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YEAR BOOK

Woman s Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church

BEING THE FIFTY-SECOND ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SOCIETY

1921

Organized l86g Incorporated 1884

General Office: Room 710, 150 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y. Publication Office: 581 Boylston Street, Boston, Mass. .

SESSIONS OF THE GENERAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Date Place President Secretary Receipts

. 1870 Mrs. David Patten. . . Mrs. W. F. Warren. . . $ 4,546.86 1871 22,397.99 1872 New York City " D. W. Clark " W.F.Warren... 44,477.46 " " 1873 Cincinnati, L. D. McCabe.. . . R. Meredith. . . . 54,834.87 " 1874 Philadelphia, Pa F. G. Hibbard.. . . J. H. Knowles.. . 64,309.25 1875 Baltimore, Md " F.A.Crook " R. R. Battee 61,492.19 " " . . 1876 Washington, D. C . . . F. G. Hibbard.. W. F. Warren. . . 55,276.06

' ' 1877 Minneapolis, Minn. . . Goodrich Delia L. Williams 72,464.30 " 1878 W.F.Warren J. T. Gracey. . . . 68,063.52 " 1879 Chicago, 111 L. H. Daggett.. . 66,843.69

' 1880 W. F. Warren .... J. T. Gracey. . . . 76,276.43 " " 1881 Buffalo, N. Y F. G. Hibbard.. . . Mary C. Nind. . . 107,932.54 " 1882 Philadelphia, Pa W.F.Warren J. T. Gracey. . . . 195,678.50 " 1883 Des Moines, la L. G. Murphy.. . . J. T. Gracey. . . . 126,823.33 " 1884 Baltimore, Md W. F. Warren J. T. Gracey. . . . 143,199.14 " " 1885 I. R. Hitt F. P. Crandon. . . 157,442.66 " 1886 Providence, R. I W. F. Warren. . . . J. H. Knowles.. . 167,098.85

1887 Miss P. L. Elliott J. T. Gracey. . . . 191,158.13

1888 Cincinnati, O Mrs. D. W. Clark J. T. Gracey. . . . 206,308.69 " 1889 Detroit, Mich I. N. Danforth. . . J. T. Gracey. . . . 226,496.15

1 ' 1890 Wilkesbarre, Pa W. F. Warren .... J. T. Gracey. . . . 220,329.96 " 1891 Kansas City, Mo.. . . J. J. Imhoff J. T. Gracey. . . . 263,660.69 1 1892 Springfield, Mass.. . . W. F. Warren .... J. T. Gracey. . . . 265,242.15

1893 St. Paul, Minn J. T. Gracey. . . . 277,303.79 " 1894 Washington, D. C. . . A. H. Eaton J. T. Gracey. . . . 311,925.96

1895 J. T. Gracey. . . . 289,227.00

1896 Rochester, N. Y Mrs. S. L. Baldwin. . . . J. T. Gracey. . . . 285,823.94

' 1897 Cyrus D. Foss. . . . J. T. Gracey. . . . 313,937.86 ' 1898 Indianapolis, Ind.. . . Cyrus D. Foss. . . . J. T. Gracey. . . . 328,488.75 ' 1899 Cleveland, O Cyrus D. Foss.. . . J. T. Gracey. . . . 360,338.63 ' 1900 Worcester, Mass Cyrus D. Foss. . . . J. T. Gracey. . . . 414,531.33 ' 1901 Cyrus D. Foss.. . . J. T. Gracey. . . . 426,795.28 ' 1902 Minneapolis, Minn.. . Cyrus D. Foss.. . . J. T. Gracey. . . . 478,236.03 ' 1903 Baltimore, Md Cyrus D. Foss.. . . J. T. Gracey. . . . 491,391.75 ' 1904 Kansas City, Mo.. . . Cyrus D. Foss. . . . J. H. Knowles.. . 534,040.17 ' " 1905 New York City Cyrus D. Foss.. . . C. S. Nutter. . . . 548,943.55 " ' 1906 Omaha, Neb A. W. Patten C. W. Barnes. . . 616,457.71

' ' 1907 Springfield, 111 Cyrus D. Foss.. . C. W. Barnes. . . 692,490.07

' ' 1908 Cyrus D. Foss.. . . C. W. Barnes. . . 673,400.04 " ' 1909 Pittsburgh, Pa W. F. McDowell . . C. W. Barnes. . . 691,961.39 " ' 1910 W. F. McDowell. . C. W. Barnes. . . 743,990.31 " ' 1911 St. Louis, Mo W. F. McDowell. . C. W. Barnes. . . 939,257.55 " ' 1912 Baltimore, Md W. F. McDowell. . C. W. Barnes. . . S37.224.49 " ' 1913 Topeka, Kan W. F. McDowell.. C. W. Barnes. . . 911,337.43 " " . . 1914 Buffalo, N. Y W. F. McDowell. . C. W. Barnes. •1,096,228.85 " ' 1915 Los Angeles, Cal. . . . W. F. McDowell. . C. W. Barnes. . . 931,780.67 " ' 1916 Minneapolis, Minn. . . W. F. McDowell.. C. W. Barnes. . . 1,033,770.65 " ' 1917 Detroit, Mich W. F. McDowell. . L. L. Townley.. . 1,175,758.90 " ' 1918 W. F. McDowell . Charles Spaeth. . 1,343,930.03 " 4 1919 Boston, Mass W. F. McDowell. . Charles Spaeth. . 2,006,370.66 " ' 1920 Philadelphia, Pa W. F. McDowell.. Charles Spaeth. . 2,000,631.12

" ' 1921 Wichita, Kan W. F. McDowell. . Charles Spaeth. . 2,264,634.94

Total since organization $25,882,562.24

*$163, 795.00 Bequest andgrftj of M^s.^rancescaT-Nast Gamble. OL-Obll WOMAN'S FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETY of the METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH

OFFICERS

, President Emeritus Mrs. Cyrus D. Foss, 1830 Spruce St., Philadelphia, Pa. President

Mrs. Thomas Nicholson, 4613 Ellis Avenue, Chicago, 111. Vice-Presidents Mrs. Frederick F. Lindsay, 25 Seymour Ave., S. E., Minneapolis, Minn. Mrs. Francis J. McConnell, 336 S. Graham St., Pittsburgh, Pa. Vice-President-at-Large Mrs. William Fraser McDowell, 1509 Sixteenth St., N. W., Washington, D. C. Recording Secretary

Mrs. Charles Spaeth, Drew Forest, Madison, N. J. Treasurer Miss Florence Hooper, 30 Maryland Life Building, Baltimore, Md.

FOREIGN DEPARTMENT

Chairman

Mrs. Francis J. McConnell Secretary Mrs. L. L. Townley, 323 Beech Ave., Wyoming, Ohio

Member ex-officio Mrs. Thomas Nicholson, President

Corresponding Secretaries Mrs. Mary Carr Curtis, 10 Deaconess Road, Boston, Mass. Mrs. George A. Wilson, 820 Livingston Ave., Syracuse, N. Y. Miss Elizabeth R. Bender, Assistant, Room 715, 150 Fifth Ave., New York, N. Y. Miss Carrie Jay Carnahan, 400 Shady Ave., E. E., Pittsburgh, Pa. Miss Tuliet H. Knox, Assistant, 7320 Brighton Road, Ben Avon, Pa. Mrs. E. L. Harvey, 1626 Monroe St., Washington, D. C Mrs. R. L. Thomas, 792 E. McMillan St., Walnut Hills, Cincinnati, Ohio. Miss E. L. Sinclair, 328 S. Douglas Ave., Springfield, 111. Mrs. J. M. Avann, Assistant, 4949 Indiana Ave., Chicago, 111. Mrs. Randolph S. Beall, Mount Ayr, Iowa. Mrs. William Perry Eveland, 315 Northwestern National Life Ins. Bldg., Minneapolis, Minn. Miss Ella M. Watson, 1701 S. Seventeenth St., Lincoln, Neb. Mrs. G. W. Isham, Acting, 415 E. Sixteenth St., University Place, Neb. Miss Rebecca J. Watson, Assistant, 1701 S. Seventeenth St., Lincoln, Neb. Mrs. S. Frank Johnson, 710 Locust St., Pasadena, Calif. Mrs. Charles W. Huett, 1520 Thompson St., Portland, Ore.

Miss Florence Hooper, Treasurer

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Officers and Committees HOME DEPARTMENT Chairman Mrs. Frederick F. Lindsay

Member ex-officio Mrs. Thomas Nicholson, President Secretary

Mrs. F. H. Sheets, 1930 Sheridan Road, Evanston, 111.

Secretaries of the Home Ease Miss Clementina Butler, 229 Waterman St., Providence, R. I. Mrs. Warren F. Sheldon, 537 W. 123rd St., New York, N. Y. Miss Susan C. Lodge, 1720 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa. Miss Lulie P. Hooper, St. Paul and 23rd Sts., Baltimore, Md. Mrs. F. I. Johnson, 82 North High St., Columbus, Ohio Mrs. Joseph N. Reed, 541 Broadway, Benton Harbor, Mich. Mrs. W. M. Dudley, 1306 East Grand Ave., Des Moines, Iowa Mrs. George D. Taylor, 4216 Upton Ave., S., Minneapolis, Minn. Mrs. F. R. Hollenback,. 780 Elizabeth St., Denver, Colo. Mrs. Cora M. Cassill, 19 Orizaba Ave., Long Beach, Calif. Mrs. Willma Rouse Keene, W. 804 Providence Ave., Spokane, Wash. SPECIAL SECRETARIES

Student Work Mrs. Burton St. John, 105 Midland Ave., Montclair, N. J. Young People's Work—Mrs. Ellis L. Phillips, 316 W. 94th St., New York, N Y. Junior Work Mrs. C. R. Havighurst, 109 Morris St., Charleston, W. Va. German Work in United States and Europe—Miss Amalie M. Achard, 1269 vS. San Fernando Road, Glendale, Calif. Swedish Work Mrs. Edwin S. Dahl, 15 Edwards St., Worcester, Mass.

THE GENERAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE— 1921

The President Emeritus, The President, Vice-Presidents, Recording Secretary and Treasurer, Corresponding Secretaries, Secretaries of the Home Base, Delegates, Secretaries for Student, Young People's, Junior, German and Swedish Work. Delegates New England Branch

Miss Sophronia B. Rich Mrs. S. I. Strout New York Branch Mrs. Henry C. Babel Mrs. Ernest D. North Philadelphia Branch

Mrs. N. W. Nolen Mrs. J. B. Osborn Baltimore Branch Mrs. Court F. Wood Mrs. Cecil E. Rice Cincinnati Branch Mrs. A. A. Faber Mrs. C. F. Anderson Northwestern Branch Mrs. D. G. DuBois Mrs. D. H. Glass Officers and Committees

Des Moines Branch Mrs. S. C. McPherrin Mrs. G. R. Melick Minneapolis Branch

Mrs. W. J. Hutcheson Mrs. B. H. Haynes Topeka Branch Mrs. John N. Dryden Mrs. R. C. Klopfer Pacific Branch Mrs. L. E. Davidson Mrs. J. Huber Columbia River Branch Mrs. Matthew Simpson Hughes Mrs. F. A. Scarvie EDITORS

Woman's Missionary Friend Miss Effie A. Merrill, 248 Spring St., Medford, Mass. Der Frauen Missions Freund Miss Amalie M. Achard, 1269 S. San Fernando Road, Glendale, Calif. Junior Missionary Friend

Mrs. N. Walling Clark, 43 Madison Ave., Madison, N. J. General Literature Miss Annie G. Bailey, 581 Boylston St., Boston, Mass. PUBLISHER Miss Annie G. Bailey, 581 Boylston St., Boston, Mass. SECRETARY OF GENERAL OFFICE Miss Amy G. Lewis, Room 710, 150 Fifth Ave., New York, N. Y. FIELD STUDENT SECRETARY Miss Twila Lytton, Room 710, 150 Fifth Ave., New York, N. Y.

STANDING COMMITTEES FOR 1922 By-Laws Mrs. Charles Spaeth, Mrs. John Legg, Mrs. S. J. Herben, Miss Flor- ence Hooper, Miss Susan C. Lodge. Real Estate and Titles Miss Florence Hooper, 30 Maryland Life Bldg., Baltimore, Md., Mrs. J. M. Avann, Mrs. Cyrus D. Foss, Miss Pauline J. Walden. General Office Mrs. J. E. Leaycraft, Mrs. Cyrus D. Foss, Mrs. John T. King, Mrs. W. F. Sheldon. Retirement Fund Miss Elisabeth F. Pierce, The Portner, Washington, D. C, Mrs. Cyrus D. Foss, Mrs. E. D. North, Miss Ella May Carnahan, Miss Florence Hooper, Mrs. J. F. Keator, Mrs. O. N. Townsend, Mrs. E. D. Huntley, Mrs. Matt S. Hughes. Conference With the Board of Foreign Missions Mrs. W. F. McDowell, Mrs. Thomas Nicholson, Mrs. F. F. Lindsay, Miss Florence Hooper, Mrs. F. H. Sheets. Investments Miss Florence Hooper, 30 Maryland Life Bldg., Baltimore, Md., Mr. Albert C. Tolson, Mr. Charles Olney, Mrs. Francis A. Chamberlain, Mrs. S. Frank Johnson. 6 Officers and Committees

Nominating

Miss Susan C. Lodge, Mrs. F. I. Johnson, Mrs. George A. Wilson, Miss Emma L. Sinclair and three delegates to be added at the session of the General Executive Committee in 1922. State of the Society

Mrs. Charles Spaeth, Mrs. J. N. Reed, Mrs. R. L. Thomas, Miss Carrie Jay Carnahan, Mrs. F. R. Hollenback. Research and Advance Mrs. William Boyd and Branch Presidents. Transportation Miss Amy G. Lewis, Room 710, 150 Fifth Ave., New York, N. Y., Mrs. Ida Anderson, 1409 Sutter St., San Francisco, Calif., Mrs. Thomas Lippy, 1019 James St., Seattle, Wash. General Counselor Mr. Albert C. Tolson, 82 Gunther Bldg., Baltimore, Md. Auditor of Accounts of the General Treasurer and of the Treasurer of Retirement Fund—Mr. Wilmer Black, Baltimore, Md.

REPRESENTATIVES ON BOARDS AND COMMITTEES

Council of Boards of Benevolence Mrs. Thomas Nicholson. Committee on Conservation and Advance Mrs. Frederick F. Lindsay. Federation of Woman's Boards of Foreign Missions Mrs. William Fraser McDowell. Committee on United Study of Foreign Missions Mrs. Frank Mason North. Committee on Christian Literature for Women and Children in Mission Lands—Miss Clementina Butler. Foreign Missions Conference of North America—Delegates: Mrs. Thomas Nicholson, Mrs. F. F. Lindsay, Mrs. W. F. McDowell, Mrs. F. I. John- son. Representatives without expenses: Mrs. Charles Spaeth, Miss Lulie P. Hooper, Mrs. E. L. Phillips, Miss Carrie J. Carnahan. Visitors: Miss Laura M. White, Miss Alice R. Appenzeller, Miss Amy G. Lewis, Mrs. Herbert Welch, Mrs. J. M. Avann, Miss Clementina Butler. Federation of Woman's Boards—Mrs. W. F. McDowell, Mrs. Thomas Nicholson, Mrs. F. F. Lindsay, Mrs. F. I. Johnson, Miss Laura M. White, Miss Elizabeth R. Bender, Miss Alice R. Appenzeller. National Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Detroit— Mrs. W. F. McDowell, Miss Carrie J. Carnahan, Mrs. O. N. Townsend. Alternate: Mrs. F. H. Sheets.

FOREIGN DEPARTMENT

Country Committees India, Burma, Africa Mrs. S. F. Johnson, Miss Ella M. Watson, Mrs. Charles W. Huett, Mrs. R. S. Beall, Mrs. G. W. Isham, Mrs. W. F. McDowell, Mrs. L. L. Townley, Secretary. Officers and Committees 7

China Mrs. E. L. Harvey, Mrs. George A. Wilson, Miss E. L. Sinclair, Mrs. J. M. Avann, Miss Elizabeth R. Bender, Secretary. Inter-Country {Malaysia, Netherlands Indies, Philippine Islands, Korea, Japan, Mexico, South America, Europe, North Africa) Miss Carrie J. Carnahan, Mrs. W. P. Eveland, Mrs. R. L. Thomas, Mrs. Mary Carr Curtis, Miss Ella May Carnahan, Mrs. Thomas Nicholson, Miss Florence Hooper, Miss Juliet Knox, Secretary. Evangelistic Mrs. Beall, Miss C. J. Carnahan, Miss Bender, Mrs. Spaeth, Mrs. Eveland, Secretary. Educational Mrs. Nicholson, Mrs. McDowell, Mrs. Wilson, Miss Ella M. Watson, Miss Lewis, Mrs. Curtis, Secretary. Medical Mrs. Avann, Mrs. Thomas, Mrs. Harvey, Mrs. Reed, Mrs. Huett, Secretary. Comparative Needs Mrs. Townley, Mrs. Johnson, Miss Hooper, Miss Sinclair, Mrs. Lindsay, Miss Knox, Secretary.. HOME DEPARTMENT

General Forward Movement (Including Finance, Publicity, Negro Work) Mrs. Joseph N. Reed, Mrs. F. H. Sheets, Miss Clementina Butler, Mrs. F. I. Johnson, Mrs. O. N. Townsend, Mrs. F. F. Lindsay, ex-officio. Literature Miss Susan C. Lodge, Mrs. F. R. Hollenback, Mrs. Warren F. Sheldon, Mrs. Ralph Keene, Miss Annie G. Bailey, Miss Effie A. Merrill. Student, Young People's and Junior Work Mrs. W. M. Dudley, Mrs. George D. Taylor, Miss Lulie P. Hooper, Mrs. Cora M. Cassill, Mrs. Burton St. John, Mrs. Ellis L. Phillips, Mrs. C. R. Havighurst. Tithing Mrs. Ralph Keene, W. 804 Providence Ave., Spokane, Wash., Mrs. George D. Taylor. Extension Work Mrs. F. H. Sheets, 1930 Sheridan Rd., Evanston, 111., Mrs. Cora M. Cassill, Mrs. F. R. Hollenback.

OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENTS, FIELD CORRESPONDENTS AND TREASURERS IN FOREIGN FIELDS

India Field Treasurer for all Conferences and for Isabella Thoburn College—Miss Pearl Madden, American Methodist^ Episcopal Mission, Calcutta, India. North India Official Correspondent—Miss Ella M. Watson. Field Correspondent—Miss Alice Means, Bijnor. Northwest India Official Correspondent—Miss Ella M. Watson. Field Correspondent—Miss Julia I. Kipp, Tilaunia. Lucknow Official Correspondent—Miss Ella M. Watson. Field Correspondent—Miss Elizabeth Hoge, Gonda. 8 Field Correspondents and Treasurers

South India Official Correspondent—Mrs. C. W. Huett. Field Correspondent—Miss Margaret Morgan, Vikarabad, Deccan. Central Provinces Official Correspondent—Mrs. R. S. Beall. Field Correspondent—Miss Lydia Pool, Jubbulpore. Bombay Official Correspondent—Mrs. C. W. Huett. Field Correspondent—Miss Dora L. Nelson, Baroda. Bengal Official Correspondent—Mrs. S. F. Johnson. Field Correspondent—Miss Mabel Eddy, Calcutta. Burma Official Correspondent—Mrs. R. S. Beall. Field Correspondent—Miss Grace Stockwell, Thongwa. Field Treasurer—Miss Charlotte King, Rangoon. Malaysia Official Correspondent—Mrs. W. P. Eveland. Field Correspondent—C. Ethel Jackson, Ipoh, Federated Malay States. Field Treasurer—Miss Mary E. Olson, Fairfield Girls' School, Singapore, S. S.

Netherlands Indies Mission Official Correspondent—Mrs. W. P. Eveland. Field Correspondent and Treasurer—Miss E. Naomi Ruth, Buitenzorg, Java. Philippine Islands Official Correspondent—Mrs. W. P. Eveland. Field Correspondent—Miss M. M. Decker, 906 Rizal Ave., Manila. Field Treasurer—Miss Mary Deam, Hugh Wilson Hall, Manila. China Field Treasurer for all Conferences—Miss Elizabeth M. Strow, 10 Museum Road, Shanghai. North China Official Correspondent—Mrs. J. M. Avann. Field Correspondent—Miss Evelyn B. Baugh, Peking. Central China Official Correspondent—Mrs. G. A. Wilson. Field Correspondent—Miss Florence A. Sayles, Nanking. Kiangsi Official Correspondent—Mrs. G. A. Wilson. Field Correspondent—Miss Zula F. Brown, Nanchang. West China Official Correspondent—Miss E. L. Sinclair. Field Correspondent—-Miss Lillian L. Holmes, Chungking, Szechuan. Foochow Official Correspondent—-Mrs. E. L. Harvey. Field Correspondent—Miss Jane Ellen Nevitt, Foochow. Hinghwa Official Correspondent—Mrs. E. L. Harvey. Field Correspondent—Emma J. Betow, M.D.. Sienyu. Yenping Official Correspondent—Mrs. E. L. Harvey. Field Correspondent—Mrs. W. I. Lacy, Yenping. Korea Official Correspondent—Mrs. R. L. Thomas. Field Correspondent—Miss Olive F. Pye, Seoul Field Treasurer—Miss Ada B. Hall, Seoul. Field Correspondents and Treasurers 9

Japan Field Treasurer—Miss Anna P. Atkinson, Aoyama Jo Gakuin, Tokyo. East Japan Official Correspondent—Mrs. Mary Carr Curtis. Field Correspondent—-Miss Alberta B. Sprowles, Aoyama Jo Gakuin, Tokyo. West Japan Official Correspondent—Mrs. Mary Carr Curtis. Field Correspondent—-Miss Bertha F. Starkey, Fukuoka. Mexico

Official Correspondent—-Miss Carrie J. Carnahan. Field Correspondent—Miss Blanche A. Betz, Puebla. Field Treasurer—-Miss Lillian Longshore, 3A Industria 76, Mexico City, D. F. South America

Official Correspondent—-Miss Carrie J. Carnahan. Argentina, S. A.—Field Correspondent—-Miss Lois Joy Hartung, 1352 Avenida Pellegrini, Rosario. Field Treasurer—Miss C. Grace Barstow, Calle Camaqua 282, Flores, Buenos Ayres. Uruguay, S. A.—Field Correspondent—Miss Helen C. Gilliland, Soriano 1227, Montevideo. Field Treasurer—Miss Jennie Reid, same address. Peru, S. A.—Field Correspondent, Miss Gertrude Hanks, Apartado 908, Lima. Field Treasurer—Miss Frances C. Vandegrift, same address. Bulgaria Official Correspondent—-Miss Ella May Carnahan, 400 Shady Ave., E. E., Pittsburgh, Pa. Field Correspondent—Miss Kate B. Blackburn, Lovetch. Treasurer—Miss Florence Hooper, 30 Maryland Life Bldg., Baltimore, Md. Italy Official Correspondent—Miss Ella May Carnahan. Field Correspondent—Miss Mary J. Eaton, 55 Via Savoia, Rome. Field Treasurer—Mrs. Artele B. Ruese, 55 Via Savoia, Rome. France Official Correspondent—Miss Ella May Carnahan. Field Correspondent and Treasurer—Miss Grace M. Currier, Foyer Re- trouve, La Tronche, Grenoble. Treasurer for Branch Remittances—Miss Hooper. North Africa Official Correspondent—-Miss Ella May Carnahan. Field Correspondent and Treasurer—-Miss A. Dora Welch, Les Aiglons, El Biar, Algiers. Treasurer for Branch Remittances—Miss Hooper. Southeast Africa Official Correspondent—-Mrs. S. F. Johnson. Field Correspondent—Miss H. Elsie Roush, Box 41, Inhambane, East Africa. Field Treasurer—Miss Ruth Thomas, Box 41, Inhambane, East Africa. Rhodesia Official Correspondent—-Mrs. S. F. Johnson. Field Correspondent—Miss Grace Clark, Old Umtali, Rhodesia. Field Treasurer—Miss Stella A. Hess, Old Umtali, Rhodesia. Angola Official Correspondent—Mrs. S. F. Johnson. Field Correspondent and Treasurer—Miss Clara V. Ault, (Quessua) Malange. German Work in Europe Official Correspondent—-Miss Amalie M. Achard. Treasurer—Miss Hooper. "(^ntoarb toe go, for fitiU toe fjear tfjem gtngtng."

SADIE M. REXRODE, Africa 1917-1921

ALICE M. LACY, China 1917-1921

RUTH E. BATES, India 1918-1921

HETTIE A. THOMAS, Japan 1903-1920

LULU E. FREY, Korea 1893-1921

LOUISA C. ROTHWEILER, Korea 1887-1899 EDUCATIONAL CAMPAIGN

THREE YEARS, 1921-1924

THE YEAR OF PRAYER AND PREPARATION, 1921-1922

Hymn: "Lead on, O King Eternal." Methodist Hymnal, No 408. Prayer: "Thy Kingdom come." Preparation: "The house that is to be builded for Jehovah must be exceed-

• ingly magnificent, of fame and of glory throughout all countries; I will therefore make preparation for it." "Arise and be doing and Jehovah be with thee." Slogan: "Prepare ye the way of the Lord." Cheer: ON to the MILLION.

PREPARE OURSELVES: By a new emphasis on prayer at the family altar; by enlisting new Intercessors; by stressing noontide prayer with which we encircle the world; by observing Founders' Day, March 23, as a special day of reunion, consecration and prayer; by providing instruction through "The Abecedary."

PREPARE LEADERS: By dedicating our own sons and daughters to Christian service; by meeting our full quota for the Union Colleges; by providing Foreign Student Fellowships in America for selected students.

PREPARE—FOR OUR MISSIONARIES: By meeting the call of the Retirement Fund Committee for Memorial Memberships.

PREPARE—FINANCIALLY: By meeting regular appropriations and clearing off all standing obligations of the Society.

Members 1,000,000 GOALS: Subscriptions 200,000 Tithers 300,000 Money $2,650,000

"And in every work that he began, he did it with all his heart and prospered."

11 PROCEEDINGS General Executive Committee

Woman's Foreign Missionary Society Methodist Episcopal Church

Fifty-second Annual Session

Tuesday, October 25, 1921

The fifty-second annual session of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church was held in College Hill Methodist

Episcopal Church, Wichita, Kansas, October 25 to November 1. The opening meeting was called to order by the president, Mrs. William Fraser Mc- Dowell, who announced the hymn, "Awake my soul to joyful lays." The devotional service was conducted by the recording secretary, Mrs. Charles Spaeth. After singing of the hymn, "Praise the Saviour, all ye nations," 1 Chronicles 29: 10-20 was read, followed by prayer and singing of "Great Shepherd of thy chosen few." All general officers of the Society, corresponding secretaries, secretaries of the Home Base, special secretaries and twenty delegates answered to roll call. While missionaries, visiting Branch officers and others were being seated with their delegations the hymn, "Jesus, where'er thy people meet," was sung. Minutes of ad interim actions of general officers, Foreign Department and Home Department were read by the recording secretaries and approved.* After singing two stanzas of "Stand up, stand up for Jesus," on call of the Branches memorials were presented by New England, New York and Pacific Branches and referred to the committee on memorials. For the Committee on Real Estate and Titles, Miss Florence Hooper reported that work on the collection of records pertaining to real estate is being continued and that a new list of valuations is being prepared. Miss Hooper also reported for the Committee on Retirement Fund that in 1921 fifty missionaries received allowances. An endowment of $300,000 is the minimum required to supply income to pay these allowances. A $20,000 income will be needed in 1922. It is the plan of the Society to make the increase in endowment by means of memorial membership gifts of $50, not less than 1,600 of these being needed in 1922. The report of the representative of the Society on the Committee on United Study, Mrs. Frank Mason North, and on the Federation of Woman's

Boards, Mrs. William I. Haven, were accepted and ordered printed in the Executive Daily* Proposed changes in by-laws VI, VII, X, and XIII, paragraph 2, section c, were adopted. A proposed change in by-law XIII, paragraph 4, was deferred.* Stanzas 3 and 4 of the hymn "Stand up, stand up for Jesus" were sung. The report of Junior Work, showing remarkable growth in all of its varied

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Proceedings 13 activities, was presented by Mrs. C. R. Havighurst, the secretary, and was accepted.* The report of Young People's Work, given by Mrs. Ellis L. Phillips, the secretary, indicated important gains, and was accepted.* Recommendations of the Committee on Junior Work were presented by Mrs. W. M. Dudley, chairman, and were adopted. Recommendations of the Committee on Young People's Work were adoptedf with the exception of the one providing that winners in Branch story-telling contests, so far as possible, be sent to a contest to be held at the session of the General Executive Committee. After discussion this recommendation was referred to the committee for further consideration. A request for a ruling, stating where young women's societies paying dues of $1.00, and twenty cents contingent fund, should report was discussed. The motion that the matter be referred to the committee was lost and a motion was carried that they may be counted, at their own option, as belonging to the young people's department. Mrs. Willma Rouse Keene, for the Committee on Tithing, reported a gain in the number of tithers, the total being about 45,000. Several missionaries reported large numbers of tithers on the field, among them 1,000 in Mexico and all the officiary of a church in West China. Personal experiences of some of the workers followed. Miss L. Catherine Baker of Nanchang, China, sang Dr. Frank Mason North's hymn, "Where cross the crowded ways of life." Mrs. F. H. Sheets, in the report of the Committee on Extension Work,

called it "the department for reaching the last woman," since it offers membership in the Society to those who cannot attend meetings. There has been an increase of 50 per cent in membership, thirty extension circles have become auxiliaries and twenty-five and one-half missionaries are supported. Miss Carrie Jay Carnahan and Mrs. F. R. Hollenback led in noontide prayer. The secretary of Student Work, Mrs. Burton St. John, presented her report, combining with it a report of her work on the Life Service Commission of the Church and of the activities of the field secretary of Student Work, Miss Twila Lytton.* Recommendations of the Committee on Student Work were adopted.! Mrs. Clyde Collison, student secretary of Pacific Branch, and Mrs. E. P. Fisher of Topeka Branch were introduced. Miss Lytton and Mrs. Fisher gave a brief history of Kappa Phi, an organization of Methodist girls in state universities, and of its relation to missionary activities among women students. Miss Mildred Welsh, Miss Ruth Meyers and Miss Olive Gould spoke of student work in the colleges and Mrs. St. John outlined the relation of the Society to the Life Service Commission. Committees were appointed as follows

Nominations; Delegates, Mrs. J. N. Dryden of Topeka Branch, Mrs. J. Huber of Pacific Branch, Mrs. S. C. McPherrin of Des Moines Branch were added to the standing committee on nominations, composed of Miss Susan C.

Lodge, Philadelphia Branch, Mrs. F. I. Johnson of Cincinnati Branch, Mrs. G. A. Wilson of New York Branch, Miss Emma L. Sinclair of Northwestern 14 Proceedings

Branch. Memorials; Miss Lulie P. Hooper, Miss Sophronia B. Rich, Mrs.

Henry C. Babel. Resolutions ; The recording secretary, as required by the by-laws, Mrs. E. D. North, Mrs. M. S. Hughes. Names of reporters for the church papers were announced. Introductions: Wives of Bishops, Mrs. Ernest Lynn Waldorf, Mrs. Matthew Simpson Hughes, Mrs. Homer Stuntz, Mrs. Herbert E. Welch, also Dr. and Mrs. A. A. Parker of Wichita, formerly of Baroda, India. After announcements and the benediction of the Society the meeting adjourned. The AFTERNOON SESSION opened with singing "Guide me, O thou Great Jehovah," and "I worship thee, O Holy Ghost," followed by prayer by Mrs. E. L. Harvey and the singing of "O worship the King, all glorious above."

Mrs. J. N. Reed for the Forward Movement Committee reported that the plans for the year were matured at the mid-year meeting of the Home Department and were already in operation. Suggestions for carrying them out were given. The slogan for the membership campaign is "ON to the Million" and new features are awards to districts for increasing membership, and granting to the first district in each Branch to reach its quota the privilege of sending a guest of honor to the General Executive Committee meeting next year. Recommendations from the China Committee, presented by Miss Eliza- beth R. Bender, were adopted, J among them provision for increased support for Bible women and day schools, and increases in scholarships in Foochow orphanage from $30 to $40. The recommendation for financing language schools was referred to a committee composed of one representative from each Country Committee. Miss Katharine Willis stated that each girl in the Woman's College in Foochow had pledged $10.00 for the new dormitory and that the fund of $10,000 pledged by the alumnae was completed. It was voted that a message be sent by the secretary conveying to the students and alumnae the rejoicing of the Society in this effort at self-help. The recommendations of the Inter-Country Committee, presented by

Miss Juliet Knox, secretary, were adopted. % The recommendations of the Committee on Comparative Needs concerning Union Colleges were presented by Miss Knox, and were adopted.^ After singing of the hymn of the Society assigned for 1922, "Lead on, O King Eternal," Mrs. Thomas Nicholson spoke on the work of Union Colleges urging their necessity in the training of native leaders. Miss Rose E. Waldron, a newly appointed missionary, sang "My Task." Editors of periodicals were called to the platform and gave their reports, Miss Effie A. Merrill for the Woman's Missionary Friend, Mrs. N. Walling Clark for the Junior Missionary Friend and Miss Amalie M. Achard for the Frauen Missions Freund* Miss Annie G. Bailey, publisher, reported the condition of the publishing interests of the Society.* Because of a low subscription price and high costs there is a deficit of $10,000 in the accounts for this year, a deficit met from the reserve laid up by careful management. This reserve is not sufficient to carry the literature through another year of high costs. "When the religious f

Proceedings 15 press of the country is in a critical condition, only one periodical being reported as self-supporting, the publishing office of the Society has not yet found it necessary to call on the Branches for support." As editor of literature, Miss Bailey reported that sixty-five millions of pages had been issued this year. The Publication Committee recommended that the price of the Wo- man's Missionary Friend be increased to sixty cents. An amendment that the price be seventy-five cents was lost and the recommendation carried. Other recommendations of the committee were adopted. "Break thou the Bread of Life" was sung. The Zenana Papers, five periodicals of the Society published in India, were reported by Miss Florence Hooper, treasurer of the Zenana Paper Fund. There is a deficit of $375.17 for this year and an additional grant of $500 is asked for. Misses Ashbrook, Sullivan, Crouse and Hyneman testified to the value of these papers. Miss N. M. Daniel of Japan presented the report for Tokiwa, edited and published by two self-supporting missionaries -in Yokohama, Miss Georgiana Baucus and Miss Emma E. Dickinson. These reports were accepted as was also that of the Retirement Fund, given in the morning meeting. Recommendations of the India Committee, a partial report, presented by

Mrs. L. L. Townley, secretary, were adopted. J The recommendations were explained and supported by missionaries. A number of India missionaries gave a demonstration of the duties of one day in a mission school. After singing "One more day's work for Jesus," Miss Achard led in prayer, Dr. Parkinson pronounced the benediction, and the meeting adjourned.

Wednesday, October 26

The morning session opened with singing of the hymn, "How firm a foundation," Mrs. W. F. McDowell presiding and Mrs. F. F. Lindsay, vice- president and chairman of the Home Department, conducting the devotional service. Texts from Exodus 14: 13, 14; Joshua 1: 2, 3, 5, 9; Isaiah 40: 28-31 led the thought from "Go forward!" to the assurance that "the everlast- ing God, Jehovah, the Creator of the ends of the earth—giveth power to the faint; and to him that hath no might he increaseth strength." Miss Sarah C. Holman of Aligarh, India, led in prayer. Hymn 424, "O for a faith that will not shrink, Though pressed by every foe" was sung. After roll call by the secretary the minutes of the Tuesday morning meeting were read and approved. Minutes of the Home Department were read by Mrs. F. H. Sheets, secretary, f A recommendation that a recognition pin for memorial members be approved was recommitted. With this exception the minutes of the Home Department were approved.

Mrs. J. N. Reed, chairman of the Forward Movement Committee, an- t

l(j Proceedings nounced that names of organizations that have secured their share of the million members would be printed in the Friend. Minutes of the Foreign Department were read by the secretary, Mrs. Townley, and approved.J The work in German- speaking conferences was reported by the secretary for German Work, Miss Amalie M. Achard.* Miss Achard referred to Miss Louisa C. Rothweiler, her predecessor, who had gone home within the year and Mrs. R. L. Thomas spoke of the fulfillment of Miss Rothweiler's wish that instead of a tribute of flowers the money they would cost should be given for the work in Korea where she had been a missionary. The Committee on Young People's Work, Mrs. W. M. Dudley, chairman, completed its report presenting a plan for the conduct of story-telling contests and nominating Mrs. Ellis L. Phillips as secretary for Young People's Work. The report was adopted, carrying with it the election of Mrs. Phil- lips, t Work in Swedish conferences was reported by Mrs. Edwin S. Dahl, secretary for Swedish Work, and the report was accepted.* Mrs. Robert Thompson of. Dallas, Texas, invited by Topeka Branch to lead the singing for this session of the General Executive Committee, was introduced and led the congregation in singing the great Reformation hymn, "A mighty fortress is our God." Recommendations of the Home Department, including nominations of Miss Amalie M. Achard as secretary of German Work, Mrs. Edwin S. Dahl, as secretary of Swedish Work and Mrs. L. H. Murlin, as general correspondent for Sweden and Denmark were adopted. Recommendations pertaining to the General Office, nominating Miss

Amy G. Lewis as secretary of the General Office, were adopted. % A message from Sweden was read by the recording secretary who was instructed to send reply to their greetings and thanks for their good works.

"The women in Sweden belonging to the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society are rejoicing with you and praying that 'God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.' Signed: Anna Lellky, president; Maria A. J. Johanson, secretary; Hilda Lofgren, treasurer."

Miss Florence Hooper, treasurer, reported for the Committee on Invest- ments increase of $108,461.63 in the security holdings of the Society for the year ending October 1, 1921. Purchases for the year, made only on the unanimous vote of the members of the Committee, have been confined to Liberty Bonds and a few carefully selected bonds of American railroads. Miss Hooper also presented an itemized report of receipts and disbursements of the General Fund and the auditor's report covering all funds. Mrs. McDowell expressed the indebtedness of the Society to the treasurer for her most efficient work and announced a legacy to the Society from Edith Jackson Fisher, wife of Bishop Fisher of India, for the foundation of a fund to give graduate work in America to selected girls from Isabella Thoburn College, a legacy made immediately available through the generosity of Bishop Fisher. The report of the Educational Committee, given by Mrs. Mary Carr Curtis, was adopted, its recommendations having been incorporated in the plans for 1922. ft J

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Missionaries engaged in educational work in Union Colleges and in the colleges of the Society were introduced. Mrs. George A. Wilson presented the recommendations of the Isabella Thoburn College Committee which were adopted. Miss Enola Eno, a teacher in Isabella Thoburn College, represented that institution. Miss L. Ethel Wallace and Miss Katherine H. Willis of Hwa Nan College, Foochow, China, told of the work of its graduates, one of them opening a free school with an average attendance of seventy. Of the first three graduates from a full college course two are teachers. Mrs. Thompson sang, "Far, far away in heathen darkness dwelling." The Woman's College of Japan, a union institution, was represented by Miss Nell M. Daniel and Miss Twila Lytton, the former stating that there is no difficulty in getting girls into Christian institutions in Japan—there is the embarrassment of numbers. In speaking of Ewha Haktang, the only higher educational institution for girls in Korea, Mrs. Herbert Welch emphasized the great need of new buildings by saying, "We are almost happy, for we are to have new buildings." Mrs. S. F. Johnson led in prayer. Dr. Melissa Manderson of the Woman's Medical College at Peking reported a graduating class of twenty last year and states that this school must raise its standard to grade "A," requiring two years pre-medical college work. "Shall we keep the door open?"

Mrs. J. M. Avann, representative of the Society on the Union College Committee for Yenching College in Peking, said there are twenty Methodist women from seventeen provinces and Korea in that school. After singing "The great Physician now is near," there were several testimonies from missionaries to the value of the work of the graduates of the medical school. Miss Elizabeth R. Bender, representative of the Society on the Ginling College Committee, reported a registration of students from eleven provinces and twenty-eight preparatory schools. "Ginling says a glad thank you for $100,000 sent. Ground has been broken and the first building begun." Miss Mabel R. Nowlin and Miss Laura White commended the work at Ginling, the latter finding among its students helpers in translation and editorial work which is being carried on by two of them during her furlough. Miss Daniel expressed the thanks of the Woman's College in Toyko to To- peka Branch for giving Miss Myrtle Z. Pider to the faculty. Mrs. Nichol- son told of a recent opportunity to meet thirty-two Chinese girls studying in this country, gradtiates of Ginling, Peking Medical and other Christian institutions. She also stated that for five years the girls of Ewha Haktang have asked for a dormitory which could not be provided. Mrs. R. L. Thomas, official correspondent for Korea, announced that plans are being made for building a memorial to Miss Louisa C. Rothweiler in Seoul. Misses Melva A. Livermore, Isabel McKnight and Rue Sellers testified to the value of the Woman's Medical College at Ludhiana, North India. The literature was presented by Mrs. Elizabeth Polk, secretary of To- peka Branch depot of supplies. Miss Annie G. Bailey, publisher, announced arrangements for distribution of the Executive Daily. :

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Greetings were read from Washington District and from Mrs. C. L. Mead of Denver who regretted her inability to be present. Mrs. Felicia Buttz Clark led in noon-tide prayer.

Introductions of Branch presidents followed: Mrs. J. F. Boeye of Topeka Branch, Mrs. Robert Bagnell of Philadelphia Branch, Mrs. A. T. Webb of Northwestern Branch, Mrs. O. S. Dow of Des Moines Branch, Mrs. M. S. Hughes of Columbia River Branch. Other Branch officers were presented:

Mrs. E. J. North, vice-president of New York Branch, Miss Sophronia B. Rich, treasurer of New England Branch, Mrs. J. E. Best and Mrs. A. R. Maclean, recording secretaries of Northwestern and Columbia River Branches, Mrs. A. E. Craig, newly elected secretary of Young People's Work of North- western Branch. Announcements were made by Mrs. H. Imboden. The meeting closed with singing "Jesus calls us," followed by the benediction of the Society. Business was resumed in the AFTERNOON at two o'clock. Hymn 493, "My soul, be on thy guard," was sung, after which Mrs. Phillips read Psalm 139 and Mrs. Havighurst led in prayer. Recommendations of the India Committee were continued by Mrs.

Townley, secretary, followed by those for Africa, all of which were adopted. J The Committee on Reorganization reported through Miss Hooper as follows

The committee appointed by the Home and Foreign Departments to consider changes in the organization of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society has given careful consideration to such plans as have been submitted to it. That there are changes not affecting the fundamental form of the Society's organization, by which the efficiency of its work can be increased, is clearly evident to the committee; that the suggestions thus far made cover the case fully, however, the committee does not believe. We, therefore, request that the committee be continued, with instructions to pursue the study of the matter, to receive and solicit suggestions from all possible sources, to discuss these suggestions at a meeting to be held in May, 1922, and to report to the 1922 session of the General Executive Committee. At one point, however, we fee! sure an immediate change will be beneficial, and therefore recommend that the 1922 mid-year sessions of the Home and Foreign Departments be held at the same time and in the same city. This plan will help toward such a complete viewing of the Society and its work at home and abroad as it is almost impossible to secure when the two departments, each absorbed in its heavy responsibilities, meet in different cities. Even if it should be necessary to lengthen the session by a day or two, this should be done in order to allow for several joint meetings of the departments. (Signed) Florence Hooper, Chairman, Mrs. S. F. Johnson, Mrs. F. F. Lindsay, Flora S. Dudley, W. W. Wilson.

Recommendations of the Inter-country Committee relating to Korea and

Mexico, presented by Miss Knox, were adopted. J Miss Inez M. Marks of West China sang. The report of the Evangelistic Committee, including a survey of the evangelistic campaign, was presented by Mrs. W. P. Eveland and was accepted.

Thirteen new missionaries have been appointed to evangelistic work and two hundred new Bible women employed whose support aggregates $11,000. The thirty Fords asked for became forty-four when the returns were counted. In addition a motor boat and motorcycles, bicycles, horses, oxen, mules and carts, jinrickshas, sedan chairs have been provided. The budget for evangelistic work in 1922 carries $11,000 for upkeep of cars and other expenses of itinerating. Literature has been provided for India, Japan, Philippine Islands, Korea and Burma. The building fund was secured and was allocated by Branches to the following land and buildings: Proceedings 19

New England Delhi, Land $1,000.00 Mexico, Land for Bible Training School 4,200.00 New York Foochow Bible Training School 2,440.00 Yengbyen Class Building 3,000.00 Pyengyang Class Building 3,000.00 Mutumbara Home 3,000.00 Philadelphia Mexico, Land and Building for Bible Training School 25,000.00 Baltimore Foochow Bible Training School 7,500.00

Cincinnati Foochow Bible Training School 1,840.00 Pyengyang Class Building 2,000.00 Yengbyen Class Building 2,000.00 Manila, Deaconess Training School 3,000.00 Thongwa 2,000.00 Mrewa 2,000.00 Delhi, Land 680.00 Northwestern North China 6,000.00 Buitenzorg 8,000.00 West China, Day and Woman's School Building 2,000.00 Nanking 5,100.00 Mexico City 400.00 Yokohama 2,000.00 Foochow Bibie Training School 500.00 Des Moines Vikarabad 3,500.00 Union Training School 4,880.00 Foochow 1,060.00 Delhi Land 800.00 Mexico, Bible Training School 1,000.00 Minneapolis Pakaur 500.00 Mutumbara 2,000.00 Chungking 2,500.00 Delhi, Land 200.00 Topeka Hitt Bible Training School 1,580.00 Muttra 1 ,500.00 Mrewa Home 3,000.00

Delhi, Land . 4,320.00 % Columbia River Buitenzorg 2,000.00 Jubbulpore 1 ,000.00 Nanking 120.00 Manila, Bible Training School 5,550.00

The maintenance fund was secured and $3,000 for scholarships was distributed to Bible Training Schools throughout the field. Baby folds were provided by the children's thank offering.

On motion of Miss Hooper it -was voted that the General Executive Com- mittee approve the list of buildings definitely stated as a part of the evangelistic campaign and that the treasurer be instructed to pay amounts to the field when wise to do so, after consultation with the official correspondent of the conference concerned. Mrs. Thompson led in singing "I love to tell the story." Recommendations of the Medical Committee, presented by Mrs. C. W.

Huett, secretary, were adopted. J Mrs. J. M. Avann, chairman of the committee, stated that there are now in the service of the Society forty-one doctors, thirty-three nurses, two technicians, two hospital business managers, and, 20 Proceedings

in addition, four Chinese doctors in charge of hospitals and several assistants with numbers of native nurses. There is a call for eleven doctors, six nurses, four technicians and three business managers. Following the report Mrs. Nicholson, Misses Sellers, Wallace, Adams, Hyneman, Sullivan, Alvina Robinson, Livermore, Ashbrook, Mrs. Eveland and Mrs. Johnson paid enthusiastic tribute to the work of the doctors and nurses of the Society, in many parts of the world. Mrs. Nicholson spoke of the need of Sironcha, India, where there has never been a doctor and where Blanche Moore, a trained nurse, laid down her life, and introduced Dr. Stella Dodd under appointment to Sironcha. Dr. Rose A. Reiste and Miss Frances Bunger, a trained nurse, recently accepted, wTere introduced. Mrs. Townley, for the Candidate Committee, reported for the year one hundred and three applicants, of whom ninety-eight were recommended for acceptance. Of these sixteen are contract teachers and five withdrew after appointment. Of the ninety-three remaining but forty-three were available for service this year. There is now imperative need for one hundred and eighty-seven new missionaries. Only thirty-seven are available and of these only twelve are ready to go out before the summer and fall of 1922. To meet the needs of the work Mrs. Lindsay summoned the resources of the Home Base in a call for ever increasing membership. Mrs. Reed led the cheer "ON to the million," following with a plan for recognition of district increases in the membership drive. "Lead on, O King Eternal" was sung. Mrs. O. N. Townsend, vice-president of Zanesville District, Ohio, developed the possibilities of building up the district organization. Miss Mary Anderson of North Africa followed with a stirring appeal for help in the work among French and Moslems in Algiers and Constantine. Missionaries from the ends of the earth, engaged in evangelistic work, filled choir loft and platform. As they were introduced they pictured vividly in a few sentences evangelistic methods and needs. The speakers were Missses McKnight, Livermore, Ogborn, Abel, Wyeth, Hyneman, Rosetta Beck, Wells, Robbirfs, Marks, McClellan, Cora Brown, Peet, Nowlin, Hol- man. The latter said that with her motor car she can visit eight villages in one day with less effort than one village in eight hours by old mode of transportation. Announcements followed. Miss Hooper stated that at the request of the workers in North Africa the Foreign Department had voted to name the new rest home at Sidi Ferruch,

purchased with reconstruction funds, the Matilda J. Carnahan Home. J The meeting then adjourned. The General Executive Committee met in Executive Session in the EVENING, Mrs. McDowell presiding. Minutes of Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday sessions read and approved. It was voted to adhere to the program as printed. A special committee of the Home and Foreign Departments consisting of Mrs. F. I. Johnson and Miss Emma L. Sinclair presented nominations as follows for representatives at the National Conference in Detroit: Mrs. 1

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McDowell, Miss Carnahan, Mrs. Townsend, Mrs. F. H. Sheets, alternate, and they were elected. The Home Department nominated the president of the Society as representative on the Council of Boards of Benevolence in place of Mrs. Spaeth, resigned, and Mrs. F. F. Lindsay on the Committee on Conservation and Ad- vance, and they were elected. Discussion of the relation of the Society to the underwriting, on behalf of the Society by the Board of Foreign Missions, for the Inter-church Move- ment followed. 1 Mrs. Townley and Mrs. Sheets were appointed by the chair to approve the proceedings of the public meeting.

Mrs. Nicholson, Miss Hooper, Mrs. Lindsay and Mrs. F. I. Johnson were named as a committee to appoint the next meeting in executive session.

Thursday, October 27

No regular meeting of the General Executive Committee was held, conference with the missionaries being the order of the day. Of these present fourteen had been on the field twenty years or more, the total years of service being eight hundred and fifty for sixty-nine missionaries. There were seventy-six candidates. Informal addresses were made by Miss Carrie J. Carn- ahan, Mrs. R. S. Beall, Miss Laura White of China, Dr. Matilda Hunt of India, Mrs. McDowell and Mrs. S. F. Johnson. Holy Communion was celebrated in the EVENING, Bishop Ernest Lynn Waldorf in charge, assisted by the staff of the Area office and pastors of thirteen Methodist churches in Wichita.

Friday, October 28

The public meeting of the General Executive Committee opened at nine o'clock with singing "O for a thousand tongues to sing My great Redeemer's praise," followed by the Lord's prayer. Devotional services were led by Mrs. Homer C. Stuntz, the theme for the entire session being "Preparation" and for the morning, "Preparation by Prayer." "We may not climb the heavenly steeps" was sung after which Mrs. Stuntz spoke of prayer as the fundamental preparation and the power for accomplishment. Several prayers were offered and the service closed with singing, "Dear Lord and Father of mankind." Mrs. Thompson sang "The Lost Sheep." Bishop Ernest Lynn Waldorf of the Wichita Area was introduced and gave the address of welcome, offering many reasons why the Society was welcome and why city and state afforded a most appropriate meeting-place. Mrs. McDowell responded with an expression of appreciation of cordial hospitality. A stanza of "Onward, Christian Soldiers" was sung. Mrs. Lindsay presented the results of the work of the year at the Home Base and, with the assistance of Home Base secretaries and the "somewhat battered" models used in the evangelistic campaign, visualized its successful completion. 22 Proceedings

Dr. John Benjamin Magee, D.D., pastor of College Hill Church was called upon to consecrate the gift upon the altar as represented by the models. Miss Hooper, treasurer, reported

Receipts, 1920-1921 Branches

New England $107,119.91 New York 241,903.00 Philadelphia 259,231.93 Baltimore 62,944.62 Cincinnati 313,714.74 Northwestern 514,367.80 Des Moines 203,441.12 Minneapolis 118,286.12 Topeka 231,468.81 Pacific 116,748.00 Columbia River 59,811.00

Total from Branches $2,229,037.05

Other Sources

Retirement Fund Principal 434.50 Retirement Fund Income 10,803.43 Zenana Paper Fund 1,369.70 Interest on Deposits 393.81 Miscellaneous 3.35 Isabella Thoburn College (from International Christmas Gift, Laura Spelman Rocke- feller Fund and Woman's Christian Temperance Union) 25,096.46 Isabella Thoburn College, Endowment Income 629.63

Total $2,267,767.93 Increase over last year $267,136.81

Less than 5% of the receipts was spent for administrative purposes. The appropriation for the Retirement Fund was $9,000 and $30,000 was given. Hymn 633, "The Kingdom is coming," was sung. Mrs. Nicholson, vice-president and chairman of the Foreign Department, followed with a masterly survey of recent missionary achievements and of world conditions affecting them, closing as follows: "Madam President, the Woman's Betterment Association of Japan, which has a membership of 500,000, has sent their President, Madame Yajima, to Washington to use her influence in behalf of world peace with the delegates to the Conference on Limitation of Armaments. In view of the close relations between the results of that conference and our work in many lands, I move that the 600,000 Proceedings 23 members of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society set apart November the eleventh as a day of prayer." The motion was seconded by Miss Nell M. Daniel of Yokohama, Japan, and enthusiastically carried. The secretary was requested to send a telegram to Madame Yajima advising her of this action. The service in commemoration of those who have completed their earthly service during the year was opened by singing, "Jesus, Saviour, pilot me," followed by the memorial Scriptures read by Mrs. Spaeth. Mrs. McDowell announced the names: Bishop Merriman C. Harris, Japan; Bishop Wilson S. Lewis, China; Mrs. Fred B. Fisher, India; missionaries, Ruth E. Bates, India; Lulu E. Frey, Korea; Hettie A. Thomas, Japan; Alice M. Lacy, China; Sadie M. Rexrode, Africa; Louisa C. Rothweiler, Korea; home workers, Charlotte O'Neal, Elizabeth Pearson, Elizabeth K. Stanley, Mrs. A. M. Davis, Mrs. Winfield S. Freeman. The introduction of missionaries, a stirring feature of the annual meeting, followed. The missionaries, led by their Branch corresponding secretaries, who presented them and stated country and terms of service on the field, filed on the platform, the furloughed missionaries in the rear, those newly appointed in the chancel. Seventy-four furloughed missionaries with a total service of 898 years and eighty recruits sang together, "I love to tell the story." Young voices rang out, "More wonderful it seems than all the golden fancies of all our golden dreams." Mature voices with a note of certainty sang," 'Tis pleasant to repeat" and the great audience joined with all these in the last stanza. The quiet hour was conducted by Rev. Dean C. Dutton of Oklahoma City on the thought of five channels of service,—what we are, what we do, what we say, what we give, through prayer. An EXECUTIVE meeting was held at 1:30 p. m.|| The AFTERNOON session opened with singing "Love divine," followed by prayer by Mrs. Willma Rouse Keene and Miss Kate C. Ogborn of Wuhu, China. Thirty-nine missionaries, with the field correspondents for that country, Mrs. Avann, Mrs. Wilson, Miss Sinclair, Mrs. Harvey, filled platform and choir gallery, represented many phases of the work of the Society in China. Miss Mabel Nowlin spoke on primary and intermediate schools, Miss Inez Marks on the demand for normal schools, Miss Pauline Westcott on high schools. Mothers of missionaries, Mrs. Hyneman, Mrs. Patterson, Mrs. Nowlin, Mrs. Kesler and Mrs. Livermore were introduced. Mrs. Thompson sang, "Mother's Prayer." "Why colleges for women in China" was made clear by Miss Katharine Willis. The secretary read a cablegram from Foochow announcing that the students and alumnae of Hwa Nan College, Foochow, had secured $10,000 for the new dormitory buildings.

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Dr. Melissa Manderson presented the work of hospitals and dispensaries, pleading for aid for the Union Medical college in Peking. "Take the name of Jesus with you" was sung. The training of the Chinese Bible woman was discussed by Miss Phebe Wells. Miss Marie Wood told of a new phase in the development of training women for service, their preparation as wives of preachers. Miss Kate Ogborn, speaking on "Looking Ahead in China," stated that America must save China to save the world. The missionaries sang, "A New Day in China." The story-telling contest carried on during the year under the direction of the Young People's Department resulted in bringing to the General Execu- tive Meeting Miss Helen Cherrington, Columbus, Ohio, representing Cin- cinnati Branch and Miss Ella Mae Thompson, Eldorado, Kan., representing Topeka Branch, to compete for the final award, the former reciting "Who will open the door to Ling Te" and the latter, "Two ways of doing it." Miss Cherrington was adjudged victor, receiving a grade of 95 while Miss Thompson scored 93. Under the direction of Mrs. Ellis L. Phillips, secretary, the achievements, plans, program and literature of the Young People's Department were demonstrated, after which Mrs. 0. N. Townsend conducted the Council Circle.

Saturday, October 29

The meeting opened at nine a. m., with singing "The morning light is breaking." In the absence of Mrs. Charles L. Mead, Mrs. McConnell conducted the devotional service on "Preparation by Information." Mrs. Bag- nell, Mrs. Hollenback and Mrs. Herben led in prayer. "Break thou the bread of life" was sung. Mrs. McConnell spoke from passages in Hosea 4, Proverbs 2 and Matthew 5: 13-16, and led in prayer. Hymn 205, "Lamp of our feet," was sung. The editors of the publications of the Society reported for the magazines, Miss Achard the Frauen Missions Freund, Mrs. Clark the Junior Friend, Miss Merrill and several missionaries in foreign costume the Woman's Friend. Miss Bailey, editor of Literature, piled up comparisons to show the vast amount of information, helps and devices issued from her office. Greetings from the Committee on Conservation and Advance and from the Woman's Home Missionary Society were read by the secretary.

Hymn 549, "Jesus, the calm that fills my breast No other heart than thine can give," was sung. Miss Clementina Butler, representative of the Society on the Committee on Christian Literature for Women and Children in Mission Lands, made a report.* Miss Laura M. White, Shanghai, China, editor and author in the Chinese language, told of progress being made to build a literature in that language and of the possibilities in the new phonetic script for a literature which old and ignorant women may be taught to read. Associated with Miss White are four young Chinese women writing and translating. "What do we want? An indigenous literature written by the young women of China. We need Proceedings 25 women's colleges to train young women for literary production. We want libraries and an endowed Christian literature."

The director of Library Service, Mrs. Stephen J. Herben, gave her report.* The work in Malaysia and Netherlands Indies was presented by Mrs. W. P. Eveland, official correspondent, assisted by Miss Bunce of Penang and Miss Olsen of Singapore who appealed for evangelistic workers and for a training school in Singapore. The survey of Africa was given by Mrs. S. F. Johnson, official correspondent, no missionaries from Africa being present. The need of medical work was especially emphasized and the Mothers' Class in Harris Street Church, Wichita, pledged the maternity ward in the dispensary at Mutum- bara. Mrs. R. L. Thomas, official correspondent for Korea, introduced Miss Henrietta P. Robbins, leader of Bible classes and institutes, who said that Korean Bible women "preach the Gospel anywhere and all the time." Miss Bessie C. Salmon of Yungbyen reported that Koreans want to send their children to Christian rather than to government schools. "We could have a kindergarten on every corner if we only had the money." Mrs. Thomas referred in words of loving appreciation to the work of Lulu E. Frey who gave twenty-seven years of service to Korea, the last of them in laying foundations for higher education for girls in Ewha Haktang. Junior Work was vividly illustrated by Mrs. C. R. Havighurst, secretary. Mrs. Polk advertised the Study books with accompanying programs, helps and literature. Announcements followed. Introductions: Mr. and Mrs. Auner, Central Provinces, India, Miss Louise Chesney, appointed to Foochow, Dr. Lowther, Dr. L. B. Bowers, president Kansas Wesleyan University, Rev. A. E. Ayers and Rev. Jesse Fisher, seven years in India, Dr. H. E. Wolfe, Area secretary, members of Area staff and local pastors. The theme for the Quiet Hour was "The Romance of Stewardship," which Dr. Dutton illustrated by the story of the remarkable results of stewardship in a mission church in Oklahoma City. The AFTERNOON session was presided over by Mrs. H. Imboden who announced the opening hymn, "Soon may the last glad song arise." Mrs. Thomas led in prayer. The interests of the Retirement Fund formed the topic of the afternoon.

Mrs. J. F. Boeye related the history of the fund, Mrs. McDowell explained how it is used and Miss Hooper told of methods employed in securing an endowment fund. Mrs. O. N. Townsend was in charge of pledge taking and $52,000 was secured. The meeting adjourned at 3 :30 to make way for the children's rally. An executive meeting of the General Executive Committee was held intheEVENING.il

Sunday, October 30 The morning service, held in College Hill Church, was in charge of the pastor, Rev. John Benjamin Magee, D.D. Bishop H. Lester Smith of India preached. 26 » Proceedings

In the AFTERNOON the great church was crowded to capacity to witness the Service of Commission of newly-appointed missionaries, of whom seventy-eight were present. The service was conducted by the president, Mrs. McDowell, following the usual ritual. Each of the young women responded to her name giving her reason for becoming a missionary. Mrs. J. F. Boeye, president of Topeka Branch, voiced the welcome of the Society and Miss Azalia E. Peet of Japan that of the field. The charge was given by Bishop Charles L. Mead, after which certificates were presented by Mrs. McDowell and Mrs. Nicholson and Mrs. Thompson sang "God will take care of you." Dr. Wolfe pronounced the invocation and after singing "O Jesus, I have promised," Bishop Waldorf dismissed the congregation with the benediction. In the EVENING the fifty-second anniversary of the Society was held in the Forum before an audience of about five thousand. The combined choirs of the Methodist churches of the city led the singing. Mrs. McDowell presided. The annual report of the Society was read by Mrs. Charles Spaeth, recording secretary, and Bishop Homer C. Stuntz gave the address.

Monday, October 31

The morning meeting opened at nine o'clock, Mrs. McDowell presiding. "Holy, holy, holy," was sung, followed by "When I survey the wondrous cross." Devotions were conducted by Mrs. Ernest L. Waldorf on the theme, "Preparation by Stewardship," from the text, Luke 12: 42-48. The hymns, "I gave my life for thee" and "Jesus spreads his banner o'er us" were sung. Under the direction of Mrs. Lindsay a demonstration showing the resources of the Home Base and reviewing the hand book, "The A Be Ce Dary," was given, followed by singing "Lead on, O King Eternal." Miss Marion Norris of Chicago expressed the thanks of many business women for authority to form Business Women's Units of the Wesleyan Service Guild, begun in May last to interest business women in home and foreign missionary work. Double dues, $2.50, are paid and equally divided between the two societies, as are unspecified pledges, the organization being open to any woman who earns her own living. In the absence of the chairman, Miss Amy G. Lewis, secretary of the General Office, gave some details of the service rendered by this headquarters of the Society.* After singing "Where cross the crowded ways of life," Bishop Herbert Welch, just arrived from Japan and Korea, was introduced. The survey of Japan under the leadership of Mrs. Mary Carr Curtis, official correspondent, was begun by introduction of Misses Harriet M. Howey, Adella M. Ashbaugh, Caroline S. Peckham and Pauline A. Place, representing Kwassui Jo Gakko, Nagasaki. "For forty years a beacon light in Japan, in 1919 Kwassui received government recognition, permitting its graduates to teach in government schools. Several have volunteered to go to Korea where Christian Japanese teachers are needed in government schools." Dr. Magee announced that the men's class of College Hill Church had pledged $500 for new buildings for Kwassui. Proceedings 27

Miss Azalia E. Peet showed the possibilities of the missionary home as an evangelistic center as demonstrated in Kagoshima where classes for high school and factory girls are conducted, with children's meetings every day in the week, mothers' meetings, conferences with Bible women and gatherings of the daughters of the aristocracy, to all of whom the Bible is taught. Mrs. Nicholson again spoke of Madame Yajima, eighty-nine years of age, a leader in the Woman's Betterment Association of Japan, now in attendance upon the Conference for Limitation of Armament. Inasmuch as Madame Yajima has come to Washington to say that the 500,000 women of the Woman's Betterment Association of Japan are praying for peace, on motion of Miss Rebecca J. Watson it was voted that a telegram of welcome and congratulation be sent her, informing her that over 600,000 members of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society will observe November eleventh in prayer for world peace. Bishop Welch spoke briefly reporting real progress in Christian work in Japan with large increases in Church membership. Mrs. R. S. Beall, official correspondent for Burma, introduced Miss Phebe James, missionary to Burma, who appealed for evangelists to work among the intelligent, emancipated Burmese women. She also presented the work of the self-supporting school for English-speaking children with an attendance of three hundred. Newly appointed missionaries to Burma, Misses Stauffer, Doddridge and Ebersole were introduced. The school in Rangoon for Chinese girls was represented by Miss Alice M. McClellan, who also appealed for evangelistic workers. Mrs. Henry W. Peabody, leader of the interdenominational campaign for Union Colleges, was introduced. "Somebody Knows" was sung by Miss June Patterson. The outstanding opportunity in the Philippine Islands, as seen by Mrs. W. P. Eveland, official correspondent, is the establishment of hostels, Chris- tian homes, for school girls in provincial centers. Miss Rose Dudley of Vigan stated that the United States government which provides the schools asks the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society to establish the homes. Speak- ing for the Mary Johnston Hospital in Manila she said that the government requires American nurses" in the training school to teach in English. Recruits for the Philippines were introduced, Misses Hewson, Atkins, Odee, Grennan and Hawkins. The Misses Bording and Kostrup, nurses formerly at the hospital in Manila, were introduced and Miss Bording reported new organizations effected in Denmark during her furlough in that country, auxiliaries in every Methodist church except one and every Methodist woman in Denmark a member of the Society. Sufficient money has been sent by these organizations to train three nurses in a full course in the hospital in Manila. Bishop Homer C. Stuntz was introduced, also Dr. and Mrs. Hanson, seventeen years in China. The literature was presented by Mrs. Gilbert Blatchley. An unusual service closed the morning meeting, Dr. and Mrs. Magee presenting their infant daughter, Eloise, for baptism. Bishop Waldorf officiated, assisted by Bishops Stuntz and Welch and Mrs. McDowell. 1

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Dr. Dutton's theme for the Quiet Hour was "The Romance of Inter- cession." The AFTERNOON began with singing "What a friend we have in Jesus." Mrs. Matthew S. Hughes read a portion of Isaiah 60 and led in prayer. Mrs. Thompson sang a solo. Missionaries from India filled choir loft and platform, forty-three of them including recruits, who, under the direction of Mrs. R. S. Beall, chairman of the India Committee reviewed the work in that country. "Indianizing Christianity" was the theme of Miss Melva A. Livermore, who told of adapting Indian folk-song music to Christian hymns and "setting North India to singing them." Miss Isabel McKnight of Blackstone Bible Training School in Muttra reported lack of room to take in all the girls who are eager to enter. Miss Laura V. Austin of Bombay Conference laid emphasis on the need of normal schools for training teachers for work in primary education. At this point a cablegram from Miss Ella M. Watson, dated Lucknow,

sending greetings and reference to Matthew 9 : 36-38, was read. Miss Sarah C. Holman showed the work of primary and intermediate schools in training for Christian service. A group of missionaries sang an Indian hymn, followed by singing by the congregation of hymn 222, "Jesus, the name high over all." Miss Rue Sellers represented high schools training English speaking girls for leadership, two graduates of Naini Tal carrying on that school in the absence of the principal on furlough. Miss Alice A. Evans told of the value of dispensaries in village work. Bishop H. Lester Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Auner, Dr. Parker and Bishop Stuntz were introduced. Miss Enola Eno of Isabella Thoburn College gave reasons for Christian- izing higher education in India. Of the graduates of Isabella Thoburn College one hundred and eighty have gone into schools, seventy-one percent are teachers in mission schools, five are in evangelistic centers. Sixteen have taken higher degrees. Mrs. G. W. Isham, acting official correspondent for North India, reported that money for a new building for Bareilly hospital has gone to the field. "Hark, ten thousand hearts and voices" was sung, followed by "Peace, perfect peace." Bishop Smith then reviewed present day conditions in India. Bishop Welch gave an address on the work of the Society in Korea and Japan. The meeting closed with singing hymn 507, "Come, my soul, thy suit prepare," after which the General Executive Committee met in

Executive Session

Further action was taken on the matter of Interchurch underwriting. 1 It was voted to pay from the General Treasury the travelling expenses of Mrs. Thompson who had contributed so much to the session by her singing. It was voted to authorize the General Treasurer in case the need arises to |

Proceedings 29 borrow not to exceed $10,000 to meet emergencies in the Publication Office this year. Recommendations of the Foreign Department pertaining to China were adopted also a recommendation requesting the recording secretary to compile a list of memorial buildings and that such buildings be referred to by their names. J Additional recommendations of the Foreign Department pertaining to India were adopted. It was voted to defer until midyear meeting adjustment of details in the matter of affiliation of the Woman's College of South China with an American educational institution granting degrees. It was voted to send a cablegram of congratulation on the successful out- come of their campaign for funds to the alumnae of the Woman's College of South China. It zvas voted to request Mrs. Spaeth to present appropriations for 1922 to the Board of Foreign Missions for approval at their annual meeting. // was voted to amend By-law XII, section three, by inserting the words,

"except the Field Reference Committee," so that it shall read, "They shall be eligible to membership in any of the committees of the Woman's Conference, except the Field Reference Committee." It was voted to adopt the final report of the India Committee and other actions of the Foreign Department. Minutes of the executive sessions, pertaining to Interchurch underwriting were ordered mimeographed for immediate distribution to members of the committee. Meeting adjourned.

Tuesday, November 1

The morning meeting opened with singing "Jesus, where'er thy people meet." Mrs. Oner S. Dow, president of Des Moines Branch, conducted the devotional service opening with singing "Courage, brother! do not stumble." The theme was "Preparation by Obedience," the text being 1 Chronicles 22: 14-16. "The international process of budget making that affects the future of the world" was made vivid by Miss Hooper under the caption "Where our money goes," an analysis of appropriations for 1922. Miss Lucy Sullivan of Pithoragarh was introduced, also Mr. B. O. Massee of Menomenee, Wisconsin. "How firm a foundation" was sung. After stating that, two years previously, Mrs. William Fraser McDowell had signified her intention to withdraw from the presidency of the Society at this time, the Committee on Nominations, Miss Susan C. Lodge, chairman, presented the nominations for general officers: for President, Mrs. Thomas Nicholson; for Vice-Presidents, Mrs. Frederick F. Lindsay, Mrs.

