"" E-o o • s:: .... s::

IE 0 ell

i~ ;g cu 5

t-; "5 .~~ 0 :... 10

l: cP Z ~ ~

ril "0 0

-'= c 00

~

3

2 3 4

l c. <t

~ 0 z

'; 7 I 3 3 1 2 1 4

~ s:I G)

s (5 :... s::

:;;;1

~ .,.;;.

~

87 15 ~

26 10 16 H 3(J 6-5

SCHOOLS.

"t:: 0) s:: = 10

9 -e s:I 10 ...

..:> ell

~ .; "C

G)

t:o ~

"" t <

C .5 s:: 0 f :z '3 0 F- ilii ;.. ..:>.§ rl .s s:: .... ..:S cP" g Jg e ~ -= 's,. g. :;0 10 cs .~ ~~ c;o '4 c; ~ 0 ~ ~ 0 ~ ~ z

79 15

.... 7 '1!J:1 7 ISO

3 1 30 15 4 100 8 5 100

16 2 29 9

20 5 210 5 80

50 8 120 -- ------ --- --- ------ ---11---1---1--_

2( 29 264 215 •.. ... 44 1076 - -- --- ----------- -1-----

.'1 1 3 4 1 2

5 1 3 4 1 1 2

11 47 10 20 60 15 13 Ie

8 40 8

18 50 12 12 7

4 40 ~242 o U5 2 196 9 175 3 60 3 65 3 65 2 100

1 1 12 8 ~ 120 2 2 18 15 4 250 1 1 9 7 4 300 1 1 ~ 7 4 300

- --I---------_____________ _

... ••• ... '0' ... 2;l 23 234 192 ••• ... 55 2033 -- ----1-- -- --- - -- --- - _____________ _

3 3 "su 15 320 38 35 13 160

8 12 - 207 27 405 'j 7 58 18 17 1352 1 1 20 14 7 291 4 4 40 ~ 9 125 8 4 J75 Ie 191 ... 2 150

8(] 5 5 67 5 75 2 .~ 14 10 18 . SS6 I) 3U 27 7 102

2 20 .... ... . ... . .. ... . .. . .. ... ... ... ... --~ I 2"'-d --1-.16

t---44 66~ 244 136 3667

5(} Stati8tic8 oj <tA.. <ltf.rk 01 the ·W ... ', Foreign ~ Society-of tilt 'for the year ,

MUft'BA DJa"b.lCT.

Agra Circuit •.. , ........ . Bba.r.ltpur , . ... ... ... . .. Dig " .......... .. FJrozabad., .. , ........ . B&thras .. . .......... . Kosi " ........... . Mat ,. ••• ••• ••• • •. Muttra " ..... 1 ... Sadabad " •••••••• , , •• Blackstone In8titute,

WOMEN IN THE CHUROH.

11 173 358 50 4 60 32i 30 3 ~))2 20 .. 98 375 150 7 2051097 140 3 101 142 30 3 154 2f>7 52

21 6561025 199 5 88 236 285

M uttra ... ... 3... 2 21 ... Brindaban Medical

E v ANOm.I8TJC WOBX~

BIBLE IN8'l'rrtJ'l'ES OR TRAIN

IN G CLASSES.

26 497 100 10... •.. .•. . .. 32 219 26 2 ........... . 17 132 100 :1 .......... .. 42 245 150 2 ........ . 61 i50 150 7 .......... .. 24 243 12a 2 ........... . 68 SCJ 35 •• , ••. , •• ,. .. . 6Q 880 2~ 20 76 115 ~8() 2 •••

Work ... ... 2 ••. ... 15 75 20 100 4 50 600 5 .... , ....... 1-1--I----- ------i- - --

Total ... 5 1 2 971630 3!f4{11056 409 :{211 1851 53... ...... . ..

