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of the Thirty-Ninth Session

of the

Malaya Conference

of the

Methodist Episcopal Church

held in

Wesley Church

Singapore, Straits Settlements

January 9-15, 1931. Table of Contents

I. Officers of the Conference I I. Boards, Commissions and Committees Z

III. Daily Proceedings 4 IV- Disciplinary Questions 19 V. Appointments 23

VI. Reports (a). District Superintendents 30

(b). Reports of Standing Committees and Boards 64

(c). Conference Statistician

(d). Conference Treasurer (e). Miscellaneous 74

VI I. Roll of the Dead 84 VI I I. Conference Sessions 85 IX. Plan of Conference Examiners for the Courses of Study 86

X. Conference Chronological Roll 90

Certificate This is to certify that this is a complete and correct record of the proceedings of the Thirty-Ninth Session of the Malaya Annual Conference. W. A. SCHURR Secretary. Officers of the Conference

Presiding Bishop:

EDWIN F. LEE

-Secretary .. W. A. SCHURR.

_Assistant Secretary S. M. THEVATHASAN

Statistician I. l\10TZ

Treasurer S. M. THEVATHASAN

Registrar HOBART B. AMSTUTZ

Mission Treasurer J. F. PEAT

_Educational Secretary G. F PYKETT

.Secretary Board ot Building and Location J. F. PEAT

Any of the above officers may be addressed: 4 Fort Canning Road, Singapore, S.S. 2 l\~AL~YA CONFERENCE, 1931

Boards, Commissions and Committees

Committee on Education Secretary of Education, Principal A. C. S. Penang. Principal A. C. S. Sil~ga pore, Principal A. C. S. Ipoh, Principal M. B. S. Kuala LUillpur, Princlpat M. G. S. Singapore, Principal M. G. S. Kuala Lumpur. ])oard of Ministerial Training Abel Eklund, Cbairman, H. B. Amstutz, Registrar, R. Dean Swift, D. P Coole.. W. A. Schurr, S. 1\1. Thevathasan. j. A. Supramaniam, M. R. Doraisamy, j. J~ Kingham, Lim Hon.g Ban, C. E. Fang, Li Hok I-liang, Lim Poh Chin. Examiners in the Vernacular Mala'), . G. F. Pykett, F. H. Sullivan Tamil S. M. Thevathasan. j. J. Kingham Foochow Li Hok Hiang, Mrs. j. M. Hoover Cantonese .. Wan Yang Fan Hokkien .. Lim Hong Ban, C. E. Fang. Mission Finance Committee Ex-offictO:-G. F. PyketJt, j. M. Hoover. W. E. Harley, F. H. Sullivan, M. Dodsworth, S. S. P.akianat'han, l\lission Treasurer. Secreta1ry of B. B. L. Mission Correspondent. Elective...-Chen Su Lan, Khoo Cheng Hoe, D. H. Yap. M. R. Dora1samy P. W. Tamhyruh. Conference Stewards Class A :-j. j. Kovilpillai. Goh Hood Keng. Class B :-J. A. Supramaniam, P. L. Peach. Class C:-V Samuel, G. F. Pykert. Committee on Publications and Church Extension Resident Bisbop, Ex-officio, Chairman. Treasurer, Ex-officio, Secretary B.B.L. Malaya ,4fembers: G. F. Pykett, Chen Su Lan, M. Dodsworth, R. Dean Swift. (Two members to be named by the Sumatra Mission Conference) Committee on Conference Relations R. A. Blasdell, Abel Eklund, H. B. Amstutz, J. A. Supramaniam, J. J. Kov.i1pitlai, C. E. Fang, Li Hok Hi.rung, Urn Hong Ban, E. S. Lau, J. J. Kingham. Committee on Public Morals Goh Hood Keng, V. Samuel. M. R. Dora1isamy, Li Hok Hiang, L. A. Samuel, Yau Vee San, G. V. Summers, W. A. Schurr, Fred David, D. H. Yap~ ])oard of Control for Holding Church and Parsonage Property For one yea'!': J. A. Supramaniam, S. M. T,hevathasan. For two years: S. S. Paki:m.athan, C. E. Fang. For tthree years: G<.lh Hood Keng. Asiatic Sanitorium Committee Goh Hoc;>d Keng, S. S. Pakianathan, Lim Hong Ban, S. M. Thevathasan. ]. A. Supramani.am, M. A. Ramson, Chen Su L

Committee on the State of the Church T. W. Bowmar, J. J. Kovilpillai, D. P. Coole, WaJIl Y,ang 'Fa'll, J. S. Arthur, Fred David, V. Samuel, E. S. Lau, Lim Poh Chin. Y. ]. JesudasoD, C. D. Patterson. Committee on District Conference Minutes C. E. Fang, J. V. Ayaduray, C. D. Patterson, V. Devasahayam, Yap It Tong, -So A. Phillips. Committee on Text Books T W. Bowmar, G. F. Pyket1, Ula Corbett, S. M. Thevathasan, Gazelle Traeger, W. A. Schurr. Ho Seng Oag, C. D. Patterson. Board of Control of the Jean Hamilton Theological School Secretary of Education, H. B. Amstutz, M. Dodsworth, R. Dean Swift, S. M. ") hevathasan (Ministerial): Dr. Chen Su Lan (Lay). Oldham Hall Committee \V. E. Horley, j. F. Peat, Edwaa-d S. La'll, H. B. Amstutz, Abel Eklund, J. A. :Supramaniam. Committee on Home Missions Officers: S. S. Pakianathan, President: J. A. P Oswald, Secretary: Or. Ohen Su Lan, 7":-fasurer. Elected /vi embers: Lim Hong Ban and J. A. P. Oswald of Penang; Li Hock Hiang and Li Ko Ding of Ipoh; S. S. Pak,iJanl3Jthan and j. P. Ayatlhura'y of 'Perak Tamil di,strict; S, M. ThevalthaJsaJn ood Lee Tiap of Kuala Lumpur; M. R. Dorlisamy an.d Chua 10k Han of MaJaJoca; Gdh Hood Keng 'l:n-d Chen 'Su Lan of Singapore; Lim Siew I ng and Sia lew De of Sibu. Co-op~e.i members: Mns. F. F. Cooray. Mrs. Lim Leng Lee, M,iss Ruth Harvey. Commission on Religious Education At alaYd Members :-For one year: M. DodswOPtlh, S. M. Thevalthasan, Mabel .Marsh. For two years: Lila Corbett, Ding Guang Deu, G. S. Arumugam. For three years: Ruth Harvey, W A. Schurr, S. S. Pakianathan. Triers of Appeals Tai Poh Ting. Y j. Jesudason, C. D. Patterson, Lim Poh Chin, M. R. Doraisamy, T W. Bowmar, Yau Vee San.

Special Committees P:ublishing Minutes The Conference Secretm y H. B. Amstutz, S. M. Thevathasan, Tbe C01zjerence Statistician, Paul B. Means. Directors of the C.Y.M.S. Kuala Lumpur The Kuala Lumpur District Superintendent, R. Dean Swift, Yau Yee San, :Secw Leong. Eveland Seminary Oommittee Secretary of EdUcation, the Principals Qf the A.c.G.S.-Penang, A.c.G.S. '1I?oh, M.G.S.-:-Kuaia Lumpu~, M. G. S.-Singapore, fH.T.S., Singapore, A.C.S. Smgapore. Edttor oj MalaysIa Message, Mrs. E. S. Lau, Mrs. E. V. Davies. Commission on Public Worship and Music H. B. Amstutz, Cbairman: W. A. Schurr, R. Dean Swift, Ula Corbett, Mrs.' T. \V. Bowmar, Mrs.. D. H. Yap, Timothy M. Huang, M. R. Doraisamy. Conference Programme W. E: Borle)', Chairman: H. B. Amstutz, Secretary, Abel Eklund, J. A. 'Supramamam, E. S. Lau. -4 MALAYA CoNFERENCE, 1931

Daily Proceedings

Friday, January 9th, 1931. The 39th session of the Malaya Annual Conference of the' Methodist Episcopal Church, opened in \Vesley Church, Singapore, S.S. at 8:30 a.m. January 9th, 1931, Bishop Edwin F Lee presiding. Communion Service: The Conference opened with.a Communion Service conducted by Bishop Lee, assisted by the District Superinten dents. Rev. G. F Pyketlt,senior m1SlSion~ry, preaohed 1lhe communion. sermon on the subjec.t "OUf Spiritual Sacrifice." Mr. Verdayne sang. Roll Call: The former Secretary called the roll of the Conference' and the following responded:- G. F. Pykett Jap It Tong W E. Horley Ang Giok Sui J. M. Hoover S. M. Rajamoney Kong lau Siong C. D. Patterson Tai Poh Ting J. V Ayaduray Y. J. Jesudasen Fred David F. H. Sullivan S. M. Thevathasan Ng Khoan Jiu D. P Coole Edward Isaacs H. B. Amstutz V. Samuel J. S. Arthur V. Devasahayam Channan Singh J. A. Supramaniam Goh Hood Keng S. S. Pakianathan Timothy 1\'1. Huong T W. Bowmar \Van Yang Fan P. L. Peach Y'au Vee San Lim Hong Ban I. S. Motz Li Hok Hiang \\1 A. Schurr Lester Proebstel G. V. Summers R. D. Swift Chang Cheng Liang M. R. Doraisamy ~. E. Fang Moi Poh Peng .E. S. Lau M. Dodsworth Paul S. H. Hang Abel Eklund Lee Huong Chiang J. J. Kovilpillai Ho Cheuk Lau S. A. Phillips J. Milton David L. A. Samuel Lim Poh Chin Conference Secretary: 'Villard A. Schurr was elected Secretary' and S. M. Thevathasan appointed Assistant Secretary. Bishop Baker: Bishop Lee broughtt greetings from B'i1shop B,a- ker :and his regrets that he was physically unable to be present at our Conference due to serious illness. Upon the advice of his doctor and' fellow bishops, Bishop Baker has returned to America for treatment. .' Conference Bar: The first four rows and the wings of the churchl were constituted the Conference Bar. ,.DAILY PROCEEDINGS 5

Introductions: The following returned workers were intra duced:- Miss E. Stella Cass " Emma Walker " Ruth Harvey " Florence Kleinhenn Rev. Y Jesudason " Rev. C. D. Patterson

The following new workers were introduced: Rev. & Mrs. ]. ]. Kingham Mr. & 1\1rs. D. H. Yap. Mr. Theodore Runyon :\h. Herbert Kuehn Mr. Ralph Kesselring 1\1r. Paul Schmucker Miss Virginia Lake Miss Marie 1\1essersmith Greetings: Bishop Lee brought oral greetings from Dr. Leuring, Bishop & 1\1rs. Oldham, Rev. & Mrs. Cherry, Dr. Shellabear and other .friends. The Secretary received a letter from Rev. L. A. Chacey. Memorial Service: A short Memorial Service was held in which Rev. R. D. Swift offered prayer for those bereaved in our parsonages. The Secretary was instructed to write a letter expressing the sympathy and brotherly love of the Conference to Rev. S. S. 1\1arnickam who is seriously ill. Programme: The printed programme was made the order of the Conference; recess to be held from 10:30 to 10:45 a.m. and adjourn ment at 12 :30. Paragraph 471: Upon motion of G. F Pykett 'the privileges under paragraph 471 were extended to the lay workers and others concerned to participate in the Conference. Reporters to the General Press: P. B. Means was eIe.ed to report to the general press and to name his assistants. Chinese Interpreters: D. H. Yap and C. E. Fang were ap pointed as Chinese interpreters. Assistant Statistician: J. S. Arthur was named Assistant Statistician. Committee on Privileges: J. A. Supramall1iam, C. E. Fang, R. D. Swift were constituted a Committee on Privileges. Nominating Committee: H. B. Amstutz, J. J. Kovilpillai, Lim Hong Ban were appointed to nominate members of Standing Committees in place of those not able ,to act. MALAYA CoNFERENCE, 1931

Map: P. L. Peach displayed a large map of Malaysia showing all of our churches, schools etc. which was made by the boys of the A.C.S. Penang. Question 15: The names of F H. Sullivan, Super.intendent lpoh District W. E. Horlev, Superintendent Singapore District, Marmaduke Dodswo'rth, Superintendent. Kuala Lumpur District, J. M. Hoover, Superintendent Sarawak District were called: their characters were passed and each read his report; M. Dodsworth reading the report of the Kuala Lumpur District. Transfer: The transfer of J. J. Kingham from the South India Conference was announced. Introduction: Mr. & Mrs. Hayward were introduced and brought greetings from Mrs. j. H. Lewin. Report of Secretary of Education: G. F Pykett read the re port of the Secretary of Education. See the report. Announcement:S: Various announcements were made. Adjournment: The session adjourned, Rev. J. J. Kingham pronouncing the benediction.

Saturday, January 10th, 1930.

MORNING SESSION. Devotions: The Conference session opened with devotions led by Bishop Lee. He spoke on the text, "With a Great Price obtained I this freedom." Mrs. Kinlock sang. Minutes: The Minutes of the previous session were approved as corrected. Report of Committee on Nominations: Mrs. Summers was substituted for Mrs. Patterson in the Committee on Fraser's Hill Sani torium. Statistician: Statistician stated that the report from Singapore District had not yet been handed to him. Upon motion of G. F Pykett tlhe StatiS!tioal Report WalS made the order of the day on Wednesday immtPiatel y after recess. Board of Ministerial Training: Upon motion of H. B. Amstutz the report of the Board of Ministerial Training was made the order of the day on Monday, immediately following the reading of the Minutes, and the report of the Committee on Conference Relations to follow. Resolutions: The Committee on Nominations was -instructed to select a committee on Resolutions and Memorials. The Committee on Privileges was constituted the Committee on Resolutions by the Com mi ttee on Nominations. Greetings: . A letter of greeting to the Malaya Annual Con ference from the Rt. Rev. B. C. Roberts. M.A., Bishop of Singapore~ was read by Bishop Lee. • DAILY PROCEEDINGS 7

Singapore Y.M.C.A. The Secretary of the Singapore Y.M.C.A., extended to the Conference the privileges of the Singapore Y.M.C.A. and sent greetings. The Secretary, Mr. Gorden Cranna, was later "introduced. Stanley Jones: Bishop Lee announced that Stanley Jones would be able to spend about a month in evangelistic work in Malaya in the fall of 1931. Question 15: The name of G. F. Pykett was called, his character was passed and he read the report of the Penang District. Upon motion of W. E. Harley, seconded by P. L. Peach it was ordered that G. F. Pykett's picture appear at the top of the report of his district with the statement that he was completing forty years of active service in the Malaya Mission. Lantern Slides: Mrs. Lee was extended the privilege of the floor to speak on the pictures which she took to America to make stereoptican lectures. Cemeteries: F. H. Sullivan moved the appointment of a committee to study and report on the matter of Christians and non Christians being buried in the cemetery. It was so orderej. Recess: Recess was from 10:30 to 10:45. Report of Mission Institutions: Miss Marsh read the report of the Methodist Girls Schooe Kuala Lumpur. Miss Jackson read the report of the Methodist Girls School Singapore. Miss Rank read the report of the Anglo Chinese Girls' School, Ipoh. British and Foreign Bible Society: Mr. E. Tipson of the British and Foreign Bible Society was introduced and addressed the Conference briefly. MaJacca District: M. Dodsworth read the report of the Malacca District. Address: Rev. J. J. Kingham addressed the Conference on the subject "Christian Work Among the Tamils of India." Mrs. Pedlow sang.

Adjournment: W. E. Harley pronounced the benediction7 this being the 37th anniversary of his arrival in Malaya to take up service in this Conference.

Sunday, January 11th, 1931. Conference Service of Worship: The Conference Service of Worship was held in Wesley Church at 5 :30 p.m. Bishop Lee preached on the subject "Steadiness in the Midst of Spiritual Chaos." A large congregation took part in the beautiful service which had been arranged. 8 MALAYA CONFERENCE, 1931

Monday, January 12th, 1931.

MORNING SESSION. Devotions: The Conference opened with devotions conducted' by J. A. Supramaniam who addressed the Conference on the subject II Grow in Grace." Mr. J. Baruch sang a Tamil lyric. Minutes: The Minutes of the previous session were read and a.pproved as corrected. Report of Board of Ministerial Training and Conference Re lations Committee: D. H. Yap was admitted on trial in studies of the first year and elected to Deacon's orders under rule paragraph 179 sec. 4. Percy Bell was admitted on trial in studies of the first year. N. G. Manickam was admitted on trial in studies of the first year. Theodore Runyan was admitted on trial in studies of the first year. • H. F. Kuehn was admitted on trial in studies of the first year and elected to Deacon's order under the Missionary Rule par. 179 sec. 4. Greetings: The Hon. Dr. Chen Chang Lock, Chinese Consul General, ",as introduced and addressed the Conference briefly. The Hon. Mr. Lester Maynard, American Consul General, was introduced and addressed the Conference briefly. Mr. Bower, American Consul, was also introduced and addressed the Conference briefly.

Recess: Recess was from 10:30 to 10:45.

Reports of Two Committees: (Continued). J. Milton David was advanced to studies of the second year, conditionally, and elected to local Elder's orders under the 'Rule for India par. 184. Paul S. H. Hang was admitted to full membership, advanced to studies of the third year and elected to Deacon's Orders. Ho Cheuk Lau was admitted to full membership, advanced to stud'}e:) or the third year and elected to Deacon's Orders. Lee Huong Chiang was continued on trial in the studies of the second year. Joseph Ayaduray was advanced to the studies of the fourth year. . Irvin S. Motz was advanced to studies of the fourth year. Gerald V. Summers was advanced to the studies of the fourth year, conditionally. ,. DAILY PROCEEDINGS 9

Lloyd A. Chacey was located at his own request. Upon motion 01 G. V. Summers the Secretary was requested to write brother Chacey expressing our regret at his inability to return to Malaya and assuring him of our continued Christian affection. James S. Arthur was graduated from the course of study and elected to Elder's Orders. Goh Hood Keng was continued in studies of the fourth year. Edward S. Lau was graduated from the Course of study and electe.d to Elder's Orders. Raymond Roche was continued in studies of the fourth year. The informal expression of opinion of the Conference was that a missionary unable to return to Malaya should make arrangements for his early transfer to a Conference in the U.S.A. Channan Singh was graduated from the Course of Study and allowed to surrender his ministerial office and withdraw from the Conference. Wan Yang Fan was graduated from the course of study and elected to Elder's Orders. Yau Yee San was graduated from the course of study and elected to Elder's Orders. Timothy H uong was elected to Elders Orders. J. S. Nagle was reinstated as from January, 1931, for the purpose of transfer within one year, otherwise he is to be located at his own request, at the next session of this Conference. A. Devadason, since he had not passed in all required books, could not be recommended for ordination as local Deacon. Afternoon Session: Upon motion of G. F. Pykett a session from 1 :30 to 2 :30 was ordered. Orders of the day: Upon motion of Abel Eklund, the election of Finance Committee Members was made the order of the day immediately after the admission of new members. Upon motion of S. S. Pakianathan, the election of the com mittee for the Home Missionary Society was made the order of the day immediately after completion of the Conference Relations Report. Adjournment: Tai Poh Ting pronounced the benediction.

AFTERNOON SESSION. Chairman: W. E. Horley acted as Chairman of the afternoon session which he opened with prayer. 10 MALAYA CoNFERENCE, 1931

Reports on Mission Institutions and Committees: Ho Seng Ong reported on the A.C.S., Malacca. Miss Kenyon reported on A.C.G.S., Penang. Miss Pugh reported on SheIla bear Hall, Malacca. Miss Dirksen reported on the Methodist Girls School, Sitiawan. Miss Rea reported on the Lady Treacher Girls School, Taiping. D. P. Coole reported on A.C.S., Sitiawan. T. VI. Bowmar reported on the M.B.S., Kuala Lumpur, and the Continuation School. P. L. Peach read the report of the Committee on the Text Books and reported on the A.C.S., Penang. C. D. Patterson reported on the A.C.S., Seremban. G. V. Summers reported on the A.C.S., Klang.

Adjournment: The session adjourned.

Tr:lesday, January 13th, 1931.

Devotions: The Conference session opened with devotions by Bishop Lee. Bishop Lee spoke on the. text "I came not to destroy but fulfil." Mr. and Mrs. E. Hale sang a duet.

Minutes: The Minutes of the previous session were approved as corrected.

Committee on Conference Relations (concluded): Since the location of R. H. Silverthorn by the 1926 Conference based on par 185, sec 5 was apparently not in order, he. was reinstated as from January 1931, in studies of the third year for the purpose of transfer within one year. The time for the course of study was extended as provided in par 185, sec 5.

Home Missionary Society: The election was deferred until Wednesday. Districts: Upon recommendation of the Cabinet the number of districts was changed from six to seven. The Bishop announced that S. S. Pakianathan is to be the superintendent of the newly organized Perak Tamil District. .. DAILY PROCEEDINGS

Question 15: The names of the follow!ng members of Conference were called, their characters were passed, and those present gave their reports:-

B. F. West V. Samuel w. G. Shellabear V. Devasahayam Kong Iau Siong J. A. Supramaniam Tai Poh Ting S. S. Pakianathan Y. J. J esudasen T W. Bowmar Ng Khoan Jiu P. L Peach Edward Isaacs Lim Hong Ban

Recess: Recess was from 10:30 to 10:45. Resolutions: A Resolution from Chinese members of Con ference on Chinese Pastor's salaries and financial support of the church was referred to the committee on the State of the Church, upon motion of Goh Hood Keng. Singapore District's resolution on Conference Evangelists was read. Upon motion of D. P. Coole Conference Evangelists are to be appointed as soon as feasible. A resolution from Kuala Lumpur District re: the attendan~e of Methodist pupils in our schools was read. It was agreed that Pastors and Principals should co-operate to get our Methodist children and children of old boys into our schools. Afternoon session: An afternoon session was ordered from 1 :30 to 2.30. Christian Literature: P. B. Means read his report as: Secretary of Christ:an Literature. Address: J. J. Kingham addressed the Conference on the subject" Indian's Response to Christ." Mr. R. Lyne sang. Adjournment: M. R. Doraisamy pronounced the benediction.

Tuesday Afternoon, January 13th~ 1931.

Chairman: J. M. Hoover acted as chairman of the afternoon session. Li Hok Hiang led in prayer. Reports on Mission Institutions: Miss Traeger read the report on the Suydam Girls School, Malacca. Miss Urech read the report on Holt Hall, Kuala Lumpur. 12 MALAYA CONFERENCE, 1931

Question 15: The names of the following members of the Conference were called, their characters were passed and those present made their reports. Li Hok Hiang L.A. Samuel L. Proebstel lap It Tong R. D. Swift Ang Giok Sui R. A. Blasdell S. M. Rajamoney Li Ko Ding R. D. Roche Moi Poh Peng A. McNab Ng Huat Bi C. D. Patterson Abel Eklund L. A. Chacey J. J. Kovilpillai J. V. Ayaduray S. A. Phillips Fred David S. M. Thevathasan

Adjournment: The session adjourned at 2.30 p.m.

Wednesday, January 14th, 1931. Devotions: The Conference opened with devotions con· ducted by Andrew K. T. Chen who spoke on the subject "Walking with God" which was translated by D. H. Yap. Minutes: The Minutes of the previous session were read and approved as corrected. Reception into Membership: Bishop Lee received into full membership Paul S. H. Hang and Ho Cheuk Lau. Finance Committee: The following members of the Finance Committee were elected for 1931 on the first ballot: Chen Su Lan M. R. Doraisamy Khoo Cheng Hoe P. W. Tambyah D. H. Yap Home Missionary Society: S. S. Pakianathan read the report of the Home Missionary Society. The following ministers were elected to the managing committee: Lim Hong Ban Li Hock Hiang M. R. Doraisamy S. S. Pakianathan Goh Hood Keng S. M. Thevathasan Lim Siew Ing The following laymen were announced as members of the committee: J. A. P. Oswald Chua 10k Han Li KoDing Chen Su Lan J. P. Ayathuray Sia L~w De Lee Tiap • DAILY PROCEEDINGS

Question 36: Upon motion of G. F. Pykett the Conference .stewards and the Cabinet were given power to apportion to the Pastoral Charges the amount to be raised for the support of Con ference Claimants. Committee on the State of the Church: T W. Bowmar read the report of the committee on the state of the church. Upon motion of Goh Hood Keng it was ordered to be printed in our two 'periodicals. Introduction: The Rev. Stephen Band, B. A. of the Singapore Presbyterian Church, was introduced and addressed the Conference briefly. Question 15: The names of the following members of Con ference were called, their characters were passed, and those present .made thtir reports: D. P. Coole Chang Cneng Liang H. B. Amstutz C. E. Fang J. S. Arthur E. S. Lau Goh Hood Keng Paul S. H. Hang Timothy M. Huong Lee Huong Chiang Wan Yang Fan Ho Cheuk Lau I. S. Motz J. Milton David W. A. Schurr Lim Poh Chin G. V-Summers Statistical Report: The Statistical Report was given by 1. S. Motz. Upon motion of F H. Sullivan, a column is to be inserted to show the amount of a pastor's salary earned in the school. Upon moiion of T W. Bowmar, the Statistician and District Superin tendents are empowered to alter the method of tabulatin,g- statistics. Upon motion of R. D. Swift column 57 is to be set aside for Mal. Com. on ReI. Ed. Upon motion of J. J. Kingham, Christian marriages are to be tabulated. Upon motion of R. D. Swift, a committee composed of S. M. Thevathasan, 1. S. Motz and R. D. Swift are to correct any discrepancies in finances. G. F. Pykett moved a unanimous vote of thanks to the Statistician. Adjournment: S. M. Thevathasan pronou!1ced the benedic tion.

EVENING SESSION. Ordination:-At 5 :00 p.m. Bishop Lee assisted by several Elders ordained as Deacons:-.- D. H. Yap Ho Cheuk Lau Paul S. H. Hang H. F. Kuehn and as Elders: Wan-Yang Fan Timothy M. Huang Yall Vee San Joseph Milton David Edward S. Lau (Local Elder) James S. Arthur 14 MALAYA CoNFERENCE, 1931

Thursday, January 15th, 1931. Devotions: Bishop Edwin F. Lee led the devotions speaking. on the text Galatians 1 :18. Mrs. Yap sang. Minutes: The Minutes were read and approved as corrected. Question 1 was called. Paul S. H. Hang, Ho Cheuk Lau. Question 9 was called. The answer is "N one. " Question 10 was called. R. D. Roche, Goh Hood Keng, I. S. Motz, G. V. Summers, Joseph V. Aya duray. Question 11 was called. Edward S. Lau, J. S. Arthur~ Yau Yee San, Wan Yang Fan. Question 11 (b) was called. The answer is "None. ,; Question 11

Rules. H. B. Amstutz read the report of the Board of Ministerial Training to be incorporated in the Minutes: (1) That Rule 10 in the Rules of the Ministerial Board be altered tf) read" Candidates are permitted to take examinations be tween Conference sessions." (2) All candidates taking examinations will follow a definite schedule of study to be set by the Chairman of the Ministerial Board, as follows: one-third of the year's work to be completed and ex aminations written on the first Saturday of May, the second third by the first Saturday of September, and the last third on the two days immediately preceeding the session of the Annual Conference. (3) That the Southern Bell be added to the Local Preacher'S Course in Chinese, in all four years. Examiners to set written work. (4) That we hold all Chinese candidates in the regular courses to take the China Christian Advocate and write papers on it as set by the examiners. (5) That we add to all the Tamil Courses the South India Union Church Herald. The subscriptions to begin November 1 st and end October last. The examiners to set the written work.

Public Worship. H. n. Amstutz read the report of the Commission of Public Worship. (see the report) The Committee on District Conference Minutes reported all in order. 18 MALAYA CONFERENCE, 1931

Elections: Goh Hood Keng was elected for three years to the Board of Control for holding Church and Parsonage property. G. F. Pykett and V Samuel were re-elected for three years as Conference Stewards. 1. S. Motz was elected Statistician. J. A. Supramaniam was elected to the Asiatic Sanatorium Committee. S. M. Thevathasan was re-elected Conference Treasurer. Programmes: Upon motion of Abel Eklund the Bishop is to appoint a Committee on Programmes for 1931 Conference. Official Record: Upon motion of G. F Pykett these Minutes were made the offIcial record of the 29th session of the Malaya Annual Conference. The appointments for 1931 were read by the Bishop. Adjournment: After singing the hymn" Where He leads me I will follow" Bishop Lee led in prayer and pronounced the benediction. EDWIN F. LEE. C bairmall. Malaya A nnual Conference. \V A.. SCHURR, Secretary. 111alaya Anl1ual Conference.

This is to Certify that following election by the tlDala\?a Bnnual (Ionference of the !IDethobist JEpiscopal (Iburcb and assisted by several Elders on Wednesday, January 14, 1931 in Wesley Methoc!ist Church, Singapore, S.S. I Ordained as Deacons

D. H. YAP, PAUL S. H. HANG,

Ho CHEUK LAU, H. F KUEHN The following were Ordained Elders WAN YANG FAN JAMES S. ARTHUR Y AU YEE SAN TIMOTHY M. H UONG EDWARD S.LAU J. MILTON DAVID EDWIN F. LEE, Singapore, S.S. Bishop Jan. 17, 1931. Disciplinary Questions la.-Is tbis Annual Conference /ncorporcded according to tbe Require ment of the Discipline?