Francis J. McConnell; for Vice-President-at-large, Mrs. William Fraser McDowell; for Recording Secretary, Mrs. Charles Spaeth; for Treasurer, Miss Florence Hooper. The report was accepted. 30 Proceedings

Mrs. D. G. Dubois, Miss Juliet Knox, Mrs. Burton St. John were appointed as tellers. Mrs. Cyrus D. Foss was elected President Emeritus by a rising vote. Standing committees, general counselor and auditor were nominated and elected. "God of our fathers" was sung. Objectives for 1922 were clearly presented in detail under the direction of Mrs. Lindsay assisted by members of the Forward Movement Committee. Again the hymn for the year, "Lead on, O King Eternal" was sung. "The Prayer Immortal" by John Oxenham was read by Mrs. Spaeth. Mrs. F. I. Johnson spoke of preparation by prayer. Mrs. O. N. Townsend urged the claims of the Retirement Fund. In presenting the necessity for preparation of leaders, Miss Bender announced that the Home and Foreign Departments desired that the $5,000

appropriated in 1922 f Dr this purpose be named the Clotilda Lyon McDowell

Fellowship Fund, Mrs. McDowell to choose the beneficiary. J Mrs. J. N. Reed indicated the intensive cultivation of the Home Base as a financial preparation for the year. Hymn 631, "Jesus shall reign," was sung. Messages of various import from the field were brought by Miss Daniel of Japan, Miss Ruth Robinson, Miss Jennie Ball and Dr. A. A. Parker of India and Miss Mary Anderson of North Africa. Miss Ella May Carnahan, official correspondent for Europe, brought greetings from Bulgaria where every Methodist Episcopal church has an organization of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society. The secretary was requested to send a special message to the Bulgarian women. Mrs. Henry W. Peabody, director of the campaign for Union Colleges, after reviewing the growth of higher education on the mission field outlined the plans for the interdenominational campaign for Union Colleges to secure three million dollars for land and buildings, of which the Laura Spelman Rocke- feller Memorial Fund will contribute one dollar for every two secured before January, 1923. Bishop Welch reported the co-operation of Japanese women in the campaign, stating that the Rockefeller Fund extends its offer of co-operation to funds secured for certain colleges not on the union college list. Missionaries and others representing colleges on the field were called upon to state their special needs. Mrs. Thomas led in noontide prayer for colleges. Mrs. Thomas announced that Cincinnati Branch would erect a kinder-

garten building in Chinnampo, Korea, to bear the name of Mrs. McDowell. J Hymn 208, "I love thy kingdom, Lord," was sung, followed by "Saviour, thy dying love." Chairmen of local committees filed into the chancel and Mrs. Waldorf presented a wrist watch to Mrs. Henry E. Wolfe, the tireless general chairman. Mrs. Wolf introduced her co-laborers in the many services rendered the Committee. Mrs. Waldorf introduced Mrs. Walter and Mrs. Atkinson, mothers of :

Proceedings 31 missionaries, and also Dr. Claudius B. Spencer, editor of Central Christian Advocate and father of a missionary. Announcements followed. The appropriations of the Society by Branches for the year 1922 were read by Branch corresponding secretaries, supported by all Branch representatives present, as follows:

Appropriations

New England $117,500.00 New York 250,000.00 Philadelphia 250,000.00 Baltimore 66,000.00 Cincinnati 326,871.91 Northwestern 475,000.00 "Over and above" 75,000.00 Des Moines 235,000.00 Minneapolis 91,000.00 Topeka 255,000.00 Pacific 120,000.00 Columbia River 60,000.00

Total by Branches $2,321,371.91

Retirement Allowances 20,000.00 Zenana Paper Fund 1,500.00 Student Aid 600.00

$2,343,471.91

On motion of Miss Hooper it was voted that these be approved as the appropriations of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society for 1922. The Committee on Resolutions submitted the following which were adopted

Resolved; That we look back upon the Evangelistic Campaign of 1921 with profound gratitude to God for the evidence of His presence with us, which crowned our efforts with success, and strengthened the bond between the workers at home and abroad, to our mutual upbuilding. Resolved: That we begin the work of the coming year, realizing the imperative need of colleges for women in our foreign fields, with faith in the results of the Educational Campaign, determined to follow the command of our Master, "Let your lamps be lit, and your loins girt," always remembering the order of His doctrine "Fervent in Spirit, serving the Lord." Resolved: That we bring before the women of the Church the call for more missionaries, and urge all to be ready to heed the Heavenly vision. Finally, we pray God that these annual requests for especial objects may so fill us with faith and so enlighten our eyes that no one of them shall remain an isolated campaign, but each may bring new vigor to the whole body of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society and become a lasting element of power in our life blood. Resolved: That the hearty thanks and sincere appreciation of this body be extended to the chairman and members of the local committees whose unremitting, generous and enthusiastic attention to the minutest detail of the machinery of arrangements has ministered to the comfort of the delegates and has contributed so largely to the success of this convention. To Mrs. Robert Thompson whose consecrated voice has so often carried our tired spirits up to the throne of God Himself. To the Bishops of our beloved Church who have come from the far places +

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of the earth to cheer and comfort our hearts and to assure us that our King Eternal is leading us to victory. That, whereas, by the urge of the Holy Spirit, Clotilda Lyon McDowell has given herself to the leadership of this great organization, therefore Be it resolved, that we render unto God the thanksgiving of grateful hearts that He did thus call her to this splendid task; and to her we offer our loving appreciation that through all the changing years, in the joy of achievement, or under the burden of difficulties at home or abroad, in weariness of body and heart, often unto tears, she has courageously "carried on" as "seeing Him who is invisible." May Heaven's richest benediction rest upon her.

The Committee on Memorials presented its report through Miss Lulie P. Hooper, chairman.

The resolution requesting President Harding and our Senators and Representatives to do all in their power to prohibit the manufacture and exportation of morphine and opium for other than medicinal purposes; and further, to initiate some international agreement by which planting of the opium poppy may be limited to only the amount required for medical needs was carried. The motion to lay on the table the memorial of New England Branch to base Branch pro ratas upon receipts from conferences exclusive of bequests was lost. // was voted that this subject be referred to the joint meeting of the Home and Foreign Departments in the spring. The memorial of New York Branch that the hospital at Pyengyang and all other hospitals of the Society continue their service to women under the management of the Society was referred to the Foreign Department which took favorable action. The memorial of Pacific Branch requesting that the Society express approval of President Harding's plan for a Conference on Limitation of Arma- ment was referred to a special committee to draft a suitable resolution.

The tellers reported as follows: Number of votes cast, 45; for President, Mrs. Thomas Nicholson, 41;

for Vice-Presidents, Mrs. Frederick F. Lindsay, 44, Mrs. Francis J. McConnell, 42; Vice-President-at-Large, Mrs. William Fraser McDowell, 44; for Re- cording Secretary, Mrs. Charles Spaeth, 45; for Treasurer, Miss Florence Hooper, 45. These officers were declared elected. The special committee, consisting of Mrs. S. F. Johnson, Mrs. Robert Bagnell and Mrs. E. D. North, appointed to draft a resolution to be sent to President Harding, reported the following:

Whereas, the President of the United States, Warren G. Harding, has taken a commendable lead for world peace by calling a conference of the foremost military and naval nations of the earth to consider limitation of armament, and Whereas, all nations to whom this invitation was extended have accepted and said conference is to convene in Washington, D. C, November 11, 1921, the anniversary of the Armistice, now therefore Be it resolved that the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, representing 600,000 members, approves of this call and heartily commends the conference and urges that the representatives of our country in said conference shall insist on complete limitation of armament in so far as is consistent with national safety. In this hour our faith and dependence is in God the Father and we therefore call on all women of the Methodist Episcopal Church and urge upon Christians everywhere to begin now a daily program of prayer and education for the supreme success of the conference, looking to the end of war and to universal peace. We ask that our secretary be instructed to convey a copy of this resolution to the President of the United States, to the Associated Press and to all official papers of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

These resolutions were adopted. The newly elected officers expressed briefly their desire to fulfill to the extent of their ability the trust committed to them. Miss Lulie P. Hooper, Secretary of the Home Base for Baltimore Branch, extended an invitation from that Branch to hold the next annual meeting of the General Executive Committee within its boundaries. : .

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An altar service led by Mrs. McDowell followed, after which the fifty- second annual session of the General Executive Committee adjourned sine

die. Mrs. Charles Spaeth, Recording Secretary. Approved Mrs. L. L. Townley, Mrs. F. H. Sheets. *See Reports. fSee Actions pertaining to the Home Department. fSee Actions pertaining to the Foreign Department.

1 See additional minutes following. 1

The program for the session of the General Executive Committee included many valuable popular features not a part of the proceedings Under the expert leadership of Mrs. O. N. Townsend a Council Circle met for three periods in the late afternoons to discuss the machinery of the Society on the Home Base. These were followed by demonstrations in costume illustrative of the themes discussed. On Friday evening, October 28, Miss Carrie Jay Carnahan, assisted by missionaries, surveyed the work in

Latin lands, Mrs. Francis J. McConnell presiding. On Monday evening, Mrs. Nicholson presiding, Dr. C. M. McConnell gave an address with stereopticon, "Impressions of a By-stander." Young people and children were instructed and delightfully entertained at the children's rally on Saturday afternoon, all missionaries being present in costume, at the young people's banquet Friday evening and at the student banquet and rally on Saturday evening, each under the leadership of the secretary of that department of work. Methodist choirs of Wichita furnished excellent music for the evening services.

Actions of the Executive Sessions of the General Executive Committee, October 26, 27, 28, 29, 31, 1921, pertaining to the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society and the Board of Foreign Missions in the underwriting of the Interchurch World Movement. The President, Mrs. William Fraser McDowell, in the chair. The President stated the object of the meeting to be consideration of the action to be taken by the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society in the matter of that part of the Interchurch underwriting of the Board of Foreign Missions undertaken by them on behalf of the Society.

A motion was presented by Mrs. F. I. Johnson, and duly seconded, that we register our belief that the Interchurch underwriting of the Board of Foreign Missions as related to the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society is a moral obligation and should be paid. The motion was lost by a vote of 17 affirmative and 28 negative.

The Chair appointed Mrs. George A. Wilson and Mrs. F. I. Johnson a committee to draft a resolution to be presented for action at a later meeting. 34 Proceedings

An informal vote indicated a desire on the part of the majority that further action be taken in this matter, 42 in favor of further action, 8 against. It was voted that in view of the circumstances which led the Board of Foreign Missions to underwrite and pay to the Interchurch World Movement in March, 1920, the sum of $300,000, we authorize our General Treasurer to receive and to disburse to the Board of Foreign Missions funds contributed and designated for the purpose of reimbursing the Board in this matter, and we authorize each Branch to receive and forward to our General Treasurer funds contributed expressly for this purpose, provided that nothing herein contained shall ever be construed as an acknowledgement of any legal liability for the original underwriting referred to. It was voted that a general plan for securing funds be drawn up by the Home Department and submitted to a later meeting of the General Executive Committee.

On recommendation of the Home Department it was voted that all publicity concerning the action of the General Executive Committee in regard to the Interchurch underwriting be deferred until after the meeting of the Na- tional Conference at Detroit, November 14 to 17. That Mrs. Lindsay and Mrs. Nicholson be asked to appraise Dr. North at that meeting of the action of the General Executive Committee and that no action be taken in the Branches until the corresponding secretary and secretary of the Home Base have been notified that this conference of our special committee and the representative of the Board of Foreign Missions has been held.

On further recommendation of the Home Department it was voted that the approach to the women of the Society on the subject of our Interchurch action be made by letter rather than by the printed page, these letters to be sent to a number of selected women recommended by the Branch, conference and district secretaries and to be signed by at least three of the general officers of the Society. If, as a result of the Detroit conference, a plan of presentation more advantageous to our Society shall develop, we authorize our representatives in attendance at that meeting, namely, the President, Mrs. Lindsay, Mrs. McDowell, Miss Carnahan, Mrs. Townsend, Mrs. F. I. Johnson, with the remaining general officers (the chairman of the Foreign Department, the Recording Secretary and the General Treasurer), by a two-thirds vote to re- adapt this plan in accordance with the action on the minutes of the executive sessions of the General Executive Committee. Mrs. Charles Spaeth, Recording Secretary. Registration 35

Report of Committee on Status of Bible Women*

We ask that each Woman's Conference on the field prepare a recommendation concerning the status of Bible women and teachers as related to their quarterly and district conferences, the same to be sent through the field correspondent to the official correspondent not later than February, 1923, in order that the Foreign Department may submit that which may be a consensus of opinion to the conferences of 1923-24 on foreign field so that through the various Central Conferences may come to the General Con- ference of 1924 memorials which will lead to safe legislation. We recommend that each official correspondent, in sending this action to the field, shall suggest that if Bible women become members of quarterly conferences they will be under direction of pastors and official boards unless other relation is indicated, so careful consideration is urged.

Mrs. S. F. Johnson, Mrs. A. H. Holland.

•See Year Book, 1920, page 19.

REGISTRATION General Officers , 6 Department Secretaries 2 Corresponding Secretaries 11 Secretaries of the Home Base 11 Delegates 22 Special Secretaries 5 Editors 3 Publisher 1

Field Student Secretary 1 Missionaries 172 Special Guests 19 Branch Officers 16 Visitors 700

Total 969 —

IN LANDS AFAR INDIA MISSIONARIES AND THEIR STATIONS North India Conference

Bareilly—Girls' Boarding School and Orphanage—Alice Means, Viola B. Dennis. Clara A. Sivain Hospital—Esther Gimson, M.D. Bijnor—Lois L. Parker School—Ruth Bates (until July). District Evangelistic —Jessie I. Peters. Budaun—Sigler Girls 1 School—Ruth Hoath. District Evangelist—Edna Bacon. Chandag—Leper Mission—Mary Reed. Hardoi—Boarding School—Constance E. Blackstock. District Evangelist— Mrs, Lois S. Parker. Moradabad—Girls' Boarding School—Eva M. Hardie, Lucy_Beach, Evelyn Hadden. District Evangelist—Phcebe Emery. Naini Tal— Wellesley High School—Nora Waugh. Pauri—Mary E. Gill School—Laura D. Soper, Nellie M. West. District Evangelist—Mary W. Gill. Pithoragarh—Woman's Home—Angie McMullen. Boarding School—Mary Louise Perrill. Shahjahanpur—Bid-well Memorial School—Grace Honnell. District Evan- gelist—Mary Means. Sitapur—Girls' Boarding School—Blanche McCartney. Lucknow High School—Grace C. Davis. On Furlough—Anna Ashbrook, Anna Blackstock, Ethel M. Calkins, Ida G. Loper, Ruth Robinson, Ruth Warrington. Local Missionaries—Angie McMullen, Ellen Hayes, Ruth Gantzer, Charlotte Cram, Martha Ramsbottom.

Northwest India Conference

Ajmer—Boarding School—Gertrude Richards. District Evangelist—Ellen Lawson. Aligarh—Louise Soule School—Carlotta Hoffman. District Evangelistic Work—to be supplied. Brindaban—Sarah E. Creighton Hospital—Loal E. Huffman, M.D., Eunice Porter, R.N. District Evangelist—Ida M. Farmer. Ghaziabad— Village Educational Work (Bulandshar and Meerut Districts) Emma E. Donohugh. Lahore—Lucie F. Harrison School—Grace P. Smith. District Evangelist (Lahore and Batala Districts) —Lydia A. Christensen. Meerut—Girls' High School—Laura G. Bobenhouse, Emma E. Warner. Muttra—Blackstone Missionary Institute—Adelaide Clancy, Grace Clark. Girls' Boarding School—Grace D. Boddy. Muzaffarnagar—District Evangelist—Winifred Gabrielson. Roorkee—Boarding School—S. Edith Randall, Margaret Hermistone. Tilaunia—Mary Wilson Sanatorium—-Cora I. Kipp, M.D., Julia I. Kipp. Business Superintendent—Anna Brown. Special Appointments—Isabella Thobum College—Lillian Rockwell, Pearl Madden. Treasurer North, Northwest and Lucknow Conferences and Manager of Language School—Anne E. Lawson, Mussoorie. Teacher in Language School—Grace Boddy. On Furlough—Lily D. Greene, Melva A. Livermore, E. Lavinia Nelson, Caroline Nelson, Sarah C. Holman, Estella M. Forsyth, Ruth E. Cochran, Charlotte Holman, Jennie Ball, Isabel McKnight.

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Local Missionaries—G. F. Matthews, Alice M. Murray, Katie Ogilvie, H. H. Wells.

Lucknow Conference Arrah—Boarding School—Abbie Ludgate. District Evangelist—Ruth Hyne- man (part year), (Arrah and Ballia Districts). Cawnpore—High School—Ethel Whiting, Marion Dalrymple. Hudson Me- morial—Mathilde Moses. District Evangelist—Mary Richmond. Gonda—Chambers Memorial School—Elizabeth Hoge. Lucknow—Isabella Thoburn College—Florence L. Nichols, Edna Hutchens, Nettie Bacon, Helen McMillan, Olive Reddick. High School—Mabel Lawrence. Deaconess Home—Joan Davis. Muzaffarpur—Laura S. Wright. On Furlough—Edna Abbott, Jessie A. Bragg, Inez Mason, Jennie M. Smith, Marguerite Schrceppel, Lemira Wheat, Roxanna Oldroyd

South India Conference Bangalore—Baldwin Girls' High School—Muriel E. Robinson. Kolar—Boarding School and Orphanage—Fannie F. Fisher, ^Etna L. Emmel. Ellen T. Cowen Memorial Hospital—Doctor to be supplied. Superintend- ent of Nurses and Baby Fold—Martha A. Griffin. Evangelistic Work— Florence W."Maskell. Belgaum—Day Schools and Evangelistic Work—Kezia E. Munson, Marguerite M. Bugby. Bidar—Boarding School, City Evangelistic Work and Day Schools—Elizabeth Rexroth. District Evangelistic Work and Village Schools—Urdell Mont- gomery. Gulbarga—Evangelistic Work—Julia E. Morrow. Hyderabad—Stanley Girls' High School—Margaret Morgan, Nellie D. Han- cock. Evangelistic Work—Anna M. Harrod. Madras—Boarding School and Evangelistic Work—K. Evalyn Toll. Raichur—Boarding School and Evangelistic Work—Annabelle Watts. Vikarabad—Mary A. Knotts School for Girls—Mildred Simonds. Crawford Memorial Hospital—Superintendent of Nurses—Blanche M. Kline.

Central Provinces Baihar—Boarding School—Jessie E. Clark. Basim—Boarding School—Mabel C. Fisher, Leola Greene, May E. Sutherland. Jubbulpore—Johnson Girls' School—E. Lahuna Clinton. Christian Normal School—Lydia S. Pool. Evangelistic Work—Gertrude A. Becker. Khandwa—Boarding School—Mary Edith Sweet. Evangelistic Work—to be supplied. Nagpur—Boarding School—Annie Goodall, Mildred Drescher. Raipur—E. B. Stevens Girls' School—Alma H. Holland. Evangelistic Work— Edyth A. Huff. Sironcha—Mary J. Clark School—Nell F. Naylor. Evangelistic Work—

Cora Fales. Hospital—Mabel E . Simpson. Widows' Home—Ada J. Lauck. On Furlough—Josephine Liers, Vera R. Thompson, Elsie M. Reynolds, Alvina Robinson, Ethel E. Ruggles, Hazel T. Rogers. Under Appointment—Stella M. Dodd, M.D., Olive Gould, Laura Ovenshire.

Bombay Conference Baroda—Boarding School—Elsie M. Ross. Primary and High Schools— Elma M. Chilson, Icy Shaver. District Evangelistic Work—Cora L. Mor- gan. City Evangelistic Work—Joan C. Jones. Mrs. William Butler Memorial Hospital—Phoebe Ferris, M.D., Ethel Laybourne, M.D., Alice C. Harris. 38 In Lands Afar

Bombay—District Evangelistic Work—Ada Holmes. High School—Leona E. Ruppell. Hindustani Church and Zenana Work—To be supplied. Marathi Work and Hostel—Lucile C. Mayer. Godhra—Boarding School—Dora L. Nelson. Normal College and Practicing School—Minnie E. Newton. City Evangelistic Work—Minnie E. Newton, M. Bailey. Kathiawar—District Evangelistic Work—Louise Godfrey. Nadiad— Widows' Home and District Evangelistic Work—Louise Godfrey. City Evangelistic Work—Mary E. Gooch. Poona—Anglo-Indian Home and Taylor High School—Agnes Dove. Pantamba—Medical Work and School—To be supplied. Telegaon—District, Circuit and Evangelistic Work, Boarding School, Primary and Middle Schools—Christina H. Lawson.

Bengal Conference

Asansol—Boarding School—Rachel Carr. Evangelistic Work—supplied by Frances Matheson. Calcutta—High School—Ava F. Hunt, Ruth Field, Grace M. Knowles. Evangelistic Work—Mabel Eddy. Tamluk—Evangelistic Work—Katherine Blair. DarjEeling—Boarding School—Laura V. Long, Emma J. Barber. Pakur—Boarding School—Lela E. Payton. Evangelistic Work—Pauline Grandstand. Industrial Work—Hilda Swan. On Furlough—Josephine Stahl, Jennie E. Moyer, Maria E. Johanson, Eugenia Norberg, Fannie A. Bennett. Under Appointment—Abbie Hasler, Helen Rockey, Myrtle M. Snider. FOREWORD

The political waters of India have been stirred, but so far there is no healing in the tide which sets toward independence. The new charter granted by Great Britain has not satisfied the people. Ghandi, leader of the malcontents, fosters revolt under the guise of "non-cooperation," urging the boycott of everything foreign, from the right of franchise to the city water-tap. Burning of clothing of foreign manufacture is one of his latest activities. Race feeling runs high. Never did India need Christ and his missionaries more than now. Failure of the rains and subsequent crop failure, in some sections for the third successive year, has brought much suffering and government famine relief has been necessary in some parts of India. Famine prices prevail and it is impossible in our schools to furnish proper food and keep out of debt. One missionary writes: "We have not had butter for so long I do not know what it looks like. Milk is out of the question. The hills are burnt all over the district." The episcopal area made up of North and Northwest India was empowered by the General Conference of 1920 to divide the territory to form a third conference. This was accomplished after the 1921 meetings of these conferences, by the 'formation of Lucknow Annual Conference. Miss Ella M. Watson, official correspondent of the conferences of this area and representative of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, landed in India in October, 1920, and has given a full year to the study of missions and conditions, not only in this area, but in all India. An Indian correspondent says: "She has traveled by train and ox-cart, by ekka, by auto, by jinricksha, by river-boat, by dandy, by elephant—and if there are any other modes of travel be sure she has tried them. She has eaten everything from roast peacock down to sag. She has slept on everything from beds to benches. She has braved every sort of weather from 'loo' to monsoon. She has mingled with all sorts of people from royalty to sweepers, and through all and in all she has walked among us as one wise, sympathetic and understanding." The full measure of the service she will render India does not yet appear. India 39

EDUCATIONAL WORK

North India Conference

In the mother conference of Indian Methodism our missions have come in a half century to orderly, if inadequate, development of educational, evangelistic and medical work, the purpose, one—evangelism. From day school to college is a long way in India, and few go the length of the road. The day schools, whose importance is greatly stressed these days, show the least development. Village schools are for the most part taught by Bible women with little training. Even so, the village children are by them lifted above the level of the village. City day schools, with better equipment and teachers, do better work. Boarding schools, whose aim is the intensive cultivation of selected children, in this conference enroll over eleven hundred girls. More than that number have been turned away for lack of room. The ideal of this is not education, per se—though government inspection and rule makes that essential—but evangelism and training for service. An experienced observer says: "Where are our trained Indian workers made ready for effective service? In our boarding schools, colleges, Bible training schools, in contact with missionaries who brought them face to face with God. To my mind the greatest need to-day is trained Indian workers, but that is impossible without more missionaries, many more missionaries, double, triple, quadruple the present number." The schools at Bareilly, Bijnor, Budaun, Hardoi, Pauri, Moradabad, Pitho- ragrah, Dwarahat, Sitapur and Shahjahanpur need many things—buildings, equipment, support for more scholarships—but the paramount need is for missionaries. There are three mountain districts in this conference. Most interesting is a glimpse of their schools. Pauri is sixty miles from the railway. Last year an epidemic of fever broke out and before Dr. Huffman was summoned from Bareilly precious lives were lost. In spite of this Miss Soper writes, "It has been the happiest year of my life." Through her sympathy and devoted ministry in the days of suffering, God has given her access to the hearts of the people in a new and intimate way. At Dwarahat, difficult of access, is a little school, meeting in the church building for lack of a schoolhouse. Miss Oram, a product of Calcutta high school, is in charge of this school and of the boys' school, the compound and the community as well. Miss Watson says, "We may well be proud of her and of the school which gave the training. A school building should be erected at once." Pithoragarh is a place of varied activities. A little to one side, at Chandag, is the leper mission to which Mary Reed has given more than thirty years of service. At Pithoragarh is the girls' school with over a hundred pupils. So important is this school that last year Miss Perrill was taken from her great Ballia District evangelistic work to care for the girls at Pithoragarh. Serious illness has been her lot, but she is making good recovery, to the joy of the mission. The widows' home is a city of refuge to forty-seven widows who find here safety and the training for self- support in honorable service. To Bijnor came the heaviest sorrow, in the death of Miss Ruth Bates, the one missionary in the school. How to care for the work was a puzzle. Fin- ally Moradabad, already undermanned, loaned one of her missionaries. Moradabad, one of the great old schools of the conference, now a middle and normal training school, has suffered the loss of the school bungalow, the residence of the missionary staff. Over a hundred years old it was, mud- walled, one of the poorest residences in all our missions. It had long threat- ened to collapse and under an unusually heavy rainfall it fulfilled the threat. The evangelist gave up her little house for the school missionaries and moved into a corner room of the wrecked building where the walls still stand. Such is the luxury of life in Moradabad! Shall not money for the needed buildings be quickly sent? Stories from every school clamor for the telling. In each the Master is exalted and steadfast faith and service bring nearer the day of India's re- 40 In Lands Afar

demption. Wellesley High School, at Naini Tal, is of another type. One hundred and sixty girls of English, American or Anglo-Indian extraction are enrolled, and sixty were turned away. A large'proportion are children of missionaries who find here a Christian school which enables them to live in the country where their parents serve, until they are ready for college. To man the ten middle schools of this conference, with their strategic opportunity for Kingdom building, there are but fourteen missionaries, nine of them first termers and three in their first year of service. In the estimates for educational campaign the amount asked—and urgently needed-—for buildings, equipment, and added support is $191,283.

Northwest India Conference

Greatest of all in numbers and rapidity of growth is Northwest India Conference with its Christian community of 180,000. The mass movement toward Christ has had greater momentum here than elsewhere. So rapid has been the growth, despite the settled policy to baptize only as converts can be taught, that we are far behind in caring for them. Could you year after year turn back those who continued to plead for baptism and a place in the Church? In this great Christian community there are seven primary and middle schools for girls. So inadequate are they that they hardly do more than care for the children of pastors, Bible women and other workers. We are in danger of creating within the church an educated "caste" while we a,llow the masses to lapse back into heathenism for lack of teaching enough to enable them to read the Scriptures intelligently. Meerut, the one high school for the conference, last July opened a normal department with the hope of fitting teachers for the lower schools. The primary school, opened at Roorkee three years ago, is overflowing, yet gave but temporary relief to Meerut and there is insistent need for the opening of another primary school at Delhi. Meerut, Aligarh and Muttra are "bursting out at the sides" with girls. Roorkee is on the emergency list for new buildings. Ajmer needs more and more room for the children who come pouring into this, the only Hindustani school on that side of the conference. Lahore, set alone in the great Punjabi area, is first in its call for buildings. This embarrassment is not evidence of failure but of high success, as glimpses of the work show. At Aligarh two hundred girls are enrolled. Hindus and Mohammedans, seeing the happy lot of the school girls, come begging for the admission of their daughters. Self-help plays a large part here and forward-looking plans are for the development of a modern vocational school for girls. This involves the removal from this mission of a large group of women, many of them rescued women, to a new location. Meerut, in the center of the mass movement, combines careful attention to scholarship with nurture of the spiritual life. In the probationers' class twenty-two are being prepared for church membership. The limitations of the school are suggested in the statement that children from Delhi and Hissar Districts, where there are no schools, were not allowed to return to Meerut. The problem of one is the problem of all—room for the children crowding toward the light. The most promising development of village education in our mission is to be found in this conference. Ghaziabad rejoices in a missionary, our first appointed to the supervision of village education, and here is the finest day school. Miss Donohugh needs only funds and equipment to make this district a great demonstration plant. Blackstone Missionary Institute at Muttra is the outstanding Bible training school of our India missions. Four departments provide for the different classes of students. In the English department all teaching is in English. High school graduation is the entrance requirement. Every local missionary in the conference is a graduate of this department. The vernacular training, where the teaching is in Hindustani, admits pupils of two grades. The one studies the whole Bible, the other the shorter Bible woman's course. India 41

These girls live in dormitories inside the compound, in simple Indian fashion. The}'' sit on the floor and eat with their fingers, as India does. They sweep the floors with a queer broom made of splints tied together and grind the wheat for their unleavened bread between two stones. They are trained in cleanliness and right ways of living, but kept in the habits of their own people, to whom they must return. Most of these girls are members of the League of Intercessors. The choice girls from this department are filling a large place in the Church. Not a few are wives of pastors, others are teachers in boarding schools and reports of their work are most gratifying. They are Bible women, zenana workers, matrons in boarding schools. Another group, and one of the finest, is made up of girls from the middle schools. The fourth is that of the village women, untaught, unable to read and write when they come with their babes in their arms and little ones tagging at their skirts. These women will learn to read, to sing the bhajans and tell the Bible stories and will return with their husbani^ to the villages to sow the seed. "We have many lines of work, but they all are for the same purpose, that the Kingdom may come into the hearts of the people of India," says Miss Clancy. Ludhiana Medical School, a union institution in which we have a small share, gives opportunity to our girls for thorough medical training. Askings of this conference in the educational campaign are for $125,000 for buildings, and other amounts for equipment and increased support of scholarships, assistants and helpers.

Lucknow Conference

On February second, 1921, the Lucknow Conference was organized with Arrah, Ballia, Gonda, Lucknow, Rae Bareli and Tirhoot Districts from North India and Allahabad and Cawnpore from Northwest India. By this action some of the oldest stations in our mission come into the newest conference. Isabella Thoburn College belongs to all India. The high school was made an inter-conference school as there is no high school within the present bounds of North India. Thirteen missionaries of the Society and eleven wives of missionaries constituted the Woman's Conference to which was given the privilege of naming the new annual conference. Three schools for Hindustani girls lie within the new conference—Hudson Memorial in Cawnpore, Gonda and Muzaffarpur. Three hundred and sixty- nine girls are enrolled. The greatest of these schools is Hudson Memorial. Miss Moses has carried the big school alone since Miss Bragg came on furlough. A new situation has arisen in this old city, for Cawnpore has become the second manufacturing city of India in importance. The mills circle our girls' compound, the factory stacks tower above the walls and the crowds are on every hand. It is no longer a fit place for a mission school. The proposal is to make this the evangelistic and social service center. A unique opportunity for such service comes through the proposal of the mill owners to our Society. They desire to open schools for the children of their employees, financing the project, but asking our Society, first of all, to send a missionary to inaugurate the enterprise. Muzaffarpur school was moved in 1919 into the roomy quarters of the former "Planter's Club" and here the girls are blooming into Christian womanhood and all unknown to themselves are a demonstration to the surrounding peoples of the value of education for women. Muzaffarpur is in the center of the most densely populated section of India, with eight hundred to nine hundred and thirty-five to the square mile. Education for women is very backward among these swarming millions and Muzaffarpur has a great future. At Arrah is a school for girls, opened and supported until now with mass movement funds of the Board of Foreign Missions. Here seventy girls, children of the mass movement Christians, are the first of their people ever to learn to read and write. As the fund which has made possible the school is running low the only hope for the continuance of the school is in its adoption 42 In Lands Afar

by the Society. Bishop Warne expects this school to become "the Meerut of the Lucknow Conference" and all the bishops urge its taking over. Cawnpore English High School belongs to the new conference. It has been made the beneficiary of the Indian Centenary gifts to the limit of 200,000 rupees. Should this sum be realized it will free the school from the financial strain which has for years been an undue burden upon the missionaries. With one-tenth of the Centenary period past, one-fifth of the sum has been paid in. The endowment campaign has enlisted the hearty support of the community and the children are doing their share in raising money.

South India Conference

The South India Conference extends from the Deccan south and represents a large field of varied interests in the work of the Woman's foreign Mis- sionary Society. Educational, evangelistic and medical work are carried on in the large cities and in the villages and reports reveal splendid work accomplished along all lines. The eight boarding schools for girls present much the same problems from year to year. The spiritual, mental and physical growth of the girls must be cared for—the spiritual always first, for nothing is allowed to interfere with their devotional and prayer life, but it is good to have a share in the development of their minds and bodies as well as their hearts. These schools are located in Bangalore, Kolar, Belgaum, Bidar Hyderabad, Madras, Raichur and Vikarabad where the many evidences of the helping hand and the kindly deed show clearly that Jesus is King in the lives of both teachers and pupils. The day schools continue to prosper, for the blessing of God is upon them as here and there the precious seed is sown, which will bear fruit "unto the praise of His glory, whom we serve with thanksgiving." The spiritual result of these schools cannot always- be tabulated in baptisms, but there is abundant evidence that the truths taught are entering into the lives of the children.

Central Provinces Conference

Our schools are full to overflowing and all of them have many unmet needs, but the staff of each school has adhered steadfastly to the high ideals of the conference in educational standards, and the result for the year is good. The continued high prices of grain, cloth, school supplies, and everything needed in the schools has made the financial burden a heavy one. Even with the most rigid economies the regular appropriations have been inadequate to provide mere necessities. Every school is pleading for more scholarships. It is no longer possible to support girls without scholarships upon the margins of other supports. High prices have destroyed margins, and the only alter- native to continued debt is more income. Jubbulpore—Johnson Girls' School—There was no one to take Miss Hunt's place in the high school when she came home in January, and Miss Clinton has carried alone the burden of this large institution. The high school has a better staff than ever before and a larger enrollment in each class. They have a flourishing Standard Bearer society in the school, the dues being used to support a homeless child. Miss Clinton, remembering the difficulties that attend the successful monthly meetings of societies at home, marvels at the interesting meetings planned by the girls. The school is strictly up to date in matters of government. A council, composed of two members from each high school class elected by the girls themselves to pass upon matters of discipline, is one of the new and successful innovations. The Christian Normal School—Results have justified the change in name and policy of this school. It now not only trains workers for evangelistic work but supplies teachers for all the Hindi speaking schools in the conference. Miss Pool is doing a most important work in sending out trained Christian teachers. The school is overcrowded and must soon be enlarged. A sleeping India 43

porch is asked for to supplement dormitory room. Dining room and study rooms are now being converted into sleeping rooms each night. Baihar—This school has neither dormitories, schoolhouse nor bungalow of its own, but Miss Clark has worked happily and effectively despite these handicaps. A site has been purchased for a building and it is hoped that the educational campaign will give the new building. Basim—Mrs. Fisher and Miss Green have had an eventful year. The lack of a normal rainfall for three successive years, causing ordinary wells to go dry, has made it necessary to haul all the water used by the school from a well a mile distant. This task took all the time of two servants and a team of bullocks using a small, inadequate water tank. Money was sent from the May meeting for a well for Basim, but while the deepening of the well made possible by this money was of some help, it was not sufficient to give a permanent well, and water had to be hauled again before the season was over. Many trees had been started on the compound but they all died from lack of water, and both children and missionaries have often been thirsty. Another event was the change from a primary school into a middle school, two standards having been added, enabling the school to exert its influence upon girls for two years more. In the annual examinations a larger percent of the number of girls passed than in any of five preceding years. Basim is Marathi and will be included in the new Marathi conference to be organized this fall. Nagpur—The Gondia—Kampti school has been permanently located at Nagpur. This is a Marathi school also, and will go into the new conference. Early in the year Miss Goodall, who had been alone in the school, became ill from the long strain of the work and because of most inadequate housing conditions. Miss Drescher was sent to her relief and has remained with the school, giving most valuable assistance during the removal of the school to Nagpur. Bishop Robinson writes most hopefully of the work at Nagpur. The new rented quarters are unsuited to the needs of the school, but they are much better than were those at Gondia. Every available niche of the new quarters is now full and many of our own Christian girls are being refused admission. A suitable building in the near future seems a necessity. In all the Marathi area there is no school where our girls may receive normal training, and it is planned that this school may, as soon as a home is provided for it, become the much needed normal school. Miss Drescher, who now has charge of the educational work, wrote soon after her arrival as follows: "Miss Goodall has done a splendid work with'these girls. They do every bit of their own work. She has been the only white woman in Gondia and has lived alone in this bungalow with fifty girls, but in the face of such difficulties Miss Goodall has 'carried on' and has seen her girls develop, not only mentally, but in character and in self- reliance." Khandwa—Miss Sweet has made a brave struggle with ever increasing high prices this year, to make ends meet. Her great concern is that she may have sufficient help, financially, to leave the school free from debt when she goes on furlough in September, 1922. The school has had the highest enrollment in its history, most of them children of Christian people. Among the day scholars were two non-Christian girls from the city. At first they were shy among the Christian girls, but soon they were joining in the singing, prayers and games. Christianity can so easily displace a false religion in the heart of a child. At present there are thirty-six girls in school without scholarship support. Raipur—Mrs. Holland reached Raipur in March, just in time to take charge of this school of one hundred and ninety-five girls before Miss Reynolds left on furlough. Two weeks later measles developed and Mrs. Holland had fifty cases in the little school hospital at one time. Famine conditions still prevail in Raipur district. Early in the year a widow with five children, from one to eight years old, appeared at the school asking for shelter. She with her starving little ones had walked a five days' journey because she had heard that the Christians there were kind and would give her help. The name of the baby, a wretched little bundle of bones, was "Ahhalim" (Famine) be- !

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cause, as the mother explained, the child had been born at the beginning of the famine. Some work was found for the mother and the five children were taken into the orphanage. One of the latest additions to the school is a beautiful girl baby, picked up in a field near Raipur. The famine waifs who have found shelter in this school during the past two years are now as bright and healthy a family of children as can be found anywhere. Forty of them are still without scholarships. On last Easter sixty-eight of these girl waifs were baptized, with an equal number of boys, in the church at Raipur. Their ages ranged from two to ten years. There was a prayerful hush over the congregation as the district superintendent passed from one to another putting upon each little bowed head the baptismal water, symbol of the risen Christ. Sixty-eight young girl lives reclaimed for the Master, saved from a life of ignorance, degradation and bondage which was the lot of their mothers, and privileged to be led into the light and liberty of Christian womanhood Sironcha—The sickness of Alvina Robinson who was appointed to the boarding school at Sironcha made it necessary for Miss Fales, who has given all her time to the dispensary since August, 1919, to take charge of the school. Miss Fales has certainly proven herself adaptable in being able to accept sudden changes in her appointments. The school has had a fine growth in numbers—most of them orphans from famine and influenza. How our missionaries rejoice in the possession of these orphans! Their rescue and care has not only been a convincing proof to the observant heathen people of the love of Christ manifested through his followers to "the least of these little ones" but our workers are free to train these children without any inter- ference, and practically all of them become active workers in our Church. These jungle people make fine Christians. They are of good mentality, appreciative and faithful. Topeka Branch has again proven herself a generous godmother to Sironcha, in presenting them, as a result of Miss Watson's visit, with a trailer to the automobile given last year. This new possession, by enabling a passenger trip to take care of freight also, decreases the number of trips to the railway, and greatly adds to the comfort of our workers in enabling them to get needed supplies more promptly. Sironcha greatly needs more scholarships and money for salaries of a stronger teachers' staff. It is not easy to get teachers to go so far into the interior. We are trying to solve this problem by training our own girls, and four were sent to normal schools last year for teacher training, the school paying their expenses.

Bombay Conference

The Bombay Conference extends from the borders of Beluchistan on the north to the Deccan on the south, Quetta being the northernmost station and Poona the most southern. The missionary work for women, however, has centralized in Gujerat, Kathiawar and the Maharastra, which is the Marathi- speaking country, thus leaving vast areas untouched by the Woman's Society of our Church. The missionaries in charge of the three girls' boarding schools report a deepening of the spiritual life of the six hundred girls under care during the past year. An encouraging feature of school work in this part of India is the fact that some of the schools have waiting lists of bright little girls between the ages of six and eight years. If we find ourselves unable to take them for lack of room we lose our chance to influence these lives. The boarding schools are located in the cities of Baroda, Godhra and Telegaon. Day schools are maintained in connection with the work of the Bible readers in all the districts of the conference. These schools serve as centers for secular education as well as for the spiritual instruction of the community. City schools are maintained in Poona, Godhra, Ahmedabad and Nadiad. A report of the Bombay Con- ference would be uncomplete if it did not include a word about the Anglo- Indian Home and the Taylor High School at Poona, where the usual high standard of efficiency has been maintained. India 45

The conference urges a policy to include intensive as well as extensive work in all its departments for the coming year, that still larger service may be rendered and in order to reach the highest state of efficiency that it is capable of maintaining in the extension of the Kingdom of our Christ.

Bengal Conference

A large proportion of our work in this conference is for the Anglo-Indian people and centers in our two boarding schools, the Calcutta Girls' High School and the Queen's Hill School in Darjeeling. We have English work in India because William Taylor planted it there. He, the "Kingdom's Empire Builder," as Bishop Stuntz labels him, preached in English to Anglo-Indians in Bombay, Poona, Bangalore, Lucknow, Alla- habad, Calcutta, and "where'er he trod churches sprang up in his footsteps." This accounts for the fact that of all the American missions in India, Methodism alone is nation-wide. J. M. Thoburn, William Taylor's immediate successor, added Rangoon and Singapore to the list of centers where Methodist churches were established. The overflow of religious zeal and spiritual power that always marked William Taylor's converts resulted in beginning vernacular work wherever there was an English church. Up to that time Methodism was established in two small provinces. To-day it is in every seaport and every important center. Schools for Anglo-Indian children were started in connection with these various churches. The pupils' fees, with a sum granted annually for education by the British Government, practically support the schools, the missionary society having only to supply buildings. Bengal has two of these English schools for girls, as referred to above. The Calcutta Girls' School is well equipped, a new wing to the building having just been completed, and additional space added to the playgrounds. This school, together with Thoburn Church next door, forms a center of evangelical Christianity in that great city. From it have gone out some of our strongest assistants, Anglo-Indian young women, working side by side with our missionaries, carrying the gospel to Indian women. One result of special revival services held in the school this year was that eight girls joined the Methodist church. Queen's Hill School in Darjeeling, up in the Himalaya mountains, is an outgrowth from the Calcutta Girls' School. It is the only "hill school" in the province under an evangelical church. The others are Catholic con- vents and Church of England schools. On account of the great heat many white children from the plains have to be sent away to these schools where the climate is cool and healthful. The school term lasts from March to November. Many missionaries send their children to Queen's Hill to school instead of leaving them in America. Queen's Hill is in urgent need of new buildings. A fine site is available and a sum of not less than one hundred twenty-five thousand dollars will be required for buildings. It is hoped by the field workers that half of this sum will be paid by the government and that the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, which has already made a beginning, will supply the rest. In Asansol the boarding school has had a good year with one hundred and ten girls in attendance. Self-support is making steady advance in that some are now paying part of their expenses though no one is able to pay all. More room for expansion is the call here, also, as the limit has been reached in ac- commodation of pupils. Pakur also asks for new scholarships in the boarding school where one hundred and ten pupils are now in attendance. A kindergarten hall is the next imperative need in buildings and this we hope to provide the coming year. Nine new missionaries are asked for in the conference, six for work in the vernacular and three for English work, two of the latter to be supported by

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EVANGELISTIC WORK

North India Conference

In the ten districts, with a Christian population of 75,000, 28,655 are listed women and girls, many of them new converts. To nurture them in the gospel we have five district missionaries and about the same number of Indian leaders. Wives of district superintendents give supervision to district Bible women, but many other missionary wives who formerly aided in district work are now engrossed in the conduct of primary schools for boys. Mary Means, Jessie I. Peters, Mrs. L. S. Parker, Phoebe Emery and Mrs. Gill are the evangelists. Four hundred and twenty-nine Bible women have been the teachers and leaders among the village women. In the cities many workers are widows, giving their entire time to zenana and mohulla visitation, but in country districts they are of necessity married women with home cares. One overseeing the work says, "We can but marvel at the results obtained in the face of such overwhelming difficulty." Direct avangelism has a charm all its own. On Dwarahat District Mrs. Gill asks that instead of a Ford she be allowed the same sum for the erection of rest houses where she and her Bible women may stop on these mountain trails, where no Ford can pass. A great pilgrim route crosses these mountains and among the pilgrims they sing and preach. Hidden away in mountain valleys are many scattered Christians to be taught. Miss Emery adds to her evangelist work the development of the district schools with a simple three year course. Meetings with chaudhries have taken much time this year. Recently she received an invitation from a wealthy Mohammedan gentleman to take tea in his house. To her surprise a band of sweeper Christians had been invited to entertain the guest of honor. The courtyard was packed with Mohammedan women who listened with delight to the Christian songs. The missionary was invited to address the women. "If I talk to them," she answered, "it must be about Jesus Christ." "Certainly, I understand that," was the courteous reply of the host. Thousands of non-Christians hear the word in a year.

Northwest India Conference

Bishop Warne in "A Look Ahead" says: "The evangelistic force should be greatly strengthened. I cannot better show the necessity of this than to state that this year there are no lady evangelists on Hissar, Bikanir, Delhi, Meerut, Bulandshar nor Aligarh Districts. These districts represent a Christian community of 100,000 souls, approximately half of whom are women and girls." Six hundred and ninety-four Bible women are employed. Seven evangelists give their full time, in season, to touring the district, trying to reach and strengthen the work of the last Bible reader in the last village. District training schools have been established in which both men and women are given elementary Christian training and then sent back to teach their own people what they have learned. Summer schools are held in most districts. Miss Holman on leaving for furlough said: "We are confronted with what seems an impossible task, to evangelize 1,166,163 people of Aligarh District with the few helpers we have. All that is human groans, 'It cannot be done,' but a living faith in the eternal Son of God shouts, 'It will be done.' Last year 1,282 were brought into the Kingdom of our Christ on this district." "How the Kingdom grows with our feeble efforts is a marvel," says another. "The other day we found a man with his family to be the only Christians in his village. On being asked his experience he said that a Miss Sahiba (missionary) had come to his village years ago and had sung a bhajan about Christ and that song had stayed in his heart ever since. We could find no signs of idol worship about his premises. He gladly subscribed to the Centenary. He knew that Christ had died for our sins and that he lives to-day to keep us from sin." One missionary says, "There is every indication of a break among the chamars. They listen eagerly to the message. They clamor for teachers." India 47

Miss Gabrielson, on Roorkee District says: "If the experiences of the year were summarized in a few words it might be said to be a year of sickness and pinching poverty, severe persecution of Christians and studied opposition of inquirers by several groups of the enemies of our Christ, testings and siftings, a few defeats but abundant and glorious victories. Persecutions have been more severe because of the approaching census when every effort is made by Hindus and Mohammedans to frighten Christians into registering under their former religions, and these threats are of such a character that it takes courage of a high order to hold out against them." In spite of all opposition there has been a large increase in baptisms, over 3,000 this year, though there has been holding back rather than pushing in this matter.

Lucknow Conference

The new conference brings into one three Distinct evangelistic oppor- tunies or conditions. Lucknow is a Mohammedan center. Among them mass movements are unknown. They come to Christ in ones and twos only. About Cawnpore the chamars and sweeper castes are accessible but as yet there is no great movement toward Christianity. Our evangelist here says, "There are signs that the break among the chamars, for which we are praying, is near at hand. In one village they have definitely asked to be prepared for baptism." Here a Ford is proving its value. Miss Richmond relates the saving in a single trip. An emergency call out into the district which formerly required a train ride, a long ride in an Indian cart and an all night stay, was met in an afternoon in the trusty Ford. In Arrah and Ballia Districts are great movements toward Christ. Alas that so far as woman's work is concerned we have no evangelists. Miss Perrill was taken from Ballia for the Pithoragarh school at conference time and Miss Hyneman was given two districts. Mid- year she was summoned home by desperate illness in her family and now no one goes into the villages or trains the Bible women. In all the eight districts we have one evangelist, Miss Richmond.

South India Conference

The spirit of service is abroad in South India and Indian Christians are learning the joy of sacrifice and the power which comes from a life given over to Jesus Christ. Drought and famine have added to the burdens of the year, but there is a feeling of awakening—a realization that the gospel is needed. The Lord has answered prayer for India and the Christians feel that his hand is upon them for good. The missionaries feel that India seems to be ready in a. very special way to receive the gospel, for in almost every case it has been the desire to hear the truth that opened doors to them. The poor, lonely, burdened, neglected, soul-hungry women shut behind the dusty walls of these old cities watch eagerly for the hour of the missionaries' visits and receive them as evangelists. There are nine evangelistic centers in this conference where several hundred Bible readers give all or part of their time to the Bible readers' work and one looks into the future with hearts high with hope and the earnest prayer that God will increase the usefulness of these workers many fold.

Central Provinces Conference

Once more we pay grateful tribute to the generous help given by the women of the General Board to the evangelistic work among women in this conference. Most of them are mothers of small children and it is a constant wonder to the official correspondent how they can carry such full schedules in addition to their home cares and write such frequent and satisfactory letters. Miss Ruggles has charge of a most important work on Khandwa District. There are about 3,000 Christians in this district, fully 1,000 being of them women and girls, and the district covers 4,433 square miles. To assist her in 48 In Lands Afar

her work on the district and in the city Miss Ruggles has thirty-eight Bible women and two assistants. In addition to the itinerating work a village training class for women is maintained. Two articles of touring equipment have proven invaluable to Miss Ruggles, her stereopticon outfit and her medicine chest. Dark nights that were formerly spent in tents alone or with a handful of Christians are now used to preach the gospel to thousands through stereopticon lectures. She has even gone into high caste zenana homes with her pictures and the message, giving to these shut-in women a wonderful experience. Miss Ruggles comes home in January and no one is in sight to take charge of this most important work. Miss Becker, after her year's study of language and experience with Mrs. Felt in the important work in Jubbulpore city and district, will be ready to take full charge of both the zenana work and the Tho- burn Institute for Women when Mrs. Felt comes home for her much needed furlough. In addition to these tasks Miss Becker will continue her supervision of the Sadar city day school which has an enrollment of fifty children. With her on the district are two assistants and twenty Bible women. Edyth Huff was appointed to the important work on Raipur District for this year. During the first quarter Alvina Robinson had charge of the district, but at the time of her home-coming in April Miss Huff was left as the only missionary on the district. An automobile purchased by the mission at Raipur has proven invaluable for itinerating work and we wonder how ox-carts could have been tolerated so long. Miss Naylor, who is generalissimo at Sironcha for all kinds of work, still manages to give most of her time to her big district. She describes her work as "a far-flung border line with scores of interspersing villages that have never heard the name of Jesus." In her new automobile she speeds over her district, teaching, superintending, comforting the sorrow- ing, cheering the discouraged, dispensing simple medicines to the sick, disin- fecting wounds and giving advice and help to the people as to how to get rid of tigers. Her account of her work makes a kaleidoscope of vivid pictures. After a number of years at home Miss Lauck is happy to be back at Siron- cha, in charge of the Widows' Home. They have had a most terrifying experience there with a man-eating tiger, and have had to stand guard day and night to prevent his attacks upon the people of the mission. Miss Lauck is hastening the building of the wall recently made possible by the gift of Cincinnati Branch. When that is done the school and home will be safe from such marauders. Bombay Conference There are two types of evangelistic endeavor, and they are of necessity very different in method, but there is no difference in the aim, which is to make known the Christ to those who know him not. Evangelistic work is carried on in the cities of Bombay, Godhra, Ahmedabad, Nadiad and Poona, and from all these centers comes the report of opportunities waiting and inability of the present force of missionaries to meet the need. Village evangelistic work may sound small and unimportant in comparison with that done in cities or in other departments of evangelistic endeavor, but if we remember that from the village work largely has come the large Christian community in existence in India to-day, we realize that it is ot the utmost importance and demands our most urgent attention. Up to the present we have emphasized work among the lower castes, the results of which nave been good. To-day the pressure of need for the gospel message comes irom the high caste. A marked change in the attitude of the latter in their leaning toward Christianity has been noticeable from all sections of the conference. Bengal Conference Among the purely native people we are conducting work in the Bengali and Hindustani vernacular and to a limited extent among the Santals. In Calcutta Miss Mabel Eddy has charge of most of this work which is evangelistic and has been co-ordinated in a very helpful way. Miss Eddy has twenty- India 49 six Bible women and eleven day school teachers under her direction and at least two new day school buildings are greatly needed. In Asansol the evangelistic work in care of Miss Matheson is encouraging, the new motor helping greatly in her supervision of schools and Bible women. Tamluk is happy to have Miss Blair back again. Here the normal development of continued evangelistic work is shown in the imperative need of a boarding school. Additional support for teachers and pupils is asked. In the evangelistic work in Pakur Miss Grandstrand has led, including the conduct of day schools and village work at Bolpur and Rampore Haut. The Santalis are responding to the gospel message in a very encouraging way and this as usual leads to the need of another boarding school plant for the children who are always our great asset in the development of permanent work. The Field Reference Committee has voted in favor of the transfer of the industrial work, including the home for widows, to Suri where in the judgment of all there is better opportunity for development. Miss Swan would naturally go with it as she is vital to its need. MEDICAL WORK

Bareilly Hospital continues its blessed ministry. Dr. Gimson, fresh from furlough, is in her accustomed place, caring for the mission staff, the orphanage girls, students of the theological school and their families, the wee ones in the baby fold and the ever coming stream of Christians and non-Christians which fills the wards, the dispensary, the verandahs, and calls loudly for the new memorial hospital which is soon to rise at the behest of the young people of America. Five hundred and sixty-nine hospital patients, 8,089 out patients and a dispensary attendance of 23,679 indicate a year's activity. In the baby fold is rejoicing that not one little brown baby died during the year. At Pithoragarh Miss McMullen, local missionary, with a compounder and two nurses, has given to the people of the Shor valley all the medical attention they may have short of five days' journey to the plains. Be sure many a one has been ready to kiss her shadow for the help she has given.

Northwest India Cnference Two institutions of outstanding importance are in Northwest Conference, Brindaban Hospital and Tilaunia Sanatorium. The hospital is the only Christian mission in Brindaban, a place of pilgrimage so sacred that the very presence of Christians is to them a defilement. Great was the rejoicing of Muttra District a year ago at the news that the closed hospital would be re- opened. Dr. Huffman and Miss Porter were most welcome; in fact the hospital never was entirely closed. Miss Farmer could not keep the patients away. One woman said, "Who ever heard of a hospital being closed where there are sick people? I am sick and I am going to stay," and stay she did! Progress has been made step by step against great opposition. The widow who sold the first land was persecuted and her life was in danger. Fire was set to the first buildings. Now that Dr. Huffman and Miss Porter are here, fresh from furlough, the time seems ripe for a development of the hospital. Twenty- five thousand dollars is asked for the erection of buildings for hospital, dispensary and evangelistic uses. The other notable institution is the Mary Wilson Tuberculosis Sanatorium at Tilaunia. Here Dr. Kipp and her sister have brought back to health hundreds of girls from our schools. Every conference in Southern Asia save Burma and South India has sent patients to this, our only sanatorium for sufferers from the white plague. Eleven other missions have supported patients here. One Mohammedan and a number of Hindus have been received and inquiries has come even from the royal households of Rajputana. 24,561 days of sanatorium treatment were given last year. There is no more emergent call for missionaries than from Tilaunia. Dr. Kipp and Miss Julia Kipp are performing herculean tasks and must be reinforced. An American nurse to train Indian nurses is not less urgently needed. 50 . In Lands Afar

Lucknow Conference

The medical work is undeveloped. At Rasra Dr. Baksh conducts dispensary work, but has no place for the desperately ill to stay. Last year 11,911 patients were cared for. Dr. Baksh reports fifteen in-patients. Where did they stay? She rented a little house in the city for some Christians. The non-Christians stayed on the back of the dispensary verandah. Two stayed under a tree in the compound for five days.

In this new conference are the wonderful opportunities for service . There are 12,000 Christians scattered in its cities and villages, enquirers by the thousands are groping for the light. The Kingdom waits. "Pray ye the Lord of the harvest that he send forth laborers into his harvest."

South India Conference

Medical work in South India Conference is represented by the Cowen Memorial Hospital in Kolar and the Crawford Memorial Hospital in Vika- rabad. The blessed ministry to suffering bodies gives many opportunities for ministry to sin-sick souls. More help and more supplies are the great need of both these institutions.

Central Provinces Conference

When Miss Fales took charge of the boarding school at Sironcha the dispensary had to be closed, and for six months another "Barred Gate" faced the thronging sufferers who had heard that relief could be had at this Christian hospital. But Miss Simpson's coming in August took down the "bars" and she has been busy night and day administering as a trained nurse to suffering women and girls. Dr. Dodd sails early in December. January will be a memorable month for Sironcha as it will be the time of the birth of a real hospital with a doctor and a trained nurse in charge. A goodly amount of hospital supplies has been sent by Des Moines Branch during the past year so after almost fourteen years the hospital will be fully open with equipment for all kinds of work. Another phase of medical work deserves mention—that done by touring evangelists. Both Miss Ruggles and Miss Naylor as they go among the villagers, remote from a railway, are constantly being entreated to do something for the sick and for those suffering from infected wounds. The most helpful part of their touring equipment is their medicine chest. Every district in the conference should have a visiting physician, accompanied by a trained nurse. Such workers could do untold good in bringing healing and the gospel to the sad-faced women of the villages.

Bombay Conference

The medical work in this conference is represented by the Mrs. William Butler Memorial Hospital in Baroda, and dispensaries located at Loni and Pan- tamba in the Poona District. The hospital has ministered largely to the Christian people of the surrounding area, to the schools and to the Bible women who have been glad to come as in-patients. The dispensary work includes ministry to Mohammedan and Hindu as well as Christian people. The Widows' Home at Nadiad, which was so long talked of before it became a reality, has a group of little widows under its sheltering roof who are well on the way toward self-support. Mrs. George W. Isham, Mrs. Randolph S. Beall, Mrs. Charles W. Huett, Mrs. S. Frank Johnson, Offici al Correspondents. Burma 51 BURMA MISSIONARIES AND THEIR STATIONS

Rangoon—English Girls' High School—Sadie J. Woodruff, Emma E. Amburn. Burmese Girls' School—Elsie Power, Sadie M. Smith. Chinese Girls' School—Charlotte King. Burmese Evangelistic Work— Thandaung—Elizabeth Pearson Hall—Fannie A. Perkins, Charlotte Illing- worth. Thongwa—Bible Training School—Grace Stockwell. Girls' School and Evangelistic Work—M. Gladys Moore. Pegu—Burmese Evangelistic Work— On Furlough—Roxie Mellinger, Phoebe James, Alice M. McClellan, Agnes Ashwill, Mary E. Shannon, Ethel L. Mabuce. Under Appointment—Stella Ebersole, Edith Stouffer, Ethel Doddridge.

" 'And Burma'—the innocent little 'and' may have two meanings. It may mean India written large, dwelt on with emphasis and, as a trailer, may come the tacked-on words, 'and Burma'; or it may mean India and Burma, each having its own claim to attention. While India and Burma must be joined in political and ecclesiastical unity for a long time to come, Burma is not a mere trailer, but an empire itself, with an heroic missionary history and a glorious destiny."—Dr. W. B. Norton in Indian Witness. EDUCATIONAL WORK In our two English schools the great problem of the year has been how to keep going with our present force. Miss Perkins and Miss Illingworth have both stayed on two years after it was decided that they must come home; but both are very tired and should come at once. Their coming last year, however, would have left Thandaung without any one in charge. Miss Ashwill, principal of the English school in Rangoon, suddenly broke in health and was compelled to come home in August. Miss Perkins came down from Thandaung to take charge of the school which was her first appointment in Burma thirty-one years ago. But in a few weeks she was recalled to Than- daung because of the situation there, and Miss Woodruff was left alone in Rangoon. The duties of a principal of an English school are graphically described by Miss Woodruff as covering the following range—"buying stockings, leading Epworth League, buying books, superintending Junior League, teaching Sunday school class, hiring teachers, servants and matron, attending to carriage repairs, teaching Latin, going over accounts, entertaining people at dinner, having prayers with the children, leading chapel, supervising the making of children's clothes, and being organist at church." It is a pleasure to record that two efficient missionaries will go in 1922 to these schools, Miss Stouffer, Philadelphia Branch, and Miss Doddridge, Cincinnati Branch. The school has had a good year with an enrollment of two hundred and seventy- four. Two literary societies have proven very beneficial in giving training for public work. They expect to have a new building some day and are working for it. Last year the school gave a very successful entertainment that netted $450 to the building fund. Classes are organized for work for "others." Two classes gave $22 for the Chinese school, and another class gave $9 to a school for deaf and dumb. They are making good Methodists over there. The Wisner Memorial Fund is building a library worthy of the school and of the donor, Miss Julia Wisner, a former missionary teacher in the school. At Thandaung the attendance reached its highest record, seventy-four, last year. The Delco lighting system was installed early last year, the cost of installation, Rs. 5,260, being paid for by pupils, teachers, friends of the school, and by government grant. Miss Amburn, when Miss Perkins came to Ran- goon, went to Thandaung to assist Miss Illingworth. Miss Amburn went out as a contract teacher but when her three years had expired she applied as a 52 In Lands Afar

missionary and was accepted at May, 1921, meeting. In recognition of her services in the English church at Rangoon she has been licensed by her quarterly conference. Burma now has two women local preachers, Miss Perkins and Miss Amburn. The Burmese girls' school had a new experience last December. The pupils joined with students all over Burma in a sympathetic strike to express dissatisfaction with the rules of the new University Bill. Strikes have become very popular in the Orient. Miss Shannon and Miss Power were not greatly disturbed over the situation feeling sure that the interruption would be temporary, as it has proven to be. A band of "Help One" has been organized in the school, each member pledging herself to help daily, in a very definite manner, at least one other girl. Each member is pledged, also, to pray each day, for a friend or relative who is not a Christian. Thirty-two have joined the League of Intercessors, and twenty-nine are tithers; but they do not stop with the tithe, many giving one-fifth or one-fourth of their spending money. When we reflect that these girls are soon to be the Sunday school teachers and the leading workers in the Burmese church, that they are to be wives and mothers in the Burmese Christian community, we can, in a measure, realize what Garmo Hall is doing for future Burma. Miss James, who has been connected with this school, is recovering from her illness and hopes soon to be back at work. Miss Shannon, the principal of the school from its beginning, will be Miss Watson's traveling companion on her way home through Japan and China. The rent furnished the Chinese school by Philadelphia and Northwestern Branches has enabled Miss King to house her school in fairly comfortable quarters ; but she is still longing for the new building that would enable her to do for this school what has been done for the Burmese school in its splendid new quarters. She has five Chinese Christian assistants. Some of the older girls are already beginning to take some part in the public religious exercises. The hope for this school is that it shall so evangelize the homes therein represented that a strong Chinese church may be founded. When this is done these prosperous Chinese will support the school and do it handsomely. So Miss King's work is evangelistic—educational. It is hoped that Miss McClellan may soon be able to return and take up definite evangelistic work among the patrons of the school.

EVANGELISTIC WORK

The Burmese evangelistic work in and surrounding Rangoon is still without a superintendent. Miss Shannon and Miss Power have done what they could to superintend the city work but nothing is being done on the district where Mrs. Elsie Burmeister Clare had done valuable work for five years. Miss Mabuce comes this November on furlough, and no one is ready with language preparation to take her important work at Pegu. During last year the Pegu church has been very active. Most of the members have signed both tithers, and intercessors' cards, as a result of Centenary activity. In the little villages of Pegu District, when there is no preacher or missionary to lead in the services, the people themselves take turns in leading and are developing into strong self-reliant Christians. The new building at Thongwa, given by Des Moines Branch for the Bible training school, is nearing completion. The building of it has made a hard year for Miss Stockwell, for she needed to give every detail her personal supervision, even to the making of the bricks, but the joy of its possession will soon banish into forgetfulness the labor and worry of building. In it will be trained the Bible women of Burma. And such fine Bible women they are. Over and over Miss Stockwell pays tribute to the efficiency and faithfulness of her assistant, Ma Mya Gui, and to others who have so loyally stayed by the work when they might have earned more elsewhere. Miss Moore, a last year's arrival, is enthusiastic over the whole work and in particular over her Malaysia 53

own work, the Thongwa day school with its enrollment of fifty-three. This school greatly needs a building of its own, and one can be built for $2,000. Bishop Fisher spent his first Christmas in Burma and played Santa Claus to the whole mission. From a fund given him by wealthy laymen before he left America, to be used for things that will make for efficiency, not found in appropriations, he gave five motor cars, three for Rangoon, and one each for Syriam and Pegu. To Thongwa, where roads do not admit of automobiles, he gave a good team of bullocks with cart, and two ponies for riding, with saddles. Among other gifts was a Corona typewriter to be used as the mission directs, and which Miss Mabuce had last year. What a happy Christmas Bishop Fisher must have had! Mrs. Randolph S. Beall, Official Correspondent. MALAYSIA CONFERENCE MISSIONARIES AND THEIR STATIONS Federated Malay States Ipoh—Carrie Kenyon. Kuala Lumpur—Boarding and Bay School—Mabel Marsh, Ida Wescott. Taiping—Boarding and Day School—Luella Anderson, Norma Craven.

Straits Settlements

Malacca—Rebecca Suydam School—Ada Pugh, Jane Dickinson, Elberta Conn, Mildred Malberg. Penang—Anglo-Chinese School—Jessie Brooks, Ruth Crandall. Charlotte S. Winchell Home—-Fannie Richardson. Singapore—Nind Home—Isabella Pike, Laura H. White. Methodist Girls' School—Minnie Rank, Leila Corbett. Fairfield Girls' School—Mary Olson, Irene Chapman, Dorothy Hammond. Eveland Bible Training School—C. Ethel Jackson. On Furlough—Clara Martin, Olive Vail, Eva Nelson, Thirza Bunce, Eliza- beth Olson, Ruth E. Atkins (contract teacher). Under Appointment— EDUCATIONAL WORK

As always in Malaysia the great call is for teachers—in every school the enrollment grows and the staff barely keeps its old numbers. Penang has perhaps suffered most this year. Miss Bunce came home early in the year and, the expected reinforcements failing to arrive Miss Richardson went from Kuala Lumpur to take over the boarding school. Miss Brooks was made principal of the day school. These two, with Miss Crandall, are carrying the work of five women. The old story, but even worse; for beside this, the last word from there is a cable announcing the collapse of a part of Winchell Home. They ask $3,000 to put it into condition again. There were about one hundred girls in the building, but no one was hurt. Earlier in the year white ants were found to have made serious ravages in the building called "Stafford" where the missionaries live. The repair of this and the inconvenience of living while repairs were going on made heavy tax upon the workers there, but a recent visitor writes "Stafford surely does look fine since it has been repaired." The total enrollment is three hundred and twenty-five, eighty of whom are boarders. The buildings of Treacher Girls' School at Taiping are in great need of paint and many other repairs. Miss Dean and Miss Anderson were re- appointed there at conference time, but Miss Dean broke down in August, was ordered home by the doctor, and is now on her way toward America. Tem- porarily Miss Craven went up from Kuala Lumpur. Miss Anderson comes home at the end of the year. Two new women must be found for Taiping.

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Like all the other schools it is full to overflowing. There are sixteen nationalities in the school. As there is no representative of the Board of Foreign Missions in Taiping, the care of the churches is upon those who are in charge of our school. Miss Dean looked after the Chinese church and Miss Anderson had the Tamil church. The children, using cards to gather money, brought in $120 which was given to the Bible training school. Miss Kenyon at Ipoh is indeed a heroine in the way she had held our school together under every sort of disadvantage. The Board of Foreign Missions owns the building in which the school is housed. When, a few years ago, the boys' school was moved into the fine new building and the girls' school was given the boys' old building we thought we could stay there as long as we wished. Already they need it for the overflow of the boys' school. With all the inconveniences Miss Kenyon keeps adding to and improving the curriculum. She counts among her greatest blessings the fact that all her teachers are products of the school and all are Christians. Unless we soon provide better housing for this school these splendid Chinese girls will go to the handsome Catholic school recently started and Protestantism will lose the leadership among the women of this richest and most able part of the whole peninsula. At Kuala Lumpur, when Miss Craven went to Taiping she left Miss Marsh and Miss Wescott, whose time is filled with music-teaching, with three hundred girls—for such is the average daily attendance, despite the fact that one whole class of little boys was sent away. Miss Marsh has made several improvements in the educational plan of the school. Their Cam- bridge class is the largest in their history—seventeen are enrolled. Malacca is the only station in Malaysia where our Society has work that is off the main line of the railroad, hence it seems far away and isolated, but the new missionaries sent there this year seem not to feel it such. Miss Conn, who left New York December 31, 1920, writes recently, "The opportunities here are unlimited; just think, in six weeks I enrolled forty-five in the kindergarten and we had only canvassed one of the long streets." Miss Pugh, who has been there for sixteen years, writes from a different standpoint but just as enthusiastically. The new school building to be put up by the Chinese for us is delayed because of the depression in the rubber and tin market. Miss Conn and Miss Walberg have gone out this year in answer to the call of these Chinese gentlemen who promised transit and salary for three years for two American teachers. There are seventy-five in the day school and thirty-eight in the boarding school; ten of these girls were recently taken into the church. Miss Atkins, who has raised the school to first grade and really transformed it in many ways, is on her way home for her second furlough. The Methodist Girls' School at Singapore has had an enrollment for several months of four hundred and sixty and an income (local support) of $1,300 per month,—a large school surely, but it has had at least three prin- cipals in the last year and a half, and now has only two missionaries to direct its many interests, Miss Rank and Miss Corbett. The Methodist Girls' School has no boarding department, is right in the centre of the native population, and has many nationalities on its roll. The opportunities of getting the gospel into the homes by these children is wonderful. Miss Rank says, "When I stand before my Bible class of over one hundred upper-class girls and see their bright faces and hear their intelligent answers, I realize that a great opportunity is mine." There must be a new building for this school during the educational campaign. Across the city among the well-to-do Chinese people Fairfield Girls' School, too, has long outgrown the beautiful new building that was finished only a few years ago. The present building was put up without any money from America and for the needed addition a fund is already started among the girls themselves. The enrollment here, too, is large, three hundred and fifty, and the teacher problem the most difficult one Miss Olson has to meet. She has with her Miss Hammond, a domestic science teacher, and Miss Malaysia 55

Chapman whose music department meets a real need in the community. This is a day school, but many of the girls come into our churches directly and no one can measure the gospel truths sent home by the students. The most important event at Nind Home this year was the going of Miss Blackmore to her home in Australia for her last furlough. Miss Olson writes, "She went off with flying colors. Everybody seemed to want to do her honor. The old girls began a fund for her return to Singapore. They gave her a check for $300 with which to purchase her return passage." She fully expects to return to live in Singapore to whose people her life has been given. Thirty-five years of wonderful service she gave and she has lived to see much of the fruit of her labor in the Christian homes her girls are maintaining like beacon lights all through the peninsula and in the islands of the sea round about. Miss Pike of the Philadelphia Branch was there for several months before Miss Blackmore left. The girls had long been expecting her and planning for her welcome and were out to greet her as she entered the compound. Miss Blackmore left her blessing, "May many years of usefulness lie before her in our beloved home." The dormitories are planned for one hundred and twenty and are always packed to the limit. The older girls go to the Methodist Girls' School; up to the fourth grade they go to the Nind Home School. Generous friends of the school are many, and Miss Blackmore got almost anything she needed and asked of them. For the last repairs $1,000 was given by Mr. and Mrs. Bean on the eve of their return to England. At Christmas, gifts came, as always, from America; and many also from native men and women, sometimes with unknown names. One of the "old girls" now living in Java, sent sixty yards of cloth and wrote "use it for girls who have no parents." "Help others" has always been a watchword at Nind Home.

