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President, BISHOP F. W. WARNE, D. D. Secretary, J. T. ROBERTSON. Assistant Secretary, E. B. LAV ALETTE . Vernacular Secretary, .. TAFAZUL HAQQ. Statistical Secretary, C. H. PLOM ER. Corresponding Secretary, J. E. SCOTT. Treasurer, D. C. CLANCY. Finance Committee. Bishop F. W. Warne, President ex-officio; J. E. Scott, Secreta ry ; R. Clancy, Treasurer; P. M. Buck, J. C. Lawson, R. Hoskins, P . Es. ex-officio; D. C. C la n c y , D. B u ck , M. K h a n , J. L yon , J. T. Robertson, Isa Das, Alternates; C. H. P lom er, T. Haqq. Auditing Committee. J. C. Lawson, J. B. Thomas, D. C. Clancy, Tafazul Haqq, R. Hoskins, J. E. Scott, M. Keislar, E. B. Lavalette. To represent the Women'1 s Conference—Mrs. M atthews and the W. F. M. S. T r e a s u r e r . Board of Education. P. M .!B u c k , T a f a z u l Ha q q , J. E. Sc o tt, M. K h a n , R H o s k in s , Mb s . E. H. L a w s o n , Mis s Liv e r m o r e , Mr s . R. Ho s k in s , Mis s L a u c k . Board of Examiners. [Appointed for four years.) J. E. Scott, P. M. Buck, R. Hoskins, R. Clancy, M. Khan, T. Haqq, D. Buck, J. B. Thomas, J. C. Lawson. Triers of Appeals. J am es L yo n , M. K h a n , C. H. P lom er, E. T. F a r n o n , D. B u c k , J. T. R o b e rtso n . To preach the Annual Sermon.—J. E. S c o t t ; Alternate, J. C. L a w s o n . Standing Committees. 1. Statistics:— C. H. Plomer, J. B. Thomas, D. Buck. 2. State o f the Church:—P. M. B u ck , M. K h a n , E. M a ssey . 3 . Self-support:—J. E. S c o t t , K a l l u D as, E. T. F a r n o n . 4. Stewards:—J. Lyon, J. T. Robertson, M ott K eislar. 5. Sunday S ch ools D. C. Clancy, E. B. Lavalette, J. Little. 6. T e m p e r a n c e J. C. Lawson, K allu Das, T. Haqq, 7. Public W orship P. M. Buck, Chimman Lal. 8. Publishing the M i n u t e s The Secretaries. 9. Conference B ela tion s P- M. Buck, J. B. Thomas, J. Lyon, R. Ho s k in s , M. K h a n , Ch im m an La l . 10. Endowments:— J. E. Scott, P. M. Buck, R. Hoskins, E. T. F a r n o n , D. B u c k . 11. Famine Committee:—J. E. Scott, Miss Marks, Mrs. Law so n , W. W. ASHE. IS. To visit the Bareilly Theological Seminary:—R. H o sk in s , term expires 1903; M. S. B udden, term expires 1902. Board o f Orphanages:—J. E. Scott, J. B. Thomas, J. T. Robert son, Miss Lawson. 4 CONFERENCE OFFICERS.
Deaconess Work—Board of Supervision. H. Ma n s e l l , J. L yo n , Mr s . M a t t h e w s , Mi s s Gregg, Mr s . B u c k , R . H o s k in s , D. C. Cl a n c y ,. J. B. T h o m a s , F. S. Dit t o . Sunday School Union. President:—R. Hoskins. Secretary:—M. K e is la r . T r e a s u r e r R. C la n c y . Epworth League. President:—J. T. Robertson. Secretary:—Miss Bobenhouse. Conference Literary Society. President:—F. S. Ditto. Secretary E. B. Lavalette. L e c t u r e r Miss Gregg. Conference Historical Society. P r e s i d e n t H. M ansell. S ecretary:—3. E. S c o t t . Twentieth Century Movement :—P. M. B u ck , Conference Secretary. Indian Missionary A ssocia tion R. H o sk in s , M. K h a n , D. B u ck . Trustees of the Bareilly Theological Seminary. J. B. Thomas, term expires 1904 P. M. B u c k ,, ,, 1902 J ohn L it t l e ,, 1903 Trustees of the Philander Smith Institute, Mussoorie. B is h o p J. M. T h o b u r n , D. D., President, Pro. Merito, Bom bay. B ish o p E. W. P a r k e r , D. D. ... President, Lucknow. R e v . H. Ma n s e l l , M. a ., D. d . Mussoorie. R e v . J. S. W oodside ... Landour. T. L. I n g r am , E sq. ... Muttra. H. W . Gil b e r t , E sq. ... Sabathu. Bgde.-S u r g . J. h . Co n do n, M. D. ... M ussoorie Ge n . Sir Bindon B lood, K. c . B. ... Meerut. R e v . D e n n is Cl a n c y ... Allahabad. R e v . P r o f . F. S. Dit t o , M. A ., S. T. B. ... Mussoorie. R e v . J. E. Sc o tt, M. A ., D. D. ... Muttra. Girls’ High School, Cawnpur. B ish o p J. M. T h o b u r n , D. D. Bom bay. B ish o p E. W.. P a r k e r , D D. Lucknow. Bish o p F. W . W a r n e , D. D. Calcutta. R e v . R. Ho s k in s , P h . D. Cawnpur. R e v . .T. T. R o bertson * 5 R e v . J. E S cott, P h . D. Muttra. R e v . J. B. T hom as A gra. Hon. Co l . W . E. Coo per, C. I. E. Cawnpur. A. Be e r , E sq . E. Foy, E sq . T. T. Bond, E sq. Mis s M. E. Gregg ... Muttra. M iss I. Thoburn ... Lucknow, Conference IRoU.
u ,ß© Name. Home Conference. a s fe
1 Abdul Rahman Wesley North-West India. 2 Albert Phillips 1891 3 Anthony Jacob 1891 4 Ashe, W. W. u Ballu Singh Edson 1901 North-West India. 6 Bhola Nath 1884 1896 7 Bartholomew Gardiner 1900 8 Brij L ai 1891 1898 9 Buck, P. M. 1865 1865 Kansas. 10 Chheda Lai North India. 11 Chimman Lai 1874 1882 12 Chuni Lai 1880 1889 13 Clancy, D. C. Rock River. 14 Clancy, Rockwell 1878 1881 Montreal. 15 Daniel Buck 1883 1890 North India. 16 Daniels, W . H. New England. 17 J)eatker, J. F. North-West India. 18 Ditto, F. S. South Kansas. 19 Edwin T. Farnon 1878 1889 North India. 20 EdwiD Gay 1884 1892 21 Elias Massey 1889 1893 North-West India. 22 Fazl H aqq 1885 1893 23 Fazl Masih 1887 1892 24 George Gordon 1898 25 Habib-ul-Rahman Khan 1898 26 Hoskins, R. 1866 1867 East German. 27 Isa Das 1872 1893 North India. 28 Isaac Franklin 189 L 1898 North-West India. 29 Ishari Parshad 1880 1893 30 Jai Bam Caleb 1891 1898 31 James Jacob 1898 32 Jabbu Singh Joseph 1878 J892 33 John Little 1891 1898 34 Joseph Cornelius 1896 35 Joshi Sumer 1871 1892 Bengal. 36 Kallu Das 1876 1880 North India. 37 Lawson, J. C. 1876 1880 Delaware. 38 Lyon, J. 1874 1879 39 Mahbub Khan 1871 1894 North India. 40 Mangal Singh Budden 1891 1897 North-West India. 41 Mansell, H. 1856 1859 Pittsburg. 42 Mohan L ai 1886 1892 North India. 6 Co n f e r e n c e r o l l .
Name. Home Conference. Number. I W hen connection. I Entered Entered 1 ! ! Licensed. TravellingI I
43 Plom er, C. H. 1874 1882 South India. 44 Puran M al 1899 North-West India. 45 Puran Mal David 1898 3 3 > > 46 Prabhu Lai 1885 1896 3 3 3 5 47 Ram Sahai 1885 1893 3 3 ) J 48 Ransome, John David ... 1880 1893 »? 49 Robertson, J. T. 1891 1892 Bengal. 50 Scott, J. E 1869 1873 East Ohio. 51 Tafazul Haqq 1887 1893 North-West India. 52 Taj Khan 1885 1893 3 3 5 3 53 Thakur Das 1891 1898 3 3 3 5 54 Thomas, J. B. 1885 1885 Indiana. 55Tulsi Ram 1896 North-West India. 56 Yaqub Cornelius 1896 3) 33
P robationers . 1. Luther Lawson. 2. Alfred Luke. 3. Mott Keislar. 4. Rattan Singh Brave. 5. Kanhai H. Joseph. 6. David Claudius. 7. N ial T. Childs. 8 John W. McNair. 9. Ernest B. Lavalette. 10. Robert Gardiner. N. B .— Undergraduates in italics. Conference appointments.
AGRA DISTRICT. J. B. Thomas, P. E. (P. O. Agra.) Agra, J. B. Thomas, Elias Massey. Aligani, supplied by Mohan Lai. Etah, B. Gardiner. Firozabad, Ram Sahai. Jalesar, supplid by Naim-ud-din. Kasganj, Mahbub Khan, Bhola Nath. Patiyali, supplied by Zahur Khan. Shikohabad, J. D. Ransome. Soron, supplid by Tika Singh. Sikandra Rao, Tuls: Ram. Tajganj, supplied by Tori Datt. Qaimganj, supplied by Wahid-ullah-Khan. ALIGARH DISTRICT. J. C. Lawson., P. E. (P. O. A lig a rh .) Aligarh, Boy’s Orphanage and Industrial School, Ernest B. Lavalette. A ligarh, C. H. Plom er, David Claudius. Atrauli, Thakur Das. Delhi, Kallu Das. Gangiri, supplied Kaliyan Singh. Gurgaon, Prabhu Lai. Hansi, supplied by Robert John. Iglas, ChunniLal. Khair, supplied by S. S. Wilkinson. Lahore, James Jacob. ,, English, to be supplied. Multan, John W- McNair. Patiala, E. T. Farnon. Panipat, Isaac Franklin. Rewari, B. 8. Edson. Somna, supplied by Ezekiel Porter.
ALLAHABAD. DISTRICT.
Rockwell Clancy, P. E. (P. O. Allahabad.)
Allahabad, English Church, Mott Keislar. ,, Hindustani Church, B. S. Brave. Banda, K . H . Joseph. Chunar, supplied by Bihari Lai. Karwi, Yaqub Cornelius. Manauri, supplied by Bhikha Singh. Manikpur, supplied by Madar Bakhsh. Boy’s School, Rockwell Clancy. J. F . Deatker, Supernumerary. 8 CONFERENCE APPOINTMENTS.
CAWNPORE DISTRICT. K. Hoskins. P. E. (P. O. Cawnpore.) Akbarpore, Jai Bam Caleb. Auraiya, supplied by M. L. Samson. Bithur, supplied by Day a Singh. Cawnpore, Canning Road Church (English), J. T. Robertson. ,, Condon Church, supplied by A. L. Plowman. ,, Parade Church, J Cornelius. ,, Mission Workshops, to be supplied. ,, Central School, N. T. Childs. Kanauj, B. Gardner. Kunch, Brij Lai Titus. Orai, supplied by C. L. Paul. MEERUT DISTRICT. P. M. Buck, P. E. (P. O. Meerut.) Anupshahr, Fazl Haqq. Baghpat, supplied by Prabhu Das. Bulandshahr, Fazl Masih. Deoband, Joshi Sumer. Ghaziabad, A. R. Wesley. Hapur, Albert Phillips. Jahangirabad, supplied by Prem Das. Khurj a, ‘Puran Mall David. Meerut, Chimman Lai. ,, English Church, P. M. Buck. Mussoorie, English Church, F. S. Ditto. ,, Hindustani Church, Anthony Jacob. Muwana, supplied by Nanhe Mall McGee. Muzaffarnagar, Daniel Buck. Rabupura, Taffazul Haqq. Roorkee, James Lyon. Sikandrabad, George Gordon. Philander Smith Institute, F . S - D itto, Principal. ,, ,, ,, R. C. Busher, Headmaster, Layman. Henry Mansell, on leave to America. E. W. Gay, Superannuate. JLuther Lawson, Supernumerary. MUTTRA-AJMERE DISTRICT. J. E. Scott., P. E. (P. O. Muttra.) Bhartpur, supplied by Chunni Lai. Brindaban, Isa Das. Digg, John Little. Hathras, Habib-ul-Bahman Khan. Mahaban, supplied by Agru Singh. Muttra, M. S. Budden. Muttra City School, Alfred Luke. Sadabad, Taj Khan. Ajmere, Dennis Clancy, Hindustani Pastor to be supplied. Bikanir, Mohan Lai. Bir, supplied by John N. Ram. Kishengarh, Jhabbu S. Joseph Phalera, W. W. Ashe, Puran Mai. Pisangan, supplied by J. Stephens. Evangelist, W . H. Daniels, N. B .— Undergraduates in italics. CONFERENCE APPOINTMENTS. 9
WOMAN’S CONFERENCE. AGRA DISTRICT. Agra, City work, Mrs. Thomas. ,, D istrict work, Mrs. Thomas. Kasganj, District work, Miss Gregg. Agra, Medical Home, Miss Harvey. ALIGARH DISTRICT. Aligarh, Supdt., Widows’ Home and Blind School, Mrs. Lawson. ,, Asst. Supdt. ,, ,, ,, ,, Mrs. i lomer. ,, Girls’ Orphanage, Mrs. Matthews, ,, District work, Miss Bobenhouse. ,, City work, Miss M. Seymour. Lahore, Mrs. J. Jacob. Multan, Mrs. McNair. Patiala, Mrs. Farnon. On leave, Miss Gallimore. ALLAHABAD DISTRICT. Allahabad, Girls’ School and District work, Mrs. R. Clancy. CAWNPORE DISTRICT. Cawnpore, Literary work, City and District work:, Mrs. R. Hoskins. Hindustani Girls’ Boarding School, Mrs. Worthington. English Girls’ High School, Miss Lauck. ,, English work, Mrs. Robertson. MEERUT DISTRICT. Meerut, City and District work and Supdt. of Evangelistic Teachers, Mrs. Buck. ,, Girls’ Boarding School, Miss Livermore. Rurki, Circuit work, Mrs. Lyon. On leave, Miss Lawson, Mrs. Mansell. MUTTRA-AJMERE DISTRICT. Muttra, Deaconess Home, Training School and Boarding School Superintendent, Miss Gregg. ,, Assistant Superintendent, Miss Abbott, iiiss Ogilvile. ,, District work, Miss Gregg. Brindaban, Medical and Zanana work, Miss Burman. Phalera, B oy s’ Orphanage, Mrs. Ashe. „ G irls’ Orphanage, Miss C. Easton. Ajmere, Boys’ Orphanage, Mrs. Dennis Clancy. ,, Girls’ Boarding School, Miss Wright, Miss Holman. ,, City and District work, Miss Wright. On leave, Miss Marks, Miss Scott, m. d ., Mrs. Scott, disciplinary Questions.
W ho have been Received by Transfer, and from what Conferences ? Frank S. DU to, from the South Kausns Conference. William W. Ashe, from the North India Conference. Ernest B. Lavalette. from the South Kansas Conference. W ho have been Re-admitted ? Rain Sahai. W ho have been Received on Credentials, and from what Churches ? Nil. W ho have been Received on Trial 'i (■) In Studies of First Year. Robert Gardiner. (6) In Studies of Third Year. None. W ho have been Continued on Trial V (a) In Studies of First Year. J. W. McNair, Kanhai H. Joseph . (J.) In Studies of Second Year. Alfred Luke, Luther Lawson, Mott Kcislar, llattan Singh Brave, David Claudius, Kial T. Childs, Ernest B. Lavalette.
(c) In Studies of Third Year. None. ¡d) In Studies of Fourth Year. None. W ho have been Discontinued V Naim-ud-Din. W ho have been Admitted into Full Membership ? (/>) Elected and Ordained Deacons this year. None. (A) Elected and Ordained Deacons previously. Ballu Singh Edson, Puran Mai, George Gordon. W hat Members are in Studies of Third Year ? (а) Admitted into Full Membership this year. George Gordon. (б) Admitted into Full Membership previously. James Jacob, Thakur Das, Puran Mai David, Frank S. Ditto. W hat Members are in Studies of Fourth Year ? Jai Ram Caleb, Bartholomew Gardiner, Habib-ul-Rahman Khan, Anthony Jacob. DISCIPLINARY QUESTIONS. 11
10. What Members have Completed the Conference Course of Study ? (o) Elected and Ordained Elder this year. None. (b) Elected and Ordained Elders previously. None. 11. What others have been Elected and Ordained Deacons ? (a) As Local Preachers. Baldeo Parshad, Lazar Shaw, Garib Singh, Munna Lai, Henry J. Ransome, Alexander, Samuel David, Henry Daniels, Suraj Mai, Nanhe Mai McGee. (■b) Under Missionary Rule. None. 12. What others have been Elected and Ordained Elders ? (>) As Local Deacons. Wahed-ulla Khan. (b) Under Missionary Rule. Frank S. Ditto, Rattan Situ/lo Drum. 13. W as the Character of each Preacher examined ? This was done as the name of each preacher was called in open Con ference. 14. W ho have been Transferred, and to what Conferences 'i None. 15. W ho have Died ‘i None. 16. W h o have been Located at their own Request ? None. 17. Who have been Located ? None. 18. Who have Withdrawn V None. 19. W ho have been permitted to Withdraw under Charges or Complaints ? None. 20 Who have been Expelled 'i None. 21. W hat other personal Notation should be made ? \ None. 2a. W ho are the Supernumerary Preachers ? Luther Lawson, J. F. Deather. 23. W ho are the Superannuated Preachers ? Edwin Gay, Ghheda Lai. 24. W ho are the Triers of Appeals'^ James Lyon, Mahbub Khan, C. H. Plomer, E. T. Farnon, I). Buck, J .T. Robertson. 25. W hat is the Statistical Report for this year V See Statistics. 12 DISCIPLINARY QUESTIONS.
26. W hat is the Aggregate of the Benevolent Collections ordered by the General Conference, as reported by the Conference Treasurer ? . Rs. 558. 27. W hat are the Claims on the Conference Fund ? Rs. 624. 28. What has been Received on these Claims, and how has it been Applied ? Rs, 600, Applied on payments to Conference Claimants. 29. Where are the Preachers Stationed? See Appointments, 30. Where shall the Next Conference be held ? Meerut. Note .—Names of Conference undcryraduutcs arc printed ta italics. RULES OF ORDER.
J.—All the business of the Conference, excepting such as may be brought forward by the President, shall be introduced by motion. II.—All questions of order shall be determined by the President, whose decision shall, in all cases prevail, unless over-ruled by an appeal to the Conference; and three members dissenting from the President’s judgment, shall have a right to appeal. III.—The President shall appoint all committees not otherwise specially ordered by the Conference. IV.—All motions or resolutions introducted by any members of the Conference shall be reduced to writing, if the Secretary or any member request it. V.—No new motion or resolution shall be entertained till the one under consideration shall be disposed of, which may be by adoption or rejection, unless one of the following motions should intervene. Namely, indefinite postponement, postponement till a given time, to lie on the table or to amend ; and these motions shall have precedence in the order in which they are placed. VI.—Every member shall have a right to speak on any motion, but shall not speak more than fifteen minutes at any one time, nor more than once on any one subject, until all have spoken who desire to do so ; unless by special permission of the Conference. VII.—Every member when he speaks, shall rise from his seat, and respectfully address the chair; and shall not, on any occasion, use personal reflections or intemperate language. VIII.—When a member intends to make complaint against an other, having a bearing upon his moral character, he shall apprize such brother of his intention before he brings it into Conference. IX.—No member shall absent himself from the services of the Con ference, unless he.be sick or unable to attend. X.—It shall be in order for any member of the Conference, when he thinks a question has been sufficiently discussed, to move that the question be taken without further debate : and if the motion be sustain ed by two-thirds of the members present and voting, the main question shall be put without further discussion. Conference Journal.
FIRST DAY. C a w n p o r e , Thursday, January 11th, 1901. Opening Exercises.—The ninth session of the North-West India Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church convened in the Union Methodist E piscopal Church, Cawnpore, at 11 A. M., the 17th January 1901. In the absence of Bishop E. W. Parker, D. D., Bishop F. W. Warne, D. D., presided, and after calling the Conference to order, con ducted the Communion Service. Roll Call.—J. T. Robertson, the secretary of the last Conference, called the roll, and forty full members and nine probationers respond ed to their names; ten full members and three probationers being absent. Election of Secretaries. —On m otion of J. E. Scott, J. T. Robertson was re-elected Secretary : C. H. Plomer, Ftatistical Secretary; E. B. Lavalerte, Assistant Secretary; and Tafazzul Haqq, Vernacular Secretary. Treasurer.—On motion of J. B. Thomas, D. C. Clancy was elected Conference Treasurer. Introductions.—The following were introduced and briefly address ed the ConferenceR. C. Busher, Esq., M, A., Headmaster of the Philander Smith Institute, Mussoorie; Rev. G. C. Hewes of the North India Conference; Miss Abbott, a newly appointed Missionary of the W. F. M. S. to this Conference ; Miss Perkina of Thandaung, Burma; and Rev. B. W. Mitchell of the Christian Mission. Bishop E. W. Parker.—The Secretary read the following letter from Bishop E. W. Parker :— Inayat Bagh, Lucknow, January 15th, 1901. Dear Brothers and Sisters of the No r t h -W e s t I n d ia Co n fe re n c e ,— I send you my salams and heartiest greetings. You all know I was appointed to have charge of your Conference, and that I looked forward to having a good time with you, but I have had, during the past month, my baptism of pain. I cannot see nor understand but I can trust. I am glad that Bishop Warne is able to be with you, and I am sure the work will be satisfactorily done Work for a spiritual Conference, let all take hold and attend the Morning Meetings. * Affectionately yours, E. W . P a r k e r . On motion of H. Mansell, Tafazzul Haqq was authorised to reply to this letter. Address.—Bishop F. W. Warne briefly addressed the Conference. Hours of Session.—On motion of J. E. Scott, the hours of session were fixed from 11 A. M. to 3 P. M., with a recess of half an hour for tiffin at 1 P. M. MINUTES OF CONFERENCE. 15
Conference Bar. —On m otion of J. C. Lawson, the conference bar was fixed at the cross-aisle. Visiting Brethren.—On motion of J. B. Thomas, the visiting breth ren were invited to a seat within the conference bar and to partici pate in the discussions. Standing Committees.—On motion of J. B. Thomas, the Standing Committees, as printed in the minutes of the last session, hold through this Conference :— Standing Committees.
Statistics:—C. H. Plomer, D. C. Clancy, D. Buck. State of the Church:—J. Lyon, M. Khan, E. Massey. Self-support R. Hoskins, Kallu Das, E. T. Farnon. Stewards:—R. Clancy, J, T. Robertson, M. Keislar. Sunday Schools:—J. C. Lawson, E. B. Lavalette, J. Little. Temperance : —J. E. Scott, K allu Das, T. B aqq. Public Worship:—R. Hoskins, J. T. R obertson. Publishing the Minutes .-—The Secretary. Conference Relations:—P. M. Buck, J B. Thomas, J. Lyon, R. Hoskins, M. Khan, Chimman Lai. Endowments :—J. E. Scott, P. M. Buck, R. Hoskins, E. T. Farnon, D. Buck. Famine Committee:—J. E. Scott, Miss Marks, Mrs. Lawson, Mrs. Matthews. Transfers.—The transfers of the following brethren were announc ed:—Frank S. Ditto from the South Kansas Conference; W. W. Ashe from the North India Conference; and Ernest B. Lavalette from South Kansas Conference. Thirteenth Question.—The name o f J. E Scott, Presiding Elder of the Agra District, was called, his character passed and he reported his district. The names of the following brethren were called, their character passed, and they reported their collections :—Isa Das, John Little, Mangal Singh Budden, C. H. Plomer, Mohan Lai, Jabbu Singh Joseph and Taj Khan. The name of W. H. Daniels was called and his character passed. The names of Rockwell Clancy and D. C. Clancy were called, their character passed, and D. C. Clancy, the"acting Presiding Elder, in the absence of Rockwell Clancy, the Presiding Elder- of the Allahabad District, reported that district. The name of Yaqub Cornelius was called, his character passed, and he reported his collections. Reporters.—On motion of P. M. Buck, Mahbub Khan was appointed to report the conference for Kaukab-i-IJind, and J. T. Robertson for the Indian Witness. Thirteenth Question.—The thirteenth question was resumed and the name of J. C. Lawson, Presiding Elder of the Aligarh District, was called, his character passed, and he reported his district. The names of the following brethren were called, their character passed, and they reported their collections:—Kallu Das, Prabbhu Lai, Isaac Franklin and Chunni Lai. The name of J. B. Thomas, Presiding Elder of the Kasganj District, was called, his character passed, and he reported his district. The names of the following brethren were called, their character passed, and they reported their collections:—Elias Massey, Mahbub Khan, B hola Nath, J. D. Ransome, and Tulsi Ram. 16 MINUTES OF CONFERENCE.
Greetings.—D. C. Clancy read a letter from Rockwell Clancy, con veying his greetings to the Conference. J. E. Scott read a letter from Luther Lawson, conveying his greet ings to the Conference. Resolution.—P. M. Buck presented the following resolution : Resolved, That our Secretary be instructed to convey our warmest greetings to Bro. Luther Lawson In response to his letter, and to con vey our high appreciation of his Christian character while with us in India, and to assure him that he holds a warm place in the hearts of those with, and for whom he laboured in India. P. M. B u c k , J. E. Sc o t t . Adjournment.—Notices were given and Conference adjourned to meet at 11 a . m . to-m orrow .
SECOND DAY. C a w n p o re , Friday, January \ 8th, 1901. Opening.—Conference was called to order at 11 A.M. and E. B. Lavalette conducted the opening exercises. Journal.—The minutes of the preceding session in English and Hindustani were read and approved. Introductions.—The following brethren were introduced and briefly addressed the Conference : —Rev. D. L. Thoburn and Rev. Nizam Ali of the North India Conference, and Rev. F, S. Ditto. The following sons of missionaries were introduced to the Conference :—Herbert ¡Vi. Scott, Oscar Buck, James H. Lawson, Clair Lyon, Cecil Lyon-, Harry Thomas. Order of the Day.—On m otion of P. M. Buck, voting on the New Constitution was fixed for Monday noon. Thirteenth Question —The thirteenth question was taken up again. The name of P. M. Buck, Presiding Elder of the Meerut District, was called, his character passed, and he reported his district. Introduction.—The Rev. T. J. Scott, D. D., Principal of the Bareilly Theological Seminary, was introduced and addressed the Conference at length on the needs of that institution. Thirteenth Question.—The names of the following brethren were called, their characters passed, and they reported their collections :— Fazl Haqq, Fazl .Masih, Abdul Rahman Wesley, Albert Phillips, Chimman Lai, Daniel Buck and Tafazzul Haqq. The name of Edwin Gay was called and his character passed. On motion of his Presi ding Elder, P. M Buck, he was continued in the Superannuated rela tion, and his case was referred to the Conference Stewards. The name of Henry Mansell, the Presiding Elder of Alussoorie District, was called, his character passed, and he reported his district. The names of the following brethren were called, their characters passed, and they reported 'their collections :—Joshi Sumer, Edwin T. Farnon and James Lyon. The name of Robert Hoskins, the Presiding Elder of the Cawnpore District, was called, his character passed, and he reported his district. MINUTES OF CONFERENCE. 17
The names of the following brethren were called, their character passed, and they reported their collections J. T. Robertson, Joseph Cornelius and Brij Lai. The name of Chhedda Lai was called, his character passed, and on motion of his Presiding Elder he was continued in the Superannuated relation Fifth Question.—The fifth question was then taken up,— “ W ho have been continued in studies of the second year ?" The name of Alfred Luke wa.s called and his character passed. Being absent, .sitting for the B. A. Examination, he did not sit for his Conference examination. On motion of his Presiding Elder he was continued in the same class The names of B. S. Edson and Puran Mall were called, and the Board of Examiners having reported favorably, on motion of their Presiding Elders their character was passed. The name of Luther Lawson was called, his character passed, and on motion of his Presiding Elder he was continued in the Supernumerary relation. Course of Studies.—On m otion o f R. Hoskins, T. J. Scott was re quested to meet the Board of Examiners to arrange a Course of Stu dies for missionaries who are taking the Vernacular ; and also to arrange a new Course of Studies for Hindustani preachers. Fifth Question.—The fifth question was taken up again,— “ W h o have been continued in the studies of the first year?” The name of George Gordon was called, his character passed, the Board of Examin ers gave their report, and on motion of his Presiding Elder he was promoted to the class in the studies of the third year, with permissiou to bring up the remaining book of the first year. (He passed all the second year’s course last year.) The Ninth Question.—The ninth question was then taken up,— “ Whab members are in the studies of the fourth year None. The Fifth Question.—The fifth question was taken up again, “ What members are continued in studies of the first year?” The name of David Claudius was called, his character passed, the Board of Examiners reported favorably, and on motion of his Presiding Elder he was promoted to the class of probationers in studies of the second year. The name of N. T Childs was called, his character passed, and the Board of Examiners reporting favorably, he was promoted to the class of probationers in studies of the second year, with permission to bring up the remaining book of the first year’s course. The name of J W. McNair was called, h’s character passed, and on motion of his Presiding Eider he was retained in the class of probationers in studies of the first year. The name of R. S. Brave was called, his character passed, and the Board of Examiners hav ing reported favorably, on motion of his Presiding Elder he was promoted to the class of probationers in the studies of the second year with permission to bring up the remaining book of the first year’s course. On motion of his Presiding Elder, the question of his ordin ation under the Missionary Rule, as recommended by the Allahabad District. Conference, was referred to the Committee on Conference Relations. The name of K. S. Joseph wa3 called, his character passed, and the Board of Examiners having reported unfavorably, on motion of his Presiding Elder he was retained in the class of pro bationers in studies of the first year, but to be credited with the books passed. The name of Naim-ud-Din was called, and on motion of his Presiding Elder he was discontinued. The Eighth Question.—The eighth question was then taken up,— “ What members are in studies of the third year ?’ ’ The name of H. R. 18 MINUTES OF CONFERENCE.