Yes. According IO the law of the land in which we live. The Secy. of the Board of Building and Location of the Methodist Episcopal Church is incorporated by Ordinance No. 194 in Vol. V, Revised Statutes of the Straits Settlements, and also by Enactment No. 13 of 1914 in the Federated Malay States.

b.-What officers and persons holding moneys, funds, etc. are bonded~ and in, wbat amounts, according to the requirements of the Dis cipline? None. 2.-Who bave been received by Transfer, and from what Conferences? j. ]. Kingham, Soutlh India. 3.-Who bave been readmitted'! R. H. Silverthorn, ]. S. Nagle. 4.-Who have been received on Credentials, and' from what Churches? None. 5.-W bo have been received on trial'! (a) In Studies of the First Year. H. F. Kuehn. Percy Bell, Theodore Runyan, N. G. Manickam, D. H. Yap, (Yap Dji Hian).

(b) In Studies of Third Year under the Seminary Rule. ~179, §2. Note' § 12 (c). None.

(c) Exempt from Course of Study under Seminarry Rule. ~186. §l. H. F. Kuehn, D. H. Yap. 6.-Wbo have been continued on trial? (a) In Studies of the First Year. None. (b) In Studies of the Second Year. Lee Huang Chiang, j. M~lton David. (c) In Studies of the Third Year. None. (d) In Studies of the Fourth Year. Note carefully ~185, §5. None. 7.-Wbo bave been Discontinued'! None. 8.-Wllo have been admitted into Full Membership? (a) Elected and Ordained Deacons this year. Paul S. H. Hang, Ho Cheuk Lau. MALAYA CONFERENCE, 1931

(b) Elected and Ordained Deacons previously. None. (c) Elected to be Ordained elsewhere. None. Cd) Ordained Deacon, having been previously elected by Con ference. None. ·9.-Wbat Members are in Studies of the Third Year? (a) Adm,itted into Full Membersbip tbis year. Paul S. H. Halng, Ho Cheuk Lau. (b) Admitted into Full Membership previously. None. JO.-Wbat Members are in Studies of tbe Fourtb Year? R. D. Roche, Goh Hood Keng, l. S. MOlz, G. V Summers, Joseph V. Ayaduray. l],-What Members bave completed tbe Conference of Study? (a) Elected and Ordained Elders tbis year. Edward S. La'll, James S. Arthur, Yau Yee San, Wan Yang Fain. (b) Elected and Ordained Elders previously. None.

(c) Elected and Ordained Elders under the Seminary Rule. ~182, §4. None. (d) Elected to be ordained elsewbere. None. (e) Ordained Eldel', ha'ving been previously Elected by Con ference. None. (I) Ordained Elder elsewbere under our Election. Note carefully ~172, §3. None. 12.-Wbat otbers bave been elected and ordained Deacons?

(a) As Local Pre,acbers. ~179, § l. None. (b) Under Missionary Rule. ~179, §4. Herbert F. Kuehn, D. H. Yap. (c) Under the Seminary Rule. n179, §2. None. (d) Elected by this Conference and Ordained elsewhere. None. DISCIPLINARY QUESTIONS

13.-Wbat others bave been elected and ordained Elders? (a) As Local Deacons. 1f182, § 1. None. (b) Under Missionary Rule. 1f182) §5. J. M.ilton David. (c) Elected by this Conference and Ordained elsewbere. None. 14.-Who bave been left witbout appointment to attend O1le of our- Scbools! None. 15.-Was tbe cbaracter of eacb preacber examined? Yes, in open Conference. 16.-Who ba've bee'll transferred, and to wbat Conferences', None. 17.-Wbo bave died? None. lB.-Who bave been located at their own request! Lloyd A. Chace),. 19.-Wbo bave been located? None. 20.-Wbo bave witbdrawn? (a) From the Ministry. None. (b) From tbe Ministry and Membersbip of the Cburch. None. (c) By Surrender of tbe Ministerial Office. 1f173. ~hannalIl Singh. 21.-Wbo have been deprived of tbe Ministerial office'! None. 22.-Who have been permitted to 'lJ.litbdraw under cbarges or complaints!" None. 23.-Wbo have been expelled? None. 24.-What other personal notation sbould be made'! ChannaiJl Singh-graduated from course of study. 25.-Wbo are tbe Supernumerary Ministers, and for wbat number ot years consecutively bas each beld this relation'! None. 26.-Wbo are the Retired Ministers? Kong fau Siong; Li Koh Ding; Ng Huaif Bi; Ng Klhoan Jiu; B. F. Wes~ 22 MALAYA CoNFERENCE, 1931

27.-Who have been granted leave of absence? R. H. Silverthorn ]. S. Nagle: 2B.-Who are the Triers of Appeals? T. W. Bowmalf, M. R. Doraisamy. Y, ]. Jesudason, Lim Poh Chin, C. D. Pat-terson, Tai Poh Ting (Chairman) Yau Yee San. 29.-Wbat is the Annual Report of the Conference Board of Home Missions and Churcb Extension? See the report. 30.-Wbat is the Annual Report of tbe Conference Board of Foreign Missions? None. 31.-What is the Statistical Report! See the report. 32.-What is the Conference Treasurer's Report? Total recdpts $2,619 Stra-ivs-accounts in order. 33.-(a) What is the aggregate of the Benevolent Collections ordered by the General Conference. as reported by the Conference Trea surer? $112.29 (Gold). (b) W bat is tbe aggregate of the Benevolent Collections ordered by tbe Annual Conference,. as reported by tJ:e Conference Trea surer? 81,380.;4 (Gold). 34.-lVhat are the claims on tbe Conference Funds? ~1 .. 224.36 (Gold). 35.-(a) Wbat bas been received on these Claims? January, 1931 from the Book concern $170, from Annual Conference Benevolences $7;3.54 (b) How bas it been applied? See Report of Conference Stewards. 36.-Wbat amount bas been appointed to tbe Pastoral Charges within the Conference, to be raised for tbe Support of Conference Claim ants? $2,268

37.-1s there a Conference Sustentation Fund Society~ and what is its Report. None. ,B.-Where are the Preacbers Stationed! See List of Appointments. J9.-Where shall the next Conference be held! .: Wesley,Church. Singapore. Appointments

IPOH DISTRICT. F H. Sullivan, District Superintendent, (p.o., /pob, F.MS.) Ipoh, English Cburch F H. Sullivan, Pastor. Percy Bell, Associate Pastor. Women's work Mrs. F. H. Sullivan, Miss Casso Chinese Church Ho Cheuk Lau Women's Work Miss Rank Bible Woman .. Mrs. Choy Koh Poey. District Women's work Mrs. F. H. Sullivan Anf!lo-Chinese School and Kampar Brancl) F. 1-1. Sullivan, Acting Principal. Miss E. Stella Cass, Vice-Principal. S. S. Pakianathan. Percy Bell. Ralph Kesselring. Fred David. H orley Hall . . . . . Percy Bell. Anglo-Chinese Girls' Scbool Miss Minnie L. Rank, Principal. A nglo-C binese Girls' Boarding Miss Lake. Scbool Miss Virginia Lake. Kampar, Cbinese Church Kam Yu Tsuen Women's work .. Mrs. T. K. Cheong A,tlglo-Cbinese School •. . . Cheong Tsun Kong, Headmaster Pusing, Cbinese Cburch and Vernacular School .. To be supplied Bruas ...... •. To be cupplied Tronoh, Cbinese Church and Vernacular Scbool .. .. Supplied by Lam Hoong Pan Sitiawan, Resident Missionary .. Douglas P Coole Women's Evangelistic Work Miss Mechteld Dirksen Parish Visitor .. Miss Janet Chen Foochow Church Kampong Koh .. Li Hock I-Hang. Women's work .. Mrs. D. P. Coole Bible Woman .. Mrs. Ling Ceng Ho Methodi!t Girls' School Miss Mechteld Dirksen Ayer T awar Church and Scbo01 .' Moi Poh Peng, Pasior. Bible Woman . Mrs. Li Luang I ng. Sungei Wangi Circuit Supplied by Lim Choon Chiu Simpang Ampat, Lumut, Kam pong Bbaru Circuit Supplied by Shi Yu Shou Tbird Road.. .. Supplied by, Long Dung Sing. Anglo.;Chinese School Douglas P. Coole; Principal. D. C. Gong, Vice-Principal. Taiping, Cbinese Church .. Tai Poh Ting Lady Treacher Girls' School Miss M'i~tha Shively, Acting Principal. Crandon Home To be supplied Bible W~man . Mrs. Se Chi, Tanjong Rambutan, Cbine.se Churcb and Circuit To be supplied Teluk Anson, Anfllo-Cbinese School and Resident Missionary Ch'arles D. Patterson, Principal . .J. Milton David Women's work Mrs. C. D. Patterson. 24 MALAYA CONFERENCE, 1931

KUALA LUMPUR DISTRIOT M. Dodsworth, District Superintendent, (P.O., Malacca, S.S.) :Banti'ng, Tamil Cburcb Supplied by A. Devadason. Bentong, Chinese Church Supplied by Lam Thau On .Bukit Rotan, Tamil Church .. Supplied by K. J. Timothy Kajang, Cburch and Button Memorial School ...... Wan Yang Fan ;Klang, Resident Missionary G. V. Summers. Anglo-Cbinese School G. V. Summers, Principal. M etbodist Girls' School Miss Hazel M. Depler, Principal Chinese Circuit Supplied by Hong Han Keng. Women's work Mrs. Hong Han Keng. Mrs. G. V. Summers Bible Woman Mrs. Ceng Ging Bong. Tamil Circuit S. W. V. Arumugam Women's Work Miss Depler Wesley Church G. V. Summers, Pastor. !Kuala Lumpur, Resident Missionary R. Dean Swift. Wesley Cburcb T. W. Bowmar, Pastor. T. Runyan, Associate Pastor. Women' s Work Mrs. T. W. Bo\\"mar. ~liss Sherwood. Hakka, Cantonese Church .. Vau Vee San Women's work Mrs. Yau Vee San. J'Vtiss \-1arsh. Bible Woman Mrs. Loh E. Koo. Hingbua en'cuit To be supplied Women's work Mrs. T. Runy.an. Bible Woman Mrs. Ding Peng' Deng . .Holt Hall Miss Marie Messersmith. Methodist Girls' School M·iss Mabel Marsh, Principal, Miss Messersniith. Methodist Boys' School T W. Bowmar, Principal. S. A. Phillips. S. M. Thevath.a:san. T. Runyan. ,\tiss Ruth Sherwood. Continuation School .. D. H. 'Yap, Headmaster. Tamil Church and Circuit .. S. M. Thevathasan, Pastor, Women's work.. .. Mrs. R. D. Swift. Port Swettenham, Tamil Church L. A. Samuel, Pastor Continuation School .. G. V. Summers, Manager. 'Sentul, Tamil Church and Circuit S. A. Phillips, Pastor Women's work .. Mrs. S. A. ~hiHips. Miss Messersmith.

MALAOOA DISTRIOT

M. Dodsworth, District SuperintendeIllt, (P.O., Malacca, S.s.) District Interpreter.. Chua 10k Han Asahan. Chinese Churcb Supplied by Lim Keong Eng Chinese, School . '" • . To pe supplied Bekoh, Chinese Church and School Supplied by Koh Say Hoa. lBemban. Chinese Church Supplied by Lim ,Keong Eng .Jasin, Chinese Church Supplied by Lim Keong Ena ApPOINTMENTS. 25

Jementah, Cbi,zese Scl;ool . Supplied by Lim Geok Hui Malacca, Anglo-Chinese School Ho Seng Ong, Principal Chinese Church .. Supplied by Chua 10k Han Women's work .. Mrs. Chua 10k Han, Miss Pugh Bible Woman Mrs. Lim Seng Gu Malay Hostel Mrs. M. Dodsworth Straits Cbinese Cburch M. Dodsworth, Pastor. Ho Seng Ong, Associate Prt~acher. Chong Ah Poon, Associate Pastor. Women's work .. Miss Traeger Suydam Girls' Scbool Miss Gazelle Traeger, Principal. Shellabear Hall . . . . Miss Ada Pugh Tamil.Church and Circuit .. J. ]. Kovilpillai, Pastor Bible Woman Mrs. Mariamah Parish Visitor .. Mrs. Chua 10k Han .Mantin, Chinese Cburch .. Timothy M. Huang, Pastor. Merlimau, Chinese Cburcb .. Supplied by, Lim Keng Leong Paloh, Cbinese Scbool To be supplied Port Dickson Circuit Ang Geok Swee. Segamat Cbi12eSe Circuit Yap It Tong 'Seremban, Resident Missionary R. A. Blasdell. Anglo-Cbinese School R. A. Bla·sdell, Principal. M. R. Dora1isamy, Vice-Prirzcipal. J. V. Ayaduray. Chinese Church .. Timothy M. Huong, Pastor. Women's work .. Mrs. T. M. Huong Mrs. R. A. Blasdell. Bible Woman Mrs. Tay Siok Bee English Church R. A. Blasdell. Pastor. Women's work Mrs. R. A. Blasdell, Tamil Church and Circuit M. R. Dora,isamy, Pastor. ]. V Ayaduray, Assistant Pastor. Women's work .. Mrs. Doraisamy. :Sepang, Chinese Churcb .. Lee Huong Chiang Serom, Chinese Cburch and School Supplied by H. T. Huang. .Sungei Rambei, Cbinese Church .. Supplied by, Foo Kee Kwang Tampin, Cbinese Church and School Supplied by Wong Eng Leong Tangka'h, Chinese Cburcb .. Supplied by Lim Keong Eng :District Evange1istic Work Mrs. M. Dodsworth

PERAK TAMIL DISTRICT. S. S. Pakianathan, District Superin)tendent (P.O., Ipoh, F.M.S.) 'Bagan Datoh To be supplied .Batu Gaja·h Supplied by S. M. Pandi·an . Bruws, A1Zglo-Chinese Scbool M. S. Alagaratnam. Cburch Supplied by D. J. Ponniah. Jpoh, Tamil Church S. S. Pakianatha'll, Pastor. Fred David, Associate Pastor. U' omen's work . Mrs. Fred D .. vid. Mrs. N. G. Manickam. Tamil Settlement N. G. Manickam. Kuala Kangsar To be supplied .Raub (Pa!hang) S. M. Rajamoney. Women's work Mrs. S. M. t\.ajamoney. :Sitiawan, Tamil Edward Isaac. Women's work .. . . Mrs. Isaac. .sungei Siput, Anglo-Chinese Scbool James S. Arthur. 26 MALAYA CONFERENCE, 1931

Tamil Church and Circuit .. James S. Arthur. Catechist .. D. Vethamanickam. Taiping, Tamil Cburch and Circuit Supplied by Charles Appukutti. Women's work .. To be supplied Tanjong Ma.lim ...... Supplied by Y. Jesudason. Tanjong Rambutaill, Anglo-Cbinese School Mrs. P. C. Paul. Tapah ...... Supplied by J. D. Asirva.tham. Teluk Anson, Cburcb and Circuit J. Milton Da vdd. Catechist T. S. Balasundra:m. Women's work Mrs. J. M. David. Bible Woman Mrs K. Sundram. T elugu Circuit Supplied by Kotish David.

PENANG DISTRICT G. F. pykett, District Superintendent, (P.O., Penang, S.S.) Bukit Mertajam, Anglo-Chinese Girls' Scbool Miss Emma E. Walker, Headmistress; Women's work .. Miss Walker. Kulim, Chinese Churcb Supply, Chan Min Kong, Anglo-Chinese School Lim Yau Thong. North Province and Kedah. Bukit Mertajam Chinese Supply, Lim Yau Thong Sungei Patani and Bedollg Chinese Supply, Teoh Kiong Ah. Anglo-Chinese Scbool .. Moey Poh Soo. Tamil Work .. Y. J. Jesudason. Sungei Patani Tamil .. Supply, S. J. Doraisamy. Parit Bunt3.!r, Anglo-Cbinese School Mrs. A. E. Keymer, Acting Principal. Pen'ClIng, Wesley Cburcb (Fit:{gera/d Memorial) W. A. Schurr, Pastor H. F. Kuehn, Associate Pastor. Women's work .. Mrs. W. A. Schurr. Anglo-Chinese School W. A. Schurr, Acting Principal and' Manager. Higber School W. E. MacDonald, Acting Headmaster. Herbert F Kuehn. Middle School l. S. Motz, Headmaster. Y. ]. Jesudason. Primary School Mrs. W. E. MacDonald, Acting Head- mistress. Continu.ation Scbool D. D. ChelIiah, Acting Headmaster. District BrancJ) Schools .• G. F Pykett, Manager Anglo-Chinese Girls' Scbool Miss Lois Rea, Principal. Miss Rutlh Johnston. Wincbell Home Miss Lydia Ureoh. Alexandra Home Miss Ruth Johnston. Mrs. Urn Leng Lee. Hokkien Chi1lCse Churcb Lim Hong B3in, Pastor. Women's work .. Mrs. Urn Hong Ibn. Bible Women Mrs AIflg S~ Inn. Mrs. Khun Khiem Chi. Cantonese Chinese Church Supply. Yong Tiau Kong. Women's work Mrs. G. F. Pyke'tlt. Bible Woman Mrs. Pek Inn Chi. Tamil Church v. Samuel, Pastor. Women's work Mrs. V. Samuel. Mrs. G. F. Pykett. Miss Johnston. ApPOINTMENTS. 27

Dato Kramat Anglo-Chinese School.. .• .. V. Samuel, Headmaster. :South p.roV'ince and Pemk Ci.rctrit Bukit Mertajam and Circuit V. Devasllihayam. Women's work .. Mrs. V. Devasalhayam. Nibong Tebal Tamil J. A. P. Oswald, supply. IVomen's work .. Mrs. J. A. P. Oswald. A nglo-Cbinese School J. A. P. Oswllild, Headmaster. Parit Buntar Tamil .. Supply, D. V. Peters. Women's work .. Mrs. D. D. Chelliah.

smu (SARA.W AK) DISTRICT J. M. Hoover, District Superintendent, (p.o., Sibu, Sarawak, Borneo) District Helpers Wong King Huo :Sibu Bazaar .. Ling Kai Cheng. Telephone Road Sing Li Hong . .Sing Cia Sang Dang Song Dong. Hinghua Colony Sia leu De. Bukit Lima .. To be supplied Ingilo . Ling Sieu Buo .Siong Po Uk Sing Seng. .Sang 0 Chong To be supplied Ensurai To be supplied A Po .. Hu Hiong Uong. Bukit Lan Li La Chiang 'Lobaan Lang Cew Sung. Kuai Nga Geng Law Buong Chu. Tanjong Kunjit Ding Hok Ling. :Sing Nang Chong Sing Si Lak. Nang Chong Hu Baik King. Telak Asan .. Law Hung Ang. Binatang Pang Sing Ong. 'Sarikei .. Ung Ung Sung. Tung Oak Po Uong Heng Ang. ~Lu B uok Geng Li Ghang U ng. Niek Se Gak .. . Di'ng Siew Oha. -Girls' School and Women's work :v1rs. J. M. Hoover. Madar and Krupok Cheng I ng Uong. Tul"ai Uong lew Chok. Aup To be supplied 'BintuJu To be supplied "Bible Women.. Mrs. Law HUaJi King. :\1rs. Uong Uang Ngik. Mrs. Tiong. Mrs. Law.

SINGAPORE DISTRICT W. E. Harley, District Superintende~t, (P.O., Singapore, S.S.) District Missionary Abel Eklund District Women's Work .. Miss Catherine E. Jackson. Anglo-Chinese School and Branches T. W. Hinch, Principal and MatJllger J. A. Suprama.n~am. Paul Schmucker. Middle School .• L. B. Jenkins, Headmaster. 28 l\1ALAYA CONFERENCE, 1931

Primary Scbool .. Miss Clare Norton, Headmistress Continuation School E. S. Lau, Headmaster. Fairfield Girls' Scbool Miss Lila Corbett, Principal. Foocbow Cburcb .Chang Cheng Liang, Pastor Bible Woman Mrs. Chin Hock Teng. Hinghua Cburcb Paul S. H. Hang. Women's work Mrs. Hang Bible Woman Mrs. Au Seng Ai. Geytang English Cburch .. Edward S. Lau Chinese Services Supplied by Lim Poh Chin. Paul B. Means. Women's work .. !\1rs. E. S. Lau . •I\\rs. Means. Parish Visitor .. Miss Ang Swee Eng. Geylang M etbodist Girls' Scbool Miss Muriel Knutsford. Headmistress Hakka-Ca1l!onese (Kwantung Cburch) Supplied by Joseph Khoo. Women's work " Mrs. W E. Horley Miss Ashley. Bible Woman " To be supplied Paya Lebar Churcb and School .. To be supplied Eveland Seminary lor Young Women .. MIss Ruth Harvey, Principal. Metbodist Girls' School Miss Carrie C. Kenyon, Principa,,_ M,iss Thelma A5hley. Nind Home .. Miss Florence KJeinhenn, Principal. Straits Chinese Cburcb (Bickley Memorial) Gah Hood Keng, Pastor. Women's work l\1.rs. J. F Peat. Miss Corbett, Mrs. Horle\'. Mi9S Kleinhenn. Bible Woman Mrs. LIm Siok Sin. Leper Hospital Work :'liss Norton Tamil Church and Circuit J. A. Supramaniam, Pastor L. B. Jenkins. Havelock Road .. To be supplied Women's work .. Mrs. J. A. Supramaniam, Mrs. Jenkin~. TeZok Ayer Cbi1leSe Clmrcb c. E. Fa'ng, Pastor. Abel Eklund. ,Paul Schmucker. Ut' omen's work Mrs. C. E. Fang. Mrs. Abel Eklund. Bible Woman Mrs. Tan Ah Mui Parisb Visitor Miss Ang Bee Giok. Oldba11l Hall Boarding Scbool Abel Eklund, Principal Wesley Cburcb Hobart B. Amstutz, Pastor IV omen's work .. Mrs. Amstutz, Miss Ashley, Miss Harvev. Johore Bham, Tamil and English Supplied by M. M. Charles Senai Circuit, lohore Supplied b3' Fam Cho Phin.

SPECIAL APPOINTMENTS Secretary 0/ Education .. . . G. F. Pykett Secretary of the Building and Location Board .. J. F. Peat Mission Treasurer .. J. F Peat Treasu.rer. W.F.M.S. Miss Minnie L. Rank Editor" Malaysia Message" Paul B. Means Contributing Editors D. H. Yap, Miss Ada B3JIls, A. H. P'TUssner, R. Dean Swift. Ho Seng' Ong, H. B. Amstuti, J. P Stamer. ApPOINTMENTS.

Secretary of Cbristian Literature Paul B. Means. Secretary of Religious Education R. Dean Swift, (K. L. Wesl~y Qua.rteriy Conference). Secretary for Epwortb Leagues and Young People' s Work D. H. Yap. Conference Evangelist J. j. Kingham. Editor II Southern Bell II (Chinese edi tion "Malaysia Message") Ding Guang Deu (Andrew Chen). Jean Hamilton Tbeological Scbool Hobart B. Am9tutz. Principal. Abel Eklund. Edward S. Lau, Ding Guang Deu, Instructors. Wesleyan C baplaincy W. E. Horlev To preach tbe Conference Sermon Goh Hood Ken-g. Mission Correspondent R. D. Swift Professor in Kennedy Scbool of Mis sions, Hartford, Conecticut, U.S.A. W G. Shellabear (All of the above may be addressed c/o Me'thodist Mission, 4 Fort Oanning Road, SINGAPORE, S.S.) On Lea7..'c Miss ,'\lary W'hitfield, MlS5 Norma Craven. Miss Jessie Brooks. Re\'. and Mrs. P. L. Peach, Rev. and Mrs. R. D. Roche, Moiss Thirza Bunce, Miss Mabel Harb, Miss Mary E. Olson. Miss Eva l. Nelson, Rev. and Mrs. A McNab, Lester Proebstel, Mi:;5- Rhetta Foote. Miss L. Me Laughlin, J. S. Nagle, R. H. Silver thorne. ;\liss Marion Royce, Miss Eva M. Sadler, Miss Della. Olson. Reports of District Superintendents

IPOH DISTRICT

Perak with the other parts of Malaya has just closed the record of one of the most trying years in its brief history. Its resources in tin and rubber have dropped more than fifty percent since twenty-nine. Double sailings have been necessary to carry back to India the thousands of labourers whose silhouettes we all ,associate with rubber shade. The Labour Bureau estimates that sixty-five thousand have left from the Peninsula and Perak and the Methodist Church have had their share of these great potential losses. The stream southwards for Singapore and Hongkong has been constant but with less volume. Around Kampar alone it is estimated that five thousand men, mostly Chinese, are out of work. At our last Quarterly Conference in Pusing four of the ten men present were without work, and at another Conference one fdmily with ten children were reported as becoming destitute because of the father's loss of position. Many of the Chinese mines that .could just carryon with £200 tin are still running with tin down to almost ha If that figure but the coolies are given only ten or fifteen ·cents a day besides their rice. Many Europeans have been sent borne. The ill wind of sinking demands for our unedible metal .and gums has however brought considera ble good in its wake. Many able bodied agricultural coolies have left the mud and slime {)f the tin palongs and gone out to plant rice and vegetables or cut firewood with the result that prices of these necessities have been helpfully tempered. The twenty-two cent French beans of former days can be bought in the "pasar " now for three or four cents a kati and bananas at two for a cent are no longer a luxury to the poor. Eggs not yet of age can be purchased for three cents or less. The Public Works Department have taken advantage of the cheap labour and thousands of the singing wheel barrows have been rolling bends out of highways, river sand into swampy places or piling bunds along the banks of run-away streams and generally tidying up the towns and country sides which were badly neglected during the prosperity rush years. The great hollo·~v dam across the Perak River costing about sixteen million dollars is now completed. The Sultan of Perak is soon to have a wonderful palace costing about three fourths of a million dollars and if the Council passes the proposed loan of $20,000 many more long delayed public works will start operation. The heart enin~ news that the great tin producing contries of the world are commg to a Restriction. programme has sent up the shar~ in that DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENTS' REPORTS 31 industry and brought many hopeful souls to the Kramats (super stitious shrines for the dead, or animated caves etc .. ) where they are tying stones to strings and praying for luck. The report of one herd of elephants destroying nine thousand rubber trees twenty miles from the manse and the slaying of the notorious banished bandit Lung Weng six miles from Ipoh show how things are up· this way.

Labour Register The work of Miss Royce was taken over by Miss Kleinhenn who has done well in boarding, day and Church School and has held her own in a Malay class of two. Miss Merten went home in February and Mrs. Cordle who had been unwell fer some months, returned to America under doctor's orders after Easter. Mr. Bunn who was carrying two jobs was given a lighter load in Singapore at holiday time and Mr. Bell took over the Harley Hall for boys. The two K. men (Kuehn and Kesselring) arrived during the summer holidays and took up work in the A.C.S. after an extensive course in Dengue. Solomon Pakianathan was a happy surprise to our Ipoh Tamil Church and he was soon on the estate trails from Tanjong Rambutan to Tanjong Malim with Fred David, J. Appaduray and others as willing and capable assistants. Ho Cheuk Lau has won the respect and support of the Ipoh Chinese Church in his first year. The eooles have well proved themselves as School labourers. Miss Dirksen has ministered to over thirteeJil hundred sick and disabled kampong folk with a winning zeal and thoroughness which we trust the W. F M. S. will hear. more about. Miss Cass who returned from furlough has lifted the mercury of Church School attendanc'e from fifty to about three times that number. The Taiping ladies have very faithfully represented our great Church before all communities in Taiping and their usual missionary zeal and hospitality is unabated.

Morals in Red The past year has shown up almost as bad on our moral Balance Sheet as on our Malayan minerals. Two or three of our Local Preachers characters were not pased at our recent District Conference because of known immorality. Several Church officials have been discontinued because of bigamy. Two of our teachers are serving long prison sentences because of dishonesty. Several of our people are now in difficulties because of slack handling of fees or other funds and hundreds more are'in biting bondage to· the task masters of Southern India whose tribute ranges from twenty percent per annum to infinity. Para. 30 of our General Rules which speaks of borrowing, buying and the probability of paying needs more than an annual once over in our several congregations. When we see scores of Christ~ans in our December congrega tions who have been hibern:lting for a twelve months, and whose' chief witness to their faith is a carefully kept baptismal certificate 32 MALAYA CONFERENCE, 1931 signed by some ancient pastor, our Christmas cheer is tinged with a tone of sadness that so manystiII find the affairs of farm, factory, .or family of more concern than the great invitation to the King's banqueting hall. As missionaries we humbly confess our Planifold transgres sions of pettiness and impatience, of temper and thoughtlessness.