EVANGELISTIC WORK

The Eveland Training School suffered a serious loss when a little more than a year ago Miss Nelson had to come home. There was nothing else to do but put Miss Jackson back as principal, although she was just getting adjusted as head of the Methodist Girls' School. She came gladly and with the efficient part-time help of Miss Lim, daughter of the Chinese pastor of our Telok Ayer church, both the English and the vernacular departments were carried on. The tact and patience of Miss Jackson and Miss Nelson have brought the school to its present efficiency, but close by each of them through all the years has stood a modest little Chinese woman, Mrs. Lim Chin Eng, who is listed as matron and teacher. Beside meeting all the exacting duties of a matron, she last year taught all the first year vernacular. She is over sixty years old, an honorable age among the Chinese, and many of these years have been full of good work and noble living. Alexandra Home, our rescue home in Penang, was under the care of Mrs. Pykett after Miss Martin left, and since Mrs. Pykett went on furlough Miss Crandall has looked after it. The need for the ministry of such a place is so great that reports vary little. Always the story of some unfortunate or homeless woman with a child or children taken in and kept till some other place can be found for her. Much of the support of this institution is found locally. Miss Brooks was last conference appointed to help in the Chinese work and Miss Richardson the Tamil. Both find great joy in helping in the Sunday services, and in supervising the Bible women. Everywhere in Penang they miss Miss Martin who is the only whole-time evangelistic missionary Malaysia Conference has ever had. The report speaks of the faithful earnest work of Se Chi, our Bible woman at Taiping. She easily wins favor with the Chinese as she visits from house to house, and even in the heathen homes they let her tell the gospel story. Kuala Lumpur has this year for the first time had a Bible woman—for the first time after years of asking, money was granted for one, and the train- —

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ing school at Singapore had a woman ready. They surely need another is one for the Tamil people. Malacca has three congregations—the Straits Chinese, where English used; the Tamil, which was organized a little more than a year ago; and the Chinese. Miss Pugh holds all of these as charges and in the English-speaking one Miss Atkins has been superintendent of the Sunday school. In each of the churches in Singapore our missionaries help in both Sunday school and the Epworth League. In the evangelistic work the two Boards of our church meet as nowhere else, and in Malaysia it is without friction and with mutual appreciation. For years Singapore has been asking for an evangelistic missionary who will give all her time to that city. With Miss Blackmore gone the need is greatly increased. Mrs. W. P. Eveland, Official Correspondent.

NETHERLANDS INDIES MISSION CONFERENCE MISSIONARIES AND THEIR STATIONS

Buitenzorg—Bible Training School—Naomi Ruth, Freda Chadwick. On Furlough—Hilda Holmberg. Under Appointment—Eleonora C. Rohde, Lila Kehm. This year, for the Netherlands Indies, has held some real disappoint- ments. Miss Holmberg and Miss Messersmith were confidently expected to go out in the summer and, working together, to take charge of the school at Buitenzorg. Both were at the Northwestern School of Religious Education and before the school year ended it was very evident that neither was physically fit. Miss Rohde, who was appointed in May, will relieve the situation this coming year, and Miss Kehm will be ready next year. Miss Holmberg, too, it is hoped, will be able to go by that time. The long-hoped-for building has not yet been begun—soon it will be a reality, for the f 10,000 appropriated in the evangelistic campaign for it has been raised. It may be begun, but not finished for that sum. EVANGELISTIC WORK

The Bible training school last March graduated its first class of girls. Miss Ruth says, "Somehow it seems like a dream rather than a reality that these four beloved girls on whom I had put so much hope, and prayer and labor have at last gone out from our family of students." It was a great occasion. Bishop Bickley was present and made the address. The evangelistic work is growing rapidly since these girls have gone into the kampongs (villages). They do much visiting and are very successful in reaching the people. The Chinese, of course, are most accessible, but occasionally a Mo- hammedan family consents to allow its little girls to come to our school. The enrollment has been twenty-one. Miss Chadwick's year's work at Hartford, where she studied Malay under Dr. Shellabear enabled her to begin teaching at once. Her district superintendent says, "She was the first missionary to come to our field and surprise the natives by her immediate use of the Malay language." At conference time the women reported that they had in their mite boxes five hundred and twenty-five guilders. Last year they had one hundred and ninety. They sent this money to a Woman's Foreign Missionary Society Hospital in the famine district of China. This year they have set their goal at one thousand guilders and it is to go for pioneer missionary work among the semi-barbarians of New Guinea. One of the finest girls in the training school class of 1922 is Doortje, who was sent and supported by the Dutch mission in New Guinea. She will go back to work under the Dutch mission with her father, who is the first native preacher in that island. The girls are happy to furnish money for her work. Philippine Islands 57

EDUCATIONAL WORK Since Miss Holmberg's return to America, two years ago, we have never had a worker of our Society to take her place. We have not yet given up hope that Miss Holmberg will be able to go back to this, her own place, and Miss Rohde will soon be there. The enrollment in the English department has increased from twenty-six last year to fifty this year, and there are five girls in the seventh standard, a wonderful achievement for a school in the Orient after only five years' existence. The Malay Department has not grown this year as was hoped, the reasons given being that a big fire in the Malay section surrounding the school took many of the pupils to other parts of the town, and there was a necessary change of teachers during the year. Mrs. W. P. Eveland, Official Correspondent.

PHILIPPINE ISLANDS MISSIONARIES AND THEIR STATIONS Lingayen—Bible Training School—Mildred Blakeley, Ruth Copley, Anna Armenia Thompson. Manila—Harris Memorial Bible Training School—Marguerite M. Decker, Hazel Davis. Mary Johnston Hospital—-Dr. Rebecca Parish, Anna Carson, R.N., Mary Deam, Bertha Odee, R.N. Hugh Wilson Hall— Bertha Charles. Evangelistic Work, City and District—Mary A. Evans. San Fernando—Elizabeth Parkes, Annette Finlay. Tuguegarao—Wilhelmina Erbst. Vigan—Ellen A. Scheidt. On Furlough—Rose A. Dudley, Maren P. Bording, Bertha Alfreda Kostrup. Under Appointment—Ruth Joyce Atkins, Elizabeth Grennan (contract worker), Sallie Hawkins, Marguerite Hews, Estella M. Hartell. EVANGELISTIC WORK Harris Memorial Bible Training School—Miss Decker and Miss Davis have carried this school work another year. Miss Evans, whose appointment is City and District Evangelistic Work, lives at the training school and helps with the teaching. Four splendid Filipina girls are giving part time to teaching here while they are pursuing higher work in the government schools. There is great need of a good music teacher in this school. In January they graduated a class of ten girls, and sent them out to hard places. They are young; often they are the only Protestants in the place; many times they lack proper food and clothing ; but with tact and cheerfulness they somehow meet every situation in a wonderful way. Two things hold them true; they have had a vision of the Christ and they have learned during the years in the training school how to keep the touch with him. They come back whenever they can, sometimes six or eight years later, but always with a report of work that they are proud of, and that gladdens Miss Decker's heart. It is hoped that the new building may be begun this year. Both teachers and students have been wonderfully patient in the overcrowded and poorly equipped building. There are forty girls in the school, each with some special work in the city outside the school. They hold mothers' meetings, teach Sunday school classes, and lay much stress on the Junior League work. The Lingayen Bible Woman's Training School admitted this year all the girls for whom they had scholarships. A more than mathematical problem this has been for the faithful matron, but she has cheerfully taken the work for another year. At the beginning of the year, Miss Armenia Thompson came to help. Never before have they had three workers in this station or school, but even this is not enough, for the large district is given into their care as well as 58 In Lands Afar

the school, and there is also committed to them the adjoining district of Paniqui. They are sadly in need of a graduate nurse to look after the dispensary cases and do the teaching given in the nurses' course. There is great need for a larger and better building, and especially for a home for the missionaries. The Institute is a great and effective part of the evangelistic work in the Philippine Islands. Groups of women, who cannot go to the training school, gather for ten days or two weeks to pursue a regular course of study and go out at night to hold evangelistic meetings. The latest report says they held fourteen last year with a total attendance of three hundred and fifty-seven. EDUCATIONAL WORK

Our educational work in the Philippine Islands is not like that in any other country. The fine American public schools which are free to all relieve us of the schoolroom tasks. We have been working along a plan that contemplates a good Methodist dormitory in each provincial capital that shall be as near as possible to the provincial high school, (which is always put in the capital of the province) and which shall serve as a feeder to our splendid Hugh Wilson Dormitory in Manila. We now have them established in San Fernando, Vigan, Tuguegarao, and we hope soon to reopen the one we used to have in Central District; not at Malolos as formerly, but, following the provincial high school, at Cabanatuan, at the other end of the province. These were all started in rented homes but we feel justified in pleading for permanent, sanitary, well-lighted buildings, which we must build, because of the lack of houses such as we need. At San Fernando for a year we have had a good cement building meeting the needs. This came through the generosity of the Cincinnati Branch, whose missionary, Miss Finlay, is in charge. We hope to complete it this coming year by installing a Delco lighting system. In the Central District we shall be able, through the generosity of the Board of Foreign Missions to rent a well-adapted new building and our faithful and capable Miss Parkes will take the last year of her third term of service to open and put it in good running order before her furlough begins. At Vigan, in the very heart of Roman Catholicism, Miss Dudley had a well developed dormitory to turn over to Miss Scheidt, but it was domiciled in a house for which they could get no lease since they can neither buy nor rent a building really suitable for them. One of the items on the building list next year in the Educa- tional Campaign will be a dormitory building at Vigan. At Tuguegarao, by the deep interest and substantial aid of Mr. and Mrs. Moe, former district superintendent and his wife, we were able to buy the property that we were using and which, although fit only as a make-shift, still is a shelter and our own. The German women have this year raised in their thank offering the money to complete paying for it ($1,480). This commits us to a new building in the very near future. MEDICAL WORK The Mary Johnston Hospital has had a hard year. It seems always to have a hard year, yet God's blessing is surely upon it. Dr. Parish's report of the half year is wonderful. Dr. Ketring left a few weeks after Dr. Parish arrived. Miss Swank, who went out last year, left us early in July to become the wife of a missionary in Java. She will be a blessing to that field, so our loss will be a gain to the Board of Foreign Missions. Her going left Miss Carson the only American nurse until Miss Odee sailed in September. Miss Hawkins and Miss Grennan will go before the new year. The new building was the absorbing topic soon after Dr. Parish got back. It was begun in April and was to be ready in September. At the commencement in March they graduated thirteen nurses. One was a Siamese sent by a mission at Bangkok. Three remain as graduate nurses at the hospital, and China 59 the others are busy at various places in the island. There are now forty- eight girls in training; all are happy to have Dr. Esteban back with them. The deaconess and the graduate helpers are a help and blessing. Miss Carson gave herself unstintingly during the hard weeks she was alone. With three new American nurses this year, she ought to find life easier. The different departments flourish and are always full. A milk company and the Red Cross continue their help in keeping the free milk station open. In this busy hospital the evangelistic note sounds out clear and true. None enters even the crowded dispensary without having a chance to meet and know "the Great Physician." Every week there are eighteen services ncluding the devotions with the nurses; Bible stories are a part of the kindergarten program every day ; the pastor of the Tondo Church and the deaconess hold sunset services every Sunday in the hospital grounds. Mrs. W. P. Eveland, Official Correspondent.

CHINA MISSIONARIES AND THEIR STATIONS North China Conference

Peking— Woman's College—Music Department—Ruth L. Stahl. Woman's Medical College—Mabel M. Manderson, M.D., Minnie Stryker, M.D., Emma Martin, M.D., Frances J. Heath, M.D. Union Training School for Nurses—Alice M. Powell, R.N., Ruth Danner, R.N. Mary Porter Game-well School—Frances Gray, Myra Jaquet, Mary Watrous, Dora Fearon, Louise Hobart. Kindergarten—Elizabeth Hobart. Woman's Bible Training School—Mrs. Charlotte M. Jewell. City Evangelistic Work—Mrs. Charlotte M. Jewell. District Evangelistic Work—Miss Ortha Lane. Sleeper Davis Hospital—Minnie Stryker, M.D., Frances J. Heath, M.D., Mabel Manderson, M.D., Emma Martin, M.D., Alice M. Powell, R.N., Ruth Danner, R.N. Tientsin—Keen School—Clara M. Cushman, Maude L. Wheeler, Joyce Walker, Monona Cheney, Isabel Luce, Minta Stahl. Isabella Fisher Hospital— Iva M. Miller, M.D., Eva A. Gregg, R.N., Mary E. Bedell, Bacteriologist and Pharmacist. Changli—Alderman School—Jennie Bridenbaugh. Thompson Training School—Berdice Lawrence. District Work—Irma Highbaugh. Taianfu—Maria Brown Davis School—Effie G. Young, Nora Dillenbeck, Elsie Knapp. Edna M. Terry Training School—Elsie Knapp. District Work—Lillian P. Greer. On Furlough—Evelyn Baugh, Gertrude Gilman, Anna D. Gloss, M.D., Emma Knox, Ella E. Glover, Frances E. Wilson, R.N., Ida E. Frantz, Lillian Halfpenny, Clara Pearl Dyer, Mabel Nowlin, Marie Adams. Language Students—Lora I. Battin, Lydia Schaum, M.D., Elizabeth Carlyle, R.N., Viola Lantz, M.D., Pansy Griffin. Under Appointment—Edith Shufelt, June Patterson, Ruth Nuzum, Tirza Stahl.

Central China Conference

Chinkiang—Girls' Boarding School—Mary G. Kesler, Winnie May Crook, Cora L. Rahe. Letitia Mason Quine Hospital—Emma E. Robbins, M.D., Florence A. Sayles. Evangelistic Work and Day Schools—Clara Bell Smith. Nanking—Girls' Boarding School—Flora M. Carncross, Blanche H. Loucks, Dorothy Rowe (contract teacher). Hitt Training School—Sarah Peters, Faye H. Robinson. City Evangelistic Work and Day Schools—Edith M. 60 In Lands Afar

Crane. District Evangelistic Work and Day Schools—Joy L. Smith. Ginling Union College—Cora D. Reeves. Union Bible Teachers' Train- ing School—Ella C. Shaw. Wuhu—Evangelistic Work—Kate L. Ogborn. Day Schools and District Work —Edith R. Youtsey. Girls' Boarding School—-Jennie C. Walker. Shanghai—Literary Work—Laura M. White. Field Treasurer for all China— Elizabeth M. Strow. Assistant to Treasurer—Hazel M. Shoub. On Furlough—Gertrude Taft, M.D., Bertha L. Riechers, C. Frances Battey. Language Students—Eulalia E. Fox, Lois G. Maddock, Etha M. Nagler, Lela E. Nordyke, Bernice A. Wheeler, Grace Z. Lentz. Sent Out, 1921—Alice M. McBee, Iva M. Williamson.

Kiangsi Conference Kiukiang—Rulison High School—Clara E. Merrill, Minnie H. Garrett (contract teacher), Leona B. Thomasson (contract teacher). Knowles Train- ing School—Mabel A. Woodruff, Frances E. Woodruff (contract teacher),— Grace Maddox (contract teacher) . Day Schools and Evangelistic Work Hwang Mei District—Mabel A. Woodruff. North Kiukiang District— Clara E. Merrill. Nanchang— Baldivin School—Zula F. Brown, Catherine Baker, Margaret Seeck, Anna M. Graves (contract teacher), Myra L. McDade (contract teacher). Hospital—Ida Kahn, M.D., Elizabeth Vandertill (contract nurse). City Day Schools—Margaret Seeck. Kienchang District—Kan River District—Nanchang District. On Furlough—Edith Fredericks, Faith Hunt, Blanche T. Search, May Bel Thompson. Language Students—Lyra H. Bahrenburg, Bessie L. Meeker, Annie M. Pittman, Florence E. Dean, Ruth N. Daniels. Sent Out, 1921—Nora E. Kellogg, Ethel T. Thompson, Mollie E. Townsend (contract nurse).

West China Conference Chengtu—Boarding School Principal—Grace F. Ellison; Vice Principal, Business and Station Correspondent—Jean Loomis. City and District Day Schools and Evangelistic Work—Mrs. Lewis, Gladys B. Harger and Celia M. Cowan. Chungking—Dsenjiangai Boarding School Principal, Evangelistic Work and Station Correspondent—Dorothy Jones. Woman's School, City and Kiang- peh Day Schools and Evangelistic Work—Anna C Lindblad. Kinder- garten—Mrs. Peat. Chungking and Hochow District Day Schools and Evangelistic Work—Etta B. Rossiter. Medical Work—Laura E. Jones, M.D., Lydia Chen, M.D. Nurses' Training School Superintendent and Pharmacist, Field and Station Correspondent—Lillian L. Holmes. Suining—Boarding School Principal—Helen Desjardins. City and District Day Schools and Evangelistic Work—Charlotte Trotter. Tzechow—Bible Training School Principal—Lela Lybarger. City Day School and Evangelistic Work—Orvia A. Proctor. Other appointments made at conference—November, 1921. Returning from Furlough—C. Ethel Householder, Lena Nelson, S. Marie Brethorst, Annie M. Wells. On Furlough—A. Lulu Golisch, Belle Castle, Gertrude W. Tyler, Clara A. Caris, Inez M. Marks, Ella Manning, Alice B. Brethorst. To Furlough During 1922—Mabel A. Beatty, Winnogene C. Penny, Etta B. Rossiter. Ready for Station Appointment—Viola L. Miller, Ovidia Hansing, Mabel E. Allen. Language Students—Doris R. Wencke, Pearl Fosnot, Constance Falstad. China 61

Under Appointment to Sail August, 1922—Bessie Hollows, Mildred Welch, Margaret Brayton, Clara Smith, Ruth A. Beecher.

Foochow Conference

Foochow— College and Preparatory Work—Lydia A. Trimble, Mary Mann, Floy Hurlburt, Roxy Lefforge, Ruby Sia, Dorothea Keeney, Marion Whitford, Helen Spencer, Lois Witham. Girls' Boarding School— Julia Bonafield, Florence Plumb, Ellen Nevitt, Menia Wanzer, May Hu. Mary E. Crook Children's Home and Kindergarten—Ellen Nevitt, Florence Plumb. Industrial Work—Jean Adams. Woman's Training School— Phoebe Wells. Magaw Hospital—Eleanor J. Pond, M.D., Alice Wilcox. Nurses' Training School—Cora Simpson. Woolston Memorial Hospital— Hu King Eng, M.D. Mintsing—Girls' Boarding School, Woman's Training School—Edna Jones, Rose Mace. Good Shepherd Hospital—Mary E. Carleton, M.D. Futsing—Boarding School, Evangelistic Work, Day Schools—Carrie M. Bartlett, Emma Ehly, Martha McCutcheon. Hospital—Li Bi Cu, M.D. Haitang—Boarding School—Lura Hefty, Harriet Halverstadt. Kutien and Kude—Boarding and Day Schools—Laura Frazey, Jennie Jones. Evangelistic Work and Bible Training School—Mary Peters, Eva Sprunger. On Furlough—Ethel Wallace, Katherine Willis, Ursula Tyler, Edith Abel, Mabel Allen, Laura Frazey, Edith Gaylord, Jennie Jones, Elizabeth Richey, Phoebe Wells.

Hinghwa Conference Hinghwa—Hamilton Girls' High School—Ellen Suffern, Pauline Westcott, Juliet Turner Training School—Minnie E. Wilson, Sigrid J. Bjorkland. Bible Women and Evangelistic Work—Grace McClurg, Harriet Watson. Hanghong and Binghai—Althea M. Todd, Jessie A. Marriott. Sienyu—Isabel Hart Girls' Boarding and Day School—Martha Nicolaisen, F. Pearl Mason. Bible Women and Evangelistic Work—Mary Thomas. Woman's Training School—Martha Lebeus. Margaret Nast Memorial Hospital—Emma J. Betow, M.D., Eda L. Johnson, Bertha W. Persson. On Furlough—Pauline Westcott, Cora M. Brown.

Yenping Conference Yenping—Emma Fuller Boarding School—Mamie F. Glassburner, Freida Reiman, Alice Linam, Geraldine Skinner, Mary L. Eide. Yuki—Boarding School and Evangelistic Work—Mabel C. Hartford. EDUCATIONAL WORK North China Conference We have a flourishing high-grade boarding school in each of our four stations. Gamewell in Peking and Keen in Tientsin are doing full high school work. Maria Brown Davis School in Taian is doing one year of high school work. Alderman at Changli is a full grammar school. All except the last named are crowded beyond the possibility of efficiency and development. The lower primary department of the Peking school was removed two years ago to other quarters in the city, and now to two points outside of the city, one on North and one on South Peking Districts. Gamewell is still in an impossible situation. A new modern and thoroughly equipped high school building is a necessity. The separation of the lower primary and added dormitories are critical matters at the present time at Keen. Bishop Keeney writes, "These needs are imperious. Our ladies are reaching a very high grade of students, and through them access to very important homes. I know of no place where investment of funds gives promise of higher dividends." 62 In Lands Afar

For very obvious reasons, it is desirable and necessary to develop a high school at Taian. Eleven bright girls completed the freshman year's work in June. Another missionary and added class rooms and dormitories are a necessity in the near future. An awakening among the ultra-conservative families at Changli has thronged our city day school with girls this year. Two teachers, and the assistance of the kindergarten and normal departments of the Alderman school, have found difficulty in taking care of the numbers that wanted to come. This school calls for a building. The increase in demand for high school graduates as day school teachers and as candidates for special training of the various types now required in our work automatically places upon us the necessity of larger facilities for these schools of higher grade. As a pre- requisite to building up these, our primary work must at the same time be extended and strengthened. The three lower primary boarding schools (all under native leadership) on the eastern districts, must be housed. One is at Tsunhwa, where the ruins of our mission are silent witness to the tragedy of Boxer days, and a simple stone commemorates the two hundred martyred Chinese Christians. Those who hated Christianity then are now wanting to know the Christ for whom these died. The opening of schools two or three years ago was made possible by gifts from interested friends and missionaries, notable among them being $200 from women who were students here in pre-Boxer days. Half the territory in which our work is located in Shantung was in the famine district, and our schools immediately felt the effect of it. The poorest pupils dropped out at once. As soon as our relief began to come in they were enabled to return. From the little church and school centers the distribution of grain was made, largely by hands of the missionaries and Christian Chinese. This act of generosity and good will was too much for the comprehension of the heathen mind. "We would rather starve than eat grain given us by these foreigners who never saw us. There is some intrigue," they said at first. The testimony of those who had heard and believed, and the test of time, completed the demonstration, and our responsibility is fastened upon us. We are told that $7,000 saved 8,000 lives. Our money passed from our own hands into the hands of our workers there. It filled thousands of hungry mouths. And now, behold, thousands of hungry hearts and minds appeal to us for intellectual and spiritual food. Miss Greer states the case truly: "We have not only opened doors, we have entered them, and we .cannot turn back." More schools and better schools is the sequel of our response to starving China. North China has passed through the refining fires of affliction and deep sorrow. Years have been added to the faithful by the experiences of the past twelve months.

Central China Conference

Miss Kesler, principal of the Chinkiang School, found her new work made easier by loyal co-operation on the part of the staff, both foreign and Chinese. Miss Rahe was appointed to Chinkiang to assist in the school. Miss Crook continued in charge of the English department, but expects to come home on furlough next February. In October five girls were received into the church, and at Easter fourteen more. Seven fine young women were graduated in June from the high school. On the evening of Commencement Day, representatives of the school's fifty-eight alumnae dined together and organized an alumnae association. Miss Kesler writes (June): "Blue prints, plans, grave movings, specifications, contractors, have claimed a large place in time and thought. Now the compound wall is under construction, the grading is partly done, and the contract is let for the administration building." Miss Bernice Wheeler has been appointed on the staff for 1921-22. Miss Clara B. Smith writes: 'The six day schools and one kindergarten on the Chinkiang District are making it possible for one hundred and fifty —

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little girls to have at least the first four years of a Christian education with all the possibilities that that holds for the years to come." The Nanking boarding school has prospered under the direction of Miss Carncross. Three of the June graduates planned to enter Ginling College in the fall. Miss Rowe writes: "We are having such a happy year at school. The senior American history class, taught in English, has been more successful than we dared to hope. We are looking forward to more history work in English, for it is a great help to the girls in conversation. I have a vocal music class of forty 'babies', and we get much joy out of our singing." Miss Nagler, after her year of language study, was appointed to this school. Over three hundred pupils attended the Nanking day schools. Miss Crane writes: "Christmas was the usual merry time. Those who are so generous with the Christmas parcels would feel themselves amply repaid if they could watch the gift-giving in just one school. In the spring the day schools were invited to come to our Methodist girls' school to witness 'The Rose Dream', a beautiful May Day entertainment given by the pupils. The children were highly delighted, and we hope it will make them desire more to go there when they complete the day school course." At Wuhu the new boarding school opened March 4 with twelve girls enrolled. The girls live in the new cottage dormitory, and have their class work in the old building that was remodeled for evangelistic institutes. Miss Og- born, the prime mover in the development of the school, has come home on furlough. Miss Walker, the principal, is joyful, despite her heavy responsibilities. "Our numbers have almost doubled, and a fine bunch of girls they are; I just love them every one. I wish the folks who have contributed that we might carry on the work of the school could peep in some morning when the girls are busily sweeping, dusting or mopping the class rooms, the dining room or the bed rooms, and happily singing some of our own Christian hymns. It makes my heart sing to hear them." Even our primary day schools feel the influence of the Student Movement, so powerful in China. Miss Youtsey writes that in several places mothers are so insistent that their daughters shall be admitted as pupils that another teacher has had to be added, though there was no second salary in sight. "What could any one do? What would you do?" Miss Youtsey rejoices over the development of these young Chinese teachers into capable leaders, and over their influence in winning their pupils and constituency to Christ. Kiangsi Conference Rulison School reports a busy year. Miss Merrill, in addition to her usual duties, helped with hospital matters and evangelistic supervision. Twelve seniors who attended the institute for lower primary teachers received grades from 80% to 90%. Miss Thomasson was welcomed back as a contract teacher. Miss Garrett's Tuesday evening class-meeting with the girls, woman's meeting on the street, and Sunday afternoon children's meeting in the dining room brought Christ nearer to many. A generous contribution was sent for famine relief. Nanchang, undisturbed by famine and political troubles, enjoyed quiet prosperity. Baldwin School, in charge of Miss Zula Brown, had an enrollment increase of twenty. A Delco lighting system has been installed. The self-help department, at its annual sale at Kuling, received $1,834 in cash, and orders amounting to $400. Under the direction of Miss Seeck and Miss Daniels, the girls did sewing to raise money for famine relief. Miss McDade joined the staff and taught mathematics, general science and Eng- lish. She was struck by the ability of the older students to lead chapel ac- ceptably, giving a helpful message and offering prayer. Miss Graves had the students in her English classes write letters to girls of other countries Japan, India, Persia, Greece, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, France, England and America. Through this correspondence the girls came to have a better conception of the oneness of the human family. Miss Dean joins the staff after her year of language study. 64 In Lands Afar

West China Conference

The work termed educational, that of our boarding schools, has in Szechwan grown during the year until now every station asks for further property equipment. The Caldwell Boarding School at Tzechow needs further furnishings to provide for the many new day school graduates who have this year swelled the enrollment to ninety or more. This large enrollment is due to the faithful foundation work of the day schools of this district. An- other immediate need is for the purchase of more land now available and which will be needed in the near future for other buildings. The conference Bible training school was bereft of its principal during the past year through the severe illness of Miss Lybarger. The Chinese teachers, with such time as Miss Beatty could spare from her district work, held the school together and forty-five women, gathered from all over the conference, are now in training for such service as even the missionary herself cannot give. During the past summer twelve of these women from the advanced classes went out two by two to nine places on the district where they held morning study classes and afternoon evangelistic exercises. From thirty to sixty were in attendance at these meetings. This is only an instance of the way our students are helping in every part of the conference. At Chungking the Dai Gai Hong Woman's School has had an enrollment of twenty-eight married women. These women will, when graduated, become Bible women and teachers. In addition to the $100 grant of the Society, self- support in the form of tuition and board amounting to $379 Mex. was received during the past year. This is one example of self-support. The girls' boarding school at Tsen Gai Ngai, two miles outside the city wall, has an enrollment of sixty, some of whom are from the lower grade schools of the Canadian and Friends missions. These will soon be accommo- dated in their own plants and their places taken by young women from our day schools of the city and district. As at Tzechow, an adjoining tract of land is now available for our future use. As the city is rapidly building around our property it would- be only good business foresight to purchase this land now if we can secure the funds. The home of the missionaries of Chungking, built more than twenty years ago by a gift from the Reverend William E, Blackstone, became so infested with white ants that during the past summer it was found necessary to raze it, and the missionaries are housed for the time in a house rented of the Board of Foreign Missions. Our educational work in the capital city, Chengtu, aside from the day schools, is found in the girls' boarding school, the pupils doing work which corresponds with our fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth grades and high schools. It cares for the high school departments of our four stations. Beginning with this year this school has its first teacher who has received other than such training as may be secured in Szechwan. Miss Minyuen Dzaio finished her college work at Pomona College, California, and sailed in September, 1921, for Chengtu. Here again more land is a necessity and $5,000 is needed to purchase ground just back of the school, now occupied by a most objectionable brewery. This ground, if secured, will in the near future be utilized for the higher primary and kindergarten. The union normal school supported by the American Baptists, the Friends, the Canadian Methodists and our own Society, has now outgrown the old Chinese buildings in which it is housed. A new plant must be provided unless it is found advisable to establish a woman's college with normal and arts courses for the especial preparation of teachers for the various day and boarding schools. The dearth of missionaries has been more in evidence at Suining than in any of the other West China stations. From here the Misses Castle and Manning were both compelled to leave for furlough and Miss Desjardins and Miss Trotter, both new, inexperienced missionarie, swere left with the entire supervision of the boarding school and the city and district day schools. Both have worked most strenuously and the work has gone forward. This China 65

school at present cannot accommodate as many students as those of the other stations, but as the need develops the dormitory room can be extended, an outdoor gymnasium added and equipment for domestic science granted.

Foochow Conference

Hwanang College (Woman's College of South China) has graduated its first class of three members with four years of full college work. The enrollment in the college department is thirty-two. The new dormitory so desperately needed is included in our college campaign. The students and alumni have pledged $10,000 in gold for the $50,000 needed for this purpose. One graduate from Hwanang has taken the country work for Kutien District. She will have fifty Bible women and forty-eight schools under her supervision. There are ten Sunday schools conducted by the college girls who meet in a training class every Sunday morning. In the afternoon, armed with picture scrolls, they go on their way to teach these untrained, poorly clad and fed Chinese children. At Christmas a union celebration of these ten schools is held. Tai Maiu, our girls' boarding school at Foochow, has erected a beautiful recitation building from the local income and gifts from alumni and friends. The building, which will seat two hundred students in bright, airy rooms, is a much needed addition to this, the oldest Methodist school in Asia. Miss Benafield looks confidentially forward to the new dormitory which she expects from the educational campaign. Our work at Haitang has been carried on under difficulties because of the condition of our buildings, so much time being taken to make the repairs caused by the typhoon. However the girls have not only carried on their regular studies but have helped with the campaign for sanitation, distributing posters explaining the dangers from cholera, plague, rats and flies. Miss Ding, a teacher in our school, is the first Chinese woman to receive a local preacher's license. She is a graduate of Foochow high school and will complete her preparation for evangelistic work at the Nanking Bible Training School. Twelve girls graduated from our boarding school at Kutien; of this number, four have entered high school, four are taking normal training, three are teaching and one is married. Our girls, in addition to their regular subscription to the Church, gave $20 for the famine sufferers in North China. The Futsing buildings are under construction—the plant will include a recitation hall, two dormitories and a missionaries' residence. It was a red-letter day for the school when thirteen girls, the largest number of graduates in its history, were graduated. Seventeen new students have entered. Six came from villages where girls have never gone away to school before, one from a home where idols have only recently been destroyed. The higher and lower primary schools in Mintsing have an enrollment of one hundred and two and, to the joy of Miss Jones and Miss Mace, every girl is a Christian. During the summer vacation, the girls held Sunday schools in their home villages and taught the women and children to read. One twelve-year old girl took charge of a day school and conducted Sunday school in her home. On Kude District we have twenty-six day schools with an enrollment of four hundred and fifty. The Stafford-Kansas Model Primary is the only properly equipped school in the district but notwithstanding these hind- rances many of our best workers have begun in such schools. The Mary E. Crook Kindergarten has found it necessary to have two circles, one in the forenoon and one in the afternoon, so large has been the attendance. A small tuition fee is charged, the simplest kind of refreshments are served, with tiny chopsticks and bowls, but, as Miss Plumb says, "They learn not only to serve and eat politely but to thank the Heavenly Father and ask his blessing on the food." Miss Nevitt writes that the girls in the Childrens' Home have had to 66 In Lands Ajar

change "Mothers" often, so many transfers have been made because of lack of missionaries. The girls are fast growing up and our problems are not those of children, but of young girls entering womanhood. One, after graduating from Peking Medical College, is serving her in- terneship in a hospital. Another is at the head of a model day school in the

conference. Another, a . graduate from the Union Kindergarten Training School, is in charge of the kindergarten at Futsing. Two are employed in the Foochow higher primary and one is a trained nurse. The Union Kindergarten Training School has met with a great loss in the death of Miss Alice Lacy. The school graduated six fine young women who are teaching in Foochow, Futsing and Hinghwa. Ten students are enrolled, five Methodists, three Anglicans and two Congregationalists. The kindergarten in connection with the school has an average attendance of one hundred and forty. In Miss Lacy's last report she says: "I ask an interest in your prayers and your help, in directing the right girls to take this opportunity to prepare themselves for a work of such large results in God's kingdom."

Hinghwa Conference The Isabel Hart Girls' Boarding School at Sienyu and the six day schools have kept Miss Nicolaisen and Miss Mason busy. Fourteen girls graduated from the school last Jun«j Higher education is becoming more popular and our schools are overflowing. The Standard Bearers, King's Heralds and Little Light Bearers are well organized. There are one hundred and ninety- seven girls in the school and they look forward to the time when they can have a new building. Hamilton Girls' Boarding School and High School in Hinghwa is most promising. There are ninety-seven girls in the boarding school with an entering class of twenty. Miss Westcott has made us realize that these girls are ready to study and be of use in the world. If we can cope with this advance we shall have not only our schools adequately staffed, but we shall also have a trained Christian motherhood of untold value to China as a nation. We have toiled many years to make Chinese parents realize that girls are as capable of learning as boys. Now these girls are ready, not only for preparatory school but for high school, and we must give them the chance to become educated Christian women.

Yenping Conference Miss Glasburner writes most gratefully of the new workers sent to the conference. With Miss Reiman's help they have carried this heavy work but now that Miss Skinner is teaching both Chinese and English, Miss Eide, after language school at Nanking, ready for work and with Miss Sinkey on the way, Miss Linan and Miss Hartford returning refreshed from furlough and Miss Arundale and Miss Gladhill coming in the summer, we may expect good news from Yenping. The coming of new missionaries has made it necessary to enlarge the home. By careful planning two new rooms and a study are being provided. Necessary painting indoors and out has been done-—repair money has made possible the whitewashing of the walls and painting of woodwork and floors in the school. They look forward to the educational campaign when a new administration building may be granted and the old one used for dormitory purposes. There are seven girls in the high school department of the Fuller School with fine prospects of a larger entering class next year. Ours is the only high school for girls not only in the Yenping prefecture but also for the large Kiening prefecture to the north of us. The increased appropriations have eased the financial strain. The teachers' fund makes it possible to look for better teachers and larger day school, and evangelistic appropriations have made it possible to plan and carry China 67

out a district program that has enabled us to touch the women on every circuit of our six big districts as never before. There is great need of more model day school buildings. In Sahsien we have one of our very best schools, but the quarters are so crowded that if all the girls should come any one day it would be impossible to seat them. The people are astonished to see what the Church is doing for the education of girls and many applications are coming from parents who wish their girls to enter. We have provided a six weeks' course in the Christian Woman's Institute for those ministers' wives who have had a chance to study. A course in phonetic script is given so that they can read and study the Bible. One woman, not a preacher's wife but a Christian, walked three days in order to avail herself of the opportunity to learn to read.

EVANGELISTIC WORK

North China Conference

It was opportune that the Misses Knox, Glover and Adams, all heads of Bible training schools, and the Misses Halfpenny and Dyer, both of whom have combined evangelistic work with other work, were on furlough during the evangelistic year. It is equally opportune that four of these and Miss Gilman, who goes to the Union Bible Training School, are on the field now to help in conserving the results of forces that through the years, and particularly the past year, have been operating to break down prejudice and conservatism against Chrisitianity. On the two Eastern Districts which comprise 80,000 square miles of territory, there are at least ten cities of from 10,000 to 200,000 inhabitants, and countless villages. Last year Miss Highbaugh was the only missionary on the district for day schools and evangelistic work. We have but fifteen Bible women here. In Shantung, the "Holy Land" of China, where Methodism is responsible for the Christianizing of three millions, Miss Greer is the only woman on the districts for day schools and evangelistic work. As she walks or bumps along over the almost impossible roads in her wheelbarrow, and through the villages, the women follow her, pleading for teachers. We have five Bible women for this section. Miss Wheeler and Miss Bedell made two trips from Tientsin into the country during the year and report most favorable and challenging conditions for evangelistic efforts. Some industrial centers were established where famine refugees and other women in extreme need have been helped materially and spiritually. The chapels are crowded everywhere. Many are doing away with their idols and begging to be taught the Christian faith. Miss Lane, our first full-time missionary on the Peking districts, made her maiden trip last spring and has this fall entered upon a full time schedule. Her report is full of appeal for this almost virgin field. She says, "Thirty- three pastors on these districts are asking for Bible women, and they have a right to expect this help from us. Where are they to come from?" There are five available. It is a self-evident fact that we must increase our evangelistic forces. The evangelistic year gave us a small amount of money for building, increased support for Bible women and some new and increased appropriations for evangelistic centers, classes and institutes. This will help. We rejoice that Miss Lawrence and Miss Highbaugh will be released this year to give •full time to evangelistic work. Mrs. Jewell has been the supervisor and inspiration of a faithful group of Bible women in Peking. They, too, report that evangelism has been put forward as a result of the famine and of our relief work. As we look at this field through letters and reports, we seem to see just one great opportunity before us. It will be disastrous for the Kingdom in North China if we are not able to meet the challenge of this hour. 68 In Lands Afar

Central China Conference In Nanking the year was notable for special meetings. Such leaders as Dr. Chen Wei Ping, Bishops Birney and Keeney, Dr. H. R. Calkins and Dr. Hickson gave inspiration for unusually successful evangelistic work. At South Gate Dr. Reeves and some of the Ginling students conducted a Sunday school every Sunday afternoon, and Dr. Merrow held an afternoon clinic once a week. Hitt Training School, with an enrollment of eighty-one students, had a prosperous year. Miss Peters notes advance in many ways—improvement of the personnel, a marked increase in the number of prospective Bible women, weekly visits from Dr. Merrow, resulting in a better health record, advance in self-support, special meetings, leading to a better understanding of consecration and stewardship. A new residence is much needed. Miss Faye Robin- son, on account of ill health, sailed for home in April, a little before her furlough was due. Miss Lois Maddock has been appointed on the staff for the coming year. The Union Bible Teachers' Training School expected to begin the fall term in its new administration building. The school emphasizes practical work, and gives the students opportunity for varied experience. Miss Joy Smith is enthusiastic over her district work. "Most of the time I realize it is better for the Bible women to do the talking, because they are so much better understood than I with my 'feeble Chinese.' I try to get in my work by talking the lessons over with them beforehand and adding suggestions here and there. But once in a while the 'spirit moves' and I have a perfectly wonderful time telling folks some of the things in my heart. Can't you send more young women out here to help? There are hundreds and thousands of villages that are scarcely touched, and nothing will ever save China but the Gospel of Jesus Christ." Miss Nordyke will assist in the evangelistic work at Wuhu after Christ- mas.

Kiangsi Conference At Knowles School Miss Mabel Woodruff, looking back, sees "a constant victory of God throughout the year." There were several changes in the staff; but well trained teachers were obtained to fill vacancies. The senior class remains for another year, as the course has been extended in order to bring up the standard of the school. Miss Frances Woodruff has enjoyed her English and music classes and her opportunities to help in various ways She writes: "Miss Maddox is such an earnest worker and a comfort to have in the home." As there was no one to appoint to the city work and large districts with over fifty Bible women and day schools, the responsibility of supervision was left to Miss Merrill and Miss Woodruff. A general evangelistic campaign in Kiukiang during December had gratifying results. Teachers and pupils from Rulison and Knowles were active in the preparation, the campaign itself, and the follow-up work. They co-operated also in gospel-team visiting in the homes during Passion Week. Efforts to help the famine sufferers led to self-sacrifice and zealous interesting of others. Miss Pittman, after serious trouble with her eyes, was glad to be able to resume her language study. Owing to lack of workers, Mrs. Fred R. Brown was the only one filling an appointment for work on the districts that center in Nanchang. Miss Meeker expects to be in Nanchang the coming year.

West China Conference In the province of Szechwan no one phase of work more than another can really be termed evangelistic; for, be it through normal, high school, boarding school, day school, kindergarten, station class, or any phase of the medical China , 69

work, all are equally striving toward the one great goal, to bring to the lives of the Chinese the gospel story and to bring it in such a way as will render the greatest possible moral and spiritual uplift to the people to whom our missionaries have gone with the great message of salvation. Our Methodist Episcopal area of responsibility covers 9,600 square miles and has a population of nearly nine million. The so-called evangelistic work of the Society centers around the seventy-four little day schools. Here 3,025 children are gathered day by day through the year. Here the station classes are held and through these little schools and classes the children and mothers are taught the Christ life and with this the higher plane of living that always goes with this teaching. Lessons in sanitation, morals, housekeeping, home- making and the hundred and one methods of uplift, our well-trained missionaries have taught the Bible women and women teachers, graduates of our schools, to bring to their eager auditors. Since these schools and classes are invariably located in or very near the little churches and since the churches are social as well as religious centers, whole Christian communities are rapidly becoming a vital part of the life of the province. During the coming educational years a part of our work will be to adequately house, equip and support the day school centers. Of the seventy- four schools only thirteen have adequate buildings, and only a very few of these are well equipped. The Chinese are rapidly increasing their contributions to all forms of Christian activity but the regular church support comes first, and help along the lines of Bible women's and teachers' salaries, school and station class support will be asked of us for many years to come. In Chungking City three gifts, $3,000 from Mr. Charles Boone, of Urbana, Illinois, $2,000 from Wisconsin Conference and $2,500 from Minneapolis evangelistic funds, will make possible one or more good buildings in Chungking. These are to be used for Bible women's school, day school and kindergarten. Other gifts for the equipment and support of these schools are waiting some- where, and the work will go forward only as sponsored by us.

Foochow Conference Foochow Bible Woman's Training School has an enrollment of thirty- five bright, earnest students. Our rooms are overcrowded and yet the women said, "Do not turn any away for we are willing to sleep three in a bed in order to give more women a chance." This indicates how desperate is the need for the new building soon to be erected, when the work will be greatly enlarged. Miss Wells, who laid the foundation for this work, is home on furlough, and during this time hopes to secure two new workers. Mintsing Woman's School, under the care of Miss Edna Jones, had graduated five new workers. They expect to hold two months' station classes where Christian women can be fitted for the work of Bible women. The students also go out to the villages for Sunday school work and at Christ- mas time festivals are held. At an evangelistic campaign held at Lekdu more than a hundred women gave up their idols and became Christians. At Futsing the strong feature of the evangelistic work has been the station and probationers' classes. At the end of a month's study the pupils were able to commence reading the Bible. "Twenty-two Bible women have been going in and out of the Futsing homes this year and we know God has been using them for we hear splendid reports of their work," writes Miss Bartlett. Effective work has also been done at Haitang where an institute for teachers and Bible women has been held. There has been a wonderful evangelistic campaign, when within two weeks ten families in one village destroyed their idols. Two years previously there was not one Christian in the village; even the little children were thought to be possessed by evil spirits. A missionary society has been organized and thirty-three mite boxes given out. The great event of the year was the Jubilee celebration of the coming of Christianity to Haitang. Bishop Keeney was present and Miss Abel gives a glowing account of the gathering. Miss Frazey tells us that 70 In Lands Ajar our twenty-six Bible women in Kude District have led one hundred women into the Church this year. They have also conducted classes teaching illiter- ate women to read the Romanized. Kutien is enjoying the beautiful new Wilson Memorial Chapel recently dedicated. Miss Peters has twenty-five Bible women and twenty-four day schools in her district. "The institutional church in Foochow has had one of its best years," writes our representative Miss Mary Carleton. One of the events was the opening of the museum, a bit of community work. A great anti-cholera campaign has been held. The church has made an evangelistic effort in which we tried to reach all of the city for which the Methodist Church is responsible.

Hinghwa Conference The Hinghwa City station class under the direction of Mrs. Cole has completed its second most successful year. There is great need for this work as only thirty-two percent of church members in this conference are women, due to the custom of keeping the women and girls at home. Many Christian men think it not proper for the women in their homes to attend church but in most cases they are allowed to attend these station classes where they can stay at night and be properly chaperoned. We are trying to teach at least one woman from a family partly Christian to read the Bible and pray so that when she returns to her home she can lead the family to Christ. Miss Wilson writes that plague and influenza closed the school earlier than was expected but there were seven graduates and sixteen in the entering class. All graduates are employed as Bible women or teachers in station classes or they are wives of men in the ministry. The village Sunday school work has grown to thirteen schools and how the children do prize the cards sent from America! Miss Marriott sent an earnest appeal for increased appropriations which were partially granted. Her staff, in Miss Todd's absence on furlough, consisted of three Bible women for eighty villages on the Nang- Cih Island. There were but four women in the eighty villages who could read. After special meetings a woman of fifty-seven gave up her idols and began to study the primer. It was an eventful day in her life when she adjusted her glasses and with quivering voice spelled the words, read the sentences and passed her first examination. Her husband was so proud and happy that he spent forty cents for firecrackers. The kindergarten and primary school in charge of Miss McClurg has an attendance of sixty children. When it was opened five years ago it was necessary to make all sorts of promises to secure enough pupils to employ a teacher. Miss Lebeus reports effective work on the Sienyu District, a group of preachers' wives on a mountain district of forty preaching places in charge of our Bible woman, blessed days with hours of Bible reading, hours of instruction in Christian faith, living and hours of prayer. During Miss Thomas's absence Miss Lebeus also took charge of the Bible Woman's Training School in Sienyu. The uniform course of study has been adopted and thirty-seven are enrolled. MEDICAL WORK North China Conference Conditions created by the famine during the past year were such as to draw heavily upon our medical forces in Tientsin and Peking. Isabella Fisher Hospital in Tientsin gave conspicuous service during the long cold winter in relief work among the tens of thousands of refugees who were in camps only a few blocks from our compound. Our hospital staff was asked by the local relief society to open a dispensary for women. Several Chinese doctors and nurses gave time, but our own nurses were the main dependence. Hundreds of obstetrical cases were taken into our hospital where mothers and babies received care such as they had never before heard of or dreamed of, China 71

and were sent away with clean warm clothing. Better still, they went with hearts and faces glowing with a new-found hope and faith. Dear Miss Cushman spent every possible moment during those months of misery and despair in teaching the way of salvation by means of the phonetic script. One of our graduate nurses gave a month's service doing visiting among the mat huts in camp. In spite of her vigilance, many babies came into the world in those miserable quarters. One little fellow was born on the coldest day in winter, on the street. He was found and cared for in our hospital and three months later was taken into a Chinese home to fill the place of a long- desired son and heir. Mrs. Kao, the hospital Bible woman, was sent into the famine district for three months, and some of the nurses for shorter terms of service. The work of our medical staff in Sleeper Davis Hospital, Peking, is so linked up with that of our Union Training School for Nurses and the Union Medical College that the report of the year mentions as conspicuous and culminating events the commencement exercises of these two institutions, at the first one of which eleven fine nurses were graduated and uniformed. The other occasion will be spoken of elsewhere. A tiny tot suffering from Potts disease and paralyzed legs was a patient in one of the free beds of our children's ward. One of our doctors took a bone graft from the leg and planted it in the child's spine. Sensation returned to the thin little legs and ere long she was walking. One who saw her there one day says, "I wanted to take her in my arms and hold her close, but fearing that she might break in two, I just thanked the Lord for a woman's hospital where we have doctors who can do such an operation successfully." We, too, are thankful. Our gifts of hospital supplies, famine relief money and clothing have made possible the heroic and helpful work of our medical women in this time of greatest need. They are profoundly grateful for these facilities.

Central China Conference With the reopening of the Letitia Mason Quine Hospital at Chinkiang after four years of inactivity, many repairs were found necessary. The kitchen, on account of the sinking of the foundation, had fallen down, the cistern had caved in, roofs and pipes were leaking, and screens had rotted out. But as soon as the building could be made ready, in-patients were received; and when Miss Sayles returned after furlough, the Nurses' Training School was opened. A lighting system has been put in, and heating and bath- room fixtures are provided for; but there is urgent need of an artesian well and a sewerage system, the cost of which is only partly in hand. As the British concession was without a port doctor, the consul asked to have the sick cared for at our hospital, and accordingly a few rooms were reserved for foreigners. Dr. Robbins was very successful in cases among both foreigners and Chinese, and many found not only physical help but spiritual blessing. A nurse who is a college graduate is wanted to take charge of the training school. A pharmacist and a technician are also wanted. The floods have made thousands homeless, and the refugees are flocking to the city and bringing their sick to the hospital. Kiangsi Conference

Danforth Hospital, Kiukiang, was in charge of Dr. Chen Yucheng, a Peking graduate who, though handicapped by a greatly reduced staff, did excellent work. Dr. Chen acknowledges gratefully the help given in many ways by Dr. Edward C. Perkins. In September Dr. Tseo and Misses Kellogg, Liu and Townsend, nurses, sailed from America for work at Danforth. At Ida Gracey Home, for which Mrs. Hoose and others have been caring, a sunny room has been set apart and furnished as a play room. Nanchang gave Dr. Kahn a warm welcome home. She was besought to open the hospital immediately, even before some necessary repairs were made. She wishes she might give us "an adequate picture of what these 72 In Lands Ajar

women are saved from, utter physical and spiritual death. Some of them learn to read, too, while they are here, and thus they are saved from mental death. What pleases us now is that they are much more willing to accept Christ as their personal Saviour than in former times." Miss Elizabeth Vandertill has had charge of the training of nurses.

West China Conference

The medical work of the Society is at present in a state of real transition in that the Gamble Hospital at Chungking is now being rebuilt and fully equipped in accordance with the especial request of Mrs. Gamble who be- queathed $25,000 for this purpose. The patients, the nurses' training school and the medical staff are housed in the Board of Foreign Missions hospital which has been rented for the year. Dr. Jones has completed her language study and is, with Dr. Lydia Chen, a Chinese physician of great skill, min- istering in a most effective way to the women of Chungking. The nurses' training school under Miss Holmes' supervision has found its place in the medical work and the young women trained there are taught to serve in a most effective way. The plans for the Tzechow hospital are being prepared and we hope the building may soon be under construction. The dispensary has done good in a limited way during the year, but of the two nurses appointed to Tzechow one was commandeered for service as principal of the boarding school, the other as principal of the Bible training school, and little time or strength were left for other cities. The "hospital beds" support at Chengtu is most acceptable for the use of the students or any one whom the missionaries find needs care. In closing her West China survey Miss Ida Belle Lewis quoted, "Behold I have set before you an open door." "The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ and he shall reign forever and ever."

Foochow Conference

The addition to Magaw hospital for the nurses' training school will soon be a reality. As soon as the typhoon rains were over the work was begun. Dr. Pond feels the need of a heating plant and an automatic pump so that every drop of water will not have to be carried. An X-Ray machine has been given as a memorial and equipment for the children's ward. Miss Wil- cox, during the summer months, directed the nursing at the sanitarium at Kuliang. Leper work, outside of the city wall, is directed by Miss Simpson. Church services and a day school for the children are provided. Dr. Wong and the Chinese nurses carry a veritable dispensary with them on their visits giving the poor lepers soothing liniments that make their sores less painful and loathsome. Woolston Memorial Hospital in Foochow was taken in charge by Dr. Hu King Eng twenty-two years ago. It is doing a wonderful work in the center of the city. A church service, daily prayers, a Sunday school of one hundred and fifty children and two hospital Bible women also minister in this work. A graduate nurse from Magaw Hospital is assisting Dr. Huong with medical work on the island of Haitang. There are no suitable quarters for them, only an old native building, once our woman's school. No clinic can be held but the heroic little doctor is trying to relieve suffering as much as possible as it comes to her in the dispensary. The Harrison Memorial Hospital has moved to Futsing and Dr. Li has opened temporary quarters in the old Anglican hospital. Two graduate nurses have been left at Lungtien for dispensary work and out-practice. Dr. Li hopes that a doctor can be found who will keep this work open, as it is greatly needed. A great deal of trouble is being experienced in securing a new site for the hospital. Dr. Li's furlough is due next year but she will not leave until the plans are in the hands of the construction company. Dr. Carleton is rejoicing over the fact that she has electricity in her hos- .

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pital at Mintsing—not an elaborate plant but one that brings an exclamation of delight from the patients whenever she turns on the switch. She also has an automatic pump and mosquito frames for doors and windows. The packages of bandages, gauze, adhesive plaster and quilts have made it possible for work to be done in a more sanitary manner. The patients can have a new bandage more frequently than once a week, their former allowance. Even the material in which the packages are wrapped has made fine scrubbing cloths.

Hinghwa Conference Dr. Betow reports seven hundred and seventy-five patients in the Mar- garet Eliza Nast Memorial Hospital in Sienyu and seven thousand, four hundred and forty-one in the dispensary. Quite a number of the patients were bandit victims. Never before has the hospital been so well stored with supplies. Last year we put in electric lights and an X- Ray machine and this year we hope to install a water system. The new chapel and dormitory are being greatly enjoyed. The Lillian Gamble Leper Home at Hankong under the direction of Miss Todd and Miss Marriott has met a definite need. We wonder at their bright faces but they love the word of God and each day is partially devoted to its study. When our missionaries visit them and tell them the news from the churches they are happy over the victories won. Mrs. J. M. Avann Miss Emma L. Sinclair Mrs. George A. Wilson Mrs. E. L. Harvey Official Correspondents. KOREA MISSIONARIES AND THEIR STATIONS Chemulpo— City and District Day Schools—Belle L. Overman. Evangelistic Work—Margaret I. Hess. Haiju—Evangelistic Work and District Day Schools—Jane Barlow. Girl's School—Blanche R. Bair. Konju—Evangelistic Work and Day Schools—Mrs. Alice H. Sharp. Chun An—District Work—Mrs. W. C. Swearer. Pyengyang—Hospital—-Mary M. Cutler, M.D., Ethel Butts, R.N. Girls' Boarding School—Grace L. Dillingham, Edith M. Royce, Marguerite English. Evangelistic Work and Day Schools—Emily I. Haynes. Kin- dergarten Work—Ethel M. Dicken. Seoul— College and Preparatory Work—Olive F. Pye, A. Jeannette Walter, Alary E. Young. Kindergarten Normal Department—Charlotte Brown- lee, Edna M. Van Fleet. Day Schools—Ora M. Tuttle. City and Dis- trict Evangelistic Work—Jessie B. Marker, Nelda L. Grove, Gertrude E. Snavely. Woman's Bible Training School—Mrs. Anna B. Chaffin. Lillian Harris Memorial Hospital—Mary M. Stewart, M.D., Lillian S. Roberts, R.N. Suwon—Evangelistic Work and Day Schools—Lulu A. Miller. Yungbyen— Class and Evangelistic Work—Ethel Miller. Day Schools and Evangelistic Work— Yechun—Evangelistic Work—Hanna Scharpff. Wonju—Day Schools, Kindergarten and Evangelistic Work—Mrs. C. D. Morris. On Furlough—Mary R. Hillman, Alice R. Appenzeller, Jeanette C. Hulbert, Lola Wood, Hulda A. Haenig, Marie E. Church, Bessie C. Salmon, Silvia R. Harrington, Henrietta P. Robbins. Students of the Language—Harriet Morris, Hazel Hatch, Elma Rosen- berger, R.N., Mayme Rogers, R.N., Ada Smith, Ada S. Hall. Under Appointment—Katherine Speicher, Ruth Nead, Ada McQuie.

"It is a truism that has become a little trite" to begin this report by saying 74 In Lands Afar

that it is a critical time in the history of our work in Korea, but the missionaries realize it so much that one writes, "We are at the turning of the ways, and it is either forward or decidedly backward next year." Those who have been studying the missionary work in this country know that the conditions under which the work has been carried on have become more difficult year by year, until the climax has been reached and it is truly either "forward" or "backward" from this time. While it is reported that the Presbyterian Church is sending out over twenty recruits at one time and the Methodist Episcopal Church South has over a million men for their work, we opened Ewha this fall with one foreign missionary beside the principal for the high school and college department, with not money sufficient to pay the salaries of the teachers the coal bill, nor to furnish equipment so badly needed, and the same is true of all our schools. In the evangelistic work the Bible women are not receiving livable salaries nor can the new Bible women, for whom they so earnestly plead, be granted, while in the medical work three times the appropriations would not be too much. When will the Methodist Episcopal Church awaken to the wonderful opportunity and great responsibility God has given her, and rise in her might and take her part of Korea for God? We will open the door to God for these eager Koreans or will help to close the door this year:—Which?

EDUCATIONAL WORK Seoul—Ewha Haktang—Great rejoicing was there in Ewha over the news that a new dormitory was to be one of the buildings of the educational campaign for the next year. March twenty-third, without commencement exercises, they graduated two fine girls from college, four from high school and eleven from kindergarten normal. "Commencement days were greatly saddened by the news of Miss Frey's death, which came before breakfast on Good Friday morning. The memorial service held by the school was a beautiful one. At the close Miss Walter spoke to the girls of those things for which Miss Frey had always wanted the school' to stand, a school giving not only a knowledge of books but a knowledge of Jesus Christ as well, and that we could honor Miss Frey by no greater memorial than that of building in this school real Christian characters. Miss Frey lived for Ewha, she loved her, she dreamed dreams for her, she fought for higher education for women in Korea. It is for us who remain to carry forth the work which she established." Miss Walter has been elected principal. During the summer she has rebuilt the kitchen and dining room. This spring a Board of Managers consisting of both Koreans and foreigners has been organized, thus giving the Koreans a very real part in the administration of the school. Never in the history of Korea has there been such a turning to the churches and schools, but only one in seven who applies to the Christian schools can enter. For the other six there are no school privileges anywhere. With the opening of the new term there was joy as the many new girls came in; but when the dormitory was crowded so that six girls are in a room with but one small window, after every seat in the class room building was full so that the teacher had to take out her desk to make room, and after the dining room was so full that there was no room for the tables when the girls were all in, after the chapel would not hold another one,' even though some sat on the floor, after all this, the joy ceased. Girls came and went but we could only turn them away. Last spring term our actual attendance was four hundred and eight and our college preparatory school doubled its enrollment. This gives us new hope for the growth of the college department. We can see a union college for women in Korea in the very near future. Already other missions are showing a desire to join us in a union institution. A wonderful sixty-acres joining the men's college, upon which to locate this plant, said to be one of the most beautiful college sites in the Orient, is available for the sum of $20,000. How we do pray that the money for this site may be given before our opportunity for buying it is past! —

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These last years have been years of change in the life and spirit of the Koreans. They have a great determination to study and an eagerness to serve. Never before have Ewha girls been so in earnest about helping themselves financially. Soon after the beginning of school the girls seemed especially hungry for spiritual food and asked that we might have special meetings, which were held without outside help. The girls were greatly blessed and a month later forty of them were baptized and united with the church. Pyengyang—Girls' School—This school, so greatly desired and needed, which was started last year in this great North Korea center, has grown just as rapidly as the building permitted and the great hope was that a new building would be granted this year. They have fine plans that will mean much for all the northern part of Korea. Their aim is to add next year a fourth year, making a full four years middle school and two years of normal work. This is the crying need all over Korea. Requests for teachers come from every mission station. There is not a normal department in Korea, with the exception of the two government schools, and our girls can not enter these. Miss English, who has been in Korea teaching in the foreign school, a normal as well as a Wellesley graduate, has been accepted and will take charge of this department. Miss Dillingham has borne the burden alone most of the year and must have help financially. She writes, "Such perfect and punctual attendance I have never seen in any model American school. Our girls are nearly all church members and all Christians. With great sacrifice the girls saved Yen 25 and sent the money to the famine-sufferers of China. We have no scholarships, but girls who must have help earn their board in the self- help department." Day Schools—These schools, consisting of grammar and primary grades, are the foundation and feeders of the two higher schools; without these the entire educational system falls. Without exception the schools are crowded to the doors and more children begging to enter. There has been a marked advance along all lines and, "did the financial resources but equal the opportunity, the future would indeed be bright, for the Koreans have awakened as never before to the need of education and Christianity." Some common problems they have; salaries demanded by the government, additions to the buildings, money for coal, repairs and equipment. Perhaps one school should be considered separately Kongju City School. "The Chunan and Kongju Districts contain about one-third of the more than a million people for whom Methodism in Korea is responsible. Among this 350,000 there is only the Kongju school that offers anything more than the lowest primary and there are only a dozen or so of any kind of schools, including those of the government, which are very poor. The two grades above the primary have been added on faith and this year another grade will be put in. We must have the salaries of two teachers, one of whom must be a college graduate with higher salary to conform with government regulations. We have so long begged and entreated the parents at this place to send their girls to our school that now the interest and constantly increasing attendance are sources of great joy and thankfulness." In Haiju, where for several years there has been no representative of the Society in charge of the school, and all the growth and prosperity we owe to Mrs. Norton of the Board of Foreign Missions, the daily attendance five years ago was fifty. Nearly all the girls in the grammar grades were from the country on scholarships. They had three teachers and the tuition was hard to collect. To-day we have more than one hundred and fifty in daily attendance, five teachers, and nearly all the girls in the upper grades are from the city and nearly all these from the country are self-supporting. Last year the parents donated Yen 540 above the tuition. But with this marvelous success for the school to continue they must have nearly double the appropriations. Kindergartens—From every direction come calls for kindergartens and one writes, "I am more and more convinced that the hope of this country lies 7G In Lands Afar

in getting the children properly started." In the Wongju and Kang Nung Districts the entire educational work is of the kindergarten grade and night schools. Wherever a kindergarten has been opened "the children swarm around the buildings like ants around their hole." But everywhere new buildings and equipment and salaries are needed. In Chinnampo the parents have purchased a site and are waiting for us to erect a building. Miss Dicken of Pyengyang has five kindergartens under her with no settled place in which to meet, no equipment and not money sufficient for her teachers' salaries. We have one other form of educational work, the hostel, for girls whose homes are in places where there are no schools of any kind. In Wonju, in a small hostel, there are ten girls two of whom walked one hundred miles in order to be able to study, four walked fifty miles and the others twenty-five to thirty. Union Methodist Woman's Bible Training School—The women's conference voted to take the special course for women who have had no schooling out of the Bible school, transferring the same, April 1, 1922, to two institutes to be held in Pyengyang and Kongju. This action was necessary because it was found impossible to get the graduates of higher common schools, who have been going to Japan for their Bible training. The school opened for the new year the first of April, after graduating six fine women in March. One had been graduated from the East Gate Hospital five years ago and after nursing for a year took four years' work in the training school, especially preparing herself for social service work which Dr. Stewart is opening in connection with the hospital. There are forty students in the class this spring, five of whom are graduates of higher common schools, who entered when an entirely separate course was put in for them. They have an elementary course in psychology, sociology, Church history and modern missions. The hope is that they will go out as Bible teachers. Korea has never felt the need of workers, either native or foreign, as it does to-day. People are just pouring into the Church everywhere.

MEDICAL WORK

Lillian Harris Memorial Hospital—Extensive repairs have been going on all summer so that the hospital was in good condition for the fall work. The private rooms have been filled with patients, among whom were the wives of the American and British Consuls General. A pre-natal clinic has been organized with a native girl in charge. "We averaged a baby a day during March and gave a little layette to each baby that went out of the hospital. Tell the women to keep sending them." The contagious ward is being erected at a cost of Yen 8,000 and is being built strong enough to add, some day, an upper story for tubercular patients. Pyengyang Hospital has treated as many patients in five months as in any of the three preceding years. There are great changes under consideration here. Dr. Cutler writes, "We have daily, at the hospital and dispensary, patients from three or more provinces. The population of Pyengyang and suburbs is rapidly increasing and a new railroad will make us accessable to a larger constituency. We should enlarge our borders and increase our force and efficiency with the utmost speed. Miss Butts is too valuable a worker to force into a health breakdown. We need a second nurse and a pharmacist."

EVANGELISTIC WORK

The need for four evangelistic workers is desperate. The country class work is more encouraging than ever. There has been a distinct advance along all lines. The attendance has more than doubled in many places, the interest in the home study course greatly increased, so that in one district alone ninety received diplomas, while the spiritual results have been great, many of the classes ending in a revival service of great power. In one church the women were anxious for a class, but the only time the missionary could Japan 77 give them was their busiest time, when they prepare their winter supply of pickle, a time when a class is never held. They took that time, when it really seemed impossible for them to do any studying, and their bright happy faces will never be forgotten. One woman said that for twenty years she had been hiding in her heart the doctrine learned from her mother before she was married and came to Chinchun to live. During that time, although persecuted by her husband, she had hoped and prayed for a Christian church at Chinchun. Now her husband's heart had changed, the church was started and her joy was past all bounds. These earnest young people wanted at once to open a kindergarten and a night school, have a preacher sent to them and also a Bible woman. These things have all been accomplished now except a kindergarten, and there are no funds for that. Oh, the stories that have come about the Bible women, for which there is no room! Hear one; Susanna, one of the most beloved, has nearly worn herself out in long hours of wrestling and prayer for the cure of sick ones, in addition to her regular work. This praying was not done at ease in a comfortable room but in a bitterly cold one and with the loss of many hours of sleep. She had a class in one place where the women did not want to study, giving as their reason that they were too poor to board her and too proud to take pay from her, so she ate nothing for three days while she taught them in a freezing cold church and held meetings for special prayer before daylight every morning. An awakening of the women followed but she has not recovered her strength. So the work grows. "Old buildings become new, small numbers become great, untrained minds become developed, lives full of sin and ignorance become radiant, and what does it all mean? Wonderful opportunity for service? Yes, more than that—A Challenge for Service NOW." Mrs. R. L. Thomas, Official Correspondent. JAPAN MISSIONARIES AND THEIR STATIONS East Japan Conference Sapporo—Evangelistic Work—V. Elizabeth Alexander, Mary B. Griffiths. Hakodate—Iai Jo Gakko—-Augusta Dickerson, Marie Killheffer, Dora Wagner. Evangelistic Work and Kindergartens—Lora C. Goodwin. Hirosaki—Hirosaki Jo Gakko—Lois K. Curtice, Ruth E. Weiss. Evan- gelistic Work and Kindergarten—Winifred F. Draper, Blanche Guard. Sendai—Social Evangelistic Work—Mabel Lee, Margaret B. Haberman. Christian Orphanage—-Louisa Imhof. Tokyo—Aoyama Jo Gakuin—Alberta B. Sprowles, Mary H. Chappell, Bernice C. Bassett, Barbara M. Bailey, Esther V. Thurston. Women's Christian College—Myrtle Z. Pider. Social Evangelistic Work—Anna P. Atkinson. Yokohama—Higgins Memorial Bible School—Leonora M. Seeds. Evangelis- tic Work—Anna B. Slate, Marion R. Draper. Literary Work—Georgi- anna Baucus, Emma E. Dickinson.