Khan was called, his character passed, and the Board of Examiners having reported favorably, he was promoted to the class of members in the studies of the fourth year. The name of Anthony Jacob was call ed, his character passed, and the Board of Examiners reporting favorably, on motion of his Presiding Elder he was promoted to the class of members in studies of the fourth year. The name of James Jacob was called, his character passed, and on motion of his Presi ding Elder he was continued in the class of studies of the third year. The name of B. Gardiner was called, his character passed, and the Board of Examiners having reported favorably, on motion of his Presiding Elder he was promoted to the class in studies of the fourth year, with instructions to bring up the remaining studies of the third year. The names of P. M. David and Thakur Das were called, their characters passed, and on motion of their respective Presiding Elders they were continued in the studies of this year and ordered to bring up these studies next year. The name of J. R. Caleb was called, his character passed, and the Board of Examiners having reported favor ably, on motion of his Presiding Elder he was promoted to the class in studies of the fourth year, with instructions to bring up the remaining studies of the third year. Resolution.—The'following resolution was presented by P. M. Buck: Whereas it is a matter>of great importance that our Conference be composed of men who are real leaders in the work, therefore : Jtesolved, That when, after due trial, members are found unfitted for the work of Preacher-in-charge, steps be taken to locate such persons in harmony with the rules of the Discipline. P. M. B u c k , R. H o s k in s , E. T. Par n o n - The Deaconess’ Board.—The names of the following were added to the Deaconess’ Board, to complete the required number : — R. Hoskins, D. C. Clancy, J B. Thomas and F. S. Ditto. Adjournment. —Notices were given, the Doxology sung, the Bene diction pronounced, and Conference adjourned to meet at 11 a . m . to m orrow.
THIRD DAY. C a w n p o re , Saturday, January 19th, 1901. Opening —The Conference was called to order at 11 A. M. by Bishop Warne and Mahbub Khan conducted the devotional exercises*. Journal.—The minutes of the preceding session in English and Hindustani were read and, after correction, approved. Resolution.—The following resolution from the Mussoorie District Conference, presented by E. T. Farnon, was adopted :—We regret to part with Dr. H. Mansell and family, who are going on a year’s fur lough to America on account of the illness of Mrs. Mansell. Now we commit them to the care of Almighty God, praying for their safe arrival in America. We earnestly hope the Lord will bring them back with renewed strength to their beloved India. We assure them of our high appreciation and deep interest in their welfare. All the mem bers of the North-West India Conference love them and look upon MINUTES OF CONFERENCE. 19
them as wise counsellors, because of their extensive experience in spiritual as well as in secular matters. Although Dr. Mansell is advanced in age, yet as a worker he is second to none of the younger members of the two conferences of North India, and his district is larger than any other district of these conferences. It is bounded on the north by the Himalaya Mountains, on the east by Deoband, on the west by Lahore and Multan, and on the south-west by Patiala. Dr. Mansell has, besides the work on this extensive -district, the principalship of Philander Smith Institute and the pastorate of the English Church at Mussoorie. We pledge ourselves to follow them with our prayers. E. T. F a r n o n , A. J a c o b . Introductions. —The following were introduced and briefly address ed the Conference:—Rev. Dr. and Mrs. C. H. Buck of the New York East Conference ; Rev. Dr. T. S. Johnson of the Bombay Conference ; Rev. Wynkoop, Secretary of the North India Bible Society ; Rev. J. W. Robinson and Rev. A. G. McArthur of the North India Conference ; and J. W. McDermott, Esq., a teacher in the Philander Smith Insti tute. Twelfth Question.—The twelfth question was then taken up, — “ What others have been elected and ordained Elders (h) Under the Missionary Rule? ’’ The names of F. S. Ditto and Rattan Singh Brave were call ed, their character passed, and after being represented by their res pective Presiding Elders, they were on motion elected to Elder’s orders un der the Miss ion ary^Rule ;— (a) “ As Local Preacher ? ” The name of Wahid-Ulla Khan was called, his character passed, and after being- represented by his Presiding Elder, he was on motion elected to Elder’s orders as a Local Preacher. Eleventh Question.—The -eleventh question was then taken up,— “ What others have been elected and ordained Deacons (a) As L ocal Preachers ? ” The names of Baldeo Pevshad, Lazar Shaw, Garib Singh, Munna Lai, Samuel David, Henry Daniels, Suraj Lai, Henry J. liansome, Alexander, and Nanhe Mai McGee were called, their character passed, the Board of Examiners reported favorably on them, and after representation by their respective Presiding Elders, they were elected to Deacon’s orders as Local Preachers. The Bareilly Theological Seminary.—On motion of J. C. Lawson, the following were appointed Conference Visitors to this Institution : — R . H oskins, term to expire...... 1903 M. S.Budden ,, „ 1902 On motion of J. C. Lawson, the following were appointed Trustees of this Institution: — J. B. Thomas, term to expire ...... 1904 John Little ,, ,, ...... ••• 1903 P. XI. Buck ,, ,, 1902 Edwin Gay.—P. M. Buck read a letter of greeting from Edwin Gay, which, on motion, was referred to the Conference Stewards. Fifth Question.—The fifth question was again taken up,—“ Who have been continued on trial in studies of the second year?” The name of Mott Keislar was called, his character passed, but not having appeared for his English Examination, on motion of his Presiding Elder he was continued in this class. The Seventh Question.—The seventh question was taken up,— “ Who 20 MINUTES OF CONFERENCE.
have been admitted into Full1 Membership?’’ The names of Ballu Singh Edson, Puran Mall and George Gordon were called, and on repre sentation of their Presiding Elders, after answering the disciplinary questions, and being’ addressed by the Bishop, they were on motion elected to Full Membership in the Conference. The Twentieth Century Movement.—Rev. J. W . R obinson, Secretary of this movement, addressed the Conference at length on the work of the movement. Adjournment.—Notices were given, the Doxology sung, the Benedic tion pronounced, and Conference adjourned to meet at 11 A. m ., M on day.
FOURTH DAY. C a w n p o r e , Monday, January, 21 st, 1901. Opening.—Bishop Warne called the Conference to order atll-30 a .m . and E. T. Farnon conducted the devotional exercises. Journal.—The minutes of the preceding session of Conference were read in English and Hindustani and approved. Fifteenth Question.—The fifteenth question was taken up, — “ W ho have died ? ” The answer none being given, the Doxology was sung. Thirtieth Question. —The thirtieth question was taken up. and Meerut was chosen as the place for holding our next session of Con ference. Fourth Question.—The fourth question was taken up,— “ W ho have been received on trial ?” The name of Robert Gardiner was called, his character passed, and, after being reported favorably on by both the Board of Examiners and the Committee on Conference Relations, and represented by his Presiding Elder, he was elected to the class of probationers in the studies of the first year. Order of the Day. - On m otion the order of the day was taken up : Voting on the New Constitution of the Church was taken up, and the vote was forty-five for, none against the new constitution. Introduction.—The Rev. Ful. W. Richter, Editor of Die Evangeli cal Mission of Germany, was introduced and addressed the Conference at length on his impressions of mission work in India. Ram Sahai.—On motion of J. B. Thomas, his Presiding Elder, Ram Sahai was restored to his former standing in the Conference, which was that of an Effective Elder. Fifth Question.—The fifth question was taken up again,—“ Who have been continued on trial in studies of the first year ? ” The name of E. B. Lavalette was called, his character passed, and the Board of Examiners having reported favourably, he;was, on motion, promoted to the class of probationers in studies of the second year. Bighth Question.—The eighth question was taken up again,— “ W hat members are in studies o f the third year ? ” The name of F. S. Ditto was called, his character passed, and the Board of Examiners reported him passed in some subjects. On motion, he was credited with the work done and retained in the same class. Statistics.—The Statistical Secretary read his report, which was adopted. See Statistics. MINUTES OF CONFERENCE. 21
Reporters.—On motion, the following were appointed reporters to the Home papers J. E. Scott for the New York Advocate. J. B. Thomas ,, ,, Western ,, J. C. Lawson ,, ,, Northwestern ,, H. Mansell ,, ,, Pittsburgh ,, R. Hoskins ,, ,, Zion's Herald. P. M. Buck ,, ,, Gospel in All Lands. J. Lyon ,, ,, World-Wide Missions. The India Mission Association. — On m otion of E. T. Farnon, the fo l lowing were appointed by the chair a committee to bring in a report regarding the adopting of this Society in our Conference : M ah bub Khan, John Little, H. Mansell and E T. Farnon. Eighth Question.—The eghth question was again taken up. The name of J. F. Deatker was called and his character passed. The Bishop read a letter of greeting from him, in which he asked for a Su pernumerary relation. On motion, he was granted this relation. On motion, the Secretary was requested to convey the sympathies of the Conference to Brother Deatker and to inform him that his request is granted. Reports of Committees.—The State of the Church.—This committee gave its report, which was addopted. See Reports. The 3lu1tra Mission Training School.—The Secretary read the report of this Institution, as presented by the Secretary of the Board of Control, which was adopted. See Reports. The Board of Supervision of Deaconess Work. —This committee gave its report, which was adopted. See Reports. The Philander Smith Institute.— H. Alansell presented the follow ing nominations for Trustees of this Institution, which were confirmed Bishop J. M. Thoburn, D. D., Presklent Pro. Merito, Bombay. Bishop E. W. Parker, li. D . President ...... Lucknow Rev. u . Mansell, M. A., D. D...... Mussoorie. Rev. J. S. W oodside ...... Landour T. L. Ingram, Esq...... Muttra H. W . Gilbert, Esq...... Subatlm. Bgde.-Surg. J. H. Condon, M. D...... Mussoorie. Gen. Sir Bindon Blood, K. C. B...... Meerut. Rev Dennis Clancy ...... Allahabad. Rev. P rof. F. S. Ditto, M. A ., S. T. B...... Mussoorie Rev. J. E. Scott, M. A ., D. D...... Muttra. Girls’ High School, Cawnpore.—R. Hoskins presented the following nominations as Trustees of the Girls’ High School, CawDpore which were confirmed ’ Bishop E, W . Parker, D. D. ... Lucknow. F. W . Warne, D. D. ... Calcutta. J. M. Thoburn, D. D. ... Bombay. Hon Col. W. E Cooper, C. I. E. Cawnpo re. Rev. R. Hoskins, Ph. D., Rev J E. Scott, Ph. D., D. D. Muttra. Rev. J. T. Kobertson Cawnpore. Rev. J. B. Thomas Agra. Miss M. E. G regg ... Muttra. Miss I. Thoburn Lucknow, 22 MINUTES OF CONFERENCE.
A . Beer, Esq...... Cawnpore. E. Foy, Esq...... ,, T. T. Bond, Esq...... ,, Course of Studies.—R. Hoskins presented the Course of Studies which, having received the sanction of the Presiding Bishop, was adopted. See Course of Studies. -Corresponding Secretary.—On motion of D. G. Clancy, J. E. Scott was elected Conference Corresponding Secretary. Missionary Board Treasurer.—On m otion of J. B. Thomas, Rockwell Clancy was nominatd Treasurer for the Missionary Board, New York, for tbis Conference. Conference Treasurer.—On motion of J. Lyon, D. C. Clancy was elected Conference Treasurer for the ensuing year. Sunday Schools.—The Committee on Sunday Schools gave its report, which was adopted. See Reports. Resolutions.—On motion of J. B. Thomas, the chair appointed the following a committee on Resolutions :—J. B. Thomas, E. T. Farnon, J. E. Scott. Conference Treasurer’s Report.—The Conference Treasurer gave his report, which was adopted and ordered to be printed in the minutes. See Reports. On.motion of J. Lyon, the Conference Treasurer was authorized to give the facts regarding the Conference Claimants Fund to the Presi ding Bishop to be sent home. Bible Society.—Rev. Dr. Wynkoop, Secretary of the North India Bible Society, reported the work of this society within the bounds of this Conference. Extension of Time.—On motion, time was extended. On motion of J. Lyon, the Cabinet was requested to appoint the committee asked for by Dr. Wynkoop to discuss the Revised Urdu New Testament. J. E Scott spoke at length on the aid our'work re ceived through the co-operation of the Bible Society. Adjournment.—On motion, Conference adjourned after the notices were given, the Doxology sung, and the Benediction pronounced, to meet at 11 a . m . to-m orrow.
FIFTH DAY
C a w n p o r e , Tuesday, January 22nd, 1901.
Opening.—The Bishop called the Conference to order at 11 a .m . and Yaqub Cornelius conducted the devotional exercises. Journal.—The minutes of the-preceding session of Conference were read in English and Hindustani and approved. Reports.—The Committee on Self-support gave their report which was adopted. See Reports. ’ Special Committee. —E. T. Parnon presented the report of the Spe cial Committee appointed on the Indian Missionary Society, which was adopted. See Reports■ The chair appointed the following a com- mitte to organise and carry on this work:—R, Hoskins, Mahbub Khan Daniel Buck. ’ MINUTES OF CONFERENCE 28
Conference Stewards.—The Conference Stewards presented their report, which was adopted. See Reports. Twentieth Century Movement.—The follow ing resolution, presented by J. C. Lawson, was adopted. Resolved, That we-, as a Conference, ratify the action of the Fin ance Committee regarding- the Twentieth Century Movement, and that we set aside a week of self-denial for this purpose and take a thank- offering collection in all our charges. Finance Committee.—The following nominations were presented for election on the Finance Committee: —D. C. Clancy, J. Lyon, J. T. R o bertson, C. H. Plomer, E. B. Lavalelle, Isa Das, Daniel Buck, Mah- bub Khan, M. S. Budden, T. Baqq, and EL R. Khan. The tellers brought in the following report of election on the first ballot: votes cast 42 D. C. Clancy with 3t>, James Lyon with 32, Daniel Buck ,, 36, J. T. Robertson ,, 2G, MahbubKhan,, 34, Isa Da? ,, 24, who were duly declared elected. Alternates : Tafazzul Haqq, C. H. Plomer. Nominating Committee.—The committee appointed to nominate the Standing Committees brought in their report, which was adopted. See Standing Committees. Resolution.—The following resolution, presented by J. C. Lawson, was adopted: Whereas we regard the reinforcing of our depleted staff of mission aries as of supreme importance to our work ; Resolved, That we heartily thank our Bishops, Dr. Leonard, and the Missionary Board for the interest they are taking in securing new missonaries for our work, and also urge upon them the great neces sity of still further strengthening our staff in the near future.
J. C. L a w s o n . J. T. R o b e r t s o n , J. B. T h o m a s , R . H o s k in s , C. H. P l o m e r , J a m e s L y o n , J. E. S c o t t , H . Ma n s e l l , D e n n is Cl a n c y . Temperance Committee.—The Temperance Committee gave its report, which was adopted. See Reports. The visitors to the Theological Seminary gave a verbal report by permission of the Conference. Auditing Committee.—The Auditing Committee gave a verbal report of what they had done. J. C. Lawson presented nominations for members of the Auditing Committee, the Board of Examiners, the Board of Education and the Triers of Appeals. These were, on motion, elected. See Committees. Greetings.—J. B. Thom as read a letter from Miss S. A . Easton of the Wellesley Girls’ School, Naini Tal. Resolution.—On motion of J. C. Lawson, the following was adopt ed : Resolved, That we request the committee on arrangements for our next annual conference and succeeding conferences to arrange as far as possible that special evangelistic services take the place of our conference anniversaries at the time of the annual session. 24 MINUTES OF CONFERENCE.
Certificate of Ordination.—The B ishop handed the Secretary the fol-f lowing certificate of ordinations : ‘ ‘ This is to certifiy that at Cawnpore, on January 20th, I, with the assistance of Elders, ordained the following- persons to the office o Elder Wahid-Ulla Khan, Prank S. Ditto, Rattan Singh Brave. “Also, at the same place and on the same date, I ordained the following persons to the office of Deacon:—Baldeo Parshad, Lazar Shaw, Garib Singh, MunnaLal, Henry J. Ransome, Alexander, Samuel David, Henry Daniels, Suraj Mai, Nanhe Mai McGee. “ Also, atthesame place, on January 21st, 1901, I consecrated Miss Ogilvie to thejoffice of Deaconess in the Church.” Report.-The Committee on Resolutions brought in their report, which was adopted. See Resolutions. Adjournment.—Conference adjourned sine die, after reading the ap pointments and p rayer. J. T. R o b e r t s o n , F. W. W a r n e , Secretary President.
RESOLUTIONS. 1. As loyal subjects of Her Gracious Majesty the Queen-Empress of India, and as living under Her Majesty’s benign protection and government, as a Conference of Missionaries and Hindustani Minis ters we desire to express our sorrow, regret, and sympathy as we learn of Her Majesty’s serious illness as notified in current telegrams ; and we earnestly and devoutly pray the blessing of Almighty God upon Her in restoration to health, and upon Her Family, and upon the great and good government of which She is the Head, and under which we live so peacefully. J. E. S c o t t , J. B. T h o m a s , E. T. F a r n o n . 2. It is with unspeakable grief that we meet together in our Annual Conference, knowing that our beloved Bishop E. W. Parker, D. D., lies so seriously ill at Lucknow. We remember his 42 years of earnest and successful service for the Master in India, and it seems strange to us to see one so strong and energetic laid aside even for a short time, and we miss him from, all departments of the general work, and especially at this time as we come together in our Annual Conference, where we had hoped to meet him as our presiding officer and advise with him as to the work. But God’s ways, although in scrutable, are always in some providential way for our good, and we can only bow to the Divine will. We pray unitedly and earnestly that Bishop Parker may be spared to us and to the work, and that we may soon see his familiar face among- us again. We pray that God may sustain and bless Mrs. Parker in this time of sore trial. We love her as a Mother in Israel and remember her long years of faith ful service, and we earnestly pray that she may be made to rejoice in the restoration of her beloved. J. E. S co tt, J. B. Th o m a s . 3. Whereas in the providence of God it has been so ordered that our dearly beloved brother Bishop F. M.Warne, D. D., has presided MINUTES OF CONFERENCE 25
at our Conference, we desire to express to him and to the Church our great delight in having him among-us and over us as our Bishop. While we exceedingly lament the sad circumstances which have led to his presidency of our Conference, we are thankful that in the absence of Bishop Parker we have had Bishop Warne. We believe we are on the eve of a great spiritual work—a great forward movement. We see indications that our people are hungry for spiritual food. We feel sure that Bishop Warne has providentially risen to lead forward this movement at the opening of the new century. We pray that he may be blessed and strengthened for this work, and that he may be given many years of service. J. B. Th o m as, J. E. S cott.
4. We, as a Conference, desire to put on record our love for and appreciation of those who have spent many years of earnest toil for the Master in India. “ A hoary head is a crown of glory,” and one who has borne the burden and "heat of the day for many years, true and faithful to the trust committed to him in a land like India, with out hope of earthly reward or of applause of men, is to be held in the highest esteem. Including the sister Conference, we are old enough to have church fathers. The majority of us, as younger men, and many as mere beginners, appreciate the presence of such men as Bishops Thoburn and Parker, Bros. KnowJes, Messmore, T. J Scott, and Mansell; and learn by their advice and experience. May God bless and keep them all, and may their remaining years be yet more and more useful I These words are especially opportune as our be- ioved Brother Mansell, with Sister Mansell, are about to leave us for a time. May God bless, strengthen, heal them and bring them back with renewed vigor to our great and needy field. J. E. S c o tt, J. B, T h o m as.
Ham apne buzurg PAdri Dr. T. J. Scott s&hib ke tah i dil se shukr guz&r hain, ki unhon ne kdnfarans ke waqt subh ki ’ib&dat men ham logon ko bahut rtfhd-ni khurdk khil&i, jis se ki ham log bahut maz- biit ho gae, aur ummed hai ki ham us ta’lim ko na bhulenge, balki us ko apne men hazm karenge, aur apne kAm men isti’m&l karenge. Ham&ri du’& hai ki Khudd, s&hib i mausuf ko bari barakat dewe, aurun ki ’umr ko dar&z kare, jis se ki we ham&re darmiydn bahut barason tak is jal&li khidmat ko anj&m dewen. Sdhib ke chele is k&nfarans men bahut hain, we D&ktar sdhib ko da’ wat dete hain, ki sdhib har sfil k&nfarans ke waqt ha’m&ri rub&ni ta’lim dene ke liye tashrif layd karen. E. T. F a r n o n , J. B. T h o m as, J. E. S c o t t .
Ham apne buzurg Bishop Dr. F. W. Warne sdhib ke nih&yat hi shukrguz&r hain, ki unhon ne k&nfarans ke k&m ko bahut hi ’umdagi se anjam diyd., agarchi s&hib nae the, aur Hindustani zub&n se mutlaq w&qif na the. Un ki riih&ni ta’ lim aur na3ihat se ham logon ko bard hi Mid a htiil. Aj ki subh ki ’iM dat men Khudd, ki Rtih bari kasrat se n&zil hiii, aur sab riih&ni t&zagi se ma’mur o bharpdr hiie, ham sabhon ke dilon men s&hib ki muhabbat p&i j&ti hai. 26 MINUTES OF CONFERENCE.
Ham Khudd se du’d karte hain, ki Khudd sdhib ko bari se bari barakat bakhshe, tdki jahdn kahiii jdwen logon ko ruhdni fdida pa- hunchdwen. Ham sdhib mausuf ko apni sarkiton men da’wat dete bain, ki sdhib hamdri kalisiydon men dkar hamdri Madad karen. Is sdl men sdhib ne kucbb Hindustani bolnd sikh liyd. Hamdri du’d hai ki sdhib dyanda sdl men bakhubi Hindustdni sikh jden.
E. T. F arm o n , J. E. SCOTT, J. B. T h o m a s .
7. From our hearts we thank Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Hoskins, Bro ther J. Cornelius, and other brethren for the comfortable arrange ments made for our entertainment; indeed, the arrangements for this conference have been superior to those of other conferences. There was tea, biscuits and toast for each daily, and ekkas to convey us to the meetings, which must have cost three or four rupees daily. From our hearts we pi’ay that God may richly bless Dr. and Mrs. Hoskins, Brother J. Cornelius, the other brethren, and their whole Church !
E. T. F a r n o n , On behalf o f Hindustani members of Conference. We as a Conference desire to express our gratitude to Dr. and Mrs. Hoskins, Brother and Sister Robertson, Miss Lauck and Miss Bobenhouse, and the friends in Cawnpore, for the kind entertainment they have given us during our stay among them.
J. E. Sc o tt, J. B. T h o m a s - ' CONFERENCE PROGRAMME. Thursday, \lth. — Q p. m., Epworth League Anniversary. Friday, 18th.— Do. Literary Society Anniversary and Social. Saturday, 19th..— Do. Twentieth Century Movement. Sunday, 20th.—8-30 a . m., at the Parade Church : The Ordina tion of Deacons and Sermon by Bishop F. W. Warne, D. D. 11 a . m ., at the Canning Road Church : Confer ence Sermon by Rev. P. M. Buck. ,, 12-30 P. m ., Condon Church: Sermon bv Rev H M ansell, D. D. J 4-30 p. M., Parade Church: Sermon, Rev. T. J Scott, D. D. j) 6 p. M., Canning Road Church : "Ordination of ■u * ™ Elders and Sermon by R ev. C. H. Buck,- D. D. Monday 21 si 6 P. m. , Consecration of Deaconess and Evan gelistic Service. Daily Meetings— 8 a . m., Bible Study, by Rev. T. J. Scott, D. D. ,, 11 A. m .- 3 p . m., Business session. 5) 8 p. M., After tea meeting. Course of Stub\>.
A.-FOR AMERICAN MISSIONARIES, ENGLISH STUDIES. I Y«ar. 1. Introduction to the Holy Scriptures: Old Testament, pp. 1-447 Harman. 2. Exegesis: Selections from the (Jospels. 3. Systematic Theology. Vol. I, Miley. 4. Plain Account of Christian Perfection. Wesley. To be read: Wesley’s Sermons. Vol. II. II Year. l. Introductions to the Holy Scriptures : New Testament. 448- 770. Harman. 2. Exegesis: Selections from the Pauline Epistles. 3. Atonement in Christ. Miley. 4. The Sacraments:Baptism and the Lord’s Supper. Watson. To be read: Steven's History of Methodism. III Year. 1. Exegesis: Selections from the Pentateuch. 2. Studies in Theology: The Supernatural Book. Foster. 3. Biblical Hermeneutics. Terry. IV Year. 1. Exegesis: Selections from Isaiah. 2. Systematic Theology. Vol. II. Mi Ley. VERNACULAR STUDIES. I. This course shall consist of three standards of two sections each, viz.. Lower, Middle, and Proficiency Standards, in both the Urdu and Hindi lauguages. II. The Urdu and Hiudi of the Lower Standard shall be compulsory, and one section, either the Urdu or the Hindi, of the Middle and Proficiency Standards respectively. III. The candidate will be expected to pass the first section of the Lower Standard examination within, or at the close of, his first year’s residence, and he may be allowed to complete both sections in that time: but must pass in ■both within two years from the time of joining his conference in India. IV. All conference examinations shall take place under the direction of a board of six or more examiners appointed by the Bishop, which board shall, as far as possible, remain unchanged from year to year. V. The annual conference examination shall begin on the morning of the day preceding the day fixed for the opening of the conference, a majority of the board being present. VI. The following course of study, in accordance with Rule I, is pro posed : LOWER STANDARD. A.—URDU : FIRST YEAR. 1. GRAMMAR. Platts’, omitting chapters on Arabic and Per sian Construction, and Derivations and Syntax ... 100 2. READING. (Roman, Lithograph and Type) : Matthew and Mark’s Gospels Haqaiq ul Maujudat ...... 100 3. TRANSLATION ...... 150 (1.) Urdu-English: 10 lines from Urdu Sec. Bk. C. E. S. 50 (2.) English-Urdu: 10 lines from Eng. Sec. Bk. C. E. S., half written in Persian and half written in Roman .. 60 (3.) Definition ...... 40 4. PRONUNCIATION ...... 100 5 CONVERSATION ...... 100 Read: Bishop Thoburn’s India and Malaysia. 28 COURSE OF STUDY.
B.—HINDI: SECOND YEAR. 1. GRAMMAR: Kellogg’s ...... 100 2. READING. (Nagri) Matthew and Mark’s Gospels and Dharm Tula ...... 100 3. TRANSLATION ...... 150 (1.) Hindi-English: 10 lines from Hindi Sec. Bk C . E. S. .. 50 (2.) English-Hindi: 10 lines from Eng. Sec. Bk. C. E. S., half written in Nagri and half written in Roman ... 60 (3.) Definition ...... 40 4. PRONUNCIATION ...... 100 5. CONVERSATION ...... 100 Read: Hunter’s Brief History of the Indian People. MIDDLE STANDARD.—THIRD YAER. (Urdu or Hindi Optional.) A.-URDU. 1. GRAMMAR: Platts’, the whole. Kempson’s Sairtax and Idioms. Forbes’ Persian ...... 100 2. READING. (Litho, and Type) : Luke and John’s Gospels. Din-i-Haqq ki Tahqiq. Taubat un Nasih. Mark and John in Persian ...... 100 3. TRANSLATION ...... 150 (1.) Drdu-English: 10 lines from Urdu Third Bk. C. E. S. ... 50 (2.) English-Urdu: 10 lines from Eng. Third Bk. C. E. S., half written in Persian and half in Roman ... 60 (3.) Definition ...... 40 4. PRONUNCIATION ...... 100 5. CONVERSATION ...... , 100 Read: Muir’s Life of Mohammad. B.—HINDI. 1. GRAMMAR: Review ...... 100 Ballantyn’s Elementary Sanskrit. 2. READING: Luke and John’s Gospels .. ... 100 Shakuntala (edited by Raia Lakshman Singh). 3. TRANSLATION ...... 150 (1.) Hindi-English: 10 lines from Hindi Third Bk. C. E. S. ... 50 (2.) English-Hindi: 10 lines from English Third Bk. C. E. S., half written in Nagri and half in Roman ...... 60 (3.) Definition ...... 40 4. PRONUNCIATION ...... 100 5. CONVERSATION ...... 100 Read: Wilkins’ Hindu Mythology. PROFICIENCY STANDARD.—FOURTH YEAR. (Urdu or Hindi Optional.) A.-URDU. 1. GRAMMAR: Palmer’s Arabic. (Optional.) ...... 100 2. READING: Mizan-ul-Haqq. Gulistan. Forbes’ Arabic Reader. (Optional.) ...... 100 3. TRANSLATION ...... 150 (1.) Urdu-English: 20 lines from Drdu Fourth Bk. C. E. S. 50 (2.) English-Urdu: 20 lines from English Fourth Bk. C. E . S., half written in Persian and half in Roman .. 60 Short Sermon jn Persian character. (3.) Definition ... 40 4. PRONUNCIATION ” 100 5. CONVERSATION ... 100 Read: Sells’ Faith of Islam. COURSE OF STUDY. 29
B.—HINDI. 1. GRAMMAR : Hindi, Review ...... 100 Monier Williams’ Sanskrit. (Optional.) 2. READING: Sat Mat Nirupan ...... JOO Prera Sagar. Hitopadesha, first book. (Optional.) 3. TRANSLATION ...... 150 (1.) Hindi-English : 20 lines from Hindi Fourth Bk. C. E. S. 50 (2.) English-Hindi : 20 lines from English Fourth Bk. C. E. S., half written in Nagri and hull' in Rom an.. ... 60 Short Sermon in Nagri character. (3.) Definition ...... 40 4. PRONUNCIATION ...... _ ]«o 5. CONVERSATION ...... i<)0 Read : Monier Williams’ Religious Life and Thought in India. VII. The candidate, in order to pass, must obtain at least one half the aggregate marks in each subject. VIII. The Board of Examiners, through the Registrar, shall at the close of the examination, inform the candidate and the Secretary of the Conference of the result. B.-FOR HINDUSTANI MINISTERS. SALA'NA KA'NFABANS KA' IMTIHA'N. D akhile he Uye. 1. Urdù yà Hindi bakhùbi likhnà aur yarhnà. 2. Hisàb. Jugràtìya aur Qawà’ id jànnà. 3. Kempson sàhib ki Tawàrikh i Bind. 4. Scripture Geography koi kyùn na ho. 5. Discipline. Palila Sal. 1. Walker’s Philosophy of the plan of Salvation Angrezi, Urdù yà Ro- man-Urdù men. , 2. Landmarks of Ancient History, yà Qadim lawàrikh kà Ikhtisàr, yà Pràdin Sanschep Ittihàs. ^.T , , „ 3. Kawàif us Sahàif 1 se 97 safhe tak Urdù ya Roman. 4. Ullmann’s Papacy, yà Popiyat Urdù yà Hindi men. 5. Ti'ài Shama’dàn (Miss Rowe sàhiba kà), Dr. Duff sàhib ki, aur Dr. Judson sàhib ki sarguzasht. 6. Tahriri wa’z, ’lim i mazmùn. D ùsrd Sa I. 1. Hill’s Physical Geography, Jugràfiya Taba’i, Angrezi, Urdù yà Hindi men. ■» 2. Hunter’s Short History of the Indian People, in English, Urdù or 3. Vaughans “ What think ye of Christ ” yà Masih Ibn Ullah, yà Baibai Kàlplatikà, (Allàhàbàd) 4. Rùh ul Quds ki Ta’ lim, Urdù yà Roman men, (Lucknow). 5. Din i Tswi kà Subùt, (Mrs. McGrew’s Lucknow). 6. Kawàif us Sahàif, 98 se 160 safhe tak. 7. Tahriri Wa’z, ’limi Mazmùn. Tiara Sai. 1. Fisher’s Manual of Christian Evidences, yà Tswi Subùt. 2. Rùh se bharpur zindagi, The Spirit filled life, (Allahabad). 3. Kawàif us Sahàif Tatimma, 1 se 11 bàb tak. 4. Baffot’s Church History in Brief, yà Kalisiyà ki Tawàrikh kà Ikhtisàr (Allàhàbàd). .). Once a Hindù now a Christian, ek Bindù kà Masihi honà, (Allàhàbàd 6. Tahriri Wa’z,’lim i Mazmùn, 80 COURSE OF STUDY.