Stock-taking in Stewardship Several S. O. S. calls' have come from the 4th Quarterly Conferences to the Finance Committee for help ~o meet deficits in pastors' salaries. One of the four Churches which owns rubber lots has been reduced by $30.00 a month in this asset and Kampong Koh with its portly old poineer trees which used to give a contribution of as much as a thousand dollars a year, has not had a dollar this year for its Pastor or a dint in its $8,000. debt from its ten acres investment. There are still subscriptions amounting to $2,000. on this project but most of them are either Gormant or extinct. Several Treasurers' reports show that even in some of our ()lder and stronger churches the giving per adult member averages only about $.04 a week and this means that many of our Malayan Methodists are trying to discharge their annual financial responsi bilities to the Almighty by splitting a dollar with him. As the little eight cent packet of tobacco every second day is an article -on many Methodist shopping lists this gives the B. A. T or some similar Company as much of our money every day as the M. E. ,Church benefits in a whole week. Of the six new private schools in out-stations, one has paid the salary of a Confere,nce member and the others have averaged :about twenty doI1ars each per month for the several Pastors of the towns. The famous film Ben Hur was rented and shown in Sitiawan and Ipoh for several nights and in spite of badly selected weather three churches benefited about six hundred dollars besides 'providing high grade entertainment for many outside people. This experiment is worth trying again where deficits are threatened. One church which has paid their Pastor in full without School, Tubber or Mission aid voted to make this year's budget the minimum for 1931. The Chinese might well learn two very practical institutions imported by our Tamil brethren, namely the Ingathering a.nd "Sangapana1)1 "or settlements, for those annual celebrations take 'up much slack in church support. DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENTS' REPORTS 33

The Tamil Christians on an estate near Teluk Anson raised :funds anJ built thems~lves a small prayer h_ouse which is a fine place of "\vitness to those who build ugly images of clay and slime. Wesley Church Ipoh has had a new white cement floor, new lights, rubber matting and panels etc. costing one thousand dollars. About .. eighteen hundred dollars was raised for current expenses and benevolences. The Tamil circuit have raised nearly three hundred dollars a month and has two Pastors, fOllr catechists and a Bible ·Woman without Mission help other than the School. One of the finest public playgrounds in Malaya has been fitted up from public subscriptions in the cocoanut shade of a two acre block in the Tamil settlement. It was opened by the Municipal Chairman in :September.

Education Inventory Our Methodist Church has during the past year undertaken the education of 2,735 boys' and girls with Government aid ,besides teaching 870 boys and girls in private or continuation .schools without any Government help. According to Dr. \Vinstedt's recent report it costs nearly $78.50 a year to educate a boy or .girl in the Government Schools and $45.50 in Aided Schools so that our Perak enrolment in aided Methodist institutions saves the State $90,000 and the private Schools, granting of course that many of these hays are what are classed as over age, effect a further .economy of $67,000. A decade' ago we had a total enrolment of 32 in our Cam bridge classes and all these were boys. This year 129 boys and .50 girls studied in the Cambridge classes and there have been similar increases in the Catholic and Government upper classes. As the popUlation has not doubled during this period, this quadrupling of students, who look principally to the offices of Malaya for employment should cause both the Education Depart- .ment and the several Missions to take careful soundings if the .ship of !l!arning is to be kept off the Syrtis. Sma!] beginnings in Government trade Schools are the pro gramme of the present Director of Education, but is there any sound reason why our Mission should not bring out a teacher with the proper training along technical lines and make a delayed start at Sitiawan, where we have an ideal centre for such development. The

For the first time in histDry, according to the Principal's. statement, there has been a goodly number of trained religious. workers on the Staff of the Ipoh A. C. S. There have been two members of Conference besides the Principal and four other missionades, but this is only up to our quota allowed by the· Government. Mr. Pakianathan has been in charge of the Middle School chapel and President of the fine Union Epworth League. Mr. Kuehn has conducted a· probationers class. A fine Health. programme with high grade hand work exhibits was put on in connection with Kinta Health Week. This school, for the third time in succession, won the Chung Tye Phin shield given for sports. in Southern Perak. The relay team won the mile relay race, at the M. A. A. meet in Kuala Lumpur. Towkay Foo Nyit Tsa, a v.ery generous and staunch supporter of the school, donated a large tIffin and sports shed in honour of his wife. This was dedicated on Sport's Day.

Literature List The Bible Society has given a small subsidy to our pastor:) in Braus and Tanjong Rambutan this year for seIling Scriptures and we have the promise of $20. a month subsidy from the same· source for Teluk Anson next year. Chuk Sam of Tanjong Rambutan has sold about one hundred and fifty Bible portions a month besides keeping our shelves of tracts well depleted. One pastor has distributed about $40. worth of free literature from his own tithe fund. A worker in the Tamil church reports the scattering of 2,000 tracts and over fifty copies of the Women's Friend per month. The 'A. C. S. Ipoh has again successfully launched the Voyager. Several hundred copies of the Malaysia Message and of the Southern Bell come to Perak per month but we could easily increase our Christian Literature Circulation by a thousand percent if our workers would go out with Wesley's saddle bag equipment. Joseph, our Methodist Colporteur who is employed by the Bible Society in Ipoh, has sold about thirteen thousand Bibles and portions this year in our own State, uses a medicine kit.

Returns in Evangelism Our forty Pastors, Catechists and Missionarie~ with a number of Christian teachers have given a total of about five thousand sermons, addresses, and talks to groups ranging from a half dozen to five hundred souls. One Pastor reported 251 prayer meetings on his three point circuit for the year. One Chinese Church reports 29 families who have regular family worship. Several of our Catechists are known and welcomed by Tamil and Telegu labourers on twenty or twenty:five different rubber or cocoanut estates. Circuit rider Isaacs has received ten Hindoos into the fuller light of Christ during the year. Mr. Ding of Sitiawan has. baptised fifty-six souls during the year including thirteen adults, DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENTS' REPORTS 35

;and the Ipoh Tamil circuit has had eighty baptisms including forty two adults. Fifteen young people from our School group have been received into Wesley Church Jpoh as probationers, and several -Europeans have expressed their desire to unite with this Church after Conference. One mining man who has always been opposed to his son becoming a Christian has recently been baptised because of the news concerning the conversion of ·China's President. Two -of our educated Chinese young men are asking to join the Theological Schools in Manila and Nanking respectively. Some -of our more aggressive Pastors have been permitted to preach in non-Christian vernacular Schools and one of them was asked to preach in a butcher's club. A high spiritual note sounded -clearly through the fine atmosphere of mirth at the League Institute of the Northern District held at Easter time in Ipoh, and the Chinese Preacher's Summer School developed a deeper feeling of comradeship among our workers and a keener sense of our mutual responsibility in making Christ known to Malaya. Meetings were held in the larger Schools and in most of our Churches to celebrate the anniversary of Pentecost. Sitiawan reports decisions for Christ from eleven girls and fifty boys. There were smaller 'ingatherings in some of the other stations.

Prospectus for 1931 We have four church sites in different towns waiting for the timber and bricks for places of worship and there are three other -towns where we have Christians trying to hold together by meeting :in just any kind of a place. If our big objective in Malaya is to plant the Christian Church here so well that it will be able to _maintain itself and leaven the whole cummunity in the next few decades, we believe it is imperative that at least modest chapels be provided in each of the larger towns, for our growing groups -of disciples. No shepherd would undertake to build up a flock without a fold to shelter them in. As one thousand dollars fr0111 . our Church Extension funds will be sufficient to furnish the necessary incentive and power to construct a chapel in any of these seven towns-Teluk Anson and Lumut already have about two thousand -dollars each subscribed for their larger projects-we believe it is -a modest programme to try and build these seven chapels in the ~next three or four years. So near as we can determine, Perak District has so far received only about four thousand dollars fr0111 -the M. P. H. profits since they began to appear eight years ago. As a single city has received during that time about twenty thousand . dollars from this common Conference chest we trust that t.he requests already passed unanimously by our mid-vear Finance Committee for the approval of the Church Extensio-n Committee -will soon be a warded. We do not yet know what the appointments will be for next ,year but jf we have the fine staff which we have been given this 36 MALAYA CONFERENCE, 1931

past year. with seve~al additions, we shall hope that our meagre harvest of '30 may be much increased. We would not dare to depend on buildings, or money or men, our preaching, our programmes, our prayers will be powerless unless the baptism of Pente cost be our personal possession. F H. SULLIVAN. District Superintendent.

KUALA LUMPUR DISTRICT The year Nineteen Thirty saw many changes on the Kuala Lumpur District. Miss Mabel Marsh was royally welcomed to the Methodist Girls' School by her old girls and many friends. Mr. and: Mrs. Thevathason were well received by the Kuala Lumpur Tamil Church. Mr. Hong Han Keng, an old student of the Jean Hamilton Training School has revived the Klang Chinese Church. The Zumsteins left for home the last of July having received a genuine ovation from the community and school and were succeeded by the Summers. Shortly after their arrival Gerald Vernon Junior appeared on the scene and has been the centre of attraction ever since. The Patterson's arrived in April and were placed on the staff of the Methodist Boys' School until August. The Runyan's arrived in September to take the!!" places. Mr. A. Devadason arrived at Bantirlg: March 1st and has been well received by the people who want a separate quarterly conference. We shall not attempt to name every worker on the Distrkt as strict order have been issued instructing us to be brief. However,. I want to register my appreciation of the work and co-operation of every pastor and missionary who have made, possible the thing's accomplished as mentioned in this report. A fine spirit of co- operation has been shown and although the superintendent has lived miles a way from the centre of action the work has gone forward. Gai11s. Thousands of labourers have been repatriated due to the slump which has affected many of our churches. Never theless there is a gain of nine and a half percent in full membership. Pastoral spport shows a gain of eight hundred and fifty dollars. Benevolences have been increased. The outstanding accomplishment has been the work of the Klang Chinese Church. Last year this was the problem of the district. The membership had dwindled down to a hand full. Pastoral support was almost negligible while there was practically no church organization. Through the devoted effort of the new pastor thi':) church now leads the District with thirty four children baptized, thirteen adult baptisms and one hundred and nine full members on the roll. Many of the lost members have been_ reclaimed and the independent church which took our people has, DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENTS' REPORTS 37

been given up. This goes to prove that the right -man in the right place thoroughly devoted to the Master can "remove mountains." ThL5 pastor works ten hours a day. He made five hundred calls .in two months. The work in Port Swettenham has been revived .and other outstations visited_ Two new churches have been

correlating the Sunday School with the churc~ .. All of th~ special programmes presented by the Secretary for RelIgIous Ed.uc~tIOn have' been heartily supported by the churches o~ the ~Istnct.. The English Sunday School at Pori Swettenham stIlI flourIshes WIth an average attendance of fifty. The Kuala Lumpur Tamil Chu:ch School had a most successful Children's Day programme donatmg. forty dollars to the Religious Education cause. The pastor of this church has tried to put some of the Religious Education programmes into force. The Epworth Leagues have had their problems this year. The Klang and Kuala Lumpur Tamil Leagues are undergoing reorganization. The Kuala Lumpur Union Le~gue presented a splendid report to the Fourth Quarterly Conference. We have been trying to emphasize the relationship of the Epworth League to the church by requiring representation and reports in the quarterly Conference.-" The Epworth League is an organization within the church under the control and direction of the pastor and quarterly conference." So reads the discipline. This implies a dual respon sibility on the part of both League and Church leaders as well as the pastor. Our young people give us hope. They are the church leaders of to-morrow. The church has a responsibility to' them and they have a responsibility to the church. Institutions. The English Aided Schools on the Kuala Lumpur District afford the most immediate opportunity. All the missionary staff are connected with these schools. The Methodist Boys' School stands "a light upon a hill" which cannot be hid. All who enter the town of Kuala Lumpur by car from the South see this great institution in whose halls eight hundred and thirty two boys study during the morning, J another four hundred in the afternoon. The reputation of the school is made. Her graduates are scattered all over the Federated Malay States. This year the physical equipment has been improved by a new tiffin shed, basketball court and playground apparatus. Organizations, such as the Junior League and Brotherhood, have tried to minister to the religious needs of the students. Personal work has been done by some of the teachers and there is still much to be d01~e along this line. The Methodist Girls' School has outgrown the three story building where so many institutes and other gatherings have met. Negotiations are now under way for a new site and as soon as the price of rubber goes up a campaign will be put on for a new building. Holt Hall has had its difficulties, but the principal is greatly encouraged by the spirit shown by the girls now in the school. Adequate accommodation on a new site will help solve these pro blems. DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENTS' REPORTS 39

The Anglo Chinese School, Klang, has lost some pupils to the new Government English School, but still is filled to capacity. A ,decidedly religious emphasis has been made in this school which 'has already brought good results. The Methodist Girls' School, Klang had a Camhridge class this year for the first time and aspires to have a Senior class in 1931. This has meant teaching as early as seven o'clock in the morning. The debt is being paid off gradually. The Anglo Chinese School, Port Swettenham which was closed last December was opened in January as a private school by us and 'now has an enrolment of almost one hundred. The Kajang School though hard pressed financially registers -one hundred per cent religiously. An evening Bible Class has been started for the towns people. The splendid influence of the teacher-preacher, whose sterling Christian character is above re :proach will bear fruit in years to come. The Cburcbes have all had increased attendance at services ihis year. Wesley Church, Kuala Lumpur has had one of the best years in its history, so say the old timers. Congregations have been large and a church consciousness has been developed due largely to the efforts of the live Ladies Aid. The organization raised five hundred dollars which was used to redecorate the church building. Special emphasis has been placed on the worship service by 'the pastor of the Kuala Lumpur Tamil Church. Several families 'of this church have gone through deep sorrow this year in the loss of their loved ones. Brother Manickam has lost a son and one daughter, both of whom were ill only for a few days. As we 'started for conference news came of the serious illness of Brother Manickam himself. The Hakka-Cantonese Church services have been crowded ,every Sunday. This organization has a large membership and -constituency, but like so many churches in large centers lacks ,church spirit. The Pastor of the Hinghua Church gives up the ministry this .-year to enter business. This congregation has been greatly streng thened through the efforts of the new Bible Woman. Sentul has held its own. Services have been well attended -and an improved spirit shown by the membership. The urgency for a new building increases every year as the temporary structure ·either has to be repaired or demolished. The Klang Tamil Church is developing leaders through the -efforts of the pastor who is utilizing his exhorters to the best advantage as well as training them for Christian service. This i'5 something which is badly needed in all the churches. Pahang. This year will go down in history as the first year in which the Home Missionary Society functioned. Starting 40 MALAYA CoNFERENCE, 1931

February first, ninety dollars per month was paid by this society for work in Pahang.

A start was made at Mentakab by opening a school and~ church. February 26th marked the opening of the Anglo Chinese School there. The District Officer' was present as well as the' Inspector of Schools who travelled eighty miles to be present. An ordained Chinese pastor was placed there. His daughter acted as teacher in the school. He travelled up and down the Railway line where Chinese Christians were located; some of whom had' not seen a pastor for years. As soon as it was known that a Methodist pastor was placed in Mentakab we received word from friends who gave names of Christians ip that area. Mr. Ang held street meetings and distributed tracts. Twenty seven full members were received and five preparatory members. The school had a small enrolment due to the slump and opposition on the part of the non-christian Chinese. The last of September Mr. Ang was brought to Kuala Lumpur suffering from malignant Malaria and was not expected to live. His daughter was suffering from' the same malady. Upon the doctors advice he was given three' months leave which meant that the work in Mentakab was closed for the time berng. The church work is carried on by the pastor' in Bentong. The Tamil work has been faithfully carried out. The pastor has travelled many miles visiting Christians in far a way places., He has had seventeen adult baptisms and admitted eight preparatory members. Two visits were made to Kuantan in addition to the month spent there by Mr. Arumugam. About sixty Christians are to be found in Kuantan and surrounding territory. Although we would like to place a man there the pastor at Raub can pay quarterly visits. There are three flourishing Sunday Schools. Beniong has been hard hit by the slump. The tin mines ha ve been closed down which has caused real suffering. Our church members are badly affected, so much so that the pastor only received his salary for four months of the year. However, he has' done good work increasing the church attendance and' improving the Sunday Schools. His maJor task has been selling Bibles to the Malays. The last four months of the year the British and Foreign Bible Society have helped finance colportage in Pahang so that all three of our pastors have sold Bibles. Ninety hundred and ninety three Tamil, one thousand two hundred and thirty eight Chinese and one thousand one hundred a.nd twenty six Malay Bible portions have been sold. In Pahang the distances are great and the population scattered. Colportage is the stepping stone to Christianizing the people. Every village and town' has been visited. One trip was made up into Kelantan where a very promising town was discovered on the new railway line and the people were found to be most susceptable to Christianity. Such IS the !;tory of the first year of Home Missionary Work. The work DISTRICT SUPER! NTENDENTS' REPORTS 41 here is not easy. Distances are great; the one D~strict of Temerloh is as large as the state of Negri Sembilan. Many places are very unhealthy. Living is high. Our home missionarie~ have had to travel much, sleeping in most uncomfortable places and at some times fac:ng opposition. There are many difficulties but also many compensations. No other Protestant body has a worker stationed in Pahang. In every District center some of our Methodists are found. The country is developing 4H1d with the opening of the new railway more development will take place. We have set our hand to the plough and cannot turn back. This first year of experiment has proved what the Home Missionary Society can do. This field can never be ministered to unless the Home Missionary Society supports it. The expense is great. Two congregations have petitioned asking for help for their pastors. With the decreasing World Service receipts in America we cannot expect any help from that source. A parsonage and church are badly needed at Raub. Vve propose that the Home MISSIOnary Society provide five hundred dollars; the Committee on Church Extension five hundred and the remaining thousand can be raised in Pahang. I cannot close this report without mentioning an urgent need. There is onlY 'one Bible Woman in the whole District. The Tamil Bible ~!(Jman in Sentul had to leave for India. The Hakka Cantonese Church is in dire need of a Cantonese Bible Woman. This question is brought up at every Quarterly Conference. Half of that large church is filled with woman every Sunday and no one to teach them. The Klang Chinese Church is asking tor some one to teach the women. We trust that the Bible Woman's Com· mittee will be able to meet this need. In closing I desire to thank the pastors, layman and missionades for their uniform kindness and hearty cooperation ill the work of the year and pray God that our united efforts may be lasting for His Kingdom. M. DODSWORTH. District Superilltende nt.

MALACCA DISTRICT REPORT With gratitude to Almighty God for His kind Providence through which we have been kept during the year, and for His abundant Grace manifest to us in so many ways, I submit this my eighth report as superintendent of the Malacc::l District. Has there been illness? Yes, but the lives of all the pastors and their families have been spared, for which we give thanks. Have there been hardships and disappointments? Yes, many, "but the things which happened unto us have fallen out rather unto the progress of the ~ospel." In former reports I have analyzed the situation 42 . TvlALAYA CONFERENCE, 1931

by mentioning every charge and every pastor: To-day I s~all not attempt anything of that sort, but do d~sIre to ~mphaslze the most important phases of the work accomphshed dunng the year. Leadersbip is the essential thing. This year we welcomed Mr. and Mrs. Ho Seng Dng and Mr. D. H .. Yap to Malacca to .assume places of indigenous leadership in school and church and they have not disappointed us. Both of them are University graduates who have studied abroad and bring to the task well trained minds and new ideas. Mr. Yap. left us in August to return with his bride whose charming manner and musical talent have greatly enchanced his usefulness as -pastor of the Straits Chinese Church. Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Patterson came to Seremban the same month to take the place of Mr. and Mrs. Summers who went to Klang. If you desire the names of those responsible for what has been accomplished you will find them recorded in the minutes of our conference for 1930 in the apointments for the Malacca District. Each man has filled his place with honour. Although the demands of the Kuala Lumpur District have kept me away from Malacca much of the time our faithful workers have kept the work going so as to report advances all along the I line. The work in the outstation churches has been suspervised by Mr. Chua 10k Han who has looked after the Chinese churches during my absence. It has been a real pleasure to work with such splendid folks, all of whom we have come to love and appreciate. There is one problem of ministerial leadership which needs solution. Less than half of the pastors in charge of churches are members of the Annual Conference. This means that the ·churches are manned by Local Preachers most of whom have not taken any course of study. They have attended the Institute for Ministerial Training. Five of our Local Preachers were present at Ipoh Institute and derived much good therefrom. However, these men in charge of churches must take a regular course of study as prescribed by the Discipline. In order to meet this need I would suggest that the Jean Hamilton Training School enrol all Local Preachers, in charge of churches, in the required course of study. The examinations can be given at the Institute for Ministerial Training. We have many men doing good work who are not eligible for membership in the Annual Conference whose training should be provided for.. Church Member~hip. A careful check of membership has been made and in spite of this there is an 1 8 percent increase in full membership which is the largest gain in the history of the district. Adult and infant baptisms show substantial increases while 194 preparatory members have been received. There has been a gain in every church and circuit except one. The attendance at Church services has exceeded all previous years. Standards of living have been raised and the whole religious- atmosphere has been greatly DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENTS' REPORTS 43

improved. No record of building and finance has been made, but constructive, definite religious work has been done. Finances. The financial problem has been much in evidence even more than usual. The world wide financial depression which has hit Malaya so hard has been keenly felt in the churches. Almost every Quarterly Conference has faced deficits some running into hundred of dollars. At the beginning of the year four churches increased the pastor's salary and despite the slump each of these churches has paid up the increased salary in full. Such times as these which try the souls of men reveal the stuff our people are made of. Real sacrifice has been shown in many of the churches~ After facmg a deficit the stewards have gone out twice for special subscriptions. In one instance a steward who is very poor laid his last five dollars on the table which brought tears to the eyes of those present and l"leedless to say in the face of such giving the deficit was soon raised. The total pastoral support is the same as last year while the amount raised locally is only three hundred dollars less. The benevolences are slightly less than the preceding year. A crisis has been reached in financing Jhe churches. Our' chief concern this year has been to see that the preachers were paid. Our ministers are inadequately supported. None get too much and some far too little. Two years ago the District was, receiving four hundred and fifty dollars per month, last yea.r saw a cut of fifty dollars and this year came another cut of like amount. Now there are rumours that another cut must come. This seems impossible. The limit has been reached. We faced the year at the close of the last Annual Conference with a reduced appropria tion. A Special Gift of five hundred dollars gold which has come four successive years failed to materialize. At times the District was in debt amounting to six hundred dollars, yet each pastor received his pay .in full every month. Every possible resource was exhausted. At the beginning of the year I approached a friend of our work who has helped in the past and asked him for assis tance, but never heard from him. Later in the year when again approached he produced a letter written in March stating that he was sending a cheque for one thousand dollars. The cheque wag never sent because of the slump. Things looked dark indeed. We appealed to preacher friends at home and now as we come to the close of the year we can report the District clear of debt due to the help given by friends at home and in Malaya. It makes us feel like singing the Doxology. Colportage. This year a new experiment was attempted w~i~h has met 'Yith s~ccess e.xceeding all our expectations. The BntIsh and ForeIgn BIble SocIety have paid the salary and travel of a Bible Colporteur who has been directly under our charge. He has acted as pastor at Sungei Rambei, where comfortable preacher's quarters are provided and has been sucessful in reviving 44 MALAYA CONFERENCE, 1931

this chu{ch. His successful pastoral record has been exceeded by the record made in selling Bibles. Seven thousand and two hundred Bible portions have been sold. He acts as colporteur for the Malacca District travelling throughout the district stimulating the work in the churches. ' Chinese Schools. There are six Chinese Schools in the District. All the teachers are Christians and some are Local Preachers in ,charge of churches. All of these schools are church schools in which religious instruction is given. The Chinese preachers of the future will come from these schools. Woman's WOik hold a large place in the church programme -of the District. There are two Bible Women, one at Malacca and the other in Seremban. Both of these women have done excellent work. The last three months of the year a third worker has helped in the outstations. The outstations have been visited regularly three days every week. This work has borne fruit. The family is the unit of society. Women and children make the church permanent. Idols have been taken down and family life made happier through these contacts. Institutions. The Malacca District contains the smallest English schools in the Conference outside of Sara wake The total enrolment of the three day schools will not total that of one ·of our major institutions. The' lack in quantity is made up in quality. Each school has a Christian staff and programme. In Seremban a special effort was made to win the boys of the Anglo Chinese School for Christ. Three preparatory membership classes were organized resulting in twenty one uniting with the church . .Special effort was made in the Anglo Chinese School, Malacca which resulted in sixty boys taking a stand for Christ. The Suydam Girls' School has put on a religious programme throughout the year. All three of these schools have had a good year. The Anglo Chinese School, Malacca staged a successful concert which netted seven hundred dollars to be used in fitting up two new class rooms and installing needed sanitary improvements. The Boy Scouts have had a record year and the whole morale of the school raised to a high level. The Anglo Chinese School, Seremban has raised the standard of work and continues to increase the enrolment despite the slump. The Suydam Girls' School, Malacca continues popular with the public. The annual sports maintained the tradition of the school in every respect. Next year the Cambddge department will have 22 students which is a great gain. Sheila bear Hall continues to grow in enrolment and efficiency. Most of our Christian homes in Malacca are the outcome of the influence of this institution. Funds are badly' needed. The Malay Hostel has had one of the best years in its existence with a full quota of'students. DISTRICT SUPER! ~TENDENTS' REPORTS 45

Young People's Work. Malacca has been fortunate in having the Secretary for Young Peoples' Work. He has tried to reorganize the Church Schools with partial success. The Epworth League has had a flourishing year, which culminated in special Win-my Chum services. The Seremban League is being reorganized. The Southern District Epworth League Institute was held in Malacca at Easter time and was pronounced by all a great success. Buildings. The Seremban Tamil parsonage has been com pleted in fine shape without any debt. A new wing was built on to the house we acquired from Government which makes this parsonage one of the most comfortable in Malaya. Much needed repairs have been made and water laid on to the Malacca Tamil Parsonage, thanks to the assistance of the Ladies Aid Society. The people at Bekok, Johore, startled us by producing a subscription list of six hundred dollars for a new church and school. Even during these hard times they want to "arise and build. " Plans have been passed for the two buildings we had hoped to erect in Tampin and Segamat but nothing has been done due to the lack of funds. A church member has offered all the timber for the Segamat church and we still have hopes of starting this building soon. Tampin presents a knotty problem, and the urgency of the need for a new building to house the Chinese Church and school has been augmented by the reduction of enrolment due to lack of accomodation. Nortb lobore continues to present a real challenge to Methodism. This seems to be the liveliest part of the country. Railway trains are crowded. New stations have been openeci. It has all the lure and excitement of a new country. This year we made a venture of faith and placed a full time pastor in Segamat and rented a house for twenty five dollars per month. It has co~t eighty five dollars per month to maintain this work which has been financed largely through special gifts. I know of no work anywhere which is more promising. The Elder in Segamat supervises the two Chinese schools and churches at Jementah and Paloh anf! covers a large circuit. Over thirty new members have been received. No other Protestant Body is at work in this field which is developing very rapidly. As soon as the new church is built Methodism will be firmly established in this region. With a conviction that the Malacca District offers one of the greatest opportunities for the advancement of the Kingdom of God in Malaya and with faith in God and the people called Methodists I submit this report.