West Japan Conference Fukuoka—Fukuoka Jo Gakko—Louise Bangs, Olive Hagen. Evangelistic Work—Bertha Starkey. Nagasaki—Kwassui Jo Gakko—Anna L. White, Laura Chase, Vera Fehr, Mary B. Oldridge, Donna May Lewis. Kumamoto—Evangelistic Work—Caroline Teague, Elizabeth R. Kilburn. Kagoshima—Evangelistic Work—L. Alice Finlay, Mildred Paine. On Furlough—Erma M. Taylor, Edna M. Lee, Carrie A. Heaton, Helen Couch, Frances W. Maclntire, Ellison W. Bodley, Alice Cheney, Etta 78 In Lands Ajar

Miller, N. Margaret Daniel, Alice E. Hitch, M. Helen Russell, K. Grace Wythe, Azalia E. Peet, Elizabeth M. Lee, Mariana Young, Adella M. Ashbaugh, Caroline S. Peckham, Pauline A. Place, Harriet M. Howey. Language Students—Helen Albrecht, Abbie Sturtevant. "The Eighth World Sunday School Convention in Tokyo may be regarded as the turning point in the history of Christianity in Japan." There is much of significance in this statement coming from a man acquainted with and favorable to Christianity, Viscount Kaneko, Privy Counselor to the Emperor. There is significance also in the reply that came from the Christian teacher, following Miss Slate's question, "What impressed you most?" "It was that choir of a thousand voices, Sensei, almost all of them Japanese, and the way they sang the 'Hallelujah Chorus' as if they meant it in their very souls. And you know about the children's rally, and how 10,000 of them marched on Sunday afternoon to the park in front of the Emperor's palace and held a meeting there! Why? somehow, when I saw that great meeting of Christians, and remembered the persecutions of the past, my heart almost stood still for joy! I couldn't help but compare today with the olden time, and feel that my country had begun to come into the Light." "King of Kings, and Lord of Lords," she repeated softly; "Oh, the wonder of it all—in Tokyo!" We thank God for the band of missionaries who are helping to bring Japan, that striding young giant, into paths of light. "There is a tremendous revolution going on right now," writes one of our missionaries. "The history of Japan has been one of quiet revolutions." "New thoughts," "foreign thoughts," "dangerous thoughts," constitute the "Prob-, lem of Thoughts" before Japan to-day. Women are coming into a new place, both in business and social relations, following the lead of Madame Hiraka, the banker, and Madame Yajima, the teacher and reformer, who comes to the Disarmament Conference presenting a peace petition signed by 10,000 Japanese women. The suffrage agitation has so far progressed that women who have been denied the privilege of belonging to a political party or attending political meetings had a respectful hearing in the Japanese Parliament on the subject of woman's rights. Educated wives of Japanese wives are reading with their husbands books on social and economic and even anarch- istic subjects. During the year, for the first time, women have been admitted as special students in certain courses at the Imperial University. "It is a wonderful time to be in Japan," writes the president of Kwassui College, "for it is a time of great opportunity." We rejoice that six, whom we last year classified as language students, are this year ready to take a part in the active work of our schools and evangelistic centers. Two new recruits, Helen Albrecht and Abbie Sturtevant, sailed during the summer.

EDUCATIONAL WORK

Nowhere is the aspiration for better things more in evidence than in the numbers that apply for entrance to our schools. From Hakodate on the north comes the report, "Our school year opened in April with an enrollment of two hundred, the largest in its history. It is not surprising that girls are eager to come to our beautiful school. There were many applications for scholarships—more than could be admitted on trial. Some who came are younger sisters of graduates, or of girls already in school. One knows some of our graduates who are Bible women and desires to become one herself." In Tokyo, "Aoyama Jo Gakuin, like many of the well-known schools, can receive only a small proportion of the pupils that apply for admission. The scene in our school gardens the day the results of the entrance examinations were posted is a. picture none of us who saw it can easily forget. Early that bright spring morning five hundred and twenty-three hopeful little girls began to assemble, grouping themselves on the lawns, and strolling about the campus which they so much wished to claim as their own school home. But when the registrar appeared with his list of successful candidates all was Japan 79 forgotten except the serious business of the day, and parents and children alike flocked to scan the fateful roll. As we watched from one of the windows, we could see a child here and there jumping up and down with joy and relief. But we could see, too, the unsuccessful ones, slowly turning away after one last search for their names. The Aoyama Jo Gakuin buildings are so limited that only ninety of the five hundred and twenty-three could be admitted. Many of those who went home disappointed were turned away from Christian influence for life. What an opportunity lost to us!" With such conditions confronting us, we are glad to report that the additional land for the new Aoyama plant has been secured and the erection of the first building has begun. This is the domestic science building for which the Young People's Thank Offering will provide next year. "It is going to be a most difficult matter to run the school with the departments separated by nearly a half hour's walk, using some of the same teachers for both departments—with the science room for physics and chemistry in the old building, the chapel in the boys' school, and gymnasium and music work still to be done in the old school. . If we could begin on the main building as soon as this domestic science building is completed, we could look forward to a separation of the school for one year only, and we are trusting that such a plan can be managed. We celebrate our forty-seventh Founder's Day this year. Can we have our plant entirely finished by our fiftieth anniversary? That is our hope." From Nagasaki: "The last days of March are busy days always, and this year forty-four girls were graduated and went out to teach, into direct evangelistic work or into business. In April one hundred and twenty girls were entered in the various departments and nearly one hundred turned away for lack of room. One of the visitors in one of the Sunday school Convention parties remarked, 'You need paint.' It is really rather obvious that we do, but the trouble is deeper than that! We need something underneath the paint, too. These were fine buildings in their day, but their day is past, and rooms that should never have been used for classrooms are having to be used, rooms that are too small or too dark, and in this country, where the sun is the stove, it means cold, shivering girls all through the winter in a country where tuberculosis is the great scourge of the people. The great increase in the number of girls is making it increasingly hard on the missionaries here to have no home except rooms right in the very middle of the main school building, where classes pass all day long, rooms that are urgently needed by the school." In June, Hirosaki Jo Gakko celebrated its thirty-fifth anniversary. There were chapel exercises in the morning, a simple lunch at noon in the gymnasium and in the afternoon the girls presented five scenes showing the history of the school. All day long there was rejoicing for the influences that through the years had gone from the school into the community, and with it a fervent hope that through the coming years there might be an even greater part in God's Kingdom in Japan. The thirty-sixth year at Fukuoka Jo Gakko has been one of hope and progress. Louise Bangs, the acting principal, writes, "Whatever of success has been attained is due largely to the loyal, unified staff of teachers under the excellent leadership of Mr. Toyofugi, and to our faithful servants. Person- ally I owe a great debt to Miss Shiokawa who has been faithfulness itself in assisting me. The school and the conference owe her much for her tact, her loyalty, her knowledge of the school, and the complete giving of herself.

EVANGELISTIC WORK

"The present is the day of all days for the churches at home to support these churches and missions in Japan by enabling them to put forth the maximum of direct evangelistic effort and to use to the limit every opportunity of press and school." This Lhe message to America from that missionary states- 80 In Lands Afar

man, Robert E. Speer, on leaving the shores of Japan last month after official visitation. Reports coming this year from missionaries and Japanese Christians show keen sense of the situation and a spiritual abandon in meeting it. From Nagasaki comes the cheering word of graduates going out to enter open doors of service in other fields. One going with foreboding as a teacher of the Japanese language to Korea, returned with the joy of having brought love and understanding between Christian Koreans and Christian Japanese. Another, having answered the call to evangelistic work in Kagoshima, writes, "There are great upheavals in religion in Japan the last few years. We Christians must not slumber. We must lead the people to the true religion." In Kagoshima the kindergarten work reaches out in many directions. "The dear appreciative mothers," writes Miss Finlay, "decided the tuition was too low. They asked us to make it one yen fifty, instead of one yen. This will help us materially. We have some very earnest inquirers among the mothers." "Summer houseparties" for the girls have brought blessed results. From Kumamoto and Fukuoka evangelistic work come reports of ever- widening opportunities, and in the northern stations, Sapporo, where Miss Griffiths has returned with joy, Hirosaki, where Winifred Draper's work daily expands, and Hakodate, come words of encouragement. A significant forward movement has been made in the social evangelistic center opened this year at Sendai. Another will be opened in Tokyo next year, and one for Nagasaki has also been authorized. Mrs. Mary Carr Curtis, Official Correspondent.

MEXICO MISSIONARIES AND THEIR STATIONS

Mexico City—Sarah L. Keen Colegio—Carrie A. Purdy, Ethel L. McClin- tock, Hazel A. Mason, Lulah G. Bennett. Industrial School—Rosetta B. Rodgers (contract teacher), Ethel E. Thomas. Bible Training School— Helen G. Murray. Evangelistic Work—Harriet L. Ayers, Mary N. Pearson, Grace Duryea. Treasurer of the Mission—Laura Temple. Puebla—Normal School—Blanche A. Betz, Grace A. Hollister, Katharine M. Johnson, Kathryn B. Kyser; Florence O. Harper, Iva M. Finton, Herma O. Hoyt (contract teachers). Pachuca— Colegio Hijas de Allende—Erastine B. Gilmore, Clara Hill (contract teacher). Guanajuato— Colegio Juarez—A. Mabel Taylor, Winifred Spaulding (contract teacher). On Furlough—Dora B. Gladden, Addie C. Dyer. Under Appointment—Jean Maclay, Prudence Winn, May Bell Seal, Es- telle Ritchie, Nellie Butterfield.

EDUCATIONAL WORK

The missionaries in Mexico are looking forward with great anticipation to the last two years of the educational campaign in the hope that during that time some of the badly-needed buildings for our growing schools may be erected. Sarah Keen has been full to the limit with its two hundred and fifty pupils—seventy of whom are boarders—and Miss Purdy has a long waiting list for the boarding department. Miss Rodgers and Miss Thomas have been literally flooded with applications for the industrial school and eighty girls have been squeezed into space for sixty. Every room has been Mexico 81

crowded to the limit and a number of the girls have been living in the base- ment of the building. The Pachuca tchocl needs a second story so that more boarding pupils may be taken in, and the day school at Amecameca needs a building of its own. Not all the girls who graduate from our schools are Protestants, but they all have received new ideals which make them render more efficient service to their country. The domestic science classes in all our schools have done a great deal to destroy the conception prevalent in all Latin lands that manual labor is degrading. Girls who have been taught the arts of home- making become better mothers and establish homes of which their husbands are not ashamed. The industrial school is justifying itself more and more as the years go by, but it needs a new dormitory and more equipment. Miss Bennett has introduced new courses in sewing and millinery which have proven very popular. The girls from rural communities have been taught something of soils, seeds, and crops and the care and value of domestic ani- mals, so that when they go back to their homes they not only know how to work their little farms better, but they are not ashamed to do it. Our Society would justify its existence in Mexico if our schools did nothing more than bring about better home conditions, but we have, year by year, also been training our girls in Christian character. Many of them have found Christ as a personal Savior and are trying to follow him. At the Tuesday evening meeting of the boarding school girls at Guanajuato many of them witness by their testimonies that Christ is a real Friend and Savior. Following the revival meetings and a series of talks by Miss Perez at Pachuca all the girls over twelve signed life service cards, and a Student Volunteer Association was formed. Surely we can do nothing better for Mexico than to send out young women not only well trained intellectually, but also filled with the spirit of Christ.

EVANGELISTIC WORK

New property in Mexico City at the rear of the Keen school has been purchased for the Bible training school. The building is being remodeled as rapidly as possible, and meanwhile the students have been living in a small building on the grounds of the Keen school. We were especially fortunate in securing property so near, as the two institutions can use the same chapel and athletic grounds and can share part of their faculty, for the present at least. The attendance at the Bible training school has more than doubled, and Miss Murray is especially delighted that most of the girls give promise of becoming effective Christian leaders. A few of them are very poor and have to be supported entirely by scholarships. By doing a certain amount of housework they earn money to pay for their books. When two of them received their first money they asked if they might take their tithe from the sum given them, as they were so eager to have some money to contribute to the church. Needless to say Miss Murray was delighted that they wanted to do this. Miss Pearson has been transferred from the Bible training school to the Gante church, and has been appointed religious work director of this large congregation with its more than thirteen hundred members. It is the largest Protestant congregation in Mexico. The church is open day and night, Sundays and week days for a multitude of activities. There are industrial classes in woodwork, basketry, sewing, lacemaking, etc., for boys and girls; a night school under the supervision of the Epworth League with classes in English, typewriting, shorthand, grammar, music and sewing for young people; education in sanitation and hygiene for the mothers. A gymnasium is very badly needed and the young people of the church are working hard to get the money for it. Quite a sum has been raised, and some contributed by those outside the church who are interested in the health of the youth of the city. A Children's Week in June with special programs and exhibits concerning the health of the child attracted wide attention, a prominent docto remarking, "I am a Catholic, but if this is what Protestantism is going into, 82 In Lands Afar am ready to co-operate." The Centenary Centers for prayer and Bible study, which were started over a year ago, are still being held in thirty different parts of the city, and through them many have been led into a definite religious experience. Under the supervision of Miss Ayres, Miss Pearson and Miss Murray, our five Bible women have been giving valuable service in helping with these centers, visiting in many homes and conducting classes in the church. Miss Grace Duryea went down to Mexico the first of October to assist Miss Pearson, and her being there will make it possible for Miss Ayres to give her whole time to her beloved village work. Miss Ayres has spent quite a little time this year in Centenary Institutes held for two days each in a number of towns and villages throughout the central part of Mexico. At the last annual conference in Mexico the deaconess movement was formally launched, and Miss Perez, who has taught in our Keen school for many years, and recently in the Bible training school, was consecrated as the first deaconess. Miss Perez is a woman who has had a wide influence not only in our schools but also throughout the city, and her example will undoubtedly lead some of our finest school girls to consecrate themselves to Christian work. Carrie Jay Carnahan, Official Correspondent.

SOUTH AMERICA MISSIONARIES AND THEIR STATIONS

Lima—High School—Gertrude Hanks, Frances C. Vandegrift, Ruth Ransom, Elizabeth B. Vaughn (contract teacher). Buenos Ayres—Escuela Norte Americana para Ninas—Grace Barstow, Ruby C. Hosford, Edna B. Brown. Rosario— Colegio Norte Americano—Lois Joy Hartung, Ruth V. Warner, Miriam F. Whiteley. Montevideo—Instituto Crandon—Helen C. Gilliland, Jennie Reid, Gertrude V. Wheeler; Frances A. Chandler, Mary H. Chandler (cantract teachers). On Furlough—Caroline Blanche Rubright, Netella Loy. Under Appointment—Frances Strever, Bernice Cornelison, Effie Price, Helen Benard. EDUCATIONAL WORK

Lima—The only thing that has kept our high school from being larger is lack of space. The two hundred and seventeen girls have been crowded into the same unsuitable rented buildings that they have been occupying for the last few years. Some of the parents who made application for their daughters could hardly be persuaded that on account of lack of room their children had to be put on the waiting list. Early in the year the archbishop issued an edict which stated that all Catholics who sent their children to Protestant schools would be deprived of all the sacraments of the church. The edict was printed in leaflet form and spread broadcast. Practically all it did was to give our school free advertising as only one woman took her child out of the school, and she did it because she was a personal friend of the archbishop. The school has been recognized by the educational authorities of the government in spite of this protest of the church authorities. The leaven of Protestantism is working slowly but surely in this country—the last to throw off the shackles of the Roman Church. The school girls are beginning to see the difference between the formal, dead religion they have known so long and the living force of Protestantism. The school cook, who has been in the institution two or three years, said to one of the missionaries recently: "I like your religion and wish you would bring up my little boy to believe as you do. I've been reading your Bible and I like it." So the missionaries are taking him to Sunday school and teaching him about Christ. Some of the school children come from Protestant homes. Cleopatra, the twelve-year old daughter of the South America 83 native pastor, is Miss Ransom's right hand helper in the Junior League. She speaks English beautifully , so often acts as interpreter. Buenos Ayres—Two buildings have not been adequate for our growing girls' school so a third one has been rented—the rent being paid from self- support. All the buildings have been full to the limit and the splendid curriculum has attracted a fine class of students. The commercial department has been very popular, also a new course in drawing which has been offered for the first time. It is always easier to influence the boarding pupils than the day students, though everyone has to go to chapel and attend the Bible classes. The girls in the home go to church and Sunday school in addition and lead prayers once a week. Four of them have joined the church during the year and others have shown by their lives that they are trying to follow Christ even though they have not publicly confessed him. During all the years that our Society has been at work in South America we have had no Bible training school for young women, though we have had Bible classes in all our schools. There have been many reasons for this: a definite prejudice against the Bible fostered by the Catholic Church; early marriage—most South American girls marry very early, not even finishing the grades, so there has been little demand even among Protestant young women for such a school. There is a great need at the present time for trained Christian women as Bible teachers, pastors' assistants, etc., so in co-operation with the Christian Board of Missions, we are planning to open a Bible Training School in March, 1922. The number of students may be small at first, but we are hoping to attract some of the finest girls from our boarding schools. Miss Zona Smith, a missionary of the Christian Board, who has been on the field for some years, is to be the principal of the new school. Rosario—The school year opened the second of March. "We prayed for thirty-five boarders if the Lord saw fit," writes Miss Warner, "and when the number reached forty-two we had to call a halt, for dormitories and dining room are packed so tight that there is "scarcely breathing room. Quality has not been sacrificed for numbers, either, for we have mighty fine girls." There has been a splendid spirit among the girls during the whole year, the rich and poor playing and working together in a spirit of real democracy. This has been brought about largely by the fact that many of the girls have had a religious experience that has changed their whole lives. Miss Hartung has been ill a good part of the school year and Miss Whiteley for a few months, so Miss Warner has had a task which has taxed her strength. Miss Cornelison

of the Columbia River Branch expects to sail tor South America in January 1 o take charge of the new Gleason Institute. The school for poor children which has been held for many years will be continued in the new building, but Miss Cornelison is also planning to make it a social center where the people of the neighborhood can gather for classes of various kinds. Montevideo—A beautiful three-story building in process of construction on a well located street corner in this city has been attracting a great deal of attention for some months. People have asked again and again, "What is it?" and they have been told that it is the new Crandon Institute, a North American school for girls. Lots across the street from it were advertised for sale as "facing the magnificent building in course of construction which will serve for the location of the North American Crandon Institute." The adjective may be a bit of Spanish hyperbole, but the building is undoubtedly one of which every member of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society may be proud. Messrs Hoit and Poole, North American architects, have given the building their personal supervision, and it has gone up with a rapidity hitherto unknown in Montevideo. The best of material—some of it ordered in this country—has been used throughout the construction. A fine gymnasium, a domestic science kitchen, well lighted dormitories, dining rooms, servants' quarters, and in fact everything for a well-equipped school has been provided. Miss Jennie Reid, who has been the supervisor of the building for our So- ciety, writes that they hope to move into the new building in January, and have the inauguration in March when the school year begins. It will be a 84 In Lands Afar

time of great rejoicing for her as she began to dream of the building six years ago, during her first term of service. She has watched with thrills of delight every stick and stone that has gone into it. She was not able to have the campaign for local funds in May as she had planned on account of bad financial conditions. Her latest plan was to have it in November as business conditions were slightly better. She will be backed in the campaign by the Alumnae Association, the president of which is the wife of a well known doctor, and the building committee composed of business men. The students are so eager to get into the new building that they have been working hard to earn money for the furniture. A dramatization of Hiawatha and an operetta have netted quite a good sum for furnishing the girls' parlor. Despite the handicaps in the old building, splendid work has been done under Miss Gilliland's leadership. While it has been difficult to inculcate Christian ideals in girls who have been brought up to think that lying and stealing are not wrong, the students are gradually learning through their Bible lessons and the example of the missionaries to love the things of Christ. Carrie Jay Carnahan, Official Correspondent.

EUROPE MISSIONARIES AND THEIR STATIONS

Bulgaria, Lovetch—Girls' School—Kate B. Blackburn, Dora Davis. Rome—Crandon Institute—-Mary Jane Eaton, Artele B. Ruese, Ellen Louise Stoy. France, Grenoble—Le Foyer Retrouve—Grace M. Currier, Grace H. Milli- gan, Julia Stevenson (contract teacher).

BULGARIA No better evidence of the value of our American school for girls in Lovetch could be asked than that group of grown-up girls, now the women of Bul- garian Methodism, whom we came to know at the Methodist conference in Varna last May. Through the years Miss Blackburn and Miss Davis have given themselves unstintedly to the building up of that school, and not only the school but the whole Methodist Church of Bulgaria. To-day our girls are pastors' wives, teachers, nurses, all of them standing for the type of Christianity which their Lovetch alma mater taught them. During the war, as you know, the school had to be closed. It has taken a little while to build it up again but Miss Blackburn writes that they have just begun this year with seventy-five girls. The new dormitory, built in 1920 and finished this last summer, is already filled. One of the extra-curriculum enterprises carried on by Miss Davis is the editing of the Missionarska Vestltal, or the Bulgarian Woman's Missionary Friend. This started its career as a mimeographed paper sent out privately from the school to disseminate missionary news and to inspire work for God throughout the Methodist womanhood of the country. So popular has the paper become and so widely read that the women of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of Bulgaria voted at their annual meeting to take it over as their official organ and to issue it in regular printed form. Miss Davis still continues in the editor's chair. Both Miss Blackburn and Miss Davis are serving their last term in Lovetch. They are earnestly asking that two American girls be sent to them as soon as possible so that they may have a period of training preparatory to taking up the work which they themselves are so soon to lay down. We are reaching out for larger fields yet to conquer in Bulgaria and to this nd we have purchased in the capital city, Sofia, a splendid building located n the same square as the new property recently purchased by the Board of or eign Missions. It is proposed to open here a hostel for university students Europe 85 as soon as we can supply a missionary for such a task. Bulgaria is the only Balkan country in which religious freedom is allowed, in which the gospel can be preached in any but the native language. The Bulgarians we found to be a keen, sturdy, progressive, ambitious people and the unique growth of Methodism in this little land foretells a rich field for future workers there.

ITALY

Our Society holds a unique position in Italy since it sponsors the only Protestant school for girls in that country. Crandon Hall in Rome is crowded to the doors with five hundred girls, and many are turned away. Miss Eaton looks into the future to a much enlarged Crandon where a thousand girls may have the chance for Christian education, but before such a day can come it seems wise to test anew the success of Crandon as a vitalizing Christian influence in Italy. The missionaries now working in the school feel that Crandon should no longer be a "finishing school" where the emphasis is placed upon the arts of life, but rather that the ideals of the school should be made over. It is their purpose, and to-day this purpose is being put into practice, to take in the younger girls and keep them for the full course in a Christian environment. Bible courses must be introduced and the Catholic constituency of the school must know the purpose with which we have planted this institution in Italy. All Europe to-day needs trained Christian women and our mission in Crandon must be to produce such leaders. As the coming years prove that this is possible, then we shall look for a larger Crandon. During the year extra appropriations have been granted for necessary repairs on the school building and for new furnaces. FRANCE

To-day, after three years, Le Foyer Retrouve stands to the French people of Grenoble as a permanent contribution from America's bounty to the war- orphans of their war stricken land. Under Miss Currier's efficient management the big house has been renovated and presents an appearance of neatness and cleanliness which calls forth the admiration of French friends. The work of the Foyer is highly commended by the inspector of schools for the province of Isere. The additional land and building purchased last year has greatly enlarged the scope of the work. The smaller house is now being used as a home for the older girls who go to study each day at the government school. This is our only station in Europe in which there has been a change of workers during the year. Miss Milligan left to be married in the early spring and Miss Stevenson returned to this country during the summer. Since Miss Milligan had taken her little ones through the kindergarten up to the point of graduation, this work has been dropped entirely. Miss Christian Lockhead of Scotland, the daughter of one of our missionaries in North Africa, has come to help Miss Currier. Together they are looking forward to a year of increased efficiency, putting their emphasis on economy, sane, wholesome living and the things of the Spirit. This year the Armstrong Recreation Building is being erected. This will provide a long-felt need, making possible a playroom for the family and an assembly room for the weekly meetings held under the joint auspices of the Foyer and the church. The future of Grenoble is not yet determined. But whether it develops as a home or a school we are sure that it will be a place from which the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ shall be made known throughout France and where French girls shall come into a larger, richer life. Ella May Carnahan, Official Correspondent. 86 In Lands Ajar NORTH AFRICA MISSIONARIES AND THEIR STATIONS

Algiers—Home and Evangelistic Work—A. Dora Welch, Emily Smith, Mary Anderson. Constantine—Home and Evangelistic Work—Emilie R. Loveless, Nora Webb. Algiers—Among all the Christian work being done for the followers of Mohammed in North Africa, our own Van Kirk Memorial stands out as dis- tinctive in its purpose and management. Here we found Miss Welch and Miss Smith prayerfully and carefully and wisely guiding the lives of the Kabyle and French children whom they have gathered around them through the years. Twelve years ago it was only by patient waiting and persevering that six little girls had been brought within the shelter of the home, but to-day that slow ingathering has changed to an overflowing and you would now see thirty-five girls filling the Van Kirk Memorial. In part it is the broadening effects of the war, in part the opening mind of the Mohammedan world, in part the official favor which our missionaries have won that to-day makes it easy to get children into our Christian home. The Van Kirk Memorial had been intended solely for Mohammedan girls but the distressing circumstances of the war brought to its doors several French children and to-day, in that Christian environment, a happy experiment in real internationalism is being carried on. French girls and Kabyles play happily together, using now one language now the other. One day when a dispute had arisen in a little group Miss Smith cleverly asked them how they expected to be able to live together in heaven if they couldn't manage it successfully on earth ! And now peace and friendship reign ! This experiment within the home will perforce have its lasting effects without and will surely help in a small way to bring these two races nearer together. The buildings are ideally located in a suburb of Algiers. Last year the annex was built, enabling the missionaries to enlarge their work considerably. But to-day, again, the Van Kirk Memorial is full to overflowing. It may be possible in the future to purchase an additional bit of land in the rear and another nearby villa. The greatest need is for more workers. Miss Smith and Miss Welch are overburdened with the problems of the home, yet they can never forget their mission to the wretched women and children in the native Arab quarter where they try to minister each week. As soon as possible some new girls must be sent to Algiers to relieve this situation and to strengthen the work in all its branches. A distinct department of the work here is that carried on by Miss Ander- son among French women and girls. The work has become so large and so full of opportunities that one worker cannot carry it alone and here, too, reinforcements are greatly needed. The general opinion is that hostel work will best fulfill the needs of the situation, providing not only a home for the missionaries engaged in French work but a dormitory for girls from the university, and class and clubrooms for the many activities which might be carried on. During the past year an important piece of equipment has been added in the seaside home at Sidi Ferruch, fifteen miles from Algiers. This house will provide a rest-home for missionaries and workers and an all-the-year-round usable property for the work. Here sickly children may be taken for a holi- day, workers from other parts of North Africa may find rest, French mothers may come for an outing, and shop girls and university students may have inspirational week-ends. God's work is growing, must grow, here in North Africa. The Christian work we are doing in this land to-day is sending out into the far places Chris- tian Kabyle girls, Christian French girls, who will do their part in breaking down the wall of Islam. Immediate needs: Three or four missionaries and property for French work. Africa 87

Constantine—Much that has been said of the work in Algiers might be said as well of Constantine, where Miss Loveless and Miss Webb are building up another home for Arab girls. The three-story apartment house purchased last year is located nearer the center of the city. For various reasons altera- tions upon it had to be delayed but it is now being occupied by our missionaries and their girls. We hope that this property will enable Miss Webb to carry out certain lines of evangelistic work that she has had in mind in her effort to bring Christ to the Arab women of this conservative old city. Ella May Carnahan, Official Correspondent.

AFRICA MISSIONARIES AND THEIR STATIONS ANGOLA

Quessua—School—Cilicia Cross, Clara V. Ault. Evangelistic Work—Martha Drummer. RHODESIA Old Umtali—School—Grace Clark, Frances Quinton. Mutambara—School—Lulu L. Tubbs, Marjorie L. Fuller. Medical Work— Ona M. Parmenter. Mrewa—School—Emma D. Nourse. Translated to Higher Service—Sadie M. Rexrode. SOUTHEAST AFRICA

Inhambane—School—H. Elsie Roush, Ruth Thomas. On Furlough—Susan Collins, Stella A. Hess. Under Appointment—Sarah C. Kerr, Beulah H. Reitz, Georgia H. Beven. There are said to be 7,000,000 automobiles in the world and 6,100,000 of them are in America and owned by Americans. There are in Africa to-day 119,000,000 people who are not included in any plans for evangelization by any Board and many more millions included in plans not yet carried out. Is there any connection between the facts contained in the above two sentences? The unfinished task assigned to us by our Lord is great, and love never asks "How much must I do?" but "How much may I do?" A vigorous protest has come from two conferences against the use of the term "Pagan Africa." No such terminology is used when referring to other non-Christian nations and it is a needless reflection on Africa. EDUCATIONAL WORK Angola Conference

At the annual conference session this year there were fifteen missionaries present including Bishop Johnson and the wives of the preachers. The Quessua missionaries, including our three, entertained all. At this time it was decided to change the site of the Quessua mission to the new location which has so long been considered. This leaves us free to begin the erection of the promised new school building and the home for the missionaries, though more than half of the necessary money is yet to be provided. The school has doubled in size this year and the missionaries in charge, Miss Cross and Miss Ault, are busy and happy. Some of the girls have passed the first government examinations and are preparing for the second. This takes practically the time of one missionary and so, as others of our schools which are standard- ized, an additional teacher is necessary. Fortunately, one who has been —

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several years in our school and is now about ready for the final government examination will probably take this position and we must provide her support. The industrial department, including sewing and gardening, is well maintained. Miss Ault in a recent letter pays the following tribute to one of our missionaries who served there so long and faithfully and who is now retired: "On the last mail, Miss Collins sent a letter to the girls' and they were over- joyed to get it. Now, three weeks later, we see one and another reading it again. They did love Miss Collins as do all who know her. I hope she is happy in America." Rhodesia Conference

The field correspondent, Miss Clark, writes, "Our next need, and a very big one, is for the residence at Mutambara, for it is not at all satisfactory for the missionaries to be living in the same building that is used for the school. It is so noisy and inconvenient." Money for this home is being raised this year so we shall soon have our three missionaries at that station comfortably housed. The opportunity for growth in our work is greater at this point than at any other in the conference as so many native kraals are near. The school has had large growth this year and many more scholarships are needed. The enrollment is two hundred and forty-one. At Old Umtali the work still grows with more girls than ever in the school. Miss Clark writes, "We have six babies now, the youngest having arrived a month ago—the poor mother died early one morning and the father and grandmother walked all day to bring the five-months-old baby to us. She is a beauty and won all hearts at once." Mrewa, the station so recently opened, has had to be temporarily closed because of the death of Miss Rexrode and the marriage of Miss Nourse. As Miss Hess returns to this conference this fall after furlough and with her go two new missionaries, we hope that Mrewa will not remain closed very long. Our Bible women continue their work there under the direction of Mrs. O'Farrell and an extra one has been sent from Old Umtali. The missionaries are all anxious that we shall know that Miss Rex- rode's illness and death were not due to climatic conditions, but the loss to the work is not therefore less real. A strong plea is made for us to open a hostel at Umtali where our Bible women at work there, and also girls employed in the town, may have a home.

Southeast Africa Conference

In the Portuguese province of Inhambane we are located at Gikuki, where two missionaries, Miss Roush and Miss Thomas, are conducting a boarding- school for girls, with over sixty in attendance most of this year. The present dormitory can accommodate only seventy and as soon as possible we should build both a dormitory and a home for the missionaries on our recently purchased land. Miss Thomas writes, "The school work has gone well this year, the girls working in a fine spirit. We had a series of revival meetings conducted by one of the leading native evangelists, an old man, and the spiritual results were wonderful." Miss Roush writes, "We have tried to follow out our regular school work as outlined last year. Since we have been having lessons in the New Testa- ment in Sunday school this year, for my classroom work with the girls I have taken up the study of parts of the Old Testament. We have been so glad that Mrs. Stauffacher has been able to hold her class in hygiene regularly, and her taking eleven girls from my room for part of each morning has enabled me to supervise our class of nine in the kindergarten department, also to bring up some backward pupils. We can realize the growth of the school this year when we find that there are fifty-two girls in the sewing class each afternoon more than were in the whole school last year. Besides regular school work and the special classes in sewing each day, we have other classes in washing, iron- ng, cooking, etc., all outside of school hours. Africa 89

"I could not close without thanking Dr. Stauffacher and Mrs. Gaudin for their kindly help in all cases of sickness among the girls and for the kind, co- operating spirit of all of the workers of the Board of Foreign Missions. We are working toward a goal, that goal being the salvation of every girl in our school."

EVANGELISTIC WORK Angola Conference Miss Martha Drummer has been in labors abundant as usual this year touring among the kraals with her helpers, preaching and teaching day school teachers how to teach, selling and giving away Scripture portions as opportunity offered. A trying siege of fever kept her home for some time in the good care of Miss Cross. Miss Drummer writes, "Miss Cross had the doctor come once, against my wishes, but it is all right as it made her feel better. We were shut up here many weeks because of smallpox and bubonic plague in Loanda. Many people died and their houses were torn down or burned. The schools were closed and public meetings forbidden. I never saw the people so stirred, the natives fleeing and some telling falsehoods about their sick ones to keep their huts from being destroyed. "Just now I am having a 'community service' hut put up—the girls are carrying the stone for it. I am feeling as strong as a farmer again and am getting ready for another trip among the kraals. I have a woman part of the time and a man constantly to help me in the work and we are greatly encouraged with the outlook in the villages. The thirst for education is sweeping over the province since the war. Men especially are awakened and they think books may be able to answer their questions. We have a very prosperous station begun by a man receiving one of the gospels ; after reading it he walked forty miles to inquire the way of salvation. We feel that he is a gift of God."

MEDICAL WORK Rhodesia Conference

Miss Parmenter with her three-room dispensary is supplying much of the medical need of the women and children. Four months after her arrival she wrote, "I am so happy here and there is great need of medical work. Though spending at least three hours a day in language study, there is not a day passes that I do not treat from one to six people." Mrs. S. Frank Johnson, Official Correspondent. 90 In Lands Ajar

CHRISTIAN LITERATURE FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN IN MISSION FIELDS

During the past year the committee has continued its helpful attitude toward the Nu Tau Po, the woman's magazine for China, which, under Miss Laura M. White's editorship has made increasing friends during the past year and reached a place of even wider usefulness. The increase of the cost of printing having affected China also, it is necessary to consider this in making a budget for the coming year. Our children's magazine, Happy Childhood, under the editorship of Mrs. McGillevary has also needed larger appropriations since her helpers, like those for the woman's magazine, are students who cannot live on the smaller allowance given in former years. The great value of the training which these young leaders of the Christian forces in China are receiving for future literary work cannot be overestimated. The new day in China must have trained minds and skilful pens to furnish the vehicle of Christian thought in the great republic. It is therefore high privilege to be able to help in this training. An urgent call for aid for the Christian Literature Society in Japan made it advisable to grant $10,000 for aid in the emergency which unfortunately faced the committee. More help was needed but our limited budget made this the largest amount we could give at this time. India, too, has been receiving aid from your committee, five hundred dollars annually being promised for the magazine for students of which Miss Flora Robinson was appointed editor. Her return from the field left the work in the hands of Mrs. Wilke of Cawnpore. The first number has not been issued but thorough preparation of the work has been made, looking towards supplying the graduates of our schools and other Christian young women with a suitable medium for information and interest and for their own literary efforts. We trust that in the near future the launching of this new venture will be happily accomplished. The work for needy Latin America remains without a definite plan, though the committee has voted that when $5,000 is secured for this object it will sanction a beginning in Mexico. One thousand dollars has been received for this work, and indications point to a selection of a well known missionary of great talent for the editorship of this magazine. It is obvious that the committee needs a larger budget and Dr. C. H. Patten, chairman of the Committee on Christian Literature of the former Edinburgh Continuation Committee and now of the international missionary organization, calls upon us for $10,000 at least. It is to be hoped that Metho- dist women who have been in the forefront of literature work on the mission fields will aid substantially in raising this amount. The opportunity afforded us for extension work for the new alphabet in China is unlimited. Someone is going to use the phonetic to reach the masses in China. Shall it be the Christian forces which will provide wholesome literature of Christian ideals or shall we wait and lose the opportunity as we did in Japan? The Bible Society and the Christian Literature Society are alert to use this new vehicle for the standard works and especially those adopted to the need of the ministry and the fortunate graduates of our schools. It is ours to think of the home of the women of limited literacy and untrained minds, and the child who loves bed-time stories in the Chinese home just as the American child delights in them here. The new phonetic gives us opportunity to obey the command for the millions of little folk within the sphere of our interest in China—"Feed my lambs." Clementina Butler. Union Colleges 91

UNION COLLEGES

Christian Leadership for the Orient

"By the help of God we purpose to raise up Christian leaders of such stature that they shall command attention and so lead their nations to al- legiance to Jesus Christ. This Christian leadership must be created in the Orient itself, and the best place to train it is on the ground where it is to work and to exert its influence. The Christian womanhood of America is planning the development and expansion of colleges which shall provide these Christian leaders for the womanhood of the Orient. In addition to our own Methodist institutions, the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society shares with other denominations in the support of a group of union colleges. All are in need of buildings and equipment and a special effort is being made during the year 1921-22 to secure gifts which shall make it possible for these colleges to meet the demand and the opportunity at this time of crisis. In the fall and winter of 1920 a special effort was made to secure funds for the union colleges through aa International Christmas Gift. Famine conditions in Europe and China diverted the attention of the public from this cause to the immediate relief of physical suffering. Though the goal of the campaign was not fully reached, $217,000 was secured in cash and pledges. To this the Boards added $300,000 and the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Me- morial $250,000, making a total of more than $700,000. The trustees of the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial have promised to give one dollar for every two dollars that is raised for these colleges up to a total of $933,333. This pledge holds good until January 1, 1923. For this reason we are entering upon a campaign in the interest of our colleges at this time. Hwanan (Hua Nang) College, Ewha Haktang College, and the North China Union Medical College do not participate in this large gift, which makes heavier the responsibility of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society for these institutions.

Isabella Thoburn College

Florence L. Nichols, Principal: Marjorie Dimmitt, Enola Eno (on furlough 1922), Ruth C. Manchester, Helen McMillan, Lillie M. Rockwell, Florence Salzer (contract teacher). Normal School—Margaret K. Landrum, Thera Twitchell (contract teacher), Susan J. Walsh. On Furlough—Inez D. Mason. The year has been marked by changes in the Isabella Thoburn College. Miss Nichols, the new principal, reached India in the spring and immediately assumed heavy duties and responsibilities. The new Lucknow University has been established and the B. A. classes of our college will be related to this university instead of to Allahabad as in former years. The two upper classes in the high school are to be united with the two lower classes of the college, forming what will be known as the Inter- mediate College. A third section of the Isabella Thoburn College consists of the training classes and kindergarten department. Because of government changes and requirements, it becomes necessary to remove the college from the property which it has heretofore shared with the high school. A most desirable site in Wingfield Park has been secured and here suitable college buildings will be erected at once. The teaching staff has been strongly reinforced during the year, bringing great relief to overworked teachers. The long-needed kindergartner and the head of the music department arrived the beginning of the year and are now at work. "Music has become so popular that we already need an additional teacher." Of the thirty-four college students six are not Christian. One of these, a Mohammedan day student, "comes at six in the morning and goes back re- 92 In Lands Afar luctantly in the evening." Miss Nichols writes, "The teachers believe with all their hearts that the spiritual development of the students is first in importance." The college enrollment has been influenced by the serious lack of accommodations since the Hazzard building was destroyed by flood. A very beautiful gift has come to the college this year. The will of Mrs. Fred B. Fisher provides for the establishment of a scholarship to be known as the Edith Jackson Fisher scholarship to send Indian young women to the United States for graduate work. Through the generosity of her husband, Bishop Fisher of Calcutta, this legacy yielding one thousand dollars annually becomes available immediately. Accordingly two teachers in the college have been designated as the "Edith Jackson Fisher Scholars." Miss Thil- lyampalan will come in April, 1922, for special study in biology, and Miss Shelomith Vincent will come two years later. Every member of the Society at home and of the college in India desires to express her deep gratitude for this gift. The year 1922 is college year. We are pledged to raise $83,500 for our Isabella Thoburn College. This with what is already in hand and the gift from the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial Fund and an expected grant from Government will buy the land and erect the buildings for the new college. Why not make it $100,000 for full measure? For good equipment this amount should be raised. In loving memory of Isabella Thoburn and Lilavati Singh, in grateful recognition of the faithful, splendid service of Ruth Robinson and Flora Robinson, and as a loyal pledge to Miss Nichols, bravely facing the crises involved in the new authority now placed in the hands of the Indian people themselves, let us bring generous gifts to our college and make it what it should be, the best as well as the first college for women in Southern Asia. Clotilda Lyon McDowell.

The Woman's Christian College, Tokyo, Japan

For the college year beginning April, 1920, there were one hundred and ninety-four students enrolled in the Woman's Christian College, Tokyo. Twenty-six of these represent missions schools, three, private schools and thirty-three, government high schools. The president and the dean of the college are Japanese as are most of the professors and lecturers. Three Americans give full time and a fourth part time to the college. Twenty-two and three-tenths acres of land on the fast electric line leading west from Tokyo through the main new residence section have been purchased as the site for the permanent buildings. The college is at present housed in rented buildings. The unsuitability of these and the rapid growth of the college make it imperative that the permanent plan be erected. The co-operating committee has voted to approve as the first buildings the main administration and class room building, four dormitories and a dining hall, one residence for foreign teachers and two residences for Japanese teachers. Toward the cost of land, the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society is asked to contribute $16,000 in addition to the $20,000 which we have already paid. This will make our contribution equivalent to that of the other participating Boards. On account of the cost of the first group of buildings we are asked to provide $40,000. One of the most encouraging things of the past year was the news that Vassar College has adopted our college as a sister institution. That this means more than mere good will is evidenced by the fact that the students of Vassar this past year contributed something over $2,000 to the work of the college. This money will be used for permanent equipment and so the gifts will be a perpetual reminder to the girls of Japan that the college girls of America believe in them and seek to help them achieve the best in life. Miss Pendleton, President of Wellesley, declares that she has seen no other institution in the Far East which seemed to her so supremely needed and so Union Colleges 93 deserving of adequate help. "As I see it," Miss Pendleton adds, "the only- hope of a really democratic and liberal spirit coming to the front in Japan lies in the Christian education of the coming generation."

The Woman's Christian College, Madras, India Madras College has had a year of peace and progress, in the midst of the unsettling conditions of the new India. Never was Christian leadership more needed than in the changing life of the Orient to-day. The students of Madras College are stirred by the spirit of service for India; one of them writes, "Our girls are taking a keen interest in the affairs of the country and are earnestly praying for her." The new patriotism goes hand in hand with the new learning; the gold medals for economics and for advanced English of the University of Madras were won this year by our graduates. The zeal of the students in the study of science, of which the American members of the faculty have been the inspiring teachers, brings to us with special appeal the urgent need of a science building. Otherwise the advanced students must complete their work at a government men's college, not at all a satisfactory plan for women students in India. A dormitory, a chapel to replace the present building, once the harness room for the trappings of a rajah's steeds, and a teacher's college are among the immediate requirements. The girls of Madras College are growing both in wisdom and in grace. One of the students from a prominent Buddhist family came to her teacher and said, "I have found Christ. I have been loving him and worshipping him for some time. I do not wish to be baptized here where you all know him. Let me go back to my own people and perhaps when I tell them, some of them, too, will follow." She took the long journey and in baptism confessed her Lord, and her mother was the first to follow her example. Thus Madras College is helping to lay the foundations of the new and Christian India.

North China Union Medical College for Women, Peking

All praise is due the numbers of the staff of our medical college for their splendid loyalty to us and to China, and for the remarkable courage with which they have pressed faithfully forward with the work. Dr. Schaum and Dr. Waddell are new members of the staff, sent out by the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society and the Presbyterian Board. The Union College campaign made possible the installing of some new equipment. The glory of the year's report centers in a class of twenty-one students who in June received the degree of Doctor of Medicine. All of these are continuing their training in mission hospitals as internes, or as students in schools in America.

Yenching College, Peking, China A permanent organization at the home base on the new basis of co- operation has been effected. The Presbyterian Board and Wellesley, our sister college, have given us each a new staff member. A new site for the college, adjacent to Peking University, just outside the city, has been purchased and the erection of two buildings of the first unit has been authorized. The enrollment of one hundred and eighteen students represents seventeen provinces and Korea, nineteen missions and thirty-eight preparatory schools. About two-thirds of the students are Christians; fourteen are Methodists. The students of both these colleges in North China are leaders in the Christian activities of the city and during the famine, on their own initiative and without assistance, they took a first place in organized effort for reljef. The most widely practiced form of social service among Yenching graduates is that of teaching, which includes not only direct class room work in mission and government high schools, and in kindergarten training schools, but service as school supervisors, in shaping curricula, assistance in teachers' institutes, 94 In Lands Ajar

giving lectures to women in temples and guild-halls on the invitation of officials, and acting as leading lady in community matters in whatever place one lives. So the college wisely stresses its Department of Education, and there are important plans for model and practice schools in the new Yenching.

Ginling College, Nanking, China

The mission boards of five denominations, the Baptist, the Disciples of Christ, the Methodist Episcopal, the Methodist Episcopal South, and the Presbyterian, have united in founding and maintaining Ginling College as the keystone of their educational arch. On the faculty are representatives of all five co-operating Boards and of three other church groups. Thirteen Christian denominations have future leaders in Ginling and twenty-eight high schools have trusted her with their graduates. These schools have given Ginling of their best and the students who have come have been responsible for the success so far attained. The student body represents almost as many dialects as cities. Any girl entering Ginling has had eight years of English. To make herself understood by some of the other girls she may at first have to use English instead of Chinese, but she soon learns Mandarin—the language of Ginling, the language of Nanking and the official language of China. A Chinese official's residence has been transformed for college uses. This property is rented, it is overcrowded already, is only a makeshift at the best. And so you must know of the new property and the plans for the new site. On some of the hills in the west of the city of Nanking, Ginling owns thirty acres of land. One hundred thousand dollars have been sent, ground broken and four buildings are in process of construction. The entrance requirements are equivalent to those of the best women's colleges in this country, with Chinese and English substituted for classical and modern languages. The requirements for a degree constitutes a full equivalent for the work done in American colleges, and to students who complete the approved course the regents of the University of the State of New York, through the trustees of the University of Nanking, grant the degree of Bachelor of Arts. The five young women who were graduated in 1919 were pioneers for they were the first women in China to receive the B.A. degree for work done in China. With the several colleges in America who are sister colleges to Ginling the equality of standard must make an added tie and must be a gratifying commendation of the work done. Of the seventy students at present in the college, eighteen are members of the Methodist Church. The next largest denominational group consists of six. Of one hundred and twenty-eight students who have attended one year or more 38% are from Methodist schools. AT THE HOME BASE BRANCH OFFICERS New England Branch

President—Mrs. F. H. Morgan, Wollaston, Mass. Corresponding Secretary—Mrs. Mary Carr Curtis, 10 Deaconess Road, Boston, Mass. Secretary of the Home Base—Miss Clementina Butler, 229 Waterman St., Providence, R. I. Assistant Secretary of the Home Base—Mrs. A. J. Bennett, 33 Concord St., Cambridge, Mass. Recording Secretary—Mrs. C. Edmund Neil, 30 Pinckney St., Boston, Mass. Treasurer—Miss Sophronia B. Rich, 20 Sargent St., Newton, Mass. Secretary of Special Work—Mrs. A. P. Sharp, Newton Lower Falls, Mass. Secretary of Literature—Mrs. Henry H. Meyer, 549 Riverside Drive, New line, Mass. Secretary of Tithing—Mrs. F. H. Morgan, Wollaston, Mass. Interdenominational Secretary—Mrs. F. W. Carter, The Kenmore, Com- monwealth Ave., Boston, Mass. New York Branch

President—Mrs. William I. Haven, 25 Fernwood Road, Summit, N. J. Honorary Corresponding Secretary—Mrs. John M. Cornell, Seabright, N.J. Corresponding Secretary—Mrs. George A. Wilson, 820 Livingston Ave., Syracuse, N. Y. Assistant Corresponding Secretary—Miss Elizabeth R. Bender, Room 715, 150 Fifth Ave., New York, N. Y. Secretary of the Home Base—Mrs. Warren F. Sheldon, 537 West 123 St., New York, N. Y. Recording Secretary—Mrs. J. H. Knowles, Room 715, 150 Fifth Ave., New York, N. Y. Treasurer—Mrs. J. Sumner Stone, 441 Pelham Road, New Rochelle, N. Y. Receiving Treasurer—Miss Grace Andrews, 116 Cambridge PL, Brooklyn, N. Y. Secretary of Special Work—Mrs. Robert M. Moore, 1695 Albemarle Road, Brooklyn, N. Y. Secretary of Literature—Mrs. Henry H. Meyer, 549 Riverside Drive, New York, N. Y. Secretary of Tithing—Mrs. Jacob Finger, 9 Barton St., Buffalo, N. Y. Secretary of Extension Work—Miss Mabel Watrous, 159 Main St., Endicott, N. Y.

Philadelphia Branch

President—Mrs. Robert Bagnell, 216 State St., Harrisburg, Pa. Corresponding Secretary—Miss Carrie J. Carnahan, 400 Shady Ave., E. E., Pittsburgh, Pa. Assistant Corresponding Secretary—Miss Juliet ^nox, 7320 Brighton Road, Ben Avon, Pa. Secretary of the Home Base—Miss Susan C. Lodge, 1720 Arch St., Phila- delphia, Pa.

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Recording Secretary—Mrs. W. T. Cooper, 230 Owen Ave., Lansdowne, Pa. Treasurer—Mrs. Curtis Sooy, R. D. 33, Willow Grove, Pa. Secretary of Special Work—Miss Helen R. Pershing, 400 Biddle Ave., Wilkinsburg, Pa. Secretary of Literature—Mrs. M. C. Evans, Philadelphia, Pa. Secretary of Tithing—Mrs. L. L. Swisher, Warren, Pa. Secretary of Extension Work—Miss S. Emma Becker, Lebanon, Pa. Secretary of Publicity—Mrs. Charles H. Newing, Peckville, Pa. Interdenominational Secretary—Mrs. C. J. Ling, Meadville, Pa. Baltimore Branch President—Mrs. W. A. Haggerty, 2614 E. Baltimore St., Baltimore, Md. Corresponding Secretary—Mrs. E. L. Harvey, 1626 Monroe St., Washing- * ton, D. C. Secretary of the Home Base—Miss Lulie P. Hooper, St. Paul and 23 St., Baltimore, Md. Recording Secretary—Mrs. Wm. E. Moore, 4100 Kate Ave., Baltimore, Md. Treasurer—Mrs. George W. Corner, Jr., 212 Ridgewood Road, Roland Park, Md. Secretary of Special Work—Mrs. W. S. Dewhirst, 1737 Park Road, Wash- ington, D. C. Secretary of Literature—Mrs. Daniel L. Ennis, 521 Rosehill Ave., Baltimore, Md. Secretary of Tithing—Mrs. W. H. Abbott, 38 S. Fulton Ave., Baltimore, Md. Secretary of Extension Work—Miss Lenore Wagner, 326 Hawthorne Road, Roland Park, Baltimore, Md. Interdenominational Secretary—Mrs. John T. King, 1425 Eutaw Place, Baltimore, Md. Cincinnati Branch President—Mrs. S. B. Salmon, Warren, Ohio. Corresponding Secretary—Mrs. R. L. Thomas, 792 East McMillan St., Walnut Hills, Cincinnati, Ohio. Secretary of the Home Base—Mrs. F. I. Johnson, 515 Clinton Bldg., Columbus, Ohio. Recording Secretary—Mrs. F. T. Enderis, 131 W. 16th St., Covington, Ky. Receiving Treasurer—Mrs. J. C. Kunz, 3423 Knott Ave., Avondale, Cin- cinnati, Ohio. Disbursing Treasurer—Mrs. Charles C. Boyd, 123 Kinsey Ave., Cincin- nati, Ohio. Secretary of Special Work—Mrs. E. S. 'Sawtelle, 8260 Woodbine Ave., Hartwell, O. Secretary of Literature—Mrs. Charles R. Fox, 2849 May St., Walnut Hills, Cincinnati, Ohio. Secretary of Tithing—Mrs. George O. March, Lebanon, Ohio. Secretary of Extension Work—Mrs. C. C. Peale, Findlay, Ohio. Secretary of Publicity—Mrs. S. Wiant, Cincinnati, Ohio. Interdenominational Secretary—Dr. Julia Baird, Youngstown, Ohio. Northwestern Branch

President—Mrs. A. T. Webb, 2144 Bradley PL, Chicago, 111. Corresponding Secretary—Miss E. L. Sinclair, 328 South Douglas Ave., Springfield, 111. Assistant Corresponding Secretary—Mrs. J. M. Avann, 4949 Indiana Ave., Chicago, 111. Secretary of the Home Base—Mrs. Joseph N. Reed, 541 Broadway, Benton Harbor, Mich. Recording Secretary—Mrs. John E. Best, Arlington Heights, 111. Treasurer—Miss Elda L. Smith, 1100 S. Sixth St., Springfield, 111. Secretary of Special Work—Mrs. A. H. Andrews, 4714 Greenwood Ave., Chicago, 111. Branch Officers 97

Secretary of Literature—Mrs. R. E. Clark, 1716 Kenilworth Ave., Chicago, EL Secretary of Tithing— Mrs. S. A. Waterman, 7849 Eggleston Ave., Chicago, 111. Interdenominational Secretary—Mrs. W. W. Lazear, 4436 Drexel Blvd., Chicago, 111.

Des Moines Branch

President—Mrs. Oner S. Dow, 1306 East Grand Ave., Des Moines, la. Corresponding Secretary—Mrs. Randolph Beall, Mt. Ayr, Iowa. Secretary of the Home Base—Mrs. W. M. Dudley, 1306 East Grand Ave., Des Moines, Iowa. Recording Secretary—Miss Mary Q. Evans, Maryville, Mo. Treasurer—Mrs. W. H. Arnold, 1032 West Twentieth St., Des Moines, Iowa. Secretary of Literature—Miss Nianette Henkle, 1400 E. Walnut St., Des Moines, Iowa. Secretary of Tithing—Mrs. F. W. Hicks, Clinton, Iowa. Interdenominational Secretary—Miss May Villa Patten, 1131 Thirty- fifth St., Des Moines, Iowa.

Minneapolis Branch

President—Mrs. Charles Bayard Mitchell, 157 Lexington Blvd. N. St. Paul, Minn. Corresponding Secretary Emeritus—Mrs. C. S. Winchell, 113 State St., Minneapolis, Minn. Corresponding Secretary—Mrs. William Perry Eveland, 315 Northwestern National Life Bldg., Minneapolis, Minn. Secretary of Home Base—Mrs. George D. Taylor, 4216 Upton Ave., S., Minneapolis, Minn. Recording Secretary—Mrs. J. N. Robinson, 3116 Irving Ave., S., Minne- apolis, Minn. Treasurer—Mrs. C. W. Hall, 3206 Second Ave., S., Minneapolis, Minn. Secretary of Special Work—Mrs. L. L. Fish, R. R. 2, Wayzata, Minn. Secretary of Literature—Mrs. D. B. Gardner, 320 Ashland Ave., St. Paul, Minn." Secretary of Tithing—Mrs. J. G. Purple, 3253 Harriet Ave., Minneapolis, Minn. Secretary of Extension Work—Miss Sarah E. Mason, 3200 Stevens Ave., Minneapolis, Minn.

Topeka Branch

President—Mrs. J. F. Boeye, Lincoln, Neb. Corresponding Secretary—Miss Ella M. Watson, 1701 S. Seventeenth St., Lincoln, Neb. Acting Corresponding Secretary—Mrs. G. W. Isham, 515 E. Sixteenth St., University Place, Neb. Secretary of the Home Base—Mrs. F. R. Hollenback, 780 Elizabeth St., Denver, Colo. Recording Secretary—Mrs. L. J. Stark, 1810 E. Cleveland St., Guthrie, Okla. Treasurer—Mrs. B. M. Davies, 320 West Sixth St., Topeka, Kan. Secretary of Special Work—Mrs. Lydia K. Andrew, Table Rock, Neb. Secretary of Literature and Publicity—Mrs. H. E. Wolfe, 335 N. Holyoke St., Wichita, Kan. Secretary of Tithing—-Mrs. B. M. Powell, 1522 W. Eighth St., Topeka, Kan. 98 At the Home Base

Secretary of Extension Work—Mrs. L. M. Riley, 257 N. Poplar St., Wichita, Kan. Interdenominational Secretary—Mrs. John N. Dryden, Kearney, Neb.

Pacific Branch

President—Mrs. George B. Smyth, 2509 Hearst Ave., Berkeley, Calif. Corresponding Secretary—Mrs. S. F. Johnson, 710 Locust St., Pasadena, Calif. Secretary of the Home Base—Mrs. Cora M. Cassill, 19 Orizaba Ave., Long Beach, Calif. Recording Secretary—Mrs. W. C. Sharon, 722 S. Harvard Blvd., Los Angeles, Calif. Treasurer—Mrs. Z. L. Parmelee, 919 Fair Oaks Ave., South Pasadena, Calif. Secretary of Special Work—Mrs. Frederick Hamilton, 572 N. Los Robles Ave., Pasadena, Calif. Secretary of Literature—Mrs. Alexander Murphy, Whittier, Calif. Secretary of Tithing—Mrs. J. L. Siefkes, Berkeley, Calif. Secretary of Extension Work—Miss Laura Charnock, 354 N. Breed St., Los Angeles, Calif. Interdenominational Secretary—Mrs. I. S. Leavitt, 811 S. Catalina St., Los Angeles, Calif., Mrs. J. M. Lombard, 2227 Seventh Ave., Oakland, Calif. Columbia River Branch

President—Mrs. Matthew Simpson Hughes, 687 E. 16th St., N., Portland, Ore. Corresponding Secretary Emeritus—Mrs. A. N. Fisher, 328 Tenth St., Port- land, Ore. Corresponding Secretary—Mrs. Charles W. Huett, 1520 Thompson St., Portland, Ore. Secretary of the Home Base—Mrs. R. K. Keene, W. 804 Providence Ave., Spokane, Wash. Recording Secretary—Mrs. A. R. Maclean, 217 Morris St., Portland, Ore. Treasurer—Mrs. Walter J. Gill, 1455 E. Taylor St., Portland, Ore. Secretary of Special Work—Mrs. George C. Israelson, 1849 E. Yamhill St., Portland, Ore. Secretary of Tithing—Mrs. F. A. Guiler, 2106 Verona St., Bellingham, Wash. Secretary of Extension Work—Mrs. F. E. Dodds, R.D. 10, Spokane, Wash. Secretary of Publicity—Mrs. F. C. Thompson, Walville, Wash. Interdenominational Secretary—Mrs. Robert Brumblay, Sunnyside, Wash. TERRITORY EMBRACED IN THE ELEVEN BRANCHES New England Branch—New England States. New York Branch—New York and New Jersey. Philadelphia Branch—Pennsylvania and Delaware. Baltimore Branch—Maryland, District of Columbia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida and the Canal Zone. Cincinnati Branch—Ohio, West Virignia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama and Mississippi. Northwestern Branch—Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Des Moines Branch—Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas and Louisiana. Minneapolis Branch—Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota. Topeka Branch—Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas and Sweden. Pacific Branch—California, Nevada, Arizona and Hawaii. Columbia River Branch—Montana, Idaho, Washington and Oregon. Foreign Speaking Conferences 99

BRANCH ASSIGNMENTS OF FOREIGN-SPEAKING CONFERENCES German East German, New York Branch. Central, Cincinnati Branch. Chicago, Northwestern Branch. Northwestern, Des Moines Branch. St. Louis, Des Moines Branch. North German, Minneapolis Branch. Western, Topeka Branch. Southern, Topeka Branch. Pacific, Columbia River Branch. California, Pacific Branch.

Swedish Eastern Swedish, New England Branch. Central, Northwestern Branch. Northern, Minneapolis Branch. Western, Topeka Branch. Southern, Topeka Branch. Pacific, California District, Pacific Branch. Washington District, Columbia River Branch.

'Norwegian—Danish Norwegian—Danish Conference, Minneapolis Branch. Western Norwegian—Danish, Columbia River Branch. Auxiliaries in Eastern United States to Branches in which they are located. 100 At the Home Base BRANCH ACTIVITIES

In a year notable for social and economic unrest at home and abroad, when ready money has been almost unprocurable and interest rates have mounted trom 10% to even 25%, when more than four million people have been out of employment and war prices have showed no appreciable decline, the good hand of God has led us, His handmaidens of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, out into a large place and accorded us the greatest and most far-reaching success in all our history. "A Specialist in the Impossible" our friends sometimes call the Society. If there be aught of truth in the tribute it is solely because the magnitude of the task and the obstacles to be overcome force our women in every increasing numbers to wait upon Jehovah, where strength is renewed, vision is cleared, and weariness and faint-hearted- ness are overcome. With God all things are possible, and the victory is Plis, not ours. Such credit as accrues to the women arises largely from the fact that the books of one year are barely closed before intensive effort begins to carry out the plans for the succeeding year's work. A year ago at the General Executive Meeting the call went out to the constituency to move forward in a great evangelistic campaign. Fifty new missionaries and two hundred new Bible women were needed. Conveyances, including thirty "Fords" and vehicles of all sorts from ox-carts to bicycles, with their upkeep, were on the list. Buildings for evangelistic purposes, training school scholarships, and. salary increases for the evangelistic force brought the total evangelistic budget up to three hundred fifty thousand dollars. This seemed like a tremendous undertaking when added to the appropriations of the Society for the regular departments of the work. A new slogan for the year was adopted, "On to the Villages." With this ringing in their ears the women went forth to send the Word to the remote villages of the Far East, to South America and Mexico, as well as to win the women in the villages at home to membership and responsibility in our Society. "Take the trouble to double" was sounded in pulpit and pew, in the cities and on the prairies, as well as in the villages. Everywhere there was increasing activity. Underneath and surrounding all was constant intercession that God would honor effort, and reward faithfulness. The story of achievement is as fascinating as a romance.

Evangelistic Campaign

The end of the year finds the financial goal of the evangelistic campaign attained. The special building fund of $104,000 has been raised, more than $10,000 gathered for India's famine orphans and the baby folds for their care; the support of two hundred additional Bible women has been assumed; forty-four automobiles have been sent, and bicycles and motor cycles in addition. While only thirteen new missionaries have been thus far definitely assigned to evangelistic work, the end is not yet. The call has been sounded and influences set in motion which in the months to come must surely result in large accessions to the evangelistic force.

Membership Campaign

The membership campaign resulted in outstanding gains in all the Branches. New England reports an ingathering of new members to the number of 4,318, an increase of over 16% in two years. New York an increase of 13,913, or 24% over the membership of 1919. Philadelphia Branch a net increase of 12,824, or 27%. Sixty organizations took the trouble to double, and four of these gained such momentum that they quadrupled before the year closed. Baltimore Branch made an increase of 4,984, or 44.2%. Wash- ington Conference has the distinction of quadrupling, St. John's River Con- ference, West Baltimore district and twenty auxiliaries doubled, while three auxiliaries trebled. Cincinnati Branch with her well known zeal and faithful- Branch Activities 101

ness increased 30,961, or 51%. This was the next to the largest percent gain in any of the Branches. Lexington Conference reported the doubling of every one of its six districts, and Holston has doubled both members and money, since the campaign began. Three districts and 291 organizations in other conferences in the Branch doubled their membership. Northwestern Branch reports a total membership of 154,695, one-fourth of the membership of the entire Society. Her net increase is 33.5%, about 200 organizations doubled, four trebled, and one multiplied itself five times. Des Moines Branch reports an increase of 11,419, or 28.6%. In Minneapolis Branch six districts and 250 organizations doubled, and seven churches secured every woman in the church as a member of the Society. The pastor's wife at Hecla, South Dakota, organized an auxiliary with 22 members, Standard Bearers with 20 members, King's Heralds with 22, Little Light Bearers with 141, a total of 209, all of these in a town of 600 inhabitants. Minneapolis Branch increase is 9,597, or 41%, and she needs only 7,056 additional members to reach her. share of the million. Topeka's membership campaign reports some unusually nteresting features. Her net gain was 21,519 for the two years, or 53%, which makes her the banner Branch. More than 250 organizations doubled and some trebled. Some made gains of more than 500%. Wyoming Confer- ence and eleven districts doubled, while many individuals made remarkable records, one member securing 169 new ones, and several enrolling about 100. Of the eleven districts that doubled their membership, Pueblo, in the flood district, made the second best record in the Branch. Undaunted by adver- sity and valiant in service, the women went forth tirelessly and raised the membership in the district from 418 in 1919 to 1,667 in 1921, an increase of 299%. The banner district, Kearney, was led to victory by its district superintendent, Dr. Gilbert, who personally secured over one hundred members for the Society. Dr. Gilbert says: "In 1919 the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Kearney District, had 387 members and raised $3,004.00. This year, 1921, the membership is 1,815, an increase over 1919 of 369%, and $6,008.00 were raised, an increase of 100%. On one charge we found a discouraged auxiliary president and in our Sunday morning quarterly meeting service we preached on the work of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society and secured eighteen new members; these, added to the membership of twelve made a strong organization. In another service where we publicly called for recruits nineteen responded, in another twelve, another ten, and in still another eight. I am very happy in the fact that during the year I have personally secured more than one hundred new members for this splendid organization. "Two outstanding facts are worthy of notice. First—the first five charges holding revival meetings in which more converts were reported than in any other churches on the district, all have wide-awake Woman's Foreign Mis- sionary Societies. Second—in almost every instance where the Society was active and thriving,- the local budget of the church was brought up in full, and with much less effort than in charges where the auxiliary was wanting or inactive. I cannot find words too strong to express my appreciation of the great work done by the splendid missionary women of our church." Pacific Branch reports a net increase of 5,779, or 29%. A pastor's wife in the Branch is credited with enrolling 45 of these new members. Columbia River Branch has 4,461 new members, or an increase of 37% to her credit. The total membership of the Society at the present time is 617,553, a gain]of 34% in two years. This total includes 183 organizations in the foreign field with a membership of 3,785.

Extension Department

This department has demonstrated anew the possibilities of largely increasing resources by interesting the unattached women in all communities, and by enlisting hitherto unorganized churches. Business women and shut- ins are not only being enrolled as members but are receiving missionary knowledge and accepting definite objects for prayer, while in many pioneer churches 102 At the Home Base not strong enough as yet to maintain regular auxiliaries, Extension Circles have been started. New York Branch is devoting herself through this department to unorganized churches, of which there are at present 162 within her borders. She reports 926 Extension members, an increase of 467 this year. Cincinnati Branch has an increase of 5,147 Extension members. Des Moines has, for the first time, succeeded in organizing Extension work, and has rightly begun by assigning the support of a missionary to this, her new constituency. Dr. Stella Dodd, under appointment to Sironcha, Inda, will be cared for by this group of Des Moines women and will bring stimulus and blessings to the department. Minneapolis Branch extension department has added the support of a third missionary to her list, in the person of Miss Sturtevant. This Branch reports 2,443 members who have brought $2,773.77 into the treasury. Topeka also has made notable gains. In 1919 this Branch, through its Ex- tension members, gave $569 to the Society, in 1921, $5,461. In 1919 her Extension members numbered 837, in 1921, 5,035; 257 Extension members became active this year, and six Circles or Bands became auxiliaries. Thank-Offering No report would be at all satisfactory that did not at least make mention of the Thank-Offering. Gratifying returns are reported from all the Branches, the amounts totalling $443,076. Northwestern is the banner Branch in this respect, her offering amounting to $97,038. Des Moines held 428 Thank- Offering services, where offerings amounting to $85,000 were received, in sums ranging from $11 to $1,850. Perhaps one of the most significant of these was that at Little Rock, Ark. It was a rainy day and the audience was a mere handful, but the offering amounted to $275 and included two $50 gifts, one, that of a benevolent young man, and the other that of a young woman, a stenographer, who had just begun to tithe and felt that in paying her back tithe she was honoring her Master. In Topeka Branch nineteen auxiliaries took Thank-Offerings, amounting each to $750 or over. Enid, Oklahoma, and Wesley Church, Oklahoma City, received the largest offerings in the Branch, amounting to $2,412 and $2,300 respectively, and these in a region where people have experienced severe financial stringency. First Church, Omaha, gave a record Thank- Offering with Bishop Stuntz as speaker, more than doubling the largest offering of any preceding year.

Tithing It is a matter of moment that the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society pioneered the way in placing a new emphasis upon the recognition of Christian stewardship through the tithe. Interest, once aroused, is gaining momentum everywhere. New York Branch reports 4,919 tithers, 300 of whom have been added this year. One reading contest alone won fifty-one tithers, and one auxiliary reports every member a tither. Philadelphia Branch has an increase of 1,328 tithers; Baltimore's increase is 350; Northwestern's, 1,533; Des Moines', 249; Minneapolis', 368; Columbia River's, 848. It is hoped that the efforts of the coming year will result in a much larger cultivation of this im- perfectly understood Christian principle.

The League of Intercessors Pioneering the way, pleading the promises, claiming the victory, our Intercessors have day and night borne these mighty enterprises to Jehovah. How much of the year's success is directly attributable to the power thus released we may not know. One illustration of what prayer actually accom- plishes in finding missionary candidates is a case in point. In Pacific Branch up to the time of the Day of Prayer, only one candidate had been accepted. The need was great and the women felt keenly their responsibility in finding missionary recruits. Definite and earnest prayer centered upon this need during the day, and the women continued, after the meeting closed, to inter- cede that candidates might be found. In answer to this united petition the year closed with seven accepted candidates on their lists. Student Work ' 103

Changes in Officiary

While we are not called upon to record as many changes in officiary this year as last, yet 1921 will long be remembered as the date when our peerless and beloved president, Mrs. William Fraser McDowell, laid down the exacting duties of the office she had filled with such conspicuous success since 1908, and was succeeded by that other brilliant leader, Mrs. Thomas Nicholson. Mrs. Nicholson in turn yields the chairmanship of the Foreign Department to Mrs. Francis J. McConnell, who was for one year vice president-at-large. Mrs. McDowell consents to remain with us as vice-president-at-large and will accept the responsibility for certain important designated duties. In the Home Department, Mrs. John Burcham of the Pacific Branch was compelled to lay down her office in the middle of the year on account of ill heath, and is succeeded by Mrs. Cora M. Cassill of Long Beach, California. In the last analysis any report of efforts which are spiritual rather than material breaks down in its more vital particulars. So this outline, designed to suggest the work, the prayers, and the gifts of more than 617,000 women, young people and juniors, is inadequate and incomplete. And what of the year ahead? If firm determination and a holy enthusiasm on the part of the constituency be a criterion, 1922 will be a great year. Mrs. Frederick F. Lindsay, Vice-President and Chairman of the Home Department.