CHAUTHE SA'L KE IMTIHA'N KE SUWA'LA"r. 1. Riihdni zindagi kya hai ? Lis ki asliyat baydn karo. 2. Kyiinkar ma’liira hotd hai ki ham men R&hdni zindagi hai ? 3. Wa’ iz ko kis tarah ma’lfim hotd hai ki Khuda ne mujh ko wa’z ke kdm ke wdste talab kiyd hai. F a s l . 1. DI'NDA'RI' AUR AUQA'T GUZA'RI' KE BAYA'N M E N .-l. Kha- dim ud din ke khdss kam bayan karo, aur yih batao ki is khidmat ke wdste kann kaun se wasf chahiyen. 5. We kann se tariqe hain, jin se yih ausaf barhte jate hain ? 6. Batao ki logon ke gharon par ahwal-pursi ke liye jdnd kaisa zurur liai, aur yih kaho ki tumh&ri is kdm men kis qadar tawajjuh hai ? 7. Yih bat&o ki kis tarah parhte likhte ho ? 5. Jab se turn kdnfarans ki imtihan-bardari men ho, tab se turn ne iitni kitaben har sdl dekhi hain un sab ke ndm-batao ? 9. Kutub i Muqaddasa ke parhnemen tumhara kitna waqt sarf hota hai ? aur kis tariqe se parhte ho ? F a s l , '¿. BAIBAL KA' IMTIHA'N.—1. Kis i’tibdr se turn Baibal ko Kalam i Ilahl jante ho, aur kin dali.il se yih turn rde rakhte ho ? 2.' Kis dalil se Majm&’a i ’ Ahd i ’Atiq ko, jo ham men murauwij hui, mu’ tabar jante ho? Khulasa baydn karo. 3. Kis dalil se we sab kitdben jo is Majmii’a i ’Ahd i Jadid men dftkhil hain mu’tabar o sahih jdnte ho? Mukhtasar bayan karo. 4. Kis tarah Mohammadion ke is da’we ko ki Kutub i Muqaddasa man- sukh ho gai hain, galat sabit karte ho ? * 5. Khurfij i Misr se Yashti’a-ki maut’ tak, Israilion ki tdrikh ka khula sa batdo. 6. Das firqon ki bagdwat ke muta’alliq jo ltndss wdqi’at hain, unhen baydn karo- 7. YahM ion ki sdldna ’iden aur niz yih ki kis M t ke wdste muqarrar hui thin, aur kis tarah par add ki jdti thin, batdo. 8. Khdss khdss nabion ke nam aur jis zamdne men unhon ne nubfiwaten kin, wuli zamdne aur niz yih, ki we nubiiwaten kis bdre men thin, baydn karo. 9. Khuddwand Masih ki bdton se kuehh aisi misalen do, jin se zdhir hota hai, ki wuh Purdne ’ Ahd ke nawishton ko mu’tabar samajntd thd. 10. Kaun si pesh-khabaridn Masih se muta’alliq hain, ljhusiisan us ki amad aur sirat aur kdm aur maut se ? 11. Masih ki zindagi ke hdldt kis kis waqt ke ma’ lfim hain, aur muddat ’ahd risdlat kis qadar thi? 12. Us ki risalat ke khdss waqi’at aur jahan jahan ki we guzre hain 13. Khdss khass bdten mundarij i A’ amdl i Rasfil batldo. 14. Mu’jiza’ kyd hai aur mu’jizon se kyiinkar mal’ti.m hotd hai ki Kutub i Muqaddasa min jdnib Alldh hain? F a s l . 3. BAIBAL KI' TA’LfMA'T KE BAYA'N MEN.-l. Khuda ka wujfid Baibal se kis tarah sdbit hotd hai ? 2. Baibal se Taslis kd kyd subut hai, ya’ ne ki ek Khudd men tin aq- niim hain? 3. Khudd ki sifat batldo aur har sifat kd subtit Pak Nawishton se 4. Khuda ke mujassam hone ka masla jo Kutub i Muqaddasa men payd jd’ta hai, use baydn karo, aur yih batdo ki us ta’ lim ko najdt ke bandobast se kyd ’ ildqa hai ? 5. Masih ki UMhiyat Kutub i Muqaddasa se sdbit karo. 6. Baibal ki kaun kaun si dyat Ulfihiyat i Masih ke mukhdlif Musal- man pesh karte hain, aur turn un ke kya ma’ ne lete ho ? 7. Rfih i Quds ki aqniimiyat kd, aur Ultihiyat kd aur us ke kdm kd Pdk Nawishton se subiit do. 8. A'dam ke gundh kd natija us ki auldd ke haqq men kyd hfid? 9. Masih ke kafdre aur gundhon ki mu’dfi men kyd ’ ildqa hai?. COURSE OF STUDY. 31
10. Masíh ke jí uthne ká subút do. 31. Masíh kí shaf&’at leí asliyat aur fáida, jaisí Kutub i Muqaddasa raen ta’lím hal, bayán karo. 12. Rúh ul Quds kí gawáhí kí nisbat kyá ta’lím o dalíl hai? 13. Masíhí kámiliyat ká masala jo Wesley sáhib lie sikhláyá hai use mukhtasaran bayán karo aur Baibal -se us ká subút do. 14. Naí Paidáish aur kámil pákízagí ke darraiyán jo farq hai, use sam- jhá do. 15. Is da’ we ke «áre men ki “ Jo koí az sar i ñau paidá hotá hai is taur se nahín giregá, ki ákhir i kár halák ho jáe.” Hamárí kalísiyá'kí kyá ráe? sábit karo ki yih ráe Kalám i Uáhí ke bamújib hai. 16. Batáo ki baptisma kaisí rasm hai, aur kis garaz se hai, aur kyún farz hai? har bát ká subút do. 17. Sábit karo, ki bachchon ko baptisma dená munásib hai? 18. Baible men ’Ashá e Rabbání kí nisbat kaun kaun se muháware áe hain, aur wuh kis garaz se hain aur -Masíhíon par us ká mánná kyún íarz hai? 19. Hindúon ke masía i tanásukh, ya’ne ltáyá palat ko kyúnkar galat sá bit k arte ho? 20. Jism ke jí uthne ke báb men Kutub i Muqaddasa men kyá ta’ lím hai? hawála do. Fasl. 4. KALI'SIYA' KE INTIZA'M O TARTI'B KE BAYA'N MEN—1. Kalísi- yá ke tarah tarah ke intizámát bayán karo. 2. Methodist Episkopal Kalísi- yá men General Kánfarans aur Annual Kánfarans aur Kwártarlí Kánfarans ke muta’ alliq kyá kyá kám hain? 3. Kalísiyá ke ’ uhdedáron men “ Bishop ” “ Prízáiding Eldar ” aur “ Eldar, ” aur “ Díkan ” aur “ Khádim-ud-dín ” aur ‘ ‘ Loical Wá’iz ” aur “ Múkhtárkár ” aur “ Amánatdár ” aur kilás ke Hádí jo 'hain, un men -har ek ká kitná ikhtiyár hai, aur kyá kám muta’alliq hai, aur kis ke sámhne ja- wáb-dihí hai? F a s l . 5. TA'RI'KH I K ALI'SIYA—1. Yahúdíon ke kháss firqe Masíh ke waqt men kitne the? un ká bayán karo. 2. Awáil zamánon men jo aziyaten Masíhíon ne utháí hain, un ká kuchh bayán karo. 3. Un vvasáil ká bayán karo, jin ke sabab se ibtidá men Masíhí mazhab bahut phailá, (Mather sáhib kí Tawáríkh i Kalísiyá tísrá báb daf’a I, 2, 3, 5, ko dekbo.) 4. Gnostikon kí kyá ta’lím thí aur us se qadím kalísiyá par kyá kharáb asar pará; (Mather sáhib kí Tawáríkh i Kalísiyá tísrá báb daf’a, 85.) 5. Luther sáhib se ’ain qabl din i ’I'swí ká kyá hál hai? 6. Barí Isláh i Mazhabí jo Luther sáhib ke waqt men húí, us ká hál ba táo, kis sabab se wuh isláh húí thí, aur kaun kaun log us men sharík i hál the? 7. Britániya i ’Uzama men Methodist Kalísiyá ke muqarrar hone ká sa bab batáo aur Wesley sáhib kí táríkh men kháss log kaun the? 8. Methodist Episkopal Kalísiyá kis sabab se aur kis waqt men aur auwal kahán baní? (Discipline ká báb i auwal dekho.) 9. Hinúd ke mukhtalif firqe aur yih ki we kahán se nikle aur un ká bání aur un ke kháss ’aqíde batáo. 10. Muhammadíonke din kí ibtidá aur Muhammad sáhib ká kuchh ba yán karo aur mukhtalif firqon ká aur un ke hádíon ká kuchh zikr karo? 11. Sikhon ke mazhab kí ibtidá kahán se hai aur use Hinúd o Islám ke mazhab se kyá ’ iláqa hai? 12. Brahmo mazhab ká ágázo taraqqí aur hálát maujúda aur kháss ’aqíd- on ká bayán karo. Robertson’s Contents of the Old Testament, yá *Ahd i ’Atíq kí kitáben, Urdú yá Roman men. Stalker’s Imago Christi, yá Masíh ke namúne Urdú yá Roman men. Tahrí Wa’z. ’Ilmí mazmún. Mutál'a ke liye Wesley sáhib kí Sarguzasht. (Sd.) F. W. W arne, Missionary Bishop, Presiding. 32 CONFÈRENCE SESSIONS.
SESSIONS OF THE NORTH WEST INDIA CONFERENCE.
No. Hace. Time. President. Secretary,
1 Agra. Jan. 18-23, 1893 J. M. Thoburn. C. W- DeSouza.
2 Cawnpore. Jan. 12-16, 1894 Do. J. C. Lawson.
3 Mujbtra. Jan. 10-15, 1895 Do. Do.
4 Meerut. Jan 22-27, 1896 Do Do.
5 Cawnpore, Jan. 15-20, 1897 Do. Do.
j C. D. Foss ) 6 Allahabad. Jan. 1318, 1898 ( J. M. Thoburn ) D. C. Monroe.
7 Aligarh. Jan. 12-16, 1899 J. M. Thoburn J. T Robertson.
8 Mubtra. Jan. 17-22, 1900 Do. Do.
9 Cawnpore. Jan. 17-22, 1901 F. W. Warne Do. IReports of Committees.
STATE OF THE CHURCH. The past year, 1900, has been one of peculiar trial and also, thank God, of peculiar blessing. Famine and sickness have brought sore trials to many devoted workers and to many infant churches. This is especially true of Rajputana and parts of the Aligarh and Agra and Muttra Districts. But, as of old, so now, these trials and afflictions have proved to be God’s min istering servants inciting to noble deeds of patient endurance and Christ- like labor on behalf of the suffering poor and on behalf of the Church of God. Generously have our people responded to the numerous calls for help, and right nobly have brethren and sisters gone forth, literally taking their lives in their hands, to “ rescue the perishing and to care for the dying,” and the work done has been truly Christlike and worthy the approbation and admi ration of men and angels. There has been an increase of 1,886 in baptisms, and much true progress has been made in the spiritual life of-the Church; also much has been done in breaking down caste lines and putting away cast«' customs by the people. In self-support, also, progress has been made and many of our infant churches in their poverty have given liberally. It will generally be found that “ Self-support ” keeps pace with increasing light and spirituality. We hail therefore with much gratitude the appearance of a spirit of revival in our midst, as manifested in our summer schools and District Conferences, many of which have been characterized in a special manner by revivals and soul conversions. Your Committee, therefore, would humbly submit that the true remedy for all o.ur financial difficulties is to be found in the cultivation of the revival spirit and, through it, the spirit of intelligent self-support. And iveearnest- ly recommend that no new work be opened unless it can be run on self-sup porting lines, and that we keep steadfastly aiming to bring all our old work on the same basis as speedily as circumstances will allow. J a m e s L y o n , M a h b u b K h a n E l ia s M a s s e t , SELF-SUPPORT. Our Hindustani Church has not done so well this year in giving as in the preceding one. The decrease being but five per cent, has not been very mark ed. When we realise that the year has been one of great scarcity, and in many sections of severe famine, we conclude that in reality wo have been ad vancing. The Hindustani Churches have contributed 4,975 rupees for the support of the ministry, and the Englisu Churches 10,327rupees. The English Churches have done well, especially the Cawnpore one. which has mot all its financial obligations and is in a healthy condition financially. We have adopted the principle of caring for all classes of the community who d* re our services, so in addition to our Vernacular work we maintain regular English services in Allahabad, Cawnpore, Agra, Meerut, A j mere, Mussooree, and Rurki. For the coming year we have secured a minister from America, who will minister to .our English Church in Mussooree as well as work in the Philan der Smith Institute. We have reachcd the point in the development of our work where wo are compelled to seelc pastor support from our Hindustani Churches. Success in building up our people in true righteousness will depend very largely on our success in raising pastoral support from our people. R . H o s k in s , . For Committee. 34 REPORTS OF COMMITTEES.
BOARD OF STEWARDS. The Board of Stewards beg to make the following report : — 1. That the widow of Hasan Raza Khan receive the same allowance as last year, viz., Rs. 300. 2. That Edwin W. Gay receive an increase of Rs. 12 for the year, making a total of Rs. 192. That the funds for our worn-out preachers be-left on interest with the Conference Treasurer ; and that funds be paid out only on the order of the President and Secretary of the Board of Conference Stewards. 4. That the money advanced to pay the indebtedness of Hasan Raza Khan, deceased, be provided for, and returned by the Finance Committee at as early a date as possible. 5. That Chheda Lai receive th« same allowance as last year, viz., Rs. 144 for the year 1901. P. M. Buck, Pres., Board of Stewards. .Mott Keislar, Secy., „ „
SUNDAY SCHOOLS. Your Committee looks upon this form of Christian work as full of encou ragement and promise. We would suggest chat the following points be em phasised :— 1. Let our large number of famine children be thoroughly instructed in the Word of God. 2. Every Sunday School teacher should study carefully some Sunday School Teachers’ Manual, and as far as possible all should take the India Sunday School Journal. 3. Every Sunday School scholar should learn the Lord’s Prayer, the Apos tles’ Creed, and the Ten Commandments, and also be instructed in the Life of Christ. 4. All our pastor-teachers should be urged to take a deep interest in this work. 5. Much more stress should be laid on using Sunday School requisites, such as '-The Children's Friend,” “ The Woman’s Friend," Scripture cards, &c. We need to bestir ourselves to greater activity in this matter. 6. Careful attention should be paid to the Quarterly Review, and to An nual Sunday School Rallies, as well as to the Weekly Teachers’ Meeting. Special attention is called to Sunday School Union’s Annual Examinations. J. C. L awson, E. B. L a VA L E T T E , J ohn L it t l e .
TEMPERANCE. The greatest Temperance Society in the world is the Methodist Episco pal Church. As a church we are pledged by the'General Rules (30) to abstain from “ Drunkenness, buying or selling spirituous liquors, or drinking them, unless in cases of extreme necessity,” and special advice is given in our Book of Discipline, (If 35), and it is clearly stated that “ They regard voluntary total abstinence from all intoxicants as the true ground of personal temper ance, and the complete legal prohibition in alcoholic drinks as the duty of Civil Government.” This being true, we as a Conference must, >in loyalty to our principles, oppose all habits of intemperance and all laws which encourage or protect drunkenness We pledge ourselves to teach our Native Christians . that they should abstain from all intoxicating drinks and drugs. Among the older Christians there is but little intemperance, but in some low-caste inohailas, where our converts are living surrounded with heathen neighbours, there is occasional drunkenness, and to which we1 are—and we desire to be un derstood to be as a Conference, and as individuals—unequivocally and radi cally opposed. We must root out this evil. And we, as a Conference, call up- oh all whose duty it is to pastor and discipline our Christian communities to
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note and personally attend to all such irregularities, taking measures ending in either the reformation or the excommunication of all in any way addicted to the great, evil of intemperance in any of its forms.
J . E. S c o t t , For Committee,
THE DEACONESS BOARD. The Deaconess Board met at 1 p. m . January 21, 1001, with the President, H, Mansell d. d., in the chair. Members present:—H. Mansell, J. Lyon, Mrs. P. M. Buck, J. C. Law son, Mrs. Matthews, D. C. Clancy, R. Hoskins, F. S. Ditto, J. B. Thomas, Miss M. E. Gregg. On motion J. B. Thomas was elected President, and Miss M. E. Gregg, Secretary. On motion the licenses of the following persons were renewed : Miss Wright, Mrs. Matthews, Mrs. Worthington, and Miss Gregg. On motion Miss Abbott was received from the Rock River Conference, and her license renewed. On motion Miss Ogilvie was recommended for license and consecration. On motion Misses Gregg and Abbott wene appointed Examiners for the Course of Studies prescribed by the Discipline. M. E. Gregg, Secretary.
INDIAN MISSIONARY SOCIETY. Indian Missionary Society fil-h&l Patiala, Kasganj, Ajmer aur Muzaf- farnagar men ,p£i jati hai. Ham ch£hte hain ki hamdri k&nfarans is ko apne hith men lewe, aur chalawe, jaise North India Kanfarans ne apne h&th men ise le liy&. Is ltd n&m N.-W. Indian Missionary Society ho. Aur Mnfarans ki taraf se ek kamit-ti ho jo is k& intiz&m kare. Har sarkit men is ki shikh kholni ch&hiye, aur jo chanda wg. jam’a 'h o, wuh Finance Kamitti ke hdth men supurd ho. Ma h b u b K h a n , E. T. F a r n o n , J ohn L it t l e .
MUTTRA MISSION TRAINING SCHOOL. The last Central Conference requested that the Board of Trustees of the Muttra Mission Training School make an annual report to the Conferences of India, and nominate a member from the Conference to be elected by the Conference as its representative on the Board of Trustees. In compliance with this request, the Board begs leave to nominate Mr. Buck and Miss Livermore as your representatives for the coming year, and to submit the following report. The past year has been one of prosperity in «very line of work. The school was under a joint-committee of the North and the North-West India Conferences until the last Central Conference, at which time a Board of Trustees was constituted, consisting of two members each from the North and North-West India Conferences, and one each from the Bombay, Bengal- Burma and South India Conferences, with the Superintendent as member ex- offUño. There are two distinct departments, the English and the Vernacular, in both of which there has been prosperity and a large increase of students. There have been ten students in the English Department, as compared with four the previous year. Of these, one has finished the course and is now an efficient teacher in the Girls’ Boarding School here. Two others will finish this year. These ten have come from all parts of India as follows: two from Calcutta, two from Mussoorie, two from Agra, and one each from Cawn- pore, Kolar (South India), Poona (Bombay Presidency), and one recently from England. 36 REPORTS OF COMMITTEES.
All of the senior students spend a part of each week in some kind of prac tical work, such as teaching in the Boarding School, Sunday Schools, zana- nas, mohaVas, and villages. They also hold meetings with the children in the Girls’ Boarding School, and help to develop their Christian character. In the Vernacular Department there has been a like increase. Last year there were eighteen enrolled, but this year we have the pleasure to report a total of thirty-nine, the number being more than doubled. Of these, eight have been in the Senior Class, thirteen in the Junior, and twenty-six in the Preparatory class of village women. In addition to the above numbers, eight married women have been day pupils in the schocl for a longer or shorter period of time. Three hav« been graduated, one of whom is a very acceptable teacher in the Girls’ Boarding School, and one married a preacher in our Mission. Three who have not completed the course, have gone out to work, one as the wife of one of the most efficient preachers of this Conference. We have believed that a general training school in our Mission, for all India, is feasible, and the results of the past year have corroborated the opinion. Other denominations are showing their appreciation of m r school by sending students for us to train. Of the ten students in thè English De partment, five have been members of other denominations, and in the Ver nacular Department there ha^e been eight from other missions, and we arc pleased to say that for these eight, the regular fees have been promptly and fully paid. The language difficulty has been met by empioying Munshies who have been able to teach the languages required by the pupils who have come. Two Missionaries, Misses Wright and Gregg, have given the greater par! of their time to the different departments of this work, and they feel amply repaid. Praying that God will pour out His blessings upon us, and asking your interest and support, we are Respectfully, M a r t E v a Gk e g g , Secy., Board of Control.
1Rortb*TOest flnfcia Conference, TREASURER’S REPORT FOR 1900. Conference Claimants Fund. Ci- Rs. a. p. Rs, a. p. To Demand Promissory By Methodist Publishing Note, Methodist Pub House, Calcutta, Note 1601- 2-0 lishing House, Calcutta, By Grant to E. W. Gay for dated January 1st, 1893. 1900 - 180* 0-0 at 6 % ...... 1,601- 2-6 By Grant to Chedda Lai for To Balance in hand Jan 1900 144- 0-0 uary 1st, 1900 ...... 7,325- 5-9 By Grant to widow of late To Amount paid back on lo Hasan Raza Khan and son an to N.-W I. Conference, 722- 0-0 for 1900 ...... 300- 0-0 To Collections 1900 ...... 44- 13-3 By Amount lent to R. Hos To Interest on Methodist kins by instructions of Fin. Publishing House, Cal Committee, to pay debts of cutta, Note for 1899...... 96- 0-0 late Hasan Raza Khan, at To Interest paid on 6 % ...... 722- 0-0 amount loaned to N.-W. By Money-Order Commsn., 3- 8-0 India Conference for By Loan to Treasurer, N.-W. 1899 at 5% ...... 371-12-0 India Conference, at 6% — 7,566- 4-0 To Interest on Rs. 7,597-1-9 for 1900 at 6% 455-13-0 10,516-14-6 10,516-14-6 N ote.—T he interest on the Publishing House, Calcutta, Note for 1900 has not yet been paid ! REPORTS OF COMMITTEES. 37
Preachership Endowment Fund. Cr, To Rev. Zabardast Khan’s Rs. a. p. By Amount lent to Trea- Rs. a. p. gifts for the Endowment surer, N.-W. India Con- of a Preachership in N.- ference, at 5% 1.512-2-3 W. India Conference; — November 17th, 1895, Rs. 500 March 25th, 1896, „ 200 April 21st, 1896, ,, 200 October 27th, 1896, ,, 100 January 28tb, 1897, 350 February 10th. 1897, ,. 10—1,1(50-0-0 To Interest at 5% to Dec, 31st, 1900 *352-2-3 1,512-2-3 1,512-2-3 Conference Collections for 1900. Dr. Or. , , Rs. a. p. Rs. a. p. To Missions ...... 299- 8-0 By Amount paid into Conference To General Conference— 112- 0-0 Claimants’ Account ...... 44-13-3 To Bishops .. 25- 0-0 By Certificate of Deposit No. To Conference Claimants 4±-i3-S 64. dated February 27th, 1900. To Children’s Day...... enuuit."'5 to Dr. Eaton, Trea- To Bible Society .... I- 0-0 surer. Missionary Society, N. To Sunday School Union 1-4-0 Y ., for $140-52 at 3034 • ••• 426- 8-0 To Other Collections for By Balance in hands of Trea- missions, etc., not defi- surer,December 31st, 1900— 87- 0-0 nitely specified ...... 62-0-0
558-5-3 558-5-3 Indian Sunday School Union. Or. Cr. Rs. a. p. Rs. a. p. To Balance in hand Jan- By Balance in hand Decem- uary 1st, 1900 20-0-0 ber 31st, 1900 21-4-0 To Collections ...... 1-4-0
21-4-0 21-4-0 Rs. a. p. N ote.—Children's Day collections in hand 12-12-0 Bible Society Collection in hand 1-0-0 Allahabad, D. Clancy. December 31st, 1900. Actg. Treasurer, N.-W India Conference. RESULT OF EXAMINATIONS. 1900. I. CANDIDATES FOR ADMISSION.
Sacred I Disci - N ames. ^ 5 tx 1 ¿ient U?^ian G eog Remarks. (History .H « t ° r y raphy. ! pline 0 ?»
R. Gardiner 80 80 38 . REPORTS OF COMMITTEES.
II. FIRST YEAR.—HIN DU STANI MINISTERS.
M it Plan o f Church ch ell’s M oral S a lva H is- Sermon Remarks. Names. Science tion. t e r i tory-
R. S. Brave 70 61 70 70 75
K. H. Joeseph 50 62 70 70 70
D. Claudius 70 57 93 72 80
N. T. Childs 75 57 95 71 90
G. G ordon 50 77 80 71 70
J. B. T h o m a s, M. S. Budden . III. FIRST YEAR—FOREIGN MISSIONARIES.
% P r o Conver Gram Read Transla nuncia Names. sation. mar. ing. tion. tion. M aujiiddt! Haqâiq Haqâiq ul]
Mott Keislar 80 75-90 80-70 70 70
Jas. H. Lawson ... 90 90-100 95-90 100 100
Second year. H indi Hindi Definition 2nd B ook J. T. Robertson ... 95 •• 80 •• 80 Rom an 85
H. M a n s e l l , J. B. Th o m a s . IV. SECOND YEAR.
Makh- Pai- Masih Tariq- zan i d&ish Ibn ul- W a ’ z. Remarks Names. ’ Ilm -i- ki U llah. Hayât. Ilâhi. Taf sir.
A . Luke • •• • •• • •• Did not appear. B. S. Edson 73 75 75 72 70
Puran M all 72 55 73 78 75
G. G ordon «
J. C. LAWSON, D. B u c k . REPORTS OF COMMITTEES. 89
V. ENGLISH COURSE—I YEAR.
Har N. T. Miley, Names. man’ s Exege Sermon. Xn. Perfection. V ol. I. Int. sis.
MottKeislar 75 80 100
E. B. Lavalette ... 75 75
P. M. B u c k ,
J. E. S c o tt .
VI. THIRD YEAR.
Tashrih Sat Mat Names. T s â ki ul ’ I'swi Nirû- W a ’ z. Remarks. Sirat. Taslis. Subut. pan.
H. R. Khan 76 76 j 72» 78
B. Gardner 73 78 36 72
A .J a c o b 75 73 | 69 73
P, M. David 72 32 j 36 70 |
Jai Ram Caleb ... 70 74 70 63 | | Thakur D&s 70 70 73 75 i
R. Ho s k in s ,
T. Haqq.
VII. FOURTH YEAR
Names. Written Questions. Remarks.
~ N o Candidates.
J. E. Sco t t . 40 REPORTS OF COMMITTEES.
VIII. LOCAL DEACON’S ORDERS.
H aqi- Mill at i Hidâ- Names. qat i Tash- yat ul- W a ’ z. Remarks. Gunâh. bihi. W â ’ iz- fn. i ! B aldeo Parshad ... 70 71 72 72 1 Lazar Shah 71 70 73 72
H izqiel Porter ... 90 79 80 84
Buddha Singh ... 72 70 70 70
Gharib Singh 80 81 -79 70
Munna Lai 70 70 73 71
Samuel Daud 71 72 74 70
H. Daniel 75 72 70 72
Suraj Mall 69 70 68 70
H. J- Ransome .. 77 78 79 85
Alexander 73 74 75 74
Nanhe Mall McGee 72 70 70 75
M. K h a n , Mo h a n L a l .
IX. LOCAL ELDER’S ORDERS.
Kdh-ul Râh-5- Filâsa- Quds Teg-o- Zinda- •TsA ld ! fi-i- Names. i, : Ti..* Sipar. Sermon. Sir at. 1 Najât. ’ Tswi.' gi- lim.
1 Wahid Ullah Khänj 80 70 i .. 1 75 j 71 1 1
H. M a n s e l l , I s a D a s . BOARD OF EXAMINERS. P. M. Buck, President. i J. B. Thomas. J. E. Scott, Registrar. M. Kbaa. H. Mansell. j D. Buck. R. Hoskins. i T. Haqq. ROLL OF LOCAL PREACHERS.
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A g r a D is t r ic t . Chunni Lall 1889 1889 18901891 1892 1893 Qaisar Muttra&lgs 1889 1890 18911892 1893 1895 Agru Singh Mahaban 1890 1890 1891 1892 1893 1898 Nabi Baksh Itmadpur 1892 1893 1894 1895; 1896 Alfred Luke Muttra 1893 1893 1894 1895 1896 K. L. Farmer Somma 1894 1894 1895 1896 Banda Din Ta,1 Gunj 1693 1894 1896 Edward Bamroli 1895 1896 Tej Singh Aligarh 1895 1896 Bhajan Dass Khair 1895 1896 Kaliyan Singh Gonda 1895, 1896 1898 E. H. Payne Muttra 1893 Exe mpt fro ami nati Udhe Singh Hathras 189G J. H. Murray Agra 1897 Exe mpt J. D’Souza 189? Exe mpt E. S. Scott 1897 D. Elias 1897 W. Newton 1897 Budhe Singh Aligarh 1896 1896 1897 P. L. Magee 1896 1896 1897 1899 H. C. Harris M u’ttra 1897 J. Goldstone 1897 Agar D&ss Pai gar h 1896 1897 Masih Charan Kishengarli 1896 1897 Masih Dayal Bikanir 1896 1897 Munna Lai A j mere N.I. 1895 1896 189' Sari Mai Dudhu 1894 1895 1896 189? fl. David Ramsar 1894 1895 1896 189? Beni Singh Srinagar 1894 1895 1896 x89^ R. Johnson Sali 1894 1895 1896 1897 Garli Singh Phalera N.I. 1895 1896 189' Chaman Wilson A j mere N.I. 1895 1896 189- Jiwan Singh Kuchawan N.I 1895 1896 1897 Kallau Beg Nawa N.r. 1894 1895 189b 1894 A. Forbes A j mere N.I Bom. Bom. Bom J. C. Lai Pushkar 1894 Exe use d Jhon Net Ram Bir N.I. 1895 Pershadi Lai Kuchawan 1894 1894 Ram Bahadur Rupnagar N.I. 1895 1894 1894 Vishnu Singh Kishengarli N.I. 1893 1894 1896 1895 Joseph Stephens Pisangan N.I N.I. 1897 Maya Din Arai 1897 Prabhu Das Phalera 1897 A l l a h a b a d D is t r ic t . Bhikha Singh . . Manauri 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1892 R. S. Brave Allahabad 1892 1892 1893 1894 1895 1894 Madar Baksh Manikpur 1894,1894 1897 1897 42 ROLL OP LOCAL PREACHERS.