M. DODSWORTH, District Superintendent. 46 'MALAYA CONFERENCE, 1931

PENANG DISTRICT

REV. G. F PYKETT, District Superintf.lu1ent. " What Hatb God Wrought" r For forty years, all but a few weeks, our Mission has been at work in Penang. In January 1891, the arrival of Dr. and Mrs. Floyd, R. C. Ford, A. E. Breece and G. F. Pykett, put such a force into the staff of the A. C. S., Singapore that it became necessary to move out into new fields. Bishop Thoburn and Dr. Floyd had made a survey of Malaya and had decided that Penang at the Northern end of the Strait was a strategic point to occupy and so it has proved. B. F, Balderstone, a Canadian who had been nearly two years in Singapore, was appointed by the Mission conference in April to Penang. As soon as he arrived here he opened up the A. C. S. He was joined a few months later by the Revd. D. D. Moore who opened English and Evangelistic work. They were so successful that when I was appointed to the A. C. S., Penang in 1893 the school had; 173 pupils and was housed in three shop houses in Carnarvon Street. A Girls' school was being held in the Priory in Northam Road (now used as a Garage for the Runneymede Hotel). Here the missionaries lived and the English. Services and Prayer meetings were held. A small Tamil School had been opened in Dhoby Ghaut, Dato Kramat and a small Tamil Girls' School was also DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENTS' REPORTS 47 held in Transfer Road. Such were the humble beginnings of our work in Penang, and from these seedlings have sprung the fulI grown trees that are now spreading their branches far and wide and bearing abundant fruit. The Anglo Chinese Boys' School has grown into one of the lar gest and most efficient schools in British Malaya with an enrolment (exclusive of the Continuation School) of 1775. The Girls' School has grown into the mature and matronly A. C. G. S. with an enrolment of near 600 and it has developed the Winchell Home which now houses and cares for over 100 girls all the time. The Tamil School which is a branch of the A. C. S. has outgrown its accommodation and cries out for extension. We had been warned that when the Government schools in Perak Road near by opened we would find our numbers so reduced that we might have to close; but far from that we could now double our numbers if we had the room. The English Services instead of being held in the rented home of the missionaries are held now in a splendid building, of its own, on a most imposing site in the heart of the city and is as well attended and pastored as any English congregation in the Malaya Conference. In the same compound we have two homes of our own for our missionaries, though they are not altogether paid for. We have also in this part of the town the 'Alexandra Home which has during the past years provided a home for a large number of necessitous and unfortunate women. The Chinese Church which had not yet begun when I arrived in Penang has developed considerably and though it has not a Church building of its own, the Hokkien congregation that has worshipped for some years past in the A. C. S. Hall is one of the largest in our Conference. It has its own Church home and a site on which it hopes to erect a much needed building. It has a humble nest egg of $1667- which it inherited from the sales of the Ayer Ham house when we were compelled to abandon work in that place. A Cantonese Service is held in the Church house and has an average attendance of about 5 o. In the same building is held a Chinese Kindergarten school in which the numbers have this year so increased that an additional house has had to be acquired to accommodate the little folks. This school has done very fine work and sent some of its graduates into the A. C. S. The Hokkien church has made some effort at home mission work in Tanjong Tokong and Jelutong. These have been much hindered for want of suitable accommodation. Penang Island has not been large enough to hold us and' we have developed work in Bukit Mertajam with a splendid 48 MALAYA CONFERENCE, 1931

A. C. G. S. and a fine Church building for the worship of Chinese and Tamils and then we pushed into Kedah at Kulim where we have now a small English School and a Hakka congregation. This station has on deposit with the Mission Treasurer and a mortgage with us to the amount of $7,000- for the purpose of erecting a Church building when the time is opportune. We have also pushed North into Kedah to Sungei Petani, Bedong and Alor Star though except for the S. P. Tamil Church these efforts arc at present not very encouraging. We have gone further down the line and have school and church work at Nebong Tebal and Parit Buntar and we may also claim that we sent the poineers to open work in Taiping, Sitiawan and Kuala Lumpur. Our statistics show that we have 11 congreg'ations with a church enrolment of 970 and 11 church schools with a total enrolment of 876. We have R schools with an enrolment of 3,828 and property valued at $452,398. Teachers:-European 15; Asiatic 148; Christian Children 375. Total Income $365,255.-. and this District now has on deposit with the Mission Treasurer $20,000- and the Treasurer of the W. F. M. S. $4,000- for building purposes. We may well ask" what hath God wrought?" for it is He who has given the fruits for the constant procession of missionaries has not given anyone but myself and wife much opportunity to see much growth anywhere. Now to detail: The Anglo Chinese School can best be reported from the report given by the Principal at the Prize dis tribution held in December:- "The enrolment of the school in all departments has been 1775. There were 652 in the Primary School, 452 in the Middle School and 661 in the higher school. There have been 72 trained teachers on the staff, 7 students in training at Raffles College and 6 student teachers in the local Normal Class. Rev. W.A. Schurr was acting Headmaster of the Middle School until Miss Ruth Sherwood from the staff of the M. B. S., Kuala Lumpur came to this permanent post in April. Miss DuMez went on leave in November. Religious and Moral instruction has been given throughout the school and written ~xaminations have been conducted in many classes with creditable results. The best estimate of this work is in the transformed and strengthened character of the pupils through out the schools. There have been many outside speakers in our Cambridge and 7th standard general assemblies, and these talks and addresses have been very inspiring and much appreciated by DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENTS' REPORTS the students. Students have several times taken part in these as·· semblies. " Religious Instruction. Two very successful chsses were con ducted during the year in religious instruction, a class by Rev. G. F. Pykett and a class by Rev. W. A. Schurr, 2 books were studied. "The Pupils in the Church School" and the "Principles of Religious Education." Thirty eight teachers took the first course and 12 took the second advanced course. The influence of Wesley Church and of the Sunday School is showing definite results in the presentation of Christianity to the school. Scbolastic Work. The School presented 115 Juniors for Exam. in 1929 and obtained 45 passes and 1 honour; 85 Seniors with 38 passes and 3 honours. Athletic and Pbysical work. The Athletic programme of this school is a full one and when we consider the limited grounds we have, the results of the year are very creditable. On July 5th our Athletic team again won the Glugor Shield. Scouts and Cubs. The scout work of this school is of a very high grade as is indicated by the District Commissioner'S report. Library. During the year 300 books have been added to our. higher school libraries and the boys have made very good use of them. Health. The School Clinics have been most effectively con ducted. During the year the scheme of providing milk especially to underfed boys was most succeSSfully introduced at the Primary School where as high as 350 children were taking each a ~ pint of milk. Penang Continuation Scbools. The Principal of the A. C. S. has continued to manage this school this year. It has been a heavy strain but has filled a great need in the city. There are now 300 pupils in the school and it is the only school of its kind in Penang. The classes in 1931 will go up through seven. The teaching has been largely done by fully qualified teachers from the A. C. S. and by some unqualified teachers. Bro. P. L. Peach who goes on leave early in 1931 will leave a big place to fill in the A. C. S., Penang. A. C. S., Dato Kramat: has had a good year. We have rented an adjacent house for the Primary classes, which has given the main building to Stds. I, II and III. A Parents Day was held this year with exhibition of work when a grogramme also was given. A. C. G. S" Bukit Mertajam has had an enrolment of 215, but the slump has brought it down somewhat as it is considered that 50 "MALAYA CONFERENCE, 1931

girls' education is one ··of the first economies that can be made in the home. This school has not had a single trained teacher and ·only two have recently joined the Normal Class. This school has a great future. before it, as girls come for over forty miles to this school, as it is the only girl's school in Provo Wellesley. It recently came to my knowledge that Government does not have "a single girls' school in the whole Peninsula. A. C. 5., Nebong Tebal. This school also has done excellent ·work in every department and has made two innovations this year (1) Sports Day, when 160 pupils out of an enrolment of 220 took pan. The whole cost of the day was met by the generosity -of people of the town. (2) Parents Day, when an exhibition of "handwork and art was shown. This work was very good indeed and the Government Art Mistress has spoken very highly of the great improvement in this school. A. C. S. Parit Bzmtar. Rev. I. S. Motz as Principal has ·done an excellent year's work. This School is much handicapped by insufficient and unsuitable accommodation. A shop house has been rented for some years for the Primary; but even then, the four highest classes have to occupy two rooms. This should not be as it is impossible to do the best work under such unfavourable -conditions. A. C. 5., K ulhn. A small school has been started here with Mr. Lim Yiaw Tong in charge. A plank and and attap building has been erected for its accommodation which is now fully ,occupied. A. C. S., Bendong. This school has had about 50 pupils but has had many ups and downs during the year and difficulty in its finances. It has been suggested that it be moved, in 1931, to -Sungei Petani or else disbanded. A. C. G.S., Penang. Has had an enrolment of 590 and an average attendance of 557 and have had more applications than it could accommodate. Continuation Classes have also been .conducted. About $4,000- have been raised towards the cost of an extension to the School building. Hygiene has been carefully taught. For the first two terms of the year Miss Sadler gave ·demonstrations in aid and care of the sick in the upper class. Parents Day and Exhibition of art and work was held. The work shown was of high order and most of the exhibits were of -practical value. The Library has been considerably augmented during the year and has been much appreciated in the higher classes and down to Std. III a special effort has been made ,to interest the girls in -outside reading. - DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENTS' REPORTS 51'

At the commencement of second Term a creditable presenta tion of Henry V was given by the Cambridge Classes and in Oct. the girls below Std. IV gave a Children's Musical. Music is now taught at regular periods and Miss Mah Lia has given much of her time to this work. The whole tone of the school is of a higher grade than at any period of its history, and its staff has worked most harmoniously. The Chapel gatherings have been well sustained and outside speakers have helped to keep up interest. There is a very healthy tone in these gatherings. Winchell H011'!e, Penang: The average enrolment of one hundred girls has equalled the capacity of this boarding school this year. Under the efficient management of Miss Sadler for the first eight months, much progress was made spiritually and scholastically. The group system carried on after her departure until an acting Superintendent was employed in October. Alexandra H011u, Penang: Fourteen destitute women have been provided for during the year. Madame Lim Leng Lee has been an efficient and sympathetic matron. Two significant stories have come to our attention recently. When the Dorcas Society of the Hokkien Church was holding its sale of work, an elderly blind woman from the Home tottered up to Mrs. Pykett and presented a mite box, saying that she wanted it to be used' for her Church. Mrs. Pykett asked how she happened to have anything to give. Her reply was something like this. "Our matron gives us some money for breakfasts, about three cents a day. Some days I do not want coffee or bread; then I call save it for my little. box. If I had had it longer, it would have been more." Some of the embroidered articles on sale that day had been done by a woman who has only one arm. How she can do such beautiful work handicapped as she is, is more than we can understalld. We pray the coming years may bring increased opportunity for service among those who need such help as the home can give. Church Work. Wesley Church, Fitzgerald Memorial, has kept up to its usual high standard and has done splendid work amongst the various classes that attended for worship. The congregations this year have been well maintained and throughout the year have been larger than in any year in its history. The Thursday evening Vesper Service has been fairly well attended and Rev. and Mrs. Schurr have put in much prayerful and careful work and they are now beginning to see some fruits of their labours. 52 MALAYA CoNFERENCE, 1931

The Sunday Schools of the A. C. S. and A. C. G. S., which -really belong to this Church, have been well maintained ~nd have done splendid work and form a very good link and many points of contact between the pupils of the schools and Church life. The Church has been much indebted to Mr. S. Duncan as organist and Mr. Loa; Chee Eng as Choirmaster. The Union Epworth League has had its ups and downs and though at the beginning of the year had barely an existence it has during the year recuperated and done much better work. This has been due to the efforts of Miss Sherwood and N. G. Manikam. Tamil Cburch, Penang: has now about $4,500 in hand for its long and· much needed new building, but I am afraid that it is still a long way off the accomplishments of its desires. Jt added £325- this year through the efforts of the Ladies' Aid and Thanks giving S(~rvice. The Sunday School has been well maintained by -the help of Miss Johnston, Mrs. Appaduray, Mrs. Pykett and Mr. Paranjothy, the Superintendent. The outdoor Sunday School work in Patani Road amongst coolie children has been continued. This work has been carried on by Mrs. Pykett and Mr. Manikam and a Christmas treat to over 40 children was given. Cbinese Cbu.rcb. Penang. Rev. Lim Hong Ban has been pastor of this Churc.h and also has had some oversight of the Chinese Churches in Kedah and P. \711 The main Church in town has maintained its numbers in spite of the slump. Recently Bro. Lim had a very serious accident \vhen a Pinang tree fell on him wounding his head and shoulder; but for the intervention of Providence he would have been killed. All has congregation and friends are grateful to Almighty God for his marvellous escape. Tbe Sunday School has been well maintained under the superintendency of Mr. Khoo Cheng Hoe and has had a good year, but it seems a pity that this Church cannot link up its young people with the Epworth League and so with the Church and thus lead them into full membership. Tbe Cantonese Church has kept on growing and done very good work both amongst men and women, but does not make much headway with the young people. This Church had hoped to develop a home Mission in P. W. near Butterworth, but most of the Cantonese who had come there have left during the year, but weekly visits by the Pastor, Mrs. Pykett and the Bible woman ha ve been made. Bukit Mertajam Cbinese Cburcb: This has been pastored by Mr. Lim Yiaw Tong, of the A. C. S., Kulim. He comes to B. M. DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENTS' REPORTS 53 on Friday evenings and stays over Sunday. The attendance has not been too encouraging. The Tamil Churcb, with Rev. Devasahayam as pastor has done as well as usual in spite of the great numbers of coolies that ha ve gone from this district back to India. This circuit has been badly hit in this way. Mr. Devasahayam has helped in Sungei Petani and Alor star and has visited many estates whilst carrying out his duties as Inspector of Tamil Schools. This appointment provides a good part of his salary. This Church raised over $100- at its Thankgiving Service and there is now a fund of $772- towards a new parsonage. Kulim Hakka Cbil'tcse: Mr. Chan Tat Poh had to leave for health reasons and returned to China. His brother Mr. Chan Fui Khim, filled in for two or three months, when Mr. Chan Min Kong was engaged on probation. The people of this District have always been very transitory and not at all settled. Kulim is

On the whole this District has now on deposit with the Mission Treasurer about $20,000- for building purposes and the W. F M. S. some $4,000- with its Treasurer for a similar purpose. The A. C. S. Union has this year acquired from the Mission for $25,000- the premises it has occupied in Woodhouse for some years, and thus has now its own home. The Union has well maintained its relation with the school and the community. It has this year instituted a Provident Fund for its members who are mostly old boys and teachers of the -A. C. S. General. The Penang District, has much to be thankful for during the past year. Most of the missionary staff has enjoyed good health and none has been laid aside at all seriously. All have united their efforts for the good of the Work, the welfare of the people and pupils under them, and have sought the Glory -of God and the Salvation of the people of the Community. The D. S. has had a pretty full year as Manager of six Branch Schools widely apart and as Educational Secretary, whose work has been much increased this year and has called for yet more time and attention. One man CJn do but little at three full time jobs, and if one ge~s more than its just share the other two must get less. I attribute most of the shortcomings of the District to the inability of the D. S. to be in more than one place at the same time and to his having limited resources and energy. I heartily appreciate the unfailing, loyal co-operationt and sympathy of all the missionary force of the District and the devotion of all/our Asiatic workers and the people's of all the towns and villages of the Penang District. Lastly, but most of all, we render our sincerest thanks Jnd homage to the Great Captain of our salvation, who has sustained us in times of physical and mental depression and weakness, and who has over and over again overruled our mistakes ~!nd shortcomings. To Him be the glory for ever and ever-Amen.

G. F PYKETT. D istrid Supe rilltelldent.

SINGAPORE DISTRICT We were glad to welcome back from furlough the Mi'sses Jackson and Harvey and also to welcome a new worker in the person of Mr. P. Schmucker. We bade farewell to Miss Mary Olson who went on furlough. The health of all our missionaries and workers has been good with the exception of Bro. J. Supramaniam, who has suffered severely from malaria. DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENTS' REPORTS 55

I. Evangelism During the year special evangelistic services have been held in the upper classes of the Anglo Chinese School a~d in the Methodist Girls' School and the response was splendId. Also revival services were conducted in the Continuation School, the Straits Chinese Church, the Hinghwa and Foochow Churches, and at the Teluk Ayer and Geylang Churches. The Holy Spirit blessed the messages from the very beginning of these services. Men and women were stirred, as well as boys and girls, to yield themselves to the living Christ; also many church members made a fresh consecration of their lives to the Lord Jesus Christ. Open-Air Meetings have been held twice a week in Teluk Ayer and in the People's Park. Thousands have heard the Gospel Message; thousands of tracts have been distributed and hundreds of portions sold. Quite a number have attended the church services and decisions have been made for Christ. II. The Churches Wesley Cburcb is the Mother of our churches in Malaya, for it is the church founded by Bishops Thoburn and Oldham in 1885 and the text of the first sermon preached to the congregation was: "Not by might nor by power but by my Spirit saith the Lord." Let the Methodist Church still take this as its motto. This church draws a cosmopolitan congregation of English-speaking Asiatics, as well as Europeans, Anglo-Indians and Americans. I have noticed at its services Americans and English, Anglo Indians, Irish, Scotch, Germans, Dutch, Japanese, Chinese, Bataks, Indians, Ceylonese and Sikhs but" all are one in Christ Jesus." Its Junior and Senior ChOIrs are excellent and the worship services are of a high order. Bro. and Sister Amstutz are always like Martha of old, cumbered with much serving. The pastor's sermons are thoughtful, instructive and spiritual. It has maintained an excellent Sunday School of over 250 children. Financially, in spite of the slump, the church has raised nearly ;;5,000 toward self-support, but the upkeep of the church h1B and payment of interest on its debt has meant a debt of $940 on (he year's working. There has been this deficit for several years. The Ladies Aid raised $1,587 bv a Bazaar and church dinner. $1,000 of this went toward the church hall debt. The church has raised for all purposes during the year nearly $10,000. Mr. T. "V. Hinch's services as Treasurer have been invaluable. The members and friends of the church have subscribed splendidly. Miss Ashley has entered into the work splendidly and the young people of the church greatly love her. Mrs. Horley has been a great help in the Ladies Aid and Miss Norton and Miss McLaughlin in the S.S. Straits Cbinese Bickley Memorial Cburcb. The splendid new buildings of this church were opened at last Conference session 56 MALAYA CONFERENCE, 1931 and dedicated by Bishop Lee to the Glory of God and the Serv.ice of mankind and in memory of Bishop Bickley before a congregatlOn of nearly 1,000 people. The pastor, Bro. Goh Hood Keng, was however unable to be present, being ill in hospital, but God has raised him up and he is now in full and useful work again, and has greatly assisted the Superintendent in the series of special services which have been held in the churches and schools -Fifty-two adults have been baptised this year and 74 received on probation. Miss Corbett has trained an exceI1ent choir. Mrs.Peat has done splendid work in the Sunday School and one cannot speak too highly of her services. Bro. Choo Beng Lim hJ.s made an exceptionally fine Sunday School Superintendent. The local church;s part of the debt on the building has been met by them. The thanks of this Conference are due to the Bickley family for their help towards this $100,000 scheme. The church has raised $15,463 during the year for all purposes. This amount includes $5,841 collected for the buildings. The Epworth League is flourishing. During the year it has held 10 Morning Watch Services, 17 Cottage Meetings, and a series of Social Purity Meetings and one Anti-liquor meeting. Bro. Chew Hock Hin has been transferred by his firm to Batavia and he is doing good work there amongst "old boys" who were in our Oldham Hall and the Anglo Chinese School. Bro. Peat reported that there were nearly 200 present at a service he attended in Batavia. Telok Aye!' Church. Bro. Fang was transferred to this charge at last Conference and he has tackled with energy a very hard situation. The congregations have increased and at the week night service there is an attendance of over 60 persons. Weekly open-air meetings have been organised and Bro. Means has started preach in Hokkien at these services. Six adults have been baptized and one was a convert from these open-air services. He has won two of his friends also. A weekly service has been started at Bukit Ho Swee, off Havelock Road, one of the filthiest slums I have ever seen in Malaya, and there is an attendance of over 20 people. There were 8 decisions from idolatry and sin and a large number of cold dead Christians came to the altar for cleansing and power. Mr. and Mrs. Eklund. and Mr. and Mrs. Means have been a splendid help to this church .. The Epworth League put on a very fine pageant and concert for the purpose or raising funds, raising nearly $200. 'The Christmas service was crowded. The church raised $1,174 for self-support being an increase on this item of $14-8 over the previous year. DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENTS' REPORTS 57

The receipts from rents were $2,001.00 which were nearly :all used up for rates and interest, leaving only a small sum to :apply on the extinction of the building debt itself which amounts to about $10,000. The children's playground was in such a deplorable condition, owing to the broke-down fences that it became the rendezvous ·of " sam-sengs " and scoundrels who stole nearly all the playground apparatus. I asked Mr. Aw Boon Haw, of " Tiger Balm" fame. to assist me and he generously repaired the fence at a cost of $400. The playground is now kept locked, except for certain hours, when it is opened for the children to play in. Tamil Church. This church has been seriouly handicapped because of the continued illness of Bro. Supramaniam from malaria. The work has been maintained at the Alexandra Brick Works and :at HaveJock Road. Financially the church has done weIl and raised $2,184 towards self-support. It also received $1,255 from rents. Owing to the repair not much could be paid on the building debt. The attendance at the Sunday services ranged from 60 to 100. There have been 5 adult baptisms in the church and circuit. Geylal1g Churcb. Bro. E. S. Lau was transferred to this church last year. The Chinese services have been conducted by local preachers during the year. English services were started on Sunday mornings by Mr. Lau and there is now an attendance of 53 and in November a series of special services were held and a number ·came out for Christ. Two of these have been baptized and 6 have joined the church as probationary members. The Sunday School has an average of 70 in attendance. The Epworth League has worked hard to make the English services a success and in other good works. Mrs. Lim Poh Chin has been of .great assbtance to the Chinese congregation. Her daughter's death was deeply deplored by us all. Miss Ang Swee Eng has dlOne useful work as the Parish Visitor. During the year I have acted as Manager of the Gaylang Methodist Girls' School. This school, under the head-mistress, Miss Knutsford, has done excellent work and has an enrolment of 208 pupils. The building is far too small, and is hampered with a building debt of $7,000 towards which we have paid off $1,000 this year. The church has raised $832.00 for self-support but it also has .a building debt of S3,000 which hampers their progress. Bro. Lau has had to teach in the Continuation School to get pa:t of his :support. The property is attractive and it will in the future become an import.ant centre of our work. Conto11ese-Hakka Cburcb. Mr. Fam Cho Phin is the pastor. "This church is growing gradually in numbers, usefulness and 58 MALAYA CONFERENCE, 1931 spirituality. Mr. Yim Feng Fatt, an "old boy" of the A. C. S. and who was converted in the, school chapel services, has rendered splendid help in the Sunday School and church. Every Sunday morning he takes all the children into a separate room and holds. a children's service. His spiritual influence is incalculable. The church has raised $1,033 this year whereas last year it only raised $485.00. Miss Ashley and Mrs. Horley have. worked very faithfully in. this church and in the Sunday School. Foocbow Church. Bro. Chang Cheng Lian is the pastor. As. a result of the special services 37 probationary members have been enrolled and they have been placed in a special class to study the Probationer's Manual in Chinese. During the year a Rickshaw Men's Mission Hall was opened under local preacher, John Ho. lt is a hostel where 40 men live and it is also a night school and a mission hall. Miss McLaughlin continued in her faithful work in this church and her going home on furlough leaves a hard place to fill. The Hin'gbwa Cburcb. A series of revival services were held in this congregation and several made the great decision for Christ, whilst a number of church members also were greatly moved, some shedding tears and confessing their sins kneeling at the communion rails. A probationer's class has been started by the pastor, Mr. Paul Hang, who is a faithful minister of Jesus Christ to his people. The church, in spite of the slump, made an effort to end the year free of debt. They succeeded in raising $386 by special offerin~s and thus ended the year with a credit balance. They raised $1,307 for all purposes. The Bible Woman reports that 15 persons and three whole families were brought to Christ. She says: "They all' were non Christians and had never heard the Gospel before. They were very strict idolaters and jf they did not go to the Temple on festival days they felt uneasy. One day I went to their homes and preached the Gospel of Jesus Christ. They were very happy to· receive Christ and to follow Him. After praying they gave up their idol-worship and followed Christ and now they accompany me to church and are being instructed in the teachings of Christ. 11 The Gospel of Christ is still the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth. One Qf the exhorters said: "I helped to introduce J)1en who had not heard the Gospel of God to the church progressive.'" We wani: more introducers of their friends to Jesus and to belong to the Cburcb Progressive. When I was in Paris I saw the Church of the Hoiy Invalids. I pray God that our church will not be the· church of holy invalids who can only sing "Art thou weary, art DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENTS' REPORTS 59 thou languid?" but be the church progressive. So many are willing to serve only in an advisory capacity. Se11ai lUission Hall, lobore. This congregation of small land· holders has felt the slump very badly with pineapples at 40 cents a hundred and rubber down to zero. Eleven have moved away elsewhere. There still remains a Christian community of 45 adults and 23 children; 4 adults were baptised this year. They have raised $324.00 towards self-support. III. Schools Tbe Anglo Cbinese Scbool. under Mr. T W. Hinch, has had a successful year spiritually, scholastically and financially. In the Chapel Services there has been a very earnest spirit of enquiry and responsiveness which culminated in a week of Special Services when many made a full surrender to Christ. As far as possible these' boys have been got to attend the different Sunday Schools .and probationer's classes. The educational progress of the school has beea well maintain ed and they have led the Singapore schools in Cambridge results and the competitive examinations for local scholarships. Financially the school has done splendidly. It commenced the year with a -debt of $"13,687 and finished with a debt of $3,907 This has been due to the fine way that Mr. Hinch has managed the finances of the institution, and also to the very able efforts of the boys themselves in collecting funds and organising a very successful school concert. An " old boy", Mr. Cheong Koon Seng, gave $1,500 towards the extinction of the building debt on Cairnhill School. Mr. Jenkins has been the headmaster of the Middle School and the general tone and discipline of the school, as well as the fine spirit of co-operation and class work, have been of a high standard. Miss Norton's work in the Primary School has, as usual, been -of a very high order and her efficient work and methods have laid solid foundations for future success. We are sorry we are going to lose a very valued worker in the person of Miss McLaughlin. Her very sound class work and general influence in the Secondary School have been a source of great .strength. Mr. Hinch has a very fine staff of Asiatic masters and to their loyal co-operation and splendid work a great share of the success of the school is due. Mr. Schmucker joined the staff in August. .Mr. Bunn was transferred to the school after the summer holidays. Oldbam Hall. Under the able management of Mr. and Mrs. Eklund this school has maintained its high reputation. In spite of the f!lct that two sets of boys early in the year left the institution and rented houses for themselves outside, the numbers have kept '.up to about the same as last year. 60 MALAYA CONFERENCE, 1931

The Hall needs more boarders to make it self-supporting, for at present its overhead expenses are a little too heavy and the institution is therefore not paying' its way. $4,000 was spent on new apparatus which expenditure should be spread over several years. Methodist Girls' Scbool. Miss Jackson took charge of this. institution in March last and Miss Ashley has had charge of Short Street School. The spiritual tone of the school is of a high order and a series of special services resulted in 35 taking a definite stand for Christ fr(1m the Cambridge ,and upper classes. The Girls' Life Brigade is another "High Spot." Under Miss Duncan and her helpers 60 girls have joined this splendid association which aims at the spiritual, mental and physical well-being of its members. Their cO]uurs sent out from England were dedicated in Wesley Church by the Brigade Chaplain al1d the girls looked fine in their uniforms. 60 members of the Boys' Brigade also paraded to church that afternoon and joined in a very inspiring service. It is a distinctively Christian organization and a weekly religious service is held. Miss Balls has also ably assisted in the work of the school. The work of Miss Ashley at Short Street is deserving, of the highest praise. I am sorry to, say that the school is hampered by a long-sta nding debt upon its running expenses anci this should be remedied at once by making the expenditure fit in to the income. There should be no debts in any of our schools. Fairfield Girls' Scbool. Miss Corbett, assisted by Mrs. Jenkins, has done excellent work in this institution. Over $1,000 was raised the other day at a School Bazaar. Mi.~:; Norton's 'Work among the Leper Women and Children has been truly Christ..;like and our hearts have been touched by the faith and devotion of these stricken ones to whom she ministers. Tbe Eveland Seminar)) was adapted as a Hostel for Raffles College students but in the middle of the year several of the students tried to get the Government to open a hostel at Raffles College saying that our rules were too strict. The Government's. answer was to put the whole lot into the Convent. The District Superintendent has also been the Chaplain of His Majesty's Forces at the Royal Army, Navy and Air Bases. Mrs. Horley has done a piece of fine work amongst the soldiers' wives. which has been greatly appreciated. Weekly services have been held and several tea parties held for these women and their children. Nind Home. The approaching departure of Miss Foote, after' five years' effective service, will be a great l~s to this Home, for the children love her and her influence has been great iIlt their lives. All but two have been ·won for Christ. They gave a farewell the other evening and the whole of the girls wept piteously. I have" never seen such a farewell gathering. DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENTS' REPORTS 61

The Home has a credit of $800 and the old debt has been wiped out. There is now only one class of boarders which is a good thing for the 1 st and :2nd class system is not an incentive to either a good school spirit or a Christian spJrit. A measure of self-government has been introduced and the girls have risen to their responsibility. Mr. and Mrs. Cherry of Elm Park Church, Penn., have again remembered all the children of the Singapore cRurches and the leper women and children. We tender them our thanks for the toys and presents which they sent. May God bless the work of all the workers. Statistics must fail to record the work done. w~ E. HORlEY. District Superintendent.