STUDENT WORK

Branch Student Secretaries

New England Branch— New York Branch— Philadelphia Branch—Mrs. Oscar P. Akers, 360 N. Main St., Meadville, Pa. Baltimore Branch—Mrs. Elsie Clark Krug, 2227 St. Paul St., Baltimore, Md. Cincinnati Branch—Mrs. C. R. Cary, Millersburg, Oho. Northwestern Branch—Miss Minnie R. Terry, 1745 Orrington Ave., Evanston, 111. Des Moines Branch—Mrs. J. E. Higdon, 4926 Michigan Ave., Kansas City, Mo. Minneapolis Branch—Mrs. A. Y. Merrill, 1822 Emerson Ave., S., Minne- apolis, Minn. Topeka Branch—Mrs. Effie Pyle Fisher, Harper, Kansas. Pacific Branch—Mrs. Clyde Collison, 919 Fair Oaks Avenue, S. Pasadena, Cal. Columbia River Branch—Mrs. Charles A. Bowen, 420 Twelfth St., Ray- mond, Wash.

It is with sincere appreciation of the wonderful opportunities and privileges of the work of the Student Department that we come to the close of our second year of service as secretary of Student Work. From officers of this Society and from the members of the Student Committee, from the Branch Student Secretaries and from the Student Center Chairmen in the local college communities and from the students themselves we have received help and inspiration in the beautiful spirit of single-hearted service manifested by them. From secretaries of the Board of Foreign Missions and of other mission Boards, from the Young Women's Christian Association, from the Student Volunteer Movement and finally from the Commission on Life Serv- ice we have received a growing measure of co-operation. As a member of the Student Committee of the Federation of Woman's Boards of Foreign Missions we have been in close touch with the interdenominational student work, and have not only met with that Committee in 104 At the Home Base

formulating plans, but because the Student Work of this Society was for so many years a pioneer in this field, and hence more fully developed, we have had inquiries from other Boards as to our plans and methods, and may well be proud of the women who first had the vision of the possibilities of this department. If I read the signs aright, it is a matter for deep gratitude that the Young Women's Christian Association, instead of further separating itself by avowed purpose and by actual policy from the evangelical Church, as indications a year ago pointed that it would do, is now most surely coming to acknowledge that it is an integral part of the Church, as it were an arm in a specialized form of service for the body which is the Church, and that it is dependent upon the Church for its financial and moral support, for its officiary and for its very life. I believe that we can now expect from the Association a measure of co-operation greater than at any time in the past, and that we thus can and should.lend our renewed support to its work and purpose. You are familiar with the lines along which the student secretary works in her particular Branch. She must find the right woman in the college town to be a friend to the Methodist girl in the local institution—to just as many of her as she can; to those, first, who are preparing to be missionaries; to the others, second, because just as vital a part will be theirs—they will have to "hold the ropes." There is a general feeling among the Branch student secretaries that the Isabella Thoburn Auxiliary is one of the most important items in their day's work. She must attend the State Student Volunteer Convention and meet Methodist volunteers and confer with them on their preparation and on the lines of opportunity. She must visit some institutions, to keep in touch with the Isabella Thoburn Auxiliary plans, and the Sister College work and see that the best possible relations are being developed between the women of the local auxiliary and the girls in the college. In three instances this summer the Branch Student Secretary was our representative at the Young Women's Christian Association Student Conference of that territory. Perhaps her really heaviest piece of work has been the correspondence with students in preparation. One secretary has written over seven hundred letters this year. The work of the Commission on Life Service should relieve her of much of this and thus release her to the group-work in the colleges, to closer touch with foreign students, etc. There is a general appeal for more literature suitable for college students to interest them in the work of this Society. If such literature is prepared for candidates as is directly along the line of recruiting or guidance in preparation, the Commission on Life Serv- ice is prepared to publish anything we may wish, subject of course to the approval of the Committee on Publications. This is a really wonderful opportunity if only someone will write. The Society was represented at the seven Young Women's Christian Association Student Conferences during the summer. There have also been representatives at eight or ten State Volunteer Unions. Just a few detached items that have come to us in various reports may be of interest: Kansas University has registered over 1,000 Methodist Episcopal students this year, and the University of Minnesota over 1,100. The Student Volunteer Band at Goucher has doubled during the year and all the volunteers are Methodist. From the cards of introduction sent in by two local Student Chairmen, eleven new members were made for the Woman's Foreign Missionary So- ciety. Albion College has almost every young woman student enrolled in Isabella Thoburn Auxiliary, and for three years has sent a student to Branch Annual Meeting. Five different colleges in Northwestern Branch sent delegates this year to the annual meeting. Owing to various causes the gifts to Sister Colleges have fallen off considerably, the largest items being a cut of nearly $800 from Goucher College and nearly $1000 from Cornell College. Total receipts for the year, $7,088.50. Young People's Work 105

Work of the Field Secretary

During the year, Miss Lytton has been in every one of the eleven Branches, visiting 65 colleges, addressing 17,000 students and carrying on approximately 650 interviews. In the college towns a part of her work has been conferring with the local women on Isabella Thoburn Auxiliary matters and on Kappa Phi, the organization of Methodist girls in state institutions. In the fall Miss Lytton visited some undenominational schools, which later showed results in their contributions to Union Colleges—Randolph- Macon College sending $200 to Isabella Thoburn College, and Vassar raising $3,000 for the Woman's College of Japan. She also came in touch with Kappa Phi, at the state universities of Kansas, Ohio, Iowa, Minnesota and Nebraska, and she believes that our Society should co-operate with this organization in a frank and cordial way.

Commission on Life Service

Another illustration of the saying that large bodies move slowly is the functioning of this Commission. But it is developing, and we are more than pleased with the way things are working out. It is taking time, but I believe that before long this Commission will be of great service to our So- ciety, as well as to the Church, in our task of providing necessary candidates. If, as I hope may be the case, the work of this Commission should prove in time to be an indispensable part of our activities, our permanent representative on the staff and each Corresponding Secretary should be in the closest possible touch with each other, so that the staff member may know the needs for missionaries and their necessary qualifications in detail and up to date; and so that the Corresponding Secretary may know the missionaries in preparation in her own Branch, what kind of work they are preparing for, when they will be ready, etc. I may say that this is a piece of work I have wanted so much to see farther on its way, but establishing our work in the Chicago office has been such a large task, it has been impossible to do much in this line as yet; also, I think we all have been feeling our way and were not sure just what our relations should be or how we could best co-operate. In our files in the Chicago office we now have the names of about 1,250 young women supposed to be future candidates for the foreign field. A large number of these names could be eliminated if we have the necessary information concerning them. Here is where we need the help of the Branch. In order to establish our files on a reasonable basis, we need thoughtful co- operation. We need information as to those who have been married, died, or given up their purpose, or who for some reason are no longer active candidates-in-preparation. We must be careful that these names are not marked "Dead" as one Board was accustomed to designating its no longer active candidates. It is the conservation of the life and interest of these young women that should be a real concern to us. Mrs. Burton St. John, Secretary of Student Work.

YOUNG PEOPLE'S WORK Branch Superintendents

New England—Mrs. A. L. Lamont, 125 Powder House Boulevard, North Somerville 44, Mass. New York—Mrs. H. E. Woolever, 105 23rd St., Elmhurst, N. Y. Philadelphia—Miss Helen L. McFarland, 2101 Bellevue Road, Harrisburg, Pa. Baltimore—Miss Gertrude Nickerson, 218 Underwood Road, Guilford, Md. 106 At the Home Base

Cincinnati—Mrs. H. C. Hubbell, 427 McGregor Ave., Cincinnati, Ohio. Northwestern—Mrs. Alfred E. Craig, 510 South 2nd St., Evansville, Ind. Des Moines—Mrs. Margaret Leland, 512 Carroll Ave., Ames, Iowa. Minneapolis—Mrs. L. B. Blair, 4228 Linden Hills Boulevard, Minneapolis, Minn. Topeka—Mrs. Marvin E. Gilbert, 2212 Avenue 7, Kearney, Neb. Pacific—Mrs. J. K. Cecil, 1739 Waverly St., Palo Alto, Calif. Columbia River—Mrs. Hugh Cummings, 663 Washington St., Corvallis, Ore.

The year which has just closed records advancement along every line. We report this year 3,289 organizations, with a total membership of 81,025. All Branches report gains, Minneapolis Branch having made the greatest gain in percentage—37—with Topeka a close second. We mean to make membership gain the main objective this next year. A partial survey of Methodist young people, to ascertain how many are enlisted in missionary work, has been made. We expect to continue these findings until we have the actual facts before us. A very definite survey is being made in many of the Branches to ascertain the number of "Daughterless Auxiliaries," thinking this will be the first point of vantage to work from in our membership crusade.

Unorganized Possibilities

Branches Auxiliaries Young People's Unorganized 1921 Societies, 1921 Possibilities New England 553 164 389 New York 991 437 554 Philadelphia 714 297 417 Baltimore 208 77 131 Cincinnati 1,045 507 538 Northwestern 1,792 958 834 Des Moines 718 342 376 Minneapolis 409 153 256 Topeka 1,248 277 971 Pacific 260 81 179 Columbia River 238 77 161

Total 8,176 3,370 4,806

The financial sheet shows a remarkable advance in giving over last year. The Thank-Offering object was particularly attractive—the sending of Fords to our evangelistic missionaries—and as a result $38,688.26 was raised for this object. The permanent endowment fund raised in honor of Miss Cushman approximated $4,000. The grand total of $186,699.15 was contributed by these 81,026 Standard Bearers, an average of $2 a member. We are glad to recommend the new literature now at the disposal of our young people. The Hand Book has been revised and a new Song Book prepared. The Help Book, a necessary corollary to the satisfactory preparation of programs, was never more attractive and helpful. Many clever pageants have been prepared, together- with a Recognition Ritual, these meeting a long felt need. We feel there has been a steady and sure growth in missionary knowledge and zeal throughout the Branches and have the assurance that membership means a permanent interest in the work of the Woman's Foreign Mission- ary Society. Factors contributing to this interest and knowledge have been many, but I mention just a few: Story Telling Contests: These were held in many Branches and are to be emphasized the coming year; Group Meet- ings: Increased attendance of our Young Women at district and Branch meetings; Summer Conferences and, Epworth League Institutes; The National Junior Work 107

Standard of Excellence, with its incentive to advance, Emphasis put upon Reading Courses; Conferences of Branch Superintendents with their Confer- ence and District officers. An esprit de corps, in other words, which has brought the plans and aims of the work to the ultimate society—the aim of all our efforts. For the hearty support of the Branch Superintendents we are most grateful. They are a choice group, thoroughly conversant with the work of the Society and their Departments. If each auxiliary without young people's work had a Standard Bearer or Young People's Society of only 10 members, our total membership would be 128,734 instead of 80,674. Kathryn Sisson Phillips, Secretary of Young People's Work.

JUNIOR WORK

Branch Superintendents

New England—Mrs. I. H. Packard, 12 Carlisle St., Boston 21, Mass. New York—Mrs. B. H. McCoy, 610 Central Ave., Plainfield, N. J. Philadelphia—Mrs. H. H. Campbell, Box 16, Holly Oak, Del. Baltimore—Mrs. Carl F. New, 4001 Ridgewood Ave., Baltimore, Md. Cincinnati—Mrs. E. B. Doan, 202 Central Ave., Miamisburg, Ohio. Northwestern—Mrs. A. G. Neal, 309 South High St., Warsaw, Ind. Des Moines—Mrs. D. C. Perry, Albion, Iowa. Minneapolis—Mrs. E. C. Norris, Fargo, North Dakota. Topeka—Mrs. J. H. Luxton, 1176 Mulvane St., Topeka, Kan. Pacific—Mrs. L. M. Firey, 566 Gordon St., Pomona, Calif. Columbia River—Mrs. John West, 1437 20th Ave., Seattle, Wash.

The story of the year's activities in the Junior Department would make a "Book of Golden Deeds," for every plan presented has been so faithfully carried out by loyal leaders and enthusiastic little workers that we are able to report a splendid increase in every line of work. The emphasis the past year in our World Saving Service Campaign was laid on subscriptions to our Junior Missionary Friend. The advance in price caused us some trepidation at the outset, but the determination of many enterprising Juniors to earn the third stamp and also to have their churches included in the "Friendly League," as well as the intrinsic worth and charm of the little paper itself, formed a combination not to be resisted and we are proud to record the largest number of subscriptions ever reported, 79,365, a gain over last year of 11,159. The Publisher's Banner goes this year to the New York Branch for reporting the greatest gain in proportion to membership, while Watertown, South Dakota, is the star district, having a gain of 300%, and wins the Dis- trict Banner. High Street Church, Muncie, Ind., has the longest list of subscriptions reported, 357. The new editor of the Junior Friend has been most kind in giving us space for our plans and reports and has co-operated with the secretary in every possible way. The enlistment of new recruits has not been neglected and more than 500 Bands and Circles have doubled or tripled their membership. We now have 2,639 Circles of Little Light Bearers with 70,815 members and 3,369 Bands of King's Heralds with 83,339 members, total membership 154,154, gain 19,450. First Church, Decatur, 111., has the largest combined membership, 368, while many organizations report 100 or more members and quali- fied for the Legion of Honor. Cincinnati Branch sent in the largest number of reports in proportion to Junior organizations and will receive a fine set of foreign flags as an award. Many children have filled the World Saving Service stamp books while others have succeeded in part. Northwestern Branch has the largest number 108 At the Home Base

on the Sendee Roll in proportion to the Junior membership and has the right to carry away the Christian flag. Cambridge, Ohio, has 60 W. S. S. members. We report the largest number of Life Members ever secured in a single year, 1,911. Northwestern Branch heads the list with 493 and Des Moines is second with 387. Fairmont, West Va., Cincinnati Branch, sends in a list of eighteen names, the most reported from any one church. The object of our Thank-Offering, the famine babies of India, was most appealing and, as the fund bore the honored name of Lucy Jameson Scott, we never doubted but that the goal of $10,000 would be reached. Our most sanguine hopes have been more than realized and we rejoice in a Thank-Offer- ing from our Juniors of $22,760. The "milk bottle" device played a large part in gathering in this splendid sum, while the articles concerning the baby folds in the Junior Friend, from the pen of Mrs. Florence Scott Hurst, have aroused the interest and enthusiasm of the children. More than half the amount has been reported in detail in the little magazine to which Mrs. Scott gave the devoted service of thirty years. The Heralds and Light Bearers of Orange, Calif., gave more than $500, the largest amount from any one church. The total amount contributed through the Junior department, including $10,000 for the War Orphan Fund, is $110,119.00. Forty-one missionaries are supported by the children and many parcels and boxes have been sent to the field containing articles made by patient, loving little hands. The record of the year's achievements would not be complete without a reference to the splendid work of the Branch Superintendents. All have published leaflets and special plans for their respective Branches and have kept in close touch with the secretary. The plans for the year 1922 have been published in the Junior Friend and include a further development of the World Saving Service Campaign. By the use of the new stamp books, the World Friendship stories and other attractive material, it is hoped that all the boys and girls of Methodism may be taught the joy of working with God in the task of making over the world. Emilie C. Havighurst, Secretary of Junior Work.

GERMAN WORK

It was with a sad heart that we picked up the threads to weave on with the shuttle that had dropped from the busy, efficient hands of our dear Miss Rothweiler. Her translation a few weeks later caused consternation throughout our constituency, but the women rallied bravely to their standards, determined to march on even if their wise leader had fallen. Many times perplexing problems arose when it seemed we must ask her to disentangle the threads, but the Master was still with us and He helped us to go on with the pattern though we may have dropped some intricate threads here and there and picked up some that seemed simpler to us, without marring the pattern. As time went on we could hear a call for help here and there from those who would like to be included in the starry quilt we are weaving and who would dare to refuse to at least try to fit the different colored threads in? We trust that He who makes the designs which we so often fail to understand will use even this, that has been woven during the last year, to His glory. We are living in a trying period as far as statistics go. Every year several of our churches transfer to English-speaking conferences and despite the diligent labors of our workers and the additions, we have seven less auxiliaries than last year but the doubling-up process has not been ignored by our women and we have an increase of 462 members in the fewer auxiliaries. Some have doubled and even trebled and many who could not do that, because nearly all the church members belong, have gained a few. Our young people and the Juniors each gained seven organizations, the former lost 164 mem- German and Swedish Work 109 bers but the latter gained 398. Our receipts apparently are slightly less than last year, but if we deduct the receipts from Switzerland for 1918 which were counted in last year, we have a gain of $387.60. Our Thank-Offering is larger than it has ever been being $12,546.72. $1,183.81 of this is for young people's and children's Thank-Offering, leaving $11,362.91 for the German Thank-Offering, the largest part of this being designated for a memorial for Miss Rothweiler in her beloved Korea. Some of our conferences have made a supreme effort and have succeeded beyond all hope. One with about 1,500 members raised the money for a Ford, this being an increase over the amount they raised last year. So much money is constantly sent to the sufferers in Germany that we feel the effect as well as that of failure in crops and business depression. One new missionary was sent from the ranks of one of our conferences and another newly-adopted one from another. Our work in Europe has lain heavily on our hearts. Switzerland with its efficient officers reports an increase in receipts. The slides that were sent to the secretary were used to good advantage and new sets would be welcomed. She has lectured in several churches and she and Miss Urech, a returned missionary from Malaysia, spoke at the annual conference to the ministers and in several of our congregations. Several promising young women ask to be sent out as missionaries of our Society and we hope they can be accepted after their training has been completed. In Germany the work is still dormant. As long as the money is so worthless giving for missions is out of the question. There are about thirteen auxiliaries in South Germany, but during the war and since, they are working for the poor around them who are in such great need that its seems to be imperative to help them first. We are assured that the interest could be roused again if suitable literature were obtainable. Since we have a great deal of German literature on hand which cannot be sold here any more, we have begun to gather funds to make it possible to send this unused material where it may kindle the glimmering sparks to a flame again. Bishop Nuelson assures us that this is bound to do much good and will be distributed not only in Germany, Austria and Hungary but also in Russia, and the newly created countries in the Balticum, where our young ministers that have been trained in Germany are now at work. The Bible women our Society supports are doing a wonderful work at this time when a saddened people are awakening to their need of a Saviour and we hope that this work can be very much enlarged. A call has come for one of our missionaries to be stationed in Vienna, the "dying city," where the people are in such unutterable distress. The restrictions have been removed and our Church may preach and worship openly. The relief work instituted by Bishop Nuelson has made thousands of homes accessible. Thousands of children could be gathered in Sunday schools and taught the Gospel; but the young people in our Church there must be trained for this work, especially the women, and a missionary is wanted to supervise this and the evangelistic work to be done as follow-up work after the body has been fed. There is a wonderful opportunity in these priest-ridden countries now, where the Protestant churches have shown what Christianity means through the relief work and it should be taken advantage of now, before it is too late. The harvest is truly white. May we, even our German-speaking conferences, help to send forth laborers until all the world shall know Him, the living Christ. A. M. Achard, Secretary of German Work.

SWEDISH WORK Our Swedish work comprises our six Swedish conferences in the United States, the large Sweden Conference and the Finland Conference. I have been in close touch with our workers in all these conferences through correspondence. I am happy to be able to report net increases in membership and money HO At the Home Base raised during the year in Sweden, in Finland and in the six conferences in the United States. In our Sweden Conference eleven new auxiliaries have been organized, the membership increased from 4,773 to 5,042, or 6.1%. They have raised in money 19,262 crowns which represents an increase over last year of 23.4%. Our women in the Sweden Conference are very much interested in missionary work. The workers write me that the visits to Sweden last year by Miss Watson and Miss Morgan from America were greatly appreciated and did much to stimulate interest in our work there. Our work in Finland is now only one year old. It was organized in February and March last year by Mrs. Lellky of Sweden. They report eleven auxiliaries and a membership of seven hundred. They have raised since their organization 9,461.91 marks. These newly organized auxiliaries are just getting their bearings and are determined to succeed'. Miss Mandi Wickman, the conference secretary, writes that their societies have been visited by Mrs. Lellky and Miss Johanson of Sweden and received much encouragement through them. Our women in the little Finland Conference are desirous of sending and supporting a missionary of their own, believing that this would greatly enhance the missionary spirit among their women. Our Swedish work here in our country is not marking time by any means, though giant strides forward may not appear in the statistics. Though the increase in membership may not be so big, there has, however, been an increase in all the conferences except one, an increase of over 6% net for the six conferences. We report this year 4,128 members as against 3,890 last year. In money remittances there has been an increase in all the conferences except two, the total amount being $13,436.19, which is a total net increase of 12%. Could we retain all our members in the various auxiliaries our net increase in membership would be much larger. One of our biggest leakages consists in the constant transference of members into English-speaking churches. Whenever our members move to a new locality where perhaps there is no Swedish-speaking church they at once, of course, affiliate with the English- speaking Methodist church. In almost every English-speaking church I have visited I have been informed that some of the best members and workers have come from Swedish churches. In some cases whole churches have transferred into English-speaking conferences,—for instance, Humbolt Park, Chicago, and Arlington Heights, St. Paul. These leakages, accounting largely for our smaller net increase in membership, do not discourage us. In fact, it is a matter of encouragement that we are able to fulfill our mission, which partly consists in Americanizing the immigrants who come to take up citizenship in the United States. If, under these circumstances, we are able only to hold our own, we would be succeeding well; but I am glad to say that we are not only holding the ground we have, but we have made considerable advance both in money and in membership. Mrs. Edwin S. Dahl, Secretary of Swedish Work.

WOMAN'S MISSIONARY FRIEND

Early in the fall the Friend moved its home from Waltham, where it had been for a number of years, and it is now established at 248 Spring Street, Medford, Mass. In this new office the editor sits at the same old desk, and in the same old upper-right-hand pigeonhole there are cards and letters, money orders and checks, which suggest the 14,036 new subscriptions received this year. Most of them went, as they should have done, directly to the publisher, but some came to the editor despite all that has been said about it. But they were only a small part of the whole subscription list, which at the end of the year was 104,491. Beside the desk stand two files, one for manuscripts and the other Junior Missionary Friend 111

for photographs. Would that I could say both are full! Truth compels me to acknowledge that they are not. The manuscript file, in particular, has a folder for each country in which we have work and for every department of that work. Some are well filled, and they are a delight; but alas! many yawn with emptiness. Out of this file have come one hundred and fifty articles which represent every country in which we have work, save one—Burma. Once again China leads with fifty-five contributions. India follows with forty. Then come Africa, thirteen, Japan, ten, Korea, eight, South America, six, Malaysia, five, Bulgaria, four, Philippine Islands, three, Mexico and Java two each, France and Italy one each. As to pictures! I could hardly tell you how much time has been spent, some months, in hunting for enough pictures that could be fitted into the articles so that the issue would be attractive. Let me say again for the missionaries that the Friend is glad to pay the expense for the sake of securing good pictures. I have heard it said that missionaries sometimes send fine pictures to their secretaries and then wonder that they do not appear in the Friend. That is not the way to do it. Pictures should be sent directly to the editor, so they are sure to reach her, for their greatest usefulness will be attained through the Friend. The Home Base has a large share in the Friend every month with its departments. In addition to these we have published twenty-eight articles connected with the carrying out of well-laid plans. One of the departments of the Friend's work—a by-product, it might be called—is reluctantly to be passed over to other hands during the coming year. The Magazine Fund has grown too heavy to be handled in this office. Through it, during the past year, 629 magazines have been sent, at least one going to every station in which we have a missionary. Some of our women send their own magazines after reading them and others subscribe for magazines through our office, because we have agents' rates. From this source we have handled $614.46 during the year, and the first half of October, not counted here, brought in $43.60 more. The work involved in keeping records of all these magazines, acknowledging money, sending orders and notifying missionaries, has grown to be more than our office can handle. We are however, glad to order any magazines for which missionaries themselves desire to subscribe. The editor sometimes wonders whether her aim has been realized and the Friend is really not only interesting and attractive but practically helpful. If so, she is encouraged to greater effort in the coming year. The table of subscriptions will be found in statistics of the Home Base. No definite increase was asked of the Branches for this year, but there has been gain all along the line. Effie A. Merrill, Editor.

JUNIOR MISSIONARY FRIEND

Our paper may be called the promoter of the plans of our Society for the Juniors. It has been our desire and aim during the past year to present to the boys and girls, who are King's Heralds or Little Light Bearers, attractive articles, stories and illustrations which would cause them to develop a taste for missionary literature, an eagerness to know more about the many lands where our Society is working, and a knowledge of the missionaries maintained by the Juniors. We have endeavored to promote interest in the thank offering given for the Lucy Jameson Scott Fund for baby folds in India. In this we have been wonderfully helped and inspired by Mrs. Florence Scott Hurst, who has spared neither time nor effort in presenting facts in a form pleasing to our Juniors. Our sincere thanks are offered to Mrs. Hurst who thus rendered loving service to a great cause and to the memory of her dear mother, so long the able editor of the Junior Missionary Friend. 112 At the Home Base

The study book has been stressed, with articles relating to its subjects. Life members' pictures have been given prominence. Many foreign fields have been described, letters and articles by missionaries have been gratefully received and eagerly read. Among the most interesting pages is that devoted to Mrs. Havighurst's live letters, to which our Juniors often turn first and which help greatly to arouse enthusiasm. A word of thanks is given to our publisher, Miss Bailey, whose wise counsel and activities in important lines have been of inestimable value to the editor. Felicia Buttz Clark, Editor. FRAUEN MISSIONS FREUND "Americanization" has been the watchword since the world-war and in this endeavor particular stress has been laid on the slogan, "One language." Why that should be the case is hard to understand by people who have been brought up in Europe, where no education is considered complete without a working knowledge of at least two languages, and most educated people command three or more. However that may be, since it seemed particularly desirable to eliminate the German language from use in our country, it is no wonder that we must report a decrease in the subscriptions to the Freund once more. Our number this year is 3,632 but that does not mean that we are going back on our record of percentage of subscribers to the number of members. It is true we have a decrease of 426 subscriptions to the Freund, but we have an increase of more than 503 to the Friend, a total of 5,664 subscriptions for 13,592 members in the auxiliaries and young people's organizations, which is more than one paper for two and one-half members. Therefore we are not discouraged at all, knowing that our German Freund is still necessary to our constituency. The increase in the price has been paid without a murmur. We are positive that it has nothing to do with the decrease. A desire for enlarge- ment has been freely expressed, as the Freund is now the only means of dis- seminating missionary literature in the German language in our constituency, except what appears in our official church organ, the Apologist. Circum- stances seem to make it tjnwise to further publish German leaflets and all information in regard to the work must appear in the Freund. We are spending much thought and time on the problem that confronts us in this transition period and we are praying for wisdom to know what is best. That the Freund is eagerly read is shown by the gifts that are prompted by articles contained in it. The difficulty of the editor being so far from printer and publisher was partly eliminated by the voluntary help of Mrs. George Rueck of Philadelphia, who kindly attended to the proof reading, for which we would express our appreciation. We are receiving gifts from people now and then to send the Freund to preachers' wives and others in Germany. It is out of the question for them to subscribe now, when a year's subscription would cost them two hundred and ten marks. I do not think anyone of us would be willing to pay twenty-five dollars p.er year for a missionary paper and that may be the amount that 200 marks would stand for now. With the increase in price we are coming a little nearer to being self-supporting and we hope to carry on as long as we need a medium of communication for the women of our German- speaking conferences. With the help of God and your prayers our little messenger will scatter the seed toward the great harvest. A. M. Achard, Editor. PUBLICATION OFFICE The story of the year's business is evident from the figures.* While they represent the largest volume of business ever carried, they, neverthe- less, show a deficit of $10,435.04. Fortunately out of the savings of past *See financial report of the publisher. —

Federation of Woman's Boards 113 years we have been able to pay all bills but our resources have been so seri- ously reduced that we cannot hope to meet the expenses of the coming year without an increased revenue. At the last General Executive Meeting, the subscription price of the Junior Friend and the Freund was increased. The subscription lists of these two periodicals seem to indicate that the advance in price has not reduced the number of subscribers. In fact, there has been an increase of subscriptions, to the Friend of 14,036 and to the Junior Friend 11,159. The total of all subscriptions is now 187,488. The remedy for our financial situation is not in these increases. It must come from an increased income. Therefore, the request is again urged that an increase in the price of the Friend be considered. We may find some comfort in the fact that other religious periodicals are suffering a like financial embarrassment. It is stated on good authority that only one religious periodical in the country is self-supporting, and this in spite of the fact that nearly all have increased their subscription rate within the past four years. Relief is hoped for through a gradual reduction of the cost of production, thus enabling the religious press to return to a self-sustaining basis. The output from the literature department in the past six months has been the largest in the history of the office for a half year period. Leaflets, demonstrations and devices to the number of nearly 800,000 have been put into circulation, and during the entire year about sixty-five million pages of printed matter have been sent on their mission of inspiration or information. Annie G. Bailey, Publisher and Editor of Literature. THE FEDERATION OF WOMAN'S BOARDS OF FOREIGN MISSIONS At the annual meeting of the Federation held in New York City, January 14th and 15th, 1921, a new plan was adopted of having one day of inspirational meetings open to all, and a business session on the following morning. On Friday the reports of the standing committees were given in a most interesting as well as informing manner, the morning session closing with an address by Mrs. Lena Leonard Fisher, and after the reports in the afternoon, Dr. D. J. Fleming gave an inspiring message on "Creative Life—God's Aspiration for the Modern Christian." In the evening the Central Committee on the United Study of Foreign Missions celebrated its twentieth anniversary by giving a reception to the authors of the Study textbooks since 1900 with brief addresses by each of the authors present. Mrs. Peabody presided. On Saturday morning, at the business session, the Treasurer reported:

Receipts $2,693.30

Disbursements 2,580 . 95

Balance $ 112.35

To make possible a work of greater efficiency, it was urged that the Boards increase their annual payments to the Federation. Since the annual meeting the Executive Committee has sent to the Boards the suggestion that each Board pay to the Federation annually, one-tenth of one percent of its receipts. It was voted to change the by-laws so that the president's term of office could be three years instead of two. From the summer schools and conferences come reports of great success,, not only in attendance but also in the deep spiritual influence of the meetings. March 3, 1922, is the date of the Day of Prayer and this year the Canad- ian members will join with us. As was said at a recent interdenominational meeting of women, "All before has been preparation. NOW is the great day with a great challenge of a great work together." Mrs. William I. Haven, Methodist Episcopal Representative. 114 At the Home Base

GENERAL OFFICE

The General Office is a bureau of information regarding all work of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society at home and abroad. During the year just closing six hundred and fifty persons have called on the secretary seeking this information. The office is also maintained to render assistance to outgoing and returning missionaries. Many of these faithful workers have been welcomed by the secretary and her assistants and, cheered and encouraged, they have gone on their way, after planning their work, their studies, their travelling, their rest. A large number of our missionaries while tarrying in New York, in recent years, have taken advantage of the various courses of lectures offered at Columbia University, and have affiliated themselves with churches, thus forming close friendships with one another and with the secretary. As they have scattered to their far-distant fields, a regular correspondence has been established. Several informal receptions have brought them together, giving a touch of home life and an acquaintance with officers and members of New York Branch. Over 5,000 letters and cards have been sent out, besides large numbers of books and magazines. Room 709 is a comfortable meeting-place for committees, and has proved its value to the Society. While we have dreaded the inevitable increases of rent, we were thankful that for several years we were allowed to continue at moderate rates, indebted to the kindness of Dr. Graham and others in charge of the Book Concern. Mrs. McCormack has given much time and strength as a member of the committee, wise in judgment, always kind in suggestions, gracious in manner. She was cordially welcomed and now in her serious illness our hearts turn to her with loving sympathy. Too much cannot be said of the faithfulness of the assistants and their interest in their work, taking full responsibility when the secretary is necessarily absent. No troublesome questions have arisen, the sailings have been more easily managed than formerly, and, including uniformly pleasant associations with other denominations, the usefulness of the General Office has grown with the progress of a successful year. Caroline C. Leaycraft, Chairman.

PLAN FOR LIBRARY SERVICE

The Library Service begins with the (a) individual member, who, if a "Book Friend," mails two or more books each year to a missionary and records the fact with her Branch director. The unlimited possibilities through this personal, direct contact with our actual foreign work become apparent by the simplest process in arithmetic. Two books sent by each of our 617,533 members would put more than a million and a quarter books on the foreign field without cost to the Society or being a burden to any one. Further- more, it would mean the largest movement of books ever undertaken. A worthy enterprise to place the written word where it can supplement, confirm and continue the spoken word. The Unit of Travelling Libraries represents the Library Service in (b) group form. Groups here furnish and maintain a library of about two hundred and fifty books in a sturdy, folding, five-shelf case, at cost, to travel within the bounds of a foreign conference. The cumulative value of this group work needs no argument. The Permanent Library is the (c) community service with the ultimate goal of an adequate library in each of our 1,948 institutions. With only 648 missionaries in active service the absolute necessity for books as tools is a startling fact. Grace Foster Herben, Director. Central Committee 115

THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE ON THE UNITED STUDY OF FOREIGN MISSIONS

The present year has been one of successful achievement, marked by large demand for the several textbooks and by increased co-operation with the Missionary Education Movement, the mission study agent of the general Boards of Foreign Missions, and valued conferences with the leaders of mission study in Great Britain. Unusual festivity has twice varied the serious program, first at the celebration of the Committee's twenty-first birthday, when most of the authors of its books addressed a large audience at an evening session of the Federation, and recently at a Mission Study dinner, given to welcome the foreign delegates of the International Mission- ary Committee. Of the 150,000 copies of The Bible and Missions, (1920-21), issued, only 3,000 remain to meet the continuous demand for this book of permanent value. The Kingdom and the Nations (1921-22) reached its second edition in September, having wide use in summer conferences and institutes, and in the gatherings of various synods in the west and south, where it has been taught to "above five hundred brethren at once." The Junior books, A Noble Army and Under Many Flags, have prospered and Mook continues to be a favorite. After this year's study of world conditions, we shall turn in 1922-23 to India and in 1923-24 to Japan. Professor D. J. Fleming is preparing the book which will treat of the present stirring conditions in India and the gift which a Christian India may make to the world. Miss Alice Van Doran is now visiting Isabella Thoburn College and the colleges at Madras and Vellore, to gather material for a book for young women on the college girls of India. "A Child's Garden of Verse" about India will be written by Miss Amelia Josephine Burr. Similar plans will follow for the year on Japan Everyland has returned to the fostering care of the Central Committee and will resume its joyful ministry to the children with the Christmas number. Miss M. H. Leavis, West Medford, Mass., the faithful and efficient agent of the Committee, will receive subscriptions—$1.50 a year, two subscriptions $2.50, a club of five $5.00. The magazine will be distinctly missionary—"a magazine of world friendship." In the twenty-one years of its endeavor the Central Committee has sent out over two million volumes of its twenty-one textbooks and its yearly editions now reach 150,000. These figures give us a glow of satisfaction until we compare them with those which measure the membership of the Woman's Boards of Foreign Missions, the constituency which the Committee serves. Shall the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society rest content while not one in ten of its members avails herself of this opportunity to bring mind and heart and soul into touch with the problems and the progress of the Kingdom of Christ? Louise M. North, Methodist Episcopal Representative. 116 Reports REPORTS ACTIONS OF GENERAL OFFICERS

Ad Interim

It was voted to authorize and direct Miss Hooper, Treasurer, to sell, assign and transfer three shares of the capital stock of the Woodland Avenue Savings and Trust Company of Cleveland, Ohio, a gift from Miss Isabella Beaton of Cleveland, Ohio. It was voted that Miss Bailey be invited to attend the mid-year meeting of the Home Department at the expense of the general treasury. It was voted that if in the judgment of the chairman it should be necessary, a special meeting of the Forward Movement Committee of the Home De- partment be called before the mid-year meeting of the Department. It was voted that the new rate for rent of Headquarters, Room 710, 150 Fifth Avenue, New York City, be paid and a lease taken for the remainder of the quadrennium. It was voted to authorize Miss Hooper, Treasurer, to sell, assign and transfer twenty-seven of the shares of the common capital stock of the Proctor and Gamble Company standing in the name of the Society. It was voted that property in Franklin County, Nebraska, a gift to the Society from Mary K. and Joseph Clemens, be sold at once at the request of the donor. It was voted that all right, title and interest of the Society in the estate of Mary Adelaide Anderson, deceased, be transferred to the Board of Foreign Missions. It was voted that the new rate for rent of Room 709, 150 Fifth Avenue, New York City, be paid and a lease taken for the remainder of the quadrennium.

Mrs. Charles Spaeth, Recording Secretary. •

ACTIONS RELATING TO THE HOME DEPARTMENT

Ad Interim

The first mid-year meeting of the Home Department was held by the invitation of Mrs. O. N. Townsend in her home in Zanesville, Ohio. Everything that loving and generous hospitality could do for the comfort and pleasure of guests was done for the Department by Mrs. Townsend. Amid the beautiful surroundings which induced quietness and calm of spirit, with relaxation of a variety and charm that made for renewed mental and physical vigor, it was little wonder that an unusual amount of work was accomplished for four days. A pronouncement of the Woman's Home Missionary Society with regard to the relationship of women's associations in the local church to that Society was read and considered. It was voted that similar action be taken with regard to the relationship of our Society to these local associations. The secretary was asked to write to Mrs. Woodruff, Corresponding Secretary of the Woman's Home Missionary Society, to thank her for the statement made by her for the Society she represents and to inform her that we were making a similar statement. After correspondence with Mrs. Woodruff that statement was issued jointly by the two societies. It ivas voted that the assignment of the foreign-speaking conferences among the different Branches for membership be printed in the Year Book. It was decided that more attention should be given to the presentation of the work of our Society at Laymen's Associations and District Ministerial Associations. If the sympathy of the laymen is secured it will prove exceed- ingly helpful in getting our work introduced into unorganized churches. Home Department 117

The secretary was asked to seek further information about the proposed increase in the assessment for the Federation of Woman's Boards to one- tenth of one per cent of the regular receipts and to protest against such an increase. A letter was sent to Miss Mabel Seeds with regard to her proposal to recommend the policy of local endowments for the support of missionaries, thanking her for submitting the plan but explaining to her that such invested funds were not approved by the Society. Miss Lodge and Mrs. F. I. Johnson were appointed as the Home De- partment members of the Nominating Committee. Perpetual membership was discussed and a restatement of the attitude of the Society was made. The Society does not approve of perpetual membership because it involves the establishment of invested funds. A report of the Conference on Home Base Cultivation was given from which grew the following action, that, in view of the warning given at this conference that annuity bonds may be made null and void or considered taxable, the treasurer be requested to investigate the subject of annuity bonds with the suggestion in mind that instead of "bonds" we use "annuity agreements." // was recommended that our constituency be urged to exercise increased care in speaking of membership in our Society, always speaking of the dues as one dollar and referring to the excess as contingent fund. The value of group meetings, and of presidents' day in the district was emphasized and also of semi-annual meetings of the district cabinet.

Student Work and Life Service Commission

// was voted that the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society have a representative on the Life Service Commission. That for the present our representative be our staff secretary. That Mrs. St. John, our student secretary be appointed as our staff secretary on the Life Service Commission with a budget for the remainder of the year of $630. That $1,200 of the budget allowed Miss Lytton be considered salary. That the budget for the Student Department for the present year be increased $450. That an annual record of all medical scholarships be filed in the office of the general student secretary. That the page usually given to the Student Department in the Friend be taken over by the editor of the Friend for general material except when the student secretary shall send in material necessary for the student work. The following actions were taken with regard to the Clara Swain Memorial Scholarship at the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania: That the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society make a deed of gift of the Clara Swain Memorial Scholarship Fund to the Woman's Medical College of Pennyslvania, to its permanent endowment fund, the interest to be used for tuition, any balance to be given the student holding the scholarship, for personal expenses. That the Society request that it shall be granted the right to select and shall at ah times thereafter control the holder of every such scholarship, subject of course to compliance with the requirements of the college applicable to all students; and that it shall have the unqualified right to revoke such appointment at any time before completion of the prescribed course of study by the appointee. That in the event of the failure of the Woman's Foreign Missionary So- ciety of the Methodist Episcopal Church to make an award of the said scholarship on or before the first day of September of any year, the Board of Cor- porators of the College shall have the right to make an award of the scholarship, giving preference to any eligible candidate who is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 118 Reports

That the lawyer of Philadelphia Branch be requested to word the deed of gift and these resoultions in legal form. That if at any time during the course of study or thereafter the student for any reason fail to enter the work in the foreign field as a medical missionary under the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, or for any reason, save ill-health, sever her connection with the So- ciety before the completion of her first term of service she refund to the Society all monies received therefrom with interest. That responsibility for all matters related to the Clara Swain Memorial Scholarship at the Woman's Medical College of Pennyslvania be left to the Candidate Committee of Philadelphia Branch in consultation with the general student secretary.

Young People's Work

It was voted to recommend that where handwork is desirable emphasis be placed upon medical supplies and Christmas boxes. That where the local situation demands it and adequate leadership can be secured, we given consent to the formation of Business Women's Units. That the pledge of the Standard Bearers be revised to read as follows: "In remembrance of our Father's love and in loyalty to the great commission of our King, I will give of my time, money and talents to aid the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society in sending the Gospel to the Christless millions."

Junior Work

It was voted that the amount of the thank offering asked of the Junior Department be not less than $10,000. That in order to meet the situation existing in many places where there is a loss between King's Heralds and Standard Bearers we recommend that special emphasis be placed upon the advancement of the King's Heralds to the Standard Bearer Society by use of the promotion card. That this event be made an occasion of special significance by the auxiliary through a reception given to the Standard Bearers and the candidates for promotion. That the Children's Year be postponed until 1922-23.

Literature and Publications

It was voted that the Junior Friend be changed in size in January, 1922, to that of the Woman's Friend but with twelve pages only, unless the price of paper and the running expenses of the Publication Office warrant enlarge- ment to sixteen pages. That we reply to the Missionary Education Movement in regard to transferring the publication of our textbook to their hands that we consider it wiser to continue our present policy. That we urge the auxiliaries for the sake of the page of methods to subscribe for one copy of the Missionary Review, of the World. That we publish the Executive Daily this year in four issues at 25 cents.

Forward Movement

It was voted that we recommend the creating of Foreign Student Fellow- ships by annual Branch appropriations, aggregating at least $5,000, for fellowships in this country for students from our mission schools who have completed courses in their own countries, these fellowships to be awarded by the Com- mittee on Foreign Students in America. That we strive to reach the goal for the Retirement Fund by securing memorial memberships, each Branch being expected to meet the quota sent by the Retirement Fund Committee. That inasmuch as the word "memorial" is defined as "serving to com- Home Department 119 memorate" we ask that the term "memorial members" be used as representing those who are living as well as those who have gone. We suggest that once a year those names be read in the local auxiliary with some appropriate service. All funds received through memorial memberships shall be sent to the general treasurer, for the Retirement Fund. That there be a three year reading course for the educational campaign, record to be kept in the auxiliary and recognition given at the end of each year; first year a diploma, second and third years, seals for the diploma. One- fourth of the auxiliary membership was set as the goal for the number of women and young people graduating from the reading course.

ACTIONS TAKEN AT THE MEETING OF THE GENERAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Forward Movement

// was recommended that we adopt as a rally call for this year, "On to the million!" That as an incentive for each district to reach the goal: 1 —We print in the Friend the names of organizations as they reach their quotas of the million members. 2—That the district which first reaches its quota (sustaining this record to the end of the year) may send a representative to the General Executive Committee meeting as an honor guest. 3—That Branches confer honors upon all districts meeting their quotas. That we print a brochure giving plans for Founders' Day. That consideration be given to a plan submitted for an organization for missionaries on extended furloughs, widows of missionaries and Branch and Executive officers who have served five years.

League of Intercessors

We recommend that we express our appreciation to Mrs. Foss for her care and interest in receiving the cards of Intercession and request that she continue to receive and classify them. There is greater necessity than ever before that as a Society we lay great stress upon Intercession as one of our greatest assets. The unrest, the materialism and pleasure-madness of the world make imperative our responsibility for safe-guarding spiritual forces. There should be in every Branch a secretary who shall have the custody of the cards of the Intercessors' League and through the names on these cards promote prayer groups in Branch, conference, district and auxiliary. The prayer groups should receive from the secretary the particular needs before the Society, the special problems of the field and Home Base. These lists of specific needs should also appear in the Branch papers. In every meeting of the Society in every capacity, intercession should constantly be stressed by spirit and practice. Set periods or hours for intercession by the various groups are effective and helpful not only to the Society at large but to the individuals actively participating. We must learn to depend largely upon the power therein contained and liberated. The efficacy of prayer must be and will be the secret if we advance in the work in the future as we have in the past. Therefore everywhere let us make greater use of the League of Intercessors.

Student Work and Commission on Life Service

Mrs. Burton St. John was nominated as Student Secretary with a budget of $2,370, including S360 for one-half the rent of Room 709 which is connected with the General Office. 120 Reports

A budget of $3,000 was voted for the Field Student Secretary, Miss Twila Lytton. Mrs. Sheets was nominated as one of our representatives on the Life Service Commission. This was in accord with the action of both Departments that each Department should nominate one of its members to serve on this Commission. A budget of $1,800 was voted for our staff member of the Commission on Life Service.

General Office We nominate Miss Amy G. Lewis as Secretary of the General Office with the following budget which has been recommended by the General Office Committee, Mrs. Leaycraft chairman:

Rent for Room 710 $1,080.00

Rent for Room 709 337 . 50

Salary of secretary 1,800 . 00

Assistants 2,020 . 00

Office Expenses 762 . 50

Total $6,000.00

Young People's Work Mrs. Ellis L. Phillips was nominated as Secretary of Young People's Work with a budget of $5S0. It ivas voted that an adequate textbook be provided, one not for Juniors and not exclusively for college graduates. That the story-telling contest be stressed in the Branches, to culminate at the General Executive Committee representation to be from as many Branches adjacent to the seat of the Executive meeting as possible. That where a group of young women pay the $1.00 dues and 20 cents contingent, they may be counted at their own option as belonging to the Young People's Department and not as an auxiliary. That an inexpensive treasurer's book for Standard Bearer Societies be prepared. That our Society ask the Epworth League and Life Service Commission of our Church to give us the privilege of a recognized representation at institutes and other assemblies where life decisions are made. That a thank offering appropriation commensurate with probable giving be made and all money raised for that object be so applied in 1923. Junior Work It was voted that Mrs. C. R. Havighurst be nominated as Secretary of Junior Work with a budget of $125. That there shall be Junior memorial memberships for $25, a booklet in place of a certificate to be prepared with place for picture and name of child and name of donor. That the thank offering of the Juniors be commensurate with their ability; that an amount be pro-rated among the Branches at least approaching the sum raised in each Branch last year. That in 1923, Children's Year, a set of slides be prepared illustrating childhood and motherhood in foreign lands, a set to be available in each Branch, with a lecture or story suitable for children's and mothers' meetings. That in making reports the. Home Base secretary and the Branch and conference treasurers do all in their power to assist the Branch superintendent to make correct reports. Literature and Publications

The following nominations were made : Miss Effie A. Merrill as editor of the Woman's Missionary Friend for 1921-22 with a salary of $1,300 and an Home Department 121

office budget of $725; Miss Amalie M. Achard as editor of the Franen Missions Freund with a salary of $400; Mrs. Walling Clark as editor of the Junior Missionary Friend with a salary of $500; Miss Annie G. Bailey, as publisher of periodicals and editor and publisher of literature with a salary of $1,700; Mr. George E. Whitaker as auditor of publisher's accounts; Mrs. G. W. Isham as editor of the Executive Daily for 1922 with an allowance of $50; and Miss Annie G. Bailey as publisher of the Executive Daily. It was voted that an allowance of $100 be made to the editor of the Woman's Missionary Friend for contributions, and $50 to the editor of the Junior Friend. It was voted that one page of the Friend be devoted to the illumination of the lesson study and that Mrs. Isham be asked to edit this page, with an allowance of $150.00. That one page be devoted to the presentation of methods. That one page, or portion of a page, be devoted to the League of Inter- cessors, and that Mrs. W. I. Haven be requested to edit the page. That the price of the Friend be raised to sixty cents. That 45,000 copies of the Annual leaflet report of the recording secretary be printed for free distribution in the Branches. That the Committee on Literature look toward adding to its membership, in an advisory and contributing capacity, a few Methodist women of distinct literary ability who may be led to keep our missionary needs in mind and who may, on occasion, be willing to contribute of their best in the department of children's or young people's, students' or adults' literature, or pageantry or demonstration. That when the Year Book is prepared 300 additional copies of the constitution and by-laws be issued separately for the use of candidates.

Interdenominational We nominate Mrs. W. F. McDowell as our Federation representative. We nominate Mrs. Frank Mason North as our Methodist member of the Central Committee for the United Study of Foreign Missions. We recommend the payment of $200 this year as our contribution to the Federation of Woman's Boards of Foreign Missions, with the instruction to our delegates to the next annual meeting of the Federation that they recommend to the Home Department the amount that we should pay another year. We recommend that we appropriate for the Foreign Missions Conference of North America (as our payment for this year) $1,500 of the $5,000 assigned to the Methodist Church. Foreign-Speaking Conferences We nominate Mrs. Edwin S. Dahl as Secretary of Swedish Work. We recommend that Mrs. Charles Carlson of Chicago be appointed as the Secre- tary of Literature for Swedish Work. It was voted that $100 be allowed from the funds of the Publication Office to Mrs. Hanna Henschen for editorial work. We nominate Miss Amalie Achard as Secretary of German Work with a special grant of $600 from the general fund. We recommend that Mrs. Murlin be asked to continue as general correspondent for Denmark and Sweden. That $60 be allowed Miss Achard from the funds of the Publication Office for literature for Germany and Switzerland and $40 from the same fund be given to Mrs. P. L. Morterud for literature for Norway and Denmark. It was voted to recommend that we work out our part here in America for assisting European candidates with the greatest of sympathy and care. Miscellaneous It was voted that the chairman and secretary of the Home Department keep in mind the chairmen of the committees on General Office, Retirement :

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Fund, Research and Advance, the member of the Central Committee on the United Study of Foreign Missions and the Federation representative, and when in their judgment it seems for the good of the work that one of these women should meet with the General Executive Committee she be invited to attend the meeting at the expense of the Society. That the president of the Society appoint a committee of two women to meet with two women from the Woman's Home Missionary Society to confer about union organizations. That the president of the. society succeed Mrs. Spaeth, who finds she must resign, as our representative on the Council of Benevolent Boards. That Mrs. Lindsay be appointed our representative on the Committee on Conservation and Advance. That the General Executive Committee send to the president of the United States a communication with regard to the Conference on Limitation of Armaments. Mrs. F. H. Sheets, Secretary. ACTIONS RELATING TO THE FOREIGN DEPARTMENT The following actions of the Foreign Department, taken from the close of the annual meeting of the General Executive Committee, 1920, to the close of the annual meeting, 1921, were presented to the General Executive Com- mittee and were by them approved.

I. Relating to Missionaries

c. t. indicates contract teacher; h. c. acceptance subject to satisfactory health certificate; Br. a. acceptance subject to Branch approval.

Candidates Were Accepted as Follows: Ad Interim, October 1920 to May 1921 New England Branch—Clara M. Hill (c. t.). New York Branch—Mollie E. Townsend (c. t.). Mid-year Meeting, 1921: New England Branch—Marguerite G. English, Bessie Alice Hollows, Ruth P. Nuzum, Mary Prudence Winn (c. t. and Br. a.). New York Branch—Ruth A. Beecher (Br. a.), Grace E. Leslie, Myrtle M. Stone (Br. a. and h. a). Grace Philadelphia Branch—Joy E. Comstock (Br. a.), Martha J. Daniels, L. Duryea (c. t.), Jean R. Maclay (c. t. and Br. a.), Martha E. Robin- son (Br. a ), Laura White (c. t.). Cincinnati Branch—Goldie Clayton, Eva Dodge, Ada B. Hall, Ruth Hecker, Lucerne Hoddinott, Mary Lunn, Alice M. McBee (h. c), Emma Palm, Ruby May Parker, Helen M. Rockey (c. t.), May Belle Seal, Ada Smith, Bessie Smart (Br. a. and h. c), Tirzah Stahl, Lorena Stuckey (c. t.), Ethel G. Wheelock, Iva M. Williamson. Northwestern Branch—Vema R. Arundale, Olive Dunn, Marjorie P. Hughes, Helen R. Johnson, Nora E. Kellogg, Ada E. McQuie (h. a), June B. Patterson,*Effie C. Price (c. t.), Elsie I. Reik, Eleanora C. Rohde, Myrtle A. Smith (h. c. and interview), Rita B. Tower, Lorraine L. Vickery, Abbie Hasler. Des Moines Branch—Marie I. Cline, Lucile Colony, Olive L. Gould (h. a), Mildred L. Pierce. Minneapolis Branch—Ruth E. Atkins (h. a), Elizabeth E. Chase (h. a). Topeka Branch—Floy Campbell (interview and Br. a.), Ruth M. Cox, Etta A. Denny, Mabel Hammons, Rosa Hardsaw, Hattie H. Hepperly, Bertha Odee (Bf. a.), Myrtle Precise (Br. a. and h. a), Pearl Precise (Br. a. and h. a). Pacific Branch—Georgia H. Beven, Dorice Welles (Br. a. and h. c), Myrtle Snider (Br. a.), Florrie E. Wild. Columbia River Branch—Bernice Cornelison. Foreign Department 123

Ad Interim, May to October, 1921: New York Branch—Anne Evelyn Gledhill. Cincinnati Branch—Eathel V. Doddridge. Minneapolis Branch—Margaret Wallace, Evelyn R. Jacobson. Topeka Branch—Sallie Hawkins. Pacific Branch—Nellie M. Butterfield, Ethel M. Palmer, Rose E. Waldron. Columbia River Branch—Laura Heist. Annual Meeting, 1921: New England Branch—Miss Paige (Br. a. and h. c). New York Branch—Agnes Stephens Moore, Alice Smith. Philadelphia Branch Dorcas Hall (c. t.), Edith J. Stouffer, Lillian Long- shore (c. t.), Gwendolyn Norbeth (Br. a. and h. c). Cincinnati Branch—Alice Bowen (c. t.), Frieda Staubli, Beta Scheirick (Br. a.). Northwestern Branch—Elizabeth M. Grennan (c. t.), Margaret M. Brayton (h. a), Ruth L. Myers (h. a), Sylvia E. Aldrich, Jessie E. Edwards (c. t.), Mildred Welsh. Des Moines Branch—Josephine Packer, Anna Louise Chesney (c. t.), Clara Smith. Topeka Branch—Mary Jenkins, Marian L. Conrow, Mariam Pool. Columbia River Branch—Frances Bunger, Rose Riste, Marguerite Hewson, Ava Milam (c. t. two years), Camilla Mills. Appointments Were Made as Follows: Isabella Thoburn College—Hattie H. Hepperly, Margaret Wallace, Olive Reddick (transferred from North India). North India—Ruth Cox, Mary Jenkins, Evelyn Jacobson, Olive Dunn, Goldie Clayton, Pearl Precise, Myrtle Precise, Rosa Hardsaw. Northwest India—Marie Cline, Ethel M. Palmer, Frances Bunger, Rose Riste, Ruby Parker, Lorraine Vickery. Lucknow—Helen R. Johnson. South India—Joy Comstock, Ruth Robinson (transferred from N. India), Ethel Wheelock. Central Provinces—Olive Gould, Laura Ovenshire. Bombay—Laura Heist. Bengal—Abbie Hasler, Helen Rockey (c. t.), Dorice Welles, Myrtle Snider. Burma—-Floy Campbell, Eathel Doddridge, Edith Stouffer, Stella Ebersole. Malaysia—Lorena Stuckey (c. t.), Laura White (c. t.), Beta Scheirick, Gazelle Traeger. Netherlands Indies—Lila Kehm, Eleonora Rohde. Philippine Islands—Ruth E. Atkins, Marguerite Hewson, Sallie Hawkins, Bertha Odee, Elizabeth Grennan (c. t.). North China—Ruth Nuzum, June Patterson, Tirzah Stahl, Ava B. Milam (c. t.), Camilla Mills. Central China—Alice McBee, Alice Bowen (c. t.), Iva Williamson. Kiangsi—Nora Kellogg, Myrtle Stone, Rose Waldron, Ruth Myers, Ethel Thompson, Alice Smith, Florine Wild. West China—Floy Campbell, Clara Smith, Bessie Hollows, Mildred Welsh, Ruth A. Beecher, Margaret M. Brayton. Foochow—Etta Denny, Dr. Hammons, Lucerne Hoddinott, Ruth Pierce, Myrtle Smith, Emma Palm, Anna L. Chesney (c. t.), Jessie E. Edwards (c. t.). Hinghwa—Frieda Staubli, Evelyn Aldrich, Elsie Reik. Yenping—Vema Arundale. Korea—Marguerite English, Ruth Hecker, Ada B. Hall, Ada Smith, Ada McQuie, Marian Conrow, Edith Gaylord (transferred from China), Maren P. Bording (transferred from P. I.), Bertha Kostrop (transferred from P. I.). Japan—Mary Cleary, Martha Daniels, Pauline May (h. c). Mexico—Grace Duryea (c. t.), Miss Paige, Mary Lunn, Jean Maclay (c. t.), Estelle Ritchie (c. t. transferred from N. Africa), Nellie Butterfield, 124 Reports

Prudence Winn (c. t.), May B. Seal, Netella Loy (transferred from South America), Lillian Longshore (c. t.). South America—Helen Benard, Josephine Packer, Bernice Cornelison, Erne G. Price (c. t.). North Africa—Gwendolyn Norbeth, Martha Robinson. Africa—Georgia Beven, Agnes S. Moore. Furloughs Were Extended as Follows: New England Branch—Frances Maclntire, Gertrude Gilman. Philadelphia Branch—Alice Appenzeller, Elizabeth Lee. Baltimore Branch—Ethel Wallace. Cincinnati Branch—Mariana Young, Ida Franz. Northwestern Branch—Carrie Heaton, Lily Green. Minneapolis Branch—Alice Brethorst, Eva Nelson. Topeka Branch—Frances Wilson, Jessie Bragg, Lavinia Nelson, Isabel McKnight. Pacific Branch—Ellison Bodley. Furloughs Were Granted as Follows: New England Branch—Winnie Crook, Clara Cushman, Mabel Beatty, Faye Robinson. New York Branch—Henrietta Robbins, Mabel Woodruff, Mrs. Robert Sharp, Mrs. Wilbur C. Swearer, Dr. Mary Cutler, Anna Atkinson, Laura Temple. Philadelphia Branch—Constance Blackstock. Baltimore Branch—Katherine Johnson, Katherine Willis. Cincinnati Branch—Harriet Howey, Bertha Charles. Northwestern Branch—Frances Quinton, Edith Crane, Julia Kipp, Norma Craven, Minnie Wilson, Flora Carncross, Blanche Loucks, Ella Shaw, Edna Bacon, Myra Jaquet. Topeka Branch—Phoebe E. Emery, Ruth Hoath, Blanche L. McCartney, Winnie Gabrielson, Mathilde Moses, Mary Shannon, Margaret Seeck, Winnogene Penny, Lillian P. Greer, Irma Highbaugh. Pacific Branch—Lila Payton, Grace Wythe, Lois Joy Hartung. Columbia River Branch—Dr. Iva M. Miller, Mary Bedell, Dr. Phoebe Ferris, Grace Clark, Laura Hefty, Emma Rexroth. Permission To Return To The Field Was Granted As Follows: New England Branch—Althea Todd, Ella Glover, Gertrude Gilman. New York Branch—Ida G. Loper (h. a), Ethel M. Estey, Phoebe Wells, Henrietta Robbins, Azalia Peet. Philadelphia Branch—Blanche Search, Gertrude Snavely, Blanche Rub- right. Baltimore Branch—Vera Thompson (h. a), Ruth Robinson (h. c). Cincinnati Branch—Stella Hess, Rue Sellers, Jeanette Hulbert (h. c), Catherine Baker, Clara Caris, Addie Dyer, Roxanna Mellinger (h. c). Northwestern Branch—Anna Blackstock, Stella Forsythe, Dr. Margaret Lewis, A. A. Abbott, Lora Goodwin, Mabel Laurence, Pauline West- cott, Josephine Stahl. Des Moines Branch—Gertrude W. Tyler, Blanche Bair, Helen Galloway. Minneapolis Branch—Faith Hunt, Clara Martin (h. c). Topeka Branch—May Bel Thompson, Jessie Bragg, Ethel Householder, Olive Vail, Caroline Nelson, Frances Nelson, Melva Livermore, ' May Sutherland. Pacific Branch—Lila Payton, Grace Wythe, Dr. Gertrude Taft. Columbia River Branch—Grace Clark, Rose Dudley. Extension of Term Was Granted as Follows: New England Branch—Clara Cushman. New York Branch—Lulu A. Miller. Baltimore Branch—Edna Jones. Cincinnati Branch—Muriel Robinson. Northwestern Branch—Frances Quinton. Foreign Department 125

Columbia River Branch—Grace Clark. Restored To Active Relation: New England Branch—Florence L. Nichols. Retirement Relation Was Given as Follows: Philadelphia Branch—Matilda Spencer. Des Moines Branch—Agnes Edmunds. Topeka Branch—Rebecca Watson. Pacific Branch—Susan Collins, Celesta Easton. Reinstatement Was Granted as Follows: Des Moines Branch—Lydia Wilkinson. Resignations Were Accepted as Follows: New England Branch—Ruth E. Staples. New York Branch—Silvia Harrington, Welthy Honsinger, Frances Battey. Relation Was Changed as Follows: From missionary to contract teacher: New England Branch—Estelle J. Ritchie. From contract teacher to missionary, Cincinnati Branch—Addie C. Dyer. Des Moines Branch—Emma Amburn. Miscellaneous It was voted to accept Clara M. Hill with the understanding that in case her health fails within one year she be willing to return at her own expense and repay her outgoing expenses. That the retirement allowance of Miss Haefer be $600. That the retirement allowance of Dr. Agnes Edmunds be $600. That the outfit allowance of missionaries shall be $200. That an extra grant of fifty dollars be given for 1921 to each missionary connected with the office of the central treasurer for China. That the salaries of our Chinese missionaries, Dr. Hu King Eng, Dr. Ida Kahn, Dr. Li Bi Cu, Miss Ruby Sia and Miss May Hu be $1,050 Mex. ($525 gold). That the Society pay the outgoing expenses and salary of Ava Milam, short term worker. That the appointment of Miss Milam and Miss Mills to Yenching College be with the clear understanding that the support of the two women by our Society does not make the Society in any sense a participant in responsibility for support of the institution or additional provision of plant. That preliminary salary be paid to new missionaries at the rate of $50 per month, and that in the case of missionaries of different Branches sailing at the same time, an effort be made to secure uniformity in the date at which salaries begin, varying conditions being duly taken into consideration. That the new missionary be granted allowance at the rate of $50 per month from the time she gives up remunerative employment at the direction of the Society until the time she starts for the field. The phrase "from the time she gives up remunerative employment" shall not be understood to cover the period of her attendance at training school or other school of preparation but only to the period when, aside from her training, she shall have ceased work while in waiting. That the following allowances apply to all missionaries; $2.00 per day for meals on trains in the United States, $5.00 per day for room at hotel and board, two days at port being allowed except where emergencies require a longer time, four hundred pounds of personal baggage and forty cubic feet of freight. That the following be paid by missionaries in transit: all expenses of tickets, sleepers and meals in excess of the cost by the most direct route; all expenses of baggage in excess of prescribed allowance; all tips, taxicab fares, telegrams, laundry and other personal incidentals. 126 Reports

II. Relating to Property

It was voted that the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society participate with Bareilly Theological Seminary in the erection of bungalows on our Bareilly hospital site and the $1,500 U. S. gold required for the project be advanced by the general treasurer. To authorize a larger recreation building at Grenoble at an additional cost of $1,300. That the Foreign Department of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, acting under authority con- ferred upon it by the by-laws of the said Society, does hereby authorize and direct Florence Hooper, treasurer of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, resident of Baltimore, Md., U. S. A., to execute, in the name, place and stead of the said Society, a power of attorney permitting Kate I. Ogborn, missionary of the said Society, resident of Wuhu, China, to sell, assign and transfer the property now owned by the said Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church and located on Tai Ping Road, Wuhu, China. That $1,000 for stamps on the transfer of the Sontag property be paid by the general treasurer. That $2,400 for cost of transfer and taxes on the industrial school in Mexico City be paid by the general treasurer. That the sale of the industrial plant at Foochow for $70,000 be authorized. That the treasurer be authorized to pay legal fees clearing title of land at Shajahanpur. That the treasurer be authorized to secure a loan necessary to make $50,000, Uruguyan, for the completion of the Montevideo building; this amount, with the interest, to be repaid from the proceeds of the campaign on the field. That permission be granted for the erection of a medical staff residence in Peking on the compound on which the medical school is located, the entire cost of the building to be kept within the $10,000 received from the China Medical Board for privileges in our medical school. That permission be granted to proceed with the building of the dispensary at Peking (authorization for the same having been granted several years ago), the building to be erected on land retained for that purpose and the cost to be limited to funds held on the field for a dispensary, plus the accrued interest because of the increased cost of building material and labor. That the general treasurer be directed to pay to the central treasurer of of China $4,761 Mex., the amount brought from the field in 1914 (pursuant to action of Department at Baltimore, 1912), this money to be used, together with proceeds of the sale of the old Woolston Hospital, for the erection on Black Rock Hill of a residence for Dr. Hu King Eng; also, that the general treasurer be authorized to make up as soon as possible, from exchange gains on certain small items already appropriated for China buildings, the loss of $218.75 gold which was incurred during the time that the money was in this country invested, as endowment for Black Rock Hill Hospital. That the action to sell the school property at Sendai be rescinded and that the property all be held for an institutional-evangelistic center. That the proceeds from the sale of a narrow strip of land to the railroad at Sendai, Japan, (1600 yen), be appropriated for building repairs at Sendai. That the treasurer be authorized to borrow funds to make possible the holding of the Sendai property. That the field authorities be directed to make building estimates on the basis of the currency of the country at par, not as heretofore on the basis of U. S. gold. That, in view of the fact that Miss Marie Adams is in this country on furlough, we authorize a new building for Edna Terry School in Tai-an-fu at a Foreign Department 127

cost not to exceed $5,000, and give Miss Adams permission to solicit funds in Northwestern Branch for the purpose, with the understanding that such funds shall be held until the full amount is in hand and building operations are authorized by the Foreign Department. That, whereas, the Board of Foreign Missions has accepted the offer of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society to purchase the Dehwa property for $5,000, the treasurer be authorized to transact the necessary business connected with transfer of the property, and that the money to be received be held as an extra fund for buildings in the Hinghwa Conference, but that it be not appropriated in 1922. That the Rulison dormitory, Kiukiang, be named Mary Dolliver Graham Dormitory, on request -of New York Branch. That the Foochow Bible Training School residence be named Augusta Stephens Home, on request of New York Branch. That the first dormitory of the Foochow Bible Training School be named Amelia H. Huntley Dormitory, on request of Baltimore Branch. That the Futsing School be named Marguerite Stewart School, on request of Topeka Branch. That the physician's residence at Futsing be named the Maria Orme Allen Home, on request of the New York Branch. That the class pavilion of the Foochow Bible Training School be named the Carrie I. Jewell Pavilion, on request of Cincinnati Branch. That, in order to provide quarters for the increase of students in the Hamilton Girls' School in Hinghwa and for newly appointed missionaries, we authorize the erection of a building for teachers' quarters, the cost not to exceed $1,500; that Miss Westcott be authorized to raise funds for this purpose in Northwestern Branch while at home on furlough; and that, in order to provide for the immediate erection of the building, $1,500 be borrowed from the proceeds of the sale of the Dehwa property, to be repaid by an appropriation in 1923. That our center of work and our dormitory in the Central District, Philippine Islands, be moved from Malolos to Cabaunatuan. That the institute building at Yungbyen be named for Ethel M. Estey. That the new dormitory at Seoul be named for Miss Lulu E. Frey. That New York Branch be allowed the privilege of naming the Pyengyang class building the New Jersey Conference Training School for Bible Women. That, whereas, five missionaries in Korea are without any place in which to live, save for the home of Dr. Noble which has been rented to us until next June; and, whereas, the new social center, whenever erected, will furnish a home for one and possibly two only; and, whereas, a language school has been started to which all new missionaries are obliged to go, with no place to house them; therefore, be it resolved that the request of Bishop Welch and the entire Reference Committee that the site purchased two years ago be given them for the erection of a home for missionaries be granted, the building to cost $12,500 and to be financed by our German sisters who have $4,000 in hand, as a memorial to Miss Louisa Rothweiler, and that if funds be in hand the erection of the home may be started in the spring of 1922. That the general treasurer be authorized to use as necessary the money handed over by Miss Vickery and now on deposit in Rome in the name of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society for the erection of a dividing wall on the Crandon Institute property as required by law. That permission be given Miss Mary Anderson to raise funds for a hostel in Algiers for her work among the French people, amounts to be appropriated when the project is authorized. That, in recognition of the $2,600 assumed by Cincinnati Branch to pay for the Giang Tang Giai property, the workers' residence there shall, when erected (at an estimated cost of $1,500), be a memorial to Mabel Foote. That the Cincinnati Branch be permitted to raise $6,000 for the kindergarten at Chinampo, Korea, to bear the name of Clotilda Lyon McDowell. That the Cincinnati Branch be allowed to make a grant of $550 toward the purchase of a rest home in Cuernavaca, Mexico. 128 Reports

That, in recognition of the general desire on the field and at home, the new dormitory of Foochow College be named for Miss Lydia Trimble. That Miss Frazey of Kutien be given permission to solicit funds ($500) for electric lights for the school and $200 to repay a loan for purchase of land. That the building of the school and home at Quessua, Angola, be begun in 1922 with funds now available, the balance of the $20,000 needed to be included in the 1923 appropriation. That the home in Mutumbara, Africa, be named the Elizabeth H. Moore Home. That we express full sympathy with the plan of removing the women from Aligarh to Budaon and making Aligarh a center for vocational training. We approve the plan of securing land for a home at Budaon and authorize the field to secure definite estimates for a suitable site, to be submitted at the May meeting. This resolution does not authorize the field to promise a definite sum nor does it obligate us for any further action before General Executive meeting of 1922. That we approve of the Marathi school at Nagpur instead of Gondia. That we approve the plan of securing land for our school at Nagpur and authorize the field to secure definite estimates for the cost of a suitable site, to be submitted at the May meeting. This resolution does not authorize the field to promise any definite sum nor does it obligate us for any further action before General Executive meeting of 1922. That Northwestern Branch be given permission to make the dormitory at Lahore one of the askings of the 1922 thank offering, with the understanding that no appropriation be made until the whole amount ($10,000) needed is available. That the general treasurer be authorized to send to the field from the Isabella Thoburn College Campaign Fund enough to cover such part of the cost of Wingfield Park land as is not covered by the $30,000 previously sent and the government grant for land. A request has come from the Bengal Conference that the industrial work of Pakaur be removed to Suri and that the $7,500 promised for the William Kendall Home be expended for a home at Suri. As the establishment of a Santali center at Pakaur is connected with the plan and as we cannot see a near prospect of financing either industrial work in Suri or the Santali center at Pakaur the location of the William Kendall Home shall be deferred until the May meeting for further information.