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K. H. Joseph Rarwi 1893 1893 1894 1895 1897 189: Bthari Lall Shiurajpur 1896 1896 1897 1898 1899 Kanchan Dass Allahabad 1S97 1898 Simon Jacob Chunar 189G 1896 1897 1898 1899 E. M. DeMonte Allahabad 1897 Buddha Singh Bharwari 1898 1898 1899 Shib Lall Banda 1898 1898 1899 Buldeo Parshad Allahabad 1897 1897 1898 1899 Kish an Lall 1897 1897 1898 A. Briscoe 1897 1897 1898 1899
A l ig a r h D is t r ic t .
D. Claudius Aligarli 1893 1894 1895I1896 1397 1898 1899 1900 Kaiiyan Singh Gangari ¡1895 1896 1897 1898 S. S. Wilkinson Khair ¡1895 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 P. L. McGee Aligarh 11896 1896 1897 1898 1899 1899 Robert, John Bhiwani 11897 1897 1898 1899 1899 Laazar Shaw Delhi (Qutub) !N.I. N.I N.I. N.I. N.I Buddha Singh Delhi (Kheru) 1896 1896 1897; 1898 1899 Fazal Masih Hardua Sanj 1897 1897 1898 j 1899 Ganga Datt Sonepat 1895 180(5 1897 i 1899 John William Chherat, 1897 1897 18981 Hori Lall Barauli 1898 1898 1899| Chet Ram Gonda 1898 1898 1899! Baldeo Parshad Aligarh 1895 1898 E. Porter Somma 1898 1896 Rattan Lall Bhiwani 189? Charles Jacob Ganaur 1899 S. Caleb Jattarl 1899
C a w n p o r k D is t r ic t .
A. Beer Cawnpur Exe mpt J. B. Douglas Exe mpt Chand Masih Auriya 1895 1895 1896 1897 1898 M. C. Dhar Cawnpur 1895 1899 B. S. Testor Kunch 1895 N.I. 1896 1897 1898 J. DeCosta Kanauj 1896 1896 1897 Fazl Masih Cawnpur 1896 1897 1898 1899 Bahadur Dutt Shekohabad N.I N.I Mohan Lall N.I. ¡N.I. N.I Auriya 1893 1893 1895 1896 1897 Dayal Singh Moth 11893 1893 1894 Ram Singh 1895 1896 1897 Auraiyn ¡N.I 1894 1894 Zabardast Khan Cawnpur ;N.I. N.I. N.I NX N.I Charles Macfarland . . N.I. 1894 Eta wall !Exe mpt' ... 1897 Muassi Singli Tirwa ¡1881 Kallu Mai 1882 1883 1884 1885 1890 1893 Singhirampm 1896 1897 1898 1899 Solian Lai Pokhrain ¡1899 A. L. Plowman Cawnpur 1899 ChiranJi Lai Paul . . Orai 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 A. C. McLaren Cawnpur 1900 William Little 1900
Not given. ROLL OF LOCAL PREACHERS.
yj X- ! * [ ^ f i - r 1i a K ! ~ j | r ? .5 ~ r i ~3 “ j *r> ^*3 | .Z. Tt" Names. 1 ~ P ,r ’ " "H ; " o r; ■ ~ 2 j "S 5r Z I J jE : y g 7. ~ '• ? £ r/j
: — ! £ : — 5 1 ~ ! Kasganj D i s t r i c t . j Naim Uddin 189o 1893 I 1894 I 1895 1896 1896 Wahid Ullah Khan 1891 1891 1892 1 ! 1894 1894 Tika Singh . • 1888 1888 | 1889 1890 1891 1892 Azra 1891 1891 | 1892 1893 1894 1894 Ghasi Ram 1892 1894 i 189o 1896 1897 1899 Lachhman Siugli 1894 1894 ! 1895 1896 1897 Tika Ram 1892 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 Mohan Lall 1896 3896 1897 1899 1900 •Jhanda Mall 1895 1896 1897 Baldeo Masih 1895 1896 1899 1898 1899 Bihari Lall I. 1895 1896 1897 1898 ! 1899 L. D. Wishard . . 1896 1896 181)7 1«9S 1899 David Gardner 1896 ... Zahur Khan 1897 1898 1899 Edward Gardner 1897 1898 1899 Bihari Lall 11. 1890 ... Akbar Husain 1899 ... Tika Singh ... L. E. Mohan Lall L, D. I ... |
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N a m e s . S t a t i o n s . D.3 g C %'pix a » C 7. £ to c r/j - ■*' s i ■*? b 1 S 3 ! £ «8 a s « K K C O;
M e e b ü t D i s t r ic t . J. W. MacGregor . . , Meerut . . 1877 1878 1879 1880 188211887:1899i Chheda Dass 1Shahpui 1892:1893 J 893 1891 1896|1897 . ... Prem Masih j Kirbhal 189411895 189G1897 1893: .. Prabhoo Dass Mawana 1878 1879 1880 1S81 1882il893 ... Nauneh Mall Meerut 1893 1893 1894 1895 18971 ... ! ... Masih Dayal Prichatgarh 1893 1893 1894 1896 j ... | ... Bihari Lall Buiandshahr . . 1891 1893 1894 1895 ! ... i M. G. Samuel Dasna 1895 1895 1890 1897 1898 1900 ... Baksar 1895 1895 Munna Lall 1896 1897 1 Silas Ghungrauli 1894 1895 1896 1897 Masih Dayal Aurangabad 1889 1891 1893 1897 1894 J. Williams Shikarpur 1873 1873 18741875 1876 1894 ... B. Wilson Gulauthi 1889 1890 18931897 1894 ... Nihal Chand Dihai 1890 1891 18931897 ... 1894 .. Alfred Phillips , Dankaur 1894 1894 18951897 1899 44 ROLL OF LOCAL PREACHERS.
¡5 Its 'o 5 si 5 Names. Stations. -c £ c'Ö ■ «"O «■p I s “ a & S J- a 55 a & n3 50 C3 C ■ Ä O ts © tu Cu a ■£ O
Tullan Masih Kliurja 1894 1894 1895 1897 Dharam Singh Ahar 1894 1896 1898 Prem Dass Baboogarh 1894 1895; 1896 1897 1898 1898 Girwar Singh Bilochpur 189: 1892 1893 1894 1896 1895 H. M. Davis Baghput 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 S. Gardner Meerut 1895 1896 1897 1899 H. R. Williams 1893 1893 J 894 1895 1896 A. C-. Bhattacharjee. Muzaffarnagar 1891 E x e m 3. Alexander Sard liana 1896 1896 1897 1899 S. K. Sw.amie Meerut 1897 1898 1899 .Tames Shaw 1896 1897 1898 Mahgal Saiu Bilaspur 1894 1895 1897 1898*1899 Angan Lall Kith or 1892 1894 1896 1899 M. Matthew Garhmuktesar 1895 1896 1897 1899 S. Jeremey Muradnagar 1897 1898 1899 Gendan Lall Phapuoda William Barnes Khurja 1897 18981899 H. Martyn Sururpur 1900 Baij Nath Sbeo Meerut Bachchoo Lall Muzaffarnagar 1900 Sukka Singh 1897 1899 MaSih Charan Bahadargarh 1897 Tulsi Ram Jhajhar 1897 1899 Madari Lall Fatehgarh 1897 1899 Ghasi Singh Ghaziabad 1897 1899 Mahbooh Masih Gulauthi 1900 Muassi Singh Pahasa 1900
M u s s o o r ie D is t r ic t .
J.W . McNair Multan J887¡1893 1893 1893 1893 1893 1866 Laljee Mai Rurkee N.I N.I. N.I. N.I N.I 1894 Mangal Singh Multan N.I. N.I N I. NI. N.I 1^2 John S. Johnson 1894 Exe m pt 1897 J. H. Condon Mussoorie N.I Exe mpt C. H. A. Twidale S.I. Exe mpt G. Moore 1895 Exe mpt John Taylor Lahore 1895 B. Philemon Mussoorie 1896 J. Morris Lahore 1896 Sham Lai Roorlce«! 1893 H. J. Ransom 1896 Sukh Lai Joshua D<-‘ubaml 1896 A. D. L. Christie De lira 1897 George Dixie Roorkee 189?: Exe¡mpt¡ ... A. Sheppard La hoiv 1899 D. Isaacs 1899 C. H. DeSangers Roorkee 1899 Pulus Chand 1899, J. S. Phillips Musyooru' 1899 J. S. Downey 1899! -u------1Rortb lln&ia Conference. Appointments for 1901. Bareilly-Kumaon District—F. L. Neeld, P. E. (P. 0. Shahjahanpur ; Shahjahanpur, East, J. Blackstock, Prabhu Dayal, Prem Singh; West, S. Phillip ; Panahpur, Joseph Dysell ; Muhamdi, supplied by Sadal Singh : Pawayan, to be supplied ; Jalalabad, Misri Charan ; Tilhar, H. K. List ; Miranpur Katra, B. F. Cocker: Khera Bajhera, Kanhai Singh ; Faridpur, Chhiddu S. Paul ; Bareilly, S. S. Dease ; Hindustani Church. W. R. Bowen; Sadar Bazar, Joseph Wahid-ud- Din ; Theological School, T. J. Scott. Princi pal, S.S. Dease, Vice-Principal, H. L. Mukerji, Professor, Jawala Singh, Tea cher; Naini Tal Circuit, Samuel Knowles, S. Lawrence ; Mission School. B, M. Dass ; Hindustani Church, S. Lawrence ; English Church, R. I. Faucett; Boys’ High School, J. C. Butcher, W. W. Scott, lay missionary; Pithora- garh, Benjamin Patras; Dwarahat, N. L. E ockey; Masi, supplied by Psi- mnchai ; Gangolihat, supplied by J. W. Todd and H. Wilkinson ; Lahu Ghat, Harkua Wilson ; Lobha, supplied by Gauri D a tt; Supernumeraries, J. W. Waugh, J. L. Humphrey. Bijnour District.—W . A. Mansell, P. E. CP. O. Bijnour); Basta, Karim M asih; Bijnour, W. A. Mansell, Warren Scott; Dhampur, Fazl Masih; Kiratgur, Bansi Dhar ; Mandawar, H. B. M itchell; Nagina, Charles Ship ley ; Najibabad, supplied by B. McGregor; Nurpur, supplied by GulabSingh: Seohara, supplied by Jhabbu L a i; Sherkot, supplied by P. Merrill. Moradabad District.—L. A. Core, P. E. (P. 0. Moradabad); Kanth, J. Jordan; -Chaadausi, M. Stephen; Kundarki, Lazar Shah ; Thakurdwara, supplied by Mohan Singh ; ¡Moradabad, W. B. Empey, Mazhar-ul-Haqq; High Sehool, W. B. Empey, J. Jacob ; Bisauli, Bahadur Singh ; Bilsi, W. T. Speake ; Ujhani, supplied by B. S. Budden ; Budaon, G. C. Hewes, J. Rob- ert; Binawar, supplied by Govind Ram ; Bhamora, Nizam Ali ; Dataganj, Bihari Lai I I ; Kakrala, Joshua Solomon ; Aonla, Basant Ram. Garhwal District.—J. H. Gill, P. E. (P. 0. Pauri, Garhwal) ; Bainoli, F. W. Greenwold ; Kainur and Bungidhar, D. A. Chowfln, one to be supplied : Lansdown and Kotdwara,«supplied by Ghungar Money ; Pauri and Gadoli. J. H. Gill, one to be supplied ; Eamni, Sabine Mansell; Srinagar, supplied by Edward Thomson; Mission Hospital and Dispensary, supplied by Edward Thomson ; Transferred to North-West India Conference, W. W. Ashe. Gonda District—William Peters P. E. (P. O. Bahraich); Bahraich, Aurther S. Wesley ; Bulrampur, Bihari L a i; Bhinga, J. F. Samuel; Gonda, S. B. Finch ; Kaisarganj, Baldeo Pershad ; Karnalganj, Samuel Wheeler ; Mankapur, J. S. Samuel; Nanpara, supplied by L. J. McGee ; Nawabgauj, Crawford Hancock : Supernumerary, Thomas Craven. Hardoi District.—Samuel Tupper, P. E. (P. O Hardoi); Bilgram, Juk- khan L ai; Hardoi, Samuel Tupper ; Malawan, supplied by Nand Rain: Pihani, supplied by Sadal Masih ; Safi pur, supplied by John-Higginbotham ; Sandi, supplied by Eobert Turner ; Sandila, supplied by Baldeo Parshad ; Shahabad, Yaqub Shah ;Unao, A. G. McArthur. Oudh District J. W. Robinson, P. E. (P. 0. Lucknow); Barabanki, Y a qub Ali ; Lakhimpur, D. P. Kidder ; Lucknow Circuit, J. N. W est; Hindu stani Church, Ganga Nath ; English Church, to be supplied ; Eeid Christian College, C. L. Bare, J. N. West, B. T. Badley, G. D. Presgrave ; Methodist Publishing House, D. L. Thoburn, C. E. Hawes, lay missionary ; Malihabad, Yaqub Singh ; Rae Bareli, G, H. Frey ; Sidhauli, J. H. Sm art; Sitapur, J. H. Messmore, Chhote Lai, K. Silas ; Tikaiatnagar, supplied by Manga! Singh ; Editor, Kaukab-i-Hind, J. H. Messmore. Pilibhit District.—H. A. Cutting, P. E. (P. O. Fatehganj, W est); Bhoji- ura, N. R. Childs ; Bisaipur. supplied by Moti Lai ; Fatehganj, West, H. A. Sutting ; Jahanabad, supplied by-Keshri Singh; Milak, supplied by Girdhaii L a i; Mirganj. supplied by KaJlu Singh; Nawabgunj, J. Walter; Pilibhit, James Thomx>kinson ; Puranpur, supplied by Jhabbu Lai ; Rampur, supplied by Ase Ram ; Shahi, supplied by Kaliyan Singh ; Sirauli, Bhikki JLal: Superannuate, A. Solomon. Sambhal District.— H. J. Adams, P. E. (P. O. Sambhal); Amroha, D. M. Butler ; Babukhera, Bulaqi Singh ; Bahjoi, supplied by C. S. Hunter ; Dha- naura, Mohammed Hasan Jati; Gunnaur, Seneca Falls ; Hasanpur, B. S. 46 CONFERENCE APPOINTMENTS.
Phillip ; Narainya, supplied by P. S. Morris ; Rajpura, supplied by Lachman Singh ; Rasul pur, supplied by Manphul Singh ; Sambhal, H. J. Adams, R. S. franklin ; Shahpur, supplied by Mauladad Khan : Sharifpur, supplied bv Nirmal Singh. WOMAN'S CONFERENCE. Bareilly District,— Bareilly, Girls’ Orphanage, Mis* English, Miss Harvey; City Work, Mrs. Wilson, Mrs. Tucker : 'Hospital and Orphanage Medical Work, Miss Lewis ; City and District Medical Work, Mrs. Dease ; Woman’s School, Mr?. Scott, Mrs. M ukerji; Shahjahanpur, Girls’ Boarding School, Miss Organ ; City Work, Mrs. Blackstock ; Evangelistic Work in Bareilly and PUi- bhitDistricts, Mrs.-Wilson ; Bhot, Miss Sheidon, Miss Browne ; Chandag, Miss Reed ; Dwarahat, Mrs. Rockey ; Pitboragarh, Miss Budden, Miss Tresham; Naini Tal, Hindustani Work. Miss Sullivan ; Tarai andBhabar, Mrs. Know les; Boys’ High School, Mrs. Butcher, Miss Pritchard; English Work, to be supplied ; Wellesley Girls’ High School, Miss Easton, Principal, Miss Sell ars, Miss Carver, Miss Files; District Work, Mrs. Nweld; On leave to Ameri ca, Miss Bryan, Miss Wilson. Bijnour District.—District Work and School, Mrs. Mansell. Garhwal District. — Pauri, Girls’ Orphanage and Boarding School, Miss Kyle; Village Schools and District Work, Mrs. Gill. Oonda District.—Bahraich and District Work, Mrs. Raymon ; Gonda, Girls’ Boarding School, Miss Scott; City and Village Work, Miss Hoge; Evangelistic Work in Gonda and Oudh Districts, Miss Hoge. Hardoi District.—District and School Work, Mrs. Tupper ; Evangelistic Work, Mrs. Parker. Moradabad District.— Moradabad City and Circuit Work, Miss M. Means, Mrs. Empey; Girls’ High School, Miss A. Means: Budaon, City, Village and Zanana Work, Mrs. Hewes ; Girls’ Boarding School, Miss Curts ; District Work, Mrs. Core; Evangelistic Work in Moradabad, Bijnour and Sambhal Districts, Miss M. Means. Oudh District.—LucknoM , Woman's College, MissThoburn. Miss Nichols, Miss Newton, Miss Singh, Miss Stearns, Miss Brouse; City Schools, Mrs. Thoburn; Deaconess’ Home, Miss Hardie, Miss Ingram; English Work, to be supplied; Circuit Work, Mrs. West; Zenana Work and Home for Home less Women, Miss Sullivan, Miss Hardie, Miss Ingram; Reid College and High School Work, Mrs. Bare: Sitapur, Girls’ Boarding School, Miss Loper; City and Zanana Work, Mrs. Messmore; Editor, Rafiq i Niswan, Mrs. Mess- more; District Work, Mrs. Robinson : Transferred to North-West India Conference, LI iss C. Easton. Pilibhit District.— District Work, Mrs. Cutting. Sambhal District.— District Work, Mrs. Adams. Bengal Conference* Appointments for igoi. Asansol District.—W . P. Byers, P. E. (P. t). Asansol) ; Asansol, W. P. Byers ¡ English Church, to be supplied by John Bjork ; .Bengali Church, K. C. Mullick. Calcutta District.—J. E. Robinson, P. E. (P. O. Calcutta); Bolpur and Rampur Haut, F. E. Lieden, S. M. Mondol ; Calcutta, English Church, George E. Stokes ; Hindustani Mission, C. Dowring ; Boys’ School, supplied by J. Gordon Kennedy ; Seamen’s Mission, G. S. Henderson ; Pakur Circuit, J. P. Meik ; Pakur. S. C. Biswas ;Nalhati, supplied by S. C. Mitter ; Suti, supplied by A. C. Mondol : Calcutta Publishing House, Joseph Cnlshaw. Agent; Indian Witness, J. E. Robinson, Editor. . Calcutta Bengali District.—B. J. Chew, P. E.(P. O. Calcutta); Baliaghata, and Bible Training School, Homer Wroten. Principal ; Beg Bagan and South Village Circuit, Joseph Cnlshaw : Calcutta, American Methodist In stitution, B. J. Chew, Principal ; City Missions, D. H. Lee ; Dharamtala and Kidderpore Circuit, B. J. Chew, [Dharamtalal C. C. Dass, [Kidderpur] Dia mond Harbour Circuit, B. M. Mozumdav, L. C. Sarcar. Tirhoot District.—n. Jackson, P, E. (P. O. Mozafarpur) ; Bettiah, sup plied by J. Peter; Chupra, supplied by S. Budden; Dharbhanga, John Ro CONFERENCE APPOINTMENTS. 47
bert; Dinapore, supplied by Kaii Charau; Mozafarpur, Henry Jackson: S«- mastiptir. Nain Sukn; Sitamari, supplied by E. John. WOMAN’S CONFERENCE. Asansol District.—As&nsol, Woman’s Work, Mrs. Byers; Girls’ School. Miss M. Forster; On leave to America, Miss Lamb. Calcutta, District.—Bolpur and Rampur Iiaut, Woman’s Work, Mrs. Lieden; Calcutta, English Work, Mrs. Stokes; Hindustani Mission, Mrs. Rob inson, Mrs. Do wring; Superintendent, Deaconess Home, and Pastor’s Assist ant, Miss Maxey ; Anglo-Indian Orphanages, Miss Craig; Girls’ School, Mias Samson ; Seamen’s Mission, Mrs. Henderson (in America); Darjeeling, Ar cadia Girls’ School, Miss Knowles, Miss McKinley ; Pakur, Woman’s Work. Mrs. Meik, Miss M. Wittenbaker ; On leave to America, Miss Jacobson Miss Stahl, Miss Boggs ; Mrs. Warne in America. Calcutta Bengali District— Calcutta, Baliaghata and Kumardauga, Schools, Mrs. Lee ; Beg Bagan and South Village Circuit, Schools and Zana- na Work, Mrs. Culsliaw ; Jaun Bazar School, Mrs. Culshaw ; Dennett Training School and Girls’ Day School, Mrs. Lee, Miss Dey, Miss Carrie Bews (Assistant); Champahati, Naihati aud Kulpi, Woman’s Work, Mrs. Mo- zumdar ; Dharamtala and Kidder pore Circuit, Woman’s Work. Mrs. Chew ; City Missions and Baliaghata, Zanana Work, Mrs. Lee ; Tumlvik, Zanana Work, Miss B lair; School Work, Miss Moyer. Tlrhoot District.—Mozafarpur, District Work, Mrs. Jackson ; Zanana Work and Village Schools, Miss Söderström : Girls’ Orphanage. Miss Camp bell.
Bom bay Conference* Appointm ents for 1901. Bombay D istrict— Dennis Osborne, P. E. (E. O. Poona); Bombay, Bowen Church, L. E. Li nzell: Grant Road and Mazagon, H. R. Calkins: Gujarati Mission, F. Wood : Marathi Mission, W. H. Stephens, Sakharam Bhosle : Publishing House, supplied by V. T. Gutteridge ; Seamen’s Mission. F. W ood: Igatpnri, H. W. Butterfield: Marathi Circuit.. Gvanoba Khundaji : Kalyan Circuit, supplied by Shahji Chim aji; Karachi, W. D. Waller ; Sea men’s Mission, supplied by W. H. Dowliug ; Lanowli, to be supplied Pach- ora. supplied by Charan Dass ; Panwell. G. B. Kale ; Poona, English Church. Dennis Osborne ; City Marathi Church and Boys’ Orphanage. D. 0. Fox ; Hindustani Mission, supplied by T. E. F. Morton ; Marathi -Church and Circuit, W. W. Bruere ; Taylor High School for Boys, supplied by Charles W. Ainley : Quetta, to be supplied ; Supernumerary. William Feist- korn. - Central Provinces District.—T. S. Johnson, P. E. (P. O. Jabalpur;; Basim, W. A. Moore ; Burhanpur, S. Benjamin ; Chindwara. Paul Singh ; Gadar- wara, to be supplied ; Gondia, Zechariah Cornelius ; Jabalpur, T. S. John son: English Church, W. H. Grenon ; Kampti, W. L. Clarke; Khandwa. D. G. A bbott; Laknadon, to be supplied ; Nagpur, to be supplied by T. H Cowsell; Narsinghpur, F. R. F e lt; Hardwicke Boys’ School, F. R. F e lt: Supernumerary. J. O. Denning. Qujarat District.—E. F. Frease, P. E. (P. O. Camp Baroda), D. O. Fox- acting P. E .; Ahmedabad, to be supplied ; Baroda Circuit, W. E. Robbins, one to be supplied : Boys’ Boarding and Evangelistic Schools, W. E. Rob bins, Yusaf Dhanji ; Godhra, Robert C. Ward ; Kapadvanj, to be supplied Nadiad, G. W. Park : Boys’ Orphanage, G. W. Park ; Od, to be supplied : Umreth, to be supplied : Vaso, Lakshman Dana : Wasad. to be supplied : Supernumerary, Thomas Fisher. WOMAN’S CONFERENCE. Bombay District.—Bombay, Girls’ Boarding School, Miss M iller: Branch School, Telegaon, Miss Porter; Evangelistic Work, Miss Nicholls; City, Schools, Miss Robinson ; Woman’s Work (English), Bowen Church, Mrs, Linzell; Woman’s Work (English), Grant Road, Mrs. Calkins ; Vernacular. 48 CONFERENCE APPOINTMENTS.
Mrs. Stephens ; Seamen’s Work, Mrs. Wood ; Igatpuri, Mrs. Butterfield ; Karachi, Mrs. Waller ; Poona, Anglo-Indian Girls’ Home, Mrs. Hutchings ; Girls’ Day School (Marathi), Mrs. Fox ; Hindustani Mission, Mrs. Vairdon ; Taylor High School for Girls, Miss E lliott; Woman’s Work (English), Mrs. Osborne ; On leave to America, Miss DeLine, Miss Benthien. Central Provinces District.—Basim, Mrs Moore ; Jabalpur, Girls’ Board ing School, Miss H yde; Zanana Work and Widows' Home, Miss Heafer; English Work, Mrs. Grenon ; Kampti, Mrs. Clarke ; Khandwa, Girls’ Board ing School, Miss Ellicker ; Evangelistic Work, Mrs. A bbott: Narsinghpur, Zanana and Village Work, to be supplied. Gujarat District.—Baroda, Woman’s Evangelistic Schools, Mrs. Frease ; Girls’ Boarding School, Miss Spears ; Evangelistic Work, Miss Williams : Godhra, Mrs. Ward ; Nadiad, Mrs. Park.
Soutb llnfcia Conference. Appointments for 1901. Godavery District.—G. K. Gilder, P. E. (P. O., Raipur, C. P.); Drug, to be supplied; Jagdalpur, Industrial Work, supplied by W. Plumley; Boy’s Or phanage, to be supplied ; Evangelistic Work,.Gatu Chendaya ; Raipur, G. K. Gilder, and one to be supplied ; Sironcha, B. Luke; Yellandu, Superinten dent, Industrial Mission, C. B, Ward; Telugu Church and Evangelistic Work, M. Narsya ; R. H. Madden, on leave to America. Hyderabad District.—W. L. King, P. E. (P. 0. Hyderabad, Deccan); Bi- dar, A. E. Cook; Hyderabad, English Church, R, C. Grose ; Hindustani Mission, W. L. King and M. L. Harris ; City School, (Layman) S. Paul, Head Master ; Secunderabad, English Church, —Hahn ; Vernacular Mission, to be supplied; Vikarabad, W. H. L. Batstone; J. H. Garden, on leave to America. Madras District.—J. B. Buttrick, P. E. (P. O. Bowringpet); Bangalore, English Circuit, C. W. Ross DeSouza, Karl Anderson ; Vernacular Circuit, to be suplied; Bowringpet, J. B. Buttrick, John Narapa : Hosur, M. Lewis ; Kodambakam, Robert Gopalah ; Kolar, W. H. Hollister, C. Gershom ; Kup- pam, S. M. Job; Madras, Vepery, English Church, F. E. N. Shaw ; Narsinga- puram,.to be supplied; Royapuram, Matthew Tindale; Vepery, Tamil Work, W. Raju; Malbagal, to be supplied ; Srinivasapur, S. Noah ; Agent of Pub lishing House, A. W. Rudisifl, on leave to Am erica; M, Tindale, Acting Agent. Raiehur District.—D. O. Ernsberger, P. E. (P. 0. Raichur, Deccan); Bel- lary, to be supplied ; Gulburga, H. G. Ozanne, S. M aigur; Gopbal, Ellis Roberts; Raichur, D. O. Ernsberger ; Sorapur, Nanappa Desai; Vondalli and Lingsugar, supplied by T. Amrittaya. WOMAN’S CONFERENCE. Godavery District— Drug, to be supplied ; Jagdalpur, supplied by Miss K eess; Raipur, Miss Blackmar; -Sironcha, Schools and Village Work, Miss Fuller; Woman’s Work, supplied by Miss Lebarre; Yellandu, Woman’s Work, Mrs. Ward. Hyderabad District.—Bidar, Mrs. Cook; Hyderabad, City Schools and Zanana Work, Miss Wood ; Boarding School, Miss Evans ; Hindustani Work, Mrs. K ing; English Work, Mrs. Grose; Secunderabad, Vernacular Work, Miss Wood ; Vikarabad, Mrs. Batstone. Madras District— Bangalore, English Work, Mrs. Ross deSouza, Vernac ular Work, to be>supplied ; Deaconess Home, Mrs. W alker; Bowringpet, Mrs. Buttrick ; Kolar, Boarding School and Deaconess Home, Miss Fisher ; Zanana Work and Village Schools, Miss Maskell; Woman’s Work, Mrs. Hollister ; Madras, Rovapuram, Mrs. Tindale ; Vepery, English Church, Mrs. Shaw ; Tamil Work, to be supplied ; Deaconess Home, Miss Stephens, Miss Jones ; Orphanage, Schools, Zanana and Village Work, in charge of Deacon esses; Probationary Deaconesses : Zanana Work, Miss D. Jordon ; Orphan ages and Schools, Miss Z. Doyle ; Village Evangelistic Work, Miss Young. Baichur District.—>Gulburga, Boarding School, to be supplied ; Medical Work, Miss I. Ernsberger, M. D., on leave to America. Iptesfoing Elbevs’ IReports.
AQRA DISTRICT.