SIBU DISTRICT This has been a busy year. I have taught English in the Sibu school every morning from eight to eleven except when I was out in the District. Besides, I read t.he whole of the New Testament in Foochow Chinese character, and studied Mandarin. I made two complete rounds of the District, holding quarterly conferences, visiting, baptising, receiving new members, holding Communion services and dedicating new chapels. I dedicated four new chapels, baptised 194 adults, 334 children and received 305 new members. Nine-tenths of these are our natural increase, boys and girls from our schools and Christian families. They are all assets, not liabilities, the result of careful, hard work on the part of the preachers in charge. At District Conference 13 took the examination for Exhorters and 7 for Local Preachers. I visited the different points (about 30) several times on special work, such as with the doctor vaccinating, inspecting schools, dropping in when I was not expected etc., I made a two weeks' trip to the north, visiting Bintulu., Mirl. Lawas and Limbang. At Bintulu we have a colony and have built a very nice chapel. Up-country from Bintulu is fine country and almost uuinhabited except for a few Dyaks. In a few years there will be· thousands of Chinese in this peaceful, fertile dver valley. What a change from China! No bandit~, no wars, no taxes, land free and abundant, and whatever you get is yours. It is not so in China! . We are in Bintulu on the .ground. Miri is the centre of the Sarawak oil-fields. I was there seventeen years ago and saw the first shipment of oil made. There was but one well at that time. Now there are hundreds that produce more than 2000· tons a· day. 62 MALAYA CONFERENCE, 1931

I had never been to Lawas and Limbang before, but found them to be most delightful places, beautiful country, fine soil and everything that gnes to make a wonderful country except the men to develop it. The only people to do it are Chinese, and if I were a young man nothing would please me better than to move in with a bunch of farmers and begin a work that would grow to great proportions in a few years. While you' are on the main job,-6ther things keep happening on their own. Here is one of the side-plays to this kind of work. When I came here 28 years ago, near the first church I built I found a house that was only a roof-the roof set right on the ground like a te!it. In this I found an old man and two small boys. I made the old man the cook for the school, and put the bays III school. The older boy soon took care of the place for me and was my right-hand man. When he got through our school one of our well-to-do men furnished money for him to go to school in China. He graduated from the Anglo-Chinese College, Foochow, and is now Professor of Mathematics in Union College Foochow. The younger boy also went to school in China and worked up to a re sponsible position in the Peking Post Office. He has now been sent to Sin Kiang, the most distant province. in ·China, to organize ·the postal facilities there. As far as we know there is not a single missionary in that vast province, a~d he is perhaps the first Christian to go to Jive there. Pray for Do. Song and Sin Kiang. They are earnest Christian boys and will be about their Master's business. We had a most helpful Preachers' Institute in August. It was especially appreciated by our preachers because they never get away from their work, norha ve .chances to hear and see as people do who live on the main line. J hope it can be repeated this year. The work is growing, and, as I have often said, our greatest concern is to keep up with the expansion. It is marvellous how the settlements grow! Somebody, for some reason, moves to a place miles from -anywhere. Somebody follows him and then somebody else tol1ows him. One of them is a Christian and holds meetings in his house. I hear about it and visit them. We select a suitable site for church and school. The land is always donated, cleared and planted by the settlers, but in these beginnings, money to build must . come from outside. We look the country over, see where the roads wiJ] likely run, and locate our building accordingly. .In the October number of the Malaysia Message I wrote about a trip in the headwaters of the Binatang river, visiting the Somlen berger chapel at Madar and the un-named one at. Tulai. From there I' took a short cut for home right through the wilds. The GoveJ:nment is now making a twelye- foot road following that very .; rouie. Thecllapels at Mador and Tulai are right on the highway, .and the next time I visit them I hope to ride a bicycle;,it will take hours instead of days! REPORTS OF CoMMITTEES 63

To the south of Mador is the newest kind of country, but the highway will go through it, so we are building a chapel w~ere the Binatang road wilt meet the new road at a place called Krupok. I could tell you of Asek and Slalu and Repok, also of Zion-the only way to get there was a jungle path, then a row up a little stream only about six feet wide but deep and swift. It took hours, but now the Government is building a road along our trail. The last time I was there the chapel was so crowded that the people hung on with one hand and foot like on a crowded street car. We took in 23 new members. At Engkilo one of our members has given three acres of rubber in good condition, ,and a house that can be used as a school. This was much needed and the gift is much appreciated. Here is an extract from the report of the Secretary for Chinese affairs who came round some time ago on a tour of inspection. " A general survey of the present conditions among the Foochow colonies in the Rejang can scarcely be written without admiration for the work completed and enthusiasm for the future." The Girls' School is still our prize exhibit. One hundred and twenty are on roll. The attendance is exceptional-sofuetimes there is not one absent. The work has been broadened and the teaching staff greatly strengthened. A Kindergarten entertainment partly in Mandarin, greatly pleased the Chinese. Our building has reached its capacity and we must have a new building to take care of this most important work. Our mothers are coming from this school-they are being taught not only how to cook and sew and sweep, but to make a home attractive and comfortable-not only what is in books, but they are being rooted and grounded in the Faith. We have no debts. About the same time the Foochows went into Sibu, a company of Cantonese with a large capital took up land just above Sibu on the Rejang. They planted a pepper garden and employed about 300 labourers. The company failed and the labourers took up the concession and divided the garden but want of capital and leader ship soon dissipated their resources and the whole scheme fell through. A few of the better class stuck to it. The land was well drained, the soil good and the location fine. For years they have struggled on. Years ago the Rajah asked me to open work among them but for lack of money and more es.pecially because of the language difficulty I got nothing done. During the year I was invited to look their settlement over and was surprised to find them in such a prosperous and contented conditon. Some of 64' MALAYA CoNFERENCE, 1931 the gar~ens were good and there is no doubt but that the settlement js permanent and will grow. They are urging me to take these .schools over and since all our schools are teaching Mandarin the language difficulty passes out. I have promised to get them a teacher. This puts the future of this people in our hands. All that is needed is $10 a month to supplement their budget and give us .a hold. ]. M. HOOVER, District Superintendent.

Reports of Standing Committees and Boards CONFERENCE OBJECTIVES IN RELIGIOUS EDUCATIONS FOR 1931. The following Objectives for 1931 were adopted by the Malaysia Commission on Religious Education and presented to the Annual Conference, which also adopted them. 1. That the whole Conference support the Family Worship League movement, which was so successfully launched last year. 2.. That the Secretaries organize work in Parent Education as soon as possible in the various churches and stations. 3. That the Secretaries secure and distripute promotion literature covering the teaching and living of Christian Ideals and the better organisation of church schools, Epworth Leagues, etc. 4. That all organized churches in the Conference should have church schools, and that our larger church schools assume the responsibility of opening new church schools in out-stations. 5. That well planned steps be taken to increase the number of Epworth League Chapters and to revive the inactive Chapters. 6. That our church schools press for self-support in the matter of providing adequate graded literature for pupils and teachers. 7. That all possible be done to bring about a deeper evangelistic passion in all our church school officers and teachers. 8. That the administrators of day school Sunday schools and pastors of churches in stations where such Sunday schools exist co-operate to provide a church service suited to young people in close proximity to, immediately following the adjournment of, the Sunday Schools. P. L. PEACH. C bair1n;an. REPORTS OF CoMMITTEES 65

HOME J\lISSIONARY SOCIETY \VORK IN PAHANG

In the last Annual Conference Pahang was declared the Home Missionary Society field. The first Missionaries were Rev. S. M. Rajamoney of Raub, Rev. Ang Giok Sui of Mentakab, and Mr. Lam Thau Onn of Bentong who did work among the Tamils, the Chinese, and the Malays. They were financed with the help of a Mission Grant, money received from Dr. W- G. Shellabear and the Home Missionary Society's monthly grant of $90- beginning from February last. The progress of the work was reported by the District Superintendent, Rev. M. Dodsworth in his report to the Conference. Against the claim of $1,000- for last year, the Home Missionary Society began last January with $524- secured from Conference Benevolences and with pledges amounting to $75- which was realised early last year. So, the Society's resources were $59:'1- in cash and pledges. Sometime in September, the credit balance was only $.10- But to the appeal sent out to the Churches, Epworth Leagues, and Sunday Schools there was willing response. Further, in the absence of Dr. Chen Su Lan, the Treasurer, the Chairman and the Secretary -So S. Pa.kianathan and J. A. P. Oswald-secured some financial help by seeing individuals in various places. The result was that the society closed the year ending 31 st December 1930 with a ,credit balance of $173-. The Society begins the 2nd year with $173- on hand, and .$531- secured from Conference Benevolences-with a total of $704- cash. In addition, the Society has secured pledges of special gifts to the extent of $367- which will be increased to $400- before the month ends. It will be in a position to meet this year*s salary .claim and to give a building grant of $500- towards the erection c{)f a parsonage providing a hall in which to hold services in Raub. The Society recommends the following:- ( 1 ) That the Bishop and the Cabinet permit it to share ihe responsibility in all the phases of work in Pahang-in Tamil, Chinese, and Malay work. This alone will appeal to all of our ChlJrches and institutions, and secure their financial help, prayer, and continued interest. (2) That pastors, Epworth Leagues, and Sunday Schools set apart one SUJ.1day in the year to bring the Society's work in Pahang to the notice of their constituency and secure funds. (3) That the following Constitution be adopted:- 66 MALAYA CONFERENCE, 1931

HOME IVlISSIONARY SOCIETY OF THE MALAYA CoNFERENCE OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. C onstituti01t 1. Organisation: The organisation shall be named the Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Malaya. 2. M embersbip: The membership shall consist of the sub'- scribers to the Society's Fund. -- 3. Objects: The object shall be: (a) To preach the gospel throughout Malaya. (b) To strengthen the nucleus of our developing Indigenous Church. 4. Management: The Society shall be managed by a committee consisting of a layman from each District elected quadrennially by the Lay Conference and the same nUllJber of ministers elected quadrennially by the Annual Conference. Vacancies among laymen shall be filled by tpe District Conferences and those among ministers by the Annual Conference. 5. Officers.: The Committee shall elect quadrennially fronl among themselves three executive officers, namely, a President,. a Secretary and a Treasurer. The officers shall present at each Annual Conference a report and a Balance Sheet. The Committee shall meet every year at the seat of the Annual Conference, when five shall form a quorum. 6. A 11)' Alterations to this Constitution shall be recommended only at the quadrennial meeting by two-thirds majority of the' members of the Managing Committee present, and made by the Annual Conference in the quadrennial session. S. S. PAKIANATHAN, Chairma1't_

REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF EDI)CATlON. A Census of the schools has been taken, on which I hope the: Secretary of Religious Education will report and give his impressions. of the religious status of the work being done in all our schools, and will no doubt make some comparison with the results of the census taken a few years ago. Through his efforts a good deal more Religious literature has found its way into all our schools~ The results of which are not as yet very apparent, but we trust~ will become more and more so as the seed sown comes to fruition .. I have .visited most of our major institutions and tried to help the heads with some advice and information. The school in each~ centre, and indeed, 'every individual school, has its own problems. which can only be work~d out by a head who has been long enough. REPORTS OF COMMITIEES 67

3n charge to know all the intricacies. With the hearty co operation of our School Heads, I have been able to complete a Handbook for Teachers, which it is hoped, when in print, may l1elp as a guide to many of our staff to betterl understanding of the working of our school system-if we can lay claim to any system any more than the Education Department can. It does not pretend to explain every difficulty nor does it lay down any rules as to how each individual school is to be managed. That must be left to the Manager of each individual school, for as I have .said each has its own peculiar difficulties which require separate treatment, and I think each manager whilst following the broadlines of our so-called system must work out his own salvation in his own schoo1. For years most of the Heads of our Schools have girded at restrictions imposed on them with regard to religious instruction and vocational training, but I have not seen nor heard of any continuation school which is free from Government Control a vailing itself to any extent of their opportunities. Surely here is the oportunity for us to lay down schemes, whereby we can embark on more rational lines our ideas of what we think is the 20urse of ,diucation we should impart to the pupils of our continuation schools .and so show Government what can be done along such lines, for we must always lead the way in these things and lay down our own curriculum. V\'e cannot do this so well in the grant-in-aid ::schools, but what is to hinder us doing it in our own schools. It is rumoured that there will be some drastic changes in Educational policy next year. So we must be on the qui vive for whatever they may be. There are rumours also that a circular has :been passed round within the Department relative to the number I()f missionary teachers that will be allowed to anyone school. As far as I have heard we shall be able to more than double the number we have, if we can get them, but we have been reminded that these must be approved by the Department before leaving U. S. A. We have often failed, in the past to do this. The fact that Government is starting afternoon schools in .Singapore was, to me, somewhat of a surprise. The regulations they have adopted for their schools will necessitate our modifying :and amending our directions regarding our Continuation Schools. Our policy of these schools need very careful consideration for they are much in the eye of the public who are putting their -own constructions on our methods, and these are rather critical and often not to our credit. We have come under this scrutiny .as we have been the only body that has ventured on such schools and now at last Government is following our lead but in a way that will make comparisons more or less odious if we are not .careful. G. F. PYKETT. 68 MALAYA CoNFERENCE, 1931

CoMMITTEE ON UNIFORM TEXT BOOKS During the year the Revised Ust of Text Books for our schools was prepared after opinions from I nspectors and Principals were obtained. There have been requests for a list of one book only for each subject, making real uniformity. Your committee does not feel that rigid uniformity can be got nor would it be advisable, some choice should be left. We strongly suggest that if possible new texts be lined out in say two schools under careful observation before being put in the list. We understand that this list is now in use in several government schools. Constructive suggestions are cordially invited from anyone. These should be sent to the chairman before Ma v 1 st. The 1931 list will be sent out by June 1 st - P L. PE.\CH, Chairman.

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE O~ CHRISTIAl': LITERATURE. The Committee on Christian Literature makes the following recommenda tions: (1) That the Christian Literature sales-room keep in stock a supply of Chinese hymn books in the various dialects and that the Chinese churches be informed of this source of supply. (2) That $200 be appropriated for a Malay supplement to the Malaysia Message. (3) That there be a grant of $300 for the purpose of publishing Malay tracts and pamphlets as required. (4) That the Committee on Christian Literature present inexpensive kit bags to all pastors for use in distributing hand-bills and Christian literature. (5) That a summary of the Conference report including the· important resolutions be printed in the Malaysia Message and Southern Bell and that this summary be reprinted in pamphlet form.' for free distribution including a report in Tamil. (6) That the Secretary of the Committee on Christian Literature be authorised to purcha-se a portable cinema projector (standard film size) costing not more than $400 and that this. projector be available for loan to the various schools, churches. and mission institutions of our Conference in order to promote the sales of Christian Literature.

B. P. MEANS, Chairman. REPORTS OF COMMITTEES 69 •

A;,\1ENDME~TS TO THE CONSTITUTION. THE MALAYSIA C01\'I.:\1ISSION ON RELIGIOUS EDUCATION. Moved that the Constitution of the Malaysia Commission on .Religious Education be amended as follows: a. By the addition of Clause IX, Amendments: The Con stitution may be amended at any regular meeting of the Commission by a two thi.rds vote of all members present and voting, subject to the approval of the Malaya Annual Conference and the Sumatra Mission Conference.' ,b. By inserting in Clause III, para. 1, after the words "as the Executive Officer of the Commission," the following words: "the Secretary for Epworth Leagues and Young People's Work, and the Secretary for Elementary work" and changing the word Ii member" following to " members." c. By adding the following to Clause IV: "It also may have a Secretary for Epworth Leagues and Young People'S Work and a Secretary for Elementary work, both of w'hom shall be appointed by the Bishop and both of whom shall be ex-officio members of their respective standing committees. " ,d. By changing Clause V, para (3) to read: "Executive Committee composed of the Executive Secretary, the Secretary for Epworth Leagues and Young People's Work and the Secretary for Elementary Work, ex-officio, and seven elected members, five from Malaya and two from Sumatra. Anyone of the ex-officio members and four of the elected members of the Executive Committee shall constitute a quorum.

REPORT OF THE COM.MITTEE ON THE STATE OF THE CHURCH. 1. The Committee recommends that the Commitiee on Christian Literature prepare pamphlets setting forth as clearly as possible the following: (a) The duty of every Christian to give a proportionate share of his income to further Christian work: the value of the every-member, canvas: the dependence of the establishment of an indigenous church OIi the receipt of sufficient local income to maintain same. (b) The duty of Christians to refrain from gambling, and taking part in sweepstakes, lotteries, games of chance, etc. (c) The proper observance of Sunday. We deprecate the tendency on the part a portion of our constituency to 70 MALAYA CONFERENCE, 1931

do unnecessary buying and selling on the Lord's Day. We would call upon our membership to discountenance secular amusements and refrain from all unnecessary travelling on Sunday: we would export all to be loyal to the church, attending its services regularly and encouraging others to "do so. (d) The substance of the .General Rules of the Church, emphasizing the cardinal virtues and making definitely clear to our constituency the principles for which we stand and the goal towards which we are working. 2. We record our deep appreciation of the work of the Malaysia Commission on Religious Education in its campaign for worship in the home, and trust that it will continue its efforts in this direction. 3. \Ve recommend that the work of the Scripture Union bf" encouraged, and suggest that in every station some one of our workers head up this programme for daily Bible Reading. 4. That at least a week be set aside in every station each year for special evangelistic services and that all possible assistance be given to the committees which may be chosen to arrange for the meetings to be conducted by Dr. Stanley Jones. 5. That the following recommendations be observed in connection with the renting of Church Halls to non-Christian groups:- (a) The function must be non-political. (b) No reflection on Christian principles may be expressed. (c) The pastor should obtain the approval of the Board of Stewards in each instance before permitting non- Christian groups to occupy any Church Hall. 6. That a systematic effort be made to keep in touch with the former students who professed Christianity while in schooL We fear that many of them have no definite church affiliation. 7. We record our appreciation of the work done by the Board of Ministerial Training, and trust that no effort will be spared to make the pastorate an increasingly important factor in our general mission programme. Our educational programme should not overshadow the Church Programme, but the former should be regarded as preparing the ground for the building of a strong indigenous church. We commtMld every endeavour to place the ministry in its true perspective, and to increase its influence, in order that it may be able to cope with the lJ;'lost important phase of our work-to gather all of Christ's followers into a strong organization and to enlist them in willing and sacrificial service in the task of bringing in the Kingdom of God. 8. We urge the cultivation of a dynamic type of Christianity. The type of nominal Christian found in some communities is of REPORTS OF COMMITIEES 71

\doubtful value to the cause. \Ve need those who have had a personal experience of Christ. 9. Relative to the two matters tnat have been referred to this Committee from the Singapore District Conference the following recommendations are made: (a) That the Bishop appoint a special committee to study the salary problem of the Chinese pastors, said com mittee to report its findings to the Finance Committee at the Midyear Session. (b) That the matter of Tamil Ingathering Services be discussed at the next session of the School of Ministerial Training for Tamil pastors.

T W. BOWMAR. Cbairman.

COM:\lITIEE ON PUBLIC MORALS. We believe that Government took a step in the right direction jn closing down the houses of ill fame in Malaya. It is our conviction that the state should not license or control vice. To regulate vice gives to the people a false sense of security, thus .making it a snare and a delusion as well as a menace to public morals. We deplore the fact that there is a good deal of loose thinking and talking about marriage and divorce. We do well to bear in mind that, from the Christian viewpoint, marriage is a divine institutioil, and that it is essentially a religious contract. The .marriage bond is a sacred tie and cannot be set aside or severed by a mere wish or whim. We would urge our young people to seek the advice of their parents and pastor " before entering upon a relationship so vital to the mlintenance of the home, the State and the Church." Your Committee views with deep concern the great increase of amusements in our midst. We realize that amusements have a place in the life of our young people, but we would beseech them "to make their amusements the subject of careful thought and frequent prayer, to study the subject of amusements in the light of their tendencies, and to be scrupulously careful in this matter to set no injurious example." Let us avoid "the taking of such diversions as cannot be used in the name of the Lord Jesus." We look with disfavour upon the" mui-tsai " system which is really a form of slavery.. We therefore ask our people to obstain -from this evil and to seek its abolition by all lawful means. It is encouraging to note that many toddy shops on the Tubber estates were closed last year. In several cases the labourers 72 MALAYA CoNFERENCE, 1931 themselves, who once clamoured for toddy shops, now request the managers to close them down. GOH HOOD KENG, Chairman.

BOARD OF CONFERENCE STEWARDS. Monthly allowances for 1931 Mrs. Deng Peng Deng $20.00 Mrs. Toomey 15.00 Rev. Ng Huat Bi 23.00 Rev. Li Koh Ding 30.00 Miss Abraham 15.00 Rev. Kong Iau Siong 43.00 Rev. Ng Khoan Jiu 33.00 (REV.) V. SAMUEL, Cbairmal1.

CoMMITIEE ON RESOLUTIONS. We extend our sincere sympathy to Brother Abel Eklund, Douglas P. Coole, and M. Timothy Huang, and their families, in the loss of their fathers during the past year. May God sustain them in 1heir times of testing. It is with real regret that we learn of the illness of Bishop James C. Baker, which necessitated his cancelling his visit to our Conference. We trust his return to the United States for medical treatment will result in an early recovery of his health. It is our earnest hope that arrangem~nts may be completed whereby he may be permitted to attend the next session of our Conference. We record our delight in the steady advance in the develop ment of an indigenous church in Malaya. Among the outstanding evidences of this are the appointment of a National District Superintendent at this Conference session and the commendable support given by the local churches to the Home Mission work in Pahang. The gratitude of the Conference is due to Rev. P. L. Peach, principal of the Anglo-Chinese School, Penang, and those of his staff and students who prepared the large map of Malaysia which so graphically brought before us the area in which our work is being carried on. The Conference records its thanks for the very helpful visit of the Rev. S. S. Ding, Secretary of Relig-ious Education of the Fukien Area, China, to practically all the Chinese churches of the Conference and the two Schools of Ministerial Training. We express our joy in the anticipated coming of Dr. Stanley Jones to Malaya in 1931 for a tour of evangelism. It is sincerely hoped that nothing may prevent the arangements to this end and pray that great spiritual good may attend his coming...... ' . .... Report I. Statistical Report 0 the Malaya ~DDual Coafenace for the Year Ending 3lat Decembe., 1930.

SUNDAY SOHooLI NAME 01' Ftn.L )bJlB•• SHIP CHARGE

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tpn1l District. 1 5 8 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 18 19 20 21 22 23 241 25 28 27 28 29 30 1200 1 00 4 1 15 4 75 ]0 3 3 2 54 53 36 Ipoh, Chin_ .. 2 '1 : 2:0 ..) 1 7 .. Engl"h .. 87] 1171 60 1 15 18 48 3 ]5 1 2 23 244 229 312 97 25 140 2680 80 ; 2600 88 40 53 241 235 11 5 615 291 2 8 120 100 25 .. Tamil .• 26 " " Kampar. Chine" 840 .. 1 840 120 3 3 8 3 64 1 48 1 4 40 35 11 16 17 125 Pusiug Chi~,e . . • • . . :']0 3110 150 6 5 10 10 35 10 ] 2 52 40 12 :Sungel'Siput, TlJmi/ • • • • 709 ]5 694 240 II 3 1 7 2 85 80 2 88 12 1 1 20 9 740 740 1801 25 tl SitlawBD, Ayer Tawar, Chitlu, 1 13 17 90 3 1 l' 3 70 81 43 50 " .Kampong Koh If 1860 720 760 240 5 43 . 28 35 16 3 215 18 36 4 147 305 240 119 16 35 25 660 240 420 3001 7 ,. BimpangAmpat~Lumut ]:\ 4 15 5 30 3 1 40 36 11 " Bungei Wangi, " 900 120 276 5 8 32 1 1 6 i 9\ 15 15 8 II Third Road, " 624 240 822 144 9 11 13 46 3 ] 3 47 40 18 "Tamll .• •• ]210 410 710 300 3 10 5 18 6 59 2 3 1 2 31 24 12 Tanjong Bamhutan, Ohin," •• 600 240 360 1 5 5 83 ]3 1 1 ]2 10 Tronoh, Cllineu .• 600 240 360 2 17 1 ]6 1 5 1 1 30 25 Talplng, Ch,_ ,900 300 ,4~0 2 4 IS 12 4 42 6 1 2 ] 6 04 52 .. Tamil.. •• 480 200 280 2 15 o 6 1 6 34 ]0 40 1 4 37 22 Telok Anson, Chi_ .• 95 58 5 3 7 I 6 " T/Ullil & reJU(/N 1620 480 1140 II 7! 99' 65 17 2 13 9 2 12 93 72 35 40 15

Totals 1930 •• 640 212 77 355 Totals 1929 •• 463 190 76 281 Increase •• 177 22 1 lU Decrease ••

Kuala Lumpur Dillt~ct. :.. .~ __ :IIl'll'I Bentong, Cllilltst 515 235 280 180 8 8 288 4 1 8 1 1 27 7 16 1 2 80 26 7 Bukit notan. ra",i/ .• 947 240 707 120 1 ] 708 7 5 5 53 76 1 0 31 2 8 32 15 Knjnng. ChillUIl 800 300 180 5 5 305 2 3 5 6 4 59 52 1 3 56 46 Klang, " •• ]450 580 920 300 50 50 5 97 .... 34 13 24 32 18 20 109 3 1 66 88 1 2 100 100 6 , Talnil Cireu" •• 2685 1080 1605 240 10 10 1615 4 1 20 75 8 101 12 5 2 9 80 66 30 100 170 Killlla Lumpur, Engi"h 900 900 ,. 150 150 ]05 4 3 3 36 4 10 65 9 7 22 1 14 140 90 45 112 345 112 " HakluJ·Ctmttmtse 1700 505 1195 860 60 60 21 9 8 10 5 6' 151 14 ]7 3 ] 6 '6r,00' 48 71 " Hinghua Chinu, 1392 360 103:! 240 20 20 2 2 18 25 4 9 42 8 2 11 1 5 45 9 II TalllU Circuit •• 2251 2251 600 20 20 g 2271~~~6~ 7 1 5 2 204 2 2 8 40 1 21 242 110 65 J4entokab 500 360 140 10C 14 5 5 10 14 13 8 1 1 20 16 Port Swettenham, 645 250 395 180 5 5 . 40 4 22 ]0 32 7 3 12 2 2 7 72 44 Raub, Tamil Circuit 14]8 10441 374 208 8 8 382 5 1~ ~ 3~1 8 49\ 8 2 11 2 3 8 44 39 5 liIentul, Tamil 643 •• 643 180 22 22 665 2' 1 9 20 o 4 70 ]2 2 1 4 44 30 10 21

Totals 1930 15346 46041] 0742 S88 3i9 350 ]3 1111 96 58 115 a12 70 72 999 40 67 161210 545 ]8 80 970 074 803 ]63 "5 326 Totals 1929 14659 4788 987]2568 262 262 7 11 1015] 65 70 260 755 99 67 905 24 69 14 137 508 ]5 5S 868 665 696 274 466 754 Increase 68i 871 820 97 9i 2 963 31 15 94 37 3 22 102 109 107 16 12 .. 1\ 73 Decrease ]84 .. "I 7 12 145 443 29 III 21 428

Malacca District.

Aaaban, C/liMII 40 4 4 1 2 2 2 1] 1 25 20 J1 ] Bekok, Chinese .• 15 15 10 10 3 4 2 3 2 ]4 2 4 32 25 Bemban, 40 40 10 ]0 5 4 4 5 ] 121 2 3 1 15 10 .Jasin, " 825 180 645 240 20 8 10 11 10 10 8 8 1l! 2 5 67 115 .Jementah, Chin,,' 102°1 10 1 2 2 6~1 1 32 30 Kuala PUah " 76 76 60 2 8 21 1 1 I' 25 ]5 Paloh I. 25 ..• ]8 6 J4alaceu, 'I 1350 540 810 240 25 20 i 5 10 20 ]~gl :: J 3 1 3\ 65 45 Strait, Clmlue 1000 ]000 85 13 8 16 38 16 8 811 1 6 9 ' ] Itl 195 ]6ti " Tamil Circuit 8821 10iO 2751 240 25 25 3 17 4 39 100 17 U6 2 4 40 1 2 2ii 20 Mantin, Chine.e 106 106 ]0 10 2 ti 9 12 5 39 4 5 1 2 :W 1/i Herlimau, ChiM" •• 860 821) 5401180 28 28 8 6 7 ]2 II 9 37 7 1 4 1 2 .38 33 P. Panjyg & P.Dickson,Chi 756 4110 276 66 8 8 3 1 12 28 7 3 1 3" 28 Segamat ,e, 984 600 834 200 15 15 11 9 10 16 9 37 2 15 1 2 511 48 Sepang, 9IU ., 910 180 25 25 5 i 4 30 30 4 115 2 2 3 40 30 2 -Serembnn, Chinese 1410 ]410 240 20 20 3 5 22 8 111 8 2 3 13 ] 4 60 501 17 Englial, •• 210 210 60 50 1 3 21 31 3 4 30 7 1 1 12 175 ]05110 65 53 . " Tamil eiroN;t 1050 1050 860 30 30 6 1 6 26 15 2 56 2 ]2 1 6 313 30 27 660 5 ] . Seroml Chine" 360 300 180 8 8 3 5 4 8 24 1 24 ] 3 ~7 21 •• Bungel Bambei, Circuit 240 25 215 120 7 'i 4 3 5 8 8 1 25 6 1 8 ] 35 251 " Sungei Bahru " Tampin, 25 25 9 9 1 2 2 20 1 1 I 15 121' :: Tangkah, " 471 120 35] 30 30 3 7 8 9 7 47 4 19 1 2 30 2ii I 1--~--~--~-7--~--~--r-~~---4--~~--~~--,------+--7-----~--~--~~~~------·-.----~--r--r-.------Totals 1930 14i99 3095111042306 429 429 99 86 191 364 126 58 9t6' al) 68 11 165 481 25 fl9 105~ 817 364 16~. 76 623 Totals 1929 14709 323011389] 830 479 479 5 89 61 154 389 63 84 ~~~ 50 107 1 17Q 48~ 28 78 • ~239 ~~8 ~:~ l~g' '-fJ11H.i'i."1---. Increase •• 90 465 476 10 25 40 63 24 16 Decrea~e •• 285 " 50 50 5 29 20 391 5 51 3 9 18 11 • • • • 64

Penang District. Bukit Mertajam, Chine" 252 1801 72 ]0 10 2 0)3' 3 11 1 7 72 42 116 400 3IJ0 4u 10 10 3 2 2 , • 10! 6 Kulim, Chine.1l .. 1 Nebonlt Tebal, Ta~il •. 117 11; 20 20 3 2 8 3 13 6 4, 1 4 IIi 69 7 Pnrit Huntar, Tam.' •• 1i2 40' 30 21 18 Pellang, Cllinue, Conion_ g~: 1:~ 1~: ~g ig ~ 8 1~ 7 ~ ~:\ :11 2 10 ~\ ~ 20 15 ,." Hokien 1280 1280 550 70 70 14 4]0 64 19 5 1231 10 4 15 3 26 250 205 20il " Engliah 255 186 150 50 85 90 Tamil,. .. •• :~g :g~ ::g l~g l~g Ig ::; i~ 1~]~ ~~ 1~ 6" 41 a~! ?" i~ 1111 Pro;'. Wellesley, Kedah, TlJmi/ 161 780 835 10 10 • '1 6~'1 2 11 13 29 61 11 23 0) 1 8 n(-I Sung('i Putani. Chinue 370 37 10 10 ' . 1 3] 2:; .• -\ •• 'I' -21: : : : '''\ ~~2 .~ " Tamil 33 I 334 •• 20 20 42 3 1, • ~~--~--~~--~---+--~'--+---T--~----~~--~-----+--+------T------~~'--'-----'--~-7--'---+-- Totals 1930 .. 6230 1674 44842002 350 35~" ]~" 46 22 46 HI 74 25 516 51 56 13 i3 262 11 73 8i61669 65~ 7 20~ 108 Totals 1929 , . 7346 2166 5180 712 215 215 •• 3 13 a6 27 58 142 62 35 470 39 14 H 70 264 11 77 11001489 7.5, 1.5.3 321 486 Increase .• .• 1290 135 135 .. 10 12 40 12 42 5 .. 18 .... Decrease •• 1116 492 696. , 19 13 5 12 10 3 2 4 224 ., 9 8 12 328 .. Sarawak District.