III. Relating to Appropriations

It was voted that we continue for 1922 the plan adopted at Des Moines, May, 1920, in the matter of exchange on appropriations for Italy until further action is taken. That the girls' school at Arrah be recognized and the 1922 budget of $675 be approved. That we take over the girls' school at Jagdalpur, the appropriations for it to begin January 1, 1923. That Pacific Branch be allowed to raise $2,000 in addition to the amount already on hand for the Quessua buildings. That a budget of $300 for traveling espenses and $100 for office expense be allowed Dr. Ida Belle Lewis for the year 1922. That for Angola, Africa, full exchange gained on current work appropriations be allowed, with the provision that at the end of each fiscal year the balance accruing from Woman's Foreign Missionary Society appropriations, if there be any, after retaining a proper working capital to carry the work into the first quarter of the succeeding year, be allotted to the Branches contributing to the support of the school or the evangelistic work. That all funds received for the Isabella Thoburn College, including the Christmas gift, those from Rockefeller Foundation and from the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, shall be included in the receipts of the Society. Foreign Department 129

Requests have come from several conferences that balances accruing on the field from exchange gains and from other sources be granted for specific objects within the conferences. In as much as granting balances to some conferences and not to others will work hardship and inequality it was voted not to grant any of these balances, as such, but to list the specific objects and to give them careful consideration in making new appropriations. Foreign Budget, General Fund, 1922: taxes and insurance $17,000 interest on loans on buildings in foreign fields $6,000, central treasurer for China $870, central treasurer for India $870, central treasurer for Japan $100, Federated Missions East Japan $350, Federated Missions West Japan $140, Committee on Co-operation in Latin America $900, Fukien Bureau Building Construction $250, Tokyo Union College $6,800, Madras College $1,000, Ginling College $2,100, Yenching College $1,000, Korea Tract Society $400. It was voted to authorize the payment to Miss Pearl Madden, central treasurer for India, from the general treasury, (a) an amount to cover cost of travel entailed in visits to the India treasurers; (b) to provide room rent until January 1, 1922; (c) to make possible the purchase of such equipment and supplies, and possibly office rent, as shall be necessary before 1922 appropriations become effective. That a twenty-five percent increase in the regular salary of local missionaries of India be made, to begin July first, 1921. That thirty dollars shall be paid for the support of North India Bible women, beginning January first, 1921. That an administration grant of $300 Mex. be given to the Chinese workers who are in charge of hospitals, high schools, and Bible schools of A and B grade, and to those who are in conference or district supervisory positions, beginning July first, 1921. That $10,000 for the kindergarten and other buildings at Seoul, Korea, be the goal for the Junior thank offering in 1922. That the offerings of the Junior Department, except those for thank offering and support of missionaries, shall be used for "the little children of the world." That $15,000 for the domestic science building at Aoyama, Japan, be the object of the Young People's thank offering for 1922, the amount for this building to be limited to $17,500. All above this amount shall be used for the young people's work. That $1,000 from the German constituency be sanctioned as a relief fund for Central Europe. That the treasurer be authorized to advance $500 for repairs and supplies at Isabella Thoburn College. Emergencies and imperative needs, to the amount of $28,210, were pro- rated to the Branches. That the budget for retirement allowances for 1922 be $20,000. That the appropriation for the zenana papers for 1922 be $1,500. That we grant the request from the German constituency that each of the German conferences be allowed to raise $100 for the support of deacon- esses in Germany, the amount to be included in the appropriation. That $350 for laboratory supplies, $350 for furniture and equipment, $350 for library for Isabella Thoburn College be paid from the Isabella Tho- burn College Campaign Fund now in the hands of the treasurer.

IV. Miscellaneous

It was voted, that, in view of the fact that our work in Africa is so inade- quately equipped, we do not at this time begin work in Liberia. That Mrs. Johnson be requested to see to the preparation of a leaflet telling of our work in Angola, Rhodesia and Inhambane, this leaflet to be generously distributed in the auxiliaries of our negro conferences by the Branches which include these conferences. 130 Reports

That, in view of our present obligations in Africa, we regret that we cannot at this time establish work in connection with the Soudan United Mission. That we concur in the request from North India that the balances of salary, etc., of a missionary, on arrival from America, be deposited to the credit of her salary at the rate of three rupees to a dollar. That the second year of the Educational Campaign be "Junior Year," special effort to be made for kindergarten and primary schools (both higher and lower), boarding schools and day schools. These are the grades usually termed "primary" and "intermediate" in the United States. That we express our judgment that experiments so far in the care of young boys have proven successful and that we should continue our interest and desire to further the best interests of education for the whole group. To this end we hold ourselves in readiness to co-operate, extending our care of boys in local situations where it is found expedient and desirable by general and local authorities. That we notify the union college committees that they may not count on any more money from our Society on account of property and equipment before December 31, 1927, than that which comes as a result of our campaign in 1922; that we do not now see our way clear to increase our current expense appropriations for our union colleges until after our educational campaign is completed in 1924. The amount for current expenses shall be paid from the general treasury as heretofore. We reiterate our action of May, 1921, as follows: Voted to direct our representatives on the union college committees to state that the Society will include the following items in the 1922 budget, amounts up to the totals indicated to be paid if raised: Ginling, $55,000; Tokyo, $56,000; Yenching, $50,000; Isabella Thoburn, $83,500. That we request that a Board of Control be created on the field for every union Bible school. That these Boards report to the Foreign Department through the official correspondent and the Evangelistic Committee. That by-law XII, f 3, be changed to read as follows: "They shall be eligible to membership in any of the committees of the Woman's Conference except the Reference Committee." That we do not unite our medical work in Pyengyang with that of the Board of Foreign Missions and of the Presbyterian Board. That we do not unite our medical work at Baroda with that of the Board of Foreign Missions at Nadiad. That the Board of Managers for hospitals on the foreign field be requested to designate the head of the medical staff, the superintendent of the hospital and the superintendent of nurse training department. That the superintendents of hospitals be requested to give hospital care to our missionaries at a minimum of expense for board only. That the matter of financing the language schools in all our mission fields be referred to a committee to be composed of a representative from each of the country committees, to report at the May meeting, 1922. That all estimates for our work in Shanghai, except the salaries of the missionaries whose relation may be with other conferences, be included in the Central China Conference estimates. That we express to Bishop Fisher our deep appreciation of the legacy from Mrs. Fisher, providing for the establishment of a scholarship at the Isabella Thoburn College, to send Indian young women to the United States of America for graduate work; and that we acknowledge with hearty thanks Bishop Fisher's generosity in making the income of this fund, which is to be known as "The Edith Jackson Fisher Scholarship Fund," immediately and permanently available. That we reiterate our former action that we do not approve of the establishment of a high school at Bombay and that we confine our work there to the support of a hostel. That the official correspondent for Foochow be requested to send a letter of appreciation to the faculty and pupils at Tai Main, Foochow, for their liberal gifts that have made possible the new recitation building; also that Foreign Department 131 she express our appreciation of the efforts of the faculty and students of Hua Nang to pay their share of the proposed new dormitory. That, in view of the heavy responsibilities the Society has in other fields and of the fact that if we go into this new field we should go in an adequate way, we do not approve of the appointment of Miss Paula Seidelman to Vienna, Austria, as requested by the authorities on the field. That but two foreign conference reports be sent each general officer, Branch corresponding secretary, secretary of the Home Base, special secretary and the general office ; the number to be sent to the secretaries of special work shall be reported by the Branch corresponding secretary. That the Rest Home in Sidi Ferrich, North Africa, be named the Matilda J. Carnahan Home. That 300 copies of the constitution and by-laws be issued separately at the time the Year Book is published as a pamphlet for use with candidates. That the recording secretary of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society be requested to compile and retain on file a record of the memorial buildings with the names, dates, and Branches naming the same. That the request be sent to the field that these buildings be referred to in the minutes and the estimates by their memorial names. That we ask (1) that each Woman's Conference on the field prepare a recommendation concerning the status of Bible women and teachers as related to their quarterly and district conferences, the same to be sent through the field correspondent to the official correspondent not later than February, 1923, in order that the Foreign Department may submit that which may be a consensus of opinion to the conferences of 1923-24 on the foreign field, so that through the various Central Conferences may come to the General Con- ference of 1924 memorials which will lead to safe legislation. (2) That each official correspondent in sending this action to the field shall suggest that if Bible women become members of quarterly conferences they will be under direction of pastors and official boards unless other relation is indicated, so careful consideration is urged. That the following amendments to the constitution of the Isabella Thoburn College, which have been approved by the Board of Directors, be adopted:

Article 5 shall read thus: 5. The Board of Governors shall be composed as follows: (a) Ex officio members (1) Representatives of the Methodist Episcopal Church: The Bishops resident in India, the Superintendent of the Lucknow District, and the Principal of the Lucknow Christian College. (2) The Principal of Isabella Thoburn College.

(b) Elected Members (1) Three each from the North India, Northwest India and Lucknow Conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of whom two shall be chosen by the Woman's Con- ference and one by the men's Conference; two from the Central Provinces Conference, one to be chosen by the Woman's Conference and one by the men's Conference; and one each from the Bombay, Bengal and Gujerat Conferences, to be chosen by the Woman's Conference. (2) Six members elected by the North India Mission of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A.

(c) Co-opted members Members in number not to exceed one-third the total ex-officio and elected member ship of the Board of Governors may be co-opted by the Board of Governors. In Article 8 "North India Conference" shall be changed to "Lucknow Conference." In Article 13 there shall be inserted after the word "Principal" the words, "of Isabella Thoburn College."

That we endorse the following action of the Board of Directors: "We have read with interest what the Principal's report and the minutes of the Board of Governors say as to relations with Lucknow University. The question is so large and so serious that we wish to have full data before deciding the policy of the institution." Mrs. L. L. Townley, Secretary. 132 Reports TREASURER'S REPORT

Statement of Receipts and Disbursements of Miss Florence Hooper, General Treasurer of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church October 6, 1920 to October 1, 1921

GENERAL FUND

Receipts

ZYl % Assessment from Branches and 1920 Deficit

New England $ 4,269 . 00 New York 7,901.00 Philadelphia 4,260.00 Baltimore 2,225.00

Cincinnati 9,803 . 34 Northwestern On Account 1919-1920 $ 6,318.00 On Account 1920-1921 15,758.00 22,076.00 Des Moines 5,688.00 Minneapolis 3,006.70 Topeka 6,801 .90 Pacific 4,136.02 Columbia River 2,004.00 72,170.96 Interest on Bank Deposits 393.81 Cincinnati Branch, a/c San Fernando Interest, Philippine Islands 150.00 Sale of Manuals of Bookkeeping 3.35

Total Receipts $ 72,718.12 Deficit, October 1, 1921 11,756.54

$ 84,474. (

Disbursements

Deficit, October 5, 1920 $ 16,035.04

Home Administration

Traveling Expenses to General Executive Meeting, German- town, October, 1920 $ 8,677.75 Traveling Expenses to Mid-Year Meeting of Foreign De- partment, Springfield, Ohio May, 1921 1,347.72 Traveling Expenses of Home Department, Zanesville, Ohio May, 1921 568.52 Expenses of General Officers (clerical help, postage, sta-

tionery, etc. ) 2,356 . 96 Expenses of General Office, New York City Reserve Fund $1,500.00 Rent 1,080.00 Secretary's Salary 1.S00.00 Assistants' Salaries 2, 136.00 Office Expense 1,150.00 7,666.00 Student Work Travel, Office Expenses and Incidentals, Mrs. Burton 6,379.66 St. John and Miss Twila Lytton

Home Department Junior Work $ 91.50 Young People's Work 700.00 Printing and Travel 129.99 German Work 600.00 1,521.49

Foreign Department 462 . 08 Steamship and Railroad Transportation Bureau 112.50 Interdenominational Travel of Delegates to Meetings of Foreign Missions

Conference 345 . 60 Treasurer's Report 133

Miscellaneous Duplicating Share Plan Letters $175.00 Auditing Accounts of Treasurer, 1920 50.00

Fidelity Bond of Treasurer 62 . 50 Certified Copies of Wills 20.80 Travel to Meeting of General Officers 173.77 Printing 500 Annuity Leaflets .90 $482.97 Inter-Board Relations Travel to Committee on Consultation with Board of Foreign Missions and other Church Boards. 631.64 $30,552.89 Foreign Administration Taxes and Insurance on Buildings and Property on Foreign Fields 1920 $ 685.56 1921 15,620.87 $ 16,306.43 Interest and Exchange (This item covers interest on loans for buildings and property on the foreign field) 5,464.42 Educational Supervision of W. F. M. S. Schools in India and China 1,900.00 Central Treasurer for China Office Appropriation 870.00

Central Treasurer for India 532 . 78 Committee on Co-operation in Latin America 1,300.00 Fukien Bureau of Building Construction 803.20 Union Colleges on the Foreign Field Tokyo $ 6,000.00 Madras 1,000.00 Ginling 1,500.00 8,500.00 Legal Expenses on Foreign Field 517.90 Travel of Tuiila Lytton 800.00 Korean Tract Society, 1920-21 350.00 Central Treasurer for Japan 100.00 Federated Missions East Japan $ 302 .00 West Japan 140.00 442.00 37,886.73

$84,474.66 Summary Home Administration $30,552.89 Foreign Administration 37,886.73 Deficit, 1920 16,035.04 $S4,474.66 Florence Hooper, Treasurer. RETIREMENT FUND Balance (Cash and Securities), October 5, 1920 $189,238.03 Receipts Contributions from Individuals and Auxiliaries Foreign Study Club, Toledo, Ohio $ 10.00 Miss M. Lotte Whittaker 12.00 St. James Auxiliary, Elizabeth, N. J 5.00 Part of Jubilee Membership in honor of Mrs. C. D. Foss 34.00 61.00 Contributions from Branches New England, Harriet Warren Endowment $ 3,214.58 New York, Elizabeth Lore North Endowment and Memorial Memberships 3,250.00 Philadelphia, Sarah L. Keen Endowment and Me- morial Memberships 12,815.01 Baltimore, Elisabeth F. Pierce Endowment and Me- morial Memberships 2,252.93 Cincinnati, Sallie B. Thomas Endowment and Me-

morial Memberships 5,959 . 30 Northwestern, Memorial Memberships 350.00 Topeka, Memorial Memberships and Legacy 1,850.00 Pacific, Carrie M. Leas Endowment 500.00 Columbia River, Memorial Memberships 487.00 Special, Louisa C. Rothweiler Endowment 52.00 30,730.82 Net Cain on Investments 407.50

Balance (Cash and Securities), October 2, 1921 $220,437.35 .

134 Reports RETIREMENT FUND INCOME

Balance in Bank, October 5, 1920 $ 329.85

Receipts

Net Income from Investments $10,803.43 Refund from Retired Missionary 93.75 10,897.18

Deficit. October 1, 1921 7,639 . 13

$ 18,866.16

Disbursements

Allowances paid to Retired Missionaries $ 18,679 . 17 Advertising Expenses (leaflets, printing, etc.) 186.99

$ 18,866.16 Florence Hooper, Treasurer.

ZENANA PAPER FUND

Receipts

Emergency Appropriation, May, 1921 Philadelphia Branch $ 100.00

Des Moines Branch 50 . 00 Northwestern Branch 70.00 New England Branch 50.00 $ 270.00 Regular Appropriation Northwestern Branch 70.00 Net Income from Securities held by Florence Hooper,

Treasurer 1,322 . 20 1,662.20 Deficit, October 1, 1921 375.37

2,037.57 Disbursements

Deficit, October 5, 1920 $ 277.57 Cost of Publishing Zenana Papers Urdu and Hindi Editions $ 500.00 Tamil Editions 300.00 Marathi Editions 200.00

Bengali Editions . 300.00

Special allowance to the Editor to help all editions 460 . 00 1,760.00

$ 2,037.57

Note: The Endowment of the Zenana Paper Fund held by General Treasurer last year amounts to $21,563.62. During the year a profit of $47.50 has been realized on invested funds, making $21,611.12 in the hands of the General Treasurer in addition to $1,400.00 held by Northwestern Branch, a total of $23,011.12. Florence Hooper, Treasurer.

Certificate

We Have Audited the accounts of Miss Florence Hooper, Treasurer of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Baltimore, Maryland, for the year ended October 1, 1921, and We hereby certifiy that the accompanying Statement, Cash Receipts and Disburse- ments, General Fund, Retirement Fund, Income Retirement Fund and Receipts and Disburse- ments, Zenana Paper Fund are true and correct as of October 1, 1921. Black and Company, Certified Public Accountants. By Wilmer Black, C. P. A. (Member American Institute of Accountants.) Baltimore, Maryland, October Eleventh, Nineteen Hundred and Twenty-one. Payments on Land and Buildings 135

PAYMENTS ON ACCOUNT OF LAND AND BUILDINGS RECEIVED BY THE GENERAL TREASURER

October 6, 1920 to October 1, 1921

Isabella Thoburn College New England $ 10.00 New York 55 00 Allegheny College 234 12 Randolph Macon College 200 00 Goucher College 1,247 53 Sources other than Branches 25,970 50 $27,717 15 North India Bareilly Hospital New England $1,000.00 New York 160.00 Cincinnati 1,950.00 Northwestern 3,450.00 Des Moines 1,500.00 Columbia River 450.00 $8,510.00 Bareilly Roof Philadelphia 1,500. 00 Budaon Well Pacific 200.00 Moradabad School Debt Cincinnati $1,310.00 Des Moines 200.00 1,510.00 — 11,720.00 Northwest India Tilaunia Sanitorium Philadelphia $2,000.00 _ _ Cawnpore, Hudson Memorial, Sanitary Improvements Philadelphia 300.00 Roorkee School Topeka 500.00 Brindaban Hospital Improvements Topeka 2,500.00 5,300.00 Central Provinces Raipur Water System Baltimore $ 100.00 Basim Well Baltimore $200.00 Des Moines 100.00 300.00 Khandwa Well Des Moines 250.00 Sironcha Repairs Des Moines 200.00 850.00 Bombay Agripada Property New York $1,650.00 Des Moines 1,700.00 Columbia River 1,000.00 $4,350.00 Baroda, Webb Memorial New York $1,300.00 Northwestern 2,093.00 Des Moines 508.00 Topeka 138.00 Pacific 511.00 4,550.00 Godhra School Building New York $1,450.00 Philadelphia 75.00 1,525.00 Baroda Hospital Bungalow

Northwestern $3,000 . 00 New York 3,000.00 6,000.00 Godhra Latrines

Northwestern 600 . 00 Repairs at Telegaon

Columbia River 660 . 00 17,685.00 136 Reports

Bengal Calcutta, Anna Thoburn Hall Cincinnati $1,000 00 Des Moines 2,000.00 $3,000.00 South India Madras Christian College for Women Philadelphia $ 50.00 Vikarabad Bungalow Des Moines $3,000.00 New York, for Well 108.00 3,108.00 Kolar Hospital Improvement Northwestern $2,000.00 Philadelphia 500.00 2,500.00 Kolar, Wilbur P. Graff Baby-Fold Philadelphia 10,000.00 Bidar Sanitary Improvements Philadelphia $ 50.00 Baltimore 300.00 Columbia River 550.00 900.00 16,558.00 Burma Thongwa Bible Woman's Training School Des Moines $3,000.00 Cincinnati 2,000.00 5,000.00 Malaysia Penang, Stafford Property New York $2,850.00 Baltimore, for repairs 146.00 Northwestern, for repairs 354.00 3,350.00 Netherlands Indies Buitenzorg, Java Bible Training School German Thank Offering, 1920 $1,000.00 German Thank Offering, 1916-17 1,000.00 Northwestern 8,000.00 10,000.00 Philippine Islands Manila Sea Wall Cincinnati $ 52.00 New York 44.00 Pacific 24.00 $ 120.00 Mary Johnston Hospital Northwestern $ 3,500.00 New York 300.00 Minneapolis 2,000.00 5.S00.00 Manila, Harris Memorial Training School Northwestern $10,000.00 Pacific 5,500.00 15,550.00 Manila Student Hostel Des Moines 800.00 22,220.00 North China North China Bible Training School Northwestern $6,000 .00 Tientsin Hospital Building

Northwestern 2,000 . 00 Tientsin Kindergarten Building New England $1,000.00 Cincinnati 900.00 New York 100.00 2,000.00 10,000.00 Central China Chinkiang Boarding School Income from Investments $ 52.63 Chinkiang Hospital Improvements

Philadelphia $ 922 . 50 New York 200.00 Topeka 1,000.00 2,122.50 Payments on Land and Buildings 137

Ginling College German Thank Ogering, 1920 Sl.000.00 Nanking, Hitt Training School Northwestern 5,100.00 Wuhu, Fanning Memorial School Building New York 3,000.00 811,275.13 Kiangsi Nanchang Hospital Equipment Pacific $1,000.00 Nanchang Baldwin Memorial Repairs New York S 900.00 Northwestern 400.00 Pacific 200.00 1,500.00 Kiukiang, Mary Dolliver Graham Dormitory

Northwestern 18,000 . 00 Anna Stone Home Repairs New York 700.00 21,200.00 West China Moving Tzechow Gate House Minneapolis $ 500.00 Tzechow Hospital Northwestern 6,000.00 Chengtu Wall Pacific $ 600.00 Columbia River 500.00 1,100.00 Chungking, Day and Woman's School

Northwestern 2,000 . 00 9.600.00 Foochow Futsing School Building Des Moines $5,000.00 Interest on Investment 1,184.92 3,184.92 Futsing Hospital Residence

New York 3,000 . 00 Foochow College Buildings

Cincinnati $ 720 . 00 Baltimore 800.00 1,520.00 Foochow, Magaw Hospital Baltimore $1,200.00 German Thank Offering, 1920 1,200.00 2,400.00 Conference Day School Buildings

Des Moines 300 . 00 Lungtien Hospital (Children's Thank Offering) New York $3,705.00 Philadelphia 1,490.75 Cincinnati 390.00 New England 161 .00 Northwestern 3,500.00 Topeka 94.50 Des Moines 300.00 Pacific 2,500.00

Columbia River 90 . 00 12,231.25 Baltimore: Memorial Rooms 1,300.00 Mintsing Hospital, Tuberculosis Ward and Equipment Philadelphia 1,487.15 Haitang School, Tvphoon Repairs German Thank Offering, 1919 513.55 Foochow Bible Training School

Northwestern 500 . 00 29,436.87 Hinghwa City School Baltimore, Furniture and Repairs $ 408.00 German Thank Offering, 1920 500.00 908.00 Korea Suwon Bridge New York $ 600.00 Pyengyang Home Pacific 1,000.00 138 Reports

Typhoon Repairs, Korea Stations New England $ 750.00 New York 500.00 Philadelphia 540.00 Northwestern 520.00 Topeka 615.00

Pacific 100 . 00 $3,025.00

Charlotte Brownlee Kindergarten Building

Cincinnati $5,500 . 00 New York 1,000.00 6,500.00 Seoul, Lillian Harris Memorial Hospital

Cincinnati $3,000 . 00 Des Moines 2,000.00 5,000.00 Pyengyang Hospital Isolation Ward, Beds and Equip- ment Des Moines $1,000.00 Northwestern _ 3,000.00 New York '. 200.00 4,200.00 Pyengyang Class Building Cincinnati 2,000.00 Chemulpo Chapel Cincinnati 1,000.00 $23,325.00 East Japan Tokvo Union College German Thank Offering, 1920 $1,000.00 Thru New York Office 100.00 SI, 100. 00 Tokvo, Aovaraa Land New England $2,500.00 Topeka 1,000.00 3.500.00 Hirosaki Girls' School Philadelphia $1,500.00 Topeka 1,000.00 Pacific 1,300.00 3,800.00 8,400.00 West Japan Fukuoka School Building Philadelphia $1,850.00 Northwestern 20,000.00 21,850.00 Mexico Guanajuato School Building Wings Philadelphia $ 875.00 Mexico Citv Bible Training School Philadelphia $17,850.00 Northwestern 400.00 18,250.00 19,125.00 South America Montevideo, Crandon Institute

Interest on Investments $ 169 . 00 Philadelphia 28,710.00 Dr. Welch, Gift 1,000.00 Dr. McLaughlin 10.00 29,889.00 Rosario, Institute Gleason Philadelphia 4,000.00 33,889.00 Europe and North Africa Grenoble, France, Le Foyer Retrouve Baltimore $ 500.00 Philadelphia 1,800.00 Cincinnati 500.00 2,800.00

Sidi Ferruch, Matilda J. Carnahan Home Reconstruction Fund 5,000.00 Bulgaria, Sofia Hostel German Thank Offering 3,586 .85 $11,386.85 Payments on Land and Buildings 139

Africa Mrewa Home $3,000.00 Rhodesia Dispensary Minneapolis 500.00 Mutumbara School Building Topeka $1,424.31

Special Gift 9 . 52 $1,433.83 $4,933.83

Total $328,729.83

Note—The apparent discrepancy between the total here given and the amount reported elsewhere, as the result of an analysis of Branch figures, is explained by the fact that the Gen- eral Treasurer's figures given above are based on payments actually made to her by Branches, while Branch figures are based on appropriations set aside but in some cases not yet paid over. The General Treasurer also reports in addition to 1921 appropriations, 1920 appropriations received by her after the close of the fiscal year, 1921. PUBLICATION OFFICE Receipts

October 1, 1920, to October 1, 1921 Subscriptions to Woman's Missionary Friend $51,671 .39 Subscriptions to Junior Missionary Friend 10,074.91 Subscriptions to Der Frauen Missions Freund 1,149.99 $62,896.29 Literature $14,571 .75

King's Heralds Supplies 5,877 . 66 Standard Bearers Supplies 3,081 .31 Little Light Bearers Supplies 1,221 .00 General Executive Report 1,363 .85 W. F. M. S. Badges 825.35 26,940.92 Interest on Loans and Deposits $ 935.70 Invested Funds Account (Loans and Deposits) 3,110.29 Advertising 312.46 Cuts, Electros and Type Metal 496.39 Executive Daily Account 410.58 5,265.42

Total Receipts $95,102.63 Cash on Hand, October 1, 1920 17,692.55

$112,795.18 Disbursements October 1, 1920, to October 1, 1921 Woman's Missionary Friend

Printing $39,159 . 20

Mailing and Postage 8,282 . 28 Type and Cases 937.65 Illustrations 574.36

Contributions 1 1 . 00 Refunds on Subscriptions 35.80 Mystery Box 162.97

Bound Volumes 7 . 50 Rent 360.00 Clerical Services 2,530.00 Editor's Salary 1,300.00 Editor's Budget 700.00 Editor's Postage and Supplies 68.30 Editing "Study" in Friend 150.00

Subscription Blanks 181 . 00 $54,460.06 Junior Missionary Friend Printing $9,882.99 Mailing and Postage 1,416.42 Type 83.70 Illustrations 219.53

Life Member Cuts. . 863 . 50 Refunds on Subscriptions 14.30

Contributions 4 . 00

Clerical Services 500 . 00 Rent 105.00 Bound Volumes 13.20

Editor's Salary 500 . 00 Editor's Postage 17.63 Subscription Blanks 58 .02 $13,678.29 140 Reports

Der Frauen Missions Freund

Printing $1,246.09 Mailing and Postage 117.01

Clerical Services 225 . 00 Rent 95.00 Editor's Salary 400.00 Illustrations 3.80 Editor's Postage 12.61 $2,099.51

Literature

Printing Leaflets, Mite Boxes and Supplies $23,190.20 Books and Helps 820.09 King's Heralds Badges 135.87 Little Light Bearers Badges 432.00 Report Blanks 751 .05 Cuts and Seals ' 323.02 Refund 110.50

Clerical Services 1 ,836 . 85 Rent 400.00 Postage 961.64 Wrapping Paper and Twine 217.77 Express 896.95 Printing and Distributing Executive Report 1,757 .35

Manuscripts 73 . 00 Binding Reports 2.90 31,873.19

General Expense of the Publication Office

Publisher's Salary $1,500.00

Stationery and Supplies 461 . 48 Telephone and Telegrams 101 .08 Auditor 15.00

Insurance 41 . 29 Light and Power 48.20 Appropriation, Swedish Work 100.00 Appropriation, German Work 60.00 Travelling Expense, Editors and Publisher to General Executive Meeting 445.74

Collection on Checks 2 . 00

Executive Daily Account 541 . 18 Stationery for General Officers 60.65 Completing Books of Remembrance 50.00 3,426.62

Total Disbursements $105,537 . 67 Cash on Hand, October 1, 1921 7,257.51

$112,795.18

Assets and Liabilities

October 1. 1921 Assets

Two First Mortgages $ 1,300.00 Note, Treasurer, Woman's Foreign Missionary Society 1,000.00 Cash on Hand, October 1, 1921 7,257.51

Due October 1 on unpaid accounts 15,966 . 39 $25,523.90 Type, Cases and Furniture $1,500.00 Value of Stock 4,500.00 6,000.00

Total Assets $31,523 .90

Liabilities

Due on Unexpired Subscriptions 18,500.00

Net Assets $13,023.90

Annie G. Bailey, Publisher.

Accounts for the year ending September 30, 1921, examined, proper vouchers found for all payments, and cash assets ($9,557.51) all verified. George E. Whitaker, Auditor. Bequests and Annuities 141 BEQUESTS AND ANNUITIES

1920-1921 NEW ENGLAND BRANCH

Lydia S. Dickerman Hamden, Conn $1,891.95 Ellen A. Kellogg Boston, Mass 3,000.00 Sarah L. Nutter Brookline, Mass 2,000.00 Margaret C. Perkins Newburyport, Mass 200.00 Louisa Rease Old Orchard, Maine 100.00 Lucinda H. White Monson, Mass 1,500.00 Martha T. Wilson Holyoke, Mass 500.00 ,191.95 NEW YORK BRANCH Anne Beaumont Vineland, N. J $1,754.00 lone Campbell Sacketts Harbor, N. Y 884.00 Carrie C. B. Fanning (additional ).Elmira, N. Y 2,000.00 Annie T. Fulton Kenmore, N. Y 100.00 Sarah A. Hulbert Troy, N. Y 100.00 Jane Jordan Mt. Vernon, N. Y 935.00 Cornelia L. Payne Westport, N. Y 100.00 Mrs. L. C. Rounds Clifton Springs, N. Y 500.00 Emma Jane Smith Delmar, N. Y 475.00 Jane Elizabeth Smith Irvington, N. J ,-. 100.00 Mary Jane Spence Watkins, N. Y 80.00 Eliza P. Wood Troy, N. Y 250.00 Elwell W. Wood Wolcott, N. Y 100.00 *Orinda Alexander Fox Homer, N. Y 2,000.00 *Jeannette P. Hunt East Orange, N. J 5,000.00 *Mary E. Richards Hudson Falls, N. Y 500.00 14,878.00 PHILADELPHIA BRANCH

Matilda J. Carnahan Pittsburgh, Pa $ 1,250.00 Ann Eliza R. Curtis Edinboro, Pa 1,795.80 Mary Davidson New Castle, Pa 500.00 Wilbur P. Graff Blairsville, Pa 10,000.00 Annie Grey Tyrone, Pa 500.00 Asenath H. Pershing Pittsburgh, Pa 3,472.05 Mary Lane Sheafer Wiconisco, Pa 511.20 Mollie B. Shipe Mechanicsburg, Pa 585.77 Charles W. Staley Pittsburgh, Pa 4,893.26 Miss Wilson Uniontown, Pa 200.00 *Mrs. J. P. Hanna Meadville, Pa 500.00 *Mary Hunnings Pittsburgh, Pa 2,000.00 26,208.08

BALTIMORE BRANCH *Mary Baker Washington, D. C 1,504.35 CINCINNATI BRANCH Margaret L. Gregg Hillsboro, Ohio $ 50.00 Lewis Leighninger West La Fayette, Ohio 615.00 Jennie McMillan (additional) Chattanooga, Tenn 85.63 Mrs. D. H. Moyer Findlay, Ohio 900.00 W. W. Zartman Columbus, Ohio 500.00 2,150.63 NORTHWESTERN BRANCH

Anna H. Donovan Watseka, 111 $ 3,500.00 Elvira Elliott Estate Michigan 500.00

Mary J. Jones Howell, Mich 464 . 95 Thomas Leake Dixon, 111 500.00 Emily Pinckard Brighton, 111 50.00 Mary E. Spencer Geneseo, 111.. 1,000.00

*Kate Blackburn (surrendered) . . .Lovetch, Bulgaria 1,000.00 *Ellen J. Turnbull Downer's Grove, 111 100.00 *Mrs. C. G. Hudson Anderson, Ind 1,000.00 8,114.95 142 Reports

DES MOINES BRANCH

Memorial Gift Mrs. Rebecca Kempthorne Des Moines, Iowa $ 1,000. 00 Mrs. Jones Denison, Iowa 1,000 00 A Friend 100 .00 A Friend Toledo, Iowa 100 00 Sarah F. Gates Waterloo, Iowa 200 00 2,400.00 MINNEAPOLIS BRANCH

Jane Winslow Minneapolis, Minn 200.00 TOPEKA BRANCH

Elizabeth Griffin Winfield, Kan $ 1,800.00 *Ida B. Sykes Wellington, Kan 493.87 2,293.87

PACIFIC BRANCH

Mrs. W. P. Hammond Pasadena, Calif $ 300.00 Mary W. Lewis Campbell, Calif 150.00 Anna H. Minnott San Francisco, Calif 50.00 Eleanor Skelton Long Beach, Calif 1,200.00 Kate A. Whitney Los Angeles, Calif 1,243.00 Charlotte O'Neal Pasadena, Calif 3,500.00 6,443.00

COLUMBIA RIVER BRANCH

Sarah J. Meredith Portland, Ore 1,049.79

Total of Bequests and Lapsed Annuities $74,434.62

Bequests $56,836 . 40 Lapsed Annuities 17,598.22

Total $74,434.62 Lapsed Annuities.

REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON BY-LAWS

Changes in By-laws as Adopted

By-law VI, paragraph 4, Q>n& such other places as it may occur—Change "Children's Work" to "Junior Work." By-law VII, last paragraph—Change "Branch Secretary of Special Work" to "Branch Secretary of Field Support." By-law X, paragraph C, section 1 —Change "$100" to "$200" and omit "not less than," so that it shall read, "The Society shall provide each missionary when beginning service with $200 for personal outfit." By-law XII, paragraph 3—Insert "except the Field Reference Commit- tee," so that it shall read, "They shall be eligible to membership in any of the committees of the Woman's Conference except the Field Reference Com- mittee." By-law XIII, paragraph 2, section c—Change to read, "pay all appropriations, including salaries and buildings, on the basis of the currency of the country at par." Mrs. Charles Spaeth; Chairman. Summary of Disbursements 143

SUMMARY OF DISBURSEMENTS FOR 1920-1921

Conferences For General For Land and Totals Work Buildings INDIA Isabella Thoburn College % 21,502.73$ 1,672.75$ 23,175.48 North India 113,755.21 3,828.00 117,583.21 Northwest India 99,495.67 9,415.00 108,910.67 South India 85,362.63 12,608.00 97,970.63 Central Provinces 62,359 .05 600.00 62,959 .05 Bombay 53,400.57 15,382.00 68,782.57 Bengal 30,082.76 2,138.00 32,220.76 India General 630.00 630.00

Children's Thank Offering for Baby-Folds . . 6,856 .12 6,856 . 12

Totals for India $ 473,444.74 $ 45,643.75 $ 519,088.49

BURMA $ 24,052.71$ 8,472.05$ 32,524.76 MALAYSIA $ 40,685.21 $ 854.00$ 41,539.21 NETHERLANDS INDIES $ 6,107.03$ 8,000.00$ 14,107.03 PHILIPPINE ISLANDS '. $ 41,269.73 $ 37,244.00 $ 78,513.73 CHINA North China $ 112,519.11 $ 10,155.00 $ 122,674.11 Central China 46,470.65 13,995.00 60,465.65 Kiangsi 61,572.64 25,427.00 86,999.64 West China 61,488.19 19,522.77 81,010.96 Foochow 74,247.22 23,655.00 97,902.22 Yenping 13,342.47 13,342.47 Hinghwa 33,784.09 26,935.87 60,719.96 China General 33,351 .57 33,351 .57

Totals for China $ 436,775.94 $119,690.64 $ 556,466.58

KOREA $ 118,441.88 $ 41,545.24 $ 159,987.12 JAPAN East Japan $ 78,162.95 $ 10,633.62 $ 88,796.57 West Japan 54,576.76 25,159.99 79,736.75

Totals for Japan $ 132,739.71 $35,793.61$ 168,533.32

MEXICO $ 54,408.27 $ 26,468.34 $ 80,876.61 SOUTH AMERICA

Eastern South America $ 25,641 . 15 $ 26,940.35 $ 52,581 .50 North Andes 9.376.86 9,376.86

Totals for South America $ 35,018.01 $ 26,940.35 $ 61,958.36 EUROPE Bulgaria $ 8,090.00$ 1,500.00$ 9,590.00 Italy 7,010.50 7,010.50 France and Reconstruction 35,659.93 500.00 36,159.93 Norway 50.00 50.00 Central Europe 420.00 420.00 Near East 121.50 121.50

Totals for Europe $ 51,351 .93 $ 2,000.00 $ 53,351 .93

AFRICA North Africa $ 12,840.00 $ $ 12,840.00 Rhodesia 12,612.16 4,500.00 17,112.16 Southeast Africa 4,498.07 4,498.07 Angola 5,231.50 5,231.50 Africa General 25.00 25.00

Totals for Africa $ 35,206.73 $ 4,500.00$ 39,706.73

MISCELLANEOUS *$ 333,352.95 YOUNG PEOPLE'S THANK OFFERING for Fords $ 6,868.93

Grand Total $1,449,501.89 $357,151.98 $2,146,875.75

*This includes $6,656.18 investments, German Thank Offering, Retirement Fund, Medi- cal Educational Funds, all taxes and insurance, interest on loans, and cost of foreign, home and Branch administration and reserves for buildings, medical and evangelistic, promised but not yet begun. 2

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146 Reports REAL ESTATE

NORTH INDIA CONFERENCE SOUTH INDIA CONFERENCE

Bangalore Baldwin High School . $18,000 (1918 figures) Bidar School Building 14,466 Belgaum Home 11,000 Almora Epworth Sanitarium $4,000 Widows' Home 1,000 Arrah Land 7,000 Hyderabad Stanley High School. 16,000 Bareilly Mission Zenana Hospital. 15,000 Zenana Home 6,000 Home and Orphanage 12,000 Kolar William A. Gamble Deacon- Bhot Darchula Flora Deaconess ess Home 8,800

Home 1,900 Ellen Thoburn Cowen Hospital . . 8,000 Chandas Deaconess Home 1,000 Orphanage and Darby Hall 9,769 Biinor Boarding School and Dormi- Hospital Bungalow 4,500 tories 12,000 St. Louis Cottage 1,350

Budaon Sigler Boarding School . . . 5,650 Widows' Home 2,103 Home and Dormitory 5,000 Madras Harriet Bond Skidmore Dwarahat Boarding School and School Missionary Home 1,683 Baltimore Memorial School

Gonda Boarding School 2,500 Northwestern Memorial Home.. . 33,333 Missionary Home 2,500 High Caste Girls' School 3,334 Hardoi Boarding School 3,000 Ootacamund Francesca Nast Gam- Missionary Home 3,000 ble Rest Home 5,000 Land 200 Raichur Land 295 Lucknow Isabella Thoburn College Vikarabad Mary A. Knotts Board- and High School 75,000 ing School and Bungalow 11,000 Lilavati Singh Memorial 20,000 Deaconess Home 3,000 Total $153,950 New Land for College 28,000 Moradabad Boarding School 9,500 Muzzaffarpur Indiana School 3,000 CENTRAL PROVINCES CONFERENCE Dispensary 516 Basim Buildings $9,500 Naini Tal Wellesley High School . . 30,000 Jubbulpore Johnson School, Wellesley Sanitarium 1,000 Orphanage and Home (includ- Pauri Boarding School, ing Wesleyan Property) 47,000 Orphanage and Home 11,000 Zenana Home 8,000 Pithoragarh Boarding School, Workers' Quarters 450 Woman's Home, Bungalow and Garha Day School 400 Hospital 11,005 Khandwa Orphanage 15,000 Rasra Hospital and Home 1,500 Raipur Orphanage and four build- Shahjahanpur Bidwell School, ings 15,770 Woman's Home, Bungalow. . . . 7,000 Maud L. Harvey Isolation Ward. 555 Sitapur Boarding School 9,801 Sironcha Mary J. Clark Memorial 10,800 Annie Ryder Gracey Home 3,300 Anna Clason Dispensary 2,000 Widows' Home 500 Total $289,155 Total $109,975 NORTHWEST INDIA CONFERENCE BOMBAY CONFERENCE (1918 figures) Baroda Webb Memorial School and Ajmer Boarding School and Mark's Bungalow $33,000 Hall $13,335 Mrs. William Butler Memorial. . . 15,000 Aligarh Woman's Industrial Home 21,333 Bombay Agripada School 5,000 Louise Soule Orphanage 12,528 Bvculla Home 40,000 Brindaban Mabel Calder Home Byculla Hostel 10,000 and Dispensary 4,600 Godhra Boarding School and Or- Sarah E. Creighton Hospital 5,500 phanage 20,000 Cawnpore Hudson Memorial School 10,000 Normal School Buildings 8,000 Girls' English High School 31,666 Nadiad Mary E. Whitney Bunga- Delhi Land 1,334 low 5,630 Poona Taylor High School 30,000 Ghaziabad Land and Dormitory . . 5,000 Lahore School Building and Home 14,000 Rice Memorial Dispensary 1,000 Meerut Howard Plested Memorial 10,860 Telegaon Ordelia M. Hillman Schoolrooms, Do rmitory and Boarding School 25,000 Walls 5.1S0 Muttra Blackstone Training School Total $192,630

and Flora Deaconess Home.. . . 16,800

Dormitory and Improvements. . . 2,941 Phalera Orphanage and Industrial BENGAL CONFERENCE School 7,600 (1918 figures) Day School 125 Roorkee School 6,000 Asansol Widows' Home and Tilaunia Mary Wilson Sanitorium. 20,800 Boarding School $13,000

Bolpur Bible Women's Houses.. . . 100 Total $189,602 Calcutta Girls' High School 75,000 ——

Real Estate 147

Anna J. Thoburn Deaconess Home $20,000 Anna Gloss Medical School and Darjeeling Queen's Hill, Crandon Hospital $40,000 Hall, The Repose, Almira Pierce Tsunhwa Land 2,500 Hall 20,625 Taianfu Missionary Home 5,095 Pakaur Boarding School and Wid- Priscilla Bennett Hospital 6,000 ows' Home 12,333 Maria Brown Davis Boarding William H. Kendall Missionary School 10,000 Home 7,500 Woman's Training School 1,908 Tamluk Mary Harvey Home 5,667 Yenchoufu Day School 500 Tientsin Sarah L. Keen Memorial Total $154,225 School, Isabella Fisher Hospital, Woman's Training School, West BURMA CONFERENCE Gate Dispensary 40,000 Pegu Mission $ 150 Total $195,831 Rangoon English High School. . . . 40,000 Charlotte O'Neal Boarding School 33,545 Shattuck Hall 10,000 CENTRAL CHINA CONFERENCE Hagerty Home 5,000 Chinkiang Thandaung Elizabeth Pearson Pine Tree Home and Hall 37,000 Girls' Boarding School with Thongwa Day School 200 Land $13,000 Bible Training School 8,000 Letitia Mason Quine Memorial Hospital 11,000 Maria Total $133,895 Abrahams Heacock Nurses' Home 1,000 West Gate Dispensary 1,200 MALAYSIA CONFERENCE Nanking Hitt Memorial Training Kuala Lumpur Day School $18,000 School 11,000 Mary E. Holt Hall 12,800 Dormitory Annex 2,000 Malacca Suydam Girls' School .... 9,750 Lawrence Hall 12,000 Penang Charlotte S. Winchell Adeline Smith Dormitory 6,000 Home 18,500 Arvilla Lake Dormitory 1,600 Alexandra Home 975 Missionary Home 3,000 Stafford Missionary Home 5,000 Gymnasium 1 ,000 Lindsay Hall 13,000 Fairfield 2,000 Singapore Mary C. Nind Deaconess Day Schools Home 18,000 Giang Ning Djen, "Philena Fairfield Girls' School 14,500 Johnson" 600 Methodist Girls' School 6,200 Siao Dan Yang 630 Taipeng Girls' School 10,000 Luh Lan Chiao, "Mary Derr". 700 One-half of "The Nest," Rest) value not Giang Tang Giai 2,000 Wuhu Green Hill Bungalow reported Home 8,000 ) Wall 3.000 Day Schools Total $126,725 Second Street 2,000 Tai Ping Road 800 NETHERLANDS INDIES CONFERENCE Si Pu 400 Buitenzorg Land for Bible Training Yuing Tsao 400 School $ 4,420 Ho Cheo 500 Tai Ping Fu 800 PHILIPPINE ISLANDS CONFERENCE Bagnio Sanitarium $ 1,000 Total $84,630 Lingayen Bible Women's Training School and Dormitory 5,021 Manila Harris Memorial Bible KIANGSI CONFERENCE Women's Training School 21,260 Kiukiang Rulison Home $ 3,500 Mary J. Johnston Hospital 37,650 Rulison High School 8,000 Hugh Wilson Dormitory 28,000 Rulison Primary School 3,000 San Fernando Edna Thomas Dor- Danforth Memorial Hospital and mitory 20,000 Isolation Ward 11,000 Tuguegarao Dormitory 2,400 Danforth Kitchen 1,000 Nurses' Home 1,000 Total $115,331 Anna Stone Home 5,000 Rawlings Bungalow 1,200 Ida Gracey Cripples' Home 3,000 NORTH CHINA CONFERENCE Knowles Bible Training School . . 10,500 (1918 figures) Day Schools Heo Kai, Burns 1,200 Changli Missionary Home $ 8,235 Siao Chih Keo, Trinity 600 Hospital 5J31 Kunglung, Hawks 500 Catherine E. Thompson Training Shih Pai, Philadelphia Branch. 500 School 1,582 Knowles Gate, Anderson 550 Bible Woman's Home 460 Hwang Mei, Woolever 500 Day School 320 Hu Keo, Kingham 600 Alderman Memorial School 12,000 Ba Go Ship, Gorham-Salzer. . . 1,250 Peking Mary Porter Gamewell Sa Ho, Graham 500 School 36,000 Hu Shih Peh, Clapp 600 Sleeper Davis Memorial Hospital 17,500 Hsui Chang, Cortelyou 675 Missionary Home 6,500 Susung 500 Woman's Training School 1,500 Tai Hu, Joyce 600 —— — — .. .

148 Reports

Hwa Shan Tang, Quine $ 750 Hartsock Primary $ 2,000 Kuling Lucy Hoag Rest Home. . . . 5,000 Sixtieth Anniversary Building. . . . 12000 Nanchang Woman's Hospital and Model Primary Day School Build- Land 15,000 ing---- 1,000 Mary Peterson Reed 4,000 Woman s School Home and Residence . . 2,250 Baldwin School Compound Leper Home and Church 800 Harrington Home 4,000 Magaw Memorial Hospital, Resi- Baldwin Dormitory 15,000 dence and Nurses' Home 32,000 Baldwin Assembly Hall 16,000 Isolation Hospital \ 500 McEchron Gate House, Land Black Rock Hill (Woolston Me- and Wall 3,100 morial) Dispensary and Resi- City Day Schools . dence 6,000 Near Hospital (Porter $900, Mary E. Crook Memorial Orphan- Hughes S400) 1,300 _ age 3700 Pan Pu Kai, McHarry 400 Industrial Building and Land... 10,000 Si Chi, 100 Haitang Girls' Ma Payton Boarding School. . 6,000 Baldwin Gate, Joyce 500 Woman's School 600 River District Model Primary Kan Day School. . . . . 500 Feng Cheng, Boggs 200 Kutien Girls' Boarding School 2,900 Chang Shu, Ridgeway and Bright 1,000 Model Primary Day School 500 Hsia Kiang, Cantner 500 Woman's School 1,125 Fu River District Woman's School Chapel 2^500 Fuchow Kindergarten 3,000 Payton $450 Residence L500 Smith 450 Lungtien (Hokchiang or Futsing) Land 100 1,000 Girls' Boarding School and Residence 2,250 Total $123,625 Woman's School 2,000 Hospital 6^000 Mmtsing WEST CHINA CONFERENCE Girls' Boarding School and Residence 5,000 Chengtu Land $ 5,000 Lekdu Model Primary Day School 1,000 Boarding School 8,000 Model Primary Day School Home 4,000 (Gaing) 1,000 Day School 4,000 Hospital 3,100 Normal School 2,000 Chungking Blackstone Home 6,000 Total $171,975 City Day School 1,100 Gamble Hospital 9,200 YENPING CONFERENCE "Rest" Bungalow 1,500 Gamble Bungalow 2,500 Yenping Girls' Boarding School.. . $4,000 Boarding School Land 2,100 Woman's School 3,000 Dormitory . 2,500 Model Primary Day School 750 Schools Dav Residence 2,000 Bisan 700 Uong Dai Day School Yung Chwan 850 500 BeiSiYi 500 Total $10,250 Ma Fang Chiao 1,000 Din Gia Ngao 1,000 SaiYengYi 1,100 HINGHWA CONFERENCE Yuinmendsen 500 Missionary Home and Boarding Hankong District Day School. .. $ 1,000 Lillian School 6,000 Gamble Rescue Home.. . . 1,000 Suining Land 1,050 Hinghwa Juliet Turner Woman's Dormitories 2,000 Training School 1,900 Boarding School 5,000 Eads Memorial Hall 3,500 Missionary Home 4,000 Grammar Boarding School 12^000 Day School, Alta Hudson. 1,000 City Primary School and Normal 4,350 Tzechow DeWitt Home and Bible Bible Women & Widows' Home.. 175 Training School 1,500 Jubilee Hall 6,000 New Bible Training School 5,000 Packard Home 3,200 Boarding School 5,000 Kuliang Sanitorium 4,700 I Land 3,500 Sienyu Frieda Knoechel Woman's Wall 2,500 Training School, Annex and Day Schools Chapel 1,800 Cushman 500 Isabel Hart Memorial 1,000 Cincinnati 500 Hamilton Uhler School, Dining Wisconsin 800 Room, Kitchen, Chapel, Class Caldwell 500 Rooms and Drill Court 4,867 Five Others 1,000 Kindergarten 1 ,000 Eliza Margaret Nast Hospital. . . 6,500 Total $93,400 Hospital Bungalow 2,500 Isolation Ward 800 FOOCHOW CONFERENCE Missionary Residence 3,000 Tehwa Carrie R. Donnel Woman's College Build- Foochow Woman's Training School 2,400 ings $50,000 Susie L. Mansfield Girls' School. 5,000 Girls' Boarding School and Resi- Kindergarten 500 dence 10,000 Hall Huntley 1,750 Total $67,192 .

Real Estate 149

KOREA CONFERENCE School, Gymnasium and Gate- Chemulpo Home and School $ 5,000 house $38,950 Day School 5,000 Nagasaki Land 112,500 Bible Woman's Building 500 Russell Hall 15,000 Chapel 500 Thomas Hall 5,000 Gamble Hall 15,000 Seoul Ewha Home and School.. . . 64,000 Charlotte Brownlee Kindergarten 6,000 Corner Chapel 15,000 Chongdong Dispensary. 1,000 Other Buildings 1,500 Kumamoto Land and Residence. . 12,500 Sarah J. Simpson Memorial 6,500 Lillian Harris Memorial Hospital. 25,000 Kagoshima Land and Residence . 17,000 East Gate, Scranton Home 2,000 Kindergarten 4,000 East Gate Baldwin Chapel 500 West Gate Site 1,000 Total $340,700 Aogi Day School 2,000 East Gate Day School 1,200 MEXICO CONFERENCE Kang Dong Ni 1,000 Guanajuato Mary Ann Cox Me- Emma Fay Chamberlain (San morial School $ 15,000 Kang D. S.) 1,000 Mexico City Sarah L. Keen College 130,000 Yong Mo Ri (Wesley Chapel D.S.) 500 Industrial School 90,000 Wang Sim Ni 500 Bible Training School 20,000 Cha Moon Pat 500 Pachuca Ludlow Institute 38,000 Kate Vergon Chapel 500 Puebla Normal Institute 65,000 Sudler Dav School 500 Woman's Bible School 21,102 Total $358,000 Haiju Home 3,500 School Building 3,000 Konju Home 3,500 EASTERN SOUTH AMERICA Day School. 3,000 CONFERENCE Kang Gyengie 1,250 Buenos Aires Land and Buildings. $90,000 Pyengyang Home 4,000 Furniture 4,000 Hospital and Dispensary 12,000 Rosario Land and Buildings 147,000 Day School 5,000 Furniture 4,000 Union Academy 11,000 Montevideo Crandon Institute Site 75,000 Finlay Day School 500 Crandon Institute Building 225,000 Day School 500 Sherwood Hall Property 9,000 Total $545,000 Yengbyen Home 3,000 Dormitory 5,763 BULGARIA CONFERENCE Day School 3,000 Pemington Day School 750 Lovetch Girls' School $13,000 Sin Chang Day School 750 Sofia Hostel Property 16,722 Fuel House 100 Suwon Day School 4,700 Total $29,722 Ye Chen Day School 1,000 Wonju Amanda List Home 4,000 ITALY CONFERENCE Woman's Class Building 1,500 Hall Gate House and Site 1,000 Rome Crandon and Massey Kindergarten 500 Hall $198,000

Total $228,115 FRANCE MISSION CONFERENCE Grenoble Orphanage Property $40,000 EAST JAPAN CONFERENCE Sapporo Residence and Land .... $26,000 NORTH AFRICA CONFERENCE Hakodate School, Residence, Kin- dergarten and Land 152,500 Algiers Les Aiglons $25,000 Hirosaki School, Residence, Dormi- Constantine No. 5 Blvd. Mercier.. 20,595 tory and Land 44,360 Sidi Ferruch Matilda J. Carnahan Charity Kindergarten and Land. 1,542 Cottage 7,500 Memorial Kindergarten and Land 3,570 Sendai Residence and Land 17,650 Total $53,095 School Building and Trees 5,119 Tokyo New Site for Aoyama Jo RHODESIA CONFERENCE Gakuin 85,000 Old Umtali Hartzell Villa $ 6,250 Aoyama Jo Gakuin Buildings.. . . 25,000 Asakusa Buildings 3,000 School and Out Buildings 5,550 6,000 Yokohama 221 Bluff 75,000 Mutumbara School Aizawa Land and Building 2,750 Dispensary 500 Hachimanyato Land and Building 2,500 Simons Memorial Land and Total $18,300 Building 6,500 Kanagawa Building 1,000 SOUTHEAST AFRICA CONFERENCE Yamabukicho Building 1,500 Inhambane Land $ 889 Total $452,991 ANGOLA MISSION Quessua^Home and School $ 4,000 WEST JAPAN CONFERENCE Loanda XSchool 10,000 Fukuoka Land $80,000 Residence and Dormitory 24,250 Total $14,000 .

150 Reports SUMMARY North India... $289,155 Korea $228,115 Northwest India 189,602 East Japan. 452,991 South India 153,950 West Japan 340,700 Central Provinces 109,975 Mexico 358,000 Bombay 192,630 Eastern South America. 545,000 Bengal . . 154,225 Bulgaria 29,722 Burma 133,895 Italy 198,000 Malaysia 126,725 France Mission 40,000 Philippine Islands., 115,331 North Africa 53,095 Netherlands Indies 4,420 Rhodesia 18,300 North China 195,831 Southeast Africa 889 Central China. . . . 84,630 Angola Mission 14,000 Kiangsi 123,625 West China 93,400 Total, 1921 $4,495,623 Poochow 171,975 Total, 1918 3,215,470 Yenping 10,250 Hinghwa 67,192 Increase . . . $1,280,153 STATISTICS H

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SUMMARY OF STATISTICS OF FOREIGN CONFERENCES FOR 1920-1921

Summary Women in the Church

CONFERENCES

North India 566 9254 17212 6275 2287 20185 Northwest India 667 13034 36573 22435 8015 39505 South India 493 5711 22548 5562 978 21170 Central Provinces 28 901 1800 1641 378 1696 Bombay 207 1064 7187 1489 1391 6188 Bengal 100 252 369 75 152 633

Burma 351 243 122 39 115 Malaysia (1920) 630 341 75 147 1478 Netherlands Indies Mission. 80 19 27 15 13 Philippine Islands 3784 2939 7416 1396 7548

North China 177 3274 1100 1104 391 1369 Central China 104 649 210 305 136 211 Kiangsi 575 348 1208 144 488 West China 160 539 487 42 105 81 Foochow 211 1403 1247 140 228 701 Hinghwa 198 2161 1687 5663 857 3770 Yenping 96 522 575 725 1757

Korea (1920) 5234 2111 5174 616 5162 East Japan 255 1166 447 255 324 1205 West Japan 216 603 262 115 341

Mexico South America

Bulgaria 301 81 321 52 Italy France Mission North Africa

Rhodesia 1231 1049 4087 95 2280 Southeast Africa 950 1810 2600 200 2750 Angola Mission

Total 115 115 3607 53669 100383 67003 18061 118646 104513 2639 Foreign Statistics 155

SUMMARY OF STATISTICS OF FOREIGN CONFERENCES FOR 1920-1921

Bible Institutes Schools for Training Schools of College Grade or Training Classes Bible Women

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~~Total 204 1130 11406 73200 24557 12 95587 S35839 $20514 $691 12 713 Directory of Missionaries 161 MISSIONARIES OF THE Woman's Foreign Missionary Society 1869-1921~~

a indicates appointed; S sailed; m marriage; s self-supporting; J detached service; R retired; r resigned; dis discontinued; d deceased; * daughter of missionaries; f contract teacher; married name in italics; abbreviations indicate Branches.

Aaronson, Hilma A Des M., India, a. 1905, R. 1917 Abbott, Anna Agnes N. W., India, a. 1901 Abbott, Edna M.. . Cin., India, a. 1915 Abel, Edith F Top., China, a. 1915 Abrams, Minnie F Minn., India, a. 1887, R. 1899, d. 1912 Adams, Jean Phila., China, a. 1900, s. Adams, Marie N. W., China, a. 1915 Akers, L. Stella, M.D N. E., China, a. 1882, m. 1885, Perkins Albertson, Millie May Cin., Korea, a. 1907, d. 1918 Albrecht, Helen Ruth Cin., Japan, 5. 1921 Alexander, V. Elizabeth Cin., Japan, a. 1903 Allen, Belle J., M.D Cin. and N. E., Japan and India, a. 1888, R. Allen, Mabel Des M., China, a. 1891, R. 1919 Allen, Mabel E N. W., China, S. 1920 Ailing, Harriet S N. W., Japan, a. 1894, R. 1912, d. 1916 Amburn, Emma E Des M., Burma, a. 1918 Anderson, Luella R Cin., Malaysia, a. 1900 Anderson, Mary Phila., Africa, a. 1911 Anderson, Naomi A N. W., Korea, a. 1910, r. 1921 Ankeny, Jessie V Des M., China, a. 1908, m. 1913, Lacy Appenzeller, Alice R Phila., Korea, a. 1914* Appenzeller, Ida H N. E., Japan, a. 1917*, m. 1919, Crom Ashbaugh, Adella M Cin., Japan, a. 190S Ashbrook, Anna Cin., India, a. 1914 Ashwill, Agnes Cin., Burma, a. 1908 Atkinson, Anna P N. Y., Japan; a. 1882 Atkinson, Mary N. Y., Japan, a. 1888, dis. Ault, Clara V Cin., Africa, a. 1918, m. 1921 Gibbs Austin, Laura F Col. R., India, a. 1905 Ayres, Harriet L Cin., Mexico, a. 1886 Bacon, Edna G N. W., India, a. 1916 Bacon, Nettie A N. Y., India, a. 1913J Bahrenburg, Lyra H Top., China, 5. 1919 Bailey, B. May Top., Japan, S. 1919 Bair, Blanche R Des. M., Korea, a. 1914 Baker, L. Catherine Cin., China, a. 1907 Ball, Jennie L N. W., India, o. 1915 Bangs, Louise N. W., Japan, a. 1911 Barber, Emma J N. W., India, a. 1909 Barrow, Mrs. M. M., M.D N. Y., China, a. 1895, m. 1900, King Barstow, Clara G Pac, South America, a. 1912 Bartlett, Carrie M Des. M., China, a. 1904 Bassett, Bernice C N. W., Japan, S. 1919 Bates, Ruth E Des M., India, a. 1918, d. 1921 Battey, C. Frances N. Y., China, a. 1915, r. 1921 Battin, Lora I N. W., China, 5. 1920 Baucus, Georgiana N. Y., Japan, a. 1890, s. Baugh, Evelyn B Pac, China, a. 1907* Baumgardner, Lucy E Des M., Mexico, a. 1900, m. 1903, Morton Beach, Lucy W N. W., India, 5. 1920 Beale, Elizabeth M Phila., India, a. 1911 Beard, Bertha M Des M., China, a. 1902, m. 1903, Gasson Beatty, Mabel A N. E., China, a. 1916 Beazell, Laura E N. W., Italy, o. 1900, m. 1903, Andreas Beck, Edna L., M.D Pac, India, a. 1902, m. 1906, Keisler Beck, Rosetta Cin., India, a. 1914 Becker, Gertrude A Minn., India, S. 1920 Bedell, Mary E Col. R., China, a. 1917 Beggs, Nelle N. W., China, a. 1910, R. 1920 Beiler, Mary N. E., Korea, a. 1910, m. 1921, Biddle Bender, Elizabeth R Bait., Japan, a. 1889, R. Benedict, Ruth E N. Y., Korea, a. 1910, m. 1916, Moore Bengel, Margaret Cin., Korea, a. 1890, m. 1892, Jones Benn, Rachel R., M.D Phila., China, a. 1890, R. 1911 Bennett, Fannie A N. W., India, a. 1901 1

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Bennett, Lulah Grace Des M., Mexico, 5. 1920 Benthien, Elizabeth M N. W., India and Mexico, a. 1895 Benton, J. Emma N. E., Japan, a. 1882, m. 1885, Elmer Betow, Emma J., M.D Cin., China, a. 1904 Betz, Blanche A N. W., Mexico, a. 1907 Bills, Grace Ida N. W., India, a. 1906, m. 1909, Schutz Bing, Anna V Cin., Japan, a. 1888, R. 1912 Bishop, Francene L Pac, India, a. 1916, m. 1918, Wood, d. 1921 Bjorklund, Sigrid C N. E., China, S. 1920 Black, Lillian A Phila., India, a. 188S, R. 1889 Blackburn, Kate B N. W., Bulgaria, a. 1892 Blackmar, Louisa Top., India, a. 1872, m. 1902, Gilder Blackmore, Sophia Minn., Malaysia, a. 1887 Blackstock, Anna. N. W., India, a. 1913 Blackstock, Constance E Phila., India, a. 1914 Blackstock, Ella M Minn., Japan, a. 1889, d. 1916 Blackstock, Isabella T Phila., India, a. 1905, m. 1913, Beardsley Blair, Katherine A Cin., India, a. 1888 Blakely, Mildred M Top., Philippine Islands, a. 1913 Blasdell, Jennie A Cin., India, a. 1917 Bobenhouse, Laura G Des M., India, a. 1897 Boddy, Estie T Des M., China, a. 1907, m. 1921 Boddy, Grace Top., India, a. 1912 Bodley, Ellison W Pac, Japan, a. 1915 Boggess, Edith E N. W., India, a. 1915, m. 1921 Boggs, Lucinda N. W., China, a. 1910, R. 1913 Bohannon, Ida N. W., Mexico, a. 1900, R. 1908 Bonafield, Julia Cin., China, a. 1888 Bording, Maren P N. W., Philippine Islands and Korea, a. 1916 Borg, Jennie Top., China, a. 1907, m. 1915, Lawrence Boss, Harriet N. W., India, a. 1897, dis. 1S98 Bowen, Mary E N. E., South America, a. 1888, m. 1898, Brown Bowne, Ida May N. Y., Italy, a. 1897, m. 1903, Manfre, m. Perry Bragg, Jessie A Top., India, a. 1914 Brethorst, Alice B Minn., China, a. 1906 Brethorst, Helen Minn., India, a. 1915, m. 1919, Omund Brethorst, S. Marie Minn., China, a. 1913 Brewer, Edna C N. W., India, a. 1913, R. 1920 Bridenbaugh, Jennie B Des M., China, a. 1911 Bridgewater, Gertrude M Des M., China, a. 1914, m. 1919, Rebrow Britt, Edythe M N. Y., India, a. 1914, m. 1918, Fellows Broadbrooks, Edith N. W., India, a. 1912, m. 1914, King Brooks, Jessie N. Y., Malaysia, a. 1907 Brouse, Louise T N. W., India, a. 1899, m. 1905, Cook Brown, Cora M Top., China, a. 1910 Brown, Edna B N. Y., South America, 5. 1920 Brown, Maria N. E., China, a. 1871, m. 1874, Davis Brown, Zula F Pac, China, a. 191 Brownlee, Charlotte Cin., Korea, a. 1913 Bryan, Marv E., M.D N. Y., India, a. 1891, R. 1897 Buck, Lois M Cin., India, a. 1904, d. 1907* Budden, Annie M N. Y., India, a. 18S0, R. 1919*, d. 1921 Bugby, Mary Marguerite Cin., India, 5. 1920 Bullis, Edith M N. W., Japan, a. 1905, r. Bulow, Agnes Minn., India, a. 1913, d. 1914 Bunce, Thirza E N. W., Malaysia, a. 190S Burman, Matilda C N. W., India, a. 1898, dis. 1903 Burmeister, Elsie K Des. M., Burma, a. 1914, m. 1919, Clare Burt, Edith N. W., Italy, a. 1906, r. 1913* Bushnell, Kate C, M.D N. Y., India, a. 1894, R.1882 Butcher, Annie N. Y., India, a. 1894, m. 1896, Hewes Butts, Ethel Col. R., Korea, S. 1920 Calkins, Ethel M Top., India, a. 1915 Campbell, Letitia A N. E., China, a. 1875, m. 1878, Coleman, d. 1878 Carey, Mary F Phila., India, a. 1876, m. 1880, Davis Caris, Clara A Cin., China, a. 1914 Carleton, Mary E., M.D N. Y., China, a. 1887 Carlyle, Elizabeth M Col. R., China, S. 1920 Carncross, Flora M N. W„ China, a. 1908 Carr, Rachel C N. W., India, a. 1909 Carroll, Mary E N. W., India, a. 1SS8, d. 1897 Carson, Anna N. W., Philippine Islands, a. 1913 Cartwright, Ida May Cin., India, a. 1903, d. 1904

Carver, Margaret B Cin.. India, a. 1898, m. , Ernsberger Castle, Belle N. W., China, a. 1915 Chadwick, Freda P Phila., Netherlands Indies, 5. 1920 Chaffin, Mrs. Anna B Des M., Korea, a. 1917 Chalmers, Eleanor M N. E., India, a. 1916, r. Chapin, Jennie M N. E., South America, a. 1874, jR. 1890 Chappell, Mary H Cin., Japan, a. 1912* Directory of Missionaries 163