R e v . J. E. S c o t t , Presiding Elder.—Agra. District is divided into thirteen circuits, nine of which are in Rajputana, and the remaining four about Muttra. In the four circuits in the North-West Provinces there are about 4,500 Christians, and in Rajputana, including the State of Bharatpur, adjacent to Muttra, in which there are two cir cuits, about 5,500. Of the nine circuits in Rajputana, seven of them, namely, those lying west of Jaipur, have been swept by two distress ing famines during the past five years. It is a moderate estimate that during these past five years, one million people, amounting to one- twelfth of the population, have perished under the cruel hardships of this awful visitation. And in spite of all that could be done to save them, many Christians must be included among those who have either perished or have wandered from their homes or in the mortal struggle have become hopelessly submerged. It is difficult to give exact statistics but tbe number who have thus suffered cannot be Jess than a thousand. But few of these, however, have perished from actual starvation, for any one familiar with a famine knows the awful rav ages of disease which attend it and follow in its wake. When the body, not too well fed at the best, is weakened by daily increasing hunger, or by such unwholesome food as in the desperate struggle for existence it may obtain, it is unusually liable to be attacked by fever, sin all-pox or cholera, generally epidemic during or after the preva lence of famine. At such times, too, some wander away in search of work or food and may never return, and others, although these latter are comparatively few, sell their birthright for a mess of pottage. Early in the year a Famine Committee was formed at Ajmere, which thoroughly" organized the work of relief in Rajputana, and carefully administered the funds which came into its hands from vari ous sources, and employed agents to rescue the perishing and gather starving waifs into central stations and rescue camps where they could be fed and clothed and distributed. This relief was rendered possible through the munificent contributions of a multitude of Christian givers throughout the world, under the direction of the M. E. Missionary Society, the Americo-Indian Famine Relief Committee, the American Sialkot Mission Committee, The Christian Herald, New York, Tin Christian, London, The Indian Witness, Calcutta, The (hu'rdian, Bombay, The India Sunday School Journal, Calcutta, and other Societies, Com mittees and Periodicals, also through the private donations of friends sent direct to the Chairman or other members of the Famine Committee. As a specimen of these latter, and to show how far-reaching was the sympathy for the people in their distress, I quote the following letter which contained seventy-five Rupees : “ Anglo-Chinese College, Foochow, China, July 12th, 1900. ‘ ‘ D e a r B r o . S c o t t , “ Some of the students of our College have been reading of the in tense suffering caused in India by the famine, and have subscribed a ii PRESIDING ELDERS’ REPORTS. small sum as a token of their sympathy. I trust that in the provi dence of God the little gift may be the means of saving some one from starving. I should prefer it to be used among the Christians and that they be told that it represents the Christian love of their brothers in China. May God richly bless you in your work. We have had a good year in our work. A revival in the College resulted in over seventy conversions. “ Yours in the Master’s service, “J a m e s Sim e st b r , ‘ 1 Acting President. ’ ’ Prom all sources more than two lakhs of Rupess have passed through the hands of the Committee for the relief of the starving poor of Rajputana. But a very brief account of the various forms of famine relief carried on during the year can be given. It was found better to give the stricken people food rather than money, and as starving people have no fuel, cooked food is better than dry grain. And so kitchens were started at many places, as Tilaunia, Narainiya, Phalera and Sujat Road, where thousands of poor famishing creatures were fed daily. In June 37 wagons, or 7,400 bags of maize, were received from The Christian Herald cornahip “ Quito,” and from this the kitchens were supplied and grain rhops were opened at convenient centres, where the very poor could get a gratuitous daily dole and others could purchase for a nominal price. From ihese shops were gathered nearly ten thousand Rupees, mostly in pice, which were again distributed in the form of food and clothing. During the year nearly 3,000 waifs have been rescued and gathered into four orphan ages and a widow’s home, or sent to instkuiions organized elsewhere. Two training schools were opened for pastor-teachers at Phalera and Bikanir, respectively, industrial work of various kinds was opened up. Many weavers, especially Christians, were employed in weaving cloth. At Ajmere, Tilaunia, Phalera and Bikanir, a number were thus helped. The Bikanir Christians, alone, wove about 2,000 woollen blankets. When the cold season came on nearly 10,000 blankets and suits-of clothing were distributed to the destitute. Every poor Christian of our Church in Rajputana has receded warm clothing. For the use of the schools and orphanages suitable build* ings have been, or are now being erected at Ajmere and Phalera. Our beautiful new stone church, built at Ajmere by Bro Plomer, was dedicated in May. The commodious school-house for the girls’ school at Ajmere is almost ready. In re-viewing the famine work of the past year it is impossible to describe the anxiety and solicitude of those engaged in it; nor the personal hardships which they endured : nor the dangers and risks to which they were constantly subjected. I can corroborate all that Miss Marks wrote concerning the condition of things in May : “ Conditions are growing steadily worse. Horrible stories come to us from eye-witnesses - Government Officials, Missionaries, Railway Employees and Natives—of bodies by the wayside being devoured by vultures, jackals and dogs. Heart-rending cases have come under my own observation. No pen can exaggerate the suffering. Families separate to seek food, never to meet again. Children are beaten and turned from their homes. Wives are thr.ust out with two or three children clinging to them. The aged, the crippled and the blind are left by the roadside to die. Hundreds of orphans, forsaken by their relatives, wander about begging and picking up anything they can AGRA DISTRICT.
find to eat. The grain market is thronged with these human birds, picking out of the dirt every grain that falls, and even gathering manure to wash from it the undigested grains. “ Orphans brought to us as the famine, increases are more and more emaciated. A child was brought to us who had lain sick and naked by the roadside for eight days, without a morsel of food. She looked more like aD animal than a human being. Care and nourishment have wrought a wonderous change in her. “ Yesterday a boy thirteen years of age was brought to our veran dah, just as he was gasping his last. The emaciated body, sunken cheeks, and hollow eyes told the sad tale of starvation. A few minutes afterwards two more boys came up, and if you could only have heard the pitiful cry of those two brothers, as they gazed upon the face of the dying lad whom they had lost in their wanderings and had not seen for 15 days. ‘ Have we found you only to look into your dead face,’ they wailed. Mother and father had succumbed to hunger, and these three brothers had for a time tried to iseep together, but in their quest for food were separated. ‘ 1 Last night I found a little boy nearly four years of age sitting at the door of the Railway Station. He looked up into my face in such a hopeless way and said, ‘ Mera koi nahin hai’ (I hav’nt got any one). I stooped down and said, ‘ Have you no mother or father ? ’ ‘ No, my mother died of hunger, and my father went off and left me,’ was the reply, with the reiteration, ‘ I hav’nt got anyone.’ ‘ Will you come with m e?’ I asked. You should have seen with what alacrity he jumped up, and the smile that illumined his dirty face. Friends, you would not have had me leave him to perish ! “ This morning a Bible-reader and pastor-teacher brought twenty- seven starving widows and chilren to U9. As they came along they saw a young girl lying dead by the roadside. No doubt as to the cause of death. Starvation written in every feature. And the twenty- seven— naked; covered with vermin, filth and sores.” In May cholera broke out in the girls’ orphanage at Ajraere, and about 50, including the matron, died. This necessitated the removal of the whole establishment to a cholera camp in a jungle four miles from the dormitories. There Miss Marks and Miss Tryon literally bore the burden and the heat of the day for a month. Joined by Mis6 Scott, M. D., from Brindaban, they with their assistants heroically fought this fell disease and endured without flinching the indescribable hard ships of the camp aQd saved most of the women and children. The old cotton press at Tilauaia is another spot long to be remembered. Fitted up as a store house for the expected Indian-corn, and for a kitchen, it became necessary to use it as a temporary home for rescued girls and women, and there Miss Scott was shut in with several hun dred emaciated creatures for several;months, living in a godown and sub sisting upon a scanty vegetable diet. At last, worn out with work, and anxiety, and care, she was stricken down with enteric fever and dysen tery, from which she is only now recovering. Mr. S. O. Smith, Traffic Inspector on the Rajputana-Malwa Railway, and a member of the Famine Committee, was indefatigable in supplying food and clothing to the people at his numerous kitchens* up and d6 wn the line from Sujat Road, and in rescuing hundreds of waifs, who were sent to our orphanages. Thousands of grateful people in Rajputana are living to-day through the self-sacrificing and unselfish labours of Misses Marks, Tryon and Scott, and Bro. and .Sister Plomer, and Dr. and Mrs. Ashe, and Mr. and Mrs. Smith, and their faithful assistants and subordinates who counted not their lives dear unto themselves. iv PRESIDING ELDERS’ REPORTS.
Notwithstanding the severe famine, and in some particulars, in consequence of it, the past year has been one of growth and spiritual prosperity. The Native ministers and preachers engaged in famine relief have been greatly blessed and helped in the work. The unsel fish work for the people has shown them the mind of the Master and the nature of His religion. Partly as a result of this there are, it is estimated, at least 10,000 enquirers ready for baptism. Up to the end of November there had been more than 2,000 baptisms, and during December about 1,000 more, or in all more than 3,000 during the confei-ence year. On two circuits, viz., Hathras, under Bro. H. R. Khan, and Tilaunia, under Bro. Mohan Lai, there have been 500 con verts each. But few of these latter are famine waifs, and many of them are not sweeper converts. The summer school held at Muttra in July, and the icamp meetings held there in November, and at Ajmeçe in De cember, were seasons of great spiritual blessing. About 300 have signed the Twentieth Century Pledge. At A jmere on the 9th of Decem ber, at the-conclusion of a week’s revival services, Dr. Hoskins and myself, assisted by Miss Marks, Bro. Plomer and Dr. and Mrs. Ashe, baptized 560 persons who had been rescued during the year, and who had been under training for some months. The service continued for two hours and a half and was a memorable occasion. On the whole district there are 12 members of Conference, ‘286- paid workers, 10,100 in Sunday Schools, 2,500 in day schools, a Christian community o f about 10,000, and Rupees 3,864 have been collected for the support of the work. The English work and the various institu tions have prospered during the year. The Anglo-Vernacular school at Muttra, under the excellent head mastership of Revd. Alfred Luke,- F. A., has had its Government grant increased for the third succes sive year. The Muttra Training School, under the able Superintend ence of Miss Gregg, has doubled in numbers and efficiency. The Presiding Elder is very grateful to Dr. Thomas of the Baptist Mission, and to Mr. and Mrs. T. Lewis Ingram, for their kind services during his absence on famine duty.
ALIGARH DISTRICT. R e v . J. C. L a w s o n , Presiding Elder.—1. Fam ine.—Very much of our time has been spent in trying to rescue the famine stricken, and how good our Heavenly Father has been! We now have about 375 orphan boys, over 330 widows, with their 40 babies, and about 300 orphan girls, or nearly 1,100 in all N early all who are able to work are being taught industries. The shoe shop opened up for the boys is doing good work. Shortly a hundred boys will engage in this trade. If we can get support for our orphan boys for five years, we have reason to believe that the institution will be self-supporting. The girls do weaving and basket work. Mrs. Law son is in charge of the widows’ home, Mrs. Mathews of the girls’ orphanage, and Rev. E. B. Lavalette of the boys’ orphanage. Their arduous labours are nobly seconded by their assistants, of whom they have indeed too few. Would'there were time to relate a few of the many sad cases. Very vivid is the picture of two little starved brothers, living skeletons, who were not, for God had taken them ten days later, when the missionary again passed that way. This famine work is very difficult work, unused as these poor people are to discipline, wild with abnormal hnnger,_ and wasted with disease. Only those who have spent days and nights in their midst, administering to their needs, can understand the burden of it all. In common with many other mission-» ALIGARH DISTRICT. V
aries who have this year been hard at work among the famine people, Rev. E. B. Lavalette, our right-hand man, was laid low by typhoid fever, but now, thank God, is hard at work again. 2. Village Work.—'There are over 400 villages in which Christians live, and many more that are visited by our workers. These, with the over 7,000 Native Christians, keep all of us busy at work. How to reach the villages, is a question of prime importance. The following points we find especially helpful: - ( 1). Selection of centers. (2). P lac ing a Native Christian worker in each center to teach the Native Christian children daily, and to preach once or twice a week in the surrounding villages. (3). Tarrying several day?; at .each center. (4). Utilizing rest-houses. (5). Importance of the social element. Urge everyone to bring his relatives to Christ. (6.) Personal influence of the missionary and his workers, especially their love for souls and for Christ. (7). Being much in prayer. (8)! Jf the people receive the Word, one should not leave the village till souls are led to Christ. 3. Street and Mela Preaching.—Ail down through the ages o f the Christian era God has most wondrously set his seal of approval to this form of work. We, too, are glad to make use of it. Every Sun day evening, on the street in front of our Lecture Hall and Reading Room. Gospel evangelistic services are held and spiritual seed sown, which shall spring up into everlasting life. Were there time and a suf ficient number of workers, we would hold more of these services in other parts of this heathen and Mohammedan city of about 70,000 in habitants. In the heathen melas thousands hear the Word of Life. 4. Ward Work.—This consists of preaching, teaching and houho to-house visitation. The main work is among the lower classes. Our Tndian cities are specially fitted for this form of Christian work. 5. Educational and Sunday School Work. —Our weakest work i.s perhaps in our village day schools; nevertheless much good is being done in them. Our Sunday Schools, where there are no day schools, are centers of much influence. As far as possible our preachers teach in both day and Sunday Schools. Our best work is done in our orphanages : about 100 famine boys can now read the Bible. 6. Leaders of our Christian Communities.—Here, too, we utilize one'element we find in native life. We make the tribe leader (if he be a Christian) also leader of the Christian community in which he lives. He calls the Christians together for worship, helps the local preach ers, collects funds for the work, and helps in many ways. The worthy are eventually made class-leaders. 7. Bible and Tract Distribution.—Every male worker is supposed to be a colporteur. We have no drones here. The regulation colpor teur is _apt to be lazy and without a noble purpose, so we will have none of them. The Scriptures and tracts are distributed everywhere, —in cities, villages, melas, trains, schools, etc. Thus the entrance of God’s Word is giving light 8. Aligarh District Bible School and District Conference.—F or various reasons this was held late this year, beginning on the 11th and closing on the 30th October. It was a season of very great blessing. The power of the Holy Ghost was manifest in a remarkable manner. Many souls were soundly converted to God, and the workers were much refreshed and strengthened. Our Father greatly honored the prayers of faith of the brethren. It is most encouraging to note the many hopeful young men and woman who are comiDg on in our Bible School and Conference. Soon they will be filling not only our pulpits but also our trade departments everywhere. Thus the good work is going on. This district contains about five millions vi PRESIDING ELDERS’ REPORTS.
people, or about three times the whole of Cuba, or two-thirds that of the Phillipine Islands. Scores more of helpers are needed. We are getting them slowly and placing them where they are so much needed, vast regions beyond the Jamna and Sutlej rivers are calling loudly fo r them. Brother Lavalette writes as follows: — “ These are Industrial Insti tutions. The boys spend half of each day in school, learning the com mon branches, and the other half in working iit some trade, such as carpentry, tailoring, shoe-making, masonry, cooking, general house work, gardening, etc. Encouraging signs may be seen already. One is a good plain cook, two will soon be independent carpenters, two are able to take charge, of classes in plain sewing, in which all the cloth ing of the orphanage is made, two are able to make a complete boot or shoe without help, and we are beginning to realize a small incom- from the sale of shoes ; two, with a little direction, are serving as oue head-gardeners ; eiglit of the boys, in addition to teaching in the lower classes, have taken normal lessons for six months, with thr result that they are developing into better teachers than most oe the men whom we have under salary for their work. “ With all this secular work the need of the soul is not forgot ten, for many are turning to Christ, and during the year we have bap tized one hundred, with others soon to fallow. Over one hundred are reading the Bible in two characters and this is the chief text-book of the school. ’ ’ Mrs. Lawson writes.— “ ! am glad to report again to you the wonderful things that God is doing for His own. Some of you know how, last October, with not a pice in hand we set out for the famine regions to help the suffering ones, and how, on the way, our Father sent us a small sum, but not sufficient to pay to Aligarh the fare of those whom we rescued. The remainder we paid frgm our own pockets as in the famine three years ago, feeling that it would s o o n all be made up to us. How good our Heavenly Father has been! A b o u t 400 of our famine people are of the other iamine and they have been such help in caring for over 700 new ones. We do not be lieve they will cease to come.—“ They who trust Him wholly find Him wholly true.” If we trust our Father only when the way seems easy, He will soon cease to trust us. We believe in making known the w an ts of these needy ones, and trusting the results with Him. What a blessed thing to have learned this lesson of trust ! “ The women of the home are becoming strong and able to work. A t present they cook, grind, sew, etc., but will soon begin weaving. The brighter ones will be trained as Bible-readers and teachers ; others as compounders, nurses, matrons, etc. All will be engaged in manual labour of some kind while in training. I never meant to open up such an institution. Like the orphanages it was thrust upon me. When I could find no home for the rescued widows, God seemed to speak to me and say that I must undertake this most difficut work. “ The widows’ home in five years should be self-supporting, if f r i e n d s rally bo our aid now. The institution is under our Methodist Church but, like Pundita Ramabai’s home, will, I hope, have many friends outside our own chnrch. I trust it will be for all North India what the Pundita’s home is for South India. We who are engaged in soul-saviog, care but little for denominational lines. We are ‘ All one in Christ Jesus.’ “ Now is the time to show practical sympathy for India’s widows. Among those of the home are only fifteen old widows, about fifty are strong, middle-aged, and the others are all young, under twenty-five* years of age. ALIGARH DISTRICT. vii
“ Fifteen dollars, or £3, or Rs. 45, will support one for a year. All patrons will receive a photograph of their protégés.”
ALLAHABAD DISTRICT.
R e v . R o c k w e l l Cl a n c y , Presiding Elder (on leave in Am erica). R e v . D e n n is C l a n c y , Acting Presiding Elder. Allahabad.—Rev. Rockwell Clancy, Mrs. Rockwell Clancy, Rev. Dennis Clancy, Mrs. Dennis Clancy, Rev. Mott Keislar, Missionaries; Miss McReddie and Miss Hoskins, Assistants. Chunar. - Rev. J. F. Deatker, Mrs. Deatker, Missionaries. Total European workers, men 4; women 5. Total Hindustani workers, men 29 ; women 19. There are 6 circuits : Allahabad, Banda, Chunar, Karwi, Manik- pur, and Manauri. Eeach of these circuits has a Native preacher-in- charge, who is really a, Presiding Elder on a small scale, inasmuch as he has a number of workers under him, and-hig circuit embraces more than a hundred villages. The length of Allahabad District is about 200 miles, extending from Mahoba on the west to Chunar on the east. Although other Missions have workers within the bounds of this district, in the following stations : Allahabad, Banda, Chunar, Karwi. Mahoba, and Mirzapur, yet they confine themselves largely to these centres, while thousands of outlying villages are left untouched, and great multitudes of people have never even heard the name of Christ. It is our aim by means of our eircuit plan to eventually reach all these. E n g l is h W o r k . We have English work in two atationg, viz., Allahabad and Chu nar. The English work of our Church dates back to 1873, when Rev. Dennis Osborne, at the time a layman in the Government employ, during a few weeks’ leave, held special services in Allahabad, which were greatly blessed of God in the conversion of about 20 souls. These Brother Osborne organized into a Church, and became their first pastor, which office he faithfully and successfully'held for several years. In July 1878 the present church building was erected, at a cost of Rs. 27,094 complete, including furniture, sittings, and gas. This does not include the cost of the ground. To meet this expendi ture the members and friends in Allahabad, who were none of them rich, did nobly. They raised locally nearly Rs. 3,000. In order to complete the work it was necessary to make a large loan at a high rate of interest, which greatly swelled the cost of the enterprise before the debt was finally wiped off. I have recently turned up some old records and documents which explain how the Methodist Episcopal Church comes to own such a valuable property in this important re sidency city. In some way God seemed to put this project on the hearts of wealthy men in other stations. Among the large contrib utors are such men as General Phayre and Lewis Ingram, Esq. By friends from out-stations nearly Rs. 20,000 were given. The M ission ary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, recognizing the im portance of having a suitable church property in this station, made an initial grant for the work of Rs. 10,000. In 1891 a debt of nearly Rs. 6 ,000. wh?ch was greatly harrassing the membershio and crippling the work of the Church, was raised by Bishop Parker, then Presiding Elder, from various parts of North India, and since that time the church has been free from debt and kept in a good state of repair. Few Churches have had a better record than this as to actual work [ v iii PRESIDING ELDERS’ REPORTS. done. It lias sent out into Mission work more than 20 men and women. The past year has been a trying one to us in ourEnglish work, because so many of our people have been transferred to other stations and comparatively few, as yet, have come in their places. We have lost between 15 and 20 families in this way. Besides this, we had a great loss in the death of one of our oldest and most faithful members, Mrs. D. S. Clark, who died triumphant in the Lord March 24th of this year. During the year we have held two series of special services in our English Church, which, although not attended with a great in gathering of souls, we believe, have had a quickening influence on our people. I have been ably assisted in the English work by Rev. Mott Keislar, who has done most of the pastoral visiting in addition to doing his share of the preaching. Our work among British soldiers has steadily been carried on and we have seen several men converted to God. Staff Sergt. Wright has charge of the meetings in the prayer-room, and has an able assist ant in his wife. They are very devoted to this good work We have a very satisfactory Sunday School, and altogether our English work is encouraging. At Uhunar, the English, as well as the Hindustani work, has been in charge of Rev. J. F Deatker who, with his wife, has for years giv en his services gratuitously to our Mission, as they get a pension from the Government. Brother Deatker has been sadly afflicted in the loss of his eye-sight, but his good wife has acted as eyes for him, leading him about to attend to his pastoral and ministerial duties. In addition to this he suffers much from fever, and although we are greatly pleased with his work, yet he is not satisfied with it, and has felt that he must give it up. He has come with his family to Allahabad, where he and they will be a great help to us in many ways. There is general sorrow in Chunar because of their removal.
H in d u s t a n i W o r k .
At the beginning of this year my brother, Rockwell Clancy, left for America, and I was put in charge of his work, after being in India only a little more than a year. I took hold of the work with fear and trembling, but the Lord has wonderfully helped us. Of course I have been compelled to speak through an interpreter, and have found the work doubly hard on this account. I have visited all the circuits twice during the year, and most of them three and four times. My brother made the first round before leaving for America. In April, Mrs. Clancy and I made our first visit over the district. We held the Quar terly Conferences in all the circuits, and made it a special point to go with our workers out into the villages to see their work. We wei’e pleased at tho interest with which the people listened to the Gospel, when it was put simply to them. We visited a village of fishermen. The men were busy mending their nets. I spoke to them through'an interpreter, and told them about Jesus’ call to Peter, .Tames, and John. They became much interested and asked if Jesus’ wanted them to leave their nets too. I told them no, but that He wanted them to follow Him by their lives by making their lives like His life. They said that they understood, and then I told them abou't what the life of Jesus was. The people here are much like people at home, in many respects. They are likely to be interested when you come at the truth from their stand point. Some of our workers have not yet discovered the secret of do ing this. At Banda, we have a large and promising field. Nearly Rs. 150 have been raised locally for our work during the past year, and we are hoping Soon to -build a *much-needed church there. There ALLAHABAD DISTRICT. ix
are many encouraging things about our work at Manikpur. This year our farm, worked by some of our orphans, has been more of a success than ever before. Harvests have been abundant, and already about 50 bushels of rice, and nearly 40 bushels of jundhri, have been seat into Allahabad. The prospects for the winter harvests are good. Madar Bakhsh, preacher-in-charge at Manikpur, has a great influence for good over all the people of that community. This is not specially shown by the number that he has baptized, but more by the gradual change that is taking place in the practices of the people, and by their respect for our workers. A Hindu festival that has been held for several years at Manikpur, on a large plain near the Mission House, through the in fluence of Madar Bakhsh, has been abandoned A large earthen figure 12 feet high, representing the demon, around which the festival was held, is being allowed to fall to pieces. At Bharwari on the Manauri circuit, a Hindu landlord, by the name of Hanuman, has given us a piece of land in his village, on which we have built a house, and Buddha Singh, one of our young preachers, and his wife live there. They are the only Christians in the village. Last spring a difficulty arose between Hanuman and Buddha Singh, which threatened to break up our work at that place. It arose over a buffalo that Hanuman said Buddha’s wife had lamed. An urgent letter was dispatched to me, saying that Hanuman had entered Buddha’s house while he was away at his work and had struck his wife. I hurriedly took the train and went up to see what could be done When I reached Bharwari I found that Buddha Singh and his wife had already left for Allaha bad, being afraid to remain in the village I went out to the vil lage, about a mile from the station, aDd on inquiry into the matter could get no definite evidence either one nay or the other, so conclu ded to try to make the best of my visit and, if possible, win the friend ship of Hanuman for the Mission. I spent several hours in the village, interesting myself in every thing that I could see, and inquiring into things that interested them, and to finish up with, ate with great rel ish the food that they prepared for me in their own way, and after making a present to Hanuman, in return for his hospitality, came away. When I reached home I had to labour with Buddha Singh and his wife to get them to return. I told them that, as Christians, we must be brave, and willing, if need be, to suffer persecution for Jesus’ sake. Then we had prayer and they went back tremblingly to their home. This was unnecessary, for Hanuman was conquered by kindness and ever since has been a staunch friend of our workers. We hope soon to see him and his whole village brought to Christ. At Allahabad, our work is very promising This year we hava opened up our work in a place called Kydganj, where there is a com munity of shoe-makers, sweepers, and other low-caste people to the number of more than ten thousand. They seem very ready to listen to the Gospel and to send their children to our day schools opened up by Bansi Dhar. I believe that before many years we shall have a self-supporting church at that place. We have not sought for a large number of baptisms this year. In fact, I have rather discouraged it by telling our preachers only to baptize those who showed evidences that a real work of grace had begun in their hearts. We have refused to baptize a large number who have come to us, because we thought that they were not yet ready for it. Tn our district we have had 70 baptisms this year. Our aim has been to strengthen those who are al ready baptized. Instead of holding a summer school this year, we had a 5 days camp-meeting preceding our District Conference. It was a season of refreshing from the presence of the Lord. Dr. Hoskins of Cawnpore, Rev. P. M. Buck of Meerut, and Rev. Mahbub Khan of X PRESIDING ELDERS’ REPORTS.
Kasganj were with us. I think all our workers were greatly helped. Almost'all of them, as well as some who are not paid workers, took the Forward Movement pledge. One man who had been for some time owing a debt that he refused to acknowledge or pay, got under con viction and came forward weeping like a child and confessed it to the congregation and then prayed to God for forgiveness. He paid the debt at the first opportunity. It reminded me of the old time revivals at home Our workers have again pledged themselves to give an anna on the rupee for self-support, and in addition to this they have given liberally for other causes. They have asked me to cut it out of their pay at the beginning of every month. Last year they gave enough to support one of our highest paid workers and have a large balance in hand. We are going to try to support two workers next year.
Or p h a n a g e s . On the Allahabad District we have four orphanages. At Banda there are 20 children, at Karwi 7, at Manikpur 10, and at Allahabad about 40 boys and 70 girls. Mr. Keislar is in charge for the Boys’ School at Allahabad, and Mrs. Dennis Clancy is in charge of the Girls’ School. The children are being taught in three languages : Urdu, Hindi, and English, and in addition to this are learning sew ing. Some of the children are now able to do real fine work. I am sending out into Mission work two boys from our Training School this year. Jn our B oy s’ S ch ool we have adopted the Government code and now teach up to the 8th standard. During the summer Mr. Keislar spent nearly three months in famine relief work at Godhra in Oujarat. This was a hard three months’ work, and when he returned to Allaha bad he was greatly run down and was under the Doctor’s care for sev eral weeks. We are thankful to say that he is now quite well again. Most of our children are from the famine of 1896 and 1897. We have taken in a few from this famine, but owing to lack of room have been unable to take in many. We have great reason to praise God for what He has done for us during the past year, and pray that next year may be far better.
CAWNPORE DISTRICT.
R e v . R. Ho s k in s , Presiding Elder. -During the year great atten tion has been given to the development of the spiritual life of our peo ple, and each of the nine charges reports definite and clear conver sion. I judge that .about eighty persons give satisfactory evidence of having attained to the new life in Christ. In October last we held Dasehra meetings for two weeks. Rev. T. G. Bailey, of the Punjab Church of Scotland Mission, had change of the services. He is well fitted for this form of work. He is gifted in music, fluent and idiomatic in the vernacular. Dr. T. J. Scott was also present and greatly added to the effectiveness of the meetings by his instructive addresses Our people are strong in the expression of their desire that these Dasehra meetings be permanently sustained. The Native ministers in charge of circuits have in each group of Christians held special revival meetings. One of the most promise ing points in our work is the fact that our Native ministers hav- reached the point where they can so conduct their work that their peo ple are built up in the faith of Christ. CAWNPORE DISTRICT. xi
The Twentieth Century Movement has been taken up heartily, and forty persons took the pledge to do their utmost to bring ten persons into loving contact with Christ. The second Hindustani Church in Cawnpore was organized at the beginning of the year ; this new Church has considerable vitality. Six members of the Church who are in self-supporting employment, are quite useful in carrying on cottage meetings. In six different parts of the city these meetings are sustained, and many have been awakened to a higher and better life. Owing to the pressure caused by the famine, we have not received as much as in preceding years for pastoral support from the laity of our Church ; the giving by the mission employees has not decreased for they have been in receipt of stated salaries. The English-speaking Church has done well. The expense, amounting to about two hundred and fifteen rupees per month, has been collected from the congregation. At the close of the year, six new names of worthy persons were presented for reception into full membership. There is need of a Deaconness to work in connection with this Church, and already funds sufficient to suport a Deaconness have been promised locally. There are many English and Eurasian Christians scattered in every part of the city ; many of them have come here in search of work : they are poor and are sadly in need of guidance and instruc tion. In many cases the women of these families are more susceptible to Christian influences than the men, and there is a specially fruitful iield among these families for a Deaconness. The Mission workshops contain thirty Christian boys and young men. Teachers four of wood-work and one of iron-work, are employ ed. Several young men who have been working less than one year, have become fairly good workmen. Not a single boy has run away. Apparently plenty of work with plenty of food has made the boys quite contented. The Director of Public Instruction has advised that these workshops be affiliated with the Lloorkee Engineering College. A fair ly good monthly grant-in-aid is proposed, and certain other assistance in the wav of models and examinations at Roorkee looking to employ ment in the Canal and other Governmental workshops. The Native Girls’ Boarding School has erected new dormitories, and they are full of girls. This school is well taught and specially well cared for. As things are now going the Christian girls are better taught, fed. and clothed than the boys ; while there are one hundred and thirty gir ls to sixty boys in the Boarding School. The English Girls’ High School has had eighty-five pupils, and a dozen or more additional are expected this month. Nearly nine thousand rupees has been received towards the liquidation of the debt, and much more is expected from America, which will free the school of this burden.