Bibu 720 720 4 12 11 8 8 22 12 132 7 2 15 6 ] 8 200 170 3 25 60 240 Bukit Lima 65 65 6 l! 19 0 8 45 15 30 1 3 35 25 Asan , 84 84 2 4 3 2 3 26 15 1 6 tling Cbu An 240 240 " 5 47 10 ]0 9 32 16 129 ]8 17 2 8 ]]0 70 10 20 5 Hinghua 200 200 " 24 15 69 81 ]6 100 94 2 5 120 80 X\vong Hua 440 .. "2 74 30 53 39 43 9 212 17 5 40 ] 4 a5 30 Enlurai 440\420 420 .• 18 24 25 24 113 12 7 30 . 1 4 48 40 6 100 8 Da Pho ]50 150 3 9 2 32 7/j 91 ]8 198 1 4 114 70 Ne Se Akak 240 240 1 18 4 4 4 20 31 20 1 5 00 50 8 2 2 20 12 72 20 Labaan 470 470 Nang Chong ., 420 420 " 25 15 22 30 25 2 75 5 2 3 49 1 2 35 20 1 25 20 Bing Nanl[ Cheng 4601 460 2 14 2 12 20 36 4 20 ] Kni N~a Geng ]80 4 8 10 14 1 14 1 2 30 20 2 Berekot .. 320180 320 2 322 6 6 49 I) ] 95 360 360 ,. 4 36 7 13 12 7 9 611 27 4 12 1 3 92 4f 11 36 Tuna Po 1 Lollok Geng , • 3401 340 .. 2 342 12 18 24 ]0 47 4 132 Tiena Siang Dio 60 2 62 5 228 6 1 33 5 8 7 1 2 25 20 2 "Talljollg Kunyit l~gll 120 .. 2 122 2 8 15 6 11 69 3 2 15 1 1 30 20 Bukit Lltn 420 420 :: i :: 3 423 16 9 18 10 5 42 25 1 1 BiDatang ~20 120 120 8 9 7' 5 8 2 54 5 2 2 H ~ 1 2 ~~I ig 96 "J".. ... _- 96 14 6 12 _20 8 2 30. 18 _•• __ .2 __ -.20 Bin~ulu " .... 'I ]04' 00 Hador :~61 2 3 2U! 30 Pulai :: I:: liii 20 30; 30 Krupok " I :: I , - .... -_ -__ .------_c"I"____ ,. ____ ... 334 -';94 -14-9-4-9--:!-':0-1C-11-\6:---9-3-'~:;---17~-54-+--- 10;~~09 -. 8~ 761 Totals 1930 5925 5925 .. I ...... 34 5959 --;;~liI3-;;-0- 262 5] 1638 226 253 Totals 1929 5157 5157 ...... " 40 5197 252 214 .. 243 1334 44 7 537 762 14 45 883 . 663 127 2901 105 JncrE'8se 768 768 ., I 762 82 305' 117 262 51 3~4 105 49 13 4i!1 173 3 9 121 46" .. 121 253 Decrease 6 20 .. .. 38,214

Slngapore District. (Jantonese, CI,i~8Il 1260 300\ 960 .• 5 5 5 97 6 6 6 6 112 !i ] '7,;1 82 62 21 Foochow, 1560 480, 1080 360 1 2 1082 8 11 9 2 105 4 3i: ] 84 50 1 Geylang, 1269 600 659 480 6;; 2 '~I .~~ 6 72 2 40 1 8 68 68] 00 31 108 llinghull, .. 1675 365 1310 31 3 3 131 9 1 18 18 2 10 Johor Bharu, Tamil .. \ .. 1 16 Payalebar Bonei, Chinese J089 720 319 2, 2 8' 4 6 4 Straits, .. 3540 3540 5,10 201 20. , 24 52 H 72 49 18 ,;: ,:: ':1 ,:::: l J ,:: '" 1 i .:"~~ jL~ 963 240 723 480 25 25. , 7 6 6 !t2, Tamil Church " 155 21 2 27 1 1]0 104 411113 'l'eluk Ayer, CI.inu, 2375 400 1975 720 ;) 5 5 9 6 71 291 1 4 73 54.. 4' 20 2 13 ]50 100 5 50 170 164 a9 8 . , :n 2 2i6 ]751 95 40 139 Wellley Church ,-=62:..:7..;..i;.-=12~0:...:0_i___'_50.:..7-'-7.;_12..;..40-0~-1-:01-1 ~ -'-' ~T'.. -'c1~50~8~-_-2=r__-=2+_--4i - _6 _____4-=;-.=.:12:.;-. ---l-l-;r -- 229 ~-3 -177 --~~-1-8-1::';11::'---'18=":4"::2; 926i-~.:...4::.:71S:.=.2-'5:.:9T-~-;-~642 Totals 1930 19948 43051564349801 711 73, • .. 17 15732 74 90 138 267 81 68 TotslslD29 1471 52521580449801 3" I.. .. 16 15911 85 71 137 363 i6 19 1009 171 8 18 126 361 11 95 1180 94711156 262 885 Inl!rease ., 68 ., 1 " , • 12 • • 19 1 5 49 149 58 26 lSI 2 16 162 520 Decreale. ' 947 161.. 191 ".. 5 17 11 96 5 43 21 •• 8 248

Conference Totals.

Ipoh District 7004 37401:1,2611769 127 12] 171 112 20 498 77 77 1185 i8 81 19 68/; 24 102 12041062 212 77 855 K. Lumpur" 15346 460410742 888 359 359 96 68 115 312 70 72 999 40 57 15 210 IS 80 9iO 674 163 445 328 MaIacea " 14799 8695 111042306 429 429 99 86 194 364 126 58 946 80 68 11 165 25 69 ]050 817 160 76 523 Peuang " 6280 1674 448 2002 350 350 15 46 22 46 141 74 25 1S16 61 56 13 ;3 11 i8 8i6 669 7] 201 108 1Iarawak 5925 5925 ,. 834 194 305 360 262 51 1638 149 49 201016 1:' 54 1004 709 8 76 226 258 ~iDgapore .. 9948 4305 1564 4980 71 73 74 90 13S 26~7~----~8~1r-~68~--~1~]~58~~2~29~~3~4~~13~I~i~i~~~~1~3~1~117_ __~]~3~42~9~2~62~4~7~,~2~59~~~~6~4~2 Conference Totall 1930 , • 92521801860159 13N5 1386 1838 30 820 562 1002 942 690 3111 6892 577 345 912326 320 108 48 64464857502 941 1025!2207 Conference Total. 1929 , • 9i84 061168449 IJ 1162 73 660 529 687 365 372 160 5755 454 84 1650 281 103 435 63584282413 1819 lQ282204 Increase .... 605 160 33 815 ,. 318 191 637 123 i 676 ., 64 88 575 83 Decreale 582 2593 8290 ., 176 43 ., r423 892 _ 378 3' 8 Report 2 Statistical Report of the Malaya Annual Conference for the Yur EndinJ 31st December, 19~____ ~

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I Kuala Lumpur District, I ,i ...:':":"':::':" :1 I I Bent.ong, Cllinne ) 3200 I '1 I I 11 300\ 500 ~\I. Buk t Rotl1n, 7'omil .. 1 2GOO ~O~Ji2, ~fi2·72 • • • \ ;)~ Ii 1i0')1 43 1 .. :: I :: .. 3 :: I:: 4 " 4 964 Kajan~ C1Iincsc .• 1 8000' ]1 :;00 .. .. ::1" 'j;'l' .. ~:: " .. i .. 305 Klang, ...... 2 10liOO 1 2000 200 1I:! :112 II .. "2( :: ..~~ 1313 ., Tamil Crr",it •• .. \ " i !!02 2!1:Z l' :J', , 2 •. Kuala LUlllpur, .. 3,.. " 10 i :: ~Ol~ English 3%00: J8000: 472 538 20 20 40 30 .. ~~I" 230 :!:!07 Ha/(/;a Cantonae 211 :;(100' !.!flR' 710 .. I .. I .. 1~~ :: :l7(j1 140 ~9(Jl 1.. 27 5 .. • ~Oi :: : : 11~, i :: 1~ .. Iii ,'j247 Hing/iua Chinese • ]. fiOO :: 60 )Hr;: ~;;!) ]1 1 .. •• 1 •• •• I •• 7 •• 7 1:121; .. Tamil Circuit •• )1 J,;OOO 11 .. 7000 100 286 i03 lOs!! ,;' ~51" 5 10 .. 170 85 4095 Mentakab .. i • . I 100 10( , • ,. I .. . ~O .:0 : : : : I. ~O: :: :!40 Port Swettenham, 6000 15 ~~O(ll 3 'j ~:o 5 420 Raub. Tamil Cirlui! •• 402 Sentul Tamil 1000 : : :1 600 2:; :, :. I .. , 1',)11"2'\ 15. . 1' . . 1~~ .. Ii ~:: 1 :: I :: .. :1 :: I :: "111 :: I .. -f-...:....-~1~0: _____88~ ['- j 'rotals 1930 10 677001 11 44400 4671 5oo!1 217~1 i140 10 351 481 538 25 45 58 .. 38 20 13 187 40 .. 170 401 19784 Total 1929 3561170 9 668001 10 37400 1857 244!1 !!:l:1O ';3!l8 9 431 551 469 43 H 64 .. 21 50 139 .. 279 481 481 804 17803 , fl \ 1 900, ] 70(10 2804 ~~~~ 69 .. 1 20 13 48 40 ..... 77 .. 198t Decrease .. I .. !I~51 . I !l4fl . I· ..I';" , -! i 1742.. •• 1 "8, "7\ 18 6 .• 21 12 .. •. 311 311 403 I

MalaccR District. ABaban Chincse . • • . 1 500 •. I I 44 Bekok, 'Cilillese • • • . ) 200 .. ! :: 25 1 400 •• :: I:: Bemban, ". .••. 30 :!3 :'3 .. ~I .. 3 .. 3 106 Ja~in", . . •. 1 4000 ] 2000 35 l.'lU 2J,'j 2;'1 •• 25 .. 25 , 1 " 7 9115 Jementall, Chill'S/' " •• 1 1600 .. I 2 10 1 3500 •• Kuala Pilab " .• •. •• :1 \ :: Patob .... 1 400 •. 76 Malacca, " .. •• 2 9390 I 1000 :i 67i 16i .. 10 .. 10 1012 " Straits Chill1l31l •• 219 219 2 28 .. 5 .. 5 ... 60 40 40 100 2044 • Tamil Cllrtl/it • • ., 1 ]500 1 2000 120 )99l 309 22 .. 4 .. 10 .. 22 .. 22 3119 M~ntin, CMIlCS6 • • • • 1 1600 .. 35 " 161 Merlimau, CliineRIJ . • • • J 3000 .. 1~~1 131 1 .. 21 i03 p, Panjang & P. Dickson, Clritu!! 2 3800 .• 25 25 •. :~Oll Se~amat " •• 2500 .. 1000 50 50 2.. 10 403 Bopong, " .. 1 1500 1 1800 82 82 .. 2 .. 5 .. 5 1047 Cllillcse . • • • 1 18000 1 Bercmbon. 1200 25 225 250 2.. 5 5 • I 5 1;02 "Englisll •••• 1 10000 108 108.. '39 .. 10 10 15 .. 10 .. 7U .. 95 420 420 525 10411 " l'amil Ctrc"it •. 1 3000 io~~ 186 1256 8 .. 10 .. 7 .• 29 .. 37 15 li5 52 241" Sorom, r,1Ii1l •• r •. 260Q .. 22 .i7 89 1. , 6 397 4000 .. Sungei Rambei, Cirmit •• 50 60 1 110 1 .. 10 5 " 5 .. 3 •• 13 .. 13 345 i1ungei Bahru" .. Tampin. " " 330f) .• 1300 34 Tangkah, " .• 2500 .. : :251 : :25 :: 1 :: .. )I :: :: :: :: :: :: 25 .. 25 .. 25 431 ---- -, ,- ,-~-- -'-1-·------,-,;-~+---'-,,------'-----r-- Totals 1930 21000 1373 2300 1751 3124 15 214 " .. .. 30~ 475 47;; 785 ]6337 Totals 192' 18300 4311 75 686 2447 6833 14 9176 996a\ 393428 102i ....".. 2710 10049.:.: .'2'. ..'Il~~ "" .. 190...... 41 566 566 1007 20526 Increase 2700 1I114 1 )5 .• . . •. I •• •• •• ,. .: '.' ,..... 24 .• .• " pecrease •• 2938 75 (;fl6 :1709 .. .. 3(j 35 Iii.... 17 51.. 24 63" .. .. " .... 114 91 91 222 4189 ,

1 Penang District. , I I 1 I I 1 Bukit Mertajnm, Chinca~ •• 900(1 •• 225 '1..h 3 2 " •• 2, .• 51 " ~ .. .. I .. )2 414 Kulim, Cllillcse • • • • 5 .. I •• 5 .• " !i , 55 Ncbong Tebal, Tamil.. •• :! I, ":11 :: ~(ll 7 •• .. 30 10 .. . io 40 2711 l'arit Buntl\r, Tomlit .. • • ~S' !!ii " l •• •• 25.. .• .• 25 595 Penang, Cllillcsc CantOfWlSf •• ~'II f" •• •• •• _5.. " •• 5 183 , "Hokim .. 1 20000 43:\ ;'0:. g.... 7i1 6;;.. 65 ]38 2157 :, ~ngl~11 •• • • 1 19000 1 20(100 l:1H.) :In! 2!1.. " 129 15.. 15 143 2488 , 1 alii II .•.• 1 2500 3:1' 5 " :!~i ., , • • • 35 166 . • 166 20ij 1077 P;ov. Wellesley, Kedah, Tamil , . 3 " 855 Bung(1i Pat:mi, Ghillc"e •• 12nl ~;'i " i :: : : ~~: : : : : : ~~ 164 ., h Tamil •. .~~!) ;, " .. 2;';i :: I .. .. lI3., .• •. 33 812 __ ' __ , .. ...:.;..-,;-,,'..:;,'...;--,-' '~-c·c.:.·"""''':·':''-T'':'·':'· +-~. ___ -=-:. __ i Totals 1930 2 28000 3 42500 433 225 23R I ~:n H .. 37a 256 9073 'l'otal8 1929 :I 32000 3 51500 1308 449 ]889 4, " 10;: 20 .• 4 2~~ ~!~ 8946 Increuae 495 IS4 44 .. 27G 236 •• .23 498 127 Df.'CreBSe •• 4000 9000 875 224 17 12 .. 4 ..

Sarawak District. [ I : I 8ibu .. 1 30000 1 20000 r;: 24 .. 33 .. 38 1037 9 "1· :!Oi .. I " Bukit Lima .. ~ •• 'l: •• .. I .. 70 j ., \: •• , 3 .. ~ Asan .• "I , ) .. 89 Bing CIIU An .. 1, 2:iOO' 1 500 :l.. .. :: I ::' , 25!1 .,1 Hlnghua .. ~I JOOn ., ? " ! I .. I 207 Kwong Hua .. J •• 1 .. ~ .. 4 ·1.,:1 EnBuTRl •. 1 i()a .. l~ :: I I 428 ; HaPbo ., 1 35110 ) 1000 ~ .. 1 I 1 ] ...... 7 168 Ne Be Akak " I :: 2 " 1 I 241 Lrlbaan .. i .. 1 .. 2 470 Nallg Chong .. 2 .. ., :: I :: 434 :: 1 .. 3 :: Sing Nan Chen~ I .. ! :: 1 .. •• I •• II.... 11 .. 1 .. 3 465 Kui Nga Geng 3000 •• ,. 2 .. 1 I 182 Serekei .. 2 .. 3 ~ .. :I 325 Tuna Po ., i :: 2 •• 2 :: :; ::: I :::1 .. a :: 364 Lobok Geng " i 1 .. I .. i ;; ~~ ~~ 3 345 Tieng Siang Dio 1.. 1 1 1 .. I 1; •• .. I" 8 67 Tan~ong Kunyit , 2 .. 2 11 ] •• , 1...... : :: 3 125 Buklt Lan •. 1 5000 1 " 2 I :: 423 Binatang " 3 " 4 120 Engkilo •. 1 " :: i:: :: :: :: :: :: :: I :J: 1111 Blnt\llu .. i~ool :: I :: I ~ ~ I ~ ~ Madot 7001••. .. I .. Pulai 500 ,. I :: 1 .. 1 Krupok 700, •• I" ", .. i .. :: H:: :: :l~ ::: I:: :: :~ :l::: ::r: I:~~~~ :: -+----;---~----+-----.:--_., --- . 7 .• • 1 •. . . 1 13 4il()0: 4 26500 , . li31 ., i 5'1 ,1 -:. :. :::: : Totals 1930 ,. -:-: --!--5~'j --:-:+-_:_:--i.' ___ '_j~-+'---I ~~! -.-. 8-;-.- . ...,1.l.-~-~,.:..:-. -,1 --.-. -4+ - .. :9 g~:. :.w::. I:. :. 67 63e~ ~100 12833 H!l33 311 Totals 1929 .. !l 40700 4 26500 II l,jri 91 75 7199 Increase -1 n400 •• .1 I 2~ "11'!'Il! .. '4' I;. •• .. I' .. .. 71! .. !l 1 1 1 4 - .. I .. Dccr~ase " 12833, 14933 .. .. v.... 45 .. 1 " ., ., ..! .. ..,.. .. ,. " .. 8 1131

Sinltnpore District. I Cnntnn~sc, Chinese .. .. I " 2! " H 63 63 7il HUH Foocbow, ., .. 7500 " I ., li3 1;3 ,. .. I :: 3 :: I :: 3 2 .. 2 5, •• 12 .. 15 11711 Geylung. " !lOOO I~O 286 :1,;0 4jl) II 10 2 2 2 4 13 .. 15 13;;2 lIinghua, ...... 1 .. a' l' 28 :: I :: 2 " 2 .. ~i :: JC: •• IV 13~4 !Hl !l, .• I .' !HI Johor Bbllru, Tlltllil " I Payalcbar, " :: I :: Benoi, ". " ...... 250 .. ~8 .. 4...... oj :l6U Straits, .. 1 65000 j 2UOOO 5841 .. : 453i 10 20 80...... 100 15463 VHii! 1l(J',2(l Tamil Chur~h ., .. 1 3200(l 1 . • 4~6 3Siil 768n\ 5 l' :: I :: 75...... 1110 Teluk Ayer, ('llillf'S/: .. 1 i5000 1 . . liOU !10 14lUi 441; 10 2U •• : •. 4(l.. •• •. 60 331;; Wesley Churl'h ., 1120000 1 :;;,"00 . , 1000' 7500; 23i4 11804 I I ;:1 ...:.:..:.... ';-":;=-6:;-::=::=7-":''- ..:..' -+-1';:"1:-';85~--.C:;~3fl ,- Totals 1930 -;J312~(\~ -; 91i:iO -~;~;I' 1595 !!H58G !lj 41i1 l.'llOS 151j 3,'j 68 .. :l7570 Totals 1929 35623 I~~:,ai 48;'19 1748 69 58 .. 60 .• 416 291 10 301 80 68076 Increase ... "r· t2.. ~,on .. ~ 91~~~11 1~~30122956 10 .. .0 .. .0 .. ...0 •• . 5963 21361 6037 30~;! 30411 231 34 44 •• 51 103 10 113 193 :10506

Conference Totals.

Ipob District J3 64830 26950 2726 206 12323 197;; 4907 34 171 59 :10 1 1 35 3 10 58 H 9 236 10: .. 375 178 178 !j;"j4 1887 .. K. Lumpur" 10 67700 11 44400 4676 286 500 2178 7140 10 35 48 li3R 25i 20 45 58 .. 38 20 13 187 HI' .• 351! 170 170 401 19784 Malncc:L 19 611)00 7 21000 1873 2300 1751 312~ 15 91 63 39:1 J IIi }( 49 .. 'S1 •• 214 ,. 300 t75 47;; 7Jl5 16337 Penang 2 28000 3 42500 433 225 2384 281, 15 42 25 26" !! ~ ~ 13 .. 88 2 231 4·1 .. 378 256 256 642 9073 Barllwuk .. )3 4il00 4 26500 iii .. ;") 8, ~ 1 11 1 4 29 " 62 .. 67 li:lIi'! Singapore 5312000 6 91750 6767 159 29586 9746 18108 ~; 58) ~~ 1517 :l,;' 25 (i(l 40 6' 32 80 71i 48 6R 16 •. 365 188 188 613 37570 1;1--'43-TI~3-J2TI-1-12"--61-+--9-6-5;-·-1-10---.-.~.-.~-1-8-36-i)~12-6-7:""""'-'-;-1-2-67-;--30-6-~;--'-10-80-0;' Conference Tota1B 1930 •• 62 580630 41 253100 159i5 2087 44934 18034 -3~09-~ 140 397 302 27.3 84\ ~:l31 Conferl'nce TotalB 1929 .. 20i62 7 14 Ii 124 273 491 :\79 31 57 'i;;8500 42 259250 26605 24592 57321 3212 :!I [In, 4106 '1 454 60.. .. 14761862 19188 ~6~042 14640'1 1 n~rease . • • • 5 22130...... •. 124 .• :~41 •• I l)ccr~nsf' ... • . 1 6150 10645 22013 123!!i 2728 311862 16 •• 189 469 210 176 "4/'561"41 .. 6 "20 .~ll .~O:: :: .~60 595 "19 Si4 38402 1 i Jl:XPENDITUB£ Indebtrdnell

NAME AND LOCATION OF SCHOOl,.

Ipoh J)1atrict. I lpoh, A. C. School • . . . 1 U )& 7 ~~ .. .. b 145 3~i 110 .. :~ :: 1~~ . ~ 151000 120000 10000 250( 26022 . . . • 48140 2639 75401 .. ]678 71355 7303J " A. C. C. School. . . . 141M 23M3 23721 l! 38 -j 5 ~~ .. .. 3'1' 78 166 180 .. ;~ ;~ ...... 11163"1" .. .. 1940 24574 .. 680 ., A. C. GirZ,' School .. 1L" .... 57 25~ 81 53 41~ .. 14~ 4 150000 12000 6600 .. lU68 . . 3860 21576 1740 35686 3642 881 36205 -10734 " " Girls Bordin.g Schoo 1 J.. 9 li50 195~ 65 2'~ ...... 1 2248 .. 2148 .• 200 " Horley Hall .• •. ~~ 1 15000 2000 . . .. .• WiOO 250 16500 .. lIioo 9000 Kampar,.J.. C. 8chool .• i~ ~ 41 ~~ . :: :: :: ii 17i 93 : : 1 :: :S37 .. 32 l! 40000 .. 1500.. 10673, .. , .. 711 24474 .. 239 22938 ~om " A. C. C. ., .. .• 1 U MF 4 ...... " 4f 45 . • " 89 .. 7...... 4102, .. 175 4577 •• 820 3493 43H PUling, Chil1,.e .-.r. S~"«>I .• 1 40 MF " 17 17 .. 10. • . . . • . . .. 80..! 360 7f) ISO .• 0510 51( SitiauMn II. C. School •• 1 40~! 3 : :: :: :: 45 153 76 27~ .. 117 1 ...... sa08! I . . 13300 498 22106 . . 511 20999 WilO I, A. C. Girls School •• 1 39 M! 1 4 ...... 1~ fU 16 8).. -l2 .. .. 2670.. ]5871 .. 4!l37 " 239 1826 .. 950 54H 63114 " Ayer Tawar Chillue" •• 1 40 ME 3 .' .. .. ~~ ~~:: .. 1 4000 .. 300.. 2010 .. 75 2085 .. 2u95 20~~ .. SU"gti Wangi •• 1 42 MF .. 1 ...... ~1~ 12...... 150.. 120; .. 120 .. .. 63 " II. C. S. (BrllAs) •• 1 33~! 27 •• '2~ . • d 70 i36' .. I 736 .. 786 7: Sungei 8iput A. r..S .. 1 40 M! 1142 :: :: .. :: :: 75 .. ..•. 371~~ •.•. 12:: :: :: 250:: 28601 I 2860 .. 2930 2113~ Taipi"K T"IM!"" Gi,.I,' S(/,«>I .• 1 -10 _F. 2 J8 47 146 106.. " .. 1 15000 .. 3000.. 7181i·· 1 800 21715 .. 20915 2091~ • A. C • .5cMol .. .. 1 37 M 1300 . . 80 1050 1130 T. Rambutan, A. C. School .. 11 43 M_~ .. 1015.. 55 960 1015 1 ...... 43..:: :. '.' 6:1: '.':. '.':. :: :.:. '.. :. .::. 1 TIl,," AnI"" A. C. S~"ool .. 5:2~; 11312°91~, ~I' . . 18~03 III 43 M 3 1~ :: :: 38 102 26~.• 181\ 2~ . . ~< C' 836 33536 " 728 31t03 3213] " "A. C. ConI. 8clwol •. 43 !of •• 2 .. .• .. 20 4~ •. _ "1 .' 61. . .. .• ...... 2792 .. :"140 '+•• 2792 " .• I -t-t---i----1H--\-+++--'r-...;--2;--';----;--I------J,--\-+.-- .------:-----;c----r- I 1 Total~ 1930 .. ~1 112 .... 1'18 565160JI04:! 108 J08 3605 i4 60~ 13 375001) 134000 24440 21)00117985 18748 103231272-15 9723 273701 36"2 ~828 2541139 211640~ 70 TotnlB 1929 .. 17 106 .... 161 515139~1l10 52 15 3312162 UO 18 435300 180000 27640 3S001M81; ]3354 15210 95001 12735 22590720500 "96S 2246R5 ~5015a Increase " .. 4 6 .... 17 50 20'1 .. 56 33 293 ...... 80300 ...... 13168 5394 ., 32244 .. 4ji94 2860 30254 1625( 70 Decrea8e .. ", 68 ...... 88 41 5 .. ·16000 3200 1000 .. .. 4887.. 3012 16858.... 1 1 Kuala Lumpur District. I