Charles, Bertha D Cin., Philippine Islands, a. 1912 Charter, Mabel Top., India, a. 1913, d. 1917 Chase, Laura N. E., Japan, a. 1915 Cheney, Alice Des M., Japan, a. 1914 Cheney, Monona L N. W., China, a. 1918 Chilson, Elma M Top., India, a. 1911 Chisholm, Emma Mae Bait., China, a. 1904, m. 1906, Brown Christensen, Christine N. Y., India, a. 1894, m. 1896, Ashe Christensen, Lydia D Des M., India, a. 1913 Christiancy, Mary M., M.D N. E., India, a. 1884, R. 1S91 Church, Marie E Col. R., Korea, o. 1915 Clancy, M. Adelaide Pac, India, a. 1909 Clark, Elsie G Bait., China, a. 1912, m. 1919, Krug Clark, Faith N. W., India, 5. 1921 Clark, Grace Col. R., Africa, a. 1911 Clark, Jessie E N. W., India, a. 1918 Clemens, Mrs. E. J N. W., South America, a. 1879, R. 1S84 Cliff, Minnie B N. W., Malaysia, a. 1913 Clinton, E. Lahuna Des M., India, a. 1910 Clippinger, Frances Top., India, a. 1904, r. 1905, d. 1918 Cochran, Ruth E N. W., India, a. 1912 Cody, Mary A Cin., Japan, a. 1905, R. 1919 Coffin, Sophia J N. Y., Africa, a. 1906, r. 1914 Collier, Clara J N. E.. China, a. 1895, R. 1919 Collins, Susan Pac, Africa, a. 1901 Collins, Ruth H Des M., India, a. 1894, m. 1899, Thoburn Combs, Lucinda, M.D Phila., China, a. 1873, m. 1878, Strittmater Conn, Cora Elbertha Minn., Malaysia, 5. 1920 Connor, Lottie M N. W., China, a. 1912, m. 1916, Irwin Connor, Olive B Pac, India, a. 1911, d. 1912 Cook, Celinda Phila., Mexico, a. 1903, R. 1907 Cook, Rosalie Phila., Mexico, a. 1903, R. 1907 Copley, Ruth Elizabeth Top., Philippine Islands, a. 1918 Corbett, Lila M N. W., Malaysia, 5. 1921 Corey, Katherine, M.D N. W., China, a. 1884, m. 1888, Ford Couch, Helen Phila., Japan, a. 1916 Cowan, Celia M Col. R., China, S. 1920 Crabtree, Margarett M Cin., Philippine Islands, a. 1905, d. 1920 Craig, Frances N. W., India, a. 1892, m. 1902, Smith Crandall, Jessie R Pac, Malaysia, 5. 1920 Crane, Edith M N. W., China, a. 1904 Craven, Norma N. W., Malaysia, a. 1917 Crawford, Mabel L Des M., Philippine Islands, a. 1907, m. 1909, Bowers Creek, Bertha M N. W., India and China, a. 1905 Crook, Winnie M N. E., China, a. 1916 Crooks, Grace A N. W., China, a. 1904, m. 1912, Wetzeon Cross, Cilicia L Minn., Africa, a. 1913 Crosthwaite, Isabella N. Y., China, o. 1892, dis. 1893 Croucher, Miranda N. E., China, a. 1895, m. 1903, Packard Crouse, Margaret D Phila., India, a. 1906 Crouse, Sara E. D Phila., India, a. 1913, m. Crowell, Bessie F N. E., India, a. 1905, dis. 1912 Currier, Grace M Des M., France, 5. 1919 Curtice, Lois K N. E., Japan, a. 1914 Curts, Kate O N. Y., India, a. 1895, d. 1908 Cushman, Clara M N. E., China, a. 1878-1909 Cutler, Mary M., M.D N. Y., Korea, a. 1892 Daily, Rebecca N. W., India, o. 1890, R. 1897 Dalrymple, Marion E N. E., India, a. 1918 Danforth, Mary A N. E., Japan, a. 1888, R. 1893, d. 1911 Daniel, Nell M Des M., Japan, a. 1897 Daniels, Ruth Natalie Top., China, 5. 1920 Danner, Ruth M N. W., China, a. 1917 Dart, Jennie M., M.D N. W., India, a. 1895, m. 1898, Dease Davis, Mrs. Anna L N. W., China, a. 1892, d. 1904 Davis, Dora N. W., Bulgaria, a. 1900 Davis, Grace C Cin., India, a. 1908 Davis, Hazel N. W., Philippine Islands, 5. 1919 Davis, Joan Des M., India, a. 1902 Davison, Mabel N. Y., Japan, a.. 1902, m. 1907, Smart* Day, Georgia E Des M., China, a. 1910, m. 1914, Robertson Day, Martha E Des M., India, a. 188S, m. 1895, Abbott Deam, Mary L N. W., Philippine Islands, 5. 1919 Dean, Flora J Minn., Malaysia, a. 1917 Dean, Florence E N. Y., China, S. 1920 Dease, Margaret E Bait., India, a. 1914 Deaver, Ida C Phila., China, a. 1896, m. 1897 Deavitt, LaDona N. Y., China, a. 1903, m. 1907, Rosenberg Decker, Helen M N. W., China, a. 1899, m. 1904, Beech Decker, M. Marguerite Pac, Philippine Islands, a. 1905 164 Directory of Missionaries

DeLine, Sarah M N. W., India, a. 1884, R. 1895 DeMott, Mary Des M., Japan, a. 1891, m. 1892, Doering Denning, Lou B N. W., South America, a. 1873, R. 1890, d. 1910 Dennis, Viola Belle Cin., India S. 1919. Desjardins, Helen N. W., China, a. 1918 DeVine, Esther J Cin., India, a. 18S2, m. 1891, Williams Deyoe, Ella M Col. R., China, a. 1910, r. 1917 Dicken, Ethel Mae Cin., Korea, 5. 1919 Dickerson, Augusta Phila., Japan, a. 1888 Dickinson, Emma E N. Y., Japan, a. 1897, 5. Dickinson, Jennie M N. E., Malaysia, S. 1920 Diem, Lydia N. W., Bulgaria, a. 1893, m. 1911, Wenzel, d. 1911 Dillenbeck.Nora M N.Y., China, a. 1913 Dillingham, Grace L Pac, Korea, a. 1911 Dimmitt, Marjorie A N. W., India, S. 1920 Donahue. Julia M., M.D Cin., China, a. 1893, R. 1897 Donohugh, Emma E Phila., India, S. 1919 Dosch, Laura B Cin., India, a. 1909, d. 1912 Dove, Agnes C. W Col. R., India, 5. 1920 .Downey, Clara A N. Y., India, a. 188-1, d. 1S96 Draper, Frances L., M.D N. W., China, a. 1906, d. 1911 Draper, Winifred F N. Y., Japan, a. 1911* Dreibelbies, Caroline N. Y., China, a. 1S99, R. 1906 Dreisbach, Gertrude I Top., Philippine Islands, a. 1906, m. 1912, Baldwin Drescher, Mildred G N. W., India, S. 1920 Drummer, Martha A Pac, Africa, a. 1906 Dudley, Hannah India, a. 1890, R. 1891 Dudley, Rose E Col. R., Philippine Islands, a. 1907 Dunmore, Effa M Phila., Mexico, a. 1891, d. 1919 Dutton, Mrs. May L Cin., India, a. 1911, r. 1914 Dyer, Addie C Cin., Mexico, a. 1917 Dyer, Clara Pearl N. E., China, a. 1907 Easton, Celesta Pac, India, a. 1894-1906 Easton, Sarah A Cin., India, a. 1878, d. 1915, 5. Eaton, Mary Jane Cin., Italy, a. 1917 Eddy, Mabel L N. W„ India, S. 1920 Eddy, Mrs. S. W Cin., India, a. 1902 Edmonds, Agnes M„ M.D Des M., China, a. 1901, R. 1921 Edmunds, Margaret J Cin., Korea, a. 1902, m. 1908, Harrison Ehly, Emma L N. W., China, a. 1912 Eichenberger, Emma N. W., China, a. 1910, r. 1919 Eide, Mary Louise Des M., China, 5. 1920 Ekey, Mary E Cin., India, a. 1911, r. 1917 Elicker, Anna R Des M., India, a. 1894, m. 1912, Guse Elliott, BerniceE N. W. India, a. 1914 Elliott, Margaret Phila., Mexico, a. 1879, m. 1883, Wilson Elliott, Martelle N. Y., India, a. 1897, m. 1904, Davis Elliott, Mary E N. Y., India, a. 1885, m. 18S6, Stephens, d. 1893 Elliott, MaryJ Cin., Japan, a. 1886,i?. 1890 Ellis, Ida N. W., Malaysia, a. 1900, R. 1908 Ellison, Grace F Top., China, a. 1912 Emery, Phoebe E Top., India, a. 1916 Emmel, Aetna L Col. R., India, 5. 1919 English, Fannie M N. Y., India, a. 1884, d. 1913 Eno, Enola Des M., India, a. 1915 Erbst, Wilhelmina Minn., Philippine Islands, a. 1909 Ericson, Judith Top., India, a. 1906 Ernsberger, Emma, M.D Cin., Korea, a. 1899, R. 1920 Ernsberger, I., M.D Cin., India, a. 1888. R. 1900 Estey, Ethel M N. Y., Korea, a. 1900 Evans, Alice A Des M., India, a. 1895 Evans, Mary A N. E., Philippine Islands, a. 1913 Everding, Emma J Bait., Japan, a. 1883, d. 1892 Ewers, Harriet C N. W., India, a. 1899, m. 1900, Lyons Fales, Cora N. W., India, a. 1918 Falstad, Constance Minn., China, 5. 1921 Farmer, Ida A N. Y., India, a. 1917 Fearon, Dora C Cin., China, a. 1912 Fearon, Josephine L Cin., China, a. 1911, m. 1914, Winans Fehr, Vera J Cin., Japan, 5. 1919 Fenderich, Norma H Phila., India, a. 1903, R. 1914, m. Marlin Ferris, Emma E Col. R., India, a. 1892, m. 1897. Shellabear Ferris, Phoebe A., M.D Col. R., India, a. 1917 Field, Nellie H N. E., Mexico, a. 1887, R. 1888 Field, Ruth Col. R., India, a. 1918 Files, Estelle M N. Y., India, a. 1888, R. 1916 Filley, Georgia A., M.D N. W., China, a. 1913, r. 1919 Finch, Harriet N. E., India, a. 1911, m. Fincham, Ella E N. W., Bulgaria, a. 1887, R. 1S93 Finlay, Annette Cin., Philippine Islands, S. 1920 Directory of Missionaries 165

Finlay, L. Alice Cin., Japan, a. 1905 Fisher, Elizabeth Bait., China, a. 1S84, m. 1S88, Brewster Fisher, Fannie F N. W., India, a. 1S95 Fisher. Mrs. Mabel G N. W., India, a. 1917 Fonda, Edith L N. W., China, a. 1908, m. 1911, Cole Forbes, Ella R N. W., Japan, a. 1890, m. 1894, Phillips Foreman, Elizabeth J Bait., China, a. 1917, m. 1921, Lewis Forster, Miriam N. W., India, a. 1898, m. Forsyth, Estella M N. W., India, a. 1907 Fosnot, Pearl Beatrice Top., China, 5. 1921 Foster, Carrie Des M., India, a. 1902, R. Foster, Mary Eva Col. R., India, a. 1833, R. 1895 Fox, Eulalia E N. W., China, o. 1913 Frantz, Ida F Cin., China, a. 1914 Frazey, Laura Top., China, a. 1908 Fredericks, Anna Edith N. Y., China, a. 1915 French, Anna S N. E., Japan, a. 1889, m. 1895, Freyer Fretts, Millicent Phila., Japan, a. 1911, r. 1917 Frey, Cecelia M Cm., China, a. 1891, R. 1894 Frey, Lulu E Cin., Korea, a. 1893, d. 1921 Fuller, Delia A Top., India, a. 1SS6, d. 1901 Fuller, Marjorie A N. W., Africa, 5. 1920 Gable, Florence L N. W., China, 5. 1920 Gabrielson, Winnie M Top., India, a. 1908 Galbreath, Elizabeth Cin., India, a. 1906. m. 1907 Gallimore, Anna Bait., India, a. 1887, R. 1903 Galloway, Helen R Des M., China, a. 1894, R. 1919 Gard, Blanche Top., Japan, 5. 1920

Gardner. Minnie Top., Japan, a. 190S, m. , Foster Gaylord, Edith F Des M., China and Korea, a. 1913 Geiser, Helen M Minn., South America, a. 1910, m. 1913, Mallough Gheer, Jean M N. Y., Japan, a. 1879, d. 1910 Gibson, Eugenia N. Y., India, a. 1S78, m. 1882, Mitchell Gilchrist, Ella, M.D N. W., China, a. 1881, d. 1SS4 Gill, Mrs. Mary W N. W., India, a. 1884-1917, m. 1910 Gilliland, Helen C Pac, South America, a. 1918* Gilman, Gertrude N. E., China, a. 1896 Gilmore, Erastine B N. E., Mexico, S. 1920 Gimson, Esther, M.D N. W., India, a. 1905 Gladden, Dora B Minn., Mexico, a. 1910 Glassburner, Mamie F Des M., China, a. 1904 Glenk, Marguerite E N. Y., China, a. 189S, m. 1905, Barley, d. 1921 Gloss, Anna D., M.D N. W., China, a. 1885 Glover, Ella E N. E., China, a. 1892 Godfrey, Annie Louise Col. R., India, a. 1912 Goetz, Adeline Minn.. China, a. 1900, m. 1901, Guthrie Golisch, Anna Lulu Des M., China, a. 1908 Gooch, Mary Esther N. W., India, 5. 1920 Goodall, Annie Des M., India, a. 1911 Goodenough, Julia E N. E., South America, a. 1881, m. 18S6, Hudson Goodin, Elizabeth S Des M., South America, a. 1895, R. 1899 Goodwin, Lora N. W., Japan, a. 1915 Goucher, Elizabeth Bait., China, a. 1913, 5. % m. 1921, Chapman Graf, Hedwig Cin., Africa, a. 1909, r., d. 1919 Grandstrand, Pauline Minn., India, a. 1905 Gray, Frances N. Y., China, a. 1912 Greene, Leola Mae NT. W., India, S. 1920 Greene, Lily Dexter NT. W., India, a. 1894 Greene, Lucilla H., M.D N. E., India, a. 1876, m. Cheney, d. 1878 Greene, Nellie R N. E., China, a. 18S6, R. 1890 Greer, Lillian P Top., China, a. 1917 Gregg, Eva A N.W., China, a. 1912 Gregg, Mary E Des M., India, a. 1899, m. 1912, Wilson, s. Griffin, Alta Irene N. W., India, S. 1921 Griffin, Martha A N. W., India, a. 1912 Griffin, Pansy Pearl Phila., China, 5. 1920 Griffiths. Mary B Des M;, Japan, a. 1888, R. 1916, S. 1920 Grove, Mrs. H. L. R N. W., India, a. 1905, R. 1912 5. Grove, Nelda L Top., Korea, 5. 1919 Gruenewald, Cornelia H. A Des M., India, a. 1912, R. 1919 Guelphi, Cecilia N. W., South America, a. 1878, d. 1886 Guthapfel, Minerva L Phila., Korea, a. 1903, R. 1912 Hadden, G. Evelyn Pac, India, a. 1913 Haberman, Margaret O N. W., Japan, 5. 1920 Haenig, Hulda A N. W., Korea, a. 1910 Hagen, Olive Irene N. W., Japan, 5. 1919 Hale, Lillian G N. E., China, a. 1888, m. 1894, Scolt-Welday Halfpenny, M. Lillian Pac, China, a. 1914 Hall, Ada Bearl Cin., Korea, 5. 1921 Hall, E. Baylie Pac, China, a. 1913, m. 1915, Sceats 166 Directory of Missionaries

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Hall, Mrs. Rosetta Sherwood, M.D.. . .N. Y., Korea, a. 1890-1867, m. 1891 Hallman, Sarah B. Bait., Korea, a. 1907, m. 1902, Beck Halverstadt, Harriet J Top., China, a. 1918 Hamisfar, Florence N., M.D N. W., Japan, a. 1883, dis. 1886 Hammond, Rebecca J Cin., South America, a. 1892, R. 1899 Hampton, Marv S N. Y., Japan, a. 1881, R. 1917 Hancock, Mrs. Nellie D Bait., India, S. 1920 Haney, Ida C N. E., India, a. 1912, r. 1919 Hanks, E. Gertrude Phila., South America, 5. 1920 Hansing, Ovidia N. W., China, 5. 1920 Hardie, Eva M Cin., India, a. 1895 Harger, Gladys B N. W., China, 5. 1919 Harmon, Grace N. W., Korea, a. 1911, m. 1914, McCary Harrington, Susan Col. R., China, a. 1892, m. 1893, Causland Harrington, Svlvia Rhoda N. Y., Korea, a. 1918, r. 1921 Harris, Alice C N. E., India, S. 1920 Harris, Lillian, M.D Cin., Korea, a. 1897, d. 1902 Harris, Mary W Cin., Korea, a. 1891, m. 1894, Folwell Harris, Nellie M Cin., India, a. 1893, R. 1895 Harrod, Anna M N. W., India, S. 1919 Hart, Mary Ames Pac, India, a. 1904, m. 1908, Briggs Hatch, Hazel A Top., Korea, 5. 1920 Hartford, Mabel C N. E., China, a. 1887 Hartung, Lois Joy Pac, South America, a. 1911 Harvey, Emily L N. E., India, a. 1884, R. 1920 Hastings, Mary N. Y., Mexico, a. 1874, d. 1898 Hatch, Ella Des M., South America, a. 1915, r. 1919 Hatfield, Lena, M.D N. W., China, a. 1907, r. 1918 Haynes, Emily Irene N. Y., Korea, a. 1906 Heafer, Louise Phila., India, a. 1891, R. 1907 Heath, Frances J., M.D N. Y., China, a. 1913J Heaton, Carrie A N. W., Japan, a. 1893 Hebinger, Josephine N. W., India, a. 1892, m. 1894, Snuggs Hedrick, M. C N. Y., India, a. 1884, m. 1890, Miles Hefty, Lura M Col. R., China, a. 1909 Hemingway, Edith A N. E., India, a. 1898, r. 1909 Henderson, Lucile Cin., Mexico, 5. 1919, m. 1920 Henkle, W. Nianette Des M., India, a. 1901, R. 1912 Henry, Mary Top., India, a. 1904, dis. 1906 Henschen, A. Lillian Pac, India, a. 1914, m. 1917, Hollister Hermistone, Margaret I. W N. E., India, S. 1919 Hess, Margaret I Cin., Korea, a. 1913 Hess, Stella A Cin., Africa, a. 1914 Hewett, Ella J Phila., Japan, a. 1884, JR. 1919 Hewett, Lizzie N. W., South America, a. 1886, R. 1914 Hewitt, Helen M N. W., Mexico, a. 1904, R. 1919 Higgins, Susan B N. E., Japan, a. 1878, d. 1879 Highbaugh, Irma Top., China, a. 1917 Hill, Katharine Ledyard Phila., India, a. 1905, R. Hillman. Amanda, M.D N. W.. Korea, a. 1911, r. 1914, 5. Hillman, Marv R Cin., Korea, a. 1900 Hilts, Abigail'M N. Y., South America, a. 1911, r. 1915 Hilts, Carrie A N. Y., South America, a. 1911, r. 1919 Hitch, Alice E N. W., Japan, a. 1918, r. 1921 Hitchcock, Frances H Des M., China, a. 1905, m. 1908, Ricker d. 1916 Hoag, Lucy, M.D N. Y., China, a. 1872, d. 1909 Hoath, Ruth Top., India, a. 1916 Hobart, Elizabeth N. W., China, a. 1915* Hobart, Louise N. W„ China, a. 1912* Hodge, Emma, M.D Phila., India, a. 1895, m. 1899, Worrall Hoffman, Carlotta E N. W., India, a. 1906 Hoge, Elizabeth Cin., India, a. 1892 Holbrook, Ella M Pac, Japan, a. 1900, R. Holbrook, Mary J Cin., Japan, a. 1878, m. 1890, Chappell, d. 1912 Holland, Mrs. Alma H Des M., India, a. 1904 Holland, Arv J Top., Malaysia, a. 1905, R. 1919 Holland, Harriet A N. W., India, a. 1906, m. 1909, Milholland Hollister, Alice E N. W., India, a. 1909, m. 1913 Hollister, Grace A Cin., Mexico, o. 1905 Holman, Charlotte T Pac, India, a. 1900 Holman, Sarah C Minn., India, a. 1914, s. Holmberg, Hilda Minn., Malaysia, a. 1913 Holmes, Ada Col. R.. India, a. 1905 Holmes, Lillian L N. Y., China, a. 1911 Honnell, Grace L Top., India, 5. 1920 Honsinger, Welthy B N. Y.. China, a. 1906, r. 1921 Hopkins, Rhoda Mae Col. R., Japan, a. 1917, R. 1918 Hosford, Ruby C Top., South America, a. 1918 Hostetter, Flossie M Cin., China, a. 1913, r. 1919 Directory of Missionaries 167

Householder, C. Ethel Top., China, a. 1913t Howard, Leonora, M.D N. W., China, a. 1877, m. 1884, King Howard, Meta, M.D N. W., Korea, a. 1887, R. 1890 Howe, Delia A Phila.. China, a. 1879, R. 1882 Howe, Gertrude N. W., China, a. 1872, R. 1917 Howey, Harriet Cin., Japan, a. 1916 Hoy, Ellen I Cin., India, a. 1881, m. 1884, Lawson Hu, May L Des M., China, a. 1904 Hu, King Eng., M.D Phila., China, a. 1895 Huelster, Luella Minn., China, a. 1908, m. 1912, Bishop Huff, Edyth A Des M., India, 5. 1920 Huffman, Loal E., M.D Cin., India, a. 1911 Hugoboom, Marion Phila., Mexico, a. 18S3, m. 1884 Hughes, Jennie V N. Y., China, a. 1905, r. 1920 Hughes, Mary A N. Y., India, a. 1887, R. 1890, m. Ernsberger, d. 1899 Hulbert, Jeannette C Cin., Korea, a. 1914 Hunt, Ava F N. W., India, a. 1910 Hunt, Faith A Minn., China, a. 1914 Hunt, Maud Edna N. W., India, a. 1918, m. 1921, Rogers Hurlbut, Floy Top., China, a. 1913 Hutchens, Edna May N. W., India, 5.' 1921 Hyde, Flora A N. W., China, a. 1912, m. Dedrich Hyde, Laura, M.D N. Y., India, a. 1883, m. 1886, Foote Hyde, Minnie Z N. W., South America, a. 1888, m. 1894, Wilson Hyde, Nettie M Des M., India, a. 1897, m. 1907, Felt Hyneman, Ruth E Cin., India, a. 1915 Illingworth, Charlotte J Phila., Burma, a. 1898 Imhof, Louisa Top., Japan, a. 1889J Ingram, Helen Minn., India, a. 1898, r. 1913, s. Isham, Ida G Pac, India, a. 1912, r. 1919

Jackson, C. Ethel. '. N. W., Malaysia, a. 1902 Jacobson, Alma Minn., India, a. 1902, m. 1904, Keventer, d. 1918 James, Phebe Top., Burma, a. 1906 Jaquet, Myra A N. W., China, a. 1909 Jewell, Carrie I Cin., China, a. 1884, R. 1913, d. 1919 Jewell, Mrs. Charlotte M N. Y., China, a. 1883 Johanson, Maria A. J Top., India, a. 1915

Johnson, Anna N. W., , a. 1894, R. Johnson, Eda Lydia Pac., China, a. 1918 Johnson, Ella Phila., China, a. 1888, m. 1893, Kinnear Johnson, Katharine M Bait., Mexico, a. 1912 Jones, Dorothy N. W., China, a. 1903 Jones, Edna Bait., China, a. 1907 Jones, Jennie D Des M., China, a. 1911 Jones, Laura E., M.D N. Y., China, 5. 1919 Jordan, Ella E N. W., China, a. 1911 Kahn, Ida, M.D N. W., China, a. 1896 Kaulbach, Anna L N. Y., Japan, a. 1886, m. 1889, Wilson Keckman, Anna N. E., China, a. 1916, m. 1918, Weigel Keeler, Anna C Cin., India, a. 1892, m. 1899, Manson Keeney, Dorothea L N. Y., China, S. 1920 Kelley, Luella Bait., India, a. 1880, dis. 1885 Kellogg, Nora Evelyn N. W., China, S. 1921 Kemper, Harriet Des M., India, a. 1891, R. 1895 Kennard, Olive E Pac, India, a. 1914 Kennedy, Mary E Des M., India, a. 1891, m. 1894, Core Kenyon, Carrie C Phila., Malaysia, a. 1917 Kerr, Harriet Phila., India, a. 1881, d. 1886 Kesler, Marv G Top., China, a. 1912 Ketchum, Edith L Des M., Japan, a. 1911, r. 1919 Ketring, Mary, M.D Cin., China and Philippine Islands, a. 1888-1905 Kidwell, Lola M Cin., Japan, a. 1894, R. 1918 Kilburn, Elizabeth H Phila., Japan, 5. 1919 Killheffer, Marie Top.. Japan, S. 1919 King, Charlotte N. W., Burma, 5. 1919 King, F. Grace Cin., India, a. 1916, m. 1920, Nelson* Kipp, Cora I., M.D N. W., India, a. 1910 Kipp, Julia I N. W., India, a. 1906 Kirkpatrick, Reba Agnes N. W., India, a. 191S, d. 1919 Kissack, Sadie E Bait., China, a. 1893, m. 1896, McCartney Kline, Blanche May Phila., India, a. 1917 Knapp, Elsie L N. W., China, a. 1912 Knowles, Emma L N. E., India, a. 1881, R. 1917 Knowles, Grace M Des M., India, S. 1920 Knox, Emma M N. W., China, a. 1906 Koons, Sue L., M.D Phila., China, a. 1904, r. 1910 Kostrup, Bertha Alfrida N. W., Philippine Islands, a. 1916 Krook, Mrs. Ruby L N. W., Korea, a. 1913, r. Kurtz, Alice W Phila., Mexico, a. 1902, dis. 1903 Kyle, Theresa J Phila,. India, a. 1885, R. 1913 168 Directory of Missionaries

Kyser, Kathryn B N. Y., Mexico, a. 1911 Lacy, Alice M Cin., China, a. 1917, d. 1921* Lamb, Emma L N. W., India, a. 1896, dis. 1901 Landrum, Margaret D N. W., India, a. 1909 Lane, Ortha May Des M., China, 5. 1919 Lantz, Viola, M.D Pac, China, 5. 1920 Larsson, Marie E Top., China, a. 1911 Latimer, Laura M N. E., Mexico, a. 18S4, R. 1888 Lauck, Ada J Des M., India, a. 1892 Lauck, Sarah Phila., India, a. 1885, m. 188S, Parson Lawrence, Berdice E N. W., China, a. 1917 Lawrence, Mabel C N. W., India, a. 1914 Lawson, Anne E Des M., India, a. 1885 Lawson, Christina H N. Y., India, a. 1892 Lawson, Ellen L Cin., India, a. 1917* Laybourne, Ethel M., M.D N. W., India, a. 1911 Layton, M. E Bait., India, a., 1S78, d. 1892 Lebeus, J. E. Martha Cin., China, a. 1897 Lee, Edna M Top., Japan, a. 1913 Lee, Elizabeth M Phila., Japan, a. 1914 Lee, Irene E N. E., Japan, a. 1S94, m. 1901, Ver Mehr. Lee, Mabel Minn., Japan, a. 1903 Lee, Mary H N. W., India, a. 1914, r. 1917 Lefforge, Roxie N. W., China, a. 1918 LeHuray, Eleanor N. Y., South America, a. 1884, R. 1913 Leming, Sarah Cin., India, a. 1873, m. 1875, Shepherd Lentz, Grace Z Pac, China, 5. 1920 Lewis, Amy G Bait., Japan, a. 1898, R. 1911 Lewis, Ella A Bait., Korea, a. 1891, r. 1904 Lewis, Ida Belle Des M., China, a. 1910 Lewis, Margaret D., M.D N. W., India, a. 1901 Li Bi Cu, M.D N. Y., China, a. 1905 Liers, Josephine Des M., India, a. 1907 Lilly, May B Col. R. Malaysia, a. 1897, R. 1916 Limberger, Anna R Phila., Mexico, a. 1890, d. 1910 Linam, Alice N. Y., China, a. 1895 Lindblad, Anna C N. E., China, a. 1908 Livermore, Melva A Top., India, a. 1897 Llewellyn, Alice A Phila., Italy, a. 1901, s., r. 1919 Lodeman, Minnie N. W., India, a. 1905, m. 1910, Linn Loland, Serene N. E., China, S. 1921 Long, Hortense N. Y., Japan, a. 1905, m. 1911, Harrison* Longstreet, Isabella D N. W., China, a. 1S9S, m. 1910, Eyestone Loomis, Jean Pac, China, a. 1912 Loper, Ida Grace N. Y., India, a. 1898 Lore, Julia A., M.D N. Y., India, a. 1874, m. 1S76, McGrew* Lorenz, Frieda V Minn., China, a. 1904, m. 1910, Spamer Lossing, Mabel Des M., India, a. 1904, m. 1911, Jones Loucks, Blanche Helen N. W., China, a. 1917 Lovejoy, Beryl H Top., South America, a. 1914, m. 1920, Hurd Loveless, Emilie R N. Y., Africa, a. 1919 Low, Nellie Cin., India, a. 1913 Loy, Netella Top., South America and Mexico, a. 1914 Loyd, Mary DeP Phila., Mexico, a. 1884, d. 1902 Ludgate, Abbie M N. W.. India, S. 1919 Lybarger, Lela Cin., China, a. 1909 Lyon, Ellen M., M.D N. W., China, a. 1890, d. 1919 Mabuce, Ethel L Des M., Burma, a. 1916 Mace, Rose Alice Bait., China, a. 1911 Maclntire, Prances W N. E., Japan, a. 1916 Madden, F. E. Pearl Phila., India, a. 1916 Maddock, Lois G N. Y., China, 5. 1920 Malberg, Mildred A Minn., Malaysia, 5. 1921 Malvin, Elizabeth Cin., South America, a. 1914, m. 1918, Coates Manchester, Ruth C N. E., India, 5. 1919 Manderson, Melissa, M.D N. W., China, a. 1907 Mann, Marv N. W.. China, a. 1911 Manning, Ella Des M., China, a. 1899 Mansell, Hester V Cin., India, a. 1S84, m. 1889, Monroe* Marble, Elizabeth Dana Pac, India, a. 1904, r. Marker, Jessie B Cin., Korea, a. 1905 Marks, Inez M Pac, China, a. 1916 Marks, Lillian R Pac. India, a. 1894, m. 1903, Kelley Marriott, Jessie A N. E., China, a. 1901 Marsh, Jessie L N. W., South America, a. 1906, R. Marsh, Mabel C Top., Malaysia, a. 1910 Martin, Clara Minn., Malaysia, a. 1897 Martin, Elizabeth E N. W., China, a. 1900, R. 1902 Martin, Emma E., M.D N. W., China, a. 1900 Marvin, Elizabeth Pac, China, a. 1915, R. 1919 Directory of Missionaries 169

Maskell. Florence W Des M., India, a. 1898 Mason, Florence Pearl Cin., China, a. 1917 Mason, Hazel A Top., Mexico, 5. 1920, m. Mason, Inez D N. E., India, a. 1915 Mason, Letitia, M.D N.W., China, a. 1873, Cin. 1874, m. 1876. Quine, d. 1903 Masters, Luella, M.D X. W., China, a. 1892-1910, R. 1913 Maxey. Elizabeth X. Y., India, o. 188S, R. 1919 Maver, Lucile C X. Y., India, a. 1912 McBurnie, Susan Phila., India, a. 1888, m. 1S94, Bond McCartney, Blanche L Top., India, a. 1916 McClellan, Alice M Phila., Burma, a. 1915 McClintock, Ethel L Pac, Mexico, a. 1918 McClurg, Grace K Cin., China, a. 1912 McCutchen, Martha L Top., China, S. 1919 McDonnell, Clella E Minn., China, a. 1912, m. 1915, Brown McDowell, Jessie X. TV., Japan, a. 1912. r. McDowell, Kate, M.D Phila., India, a. 1886, R. 1S91 McGregor, Katherine, M.D X. W., India, a. 1S93, m. 1S95, Boomer McHose, Lottie Cin., China, a. 1904. R. McKesson, Mary N. W., India, a. 1SS3, m. 1SS6, Conkling McKibben, Martha L Des M., Mexico, a. 1900, d. 1900 McKinley, Mary B X. W., India, a. 1899, m. 1906, Younglove McKinney, Alice X. Y. and Phiia., South America, a. 1907, m. 1912, Stebbins McKnight, Isabel Top., India, a. 1901 McMillan, Carrie X. Y., India, a. 1871, m. 1872, Buck McMillan, Helen K Top., India, S. 1920 Means, Alice Cin., India, a. 1897 Means, Mary Cin., India, a. 1896 Meek, Grace Anna Minn., China, a. 1911. dis. 1915 Meek, Mrs. Mary C X. Y., Malaysia, a. 1S99, R. 1906 Meeker, Bessie L Top.. China, 5. 1919 Mekkelson, Josephine Des M., Africa, a. 1900, d. 1902 Mellinger, Roxana Cin., Burma, a. 1913 Melton, Mary E N. W., Jaoan, a. 1897, d. 1916 Merrill, Clara E X. W., China, a. 1896 Merrow, Luella, M.D N. W., China, a. 1917, r. 1918 Meyer, Fannie E Des M., China, a. 1894, dis. 1S99 Michener, Emma Phila.. Africa, a. 1880, d. 1881 Miller, Anna E Des M., India, a. 1915, m. 1919, Cook Miller, Ethel Phila., Korea, a. 1917 Miller, Etta Phila., Japan, a. 1917 Miller, Iva M., M.D Col. R., China, a. 1909 Miller, Lulu A X. Y., Korea, a. 1901 Miller, Martha J Des M-, India, a. 1900, m. 1904, Jones Miller, Oriel Cin., India, a. 1886. dis. 1889 Miller, Sara H X. E., Korea, a. 1901, R. 1903 Miller, Viola Lue X. W., China. 5. 1920 Milligan, Grace H Phila., France, 5. 1919, m., 1921, Carnahan Mills, Harriet M X. W., India, a. 1911, m. Mitchell, Emma L X. Y., China, a. 1SSS, R. 1906 Monelle. Xancy, M.D X. Y., India, a. 1S73, m. 1874, Mansell Montgomery, Urdell Top., India, a. 1902 Moore, Alice M X. E., Mexico, a. 1900, r. 1903 Moore, Blanche Cin.. India, a. 1914, d. 1917 Moore. Mary Gladys Des M.. Burma, 5. 1920 Moots, Mrs. Cornelia X. W., Philippine Islands, a. 1900, R. Morgan, Cora L Top.. India, a. 1904 Morgan, Margaret X. W\, India, a. 1910 Morris, Harriett Plummer Top.. Korea. 5. 1921 Morrow, Julia E Col. R., India, a. 1913 Moses, Mathilde R Top.. India, a. 1916 Mover, Jennie E X. Y.. India, a. 1S99 Mudge, Ada X. E.. India, a. 1904. R. 1909* Muir, Winifred X. TV., China, a. 1909. r. Mulliner, Clara X. Y., Mexico, a. 1878, R. 1SS3, d. 1918 Murray, Helen G Phila., Mexico, 5. 1919 Nagler, Etha M X. TV., China, 5. 1920 Xaylor, Xell F Top.. India, a. 1912 Xeiger, Lillian X. TV., Mexico, a. 1S92, R. 1S95 Xelson, Caroline C Too.. India, a. 1906 Nelson, Dora L X. TV., India, a. 1910 d, Eva I Minn., M ".aysia. a. 1903 Nelson, E. Lavinia Top., India, a. 1906 Xelson, Lena Phila.. China, a. 1911 Xevitt, Jane Ellen Bait.. China, a. 1912 Newby, Alta Des M.. China, a. 1905, m. 1912, Webster Newton, Marion X. TV.. India, a. 1S9S. m. 1902 Xewton, Minnie E X. Y.. India, a. 1912 Nicholls, Elizabeth W X. Y., India, a. 1S96 170 Directory of Missionaries

Nichols, Florence L N. E., India, a. 1894, R. 1909, a. 1921 Nickerson, Florence Cin., India, a. 1880, d. 1887 Nicolaisen, Martha C. W Minn., China, a. 1900 Norberg, Eugenia N. W., India, a. 1907 Nordyke, Lela E N. W., China, 5. 1920 Northup, Alice M N. W., India, a. 1903, m. 1910, Brooks* Norton, Anna J., M.D Cin., India, a. 1900, R. 1905 Nourse, Emma D N. W., Africa, a. 1909, m. 1921 Theron Nowlin, Mabel Ruth Des M., China, a. 1915 Nunan, Nellie F., M.D N. E., India, a. 1913, dis. 1916 Odee, Bertha Top., Philippine Islands, 5. 1921 Odgers, Evaline A N. W., Italy, a. 1900, R. 1908 Ogborn, Kate L Des M., China, a. 1891 Ogden, Henrietta C Cin., Mexico, a. 1876, R. 1889, d. 1S99 Oldridge, Mary B Cin., Japan, 5. 1919 Oldroyd, Roxanna H Top., India, a. 1909 Olson, Delia N. W., Malaysia, a. 1917 Olson, Elizabeth Minn., Malaysia, a. 1915 Olson, Mary E Minn., Malaysia, a. 1903 Orcutt, Hazel A Cin., Burma, a. 1912, m. 1921, Hayden Organ, Clara M N. E., India, a. 1900, R. 1916 Otto, Alice M Des M., Japan, a. 1894, m. 1900, Shelby Overman, L. Belle N. W., Korea, a. 1917 Paine, Josephine O N. E., Korea, a. 1892, d. 1909 Paine, Mildred A Cin., Japan, 5. 1920 Pak, Mrs. Esther K., M.D Phila., Korea, a. 1900, d. 1910 Pardoe, Mary E Phila., Japan, a. 1888, d. 1892 Parish, Sarah Rebecca, M.D N. W., Philippine Islands, a. 1906 Parker, Theda A N. Y., Mexico, a. 1889, R. 1894 Parkes, Elizabeth Pac, Philippine Islands, a. 1903 Parkinson, Phoebe A Col. R., China, a. 1899, m. 1909, Upper Parmenter, Ona M Minn., Africa, S. 1920 Patterson, Anna Gail Cin., India, 5. 1920 Payne, Ella E Phila., Mexico., a. 1904, R. 1910 Payton, Lela E Pac, India, a. 1916, m. 1921, Tucker Pearson, Mary N N. E., Mexico, 5. 1920 Peckham, Caroline S ' N. W., Japan, a. 1915 Peet, Azalia E N. Y., Japan, a. 1916 Penney, Winnogene C Top., China, a. 1916 Perkins, Fannie A Des M., Burma, a. 1890 Perrill, M. Louise Top., India, a. 1910* Perrine, Florence N. W., India, a. 1888, m. 1894, Mansell Persson, Bertha Top., China, S. 1920 Peters, Alice N. W., China, a. 1916, d. 1911 Peters, Jessie I N. W., India, a. 1903 Peters, Mary N. W., China, a. 1894 Peters, Sarah N. W., China, a. 1889 Phelps, Frances E Des M., Japan, a. 18S9, m. 1915, Tackaberry Pider, Mvrtle Z Top., Japan, a. 1911$ Pierce, Nellie Phila., Korea, a. 1897, m. 1905, Miller Pierce, Thirza M N. W., China, a. 1902, R. 1908 Pittman, Annie M N. Y., China, 5. 1919 Place, Pauline A N. W., Japan, a. 1916 Plumb, Florence J N. Y., China, a. 1900* Pond, Eleanor J., M.D Bait., China, a. 1911 Pool Lydia S Des M., India, a. 1903 Poole, Carrie M N. E., Japan, a. 1914, m. 1918, Keedy Porter, Anna D Top., Italy, a. 1913, m. 1919, Giambarresi Porter, Charlotte J N. W., India, a. 1896, m. 1901 Porter, Clara A Top., India, a. 1912 Porter, Eunice Top.. India, a. 1913 Porter, Mary Q Des M., China, a. 1871, m. 1882, Gamewell, d. 1907 Powell, Alice M N. Y., China, a. 1906 Power, Elsie Mav Top., Burma, S. 1919 Pray, Susan, M.D N. Y., China, a. 1886, R. 1887, d. 1903 Preston, C. Grace N. Y., Japan, a. 1912, r. 1918 Priest, Mary A N. Y., Japan, a. 1878, R. 1880 Proctor, Orvia A Des M., China, 5. 1919 Pugh, Ada E Minn., Malaysia, a. 1906 Pultz, Elizabeth M N. Y., India," a. 1872, R. 1877, d. 1889 Purdy, Caroline A Phila., Mexico, a. 1895 Pve, Olive F N. Y., Korea, o. 1911 Pyke, Edith N. W., China, a. 1916, m* Pyke, Mildred N. W., China, a. 1912, m* Pyne, Rosa M Des M., India, a. 1902, m. 1906, Berry, m., 1918, Hawthorne Quinton, Frances N. W., Africa, a. 1916 Raabe, Rosa M Des M., Korea, a. 1915, r. 1919 Rahe, Cora L N. W., China, a. 1912 Randall, S. Edith Top., India, a. 1911 Directory of Missionaries 171

Rank, Minnie L Minn., Malaysia, a. 1906 Ransom, Ruth Phila., South America, 5. 1919 Rasmussen, Mrs. Helen E N. Y., Africa, a. 1900, m. 1905, Springer Reddick, Olive Irene Phila., India, 5. 1921 Reed, Mary Cin., India, a. 1884 Reeves, Cora D N. W., China, a. 1917J Reid, Jennie Phila., South America, a. 1913 Reilly, Marnie B N. W., India, a. 1913, m. 1916, Hill Reiman, Frieda N. W., China, a. 1918 Rexrode, Sadie M Cin., Africa, a. 1917, d. 1921 Rexroth, Elizabeth Cin., India, a. 1912, r. 1919 Rexroth, Emma K Col. R., India, a. 1916 Reynolds, Elsie M Des M., India, a. 1906 Richards, Gertrude E Phila., India, a. 1917 Richardson, Fanny E Minn., Malaysia, a. 1918 Richev, Elizabeth H Cin., China, 5. 1919 Richmond, Mary A Top., India, a. 1909 Riechers, Bertha L Pac, China, a. 191.5 Rigby, Luella G Des M., India, a. 1900, m. 1909, Jones Robbins, Emma E., M.D Top, China, a. 1911 Robbins, Henrietta P N. Y., Korea, a. 1902 Roberts, Elizabeth S Minn., Korea, a. 1917 Robinson, Alvina Des M., Burma, a. 1907 Robinson, Faye H N. E., China, a. 1917 Robinson, Flora L Minn., India, a. 1909, m. 1921, Howells* Robinson, Helen E N. Y., India, a. 1902, d. 1917* Robinson, Mary C N. W„ China, a. 1884, d. 1906 Robinson, Muriel E Cin., India, a. 1914* Robinson, Ruth E Bait., India, a. 1900* Rockey, Lois .' Cin., India, a. 1912, m. 1921, Atkins* Rockwell, Lillie M Bait., India, 5. 1919 Rodgers, Anna M Phila., Mexico, a. 18S9, m. 1890, Furness Rogers, Hazel T ' Des M„ India, S. 1919 Rogers, Mayme Marie Cin., Korea, 5. 1921 Rosenberger, Elma T Cin., Korea, 5. 1921 Ross, Elsie M Phila., India, a. 1909 Rossiter, Henrietta B Des M., China, a. 1917 Rothweiler, Louisa C Cin., Korea, a. 1S87. R. 1899, d. 1921 Rouse, Willma H Minn., China, a. 1893, m. 1905, Keene Roush, Hannah Elsie N. W., Africa, a. 1911 Rowe, Phoebe N. W., India, a. 1881. d. 1898 Rowley, Mary L N. W., China, a. 1899, m. 1904, Wilson Rovce, Edith M Des M., Korea, S. 1920 Royer, Mary Ann N. W., China, a. 1913 Rubright. Caroline B Phila., South America, a. 1913 Ruddick. Elizabeth May N. E., India, a. 1901, d. 1915 Ruese, Mrs. Artele B Bait., Italv. a. 1918 Ruggles, Ethel E Des M., India, a. 1916 Rulofsen, G. M N. E., Japan, a. 1887, m. 1888, Thompson Ruppell. Leona E Des M., India, 5. 1919 Russell, Elizabeth Cin., Japan, a. 1879, R. 1919 Russell, M. Helen Pac, Japan, a. 1895-1907 Ruth, E. Naomi Phila. and N. W., Netherlands Indies, a. 1911 Salmans, Edith Phila., Mexico, a. 1910, r. Salmon, Bessie C N. W., Korea, a. 1915 Salmon, Lena L N. W., Philippine Islands, a. 1910, m. 1915, Carrothers Salzer, Florence Minn., India, 5. 1920 Samson, Carrie J Des M., India, a. 1899, m. 1903, Sunder, d. 1921 Santee, Helen Phila., Japan, a. 1908, R. 1914 Sauer, Clara N. W., China, a. 1915, r. 1919 Saxe, Agnes E N. Y., India, a. 1904, R. 1913, d. 1915 Sayles, Florence A Col. R.. China, a. 1914 Scharpff, Hanna N. W., Korea, a. 1910 Schaum, Lydia L., M.D Top., China, S. 1920 Scheidt, Ellen A Top., Philippine Islands, S. 1920 Schaum, Lydia L., M.D Top.. China, 5. 1920 Schenck, Linna N. W., Bulgaria, a. 1884, R. 1892, d. 1898 Schoonmaker, Dora N. W., Japan, a. 1874, m. 1878, Soper Schreckengast, Joy R Top., South America, a. 1917, r. 1920 Schroeppel, Marguerite E Des M., India, a. 1913 Scott, Emma, M.D Cin., India, a. 1896 Scott, Frances A Cin.. India, a. 1889 Scranton, Mrs. M. F N. Y., Korea, a. 1885, d. 1909 Search. Blanche T Phila., China, a. 1914 Sears, Anna B Cin., China, a. 18S0, d. 1895 Secor, Valeria Des M., India, a. 1909, m. Crandall Seeck, Margaret Top., China, a. 1917 Seeds, Leonora H Cin.. Japan, a. 1890 Seeds, Mabel K X. W., Japan, a. 1902, R. 1914 Seidlmann, Paula Cin., China, a. 1908 172 Directory of Missionaries

Sellers, Rue A Cin., India, a. 1889 Shafer, Olga P Cin., Korea, a. 1910, m. 1914, Lomprey Shannon, Mary E Top., Burma, a. 1909 Sharp, Mrs. Alice J. Hammond N. Y., Korea, a. 1900-1908, m. 1903 Sharpe, Mary Western, Africa, a. 1879, dis. 18S3. . Shaw, Alice Fawcett . . N. Y., India, a. 1910, d. 1911 Shaw, Ella C N. W., China, a. 1887 Sheldon, Martha A., M.D N. E., India, a. 1888, d. 1912 Shockley, Mary E Cin., China, a. 1895, m. 1904, Drake Shoub, Hazel M N. W., China, a. 1917 Shufelt, Edith E Minn., China, 5. 1921 Shute, Vivian L Minn., India, a. 1915, m. 1920, Thompson Sia, Mabel Des M., China, a. 1902, d. 1903 Sia, Ruby Des M., China, a. 1904 Siberts, Sara Miriam N. W., South America, 5. 1920, m. 1920, Morley Sidall, Adelaide N. E., India, a. 1903, m. 1904 Simester, Mary N. E., China, a. 1905, d. 1913 Simonds, Mildred Des M., India, a. 1906 Simons, Maud E Bait., Japan, a. 18S9, d. 1898 Simpson, Cora E N. W., China, a. 1907 Simpson, Mabel E Top., India, S. 1920 Singer, Florence E Phila., Japan, a. 1893, R. 1914 Singh, Lilavati N. W., India, a. 1900, d. 1909 Sinkey, Fern Cin., China, 5. 1921 Sites, Ruth M Bait., China, a. 1891, m. 1895, Brown* Slate, Anna Blanche Phila., Japan, a. 1901 Smith, Adeline N. W., China, a. 1907, R. 1910 Smith, Alice N. Y., China, S. 1921 Smith, Clara B Phila., China, a. 1914 Smith, Emily Cin., Africa, a. 1910 Smith, Grace Pepper Pac, India, 5. 1919 Smith, Tennie Mabel Col. R., India, a. 1915 Smith, Joy L Des M., China, a. 1918 Smith, Lida B N. Y., Japan, a. 1885, R. 1912 Smith, Madorah E Minn., China, a. 1911, r. 1920 Smith, Ruth B Minn., China, a. 1910, m. 1912, Foster Smith, Sadie May Pac, Burma, 5. 1921 Snapp, Reba N. Y., Japan, a. 1913, m. 1914, Ryder Snavely, Gertrude E Phila., Korea, a. 1906 Snider, Myrtle Pac, India, a. 1921 Snvder, Chestora, M.D Cin., China, a. 1912, m. 1915, Hoffman Soderstrom, Anna N. Y., India, a. 1891, r. 1901 Soper, E. Maud Phila., Japan, a. 1903, R. Soper, Laura DeWitt Top., India, a. 1917 Southard, Ada J Des M., Japan, a. 1900, r. 1905 Sparkes, Fannie J N. Y„ India, a. 1870, R. 1891, d. 1919 Sparr, Julia, M.D N. W., China, a. 1878, m. 1883, Coffin Spaulding, Winifred Top., Philippine Islands, a. 1903, 1910, Mex. 191T\ Spear, Katherine A Phila., India, a. 1896, m. 1900, Collier Spence, Mattie B N. W., India, a. 1880, m. 1883, Perrie Spencer, Clarissa H Phila., Japan, a. 1896, r. 1901 Spencer, Matilda A Phila., Japan, a. 1878, R. 1920 Sprowles, Alberta B Phila., Japan, a. 1906 Sprunger, Eva F Pac, China, 5. 1919 Stahl, C. Josephine N. W., India, a. 1892 Stahl, Ruth L Cin., China, a. 19171 Stanton, Alice M N. Y., China, a. 1892, m. 1899, Woodruff Starkey, Bertha F Cin., Japan, a. 1910 Stearns, Mary P N. E., India, a. 1899, m. 1903, Badley Steere, Anna E N. W., China, a. 1889, R., d. 1914 Stefanski, Pauline Top., Java. a. 1912, m. 1917, Worlhinglon Stephens, Grace Bait., India, a. 1892, R. 1919 Stephens, Vida W Pac, India, a. 1910, m. 1915, Bateman* Sterling, Florence Minn., India, a. 1895, m. 1897, Leuth, d. 1900 Stevenson, Ida M., M.D Top., China, a. 1890, R. Stewart, Mrs. Mary S., M.D Phila., Korea, a. 1910 Stixrud, Louise Minn., Philippine Islands, a. 1906, r. 1919 Stockwell, Emma Top., India, a. 1901. m. 1903, Price Stockwell, Grace L Des M., Burma, a. 1901 Stone, Anna Minn., China, a. 1904, d. 1906 Stone, Mabel C N. W., China, a. 1913, r. 1917 Stone, Mary, M.D Des M., China, a. 1896, r. 1920 Stout, Winifred N. W., China, a. 1906, m. 1913, Patterson Stoy, Ellen Louise N. W., Italy, S. 1919 Strawick, Gertrude N. W., China, a. 1906 Strow, Elizabeth M N. Y., China, a. 1904 Stryker, Minnie, M.D Phila., China, a. 1908J Stumpf, Susanna M Des M., India, a. 1902, d. 1907 Sturtevant, Abby L Minn., Japan, 5. 1921 Suffern, Ellen H N. W., China, a. 1917 Directory of Missionaries 173

Sullivan, Lucy W Cin., India, a. 1S8S Sutherland, May E Top., India, a. 1915 Sutton, Daisy B Cin., Japan, a. 1908, m. 1910, Miller Sutton, Marianne Minn., Malaysia, a. 1907, R. 1913 Swain, Clara A., M.D N. E., India, a. 1869, R. 1896, d. 1910 Swan, Hilda Top., India, a. 1904 Swaney, Mary F Bait., Mexico, a. 1878, Top., South America, a. 1S90, R. 1912 Swank, Lottie Agnes N. W., Philippine Islands, 5. 1920, m. 1921, Goltschall Swearer, Mrs. Lillian M N. Y., Korea, a. 1917 Sweet, Mary B Top., Italy, a. 1912, r. 1919 Sweet, Mary Edith Des M., India, a. 1917 Swift, Edith T N. E., Italy, a. 1902, R. 1914 Swormstedt, Virginia R Cin., Africa, a. 1903, m. 1907, Coffin Taft, Gertrude, M.D Pac, China, a. 1895 Tallon, Mrs. Bertha Kneeland N. E., South America, a. 1900-1913, m. 1909, R. 1919 Tang, Ilien Minn., China, a. 1906, d. 1920 Taylor, Anna Mabel N. Y., Mexico, a. 1918 Taylor, Erma M Phila., Japan, o. 1913 Teague, Carolyn Cin., Japan, a. 1912 Temple, Laura N. Y., Mexico, a. 1903 Terrell, Linnie Cin., India, o. 1908 Terry, Edna G., M.D N. E., China, a. 1887, d. 1913 Thoburn, Isabella Cin., India, a. 1869, d. 1901 Thomas, Ethel E Top., Mexico, 5. 1919 ' Thomas, Hettie A Cin., Japan, a. 1903, d. 1920 Thomas, J. Edna Cin., Philippine Islands, a. 1914, d. 191S Thomas, Mary M Cin., China, a. 1904 Thomas, Ruth F N. W., Africa, a. 1917 Thompson, Anna Phila., India, a. 1889, m. 1895, Stephens Thompson, Anna Armenia Top., Philippine Islands, 5. 1920 Thompson, E a. 1890 Thompson, Ethel Truesdale N. Y., China, 5. 1921 Thompson, Flora Minn., Philippine Islands, a. 1916, r. 1917 Thompson, May Bel Top., China, a. 1915 Thompson, Vera R Bait., India, a. 1913 Thurston, Esther V N. E., Japan, 5. 1920 Tinsley, Jennie M N. W., India, a. 1871, m. 1876, Waugh Tippett, Mrs. Susan Bait., China, a. 1901, R. 1909 Todd, Althea M N. E., China, a. 1895 Todd, Grace L N. W., China, a. 1897, R. 1898, d. 1909 Toll, Kate Evalyn N. W., India, a. 1904 Tracy, Althea W N. Y., China, a. 1908, m. 1912, Gill Trask, Sigourney, M.D N. Y., China, a. 1874, m. 1885, Cowles Travis, Grace B N. Y., China, a. 1903, m. 1910, Williams Tretheway, Lucile D Pac, China, a. 1916, m. 1921, Libby Trimble, Lydia A Des M., China, a. 1889 Trissel, Maude V Des M., Korea, a. 1914 Trotter, Charlotte N. W., China, a. 1918 Tryon, Elizabeth V Des M., India, a. 1895, r. 1900 Tschudy, Marianne H N. W., China, a. 1915, m. 1918, Paddock Tubbs, Lulu L N. W., Africa, a. 1917 Tucker, Grace N. Y., Japan, a. 1890, m. 1896, Tague Tunison, Bessie D N. W., India, a. 1914, m. 1918, Shipman Turner, Elizabeth J Des M., India, a. 1915 Turner, Mrs. Maud Top., India, a. 1905, m. 1909, Nies Turner, Sarah B Phila., India, a. 1903, m. 1904, Parker Turney, Mrs. L. M a. 1881, r. 1882 Tuttle, Mary B., M.D Top., India, a. 1903, d. 1907 Tuttle, Ora M Cin., Korea, a. 1907 Tyler, Gertrude W Des M., China, a. 1909 Tyler, Ursula J Cin., China, a. 1915 Vail, Olive Top., Malaysia, a. 1913 Van Dorsten, Amelia N. W., Mexico, a. 1889, m. 1894, Lawyer Vance, Mary A Des M., Japan, a. 1887, m. 1892, Belknap, d. 1892 Vandegrift, Frances C Phila., South America, S. 1919 Van Fleet, Edna Marie Cin., Korea, a. 1918 Van Petten, Mrs. Caroline N. W., Japan, a. 1881, d. 1916 Varney, Elizabeth W Top., China, a. 1898, d. 1918 Vaughan, Elizabeth Beatrice Pac, South America, a. 1918T Vickery, M. Ellen N. W., Italy, a. 1891, R. 1920 Voight, Mary N. W., India, a. 1908, m. 1911, Perrill Voigtlander, Gertrude N. W., India, a. 1912, m. 1916, Tweedie Waidman, Isabel N. Y., South America, a. 1896, R. 1905 Wagner, Dora A Top., Japan, a. 1913 Walker, Jennie C Top., China, a. 1918 Walker, Joyce E N. W., China, a. 1917* Walker, Susan N. W., South America, a. 1903, R Wallace, Lydia Ethel Bait., China, a. 1906 Walsh, Susan J N. W., India, 5. 1919 174 Directory of Missionaries

Walter, A. Jeannette Top., Korea, a. 1911 Walton, Ida B Phila., Mexico, a. 1890, m. 1891, Multer Wanzer, Menia H N. E., China, a. 1911 Warner, Ellen Cin., India, a. 1880, m. 1885, Fox Warner, Emma E Top., India, 5. 1919 Warner, Ruth Virginia Col. R., South America, a. 1918 Warner, Susan M N. W., Mexico, a. 1873, m. 1892, Densmore, d. 1914 Warrington, Ruth A Top., India, a. 1915 Washburn, Orilla Top., Philippine Islands, a. 1912 Watrous, Mary N. Y., China, a. 1912 Watson, Harriett L Top., China, 5. 1920 Watson, Rebecca J Top., Japan, a. 1883 Watts, Annabelle Cin., India, a. 1917 Waugh, Nora Bell Cin., India, a. 1904* Weaver, Georgia N. Y., Japan, a. 1902, R. 1916 Webb, Nora Top., Africa, a. 1919 Weiss, E. Ruth Des M., Japan, 5. 1920 Welch, A. Dora Cin., Africa, a. 1910 Wells, Annie May Des M., China, a. 1905 Wells, Elizabeth J Des M., India, a. 1901 Wells, Phebe C N. Y., China, a. 1895 Wencke, Doris R N. W., China, 5. 1920 Wescott, Ida G N. W., Malaysia, a. 1915 West, Nellie Maud Des M., India, 5. 1920 Westcott, Pauline E N. W., China, o. 1902 Wheat, Lemira B Top., India, a. 1915 Wheeler, Bernice A N. E., China, 5. 1920 Wheeler, Gertrude V N. E., South America, S. 1920 Wheeler, Frances N. W., China, a. 1881, m. 1892, Verity* Wheeler, Hettie Ada N. W., Malaysia, a. 1913, m. 1919, Hall Wheeler, L. Maude N. W., China, a. 1903* White, Anna Laura Minn., Japan, a. 1911 White, Laura M Phila., China, a. 1S91J Whiteley, Miriam F Phila., South America, 5. 1920 Whiting, Ethel L Top., India, a. 1911 Whiting, Olive N. Y., Japan, a. 1876, m. 1882, Bishop, d. 1915 Whittaker, M. Lotie Minn., India, a. 1904, R. 1912 Widdifield, Flora M Cin., India, a. 1896, to. 1898, Chew Widney, Mary C Top., India, a. 1906, m. 1912, Branch Wiegand, Marie N. W., India, a. 1914, to. 1918, Boyles Wilcox, Alice A Top., China, 5. 1919 Wilkinson, Lydia A Des M., China, a. 1892, m. 1905, Wilkinson, S. 1920 Williams, Christiana Minn., China, a. 1901, to. 1902, Hall Williams, Mary E Phila., India, a. 1900, d. 1910 Willis, Katherine H Bait., China, a. 1916 Wilson, Fannie G Cin., Japan, a. 1896, to. 1900, Alexander Wilson, Frances O Des M., China, a. 1889, R. 1915 Wilson, Frances R Top., China, a. 1914 Wilson, Mary E N. Y., Japan, a. 1889, m. 1896, Buchanan Wilson, Minnie E N. W., China, o. 1893 Wilson, Nellie A Des M., India, a. 1913, to. Auner Winslow, Annie S Top., India, a. 1901, R. 1913 Wisner, Julia E Cin., India, a. 1885, d. 1917 Witham, Lois E Top., China, 5. 1920 Witt, Helena N. W., China, a. 1905, to. Wood, Bertha L Phila., South America, a. 1903, to. 1906, Robbins* Wood, Catherine Des M., India, a. 1892 Wood, Daisy Dean Des M., India, a. 1909, to. 1919, Van Sant Wood, Elizabeth N. W., India, a. 1911, d. 1913 Wood, Elsie N. Y., South America, a. 1889, to. 1915, Schofield* Wood, Lola N. W., Korea, a. 1914 Woodruff, Mabel A N. Y., China, a. 1910 Woodruff, Sadie J N. W., Burma, 5. 1920 Woods, Grace M N. W., India, a. 1901, to. 1911, Kingham Woodworth, Kate Phila., Japan, a. 1880, to. 1883, Quinn Woolston, Beulah Bait., China, a. 1871, R. 1879, d. 1886 Woolston, Henrietta, M.D Phila., India, a. 1878, dis. 1879 Woolston, Sarah N. W., China, a. 1871, R. 1896, d. 1910 Wright, Laura S N. W., India, a. 1895 Wyatt, Lillian D N. W., Mexico, 5. 1919, to. 1921, Bowman Wythe, K. Grace Pac, Japan, a. 1909 Yates, Elizabeth U N. E., China, a. 1880, R. 1885 Yeager, Maud N. W., India, a. 1910 Young, Effie G N. E., China, a. 1892 Young, Ethel N. W., Java, a. 1916, r. 1919 Young, Mariana Cin., Japan, a. 1897 Youtsey, Edith R Top., China, a. 1912 Zentmire, Cora N. W., Africa, a. 1898, to. 1900, Brewster, d. 1901 Zolliker, Johanna Z N. Y., Japan, a. 1913, r. 1914 Directory of Missionaries 175 CONTRACT TEACHERS

Brown, Anna M N. W., India, a. 1917 Chandler, Frances A Cin., South America, 5. 1920 Chandler, Mary H Cin., South America, 5. 1920 Chapman, Irene Minn., Malaysia, a. 1917 Duryea, Grace Phila., Mexico, S. 1921 Garrett, Minnie Hester N. Y., China, S. 1919 Hammond, Dorothy Top., Malaysia, 5. 1920 Harper, Florence O Bait., Mexico, a. 1918 Hill, Clara M N. E., Mexico, 5. 1921 Hoyt, Herma O Cin., Mexico, 5. 1919 Jones, Joan Comber N. Y.. India, 5. 1920 Lewis, Donna May Top., Japan, S. 1919 Long, Laura V Pac. India, S. 1920 Luce, R. Isabel N. W., China, 5. 1920 McDade, Myra L Bait., China, S. 1919 Maddox, Grace Des M., China, 5. 1920 Malberg, Mildred A Minn., Malaysia, 5. 1921 Morgan, Mabel N. W., India, a. 1918 Munson, Kezia Ethel N. W., India, a. 1918 Myers, Miranda S Pac, India, a. 1915 Pike, Isabel K Phila., Malaysia, 5. 1920 Rodgers, Rosetta B Phila., Mexico, 5. 1919 Rowe, Dorothy N. Y., China, 5. 1919 Shaver, Ivy Virginia N. W., India, 5. 1919 Skinner, Geraldine Cin., China, 5. 1920 Spencer, Helen M Des M., China, 5. 1920 Stahl, Minta M Cin., China, S. 1919 Thomasson, Leona B Bait., China, S. 1920 Townsend, Mollie N. Y., China, S. 1921 Twitchell, Thera N. Y., India, 5. 1920 Urech, Lydia N. W., Malaysia, a. 1916 Vandertill, Elizabeth N. W., China, 5. 1920 Vaughan, Elizabeth Beatrice Pac, South America, a. 1918 White, Laura H Phila., Malaysia, S. 1921 Whitford, Marian T N. Y., China, 5. 1920 Woodruff, Frances E N. Y., China, 5. 1919 Young, Mary E Col. R., Korea, S. 1919 SUMMARY

~~Missionaries sent out since organization (not including contract teachers) 1099 Missionaries in service 588 Contract teachers in service 37~~

Active missionary force, November 1 , 1921 6 25 Commissioned, 1921, to sail within three months (not included above) 42 Retired 133 Resigned 59 Discontinued 16 Married 230 Deceased 110 Self-supporting (since organization) 11 Daughters of missionaries 38 On Detached Service 9

CONSTITUTION OF THE WOMAN'S FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETY OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH ARTICLE I—Name This organization shall be called "The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church." ARTICLE II—Purpose

The purpose of this Society is to engage and unite the efforts of Christian women in sending missionaries to the women in foreign mission fields of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and in supporting them and native Christian teachers and Bible readers in those fields, and in all forms of work carried on by the Society. ARTICLE III—Membership The payment of one dollar annually shall constitute membership. The payment of twenty dollars shall constitute life membership; one hundred dollars a life manager; and three hundred dollars a life patron.

ARTICLE IV—Organization The organization of this Society shall consist of a General Executive Committee, co-ordinate Branches, District Associations, Auxiliary Societies, to be constituted and limited as laid down in subsequent articles. ARTICLE V—General Executive Committee

1. The management and general administration of the affairs of the Society shall be vested in a General Executive Committee, consisting of a President, one or more Vice-Presidents, Recording Secretary and Treasurer of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, the Corresponding Secretary, the Secretary of the Home Base, and two delegates from each Branch, the Secretary of Student Work, the Secretary of Young People's and the Secre- tary of Children's Work, the Secretary of German Work, the Secretary of Swedish Work, and such other persons as the Constitution of the said Society shall hereafter from time to time provide. 2. The President, Vice-Presidents, Recording Secretary, Treasurer, the Secretary of Student Work, the Secretary of Young People's Work, the Secretary of Children's Work, and Secretaries of German and Swedish Work shall be elected annually by the General Executive Committee. The two delegates and reserves shall be elected at the Branch annual meetings. Said Committee shall meet in Boston the third Wednesday in April, 1870, and annually, or oftener, thereafter at such time and place as the General Executive Committee shall annually determine. 3. The duties of the General Executive Committee shall be: (a) To take into consideration the interests and demands of the entire work of the Society as presented in the reports of its several Secretaries and in the estimates of the needs of mission fields; to ascertain the financial condition of the Society, to appropriate its money in accordance with the purposes and method therein indicated; to devise means for carrying forward the work of the Society; fixing the amounts to be raised, employing new missionaries, designating their fields of labor, examining the reports of those already employed, and arranging with the several Branches the work to be undertaken by each. (b) To transact any other business that the interests of the Society may demand, providing the plans and directions of the Committee shall be in harmony with the provisions of the Constitution.

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~~ARTICLE VI—Co-ordinate Branches~~

1. Co-ordinate Branches of this Society, on their acceptance of this relationship under the provisions of the Constitution, may be organized in accordance with the following general plan for districting the territory of the Church

~~NAME STATES INCLUDED HEADQUARTERS New England Branch .... New England States Boston, Mass. New York Branch New York, New Jersey New York, N. Y.~~

Philadelphia Branch Pennsylvania and Delaware. . . . Philadelphia, Pa. Baltimore Branch Maryland, District of Columbia, Eastern Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia and Florida Baltimore, Md. Cincinnati Branch Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama and Mis- sissippi Cincinnati, Ohio Northwestern Branch .... Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Wis- consin Chicago,. 111. Des Moines Branch Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas and Louisiana Des Moines, Iowa Minneapolis Branch Minnesota, North and South Dakota Minneapolis, Minn. Topeka Branch Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma Topeka, Kans. Pacific Branch California, Nevada, Arizona and Hawaii Los Angeles, Calif.

~~Columbia River Branch . . Montana, Idaho, Washington and Oregon Portland, Ore.~~

This plan, however, may be changed by an affirmative vote of three- fourths of the members of the General Executive Committee present at any annual meeting of the same. 2. The officers of each Branch shall consist of a President, Vice-Presi- dent, Corresponding Secretary, Secretary of the Home Base, Recording Secretary, Treasurer and such other officers as shall be necessary for the efficient work of the Branch. These officers and such other persons as the Branch may elect shall constitute an Executive Committee for the administration of the affairs of the Branch, nine of whom shall be a quorum for the transaction of business. This Committee and an Auditor shall be elected at the annual meeting of the Branch, and shall serve until others are chosen in their stead. 3. The Executive Committee shall have supervision of the work assigned to the Branch by the General Executive Committee, provide for all the needs and receive reports from all forms of work carried on by the Society, which, by the plan of the General Executive Committee, are to be supported by the Branch. 4. Each Branch shall appoint a Standing Committee of not less than five, of which the Branch Corresponding Secretary shall be Chairman, who shall investigate the case of any candidate within the limits of the Branch, and shall supply such candidates with blanks for health certificates and constitutional questions, to be filled out and answered by her, and, when practicable, a personal interview shall be had with the candidate by two or more of the Committee before her papers are forwarded to the Foreign De- partment. The Corresponding Secretary of the Branch presenting missionary candidates shall have a personal interview with each candidate before her final appointment to a foreign field. 5. No Branch shall project new work or undertake the support of new — — —

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missionaries, except by the direction or with the approval of the General Executive Committee. 6. Each Branch may make such By-Laws as may be deemed necessary to its efficiency, not inconsistent with this Constitution.

~~ARTICLE VII District Associations~~

~~District Associations shall be formed wherever practicable, said associations to have supervision of all Auxiliaries within their limits.~~

~~ARTICLE VIII—Auxiliary Societies~~

Any number of persons may form a society, auxiliary to that Branch of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society within whose territorial limits they may reside, by electing a President, a Treasurer, and such other officers as may be necessary to the efficient work of the auxiliary.

~~ARTICLE IX Relation to the Missionary Authorities of the Church~~

1. This Society shall work in harmony with and under the supervision of the authorities of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Methodist Episco- pal Church. The appointment, recall and remuneration of missionaries and the designation of their fields of labor shall be subject to the approval of the Board of Managers of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Methodist Epis- copal Church, and annual appropriations to mission fields shall be submitted for revision and approval to the General Missionary Committee of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 2. All missionaries sent out by this Society shall labor under the direction of the particular Conference or Mission of the Church in which they may be severally employed. They shall be annually appointed by the Presi- dent of the Conference or Mission, and shall be subject to the same rules of removal that govern other missionaries. 3. All the work of the Woman's Society in foreign lands shall be under the direction of the Conferences or Missions, and their committees, in exactly the same manner as the work of the Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, the Superintendent or District Superintendent having the same relation to the work and the person in charge of it that he would have were it a work in charge of any member of the Conference or Mission. 4. The funds of the Society shall not be raised by collections or subscriptions taken during any of our regular Church services, nor in any Sunday school, but shall be raised by such methods as the Constitution of the Society shall provide, none of which shall interfere with the contributions of our people and Sunday schools for the treasury of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and the amount so collected shall be reported by the pastor to the Annual Conference, and be entered in a column among the benevolent collections in the Annual and General Minutes. 5. Section 4 of this article shall not be so interpreted as to prevent the women from taking collections in meetings convened in the interests of their societies, nor from securing memberships and life memberships in audiences where their work is represented, nor from holding festivals or arranging lectures in the interests of their work.

~~ARTICLE X Change of Constitution~~

This constitution may be changed at any annual meeting of the General Executive Committee by a three-fourths vote of those present voting, notice of the proposed change having been given at the previous annual meeting; but Article IX shall not be changed except with the concurrence of the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. — —

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~~I Officers of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society~~

The officers of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society shall be a Presi- dent, two Vice-Presidents, Recording Secretary, Treasurer, and such other officers as shall be now or hereafter provided for according to the Constitution in Article V. These officers shall be elected annually by the General Executive Committee. In case of the death or resignation of either of the Vice-Presidents in the interim of the sessions of the General Executive Committee, a Vice-President protempore, to serve until the next session of the General Executive Commit- tee, may be appointed by unanimous vote of the remaining General Officers on nomination of the Home Department or the Foreign Department, according as the Vice-President to be chosen is to be the presiding officer of one or the other Department. In case of the death or resignation of the Recording Secretary or Treasurer, the other General Officers may, by unanimous vote, choose a successor protempore, to serve until the next session of the General Executive Committee.