KASGANJ DISTRICT. The Kasganj District, as it now stands, is composed of thirteen large circuits which comprise the greater «part of the Government zillas, or districts, of Agra, Mainpuri, Etah and Farrakhabad. The district, as compared with the Kasganj District of last year, is consid erably larger. This is accounted for by the fact that at the last s e s s io n of our Conference four circuits belonging to the Agra District, x ii PRESIDING ELDERS’ REPORTS.
viz., Agra, Tajganj, Firozabad, and Shikohabad, were cut off from that district and annexed to this, so that we should have had 15 cir cuits in all, but as the Marerah circuit was united with Kasganj, and Sakit with Etah, for the sake of economy, it leaves us with thirteen. In these thirteen circuits we have a Native Christian community numbering 11,984 souls, of whom 3,734 are full in the Church, 4,733 are probationers, and 3,341 are children under 12 years of age. To. this community have been added this year 1,313 by Christian baptism—a considerable increase over last year. These baptisms largely repre sent the natural development and grovvith of our work as we have given much more time and attention to the instruction and training of our people than to extending our borders. It is difficult to estimate the strength and importance of a Christian element like this in the midst of a heathen people. Living as they do in 739 towns and villages, we believe they must wield a powerful influ ence, sooner or later, either for good or bad. If we can succeed in training them for Christ and leading them all into a definite Christian experience, their influence upon their heathen neighbours, in drawing them away from spiritual darkneBS into the light of truth, will be incalculable. To accomplish this object all the latest and most improved “ machi nery ” is employed. One hundred and seventy-three workers are in the field, who give all their time, strength andtaients to this work. Of this number, 120 are men and 53 are women The W ord of God is faithfully and regularly taught and preached in 200 Sunday Schools with6,978pu- pils, and in more than 1,000 towns and villages to more than 15,000.souls. Can this Word return void ? Will it not accomplish tbat whereunto it has been sent ? Fifteen Epworth Leagues, with 409 members, are in full working order and are playing a very important part in the matter of training our workers for more effective service and leading our young people into a more definite knowledge of Christ and His great salva tion. Sixty three day schools for boys and thirty-four for girls are attended by 937 boys and 442 girls, making a grand total of 1,379 pupils, who are strugglinguoder difficulties and disadvantages almost insurmountable to better their condition in life intellectually, morally and pecuniarily. One Anglo-Vernacular School for boys is doing excellent work in the educational line with an enrollment of 111 boys 32 Christians and 79 non-Christians. Four colporteurs have sold 24 Bibles, 69 Testaments and 2,894 portions during the year, thus placing the W ord of God in many houses where it will, in God’s own good time, bring forth fruit in the salvation of many souls. In this way, and through these agencies, the work has been carried >on without interruption through the year and only time itself can reveal all the good which has been done. In a general way, thedistrict has been worked from two important centers : Agra on the one side, and Kasganj on the other. These centers being about 100 miles distant from each other, much travelling has been ne cessary in order that the work on both sides of the district might be properly looked after. I have visited each circuit as often as I could and aside from my regular duties as Presiding Elder, I have tried to assist the preachers-in-charge and their workers in bringing good to the people among whom they work. While I have found much to an noy and perplex and discourage on the one hand, yet on the other I have found much to encourage. The spiritual progress of our people, as we might expect from the very nature of the case, is a slow process ; nevertheless a real substantial growth is evident. They are stronger and better than they were last year. Many manifest a real desire to know Christ and the power of Hie resurrection. On account of our KASGANJ DISTRICT. ariii
^depleted funds we have found it very difficult to shepherd all of our flocks. To-day we are running' on Rs. 100 per month less than we were eighteen months ago, and I am informed that still another reduction salutes us at the beginning of this new year. Still our workers have manfully and uncomplainingly taken upon themselves extra work and extra burdens, and thus the work has been carried forward and not allowed to suffer loss. By a system of monthly reports which each preaeher-in-oharge is required to make to the Presiding Elder, I have reason to believe that every village in the district, in which Christians live, has been visited by our workers not less than three times a month, and in many cases as high as 15 or 20 times a month. But there is a limit to human strength, and human possibilities, and sooner or later reinforcements must come, or this work must come to a standstill. It does not require a prophet, or the son of a prophet, to see this. I do not presume to say in what shape, or through what channels, these reinforcements may come. I will leave that for older and wiser beads. But they must come, or progress is out of the question. They may come through increased appropriations, they may come through self-support, they may come through the readjust ment of our plans and methods of work, but they must come if we are to improve our opportunities. When it takes every pice we can muster to conserve the work we already have in hand, how can we enter new fields which are already white unto the harvest and are only waiting for the reapers. These words are not written in a complaining spirit, far from it, but they are written because it behoves us with such grave responsibilites resting upon us, and such immense interests in our hands, to look facts square in the face in order that we may know what lies before us. I see no reason why 10,000 Chamars should not be brought to Christ in the Kasganj District during the next five' years, provided arrangements can be made for their spiritual instruction. But with our present limited resources such a thing is entirely out of the question. Still, we are not discouraged and without hope. We believe God will, in Bis own way, not only open the door which will give us access to the hearts of these multitudes for whom we have been praying so long, but will also provide the means for their spirit ual enlightenment. Agra circuit is in charge of E. Massey, who has been most faith ful in the discharge of his duties. During the four years of his pas torate in Agra, the work has grown steadily under his careful super vision, so that we are now able to report a Christian community of 650. Sixty-five have been baptized this year. Pielig-ious services have been held every week in every place where Christians live and the people have been greatly helped spiritually. The congreg-ation which worships every Sunday in the Sudder Church has grown very much during’ the past y ear, and we have faith to believe that this church will soon take rank as one of our very best and most in fluential churches in India. Tajganj circuit has been supervised by Thori Datt, a local elder and old and tried worker. The condition of his work is very satisfac tory. He reports 279 Christians living in 18 different villages : forty- one have been baptized this year. Successful efforts have been made to lift up the people into a higher and nobler life. Firozabad circuit is in charge of Ram Sahai, a member of Annual Conference. This is one of our largest and best circuits, and has enjoyed an unusual degree of prosperity during the year Eight hundred and fifty-one Christians live in sixty-nine villages : 200 have been baptized this year and I am informed that 500 more are waiting to be baptized as soon as arrangements can be made for their instruction. A good PRESIDING ELDERS’ REPORTS.
work is being done among the Chamars. The Christians of Firozabad rejoice over the prospect of soon having a new chapel in which to wor ship,—the beneficent gift of Miss Gorden of Boston, U. S. A. Shikohabad circuit is in charge of J. D. Ransom, a member of Annual Conference. All the interests of the work have been well looked after. In this circuit we have 363 Christians, 80 of whom have been brought in this year. Revival meetings have been held among the people and many have been led into the light. Fifteen Sunday Schools and 8 day schools are doing a great work in helping the people to know more about Christ and His power to save. Kasganj circuit is the largest and, in some respects, the most im portant circuit in the whole district. Since the death of our lamented Brother Hasan Raza Khan, Brother Mahbub Khan has been in charge and all the interests of the circuit have been well looked after. The work-has been very heavy and as I live so far away, many heavy responsibilities have be borne alone, but the work has been done so faithfully and successfully as to merit nothing but praise. In this cir cuit we have 2,829 Christians who live in 124towns and villages. These people have been systematically taught throughout the year and much progress has been made. The Anglo-Vernacular School which is held in the Dharmsala purchased last year, is in a flourishing condition. One hundred and eleven boys are on the roll, thirty-two of whom are Christians. Out of three candidates who went up for the Anglo-Ver nacular Middle examination, two passed. The day schools both for boys and girls are doing well. Etah circuit is in charge of R. Gardner, a local deacon, but who has been recommended by the District Conference for admission on trial in this Annual Conference, and we trust he will be admitted ac cordingly. This is also a very large and important circuit: 1,772 Christians live in 111 towns and villages ; 141 have been baptized this year. Secundrarao circuit, in charge of Tulsi Ram, reports 1,741 Chris tians and all of the various interests of the work encouraging: 161 have been baptized this year. Patiyali circuit is in charge of Bhola Nath: 1,129 Christians are reported, 85 of whom have been baptized this year. The remaining circuits, Soron, Jalesar, Rainganj, Aliganj and Bhogaon, have all enjoyed a certain degree of prosperity, and although smaller than the circuits which I have reported more at length, yet the work in these smaller circuits is no less encouraging than that in the larger circuits. I cannot close this report without expressing my sincere gratitude to the preachers-in-charge and their helpers for their kindness and faithfulness in helping me to carry forward this great and blessed work. The spirit of love and peace has prevailed throughout the year, and our relations as co-workers in the Master’s service have been most delightful. I trust, if we are permitted in God’s good providence to work together another year, that these relations will continue. Fi nally brethren, “ Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you."
MUSSOORIE DISTRICT. Rev. Henry M ansell, Presiding Elder.— All the circuits except one have been visited three times this year. The books are all right. There are current debts only in Mussoorie, where our hopes of local subscription have failed from year to year and the Bank account has MUSSOORIE DISTRICT
been overdrawn, yet it is not much larger than when I took the dis trict, eight years ago. The Church debt at Roorkee has disappeared, and the one of Lahore has decreased to about Rs. 2,600. The one at M ussoorie remains at Rs. 4,000, while one of Rs. 5,500 has been created by the purchase of premises for the Native Church, schools and prea cher’s house. Famine was severe in Lahore and Patiala, followed by floods and fevers The distress has been great. Prices everywhere on the dis trict have been nearly douole of normal, so we had in most villages to forego the Pastor’s Fund chanda, and those pastor-teachers who were to receive part of their support from it have had hard times to live. Our last Quarterly Conferences were seasons of great blessing. The revival spirit was manifest in all. And as the 20th Century For ward .Movement was presented, all consecrated themselves to the work of saving souls. This culminated in the District'Conference at Roorkee, where all took pledge-cards promising to bring, if possible, ten at least to the Saviour before the close of 1901. Deobaml Circuit.—Rev Joshua Sumer, Preacher-in-charge; one local preacher, oneexhorter, and eight pastor-teachers and helpers. Brother .Joshua has baptized 117, and reclamed 89 lapsed. His workers show marked improvement in Bible knowledge and the spirit and power to win the people. The Christians in Butler Basti are proud of their Butler Chapel. They keep it in repairs and fill it for service. Several are learning to read in it, in the noonday school Lahore Circuit.—Rev. James Jacob, Preacher-in-charge ; Mrs. Jacob, incharge of Woman’s Foreign Missionary work; three local prea chers, three exhorters and three helpers. Brother Jacob has had trouble with two or three of his workers, who proved unfit for the work and were allowed to go. Others have done efficient service, built up the converts, and brought in others. He has baptized 48, who were well instructed before receiving baptism. His most efficient help was Mr. Millikins, a free worker who has this year finished his Medical course in Lahore University, received his degree and been appointed by Government to Barabanki in Oudh. The famine drove many away from their villages to hunt work and food ; only a few have returned. Some no doubt have died, but no names have yet been cut off. The English Church is clamouring for a pastor. There are less than a score of actual members, and they have three local preachers who are good workers, and they have kept up a Sunday School of about 25 attendants. The Rev. Mr. Sherman, formerly a Methodist Minister, now head of the Frontier Faith Mission, served as pastor for about three months, and then another of their missionaries served about the same time. The local preachers are now keeping up the services. A very good spirit prevails. They have kept the church in repairs and given some thing to those who have served them. An energetic young man with the revival spirit might obtain a support and save souls. Multan Circuit —Rev. J. W. McNair, Missionary ; Mrs. McNair, Assistant ; two local deacons, three exhorters and two helpers. Rev. McNair has had 36 baptisms and others are ready. Openings appear on every hand. It would be a boon if he could have the pay of two exhorters His Christian schools and Epworth League are models. His English work is most encouraging. Class and prayer meetings here are of the old-fashioned Methodist type. MuSftMVte Circuit —Rev. Henry Mansell, Missionary; Mrs. Mansel. M. D,, Assistant; Rev. Antony Jacob, Preacher-in-charge; three x v i PRESIDING ELDERS’ REPORTS.
local preachers and five exhorters. Only three of these are paid by the Mission. Five are free workers. There have been 52 baptisms on the circuit this year. The free workers, as they get opportunity, preach in the bazar and to servants, and hold meetings in private houses twice or thrice a week. It is a regular bee-hive of work. The orphan boys are learning well. All who have gone out are a credit to Christianity. The schools in Mussoorie and Rajpur are very im portant. We must have this debt lifted, or the work will have to be cut down one half. English Church.—Rev. P, S. Ditto, Pastor, with five local prea chers. Rev. P. M. Buck, P. E. of Meerut District, served as Pastor the first of the season most acceptably and profitably. He had charge, with Miss Dr. Hewlett, of the Convention for the deepening of the Divine Life. The Convention was one of the most profitable vve ever had. Rev. J. T. Robertson of Cawnpore served during the second part of the season. He was very popular in the Sunday School, and with the Philander Smith Institute students. Early in September Rev. F. S. Ditto arrived for the school and he waa appointed at once Pastor of the church. He is well received and very useful. Philander Smith Institute has had another very prosperous year. We enrolled 118 students ; 75 resident and 43 day pupils. Seven of these are sons of our missionaries and they stand high in their classes and exert a good influence. Our success in last year’s Government examinations was better than usual, and we hope to do better still in the examinations just over. The moral and. religious tone of the school is high. We are sure most of these students will become useful Chris tian men. We leave the school now in the hauds of a competent Prin cipal, a true and capable Head Master, and an efficient staff. It will undoubtedly prosper. Patiala Circuit —Rev. E. T. Farnon, Preacher-in-eharge ; Mrs. Famon, in charge of W. F. M. S. work; four exhorters and six pastor- teachers and helpers. Brother Farnon has baptized 52 converts during the year, and held a summer school and revival meetings for about six weeks early in the rains, for the helpers and Christians in Patiala. Being a first class graduate of Bareilly Theological Seminary, and having «reviewed the entire course thoroughly in the Cawnpore Monday work ers meetings, he is very competent to instruct his helpers. They are not of the best material, but they have made vast improve ment in Bib lical knowledge and in preaching and teaching ability. The converts are nearly all from the depressed classes. They live in the city mohal- las and in villages distant from the city, are very poor and ignorant, but they are all improving. The woman’s work is most difficult, except in the city, as the vil lages where our Christians live are too far for Mrs. Farnon to walk, and there are no funds for conveyance. Boorkee Circuit.—Rev. James Lyon, Missionary; Mrs. Lyon, As sistant ; one local elder, three local deacons, four local preachers and ten exhorters, pastor-teachers and helpers. Brother Lyon has more than double the average number of work ers in our district, but he has them well in hand and keeps them busy, and he pays more than half of them from the local funds. Dr. Lyon reports the work in Roorkee, by God’s blessing, still keeps going forward. We have just closed a very profitable and suc cessful year. W e have now a Christian community o f 2,233, with 24 Sunday Schools and 19 day schools, two Leagues and three churches MUSSOORIE DISTRICT. XVÌÌ.
and three minister’s houses. During the year weiiave had 333 bap tisms and might have had as many thousand if we had been able to furnish them with teachers. Six months ago we received a call to attend to the wants of the Methodist community of Saharanpur. The community there numbers 45 and we hardly felt free to refuse to minister to them. After due consultation with the Presiding Eider, it was resolved to send a Native minister to Saharanpur, to minister to the wants of our own people, and to evangelize wherever it could be done without inter fering with the work of other Missions. We feel God led in the step and the other Missions are in no way displeased, but on the contrary do not hesitate to lend a helping hand and thus encourage us in the great and good work- We have now in Roorlcee circuit, a population of over one million# and in this population are found over one hundred thousand accessi ble classes made ready for the Gospel by the hand of God. We Ion; to see this 100,000 'all Christians on the self-supporting lines, with each ward or village supporting its own pastor. By the blessing of God this can be done. Roorkee Leper Asylum has had another good year, has 41 in mates, 39 of whom are Christians, and 12 of them learning to read the Gospel in their own language. Rs. 650 have been raised locally for the Asylum during the year, and this forms the largest amount ever raised for this work in any single year, since its foundation. Roorkee English work, also, has been favored with a year of blessing and we have had the joy of seeing the hand of God upon the students and some of them have made a bold stand for Jesus and have given themselves to Him. During the year we have had two mai’ked seasons of revivals. The first during our annual summer school, which was turned into a revival, or rather a series of revival services with marked and great success and blessing. The second was at our annual District Confer ence. Having taken counsel with the workers and with the Presiding Elder, this was also turned into a revival meeting, and with very blessed results, all bearing witness, both small and great, pastor and people, pastor-teaehers, ministers and presiding eld e r9 , that they had never seen a conference so blessed and so refreshing, in India. To God be all the glory !
MEERUT DISTRICT.
R e v . P. M. B u c k , Presiding Elder. —We have on our list of na tive workers about 135 men and 70 women. To mould and lead such a band affords rare opportunities, is a work of great interest and involves very serious responsibilities. The presiding elder is the only foreigner connected with the ministerial force* in the district. The Christian community now numbers a little over 16,000. The terri tory covered contains a population of three millions or more. It is however a compact and very accessible field. The great famine of the year approached to within a few miles of our borders, but our exceptional facilities for irrigation here between the Ganges and Jamna saved us from this fearful, visitation. Our crops were abundant and peace and plenty would nave resulted but for the draught upon our grain supplies for famine territory and the wandering bands of famine victims. Two things have deeply impress ed me regarding these poor sufferers. First their good behaviour has been striking. Very seldom so far as information has come to me xviii PRESIDING ELDERS’ REPORTS.
have they resorted to robbery or theft. They have been glad to work wherever work could be found. The second remarkable thing was the manner in which the village people helped and cared for these unfor tunate wayfarers. I heard of no deaths from starvation among these people. In one way and another they got through the famine season and returned to their own country. The stringency of the times has to a considerable extent inter fered with our regular work. Few of our people belong to the classes which have profited by the high prices. Most of them have been com pelled to work almost night and day to keep the wolf from their doors. It has been difficult for the workers to catch them at home or to gather - them for religious services. The children whom we would have ga thered into our schools have been required in the work of making ends meet, and in consequence our educational work has suffered during the year. It is quite out of the question to meet the needs of our work, even approximately, with the force at our command. The rank and file of our workers have from six to twelve villages under their care. The evangelistic work is so pressing that they must visit regularly and as frequently as may be the little Christian communities for the religious training and care of which they are responsible. The need of teach ing some at least of our people in as many places as possible until they can read for themselves and their fellow-Christians the W ord of God, is so great that this work cannot be dispensed with. The common method is for the worker to give some time daily to teaching the child ren and young men who are desirous of learning. Then at other hours to visit in their fields and to hold religious services with their people. We are able to spare very few men to give the whole of their time to this primary educational work, and we have no other except in the boarding schools in Meerut. Still, there has been not a little during the year to give us a large measure of encouragement. In no year in the past has so much been done in the way of ridding our people of the remains of idolatry. The fear of old supposed deities is sometimes pathetic. One baptized woman had great fear of a certain goddess. From time to time, she cooked food for said devi. One day, when her food had been prepared, she heard a verse of >a hymn being sung by some of our Christians, declaring the destruction of those who worship idols. It took hold of her and she asked one of the teachers about it. He told her it was true. She hesitatingly accepted the lesson, but was in a great quanda ry as to what to do with the food prepared for the object of her fear. She was afraid to eat it. She asked the teacher if he would eat it up for her. This task he and his wife and child gladly accepted. The devi's breakfast was soon disposed of and the eaters survived with no harm. The woman was cured of her fear and idolatry. An idolater claiming to have a deity within him, and ability to heal sickness, came to a Christian family where there was a sick one and proposed to exercise the power he commanded. The people were inclined to give him a trial. But the teacher happening on the scene took in the situation. He having picked up some small object, enclosed it in his hand and made his way to the one claiming to> be in pos session of a god. Now, said he, if you really have a god within you and can do all you claim, you can perform so small a work as to tell these people what I hold in my hand. Inform us, if you can, what I hold. He had to confess his helplessness and lost his job. He went away in disgrace and confusion. Christian burials are becoming common in al4 directions. The people have begun to accept Christian marriages, but there will need to be a change in the custom of requir MEERUT DISTRICT. x ix ing the bride and bridegroom to stand together before an audience, to join hands and repeat after the minister the marriage vows. These are so in conflict with the sense of the fitness of things among these people that it will be difficult to get them to submit to such a usage. But this is no essential part of the marriage ceremony, and the vows can be so taken end. the parties pronounced husband and wife that no prejudice will be outraged or sense of fitness disturbed. The move ment of the current toward a worthy Christian social life has never been so marked. Our people are coming to a better and better know ledge and appreciation of the requirements of the Gospel. Their inter est in spiritual truth is measured largely by the character and infiu- encejof the worker over them. There has been a considerable measure of petty persecution in various places. The major part of the trouble experienced has come from police sources, where the rankesteorruption is a matter of common knowledge. Court cases wickedly trumped up have been'rather common, and in some instances innocent people have been sent to prison. In newer places it is common for village authorities to oppose those who accept Christianity. Commonly these troubles end. with more time and when they learn that it is not our plan or purpose to disturb our people in their work or relations to their landlords, an encouraging harmonybetween our people and their neighboursis becoming more and more common. We have never found in our work so many indications of our people from the lower castes proving a stepping-stone to the higher castes. It is our policy to have our workers carry the Gospel to other castes when they go to visit their village parishioners. In several places interesting enquirers from among the high caste people have come forward. I have a strong conviction that if our native leaders get out into a vigorous and nor mal spiritual life and reproduce themselves in their converts, we shall find these lowly Christians valuable helpers in winning trophies from the classes who have been wont to despise them. Signs of such results are not wanting in our work. Large fruitage on this line, however, can only come as our converts become real and consistent Christians with a transformed and transforming spiritual life. But this will surely come more and. more if our workers, foi’eign and native, find their way into a worthy fellowship with God and walk with Him. Calls for the extension of the work and for teachers and preachers have never been more numerous or loud or pressing. During the year we have had 1,789 baptisms, and that in the face o f a general holding back in this matter. Our plan is, under all ordinary circum stances, to give instruction for six months or more before administer ing this rite. Our chiefest attention has been given to the care of the multitudes we already have. Self-support has had a hard year in consequence of famine condi tions so close to us. We have, however, about held the lines won in former years. Our people are more and more coming to know that giving is a part of Christianity. Pressure will be reqired of an earn est type to bring about worthy efforts on this line. But it is of God, and is possible and must be pushed. Success will certainly come if faith in God and love for our people fill our hearts. About 250 class leaders, commonly known among our people as chaudris, give a good bit of assistance in caring for our village people. As we are able to gather for this office men who have had some train ing in reading their Bibles, their value will be materially enhanced. Our regular workers have, if I am capable of judging^ made more progress in mental and spiritual development than during any year in the history of the district. Our summer school, held this year late in the season and under less favourable conditions than we have known XX PRESIDING ELDERS’ REPORTS.
since this work was begun, was on the whole the best held in our his tory. The examinations held gave us in their results good hope for the future. It is so easy for our workers in this land of mental and spiritual torpor to imagine themselves quite wide-awake when in fact they are fully nine-tenths asleep. Surrounding conditions make it natural that this should be one of our chiefest obstacles, if not the very chiefest of all. To arouse from this listlessness to a worthy ambition, an ambition to make the most of mental and spiritual powers for our Christ and His Church, is a task of the first magnitude and if accomplished will add immensely to the joys of earth and heaven. Few parties experience more joy than a true missionary to see his people really wake up. There are however always enough who sleep on to keep him in the valley of humility. Our annual camp-meeting and District Conference were occasions of peculiar interest and our workers specially were greatly helped. The influence of the refreshing religious services is being felt all over the district. There has been no time in the history of our work in this field, when so wide-spread and marked an interest in spiritual things has prevailed. There is a spirit of lage expectancy among workers of all classes. The Twentieth Century Forward Movement is receiving much attention and thought and will I believe bring encour aging results. Our boarding schools for boys and girls in Meerut have had a good year and both are larger than at any time in the past. The latter especially, under the efficient management of Miss Livermore, with a strong staff of teachers, has made excellent progress. One of the-embarrassing things in connection with our work is the fact that the reduced appropriations of the parent Missionary Society has left the education of our Christian boys far behind that of the girls in the liberally and efficiently equipped school maintained by the W. F. M. Society. In Meerut the ladies are able to command for this work many times the amount available for the education of our boys If I can read the signs aright this inequality is likely to prove an awkward factor in the development of our work in the future. Our educated girls must go into other missions or become the wives.of workers, standing in multitudes of instances upon a far higher plane of culture than their husbands. Such a condition does not usually prove conducive to the highest order of harmony or usefulness. The remedy for this threatened evil needs to be found and applied, but where it is to be found, or what it is, is not so easily determined. But its need and im portance are not the less real. A modest but serviceable and substantial school building for the use of our boys’ and training schools in Meerut is just completed. The funds for the erection of this building have nearly all been contri buted by a Mr Paul of Canon City, Neb., U. S. A., a labouring man, out of the savings from his own earnings. This case strikingly illus trates what can be done where a life is under;the'controlling and mould ing influence of the love of Christ. 1 trust God may reward him a thousand-fold. A great and pressing need in this work has in this way been provided for. In our English work in Meerut, there has been an encouraging spirit of revival. Numbers of the soldiers of the garrison have been won for Christ. Miss Livermore has taken a very prominent and fruitful part in this work. The South African war has made a large draught upon our usual military force, and other conditions have greatly reduced our numbers, but prospective changes in the near future promise to restore to us our normal opportunities of doing g ood , MEERUT DISTRICT. x x i
Our training- school has done a good work and on as large a scale as our limited funds would afford. The only way open to secure the rank and file of needed workers for our village work is to train them. Three such have just been appointed to work and.a dozen more are in the process of preparation Those who depend upon men adrift who are seeking mission employment for adding to their forces are likely to find themselves imposed'upon by parties without'moral principle, to say nothing of vital piety or the measure of spirituality that condi tions fruitful work. Onthisline few seem so far fallen and wicked that they cannot ingratiate themselves into some missionary’s confidence and secure a place among workers for India’s redemption. The policy of employing wanderers ought to be abandoned and the training- of workers needs to find a place in every field and central station. Jl)ab6 asbt í IRanfarans.
ROZ I AUW AL. PAULA' JALSA. Cawnpore, Juma’rdt, 17 January 1901. North-West India Kánfarans ká nawán jalsa ba-táríkh 17 Jauuary ba- roz Juma’rát, gyárali baje din ko Union Methodist Episcopal Church men fa- ráham húá. Bishop E. W.'Parker, d . t>. kí gair-házirí men Bishop F. W.Warne, d . d . sáhib kursí-nashín húe, aur unhon ne ’Ashá i Rabbání kí rasrn ko adá kiyá. Guzashta sál ke secretary ne házirí pukárí, aur chálís shuraká i kán farans, aur ñau imtihán-bardár házir húe. Das shuraltá i kánfarans aur tin imtihán-bardár gair-házir the. B a-m újib’ arz J. E. 'Scott, ,T. T. Robert son, Secretary; C. M. Plomer, Ta’dád ke Secretary; E. B. Lovalette, Náib Secretary;-aur Tafazzul Baqq, ELindustání Secretary muqarrarar húe. Ba-mújib ’ arz J. B. Thomas, D. *C. Clancy kánfarans ke Khazánclií manzúr húe. Zail ke sáhibán kímuláqát kánfarans se karáí gaí, áur unhon ne mukhtasar bayán kiyá:—R. C. Butcher Esquire, M. A., Head-master of the Philander Smith Institute, Mussoorie: Rev, G. C.-Hewes, North India Kán farans ke; Miss Abbot naí zanána missionary; Miss Perkins Burma ki; aur Pádrí B. W. Mitchell, Christian Missiou ke. Secretary ne Bishop E. W. Parker sáhib ká zail ká muhabbat-ámez khatt parhkar sunáyá:—“ ’Aziz bháí aur bahino, main apná salám aur dilí piyár is khatt ke zar’íe se áp ko pahunchátá hún. A'p ko ma’lúm hai, ki North-West India Kánfarans ká kár o bár mere su- purd húá, par guzre mahíne men mainbahut bímár húá. Main ne cháhá ki is kám ko ’ umda taur se áp ke sáth anjám dún, khushí kí bát hai, ki Bishop Warne sáhib áp logon ke darmiyán hain, aur yaqín hai ki kull kám ’umda taur se anjám páwegá. Khudá kare ki yih jalsa rú- hání hovve, aur kull sharík subh kí ’ibádat men házir húá karen.” A'p ká ’ azíz, E. W. P a r k e r . Ba-mújib ’arz, Taffazzul «Haqq ko yih kám diyá gayá ki is khatt ká jawáb dewen. Bishop F. W. Warne sáhib ne thorá sá bayán kánfarans rnen kiyá. Kánfarans ká vvaqt 11 baje subh se tin bajé shám tak muqarrar húá, aur darmiyán men 15 minit kí chhuttí. Ba-mújib ’arz J. B. Thomas, visiting brethren ko kánfarans kí hadd men baithne aur mubáhisa men sha rík hone kí da’ wat di gaí. Ba-mújib ’arz J. B. Thomas, Standing Kamittí jaisá ki yáddásht men chhapí húí hain badastúr rahen : Statistics:—C. H. Plomer, D. C. Clancy, D. Buck. State of the Churcli:—J. Lyon, M. Khán, E. Massey. • Self-support:—R. Hoskins, Kallú Das, E. T. Farnon. Stewards:—R. Clancy, J. T. Robertson, M. Keislar. Sunday Schools:—J. C. Lawson, E. B. Lovalette, J. Little. Temperance:—J. E. Scott, Kallú Dás, Z. Ilaqq. Public Worship:—R. Hoskins, J. T. Robertson. Publishing of the Minutes:—The Secretary. Conference Relation:—P. M. Buck, J. B. Thomas, J. Lyon, B. Hoskins, M. Khán,Chimmán La’l. Endowments:—J. E. Scott, P. M. Buck, R. Hoskins, E. T. Farnon, D. Buck. CONFERENCE MINUTES. xxiii
Famine Committee:—.!. E. Scott, Miss Marks, Mrs. Lawson, Mrs. Mat* thews. Zail ke bháíon kí tabdilí sunáí gaí:—Frank S. Ditto, W. W. Ashe aur E. B. Lovalette. Terahwán. Suwál:—J. E. Scott, Prízáiding Eldar A'gra distrikt ká nám pesh húá. chál o chalan pass húá, aiir unlioñ ne apní distrikt kí riport sunáí. Zai’ ke bháíon ke nám pesh liokar chál o chalan páss liúá, aur únhon ne apne apne chande kí riport sunáíTsá Dás, John Little, Mangal Singh Budden, C. H. Plomer, Mohan La’ I, W. U. Daniel, Jhabbú Singh Joseph, Táj Khán. Rockwell Clancy, D. C. Clancy ke nám pesh hokar chál o chalan pass húá aur R. Claney, Prízáiding Eldar Alláhábád distrikt kí gair-házirí men D, C. Claney ne distrikt kí riport sunáí. Ya’ qúb Corne lius ká nám pesh hokar chál o chalan pass húá. Ba-mújib ’ arz P. M. Buck, Mahbüb Khán kánfarans kí riport Ka■ akah ko dene ke wáste, aur J. T. Robertson Indian Witness ko riport dene ke wáste muqarrar húe. Terahwán Suwál:—J. C. Lawson, Prízáiding Eldar ’Aligarh distrikt ká nám pesh hokar chál o- chalan pass húá, aur unhon ne aphí distrikt. kí riport sunáí. Zail ke bháíon k« nám pesh hokar chál o chalán pass húe,- aur unlion ne apne chande kí riport sunáí:-—Thákur Dás, Kallú Dás, Parbhú La’l, Isaac Franklin. Chunní La’I. J. B. Thomas, Prízáiding Eldar Kásganj distrikt ká nám pesh hokar chál o chalan pass húá, aur unhon ne apní distrikt kí riport sunáí. Zail ke bháíon ke nám pesh hokar chál o chalan páss húe, aur unhou ne apne chande kí riport sunáí:—lliyás Masíh, Malibúb Khán, Bholá Náth, J. D. Ransom aur Tulsí Rám. D. (J. Claney neek khatt jo R. Claney kí tarat' se kánfarans ke wáste áyá, parhkar sunáyá. J. E. Scott ne Luther Lawson kí taraf se ek khatt parhkar sunáyá, P. M. Buck ne yih rezolúshan pesh kiyá, ki Secretary Luther Lawson ko ek muhabbat-áme’z khatt likh bheje. Ishtihárát sunáe gae. Tainjíd i Taslís ke gáne aur Bishop sáhib ke kalamát i barakát se jalsa barkliást húá.