-..' .. I .. Knjang, (ChiM8') .. .. 1 H~~ 3 .. .. "I .. 53 53.. 7...... 1500.. 401.. .. \ 485 I 19~ 1('80 1080 108~ .. Khng, (AlIglo.ChifllJ!8 Sellool) .. 1 39 M 1 17 .. :'1 64: 119 16!! 78, .. .. 489 •. 210 3 53000 .. 5000 .. 16436...... 32.1.16 .•.. 48552 60 545 47550 -18155 IP' Klang (Continuation St'hool) .. 1 39 M.. 3 .. .. , ... , .. 47 65 .. ... 1 U .. 15...... 2855 .. 2858 2858 2858 3 ,. (ftltlltodi.,/ Gi,.Is' .~(1IO<1i1 •• 1 39 F] 6 .. .. 41 16 8S 50' .. . . 158. . 53 1 11000 10000 3000 60C 3671 • . . . 4711 32112 H3!4 422 7155 i5;; 13P K. L.,(ltIe!hodu! Boya' School) .. 1 42 M 4 27 .. 30·1 170; .. . . 832 .. 117 2 160000 60000 1800018000 30044 . . . . 48951 . . 76995 4818 i2177 71i!){l;:; 4:!67 2061 K. 1,./ (Continuation Scbool) .. 1 42 M 1 13 " :: 1~~12~~ 202 0001 .. . . -102. . 33 .• . • . . . • 19081 ...... 19081 2335 2]00 146-16 19081 F (ll.thodi8t Gtrz,' Bohooll .. I 36 ]0 4 U .. .. U. 87 2521 137 49 .. 568 .. 12~ 3 90000 2000() 6000 .. 12939 .. 2·196 34!155 3480 513H 2376 849 49864 530811 . Holt Hall .. 1 38 F 1 .... 1 •• .. 50 "Ii.. .. 1 .. 3liO.. .. 3040 5163.. 260 3300 175 i515 76110 Mentakab (Anglo·Cbine8e 28 MF .. 397 School) ...... 1 I ...... /' .. .. 4 17 ~1.. 2 .. ; .. j .. .. I.. 197.. 200.. .. 1 197 .• :!00 I 197 Port 8wettenbam (Continu· ation School) • • . • " 1 36 M .. :!533 142 1000 3 ...... 261 6~_ .... ~_~~ __ ~_~"I .. I 6000 bool .. 2391...... I.. 2391 350 .. i 2 ...13 .. 1-0--..- .-.-i---'2\'--9--'2i--']ij" 767 66 53 2124 50 flOl 9 34350 18600 '5-1-2-1 - Totals 193U .. 1 22~53~~'1~~7- 314~~;;U-00 88~0~1...:5"-·3-0-.1..!0r--7-8-5-i9,...1-14-9~S·2-1i-1·--7-2-2-6.!...2-1-;~ 91~-2-0~~~ ~~1~455 4551 -1151 Total8 1929 .. •. 9 .. .. 10 7~ .... 196 5521032 610 30 55 250~ 54 8-J] 10 284400 76000 328001R600 76795 34li7 6986 9570]]10556 186509 1091.1 6582 173801 181482 5102 3568 Inr.reaBe •• .. 1 .. .. 2 U .. .. 25 .. 55 157 31i .. 222...... 29600 20000 1550 .. 11220.. 873 19281 .. 26754 4022 2527 3142-1 37973 588 Decrease .• •• .• ...... " .. 22 . . • • . . 2 . . 4 -10 1 ...... • • . . -i17 . . 3330 . . . . • • . . . • 551 , Kalacca, District. Ii, I Aeahan, ChifUlse •• .. 1 40 MF .. '2 ...... 70 1000 1370 1370 1370 .... I...... ' .' .' ! •••• I! • • • • • • :100 . . .• 1 ] 40 MF 1 ...... ~Ili, ~9" ~.' :: 1 796 Bekoh " •• .. _ _ v .... I, •• -IOJ ...... '''.'",.-,1 395 796 796 Jementah" ...• 1 46 l\I_~ 1 ...... 1300 1300 1300 'Halaeea. An.glo·CllifUlle Bchool. 1 40 ~ 1~ .. .. 18 61 i32\ '86 :: . ~;,~ 2;~:: ~~ 1/15000 15000 4000 : : 9~~~ :: Hie91 i i 471 :101147 200 29926 30376 " Malay Hos/~1 .. 1 -10 1.1 •• .. I ..... 21 1 3 30001 ;'000 300 .... 700 800 .. . .. 700 2~g\ 1438 1500 " S"llla6'(I" Hall .• 152:Fl •• ~8 7 1 I 9000~ 10000 3500 .. •. 3954 ~288.. 76~: ,l i 16 1(1;; , 1024li 103;10 " Suydam Gir'" SC'IOO~. 1 40~!: 2 10 .. .. 12 34 iir. 108 :: : :: 26~.. 7~ II 65000, 8000 6500 .. 6678 •• ~160 12930\ :l!l~4: ~:I;;~S 24121 ~11:n Palob. Chinllse • • • . 1 -Ii M! 1...... 18i 18.. 8· ...... 375.. .. I'" 1.,0 ~:!5 525 5~5 Beremban, Anglo,C'lille.e Schoo, 1 40 ~1!' 2 12 ... . 36 80i i44. 7!!1.· .. :138.. 68' j 45500i .. ' 40bo .. lZ866.. .. I 13876 I~~O:'~ :18,97 22707 24180 .. Extms;o" Sdwol oj A .c.., 138 M 4 ...... 75' 251" I •. i 1O~ ...... ' . . .. I .. . . -1040 •. .. I . . iii 1 HO I 3675 :\175 42 MF 3 ... . I 4·\' '4. • 19 ,.! ~dOOO' . . . 250 . . 7i2 .. . . , .. :;:lfI, 485 Berom, ClUnIlst • • • • J .. 130:! 1787 \ 1787 l'ampin, Chinese . • • • 1 40 MF I .. .. :: :: :: I .. :: ~Ij "6"1 10"1 .. I .. i .. i" 888.. .. I .. .. 888 •• i 888 888 Total 1930 ::I-~-~r--: :-r-:~: -i-:';--:-,~+--:~: -7-: :-i-g-ig ~-~-:~-i-:-:~~~-- ;~~! i~~~ tii ~g ~I ~~i~gg' -3:g~1 :~~il·:: ~~::i:~:-:m !::ll '!:~ li:~~ ~ll~1· :~i'-l~--;i4-1-~-:-:i--.~-a-;'1 -:: -- Total 19211 InereA8" •...... 16 11 61l.. .. Iii 6-1 1 f ·.1...... , .. 3180 1556 1036 3915 11192 18883 .. Iii.. 8257 6476 831 .. DeeroA8o .. •. •• .• ., 1 1...... 57...... i •• , • • 100. . •. • ...... 520 1361 . • ...... I i ------~rr-+-++_;_~r;~I~~r-~r-;-+-+-~~,---r!,--~~~--~--~~--~~~~!------~,---+--+--- PENANG DISTRIOT i I

Bedong Anglo.Chinese School 1 -16 MI' . • 2...... : : 50. . . . • . 50 .• 1 2. . . . I • • ! . . . . 1125 ...... I 1126 1125 1ll!1i Bukit Merta.iam A. C. Girls' Scbool ...... 1 -10 M]O 1 7...... 17 74 106 197 .. 10. . .. I...... 5043.. .. 6129 1285 12"57.. .. 12129 12129 Datokramat A. C. School ..] 40 M. . E •...... •• . 130 85 • .' •. 2lf .. III 1: 5000 2500 1000 .. 6118.. .. 1715 534 1436, .. .. H332 14332 2 Kulim A. C. School • . .• 1 43~!...... 31.. .. 31 .. 2 1~1 160.. 78.. 1216...... 12~~.. 90 1126 1216 Nebong Tebal A. C. School •• ] .40 ?iF.. 7...... 153 77 .. 23C .. 16 7500 2000 1700 .. 6533.. .. 7956 64 145~~.. .. H53a 14533 Parit Buntar A. C. Behool .. 1 40 l\~! 1 11 .. .. 111 92 148 72 .. a3] .. 26 12000..: llJOO •• 8747 .. .. 24809 120-1 34a5~ .. .. 34742 34742 '" Tamil School .• 1 -10 MF.. t ...... III I II Continuation Bchooi ...... 1 401MF.. 3 ...... •• •• 43 •• 43 :: Ie .. 1 :: ' :: I :: : : l~;:::: :: :: :: 1:;::: :: I::: 1::: . . •• 267 412 790 320 .. PenRnlr A. C. I:>cbool. •. .• 3 40 1 M 8 70 .. 1789 .. '~6 .3.1120.0.(10 20°.°.°0120.0.°0 .. 62175' .. 16501464H 7920 21653910000 5396 205793 221189 3000 3000 J t.:ontinuatlon Sebool •. J 40' M 1 15 ...... 31 158 123 .. 332.. 30 .. 11100 .. : ...... 1-&40~.. 200 1-&200 14400 .. A. C. Girls' School •. 2 40! ! 4 24 .. .. 22 102 Z70 196 50 .. 640 .. 113 I 30000 2:'000 3000 .. 14IBR: '.. 33234 103 4;825 ., .., -ti82ij~71425 Winchell Home ...... 95 511 21 22000 220001 2000 . . .. ;'\1111 9669 .. I 5914.. .. I • • .. 1 J:' Alexandra Ilome ... . :: I r. ~ :: .. H 12 I' 6500 13li60 400 .. .. I .. I 1567.. . i04 10...... 105i 1057 " A. C. Girls' Continu I R U"n cln~B for overllge Pupill .. .. ,i F .... ., I .. .. 50"1 .. "i ...... I .. .. i .. i .. ..!.. 1 • • •• •• I •• •• -·~-_+~-r-~-,...--7-----':,____1_-_i_---'.__+-+~I-..!,_~-- -.- ·c -.------. -. --.--. --.--,--.. -----.-.-'-----.-- ·----·-·-·····--1---;-- I TolalR 1930 .. 14 .. : .. 17 148 .... 308 6741i731053 50 29 39871091 41i> 11 20311iO, :?r;"06U~ 29178\ .. 12176111 ;;1114 12886b6:!81 1129-1 :16525510000 :;086 348505.36-&191 3000 30000 Totala 19211 .. 13 .. ' .. 14 12~ .... 252 754 U81 784.. 37 .. 1113 lIS 11 178GliO '~Sfl501): 28:;60, 700U 102507' -176:; 5307 1,214811 3567 3256fiO 1230 9525 320:145 331100 .. 16 IncreAse .. I .. j'" 3 20 .. .. 56.. 292 260.. .. 336~ 6.. .• :!4f)Oll .... lil81' . .. I 11·19 7579, 11476 7727 396.05 B7iO . . 2811i0 330!H 3000299114 De.~rease • . ..•. .. •. .. .. 80 •. . . . . 8 fi:!7 " .. . . . , ,,;;60'. . 700( .. : ...... • . 830 I • • • • • • • •

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Sarawak District. 1 I ,ii 'I Sibu .. 1 .0 Mf 1 5...... 22 71 29.. .. 122 68 10:; II 1:!001) I~OOO 50U .. ::3:1>; I" I 1412 1535: ,;:l85 .. .. 5199 5199 Bukil l .. illl8 .. 1...... 3...... 48...... 48.. 2:! I liOO ~Il'l' IOU 1iii I.. .. I 518 .., 692.. .. I 802 802 .i 10 i Assn .• .. 1...... 3...... 36 .... 36.. 21 I 700: IOU' 100. I()~.... 207 .. , 309.. .. 430 430 Sing Chu An .. 1...... 5...... 79 14.... 93.. 60 I lOUD, :!llui ~OO .. j!lOi.. I .. 947 .. i lii37.. 50 1480 1480 -Hinghua .. 2 ...... 3...... 43...... 43.. ·13 I IiUOI 30ui 100.. 150 .. 396"1 5-16.. .. 546 546 Kwong 1Iu-I .. 2.. .. " 10 ...... Il! 218 35.. .., 265 27 150 3 22000 ;;01) :;00 13;;~ 1:121" 2369 7i:1 1632 .. 75 51·HI 5224 1 En8Ufai .. 1...... 90...... \' 90 I~ ;;;:; 1 ;;000 IOUO ;'.U(I . . 13~IB, 60,.. 101:1 I 2509 . . SO 2646 I 2726 2171" HaPho .. 1 ...... 5...... 8 54 2] " .. 83.. 73 1 5000 111.)(1 :1',0.. 350i.. i .. . GOO '~ooi 1150 .. ! : 1iOO 1700 550 .. Ne Be Akak .. I ...... !!...... 37...... 37.. 30 1 jO:)' .;01/1 JOO .. 1851" .. 390 I 575 .. : 105 0531 686 61 .. Labann .. .. J ...... 2...... 43...... 43.. 20 I 811lli :11)0, 101) .. :100.. .. 490 ':"I;U1'31l 10;;0 .. 35 i17 752 '. . . Nnng t.:hong .. .. 1 .. .• .. 6...... 130 "1.' .. I 130 ]2 100 II ,~(100, 10011: 500 .. ~171 Hoi·. : 1051 JOB.. 25 2590 2615 6011 •. Bing Nang (;hong .. 1 .. 3...... 60...... 60.. a,i 'I 1;.00' :10'): :l00 .. 3:!U .. ,..' ;90 2fiO 1370 .. 100 13118 I...... I liui NIJR C/rng .. 1 .. :] ...... • 20...... !..7·~·. '. 1,3 III ;UOO '. '. 50. . 20. . '. .. 32~75 ·28~1 !l55 1'5'6 5 ?,~'o' : Serekel •• 1 O It~~ ~ ~ 51 :: TunR Po .. 102!\ .. Lllbok Geng :1 :: I:: 1::::::: I::: i:: Ii:·, l! :1 ,:~~Z i::::: m: ~~!: •• I Ilj~ ,01 :m~' !~i Iml 1872 88 .. TieDI' Siang ])io 500 92 .. TRnjong Kunyil :: ~ :: .. .. i::::::: : ~~:: 1\ :: :: I ~~ :: :\0 : i .~r)o,:oo ~oo : : .1.26i: : : : : ~~; :: I 542 : : .. I 600 i 60(1 58 .. 1 ] I ;6 227 .. Bukit Lnn .. .. I ...... 2...... ~i3~..:.::,.: ': 73·, 50 I 8000' .-,11110 ) :lOll . . 112:. . .. 81)7.. !!4P.. I H II a3 I: Binatang .. 1 ...... 3...... i :16.. 13 I :?;;UO IOUO :!OO .. :lIM'.. ..! 370 351l'1 1)47 .. I :1>\ i 1020 1058 110 .. Engkilo .• .. I ...... 2...... lili.. 32 I :iOO; "lOOt 1 00 2~9:... . 672.. 921..,.., P"O DIiO 29 .. Au!, .. .. 1 ...... I...... 21...... 21.. 10 I ,.'101 300: 100 .. 13~ I" i 132 .. I 26-1 .. .,!! :IS'l I;l~ 306 .. T.l'llnlu •. 1 2 "0 i "0 16 1 HOII. 1"01 10(1 11" 11~ ~O' 1'1- :!i.l 163 ., Bukit Asek .. :: 1 ".: :::: 1 :: .... :: ~6::;":: ;,:: 31 1 .;()OiI50 150" .• 1 I"!:: '375 426 :: 1m; :16(;: 17~ .'i2 1 ~---I-- l Total8 1930 .. '6 l.. 11 83 .. ·.-.\·-~T ~/.I;,.~~I: ;9 -.1 .. 'f' Ii ;11 :!7 11l'l' ·:l~-li~li.jl;(l-jl !,-a?;o~~o·l. ·.~1·8fi·ioo-I----.~. -- Il·II,~.,ll3~'1- "~;o;!..o' - 1";00 15-1:!1! '.3.n 311091 HID !I.l~ :1180.; Ii 32931.1 2669 .. ..' '. ~~.:.:_ .... f 79 .. ., "I ~441:l2~1' i3 .. II . I~"li 1301024 :':3' ,:HUD .. v -.. - 16320 ',' l ;l11j57 .. I.' •• 37037 .. .. .T~tnJBJ929 -'-'-.. 4 '1' InrreaB" ~~; "I .. \.: ")' 3-at] 26.. . . I~.;.... . :,.'i. .. 1'1;)5\)11 1200 I .. .. I.... ·.:J.!l1i .. :1 :: , 1 I .. 41 II DCI~rens~ .. .. "I"::" ::"1" ~O~ ... ,j" .... . 1,)3 lOt , 3~01l, .. .. I 191:11 :l1U8 I:!OU iOD61 j 1466.. .. i " : ------~--~~~~~I~:~~~! -r~~~~I~~--~--~IIr-·~~--·~~r-~--+-~!---+--r-~--~r----T-~-- Singapore District. I 1 I 1 _ .' I " I Sinlo:RpOre, AlIglo ("Iii"", I " I C""li"Jlrr/;,'" '.11"": .. 1 40i:o.1 1 34 I .. -13 234 3n!)! 117 .. "I ,I\u I:':~.. .. ~fI~9i.. .. I .. 'I 12501 HIli.. :;,,~. "~.j58 BllO 1(l63 I .. 1·15:1(j:l ,,,n71 :!~Ij 1 1 ;.~;J~II~ ~.~','~;;~"'~r~"'" .. ~ ~~ i ~~ i ~~ :: ;:: 1~~1 ~~Ol ~~6i ~~1 :: :: 11 ~~:t I il JII~; 1~~~:~:~ 21l1llJII ~~~:::: .'~:,Il If; 17!1, ~..... 6 4083 ' !l~~85: ~~'fl 15 ~t~~ ~UII ::0 \(l IIII\(~~~ H~!!H PI1i!·ti,ld (;ir/s' 81'hool 2101 F :\ ~O .. I.... , ii, 18~, 170163 .. aon.. .., ., i.il)OI lilllilli ~nn,) 17014 i,... I 17:)I(1i 'lUo.o. 1~7_ij.,' I:iOfl :;ilf) I 107:;r, J~j:jn " ~11'lIlf11lg .\ldl",dist Girl' I., 1 S,·lton/ ., I! ll l\U' I> "1" "1"; :;:;: 153 .. 1"1 :!1I<; .. :III I Iii""" ~llIlfll 1~f)O .. 71~\I .. ,I .. ,.~~, ,.)_lIOOO; .. ":\1;1 73til .. JetllI II,,,,,,!/nl/ •• i I ' ~.) I ,.. .If(,It~;Dt,(~·:,;/;.:S~;'%~~I:: ; 4~111! ~ 2~ :: I':: 5~ ·.. ilitl! i(ia 1.;.)' ' .. 3 i7~ :: ~~g:i ~I;g~~:: g~~~1 ~~~;~:!;.:,I';IIAl ~11]:I'I" :: 1·:i i.;15j' ~~~O! 7i~~'~ :l.:~3 I~~~I 1.18:;~~ fin7fi:) 1 521]0' I 4...... " Iii _ .. I .. ' 18 !IO'. 80 I :loono 11l1I"/1 11.)111) . . .. 17 :i7t0 .. : 07.,G .. 100 HII:!I 11;; 1~ .. .': :: '1 .... 1 ·~6 '," ...... 1700 ',.' i •• I 1 1700 306: 13iti IIi":! .. : "

.. I.. l:l-;-40- -.-;~·:l~ll-! ~ 1~116~), 8.i8: 163/ 3-11373(~'JO) 11.:'6 It11112000 ~~:;,jOO' 'i7700:366~(l II:! t!19. 11i-299 i'~~:1116~1i1O 26818137-&1:;6 3656 'l0;'9- 313:1611; ::i.~~;;I--~P60 1-lli:!~~' Totlil, I~';; .. ~~-I r Tot~l" I~l~!' ., .. 1-1 .... 2313i 1I11.1:!49Iii~1513111't11:IJ6 .. 399 '2410!l:i 17141200U225500!6i700132.'i014226:Ji.HIIl:23398Hi5H220!l6:l135U02i .. \ 89193714i~1 ::~0:1!l1 75,2 131j~1l I llrTf.'H<':t' .. 21 ...... 3 " "I 70 110' " :i .. 3.... 63 I .. .. I .. 2:H:I!\ .. i .. I.. 13198 6.5,5;)'1 24.1.2~ 361i1;, .• ...... , :!Iil);, ...• ! . .. 1.. 8 . .. 276 1131" I 260 21 ...... I" .. 9)1611 i8t2: 13575.. I .. stO n:;6 Decrea~" .. I IIi:. i .. ! ~lql) 16~:!1 I 1 1

Conference Totals. i178 "I •• 565160411042 10llil08113605 74:608 :!50011798JI8748 10323 112724:;' 972J·273701 B28Z;,1!l39 7} .. Ipoh District · . ~o .. .. ~1 112 1.113;;iql)oI13~oJ!'~'140 1 364~1 ~66-109 Kuala Lumpur do. .. 10 .. .. 12 9" "1" ~21 5301087 76i 66 532724 5011601 !J :;)1000 961100 31350 1~600 88015! 3040 7859 J)49821 7226,2]3263 51!!11 910[1, ~O.'22.j 219455 4551 "51 do. .. 12 .. .. 5 -Ii "I" 66115466297 .. 112-1611250109 3-17 9:~:!0500 :18000'18551) ... 362il) \ t6M 82t8 -16610 1 21081 105621 ~"I\ ~~on !l81l6!! 1012f>8 831 .. Na1acca 1 PenRng do. .. 1 ~ .. .. Ii US .... 308 614177~1053 501 29, :1597109.415 11 :!03160 ~6.'060!. :]11178\ .. 121700 591-1 12886226287\ 112911 3('">~55 10000 r.l;"(. 348505 3r.-I191 3000 30000 I •• .. II" .. 421590 99 .. ·lli31 1271112S :!;, li96001 i:;9.·,O 4950 .. 1002-1 \ 2052 •• 15424 43911 31)0~1! I!HI [1:121 31805 32936 21169 .. Rnrawak do. · . 26 .. 1 83 I . 1 f.;ingaporo do. .. 16 .• I .. 221 140 ...... :~_241 8i21162~_~8, .t~~1i:l0 :!O:l_lI;,() I ~ 4~~g~0 :!:!:;S0Q. 67iOO 8668~ 132~99 46299 9823 16864(1, ~~.!!~_374!.:'r, :Hi.-,r.~Uj!! _~(,?~~!6 _ 3.?!i.!51 .j~r,O ]Q!~6 I 1 Confereneo Total~ 1\l30 !18 .. .. 7";' li~~ ..I. .!'10J~g28!8113 ~ 116 387 -139 Hi!Hi 672lt:l',J ~.:;' 159t

We extend a most hearty welcome to the following new missionaries who have appeared in our midst: Mr. and Mrs. T. Runyan, Miss Virginia Lake, Miss Marie Messersmith, Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Kingham, and Messrs. H. F Kuehn, R. Kesselring, and P. Schmucker; and to the following who have returned from furlough: Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Patterson, and the Misses Cass, Kleinhenn, Walker, Harvey and Jackson. The visiting members of Conference desire to express our deep appreciation to our hosts and hostesses for all their courtesies, and efforts to make us comfortable. Also to those who arranged such a helpful and inspiring programme. The Conference is deeply endebted to the Pastor and the officers of Wesley Church for the use of their buildings for the meetings of the session. We appreciate greatly the splendid music that was afforded in the various meetings of the Conference, and express our thanks to those concerned. We welcome with grateful hearts the return of Bishop and Mrs. Lee from America to their appointed field of labour. The kindly and statesmanlike manner in which this Conference has been conducted has been most helpful and greatly appreciated. We pledge to Bishop Lee our loyalty and co-operation. j. M. HOOVER, Chairman.

COMMISSION ON PUBLIC \VORSHIP AND MUSIC. 1. We shall endeavour to help the pastors of the various churches with their worship programmes, by sending out mimeo graphed suggestions and forms. 2. Suggestions of suitable music, such as doxologies responses, new hymns with new tunes, etc. will be mimeographed and sent to all the pastors and churches. 3. We suggest that the Ministerial schools study this problem of worship for the Chinese churc.hes. 4. A contest wiII be arranged with the help of the Malaysia Message and the Southern Bell to encourage the local writing of hymns in either English, Chinese or Tamil, in an effort to produce good indigenous music. a. We suggest to the Editor of the Malaysia Message to ha ve a cut made of the prize missionary hymn of 1930 and that it be printed in the magazines of our Conference. HOBART B. AMSTUTZ, Chairman. 74 MALAYA CoNFERENCE, 1931

Miscellaneous

JEAN HAMILTON THEOLOGICAL SCHOOL This has been the best year that the School has enjoyed since the change in teaching was made in 1928. The co-operation of the Conference was splendid as well, as that of the Commissi?n {)n Studies for the General Conference through Dr. Allan MacRossle. The Courses offered by the School fo~r Extension work have not really been a success thus far. We have quite a number registered but only one who has completed a full course. We feel that many more of our ministers should avail themselves of these courses and also that the school principals should advise their teachers to make them, especially the teachers who teach Religious Education courses. The principal of the school will also be very happy to assist any who have col1ege degrees to enroll in the courses offered by the General Conference Commission on Courses of .Study. But the major work of this School has been in connection with the schools of Ministerial Training held this year. We were invited to hold a school in the Sibu, Sarawak, district, last year by Rev. J. M. Hoover, which was accepted. I wrote to Dr. MacRossie about our new plans for 1930 and he was able to send me $400 gold for our schools this year, an increase of $100 gold over last year. The extra hundred dollars to be used for the Sibu School. You have no doubt read in the Malaysia Message a fairly full report of the three schools held. The first was at Sibu. Through the' fine c'o-operation of the Commission on Religious Education for Malaya we were able to secure the services of Rev. Ding Sieng Sing of the Fukien area in China. He was in Malaya for two months and proved to be of wonderful help and inspiration. Rev. Ding SiengSing and our own Rev. Ding Guang Deu, who has helped us the preyious two years, went with me to Borneo and we enjoyed a great two weeks. There were 42 registered for the school although many more came. On the basis of the Sibu experience we decided to make a ,change in our Malaya school, dividing it into two, one for the :Chinese and one for the Tamils, holding them at different times. Thus only the Chinese met in Ipoh, in August-Sept. There 22 men and 20 Bible women registered. In addition to the two teachers who helped me in Borneo we had the help of Rev. F. H. Sullivan and Rev. 'P. B. Means. Having these schools for one racial group only has greatly improved the morale and interest by the students in these schools. In December! immediately after the school holidays began, we held the TamIl school in Kuala Lumpur. The staff at this school was made up of the fo11owing, the writer, Rev. S. S. Pakia nathan, who has now assisted as teacher with three schools and I\lISCELLA~EOLJS REPORTS 75

Rev. R. D. Swift. Again at this school one noticed a much greater esprit de corps than before and we enjoyed a very happy session together. It was possible in each of these three schools to get much group discussion started and every man took part. Th~re were 16 men registered, in fact almost every man eligible in our conference was present. This was true of the other schools as well. I would also like to add that every district superintendent ga ve his best support to these schools. The school library, which is now housed, in a room back of the Mission Treasurer's Office, '·has been used more than ever before by men and women all over Malaya. I would like to make this library still more valuable by encouraging many more to make use of it. Several hundred books were loaned out this year. HOBART B. AMSTUTZ, Principal.

THE MALAYS!.\. MESSAGE. The Malaysia Message was published eleven times during the year 193 o. Twice the Message appeared as a twenty page edition, ')nce as a twentyfour page edition, six times as a twentyeight page edition and twice as a thirtytwo page edition. Beginning wi.th the April number from eight to ten pages have been d~voted to advertisements ,l.'hich have greatly increased the income of the magazine. The circulation has increased from 1,750 copies at the beginning of the year to 2,700 copies at the present time. This increase is largely accounted for by the increase in school subscriptions which are offered at a spetial rate to school pupils of 50 cents a year. Inasmuch as the net cost of each subscription is 51.50 per year the large increase in the school subscriptIOns has required a larger income to finance the Malaysia Message budget. This increased cost has been met largely by the income from advertisements which have amounted to $1,500 a year. The income from subscriptions has been $1,400. We may expect a regular income of about $200 a month from our advertise ments if business conditions are at all normal during the ye:u 1931 Of the 2,700 copies printed each month, 1,444 go to school pupils in Malay 193" " " Sumatra 205 " foreign subscribers 365 " subscribers in Malaya 55" " " the D. E. I. 50 " our advertisers 40 " book-stalls 230 are free or for exchange During the year our policy has been to give the Malaysia Message as much local colour and to make it as representative of Malaysia as poss~ble. We are very grateful to each of our 16 MALAYA CoNFERENCE, 1931 ------~ associate editors for the splendid co-operation in editing the magazine. We also wish to express our appreciation to the various pastors, teachers and missionaries who have contributed articles during the year. Dr. Chen Su Lan contributed a series of articles on opium reform and prostitution in Malaya. Dr. John Warneck, the Ephorus of the Rhenish mission in Sumatra has very kindly given us permission to publish a series 'of articles on the history of the Batak mission in Sumatra. These articles have been trans lated from the German by the editor from Dr. Warneck~s book. Dr. W. T Cherry has been contributing a series of American News letters, a page which has been a very welcome addition and has helped to keep us informed of the activities of the older generation of missicnaries. Mrs. Means has been of ' great assistance in acting as circulation manager and assistant editor, re-editing articles, reading proofs, drawing designs for cover pages etc. Those schools which have been most successful in securing school subscriptions deserve honourable mention. Anglo Chinese School, Singapore Anglo Chinese School, Seremban Anglo Chinese School; Sitiawan Methodist Schoo], Palembang Methodist Boys School, Siantar (Sumatra) Anglo Chinese School, Malacca Fairfield Girls' School, Singapore Lady Treacher Girls' School, Taiping

All of these schools have a percentage of 60 or more of the pupils above 5th standard subscribing to the Malaysia Message. They have set aside a chapel hour for a Malaysia Message talk and then inaugurated an intensive campaign, usually by staging a contest between the upper standards, in order to determine which class could secure the largest percentage of subcriptions. We still have on our list some four mission schools which receive no school subscriptions. We also feel that the number of subscriptions for Malaya, viz: 365, is very inadequate. We believe that the pastors of our churches, school principals and missionaries by a little extra effort could easily double the number of subscribers in Malaya during the coming year. We feel very grateful to (lur Heavenly Father for allowing us to work in the literature programme this year. We believe that in the complex racial and language problems of Malaya the distribution of Christian litierature is one of the great and open fields for the extension of the' Kingdom of God. That the MISCELLAl-: EOUS REPORTS 77

Malaysia Message may become a more effective and influential jnterpreter of the Christian Message to our conglomerate population ·of Malaysia is our ardent prayer for the coming year.