~;~: :;:;m' ::: ::: ::: ::: L~ ~ ~I ~ ~'~ f~: ~:~ :Perozepore ., .• , ••.••. '" 2 2GO 1t16 14~ 4U 2UO 100 ~ ••••••••••.. Ghanieki .. ............ 5 15(1 400 376 25 100 115 5 to. ... ••• • ••

Ghm:oan " ............ 1 3 60 42(J 2 46 200 1 to, ••• ••• • ..

Qobawa ,. ... ••. .., •.. 3 iiOO 6(j Hl 16 4~)()() 3 •• , ........ , Barchowal " ........... 4 5.IS ~ 100 42 46" 196 4 ••. ...... .. .

. Janjati " ... ... ... ... 3 10 175 100... 100 49 3. ...... , .. Kalwan H ••• ••• ... •• _ 4 91 ~ 760 Ii :iOO 100 4......... .. . Kana Kacha., ......... ••. 4 176 700 300 20 600 100 2 .......... . Kot l.&kbpat:, _..... .•• too I~ 20 85 110 23 a 2 (j( Lahore u . ......!2 IOQ 100 45() 2()( 12 a50 1000 6 1 1 8 I Lahore North " ...... ..• .•• 8 81 636 1000 207 665 100 8 ••. m .0' .. , I6khoke " ............ 3 3 156 M<l 62 185 37 3......... .. Mnltan ,t ............ 2 40.85)00 18 J4u lO(J 2...... .•. .. . PaDdboke " ........... ~ • 66 494 550 30 450 8(J 4 .......... .. Baja. Jug H ...... t.. ... 4 420 764 70 41 1185 71 ............ .. ~ul~e ". ... .•• .. .c. '26 15(J 200 4 175 200 3 ........... , SMhiala " ... ... ••. 3 ·3 64 389 7 39 226 3 ......... , .. . Gi~J.' ,SohQ91, ~re ... '2... 1 6 "', ,'" ..• ''', ... ... .. ........ eo .. ,

T.otal ... :"'i~ 1 79~18716i89_ 6'17i.M713021 641' 1 ~ 6

·Methodi~t Episcopal OILUI'CIt· in tht N'O'I'th.wut 1'tUlia OOftjWt.ftUt ending JUJl.t, 80th, 1917.

SCHOOLS FOR TBAIi.J~W BIBLE-WOtlJEN.

8 45 8262

5 J8 4

.,

.' 3 3 5

3 18 4

DAY ScnOOI..8.

100 ~O 34 30 19 16 41 35 45 4(1

48 '''3-2 136 115 S5 60

51

SUNDA.Y SCHOOLS.

10 500 5 129 3 182 5 155 '; 100 3 70 4 ';2

15 399 7 210

1 2 45 30 10 300 -- -_. --i----------;--- -- ----lIS 45 $i()~ 50 4~ [)[)3 438... ••. 69 2117

---- -- --- -- -1----- --

J 1 J 2 2 :.! I Il

:~ 17 2 16 2 20 2 10 ) ;)

2 10 2 16

(;

8 S

i 16 2 It. 2 .11 1 6 J 10

1 10 ). 7

10 14 15 6 :1 2

14

;)

5 ()

12 I(] 10 4 6

I

5

3 4 6 2 ')

~ 6 , 6 ~ 4: 8 5 4 8 4 li 5

100 239 100 10 40

400 335 74 60

300 8

100 190 105 210 480 182 100 50

-- - -1--..... --1.--1------------I---r---10 27, 2; 170 134 ... 9C 3088

'".

52 ~ of the iVori oj th, Womlifii .. FtJNip MiMcmfW1l SocMtu oj tht for the year

I J$IBLE

SUIUUliY. WOMEN IN };VANGELJSTIC INBTIT(:US

THE CJlrUCH. WORK. OB TRAIN. [SCCL"SSES

.5 .! ~ c .g j "i III 0 Q "" .....

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VER~ACCLAR AND ANGLO-VERNAOULAR BoABDI~G SoBOOLS.

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MlI:DICAL WORK.

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