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DU'SRA' JALSA. Cawnpore, Jnm'a, 18 January 1901. Waqt i muqarrara par jalsa faráham húá. Ibtidáí ’ibádat E. B. Lova lette se adá kí gaí. Guzaslita jalse kí yáddásht Angrezí aur Hindustání men sunáí gaí, aur manzúr húí. Zail ke bháíon kí mnláqát kánfarans se karáí gaí, aur unhon t.e kánfarans men kuchli bayán kiyá:—Pádrí D. L. Thoburn, Rev. F. S. Ditto, Nizám ’ Alí, North India kánfarans se. Ba-mújib ’arz P. M. Buck, Methodist Episcopal kalísiyá ke nae constitution par vote lene ke wáste Pír ká roz muqarrar kiyá. Terahwán Suwál:—P. M. Buck, Prízáid ing Eldar Merath distrikt ká nám pesh hokar chál o chalan pass húá, aur unhon ñe apní distrikt kí riport sunáí. Pádrí T. J. Scott, D. D., Principal Bareilly Theological Seminary kí muláqát kánfarans se karáí gaí, aur unhon ne kuchh bayán kiyá. Terahwán Sinvál:—Zail-ke bháíon ke nám pesh hokar chál o chalan pass húe, aur unhon ne apne chande kí riport sunáí:—Fazl Haqq, Fazl Masíh,-’Abdul Rahmán Wesley, Albert •Phillip, Chimman La’l, Daniel Buck, Taffazzul Haqq. Edwin Gay ká nám pesh hokar chál o chalan pass húá. Ba-mújib ’ arz P. M. Buck, jo Edwin Gay ká Prízáiding Eldar hai wuh superannuate relation men rahe, aur nn ká mu’ámala kánfarans stuards ke sámhne pesh húá. Henry Mansell, Prízáiding Eldar Mussoorie distrikt ká nám pesh hokar chál o chalan pass húá, aur unhon ne apní distrikt id riport sunáí:—Zail ke bháíon ke nám pesh hokar chál o chalan pass húá aur unhon ne apne chande ki riport sunáí:—Joshu Sumer, E. T. Farnon aur James Lyon. Robert Hoskins, Cawnpore distrikt ke Prízáiding Eldar ká nám pesh liokar chál o chalan pass húá, aur unhon ne apní distrikt kí riport sunáí. Zail ke bháíon ke nám pesh hokar chál o chalan pass húe, aur un hon ne apne chande kí riport sunáí:—J. T. Robertson, Joseph Cornelius, Brii La’l. Chhedá La’l ka nám pesh hokar chál o chalan pass liúá, aur ba- mújib ’ arz Prízáiding Eldar, wuh superannuate.men}rahe. Pánchwán Suwál: —Kaun dúsre sál’kí khwándagí men hain? Alfred Luke ká nám pesh hokar chál o chalan pass húá, wuh ba-sabab B. A. ke imtihán ke házir na ho sake. xxiv CONFERENCE MINUTES.
Ba-m újib ’arz us ke Prízáiding Eldar, wuh usi darje men rahe. B. S. Ad- son, Púran Mal, Mott Keisiar ke nám pesh húe. Kamittí ne imtiháukí ’um- da riport di. B a-m újib’ arz un ke Prízáiding Eldaron, un ká chál o chalan pass húá. Luther Lawson ká nám pesh hokar un ká chál o chalan pass hüá, aur ba-mújib ’arz Prízáiding Eldar, wuh supernumerary men rahe. Ba- m ú jib’arz R. Hoskins, T. J. Scott is bát ke wáste muqarrar húe, ki un misbanaríon kí khwándagí ke báre men jo Urdú síkhte liain. aur Hindusta ni prícharon kí khwándagí ke báre men intizám karen. Pánchwán Suwál: —Kaun pable sál.kí khwándagíimen hain? George Gordan ká nám pesh hokar chál o chalan pass húá. Board of Examiners ne riport di, aur ba-mújib ’arz us ke Prízáiding Eldar, wuh tísresál kí khwándagí uien charháe gae, aur yihqarár páyá, ki pahle sál kí báqí-mánda, kitábon men imtihán den. NawánSuwál:-Kaun chauthe sál'kí khwándagí men hain?Jawáb, koí nahín. Pánchwán Suwál:—Kaun shuraká pahle sál kí khwándagí men hain ? David Claudius ká nám pesh hokar chál o chalan pass húá. Imtihán kí kamittí ne ’umda riport sunáí aur bamújb ’arz us ke Prízáiding Eldar, wuh dúsre sál ke imtihán-bardáron raen charháe gae. X. T. Childs’ ká nám pesh hokar chál o chalan pass húá. Imtihán kí kamittí ne ’ umda riport di, aur wuh dúsre sál ke imtinán-bardáron men is shart’ par charháe gae' ki pahle sál kí báqí mánda kitábon men phir imtihán de we. J. W. MacNair ká nám pesh hokar chál o chalan pass liúá, aur ba-mújib ’arz Prízáiding Eldar, wuh pahle sál ke imtihán-bardáron men rahe. R S. Brave ká nám pesh hokar chál o chalan pass húá. Imtihán kí kamittí n e ’ umda riport di, aur ba-mújib ’arz Prízái ding Eldar, wuh imtihán-bárdáron men jo ki dúsre sál ke hain, un men charháe gae, is shart par ki pahle sál kí báqí manda kitábon men phir imtihán dewen. Ba-mújib ’ arz us ke Prízáiding Eldar, us ke ordination ká suwál kánfarans relation kí kamittí ke supurd kiyá gayá. K. H. Joseph ká nám pesh hokar chál o chalan pass húá. Imtihán kí kamittí ne khiláf riport di; ba-mújib ’arz us ke Prízáiding Eldar, wuh pahle sál ke imtihán-bardáron men rahe. Na’ím-ud-Dín liá nám pesh húá, aur ba-mújib ’arz J B. Thomas, uske Prízáiding Eldar, wuh kánfarans ke imtihán-bardáron se ’aláliida kiye gae. A'thwán Suwál:—H. 11. Khán ká nám pesh hokar chál o chalán pass, imtihán kí kamittí ne ’umda riport di, aur wuh chauthe sál kí khwándagí men charháe gaé. Anthony Jacob ká nám pesh hokar chál o chalan pass lifiá, imtihán kí kamittí n e ’umda riport di aur ba-mújib ’arz uske Prízái ding El^ar, wuh usí darje men rahe. 13.’ Gardner ká nám pesh hokar chál ó chalan pass húá, aur bamújib ’arz us ke Prízáiding Eldar, wuh chauthe sál ke darje men charháe gae, aur hidáyathúí ki báqí mánda kitábon men phir imtihán dewe. J. R. Caleb ká nám pesh hokar chál o chalan pass húá, imtihán kí ’umda riport -mili, aur ba-mújib :arz us ke Prízáiding Eldar, wuh chauthe sál men charháe gae. Hidáyat liüí ki báqí kitábon men phir imtihán den. P. M. David ká nám pesh hokar chál o chalan pass húá aur ba-m újib’arz us ke Prízáiding Eldar, wuh usí darje men rahe. Hidáyat húí ki phir unhín kitábon men imtihán dewen. P. M. Buck ne zail ká Resolution pesh kiyá jo kánfarans se manzúr húá : Chúnki yih bahut munásib hai ki is kánfarans ke shuraká kalísiyá ke haqíqí iiádí howen, is liye jab kisí ke haqq men wájibí ázmáish' ke ba’d yih ma’ lúm húá ki wuli Príchar haqíqí hádt nahín hai, tab Discipline ke bamújib us ádmí lco'is kánfarans ke ta’alluqát s e alag kiyá jáwe. P. M. B u c k , R. B o s k ix s . E. T. F a r n ó n . Zail ke nám Deacon’s Board men barháe gae R. Hoskins, D. 0. Cht ncy, J. B. Thomas aur F. S. Ditto. Ba’d Tamjíd i Taslís ke gáne aur Doctor J. E. Scott ke kalamát i barakát se jalsa barlthást húá.
R O Z 1 SEYUM. Cawnpore, Saníchnr .Tanury 19, sa n. 1901. Gvárah baje din ko jalsa phir fráham húá. Ibtidáí ’ibádat Pádrí Mahbúb Khán se adá kí gaí. Yáddásht guzashta jalse kí ba-zubán Angrezí aur fitndustání sunáí gaí, aur ba'd marammát manzúr húí. Mussúrí Distrikt kí taraf se E. T. Farnon ne zail ká resolution pesh kiyá aur manzúr húá. Doctor CONFERENCE MINUTES. XXV and Mrs. Buck ki jo New York East Kánfarans se tashríf láe the, aur Dr, S Johnson, Bombay kánfarans so aur Dr. Wynkoop. Secretary North india Bible Society se, Pádrí J. W. Robinson, aur Pádrí A. G McArthur, J. W. Mc Dermott, Esquir. kí rauláqát kánfarans se karáí gaí. Bárahwán Suwál:—Kaun Eldar bon? Missionai y rule se F. S. Ditto; Ratau Singh Brave ke nám pesh hokarchái o chalan pass húá, aur bamújib ’arz un ke Prízáiding Eldar, we Eldar ke ordination ke wáste manzúr húe. Gyárahwán SuwálKaun Deacon hon? Baldeo Parshád, La’azar Sháli. Garíb Siugh, Munuá Lál, Samuel David, Henry Daniel, Súraj Mull, Nairn J i, Ransom Alexander aur N. M. McGee ke nám pesh hokar manzúr húe. Bamújib ’arz J. C. Lawson, zail ke blnti Bareiliy Theological Seminary ke waste visitor muqarrar húe. R. Hoskins, 1903; Mangal Singh Budden 1902. Bamújib, 'arz J. C. Lawson, zail ke sáhibán is madrase ke Trustees muqarrar húe. J. B. Thomas 1904; John Little 1903: P. M. Buck 1902. P. M. Buck sáhib ne Edwin Gay ká khatt parhkar sunáyá jo bamújib ’arz, kánfarans Stewards ke supurd kiyá gayá. Pánchwán suwál:—Kaun imtihán-bardárí men rahen? Mott Keislar ká nám pesh hokar chál o chalan pass húá, lekin chúnki Angrezí men imtihán nahín diyá thá, is üye bamújib ’ arz Prízáiding Eldar, wuh usí darje men rahe. Sátwán suwál:—Kaun púrí sharákat men liye gaye? Ballú Singh Adson, Púran Mal aur George Gordon ke nám pesh húe. Har ek ke Prízáiding Eldar ne sifárish kí aur ba-mújib ’arz, we kánfarans kí púrí sharákat men manzúr kiye gae. Míswín Sadí ke báre men Rev. J. W. Robinson ne jo Secretary hain, kuchh bayán kiyá. Ishtihárát sunáe gae, Tamjíd i Taslís ke gáne aur Doctor H. Mansell ke kalainát i barakát se jalsa barkhási húá.
ROZ I CHAHARUM. Caumpore, Pír 21 January, San 1901. Gyárah baje din ko jalsa faráliam húá. Ibtidáí ’ ibádat E. T. Farnon se adá kí gaí. Yáddáslit guzashta .julse kí ba-zubán Angrezí o Hindustani su náí gaí aur manzúr húí. Terahwán Suwál:- Kaun mar gae? Jawábkoí nahín; is liyeTamjíd i Taslísgáí gaí. Terahwán Suwál:—A'yandu kánfaranskahán lio? Meratii káiifarans kí jagali qarár páí gaí. Chauthá Suwál:—Kaun pable sál kí khwándagí kí imtihán-bardárí men liye gae ham? Robert Gardener ká nám pesh hokar chál o chalan pass húá. Imtihán kí kamittí aur kánfarans Resolution kí kamittí n e ’ umda riport di. Ba-mújib ’arz Prízáiding Eldar, wuh kánfarans kí imtihán-bardárí menqubúl kiye gae. Kalísiyá ke nae Cons titution livá gayá chunánchi qawánín kí taraf 45 vote húe, aur lthiláf koí bhí na húá. Páhchwán Suwál:—Kaun pahle sál kí imtihánbardárí men hain? E. B. Lovalette ká nám pesh hokar chál o chalan pass húá, imtihán kí riport húí, ba-mújib ’ arz, wuh dúsre sál kí imtihánbardárí men charháe gae. Ba: mújib ’arz J. B. Thomas jo us ke Prízáiding Eldar hain, Rám Sabáe phir usí darje men qubúl kiye gae. A'thwán Suwál;—Kaunsharík tísre sál kí khwánda gí men hain? F. S. Ditto ká nám pesh hokar chál o chalan pass húá, Board of Examiners ne ’ umda -riport di, ba-mújib ’arz, wuh usí darje men rahe. Ta’dád ke Secretary ne riport sunáí aur manzúr húí. Ba-mújib ’arz, ashkhás i zail mulkiAmerika ke akiibáron ko khabar dene ke wáste manzúr húe: J. E. Scott, New Yorlí Advócate. J. B. Thomas, Western Advocate. J. C. Lawson, North-Western Advocate. H. Mansell, Pittsburgh. R. Hoskins, Zoints Herold. P. M. Buck. GaspelUi A ll Lands. J. Lyon, Wide World Missions Athwán suwál phir pesh húá, J. H. Deatker ká nám pesh hokar chál o chalan pass húá. Bishop sáhib ne Deatker sáhib ká ek khatt is mazmún ká ki we Supernumerary relation men hon, parhkar sunáyá, ba mújib ’ arz, wuh Supernumerary relation men shámil húe. Ba-mújib ’arz, Secretary ko hidáyat kí gaí ki ek muhabbat ámez khatt un ko likli de. Zail kí kamittíon ne apní apní riport sunáí aur manzúr húí: Kalí- ivá ke hál kí, Mathura Mission Training School ki, Board of Supervision of Deaconess Work. Doctor IT. Mansell ne Phil lander Smith Institute ke liye zail ke nám pesh kiye aur manzúr húe. R. Hoskins ne Girl’s High School Cawnpore ke liye zail ke nám Trustees ke liye pesh lciye aur manzúr húe. R. Hoskins ne course of study pesh kiyá aur manzúr húá. Ba-mújib ’ arz D. C. Clancy, J. E. Scott conference ke Corresponding Secretary muqarrar húe. Ba-m újib’ arz J. B, Thomas, Rockwell Clancy is kánfarans ke khazánchí x xv i CONFERENCE MINUTES.
muqarrar húe. Ba-mújib ’ arzJ. Lyon, Ü. C. Clancy is sál ke wáste kan- faranslce wáste khazánchí muqarrar húe. SandeIskúl kí kamittí ne apní riport sunáí aur manzúr húí. Mir Majlis ne ek kamittí rezolúshañ ke wáste muqarrar kí: J.B . Thomas, B. T. Farnon. Kánfarans ke khazánchí ne apní riport sunáí aúr manzúr hokar yáddásht men ciihápe jáne ká hukm húá. Ba- mújib ’arz J. Lyon, kánfarans íce khazánchí ko ijázat mili ki kánfarans Clai- ment Fund ká asi hál wiláyat ke wáste Bishop ko dewen. Dr. Wynkoop. Secretary North India Bible Socity ne society ke kám ke báre men kuchh bayán kiyá. Ba-mújib ’arz waqt barháyá gayá. Ha-mújib ’arzJ. Lyon, kabinét, se ’ arz kí gai ki Urdù Injíl roz-marra ke wáste gaur karne ko mu qarrar kí jáwe. Ba-mújib ’arz, kánfarans ba’d ishtihárát sunáe jáne aur Tamjíd i Taslís ke gáne aur kalamát i barakát se barkhást húí.
ROZ I PANJUM. Caumpore, Mangal, 22 January 1901. Waqt muqarrara jmr jalsa phir faráham húá. Ibtidáí ’ibádat Ya’qúb Cornelius se adá kí gaí, yáddásht guzashta jalse kí ba-zubán Angrezí o Hin- dustání sunáí gaí aur manzúr húí. Special kamittí kí taraf se E. T. Far non ne riport pesh kí aur manzúr húí. Mír i Majiis ne ek zail kí kamittí is kám ke chaláne ke wáste muqarrar kí; R. Hoskins, Mahbúb Khán, Daniel Buck. Kánfarans stewards ne apní riport pesh kí aur manzúr húí. Bíswín sadí ke wáste J. C. Lawson ne zail ká rezólúshan pesh kiyá Zail ke nám Fi nance kamittí ke wáste pesh húe: ü. C. Clancy, J. Lyon, J. T. Robertson, C. H. Plomer, E. B. Lovalette, Tsá Dás, D. Buck, Mahbúb Khán, M. S. Bud- den, H. R.. Khán. Zail ke nám manzúr húe: D. C. Clancy, j . Lyon, D. Buck, J. T. Robertson, M. Khán, ’I'sá Dás. C. H. Plomer. T. Haqq ’ iw'azí. Nominat ing kamittí—KamHtf ne Standing kamittí ko riport ke wáste manzúr kiyá. Zail ká rezolushan j . C. Lawson kí tarai'se pesh hokar manzúr húá. Audi ting Committee ke wáste J. C. Lawson. J. B. Thomas, D. C. Clancy, Taffaz- zul Haqq, R. Hoskins, J. E. Scott, M. Knislar, E. B. Lovalette; Zanána kán farans ki taraf se Mrs. Matthews aur W. F. M. S. Khazánchí. Sarishta i ta’ - lím, P. M. Buck, J! E. Scntt, M. Khán, R. Hoskins, Mrs. E. Lawson, Miss Livermore, Mrs. R. Hoskins, Miss Lauck. Board of Examiners, J. K Scott, P. M. Buck, R. Hoskins, R. Clancy, Mahbúb Khán, Taffazzul Haqq, D. Buck, J. B. Thomas, .1. C. Lawson. Munsifán Apil, J. Lyon, M. Khán. C. H. Plomer, E. T. Farnon, D. Buck, J. T. Robertson. Saliyána Wa’z. J. E. Seott; ’iwazi J. C. Lawson. Ba-m újib’ arz J. E. Lawson, zail ká rezolushan pesh hokar manzúr húá. Kamittíán rozolushan ne zail ká rezolushan pesh kiyá jo khare hone se manzúr húá. Ba’daliú zail ke rezolushan pesh hokar manzúr húe. ’Arz húí ki ba’d yáddásht snnáe jáne ke tabdílíán sunáí jáwen. Ba’d taqqar- rurát sunáe jáne ke Tamjíd i Taslís ke gáne aur Bishop ’ sáhib ke kalamát i barakát se jalsa barkhást húá. S t a t Î 6 t ÎC 6 - •y&------sa------SV<* NORTH-WEST INDIA CONFERENCE STATISTICS FOR THE YEAR ENDING WITH SOTH NOVEMBER, 1900. CHURCH MEMBERSHIP AND WORK.
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B h a ra tp u r 461 200 100 761 14 12 11 40 n o 161 15 9 B rindaban 334 475 330 1,139 37 7 50 80 140 270 40 21 D igg 285 285 100 670 20 15 15 12 72 99 12 H atbras 388 430 378 1,196 10 15 30 33 50 113 31 14 M ahaban 194 433 185 812 12 12 19 46 77 8 8 M u ttra 260 534 358 1,152 19 10 40 21 60 121 31 20 S aadabad 183 234 248 665 6 14 40 20 75 135 13 7 A j mere 227 59 56 342 12 3 41 56 97 19 26 B ir 200 50 30 280 35 20 ’ *10 12 10 32 6 6 B ikan eer 89 41 93 223 7 5 7 12 34 53 7 7 K ish engarh 140 82 87 309 20 16 10 202 • 348 560 14 14 P h alera 700 64 106 870 44 20 127 148 275 19 P isangan 25 215 38 92 345 4 10 10 ’ 6 20 36 12 6 TotaJ 3,676 2,925 2,163 8,764 240 147 362 498 1,169 2,029 227 170
K asganj D i s t r i c t .
Agra, Hind. 228 320 107 650 3 3 20 10 35 65 15 20 „ E ng. 14 14 5 5 1 A lig au j 5 ' 189 227 155 571 " 1 * 1 10 ’ 20 " 41 71 8 B b og a ou t 74 76 139 289 4 7 8 14 29 6 3 E ta fi 512 935 225 1,672 ’ i s 8 24 22 95 Pirozabad 141 25 20 415 336 100 851 15 10 20 50 130 200 8 Jelesar 8 291 124 343 758 12 6 13 49 72 134 8 K a sga n j 940 786 981 2,707 20 22 54 72 74 200 39 P a tiya li 24 844 200 85 1,129 4 9 49 4 32 85 24 Q aim ganj 12 76 48 74 198 2 1 3 8 16 27 8 SikandraRao 4 643 362 736 1,741 12 7 32 35 94 161 20 S hikoh abad 15 151 80 132 363 2 1 31 49 80 15 Soron 9 252 226 184 662 8 6 ’ '38 6 20 64 17 J5 T a jg a n j ^ . 113 100 80 293 4 6 22 10 34 66 6 T ota l 4,723 3,834 3.341 11,898 95 84 297 325 706 1,328 201 155 A llahabad D ist.
Allahabad, Eng.. . 6 37 10 53 1 6 6 1 ,, H ind., 11 80 67 60 207 5 4 4 ” 3 " 5 12 27 25 B an da 30 15 15 60 3 2 12 22 C huñar 36 12 10 1 9 10 1 3 3 K arw i 9 7 8 9 16 33 1 2 5 " 3 8 7 7 M anauri 5 4 6 15 " 1 5 4 10 M anikpur 3 3 46 28 14 88 1 1 13 10 T ota l 176 169 121 466 11 6 16 26 34 76 72 73 NORTH-WEST INDIA CONFERENCE STATISTICS FOR TEE YEAR ENDING WITH S0TH NOVEMBER, 1900. CHURCH MEMBERSHIP AND WORK.
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Anupskalir 444 800 400 1,100 10 90 4 2 3 7 17 560 228 1,232 15 42 26 50 40 1,290 Bulandshahr 700 969 15! 020 40 980 6 155 5 7 4 10 27 702 2,371 5 88 104 197 65 500 30 1,190 Ghaziabad 458 400 28! 350 125 124 565 501 1 25 3 50 3 4 1 8 17 542 1,400 101 125 226 18 66 Hapur 658 288 17: 916 1,721 1,400 10 190 4 1 7 10 23 920 1.806 8 120 150 278 53 720 53 32 Khurja 570 501 22! 393 45 748 620 4 104 6 80 4 1 4 6 16 556 1,627 76 58 107 241 30 240 70 Meerut, Hind. . 640 400 21! 1,140 370 700 2,710 2,000 7 350 1 50 1 10 3 6 15 42 505 1,545 50 100 150 300 32 30 500 „ Eng. 1 10 13 23 20 1 1 10 10 21 1 4l Mowana 400 595 125 1,127 950 4 70 3 1 5 1 16 246 286 932 12 55 100 18 337 70 Muzaffarnagar . 1,280 15 674 977 738 3 135 6 4 11 7 29 304 836 2,420 80 100 250 13 303 Rabupura 260 110 13 200 80 206 74 560 480 1 35 1 30 2 5 17 8 33 136 506 1 57 75 21 Sikandrabad 822 15 50 885 800 1 80 0 150 2 5 4 7 19 700 733 2,255 15 60 80 24 500 300 35 Total 6,233 Ji! 1,393 11,796 9,589 47 1,234 16 360 1 1 1 44 33 62 85 240 5,454 16,175 179 127 ï??5 491 923 1,789 301 2o 1 ; 6,098 3,388 917 4
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Aligarh 716 332 1,149 1,050 96 3 382 2 1 2 3 8 6 10 19 96 478 1,290 57 56 119 30 241 198 378 Atrauli 295 201 19 164 25 7 196 150 1 12 2 20 3 2 223 719 14 9 49 10 6 Delhi ' 549 150 5 5 210 190 IP 2 3 4 297 243 1,089 18 37 56 14 50 Gangiri 900 12 <>95 285 200 1 15 2 1 2 7 400 1,307 17 15 6 60 Hansi 4 38 10 48 40 1 6 3 1 2 6 1 4 4 Iglas '388| 21 171 580 200 50 250 220 1 25 40 1 4 18 4 12 16 29 14 9 g Karnal 478 281 508 149 9 13 679 652 1 29 1 17 0 3 10 18 439 1,198 8 11 20 27 12 2 Khair 250 41 65 °50 106 160 45 £61 549 1 16 3 3 3 11 356 4 16 25 6 6 Riwari 112 24 60 24 19 64 32 139 125 1 13 0 6 196 1 1 6 6 0 Somna 113 31 60 40 150 100 1 8 3 48 5 3 12 27 227 19 2 8 5 4 19 3 Total 3,801 999 2,168 1.884 719 534 530 3,667 3,276 18 332 13 507 2 1 2 3 5 20 28 42 48 151 6,968 239 176 64 113 148 325 131 84
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0 1 I 60 1 1 16 Deoband 709 100 534 1,343 79 98 993 350 150 100 1 593 177 21 10 ? 4 Lahore, Eng. 14 10 15 25 0 4 8 22 1 „ Hind. . 318 235 3 327 135 125 51 541 408 1 35 i Ì8 . , i 3 ;> 4 s 21 221 704Î 14 12 " *31 48 15 Multan, Hind. 206 '81 13 4-0 30 30 1] 5 100 1 10 1 50 1 1 2 1 4 14 200 4871 2 24 37 5 5 Mussoorie, Hind.. 154 184 200 30 120 56 396 348 1 82 1 24 Il 1 1 3 7 2 2 17 52 390 45 55 8 15 Eng. . 26 26 83 . . 1 S3 73 . .1. : . . 1 •> . . 5 Patiala 4351 1 10 513 69] 208 51 841 553 1 27 1 5 4 6 16 40 245 720 ‘ 27 52 • -I-! Rurki, Hind. 1,118 33 12 299 307 134 61 801 760 1 70 1 1; 16 38 507 608 2,233 211 333 24 21 T 1 „ Eng. 6 19 33 1 1 O Total 2,946 1,304 2,365 926j 767 337 4,395 3,835 6 284 92 4 26 31 24 41 132 1,768! 6,018 60 182 436 702 108 89 i 1 NORTH-WEST INDIA CONFERENCE STATISTICS FOR THE YEAR ENDING WITH SOTH NOVEMBER, 1900. CHURCH MEMBERSHIP AND WORK.
CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY. BAPTISMS. EPWORTH SUNDAY-SCHOOLS. LEAGUES. CHRISTIAN WORKERS. Chubch 92 Member D e a t h s Sc h o l a r s o f a l l a g e s . >E >3 O s h i p . o •o Ou N o n - N 72 C h r i s t i a n s . œ30 NAMES OF C h r i s t i a n s , £ a, a c cS eö cd > CIRCUITS. 3 "2 w bo æ O) a; X3 a V-i s fcJJ O ri O ' <% a) S 2 ® a> a tJ CÖT3 ® bfiH t-i tnc i V3 . . o o e O t* a a and and Probationers. Christians. S o s Teachers. O CÖ > S> OP a Children of Children Christian Parents Probationers. Full Full Members. From among Members Baptized Baptized Children. Total Total No. of Christians. ] Children from among Non- Adults. Total Baptisms. h Ä Number of Officers and E TJ1 Ha
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Akbarpore 69 6 12 87 . . 3 3 15 21 8 6 25 8 100 35 168 150 15 3 6 Auriya 226 10 64 300 2 4 3 . . 6 9 5 5 80 40 120 118 12 3 9 Bithur 100 25 26 151 2 4 4 8 8 20 4 3 13 15 ' 62 ‘ 30 120 100 18 3 6 Cawnpur, Eng. . . 73 68 19 160 2 1 8 . . 1 9 2 10 20 60 80 68 15 15 30 ,, Parade.. 148 128 169 445 5 6 7 0 8 20 15 30 275 200 ' 75 ' '25 575 530 125 16 43 " Hind. . . 24 81 23 128 1 1 4 3 13 20 5 3 45 5 65 10 125 120 30 9 16 Kanauj 56 24 39 119 . , 1 17 2 25 44 13 13 80 24 168 45 317 258 20 6 21 Kunch 134 10 41 185 2 4 7 20 12 39 11 7 31 8 130 80 249 208 40 4 9 Orai 37 8 13 58 2 6 12 IS 6 5 7 3 30 25 65 60 1 6 Total 867 360 406 1,633 14 23 53 47 100 200 69 82 576 363 630 250 ,612 275 85 18 18 61 146
Grand Totals 1900, 22,422 14,079 15,421 51,922 838 600 1,251 1682 3,516 6,449 1,109 857 18,915 9,911 8,014 4,679 ,377 3,420 1341 222 296 383 1,196
Totals 1899 ;■. . 19,872 14.042 15,687 49,601 781 568 846 1122 2,595 4,563 1,030 789 14,711 7.315 7,595 3,723: ,660 3,002 1180 28 205 324 323 1,137
Increase 2,550 37 2,3 21 57 32 405 560 921 1,886 79 68 4,204 2,59(5 419 956 ,71 418 161 17 60 59
Decrease . . 266 28
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Agra District. 4,179 2,717 2,187 1,625 10,708 8,592 14 702 7 219 3 3 8 5 9 28 54 105 72 287 1900 . . 3,676 2.925 2,163 8.764 240 147 362 498 1,169 2.029 227 170 2,328 1,291 1,682 997 6,298 4,869 16 590 5 164 2 2 7 8 9 27 48 116 60 279 1899 . . 3,172 2,561 1,900 7,633 134 89 158 259 739 1,156 185 145 1,851 1,426 505 628 4,410 3,723 112 2 55 1 1 1 1 6 1? 8 Increase . , 504 364 263 1,131 106 58 204 239 430 873 42 25 2 3 11 Decrease .. Aligarh District. 1,884 719 534 530 3,667 3,276 18 332 11 507 2 1 2 3 5 20 28 42 48 151 1900 . . 3,801 999 2,168 6.968 239 176 64 113 148 325 131 84 1,759 994 837 297 3,887 3,773 15 302 5 418 2 2 2 3 5 15 26 42 53 150 1899 . . 4,221 1,114 2,323 7,658 133 111 40 112 159 311 125 86 125 233 3 30 6 89 5 o 1 Increase 106 65 24 1 14 6 275 303 220 497 5 Decrease . . .420 115 Ì.55 690 11 2 Allahabad District - 220 191 1,357 388 2,156 1,942 4 183 2 53 4 3 2 3 13 11 8 23 67 1900 . . 176 169 121 466 11 6 16 26 34 76 72 73 186 188 980 624 1,978 1,455 4 256 2 65 3 3 1 1 13 6 8 20 55 1899 .. 253 183 143 579 8 7 13 32 6b 113 65 58 34 3 377 178 487 1 1 2 5 3 12 Increase 3 3 7 15 •• 236 73 12 Decrease 77 14 22 113 1 6 34 37 Caw n pore District. 576 363 630 250 1,819 1,612 9 275 3 85 2 2 3 11 6 25 18 18 61 146 2 1900 . . 867 360 406 1,633 14 23 53 47 100 200 69 82 286 220 1,052 399 1,957 1,684 7 193 3 93 2 2 10 7 23 , 15 11 22 94 1899 . . 672 428 409 1,509 8 23 21 34 52 107 6(5 86 290 143 2 82 1 1 91 3 7 39 52 Increase 195 124 6 32 13 48 93 3 422 149 138 62 8 1 Decrease 68 3 4; Kasganj District. 3,593 1,607 1.146 632 6,978 5,531 15 410 1 25 1 1 2 7 25 47 37 53 173 J900 . . 4.723 3,834 3,341 11.898 95 84 297 325 706 1,328 201 1 55; 2,381 1.255 987 599 6,222 5,188 15 413 1 25 1 1 2 8 30 53 46 66 207 1899 . . 3.123 4,072 4,740 11,935 123 109 252 207 418 877 207 M4 ; 212 352 159 33 756 343 Increase 1,600 45 118 288 451 11: 3 1 5 6 q 13 34 Decrease .. 238 1.399 37 28 25 (5 ' 6,098 3.388 1,393 917 11,796 9,589 47 1.234 16 360 1 1 1 4 9 44 33 62 85 240 Meerut District. 0 1900 . . 6,233 4.488 5.454 1(5.175 179 127 375 491 923 1,789 301 204! 4,999 2,608 1,205 604 9,416 8,082 37 1,092 10 257 1 1 3 9 41 29 69 75 230 1899 . . 5,54-7 4,360 5.031 14.938 308 181 279 225 611 1,115 2 88 198 1,099 780 188 3-13 2,380 1,507 10 142 6 103 1 3 4 10 10 Increase 68(5 128 423 1.537 96 266 312 674 13 <5 7 Decrease 129 *54 Mussoorie District. 2,365 926 767 337 4,395 3,835 6 284 3 92 3 3 4 26 31 24 41 132 1900 . . 2,946 1,304 1.708 fi,0!8 60 37 84 182 436 702 108 89 1,772 759 852 203 3,586 2,609 5 156 4 158 3 3 1 1 4 23 , 28 32 27 122 1899 . . 2.884 1,324 1,141 5,349 67 48 83 253 548 884 94 72 593 167 134 809 1,226 1 128 3 3 14 10 Increase 62 627 669 1 14 17 85 1 66 1 1 8 Decrease .. 20 i 11 71 112 182 NORTH-WEST INDIA CONFERENCE STATISTICS FOR THE YEAR ENDING WITH BOTH NOVEMBER, 1900. CHURCH FINANCES.