~~II Duties of Officers~~

It shall be the duty of the President to (a) preside at all meetings of this Society and of the General Executive Committee; (b) with the Vice-Presidents, Recording Secretary and Treasurer, in the interim of the sessions of the General Executive Committee, to transact business pertaining to the Society at large, and not strictly to either the Home Department or the Foreign Department, when such business shall require immediate attention, a unanimous vote of the five officers being necessary to action except in case one or more of said officers shall, by reason of illness or absence from the United States, be unable to vote; in which case a unanimous vote of the other officers shall be sufficient. No vote of the General Officers taken ad interim shall be binding or legal unless the request for such vote shall have been sent out by the Recording Secretary of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society (or, in case of her disability, by the President) and until the vote itself shall have been declared by said Secretary after examination of the votes returned; (c) with the Recording Secretary to sign all documents relating to the transfer of real estate and other legal papers not otherwise provided for; (d) with the Treasurer to sign all notes and other obligations and evidences of indebtedness, which from time to time may be issued by the Society, by the authority of the General Executive Committee, or its duly empowered sub-committees, the Foreign and Home Departments.

Vice-Presidents to (a) be chairman, one of the Foreign Department, the other of the Home Department; (b) render assistance when needed; (c) with the President, Recording Secretary and Treasurer, in the interim of the sessions of the General Executive Committee, to transact business pertaining to the Society at large, and not strictly to either the Home Department or the Foreign Department, when such business shall require immediate attention, a unanimous vote of the five officers being necessary to action, except in case one or more of said officers shall, by reason of illness or absence from the United States, be unable to vote; in which case a unanimous vote of the other officers shall be sufficient. No vote of the General Officers taken ad interim shall be binding or legal unless the request for such vote shall have been sent out by the Recording Secretary of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society (or, in case of her disability, by the President) and until the vote itself shall have been declared by said Secretary after examination of the votes returned; (d) The Vice-President who is the senior in office shall perform the duties of the President in case of the disability or death of the President. —

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Recording Secretary to (a) give notice of all meetings of the General Executive Committee; (b) keep a full record of all their proceedings; (c) present a report of the year's work of this Society at its anniversary; (d) forward to foreign Treasurers a copy of the appropriations for each Mission as soon as practicable after the adjournment of the General Executive Com- mittee; (e) prepare and issue the Annual Report of the Woman's Foreign Mis- sionary Society, including the Minutes of the General Executive Committee; (f) prepare and present a Quadrennial Report to the General Conference; (g) with the President, to sign all documents relating to the transfer of real estate and other legal papers not otherwise provided for; (h) with the Presi- dent, Vice-Presidents and Treasurer, in the interim of the sessions of the General Executive Committee, to transact business pertaining to the Society at large, and not strictly to either the Home Department or the Foreign Department, when such business shall require immediate attention, a unanimous vote of the five officers being necessary to action, except in case one or more of said officers shall, by reason of illness or absence from the United States, be unable to vote, in which case a unanimous vote of the other officers shall be sufficient. No vote of the General Officers taken ad interim shall be binding or legal unless the request for such vote shah have been sent out by the Recording Secretary of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society (or, in case of her disability, by the President) and until the vote itself shall have been declared by said Secretary after examination of the votes returned; (i) have custody of the seal.

Treasurer to (a) receive all money from bequests, gifts, donations, or legacies made to the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society and, unless otherwise specified by the donor, pay the same to the Treasurer of the Branch within whose bounds the donor resided at the time of death; (b) receive all money paid into the General Fund by the several Branches, and disburse the same, subject to the order of the General Executive Committee; (c) with the President, to sign all notes and other obligations and evidences of indebtedness which from time to time may be issued by the Society, by the authority of the General Executive Committee, or of its duly empowered sub-committees, the Foreign and Home Departments; (d) with the Presi- dent, Vice-Presidents, and Recording Secretary, in the interim of the sessions of the General Executive Committee, to transact business pertaining to the Society at large, and not strictly to either the Home Department or the Foreign Department, when such business shall require immediate attention, a unanimous vote of the five officers being necessary to action, except in case one or more of said officers shall, by reason of illness or absence from the United States, be unable to vote, in which case a unanimous vote of the other officers shall be sufficient. No vote of the General Officers taken ad interim shall be binding or legal unless the request for such vote shall have been sent out by the Recording Secretary of the Woman's Foreign Mission- ary Society (or, in case of her disability, by the President) and until the vote itself shall have been declared by said Secretary after examination of the votes returned: (e) to issue power of attorney to persons designated by the General Executive Committee or its duly empowered sub-committees, the Foreign Department or the Home Department; (f) to execute release to exe- cutors and trustees through whom this Society may receive bequests and legacies, and to perform such other acts as are required by the Act of Incor- poration, and which can not legally be executed by Branch Treasurers.

~~Ill Departments~~

~~There shall be two departments of the General Executive Committee: the Foreign and the Home.~~

~~Foreign Department—The Foreign Department shall consist of the Presi- dent of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, ex-officio, one Vice-President 182 By-Laws~~

as Chairman, the Treasurer of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, and the Branch Corresponding Secretaries. In the event of the inability of a Corresponding Secretary to attend the meetings of this Department, the Executive Board of her Branch shall have the privilege of sending a substitute with full power.

Duties of Foreign Department—It shall be the duty of this department to (a) consider estimates and make appropriations of the foreign work; (b) conduct the official correspondence with the missionaries and with Missions assigned for such official correspondence; (c) give careful consideration to the requests of missionaries; (d) examine the testimonials of missionary candidates that are presented to it by the Branches, and decide as to their acceptance as missionaries of the Society: (e) consider all matters that may be brought before the General Executive Committee relative to native assistants and workers; (f) consider all cases of emergency relating to the Foreign De- partment which may arise in the interim of sessions of the General Executive Committee, and decide on such action as shall be ordered by a majority vote of the members of the department, if the vote be taken at a regular meeting of the department, but by a three-fourths vote of all members if the vote be taken by correspondence. If, however, it be desired to reverse or materially alter by correspondence actions taken when the department was in session, a vote of ten members shall be necessary. No vote of the Foreign Depart- ment taken ad interim shall be binding or legal unless the request for such vote shall have been sent out by the person who, for the time being, is the Recording Secretary of the Foreign Department, and unless the vote itself shall have been declared by said Secretary after due examination of the vote returned to said Secretary; (g) present a full written report of its action during the year to the General Executive Committee for approval and permanent record; (h) hold semi-annual meeting at such time and place as shall be designated by its Chairman and Secretary; (i) appoint the Official Corre- spondents and Foreign Treasurers; (j) present to the General Executive Committee, through the Branch Corresponding Secretaries, a full report of the foreign work of the Branches and their appropriations, which report shall include the following items: number of missionaries, Bible women, boarding schools, orphans, and other foreign work supported by the Branches, and furnish copy of the same for publication in the Annual Report of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society.

Home Department—The Home Department shall consist of the President of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, ex-officio, one Vice-President as Chairman, and the Branch Secretaries of the Home Base. In the event of the inability of a Secretary of the Home Base to attend the meetings of this department, the Executive Board of her Branch shall have the privilege of sending a substitute with full power.

Duties of Home Department—It shall be the duty of this department to (a) superintend all publications, the work of the Special Secretaries, and all other interests pertaining to this department; (b) present to the General Executive Committee nominations for Editors, Publishers, and Special Secretaries, and in each case where salaries are paid to designate the amount; (c) receive and consider all reports of Editors, Publishers, and Special Secretaries; (d) have charge of literature for meetings held outside of the country, the expense therefor to be paid from the General Fund; (e) present a full written report of its action during the year to the General Executive Committee for approval and permanent record; (f) consider all cases of emergency relating to the Home Department which may arise in the interim of sessions of the General Executive Committee, and decide on such action as shall be ordered by a majority vote of the members of the department, if the vote be taken at a regular meeting of the department, but by a three-fourths vote of all members if the vote be taken by correspondence. If, however, it be desired to reverse — ——

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or materially alter by correspondence actions taken when the department was in session, a vote of ten members shall be necessary. No vote of the Home Department, taken ad interim, shall be binding or legal unless the request for such vote shall have been sent out by the person who, for the time being, is the Recording Secretary of the Home Department, and unless the vote itself shall have been declared by said Secretary after due examination of itself committees on the the votes returned to said Secretary ; (g) resolve into various sections of its work; (h) present to the General Executive Com- mittee the Annual Report of the Home Work, with statistics and receipts by Branches; (i) the Chairman, together with five members of the Home Department, shall have power to call one ad interim session of the Department in any twelve months. Delegates—The Recording Secretary of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society shall organize the Delegates to the General Executive Committee into a Conference, which shall hold at least three sessions for the purpose of considering measures for the promotion of the interests of the work in the Branches they represent. They shall attend the public meetings and such sessions of the Foreign and Home Departments as may be open to them in order that they may give intelligent and helpful reports to be circulated throughout their respective Branches. When important changes or new By-laws are to come before the General Executive Committee, a copy of the same shall be presented to the delegates on the day previous.

~~IV General Office at New York~~

There shall be a general office at New York. The purpose of its maintenance shall be to (a) serve as a bureau of general information regarding the work of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society at home and abroad (b) serve as a central agency for those interests common ; to all Branches which can be more effectively and economically conducted through such a center; (c) form the point of contact between the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society and other organizations of related interest in our own Church and in other denominations; (d) render assistance to outgoing and returning missionaries; (e) serve in other lines as determined by the Standing Committee on General Office.

~~V Secretary of General Office~~

There shall be a Secretary of the General Office. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of the General Office to express the purpose of the General Office under the direction of the Standing Committee on General Office.

VI Special Secretaries for the General Work There shall be a Secretary of Student Work, a Secretary of Young People's Work, a Secretary of Junior Work, a Secretary of German Work, a Secretary of Swedish Work, nominated by the Home Department and elected annually by the General Executive Committee. Field Secretaries shall be employed as required by the Home Department. These Secretaries shall send their statistical reports to the Home Department by the day of its opening session. Duties of the Secretary of Student Work—It shall be the duty of the Secre- tary of Student Work to (a) superintend and devise plans for the work of this department; (b) conduct correspondence with the Branch Student Secretaries; (c) receive from each Branch Student Secretary an annual statistical report which shall correspond with the one presented to the Branch annual meeting; (d) prepare the annual report of the department for the General Executive Committee, showing statistics by Branches; (e) represent the Society in significant gatherings; (f) provide material necessary for periodicals and press reports; (g) perform such other duties as the Home Department may define and the General Executive Committee approve. —

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Duties of the Secretary of Young People's Work—It shall be the duty of the Secretary of Young People's Work to (a) superintend and devise plans for the work of this department; (b) conduct correspondence with Branch Super- intendents of Young People's Work; (c) receive from Branch Superintendents an annual statistical report, which shall correspond with the one presented to the Branch Annual Meeting; (d) prepare the annual report of the department for the General Executive Committee, showing statistics by Branches; (e) represent the department in significant gatherings; (f) provide material necessary for periodicals and press reports; (g) perform such other duties as the Home Department may define and the General Executive Committee approve. Duties of the Secretary of Junior Work—It shall be the duty of the Secre- tary of Junior Work to (a) superintend and devise plans for the work of this department; (b) conduct correspondence with Branch Superintendents of Junior Work; (c) receive from Branch Superintendents an annual statistical report, which shall correspond with the one presented to the Branch Annual Meeting; (d) prepare the annual report of the department for the General Executive Committee, showing statistics by Branches; (e) represent the department in significant gatherings (f provide material necessary for periodi- ; ) cals and press reports; (g) perform such other duties as the Home Depart- ment may define and the General Executive Committee approve. Duties of the Secretary of German Work—It shall be the duty of the Sec- retary of German Work to (a) superintend and devise plans for the work of the women, young people and children in the German Methodist churches; (b) conduct correspondence throughout the German constituency; (c) receive reports from the German Conference Secretaries and Treasurers, and present an annual statistical report to the General Executive Committee; (d) represent her constituency in significant gatherings; (e) provide material necessary for periodicals and press reports; (f) co-operate with the Home and Foreign Departments of the General Executive Committee. Duties of the Secretary of Swedish Work—It shall be the duty of the Secretary of Swedish Work to (a) superintend and devise plans for the work of the women, young people and children in Swedish Methodist churches; (b) conduct correspondence throughout the Swedish constituency, (c) receive reports from Swedish Conference Secretaries and Treasurers, and present an annual statistical report to the General Executive Committee; (d) represent her constituency in significant gatherings; (e) provide material necessary for periodical and press reports; (f) co-operate with the Home and Foreign Departments of the General Executive Committee.

~~VII Branch Offices~~

There shall be in each Branch a President, Vice-President, Corresponding Secretary, Secretary of the Home Base, Recording Secretary, Treasurer, Superintendent of Young People's Work, Superintendent of Junior Work, Superintendent of Literature, and such other officers as each Branch shall determine. Duties of Branch Officers—It shall be the duty of the Branch President to (a) have general supervision of the affairs of the Branch; (b) preside at all meetings of the Branch and of its Executive Com- mittee; (c) be ex-officio member of all Standing Committees, with the privilege of voting. Branch Vice-Presidents to (a) perform all the duties of the President in her absence; (b) render assistance when needed. Branch Corresponding Secretary to (a) superintend ail interests of the Branch pertaining to the foreign field (b) conduct the correspondence of the ; Branch with foreign missionaries and missionary candidates; (c) sign all orders on the Branch treasury, including foreign remittances, in accordance with the appropriations; (d) give to the Branch all foreign communications, plans and business of the Branch essential to the furtherance of the work; By-Laws 185

(e) attend and present a report of her work at all Branch Annual and Quarterly- Meetings, and submit an annual report for publication in the Branch Annual Report; (f) perform such other duties as the Branch may define. Branch Secretary of the Home Base to (a) superintend all interests of the Branch pertaining to the home field; (b) conduct the correspondence with the Special Secretaries, the Conference Secretaries, and the Branch Superintendents; (c) serve as an ex-officio member of all Branch Standing Committees, with privilege of voting; (d) assist in the preparation of the Branch Annual Report; (e) attend and present a report of the home work at all Branch Annual and Quarterly Meetings, and submit an annual report, including statistics by Conferences, for publication in the Branch Annual Re- port, and, as required, for the Annual Report of the Woman's Foreign Mis sionary Society and the Woman's Missionary Friend; (f) perform such other duties as the Branch may define. Branch Recording Secretary to (a) give notice of all Branch Meetings; (b) keep a full record of all proceedings; (c) furnish reports of Quarterly and Annual Meetings for publication; (d) prepare for the Branch Annual Report a summary of the proceedings of the Branch Executive Committee throughout the year; (e) receive for publication in the Branch Annual Report the reports of Branch Officers, Conference Secretaries, Special Superintendents, and such other material for permanent record as the Branch shall determine. Branch Treasurer to (a) receive all funds of the Branch; (b) make and promptly forward the quarterly remittances according to the appropriations, upon the written order of the Branch Corresponding Secretary; (c) disburse other funds under the direction of the Branch Executive Committee, upon the written order of the Branch Corresponding Secretary; (d) furnish quarterly reports to the Woman's Missionary Friend; (e) present full items of receipts and disbursements annually and quarterly to the Branch, and furnish a copy to the Branch Corresponding Secretary and the Secretary of the Home Base; (f) prepare an itemized report for the Branch Annual Meeting and for publication in the Branch Annual Report; and (g) perform each other duties as each Branch may define. Branch Secretary of Student Work to (a) present to Methodist women students the purposes and current work of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, and engage their personal service for the Society after leaving college, under the leadership of the Secretary of Student Work, in co-operation with the Branch Corresponding Secretary, the Secretary of the Home Base, and local student committees; (b) in each student center of the Branch secure a Woman's Foreign Missionary Society Student Committee who shall promote the Isabella Thoburn Auxiliary or other plans for student work; (c) conduct correspondence with and receive reports from the Woman's Foreign Mission- ary Society Student Committee in the student centers, and keep in touch with the denominational student acting as missionary correspondent; (d) keep in touch with prospective candidates; (e) make quarterly and annual reports to the Secretary of the Home Base of the Branch, sending duplicate to the General Student Secretary, and provide material for press reports; (f) be ex-officio member of the Branch Candidate Committee; (g) be Chairman of the Branch Advisory Student Committee. Branch Superintendent of Literature to (a) advance the interests and increase the sale of the literature and publications; (b) have charge, in connection with the Branch Committee on Literature and the Agent of Supplies, of the exhibition and sale of Woman's Foreign Missionary Society publications at the various public gatherings and conventions throughout the Branch, the expense to be borne by the Branch within whose bounds such meeting is held; (c) present Quarterly and Annual Reports to the Secretary of the Home Base, and to the Quarterly and Annual Meetings of the Branch; (d) encourage the organization of mission study circles to study the textbook of the United Study Course. Branch Superintendent of Young People's Work to (a) superintend and devise plans in her department, under the leadership of the Secretary of Young — — ;

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People's Work, and in co-operation with the Secretary of the Home Base and Conference Secretaries; (b) conduct correspondence with and receive reports from Conference Superintendents, report quarterly and annually to the Secretary of the Home Base; (c) send to the Secretary of Young People's Work an annual statistical report, which shall correspond with the one presented at the Annual Meeting-; (d) attend and present reports at the Branch Annual and Quarterly Meetings; (e) provide material in the Branch Quarterly for her department; (f) perform such other duties as the Branch may require. Branch Superintendent of Junior Work to (a) superintend and devise plans in her department, under the leadership of the Secretary of Junior Work, and in co-operation with the Secretary of the Home Base and Conference Secretaries _(b) conduct correspondence with and receive reports from Conference Super- intendents, report quarterly and annually to the Secretary of the Home Base; (c) send to the Secretary of Junior Work an annual statistical report, which shall correspond with the one presented at the Annual Meeting; (d)

attend and present reports at the Branch Annual and Quarterly meetings ; (e) provide material in the Branch Quarterly for her department; (f) perform such other duties as the Branch may require. Branch Secretary of Field Support to (a) stimulate interest in the support of orphans, Bible women, assistants and other forms of special work, under the direction of the Corresponding Secretary; (b) keep an accurate record of objects supported and patrons giving support; (c) conduct correspondence with patrons and forward to them communications received from the missionaries concerning the work (d) present reports at Branch Annual and Quarterly ; Meetings; (e) provide material in regard to the Department of Field Support for the Branch Quarterly; (f) perform such other duties as the Branch may require.

VIII Depots of Supplies Each Branch shall maintain a depot of supplies for the circulation and sale of literature and other helps, which shall be under the direction of a Branch committee. The chairman of this committee shall report annually to the Home Department through the Branch Secretary of the Home Base.

~~IX Missionary Candidates~~

1. Each person who offers herself as a missionary candidate shall declare her belief that she is (a) divinely called to the work of a foreign missionary; (b) actuated only by a desire to work in accordance with the will of God; (c) that she intends to make foreign missionary work the service of her effective years. 2. The preferred age of a candidate shall be twenty-five to thirty years. 3. She shall be a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 4. The candidate shall fill out required application blanks and present them to the Corresponding Secretary of the Branch in whose territory she resides. These application papers shall be presented by the Corresponding Secretary to the Branch Standing Committee on Candidates, by which committee the case shall be investigated and reported, through the Corresponding Secretary, to the Foreign Department, where it shall be again considered and passed upon. 5. If accepted by the Foreign Department the name of the candidate shall be presented to the Board of Managers of the Board of Foreign Missions for confirmation. 6. In case a candidate shall not have been sent out within one year from date of her acceptance, the question of her acceptance must be again presented to the Foreign Department before final appointment. 7. Any missionary of another Board on the field seeking admission to the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society must present suitable recommendations from her Board; serve at least three years in the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, and be recommended by the Conference where —

By-Laws 187 she has labored, presenting to the Foreign Department such credentials as are required of other candidates before she is eligible to appointment as a missionary of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society. 8. Young women of American or European birth not residing in the United States shall present either to a Branch Corresponding Secretary or to the Secretary of the Foreign Department such application and testimonials as are required from candidates applying in America.

X Missionaries A. On Acceptance by the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society each missionary shall 1. Be under the control of the General Executive Committee, directly amenable to the Corresponding Secretary of the Branch supporting her. 2. Enter into the following contract by and with the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society through the Corresponding Secretary of the Branch supporting her. This contract shall be signed in duplicate for file by the missionary and the Corresponding Secretary of the Branch supporting her.

~~CONTRACT~~

"I agree to render five years' continuous service from this date as a missionary of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and to conform to the rules and regulations of the said Society as they now exist or shall hereafter be modified during my term of service. "Failure to keep the above contract shall render me liable to the repayment to the Society of expense incurred by it for my outfit and passage. Date Signed 'We agree to compensate for the above described services by paying the traveling expenses of a round trip from her home to her field of labor; salary at the rate of $ per year, from the date of her arrival at her field of

labor until the date of her departure therefrom ; and fifteen months' home salary, after the completion of five years' service on the field, at the rate prescribed by the By-laws of the Woman's Foreign Mission- ary Society. Date Signed Cor. Sec'y of the Branch. On behalf of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church."

3. Consider the regulations of the Society named in the Constitution and By-laws as binding as the terms of the contract, and failure to conform to them on the part of the missionary shall release the Society from all financial liability. 4. Devote her entire time and attention to her work. 5. Serve for five years as the first term and six years for each succeeding term. 6. No missionary supported by the Woman's Foreign Missionary So- ciety shall adopt any child as her own, nor bring foreign-born girls or helpers to this country except upon the recommendation of the Field Reference Committee of the Conference in which they reside and with the permission of the Foreign Department of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society. 7. At the close of a missionary's first term of service, the question of her return to the field shall be as carefully considered by the Foreign Department as was her original acceptance for service. It shall, however, not be necessary for her to present new papers, except a medical certificate. 188 By-Laws

B. Classification of Missionaries For purposes of administration missionaries shall be classified as follows: active, furloughed, detained, self-supporting, retired, resigned, discontinued, married, deceased. 1. Active missionaries are those engaged in specific work assigned them on the field. 2. Furloughed missionaries are those who have received permission from the Society for temporary absence from the mission field. 3. Detained missionaries are those who for reasons satisfactory to the Foreign Department have remained away from the field longer than two years, but expect to return at some future time. 4. Self-supporting missionaries who are regularly accepted by the Foreign Department have the same standing as those who receive salary and shall be amenable to the laws governing the same. 5. Retired missionaries are those whose services have been deemed impracticable by reason of family conditions, impaired health, advancing years or other causes, and who, after two years' furlough, have been placed on the retired list. 6. Resigned missionaries are those who have been accorded the privilege of withdrawing from service as missionaries of the Society. 7. Discontinued missionaries are those who have been deemed by a three-fourths vote of the Foreign Department unfit for continuance in the service.

C. In Active Service 1. Outfit and Furniture—The Society shall provide each missionary, when beginning service, with $200 for personal outfit, and also, if necessary, $100 for furniture, which shall be the property of the Society. Furniture and medical outfit provided by the Society shall be the property of the Society and subject to its disposition. 2. Salary—The salaries of missionaries shall include all expenses hitherto classed as incidentals and shall be $750 in all China Conferences; $800 in all India Conferences and Mexico Conference; $900 in Burma, Malaysia, Nether- lands Indies, Philippine Islands and South America Conferences; $950 in Africa (except North Africa); $1,000 in Europe, North Africa, Japan and Korea Conferences. The value of the salary on the field shall be based on the par of exchange between U. S. gold and the currency of the country concerned, any exchange loss to be made up by the Society and any gain to belong to it.* The first year's work of a new missionary shall be so planned by the Mission that the major part of her time shall be given to the study of the language.

3. Finance—Each missionary shall 1. Incur no expense which has not been authorized by the General Executive Committee. 2. Apply to private sources for financial aid only by authority from the Foreign Department of the General Executive Committee. All solicitations for funds shall be made through the proper official authorities. 3. Keep an itemized account of receipts and disbursements, also of all donations, fees, and other sums received for the support of the work, and credit the same to the Society in her annual financial statement to the Conference Treasurer. 4. Present estimates and all other matter requiring the action of the General Executive Committee through the Field Reference Committee or the Conference in which her work is located.

*Grants to missionaries, in addition to salary, are as follows: for Japan, Korea and Mexico, $200: for Philippine Islands. Malaysia, Netherlands Indies and vSouth America, .$100: full exchange gain allowed for Europe. By-Laws 189

5. Include in her estimates for Bible women and zenana workers all expenses of conveyances and teachers, and in those for scholarships, the cost of fuel, light, medicines, and minor expenses necessary in the maintenance of the school.

~~' 4. Reports and Records—Each missionary shall~~

1. Furnish the Official Correspondent with all facts as required. 2. Report each quarter to the Corresponding Secretary of the Branch supporting her and to the Superintendent of the district in which her work is located. 3. Send annual communications for patrons supporting Special Work and to the Branch Secretary of Special Work. 4. Keep a clear record of all Special Work, including Bible women, scholarships, etc., in her charge under the Branches supporting them, and on her removal or furlough transfer it to her substitute or successor.

~~D. Furloughed—Each missionary shall~~

1. Receive $350 for traveling expenses when entering on furlough. Any balance shall be applied on home salary. 2. The Society shall be liable for traveling expenses only to the extent necessitated by conformity to the regulations of the Foreign Department as to lines of travel and incidental expense. 3. In all cases where the relations of the missionary with the Society are satisfactory her home salary for the first twelve months of the regular furlough shall be $850; for the last three months, at the rate of $600 a year; if the Foreign Department considers it necessary for her to remain longer in this country, or if the furlough is the last before retirement, salary for nine months, after the first fifteen months, shall be at the rate of $600 a year. Home salary, except as elsewhere provided, shall begin upon date of leaving work on the field, and shall continue until return thereto, provided said return is within two years. In case return is delayed beyond two years, the question of a further continuation of home salary shall be referred to the Foreign Department. 4. Missionaries indigenous to the field shall receive full salary when on furlough, in which case no furlough expenses will be paid by the Society. This provision shall apply only to missionaries in satisfactory relation to the So- ciety and for the term of furlough authorized by the General Executive Committee through the Branch supporting the missionary. 5. In case of emergency demanding immediate return home the missionary shall bring a statement of disability certified by a physician and the Field Reference Committee, or, where there is no Reference Committee, by the Bishop or the Superintendent of the Mission. 6. If she contemplates returning home for any other reason than ill- health, she shall secure permission of the General Executive Committee through the Corresponding Secretary of the Branch supporting her, upon the recommendation of the Field Reference Committee. 7. She shall accompany her application for return to the field after home leave with a new medical certificate. The recommendation of the Correspond- ing Secretary of the Branch supporting her and a majority vote of the Foreign Department shall be authority for her return. 8. She shall attend the first session of the General Executive Committee held after her return from the foreign field, and her traveling expenses to and from the place of meeting shall be paid from the same fund as those of members of that body. 9. Fifteen months' absence from the field shall constitute the regular furlough and any deviation from this rule shall be on the authority of the Foreign Department. The missionary's last furlough before retirement shall be two years in length. 10. As soon as possible after the granting of a furlough, the missionary —

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~~shall be informed by the Foreign Department as to whether or not her return to the field will be sanctioned, if at the time for return health conditions be satisfactory.~~

E. Retired 1. The missionary shall be automatically retired at the end of the furlough nearest her sixty-seventh birthday. 2. Missionaries may be retired earlier by a three-fourths vote of the Foreign Department.

F. 1. The resignation of a missionary shall cause the obligation of the Society for salary and traveling expenses to cease. Traveling expenses may be paid if the Foreign Department so orders, but the decision shall be made for each case on its merits. 2. The marriage of a missionary shall be considered a resignation.

G. Discontinued 1. The Foreign Department shall have authority by a three-fourths vote to decide upon the fitness of any missionary for continuance in the service. If she be deemed unfit by the Department her discontinuance shall be recommended to the Board of Managers of the Board of Foreign Missions. If her discontinuance be confirmed by these two bodies in the order named, her relation to the Society as a missionary shall terminate at once. 2. After discontinuance she shall be paid in final settlement a lump sum equal to one-fourth of the annual salary last received by her when a missionary; and, if presentation of bills be made within three months after notice of discontinuance has been given, she shall be paid traveling expenses to her home to the extent provided by By-law X, D (2). XI Contract Teachers On acceptance by the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society each contract teacher shall 1. Be appointed for a term of three years and shall be a member of the Woman's Conference. 2. While on the field have the same prerogatives, privileges and obligations as a missionary. 3. Enter into the following CONTRACT

"I agree to render three years' consecutive service as a teacher in the schools of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episco- pal Church and, during my term of service, to be subject to and governed by the same rules and regulations as those which govern the regular missionaries of the Society, which rules I have read and understand. Date Signed "For these services we agree to compensate as follows: "We agree to pay expenses incurred by her round trip from her home in America to her field of labor over routes prescribed by the

Society ; to provide her with all of which is subject to the provision that she conform to the rules and regulations which govern the regular missionaries of the Society. Date Signed Cor. Sec'y of the Branch. On behalf of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church." — —

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~~XII Native Women~~

Native women workers and others indigenous to the foreign field shall be eligible to full membership in the Woman's Conference and to appointment by the Bishop on the following conditions: 1. They shall be members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, or in Japan, of the Japan Methodist Church, graduates of a recognized high school, and shall have had two years' additional educational training in college, normal, medical, kindergarten, nurse, or Bible training school. 2. They shall be recommended for such Conference membership by the Woman's Conference, within whose bounds they are working or residing, to the Executive Committee of the Central Conference, if there be a Central Conference in the area concerned. If there be no Central Conference, the recommendation of the Bishop or Superintendent of the Mission shall be required in addition to the recommendation of the Woman's Conference. 3. They shall be eligible to membership in any of the committees of the Woman's Conference except the Field Reference Committee; they shall be entitled to regular annual vacations, but more extended leave of absence shall be without salary and, in view of their domicile, they shall not be entitled to furlough in America, nor to a retirement allowance until retirement funds are provided on the field. They shall qualify in the language according to a course of study prescribed by the Central Conferences of their respective fields, where such exist, otherwise by the Woman's Conference.

~~XIII Organization on the Field~~

1. Woman's Conference—Working in co-operation with each Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church on the foreign field there shall be, wherever practicable, a Woman's Conference, made up of the missionaries of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, wives of missionaries of the Board of Foreign Missions in charge of work for the Society, workers provided for by By-law XII, and such other women workers as each Woman's Conference shall from time to time determine. This Conference shall meet annually and elect a President, a Vice-Presi- dent, Secretary, Official Correspondent and such other officers as shall be needed, hear reports, appoint committees, and consult concerning the work in charge of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society within the bounds of the Conference. All important recommendations to the General Executive Committee through the Foreign Department shall first be acted upon by the Woman's Conference. This conference may delegate any of its functions to the Field Reference Committee or other committees except the matter of recommendations in regard to the return of missionaries to the field after furlough. 2. Foreign Treasurer—There shall be in each Annual Conference, Mis- sion Conference or group of Conferences, as the Foreign Department shall direct, a Foreign Treasurer for the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, appointed by the Foreign Department. It shall be the duty of each Foreign Treasurer to (a) forward receipts immediately upon receiving remittances from the Branch Treasurers; (b) apply the funds of the Society only for the purpose designated by the General Executive Committee; to make no disbursements in excess of the appropriations made by the General Executive Committee, nor for objects not included in the appropriations of that Committee; (c) pay all appropriations, including salaries and buildings, on the basis of currency of the country at par; (d) pay money for buildings on order of the Building Committee in such amounts and at such time as required by the contract; (e) invest, on action of the Field Reference Committee of the Woman's Conference, all money sent to the field for buildings and land, the use of which is temporarily delayed; (f) forward to the Branch Corresponding Secretary on January first and July first —

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of each year itemized statements both in local currency and in U. S. gold, of balance arising from unused current work appropriations, exchange, or other source, and hold such funds subject to the order of the Corresponding Secretary from whose Branch said funds accrue; (g) forward to the General Treasurer on January first and July first of each year itemized statements, both in local currency and in U. S. gold, of amounts received and expended for buildings and property, taxes and insurance, and such other items as are paid by the General Treasurer to the Conference concerned; (h) forward estimates approved by the Field Reference Committee and printed according to prescribed form two copies to each of the General Officers, and three copies to the Corresponding Secretary of each Branch, to insure arrival on or before Sep- tember first; (i) receive building accounts properly audited, and hold them in custody for the Society. 3. Field Property Committee—There shall be a Field Property Committee in each Woman's Conference, nominated by the Field Reference Committee and elected by the Woman's Conference. The Treasurer of the Annual Con- ference, Mission Conference or group of Conferences shall be ex-officio member of this Committee. It shall be the duty of the Field Property Committee to (a) have in charge, under the direction of the Foreign Department of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, all matters relative to the purchase and sale of property, erection and insurance of buildings, and extensive repairs for which appropriations have been made. After a building has been authorized by the Foreign Department, the Property Committee shall appoint a local building committee, which shall have authority to draw up plans, make contracts, subject to the approval of the Property Committee, audit bills, and direct the work. (b) Secure safe legal titles to all real estate purchased by the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society. When possible, all deeds shall be made to the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, or to the Board of Foreign Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church in trust for the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church; where neither of these is possible, they shall be made in the way that shall be approved by the Field Reference Committee and the Finance Committee of the Board of Foreign Missions of that Conference. (c) Have all deeds recorded in accordance with the laws of the country and preserve all deeds and other legal papers not forwarded to America. (d) Keep a record of all real estate belonging to the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society. (e) Furnish the Committee on Real Estate with information as required. (f) Keep on file all documents giving power of attorney for the transfer of property within the Conference. (g) Furnish the Treasurer of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society with a copy (and a translation when the deeds are not in English) of deeds to all property acquired by purchase or other means. 4. Field Reference Committee—Each Woman's Conference shall have a Field Reference Committee to be elected annually by a ballot from the missionaries of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, and from the wives of the missionaries of the Board of Foreign Missions who are in charge of work of the Woman's Society. This committee shall consist of not less than six nor more than nine representative members, two-thirds of whom shall be missionaries of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society. It shall be the duty of the Field Reference Committee to (a) prepare estimates which require the action of the General Executive Committee; (b) consider the furlough of missionaries and forward recommendations concerning the individual cases to the Foreign Department; (c) consider all matters of general interest arising during the interim of their annual meetings. XIV Publication Department

~~1. The periodicals of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society shall be 1 known as the Woman s Missionary Friend, Junior Missionary Friend and Der Frauen Missions Freund. —~~

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2. The literature of the Society shall include all other publications not specified in Section 1. 3. The Editors and Publisher of the periodicals and literature shall be elected annually at the meeting of the General Executive Committee, when their reports shall be received, and a copy thereof submitted for publication in the Annual Report of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society. 4. The Editors and Publisher shall be entitled to floor privileges on matters concerning their work. 5. In the interim of the General Executive Committee the management of the Society's publications shall be under the control of the Home Depart- ment. 6. Sample copies of all publications issued by the Society shall be sent to the General Officers and to the members of the Home Department of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, and to such other officers and exchanges as may be deemed essential to the progress of this department.

XV Zenana Paper 1. The Foreign Department shall take appropriations from the income of the endowment of the Zenana Paper and shall have general supervision of the interests of the paper. 2. The Woman's Conference in India shall nominate a Committee consisting of five persons—three women and two men—one of whom shall be the Publisher, to supervise the interests of the paper, and arrange with the Press Committee for editing and publishing the Zenana Paper in the various languages and dialects required, these nominations to be subject to the approval of the Foreign Department of the General Executive Committee. 3. The Editor-in-Chief shall send an annual report of the Zenana Paper to the Chairman of the Foreign Department, with the amount of circulation and items of interest, in time to be presented to the Annual Meeting of the General Executive Committee in America. 4. A report of the Zenana Paper shall be published in the Annual Re- port of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society. 5. The Treasurer of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society shall be the Treasurer of the Zenana Paper funds, and shall disburse the income of the same only upon the order of the Chairman of the Foreign Department.

XVI—Funds 1. All money raised under the auspices of this Society belongs to the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and shall not be diverted to other causes. 2. The Reserve Fund, a capital of $5,000, shall be retained in the treasury of the Society's publications, and in no case shall said amount be used in publishing interests or for any other demands. 3. Gifts, bequests, donations and other moneys received from donors residing outside the United States shall be paid to the General Treasurer and credited as "received from the Society at large," except where such gifts come from foreign conferences regularly affiliated with Branches, in which case they shall be paid to the treasurer of the Branch concerned. 4. Proceeds on the foreign field, accruing rates of exchange, surplus from remittances made under appropriation and other sources, shall belong to the Branch supporting the work, and shall be reported January first and July first of each year, and held subject to the order of the Corresponding Secretary in whose Branch they accrue. 5. No college or other endowment funds shall be held or investedjon the foreign field. College endowments shall be held by the General Treasurer and invested under the direction of the Committee on Investments. . 6. There shall be a General Fund created by the payment by each Branch of three and one-half per cent annually of its local receipts^into the treasury of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society. 194 By-Laws

7. There shall be a Retirement Fund for missionaries. The existence of this fund shall, however, create no legal obligation on the part of the Society to pay retirement allowance, except to such missionaries as it shall, through its Foreign Department, designate and only for the period designated by the said Department, (a) This fund shall be administered by a Retirement Fund Committee appointed by the General Executive Committee and amenable thereto: (b) distribution of income (and income only) shall be made on and after January 1, 1916, to retired missionaries of the Society designated as above. Except in special cases recommended to the Retirement Fund Com- mittee by the Foreign Department, no missionary shall be eligible to retirement allowance who has not served ten years on the foreign field, including one fifteen-months' furlough, or who was retired prior to January 1, 1900, or who (after January 1, 1918) was accepted on or after her fortieth birthday; (c) the basis for retirement allowance shall, except as hereinafter provided, be length of service, $15 per year of service for each year up to and including the nineteenth being the annual allowance for each American and European missionary, except such as have served twenty years or more. Those who have served twenty years or more shall receive an allowance of $600 a year. In ascertaining the number of years of service, the actual number of years spent by the missionary in service on the field, plus fifteen-months' furloughs at the rate of one for the first five years service on the field and one for each six years thereafter, shall be counted. Regular missionaries of the Society who are indigenous to the field in which they work and who were in service Janu- ary 1, 1918, shall receive, if placed on the list of missionaries eligible to allowance, retirement allowance on the same basis as American and European missionaries, except in cases where they have been receiving a salary smaller than that paid to American and European missionaries. In such cases their allowance per year of service shall bear the same ratio to $15 as the salary they have received when in active service bears to the salary of the American and European missionaries in their respective Conferences; (d) the maximum regular allowance shall be $600 per annum; (e) in exceptional cases, reported by the Foreign Department to the Retirement Fund Committee, where the necessities of the individual require a larger allowance than she would be entitled to because of her years of service, the Retirement Fund Com- mittee shall be empowered to determine on such an allowance for her as the judgment of the Committee shall direct; (f) no retirement allowances or special grants to retired missionaries shall be paid by Branches; (g) retirement allowances shall begin two years after the missionary's active service field ends (h) in case in any year the income of the Retirement Fund on the ; shall not be sufficient to pay to retired missionaries the allowances above provided, the deficiency shall be supplied by a pro rata assessment on the Branches, based on their total receipts for the preceding year; in case in any year the income from the fund shall exceed the total of allowances to be paid, the excess shall be added to the principal of the Fund; (i) gifts for the Fund shall always be added to the principal and only the income from them used. 8. Funds received on the Annuity Plan shall in no case be used during the life of the annuitant. Such funds shall be invested in good securities in the United States. Maximum annuity rates on a single life shall be as follows :

40 4.0% 50 5.0% 60 6.0% 70 7.0% 41 4.1% 51 5.1% 61 6.1% 71 7.1% 42 4.2% 52 5.2% 62 6.2% 72 7.2% 43 4.3% 53 5.3% 63 6.3% 73 7.3% 44 4.4% 54 5.4% 64 6.4% 74 7.4% 45 4.5% 55 5.5% 65 6.5% 75 7.5% 46 4.6% 56 5.6% 66 6.6% 76 7.6% 47 4.7% 57 5.7% 67 6.7% 77 .7.7% 48 4.8% 58 5.8% 68 6.8% 78 7.8% 49 4.9% 59 5.9% 69 6.9% 79 7.9% ——

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~~For eighty and over the rate is 8%. Rates on two lives shall be those adopted May, 191S, by the Inter-Board Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church.~~

XVII Expenses 1. From the General Fund shall be paid: (a) Expenses of the General Officers and Special Secretaries of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society; (b) traveling expenses to and from the meeting of the General Executive Committee incurred by the officers of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, Corresponding Secretaries, Secretaries of the Home Base, Special Secretaries, Secretaries of German and Swedish Work, Recording Secretaries of the Home and Foreign Departments, Sec- retary of the General Office, Missionaries, and two Delegates from each Branch; (c) traveling expenses of the members and of the Recording Secre- tary of the Foreign Department to and from the mid-year meeting; (d) expense of the General Office; (e) cost of literature supplied for meetings held outside of this country; (f) and such other expenses of home and foreign administration as the General Executive Committee shall from time to time direct; (g) all orders on the General Fund shall be signed by the President of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society and the Secretary of the Depart- ment which authorized the expenditure. 2. From the receipts of the Publisher's office shall be paid: (a) Salaries of the Editors and Publisher and their assistants; (b) postage of the Editors and Publisher and their traveling expenses to and from the meeting of the General Executive Committee; (c) the expenses of the Publication Office.

XVIII Committees 1. On Nominations There shall be a Committee on Nominations composed of two members from the Foreign Department and two members from the Home Department, these to constitute a standing committee and, when the General Executive Committee convenes, three Delegates shall be added to serve during the session. It shall be the duty of this Committee to present nominations for the officers of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, the General Coun- selor, Auditor of the accounts of the General Treasurer, and Standing Com- mittees, which shall consist of Committees on By-laws, Real Estate, and Titles, Investments, State of the Society, General Office, Retirement Fund, Conference with the Board of Foreign Missions and such other committees as the General Executive Committee shall from time to time determine.

~~2. On Memorials There shall be a Committee on Memorials consisting of one member from the Home Department and two delegates.~~

3. On Investments There shall be a Committee on Investments, to consist of five members, the General Counselor and the Treasurer to be members ex-officio, said Com- mittee to be elected annually by the General Executive Committee, and to consist of three women and two men. The Treasurer shall invest all Trust, Annuity and Endowment Funds of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society under the direction of this Committee. Any Branch which so desires may turn over its Branch Trust, Annuity and Endowment Funds to the control of this Committee on Investments. At the death of the annuitant or at the termination of the trust, the principal remaining to the credit of the original trust or annuity shall be paid to the Branch Treasurer by the General Treas- urer for the use of the Branch. Branches which prefer to retain control of their invested funds may do so, but shall submit to the Committee on Invest- ments above created an annual statement of their invested funds and of the : — ——

196 By-Laws securities held therefor. The Committee on Investments shall present from time to time to each such Branch a list of investments suited to the particular Branch, this list to be suggestive only, and the Branch to be as free as at present in the matter of making investments if it so desires.

~~4. Resolutions There shall be a Committee on Resolutions consisting of the 'Recording Secretary and two delegates.~~

XIX Order of Business The order of business for the General Executive Committee shall be as follows 1. Calling the roll. 2. Appointment of Committees. 3. Reception of memorials, petitions and proposed changes in the Constitution. 4. Reports of the Secretaries of the Home Base by Branches. 5. Report of the Home Department. 6. Reports of the Foreign Department by Branch Corresponding Secretaries. 7. Reports of Official Correspondents. 8. Reports of Editors and Publisher. 9. Fixing place of next meeting. 10. Election of President, Vice-President, Recording Secretary, Treas- urer, Special Secretaries and other officers, who shall continue in the office until the appointment of their successors. 11. Election of Editors and Publisher. 12. Notice of constitutional amendments.

DAILY ORDER OF BUSINESS 1. Roll call. 2. Minutes. 3. Reports of Committees. 4. Miscellaneous business. 5. Introductions. Each session shall open and close with devotional exercises. All resolutions to be discussed shall be presented in writing. No member shall be granted leave of absence except by vote of the entire body.

~~XX Fiscal Year The fiscal year of the Society shall begin October first.~~

XXI Meetings 1. The General Executive Committee shall convene annually not later than the last week in October, at such place as the said Committee shall elect. 2. The program for the meeting of the General Executive Committee shall be arranged by a committee composed of the Corresponding Secretary, Secretary of the Home Base, and the President of the Branch within whose bounds said meeting is to be held. The President of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society shall be, ex-officio, a member of this committee. 3. Local arrangements for the entertainment of the General Executive Committee shall be in the hands of committees appointed by the Branch within whose bounds the meeting is to be held. 4. The members of the Home Department shall assemble not less than three days before the opening of the General Executive Committee meeting. 5. The members of the Foreign Department shall assemble not less than three days before the opening of the General Executive Committee meeting —

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to consider their work, and shall hold a mid-year meeting at a time and place agreed upon by themselves. 6. A majority of the members of the General Executive Committee shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. XXII—By-Laws These By-laws may be changed or amended at any meeting of the Gen- eral Executive Committee by a two-thirds vote of the members present and voting.

~~CONSTITUTION FOR DISTRICT ASSOCIATIONS ARTICLE I—Name~~

This Association shall be called The District Asso- ciation of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society in the Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. ARTICLE II—Purpose The purpose of this Association shall be to unite the Auxiliaries of the district in an earnest effort for the promotion of the work of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society. ARTICLE III—Membership All members of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society in District shall be considered members of this Association.

~~ARTICLE IV—Officers~~

The officers of this Association shall be a President, three or more Vice- Presidents, a Corresponding Secretary, a Recording Secretary, a Treasurer, a Superintendent of Young Woman's Work, a Superintendent of Junior Work, a Superintendent of Literature, and such other officers as the District shall determine, in harmony with the Constitution of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society. These officers shall constitute the Executive Committee to administer the affairs of the District. ARTICLE V—Meetings

There shall be an annual meeting of the District Association, when reports shall be received from all Auxiliaries in the District, missionary intelli- gence shall be given, and necessary business transacted.

ARTICLE VI Change of Constitution This Constitution may be changed at any annual meeting of the General Executive Committee of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society by a three- fourths vote of those present and voting, notice of the proposed change having been given to the Branches before April first of that year. CONSTITUTION FOR AUXILIARY SOCIETIES

Auxiliaries are expected to labor in harmony with and under the direction of the Branch. ARTICLE I—Name This organization shall be called The Woman's Foreign Missionary So- ciety of Auxiliary of the Branch of The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Epis- copal Church. ——

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~~ARTICLE II—Purpose~~

The purpose of this Society shall be to aid its Branch in interesting Christian women in the evangelizing of heathen women and in raising funds for this work. ARTICLE III—Membership Any person paying a regular subscription of two cents a week, or one dollar per year, may become a member of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society. Any person contributing five dollars per quarter for one year, or twenty dollars at one time, shall be constituted a life member. ARTICLE IV—Funds All funds raised under the auspices of this Society, contributed or be- queathed to it, belong to the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, and shall not be diverted to other causes, but shall be paid into the Branch Treasury. Remittances shall be forwarded quarterly to the Conference Treasurer.

~~ARTICLE V Officers and Elections~~

The officers of this Society shall be a President, one or more Vice-Presi- dents, a Recording Secretary, a Corresponding Secretary, a Treasurer, a Counselor for Young People's Work and a Supervisor of Junior Work, who shall constitute an Executive Committee to administer its affairs. Managers and Superintendents of departments of work may be added as needed. These officers shall be elected at the annual meeting of the Society.

ARTICLE VI Change of Constitution This Constitution may be changed at any annual meeting of the Gen- eral Executive Committee of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society by a three-fourths vote of those present and voting, notice of the proposed change having been given to the Branches before April first of that year.

CONSTITUTION FOR YOUNG PEOPLE'S SOCIETIES ARTICLE I—Name This organization shall be called The Young Woman's Foreign Mission- ary Society, or The Standard Bearer Company, of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Church, Auxiliary to the Branch of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church. ARTICLE II—Purpose

The purpose of this organization is to interest young people in foreign missions and to support the work of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church. ARTICLE III—Membership Any person may become a member of the Young Woman's Missionary Society by the payment of one dollar a year and a member of the Standard Bearer Company by the payment of five cents a month. The payment of fifteen dollars shall constitute life membership. ARTICLE IV—Badge

~~The badge of this organization shall be the Church pennant pin. Mem- bers paying one dollar per year may wear the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society badge, if preferred. ——~~

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ARTICLE V—Funds Funds raised under the auspices of this Society belong to the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, and shall not be diverted to other causes. Re- mittances shall be forwarded quarterly to the Conference Treasurer.

~~ARTICLE VI Officers and Elections~~

The officers of this organization shall be a President, two or more Vice- Presidents, a Recording Secretary, a Corresponding Secretary, and a Treas- urer, who shall be elected at the annual meeting of the organization and constitute an Executive Committee to administer the affairs of the same. Su- perintendents of departments may be added as needed.

ARTICLE VII Change of Constitution This Constitution may be changed at any annual meeting of the General Executive Committee by a three-fourths vote of those present and voting, notice of the proposed change having been given to the Branches before April first of that year.

~~CONSTITUTION FOR KING'S HERALDS~~

ARTICLE I—Name This' organization shall be called the King's Heralds of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and be under the supervision of the Auxiliary of the Wom- an's Foreign Missionary Society in the said Church, if any exist; otherwise under the special supervision of the District Secretary of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society.

~~ARTICLE II—Object~~

The object of this organization shall be to promote missionary intelli- gence and interest among children and to aid in the work of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

ARTICLE III—Membership Any child between the ages of eight and fourteen may become a King's Herald by the payment of two cents a month. The payment of ten dollars shall constitute a child's life membership.

~~ARTICLE IV—Officers~~

~~The officers of this organization shall be a Superintendent, President, two Vice-Presidents, Recording Secretary, Corresponding Secretary, Treas- urer, and Agent for the Junior Missionary Friend.~~

~~ARTICLE V—Meetings Meetings of this organization shall be held on the of each month. The officers shall be elected semi-annually at the September and March meetings.~~

~~ARTICLE VI—Badge The badge of this organization shall be a silver trumpet with "King's Heralds" in blue lettering. :~~

~~200 Form of Will, Devise and Annuity~~

PLAN OF WORK FOR LITTLE LIGHT BEARERS Children under eight years of age may be enrolled as Little Light Bearers by the payment of twenty-five' cents annually, receiving the enrollment card as a certificate of membership. The payment of ten dollars shall constitute life membership.

~~Directions~~

The Superintendent, elected by the woman's auxiliary, shall have charge of the work of the Little Light Bearers and plan for the collecting of dues, remitting and reporting quarterly through the regular channels, arrange for the annual public meeting, keep an accurate record in the Little Light Bear- ers' Record Book, and report regularly to the woman's auxiliary.

PLAN FOR EXTENSION WORK Extension of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society by the increase of auxiliaries and auxiliary membership. To this end there should be in every Branch 1 —Branch, conference, district and auxiliary secretaries; 2—Extension work in every unorganized church where an auxiliary is impracticable; 3—In organized churches only those included in extension work who cannot attend meetings of the auxiliary; 4—Literature of the Society, including the Woman's Missionary Friend, in the hands of every extension member; 5—Where there is an auxiliary, extension members paying dues reported as such to the district secretary and included in total membership; also reported to district extension secretary. In unorganized churches extension members should be reported to the district extension secretary; 6—Dues from extension members reported as such to the treasurer and to the district extension secretary; extension receipts applied to specific work on the field; 7'—Extension Bands in unqrganized churches organized into auxiliaries as soon as possible.

~~FORMS OF WILL, DEVISE AND ANNUITY FORM OF BEQUEST~~

I hereby give and bequeath to the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, incorporated under the laws of the State of New York, dollars, to be paid to the treasurer of said Society, whose receipt shall be sufficient acquittance to ray execu- tors therefor. FORM OF DEVISE OF REAL ESTATE

I hereby give and devise to the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, incorporated under the laws of the State of New York (describe land, etc., intended to be given to the Society), and to its successors and assigns forever. Note.—In each of the above forms, when it is desired to bequeath directly to a Branch, the name of the Branch to which the bequest or devise is made shall be inserted immediately before the words, "Woman's Foreign Missionary Society," whenever such Branch is incorporated. The name of the State under the laws of which said Branch is incorporated shall be inserted, instead of the words "New York." Incorporated Branches: New England, under the laws of Massachusetts; New York, under the laws of New York; Philadelphia, under the laws of Act of Incorporation 201

Delaware; Baltimore, under the laws of Maryland; Cincinnati, under the laws of Ohio; Northwestern, under the laws of Illinois; Des Moines, under the laws of Iowa; Minneapolis, under the laws of Minnesota; Pacific, under the laws of California; Columbia River, under the laws of Oregon.

~~FORM OF ANNUITY~~

(a) For the Society as such: Whereas, of has given, donated to, and paid into the treasury' of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, a body corporate (hereinafter called the Society), the sum of dollars; Now, therefore, the said Society, in consideration thereof, hereby agrees to pay to said during natural life the annual sum of dollars, payable in equal semi-annual installments from the date hereof; said payments to cease on the death of the said and the said sum of dollars, given and donated by him (or her) as aforesaid, is to be considered as an executed gift to the said Society, and to belong absolutely to the said Society, from the date hereof, and without any obligation or liability thereof on the part of the said Society.

~~Witness, the corporate seal of the said Society and the signatures of . . . .~~

~~and , its President and~~

~~Treasurer, this day of , 192 .... Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church. By: President.~~

Treasurer, (b) For the Branches: Same phraseology as (a) except that the "said Branch" is substituted for "the said Society," and the name of the Branch is inserted before the name of the Society in the second line, and in the signature lines.

~~ACT OF INCORPORATION~~

State of New York, City and County of New York. We, the undersigned, Caroline R. Wright, Anna A. Harris, Sarah K. Cornell and Harriet B. Skidmore, of the City ot New York, and Susan A. Sayre, of the City of Brooklyn, being all citizens of the United States of America, and citizens of the State of New York, do hereby, pursuant to and in conformity with the Act of the Legislature of the State of New York passed on April 12, 1848, entitled, "An Act for the Incorporation of Benevolent, Charitable and Missionary Societies," and the several acts of the said Legis- lature amendatory thereof, associate ourselves together and form a body poli- tic and corporate, under the name and title of "The Woman's Foreign Mis- sionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church," which we certify is the name or title by which said Society shall be known in law. And we do hereby further certify that the particular business and object of said Society is to engage and unite the efforts of Christian women in sending female missionaries to women in foreign mission fields of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and in supporting them and native Christian teachers and Bible readers in those fields. That the number of managers to manage the business and affairs of said Society shall be seventeen, and that the names of such managers of said So- ciety for the first year of its existence are: Lucy A. Alderman, Sarah L. Keen, Ellen T. Cowen, Hannah M. W. Hill, Mary C. Nind, Elizabeth K. Stanley, 202 Act of Incorporation

Harriet M. Shattuck, Isabel Hart, Caroline R. Wright, Harriet B. Skidmore, Rachel L. Goodier, Annie R. Gracey, Harriet D. Fisher, Sarah K. Cornell, Anna A. Harris, Ordelia M. Hillman and Susan A. Sayre. That the place of business or principal office of said Society shall be in the City and County to New York, in the State of New York. Witness our hand and seal this 20th day of December, A. D., 1884. [Seal.] Caroline R. Wright Anna A. Harris Harriet B. Skidmore Susan A. Sayre Sarah K. Cornell

State of New York, ) gg City and County of New York, j On the 20th day of December, 1884, before me personally came and appeared Caroline R. Wright, Anna A. Harris, Harriet B. Skidmore, and Sarah K. Cornell, to me known, and to me personally known to be the individuals described in and who executed the foregoing certificate, and they severally duly acknowledged to me that they executed the same. [Notary's Seal.] Andrew Lemon, Notary Public (58) State of New York, ) New York County. County of Kings, > ss. City of Brooklyn. ) On the 22d day of December, A. D., 1884, before me came personally Susan A. Sayre, to me known and known to me to be one of the individuals described in and who executed the foregoing certificate, and duly acknowledged to me that she executed the same. F. G. MlNTRAM, [Notary's Seal.] Notary Public for Kings County.

~~State of New York, ) gs~~

County of Kings j I, Rodney Thursby, Clerk of the County of Kings and Clerk of the Su- preme Court of the State of New York, in and for said county (said court being a Court of Records), do hereby certify that F. G. Mintram, whose name is subscribed to the Certificate of Proof, or acknowledgment of the annexed instrument, and thereon written, was, at the time of taking such proof or acknowledgment, a Notary Public of the State of New York, in and for said County of Kings, dwelling in said County, commissioned and sworn, and duly authorized to take the same. And, further, that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of said Notary, and verily believe the signature to the said certificate is genuine, and that said instrument is executed and acknowledged according to the laws of the State of New York. In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said County and Court, this 24th day of December, 1884. [Seal.] Rodney Thursby, Clerk.

~~CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION, DECEMBER 27, 1884~~

I, the undersigned, one of the Justices of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, for the First Judicial District, do hereby approve the within certificate, and do consent that the same be filed, pursuant to the provisions of an Act of the Legislature of the State of New York, entitled, "An Act, for the Incorporation of Benevolent, Charitable, Scientific and Missionary Societies," passed April 12, 1848, and the several acts extending and amend- ing said act. Dated New York, December 26, 1884. Abm. R. Lawrence, /. 5. C. Act of Incorporation 203

State of New York, ) ss * City and County of New York, j I, James A. Flack, Clerk of the said City and County, and Clerk of the Supreme Court of said State for said County, do certify that I have compared the preceding with the original Certificate of Incorporation of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, on file in my office, and that the same is a correct transcript therefrom, and of the whole of such original. Endorsed, filed and recorded, December 27, 1884, 1 hour, 25 minutes. In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name, and affixed my official seal, this 12th day of November, 1888. [Seal.] James A. Flack, Clerk.

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An Act to Authorize the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Metho- dist Episcopal Church to Vest its Management in a General Executive Committee. Became a law April 12, 1906, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. The Board of Managers of the Woman's Foreign Mission- ary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church is abolished. Sec. 2. The management and general administration of the affairs of the said Society shall be vested in a General Executive Committee, to consist of the President, Recording Secretary, General Treasurer, Secretary of German Work, Secretary of Scandinavian Work, and the Literature Committee of said Society, together with the Corresponding Secretary and the two delegates from each co-ordinate Branch of said Society. Sec. 3. The President, Recording Secretary, General Treasurer, Sec- retaries of the German and Scandinavian Work and the Literature Committee, now in office, shall be members of the General Executive Committee, which shall meet on the third Wednesday in April, in the year nineteen hundred and six; and, thereafter, such officers and Literature Committee shall be elected annually by the General Executive Committee. The Corresponding Secre- tary and two delegates of each co-ordinate Branch shall be elected annually by such Branch. Sec. 4. Meetings of the General Executive Committee shall be held annually or oftener, at such time and place as the General Executive Com- mittee shall appoint, and such place of meeting shall be either within or without the State of New York. Sec. 5. This act shall take effect immediately.

State of New York, ) sg Office of the Secretary of State. [ I have compared the preceding with the original law on file in this office, and do hereby certify that the same is a correct transcript therefrom, and the whole of said original law. Given under my hand and the seal of office of the Secretary of State, at the City of Albany, this sixteenth day of April, in the year one thousand nine hundred and six. Horace G. Tennant, [Seal.] Second Deputy Secretary of State. 204 Act of Incorporation

ACTION OF 1908 CHAPTER 91 An Act to Amend Chapter Two Hundred and Thirteen of the laws of nineteen hundred and six, entitled, "An Act to Authorize the Woman's For- eign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church to Vest its Management in a General Executive Committee," relative to the membership and election or appointment of such General Executive Com- mittee. Became a law April 6, 1908, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. Sections two and three of chapter two hundred and thirteen of the laws of nineteen hundred and six, entitled, "An Act to Authorize the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church to Vest its Management in a General Executive Committee," are hereby amended to read, respectively, as follows: Sec. 2. The management and general administration of the affairs of the said Society shall be vested in a General Executive Committee to consist of the President, Recording Secretary and Treasurer of said Society, together with the Corresponding Secretary of each co-ordinate Branch of the said So- ciety; and one or more delegates to be chosen by such co-ordinate Branches; and such additional or different members as may be now or hereafter provided for by the Constitution of the said Society. Sec. 3. The President, Recording Secretary, and Treasurer of said Society shall be members of the General Executive Committee; and hereafter such officers shall be elected annually by the General Executive Committee. The Corresponding Secretary and one or more delegates of each co-ordinate

Branch shall be elected annually by such Branch ; and such other members of such General Executive Committee as shall hereafter be created by the Con- stitution of said Society shall be elected or appointed in the manner which shall be prescribed by the said Constitution. Sec. 4. This act shall take effect immediately.

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Office of the Secretary of State. ) I have compared the preceding with the original law on file, in this office and do hereby certify that the same is a correct transcript therefrom, and of the whole of the said original law. John S. Whalen, Secretary of State. QUESTIONS FOR MISSIONARY APPLICANTS 1. Full name. 2. Residence. 3. Place and date of birth. 4. Have you an experimental knowledge of salvation through the atone- ment of Jesus Christ our Lord? Answer this question somewhat in detail. 5. Are you a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and a regular attendant upon its services, and are you fully in accord with its doctrines as set forth in Part I, Division 1, of the Discipline? 6. Have you had special systematic study of the Scriptures? 7. Have you an earnest desire to win souls to Christ, and how has this desire been manifest in the past? 8. Do you trust that you are inwardly moved by the Holy Ghost to take upon you the work of a foreign missionary? 9. How long have you entertained this conviction? 10. Do you desire and intend to make this your life work, and are you willing to labor in any field? Miscellany 205

11. To what extent are you acquainted with the work of the Woman's For- eign Missionary Society? 12. Have you any views which would prevent your cordial co-operation with the missionaries of the Methodist Episcopal Church? 13. Would you be willing to give up any personal habit which might grieve your fellow missionaries and lessen the influence of your example over the native Christians? 14. Are you a total abstainer from all forms of alcoholic beverages and from opium, cocaine and other narcotics? 15. What is the condition of your health? (Answer question in Form II and procure testimony of a competent physician according to Form

16. Outline the character and extent of your education. Name the institutions in which you were educated, the course or courses pursued and date of graduation. 17. What languages other than English have you studied and with what facility do you acquire them? 18. Have you a knowledge of music, vocal or instrumental? 19. Have you had business training and in what line? 20. What positions have you held in business or professional life? 21. Executive ability. Provide testimonials relative to your success in teaching and in thef management of financial matters. 22. Have you been married? If so, is your husband living? 23. Are you engaged to be married? 24. Are you liable for debt? 25. Is any one dependent upon you for support? 26. Give names and addresses of at least ten persons, including pastors, in- structors and others, who are able to give information relative to your Christian usefulness, your adaptability to people and circumstances, and your general fitness for the work. 27. Have you read the rules applying to missionaries, and do you promise to abide by them? 28. A photograph should accompany your application. MISCELLANY POSTAGE TO FOREIGN LANDS The rates of postage to Mexico and Shanghai are the same as in the United States. To all other points where our missionaries are stationed letters weighing an ounce are five cents for the first ounce, three cents for additional ounce or fraction thereof. Newspapers, one cent for each two ounces; all printed matter the same as in the United States; postal cards, two cents. Foreign postal cards may be procured at any postomce. All foreign postage must be fully prepaid. Parcel Post packages must not weigh over eleven pounds, except to steamer-served places in China where twenty pounds are allowed. The rate to all foreign countries is 12 cents per pound, but to India an extra charge is made. This varies from 24 cents to 72 cents. Packages whose value is less than $5.00 will have no duty charged on them. FOREIGN MONEY India—A pice is one-fourth of an anna, or about two-thirds of a cent. An anna is worth one-sixteenth of a rupee. The rupee varies in value and is worth about 33 cents. Korea and Japan—A yen, whether in gold or silver, is one-half the value of the gold and silver dollar in the United States. There are one hundred sen in the yen. China—A cash is one mill. The tael is worth in gold about $1.15. The Mexican dollar is also used in China, but varies in value; it averages, however, about one-half the value of the United States gold or silver dollar. 20G Miscellany MEMBERSHIPS The payment of one dollar a year or two cents a week constitutes membership in the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society. The payment of twenty dollars specifically for that purpose constitutes life membership. The payment of fifty dollars constitutes memorial membership, the money to be given to the Retirement Fund. The payment of one hundred dollars constitutes an honorary life manager. The payment of three hundred dollars constitutes an honorary life patron. SCHOLARSHIPS Scholarships in Africa are twenty-five dolars. Scholarships in China are thirty and thirty-five dollars. Scholarships in India vary from twenty to forty dollars. Scholarships in Malaysia are thirty-five dollars. Scholarships in the Philippine Islands vary from thirty to sixty dollars. In Japan, Korea, North Africa, Mexico, South America and Europe it has been decided to test out the station or share plan. Work in individual stations is classified and listed as follows, educational, evangelistic, medical Shares, except in France, are twenty dollars. In France shares are one hundred dollars each. Patrons will be kept informed concerning shares through station letters, issued quarterly. ENDOWMENTS Any individual or Branch desiring to name a building may be given that privilege on payment of more than one-half of the cost of said building. A gift of $1,200 may endow a medical scholarship; a gift of $1,000 may endow a hospital bed. A gift of $500 may furnish and name the operating room or a ward in a hospital. A gift of $500 may furnish and name a chapel or library within a school or other building. A gift of $100 may furnish and name a bedroom in any building. ANNUITIES Where it is practical, in the place of making a bequest it is far better to convert property into cash and place the same in the treasury of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society at once, on the annuity plan. By so doing all possibility of litigation is avoided and a fair income is assured. The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society does not spend money so contributed while the annuitant lives, but invests it in good securities in this country. At a meeting of the Inter-Board Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, held in Chicago, Illinois, in May, 1918, the following unform schedule of annuity rates was recommended for adoption by all the Boards of the Church doing an annuity business: (a) Rates on a single life: 40 4.0% 50 5.0% 60 6.0% 70 7.0% 41 4.1% 51 5.1% 61 6.1% 71 7.1% 42 4.2% 52 5.2% 62 .6.2% 72 7.2% 43 4.3% 53 5.3% 63 6.3% 73 7.3% 44 4.4% 54 5.4% 64 6.4% 74 7.4% 45 4.5% 55 5.5% 65 6.5% 75 7.5% 46 4.6% 56 5.6% 66 6.6% 76 7.6% 47 4.7% 57 5.7% 67 6.7% 77 7.7% 48 4.8% 58 5.8% 68 6.8% 78 7.8% 49 4.9% 59 5.9% 69 6.9% 79 7.9% For eighty and over the rate is 8%.

(b) . Joint Annuity Rates payable during the joint existence and to the survivor of the two lives; for these apply to Miss Florence Hooper, Treasurer, Maryland Life Bldg., Baltimore, Md., or to Branch Treasurers. INDEX

Page Page ' Act of Incorporation 201 Foreign Department 3 Actions of General Officers 116 Report of 122 Actions R ting to the Home Department. 116 Foreign Money 205 Actions iting to the Foreign Depart- Foreign Work (see "In Lands Afar") 36

~~,• men . . 122 Statistics of 154~~

~~era! Executive Committee. . 119 Forms of Will, Devise and Annuity 200 and Rates of 1H4, 201, 206 io(as Additional Pamphlet~~

~~J 1 4 General Executive Committee Members of 4 Officers 05 Minutes 12~~

~~ui > Branch Activities 1 Registration, 1920 35 Tumor Work 107 Sessions of 2 Extension Work. ... 200 General Fund, Treasurer's Report of Federation of Woman's Boards 113 General Office, Secretary of 5~~

~~". Foreign Speaking Conferences . . . 99 General Officers 3~~

; i General Office ! ".'. German Work. . 10S .odicals Home Department 4 '.frsf ternary Frierrd 110 Report of 116 nnior M Hsianary Friend. : : ill Home Work (see "At the Home Base"). . . 95 ' 112 Statistics of 152 Plan or Library Ser . use 114 L Survey of 100 Publication Office 112 •ts 116 Student Work 103 "In Lands Afar" '. 36 Sv^edi.-ffi Work 109 Africa 87 v er< brand in Branches 98 Burma 51

udv, Central Committee on. . .115 China 59 ecrle's Work 10*5 Christian Literature 90 Europe 84 Bulgaria 84 Bequests and Annuities 141, 200 Italy 85 Branch France 85 Officers 95 India 36 ics 152 Japan 77 itory ' 98 Korea 73 aws 180 Malaysia 53 anges in 142 Mexico 80 Netherlands Indies 56 North Africa 86 Christian Literature in Mission Fields 90 Philippine Islands 57 Committees South America 82 Foreign Department 6 Union Colleges 91 Home Department 7 Incorporation, Act of 201 Standing 5 In Memoriam 10 Constitution Auxiliaries 197 District Associations 197 Land and Building, Payments on 135 King's Heralds 199 List of Real Estate 146 Little Light Bearers, Plan for 199 Little Light Bearers, Plan of 200 Standard Bearer Companies 200

Woman's Foreign Missionary Society. . . 177 Young People's Societies 198 Minutes of the General Executive Com- mittee 12 Miscellany 205 Missionaries elegates « 4 epots of Supplies Third Cover Page Alphabetical List of 161 irectory of Missionaries 161 Questions for Applicants 204 isbursements, Summary of 143 Summary of 175 For Land and Buildings 135 Officers 3 Official Correspondents, Field Correspond- ditors 5 ents and Treasurers 7 Educational Campaign 11 Endowments 206 Extension Work, Plan for 200 Payments on Land and Buildings 135 Periodicals 101, Fourth Cover Page Postage to Foreign Lands 205 Federation of Woman's Boards 113 Proceedings 12 Field Student Secretary 5 Publication Office 139 Field Correspondents and Treasurers 7 Publisher 5 207 .

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~~Page Questions for Missionary Applicants 204 Scholarships, Cost of Sessions of General Executiv Committe- Special Secretaries Rates of Annuity 194, 206 Statistics~~

Real Estate, List of 1 hi Home Base Receipts for 1920 22 Foreign Work Since Organization 2 Summary of Registration, 1921 35 Appropriations Reports Disbursements Bequests and Annuities 141 Foreign Statistics .A 119 Foreign Department Home Statistics g. . , sx IcTjTrj ,, Home Department 116 Missionaries MsX tmG mwrt. / Official Correspondents 7 > srroijc -i Publication Office 139 Secretaries of the Home Base 100 Territory embraced in-Braivii Treasurer .... General Fund 132 Union Colk Payments on Land and Buildings 135 Retirement Fund 133 Zenana Paper Fund 134 Woman's Fureigrj^l^l^ciji^J-y Society

Reports of Committees By-Laws! : '.. ] : 893n913^ By-Laws 142 Constitution Christian Literature 90 General 'Executive' Committee Feration of Woman's Boards 113 Of United Study 115 rs •. - - 1 9? . !?.'P? :iririW-\ I Resolutions 31, 32 s.'9 narie3. .

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