PAUL B. MEANS. Editor. REPORT OF THE SOUTHERN BELL MAGAZINE. The Southern Bell Magazine has been published bi-monthly in Chinese characters for two years. During these years of the magazines' existence difficulties have arisen in the editing and publishing which could be removed if the editor could live closer to the publishers. The form of our magazine has been changed slightly, this year; smaller type has been used thus making room for more material. A department of current events has been added which b greatly appreciated by our rural readers. A book review section has also been added to help our readers in selecting good reading material. We are hoping next year to institute a travelling library which with the co-operation of the Committee on Christian Literature will be of service to our constituents. Our subscription list shows a gain over last year. Sumatjra is taking more than eighty copies per issue and more are distributed in China. We have not been able to print many extra copies for sale as our funds have been limited due to subscribers not paying their subscriptions on time. During the last half of this year copies of the magazine have been sent to leaders of the government in Nanking and also to the Chinese Consulates in Malaya. Some of the most important dub reading rooms in Malaya also receive the magazine. We trust in this way that the Christian message may be read by means -of our organ by many influential Chinese in Malaya and China. We feel that this past year our readers have enjoyed the magazine more than previously and that it is doing the work it set out to do in an increasing way. In conclusion I wish to thank the following gentlemen who have helped make the work easier for me, Rev. C. E. Fang for reading the proofs, Rev. Paul Hang for managing the business and also those of our friends who sent in articles to be published. To Rev. Air. Means for his co-operation through the Committee on Christian Literature and to Reverends Amstutz, Coole and Swift for their kindly encouragement.

DING GUNG DEU, (Andrew eben) Editor. 78 MALAYA CoNFERENCE, 1931 ------

THE MALASIA CoMMISSION ON RELIGIOUS EDUCATION. The year 1930 has not been a year of conspicuous advance in Religious Education. There has not been the flare of launching a new organisation, nor the appearance of new literature in large quantities. The year is characterised more by foundation work which is not seen by those who pass by. It is a pleasure to report that a large number of the churches in the Conference co-operated heartily in the Family Worship League movement authorised at the last session of this Confer~nce. Approximately 400 families and 300 individuals have enrolled as charter members of the Family WorsI:!ip League in Malaya. Doubtless there are many others among our Methodist members who observe regular family or private devotions but who have not been enrolled. Children's Day was observed by many of the chur.::hes and: church schools, giving suitable programmes and thereby emphasi sing the responsibility of the church for its children. Churches or church schools contributed Children's Day offerings totalling $263 toward the budget of the Malaysia Commission on Religious Education. An achievement of the year that will certainly bear increasing fruit with the passing of the years is the two months visit of the Rev. S. S. Ding, Secretary of Religious education in the Fukien Area, China. Through the co-operation of the Dean of the Schools of Ministerial Training this visit was made financially possible and its value enhanced by placing Rev. Ding on the faculty of the Schools of Ministerial Training where he was able to discuss with the Chinese pastors of the Conference the programme of religious education in the local churches and the relation of the minister to that programme. Unquestionably these discussions, based upon Rev. Ding's experience in China and his personal observations for several weeks in the various churches of our Conference, have done much to stimulate the thought of our preachers on this vital subject. While Rev. Ding of China was in Malaya he suggested that the Commission on Religious Education get into communication with the National Christian Council of China concerning the Five Year Movement. The suggestion has been acted upon and the Committee on Christian Literature now has in stock a fair quantity of the literature-all in Chinese character-published for that movement. This literature widely distributed among our Chinese Christians should prove of very great value. Splendid posters, suggestions for daily worship, helps for parents in the deligent training of their children, and pamphlets +>n personal evangelism are among the many good things this programme offers to the Christian church. The introduction of the Standard Leadership Training Curri culum in several of our stations is very encouraging. Eleven day MISCELLANEOUS REPORTS 79 schools have offered one or more of the approved courses and 178 teachers have availed themselves of the opportunity to study them. We strongly urge that all the schools of the Conference offer classes in these approved courses, and suggest that when such classes are being organised they be well advertised and opened to people outside the school staff who are competent to do the .standard of work done by the teachers who will be members of the class. We helieve the conference-wide Church school competition, launched the first of May, 1930, has done much to increase the number in attendance and the weekly offerings in those church .schools which entered the competition. It is significant that a number of these schools maintained an average attendance of more than 90 per cent of their enrolment and an average of five cents ()r more per pupil in the weekly collections. Although the Con ference church school enrolment has increased only 88, the average attendance has increased 575 and the annual expense increased $833. One church school increased its enrolment more than 300 per cent and another more than 200 per cent during the last three quarters of the year. Several day school Sunday Schools have made definite steps toward closer relationship with the churches of their respective towns. We acknowledge with gratitude the organisation of 21 new church schools during the year, but in the same breath must deplore the closing of 16. This is a nett gain of 5, making the total in the Conference now 108. There is ample scope for still further expansion, in the organising of church schools in churches which do not yet have a churcq school and in the establishing of branch church schools by some of the larger existing ones. The central Curriculum Committee met for two days early in the year and did some very constructive planning for an indi genous curriculum of religious education in our day schools. Three sub-committees which are to specialize in the development of the curriculurr. for the lower, elementary, middle and higher elementary departments of the schools respectively have been appointed. In this connection we record with very great pleasure the deep gratitude we owe to Dr. George H. Betts, professor of Religious Education in Northwestern University, who spent a day in discussing general and specific problems in connection with curriculum con struction with approximately 20 members of our curriculum com mittees on 30th December last. We commend to the Conference the Epworth League Topic Book published in 1930. We feel that a real advance is marked by the many topics appearing in this series which bear directly 80 MALAYA CoNFERENCE, 1931 upon the religious, moral, and social problems of young people in Malaya. We venture to suggest that our church Ieade'rs en courage the use of this series of topics and give constructive help in the use of the, new methods suggested therein. Religious Education in the Metho.dist Church in Malaya has been rendered no finer service during the year. or during the past several years, than that given by Dr. Wade Crawford Barclay in the publishing of his Survey and Programme, Religious Educatiol'f of the Methodist Episcopal Cburch in Malaya. In this volume are brought together the opinions and observations of many persons, gathered through questionnaires, group discussions and personal observations and conversations, and all checked by careful study on the part of one trained through long experience to see significant factors in situations often overlooked by those in close contact with those same situations for a long time. Then with amazing clearness of analysis the religious educational needs of the present situation are brought to light; educational principles underlying a programme of religious education for Malaya are suscinctly stated; and finally an unusually suggestive outline of a possible programme of Christian religious' education in Malaya of such scope as almost to baffle the uninitiated is tentatively stated. Studies have been initiated during the past year which are intended to uncover basic problems and needs pertinent to the curriculum builders and to the planning of the general programme. Among these studies are the religious census of 17,000 students in our English schools; the Every Church Member Census now being taken; and the effort to get a number of our representative Christians to write anonymously their religious autobiographies. The one outstanding ad vance during the year in strengthening our field organisation has been the appointment of Mr. D. H. Yap as Secretary for Epworth Leagues and Young People's Work. The way in which the Epworth Leagues of the Conference are looking increasingly to Mr. Yap as the leader in that field is one of the encouraging aspects of his contacts. I wish to record my regret that lack of funds has limited our work somewhat this past year and made it impossible for me to make some trips which I h~d hoped to make. Likewise I would express my deep appreciation for the cordial reception of our work throughout the Conference and for the splendid co-operation of a large number of people in our schools and churches, on committees and off, to whom is due the credit for whatever advance has been made in work of religious education in Malaya. Our sincere purpose has been, and always will be, gladly and humbly to serve the Master.

R. D. SWIFT,

Secretary~ M.ISCELLANEOUS REPORTS 81

YOCl'.'G PEOPLE'S \\'ORK. I returned to Malaya last January after the close of Conference when I was appointed to the pastorate of the Straits Chinese Methodist Episcopal Church at Malacca, besides being appointed Secretary for Young People's Work under the Malaysia Commission on Religious Education. The church work at Malacca during the past year, being my first pastoral charge, occupied my time and thought, which prevented me from giving more attention to the Young People's Work. Aims of tbe Programme for Young People's Work: In connection with the Young People's Work, no great programme has been launched last year. It was a ,year of observation and preparation for both intensive and extensive programme to be undertaken this year and subsequently. The aims of the work are to suggest and provide \vays and means and help and guide young people in the development of Christian character and to enable Christian young people to know, appreciate and understand what it means and involves to be Christians and become members of the Christian Church; to lead and attract non-ChristiaIl; young people to become Christians as well as to become definitely and openly members of the Christian Church. Visits to tbe Day Scbools and Cbapel Talks: Even though no great programme has been undertaken during the past year, contacts with the students land young people in the schools have been maintained in a number :of schools to which visits were made, and invitations: received from the Principals to deliver chapel addresses- Invitations to speak at various school chapels have been always accepted and much appreciated in the interest of Religious Education and Young People's Work, whereby opportunities are given for presenting Christian ideals and the Christian way of life as exemplified in the life and teaching of the Master. Conference and Teacbers' Classes: In the schools, besides speaking to students at chapel and Sunday School, informal and individual conferences have been held with a good number of students and several school principals and various teachers of the upper standards relative to Religious Education programme in the schools and religious instruction in their respective classes. At Malacca, the Secretary has conducted two classes for teachers at the Anglo-Chinese School and Suydam Girls' School, respec tively, during the year. Lectures and discussions at both schools have dealt with Child Psychology in relation to Religious Education. Interest has been shown in these classe~ by regular attendance and participation in the discussions, though the teachers are not so keen about doing written work. Training classes for teachers is greatly needed, and the work of Religious Education can profit much from them. S2 MALAYA CONFERENCE, 1931

Tbe Ep'Wortb League: The work of the Eporth League ill Malaya and in Sumatra has been carried on as in former years. The increase in League membership has not been large during the past year, but stress has been laid not so much upon number as upon the quality of membership enrolled. Wherever League TIlcmbers have been less strictly enrolled, or without serving any period of probation; and wherever LeagUe Officers have been re ·cruited from a non-Christian group (which is contrary to the General Constitution). some unfortunate incident has arisen in the particular league or local chapter guilty of such carelessness. In .conferences with League Officers and the two District League -Cabinets the fact has been emphasized -tbat Epworth League chapters are under the supervision of the pastor and the Quarterly 'Conference of the church where the chapter exists and with which ;it is, or should be, closely connected. On the other hand, pastors are kindly solicited not to exercise arbitrary powers in controlling tOr curtailing the activity of the local League. In connection with the Devotional meetings, an attempt has 'been made to create interest among Leaguers in the use of the Discussion method in addition to the customary procedure of get ting one leader or speaker who delivers a speech or sermon. To this end the Epworth League Topic Book has been edited by the .executive officers of the Commission on Religious Education suit able for use along the line of the Discussion method. The aim in this additional procedure is to afford the young people opportuni ties in meetings to express themselves on vital subjects. of every -day living; and thus to interchange ideas and crystalize Christian 'opinion that will, it is hoped, become influential and determinative 'in conduct and behaviour. Ejyu;ortb League Institutes: Two successful and worth while Jnstitutes were held last 'year, attended by about five hundred Leaguers and young people of Malaya. The Secretary had a part in the making of programme and arrangement for the Southern District Epworth League Institute held at Malacca, April 19th to '23rd; delivered three special addresses, taught one class of more than seventy Leaguers on Christian Worship and led discussions on various Epworth League matters. At the Northern District In 'stitute held at Ipoh, he spoke at the concluding meeting on the "Objectives of Christian Enterprise in Malaya." These addresses a.re incidentally mentioned here to show personal contacts with the Leaguers and young people of the churches in val iousparts of :Malaya. Visits to Sumatra: In July, in the place of the Secretary of Religious Education, the writer went to Tebing Tinggi (East Coast), tn speak on the subject of Religious Education and Young 'People's Work at the North Sumatra Teachers' and Preachers' In- :stitute. At this Institute two sen;nons were preached and three .addresses made in the Malay language. There was most intelligent MISCELLANEOUS REPORTS 83 and pertinent discussion following the addresses on the subject of Religious Education, Sunday School and Young People's Work All were keenly interested in the work of the Church (Sunday) school and young people's group. In a manner suited to their needs the Battak Gurus (Teachers) and Panditas (Ministers) had conducted Perkoempoelan Doli-Doli (Young people's meetings) for their young people and children in which they all participated in playing games, sbging and speaking. While in Medan the opportunity was also utilized to observe several classes of religious instruction at the Methodist Boys' School and the Methodist Girls' School. Later a joint meeting of the teachers of both schools was heU, at which were discllssed various methods of religious instruction. In November a second visit was paid to Medan; this time upon special invitation of the Medan Epworth League in connection with their Win-My-Chum meetings. Mrs. Yap was also invited to go and to participate in the concert, which preceded the special series of meetings. Following the series of special meetings an English-speaking church was organized with about twenty full members and a dozen preparatory members. Chapel talks at both schools and observations of religious instruction were a.gain made. D. H. YAP Secretary tor Young People's Work. 'r Roll of the Dead

Place of B'irth Name. Date of Admitted Joined M'alaya Age. Death. Death. Place. on TJ,"i,al. Co n f erence.

Lau Seng Chong China May 20, 1902 China 1899 J8gg

Job Gnanasihamoney 191Q India 1909 1909

Denis M. Toomey 43 Singapore Feb. 17,1916 Cork, Ir'd 1914 19 14

. Samuel Abraham 58 Malacca 19 18 Jaffna 1900 1900 Burr ]. Baughman U. S. A. Oct. 1920 1909 1909

,Deng Ping Deng China 1923 1908 19 14

J. H. Lewin 59 Hongkong April 1.1, 1924 England 188, 1923 E S. Baird England 1920 1924 Conference Sessions

Place. I Presiding Bishop. Secretary. I I I I I I 1893 1 April 1- 5 I Singapore J. M. Thoburn I B. F. West 2 1894 Feb. 2- 5 do. j. M. Thoburn I W. H. B. Urch 3 1895 Feb. 14-20 do. j. M. Thoburn I B. F. West 4 1896 I Feb. 14-19 do. J. M. Thoburn I W. G. Shellabear 5 18971 Feb. 1(}-15 Penang J. M. Thoburn J F. H. Morgan C. D. Foss 6 118gB Feb. 15-17 I· Singapore ]. M. Thoburn I F. H. Morgan 7 1899 Feb. 9-14 Penang J. M. Thoburn F. H. Morgan 8 11900 Feb. 17-22 Singapore j. M. Thoburn I F. H. Morgan 9 19o1 Feb. 21-27 I do. F. W. Warne I H. L. E. Luering 10 I 1902 Feb. 21-27 do. F. W. Warne I j. R. Denyes.--- i11903 I Feb-:-II"::"'16 .. do. F W. Warne I J. R. Denyes 12 1904 Feb. 24-29 do. j. M. Thoburn W T. Cherry 13 1905 I Feb. 15-20 Kuala Lumpur W. F Oldham I W. T. Cherry 14 1906 Jan. 29-Feb. 2 Singapore W. F. Oldham W. G. Shellabear I I f j. N. Fitzgerald J ",,15:::-;-1_1.::...9O...:.7--,I;-,F=e_b_, _2(}-_--,24=---_--'-~P~enang 1W. F. Oldham I W. G. Shellabear 16 1907 Dec. 13-18 I Singapore I W. F Oldham I W. G. Sheila bear' 17 1909 Feb, 5- 9 do. W. F Oldham I G. C. Cobb 18 1910 Feb. 5-10 do. W F Oldham I G. C. Cobb sW. F. McDowell I 19 191 I Feb. II-IR do. I t W: F. Oldham W. E. Horley 20 1912 Feb. 15-20 I Kuala Lumpur W. F. Oldham A. J. Amery 21 /1913 I Feb. 13-19 I Smgapore j. E. Robmson I W. E. Horley 22 1914 Jan. 1(}-16 do. J. E. Robinson R. L. Archer 2311915 Feb. 14-20 do. W. P. Eveland 1 R. L. Archer 24 1916 Jan. 1- 6 do. W. P Eveland L. Oechsli 2~5'-i-_1-".9-,1/'--i-_F-,-e-=--b.:.-.--'-1-_7L-_--+--_.=d.=..o.~ ___-:---:-__;_I~. E. Robinson L. Oechsli I \ William Burt I 26 1918 Feb. 14-20 do. I !' j. E. Robinson I T. C. Maxwell I I I Homer C. Stuntz I 27 1919 I Feb. 7-12 do, J. W. Robinson R. H. Sil verthorn 28 1920 I Feb. 19-23 do. I j. W. Robinson R. H. Silverthorn. 29 1921 Feb. 1(}-17 do. G. H. Bickley P. L. Peach 30 1922 I Jan. 6-11 I do. I G. H. Bickley T. R. Jones 31 1923 Jan. 1(}-15 do. G. H. Bickley I Abel Eklund 32 1924 Jan. 6-11 do. G. H. Bickley Abel Eklund 33 1925 Jan. 6-12 I do. Titus Lowe Abel Eklund 34 1926 Jan. 2-1 Ilpoh II Titus Lowe I Abel Eklund 35 1927 I Feb. 2-1 Singapore Titus Lowe Lester Proebstel 36 11927 IDee. 14-18 do. TItus Lowe Lester Proebstel 37 1929 Jan. 2- 7 do. Edwin F. Lee I Lester Proebstel 38 I 1930 I Jan. 2- 7 do. Edwin F. Lee I Lester Proebstel 39 I 1931 I Jan. 9-15 do. Edwin F. Lee I W. A. Schurr

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The Plan of the Conference Examinations The complete Courses of Study for the Conference Examin ations for Travelling Preachers, Local Preachers and Exhorters, in English, Tamil and Chinese, have been printed in a separate pamphlet which may be obtained from ~he Conference Registrar. These Courses wi1l stand for this quadrennium and went into force beginning in May 193 o. Credit will be given during this quad rennium for books found in these courses only. The courses of study for missionaries in Malay, Hokien, Foo .chow, Cantonese and Tamil are also be printed in this pamphlet. The names of the examiners and the, books they will examine in will be found immediately following. No examiners have been assigned for the Local Preachers and Exhorters courses. These will be assigned by the Chairman of the Board of Examiners upon call. The District Superintendents are asked to notify the registrar some time before the Fourth Quarterly Conferences so that arrangements .can 'be made to set the needed examinations. Attention is called Qn page 9 of these Minutes to the recent action taken; by the Board of Ministerial Training and approved by the Annual Conference. The plan of examinations is subject to revision every year due to changes in personnel, and these changes will be noted each year in the Annual Conference Minutes. The Courses will stand, as noted above for four years. For any further information and for all questions in regard to any of these courses, apply to Rev. H. B. Amstutz, registrar.

COURSE OF STUDY FOR. CHINESE TRAVELLING PREACHERS

ASSIGNMENTS TO EXAMINERS Examiner. Year. Subject. Lim Poh Chin. Admission on Trial. John Wesley. Bible Biography. Sermon. First Year. God and Man. Pioneers of the Cross. \V esley's Sermons. Second Year. An I ntroduction to the Study of the New Testamen t. Sermon. Discipline. Wesley's Sermons. Third Year. Homiletical Lectures. The Spirit. Reconstruction according to Jesus Christ. Fourth Year. Philosophy of Christianity. The Foundations of Religion. COURSES OF STUDY. 8'1

Lim Hong Ban. Admission on Trial. Discipline. The Divine Model of the Priestly Life. Sermon. First Year. Source and Development of Chinese- Literature. Human Behaviour. Modern Democracies. Second Year. Introduction to the Old Testament. Sermon. The Origin and Growth of Hebrew Religion. The Protestant Missions in China. Third Year. The Prophets of Israel. The Church and Industrial Recon struction. Fourth Year. Introduction to New Testament Times. Biography of James W. Bashford. The Passion for Souls. C. E. Fang. Admission on Trial. Chinese History. Sermon. Lectures on the Geography of the World. First Year. Discipline. The Minister and His Parish. Evangelism. Second Year. Church History. Pastoral Theology. Sermon. Methods of Institutional Church Work. Third Year. Church History. Lives of Prominent Chinese Pastors.. The Meaning of Faith. Fourth Year. Isaiah, Jeremiah and Ezekiel. History of the World. Li Hock Hiang. Admission on Trial. An Outline of Christian Theology. Sermon. Lectures on the Geography of China. First Year. New Testament History. Second Year. The Pupil and the Teacher. The New Convention Normal Manual for Sunday School Workers. Sermon. Life of Martin Luther. Third Year. A Theology for the Social Order. Comparative Religions. Historical Geography of Palestine. Fourth Year. Christian Education and the Na'1:ionai Consciousness in China. Agricultural Community. Short Christian Biographies.

COURSE OF STUDY IN ENGLISH FOR TRAVELLING PREACHERS ASSIGN MENT TO EXAMINERS Examiner. Year. Subject. Abel Eklund. Admission on Trial. History of American Methodism. First Year. Psychology of Religious ExpeJ1ience. Second Year. Collateral Reading, subjects 1-6. Special Homiletical Work. Third Year. Religious Values. Fourth Year. Collateral Reading, subjects 1-6. Special Homiletical Work. .a8 MALAYA CONFERENCE, 1931

H. B. Amstutz. Admission on Trial. Sermon. First Year. Collateral Reading, subjects I-cf. Special Homiletical Work. Second Year. The Church in History. Third Year. Collateral Reading, subjects 1-5. SpeCial H omiletical Work. Fourth YeaT. Theism. R. Dean Swift. Admission on Trial. Doctrine and Discipline. Sermon. First Year. The Work of Preaching. Second Y ~ar. Purpose in Teaching Religion. Method in Teaching Religion. Fourth Year. Jeremiah. Special Homiletical Work. D. P Coole. Admission on Trial. Bible Biography. First Year. Evangelism. Special Homiletical Work. Second Year. The Pastoral Office. Third Year. The Abingdon Bible Commentary. Fourth Year. The Individual and the Social Order. Special Homiletical Work. W. A. Schurr. Admmssion on Trial. Plain Account of Chnstian Perfection. Selections from the Writings of John Wesley. First Year. The Art of Writing English. Second Year. The Abingdon Bible Commel1Jtary. Special Homiletical Work. Third Year. New Studies in Mystical Religion. Special Homiletical Work. Fourth Year. System of Christian Doctrine. :S. M. Thevathasan. Admission on Trial. English History. First Year. Special Homiletical Work. Third Year. Religions of Mankind. Special Homiletical Work. J. J. Kingham. Admission on Trial. Sermon. First Year. New Testament History. Second Year. Special Homiletical Work. Third Year. Paul and His Epistles.

COURSE OF STUDY FOR TAMIL TRAVELLING PREACHERS ASSIGNMENT TO EXAMI:-iERS Examiner. Year. Subject. J. A. Supramaniam. Admission on Trial. Discipline. Preacher's Manual. First Year. Homiletics. Church History. Written sennon. Second Year. Church History. Homiletics. T1hird Year. Church History. Collateral reading 1-3. Fourth Year. Church History. Collateral'readill4 1-3. COURSE OF STUDY. 89

J. J. Kingham. Admission on Trial. History of India. Tamil Grammar. First Year. Commentary on St. John. Tamil Grammar. Second Year. Commentary on 1st Cor. Prayer. Collateral reading 1-3. Third Year. Commentary on Ephesians. Test of Religions. Fourth Year. KuraI. Exegesis-Romans. Written sermon. M. R. Doraisamy. Admission on Trial. History of Methodism. Collateral reading 1-3. First Year. Bible Dictionary. Theology. Second Year. Bible Dictionary. Theology. Third Year. Bible Dictionary. Theology. Written sermon. Fourth Year. Bible Dictionary. Theology. ·S. M. Thevathasan. Admission on Trial. Methodism Catechism. Sinless Incarnation. First Year. Studies in the Teachings of Christ. Exegesis-Luke. Collateral reading 1-3. Second Year. Introduction to the Old Testament. Written sermon. Third Year. The Lord's Supper. The True Way. Fourth Year. Commentary on Philippians. Commentary on Hebrews. Malaya Annual Conf~ren~e Chronological Roll 1931 Standing in Course of Study.tl I ~o .S"...ai iii Vernaeular Course. I Home ~ . ;::::: ~ ~ Ohinese J NAME.· Conference ~] := -9. g ~..; ~ -~ ~= 0 CI;) ;;;- • ~ c:i.d

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1916 '/ ~~:C~~Rp.TL.W. :: 1/ ~~~:iai N.Y. I' :~:~ /' :~:~ I ~ 1.3.\ .. \2\ :: I~: I:: I:::J :: 1917 LIM HONG BAN . . Hinghau 1902 1904 1 pl .. I .. I x I .. 1 .. I .. 1M .. '918 LI HOK HIANG . . Malaya 1918/19201 P 1 I·· 1 x I M 1"/ x \ •. j .. - I PROEBSTEL, LESTER 1 \1alaya 11918 19201 p 1 2 1 .. 1 ...... p .. •. SWIFT, R. D. Malaya--~i8-1-~231 p I ~. 1 "1 1"1 I' '1' ./ ... 1919 DORAISAMY, M. R. Malaya 1919 1921 / p \ ... 1 M ...... X 1920 BLASDELL, R. A. .. New Eng 1918 19201 PIP 1 ...... I ., LI Ko DING Hinghau 1894118961 P \ .. \_. \ .. 1 x 1"\ x I M / .• 1921 MOl POH PENG Malaya 1921 1924 P .. .. x I .. .. M 1 .• .• =I ~~DsIf~::HBI M. -~i~:(as:-I:~~T!~!~ l~-I::I::I:: ::1~1::r:: 1922 1 EKLUND, ABEL .. Malaya /19091 1912 1 P 3 .. 3 1 .. 3 I .. i .. / .. - KOVILPILLAI,]. J. Malaya 1922 I 1925 1 P .. , M / .. /.. . ., .. / •. / x _ PHILLIPS, S.A. Malaya 1192211925! P .. M ...... x -=-I-SAM-Ua.L. A. .. Malaya /1922 1924/ pi .. I M I .. 1 .. / .. / .. / .. \ x 1923 lAp IT TO?-;G MalaYia 1923 1925 pl··,·· I x I" .. .. M .. 1924 ANG GIOK SUI Malaya 1924 19261 P I M I .. \ .. , .. ,- '1" _ I RAJAMONEY, S. M. Malaya 1924 1927 1 P I' . .'1" MI· - I ...... _ Roche, R. D. ~alaya 1924 19271 4 2 .. 1 • - I .. 1 .. I .. I.. .. 1925 1. McNAB, A. ~Malaya 119251 1927'1P3/'-'-' -'-'1-'-' ~:-I-·-· -- _ PAlTERSON, C. D. .. (Mlalaya 11925 /19271 p 2 _. .. .. x 1926 Ayaduray, J. V. "1 Malaya 192611930 4 .. M " .. _ I DAVID FRED .. Malaya 1926 1927 P .. M . '1" x _ THEVATHASAN, S. M. Malaya /19.26 1927 l P .. 1 M ., .. x 1927 CooLE, D. P New En~land 1924 J926Ipll-:-:I~\-:-:\pl-'-'1--:'-I-::lx _ AMSTUTZ, H. B. Rock RIver 1921 1923 P "," ...... _ ARTHUR, J. S. . . Malaya 1927 19291 pi" I M /. '1' '1' '1 1"1 x _ GOH HOOD KENG .. Malaya 1927 1929 4 1M I·. _...... X HUONG, TIMOTHY M. Malaya 11927 19291 pI·· I .. r M .. •• •• .. .• _ WAN YANG FAN ., I Malaya 1927 19291 pI .. 1 .. 1 .. I .. 1M 1 x .... _ YAU YEE SAN .. I Malaya 1927 1929 P \.. .. \ .. I.. .. M .. . • _ MOTZ, I. S. . Wisconsin 1926 1930 '\ 4 I" . _ ScHURR, W. A. . '1• S. California 1925 1927 . P " . '1'• . '1'...... - _ SUMMERS, G. V. Nebraska 1927 1930 4 . . . • ...... • Chronological Roll 1931. (Continaed)

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1927 I CHANG CHENG LIANG 1 Foochow 19 16/19 18 1 P I" 1 .. /.. MI·· .. ,.. .. 1929 1 FANG, C. E. .., Burma 1918 19231 P .. 1 .. M x ...... x I~:g~~· t~r;n~:_I_ ~~~~:jver :~~ 1~~IJtLL~ ~ _:~:: \~ ~ - Ho C;beuk L~u .. 1 Malaya 192 9\1931 1 3 II .. I .. I .. \ .. .. MI .. 1930 Davtd, J. Mdon .. / Malaya 1930 - 1 2 .. 1 MI.. .. x 1930 Lim Poh Chin .. Foochow 1891 118991 P 1 1 .. / x 1M .. 1931 Bell, .Percy " .. I Malaya 1931 - I 1 I 1 I.. 1 .. - Mamckam, N. G ... I Malaya 1931 - 1 1 .. 1M .. 1 •• •. x 1931 - I Runyan, T. .. .. I Malaya 1 1- I I I - Kuebn, H. F. . . Malaya 1931 - I .., . ..•.••••I - I NAGLE, J. S. 1 Malaya 1914 19161 P .. /...... • - I SILVERTHORN, R. N. I Malaya 1 191811920 I 3 1 •• •• •• •••• •• •• 1 ! ill ! I I . I I Small capitals are used for El:Iers. italics for Deacons. p. Passed entire course. t Asiatic preachers are marked M in their mother tonglle. and x in other languages in which they can preach YAlE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY 1111111111111111111 3 9002 10638 9662