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F or M i s s i o n a r y So c i e t y . NAMES OF CIRCUITS. other other Benevolences. Purchasing Purchasing Property. other other Local Uses. penses. Education. all Collections. in Southern Asia. Schools. Practice, etc. and and Buildings. Property. Churches and Parsonages. and Parsonages. peaus. peaus. I Fees. Churches Churches ana Parsonages. and Purchasing Churches Native Church for Pastors. tutions, tutions, Presses, Medical Union. rial rial Support. i b ur building,ur b Improving and Current Current Hixpeuses and all For For General Conference Ex From From Sunday- Earned by Industrial Insti Probable Probable Value of Churches. Present Indebtedness on all Paid for Building, Improving Apportioned to be Raised by All Total of Ministerial Support and Pastoral Support from Pastoral Support from Euro- | Raised for Conference Claim- Raised for Episcopal Fund. Government aid Government aid to Schools Number Number of Parsonages. Present Indebtedness Paid on on Indebtedness on Total Collected Total Collected for Ministe From From Churches. Tuitional and Tuitional and other School Number Number of Churches. I Probable Value of Parsonages Value of all other Property. Total Value of all Property. For Bible Society. Total Benevolent Collections. Grand Total Collected and Earned Total Earned Total Earned Income. For For Traét Society. For Women’s Societies. For For Indian Sunday-School Children’s Day Children’s Day Collection for ! Raised ! Raised Native by Church for | Pastor. ! ants. 1 Rs. Rs. Rs. Rs. Rs. Rs. Rs. Rs. Rs. Rs. Rs. Rs. Rs [Rs. Rs. Rs. Rs. Rs. Rs. Rs. Rs. Rs. Rs. Rs. Rs. Rs. Rs. Rs. Rs. Rs. Rs. Rs. Agra District. Bharatpur . . 1 32 32 3 36 27 12 39 3s 3x 42 42 Brihdaban . . *9, ' *25 11,400 11,425 5,000 300 48 64 99 163 G 4x 25 35x 199 199 Digg 2 6d 60 10 30 27 2 29 2 4 35 , , 35 Hat hr as 1 200 t , 200 35 60 64 2 66 5 1 6 72 72 Mahaban 1 100 100 5 36 40 , , 40 7 1 8 48 48 Muttra 4 50,000 9 13,000 45,000 103000 18,00!) 1000 600 300 228 53 60 113 48 X 10 16 2 10 500 586x 100 799 745 900 25 1,670 2,469 Saadabad 36 39 40 3 1 4 44 44 Aimere 1 7,180 1 9,845 24,032 41,057 16,661 8502 16,656 36 36 , , 9 45 4x 3 509 51ÖX 1250 33 , , 1,845 , . 25 12 37 1,882 Bir 1 250 250 16 36 47 47 1 1 48 , . 48 Bikaneer 4840 , , 41 3 3 44 44 Kishengarh . . 36 40 40 1 1 41 , , 41 Phalera # , 1 6,000 1,000 7,000 1,000 60 69 69 5 5 74 74 Pisangan9 • 24 22 22 1 1 23 23
Total 11 57,822 6 28,870 81,432 168124 39,661 18502 90U•18,025 720 568 171 9 6 754 90x 23 X 1034 1173 1250 137 3,314 745 925 37 1,70? 5,021 _____ 10 3 2 10
K asganj Dist. Agra, Eng. . . 72 72 400 472 472 „ Hind. . . 2 12,000 1 10,000 5,000 27,000 72 72 2 74 10 42 52 126 126 Aliganj 1 100 100 * . 48 35 36 9 2 38 38 Bhogaon , # 60 31 32 3 3 35 , , 35 Etah 1 40 . # 40 72 90 * , 91 5 5 ‘ 96 , , 96 Firozabad 4 75 75 60 36 37 2 2 50 89 89 Jalesar 36 35 36 1 1 37 37 Kasganj 4 100 2 200 13,850 14,150 6,000 300 60 210 214 8 1 3 12 226 201 367 568 794 Patiyali 2 100 2 100 200 60 63 64 2 2 66 66 Qaimganj , , 48 38 39 1 1 40 . , 40 Sikandra Rao . 1 150 # , 150 60 72 73 3 1 4 77 77 Shikohabad .. 60 43 44 4 4 48 48 Soron 2 225 1 700 925 60 73 74 3 1 4 78 78 Tajganj 1 30 30 60 35 36 1 1 37 37 Total 14 12,745 10 11,075 18,850 42,670 6,000 300 756 833 17 850 45 2 4 114 165 50 400 1,465 201 367 568 2,033
A l l a h a b a d 2,704 DiSTBicr. Allahabad, E. 1 30,000 1 7,500 20,000 57,500 310 730 4 730 40 30 4 500 574 1400 2,704 „ Hind. 1 350 2 400 750 260 22 282 6x Gx 288 , . 288 Banda 40 2 42 2 139 141 24 207 207 Chunar 1 1,500 1,500 350 350 5 5 5 125 130 6 6 136 Karwi i 40 40 2 31 31 3 lx 4x 35 35 Manauri , , 1 25 25 , , 39 # 39 2 2 41 41 Manikpur 3 168 150 318 10 39 39 3 3 42 42
Total 3 31,850 8 8,133 20,150160,133 350 350 327 409 752 7 1168 56 X 30 4 640x 730X 1549 •• 3,447 6 .. 1 . 3,453
Note.—Many reports of collections contained annas. These cannot be shown here. They are represented in the columns by an x. The totals contain the sums of all these omitted fractional parts of a rupee. NORTH-WEST INDIA CONFERENCE STATISTICS CHURCH FOR THE YEAR ENDING WITH 30TH NOVEMBER, 1900. FINANCES.
C h u r c h P r o p e r t y . M i n i s t e r i a l S u p p o r t . O t h e r C o l I n c o m e e a r n e d in 1 B e n e v o l e n t C o l l e c t i o n s . l e c t i o n s . S o u t h e r n A s i a . c CC' "2 s F o r G 'Si M i s s i o n C O ËH +3 be o a r y S o -fl cfi .5 > o NAMES OF Or c i e t y . c C æ o CIRCUITS. ¡» O -*-»o j i a •—( 2-« 73 other School K ii '5 5f o ~o 'O — 'oQ C. g '£ a 2 ^ Property. Churches and Churches and Parsonages. Churches ana Parsonages. and Parsonages. peans. ants. and and Purchasing Churches Native Church for Pastors. Pastor. c i other other Benevolences. rial rial Support. Present Present Indebtedness on all Present Indebtedness Paid on on Indebtedness on Church Raised ve for' Nati by Total Collected for Ministe Value Value of all other Property. Paid for Building, Improving Apportioned to be Raised by Pastoral Support from Euro for Conference Claim- ised Ra Total Total Value of all Property. Probable Probable Value of Churches. Number of Parsonages. Probable Probable Value of Parsonages Number Number of Churches. K Education. Schools. penses. other other Local Uses. • all all Collections. Practice, etc. Union. Fees. tutions,' tutions,' Presses, Medical 5 5 in Southern Asia. From From Churches. From Sunday- Current Current Expenses and all For For Tract Society. All For For Bible Society. For For General Conference Ex Total of Ministerial Support and For For Indian Sunday-School For Women’s Societies. Tuitional and Children’s Day Children’s Day Collection for Earned by Industrial Insti Total Earned Total Earned Income. Rs. Rs. Rs. Rs. lîs. Rs. Rs. Rs. Rs. Rs. Rs. Rs. Rs Rs. Total Grand Collected and Earned Rs. Rs Rs. Rs. Rs. Rs. Rs, jKs. Rs. Rs. 1 Rs. |Rs. Rs. Rs. Rs. M eerut Rs. •Rs. Us. D istrict.
Anupshalir . . 6 505 , , 505 150 135 2 X 137 Bulandshalir . 8 3,755 3 6,600 . . 10,355 . . 5400 600 192 192 2 . . 194 2 . . 120 120 . . 120 1 1 139 139 Ghaziabad . . 2 1 3 12 366 153 162 1 Ibd 209 209 Hapur 2 366 2 1 3 4 470 , , 470 108 110 2 1 113 123 123 Rhurja 2 X 2\ 165 150 1 7,000 34,200 41,350 360 270 72 342 165 Meerut, H. .. 1 1 1 2 116 ,, Eng.. . 1 10,000 . . 10,000 725 125 116 . . 109 15 Vx 22x 364 378 139 517 881 Mowana 1 200 1 150 350 108 108 1 15 15 260 Muzaffaruagar 100 . . 60 16U 300 195 3 1 199 275 275 1 1 x lx 111 Rabupura . . 53 VI 3600 3671 111 2 X 2X 0 204 Sikandrabad. . 1 12 1 12 • • ■ 24 144 135 1 1 13'/ 204 5 o 367 . . 3,748 Total 25 15,558 6 13,762 34,260 .63,580 6125 725 1688 1498 3672 12 3x 5185 2 139 139 48 12 2x 62 272 2 5,521 450 139 589 6,110 A l ig a r h D is t r ic t .
Aligarh 1 10,000 1 9,000 45,000 64,000 80 70 2 152 60 60 • . 57 . . 1 58 Atrauli 1 46 14 5 4 10 505 584 100 836 395 100 495 D e lh i , , ' 20 400 420 64 60 124 1,331 40 * . . 40 32 5 37 2 X 2x 60 60 Gangiri 1 7 X X 8 , . 21 X 22 132 132 Hansi 2 4 6 43 Iglas 200 200 50 X 50 43 2x X X 3x 26 Karnal 1 150 150 79 2 83 26 . . . . 24 24 3x lx 4x 55 55 K h a i r 1 22 21 5 25 1 4x 87 87 Riwari 2x X 2x 26 Somua . .a 28 X 28 26 2 2 28 28 2x X X 3x 32 32 Total 4 10,250 4 9,220 45,400 64,870 456 135 llx 2 604 ------— — ------______68x 14 lx 7x 4 3x 13x 509 621 x 100 1,325 395 100 495 1,820 M u s s o o r ie D i s t r ic t . 50 Deoband 1 200 200 48 1 1 • Lahore, Hind.. 1 150 4 , 150 217 50 30 1 81 . . 95 1 x X lx 52 52 „ Eng. . 1 io,qpo 10,000 2600 95 16\- 28 1108 3 a 1141 9x 98 98 Multan 2x 2x 179 276 , , 276 Mussoorie, H .. P, 12,000 i 200 12.200 , . . . . , «0 2 62 5 95,000 125000 5,500 5500 600 600 5 1,146 1,146 i) Eng 1 30,000 • 2 2 64 , 86 86 150 Patiala 1 260 260 7,300 400 121 34 4 i 160 308 50 3x 53 x . , 355 . , 1,008 3500 31,131 34,631 35,639 llurki, Hind.. . 2 6,500 3 300 6,800 100 304 304 4 3x 163 10,000 840 6 846 ' 163 „ Eng. . . 1 10,000 7 360 367 219 22 916 916 5 5 180 1,031 1,031 Total 10 69,110 4 500 95,000 164610 12,000 5900 2600 100 521 551 2737 50 5 3313; Í 66 9 X 5 16 360 45G 219 736 4,754 3500 31,217 34,717 39,471 Note.—Many reports of collections contained annas. These cannot be shown here. They fractional parts of a rupee. are represented in the columns by an x. The totals contain the sums of all these omitted NORTH-WEST INDIA CONFERENCE STATISTICS FOR THE YEAR ENDING WITH 80TH NOVEMBER, 1900. CHURCH FINANCES.
O t h e r C o l I n c o m e e a r n e d i n C h u r c h P r o p e r t y . M i n i s t e r i a l S u p p o r t . B e n e v o l e n t C o l l e c t io n s . l e c t i o n s . S o u t h e r n A s i a . . tit CO sZZ oxTi • c: ^ Sr*o3 F or £ fco ..—> -j fc. 73-2 Mission- p a r y So- I § Ï C , C3pn C IE T Y . [ 5 PU * .ÍS NAMES OF Pl, ■a s 1 ¡ Í ° . <£ u » Il'lH So, Xù líTI tí H o; ^ ¡É 'CÍ CIRCUITS. O I’--* ^ a E,fc "O s |tç (j += n 1 ^ • a o £ o X g — I > p. j ^ s O G a>i3 © o Vj £ 'S g «3 cô - S3 £ £ C O * x '^3 Un.* C 3 o 5 ; o i i_i £ > o C3 T2 ¿ _c> ^ 3 ? ! ¡*3 ^5 ■ “ ■21 £ 1232 jr 'Esc 'ci F ‘- S t j S o *5 & c3 i:H ^ i 3 3 O « 0^1 — » c3 ^ I ci P <5 ¡r-> i H H H y ! O ~ Rs. Rs. Rs. Rs. Rs. Rs. Rs. Rs. Rs. Rs. f Rs. Rs. Rsf Rs Rs ! Rs.! Rs. Rs. Rs. 1 Rs.i Rs.f Rs Rs Rs. ! Rs. i Rs.i Rs. Rs. Rs. I Rs. C a w n f o r e D i s t .
Akbarpore . 100 200 10 310 32 12 35 3x 40 40 Auriya 266 170 436 60 60 3 6: 63 Bithur 450 650 1,100 48 50 4x 54 54 Cawnpur, Eng, 15.000 12,000 70.000 97.000 21,000 1500 2700 2700 100 3,323 1420 8,328 9,748 13.071 „ Parade. 31.000 12,000 56.000 99.000 420 320 100 427 22 65 492 2216 1,320 600 4,136 4,628 „ CondonCh. 180 120 60 180 5x 20x 202 202 Kanauj *500 '310 *860 80 72 70 2 x x 3x 75 75 Kunch 400 650 1,050 26 24 2 X x 2x 6x 8 8 Orai 100 250 400 36 10 'io 1! X X lx 3x 15 IS Total 47,816 26,230 200156 21,000 1500 174 826 660 2860 9x 7x 3536 99| x 29x 30x ox lx 18x 25x 210 x 524 4,272 3636 9,648 600 13,884 18,156 Grand Totals.. 245151 97,790 421202 764143 79,811 30,877 572? 18,926 4511 10,32; 115X 15,440 472 x' 33x 98 x 44x 17x Gx 61x 2,fi82x 3,417x 152] 3718 24,098 892' 42,302 737 51,966 75,064
Tota*ls 1899 256477 99,842 362627 718946 54.250 17,200 4994 8,253 3763 11,827 95x 17,161 524x 61 103x 39x¡ 39x' 62 x 2;089x 2J29X 384 47.33 25,278 11,8# 35,890 12 47,762 73,040 Increase 58,575 45,197 25,561 13,677 731 10,673 748 20x 5x 15 x! 593x 488x 1137 6,412 725 4,204 2,024
Decrease 11,326 2,052 240 1500 IX 1721 52x! 28X 5x 33x lx 101; 69 1,1802 933
Note.—Many reports of collections contained annas. These cannot be shown here. They are represented in the columns by an x. The totals contain thp sums of all these omitted fractional parts of a rupee. % NORTH-WEST INDIA CONFERENCE STATISTICS FOR THE YEAR ENDING WITH SOTH NOVEMBER, 1900. SCHOOL STATISTICS.
VERNACULAR SCHOOLS. EUROPEAN AND ANGLO-VERNACULAR GRAND TOTALS, SCHOOLS.
B o ys' S chools. G irls’ Schools. B o y s ’ Sch ools Gir l s ’ Sch o o ls . X N o. on R oll a t 1 c No. on R oll at N o. on R o l l a t N o. on R o l l a t e sd of year. : o end of year. 12 END OF YEAR. END OF YEAR. o j C‘ NAMES OF CIRCUITS. 1 :c < . ! •O •3 >> c ® o 5 ^ u bE G ¿ o A gra D istrict. Bharatpur 6 58 58 40 * € 58 40 Briudaban 10 130 4 , 130 115 * ’ 4 30 30 ’ *25 , . . , 14 8 16C 140 Digg 5 50 , # 50 43 2 16 ' ’ 4 20 16 70 59 Hathras 7 110 20 130 122 5 25 12 37 32 12 10 167 154 Mahaban 50 50 43 3 14 14 10 7 7 64 53 Muttra 10 85 ‘ *15 100 85 4 10 10 8 ’ ’ 1 ' 61 ' '90 ' 151 121 2 118 118 ‘ 85 17 22 379 299 2 Saadabad 5 56 10 66 51 1 8 10 9 6 6 76 60 Ajmere 4 55 40 95 80 2 100 200 300 285 ' ’ 1: ' 91 55 *146 ' 133 1 135 ' 115 '250 240 8 18 791 738 Bir 5 80 30 110 70 , . 5 5 110 70 0 Bikaneer 1 16 8 24 20 ' ' 1 ' ' 8 5 13 ’ *10 ! ! ! ! . . 2 37 30 Kishengarh 2 150 150 125 1 60 60 50 j 3 9 210 175 Phalera , .. ' 214 214 214 . . . . j . . 1 6 214 214 Pisangan 1 20 20 15 1 2 20 15 Total 61 840 357 1,197 1,023 23 271 223 494 445 2 152 145 297 254 3 253 115 368 325 89 108 2,356 2,047 K asganj D istrict. Agra, 7 65 30 95 55 2 21 7 28 20 9 9 123 75 Aliganj 4 40 5 45 40 2 13 13 10 6 5 58 50 Bhogaon 2 25 25 20 2 20 ’ ' 3 23 15 4 4 48 35 Etah 9 120 120 100 4 55 11 66 50 i , . 13 13 186 150 t Firozabad 2 30 30 24 2 30 30 21 ¡ .. 4 4 60 45 Jalesar 5 69 69 60 • • • 5 5 69 60 Kasganj 10 165 ' *15 180 160 5 * *70 ’ 'l5 85 ' *80 " i ; ’ 32 79 in ’ 102 16 22 376 342 Patiyali 3 54 54 39 5 48 32 80 50 j 8 8 134 89 Qaimganj o 12 ' ' 7 19 15 1 5 5 4 ! 3 3 24 19 SikandraRao 6 91 91 80 3 ‘ *21 21 18 i 9 9 112 98 Shikohabad 5 63 29 92 75 3 22 ' ' 9 31 20 8 8 123 95 Soron 5 72 72 6Í 4 46 46 38 1 , . 9 9 118 102 Tajganj 3 33 ’ 12 45 35 1 8 ' ' 6 14 10 1 4 4 59 45 Total 63 839 98 937 767 34 354 88 442 336 1 32 79 111 102 98 103 1,490 1,205 A l l a h a b a d D i s t r ic t . Allahabad, English 1 42 15 57 45 1 75 75 72 2 10 132 117 ,, Hindustani .. 4 20 33 53 44 4 90 * 20 110 90 . . 1 8 13 163 134 Banda 5 20 50 70 55 2 9 11 20 15 . , 7 7 90 70 Chunar 2 25 25 18 . , 2 2 25 18 Karvvi 2 * ‘io , , 10 S . . 2 1 10 8 Manauri 2 24 24 20 . . . . 2 2 24 20 Maniltpur 2 * 45 32 77 65 ' ' 1 ’ 22 ' *15 ' ’’37 30 3 10 114 95 —---—------——- i. ------' ■■■»'■.. ' " 1 —■ Total 18 137 179 316 255 8 196 46 242 207 26 45 558 462 ” ! ÑÓÉ TH- WÈST INDIA CONFERENCE STA TISTICS FOR THE YEAR ENDING -WITH SOTH NOVEMBER, 1900. SCHOOL STATISTICS. VERNACULAR SCHOOLS. EUROPEAN AND ANGLO-VERNACULAR GRAND TOTALS. SCHOOLS. B o y s ’ S c h o o l s . G i r l s ’ S c h o o l s . X No. on R o l l a t No. o n R o l l a t 73 ' o END OF YEAR. a ! 2 END OK YEAR. 12 ! .3 1 NAMES OF CIRCUITS. 1 x ! f. < .■ I )H 3 J. o ! ¿ i; Anupshahr 70 , . 70 65 16 2« 1 36 30 Bulandshahr 10 120 20 140 120 7 60 4 64 50 Ghaziabad 5 86 12 98 85 4 28 20 48 30 Hapur 4 45 45 32 • • Khurja 8 70 ' 10 80 70 ’ ' 3 ' 21 5 2« ' 20 Meerut, Hindustani 9 217 120 .337 309 8 96 30 126 no ,, English , . . . Mowana ' ' 3 40 ' *40 30 ’ ’ 2 ’ 16 * 16 ' 12 Muzaffarnagar 4 60 60 34 Rabnpura 18 56 '¿00 256 230 " ' 4 ’ *36 ' 40 ’ *76 ' *60 Sikandrabad 2 30 30 20 2 20 20 15 Tota 1 67 794 362 1,156 99. 32 293 119 412 333 A l ig a r h D is t r ic t . ! Aligarh 5 425 25 450 4251 2 15 12 27 20 Atrauli 3 39 39 2C 1 8 1 ~9 5 D e lh i 2 25 ’ ’ 5 30 18: Gan girl 4 40 40 301 ’ ' 1 ’ ’ 5 ’ ' 5 3 Hansi , , 1 ’ ' 3 3 2 Iglas ' ’ 8 ' 46 6 ' 52 40! 2 ' *12 3 15 10 Karnal 8 72 72 581 3 17 14 31 25 Khair 2 8 ’ *10 18 is! 1 4 4 u Riwari 2 12 6 18 15 Somna 3 27 13 40 28! _____i Total 37 694 65 759 649 11 6] 33 94 68 . M u s s o o r ik D is t r ic t . Deoband 3 40 40 30 Lahore 8 145 ’ 34 179 138 5 ‘ 88 ' *38 *126 ’ *91 Multan 2 30 10 40 30 2 18 3 21 20 Mussoorie, Hindustani .. , , . . •> 9 25 34 29 ,, English . . Patiala 13 ’ *75 ' 75 ’ *45 5 ' *35 15 50 . 30 Rurki 19 250 ' *75 325 299 11 98 61 159 126 Total 45 540 119 659 542 25 248 142 390 296 ...... i köSTB-wEST im iÁ msFEmmm s t a t i s t i c s FOR THE YEAR ENDING WITH 30TH NOVEMBER, 1900. SCHOOL STATISTICS. VERNACULAR SCHOOLS. EUROPEAN AND ANGLO-VERNACULAR GRAND TOTALS. SCHOOLS. Boys’ Schools. G irls’ Schools. B o y s ’ S c h o o l s G i r l s ’ S c h o o l s !» No. on R oll at No. on R oll at N o . o n R o l l a t No. o n R o l l a t ■ó i o END OP YEAR. END OP YEAR. G 1 o END OF YEAE. KND OP YEAR. Aa rJl NAMES OF CIRCUITS. 1 32 1 'in < ¿ 'u o s pa ce *** o 0 ~ O ë © *** Cawnpobe D istrict. Ak bar pore 3 4 7 6 1 1 6 Auriya 1 8 8 6 1 5 5 2 2 13 11 Bithur , 1 4 12 m 12 3 1 16 12 Cawnpur, English . . 85 85 76 1 i 85 76 ,, Parade 2 5C 60 iio 103 6 30 61 91 85 20 60 80 72 132 132 128 10 18 413 386 „ Condon Church, 3 10 16 26 22 1 6 0 11 9 4 3 37 31 Kanauj 0 16 6 22 18 1 4 4 3 3 3 26 21 Kunch 2 10 10 20 14 1 3 5 8 6 3 4 28 20 Orai 1 4 3 7 0 1 1 7 5 Total 12 101 99 200 172 11 52 S3 135 120 20 60 80 72 217 217 204 26 40 632 568 Grand Totals 1900 303 3,945 1,279 5,224 4,403 144 1,475 734 2,209 1,805 332 364 696 616 852 115 967 846 461 502 9,096 7,670 Totals 1899 299 3,850 1,007 4,857 3,944 124 1,096 409 1,505 1,220 222 336 558 468 578 24 602 548 438 443 7,522 6,180 Increase 4 95 272 367 459 20 379 325 704 585 110 96 IBS 148 274 91 365 298 23 59 1,574 ------1,490 Decrease 1 • f }.í- l\ NORTH- WEST INDIA CONFERENCE STATISTICS i’Oi? F.ÉMÍ2 ENDING WITH 30TH NOVEMBER, 1900. SCHOOL STATISTICS. VERNACULAR SCHOOLS. EUROPEAN AND ANGLO-VERNACULAR GRAND TOTALS. SCHOOLS. B o y s ’ S c h o o l s . G i r l s ’ S c h o o l s . B o y s’ Schools G ir l s ’ Sc h o o ls . 1 No. o n R o l l a t No. o n R o l l a t y. END OP YEAB. ! Ct\ 1 END OF YEAR. No. on R o l l a t No. on R o l l a t C END OF YEAR. •Ô END OF YEAB. ! *2 C i 1 NAMES OF CIRCUITS. Rolls at rh Ì ^ X t*0 011 JT O CÔ 1 ÎS ^ ! 5 end end of year. a -S3 j ? s ance. <1 Average Average Daily Atti 1 Number Tut.n Total. Christians. Christians. | ■H Total Average Daily Attend Number, of of Boys’ Number, Schools. Christians. 53 ! Total. Í . 1 1 Agra District. 1 1900 61 840 357 1,197 1,023 23 271 221! 494 445 1899 51 711 140 851 705 15 112 ___ 1 119 9ft 2 152 345 297 254 3 253 115 368 89 108 2,356 2,047 3 87 100 193 152 3 117 21 138 122 72 77 1,301 3,078 Increase 10 129 217 346 318 8 159 216 375 346 Decrease 65 39 104 102 136 94 230I 203 17 31 1,055 969 ‘ ' 1 . Aligarh District. 1 1900 37 694 05 759 649 11 61! 33 9) 68 1899 41 541 98 639 16 537 106! 47 153 118 1 270 270 225 49 4« 1.123 942 1 3 200 200 ¡75 58 51 992 830 Increase 153 120 112 i .. Decrease ' ‘ 4 ’ ’33 5 ' 45 14 ’ßi» ’ ’so 70 7()i 50 131 112 9 5 Allahabad District. 1900 18 137 179 316 255 8 196 46 242 207 1899 12 47 99 146 100 5 89 14 303 87 26 45 558 462 1 56 4 60 50 18 23 309 237 Increase 6 90 80 170 155 3 107 32 139 120 Decrease . . 8 22 219 225 ------______1 56 4 GO ;V) Cawnpore District. • • 1900 12 101 99 200 172 11 52 83 135 120 1899 ft 57 60 117 100 14 36 132 168 133 1 20 60 80 72 0 217 217 204 26 10 032 568 1 18 48 6G 62 2 174 174 170 26 525 465 Increase .. 3 44 39 83 72 16 Decrease ’ ’ 3 ’ ’49 23 ' ’l3 0 12 14 10 43 £3 34 107 103 13 Kasganj District. 1900 63 839 98 937 767 34 354 88 442 336 1899 54 770 59 829 684 24 254 9 263 21* 1 32 79 111 102 98 103 1,490 1,205 1 40 79 119 104 79 85 1,213 3,000 Increase 9 69 39 108 83 10 100 79 179 124 Decrease 39 18 279 205 ------8 8 *) Meerut District. ' 1900 67 794 362 1,156 995 32 293 119 412 333 1899 74 841 351 1.192 942 28 256 84 92 ------310 274 1 112 112 1«) 95 1,680 3,420 -- - —. ------______1 87 3 90 81 103 84 1,622 1,297 Increase 11 53 4 37 35 72 59 Decrease * ' 7 47 ' ’36 25 22 11 11 58 123 ------...... ______3 3 Mussoorie District. 1900 45 540 119 659 542 25 248 142 39(1 296 1 1899 41 580 91 671 549 19 204 97 301 247 3 128 80 208 188 73 65 1,257 1,026 2 21 99 120 300 62 57 1,092 896 Increase 4 28 6 34 45 89 49 Decrease * • ' '40 ’ ’l2 ’ ’ 7 1 107 88 88 11 8 165 130 19